THE HOME PICTURE. Ons antnmn-night when the wind WM high, . Apd (he rain feU in. hea,*y ■ dplasbe*. .» I ' Vj4. UtUp .bqy tho kitchen jin), ~ ; ' :i ' in _ , ~j r ; . Anrfhia*iliter, a turly‘liifr«i ; «bild « “»«» ; £ Sat looking on justokweto hi* knde* 1 ■ ' Wo blisl wfltit toand lha hotted, _ , '■ l As if tdgdt irt’lt/ia trying; _ ‘ , limited the Jaloh of the outerdoor, ;,rh * jn< ■ Then it seemed a baby ohl ji.V.c , a Now and then a drop down the dh'mnoy canto ' And spluttered and hissed m the bright red flame. ' Pop I pom! and the kernels one by one, ■ Came out of the embers flying; •' The boy held a long pine stick in hie hand ; And kept if busify plying. ■ He stirred the corn and it snipped the more, And faster jumped to tho clean swept floor. Part of the kernels hopped one way, And a part hopped out the other; Some flew plump into the sister’s lap, Some under the stool of the brother. ] Tho little girl gathered them into a heap,. And called them “a flock of milk-white sheep.” All at once the boy sat still as a mouse, - And into the Are kept gazing; Ho quite forgot no was popping com, For he looked where the wood was Mazing. Ho looked, and fancied that be could see A. house, and a barn,-a bird and a tree. ■ Still steadily gazed the boy at these, ’ And pussy’s back kept stroking, TO) bis sister cried out—” Why George, Only see how the corn is smoking!" And sure enough, when the boy looked back, Tire corn in tbe ashes wga burnt-quite black. M Never mind,” raid he, “ we shall have enough, So now let's sit back and eat it; I’ll carry the stool and you the corn, It’s good—nobody can beat it.” She took up the corn in her pinafore, And they ale it all nor wished for more. HISTORICAL SKETCH. the boston massacre. MARCH STH, 1770. T On Friday, the 2d day of March, 1770, a soldier of the twenty.ninih asked to be em ployed al Gray’s ropewalk, and he was re pulsed in the coarsest words. He then de fied the ropetnakers to a boxing-match ; and one of them accepting his challenge, he was beaten off. Returning with several of bis com portions, they too, were driven away.— A larger number came down to renew the fight with clubs and cutlasses, and in their turn encountered defeat. By this lime Gray and others interposed, and for that day pre vented further disturbance. There was an end of the affair al the rope walk, but not at the barracks, where the sol diers inflamed each others’ passions, as if the honor of the regiment were tarnished. On Saturday they prepared bludgeons ; and be ing resolved to brave the citizens on Monday night, they forewarned their particular ac quaintance not to be abroad. Without duly restraining his men, Carr, the Lieutenant Col onel of the twenty-ninth, made complaint to the Lieutenant Governor 6f the insult they had received. The colonel deliberating on Monday, seem ed of opinion that the town would never be safe from quarrels between the people and soldiers, as long as soldiers should be quar tered among them. In the present case the owner of the rope-walk gave, satisfaction by dismissing the workmen complained of. The officers should on their part, have kept their men within the barracks after nightfall, Hutchinson should have insisted on measures ol precaution; but he too much wished the favor of all who had influence at Westmin. ter. Evening came on. The young moon was shining brightly in a cloudless winter sky, and its light was increased by a new fallen snow. Parties of soldiers were driven about the streets, making a parade of valor, challen ging resistance, and striking the inhabitants indiscriminately with sticks or sheathed cut lasses. , A band which rushed out from Murray s Barracks, in Brattle street, armed with clubs, cutlasses and bayonets, provoked resistance, and an affray ensued. Ensign Maul, at the gate of the barrack-yard cried to the soldiers, ‘‘Turn out and I will stand by you; kill them; stick them ; knock them down ; run your bayonetslhrough them; and one soldier after another levelled a fire-lock and threat ened to ‘ make'a lane’ through the crowd. — Just before 9, as an officer crossed King street, now Stale street, a barber’s lad cried .after him. " There goes a mean fellow who hath not paid my master for dressing his hairon Which the sentinel stationed at the westerly end of the Custom-House, on the corner of King street and Exchange lane, left his post, and with his mnsket gave the boy a stroke . on the head, which made him stagger and ciy with pain. The street soon became clear and nobody troubled the sentry, when a party of soldiers issued violently from the main guard, their arms glittering in the moon-ligh l , and passed on, hallooing, * Where are they 1 W here are tljey 1 Let them come.’ Presently twelve or fifteen more, uttering the same cries, rush ed from the south into King street, and so by way of Cornhill toward Murray Barracks, — “ Pray soldiers; spare my life,” cried a boy of twelve, whom they met. “ No, no, I’ll kill you all,” answered one of them, and knocked him down with a cutlass. They abused and insulted several persons at their door, and others in the street, 11 running about like mad men in a fury,” crying, ‘ Fire,’ which seemed their watchword, atm “ they V’ knock them down. Their out®feous beha vior occasioned the ringing of the hell at (he head of King street. The citizens whom the alarm set in motion came out with canes and clubs, and, partly by the interference of well-disposed officers, partly by the outrage of Cris'pus Attucks, a mulatto and some others, the fighte at the bar racks was soon over. Of the citizens, the prudent shouted ‘ Home, home;’ others it was said, called out. “ Huzzah for the main guard, there is the nestbut the main guard was not molested the whole evening. A body of soldiers came up Royal Ex change lane, crying ‘ Where are the crowds 7’ and brandishing their arms, passed through King street. From ten to twenty boys came after them, asking, “ Where ore they, where are they 7” “ There is the soldier who knock ed me down," said the barber’s boy, and they began pushing one another toward the senti nel,. He primed and loaded his musket. — tl The lobster is going to shoot us,” cried the toy. Waving his piece about, the sentinel pulled the trigger. «If you fire, you must die fb| it said Henry Knox, who was pas- ■ -| (L'r A TT -t) l!il, : '" ' J ' ’ ll '. ' , j .-:fi:.l './(Uiai/4a* v.’uisSH.'i’l " ; ~ ::‘.yjh ]**';! :-' Jt:‘;”>i ;■■ !:'" ■<' : -i ;;.; ..V ••ir.->,-. < l'fell Vc-ii... ... ~ * •y. . , ~. ,■ • ■., ; • l-..- y.. v_> , ;■... ..., .*=».» r.«g*.j -,. ~*mAM l^^wm>awt'rjl : ' cJi COBB, STQRROCK& CO., VOL. I. sing bjy. “ I don’t care,” replied the - pent!-, nel; * damn (hem; if they touch me, I'll fire.” “Fire andibod- d,”.for they were persuaded he could not do It without, leave from a civil officer; and a young fellow spoke out. “Wo will knock him ddwn for snap ping;” while they whistled through their fin gers and huzzaed. . , ' “ Stand off,” said the senlryj and, shouted a loud, “ Turn out the main guard; ' They are kiiling aientinel,” reported a servhnt (Vom the CustomHduse, running to'the main guard “Turn out; why don’t youtiittf.out 1” cried Preston, who was captain (if the day, to the guard. “He appeared in a.great flutter,of spirits,” and spoke to them rdUghjy. 1 A par ly of six, two of whom, Kilton and" Mont gomery, had been worsted at'the fppe-ymlk, formed with k corporal in froht, Preston' fol lowing. With bayonets fixed, thdy haughti ly “ rushed through the people” upon the trot, cursing them and pushing (hem as they went along. They found about ten persons round the sentry, while about fifty or. sixty came down with them. “ For God’s sake," said Knox, holding Preston by the coat, take your men back again ;if they fire your life must answer for the consequences. 1 1 know what lam about’ said he hastily, and much agitated. None pressed on them or provoked them till they began loading, when a party of about twelve in number, with their slicks in their hands, moved from the middle of the street, where they had been standing, grave three cheers and passed along the front of the sol diers, whose muskets some of them struck as they went by. “You are cowardly rasqpls,” they said, for bringing arms against naked men ; lay aside your guns, and we are ready for you. “ Are the soldiers loaded,” inquired Palmer of Preston. “ Yes,” be' answered, “ with powder and ball.” “ Are they going to fire upon the inhabitants?” asked Theo dore Bliss. “ They cannot, without my or ders,” replied Preston ; while the town born’ called out, “ Come on, you rascals, you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare.” Wo know you dare not. Just then Montgomery received a blow from a stick thrown which hit his musket; and the word “ Fire,” being given, he stepped a Utile on one side, and shot Aliucks, who at (he lime was quietly leaning on a long slick. The people immediately began moving off.— “ Don’t fire,” said Langford, the watchman, to Kilroi, looking him full in the face; but yet ho did so, and Samuel Gray, who was standing next to Langford, with his hands in his bosom, fell lifeless. The rest fired slow ly, and in Succession on the people, who were dispersing. One aimed deliberately at a boy, who was running lor safely, Montgomery' then pushed at Palmer to stabhim ; on which the latter knocked the gun out of his hand, and levelling a blow at him, hit Preston.— Three persons were killed, among them At tacks, ihe mulatto ; eight were wounded, two of them mortally. Of all the eleven, not more than one had any share in the disturb ance. So infuriated were the soldiers that when the men returned to take up the dead, they prepared to fire again, but were checked by Preston, while the twenty-ninth regiment ap. peered under arms in King street, as if bent on further massacre. “ This is our time,” cried soldiers of the fourteenth, and dogs were never seen more greedy for their prey. The bells rung in all the churches; the town drums beat. “To arms, to arms,” was the cry. And now was to be tested the true character of Boston. All its sons camo forth excited almost to madness. Many were ab solutely distracted by the sight of the dead bodies, and of the blood which ran plentifully in the streets, and was imprinted in all direc tions by the foot tracks on the snow. “ Our hearts,” says Warren, “ beat to arms; al most resolved by one stroke to avenge.the death of our slaughtered brethren.” But they stood self-possessed and irresistible,- demanding justice according to the law. — “ Did you know that you should not have fired without orders from acivil magistrate - ?” asked Hutchinson on meeting Preston. * 1 did it,” answered Preston, "to save my men.” The people would not be pacified till the regiment was confined to the guard-room and the barracks, and Hutchinson himself gave assurances that instant inquiries should be made by tho Country Magistrates, i The body of them then retired, leaving about one hun dred persons to keep watch on the examina tion, which lasted till three hours after mid night. A warrant was issued against Pres ton,.who surrendered himself to the Sheriff, and the soldiers who composed the party were delivered up and committed to prison. — Bancroft’s new volume of History of United States. < The MEANEST WOMAN ON RECORD. 1 I am afraid, Frederick” said Mrs. Smith, to her husband, “ that Betsy is dishonest.” “ Ah, what makes you think sol” “ Why, I gave her seven opples to prepare a pudding—and will you believe it, I counted over ihe quarters, and only found twenty seven !” “ Are you eure you counted'right 1” ” Yes, for I counted them over three times. Heaven only knows where that other quarter is gone. The world is full of iniquity.” Betsy was discharged without a character. “ Sax,” said one girl to another, “ I am ao glad I have no beau, now.” * “ Why so 7’’ asked the other. “ Oh, ’cause I can eat as many onions as I please.” Little by little, as we travel through life, do our whims increase ond become more troublesome—just like a woman’s luggage 6n a journey. ffEIIIISIiOROl r GHyTIO(SAeOUNTy,I^V,^HDR^3DAY.MOBRI^ , 1855. „ • 1- :■ -i. •'!)' * Every account received from the war in the Crimea-is loud: in praise of the “ Minie Rifle." , ; These fir.ej artns ' |n~ jhe hands ;of godd marksmen dealcerlain destruction at an im? mense apd the wholesale; slaughter of the, at the batteries, of .Sebastopol;,has,yyon fotthie. ; weapon of death' the Boubriqpßt. of,i‘,‘ King oft Fire, Arras,”. S° I dreadful is,ibisfatal - ball that. the Russian, gunner, goqsjlpihis .station at an embrasure as'; :to certain death..msi .. u r. 1 Theibarrelofa rifle has* running the length of its inner .autTdpe,’spituf grooves or chan nels—hence the’name hi I 'rifle, which tneans a rifle or'grooved : dith. fOne object of a rifle barrel is to’|ive :^f eater precision to the hall, by communicating-'to it a rotary motion. — This motion "it receives'oti its passage out of the gun, provided the ball isso crowded into the barrel as : to ’ (VH up partially or entirely the grooves; and the more perfectly the ball fits into the barrel the truer its course, and the less windage there is; that is, (he less space there is between the ball and the bar rel-for the-strength of the power to escape.— It is estimated’that when the windage is only 1.20 th of the caltjbro of the gun, one third of the powder escapes,’and of course its strength is lost. The great’object therefore to be obtained, is a perfect fit to the barrel by the ball, thus to give’the rotary motion, and to save the powder. ' t A French gunsmith invented a rifle which had its breech pin project wedge shaped, about two inches into the barrel. The ball, a conical shaped one, was then dropped into the barrel, and a' few heavy blows by the rammer drove the wedge or pin into the ball so as to fill the grooves in the barrel. The minie ball, now so famous, is an im provement upon all balls, inasmuch ns ii makes ihe powder slug or spread thu ball, in stead of the rammer doing that work - . The ball is oblong with a conical point, in its base it has a conical hollow running half or two-thirds the length of the ball. ■ A cup made of sheet iron is placed in the orifice of this hollow, which at the instant of firing is driven by the powder with great force into the ball, thus spreading it open, so as in its course out to perfectly .slug or fill the grooved bar; rel. This accomplished thd whole object; it saves time in ramming, it destroys windage, thus economising in powder, and makes the ball perfectly fit the barrel so as to give the ball a complete rotary motion and certainty of the direction. Thus the' Minie improve ment—taking its name from a French officer named Minie —is a minie ball, not a minie rifle. The concial shape of the bullet gives it greater weight of metal than a round one, affords less resistance to the air, and greatly increases the distance it can be thrown.— This shaped ball however, has been used for a long time by sportsmen. .A Paris correspondent of the Now York Tribune, some months since, was witness to experiments made by Major Minie himself with his ball, and saw the officer plant three balls in succession in a' target the size of a man’s hat at the distance - of three-fourths of a mile. And this officer said he could do it all day long, and teach any man to do so. It is not to be wondered at that the Rus sians have a horror of Ihe French chasseurs and the minie ball. The present popularity of rifle owes its origin to the skill of American sharp shoot ers bred and trained in our new settlements, and who ii#bur Indian and other wars have shown the efficiency of the rifle ball in picking 1 off officers, gunners and prominent objects; but its perfection, we immagine, has been accomplished in the hands of the French. - • ' Cleveland Herald. To the Editor of the N. t Sin •.-‘-In a forme? number of this paper I alluded ’to' the use of Saleratus in modern ‘cookery. ' I'have not hesitated to pronounce it on efficient agent in the production of lHat most alarming infantile mortality which pre vails. Your readers know, perhaps, that we lose about 300,000 inhabitants of the United Stales every year, under ten years of age ; and some of them know, if they have fend all that has been written on the subject with in a few years, that not a few of these chil dren might have survived had it not been for the effects of Saleratus.- , 1 . Some individuals have doublet! the truth of my suggestions. They have seriously ques lioned whether Saleratus is really poisonous. Such individuals maybe interested in the fol lowing statement and facts: I had been lecturing in North Adams, Mass., on diet and regimen. At the close of the lecture the Rett. Robert Crawford came tome and munired' whether I was not fond of collecting fadts; and when-1 replied in the affirmative, he gave trie a'particular account of an incident in Williamslown, which is only four miles from that plaeel In the year 1835 on indigent female, who was desirous of frying to earn an honest liv lihood for herself and her family by keeping boarders, rented a hohso in Wjlliamslown, and took about fifteen boarders. They were chiefly, if not wholly, young nien who were attending, the college at that place. The housekeeper was ignorant of the fash ionable modes of-cookery, though she knew that rich foo.d was generally preferred. She had heard of’ Saleratus; and that by many Cooks it was freely used. • Accprdihgly, she procured a quantity and freely used it. The warm biscuits wore ?o full er itas not only to give them a yellow of burnt appearance, but also bjtender them bitter or nauseous to •i f i a/j. -jv m„ f t>-,ua jtiU n>;v.i }'■■■/■.r'llit -)'J* t'Jl- Sftl »IkWW«J V-l- i . TUB; AOtTATIpVt Of THOUGHT 19. THE DEOISNJIHtJ oP s ~;uS 1 PUBLISHERS -' . C „• What H a slinle Rilke? [fleets of Saleratus, the taste; Mhny'olhef arliefe were'fillep with-it- in -like ’-manner,- -In endcfiVoHlijg to’ make' : light 1 ptlddlrrga, hdwevef;she;Used so much oflhe Sriidle; it'wffB'sald,- Bs|td;irhfider them 'as heavy,; almost s 6, as 1 iead?”’’jr|i9,; studenls’called these puddings', Ky'the c prtmO; of ; ,, tw ecijlc gfdvitpj n J 6othqLVyhenever-. they wistiedwa, asFtq bp helped!io aomO of itKe”specificjjrayjiy^-! <• ’ After the fanie of li Tew mpjiths a'diseape broke out, among, these , siv*(tenls—-so severe that many if in! be coniagipus. Of (Kb wholo’ numl)of, thirieen werp.cqnnßpd for . a r i o ng'linw>;ty)d.the.fputieemiv .jya? .slightly affected fpr a.fpw. days, Thp hpupa, became nanqe orihe peBl.hqpse,,..:,,Two of the patients,died ; another deai)i; and eleveq. finally recovered- .tu-Mi, >; The, individual-who escaped the • disease wholly was Prof. Tatlock; now ofthe Will, iamstown college. The one whai was- only -alighlly affected was the Rev. Mr, Ornvfford, my informant, - The latter had n 6 doubt-p never had-any—that the disease was -chused solely by-theSalaratus. I saw Prof. Tdflfldk subsequently, who'confirmed the statement of Mr, UraWford, aid very little- of ihe food which was so filled with Saleratus; and the biscuits they seldom ever, lasted.' Lalso Saw and conversed freely With Dr. Sabin,’one-of the two, principal physicians who attended at the “’pest-house” during lhe ; sickness aforesaid,"and Who is still a practis ing physician in VVillamstown. .lie told, trie that,‘to thepreseni day, neither Kb nor his associate, Dr. Smith, had ever entertained a momentary doubt that the whole, trouble was caused by Saleratus, The nature of the disease was somewhat peculiar; but in every particular-gave indi cation that the citadel of life had been at tacked by no mean or powerless enemy,— The bowels lost their tone, and there was great muscular prostration. Blisters applied to any part of the system, were sure tb be followed by almost immediate mortification of the part. In short, the disease was one of the, most severe ever known in that regiop. But, if (he more excessive use of this irri tating substance is liable to produce such terrible effects, can the lest excessive use lof it, where prevails, bd. en tirely innocuous. ,1 . . ( Many tell us they do nonuse it to, excess, though they are well aware that many others do so, -But so it is with alm’osttfcvery abuse. I have seldom, if ever, mel with a person who would Confess to the ’ error of tight-la cing—though I have .met whir-thousands who feriew that such an abuse prevailed all around them. I was recently, taken to task by, a venera ble housekeeper of this Commonwealth, for saying that the use of ten or twelve pounds of Saleratus in a family was- by no means uncommon. “ VVby,” said she, “I do not use so much as this in ray great family.”— “ How large is your family, Madam 1” 1 inquired. “It consists of ten persons.”— “ And how much Salerolus do you use year ly ?"• “ A pound will last me three weeks.” " Well, Madam, that is between seventeen and eighteen pounds a year.” She was surprised, and said she did not use so much ; a pound she said, wonld last her nearly four weeks.— But this, to her surprise, was’thirteen pounds' - a year. ' There can be no doubt that the sub-inflam mation of the-alimentary canal, which the habitual use of this alkali induces, both, on children andadujts, is one cause of that dread mortality which prevails among the former;, but which, in summer and autumn, when other caused cooperate, proves peculiarly alarming, For my own part, I can hardly resist the full conviction that', of the 300,000 above mentioned, who die prematurely, at least 100,000 might survive, but for the ef fects of Saleratus. . , WM. A. ALCOTT..M. D., AunußN-DALK, Mns9., Dec. 29,1854. Taking tub Scent odt of .Clothes. — Sitting op the piazza of thq Cataract., Ho tel was a young fpspish-lookiog ; .genllemnn, his garments, very highly scented with a min gled odir pf musk.and cologne. A .solemn ficcd, odd-looking man, after passing the dan dy several limes, with a look, of aversion which drew general notice, suddenly slopped, and in a confidential lone said ; “ Stranger, 1 know what’ll lako that scent out-of your clothes ; you—” - ’ “What! what do you! mean, sir 1” said the exquisite “ fired with' indignation,” start ing from his chair. “ Oh, get mad; now—swear, pitch round, fight, just because a man wants to do you a kindness 1” coolly replied the stranger. “But I tell you 1 do know what’ll lake out that' smell—phew 1 You just' bury your clothes —bury ’em-a day or ttvo. Uncle Josh got a foul of a skunk, and he—” At this instant there went up frdm the crowd a simulfarieons roar of rrierrimeht, and the dandy very sensibly“ cleared the coop,” and vanished up'stairs. ; ' A Deep Fubbow.—Judge Coulter, of Ver ginia, when first appointed to the: bench, had jurisdiction overona of the mountain coun ties. The district was- made up.of many, wild and unruly, fellows. . One of the Judge’s firsl acts was to impose a heavy fine, by way-of upon a rough and hardy back woods man, for disorderly conduct. As the'* man was leaving'lhe court room, in charge’of an officer, he tumid and addressed the Judge— “ Your name is Coulter,'is it notT’ ■ "Yes.” ■ 1 ; j ,;"; “ Well, all T hive to say is, that yob are seuing your coulter rather too deep for 'a man who is pfowing hew 'ground.” ~ . , It is recorded that the fellow’s; tvii, saved the. fine. ' Flour is falling. k*. -"ußa*-,*- »ac- iv»"/r"» «wth '- >*.•%>»'•■< 1 31 IT j■> - i * - A“l»» ■- / ' riJ ;,/ BY JOB, A JEHSKX MUTE. / ~ XETSteB OF XIZZIB, WRITTEN' TPMB.JOSePh MOUNT, JANUAKIf‘2Sth, 1854. Joanri Mouirr, Deaf ami Dumb Institute, 1 Ptiitodcl-' r:. ■ . - r.. • i'( ~ This is the production- of a deaf and dumb lady, who lives among (ho mountains of ■penflsvj'vhnip:' It occupies' four,pirges/wril leij, in n delicate hand, ariti‘ consists vpn kffoivs' how fhaiiy lines,'Tit atipun|s. in Btpk|ng ;, 4 ihpughlB,, paginal, and .generally welppxpresssd., 'Tjteiji begins by Vying, I,v»ps,yery,gli,tl to. hear from, you when 1 'feceivetl your letter ufid paper on Tuesday evening last. Tour letter gave me much "pleasure.” 1 Much pleasure! - My letter gave you iTluch pleasbre! I’m glad of it. She goes on to say: *• I did not get the letter and paper on Tuesday mdVfitng, as the mail did not corile up' till at 10 o’clock. Be fore' I got these things, I thought you were so sick that you could not go out on account of the cold weather. Sister ’ brought them /in the'cVehihg.” { Sick? No, dear. j. ■. “I am. glad that your health is improving. You must lake care of your health, as the weather is very variable.” Thank you, Lizzie, for the interest you take in my health, and beg to assure you that it is on the mend. !*. We-havo had a slight full of snow ibis, week. The weather has been exceedingly’ cold since last Monday." We had o'heavy fall of snow here in Phil adelphia on Friday, the 6ih ull. I have not yet taken a sleftgh-ride. My sore hands (the effect of bathing them with the medicine) for bids that pleasure. I must suffer for a while. ' “ I am glad that you think of coming up lo see mo in May. Be sure and come up. How anxious I am to see you.” ' 1 “ I’ll see about it, dear Lizzie. “ When I'wrote lo you some time ago; I advised you not to write much for the papers, for I feared that your jbealth might be injured. You appeored not to mind me. You ought not lo write for the papers, that is, to the in jury of your health. Will you take my good advice?” There is no resisting! O, if I could eat the good girl up! Who but Lizzie could have treated with indifference the sufferings of a third-fate writer ? I ask the question w ith my arms akimbo. “ To-day is your birth day. I wish 1 could make you a handsome birth-day pre sent,” Much obliged lo you, sweet girl, for your kind wish. A lot of girls shook hands with me on my birth-day, offering me all manner of compliments. 1 was sorely tempted lo kiss, and did ■ kiss Miss Walker, a young la dy, whom I think the prettiest of her sox. I earned for myself a boxed ear, but, believe me, I enjoyed it hugely. “ Did you ever rend “ Ruth Hall.” It is Fanny Fern’s. I did not read it much. It is n very remarkable book. Sister Jane bor rowed it from a friend.” I saw it, but did not examine it; yeti in tend to- buy it. 1-admire everything that comes from her pen. She is a graceful wri ter,' notwithstanding much that has been said to the contrary. “Marriage-is a very serious one. Ido not think lightly of it.” Now, that is a good Lizzie; come down and I will give you my heart and fortune— but, bless me, I cannot afford to marry. “Write me, s6on. A thousand kisses to my dear Joe." By Jove, your “ thousand kisses” are worth more than popper, silver and gold put togeth er. lam by all odds the happiest Joe in the world. As .to writing to you, I will do it as soon as I command lime. i -To conclude; the above extracts are given with their peculiarities of language, pronun ciation and .style unaltered. A few more fa vors of the same sort from Lizzie, and I will be glad : to review them in the columns of the ' Agitator. Cure for the Toottmclie. A TtIUE STORY Beauty has charms. So it has, almost equal to music. Il may soothe a savage—a savage breast. Il did soothe or charm a-Ger man music teacher one day last weclr. He was charmed ivith the beauty of a Indy bright as a star —lovely as those who dwell beyond, or in the shining orbs. He sow, and she conquered. He saw her in lha street, and •followed. Oilier poodles have done the same. She entered a store —so did he. Not because he wanted to 1 buy goods, but he thought an opportunity rtiighl occur for him to speak ■music tb' hq'r, or hear the music of hel* speech.' " Oh, what a voice! —more sweet than his own fiddle} ; and its tones'vibrated to the very bottom of his largo beer barrel. And'her smile—il Struck him to the heart, for he ihought she smiled upon him. Perhaps she did;-"- 5 We Smiled at a bigger fool in the circus , the tnher night.'’ She looked at silks. ,He .tried Id suit hifiiself with a new pairo/glpves. Both' werehtfrd to suit, and timesped, At length she'deft,’and took a stage for her home up town. He took the same mode of getting away froth his homo, and, went up by the same conveyance, without any definite place in -view at which bo should, pull the.strap.— Ho Wailed'patiently for the lady to give .the first pull.’ Sb,a got out, and entered a brown stone front.,, Ho opted, the spot, and ended his ride al’tho next corner, and cnrno back, looked up. to .the cold walls, and, thought— yes, ha thought of the warm heart within, aod the sweet face that smiled—was it ai o t fot.himl. , V. vi ‘ V f ! V l j&w. '*“■ -P^VJBS'But, k>™'f Mate&e, shopfdbtl w whpjhqbiro Wi whjsri |hp .door., wa?" pMijpdl „ Fo/juno ,cart\9'tneT' : - y , ‘ ...Not but wpjkJ_?|.—you can,,wait fpr.pirn, ’., “Pfyjttis, cortpintyjan.yoyr eompapyony length of time— inot til) night or,raqrorng/’ ; '“ ." .'[ / ..wjyfj to, ike pat%,-« . Bot|i were seaieiph.fhe eoaia, and time,went dtjP'pn'ihe lpye I JWell/b’p ibppght sbV.’ He ibbughl 1 that , eypry. j ' srnfled upon him was maaP (6 jpfp.,.l Perhaps hebfforcd his to (ter acceptance, ~.S|je didjnot ■occeptt' only served hid B(robkeV.r : ,|Spfew tlipe, (ill a loud riog ihe dbbrjbell marked a period,',. n , t ., . ran tpopen the doOr, andstppped tot a 'few’nasty .words vviihthe, new -cojncr, and iheti came in and said ; ''“'My, husband doctorj” ”• -,; . „ , . .-j (fler'yisiior wanted to‘pep one just as.jppch op ihe o(ber.'J f(P .wpiild very gladly frave given ike room to either, but r ihe two-.stopd in He looked anxiously tbwards,. the fatal'cKdfoier who fjad policed him info ihe ’snb feign'd she; smiled,' showed her teeifij aridl 'vanished;. The teeth reminded him of bid own; The doctor looked stern, and said sternly : “•’Did you wish to see me, profess.ipnall,y sir I - ’ Of course ho did. What else could bp say he wak ihefe for? He thought pf the,..de cayed tooth’, and thdugnl he would .have |ju>t out to get out himself.' It wo£ 001 exactly a a looth for a tooth, bul'lt soon will pc’- ■\ r He took his seat,'.and tho- doctor the nippers-"and—drew the wrong toot^V —. perfectly sound one, upon, one side of iho dlher, j Of coutse it was a mistake—a hlqqdy mistake—hut easily remedied by pulling an other. TBe doctor would lake no excuse, and applied the instrument again and drew another sound tooth. The decayed one now stood aloh(>, and the doctor thought, might perhaps get well; he was tolerably sure lio had • cured tho musical' gentleman of his toothache, and very kindly told him to pay five dollars, and if his troublesome tooth should 6v6r plague him again, all he had to do waste follow his wife borne and he would pull all the teeth out of his head. If you can’t git them that you want, you must taka them that you can git, and that.is how I came to marry Palsy, Love will go where lis sent anyhow, and the harder a chap loves a gal, the poorer a.chance he stands of gitlen her; the thing is just bore; the more he loves her the more shy and trembling bn is, and be can’t, half 1011, bis leeling to her if he tries—while the capeless and unfeeling chap, that’s got no more love' in him than a boss, can have a dozes gals after, him at once. ‘ 1 have thought the heart is like mud 1 fur* lies eggs ; you dent the shell on one side —a dent on the other side, made in the same manner, will bring all smooth again. So with the heart; one gal makes a dent it remains bruised, till some other gal presses it,l pushing out the old bruise and carving a new one. .Well, accidents will happen, folks will laugh—llio world is moro fond of fun than logic—and they might as well laugh at me as any body. So I ogree(j to tell you about my court* ship. I wan’t, Patsy, but my first sweet heart iyas a proper handsome gal. I worked for her faijier. ; Ohio was ail in the woods then, and everybody lived in. log houses.*— Down in Cleveland there was a store or two. And my three hundred acres that is worth' now one hundred and .fifty dollars an acre, wasn’t worth when I bought it, only three dollars. Pshaw, pshaw I how limes is changed. Glad to get corn bread and gravy then—had to. go thirty miles down to Cbng- - rin to mill, d always used la go upfor boss Instead of himself, for I only hefted ninety* pounds in weight, and made a lighter load i over a bag of -corn .on horseback. Let ms see, I weigh one hundred and eighty now.. Well, I twenty.five years old just about, and in love with boss’s daughter but always thought dKo felt a leetle above me, for I was not quite as tall as she was anyhow, and Working for 8 dollars.a month, and had lu dress in'tow liheri'nt that! ' " You never see one of them logging frocks, made like a shirt, out of flax low, did yer 1 Well,' f bought this blue coat when I mar ried Palsy, thirty and five years ago, I ijfver wore any but that, and if it was Sunday to day, I should have it on, for I despise exlrav agance and new Tangled flummeries and tingumbob noodles round ye’r houses. I was in love thirty five years ago, head over'heels, and never dared to say a word about it. Her name was Jerusha. I longed to '.ell her bow my hear! swelled and burnt for her. as It thumped ngdinst my chest; but I never screw my courage up to the pint—but thought I would some day ; I’d been alone with her many times, and had resoWed on poping it right out, but tho 'stillness ‘was ns awful on them casions ns the roar of the Niagara, and my heart would feet all oVer like your fillip finger when you hit your elbow gin a thing accidental, a tarrial tingling, fullness. Cuss my luck, Wid Ito myself. One Sunday, night I cum hum from the mill after a three days ride, and Jerusha had a benu dressed as smart a%a dancing master. My Jienrt jumped into my gullet the I see him, ‘ - _ I felt down in tho mouth,- for 1 know I was ' a gone fellow. He 'hdd : 'bn broadcloth.— Talk of yobrnew fonglod Gossop and Gro shot) houses now, but- folks in them days did n’t have' but one ;,rbpm down stairs, and a ladderto go up stairs:' apnnchco’ri'lVoor was good enough below,’and .oak 'shahkers split ‘ dht by hand kivered'the chhmber‘floor; Is was so in boss’s house,’arid I slepfup ip tho chamber. I want you to-remeVnßer'nty tow shirt, and I want you to imagine my fcblings N. Y. Tribune . Early Courtship iu Ohio.