eChe tel)10) tlegigter
is published in the Borough of Allent4:iwn,
Lehigh County, Pa., every Wednesday, by
Haines & Diefenderfer,
At $1 50 per annum, payable in advance, and
$2 00 if not paid until the end of the year.—
No paper discontinued until all arrcaragcs arc
paid.
(I:7oFmcs in Tramilton street, two doors wes
of the German Reformed Church, directly oppo
site Moser's Drug Store.
[)?Letters on business must be POST PAID,
otherwise they will not be attended to.
JOB PRINTING.
Having recently added a large assortment Of
fashionable and most modern styles of type, we
are prepared to execute, at short notice, all
kinds of Book, Job and Fancy Printing.
Singer's Sewing Alachine.
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have been fully tested in all kinds of ma
terials that can be sewed, and 1 ave rendered
generalsatisfaction. Truly thous: lids of worth
less Sewing Machines have been ht night before
the public, yet Singer's alone has t erited and
obtained a -good reputation for its mrfection
and real worth. To a tailor or s •anistrcss
one of these Machines will bring it:p..llly in
come of 6750.
The undersigned having purchased of ',RI
Singer & Co. the sole and exclusive right to use
and vend to others to le, used, the above n owed
Machines. in OW following localities: The
State of Wisconsin, the northern part of Indi
ana, and Pentotylvania wilt the exception of
the counties of Erie, Allegheny, Philadelphia.
and Northampton) and is now prepared to sell
Machineaas above mentioned.
All orders for the Machines will be punctual
ly attended to. In all cases where a Maeliine
is ordered, a good practical tailor and operator
will accompany the same, to instruct thc pur
chaser how to use it. A bill of sale will be lor..
warded with each Machine. The price of the
Machine, with printed or personal instructions
is $125. For further information address
August 1
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LV ALLENTOWN,
Deitocen Dresher's and liglrman Bro.s' Lumbee
Yards, in Hamilton :arta.
P. F. Eisenbraet it 65P Co.,
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--c.4.:,...A; a 4.;,‘-tO.-Till;„ i"2-:a..siness on an
extensive scale. They have now in their Yard
a very large and choice stock of Italian and
American Marble which they are manufacturing
into Tombs, Monuments, Head and Foot Stones,
Mantle Pieces, Table and bureau Tops, Win
dow and Door Sills, Steps, Posts, &c. Letter
ing of the best style done in English and Ger
man characters, and all kinds of Ornamental
Work executed in the highest style of art and
in the most 'substantial manner ; they will be
pleased to furnish engravings and designs to
suit the wishes of the public. They flatter
theMselves in doing as gond work as is done in
Pennsylvania, and certainly. the best in this
section, and to satisfy the public of the truth
Of this assertion, they invite them to call at
their yard and' examine their stock and style of
work. They furnish all kinds of Sculptures
and Ornamental Work. such as has never been
made in Allentown. They ale keep on hand
some beautiful sculptures made out of Italian
marble, consisting of very neat and most chaste
designs for Cemetery purposes. with Lambs
oarml to lay on the top. Flower Vases, Urns,
Doves, and many other figures. to which they
invite the attention of the pUblio.
to .- Groat inducements are offered to country
manufacturers to furnish them with American
and Italian Marble of the best quality, as they
have made such arrangements as to enable
them to furnish it at city prices.
They hope by strict and prompt attention to
business, moderate prices, and furnishing the
best work in town, to merit a liberal share of
patronage.
They also constantly keen on hand a large
stock of brown stone for building purposes, con
sisting of platforms, door sills, steps, spout
stones, &c ; &c
• July 11
New Flour and Feed Store.
FpliE undersigned, having entered into Co.l
partnership, under the firm of Bernd
Troxell, have opened a new Grain and Flour
Store, in the store of Solomon Weaver, No 147
West Hamilton street, next dont' to Sleifer's Ho
tel, where they will keep constantly on hand a
supply of all kinds of Flour, Feed, Grain, &c.—
Family Flour deli;ered at the houses of all who
order from them.
They will do business entirely upon the
CASEI SYSTEM, and can therefore Bell a little
cheaper than any dealers who adopt any other
mode.. •
The h!ghost Cash price paid for grain. Wo
invite all who wish to purchase flour or sell
grain to give us a call.
JESSE H. BERND,
PETER TROXELL, Jr.
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Oct. 1
• A SLY HINT TO MEN AND BOYS.—If you
want to buy a
.good, cheap pair of pants, coat or
♦eat, please call at Stopp's Cheap Cash Store.
N. B.—And if you want money please pass
down on the other side and don't lo6k at Stopp's
Cheap Cash Store.
R2ltnql3R
Ihtiott to 'Drat nub (Brunt bwki, 3grirulture i (Duration, Rioratifq, Antuumcnt, 311arkrt, Sir
VOLUME X.
Lehigh County High Sehod,
411 Easocrug . .
THE Lehigh County high School will com
mence the third session on Monday, Octo
ber 23d. LSSS.
The course of instruction will embrace the
ditferent brandies of a thorough English Educa•
tine and Vocal and Instrumental Music, with
the French, German and Latin languages.
Young Ladies and Gentlemen. who may wish
to study the art of teaching and may desire of
becoming Professional Teachers . are requested
to inquire into the merits of the High School.
There will be no extra charges made for stu
dents who wish to study Astronomy. Philoso
phy, and Mathematics. The Lehigh County
High Slush can boast of having one of the
Tel now in use, and also all the
Philostqthical and Mathematical - Instruments
which are required to facilitate a student.
The session will last five months. The
charges are ten.twelve. and fourteen dollars per
session, according to the advancement of the
scholar. An additional charge, will be male
in such students who may wish to study
French. German. Latin and Music.
Boarding can be obtained at very low rates in
private families in the immediate vicinity of the
sdicoh or With the Principal at from 50 to 60
dollars per session. according. to the age. Eve
' 1 • el. such as tuition, washing.
The building will be fixed so
e one hundred students; and
be aided by good, and expe
rienced assistants also in Penmanship.
For l'iroulars ail other information, address
JAMES S. SHOEMAKER. Principal,
Emaus, Lehigh County.
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111 1.1.1: ENCES :
C. IV. Coormt, Esq., U. shier of the Bank of
Allentown.
Tuom.‘s B. Cooi•rn. )1 . . D., Cooper Jump:.
0. F. DIMENSIIIED, M. D.. Lower 'Milford
1 . .111113 KENIM Ell vu, Esq., Salsburg.
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SAMVEL lc-MINIUM, Esq., Upper Milford.
Eplaus, Sept. 12. I:—tf
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Norristown Pa.,
Good 'clines, Go d
are before the doors of the people of
'orthampton, "lochs and coutdie. , t, for
he Railroad is now completed from New void;
And Philadelphia to Allentown. On Monday
last the vain of cars ran over the entire road or
the first time, and there were something les ,
than 100 cars in the train, and I suppose they
have all stopped at
HUH STUTS CIIIIP CAN STARS,
in Allentown, at No 41, corner of Hamilton and
Dighth streets, near Ilagctibuch's Hotel, for I
passed his-Store, rind by the lo alts of. the Ire.
inctnlous quantity - of goeds Stipp and his.clerks
were unpacking I am sure .that the depot must
be right at his Store, nnd that the whole train of
cars must have Leen loaded with Goods for
Stopp. We all stopped and !oohed with t:ton
ishment at the piles of Shawls, De . Lains,
Merinoes, • Persian Cloth, Cashmere, Alpaca.
Calicoes. &c., from the flit to the ceiling, the
goods all new styles. Then I looked to the
other side of the Store, and 10, and bchold, my
eyes were, greeted with perfect Mountains
Goods. consisting of Cloths, Cassimeres,
netts, Kentucky Jeans, Flannels, Mishits, 'Palle
Diapers, Toweling, Stocking Tarn, and Sink
tugs, Gloves, Mittens, Woolen Comforts, Cor
nets, Oil Cloths, Glass and Qoeettsware, Locking
Olassei.,Kniyes, Porks,Spoons, &c., &c. Then
one of the clerks showed toe in another coon
there he had piles of.
such as coats, vests, punts and over gnats,
all of their own inanufaciory,and he showed the
die prices of some of their goods, then I said I
don't wonder that all the peonle say that Dan
Rice has the best show and Liseph Stepp the
cheapest Cash More. -
S, pt. 12. t—t
For Wulff' Men and boys.
ocxrco at. Quakertown, Tucks County, Pa.,
•4 11 miles below Bethlehem and Allentown.
The course of instruction at this Institution is
thorough and practical, and embraces the usual
branches of a liberal English education. The
Winter Term will commence the 22d of Octo
ber, 1855. Charges including Board, Washing,
Tuition, Fuel, Lights, &c., $llO per Session of
22 weeks, one half payable in advance.
For Circulars and particulars address
JOHN BALL, Principal.
September 10. 11-3 m
SCO ' S
LEATHER AN SRN EBBS STORE,
EMID
No. 3-1 East Hamilton Street, nearly opposite
Sacgcr's Hardware Store.
aIIIE undersigned respectfully ,inform their
friends that they have just returned front
Philadelphia and New York with large addi
tions to their alreally heavy and well selected
smelt, and in connection with this they still
carry on business at the Tun Yard formerly
owned by their father, Jacob .Musser. They
keep a complete assortment of LEATHER of
every description,. and Shoe Findings, which
comprises all articles usf.d by shoemakers,
such as CA LF SKINS, MOROCC OS, UPPER
LEATHER, LININGS, &c. A general assort
ment of Hemlock anti Oak Sole Leather, con
stantly kept or. hand . Also Harness and all
other Leathers for saddlers.
• - -
The highest price constantly paid for HI DEB
either in store or at the Tannery.
Two of us being practical Tanners, we feel
confident in warranting cvety article sold by
us as represented. We therefore hope by fair
dealing and low prices to merit a liberal share
of patronage
Sept• 19
EReade T ade C6oditistg,
0.1111K2111 ERNIE Stllool.
W. K. MOSSER.
PETER K. GRIM,
.J. K. MOSSER.
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ALLENTOWN, PA
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OCR COUNTRY.
THE PAST AND TILE FUTtillE:
AN ESTIMATE FOR 1040
The truly extraordinary progress of this
country in power, population and resources, is
calculated to excite wild and sometimes vision-
ary speculation as to the future. Our national
existence is a thing of yesterday, c ,mpared with
some of the older nations. And yet State after
State has grown up, million upon million has
been added to our population, and not a year
goes by that additional thousands and tens of
thousands are not poured in upon us from the
Old World. The discovery of steam, and its
application to the purposes of navigation and
railroad travelling, have given a new impulse
to our progress. We arc now, by the agency
of .Wantic steamers, within the distance of a
fortnight, if we measure distance by time, of
several of the crowded chic's of Europe. The
emigrant, moreover, may land at one of our
Atlantic ports. anti by the agency of railroads,
pass westward through half a dozen of our
States in the course of a few days. Thus the
adventurer on the other side of the Atlantic
may, before setting out, calculate within a
short time, the exact sum that it will be ne
essary to expend, and the precise amount of
time that will be consumed in transferring his
little family to Wisconsin, lowa, Texas, o•
some other flourishing , point of the far West or
South. The dangers and the difficulties of the
enterprise, which years ago were considered to
be almost insurmountable, have in a great mea
sure. disappeared. A vast multitude have
already passed the trackless ocean, and written
back to their friends in a cheerful and encourag
ing spirit. Thus it is that one emigrant makes
another, and that the-tide continues to swell.—
Who then under these circumstances will ven
ture to read the future ? Who will venture to
give a picture of this Republic with its teeming
millions as it shall appear a hundred years
hence? A hundred years! What changes
may take place within such a period ! How
many new Slates may be carved out of the
wilderness and redeemed to civilization ! We
some days since saw a pa•agaaplt in one of the
public journals, announcing that fifteen or
twenty years ago, six young men left the
neighborhood of Lexington, Ky., to seek their
fortunes further west—and that the whole six
would meet together at Washington during the
next Session of Congress, as representatives of
the new States of the Republic. What a com
mentary upon our progress, our people,•and our
institutions ! What an inducement to others in
like circumstances—the young, the ardent, the
energetic and the enthusiastic, to imitate the
example. and also to become pioneers, patriots,
and legislators. True, all do not succeed.—
Many perish by the wayside. Many, unable to
wrestle against difficulties incident to new set
tlements, or to resist the effects of a new
climate, sicken and die. But the cotiiplexion
of the new 'House of Representatives, if closely
analyzed, would, perhaps, form the most elo
quent commentary upon this subject that could
be given. We are indeed advancing with rapid
strides. We are eminently favored by Provi
dence. But while in the enjoyment of so many
national blessings, while basking in the light of
prosperity, and dwelling happily in a land that
teems with . abundance, we should not forget
our duties. Truth, honor, and honesty should
form our characteristics. As we increase in
power and prosperity, so also should We in
crease in justice ; virtue, and magnanimity.—
We are working out the mighty experiment of
a people governing themselves. We are testing
on a grand scale the beauty of republicanism.
This world is looking on. Despotism watches
with fear and trembling, the lovers of liberty
with anxious solicitude. When we commit an
error, the tyrants of the earth, who would keep
the masses in a condition of dependence and.
serfdom, exult and point their fingers with
scorn. When we prove false to our mission,
the friends of liberty and humanity weep tears
of blood. Much has been accomplished, and
yet we are by no means perfect. Liberty some
times degenerates into licentiousness, and a
violation of law is sometimes mistaken for
freedom. But we• must live and• learn. Our
sages, ptitriois and philosophers must exercise
a sleepless vigilence. There are hero, as in all
other parts of the earth, demagogues, ambitious,
vicious, and dangerous men,—men who for
self, would thrall and trample upon the masses;
would sacrifice a world. Let these be watched
and guarded against. Let us at least strive to
improve, not only morally and intellectually,
but politically. Then and then only will our
future be .glorious. Then and then only will.
wo prove 'true to the mighty mission tliat has
been confided to us. But, when we commenc
ed this article, we merely intended to invite at
tention to the following extract from a late
number of Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. It
furnishes a startling estimates of the future
population of the American Union.
, NOVEMBER 28, 1853.
" In 1840, the 'United States had a popula
tion of 17,068.966. Allowing its future in
crease to be at the rate of 33h per cent. for each
succeeding period of 10 years, we shall num
ber in 1940, 303,101.641. Past experience
warrants us to expect this increase. In 1790,
our number was 3,927,827. Supposing it to
have increased each decade in the ratio of
13 per cent, it would in 1840 have amoun
ted to 16,660.250, being more than a half
million less than our actual number as shown
by the census. With 500 000.000 we should
have less. then 150 to the square mile or our
whole territory, and but '220 to the square mile
for our organized States and Territories. Eng
land has 300 to the 'square mile. It does not
then seem probable that our progressive in
crease will be materially checked within the
one hundred years under consideration. At
.the end of that period, Canada will probably
number at least 20,000,000. If we suppose
the period of our country cast and west of the
Appalachian and the Rocky mountains, and
between the Gulf of Mexico and Canada, and
for the country west of the Rocky mountains.
Allowing the Oregon Territory 10,000,060
there will be left 250,000,000 for that portion
of the American States lying in the basins of
the Mobile, Mississippi and St. Lawrence. If
to these we add 20,000,000 for Canada, we
have 270,000,000 as the probable number that
will inhabit the North American valley Ert the
end of one hundred years, commencing in 1840.
if we suppose one third, or 90.000,000 of this
number to reside in the country as cultivators
and artesians, there will be 180,000,000 left
for the towns, enough to people 300 each con
taining a half million. This does not seem as
incredible as that the valley of the Nile, scarce
ly twelve miles broad,. should have once, as
historians tell us, contained 20,000 cities "
Bichn cll.
FIRMNESS,
BY PHOEBE CAREY
Well, let him go. and let him stay—
I do not mean to die
I guess he'll find that I can live
'Without him if I try. •
lie thought to frighten me with frowns,
So terrible and black—
He'll stay away a thousand years
Before I ask him back.
lle saki that I bad acted wrong,
And foolishly beside ;
I won't forget him after that—
I wouldn't if I died.
If I was wrong what right had he
To be so cross with me ?
I know I'm not an angel quite—
I don't pretend to be.
lle had'another sweetheart once,
And now when we fall out,
lie always says she was not cross,
And that she didn't pout ?
It is enough to vex a saint
It's more than I can bear ; •
I wish that girl of his was— •,
Well, I don't care where.
He thinks that she was pretty; too—
Was beautiful as good ;
I wonder if she'd get him back
Again, now, if she could ?
I know she would, and there she is—
She lives almost in sight,
And now it's after nine o'clock—
Perhaps he's there tonight.
I'd almost write to him to come—
But then I've said I won't
I do not care so much, but she
Shan't have him if I don't,
Besides, I know that I was wrong,
And he was in the. right
I guess I'll tell him so—and then—
I wtsn he'd come to night !
TEETH.
Healthy teeth depend mainly on health, di
gestion, and on cleanly habits. They must, of
course, be confined to the purposes for which
they arc designed. If they are employed for
the purpose of cracking nuts, biting thread, un
screwing needle•cases, or turning the stopper
of a smelling-bottle, if the mouth is used as a
kind of portable tool-chest, in which a pair of
scissors, a knife, a vice, corkscrew, or any oth
er instrument may be found at the time of need
then serious and irretrievable injury will
eventually be done to the enamel of the teeth,
which no healthiness of digestion nor cleanli
ness of habit will avail to remedy.
o:7'We once saw a young man gazing at the
'Nry heavens, with a fin IE7" and a w.. of pis
tols in the other. We endeavored to attract
his attention by ,ing 2 a ¶ in a paper we held
in our relating 2 a young man in that
of country, who had left home in a state of men
tal derangement. Me dropped the t and pistols
from his [l:7- 13:7-, with the ! " it is I of whom
U read. :11eft home b 4 my friends knew of my
design. I had sO the 0:7 of . a girl who re•.
fused 2 lislo 2 me, but smiled bOly on anoth
er. I --ed madly from the house uttering
a wild ' to the god of love, and without replying
to the I 1 T of my friends, came here with this
f & of pistols to put a . to my existince.
My case has no II in this ¢."
NUMBER 9.
A Dutchman Abroad.
" Hello, friend can you tell me the way to
Reading ?" inquired a Down Easter the other
day of a Pennsylvania Dutchman, whom he
found hard at work beside the road a few miles
from Reading.
"0 yaw, I could tell you so Lesser as any
body. You must first turn de barn round, de
pritch over and brook up stream, den the first
house you come to ish my proder Hans' big
barn ; dot ish de biggest barn dere ish on dish
road : it ish eighteen feet von way, and eigh
teen feet back again. My proder Hans thought
to thatch it mit shingles, but he sold dem, and
shingled mit straw, and clapboard it mit rails :
after you go by my proder Hans' big barn, de
next house you come to ish a hay stack of corn
stalks hilt mit straw, but you must not stop
there too. Den you goes along till'you come
to tree roads and den you git lost. Den you
must git over de fence into a great pig pen mit
no fence around it. Den you take the road
upon your shoulder, and go down as far as de
pritch, den you turn right again. Ven you is
comin' back, den you come by a house dat
stands right back alongside of a yaller tog.—
He runs out and says, pow, • wow, wow, de
ouz, and bites a little piece out of your leg, den
he runs and shumps into an empty pig-pen dat
has four sheep in it. Den you look way upon
the hill down in the swamp dere, and sees a
pine white house painted red, mit two front
doors on de back side : well, tore ish vere my
proder Hans live, and he would tell you so bes
ser as I could. I don't know."
" Wall I swow, by hokec, mister, you are
about as intellergent as aynt Jeremy ; but I
reckon as •how you don't know her, though
she's dumb. But I say yeou, why don't you
dig out them pesky weeds, hey ?"
" 0, dear me, I hash had very bad luck.—
Von or two days next week mine proder Hans'
pumpkins broke into my pig patch, and yen I
drove dem home, every little pumpkin in de
field catch up von little piece of pig in its mouth
and den der run through the teifel as if der
fence was after dem, and a post tumbled over
me, and I'm almost kilt I am."
" Whew! dew tell."
" Den I tinks 119 how I must take me a vrow,
so I goes to Reading, and tells Kattereen if she
would take me for worse or Lesser. and she
says yaw. So I takes him home, and he eats
seven quarts sour krout, and went to bed well
enough, but in de morning she shump up tend !
She was a very heavy loss : she weigh more as
dree hundred and seventy pounds. Den my
little boy take sick and tide. 0! I rather give
up tree shillings cash den have dat happen, he
was so fat as butter. Den my hens came mit
dere ears split, and the hogs all came home mit.
nine of dem missin."
Apples as Food.
With us the value of the apple as an article
of food is far underrated. Besides containing
largo amount of sugar, mucilage, and other nu
trient matter, apples contain vegetable acids.
aromatic qualities, which act powerfully
in the capacity of refrigerants, tonic and anti
septics; and when freely used at season of
mellow ripeness they prevent debility, indiges
tion, and avert, without doubt, many of the
" ills which flesh is heir to." The operators of
Cornwall. England, consider ripe apples nearly
it's nourishing as bread. and far more so than
potatoes. In the year 1801—which was a year
of much scarcity—apples, instead of being con
verted into cider, were sold to the poor ; and
I the laborers asserted that they could " stand
their' work" on baked apples without meat :
whereas a potato diet required either meat or
some other substantial nutriment. The French
and Germans use apples extensively, as do the
inhabitants of all European nations. The la
borers depend upon them na an article of food
and frequently make a dinner of sliced apples
and bread. There is nl fruit coolced in as
many different ways in diit country as apples ;
nor is there anyfruit whose value as an article
of nutriment is as great, so little appreciated.
The Power of an Elephant's Trunk.
One has iron apt to consider the steam ham
mer—whicli can with one blow exert a force of
two tons, and with another break a nut with
out' injuring the kernel, as a triumph of human
ingenuity ; and so it is; but how insignificent
when placed in• comparison with the trunk of
an elephant, for not only can the, latter strike
a blow of a ton or so, and break an egg or a
nut, but it can pick a pin from the floor, or
pull down a tree ; project water with the force
of a twenty-man power forcing pump, or un
cork and drink a bottle of soda water without
spilling a drop.
1:: -- Precept is instruction written in the sand
—the tide flows over it, and the record is gone..
Example is graven on the rock, and the lesson
got is soon lost.
133 A writer of high reputation is often prais
ed for his faults, because, in criticising ac
knowledged genius, men think it safer to praise
than to censure.
BOY LOVE.
One of the queerest. and funniest things to
think of in after life, is " Boy-love." No soon
er does a boy acquire a tolerable stature, than
ho begins to imagine himself a man, and to apo
mannish ways. He catts sidelong glances at
tall girls he may • meet, becomes a regular at
tendant at church, or meeting ; carries a cane,
carries his cane erect, and struts a little in his
walk. 'Presently, and how very soon, he falls
in love ; yes, falls is the proper word ; because
it best indicates his happy, delirious self-abase
ment. ,He lives now iu a fairy region, some
what collateral to the world, and yet, somehow
blended inextricably with it.. He perfumes his
hair with fragrant oils, scatters essences over his
handkerchief, and desperately shaves and an
oints for a beard. Ile quotes poetry in which
" love" and " dove" and " heart" and " dart"
peculiarly predominate ; and, as he plunges
deeper in the delicious labyrinth, fancies him
self filled with the divine afflatus, and suddenly
breaks into a scarlet rash—of rhyme. He feeds
upon the looks of his beloved ; is raised to the
seventh heaven if she speaks a pleasant word ;
is betrayed into the most astonishing ecstacie&
by a smile ; and is plunged into the gloomiest
legions of misanthropy by a frown.
lie believes himself the most devoted lover
in the world. There never was such another.
There never will be. Ile is the one great idola
ter ! lle is the very type of magnanimity and
self-abnegation. Wealth !he despises the grov
elling thought. Poverty, with the adorable
beloved, he rapturously apostrophizes as the
first of all earthly blessings ; and " love in a
cottage with Water and a crust," is the beau
ideal paridise of dainty delights.
Ile declares to himself, with the most solemn
emphasis, that he would go through fire and
water, undertake a pilgrimage to China or
ICamschatlta ; swim storm-tossed oceans ; scale
impassable mountains ; and face (legions of
bayonets, but for one sweet smile from her dear
dear lips. Ife doats upon a flower she has cast
away. Ile cherishes her glove—a little worn
in the fingers—next his heart. He sighs like a
locomotive letting of steam. He scrawls her
dear name over quires of foolscap—fitting me
dium for his insanity. He scornfully depre
cates the attentions of other boys, of his own
age ; cuts Peter Tibbets, dead ; because he said
that the adorablii Angelina had carroty hair ;
and passes Harry Bell contemptuously, for dar
ing to compare " that gawky Mary Jane,"
with his incomparable Angelina.
Happy ! happy ! foolish boy-love ; with its
hopes and its fears ; its joys and its sorrows
its jealousies, its delights ; its raptures and its
tortures ; its ecstatic fervors and terrible heart
burnings ; its solemn ludicrousness, and its in
tensely prosaic termination.—Er.
America in the Year 1900.
On the 12th of October, 1755, John Adanie,
writing to a friend, records the remarkable
prediction—remarkable the whole letter must
be called, as proceeding from a young man not
yet quite twenty—that " our people, according
to the exactest computations, will, in another
century, become more numerous than England
itself." Five years from this—the time desig-
Sated in the letter—the prediction will be real
ized. In fifty years from this, the city of Now
York will contain a population of two millions
of souls. A hundred millions of people, will
occupy the soil of our extended territory. Re
mote deserts, unknown to us, in the solitudes
of the West, will be smiling under the culture
of happy freemen. Flocks of sheep and herds
of cattle will supplant the elk and buffalo:-
Natural obstacles to intercourse will be re
moved ; the Rocky Mountains will be tunnell
ed, and the two oceans will meet together.—
The banks of our rivers and the shores of our
lakes Will shine with opulent cities ; commerce
will whiten our waters : agriculture cover a
continent with wheat and corn, and places now
unknown to civilized man will resound with all
the hum and stir of busy life. The school
house and the church, those engines and hopes
of freemen, will be reared fast as the forest
drops before the march of enterprise. The
churches which we are now planting on our
frontics will then be strong and able to repro
duce and return the benefits they have receiv
ed, farther and farther onward, and the ruis-
Si mary labors commenced in this generation, in
the hearts of paganism, devolopo we know not
what results.
Our thoughts run forward to meet the men
who shall stand in our pulpits to preach the
gospel of Christ on the first Sabbath of the next
century. We welcome them, ere yet they may
be born, to the unspeakable privilege of living
in such an epoch of time. We who write and
read, now in adult life, will talco no part on tho
earth in the worship of that day. Our child
ren, now in the bud and promise of life, will
be in our places with heads silvered with the
honors of age.
On the morning of that Sabbath, the familiar
hymns which we now sing in our houses and
sanctuaries, will be begun in the crowded cities
of our sea-board, repeated by millions of a re•
ligious people in towns and cities through our
extended, interior, rolled onward with the pro
gress of the hours farther and farther' to the
West, till; with the sitting of the sun, they die
away amid the soft murmurs of thiPacillc.—
Tho islands of the sea will catch the strain and
as morning breaks again on the orient, there
will be multitudes in swarthy India to re-echo
the praise, and roll it onward again around the .
world. The day of universal jubilee will surely
come. Evdry year bears the world nearer to
its promised Sabbath. Generations pass froth
the earth, but time does not stop.--Dr..
Admits.
[Cnien's happiness springs mainly from
moderate troubles, which aford the' mind a.
healthful stimulous, and are followed by a re
action which produces a cheerffil flow of spiritg.
hasty ebullitions are often best met 14.
silence, for the shame "that follows the sober
second-thought, pierces deeper than rebuke.
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