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SSESMF INMMEMr.
NOTHING L LOST.
Nothing iv let a the drop of de# •
Which tremble# on tbe leaf or flower
la bnt exhaled to fall anew
In summer's thunder.shower;
Perchance to shine within the bow
Thtt fronts tbe sun at fall of day;
Perchanca to sparkle in the flow
Of fountains far away.
Nothing is lost; the tiniest teed,
By wdd birds borne or breezes blown,
Finds something suited to itt need,
Wherein 'tie sown or grown.
Tbe language of aonte household song,
The perfume of some cherished flower,
Though gone from outward sense, belong
To momoi/'e after hour.
So wdh oor words; nr harsh or kind,
Uttered, they at* net all forgot;
Tbey leave their influence on tbe mind,
Pas* on, bat perish not!
So with our deeds; for good or ill
They have their pow'r scarce understood,
Then let os use our belter will
To make them rife with good ?
A PRAIHIK ItIDK.
at iiaagr WARD BEECHER.
Leaving Chicago we came to Milwankie,
Wiaconsin, one of the most beautiful places
for residence, that we have anywhere met.
The streets are wide, well laid out, and indi
cate good taate in buildings. The pnrticn of
tbe city lying upon the bluff in the vicinity
of the lake is extremely beautiful, nor do we
know of any situation that can surpass tbe lota
which overlook the crescent harbor. The
day was pure, clear, bright and bracing. The
lakeewelled out in the distance like an ocean,
and we thought that, if Naples had a bay
that was more beautiful than this harbo:
aeemed on that afternoon, it is no wonder
that all the world praised i. Milwankie
brick is already famous. But the specimens
in New York must not be taken as a fair rep
resentation of it Indeed, we are informed
that the brick employed in New York were
not from Milwaukie. The color is a very
delicate buff, said to be owing to the absence
of iron and the presence of sulpbar in the
city. When face brick are selected with
are, and well laid, the effect is extremely
fine. Building atone not dissimilar iu col
or abounds, and makes Milwaukie a moat
favored otty for all architectural purposes.
On Monday we crossed a portion ol the
State towards Madison, tbe capiiol, of which
every one spoke with enthusiasm as a place
of tare natural beauty; bnt our errand took
via another way, and diverging from the road
to Janesville, and took a light covered bug
gy for a thirty mile* ride across the prairies
through Beloit to Rockford. A very nice pair
of grays had been fnrnished os by a model
iivery-stable keeper, and we made the dis
tance in a little more than fonr hours. Near
Rocktown we overtook three team* in a row,
•n empty farm wagon, a buggy, and a car.
riage with two lean, short, rough looking hor
ses. We shot past the first two, never dream
ing a challenge, but only wishing to make
onr own time. Tbe lean horses, however,
in the foremost carriage, receiving a hint from
their driver, took up the matter, and ia a
moment, we found ourselves, in a very gen
teel way, raoiag. It would not do. There
was something in Ibeae ugly looking horses
that seemed to prevent onr passing. The
driver was excited. At every suitable place
he made a daab to paaa them. At every en
deavor the shark-like team in the easiest way
possible shot ahead. Their driver never
looked around. But a fallow who sat by him
glanced out aide ways, without moving bia
head, to read the probable capacity of onr
grey*. Our driver wa* quite incensed at tha
smile that the fellow kept upon hi* round red
face. As so we sped for several miles,
watching chanoea, dashing forward but gain,
ing nothing, then subsiding, antl falling be
hind into the elond of dual thai rolled up
from hoof and wheal. *"
Oar driver wee not 10 be vsnquitfced. "If
I 'oil choose to let 'em out, I could go by
My enough, the l' ,r " P l ** o * ,D) * rt
neg*. But I don'l mutt-iC leara > he '
eidee, ildon'l look well to ee dac* nt peOP"
racing aod running at Ibat rate"—and, IK\I
driving up within bail, be oalli out, "I aay,
gentlemen, I with you would let ua go by.
We have a long ride and want lo travel fester
than you don." At that', the men in the oth
er vehicle promptly pulled up, *aying, "Cer
tainly, go a haad." No sooner were we by,
tban our Iriib friend began to m'oralixe.—
"That'* the way to treat these fellowe.—
They've got no manner*, or they would not
bave bothered u ra. Bat tbere'e no use in
getting them angry. lost epeak to them fair
and if they are a bit decent they will be obli
ging. They might bave hindered ue all the 1
way, if 1 had not ssked tbem eo, though, if
I bad ehdeen lo let out the bone*, I could
have rib by tbem t" and in that etrain he
ran on for tome lime, sometimes inveighing
and sometimes praising.. For myself I quite
admired the shsggy horses, for their brave
main (ensure of tneir own rights, ft is not
tbo first time thai ! have found starling qual
ities under a very rough exterior.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, f A.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1855.
The rolling prairies of Wisconsin are ex
tremely fine. The toil is said by lllinoisant
to be less strong end lasting than Illinois prai
ries, but I cannot say whether this is so, or
only a little natural self-laudation of Bueker
dom. But, certainly no prairie country can
be more beaotifol than this.
Rockfoid is one of those spohlaneous towns
ol which the north west is so full. A few
years ago it was a hamlet—now a thriving
city. Like all new places, there is a great
deal of roughness and many .an all and un
sightly dwellings. A few years will ohange
all this. Already several dwellings have
been erected that would not suffer in com
parison with the villais on the Hudson, and
many substantial residencaa are posted bare
and there upon the finest site#, giving token
I learn a fact in regatd to
the manufacturing of Reapers, which will
give some idea of the use made of them in
the wed. One manufactory here, Manny's,
has made the last year 3000 reapers, amount
ing to about <400,000 worth! This is but
on* factory, and many others exist in the
State. Every farmer of means expects to
own a reaper and mower as much a* a plow
or harrow.
From Rockfield to Freeport, is another flour,
iahiaig city and from Freeport, upon the Illi
nois Central Rail Road, through tha wonder
ful prairies to Bloomington and Springfield.
I had crasaed the State, ia years pail, from
east to west, but never bad I traversed the
prairies from north to south. And no one
can have ths slightest conception of land un
til he rides twenty-four hour* upon the cars
at express rates, and all the while through
endless stretching prairies! This is indeed
Grand Prairie! North of the Illinois river it
is rolling prairies; but south of that river, it ia
very level. On either hand you may look
out from the cars and tee the far horizon
without a bush, shtub or tree. Then comes
a faint blue edge to the horizon, which the
experienced eye know* to be timber. It
grows Polder and more distinct: it emerges
as vnu are whirled along, and you come up
on its skirts pass on, plunge again into the
plains and lose sight of forest and Lush again,
and have only the wide roond sphere of
brown uninhabited praines. For, early frosts
bad sealed the summer's work with its sig
net. The flowers were gone, the grass was
russeted, the whole land lay read) for win
ter. Thus hour after honr, hour after hour,
morning, noon and night, we sped and never
cleared the prairies!
Since this road has been opened, the lands
are rapidlv selling, and a few tears will make
Central Illinois populous, in spite of the want
of wood and stone, which, bnt for this road,
wonld scarcely bave been distributed for a
hundred years to come.
As we saw occasional horsemen moving
across the plain, or slow rolling carriages, it
brought back the times, some twelve or fif
teen years ago, when we made jnst such pil
grimages. Then, as now, there waathe feel
ing that we were upon the ocean. A scene
of its ahorelessness, it* wide so'.itnde, the
helplessness of a single man moving alore
across a vast plain outreacbing all eyesight,
resembles the feeling of one in a little boat
in the midst of the Atlsnlio ocean.
We welt remember the perfect intoxica
tion of our enthusiasm when we first saw a
prairie. It was so early in the season, that
the ground was sheeted vArith flowers. We
rnde for hours knee-deep id color. Each va
riely seemed to keep to itself. One color
would spread out over five hundred acres.—
Then another would begin, and ran a belt
for miles. Thus pink, scarlet, red, yellow
in turn held sway, and filled ar.d dazzled the
eye, until one seemed color-drunk. But now
there were no flowers. Only coarse grass.
But even that was grateful to the sight.*—
From Ike New York Independent.
TUB KNOW-NOTHING OATHS.
Extracts from the Address on know-Noth
ingism delivered at Lancaster, Pa., on the
24th of September, by Col. JOHN W. FOB
NET.
" There can be no offence more harrowing
thaiwthat of perjury. The vow taken in the
sight of God, and broken in the sight of man,
cortodes in the conscience forever. Perjury
it the apparition which compels the corrupt
witness to speak the truth, and the whole
truth. Perjury is the keen-vengeance whioh
pursues the shrinking gnilty soul through all
the avennes of life, and is satiated only when
that soul escapes to its God. But who would
have believed, before this midnight conspi
racy afflicted our country, that a political par
ty would assume the right to enforce its ex
trajudicial oaths bj holding over its victims
•o the terror Of perjury! Who ever heard
before that a man's hope of redemption was
lost because he would not, or could.not ful
fill g vow to proscribe bia fellow beings!—
because would not drive boma the steel
whetted to aasassi.nste tbe reputation of bia
uninitiated friend !—because be had fled from
the recesses of an underground lodge, which
had been dedicated to intolerance and wrong!
And yet it ia notorious that (he admitted
member of this order ia oath bound to obey
its decrees on a penalty of "being denounced
aJ a ifiitful traitor to kit God and kit country,''
and that be is nail assured by tbe high
priest Of tbe conspiracy ibat for lb# violation
of hit oaths, "tkt deep and blighting stem of
perjury will i tet on k 4 soul." I have already
specified some of the works to which be is
oomihitted from the moment he enters one .
of these caves of psrseoution, and whiob he
must accomplish, or be "denounced as a
traitor to bis God and bis oonntry." It is a
new thing in 'the history of American par
ties to Mo men assuming obligations to pro
cri be other*, their equal*, and often their
neighbor*, and consenting to the imputation
of peijnry should tbey fail or or falter In tfaia
piou* pastime.
Men have taken oaths te destroy their
country's oppressors, and Heaven haa appro
ved the sot The angnst ceremonial wbioh
inaugurated and completed the Declaration
of Independence was made in the right of
an approving God, and if ever eaeh appro
val was given, it consecrated the immortal
vow. But are our fellow-freeman, whom
we meet in the daily walks of life, oppress
ors and enemies, that we should crawl
into corner* to take oaths against them, fsil
iog in which the sin of perjury is to rest on
our souls 1 No good angel blesses await ir
reverence i go virtue is to bgeteejjy it; no
But I will ask whether the profsao oath I
bave quoted, and the equally profane as
sumption of punishing the violation of auob
an oath should not call down the thunders
of indignant protest from every christian pol
pit in the land? Instead of turning their
thoughts upon the imaginary dangers of a
distant prelate, whose power to affect our
happy institutions would be as ineffectual as
the attempt ol the naked King of the- Mos
quito coast to captnre Gibraltar ; instead of
inciting a political party in its work of de
nunciation arid disfranchisraent—as has been
the case with too many of the professing fol
lowers of the meek and lowly Saviour—(
humbly refer them to the spectacle of vast
multitudes ol men wallowing in tha most
reokless oaths, glorying in tha most aban
doned persecutions, and arrogantly assuming
the right to punish rebellion to their standard,
by hurling the anathema of perjury, ae if
they were delegated vicegerents of God on
earth.
Surely no American citizen, however deep
ly prejudiced againat an opposing creed,
can for a moment be misled by tha plat that
this midu.ght order, with all ita professions,
bs* advanced true religion. Tbe ritual and
platform of the order both declare their be
lief in "a Supreme Being" as an essential
preliminary. But tKere ia great reason to
fear that tbe managers want nobody else lo
worship God save themselves, and thai their
klea of a deity ia of one who expects, lo be
propitiated by acts of deceit and sbame. A
party which excludes a Catholic and admits
a Mormon, which does not hesitate to follow
the lead ol many whose deeds and words
are at war with every idea of religion—auob
a party cannot long delude any portion ol in
telligent citizens with empty profession of
P '7er ,if there be perjury anywhere, those
who violate an obligation like the following,
in the Pennsylvania Bill of Rights, will bare
some trouble to purge themselves :
" That all men have a natural and inde
feasible right to worship Almighty God ac
cording to the dictates of their own consci
ence; that no man can, of right, be compelled
to attend, ereot, or support any place of wor
ship, or to maintain any ministry, against his
consent; that oo human authority can, in
any case whatever, control or interfere with
the rights of conscience; and that no prefer
ence be given to any religious establishment*
or modes of worship.
" That no person who acknowledges the
being of a Cod and a future state of re
wards and punishments shall, on account of
his religious sentiments, be disqualified to
hold any office or place of trust or profit un
der this Commonwealth."
I beg you to contrast this with the oath of
the midnight order. We are told it is per
jury in a know-nothing to violate that oath.
And here is an obligation more solemn,
more binding, more essential to society,
which in some of its parts are set at nought
by thousands of know nothings—and this,
too, without complaint or condemnation from
those ministers ol the Gospel who belong to
the order, and who themselves practice tbe
I evil they should condemn in others.
I h hat been said (hat, while the adopted
I cititen likes an balk to support, the know
noihibg takes an oath to violate (be Ameri
can Constitution. And thermite Of (bisfeck
lessneaa are full of terrible significance. A
direct result of the secret obligations of the
order may be fonnd in the bloody 10mulls of
Louisville, and in the exoeasetol this know
nothings in other large cities. To AUch an
extent has public indignation been ekciled
against the profane and familiar resort to ex-
I Ira-judicial oaths, ahd the invariable appeal
to force and fraud at the ballat-boles, (hat
in portions of the Union the order hSa delib
erately discarded alike its Secrecy and its
obligations. This has been the case in Ala
bama, Georgia, Louisiana and South Caroli
na. The very fact that the oath of the Order
tends to bring into contempt the higher obli
gations imposed by the Constitution and the
laws proves that it is not binding upon those
who are deluded into an assumption of it.—
But it is no less clear that in many places,
ibis oath, imposed with all the forms of mid
night secrecy, has bad a disastrous effeot up
on those who bave.accepied it. So far from
contributing to the strength of the order, it
has been one of the principal causes of its
rapid decay. Reported to for the purpose of
consnmmating the schemes of men who
oould not obtain advancement from other
partlea, bat who were able to pack majori
ties in these secret societies, it becomes a
galling yoke to tbe more reepeeiabte mem
ber*, and, as may be well conceived, baa
ended by driving, otrt the best and leaving
(he lodges in the Oontrot of the worst. If ay,
take a member of tbta order, one who >a
known to have accepted Its obligations, and
suddenly demand of bim whether he is ou
taohedtoit, and observe with bow much
oonfnshm and shame ha will attempt to de-
Tnrtfc u4 *t*M r —Wtrj*.
• ny, of indirsotly admit the fact. Tbat min
ister* of God should, in the ostensible desire
of promoting the spread of , the doctrines
of Christiaoity, embarfclwitb those who are
committed to . these obligations; that they
should cheerfully assume companionship
with men besotted in intellect and led cdp
tive by vice and fraud; and that they should
ait silent and see not ordy. their Catholic fal
low beings, but their own neighbors, (even
thoss concurring with them io religious be
lief, who do not belong to the order, stricken
down ormsrked out as ft were, for execution,
almost passes comprehension. It cannot be
doubted that the nisnnqt in which these obit
gat ions have been insisted upon, and tha vi
olence with which tbo demand* of the pledg
ed nddcigbt majority bsve bwmconsumma
rpwfwrt. i k,i iiijuge -many of 4he*e
lodges into Pandemonifims upon earth ; con
trolled, not by intellect and virtue, but by
men who have become skilled in tbe practi
ces at first so bitterly denounced by their
leaders and now almost ectirely abandoned
by tbe old parties. Oaths employed to sanc
tion and strengthen practices like these are
nbll and void in tbe sight of Heaven aa soon
as they are taken; and the frequency with
which they are repudiated by those who
have reluctantly assumed them shows con
clusively tbat the idea of thair binding effica
cy is being rapidly dissipated. Shakspeare
expresses tbe whole doctrine in the second
part of King Henry VI:
" Is is a great sin to swear unto a sin,
But a grsatsr sin to keep a sinful oath
Who can be bound by any solemn vow
To do a murderous deed, to rob a man,
To force a spotless virgin's chastity,
To reave the orphan of patrimony,
To wring the widow from her costumed
rights
And bare no other rdison for this wrong
But that ba was bound by solemn vo'w !"
PICTURE OF YOUNG AMERICA.
A vary uncertain, mysterious, inexplicable
creature is a boy—who can define him!
I will try. A boy is tha spirit of mischief
embodied. A perleot teetotum, spinning a
round like a jenny, or tumbling beels over
head. He invariably goes through 'bo pro
cess of leaping every chaw in his reach;
makes drumheads of the doors, turns the tin
pens into cymbals; takes the beat kaivesont
to dig worms for bait, And loses thera; bunts
up the molasses cask, and laavss the molas
ses running; is boon companion to tbe sugar
barrel; searches up all :h* pie and preserve*
left from supper, and eats them: goes tn the
apples every ten minutes; bides his old cap
in order to wear his best mje; cms his boots
aeoHlenielly, if be wants pair; tears
his clothes for fun ; jumps into the puadles
lor sport, ar.d for ditto tracks yair carpels,
marks your furniture, pinches the baby, wor
ries the nurse, ties fire crackers to the kit
ten's tail, drops his school books in the gut
ter, while'he fishes with a pin, pockets his
schoolmaster's "specks," and finally turns a
sober household upside down if he CMS his
finger. He is a provoking and unproroking
torment, especially to his sisters. He don't
I pretend to much until be is twelve. Then
begins the rage for frock coats, blue eyes,
curly hair, white dresses, imperfect rhymes
and dickies. At fourteen he is "too big" to
split wood or go for water; and at the time
these interesting offices ought to be perform
ed, contrives to be invisible—whether con
cealed in the garret, with some old worm
eaten novel for company, eeeonced on the
wood pile learning legerdemain, or bound off
oo some expedition that turns out to be more
deplorable than explorable. At fifteen he
has tolerable experience of the world - but
from sixteen to twenty, may we clear the
track when he's in eight. He knows more
than Washington; expresses his opinion with
the decision of Beo Franklin ; makes np hii
mind that he was bom to rule the world, and
lay the track of creation; thinks Providence
is near sighted, understands theology and
the science of the pronosn 1; informs his
father that Gnu. Jackson fought ths memo
rable battle of New Orleans; asks his min
ister if he dont oonsider the Bible a little 100
orthodox. In other words knows more than
he will know again. Just hail ona of these
young specimens "boy," si sixteen, how
wrathy ha gets I If he does not answer you
precisely as tha little urchin did who angrily
exclaimed, " Dont call me boy, I've smoked
ihese two Jfears," he will give yoii i with
ering look ibat is. meant to aohitilata you,
turn on bis heel, and with a curl of the lip
mutter disdainfully, "Who do you ball a
boy!''addob! the emphasis! But jesting
aside, an honest, blunt, metry mischievous
boy is something to be proud of, whether aa
brother or sob ; for, in all his good heart gets
the batter of him and leads him to repent
ance; and be sure he will rstnmamber his
faults— at least five taioutm.— Mxk. Mary
A. Davit.
Why do Teeth HWTi
All the theories that lime aid again have
! been advanced in answer to this inquiry,
have long since vanished before the true doc
trine of the ac ion of external corrosive agents.
Thd great and all-powerful dettrOyer of the
human teeth is acid, vegetable ana mineral,
and it matters not whether'hh acid is formed
in the mouth by the decomposition of pani
cles of food left between and around the teeth,
or whether it is applied direc'iy to the organs
themselves; the result is the same, the en
amel is dissolved, corroded, and the tooth de
stroyed. Much, very much Of the decay in
teeth rosy be attributed to the' corrosive ef
fects of ascetic acid, which is" not only io
common use as a condiment in the form of
Jinegmr, but is generated by the decay and
ecomposition of any Bnd every variety of
vegetable matter. When we Consider now
very CBW persons, comparatively, take espe
cial pains to remove every particle of food
from between and around their teeth imme-
diately after eating, Can we wonder that dis
eased teeth ant so common, and that their
early loss is so frequently deplored 1
From Household Word*.
JUDGE NOT.
Judge not the working of hi* brain,
And of Itik heart thou om'it not MO,
What look* to thy dim eya stain,
In God's pore light may only be
A sear, brought from some well-won field,
Where thon would'st only faint and yield.
Tbe look, Ibe air, tbat frets thy sight,
May bs a token that below
The soul has closed in deadly fight
With some internal fiery foe [grace,
Whose glance would sooroh thy smiling
And eaM thee shuddering on thy face !
Tbe fall thott detest 10 despise—
May be the slackened angel's band
Has snffered it that be may rise
And take a firmer, surer stand .*
Qr, trusting less to earthly things,
May hepeefortk team to imp his wings.
And Jud|te node lost, but wait, and see
With hopeful pity, not disdain ;
The depth of tbe abyss may be
The measure of the height of pain,
And love and glory that may raise
Tbe soul to God in after days!
fOUD AND FINANCES IN FKANCE.
THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.
The Merchants' Magazine for November
devotes quite an elaborate article to the sub
ject. The writer endeavors to show tbat fi
nance and food have been migtty agen's,
which five timet in tbe course of sixty years
have revolutionized France; and hurled from
their seat of power, despots, kings, and re
publicans. He than proceeds to show the
causes that produced tbe tevolutiona of 1789,
1802, 1830; 1848, and 1861. It ia not neoes
tary for us to recapitulate these in detail, but
the question—what ia likely to be the future
of France! is well calculated to arrest atten
tion. It Is argued that every revolution that
has overthrown the rulers of has
been proceeded by a war, and (hat within a
short time, Government has effected loans,
which will add aizty-one millions of francs
to the yearly expenses of France. Add to
this fact, she one that the floating debt at the
present time is 760,000 franos, that the sink
ing fund is suspended, and that 110,000,000
francs will have to be added to the budget of
1858, and we have tn idea tbat the slender
thread upon which hangs the tranquility of
France, for she is approaching toward finan
cial embarrassments that are inevitable, and
which a year of famine will accelerate, and
aid in producing and causing another revolu
tion. In a single month war has reduced tbe
bullion in her bank >8,000,000, and already
commercial revulsions a:e beginning to oc
cur in all parte of the empire. One year of
scarcity would now be but tbe precursor to
another revolution. Let ns herd remark that
it is not the fickleness of the .people tbat pro
duces these changes, but it results from the
peculiar position of the nation, owing to the
subdivision of its landed property.
" We have already alluded to tbe extent of
these divisions in 1815, and judging from that
date there am at present in France 17,000,-
000 landed proprietors, most of whom are
too poor to ever taste of meat, and who eke
out but a miserable subsistence. The result
of this system is that France hat no "extra
ordinary resources" on which to draw incase
< of war, for if she were to levy upon land a
tax of >25,000,000 to support the war, it would
bear directly upon 17,000,000 of her people,
while in England It wonld only affect 70,000
owners of the soil. Thus England doubles
her land tax of >31,000,000 in a single year,
I and yet it produces ouly wordy debates, but
if France was to increase bers >6,000,000, it
would almost insure a revolution, for in tbe
last case it would lake bread from the mouths
of 10,000,000 people, while in the first it
would reach the pockets of 2,000 English
farmers, who own 2,000,'000 acres, and 67,-
000 more who own the same extent. The
difference in '.be nation's resources explains
the stability of the one and changes of the
other, and while England in sixteen years
has taken off taxes from her people to the
amount of >90,000,000, France has
ishad hers only >3,000,000. The one has
exhausted her ospabiliiiaa of great taxation
upon land by ita subdivisions, the other has
increased hers by preventing even a political
division of the soil. Suob is France's posi
tion in regard to taxation and war.
•' Let us look at her supply of food. So
inadequate, even in years of plenty, is her
mesns of supplying food for her people that
400,000 ehaanul trees are depended on as
one means of furnishing subsistence to her
citizens, and as our table will show, she has
now no longer the means of furnishing con
stantly an adequate siippljr of food for her in
habitants. A frost destroys ber chestnut crop,
and annihilates in a single night 8,(KM),000
bushels of food, tthile a week's storm, as in
1788 and 1847, destroys a whole harvest, and
incites bat people to revolution. She ia reach
ing the acme in her financial affairs, and be
yond which she cannot pass, and each day
widens the grasp betwaan her own demand
and home supply ol food. Revolutions upon
her soil need no human propagandists. They
come with hsil, frost, and blight, deficits In
budgets, new taxes upon land, aod new drains
upon labor. Quietude to France id an im
possibility—nature herself wats against it.—
Har rulers also prevent it, and five govern
ments bava been overturned upon ber soil,
because war embartasaed the finances and
nature dksttoyed her food. The same migh
ty, invincible agents sfa note at work in her
capital; war is oreatir.g deficit* in ber treas
ury and taxes for ber people, and her future,
like ber past, id to be marked with eueoee
eiva revolutions, and the active unceasing
agents that will surely produce tbem will be
Finance and Famine.''
This is, indeed, a startling view of an im
portant subject, and although it may be ex
aggerated, it is entitled to dtfe considera
tion
THE FRENCH SOLDIER.
Ths French are essentially a military peo
ple, and we fear, It most be added, they pre
fer military glory lit civil freedom. In Franee,
whenever wai oocurs, it assumes an intellec
tnal complexion, and officers apd men de
vote to it all their vivacioos energy end
strength-. The French, like the Roman sol
diers, are ioured to fatigoa end hardened by
exorcise. Drilled to walking at quick paces
and carrying heavy burdens, to olimb deep
acclivities, and to creep along the eides of
precipioea, tbey are early taught that success
in warfare is a more constant attendant on
boldness, intelligence, address and audacity,
than on mere nnmbere and brute foree. The
military art, in troth, becomes among tbe
Freash a nations! sod pstriotio sentiment,
and every feeling, thought and aspiration of
the soldier is bound np in the service of his
country. No nation is so vain of military
successes as the French, and this if one of
the reasons .why they more easily become
solJiers than other men. Tbe Frenchman is
by nature and disposition a campaigner. He
is of an eager and adventurous disposition,
gay, joound and somewhat reckless, and dis
posed to make the best of everything in.this
world below. No man more easily accom
modates himeelt to circumstances, or makes
himself more at home in a strange land. He.
is an excellent marcher, an excellent forager,
and above all, an excellent cook. He oan
bake and roast and stew, and make sauces
and dress egg, and creates omule-s in scores
of ways. He can dam hie own stockings,
patch his own coat, and mend bis own small
clothes; wash his ahirt in a running brook,
or cobble his shoes in the shade of a tree.—
He can hut himself with the ingenuity of a
beaver, pitch his tent in a salubrious spot,
and sing and dance with real light-hearted
nesa to drive dull ears away. He can subsist
on much less than would satisfy an English
man, nor is it necessary he should always
have butoher'a meat at hia dinner, like our
countryman "John-" With vegetables and
bread, with a little cheese, a little pottage
and the pot-au-feu, with an onion, a carrot
and clove of garlic, and a few apples or ches
nuts, or with the stoic's fare a radish and an
egg. Crapaud will make a satisfying if not
a very solid meal, where Bull would either
starve or become useless from sulk, grumble
or emptiness of stomach.
Modem Dictionary.
Author—A dealer in words who gets paid
in bit own coin.
Bargain—A very ludicrous transaction in
which each party thinks he has cheated the
other.
Belle—A beautiful but useless insect with
out wings, whose colors fade on being remo
ved from the sunshine.
Critic—A Isrge dog that goes unchained,
and barks at everythiug he does not compre
•head.
Distant Relation—People who imagine
tbey have a claim to rob vou if you are rich
and insult you if you are poor.
Doctor—A man who kills you to-day to
save you from dying to-morrow.
Editor—A poor fellow, who every day is
emptying his brain in order that he may fill
his stomach.
Feat—The shadow of hope.
Friend—A person who will not assist
you because Its knows your love will excuse
him.
ugly hole in the ground, which
lovers and poets wish they were in, but take
Uncommon pains to keep out of.
Heart—A rare articte sometimes found in
human beings. It is soon however destroy
ed by commerce with the worltor also be
comes fatal to its possessor.
Honor —Shooting a friend whom yod love
tbfough the head, in order to gain the praise
ttf a few others whom you despise.
Housewifery—An ancient art said to have
been fashionable among girla and wives; now
' entirely out of use or practiced only by tbe
lower orders.
Lawyer—A learned gentleman, who res
cues your estate from your enemy and keeps
it himself.
Modesty—A beautiful flower that floarish
estinly in secret places.
My Dear—An expression said to be used
by a man and wife at tbe commencement of
a quarrel.
Policeman—A men employed by the cor
poration to sleep in the engine houses at three
dollars per night.
Political Honesty—Previous lexicographers
do not notice thia word, treating it, we pre
sume, altogether as fabulous—for definition,
aee eel/interest.
Public Abuse—The mud with which ev
ery traveller it spattered on hia road to dis
tinction.
Rural Felicity—Potatoes, turnips and cab
bage*.
Sensibility—A quality by which its posses
sor, in attempting to promote tbe happiness
of other people, loses his own.
State's Evidence—A wretch who is par
doned for being baser than bis comrades.
Tongue—A little horse that is oohtinuslly
running away.
Wealth—Tbe most respectable qas'ity of
man. *
<■>.
New IMVMTIOW.—A Tanked down East
haa invented a machine for corking up day
light, which will eventually succeed gas. He
oovere tbe interior of a Sour barrel with •hoe
maker'* wax—holds h open to the son, then
suddenly heads up the barrel. The light
I slicks to the wax, and at night ein be cut
I out in " lota to sail purchasers!"
1 a l ** mum 1
[Tf Mar* ft Mm*
NUMBER 44.
MEDICAL StJRRAftt.
Five persons rocently died in NjWW (lamp
shire at the respective ages of lift, 'lit, 116,
117, and 120 yeira.-~.Poof. Kscherich, of
Wrorsburg, has just published tab!— estab
lishing that thfe mortalhy Is greater amongst
medical men than in other professions
three fourths die before the age of fifty, end
ten elevenths before sixty The Boss on
Medical and Suigical Journal is down upon
"baby-showa."—-The Reformers ef fnj
ton county, Illinois, have organized a Med
ical Society. Amdng the active members
we see the names of out friends and patrons
Dra, Burson and Biker.— Profosaor W- U
Cook, of Cincinnati, is preparing for the
people a series of Medical Pacts* Th*tttf.
"What is Medicine V'—a four paged tract ie
now ready.—A case is reported in the
September number of the ''Physitf-Medicel
Recorder," by Dr. Watkins of Hancock jco.,
Ohio, of the placenta being retained four
days. Ten days after delivering the wontau
was about the houee.-^—Dr. Archibald Ax
nott, Napoleon's last Medical attendant,
died in Europe, a short time since in the
84th year of his age ——Our friends Drs.
Wm. Nash ind M. M. Canrtbn have fallen
victims to the Norfolk epidemic. They were
members of the Middle Slates Society, anp
had obtained enviable .reputations as phys
icians. -'Louiflas, a physician of Bruges,
reports that his own wife had submitted
seven times to' the Catsarian operation.—
The Surgeon of the Steamer Tiger, Doctor
Domville, taken by the Russians, proceed
ed, amid shot and shell, and while the ship
was on fire, to amputate at the Hip jomt.
Dr. Joel Shew, one Of the pioneer writers
and practitioners of Hydropathy in thia
country, died on the Bth of October, in the
40th year of his age. ■ The human lungs
are said to contain seventeen hundred mil
lion of cells. The chap who found out that
secret must had a good time a counting.——
What is that which every dne wishes to
have, and which every one desires to get
rid of the moment he obtains it? A good ap
petite.—A child twq and a half years old,
whom benefloent nature, in Otte of her
strange freaks, had endowed with two hands
upon one arm, was lately relieved Of one of
the appendages, and from the superfluous
hand, enough flesh Was desected to manu
facture a neat thumb for the hand that was
allowed to remain, and which lacked that
necessary limb. The hand thus made to
order Is doing well.- A fellow in jail wish
es he had the sihall-pox, so he could "break
OUt."-—Meditai Refbntitr.
On the Etiology or Aittnmoal teherf
- Recent observations have forced me to the
conclusion that dietetic habits have more to
do with the production of autUmnsil fevers
(intirmiltant, remittanl and continued) than
either "malaria" "koino-miaemalta," "tlsciri
cal conditions of ike atmosphere," or any other
of the hypothetical creations df professional
theorize'rs.
At this season of the year (as well as for
some months previous) when these forms of
disease rhost prevail, the Usual diet of all
classes df persons ctinsiSts chiefly of fruite
and vegetables This, though the best
| adapted to preserve health in the hot months
of summer, is not suitable for maintaining
! the greatest degree of physical vigor in the
cooler and more changablu months of au
tumn; and hence when the cool nights and
I hot sunn of tliis season severely try our
physical resistance, we are found wanting;
| the blood is too thin, it contains too lmlb of
the carbonaceous element; vital heat (life)
is not generated in sufficient Quantities to
maintain the rbqiileitc temperature and
equilibrium in the circulation; therefore we
have chilis, levers, sweats, pains, and physic
too, and sometitires poisons alsb, and after all
scarcely ever get right again, until steady
cool weather, and the absence of the copi
| ous supply of vegetables and fruit, and ths
use of a more generous animal diet do the
work for us.
If these views are correct, let the people
live on fruit and vegetable diet during the
hot Weather, but when September comes
let abundant supplies of beef, mutton, chick
en, game, ham, eggs, etc., take the place of
the fruit and farinaceous and you may bid
defiance to agues, and we believe, to au
tumnal fevers generally. Debility resulting
I from decorbonaceous diet inttifW; and the
strength arid vigor resulting from a gener
ous carbonaceous and easily digested and
assimilated diet successfully resists the mias
matic causes (if such Exists.) I have fre
quently seen relapses brought abont during
-convalescence from these forms of disease,
in a few hours, by a free use of fruit, while
under the treatment indicathd by these
views, (antipfe'riodic tonics, chalybeate*,
with animal diet, etc.-, and an entire proki
bitidn of fruit, and only few vegetables al
lowed) such an occurrence is extremely
rare. Ido not wish to be understood as ad
vising rich animal diet during the active
stages of thh fever; but both before and af
ter as a prophylactic, when the digestive
and assimilating organs are capable Of prop
erly changing it to the heahhy "pabulsm of
life."
Wardt clothing is an indibpensible adjunct
to the deans already indicated.
Medical Reformer.
GT Philosophy does not regard pedigrsd
She did not receive Pl*to as noble; bet
made him so.
tW All women are in some decree spies
in imagination, angels in Kesri, and dtpW
. matins in mind'