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CVC1G THOUGHTS.
BT' MI3SJ.0UI8A StARL (EDITH ILLERY.)
In the holy bosh of twilight,
' When the day is fading fast.
Gently comes a fond remembrance
. From the dim and shadowy past,
Glancing back through opening vista
Culling sweets where chi'.uhood strayed ;
Murmuring prayers in broken accents,
For the light no cl'Jod can shade.
Life to day is sad and weary;
i Hope lies low with bleeding wing,
But within our childhood's Eden '
Wildest bitds will ever sing ,
Songs which wake sweet spirits echos v
Angel songs of glad refrain,
Falling on the heart unbidden,
Soft as kurcmer evening's rain.
Hi I jrVk t v ,"w!n I f if, seemed lairest,
s Alf the changes lime would bring,
fn the years which marked his footstep,
-Speeding on with noiseless wing,
We had paused where then we fastened
"LfrigeVmg long by sylvan s'ream,
FMnhi"with fancy's bright allusions
t l"t ,ai the far-off land ol dreans.
. ' ' - 1 ......
Every spray it rainbow fishion,
Some i.ew star lights np the tiifii, .
And each golden morn Is u.hered
' By new reHmsof roseate light.
Lingering longest wirh the lowly,
4 Come the thought of other year
Simple thou-hwin love remembered
' Thonghl tbo ad, too urecl for tear.
1 Ccrrect Taste in Cbiidreo.
In many ways the mother can contribute
-to ihe-formation o4 correct iste. The
firs ' hy.mn " !he leaches to the lisper, and
even the earliest notes which she sings lor
its !ilriby. should . be chosen with care.
The-pictures-wi'hwh;ch tho walls of. the
nnrery are adorned, shotild be collected
with a Vludious and cultivated regard for
rest bdaoty. ' Likenesses of excellent men
and women whna names you would like
to
have your children love are a . "'J
desirable -ornament." A few elegant histori
cal picture which might be ced as ir.tro
(taction la general history, or which are
calculated to inspire ioble sentiments,
would be" found of great utility in every
family able to have them. A few well
finished landscape pieces would also tend
lo fosfet a love of nature in its cheerful and
sublime 'aspect,.' 'There is a refining and '
effectual influence arising from a daily
lamilliariiy with the scenery of nature,
whether it. glows before as in its original
loveliness,, or in the "representation of a
genuine anii-
v r - - -
Sir Morton Pe:o made a,tspeech a an en-
tertainment in New York a lew evening
m'.t. ... Hftiinh' 141.1 'HI maitd a visil fn i
WW laiZO UlltTI.Jl C.1I.VII0II.1IBU1 v v - i
Wilson, in Chicago, and I assare you I
never f.lt so tralv the manner in whica
Americans had gone into the war barore.
In walking through the office, Mr. Wilson
'pointed io some thirty or forty compositors
who bad been four ears away to the war.
One had been a captain, another a majr,
others lieutenants, sergeants and privates.
Yet they were setting type as though war
bad never been. I saw afterwards farmers'
one. in uniform, peaceably feeding a
ihrashioV machine. The "want into the
etrnggl to the Union, and having done
it, now go back t tho - ways of peace and
industry without a stogie thought. Europe
is astonished at it. But the South coming
forward io freely and adopting themselves
back again intoMhe Union, is' one of "the
. strangest aspects of the whoi content.
A cat caught a sparrow, and ws3 abont lo
devour it, bar the sparrow" said: "No goo-;
tleman eats until he washes bis face."
The cat, struck -av this-remark,-set the
farrow down, and began to wash his face
with hia paw, bat the sparrow" flew away4
Tai vexed poss extremely, and hernaid:
"Ai losg 89 I I're I eat firsthand wash
jay fa9 afterwards,". which all. ca".a do (o
Jhia 47- " " -!-' -- '. '-' -
Saxi, the Joker and pcet, was oaca tak
ing a trip on a steamer, when be fell in with
a lively yoang lady to whom he made hirn -elf
very agreeable. Of course be made an
impression upon the damsel who said a!
pamn
Good
bye, Mr. Saxe. bat I faa
yoa'U soon be forgetting! tne I" "Ah, rniss,"
liid ths inevitable punster,. 'Jtt .1 was not a
ipsrrlei nan already, yoa may be sure I'd
fee for getting yoa " ' ' '.'' '- u ' s ,
A ester.: pa jary says t "There is a man i n
err crusty who always paijrotj..hUpaper
j- t irasc-3. L3 nsvar had a sick day in
I'j !;;,-.- 3T3r had cocas or tooth acie the
fr:'' . ;r i.ll',s bU'ccra tir begins his'ba
V.. j : .r cr? in. list nir.ht, and a is w if 3
For the Slar of the North.
Education. So. 2.
Man maybe considered an intellectual who knows a thing or two. Hear him :
and moral being As an intellectual being, i It is a good thing for a man to pay atten
be commences his career by first prattling ' tion to his lamily.
the A, B, C's, perhaps, at his mother's
knee ; or we may see him wending his way
to the old school house, to meet the pleas
ant smile and cordial welcome of his teach
er, who is. ever faithful to guide him in
wisdom's 'ways ; and assist him in climbing
'the hill of science, until he has acquired
sufficient scholarship to emanate from the
old school house and take bis place among
the college students, and acquire a knowl
edge of facts of a higher nature; trace
them to their source, and (earn how man
first became acquainted with them ; inves
tigale their relation to each other, and how
he is benefited by having a knowledge cf
them.
And, as a moral beini, we Ond him oc
cupying a place in a great moral govern
merit, and in a sphere which calls forth his
intelligence, and makes him a useful an.i
praiseworthy being to his fellow man.
And duties of an important kind, to perform
in relation to a Supreme Being, the Creator
fand Governor of all things, which effect
him through time, and equally through all
eternity; and by his discharging these da
lies well, he is made an honor to himself,
and benefit to the society of which he forms
a part. ' "
Hence :ti3 intellectual faculties are the
means by wbich man is to determine
his fielj of labor : the rower which im
pels him to action ; and the helm which
guides and directs his moral career : ihere
' lore, the training, which the intellect re
I ceives, ii fl.iences the person in all his jour
ney through life. Von will please allow us
to call your attention to the person, ho has
! always had piou training, from the earliest
j period of his childhood, who would spurn
j the idea ol doing anything dishonorable,
mean or wicked, as an example ol this.
r' And why ? Is it because' he is not tainted
; with the falen nature of'man ? Sorely not
: we must air participate alike in that fall
en nature ; because, none of us have been
born of parents, who kept the Moral Law
inviolate ; neither can we live without vio
lating this La w ; and, therefore., must be
come liable to the penalty of a broken law,
J which is sin and dea h. Uut (we think) the
secret is this, if doing evil is held up be
fore children; as something that all respect
able people detest, and as that which will,
it not abandoned, effect their happiness
through ihii lile, and equally through that
which ivto come, and if, on the other hand,
the mind of the child is'impressed wiih the
idea, that doing good, and practicing virtue,,
will lead him on the ways of peace ard
happiness, and thereby extract the dregs of
bitterness which our lorefathers dropped
into the cop of lile ; but which does not
get thoioughly instilled therein, until all
become o'd in crime and traosgresion. . The j
chi'd will have a deep sense of right and '
wrong, and (we think) a love for the one, ,
t- f. .i . . II. I . 1 1 i i
wnict) ip.ey. naiurany naieu, ana a natreu j
for the ether, wjiich they" naturally loved, ;
and thus be led to do right, because tbey (
; have been taught that it leads ihem in the ,
; ways ol peace atid happiness in this liie, !
! and eternal joy and felicity in that which is
I beyond the confines of mortality. And
'shun the doing of wrong, because they
i have been taught il leads to misery and
i woe, infusing the bitterness already in the
: cup of life, throughout the same, making
the person's life completely nauseous to
(himself; and equally so to every person,
w,ln w",cn e comes ..i contact, wno is
Possessed o! refined feeling. This (we
who
think) will be the case with pious training.
And farther, we have the promise of Sa- j
cred Writ that it will be so, which says : j
-1 rain up a cdiiu in trie way ne snouiu go, '
and when he is old, he will not depart from
it :': ' therefore, we may be sure, if our
teaching is such as agrees with the Bible,
thai they will not be forgotten, or the pre
cepts we have endeavored to intill into the
minds of those children, we have bad un
der our charge, be forsaken ; but our teach
ing and precepts will run parallel to the
child's intelligence and continue to direct
his ways, and influence his actions through
all the journey of life.
Therefore, the importance and responsi
bility of training youth are very great, the
trainer will be Suing them for a life of on
tiring usefulness j or fitting them for a life
of idleness and dissipation. rThen, my fel
low teachers,' if such is the responsibility
of leaching, let us not enter this great and
glorious work . without considering whether
we are fitting the minds tinder our charge
for unremitting activity in doing good, and
to be ornaments in society ; or for a life ol
slo'.hfutness arjd indolence, and to be a nui-
sance, if not a-corse to society. . Filo.
Oiangeville, Nov'. 1 1, 1865. - "
A newly married couple went lo Niagara
on a visit, and. ihe geutleman, in order to
convince his dear that he was as brave as
he was gallant, resolved lo go down intojhe
''Cave of Winds." She, 'of course, objected;
but finding that ; be was determined, affec
tionately requested him to leave bjs pocket
book, and watch behind. -. . '
K John Newton , lays ; "When I g8 to
heaven 1 shall see three wenders there.
The Erst wonder be to see so many
peopis there wfiora t did not expect to see;
the second wonder "wi'l be to miss so manv
whom I did expect to ist': ar.i the third and i
r'rof a!! rri!i 1 9 to find Biyt!f
Curry O'lanus on Family Affairs.
The Brooklyn Eagle has a correspondent
.Provided he has one.
Married men generally have. So have I.
It is the natural consequence of getting
married.
Families, like everything else are more
expensive than they used to be. Shoes and
clothes cost a eight no w-a-days, and chil
dren, have mostly good appetites.
Mine have.
Boys will be boys. They can't help it.
They were born so. It is their destiny to
tear trousers, and wear out two pairs of
boots per month ; keeping their ma con
stantly employed like a besieged garrison
repairing breeches, and their unfortunate pa
paying out currency under a strong convic
tion thai there is nothing like "leather" to
wear out.
I tried copper-toed boots on my heir. The
copper wore well, and I have an idea, that
copper boots would be a good ' idea, but I
couldn't find a metallic shoemaker to carry
it out.
' Mrs. O'L also became attached to copper,
and thought it would be an improvement
and save sewing if boys' pantaloons were,
like ships and tea-kettles, copper-bottomed.
The suggestion is A No. I; but we haven't
tried it yet.
Copper so ran in my head at the lime
(hat O'Pake called me a copperhead.
This was the origin of the term.
Mrs. O'L. is a managing woman. She
makes trousers for our son, Alexander The
mistocles. out of mine, when I've done
with them. He can get through three pairs
o my one, ordinarily, and I am obliged to
wear out my clothes lasier than I used to, to
keep him supplied.
I once suggested that it might be within
the resources of art and industry lo make
him a pair out of new material.
Mrs. O'L. said positively that it conldn't
be done. It would ruin us. She concluded
it was cheaper to cut up a pair I had paid
twelve dollars for.
I subsequently found upon inquiry that
new cloth for that purpose could have been
bought for about two dollars
I ventored to tell Mrs. O'L., expecting a
triumph of .nala foresight over female lack
ol judgment
Sha gave me a look of scorn as she want
ed to know if 1 had asked the price of
"trimmings." .
Trimmings were too much for me.
I have been afraid of trimmings ever
since.
In addition to clothes, the 6cion of ocr
bouse runs up other exenses.
Bu! what is the expense compared with
the joy a father feels, when after a day's la-
bortous exercise at the ofSce, wrestling with
a s'.ee! pen, he returns lo his domestic re-
treat, and is me: al the gate by a smiling
cherubim, who, in tones that go to his fond
parent's heart, and makes him forget his
. ..LI -. i nil it -
trouoies, wim, iiaiio, pa, give me a
ny."
"en"
Your band immediately goes lo the seal-
of your affections your pocket and draws
lorih the cbveted coin, which is promptly
invested in molosses candy.
An Effective Spkkch. During the Rev
olutionary war, General Lafayette, being at
Baltimore, was invited to a ball. He wa
requeued to dance, but instead of joining in
j the amusement, as might have been ex-
pected of a- Frenchman of twenty-two, bo .
addressed Ihe ladies thus;- j
-r.di von .r .pre Hand.,- tn,. !
, j j - 1 -
dance prettily; your ball is very fine but
I
my soldiers have no shirts !"
This was irresistible. The ball ceased;
the ladies went home and went to work; and
the next day a large number of 6hirts were !
prepared by the fairest bands of Baltimore
for ibe gallant defenders of their country:
The Secretary of ihe Treasury is tery
anxious to fond compound interest nots in
five twenty bonds. The notes draw six per
cent, interest.compouoded every six months,
and run three years. Many ol them have
more lhan one year's interest, already upon
them. The bonds run twenty years and
draw five per cent, interest. The Treasury
thus will realize the difference of interest
and the compounding ; it will gain seven
tern or eighteen years time in which to pay;
and, while apparently contracting the cur
rency, really expands it and the public
debt by reissuing the notes and transferable
bonds. '
A "young and pretty female" in Indiana
has been married and divorced three times
within two years. First 6he married a man
named Taylor, who strayed off to Dixie.
From him she got a divorce and married a
man named Frszier. Taylor soon came
back and persuaded her to get a divorce
from husband number two, which she did,
and then re-married Taylor. Soon after, an
"incompatability of temper" having broken
on:, she sued for and got divorced the sec
ond lime from Taylor, and is now a candi
date for fresh connnbial adventures. .
The gay young wife of ah Albany pork-
r packer last week persuaded her husband lo
draw from a bank a large sum belonging lo
tho firm, of which ht was a janior partner,
and starl.with her for Enrope.one object be
ing to .punish her husband's father, ' the
other member of ihe firm, who bad - oppos
ed her frivolities.. She, was over-hauled in
New York; and ' the contemplated trip was J
. False flair
The hair of the nglish women is said to
be the finest in the; world, and the most val
uable in the market, although most of the
false hair is obtained from France, Italy
Spain and Germany, where this beauty seems
to be less esteef4d than in England and
America. In France, it is common to sell
the head of hair, and agents regularly travel
to collect the crops. They pitch their tents
at ihe fairs in the country districts, and in
vite the girls to go in, by showing them
trinkets or money; and many are the luxu
riant "rentes a beauty of fashion would give
her brightest gem to have, growing on her
head,which these rustic beauties innocently
exchange for the most trumpery jewelry.
A good head of hair may weigh about one
and a half or two pounds, and the wholesale
price varies from thirty to sixty shillings
think of it, the price here is seventeen dol
lars a pound! though very fioe glossy sorts
ol beautifnl color, are much more valuable.
The choice hair should be well-fed,
t not too coarse, and about twenty-five
inches long. Some curious tricks are prao
ticed in making up false hair. Al) the hair
intended to be worn as car's is actually made
up into regular pie, with a crust ol paste,
precisely as if it were a very dainty morsel
for the table, snd then baked in an oven.
The hair pie, however, is not a mere baked
cushion; the locks are wound on little earh
en ware rollers, and stewed for two honrs
before being made into the pie. The baking
afterwards serves to fix the necessary curl
or the hair.
As most of the Republican politicians in
sist that the South is out of the Union, and
not entitled lo representation in Congress, it
rrfay be well to inquire of them by what
right a President holds his office if not a cit
izen in the Union when elected- The same
principle applies to both; and if it be deci
ded that the Southern members of Congress
cannot take their seats, it will be at the
same time settled that we have no Presi
dent. Further ; if the Southern States are
not in the Union, the action of their conven
tions and legislatures in adopting the Con
stitutional amendment, is null and void.
The radical theory that the South is out of
the Union, and entitled to no rights. as part
of the government, and yetowes duty to the
federal authority, is too nonsensical for con
sideration. The habit of treating those
Slates as outside of the Union, and yet
claiming the performance of certain acts
done by there as of legal effect inside of the
Union, has been indulged in long enough,
and we trnst that the Soloos about to assem
ble at the Capitol will at q,nce conclude
whether or not the Union 3 broken. Mont
rose Democrat.
The revolutionary plot of the radicals to
circumvent trie President in bis policy of
restoration, to deny the Southern States a
fair representation in Congress, and to keep
the country unorganized and in turmoil in
definitely, is one of the strongest evidences
thal seciionaJi.in and disunion at present
1
exist among the self-6tyled friends of the
Government in the North, as violently as
flTer lhosa eeBl;menl were entertained at
the South. A firm, bold hand is needed at
once, to grapple with and shake out of them
the twin-devils of sectional hate and negro
phobia. They mut be dealt with enrgeli
cally and powerfully no temporizing, no
homeopathic doses of warning washed
down with plentiful doses of anodyne,
6hou!d be attempad, but they should be
. : . I. n " . . : i
Bweu' w'1" a"
and abominable heres.es and contempt of
Iclean and forever from the field of pol-
itics.
j Remarkable Views of Mr. Seward Mr.
Seward is a power in the Government.
What does he say on the subject ? Let ns
see
The New .York correspondent of the
Macon(Ga.) Telegraph, writing on the 16:h
of October, says :
Since I have introduced Mr." Seward's
name, I will refer to a conversation he had
a few days since with Thurlow Weed
Jefferson Davis being the subject. Weed
srid Air. Davis should be hanged, and ex
pressed himself quiip warmly oa the sub
jact. Mr. Seward then propounded .the
query; "Why should you hang him?'' To
which Weed replied, ,;I would hanghim
for treason." Mr. Seward responded in his
energetic way: ,:We cannot hang Davis
without first convicting him, and I think no
impartial jury would do that " Weed said:
'His gutlt is already established, and his
conviction should not be difficult." But
Mr. Seward maintained that no jury could
be formed to convict him, and added in a
significant way : "And even if we should
hang him it would be no great moral lesson
to the. world." Gentlemen who were pres
ent during the conversation infer from it
that Mr. Davis's life is safe, at least.
'Remember the Pooa. These cold blus
tery nights which we are now having are
only the reminders or forerunners of stern
old Winter's icy chains that will soon be
grappled around ns. Many of us will re
joice at the approaching of the sleighing
and skating season but let ns not forget in
the mean time that there are those among
us whose blood thrills with horror as they
hear the keen autumnal winds whistling
aronnd ibe corners and through the cracks
of their airy cabins, which are only warmed
by ibe genial rays of the Sun. There are
such homes in our midst, where stoves are
not lo be found, much less a ton of coal.
Then let all thoee who are so .fortunate as
to be blessed with plenty fot their comfort
through all the changing seasons "remem
ber the poor."- "
Expstsscs is the father, a-od memory the
Wlien I mean to Marry.
When do I mean to marry? Well
'Tis idle to dispute with fate;
But if you choose to hear me tell,
Pray listen wnile I fix the date.
m
When daughters haste, with eager feet,
A mother's daily toil to .share ;
Can make the puddings which they eat,
And mend the stockings which they wear.'j
When maidens look upon a man
As in himself what they would marry,
And not as army soldiers scan
A sutler or a commissary.
When gentle lddies who have got
The offer of a lover's hand,
Consent to share his "earthly lot"
And do not mean his lot of land.
When young mechanics are allowed
To find and wed the farmer's girls
Who don't expect to be endowed
Wiih rabies, diamonds and pearls.
When wives, in short, shall freely give
Their hearts and bands to aid their spouse,
And live as they were wont lo live
Within their sire's one story house.
Then madam if I'm not too old
Rejoiced lo quit this lonely life,
I'll brush my beaver, cease to cold,
And look about me tor a wile !
Johs G. Saxb.
The Bottomless Pit in the Mammoth Cave
of Kentucky is suspected by many to run
through the whole diameter of the earth.
Tha branch terminates in it, and the explorer
suddenly finds hitn-sell brought op on its
brink, standmg upon a projecting platform,
surrounded on three sides by darkness and
terror, a golf on the right and a gulf on the
left, and before him what seems an inter
minabl void. He looks aloft; but no eye
has yet reached the top of Ihe great over
arching dome; nothing is there seen bo;
the flashing of the water dropping from
above, smiling as it shoots by in the onvon
ted gleam of the lamp.
He looks below, and nothing there meets
his glence save darkness as thick as lamp
black, but he hears a wild, mournfol melody
of water; the wailing oi the brook for the
green and the sunny channel left in the up
per world, never more In be revisited.-
Down goes a rock, tumbled over the cliff by
the guide, who isof opinion that folks come
here to see and hear, not to muse and be
melancholy. '
There it goes hnsh ! it has reached the
bottom. No hark, it strikes again: once
more and again, still failing. Will it never
stop? One's hair begins to bristle as he
hears the sound repealed, growing less and
less, until the ear can follow it no longer.
Certainlyuif the pit of Frederick shall be
eleven thousand feet deep, the Bottomless
Pit of the Mammoth Cave must be its
equal.
The Chicago Tribune makes this state
ment: "Tha fact is, General Logan has had
no notice from the President or Secretary
Seward ihat he has been or will be appoin
ted Minister to Mexico. The Washington
reporters for the New York papers started
the story that he hail been tendered the
japan mission, and afterwards corrected it
by stating that he had declined it on account
of the great distance it would take him from
home. Neither statement is true. That
mission was not tendered to him and con
sequently be did not decline it. It i very
likely the purpose of the President to offer
General Logan the Mexican mission, bnt he
has not yet received official notice of it;
therefore, be has not declined it, and he has
not told the President that he would decline
it unless he was furnished with 20,000 men.
or any other number of men. It is proba
bly true, however, that the President intends
to offer the General the Mexican mission.
And what he dislikes about it is, the sup
posed necessity of having to sei oul upon
an exploration toar across the savage desert
of the interior of the continent, in search ol
ihe headquarters of the Juarez Government,
which is supposed to be located at present
somewhere in the vicinity of El Paso, on
the southera border of Arizona Territory.'
Two men went from Orleans county, N.
V., to Ohio, some time since and started a
bank. They subeqatilly issued drafis on
New York to certain parties from Orleans
county, and the latter sold them in Canada
to the amont of 560,000. Unfortunately
there was nodeposit in New York to pay
the drafts, and the Canadians foucd they
had been '"sold." The bank in Ohio hadn't
any money, and so the matter stands. The
Canadians have the drafts and the Orleans
county men have the money or its equiva
lent. '
A wiuk-a-wake minister, who found his
congregation going to sleep one morning
before he had fairly commenced, after
preaching a few minutes, suddenly stopped
and exclaimed: "Brethren, tbis isn't fair ;
it isn't giving a man a half a chance. Wait
till I gel along a piece, and then if I ain't
worth listening to, go to sleep; but don't do
it before I get commenced, give a man a
chance."
A party of young men, while digging for
roots, some miles north of Vincennes,
Indiana, discovered an old leather sack
containing $7,000 in gold and S30Q in silver.
Il is supposed to have beefT concealed there
by an old man named Jones, who was
si?tnc l lo the penitentiary, some fortr--
To Foung Cosiness Men.
It is easier to be a good business man
than a poor cne. Half of the energy dis
played in keeping ahead as is required in
catching up when behind, will save credit,
give more lime to attend lo business, and
add lo the profits and reputation of those
who work for gain. Be prompt keep your
word. Honor yoqr engagemtnts. If you
promise to meet a man or doa,certain thing j
at a certain moment be ready at the ap
pointed lime. If you' have work to do, do it j
at once, cheerfully and therefore speedily j
and correctly. If yon go out on business
attend to the matter in hand.ttien as prompt
lyjgo about your.bufciness. Do not stop to
tell stories tn business hours 1
If you have a place of business be found
there when wanted. No man can gt rich
D,y sitting around saloons, playing old
sledge, euctiw, peanuckle, or other games
for whiskey. Never' fool" on business mat
ters. If you have to labor for a Hving, re
member that one hour in the morning is
better than two at night. If yoa employ
othefo be on hand to see that tley attend to
their duties, and lo direct work to advan
tage. Have order system regularity
promptness liberality. Do not meddle
with business you kuow nothing of. What
ever you do, do well. Never buy an article
simply because the man who sells it will
take it out in trade. Trade is money. Time
is money. A good business habitand repu
tation are always money. Make your place
of business pleasant and attractive, then
stay there lo wail upon customers. Never
use quick words, or allow yourself (o make
hasty and ungenilemanly remarks to those
in your employ, for to do so lessens their
respect for you, ar.d your influence over
them. Help yourself and others will help
you. Be faithful over the interests confided
in your keeping, and all in good time your
responsibility will be increased.
Do not 'be in too great hate to get rich.
Do not build till you have arranged and laid
a good foundation. Do not, a yon hope or
work for success, spend time in loafing, if
your time is your own, business will surely
suffer if you do. If it is given lo another
for pay, it belongs to him, and you bave
no more right to steal it than you have lo
steal money. Be obliging. Strive to avoid
Jiarsh words and personalities. Do not kick
every stone in the path. More miles can
be made in a day by going steadify on lhan
by stopping to kick. Pay as you go. A
man of honor respects his word as he doe3
his bond. Ask but never beg. Help others
when you can without inconvenience to
yourself. But never gte when yon cannot
afford to, simply because it is f&shonable.
Learn to say no. No necessity of snapping
it dog fashion, but firmly and respectfully.
Have but few confidants. The fewer the
better. Use jjour own brains rather than
others. Learn to think and act for yourself
Be honest. Be vigilant. Be active and lib
eral. Keep ahead, rather than behind the
limes. Young man cut this out, and if
there is. folly in the argument let ns know.
The above rules have done ns good ser
vice, and are given as hints to the young
men of the country who must be either loaf
ers or gentlemen, business men or bankrupt,
respected er uncared tor, as they themselves
may determine. Brick romeroy .
A Widow's Consolation. The Memphis
(Tenn.) Argus, tells ol hojar a widow was
consoled for the loss of husband No. 2 by
husband No. 1 "turning up again." It
seems that a fair young creature had been
married but a few years when the war
broke out, and her husband enlisted in the
Confederate army.' After being absent two
year news arrived that he had been killed.
After wearing the widow's weeds a short
time she began to look around for consola
tion, and fonnd it in a second love, and was
married. Alter enjoying her happiness a
few weeks, husband No. 2 got killed. She
again donned the weeds and mourned a
second bereavement. A short time ago,
having thrown off her mourning, after wear
ing it twelve months, she became gay and
happy again, and began to look around for
No. 3, when to her great astonishment, hus
band No. 1 came back from the wars, and
the twice bereaved fair one was enfolded
in the embrace of her first love, her long
lost lord, whom dhe bad mourned as dead.
She was consoled.
Gen Banks can't take the oath. By a
law of Congress, before any member can
lake his seat, he must swear that, he has
never, "directly nor indirectly, given aid or
comfort to the enemies ot Ihe Union." Now
how can Gen. Banks, (if elected,) get over
thai point ? Why. the "rebs" called him
their chief quartermaster asd Stonewall
Jackson, when short of provisions, always
started for Banks' commissary. In Texas,
be fed Dick Taylor command, and sup
plied ihem with six months' food and cloth
ing, four wagon loads of paper collars, and
other dandified military stores. Perhaps
Banks can get over this thing but how ?
N. H. Register.
Stealing VVaterflls. The rascals of
New York and vicinity have set op this
new business, and are prosecuting it vigor
ously. Scalping takes place nightly in ihe
passages to the lecture rooms, theatres, and
on ferryboats. The scamps 'bag" fifty
waterfalls a night, worth to the dealers in
"hair" five dollars each. . ,
Ir you are in a house .and bear a baby
ay it is a 'en of marriage; or if it isn't, it
' Tiie Negro and his Friends.
Radicals, at a loss lor capital, still bewl
dismally over the man with a black skin.' It
was said of them, long ago, that "they hated -slavery
more than anything else on earth,
except the slave." They have abolished the
first, and are now laboring diligently. though
perhaps ignoranlly, to exterminate the sec
ond. If they do not succeed, it will be be
cause a half miracle is wrought in behalf of
the much abused African, whose best hope
is in the extermination of his champions.
While fugitive slave laws were in force,
they compassed sea and land to evade and -
resist ihem ; and the unhappy victims of
their cruel charity, when delivered from un
holy bondage in the mnny land, were left
by the AboIiiionits to starve upon cold, free
soil. And now thai all legal obstacles are
removed, and freedom reigns from the Can
adas to the Gulf, there is but one problem
presented lor them to solve ; which is, bow
to obtain possession of whatever portion of
t nnttiarn r A &r nrp trul amitlallv rnnsnmftd
and was ed in the sustenlation of four mill
ions of their protege.
Let it not be supposed lhat they avow
this purpose. For nearly half a centory
tbey have been perfecting themselves in
the art ol covering evil deeds with goodly
narr.es. They have invented high-sounding
litles Icr the adornment of principles wbich
would be hideous in their naked deformity.
Professing lo love the '"Union" more than
all things beside, they advocated and en
couraged a war which ibey at first instigat
ed, and when all resistance to the national
authority was at an end, they interposed the
same inevitable negro, preventing the re
union of the divided ections, ready lo heal
with the first intention. Little reck they, if
the obstacle is crushed out of existence, as
the (rail kiff crumbles to powder between
Ihe vast floes of the Arctic seas. And as
the unseen currents,' moving with resistlejs
force, always bring the divided ice fields i
. 1 .t I .U A 1 f t
lOZeiner. so Hie bjuiiu bcubc ui mo uugm '
' . ... ...... r-
Saxon race will overwhelm and obliterate
all tmces of bch African and Abolitionist,
if ihey stand in the way of national pros
perity. The signs of the times indict e
some such dendument lo the drama.
The Jamaica insurrection, which, if not
instigated by American Radicals directly, or
by their congeners, is, at leat, precisely in
accordance with their often avowed princi-J
pies. To place lie negro in bis normal!
state,' it is indispensable that the dominant
race should be destroyed. Even the mad-
ness of Aboliuon frenzy has never formally
predicted or advocated entire equality be
tween the slave and his late master. It isf
hardly credible that we should have so
many romors of an approaching uprising
of the black population ol the Sooth, if
there were no foundation for the reports. It
is not possible lhat assemblages of tbee
ignorant savages, guarded by arrred senti
nels, could convene for any good purpn-e.
And, if any considerable body of them can
be deluded by their white friends from New
England lo rise in armed outlawry, it i
positively certain that the conflict will end
with their extermination. Concerning the
trouble in the English island, we have only!
ihe beginning of the end. Since the ab-d-
ishmenl of slavery there, this island ha
dwindled down into a mere spot" on the
map, and now the British Government has
to decide, either to expatriate the negro, 10
reduce him to something like his old bond-
age,or to abandon the islaud lo him en irely.
In the first or the last event, the result will
be very much the same. The poor African!
relapses into his original barbarism, or dis
appears Irom the face of the earth.
While the "peculiar institution" existed!
in the Southern States, the negro was in
constant contact with the superior race arull
with Christian civilization, and his cond;-!
tior:, morally and physically, was far supe
rior to that of his kindred at the Noith. II
ha always been peculiarly susceptible of j
religions training, and the example of con
sistent Christian profession bave alwaj?
been as numerous in Virginia as in M
c he setts. The cultivated deniz;n of t
ton required somemore intel'ectnal s-liemej
lhan the simple lory of the cross: I
while the debased slave of the South waJ
content to regulate his life by the easily ap-j
prehended precepts of the gotpel. The!
faith of Uncle Tom would scarcely suit Dr.!
Oliver Wendell Holmes. In tbis enlightett-f
ed age, it will hardly do lo institute a com
parison between the breakfast table Pre -I
fessor and the Black Wixh, who cever read!
or heard ol the Atlantic Monthlr. Bui the!
learned doctor, and those who have acted
with him, have effectually deprived the!
treedrr.an of the comforts of a religion sorf.i
plain in its teachings, lhat the wayfArinj;";
man, though a fool, need not err therein. .
The conclusion is nearly reached. Deliv
ered from all wholesome restraints, the ne
gro is swiftly subsiding into heathenism.
He is delivered from bondage, and from
home, family ties, shelter, food, fuel and re
ligious training also. Few cares for hi
soul excepting his former master, who is
too impoverished to aid him or to arresi or
even retard his doom. As he melts away
before the advancing tide of civilization,
his whitening bones will alone remain lo
murk the place of his former habitation, and i
lo serve as a monument of the final triumph
of Abolition philanthropy. A' 1". News. j
'I've beard, captain," said an English,
traveller lo the captain of a steamer running
on the upper Mississippi, "lhat your west-)
ern steamboats can ran in very shoal water
.where, in lact, the water is not more
than two or three fee deep I" "Two or
three feet deep !" exclaimed the captain in
tones of withering- contempt: "why. W!
wouldn't give a lor a boat nut bare
that couldn't rnn on the Teat of a water