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BY D. A, & C. H. BUEHLER
VOLUME XXVI. 1
Walling for the May.
Ah ! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for tha May ;
Waiting for the pleasant rambles,
Where the fragrant haw thorn brambles,
With the woodbine alternating,
Scent the dewy 3lay.
Ah ! my heart is sore with sighing.
Sighing for the May ;
Sighing for the sure returning,
When the summer's brains are burning,
❑eyes and (lowers that, dead Of dylutr,
Al! the the Winter lay.
Ah ! my heart, minivan is throbbing,
l'ltrobbing for the May ;
Tim.!thing for the sea-wide
Or the water:wooing willows,
When., in laughter and in sobbing,
Glide the streams away.
Charley staid lON Novi'
. .
Chat ley's new sled was just . finiihed, and,
Le was drawing his sisters, in turn, about
the yard, in high glee, when hit(' mother
canto back f root a Gall upon poor sick ,Mrs.
ClifimA, Presently they carne in to warm
a
'heir cold fingers,and Ilk mothematiked ;
4 , charky, ymt know Eolkert, Mrs. CH
ig(rd'l4 nephew, who is staying there this
iti tier ?" “Is it the boy who goes to meet
ing and sits in their pew ?" “VeS, my
h ou, and he has ,been very skit with th e
weasti i tt . I), you remember when you had
the !mash r, Charlie ?"
..No, 111 M her.'
“There were four of you sick at the
sante time, and when you brgan to be a
bide bolter you were very rest lea ; you
NVllliled to be carried ab int and amused,
:mil we talked and sung and real stories to
Itiihort is away from his la thor and
?timber. Ile is sick up stabs, mid his
wont is t4,ISICk below. t Mit she rvoittir”s con”
Hnut care and HIM ing. and pair rt do rt. is
mach abate. flu it to weak to it up,
and 11011114111, 110 could read a little in bed,
and that would make him a little less dutc
h', but I told hint he ought not to read a
word fur several days, his eyes are s•i
weak. Now what do you think of leaving
your new sled, this bright beauti It d:ty.
and going up and sitting in th • chamber
with-11.iibct t, and reading to him.
Charley's eyes tilled. Ile was not tle•
41.1;:inted With Itolwrl, 411 , 1 11.,..11 be was
u.kt orally a diffident boy, and his sled look
kid 5 ., icinplitti:t.
"I don't care about going," said he at
last.
11 ell, do just ag you elioinic nliont
lid I Irti d II ILA there alone, :toil I ask
likci to you
:in I read to him ; and hi.i eyng
tot if you tvere willing
"I'll go," said Charles, •'Farah, you
-and Ellun may play with my sled till
.cuma•back:"
his mother helped him to select an in
teresting brad:, and when he returned,
sonic two hours after, you would nOt have
thought he enjoyed Ids sled any the loss,
or felt sorry he had been to see ltole.rt.—
t was, to be sure, only a small act of kiwi
-De:3s, but it is these little things which
make up the daily life of joy or sorrow to
many hearts. Can you not, boys and girls,
in such way lessen the load of sorrow, or
add to the joys of some sons and daugters
of affliction?
1U Mother Alums be§it.
A party of little girls stood talking be
neath my window. Snore nice plan was
on foot ; they were going into the woods,
and they •meant to mike oak leaf trim
mings, pick berries, and carry luncheons.
Oh, it was II fine time they meant to hare.
"Now," said they, to one of the number,
"Ellen, you run home and ask your moth
er if you may go. Tell her we are all go
ing. and you must." Ellen, with her
green cape bonnet, skipped across the way
and went into the house opposite. Site
was gone some time.
The little girls kept looking up at the win
dows very impatiently. At lengtli the
door opened. and ]glen come down the
steps. She did not seem to be in a hurry
to join her companions, and they cried
out :
.You got leave ? You are going, aro
you ?"
Ellen shook her head, and said that her
Mother could not let her go.
"0," cried the children, "it's too had !
Not !it is really unkind in your moth
er.' "Why I would make her let you."
"U ! 0 I" "I would go whether or no."
"3ly mother knows best," was Ellen's
answer, and it was a beautiful one. Her
lip quivered a very little, for I suppose
xlie wanted to go, and was much disap
pointed nut to got leave ; but she did net
look angry or pouting, and ,b_er voice was
very gentle, but very fir in, 1&:n she said,
"My mother knows best " There are a
great ninny occasions, when mothers do
not see fit to give their children leave to
go and do where and what they wish to;
and how often are they rebellious anil
pouting in consequence of it ! But this
is-not the true way, fur it is not pleasing
to God.
THE UNFINISHED LETTE R. -A lady,
being, absent on a visit to some friends,
wrote a letter home, describing how she
had enjoyed herself, and saying how much
happier -she: doubtless would. have been
had her husband and children been present
with be r. The letter was posted,.received
by her httaband, and read by him to the
children, who were all delighted with the
good news and 'kind wishes it contained.
A little bright-,eyed, rosey.cheeked boy, in
particular, was kantio with joy. But
when he came- to .that part of the letter
where it sp.olufabout .t.remeining yours,"
the child's countenance changed, the
.sweet smile of pleasure passed away, the
,bright eye bent downward, and disapaint-
Anent look posssetoon of. his• leaturese—
itergth looked up,sorrowfully in his
father's face, sad said, i!Father it isn't
halt a letter ; and if I Were you, I would
sada it Ina again, and tell' dear mother
to'finhh it:'. "Why t" asked the father:
•tecti4e,"said the litde - fellow,'.4.epther
Alois Mit . say'whett she epiniiiK twine
•
Elevatedposts in Governments are like
Anne rocket mly awe . esible to, eagleii and to
• [From the N. Y• Tribune
11OLD:111E,
A THRILLINO SKETCH
The stage horn was ringing in my ear
its warning that, like time and tide, it
waited for no man, or woman either, but
as I hurried no through a dim passage, I
had a glimpse through a half open door at
a sconce that has impressed itself on My
memory indelibly.
"Why didn't they hold mo," were the
words uttered in such an anguish that
they thrilled in my ear when the stage
I had borne me far aalay from that, great
city and its sins and sorrows, and I deter
mined to fling them us an alarm on •the
I winds. until the statesmen and people,
mother and teacher, should set about forg
ing bands to hold those that follow iu the
footsteps of that dreadful sufferer.
A half dozen fine looking men surround
ed his bed, the thrifty growth of hair on
their faces, and the glittering of jewelry
about their persons, indicated as plainly us
I their haggard features, nod wary eyes, the
order to which they belonged. They were
of that mysterious order of knighthood,
who seem to have found the alchemist's
coveted power, nr at least to enjoy is cov
eted results. They live in first class ho
tels, wear first class clothes,
gold abounds
with them, and yet they hold labor, prac
tically at least, in supreme. contempt. I
knew the object of their cats was one of
their number ,who, the night before, in a
lit of deleri.sin tremens, had thrown him
self from the window of the upper story of
the hotel.
lie did not toss from side to side as
men do usually when a burning fever ra
ges on them, for head, spine, limbs, had
all been rendered useless by that fall; but
his whittle frame quivered with agony, and
from underneath the matted, streaming
masses of hair that fell over Lis face, at
ready wan and wasted with suffering, his
eve- glared out fiercely as a wounded
tiger s.
"Why didn't they hold me ?" he mut
t tered ; and with his groans he iningl3 , l re
proaches and hurt id curses upon the care;
ii`sS watcher,, that had left him make that
'terrible Hp.
Why tkinirt they hold him? Why,
they ( 1 1 ,1 not realize the fearfulness of the
terrors that encompassed hint ; they have
never bad 'Helium tremens—not yet.
The fiend that brandished that naked
Fwerni over his defenneless bead was invi3-
Ode to their eyes. They did not hear the
Isis: Of the serpents that coiled and writh
ed their slimy folds about his shrinking
form ! Oh, no! they did not see them,
and it was such rare sport. to see that.
swaggering .blustering bully cower, and'
crouch before his imaginary tormentors !
So they mocked, and jeered, and incited
hint on to combat with his phantom foes,
until the window caught his eye as a hope
fur escape, and so, wirh a yell and a bound,
he made that desperate leap, and the next
moment there was taken up from amid the
mire end blood and shivered glass in the
street, a shrieking sad mangled wreck of
humanity.
Whether that reckless and restless
spirit has gone up to its awful account of
misspent time, or has to beat out its Wa
ry life against the prison bars of a crippled
frame, I know not. God be merciful, and
heal, if he 14sgers, both soul and body.—
Why didn't they hold him ? Not those
careless, heartless watchers of the other
night; the demon of drink was in him
then too strong fur mortal coutr6l, but
long, long ago, when he was a blithe r
bright boy, as I remember him ; then his
mother might have held him in the bonds
of good habits, and trained-him as she did
those fragrant vines about her door, and
thus virtue might have rendered another
house as fair as did those clustering branch
es her own sweet cottage.
1 remember that household well. The
father was a man of high standing, filling
a responsible and respectable office. The
mother gay and indulgent, and affection
ate, surrounded by a band of rosy girls
and frolicking boys. Fashion entered the
holy circle first, with its bonefish habits of
idleness and extravagance. With it came'
the custont ofdrleking, because of fog or
frost, becau se they were merry or because
they were sad. The wind was sown there;
long years they have been reaping' the
whirlwind,
A taste for drinking rendered useful oc
cupation distasteful ; gaming afforded at
once excitement and a !nowise of a living
without labor. Thy boys drifted off into
vagrancy, the father was degraded from
his station, and died in disgrace and penu
ry. The girls dropped like cankered flow
ers, and God, in pity, took thorn.
The homestead has passed into stran
gers' hands, and nnw the poor old mother
sits alone in a comfortless cabin. beside
the same stream which rolled by the home
of her early happiness, and doubtless, as it
wanders by, it often whispers of the time
when eh might have held them all back,
by her counsel and example, from their
ruin.
• The following was' picked 'up inside
the bar at the Court House, in Springfield,
Mass, on Saturday, and challenges admi
ration, equally for its wit, its poetical per.
fection, its philosophy and its orthogra.
PhY
New easy satin' hero 7 works
This Koart is gnin' for to adfsum
And any wars hoe jostle seek■
May coin next Koart. & take his turn. -
DEATH OF AN AGED REVOLUTIONARY
PENSIONER..—The Union states that intelli
gence has been received at the Petition Of
fice of the death of Hugh Harris, a sol
dier of the revolution. He died at Jones
doro', Tennessee, onSthe 13th of February,
at the extraordinary .age of one hundred
and ten years. He was married to his
last wife,. who is now in receipt of a pen
sion as his widow, in the ninetieth year of
of his agel
Good humor is the blue sky of the soul,
in,vvhich every star , of talent will. shine
more clearly. - '
Virlee is at ) improvable !cock.
GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIIIA
I •Whlskey, Mr.,'
There is a deep, dark alley not far From
where we live. It is a dirty alley. ill-ra
ved and"unwholesome, It is lined with
old rickety wooden houses, with damp col
lars and crazed garrets. It terminates in
a sort of vinare court, where there is a
boiler factory a and tireless, panting, steam
engine. This alley is inhabited by a myr
iad of people, chiefly poor Irish laborers.
with their families—large families, too.—
We believe our alloy would turn out more
little ones, of both sexes, than any other
alley of its dimensions in the city. Poor
creatures 1 ragged, dirty, barefooted. hun
gry—yes, half starved, sometimes. Scores
of such children live here.
There is a great deal of drunkenness,
quarrelling, fighting. swearing and hunger,
and want, and cold in that alloy. We
wish a foreign missionary would visit it.—
Perhaps some of our good people who are
so interested in the 'heathen could find
objects of charity there. We are very
sure they could.
Night before last we were going home
about ten o'clock ; as we passed the mouth
of the alley, a little girl turned in from
the street. She was half clad in thin
summer clothes, bare-footed, wet and
shivering—for it rained heavily. She
was a miserable looking object. In her
hand was a battered tin cup., which she
,held carefully while she stepped across
the swimn:ing gutter. It was a strange
impulse, but we said—
" What have you got in that cup. sin ?"
She stopped, and turaing her thin pale
face towards us—there is a Lamp near the.
alley—she bnswered iu a hesitating, timid
tone—
"Whiskey, sir."
, Who is it for ?"
"Father and mother."
"Do they drink it?"
"Yes sir—sometimes," she said, with a
hesitating, half-frightened tone.
"Where did you get it r
"At the grocery, air."
" , Show um where you got it."
''o, I can't ; I must go —it's so cold !"
And she vanished up die dark, damp
allev.
Now I knew the secret of the noises,
the oaths. the poverty, the wretchedness
of that all, y--"or ut ka,t oue great cam.e.
"Whiskey, sir."
Look at those Idc4itetl, brutal men—
those ragt , ed, brawling, obtletle woincit—
tho•te starving, freezing, th,pele:is, joy less
children. Why are they so—
" Whiskey, sir."
What brought that man, stained aryl
bloody, before the police court this morn
ing I What sent that wretched female to
the ‘9,graut'eold, ttoy.or, Biel lq
the house of refuge 7
"Whiskey, sir."
And if the criminal isasked by the ju 17,0
if he has aught to say why the sentence of
the law should not be passed upon him,
nny plea to make, any defence to put in,
what should be his honest reply 1—
"Whiskey sir."
There goes a man, who five years since
was in excellent circumstances, had n good
business and a happy family. lii is 'low
a dissolute loafer ; his family suffers ev
ery day• for the necessaries of life.—
W hat brought them to misery, despair and
want I—,
"Whiskey, sir."
See those little children growing up in
sin, ignorance and poverty, with no child.
ish joys, no buoyant feelings. tin pure
thoughts, no' feud hopes, no affections, no
respect for their wretched parents. What
keeps them in such a terrible condition ?
"Whiskey, sir."
AL ! child with the tin cup. von spoke
a volume them; a volume that bringsno
joys to the reader. You told a story of
much crime and beggary, ruin and death,
of woo that has no consolation.
But, there stands a beautiful and costly
building. money has been lavished to adorn
it in every style of elegance, inside and
out. It it a noble structure. Who was
the builder ?
"Whskey,' sir."
Yes, there was a great volume in thf
child's words—n volume of splendor, of
wealth, of sudden tickles, of money accu
mulated year by year, of aristocratic fam
ilies, of young men and beautiful woolen,
who, for eveything they have tend enjoy,
are indebted, and to nothing else indebted,
but to-
"Whiskey, sir."
NVo have noticed that girl with her cup
ninny times before coming tionra grocery
near by, but never did we imagine her er
rand. We thought the days of retailing
rum to children was passed ; God knows it
should be. Remember—" Cursed is he
who putteth the cup to his neighbor's
lips."
There was a murder in that alley last
winter. The corpse was found i the coro
ner was summoned , an inquest held.—
The verdict was—" Came to his death by
a violent blow on the head, delivered by
somebody unknown to the jury." That
was no verdict! At the time that man
was killed, there was a drunkenrow—sev
oral persons, men and women, were inju
red ; and there
was rioting and brawling
all night long. The verdict might have
been shorter—two words would . have ex
pressed it—
" Whiskey, sir."
There will be much suffering in that al
loy this winter. The spirits of cold, crime
and hunger have rented it, wo opine, and
moved
.in many tenants. But Ahem . is
one who pays up rent, who carries misery
with him, who brings sorrow, contention,
yea death! Who is he?
"Whiskey, sir."
Ile is a ruinous, quarrelsome, ferocious
tenant.
Many promises aro 'scattered in'i the
Bible like atara in the firmament; and if
it wore always day we should not have
.
known Am he was a star in the sky; b 0
many,of God's promises only shine, or at
least shine brighter in the night of laic
_
tion. •
Religion and medioine are not ustrpoi-
Bible. for- the faults and mistakes of their
dowry,
7 iAtIlD FREE."
EMI
..EVENING, APRIL 20, /,855,
LADrEs,tead th ...Dare I venture up
on this backueyod ,4ne.r'sa theme which
has been exhautite.k.;: the poet and the
novelist ?if dare's to follow in the
train of those who .. -4 ,fre preceded me, and
launch another . :' at the blindfold
cherub, but as the ..,Ttepion, the defender
of the ruis'obievutt 1.,...y—t0 show where,
lies the fault, to the cause why his .
arrows are poised nd why the roses ho
offers are oft,Ontitix.' e".thicklybeset with
thorns. Frown a 1 it readers ; to -you
ardattributable - - misdeeds of a wily
god. • Did woman responsibility
of the station shti las in society—did she
feel how much she :thearbitress of man's
destinies on earth- .
even beyond it,
how differently wo ~ she act ! lustend
of dispensing her Miles equally en the
worthy and usworl, she would show, 67
her diseountenan.4l.vice, how hatefuLit
was to her; no ni. % ;:'r how talented a
was, how graceful.. ,:manners, or pleasing
in person, unless ...frac was the guiding.
star of his condo ;lie should banish him
from her presence. being unworthy of
breathing the same. r with her; st:. &weld
shrink from his son... y 4 as she would shun
a noxious reptile. such the ease 7
No ! No matter .
.." 4.a man's vices, if he
is handsome, brilld't in eonversaitien, and
versed in the arts clattery, all the smiles
acid attentions are ivished upon him that
ought to be bestow • • ,;1 onlyon the virtuous;
while the man wh:is Perhaps endowed
with every goodq:litt that can render
him estimable, if w thug in the showy ue
quirements of Bode Y, is treated with the.
utmost iudiffereee• ; Oust giving rise to
the too generally , . eceived opinion, that
the worse a man i • 'the more agreenble he
is to a woman. Cdi it then be wondered
nt, that to meet he .1n society, widlier af-
fections by a thou. , lad a intentions,
and slight them wen won, is the pastime
of an hour to those honeyed flatterers, those
d,Nt rtlyani of woman's happiness who, lihe
gilded serpents, captivate but to a eitibilate.
Were they regardedro the pests of society
instead of being trentedditt its ornaments,
the race would disitppear,— Ent/morn.
Mr.cilsNics.--14 . Paill was a mechanic
--a maker of mint gnat's hair ; and
in the lecturer's opinion he was a model
mechanic. Ile wan not only a thorough
workman at its traflt, but was a ;Moder—
n perfect master, lint only it his native he.
hrew,but of iiiret: ftftiiVilffitglle, a knowl
edge of nitwit he cite:tined by close appli•
cation to study durihg his leisure lionti
while serving tais.alMrenticeship. It was
a custom among - the; Jews to leant the sons
some trade—a en:stint' not confined to the
poor classes, hutzalso practiced by the
eve thX.:_RAF common ' , proverb
among thenoliat if n faille' did not teach
his soil a mechanical occupation, lie taught
ldm io shoal. enstion W;li a wise
one ; and it the fathers of Me present dav
would imitate their example. their wrink
led.clieeks would not so Mush lit the help
lessness, mid not infrequently ertminal
conduct of their offspring. Even it a
father intended his son for mime of the pro.
lessions, it would tie an itittalttnlab:e bene
fit to that son to instruct him in some
branch of mechanism. Ilis education
would not only he more comidete and
healthy. hut he might at snore future.
in case of failure in his profession, hind
his trade very convenient as a moans of
earning his bread ; and lie must necessari•
ly be more competent in mechanical from
his professional education. An educated
mechanic was a model machine, while an
uneducated mechanic was merely a me
chanic working under the superintendence
of another's brain. Let the rich and the
proud no longer look on mechanism as(
degrading to him who adopts a branch of
it as his calling. It is a noble calling —ts
noble as the indolence and activity of!
wealth is ignoble.—Lecture by Rev. Dr
adonis.
TrickS oil Allfinals.
In breaking or managing a horse, how
ever intractable or stubborn hie temper may
be, preserve your own. Almost every
fault the brute has arises from ignorance.
Bo patient: with him, teach and coax him,
and success, in time, is cumin. There
are tricks, however, which are the result
of .confirmed habit or viciousness, and
these sometimes requires a different treat
ment: A horiie accustomed to starting
and running away, may be effectually cured
by putting him to the top of his speed on
such occasions and running him-till pretty
thoroughly exhausted.
A horse that had a trick of pulling his
bridle and breaking it, was at last reduced
to better habits by tying him tightly to a
stake driven on the brink of a deep stream,
with his tail pointing to the water ; he
commenced pulling at the halter, which
suddenly parted ; over the bank lie tumbled
and after a somerset or two, and flounder
ing while in the water, he was satisfied to
remain at his post in future and break no
more bridles.
A sheep-killing dog has been matle'ton
touch ashamed ever itgiOn to look a sheep
in the face, by tying his hind legs to a
stout rain on tie brow of a hill. while the
flock were nu', ttly feeding at the bottom.—
The ram being free, and in haste to rejoin
his friends;tumbled and fiial - led master
Tray so sadly over Our stones and gullies,
that he was Quito riattsfied to coofine him
•self to cooked mutton thereafter.
Man's reason was given him to control
•"the beasts of-the field and the birds of
the air" by
,otlier means than force. If
he wilt bring t this into play. he will have
no difficulty in meeting and overcoming
every emergency of - perverie .iuetinci or
bad habit in the dumb things by hie su•
perior cuuning.--American .4igrieukuj
i3l.
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Them is nothing on earth so beautiful
as the household on which Uhristian .love
forever smiles, and where religion walks a
counsellor arid'ti friend. No cloud can
darken it,.for its twin stars are centered in
the soul. No storms can make it - tremble,
the it has a heavenly support and heaven.
ly,anchor.
Mirth is the, medicine of life.
Chileasn p respect old age.
i••••• 4\ ,
.---)
From a eorrespoodeng of the N. Y Daily Times.
The Rpliglon ar theAChlnese In
mur*ents. •
Irtruninsx, , March- 22; 1855. , • •
I tend your editor - as in tide ,ntorninee
paper, under the caption 'The Chinese
Insurgents," with` 'pleasure "and
profit. While it may, .may: be. true (eat
your arguments go yeryfar towards proving'
it so,) that the insurgents . have lint that
idea of God Which enlightened Christians
in other countries posiass. still; 1 fear that
your article will leave-many in 'doubt:
whether the • Chinese clin (iiiider their
present mode of teaching.; through the
Missionaries, end the' Bible:na now:trans
lated,) attain to such a. knowledge of the
all-perfect Jehovah ,as is. 'necessary. to
make them real converts , to, Christianity.
Fearing this effect, I have taken' the liber
ty to send the enclosed . letter literally
translated from the Chinese', langauge,—
Surely, no one, after reading this., will
doubt the reality of these.“llitle children,"
as they call themselves, or thst.they have
a more iniFerfectidea ofilte lrue, God than
ourselves.
By inserting this you will prevent your
rOders from taking a wrot4 impression of
your editorial, which you not intend.
and which should not ho allowed to re
main upon the minds. of any.
The letter is token from the Christian
hatelligenrer, and is addressed to the A
merican Board of Commisaitmers for For
eign Nlissions, which these brethren call
Ihu "Ptlblic Society,"
Yours Truly,
Ati APPtAL
By the merry and grace of Gail ealleil
in be little clii!dren of the Slviour Jesus.
we send you this letter to the Public Su
viely, ilesirii.g that God our Father anti
the Lord Jesus Christ unity bestow grace
and peace. on all the saints connected with
the 1 3 11111iC SOCIPIV.
‘Ve desire yin! to know. the boundless'
grace and favor of God illwarilg 110 and-in i
behalf of tie, little children, heartily to;
thank God batten that the ammunceinentj
ni grace has been conveyed by your!
Immo' to our lilltiell. 81111 to our province.''
rein to Amoy, and to our market Myri,
l'eli•clia Ha. We desire the Public, Simi
ety to be thoroughly informed, so that they
very It-artily thank God and the,
Lard Jesus Chest; fur we et
originally dwelt In the regionol death and
gloomy darkness, place under the curse •
of (;ml, and were exposed to (41)We
rVglitemes punishment. But many thanks,
to Cod's euillpzige)ll and mercy !
I foly Spirit influenced the pastors of
your within to send holy brethren (Amoy
native (Thristians) slit company with the
English pastor, the,,,teaelter,
Morns. until .our
fold the holy annoimitement of grave. and
preach the gospel. illany thanks in Chid;
whose gtilee called several brethren by
day and by night, to listen,ni the rrenell=!
tint ol the gos.pel, for , the ,space of four
months. Many thanks to the lloly Spirit,
wh o opened our darkened hearts, and led,
IN lint° the Say ioniJesits, whose precious
blood delivers us from sin. By the grace
of God, five persons 'were 'reeeived ittlp
the ithincli s and baptised. Again two,
months afterwards,. lour persons were re..l
relived into the church alit huptised.---1
There are still stone ten persons more
hum difrrent quarters, tot yet bawls.'
ed, who have been opera Mil on, so Mall
they listen to the preaching with gladness'
of heart.
By the will ()IGO, the Flogfish pastor
has been called to return to his own na
tion. Onr place is distant from Amoy, be
water, several tens of his. ab that it i 4
cult to come and go. The two pastors of ,
your nation at Amoy have not a moment
to spare front labor ; for the holy brethren . ,
[native converts] there are many ; and it
is difficult for them to leaie . hOme.
We, the brethren of the elliireh at our
matket-town,with united hearts pray, ear.;
nestly beseeching God again graciously to
compassionate us, and "send a pastor frOM
the Public Society of your nation, that 'lie
may qu'ckly come, and instruct us plainly
in the gospel.
It is to be \deplored—the bretheren
•having heard the teacher -.lllllham Burns
preach the word a few months i lheir opir 7
nual nature only just barWrtga,im. not yet
having obtained firinhessiin the faith— that
just at this tune, in the seventh moutholte
pastor should be separated drom us. It is
like the mother's milk failing her child:—
The d to us, who are little children,
is like milk. Day and night our tears
flow; and with united heart, we pray, ear
nestly
of
God graciously to grant
that of the disciples of the Lord Jesus a
pastor hastily come, and preach to us the
Gospel, this food or grace with its savior
nets of grace, in order td an4l
et-cog thou,the faith of ns,,little
Moreover, we pray God to influence the
saws of your nation that they may al-,
ways Leep ue, little children, in 'remem
brance. Therelnie, on'tlWe2Bth day el the
7th month, (August 21. 1834.4 the bretlt
ren with united
,hearts have, prayed, ear
nestly beselechineGnil, that this, our gen
eral letter, may be conveyfql to the great
Public Society, that you may certainly
know these our affairs, and pray thud, in
behalf of us, that this our request tray he
granted. - 'Please give'ouebaltitatian to the
I brethren. • , • .
KONCI•I3IAU; TIER•IAM, TEK•LIAM,
U•JU, JIJ SON,
.
The disciples of Josue at Psh-cliui-in.
Presented to the Ptililic Seciety that all
the disciples may read' it.'
The sale of x - ortion of I) mid Wet ) .
ricer's Marshfield 'properly took pineo at,
the old homestead; On-the 28th Nfaren. —I
Real estate to the amount of 116.700 was*,
sold. The same property•eostover 111801
19.01). A lot of cattle and sheep : were also!
Ilisposed of, vilitch prodUced tltp awn of '
• 82:100. Mr.' Webstdrs'afraits were left I
, .
in a state of great etribarrassinent,•but his
- friends, we believe, expect to' be able" to
save to the family son ck 400 to 408. aereal
of the estate, including / the old mansion.--'
Al the time of his )}ectiase, it seems,thigi
Maksiohnsetts statesmen owed the sew' of
$140,000, or thereat:lmM,
) .. ~ f, " ,
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How Oveter-entim •was invented. Prinslnge. , • .
The Nora Brit,t6 'Reeleio for.Febniati., hig rttring th tltOnth;the fruit treeli 0
a moat immouroua nod withal.a.•vhinable ant- 141 exaiftibed• a Olt i ol6l aaa'r lirai; lll JV
demi "Diet and Dress," frete which i4tigiA •neeevairy; got through with: Dead ante.
t h e f o ll ow i ng: • : rn yng tat choir aho ild itivneiahly be rut
low (41'06E11'10 teem() live branches, and it
"It% has often been said that liti„ronst Ittvo
been n bold man who first, ate,anu,vster.-7This
if said in, ignoranre , of Ow; legend which assigns '
the firm act`oreySter-i4l'itig to a viVir nAtitral '
causo. it "is'releted that'* tiian tveiking ono';
day by tho svt-shon.. picked 'np•one of these
savoury hivalres'pnit as it was in the net of
gaping. Observing the extreme: fonoothnem or
the shell& he insinuated ~his finger -.between
them that he might
' feel their shining„surface. ,
when suddenly thevelo`sed upon the e:rpinring
digit with a sensation loss pleasiirabfe than fie
anticipated. The' prompt ;
finger wAs scarcely More niortineht
than its transfer to his mouth.'. It is .not very
clear why people wlifm . they, hurt their fingers •
pit them to their monthja : hit it is very,oerr I
tam .that they do • and in this else , the, result ;
was'moat fortunate. The, owner of the'
as`
tasted the oyster-juice for }he first time :hi
Chinaman in Elia'a
ger. first tasted e.raeklin. , • The , sttrour Wes do:.
licions.,-he had Midi) A, great discovery ;Igo he
picked tip.the oyuler., foreetEtipen the, fiquia.
benq netted , upon ~1 hei r pontents, , and, soou
broughtoyst(4 , enting, into 41n11,9O:
like most other Ilishiona it hes ney:ergotto, and
is never likely to go ota:.
. Raining Brimstone: • , 1' ,,,, 1j
A gentleman from Chalnhotivt.
informs us that there was.4"a shower
stone" t hatita vicinity dOring laattrainf
about two weeks . Partiejea of brirsuporke
(he says) were scraped ',born , the .gropq, thy.
day after the rain hy Frfl9llA6o soil j>V•tal{te
ing and horning were fallyisleCiArtilth he lit 'Pi .
stone. and nothing' elk!" I'3rlnOitiO'.lslittild:
all4o, to barn fallen .throughout De'.Stito efid
Marshall counties. ••Mississitipi. rttlring. the
same rain and repoets. of it sitpilar,stiowee;
were in circulation here,ahent the satips,time;
We hope ;lir , frend's „art) ; !!14,
Stieb shnwers freflentlj, occ ur, in
the tropics end adjacent the .
trees ore in bloom . ; The pollep 'Of 'flid•&feel
is taken up.,,by_the rind ttntrilbitribiiteir '
and near. and . out 'Of smelt. nanterial!;lolltWoni
shower of brimstone inatie,--111etaphia Bogie;
New UntionciiijitA.--ACY We're pre. • ,
ent, at the Patent Mee:
experiments were made le'rleStto,y; Weelvitcht'
wheat by the use of eltloroforrii: ~t nitw&
three minuteseafter,a IbWtlteps otelderoftwrni,
had been adtadoistered..tho:, ittseeta „ n a t u r a l l y ,l
enough began tti exhibit
toms (X uneasiness.- whieb Proved tq - . ba "the,
certain precursors ef a (pi et . ,,re§ . peat able 'tleh
It WllB rho opinion ' of , the that
these destructive inseeks:.Might, l be,etrlictitiqjj; '
e x term iI ro ugti c genrijrnf :eliluratffnt
and large quantities of Tine Witeitt . .aaj,,Oit3yeile
year. We, have no dumnsition to combat, tiro
opinion, but we think . that par ).4.6iaitt
might ho greatly strengthened if theltoribOTC
chloroform could be successfully invokutloildruo
log .Musgnito t,„ste
I
EXTIIitORMA
DRI" . .IIIM3SION'.—At. btratnaV tl i
"Inttlitro , 44tlatnatiolesilitt
ly engaged in-digging' forloldOsthi6ll:sot6 l -
tended. witch of Portsatouttuinformed'ltheml
they would find in n (Inman stpoL'l ,- She
them that if they dug deep, enough Opy woo)
come ton rock hefere,they reached the treasture,,
and haVilig encountered n toot,ll;o,..nnfo corn.
mended blasting it; nod of
attaining the object of their '
r•••-4-t, ' "
•
Nsw Alone or
_llosettnr,,Tl,9 qevelapd,,
dealer says a singular yobltery,
petrated On Saturday night; upon it.TintaseuKer
on the train from ColouihnS. lifoott.
of New York, was offered some lozenges. which ,
he ate. Soul' after he' became .very , clioir'iy
and Slept soundly. till aroused by. the.,eoudue
tor. Feeling veryi sick,i and, attributing i tiisi
somnoleney to the lozenr,es, he wtts
exrH
uniee his pockets., o ; fun ,
thent picked:
of MS pocket book; in Whifih he had $276.
,
DEATIT or . AfAnTilst B 11111,17:
Baltid brings intelligence of • th64eatii or.M'er;•'
tin Van Buren. Jr., son of the exTresident..
Ile died in Paris, nn the 20th tilt. A large
number of Americana . necomiiiptiNV . -hie'
mains to their temporary resting place in'the
cemetery of Nluntinurtre. . The den eased.' had.
for a long time been waving ,imiler the ,hlight-:
of consumption. llis rellll . lil}S,Wili be : brought.'
to the United Suites in SUly. -
CHURCH WITITOtIt A NVORSIIIPPKR.:=-The Das
ton correspondent of tho (.71wistlan NOfret
rays that the anomaly exists in Boston of a
church Without a single worshipper, residing, la •
the city, of the faitl) of these who built jt
is belicrtd that not a sinkle Quaker !lOW irides
in' Poston. Diligent iminiry . of the Priends,'
and of others, has failed to bring to lightti‘
log Quaker as a resident of Boston for stiteral'
r7The 'English papers'imiethit ii cTor~S;
man in England is now suffering . the . Severe'
penalty of twelve months imprisonment, for
marrying a couple at baffling' Six in the morn•
ing, when ecclesiastical law forbids that such.
a ceremony shall take place before 8
NrAIRESS —A negreSs 115 Yen'rii
died in Morris county, New Jersey,'poor , house*
last week. She was stolen from Africa when
a child. Fonr generations of her descendants .
were at her funeral. , „
THE DEATH PENALTY' IN The
Houle of Representativea of %Slat:engin !
vote of 44 to 27, have' re4tertel the death pert; -
alty in Mat State. The Senate. 'laic yet to net
upon the matter.. :
EAPPIN(IS.—Pour personS yere reeenoyrir
pelled from the Cohr s tegatiimal March ht
Springfield, Massachusetts; tnclndiiig Orte'Of
the Deacons, in consequence of their belief in'
spiritual rappings.
A YE:lca/mt. - I& Courtx.—in Adair county.
Ky.. on the 27th of tzlreh, the veuerafdo
Pendleton, aged S 2 years. wa married to the,
amiable Mrs..Nlary Adams, agetl72 years, Who
was entirely blind.
7 Young 1)r. Kann isgeing (marts Bergson
61 the expetlttio.t in search 01 histiother if?
the Arctic seas.-
CC7Gen.. Sutter, o 'said the 'richest. ta'said
be among the poorest Ilion in To
poverty m added the infirmities of old aga.''
Kr.Snew w,ae three feet deertt. Gotham,
N. 1.1.. last week. , It has been tivirett4 'trlk
fent during the whole Willie,. .1
•
l'''J'Snow is sus!, a rarity in Cieorgia, tbaks.
fall of a dozen flakes is called sleighing.
ETTen dollar notes of the Exehtingo Bank
at. Pittsburg: altered to 50's, are In circulation.'
Or. ROI'. Mr. Eels has been otlled to the
Second Prtsbiterlan Church at .t./arlisle,-Pa:.
• - Dobb's says lie would have died-of the
eholerit; in Angina, if it had not•beett fur
ono thing—Mao doctors gave • ran up.'
Two days afterwards be says he was a wen
man,- indulging in succotaeb.
.+ <sk.~: 4i~ ,n,Tw"'QC'.Q+^~'.'r'•'?Y<'pT 'K+d±~S"J."'
MERE
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TWO itorarAus PER - Atikrbl:
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MMI
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the lie) heft large one, it is better to trim
it MT atter the.aew with a •sharp knife or
hatchet.' The sititi is a poor pruning instru
ment ht the best, withmit triming after it,
espethalfron the outside of the wound as
it will searcely ever heal over, whereat.
iithu hrandlia dte cut with a Sharp instrw r
meld. and the tree, healthy, the surround.-
ing.harli will Soon cover • the wound, anti
thesoivert deray: ' The object in pruning.
varice With. the diftlent aorta of frnit.
Apples. 'Silt! Aware, where snowed full
wolfs. quirit thinning Mindy of weak
and :ettate bhanehek: end ell spat rail clean
n'tit id the'hOdy . of die tree: Diana.' and
.espalier ireeir require' setnewhat different
lottitidgibut most of' wtoeli should be per
formod: the tittninier: all that is required
at this Beason, beinglo shorten the mi
prildtirticellyint4 of estalished trees within
ttiotoeihrett , lntlficii of their length. taking
,are tri'preskienhe 'fruit'bude ' which are
'readily lenitive-by their Intend and plump
tiers tire•mneh benefited by prim
ing;tis; if cothinenced • while' young, they
wilPtilWays; ititnain husky and ' , close,"
let in he'eflin- In
afiertlfinei'an"ugl'Y straggling tree with a
few bearing'!Shents at the' top. Cut out
ivesik - imilidly growth. except where
traiiittl'hi'fillr op . a.:vacancy; and shorten
int the'letitlitig shoots of each branch.—
Wetprettlre!thia' in Shortening the branchea
we ;keit(' trileave. If the tree is' inclined
lii - belcrinvditit'S thin! of the young wood
ittaiite` , •ikk'en nut with advantage. It is
; hhun/•tolearoe the 'tonging fir peach trees
tilt all eitimattiieWettlilie tom. at Clue fruit
hula in .'eitiento: Vnoett klleil by frost
antiWiters'nthis 'tectirs,- pinning must be
done , aecorilingly. ' • '
The native grape vines !hat have re,
niailiedlunimvered ind improned may be.
thitukat , an'y The fruit •will come
tirtichliner Aroll suffer love final 'mildew
r and Juliet-Vests if ampla space is' left for
the de Velopment of . the 'foliage.' Under no
'.branclite he - nearer
emiltilitheenittiethey ate done dipu eighteen
feet i 4 better.:
.141;14ralitalind''Crrioseherries should also
tie , printed . ; eittablished • tries of the fed
tout white ,- currhilf,' requiro 'the'- yenng
wood wall pinned hack; and gonaeherriea,
'lib tabi'Veark ivOtorthinned considerable,
istiviyitytitingwood enough' to be free from
ertivotingttlyritig summetl ' • ' '
The thick Chi. tan t is'4linch ß ocelected in
ihhitt)iiiilTV. l To grow It le'rerfer thn, re.
gtrire# lii menial soil; very rich in limning
and'
otcattidinki 1 the elder' odes taken but.—
.
COuntryldthlittnan. ' '
. • _
-IRe 43 P irt!!!Age — GiPod irrOdUctst.
Akrib,.Sovtfsbeliii , who la apparently
capahltr,of vunhaging• the helm in'many
aVdefilittits;
•
We witi . of a ertati who has about two
arie tirgraia - - Ile hail lately come in.
to postietsion t ,aptl had (arming tever,---
thriiii6 summer's droutli fie look
ed ,priiied (or rain, and hoed anti
'lll bit ready ftr
• The . rain did not
eo#te,`,bk ; th e ploWittst and hoeing went
liii,:WArwitli,: " any ' definite :idea of betietit
troritililli;ll;the droutli hal to.
he
,Well; he lied two
or 'p'i;rlters have seen,
iiliichalf itutntititr fuid been leiton,werthr,
II(IliWe swill, iidiietlelieesu,'&6. lie had,
ofr his two at res. as much corn as fatten
ed`th eil to the pte•sible c ondition,
pi l loty.nlrein 6Witei Inc two 'Cows through
the 'wittier, and expects to sell a toil of
spring. price, at presopt. from
:weriklefi to thiety *with:ls, el
the fi n est poipot atoes We Wave, seed, an a.
billidance dotti itamilk of seven persons,
ilt.4,potttoei come, hesidef feed for
mike Vett. and in4tGably Moro to sell
'Pled, there were plimpkius, which he .
Wee pigs until wittier
ore they hatl beets,
&e. llu
eittints"th , ti'the'prOducti, Would more than
pdy'lli'e:tute'rest on the purchase money,
countittirii at four , ' huitdred dollars per acre,
add vihat he paid . ter pletving„leavinghien
all the Eue'of hotting for clear profit.
Tilts Wit eki Illesßenger
published lat Hannibal, Missouri, learns
froth f , ariniirs that ilia prespeei fur it g()011
Wilefit'ercip thrbughimn 'Norik.erii Missouri
aie'mura prettiising than they IlaVe been
for Seine yearti past. In Illinois the prosi
peeta for'an tihnitdrint 'Wheat crop are also
,good. EAVelearit'fioni•the Alton COLteltr o
the editor of which papei has recently
riled C. -a 'trip across the central protion of
Atigts "hoiiever Short the crops
inlglitliitke been last year. it has not de
terred the tamers of the State from aeixinit
every portion of favorable time - during
'the for sowingthe wheat, and the fll.
soli' shows that ' thereare at least twenty
per cent. 'mote acres now in wheat than
in. atirprevinua . year. The , winter has
' exceedingly 'favorable, 'and if we'
should be -lulessed , with • our'ordinary
kilning; Illinois .will have elf amount of
wealth jn thataingle crop; which it would
be Aillicult, to estimate.
Lptz Casti.- 7 31r, It. F. Bieghten
of.Ohio.,cointwinieates toihe Southern
'Cutiteei tor. the' following eipermeni he
yeupiteoin :
"1 have Ast enn — clifilid an experiment
with Itiett nit *,.6eld,ef enru,,,which may
be wort:ak ,4 - untie*, As the. corn was
coining up, I applied about halts pint o
11113 c :tenet' lime to each 1141, with the
ce urih of four 'Uwe, near the middle of
the Iteld,,;4,hicli were left that 1 might see
whether oritoltiiiiiiitin,,the kill wax best&
fidal the Crisp. The 'afar treatment
wee the durtrig no.
visted•lectiarately' the four cows: up
and aft° ailjoinihg them SOO ths,
limed;(coil and thstailian I+4 y
the'easollalul the reseltwo an lei Whassai
of a mai aver auelitbde is oho *lmo ill
antis! whicii
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