BY D. A. C. H. BUEHLER
VOLUME XXV.
♦ Mother's Lowe.
BY NANNY& OBEY
A Mother's Love ! Ab 1 who can speak
The thoughts that In her bosom dwell 1
The changing color on her cheek.
And anxious eye too plainly tell.
She heeds them not, though toil and care
Have stamped their signet on her brow;
She heeds it nnt, though' pale disease.
Ha% caused her once fair form to . bow. '
W hat ! though the hoary frosts of time
Have silvered o'er her raven hair,
And sorrow's lines have rudely crossed
Her tiding cheek, once fresh and tilt ;
What ! though the spring of life he put, • '
And summer's sun lung since bath set, _
Some pleasant day. are lingering still,
With fall and winter nearly met.
What !though the world should frown with;
rn,
.0n bins who wes.herjoy and'pride ;', - .-
And friends forsake, and misery come,,
Ye: it will find ass by, his side ;
Perhaps with soothing words'of lore, . •
She'll wish bins back to brightening funO,
If not, and honor'S self be lost, ,
She will not !orris lain hi his shun,: '. ' ' •
•
• Or, if hie child it tilitth 'the; ' '
And write blensene in words of light,
Her heart will best with tender throhs,
&raged eyes will beim mole bright.' '
Oh r'tis a holy. sterekthing.d. - • - -
Which strife end 'envy ei hulas - room-.
And burns with constant, stitchfire,
A deathless flame. &Mother's Loie.
Crushed Jewels.
Ah, me 1 two jewels crushed in the Cask
et ; two buds withered in the home wreath ;
Two flowers faded in the honkihold vase I
the :babies. slumber I=-',Whiter- than ,
unhewn marble, colder than drifted snow.
Brush away the win hair, theroa r e no
sin-lines thoie white brows, no cam.
*lodes in the depth of those darle and
dreamy byes; no line, nor mark, nor shade,
on those meek, Madonna facer, upturned,
and pale, and passionless. Not long their
little feet `pattered along life's highway,
ere they grew weary and sank by the way
side.
Then the golden gates . opened, misty
forms bent o'er them, white hands bore
the tiny travellers into a purer land. The
crown rested eaily, very early, on their
heads; angels, guided, God' led them, the
Abort journey they have taken. Look
his signet resteth on them—His goal on
the pure brow—His staff in the baby
bands I All around thee,'evermoro, will
be the rustling of silver wings in the moon
light—the gleaming of white forms, the
print of small, shadowy feet in thy life
path; the tap of tiny-fingers on the win
dow panes when the vane comes—tales
on each flower leaf, moaning melodies of
the rush_of the summer winds.' Peeper,
darker, grows the rolling ocean ; mightier,
stronger thy, despair. The gush of child
ish glee is hushed, ever more. AM those
young *eyes peer
,into' thins, Araby faces
glanos before thee,, littlC forms glide by
thea, warm, dimpled bands Claerp confiding
ly thine own. ' Ye have Only the meniory,
-three-fold, holy memory, that—
'There has been childish laughter,
Fooling* claim and light,
Baby voices chiming,
Young eyes flashing bright,
Tones ef deep, rich music,
Thrilling the heart all through,
Eyes, which , stole from viokils
The darkness of their hue. '
Cheeks which borrowed shading
From tharoie's
Stows untouched by pencils
01 the grief
'Tiny forms, at twilight Vowing
Beside their mother's chair,
ellimpled hands unrifired toMeireen •
"In attitude of prayer." • ,
But lons sent his jeweller down •
To crush them one and Allt - -
Ms said thin he lied Coed cd'them ,
To deck his
.Ho give beak to Mis keeping
Thejeweis Me haft given, •
'Knowing lull •'weit yAdll find them
All •re-setialbeiven 1 • Fanny Paw. -
The Idesson,
,
imantiful evening inSpring, a fath
eV said to biti 'wife, "Let is go out into
the:fields and rest as the bill, to. enjoy
the sight of the setting sun. It will be a
lardy evening." When his two children
.a -boy and a'girl—heard this, they said,
4 We will go before you, and wait for you
on the bill," And with these words, they
skipped on before. Soon after, the grave
father and the kind mother followed them.
Staking of the beim/ties of creation and of
tbeirethildren---the father speaking from
the costume of his wisdom, the mother from
the simplicity of, her heart. When they
came to the hill and ascended it, the chil
dren were there a/ready, and ran joyous
ly towards them with a white pet lamb,
which they had taken with them. When
the' enn went down in glory, the parents
looked CO with emotion, and the father lift.
ed up his voice and spoke to the children
of the creation of the universe, of the host
of the stare:, and of the sublime Creator of
"mature, who has made heaven and earth,
and the sea, anthill that therein is • and he
made them look at the sun in his glory,
s aiiyirig, "It is a wondrous work of the Most
High;' for he thought in his heart. "It is
mow time to teach them heavenly wisdom."
-When:: the father had finished speaking,
the childrem exclaimed suddenly, "Oh,
;see, dear father, and dear ' mother, how
peetty,:how lovely I" They had adorned
„then. lamb with flowers like a bride, and it
the herbs of the hill out of their hands.
The father looked at the mother, and shook
his head with' a grave gesture. But the
mother smiled and. paid, "Ah, my beloved I
iet'ihem continue in their child-like sim-
, They need not yet the knowledge
4if tieing and setting worlds, and the deep
OM Ofwisdom ; they need only love, and
of them hi the kingdom of heaven." Then
the' father and the mother earressed the
' Children, and rejoiced with them at
the gaily decked lamb.—Krumacher.
'138 3 1 4 did you ever think that this great
• World,' with all Vita wealth and its woo,
with all its mines and mountains, its oceans,
0 seas na riven' steamboats and ahips, rail
roads and stea m printing presses, magnetic
• Jul .eto., will soon be given over to
the the boys of the present ago ?
Believe it, and look abroad upon the inher
..itanoe, awl pi ready to ewer upon your
Au iiss.
[ From the Home Journal.
SERA. ;VD SO N—renwir
FORRESTER.
A. mind more gifted, a temperament
more sensitive, and a heart more won.
drously tried by all that could bind the
crown of thorns which shines brightest in
heaven, never passed from the earth, we
may well believe, than in the death of her,
whose names (by which she is known to
the world) we have here writen. Of the
two lives that eho lived successively, while
a tenant of the fragile frame whose pulses
are now still—the first, a brilliant and
brief one of literary success, and the last a
slow and painful martyrdom of sacrifices
and sorrow--genius and an almost upar.
elided sensibility deepened, a thousand
fold, the varied experience. Few will have
-ever gone.te the 'right hand 'of God, we
reverently feel, with more about which
the angels will gather, to read the record
in eyes teiftil no longer.' ' She was of that
heavenly :purity and Sell:Sacrificing and
liainble - goodeess, Which; it la the'mystery
of an inscrutable Providen ce
j Shedd be se
lec6l for duch`trififuPon earth: To those
who, know lier';slic was, every
, a .."A("notict whO'know her well ? and
irliatiS so , changefully safford, - 'would ,
jialioie there Wits over another' ot so ap
parently deepened but to be filled with bit
terness: Before ,saYini the few words by
which we would; recall the points of her
varied life to our , readers, let us give one
of • rope of agony wrnni, from this
heaven-child while hero on trial—a poem
written for her, mother's eye only, and,
eortainlY, the most manifestfirse breath of
a soul': utlererwee, that we have ever , seen
in hii'man language. lt was sent to us
some years ago, by one of hot friends. un
der'aseal of privacy which . we presume is
removed by her death. She wrote it
'while at Matilmain, the miiisionary station
in India at Which she had been left by her
dying linsband, Dr, Judson. when he , em
barked on nearly hopeless voyage for
health. At the date of this poem he had
,
been tour months dead, although it was
ten 'days before the sad news was communi
cated to her.
SWEET. MOTHER.
The wild south-west monsoon hat risen,
With brual,grey wings of-gloom,
W hits here,. from ou t • my. dreary prison,
' I look ss from a tomb—Alos .
My heart another tomb. •
Upon the low thatched roof, the rain ,
With ceaseless patter falls; '
My choicest treasures bear its stains '
Mould gathers on the walls; =would heaven
'Twang only on the walls 'I
.
a ; Sweet mother, I am here alone,
In 'sorrow and in pain ; -
The sunshine from my heart has flown ;
It feels the driving rein--Ah..me I
• be'ehat.entimosal..suid rain.
Friur laggard thonths have wheeled their round,
Since' love upon it smiled,
And Averything of north has frowned
On thy poor stricken child, sweet friend,
Thy weary,lllfreljog
. .
I'd watched my.loved one night and day,
&lime breathing.when, he slept.
Anti as my hope:ewers swept sway,
' I'd in his bosom wept-Oh, Ood !
How hid I prayed and wept'!
. •
And. hen they bore him to the ship, ,
'I uw the white sails spread,
I kissed hie *peachiest, quivering lip,
• And hift him otitis bed—Ales!
It seemed a coffin bed.
When froth' my gentle sister's tomb,
' Long since, in tears. we came, ' •
Thou midst, ”How desolate each room !"
Well, mine,were•just the same that day,— •
The very, very same. ,
Then, mother. little Charley came,.
Our beeetiful, fete boy,
With m own father's cherished
Butoh' he twilight no jar— myname
child
Brims - hi and no joy.
Dia little ;Freest cannot see.
Though wes7, months have sped
Since pijying lips tient ever me, - -
Arid whirmered, , •He is dead !"=.4.lutltei I
.'Tis dreadful to be deadl •
. ,
I do not mean for one like me-- '
So weary, worn,' and weak= •
Death's shadowy paleness seems tote' .
.ren nowspon my cheek—his seal,
On form, and brow, and cheek.
Hut for a bright.winged bird like him.
to hush his joyous song, •
And priscinesi in . a coffin dim,, ,
Join Death'S pale phantom throng—me. boy
To join that grizzly thwing !
. .
Oh. mother, I can scarcely bear ,
To think of this tnAlay
It wait so exquisitely fair,
That little form 'of elsy—thy heart
Still lingers by his clay'. ' •
And when for one loved more, far more,
Come thickly-gathering tears,
My star of fitly is clouded o'er,
I Auk beneath my fears, sweet firiend,
My.heary weight of fears.
Oh, but to feet thy oft arms twine
Armind me once again I " .
It almost wine those liar of thine. .
Might kiss sway the pain—might soothe
This dull, cold, heavy paiu.
But, gentle mother, through life's storms
I may not lean on thee,
For helpless, cowering little forms
Cling trustingly to me—poor babes !
To have no guide bat me.
With weary foot, and broken wing,
With bleeding heart end sore,
Thy dove looks backwards sorrowing.
But seeks the ark no more—thy breut
!leeks never, never more.
Sweet mother, for thy wanderer pray,
That hillier faith be given ;
Her broken reeds all swept away,
That she may lean on Heaven—her heart
Grow strong in Christ and Heaven
Once, when young Hope's fresh morning dew
Lat sparkling on my breast,
My bounding heart thought but to do,
To work at Heaven's behest--my pains
Como at the same behesti
All fearfully, all tearfully—
Alone and aorrowidg, . •
My dim eye lifted to the sky,
Feat to the Cress I ellng--Oh, Christ !
To thy dear Cross I ding.
ilatihssain, dugout 7, 1880.
Of the hymns in human language for
the soul only—few and holy and Atli of
meaning as the commandments—this is
one.
Our readers—those who have kept with
us through years gone by—will remember
our reception and first annotutoement of the
writings of "Fanny Forrester." She was
at that time a school-icacher at Utica, and
GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 23,'1854.
with OM or two inti mate and talented
friend among her pupils. Knowing noth
ing of her real name, or her circumstances,
we were exceedingly captivated by the off
hand brilliancy of her style, and its under
current of good sense never out of sight;
and she and *the friends she wrote of (and
who wrote with her) became soon, to the
public as well as to us, the nucleus of a new
kind of literary interest. It was the be
ginning of a new school of female author
ship—immediate and familiar expression,
made sacred and rose-colored liy the per
sonal-neat of woman. By writing ae if
she were talking, she secured the respect
and attention that would be given to her
presence. She embellished our journal
for a while, and then appeared as an au
thoress,,with "Alderbrook" and other vol-
MIMS.
We had never seen "Fanny Forester"
till she came to New •York with Dr. Jud
seri, having devoted herself to missionary
lice, and about-to embark with• her husband
for ludia, to share his: exile ot ;Apostle
ship and.his ,irdiny and dangerous dares.
Looking upon her, WO saw, at once, that
it wirs a spirit which had,already outworn
its .frame.--a, ,slight,..pale, delicate and
transparea cre attar°, Avery. thought and
feeling shining through, and every •word
and movement tremulous with fragility of
mortal tenure. We said farewell with no
thogg.ht that she would ever return—hard
ly 'Thom) that she would reach her far-off
de.stination. 'She did arrive there, how
ever. The poem above tells, in deathless
tears what was one hiSiirThilhe years etre
suffered there: She returned, utterly be
reeved and a , wreck in health, two years
since, and, in the retirement (Aber moth-
er's humble home sank , itadually to the
grave, -
Mrs. Judson, by her genius, is ineiden
tally one of the world's memorable ones.
To a religions class, also, of which her hus
band wae a shining prophet, her memory I
will be dear. But there are those who
look for bright ones •among the pilgrims
on that path of trial by the.world unseen
—the soul-sore and, heart-wring, With the
higher sensibilities that are alive. to an
angel's scope of agony.. She willlie, by
these, recognized and remembered. Sa
cred be the spot where rests what has so
suffered and won. ---
TRIUMPH os.Leartrusta.—Mind consti
tutes the majority of maM.--virtue his true
nobility, The tido of, improvement is
flowing through the land, like another Ni
agara, destined to roll on downward to
posterity ; and will hour.then, on its bo
som; our virtiiitt;•ouirifloiycnr, our shame,
or whatever else wwmay transmit as an in
heritance. It then, a great measure,
depends upon the present, whether the
nath.4 immorality, or ignorance and lux
fteshall proVe - t tte r;l:tvarnTuiiur-liur
public ; or knowledge and virtue, like pil
larsohall stipport her against the whirl.
wind of war, ambition, corruption and the
reinormless tooth of time.. Give your chil
dren fortune, without education. and at
least half the number will go down to the
tomb of oblivion—perhaps to\ ruin. Give
them education and they will accumulate
fortunes ; fortunate to themselves and to
their country. It is an inheritance worth
morethan gold—for it buys true honor--;
they can never spend or lose it, and - through
life it provei &friend—in, death a console
tion.--N. Mirror.
THE JEWS OE PALESTINE—Re
cent aecounts from . the Holy Land repre
sent the condition of the Jews in that coun
try as most lamentable and there is a
bundant evidence that, these, people are
suffering great distreas from destitutioh.
Their sufferings have been occasioned part.
ly by the failure of the late harvest,
which has raised the, price of food to an
enormous, height, and partly by the pre
sent war and political disturbances, and the
din:ill:teflon of the resources for the support
of the 'poor derived from othOr countries.
Sir Moses Monte.flOre," an eminent Hebrew
of London, lately returned from a visit to
the Holy Land, has published an appeal
in .behalf, of the sufferers, in which he
says::.....
"I learn that "Collera in Israel—men
profoundly learned in the law, who, so
that they may die near the graves of our
forefathers, submit to live in the most ab
ject poverty—are now impelled, by the
am , love they bear their obildren, to sell
them' to the stranger, 'so,"to use their own
words 'that 'their offspring may be spared
death—deathl from starvation.'
PrenerVing Flowers and
A friend has just informed us that• fruit
and flowers may be preserved from decay
and fading by immersing them in a solu
tion of gum Arabic and water two or
three times, waiting a sufficient time be.
tween each emersion to allow the gum to
dry. This process covers the surface of
the fruit with a thin coating of the gum,
which is entirely impervious to the air.
and thus prevents the decay of the fruit,
or withering of the flower. Our friend
has roses thus preserved which have all
the beauty and fragrance of freshly pluck
ed ones, though they have been separated I
from the parent stem sluice June last.—
To insure success in experiments of this
kind, it should be borne in mind that the
whole surface must be completely cover
ed; for if the air only gains entrance at a
pin.hole, the labor will all be lost. In
preserving specimens of fruit, particular
care should be taken to cover the stem,
end and all, with the gum. A good way
is to wind a thread of silk about the stem.
and then sink , it slowly in the solution,
which should not be so atroug as to leave
a particle of the gum undissolved. The
gum is so perfectly transparent, that. you
can with difficulty detect its presence, ex
cept by the touch. . Here we have anoth
er simple method of fixing the fleeting
beauty of nature, and surrounding our
selves ever with those objects which do
niost elevate the mind, refine the taste, and
purify the heart.—Country Gentleman.
SWEARlNO.—Swearing is properly a su
perfluity of naughtiness, and can only bo
considered as a sort of popper-corn rent, in
acknowledgment "of the devil's right of so
perio.rity.—Robert Hall.
ITEARLESS AND FREE?'
•
Death of Washita'lima i CIitEMIIIIII.
We find the following on, the death 0
..! [From the Cluidten's Table in the Knickerbocker
Washington. in the New Ycrk Courier ; Magazine.)
and Enquirer, which cannot fail to be of A 9 little girl. young enough to sleep
interest to the reader : iin a cribby the bed of her parents, awoke
1 b a d 'one night, when the full moon was shin.
into her bed-room, and calling to...her
Proceeding still further. over a very
~ ing
i n view o f the - father, she exclaimed :
road, we came suddenly
Potomac ; and Mount Vernon. with its.:
mansion house and, smooth green lawn anther ! Father ! God' has forgot to I
out
blow t h e moon o I Won't you op en the
was before us. Having sent in cur ad- -
dress, we received permission from the window , and let me blow it out 1"
,'
courteous branch of the family, who now', Another little girl, of nearly the same
'age, and living very near to her, was found
holds the eatate, to enter and survey the' fie.
remarked i :
interior. We were struck with its ex_ one evening alone in her mother's bed.
treme simplicity, the lowness of its wills room, when she very
to
and ceilings, and the bare floors which : her mother : I
were waxed—not as with us. carpeted. i al have been having a season of prayer i
Passing through the great hall—orna-' for the poor children at the Five Points." '
mented with pictures of English hunting Will not such prayers go up higher than
scenes—We ascended the oaken stair-eas any others from older persons?
with its carved and antique balustrade.—! I have a couple of little nieces—twins
We stood at the door ; we pressed the'. —so alike, as to render a distinction
handle—the room and the bed where he; impossible to any but their parents. I re
died were before us. Nothing in the member once teaching one of them a les
lofty drama of his existence, surpasses the , ' „„ u i n the C atec hi sm. I commence d with
grandeur of the final scene. The cold, t he question : •' Who made you 1"
which he hail Asked from exposure, in °- i She replied correctly : "God."
grounds. and Why did he mak. you 1"
verseeing some parts of his
which had resisted the earlier domestic A correct reply, again.
remedies,
of two short
that' were applied. :drowsed; in - alit whose imago - and likenesX did he
the (merge
days. into that I make von r..
frightful' form of the disease oldie *amt.! s , Why," rays she, speaking very quick,
laryngitis.:lt beeline teleeetalY for him "He made me the very image and likeness
i
to take to. his bed.' I - of mv. sister Clara !" .
•
The valued friend, Dr. Craik, was ift
stantlysammoned, anti assisted by the best
medical skill of the surroundieg country.
exhausted. all the _means of his art. but
without affording him nelieL . He patient
ly submitted: though in wrest , distress. to
the various remedies proposed. but
,it be
came evident, from the deep gloom set
tling upon the countenancei oldie medical
gentlemen, that'the ease was Lopeless:ad
vancing insidiously, the diem* had Eaten-'
efl-itself upon him. Looking with calm
-1014 upon the sobbing group around him.
he said :4 "Grieve not. my friends ;it is
as I :anticipated from the tot ; the debt
which we all owe. is now about to be paid;
I am resigned to the event."
Ifequesting Mrs. Washington to bring
two wills from his escruiune, he directed
one to be burnt, and , placed the other in
her bands, as his last testament. and then
gave some final instructions to Mr. Lear.
his secretary and relative. as to'the adjust
ment of his btisineis affairs. He soon af
ter, became greatly distressed ; and as the
paroxysms became more frequent and vio
lent, to Mr. Lear, who was at his aide, as
sisting him to turn. he with kindness. but
with great difficulty articulated--rlear I
give, you great trouble. sir—but—perhaps
it is a duty which we all owe to one.anoth
er—l trust that you may receive the Sam
attended when you shall require it."
ruir - DasillYtertfouts
became more imminent—his breath more
labored and suffocating, and his voice soon
failed hini. Perceiving his end approach
ing he stretched forth to his full length,
folded his own hands in the necessary at
titude upon his chest—placing his finger
upon the pulse of his left wrist, and thus
calmly prepared. and watching forhia own
dissolution, he awaited the summons of his
maker. The last faint hope of hie friends
had disappeared. • Mrs. Washington, stu
pified with.griet, sat at the foot of the hed,
her eyes fixed steadfastly upon him ; Dr.
Craik, in deep gloom, stood with his hands
at the fire ; his faithful black servant,
Christopher, the tears uncontrolled trick
ling down his face, on one side took the
last look of his dying master, while Mr.
Lear, in his speechless grief, with folded
hands, bent over his pillow on the other.
"Nothing broke the stillness of his last
moments but the suppressed sobs of his
affectionate servants collected on the stair
case ; the tick of the large elm-kin the ball.
as, it measured off, with 'Weld distinctness.
the last fleeting moments of his existence,
and the low mean of the winter wind. as it
swept through the lerilless, snow-covered
trees. The laboring and wearied spirit
drew nearer and nearer its goal; the blood
languidly coursed slower and more slowly
through the channels—and the noble
heart stopped—strugglid--and the right
hand slowly slid Iron the wrist. upon
which the finger had I;en placed—it fell
at the side—and the toady effigyof Wash
ington was all that nmained upon the
death couch."
There is a drug in the East whose ef
fect is like that of opium ; it is prepared
from the Indian hemp. It was much used
by the Saracen warriors, when about to
enter a battle, as a stimulus. It produces
on the imagination a double conscious.
ness; one part of the mind to study,
while the other part looks on. From mo
tives of curiosity, 1 was persuaded to try
the effect of it on my own system. I was
in Damascus at the time. Soon alter ta
king it, the effect of it began to appear. I
saw the furniture in the room, talked with
the company. and vet I seemed to be near
CANARIES IN A' PAINTING Orncr----1 the pyramid of Cheops, whose block's
Wireds have
that in our office of stone appeared to me like huge squares
arealmwea
two beautiful
canary
of the of V i rg i nia tobacco.
The scene changed,
birds,
room." All dap ling, v hits weave busily i and I was on the desert in a boat made of
engaged, reading ;ilea political news. ow l
mother of pearl. The sand seemed grains
writing dull polit i cal articles. these little iof gold, through which my boat ran as
twittering, lively; fellows are skimming easily as on the waves of the sea ; the
round our head mJ ears. as briskly and i air seemed filled with harmonies of the
joyfully as thougl there were no labor in sweetest music ; the atinosplime was &H
-illis life, no wearied and troubled swas , aed with light, with odors and music. 13e
and all were gayand happy. Sometimes.;
fore me seemed to be a constant series of
when one is a Ittle mischievous, he will'i amides of rainbows, through
which ,
for
perch himself inrront of us, and as we are. fil ee n years. I seemed to glide. The
cogitating, with itri anxious countenance. 1
finer senses were developed, and all grail
on the latest Et/repeal] advice,. he will fication was a single harmonious sense
stretch out his Ode neck, and turning his two. Hence we can easily conceive the
tiny head from de to side, will look at as origin of the Arabian Nights. My corn.
first with one bi.,ht. roguish little eye , and panion a huge Kentuckian tried the drug
then with the {they as much as to sac, l with amusing eflect. After looking at me
"Come, sir, doi't look so sober leave"
for a while. he started up with the excla
these old paper* and make merry. "We i oration, "I'm a locomotive," and began
almost involuntirily shake our head; the . / to cut off his words like the puff of an en
airy being flit s t om our sight with a hap- ,i gine. At last he seized the water jug for
py chirp, and se resuoe our labors. la drink, but set it down with a yell , say.
.When the ciaaries ,an find no other I. ing, ',h ow can I take water into
my
boil
way to,attract mr attenion. they will tight 1 er. when I am letting off steam."
on the wafer bee. and contrive to scatter' .
the contents over the raper on which we The Cuban government have, by a re
are writing. They aso get among ou r i cent ordinance, prohibited any person who
steel pens, and make :rattling.
We hate ' has not had a regular collegiate education ,
not as yet detected dim in making any; f rom writing for the new paper.
attempt at compositin, though a friend,,
who happened to setupon our table, the i
A Western paper says : "About thittY
other day, a rnannscrit on which we had . ; `curs
ago.
Gen. Cass, owned a firm in
expended more thanasual care, asked. , what is now t h e he ar t of Detroit, and. by
"Have these birds gointo t h e i n k, and .
simply ..holaing on." he has become the
been running over th paper with their r
p.ssessor of a fortune estimated at three
dirty feet;'—Detroit )(illy Sdv.
1 millions of dollars."
Dr. Walter. or Pitting. has 'remand
the main bone in the.eg of a boy fifteen; To Grr Rio or Morns.—Largo lumps
years of age. from thinee to the ankle. of gam camphor placed among wollen
The patient is doing ell. and the doctor clothes, win effectually secure them from
has the utmost 'confititee thati new bone the depredation of the moth. Every per
will form, and the wipe anal length of son who stores away winter clothing and
the leg be preserved. bed clot Les should use this remedy.
A litte nephew of mine, a "five-year
old," airtime mind was running on holiday
!subjects, said to his father :
I-Papa does Banta Clans travel all over
the world at Christmas 1"
I"Yes. my son," was the answer.
"I shouldn't think he'd go ,to Africa,"
said the child. ' ,
"Why not r he was asked. •
• "Why, bemuse they have got no stock
!
iogs there! „
Our lade "Eddy" sometimes says
1 queer things: most little boys of two years
of age do. A few nights ago. haring just
finished a glionoue piece of pie, of which
he is very toad. he was summoned by his
mother toiling his prayers' and go tobed.
I Kneeling at her side, he repeated after her
that heaven-taught petition, 'Our Father
which art in heaven. etc., until she came
to the passage, 'Give us this day onr daily
1 bread,`—when, raising his head, and look
lag ap into her face, he said:
I ''Oh. no mother !-pie.!—say pie !"
A bide fellow. Itom four to five years
old. having perforated the knee of his
Itrowsers, was intensely delighted with a
patch his grand-mamma had applied. He
I would sit and gaze upon it in a state of re
i markahle admiration ; and in one of these
moods suddenly exclaimed :
....0...,„„L„,„,„ ...oat put ono. on Cother
!awe. and two behind. litcopodd r t3Z ,, illits,'
If the boy lives, be will beat Gov.
Mar cy two to one.
When -our 'Gus" was a "three-year
old." he had been for some days anticipa
-1;4 with great delight a visit to his grand
-1 parents, who resided a half-day's ride
from our home. And it stormed day after
day, so that he could not go ; until ''hope
defined" made his little heart sick. As
his mother saw him to his bed, she bade
him repeat his usual prayer, which he did,
with a slight variation, as follows : •
,
t'Naw I lay we down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to kaep,
111 should die before I woke,
I pray the Lord my soul to take
TL Denbory to-morrow morning'!"
astern Narcotics.
Bayard Taylor relates the following:a
musing anecdote, detailing the effect of an
Eastern narcotic upon himself, while in
Arabia :
A Peep Into the Gotten of the
Harem.
,'! was cautious with regard to showing
myself at the window, but 1 confess that
I did' take one little peep through a chink.
Two negro harem-slaves, well armed. sat
on the boughs of a large figdree ; strange,
unseemly fruit. Three old women unveil
etl, and with bundles in their hands, stood
beside it, looking ominously itriportant.—
, And still the sweet soft voice chattered at
'a little distance. * * First came,
with footsteps gentle, and light as falling
snow, a young girl richly dressed. She
had no veil. Her face was an oval of the
purest outline, with- the most loveable of
dimples on the fairest of cheeks. Her
features were regularly and finely formed,
and her hair, which fell in a perfect Rya
' lanche on her shoulders, was of a rich
I light brown, evidently soft and silky.—
But such eyes, such beaming of tender, ha
zel, when seen, must rivet all attention,
and once seen. can scarcely be forgotten.
There she stood some time before me,
leaning against a bank and waiting for
others to loin' her ; and so motionless that
our busy•pencil never had a better model;
certainly never one so beautiful. A set
tled shade of melancholy was on her love
ly- countenance, and' the Merry sounds
could not have issued front that pretty, but
pensive mouth ; hut this did not detract
from ; the ind.finithle charm which stamped
the fair apparition as one of nature's own
nobility, perpaps it heightened it; In ev.
ery movement, too, of her rather tall than
short figure; there was grace: The cos
tume, to be sure, was eminently propitious.
A pale yellow silk robe, heavily embroid
ered in gold, and lined with purple, was
dosed at the waist by a splendid diamond
brooch ; rose-colored satin trousers flowed
wide beneath it; and a bright cashmere
shawl hung loosely thrown as sash around
her: Yellow slippers, a gr,en headker
chief with golden fringe, and a costly
necklacm'completed her very becoming
attire. But this was nothing. A resistless
power of interesting those who crossed her
path, resided in the deep attractive expres
sion of her large eyes. They were
thoughtful, yet candid ; resigned but affec
tionate; and above all, there were an un
erring index that the spirit within was an
perlatively endowed with that heaven-born
faculty of feeling strongly, which must
necessarily make of this earth a paradise
or a hales to herself, according as it is de
veloped by the fostering hand of warm and
real sympathy, or blighted and crushed by
the withering storm that so often assails
unappreciated gentleness. There was a
something in her mild and dovelike glance
which militated powerfully in favor of the
latter category in this case, and we had
just come to that mournful conclusion,
when our rough outline was about finish
-ed.-and hew actors appeareffon the scene
of payenottlgtca/ retleelious. -- `A -nico
little roundabout laughing, black-eyed,
bright-complexioned thing of sixteen, at
most, some dancing along. She gas
cothely withal to look upon, but elle seem
ed in our dazzled eyes to owe her charms.
like Saturn's ring, to the vicinage of a
brighter, light, and like the piece of clay,
in the Persian apologue, that had always
been near the rose, to derivea faint transfu
sion from Boadicea sweetness."--..dnadol,
the Laat "Mine of the
llllndoo Belle;111.
In a recent address before a meeting in
this city, Hey. Dr: Duff made, some inter
esting revelation's , in reference to the
physical 'philosophy which is laid down
in the sacred books of the Hincioos.l.
They believe, for example, that there tt•
rises (rain the centre of the earth an im
mense mountain • six hun dred thousa lid
miles in height. its lower base being one
hundred and twenty thousand miles in
breadth, and the upper part two hundred
and filly thousand Miler across. Upon
its upper surface are the habitations of the
gods, and beneath the overhanging cliffs
grotv huge trees of every species. The
largest of these trees shades a territorial
extent of seven thousand miles. The
pies which it bears are as large as ele
phants, and when they fall off and decay,
' there flows forth a river of juice. which
is endowed with such virtues that any one
who drinks from it will receive the boon
of perpetual youth, and the sands which
form its beds become pure gold upon be
ing dried. The Hindoos have another cu
rioue belief concerning Cape Cormorin,
which is a vast mass of granite rock rising
abruptly from the Southern extremity of
India. Their sacred books declare diet
many thousand years ago a mighty king
ruled the country, and at the approaching
marriage of his daughter, immense quail.
tides of rice were cooked with which to
make merry. The bridegroom, however,
not appearing in due season, the bride be
came impatient, and cursed the rice,
which was immediately, changed into a
rock. Mr. Duff also remarked, among
other stories of this kind, that the religion
of the Hindoos would never allow them
to touch a dead body, and consequently
they could know nothing of their own
physical structure from actual observation.
Hence their original medical works are
revealed by inspiration, and a plan of the
inner organs of the human body,• us thus
revealed, is given in one of their sacred
books. This plan places neatly all the
organs, each of whirl. , is the seat of some
faculty, feeling. emotion or some desire;
in the body. The lowermost one is rim-
'
ped like a small tortoise ; then comer a
serpent ; next a circle with a flower upon
it. This last is the seat of one of the
gods, and above it are successive figures,
in each of which a god is suprosed to rent
when he pays•them a visit., Covatem.-
ness, stupidity and sleep are represented
among other emotions—the whole num
ber of organs amounting to eighty-six.—
The organ which occupies the head is
with them the king of birds,alhough with
us it is of no great repute, and would
probably be considered by most as an ap
propriate elks= to the whole. It is the
figure of a goosi.
it is said there is not a single Jew in
the Units States= is litgiOulsgre.
Nest of thew are
TWO DOLLARS PER AVM.
INUMBER 16,
THE FLU SCHOOL MM.
The undersigned, havingdeclinedlsool o "
ting in tho electiontof a County Superiaters•
dent of our Free Schools, and having sincere•
signed the office of Director, to which he was
elected without his knowledge, and the tittles
of which he has endeavored faithfully to per
form for nearly two years; deems it due to
himself and his friends throughout the County;
to say a few words on the important outdo*
of the Free School system itoeit: 1% in
established principle, to be disputed by
no ono acquainted with the, instructions or
history, or familiar with toe structure dour
Government,. that virtue, itildligense trod in
dustry, are the three grand pillars, by which
alone the fabric of our republican instinttiosir
can be permanently sustained. Monainbies
and aristocracies may bo administered, with
superior facility over a people ignorant of the
rights of man, and of the greater privileges of
more favored nations around them: /but
republics, love of the great principles of hu
man liberty,'and of just laws based on them,
is essential to the permanence of Government.
IslosrEsectse has therefore justly observed: .
"It is in a repub/ictm gorervonent, Mgr Os
whole pores of educiilion is retptired.".
Entertaining these views, the undersigned
has been an original and unwavering advocate
of tho Free School system ; billy assured that
it is the only efficient means for differing ed
ucation and intelligence among the popular
masses; and believing it just, that the: rich
should be taxed for the education of the poor;
since that education, by augmenting their
mermsof making an honest living; adds-to
the security of all, both in person and property.
But religious and political liberty are most
intimately connected ; and one result of the
former is, that men freely express those diveo
cities of religious opinion, which, in deepotiO
governments, are. like their political aspire
tions, cherished in secret.. Ministate• of the
gospel will, from their professional habits,
naturally feel more inclined to inouleate,their
detailed and therefore sometimes peculiar re
ligious views, than laymen. Hanee„ should'
t hey oven consoienticusly avoid doing so ha the,
schools, as I doubt not many have done ;they
will still be suspected by , some. In order,
then, to make our public schools as acceptable
as possible to all, the undersigned believes it
best that no minister of any denomination
should be County Superintendent, and by
parity of reasoning, also not a Director. Let
intelligent laymen of good moral and re:
ligious character be elected as Superinten
dents, directors and teachers. Let the Now
Testament, without note or cowmen', which
all christians profess to receive, be daily read
in the schools, and no ono can urge any wen
t...on:lad objcoaosh , lbs-dia Aysteui.'"
The , religious element is indeed essential to
agood education ;.since genuine virtue, which
is another pillar of our republican edifice,
can only be the product of genuine religion.
But where can genuine religion be leaped
iu greater, and purity more free from sea
tarian bitui, than in the New Testament itself r,
The great duties of christian morality, will be
inculcated by every, well qualified teacher;
and for specific instruction in ehriethur doe
trines and duties, the different churches toast
provide in the pulpit, the cateehetical
etructions, and in the teaching of the family
and Sabbath school. Thus administ6ed
we may hope to see the whole community
with one accord stand up in defence of, our
noble system . of free schools; which, making
no difference between the rich and,the poor.
nor between any religions denominations, or
national descent, scatters the blessings of a
good elementary education indiscriminMely
over all the rising generation. Thus also, wilt
all our children be trained up an intelligent,
virtuous and homogeneous people, capable of
self government, and afford us the best assu
rance for the perpetuity of our free and happy
civil institutions, by which our religious liber
ties will likewise be fully secured.,
The recent steps of the undersigned, have
therefore resulted not from any indisposiOon
to labor for the public good ; but from love of
our free school system, and an increasing con
viction of the importance of the above views ;
so that our schools may be kept perfectly free
even from any reasonable euspieion of secta
rian character. S. S. SORMUCKER.
Great Crow Bunt in Tennessee. --T he
citizens of Bedford county, Tennessee, find
ing themselves grievously afflicted with
crows, held a meeting and fixed upon a great
"crow hunt." The plan adopted was that
any person wishing to enter the bunt could
do so by paying one dollar or more. The
time for the hunt was to be from the Arai
Monday in December to the last Saturday
iu March. And the fund raised as above
PM to be proportioned to the person prob.
cing the largest number of scalps--upper
bill for scalp—one fifth of the whole fend
paid in : to the person producing the next
highest number, one-sixth of the remainder ;
to the next highest, one-seventh, &c. 15.561
scalps were taken, and 8288 dollars :ewer
dad. The largest number taken by one axes
was by G. J. Shriver, who killed 4,421,
and received 893. -
A Good Excuse.—A gentleman by the
Dome of Slaughter, living near Montgomery,
Ala., being subpoenaed u 4 witness to amps
pending in the Circuit Court, and Wog
about to marry a bliss Lamb, writesto the
Court that he "cannot attend as a whams
his court, u be expects to Slaviikra
Lomb nest Sunday. "
A Ilreily Link Crowd.—Mr. Fredericlt
Kimbell, from the neighborhood of Rom
ney, Harrison county,. Ohio, arrived 'ln
Steubenville last Wednesday week by rail
way, with his wife and nineteen eididrom—
twenty-one in all. It is raid that ta owns
enough land in that, State to giro Nob 'at
ris family one hundred andtdstylsms, sOd
hetain a "slice" for bin:melt
Ward miner in California, tbni_pahr
at a "first elms hotel" near NrOdimikik
Galob, in writing boa*, op litereels
their buckwheat oaken_ in a washubpoj
tam them when baking, with p rdlw
ontaialy nue' of Forma