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THE SHADOW IN THE VALLEY-
There's a mossy shady valley
Wheie the waters wind and flow,
And the daisies sleep in wider,
'Neath a coverlet of snow ;
And violets, blue-eye ! violet,
Bloom in beauty in the spring,
And the sunbeams kii-s the wavelets, l
Till they seem to laugh and sing.
But in autumn when the sunlight
Crowns the cedar covered hill,
Shadows darken ill tl.e valley,
Shadows ominous and still;
And the yellow leaves like banners,
Of an elfin host that's fled,
Tinged wiiti gold and royal purple,
Fluttered sadly overhead.
And those shadows, gloomy shadows,
l.ike d irn phantoms on the ground,
Stretch iheir dreamy length lorever,
• On n daisy covered mnund ;
And I loved her, yes, I loved her,
But die Angels loved her 100,
So she's sleeping in the valley,
•'Neath (he sky so bright and blue.
And no slab ot pallid marble,
Rears it while and ghastly head,
Telling wanderers in the valley
01 the virtues of the dead.
But a lilly is tier inmbstonp,
And a dew-drop, pure and bright,
Is the epi'aph of an angel
Wrote in the stillness of night.
And. I'm mournful, very mournful,.
For my soul dolli ever crave
For the lading of the shadows
From that little woodland crave,
For the memory ol the loved one,
From my soul will never part,
And those shadows in the valley,
Dim the sunshine ot my heart.
!> I) L I T I t: A L.
THE NEQROES AT WORE -Let Giddnigs, Bur- (
lingame, Clawson, and Beecher rejoice, the I
real coal-black negroes are nt work for Fro- j
mont and dieunion throughout the West, as I
tho following will show:
Colored men on the stamp. —The Columbus j
(Ohio) Statesman says that two colored men i
named Jenkins and Langeton, are stumping |
the State for Fremont.
FUGITIVE SLAVES IN OI.D TIMES. —The fol--J
lowing advertisement, from Dunlap's Atner- '
ican Daily Advertiser will show how lugi- j
live slaves were dealt with in Pennsylvania j
in 1790:
"Taken up and committed to the jail of
the city and coun'y of Philadelphia, a run
away negro, named Jacob, the property of
Thomas Prideaux, of the Slate of Maryland.
His master or others concerned, are hereby
notified to prove property to the said negro |
in six weeks from this date, and take him j
awav, otherwise ho will be doalt with as |
the law directs."
COLORED REPUBLICANS —The Boston Bee,
a Fremont paper, reports a meeting of the
colored citizens of Boston, who passed the
following:
Resolved, That we, the colored citizens
of Boston, will support with our voices nnd
votes, John C. Fremont, of California, as
President of the United Stales, and Wm L
Dayton, of New Jersey, as Vice President.
A Fremont meeting held a few nights ago
In Marlborough, Chester County, Pa., was
addressed by a NEGRO! Some of the audi,
once left—it was going it rather too strong
for them.
Lire AND HEALTH.— So little lias been learn
ed by the masses respecting the laws of life
—so li tie do they think that he tlth depends
strictly on conditions—so much they have
trusted upon the predeterminations of fate,
or the blind accidents of chance that there
has become an alarming apathy upon the
subject of health. In the pursuit of pleas
ure it would seem that the people have
been endeavoring to see how far they can
▼entnre down the whirlpool of disease with
out being irretrievably caught by its eddying
force, drawn down into the vortex, and dash
ed at lost upon the rocks of death.
Oh how sweet is Life, and Health—good
Health, it is a boor, that well becomes the
gift of God. And oh how needful that we
keep this giff with grateful care, for though
e goblet of-workmanship unimitate by art,
it ie frail and easily rent: Without a cauti
ons heed some corroding canker may em
bitter the draught—some careless jat, a fis
•ore make that happiness no more ct n fill
to the brim the cup of life—or else some
luckless transgression dash it to a thousand
hragments.
Yet all the world are striving to run the
goblet over: ignorant of its structure —
thoughtless of the conditions of the gift—
Regardless of the lawk of heslth.
Beyond compute is the misery and the
wretchedness resulting from this ignorance
—-this thoughtless indifference. The great
est and most important of all subjects, yet
■a enterely neglected! No question be-
•Men wealth or poverty, fame or obscurity
compare with it. It is a question be
tween Life and Death. Oh that the people
2—ld be induoed to atudy these facts .-Mtd.
Rl/brmrr.
A good daughter ie the morning sunlight
avid evening star of her patent's house.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1856.
' THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE.
The butory and merits of the " Missouri
Compromise" having, after an undisturbed
and happy existence of thirty-three years,
become a subject of renewed discussion—
possessing indeed with the present genera
tion the interest of a new question—we could
not, we are sure, offer to the majority of our
readers any-document which would be pe
rused with profonnder respect and attention
than the subjoined original letter from the il
lustrious author, as he may be justly styled,
of that important Compromise. This valoed
relique of the departed statesman,containing
so circumstantial an account of his patriotic
labors, though wiitten twenty-one years ago,
now meets tne public eye for the first lime.
The esteemed subscriber in Virginia towhom
we re indebted for the pleasure of placing
the letter in our columns explains in the an
nexed note the motive which induced him lo
give it to the public:
Albemarle, (Fa.) Sept. 2, 1856.
DEAR SIRS: In a conversation a few days
since with a Representative in Congress from
this State, allusion being made to a tetter of
Mr. Clay to my late brother, Wm. S. Woods,
giving the part which he had taken in bring
ing about the Missouri Compromise, consider
able anxiety was expressed that tho letter
might be published; and I herewith enclose
to you, his ever-constant ar.d devoted friends,
the original, that you may do with it as you
think proper. Yours, most truly,
JOHN R. WOODS.
Messrs GALAS & SEATON, Washington.
ASIILAND, July, 16, 1835.
DEAR SIR: I have duly received your fa
vor of the Blh instant, and feel greatly obli
ged by the friendly sentiments nd the con
stancy villi which you have adhered towards
nre. I regret extremely that I can supply
you with no copy of any speech that I ever
made on the Missouri question. The debate
was long, arduous, and, during the last agi
tation of the quesdon, I spoke almost every
day for two or three weeks on the main or
collateial questions. The set or prepared
speech which I made of three or four hours'
duration was never publieed. Of my share
in the debate there is, therefore, only a mea
gre account to he gleaned from the papers of
the day.
The question first arose in tl.e session of
1819- ! 20. When the bill for admitting Mis
souri ioln the Union was on its passage, Mr.
Taylor, of New York, proposed to insert in
it, as a condition on which the State was to
berome n member of that
it should never tolerate slayery or involuntary
servitude The argument by which that
profo-iiion was maintained by himself and
cither- was, that slavery is contrary to the di
vine luw and to the acknowledged rights of
man; that it ought not lo exist; that it is an
admitted evil; that, if the General Govern
mem cannot ex'irpate it in the old States, it
can prevent re extension to the new; that,
being contrncied within a limited sphere, it
will t e less pernicious and conttolla
ble; that Congress, having the power to ad
mit new Stales, may prescribe the conditions
of their admission ; nod that in all preceding
instances of the admission of new Slates
some conditions were annexed.
To nil this we replied that I lie General Gov
ernment had nothing lo do with the (subject
of slavery, which belonged exclusively lo
the several Slates ; that they alone were lo
judge of the evil and the remedy; lhat every
Stute hail such entire control over the matter
that those which tolerated slavery might a
bnliih it, and those which never had it or had
atioli-hud it might now admit it without any
inteifeteiice from the General Government;
that although Congress had the powe' lo ad
mit new Stn'es, when admitted, by the ez
pre-s terms of the Constitution, they were on
tho san.e looting in every respect whatever
with the senior States, sod consequently had
s tight to judge for themselves on the ques
tion of elsvery ; that, if Congress could exer
cise the power of annexing a condition re
specting slavery, they might annex any oth
er condition, and thus it might come to pars
that, instead of a confederacy of Slates of
equal power, we should exhibit a mongrel
association; that, in the case of other new
S ates, they were not conditions upon their
sovereignly, but voluntary compacts, rela
ting chiefly to the public lands and mutually
beneficial; that the extension of slavery was
favorable to the comfort of the slave and to
the security of the white race, &c.
The proposition by Mr. Taylor (which I
think had been made at the previous ses
sion) was defeated by s small majority, and
the bill passed without the obnoxious condi
tion.
Missouri nssembted her convention, form
ed a constitution, and transmitted it to Con
gress. In that constitution she unfottonately
inserted a clause against free blacks; and
when, at the session of 1820—'21, it was pro
posed to admit her into the Union, the same
party who had supported the condition, ta
king advantage of that exceptionable clause,
now opposed her admission.
I did not reach Washington until in Janu
ary, and when I got there I found the mem
bers from the slave Slates and some from
others in despair. All efforts had been tried
and failed to reconcile the parties. Mr.
Lowndes had exhausted all his great resour
ces in vain. Both parties appealed to me,
and, after surveying their condition, I went
to work. 1 saw that each was so committed
and so wedded to its opinion that nothing
could be effected without a compromise; and
the point with me was to propose some com
promise which should involve no sacrifice of
prinoiple. I got a committee of thirteen ap
pointed by the House, and fornished to the
Speaker (Mr. Taylor) • list of such members
as I wished, embracing enough of the re
strictionisls to carry any measure, if they
would agree with us. In that committee I
proposed, and, with its assent, reported to
the House a clause, byway of condition, to
be annexed to the act admitting her, substan
tially like that which was finally adopted. It
was defeated in the House by Mr. Randolph
and Messrs. Edwards and Burton, of North
Carolina, voting against it.
My next movement was to get a joint com
mittee of twenty-four appointed by the two
Houses. That on the part of the House was
chosen by ballot, and a list which I mads out
were aDpointed, with a few exceptions.—
They reponed the resolution, now to be found
on the statute book, which was finally pass
ed 2d March, 1821, and settled the question.
Never did a party put so much at hazard
as the reetriclionists did on so small a ques
tion as that was which arose on the second [
occasion, growing out of the constitution of i
Missouri. Never have I seen the Union in |
such danger. Mr. King, of New York, was |
understood to concur in all the measures of
the restrictionists. He was a member of the
Senate, spoke largely on the subject, and was
most triumphantly refuted in one of the ablest
speeches of Mr. I'mkney, of Maryland, that
I ever heard.
Besides the topics employed in the first
instance, oo this second occasion, the main
effort of our opponents was procrastination;
they urging that the matter should be put of!
until the new Congress. We believed that
their real purpose was to consolidate thei
parly and lo influence the Presidential elec
tion then approaching. I never was in bel
ief health and spirits, and never worried my
opponents more. I coaxed, soothed, scorn
ed, defied them by turns, as I thought the
best effect was lo be produced. Towards
those, of whom there were many from the
free Stales, anxious for the settlement of the
controversy I employed all the persuasion and
conciliation in my power.
At the conclusion of the business I was
exhausted ; and am perfectly satisfied that I
cot.ld not have borne three weeks more of
such excitement and exertion.
This account of that memorable question
is written for your own satisfaction, and not
for publication. It is the first draught and I
retain DO copy.
Your letter has brought on you a great in
fliction in this long epistle. You must ascribe
it to the friendly feelings excited by yours. I
rarely commit this sort of offence.
With great respect,
1 am youre, respectfully,
H. CLAY.
Wti. S. WOODS, Esq.
The Mission or the Newspaper.
The world is too apt to slight and forget
its obligation to the newspaper. 'Tis the
newspaper that keeps men posted up on all
subjects, that do no not pass under their im
mediate observation.
The eye of the newspaper is universal; il
falls on all parts of the world, and searches
out its incidents, as well as the motives and
passions that control its movements. Noth
ing is too great, nothing to trivial to escape
its aeen, penetrating glance; it is every
where —on everybody; Above, below and
around it—the four quarters of the earth are
its parade ground; and it passes over them
every moment of each day. It is ceaseless
in its industry—tireless in its watchfulness;
ad, although gossippy in its character, it is
vigilant at times, penetrative as light, and
sleepless as the stars.
Each succeeding dawn comes not with
more regularity than the morning journals
with the fresh despatches from all parts of
the world. The thoughts, positions, incidents
and movements of individuals and of nations,
are presented in its columns, as in a mirror
—the reflex and the thoughts and progress
of man and the world, lie who reads care
lully a well conducted newspaper, is never
in any danger of falling behind the age. His
journal keeps him posted up in everything
running on with the great march of time—it
gradually prepares his mind to receive all the
new discoveries of the human brain in its
rapid strides to clear and unclouded intelli
gence ; it weans him from old fashions, old
customs, and old fogy thoughts ; il separales
htm from early prejudices, and gradually
imbues Itim with sound practical notions,
and enables him to fathom the heaviest and
most obtruse subjects with tho plummet of
common sense ; it keeps him alive to all the
new progressive steps in Trade, Commerce,
Literature and Art; it makes him familiar
with the details of all the events transpiring
in no matter what part of the world, or the
day; it enables him to keep pace wilh'the
intelligence and progress of the times—lt
carries bim on, imperceptibly to himself, with
each progressive step of the era in whioh he
lives; and it enables him if a man of busi
ness, to open new channels of correspon
dence, and thus secure for himself new open
ings for trade, and new sources of profit.
THE PULPIT ITS own WORST ENEMT.— The
people are fast finding out the important fact
that the American pnlpit ie fast becoming a
far more formidable enemy to Christianity,
than all the infidel writers that have ever at
tempted its overthrow. One political ranter
in the pulpit, can do more harm than a bun
dred faithful ministere can do good. The
people have the remedy in their own bands.
Let them withdraw their pecuniary support
from all such unfaithful shepherds, stop pe
cuniary supplies, and political treason in the
pulpit will cease. Thai is the only argument
that suoh men can feel and realize. Let it
be put in force everywhere.
Truth aid Right M and sir Coantry.
CHILDREN.
It ie a mistake to tbink that childten love
their parents less Who raaiotain a proper au
thority over them. On the contrary they re
spect them more. It is cruel and unnatural
selfishness that indulges children in a foolish
and hurtful way. Parents are guides and
counsellors to their children. As a guide in
a foreign latnl, they undertake to pilot them
safely through the schools and quicksands of
inexpeiience. If the guide allows his fol
lowers all the liberty they please; if because
they dislike the constraint of the narrow path
of safety, he allows them to slake thsir thirst
in books that poison them, to loiterin woods
full of wild beasts or deadly herbs,can he be
called a sure guide?
And is it not the same with our children ?
They are as yet only in the preface, or, at it
were, in the first chapter of the book of life.
We have nearly banished it, or are far ad
vanced. We must open the pages far the
young minds. If children see that their pa
rents act from principle—that they do not
find fault without reason, that they do not
punish because personal offence is taken,
but because the thing itself is wrong—if they
see that they are resolutely but affectionately
refused what is not good for them, there is a
willingness to oblige them in all innocent
matters—they will soon appreciate suca con
duct.
If no attention is paid to the rational wish
es—if no allowance is made for youthful
spirits—if they are dealt with in a hard and
unsympatbizing manner—the proud spirit
will rebel, and the meek spirit be broksn.—
Our stooping to amuse them, our condescend
ing to make ourselves one in their plays and
pleasutes at suitable times, will lead them to
know that it is not because we will not, but
because we cannot attend to them, that at
other times we refuse to do so. • C-
A pert or improper way of speaking ought
not to be allowed. Clever children are very
apt to be pert, and, if too much admired for
it, and laughed at, becomes eccentric and
disagreeable. It is often very difficult to
check our own amusements. It shonld nev
er be forgotten that ifi'ey are tender plants
committed to our fostering care—that every
thoughtless word or careless neglect may de
stroy a germ of immorality—<"lhat foolish
ness is bound up in the heart of a child"—
and that we must ever, like the watchful hus
bandman, be on our guard against it. It is,
indeed, little that wecan be in onr own
strength, but if we are conscienscious per
formers of our part —if we earnestly com
mend them in faith and prayer to tbe foster
ing oar® of their Father in heaven —to the
tender love of him, tbe angel ff whose pres
ence goes before them, and who carries these
lambs in his bosom— we may then go on our
way rejoicing— "for he will never leave or
forsake those who trust in him."
Science or Sound.
It is a curious fact in the history of sounds,
that the loudest noises perish almost on the
spot where they are produced, whereas mu
sical tones will be heard at a distance. Thus
if we approach within a mile or two of the
town or village in which a fair is held, we
we may hear very faintly the olamor of the
multitude, but most distinctly the organ and
other musical instruments whioh are played
for their amusement. If a Cremona violin,
Amali, be played by the side of a modern,
the latter will sound much tbe louder of the
two, but the sweet tones ,of the Amati will
be heard at a distance the other cannot reach.
Dr. Young, on the authority of Durham,
states that at Gibraltar tbe human voice was
heard at a distance ol ten miles. It is a well
known fact that the human voice is beard at
a greater distance than that of any other ani
mal. Thus when the cottager in the woods
or in the open plains, wishes 10 call her hus
band, who is working at a distance, she does
not shout, but pitches her voice to a musical
I key, which she knows from habit, and by
that means reaches his ear. The loudest
roar of the largest lion could' not penetrate
so far.
"This properly of musio in Ihe humau
voice," says an author, "is strikingly shown
in the cathedral abroad. Hence the mass is
entirely performed ir. musioal sounds, and
becomes audible to every devotee, however
placed in the remotest part of the church ;
whereas if the same service had been read,
the sound would not have traveled beyond
the.precincts of the choir." Those orators
who are heard in large assemblies most dis
tinctly, are those who, in modulating tbe
voice, render it musical. Loud speakers are
seldom heard to advantage. Burke's voice
is said to have had a sort of lofty cry, which
tended as much as the formality of his dis
courses in the House of Commons, to send
the members to dinner. Chatham's lowest
whisper was distinctly heard. Hir middle
tone was sweet, riclr and beanlifully varied.
Says a writer, describing (he orator, "when
he raised his voice to a high pitch, Ihe house
was completely filled with the volume of
sound ; and the effect was awful, except
when he wished lo cheer and animate; and
then he had a spirit-stirring note, which was
perfectly irreeistable. Tbe terrible, how
ever, was his peculisr power. Then the
house sank before bi f still be was digni
fied, and wonderfnl as was bis eloquence, It
was attended with this important effect, that
it possessed every one with a conviction that
there was something in him finer than his
words , that the man was infinitely greater
than the orator.— Portland Transcript.
THKRK ARR TWO TUIMOS which ongbt lo
(each aa te think but meanly of human glory:
tbe very best have bad their oalomnialots,
i tbe very worst their panegyrists.
MURAL COURAGE.
Sydney Smith, in hie work on moral phil
osophy speaks in this wise of what men lose
for the want of a little moral courage, or in
dependence ol mind :
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world
for the want of a tittle courage. Every day
sends to their graves a number of obscure
men who have only remained in obscurity
because their timidity has prevented them
I from making an effort; and who, if they
oould only have been induced to begin,
would in all probability have gone great
lengths in the career of fame. The fact is,
that in order to do anything in this world
worth doing, we must not stand back shiver
ing, and thinking otthe cold and tbe danger,
but jump and scramble through as well as
we can. ft will not do to be perpetually cal
culating tasks, and adjusting nice chances, it
did very well before the flood, when a man
could consult his friends on an intended pub
lication for a hundred and fifty years, and
then live to see its success for six or seven
centuries afterwards; but at present, a man
waits and doubts and hesitates and consults
his brother, and his uncle, and his 4irst cous
ins, and hia particular friends, till one fine
day he finds that he is sixty years of age—
that he has lost so.much lime by consulting
his first cousins and particular friends, that
he has no more time to foljow their advice.
There is no such little time for over squeam
ishness at present, the opportunity so easily
slips away, that the very period of his life ul
which a man chooses to venture, if ever so
confined, that it is a bad rule to preach up the
necessity in such irislanues of a little vio
lence done to the feelings, and efforts made
in defiance of strict and sober calculation."
Hoops—Tbe Consequence of Wearing
Them.
A laJy, whose garments formed tn im
mense circumference, entered a store in
Boston, and*in doing so prostrated some
flower potslontaining valuable plants, which
were ruined.* The storekeeper to
sue the lady for that the law may
settle how large a space a lady's circumam
bient! may occupy.
A gentleman remarks that while riding in
an omnibus, the other day, the vehicle was
slopped at a crossing, when three or four fe
males entered, who, on taking seats com
menced such a patting of the sides of the
dresses, that lor some lime (being ignorant
of the real object,)jhe was under the impres
sion that they were going to crow !
We saw a lady a few days ago, who re
sembled an immense funnel moving .over
the pavement. All who met her had to
evacaate the sidewalk and take to the gut
ter. On she went, sweeping children, dogs,
boxes, every obstruction that came in her
way. The (rench diggers leaned on their
picks, and looked aghast at the terrible sweep
of ber hoops. The constable was called, but
he dared not approach Iter. When she turn
ed a corner the windows rattled, so great
was the motion of the air caused by her j
hoops. As she crossed the railroad, her
hoops burst, striking a train of coal cars 1
which happened to be passing, throwing
them off the track, smashing them to atoms !
and seriously injuring the carmen. Such i
was the great power of the hoops that tbe
lady was thrown twenty or thirty yards, and
landed head downwards in a coal pile, sink*
ing to the middle, the lorn skirl fluttering in
the air as a signal of distress. She was
relieved, however, and has recovered the !
hoops.
Swift's Haired of Foppery.
Dean Swift was a great enemy of extrava
gance in dress, and particularly to that dis
tinction and ostentation in the middling
classes, which led them to make an appear
ance above their condition in life. Of his
mode of reproving this folly in those persons
for whom he had an esteem, the following 1
instance has been recorded :
When George Faulkner, the printer, re
turned from London, where he had been so
| liciling subscriptions for his edition of tbe
Dean's works, he went to pay hie respects to .
him, dressed in a bagged wig and other fop- I
peries. Swift received him as a stranger.—
"And pray, sir," said he, "what are your
commands with me?"
"I thought it WHS my duly, sir," replied
George, "to await 011 you immediately on
my arrival from London."
"Pray air, who are you V
"George Faulkner, the printer, sir."
""You George Faulkner, the printer! Why 1
you are the most impudent, barefaced scouri- j
drel of an imposter I have ever heard of 11
George Faulkner ia a plain, sober citizen,
and will never trick himself up in lace and
other fopperies. Get you gone you rascal,
or I will immediately send you to the house
of correction.
Away went George as fast as he could,
and having changed his drees he returned to
the Dean, where he was received with the
greatest cordiality. "My friend George,"
says the Dean, "I am glad to see you return
safe Irom London. Wby, there has been an
impudent fellow with me just now, dressed |
in a lace jacket, and he would fain paaa him
self for you, but I soon sent him away with
a flea in bis ear."
Stamped Postage Envelopes. —Stamped post- I
age envelopes have been in use In the Uni
ted States about three years. The demand
by tbe Government now reaohes 82,000,000
,or 33,000,000 per annum. In England, ac
cording to a return recently presented to Par
liament, there were issued, during tbe'ten
yeare ending April, 1866, the large number
of 186,124,000 stamped postage envelopes
Imperial Courlablp.
1 The following amusing account of the
: courtship of the late Emperor Nicholas is
| from a recent Berlin paper:
| About the year 1816, the Grand Duke
| Nicholas came to Berlin to eee if one of the
I Prussian Princesses would Suit him, and the
Princesa Charlotte was given to understand
by her parent that if he should tske a fancy
to her they would have no objection to her
returning the penchant. The time originally
fixed for the expiration of the Grand Duke's
stay had come, and he was seated at the
supper on his last evening next to the Prin
cess Charlotte, when he abruptly told her he
must leave Berlin the next day. He hoped
to surprise her in some demonsiration of
feeling on the occasion, hot her maidenly
pride withheld her from making some very
say-nothing remark in acknowledgment.
The Grand Duke lhereupon>oon assumed
another plan of operations; knowing that
however little the eyes of the company might
be actually fixed on hint and his fair neigh
bor, they were nevertheless, the object of
general observation, he commenced telling
her but in an apparently unembarrassed
manner, and playing with a ring of his the
while, that he had devoted himself, during
his ehort stay there, to making himself ac
quainted with her character and disposition,
&0., and that ho had found in her every
quality that he believed best calculated to
make him happy in wedded life, &c.; but
as they two were at that moment the object
of scrutiny lo many present, he would not
press her for any reply to his overtures, but
if it was agreeable to her that he should pro
long his stay at her father's court she would,
peihaps, have the goodness to lake up the
ring lie had in his hand. This ring be thon,
apparently while playing with the two ob
jects, thrust into the roll of bread lying on
the table before him, and went on, seem
ingly in all sangfroid, with his supper. With
an equal appearance of unconcern the Prin
cess presently put out her hand, and took up
the roll as if mistaking it for hers, unnoticed
by the company, withdrew the ring, and put
it on her own hand. The rest requires no
narration.
George (he Third.
Il is said (lie king, alter (he close of (he
Revolutionary War, ordered a thanksgiving
to be kept throughout the United Kingdom.
A noble scotch divine in the presence of his
majesty intuited:
"For what are we to give thanks, that your
majesty has lost thirteen of her best prov
inces ?"
"No," answered the king.
"Is it then," the divine anded, that your
majesty has lost, "1,000,000 lives of your
subjects in the contest V
"No, no !" said the kinjr.
"Is it then, that we have expended and
lost a hundred millions ol money, and for
the defeat and tarnishing of your majesty's
army?"
"No such thing," said the king pleasantly.
"What then is the subject of the thanks
giving?"
"O,give thanks that it is no worse!"
DON'T WORRV,—This is the first thing that
an editor should gel by heart. If Mr. Slocum
threatens to withdraw his patronage because
you criticised Prof. Drawl's lecture on the
onion question, dou't worry—but tell him to
go ahead and do il.
If Mr. Bullion writes you an insinuating
letter, saying that if you don't stop writing
about the Diddleton railroad, he wilt ruin you
with a law suit, don't worry—but dare him
to try it on.
If Mr. Smith threatens to "cave your head
in," because you mention that his son Bob
was sent to the Tombs for pelting a street
lamp with brick-bats—don't worry, but tell
him that you lore the law, that yon dine on
salad made of red ta|ie and sealing wax.
Again we say never worry. If you do,
you are no more calculated for an editor than
a Quaker is for marine hornpipes.
MODESTY—It is a sure sign of good ser.se
to be diffident of it. We then, and not till
then, are growing wise, when we begin to
discern how weak and unwise we are. An
absolute perfection of understanding is im
possible—he makes the nearest approach to
it who has the sense to discern and the hu
mility to acknowledge its imperfections.—
Modesty always sits gracefully upon youth,
it covers a multitude of faults, and doubtless
the lustre of every virtue wh'ch it seems to
hide; the imperfections of men being like
those flowers which appear more beautiful
when their leaves are a little contracted and
folded up, than when they are full blown and
display themselves without any reserve to
the view.
CAN A JUHOR an ARRESTED—In the Su
preme Court, New York, recently, Justice
Davies presiding, a decision was aiven as to
the right to arrest a juror. A juror in the
pannel of the Supreme Circuit Court, it ap
pears, was arrested by the Sheriff in a civil
case. He was taken on habeas corpus before
Judge Davies, who decided that a juror can
not be arrested on a civil process during the
existence of the pannel on whioh he is
serving.
DECISION or CHARACTER. —Without it, no
man or woman is ever worth a button, nor
ever can be. Without it a man becomes at
once a good-natured nobody, the poverty
stricken possessor of bat one solitary prin
ciple—that of obliging everybody under tho
sun, merely for the asking.
[Two Dollars per ABUMA
NUMBER 36.
[from the Medical Reformer.]
NIGHT AIR.
BT JOHN HOME, H. 0.
To avoid exposure to the night air, is at
all times a precaution of very great impor.
tonce, to those who covet continuance of
health; but porhaps never more so than at
the present season of the year.
The very great difference which now
prevails between the temperature of the
duy and that of the night, the injurious ef
fects of which inequality are increased by
the large amount of moisture that is precipi
tated towards the earth after sunset, in the
form of dew, renders the imprudent expo
sure of the body at night to the external air,
a very fruitful source of disease.
But it is not merely from the systom be
ing subjected to the influence of a cool and
damp atmosphere, during exposure on an
autumnal night, that bad effects are to be
apprehended. There is still another causa
of disease, prevalent tn particular situations;
the influence of which is much more active
after sunset than during the day. We al
lude to bad and impure air—the malaria of
Italian writers.
In low, wet, or marshy districts, in the
neighborhood of extensive collections df
stagnant water, along the course of rivers,
upon the wharves of a commercial city, or,
indeed, in every situation where it consid
erable amount of animal and vegetable sub
stances, or filth of any kind, is allowed to
accumulate and undergo decomposition,
there is generated during the day a certain
deleterious principle, which, combined with
the atmosphere, impairs its purity and
wholesomcness; or when in considerable
amount, renders it totally unfit for the sup
port of life. Under ordinary circumstances,
this deleterious principle being diffused du
ring the day over a large extent of the at
mosphere, however much it may itnpair
the health and vigor of the syßtem and Un
dermine the constitution, is seldom suffi
ciently concentrated to produce, at once,
actual disease. After night, however, when,
in consequence of diminished heat, the wa
tery vapors contained in the atmosphere
become condensed and descend, they carry
with them the impurities floating in the lat
ter, which in this manner are caused to ac
cumulate in the immediate vicinity of the
earth—communicating disease of the most
malignant and fatal character to all who
may chance to bo exposed to their influ
ence.
So much and so justly dreaded is the
evening dew in Italy, and particularly in
the neighborhood of Rome, where the Pon
tine marshes constitute an immenso labra
tory for the production of malaria, that the
inhabitants shut themselves up in their
houses on the decline of day—never going
abroad, unlcsss compelled by absolute ne
cessity, after Hunset in the evening, nor be
fore sunrise in the morning. The safne
precaution to avoid the damp and coolness
of the night, experience has taught td every
people who reside in situations where in
termittent fevers prevail, or in Warm and
tropical regions, where the heat Of the day
is sufficient to develop the dreaded malaria,
by which the bilious, yellow, and other ma
lignant fevers are produced.
The prejudicial effects of the night air
will more certainly be experienced by the
system during sleep, than during a state of
wakefulness. Instances have indeed oc
curred of individuals lying down to sleep
I at night in the Cutnpagna, near Rome, and
being found dead in the morning. Very
few at least, escape an attack of disease
who have the imprudence to fall asleep ex
posed to tho open air in an unhealthy dis
trict. Thus, history records many exam
ples of the finest armies being destroyed,
and tho progress of the conqueror com
plotoly arrested by encamping for a single
night, without sufficient shelter, in such a
, situation.
| Though, in our own country, it is only in
the most unhealthy districts of tho south,
that effects such as these are to be feared—
yet the chilly and humid state of the night
air, independent of various causes which,
in all situations, tend to produce in it more
or less of impurity, is a sufficient reason
why it should be carefully avoided by all
who would preserve their systems from dis
ease.
It is nbt merely, however, from exposure
out of doors, or from sleeping on the bare
ground Withbut shelter of any kind, that in
jury to health is to be anticipated after
night—it may, likewise, and with nearly
the same certainty, be incurred by sitting
opposite an open window, or in a current
of air admitted from without, or still more
surely by sleeping in either of these situa
tions. Hence, the practice pursued by the
inhabitants of Rome, of closing carefully
their houses before sunset, is one which, at
this season of the year, should be adopted
by those who reside in situations where
there is any danger of the air being im
pure: even in those cities or locations
which are comparatively healthy, we are
pursuaded, were it generally pursued, much
good would result.
EXTRAORDINARY TENACITY or Lira—The
Newburyport (Mass.} Herald of the 2d inst.,
Btates that Mr. Solomon J. Felkner, of that
city, in cutting a stick of white oak timber
found B k>ad in the heart of the tree. Over
him had, grown sixty-seven grains or rings
of the oak, indicating that that had been his
homo for sixty-seven years at least,'where
he he had existed without air, without wa
ter, and without food. For a while he re
mained. torpid, but after a few minutes' ex
' pusure to the sun he hopped
merrily