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Ole Counties, entrusted to them, wilt receive prompt *tuition. Sept. 11, ISM --ly. J. A. J. BUCHANAN avosairmr & mairsoszr, ATTORNEYS ABB courisELLoas AT LAW, Waynesburg. Pa. Mee on the south side of Main street, in the Old 'Bask Building. Jan. I, PM W. W. POW 1 4 EY. • ISA MVEL MONTGOMSRY. 1110111731111171 & 7Zoirracvssintx vrigANEv:s AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, 117 - Office in I edwith's Building, opposite the Court Inense, Waynesburg, Pa. JeCONNEI.L. J. .1. HUFFMAN. alrigellarraLlS 41111179RNICY8 AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Wayuesbur Pa. VIIIIMH2ce la toe "Wright 114 se," East Door. Celksetiona, &c., will receive prompt attention. Wayweabwrig. April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAW FORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in dayers' Budding, adjoining the Post Office. dept. 11, 1861-Iy. C. 1. SLACK. JOHN PHI ILA N• BLACK & PHELAN, So.TTORNSYS AM) t;OUNSEI.I.CRS AT LAW Mee ie the Court House, Way nerburg. Sept. IL 1061-Iy. PHYSICIANS I M. BLACHLEY, M. D. riginizappit a. 11011.020711, . . ... osee--111sehleyta Building, Kuala St., ItESPECTFULLY announces to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinits that he has returned from is Hospital Corps of the Army and resumed the prac tice of medicine at this place. WaYlleahnrit, June 11, 1964.-13. DR. D. W. BRADEN, Pity'lrian and Surgeon. Otßee in the Old Sank Inikting. Main street. Sept 11, MI —lv . DR. A. G. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender his servicea as a fir PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of ei=mi.burg and vicinity. De hopes by a due appre of human life aed health, and strict attention to buileam. to merit a share of public patronage. Wartnalsung. January 8, 1862. DR. A. J. EGGY ivatSAPRCTFULLY offers his services to the citizens of Wayoesburg ata vicinity, as a l'hysician and lrions. °ace opposite the Republican office. lie Dopes by a due agireciation of the laws of human life tuktl health, so na tiv e medication, and strict attention to business, to 111 a liberal share of public patronage. April 9. 1602. D&.:. P. SUXELDS. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Office in the old Roberts' Building, opposite Day's Rook tkore. a nesburg, ]au. 1, 1861. DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, Drnwgist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the mom zetebratet. Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. t, 186l—ly. wavers. WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Peale: in Foreign and Pnines- Me Dry Gonda. Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. !Sept. 11.1861-Iy. ANDREW WILSON, Dialler in Dry Hoods, Groceries, Drugs, Notions, Howare, Queensware, Stoneware, Looking Glosses, hos and Nails, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, 4114 in 'met, one door east of the Old Bank. *apt. 11, 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Gonda, Groceries, Hardware, Queen/t -weet and notions, in the Hamilton House. opposite the court House. Main street. Sept. 11. 1661-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domenic Dry Grinds, Cr,, sereeert, Queeneware, Hardware and Notions, opposite &Dupree)) House. Main street. dept. 11, 0101-I.e, N. CLARK, Dialer in Men's and Soya' Clothing. Cloths, Caaai mama. aladirsets, Data and Caps. ate., Main stunt, op. roar the Cmtrt *louse. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. A. J. SOWERS, wirer in Men's and Boys' Clothing, Gentlemen's Fur ing Gonda, Soots and Shoes, Mats and Caps, Old Milk Mending, Main street. Sept. 11, ISGI-4m SIM AND MIEO.E DEALERS. J. D. COSGRAY, Dant and ahem maker. Main street, nearly opposite sitsr"ollogelt's and Drover's Bank." Every style of Beim mididioes constantly on band or made to order. Dort. 11. 11061-13 t. N. H. McClellan Mont and Shoe maker,Blaehley'e Corner, Main slreet. Don i s and Shoed of every variety always on hand or e tin ardar oa short roadeej Sept. 11. IS6I-19. eigiNMILVES & V. A azBTZVS. JOSEPH YATER, wale, Groneries sad Coaketionories, Notions, illadiet4 es. Paresawries, Liverpool Ware, ice., Glass of Whims, and INN Moulding and Looking Claw Plasm neVash paid for gond issOng Apples. Mept. 11. 111011-Iy. - JOHN MUNNELL, Dealer in Groceries and CAinfectintiaries, and Variety Sligo& Gowwilligis Wilson's Nrw Building, Main street. lisps. 11. IMOr=ly. • ass. LEWIS DAY, kir likold aiwasok enes Nooks, *Simi gr.. i V e No Oe. Oat dm)" 0110 Pr ri v ulet • • Sept, 11, 1861 ly . . _ . .•, . . ~ 2 , - . . . . . • , . t 1 /..........4_„„.. , . , , ,o, , 1 , , .......\ \ , \ e 01 , 11 ' , . i L -. --- -\ l )` 1 1 ii ‘ , 1 0 11 ILy r " 1 t i ' kl ( 1 i ) 1 ) 4 t r it 1 .. t L. _......____ ~...... • WM. C. LINDSEY iottitaittots, LATE INTERESTING DISCOVERIES. AT JERUSALEM. — Ari account ofSig ' nor Pierotti's discoveries in the sub terranean topography of Jerusalem has been published. Employed by the Paella as an engineer, he has dis covered that the modern city ofJerns alem stands on several layers of ruin ed masonary, the undermost of which composed of deeply bevelled and enormous stones, he attributes to the age of Solomon. the next to that of Zorobabel, the next to that of Herod, the next to that of Justinian, and so on till the times of the Saracens and Crusaders. He has traced a series of conduits and sewers leading from the "dome of the rock," a mosque standing on the very site of the alter of sacrifice in the Temple, to the Val ley of Jehoshaphat, by means of which the priests were enabled to flood the whole temple area with wa ter, and thus to carry off the blood and offal of the sacrifices to the brook Kedron. The manner of his explo. rations was very interesting. He got an Arab to walk up through those immense sewers, ringing a bell and blowing a trumpet, while he him self by following the sound was able to trace the exact course they took.— About two years ago he accidentally discovered a fountain at the pool of Bethesda, and, on his opening it, a co pious stream of water immediately began. to flow, and has flowed ever since. No one knows from whence it came or whither it goes. This caused the greatest 'excitement among the Jews, who flocked in crowds to drink and bathe them selves in it. They fancied that it was ono of the signs of Messiah's coming and portended the speedy restora tion of their commonwealth. This fountain, which has a peculiar taste, like that.of milk-and-water; is identi fied by Signor Pierott with the foun tain which Hezekiah built, and which is described by Josephus. The meas urements and position of most of these remains accord exactly with the Jewish historian's description.— Some of the Signor's conclusions are disputed, but no one has succeeded in so disinterring the relics of the Holy City.—English Paper. AT Romn.—lnteresting discoveries have recently been mad.; in Rome.— Signor Fortunati, whose name be came celebrated three or four years ago by the discovery of the anient Basilic of St. Stefano, has been again fortunate in archaeological researches in a vineyard adjoining the ancient Praetorian camp, having brought to light, among other relics of the past, twelve inscriptions of monuments erected to Praetorian soldiers. These epigrams are highly prized, as lUas trative of historical and geographical details interesting to the antiquary, and demonstrative of the fact that the Prwtorian Guards were levied in dis tant provinces, such as Pannonia, Mte ,- itt and Thrace, of which the pro vinces, cities, boroughs and streets are exactly specified. AT PCMPIaI.—AII important arch teological discovery has just been made at Pompeii, of a mill with a great quantity of corn in excellent perservation, and an oven with 81 loves, arranged in rows, and but slightly affected by the heat of the lava, having been protected by a quantity of ashes which had covered the iron door fitted to the mouth of the oven. These loves have all been got out entire ; a large iron shovel for introducing loves into the oven has also been found on the spot, with a remnant, of it wooden handle. This is the first discovery of the kind on record.— Galignani. Ix ENGLAND.—A curious fresco was recently discovered at Blunhain church, Bedfordshire, England. rep resenting the Descent from the Cross. ft displays e3rtain exaggerations of style and feeling which may indicate it to be a work of about the end of the fifteenth century. The drawing is said to be excellent. ousiosmEs Or THE EARTH. At the city of Medina, in Italy, and about four miles around it wherever the earth is dug when the workmen arrive at the distance of sixty-three feat, they come to a bed of chalk which they bore with an auger, five feet deep. They then remove from the pit before the auger is removed, and upon its extracation the water bursts up through the aperture with great violence, and soon fills the new made well, which is affected neither by rains nor drought. But what is most remarkable in this operation is the layers of the earth as we descend.— At the depth of fourteen feet are found the ruins of an ancient city, paved streets, houses, floors and different pieces of ma sonic work. Under this is found soft, oozy earth, made up of vegetables, aad at twenty-six feet large trees entire, such as walnut trees, with the walnuts sticking to , the stems, and the leaves and branches in a perfect state of preservation. At twen ty-eight feet deep a soft chalk is found, mixed with a vast quantity of shells, aad the bed is eleven feet deep. Under this vegetables ate fotihd agaip. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1862. ! TERRIBLE SCENES AT SEA NARRATIVE OF A SURVIVOR FROM THE GOLDEN GATE Mr. A. Bates, a steerage passenger on board the California steamer, Golden Gate, furnishes San Fran cisco paper the following interesting narrative of the scene on board that vessel when she was burned at sea : "The day was very warm, and I was sitting on deck forward. This was about half-past four o'clock in the afternoon; all was quiet. I sud denly saw smoke issuing from the deck, about midships, and near the smoke stack. I watched it a mo ment, when, becoming convinced there was fire, I cried out. Just at this moment others saw the smoke too, and we all rushed toward the pumps or brakes, forward, which were chiefly used for cleaning the deck. We used the pumps as best we could. We took turns working. I worked a few minutes, when, seeing it would do no good, I went forward. All then began to crowd forward, and had no life-preservers, for they were in the boats behind, and no one could go thrcugh the fire after them. In about five minutes front the time I saw the smoke, the flames burst through the decks. It seemed as if the means for extinguishing a fire had been neglected, for the pumps would not work, €. The flames kept coming for war d eyery minute, and all pressed still closer to the bows. Ropes were now attached to the vessel and thrown over the sides, to hold on to. Some were so frightened that the moment the fire came near them they plunged wildly overboard and were drowned. Others climbed over and held on to the ropes as long as they could.— They got exhausted, and dropped off,• singly and in pairs, and were lost. " There were ten boats on board— enough to save every soul on board --but only three of them could be got at, two of these, loaded chiefly with the crew, got safely to the shore. The other sailed away for Manzanillo, and has not been heard from. The men that got into the boats leaped overboard, and were picked up. The officers seemed to do very well, and the men were not insubordinate, but appeared to obey orders and work well. "I secured It rope, and determined to stay aboard to the last • moment, and then swim for the shore lam a very good swimmer. I had stripped myself of everything but my shirt. I had about my waist a belt with some money; but a large sum which I had in my trunks was lost. While thus standing at the bows, grasping my rope"—continued Mr. Hates—"a little girl, a lovely child of about eight years of age, came up to me and asked me to save her. Her name was Addie Manchester, and her father lives in San Francisco. She said: " 'O, mister, can you swim ?' " I told her I could. She begged me so hard to save her that I deter mined to try to do so anyhow. I told her I would try to save her if she would do just as I told her. She said " will do just as you tell me.— Save. me, do, please—l don't want to be drowned.' "I showed ber how to act—to get on my back and grasp me tightly, but that she must not choke me. She promised to do just as I told her.— She was quite cool. just as the fire got up to us, the vessel struok the bar. I got over, taking Addle with me. She held on to me tight, as I told her to do. I struck for the beach, not , far off. The breakers ran very high. I got past the first one in safety with my burden. I got past the second one also. After I passed the third one, I found that Addle was gone. I turned round and saw her going down behind me. A man on a plank, who was passing, grasped her by her hair and pulled her on his plank. I saw she was safer than with me, so I continued on, and was dragged on the beach.— I lay on the beach insensible' for about half an hour. When I came to, I saw Addie, she was lively. " I dug a hole in the sand to keep warm in. We buried the dead each in a separate grave, which we scraped out with our hands and pieces of board. " Next morning we traveled in land. About five miles off we reach. od a spring; here we rested. Some of our party then started' across the mountains to reach Manzanilla ; oth ers, including myself, were to remain until assistance reached us. We had nothing to eat. That afternoon, and after our friends had left us, the St. Louis came along and took us aboard." gar As nothing can be more con ducive to security, so nothing can be better to insure a quiet and pleasant life, than to live innocently, and up on no occasion to violate the com mon covenants of peace and proprie ty. Health ie another word for temperance and exercise. ( A GHOST STORY. In all ages persons of weak intel ' lect have believed in apparitions; yet we may confidently affirm that stories of ghosts are mistakes, or An opportunity was afforded me of impositions, and that they may al- seeing Pekin early in the present ways be detected by a proper exec- month, a little before the relaxation of cise of the mental faculty. In all re- send you this brief account of some the restrictions on passports. I ' lations of this kind there is manifest ly an endeavor to make the events of the things I saw. The streets and gates are singular. as supernatural as possible, to prevent The Tartar city is square. There are the suspicion of trick, and to silence two gates in each wall, placed oppo . all objections which might be made site to each other; but the south wall to their credibility. In compliance has three gates instead of two, the ' with this custom, we will recount a middle one being in front of the Im story of a ghost, which seems to perial Palace. Conceive of walls possess all the desired requisites. from forty to sixty feet high, and At a town in the West of England thirty-five feet wide, crowned with twenty-four persons were accustom lofty towers of several stories, over ed to assemble once ' a week, to the nine gates and at the corners.— drink, smoke tobacco, and talk poll-" Had not the Chinese Government tics. Like. the academy of .Rubens, yielded, our troops would have found at Antwerp, each member had his ' peculiar chair, and the president's ,no little difficulty in forcing an en- , was more the members had been in elevated than the rest.— trance through such bulwarks. So As one said a colonel of one of our regiments of to me lately, and with reason. a dying state for some time, his The Tartar city is three miles and chair, whilst he was absent, remain- ! ' a half across. In its centre is the ed. vacant.' Imperial city, which, within a triple ; 4 , hen the Club met on the usual wall. incloses the palace. The ap- night, inquiries were naturally made ! after their associate. As he lived in proaches to she top of the walls con the adjoining house, a particular sist of gradually rising slopes, suita friend went toinquire after him, !and ble for cavalry to mount, and close to ; returned with the melancholy lute]- theates. Some of them are open, g and 'invite the visitor to ascend them. ' ligence that he could not survive the From the wall in the vicinity of the night. This threw a gloom on the' south central gate, there is a fine ' company, and all efforts to turn the view of the palace. A succession of conversation from the sad subject i yellow tiled roofs are seen stretching before them were ineffectual. About ; midnight the door opened, and the far to the north. Beyond them is "Prospect Hill," or "Hill of BeautV! t0r,,,, in white, of' the dying or the ! , „ rtifii4 . l „,,,,,,,,, made" to beans , mat., walked into the room, and ~,the palace. took his seat ta i,; B accustomed chair. I Let the reader suppose himself t There he remained la -;lence, and in 'be walking from this spot off the ; silence he was gazed at. Tin. ~p , , p ,_ ! handsome terre-ploin to the eastward; ition continued a sufficient time in'? he will observe the English and the chair to assure all who were IFrench flags , waving on his left over present of the reality of the vision. 0-ay, green-tiled roofs which once At length he-arose, and stalked to- ; ; protected princes of the Imperial fam wards the door, while he opened as , ily. He win also notice the lilvssian if living; went out, and shut the; church near them, and nearer yet to door after him. After a pause some ; ; one, at last, bad the resolution to say, the wall he may observe a street If only one of us had seen this, !! jthere a crowd of Coreans are con " ; but would not have been believedhe :gregated. Their clothes are of white ! icotton, manufactured by themselves. it is impossible so many of us can ! have been decieved." The cos an y A handkerchief is tied round their bde rees, recovered their sp, unshaven heads. They wear laced y g p eech, ishoes, In all these points differing and the whole conversation, as may ! from the Chinese, they exhibit also a be imagined, was upon the dreadful k bustlin _, g disputatious, quarrelsome object which had engaged their at- dispoeition, which scandalizes those tention. They broke up, and went; who watch them. But this may wear home. In the morning, inquiry was i off on better acquaintance. They made after their sick friend. It was ! drive bargains with ginseng, the root answered by an accout of his death, i whose tonic virtues are so celebrated which happened nearly about the A n China, in stout paper and strong time of his appearance in the club ;:calico all of them products of their room. There could be little doubt : peninsula before; but, now, nothing could be After turning the angle of the wall, more certain than the reality of the the Astronomical Observatory comes apparition, which had been simultan- ; into view. It is an open terrace where eously seen by so many persons. It; are displayed the beautifully cast ob is unnecessary to say that such a ! Rerving g instruments of Verbiest.— story spread over the country, and They are of bronze, and appear to found credit even from infidels; for ; have been executed with great ac in this case, all reasoning became ; curac y. The large celestial globe is superfluous, when opposed tc a plain feet in diameter. After a century fact, attested by three and twenty ' tuid a half of exposure to skiey influ witnesses. To assert the doctrine of ' antes, they look fresh and capable of the fixed laws of nature was ridicu- ; being used to advantage. Below lons, when there was so many people ! this "terrace for observing the stars," of credit to prove that they might 1 there are seen lying on a slight °lo be unfixed. Years rolled on, and the vation at the bottom, the astronomi story was almost forgotten. pal instruments made in the Mongo- One of the club was an apothecary.l Ilan dynasty, nearly six hundred In the cow se of his practice he was ; years ago, by the Chinese mathema called to an old woman, whose bus- I tician Kwo-sheu-king. iness it was to attend sick persons.— Near the Observatory is the Ex- She told him that she could leave the amintion Hall, where thousand of world with a quiet conscience, but i students gather to acquire distinc for one thing, which lay upon her ! !tion in a struggle for literary honors. mind, "Do you not remember Mr.—, I met several candidates who had whose ghost has been so much talked! just arrived by steamer from Canton. of'? I was his nurse. On the night I .Lower degrees are granted in the of his death. I left his room for some- 4 provinces; but that of Doctor in. Lit thing I wanted. lam sure I had !erature is only given in the capitol. not been absent long ; but, at my re- ;They were Masters of Arts who had turn, I found the bed without my pa- braved the inconveiniences of a sea tient ! He was delirious, and 1 fear 'voyage rather than be checked by ed that he had thrown himself out of the disordered state of the interme the window. I was so frightened diate provinces in their -purpose of that I had no power to stir; but, 'reaching Pekin. Only 200 out of after some time, to my great aston- 5000, they told me, can receive the ishment, he entered the roam, shiv coveted honor. Their own chance ering, and his teeth chatering, laid was sat a bad one, because, coming himself down on the bed, and died! from remote provinces, twelve or -fig Considering my negligence as the 1 1 teen hundred miles distant, they cause of his death, I kept this a se- would share in the advantage gained cret, for fear of what might be done by the equitable distribution which to me. Though I could have contra the Emperor makes of the 200 diplo dicted all the story of the ghost, I mss among the provinces to which " dared not do it. I knew by what „„ ndidatee belong. had happened, that it was he himself _ who had been in the club-room, (per- baps recollecting it was the night of meeting); but I hope God and the poor gentleman's friends will forgive me, and I shall die contented." THE FINISHED GARMENT. —A Chris tian man's life is laid in the loom of time to a pattern which he does not see, but God does ; and his heart is a shuttle. On one side of the loom is sorrow, and on the other is joy ; and the shuttle, struck alternately by each, flies back and forth, carrying the thread, which is white 'or black as the pattern needs ; and in the end, when God shall lift up the finished girment, and all its changing hues shall glance out, it will then appear that the deep and dark colors were as needful to perfectness and beauty as the bright and high colors. There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to tract from the worth of ottiermor DESCRIPTION OP PEKIN, BY AN ENGLISH MISSIONARY COULD DE RECONCILED. — The Duke de Roqulaure was one day told ths two ladies of the court had quar- reled and very much abused eseh ether: "Have they called each other ug ly ?" he asked. "No." "Very well," said ho, "I can recon ile them. oar An eminent physician has dis overed that the night mare, in nine 1 see out of ten, is produced by ow ' g a bill for a newspaper. phrases especially when ade use of by woman, which they ften are, are disgraceful--not to say sgusting. ser When some people make a, at deal of you—you may be sure they mean to make a deal out of you. theyuung man who Mob; 411101im r El INTERESTING PLOTS ABOUT IRE LAND. Ireland has of late years been un dergoing greater economic changes than any other portion of the king dom. When I tell you that, within the short period of nineteen years— since the period of the Disruption-- £.30,000,000 worth of land have chan- ged hands in the Encumbered. and ' Landed Estates Court, involving a change of property, and introducing an immense amount of capital, en ergy, and agricultural skill, that are telling confessedly upon the aspect of the country—assimilating Ireland more to Scotland and England than in former times; and that these changes like those which Dr. Begg brought ont so admirably the other evening in his "Report on Houses for the Working Classes," will naturally tell .upon the people—you will easily see that they give us facilities of a peculiar character for the introduc tion of the Gospel concurrent with these economic changes. Changes as great in the population have been going on no less extensive. Two tides have been streaming over Ire land—one in the direction of Austra lia and America, to some extent also to Scotland and England, going out of Ireland; and another, chiefly coming into Ireland from Scotland; and I trust in its character and . con sequences, like the gulf streams, which bring fertilit y and health.— Generally speaking, the outgoing el ement hatj been a Roman Catholic element, the incoming a Protestant element, and especially a Presbyter lan element from Scotland. We have no doubt that these two changes "together, the outgoing and the in coming, will tend to make the South and West of Ireland somewhat like Ustler, and like changes which took place some years ago in our own be loved land. In 1848, the population of Ireland was in round numbers eight millions and a quarter; in 1861, it was live and three-fourth millions. making a decrease on the gross pop ulation of two and a half millions, or nearly the entiro population of Scot land, if you except Edinburg and Glasgow. You may thus have an . idea, from the decrease of the popu lation on the one hand, and the in troduction of capital on the other, of the economic changes that are going on in Ireland. The great mass of the population who have left home consisted, as I have said, of the Romish element ; while of those' who have come to Ireland, there have been hundreds from Scotland, tending to change still more the rel ative proportions of Roman Catholic and Protestant, giving accessions that constitute centres of light and I influence to the Proteitant Churches ; in that dark land. I have here a map drawn up by Mr. Miller, Prince's Street, Edinburg, with red dots :iliowing upon it the places where ! Scotchmen had settled and I put it !nto the hands of the Moderator for information. This map is indicative 'lt once of the migratory and also ; the gregarious character of our Scottish countrymen. You will oh )bserve that a large number have ! some from Scotland, and that where- Wm. a Scotchman has fixed himself thers have come and settled down vside MeiVaughton's laress. DO THE RIGHT THING. Whenever you are in doubt which Xtwo things to do, let your decision for that which is right. Do not 'raver, do not parley; but go square up to the mark, and do the right thing. 'by, when you divide that apple tiitli your little sister, be careful not keep the largest half for yourself. .outig man ! do not sneak out of the 'asement door because you wish to aoape your father's eyes. Maiden ! 'et not the most trifling deceit pass !urrent in those little acts which make up the sum of your life. No matter who you are, what your lot, or where you live, you cannot afford to do that which is wrong.— The only way to obtain happiness yourself is, to do the right thing. You may not always hit the mark; but you should, nevertheless, always aim at it, and with every trial your skill will increase. Whether you are to be praised or blamed f'r it by others; whether it will seemingly make you P cher or poorer, or whether no oth ,?,r person than yourself knows of your action, still always, and in all sees ; do the right thing. Your first essons in this will grow easier, until unity doing. the right thing will be ,ome a habit; and to do a wrong, 'will iteem an absolute impossibility. RESIGNATION.—No man can be hap y who does not stand firm against di contingencies, and cannot say, "I E thould have been content if it might n ave been so or so; but since it is Itherwisc, God's will be done ! for ilia dispensations are unquestiona tpkt, and his decrees not to be resist- W."— &neon. y.Nir-If you are thwarting a person in ob) not a oboos lion. NEW BERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 18. KNOWLEDGE. How shall we estimate the value of knowledge? What arithmetic can calcu late the advantages possessed by educated over uneducated mind? The great philo sopher, who seems to have perfectly ana lyzed human nature, declares : "Ignorance is the curse of God ; Knowledge the wing by which we fly to Leaven." They who dwell in ignorance are in the region and shadow of death. Ignorance puts man in subjection to nature, causes him to tremble at the elements, and ren ders him the sport of the wildest supersti tion. Knowledge puts nature in subjec tion to man, renders all its powers the ministers of good, enabling man to control, direct, and combine them at his will.-,. Knowledge invests man with his proper dignity and gives him actual dominion over the earth on which he treads. In ignorance, he is in slavish bondage to earth, air and sky. About four hundred years before Christ, the Athenians, in the days of their pros perity, made war upon the inhabitants of Syracuse. After an unsuccessful battle, it was manifest that safety could be found on ly in hasty retreat. Preparation was made with all possible speed, but when the mo ment for departure arrived, to their utter consternation, the sun grew dark, and night fell upon the earth. "It is an ill omen," said the sooth-sayers, "and we must remain until the next full moon." They at tempted to remain, but the result was the almost utter destruction of the army, and the fall of the supremacy and glory of Athens. They could have escaped a hos tile army, but superstition's grasp was the grasp of death. They perished through ignorance of an Eclipse. What is meant by the Dark Ages? A long night of a thousand years of the dark ness of ignorance and superstition. A pe riod in which there was "Nolight ; but rather, darkness visible Served to discover scenes of woe, Regions of horror, doleful shades." In 1476, a large comet appeared. Of course it was sent to destroy the earth.— All believed the day of Judgment at hand. Pope Calixtus ordered all the church bells to be rung daily at twelve o'clock, and that to the usual form of prayer should be ad ded, "Lord save us from the Devil, the Turk and the Comet." No longer ago than the beginning of the eighteenth century, more than one hun dred persons were imprisoned or executed in Massachusetts under the charge of be ing "bewitched." Man has ever mourned, and the earth has been drenched with blood and team, through the reign of ignorance and superstition. Great advance Las been made. Man has not only ceasad• to regard the elements with superstitious terror, but begins to look upon them as placed at his control for the most beneficent ends by the All wise Creator. Intellectually, he is "cloth ed and in his right mind." The fountain of knowledge is unsealed, and its heal ing streams, in this land, bear blessings to every hamlet. And yet, even here, there are many to speak against books and schools, and who are so stupid in their ig norance, ss to think it would be better for society if the whole system of education were swept out of existence. Knowledge is a good thing, but knowl edge is not righteousness. Education is good, but education is not religion, Man has a head and also a Atari. His moral nature must furnish the motives and prin ciples to govern him as an intellectual be ing. Without this divinely appointed reg ulation and subordination of his powers, his existence is a failure so far as relates to the accomplishment of good. Ambi tion as proud and unholy as that which reigned in the breast of Satan who drew a part of heaven's hosts into rebellion, may reign in the breasts of the most gifted ones of earth. Such has too often been the case. Such is now the case. We have a practical demonstration of it.—C,'. Pres. MAC:BING Cutwass.—Do till in your power to teach children self-government. If a child is passionate, teach him by gen tle and patient means, to curb his temper. If he is 'greedy, cultivate liberality in him. If he is sulky, charm it out of him by en - couraging frank, good humor. If he is • indolent, accustom him to exer tion. If pride makes hie obedience reluc tant, subdue him by counsel or discipline. In short, give your children a habit of over coming their besetting sin. A COMPRICHENSIVII PRAYER.—On the By leaf of Rev. _Dr. Bethune's Bible, was found written the following : Lord pardon what I have been ; Sanctify what I am : Order what I shall be; That thine may be the glory, And mine the eternal salvation. For Christ's sake. *WA soldier, who was in all the bat tles before Richmond, remarks that "it is astonishing how indifferent to danger, a man becomes in action, after being in - a short time. While supporting the bat tery some of our men lay down on the ground and slept soundly, utterly regsak leis of the shells that Were bunting arellitta t hem. If I hail not seen this, F certainly never would bave believed it." 4
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