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TilDIJEG AWA1".
BT DAISSY.
All thincs, thou sayest,
Are born to decay,
The brightest and gayest
Are Fading away."
Life has i's pleasnres,
Both pensive and pay.
Yet, ere yon enpy them,
They're "fading away."
The tree, bird and flowers.
All whisper decay,
The wind as it pa64
Is ' fading away.
Love i a passion
Born to betray.
Like light that is dying,
II tadeth away.:'
Then let me implore thee,
While ye' it i day,
To seek 5or that treasure,
Which " lades not away.''
"Tis not of earth's nature,
Tit. not a bright ray
Which lasteih a moment, J
Then ladelh away."
'Tis heaven's
own blessing
Instill" lr aye ;
I ich love expressing,
Ne'er " lading away."
'IT the .peace that surpasth
Earth brightest display,
'Tis a comfort in sorrow .
That ' lades not away."
"So. when thy frail image
Of dnsl shall decay ;
And all that ihou'st lived
for
rls " fading away."
Thy spirit with gladness
May hold supreme sway,
Where sorrow and sadness
Have " faded away."
ROMANTIC STORY.
TIIC P1?TER OF THE FRENCH EMPRESS.
'From the Court Journal.
The death of the Duchess d'AIbe has
gien a terrible shock to the family of the
Empress ; mnch united, and, in spite of the
huh position to which the fairest scion of
the house of -Montijo has arrived, nrtil now
but seldom separated. The nature of the
illness with which the Duchess was afflicted
rendered from he first all hope ol recovery
doubtful, and lor the last month (die was
wavering between life and death. The
crisis, which took place during the stay of
the Empre-s at Eau Bonnes, was decisive.
From that crisis she never rallied, and re
. nained prostrate and almost inanimate,
.rool m be called in hie, thereafter.
The Emperor, who had been apprised by j
telegraph, while at Marseilles, of the inev- ;
, liable approach of the latal catastrophe, had '
wisely urged the departure ol the Empress .
from France, lest she should be called to,
attend her sisters dying moments. The ,
ea, with all its incouvenience and trying.
was far less to be dreaded than the mora!
effect of the sad event to which the Em-
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nress wouui nave oeen cuiuuiyumj - .
had she returned to Biarritz according
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to her intention. This, the most terrible
irial in human life, has been avoided, at all
events ; and time, the sole, sure soother of
hnman grief, will have done much, towards
Testoring the calm of her Majesty's mind
before her return.
Fow people have left more regret to their
circle of iriends among whom life has been
Dent than the Duchess Albe. The story of
the rivalship in love with one for whom she j holding the invalid, to whom she had
-was willing when the truth became known, - bidden adieu a few hours before, and who
lo acrificeher own happiness, but who re j had retired for slumber in nightcap and
fused with equal generosity to accept the j bedgown, lying now outside the coverlet,
sacrifice, is well known at Madrid. The : wrapped in a black domino, with the. mask
Due d'AIbe was at the time the most e!e- ' she had worn torn violently from her lace
gant and brilliant of all the cavaliers of the and clutched, with convulsive pressure, in
Court of Spain, and sought for his high j her hand. She called aloud, but no answer
name and goodly estates as much as for his ' was returned.' In another moment she per
arn personal Qualities bv every family in I ceived. even by the light of the moon,
XladriJ. It was soon beheld, however,
where his affections had been fixed, as he
was neldom 1 day without paying a visit to
the mansion of Madame Montijo, and was
oon e-4ablished in gossip talk as the suitor
f one or other of the young ladies belong,
ing to the family. .
For a Jong time not even gossip could
point oat the favored one, e'o eqaally were
jhe Duke's attentions in public divided
g amongst them all. It was one of the most
. pleasant fights in Madrid to behold the
highly decorated box at the opera belonging-
to Madame Montijo occupied by the
-bevy of - beauties, of divers style, com.
plexion and age, which the family at that
Cjime conld boast, sitting in front; and be
'! hind them, standing in a row, the various
' ' pretenders to " their preference. Madrid
t could tell at t glance for whom was in
. '.tended the murderous attempt, at a con
quest which bad evidently occasioned the
' arming jn embroidered ciavatii and white
Jcid gloves, with all manner of glittering
rders at .the buttonho'e, bennath which
after the manner of men in general, the
t pretenders were wont to disguiss their pre
tessions. The Due d'AIbe wus th only
r a
scrutable. Meanwhile one heart was sink-
in? with hope deferred, and the uncertainty j
which in love is mortal; and each hour j
increasing this indecision, became of the
most sickening agony to the fair girl, whose .
vigilance could detect no preference either i
for herself or for any one in particular !
amongst her companions in the Duke's
assiduiries, so equally were they distributed
amongst all. She was of too bold and de
cisive a character to submit for any length
of time to this unprofitable torturing of the
soul.
A grand bal masque was given by the
Queen. She resolved that this occasion
which is always considered one wherein
the greatest freedom of speech is permitted
should put an end to the uncertainty
which was eating her very heart away.
Alone ofihe family she excused herself
from attendance at the ball. Aided in her
romantic scheme by an anct to whom she
was much attached, she feigned indisposi
tion, and retired to bed before her com
panions had departed lor the palace; ne
suspicion was therefore aroused.
When the family carriage had driven
from the door, she rose, and disguising her
self in a long black domino, instead of the
brilliant mythological costume which had
been prepared for her, the proceeded to
the palace under the escort of her aunt
In the midst of the splendid scenes which
burst upon her vision as site entered the
great ballroom but one thought occupied
her mind she beheld but one object among
the highly decorated crowd which swayed
to and fro in the dance. It was the Due
d'AIbe, whose costume she knew at once,
it having been chosen for him at a general
conclave in the Montijo salon some little
while before. She soon managed to thread
her way towards where he stood, talking
eagerly, as was his wont, to one of the
ladies of the Montijo family. But she
feared not recognition ; and pulling him by
the sleeve, asked him, in the shrill bal
masque tone adopted on like occasions,
whether he would fear to dance with one
who had come to the ball wjth no other
purpose than that of treading one single
measure wi h the hero ol the night, the gal
lant '-Don John of Austria" which was the
character the Duke had assumed, and in
which he was the observed of all observers.
Both his real and assumed character
urged him to compliance with a lady's
wi.h, and immediately turning from the
group of friends with whom he'was con
versing he gallantly offered his hand to the
domino, and led her, with a compliment,
to the qnadrilie just then lorming beneath
the middle chandelier of the great gallery.
Can you not fancy how the heart of that
young girl must have beat as, determined
to attain theotjecl for which she had run
this Ti.-k, she whispered in her partner's
ear words of deep meaning, upon which
her whole future life was hung ? Can you
not lar.cy how that stricken heart must have
faltered when the words ol truth, bright
with his unstained honor, fell from the lips
of the duke ? For the
nrst time, pernaps,
the name of the real object of his love was
breathed by him. It was the eldest daugh
ter of the Countess de Montijo to whom he
was devoted, and to her was he resolved to
disclose the secret on this very night. No ;
hope could therefore remain to the un- j
happy victim who had sought the secret j
which was to be her own condemnation.'
She withdrew from the ball. What had she
to seek further amid that gay throng? She j
hurried home and flung herself in despair
upon the conch she had lelt but to see me
Vi I h th vpar of her future
ucan . - - j
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me were to pb emuiueicu.
At dawn the ladies returned from the
ball. All were glad and joyous but one
above the rest ; and she could not resist
the temptation to seek her best friend in
crder to make her participate in the joy
which the Duke's proposition had inspired.
She entered eoftly, for she thought her
friend was sleeping. She approached ihe
bed. and shrieked loud with dismay at be-
wmcn sweameu iu i iuo vimiuum " ,
that the form was insensible which lay be
fore herand that the features were working
as if in the throes of the death agony.
The house was aroused, and the family
came in haste to the bedside to behold with
horror the confirmation of. the suspicion
i . . 1 L ,tr1t,as
which had struck them from the ver7 first.
Assistance had only just come in time the
evidence which lay before them, in the
shape of the empty vial and its warning
label, indicated the nature of the antidote
to be administered. Every help was given,,
and aftet awhile all effect of this moment's
abberation had passed away, even to the
moral regret of beholding the Doke the
husband of another. The generons impulse
of the bride elect contributed most of all,
they say to this desired consummation ; for
not till she was assured that the despair of
unrequited love was entirely overcome
would she consent to leave her friend and
to accept tbe highest parae and fortune, in
all Spain. Such is the story told in the
chronicles of Madrid, and many people in
Paris, who are intimate with all the parties
concerned, have confirmed it oft and oft.
The relaxed nerves of the countenance, the
herself a happy wife and mother now
are often quoted to bear witness of its truth;
and we give it in testimony of the generous
nature of the Duchess, as well as of the
strength of mind which enabled her friend
to forego the selfish indulgence in hopeless
forrow! which would have blighted both
existences forever.
Coming back Soon.
'You are coming back soon ?" says ev
ery one to the eager boy going out from the
quiet of his native village to make his way
in the great bustling world beyond.
"Oh yes as soon as I have made rrly
fortune," is the laughing reply, and the
good byes are exchanged, and the yelling
stage coach rolls off, bearing more hope
and happiness upon its back seat than
with the same occupant it will ever bring
back again.
" Come back soon !" The boy little
knows he never can come back ! Some
thing may come that will be taller, and
more graceful, and more attractive, and
call his parents father and mother some
thing that will look half sadly and half con
temptuously on the old familiar places
where his youth was, but the boy happy,
eager, hopefuland innocent has gone for
ever !
' Coming back soon !" Is this young la
dy ringleted and flounced and gloved who
plays the piano to a charm and looks ask
ance at the kitchen towel and broom ; the
sun browned, good 'natured little Maggie
wore her brown hair in curls, flying in the
summer wind but this young lady's looks
are prematumed, scented, carefully "done
up," according to the latest fashion. Mag
gie wore a blue gingham frock, which had
always danced belore his ' vision as the
most charming thing in existence, but 'Miss
Marguerite' arrays her dainty limbs in the
most expensive silks, and iwears hoops of
such vast circumference that he can only
look on and admire fat a respectable dis
tance. Sometimes, as they sit side by side,
he remembers the old times, and half
wishes they could come back again ; but
his first glance at the composed face beside
him annihilates the idea, and he heaves a
kind of rueful sigh, and lets it pass away.
The last young man and the woman nf
fashion meet olten in their gay city life
but the boy and girl who walked hand in
hand to school, have gone straying away
together over the strawberry fields and dai
sed pastures long aao, and no ond thinks
of saying to them "Yon are coming back
soon ?"
"Coming back Who ever yet came
back and found all things unchanged ?
Drive up the long remembered roads, ar.d
you mis here a tree, here a ratch of dai
sies and butter cp-, and there an old gray
farm house, which you fondly hoped would
out last your nay anu generation. r,mer i
the town which was once 'a happy valley' j
to yon, and what do you see 1 Only a j
puny little village, with the pleasant walks
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used to love turned mto ambitious
.... and aved witn ron2hest of
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: stones, wim oiu laminar uuuwj uj
with old familiar houses and fences
! remodeled and newly painted, till you lose
all the landmarKs wun everyiuing i-nun-
ed, and you, jt may be, most of all ! Sit ;
j down, if you will, in your lonely room, call J
! up the forms of those you loved, who are ;
' now scattered away, and try to people the
dusty streets with more beloved faces.
Can yon succeed i Is it not a poor, paie
phantom, that yon strive to press to your
aching heart? Was it wise in you,- after
all this "coming back?" Oh, the past is
beautiful to look at, buf when afar off, we
stretch out our hands to bring it nearer, it
vanishes, and leaves nothing in our grasp
but thin and unsubstantial air.
"Strange !" I sit in my lonely room to
day, and miss something familiar some
thing sweet something dear very dear !
It will never linger here again. The sun
Iioht falling through the casement will nev
er shine on me any more. One page of
life's romance has been read ; shut the j
book and put it away. Much that might
have blessed me ; much 1 might have lov
ed, and much that I can never hope to
meet again, has conscerate this little room,
has passed away like a dream of beauty,
and will beam, brighten here no more; it it
a not cannot be coming back soon-
But there is a land thank God there is
a land where all the lost light and Joveli
ness of life shall cluster around ns whh ten
fold the glory it has won for us here !
There is a land where there shall be no
more partings, and more tears, where the
young and the old, the happy and the
wretched, the bond .the fret, shall alike
know the loving kindness and tender mercy
of a God whose divinest attribute is love.
Patrick was a baggage-master on
the Georgia Railroad, and attentive to his
business. A few evenings since, while at
his post, he was accosted by an excited
passenger, who, in a rude and boisterous
manner, demanded repeatedly to know the
whereabouts of his trunk. Pat, after several
times replying to the interrogatory, at
length lost patience, and thus put an end to
the stranger's troublesome questioning.
"Och. mistber, I wish in my soul you were
the elephant instead ol the jackass, for thin
you'd have yer trunk always under yer
eye. ' -
The Widow's Wish A widow lady, sit
ting by a cheerful fire in a meditative mood,
shortly after her husband's decease, sighed
out : "Poor fellow how he did like a
good fire ! I hope he has gone where they
Army Buttons vs. Hazel Eyes.
I was in a delirium of love.
The dark hazel eyes and still darker hair
subdued me more than ever a frowning bat
tlement awed a forlorn hope of fifty brave
hearted soldiers. 1 had faced murderous
Indians on their own bunting grounds; their
fiendish yells had aroused me from my
midnight slumbers to action ; I had march
ed unflinchingly forward, leading my men,
while arrows and bullets fell like hail
around me. All this 1 had met with com
parative equanimity, and returned to the
metropolis of our nation only to be subdu
ed by a woman.
Yet Helen Sparrow was lair and beauti
ful as an Italian sky. Conscious of her fas
cination, she made no effort to entrap me ;
but I sailed as quietly into her net as the :
wild swan into the snare of the huntsman
ian.
There the simile ends, for I fluttered not
the least bit, but yielded heart and soul to
her bewitching influence.
"Army bnttons" are proverbially incon
stant, and 1 was no exception to the gener
al ru'e. On this occasion I was fairly
caught in my own net, so carefully woven
for Helen. My flirtation assumed a serious
aspect I love'd her, yet I tknew she mis
trusted me.
It was in the summer of '58 that the War
Department granted me a furlough of two
months, and then it was I met her. But
three weeks had passed, and I would have
thrown up my commission bad Helen even
hinted (hat such a sacrifice would gratify
her.
At the expiration of this time, a party,
consisting of Helen, Gertude St. Clair Cap
tain Cares a former messmate the old
folks and myself, was formed for a trip to
Niagara. The old folks took care of them
selves, the'eaptain had charge of Gertie, and
Helen fell under my especial protection.
At Niagara, the International was filled
to its utmost capacity. North and South
had poured their fairest daughters into this
cauldron of fashionable excitement, and
handsome sons had followed the wander
ings of their fair inamoratas. Among all,
Helen to me was the fairest. With her
eyes I viewed the mighty torrent as it
pitched headlong into the seething abyss ;
when she was sad I was despondent; when
she smiled I was all vivacity. We walked
rode, talked, langhed and wept together,
until my love amounted to frenzy, and my
frenzy o madness.
But this state of things could not last
lonf , for I was even then a fit candidate for
a lunatic asylum. I would have given
worlds, had they been mine, to reca'l the
first week or so of our acquaintance, when
I had made a boast of my many flirtations
and scoffed at the very existence of such a
ihinor aa nnrp nnr! laalinor nvf T had riili- I
i - one eveni a maudIin 6enti. j
ment, and denounced it the next as the
moonshine of juvenile precocity. For all
which I was soon to reap my reward and
a bitter one it proved to be.
It was a calm and beautiful night, such a
one as is designed especially for lovers.
en and I
had left the frivolous dance
. away
ostensibly to view the
Fails by moonlight. We had reached ihe
bank of the river, and seated ourselves on a
convenient rock in sight of the mighty cat
aract. The Final week ol my furlough was
drawing to a close. We had been convers-
' ing about constancy and though my senti
ments were materially changed since our
first acquaintance, 1 was afraid to betray
my inconsistency by expressing them. My
views of love were somewhat modified, and
as that subject naturally followed the other,
' the spirit prompted me to try the virtfie of
action. With a sudden impulse I fell upon came in, and 6eeing him seated in the
my knees and ponred into her ears my tale connring house, looked very blank, sup
of love. Half doubtingly, but with becom- posing that his commands had not been
ipg gravity, she listened; occasionally, at i executed.
some unusual outburst of sentiment, a faint I "I thought," said he, "you were re
I smile played over her face, but only for an
instant. My vanity whispered that it was
the excess of joy which filled her. At length
I reached the momentous question the
imaginary turning point in my existence.
She placed her soft while hand in mine, and
while I kised it enthusiastically, ejacula
ting i;i the interim, "Mine, mine forever !"
with the other she raised her handkerchief
to her eyes and turned aside her head, as I
supposed, to conceal the joyful tears which
would naturally dim her vision. I did not
learn, until several days subsequently, that
it was simply to smother a laugh at my
ridiculous actions.
I returned to tbe hotel jubilant, and in
the very extremity of happiness. Happy
had it been for me had I, by accident, fal
len over the precipice, for the dizzy height
from which. I was about to be thrown
brought me in the end more sorrow and
anguish.
A few days passed, and 1 received orders
to report for duty at Fort Leavenworth as
early as possible. I called on Helen in her
private parlor. We were alone. The part
ing was very line all such, which have
been described a thousand times on paper,
and occurs at least once in the life of every
one. I renewed fay vows and protestations,
but she was submissively tranquil. Ihe
last farewell was spoken ; a final kiss im
printed on her brow; 1 had my hand on
the knob of tbe door, when she drew from
her pocket a letter, and gave it to me. . She
bowed sweetly, and sorrowfully I returned
to ray own room.
: "Niagara, Sept 1858.
"My excellent friend : The time for part
ing has come ; the farce is ended.. Let us
ra i se the cnrtaina ndc ' r I vjmj f yj "
"You returned to your home with the
crown of victory upon your brow. You
were courted and flattered justly by all : I
was proud of your marked attentions, and I
felt thefirst dawnings of love fgr you in my
heart. Evening after evening you were
with me. The impulses of your nature
prompted you to make many developments
which taught me caution. You scoffed at
true love as at: ideality, and at constancy as
existing only in story. You related what
you were pleased to call pour ''harmless
flirtations," and the very recital of them
proved the fallacy of your unbelief.
"Does not your heart soften when the
picture of that heart-broken Spanish girl
rises before you? Does not the pale spec
tre ol 'your dark eyed Isabel' haunt you in
your dreams ? How can your sleep be quiet
when you recall the beseeching look and
tanilar cllrrlirotirii ri ''ufinr nrniri. Mrii
tender supplication of '-your prairie bird,
who even now mourns your absence and
awaits in vain your return ?
"Yet I will not add to your unhappiness,
but let conscience do its work.
"I had no confidence in the sincerity of
your professions until a week before leav
ing home. At no time have I believed ir.
your constancy, yet I encouraged you, for
, the voice of those you had wronged seemed j
! In noli frr ton iini ro VV 1, o 1 1. o r thpv havfi i
to call for vengeance
'"v-
been avenged I leave to your own feelings
Could they have witnessed the scene near
the Falls perhaps they would have been
then satisfied To my handkerchief I am
indebted for suppressing a laugh which
might have sounded strangely out of place
"I leave you to your own meditations.
ff'e meet no more at this place, but should
chance throw you in my way you will be
cordially greeted by simply
"Your friend
Hklen S "
In the first ebullition of passion I tramp
led the letter under foot But pride failed
m, and I suffered more than language can
tell. But she never knew it. Her shafts
sunk deep, and iu time completed my re
formation. I left Niagara a sadder and wiser man. I
knew it was useless to plead with her, for
her decision once made was unalterable
In a few weeks I was again at my post, and
drowned my sorrow hi the excitement of
frontier life.
My repentance was through. 1 could
not call back the dead to life, but I mourn
ed her in deep and bitter contrition. On one
of my excursions into California, I visited
the grave of the lovely Spanish girl, and
caused a handsome tablet to be placed to
her memory. It was the last testimonial
that could be bestowed. Was she not look
ing dovn upon me then, and did she not
intercede for me to Him who searcheth
and knoweth all hearts ?
For more than a year the "Prairie Bird"
has been my wife, and a darling little cher
ub is screaming lustlily while I write. The
baby's name is Helen, A". Y. Evening Post.
The Pbompt Clerk. I once knew a
young man, said an eminent preacher, who
was commencing life as a clerk. One day
his employer said to him : "Now, to
morrow that cargo of cotton must be got
out and weighed, and we must have a cor
rect account of it."
He wa a younj man of energy. This
was the first time he had been entrusted to
superintend the execution o( this work.
He made his arrangements over night,
spoke to the men about their carts arid
horses, and resolving to begin very early in
the morning, instructed all the laborers to
be there at half-past 4 o'clock. So they set
to work and the thing was done ; about ten
or eleven o 'clock in the day, his employer
; quested to take out that cargo of cotton, this
morning."
"Ii i all done." replied the young clerk,
"and here is the account."
He never looked behind him from that
moment never ! His character was fixed,
confidence was established. He was found
to be the man to do the thing with prompt
ness. He very soon became to be one that
could not be spared he was as necessary
to the firm as any one of the partners. He
went through a life of great benevolence,
and at his death was able to able to leave
his children an ample fortune.
The head of a celebrated merchantite
house in Yienna has recently erected a
mausolem which no one, even of his most
intimate friends, is allowed to enter. The
walls are covered with black velvet, upon
which appear the family arms of the pro
prietor. Upon a platform slightly elevated
stands an open coffin, candles of black wax
at its four corners. At the foot of the coffin
is a plate of silver, on which are the
name and date of tbe birth of the future
occupant of the narrow abode, and a space
has been left for the date of his death, and
this he evidently expected within the com
ing ten years for he had completed the re
cord as far as 186 . Daily he is accom
panied by his friends to the door of this
tomb; there he -leaves ihem, enters alone
into the edifice, lies down in his coffin, and
causes a concealed organ to play lugubrious
music. Then he goes forth to the world
again, dines heartily, and converses with a
gayety of manner astonishing to all.
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1HC ainerence oeiwren a iuui uu a
jin
Abraham Lincoln.
What is it that recommends a candidate
for a high and responsible office to the peo
ple1 We should suppose that honesty,
ability, and long services in a position
where these qualities had been long tested
were the best, and perhaps the only strong
recommendations. What has Abraham
Lincoln done that 'renders him worthy of
the high position of President of these Uui
led States ! He has lived in the West all
his lite time, and has filled but one civil
office in the government. He was once
elected to Congress and served there one
term. He was never returned back, and
whilst there was unknown. He ppposed
the Mexican War publicly ; and once said
it was unconstitutional. Beyond this, no
person ever heard that such a man occupied
a seat in Congress. He was utterly obscure
whilst there ; and seems to have been un
known everywhere at least, outside of his
own Slate till 1858, when he was resur
rected from his dusty obscurity in order to
be a candidate for the United States Senate
against Judge Douglas. Ir. this ambitious
project of his, he was encouraged by the
Republican party whh ail its power aud
patronage, but was unsuccessful, and Abra-
ham again sunk back to private life. His
1 '. " " I or i- 1 " i. . L ,. f
iei-uiu in ii uiidiis was inucu line uiai 01
Fremont, as a statesman he was unknown
and his opinions were unknown also. He
was made a candidate by the republican
party for much ihe same reasons that gov
erned the opposition to the Democratic
party in 1840, 1848, 1852 and I&S6. In
each of these case they placed candidates
ir. nomination who were without either ex
perience or talent as staiesmen. Gen. Har
rison was neither a statesman or a man of
talent, but a clever man and a brave one,
but entirely unequal to the task of the
Presidency. Gen. Taylor had never filled
a civil office in his life. He was & brave
man but had no record as a statesman. He
was run without principles. Gen. Scott
although at the head of our armies, had not
the least experience in State affairs, and he
did not pretend to be a politician. Col.
Fremont, although the Candidate of the Re
publican party, has not the Ieat sympathy
with their principles. He was not a States
man, had no evperience, and will not now
vote the Republican ticket. He was taken
j up as a candidate without his party, even
knowing what his political principles were.
He had acted with the democratic party,
j up to that time and it is now stated that he
is in favor of Bell and Everett. Abraham
', Lincoln, like the candidate of ihe opposition
I to the democratic party heretofore, is un
j known as a statesman : he has had no ex-
perience : has had no associations witb the
great men of the country. He has not been
tried and trusted even by his own people,
so that neither his honesty, his ability, or
' opinions, are known. His party go it
; blind o;i him as they did on Fremont and
j Scott and Taylor. Had his principles been
! as well known as Seward's are, or had he
been before the public wheti his qualities
had been tested, he would never have been
ihe candidate of the republican party.
Like Seward, his principles would have
rendered him obnoxious to the public, and
could not have been elecied. His only
safety is in obscurity.
How the Thince or Wales Travils.
Some people, when they go from one place
to another, calculate upon iheir "luck" in
putting them through, others travel on their
'muscle," others on their "beauty," others
on their "talents," (very few in. number,)
others on their '-'impudence," and others on
"dead head" tickets ; but with Lord Ben
frew it cao be emphatically said that he
travels on his money. From Cincinnati to
Pittsburg he paid the "modest sum of two
thousand dollars for a special train ; but
while he pays in accordance with royalty,
he expects to receive immunities not grant
ed to ordinary men. The train which bears
His Highness has the entire right of the
road. An engine specially detailed pre
cedes to keep the track clear and look out
for any imperfections in the road that wo'ld
jeopardize the safety of the train containing
the Prince and royal retinue.
The agent of the Prince, who is a cousin
to him on Albert's side, arranges all his
traveling matters, and stimulates in the bar
gain with railroad companies, that on no
consideration shall any person be allowed
on board the tram except those necessary
to manage it ; and these are prohibited
from entering the royal car, but ride by
the.'nseives iu a forward car.
Ir has been said of the home of the
scolding wife, that "It's a bad house where
ihe hen crows louder than the cock."
Whv an pen-makers the most dishonest
persons in the world ? Because they make
people steel pens, and. they say they do
write.
I remember Rogers saving: "Those
who go to Heaven will be very much sur
prised at ihe people they find there, and
very much surprised at those they do not
find thre.
The proprietor of a bone-mill adrertises
that those sending their own bones to be
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ground, will be attended to with punctuali
ty and dispatch.
How to describe a circle Wait till your
wife has put on her crinoline.
I Jim, fl?-
Great Ken who rose from tbe Ranks.
From the barber shop rose Sir Richard
Arkwrite, the inventor of the spinning
jenny, and the fouhder of the cotton manrj
fact are of Great Britain ; Lord Tenderden,
one of the most distinguished ot English
lord Chief justices; and Turner, the very
greatest among landscape painters. No one
knows to a certainty what Shakspeare was;
but it is unquestionable that he pprangfrom
a very humble rank. Tbe common class of
day laborers have given us Brindley, the
engineer, Cook, the navigator; and Burns,
the poet. Masons and Bricklayers can
boast of Ben Johnson, who worked at the
building of Lincol's Inn, with a trowel ii
his hand and a book in his pocket ; Ed
wards and Telford, the engineers; Hugh
Miller, the geologist ; and Allan Cunning
ham, the writer and sculptor; whilst among
distinguished carpenters, we find the names
of Inigo Jones, the architect ; Harrison, the
chronometer maker; John Hunter, the
physiologist; Romney and Opie, painters;
Professor Lee, the orientalist; and John
Gibson, the sculptor. From the weaver
class have sprung Simpson, the mathema
tician ; Bacon, the sculptor, the two miners,
Adari Walker, John Foster; Wilson, the
ornithologist; Dr. Livingstone, the mU
i sionary traveler ; and Tannahill, the poet.
Shoemakers have given us Sturgeon, the
electrician; Samuel Drew, essayist ; Gif
ford, the editor of the Quarterly Review ;
Bloomfield, poet ; and William Cary, the
missionary ; whilst Morrison, another labo
rious missionary, was a makerof shoe lasts.
Within ihe last year, a profound naturalist
has been discovered in the person of a shoe
maker, at Banff, named Thomas Edwards,
who, while maintaining himself by his
trade, has devoted his leisure to the study
of natural science in all its branches, his
researches in connection with the smaller
Crustacea having been rewarded by the
discovery of a new species, to which the
name of Praniza Edcardaii has been given
by naturalists.
Nor have the tailors been altogether un
distinguished Jackson, the painter, having
worked at the trade until he reached man--
hood. But what is more remarkable, one
of the gallaniest of British seamen, Admiral
Hobson, who broke the boom at Vigo in
1702, originally belonged to this callinj.
He was working as a tailor's apprentice
near Bon-church, in the isle of Wight, when
the newt flew through the village that a
squadron of men-of war were sailing off
the island. He sprang from the shopboard,
and ran down with his comrades to the
beach to gaze upon the g'orious sight. The
tailorboy was suddenly inflamed with the
ambition to be a sailor, and springing into
a boat, he rowed off to the squadron, gained
the admiral's ship, aud was accepted as a
volunteer. Year after, he returned to his
native village, lull of honors, and dined off
bacon and eggs in the cottage where he had
worked as a tailor's apprentice. Cardinal
Wolsey, DeFoe, Akenside, and Kirke
White, were the sons of butchers; Briny an
was a linker, and Joseph Lancaster a basket
maker. Among the great names identified
with the invention of the steam engine are
thoae of Newcomer, Watt, and Sievenson ;
the first a blacksmith, the second a maker
of mathematical instruments, and the third
an engine fireman. Dr Hutten, the geolo
gist, and Berwick, the father of wood en
graving, were coal miners; Dodsley was
footman, and Holcroft a groom. Baffin, the
navigator, was a common seaman, and Sir
Cloudesly Shovel a cabin boy. Herschel
played the obeo in a military band. Chan
trey was a journeyman printer, and Sir
Thomas Lawrence the son of a tavern
keeper.
Michael Faraday, lhe soc of a poor
blacksmith, was in early life apprenticed
to a bookbinder, and worked at the trade
until he reached his twenty-second year;
he now occupies the verv first rank as a
philosopher, excelling even his master, Sit
Humphrey Davy, in the art of lucidly ex
pounding the most difficult and obtuse
points in natural science. Not long ago Sir
Roderick Murchison discovered, at Thurso,
in the far north of Scotland, a profound ge
ologist, in the person ol a baker there,
named Robert Dick. When Sir Roderick
called upon him at the bake house, in
which he baked and earned his bread, Dick
delineated to him, bv means of flour upon
a board, the geographical features and
geological phenomena of his native county,
pointing out the imperfections in the exist
ing maps, which be bad ascertained by
traveling over the country in his leisure
hours. On further inquiry, Sir Roderick
ascertained that the humble individual be
fore him was not only a capital baker and
geologist, but a first rate botanist. "I
iound," said the director general of the
Geographical Society, :o my great humilia
tion, that this baker knew infinitely more
of botanical science, aye, ten times more,
than I did ; and that there were only some
twenty or thirty specimens ot flowers which
he had not collected. Seme he had ob
tained as presents, some he had purchased;
but the greater portion had been accumula
ted by his industry, in his native county of
Caithness, and the specimens wre all
arranged in the most beaoiiful order, with
their scientific names affixed.'" St'f Help,
by Samuel Smiles. V
A gentleman met a half-witted lad in the
road, and placing in one of his hands a six
pence an a penny, asked him which of the
two he wovld choose. The lad replied
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