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JeCONNELL ITTORNEiII AND COUNSELLORS AT LAD Waynesburg, Pa. elirtmice to the "Wright Iklae," East Door. pilestkins, &c., Will receive prompt attention. .'Waynesburg, April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Sayers' Building, adjoining the Post epee. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. C.A. BLACK. JOHN PHELAN. BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Wa}neiburg. Sept. 11,1861—1 y. 1861, the assize court of the Nord found a young married woman, nam ed Rosalie Gardin, guilty of the mur der of her father, Martin Doize, and the jury having, out of compassion, given her the benefit of"extenuating circumstances," she was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labor for life. The evidence against her raised nothing more than a case of slight suspicion, founded upon her having been at times on bad terms with her father, bat she had confessed to a matron of the prison of Ilazebrouck, and to the Judge of Instruction, that she did commit the murder - ; and al though she retracted this confession at the trial, both judge and jury be lieved her first statement, and she was convicted on the strength cf it. There is now not a shadow of doubt that this women was innocent. She passed upward of a year in penal servitude, pursuant to her sentence, during which time she constantly ex pressed a confident trust that God would one day prove her innocence; and whenever she wrote to her hus band, she begged him to expend money in masses. On August 16,1 1862, the same assize court, upon overwhelming evidence, strengthen ed by a full confession, found that Martin Doize was murdered by two notorious robbers, named Vanhalwyn and Verhamme, and sentenced them —the one to death, and the other to hard labor for life. The court of ces sation then quashed both the ver dicts, on the ground that they were incompatible the one with the other, and sent the three prisoners to be tried de novo by the assize court of the Somme. At this new trial it was proved con clusively that the murder was com mitted by Va,nhalwyn and Verham me, who moreover, renewed their confessions. But how did it happen that the poor woman Gardin, if of , sound mind, charged herself untruly with the . frightfur crime of parricide The answer, the shocking, the heart rending answer is that she was goad ed into confession by the torture of solitary confinement. For two long months this innocent woman, who moreover was eneiente of ber first child at the time, was locked up by herself in a cell to which air and light were only admitted by an aper ture a few inches square, made by the removal from the wall of a sin gle brick. The sole furniture of this horrible dungeon was a fetid tub and a straw mattress laid on a brick floor. The mattress was daily taken away to be aired pursuant to sanitary regulations, and then the unfortunate creature, who never had a chair to sit upon, could not even lie down, except upon the cold bricks. The prison matron, who brought her the daily prison food, told her continually that if she would confess she would be taken out of that place, and would not have her bead cut off. This wo man was herself a convicted pris oner in a state of probation, and" it was her interest to curry favbi with authority by extracting confessions. At the end of two montbe the poor woman whose terrible position was afgravated by those nervous feelings and fancies which notoriously ac company the advent of mAteniity, felt . bertielf abiejidoliee4 by God and Nevi, atUust iri told Woe* • the idea a yy II II ;s itit *bit tiik - asirilkan' e ,, ....-7 ---- • , I SALlsaht 1 401,1061 . 111AIMV 1 141 &d moss ivined * T tto -1110MMV "be titier t ta, LIMO 9 PHTSIOL&NS • B. M. BLACKLY, M. D. irsivasczazi a. straxisoir, "itinitti—Blatehlera Welding, Biala it., ESPECTFUI LY announces to the citizens of 11 and sizinitt that lie has returned from e °vital Corps of the Army and resumed the prae flaMeiellieite pt,; this place. t •3712I*Sesliistitg,Autie 11, 1382.-Iy. DR. D. W. BRADEN, oirkilatri k nd Ehirgeon. Office in the Old Bank tettichni, Main street. Sept 11, 1861-Iv. DR. A. G. CROSS wOU LD very respectfully tender his services u • PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of Wuriessburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre. ofhumein life and health. and strict attention to business, to merit a film, of public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, 1802. DR. A. J. NAGY RESPECTFULLY o ff ers his services to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and -opposite.she Republican office. lie hopft ert a duo appreciation of the laws of human life alikl.health, so native medication, and strict attention to b usines s , to merit a liberal share of public patronage. • *grit 91; 1861 DRUGS , i. 4 ,114.. A. HARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, awl dealer in Paints and 011 s, the most celebrator! Patent Medicines, and Pura Liquors for msdicinal purposes. itheptdlliglB6l-Iy. BEEROELaNTS. WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale *rid Retail Peale' in Foreign and Domes- Dry Goods, Groceries, Nations, &c., Main street. • WV: 1 11, 1881 —ly. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens were and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite Gisi Court House. Main street. Sept. It, 1881—Iy. MINOR & Deltic's% Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods. Oro cedes, Queensveare, Guilts - are end Notions, opposite the Green House, Main street. Sept. 11, 18i1—ly, .RIOT AND &HOB DEALERS. J. D. COSGRAY, DOM and Shoe maker. Main street, oprte, rmses and Drovees Sank." Every style of Deekteatettl Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. • Sept. . , N. H . McCLELLAN. iiptin— and Atm maker, 'Mobley'. Corner, Main street. 4 Shoes of every variety always on bend or ' made Ws order on abort seticel Seal, 1861-iy. 013100=In & VAMEETIES JOSEPH YATER, Deader is Groceries sad Contbetionerier. Notions, Perfomeiles, Liverpool Ware, dm, (flaw of 'Ulna, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. Cash paid thrgood eating app!es. *apt. 11, IN6I-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, ler In Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety '"WGomaßy, Wilson's Nt.w Buildin g , Main stmt. pit 11. 1651-Iy. BOORS, &c. • LEWIS DAY, imbautT to Satnnal and tdisreneneoua Bonk!, Station ery, PA. Marpteinee and Papers. One door east of ekterMiti r dk 1 4" g e - Sept. It, 1861 ly. . DTABIi AND ILILANIIIIS - SAMUEL M'ALLISTER, lltirneas and Trunk 'Raker. old Bunk * 1861 74;•• sicrsexpacrinrra. moo!)ER st , HAUER I maanaanapara and winolissale and retail daaletain omigna, *Apo mad Smote Seger Oases, Picas, &e., WiSsonfoiaiipikiing. Baia steel. . 5 . 3 6Nie 111m-04. 011211•0 DICKENS' CRADLE SONG OF THE Hush, I cannot bear to see thee Stretch thy tiny hands in vain ; .1 have got no bread to give thee, Nothing, child, to ease thy pain When God sent thee first to bless me, Proud and thankful, too, was I; Now, my darling, I, thy mother, Almost long to see thee die. Sleep. my darling—thou art weary; God is good, but life is deary. I have seen thy beauty fading, And thy strength ••ink day by day— Soon I know will want and fever Waste thy little life away. Famine makes thy mother reckless, Hope and joy are gone from rue; I could suffer all, my baby, Had I but a crust for thee. I am wasted, dear, with hunger, And my brain is sore oppressed; I have scarcely strength to press thee, Wan and feeble to my breast. Patience, baby, God will help us, Death will come to thee and me; He will take us to his heaven, Where no want or pain can be. Sleep, my darling—thou art weary; God is good, but life is dreary. J. J. H L"•FFMAN EXTRAORDINARY ME OF JUDI CIAL ERROR. It is doubtful whether all the col lections of causes celebres in the world contain such an extraordinary case of judicial error as the one which has just been redressed by the assize court of the Sommc. On August 13, gtint ntry. POOR. isttltantnu,s. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PL, WEDNESDAY, IMAM 28, Ma "ulack hole," and prevent her "head being cut off," (these are her own expressions,) she would at any rate be spared to bring her child alive in to the world. This natural and mys terious feeling was not, doubtless, ex pressed in poetical or polished lan guage. The much to be commisera ted victim is in a very 'nimble rank of life, and speaks no language but the 'Flemish of French Flanders.— Her answers to the interrogatories of the judge were conveyed through an interpreter. This circumstance serves to diminish the astonishment which must be felt at 'the mistake committed by the assize eourt of the Nord. The convict prison matron, however, eagerly reported to her su- Y periors that Rosalie Gardin had con fessed her crime, and therefore the prisoner against whom no evidence had been found was ushered into the istudy of the Judge of Instruction. This functionary, who, without be ing more cruel than the rest ot man kind, feels as much professional pleas ] ure in hunting down a prisoner a s a Leicest.exsuire huntsman in recover ; ing a cold scent, invited Rosalie G-ar din to repeat her confession. She, being resto-ed to the light of day, said at first that she had told a story, and that she did not murder her father; but when he spoke severely to her, the fear of being immediately sent back to the "black hole" opera ted so strongly upon her nerves that she repeated the false avowal, and the judge forthwith recorded it against her, doubtless with such "ad dition" and rhetorical aggravation as it is the "nature" of the judges of instruction to indulge in. Poor ' Rosalie gave birth to her child—her first child—prematurely in prison and, as is not astonishing, this off spring did not live long. At the , new trial, which began on Novem ber 17, and finished yesterday, the , innocence of Rosalie was made to appear as clear as day. She was ac quitted. Her counsel, M Lambert de Beaulieu, cited some opinions of M. I)upin, Dll. Berenger, now a judge of the court of cessation, and other high authorities, tending to show that sol itary confinement before trial, (le se cret.) as now practiced in France, is nothing else than a revival of the torture, that it is quite as inhuman, and that it tends to extort false con fessions. Let us hope that this fear ful instance of the abuse of the sys tem will lead to its reformation. ANOTHER GOLDEN WEDDING. The following lines written by Hon. J. U. Saxe, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the marriage of Col. Henry and Mrs. Ann Potter, of Waterford, Ct., are certainly very beautiful. We give them to the read ers of the Secretary as too good to keep, though we perhaps trespass upon the intentions of the modest pair in whose behalf the tribute was penned. They chose to let the 17th of November, 1862, pass without a formal demonstration in these sor rowful times , but they highly ap preciate this and other tokens of re membrance. THE GCLDEN WEDDING. A Golden Wedding ! would that I might be A quiet guest in that good company, When bride and bridegroom fondly meet again, Renew their vows, and try to blush in vain ! While thronging friends their cordial tribute Pay, And wish them "joy" upon their " wedding day." God bless the pair,permitted thus to prove A round half-century of wedded love! And may they live for more, they cannot pray, To see the nation's peril passed away, To see the reign of red rebellion cease, And warring States proclaim a lasting peace. Then may they say, with happiness serene, "We thank Thee, Lord,for what our eyes have seen, 'We thank Thee for the boon of earthly love, "0 make it perfect in the world of love 1" JOHN G. SAIL. November 17, 1862. Judges, Rum and Chime. There is scarcely a crime come be fore me that is not directly or indi rectly caused by strong drink.— Judge Coleridge. If it were not for this drinking, you (the jury):and I would have nothing to do.—Judge Patterson. Experience has proved that al most all crime into which juries have had to inquire may be traced, in one way or anoLher, to dratikenness.— Judge Will iams. I find, in every calendar that comes before me, one unfailing source, di rectly or indirectly, of most of the crimes that are committed—intemper ance.—Judge Whiteman. Boys, let the liquor alone. An Honest Life. The poor pittance of seventy years is not worth being a villian for. What mat ter is it if your neighbor lies in a splendid tomb? Sleep you with innocence. Look behind you through the track! A vast desert lies open in retrospect; weantd with years and eorrow, they sink from the walks of man. You must leave them where they fall, aad you are to go ii little further, and you will dud *tonal mt.— Whatever you may bows to imoitoter be twien the orad4e sad tile rigs, ewry Wisest atit !OA estate,' Wk3ok awe it* it tillttlititt, 'fiat tealtltat" *MOO ti tikoi 1itt.0. 144 01 1 ,40,401 fig %).: . Al t f ~.. 4_• 41, __ _ ... 1,„ i_ ..__ , b , _1 _ ___ , Vir ° F ° 11 11 -' 1 " IW " U illjr ', 4 • A WLESI'ED LIFE. While spending a few summers weeks in a charming inland town of Massachusetts, a year or two ago, I noticed one Saturday night what seemed a singular celestial phenome non. The western sky, a little above the horizon, was tinted with a red dish hue, flickering like the aurora, bat the sweeping waves and the pyr amidal shooting toward the zenith were alike wanting. I watched the curious phenomenon for ten or fif teen minutes, then it gradually fad ed from the heavens, and I retired for the night, speculating on its origin and cause, and hoping to hear from othel% who had witnessed it a satis factory solution, In the morning the mystery was easily solved, for I learned that an old house, lying in a deep valley. about a mile from the village, had been consumed by fire, and an old man, its only occupant, bad perished in the flames. I wondered that the possibility of such an event bad fail ed to occur to me, but the perfect si lence of the night, unbroken by any cry of fire or ringing of bells, had de luded me into the belief that the phe nomenon was celestial rather than terrestial. If my memory is not at fault, no one saw the burning, building, and its wretched inmate perished without any attempt to res cue him. Much sympathy was ex pressed for him by the boarders in our hotel, and many took an early walk to look on the smoking pile of ruins. About noon one of the selectmen of the town waited on me with a re quest that I would conduct the fun eral services, at the interment of the remains. The three clergymen of the town happened to be absent on exchanges, but it was thought desir able that some religious formalities should close a career which bad been strangely reckless of all religious ob ligations. I consented to perform the serv ices, and listened in sadness to the life history of a self-ruined man.— He had commenced life with a good prospect of success, and by skillful craftsmanship (he was a mason by trade) secured a libergi patronage, and seemed likely to realized a hand senie competence, if not large wealth. He marri6d early and reared a fami ly of children, who grew up to be ex cellent and honored citizens. j3ut he acquired an appetite for strong drink; which soon became un controllable and hurried him from one stage to another in social degrad ation. His wife forsook him, and though persuaded to return several times by promises of amendment, at length refused to hold any communi cation with the wretched man. His sons, ashamed to live in the vicinity of icir fallen parent, removed to a distant State. The neighbors, who remembered his former good conduct, aided him for a time with sympathy and more substantial help, till, one by one, disgusted with his besotted course, they denied him access to their dwellings, and passed his door without a greeting. His profanity was frightful to hear, and not the smallest. confidence could be placed in his word. Little employment could be found, for people were re luctant to be brought in contact with his vile habits. The last few years of his life were spent in almost unmingled wretched ness. In winter, from inability to procure fuel, he found lodgings in the poor-house, where his days drag ged heavily and in bitter repining, because he could procure neither rum nor tobacco, except by stealth. In the summer be returned to his miser able hovel, where he lived alone, vis ited only by others as degrading as himself, subsisting on the scantiest fare, but comforting himself, whenev er a little money could be earned, with his jug and pipe. He often spent days together in an intoxica ted state, without leaving the house, or looking on the face of man. On the day preceding the fire, he had been seen by a neighbor, hurry ing home with his jug and a paper of tobacco, and muttering to himself that be would not submit to such disgrace longer, but would at any rate bave one more good time. This was last seen of him, till a little pile of bones, with burnt flesh clinging to them, was taken from the smoking ruin. No one knew the cangb of the fire. Whether ne deliberately set fire to his dwelling, weary of his wretched life, or in a fit of intoxica tion pulled coats from the stove. or let fire fall from his pipe on the heap of strew which made his anly bed, is kn)wn only to the Omniscient Ote. The desolateness of the death was in keeping with the abandonment of his life A large company gathered on the beautiful knoll where his remains were interred, and as the rays of the setting sun tett on the greenorf and the overshadowing treesagony felt with the preacher, the st rikli con trast betweu the goodbmia Gaol : and tlie writoltedoefia ea . 10• man sin. Nipf IS la to' ' bappd, 'sic; to beak words man, *He , ' ~.'odtpetlL , -a , *reitirstb Ma ,J* Oar - LA „ Ii lean Mid haaiif iffirewn vontsat , 1 ('. ENGLISH WOKEN.• y i ft • I have heard a good deal of the te nacity with which _English ladies re- _ . tarn their personal . beauty to a late j TO 1114.1.4.. k Hsi PPY BOIL period of life; but (not to suggest .: that an American eye need use any I heard a father are other day—a i hale, happy man —praising his boys, cultivation before it can quite ap p re- four sturdy fellows, who had escaped En g lish heau q . at the dissipation and excitement of a ciate the charm of any age) it strikes me that an En the life, and were now as fresh in lish lady of fifty is apt to become a creature less refined and delicate, so heart end as ruddy in face as when far as her physique goes, than any- they prattled about their mother's thing that we western people class knee. I had seen so much of paren under the name of woman. She has tat sorrow over eons gone astray, an awful ponderosity of frame, not corrupted physically and morally, that I ventured to ask my friend, the pulpy, like the looser development happy father, how it was that he of our few fat women, but massive with solid beef and streaky tallow; had been able to save his boys from the von tamination of evil associations so that (though struggling manfully against the idea) you inevitably. and bad habits. "The way is simple enough," he think her made up of steaks and said, "neither original nor in any sirloins. When she walks, her ad- way vanes is elephantine When she sits remarkable. I keep my boys home of evenings, by making their down, it is on a great round space of home a pleasanter place than they her Maker's footstool, when she looks , can fi nd elsewhere. I save them' as if nothing could ever move her.— from the temptation of frequenting' She imposes awe and respect by the ' doubtful places of amusement by muchness of her personality, to such . sup plying them with better pleasure a degree that you probably credit her F at home. Many things which I con with far greater moral and intellect.- sidered improper, or at least frivo ual force than she can fairly claim. taus, I encourage now, because I find Her deans is usually grim and stern, my sons desire them and I prefer not always positively forbidding, yet that they may gratify their desire breadt calmly h teranrd iblwe, eight of not me fea y ure, but rel by its at home and in their mother's prey -' t because it seems to express so much ence, where nothing that is wron g will come, and where amusements, well founded self-reliance, such ac- which, under some circumstances, quaintance wirn the world, its toils, troubles, and dangers, and such may be objectionable, lose all their sturdy capacity for trampling down ! venom and become innocent and even a foe 6Eivating. I have found that the ' danger is more in the concomitants Without anything. positively 814 " ,of many amusements than in the lient, or actively offensive, or. in- amusements themselves; that many deed, unjustly formidable to her things which will injure a young neighbors, she has the effect of a man in a club or among evil asso seventy-four gun ship in time of ciates, are harmless when engaged peace; for, while you assure your- in with the surroundings of a home. self that there is no real danger you As long as children are children, cannot help thinking how tremen- ' they will crave amusement, and nod dons would be her onset if pugna- ' reasoning can convince them that it l ciously inclined, and how futile the is wrong to gratify their desire.- 7 effort to inflict any counter injury. When they hear certain things de-, She certainly looks tenfold—nay, a flounced as sinful by these whose hundredfold—better able to take opinion they hold in reverence, and care of herself than our slender- are tempted by the example of oth framed and haggard woman kind ; ' era who defend them, to disobey but I have not found reason to sup- their parents' wish and partici pose that the English dowager of fif- : pate in them, a long downward ty has actually greater courage, for- step is taken ; parental authority titude, and strength of character than ' and parental opinions are held in our women of similar ag e, or even a less reverence; the home that ostra tougher physical end urance than ; cises these amusements becomes a they. Morally, she is strong, I sus- dull and tiresome place ; and, in ae peet, only in society. and in the com- cret places, among companions, they mon routine of social affairs, and seek for them, until at length con would be found powerless and timid science is seared, filial feelings over in any exceptional straight that come, and parents are compelled to might call for energy outside of the sigh over the lost affections and con conventionalities amid which she has fidence of their children. grown up. You can meet this figure in the street, and live, and even smile at the recollection. But conceive of her in a ball room, svith the bare, braw ny arms that she invariably displays there, all the other corresponding development, such as is beautiful in the maiden blossoms, but a spectacle to bowl at in such an over-blown cab bage rose as this. Yet, somewhere in this enormous balk there must be bidden the Iliad- eat, slender, violet nature of a girl, whom an alien mass of earthliness has unkindly overgrown; for an English maiden in her teens, though very seldom so pretty as our own damsels, possesses, to say the truth, a certain charm of ha:f-blossom, and delicately folded leav'es, and tender womanhood shielded by maidenly reserves, with which, somehow or other, our American girls often fail to adorn themselves during an ap preciable moment. It is a pity that the English violet should grow into such an outrageously developed peony as 1 have attempted to describe. I wonder whether a middle-aged husband ought to be considered as legally married to all the accretions that have overgrown the slenderness of his bride, since he led her to the altar, and which makes her so'mucb more than he ever bargained for ! Is it not a sounder view of the case, that the matrimonial bond, cannot be held to include the three fourths of the wife that had no existence when the ceremony was performed? And as a matter of conscience and good morals, ought not an English married pair to insist upon the cele bration of a Silver Wedding at the end of twenty-five years, in order to legalize and mutually appropriate that corporeal growth of which both parties have individually come into possession since they were pronoun ced one flesh ?—Nathaniel _Hawthorne. A THOUGHT/L - 1, WM.—A friend says he had a dear, loving little wife, and an excellent housekeeper. On her birthday she moved her low rocking-chair ekes to his side. He was reading. She placed her dear little hand lovingly on his arm, and moved it along soilly toward his attailtollar. He felt nice all over. Hs ttertsiely expected a kiss. Dear, *west, loving creature I—an angel! She moved 'her hand up and down his boas sleeve,— "Husband," ilogyt skis. "Whit, my dear?" "I was PAW ijkiAtiot—P "IlVas yes. lave 1 /414111%. Waking' how niceig this !idyl eNtbill M. WI" 4NP.woOdi . 4 ." 14 1 4 -4/111 W tro l lo , 4 1 44410104144 xis 46 very great. • - "I have endeavored," said this father, "to join with my boys, and be a boy with them in their pleasure. And I. do believe there is no compan ion they are merrier with, and de light in more, than the old boy. If I think a place of amusement is in nocent, and will please them, out we go some evening, mother, boys, girls and father, and enjoy the world all the more because we are together, and do not go too often. "But we don't care to be out from home much. We haves way among ourselves of keeping ups kind of reading society, and we are apt to get so engaged in the book we:are reading that we feel little like leav ing it. We take great care of a fine readable book—useful books, works of travel, essays, good biogra phies of good men, and the like; then we read them aloud in the evening, when we are all at home from school, or store, eiteb taking a turn at the reading. . It looks to me a pretty picture—mother and the girls sewing at the tables, Tom read ing aloud from 'Tom Brown's School Pays'—is great) book with us—and myself in dressing-gown and slip pers at the fire, and Fred and Winn) near at hand. We are all listening eagerly to the history of the sturdy om. Fred is feeling the muscles of his arm wondering how it would compare with that of the young Ba hian. And we are all, to my think ing, a happy, comfortable family. "At half-past nine o'clock I sug gest that the time is up; but Tom begs to be allowed to finis h his chap ter, and, nothing loth myself, I as- i sent. In a few minutes I have my big Bible on my knee, and my spec tacles out, and am reading the 15th chapter of John : 'I am the true vine, and my fattier is the husband- 1 man.' Wtp,ing our evening hymn ; to-night I start the good old evening hymn, commaueing : 'Glory to Thee, my Got.i. this night, For all the blessings of the light.' "We kneel together in prayer to the Father of all; and then the chil dren are off to bed, and two happy people, my wife and myself, are left to.alaWk God for the many blessings he lama granted. us." I loft this man, with many thoughts andoolt=coudomnation, de. terrained that day to see what I could do to make another delighted family circle. I have begun and so great has been my success, and so abundant my reward, in a joyous 'heart ./Kid 11 cheerful, trnating‘family that I enaideome ethers might try She same. co SllNtukte ref! true fortitide 4Artib, f ' 4obtliltor, Ali* Alblit , }. map *ink • • • jattiligtna l S MC 5111 11330 , 4N0L 4, NO. 33e GOOD NATURED NEB. If there ,be one thing tbats.rasin 'should be. more, grateful, fcr than an other, it is the,poBBooBiOrt of good na ture, .1 do not eonsidsx liinkgoad tam pered who has no temper stall. .A man ought to have spirit, strong, earnest, and capable , ef great indig nation. We like to hear a man thun der once in a while, if it is genuine, and in the right way for aright man. When a noble fellow is brought in to contact with meae.and.little Ways, and is tempted lay ..uneernputaus Oa three to do unworthy things ; or when a great and generous heart per ceives the wrong done by lordly strength, to shrinking, unprotected weakness; or where a man sees the foul mischiefs that do sometimes rise and cover the ,public welfare like a thick cloud of poisonous. vnpors—we like to hear a man . express himself with outburst and glorious anger.— It makes us feel safer.to ,know that there are such men. ~We . respect human nature all the more • to r knovv that it is capable of snob feelinp. But just there men are capable of good nature. Tbese.are the men up on whom a sweet justice in common things, and a forbearance toward men in all the details of life, and a placable, patient and cheerful mind, sit with peculiar grace. Some men are much helped to this by a kind of braverybOrnwithin them. Some men are good natured because they are benevolent, and always feel in a sunny mood ; some, because they have such vigorous and robust health that care dies off from them, and they really cannot feel nettled and worried ; some, because a sense of character keeps them from all ' things unbecoming manliness ; and some, from an overflow of what may be called in part animal spirits, asfl in part, also, hopeful and eheerN dispositions. But whatever be the cause or reason, is there anything else which blesses a man in human life as this voluntary or involuntary good nature 1 Is there anything else that converts all things so much into enjoyment to him ? And then what a glow and ligbthe carries with him to others ! Some meneeme.ule. on you like a cloud passing over the sari. You do not know what ails you but you feel cold and chilly While they are about, and need an extra handful of coal on the Are whenever they tarry long. Others rise upon you like daylight. How many times does a cheerful and hopeful physician cure his patient by what he carries in his face, more than by what he has in his medical case ! How often does the coming of a happy hearted-friend lift you up out of a deep despondency, and be fore yon re aware, inspire you with hope and cheer. What a gift it is to make all men better and happier without knowing it ! We don't sup pose flowers know how sweet the, are. We have watched them.. But as far as we can find out their thoughts, flowers are just as modest us they aro beautiful. These roses before me, satiate*, lamarque, and saffrano, with their geranium leaves (rose) and earns. Cons and abutilon, have made me happy for a day. Yet they Maud huddled together in my pitcher without 'teeming to know my thoughts of them, or the gracious work which they are doing And how much more is it to have a position that larries with it, unvol untarily, sweetness, calmness, cour age, hope, and happinias, to all who are such ? Yet this is the portion of good nature in a real, large-mind ed, strong natured man : Wben-it has made him ham it has seemly begun its office. ln this world, where there is so much real sorrow, and so much un necessary grief or fret and worry ; where burdens are so heavy, and the way so long ' • where men stum ble in rough paths, and so many push them down rather than help them np; where tears are as common as smiles, and hearts ache so easily, but are poorly fed on higher joys, bow grate ful ought we to be that God sends along, here and there, a natuand heart singer—a man whose nature is large and luminous, and who, by his very carriage and spontaneous ac tions, calms, cheers, and helps his fellows. God bless the good natured, for they bless every body else.— Beecher's Eyes and Bars. 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