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From "Night and tke Slid," the great psem of
the age By 1. STAN TAN Bica.
NIGHT. .
The night is lovely, and I love her with
A passionate devotion, for she stirs
Feelings too deep for utlerunoe within rns.
She thrills me with an influence and a pow
er,
A stdden'J kind of joy I cannot name,
So that 1 meet her brtghest smiles with tears.
She seemeth like a prophetess, too wise,
• Knowing,ah! all too much lor happiness;
As though she hud tried all things, and had
found
All vain aud wanting, andwas thenceforth
steep'd
Up to the very dark, tear-lidded eyes
In a mysterious gloom, a holy calm !
Doth she nni look now just as if she know
All that taih been, and all (hat is to come?
With one of her all prescient glances turn'd
Towards those kindred depths which slept
for aye—
The sable roLe which GoJ threw round him
self,
And where, paviilion'd in glooms, ho dwelt
in brooding night for ages, perfecting
The glorious dream of past eternities,
The fabric of crcaiion, running alown
The long time-avenues, and gazing out
Into those blanks which- slept before time
was;
And with another searching glance,tared up
Towards unknown futurities—the book
Of unborn wonders—till she oath perused
The chapter of its doom ; and with art eye
Made vague by the dim vasluess of its vis
ion,
Watching unmoved the fall of burning
worlds,
Rolling along the steep sides of the Infinite,
All ripe, like apples dropping from (heir
stems;
Till the wide fields of space, like orchards
Mripp'd
Have yielded up their treasures to the gar
ner,
Aud tho last star hath fallon from the crown I
<?f the h'gu li* ..veu. ii,/ tilts* niglit; |
l-ike a bright moment swallnw'd up and lost
In hours of after-aiiguith; and all things
Are as they were in (lie beginning, ere
The mighty pageant trafl'd its golden skirts
Along the glittering pathway ol its God,
Save that the spacious I. alls ol heavcu are
filled
With couulloss multitudes of finite souls,
With germ-l.ke infinite capacities.
As if to prove all had not been a dream.
: Its this that Night seems always thinking
of:
Linking the void past to the future void,
Ami typifying preseut times in stars,
Toihow ilia: all is not quite issueless,
But that the blanks have yielded starlike
ones
Te cluster round the sapphire throne of God
In oliss for ever, and for evermore !
Oh yes! 1 love the Night,' who ever stand -
eth M
Wfth her getmiril finger on her rich ripe
lip,
As if in attitude of deep attention,
Catching the mighty ecnes of the word*
Which God had iUWf*4-t* thweatttt was
form'd,
Or ere yon Infinite blush'd like a bride
With all her jewel., and 1 love the flowers,
And their soli slumber as they lie around
In the tweet starlight, bathed in love-like
dew,
And looking like young sisters, nrphens 100,
Left to our watchful cure end guardianship,
To keep them Irora the rough-voiced, burly
winds,
Aud see that nought invades their soul-like
sleep, I
Thou canst not tell me what Ido not love '
In all this dark-robed family ol peace:
The temporary bosh ol the low winds,
* And their uprising wail: —the shadows there |
Cast from the long datk shrubberies, that
move
And rest again on the greensward, arid nod
Their heatse-like plummag-e to the passing
winds:
The deep, unclouded light, hall glow, half
gloom,
Dark, and yet lustrous, gleaming with a fire
Whose sources seem onfathomuble ; love
Even the very grass beneath our feet, -
Whose graceful blades I almost fear to tread
on,
Because, when I have psss : d, they raise
themselves
Again,half in teproacb, so quietly
Turning themselves once more uuto the
heaven
That cherishes and feeds them, I could
weep
That I bad crush'd them underneath my foot;
Even yon tree, standing so lonely there,
As if it dreatn'd of all the music which
Its branches used to hold wtieu in their
prime,
Ere it became & deed aitd blasted thing
Upon the bosom of the living world,
Which the still vyeareth, as a maiden wears
The withered flowers of the sweet Long-Ago,
Ere love itself and lover both were dead !
Ar.d yet I love it too—grim ancient thing.
All, all, oh! yes, I dearly love them all!
GLAD TO BEAR IT.— The Reading
Journal says, (speaking of the Mayor's
notice to dealers noi to sell liquors to
some 140 tippling citizens of that city,)
that—
"We hear foots every quarter that the
stopping of liquer has worked an entire
reform on most of thasa who are on the
iiet, and that they have become enber men
and ere attending to their work. Some
eftU menage to secure the article— though
with serious difficulty—get drunk and
ere sen. to the castle."
(/if Prime wheat U selling in Louis-
Mile M P" baahel.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY. AUGUST 3, 1854.
WHIPPING CHILDREN.
>y Wt MRS. SWUSHZUt.
We have to ask pardon of onr Ripley cor
g respondent for forgetting sooner to answer
her inquiry as'to what we should do if a
child refused te obey u. Wbat we should
d do would depend very muob on the state of
>• our health. If we had swallowed rich pas
tries and scalding drinks omit our digestion
0 was all out of order—-slept in • close room,
is and negleoted washing until our brain was
muddied with had air snd impurities caused
• by obstructed perspiration—if he had worn
one or moio skirts suspended on our sides
0 until we had a backache indicating diseased
spine and consequently diseased brain—if
s from any cause our nervous system was de
>f ranged, and ws as peevish and irritable as
one must consequently be, and a child
under our earn should be iu a similar con
dition and bs consequently provoking, we,
in (he exercise of the authority with which
the law invests us, might do a very cruel
thing. We might bruise the tender flesh
with blows, lerrily it into idiocy b) shutting
, it in a dark closet, or commit upon the help
less, defenceless lulls creature almost any
1 enormity shorl%f taking its life or maiming
it, and do it all under a sense of duty, byway
, of teaching it obedience. We might first
destroy the-child's temper by destroying its
health, and render ouraelf a half maniac by
a like process, and in our insane anger pan
the child for what we ought to be punished,
I and the law and public opinion would jusli
-1 fy the act. We are no better (ban ordinary
folks, and placed in like circumstances
woul d be as likely to be wicked and cruel
as the thousands who maltreat their children
as we describe; but what we ought to do
and what we would do may be very differ
ent matters.
i Every person, but particularly every moth
er, should be careful to preserve a sound
mind in a sound body. The soul should
dwell in her body as the strong man who
kyepelh his bouse, and she should take
- care that no thief elers to steal away her
senses. Anything which impairs her health
injures her mental powers ; and a sickly
, woman, unless she is one of a thousand, is
a fretful woman, and a fetful woman is not
fit to hare the charge of children.
A mother should take care that her child
ren get none but wholesome food, have pure
air night and day, are sufficiently washed,
I which should be the entire person onoe ev
ery twenty.four hours.loosely and comforta
bly clothed, have plenty of exercise in the
opon air, and employment anitable to their
ages. She should not fetter (hem with un
necessary rates. People who especially set
their minds upon bringing up their childr en
well, are very apt to govern them too much.
Let the young body and spirit grow a atural
lj, and rather with 100 little than too much
restraint. Preserve them, at all cost, from
improper associations. Never trust ohildren
to the care and companionship of persona
you esteem yonr own inferior. Have no
servants about them. Entrust them only to
the cars of persona whom they are taught
to respeM and who are worthy of that respect-
We should as much thick of giving our
child a bottle of. vitriol to amuse her, as hir
ing a girl out of some alley, of whose mor
als we knew next to nothing and placing
her as the child's attendant. Reverse the
pommoD ordecxtf thing*, and instead of giv
ing your child a companion who is 100 mean
to sit at labia with you, you may reoeive
many visitors in the beat room a* yonr com
panions whom yon should never entrust
, with the care of yoor child. If you do not
hare the entire charge of yOnr child, em
ploy some oue the nearest possible approach
to your ideas of a model lady and e Chris
tian, to tale yonr place. The difference be
tween her wages and that of a servant will
he the respect with which you treat her and
the position she occupies in yonr family.
If you thus place jour child iu proper
conditions, and are careful to keep the com
mand of your own apirit, ant* of wilful diso
bedience will be rare. When disobedience
> is the result of childish forgetfulnese, there
should scarce he an end to a parent's for
bearance and forgiveness There oertain iy
never should be an approaoh to severe pun
ishment.
A child who forgets to obey its parents is
oftqn more than sufficiently punished by
with hp I ding a kiss, or looking sorry; 'lqr ev
ery child should be so accustomed to caress
es aud tern:* of endsarment that they would
be as necessary to iu happiness as daily
bread; when they are so, a parent who does
i not govern too much will be able to enforce
all necessary commands by looking sorry
: refusing caresses until won by repentance.
In no ease sbeukl they bo longer withheld.
Whenever e child is sorry for doing wrong
( sad asks to be forgiven, the reconciliation
should be complete and no after mention
made of the offenoe. Never retail aoh Ud's
fanlu and punishments to another, or eall
opiSe nidmory of past errors.
In extreme oases where a child pnrpoeely
; and wilfully eafuses to obey, or resists, be
, sore yon yourself are calm, and if not, wait,
I until you are, end then punish it nntil it
yields. The best plan is to taka it for gran
> ted that all naughtiness is sickness, and
i mast be cured by abstinence or the wet
t sheet bath; so, give a refractory child noth
> ing but bread ami water, or pack it away io
a wet sheet. Do this gravely and firmly a*
1 io caw of the bodily illness, not as if yoa
' did it for vengesne* or for punishment, bat
ss a discipline necessary to restore it re
health In this (bet# is ao deception, for a
eht!o of violent or sullen temper kae always
seme imparity its Weed which asy be
removed by these mean* Treat all areola!
impurities as physioal diseases—treat them
psrsevsringly on tbe hydropbatio principle,
. and you cannot fad to bring up obedient,
ir pies ant tempered children,
a In ose* of great violence of lumper, there
J may be occasion In immediate physical
f force. Mr. Riohttdt, principle of the Phil
• adelpbie school for idiots, relate* of one lit
n tie girl, that she was so violent she would
i, drive every one out of (he room, break or
s tear everything in her reach and scream
1 (rightfully. In on* of bet psroxyms, after
I using commands to no purpose, be pieeed a
• napkin across her mouth, holding it firmly
i at the back of her head, leaving her novMts
f open but effectually stepping ell soand from
• her mouth. Taking both bar hand* in hie right
> and holding the napkin in bis lefi, be eaaaly
i held her, wailing for her to yield and w con
tinued to hold her for six hoar*. By thai
i time she grew calm, professed mpentanoe
> and promised obedience. Onoe again he
' applied the same remedy, bat only for half
1 .an hour, and she became a idea sect child,
I particularly fond of him. Punishment for
' children should consist, at most, in restraint,
1 and that no more (ban is neoessary to over
' come their resistance and make them feel
tbe parent or guardian is stronger then they
1 —that they can can restrain (hsm and will,
1 but only for tbeir benefit. No punishment
should assume the appearance of revenge,
' snd should always be administered by a
person in perfeot command of his or her
own temper. No one should attempt to go
vern a child until he has acquired the art of
| governingfhirasel/.— Pittsburg Visitor.
Items lor Democrats.
The whigs must have a rallying cry. JU
peal of the Nebraska bill is now that cry;
and with it the hope to seduoe some diaeat
i isfied democrats from onr ranks, and thn*
gain political power agaiu. It is an old
> trick of onr enemies. They know tbe re
i peal can never be aflected. It is humbug.
After the passage ol the tariff sot of 1846,
their cry was Repeal. They gained political
power in 1848. Yet from that day to this,
they have never attempted the repeal of
that act. Even in their national conventions
they have since passed a resolution against
that tariff. But the cry of repeal deluded
some democrats. Will the democrats be a
gain deceived. The Nebraska bill is iu its
nature irrepeslable. .Rights will be acquir
ed under the act', in a few months, that can
only be divested by tbe popular vote.
The whigs urge that the Nebraska act
was uncalled for at this time. Yet thousands
of people are preparing to emigrate to the
new territories. Is not that proof sufficient
that territorial organizations were wanted >
Tue action* of the government i* followed
immediately by migration and settlement.
Th* question of slavery must be met in
some way in relation to those territories, —
Who could sellle that question most safely
and most justly for all the interests of hu
manity—ihe people who were to be affected
by, it, or demagogues in congress who seek
notority by a perpetual agitation of the sub
ject 1 Democrats, surely, cannot hesitate' for
an answer to this question-
Shall democrats be alarmed when whigs
taise a great clamor! Was net the elamor
! against Madison fur the wet of iei ■ fu
rious I Was not the hue end ory against
Jso It son for more base and violent for veto
ing the charter of the rotten United States
bank I Was not Polk equally abased on ee
count of the Mexican war, and for the tar
iff of '461 Yet what did 411 this clamor a*
mount to? Who now condemt lb* meas
ures that the federalists in their time so bit
terly reviled ? Tbe result has proved that
Ihe measures were wise, and fortunate for
the interests of the country. No democrat
ic president has escaped their reviling*.—
No great moasare bss escaped their lying
denunciations. Yet time bas shown tbeir
folly; and that the democrat* ware tight
end so it will undoubtedly be in the present
oase.— Pittsburg Pott.
A FAST ANECDOTE. —Tbey do things up
fast in Evsnville. It is a progressive place
in everything. We jrad a happy instanoe of
thespitit of progress in onr midst a abort
time sicoe. A your saddler wanting a pair
ofJboets mafia, weat-wto Qeas friend in
that lute el business, and was measured.—
Ha called in a few days for his boots, bat
tbe shoemaker said bis wife was very siok,
and he must wait a little longer. Aga'n be
called, but tbe poor fellow's wile hod just
boon buried, and in his overwhelming grief
he could not think of making boots that
week—wait a little longer. Finally, ebon t
two week* after tbe poor shoemaker's be
reavement, the sadler called again, thinking
that his boots must certainly be done by
that time.
" Well, my friend, *r* my boots don*
yet ?"
''No, ley bos not ton; mine vif# tya, and 1
have bean done ootliug but take ear* of te
babies ail te time*. But,' countineed be,
brightening up, "I bat goin' to be married
to-morrow night, den te first ting whet I
make* is tor boots"
IHT A Arm in Oswego county, have
patented a model of working the fibrous
parts of swingle tow into paper, snd it
produce* a firm and very while article,
WtT There wss groat mortality in the
ettv of New Orleans foy the wed: ending
Joiy %i m deaths-100 from son
stroke.
1 BTFOCBONDRIACISM.
' - A NOVEL CURE FOR IT.
i
ST K. M. CARLETON.
"Good asorning, friend Carter, bow is
| yoor wife, this morning ?'
"Bad os over. lam much discouraged,
1 asms* yen."
"Do yolt still bave a physician 1"
"Yes, hot ha con do nothing for her."
"But wbat doe* he say ?''
"He sers that it is tbe most awkward oass
of hypechondriaoism ha orer met with. I
am completely worn not She insists she is
going te die to-days*nd besought me in the*
most piteous aeeents to remain with her;
bat I have neglected my business too much
lately, and ceo no longer indulge her with |
my presence, which only make* her appear
worse."
"A bard caee, indeed, particularly for you,
bat what do you intend to do?"
"Do! loan't imagine what, friend Bush,
unless t become insane and take refuge in
a mad-house."
"Do not despair; soch cases are by no
means hopeless."
"I here done with hope "
"I am no physioian, Carter, bat I have a
plan in my head which I think oannot fail to
cure bar."
"Oat with it, at onoe. I am ready to
grasp a straw if it poin te out the slightest
hope.''
"Have you a good sharp axe?"
"I believe so." '
"If yon have all
means. When yob return st noon, ssy as
little as passible to her, but proceed deliber
ately to cut down the bedstead upon which
she lays."
"1 did not think yon would make my af
fliotion a subject of miith."
"1 never wss more seiious in my life.—
Do this, and leave the rest with me ; but if
you do not agree to it, I wash my hands of
tbe matter.''
"Since you are sertoas, I will agree to
anything, however ridiculous."
"It is a bargain, then ?"
"It is."
The friends parted. Carter proceeded to
his store, while Bush hastened to the resi
dence of his friend. As he wss an intimate
acquaintance, he was at once admitted. He
seut word to the invalid that he had some
thing of the utmost importance to commu
nicate U her, Snd must see.■:§. usrisfio u:
Such • message roused the furiosity of
tbe dying women, as she termed tiniasifrj
and she consented to see him. The Mrtßjjnj
had evidently got bet cue, for she ' mode afiH 1
excuse for leaving him in, and at onoe pro- !
ceeded down stairs.
"Good morning, Mrs. Carter, how do yon
feel?"
"f am dying," ebe said faintly. I
"Then I will not disturb yon," t He
ed towards the door as if about to leave the I
room.
"Do not leave me, Mr. Bush, to die ufonqL 1
beside*, yoa gave me to understand /Msfcffr
something important.to' any to me." _ > i
"Tin*! but it is an unpleasant task to be
tbe messenger of evH k *>l i
"Evil tidings! What yon mean, Mr.
Bush ? ! ' ' *
■ "OS linf... t..w., LrtfmtfijMgHa th* >
inegotefitiea of how husband <
pugoant to my feeling*. I wish I had dot
come."
'■Speak," said Mrs. Cftitog propping her
band with en additional pillow, "let me
knew *H."
"Wbeo year husband left yon this morn
ing. where did he tell you he was going I"
"To hit stow, ol course. Where should
be gel"
Injured woman—he deceived yoa : for he
called at th* heus* of tbe young widow
Smith, where be is ■ constant visitor "
"Yets amaze me, Mr. Bush 1" The in
valid had btatily thrust a ehawl abont hqr,
and was (ably sitting np.
"Take earn and not oxeil* yourself, my
dear madam. I will not shock yonr feel
ings any farther. I was abont to say—but
I oannot, dare not."
"Proceed—tell me anything rather than
allow mo fe remain In IhiffVtupenae. Cuii
oeai nothing, as >ou vMeeiby friendship.'"*
"1 believe yea an tnuvr&FWeman, sod, J
will fmokly tell yoa ell, although it will
sarely east me Carter's friendship. Ho is
actually engaged to bar. They will be
married semi six months after your death,
which they have oaloulated will soon oc
ear."
"The moctter!—but I will balk him—
And that emooth-foeed young widow—to tail
me only n day or iwoawaoe, that she would
sever marry again. I'll soon put a stop to
those fina doing*."
"Bat thia is not all, Mrs. Carter, they have
actually consulted Dr. Kaback, or some oth
er huinbilggiflg astrologer, to learn how long
yea will livhs, and ho informed them that if
jrout husband could succeed iuo utting down
all fear posts of your bedstead, while you
rematnod iu bed, you would not live four
days." >, '>- >
"Monstrous! bat this tdk is inorsdtblai, 4 1
oannot believe it."
"You shall have proof,' for yonr husband
will commence operations this noon, howev -
or foolish it may seem."
"lot I will not remain ia the house to be
thus used. If I were not eo-ill 1 would re
tain at 0000 to my father's.
"Take my advice, madam. Rest quietly
and be nuns, but partake of all the noar
'•hmrni yoa possibly can, and when he be
' **- * *
gins his vile work, leave your bed st or.es
snd thus put sn eflectusl stop to his villain
ous intentions. I really cannot remain an
other moment."
He left the lady in a terrible rage, who,
1 while reflecting opon her wrongs, entirely
forgot her illueae. The unconscious Carter
' returned, and without wasting words bsga n
vigorously hacking at tbe elegant mahoga
ny bedposts. The wife, with tbe fury of a
tigress, leaped from tbe bed snd completely
overwhelmed tbo astonished man with in
vective* aud accusations of the most bitter
and vindictive obaracter.
He thinking her insane, fled from the s
partment, but she followed from room to
room, giving ber rage fnl. scope and do
nouncing him and the widow Smith as the
vilest and most criminal of mankind.
After a long and ludicrous scene of domes
tic commotion, matters were satisfactorily
explained by both parties. The lady' was
completely cured of her fancies, and be
came an excellent wife, but it was a long
time before she forgave Bush.
TUB PRIMITIVE MAN.
I hold it to be morally impossible for God
to have creeled in (he beginning, such men
and women aa wo find the human race in
their physical condition, now to be. Exam
ine the book of Genesis, which contains the
earliest annals of the human family. As is
commonly supposed it comprise* the first
three hundred and sixty-nine years of hu
man history. With childlike simplicity,
this book describes the infancy of mankind.
Unlike modern histories, it details the minu
test circumstances of individual life. In
deed, it is rather a series of biographies
than of history. Tbe false delicacy of mod
em times did not forbid the mention of
whatever was done or suffered. And yet,
over all that expanse of time—for more than
one-third part of the duration of the human
race—not a single instance is recorded of a
child born blind, or deal, or dumb, or idiot
ic, or malformed in any way. During the
whole period, not a single case of a natural
death in infancy, or childhood, or early
manhood, or even of middle manhood is to
be found. Not one man or woman died of
disease. The simple record is, "and he
died," or, he died "io a good old age snd
full of years," or he wss "old and full of
days." No eptdemlb, or even er.demic dis
ease praj-jsited. showing that they die t the
natural death of healthy men, and not the .
uuiatural death of distempered ones, j
Through all this time, (except iu the single
LjUlgS ef Job, in his age, and then only for a
■ray or two before his death,) it does not ap
pear that any man was ill, or that any old
My or youug lady ever faulted. Bodily
'paid from disease is no where mentioned.
No cholera infantum, scatleima, measles,
kqitsll pox, not even a tooth-ache! So ex
mßminary a thing wss it for a sou to die
Nfrore his father, that an instauoe of it <s
deemed worthy of special notice; and this
first case of the reversal of nature's law was
two thousand years after the creation of Ad
am. See how Ibis reversal of nature's law
has for us become the law; for how rarely
jt is now for all the children of a family to
survive tbe parents. Rachel died at the
'tfiith of Benjamin ; but this is tbe only case
puerperal death mentioned in the twsnty-
TOW jwoAreU years ol ibeaaered history;
a nd even this happened during the fatigue*
of a patriarchal journey, when persons were
not walled along in thq saloons of a rail
car or steamboat. Had Adam, think you,
tuberoulous lungs; wss Eve flat chested, or
did .she cultivate tbe serpentine line of grace
in a curved spine ? Did Nimrod get up in '
the.morning with* furred tongne, or wss be
tormented with dyspepsia? Had Esau the
gout or hepstisis? Imagine how the tough
old Patriarchs would have looked st being
asked to subscribe for a lying io hospital, or
an asylum for lunatics, or an ey and eat in
firmary, or a school for idiots or deef-mutee.
What would their eagle vision and swift
fooledness have said to the projeet of a
blind asylum or an orlhopedto establish
ment? Did they suffer any of these rava
ge* of nature agaiust false civilization ? No 1
Man Came from the hand of God so perfeot
in hit bodily organs so deflaieni of eoUl aud ,
heat.fi drought end humidity, so surcharg
ed with -UttJ force, that u 'ook more than
two thSnsand year* of the combined abom
inations of appetite snd ignorance; it took
successive ages of outrageous excess and ds
baucbery, to drain oA his electric energies
and make him even accessible to disease;
aud Iheu it took ages mora to breed ail these
vile distempeis which now nestle like ver
min, in every organ and fibre of our bodies.
Daring alt this time, however, fatal caus
es were at work which wore away and fi
nally exhausted the glorias end abounding
vigor of the pristine race. At least ss ssrly
ss the third generation from Adam, polyga
my began. Intermarriages were all along
the order of the day. Even Abraham mar
ried hi* half sister. The basest harlotry
was not beneath one of the patriarehs.
Whole people, like the Moabites and Amor
itee, were the direo*. frits of the combined
drnokennea* and incest between father and
daughter*. The highest pleasures sad for
ce* of the race gradually narrowed down in
to appetite and incontinence. At length its
history became almost too shocking to be
referred to. If its great men, ita wise men,
its God-favored meu, like David, could be
guilty of murder for, the sake of adultery,
ot like Solomon eoald keep .* seraglio of a
thousand wives and concubines, what black
ness can bo black enough to paint th* par
-3
traits of th* people they ruled, and the chil
dren they begat ?
After fits Exodus, exacts** gradually de
veloped into diseases. First came, cutane*
, ous distempers—leprosy, boils, elphaxtissis,
Sir. , the common effort of nature to throw
visceral imparities to the surface. As early
t at King Asa, that right royal malady, lb*
■ gout had beer, invented. Then came con
i sumption and the burning ague, and disor
ders of tbe visceral organs, snd pestilences,
or as the Bible expresses it, "great plegue*
and ol long continuance; and "sore sick
ness and of long continuance;" until, in the
time of Christ, we ss* how diseases of all
' kinds had become the lot of mankind, by
tbe crowds that flocked to him to be healed.
And so frightful, so disgracefully numerous
have diseases now become, that il w# ware
to write down their names, in th* smallest
legibly hand, on tbe smallest bits of paper,
tbere would not be room enough on lbs hu
man body to paste ths tables —Extract from
Horace Mann's Inaugural Address.
American vs. English Hotels.
William Chambers Journsl of his trip to
the United States, now going through his
own press at Edinburg, contains as impar
tial and truthful a statement of things iu tbi*
country as we oould reasonably ask for. He
is especially delighted with our hotels. He
calls the Burnet, in this city a kingly ptaoa,
and to the Astor he devotes an elaborate ar
tidle. Two or three paragraphs we copy, to
show that the slsndsrs of men like Captain
Hamilton, and women like Trollope, are be
ing put down ia the right quarter. He
writes '
We oould hardly 'picture to ourselves a
greater contrast than that between an old
country and an American hotel. The two
things are not in the least alike. Arriving at
an inn in England, ycu are treated with im
mense difference, allowed th* seclusion of a
private apartment, charged exorbitantly for
everything, and, at departure, curtsied and
bowed out at the door, as if a prodigious fa
vor had been conferred on tbe establish
ment. In the United States, things are ma
naged differently. The Americans, with
some faults of character, possesses the sin
gular merit of not being exclusive, extor
tionate, or subservient. But where ail trav
el, hotel-keepers can afford to act magnani
mously. Instead of looking to a livelihood
from a few customers, scheming petty gains
by rnine- up a bHI for The use el can-ties,
| firing, and other con veniencies, snd smooth
ing everything over by a mercenary bow,
the proprietor of an American hotel is a
capitalist at the head of a great concern,
and would despise doing anything shabby ;
hundred poor into and out of his house dai
ly, he notices neither yonr coming nor go
ing ; without ceremony you are free of the
establishment; and when you pay and de
part, there are no bows, no thanks—but you
are not fleeced; and that is alvraya felt to
be a comfort.
Speaking of our reputation for fast eating,
be says:
Here again, though looking for it day .
after day, did I fail as on previous occasions
to see the slightest approach to hurried eat
ing, and as until the last moment of my
stay in America I never saw soch a thing.
I am bound so far as my observation goes,
to say that the national reproach on this
score, if it ever was true, is so no longer.—
Calling for dishes, by printed bills st fare,
a custom now all but universal, in reality
renders any scramble unnecessary. So far
from being harried, any man may draw
out his dinner for an hour, if he pleases,
and all ths time have a waiter in st tendance
bis back to bring him whatsoever he de
sires. I think il doe to the Americans to
make this remark on a very common-place
topic, aad likewise to say ot them, that
their temperance at the table filled me with
no liuleaurpriae. In the Jlarge dining parlor
in the Aslor (as at other houses,) tbere wss
seldom eeen more than one or two bottles of
wine. Nor did any exoiting beverage seem
desirable. A goblet of pure water, with ice
was placed for the use of every gnevt, and
in indulging in this simple potation, I felt
how little is dons in England to promote
habits of sobriety by furnishing water, at
tractive alike for it* brilliant purity and oool
nea. t,.
" Tit# bar at the AMor, an exohange J|4 H
way, was sometimes tolerably crowded, but
1 never taw so many as a dozen at • time
engaged in drinking. The greater number
did not drink at all, it being oue of Ihe good
points in those establishments, that you are
left to do exactly as you like. No one heeds
you, or carss for you, any more tbaa in a
public street. A unit in the mare, your (fo
xy is to mind yourself; reek out all requis
ite information for yourtelv* and in all thing*
beyond the rotine of the house help your
self. Individuality in these hotels is out of
the question—opposed to tbe fundamental
principle of the concern, wbioh is to keep
open house on a wholesale plan. You are
lodged, fed, aud in every other way attend
ed to by wholesale, just as a soldier in a bar
rack iaaupplied with houseroom and rations.
Any man pretending to ask for e dinner
in a room by himself would be looked up
on as a liuuilia : end when people do such
a foolish thing, they have to pay hand
somely for invading the sacred practice of
the houke. How otherwise eoald each gi
gantic establishments be conducted? Al
though crowded to tbe door, everythieg
?;oes on with minute regularity, like a flne
y adjusted machine.
He wind* up hi* unqualified praise by
stating that tha American hotel ia not *
house but town.
NUMBER 28-
The War to t unaeaci.
The following m iha testimony of a dis
tinguished and eery weskby New York
merchant, of hiow to commence meking a
' fortune tod bow to posh along:
"I entered a store and asked if a clerk
waa not warned- 'No,' in a rough tone, was
the reply—ell twin- toe busy te kethae With
me—when 1 reflected if they did not want a
dirk, they might want a lalorer, hot aa |
| was dressed too fine Tor that, I went to my
lodgings, pat on a rough garb, and the next
day, weot into the came store, and deman
ded if they did not want a potter, and a
gain 'no,' waa tbe response; when t exclai
med in daepair almost, 'not a laborer 1 Sir,
I will work at any wages. Wages is not
my objeot. I most have employment, and I
want to be useful in business.' These last
remarks attracted their attention, and in the
and, I was employed ae a laborer, in the
basement, and tab cellar, at a eery low pay,
aoaroety enough to keep body and soul to
gether. in the basement and sab cellar, I
soon attracted the attention of the Counting
room ; and of tbe high clerk. I saeed e
noogh for my employers in lutle things was
ted, to pay my wages ten times over, and
they soOn found it out I did not ark for any
ten hour law. ' If I was wanted at 3 A. M.,
I was there, and eheerfully there ; or if I
was kept till 2 A- M., 1 never growled ; bnt
told everybody to go home and I will Me
everything right,' I loaded off at day break,
packages lor tbe morning boats, or carried
them myself. In short, I soon became in
dispensible to my employers, and I rose
ami rose—and rose, till I became head Of
the bonse, with money enough, as yon see,
to give me any luxury, or any position a
mercantile man may desire for himself or
children in this great city."
The Coed ft (en of the Country.
Tbe Pennsylvania Inquirer, a leading whig
papet, in a recent article upon tbe above
subject, says :
We repeat, (he Republic at large is sound,
especially the commercial and manulaotnr
ing classes, and the check that has been
given to legitimate pursuits will prove but
temporary. Let us look at the facta.
1. Tbe National Treasury it full to over
flowing.
2. The Government baa just effected n
treaty with Mexico, by which a right of way
has been secured to the Pacific, and other
important considerations and advanlagea.
3. The yield of gold in California contin
ue* to be abundant, while Australia is con
tributing its millions per annum to the |com
mon stock.
4. The sdvioes from Europe are favorable,
money was easier, and the demand for A
mcricait securities was quite active.
5. A treaty with Japan has just been affeo
ted, and is now before the American Gov
ernment.
6. The crops throughout, the Union are
full of promise, and the yield of grain !•
likely to surpass that of any former season.
The ohances are, that we sbalT have a sur
plus of many millions of bushsls al our dis
posal.
7. The manufacturing interests of Iha
country are in the fulltide.of successful ex
periment, and for most qualities of goods,
the demand is quite eqnal to the supply.
8. Labor it everywhere active and obear
ful, and the rates of wages have been ad
vanced in almost every mechanical pursuit.
9. A Treaty of Reciprocity and for tbe ad
justment of the Fishery Question, has been
arranged between the United Siaies and
Great Britain, and thns a source ot discord
end apprehension will in all probability, be
speedily removed.
10. Tbe Nation al large has not for many
years experienced any reriona calamity, but
has been rapidly increasing in resource* and
extending in territory.
11. The Union is mora Grmly knit together
than ever, and there are no signs ot discord
or disaffection worthy ef note, in any aeo
lion of tbe Republic.
Jtelifieas Denominations.
The latest authentic document, giving tbe
aggregate and relative bumber of churches'
of the various sects in tbe Doited States, ta
the centos of 1158—from which the follow
ing facts are gleaned :
No. qf ChurcJus Value of Church
Property.
Methodist, 12,487 814,638,671
Baptist, 8,781 10,900.382
Presbyterjan, 4,584 14,389,889
Congregational, 1,416 7,970,862
Episcopalian, 1,474 18,261,970
Roman Catbolie, 1,1 It
Number of ehurcam. 36,011; aggregate
accommodation, 11,489,838; average ac
commodation, 384; total amount of ohmcb
property, 886,416,637.
WW The proprietor of the Pittsburg
Journal employe eight female composi
tors. . . _.
WW Mankind may be divided Info
two classes, those who cheat, and those
who Mtn'B ,7V • •
WW The Boston Journal notice* the
occurrence ef twenty-six deaths by ohot
era, in Richmond, Me,
WW Health—Grest temperance, open
air, easy tabor, little care.
WW Extensive Locomotive Wotke
are about to be erected at Duhkiifc, '