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Little At First, bat Mighty at Last.
H CHARLES MACIAY.
A traveller through a dusty road
Strewed acorns on the lea,
Anil one took root, and sprouted up,
And grew into a tree.
Love sought its shade at evening time,
To breathe its early vows.
And Age was pleased, in heats of noon,
To bask beneath its boughs;
The dormouse loved its dangling twigs,
The birds sweet musio bore,
It stood a glory in its place,
A blessing evermore.
A little spring had lost its way
Amid the grass and fern ;
A passing stranger scooped a well,
A ladle at the brink-.
He thought not of. the deed he did,
Bat judged that toil might drink.
He passed to! the well,
By summers never dried,
Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues,
And saved a life beside!
A dreamer dropped a random thought;
Twas old, and yet was new—
A simple fancy ot the brain,
But strong in being true ;
It shone upon a genial mind,
Andlo! its light became
A lamp of life, a beacon ray,
A monitory flame.
The thought was small—its issue great ;
A walonTire on the hill,
It sheds its"radiance far adowr.,
And cheers the valley still.
A nsmelesa man, amid the crowd
Tnat thronged the daily mart,
Let fall a word of hope and love,
Unstudied from the heart;
A whisper on the tumult throng—
A transitory breath—
It raised a brother from the dust,
It saved • -out from death.
O germ! O fount! O vrord of love,
O thought at random cast 1
Ye were but little at ihu first,
But mighty at the last!
FARCY FLOORED BY FACT.
A LEAF FROM HEAL LIFE.
A few evenings since we slipped our arm ,
in that of a friend's, and sauntered out upon
the velvet banks of Catfish. The full orbed
moon was urging her way through starry
ether, end the stream meandered like a Fein
of silver until it lost itself in the bosom of
the distant hills. It was a calm and lovely
evening, like that on which the heart-sick
Troilus, standing on the Trojan walls, looked
forth upon the Grecian tents and sighed for
bis gentle Cresaida. All nature seegted to
be wrapped in a spell of silent beauty.
" In such an hour," said our friend, in a
semi-sad and melancholy tone, " I am re
minded of my heart's first dream; and the
creature of that dream will contend for the
last glance of my eye wheu it closes in
death."
Counting upon a bit of love and romance
and always interested in stories of the heart,
we prevailed with our friend, and ho narra
ted the following, which we (re at liberty to
lay befote our readers: a
"A few years sgo,—perhaps eight, but
no matter —my attention was attracted by
" a bright particular star," mirrored forth by
the Now York Mirror, and known to the
literary world as "Finny Forrester." It
was the brightest in the galaxy which shone
around the nucleus, N. P. Willis. It rose
Dot from the horizon as nther stars are wont,
but bunted forth in full-orbed glory from its
far high home, and looked lovingly down
upon quiet landscapes, silvery streams,
opening buds, find blooming flowers- Its
pretty arms of light seemed to reach far
down into the deep vales, and gather up the
sweets of earth , and it even fingered about
my heart, until its aspirations leapt away
like liifle angels of another world.
"I was then a contributor to the New
* York Mirror. Hinting my desire to know
something of the brilliant stranger, wiu
informed me that be, also was in the dark
Mto her real name; but that she promised
him, in good time, to lay aside her nom de
plume, and oorae forth to hear the plaudits of
a heart-stricken world. In the mean while,
the "charming Fanny" must remain the
"great unknown,a secord "nominiA um
bra," —a Junius in pettiooau. I loved the
eweet creature—and I could not help it.--
. Who was shet where and how lived she!
were questions always in my mind. I
T thought ever ail the beautiful names I ever
read iu novels or other books—Dante's
Beatrice, Shakespere's Ophelia, Bum's Mary,
and aU the Agnes, Claras, Tbsodosias, Vir-.
ginias, Julias, and Floras, of fiotion and his
' M Wry—but hone of them possessed the sweet
hew end euphony that must belong to my
dear Fanny. In a Jew montha, however, 1
learned it. Pity me, my good friend; it
was Emily ChMicki
K " Well, Jim agony did not last forever; it
went off, in lime but, Uke a fit of mania
pew, it left my nerves as much iwMftreg as
. an untuned harp Things will torn up eonw
timet to save a man'* tife ; and 1 lived to
I
witness some further twinklings of the bright
eyed stranger. I dreamed a dream, whioh
waa U a dream ; and in Uiat dieam I saw
g Miss Chubbick—Miss Emily, you know, for
j| had schooled my heart to think something
belter of the name—a little curly headed
j romp of aweet sixteen, just from boarding
school, running wild through the woods, and
d floundering among the flowers; now sing
i ing like a nightingale; now wadicg through
e the waters of Alderbrook, with her duds
lucked up, chasing the silver minnows up
j and down the stream, while her plump little
* I feet and ankles out beautied the lips of the
tea shells ; then I saw her cheeks bursting
t almost with a living invitatioo to kiss them,
and her little hands ready to give you a slap
if yon ventured to accept the honor; and
auon I watched the bright career ef the love
ly luminary, and thought that, after gladden
ing the world with its beautiful rays, it
would act as the stars do—but melt away
into the light of heaven. But now don't
abuse my confidence, and laugh when you
should weep—she got married—she did—
without a word of advice from Willis or me,
■ml my dream become a "baseless fabrio"
indeed. She was made a wife, the third
j u>{/4 of Dr. Judson, a suit! and sober mis
; sionary of the respectable age of thret tcore
I and five year a. Oh Moses!
"To that period, I date the unravelling of
" this mortal coiland it is now whirling
o* rritit lln ~...1 —p. I ,S .11
go down an early victim to the grave—not of
unrequited love—but of a generous and ar
dent imagination—l shall. I have loved my
last love, and dreamed my last dream j and
hencefotth there is laid up for me in some
warehouse of eternity, a store of bitter mem
ories and fond regrets. Fanny—no, I mean
Emily Chub—no, no, Mrs. Judson, being
now a widow, is about to return to the
United Slates, and will bring with her a brace
or two of little Judsons. In the meantime,
I don't know where I'll be. Perhaps the
roses of June will bend over my tomb; —
perhaps—but it's* no use ! Thus far through
j life
" in vain
I've wore my sandal ehoon and scallop shell."
Do you pity me?" We gave him a nod,
and urged an immediate return. We saw
! our friend once since: he was high up in
the crotch of a tree, with a rope dangling
from his hand. If he swung off, the crows
held tne " crow-ner's 'quest" over bis body,
' gave some erne** fertile tjeelti en it buried him
j by piece-meal!— fVmh. Commonwealth.
WHAT THE GIRLS ARE DOING.
Says the American Union, " we .doubt if it
bo generally known to what an extent the
j manufacture of straw bonnets is carried on
l in Massachusetts. Some of the choicest
work produced in America, in this line, is
said to come from the hands of the girls in
Framingham, Holhston, and Foxborough,
in this State. A very extensive trade is be
ing carried on also in this line, in Medfield,
Franklin, and other towns, in that vicinity.
The value of straw bonnets made in Med
field, for insiance, in a single twelve months,
was over $130.000. This year, .npwards of
a hundred young ladies are employed there,
at braiding this material, and the average
wages earned in the business is from five to
seven dollars per week. This is large pay,
for the services of young woman, and we
rejoice that they are able to earn such hand
some compensation for their labor.
In the towu of Foxborough, 13 3,654 straw
bonnets were made in one year, valued at
$122,000. The value of the same article
made in Franklin in one year was $160,000.
These bonnets find their principal market
in New York. The business is very profit
able, it is a very nice employment for fe
males, and tne article thus produoed, com
petes successfully with those of a similar'
character which are imported.
We often wonder says the Wail, that
fomales in the city, who sew for a song a
day, do not go into this business, and make
$1 a day. It should however, be said that
straw bonnet making only lasts about half
the year, say from November until June.—
But it is better to work half the year, and
get paid for it, and then rest and enjoy life,
than to work the whole of the year with
half pay, and get no rest or enjoyment.
Every body loves (he industrious working
girls, with their rosy cheeks, bright eyes,
and elastic footsteps I Such girls made good
wives— and happy indeed will those men be
who secure such prizes. Contrast them
with those who do SD'hing bat sigh all day,
and live to .u!!C w 9 " Mions, who
never earn the bread they eat or tho shoes
they wear, who are languid and lazy from
one week's end to another. Who but a
simpleton and a popinjay would prefer one
of the latter if he were looking for a com
panion ? Give us the working girls. Tbey
are worth their weight in gold. You never
see them mincing along or jump a dozen
feet to steer clear of a spider or a fly. They
have no affeotations, no squeamy airs about
ihem, When they meet you they speak
without putting on a dozen silly airs, or try
ing to show off to better advantage, and
you feel as if you were speaking to a human
being, and not to a painted fallen angel,
I3t" Elder Brigbam Yuttng pledges his
honor that he has only twenty-sis wives/ He
is the saint upon whom fell the mantle of
Joe Smith.
. A CojNtreTKW.—'•&*," said a oarefu|
i Quaker to a spendthrift," thou act a sad rake."
'•Nay, father," rplied.tbe promising youth;
i "thou art tho raker, and! am the yreudet."
'aMnHHNfnK
From the Poltstovm Ledger.
THE MERITS OF LIBERALITY.
Liberality is one of the noblest attributes
of a generous spirit; yet there are various
reservations and qualifications that should
attend the term before it is applied to every
-one who spends his money profuely. Some
one says—we don't know who any more—
" a man may ostentiously display a seeming
liberality in public places, and yet be the
most despicably mean creatures on God's
footstool. Let us make ourselves understood
—and we can do it no more striking way
| than in presenting one instance of the many
that art d#'"!y brevtjht to our notice. A man
will enter a public place, and being anxious
to rate as "a whole-sul fellow" and be con
sidered among the travellers as one of 'em,
he boisterously insists that the whole 'crowd'
shall 'stand up to the rack,' and 'take some
thing,' while he offers a toast that is dealh
on the pigmy creatures in human shape who
havn't soul enough to enjoy a 'gin-sling' or
'a brandy-smasher' in a company of jolly
b'hoys. Gracious! what a liberal and mag
nanimous fellow that will be iu the estima
tion of a certain class of people! He's a
fellow with a heart big enough to fill all out
of doors, according to their estimate of what
e it takes to constituto such a character. But
turn over the picture and look at the other
f side for a moment. Whose money is it
r that this extremely liberal fellow ia spend-
X : s- a 1..1j >• u vwrt. II yUU eillfUlK
f ten chances to one, you find ha owes the
. storekeeper, the tailor, the hatter, the shoe
y maker, his washerwoman, his boarding
-1 house keeper ar.d every body he can borrow
s money of 'for a few days only,' and, aa a
. matter of course, the printer. It was, there
i fore, not his money upon which he was
I making such a bust; and wh'en the romance
9 comes to be taken from his sets, it ia found
) that he might just as well have put his hands
l( into other people's pockets and takiJn thero
-3 from the money upon whioh he is displaying
- such gracious liberality. He can show oil— I
iI he ean stand treat— he can appear not at all j
to regard the contemptible pelf— he can de- '
nounco the stingy misers who refuse to join
him in his carousals of dissipation—and all
> the time be doing it at the expense of these
' very ones he is denouncing.
1 Now, if there is any meanness that we
1 loathe to an utter scorn, tt is that spirit which
5 ! flourishes at other people's expense. We
* j consider the man who ia guilty of It, meaner!
1 ! (In the words of Mrs. Partington,) than
j parsley, and lower than a pig—for while thy
; latter will get ihto your feed chest and make
a glutton of himsell, he will not affect a
1 . munificence at your expense, by inviting
' | friendly pigs to participate.
, j These are not uncalled for remarks. We
1 ' see every day, men living beyond their in
' comes, when they might live comfortably
1 , within them. There can be no greater mis
> | take committed by the man who desires to
' i live honestly, than by exceeding his means
' | (when his income is reasonable) in his ex
| penditurns. As soon as ho does that, he is
getting into somebody else's pocket. To do
( it is dishonest —and a very bad kind of diss
i honesty, too. It is swindling economical
' ! men, who are trying to " lay up something
lot a stormy day," out of their hard earn
ings.
| Now there is one way to be liberal much
preferable to the false fibermlity we have
been condeming; and it ia to pay every man
what you owe him, be ever ready to assist
( a brother in distress, encourage all efforts for
the intellectual and moral improvement of
society, be kind and generous towards your
i lriends, and wrong no one. This liberality
will not leave you with the crown of your
hat goiug fliperly-flap, it will not rob you of
your credit, it will destroy your health, and
it will not make you despised by every res
pectable man. It is at least, worth trying.
1 FEMALE DELICACY.
1 Delicacy is natural to the sex, says the
' Boston Post, and Mrs. Swissbelm doesn't
' yield to Mrs. Ann Royal in the modesty
which constitute their prinoipal charm. Mrs,
Swisshelm edits a newspaper in Pittsburg,
' in which, besides deciding all great matters
> of slavery, polities, morals and Literature,
' she instructs her sisters how to peel onious,
maintain their clean case knives, and
t make "a nice hash." Nor does our fair co
i temporary atop at that, but in a late number
' of the "Saturday Visitor" the accomplished ,
> lady bares before us the mysteries of the
1 toilet, and, in her own inimitable style, gives ]
> the following interesting direction "how a .
' i lady should wash herself." The bathing {
! j in Thompson's Seaaoua isn't a louuh
i to C and Grace Greenwood's awiroming
1 song is tame in comparison, Say ß M'*.
1 Swissbelm:
' "You only want a basin of water a towel,
' a rag and five minute* time. When you
r got up in the morning pin a petticoat very ,
1 loosely at the waist, draw your arms out of ,
7 the sleeves of your chemise, and let it dtop
1 to your waist, take your rag well welted aud
1 (lap your back and shoulders, rub your arms
* and chest, throw handtulU of water around
* your eara ar.d back of the tteok. Then
1 throw your towel across you back and 'saw'
it dry—rub fast, until you ara quite dry, put
on your chemise sleeves, draw on a night
a gown to keep from chilling, while you tuck
e your skirts up under one arm, until you dry
>f one limb, drop thai side and do the other
likewise, and be sure that the' small of the
back and the sides get their full abate of
!| rubbing; this done, sit down, dip on* foot
" in the basin, rub and dry it, put on your
I', stockibg and shoe, and then wash Ota otb
er." - -"-.vjgSi'J.
Giuiof Into Bed with a Corpse.
A few month* since, about nine o'clock
ona evening, a son of Erin called at a coun
try tavern, in the western part of Pennsy I
vania, and demanded lodging for the night.
It was evident from his appearance and ac
tions that he and liquor had been quite jolly
companions throughout the day. The land
lord, was a lazy, good naturae! soul, and had
imbibed rather freely that day himself.
"If I gtve you a light, and tell you where
the room is, you can find the place," said
the landlord.
"Qrh, an' it's meself that can do that
most illogantly Jist show roe the way, an'
I'll find it aisy," rejoined the irishman.
The directions were given him, and also
a candle. He was directed to go into a room
in the second story of the hoose. By the
time that he had reached the lop of the
stairs his light had become extinguished,
and ha had forgotten in what direction he
was to go.—Seeing rays of light issuing
from a room, the door of which stood slight
ly ajar, he reconnoitered the side Of the
room, and found it oontained a bed, in
which lay e man, and a stand with a small
lighted lamp upon it.—Feeling disinclined
to make any further sparch for the room to
which he had been directed, he diveated
himself of his clothing and quiatly crept in
to the back part of the bed. He bad been
_in liw but but a few minutes, wbea
lady and gsmtuwUn entered the room.
The Irishman eyed theffi closely. They
seated themselvee on chairs in close proxim
ity to each other, and after chatting raerrilv
for a short time, toe young man threw his
arm around ber waist in a cousinly manner,
and imprinted a kiss upon her teiftpting lips.
—There was a witchery in it which deman
ded a repetition. The scene amused the
Irishman vastly, and being free from selfish
ness, he conoluded that his sleeping com
panion should be a participant with him in
the enjoyment of the scene, and to this end
| nudged him -but his companion stirred
not. He then put his hand upon him, and
found that he was tightly locked in the cold
embrace of death ! Simultaneous With this
discovery be bounded out of bed, exclaim
ing—
"Murther! murther! Howly saints ov
hiven, pertect me !"
He had scarcely touched the floor with his
feet, before the young lady and gentlema r.
were making rapid strides towards the stall
way, with terror depicted on their eounte
nauces. They had jest leached the top of
the stairs when the Irishman came dashing
along as though alt tha fiends of Erebus
were close at bis heels, intent on making
him their prey, and the whole three went
tumbling down stairs, and it is hard to de
termine which of tho three reached the font
of the stairs first. The landlord stood
aghast as the Irishman rushed into tha bar
room, with nothing on between him and
nudity but a garment vulgarly styleu a shirt,
the hair on his head standing npon end, his
eye-balls ready to leap from their sockets,
and be gasping for breath. It was a sight
that would have made a man laugh who
hud worn a vinegar face from the day of
his birth. Nothing could induce him to
seek a bed that night again. When the
young lady and geutlemau found that it was
' not the uorpse that had so unceremoniously
bounded from tha bedjhoy returned to the
room, (they being-the watchers for the nigh,)
and, doubtless, commenced their courting at
the very point whero it was so saddenly
broken off. *
I
One* IN THE TORRID ZONE.—The earth i
has no spot upon iu rurface, either inhabited
or otherwise, which is so cold as Yakutsk,
a paltiy yet principal town of Eastern Sibe- .
ria, where a few wooden houses are inter
mixed with numerous huts plastered over
with raanuie, and windowed with ioe.
In this dreary and remote region, the
earth is always frozen—the summer thaw
never reaching below three feet from the
surfaoe, the subterranean ice having a com
muted depth of 200 yards! Yet man lives
here, amidst almost eternal snow, which
seems to set at defiance the notions of sun.
dry modern philosophers that tropical (raits
can, or will in timvrto made to luxuriate
even at the north pole ! At all events, the
researches of science have brought to light
soma of tha wonders ol creation even in
deeolate, frozen Siberia, in reepeot to the
fessilaled remains of animals whioh cannot
by the laws of nature exist in any other than
the Torrid Zone. But whether our earth has
shitted its position (according to some,) or
whether man,, by his departure from the
laws of Nature, has caused the dreariness
-gd to a vast portion of the globe,
ie a problem which has yet to be wived.
IMPROVIDENT LEGlSLATlON. —Nothwithslan
ding the last Congress bed a debt of some
* ivenly millions or more, staring them in
t he face, they voted away more than In mil
lions of acres of the public lands to endow mad
houses. Such improvident legislation is
wrong, and the sooner or later the nation will
And it out; when public domain is all wasted
away, and the high tariff or direct taxation
ia fastened upon the people to enable gov
erniqont to meet its obligations, we will
then bear regrets and oomplainta when it
will be toe fete, when no remedy can be
found . We call upon the people—the Dem
ocratic people— to apgak to their Represen-
I tatrves and warn them to swAd those things,
which the organs of the aristocracy cun
ningly place before them, tbet a "splendid
government" may finally bo buitt upon the
sweat and Wood of the people,— Jul*. A rgusr
1 got a Going and Couldn't Stop.
A little boy nnmed Frank, was standini
in the yard, when his fsther called him':
"Frank I"
"Sir!" eaid Frank, and started full speei
and ran into the street.
His father oalled him back, and askst
him if he did not hear his first call.
"Yea, sir " answered Frank.
"Well, then," said bis father, "what matte
you ran into the street 1"
"0," said Frank, "I got o going and
couldn't atop."
Thii ia the way a great many boys gel
into difficulty, they get a going and can't
stop. The boy thnt tells lies, bogan first to
stretch the truth a little—to tell a large story,
or relate an anecdote with a very little vari
ation, till he got g going and oould'ht stop
till became out#full grown liar.
The boy that was brought before the Po
lice and sent to the House of Correction, fat
stealing began by taking little things—by
stealing sweetmeats and other nice things
from bis companions at sctiool. He got a
going, and couldn't stop till he got into
jail.
These two boys that you see fighting out
upon tho green, begin by bantering each
other in fiin. At length they began to get
angry and dispute, and call each other
names, till they got agoing and couldn't stop.
They will separate with black eyes and
bloody noses.
There is a young man aitting late with
his companions at the gaming-table. He has
flushed cheeks, an anxious look, a despair
ing countenance. He has lost hia last dollar.
He began by playing marbles in the street;
but he got agoing and couldn'( stop.
See that young man with a dark lantern
stealing money from iiis master's drawer
He is a merchant's cleik. He came from
the country a promising boy. But the rest
of the clerks went to the theatre, add ha
thought he must go too. He began thinking
he would go only once, just to say that he
had been to to the theatre. But he got a
| going and couldn't stop. lie had used up
all his wages, and wauts more money. He
oannot resist the temptation, when he knows
there is money in the drawer. He has got
agoing—lie will slop in the State Prison.
Hark ! do yoa hear that horrid oath .'—lt
comes from the toul mouth of a little boy in
the street. He began by saying bywords;
but he got agoing and caunot stop.
Fifty young men were, some years ago,
in the habit of meeting together in a room at s
a public house to enjoy tliomstdvu. in asocial
hilarity, where the cup passed freely round.
One of them, as he was going there one
evening, began to think there might be dan
ger in the way. He stopped and considered
a moment, and then said to himself—"Right
about face !". He turned on bis heel, and
went back to bit room, and was never seen
at a public house again. He has become
I rich, and the first block of buildings whioh
he erected, was built directly in from of the
placo where be stood wheu he made that
exclamation. Six of the young men follow
ed his example. The remaining forty-three,
got going and could not e'op till they landed
in the ditch, and most of them in the drunk
ard's grave.
Bewate, then, boys how you get agoing.
Be sure, before you start, that you are in the
right way : for when you are sliding down
hill, it is hard to stop.
LEGAL DECISIONS.
In the Supreme Court, Philadelphia, on
Monday laat, the following opinions were
given, which may be of interest to our rea
ders, as evolving points ot law not generally
understood :
Hoopes vt Carver—Opinions by Chambers,
J.—ln an action of trespass for removal of
line fencea, the party on one side relied up
on a paper title; the other tide relied upon
twenty-one years adverse possession. To
I this plea it was answered that the defendant
; had entered on the land within twenty one
years, surveyed the ground and feitfoved the
fence beyond the land now claimed. The
plaintiff waa present, and aaid that the strip
of land between the one ferine and the new
land had been promised him by defend ant.
Held that the circumstances were sufficient
to prevent any effect being given the plea
of adverse possession. Judgment reversed,
and venire de novo awarded,
i Marberger vs. Putt —Opinion by Coulter, J.
I A surety is not discharged br mere forbear,
ance to sue. It is necessary that he should
do tome aot to warn the holder of the instru
ment and put on his guard, such as giving
tome uotioe to proceed against the principal.
"I hereby acknowledge to be security for
the witbiu amount of 8500 until satislaclori
ly paid by W. A " is not a guarantee, but a
security, which is not discharged by mere
neglect to proceed against the principal with
out notice to the plaintiff to do so. Judgment
reversed and v. d. n.
Road in Pocopson, per Curiam—Viewers of
e private roed are required by the road law
to report whether it is necessary. A repor
that "there is occasion for it," though not
' strictly within the words of the law, wilt
authorize the proceeding to lay out the road.l
Proceeding affirmed.
Lewis vs Rogers—Opinion by Gibson, C.
J. Money paid by a Sheriff to a parly clai
ming a fund, upon agreement that it shall
be repaid if the rights of other claimants are
established, cannot be recovered in a snit in
the Sheriff's name. An action may be main
tained ui a promise to a third parson by tha
party beneftoiaily interested in it, hut e sher
iff, who does not incur the risk of a mispay
menl, has no right to impose conditions or
thke a promise to refund.
INSIDE or A PALACE
,g A glimpse of the inside of a palace of (be
King of Sardinia was given in (he Ledger of
Saturday, and is given in life colors by (be
correspondent oi a New York paper, which,
dazzling as it it, only famishes a wholesome
l( j lesson to the lover of his specimens against
the pomp, magnificence and frivolity that is
purchased at such an immense cost of life,
l„ misery, vice, poverty, famine and degrade
lion. How many families does the bed
j chamber of the Queen of Sardinia doom to
the most griping want—the most wretched
I! depravity t Is not every.jewel that sparkles
> t on his Kingship's crown, every diamond that
Q adorns the person of the Queen, obtained at
• a sacrifice of blood and tears} Blessed be
. the simplicity of republican government—
p thrice blessed is tbe sublime economy of this
popular democracy, whose only State pomp
. is eloquence, freedom and equal rights. No
r wonder Lycurgus ooined his money of iron
t -!-ho wonder the Greeks hated tyrants—no
i wonder Sparta fed her legions on black broth
i —when the pride, luxury and lust of man
) bounds so wantonly over the barriers of jus
tice and rights to indulge in regal vices that
l unman his nsture, and make him an object
> of haired to the poor, contempt to the wise,
1 and compassion to the gentle. But the pio
r lure of tbe palaoe is not complete, for when
■ tbe writer haul drawn the royal chamber,
I glistening with gold and jewels, he should
have proceeded to the prison, end given •
i Daguerreotypes of its squalid victims, its
> sadder tenants, its revolting fruits of all this
dazzling magnificence. Short is the time,
. however, that is now allotted to these pala
joes to shice oyer the dreary scene of popular
bondage. A spirit is abroad, even in Italy,
i that must redeem tbe rare from this last
' remner.l of feudal degradation. Cheap and
t simple governments must everywhere super
-1 sedethese agony-piled monuments of pride,
> power and despotism. The moral and po
I litical effects of printing and steam power
i are only beginning to bud ; they have yet to
t bloom and come to seed in Europe, where
• the harvest of modern mind is yet to be gar
> nered, and where the people are yet to feel
> tbe blessings (and they will yet feel them)
1 enjoyed by Americans under the gloriou
canopy of (fopular freedom, warmed and eu
' lightened by the beams of truth, justice and
1 philanthropy.
KB Broom.
Switzerland, whose independence gall
' schemes*o}
universal bondage, has at last become a mar
1 ked victim for Russian subjugation, and now
' awakens, the intese interest of the liberal*-
' of the old world, and cannot fail to excite a
keen and lively sympathy in tbo hearts ol
1 the American people. The Cologne Gazelle
contains the following eloquent passago, in
' reference to this meditated death-gripe ot
1 the "rugged Russian Bear." it is Russia
1 that is driving on coercive measures in Swit
• znrland. The Russian Emperor fancies be
has the Divine calling to restore order (despo
'• tism!) in Europe. Having succeeded to hi>
heart's ooritent in Germany, he is oarrying
out his plans with vigor, but without baste,
westward. Like the blades of a pair of scis
sors, Russia stretches forth her two protegee
Austria and Rrussia, to cut off the buds of
freodom whenever they appear Already,
in 1847, before tbe War of Souderbund.
Russian diplomacy guided the measures
against Switzerland, which wero frustrated
by the slowness of Lord Palmerslcn and the
activity of M. Dufour. The crime of Switz
erland is, that it has selected a constitution
of its own without paying any regard te the
admonitions of (He great powers that sought
' to force their protection upon it. It is, there
fore, called a focus of Revolution; the Alps
are looked upon as volcanoes of insurrection "
, So that Russia has a Divine mission, under
; hisSalanio majesty to strangle infant freedom
i in every land; but those infant# may yet
i become glahts and strangle the Bear.— Public
i Ledger.
BEAR STOBT. —Reading an interesting article
. respecting the habits of the bear, a pretty
: good story floated up to the surface, related
, to me soma time tinoe, by my friend the the
Colonel, who had spent the most of his for
tune end life in the woods ol florida, now
. years gone by, whioh I will attempt to relate
—the troth ot wHioh you may depend upon,
its 1 heard direct from his own lips. 'The
Colonel had a black fellow, Dick, d good
; natured happy creature, Who one morning
was strolling through tbe woods, whistling
• and roaring as ho went, when suddenly he
spied an individual as black as himsslf, with
i much more wool.
Dick looked at his new friend, and the
bear (on his rump) at him# Dick's eyes be
gan to stiok out a feet..
•Who 4Mf cried Dick. 'Who datl"
f again cried Dick, shaking all over. Bruin
' began to approach. Dick pulled heels for
the first cypfess, and the bear scratching
t close after him. Dick moved out on a limb,
the beur followed—tUl the limb began began
I to bend. "Now see hem mister, If yon come
any further, die limb broke. Dera / Dere ! 1)
. tell you so.' As Dick had said, the limb
■ broke, and down came bear end nigger.
I "Dere> you brack debil, 1 tolo yer so, dis ell
i your fault. Yer nroke yor nock, and I gin
t lake yer to Masse Colons!.'
s Struma ELIOTZO—On the 84th ult., Chad.
Sennet was elected United States Senator
- far six years by the Legislature ot Ma#s
--r obuaatt*. Tbe vote stood for Stumer 198,
Wtehiep 1, Seatteiing M. . j
COIT SE I S.
, When 1 wea over in your town,
r A week ego or more,
1 saw a very sing'lar thing,
• 1 never seen Before.
t 'Twos hanging in a window oaae,
t Upon a siring a straddle—
Looked something like an hour glaaf,
And something like a saddle.
I asked of several "gents,"
Who chanced to be et hand, t
" What was it 7" but their gibberish
1 could not understand.
One fellow called it "a restraint,
On certain parties placed,
Like a dacre in Chancery,
To stay tbe tenant's wafel"
Another just the queerest chap
Of any in the swarm-
Said, " 'twarnt the mould of laehioo, bat
It was the mould of form."
" Another ssid " 'twas a machine
A laay used to rig her,
To bring her life and form into
Tbe very smallest figure.
At last a litllejgirl oamo ont.
And think of my amaze 1—
She asked me "it I wouldn't pleaM
To buy a pair of stays 1"
Of Course I've heard of 'stays' heford
But strike me deaf and dumb,
If e'er I, until that hour,
Suspected "them was 'utft."
Well, isn't it exceeding strange,
That any maid nr wife,
Just for a 'little taper,' should
Put out the 'lamp of life 1'
1 know that the lunatics must have
Straight jackets put about 'em,
But women in their wits could make
A shift to do—without 'em!
From the Albany Dutchman.
Crumbs for All Kinds of ChlckoAs.
LOVER —A man, who, In his anxiety to
obtain possession of anothei, has lost pos
session of himself. Lovers are teloora
tired of one another's society, because they
are always speaking of themselves. Let ua
not, therefore, dispute this fortd Infatuation,
for all its tendencies are elevating. He who
passes through life without ever being in
love, spring time—no summer in his
existence; hie heart is as a flowering plaqt
which hath never blown—never developed
itself—nor or pm forth its beauty and perfumo
—nevor given nor received pleasure.
The love of our youth, like Cannel coal,
"WW f iSal 'ii His, tiS-tltilitla^sa
by almost any match ; bat if its transient
blazo do not pass away in smoke, its flame,
>OO bright and ardent to last long, soon ex
hausts and consumes itseff. Tho love of
our maturer age is like coke, whioh, when
once ignited, burns vffth a steady and en
during beat, emitting neither smoke nor
flame.
No wonder that we hear so much of the
sorrows of love, for there is a pleasure even
in dwelling upon its pains. Revelling in
tears,-its Are, like that of Naptha, likes to
swim upon water.
Lovers must not (rust too implicitly to
their visual organs. A tendei swain once
reproached his inatnorala with suffering a
rival to kiss Her hand, a fact which she in
dignantly denied. "Bull Z<iie iL" "
then," cried the offended fait, "I am now
convinced you do not lota tne, since yon
believe your ejes in preference to my
word."
MAN— An image of the Deity, whioh 00.
rasipnally acta as if it were anxious to fill
up a niche in the teniple of the Devil. The
only creature whioh, knowing its mortality
ard immortality, lives as if it were never to
die, and too often dies as if it were never to
live : the sbttl being gilted with reason, the
only one that Sets irrationally: the nothing
of yesterday—the dust of to-morrow. Man
is a fleeting paradox, which the fulness 6*
lime alone cau explain ; a living enigma, of
whioh the solution will be found iu death.
The muse that came off near tbe little
Basin yesterday, between a lot ol canallcra
on the flrsi part kind a lot of Corkoniaus oil
the second part, would have terminated
amicably . but just as the belligerents were
about shaking hands, a disorganizing fifo
advised therti to' "never give it tip so," and
in Ifess than live minutes all hands were at
it again. Wnen our reporter left, the Ca
nallers were one bloody nose a head. We
shall issue Sn extfa ss soon ss the "eyes"
are counted.
There is a place in South America where
muequetoes are so targe, that the people
have to use sheet iron shim end copper
bottomed continuations. Their stings" are of
that size, thit house-carpenters frequently
out tbera off and. use them for au{urs.
'• Mammy, Mrs. Perdon, the washerwo
man, says she is coming over to spend the
afternoon veith YOU."
"If Mrs Perdon wants tho front door
thrown at her heed she bad battier attempt
it."
OT Tbo Milling Register save that one of
| Page's Circular Saws has recently been
erected on the property oi the Farmers' Bank
of Reeding and the estate of S. Grtscom,
near Llewellyn, it •chuylkilt county. For
cutting timber U exceeds an* other mill in
this pert of the oountry. Upon trial of ordi
nary speatf, it has sewed e oat through a IS
leek pina log in one minute. On another tri
al, e log lk feet long was sawed in hve min
utes, making 19 boards— US ieet. This mill
will out timber, pine, oak and hemlock, to
1 the length of SO feet.