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SELECT POETRY.
From the New York Spirit of the Time..
A RACE WITH TWELVE ENTRIES-
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udgo I'cads edition of Blackstonet Coinmen
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Treatise on the laws of Pennsylvania re
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. V,M. AT WATER, Agent",
umokin, Octl 15, 1853 If.
A race with twelve-entries! The flaw was
unfurled,
'Fifly-ihree' iigmeil the sleeds, nnd the Itack
wns IliB noilil
A sincla dnsh each tlirough all seasons and
clime,
To tun ns lliey please, save to tun ngaint
tints :
Proud couriers were all, of rare bottom and
speed,
Unmalclied in endurance unrivalled in
bread
Every year lliey have run, eighteen hundred
mill more,
Since Creation first waved its "d'i" fl.ig on
(tie seem; !
Since Chaos withdrew her wide curtains of
black.
And 7'inic stinted his steeds on Eternity's
track :
Since morn's trumpet first sounded away they
have spoil,
And ll.e steeds are still fresh, though the li
ders are dear.
Hark ! hark to the dnim note, ''saddle up"
is the Mil,
"Bring fmth the brave steeds from each dust
covered slnll"
At the word, January, wilh blankets of snow
Ami ice-braided mane, stands forth ready to
po;
H.uk ! "away !:' he has gone scarce gone
ere he's done,
And February siarls on his wintry run ;
,'Alid storm iiikI 'mid tempest one turn round
the track,
Huzza "mailt the time." "he will win!" "he
is back !"
Back 1 (In irk at the word Starch's blankets
ure llunj;,
Like an arrow swift-winged round the quar
ter he su nn:;,
Urged on 'uealli an ice-spur he came like a
bird,
And April sprang forth from the stand at the
word ;
Awav 'nu. I thi shnwrrn thai softened the
truck
Of Lie, that before j.'"-vn the hoof music back,
Speed on ami pause not on the storm shroud
eJ way,
We're Kininst to welcome our beautiful
May I
V readied with blossoms she comes, and 'mid
the sweet so sj
Of birds not as fleet, how she trallops along,
Tiissinsr proudly her bud-braided mane to
each I one,
As she yields to her rival sweethcarl, petted
JllilC
Who in pride and in splendor need dread no
compeer,
Though the course she. must ) ield, for August
is here,
Who dashes ninny; her fruit-laden way,
And welcomes September w ith shrill-laughing
neigh,
As wilh carlands morn-tinted and mingled
with green,
And golden-lined favors she appears on tho
scene,
Whirls ot round tho cnuse, where her trials
are over,
And wilh colors far sadder away speeds
October :
Wiih grasses newly pressed his health still is
drunk,
As November is heard her steel siiafile to
clunk;
Thi?n huriies away o'er tho leaf-covered
ground,
Like the deer newly woke by the swift foot
ed hound,
And ushers in nrida nf entries, the last,
And December bound ofl 'nealh the spur of
the blast ;
la off nnd returned. Now the flag is re
furled.
And Fftvlttrcc's race round the track of the
world
U finished forever! But nuain at the score
Stand the steeds ready mounted by young
t ijty four :
Let's welcome him cladlv ? Fill up to the
brim.
Let not e'en a bubble break dead on die
I turn over a new leaf.
For more than hall an hour did Airs.
Grey continue in bed, striving in vain by
the indulgence of "a little more sleep and
a little more slumber," to still the quarrel
between habit and conscience. Longef
would she have tarried, but lor a crash in the
children's room and a medley of reproach js,
sobs and lamentations.
'What for mercy's sake have they done
now !" exclaimed she, as hurridly putting
on her clothes she ran to the spot whence
issued the tumult. "I don't believe there's
another such a set of young ones in the
world. What have you been about here? '
she said to the little ones, four in number,
who were looking pitifully at the wreck
of the Sunday's pastime.
The sight that greeted her was not cal
culated to compose her troubled mind, or
sooth her reproaching heart. The children
accustomed to being up, dressed, and hav
ing their breaklast belore seven, on six
days of the week, could not, indeed knew
not, how to remain quietly in their beds
until near eijht o'clock. Indeed, they al
ways calculated on a good time Sunday
mornings, which good time meant sundry
revolutions in the bed, not unlike pranks
of a young colt ; wrapping up the blankets
to represent Indians and Squaws ; rolling
up quilts in mammoth babies, and to con
clude a game of bail, in which the pillows
fiew'right merrily. All had gone on as
usual; till one unfortunate" missed the
mark, and the ewer tumbled on the floor
in ruins, its contents minsrlin;: with shoes.
stockings, rumpled sheets and quilts, and
iving new dulls to the little red feet anx
iously paddling the wet carpet to save here
and there a garment.
"You're a set of wicked boys and fmla
to carry on so on Sunday morning," said
the Christian mother, in pious indignation.
li it was any otner day 1 a whip every
one of vou. Juit see what a niece of woi E
is here."
"If it had been any other day it wouldn't
have happened, mother," said little Frank
who, counting onlv five years, not unire-
quently manifested the lore ol filty. "Cause
oil see, we should have been out calm?
long afore now, but we get so tired lying
abed we can't keep still. Why don't you
get up earlier Sundays just as y ou do other
lays f we can't never have any fun but
something or other will happen "
".No," interrupted his brother two years
older, "every body don't sleep so long op.
Sunday, 'cause my grandmother gets up
real early then and we have a real nice
time all day. I always loved to have Sun
day come when I was in the country, but
these city bunuays aint a bit good."
Let not a lesret for the race that has past
A shade o'er ibis hour of pleasure e'en cast,
For if we've won every bet, 'lis equally
clea r.
That win what we might, we've each lost a
vein !
So fill up a bumper, lausli Time in his fare,
The old grey beard that jeers at us all in the
race,
Throw care to the winds and each one thai';
dear,
Fill up and drink gaily a Happy New Year!
C Select vtale.
LEATHER.
RITZ & HENDRY,
Store, 29 N. 3d street
PHILADELPHIA
recco' Manufacturers;, Carriers, Importers,
lision and General Leather Business.
WHOLESALE & RETAIL.
Manufactory 15 Murgaretta Street,
fa., August 80,1853 ly.
is II Vanilla Dean of a superior quality
isl received and for sale by
,4, 1 88 J 'itJlJ1!
-Dourcau's celebrated ink, and also Con
a ink for sale, whobsate and retail by
,mrJ8. : B MAS5VR.
E All kinds of Boots Shoes and slip-
by 0iETjSDERGVco;
Market atraet, opposite the Post Office.
rorT, Oct., 18S8
JTICE8' FEE BILLS For sale by
51 H. B MASSER.
bury,
lift I '3
TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF.
PY MRS. CAROLINE D. SOtXE.
"Well," yawned Mr. Grey, as the clock
struck six the lost Sunday in the year. "I
suppose it's time lo get up but somehow
I don t feel much like it this morning.
"O, lie still and take your comfort,1
muttered his wile drawing the bed clothes
yet closer around her ; "there's no hurry
this morning, it's Sunday you enow."
"Just so you said last Sunday, wife, and
yet you know you were in a hurry all the
day long. Suppose we turn over a new
leaf to-day, and get up at 3nce."
"I'd rather turn and take a new nap
do, pray," and her tone grew quite qtieru
lous, "do let one take a little cotnfott on
SundaVf if they don't any other day in the
week," and she turned her face to the wall
and resolutely closed her eves.
"Comfort ! ves. that's what I Want to
take ; but," ho sighed, "it' no use trying.
Vel!, if she will go to sleep again, Isup- i
pose I may as well ; and he composed
himself and dozed another hour. The
clock struck seven.
"There wife, we must get' up now at
any rate. We shall be late again, just as
w were last Sunday."
Well', get up, then, if you want to. 1
do w.sh I could take a little comlort. Get
up ! I get up every other day. Strange a
body can't take comfort once a week."
"Well, well, sleep awav then." said her
husband, rather crossly as he slammed lo
I this morning, but 1 haven't, rind so we must
get along without Ihemi"
"And we haven't got any pancakes ei
ther," said Frank. "Mother, you promised
last Sunday that we should have some to
day. Are big folks wicked when they
don't do what they said (hey will ! cnuae
if"
The mother's conscience smote her terfi
bly. Her precepts were treasured what
il her example should be followed. As is
almost always the case, she found a scape
goal, nnd interrupted her questioning child
wilh the remark, that "children as naughty
as tier's did not deserve pancakes."
"Your potatoes are not half done, wife;
indeed they ore not lit to eat. I am alraid
we shall have but a poor breaklast." And
the husband's tone was rather sullen, for he
had been brought tip in the country, and
of course accustomed to good cheer in the
morning, and a scant breakfast table always
put to flight his good humor. "Can't you
give us a bit of your Sunday's roast ? We
can't make out our breakfast unless yon
do," and he deliberately gathered the pota
toes which he had distributed to the chil
dren, and returned them to the dish. This
action annoyed his wife seriously, and she
bustled into the pantry with little grace,
and returned wilh her spare rib, which
was conked on Saturday when there was
plenty of time, and was very "beautifully
done.'"
"Ah yes," exclaimed her husband as he
brandished his carver, "this will do finely."
"And what will become of your dinner
meanwhile," murmured his wife.
"Oh, we'll have the steaks ; you know
there will be plenty of time to thaw
them."
Husband and children, half-starved as
they said, by long wailing, relished the
roast and nice bread and butter, but Mrs.
Grey could hardly swallow a morsel, and
instead of entering into the lively prattle
of the little ones, spoke only to bid them
hurry and eat or they would be late at
church.
Breakfast despatched and new trouble
commenced. "I can't get you all ready,
that's out of the question. Julia and Hen
ry can go, and Frank and Mary must wait
until allernoon" at which the two ret up
a lusty cry which continued till they were
shut up in the bed-room wilh the threat of
being punished, unless they slopped i in me
diately. Finding it useless, they slopped
immediately, and knowing from experience
that mother did sometimes whip on Sun
days, because "she was always cross then,"
the two children agreed to make the best
of it, and agreed that they rhould go a fish
ing, which meant bend mother's pins into
hook.", and use her welling cords for lines,
Well," said Frank in his particular
slow emphatic tone, "I mean to ask father ' and clamber on the bureau and have fine
to move into the country then, for if we j sport, till a bottle of cologne should have
must have Sundays, we might just as well been knocked of, and a box of tooln pow
have good Sundays." j der upset.
"Well, just at present move into the ! With the mother
kitchen, the whole troop of vou." cried !
the mother, now hurried enough in sepera-
ling wet and dry clothes, the words of the '
boys coming to her excited fivlmgs, like
anything rather than oil on troubled waters.
I hankful to escape so well, they hurried
o child and giil'iood, end of early married
life were lived over again, and Indeed it
tvdi) a golden age;
Then in the vile cofi'rast came tip the
Sundays of the last two or thiee years, and
then spake consci- tice in a terrible voice,
and Uttered the cause ; and tears hot and
many rolled down her cheeks. The only
day of the Veek which her husband could
Spend with his family was despoiled of
comfort by herself; slie was bringing her
children up to dread and hate even the
day sacred to worship and home's purest
joy ; she was learning herself to look upon
it as a day of Irial, a day of toil and why !
Because mostly of a "little more sleep and
a little more slumber."
No words passed between husband and
wife till they rose to retire. Then, taking
her hand he said, hall seriously; halfjocose
ly, "suppose, Julia, we turn over a new
leaf. This is the last Sunday in the year.
Shall we begin anew and right on the first
of the next ?"
"We'll try," was the brief answer, in a
voice choked with emotion.
And she did try! Let us see the result.
It is a beauteous Sunday morning, a smile
upon heaven and earth, and a smile on the
countenance of each member of the family,
as they gather at half past seven around
the neat breakfast table, covered with a
cloth rivalling the snow in whiteness, nnd
set with Shaker-like precission. And the
viands, not costly are they, and yet a king
might relish them stenks broiled to a turn,
potatoes bursting into flakes, coffee clear as
rare old wine, and pancakes as light as a
feather.
And'what a beautiful group, discuss the
meal, lather in his Sunday suit, in the best
of humor, mother in a neat morning dress,
every braid in place, and children with
plaited and curled tresses, and while Tore
heads open to view, and all in church dress
too ah, it is a home picture, beautiful to
the eye and cheering to the heart.
The day was well begun and half the
race was run. Everything went easy lor
there was plenty of time and every one
was good natured in the use of it. The
mother did get out in the morning, and had
he pleasure not only of listening lo an
eminent preacher she had long yearned to
hear, but enjoyed the devotions with a
heart in its right place. I he old fi lends
nng absent from the place, were met, and
cordially invited home, nnd to a seat be
side her table, spread ere she left lor church.
The tea table was a joyous place, and the
tune spent in the sitting room with husband
and liitle ones, was in truth, as a foretaste
of heaven, while the quiet evening was
full ol bliss. "My cup is full," was her
language as she pressed her pillow, "this
has been indeed a blessed day ; I thank
God that He gave nip strength of will to
turn over a new leaf."
OLD SERIES VOL. 14, NO. 18:
thither to dress. But now was a Babel.
Julia's stockings were gone, and Henry had
but one shoe, I rank had no pants, and Ma
ry's clothes were all "dripping wet."
"Well, dress yourselves the best way
you can. 1 can t stop to help you no.
You have hindered me half an hour already."
"But how can I dress myself without
pantaloons?" said the philosophic Frank,
"and il Julia goes without stockings she'll
get the croup again, and if Mary puis on
Ihem wet clotheR she'll catch her death
cold and die, and then you'll fee sorry, I
guess, and if Henry "
"And if I get Julia's stockings, and Mary
some dry clothes, what'll happen then I
wonder?" and Ihe mother hastened to the
bed-room, where between the mattrasses
of one bed she found the shoes and stock
ings, and at the bottom of the piled bed
clothes, found the missing pants.
"Anything more wauling by these wick
ed children?"
"Yes mother, some bieaWast. Do hurry
too, cause I am so hungry I can't wait."
At another time the mother might have
smiled on her boy, but she had no heart
lor smiles then, on that beauteous Sabbath
morning, when the blue heavens and the
snow-clad earth were radiant with glorious j
sunshine. Two hours "comfort" in the
early morn had rufifed her peace and trou
bled her joy for the day. She needed,
indeed, to turn over a new leaf.
A worrying time had Mrs. Grey that
morning preparing breakfast, and when
ready, which was not till after nine o'clock,
it was, as the children said, only half a
breakfast. And the children, in what a
sad plight' did they come to the table.
Julia's long braids, loosened by the morn
ing's frolic, hung obout her face and neck
very much as though a high wind had been
sporting with them, while Henry's long
ringlets ol which his mother was usually
so proud, were in a snarl that spoke terri
bly of future retribution, while Frank and
Mary's short locks completely veiled their
beautiful brows. And their mother's head
instead of its usual neat arrangement, look
ed tn expressive language very much like
an oven broom. And the table a sight.
Julia had set it and her mother not having
given directions, che had put on the soiled
cloth that had done a weekly duty, and
being iu a hurry and out of humor had
huddled the dishes on with but little re
gard to proper place. t was not indeed
calculated to restore calmness to the slug
gard's heart or promote tho cheerfulness of
the sinned aganisi lamuy.
"How's this, wife ?" said Mr. Grey as he
seated himself, "no meat this morning. I
thought I sent home steaks yesterday."
"I furjot to brinthem from the stote'
and elder children it
was scold and cry, cry and scold, till the
bells pealed their last tone, when with red
faces and sullen hearts, they took their fa
ther's hand and started lor church. As for
Mrs. Grey, she said khe never expected lo
go out again in the forenoon.
"No rest for the wicked," said she, as
she drove the little ones out of her bed
room ; wound up her co.d, picked up tlie
broken bottle, and swept up the rosy pow
der, and her heart echoed the cry .of her
lips, and smote her terribly, and in woman's
phrase, "she sat down and had a good cry."
It would have been better to have gone to
work, for while she wept, her fires went
out and she had them both to kindle, and
then to wait till the water should heat ere
the morning's work should begin. Hasten
as she did, church was out ere she was half
done, and to finish, as she said, her trouble,
two friends returned with her husband.
Very dear friends they were to be sure,
and at another time glad enough would she
have been lo see them, hut then oh ! 6he
wished them further ! She was obliged to
suspend her labors and comb her hair and
change her dress ere she could give the
STeelinz. and then only a moment could
she tarry, for dinner must be prepared, and
as there was company, everything must be
in perfect order. It was nice, it was excel
lent, but somehow no one enjoyed it. The
cuests felt instinctively that they had intru
ded. Mr. Grey, knowing the condition of
afl.urs, was ill at ease, while his wile but
all women similarly situated will guess her
feelings, and no one can describe them.
There was no time after the repast to clear
the (able and dress the younger children,
so leaving both in the care ot Julia, she set
out for church, not to worship, for she was
in no frame of mind to do that, but to per
form a Sabbath day duty. We will pass
over the doing the work on her return, the
getting tea, and nutting children, (cross,
no! because they in the least wanted to be
but because they could not help it) into
their beds, and see ber enter the sitting
room at eight o'clock, throw herself on a
lounge anil hear her exclaim, "I am' tired
to death."
"I don't wonder at it, wife," said her
husband, compassionately, two hours of
quiet with his fire and books,' having resto
red his good humor,' somewhat, it must be
confessed, out of the way of the annoyan
ces of the day. "1 was sorry lo brin
those folks to dinner, but I could not avoid
it without being very rude."
"Never mind thai if I had thingi as
they should have been, it would have been
well enough, but somehow nothing goes
right anymore on' Sunday, I actually
dread to have it come."
"But it was not always so, wife. Dou't
vou remember how happy you used to be
when wu were first married. Ah ! it was
a halcvon dav then !"
"Yes, I remember it well," she murmur
ed, ami leamnz her head on herjhsnd, sii
grew thoughtful. Memory held up beau
teous pictures to her ; tho happy Sunday
hiily Utile boys, called them iogethef on tlisj
morning of Christmas, to perfect them t in
their answers to questions she fri'tbti'jed to put
to them before the visitors during the after
noon. After arranging them properly,' tho
first boy on the right, in answer to lh ques-.
tion, "who made you !" wns to sny .' God."
The next. "Of what wera vou rnada ?" renlv.'
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'Tho dust of the earth," and so ch through
tho Catachism. The all-imptjflitnt moment
having arrived, the little "(-havers" were
told to stand up. The little head boy, it
seems, was missing, but the fact being un
noticed by the teacher, she proceeded wilh
die qucstien, "Who made you?" which elic
led the following laughable answer: "t was
made out of de dirt of tho 'ert ; but the little
feller what dot! rriado has got the belly ache
nnd gone home.
TRIE TO TflK I.ETTKR.
Dow, Jr , the inimitable preacher of Short
iteul Sermons, in a la!o discourse, gives us
the article of his creed, and concludes with
the r email. :
'Poke over with the cane of consideration,
what I have emptied before yon, and if you
find a single giain ol wheat among ihe four
packs of chaff I shall be highly gratified."
The following are the grains of die genuine
article, or we aro no thiesher :
I believe the most industrious aro the most
contented and happy. Idleness is an incu
bus upon the bosom of enjoyment. Il is die
hardest work in tho world to do nothing by
the mouth and have nothing to do it with.
I believe dint kicking against custom and
pilling in the face of fashion, is a foolish
and futrle endeavor. Ibith may need correc
lion but they must and will have their
way.
1 believe that if the devil is the father of
liars, he has a large family to look after, and
is rapidTy on one increase.
I believe dial gills are lika kittens" gently
smooth them Ihe right way, and llicy will
rub and purr must nllectionately ; but givo
llitm a contrary brush and lliey get their
backs up in a most disdainfnl manner. They
like to be kissed, but sham a delicacy about
tha matter.
f believe that human flesh is hard tn digest
Jonah did not sit easy upon the whale's stoin
arh.
( believe that simple honesty, tho naked
truth, pure viilue, and straight op and down
way of dealing with die woiiJ, have as much
advantage over vice, trickery n'tu! stratagem
in Ihe lung run, as a good squara trotting
horse has over a pacing pony or a racker that
oes a milt) or iwo like Ihe mischief and is
doiio for Ihe rest of the journey.
Tne Pit'FKRKKct:. A writer Mys ihM the
vital ditlereuce Detween iniiii and woman is
ibis man forever asks more, while woman
is always intent upon making tho most
what shb has flan is a perpetual seeker
woman turns whatsoever she finds into
present use and profit. Man's eye is fixed
upon the ftiluie; woiriitu's upon the present
He sweeps Ihe heavens with his gaze lo see
what fairer worlds invite his udvenlure; she
(itiitoly unpacks die trunk uf his observation
and appiopiiates whatever available results
it coulaiiis to tho inipiovemeiil ol hi present
abode.
A promise should be given wilh cadtion
and kept w ilh care. A promise should bo
made by Ihe heart and remembered by the
head! A promise is the offspring ef Ihe in
leution, and should be nurtured' by recoflec,
(ion. A promise and its performance' should
like the scales of a (rue ballunce, alway
present a mutual adjustment. A promise
delayed is justice deferred. A promise neg
lected isan untruih told. A piomise alien
dd to it a debt settled
the nrtFA basi. , nvvjfo Mapc You ?" One of , the ladiei
The San Francisco Herald is, publishing' connected with the "Methodist Five Points
omo notes of tho trip of Capl. Joe Walkef, Mission," who tias lindef her charge some
the ci-l.-bmio.l vv.,i.J. . ..! I.i.j .... . . .. :. .' ; ' .I:'
lainoer; the first while man who ever cross
ed the great central basin, whi'eh lies be
tween the river Nevada and the Rio Grande.
Lieut. Beale has more recently transversed
its northern line, and Capt. Aubrey has re
cently penetrated thiough its centre, these
reports will be looked for with much curinsi
'' in regard lo this mysterious land, nf
which but little is known except that it is
supposed to bo almost a desert, nnd at tho
same time to have bevn once populously in
habited, for it abounds with tho relies ol
ruined cities.
Soma of the naturnl features of tho'region
described by Captain Walker are vast and
wonderful. Ha found there a cataract the
most stupendous in tho world, mora than
six times tho height of Niagara, and travel
ed some miles through tho rocky channel of
a subterranean river.
The great cataract is on tho Virgin river,
about two hundred miles from its mouth
It falls in a plear, unbroken descent of more
than ono thousand feet. Tho river, some
distance above, traverses a pretty timbered
valley, and then runs through a tlosa canon.
ine current then becomes rapid. The
mountain seems lo run directly across the
river. At tho fall die stream is narrowed to
thirty or forty yards, while tho canon rises
on cither side in almost perpendicular c!i(Ts
to a height of two hundred feet. The pent
up stream rushes on to the brink of the pre
cipice, leaps over Ihe fulls, with scarce a
bieak, into tho vast abyss beneath Capt.
Walker describes the sight us grand beyond
escription.
About thirty miles above there is nnolher
magnificent fall. The river plunges over tho
cliff, falling a distance of two or three bun.
died feet, and breaks into a myriad of frag
ments upon a piojecling luilga.
The under ginuud river is another great
phenomenon. It is in the country above the
upper Virgin river, which is described to be
frightfully repulsive, barren, aridjpllt up into
rocky fissures and deep ravines.
Capt. Walker traveled for a whole day
down the bud of a steep canon. lie lurried
off into a lateral canon, which became; so
narrow that he could not go back again.
For two or three miles tho rocks actually
loscd over nis head so that ho could not see
tha sky. It was like traversing an immense
natural tunnel two hundred feet high. It
was undoubtedly the dry beds of a stream
which emptied during the rainy season into
tho Virgin. Piift loss were piled sixtv feel
hili in ono part of the tunnel.
What a grand spectacle it would bo to see
full torrent como rushing through that uu-
mighty moulti.
Another extraordinary feature (if this coun
try in tho Big Canon, which has been traced
fur upwards of three hundred miles, running
through perpendicular banks enormously
high, and washing up against the wall?,
leaving not a slope between, as if tho moun
tain had been cleft clear deep down 10 make
a passage.
1 3 a naralive of travels on the Amazon
and Rio Negro, just published, Mr. Wallace
describes an extraoidinary tree, called the
milk-tree, which was or.e of Ihe first wonders
he saw near Para. The fiuil is eatable,-and
full of rich and very juicy pulp; but "stran
gest uf ail is the vegetable milk, w hich ex
udes in abundance when the baik is cut. It
has about the consistence of thick cream, and,
but for a very slight peculiar laste, could
scaicely be distinguished finm Ihe genuine
product of the cow. Mr. Heavens ordered
a man to tap so mo logs that had lain nearly
a' month in Ihe yard, lie cut several notches
in the baik w ith an axe, and in a minute the
rich sap was running out in great quantities.
It was collected in n basin, diluted with
water, strained, and brought up at tea-timo
and at breakfast nc.l inuiiiiiig. The pecu-
lier flavor of the milk seemed rather to im
prove the quality of Ihe tea, and rave it a.i
good a color as rich cieam ; in coiTee ilia
equally good." The milk is also used for
glue, and if is said to be as durable as the.)
Tun Wab of 1812. The Salem papers'
have published lists of those, residing in lhat
vicinity, who are surviving Dartmoor piison
ers. In Marbluhead 42 personsnre now aliv.o
who were confined in Dartmoor. In Beverly
13 Dartmoor, and 24 who were confined in!
other English prisons during the war, now
survive. A correspondent of the Salem Ob-
set ver furnishes a list of 1 ti of the armed ves
sels belonging to tho United Slates, which'
wero employed to cruise flgafnst the com
metce of Great Briti'an, in the war of 1812.'
The prizes taken during tho war number
140d and were valued at 5169, 853,516.
The Malory of throo of the niost famous ef
these vessels is briefly stated as follows : The
"America," of Salem, was a truly fortunate
vessel. She captured in the whols twenty
six vessels, and tho property taken and safely
got into port amounted lo about SI, 100,000.'
Tho Prince," of Chui lesion, S. C, had an
engagement with the Kndymon fiignte, and
killed 62 of her men. The "Yotklowo," of
New York, took prizes which' were worth at
least a million and a half of dollars. She did
not lose a man during her cruise, and was"
cut thiituen weeks.
lion. John C. Wiight, late Comptroller of
New Yoik, will soon leave wilh his family
for Havana. It is rumored that ho is to suc
ceed Judge Clayton, who lately resigned the
American Consulship.
A Priest in extreme poverty resolved1 to
get ciedil for a miracle. He put die yolk
of seveial eggs into a hollow cane, and stop
pud ihe end with buttor then walking into
an nle house, ho begged to fry a single egg
for dinner. The smallness of the repast ex
cited cuiiosity, and they gave him a moisel
of laid. He stirred the lard with his cane,
arid 13 tSe wonder of the surrounding peas
ants, produced a handsome omlet. This mir
acle established his fame be made omlets,'
and grew lich by his ingenuity.
A' New Idea'. "Th'3 Senate of Virginia has'
adopted a resolution proposing to award' a
premium to the officers of the best conducted
railroads in the Slate, with reference to speed'
and punctual connections' of ihe mails and1
travel.'
made use of by carpenters.
. Coxsi'Mftion or Woo3 by Locomotives
The consumption of wood by t!iu 'ocorau'.ives
on tho Michigan Central and Sonthern roads,
between Chicago and Niles, and Soulh Bend,
is estimated at 30,OCb coids wiihiu ihe past
year. The Ruck Island, an J so;rie other Illi
nois roads aro dependent on Michigan and In
diana for wood, and get it by running their
w ood trains over the Michigan roads. .The
prrseut prices of wood in Chicago ato : Hick
ory SO. 50 lo 7 ; Beach and Maple, S5 50 to 6 ;
Oak, $M."0 lo 5. This is neatly as dear as it
is in Albany, N". Y. Before i lha introduction
of railibads, hickory could be piiichasjd in
Michigan for 91.50 per eord.
EstcRGY. Seo how ihal fellow woiksf
No ob'tucla,is loo great for him lo surmount,
no oaeaii loo high for him li) leap, no moun
tain lo high for him td'scale. He will rriaso
a'stir inthe world,' and no mistake. S,uch
are Ihe men who build our railroads, dig up
Ihe mountains in California, and enrich the
world. There is uotbiug gained by idleness
and sloih. This is a world of aclioti, and lo
make money, gain a reputation and eiert'a
happy influence, men must be active, perse
vering, and euergetic. They must not quaij
ot shadows run frmn lions, or attempt lo
dodge the lightning. Go forward sealously,
in whatever you undertake, n we shall
risk you anywutxe arid ihroujh life,
A Fortunate Mas. Fiom the report of.
the Commissioner of Patents in Ihe mailer of
tho pistol patents of Samuel Colt, of Hartford,'
Conn , it appears that he has already realized
over one mfllfon of dollars clear profits, and'
the Commissioner estimates the profits yet lo'
accrue before thu patent expires at over one"
million more.
rti'RNEn on the Prairie. Charles Lewis ,
son of Warner Lewis, Esq.j Surveyor General
uf Iowa, lost his life a eboit time since in a'
most dutiessiug manner. He was out sur
veying with Anderson's company, naar Sar
geanl's BlufT, on the Missouri river, when
die pt a il ia was discovered to be on fire.
F.veiy exertion was made to escape, but in'
vain. Mr. Anderson was dangerously burned,
and young I.owis was so much injured that
he died finm die effects of his burns. He is'
said to have been a most estimable young
man. St. Louis Republican.'
Pit()i;r.'ise or Iron Suits. Wo understand'
lhat tha owners of the celebraled'Marco Polo
James l'aines &: Co. have, in addition to'
their magnificent ships 'building in Boston,'
ordered from the Delias! Iron Company, an
iron sailing vessel which will be the largest
iron sailing ship iu die world.' The length
will be 300 feel; beam' 43 feci ;: depth of
huiul 30 feet ; she is also to bo a' three-decker,
and will have light steam power and a
screw. The vessel' is lo bo built rtnJer the
superintendence of Mr. James Ilodsoii, engi"
nberj of this loivu. Liverpool paper.
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Fiieqi'entlv ask yourself hat you bav
done, w hy you have done it, nnd howr you
have done it? This will leach' you to re-
sped first your actions; secoitdj youi mo-
lives; uud third, thu nifniiier iirnhich you"-
dischargu your duly.
Thk Faitiifi'l Wire There Vrro'lhing'
upon this" ar:!i' dial can compare with tho
faithful attachment of a wife; no creature
w ho, for ihe object of her love, i soindomit'-j
able, so perseveiing, sq ready to suffer and
to die. Under ibe most distressing circum
stances, woman's weakness becomes mighty
power; her ilmidily fearless c'ou'rajej all ber
shrinking and sinking rfiiaies away, a.-id he
spirit acquires the finnnecs of msibie ads
roantiue firmness when circumstances diiv
her lo put forth all her energies under th
inspiiAUon vf hr sffeUiou1