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It is sent >»ici° £ ' e^ t 0 a ny Post Office within the county most convenient post office may be is® County. r ;in» a * 0, “ not exceeding 6 lines, paper inclu- Bui' 1 ®- ' ' ■■ | faded - <o ft west winds were blowing, 1 fie sky was blue and bright, i-d fioirers were upward %fo*lng, BQoic'ms la the light; *ll nature seemed so joyful, Tpoc that sweet Spring day, TTieo in ber youth and beauty, X first met Rosa May. il, well I west winds too often \re heralds of a storm, And flowers that bloom so gaily *j n sunshine soft and warm, Turn pale and cold, and wither Ifben bitter winds arise, And Nature draped in mourning Weeps tears from sullen skies. There came a day of tempest^ Bleak wind, and chilling ram, Thank God! the fair young flowers That wither, bloom again. For all that day, a coffin I watched; and at its close, Within a lonely grave-yard, They hid my sweet May Rose. I know our heaviest crosses Bring healing with the pain. And our severest losses Are oft our greatest gate. For SJ/ subdued and conquered, God's peace is ours, and thus Though still on earth we tarry. Will Heaven come to us. Johnny Bccdle’s Courtship, BV J. W; iI’CUNTOCK. After my sleigh-ride last winter, and the slip perv tricks I was served by Patty Bean, no fcodV would suspect me of hankering after the *omen again in a hurry. To hear me-rave and take nn, and rail out against the whole feminine tender, you would have taken it for granted that I should never so ranch as look at one to all etavnity. Oh, but I was wicked ! •Darn their 'ceitfnl eves/' says I; “blame their [kins, torment their hearts, and drot them to darnation I” Finally I took an oath, and swore that if I meddled, or had any dealings with them tpn—in the sparking l«ne, I mean—l wish I Eifht be hung and choked. But swearing off from women, and then going into a meeting h-use chockfull of gala all shining and glisten kf in their Sunday clothes and clean faces, is ike swearing off from liquor and going into a gr*g shop—it’s all smoke. I held out and kept firm to my oath for three whole Sundays, forenoons, a'ternoons, and in ♦•rmi'«ions, complete; on the fourth, there re:e strong symptoms of ai change of weather. A chap about my size, was|seen on the way to rhe meeting house, with a new patent hat on, his head hung by the ears upon a shirt-collar, Vi cravat had a pudding in it, and branched cut in front into a double how-knot. He car ried a straight hack, and a stiff neck', as a man • to when be had best clothes on, and im time he spit, he sprang his body forward '.kca iack-knife, in order to shoot clear of the Squire Jones’ pew is next hut two to mine ; i r .l when I stand up to prayers and take my c 31-tail under my arm, and turn my hack to tbs minister, I naturally look quite straight at sallv Jones. 1 Now Sally had got a face not to be grinned ainafog. Indeed, hs regards beauty, some ‘‘lks think she can pull an even yoke with Pitt? Bean. For ray part, I think there is not such hoot between them. Anyhow, they are s' well matched that they have hated and des t.'rii each other like rank poison, ever since r c T were school girls. S jnire Jones had got the evening fire on and hi himself down to read the great Bible, when b? heard a rnp at his door. 'Walk in. Well, Johb, how der do? Git tut. Pompev!” ‘ Pretty well, I thank you, Squire ; and how s,'jr.u do?” ‘■Why, co as to be crawling. Ye ugly beast, v *ll ye hold yer yop! Haul up a chair, and s'tdown. John.” How do you do, Mrs, Jones ?” ’Oh, middlin’, How’s your marm ?” ‘ Don't forget the mat there, Mr. Beedle.” bus put me in mind that I had been off «- unding several times in the long muddy lane, my bouts were in a sweet pickle, h was now old Captain Jones’ turn, the pMdfiither; being roused from a doze by the tade and rattle, he opened both his eyes, at wonder and astonishment. At last, began to hallo so loud that you might hear -irnamWe; for he takes it for granted that body ia just exactly as deaf as he is. ‘ ho is it, I gay ? Who in the world is it V* Mrs. Jones going close to his ear, screamed cot, “h s Johnnv Beedle 1” “Ho. Johnny Beedle! I remember he was EU Q»mer at the siege of Boston.” - s °> no, father; bless your heart, that was c grandfather, that's been dead and gone this *entv years But where does he come from 7” “Baown taown.” And what docs he fuller for a livin'?” he did not stop asking questions after is sort, till all the particulars of the Beedle were published and proclaimed in Mrs. ~, [ies last screech, lie then sunk back into fc’Mlcze again. = _ , “ e dog stretched htmselftbefore one andiron, 1 e cat squat down before the other. Silence e on by degrees, like a calm snowstorm, nothing was heard but a cricket under the keeping time with a sappy, yellow birch Sally sat up prim as if she were llQ e4 to the chair-hack, her hands crossed - R teelly up on jj er ] a p ( ant j j, er eyes looking rai ght into the fire. Mammy Jones tried to herself too, and laid her hands across they would not lay still. It was to L^ en^’^our hours since they had done any rk . and they were ont of all patience with ,^ m g Sunday. 3)o what she would to keep quiet, they would bounce up now and S° through the motions, in spite of ■ uurth Commandment. “J part, X sat looking very much like a more I tried to say something, the i f A: ffi y tongue stuck fast. I put my right my left, an* Ba id, «*H e ml” Then I -P Ul oTer *horight. It was ■ > ike silence kept coming on thicker and THE AGITATOR VOL. VI. For the Agitator. thicker. The drops of sweat began to crawl all over me. I got my eye upon my bat, hang ing on a peg on a road to the door, and then I eyed the door. At this moment, the old Cap tain all at once sung out: “Johnny Beedle !” It sounded like a clap of thunder, and I started right up on eend. “Johnny Beedle, you’ll never handle such a drum as your father did, if you live to the age of Methuseler. He would toss up his drum sticks, and while it was wheelin’ in the air, take off a gill er rum, and then ketch it as it come down, without losin’ a stroke in the tune. What dye think of that, ha? But scull your chair close along side er me, so you can hear. Now what have you come arter ?” ‘T arter? Oh! jist takin a walk. Pleasant walkin’, I guess I mean, list to see how you all do.” , “Ho, that's another lie 1 You've come a courtin', Johnny Beedle, and you’re arter our Sal. Say now, do you want to marry, or only to * court ?" This is what I call a choker. Poor Sally made but one jump, and landed in the middle of the kitchen; and then she skulked In the dark corner, till the old man after laughing himself into a whooping-cough, was put to bed. Then came apples and cider, and the ice be ing broke, plenty of chat with Mammy Jones about the minister and the “sarmon." I agreed with her to a nicety upon all the points of doc trine, but I bad forgot the text and all the heads of the discourse hut six. Then she teazed and tormented me to tell who I accounted the best singer in the gallery that day. But, mum I there was no getting that out of me. Virginia. “Praise to the face, is open disgrace/' says I, throwing a sly squint at Sally. At last, Mrs. Jones lighted tother candle, and aftei charging Sally to look well to the fire she led the way to bed, and the Squire gathered up hts shoes and stockings and followed. Sally and I were left sitting a good, yard apart, honest measure. For fear of getting tongue-tied again, I set right in with a steady stream of talk.. I told her all the particulars about the weather that was past, and also made some pretty cute guesses at what it was like to be in future. At first, I gave a hitch up with my chair at every full stop; then growing sancy, I repeated it at every comma and semicolon; and at last, it was hitch, hitch, bitch, and I planted myself by the side of her. “I swow, Sally, you looked so plaguy hand some to-daly, that I wanted to eat you up 1" “Pshaw! get along you/' said she. My hand crept along, somehow, upon its fin gers,and begun to scrape acquaintance with hers. She sent it home again with a desperate jerk. Try it again—no better luck. “Why, Miss Jones, you’re gettin’ upstroper lous ; a little old maidish, I guess." ■ “Hands off is fair play, Mr. Beedle." It is a good sign to find a girl sulky. I knew where the shoe pinched—it was that are Patty Bean business. So I went to work to persuade her that I never had any notion after Patty, and to prove it I fell to running her down at a great rate. Sally could not help chiming in with me; and I rather guess Miss Patty suf fered a few. I now not only got hold of her hand without opposition, but managed to slip my arm round her waist. But there was no satisfying me ; so I must go to poking out my lips after a kiss. I guess I rued it. She fetched me a slap in the face that made me sec stars, and my ears rung like a brass kettle, for a quarter of an hour. I was forced to laugh at the joke, though out of the wrong side of my mouth, which gave my face something the look of a gridiron. The battle now began in the regular way. “Ah, Sally, give me a kiss, and ha’ done with it, now?” “I won’t, so there, nor tech to—” “I’ll take it, whether or no.” “Do it if you dare /” And at it we went, rough and tumble. An odd destruction of starch now commenced ; the bow of ray cravat was squat up in half a shake. At the next bout, «mash went shirt-collar; and Pt the same time some of the head fastenings gave way, and down come Sally’s hair in a flood, like a mill dam let loose, carrying away half a dozen combs. One dig of Sally’s elbow, and roy blooming ruffles wilted down to a dish cloth. But she had no time to boast. Soon her neck tackling began to shiver; it parted at the throat, and whorah came a whole shule of blue and while beads, scampering and running races every which way about the floor. By the hokey, if Sally Jones is not real grit, there’s no snakes. She fought fair however, I must own, and neither tried to bite or scratch ; and when she could fight no longer, she yielded handsomely. Her arms fell down by her sides, her head back over her chair, her eyes closed, and there lay her little plump mouth all in the air. Lord, did you ever see a hawk pounce up on a young robin, or a bumble-bee upon a clo ver top ? I say nothing. Gonsarn it, how a buss jwill crack of a still frosty night! Mrs. Jones was about half way between asleep and awake. “There goes my yeast bottle,” says she to herself, “burst into twenty hundred pieces ; and my bread is all dough again.” The upshot of the matter is, I fell in love with Sally Jones, head over cars. Every Sunday night, rain or shine, finds me rapping at Squire Jones’s door; and twenty times have I been within a hair’s breadth of popping the question. But now I have made a final resolve, and if I live t\\\ next Sunday night, and I don’t get choked in the trial, Sally Jones will hear thun der. “Dove” for “Dived.” —Probably most New Englanders, and their descendants in this sec tion, instead of saying that “the muskrat dived into the river,” would say that he “dove,” (giving o its long sound,) without suspecting that they were not speaking good English.— Even Longfellow uses “dove,” in Hiawatha: “Dove as if ho were a beaver,” &c. But a reference to the Dictionary will show that “dive” is a regular verb. The use of “dove” for “dived” is mentioned in Bartlett'-a Diction ary of Americanist* BtboteO to tbt 3S£tcnBion of tbc sura of iFtccfcom anti tbt SpceaO of ©taxtbfi 3&tfotm. WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE, WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY] PA., THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 25, 1859. From The N. T. Tribune. How to Get Rich. Carlyle has said somewhere that the only state of future torment much regardedjor feared nowadays is Poverty. How to make money— how to acquire rapidly abundant wealth—is the general and anxious inquiry. Somebody has lately published a book purporting to 1 lay bare the whole art and mystery of money-making including the difficult feat of makingl the first sl,ooo—for the paltry sum of one I dollar. Fired with emulation, we propose to contribute our mite toward the development of auriferous science. I he' •< be~ : b' ‘ - jet us begin by frankly confessing that we know no royal road to desirable wealth, and greatly doubt the existence of any. (We have beard of this or that man making a great pile in a day, or night, or some other short period, by speculation, forestalling, gambling, or some thing of the sort, but hare no faith in that sort of acquisition as either desirable qr (save in rare instances) practicable. The Old Book says, “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be “innocent"—and a more important truth has rarely appeared in any book. If those who are hot on the scent of Coffee plantations in Cen tral America or Sugar estates in Cuba don’t be lieve it now, ninety-nine in every hundred of them will rue their skepticism before they shall be ten .years older. Nor can we advise any one to rush to Pike’s Peak in quest of the eagerly-coveted gold. A good many are now streaming thither, and more perhaps will follow them, soma of whom will propably succeed' in their quest, while a far larger number will return poorer than they went, beside being sick, sore and weary. Of the few who make anything in the new Dorado, many mere will owe their good fortune to suc cess in gambling or peddling than in personally digging gold. Still less can we counsel any young man to seek a classic education, with a view to emi nence in some profession. The professions are ail overdone ; it would be a blessed thing for all if not another lawyer or doctoij should be ground out during the next ten years. The market is already glutted, and the stock held for a better demand is deplorably heavy. Nor do we think it well for ever one more youth to addict himself to Trade. There are this day as many as two persons engaged in selling goods to each twenty families through out the country. In other words : Productive Industry is paying about one-quirter of its products for the trouble of exchanging them, not taking into nccour.t the cost of transporta tion. If we could reduce our aggregate of mer chants of all grades by three-fourths, the "re mainder might thrive, while selling goods at one-half the profit now charged. And yet we believe the world ne larger or better opportunities fo wealth than it does just now ; and no better place for trying than our« affords. Let us give a few hints o to those who may need them, We will suppose the inquirer to man of fifteen to five-and-twenty, cational advantages have been mea is not thoroughly qualified for any How shall he set ductive labor. rich? We say— 1, Consider whether you would prefer to be a farmer or an artisan ; and, if the latter, of what trade. Having decided, ke?p your eye steadily on the pursuit you prefer, and find em- ployment in it so soon as possible—doing mean time the best thing that offers, though that be chopping coodwood at two shillings per cord. Never be idle a secular day when there is any work to be had; and if there is ab solutely none where you now are, keep in motion toward a less crowded locality till you find some. Hav ing found work, stick to it heartily and faith fully, and, if it pays you but twenty-five cents per day, contrive some way of living upon twenty. 2. Whenever you can find employment in the pursuit you mean to live by, accept it, un less withheld by the necessity of jarning more at something else in order to pay your debts. And, in deciding where first to fellow so as in time to master the calling you have chosen, prefer the place where you can learn most and fastest to that where you can obtdn the largest pay. j 3. Be sure that work and thought go together. Keep your eyes wide open and your mind in* tent and active. Resolve not only to keep try ing till you know how to do everything just right, and then do it no otherw se than that, but to know why that is the best way—its rea son in the nature of things. If 70U have cho sen Farming, be sure to find some time in each week to read the best treatize m that noble calling, and keep a keen eye on all the periodi cals within reach that treat of it. Take the best one yourself, and study it carefully. In short, give the next two, three or four years to the vital work of mastering you|r chosen pur suit, so that thenceforth, through every day learning, you may confidently measure your strength in it with any competitir. 4. Having thus mastered you: calling, gorto work in it for others for the best wages you can obtain, resolved so to earn them that you will be morally certain to command a larger sum next year. Thus persevere in industry, fru gality and temperance, carefully economizing your time and means, until you shall have earned enough to strike out boldly for yourself. 5. By this time, you will have made friends, especially among those of kindrod position and habits to your own ; and now you can make that sympathy available for your mutual good. Have as many as possible join you in a pur chase of land to be divided amcng you accord ing to your several means and needs; whereby your wealth may be doubled in a month. For example: two or-three hundred young men of twenty to thirty, knowing trusting each other, and each of them a good, thrifty, likely farmer or mechanic, having severally earned and saved from $2OO up to 1,000, resolve to buy and settle together. So thAy send out two or three of their number to look and bay lands for them on the border Slave States, where even improved lands are cheaper thi.n elsewhere on earth. They select and purchase from 2,000 to 10,000 acres of land, according to the price and their means, survey it into large and small farnig and village lota, and sell it at anction to the highest bidder, each member being entitled to t(Uy to the extent of his investment in the purchase, and as much more aa he can pay for —each being pledged to settle and improve his tract. The hour this is done and the tract all settled, the members’ lands alone are worth double their cost —often much more. The farm ers have thus secured lands at wilderness pri ces, and secured at the same time the vicinage of millers, merchants, mechanics, &c., which gives additional value to lands long since im proved ; while the carpenter, shoemaker, black smith, tailor, tinner, &0., &0., have acquired not merely homes but life-long-customers at the lowest passible prices. Concerted E migration is a plan by which, the industrious can at least double their moderate means without mailing a profit out of anybody else. And there are millions of our people, especially of the young, who might speedily double theiir little proper ties by means of it. 6. Having thus made a home, resolve to spend jour remaining dajs there, and to be one of the best farmers or artisans to be found there or elsewhere. Work steadilj but not im moderately ; think, observe and read so as to make every blow tell. If your land is mainly timbered, contrive a way to make the timber, if possible, a source of profit; if the soil is rather lean, devote all the time not.absolutely needed otherwise to make it richer. Sell only* for pay down, and buy likewise for cash. Dol notr allow your wants to grow faster than your means. Make each mistake or failure a source! of instruction and improvement. Form no bad habits—have no liquor on your premises, and no tobacco unless to repel vermin. Have nc capital locked up in land that you do not use, unless it be woodland rapidly enhancing in value, nor in fast horses, showy turnouts, nor any sort of fancy property, —at least not till you shall be out of debt, with good buildings, well fenced fields, and everything comfortable about you. Thus move on quietly and steadily; and if you have no bad luck, you may be be yond the reach or fear of want in five years, in comfortable circumstances by the end of ten, and as well off as a man need be within twenty. —Do you say this seems a slow, humdrum, petty way of getting rich? Well: it is not quite so fast as gambling, or slave-trading, or making $lOO,OOO in a month by concerning an an adverse party in the Stock market; but let two hundred young men try tfcfe course we have so rapidly outlined, against an equal number who try any radically different course—gold mining, trading, speculating, or the professions 4nd if our party do not, in the average, come out very far ahead, we shall be forced to con clude that the world is a lottery and that Chance is God. rer afforded r acquiring that there is >wn country i this head i “Romance of the Gnlf” i A story, strange and romantic enough to seem the invention of an imaginative mind, became known recently to a few persons in this city; yet however romantic or strange it may sound, the gentleman who communicated it to me assured me of its absolute truth, and gave me the names of the parties connected with the affair. At the time when that terrible catastro phe occurred at Last Island, off the southern coast of Louisiana, by which so many unfortu nate people were swept bodily into the Gulf by the raging tempest, or overtaken and drowned by the rising flood that overwhelmed the low, sandy key, a middle-aged gentleman and his family, consisting of a wife and two or three children, were involved in the calamity. In the midst of the thick gloom, the storm, the confusion and terror of the scene, the gen tleman became separated from his little .family and barely escaped with his life. The horror and distress of the poor man at the sudden loss of his dear ones may be imagined by those who love their own wives and children. Fur several days his friends feared that his mental suffer ings would deprive him of his reason, and one of them kindly invited him to make his home at his bouse in New Orleans, for a time, hoping that he would gradually come to look more calmly upon the misfortune that had befallen him. • be a young , whose edu iger, and who field of pro bout getting It happened that with the family in which he thus domesticated was living a young and accomplished lady, of fine person and manners, who, having compassion upon the afflicted stranger, took upon herself the pious duty of doing everything in her power to alleviate his sorrow and make him forget the past. She played and sang for him, read to him, rode with him, and finally laughed and joked with him— so fleeting and transitory are the greatest of human griefs when brought under the influence of the enjoyments and delights of life. In brief, she carried her consolations so far that the gentleman became enamored, in fatuated, and offered her his band and for tune. Whether she reciprocated his passion, or whether the fact that she was a poor school teacher and he a wealthy planter, influence her decision upon bis proposition, is not a question proper to be considered here, Suffice.it to say that she accepted his offer, stipulating that, out of due respect to public opinion, a year must elapse before their union should be consumma ted. As time passed on preparations for a magnificent wedding proceeded. The gentle man purchased a splendid trouseau, laid out his plans for a bridal tour, and for their subse quent domestic settlement, and in fact, every thing went on swimmingly until near the close of his term of probation. The event of a sin gle day inhhis case, as in thousands of others, served to destroy in an instant his matrimonial schemes, though whether his subsequent peace of mind and happiness were not promoted thereby is a question. A short time previous to the day assigned for his wedding he received a letter from his wife—still in the flesh—dated from Rio de Janeiro, informing him that she and one of their children was alive and well, and would probably be in his arms within a very short period. It appears that amid the destruction and chaos of the terrible storm in which it had been supposed she and her little ones were lost, Mad ame clung to her youngest child, and when I the waves submerged the Island and swept I away everything upon it, she Abated out mtb the gulf upon certain fragments of the general wreck. Drifting, finally, after much suffering, into the tradk of the seagoing vessels to and from this port, she was picked tip by an out ward bound ship and carried to Rio, no oppor tunity occurring in the meantime, to send her back to the States. The voyage was a long one, and sickness had prevented her from taking passage in the first vessel that sailed for her native land, and by some- fatality the letter which thus apprised him of her existence, reached his hands but a few hours previous to her own arrival. What followed can readily be imagined—how the sober, staid, middle-aged gentleman, doubtful whether to be disappointed or happy, broke the astounding news to his un suspecting fiance; how she, poor girl, went first into tears and then into hysterics, and was finally consoled by his pecuniary liberality, and how all parties ultimately resumed their original positions and were happy, the wife not being permitted to know how narrowly her husband had escaped slipping his neck into a second matrimonial halter. —Xew Orleans paper. Artemns Ward Again. Pittsburg, July 25th Editer of the Plane Deeler ; Ime here with my show in the dirtyest Hole in the U. S. It smells so bad of stone coles and Keroseen lie as to almost stane the faces of my Was figgera.— Yesterday wich was Sunday, and I never exhib its, I went to church in the evening, and the Twilite dues was falling as a young female womin asked the pleasure of showing me the way to church. We walked along and I muzed in solem silence what Mrs. A. Ward wood think to see me walking with a strange young lady, wich reflections brought us to the church dore. As we went to go in she sprinkled her face with water, wich ns I knowd the kwality of Pitts burg water 1 declined. She walked to a seek where with considerable difficulty she worried into on account of the heft of close she appa rently had on. When I got well seeted I looked around ou the best kollection of wax works i ever see except my own onekallcd killection, wich Ido bleve beats the world. The young female sed they was statooary of the sacred saints of the gallexy, which i konfess did not soot me. They was old and stiff-like with long be'erds insted of that life-like figger of my sta too of Franklin Peerce, and none of the sacrid womin folks along the walls was os natral look in as my Queen Victoray. The musick from the organ fell upon my astonished sole like bam upon a woonded bresfc and i must sa took tbe rag off from anything I ever did beer and ime satisfied the Katholix is far ahead of most sex in music. The ceremony was performed in a different langwidge from mine, but I presume it was good as it tuk all of 3 parsuns to do it. After church the young lady invited me home with her wich on account of Mrs. A. Ward i declined to go, and found my may to the Jirard House whar the vermin is rather scarce consid erin the warm weather and feed middlin good. I opened up my show here with good Prospex of suxeess, but them that depends upon the puffs of pitsburg editors depends on a broken stick. They are the meanest houns in the U. S. They have lots of em here more than forty ,on every paper. If I parssed I editor of the dispatch I am sure i parssed 50 fi ee gratis.— I parst one gent who sed he was editor of the Coicmporary and I afterwards learnt to my grate supprise there was no sich paper here, so that I reckoned tba had ded bedded me about 10 dollars; this is enuff to pay for the good opinion of these newspapers though the town of Wheeling gave me 2 puffs to their 1. They have well nigh to 1 hundred members of the city council here as i found, i let 50 in free and charged the rest 5 cents. They was a meen looking set more than 40 smelt of brandy and segars with hard feetures and krapes on their hats. When i cum in to Exhibit u can imagine my feelings on looking over the auj.ence and seeing half of them ded beds, if there is any thing 1 do despise it is an editur who spunges into a show jist because he rites for the papers and who is as mad ns a settin hen if you don’t parss him and ask no kwestions. I had a noshin of going to philadelphy from here but 1 was told the Eds there was wuss than here and if that is the prospex it is a hard site. My Cangaroo is sick on account of the smell of this sitty as it is enuff to sicken a hog let alone a Respectable wild animal, so my best plan i do believe is to pull up stakes and pint towards Baldinsville and there parss the dorgdaya with my family, in the sweet and tender seclusion of mi own vine and Fig tree, and injoy the domes tic felicitudos of home as the poick beautifully remarks, home home sweet home, save a copy of the Plane Deeler with this in ifc. Yours A Ward. Familiar Quotations. —“When I can read my title clear.”—Old John Bingham. “Go it boots—logs are cheap.”—Gen. Santa Anna at the battle of Cerro Gordo. “Throw physio to the dogs/'—Dr. Jayne. “Pile on the dirt, and d—■ —d he:he who cries before he is hurt.”—James Gordon Bennett. “Know ye the hind of the cypress and mvr tle/'—Gen. Win. Walker. “The world is all afieeting show/’—Barnum. “I will pledge you a Bumper.”—Cotter. “The Key to the whole mystery.”—Mrs, Sickles. “Look before you leap.”—Sam Patch—who didn't. “A gone Sucker.”—Supposed to be Stephen A. Douglas. “Went up like a rocket and came down like a stick.”—Cyrus W. Field. “Do they miss me at home ?”—Schuyler. “Breeches of trust.”—Lucy Stone. “Squawly times.”—Brigham Young. How TO RESTORE PEOPLE WHO FAHfT. —When anybody faints, instead of making a noise or dashing water upon him, lay him at full length on his back on the floor, loosen his clothing, push the crowd away, so as to allow the air to reach him, and let him alone. The philosophy of fainting flt is, the heart fails to send the proper supply of blood to the brain. If the person is erect, that blood has to be thrown up hill; bat if lying down, it has to be projected horizontally. Which requires less power is apparent. Rates of- Advertising. Advertisements will be charged $1 per square of 10 lines, one or three insertions, and 26 cents for every subsequent insertion. Advertisements of less than 10 lines considered as a square. The subjoined rates will be charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly ad vertisements ; Square, - 2 do. 3 do. i column, - h do. Column, - Advertisements not having the number of insertion, desired marked upon them, will be published until or dered out and charged accordingly. Posters, Handbills, BUI-Heads, Letter-Heads and all kinds of Jobbing done in country establishments, ex ecuted neatly and promptly. Justices*, Constables*, and other BLANKS constantly on hand. NO. 4, EDUCATIONAL. From the New. York Teacher, Too Much Machinery, Much machinery in school management is undoubtedly necessary. But the teacher should be careful not to employ too much. Beyond the bounds of strict utility in this regard, he should never go. Superfluous machinery (by which I mean so much as aidsin accomplishing none of the legitimate purposes in education) is as much out of place in school, as would be the multiplication of wheels, cogs, pistons and valves, by which no motive advantage is gained, in mechanics. Observation leads us to believe that very many teachers who aim to be good disciplinarians, seriously err in this particular. They know, and it is a source of much solici tude with them, that their systems, carefully as they have been devised, and faithfully ar they believe them to be carried out, are, after all, sadly inefficient. They see from day lu> day and from term to term, the very evils which their systems were designed to remedy, still ex isting, and with .no sensible abatement, or at least, with none at all corresponding to the amount of time and labor expended. Now, where such a state of things it is en tirely safe to infer either radical error in the systems themselves, or inefficient administration to them. To suppose otherwise, would be to dis credit the well established rule which ascribes like effects to like causes, under similar circum stances. True, it may be urged that circum stances, are, and of necessity must be, different , in different schools. They are so indeed'; but not, I think, in any such sense as to affect se riously the application of the rule alluded to. Children both in their individual and associated capacity, are found to be wonderfully similar in all civilized countries; at least such differ ences as are found to lie in the way of the suc cessful operation of good systems, are mainly acquired and can not therefore be regarded us fixed and settled obstacles. Nothing can be so permanently established in the mind before ma turity, as to preclude well founded hopes of modification or removal.) We deem that system of school management, the best, which while it recognizes all the essential ends to be attained, is simplest in its details and most harmonious in its operation, every feature in it having its own specific purpose, and that purpose being either the physical, mental or moral promotion of the pupils. We would rule out of our sys tems as unworthy our high calling, everything designed merely for temporary effect, pruning them of all mere fulsomeness and reducing them to the sphere of solid merit. Thus sim plified and utilized our scholastic machinery may be expected to work with the least pos sible friction and each day’s labor, to “turn out" in full quota of good results. J. 11. F. The.school bouse is a silent teacher; the place where it stands, the scenery by which it is surrounded, more or Jess excites the young mind, aud gives directions to its thoughts.— But the principal teacher is, of course, the schoolmaster, the presiding mind in the little assembly of thinkers, students, pupils, who oc cupy the house and busy themselves with the subjects uf thought and instruction, in the midst of that outward scenery, through the beat hours of every day of the week, during the freest and most susceptible years of life. The mere pres ence of superior intelligence is instructive; the aspect of goodness is improving. Knowl edge and virtue are commended to us by daily intercourse with a beautiful example. Good sense, gentleness, modesty, propriety, are illus trated and enforced by being embodied in a real person, even when be does nothing and says nothing. Such a person cannot 6e, and not do good. His presence represses what is vulgar and awes what is wrong; we instinct ively set a guard upon our lips, we move with greater carej>we blush at the consciousness of unkind, ungenerous, unmanly feelings, when he is with us. - And then what a difference, as an active teacher, between a clear thinker and discrimi nating observer, and an obtuse, blundering, half-educated guide in our studies. What a mighty difference between a sour, petulant, hasty, inconstant temper and that judgment, that self-command, that serene and sunny be nignity, that self-respect and respect for us tI which we feel to belong to a true gentleman, and in the presence of which a thoughtful and well-meaning child is at ease and happy. In a good teacher of a common school there is a combination of qualities, each of value, and never attained or preserved without pains and expense. Such a teacher is not easily therefore not common. Happy is the district that secures him ; his price is above rubies< he is a scholar, a gentleman and a Christian. Cowper hated public schools; poor, sensitive, suffering creature, he never had a happy mo ment in school, and hardly anywhere else. But he saw what sort of a man a schoolmaster ought to be. In the Tirocinium, ho recommends a family teacher: “Behold that figure, neat, though plainly clad, His sprightly mingled with a shade of sad ; Not of nimble tongue, though lively in discourse, His pbraso well chosen, clear and lull of force; And his addiesg, if not quite French in ease, Not English stiff, but fiank and formed to please ; Low in the world because he scums its arts; A man of letters, manners, morals, parts.’' Question’ for Critics. —lf James tells me “the horse put his foot over the bridle and broke itdoes he mean the horse broke the bridle, or his foot ? Again, using the same form of expression, he says, “The boy put the pot over the fence and broke itdoes he mean the boy broke the fence or the pot? Those are com mon expressions; they are both correct, if in the former, the bridle was broken, r and in the latter, the pot. —Chester County Times, Let kot a teacher complain too muej* of the largeness of his school. It is physically ibipoe sible that a teacher can throw as much energy into his instructions, when they are given in the presence of but one, (or a very small num ber,) as when the are given in the presence yf a larger number. * 3 XCCftHS. 6 ITOXTBS. 12 UOXTHS $3,00 $4,60 $O,OO 6,00 6,60 8,00 7.00 8,50 10,00 8.00 9,50 12,50 15.00 20,00 30.00 26.00 36,00 68,00 The Schoolmaster. i Prof. Haddock
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