1!1= ,s.BY D. A. & 0. H. BUEHLER ''" ' VOLUME XXV. much worse would it have been if ell' had Conducted their biteineas on high moral prineiples ? The men who "peen& in life and became eminent - are fent. -Theii characters nra well known—almnit all of them have been men of high Moral prinoi ple. It was Daniel's moral ' character that raised him from a slave to the Preinionship of Babylon ; .and he maintained his noble position because he enflamed the'affairs of the realm with such integrity and hoe oily that his keen eyed enemies could find no fault with him at all in the king's matters. ' And Cornelius, who had such proof of God's favor, was Invest loyal cap tain in the Ream army. Permanent sile nce is found only in connection with principle and integrity in business. The man Who purchases itttlery from the re nowned tnanufaiatory of Rogers, is anxious only to know that the stamp of the plate is genuine. Years ago that house resolyed not to send a poor article kith the market. Its wprk is good; Rennet itfford to sell poor articles. The fame of Dust & Mar tin's blacking is as wide as civilization.— No mats tries it; he only asks if it he a genuide artiele ; and a man that, can se cure a location . in the "97 High Hod, born," has his fortune secured. It is said that the stores in that building will committal almost any rent. -. .. If the United States need an loam', meet for the corps of Engineers, or a glass for the Observatory at Washington, an or der is sent to England for one instrument, and to France for another, and to Germany far a third—the reputation of the house Ora manufactures is a guaranty for the excellence of the article. In the small town of Douglass, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, there is a matiefactory of axes. Immense nutn• , here are shipped to qll parts of the earth. maker A CH IFITIII FOR YOUNG fIIEN iNo In' -in bu t th es ees them till tat . ~ A member of the Suffolk• tar in 'Massa- t l • --- : ken from the boxes, put on the noses, (.1 swung in the orests of the NVest, on chasm, /Willed .Natthew Hale Salidl, 1133 I rur Pueifi g e possessions, or in Africa, or in delivered u lecture before a Commercial the ink ode of the sea : and if eac i i axe insiiitoe in Boston, that is very full tw.rit. W 9 hull it in limit's Mercliaut:::l; was tried iu the, manufactory' of Douglass before the purchase, no more confidence 31 agars rte. i would he put in the. rtiele than the name but SELECTION OF BUSINESs.--3ten . . .of the art i c l e inspires. The invariable hale plipic,d, moral, and mental: gifts i perfection of the article is the b usiness that peculiarly lit th em for seine laillillifii; mid peculiarly u n fit,them for others; and capital of the maker. We havi men among us—now ranking the taktes to, awl ‘lttrActions tif, certain ' nulling the merchant princes of Boston— pursuits, sheul 1 incline each young ' t n '''' i who began life poor. Some of thaw were Boston— to look well to his .:hoses occupation, ~a nd ; grooms, some waited and tended iu f " ' en ' ;(li.";s:lujcuu:to; follow it to L. ", le ent. ; 1 lies, some dug gravel, others wheeled coal, aut. his earner tramoi g should nave spe• i but all they did was well' d one. Wh en chit reference to hie position and oceupa• l taro. the late William Gale was taunted by an in Before this cli , liee is made, he should i eilvill ' l '' man; m o who said that he could re -1 member when Mr. Gale was a drummer, - consider Otistaciet, his path, aud his his rep ly gave the key-note to his success : relive,' 1., reta..v.• or overcome tliola. Law, 1 "Atdid I not drum itELL ?" tnetlict..liviniis, mechanics, present un i The lt late Judge Chiekering, whose mem ini tiling Geld. One may shine in the law, 1 who would 4e a ,L r i v ii ii ,,, in the and malty a wait has ,Ltiellipteu to Menu 3 1 A p ulp it;A i noble specimen Of one who was the archi tect of his own fort - tine, for which he was b r „e en I nn ', w i s h te e taint enough to I quite as much indebted to the invariable lriir the leg of a stool. excellency of his own workmanship, gate roirtig." Melt have marked characteria. tie- soul Went.; these all are well kui ,I his indomitable industry and perseverance. es, their face.s, heirs kit own often to etli- I And it was no idle boast of a man in the 1 British Parliitment, who was retniutled by erg than t o theinielves. One is quick in 1 a noble that his father Was a butcher; that figures, ; aus ,, ther would made a capital 1 he had risen to his position by his own la ts7 l ,SSld ma re fi Cel , ( i ) n u t t' he h i a t:tri a tet, l ;;e g' s ti of 7 7l fi nt d ' II " i bor ; and all admitted the retort to be nether eat' it getteralize, d is'! juq when he added, "If the father of the and / sly ' s 1 noble lord bad been a butcher his son happy in fietire elliplayalellt. oJiat! Lialal would this day be slaughtering calves." great. qiite.rprise ; others are cautious Honesty is the hest policy, and high The beet of each nand, the taste and the' moral principle can alone lead to penile talent. must he consulted , is the ' eked of busiunse. ' i Heist s uccess. We admit a man must All busiuees has a settled price or mar- I have other qualities with these, but with bet value. Success is to be won by obey- out the principle, all, will not avail. _ ing the laws of the culling reelected; and Washington and Sam. Ile who, would he eminent iu any pursuit, When §tuart was painting Gen. Wash must pay the market price for success.— input's portrait, ho was rallied ono day Two kinds of business may be found, to; by the General for his slow work. The (me of which the aspirant for employment painter protested that the picture could not must address himself. The one is bad, the advance until the canvass was dry,- and thst other good ; the ono can be found in a day, there must be souse delay. Upon arriving the other alma be sought for diligently, the next morning, Stuart turned his can- , and often "with patieucei' The ono pays visas, and discovered, to his gloat horror.' et once • fur the other money must often the picture was spoiled. "General," said be Nid. he, "somebody has held the picture to the • BUSINESS PRINCIPLES.—Prineipie andfire." Washington summoned his negro I integrity are good capital to begin and eon valet, Sam, and demanded of him, in great dune for life with. In wan)" large houses, indignation, who had dared to touch the men enter as partners who are destitute portrait 1' The trembling Sans replied, of weitith,"and can only, pat into the firm that, chancing to hear . Washington's ex their business reputation. Each man has ['Tessin of impatience at. the slowness of a business repute, and his character is the work, and the. response of the artist judged by little things. As Dr. Johnson I th a t it must be dry before it could go on, said whets he condenmed.a book of which) he ventured to rut the cutlass before the he bad onlyread afewpages:—"One need fi re . Washington, with great anger, die not eat mtibele joint of meat toknow that missed him, and told hire not to show his] it is tainted," so you need not be very fa- face again. But the next day, after Stu miller with , a matt of business to know art had arrived and was preparing to work, what his principles .of trade are. Washington rang the bell, and sent for It *was laid that easier, the naturalist, Sam. Her:ante itaabarshed and trembling. could take hones of city animal, no map The President drew a silver watch from ter h ow josignificatit these.. bones might his pocket, and said, "Come here, Sant.— be, and by their aid construct the entire Take this watch, and whenever you look"at anitnaLand tell You . its character and the it remember. that your master; inn mo.uent climate it called its home. - -So, *oat of o f passion, said to you what be now re entail matters, words spoken, principles grets; and that ho was not ashamedlm con- avowed, sets done, and. . deeds emitted, fess that ho had done so." you huild'uP the character of a man and make up your opinion about him. Yon I mss say of'acime . .mas e : "I•like his appear aecee. I iii(MMpley him;. he auka me." Yon do, net , maim. your fe elings ; ; bat your kind ie'iiacle up. :Of another you: may . say: "T',do not like that young man.". Perhaps you satisfy yoursel(why, if* reason was.nalled for.• , Yeti have taken certain' trivial sots of youth, trivial though they' hed; an tttide - up your opinion., _ . $Ol the Bright Hours on 17• A lesson in itseltsublitosi A lowa !eon h enshrining. Is this.: "1 las no heed of time, Mare when the min is shining." These mutton-words a dial here. And 'wisdom newer teaches To human hearts a better lore Than this Aloft sentence teaches. Actife is sometimes blight and fair, And sometimes dark and lonely, Let us forget its ;min and care, Anti note its blight hours only: There is no grove on earth's bright chart, some birdin cheer it, • Bo hope sings on in_ heart, Although we may trot hear it; And if In day the heavy ming Of sorrow is oppressing, Perchance toonnrrow'a sun will bring The weary heart a blessing. For life is sometimes , bright and fair, And sometimes dark and lonely ; Then let's forget its toil and we, And note its bright hours only. We bid the joyous moments haste, And then forget their glitter ; We take Ito cup of life, and mote No portion but the bitter! Bid We should teach our heart to deem Its sweetest drops the strongest ; And pleasant bums should near seem litigcr round us longest. As life lax mietimes bright and fair. And sotnetiones dark end Let us forget its toil nod care, And note Oa bright hoots only. The dm ke4 shadows of the night Are just 114 ire the morning, Tlitm let us wait the coming All hinting phantoms ewtt.ing, Ain! while we're liaising on the tide taut ebbing river, Lent pluck tho blosaiimit by its aide, the oscines Giver. Aa life is immutimes Wight and fair, And atime.hises dark mid lonely, We ahould Argot ins poin and care, s Aud note ita bright hours only. A friend of mine said to me ono day : "Libel' dismiss my clerk," I knew the yeang.man ; he. as smart and intelligent, well.diaposed and genteel." I asked • the reason. "I am not quite satisfied," was the reply t •Phe dresses too well ; he has SOQ mnah jewelry; his room is too well furnisbed.;, be •rides too. much'; I know his mom; the salary I pay •will net admit ,of such expenses.'The young man thou_g ht that ho was preduoing a sen sation. lie was; but not of theehameter he; supposed: .It, is said that men cannot do business ow stria princieles of integrtty and honor. Bat it is certain it can be Cooduoteil on no other. hilt be truei.orifthOetatentent at all spproximates to the truth, that in Ilistop, for the last twenty-tire years, nine, pee out of each' hondrod of all our merohaoM have been _unsuccessful, how Sacrednees oR Tear* Dr. Johnson observes :—"There is a sa credness in team." They are not a mark of weakness, bat . of power. They speak more eloquently thee ten thousand tongues. They are the tnessengera of overwhelming grief, of deep, coutrition, of amspeakable love.. If there were wanting any ,argu meat to prove that mart, is not mortal, I would look for , it in the streak, convulsive emotions of the breast, when the soul has been Aeoply agitated, when the fountains of feeling are , rising. and ,when the, tears are gushing forth iu crystal streams. Oh, speak not harshly to the stricken,one, weep ing in, silence I Break not the deep so lemnity by rude laukhter or inuusive foot steps. Despise not woman's testa—they are what make her an angel. Scoff not if the stern heart of manhood is sometimes melted to tears—they are what help to el evate Lim above the brute. I love to see tears of affection. They are painted to kens, but still most holy. There is a plea sure in tears—an awful pleasure. If there were none on earth to shed a tear for me, I should be loth to livo ; and if no one might weep over my grave, I could never die is peace. , • Whoa are gide apt to eatoh fire ? *glee they are serroanded by garb: • • dETTYSBU,RO, PA, FRIDAY:,EVENING, MARCH t, Liquor Ithultrated. Tlfurlow W. Biown, Editor of the cap uka . Chief, :recently journeyed frOn: rtu• burn to Wisconsin, aud this is one'of his 1 • notes by, the ways : • , . . "Speaking of grog•shops.brings to mind the incident which occurred et ------: , A young, well dressed, gentletnanly ap 1 peering man, with • a lovely wife and child, bad journeyed on the same train with us. from Buffalo. At --e;---, iu spite of the earnest and tearful protesta -1 floes of his wife,. he would leave the" de: Ipot, as he said, '9ll business.' From •the wife'stnanner we readily guessed what she thhught his huitiness was. For a king I hour ihe stood, with her boy in her arms: awaiting his return, the tears, irr spite of all her efforts, silently dropped upon • the !cheek of. her sleeping child. He came just as the • train started ; drunk. He i lurched toward the platform,sfell upon the i rail, and his head was severed from his bo dy. Never in life shall we forget the ex ! pressiou of the wife's countenanes, us she 'stood a moment, her features pale and !ghastly, and.then fell somieless • upon the gory and smoking form of her husband.— ; The wail of the fatherless boy touelted'ev cry heart, for not one who looked upon the segue could. refrain from weeping.— Had an assassin robbed the wife and child of a husband and father at such a moment the enraged populatte would have lynched him on the spot. But ho was killed _.,by I authority.' lie died a legal death. The butchery _, was licented. The price of blood was in the rumseller's till. A few t pennies' worth .of property was saved to him, but A husband, father and citizen des strayed. The crushing blow fell upon the innocent and defenceless among strangers. I This butchery is but one among the host having record in the history of rumselling. To put an cud to it, we aro told, would vi. Mate the Cerittitution, destroy property, and outrage the rights of the citizen and his domicil. We lookoi upon that woman, an she was taken like a 'dead Otte from the headless corpse, her heavy hair clotted with the blood that had just jetted front the pulsing heart, and felt fresh hatred agamst a damnable business and all. its apologists and abettors: I thought of Seymour, ani thanked God that lie no longer stands between the people of Now York aud the swinge which burdens them." The Faking Season Wednesday- the 21st being Ash Wed nesday, commenced the season of Lent, during which the Ciitliolie _community, especially in Catholic countries, observe a rigid fast. The same season is also ob served as a fast to some extent, by the Episcopalians. In the Raman Catholic Church the WO, ful• in,- in tarailisal.. thll4ll4' irotriltirtn iug Roy matrimonial allmoces whatever.— Accordingly, from Sunday preceding Lent to Ash Wednesday, there are—an ex change paper says—more connubial knots tied than on any other three days in tits: year. 1 During the forthcoming six weeks end -1 ing on Easter Sonday, the communicants of the Catholic Church, are expected to abstain from the use of flesh meats, and other such rarities, and besides, other -1 wise mortify their sinful bodies. The Church excuses from the ob!igation of fasting Ditt not of abstinence from 11200 except in special cases of sickness and the like, the following class of persons The infirm. 2d. Those whose ditties are of an exhausting or laborious chsraetee.- 3d. Those who are only attaining their growth: 4th. Women in pregintheyeor nursing infants. sth. Those who are en feebly!' by old age. The following linen from en old Eng lish Pont, will laird our readers a hint of the old fashioned way rif doing things : TO KEEP A TRUE LENT Is this a fait to keep The hater leano And clean From fat of vodka and .hcep Is it to quit the dish Of Osah, yet still To fill The platter high with 6att 1 le It to reit an hour, Or raged to go, Orehow A downcast took andsourt Nn 'tie e fest to dole Thy sheaf of Wheat nd meat unto the hungry soul. It to to fast from stifle ) From old debate, And hate To circumcise thy life. ~ ' To show a heart grief-rent ; To starve . thy sin - Not bin, And that's to keep thy Lent. In olden times Lent was the season for a, number of ceremonies that are now al most forgotten. and live but in . tradition. We are informed ,th:tt it was . the custom at one time. in Ergland, for the urchins, to. wards the of Lento') gn • froM one house to another, beating pieces of sticks together, and cryinkr: Herrings, herrings. whito and red, 'fen a peep, L nt.'s dead ; Rise dame and give an egg, Or elves piece-of bacon. One for Peter, two for Paul. Three for Jack,a Lent's all Away Lent, away. and' if the dame refused the specimen* Of Young England existing, at that. day 'the expected larges t they left the bons° cry ing- , Here site• bad wife; . The devil take her Set her upon the swivel, And vend her Wilt! devil! It has been esiimated that one revival of religion which--tonic place-at-40er Col lege,"under the Presidency of Dr. Dwight; raised up ministers who were instrumental in the conversion of fifty thousand souls in One generation. • A breeder of Shanghitis imps that one of these fowls, when eating core, takes ono peek at tiara . IiFEARLESS AND FREE." *llllllonry PIE. During the late ,Wir With Great Britain, a very remarkable, iireumstance ociiurred, io connection within invasion of Catiady. A ounrpaity Of Kentiteky volunteer_; dekin• ed for Shelby's . arriiy, had their rendes vous at. Darrodsberg, in:Kentucky, and , formed a sort of a tufpleue or rallying point, for the military'vectlnts of that part of the country. , When' they marched from Har- i rodsbarg; towarthi he Ohio river, having' got a mile (it two tot.their way:they notice-, ed two. pigs fighting; and delayed their, marc h, to , se e it But. ','After they had hail resumed their marelt'. the pig, which had been the victor in t * obsery ed to follow thorn, y At night. when theY,. encamped, the pig i found a shelternearnsl halted also. rr— be next day the (lig actompanitid the troops as before tinit :thus alto marched every day and havltediverrnight with the 'soldiers, or. near theln:.•. When .they "me opposite ,Cincinatti, p t which place the troops were to cross the Ohio in a ferry. boat, the pig on gettinito the water's edge promptly. plunged in acid swain across, and I 'then waited on tliti.Otlter side until :the whole cortege crusaetti over, and then re.• sCmed her post on owe side Of the move. ing column, 'rhos We animal kept up with the troops till they crossed the State of Ohio and reached. Lthlie Erie. On the inurnek,ati , thelmen gra* fam Rielly' ilk' their comrade, she • beraina; . a pet,. recciringa •share of the rationalesiced to the soldiers ; -and destitute of proviei n as the troops found therriselses at theca, no one thought of putting the knifel itilhe throat of their tellow-soldier. What they had was still shared, and alit° rig fared as scantily as the rest at times, it still grunted on, and manifested as much patriotism in her own line as the bipeds it aneompanied did in theirs. At the-margin of 14e lake she emharked with the troops, and went as fdr es Bass Island.- BM when offettal a passage over into Canada, 'she obstinately refused to embark a second time.'Some of the men attributed her conduct , '!to constitutienal scruples, and observed:- that she knew it was contrary to tine Cistitution to fore° a.militin pig over the l ine, She therefore had leave tit thumb.. After thecatopaign had Closed, the troops recrossed the lake. having 101110 MB of their bursar on the America!! side. As soon the line was forinied, to the great surprise of the troops theie was the pig on the right of the line, ready to fesunan her wadi with the rest. lly this time the whiter trosts had set in, and the. animal suffered greatly on the homeward marrh,. Sue made out however to - reach Maysville, where the troops reerosit4 the Ohio river. There she gave out, .air".was ohn:eit in trusty halide. by;..Portniir She ' lAr. and dua.11)(.104.1): - AML:itari4A 119g.15 4 , lea \ Who're - She paised the reit or. her Lie nk i •~tase and indolence: Thera are -many in Km neky who ran now attest the truth ut t is IVlllarkable Story. I BI . RDS.-A . bird is a Model ship con structed by the hand of GO, in which the conditions of swiftness, maiageability, and lightness arc absolutely an necessarily the same' ns in vessels built by the. baud of man. Thera aro not in the, world two things Which resemble each other more strongly, both mechanically and physically speaking, than the care:nisi:lnd framework of a bird and a ship. Tha breastbone so exactly resembles a keel, tkat the English language has retained tae name. The wings are the oars, the tail the rudder.— , That Original observer, Huber the Gene rose, who has carefully nofieed the flight of birds of prey, has even made use of the metaphor thus suggested establish a characteristic diStiwatioe between rowers and sailors. The rowers are tae falcons, who have the first and second wing latiatb er the longest, and who are able by means of this poiverful oar to dart right into the wind's eye. The mere sailors are the ea gles, the vultures, and the buzzards, whose wore rounded.winds rc*wble sails. Affecting Incident In PhiladelPhia a few days ago a police man observed a decent lonking man take a stuall pitce of beef off a butcher's stall in the market and conceal it under his cloak which he wore. The official - notified the butcher of the fact, but the latter said thitt so decent a man mast boa been driven by want to the commission of the act. The officeedeterMined to Watch_ the needy man, and 'following hhtt . fOr a con siderable distance, observed him going in to it house,itt the upper part of the city. The policeman knocked ,at the door. which was opened by the man. who,' upon seeing the badge,' bogged the former "for Gull's sake not to arrest him." The' offi cer went into the house, where ho found a scene of destitution,', in_ the.midat of which were' fohrshivering children 'eager ly devouring the raw meat. This dark picture 4401110v/hat relieved by the feet that the ` officer returned to the buteber, and tbtd'himof the sight, he hadivititessed, when the kind-hearted follow gathered up aulong his friends fifteen dollars ja money and a largo balket of provisions, and sent them to the famishing family. FAltu VENTURES Norwrio.r—Theie is no risk, nothing ventureduot even the possibility of loosing anything permanent. ly valuable, by livtog, a life of , faith in Jesus Christ. The late Rey. Dr. Simeon —long a tutor in Hoxton College—after many years spout in the service of Christ, as he drew Ilea to death spoke with great disapprob - ation of Abe phrase used good peoPle,l.P'enttfridg ou Pbrist." '7lVhen," said he, "I oousider the infinite dignity and all.suffi'oionoy of Christ, I Om ashamed to talk of vehturing on him. o,,had I ten thousaid souls, I would, at tins Moment, omit them all into his hands.umk the ut most confidence." OMNI/LNG TRA.-51. Layiel a French chemist, Ways that he discovered that by grimlin4 tea in the saute manner av cuff e, before Infusion, the qtiantity of exitihirating fluid.obtained is nearly doubled, The ex periment is worth trying. A Dropped Letter. The following we , clip from the Boston Post. It IM too goof) to, he lost. It is from one of the "American" members of the Massachusetts Legislature to his affec tionate son : ' • BoPion, Jan.' 18, 1885 Sort lours :—I have too ouch legisla tive work to come home on attraday night as I said I woutd—so7 you olio mind the farm.-1 have. managed to got on a goad, Many committees so as to bedtime popular by having my name 'printed either in the Papers and I menage' to say somerthitig occasionally and ,I have seen •my name three times printed in the daily bee...—. American 'principles is !nuking , up towel here in Boston and we are going to discord all torign aliments in our government (by the way have the barn door ,painted over with tome other , color 'besides Spanish hroivn. I dent like anything Spanish.) The governor has meth, a lick at the for- 1 ign inalitia and disbanded all' the compan ies. (Don't .use'any'more British oil for your deefness for I have thrown away that box of Russia salve your mother put in my trunk to rub my nonstick leg with use American'physic it' itrthe hest.) We , are going to^have the Win lingo taken'of the Slate °navel arms and put plain yen key 01104 in its place. , We are going.m • head I tell you and making a clear swoop of eicrythifig - of forign - ixtraction I have vie ited no, place of amusement excepting the live beffaloo which is a tegular native lie looks very much like .11 hairy cow.— . _ Speaking of entire reminds ,me of our Dur bin bull you stay still him to Weds the butcher ha is of forign extraction: A. friend asked me to gn to the Athenitim and see the library and pictures but I was timid nearly . all _the picitirea are painted .4y , the old masters as ;hey are culled--antl,these I am told, are without exception ajl tong : -oars besides malty of the hooka at in far ign languages so silicetintraryia_theApir• it , 01 ourprmoples ttipisit,such a plane: was going to see Barivards great painting of the land which is making mime stir but. a native artist told ins it r was mostly painted, with Venetian red. Dwelt ,pink and Naples yellow while all thOskies were prutisian blue too much of the forign element to be . iniertisting By the way speaking of paitit have the front blinds which 1 had puiiiutd with French yreen lust fall painted with, tonic uthur color titan I mentioned above. Stop the Zions Ilerald'and fake the Yankee Nye. leer in its place; Give my Alarseille vest to dick the ploughman and tell him to, atone Jip the scotch terrier off the, farm. and to kill that .llaltet ,cat lrotn your NlFectionate father The 014 Alan. . . .Tbe 0141 met; leaned on hie foiomilt 0440,8040 Y, 7Kiti`e lieckdil hlrivay,nri TO the church where he lovs'd to go —Hifi hair was white, inithe 4cinrcely knew A friend e» he yawed him toy; So feeble and (roil woe his memory now, And co ditnwas his clouded eye. - He ent in o lic t orrinatic chair et church, . , In froni n: tho preacher's starld.-' And listened,' as it in a pletnairit dream, To the words of abetter land. The sunlight full on his silver locks, And hid white heir Honed to gold , And I fancied a sunlight alione from heaven, On the heart of that pilgrim old. But the ilututoin twee have fallon,siew t Aml the all mod sleeps follow— We never shall sea bill) pass datum With tottering step and slow. A Groat Work In Italy. Recent letters ',peak of an Undertaking by the King of the 'Pwo'Sicilies, which, if accomplished, will •do inure for his credit than anything that. hasiranspired since his Recession. We refer , to the draining of the [Ace FoCino - or Callan°, This lake lies about 110 miles north of Naples, • and is surrounded by the highest Appeninea.— The melted snows and the rains flowing . from these mountains run into the lake, and as it has no outlet, the surrounding land, which is al great fertility,•is constant ly liable to, be submerged.. Julius Caesar intended to have had the, lake drained; but did not livelong enough to accomplish his design. The Emperor Claudius 'under , took it, and had 304000 men employedlot eleven years in constructing a canal through the mountains ; but his workMl/1 destroy..., ed by hie Successor. Through succeeding ages the Work was repeatedly restnitt, tint never completed: • At length . King" Ferdi nand IL has. granted to a .Neapolitan.com• patty chiefly. however, composed .of Frenchmen. certain ',advantageous' terms, and, they are about comnieneirig operations on the old work of Claudius, and they'are to finish it within eight years.. The lake i is in be entirely drained, and the effect, it is.l said, will be-the reclamation of thirty-three ' thousand 'acres of the richest land, which will become .the. property of the company: With the, pee. of gunpowder and the apps= rates of modern science, the ,work will not he near so difficult it Was hi the . time of ClBllllill4. Antiqtiarians are looking for ward to the draining of the lake with touch interest, for three ,ancient cities have been swollowed up-in the water?. which, it is suppolied, twill rereartroasuree of antupti ty, equal to theirs of 'Ponipeii; During the . reign of Charlet. the Third, in. Abe latter . . waters fellof ; the forteenth century, the• waiers fell so low toms the ruins of ihe ancient, city of Valeria were revealed; and the stat ues of-' Claudius,. Aggrippina and Nero were recovered. The other buried cities are Penna Archippue.. . DIIRATIUN.OI VEUISTABLE LIFE.—LoII Lindsay states that, in the course of his wanderings amid the .pyramids of Egypt, he stumbled on a mummy; proved by Its, hieroglyphics to be at least two thousand' years of ago. On examining "the mummy after it was unwrapped, AO found in one 1 of its closed hands a tuberous or' bulbous' root. '.llO was interested in the question how long vegetable - life could last, and he therefore took that tuberous root from the mummy's baud, planted it ina sunny wilt ailmied the rain* and dews 'of heaven to descend npon it, uud in the - course of a few weeks, to his astonishmeot and joy, - the., root buret 'forth and bleemod haw a beauti Jul dahlia! What a lovely night I the round, red moon Sills high in the air like a great balloon, While the mars shine brightly, like so many Sky rackets, • Or diamondtimbedded in topaz wickets And, dickering over the slumbering The moonlight Is streaming op and doiin e Till each slam) roof and WI, thin *Ore Glows silver and red with its mystic. fire Nature, though dreaming. yet smiles in glee What a night fort slide down the anutp so free away— • - 'Ti. no n ight fir deep- . B e er the moonbeams Nay . Oe (hp 41acia steep, And the moon looks down. . With a langhipg air— ' Oh ! let's not Min A. night 40 fair: - • Oh I here's a health to the lucky man Who Ant - invented the tabogsti ; The red row's tolls tenni,' be well 'repaid • If he Juin tried . * slide/ with his Indian tumid, Here's the top of the bill now down we go, Swill as tbe,shaft rrom the twanging bow. Or, slicker than lighttking twat a way Wall oiled and greased; nnurfriende would say Our,breath is gone. like hie r ho' was tied On the wild steed's back, for the dreadful rids. .They may talk of. sly flirtation', By - the light n 1 the chandelier. And such • When nobody's rory•riear But Alen they !wirer tried, • On a starlit night and clear. IMven the steep glade, a slide. With a precious freight to steer. They mov praise the polks's round, Or the walts's giddy whirl* -To music's 'melting sound, As up and down they , whirl— But give me the slippery steep ! Cure me the cold moon's my The cooling.rush oldie outstripped wind The elide otthe Jndisn sleigh. For thnnek we mey lack ihe ihandelirr. The tight the - anon is jr esing Clem And though *playa nut soft muAlo's There'. a silvery.voice I love as well— imiris-tffe tinftiited, Sledded with Ennity,aStterry world, • - Which shadow* e gayer tont grander, hall, Than ever *Unlined a'threnging 80 if dnlltare struht come in your way, The best receipt' is a!) Inthetvileinh. Quebie Mercury 124X0Dit4TY pF rASHSONABLVLAKEB, . . , It 1 .timught I should - nor - be ostriiciied for niy, temerity, would embrace this oppor tunity to present a sitggestion or two in relation ,to the style of afolldress," so call ed. adopted recently by very many of our ladies on public,M•caitions. At the risk of many frowns, cast front brows which I should • regret' to - NA tiiva distorted, I must be permitted in suggest that failtion, in this.particular, never, within my. recol lection, Was so regardless of good, sense, not to say of modesty,' as now. Ladies' e veiting apparel is anything but °full" drcsi in the literal 'sense—m.loml, in many in: .oftnces. .;The unobjectionable exposure Which reolaced the adatritaliiiatt-inahuing-tr,,,,,..,..4„.......... lies of olden times, has been caricatured of litte,tminil tints' our lashionfibly arrayed lady can searre , be said to'wear any waist whatever to her dress, save abroad belt next,Abe skirt, and a narrow, strap from it around the upper part of the arin. I ad. snit ilibt"thin pirture is very slightly over drawn, but I know not how better to intl. mate the infinite distaste which •sensible men exprese wfien speaking, of the.prevail nig - fashion.' 1 know full well that many exec:lent, Jimiable. and well bred ladies, indulge in this style, thoughtlessly.. The manniamaker oftentimes is.left to suit her own Ales of taste:arid . fas hums ;: and the gentle wearer, when she dolts for the ,firot tune the strange, unnatural apparel. stifles her better judgmend.by the cureless reflea don, oh re the fashion !" Lei me assure you, fair readers, that the true gentleman cannot, and does„ not, admire slavery to fashion at the expense, of health, good taste, and---must' I say it,?—imideety. .I design' no reflection; but 1 subunit it to'the better judgment of • the lair sex, in' their momenta of cool. reflection, whether such exposure . of their persons as is otten wit nessed in fashionable society, now-a-days, can be long indulged in by the gentlest and purest', without* loss of that exquisite sense of refinement and delicacy which; to the female character., ike. the moss go the rose—the crowning grace of loveliness. Cor. of the flatly Times. DANGER OE A Mail RiLLOW....-.lt is of,. a question amongst people who aro tlO, acquainted with the anatomy and physiol *ogy of titan, whether lying with the head exalted, or even with the body, was the more wholesome. Most, consulting their OWG ease on this point, argue in favor of that whioh they prefer. Now although many delight in bolstering up their heads at night, antilleeping soundly, without in jury, yet we declare it to boa dangerous habit. The vessels through which the blood pans from the heart to the head are always lessened -in their cavities when the bead is resting ott a bed higher than the body ;/ therefore in all dheases attended with fever, the head should be pretty near ly on a level With the body ; and people ought to accustom themselves to`sleep thus,;to avoid danger.—Medical Jour. ` Itententbianeo of thee. My heart is o'erfull nibs gladness, As Buirepeups laden with dew ; • • And bends 'neath the weight of its gladness As Idyl:ups bend 'neath the dew. It Is tull urns lose to teerflowhis, .And that'll; tike,a pearl in the sea, Forever and ever, ill glowing The Noised remembrance of thee. • tech thought of my hearfie - blessing; Etch •wiah that: it breathe"; is it ptayet, f hat eteele with a gentle eam.eiiii To .thint, thrhush the shad:awls , * sir: • For my.thunght, o'er end o'er,dike a spirit, Keeps honing thy press* to toe -•- And my swish is 14 prnyer, to inherit The store/of the future sith thee. • . . :. t Iforne Peontarryn.—Austria,it is; said, 'has frirhhiden the publiostimt of the bull r.a*- peeling the linmaoydate conception in Lemba:dy. and ,tuie even prohibited the priests from iiresehinglipon it, . I slept and dreamed that Life was Itseley. I woke and found that fats wail Duty; ' Was then thy . cluna n a ; altaitvari.lne , Toil on - ,.githeart: enaraponalt. And shoe shalt And thy. 4raana to Da A noonday tight and to 1,1; en tom. SOlding. Composition of Ameltnilltut*, t , EOTOanB2PRONESSoit..7A3Iiati mirsay. Last evening Professor Mottos delivered. le Lecture as shove, in the Mechanics' In tontine; No. 1 flowery, Ina very numerous. audience. Chide; A. Pelann, Chairman nt the Lecture Committee, presided. The Profersor commenced by alluding to the; great importanCe of Agriculture iri, this conntry, where nine.tenthe qt the, wealth belong to farmers, and of which elate the mercantile may be considered no More than the factor employed to dispose of their prodnets. 'and in import the foreign goods, they require. Rut, of the knowledge A' the farmers, he could not speak so well am of their wealth; a good' laborer merely it not a gond farmer ; no pursuit offers so !,many Illdueembn,a, even in' regard to pe !mutiny profit, tor the application Of eel. eon, as that of the farmer, Thd feeturee next presented a,viewof ihe gradual pro gression 'ar,.cnptter from • chaotic state to, tie present Condition, commencin g with the splomeration of the 'elementatpliti cler; which floated widely apart through space, and adverting to their Chitnical combinations into the substance , of Which the,earth is composed. He then dandled a great number of facts not generally known, in regard to the growth of animate and plants, from among which our span only admits of our collecting 'the few fol lowing, The gradual improvement of gni• mars as well as plants, though contrary to the popular idea, is nevertheless indisputa. ble. It is completely proved by the Elgin. marbles, ire which horses are scuiptiared of such a make so would not bring 850 today in the New York market. Men ; too,must have improved. At the Eglington mums. ment, a tew years ago, the old armour ta ken down for the occasion wee found to he - too small for the men of the day.-- Fruits and vegetables have equally improv. .ed. The present peach it the lineal, though much improved, descendant el a bitter alMond, in which the ancient Per. . Aims used to dip their arrows to Maks them poisonous. The hybridatien. , or uniting'into any kind. of two kinds of vege. tables, and the, improvement in some- in• stances and deterioration in others,,.wers, dear ribed. The PrOfessor-adveited to ilia , • reclamation of lan& ; there is not an acre . , on this Continent that'eannotbe °entente to the suppOrt of human life. The furor.. ing matter of all fruits, ix the same t. the iltiTorenee only, depentla. on, 'the different acids with which this matter ie combiried. The seientific. horticulturist can, bY ent manures, produce from two mew or the same kitid, fruits differing, as, widely as the cherry and the peach. All the , waste of continents. carried opt inert the, ocean by large river., isrestored and made , of Utility—in oil, fish, shells, end other' marine, products. By a law of nature VaiilB,ol4l4oj.. e 7S. l ll:"li° l "f into the natural labnratiiry'andiurited out • aguin in the same or another forro s lo again dose. •By a computation make 5y the Professor, the quantity ,of peach.. brought into New York Oily in one weeks exceedid that dal! the (mita, of everV kind, imported itini'Gieat Britain in one year. Same doubt•the utility of applying to itoil that fertilizer which an analysis of it show it ttr want ; hut Ism*, of whirls the lecturetflunted several, decidedly show the ref/Arbil to be the truth. Not a mouth misses that Mere is not in the harbor of . New York or Boston, a ship loading with bones for England ; the result is seen in the decrease of American Wheat. front thirty to twelve pushels per acre, and the inorase of &OBI' 1I to 43. Where barren soil is foam: to be of the earns eon. . , ailment as a fertile one, the barren one is not sufficiently pulverized to produce ; this fact is ep answer tit any objections founded on Boob litentocies: The address was listened to with the ut most attention, and elicited, frequent ap plause.. , A vote of thanks to Prof. Mem for tiffs inairurtive and - entertaining lecture, was proposed by the Chair, and: unsni. mously carried. 0 81opria,y aper.” 'Fhe following remarks are too good ; to he thrown to one aide without; at least,* pasatog notice. They are true. to the let ter, and suitable to all localities. Wears of opinion that the weakestcapasity can• not fail to understand then' : • , . , Ii is ashinishing what. exalted-notions some 'Persona have of their' own impor They seem to imagine that they are altogether necessary to the onward roll of of our: little world, and if by any means they should ,be shoved out of .the Way, the screw., would be 'so-loose that the old machine would no longer hold' to gether t and of course, it such important personages only say to an editor, "stop my paper." the whole establishment must go to nought _instanter. • . We hove often laughed in our eleevit though • ootwartliy we looked as grate. an an owl-...whett one of these regulators of the ‘ world has marched into our editorial sanction and ordered a dircontinuatme of his paper. And it always , does us good to see hold the starch is taken out of him while the editor smilingly replierk.lCer taitily, lit, with the greatest: plessure,just sormas the clerk, has entered a dozen or more names which have just been gent in." Thu mighty min wilts down like the narrative Or w whipped spaniel, aid he shrinks away: muttering to !.Well ran ,straid that stopping my has not ruined him after all.' Theke ;levelly who stop their Papua 4ia aCchtint:of some miff which has towline way into their cranium,'sre sure to wall* the dine of the mita issue, thinking. brat ::: :Mother number will hardly make its pearanee ; and' they are share to borrow ' their neighbor's copy to see if it doisi not contain the editor's' tumult eddeunt his reader'. . • •:. 'We once knew a ministlf crating a Christian's character, and the circumipeotitin walk. siid i lW way to heaven required u much oartpi it did for a oat to wattrott-s-Will - worritt - isiit btoktiabottlei. 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