BY D. A. & C. B. I*rEBL ER VOLUME XXIY. 1 BOOKS, STATIONERY saiteu aeons. One price—and that as low as at any Establishment ont of the City. S. N. 'MERU E I'URNS his aeknowldegments to his friends for the lon k et - inhumed and liberal patronage extended hint, and invites attention to his present largely in creased stork of goods just received from Philadelphia and New Yoric. lie deems it unnecessary to enumerate the assort ment, which will he found to embrace every vatiety.of goods in his line, viz : Classical, Theological, School, _Miscellaneous BOOXS and Stationery of all kinds, embracing, as lie belteveS, the largest and hest assortment ever opir_tiettin Gettysburg. lie ills° invites intention to his large supply of FANCY .GQODS, entliraein t : Gold arid Silvdir.peris arid Pen elk, Pert-Knives, Plata arid rani.% Note Paper and Montt) %VaferF, Sealing Wax, I 'ortitioileAlo, Soaps. Per fumery, &c., rte.— all of whirl' will he 1..14 at the 11_7' 17.: I? 1,(11rE ST R.l 7'E r : p 7'olll and examine for yourselves at the old estairlrslied BOOK & DIWG bwre itt rhatilber.t.tirg street, a tew doors rout the diamond. S. 11. Gortyghtiri!, Pa., 1:112116 WS; ILIC ILMIIIRE STORE. r 'WE Subscribers would respectfully A. a linotinre to their friends and the piddle. that they have (yelled a NEIV II IRIMARE STORE in WilNinore st.. adjoining the residenee of DAVID ZIEOLCR, “eity.SIIN, in which they' are opeutu a arge and general assortment if II (ROW &RE, IRON, STEEL, GROGERiES I CUTLERY, COACH TRIMMINGS Spring.. Axles, Saddlery, (Ada,- II Shoe _Findings, Dyestuffs, • 11 4roeral, mewling evert ileseriptio./ of nni 0 .e.4 in the shove line of business—to hid, they invite the attention of Coarli• smiths. lisrpenters. Cabinet' 111 11,ers, Siweinakers, Saddlers, and the gviterally. (Ito- stork 114ving been selected with great rare and purehashed tor Cash. we gnarl antee.(for the Ready NI •y,) to thslmse of any part of it mi as reasonable terms as they ran he porch:l,4l any %% here. 11'e pArtiettlat ly retorst a coil from Our ~11,1 eartte.tly so;trit a share td ()AIM,. favor. a• we art determined to t•s -t ddedt A l• r.t.i,r or selling 1:oods at low Fires .tml doing bust ness on fur JOEI. H. DANNER. 1)%V11) 1;t1ty%burg...11411,13.18.-,1.--tf. 23 ' (11 E. & R. MARTIN, At the Old Stand, N. W. Corner of the Diamond, Gettysburg, r 3-EN DER their thanks to their custo mers for past favors, and respect fully 'in:oral the public that they contin ue to Art nes no fashion, and the artist true Rejects lilt C11: 1 10111/1, whether old ur new." Comparing tube and fashion, he said : mentam Case, berms, sonic people claim fiat male mad fashion often Heart the game. They never can, but when all farlions haste To pay their homage at the shrine of taste ; Therefore be governed, e'er your charm s depart, Ye lovely lathes, by taste's sovereign art, ! That when to you few outward spells remain, Cut and make all Garments, Ye may the magic ofyour no • nds r e t a in. " fib the best manner and MI reasonable . Having discussed quite hilly the rash. terms. The rutting will lie done as 'here. Implore. by Itom:air MARTIN. Fashions ions pertaining to the dress of ladies, his attenti g are regularly received, and every effort, men, aon was again turned to the end, in a form of advice, went on toentle made to secure a good fit and substantial ! pay_ Do little good, and seldom long experience in the business, and re- , , Be proud, ungentle, scorn as you can ; your fellow man ; Clewed efforts to please, to merit and rDe lost at funerals, foremost at each feast ; receive a continuance of the public patron- Gaze on a stronger as at some wild beast ; age- Despise all study, never read a book, 1/(7',A1l our work is made by regularly , Act like a valet and talk like a conk; I Cut country cousins, whom you meet in town, employed journeymen ; upon this, our nou ., know your mint, and blare y our uncle customers may rely. I down ; ljgj''The Fall and Winter Fashi one ! Wears small cane, in outside pocket stuck, have just been recived from the city. No matter %horn it pricks, it is their luck. 0:7 - All kinds of country produce taken Walk with a shiver, es If crackin g eggs, in exchange for work. Look to your hoots and cultivate your legs ; E. &R. MAR ri N. See that - your bat is brushed as smooth as . silk, Wear gloves —light, yellow, or u white as ; • • Oct. 14—tf Men's Dress Goods. - - - 7;. VERY variety of Colors and quail s, ty of Cloths, Cassimeres, Sattinets and Overcoatinga, all of which will be sold as low as at any other store in town. Call and see them at KURTZ'S Cheap Corner. 171.123 MP 121411114111 2 GUNS I GUNS 1 Alarge lot of Single and Double Barrel ed GUNS & RIFLES, of a super ior make, just received, and for sale cheap by ~ FALINESTOGK & SONS. Oct. 14, 1853. Fashionable Cravats.____ 1u414,. ARGUS SAMSON has just receiv ed a large assortment of beaud. l i A`l:U of the latest, style, whir* he !IRO I ',cheaper than any other estab lishment in town, l*Sm'S n i; MR , iitaa*air eatmee Sr,„ 4II, PVIIIIII9*i Bail Clila.- Motto Tv ionoternanninitia, Arm., a ineij as songuiPt,tti;Openei. at. BUEHLEWO enalintni ,likura,' in Chantireraborg Street. 11111140 c 111frpripifitit TrlTl L th o s, :,14,11,4*4 Im4" 1 01 1 1 Ag 44 49ri1M44111140111 awl. the* , 4 . KURTZII. Fashion : A Poem. by Park Ben- Jamln Mr. Benjamin has been reciting an original poem in the cities, which has on every occasion brought together a throng ed audience, whose anticipations of a rich treat were always fully realized during the hour and a half occupied in its recital.— The Mennen( the poet (says the 'Washing ton Globe) is annonnced as ono "By some men wor■hiped, and by come reviled ; Now grave and stately, How absurd and wild ; It haa.exided awe old time been, From tlvilir.t Cm leaf to the latest law t Where the brown .avage paints his naked skin, Where the fine isily screws her figure in ; Where Indian stetting with feathers braid their locks, Where Zembla's daughters don thair bear-skin frocks Where Quaker dames fold down their 'kerchiefs vent, , Where Chinese damsels squeeze their little foot; Where Venus Hottentots exp..' 41 fat, And gide of Guinea wear their noses that Where Yahkee ranteee, like some node of flies, Make up in bustle what they lark in size." Thus all ages and all countries were de scribed as yielding to the sway of lash inn : All to one pp t And throng [wrote the yet courted, and yet deemed di t . :Irn.hion. thy glio km all the world tlimplmy Thy sovereign inandstes all the world obey !Phis ?ortign of the poem was full of I . o.urf‘ter provoking Hui, and bits all a- round, so that everybody came in for a Prorn the splendid belle, %Wiese chsrtits conspicuous tell To the ohl beau, like (;rilites of yore. ‘l'ho wore his Nestmeiits tnittoiwti down before." ..What ie th ashion ? N rinemtion Indie• nee Ten time n u What in the news 'V' After description of the Mismes Snooks, *e represented as delighted only with the information that dandies only give, he said : sigh sir flames, if all were like those, Hu{ lielskutaturue wisdom yet remains; Aud there are some women yet—Heaven be praised—wish brains" Atter an amusing allusion to some fash ions id the past, he came to describe the dress of gentlemen, when as lie "said ••In times more 'war concisely buckled in, The dress is oft mi sicken for the skin ; It makes one wonder, though not apt to scoff, How it we, eser gotten on or off.' Turning from the gentlemen again, tit said of the ladies' dress: lou•_ ago the gown was quite too brie(, And gave the fret a prominent relief; V% Mai oas quite well ha those whose feet were small, A o d whose ancient figure not too tall; Then to the ground went down the lengthened akin, is Covered the shoes and nicely brushed te dirt." After a lew hits , at Bloomerism, arid soine'of its kindred loietiliariites in dress, the strong movie(' woman comes in for a share a attention : may he one of woman'. denrest richte, o make In n.ell the wirangi , m m all onglod ; But in my until Is iil`lloM. 4 111CSIlt , 11 lurks. It 1 !annum I4eirn aught (I, ltllll oils.. A few good hints then follow, some thing ill this stile : Now if the lair I Iniabt presume to ad•ise, should say something, earliest in this wine : Let sulN•rtluitV be cast aside, Finical., not fusliiiimoliould he beauty's guide ; Adel,: your garments to your limn and face ; That which is consonant Confers most grace.' Thin refering to old paintings he said that those which please tis most, are those that have the le west ornaments and deco- Let a huge chain around your bosom fall, Holding an eye-glass like your learning, small; Your coat to all meri's eyes a perfect fit, As Brim made for you, but you for it ; 'limn, loudly cherished by a precious few, Strut like a rooster, and he sure you'll do. Spend all your time in listless, vacant ways, Have but one trouble—how to make a raise ; Read well the records for the rich men's wills And built an heiress, who can pay your bills ; But, fortune's fickle ; therefore be not rash, And never marry till you know therescash." The discription of an exquisite dandy was exceedingly amusing, and { {he lan guage used by the exquisite, in speaking of a ball he had attended, is quite laugha ble for its aptness "You never saw Co little taste befoah, 'Twos a dead failyab, • confounded bosh." The advice given in regard to fibbing was somewhat in this form : "Fibres belietied when they're not too small ; Be th „your rule : Eb large or not nt,e,ll Fashion, reprdless of our morel force, Extols the mesnost silliest, falsest:course. Wall her votaries little does the ash, Except with 'nee to Wear a handsome mask'; To sewn whet them an not, and cheese the art Which, while it decks this body, stripe he heart." After referring to the, frenzy with which &mouth -a tid Fenny 'Elinor were received, he amid— ' "Po the ;net speaker had,bet little wore Thad the great dinear, sitieral The ' With ; fhir` friewnb Voneinvid sad Which bated their heed. when' Fumy Elbe, joapeV The various schemes of reform then came in for a share of attention t . and then the fashions in literature were .criticised, and the fashi`On for glorifying heroes, or those who would be thought such: Great battle' fought on papeirat one Fees Planned Out and conquered with prodigious ease; But, when the actual contest is begun, How many valiant generals cut and run !" We eut the following paragraph from an idle and interesting article in the Al bany Daily State Register, on a passage in the minority report of Mr. Crosby to the Senate : "But are these intoxicating drinks the "Gifts of God !" We deny it. We af firm that in all the world—nay, in all the universe of God, there is not a lake, a river, a streamlet or a fountain, of intoxi cating drinks. There is no such thing in nature. Water God has everywhere given, spread it all over the world, sent it down from the clouds, gent it bubbling up from the earth, made it journey in eras_ less activity in rills and streams • and great rivers, towards the ocean. lie has, wherever 111311 can live, given it to him at his very door ; but intoxicating drinks Ise has provided nowhere on the face of the whole earth. That "gift," whether "good" or evil, is not the gift of God,"but the in vention of man—an invention that has destroyed more lives, desolated mare homes, occasioned more sorrow and an. guish, than war, pestilence and famine combined. It way by many be thouOt a questionable policy to deprive inen,!mf! the use of it by legislat;ve enactment, but to call intoxicating &mks the “Good gift of God" is an abuse of terms, and a burn ing reproach against the benevolence and holy attributes of die Deity. •cke ouhminxive bow, Y.•ht orice4oov," -.4 The "item gatherer" of the New York fribune is responsible for the following pretty paragraph .1 rare r7rtist.—One day last week a distinguished ['mist arrived in this city, and gave almost numberless specimens of his skill in silver graining. With all the prodigality of professional enthusiasm, he decorated the windows of the up-town mansions and the little green panes of the most miserabletovels. Such clouds and castles and forests of pines—such mountains, and feathers and diamonds. nobody bu he could devise, and set all in silver on a pane of glass. without brush or pencil, by the cold light of the stars. Windows that never had a curtain were decorated in the highest ate le of the art. All the cars came in with silvered win. doves. hie even went so far as to bur nish up old rusty mad heads, and the old harness "I the dray horses was touched tip till they looked quite grand with the glitter. Baia, cu route fur school, grew gray as they played by Inc way, and mai dens whose locks an hour before were "8r...11 iu the hhadow —golden in the eun, " were silvered ap with time, as they went trippinv through the streets. We com mend Mr. J. Frost, Silver plater and GraMer, as an artist of rare merit. but nobody is perfect. and we mas t say he is a cold-hearted fellow and a vagrant. He pays no rent, but sets up shop where his services are the least to be desired.— Once "open a fire" upon him, and he re treats ; but many there are—hots many, neither you nor me exactly know—who cannot repel him, upon whose hearths the ashes lie cold and white like mimic 14110 W ; and very bold lie grows in such pla ces. He enters the house, and ornaments the jam with strange devices. He sees how poor and miserable they are, so he turns the old shovel into silver. He sees how sad they are, and lie transmutes their tears into brilliant beads and fastens them very curiously upon the rags they wear, and very goy they loak indeed with their decorations. ye chemists! outwearing the wonderful spell Of the arr that ye breathe—scan its elements well, For the winter is hero. Alt ! the hearth's with• out glow ! Let sweet Charity come—let the crucible go. You talleof the pulses ; how often you've said 'Tis the iron therein that is blushing ■u red. Here . + the retie to that thought ; fur misfortune . . has made Of that very same irons terrible blade, That has entered the heart, that has entered the soul, And has broken the wheel, and has broken the bow(. Then transmute into song the sad sigh if you can, And replenish the glow on the cheek that is wan, Arid ilium(' with a smile or so eyes that are wet, 'Fill they rival the dew with the starlight Mart. 'Tie no alchemy's charm, such a wonder as this, With a word and a doxl to make heaven end bliss." Ilath any wronged thee I be bravely revenged : slight it, and the work is be gun ; forgive it, and 'tis finished. He is below himself, that is not above an inju ry. Was it not Plato who said, that when an injurious speech was offered to him, ho placed himself so high that it could not reach him 1 Miss Cary has just published a book o poems, among Which is the following par ody on Longfellow : "Tell me not in idle jingle, Marriage is an empty dream. For the girl is dead shat's And things are not what they seem. Married life is real earnest, Single blessedness • fib ; Taken from man. to man returned, Has been spoken of the rib." The local editor of Cincinnati emitter 'Mal, gravely remarks that the Siamese Twins appear to be as much ' , attached tb each other" as ever. Dobbs thinks their good feeling all a sham, however, for to his personal knowledge, he says, there has always , been a Ihtle lomething "be- Iween PoWane's, that cementer of friendship and soother of enmities, is nowhere so mooh rfßuired awls° (moonily outraged as ill ispdy s near 'and Alear laminations it to eontinaidly abandon itol. ;aid , thir result Ist , that , theillubions' of sits are deitroyed, entrinitil them, mus h of its happiness. GETTYSBURG. PA., FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 186 4. The "Gilts of God." teFEAB,LEBS AND FREE."D tFrom ^ flosughold Words." Ann, THE CIIIILD. I found the story of Amy the Child in an old German pocket book. On'Saturday afternoon, in summer time, the village children went into the church to be taught their catechise). Among them was Amp, the Shepherd's step daughter, some seven years old. She was a tender-hearted ohild; and when the cler gyman,-after speaking of our duty towards neighbors, said, "All people who would please Guil, must do good according to their means, bethose menus ever so little," ishe could not refrain from weeping. For Amy was very poor, and felt innocently persuaded that she had no power whatev er to gladden by her love or kindness any earthly creature ; not even a lamb or a soling glove. She hod neither, poor child. So, Amy came out of church with sad eBB in her heart, thinking that God would have no pleasure in her, because (but that was only her idea) she had never yet done good to any one. Not wishing that her eyes, now red with weeping, should be seen at home, she went into the field. and laid herself down under a wild rose bush. There, she remarked ; that the leaves of the shrub, tarnished ' with dust, were dry rid drooping, and that the pretty pink blossotns looked pale and faded ; fur there had been no rain for a very loug time. She hastened to a brook that flowed by at no great distance, drew water in the hollow of her hand, (for cop she had none) and thus toilfully and by slow degrees, often going, and as often returning, she washed the dust Away from the languish ing rose-bush, and no refreshed its roots by the timely moisture, that soon it rear ed itself again in itrength and beauty, and joyfully and fragrantly unfolded its blos soms to the sun. After that, little Amy wandered on by the brook in the meadows. whence she bad obtained the water. As site gazed upon it, she almost envied the silver stream because it had -been able to do good to the rose tree. Uu what she herself had done she did not bestow a single thought. 'Proceeding a little way further, she ob served a great stone lyiag, on the bed of the narrow brook; and so choking up the channel that the -water could only strug gle past it slowly ; and, as it were, drop by drop. Owing to this obstacle, all the merry prattle of the stream was at an end. This grieved Amy on the water's account ; so with naked feet She went into the stream and shook the heavy stone. Some time elapsed before she could !wive it from its place ; but, at length by tasking all her strength, s he. rolled it out, and got it to remain on the top of the bank. Then the streamlet flowed merrily by, and the pur ling waves seemed to be murmuring thanks to the gentle child. And onward still went Amy, for at home s he knew tiers was no ono who ea red to impaire after her. She was disliked by her step-father, and own her own moth er loved the younger children much better than she loved her. This constituted the greatest sorrow of Amy's life. Going far about, and ever sad because she h a d do ne good to no one, she at last returned to the tillage. Now, by the very first cottage she came to, there lay, ie little garden, a sick child whose mother ' was gonclo glean in the neighboring fields. • Before she went, however, she had made a toy—a light windmill put together with thin slips of wood—and had placethit by her little sou to amuse hint, and tAnake the time appear shorter to him during her absence. Every breath of air, however, had died away beneath the trees, so that the tiny sails of the windmill turned round nu more. And the sick child, missing the playful motion, lay sorrowfully upon the green turf, under the yellow-marigolds, and wept. Then Amy stepped quickly over the low garden hedge, 1102(11(.6.s that it tore her on ly Sunday frock, knelt before the little windmill, and blew with all her might up on its slender sails. Thus impelled, they were soon is merry motion, as at first.— Then the sick child laughed, and clapped his little hand; and Amy, delighted at his pleasnre, was never weary of ugiug the sails round and round with her breath. At last the child, tired out by the joy which the little windmill had given him, fell fast asleep ; and Awy, warned by the evening shadows which began to gather ; round her, turned her steps towards home. Faint and exhausted was she, for since noon she had eaten nothing. When she reached the cottage door, and stopped there for a moment with boating , heart, she heard her step:father's voice, loud and quarrelsome, resounding from within. lie had just returned from the nil-house, and was in his well-known an gry humor, which the least cause of irrita tion might swell into a storm. Unfortu nately, us Amy trembling entered the room, her torn frock caught his eye. His passion was kindled at the eight. Roused to fury in a moment. he stumbled forward, and, with his powerful fast, struck the poor little child on the forehead. Then Amy bowed her head like the withered roses in the field, for the blow bad fallen upon her temple. As she sank, pale and dying, to the ground,•her mother, witk loud lamentations, sprang forward and kneeled beside her. Even the stern and angry man, suddenly sobered by his own deed, became touched with pity. Bo both the parents 'kept and mourned over Amy, and laid her upon her little couch hi the small inner chamber, and strewed retina her green branches, and various kinds of flowers, such as marigolds and many colored poppies; for the child wss dead ! But, while the parents bitterly reproach ed themselves, and wished they had been kinder to poor Amy, behold a wonder I The door of the ehathber gently,opehad, end the:travail of the 'Bre* whit% Auiy bed set free, trials gentlyy rippppl ng by in' the stillness, tad sprinkled the, *tenth ati,d eyes tif the died ahild, ' The " clOot flowed fito.her'velns, and' conies 'Mere let the.arrested blood in motion.. . Then the spin nnolothd her eyes, whith so lately had been dim and motionless, and she heard the soft waves, like gentle voices murmuring those words in her oar : "This we do unto thee in return for the good thou didst unto us." Yet a little while and the chamber was again stirred by' the presence of some kind ! Ily power. This• • time it was a gentle Breese which !entered, with softly .fluttering wings.— Tenderly it kissed the forehead of the child, land lovingly it breathed its fresh breath into her bosom. Then•Amy'e heart began to thrill with quicker life, and she stretched out her baud to the many colored flowers, and rejoiced in their beauty. And the Breeze softly said : "I bring back the breath, which thou 'didst expend, upon the nick child's pleas ure !" Then Amy smiled, as if she were full of When the Breeze had ceased to mur mur its soft words, an Angel came gliding in through the low door of the little chamber, and in his hands l he held a gar hind of fresh fragrant roses. These he laid again;t, the cheek of the pale child ; In ! they restored it to the •hues of life, and they bloomed again. And the flowers seemed to whisper : "This we do unto thee, in return for the good than didat unto us ! And the Angel kissed Amy on the fore head, eyes, and !booth ; and then came life back to her in its strength. And the Angel said to her "Forasmuch as thou host done good ac cording to thy means, and thou knewest it not, therefore shall a tonfold,blessiug rest upon thee :" To Elite. The following poem is a "heart oft ring" from girl about fourteen years of age, to the memory of a little cousin who recently (lied. No more the losing sunbeams rest Around thy fair yoong head They're laid thole on earth's silent breast, And lell us thou art deed ; That Death hail' kissed thy brow, And owns our guileleits Ellie go*. Elio loved the hluedemied morning flowe r s, And the snow drop stainless eye. Nor thought we kit those happy hours That She. like them. must die But now her cherished form Nu more Shall bre ve wintry 01011,1. We miss the when the bright eters gleam so purely iu the sky, While softly folio the moon's pale beam On spire or mountain high ; 13 ut thou art purer far, In thy fair home, than moon orator. Our hearts shall tioNl thy image dear 'fill death shall call us b•o ; Arid memory etill thy voice will hear, Though thou ha , t pawed from view ; We'll strive. o tole hots tile's cuts. That we may meet thee, blessed mot. There was nitre an old man who be lieved that ••what was to be, would he." Ile live Sin Mussouri, and was unite going out thro a region infested at that time by very savage Indians. Ile always took his gun with him, but this time found that some of the family had taken it out. As lie would nut go without it. his Iriends taunted hun, saving there was no danger of the Indians—that ha would not die till his time any how. "Yes," says the old fellow, ••hut swim: I was to meet an In dian, and his time was come, it would not du not to have my gun It is tar trout' being true, in the progress of knowledge. that alter every failure we intim re-commence from the beginning.— Every failure is a step to euece•a ; every detecting of what is false directs us to wards what is true : every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so ; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure ; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no - tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. Did your ever know a little fellow by the name of Nathaniel Shelly, one of the crustaceo ?—asks a coteinporacy. He was complaining that some one had in sulted him by sending him a fetter, ad drosed to "Nat Shelly." "Why," said a friend, "f-don't see any thing insulting in that. Nat. is an abrevi• whin for Nathaniel." "I know it." said the little man, "but blast i llis itnpOdence, he spelt it with a G— titiat" do not be afraid of diminishing your own happiness by seeking that of other:4. He who labors wholly for the benefit of others, is far happier than the man who makes himself the sole object of all his af fections and exertions. There is nothing so delightful as the truth ; there is no conversation so agreea ble as that of the man of integrity, who hears without intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive. From the way in which men aomet imes talk, you would suppose that dullars an d cents are the only respectable thing in the universe ; that successful speculation' is the only true heroirm, and that the hope of making twenty per cent profit is enough to bestow dignity upon meanness itself. littnevoLeNos.--Thete cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being; replete with benevolence, meditating in whatever. he might render himself moe t acceptable to hie Crew tor, by doing moat good to hie creator'. Objects are but bright snit happy am the eyes of the mint' see ;them ,; with a vision clouded or unclouded by us secret shatiow. Tree life 1 1 eme.fink lefuerid, without it the prayer of the lip brier little bane die eon. Bison' says joitly, 'the t part 'ot britity-ir. that which a MAW. sineoi 'U prose. Flowars are ono Of thtmany beautiful gifts of God to , •B, nogiout. Revolution *Walpole Nbsswisili; Man is a funny fellow. and there is no. accounting for his whims. In lapin he dyes his teeth black; for the all-mufficient reasotedist dogs have white teeth ; end in England and Ireland he deprive/ his face of its natural appendage. ornament and safeguard, fur no 'moan at all ! Surely there to no accounting fur nietes—in one corner of the world we wear a iwoodett dectirathat in our nose ; ju a second, we flatten ibe forehead ; iu a third, we tat too ; - and in a fourth, we shave ! Man is a funny animal, whether its Tonganthoo or Threntlniedle stpm, at inatutinal lip mervice beside the I-iffey, or plaiting - MC lagtail by the Kiang-Kit. What pains he takes to make himself a lime different from what God made him. Our own sapient Progenitors. likewise. emitted a bout in queues ; they simpered in patched laces, powdered their heads, and rejoiced in "wobble"-which, be it known to you, gentle reader, was a compound of soap and flour to give density and consistency to the aforesaid queue. Another genera tion rt ineved the heir of the scalp. and aubstituied a wig from the Welch gust.-- The much landed "march of imelleet" has kicked over the powder boz mid wobble poi ; it discountenances palette/A, end has laid a sacrilegious hand on pigtail b ut the razor is still between its fi ngers. IVe laugh at our loreiathere' taste for a bald head, but we gravely cherish their weak ness for a bald chin. All those grotesque and artificial fash ions originated in natural delormidies, at a tiuM when princes arbitrarily/ led the mode, and courtiers reflected them its their umbrae. It is Ratter of history that there was a time in England when omit shoulder higher than the other was all the race, be cause the court (ruin a feeling of - lielicate attention to the umnerch, imiteifch his physical dated. Powder originated in Poland, where tf.e disease popularly known as "scald head" was _prevalent. Patches were rather coarsely devised to conceal seorb utic blotches on 'the countenance ; and shaving was only barefaced sympathy with a certain continental nomarelt defi• eieet in the outward end, risible sign of dignity. • King David's ambassador'', when they lost their beards, hid themselves for shame' until they grew again ; hut Queen Vic-1 torte's lieges go forth daily will t shame or reritorse foriheir self-imposed morning's emasculation ! There rises before us this moment a long vista of great historical portraits all the more ennobled by looking natural. From the Apostles to the Vau dois pastors, atel the monits of Mount St. Bernard, from Plato and Socrates tit Stutkapeare and Jean Paul, From Brian Bore or the Black Prince down to 'Napier and Guyon, the bold. and wise, and true , , appear like men as well as art like them. But the ~ hticks" and "bloods," the "Mae caroniea," and "Mohawks," of the feeble' eighteenth ern:my, have run their high 1 1 rare like their high heels. and bog-wings, and a score of other aritficialitiee. The shaver's, too, have hearty had their day. l anti a pretty morning's work they have sometnees made of it! A popular storm is rapidly raising against the razor.-- Physieians are insisting on the sanitary benefits of moustache and beard in this humid climate of consumption ; artists are; demanding that man shall no longer di- i verge from nature, and disfigure himself in obedience to intspideustwo. The mind is influenced by ezternals4adhere to na ture in habit, and we will hd-lore likely to adhere t., it thoUght. new and, hirsute era is happily opening—i-begone_ thou bald fared past T Servants of the Future, we accordingly hereby compel our best razor to renovate this goose-quill as one step towards its own perversion. We- cousecrafte the emasculating weapon heheeforth to the service of the maiden sod unwhiskered muses. At fur the rest of the set, we devote them to the ignobler deities—to such as preside over the cutting of "csvendish," and the opening of oys ter.. Our readers will hardly accuse us on ills journal of ni )) i ))) whimsical or fan- tastic. We are a staid and serious organ=— and like the serious organ particularised by Punch, our forte is not the polka. We are sober—and we hereby staidly and so berly take up the wearing of moustache and beard as an item, and an important one, of social grogress. Why should we be diffident in doing so ? Grave Pim ples are abundant before us. from .'Moses. who eujf.iaed—'•Thou shall not mar the corners of thy beard," down to Hototnan, who published, in 1586, a treatise on the subject, in learned Leyden, among the the sedate Hollanders. Examples grave and graceful from Moses to Hotelman; and from Hotoutan to the latest female correspondent of the 4.lvorate. "Ah," exclaims that fair enthusiast, ••the time ap• proaelies when man will as soon think of cutting of his ears as his moustrichios— but how much longer will you. continue to look ladylike--why hr. not the sex abandoned ha bieeelles with its beard ?" The movement is lipreading among our neighbor—the (Asia!' on whale lines of railway in Scotland have adopted the fashion as also the stonemasoni. and Other artisans from sanitary motives. In Lon- don, artiste and literary men are taking it up, and they Ire classes' supposed to be possessed of judgment• and taste. The police force hi Ipswich, we see by late ac counts, have petitioned the town author ities for permissi )))) to look natural, and the authorities have not only graciously accorded the boon. but have, many of them. set die 'example of it themselves. Here in.thie Dublin •newspaper-office. we have had many' lutists and vista from several eminent, citizens. including two physicians, on the subject. Under surh circumstan ces Me are pretty well aware that pebble opinion in Ireland, as well as Great Britain. demands emancipation from the imapy of ibis absurd fashion. One of our oorrmpondanm is bitter he sees t "There *lll be an antery against 'the innovation from •• three clabes—ladies whose first love. need the razor. elderly gentlemen who eberieh the reatenturraws TJIO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. I NUMBER 51. !of limit gond] and decline ehsnge, and the possessors of physiognomies unprolif ic as nor stiff Wye clay rieirreclairnahle • • •• i tea nog. We ; entirely, agree with the , writer, hot we must make- an effort, despite all opposition. Contempt for the ,I, present custom , in prevalent, but to get rid of so keep an Stlversary as the razor, we must hove recourse to something more 1 than “mileot . contempt." We have been I Fong enpogh turning up our noses at the limbering -brush ;. let us now see the effect of declining tourn *Tour noses. Slop,. i larity is.the at nobling-blork , to the site • ime of the tw o ement. Why not silopt a -.suggestion published , some numbers htk in ;these columns from a rtorrespiin- Idi slid. lei shaving be abolished by ' • • mutual compact among scores and dozens. EVllit4lllllWient. GRA Ell:W.—thin kind of propagation has many advantages over every other, except hnilding. llt admits of a far more round multiplication of a variety. A ul nae!. kind may be propagated rapidly, as a flourishing tree wilt prodUce hundreds of scions annually. Worthless fruit tree, I may be changed into the most valuable varieties. All email fruit trees, seedlings, &c.. may hehrought into early hearing by grafting. Trees natnrully delimit() and tender, or foreign, pay be made hardy and acclimated, by grafting into hardy. ac climated corks. Alen, fruit not conge nial to the knit, may he raised on it by grafting into stocks adapted and suited to touch soil. A person having but a garden PPM, may hatibieveral varieties of choice frpit graftedon one thrifty electable tree. A fine top 'may be made of* good kind, hut Mow groiser, by grafting into a thrifty standard tree ; and then we might go on . enumerating the advantages of grafting to en atmost unlimited extent, bet soffinient has already been said to amply show that grafting is the one treenail part in fruit erowingt.q. On thie there can be but one opittiofil NoW, then, to the young farmer it is Iftfeeseary that the ethodua oper andi" be fully and clearly explatned. • . 'l' lIROVIASAVIIIIO SCIONII,TAThe most soProsed time, by the generality of frail growers, is the - month of February, but they can be cut any time from. November till the time to set in the spring, with proper care in saying. We have cot them in.oe tober mil used them the next spring, and ' 1 never had better lnelt with• scions cot at any other time. In order to save them in good condition. it is only necessary to pack them somewhat tightly in *` .hox, with the top . olt, filled with sand. They Amid he kept in a cellar where they ran neither freeze, dry up or mould. A few ,drops. of water sprinkled over them nem' atonally will prevent their .drying op. and exposure to the air their'inieuldint. VlE mom" Artois of the last year'sgrowth should always he cut, ny,scigna from hearing trees, fruit may be obtained-one or two years earlier, flog roe Oastrina.—The mina! time for grafting is in the spring. All endeav ors to graft at oilier mesanna of the year have gradually been abandoned. Probably the beet particular point of time is :whe n the buds are swelling. Sumo-fruit elnedd he grafted earlier than other kinds, prnha bly before the leaves put-out. As• a gen eral thing. grafting may be done in the North and Weat,with good sweeps from the firat of April till the, first of :kunst in the South earlier. !Finally, grafting shOuld be done in All rolseea pret Jolla to the ranting on'of the lint, dry weather. Stti.tecrri roe ORATTIN9.-411 stiteko, whether. eedlinga, standard tree* or limb.. 1 should be in a fine growing, vigorous emi . r dition when grafted. ft is worse than. la hoe lost to graft into a *grubby stock, . ; for if it does' not flourish before 'ratting. it eer- Minty cannot afterwards.. Ail o ld or Wire trees should be grafted in ,the Nettie. of moderate 14E0: To graft the whole top ,t a tree, it ii nereasar.. in !rake r a rotor or five years in whir,, to ifit the ,work.— Small trees may he gra ft ed a few i nches above the gronnd. and *hum part of the body of the tree be formed from the ',rebut. or otherwise they ' may he grafted about even with the surface of the giimnd. and then by hitting 'up around the scion, and opening the bark of it, it may he firmly rooted in thergrcmtol, and thoi frirm an in- _ _ dependent tree. Storks which are 'trans- , planted should ainotyir be allowed one one season's mirth previous to being grafted. . , Slims ov Onavrovo..—Cleft ' grafting for the new beginner will he found r he the easiest mode to insure success, l'his Imode is applicable to *linnet any size Istocks but very small, where 'Plies graft-, ing may be necessary. Moduli Opera.)- . di. Fret, saw off the stock with a fine, keen saw ; avoiding peeling (limn ' , thei bark on the side of the stock ; then ,smooth ing the top neatly•with a sharp knife; then split the stock, with the knife, through the ' heart, and'open ihe cleft with a wedge in ! aerie.: in the middle of the irtock t scarf of/ the scion, on both aides, with a smooth, straight stroke, like a wedge, tearing it tbicker•on the,outaide, then insert it in the deft, 6414 both, its sides neatly to die cleft. and generally 'leaving the' bottom of the scarf a little iu, and the top a little out; then Withdraw the wedge and cover the whole over with cement, carefully epply 'lug it 'down the skies, along the clefts, sad the work is door. GRAMM° PONPONITION.—The comps. 'filen chiefly used for grafting. is coin. moody called “gralthig wax," and is easily made by even inexperienced hands. To make this : take one part of good beef tallOw ; two parts beeswax, and four parts of transparent rosin; melt them ell together; then turn into s sedge! of cold water, and work and pull it thoroughly with the hands. In working it, tug using it ellerwards, if etickyt the bands May b* slightly greased which will effectually pre. "! Tent it. This composition is not affected by any- weather, and will perfectly exclude air and water from whatever it is applied to. When used it should he of the fief • temperature ; if the weather is warm keit, it 111 cold water. if the weather ie raid ; keep it waim water. and in all tow sp. • ply with tho bends.—Carr, Dollar New* piper.
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