riY b. 6r, C. H. BUEHLER.
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[ Fran thA "Potapaco Yarrig Magatitit." 3
TUE RAINBOW.
WOOD
t • ---
Bright dew drops hung in the 110wret's cup
At tie& early dawn of day';
But a glorious auribesm svrittiy cams
And carried tie gems away,
Mitt to lily glittering home
And, blended there with his burning light.
They decked his throne with a teinbow bright
A mother wept fother darling hire,
That had gobs to its horns on high
But a ray of hope to her bosom came
As that rainbow met her eye r
For she knew that her child had gone,,
To win new thanirs try its flight to heaven,
Brighter than hues to the rainbow given.
L O VE."
BY LYDIA JANE PIERSON
Oh ! do not speak it lighly !
That tiute word, I love,-
Thou dote not know how stem a thing
One simple word may prove ;
It is the wont of Destiny—
The seal of woman's fate t
And uttered once, regrets and team
May come—but come too late.
He unto. whom thou breatheat
That Hide thrilling word,
Becomes it once thine arbiter,
And knows Motel( thy lord ;
His foot is on thy sceptre,
His law is on thy soul,
And o!er thy spirit evermore
The tide of his shall roll.
Thenceforth his every heart-pang
Shall quiver through thy bread ;
And on thy soul, and on thy fame,
The shade of his shall rest.
Then do not utter lightly
That word of fate—f love !
Thou dost not know how stern a thing
That little word may prove.
THE TALES OF OLD.
The tales of old, that nerved the bold
To deeds of love and duty ;
That woke the sigh, or dimmed the eye,
Of innocence and beauty !
Who heed them now I The chilling brow
And colder hearts reprove them ; •
Forgot the lays of ancient days.
As the.. who once could love them l
:‘ Around the hearth, with honest mirth,
•••4,. Our fathers gathered daily,
*Tvvu good tosee how merrily
The moments jieseed, and gaily.
The jester there, inspired by cheer,
limn& wit nix quaintest story ;
While minstrels came, and sang the fame
Ofthose enshrined in glory.
These tales of old were often told
By pilgrim, monk or friar,
Who sang of war, in regions far,
Where valor might aspire '
•
Of gallant deed, where, once achieved,
A host could not repell them ;
For themes like these en, sires would please,
And they alone could tell them !
PETER CARTRIGHT ;
THE JOCOSE PREACHER.
♦ GENUINE PORTRAIT PROM LIEU IN ILLINOIS
Immense was the gathering at the Meth
odist camp giound near Springfield, on the
2d Sunday of September, 183 .2" A pow
erful magnet had attracted this greatmass
of people from their homes in many coun
ties for a hundred miles round. The new
presiding elder, a late arrival from Ken
tucky, an orator of wide-spread and won
derful renown, it was known, would thun
der on that day. The glittering prestige
of his fame had lightened far before him,
and hence the universal eagerness to see
and hear one concerning whom rumor's
trumpet tongue discoursed so loudly.
Morning broke in the azure east, bright
and beautiful as a dream of heaven ; but
the expected prodigy had not made'his ad
vent. Eleven o'clock came—the regular
hour for the detonation of the heavy guns
of orthodoxy, and still there was no news
of the clerical lion.
A common circuit rider took his place,
and sensible of the popular disappointment
increased it by mouthing a miserable fail
tire. The vexed and restless crowd be
gan to disperse, when an event happened
to excite afresh their curiosity, and concen
trate them again denser than ever. A
messenger rushed to the pulpit in hot haatu
and presented a nye, which was imme
diately read to prevent the people from
scattering. The following is a literal copy
of that singular epistle :
Dille Barman/ :—The Devil has foundered'
my bone, which will detain me from reaching
your tabernacle till evening. I might have pert
formed the journey on foot, but I could not leave
poor Paul, especially as he has never left Peter.—
Horses have no souls to seers, and therefore it is
all the neon the duty of Christiana to take care of
tlr,bgdies. Watch and prey, and don't lot the
Dsvil get among you on the sly before candle
light, When I shall be at my poet.
Your brother,
PETER OARTRIGHT.
In fashionable phrase. the reading of this
,irspittiligusiori op:Awed quite a. ilonsa
tigo," ~.iitome thought the , man mad ; oth
ers deemed die logger a hoax. But. still
TheeiTeet. ns to one particular was unques
tionable ; it heightened and interested the
public curiosity ; and , such, very likely.
was the precise retell intended the
Writer`, ' ' •
Ai. length 'the dai cloied. The 'pin ,
pinourtsitoraigbitsllexoo4 B . earth front
the dirskenkig 'God's golden fire
'flashed out itt heaven, and men balew)tip
-111:4:..4i‘Pit,_ 4 3a0 611 . , The encaa 3 Pmtlffir
atvtusgs of•adowy tents, was illuminated
Whit tbeißijiiiy 'Alai caused every at%hf It
th 4P141 to lhineshil sparkle , as if all the
treectirerkburnisheil with phosphorescent
iris like 'a theetre. It was a
theinteinithe open air, on the green sward.
tt the Starry blue, incomparably more
POtt:msque and gorgeous than any stage
sirigiry prepared within walls of brick or
wheie the elite of cities throng to
ft:Millibar eyes on beauty, and their ears on
sl,4..linsic of silver sounds.
Pretendy a form
. arOtte...in the pulpit,
and commenced giiirig out ii'ltyinn
prelim
inary to the main oxeroisee, and every eye
became instantly rivited of the person of
the stranger.. huleed. aa Vont One said
of Burke. single flash of the gazer's
vision wu'wenough to reveal the armor-
dinary man," although in the present case,
it must, for the sake of frith, be acknowl
edged that the first impression was ambig
uous, if not enigmatical and disagreeable.
His figure was tall, burly, massive, and
seemed even more gigantic than the reali•
ty from its crowning foliage of luxuriant
coal•black hair, wreathed into long, curling
ringlets. Add a head that looked large
as a half bushel ; beetling brows, tough
and cragged as fragmentary granite, irra
diated at the base by eyes of dark fire, '
small and twinkling like diamonds in a sea
—(thoy were diamonds of the soul, shi
ning in a measureless sea of humor,) a
swarthy complexion, as if embrowned by
the kisses of sunbeams—rich, rosy lips,
always slightly parted, as if wearing a per
petual merry smile, and you have a life
like portrait of Peter Cartright, the far
famed and jocose preacher.
Though I heard it all, from the text to
the amen, I am forced to deSpair of any
attempt to convey an accurate idea of either
the substance or manner of the sermon
which followed. There are different sorts
of sermons—the argumentative, the dog.'
made, the .postulary, the persuasive, the
punitive, the combative, e.in orthodox
blows and knocks," the logical, and the
poetic ; but this specimen belonged to
none of these species. It might be term
ed properly the waggish.
He began with a loud, beautifully mod
ulated tone, in a voice that rolled on the
serene night air like successive peals of
grand thunder. Methodist ministers are
celebrated for sonorous voices, but his was
matchless sweetness as well as power.—
Fur the first ten minutes, his remarks, be-
ing preparatory, were ,common place and
uninteresting ; bit then all of a sudden his
face reddened, his eye lightened, his ges
tures grew animated as the waftures of a
fierce torch, and his whole countenance
changed to an expression of inimitable hu
mor ; and now his wile, waggish, peculiar
eloquence poured like a mountain torrent.
Glancing arrows 0( wit, shafts of ridicule,
bon mots, puns, and side-splitting anec
dotes, sparkled, flashed, and flew like hail,
till the vast auditory was convulsed with
laughter. For awhile the more ascetic
strove to resist the strong current of their
own spontaneous emotions ; the sour-faced
clergy frowned and hung their heads ; and
all the maidenly saints groaned as with
unspeakable anguish at such desecration of
the evangelic desk. These, however,soon '
discovered that they had undertaken an
impossible achievement in thinking to
withstand the farelise of Cartright. Hie
every sentence was like a warm finger
tickling the ribs of the hearer. His very
looks incited to mirth far more than other
men's jokes, so that the effort to maintain
one's equilibrium only increased the dispo
sition to burst in loud explosions, as every
schoolboy has verified in similar cases.—
At length the encampment was in a roar,
the sternest features relaxed into smiles,
and the coldest eyes melted to tears of ir
repressible merriment. Moliere's best
comedy or Sheridan's funniest farce was
never half so successful. This continued
thirty minutes, while the orator painted
the folly of the sinner, which was his theme.
I looked on and laughed with the rest, but
finally began to fear the result as to the
speaker. flow, I exclaimed mentally, will
he ever be able to extricate his audience
from that deep whirpool of humor 1 If
he ends thus, when the merry mood sub
sides and calm rpfiection supervenes, will
not the revulsion of feeling be deadly to his
fame I Will not every reader feel that he
has been trifled with in matters of sacred
and eternal interest 1 At all events there
is no prospect of a revival to-night, tor
were the orator a magician, he could not
change the subject , now, and stein the tor
rent of headlong laughter.
But the shafts of my inference fell Wide
of the mark ; for even then he began to
change, not all at once, hut gradually as
the wind of a thunder cloud. Bit; fee-,
titres lost their comical tinge et pleasantry ;
his voice grew. fret earnest, then. solemn,
and 10011 wailed out in Acmes of the deep
est pathos; his 'eye was shorn of it; mild
light,• and yielded creme of tem' selite
fountain of • the' hill yielded' . Water. 'The'
'effeet•yria indescribable re b ound
feeling beyond all ',relation i s wilds pi'
portraiture by. imagination. Re deacanted
on the horrors of hell till every •
faeti'Vriti ittrued
. doin mole, as if expect
ing ta behold the solid globe riven asunder,
and the fathomless fiery gulf yawn beneath.
Breve men moaned like sick infants, and
fair fashionable women, covered with
silken drapery,, and bedighted with gems,
shrieked as if a knife were at work among
their heart strings. •
Again he changed the theme:mid sketch
ed the joys of a righteous death—its faith,
its hope, its winged raptures, and what
beatitiful angels attend the liberated spirit
to its starry home--with ouch force, ire,
•
.LETZYSttra.O-;:PA;---FILI4AX gyExiw JA.
,UA
and evident iielied; that ,all eyes were rais-
ect towards heaven, as the entire eongrega
'non started to their feet, as if to hail the
visione erliegen at which the Anger of the
preacher seemed to be pointed, elevated as
it was on high to the fill! length of his arm•
TN then 'made a Cfafor the mourners
into the attar, and five hundred, many of
them until that night infidels. rushed for
ward and prostrated themselves on their
knees. The meeting was••eontintted for
two weeks and more than a thousand con
verts were added to the church. From
that time the' success of Peter Cartright
vras Unparalleled, and the fact is chiefly due
to his inimitable wit and masterly eloquence
that Methodism is now tho prevailing re-
ligion in Illinois.
•"In what college did he graduate ! Sure
ly it must regained "a mighty alma
meter to develop such a aim."
You are more , than half right, my good
questioner, Peter Cartright, like most of
preachers of his sect, received his education
in the great universal university—the same
that produced Homer, Plato, Moses, Men
delssohn, Franklin—that weaver of gar
lands from the lightning's Wing—Wash
ing ton and Patrick Henry. High up on
the highest mountain Ipp, deep down in
the lowest valleys, far out away on the
rolling billow, there he studied and toiled
together in the most glorious of all schools
—the free shool of self culture! "But did
he graduate ?" Aye, and nature's own
hand wrote his diploma with a pencil of li
ving light, and stamped it with a. seal of
fire—the immortal fire of true genius.
Cartright became an itinerate at eighteen,
with nu learning from books - save what he
derived from the pages of his Bible and a
collection of hymns.
„Year after year he
continued to travel the wild circuit of the
frontier, earning_ annually but—a_lundred
dollars for labors as painful as it slave at
the oar. But hie vocation afforded him an
excellent opportunity for meditation, and
even reading. In his_ long journeys from
one appointment to another he was alone,
with nothing around him but woods and
waters, birds, mountains, sun, moon and
stars. These he might and did ponder
well. Aye, he did more; lie bought books
of literature and science, and pour ed over
them as he rode along, with an ardor and
perseverance such as perhaps never was
witnessed within the stone walls of college.
Thus lie mastered mathematics, logic, phy
sics, law and several languages, ancient
and modern. Oh ! believe me—believe
' all human history—there is no teacher
like the student's own hardworking intel
lect urged on to action and guided in its
efforts by the omnipotence of an uncon
querable will !
"Why did not this western progidy ste
atitic° for himself a more extensive re
nown. Why did ho not climb to the lof
tiest stations in the church ? If his nar
rative be true, he ought before now to have
been a bishop, at the least."
The statement of a few facts will solve
the problem. Let it he remembered, then,
that the Methodist. Episcopel church is a
hierarchy; in which the dispensation of
clerical honors rests exclusively, with the
bishops and general conference of
ants, where the laity and local preachers
are unrepresented, and consequently have
no voice. Hence, in that sad, popularity,
eloquence, and other ehowy qualities, have
never been found sufficient passports to
the pre-emineet distinctions of authority
and office, but often to the reverse. The
Bishop's gown must be won by steady.
austere devotion, not by brilliant oratory
or profound and varied learning.
On thie perilous rack Peter Cartr ight's
lofty vessel was attic ered into the atoms
of a hopeless wreck. He made no pre
tensions to superior sanctity, nor was it
manifested in his conduct and demeanor,
whether in the pulpit or in private life.—
Indecd he was distinguished by one very
unclerical peculiarity—combativeness in
the stipeiltitive degree. 'Ms
,hittlee, though I
always apparently ou the defensive, were
as numerous as the :celebrated
The only difference was this, that Bowie
fought with deadly weapon!, while Oatt
right used his enormous fist,. which was
quitnat effective, however, is any knife'
or pistol ever forged uut of steel. •, ,Pet
the reader kidge from the following sateu.
dote : . ,
At the camp meeting held at Alton in
the autumn of 11383, the 'Worshippers were
annoyed by - a lei of desperadoes from St.
the control. of Mike Fink, a
110.19d0440..bei1y, the. triumphant, hero of
ommileas, fights, in, cone of which he had
ever yet metanaquil en' even a saweed.- 66
These eouirse, druckeh ruffisheatitried ;it
with'it high hand-lkittaged . thiernin and
Insultedtlia ionaan, so as to diicaeen the
dissolution of all pious exprcipee; and yel,
such was ,the ferrprthe• nazi e of their lead..
er, Fink, inspire4l,,that noLone individual
could be found brave enough to face. his
prowess.
At last, one day when Cartright ascend
ed the pulpit to hold forth, the desPera,
does on the 'outekirts of die encamputent
raised a yell so deafening mute drown ut
terly every other • sound. Outright's
dark eyes shot lightning. He deposited .
-rEARLESB AND FREEI'
his Bible, drew off his moat, and remarked
"Wait a few minutca, my brethern,
while I go and make the Devil pray!'
Ile then pro'coodeti, with asmile
lips, to the focus of the tumult, and addres
ed the chief bully:
“hlr. Fink,l have come to make you
The desperado ; :raited back .the tangled
festoons of his blood red hair, arched his
huge brows with a comical expression, and
replied:
"By golly, I'd like to see you do it, old
snorter!"
"Very well," said Cartright. "Will
these gentlemen,your courteous friends, a
gree not to show foul play 2"
"In course they will. Therre rale
grit, and won't .do,nuthin'_ but the clean
thing, so they won't," rejoined Fink in
dignantly.
"Are you ready r aslynl Cartright.
"Ready as a race hoes with a light ri
der," answered Fink, squaring his pon
derous person for combat
But the bully iipoket6o soon, for scar&
ly had the words left his lips, when Cart
right made a prodigious bound towardiahis
antagonist, and accom paid edit' with a quick
shooting punch of his herculean fist. which
101 l crashing upon the other's chin, and
hurried him to the earth like lead. Then
even hie intoxicated comrades, filled with
involuntary admiration at the feat, gave a
cheer.
But Fink was up in a moment, and Ruah
81 upon his enemy exclaiming-.
"That warn't done fair, so it warn't."
He aimed a ferocb)us 'stroke, which
Cartright parried with his left hand, and
.. ,
grasping his thioat withthe right; crushed
him down coif he hvd been an infant;—
Fink struggled, squirmed and writhed in
the dust, but sll to no- purpose; for those
strong muscular fingers held his windpipe
as in the jaws of an iron vice. : When lie
began to turn purple in the face, and costa..
' ad to resist, Cartright slackened his hold'
land inquired : ' ' . •
1
"Will you pray now?"
"1 drisen't know a d—d word how,"
;gasped Fink.
, "Repeat after me," commanded Cart
right.
"Well, if I must, I must," answered
Fink, "because your the devil himself."
The preacher then said over the Lord's
prayer line by line. and the conquered bul
ly responded in the same way, when the
victor permitted him to rase. At this con
summation the rowdies thundered out three
boisterous cheers. Fink shook Cartright's
hand warmly, declaring
"By golly you're some beans in a bar
fight. I'd rather set to with an old .he'
in the dog days. You can pass this 'ere
crowd of nose smashers, blast your plc
'
lure ! "
Afterwards Fink's party behaved with
exemplary decorum, and Cariright resum
ed his Bible and pulpit.
A thousand other incidents equally ma
terial and ludicrous are related as to Cart
right's adventures in Kentucky and Illi
nois. Many of them are prribably fletV
tious, but those genuioe alone, if collected,
would bo sufficient to stock at least two
volumes of romantic 'veiny.
Stich was the jocose preacher, and his
biography teaches us the mighty influence
of circumstances in moulding the charac
ters and fixing the destinies of individual
men. lied that splendid genius been cast
on the tide of war, or thrown into, the fi
ery vortex of a revolutionary era, his name
might have been a signal of doom to qua
king
nations ; his renown might have bla
zed, like a comet, through all time. But
he was born in the wildest mountains In
Kentucky ; he was taught the spiritual
tenets of Wesley, and educated to regard
the calling of a Methodist circuit rider as
the loftiest on earth. And so now this
poor sketch—this'spark 'of fading• fire—As
dim, flickeringend evanescent al a shadow
—is the last ray of his gliiry, - left below
the stars—an epitaph by :a stranger's hand,
written on the sand which the . neit rain
shall obliterate wholly---a blasted, limb,
that the first, wind shall,tdow away into
the Latham sea forever nate.
Mown or OLD.-=The ancient Egyptian
flute was only.a cow's horn with three or
four
only
In it, and their harp or lyre had
three stringe l ; tinmpets
that itiade the Walla of ! irfloholiAl down,
were only Andi 4 i hormi l l it themattitiy was
JjaPill'ißr.hFP Of. ble.Mith wire
strings, and•,atrurk witla ask iron .needle or
stick ; their sackbut resembled the zagg
used at Malta : in the epe
ecieS'of bagpipe ; the timbre! wad ;a tiinihnti'
rine, init the thlcicter, a horizontal harti'
with ~,wire strings, and struck, with a stick
like a psaltery—such as are seen about the
streets of London at the present day. line
gine the discord produced by two hundred'
thousand of such instruments while play:
ing at the dedication of Solomon's Temple:
K74.11a110, you air, put up . yonr
can't you see that notice, 'no lucking al
lowed ?'", ~ w ell, whet ,9t, 40 - 4 41114 ,
smoking alout44 aw Join ikaa stales a
man' can."
4 419 1 CIRNP. 1 4* ERIotarAPOWI9O O.4IIII I
, at thielltng; says 4 . ,eokrespondest oftlittiti
, New OrleatupPietyttne;"l 8
little ineillektr:quit6eetiiitirld
years eAlettra
.tudAlpellist,-/who 'had lost's lggi add who
was known to be.a.deadsshotodutiletlileii
Col , D. ; ,, a tentiemsw ol'itradi'hiniq'titt4
strainir,"L :The: fFien 4 ii_.'
Fhe meetipiripmk s to I:i.4e,p4stigs
met ons ;he Itoetul, when:CA.4D. :was
vatted if he wis ready.'
"No, sir," he replied.
,:.."What areyou woitingforlibent" legal=
red Judge ~,t
..Why.•eir," Said dOl have
my boy intnthe:4:condiitct i ltuat aE:Cit Jam
to put,my legaln, I.Aiont,intend,to give
the judgeany adventage over sae. .You
see he has a wooden leg • 1
'Phu *hole 'periy idareditiittlatigfi*.'
and the thing was so ridiatileittei t titbtoke
up•thefight. C,01..1). was stfierwarde sold
that he would sink his reputations •
..Well," 'replied , he, `'tit Can't aink'ille
idler than a bullet can l` b
'!littt:' liked Ids frietidstio "
will be Ailed abitutcynu.”
--
' , Well," said he, o+l would rather 6114f
ty papers than 6'11 . 8 ontlinr
No'0,114!. 'ever:troubled 111t;' , 601,ottei it*ir
• “Sat. Dn. INTO TUE GRAIN—=DAD PAIN'
AS iiuck AS ANT' ON 'EN, 1 4 !.. 4 -t r dt Wein not •
long since much amused by a couple of
Hoosier girls, who cents on the s team
en—, at the little town of Monti; Verrloo,
Ind. They had evidently, never, been', a
1000 mike front home, tind Wt3l l l making
their first trip on. a steamboa4 The, elder.
one was exceedingly talkative, and perfect
ly free and unconcerned with regirl r to the
many eyes that ,were soanning her‘mova
xne.n4.• .The other. was of no opposite
turn of mind; incline - rho bashfutries*:-. At
dinner our ladles were honored With,asaeiit
at lite head of the table,:and ;hp eldes.t,one,
with her usual indopentioneo.enkher braid
into smelt pieces and with.herfork tenth
ed over •nnd enrolled eaA mouthful'n•the
nice dressing on a' plate of beefstake'betor
her. The passengers preserved their gravity
during this operation .by. dint of-great effort.
Perceiving that hoe sister wits OOt 'Soil (on
ward•in helping herself, she turnall'firound
to her and exclaimed limd enough to be
heard by half the table—"Sai dipintolhe
. trravy—dad pays as tnuch as any, on
'on r"rhis was followed by a generml
roar, in which the enpudii led oil. The
girls arrived at their place of destination
before supper, and when they lefft the bat
all hartds gave three cheers for the girls Of
the hoosier state.-- Cincinnati Nonpariel.
OEN. JACKSON'S Film AePEARANCIt
c m o ßtml .—when Mr. Gallatin was a
member of Congress in the year 17964
Tennessee. was admitetl as a state into this
Union, and sent her first rnMitber to Witatt-,
ington. Opp day, tylienin his seat in the
};louse, Mr. Gallatin noticed a tall, hick.
uncouth looking individual u with long looks
of hair hanging over his brows and (lice,
while a queue, hung down his, hank. tied in
an eel skim " The 'dress of -the individual
was eingular—.his ntanner . inehleportnent,
that of a bet tvoiide man. fippearance
of so singular a I charade}' en &torn( the
House, of ,Representatives, .naturally
tracted attention, mid a memberiat his side
asked who he watt.. Mr: Gallatin
that it wie the ineint4W rotPthe:hew State.
"Wed," said 'his friend, ""he seems jug; the
sort of chap one might expitet from . such
an uncivilized region as Tennessee ? " The
individual in question was Andrew Jack-
,
Otn Aos.Bscururian,—A good woman
never grows old. Years may pass 'over
her head, but if benevOlenCe and 'ViitSn'
dwell in her heart, she is as cheerful as
when the spring of Bib firsi. opbned to her
vicW. ' When, we lOok von , a ' podwci=
ManWe never think of hey age ;lithe; 143914 s
as aliarmiag ,whom.., tho-,ropel of , youth
bloomed oh` her cheek. lkhatroce has fist
faded yet', it will never`fdde In,l er rats.'
ily' she is thehhi"and dslighi'. ..har ,
neighb,orbond the
,axpLbeno.
factor. „ in , the Johu rtb,' the 41avoutmorship•
per and thn.exeniplary Chtls!insi.! Jinn
does not respect and late . thri *befits
has pissed her days ifit sell of kindness
and mercy . ; Whlii,'% 4ll 4 l o .l q l ioP:l!ln
seine of l o neness •apd love, a t ,Ar , Fomyiktai
truth an eligouf ti!ife, .rePeato.*Polkla ,
woman eanndt, grin,. old. She). will .'abi
rtyc be fresh' and buoyant• in ltdritii;" hid
active in humble 'ilk& 'liiiwcy • iiila
, no rote; nee. If , the ynune lady 7 to
rinalrr the block& ol'youtit,let
and to•tho ehise
.
of, lifnehemill. velem' those feelings which
now make tire, epphar 'a garden of tweets,
ever tread 'and' ever ndw. c
FEXANS
. I:4,l4 , trry.—A, cultivated mind
and good heart will give an intelligent and
even beautiful expression to the face. The
feattiVes ratty he irregular and the complet
ion bad, bet if the heart is gentle ? and ,4!to
mind
, welletored, the woirian will, be hand,
some,. We have known women, who at
first bight were positively homely, bdtwitei
beeame very handeoree, even faticinatitie
upsid &raker 'iliqbaintatice.
•e.,)
V al " '1 • urrrtt 'GRAVE&
sacied pleiet for pore thoughts and ho
-7,3? ttialgtattiikn , are, the , little graves in
einveli yard. ,'f hey are • the deposi
toileapf mothereyvieetest joys -= half un- 1
(*livelong 'binds of inhonettee—humanity
nigpyd bYltin fit:Attest of time, ero vet a
Wi`trpt imilittion had nes
,thadamong ita petals. • Callous indeed must
be ther , :hearevi hint who can stand by a
ItittitYlider end' not' 'hiekl: the holiest emo
itotni'Oftiti soul ativallened to the thoughts
n(thnt,tutrity,t44 joy which belong alone
•to IGO Aunt Mermen ; for the mute preach
er at hisfeet tells him of life begun and
lift yodel; *abut stain ; and, surely if
Ititia:iii - ;Fochisfati,tp mortality , how much
•
purer and, helier,mmit he the spiritual land,
eaffighted by the sun of infinite goodness,
*henna emanated the .sonl, brief young
anTlftliiMr — iitintig: oaf flow swells the
of 64'1)444, with mournful joy,
w 41441 standing ,by the cold earth . bed of his
littleones?: Mournful, because that sweet
, tretilinne is liken' , away ; joyful, because
that eletkOtie treasure'ilitthre in the dia.
dn'tk itedeeMer.
Top rtititczwr,l4l4a.--A,Gerrnan news
pappr IteciMently intbliehedn prophecy by
iiiilenediethtetnobkoiho died in 1847, the
-plWport OM titbit the present year,
isbO tin till one tit unusual prosperity.
401icrit,etcts of , Christianity will in
ShAt yetis PAWN. ; fkbe,Soltan will be pots
valid, end lititsintpire wilt become christian.
Roitillitsliiritifrektbubb froin an eastern na
etggo:fai.ne b. found an
easitprn, empirei; ( l 1301i:fruit,. lentils, and
'other, vegetablermaill be so plentiful thut
the halms tinable' to contain them.
The Micas& °film! livriet potato will every
!itil.ertil4‘,ole,Cii4,Ci4:lnon will not reiriem
-Ik4 ago isyearffinitfulti'rsii. The wine
old& yearwarsurpass that of the year of
stketiMiltriet)in'Pirper: • '
`Van &cilium ow citnt-Courcrat.—it hate
bleed entiltosharthiii the' 'suites baye a
iron;igr Lob or 13,70 Milos, a sea mind!'
gt.4 3 o.inilea• w 4414 aompor, I,IIW miles.
One its tiveriris twice as long as the
Dintifio The. largest Eutoyiel +he
Ohio" "306 Mike longer thlia the jthine,
and ;the noble l u son has a nay:l/anon in
t h e ti' Empire stale" 120 miles longer than
the Thanes.: Within Louisiana ttre:bar-
Otos and- tteeks' unktiown, that
would shame, by, epaquirifuti, the Tibet or
Sciee.. uf-virgiiii4 /LWOW:Oone
third larger than England, - The ifiltate of
Ohio contains 3000-squaiii Miles-More than
Stotfand.'' The hither or Tifew York're:,
mikes thev,easele gidt,n4iigato,men!,.cay
nal, and lakes toihe extent of 3,000 square
miles, equal to the distant* kom America
to Eutoi*A From'the tithe! of Pilaine"to,
thC:"Creicent'citi" 15.200 u $l a ;further
than rFo,n!tomion ',eafifianliaoPlai a ,
;vote that would cross England, Belgium;
a part of Prussia, i Germtmg, "Austria Rod
1. "Itt .40
disithiuished itehittiitUtr
lopectvitY mama favor
daily to your .whole forams that you 'do
your face end .handy:.: Ytiu require it
two , * fie° quarts of '
cold witeriqsitd - as
mdch wore 4 4 7 06 ;1 4 ° 14 P4 1 0- o ° o
; th e wh° l ° 1 1PerlsOujoe0 oat 00-
copy ftve.minuips; 'When you tint faith
fully and fearlessly *Oh 'loo6of - ill over
havitaked
a diet stepfttthe l eommeteeieut of unit,"
terrup4dheahlt." The roligion of some
whom.we: call heathetuti enjoin , this upon
them; while we„ 'iglus
o f Cirri.%
tionity'slideivilizitioti l ' are "too apt ti " ue•
gleci • .
A CURIOUS FACT:arnlti irhbre fiQfUlti 4
tiarrOf Ma United, States, could be coat
preened into the !pees ot emsequstie Mile;
and etch be
room to bmittiiiit':l4*!4:inck'vp,kuftre
wAi 3 344F4' !.1 1 i 1,100
yard in a its hicb. • ,lieingsnui4liedi
gives63,lo2lo inches z end this:pt*thiet
aided b,rls, the'fittnihe!
pied, by 0 1 f,iii;$ 11 11444, iol4nPlapc 4.4,4
thy.otirk ilk F oyokoteo. Onsiength:oka
mile and ; the maw somber-of , ,rows 40'
complete. it , Smtetifmile would consequent-
ly '
. • Daiwrit 1316. A ‘ .. :Ntsitou. 4 -441r. Thos.
Meaoham of tlts toWp , orilottkin, Law
erenen e 6., N.V . ., Who died a law weeks
p~Q~,ana fob aevoral years, was a resident
'Oll , lllO Noith West Bay road, of what was
, then , called No. 10, in ,Frtinklin co., on E.
,BroOkt•near tniunda Of Hopkinton,,was
.sciihewiiat Oinittei. 'l.le kept an, exact
account of the gaunt killed by hint.: Which ,
has been furnished to the St. Lawrence
AterclLi : ,
Woman's mission is to teach. This of:
Ilea site.cannot reject without an, abandon
went Of duty. The sister, the mother, and
the Mistrels of a household. must coostant
ly give lessons of a varied nature to those
• , who come within theirephere of influence;
evert the'vife, thet weaker vessel, placed
• , • .by Intio:.te Ntlis , :ion in subordination to her
tir SLoit.i.-4:thotte' Who eat nal fast I v, • A often i, .
,), , , . -• ..,, .. t ' aUO.Ollu, must e ercute a command-
ore al?! t?
-0 1 t 1 9 0,111 ' 14 )u INii4ia opr, fogd, in power over his mind, in outer to save,
is 'well•masticated, it is brought ;longer. in 'him' front ruining hintself---froqt diahlag
contastiwith the **eves of team. We ful- to earth the'fair fahric . of . handy reputation
' ' ~ - and ntoaDerity. How wooly, how goody.
ly enjoy its flavor and the appetite is gaits- how!itufierceptibiy, must dna influence 6 0
fled ' bet°re i i. moillach is too ' fluulla dii° ' exercised, so that while the Man' Yltdds to'
tended; and its , di4eitive 'poier overbur- it.
. his pride st1) 1 tt'll .4 f l P oo4 0 0 . 1 4 40111 /, 01 .*
Vi
depedi ) e'reltilre a l :bet-We
.. atiaiyht a t : ra t eri-1t inNia,;,
. put!ititeutando siNle trues over tba 7prpli, The Duke of WeLlitliOd Otie:ifeetile*
1
'et quantity oppresses or.r organs. , . (.:land ttsioiNyeee, •L —4-4 , . ' ' • , `-?-4 .".'
/Cc!, id Wcoell
41 1 ,4 1 e 111 P
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Deer,
T*O•DOLLARS I'3B '' All*.
I NEW'; SERIE&4O. 465.
A FACETIOUS SHERIFF.
Nzattcy half a century ago. (says the e
ditor of the Washington New:, who Well
remembers the time, place and isecOm,)
there dwelt in the town of in ctid
England, a remarkable oddity, in the, pee ,
son of an attorney-at-low, who, although
not fair to look upon, (for he was in ttutd t
one of the homeliest specimens of
ever helield by mortal titan,) was with
al a person of sound judgment, great 'be
nevolence, various learning, a poet, a pain
ter, and wit.
It so happened that the aforesaid gen
demon, 0— G—, Esq., was appoint
ed High Sheriff of the town of He
was a man of fortune and had a kind heirt,
as many a poor prisoner could testify, Who
partook of the good cheer with whiCh the
prisoners were liberally supplied from the
private purse of the worthy sheriff.
It was of course the duty of the High
Sheriff to summon a grand and petit jury,
to attend at the quarter-sessions, of which
the recorder, mayor, and alderman of the
borough, composed the court. In thoper
romance of his official duty, in summon
ing the petit jury, our High Sheriff, indul
ged in some of the strangest and drollest
freaks, that have prob'ably ever been heard
of in any other town or country. In the
first place he summoned for the CiMtiberr
court, a j'ury contisting of twelve of the fat
test men he could find in the borogh, and
when they came to the book to be snort',
it appeared that only nine jurors could sit
comfortably within the box ! After a great
deal of sweating, squeezing, and scolding,
the panel was literally jammed into the
box, and when seated they presented' to
the eye of the court, ihe bairisterii and au
dience, "the tightest fit" of a jury that vita
ever .
seen in any court -room. Literally
they became, much to the amusement of
the court and its robed advocates; a "peek'.
edlury," and no tnistake l' *•, .
or the January term, our facetious
High' Sheriff (in consequence, it was Algid
of some hint of the recorder, that there
should be no more fat panels summoned to
his court) went into the opposite extreme..
lle summoned twelve of the leanest and,
tallest men he, could find in the borough
and when they took their seats in the box,
it appeared comparatively empty—there
was indeed room enough for twelve more
of the same sort and dimensions.
For the April term of the court, our hu
morous functionary summoned a jury conk
sisting of twelve barbers ! Now it so hap•
Owlet! that among the latter were the very
perrequierti who dressed the recorder's
and barristers' wigs, and some of the latter
arriving late at the bar, had to appear that
'Morning in court with their wigs undres;•
sad or half dressed, so as to cut a very
dieulous figure, amidst the smiles and hall
suppressed laughter of the by.standent.--
The Higlt Sheriff of course enjoyed the
fun amazingly, but looked "grave as a
judge," while lie tried to keep silence in
the court-room. •
But the crowning joke of this waggish.
officer'occurred at the summoning of his
'Muth and last jury at the July session.—'
For that term of the court, the High,Sher
if, hot having the fear of the recorder, the
mayor, and the , alderman, before his eyes,
actually summoned a Squinting Jury !--
twelve as queer looking bipeds as ever
took their seats in a jury-box—ajury that
was prObably more looked at and laughed
at, than .any of .the appointed twelve that
ever ; were sworn to "well and truly try.
and, true deliverance make, between their
sovereign lord, the King, and the prisoner
at the her:," But the scene was so irresis
tiblidroll that the learned recorder could
nointaintain his gravity. The mayor and
elderthin Mowed suit.' The barristers
latighed While'tbeir wigs became bald
attd,poWerletta ; nay, eveu the poor prise
- nets in the dock, ,who were to be put on
their trials, and ..some of them undergo
transportation, could not refrain from join;
ing 'in the general cachinnati In 1 And
whart, thq,recottler commanded the High
Shut El to bring the court-room to order,
;and intimated, with a half suppressed
; laugh, that the taiter,ought to be ashamed
.of himself for somamoning such a jury, the
drollery ofthis court scene was heighten
ied considerably by the quick, ready, and
sonorous response of die High Sheriff,
who. lopking at the same time waggishly
at the sqUintitig jury,exclaimed--"All good
and lawful men, your honor I"
But our hinuormis functionary has long
singe "shuffled off his mortal coil."
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