BY D. A. & O. H. BUEHLER
VOLUME XXIII:1
Mares Mortality.
IT SIMON WASTKLL, 1623
Tike as the damask rose you tee,
Or like the blossom on the tree,
Or like the daint7 flower in May,
Or like the morning of the thy,
Or like the sun, or like the shade,
Or like the gourd which Jonas had,
E'en such is men—whose thread is spun,
I)ra‘‘n nut end cut, and so is done—
The rose withers, the blossom talasteth,
The flower fades, the morning hasteth,
The gourd consumes—and man ho dies !
Like to the VOSS that's newly sprung,
Or like a tale that's new begun,
Or like a bird that's here to day,
01 like the pearled due of May,
Or like an hour, or like a ipso,
Or like the singing of a swan,
E'en such is man—who lives by breath,
Is here, now there, in life and death—
The grass withers, the tale is ended,
The bird is flown, the dew's ascended,
The hour is abort, the span is long,
The swan's near death--man's life is cone
Ono Story's good till another Is
'rhere's a maxim that all shimld he willinglo mind :
Tie an old one—a kind one—and true a. kind.
'Tis worthy of notice wherever you room;
And no worse for the heart, if remember'd at home!
If scandal or censure he raised 'goinst a friend,
Ho the last to believe it—the first to defend !
Say, to-morrow will come—ond then time will
untold •
That "one story's good till another is told !"
A friend's like a ship, when with 'nude and song.
The tide of good fortune still speeds him alng,
Hut see him when tempest bath left him a wreck,
And any mean billow can batter his deck :
flot give me the heart that true sympathy 'Mown,
And clings to a measmate, whatever wild blows ;
And says—when aspersion, unanswered, grows
cold—
Wait—'one story's good till another is told !"
True Hupp'nese.
True happiness has no localities;
No tones provincial ; no peculiar garb.
Where duty went, she went ; with planet, went;
And went with meekness, charity and love.
Where'er a tear was dried ; s wounded heart
Hound up ; a brained spirit with the dew
Of sympathy anointed ; or a pang
Of honest suffering soothed ; or injury,
Ilepeated oft, as 01l by love forgiven;
Where er an evil pavainn was subdued,
Or virtue's feeble embers fanned ; where'er
A sin was heartily ahjuretl, and left ;
Where'er a pious act was done, or breathed
A pious prayer, or wished a pieue.wish,
There was a high and holy place, a spot
Of sacred light, a most religious fame.
An Affectionate. Spirit.
We sometimes meet with men who seem
to think that any indulgence in an alive
tionate feeling is weakness. They will re
turn from n journey and greet their fami
lies with a distant dignity, and move
mom; their children with the cold aid lof
ty splendor of an iceberg, surrounded by
its broken fragments. There is hardly a
more unnatural sight on earth than any
one of these families without a heart. A
father had het ter extinguish his boy's eyes
than to take away his heart. Who that
has experienced the joys of friendship, and
knows the worth of sympathy and affection,
would riot rather . loose all that is beautiful
in nature's scenery than to be robbed of
the hidden treasures of his heart ? Who
would not rather bury his wife than bury
his love for her ? Who would not rather
follow his wife to the grave than entomb
his parentul affection' Cherish then your
heart's best affections. Indulge in the
warm and gushing emotions of filial, pa
rental and fraternal love. Think it. not a
weakness. God is love : love every body
and every thing that is lovely. Teach your
children to love; to love the rose, the rob
in ; to love their parents ; to love their
God. Let it be the studied object of their .
domestic culture togive them wartAearts,
ardent affections. Bind your whole soul
together by these strong cords. You can
not make them too numerous. You can
not make them too strong. Religion is
love—love to God—love to all men.
rime.
It waits for no man—it travels onward
with an oven, uninterrupted, inexorable
step, without accounuodating, itself to the
delays of mortals. The restless hours pur
sue their course ; moments press after mo
ments; day treads upon day; year rolls af
ter year. Does wan loiter Y procrastinate ?
Is ho listless or indolent? Behold the
days, and months, and years, uutnindful of
his delay, are never sluggish, but march
forward in silent and solemn procession.—
Our labors and toils, our ideas and feel
ings, may be suspended by sleep, darkness
and silence, and death may reign around
ua ; but time rests not, slu:ubers never, but
presses along and knows no stoppage.—
We may dem up mighty rivers; stop them
in journeying to the ocean; presS them
back to, their source; but the arrest of
Time is beyond the power of any human
being besides Omnipotence. The elock
may cense to strike, the bell to, toll; :the
sun may , cease to shine, the moon stand
still, the stars withdraw their light; but
the busy hours pass on. The •months'and
years Meat move on, ever forward.
SELF Floucxriow.7—We all of us have
two educations, ono of which we receive
from others; another, and the most Valu4
able, which we give: ourselves. It ie this
last which fixes our grade . . in 'society, and
eventually our setuel value id this life,
wpdiperhepa the color of (Mr fete benafter.
Ali the profesiors sii l teachers in tbe
werldroulf.not make you a wise and good
'fiio; , t ' PIM'
.. .(t9roPeratiou l t
if such:you are,datermisted to Pei the want
of them will pot prevent it ... , Rtnutolph to
hiCATephoto... • ,
" Slander is the revenge of ..coward:
Advice to Young Men.
Socrates did not urge his friends to en
ter early upon public employments; but
first to take pains for the attainment of
the knowledge necessary for their success
in thorn.
Are you stepping on the threshold of
life? Secure a good moral character.—
Without virtue you cannot be respected;
without integrity you can never rise to
distinction and honor.
lie careful lest a too warm desire of dis
tinction should deceive you into pursuits
that may cover you with shame, by setting
your incapacity and slender abilities in full
light.
People who have the rashness to intrude
into stations without proper authority and
the requisite preparation for the service of
the public, not only involve others in loss,
but subject themselves to ridicule.
The tricky, deceitful, and dishonest are
rarely prosperous; for when confidence is
withdrawn, poverty is likely to follow.
The shortest and surest way to live with
honor in the world, is to bo iu reality what
we' appear to be.
When once a concealment or deceit has
been practised in matters where all should
be open as the day, confidence can never
be restored nny more than you can restore
the white bloom to the grape or plum that
You have once pressed in your hand.
Error is the cause of man's misery, the
corrupt principle that has produced evil in
the world; 'tis this which begets and cher
ishes in our souls all the evils that afflict
us, and we can never expect a trite and
solid happiness, but by a serious endeavor
to avoid it.
Falsehood is not only one of the most
humiliating of vices, but. sootier or later it
is most certain to lead to serious crimes.
Ir.dustry, , directed, will give a man
a competency in a few years. The great
est industry misappliedis useless.
Zeal not rightly directed, is pernicious;
for as it makes a good cause better, so it
'es a bad cause worse. .
Simplicity In DresM
Those who think that in order to dress
well it is necessary to dress extravagantly
or grandly, make n great mistake. Noth
ing so well becomes true feminine beauty
as simplicity. We fave seen many a re
markably fine person robbed of its.true
of
kct by being overdressed. Nothing is
more unbecoming than overloading beau
ty. The stern simplicity of the classic
tastes, is seen in the old statues and pic
tures painted by men of superior artistic
genius. In Athens, the ladies were not
gaudily, but simply arrayed; anal we doubt
whether any ladies have ever excited more
admiration. So also the noble old lto:nan
matrons, whose superb forms were gazed
on delightedly by men worthy of them,
were always very plainly attired. Fashion
often presents the hues of the butterfly,
but fashion is not a classic goddess.—Geo.
U. Prentice.
Mutual Forbearance
That house will be kept in a turmoil
where there is no tolerance of each other's
errors, no lenity shown to failings, no meek
submission to injuries, uo soft answer to
turn away wrath. If you lay a single
stick of wood upon the andirons and apply
fire fo it, it will go out; put on another
stick, and they will burn ; add half a doz
en, and you will have a grand conflagra
tion. There arc other fires subject to the
same conditions. If ono member of a fam
ily gets into a passion, and is let alone, he
will cool Sown, and possibly be ashamed
and repent. Itut,opiose temper to temper;
pile on the fuel; draw in the others of the
group, and let one harsh answer be follow
ed by another, and there will soon be a
blaze which will enwrap them in ail its
lurid splendor.
Time and Eternity.
We step the earth—we look abroad over
it, and it seems immense—so does the ass.
What ages ha' men lived—and know but
a small portion. They circumnavigate it
now with a speed under which its vast bulk
shrinks. lint let the astronomer lift up
his glass and he learns to believe in a mass
of matter, compared with which this great
globe itself becomes au imponderable grain'
of dust. And so to teach us walking a
long the road of life a year, a day, or 'an
hour shall seem long. As wo grow older
the time shortens; but when we i lift up
our eyes to look beyond this earth, our
seventy years, and the few thousands of
years which have rolled over the human
race,' vanish into a point; for then we are
measuring Time against Eternity. ;
Every young man should remember that
the world will \ always honor industry.--
The vulgar and lifeless idler, whose ener
gies of body and mind are rusting for want
of bocupation, may look with scorn (111 the
laborer engaged at4is toil. Bahia acorn
is praise ; his contempt honor.
Tr 3 000 wint to boY anything,
'lf Yon weint to all anything,
Tf you want to heal anything,
II you rtooktolitllouy.thlom
If yoU want to do anything,
II you wont otiytbiniplone.
i ,ATWEATISID I
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A maa -7--- alll,le de his alipett rape° in the ,
Perk et tfeti VOA 'tat Miitidiky,
GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1852,
Kindness In Liltie Things
The sunshine of life is made up of very
little beams, that aro bright all the time.
In the nursery, on the play-ground, in the
school-room, there is room all the Limb for
little acts of kindness, that cost nothing,
but are worth more than gold or silver.—
To give up something, where giving up
will prevent unhappiness; to yield, when
persisting will chafe and fret others; to go
a little around, rather than come against
another; to take an ill-word or a cross look
quietly, rather than resent or return it;
these are the ways in which clouds and
storms are kept off, and a pleasant sunshine
secured even in the humble home, among
very poor people, as in families in higher
stations.
The Ibur Master Spirits.
Happening to cast my eyes over the
portraits an a gallery of pair.tings, I Tema rk
ed that they were so arranged as to give
lour personages—Alexander, Ilanni'lal,
Closer and Bonaparte—the most conspicu
ous places. I had seen the same before,
but never did a similar train of reflections
arise in my bosom, as when my mind now
hastily glanced over their several his
tories.
Alexander, Let Mg climl ed the dizzy
heights of ambition, a ith bib temples bound
with chaplets dipped in the blood 01 count
less nations, looked upon a cum:lured world
and wept that there was not another to con
quer, set a city on fire, and died in a dis
graceful scene of debauch.
Hannibal, after having, to the astonish.
ment and consternation of Rome, passed
the Alps—and having put to flight the ar
mies of the "mistress of the world," and
stripped three bushels of gold rings from
the fingers of her slaughtered knights, and
made her very foundations quake—return
ed to his Colluiry to be defamed, to be
driven in exile, and to die at last by pois
on administered by his own hand, unla
mented and 9ow opt in a foreign clime.
Cresar, after having taken eight hundred
cities, and dyed his garments in the blood
of his fellow-nien—after having pursued to
death the only rival on earth—was assanol
nated by those he considered his nearest
friends, and at the very moment when he
hail - fad illb ITlthem imind of bin ansbi
Bonaparte, whose mandate kings and
priests obeyed, after having filled the earth
with the terror of his name—after having
delighted Europe with tears and blood, and
clothed the world in sackcloth—closed his
days in lonely banishment, almost exiled
from the world, vet where he could some
times see his country's banner wavingover
the deep, but which would not, or could not
bring him aid.
Thus those four men, who, from the pe
culiar simitions of their portraits seemed to
stand as representatives of all those whom
the world calls •great," those four who
made the earth tremble to its centre—se
verally died—one by intoxication, the
second by suicide, the third by assassina
tion. and the last in lonely exile.
How vain is the greatness of this world !
how fearful is the gift of genius, if it be
abused ! Who that is now living would
not rather die the death of the humble,
righteous man, than that of Alexander, or
Hannibal, or Cierar. or Bonaparte.
realms erance Rewarded
As a young peasant one day was return
ing to his home in the village of Sion, a
heat y fall of snow, about the beginning of
October, met hint oa his toilsome ascent.
Ile reached at length a rock, from which
he could see his own chpalet ; but in its
stead, nothing appeared but a frightful mass
of snow-heaps beneath which his house,
his wife, and their only child, were doubt
less engulfed. At first he was overwhelm
ed with despair, and threw himself on
the rocks in a state of stupor. But pre
sently the light of hope broke upon him ; he
started up, and rushed to the still uninjured
cottage of one of his neighbors, whose
assistance ho entreated; several others join
ed with them, and, together, armed with
pickaxes and spades, they set to work.
with a view of disengaging the devoted
family from the overwhelming wreck. It
required both strength and resolution, and j
the friends worked till night with ardor.—
The young man was then left alone, he j
continued to labor without ceasing, and at' '
daybreak his companions returned. The
second day ended without result ; but de
spair gave the husband fresh vigor. in spite
of his fearful disappointment. A third day
he toiled on, mid at last to his unspeakable
rapture, be'discovered the roof of his dwel
ling : and through the aperture for the
smoke lie perceived his wife sitting by the
light of a lamp, watching her infant, who
was being at that moment suckled by a
goat. Ills cries of joy were soon respon
ded to, and the story of deliverance was
soon told. A large rock behind the ehpalet
had forced the avalanche which had
I descended to make another direction, and
all beneath the roof,io the last aids Busk.
were saved. His resolute perseverance
was rewarded, and the pair became the
objects of congratulation to the whole dis
trict.
,
When one sees the position of these vil
lages, he is not astonished at any of these
histories, which, however, have seldom so
fortunate an ending as this.--Sights in the
Alps by Miss Costello.
Mum is NEW YORK.-A atatemeut is
made showing that there are upwards of
one hundred thousand quarts of milk re
ceived in New York daily, principally by
railroad, for which $BOOO is paid. This
makes the yearly cost of milk lor the Guth
,
smite* 1111,826,900.
VALUABLE iessid that at the
late exhibition of the Vermont Stile Agri
cultural Society there were sheep of the
French merino breed present which SI,QOO
wouldtbot buy , and the stork from which
sells readily for from 200 $260 for ewes,
and 260 to $4OO for bucks.
46 1 think your church will. last a good
many years yet," said a waggiakdoacou to
his minister. 01 see the sleepers are very
sound."
"FEARLESS AND FREE."
Science Answering Spnestions.
Why is rain water soll t Because it is
not impregnated with earths and minerals.
Why is it more easy to wash with soft
water than with hard ; Because soft we,
ter unites freely with soap, and dissolve.
it instead of decomposing it, as hard water
does. •
Why do wood ashes make hard water
soft ? let, Because the carbonic acid of
wood ashes combines with thip sulphate of
lime in the hard water, and converts it into
chalk ; and 2dly, Wood ashes convert
some of the soluble salts of water into in
soluble, and throw them down as a sedi
ment , by which the water remains more
pure.
Why has rain water such an unpleasant
smell when it is collected in a rain-water
tub or tank a Because it is impregnate')
with decomposed organic matters, washed
from roots, trees, or the casks in which it
is collected.
Why does water melt salt T Because
very minute particles of water insinuate
themselves into the pores of the salt by ca
pillary attraction, and force the crystals a
part from each other.
How does blowing hot food make i
cool t It causes the air which has been
heated lir the food to change more rapidly,
and give place to fresh cold air.
‘Vlty do ladies fan themselves in hot
weather T That fresh particles of air
may be,brought in contact- with their lace
by the action of the fan t and as every
fresh particle of air absorbs some heat
from the skin, this constant change makes
them cool.
Does a fan cool the air? No: it makes
the air hotter, by imparting to i: the heat
of our lace: but it cools our face, by trans
tering its heat to the air.
Why is there always n'etrong draught
through the keyhole of a door ? Because
the air in the room we occupy is warmer
than the air in the hall ; therefore the air
from the hall rushes through the keyhole
iuto the room, and causes a draught.
Why is there always •at g draught
under the door, and through the crevices
on each side Because efuld air rushes
from the hall, to supply the void in the
room caused by the escape of warm air
up the chimney, etc.
Whyls there always a draught through
the window crevices t Because the exter
nal air, being colder - than the air of the
room we ocenpy, rushes through the win
dow crevices to supply the deficiency entic
ed by the escape of warm air up the
etc.
If you open the lower Sash of the win
dow, there is more draught than if you o
pen the uper sash. Explain the reason of
this. If the lower sash be open, cold ex
ternal air will rush freely into the room,
and cause a great draft inwards : but ii the
upper sash be open, the heated air of the
room will rush out ; and of course, there
will be leas draught inwards.
By which means is a room better ventilat
ed, by opening the upper or the lower sash ?
A room is better ventilated by Opening the
upper sash ; because the hot. vitiated air,
w hi c h always ascends towards the ceiling,
can escape more easily.
By which means is a hot, room more
quickly cooled, by opening the upper or the
lower sash t A hot ro is cooled more
quickly by opening the lower sash ; be
cause the cold air can enter mitre freely
at the lower part of the room than at the
upper.
Why does the wind dry damp linen ?
Because dry wind, like a dry sponge, un
hides the particles of vapor from the sur
face of the linen, as fast as they are
formed.
Which is the hottest place in a church
or chapel ? The gallery.
Why is die gallery• of all public places
hotter than the lower parts oldie building ?
Because the heated air of the building as
cends ; and all the cold air which can enter
through the doors and windows keeps to
the floor, till it has become heated.
Why do plants often grow out of wpils
and towers 1 Either because the wind
blew the seed there with the dust; or else
because some bird, flying over, dropped
seed there which it had formerly eaten.—
Dr. Brewer's Ottifte to Science.
PRINATIrIi POPULAR PREACIIKRII.-111
die great cities of the Grecian Empire, the
bad and corrupt manners proceeding from
the theatre and the schools of the rlictini:
clays had spread so far, that the preachers
were interrupted with loud. plaudits.—
Chrysostom often emphatically reprobated
this abase, which served to nourish vani
ty—the most dangerous enemy attending
all the gifts granted to man ; and his own
words testify that he himself had nut felt
altogether free from some workings (adds
vice, from which his own nation and times
had oilfired so much. "Many," he says,
"take great pains to make a long discourse
before the congregation, and when the
multitudes loudly testily their approbation.
they fancy themselves equal to kings ; but
if they bring their discoursq to an end
without noise, this is worse to them than
hell. This has been the ruin of the church,
that you will listen to no discourse that
leads you to repentance, but only to one
which can entertain you ; and that too, by
the topes of the speaker's voice, and the
arrangement of the words, as if you were
so maity..eingers and musicians. In such
ciemonstrations of approbation, there is at
the instant something congenial to human
niture.tind I--am pleased. But when. .I
come home, and reflect that the persons
who thus testified their approval derived
no advantage from what they heard; that
if the'' , slid gain anything whatever, it was
all lost by the shouts and the plaudit';
am deeplygrieved; and sigh, and feel as if
I had said everYilsing in vain. Of what
use is all my pains:taking, if my bearers
derive no fruit from my ministry t "Noth
ing," he say., "becomes a church so mueh
as quiet and order. Such noises belong
to theatres, markets and processions."—.
Neander's Memorials of Chrislian
Thera are 404 ! muscles in acsterpiller
at least, so writers say. We never took
pains to count them.
Why would you suppose lisf!did a grout
deal of Weighing 1 , llecalOgdoy always
carry scales. ' '
IReilllcks*Mob:
Talk of people being resigned, will you I
Just let us tell you of old' Deacon Pomp,
of our old ilk. The Deacon was a dread
ful pious man, and hated the devil and all
his works as bad as lie hated cucumbers.
Well, the Deacon was one morning per
ambulating the outskirts of his premises,
when his eye fell upon a small piece of
paper lying upon the ground, which had
the appearance of a billet dotty or some.
thing of that sort, so he stooped down to
pick it up, and—lo ! a lotterrticket.—
Up jumped the terrified Deacon but the
wicked paper would stick to ,I;ia moist
thumb. it was a queer circumstance, so
the Deacon opened it and read :
"C a pital prixe.—Rlo,ooo.--Drawing
to take place on the 17th inst."
The next day happened to be the 17th
inst., and by some unaccountable man
muvre the ticket found itself comfortably
ensconced in his capacious pocket.
The Deacon had urgent business in the
next town on the following morning, so he
saddled hie mare, and after again examin
ing his ticket, he started off, and in a short
time reached the place of his destination.
lie stopped at a hotel, put up his mare,
and shot off in a bee-line for the lottery of
fice. He quickly reached it, but hesitated
before ascending the steps. Suppose his
Minister should see him—dreadfull lie
pulled his beaver down over his eyes, and
muttering, •Trotect me, 0 Lord," in he
went.
The De.oeon's hand sought his pocket,
and as soon as the ticket was aecered, it
sought its way out again.
"No. 412," said the Deacon, handing
the ticket to the attendant.
•Allow me to congratulate you, sir," re
plied the obsequious lottery vender. "No.
112 has drawn the capital."
We will omit what happened. till the
Deacon reached the street again, the for
tunate possessor of the coveted prize.
Ile started for his hotel, and as he Was
saddling his nag for his home Journey,
some ungodly villain took it into hi* head
In sound his pocket, and remove all trout
blesome oSstructions front it.
The rascal classed hank motes under the
'‘kcalegory, and they were soon iramderred
1 from the Deacon's possession into hi
own.
In two hours the Deacon was at home.
The good tidings were quickly imparted
to his wife, and now (or the money. First
this poatei, and, then the other pocket.
then (live goes the Deacon's digits into his
troweers' pockets. No batik notes.
Ile grew as white as his shirt. and lull
ing with a heavy squat into his arm chair,
he gasped :
"Gone !—to grass."
"Sh-o-o-o, Deacon, don't swear."
"Don't swear ?" yelled the Deacon, "by
then—"
J net then his eye fell upon* chatechism
lying on the table, tool rousing himsell
with a herculean ellort, he composedly
said :—••Server me right ; I deserve it for
tetehin' the tarns! thing. The Lord kith
given and Ile hang taken away."
The story leaked out, somehow, but
nevertheless it is rumored abroad that it
never would have come to our ears, if the
good old Deacon had not forgotten the
commandment which says, "Trust not
women."
As 4n instance 01 the careless and vexa
tions incliner in which most communica
tions addreised to newspapers for publica
tion, are written, we refer to their chirog
raphy we will cite the fact of a mane
script being rent to - not many months a
go, the title el which being examined by
three experienced judges, was decided to
be, "The Philadelphia Riots." When
the article came to be ...set up" in type by
the compositor, he gads the heading as a
bove stated. On reaching the second intr.
agraph of the communication, however, the
puzzled compositor discovered that the
writer was - entering into a discussion
on "The Tehuantepec Route." A dis
tinction with a dilFarence, and with a ven
geance.—N. 0. Picuyune.
• Mats su Farmers. ,
Tomatoes inake excellent preserves.
'roads are the very best protection of
cabbage against lice.
Plants, When drooping, are revived by
a few grains of camphor.
Pears are generally improved by graft
ing on the Mountain Ash.
Sulphur is valuable in preserving grapes,
&c., from insects..
In feeding with corn, 60 lbs. ground,
goes as far as 100Ibs. in the kernel.
Turnips of small size have double - the
nutritious matter - that large ones have.
Ruta Bags is the only root that increas
es in nutritious qualili6 us it increases in
size.
Bats and other vermin are kept away
from grain by sprinkling garlic when pack
ing the sheaves.
Money skillfully expended in drying
land by draining and otherwise, will be
returned with ample interest.-
To cure scmtchel olf alibrife, wash the
legs with warm soap-suds, and then with
beef brine. Two applications will cure
in the worst case.
CAUTION AGAINST SPURIOUS POIN.
The Secretary of the Treasury has receiv
ed a letter • from the American consul at
Leeds, England, announcing the arrest of
three or four persons at Hull, supposed to
have been engaged in issuing ipurions U.
States, Prussian and Danish coins - , and .
psuing them off on emigrants coming to
the United States. It is said their, mode
of coining is very scientific, it being almost
impossible to detect the Counterfeit,except
by cutting. t,
flour Mille have lately. been erected in
England on rite Paris piety fmpro•ed,,
which; in twelve minutet after the wheat
is taken in, tends forth the flour fit for
market.
An expert farmer down Emit, has rue.
eeetled in. raising , a colt. Irons the "night
mare."
to tint patience : For 11 1 / 4 wootl.
en•leggai man to hate a wife, Ilion to
,
[From the' Family Herald.]
Love.
ST L[o3l.
Love is folly, Love is madness,
Bringing Joy to end in sadness;
Love is fickle, he doth lenge,
Ever changing but to change.
Love is wicked, wanton, wild,
Full of mischief ass child ;
Love is selfish, Love is vain,
AD his pleasures ate but pain.
Love it Jealous, Love is blind,
Love drives reason from the mind
Love is bright, but Love destroys...
Poison lurks in all his joys—
If you would your life enjoy, •
Make no acquaintance with the boy
Reply.
When Love meets Liive, then all is gladness,
But when rejected, drives to madnese ;
Love inconstant, out will range,
But if lie Love,lWill never change.
Love 16 god-like, Love Is mild,
Love is guileless as a child ;
If Love be selfish 'tis to gain
The surety that 'tie not In vain.
Love 14 not jealous, Love is kind,
When in the hearth is enshrined ;
Love Is gentle, Lova is bright
.As planets in the darkest night.
Love le joy, and Love's a treasure
That to worth gees nought but platen.;
It lea type of realms above,
Where ell are happy, all is Love.
If you would true life enjoy,
Make good acquaintance with the bey.
Painentee S. Rawsstee,
The Grand Dukened the Jess , '.
• CHAIPTIIII roost MIMI LIM
Tho following singular story. which
was current among the English residents
in St. Petersburg at the coronation of the
present Emperor of Russia, line been nar
rated to us by a person newly arrived from
that part - of the continent :
In the early part of the year 1826, an
English gentleman, from . Akuiefelt in the!
Crin,cs, having occasion to travel to France
on business of importance.- directed his
course by way of Warsaw, in Poland. A
bout an hour after his arrival that city,
he quitted the tavern in which he had been
taking 4 refreshment, to take a walk through
the streets. While sauntering in front of
one of the public buildings, he net an el:
derly gentleman of 'a grave aspect end cour
teous demeanor: After mutual change of
'civilities they got into conversation, during
which with the characteristic frankness of
an Englishman, he told the strangeirwho
he was, where from, and wither' he-was
going. The other mn the'. most friendly
manner; invited him to share the hospitals
ties of his house till such time as he found
it convenient to resume his journey—ad-
ding with a smile, that it was improbable
that he might visit the Crimea himself in
-the course of that yeng, when perhaps 119 ,
might require a similar return ; die inv ha
lion was accepted, and he was. conducted
to a splendid mansion, elegant without, and
commodious
1 Unbounded liberality on the part of the
Pole, produced unbounded confidence on
I the part of the Englishman. The latter
had a small box of jewels of groat value,
which he had carried about his person front' ;
the time of his leaving home. Finding that I
mode of conveyance both hazardous and
inconvenient in a town, he requested his
munificient host to deposit it in a place of
security till he should be ready .to go a
way. At the expiration of three days he I
prepared fur his departure, sod in &eking'
for his box, how was he amazed when the
old gentleman, with a countenance exhibt
ing the utmost surprise, replied,
"What box 1"
„ Why the small box of jewels which I
gave you to keep for me."
"My dear sir, you must surely be mis
taken. I never, really, saw or heard of
such a box."
The Englishman was petrified. After
recovering himself a little, he requested he
would call his wife, she having been pres
ant when he received ii. She came, and&
being questioned, answered in exact Ind
son with her husband—expressed the safe
surprise—and benevolently endeavored tai
persuade her distracted guest that it was a"
mere hallucination. With mingled feel-
ings of horror, astonishment and despair,
he walked out of the house and went to the.:
tavern at which he had put up on his arri- '
vat in Warsaw. There he related his mys
terious story. and learning that his iniqui
tous host was the richest Jew in Poland,
he was advised without delay, to. state
the case to the Grand Duke, who fottintito.
ly happened at that time to be in War
saw.
lie accordingly waited upon him, and 1
with Hula ceremony was admitted to an ,
audience. He briefly laid down his case,l
and Constantine, "with a greedy ear de
voured up his discourse.' Constantine
expressed his astonishment—told lnio he ,
knew the. Jew, having had extensieihrion- 1
ey treueactious with Itiut,---that lie had al- i
ways ben respectable and of an unblem
ished character. "However," he added,'
"I will use every legitimate means to un-.
veil the , mystery.
So saying he called on some gentlemen 1
who were to dine with hint that day, and
dispatched a messenger with a vote to the !
Jew, requesting his presence! Aaron co
bayed the summons. I
"Have you no recollection of having re.l
ceived a box of jewels, from the hand of
this. gentleman ;" said ,the Duke. i
"Never, any lord," was the reply.
-"Strange, indeed. Are you perfectly
conscious," turning to the Englishman, ,
"that you 'gave the box as elated 1"
"Quite certain, my lord."
' Then addressing himself to the Jew— !
"This is a very singular case, and 1 feel it
my duty to use singular menus to ascer
tain the truth; is your wife at homer , !
"Yes, my lord. • 1
o`Then," continued Constantine, "there
is a sheet of paper, and here is a pen ; pro
ceed
'o write 3 note to your wile in each
terms eel shall dictate." ,
Aaron lifted the pen. •
"Now,' said this second Solomon, "corn
mew by saying--" All is discovered:—
There is no resource left but to deliver up
he ,box. 1 have • owned the fact in the
presence of the Grand Duke." ,
A tremor shook the frame of the Israel
-4
He, and the pen dr pped from hie fi nger*.
Hat imaantly re wing himself, he ea ,
cletimed—
TWO DOLLAIO4, PEA: 4NriUlt.
)NUMBER 28. ~•
..s,That is impossible. my lord. That
would be directly implicating myself."
"I give you my word and honor." said
Constantine, presence of everyone . in
the room, that what you write shall never
trellised' ea an hottrument against you, fur
ther than the effect it produces on your
wife. If you are innocent' you hare moth,
ing to lear—but if you persist in not wt.',
(Mg: I hold it as a proof of your .guilt."
With a trembling hand the terrified Jeri
wrote out the note, folded it up. and as ha
was desired, sealed it with his own signet.
Two officers were despatched with the
note to his house, and When Ss rah glanced
over its contents, she swooned and sunk
to the ground. The box was delivered
up and restored to its owner—and the
Jew stiffen, the punishment his villainy
deserved. He was banished to Siberia.
A N AIrFUL TRAOKDV.-A frightful Oat.
edy recently occurred at Brownstown, Hi,
diane. The details are thus given in the
Madison Banner
seems that two brothers, named Hi;
ram and Warren Francisco, and well
known as respectable and peaceable citi
zens. followed the occupation of dock
peddling. They usually travelled differ.
ant routes, but made a practice of meeting
each other frequently. They agreed to
meet at a public house in the vicinity cf
Bran nistown on Friday last. One of the
brothers reached the tavern about 9 o'clock.
and inquired if hie brother had arrived, and
was informed by the landlord that lie had
not. After eating his supper he called for
a light and asked to be shown to bed. The
landlord informed him that lie had no can,
dies iu the . house, but. if he would follow
hint he would take him to bed. Francis
co followed the landlord into a dark room
and undressed himself and retired to rest.
The bed seemed to be wet, and, havingeoine
matches about hitn,,lte struck a light.—.
Upon examining the hod he found that it
was wet with blood. Discovering a candle
near by, lie lit it,and looking under the bed.
saw the body of Ida brother, with his
thinat cut froM ear to ear, and perfectly
. life-
Nee; •Fastenittithe door innediately, he
proCeeded to load a revolver which lie had;
but before he. Could do so there was an ef.
fort made by several 111011 to enter his room.
Pretending not to be alarmed, he' looked
to wait until lie dressed himself. As soon
as he finished loading hie pitiful he clouted
the door, and the landlord and two other -
men refilled on him, when lie fired two bar,.
rels of his pistol, immediately killing the
landlord and one of his ticeetnplicee, aftcr
which the other man fled.
ONNERIL, ItMYR CIDER le GOOD, nor
DARN TOUR PICKLue I—When . Major Jack
Downing called upon Gin. Andrew Jack
son at the White louse for the lirst.time,
he wait - regaied by the President, wilts
Chanipagne and Olive+. The doughty Ma
jor 'tried both—the, first he liked, the sec.
one he did not fanny, and lazing the fruit
back upon the plate scarcely tasted said.
"General your cider is 'good, bus darn
your pickle,'" Just so thought an old
tashioned Democrat in the interior of
Wayne county the other day, when his
Locoing() brethren paid him the compli
ment of raising a hickory pole in ,front of
his house. He made no objection to the
pole, but. when they proposed to elevate a
Pierce and King flag upon it. "hold on."
says he, go the hickory pole, because
that reminds me of Jackson, but your
Pierce *and King flag I can't stand,. be.
Cause I vote f or Seoul" The pole raising
discontinue precipitately.—Delreit Daily
Advertiser. ,
HIT [!IM Aoatu.—Where is your plat
form, Whigs ? (lentlenten give us a plat
form. A platform 1--7intea and Key-
That fellow needn't bawl so lustily for a
platform. The hangman will provide him
one at the proper time.—Prent ice.
Ehutalsn.R.—A. little girl, named Caro.
line Ferris, at Whitlockville, West Ches
ter county, when returning from school,
ou Friday evening last, *as beset by a
couple.of , hoys, one of whom, minted Mr.
Neil, aged about twelve years, knocked
her down, filletl her mouth and eyes uitl►
dlist, end concluded his brutal treatment
by twisting a dead snake around her neck:
She succeeded in reaching home, but died
soon after.
A city Miss, newly installed as the wife
of a fernier, was one day called upon by
a neighbor of the sante professinn, who, in,
the abscence of her husband, asked her lot
the loan of his Plottgh a shorttime. am
sure you would be accommodated," was
the reply, Stone was only at home
—I do not know, though, where 'he keeps
hi s pl o u g h." bot, she added, evidently,
zealous to serve, " there's the cart the yard
you plough with that till Mr.
Stone gets bark.
One of nor neighbors, not long .sinee,,
who has rather a pungent wife, said one
evening to her as ,he passed out of the tloor,
"My dear, I am going to spend the: even
ing with my friend . Mr. I shall Iv.:
turn at ten,—but if 1-ahould net you need
hot *tit for me." "01" said tha .1
s hant,—L 001 centaur you." Our neigh.
bur returned by ten, as any prudent hue.
band would have done.
•
MA AVAKITiI Sour ()owls I,—, AI, Fi 4 r i b it
Convention held at' Washington iIL this
Suite, un Wednesday last, an immense
"soup bowl!! on % heels, containing a *Mid,
glee club with flags, banners nail three lit
four live mums, came front Unionfriwu,'
drawn by. six gray horses, folintionllby
wagon sixty feet long, rontsinilg4mne:
ono hundred delegates, dra wit by thirty-ono
elegant horses, ouch bearing a nag with they
name of one of the States.
Of all folieitivs how charming is Mat Or
a firm and gentle frieopshiii I • It 114111)114
ens our caret; itadluorlame our molowtt. and
assists us in extremities tit a sovereign
antidote against calamities. e r •
SWEILT Pirra Warriss,—Twri
blespoonaful or mashed potausl. 40_ of, sq.:,
gar, ope piul Our 136traymlattal
of wheatftour. Mix dos. itigrealiorls.
'together. and bake in 4 week 1404