BY W. BLAXR. VOLUME 26. eittt pottrg. ONWARD. "Work while it ietalled Onward 1 onward ! ever onward Flow the rivers, sweep the tides ; All is change and all is motion, ' Nothing steadfast here abides. Never was it meant for slumber, This great moving world of ours, Never meant for lying dormant, All man's high and varied powers. Onward! onward ever• onward, Circles still this mthty sphere, _Move the Olinets, fly the comets Steppeth time from year to year ; All. for some great end and purpose Parts of one harmonious plan, ~nfinitely_aise and - hidden, . Prom the ken of finite man. Onward! ()award thouglr - befors ye All is sterile, dark and drear ; 'Tin to cultivate such regions God_hits formed and placed us here. --- Darkfiess•comes when no man knowe o • e shadows steal apace. •• . id- .1 ,, We must wiu or lose the cute; GOLDEN CRAM Thou must be true thyself, r*hon...thetrah_wonldstleach.:;__ Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another &Nil Wouldst reach:: It needs the -overflowing heart To give the lips full speech, Think truly, and _ thy thought Shall the world's fame reach; Speak truly, and thy word Shall be a faithful seed ; Live_ truly, and thy life shall he A great and noble creed. Slisallautous Pading. A Strange Story. A Falmouth, N. Y., paper says: In a eertajn park of our county there lives a fam i ily n which there . are tivo brothers just entening into the prime of youthfid manhood: A short distance from them— in tact, in the same neighborhood—there lives afamily in which there are two sis 'tors, also in the prime of maidenhood,— beautiful, fascinating and attractive.— Thft•ie young people being near neighbors .and coming in contact with each other ten,of almost, naturally it would seem, fell iu ove with each other, the eldest broth• er with one of the sisters and the young er with the other. .All went along smooth ly for a time, and -these young people en joyed themselves and dreamed bright dreams of the future, and no doubt, in imagination constructed fairy .palaces of dove and gardens that like Paradise should be only tilled with the beautiful flowers and fruits ofghappiness and unalloyed en joyment. Then as a matter of course, the question of marrying arose, which must be referred to the parents of the young ladies for approval. The oldest brother had no difficulty in obtaining their con cunt to his marrying the young lady, and the wedding d.ty was fixed upon. Then the younger brother went to the parents and made knoWn his attachment fee the other sister and their mutual desire to "splice" and travel the road• of life togeth er." But the old folks were dedidedly op posed to having more than one of their ,girls married to "that family," and plain ly informed him that if he wanted a wife he must go elsewhere to get her, intimat ing that he should desist from paying fur Cher attention to the young lady in ques tion. But the young man was resolved that if his brother married one of the girls he would marry the other. So he went to the "young lady of his love," and told her the circumstances of the situation, and desired her, if.she loved him, to prove her love by running away with him. To this she agreed, and the night was fixed upon when they should carry out their mutual agreement. But now comes the • strang est part of the story. The two young la dies resembled each other very much in looks, voice, &c., and by some strange freak when the night of elopement came, and vie young man went to the appoint. ed place of meeting, he found a woman there whom he thought was the righs one, but she was not. Unconscious of this, however, he took her to the place where the marriage ceremony was to be perform ed before he found out that be was with the wrong girl. Most wonderful to relate he thought he had gone to all that trou ble he would get married anyway, so he asked her if she would have him, and she_ in order to carry out the joke, said she would, and they were married then and there. 'lt appears that she had heard him making ariangements to elope with her sister, and knowing the place of meeting, determined to go their ahead of her and . fool the young man for whom she enter tained a secret liking, although she was engaged to be married to his brother. Our infOrmant also states ilitikafter • they had lived together some little time, the eldest brother determining to make the most of the situation, took unto himself the other sister. The ghost of Noah Webster came to a spiritual medium in Alabama, not long since, and wrote on a slip of paper. "It is tite times." Noah -was right, but we are sorry to see be has gone back on 'his 4iictlyeary. THE NEW CONATITUTION: The Constitutional*Conventioiad,journ ed on Monday evening the 3rd. inst., to meet at Harrisburg on the 27th of De: cember, for the purpose of counting the . votes and transactin such other business_ as may .e necessary. The . special elec tion on the' instrument will be • held on the third Tuesday, being the 16th. day) of December. It will be submitted as a whole, and it roust "therefore all be en dot sed or all repudiated. In all portions of the' State, except Philadelphia, the election is to be held under the general election law. Five ' commissioners of elections have been appointed by the Con vention, who are to revise and correct the registry lists of Philadelphia. Below will be lbund a summary of the changes which will be effected by the new constitution: ARTICLE ON LEGISLATURE. The House will be increased to not less than 204 member, and the Senate will contain 50Philadelphia's representation -being-38-members-tind-B_Senators—The sessions are to be biennial instead of an meal ; term of Senators will be four years, and members of the Ifousntwo—_ Salary id mil, fixed by law- ^ - **;h th and - mileage to be fix. ay law, with ,he provision that during the term for which the members are sitting they shall not in crease their salaries. In apportioning the House each county shall have one member at least and du additional member for every 17,600 inhabitants. The cities. arre-to-have-teparate-distrimcbut no dira: trict shall have more four represen- Oneimportant provision requires eve ry bill to be read on three different days before its final • assa. e and on the_latter the vote is 6o be taken by yeas and nays, which are to be recorded on the, journal, aud'irmajority - ofall-the-rnentbers are re quired to vote on the final passage. Section seven prohibits special or oca legislation in all the cases which hereto fore appeared objectinnal. Any local or special bills not covered by this prohibi tion -are required to be advertised for thirty days prior to their introduction in the locality where they are to take effect. Section twelve relates to contracts for providing the Legislature with stationa ry, &c. It provides that the contract shall be awarded to the lowest bidder, and that no member shall be directly or indirectly interested in such contract,— The contracts are to be appraVcd by the Auditor General, State Treasurer, Gove nor and Lieutenant Governor. Appro priation bills are to embrace nothing but the ordinary expenses of the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary Departments, interest on public debt, and public school fund. All other appropriations are to be made by•special bills. • Section nineteen prohibits investments of trust funds by executors, administra tors and guardians in bonds and stoeks of any private corporation, and such acts now existing are avoidable. The above are among the prominent changes of the article on legislation. THE EXECUTIVE This article provides for the increasing , of the term of office of the Governor from three to four years, and alio for the elec tion of a Lieutenant Governor. who shall be President of the Senate. The article provides for the appointment of a Board of Pardons, consisting of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Attorney General, and Secretury of Internal Affairs. (This lat ter officer takes the place of that 'of the present Surveyor General, whose office is abolished. One of the most important provisions is that which allows the Governor to veto any item in any appropriation, and ap prove of the bfilance of the bill. The Secretary of Internal Affairs will serve a term of four years, Auditor Gen eral three years, and State Treasurer two years. Auditor General and State Treasurer to be incapaciated from bolding the same office for two consecutive terms. THE JUDICIARY The Supreme Court will be increased from five to seven judges, whose term of office will be twenty-one instead of fifteen years. They arg not eligible for re-elec tion. Section five'and six relate to Philadel phia and Allegheny courts. Provisions are made that all cases of felonious homicide and other criminal matters provided for by law may be re moved to the Supreme Court. for review. Another provides that parties, by a greement filed, may in any civil case dis• pense with trial of jury, and, submit the same for the decision of the court. The most important provision in this article is that which allows a separate ju dicial district for every 40,000 inhabi tants. The judges are required to audit and settle administrators' and decedents' 'accounts free of costs to the parties. Whenever two judges of the Supreme Court are to be chosen for the same term of service, each voter shall vote for one only ; and when three are to be chosen, he shall vote for no more than two, and candidates highest in vote shall be de clared elected. SUFFRAGE AND ELFAYFION. The general elf.ction is to be changed from the second Tuesday in October to the first Monday in November. And the local elections will be held on the third Tuesday of February,•at which the city, ward, borough, and township of ficers are to be elected. The article re quires a residence of each voter of at least two•months in the district to entitle him to vote, and in the case of foreigners they must be citizens of the United States for one month to entitle them to the elective franchise. An impnrtant. provision is that every ballot si!all be numbered and recored on 444>V:izi ;7-N >1!!) hi ) 4 4i ill A >4 :T l # 111 :A >EI kliefA C 1 tWO AVizil > l O OA WAYNESBORO', ,lIRANKLIN COUNIT, RA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1873. the list otyoters opposite the name of the elector. 'Another section refers all con tested elections - to :the 'courts. including the 'election of the electors of President and Vice President of the United States: This article requires that all taxation shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects and shall be levied and collected under general laws. It provides that the Legislature shall continue and maintain the sinking fund, pay the interest of the public debt, and annually rediice the principal not less than $250,000. It prohibits the use of the sinking fund for any other purposes. It declares the making of capital out of the public moneys by any of the officers of the State or• member of General As sembly a criminal offence. County officers are to be salaried, and the fees which they are authorized to re ceive shall be paid into the State or coun .Areasur _. Profigions are made for the election of three county commissioners and three auditors on the limited vote systemigiving-the-minority-a-repta twa in each board. PRIVATE CORPORATIONS. This article provides that the cumula tive system of voting shall be applied to the election of directors and managers. RAIL ROADS AND CANALS. article auth any association - or — o s s s : s • 'sr-the-purpose of constructing and operating a railroad or canal between any points in this State. It prohibits railroad and canal compa nies from making any undue or unrea . sona4 mation - i a - freight - di arges-, - and limits the charge for freight in the same direction to an amount not exceed ing the charge to_a more_distant station. — lt also prohiliDi the eunsolidation-ef railroads and canals with competing lines by lease' or otherwise, and will not allow any company doing the bilsiness of a common carrier to engage in any business, or to bold or acquire lands. No officer of any railroad or canal company shall furnish materials or sup plies for such company ; and no company shall make any discrimination in charges or facilities between transportation com panies and individuals. No free passes shall be granted except to officers and employees of such company, and no pas senger railway in any city shall extend or construct their road without the con sent of the local authorities. An Amusing Marriage Serape. If you desire to get married in South Africa, you should first make inquiry whether the lady you love has a horse ; if so, you must ask her whether she has a home for sale. If she says "No," then you had better quit the house at once. She Bees not lik.e you. But if, on the other hand, she says "Yeas," it is a good sign, but she will ask you a very high price. If the amount is paid on the spot, the engagement is concluded as fully as if consummated by the parson. Mr. Gerard, now of Philadelphia, formerly consul at Cape Town, tells the following amusing story of his initation into the ways of the place: "On my arrival at the Cape I did not know of this custom. I wanted to pur chase a horse, and I was informed by an old dutch resident that widow—had one - to sell. I followed the address given, and soon arrived at the door of the widow (who, by the way, was not bad looking). I asked her wbether she had a horse to sell. She looked at me very sharp, and then she asked whether I had some let ters of introduction. I said I was the American consul, and would pay cash for her horse. _"ln this case." said she "let ters are not necessary." I paid down the sun? demanded; then, after taking a cup of coffee, she sent her horse by her groom, and both accompanied me home. On the road the groom asked me a thousand questions. "Master," said -he "will my - mistrous go and live with you in . town, or will you come and live with us P You will love my mistress, for she was v,,ry kind to my old master; (laughing). "Where will the wedding be?" (look ing at me and laughing). "Truly," I thought, "the poor fellow has drank .too much, or he is an imbecile." I felt sorry for him. When. I arrived home I found many people at my door congratulating the, not for the horse, but for the acquaintance of the widow. "Truly," said one, "you have been very successful." "She is ve ry rich," said another. I really did not know what it meant, and began to be very uneasy, when, to my very great surprise, a lady alighted on my steps, and at once I recognized the widow 1 She very cool ly asked me when I desired to have the ceremony of the wedding . performed.— Then, indeed, I fully perceived the serape in which I was, and I told her frankly that' it was a horse I wanted and not a wife. "What," said she, "do you mean to act thus to a lady like me? If so, I shall send" back for my horse, and will repay you the money." In a few hours her groom was at my door with the mon ey. I gladly gave back the horse, thank ful to have thus escaped. A few weeks after, however, the widow was married. A more ambitious man had bought her horse." A day before the Modoc hanging the chaplain was endeavoring to convert Jack, and among other things told him glowing stories of the happy land. His remarks seemed to have an effect on the Captain, who asked him if he knew all about God and the happy land. The chaplain said he thought he did. "Well." said Jack, "you know all about him, me give you tea horses you take my place traorrow." EDUCATION. A MON LOW. [The key to the poem is found by read ing the lines alternately.] . Happy he must pass his life, • o-istree-frommatrim . wi: ' Whole directed by a wife Is sure to suffer for his pains. Adam could find no solid peace When Eve was given for a mate; Until he saw a woman's face Adam was in a happy state. Mall In the 'feniale.r,,ace appear Hypocrisy, deceit and pride ; Truth, larling of a heart sincere, In woman nevei:4loln!ide. l ..., What tongue is Old tmfold - The failings that, in women dwell?' The worth in woman w6tiOhold Is almost imperceptible. ; ..' Confusion take the man, I say, WhO makes a woman his delight; " o-no-regard-to -women-pay, has reason always in his Sight. Marrying an Actress. --In,-the- winter of- 1818-19 - it - putt - of bright and lively young people had assem bled to spend ‘ the period of Christmas fes tivity'at a spacious old country home not very far from 'Dublin. Several of theth, adieu as well as gent emen, a. a yea y acted creditably on the amatuer stage; so "Vr" — .7l ou a arge • a as a •ea re, and got up several standard comedies in a manner that elicited hearty applause.— Encouraged by this success, they _thought f S they could master one of Sh ake .eare's trag ces ' • and Juliet. They succeeded in casting all the characters except one, that of Juliet herself. It was - offered to several young ently refined, fearing to attempt so ardu ous a part. In this dilemma some one suggested an expedient. Miss O'Neill, then in the zenith of her fame, was an ac tress of unblemished reputation, mot% la• dylike demeanor, and eminent talent, whom I once saw as Juliet. She was.then regarded, and justly I imagine as the most perfect interpreter of Shaispeare's embodiment of fervid cession and devo tion in the daughter of Capulet that had ever appeared on the London boards ; her . singular beauty admirably seconding her rare powers, and turning the heads of half of the ishionable young men of the day. She was universally respected, was admitted to the best society, and several times had assisted at private theatricals. It so happened that she was then in Dublin, and without an engagement. The proposal s, to te to her and ask her, on her own rinti: to come to them and take the part of Juliet. This was agreed to, and a letter dispatched accordingly. The part of Romeo had been assigned to a gentleman of family and fortune, Mr. Becher, of Balleygibben, County Cork; jeune encore, as the French say, for Ile was still on the right side of forty, and ex celling all of his companions in histrionic talent. To him, as soon as the invitation bad been given, eAtme,one of his moat in timate friends. "Becher," said' he, "take my advice, before it is too late. Throw up the part of Romeo.. I dare say some one else can be found to take it." "Back out of the part ! And why, pray ! Do you think my acting is not worthy to support Miss O'Neill's ?" "You act only too well, my good fellow and identify yourself only too perfectly with the characters you undertake. I know Miss O'Neill well ; there can't be a better girl, but she is dangerous. She is perfectly bewiching in her great role. It is notorious that no man ever plaed Romeo to her Juliet without fal ling in love with her. Now, rd be /arrow to see you go on the stage for a wife." "Marry an actress! and at my age! do you take me for a fool?" "Anything but that, Becher. . Ido take you for a whole.souled, splendid fel low, with a little touch of romance about you ; impressible by beauty, and still more alive to grace and talent, and I real ly can't make up my mind to addre.s ev en that glorious creature as 'Mrs. Bech er., "Do talk sense, Tom. If I had not a greed to play Romeo, rd go and offer to take the part now, just to convince you how ridiculous you are." '•Well, all I hope is that the enchant ress will decline." But she accepted. Becher. played Ro- Meo, shared the fate of his predecessors, was engaged within a month, and mani a few weelcs afterwards. My father spent several days with them at their countrreeat. —He was charmed with Mrs. Becher, in whom, be said, he could not detect the slightest trace of ac tress. And the marriage my father told us, seemed to have-been eminently fortu nate, though up to that time they had no children. In the - sequel they had eight children - Mr. Becher, eight years later, was crea ed a baronet, lited thirty , years with his wife, and was succeeded, in 1850. by their son, Sir Henry Wrixen Becher, the pres ent baronet. Lady Becherdied only last winter, loved and mourned by friends and dependents, having survived her husband more than twenty years.=!,Robt. Dale O wen, in Atlantic Monday. Earnestness is the life blood of success. Circulate it through your'enterprise there fore, and it cannot become a failure. He who works with heart sad soul devoted to the task, overcomes the world's powers and arrays heaven'sas his aid. An earn est mind at complishes more than a bril liant one, as the light of the sun illumines gloriously, whereas the mere sparkle ofthe finest diamond flashes, powerl es s to dispel darkness. The Wrong way of Doing It. , It not frequently happens that the children of two families living near each other brought up under the same social a v: el • differently.on arriving at maturity. The family that seems to have had the most careful training does less credit to itself than the families whose childish freedom Of action shocked the .criticaLobserver.,_ We sat "seems to have had the•mostcare ful training," for it is often only in seem ing after all that difference has consisted. As a rule it may be predicted of wise fam ily governmentthat it will be known, as a tree is, by its fruit. All government that is only from the outside, and .therefore despotic, fails necessarily of reaching its end ; and.all government whose aim from first to last is to teach its subjects self-con trol must give them considerable lat:tude. The latter sort, however, takes very much more time and thought than the former, and is incompatible with certain things Which have come to be by many people accepted ad cardinal points in family pol icy. For instance, if father and_mot.her_ let out primarily with the idea that they must save for their children, and so feel ing, it they bend each year the strength of their natures in a united effort to add acres to the farm or increase the money in the savings bank, they will spend all their-force-there,The-father will work hard,iate-and-early;aving - econo mizing there, growing stoop-shouldered 'd-gra-Yrba-gaming - hisixatitalld - t • ' ing, complacently, of the amount of his worth. The mother will,pinch, and con trive, patch and darn, practicing a thou kind small economies • that-nobody ever sus . is and losin: even the memory of the day w en s e was a .onnv, flithc= l hearted girl whom her tired husband used to come miles to see in courting days.— The children who are the first in the loy tir,-KOiceirlrearts that love t , they never have time to show it in any sweet way, meanwhile grow up. Maria wants to take music lessons, John wants to go to college, but father and mother think of the expenses, count up the dol lars it will cost, and de&de that a com mon'school education is good enough for their children as it was for them. This only sometimes, and seldom where the pa rents are American, born to the idea that the son may be President one day, and that as we wrote in our copy-books, "Ed ucation is the life of liberty. ' Oftener the music lessons and the college course are allowed, however, •and the economies dou bled, while it is in countless little ways that the love of the beautiful is staunted and crushed, and the children made to feel that of all unlovely, hard, prison-like places, home is the most so. There is a parlor, to be sure, grim and funerial as a hearse, and is only used on solemn occa sions, as at a christeuing,.a wedding or a funeral. For Mary or Lucy to sit there of an afternoon with their sewing, or 'for Charlie and Sam so take a lamp there in the evening to play checkers, would be an unheard-of treason against the household economy. , . If there be a piano, and if it stands in' the parlor, there is sure to be a strip of stair carpet between it and the door, and another strip of stair carpet in front of it, least the necessary going to and fro of the girls practice should wear out the splen dors of the best three-ply or tapestry. The children desire to take a paper or maga zine as their neighbors do, but it costs S 3, or $4 a year, and father shakes his bead. There is to be a course of lectures in the neighboring church by distinguished men and women, and it would be pleasant to go, but winter is coming and there is coal to get, and flour will be wanted, and mo ther says, "Better not mention the lecture to your father." Now when the choice is between :coal and flour and music and lecture tickets, and there is honestly not enough money to afford all, why the latter must go. Cut your coat by your cloth, of course. But we are talking of. CMS where there is enough money to afford asthetie and intellectual enjoyment as well as food and fire ; to afford books and papers other than school-books, to put now and then a picture on the wall and a flower in the window, as well as to buy when,needed a chair and a table. Save for the children if yon can, and im much as you can. but remember it is spendthrift economy that does it by sa ving from them. - The time when they need a home full of grace and beauty is in the forming period of life. There are very few men, if they knew it, who can afford not to have the visits in their fam ily every week of a fresh, breezy, bright, instructive paper ; and there is very few who can afford not to let their children have good times in the household while childhood lasts. When the final interest is apportioned it will be those who have . spent most wisely who will have the -lar gest dividends. VICTORY OVER Sti.F..—Some.. and they are not few, can remember , old Churchill and his peculiar way. One .day he was riding on horseback, _when he was met by an old woman who had not, so many of this world's good things as be had. Tak ing out his wallet he' anded ber a quarter and rode on. He bad-ridden only a short instance when he began to soliloquize thus: "Now wouldn't I have done. better to have kept that money and bought myself something?„ Wheeling Ms horse round, he rode back to where the old lady was standing, and said : "Give me that money !" She handed it to him wondering what it meant.. Placing it in his wallet, and at the same time handing her a Sve•dol ler bill, be exclaimed: "There, eel& I guess you'll wish you'd kept still!" , Opinions of the Press. , man who would cheat a printer would steal a meeting-house and :rob a churchyard. If he had , a soul, ten thou- ave more room in a mosquito's eye than a bullfrog in the Pacific Ocean. ' He ought to be winked at by blind people, and kicked to death across logs by cripples.—Anii Arbor Wol verine— _ , Amen ! Such a being would steal the molasses out of a sick nigger's gingercake; take from a drunken man's mouth his last chew of tobacco ; walk at night thro' the rain to deprive a blind sheep of its fodder ; travel fifty miles on a fasting Stomach to cheat a dying woman out of her coffin, and steal wax out of a dead dog's ears. Such a man ought to be tied to a sheep's tail and butted to death.— Ran Bag. Exactly so, and that isn't all. He would break a surveyor's level to get out the alcohol, and his wife's watch for the mock jewels ; bid against a widow at her dead husband's auction, and steal the or _phan's_shoe-strings-before daylight—Tem peranae Banner. Yes, thousands of such souls as that man's would rattle in a mustard seed— dance contra dances on the point of a wasps sting—or march abreast through the eye of a cambric needle. A solar rui sroscope would fail to discover them, and vhen - fr — 41 l the small. 'who_ rin - wd - they would not eat cranny in creation.—PM. •u t isn't all. Such-a-fel-Im, would rob a lame goose's nest of the last egg—steal a rat's tail from a blind kitten ; for there is nothing low and mean that -he-wouldn't do.--lle should-be-tied-up to a broomstick and scolded to death by old - maidsTand-then-his-bones should be made into buttons to be worn on tim-hreeches- of convicts.—Rising Sun Mirror. That's a fact, and that ain't all. Such undrel-would-iteaLthe-cla his mother's bed on a cold night, and take his father's coffin to ride down hill on. A man like this ought to have the seven year itch, and not be allowed to scratch.— ..Gazette. All the above ought to be mere *pii liminary sufferings—the "prologue to the swelling act" of his final. doom. He should be eventually consigned to a To phet, where his perpetual punishment would be—to read newspaper squibs per petrated at his expense.—Sunday Tones. HAPPY WOMAN.—"What are 'you singing for?" said I to Mary Maloney. "Oh, I don't know, ma'am, without it is because my heart feels so happy." "Happy, are you happy ? Why, let me see, you don't own a foot of land in the wide world." "Font of land, is it ?" - she cried with out a laugh. "Oh, what a hand ye are after a joke. Why, sure, I've never a penny, let alone a foot of land." "Your mother is dead." "God rest her sowl; yes," replied Mary with a touch of genuine pathos. "The Heavens be her bed." "Your brother ie still a hard case, I suppose ?" "Ye may well say, that . It's nothing but drink, drink, and bate his wife— poor crayture." "Then you have to pay your sister's board?" "Sure, the bit crayture, and she to a good little girl, is Hinny, willin' to do whatever I axes her. I don't grudge the money that goes for that." • • "And you haven't got any fashionable dresses, either ?" "Fash'nable, is it? Oh, yis, I put a bit of whalebone in me skirt, and me cal ioo gown spreads as big as the ladies'.--t But then you say true; I have but two gowns to me back, two shoes to me feet, and not a bunnit, barin' me ould hood." "You have'nt any lover ?" "Oh, be &I" wid yez I catch Mary Ma loney wid a lover these days, when the hard times is come." "What on earth have you to make you happy . ? A drunken brother, a poor help less sister, no mother, no lover—why where do you get your happiness ?" "The Lord be praised, miss, it pulsed up in me. Give me a bit of sunshine, a clean flure, plenty o' work and a sip at the right time, and I'm made. That makes me laugh and sing. And thin, if troubles come, I try to keep me heart up. Sure, it would be a sad thing if Petrick Mcguire should take it in his head to az me; but, the Lord willin', I'll try to bear up under it." "A CURIOUS PROPRECY.---"A. Posi tivist," who, there is every reason to suppose, was Andrew Jackson Davis, of New ork, in November of last year published in. the Modern Thinker the following predictions, which to say the least, were curious. 3. / predict that within the coming two years this country will experience the worst.financial panic known to histo ry. It will be more Vide spread and disastrous than even that of 1837. All the debts created by our paper money era will be wiped out or compromised. Land will temporarily fall to one half its pres ent value. 4. This panic wiU be precipitated iin all probibility, by the 'failure of the Nor theni Pacific Railroad, and perhaps of the bankers who manage it. This will bring to light such an amazing amount of fraud in connection with our railroads, as to discredit all stocks, good or bad. The bears will hold high carnival. The men of most repine in financial circles and on the "streetnitill prove to be coin mon cheats. 'Whi l le the panic will com mence, from all'appearanevs in railroad circles, and will Confined. vo the new Western enterprises, it Will spreadfmally to the National-banks, and will develop an amount of rottenness in those institu tions which is now beyond the power of the imagination to conceive. .., • $2.0 0 PER YEAR laiV :3 4243] Writ and Sumer. If a to r and a er, which would bedrun "The strongest propensity in awetnan's nature," says a surely editer, "is a desire to know what is going on, and the_next_ is to boss the job." Great sorrows bring lines in well-round ed faces,and broaden the streaks of white amonc , the hairs that once looked as iftbey had been dipped in pure sunshine. worthy Kentucky farmer being asked if a daughter recently married was still living with him, replied. "No, sir; when any one of my girls swarms,she hunts her own hive." It was an Irish sailor who visite& a city where, he said, they copper‘bottoined the.roofs of their houses with sheet lead. Perhaps it was the same man who saw a _white black-bird-sitting on - a - wodea - Wit= stone, eating a red blackberry, The following epitaph may be red backward or forward, up or down: Shall we all die? We shall die all. All we ► mall we shall. Ladies indelicate health should 0 0 .. .00000 0•6 IS rater Golden city shows the wonderful restores tive effects of climate.. She could net even sweep her room when they liv_ed in . Ohio, but in less than a year after har arrval in the territory, she chased - ;her , .1: , • II• : 1, , .. • •ithLa..-- pito .fork. SECOND-HAND Puza—Our Teutonic ritad;4o ‘ hanueo rtermhonyofour drug stores, and thus addressed one of the clerks : "Toctor, I feel sig all ofer, and de beeh les dells me I potter take one &sick." "All right sir ,"says the clerk, "will you have a dose of lilts, or some purgative , pills "Vel, vot it east for dem snide?" "Ten cents, sir." "'lnd how much for dem finicking pills r "I'll give you a dosest the same price," After a vain search in his pocket for the required sum, he asked : "Toctor, you toad got some secondhand bills, ain't it ?" • An old fanner, np to all methods for making a bargain, was very ill, and friends were expecting an early demise. His nephew, and a hired for the occasion, butchered a steer that had been fattened ; and when the job was completed the nephew entered the sickroom, where few friends were assembled, when, to the. astonishment of all, the old 'man opened his e,yes, and turning his bead slightly, said, in a full' voice, drawling out the words : "What.bave yon been doing r "Killing the steer," was the reply. "What did you do with the hide?" "Left it in the barn; going to sell it by and by," "Let the boys drag it around the barn a couple times ; it will make it weigh heairier." And the good old man was gathered unto his fathers. DON'T BE' TOO CRIEWAL.—WhatelreT you do, be sure not to sit up for a critic. We don't mean a 'newspaper one, but in private lite, in the domestic circle, in so ciety. It will not do any one any good, apd it will do you harm—if you mind being called disagreeable, If you don't like any one's nose, or object to any one's chin, don't put your feelings into words. If oue's 'manners don't please, ,you, re member your own. People are not all made to-suit one taste; recolltct that.— Take things as you find them, unless you cantalter them.. Even a dinner, alter it has been swallowed, cannot be made any better. Continual faultfinding, continu al criticism of the conduct of this one, and the speech of that one,' the • &is' of the other and the opinions of tliei'other, will Make home the unhappiest place under the sun. If you are never b•e with any one, nO one will ever be pleased with, you. And if it is known that you are bard to suit, - few will take pains to suit you. • HARDSHIP.—AB a gladiator trains the body, so must we train the mind so self sacrifice, to endure all things, to meet and overcome allZit - lenity and danger. We must take the rough and thorny road, =as well as,, the smooth and pleasant ;`and a portion at least of our daily duty swat he hard and disagaeeble ; for the mind ,cannot be kept stsong and healthful in perpetual ,and the most .danmer 7 ous of all states in that of recurring pleas ure, ease and prosperity. Most persons will find difficulties and hardships enough withoutseeking them; let them not rfinue, but take them as a part of that education nal discipline to .fit the Mind to arrive at its highest good: Beacher's manuscript notes for his ser mons are remarkable - for their brevity; being rarely more than mere hints, which: his fersile mind ensly expandi to au inde ; finite extent. Two specimens are "curios: ities in there way. Neither contain more than fifty words, while one of them: was scrawled en the back of what had been the scrapper of n parcel p .. with torn. and ragged edges, yet its few .disconuect: ed .and incomplete 'sentences.' %Vie base:6f •an hour's discourse, acid one - of the , finest ever preached . .in ttuach. rt of
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