VOLUME XXIII. } The notberPs nand. These is true eloquence combined with sweet simplicity in the following lines, from the pen of Charles Swain, a poet who has written much to be admired and more to be commended : A wandering orphan child was I But meanly, at the hest, attired; Fur Oh! my mother scarce could buy The common luod each week required; But when the anxious day had fled, It seemed to be her dearest joy, To press her pale hand on my head, And pray that God would guide her boy. But more, each winter, more and more Stern suffering brought her to decay ; And then an angel pass'd her door, And bore her lingering soul away! But Oh they know not what is grief, ; Who ne'er knelt by a dying bed ; All other woe on earth is brie!, • Sass that which weeps a mother dead. A seamen's lite iias soon my lot, 'Mid reckless deeds and desperate men; But still I never quite forgot • The prayer I never should hear again ; And oft, when half induced to tread Such paths as unto sin decoy, felt her fond hand press my head, And that soft touch had raved her boy Though hard their mockery to receive, Who neer themselves 'gainst sin had striven t Her, who on earth I dared not grieve, I would not, could not, grieve in heaven ; And thus from many an action dread, Too dark for human eyes to scan, The same land hand upon toy head That blessed the boy, bath saved the man. I MOTHER'S INFLUENCE. Morn ! There is something in the very word that falls musically upon the ear. Soft, plaintive, tender, it comes to us like the breathings of the wind over the Alolian harp-strings. How that name brings back the past, our youthful days, when skies were all bright above us, and when the corking care of the world had not begun to harden our hearts to tender feelings ! What recollections spring up as we dwell upon it ! Dim remembrances of a mild face looking down upon our tender infancy —of a gentle band guiding our first falter ing steps-•-of tender accents now repeating the tale with which to beguile some twi light hour, and now teaching our young lips to falter forth the first pure prayer of childhood. And then the bed of sickness —how even bitter things were made sweet by a mother's hand ; how easier lay the pillow of pain when she bad smoothed it ; and tow delicious was even the cup of cold water given by her ! happy days ! a mother's influence, how mild her sway ; gentle even in her sternness, she could restrain, and failing, soon bring by expostulation the repentant tear. And oh, how potent that influence in after years, when leaving our homes, -and with them, the many defences by which we had al ways been surrounded there, we went forth to engage in the battle of life alone ! May hap, thrown into the society of the gay, the thoughtless, the dissipated, we have been led astray, and were just taking that irrevocable step which would lead to both temporal and eternal ruin, when—we knew not how—the home of our childhood rose before us—a loved form was there—and from those lips we seemed again to hear the long foregotten warning, or an earnest prayer offered in our behalf. It was all powerful ; it drew us back front the edge of the precipice, and we were saved. Is it wonderful, then, if we sometimes think that among the bright baud of guar dian angels who arc ever about our path to watch over our ways, stands chief a mother's spirit, strong through love. And this influence did not leave us here, but has ever nerved us to higher attainments and to nobler deeds. if we were weak, she it was who strengthened us ; if we wore despairing, she encouraged us. And I doubt not that if WO could look into the earlier lives of those departed worthies, whose °Noakes were not born to ilk," we should find iu many, if not all, that their attainments, their courage, or their greatness, owed it germination to their hav ing then been Messed with the right kind of a mother's influence. But this influence does not end with earthly attainments or success ; for if there has been a time in any of our lives when flushed with success, we were in danger of forgetting that the better country where treasures perish not, the recollections of a mother's early teaching, that seed sown in faith, sprang up and led us to look upward to onr God. This feeling of love to a mother, amount ing to almost veneration, is one that, be sides all the influence it oiorts, is a source of happiness, that of all things pertaining to earth is the purest. 'lt is ennobling, its influence is creditable. If there are any who have not known this by their own exper ience, who among their boon , companions are want to boast how TUZY have thrown off the paternal yoke, and to Sneer at those w ho are so UNMANLY as to wish to consult a mother's wish, or to regard a mother's tears, lit them look, not to groat earthly examples whieh.might be abundantly cited, but to Him who has made man and dwelt among as. Although in His divine na ture King of Kings, and Lord of lords, He became subject to His parents on earth, and even amid the agonies of Calvary forgot AA his mother, but with almost His Aying`brcath oommends her to the' care if the belenrod disciple: Mother how purifying are all ideas connected with the name I how little of earth, how much of heaven So strong is this feeling in every human heart that, uniting with poesy, it 'has led to something akin to worship. And, wan dering in some foreign land, if at the soft evening hour comes floating on the breeze the monastic chant, "Ave Maria, Mother mild," we are al*ost led to forgive that supersti tion which takes its rise from one of the tenderest feelings of our nature, love for, and respect to the influence of a mother. Mine Affection. "To love the little platoon we belong to in society is the germ of all public affec tion." True, uwst true ! The innocent association of childhood, the kind mother who taught us the first accents of prayer, and watched with au anxious face over our slumbers, the ground on which our little feet first trod, the pew in which we first sat during public worship, the school in' which our first rudiments were taught, the torn Virgil, the dog•eared Horace, the friends and companions of our young days, the authors who first told us the history of our country, the songs that first made our hearts throb with noble and generous emotions, the burying place of our fathers, the cradles of our children, are surely the objects which nature tells us to lovl l . Philanthropy, like charity, mast begin at home. Prom this centre our sympathies may extend in an ever widening circle. The Happy Old Farmer Said n venerable former, eighty years of age, to a relative who lately visited him —"I have lived on this farm more than half a century. I have 110 desire to change my residence as long as I live on earth.— I have uo wish to be any richer than I now am. I have worshiped the God of my fathers with the same people for more than forty years. During that period I have scarcely ever been absent from the sanctuary on _the Sabbath, and never have lost more than one COMM 11 11 ion season.- 1 have never been confined to a bed of sick ness for a single day. The blessings of God have been richly spread around me, ; tool I have made up my mind longer, that ! if I wished to be any happier, I must have more religion !" Kindsierm of Mart. Goodness, or in other words kindness of heart, is the result of early training, second ed by books, companions, and judicious counsel. flow its influence brightens the journey of life, and makes smooth its rug ged path. How the heart gladdens when receiving souic little act of kindness from some real and true friend ; so does one f.:el the glow of pleasure thrill through his veins as au act of kindness. is done him from the prowotings of unaffected goodness of heart. Then, us it costs nothing to bestow kind words, or harbor kind feelings, let all cul tivate goodness of heart and mind—remem bering that a kind word is as easily spoken as ono that will cause pain and bitterness. ATHENIAN LAWS.—Among the laws of the ancient Athenians were the follow. to Women are forbid to travel with above three garments, or inure meat At drink than they can purchase for an Obulin ; neither shall they carry with them above a hand basket, or go out anywhere by night but in a chariot, with a lamp or torch-light carried before it. The crier shall curse him openly, with his kindred and family, who shall appear in court and plead, or give his voice, for None but the schoolmaster's sons and nephews,and daughters' busbands, shall be permitted entrance into school. if beyond the customary age for sending youth thith er, whilst the lads are in it; to the breach of this law the penalty of death is affixed. lie shall incur a fine of fire hundred drachms who twits any one with commit ting some heinous oirence against the laws. He that is undutiful to his parents shall be incapable of bearing any office, and farther be impeached befurs the Magi,- ECONOMY.—"Oh, eat it up, dear,—eat it up," says mamma. "I can't, ma, I've ate enough." "Oh, yes (tear, eat up what's on your plate. so that it needn't be lost." How common a practice this is ; stuf fing children beyond the wants of nature, and makeng them gluttons all their lives, so that the scraps need not be lost. Prec ious economy this The young man •Mho "once saw the Jay" when he wouldn't associate with mechanics, is now acting as boo4eeper to a manure wagon. Queer reran of fortune that. Witty rapine are /18 easy lost as pearls offs broken strait; but a word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It is a seed which, even when dropped by °lance, springs up a flower. The graves of the young should be moist ened with tears of joy, instead of grief : for the grave is the mausolehm whleh shuts out from them forever the mit:taut of earth ly trouble and misery. People in Maine no longer ask one to "imbibe - , swallow, or smile invita tion now is "will you violate Modesty is to the femakt character what saltpeter is to besit,--whilo it preserves its purity, it imparts a irlaah. GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL SO, 1852. Minty and wonders ordolence. The wonders of science yield preced ence to its utility. The discovery of the powers of the magnet was but a prelude to the discoveries of other oceans, new eon tinents, and far distant islands. Grade and civilization followed the tract of dis covery. and soon the shape of the earth was defined by those adventurous keels that plowed the furrows to the west, until they overtook the east at the point from whence they departed. The form of the earth having been ascertained by science, analo gy extended its observation to the wide heavens in which it swims, and found that every planet, and their greater central orb, presented the same globular figures.— , Science measured the heavens, and fixed up space with lines of paralax that link zenith to the nadir, and with angels that build their hypothenuse on the horns of the moon end ring of Saturn. The wild comet, too, the erratic steamer of the skies. that travels from one cluster of planets to the other, millions of miles beyond the ken of the far-sighted telescope of Rosie, or Ilerschel, has been taught by science where to curve hie flaming around the goal, and when to return and trim his fires I at the fountain of the sun. Leaving the heavens, science has ef fected its most useful labors on the sea, on the earth, and within thetleepbowels of the mines. In the science of navigation it boots little whether the wind blow from one direction Or the other ; the skill of the sailor can propel his vessel in the wind's eye. by die very blast which is puffing in his teeth. Mightier still. wind and stream and tide and calm have all been overcome by the simple ,cience that converts water into steam. Forced by caloric from a grosser element into an mriform state, the mighty power of steam thunders over the deep, and treads the mountain waves like a giant. ----- The arts of life have all been promoted, perfected, and beautified by science. It guides the plough and reaps the'harvest.-- It builds our cities and works the mines. It furnishes the palace splendors, and the coin forts of the cottage. It multiplies the powers of death where war is necessary --it arms medicine with powers to grapple with death on the very confines of his empire, for science is nothing but truth— the knowledge ol nature's laws and - the pro perties of matter. Science is still in its infancy. The days are fast approachingwlien all drudgery in agriculture, _architecture, navigation, in workshops, and manufactories will be su perseded by mechanical contrivances.— Alan, if but united in purpose with his fel low man, may become powerful like a god, may heroine lord of the gigantic powers of nature, by which lie may produce with little labor, more in one year than he can consume in five, and having made the earth a sort of parttime, wit be I the, better prepared for a paradise hereatfur. A YANKEE IN ITALY. A correspondent of the Boston Transcript, writing from Naples, thus describes an amusing, inter view with a live Yankee : "The other day, on reaching the top of Vesuvius, I described a man sitting astride of a block of lava. I don't know why, l but I marked him at once for one of my conntrymen. As I advanced towards him I could not heir, noticing the cool manner I in which he and Vesuvius were taking a smoke together. His long nine was run out like a bowsprit, and he took the whole affair as calmly as one could look at a kitchen fire at home. As soon as I Caine up with him he bawled ont, stran ger ! pretty considerable lot of lava around here ! Any nevus from down below ? You haint tuckered out yet, he ye On asking him if he had looked in the crater, lie replied, , Yass ! but I burnt the legs oIT my trousers, though, I tell yeza I' He turned out to be a man from New England, who came up front Marseilles to see the volcano." Juvenile Simplicity. A friend says the following story is a fact. Two boys of tender years, who went by the name of Tom and Jack, became mem bers of a district school in a certain New- England town. On making their appear ance, the teacher called them up betUre the assembled school, and proceeded to make certain interrogatories concerning their names age, &c. "Well, my fine lad," said the teacher to the first one, "what is your name 1" "Tom," promptly anewerd the Oven- ile. Tom ! "said the teacher—"that doesn't monad well. Remember always to speak the whole name. You should have said Thorn-as. Now, my son, (turning to the other boy, whose expectant face suddenly lighted up with the satisfaction of a newly comprehended idea,' now, then, will you tell me what your name is I" "Jack-ass I" replied the lad, in a tone of confident decision. The teacher was taken with a sudden fit of ecnighing, and merely motioned the lads to their seats.—Ellargord Mies. Printing office Jokes. It is customary in some printing offices, when a particularly green youth com mences learning his trade, to make him the object of various jokes. He is often sent to a neighboring office for an imagi nary article, and wholly original in the minds of those who perpetrate the joke.— Once upon a time, a boy was sent to office for a "quart of editorial." He was sent back with a picture of a jack ass. This was rather severe upon the jokers—but they immediately told the boy to go to and tell him it was the "editorial" they wanted and not the ',Ed itor." A varmint apprentice one day after dinner, deliberately stepped up to his .master, and asked him what he valued his services at per day 4•Why about six cents," said the mas- ter. "Then," said the boy putting his Sand into his, pocket.' and drawing out some coppers, •ebesn's throe sart,, pia °Coe, bender." Queer Mode of gettliii a *lib. One little act of politeitensi will some times pave the way to forldhe and prefer- 1 ment. The following sketch illustrates I the fact: . i A sailor, roughly garbed, *as saunter. : ing through the streets of New Orleans, then in a rather damp condition, from re- , cent rain and the rise of the tide. Turn ing the corner of a much frequented and narrow alley, he observed s young lady standing in perplexity. apparently meas. uritei the depth of the muddy water be tween her and the opposite side-Walk, with no very satisfied countenance. The sailor paused—for hitsvas a great admirer of beauty—and certainly the face that peeped out from under the little chip hat, and the auburn curls hanging, glossy and unconfined, over her Muslin dress.l might tempt a curious or adnfiring glance. 1 Perplexed, the lady put forth one little foot, when the gallant sailor l )rrith charac teristic impulsiveness. exclaulted : --u That little foot, lady, should not be soiled with the filth of this lane. Wait one moment, and 1 will make you a path.l So, springing past her into carpenter's t it shop opposite, lie bargaine for a plank which stood in the doorway - ond, coining back to the, smiling girl, witai was just co- quettish enough to accept th't services of : a handsome sailor, he bridge) the narrow stream, and she tripped emote with a mer ry “Thank you,' and a rrguish smile, making her eyes as dazzling,and as beau tiful as they could be. Alas ! our young sailor a perfectly chart - lied. Whet ktee - lem make him catch up the plank, and follow the little witch to her home, she twice performing the- ceremony of" walking the plank," and each time thanking him with one of her eloquent smiles. Presentlyiour hero saw the young lady trip up the : marble steps of a palace of a house, and disappear with in its rose-wood entrance t.for full a ruin- tile he stood looking at the door, amid thee. with a wonderful big sigh, turned away, disposed of his draw-1,611p, and. wended his way hack to the ship. The next day he was astonished with an order of promotion from the captain.— ' Your Jack was • speechless with amaze• meat. Ile had not dreamed of being ex alted 1n the dignity of a second mate's office on hoard one ul the must splendid .4tviisels that sailed from the purl of New Orleans. Ile knew lie was competent, for, instead of spending his money in visi ting theatres and bowling-alleys, be had purchased books and had become quite a student; bat he ea iweted years to- inter vene before hie ambitious itors could be realized. . . . Ilia superior officers seemed to look upon hint with considerable k•nteney, gave hint many a fair opportunity to gather in:vitiate knowledge; anti in 3 year the handsmne, gentlentastlivvyoung mate, acquired unusual favor in the eyes of the portly cominauder, Captain Home, who had first taken the sinart little blank -eved fellow, with his tarpaulin and tidy bundle, as his cabin boy. One night the young man, with all the other officers, were invited to an entertain- tnent at the captain's house. Ile went, and to hiv astonishment mounted the iden tical steps that we years before the bright est vision that he ever saw passed over— a vision he had never forgotten. 'Chump, thump went tits brave - heart, as ate was ushered into the great parlor, and like a sledge hammer it beat again, when Cap tain Hume bronght forward his'hlue-eyed daughter, and, with a pleasant smile, said : "The young lady obe.e indebted to your politeness for a safe and dry walk home." It was only a year from that tune that the second mate trod the quarter-deck. part owner with the eaphlitt, nut only of his vessel, but in due afro:Mute of his daughter, gentle Grace Hume, who had cherished respect, to say nothing of love, lur the black-eyed sailor. The old man has retired froin !undoes'. Henry Wells is now Captain NVells, and Grace Hume is, according to polite par lance, "Mrs. Captain Wells." In fact. our honest sailor is one olthe richest men in the Crescent City, and he owes per haps the greatest part of kis prosperity to his tact and politeness in crossing the street. Vlllly and Became. Why is Eastar so eulle4 1 B ecatise it is derived from the goddess taster, worship ed by our Saxon ancestols, with peculiar ceremonies, in April. the anniversary festival in honor of Christ's resurrection, falling at that time of the Sear, occasioned the transfer of the heathin name in this country to the Christian celebration. . . Why were silk dresset prohibited by the Mahomedans I Becahee they consider silk unclean from its Witt produced by a worm. Hence it was depided that a per eon wearing a garment I a ds entirely of silk could not lawfully o r up the daily prayers enjoined by the °ran. . _ A PAPER 'layover:R.4ln the Bank - of Englan no fewer than sioy folio volumes 1 . or ledgers, are daily fills wi th writing iu keeping the accounts ! • o produce these sixty volumes, the paper paving been pre- viously manufactured elsewhere, eight men three steam-presses and two hand-presses are continually kept [tin* within the Batik ! In the copper late printing de partment 28,000 bank tea are throwo off daily ' • and so secure yis the number indicated by machinery. hat to purloin a single note without time on is au impussl bility. The best anecdote of roux() Dow is, that being , one evening a the hotel kept by , one Bush. in Delhi, N. , the residence of the celebrated Gen. he was inapor• tuned by the latter gen . in the pros ence of the landlord, to scribe Heaven. "You say i great deal of that place." said the General, "tell u how it looks." Lorenzo turned his, gr ve face, and long waiving beard, towards metre. Root and Bush, end replied with perturble grav ity-- • 1 487' ", friends, is a. vast extent of 'Heaven, frit. smooth, rich territory—there h 1 net a root nor a bireh in it, and lhbro never will The Bank of England eovete five acres of ground, employs nine hundred clerks ; and should a clerk be too old for service, he is discharged on half-pay for life. There Are no windows on the street; light is ad mitted through open coons ; no mob could take the Bank therefore. without cannon or battering the immense walla. The clock in the centre of the Bank has fifty dials at tached to it, Large cisterns are sunk in :he courts, and engines, in perfect order, always in readiness in case of tire. The Bank was incorporrted in (004. Capital 218,004,000, or 590,000,000. RECEPTION OW KOSSUTH IN NEW JERSEY. —Kossuth arrived at Burlington on Satur day evening, and was entertained at the residence of Mayor Wall. He spent the Sabbath with Bishop Doane, and on Mon day proceeded to Trenton. where he was received by the ringing of bells, and other demonstrations of welcome. He made an address in the M. E. Church to about five hundred personan._ who were exult charged II dollar for admittance. Two citizens also gave him $lOO each. At the U. S. Hotel, he was welcomed by W. P. Sherman, Esq., and eloquently responded ; and it night tie attended a banquet, in coin. pant with Senator Dayton, Ex-Governor . Vroom, and others. He was also invited to accept an honorary membership -of Nassau Hall. TRADE. FUR 330101.-0110 half of the miseries among men in civilised society arises from the want of pleasant and profit able emphoment. Persons without Indict prof ntble trade or occtipatitin, are left at the mercy of circumstances, and while they remain uncontaminated by temptation to ViCe, gain at best but a precariow instance. The slightest change in Weirs around them throws them out of employ ment, and leaves them exposed to evil and selfish passions and makes them an easy prey to the seductions of vicious and un principled men. CAITAKS or RAIN, HAIL, SNOW AND FOO. —ltain is caused by a cloud moving into a stratum of cold air, by which pal-tides are condensed and run into drops too heavy to float in the atrosphere. Snow is produced by becoming frozen before its particles have collapsed into water. Hail is coaxed by the freezing of the drops af ter they begin to fall as rain. Dew ix the falling of the 'vapors (tithe thy when they part with the motion in the cool of the evening. A fog is a cloud floating on the surface of the earth, and a cloud is a fog floating in the atmosphere. W ANT OF FORKSIUIIT.—WitIim the last fifty years, a benevolent person offered. to the trustees of one of the i.otheran .if N. York city a present of about six acres of WM near Canal-street and Broad. way. They passed a resolution that it was inexpedient.to. except the gilt. "toss tnu.•lt as the land was not worth fencing in." The land is now worth millions of dollars. RIJAPIA.—Russia, in 1852, will eelebrate throughout the vast expanse of her emplre. the completion of her thousandth yenr of national existence, which will he kept with nil the solemnity due to the importance of the event. The Russian empire was found ed to 852 in which year the Rus,•fans made their appearance on the shores of the Hos phdrus as %V arranOens. A CnvsTitt. PALACK Fits:sua. —A moue the last decrees of Louis Napoleon before surrendering the nominal Dictator ship, was the following : ..An edifice destined to receive the na tional exhibitions, and which may serve for public ceremonies and for civil and military fetes, shal be constructed IM the system llof the Crystal Palace in London, and established in the Great Square it. the Champs Elvseesi" WASHINUTUN MONUMENT.—The editor of the Raleigh, N. C., Spirit of the Age, suggests that the Order of the Sons of Temperance finish the National WAshing• ton Monument, by allowing every member to contribute ton ants a year until com pleted. There are 200,000 members of the Order, and a contribution of ten newts a member, %raid give a yearly income of $30,000. MR. BUCHANAN ANUTIOR PRRRIVIRNCV.— The Democratic Slate Central Commit lee of Perinaylvania have issued an address to the people of the United States, deny ing the assertion of the opponents of the Hon. James Buchanan. that he is without popularity at home, and unable to carry his own State, in the event of his nomina tion for the Presideney. PAINFUL FACTS.—During the six end a half years ending December 31,1841, there had been 180,640 persona arrested by the police in the city of New York, of whom 140,702 were for offences resulting almost entirely from the free use of intox icating drinks. A poor German witness being torment ed with questions by a barrister, declared he was so much exhausted that ho meet have a drink of water before lie conlil eery' another word. Upon Mit the judge re marked s .6I think, sir, that you must have done with the witneis now t foryovi hive pumped him. dry." Some poetaster wrote the folldwing for she Hare Bed Review ; but it almost killed him ► Long is the Morn ' ' That britigeho eve ; Tall it the corn ' That no cob leaves t. Blue is the sky Thatjtever looks yeller ; Had is the apple Thai never grows medlar; But longm, arid bluer, and birder, end tall, Is my lady love—my. adorable Poll.: , P. P. ar-Tha author hes since died in greiwagany Tuesx-csitsi Potoss.—Over eix 'mil lion piece* of the new coin have been is stied trim the UnileaStates Mint. altly lady" !aid a lady. to , * boy oarryiny netita , "aut you the matt boy 1" "You tioes'ot think L'ake jik female boy, duel. you IT' . ' mitewho aebiiloAdaerwue Ike fa* Of a Avori haipbeiiivaueinslng amp a mvw►uW top. • , iltu1;11alt. • • , [from thairsmaeurvin Teltigesph. The Crop of Opts. Fenno Eerrott s--Notwithelanding the many well written articles wale culture of other grains, that of oats appetite to re ceive the cold shoulder almost entirely,— In a volume of the 01Cultivator,".tiovi be fore me, I find but oae article, meagre in its details on the subject, 431)&0 there are more bushels raised and consumed in this section of the country titan of any oth, er grain, and at the present price. . anti yield, almost as , profitable as any crop we grow. It appears to be the practice , with moat farmers to plant oats like the Irishmen said they did buckwheat in his country, "'where nothing • else will gvow." , 'Any{ kind of land and culture is good enough t and it is astonishing, With ell this-Heel gence that we get as nittilli` ri we do:•--= While the bet lficial erects Of various kinds of manures are tried on wheat, coin, ate.. and staple remunerative strips are produe ed ; who ever heard of 'sdeh a suontrosity in farming as manuring oats! Yet the New York Agricultural Siteieti records the fan that 120 bushels of 'pet' *ere have been pro,luced, with the aid of a lit= tie manure. Onthe . 2Bth of February, 11151.,-Ivoin menced ploughing- 'fur ontse six inches deep, and finished on the 11Th of March; harrowed the ground with* heavy harrow/11 on the 27th, and imweid two bushels of well cleaned' seed per acre on the Seth and har rowed-and tolled it in: 'lhe -oate•grent well and yielded 55 bushels per acre, weighing 31 pounds per boatel, Not withstanding the-uncommon dryness of the season. this was the heaviest crop I have ever grown on the ground. and I at. tribute Wto the ground heing plowed ear , ly, and becoming autficiendy packed for the oats to tale root immediately. I have sowed from 1) bushels to 3 per acre, and find that as tench oats canbe raised from two bushels sowed Ito from nny other qualtity. If sown too Thick. the straw is weak, and more apt, to fall, and the heads not so well filled. Thorough Tillage. J. Retknosul,....ufAutk.ttonntY;argueiiti favor 'Of thorough tillage,, which next to, and ituleed equal to 'manure, should be its. pressed upon the with( of every farluer.—,. Ile justly .says-: "One of the great elements of fertilikii; lion in soils, is the perfect loosening of, theu►. to he thoroughly incorporated; and brought to the surface, and thus recieie the advantages of exposure to:vibe sun unit atmosphere. None but a simpleton would pretend to doubt the value of manure, or assert the possibility of growing goot,l crops for any length of tome without it, but he is scarcely wiser who believes (end feats his belief in his 'daily practice,) that his crop will be abundant where his tillage is meagre. Show me the hu sbandatan whose plowing is shallow—whose break. ing the clods preparatory to 'seeding is itu, perfectly done—whose fields ere strangers u► the roller, and look very much as thong It the harrow or cultivator had never been used upon then►, and I will show you peer yields—fields that will scarcely pay for die labor and expellee, much less leave any profit behind." [From the rem Journal Remedy for the Grath Weetil. MR. EGITOII.I--111 a former numper of your Journal. I observed u,description of the grain weevil, and some 4irections in regard to us extormistatiou. thiamin it a matter of much interest to the farmer, mil ler and grain dealer, permit me to remit. mend . a plan which l hove always (mufti elfectuol. Take air•slacked lime. twilit through a fine sieve. and apply! it at the rate of four quarts to the hundred bushels of grain, in the following manner : First. sweep the floor of the gransry perfectly clean: then sprinkle .a litde lime regularly over it, either with the hand or sieve, as may be must convenient ; then plane the. grain on the lime to the depth Of six inithes. Apply the lime as. before, and rake thor oughly with a hand rake. Continue placing the lime and grain in , alternate 'y era in any extent that may be required ; always being careful to mix well. Lime may be applied to any kind of grain. with out fear of injury. and will be found ;►n be a most certain preventive of that destructive insect—the weevil. SOAP-SUDS FOIL VINES:A. J. Downytg. editor of the Horticulturist, says have , seen the Isabelle grape produce 3.000 fine clusters of well ripened fruit in a eel- son, by the liberal use of manure end soap suds from the weekly wvih." The effitet of strap-suds on other plants is something surprising. A copress vine, which had remained stationary for a fort night. when about two inches high. imme diately commeneld grotving after a good watering with soap-audtt, and grew about six inches the first give days. Examioattoo or the Alphabet. Which ire the Most industrious lettervf Th. Beta, Which sve the most extensive hitters' The Sees. • Which net the moot 144 of tookel Which ree the meet egotistical lett/our Thr Whith wee the limpet letterisi • The Eli.. Which ere the tpiisf letterel the Ohs. ' • ' ' ' - Which are , the leguminous Minitel The Pees. r .•, • , Which are.* peate"fora 1, , The Tau,, •" Which are the bendable litteial" The' Whs. ' . , Wb, la a, ostuata•trekt home' 911100Pt thlitY Bosau*Oh° ' ll 4 l ‘ o t rw** l !') rook - Why ii the ittWtle every,thips ? Weeaute we eau , t'autk:e it 'oul. Why is ti,hlush lUut'a Witt girt''! %atm It Why ant persona boar tilindltinat l*beelYee*- tea 1 Beams* the, moinit lefie• , • • . WhY &Tail litio*Systutl o ll #150,41** ,14111401 11 **,• ,; ,y r• • ;~._ T atOutllo' DtpartaMt. oTo aid the mind's developesent, bed welch The dawn of little thoughts." The Lily of the VeStet.' Corns my child, and do not apard Frees a little flower t o learn t3ee the lily in its lest, 'longing down its modest head, While it scarcely can be seen, Folded in its leaf of green. Yet we loss the lily well, For its sweet and pleasant etneo;. And would rather call it ours, Than full many toyer fhiweri. Beauteous lilies seem to be • Emblems of humility. , , • Come, my child, end danot sperm " • From this little flower to leant Let your temper be as sweet, Am the lily at your feet ; pe as, gentle be as mild. Be a modest, hutubk child The not beauty that we prim: 140 a summer Bower it , dal g But hutnility will last, Fair and sweet when beauty'. Peat: AnJ the Savior Des above, ' View, the humbly child with-tont: The Little Girl made Wee bright and beneath' Mery Year's morn. The snow shone in alithiti ••• tit Sating, whiteness in the beams or tire! • '- morning tun. while the frost upon - the Windows assumed a theunantl fantastic, shams, glistening brightly in its golden ' ' • • , All' was bright and jriyous. The men ry sleigh bells rang out giber and musical'' blidery --- Ving-tvting. - -Friendly- greetings and WartnWishes passed around the 'family circle. and friends trot each other With the cordial b•With you a happy New Year." ' •• - In the School-room all was joyous cern. fusion children running to and Ito, each striving td be the first to wish hiecompan lon a Hippy New Year. Every little Wart, save one. seemed overfioWing with happl ' In inie corner OF the .spool-room sit little girl. pile and shiveriag with the - cold. No one had'a friendly greeting or "a kind wiih for little Amy.- Why should they 'T —her Tether was a drunkard; her. Mother a washer-iensmin ; and then site wore such poOtillothee.' She, did not drees like . other children, but did she dAerve to be neglected forthis t Did riot her' little heart throb with the ism° teelitigs'at'theits I. Had. she. not the ciaralrestrert(r - icrnrund .-- ixrinvedi innhe with' to join - in.theii sports'? The school holirs passed 'away. Noon eante,but little Amy still renuthred iri her . seat, p ile and sad. ' Often she would into. a wishful look at her compaidohi, *HO seemed so happy in their'childish sports, but ho one invited' her to join 'them; „ • By-attd- by she was obseived by little. Hisie,.anuniiablef,worm.hearted . liitie girls '` A. sootras *ha skipped'ilght lY to the place where . Amy'sat; with s. eheeittil "Why, I haven't withed you happy New Tear;' Atnv. • What. talkers" you lit here alone i) 'Wit)? don't; you eat" yotii Oh. we are going to have such'a nice ______..:'_il~~_t_ Amy could hprclly restrain her tears: sr` eke replleitilielad no dittner4" "Why' not 1" inquired • Her little 'heart was hursttoo shd sine' could only sub out la reply, 4 1nothat: had noteity for tne." • ~•• • ' , Then yorridnill' Nitro Irvin oftlittle."'` . said thp generous littbrglitiandeirliyehir' ran to get her diniterkpitit: ' t ° 4 " Hiving returnettitheshirtedila Orientals with bitty, settling herself by 'het' tilt she had eaten it: Then she took - keit hind' and led her ib ibelittle 'ring whlehhircernA: pinions hail formed. ~ • - 4 At first they looked upon her as an in. trader, Inn Hlkie Wass favorite'istitang heel playmates ;' whnterer sherlid therthought was right, , and at once they began tcritithi tate her in tryingio mike little' Arey They were streeessful., 'ghee Hide girl coon dried her'wars, spd jifinedr.lritle dr/4 light ih their:slime. Nor Weretiernotin , minions/less hippy than ithe‘ for he'Whor suiVes maki Wiest htipp3r. ,, Uktre' the sure way to make' binuialf happy. vi `," Now who or our yinithAll reader% ihaV have wished 'their (hien& a hifrity, New' Year, will Wiwi* little Elitiei tor - ihbeint in their actions that th e y Wertrisinesrelte their wishes 1 ' •' I inn coinvosisi of twouty-tutirlettessi' , My 14 8 5 177 Is a sunlit,' in 'Pettily 11•14 ii. My '9 211 is iris mason instrtrininike My 817 16014*w asimoot tugsklikv. My 4lu 2 14 , 6 24 is &fruit. My 154 124 ke city in tutor , . My 674 10 6,24 28 22 IA /6 Wei 11., of the deeliostkin 'of My 711 9 15 was 1111 Ink palrinti" I My 'B9 90 15.4 la gees diotinnptisaltil'illois , opher. My. 9 12 ; 1 is. a tree. • ; My 10 22 24 is kin& Of , MT 1 I 12 1258 itrat is low' riveriibictiii* ty in Pestisylvittl& - ' ''" My 12 7 4 8 is ti prat/Wein *aim; My 18.18 16 lean t MI 14 4 1020 21 19 ,10 it 009417 PS Fikrfopi , My 15 17 19 is s in N.Valk. My. 18'98 10 11 20isa &natal ktipltnnitlSC My 17 18 16 9 5 is an animal. My 164'5 1510 was a British lord.' 1' My 12726143111 m , t e My 20 21 . '5 10 716 is a Gouty( 14."rdrk, My 21 12 12 o'ls 664 coooll.lo 431604 t My sa 7 12 1A.4 20 is a color. My , $ 24 5,17 was Roman Ezergot , My 242 i 612 . Vail bird offtheyl , r .; distispished)AsweiNO Zreedont, l i ososo to ertiqpis in OW t pipe ilmouolkifouitoti.° ' Aniwori Poi:Ow-ATMs/0 tiWtill'inlhotho T am othutsixtM J. 4 A: , - , ii•amay 60,bset. 144474" • . One of the inastoidrank *II [o l 4oo 04, 1 104. ihis."W9unitt,ohereq!sira 041yrrilleleMMIA fa!' *gal !". Why at. hullo( theirs ibnut 44 waist like a gamma meoUn 10 I)enust, there il'efillthef* tbIrRI V: 4l,a td' 36 ,!!" 4E4 ° 4414 ba Oh t hurts. tbe Witt* Ipairia*st i Me, Prirk*, 44, ' 3NUMBER MEI Far the. "Star 6subi4estur, Aciastionl Eitioimar 4 .ar ~.~
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