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CHOICE POETRY.
PRIZE POEM.
The following beautiful lines obtained the
prize Which was offered by the .Editors of the
Recorder and Telegraph, for the best poetical
production during the year 1825. The pre
mium was awarded by a committee appoint
ed for that purpose, to Mr. Nathaniel P. Wil
lis, then a member of Yale College,' as the au
thor.
MISANTHROPIC HOURS.
I sometimes feel as I could blot
All traces of mankind from earth—
As if 'twere wrong to blast them not,
They so degrade, so shame their birth.
To thiuk that earth should be so lair,
So beautiful and bright a thing;
That nature should come forth and wear
Such glorious apparelling ;
That sky, sea, air, should live and glow
With light and love arid holiness.
And yet men never feel or know
How much a god of love can bless—
How deep their debt of thankfulness.
I've seen the snn go down, and light
Like floods of gold poureJ on the sky—
When every tree and flower was bright,
And every pulse was heating high,
And the full soul was gushing high,
And longing for its home above—
And then when men would soar, if ever,
To the high homes of thought and soul
When life's degrading ties should sever,
And the free spirit spurn control-
Then I have seen, (oh how my check
Is burning with the shame I feel,
That thrift is in the words I speak)
I've seen my fellow crestures s'teal
Away to their unhallow'd mirth,
As if the reveries of earth
Were all that they could (pel or share,
And glorious heaven were scarcely worth
Their passing notice or their care.
I've said I was a worshipper
At woman's ihrine—yet even there
1 found onwoithinees of thought,
And yet 1 deern'd I just had caught
The rsdiance of that holy light
Which makes earth beautiful and bright,
When eyes of fire their flashes sent,
And rosy lips look'd eloquent—
Oh, I have turned and wept to And
Beneath it all a trifling mind.
I wee in one of those high halls,
Where geriini breathesin sculptur'd stone,
Where shaded light in softness falls
On pencil'd beauty. They are gone
Whose hearts of fire and hands of skill
Had wrought suoh power—but they spoke
To me in every feature still.
Andlresh lipabreath'danddarkeyes woke,
And crimson flashed glowingly
To life and motion. I had knell
And wept with Mary at the tree
Where Jesus suffered—l had felt
The warm blood rushing to my brow
At the stem buffet of the Jew—
Had aeen the God of glory bow,
And bleed for ains he never knew—
And I had wept. I thought that all
Most feel like me—and when there came
A stranger, bright and beautiful
With step of grace and eye of flame,
And tone and look most sweetly blent
To make her presence eloquent,
Ob, then I looked for tears. We stood
Before the eeene of Calvary—
I saw the piercing epear. the blood—
The gall—the writhe of agony—
I sew hie qnivering lips in prayer,
" Father "—all were there.
I turn'd in bitterness of soul
And spoke of Jesus. I had thought
Her feelings would refuse control;
For woman's heart, 1 knew was fraoght
With gushing sympathies. She gax'd
A moment on it carelessly,
And coldly cnrl'd her lip, end prais'd
The high priest's garment! Could it be
That look wee meant, dear Lord, fortbee ?
'Oh, Rat is women—whet her smile—
Her fips of love—her eyes of light—
What ishe, if her lipe revile
The lowly Jesus ? Love may write
His name upon her marble brow,
And linger in her curls of jet—
The light spring flower may scacely bow
Beneath her step, end yet—and yet—
Witbont the meeker grace, she'll be
A lighter thing than vanity.
"CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER Caaev."—Promi
nent among the charges against George the
ill, end one of the causes of the lose of one
of the fairest jewels of the British crown,
stands the following:—"He has endeavored
lo prevontthe population of these States; for
lhai purpose obstructing the laws for natu
ralization of foreigner*; refusing to pass oth
ers to socourage their migration tbiiher, and
raising the conditions of new appropriations
of lands." W* have a good many "George
the Thirds" among ua at present.
H WAGES ■> GBBMANT.—CIerks in mercantile
get from 8200 to 8600 per year; wa-
B>< of a carpenter (pet day) in aummer, 29
nett; in winter, 27 oents nett; of a ma-
(par day) in summer, 29 cents nett; in
or 60 cent* per week and boarded;
cent* par waak and boarded. House
women from 81 to 82 40 per month;
all prices, from 86 to 88 down to their
at a recent celebration, of
following gallant toaat; "Ladies—
in A |rden of
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1855.
THE TRUE LIFE,
AND ova DUTIES TO THE YOUNG IN PREPARING
THEM FOR IT.
GOD has filled this woild with beauty and
grandeur; on every side are scattered, in rich
profusion, the tokens of his love. The whole
face of Nature is radiant with loveliness, and
beams with an ever-fresh, ever-new g£ry.
Yet, amid all the works of the Creator, what
is so wonderful, as the gloriously endowed,
heaven-inspired creature, Man! A true man
or a true woman—what lofty conceptions of
all that is noble, true and good, do these
words bring before the mind 1 Who is not
moved by the mention of those who stand
bravely out amid (he "storms of circumstance
and wrecks of time," as the master-spirits,
the heroes of the world 1 Not its blood
stained warriors with the conqueror's fading
crown, not its ignoble great, whose splendid
wickedness was their only renown ; but the
true men and women who have bravely met
the duties and temptations of life, and calmly
gone forth to meet the Angel of Death.
In humble homes and kingly courts, in
lowly vales and on mountain tops, they have
found out their true worth and filled up the
measure of (heir usefulness. In exile and
in slavery, in sickness and in health, in
thronged oities and desert wastes, they have
toiled and suffered for the victor's crown.
No heart fails to see the exceeding beauty
of a good man's life—its blessed presence is
felt as an angelio visitant, bearing tich gifts
from the gate of Paradise. Who can paint
the picture of such an one, so beautiful as
the ideal within ourselves? The intellect,
with all ita mighty energies developed and
matured by long and careful culture, its strong
powers of thought directed to wise and nobl*
ends-—the heart, with its warm affection* pu
rified and guided into channels of blessing;
full of sympathy for the sorrowing, and re
joicing for the joyous; grateful for every gift
ol God's love and patience under every trial
—the body, erect and free, with godlike ma
jesty of mien, strong to endure and quick to
perform—these, all joined, in perfect harmo
ny, sanctified by the presence of that religion
which adorns and pertecls the whole, may
convey some idea of what ws conceive to
be the true man or true woman. To reach
this lofty stature, we believe to be the design
of onr living here ;to grow up into such a
manhood or womanhood, to be tbe aim of
onr whole thought and endeavor To help
others to attain this is also our work as teach
ers, as those who guide others in their on
ward way. What, then, is our duty to the
young immortals committed to our care ?
Recognizing this high ideal for ourselves,
litis constant growth in goodness, we certain
ly must desire others to grow with us. As
these children have not only a mind, but a
body and heart, are we doing our whole du
ty to cultivate thefirsl and neglect the oth
ers?
We are not all animal, nor are we all in
tellectual ; neither are we designed to be an
gels upon earth, but true men and women ;
as such only can we hope to use all the
powers that God has given us for our happi
ness and the welfare of others.
Do we think enough of these things in our
daily duties? Are we not apt to lake a
school-room view of the work given ns to
do; hurrying and forcing the maturing of the
mental powers, while the normal lie dor
mant for aught we know?-
A delicate and timid girl enters the school,
with a heart full of love, shrinking, like the
mimoan, from the rude gaze of strangers; all
the finer and gentler emotions are developed
in that young child, every pure affection is
throbbing in that young heart, yet she is
awkward from timidity,!and reluctant to say
the thing she knows is right. She is obedi
ent and truthful, quiet and studious, but still
we find her falling behind and we pronounce
her dull end stupid. Are we as apt to speak
a word of encouragement lo her in her diffi
culties, or commendation in her small pro
gress, aa we are to praise the brilliant and
showy scholar, in whose eyes burn tbe fire
of genius, whose young mind ia sparkling
with thought aud power? There maybe
uclrothlulness and perversenesa in the latter,
but do we not bear with them enore patient
ly than with tbe other's dulness. Every time
we do such things, we are placing the less
before the greater, and virtually saying, it is
of little use lo be good, truthful, and gentle,
unless one is apt to learn.
Another, a strong-minded but sickly boy is
one of our number, {.earning ia a delight to
bim; he loves Iris book as others love their
plays; he cares nothing for amusements, he
never joins in the school-games end sports of
children ; be is not active as they, aed can
not compete with them. He site by himself,
happy to be alone with a book; it is the
dearest of companions to him. Hi* imagi
nation, bis perceptive faculties, all have rap
id growth, too rapid for hi* body; this is
pony, while hi* desire and capacity for
knowledge constantly increase. How ought
we to treat such a one ? Urge him on in bis
studies, put more books before bim end in
dulge him in bis love of solitude? This
might indeed make s precocious boy with
tbe intellectual power of a man, but it could
go little farther. Soon bi* fancies would be
come morbid, bis overtasked energies begin
to fleg, end be would fail of achieving any
greet work, or perhaps sink into an early
grave. No! let all suoh precooious chil
dren, either with healthy or uohealtby bod
ies, be kept in the open air, with vigorous
exercises end merry playmate*, as much a*
possible. They have bodies to be oared for,
end heart* to be warmed, and no misan
thrope, whether of a man's or child's age,
was aver happy, ever living out tbe life
wbieb God designed (or hint.
Tntk aMI Right Cod aid air Coantry.
A case of disobedience comes up—disobe
dience not only of the laws of the school,
but of the laws of God. The teacher is much
occupied, ia anxious to bear certain recita
tions before the close of the day ; the pupils
know the violation, and feel that a great
wrong has been done. Is this to be passed
over without comment from the teacher be
cause there is so much to be done 1 The
teacher, sorelj, is not employed to pieach
or give moral lectures, but is not every mo
ment spent in enforcing right principle and
right action, spent profitably! Indeed, one
living truth impressed upon the mind of a
child, so that it shall be a guiding principle
, for life, is worth more than all the Geography
and Grammar lessons in the world.
I We know that (he training of the intellect
is tn be our chief care, but ought we not to
make the school-room the scene of prepara
tion for life, for its true ends and work ? and
how can we do this, except by untiring care
to guide the passions and affections which
will be so powerful in- maturer years? The
| desires, appetites and lower propensities will
grow without our aid; our duty is to help
| ihsnr. to growp into healthy and beneficent
powers—not suffer them to come up like
weeds, choking the fair flowers and blight
ing the sweet frcits in the garden of youth.
If these children were always to remain with
in the walls of the school-room, there would
be less danger from neglect; restrained by
the piespnce of older ar.d superior minds,
they might pass on with few attacks upon
their virtue. Rut they who now sport in the
suuny realm of ehildbood will soon emerge
from fairy-laod to the strife and temptation
of a working world; jostled and perplexed,
borne up and down by the fluctuations of
life, where is their safely but in well-ground
ed principles made strong by the authority
of conscience ? Ambition is gnawing at their
heart strings, that mad ambition which was
fed in childhood by one wise in the head
but foolish in heart, one who goaded on bis
young pupil to untiring effort to gain the
brightest laurels for his brow. The band that
guided him through learning's maze is with
drawn, and he must stand alone, with all his
great powers demanding action, his genius
panting for a glorious career, and hope point
ing to a bright future. How is he to meet
misfortune and disappointment, which sure
ly will come? With patience or with repin
ing?—with calm trust or bitter scorn ? In
such times, how fades away the splendor of
learning and genius, and a heart of ease is
more coveted than a kingdom. Enjoyment
of great gifts brings less happiness than the
right cultivation of smaller ones.
VVa all assent to the necessity for moral
training, and believe we have something to
do ourselves for ihe young souls committed
to our guidance; but do we not need con
stantly to press home to our hearts more arid
more their imperative demand uponut? Not
by words of cold reproof can we bring the
erring child to penitence; not by thunder
tones upon the offender'* ear can we reach
the portals of the heart. Only in the spirit of
love, strong yet gentle, tender yet firm, can
we truely bless then,. We can fill them
with sayings from books and sharp rebukes,
and do them little good ; their yonng heart*
want a fresh, living power, to act on them,
not the love which praises when a child
does well, and chides for a fault merely
from the impulse ol the woment. No! wo
want a love large enough and strong enough
to reprove their faults in the spirit of gentle
ness; making itself felt to be no less a real
love when it punishes, than when it com
mends. When such teachers and such only
shall gnide all our children, will we have
true men and women. May it be oura to
hold on that glorious time, when mind, body
and eoul shall grow up into their true and
beautiful perfection.— Mats. Teacher.
CURIOUS TYPOGRAPHICAL MISTAEE.—Prof.
French, in hia latest work on the English
Unguage, points out in the 24th verse of the
23d chapter of Matthew, the following words,
which he thinks contains a misprint, and
having been passed over in the first ebition
of 1611, has held its ground ever since:—
" Whioh strain at a gnat and swallow a
camel."
The translators intended to ssy,
" Which strain out a goat and swallow a
That being the correct rendering ot Ihe
original, a* appears in Tyodale's and Crac
mer's trnslations, both of whicb have "strain
out."
It was the custom of tbe stricter Jews to
strain their wine, vinegar, and other pottblee,
through linen or gauze, lest, unawares, tbey
■honld drink down some little, unclean insect
as a gnat, and thus transgress tbe Levitical
Hew. It was to this oustom Ihe Saviour al
luded, intending to sty that Ihe Scribe* and
Pharisees, while they strain out a gnat from
their drink, would yet swallow a camel at a
gulp.
OH ! WOMAN! WOMAN!—MlS.OakeeSmith
desire* tbat women should be permitted to
become lawyers, and lo praoiice in our courts.
We cannot think tbat aqy individual of the
sterner sex would have any objection to la
dies going to court—were there not one lit
tle obstacle in the disposition of the ladies
themselves. The lew 1 * delay has already
become a proverb—and with feminine help,
it would become worse, since in ease* in
wbioh lady-lawyers were pitted against eaeh
other, tbe arguments would be interminable,
as both would certainly waet tbe lest word.
Vf A down easier is said to have so
trained an oystot that it follow* bin about
lik*ado|.
Speech or Mr. Dallas* July A, 1855.
We give below the address ol GEOROE M.
DALLAS to tba town meeting at Philadelphia,
on Ihe 4th of July last. The sentiments there
expressed are worthy ol the beet dsye of tbe
republic. We behold them in the spirit of
patriotism whioh inspired the fathers ol Ihe
revolution. Tbey embody the thought whicb
gave to thi* great commonwealth the envia
ble name ol the Keystone of the Federal Arab.
Amidst the rising elements of faelion aod dis
union whioh district Ihe politic* of bi* native
state and threaten the disruption of the bond*
of our national union, the venerable patriot,
for the former companion end faithful dieci-
I pie ol Jefferson, Madison, Monroe end Jack
son, warn* hie fellow citizens, with prophet
ic eloquence, of the dangers whioh threaten
the republic, and invokes that love of eonn
try, that patriotism and that devotion of tbe
Union which should glow in the hearts of ev
ery true American.
Ma. DALLAS said—That having been kind
ly invited, he would venture to express a few
thoughts suggested by the occasion.
Our object, in circulating thi* day, should
be, not merely to recall the name* and eulo
gize the exploits of those who gave it univer
sality ol interest and immortality of renown,
but, at the same time, under the inspirations
of the theme, to lay upon the altar of our be
loved country some votive sentiment appli
cable to her existing condiiion, and harmo
nizing with the lessons and aim* of her foun
ders.
Tbe people of America, over their vast do
maio, in all their countless cities, towns, vil
lages, hamlets, and settlements, are, at this
moment, spontaneously and simultaneously,
rendering grateful homage to the Faith and
Fathers of '7f>. What million* of voices, on
the heights of our mountains, in the depths
of our valleys, on the bonndless expanse of
our waters, amid Ihe shades of unnumbered
forests or tbe sunshine of endless prairies,
are repeating, with neverdying sympathy,
the solemn and sublime trothes of the Decla
ration of Independence ? Nay, this political
hallelujah rise* ir. every land , it belts Ihe
earth, not with an idle drum beat, but with
an anthem of national exultation; for, into
what unknown corner has the enterprising
genius of our citizen failed to penetrate ?
And where, and when, can he be found nu
mindful ioJiail and glorify the Fourth of Ju
ly ?
.It is in contemplating this exact, unexag
gerated, yet vivid, picture of a world-wide
choir, that we are made to feel and realize
the value of our immense inheritance of free
dom. Nor does it fail lo strengthen our firm
purpose to maintain that inheritance unim
paired, with the great bulwark specially de-~
vised by its venerated authors for its preser
vation. Need I tell you what the bulwark
is ?—wbat tbat only unfailing and infallible
citation of security is? It is the Constitution
al Union of the sovereign States. That is the
panoply under whose shelter Ike infant off
spring of our revolutionary fathers has ma
tared into herculean strength. That is the
sacred conservatory within which the fruits
of Liberty, Order, Progress, Valor, and Law
have germinated, bloomed, and ripened.
And you, Pennsylvanians, in whose midst
still aland* the hallowed edifice, whence
came both tha oracle of Independence and
Ihe organio frame of our Government—you,
the central, sustaining power ol the great arch
and you not, as heretofore, heart, soul and
hand devoted as well to the principles of the
Revolution as to ih&sancluary reared for their
perpetual protection? Yes, 1 know yon are;
and, therefore, it is that I remind you that
you possess a quiet latent but resistless force,
which, justly and appropriately exerted, may
go iar to arrest the ruthless assaults of fanatic
and fantastic ethics., may awe back the ag
gressor and leach him, however reluctant to
learn, the wisdom of loyalty to our common
ancestry, loyally to our common covenants,
and loyalty to the peace honor end happiness
of our common country. It ia the prond mis
sion ol our noble Commonwealth to be ever
vigilant as guardian of the Union; and it
would be well for ber in the spirit of preven
tive and admonitory patriotism, to announce
ber predeierminsd purpose to live under no '
other than the existing federative Constitu
tion ; to appraise in advance, the rash inva
ders of that palladium that the can never link
her destiny with any sovereignty or seotion 1
stained with the opprobrium of unfaithfulness
to record obligation*; to point significantly
to the oorrent of ber rivers, the direction of
of her highwajs of trade, the the tributary
sources whence come* tbe aliment of her in*
doatry, and to let it be understood, finally and
forever, that whatever may be tbe oheerless
fate of the bigoted, prescriptive, disorgani
zing, and disreputed portions of a violated
compact, she (Pennsylvania) will seek her
prosperity io alliance with those only who re
main true to the peat, nnder the oIdmMHF
leaa and masterly Constitution,
star-spangled flag floating
lied emblem of
led honor.
At the conclusion of ' Mr. DalflUHfes,
the meeting adjotMM'vWW^Arßmutjrt
cheers. ' IMBS!!?
A HIT AT SOMEBODY.—An exchange paper
' remarks that, in these day a,' a poor man's
earnings, brought home day by day, am car
ried out ol tbe house on the back* of hi*
daughters.'
IT An ancient and exceedingly simple
method of book-keeping, i* to keep ell the
book* you lay your bends on.
tW Why is the heart ol • tree like n dog's
tail T Because it is furthest from tha bark.
A SIGN OF TUB TIMES.
The New York Herald was three months
ago one of the moat violent Know-Nothing
paper* io the eonntry. It is changing its sails
in another direction, as the following article
from its columns of last week will show—
Straw* show which way the wind blows.—
[£d. of the Star.]
A Little Common Sense lor the Know.
Nothlogs-
We see in several organs of the Know-
Nothing parly throughout.the country, oon
stant allusion* to the Pope, and symptoms
of great alarm with regard to the spread of
Roman Catholicism. From one journal we
leant (bat the day on whioh the news of Mr.
Wise'* victory reached the Vatican will have
been kept with unnsual ceremony; from an
other we gather that the high priests of Anli- j
Christ have been in ecstacies ever einoe the
action of the Massachusetts delegates to the
Philadelphia convention; and generally we
may say, the newspaper* of this stripe talk
as if we were living in the days of the great i
Spanish Armada, and reduced to trust to our
broadsword* to defeat the famous bull by
whicb the whole of America was given to
the King of Spain by the Pope. "There is
not a single spectator of the politics of this
country," says one, "who takes a deeper in
terest in them than the Pope of Rome;" and
instead of feeling flattered by this informa
tion, which will be new to most of us, this 1
ungracious Know-Nothing adds energetically
that we ought "to qjake Rome howl," for
"if there be a cloud in oar nation's horizon,
it ia the Papacy."
It ia high time that this slufl should be (top
ped . We have made asses of ourselves pret
ty freely—we Christians—since (be days of
Luther, about our theological quarrel; and
carried matters to such an extent that no sen
sible Chinese who has any respect for him
self will at the present day have anything to
do with a church so obviously divided
against itself. Bui if our ancestors, who shot, j
stabbed, burned, tortured and hanged each
other on points of theology, were undenia
ble aases, what are we who have not a tithe
of their grounds for controversial rancor?—
For, it must be remembered, to the English
man of the seventeenth century, Catholi
cism implied submission to the Pope, and
submission to the Pope involved the surren
der of America to the Spaniards: small won
der forsooth that they were fierce Protestants,
and that, while they trusted in Providence,
they likewise kept their powder dry. But
we, what cause have we to fear the Pope ?
What barm has he done ns? What can he
do?
Why, really, good people, who are quak- i
ing in your shoes about the inroads of the
Papacy, and muttering dreadful things about
the scarlet woman of Babylon, yon are much
more likely to damage the Pop/, than be to
injure you. It is hard work enough (or him
—poor old soul—to keep his place, with
board and lodging and fire, at the Vatican:
nor would he be there still, in fact, if Napo
leon 111. had not condescended to use Chris
tianity, just as he used the Delvigne bullet,
to consolidate his new empire. Since the
first Napoleon showed that a Pope might be
kicked about as well as any other man, there
hasu't been a sovereign in Europe that would
forego the pleasure of trying the new sport.
All tbe ministers of Spain, from the republi
can juntas to Eepartero, have had their turn
at it. France baa treated him like a dog.—
Metteroich let hiui know plainly that he
must consider himself a mere pensioner of
Austria on his good behavior; and now in
these latter days, even Italy's self tnrns round
upon bim, and will have no more dealings
with him. Rome drive* him into exile,
Sardinia deposes him from his authority.—
And in this the potentate of whom we are
afraid? This poor, hunted, deserted, bul
lied creature, set up by this or that tyrant for
hi* own purposes ar.d knocked down the
next day like a ninepir. in mere sport: living
on mere sufferance, a sort of Small weed,
shaken up now an then by some neighbor to
scare the unwary with hie shrill voice : the
1 pitiable relic of an effete order of civilization,
so wholly out of plaoe in the middle of this
nineteenth ceolury, that, as we are told by
the most reliable travelers, tbe ceremonies
and fashions essential to his stale are proba
bly the most comical sight in Europe—is
this ihe man—this the power—of which the
Order of Native Americans confess to Ihe
world (beware afraid? God help their back
bone, if so it be I
But we shall be (old that Catholicism is
not the Pope, and that though tbe wings of
tbe latter may be cut, the former will thrive
notwithstanding. We have before us a
Know-Notbing journal in which this ground
i* taken. It resolves itself into a very simple
question : is there any danger ol tbe Roman
Catholics preponderating in tbe United
States? i
■kit was with no controversial intent tbat Wr
Hpentore boldly the assertion that Roman
[Catholicism ia not Ihe creed for the present
day. It is • religion of the feelings and of
the heart; it rests wholly on faith, and dia-,
xardi reason with contempt: it appeal* to
the sanies more then to the mind, to the
passion* more than tbe undemanding; end
though culminating in a system of morality
at least equal to tbet evolved out of Protest
antism, it is, as every honest person must
admit on examination, the best possible creed
for a nation emerging from barbarism, and
quit* a* certainly, the rooet impossible to
plant among a civilised and intelleetnal
people. In this place, we are boond above
all things to be brief; and will therefore sim
ply add—leaving each to fill up tbe argu
ment for bimeelf—that for tba vary same
reasons which render it a matter of compar
ative impossibility that Roman Catholicism,
as we know it, can overspread a reflecting,
active, energetie people in the present day,
that faith has very little chance in Ihe strug
gle with Protestantism. All the men who
own no religion ere Protestant*; and the
wiser the world grows, the larger this class
becomes. The Anglo-Saxon rice is essen
tially Protestant; tbat is to say, impatient of
spiritual control. It will judge for itself in
religion as in politics. Aod it does not teem
at all more likely tbat these Anglo-Saxons
will become Catholics than that they will
reveri to their old political systems, and once
more sot their necke under the spurred heel
of a baron. Finally we may add that his
tory contains no instance of one religion sup
planting another on its abstract ethical mer
its. The heathen myihologies fell when so
ciety became conopt: Protestantism con
quered half the Christian world, when heav
en was sold at auction by the priests and
Rome was the sink of Europe; and Christi
anity bodily will fall whenever Ihe morality
of ihe races which profess it becomes so
low tbat society causes to have a basis.
It will be found, on examining statistics,
that Protestantism has gained on Catholicity
aicoe the two were imported to this country.'
The gain haa not been large ; but it is quite
noie-wo'Uty, as, since the Revolution, there
lis no Catholic country in the world where
| the Catholics have had fairer play than hers.
But in truth it will be time enough to ex
amine such trifles when it has been found
that men are worse citizens' when they are
Catholics than when they are Protestants.—
It would be a new thing, we imagine, to ar
gue that the people of Maryland are not
equal to those of any other State in patriot
ism and all the civil virtues; and quite enter
taining to hear any one defend suoh a pro
position out of the mouth of history. It
would not be new, as we know, to see bla
tant intolerance exclude from an assembly of
delegates chosen by citizens of the U. States,
certain gentlemen because they were Ro
man Catholics of French descent; the fact
is on record to prove what a substratum of
| lolly there is in all of us. But if the thing
had been done so often tbat one ceased to
feel ashamed ot it, it would not be the less
impossible to show one single doctrine of
Roman Catholicity—properly taught—-whose
tendency it is to make mon worse citizens ot
a republic than the most enlightened Prot
estant.
Things in New York.
Bamum, has issued a prospectus for a new
notion that will nodonbt make a noise among
all the other humbugs in the country.
He says an eminent publishing house in
Paris is engaged in issuing a series of the
most distinguished female beauties in the
world, which, when completed, is to include
ten of the handsomest ladies in the United
States, and these Barnum has undertaken to
engage.
In order to stimulate competition, he offers
85000, in premiums, ranging from 81000
down to 8150, to be distributed, according
to the differed! degrees o( beauty. Ladies
accordingly are requested to send in their
daguerreotypes to the Museum. None will
be received later than the 16th of September.
The judge of the " best looking" are to be
the " people at large." Each visitor is to
mark on a slip of paper Ihe particular number,
corresponding with that of hit choice, and
deposit it in a ballot box at the door. The
result is to be announced on Ihe 15th of Oc
tober.
Single and married women alike may
compete, but none below " tweet sixteen"
are to enter the lists. No limit to ancient
maidenhood is specified' When tbe show ic
public is over, artists are to be employed to
pain: full sized portraits of the premium beau
ties.
Great, great is humbug, and Barnun: is ita
Profitl
Another striking evidence of the failure ol
he Maine liquor la w is bad in the fact that
many of the saloon keepers, who moved over
to HobokoW (N. J.) to escape its anticipated
penalties, are moving back to the city to re
sume business.
Though the police continue arrests fur in
toxication, we have yet to learn of the first
case of a liquor dealer being waited upon.—
There ia a story afloat that the Carson lebgue
have " spotted" several of the first olaae
Broadway saloons, and are only wailing the
proper opportunity to cause their stock of liq
uors to be seized. The porter-house keepers
are all wondering on whom the bolt will first
fall.
SCENE AT CONFESSION.-A lady at confession,
among other heinous crimes, accused her
self of using rogue.
Wbat is the use of it?" aaked Her con
nor.
"ldo it to make myself handsomer."
"And does it produce that effect 1"
"At least I think so, father."
The confessor on tbie took his penitent out
of the confessional Into tbe light, put on hie
spectacles, and, having looked at her atten
tively, said—
" Well, madam, you may use rogue, for
you are ugly enough even with it !"
HEALTH or "Goon SOCIETY."—HeaIth is
gettiog to be vulgar, end ia confined princi
pally to servant girls. No'lady'can possi
bly plead guilty lo' being well' witbont lo
sing caste. Spinal complaints ere just now io
the ascendant —no female being considered
'good society' who possesses sufficient
strength lo raise a smoothing iron.
[Two Dollars per Aim
NUMBER 26.
SKETCH UP LVTUEU.
BT CSHLYt*.
A course, ragged, plebeian, faee it wee,
With great crage of cheek bones—a wild
amonot of paMionate energy and appetite 1
But in hie dark ejrea were floods of eorrow ;
and the deepest melancholy, sweetness and
mystery, were al! there. Often did thereeeem
to meet in Lather the poles iir man's charac
ter. He, for example, of whom Ritcher had
said that h is words were half-battles, he, when
be first began to preach, suffered unheard of
agony. <O, Dr. Staapitz, Dr. B<aopitz,' said
he to the vicar-general ol hie order, *1 cannot,
I cannot; I shall die in three months. In
deed, I cannot do it.' Dr. Stanpitz, a wise
and considerate man, said upon ibis, 'Weil,
sir, Martin, if you must die, yon mow; hat
remember, they need good beads up yonder
too. So preach, man, preach, and then live
or die as it happens'
So Lather preached and lived,and he be
came, indeed, one great whirlwind of ener
gy, to work without resting in this world;
aud also before he died he wrote many, very
many books,—books in which the true man
was—for in the midst of all they denounced
I and cursed, what touches of tenderness lay.
Look al tne Table Talk, for example.
• We see it in little a bird, having alighted
at sun-set on the bough of a pear-tree that
grew in Luther's garden. Luther looked up
at it and said . "That little bird, how it cow
ers down its wings, and will sleep there, so
still and fearless, though over it are the infi
nite (tarry spaces, and the great blue depths
of immsosity. Yet it fears not—it is al home.
The god that made it 100 if there." The
same gentle spirit of lyrical admiration is in
the other passage* of his books. Coming
home from Leipsic, in the autumn season,
he breaks forth into living wonder at the
fields of corn—'How it stands there,' he says,
'eiect on its beautiful taper stem, and bead
ing its beautiful golden head with bread In
it—the bread of man sent to him another
year.' Such thoughts as these are as little
windows, through which we gaze into the se
rene depths ol Martin Luther's soul, and see
visible across its tempests and clouds, the
whole heaven ol light and love. He might
have painted, he might have sung, eould
have been beautiful like Raphael, great like
Michael Anglo.
I.aw. of Peaasylvatiia,
A further supplement to an act to amend
and consolidate with its supplement* the act
entitled "An act for the recovery of debt*
and demands not exceeding one hundred
dollars before a Justice of the Peace," ap
proved the 12tb of March, one thousand
eight hondied and ten.
Ssc. 1. Be it enacted, &0,, from and
after the first day of July next, no action
brought before a Justice of the Peace or
Alderman, shall be referred to referees, un
less by the agreement or expreie assent of
both parties to the action, or their agents,
whioh agreement or assent shall be noticed
by such Justice or Alderman upon the dock
et.
SEC. 2. Thai no special allowance or writ
of cerliorari lo a Justice of the Peace or Al
derman, shall be held requisite to the main
tenance ol such writ.
SEC. 3. That from and after the passage
of this act, all summons issued by any Al
derman or Justice of the Peace may desig
nate the hours of the day by which the same
be returnable; and it either of the parties
fail to appear during the time so designated
it shall be lawful for the said Alderman or
Justice of the Peace to render judgment, or
otherwise determine the same aa is provided
by law.
As women are more affected by the prev
alence of immorality than men, it is really
sirange tbst they do not frown down those vi
ces of men which are so frequently fatal to
their own tranquility. Many a female who
would not refuse to d<ne with a profligate,
would think hersell foully insulted, were she
invited to take tea with a courtezan ; but the
only difference between the two is one wears
pantaloons, and the other pantalettes—the
morale is the same.
RECIPE FOR MAKING SOAP.— Take 6 ponnds
potash, coaling 60 cents ; 4 pounds lard ;
costing about 35 cents ; } pound rosin, cost
ing 5 cents ; beat up the rosin, mix all to
gether well, and set aside for five days , then
put the whole into a ten gallon cask of warm
water, stir twice a-day for ter. successive
days, and at the expiration of that time, or
sooner, you will have 100 pounds of excel
lent soap, costing only SI. A very little
camphine and alcohol may be added at the
time of putting into the cask, if desired,
which will add to the washing qualities of
the soap.
MIND WHAT you EAT. —Cholera morbus
and billious cholio are rather prevalent, and
therefore people should pay attention to what
they eat and when they eat it. No>hing un
ripe or difficult of digestion should be taken
into the stomach of delioate persons, nor
should food be eaten when the body is over
heated with exercise. Dr. Meigs describes
in the Medical Examiner, a fatal esse of
cholera caused by eating a single piece of
dried apple.
Too FAST.— The learned Medical Commit
tee who recently saaeunced the probability
of a lineal transmission qf the crown of
Fran os, were a little to pre mat ere, the f diag
nosis" being deoeptive, and the result a dji
appointment.