'2IL 7 At.-IittEHLER, EDITOi'AND PROPRIETOR
v0t. , xviu„.,461
RIIWARD.
''" ' , gr , o4 oicirvinsas:.
Who; looking bockwiud from his oianiniod's prime,
Elan pot the weans. anis mincipeoit time;
Ap4. *nine* tb• ilksde
Of limn:o . czgi s 11 . 1, planceci thick bekind,
6li ll;e wind'
' " With hi. loved dead V • '
Who, hemp° tractof Passion ' v evil force I
Who altunti !lg . Wins; 0 terrible remorie
Wbo'vtotild rkot clot
lialfofhle figure from hitn,hut to win
Waltokasatellilowitor the wrong •Ind sin
Of the sealed past l
A but e the evil, which we fain would shun,
We do, and leave the wished•for good undone ;
Our *bengal m.day
Is but to-morrow's wcakncu, prune to Ali
Poor, blind, unprofitable servants
, Are orealvray.
Yet whn, thualooking backward o'er his Zeal,
Peelle not hie eye-lida werwith grateful teary.
' If he hath berii
Permitted, weak and ,aloftil ari he *as,
Td eheei l anil aid in some ennobling cause,
- , His fellow men I
If he bath hidden the °dant, or let in
A ley of sunshine to the cell of lin
If ho heth lent
Slnollfil to the weak, end in en honed' need,
Oyer the suffering., mindless of his creed
Or hue, bath bent
He has not lived in vain ; and, while be given
Thelma*. to Him w.holn. he mores and lives,
, With thankful heart
He gazes backward, and with hope before,
Knowinir that from hie work. he never more
• CU benoefortd part
THE ATHEIST
IT AAAAA a ' l•ta.
The Atheistin lib garden staid,
"At twilight's pensive hour,"
116 littlelsughter by his side
Wu piing gone flower.
pick that blossom, Ps,. (r mc,"
The link prattles said,
the fairest one that blocrths
Witidtt that lowly bed."
The tither pluck'd the chosen flower,
And give it to his child;
With parting lips, and sparkling eye,
She seized the gift, and
Oh, Pa! who made this pretty flower—
This little viola bluel
Who gave it such a fragrant smell,
And such ajovely hue?"
A change came o'er the father's brow,
His eye grew strangely wild,
New thoughts within him had been stirred
By that sweet artless child.
The truth flashed on the father's mind
The truth—in all ha rower:
"There is a God, my child," he said,
—Who' made that - tittle liner!"
THE VOICE ON MOONLIGHT
I=!
I have buret through the rent of a broken Cloud,
And Pve dmiik of the mea‘low strewing;
Whore the deer gloom of midnight tho mountains
khrord,
I have laughed out my pearly bams.
And rye roamed along thmugh the forest glade,
Where the nightingale's song waft musie made
With the plaint of the breeze, and the distant rush
Ufa dashing wild cascade.
hive eilvereil the erect or a milling wave,
And sailed out it safe to the shore;
,And I tremblingly erupt through a ooldilark ease,
Lisfiting to the rude wind', roar.
As the wild storm rose o'er the fathomless deep,
And the spray of the waves made my bright eyes
woep,
A ud the tierce thunders marched down the quaking
sky;
I laid on & abiding to alerrh
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
_ ..•
ft our young readers will Memnon to memory
Cie following lines, they will ever afterlisve a cor
rect idea of the arrangement of our Solar System.
It will fix kin the nunnery like the length of the
months by the old 'Thirty they. bath September,'
Ate.
,Poised in the centre hangs the glorious Sri.
Bound which the rapid MaRCVICT doth run;
Next in due order V sines wheels her flight.
And then the and Moos, her satrlite ;
Nest fiery Maas pursues his round einem;
Beyond, the circling Aerriaines appear;
The belted Jur:Tint remoter flies,
With his kur moons attssubuet, thro the skies ;
The beltginged Straus rants more distant still,
With seven swill moon! ho doth' his circuit fill ;
With the sir satellites, that round him roll,
Ilaariam slowly eireunnolves the whole.
But far beyond, unecanned by monsll'art,
In widening spheres, bright suns and systems lie,
Circling In measureless infinity !
Pause sr The Mighty scene, 0 man, and raise
Vim tathle voice to the Cs saeritie's poise
pLEASAKT DOCTRINE.
Ovr skinkr preaches, and Inborn to mom,
'Ti. Any duty, my nviettooT,to clicanth and lon ;
In, vetch doottlne I hops to improve wont sod more,
For young Harry Itutherfoid liveth neatdoor
Esucartoth—'l l he innitimde think that
td'edetrate , a child is tocrowd into his Mind
tt given 'emuunt of knoirledge ; to load the
methtiry with words. No wonder that
they think every body fit to teach. The
true end of education is to unfold and di
rect aright our whole nature. Its flUce is
to call forth powers of thought, affection,
whl end outward• actions, •powers to ob
tterveto reason, to judge, to contrive—
power to adopt good counsel lind to per
sue them, to govern, ourselves and MlN
enas•others, to gain and spread happiness.
The intellect wait created not: to receive
passively a few words, dates'and facts, but
to be active for the acquisition of truth.--
Education should 'Wapitis a profound love
of truth, and teach the. Process of investi
gation. A Bonn& logic, by which we
mean the science and art which instructs
us in Merin. laws of 'leasoning and evir
dente, is an essential part of a good educe
lion."--C/untning.
thiSPECT DOES NOT FOLLOW tXTRAV
4iioic*,-,The man who takes care of his
Outings is far more respected than ho who
squamiors all in "riotous living." So with
the young lady. - Although she may spend
her last dollar in the purchase of a new
dress or a costly shawl, and follow the
.whims of fashion as closely as does the
fashionable belle who had thousands at her
disposah'sbe cannot Make people believe
shit is richer than site really is : and is
more likely to incur suspicion as to her
rdstititile of character, and keep away
keit young men as make good husbands,
from her oriety, than if she lived prudent
ly ahrdressed plainly.
Somebody thinks that the Sons of Tempe
rance should try and reform - the money
market, because it has such a habit of get
ting Timm
NOM 11 PooPle's Journal
HOLY: LAND
'ailtassiritairrimnuv.
stir—JAcOlea 'WILL AID TIE thAYAIIIITAINi
Our last view .oflinti'was very
fine. 'We looked back from a ridge 011
the northern road, and saw it lying, brigh t
,
and swath an its everlasting : ; ~b ut it
looked lower than from most other point,
of view, from the Moab mottnuthie,forming
its lohy baCk'ground. Vtre aesconand the
slope before us, and last sight of the holy
City forever.
Again we were ptxuck with the vivid
coloringof thescenery. All this (lay, the
weredreisea to brilliant hues-=the
soil,,red, grey, and brown; the tilled per
(ions of the brightest green, and the shad
ows; purple or lilac. All the hills show
traces of having been once terraced; and
they were still completely so in the neigh
borhood of our encampment this evening
—the terraces following the strata of the
stone, which all lie slanting. This gives
a ihigular air of wildness to the most cul
tivated spots. Ilan and there were ba
sins among the hills, the red soil drop
ped all over with fig and olive trees, or
full of corn; and the upland tracks, wind
ing among , slopes all strewn with clines,
iris, cyclamen,, and anemones, and
hug with tall flowering hollyhocks. On
we went, past deep old wells yawning in
the hollows, or stone cisternsyhere the
cattle were crowding to drink; past a few
cancels here and there, browsing in the
dells; past groups of Arabs with their
assess, carrying corn to the city; past
atone villages crowning the steeps, till, at
0 I'. M., we encamped beside a beautiful
old pool. We are under the shelter of a
rock, whose moist crevices were fringed
with delicate Carnet While dinner was
preparing, I went back on our road—the
narrow, stony road which wound round
the verdant promontory opposite our rock
—to find a honey suckle which I had seen
climbing and blossoming to a great height;
and I brought back a charming handful of
flowers. •
While we were at dinner in the tent, a
sound of scuffling was heard outside ; and
when our dragoman next entered, he was
out of breath. We afterwards heard the
whole story, and were amused to find how
zealous our Mohammedan servants could
be in the cause of Christians. Some A
rabs, with their loaded mules, had come
ivith trli3 into llon of encamping beside - the
pool; and on finding the ground partly oc
cupied, though there was plenty of room
left, they became abusive, and wondered
aloud what business these cursed Christ
ians had in their country. Our dragoman
resented this, and threw the speaker down
over the tent-ropes. There was then a
stout scuffle, and our cook coming to help,
and the Arabs falling upon one another o
ver the tent-pegs in the-dark, they had the
worst of it, and went off vowing vengeance.
We heard no more of them, however.
'lime next morning we saw the Mediter
ranean, like a basin of deep blue water be
tween two hills. We were not going to.
wards it, however, but to Nahlons, the an
cient Sychar, where lies that Jacob's Well
at which the woman of Samaria was wont
to draw water.
Our road lay through a most fertile. val
ley, now called Hawarrah, where the crops
were splendid for miles; and the villages
were thickly planted on the hills. The
ground rose in a series of table land*, of
which there was a succession of three,
when we• were leaving the rich Hawarrah
valley. The roads in this part Ofthe Holy
Land were mere lanes, full of stones, be,
tweets'walls, or tracks through olive
grounds and meadows. or paths running
along shelvei of rocks, with a bit of rocky
staircase at each end, about ascending or
descending which our good horses made
no difficulty. ,
Before entering the valley where old
Sychar lay between the mountains Ebel
and Clerizim, we came to the fine, fertile
parcel of ground which Jacob. bought.—
The valley opens out into this wide basin;
and near the junction of the valley and the
baein is the old well which is the.sopposed
scene of thri conVersation I:sf Jeans with
the Samaritan womon. Some of our par.
ty wound round the base of the hill to the
well ; and some (and I for one) rode 'by
the upper path, Om the shoulder of the
hill, and came down on the other side. •!I
lied thus a finer vjpW of the whole locality;
of the valley where the city narrow
rally, rich with fig and,olive groves, and o
verhung by the rooky bases of Ebal - :ind
Gierisim, where the square black entrances•
of tombs dotted the strata of the rooks.--.-
From .this height, Jacob's land.lotoktßl
beautiful expanse. The well is a mere
rough heap of stones, with a hole in the
middle, nearly ,closed up. Nirhat there is
below ground, I cannot say ;, but this, is all
that is to be Neon on thesyrfacc. It itatto;
a well likely to be it; use now, for there
ere many' springs and 'shallow cisterns
(though no well) between this and the town
which lies about a toile and s half off.
Everybody'knows that the Jews had no
friendly dealitiewith the. Samariums in the
time of Jesus. The quarrel had then last
ed above five hundred years. How many
suns had gone.down upon their wrath !
The:Samaritans, had wished to assist the
Jews in rebuilding the temple of Jerusa
lem : butAhe Jews hated them as a mixed
ratio, and would not admit that they had
any right to share in temple worship or
any other Jtiwish privileges. It really
was a most serious objection to the Samar
itans, that they were of a mixed race ; not
only because the Jews believed that they
held the promises ii pn the very ground of
the parity of their race ; but because the
intermarriages of the former Samaritan Is
raelites with Assyrians and others disposed
them to idolatry, or at least to a worship
as mixed as their race. So the Samari
tans were excluded from the rebuilding of
the temple, above live hundred years 13. C.
And not being poimitted to help, they did
all they could to hinder. About ono hun
dred years after, they obtained leave from
the Persian Court (to which both the Jews
and they were subject) to build a socoud
temple to Jehovah; and they built it on
Mount This was a shocking
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impiety is the sight 'of the Jews ; arid it
was the occasion of a bomber `of lax4riind
ed Jews, who had broken the law, by mar
rytig heathen wives, or otherwise, and yet
who wished to worship Jehovah in his
temple,.-sesorting to Syslue,4ojoinAhn
Samaritans, and render their race yet more
mixed. This was the quarrel which. the
woman of Samaria referred to, when she
spoke of, the question,. whether, "men.
ought to worship in this mountain ar,,ip
Jerusalem !" and, thus is explained her
wonder that Jesus , being a Jew, should ask
water of her, who was a Samaritan.—
There was also a quatral about their ficrlP
tures ; the Jews insisting, to this day,that
the filandavitanis- had-ralterad-two-ev.three
texts, relating to these two mountains, E.
bal and Gemini: in their own sacred copy
of the books of Moses; the Samaritans,
insisting, of course, that theirs was' the true
copy
m my early youth. I had taken a
strong interest : in this old quarrel., feeling
sympathy with both parties, and , a keen de
light in the. wise and soothing words °rile
sus concerning it. What a truth it was
for both parties to hear, that God was now
to be worshipped everywhere . ; and that
all plaive were henceforth to be as sacred
as the Jerusalem temple, or the mountain
at Sychar i l And what a kappa in liberali
ty it was to the Jews, when he gave hanor
to the Samaritan in the parable, en aedoutit
of his goad works, above the sacred priest
and the servant of the temple at Jerusalem.
Both parties were, of course. • wrong in
their fierce anger; but each had much to
plead on his own side. Thi Jews were
bound to keep their race and worship pure;
and held, as an essential matter of faith,
that Jehovah would have but one ,dwelling
place ; which was their view of their
temple. And the Samaritan. were surely
right in their endeavor to worship Jehovah
in- accordance with the laws of Moses, as
they did not believe in strange gods; and,
if the Jews could not admit them to wor
ship in the temple at Jerusalem, they could
not be blamed for building on e for th4;a:
selves.
• Such was always my view of the mat
ter; and, such being . my view, it was with
indescribable interest that I looked this
day upon Mount Gerixim, and remember
ed that somewhere in the city we were ap
proaching was treasured that sacredxopy
of the Samaritan Pentateuch, (Books of
Moses,) which the possessors believe to be
the true one, and to be 3.1500, yeas old.—
The most learned men among the -Christ
ians do not believe it to be near so old
as that ; but they have a high opinion of
its value, and would follow it sooner than
any other, I believe, excepting instances
where
where the disputed texts about Ebal and
Gerizini are concerned.
Vie present inhabitants of the city 'hate
the Christians as heartily as the old inhab
itants used to hate the Jews. The present
inhabitants are Mohammedans of the most
bigoted character; and they would admit
neither Jews nor Christians within their
gates, till within a few years ; when the
Government of the country (then ggypt
ian) compelled them to better manners.--
They dared not refuse us admission ; but
they behaved with great insolence. We
had to ride from end to end of the city, our
tents being pitched on a green OR the other,
side. Our horses had to go as slowly as
possible through the narrow street, which
would not hold two abreast, and was pav
ed with large slippery stones. As we rode
along, one behind another, at this funeral
pace, all the people came out to stare, , and
many to mock. Three times things were
thrown in my face ; men and women laugh
ed and sneered. and children thrust out
their tongues. I felt what a lesson this was
to intolerance about matters of opinion.
These people hold a faith which is very
noble and beautiful. Few of us know how
noble and beautiful is the Mohammedan
faith. And there tit, no need to say what
their visitors thoughtof the Christian faith,
as they hold it; and yet, what a scene of
hatred and misunderstanding was here!—
And thus it is, but too:often, , in the streets
of other cities, where Men ought to know
better than Id . despise each other for wor
shipping the s ame God in it different man
ner. In the streets or other eines, bleb
take upon theinselvei to pity tituLdesidse
one another, *Mite better knowledge; in
reality, of one another's views and feelingsi
than these Mohammedans had of ours,
or we of thairt.
At' last, we were thmugh I and gla
was •to ilium from die' gate it`thnlarther
end. Bute sad eight *Waited us lucre
crim Patty 'Or le pert Were' indei the trees,
ciying out to ns for charity; and stretching
out their maimed hands . Iris a! terrible
eight, which we see ukroftenin diet coon=
try.:v :It saddened us at Jerusalem;:almmit
every,day,
Our tents were pitched eke weedy plot
ofground, among gartienaor,cbards, and
xipplintatreams, and looking , up l to Ebal
en the one aide, and Veriziet,ort the other.
Eballit still the etetuer+aolting mountain
Of the two ; but Gerizim has lost much of
its fertility. 'Both 'have tombs and votive
buildings on them, which shOw' them to
have been places of pilgrimage. '
After dinner, we ascended a height, past
the Mohammedan cemetery,' whence we
had a fine view, in the last sunlight, of this
most beautiful city. It was once the cap
ital of Hamaria : and it is still, and must
ever be, from it situation, a very striking
place. It completely tills the valley, from
side to side, and ascends a little way up
.the skirts of Gerizim. Its houses, with
t
their flat, white roofs, are hedged in by the
groves which surround the town ; vines
spread from roof to roof, and from court
to court: two or three palms Spring up in
the midst, and higher aloft still, a graceful
minaret hero and there.
Then, to my delight, we deeended to
seek the Samaritan Synagogue. We were
guided to it, and I saw nearly all the Sa
maritans of the place; good looking people,
the men wearing the high. helmet-like
turban which We set' in the portraits of Jo
sephus and other old Jews. They said
their number was sixty in this place, and
about forty more elsewhere ; ohly a hun
dred in the whole world. They declared
their chief priest and the rest of their sect
to be at Genoa. They keep three great
rFEARLESiI, AND FREE."
rennin in thti )tedr,'lning up Geriziin u the
Jews used to go,uo to the Temple.
The synaingtie *ke a small, ordinary
looking chapel, within a cticialned rece.st
ottilileh Ii kept thiold coprof the Penta
tench._ . It'Was,`44l4ll te 'net after
entreaty on . oiir'part"but I *Mad 'it was
impossible` that l'cOld be allowetim tench
I felt' ft 'ii greit'eireht to" have seen it.--J
It ip written oot sort of delium, in the BA ,
niaritan text, clmd.:Adtall, find moon. The
vellum id' tatteredi"but it Is Well Mounted
od parchnient. 'The *lest himdelf darer
not touch' the 'MS. without edreful puriftia
thin i and he holds:li% by the etids of ihe'
rollers' onirbich. it.lslited. at a Acroll, liket
the copies bf the AeWish law in eynagoguiti.
We. were lightdd' itiroagh the arch*trtS"
of the street, Otid way home, mid down'
dal hill; lir d .d' !idle, which' hurtled
i tti
steadily tit 'the 's Air. ' '
Our employment this evening wet read
itig aloud the Minor of the Jewish and 81r. ,
martian controventy. and the fourth chapter
of the GOspel of itihn. While we wire
thus reading in 'ottitent„ the jackal was'in
full cry on the slope of Gerizim. '" '
THE USEFUL AND THE ORNAMENTAL.
The great erroref modern times, in .the
eZucation of female", ; , is in giving price-,
dance to the ortuuneplal branches of learn-
ing rather than the useful. Both are
per, but the eubstantial virtue:. and duties,
of life ought alwaypto be telpwded as nf, in-,
comparable ,more.importance than; lite
mere embellishraenta. A young iniafFnay,
be sent to a.faishionable boarding school
and instructed in a thousand glum, with-:
out learning one - ot, the :many necesaary
vocations which ,w4l alwaYs .derdtle cla
the wife and mother. Those accompliithi
menu which are,deemed so s indlepensahle
in fashionable society, ere not much better.
often much worae than,aaelissa, at, the do
mead° fireside tti the family circle. We
could by no means condemn or undervalue
fashion, fashionable society, or fashiena
ble accomplishments. They are ally well,
enough in their way. They arm indeed
among the acquirements tobe desired when
therare coneidered only as additinnalgta-,
ens to a mind well cultivated in , the domes-,
tic "arts and sciences," which enable yr°,
man to fill the imereating,.,place assigned •
her in the scale , of being, with dignity and
honor to herself, and advantage to 24 to
whom she may steed in the relation of
mentor or guardian. It has been said
that -"the-woman-witty-reigns queen of
ball room is seldom found capable of gov
erning her own children." Withoutdraw
ing any argument from t his against the ball
room, we may make the remark a fit instru
ment in enforcing borne upon the mind in
important truth :-..Persons seldom excell
in more than one line.of virtues of qualifi
cations. Those who select music, dam
eing, feasting, parties,Ad., as the, sphere
in which they will bine conspicuously,
will seldom be excellent in any depart
ment of life, Where all is sober reality in
stead of amusement and excitement. Too
much pains is takea to mak efemalesertistical
instead , of useful. The former nut); dazzle
and captivate us for a moment, but sooner
or later the illusion vaniehee, and nature,
true to herself, sighs for a natirralttcnirmin
ion. Says a judicious writer :
, "the system of female eduestiomasit
now 'elands, aline only at embellishing a
few years of. lift.; 'which' are itutheinsetres
so full of grace and happiness, that they
rarely-want it, and then leaves the rest or
exietenee misemble
of
toidle insigni
ficance/ No (woman of undexstanding and
reflection can possibly conceirenhe, is do
ing justice to her children by such kind of
education. The object is to give to chil
dren; resources that will endure eta ,
life emdureer—habits that will einelitsetei
not oestrey-r.-eeimpation , that will reader
sickness tolerable, solitude pillusaM o lege
venerable, life• more dignified end useful,
and therefore death less terriblecend. the
compensation which is offered lor the .9-
mitsion of *hie, is a short4ived blaze,
little temporary _effect, which bet no Alter
Consequence than to deprive the, remain&
er of life of all taste and relish.", •
Paacocm- arsizscr, , 7 —flawing
Waieheil the giiiWth of.t)te
.ytql:ml9o a
0.40410' am lasi and 'leas icy love with
preamty, , indeed, pettftea a mere
I i i4"1 0 0 , 44 . P t C ai lt!e . , 4 6 .a.stf 9T4
very Alm hu%viTy weak nerronii.etgatti
zation. Tour young '„lrescttiesS,:gnd:ali
youi wortdefii, or that
in the feeblest' of common-pi4q ; Theo
is no law, however, precise eat) absolute
in the Metter. , , The difference o age at
which. men..attain maturity of intellect.
and even, iMagination, is very
The tumultuous heat of.youth, has certain
ly even birth to nianyof the noblest things
in maitre, painting and poetry ;' huinCless
fine proditatiinia haie sprung fitin.tholtipe;•
nese of yesrs.' , Ohaiterton •wititeill his
beautiful things;•withausted all , hopes'of life,
and daw.aothing better than death - it . the
early. spref• eighteen. Buna.and: Byron ,
died in their thirty-seventh year, and I think
the strength of their,genius was , over. Ra
phael,afterfilling the world with divine beau
uty, perished also. at thirty-seven; Mozart
earlier. They might have produced still
greater works. On the other handllandel
was for ty-eig lit before he "gave the world as
surance of a man." Dryden, came up to
London from the provinces, dressed in.
Norwich drugget, somewhat above the
age of thirty, and (lid not even then know
that he could write a line of poetry. Yet
what towering vigor and swinging ease all
at once in 'glorious John !" Milton had,
indeed, written his Comus at twenty-six;
but blind. and "fallen on evil days and evil
tongues," he was upwards of fifty when
he begun his great work. Cowper knew
not his own might till he ' was far heymul
thirty, and his Task was not written till he
was near his fiftieth year. Sir Walter
Scott was also upwards of thirty before he
published his Minstrelsy, and all his great
ness was yet to come.—.llird's Old Bach-
The World, says a shrewd satirist, is a
mongrel—half spaniel, half wolf. Lash it
often, and when you require it, n whistle
will bring it to your feet. Show the slight
est symptom of fear. and it will turn round
upon and worry you even unto death.
11 5AAgY(Rff lia*4
foIt . COVERNING CHILDREN.
Exercise your authority as seldom as
possible, and instead of it employ kind
'persiaasiitin and deliberate reasoning, but
when yea exercise it, make it irresistible.
careful how you threaten, but
lip. Threaten seldom, but 'never
fail to execute. The parent who is open-
Mouthed to threaten, and threatens hastily,
is Irreablute to punish, and when the child
iit•not Subdued by the first threat, repeats
it , a lag dozen times, with a voice of in
creased violence, and with many shakes
sed,twitehes of the little culprit, will cer
tainly,fossess no authority.
,li t
,Avoid tones and gestures expressive
afrikotatio for trivial matters, indicative
ono depravity, and exhibiting only heed
letisttesa ,or forgetfulness of children, for
Oliiing is Mora‘common to all young ani
malsOlian to love to use their limbs. In
sualiiiases the tones should be kind and
petinasive, rather than authoritative; and
even the gravity of authority should be re
eeMideXclusitrely for eases of disobedience
oritipravity; or for the prevention of se
rious evil. ;A •perpeuaal ,fretting at chil
drett.for little things will inevitably hard
en.sheir,haula,...and,totally destroy paren
tal. 1 409 1 ' 1 1y and Influence. : Thar never
WA" * fle4oll Paranh .w.ho,ofieu threatened
1 7 1 tridAIR 41094%4 -91111...114 A,P.attic (O.
.
o u gloat, goyernment.
TKO PROS . ,;
HearY responsibility reels upon throe
'Vihei write for the public: Tutowt‘of the
world,"they msy not lighdy sesame not
thoughtlessly disahlairto a very 'import
ant office.' Every line ;found , wentiter in
moral tone should he loatandyensed.
calaulablaeril may felloW iterpublication-w
for .in that the, deprived • litttheonatenallee•
and the -VIRg tralln114;11 1 id nnenaralke
mem. witheet,el i orr:nay,,he
groggi l y culpable, who ft eag : with i the
society, ornegiec' dogoodivhen,
OPportenity is pretiented.. A. bainhgtOt
uttered in print,. is'ikit'aildreseedlinellig
•gle Individtial, but ib the Whole goninitini4
important, then, that those who
&ditty' the elevated•:Ptisiiiim of editors.
should be dignified and virtuous : ,
. 6.. Let me Write the' ballads - of betide,"
said. a wily, politician •Of ' the olden, timet
.4andi care not who writes its lame,
was uttered before that mighty eng.inei the
Pratt*, .had.assugned its, present _ all,portwfr
Jul sway —built)! sentiment is not thetas,
true in our day. Deinagoguism has not
ceased-lobeseirtutmerid-ercitementlindi
c iously.administered will atill drive to frenr
zy the masses. One mischief:maker:nay
mar the peace of a whirilei community ; our
ry discord into ispailies,gleetrey, lannefnent
light the torch of the ion,endiary, ittal
the town over to pillage and ,bleedithed r ,--
Powerful for weal or for woe is the pen ;
it is sharper, thug s. twoi-edgod'aWord—
etronger than triple We l ocutteel, atul
for then the never-tiring I:10 of , .1?)t t
ye, who use it, talgegnq sore Oct .yo, tlo
not abuse your vocnitir. lte, jealously
guarded in thooght intik action, glwayr aim
ing to enlighten end etevele.,
The unperaHiled' inertitige In' the' notee.
pit per press of ibis!
anditriumphant pronf'or'groWing MUM
genes, domestic prosperity; and ideiskhiq
petals. • These canoes folio* -eseh-other
as-plainly,- es-tillently ; 44e11-- se-itimntifidly
as day followa With theieW/1 of
light, comes the news - paptowoghtelirst
il
lurpinates the world of matter, the last that
of Mind: Whitt' Weir prtiorii !Wanted of
high morel tone; •ittimyir the Offspring of
civil, gad religious , freedeozi than thalami
that, we have mom newspapers, than the
whole world peg Mgedgegi Is , nog the
boast a prottd,oo t., Iloilo our, exultatign
let us remember that, ‘ .taithout integrity,
thit press pity be tlisested fr o m its legiti
mate,porpuse; and a vehicle et foul
wrong end oppression, Make truth the
hailifbf the'structere----then work with as
siduity until the cap-ittinetisses the blush
ing A skies I Cottrows—eouroge, brethren
of tha,'pressithe shouid work bravely who
has the good of the world at heart!
"Let bid one thought from out the womb of tiino
' ifeneeforth,hor sky, nor clime,
Norladdi nor sea, not king, nor serf, can stay
hots, rmy.ur.ragh ip nommen) way
h is Lad shall be--'tillthe heavens shall roll
rvedier in a' vast anti flaming scroll—
And on thadaeroll, b words of living Are,
1341 Diane ttift thought,--'till time keel( expire !"
ftiilizitiarentS should consult
"thOleraitilly dentist' at least two or three
tither fat' us often at least as they
may perceive the least deran&ement in the
.mouthq : of .their children. Iliere are few
parents wIo acquaint themselves sufficient
ly with the dental organs to know when
The fititt set Of teeth loosen and come out,
or When the'seeond make their appearance,
at 'which time the teeth should be careful-
Ly so that the first symptoms of
decay may be detected and eradicated be
fore A has proceeded too far; for, upon the
preservation of the first four permanent
double teeth; (two of the t i pper and two of
thelnwer javi, which usually appear be
tween the fifth and sixth year, depend in
great measure, the symmetry of the lower
part of the face.
MENDLESCIIIN. TITS Co3o•Mit ' .- The
German journals give v ery interesting par
ticulars relative to the death of Mendelsohn.
Mendelsolui was brought up with a sister,
who married an artist of the name ()ilium'.
eel. Ile himself married, about ten vears
ago, the daughter of a senator of Frankfort.
These two families were inseparable.—
Mendelsohn and his - sister, Fanny linen
sel, formed but one soul. This remarka
ble woman was herself a good composer.
and directed the steps of her brother in his
musieal'eareer. About nine months ago,
Fanny Ilaensel composed a symphony,
the performance of which she conducted
herself: at the commencement of the fifth
part Madame 11:iensel dropped dead of an
apoplectic at. Since that time Mendels
solin wandered about like a shadow among
the living. In a letter addressed to his
wife, he says.—" Our common soul has
taken her flight to heaven. I greatly (ear
I shall shortly go to meet her. for Fanny
always. promised she would come and
take rue from this world, should bhe die be
fore me." Two months :ate r, Mendell
solin died of an apoplectic tit.
WHAT mar. WOULD DE A. QUEEN t—dl is
said that her Majesty the Queen of Spain
is subject to fits of melancholy, and ex
treme depression of spirits, and that these
sad periods come on suddenly, and form a
striking contrast with occasional sallieta
the moat buoyant Faiety. She remains,'
we are told, sometnnes for hours, sitting
alone, and is often surprised in tears, with
out being able to account for her grief.—
ller appearance in public is much less fre
tient than formerly, and it is remarked that
she has become much thinner than before,
and that her face has acquired a sad and
care worn expression. • * Change is
also said to have been made in the medical
treatment of the Queen. A professor .of
the homeopathic doctrine, of the name of
Nunez, has been entrusted with the care of
her majesty's health, and the skill and ex
perience of the usual attendants almost, if
not entirely. superseded, In noticing the
opening of the Cortes by the Queen, next
day, the writer says :—On her majesty
passing through the streets, every one re
marked how thin, care-worn, and even
haggard, she looked;,and, though, when
she entered the chamber, a flush overspread
her countenance, yet an expression of sad
ne,sa was still observable."
130DU.1 • EXERCISE IN EARLY LIFE. ---.TO
fetter the active Motions of children, as
eopti atirthey have acquired the use to their
liu?bs, is barbarous opposition of improv
iitg their minds and manners, is an insult
to common eeits6. It may, indeed, be the
way to train up puppets for short-lived
Foredigiett of• learning; but never to formi
healthy, well-informed end arromplished
men . and 'women. Every feeling individ-
Ual math behold, with flinch heart-felt eon
cells; pedr little puuy- creatures of eight,
temi.or twelve years of age exhibited by
theirsdly parents as proficients in learning,
or as distinguished for their curly proli.
eienny in language, elocution, music, or
even' some frivolous acquirement. The
.seretigth-Of the mind, as well as the body
isdixliantited.i.and the natural growth of
beth isHebteked. by , such untimely excl.-
, 31
•I:.!NyirtutiOnt PosTacitki4.The -Legisla
ture of Ohio has adopted, without a ths
rating. NRicer illyrosolution requesting the
Peleinitict l y,frum Mgt State in Congress to
I(o,4,for,agi,ameadment to the Post Otliice
Wt which shall permit newspapers to go
ifhlim mails frp,c of postage within thirty
tpi4.. of, Ow fpubl lea ti
p' RATION epos, ,A MARE UNDER THE
itxr(t.itr*?fcF, OF PHOLOROFOlUl,—Yestertlay
'Zi4„ . bpyttcm, veterinary surgeon, Mount
ffirect.loneryed a mare while tinder the
flOtalWO of .oholoOform , with complete
s,nefess. Two small sponges were soak
i;tifinthe cycolorotorrn and secured in the
,
nnstriut nth piece of tape. In about
twa,minutes,the two staggered and fell,
'The„o,p,erati?n , was then performed. The
ma,,,tt wits. no, wit) , secured, and lay perfect-
V n tik(wlio nerve was cut down upon,
awl with the exception of a slight twitch
y,liett,tlte nerve was divided, she did not
cvippObe slightest feeling. The sponges
tfpFethett i retnovoti, 'and in about six min
izi. 49 g 44 up all right. :.3o satisfied has
Nk.,Yliftvsott been with the result in this
tpt4ce,,that he intends to apply the chlo
rocuem in painful operations.--London
,
PILLS AND POLITICS•--TIIC celebrated
Dr,Beletrittwrit is one of the members of
the fiew York Hunker Imeofoco Central
Conintittep. and their harmonious confer
aci, the liarn-burners, style the proceed
ing's of the Committee, "the Brandreth
movement." The Evening Post says of
it
"It is rumored, we know not on what
grounds, that Dr. Brandreth has serious
thoughts of calling a preliminary conven
tion of quack doctors. to advise what shall
he done in the ease of a patient who obsti
nately refuses to take the medicines direct
ed by his physician. Unless some meth
od is devised to bring these recusants'to
compliance, we do not see what is to be
(mine of the Brandreth Convention."
ASBACII vsErrs.—Gor. Briggs' Ad
dress to the Massachusetts Legislature re
veals a remarkable state of prosperity.—
The receipts during 1847, including $B,-
629 of a balance on hand, on the first day
of that year, amount to $508,990 ; the ex•
penditures to $478,756; leaving a balance
in the Treasnry of $40,535. The State
owes only $1;147,300, being for its stock
in the Western Railroad, which is n very
valuable and productive investment. There
is no State tax imposed upon the people,
because there is no need of it. All the e
conomical, educational and benevolent in
stitutions appear to be in the most prosper
ous condition.
There are said to he 9000 applic . ations,
resulting from the Mexican war, for boun
ty lands and Treasury scrip, so that the
Pension Office is overwhelmed with busi
ness, and on increase of clerks is necessa
ry. There will be land and scrip enough
to satisfy all these claims, but what shall
compensate for the broken hearts and des
olated hearths which have been caused by
this war!
THE COLD TUESDAV.—Tuesday, the
11th of January, 11348, will hereafter be
reeordeditiihe New England calendar as
the cold Tuesday. , We learn that in Bris
tol, N. 11., the mercury fell to twenty-six
degrees below zero on tint day. At Lytne,
N. IL it was thirty-three below ; at. Ilun.
over thirty-four; at St.. Johnsbury, Vt.,
the mercury fell to forty, and froze ; and
at Franconia the mercury frozoso hard
that it is thought it will requim i t , lon g
spell of moderate weather to, thaw. it 1 —
Boston Journal.
STATE DETITS.—The different States
U of
the Union w bleb, arc in debt, amounting,
in the aggregate, to considerably' over two
hundred millions of dollars, are now, we
believe, all parin . ; the interest, in full nr in
part, except the following, whore debts
1841 were aboot is annexed, via; INis
sissipiii,
67,600,000 ; Arkansas, 113,590,-1
000: Florida, $1.850,000 ; Tvatas, $ll,-;
00,000. 'fowl, $20,-630,0ti1),
TWO DOTIAVOI MINITIfi
MEW SERIES---NO. 30,
MAJOR GENERAL SCOTT.
It gives us pleasure to transkr to our columns
the, following very earnest tribute by the '•Hart
ford Times," '(a I)emocratie paper,) to the military
merit of the General commanding the artny of the
U. Statee .
THE COMMANDER OF THE FORCES:-41
seems to its that the merit of Gen. Scow, '
in gaining the late astounding victories be
fore Mexico, not vet received its fit
ting tribute from the public press. His
political opinions must necessarily. ever
debar him from receiving the suffrages of
the Democratic party for the Chief Magi* ,
tracy of the Union. But the circumstance
cannot prevent us from seeing that this
great soldier has deserved exceedingly well
of the Republic, and acquired a very strong
tide to the fervent gratitude of his coun
trymen. Perhaps, indeed, to a mail whoa^
hairs are already silvered in the service of
his country, the due appreciation and a
knowledgir,ent of that service may prove
a more acceptable reward than the highest
office that could be transferred upon him.
At al! evedts, the least that can be done is
to award just homarand praise, in no stint
ed or niggardly measure, to those who.
have no other remuneration to expect foe'
their brave deeds. The battle of Contre
ras and Chnrnlinsco certainly rank among
the most brilliant military achievements of
the age. A. hand of eleven thousand an
' dacioum invaders have defeated, with im
mense slaughter, an army of thirty thou
sand troops, drawl* up in a position of
their own choosing, on their own soil, to
defend their altars and hearths, in the very
heart of their country. But it was hot a
lone 'the indomitable valor of our troops
which distinguished these battles. They
were to an equal degree marked with all
the skill, science, and foresight of a mas
terly strategy.
In turning the rocky and most impreg
nable passes of Peron and Mexicalcingo,'
fortified with terrific batteries, upon which
the enemy' had expended the labor of
months, Gen. Scott displayed the most'
consummate 'generalship. It Was not the
mere avoiding or evading these formidable
posts which constituted its merit. It W.V.,
that his cool . and practised eye discerned
at a glance that a passage could be cut
through dense forests and tangled defiles,
and heaps of tinge rock, where the enemy
never dreamed that Suck an exploit was
conceivable. It mvas a repetition of the
same skilful out-Banking mananivre by
which he had before spared so much vain
able life at Cerro Gordo ; a movement
which rendered all the laborious prepara
tions and defence of the enemy useless,
and whieh Santa Anna himself pronoune
ed to be nuisterly and worthy of Napole
on. It has been the crowning merit of
Seolt, that while he has been every where
victorious, he has also every where Ims-;
banded his forces. Daring and intrepid to
the lust degree, wliere these qualifies were
coiled fur, he has, at the same time, been
careful never wantonly to waste the lives
of hie troops in unnecessary stormings or
reckless assaults. Under almost any oth
or general, his mere handful of troops
would long since have melted away from
repented collisions with inert but over
whehning masses. With a humanity nor
less conspicuous than his bravery, Scott
has always abstained from any indiscrimi
nate slaughter, even of a sanguinary and
merciless foe.
it was a great thing to have mastered
the renowned fortress of San Juan de Mott
—a second Cibraltarc—with so trifling a
lost; of life. The victory over Santa Anna
at Cerro (Aordo, in the manner as well ati
in the magnitude of the achievement, was
a daring and masterly exploit. It was al
-80 a great thing—a sight, in fact, full of
moral grandeur—when four thousand two
hundred tattered and way-worn soldiers,
under his co In timid, entered the magnifi
cent city of Puebla, and, with all the eon
lidence of conquerors, stacked their arms
and laid themselves down to sleep iu the
great square, surrounded by a hostile pop•
illation of eighty thousand.
But, last of all, and more admirable than
all, has been the care with which be has
nursed and kept together his little band of
eleven thousand, mid the alumna iubuluus
audacity and still more incredible success
with which he has pushed them, step by
step, to the very heart of u civilized nation
of seven millions, and to the gates of
capital of 200,000 souls, the renowned seat
of a legendary and mythic magnificence.
and the most aneient and best built city on
the continent. If modern warfare has any
parallel for this great feat of arms, We
know not where to look for it.
The SIICCCSSIVe triumphs of Vera Cruz.
of Cerro Gordo, of Puebla, and of Mexico,
undimmed'as they have hitherto beon by
a single reverse, have unquestionably rais
ed the reputation of the commander to a
very great height, and placed it, to say the
least, folly on a level with that of the great
est generals of his ulna. Nor is there,auy
denying that those victories have been of
such an order that, while they elevate, the
successful leader, they oleo, to at least an
equal degree, exalt the character and ex
tend the renown of his c,ountry, ilence
we cannot bring ourselves to make any a
pology for what appears to he a just notice
of Gen. Scott, on the score of Ins hell a
Whig. A sense of gratitude for los, is.
tinguished services in this war would not
permit us to say less. The fame of a irie
torions general cannot justly be
,held to be
long to any party. It is the property of
the whole nation.
RECALL or V 0 Litti T A ER H.—Gen.
a letter to a friend at Pittaburg,
gives it as his opinion that the Penns)"lva:
nia volunteers will shortly be' reesdled...L.:.
1t is also said that the South Carolina Reg
inent will have leave to redeye hottie..
„ 11 7
DISTRESSING C ASLTALITT• - l/oaturwy
week, whilst with a parly'of boys guitoil.
William L. Sumpter, a fine loath about
ten yetirs of age. the oldest spit pf Ms.
Benj. E. Sot»pter, of Lynehtiuri;;FOO
Was by the accidental diairienf
One of the party. The anfortinsitr,ifot
received the contents in his Moil,' tritital.
nd Lee, ran a few yards, fell, eild'itstinel ,
iiiatelt exeir(4.
When is a chicken's neck like a
When it's rung fur dinner.