THB CRISIS had loMfidjo a Oq dMem bhiTprouisM lonji And the wUeat proved UUe to the trust,— We had looked for the wisdom of agee , , . '■ That FroeSim indllSwr mn'nutei Xbft Um ttamfw • -•. ■ '•*- Wfr hitf bnlii fm, a trad*k promW« l VPrVfboiheld when TWe*6ne nigh t ‘tthfid; - Hat the Slmjfrattyrttefcd U from.w— Oar trot bad been wri|t€px,*in sand *betf We*teilB that the oT the nations Should l>6 ehiTcred Hire glaM in the froit. That our Uvea were eelf-offtoed oVatlons— That wo noTcr would reckon the cost 1 But the land which tholtoltiinß gnro m Shoo Id erer bofrpe from that hour; , * That we BcoHlod'SU afterapM to onni.ive us, ’ Jtor bow’d us to placemen or power. I• Oi W.~Be', IK-fl<6oro‘ J January 30| 1866. ~ i eowntmitumm, \- The Scarcity of Literary fflftn, ' Alas ' how few comparatively; obtain.' a thorough mental discipline. As we look out over the country, we see'here atjd there an' individual fully convinced’of the ignorance of man. and he starts oui with the firm de termination of sparing na labor lhat will en able him io disnel the clonds which fetter bis intellectual vision, but the'grea( mass-mf men, iVcontented to live in thbdark. The causes, which‘lend to this sad result, are apparent eveft to me casual Observer ; and we are in duced to wonder that the number bf profound scholars in our lahd should be as great as it is. The mind of the young is first called into action bv external objects, and how few of these point toward the path of Literature. True, the child who is blessed with educated parents, may by (heir cpre and diligence and perseverence be inspired (vith a love of know ledge, and let? on and upward step by step in the narh of wisdom, buf where is the charm to fascinate the soul of him who is guided by his own judgement. Such a ynulh finds him self in the world surrounded'by those whose chief pleasure consists in physical enjoyment, am! wnhou; even dreaming that there is a higher, nobler course,-crowded with intellect ual pleasures filled withspir llOaft enjoyments, he eagerly unites with the popular throng, and learns too late that there is nOireal pleasure in dress, or in mone\. The animal routine of ihe farmer, of plow, in”, sowing, reaping and mowing—the con stant business pressure of the merchant,-of measuring, and transporting goods—the la. hors o' me manulaclurer, who turns lha raw material into articles ol usefulness, are all comprehended to a certain extent by the voutn, and his mnale desire urges him to emer upon some of these employments as a business of im On Ihe other hand what is there to induce the hoy, who has no advisers, no counselors, no kind friends to guide his footsteps, to pur. sue a lilerarv course. Be may hear of greit noets. orators and statesmen; but the road they loot; to reach their high position will be a mystery His concepuve notions of bards and noets will hear no resemblance to the in dividuals wno tire atouno him. He hears persons talk o r Roman and Grecian orators, but does no: even dream tbit tnev were men filled with vain ambitious noltons. He sees in ms imagination a low mysterious beings, lit un on Die staircase of lame, bul ha fails 10 discover me steps upon which they ascen der, he reveres iheir power and ability, bm con see no method Dv which he may advance toward men. Should some kind friend whis per and leli mm, that it could only be accom plished onii by years o( arduous sludy, how sooi, be would enter upon ihe course ; but as it is no turns and pursues some business which presems greater encouragements Thus Lit eraiure is robbed of those who would other wise become us volarier history, however, presents a few examples wincn ao not approve of our theory. There nave ueen some, who without counsel and even in opposition to the advice of friends, have discovered the trolden course and spent their uves in travelling ip, r„ and thev have lelt to their countries honorable deeds and honorable names Tneir discoveries might have been brought about bv force of circom stances rather man superior skill, but the discoveries were mad' Uircurnslances in our youth db much to ou- characters anc determine our spheres of acltbn, A. bpy may by chance base un tne biography of some distinguished tndmoua.. lie reads it without having any particular object ip view, and soon learns, to his astonishment, that all great men were once oois, as full of sport and folly as those wiitt wnom he constantly associates. He has a vajrue sense of the course they pursued, his desire of improving his own being is aroused to an intensity that can be salisfied omv ny gratifying the desire itself—he com mences study, artd having once pul his hand to tne plow, no obstacle can induce him to turn baci... Ano'lier reason why men dotiot enter upon a literary life is, that they discov er none of us pleasures. moult invisible. It/is not addressed to our phvsical senses, but to our undersland ln£- n can not be estimated unless it be ex. pressec The wisest philosophers dressed in simple apparrel, have often been mistaken for Watters and hostlers, and the sinnptest ninnies lor men 01 wisdom. Tho Scythians wore very much astonished, when itiey perceived that the gnal conque ror of me woiid, whose fame extended thro’- om hurope and a», a> was „ | |(l i e man w ith a twisted necK ; but me W el| trn i ne( j student of Aristotle had no less influence in the world on account of his tosigmiicam term. But the mind 6(* k wise men 13 no barren desert, His intellectual landscape i s fiu e( j with valuable treasures. His harvest fields •re always rich with golden thought. Each day he may increase his vast dominion and woder his fields more productive by constant cultivation, Ui B stores, of knowledge are well filled with some of the choicest products ol sarin, and of all these he can Medina enjoy as he sits, quietly in his study. Tnose who think that the scliolar receives nothing m return for his study—-nothing for hi* midnight investigations, have been de ceived. He possesses vast stores of wealth * n 'h® form of intellectual enjoyments—con stant pleasures in the form of jtssociated thoughts, ant) hours of happiness,■'« he.rides Ituengmation from one country to afttxhcr >• u.o a ‘ J > «• Wsi l> U V'i/W |‘ I. \J* ) V [:ni .%I-. 1'..., 1 —■ 11 ■ ; QQBBi STURROGK & CO., iVOlvi mfngWwitlb the wise, of l all ag^, : 'drittkrirt iHelr 1 -virtues and is inspired by Their examples —then as it were, leaps off into'the fatute; peoples jt - with anWhefrace fat* mofeelevat’erf ■t)mn oursefveS l 'and : to be made So by the 'causes which - are ripW at' Work. 1 He, has no lonesome hours, - for his mind is filled with pleasing images—he has no - haughty 'pride, (hr he comprehends to some extent the vast' machinery of heaven, and the insignificance of huitian plans— he has no envy, for he’dis-' covers at a glance, that the world is’'wide enough for all to act. In a word his life is one of activity and happiness. 'This view of a literary man does not include the vain and fftnbitious, who seek to accomplish no object except to elevate'themselves, nor the’/atijing demagogue who labors to deceive and lead astray the populace, for all such have perver ted their natures, but to the humble seeker after truth, who labors and inVesiigaies that he may become acquainted with the laws of nature and apply them to human actions. He may have a' laudable ambition and seek the praise of his fellow men, but he will do it by trying to render himself worthy of their praise. He may even long for the glory that clings to the names of the wisest and best men who have lived, but he will wish to ob tain it only by trying to elevate man, and .by performing such deeds as are worthy of edm memoration. For thl Agitator'. Could these things be understood in youth as they are in manhood, Ihe number of lite rary men would be much greater than inis. But by many the lesson is learned too late to be of any advantage; and thus literature, the great moralizer of ihe world, can claim bul few who have drank deeply from the cup of science. COLLEGE. That devoted and adventurous traveler and public benefactor, the late John L. Stevens, was one of the projectors of the Panama railroad, which may be considered the pion eer in the great ioter-ocennic commercial en terprise, to be perfected by the construction of the proposed ship canal. The road was begun in December, 1850, at Chagres, bul t its eastern terminus was afterwards fixed at Aspmwall, eight or nine miles northeast of Chagres, which, bgs superior advantages,,with respect to the approach from the sea and oth er circumstances, h was finally completed to Panama on the Pacific, a distance of forty nine miles, from ocean to ocean, January 27 1855, at a cost of a, little over §6,000,000, according-to Col. Totten, the chief engineer. Before the completion of this road, passen gers crossed the Isthmus on mules, occupv tng several days iu the toilsome and danger ous journey. They now cross it by railroad in four hours. ■ On account of the defective condition of the Pacific terminus of the road and the want of suitable wharves for the di rect shipment of goods, it is not yet suited to the carnage of heavy freight. The road is owned by a-New York company. Its fu ture ownership will depend upon the willing ness of the Government of New Granada, to which lha country traversed by it belongs, to continue the privilege temporarily granted by the present contract, which stipulates that Now Granada dan redeem the privilege after twenty years from Ihe dale of Ihe completion of the road, on payment of §5,000.000. If it should not then avail itself of this stipula tion it can redeem it for 84,000,000 after Ihe lapse of ten years; and if not then, for 82,- 000,000 af.er the lapse of ten years more; giving, in each case, one year’s notice of its intention to redeem. There are five propos ed routes foflbe ship canal ; the first, from Port San Juan, ofr-lhe Carribbean Sen, up the San Juan river, across Lake Nicaragua, and thence to the Pacific by different routes; the second, across the Isthmus from Chagres or Puerto Bello to Pannama; the third, from the mouth of the river Coatzocoalco toTehn anlepec; the fourth, from the river Choco, along the Atrato and the Naipi one of its branches, and then by canal to Cupica bay on the Pacific; and the fifth, across the isth mus of Darien. An attempt to explore an other route by way of Chucanique bay, by a corps under the direction of the United Slates, in 1854, /atlSd utterly with the loss of several lives and after the most appalling hardships. It is generally supposed that the. route'by way of Lake Nicaragua ik Ihe only practicable one. The cost of the canal is variously estimated at from six to thirty! mil lions of dollars. If, however, as some have supposed, it should exceed many (imes that amount, the outlay would be justified by Ihe irftmense advantages accruing from it to Ihe commerce of the world. A grant was made by Nicaragua,- in 1846, to Cornelius-Vander bilt' and others, of -New York 1 , -Tor the" Icon struetion of a canal through that State, bnt the work has not yet been undertaken, tho’ the route has been surveyed. It was for the joint protection of the contemplated canal by this route, that Great Britain and the United State? ‘concluded in 1850, the Clayton.Bul wer treaty, understood by Mr. Clayton as putting an end to the dominion of Great Britain over tWMosquitoshore. ' • - This construction is, howe'er, denied by the British Government, and practically neg atived ,by the continued possessing of the port of 6ati Juan, the proposed Atlantic ter minus of ibe canal, which was seized by the agents of that Government in 1648, under the.pretest of supporting the jetrilqrial rights ,of Ihe’Mosquito Kipg. 'The coiilioyecj opcu pation of this port by the British, in-violation of the! American construction of the' 1 treaty abovememioned, would give them tbe'i iSlire oomroKof theyproposed conul, it built. Whether Of not lljis, occupation sho.ll bp t.‘fW.,i,3 fr.YWd question to be barqafipr decided by Bngliabaad American statesmen. . ----- .gO TATI DA YX yj UG!> ' fine J T ■%. Jll ■)!:)?. a-M nf'.i ,>m] ;>•■•»: cnr.uBlrir!CPgVM» fi iJ u.Ai^vT^l J-uwioiii j uil!ln ‘. ===== -.T!;} l a.i !tirin»ii frrrr--' —— J A',-V'<* rv' v J ' , t.ji-c* i-ii- -' i i i t^ | j , Hn' i-!i!- ;>!> ri-ijil u •.'■ni;ii tiilirriv • ""' -' ■ '.onoi-il-r Jr -jj mJi S r,3 'lffn j. . MiriM tf: { ;:h." 311! s Across the Isthmus. <> i.m-if. • / nttfl .U'O Vl!i 73 {•');! 14* 't .’iy; /{• itt 1 t | The Yankees have, become- hiloridus 1 for iheir' question-asking propensity, li; yet sbh?e lirrtes Jdhn'Bu'n Okhlßlfa so' VeihaVTiilljlO'lf'ije vqlopmen't dftfiia traitj'we mtisPconcfucfe that' 'Jonathan "and John'are'at leasl'chlisrh's;' ij A' gdod onecdoteis related 1 of Gilbert Stuarli'a celebrated American pqrirait pairitef,'whited" replies puizled'the in'gutsliivehesp of His Ertg-i listi traveling companion, itvtheir attempts'lb' find out bis calling. On one occasion, Stuart was traveling stage-coach, in England,'with' sorrte gentle men who were strangers to him, but all of whom were Etociable and .full of animation. His brilliant conversational powers attracted much attention, and ‘ his fcompanions' became desirous'id'kp6W who' and' what-he was. They asked many roundabout queitipns, to find out his calling or profession. Mr. Stuart answered, with a grave face and serious tone, that he sometimes' dressed gentlemen’s and ladies’ hair.' “You are a bair-dresse'r, then” remarked ohe of his companions, inquiringly. “What !” said he; “do you take me for a barber?” “I beg your pardoh, sir, but I inferred it from what you said. If I mistook you, may I take the liberty jo ask what you are, then “Why, I sometimes brush'a gentleman’s coal or bat, and sometimes adjust a cravql.” “0, you are a valet, then (6 some -noble man.” “A valet? liadeed, sir, I am not. I am hoi a Servant to be 'sure,' I make dbkts and waistcoats for gentlemen.” : “O, you are a tailor?” ' ' 1 “Tailor! Do I look like a tailor? -I as sure you I never haHdled a goose, other than a roasted one.” By this lime the passengers were all in a roar; and one of them exclaimed, “What are you, then?” “I tell you,” said Stuart. “Be asstired all I have said is literally true. I dress hair, brush hats and coats, adjust a cravat, and make coats, waistcoats and breeches, and likewise bools and shoes, at your service.” “Oho ! a boot and shoemaker,’ after all.” ? Guess again, gentlemen, 1 never handled boot dr shoe but for my own Feet and legs ; yet all I have told you is vAte.” - ‘ “We may as well give up guessing then,” remarked one of the party. After checking his'laughter, he'said to them, very gravely, “Now, gentlemen-, I will not play the fool with you, but will tell.you, upon my honor, as a gentleman, bona fide my profession, I get my bread by making faces. He then screwed his countenance, and twisted the lineaments of his visage in a manner such ns Foote or Matthews might have envied. When his companions,- nfler loud peals of laughter, had composed them selves, each took credit to himself for having, all the while, suspected- that the gentleman belonged to the theatre; and now they nil know that he must be‘a comedian by profes sion. But to their utter surprise, he assured them that he was never on the stage, and very rarely saw the inside of any theatre,— His companions now all looked at. him and at each other with astonishment. Before parting, Stuart said to his compan ions, "Gentlemen, you will find that all that 1 have said of my various employments, is comprised imthese few words: lam a por trait painter. If you Will call at John Pal mer’s, York Buildings, London, I shall be ready and willing In brush your ooal nr hat, dress your hair a la mode, supply you, if in need, with a wig, of any fashion or dimen sions, accommodate you with boots or .shoes, give you ruffles or cravats, and make faces for you.’’ On parting with him at tho inn, they begged leave to inquire in what part of England, he was born. He answered them, “I was not born in England, Wales, Ireland, or Scotland. Here was another puzzle for them ; “where then I” was their eager inquiry. “I wag born at Naraganset,” was his reply. “Where’s that?” “Six miles from Pollawoone, and ten miles from Poppasquash, and about four miles west of Connecticut, and not far from the spot where the famous battle with ihe.Pequots was fought.” “In what part of the. Bast Indies is ■ that, sir ■?"• was the response , • “Bast. Indies, my dear sir! it is in the Stale of Rhode Island, between MassachuseUs and the Connecticut River.” , Vi’b once saw n ypung man , gazing at the *ry heavens, with a f in 1 a of pistols in the other. We Ndeayored to alteqct his alteplion by .ing to a H in a paper we hold in our relating 8 a young man in that § of country who had left homo in a stale pf MN lal Derangement. He dropped the f and pistols from his with the !: .“It is lof whom U read, 1 left home b 4 my friends (rnbw of, my Dsign. I had.sO the OCT of a girl .who refused 2 lis 10 2 me, but smiled b9ly on another. I I —ed madly from ihe house uttering a wild ' to the god of love, and without reply in to (he 111! of ray friends, came here uilh f of pistols to pul .a ,to my Xistence. My case bps no || in this § ” When a stranger' treats me with want of respect, kaid a philosopher, I comfort myself with the reflection that it Is not myself he slights, but niy old shabby 1 coat and hot, which to say the truth have no particular admifEjilon.' Soj if Vny hat and ctiat Choose' to fret' about it—Jet ihem, its nothing to me. -A young American lady being askedby a boring politician which parly she was’most m favor of, replied that she preferred a wed. ding pnny.' ■ • ■d~-nri Q! V fl « fn - j;f| ■ ' ■ ■amauwii unii ),t M f'TW AcrFAXitpN op THonoaT'-.is jrnE beownino ,oi» VBndit:** SJ --1 i £!'>/ Jva In v ,;l '.aalq ail'iiiti „i o! n)il | V .. S T , w 'I l.t > - f • 1..-T j I' MIT 70") ;m t» TT'ALJ*! ■- ■" ■ A-SlagulajnDiscovery- if or Repi)l)l(Ofn, lhB f following.,very 8 H-lf r PC f u rrepqe 93. bp if i pg. acl oa I ly. ,1 • plrs4.Wfii|&a I ,w.plC. pffl.irie,;, jAftw-dtiys eincßj yylple,,riding, in the rear . of in a stnali rayine, through which n streamlet takes its..way heneatb, its crystal coveting,,anri whuseirrigalion has produced lull grass, and shruba>ihai,,make a hiding, place far. ,game, I t cams suddenly upon. a large black wolf. He.,was. scratching at a thin place in the ice, ond seemed almost fam ished for. water. Seeing .me he started in full run for the forest in the river bottom. I kept upon.bis-heelr.nod tried to ride upon him. Be was. almost-’exhausted, and just ae I supposed he would give our, he slipped, into the hollow of u large oollon-wood free. 1 stopped the hole through which he enter ed and cams back to town and got an axe, and the ,dors, atTd’l'he, assistance of Frank Mahan andj William Palmer, a,pd together, we.returned to cut him out. The dogs were anxious anditve wereprepared with our-guns to receive him.' When We had made a large hole, abtful four (bet from tfie (He ’doos’ jumped at |t oaflih outside and the’ wolf bn'the'ih-' tfide, and such barki’rig, growing and snap ping and h’oivling'l never heard before, ’ft’ made tVie woods resound tor a‘ great distance and hrqughf several, neighbors to the spot. Things continued so for’a'while and we con sumed wljpt was bust .to be done. We could not shoot the wolf through this opening with out toogyqai ri?k of killing the dogs, for he only appeared at the i(jsti)e. We finally con cludetl to stop the holaSve bad made, and full the tree by cutting a narrow gash around it. The. tree .canto down .a little sooner than wo expected. Frank Mahan had the ax lift-” ed fur anotjier stroke us it went over with a, crash. The.wolf,, wijh a. bristly back and glaring eyes and glittering teeth, leaped- at bis throat with’ a terrible ferocity. The de scending ax met it half way, cleaving its skull and laying it dead at his feet. We had no time to express our wondef and congratulations at hi?? singular and narrow escape, when our attention was called to that filled us with amazement, if not dread, ft wos a human skeleton, of medium’ siz? and of a female;‘hidden’ih the cavity of the tree, fls posture was ereci,.artd the’bones were held Jogether by a kind of integument that seemed to cover, like a transparent Skin the entire frame. The jar of the felled tree severed several joints, and wo drew them all out and placed them again in form. The proportions were perfect and the limbs strait —indicating a contour, when in flesh,of per fect symmetry. Who- could it have been, that thus perished years ago, in tin’s wild for est ? and how came her death in this strnoee place? were queries that were immediately suggested. Could it have been some maiden —who, like the bride iii the “Mistletoe Bough,” had concealed herself from Iter Inv er in the heart of ihis'old tree and become fastened (hero and died? Or, iq fleeing an enemy, had sought this refuge ? Or, in ea caping wild beasts, had climbed up in this dose retreat, whence could hot extricate herself? Thpse were l,he nalural sugge.stions fpr the slieletpn filled closely in the cavity and. seemed, to have been fastened there. , - Hiiw.ißiiny yqars ago,this.frame.,possessed many years it,had inhabit ed this time-worn, slo/m-iis! -il’Ur'tll UM f-, i] !)•< 'U I m 3 • .■ [jin'l ~'S UilT -1 Ll; C) i-n S 3 ;ol JiifV’iiiri .ri )iln f jlsn o» v’hn" 'm‘ * •>.’ l>-iV*' t a- The Perils of Teaching Grammar to Mt/fidildr t’{ have* teen sending my dartar Nancy 10-a schoolmasjcr-in. tt|is qa bftrhopd., Last, Friday .1. went over,-to;ihe school jusifb see how Nancy and Bob w a spel ling along; ar/d‘l- sees-things I didfi’c by no meanS-rriTbd schootmaslcr was larn in’ her things, .intifely put of lino of Vddyca lion, and, osl think, improper. I stinydd awhile in-tho'Sdhoolhouse, and heerdone class say iheir lesson - . They tfas a spelling, and I iho’i spelled quite exceedingly/ Then cum Nancy’s turn to say her lesson. She said it very spry. I was shockl 1 and de termined shn-should leave (he school. 1 have heard,, that grtfttnrtibt wiiS, oncommon fine study b>K L don’t,' want any njorp gratp mer about my bouse. —Tbe-lessen that Nan cy saidwas, nothing but the foolishest kind uv talk, tho ridicios luv talk you ever seed. She got up, and the first word she sed was, “I love,?’’ 't,looked rite at' her hard for dnin* so improper but she went rite oh and said—‘‘Thou lovest, he loves !’’ and I reck on you never heard such a rigermyole in ymlr life'—fove,' love, love, and nothing but love. She said one lime—“l did love." Sez.l ’"who did you luve?” -Then,; the. scholars la fled, but I wasn’t to be pul off and 1 sed, “who did you lovb, Nancy;—d want to know, who did you love, Nancy ?” The schoolmasfer, Mr. McQutl islor, put in and he said he would explain when Nancy finished her lesson. This sor ter pnoyfied me, nnd Nancy got on with aw ful luv ‘talk. It got’ wus and wus every word. She said “I might could or would love.” I slopped her again, and sed I reckon I would see ahoqt that, |and told her to walk pul of that house. The schoolmaster triad to intefere but 1 wouldn’t let him say a word. He sed I, was a fool and- 1 knocked him down, and made him hollar in short order,— I laukl the strate thing to him. I told him I’d show him how heed larn my darter grarner. I got the nabvrs together, and we sent Mr. McQuillisler off in a burry, and I reckon lharl be no more gramfer leaching in these parts soon; if jou know of any rather old. ish man in your regen that doanl tench grammar, we would be glad if you would send him up. But in the foorlure we will be Iteerful how we employ men. Young school masters won’t do, especially if they leaches grarner. It is.a "bad "iiiing for morals. — Yours till deih, Thomas Je’ffci-sdn Sole. Mis souri Democrat. Tom Hood’s Advice to such Writers as would see Themselves in is-more.difficult than may be supposed to de cide on jhe value of a work in MS , and es pecinlly when the hand-writing presents only a swell mob of bad characters, ihtl must bo severally examined and re-examined to ar rive at the merits and dements of the ensn. Print settles it, as Coleridge used to bay, and to be candid, 1 have more than once reversed or greatly modified a previous verdict, on seeing a rough proof from the press. But, as loo well know, ii is next to impos sible to retain the lone of a stanza, or the drib of on argument, while the mind has to Scrabble through a patch of scribble scrabble, ns stiff ns n gorse cover. The beauties of the piece will as naturally appear tn disad vantage through such a medium ns the fea tures df pretty woman through a bad pane of glass ; nnd, J withotit doubt, many a toler able article has been consigned band over hand to the Balaam .Box for want of a fair copyr, Wherefore, O ye. Poets and Prosers, who aspire to write Miscellanies, and above all, 0 ye palpitating Untried, take care, pray ye take care, to cultivate a good, plain, bold, round text. Set tip Tomkins as well ns Pope and Drydcn for a model, and have an eye to your pothooks. Some persons hold that the best writers are those who write the best hands, and I have known the conductor of a magazine to be converted by a crabbed MS. to the same opinion. Of all things, therefore, be legible; and to that end, prac tice Jn penmanship. If you have never learned, take six lessons of Mr. Carslairs.— Be sure to buy the best paper, the best pens, and then sit down and do the best you can ; ns the school-boys Jo; put out your iongue, gnd take pains. Sit shall ye happily escape the rash rejection of a jpded editor ; so, hav ing got in -your hand, .it is possible that your head may follow ; and so lust, not least, ye may fortunately avert (hose awful mistakes of the printer, which sometimes ruin a poet’s sublimes!,effusion by panlominically trans forming his roses into noses, his angels into angles, and all his happiness into pappiness. — Hood's-. Own. The Loan’s Stock.—An eccentric indi vidual of our acquaintance, a Beecher —but not of the Diviriity fimily--was once asked to subscribe .to the funds of the church—or, in the language of the Reverend solicitor, “aid in replenishing the exhausted Treasury of the Lord.” Beecher seemed disinclined to furnish the solicited aid, and raised nume rous and pertinent objections, which were all .answered. when, in his sharp, querulous tone, said he—“We read in ihe Bible, do we not, that the cattle on a thousand hills are the Lords?’’ “Yes;” was the prompt reply of the Dominie.' Well,” queried ihe old infidel, “why, 1 'ihe d- 1 -! don’t he sell off' his slock then'!”'' The’solicitor retired, like a sheep before ihe’shettrer. •’'Be who-is,-passionate and.hasly is gener ally .honest. It-is your- cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you shall •.iThpr.e's.jPO,,deception, in p bull dog,’ Jt is lonly.tbe.w.r.lbat.snnpks up. and yilqs'ypu c iwhpn ynur bank is. turned,,., , ( a- :ui'i > -H .1 w.iv. n j r ~‘. 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