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.
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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.
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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.____
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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.
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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
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!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.