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ICHVN DEI*.
BT MISS MSBT MSTMNT.
Sunlight is sleeping on the hilts—
And 'mid the soft leaves ol glowing
green,
Old mined towers with nodding walls
And arches stern, and rooks, ere seesf.
Anon, a thousand stars look kown
Into the dark and waveless Rhine—
To ssoh a silver eye sends bark
A look that whispers, Ich Bin Deio I
Sweet poets onto ns sung,
How, in the sunny Persian bowers,
Though countless blossoms hourly ope,
The Rose is queen of all the flowers;
And how throughout the solemn night,
Soft shaded by a favorite vine,
The Bolbul sings, the while the siesps,
Love mo sweet angel! ioh Bin Dein !
The helianthus to bar god
Is ever murmoring the song—
The-ring dove, to her faithful male,
I'epeat* :he music all day long.
*■ \ And I have heard that gentle maid
I May oreathe it to bar Valentine—
\ But never, unleaa he (hall ask,
1 Will I to miue amy, loh Bin Darn I
I *1 am thiae.
I PACTS Fitoa ntrroßT.
, [ In the haight ol her glory and ranown the
I republican city of Anthenseontainad, accor
ding to tfce bast authorities, 308,009 inhabi
tants, classified as follows: 67,000 frea oiti-
Bans; 40,000 frea foreigners, enjoying the
legal rights of e'rtixens, including the right to
hold stare# ; and 201,000 slaves. Some au
thors give the number of siavae as moch
larger than this. We take the lowest com
putation of any authority. Among the class
of slaveholding foreigners at Anthens waa
the orator Lisias, who owned 120 slaves.—
Demosthenes, whose harangues tgSTfllt ty- '
ranny every schoolboy and Congressman
quotes the prates abont, owned S3 slaves as
white as himself, of the satae blood, fash
ioned by God in the same Caucasian ram Id.
In Sparta the population was ooe-third free
and ttpo-thirds slaves, being the same pro
portion exactly as at Athens.
In the early days of the Roman Republic,
the number of slaves were very limited. In
the year 470 B. C , they formed only a six
teenth part of the population; but to rapid
ly did the curse extend that two hundred
and fifty years thereafter, when on the brea
king out of the aecoad Punio War, a census
J of Roman Italy was taker, todetermine how
A many were of suitable age to bear arms,
| there wera found to be ever eight millions
of inhabitants, ol whom ooe-balf were
J elsves. The vast private fortune* of Roman
gentlemen at tins and tarter periods maybe
/ inferred from the number of thaw stoves.—
I Of these one individual owned lea thousand.
I others owned five to eight thousand each
J Suetonius, Cato, Seoesa, Plutaieh, sad Pli
/ ny all tell us that every rich man owned a
J family physician among bis household chat
tels The greet painter, Fabius, surnamed
Pietor, 303 B. C., decorated at Rome the
Temple of Health, wa a alive. 80, too,
was Vttruvis, the immerul architect of the
Pantheon, and another ef a great work on
niehiteetai*, which ha* been, during this
■century, translated and published in Eng
lish and in German for the use of modern
arahkeota. There wera also slave shapkee
.pars, brokers, and merchants of all degrees,
t To show what sort of stuff bousebould stoma
were sometimes made of, among these en
lightened Romans, we find ia Cornelius Re
pot that the toeunee at Anions could mar-
I * Vtlously well set aa readers and copyists tor
l \beic master. v*
' The prices current of the human Hatb
and-blood market of Rome presented ordi.
nary much higher quotations than that of
Greece. The Roman stave desists ware
called Lanatot, KtteiaKy fleeluelter*. Ptat
arch quotes field-hands as having brenght
♦260 each in Cato'a tima. But the Bomaa,
like the Grecian prices tor feminine beauty,
were infinitely higher than tor merely able
bodied working people. For luxurious ar
ticles of his sort tl.trt was re fixt d marl a
value. Martial speaks of a young lady fetch
ing 100,000 aeateroei '96,000.' Pliny re
late* that one Toraniui sold to one Anteniu?
a pair of very lovely twin sisters at the same
enormous rate—2oo,ooo sesteiees for the
pair '56,000 apiece.' The pries of e very
charming girl bought by a helot ss mention-
I ed by the Plautus aa being very low at 4,-
1 000 sesterces ( 3200.')
I W# ean arrive at the prtoe ef a Roman
I fisherman by aqaeteliofl Irem
loribing a banquet erhera these wee e turbet
Iwich cost 0,000 easternts 'Mats' he mys •*
■ Po(oit fort&ifld pjoorßß
L Pisoaior quam pisoeaemi.
ft That ia t the tohsietM woukt have coat
Lea than the fish- fie, too, we ean find bow
L u ch a common soldier waa worth from Pfi
■to, who say* that nightingales cost more
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, *A„ THURSDAY. JUNE 15, 1854.
than common soldiers to hie time, oee of
these birds being sold for 0,000 sesterces
'oßoo,' A carious estimate of value, flue
sad em which makes to comparison to Ihe
lueture of file so go iced, funereal hearse
pleasMVaafl the family-vault jeeuod—for
there et leest the oppressor's head to clayed,
and the teem of peer humaaity dried ia thh
common dost
So etooias relates a joke, played opea Sa
tonunus, who, (ailing asleep at a sale, the
noddingt of hie head were taken by the auc
tioneer aabidr en choice let of thirteen
gladiator* who were noshed down to him at
0,000,000 rrite rase, 0460,000. Rat to their
credit, he it spobee, AM Roman price for
Htorary ami teamed men waa above thwflte
eiau, for iovtad of eaa. Of this atom hoiaf
worth as at Athene a mom than "a good
horse," we fiad him in Rome as valuable aa
a racer.' Seneca, "the moralists 1" gives the
price of a literary man bought by Babfooe at
100,000 Mttcrces '56,000.'
When gladiatorial shows were first insti
tuted in Rome, the people regarded them
with horror; but once accustomed to such
bloody sights, ihsy became infatuated with
them, and toon th* Roman politician and of
fice-holder who found the most favor with
the people, waa the one who provided for
them the largest number of gladiators to be
murdered at the public shows. Caster, when
aedile, in (be beginning of his career, gaffe
the people tuck boats ef glediatois to be
reordered, that the Senate became affrighted,
and limited to him to the number of 320
sou pies for any one fight. Bat w hen (hie fi
nished gentleman and raaatariy historian re
turned from bit last triumph, not being re
strained, he gavl in the arena, to the infin
ite delight ef the Roman people, e perfect
imitation of a battle—a terrible slaughter of
mea. horees, and elephants. We do not find
recorded the exact number of men and
beasts slaughtered on this occasion for the
amusement of Rome's cilixens ; bnt bow
great it was may be judged from the fact that
on another occasion Trajao caused 10,000
captive* to slay one another in the arena.—
Suetonius thur describes the spectacle >—
■' Spectacula assiduc magnfka et tumptuosa ed
idil, Vcnationes gtadialoresque et nottibae ad
lycnot; net t iter urn modo pugno. ted ad fimina
rum," eot. A fight by day and night by
■nan and women I A law ear passed, in
terdicting candidates from giving such show*
pending the election eanvaaa. Bat notwith
standing legal restrictions, flic people sold
themselves to tbe candidal* who woald pro
mise ilit in lbs preatce gliidisnael 4utt> a
tec; till, M Taeitus relates, tbe prise of the
combats th* qumstorship waa to give. From
having in the begining looked with her ror at
a single gladiatorial combat, th* people by
degree* became hardened, till at last they
found their e hief delight in witnessing whole
sale carnage in the arena. At last simply
viewing such sights did not satisfy them,
end w* find the sun of Roma ultimately ex
tinguished to blood, (he free people of their
own accord entering tbe arena tu kill one
another, and eves an J£mperor flighting a
moitg them.
In order that lb* excitemento of the arena
aheuld not eclipse thoee ef the theatre, the
mast literary and refined classes were
provided with aqally fascinating recreations
of tha demoniac order. Th* tragedies of
tbe deelh of Reroutes in fiamss; of Atys
at (asked by a reiki boar; of Prometheus
ohatoed to a rock, with a vulture gnawing
hi* vitals, eot., were given with human vic
tims, with alight changes of text when nee
ded—a* to the repreeeetalioaa of Prometh
eus, where the vallum was replaced by a
wild beast. Thaw vtottoas were either orim
ieels or store* eewdemaed to such death
merely at a master's wilt at esprtoe. On*
master, Manutin* Bamiliua, ia mpecially
mentioned for the stioetoee manner to which
he mutilated his slave* byway of punish
ment tot their faults. There was no law to
prevent him- The alee* wet* hi* lor ase or
abas*. Be aeya floret** ; "Quaai to sure urn
omnia liriedl." Another Roman, Vadius, a
mused himself by feed it g wild beasts with
hie stoma. At a toast, given by this g ant to
rn aa to lbs Emperor Augustus—h# hewg to
the first netoty a slave oeeidawaHy broke
e crystal vase, Immediately the stove ibmw
himself at the Emperor's feet Mid implored
that Vedius would net condemn bim to ha
aateo—these are the eeiy wesda of Seaeea
SIM Jtsret. Augustus wee as iadigoant
that he broke all the vase* ef Vsdias and
protected the stove, hat it is sot related
that he otherwise pwiabeil tbe master. And
bow much better waa Augustus than Vedi
uaf This wa may leant Cram Platamb, wbo
talis as that he had hie man of business,
Eros, crucified to tbe mast of his ship, be
cause the stove killed a vary valuable fight
ing bird. w. H. R.
A CAUVORJUB Law Case.—A California
correspondent of a Kentucky paper gives tha
following account of the man nor in which
a law suit WM settled to th* Golden State ;
One neighbor sued another upon a disputed
account; the parties mot, a jury aasembled,
and all we* ready for th* trial. At tha sug
gestion ol the judge, the pantos agreed to
decide it by a horse rase, and actually did
lan flu jury aHad aa judges, the counsel
bet their foe* on their respootive clients, the
judge held the stake*, sod the winner, by
previous agreement, treated tha crowd I
Sensible follows, those Catiforoiaru !
b • W- : * ■ 1.1 ; .I . ■
Psora* rasrry, not so mock for wbsi ibey
know of 4cb other, at for (what they hop*
II to fiad.
DEATH IE THE ATITCE-
Darkness rests like a pell upon the sir eat*,
which am new deserted. The bosy throng
which bee tempt the thorooghbree trail! tote
at night, has ceased to Sow, sad lbs great
metropolis no longer throbs its living tide
through the accustomed arteries. Tbe mow
ha* been felting fast for au hour, and the
sharp gusty wiad sweep* round the corner
end goes waiting dowa the dim avenues, as I
If sorrowing far bomaa woe. Tbe lamp
lights gtoem pale mid sickly sat throagh the
storm. The policemen, or some reveller,
sod the wind*, alone disturb the aflame that
reign*. (
Turn downward where th* topem ef want
and vie* heve gathered as if k sympathy
" Tbe Into metal to amies, for Ha mote dead-J
ly fume* stoend in darkness of the night.—
Down below the totfaoe of the earth, ate
pits, wtors the ruffianly and the vile are at
their revels. There to a faint, deadly glare
from th* dirty window*, and in apito of th*
wintry blast, an occasional breath of the ram
hell leaking beneath. And then there often
comes up some startling ha !ha 1 to mingle
with the shrieking of the wind.
Her* is a dark alley, scares wide enough
to admit a person, running book where so
light break> in upon lb* impenetrable dark
ness.—Tbe loot strike* a step and wa olimb
upward upon a creaking flight of stairs.—
Tbe snow and wind wUitl fiercely over the
i soot and shake tbe craty strociare to its
foundation, but w* lean closer to the wells
nod mount upward.
Five stories up, and we stand upon th*
narrow platform end peer down with a whir
ling brain Intake black oeean below. Tur
ning into a narrow haU em stand before a
shattered door, revealing a feeble light with
in. Even to tbia winter night, tbe miasma
of pollution floats through the building like
a penitence.
What a scene, as we enter that ebamber!
Hera poverty and want reign to their gbpeily
loneliness and solitude. The sileaoeof des
olation broods over all, and tha faint lamp
light flickering to its wane, is like the beam
wtiicb creeps up from tbe exhaltatioua of the
grave. There ia not a coal in tbe grate, nor
a chair in tbe room. The grist* of wind
| sift the snow through the cracks by the door,
and an involuntary chdl steals over the sur
face and then into the hearth. Starvation,
gaunt, pinched and spectral, stalk* before
imagination and mingles a footfall with ev
ery gast that rattles the shattered door.
And do human creature* dwell in such a
nodes a* this t
Histl
There is a sound in that dark corner
There is a sign a* if life of agony wera nosh
ed at once from the heart. And than a
spectra form slowly rises ami stalks toward
the light. It ia a woman, bat God, bow
tbin sod haggard I A fiercer gust shakes
the old building. She stands in a listening
attitude and its low wail dies away, sod
then, wildly staring at vaeanoy, lakes her
seat mechanically upon a box by tbe light.
Her face U thin, and every feature the foot
print Of unutterable agony. The eye* am
sunken and inflamed, but as tearless as her
check and tip aw bloodless. Tha latter ia
' thin and drawn closely, as if in mortal auf
-1 faring, over her teeth.
f She lean* towards tha waning taper, and
1 take# a garment ia her band upon which she
1 baa been sawing. How foeifufly tearless
I and ealm ah* appears. We look until some
' night-mare fascination chain* u* to the spot.
' Save awarding wildnem about the eye, it
' would not seem that those feature* had ev
-1 et been stirred by a human passion. She
" hold# bar hand* toward* the light to tho *t
-1 tempt to thread her needle but fails t and
1 Mill, with bar hands extended, stare* at the
' dim taper.
1 There ia a Mining in the heap of rags be
-3 side her and th* woman start* a* if slang by
an adder. The faintest flush passes over bar
cheek, and eh* mutton to herself M she
' mom hurriedly essays to thread the nee
dle.
i
From the hoop ef tags a bey ha* com#
, forth ! Child of ten yean—bestanda before
, tho spectral mother, and to husky whispers
. ask* lor breed. She et area strangely toto his
I face, and still mutters to herself.
Tbe bey la almost sated and shivering
, with sold and upon these chikltoh features
I hunger tea written enough to pierce the her.
| deal heart. The very leek to a hopeless,
> heart-breaking agocy. The child hews hi*
I head in that woman's top with a sob like
. moon, and then move* with a tonga id step
, to the grata, and lay* his fingers already blue
with sold, upon the frosty Iron.—Tbe chill
. causes him to start, and he returns moaning
to the woman. The band ha* fallen in her
toy, and tbe boy toys bis eold cheek down
upon it and weeps. She leugs but it to the
1 low, Horrible ha Ihal of the man iac !
i " Mother, dear mother I give MM one
i mouthful of bread. Hain't there breed, e
.- nough where Pa has gone I Mother, will
I God give me bread if 1 say my prayer* f"
, Th* child It neeto, and the prayer hie mo
. liter taught him, goes feebly np against the
, wail of tbe blast, and then with weariness
| and hunger, the little ptoades toll* to sleep
L eo his koees, bto head eo h| mothers baud.
The mother smiles a* sbe still stare* at va
. oancy.
The storm has passed and the morning
light ol tbe Sabbath dawns upon th* great
' city. The church bells are peeling out the
i 'Sabbath melody and gay firoug of people an
weeding along to the richly furnished chut
* • V • • M lf l *-f v "
cbM. Hers were shawls which aqtoea might
envy, and equipages af princely qriendor
Kariy this Sab bath morning, a reW heart*
1 ad bmdMgoea np the lone aufii way Soll
premiaad Met and haoaksat the dps*, which
1 foe reader ha* already entered, lie wake
but a ■ (iMeet and angrily enter*.
" No playing gamoa with ate, wedam—
. That money ot lsav*. D'ye hear,fwoman?''
The rotten wa oaad to aoaaaa it aeffsr
ing, bet he a tailed back at the aaa before
hint—That pale haggarad womaa-apactra
waa (till aaatad by the lamp near burned
out, the garment and needle in her band,
and that horrible s mile upon bar features
and thai wild eye gaiaiag into vassaay.
The lamp bad burned down and died out
Jln ir* socket That .Wrap at life, too, bad
waned doring tba oold dreary night, and a
corpte (at there, holding the needle in the
emaciated finger*, and smiling in death.—
The boy (Upt again*! the and polieleM
form of the toil, heart-broken, hungered
mother.
That day the officer entered the flrsless
chamber to remove the dead *ea**tieaa lo
that dark corner, where the woman waa first
■sen, was tbe husband. Ha had baea a
corpus for more than ten days, and she tail
ing to escape starvation, and watohmg with
the shroudless, unbnried dead.
Tbe two found a home and an endless
rest in Pottet's Field, and the pinched and
starving boy bread in the alms-house.
Wbsn We are Dead.
1. There will be some honest sorrow.—
A few will be really aad, aa wa are dressed
lor the grave. Fewer probably, than we
suppose. We are vsin enough to think our
departure will produoe considerable sensa
tion. Bat we over estimate it. Out of a
vary small circle how soon shall wa be for
gotten. A single leaf in u boundless forest
has fallen 1 That is all.
Tbe gay will laugh,
Wbsn thou art gone, tbe solemn brood of
csre
Plod on, and soon one as before will thaw
Hie favorite pbactom.
9. The world will go on wltbont us. We
mey have thought a very important wheel
in the machinery, will be ungeared when
we are gone. But the world goes oiattering
on as if nothing had happened. If we Ail
ed important stations in society, fi we have
wondered what would or could be done, if
we were removed ; yet how soeu others
would fill onr stations! The world can be a
before we entered it It wit be when we
are gone.
3. When we are dead, sflection maye
reel a monument. But the hands that eat it
up will soon be aa powerless aa ears, and
from tbe same cause. How soon they that
wept over us will fellow us I The monu
ment itself will erombte- and its dust will
fall on tba dust that covert as. If the mar
ble and granite endures, yet the eyaa of af
fection will net long endure to read the
graven letters, Men will give a hasty glance
at tha name of one they never kn*w, and
' paaa on, with not a single thought of the
slum barer below.
On my grassy grave
The men ol tha future times will aareUssly
tread
1 And read my name upon tbe nnsculptared
, Nor wiH the sound familittdat their can
, Recall tuy vanished memory. ,
4. WUn we are dead, our influence will
, not be dead also. Wo leave epitaphs upon
. indestructible ra atarisl*. Oar manual of
, life baa bean writing them. Wa Neva stir
. red up thought and awakened sMotios. —
I Tha wonderful machinery of mind haa felt
, onr presence. We have pressed lbs stamp
of ear character into the warm wa* sf moral
sensibilities around ue. Foot steps; toward
immortality have been guided, or
[ ed by us. Our placet of business, ijr social
s resort may know us no mors; hut lining, ac
countable beings feel tea mfleenca that enr
vivas our personal departure.
6. Whan wa are dead the kingdom of God
' wiH net die.. It wifl riot depend on ue far
' existence. Aad onward will it go wo
' have ceased to live. Happy indeed, if it
* bad bean the honor and joy of out labors to
have prompted it. Bteeae Jis it to be ro
t meat beted as having loved Eon ; aa taking
' pleasure in bar walls, and favoring the dust
• thereof.
> Sacred, consoling thought! The Kingdom
' of Christ moves on, whotvwe drop all of our
' earthly relations to it. Other servants of God
' will rise up and All our pieces. A brighter
1 star may rise for one that is fallee- Stron
' gar bauds than ours may oema into the
1 ranks.
r 4. Whea we am dead soma wiH think of
1 us. Perhaps not a large circle. And what
' will thay think f Our present course af Ufa
is furnishing them with themes of thought,
i Coldness end indifference lo tbe Kingdom
■ of God—of that will our survivors think, if
I it marked our characters. And is sadness
will those that truly love ue ponder it And
- thoughts how many, and bow pom farting,
> will rim, and the pangs ef real .sorrow over
I ear departure, il we bad shewn Jftt the
> praises of him who oalfeA us to aad
16 virtue, lulo which or*these channels ere
' we bkely to turn the thoughts of men f
Puritan Recordtr.
! OT A foundry haa been opened up town
, lo "met reflections.''
i •*<
i OT Success depends upon umiy of ee
tion.
'* Be elation -AoimUHss.
It is t common boast tbet tbe nineteenth
century is wiser, better, an* oohm liberal
its libraries, its newtpspots and its tycoonH
are qaoteri continually as proof* W tie Wgh
ioieHeotual and moral caltera. Tot in ana
rasp set them boa huso leas program made
than thofl rfmiH have INNI. Baoliriiii an •
hnoaity , thai bona ef goed order, that foe to
Ch riatianity itself, would seem to bo iacrea
sieg, MMead of diminish iog.
We era not the enemies af deaoetiirartoß
al divisions. We believe, on the contrary,
that the diversity of sects is (hn bast safe
guard ef tens religion. Troth eannot axial
without discussion. A dominant Church el
smWrnam impure. Bot sehtertsil ttigo
try has nothing lo do properly with sect*—
The Methodist, Beptist, Cstbolio, Episeefe
lien 'or Quaker may rightfully worship Gad
after tha fashion moat pleasing to himaolf j
bot ha haa no authority to denounce tha mo
tives or assail tha foith of others; in fact, if
he deae either, he violsies that charity, with
out which, it bee been emphatically raid,
"ell that a man hath peofttetlt him nothing.'
In nil ages, sectarian animosities have
waked the worst passions of the human soul.
From the eteeghter of the Albigeoees to tha
persecution of the Mormons, they have been
the fruifel authors of brutalities, cruelties
and atrocities, from which our ooramon na
ture revolts. They lighted the fires ef Smith
field, they sent Servmus to stake, they burn
ed Cmnaoer, they murdered Anne Askew,
they persecuted the Covenanters, thay cens
ed the meeaera of St. Bartholomew, they
hong the Quakers, they foandsd the Inqui
.silion. There have been law or ne sects
free from tbe taint of persecution. Protes
tants have banged Protest aats, end Roman
Catholics slaughtered so called heretic#. The
blood of msrtym smokes under* tbe altera of
almost every church; for bigotry aad intol
tnce are eommou to unregulated human na
ture. Yet, tbank God for it, holy men
have bean common to all tha Christian Chur
ches. Tha seme faith that produced a Do
minic sent forth a Xavier ; the same Cran
mer that burned an A anal rapt ist want biai
aatf to the stake. Wesley and Fenelon ai
domed, by their meek virtu#*, churches
which had sent forth the most cruel pesecu
torn, Landoe and Philips, Stuarts aad bloody
Marys. Ought not this to make us all culti
vate Christian charity, and .avoid Materials
animosities.
It mey be said that there is no room, io
Ihis enliabtened ega,'M a nonewel of ■*-
secution. It is tree ibat that the stake can
never be re-lighted : the reck re-erected ;
tbe ue of martyrdom re-sharpened. Bot
there are other methods in which intolerance
mey show itself. It Marts from small begin
ning*, but soon, as experience has shown,
ranges and roars like a wild conflagration,
surging through tbe streets soaking up human
blood, shattering tha very foundations of ao
oiety by il* terrible explosions- If • wild
beast is unCiged in a crowd, aom* aproxi
■nation to tha iojury, at the worst, can be
made. But if sectarian animosities are fo
mented, Omniscience alone can tell where
the frightful havoc will stop.
And if to religions differences tba antipa
thy of tba race is added, as an elemant in the
inlernal cauldron, which demagogism would
stir np, and stimulate with ita unhollowed
incantations, who ean say what atrocities
lhay not be perpettaled,even in thisonligh
leoedage! Atrocities to which men will
look back ahndderingly a few generations
later, a* we now regard with horror the 'per
secution of the Quakers in Massachusetts,
the slaughtering of the Covenanters, the
burning of Latimer and Ridgly, Rogers and
Harper—[Pub. Ledger.
At lech asset to Heme.
It bee been said of Americans that they
manifest lose attachment to the plaoe of
their biith, and less regard to their
friends of othor days, than any peo
ple in tha civilised world. Thay hav a their
frianda and their homes, and cast lit* meal re*
upon the tide of uncertain, and often unpro
pitnous adventure; but not because the se
emly uf friend* has besoms irksome, or the
boteMdhbir childhood has lost the charms
Of ita pcisPfae beauty: No/deep, bitter, and
abidiwf era tha aerrew* ibat entwine the
heart ef a dutiful son and affectionate daugh
ter, when perhaps for the last lima, thay
look upon the form of en aged mother,whose
peats admonish all, that era long tha cold
bead ef dqrth will consign her to a mating
place forever. Who that he* ever beheld
the streaming eyes of a food and laving mo
ther, who with stricken heart heaving bo
som, would clasp the bead of bar depart mg
child, and as the I sat maternal office, point
him to a faith which leads to a. happy spirit
laud ; who oe the whole earth that has seen
this, can aay that ae American does not love <
home and friends! Thank Heaven onr
countrymen era indu strieus, enterprising and 1
bold, though they ere generally peer: and
their footsteps, are directed for fortune and
fat honor. And the herase and the friends
that tbey love are henceforth remembered in j
their elyaian dreams of pleasure foeees> 1
goo*. Hew** dews back in i
rvtvt reoollectioo, and live again the suiufjf |
hours of tunes gees by, surrounded by
friends whom he never nan forget, is a "hu
man icicle," and never enjoyed the society
of a true friend, or knew the save of a fath
er and the lave ol a mother. Should any (
oae ask mo why home wee the spot which ,
above all other* on earth w* cherish undy
ing memory of, I Would answer, because it 1
m foe plaoe where we have felt the miles *
and enjoyed the love of our mother*. 1
Tha Power of Habit.
, fobs B. Sough tbe eloquent rerepetasrae
sdvoeets, atMrtrwi tail Immense atedisnse
is Earner Hell, London, e fow weeks age,
end produced a deep impress!en. Wa eKp
the following bmm a London paper of Pee.
2nd :
The orator went on m combat the notion
that e habit can bo broked off at eey time,
and bo did so by a series of illustrations,
one of which preduoed intense excitement.
" I remember riding from Buffalo to the
Niagara Falls, and I set* to a gentlemen,
• Whet river la foot sir V 'That,' he ftid, 'is
Niagara river.' 'Wall, H is* beautiful
stream, said I ; 'bright, Is'.r andglsaay; hew
far off are the repn/a V 'Only male ra
two,' waatft* reply. 'lt at possible that cur
ly a mile from oa wo shall find the water in
the turbulence which I meat show when
near the falls f 'Yon will flu* It so, sir.'—•
And so I found h | and that firat sight ef Hi.
agar* I shall never forget. Now launch your
bask on the Niagara river ; it la bright, \
smooth, beautiful and glassy. There ie a
ripple at (ha bow; the silvery wake you
leave behind add* to your enjoyment.—
Down tha stream you glide, boats, saila and
helm in proper trim, you sol out oe your
pleaaure excursion. Suddenly sores one
cries out from (bo bank. ■Young men, ahoy!
■What is it !* 'The rapid* are below ytu^' —
'Ha! ha! wa have heard of tha
we are not such fools as to get there. If we
go too faet, then we shall up with the beta
Mad steer to tba shore ; we will est the moat
in the socket, hoist (he rails, end speed to
land. Than 00, bays! don't be alarmed
boys, there's no danger.' 'Young men, ahoy
Ihore !' What is it V 'The rapids are below
yon.' 'Ha I b*! w* will laugh and quaff;
all things delight ua ; what care wo for the
future 1 No man ever raw it. Sufficient for
ihe day is tha avil thereof. Wa will enjoy
life wbil* we may ; wa will catch pleasure
as it flies. This ia enjoyment; time eneogh
to steer out of danger when we are sailing
with Ihe current too swiftly.' 'Young men,
ahoy!' 'What is it ' 'Beware, beware ;
the rapids are below yon !' Now you see |
the waters foaming around. See how f*M i
you past that point ! Up with the helm !
Pull bard !—quick !—pull for your lives
pull till the blood starts from your nostrils,
and the veins stand like whipcords upon
your brow ! Set tba mast in the socket! hoist
tba sails ! Ah, ah /—it is to late. Shrieking
cursing, howling, blaspheming, over thay go.
Thousands go over tbe rapids every year,
through tbe power of evil habit, crying ail
the while. 'When I find out that it ia injur
ing me I will give it up.*'
From the Banner of Indiutry.
"•ledge net that Y* may be not •ledge*-"
'Why are you so desponding V asked I
of a young girl whom 1 found weeping bit
terly in the silence ot her own apartment.
'Sad and desponding,' repealed she in a
voioa broken by sobs. 'Can Ibe otherwise,
whan tbe world judges ma ao harshly P
'True, I have been careless and impru
dent in many of my action*, but is that aay
reason, now that repantanoa is with m* I
should still b* treated witn ooldoeea and sus
picion V
'There are many eiroumatanaae attending
every notion of a parson's lifo that the world
may nerer know, gpd yet thay should be
known ere judgement be passed upon her.'
With a heart almost as sad as bar own, I
left my poor young friend io her tears, and
returning t* my home, sa*. down, my bead,
leant on my hand, to think over tbe very
true remarks I had jast heard.
Judge not, that ye be not judged ; but who
bends an etr to the divine commandment t
Alas! very few. Mercy and Charity, gentle
spirit*, affrighted at the ookinete thy met,
have flown back to Hearen and lata human
hearts stern, ernel, and an forgiving.
Mach grieved am I la ray that tbe major
ity of those who call themselves christians,
manifest in eommon with the unconverted,
the spirit of parseoation that in oldeu lima
led to tba ery. *Crucify him! Crucify him I
Could I tall tha story of tha weeping gitl
to her enamiae—couW I relate the eoenes
of suffering, want, and poverty through
which aba has passed—ccuH I paint the un
happy childhood barelt ef parents, aad h*r
sorrew-lsden youth" surrounded by cares and
temptations—could I do all (hi*, it asay ba
that tbe hearts of some of those dwellings
In wealthy mansions, knowing no want—
biessad with loving mothers, dear brothers,
and kind has bauds, might ba softened to
wards her.
But still in many cares, I foot the trial
would be made without success. When
will dl* happy end prosperous learn to pity
those who have met oo sunshine in life, hot
ever draped beneath misfortune's cloud T
God alone ie merciful. Hi* blessed son
our Saviour, shrank not from oeutaut with
the sinner. Am you, children of earth, bat
tel than He 1
'Judge not, that ye be not judged,' for the
judgemeut ye mete nut ore iihiift B* re
raiued' to you again, when at tha last day
we are all summoned before the greet an d
good Gad t
A LUX Vxxitoe.
or THC former whose pigs were so lean
tbet it took tore of tbem to make a shadow,
waa beat by aa other, who bad severe! ao
thin that thay would crawl through tha otaeks
in their pan. Ha Anally stop pad that foe by
tying knots in (hair tail*.
NUMBER n
from the N. Y. Picayune.
FBOP. IVfoVt CEME
SrsTxa* am) Baeuotan— *
f sex Si stern fop* die km*, base It am
time dot da wimmto seat who had bto a
mmfito bam all along tm fie fern in oberytiag
•hood b* rewarded for tier wnbbto, and bp ,
menshnned foes to die ham lueture. I also J
dex to, has* ttoy to a little taofe interested in
de tubjic dan de male sect. Not dat dere to
moob difference, but dor am sum.
What I'm agoin to lighten your darkened,
underetandius on dtoatfo, am do all impor
tant aubjie fo
TALKIH.
Sum oh you may be 'eprtood del I take*
apueuhjmdemmafib yffu em Mrfabltier
wid—but my potegy em, del dare's mewny
igsunuent eb de fust principles oh dat art. I
do dot rafor to taikia Turkey, not to taikiu
to meetto, but I mesh to ornety way ob
scourton 'bout men end tings, but mora 'tfo
ntarly men.
Now Siatetra and Brmktom, de more kom
mon fault ob all, i* dat date's me any eb you
tank when you've got nuffin to say.
Dto kumplaint 'longs moesly to you Mh
hold* offis. Same Dinah (Seeiaadtbe, who's
Pmanmdent to d* Dorking Sioty for do poor
dua nufflo all day but lank 'bout her aeroi
sty's efforts, *bout da grate good day Specs to
do, and hew aell-eakrifizin she am, dareby
meauin ah* am a grate deal bettor den uddoc
nigger*. Now Sister Dinah babn't really
get ennyting to Say wnrf Speaking 'bout.—
Her time to tank dm after she ha* dun sum
fin. But she kant wait dat long, fur it may
neber hum, for peepil in de habit ob tgukiu
much, ain't gloomily id da habit ob doin
mueh.
Deader*'* sum ob fib mail gineraahun
dat am jtot M bad. Bf you want to fiud bow
mneb tank date's in a full-grown nlggar ob
de mees-kuliao specie, jtot pint him ou d
kommktee to git d new bible for do ohnroh,
or |e bab glare put to do window* ob it, or
to rate murtny tot de pedlar. It* * neber
foil's dperimcnt. De less he noe, da mora
he'll uuk to hid* hi* jgnumrance.
He'll be like * grist-mill, ddt nlwaye make*
mora noise wen de hoppet* *ifi empty, den
wea dare's plenty ob koto for bee kska to it.
You may be shure dat a grate tauker on
publick 'caishuns am a No-Nothing. Tank
to'* easy, but doto's hard, darafos* dar's
more ob d* fuss dunt
But dare'* as much ob dto agoin on to pri
wm* life, as m publick, for I nose pepil, not
wire peupl, but trigger* ob (He koogregs
sh'un, dat* allots * Isukin Ob 'ouesty, dat'U
ony gib you 99 klama for a hundred ef yea
don't wetoh em. An dare's odder* dat neb
er fates to spoke tow liberality and all tieh
woo d*t* pasture's by, bnt only frows tree
oeut piece in de easeer when bto back's
turned, a pray in in de pool-pit.
But dare am more lings yet. Dares an W
folks who tick dey kin oolv (how dere net
tog* by cbawin up d* dicksbunary, end
| spittio it out in little bits, like de boy* due
1 paper bullets in sknto. Dey mate* menny
silly-hies instead ob gibio you senca, and
dey ttok dm yoo'll 'spots 'em mea ob lettora,
kaaa dny'ro men ob menny sound*, der lam inn
am aH in dare tong, and aare aoitoge boxes
boin empty, make more noise den of dey
were foil. Dere Idem to few, end old, and
dry rattle* 'bout in dere noddles like pea* in
a drida turkey's orop.
Dme v s one more set eb tauker'# dm I like
to be a giltto at—namely, dam as to altor*
work in a sum in addishun wen ennytings
tole to 'em, speshally wen iu not much to
do exwantage ob dere nabora. Bui time,
and a follow foelin for Brodder Ledderpato,
makes me oiose an -vale for aoudder favora
ble opportunity ob stirriu up de preettoerioh
slander wid de sharp Mick of miigioa, aided
by de mallet ob stance.
Brodder Tattle will plan* toto 'round de
sasaer, an keep n eye on deals* an welly
ob do kontriboshon.
An Arkansas volunteer In the Mexican
war, riding on horseback, came; across an'
Illiooian, wbo wasahot in th# tog. The ll
linoian told bim where be was wounded ,
and MiggeMod to be taken up and conveyed
out ef dsngec "Arkaueet" placed bim on
behind the Muldle, and fostened bim to him
self with a leather strap, while they ware'
hastening from danger, a grape abot took
"Illinois" bead off; but "Arkansas" thought
he bad only fainted from fatigue and pato.
When a safe place was arrived at, th* bo:M'
man releasing hi* chug*, nd seeing hie
head wa* gone, exclaimed ; "Well! these
lilirtoia.ua ere the d—et lien. Here to a
rascal wilh hie head off, when he told me
he waa only abot In the leg. Yeuean't be
lie vo a word thus fallow* soy."
Aa many writers hare taken tbe trouble
to define what a wife ought to be, we msyaa
welt add our idea on the subject to tha gen
eral fund. A wife should be like rout tomb
—louder end nicely dressed,
Women are like boraes—they gayer the
harness they have on, th* bettor they fool.
We got this from an old bachelor, wbo wa*
early arossed to lav*,;
Turn man who tried to sweeten bto tea
with one of bis wifo's smile* ha* 'fallen
bach* on sogmr. Nothing like first principle*
offer all.
Itlll
Be wbo knew* himself will never be im.
pndont.