Star and banner. (Gettysburg, Pa.) 1847-1864, November 16, 1849, Image 1

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WI/ODMAN SPARE TRATTREE,
41111 bnithalt, .
and greeting long
Or:ltt i o*essot dsy is ,"Woodman, spare
t*'4rsthr .ss, sang by Mr. Ilussal. It
was Written . by Geo. P. Morrisi end it
fottadidtuithnfollkitring interesting occur.
pinion who can bear Mr. Rig-
Oil 01 • 4 t o 'toryl and then listen to his Oa-
cheatiarstrains a hewing. the song, must
posiess is boort of , adamant if he does not
Neil hie bosons swell, and the generous tear
eyinpiithy moistening 1 , 118 eye.
..,/ 4 ,itarat was a fitfully of opulence rag.
dingin.thecountry, not a great distance
fliwinthirelliy Of Net York. 'lt consisted
of **parents and a large number of sons
and daughters, all united together by those
goldpq
lies, which none but a parent, a
brother,* sister or a daughter can feel.—
The thing revile:a to ensure happiness—
hinne—Waut an earthly paradise—
titeir hearts the seat of ardent love for one
attothe4 and of generoue; noble friendship
fer others. There seemed nothing want
ing its perfect this little community. Their
pecuniary circumstances were such that
they could indulge freely in the luxury of
administering -happiness and comfort to
the povertretricken and miserable. The
naked were clothed and the hungry fed ;
not with that ostentation which exacts the
admiration of a gazing world, but with
that kindness and self-satisfaction which is
the eharacteristio of a noble soul. Their
acts of generosity were performed for the
satiGetion of doing good. And when they
had alleviated the distress of one who was
'timers erushed by the heavy hand of pov
. erty, - they experienced that jubilee within
the heart which none but the truly gener
ous can feel.
Their intercourse with one another was
also of the happiest kind. It was the de
sire of each member of the family to con
tribute to the happiness of all the others
in preference to 'their own. Sisterly,
brotherly and parental affection filled their
bosoms to overflowing.
But this little paradise was not long to.
last. The generosity of the old gentle
man impelled him to assist hie friends by
the way of endorsements, and their fail-
uressweptaway every farthing of his early
riches. The depriving him of hie noble
faro, lovely cottage, and the beautiful ver
lure and lofty trees that surrounded it,
was the ill reward 01 his disinterested
friendship. And to be compelled to give
up all these—to surrender those majestic
trees under whose shade he had passed so
many .pleasant hours with his excellent
family : and under whose protection, as it
were. his children had been reared, was a
hardship which the philosophy of few
eould endure. Little circumstances in the
history °ibis children had endeared every
tree, and indeed every shrub, to his heart.
But they must all be abandoned, and this
happy community, linked together by the
strongest ties of the human heart, must be
torn minder and scattered to the four winds
of heaven.
By =paint ourselves in an attempt to
testae a friend; we are occasionally drawn
into'the whirlpool and destroyed ! Better
it should be so than to stand coldly by and
witness the last struggle, without making
an effort to save.
This misfortune dispersed them in dif
ferent directions. Some went to their
friends, and others to seek their fortunes
in -distant climes. But the destroyer of
lira boon swept sway, one by one, the
whole family, bat the youngest son. He
went to the South. and by industry and
perseverance amassed a fortune. He than
returned , to his old home, determined to
poesess himself of the home of his child
hood. But it was so situated that he
„could not. He gazed longingly upon those
venerable trees that were planted and nur
tured by the kind hand of his father. He
Aounipsd upon the graaa beneath their shade
as be, wee wont to do in - boyhood ; but
there
~were no brothers there indulging in
tharboyish sport, 'or sisters to sweeten
the Scene, with their pure feelings, gushing
forthu innocent, rapturous laughter : no
mother. to Mach MOM With c 'leer of plea.
sere later eye, nor father, whose
.41CWoe Utoiellosibiod the envied kin to sham"
Ahd he tuinetl, iisd*ith a melancholy heart
left the, spot: Though this can hardly be
said to have given him pleasure, he deter
naiina to make a. periodical pilgrimage to
this hallowed place,
pe took lodgings in New York, and via
fteil),he sacred ground periodically. At
one time when he was on his way he call
ed opowCol. Morris to accompany him,
The Col. OOmplied with his request ; and
l iihot, they had arrived within sight of the
tows that surrounded the cottage, they saw
a woodman standing near the roots of the
ribbiellt Ind most venerable one, sharpen.
img hia axe. The voranger put spurs to
his korse, rode swiftly to the woodman,
and , accosted him thus :
NWhat are you going to do t"
"I intend to cut down this tree," replied
The woodman.
eVhat for t"
"I want it for firs wood."
04f yap went ire.wood," said the man.
et, "why did you not go in Fonder forest.
and WA thatold oak nr.ind !"
=LSEM
oTou ate/ mo au old matt,n , roplied the
woodman , and I have not , etroacth to
briarmy wood so fan"
olf give enoutir of meney hi hate
att *MA wood broiled to yoin dotii ati
the ' tree will make, *M you forever let
it stand 1"
The woodman replied "yes." They ex.
muted a bond that the tree should remain;
and the strampie turned to Cot. Morrie end
said, with a genermw tear sparkling in his
eye,
"In youth it sheltered me, and I'll pro.
teat it now."
ft • effected Col. K. deeply,,aa it would
eadrimsn'Whatiditifeitt capable ot reel
ing, and 'he returned home and wrote the
fallowing exquisite'
Woodman, spare that Arse !
Touch nova - single bough :
In youth it sheltered me, -
And I'll protect it now.
It was my fitther's band,
That placed it near his cot;
Then, woodman, let it stand—
Thy axe shall harm it not.
That old familiar tree,
Whose glory and renown.
Are spread o'er laud and sea
And would'at thou back it downl
Woodman, forbear thy stroke!
Cut not its earth-bound des;
Oh I spare that aged oak,
Now towering to the skis I
When tun an idle buy,
I sought it's graceful shade;
In 'tribal, gushing joy,
There, too, my sisters played.
My mother kissed me hers;
My father pressed my band;
Forgive this foolish tear,
But let the old oak stand !
My heart-strings round thee cling,
Close as thy bark, old friend!
Here shall the wild bird sing,
And still thy bowel's, bend.
Old tree ! the storms still brave !
And, woodman, leave th e spot;
While rye a hob" to save,
Thy see shall harm it not!
IVITSTERY, REASON AND FAITH.—The
following Motivation occurs in a little es.
say, written by Rev. Mr. Peabody, of
Boston :
Night comes down over a ship at sea,
and a passenger lingers hour after hour
alone on the deck, The waters plunge
and welter, and glide away beneath the
keel. Above, the sails tower up in the
darkness, almost to the sky, and their
shadow falls as it were a burden on the
deck below. In the clouded night no star
is to be seen, and as the ship changes her
course the passenger knows not which
way is east or west, or north or south.—
What island, what sunken rocks may be in
her course—or what that course is, or where
they are, he knows not. All around, to
him, is mystery. Ile bows down in the
submission of utter ignorance.
But men of science have read the laws
of the sky. And the next day this passen
ger beholds the captain looking at a. clock
and taking note of the place of the sun,
and with the aid of a couple of books com
posed of rules and mathematical tables,
making calculations. And whon he has
completed them, he is able to point almost
within a hand's breadth to the place at
which, after unnumbered windings, she
has arrived in the midst of the seas.—
Storms may have beat and currents drift
ed, but he knows where they are, and the
precise point where, a hundred leagues
over the water, lies his• native shore.—
Here is reason appreciating and making
use of the revelations, if we may so call
them, of science. - .
Night again site down over the waste of
waves, and the passenger beholds a single
seamen stand at the wheel, and watch
hour after hour. as it vibrates beneath a
lamp, a little needle, which points ever,
as if it were a living finger, to the steady
pole.
This man knows nothing of the rules of
navigation, nothing of the . courses of the
sky. ' But reason and experience have
given him faith in the commanding officer
of the ship—faith in the laws that control
her course—faith in the unerring integrity
of the little guide before him. And so
without a single doubt he steershis , ship,
on, according to a presCribed direction,
through night and ,the waver. And that
faith is not disappointed, Wlththe morn
ing sun, he beholds faraway, the summits
of the gray and misty highlandi, rising
like a cloud' on the horizon; and as he
nears them, the hills appear; awl the
light-hozse at the entrance of the harbor,
and, sigliti ofjoy I the spires of 'thirtilitarch=
es and the slatting roofs, imppg .0114 ue
strives to detect his own,
The Scotch have thin prevetb, "A. guld
word is as aeon said is an iil hst:Mid
be well, when we hear others use proCnna
indecent, or angry words, or are tempted
to use them • ourselves, to re Member—.
that a 'rid word is its soon Mild 4r as
one "
Itionarry to the female ishimeter It like
saltpetrb to;Deef, iinparthig a blush while
it preserves its purity.
The above is only equalled by 011apad,
who says :
"Female lips are but the glowing gate
way of so much beef and cabbage.
How expressive are the following lines
by Pot, at his* own sad history :
Anis, a las for me !
Ambition—all is o'er!
No mote, no more, no more,
(Boeb language bath the solemn sea
To the sands upon the *honk)
• Shall bloom the thunder—bleutod WO,
The stricken eagle suer!"
IiEtTY4II3-titerr-P4,
A, itsAupipt.
editororttuiOltiaikar laity, has Ulf hie lit
tle 'daiigtagii, and chili be giietifi at
thb betisaiemeat': '
" It wait a morning of at bnght
nem, when the. army of chentbe eninod
the trope of God received the little hum
omit, whose death is anise monied. rut tut
addition to their number.: An Ostober's
See wits gilding the east with 'nnernifielinee
and sowing the earth with Jewels "aligltt ;
the Orient seemed' to be the opening 'Of
the gates of heiven to admits spirit of pu
rity from earth; and the entile of Odd,
the' only sun=light there exists, gushed
forth in 'Splendor 'opon . .titii World, hist
as the mountain - cops were glowing with
the warm beams of.the god of day, did the
messenger from the Niece of the Omoip.
otent,summon Mime Lippard to her Fa
ther's presence! Pitting time was it'for
such a transit I And as the spirit of the
lovely babe, borne on angels' wings through
the shower of sun-rays, galed upon the
earth, thus shining in autumnal beauty,
how her hide heart may have mourned at
being thus separated from so beautiful a
a place on earth, we know not; but we
cannot but think, that any such emotions
were lost in the infinitude of splendor and
magnificence that must have dazzled her
eyes, as the everlasting gates of heaven
were lifted up, and she found herself a
cherub, with a golden barp in her hand,
and bowing before the Creator of all
things !
While on earth, she had exhibited lino
sual intelligence for so young a child; and
her very face had an expression far be
yond her years. But now her thoughtful
eyes are glazed in death, her rosy lips are
pallid, and her round, dimple cheeks, be
reft or bloom, are shadowed by the ring of
the Death-Angel. it is sad, even to the
stranger. to think of so gentle and Eternis
ing a child being so soontlighied; but to
the parent's hearts how terrible the thought!
Vainly would we follow the bent of our
inclination and mingle our tears with the
bereaved ! The fountain of their grief
has been unsealed, and the grave alone
can close it! But how delightful a task
it is. to remind them, that while tears be
dew their cheeks, the face of their sweet
Klima, clothed in seraphic beauty, is irra
diated with the smile of God, as she strikes
the chords of her golden harp, and raises
her lisping accents in unison with that
countless throng, which forever makes
Heaven's arches ring with the praise of
God. Why then weep ! "
A BEATLPUL EXTRACT-LABOR
Why, man of idleness, labor rooked you
in the cradle, and has nourished your pam
pered life; without it the woven silks and
wool upon your back would be in the fold.
For the meanest thing that ministers to hu
man want, save the air of heaven, man , is
indebted to toil;, and even the air, by God's
ordination, is breathed with labor. It , is
only the drones who toil not, who infest
the hive of activity like masses of corrup
tion and decay. The lords of the earth
are the working men, who can build up or
cast down at their will, and who retort the
sneer of the "soft hand," by pointing to
their trophies, wherever art, science, civil
ization and humanity are known. Work
on, man of toil T thy royalty is yet to be
achnowledged as labor rises onward to the
highest throrie of power. Work on, and
in the language of a true poet, be
"A &nous mm I and thy renown shall be
Dome by the winds and waters time* all time,
While there's a keel to carry it on the aea
From clime to clime,
Or God onhdos that idleness is mime."
FRUITS OF WAR.
We noticed lately the session ofa Peace
Congress in. Paris. We see by a letter of
one of the American delegates that Emile
de Girardin, Editor of La Prate, a paper
whieh is said to have the largest circula
tion of any journal in Europe, has Gomm
menced the dismission of the subject, and
hails with hio beet wishes the cause of 'nit
iverealpeeee, The following loos, frOM,
the adualue of La /Wise, ankiPieliklll4
..The army , of 1813 was composed of
recruit* from eighteen to twenty you of
age. Able'''. l atigue 1814 ),„,_ 111 4 4 : 6 1( 4 rtint1P'
ted them. Of the 1.260,euu ;used in 818.
them remained , is 1814, Ia defend the
soil of Prance; but one Amin& thousand
even abeie the yenta As 414 tif
rite rfitioua Ciitlie,”ription4 Made in Prikett
between 'the ye ars 1791' and 'lB4B, we
fi n d that four millions fine hundred Moue
and:Frenchnien were blown to pieces by
cintum, brought down by musketry, im
paled, upon bayonets, or cut down by
broad-swords and sabres; and by all this
sacrifice France obtained literally nothing,
not so much as one square inch of ground
added to its territorial limits in her wars
of 1790."
The London times follows up the above
calculation, and computes the loss sustain
ed by the allies at TEN MILLIONS OF MEN,
cut to pieces in the prime of life ! The
mind can scarcely realize such a dismal
and horrible picture. ,
When you have lost money in the street.
every one is ready to help to look for it—
but when you have lost your character
every one leave. you to recover it as you
can.
• VIIIIMMINO.AND FREE."
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EVENIN6, , N0V,1?,,4pE1t,.161,1&49.
(OA ANT I .
A limmitstoinopli; concepondent otOic
F. Court* creciApparer *rime or,oi
race 'now,. doutimmt to the more ancient
seats of eivilination
Wo natt the Turks ate
IVO
spocies — oenn huthertints.
de' difficult u% server them .with; peer
unprejtuliced. eye; .yet any bonnet
view afford, Mech %stein be coulomb.
ted With eithillictibit. 'Their graVity . of
mien, sobernii* of; gait, and rich &lob*
r obits give theta ineir of , gentlemanly 44 1 :
arty, an pfeastra iitintrtig with the honked.
ettimesslon,. ittcuimpertineat canisge,- and
thestiffangulsimanneats of Franks-+: and
there is a nattuld easeend delicacy in their
sociat fermi slid etiquette, that hi
riot to anything - . ordinarily • obierveit at
home. _ perso#lll t:letinkinees ii net:Meng
them as iminga r ts; a tiny neglected 40,14 7 sir.,
toe,' buts scrupulously fulfilled religious olp.
- Propriety, and courtesy .distiu.
guish their mutual inteteontse, and holpi: ,
tally rendered tb a l without dtstinctitm'of
country or ccrodidortin In invioltble aatys
(tunneling is eittnniptly rare among then)
and their treat>nt of the brute creation is
far kinder than ours.
The Koran prescribim-the giving atone
tenth of their income to charitable purpoe-L
es, and benevolence with them is no tran
sient impulse, bet an abiding saered'prin4
ciple. I look hire in., vain for the squal
idity and beggary that used to meet my
eyes everywhere, fbege Pcmce• s . ll ,4
..11ferrie England." Intemperaitoe, -the
curse of so many Chrislain lands, is dri.
yen away from the. followers of the . PA
pilot by the diviie law which forbids the
user of wine. The , fatalism for which the
Turks are reproached, is not dierstUpid
folly it is represebted. They ereitifearn;
eat in averting' alamity as other men, bUt
when calamity Comes, with sublime resig
nation they are ready to exclaim. "God
hath willed it." In truth and honesty they
are inferior to few other people, and are
certainly far superior to the Jews and
Christians that dwell among them.—A.-
recurs and intrigues and conjugal infideli
ty prevail to a certain extent in their 80 "
cial life, but farjeas than in France, which
calls itself the mistress of modern civiliaa
tion ; and public prostitution among them
has no local nabitation and hardly a name.
Polygamy is tolerated by the law, but pub-,
lic opinion decidedly condemns it.
It is the maguatea of the land only who
have a plurality of wives ; even they sel-i
dom have more than two or, three, and the'
Sultan himself never more titan seven.—
The Koran penning husbands to chastise,
and divorce thew wives at pleasure ; but
these privileges are not often abused.....-
Children are trained to honor and submit.
to their parents; and great affection and
kiudnees usually pervade their family ro
tenone, The women, instead of being
kept in that strict restraint edgerterallY
imagined, are in reality more free than in
any continental eountty of Western , Eu
rope. They repair to the Mosques, ranges
the bazaars, and ride into the country on
pleasure parties in perfect liberty. hlul
titudes of them of all classes go every Fri 7
day unattended to the valley of the Sweet
Waters, five miles up to the Golden Horn.
I have been among them there, and have
seldom beheld more unrestrained_ yet in.
nocent enjoyment. his true that Mahom
edan females are not allowed to afipeaiin
public unveiled ; but this is no great herd
ship, since the yushrnec, which is white
retailin g is usually, especially if the lace
pretty, .so thin and transparent that the
feminine; are easily discernable: The Sul
tana. frequently issues edicts, prescribing
the thickness of the veile.and the mode of
wearing them, but amities is the
seine everywhere, and the' compliance is
bat temporary. Ueside this infringement
of Me rtstural rights of the Camels emote.
trance, Turkey in* Milking" clenlionsk
tot by the privilege of *retying. the , Ins,
Doss /ibidurn in tbe fashion of the beau-
"$i Pr Peter
Mess dmpey Witte we may adeiks . ctswi.•
It is trite that among th ITihsOniedini
women are not,raaked so highin'the scale ,
ofeieetier‘ cum but the, prevailing i4Ol,
ttuttlimaloitere , deemed 46 .bokie .V,01 0 4*
be ',strange mistake. They.ste vegarded
as immortal beings, and as subject ,to
ligious obligations and responsibilities.*
Husbands may or may not, ai they please. '
admit their wives to share witlftheliouhe
their love in the abodes of lilies hereafter;
but the wives who are excluded are neither
annihilated nor damned, bat go to dwell in
separate appropriate places of enjoyment.
Slavery still exists in Tutkey, but with
none of its blacker elements. Its type is
much like that of the Slavery of anoieot
Scripture times. The Slave, instead of
being a soulless chattel, is really a mem
ber of his master's family. Ho is neither
despised nor degraded; ho possesses his
rights and his privileges, and has many
facilities fur elevating his social condition.
His compulsory term of service is only 7
years. and when he leaves his master, the
latter is bound to settle upon him a paculi.
we. lie is subjected to no suck task
work as is Imposed on the American
Slave, slate his business is not field labor,
but attention , to the personal wants of his
mister. 'Rifted in Turkey frequently rise
to' the highest places of trust and dig
nity,iiiid become Seraskiers and even Vi
ziers. The son-in-law of the late Sultan
was oripally.a 'between Slave. Circassian
Slaves are now comparatively rare, not,
however, on account of any unwillingness
on tho part oi Circassian parents to entrust
their•ohildreu to Turkish oontrol, but be
come the • Russians prevent as much as
peeeibiAlbeir exportation from the Black
Reit Perth.
,The few that in spite ()fall oh-
Gmbh:SßO their way to Constantinople,
ed to "iitbut
are neverexpoil public sale,are to
be puroltazed poly.atz
° few private houses
in themsberheof•Tojibane. There is even
no: lenge; 'w market fdr black. African
Slaves,. 'lt was abolished by the late Sul
tan end will nereestgoinc . be toleiated.
Tfie Turks edit continue to **kith with
6 4 Oriental sem)! os
i y, anti to recite
their nronitz five times a day with a punc
tillonsoesslitat cannot be eurPeoFefi , The
orthe,peoileiet exhib,it afitielit,y and
.
devotipa,ft their.fidth that ought to make
°bristles. blush kw:shams. But the Mos
lem religion has lost muith of iii firs sod
energy. It tool abateditifieree loftier.
&nee, add 'OW; litthigh , it atilt. it:reefed*
ri 4deat
apostacy'vri lit, li selddi:i in i ittlita and
n e ver , ,i 1 _ te a $6910 Rho teoi'leeo? never;
been fte Coll etere ,or the Kmpuo, , .4;404
upper.elfte.gfiftelety are genetally infidels,
and cooformefternally ao, the,regulatibas
of the Korior; only Croft feittost the civil
lavi and of publice - opittititt. , ` l 7lte' green
toddy `6, the' people 'cling te theft rellitien;
not-from s fanaticiantbutbec.ause ) itle riair*
"Ven witttlol their i civil l i t o c k i pod sr o t _
dons, itod icoompletely indentified,with
the history 43f their eauftry-, They ken .
of their dresd only. In .itel hyoid' &stare*:
Having no prresthoud . they receive but lit.
tie riliglims instruhtiah. Ignorant or &.
rabic, the Koran , is to them a seated hook
it has never been tritnslated into Turf ish.
because, forsooth, its only charm cpusists
in its Arabic jingle, which if as entraue
latable into any foreign tongue as tho ppg
lish melody pf Hi-diddle diddle. Thee
is a: eneral impressionampog the Mellow
dans that their, religion wili.seen Ittegfir to
decline. 'nits iinprOssion is derived from
two traditional alyings Of the Prophet--
.My refigidn will first increase and then
decrease ; " and My religion will pttr
vise a thousand yeats. but not two thou-
sand." • ,
A few respectable echo* have. lately
been established by
,Goverdittientln' Con
atantitioplat ' and . Siq lila such
thing, se fi.Pystem of .p 1 ,1414 Instruction yet
estate in the Sultan's dotninions., • It is not
among thio wams , of the people.- There4s
no inclination to' disposithihr
to Ryan. Intellectual • , vatesraey is ow pee
skins to she true Moslem as physical- le
pose. Be is perfectly erintent . to goon be
lieving thin 'the Eardeil flat, And is
pendia by four great citatnii to tieelen:
doui sidcstio, Wianse er9ptikaus stullik.
quakett-"-that, titsBuq sets in a spa.of laud,
whichmakes h cool ba the ,morning—sad
that the stars are big lamps hung in the sky
by Divine Mercy. to please poor mortals;
—yes. Well canted( is'the' poor Motileni
to believe all this, because with him isig
sorancei and , . theoghwouid 'del.
strop hie piradiee."
A'BgAuttriit Rerpterton.--1 cannot
believe that eiithitaulf i sibitiltig plat*.
,
Itcannot'be that our life is mist upon the ;
ocean of lfiVllith 0. 110 ,A ft moment upon
its wavesoned.Theiptink into nothingness!
Else, halals itthat:the gloriossuipirations
which leap like sleets from the theiple of
our head, Is totem wandering. `abbot
unietistletil Why' lit it that dig ittitibb*Pnd
clundscomeayer us with a l auty, i lla t
not of earlit.,autl,ilipti pie; 0' itiklid 4i/iVe os
to muse upon their hprolinesel, Why is it
that the eta" tir t tiltsh i phirhtatival . , a
round,tha MidPight t4r4P. , . 01 .?: IR; aithve
the grafi' of mg Waited •faculdee,forever
mockingss with their urtapproaehable glo
ry? 'And.finally, why is it that the bright
forms of humid beauty are presented to'our
view and akin fronti int, t leivitig the thou
sand I tt :o ii o n to' flow back in Alpine tor•
route op ' on l y
r fuoiriO t We are born for
a higher thattiny than that of earth. There
in .a .' . realm where the rainbow never
Wet, where the stars will spread out
before us, like the island that slumbers in
the ocean ! and where the beings that pass
before us like - shadows will stay in our
presence forever!
A Deson.w.t.ses DIRECTIONS-A Gentle
man travelling in the interior of this state,
,where was a= Duch settlement, overtook
.one of its Worthy' inhabitants, of whom he
inquired as to the direction of the place to
'which he was going. .Hine frient,' said the
dutchman, giving a long whiff at his pipe,
'1 can tell you so potter as no man tiling.
In di first place you'go along lis roat, and
go ub a high hill den go down a low hill--
Make a bridge over—tur n de river up
stream, and de first house you will come
to will, p'q a plum shingled uatt straw-- f gq .
a little fixdar den. uni inquire of my broth
er and be will tell you, soig*lout no pars
lifing.'
TWO WAYS,TO TELL A STORY., A NEW DEATH DEALING , WEAPQN. ~
We, hope there are many readers of the An instrument in the shape of it rialteissei,:
Daily Mail who have had practical evi- just been brought oat in New Yak, *ell "
dence that a little kindness, however hom- beside* its more legitimate uses qiiii*:,
mpathio the dose may be, goes tire times sportsmen, must render war litei
still ik;
as far towards making those around you impracticable. This rifle, knownsuavis ,
happy, as cargoes, of sour answers or cur- fling's Patent Rifle, is designed bills
ly rebukes. There are two very distinct almost endless repeater, and to aWolkihir 1
ways of telling the same story. SOme great difficulty of capping atad, :
,: I ,'
i
men will make hosts of friends, while oth- each load, and 'also to be untunntsok
prf t,',
era will find it impossible to discover one. from dirt; a dded t o w hi c h i s a f ai 4 in ni i iti
Bluntness and frankness may do very welt was never equalled. The Journal of ectite.'
at times, but as a general thing it is pru- mares says its appearance anti- *VW
dent to study effects as well as causes.-- doer not differ from the common* *• '
Jones may say to Smith : cept that it has an iron breach, white
"Smith are you going to pay that note en stock.
to-day 1" By a simple contrivance withiti this
"No I shan't: don't suit me, and I stock, the breech-pin of the barrel kitten:
shan't do it."
"Then by thunder I'll see if you don't
says enraged Jones. A lawyer gets a
case, a squabble follows, and—they both
pity'dearly for a lesson in eivilty. How
difrerent Orewn would fix it!
..§mith w hat is the state of your finan
ces this morning; do you feel as though
you could let me have that 11150 today 1"
uWell, no, I can't," says Smith, g•l'm
very short; can't you wait on me a few
day., it would be an accommodation ?"
-54 Welt ; 4 ' says Brown, •let it stand ; do
something for me as soon as you can, will
you, 6iiiith V
,'
"Cflrlainly I vvill." They part—friends
and , brothers.
“Go may. with that noise l" says some
bulli4-headed fellotv to the poor itinerant
organist and his monkey. The poor fel
/TY I.9"•awaY, mortified and soured a
gainst his species ; how differently the
good bean, the peace-maker does it—
min; your , music is pleasant, but
.
it disturbs us .now ; there are a few pen
niesolay for some others further on your
vosys:' , The organist goes along, smiling
at' the ' man' Who has ordered him off.—
Thera Is , ve timett die/erre in kind words
and, generesity,L than, there is in morose
sulkiness and Arbitrary measures. We
cattnetnlivelting nor hippy among our spe
!VithOtif ttie"aid`otikintinese And gen
eroattysi his not imeetiontry to knock a
utan.dosvarflogtonvinee hiat.he is in error,
or ,, hoki.wirtilikeit his breast to assure
hint liftr Ss YOUr 'power. Polite
, rare jewe ls;they
reodat taft.44 4 l4Pade , blessing him that
give:tit:find blip' Jima retteiveth. It is quite
astonishing, when we calculate the entire
ent'etY:nittg'imindia percentage it yields—
entenr,yr:ent
,in that capital Mock—
gnetiJittuttort4tulkiru4tess.—•Boaton .11ai1.
Rzatrrivqt,Sstrrruzstv.—John 9. Whit:
thilk the gludtoPpoet in !thing about the
Irftlh etri l ol4i !I,lll6rig says z
Por,#igNlO. X eculfests, I feel a sympathy
or the Irishman. I see hint as the re,p
tesentative of a generous, warm-hearted,
add~chr 11 010 1 „ eat i gt! * ,h°
,
loves nts native lana--theitti . patriOtiam
is divided...4st he minim* forget the claims
of his tat**. itland-L--ther his religion,
with ltialnieue, dair to him—does
notristerear sny, eitimation of bun A
strampitinlaattrange,land, ha is to be al.
ways'int Objeet of interest. The poorest
and•radest has romance in his history.—
tide' apparent gaiety of heart
and, patiOnal drollery and , wit, the poor
emigrant has sad thoughts of the ould
another of him," sitting lonely in her soli
tarylsitheb
y side—recollections
, o( 041110 t bles sing and a sister's fare
wUlpert haunting him—a grave mound in
.iara dietaint,ebnrch.yard far beyond the
wide.wathers," has , an eternal greenness
io hit Pieindryfor there, perhaps, lies a
darlitatoihild," or' a swate crathur," who
'once loved him—the New World is for
gotten.ifor the moment—blue Killarney
and the Lilly sparkle before him—Glen-
daliough Stretches beneath him its dark,
still mirror—he sees the same evening
sumihine rest upon and hallow alike with
Nattint's blessing the ruins of th/ Seven
Churches of Ireland's apostolic age, the
broken mound of the Druids, and the
Round Towers of the Plicnnician sun wor
shippers—beautiful and mournful recollec.
tions of his home waken within—and the
roughaand seemingly careless and light.
hearted laborer molts into tears. It is no
light thing to abandon one's country and
household gods. Touching and beautiful
was the injunction of the Prophet of the
Hebrews, You shall not oppress the
stranger, for ye know the heart ofa stran
ger, seeing that ye were strangers in the
land of Egypt."
Ma. GREELEY him; given •100 to the
Journeyman tailors now on a strike for
higher wages at Mtton, and $5O for the re
lief of the Hungarian exiles. Such bailey*.
lence would cover a mnhitude of sins—but
Horace Greeley has as few sine to cover
as moat men. He preaches a good deal of
doctrine that we do not like ; but .the man
is an honor to the race.--Noah.
Artunalefor a Crazy Worm:U.-4 suit
at Pittsburg, in behalf of the heirs of !Neat
Elliott, for one fifth of the town. of Temp
-14 V q; d i ci in
favor , Matadi' Eilicitt o who heretofore
seed tb parade' the MOMS of Pittsbdrg ander
the mim' OFuOtely Tin." Oheitehori ii
the hospital in Philadelphia. •
TWO DOLLARS NCR ANNVILI
INEW BERMS-44
placed in this opening, and on polling** ,
trigger, the pin closes the barrel ight,is•
strong block of steel falls behind, h",
the gun prhnes itselfand is diseh
1 44
at one m nion. It is so sitaple,, idjtakti..
can hardly by any accident let 1 11 -
der.r. It is capable of being loaded as the
breech as often as it is fired off, arid
pidly as a man's hand can move to ihrsw,'
in a cartridge. This is at the, rata o rtir,4 m ,
shots per minute, for a person wisciltaio
practised with the glm. • •
Another 'variety of the same gun if !my"
nearly completed by the patent." . ,
' which the ramrod is a tube of thew**
size, capable of containing 24 eartridgaii
which are so arranged that they 1041111110
ced in the barrel one by one, and alit *1
itcessively without any interruptierk
moment that the 24th buret iatrad i alli
gun may be used u the first Oile s lelldeit .
at the breech.
But the chief 'strength of thit , fOrtnifletitle
weapon rests on the. cartridge:l4kb Jr
used, and for which, indeed, tho violate's..
pressly . manufactured. ' This eititeide,‘‘
which is also patented, is simply 4,40e,47, 1
ed ball. A holloW cone of lead; or iathaje i
a bullet elongated on one side in a hollow ,
cylinder to about one inch in lengthi Is 00-.
led with powder, and the end coveitur , silth i
a thin piece of cork, through the cenire sof
which is a small hole, to admit fire4;;lnlk •
the priming. The execution whieh This !
ball does, is no less surprising thanes-•'
thing else connected with the gun: 'AI
forty rods the balls were buried more *int
4 inches in the body of a live butternut.
tree.
The priming is in small pills, of which
100 are placed in a box, from which' *is:
gun supplie, itself without fail.
„.
C n o tticeoiry:,
Grove, near Burlington, N. J. is a ben , ,
having five mottled chickens. black •ind
white, a little larger than quails. To this
group there has attached itself a kittee* .
few months old, of like color with ,.
chickens. They ramble together; soon”.
times he amuses himself by playinf with.
the hon's tail. when she does nut tieeld or
peck him. 'When, the little red tiltikel
comes capering along, he runs after hun,
even up the tree: but they are. so
afraid of each other they dare not come: in
very close contact. Sometimes they go".
near the kitchen door to gather the erhtl4
that are Scattered, when the kind heerttO
domestics give the kitten something salted
to his taste and habits. They spend day
after day in- their rambles, and when etetd•
ing approaches, and they seek a place
repose, they nestle together, the kittee,
creeping under the old hen's wing like lbw
chickens, and they repose harmoniously
together for the night.. '
A STRIKING THOUGHT.—"The death
of an old man's wife," says Lantardotti
"is like cutting down an ancient oak dist
has long shaded the family manlier .4
Henceforth the glare of the 'world, wid;' hat
cares and vicissitudes, fall upon the, old
widower's heart, and there is no thing its
break their force or shield hint trent•thti
full weight of misfortune. It is as
right hand was withered—as if coniriltir
of the eagle was broken, and every fltelie l :"“'
meat that he made brought hint tai'the
ground. His eyes are dim and glasay A
and when the film of death falls ever him,
he misses those accustomed tome whieb -
might have soothed his passage to" the' ,,
grave.
A SNAKE STORY.—An old 'perm i 4,
Yankee land, once t'old us guclskmb,,tie,
was standing besidi; a frog pond..-,welieto, ,
his word for it—and saw t WV w e*
snake make an attack on an etuenooliettioli:
frog. The snake Acted eae of ddll
tr #444,,
hind legs, and the frog. ro . biota ttia
his snakeihip, caught him b 7 v
both commenced swtillowingolM illtqica
and continued this carciivielue
uotill nothing was 101 l of *Moe of *NO
"My friend." asida hoist habit/fir:l4A
lii . 1 I
474
over voracious boarder. "you 444 elk
that liahail Certainty have to otatite
, ..
extra half-tlollitr,"
"An extra baliAlellari" replieor
der. with's 00,uri!*.ibeti:Oti 01",
despair:* 4(4004'4.4W
I'm moo 014 iouipeolvitme V
vocohiind yak pot=
worth oil. I shalieeetabift keill 1 440111111*""'
A:lotioteett4' 14 $111.1 1 *" ° lb* 114 4 11 110 A
eau be given (at ridings we one tvi4
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