Terrible Occurrence. A most frightful accident occurred at Nor walk at noon yesterday, the particulars of w h>oh are briefly na follows t A man by the tiamo of McKinley, a machinist, recently dug a well in his yard to the depth of fifty seven feel. It was only about three feet wide »t the bottom. The well was unfinished, and (he windlass used in drawing up the dirt as it was dug out, was still standing over it. \esterday at noun, McKinley’s two sons, aged respectively seventeen and fourteen years, were engaged in some work at the well, and while so engaged, the bucket at ached to the windlass-rope got loosed from ’is fastening and fell to the bottom. The voimgest of the boys, while his elder brother held the windlass, placed his feet in the large iron hook which hung at the end of the rope, fir the purpose of going down into the well • •ltd recovering the bucket. The elder brother then lowered the rope, hen it was some ten or twelve feet below •.he opening, he was horrified to find that his ■jio her hud fallen off. He made some un -uccessful endeavors to get him up again, and fin,>!ly went after his' father. The pa rent, bewildered and horrified by the accident, was thoughtless enough to place the eldest hov upon the rope, and lowered him into the well to bring up the brother. But he, 100, toosed his hold, when some ten or twelve feel beh'W the surface, and also fell dead to the ho iom. By this lime a number of neighbors It id congregated,and it was suggested that a .ihl be lowered into the well, which was ♦ lone, and it was found that the air was so foul than the light went out before it was lowered ten feet. Efforts were made during (he entire after* noon yesterday to recover the bodies of the •,'i furl unale hoys, but without success. They vvt re raised some six or eight times to within a few feet of the opening of the well, but cM<*h lime the smallness of the opening at the top was found to preclude the possibility of their being taken out, and they each time u-II back to iho bottom. Up to eight o’clock I.ist night, when our informant left Norwalk, ft lends were still engaged in these fruitless endeavors. The well will be dug out to-day as the only means of recovering the bodies nf the luckless boys.— Cleveland iVoe. 23. The accident above, which has brought mourning and distress in its path, is one of frequent recurrence, and yet is caused by an agent the nature of which, at this enlightened tj.iy, should be perfectly understood by every one who draws a bucket of water. It is as* tonishing that the falling of the first lad, without a sound escaping him, did not pul others on their guard, and instantly to have told them that foul air-—carbonic acid gas— was the cause of lhat fall. A few pails of water dashed into lhat well immediately would have “taken up** the gas and in all probability have saved the life of the first one. The second boy, of course, would then have escaped death. But it does not appear even after the second fell, and when foul air was suspected, that any one thought of this j-.rnple remedy at* hand, the throwing in of water. By the account above no one darfd *•.) enter the well, and hence the bodies could not be extracted. The means spoken of would have absorbed the gas, and persons ."-mid have descended In safely. A sure way detecting the presence of this gas is by letnng down a candle, or any flame, which, if gas exists, will be extinguished. Should candle remain burning, the descent can be m \de in safety. } ''unions Suit of a Former Slave.— \ Lowell (Mass.) newspaper stales that f\ 'Mother and daughter, who were the property of Jesse Cornwall a rich p/anter in Missis ippi, now deceased, are in Lowell, under barge o( one Lewis Keyes against whom »iey have brought a suit claiming' Wj? years ■ % agcs and a bequest made in their behalf by ornwalt. The mother was the housekeeper nd mistress of Cornwall, and the daugh’er is his child. Before he died, six years ago, he directed his friend Dr. Keyes, to lake So,ooo and convey the mother and daughter u free State and see them comfortably lo ■ • ted, giving each $2,000, and retainin'' 000 for his own services. Instead of •mg this he hired out the woman at $lOO \ par, for six years, and at the expiration I that time brought them to Lowell, where V'V,havo been under strict sur v eilance, since \hiv last. Recently, they made complaint • a magistrate, and a writ for the recovery their rights was instated, as slated. The! Heel of the Dr'ed Scott decision may be dis posed in this case. Can negroes sue in our • arts for rights which white men are bound » o respect ? A Father and two , Daughters Ar for Robbing the Mail.—A man . med Phelps, a Postmaster.in Fayette Co., Ohio, and bis two daughters, have been ar relied on tlie charge of robbing the mail, '’he two girls, who are quite young, the • 1 *t fst not being over fifteen years, have made hill confession. They had, it is alleged, nien about three hundred dollars at various ■irnes, and spent it for dress and furniture, i’he father, however, denies all knowledge of he robbery. The Cincinnati Gazette says : “Mr. Phelps, the father, is a man of nearly -'xly years of age, and owns a farm of one nundred and forty acres, where he resides. Fie has always stood very well in the com munity previous to this charge. We per ceive by the Blue Book, ibat his office last vettr yielded him a revenue of eight dollars ! The daughters are quite pretty and intelli gent, and in their mourning habiliments, (their mother having died about a year ano,) they appear very interKling.” Wistab’s Wild Chubby Balsam. —This Balsamic compound has become a home fix ture. Let all who suffer, and have in vain attempted to cure their coughs, colds, bron chial. or pulmonary complaints, make use of this unequalled remedy. IK? - Buy none unless it has the written signature of “I Butts’ ’ on the wrapper. Who abe the Misebable ?—Lei the Dys peptic, who suffers physically and mentally answer. But (hough he has drunk the very dregs of suffering, relief exists in the Oxy genated Bitters; they are “a cure for all his woes." THE AGITATOR. 91. H. Cobb, Editor & Pt'o|kvietor. WELLSBOROUGS, PA. 1558.‘ All Business,a nrfotlierComraonicationsmusl be addressed to the Kditorto insure allention'l' S. M. Pettexoill & Co., 119 Nassau St., New York, and 10 State St.. Boston, are the Agents for the Agitator, sod the mo&t influential and largest circulating Newspapers in the United States and the Canadas. They are authorized to con tract for us at our lowest rates. We cannot publish anonymous communications. 33“ Read the new advertisements. You can ,sec the “ Village Blacksmith,” in a handsome frame at the Post-Office. It is richly wortli $5, and you can order a copy for $3. We have the pleasure of announcing the triumph ant election of Gen. Wm. H. Keiu, Republican, to the seat late made vacant by the resignation of Je* bu GUncy Jones. Huzza ! . We call the attention of the party giving public to the Card ot Welmorc’s Quadrille Band. The Wctmore brothers arc worthy young men and iinc musicians. We direct attention to the advertisement of Mr. Hiram Pickering, doing business ut Tioga Village, VVc doubt not he can do in a satisfactory manner all that he promises in Ins advertisement. Give him a. call. Problem.— -Given the two sides of a parallelogram representing the plank walk between , and : Required the sum of the angles and dia* bolic curves described by ■ - , in passing from 's to *s. Solution en houtclle. Towsz'a Exhibition of Mirth, Alugic and Ven- Iriloquibm may be seen at the Wellsboro Hotel Ibis (Wednesday) evening, and possibly Thursday eve ning. Prof. Hopkins, late of Barnum’s Museum, will perform some wonderful feats such as sleighl-ot hand, swallowing swords, &c, &c. Wc learn lhat our enterprising newsmen, Smith Sc Richards, have made arrangements fur gelling books, magazines, newspapers and pamphlets bound on short notice and as cheap as the work cun be done outside the city. Orders left with them will receive prompt attention. The Literary Association meets at the Court House this evening to discuss the following ques tion : “Is Free Trade or Tariff the true policy of our Government ?” J. Emery, Esq., will lecture before the Associa tion on Thursday evening Dec. 16. VVc predict a an interesting evening's entertainment and bespeak a general attendance. < By reference to our advertising columns it will be Fccn that the Tioga County Bank has a new Board of Directors. We see no good reason to doubt the final triumph of the Bank over its late embarass ments, under judicious management. For the crcd it of the County we hope it may do so. Apart from local disafftfclions we believe the masses desire lhat the bank should redeem its credit and go on. We are under renewed obligations to our ifiends for handsome additions to our subscription list du ring Monday ar.d Tuesday of this week. It is not less gratifying to learn that the cause of Freedom is every day becoming dearer to tho hearts of the people. There is a pretty full attendance upon Court The Grand Jury is pretty busy with indictments lor perjury,larceny,burglary and lighter misdemeanors. Fatal Accident— We arc indebted lo Rev. Ja cob J.NGEfticK for some particulars of a fatal acci. dent which occurred in Dust Charleston on the 30lli ultimo. Mr. EHhu Peck, the deceased, was engaged with Mr. Chester Partridge culling logs on lands ol the latter, when Mr. Partridge was colled away to measure some lumber at his milt. Returning to the woods after an hour’s absence, he lound tbo man glcd and lifeless body of bis friend beneath a talSon tree. Mr Peck leaves a wife and five children lo mourn the loss of a kind husband and falhor. The funeral was numerously attended on the 2d instant, and a discourse preached by Elder Ingcrick, found ed on [Job, 33: 14: “God speakelh once, yea twice; yet man pcrceivetb it not.” How Not to Do If. We Anglo Saxons arc a very great people; dea lined to possess the ea] lh to the uttermost bounds thereof, to spread sound morals and righteous laws, and lo diffuse the principles of Christianity through all lands and among all peoples. Collectively wo arc the great therapeutic leaven, which is to enter into and Jeaven the himp of aggregated human-kind. A lamp set upon a hill overlooking the sentient uni verse, to light the feet of all who grope along the byways of life; o brazen serpent lifted up in the wilderness, lo which all may tarn and receive abso lution for chousing lo come into the wprld under ad verse circumstances ; and if it be apked by what authority we claim so great a prominence above all human families beside, wc can complacently point lo the dicta of a host of anglo-Saxon divines, phi losophers, poets, historians, moralists, physicists and homilists, dead and living, and then sit quietly down behind these impregnable defences. But we need not reel here; there is an immense amount of evidence yet unadduccd and .all going lo support our claim. Our forefathers came to Ameri ca and found it a howling wilderness, peopled with savage tribes. The land was yet fair to look upon, and our ancestors very properly determined lo pos sess it- True lo the destiny of the race they look possession in the name of their king as a first step t then called in the owners and proposed a scheme of barter, by which, in consideration of certain beads, hatchets, knives, muskets, powder and ball, the un sophisticated red man was lo grant, bargain, release and confirm, all and singular, certain broad acres to their acute anglo-Saxon visitors. The fact that a hatchet costing one shilling seemed as valuable in the Indian’s eyes as a square mile of land, and a musket, worth, say three dollars, a fair exchange for a territory as large as Delaware, proves a special in terposilion of Providence in favor of llio Anglo Sax. on race; and the condescension of our ancestors in paying for the land after having legally possessed it by right of discovery, shows that Napoleon’s prqpo. silion to fire upon the mob first, then parley, was not original with that distinguished man. Individually, wc hardly know which most to admire—tfie magna. nimily displayed by those hardy pioneers in paying tile red man for lands to which he had no claim, or the self-negation evidenced in furnishing the savage with muskets, knives and hatchets. That was a ohivalric age, however; and men shook hands and embraced preparatory to cutting each other's throats. Look abroad 10-tiay f do you want any better cv. idence ol the righteousness of. the claim set up for the Anglo-Saxon 7 Whereiare the fierce tribes that possessed the land from ocean to ocean two hundred years ago 7 Civilized, christianized by the all-con. queting Anglo-Saxon, in whose progress lie the is sues of peace and good-will to man 7 Not so. In shaking the band of the paleface the Indian shook bands with Death t Slowly, but surely, he is pursu. ing the trail ol the sun, to find, like him, one day, rTH;E TlOGr A GOUffT,T AGITATOR. a bed-in the Western Sea, but nojtJike the suq,per chance, to arise iu the ISa&l in Ihbmorningof'ft day to come t The Atiglu-Saxon has'not christianized the Indian—nofbecause the red man's heart daonot receive the moral precepts of the Gospels, but be cause the white man's rule in'fits' dealings icitbr the tramples upon those moral-precepts- Tiie Anglo-Saxon lias not remembered that precept is worth nothing- without example. Jo a word, the great object of the Anglo-Saxon has not been .to christianize the Indian, but, on the contrary, the white man lias obviously studied w How Not to Do It.” * ' Look away to Hindoslan.* Mark how the An glo-Saxon ha«? christianized that populous Empire! Do men sicken at the atrocities of Nena Sahib ? Who aroused the tiger in Nena Sahib’s heart? Do the moral precepts of Christianity lived out in our dealings with men, beget such awful devastation, such liger liltc ferocity in return ? Not so; The British East India Company never intended to per mit lire Christianization oi Hindustan. Our reli gionists may as well cease levying contributions on church-members and Sunday-School children to sus. lain Missionary Boards in Hindoslan ; for the teach ings and good example of ten thousand missiona ries cannot counteract the evil influence exerted by the East India Company upon the plastic natures of the Hindoos.. Let missionaries be sent to labor with the inhuman Nabobs. The present missionary sys tem is a system of “ How Not to Do It.” Turn now to China: Commercial relations with (he Anglo-Saxon have made a deep and lasting ira. pression upon the Chinese character. For good ? or evil? Let the rapid deterioration of the Chinese character in the country contiguous to the seaports answer you that. Xet the curse of the opium traf fic answer you that. Send devoted men and women to Christianize China ? Belter send them to human ize the nabob proprietors of the opium plantations in British India I iThe religion oi Buddha and Fo is immeasurably belter than the religion of the an glo-Sdxon mcrchuril-princcs. China is to be Chris, lionized as Hindoslan is being proselyted; as (he American Indian has been Christianized—through t(s demoralization and Jinal extinction. The Presi dent of the United Stales sends his agents to watch over the diminishing tribes; these agents undo the work ol a thousand Bibles. So has it been always. It is no part ol the anglo-Saxon plan truly to chris tianize an inferior race. The object from the first has been to overreach the barbarian and the semi barbarian, not to improve them. The ulterior ob ject of our ancestors was to better their own condi lion, not the Indian's ; as witness their eagerness to advantage themselves by his ignorance ot the true commercial values of tilings. DoubUe«s-the entire territory embraced within the limits of Tioga coun ty may have been purchased from the Indians for half-?, dozen strings of beads, perhaps of the value of as many cents I while for the most part the In dians were dirven off and the lands forcibly pos sessed by the invader. We felt not to exult at the news of the successful issue of Perry's Expedition, by which commercial relations were established between the United Stales and Japan ; for though the ostensible object was to secure port privileges to our ships cruising in that latitude and kind 1 treatment for those who may be wrecked upon those coasts, the real object was gain —gain, at whatever cost to Japan. We have learn cd this from a careful perusal of the history of the Expedition. Going in£o the harbor of a nation with which wo are at peace, with three firat-class war steamers, and dictating the terms of a treaty of am ily at the mouth ;of Paixhan gun.«, may ho in keep ing with nnglo-Saxon practice and policy toward a helpless nationj; but is it the way to successfully piomulgalc Christianity ? To us it seems just the plan of a people studying “How Not to Do It.” But our sermon has already outgrown its intend ed limit. In conclusion, we submit that the angle- Saxon race has uniformly commenced the work of christianizing the heathen by debauching them. Let him who can, cite an exceptional instance- The Exhibition.— Friday evening wilnessccfsunU. a promiscuous jam at the Court House as reminded u« of the memorable occasions of the Lecture* of Cassius M. Clay and Joshua R. Giddings. The crowd of Friday night assembled to witness the closing exercises of the Select School of Mr. L. R- Bdrlinuame. Early in the evening we began to re* turn thanks for, the blessing of leanness and corn* less toes. Retreating slowly from the press of men and women seeking out “the best places,” we fast found ourself perched upon one foot on the top of a table ncunlhe door, while the solid wall at our back gave us the comfortable assurance that then and there the tumultuous waves must be stayed. From this sublime elevation we serenely looked down upon ‘‘the wreck and batter, and the crush of —hoops,” and calmly listened to the wails of babies up “in arms,” j the stale jokes of some precocious boys in the gallery, the ejaculations of sundry indi viduals against certain other individuals guilty of trespass Q.C. F—(which being freely interpreted, would read—“ Why did he tread on the toes?) and the lamentations of others who, not knowing when they were well'off, grumbled because they came too lute to get seats. 1 Despite these uncomfortabilities, the Exhibition was altogether the best thing of the kind we have yet seen in Wellsboro, both in arrangement and ex* ecution. The j response by Sentiments when the roll was callediwas excellent, though we heard very little of the responses. The declamations were ex ceedingly good—the Salutatory, by Mr. N. Wheeler and the Valedictory by Mr. Wm. H. Smith. “ The Indian” was well declaimed by Mr. R. B. Webb. The declamations by Masters, Walter Sherwood, Frapk Bailey, Reginald Wilcox, Frank Goodman, Wm. Emery, Joseph Brewster and John Emery were well of them with : much more than .ordinary excellence. We would like to single ■ out about three of the best and mark them No. 1 • but it will not do. All of them can improve, and some of the best spoke 100 rapidly. Press on, lads. The Colloquies abounded in fun arid satire, and the ladies performed their parts admirably. Where each did so well it is difficult to make justdistinc lions in a report so brief as this. Suffice Uto say, that if they act their parts in the great drama of real life as creditably, quite a number of young men will bless their lucky stars all the daysof their lives. But (he finest thing in the whole performance was in “ Address to the Stars’* spoken in concert by 24 young ladies attired in while with blue (we guess) scarfs. The tableau was striking and iho voices chaunting in perfect time, the gesturing and poslu* ring executed with military precision, produced a pleasing effect. It was finely done, j Nor should wc forget the excellent singing ef the choir, under direction of Prof. Hagar,since the mu. sic made a roost agreeable feature of the exhibition. And finally, we congratulate the people of Wellsbo* ro and v.ciniiy on their good fortune in securing a. teacher at once so competent and so indefaligably devoted to the moral and mental progress of bis pu pils as Mr. Burlingame truly seems to be. , Neighbor Dcnium, of the Lockhaven Watchman, lakes our strictures upon bis Thanksgiving sermon in great good bom or. It seems, 100, that we mis apprehended bis dietetic foilh somewhat—-he being not of the order Carnivora, as we represented. It is ! with great pleasure that we make the assuring him that we consider oursalf invited to dis cus? a sawdust pudding, with him and his Yankee lass'at the earliest opportunity. Did wc understand you ? Bur the* electrical IhcoTy, to 'which"he still clings,' doesn’L-cominjcad itsclC toour better judgment, li. may bei as*heT declares,Hliat electricity iff the first principle of life; hoi it does not follow that vegeta-- lion is the second principle, and flesh the third prin ciple of Hie. Neither vegetable nor animal food can righlly bc classed with principle!, since principles ate causes' while the phenomena of vegetable and animal growth are but effects. The principles of life must, we suppose, emanate directly from Deity* We do not, like him, believe that men and women will be able to live without vegetable food while they wear these rrialcrial bodies. That the disem bodied may fall back upon first principles, is quite probable. This body is made up of tissues, to re pair the constant waste of which material food is required. That most people would profit by a ma terial reduction of diet, is certaiu; but that- this mortal will, while we inhabit it, e'yer thrive without materia) sustenance we must continue to doubt. The December No, of Che Atlantic Monthly con tains the first instalment of a story by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stewe, entitled “ The Minister's Wooing.” It will run through several numbers, and promises to be one of the best of that famous woman's pro ductions. We can tarnish the Atlantic to our aub scribers for $2 per year, or it may be had of Srmtn fit Richards at the Bookstore. The Terrible Hurricane In Miss issippi. The Paulding Clarion, giving an account of the recent hurricane, belore alluded 10 which crossed that coumy, killing nine per sons, mostly in one family, says : The dwelling in which most of the family were sleeping was newly built,-,of heavy green logs. These were carried, some .to the distance of several miles, and others hurled together or against tree, and broken like pipe siems. The heavy hewn sill of the house were taken up and carried off like feathers. The bodies of the dead were picked up at various distances and in different directions from the house, every vestige of cloihing ha ving been stripped (from (hem by the wind, and covered with dirt and mud, occasioned by the heavy rain. Mrs. 1 Moody, Sr., who was sev erely hurl, and whose recovery is doubtful, says that she and her husband heard the roar of the storm ; he sprang out of bed and com menced pulling on his pantaloons. She ra ised herself ami was in the act of stepping on the floor, when a terrible crash came, and she remembers nothing else until restored to consciousness several hours afterwards.— The young-man, Moody, who escaped with nothing worse than some severe bruises, was scarcely conscious of what was happening, until he found himself about fifty yards down the hill from the house clinging to a stump. A number of incidents showing the ex treme force of the wind, as well as its singu lar freaks were noticed by those who visited the spot. A field from which the crop had been gathered, and which bad grown up in crab-grass, was swept nearly clear of the grass, quantities of which was drifted against the stumps and logs ns though it had been washed there by a swollen stream. A cow which must have been 150 yards from the house when the storm commenced, was found head foremost in the well. Another circum stance worth mentioning was the preservation of u parcel of slock. In a field, heavily lim bered, the timber belted and dead, there were live or six yoke of oxen and several horses. After Ihe storm was over, to look at it, one would have thought n hardly possible that a cat to have been there could have escaped being killed. Yet singularly enough, of the animals referred to only one horse was killed, and all Ihe others escaped without the slight est injury. The course of the storm, ns we have said, was front the south-west to the north-east, and the whirling current hut a few hundred yards in diameter, though the atmosphere was disturbed for many miles around. At this place, nine miles from the center, there was considerable wind and a heavy fall of rain, attended by fierce thunder and lightning. No loss of life was sustained at any oiher place except the one mentioned, the storm having found no oiher residence in its course. Several plantations and crop«, however, were seriously damaged, n * good many cattle killed by falling trees, iwhilc complete de struction was made of the limber in its track. Siisce Mr. Douglas has carried Illinois he no longer feels the necessity of uttering nor thern sentiment. Having again ‘bamboozled’ —to use u favorite word of his own—his im mediate fellow citizens by putting his popu lar sovereignty doctrine in a Northern dress he is now ut work to conciliate his Southern masters. Me is therefore getting extremely patriotic, and covers his abject submission to the Slave interests by windy professions of love for the Union, pretty much after the usual manner of the “shining lights” of mod ern democracy. On a recent occasion he sent a letter to some of his partisans in Washington in which he advanced the fol lowing sentiment: “The Unned Democracy and the success of the Charleston Conven tion.” His organ—-the States—• is out in favor of the Slave trade, and sneers at every measure that is not calculated to benefit the Souih. The facility with which trading politicians can change iheir ladies is really astonishing. A few months ago, be fore the Northern elections were decided, the "fashion was to bo very liberal and moderate, and we found even Jeff. Davis going to New England, without taking with him his fire eaiiog and treasonable notions. These elec tions being now over and the Southern con tests coming on, the tune is changed again. Davis has gone home to resume his old no tions, and Douglas is carefully following in the same train. Are the people blind that these demagogues can thus hoodwink and mislead iheml —Pittsburg Gattiie*. An amusing and painful incident recently .look, place in Cincinnati. Two gentleman afflicted with St. Vitus dance met, and each supposing the other to be mocking. A fiohl ensued of the most desperate character; Fi nally .a mutual acquaintance found the#) struggling in the gutter, and succeeded in separating them and making known their mutual mistake, when they shook bands and apologized to each other. j ©ommunfcattontf. •; ,Vis For the AgiUtor. w* £'# & !• Association. Mel Dec. 2d at Court House, M. H. Cobb in'CfiaTr'. Minutes'of ilasf [meeting read and aqpproved.’ Qn motion - J. F. Calkins was elected a'rriember of the Society. Debate on the following question faking in order, viz : “Qughl Capital Punishment to be abolished.” It was moved that it be so; limited as to apply to the D. S. only; lost. Then (flowed the discussion which was [generally participated in by all the members. There was much warmth and interest manifested in the final disposal of so weighty a! matter. After a review of the argumentsrby the Chair, de cision was given in the affirmative. The election ol officers for the coming quarter had this result: Dr. E. Pratt, Prest. ;C. G. Williams, Vice Prest.; A. L. Ens woßTn, Secy,; M. H. Conn, Treas. J. Emery was named to deliver the first lecture Thursday Evening, Dec. *.16 ; also M. H. Cobb to lecture Thursday* Evening, Dec. 30 ; and J. B. Niles, C. G< Wiliams, H. N. Wil liams, A. L. Enswortli ar|d J. Walbridge, re quested to read lectures at such time as they may agree upon. ( [[ Question for discussion [next meeting: “Is Free Trade or a TaJrifT *the policy of our Government?” C. G. VVilliams chief dispu tant on affirmative, anil Ai L. Goswonh chief disputant on j‘ Adjourned to one week; A, li. EfiswoKTu, Secy. “Courtship and Matrimony,” This is the title of a volume from the port folio of Robert Morris, Esq., lha nhle editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. In these days,- it is gratifying to find a: volume, like, the present, wherein (asfel is tinviliaied and sense undeslroyed ; in which ' simplicity of sty le and clearness of expression are trained, and which is written, not lo excite the imagina tion or pander to the eviljpassions of our na ture, but to inculcate lessons of wisdom, as Ip draw to tears and moy'p to laughter. We are reminded, in reading! these essavs, of the I ’* * 1 . genial.hearted Goldsmith. 1 They contain the delicate fancy, the gdod sense, and Ihe quiet humor which characterize Goldsmith’s wri tings ; and they arej mppeover, written with like correctness of (language. They treat, beside that of court-hip 'dnd matrimony, of a variety of subjects, from’scenes and experi ences in social lifet nihd are particularly adapted for every day fanltily reading. They are, indeed, such as willjhear to be read aloud about the evening lamp, and will please and instruct not only the "old folks at home,’ but also Ihe “little folks.”; No one can read Mr. Morris’s volume without being impress ed by the tone «of earnest thoughtfulness that pervades it, and we belt'eye this work will be (he means through which an infinity of good will be accomplished, i. It is a fit book for anybody lo read, anh jyorthy of a place in every family. It is chaste in style, elevating in lone ano sentiment,! and contains many useful lessons which may contribute Id make a happy home. No hook before the public contains sounder morahiV, or practical house hold wisdom more pleasantly expressed, and certainly there is to 'collection of essays, bettor adapted for general reading in the fam ily, As the work has bjeen most enthusasti caljly praised by such men as John Gregg.it isiVeedless lo say lljai «|e trust that all per sons will extend to ij their hearly patronage, by sending for it. The j publishers will send a copy to any to any place, per mail, post-paid, on receipt of 51,23.” T. B. Peterson Brothers, B|o6 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. —Home Journal. ■ [ , 1 ! id Cobi I’rlpn. Jobb,of fhe;Troga issue with us in regnrdjlo ihe mode of retur ning thanks, for a bountiful harvest &c., and seems to think (hat ealinfe roast turkeys, mast beef &c., is not altcJgelHer the proper way of returning thanks to Jehovah for past favors. We certainly aareejrtvlth friend Cobb in this respect, having in our remarks only re ferred to the social niarcourse brought about and promoted by tho New England custom, not to ihe gormandizing qualities of its de votees. j < We, too, think tfie fatted calfshold be let live, as well as other animal, and fowl, being firmly of the opinion, that un'il the tm man family learn to ib.ath the eating of all flesh, no material improvements in their race will be effected. i j Our (riend seems lojlaugh at ; the idea of the human race ever reaching the same stale of perfection that they existed in, at (he be ginning, but if he ! will, closely observe the different gradations w;fiich the human race have undergone for tbe better, since they . first violated the naturkl laws of existence, which violation, suddenly plunged (hem into ( dark ignorance, he will find that every gene- j ration approximated hear and near, to tho | point from which j I he? started. This can j be accounted for, to pitr mind, in no other way than from the facias we become more and more enlightened; jwe use for our food less flesh and morejvegetable matter, and as j electricity is we‘ll known lb he the first prin. of life, vegetation [the second and ani mal flesh the third principle of our existence, may we not chehrfulW hope that the day is not far dis"am when [the unnatural use of flesh and vegetable] matter, made palatable to an unaloral appelite.iby the unnatural use, of fire, With all its traiti of evils, will be abol. ished and our whole race return to the first principles of their existence, and once more walk in the paths! of baturaf laws, as they did in the beginning. -r-Lockhaten Watch man. ! 1 • | - Among the many sad incidents, says the New Orleans Delta, ofj the present epidemic, which have come to! our knowledge, and which we have generally abstained from puh lishing, is the following, perhaps unsurpassed in afflictive interest: t ]A German, who came to this city many years since, had acquired a large properly, and last spring be som over to “faderland” ancj removed to Ihis-cily all the , members of this [immediate family, in number some seven or,[eight—father, mother, brothers and sisters. [ Not long after their arrnfal the pestilence: {entered his household, and ceased not its work of death until every one of the newly arrived relatives were car ned forth to their graves in a strange land which they had come so far to fill. ( i Overtasking Best is a principle throughoutaniri., inanimate nature. Both vegetable - mal existence requires its reßoraii D , i ence. The vegetable world fall, winter, and is awakened to life ness again by the genial sunshine of 3, The physical organism needs its pose to recuperate its sinking energy The endurance of many animals h prising indeed. Successive daysofejl} labor, and no abatement of vigor, case with the camel on the great Africa—almost without food and drill J" ing from eighty to one hundred milavt per day.' But even this tenacious ecdnoj will give way, and strength must betttjS in renovating rest. The endqranceofj is truly wonderful; when hard pressedJ will outdo the horse, the dog, and ngl camel. I The result of overdoing, is to constitution and completely prostrate Thera is the same necessity of rest fr tal 'labor. Judicious and from intellectual toil, is time as pro&n spent as though it were occupied in study. An active and severe exercia;, mind is more wearisome to, and desire of the physical system than any roji ;il bor. The physical system needs care and culture as the intellectual,!;;, duce the full and perfect man. Pena sedentary habits and intellectual employ are apt to neglect those things requirm healthy and vigorous body. They (utj. the energies of the man to the support 5; mind, until only the wreck of phnrcil a hood remains. The necessity 0 f ,jg o . health to support an active mind, is too, idem to need proof. It matters not how intense the tbooj';: close the application, if the physical am cated for properly. It is snrd and is pern; true, that just as sinking nature ceases btr forts to overcome neglect, the mind sesi* clearly, the conceptions are enlarged. tuitions brighter, and the whole rmnsa to have undergone a supernatural inithsa change,—but it Is a delusion, and rafej the dying stale, just as the soul I-119j, tenement of clay, a foretaste of anoibetiij higher existence; and could the asmia entranced, remain till its earthly »ot»isu ished, a truly happy condition. But do, ;i, transient, and is immediately follwaji complete prostration or insanity. It jori mal, it is self-murder for man to preantw ly blanch his cheek and waste his mteta in study, till death claims him as an at victim ; for all could have been acquiredn out so fearful cost. Our schobls andto'tp send out many effeminate and physically v ined young men, either from overntij them or allowing them to overtask iheimia It is all wrong, and should be remedied , is not a judgment of God, but mstfi :r fault, that he lives not his allotted ttitsi three score and ten years. It behooiar teachers who are training the young tom and vigorous manhood, to have ao etf this matter, and if the pupil’s cheek jn pale, or his eye grows dim, and his *"i vivacity is gone, hasten that pupil c„i sport o’er hill and dale, to inhale lltesi free air of heaven, till health and vigtrr turn again. There is a mistaken idea in referesttr the time when a child should enter thecti' room. Our legislature has said, not 1.. :i ■ years of age. Many parents think,arm as their little hopeful can lisp “papt. ' “mamma,’’ it must be hastened a»i| : school, that it may be deep in lore eat.;.- Youthful prodigies seldom become the nits spirits of the age. The child shouldc.» a! pleasure over breezy hills and isn? grassy vales, and in winter dance ow crackling snow and ice, until a 'if physical growth has begun. Put w 3 dren of equal physical ability m SM* 1 the same lime, one four years of sg'.’ j other seven, and at ten the dtlTerence * vancement will be in favor of the !*■*' ■ Therefore the child of four years ha* both physical and menial development :5 .may be a disputed point. Will otaenr* an opinion ? H. h 1 ’ Reclaiming Fallen Wonifi An association in Philadelphia, of ladies, ip engaged in, iho laudabu-' - taking of reforming fallen women. ■ annual meeting on Wednesday evemK* Anna Shoemaker made the usual rts- From this it appears that more iW thirds of the inmates of the RosiW “ J as their institution is called, have I* ! ' phans at an early age, or left Wl:i' a, . , parent, and that. — Since the organization of ihes« ocia '' eighteen of the girls io iheir cnul 8 " 1 been respectably married, which oam* 1 is said, may be far exceeded, asm lB ?* 1 gone lo the country, where they h l(eE porlunily of learning their condition cumslances. During the present ; fSf '' ly-six have gone to situations as dos*' four being located in different braocW' family of one of the managers. On has been under their care for samel*- now over 8300 in the saving fund, lated by her industry and economy- ' case was related where a lather would not permit his unfortunate dans enter his door, or speak lo him, but the changes of a few years had bee“ “I penitent to the altar of a Christian ch“ ,c f the hand of that daughter who was formerly the mistress ol a , immoral character was a year or nw(* Rosine; gome months after s^e e '.y she married and became a churcl'yy, and was now engaged in a home sociation herself, laboring for the re of those who were formerly her cotat in revelry and dissipation. Of the five hundred and thirty- 0 ,> who have been the care ol the a more than two-thirds were not years of age, and some even who from thirteen lo fifteen years ha shocking familiarity with vice. . The platform was occupied by —chiefly, we presume, by the ° association, and to say that m 6. themselves io manly style woU truthful, though it may be 0)0’ not entirely complimentary. j
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