T I i 9 r -v. ) t i IV. It. JACODT, Proprietor. VOLUME 13. STAR OF THE NORTH Publish d svkkt wsdh.spat r W. II. JKOBY, hmnn!P!nXtSrr!Snnare belOW Market, TERMS: Two Dollars per annum it paid within six months from the time of snbscrj- vuin - 1 - bins: two dollars and fifty cents it not paid Within IDS Jell. ousoupvii(muu iacu a less period than fix mouths; no discon tinuances permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option or the editor. TkM terms of advert itin e vnll he as follow . t m I r" AinavA ttrftlva 1 inpft InrPA timpR I 00 I V"c -M"-- "r . " ' bvery suofteaueiii tuseriiuu, . ..... One sqnare, three months, 3 00 Oneyear,. ' . . . . 8 Oo Choice Poctrn. MY COUNTRY. I My country, 'tis of thee Sweet land of Liberty, Of ibee I sing ; Land where my lathers died, Land ol the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountains side l.et freedom ring. II My native country, thee Lmd ol the noble, the Land of the noble, free The name I love ; I lovw thy rock and nils. Thy woods and templed hill ; My heart with rapture thrill Like that above. III Let triune se!l the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet Freedom' song ; Let moral tongue awake Let all that breathe partake ; Let rocks their silence break, 'J he sound prolong. IV. Our father's God to thee, Author ol Liberty, To Thee we sin?. Long may our land be bright With Breedora'a holy light; Protect uf by thy rnieht, Great God, our King. ' MARY ELLERTON, - OS '' CAUGHT IX IIER OWN TRAP. BT CrU MCRSDriH. "They ay he is perfectly invulnerable to the shafts of Cupid, do they V question al r., WWmrlnn nf hr frifml. Anna Mil- . - rk-..nni i or, .uc.r f.. j treei, one hoe allernoon last autumn. ... ..,, m . ti .... ! ICS. iDueeu I airs, oiercer iuiu iuc iua. h. has been jilted by lady whom be deep- j - a a ' I. Li 1 ' . ', , . ' UCIA ic lu ai a ct iviwi j . v. - f t in society ; bat you know how very distant and cold he is to ladies." "The latter part of your assertion is true ; bat I must say, I doubt what Mrs. Mercer . say about hi being jilted. He is much .i,:mm. 1 r. r-.n-ct Inr nv wo- man to trifle with him-much less refUBe n '"Whr Marr. I believe you're in love with Kim." aid Anne, with an astonished w , look iu her friend's face. MNo, I ara not 1'? answered Mary, with a alight color spreading over her pretty face If he were not eo very differer.t from all the men I know, I wonld try, to get up a flirtation with him, just to see if he U as marble-hearted as report makes him." . "You needa'l try, Mary: yoo're very killul, I admit, in the art of coqoetry, yet Mr. Harry Grover is beyond your reach." Mary's eyes flashed, and her color deep ened. Tbia waa an implied suspicion of her powers of attraction. Why was Mr. Harry Grover, itideed, lo remain insensible to her fascinations, if ahe choe to exert them? She turned to her conapanion : "Anue, in one month' time, I'll bring him to my feet marble-hearted and woman baler as he is thu very Harry Gorver ! ami '' ' "Hash!" interrupted Anne for at that Tery interesting moment, Mr. Harry Grover, marble heart and -all, passed the ra, never evincing the slightest sign of recognition ; bat a quiet amiie played around his hand aome mouth, which bad the young ladies 99a, would have caused one of them at least, to feel iomewhat embarrassed. , "Do yoa think he beard you V asked Anne, after he passed. - '2iol" asserted Mary confidently. Just fcefjre J spoke, I turned lo look in that win dow, and there was no one near us then." The girls continued cj Chestnjt street a iew squares, and then separating at the .comer of one of the intersecting streets, ach conlioded on her way home wonder ing if her friend was really in earnest,' and ihe other busily weaving a plot, in her pret y little, head, lii conquer, subjugate, and bring to peaceful submission a in au whose greatest crime was io refusing to bow to the caprice of the Tittle tyrant. 'W Mar Ellerton was a spoiled beauty, and, l am sorry to say, a consummate coquette ; and 1 do not inteud to make an apology for fier, on that score,1 because she ; does not need any. She was a good girl, and belor ed by ail her'lriends. Even her disappoint ed suitors liked ber ; Jo, although" ahe did flirt desperately sometimes, she had never set Lerself cnt deliberately to gain a man's 'Affection, aad thea laugh at him, and hold him sp to ridicule. 4 . - .. . , . . 2 must acknowledge, however that this last enterprise, in which she is about to en gage, is not ah3iher riht ; but then Jf BLOOMS And now we change the scene. ,' A brilliantly lighted room, filled with ! aitv dreased ladies and their attendant sen- i tiemen, proclaims thai Mrs. Mercer receives .her friends lo-nizht; Enamored couples I" " ., ... I promenade the spacious rooms, or tread the mazes of the dance, reveling in the delights f.n0 rj2Q, music, youth, beauty, i make the intoxicating m'miure, which ihe j votaries of pleasure sip with eager lip. There is no such thing as sorrow here Her ' dark Dresence would not be tolerated for a ! moment. Who knows that thai beautiful woman, with smiling lip and brow, beats ed he not sprung forward and caught her in her bosom a "hear, bowed down with a in his arms. A strange light filled his eyes, weight of woe ! ' Who knows that yonder j and he pressed her inanimate form pahsion calai, self-possessed, and agreeable man is ! aiely to his breast. He did more. He kiss on the very brink of ruin ? Ah ! we might j ed hr lips again ai.d again, calling her all go irora heart to heart in this gay and brill- j iant assemblage, and with very few excep tions, find the tonch of sorrow or of guilt on all of them. But away with such gloomy thoughts ! Let joy be unconfined." Miss Mary Ellerlon is present, looking more charming than ever; and besides her, with an air of devoted attention most edify ii.g to the numerous circle whom Anne Milnor has initiated in the secret, stand Mr. Harry Grover. He in certainly very devoted, and Mary cannot refrain from casting glances of tri- uraph over at her friend now and then ! All her other admirers have retired from the field discornfitted and chagrined comfort" ' itig themselves with the reflection that it will not be long before Harry Grover will j also be the victim of her coquetry. It is I undeniably true that misery loves company; and it is also equally true, that men are like the dog in the manger ; if they cannot possess a certain object, they do not want ; any one else to. Well, affairs seemed to progress rapidly toward the desired consummation between Mary Ellerton and the "victim." At par ties, balls, the opera, at church wherever, in fact, Miss Mary appeared, there aUo was her devoted admirer, Harry Grover. Just one month has now passed ince Mary made her boa3t of bringing him to ( her leet, and all her friends, with Anne at their head, are on the tiptoe of expectation for Harry's dismissal. Mary, however, ap pears to be in no hurry to lose her attentive n.tmirHr. "What is she coins' to do I'M asked every body. They do not for a mo ment take into consideration the important fact, that young ladies have hearts, and ocepuble ones, too, sometimes. AI . . . . .eard j, aiJ lhat a woman - . . never knows she has a heatt uatil she has : U.rtir.i lhat I lhi ruSt ' w'm'h.r A ,;8, and try and find out something tor ourselves In a small, prettily furnished room, sits Mary Eilerioti. It is twilight; and as she sits by the window, the first mild star of evening shines out in the heavens. It it a holy and lender hour, and her heart feels its ' ' influence, one signs, ana leaving me win- r - t It. ' .. ns and paces the room with uneven s'P- Presently she returns to the win- ; dw, and, looking up to the bending arch of agam gbs heavily Ah! uow she speaks "What is to be the end of all this ? Ah ! how very, very foolish I have been ! And I can blame no one but myself for all this sorrow and anguish ; for, disguise it as 1 may to others, I cannot conceal it from my self lhat I love Harry Grover deeply, truly. How little do people know of the true btale of affairs! They think he is my dupe, my rictim ! They think I could at any mo ment dismiss him with scorn and contempt. And how vain and trifling he must think me ! I know he despises me ; lor attentive and devoted as he is in public, in private be treais me witn me most studied coldness ajj Crazy about building cellars, and mak and politeness. Whilst 1 oh, how 1 love j jng manure. Hardly a barn put up in this him, and yet ' ' town lu-,8 gve years back but it's histed up "Miss Mary," said a servant, openiog on a cejar wau ;e8t like Milts. Neow ye 4he door, "Mr. Grover is in the parlor." fcVery well; I will be down in a few mo- ments,'' said Mary, composing her voice as well as she could, lor her heart beat tu- multnoosly at the mention of lhat name. ...a . ... I 1 1 I- . vvnen sue enierea me- panur BUe was smiling and self-possessed a, usual, though her eyes sank beneath bis; for there was an expression there she could not meet. His manner was unusually cold aud for mal. . . fil have called," be said, ."to bid yon good by, Miss Ellerton. In a tew days I am going to leave this city, and very proba bly will never see yon again." . Mary turned pale, and with a great effort managed to eay : ' "Is not this very unexpected ?". , "ll is," be replied, ."but circumstances make it necessary tor me to do so. Before I go, 1 wish . lo say a few words to you, Miss Ellerton. Daring the past mouth, I suppose you have been congratulating on the new victim that you have entangled by your machinations j bat allow roe to tell yoa that I am very, glad that my marble heart has saved me from the snares of a flirt; for yoa have not yet brought Harry Grover to your feet." ,. . While speaking these cutting words, he had risen to his feet, and he now. advanced to the door. He seems to bi striving against some strong feeling, for his features worked, and his face was deathly pale. Mary, too; had risen, and stood there, crushed, overwhelmed with despair. ' To be thus scorned, despised, by the man she so wildly loved. Oh I it was ter.ible, His hand was on the knob of the door-, A mo ment more and he would be gone, perhaps Truth BURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., She would tell him how bitterly she was punished, and then die. She spoke: "Listen to me a moment," she said in a strange, hollow roice, that made him look wtfnJeringly at her. "It is true what you . say. 1 ciid make mat ooast in a nasty mo- ment. But God knows I am amply re-1 warded for my folly. It was begun in jest ' i . . . . ' . ' , 'j- tl but it has ended in earnest lor me, ior i love you, oh. Harry i love you. You will j at least pity and forgive me!" At these j words her voice laltered, her white lace ; grew paler still, and ene would nave laiien, the fond names he could thinK ol. fcne opened her eyes but was not yet luny con- scious. ' 'He has gone ! he has left me to die!" she murmured. 'No, my darling, L will never-pnever leave you. I love you, oh ! so much. I thought you were trifling with me, and was determined to give you a lesson. I did not think I would fall in love with you, being forwarned," and still less did I think you would really love me. I thought you were i a heartless coquette, and when I found I was becoming attached to you, I detrmined to leave this place, for I would not stay to be ihe dupe of any woman. There, darli&g do not weep, I t'o not mean to reproach you, for all is now swell between us, and Mary EllertonV flirting days ere over. Are they not?" Mary raised her head from where it had been nestling on hi- shoulder, and looked in his face. I suppose in that look he saw "confirmation strong" of future good be- havior, for he kissed her again, and alto gether behaved very extravagantly for a man with a "marble heart." And this is all I'm going to tell .about them, for I think when affairs come to such an "impending crisis," it is lime for me to make my exit. A Stir in a Toor XeishborhooJ. 'Had to come to it,' said Squire Bogart, as he leaned over the fence, and put a Iresh quid in his cheek. . Had to come to what V asked John Nu genl as he stood in the road with his gun on his shoulders and a string of gray squir rels trailing upon the ground. Why, haint ye heern ou't ? My old barn blew down i:i the line alarm, and I had to put up another ' Wal,it is ill wind that blows nobody any good. I guess it's about the best thing lhat has happened tu ye this many a day. I have alters been ashamed ot that are barn for ye, whenever I have come by, it looked so bad.'. Ashamed ! better look to hum, John Nu- ! gent, and see yer own barn with the boards dangling in the air, and the doors down f It is nothing but a standiu miracle, that has keDt it ud this year.' 'uuebs ye haint Den up our way lately, Squire ; got a new barn myself.with a cellar a id sheds tu it, and lots of fixin's.' 'You don't say it ! Wal neow what ye ewine tu du with a cellar under a barn,pray tell, ef ye know V Goiu' tu make manure, s'pose, at leaet the old woman sez so, anu ei i uun i uu n, she and the young ones will. Says she aim going to live at . this poor dying rate enny longer.' 'So ye had lo cave in on the cellar, had ye? Wal ye see I didn't. Wile advised me tu, and Col Smith ed I was a fool ef ; , didQ,. bqi j carried my pint strate threw d bu U 5arn ; lhe EOOj 0d wav. ! don't see what has got into the folks lately 6eej it ti0 to reason, that it's a great deal , Darder to get things into il.and it makes the barn colder to have the wind playin under . - - - i jtj anj i never could see the use of makin u i kes the, ! such a fuss about manure. It ma ' . ... Droduce more to be sure, but it alters look- , d to m'e like folk, drinking brandy. It g I aI . makes 'em smart or a leetle while, and then they feel a little worse lor it. I guesi. ' its a good deal 60 with this highly manured land.' Wal, it may be so ; but my woman has got to takin' the papers, and has been up to ihe fair, where she see so many things it liked to turn her hed, she eed they had the srnashines, punkins up there she ever did see, and beets that beat all, and such hatid some potatoes as they used to have in old times, before the rot struck 'em and that they were all grown by making compost out of muck and stable manure in a baru cellar. She haint talked of nothing else sence she got back. She begun as soon as she got bum, and she has kept it np day and night I haint hardly had a chance to sleep blamed el I have. 'Neow, saz she, 'John, you ken have a barn and a cellar just as well as others, ef youre only a mind to think so. The gluing yer courage up is alters half the baitle in anyting. There's a place out back of the old barn made a pur pose for a cellar cena' most. With jst a little digging a barn with a cellar would lit in there jost like a duck's font in the mud. You have got timber" enough in the woods, and the sawmill is handy, and ihsn there is no end to lhe stuns in the mowing lots, that ought to be cleared out. Then yoo've got muck enough down there in the swamp, and you might wheel it m with a wheel and Right God and our Countrj. 'Now what upon airth could a feller do when his woman talked to him in that sort o style T I had to go to carting saw-logs right off, and haint had a chanceto go a squirrel hunting till todaj. The barn's uuue, ceiiar anu an, anu a micu iu mo old waggin under.and ihe hull yards kivered with muck a foot or more. - ' IItTTl . . L - .1- . ?! . T 1 vau, neow, mai s jest n.e-yew, jo.m Nugent, allers nosed round by a woman! Ye we Misn Bogart knows her place- " n i now m ruunu, ei.uj how. I expect to diir my crave about the lime I dig a barn cellar. This conversation between Jeremiah Bo gart and John Nugent shows quite a change since we drew the sketches of ihese old style farmers not quite two )ears ago. We had occasion to pass their houses lately, and were about as much astonished at the change as they seemed to beat each other's improvements. There stood Jerry, leaning against the side of his new barn, enjoying the October sun and a fresh quid, in a very contemplative mood. The new barn was manifestly a great event in his history, and we fear it was not paid for. There was no muck in the yard, and if the owner has his way there probably never will be. The broken down corn-crib is yet stand ing, though in a more dilapidated condition than ever. More boards are missing from the rear, and more shingles froom ihe roof. Yei even in this receptacle of all the run down tools upon the farm, we saw a new plow, cultivator and harrow, showing that Jerry is getting new ideas into his head in j spite of himself. t When we reached John Nugent" we ; thought we had lost the way, but the old 1 one-horse wagon with the white-oak thills unpeeled, was a landmark not to be mista ken. There was a new barn, with the in- evitable cellar, and a good nalred-looking nishes fuel, and the breath supplies oxygen woman, with both hands on her hips, look- for the support of combustion. During or ing on with as much satisfaction as if she dinary sleep, this combustive function is were monarch of all she surveyed. A ditch notably lowered The human system is so had been dug straight through the old delicately organized lhat it cannot sink into swamp, and heaps of muck were tipped up he deep torpor of cold and be afterwards by the roadside, good evidence that a new leaf had been turned over. True, the ditch was not very deep, and no sufficient outlet had been provided lor the water, but a be- ... 1 a. A -r m li A a rx m n.la on1 lV- iu I SI II IJ I III' iw u 1 a 1 ( uau icqi uiauo, snu ut'o always has a logical consequence. That bwamp will bear better grass next year, and more of it, and John's wife will see it, if he does not. She will suggest that if water could only run off all it wanted to, the grass would be much h.gher and sweeter still, and there would be more butter lo sell, she has John under her thumb though h does not know it and there will be more ditching there next fall, done by herself in the way she built ihe barn. It is a blessed thing that some of our larmers have good wives. It '.akes a woman to read the papers, ai.d Ihen follows reform. "Old Hundred." Can you find a tomb in the land where sealed lips are, that have not sung that tone f it tney were grey oui men, mey nau heard or Bung "Old Hundred." Sinner and saint have joined with ihe endless congre- gation where it has, and without the peal- ing organ, sounded on the sacred air. The dear ne children looking with wondering eyeg Qn this glrange wor,d naye igpej it. The sweet young girl, whose tombstones told of sixteen summers; she, whose pure and innocent face haunted you with its mild beamy, loved "Old Hundred," and as she sung it, closed her eyes and seemed communing with the angels who were so soon lo claim her. He whose manhood wa devoted to the service of his God, and who with laltering steps ascended the pul- pil stairs, with white hamls placed over his breast, loved "Old Hundred." And though somet mesbis lips only moved, away down in his heart, so soon to cease its throbs, the holv me odv was sounding, lhe dear white headed father, with his tremulous voice how he loved "Old Hundred !" Do von see him now. silting in the venerable arm chair, his hands crossed over the top ,,. ... ' a ir t , , . - ...iT. OI nis cane. HIS eiivurv iuc&a uuaiiiii; uii I - V..:, " L' ! ! PtCaill& WW" A I tail? uaw-w " - J -w g8 Dq hear thin, quivering, faltering sound now burst- ing forth, now listened for almost in vain? If you do not, we do ; and from such lips, hallnwed bv four score vears' service in the II .rl.l U,yr,Ar,V1 onnmld in. deed a sacred melody. You may fill your churches whith choirs, with Sabbath prima donnas, whose daring as mucn. but give us the spirit-stirring tones of Old Hunnred," sung by young aud old together, Martyrs have hallowed it, and it has gone up Irom the dying beds ot saints The old churches, where generation after generation have devoutly worshipped, and where many of the dear dead have been carried and laid before the altar, where ihey gave themselves to God, seemn lo breathe ot "Old Hundred" from vestibule to lower top the very air is haunted with the spir it. ... . Think for a moment of the assembled company who have, al different times and iu different places, joined in the lamilliar tune ! Throng upon throng the stern, the timid, the gentle, the brave, the beauiful their rapt faces all beaming with the in spiration of their heavenly sounds. "Old Hundred!" King of the sacred band of ancient airs ! Never shall our ears grow weary of singing thee I And when WEDNESDAY MAY 22, 1861. TO THE YOLl'STEERS. Press on ! Press on ! Ye brave and free, Our foe man on our soil may be, Press on ! your Country, Liberty, Ask that your strong arms say, Press on ! resist the rebel hand, Press on ! oh freemen ! gallant band, From traitors save our glorious land ; To arms again ye brave ! Press on ! and make the rebels feel, There's virtue in the freemen's steel, Once more a blow tor freemen deal, Ye Northern true and brave ; Press on ! Press on ! defend ihe right, To battle ! and decide the fight, Let rebels, traitors never blight The land youv fathers gave, Fisht for the flag now trailed in dust Fkht while in God you put your trust, Fight! the "Star gem'd Banner" must, Over our loved land wave. Go and demand the laws obeyed ; Demand that rebel hands be stayed, Against lhat flag by patriots made, To battle, on ye brave ! Infringe no right, inflict no wrong . On brother, man, if weak or strong ; But. onward ! lor your country throng ; Fight for your country's good ; Fight as your patriot fathers fought, Fight for ihe noble truths tliey taught, Fiahtforthe (reedom which they Douht Bought with iheir patriot blood. Waking np from Winter Sleep. Hybernation, or winter sleep, is a condi tion beautilully devised by the Creator to indemnify certain anitnals for the loss of their necessary food during winter lime Nutrition being arrested, all ihe other vital functions are eiler suspended, or are car ried on at low steam pressure so to speak. This is the case with respiration, and the accompanying evolution of animal heat. Animals may be likened to furnaces in ! more than a figurative sense. Food fur revived : but the Ions? winter sleeD ol some , c . i (T animals is no more extraordinary to them cess shall issue against any officer non than ihe few hours' nighlly rest to each of commissioned officer or private of the mi lls, litia, ween called into actual service, under Let us take some examples. The bat lives upon insects and nothing else. here t were ihe insects in winter? Either dead j or torpid hybernating too-hidden away j in minute hole and corners, where the bat could not follow them, ven if he were about and stirring; so what more sensible! thing could the bat do than go to sleep aUo, ; remain sleeping until springtime comes 1 - again. The frog is an insect feeder too, j whom any such process bnau uc .uv which he, no more lhan the bat, can obtain 6hall quah the fame as soon as the lact of in winter; fo the frog goes to sleep. Iu j any such person being enlisted on ihe pub the north of France and Germany, there are j lie duty shall have been proven, and all pretty little frogs of greer. color, and which the cots which shall have accrued in corn live on trees. Many attempts have been mencing or conducting and such process made to naturalize these pretty things in 1 shall be paid by the person or persons who England, but without much success. The , shall have applied for ihe said execution very mildness of insular winier kills them, j or other process. 0 r. . ally CllUUil IU 1CUU lliClli I II uccj' nitni-i I sleep. The economy of their furnace com- j bustion is not brought down sufficiently low to do without food entirely; and, on the other hand, food they cannot obtain. So the usual result is, that the pretty tree-frogs die. As frogs eat insects, so in their turn do snakes eat frog? ; and the latter not be ing complaisant enough to thop about in winter time, what more sensible thing could a snake do than go to sleep too ? For a similar reason the sninny hediie-hog sleeps; ... i u. i . ii aa nannU whn . . . . have found him in his winter quarters can , ff 6 One or the most curious of foreign hyber- nators is the North American animal called the "prairie dog." Prairie do2s con- gregate in immense herps ; and whilst in -mme r lasts are active enoug As Bllliet Kt"u"-". ",'"", cold weather actually sets in, the prairie dogs build themselves houses, and getting under shelter of the same, lasten up the doors secu'eiy, anu take men i tuto wimer. or verv earlv snr'1112. i.;u, u vi on ih around, and the .. "... , j Z Z ,ed bv icv howling f " " ----- ' ' I win the irie d Inay be noticedi in ; the morning of some bitterly cold nay, i open their doors, poking out their noes, J and not apparenilyfinding things as p'eas ant as ihey might have wished injuring ' Arrnir tllPV cltfl their mail- 1 sion-door, and go to sleep. The time had ! not arrived for coming out, indeed, but lhe I little prairie dogs will not be deceived Some indication of a good time coming t i ihey perceive The instincts lead ihem ( not astray The Indian and the backwoods- man, noticing the sign, are able to predict thai fair wealher is near at hand, having trusted to the sore instinct of the prairie dogs. Hybernation must only be excepted as a relative term. Whilst some animals admit of being frozen outright, and thawed again without damage to their constitutions.others are by no means so tolerant of lowered temperature. A human individual, having sunk into the sleep of cold, is generally frost-biiten at once, in some prominent and exposed part. The nose is the most iiueiy organ to suffer ; after which comes the fin gers and the toes. If the sleeper be aroused at once incipient frost-bites may frequently be cured by judicious triction, with ice or snow at first ; the object being to supply warmth by degree. But if the first frost-bite ' touch any international organ, the seal ol restored to motion, without damage, by ju dicious thawing. Stranger, still, examples are on record of the freezing of insects into a block of ice, which latter being laid be fore a fire and thawed, the insects buzzed away. Between these latter extreme cases and intolerance of cold experienced by hu man beings, comes hybernation, properly so caltad. Even amongst hybernators, there is a great difference. Our pretty little friend, the squirrel, furnishes us with an example of what may be termed modified hyberna tion. The squirrel is a good economist, as . t , KriiTht Inntinnt is welt Known, ne at the comisariat stores. In autumn, when the hazel nuts have ripened, the little fol low may be seen busily carrying the tawny treasures, one by one, in his moutn, anu depositing them in some mysterious hole. In that hole is a comfortable nest, furnished with great care, and a capacious larder be side it. In this larder he hides the nuts, to he ninned at frugally in winter time, when the sun shines more brightly than usual, and he rouses to sse what is doing in the world. A tame squirrel living in a warm room, bybernates slightly, or not a all. A sleepy fellow he will perhaps seem, not quite so lively as in ihe summer, but that is all. To rouse a hybernating animal from i's winter sleep is a very dangerous operation. He-lse-hoga are particularly intolerant of this treatment ; in fact, the rough looking hedge-hog is a very delicate fellow. Thus dealt with, the animal generally dies, fur nishing one of the many examples of the beautifully, poised relations of vitality to external circumstances, as determined, for benificient purposes, by Almighty will -Leisure Hour, SoldierY Exemption. The men who have enrolled iheir names as volunteers, and are about to enter the service, will perceive from the following section of the act ol 1S22 lhat in heirab sence their property will be fully protected. Th Act savs ; No execution or other pro : a requisition of the President ot the unneu t 1 . States, or ui pursuance 01 uie muo. v.. Governor of this Commonwealth nor shall any such process issue against htm until thirty days after he shall have returned from duty to his usual place of residence, or until forty days after he shall have been discharged ; and ihe Court, Alderman or justice of the peace from which or Irom I. t1 k n ll.t id noil Veracity. The groundwork of all manly character s veracity. 1 hat vinue tinn ot everv sonu. nw i"""u" . n i have faith m mv Child ntrai j'di c ii c j i so long as he speaks the truth. He may have faults, but I know he will not deceive me. I build on that confidence" They are right. It is lawful and just ground to build upon. And that is a beautiful confi dence. Whatever errors temptation may betray a child into, so long as brave, open truth remains ihere is s omething to depend ! . i -.- oooKrtr rrrnonu. tnere is a on, mcc ... o....... , substance at lhe centre, Men of the world feel so about one another They car, be tolerant and forbearing so or.g as ihm er ring brother is true. Ordinary commerce can h.ra.y proc ee , a , ; - . j m asure of . "jf . m an immense extent lhat is equal to say ing that we cannot act at all. Truth is a common interest. When we defend we defend the basis of all social order. When we vindicate our loolhold When we plead for it, ii is like pleading for the air of health we breathe. When you undertake to benefit a lying man, it i like putting j-our foot into the mire. Value of an Explanation A certain kin" it is said, sent lo another king, saying, j ,4S i m bjue vt with a black tail, or ele " The other, in nig" uuugcuu lhe presumed insult, replied, "I have not one, and if I had " On which weighty cause they" went to war for many years. Aftera satiety ot glo ries and miseries, they bethought them selves that, as their armies and resources were exhausted and iheir kingdoms' mutu ally laid waste, it might be well enough to consult about the preliminaries of peace ; but before this could be concluded, a dip lomatic explanation was first needed of the insulting language which had formed the ground ot the quarrel. "What could yon mean." asked the sec ond king of the first, "by saying, set.d me a blue pig with a black tad, or else ' "Why," said the oiher, "I meant a blue pig with a black tail, or else wme other col . . i-i j i n or. "But," retorted he, "what could you mban by saying, '1 nave not goi on, 1 had " ... . A :t i "Why, of course, if 1 had I iWJ sent it : an explanation which was entirely satisfactory, and peace was concluded ac Two Dollars per Annon. NUMBER 20. Ike Knows bit Colors. There was a glorions time at the school house on the occasion ol raising a flag that had been purchased with contributions by the boys, it was on Saturday afternoon and the teacher allowed them to have it all their own way. The boys assembled in the school house yard, and when the flag was released they all commenced singing Our flag is there" in a'manner that wak ened patriotic echoes all around the neigh borhood. Sick people heard their cheerful voices and smiled at the sound, old people who remembered about 1812, heard them, and blessed the patriotic hearts of trie boys, and girlhood heard them and felt proud of the-e brave supporters of the flag, and many of them, we dare say, wi-hed they were boys lhat they might participate in, rather lhan sympathize with, the demon stration. Such a cheering time you never heard, and there is nothing so rich and pure as a boy's voice. As soon as the cheering had subsided, or was suppressed, for it wan very hard to hold the little fellows in now they were started, Ike Partington came for ward to make a speech He mounted a pile of lumber in lhe street and spoke as follows : Bovs We are here to hoist our flag, and to let people know on which side we are. We don't want any mistake about it ; for though we are not big enough to go to war, we don't mean lhat any body shall call us rebels any how. If they do, we shall point to our flag with its 6tripes and stars and pitch in to sustain it. Cheers and cries of "That's ro." We don't hoist this flag to try to scare any body ; we don:t want lo make men bow to our flag it they don't choose to , but if there are any secessionists round here they had better look out for their linchpins, and must keep their dogs at home, or something rnieht hurt 'era. Cheers Boyt there is Bunker Hill over there where our grandfathers fit, and this isn't, but, ihouzh brag isn't thought much of, let any traitors try to touch our flag, or to come up this hill with any hostile inten tion, and we'll k'tve 'era Bunker Hill. (We will !'' "Let 'em come on !:') Doysvre ain't very big and can't do much against the enemy abroad, but we can worry 'em dreadfully at home, if we find any. We can keep 'em awake nights, we can put dead cats in their front yards, we can ring their door bells, we can throw mud on their windows, we can daub their paint, we can send all the hand organs to play round their houses, we can teil folks they've got the small pox. and make up faces at their ba bies if they look out doors. Shouts and cries of "Yes." That glorious flag shall be our daily devotion. Cheers Long may it wave, and be who doesn't say amen to this ought to have his head bruised, as they are going to bruise the head of the rat tlesnake down South, according to Scripture when the North puts its foot down. I'Good."), "Flag of the free still bear thy sway, Udimmed through ages yet unborn, And he who will not lor thee pray Had better have been done and gone." Like the old dragon in Revelations, the snake is trying to 6wallow some of the stars, but they will go very hard against its stom ach. The stars still shine, till all the rattle snakes and pelicans arrayed against it have been killed and stuffed and mouldered away thousands of years hence in some old muse um. .(Tumultuous cheers.) I have only one word to say. ("Go on.") Stick to the flag like men show rosr colors, never be ashamed to sing Hail Columbia, and re member the saying of Dr. Watts, Give to rebellion powder and ball, United we stand, divided we tall." He got down amid tumultuous applause, but with great calmness he commenced eating his peanuts as though he hadn't said anything. The Seutimcnt f lhe South. IMPRESSIONS OF A TRAVELLER. Benson J. Lossing, the historian of the Revolution, has just returned from a trip through the South wnstern la ve States, and communicates lo Ike Pounglktepsie Eagle, some interesting particulars of the condi tion of sentiment iu those States. From a'.i lhat he has observed he says: "My conclusions are lhat underlying the Secession sentiment lhat covers the whole surface of society in the South, there is a deep and abiding love of the old Union, silently praying for a deliverance from des potism which has few parallels in the his tory of the world. It needs only lo be in formed and assured to become fearfully en ergetic. Thoroughly unfetter its limbs by the strong arm of Federal power, it will be come speedily omnipotent in crushing tha eggs of 6elfih rebellion out of which are hatched the foul serpent ol disunion. Let lhe Government pive that assurance by quick, powerful, and effective action, and convey the truth to a deceived people, at the mouth ol lhe cannon if necessary, and all will be well soon. Yet the Government has a foe to meet not to be despised. The chief rebels are desperate and determined men, endowed with superior talents, and furnished wiih many resources. It is now, with them, a question ol life or death, bor. or or .dishonor, glory or Infamy. Those who are involved in this treason by taking up arms for them are in the same desperate condition And the South i full of brave 8r J fel rtCrificiciI men. ! all emergen- cies. when the flair ot our common country 1 calied tor defenders, they have shown an alacntv and courage in response not io D ... , fcorpawd. - a , gaod CdQM xhey n.dla his heart U made ol marbls, it wm no cart
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