P. A. &C. U. 13UCEILER VRUME The Baby Dead. Pearlittle baby, darling little baby— Pala pretty piemot ituotrending day; His dumb and dainty mouth all smiling lovely, . curls astray. • Poor littlo baby . , harmless little. baby, What , stoney heartemildsee his iapocent ryes A shining sweet, awl do him harm su cruel Y Complaiuts and bitter cries. Ho didinot know to make, poor little baby— oor, poor dead. dovel but with a trustful grace Mode tenderest appeals for help and mercy, Nestling to death his face. White, guiltless lamb l still, sleepy little bnhv— Snow out of heaven, t h e brightest ever fell; Fu lily, bruidered in dgroutid of thirkuess, Showoth so fair, and well. Poor little baby, clothed with woeful silence, Dear mortal image of an angel's look,— Most. precious : ruse encloSed a littloscasuu Within a gloomy book. Kale and Ellen. "What ntliffarenco thert, is iu children !" thought I. I was on my way to Brooklyn, with my two little cousins, Kate and Ellen. Soon •ufter we were seated in tile omnibus, a poor woman entered, first lifting iu a little .girl, and then leading a little boy, whom we soon discovered to be blind. He was about four years old, with soft white curls and blue eyes, into which, alas, the glad light entered not. His sister, some years older, was a bright merry looking girl. It was very pleasant to see her care for her little blind brother. The woman seated herself with her little boy-in her lap ' and the little girl by her side, between herself and my little friend Kate. New Kate was very nicely dressed, as she very well knew. The poor little girl, ac she at down, could not very easily a void setting un Kate's cloak. My little lady drew herself up vary haughtily, and snatched her cloak away, as it was quite too nice to be touched by a "beggar," as she called the child. My attention was arrested by this movement and I watched Kate closely. Not a look did she give the group, after her glance of curiosity'.— She had nothing to do with them ! She Nigh the daitghter of Mr. Emmons, and lived in a beautiful bowie, and had on a velvet cloak, and a white wilt hat, and a nice ohiu.ehillas, at which she glanced with etideut complacency. There are sonic little Rees Willa are wtitten all over with satin hats and velvet • cluElks, which makes nue forget all about buck things. hate moved away as far as possiblu from her little uetglibur. caul What she thought about I umitiot tell, but bhc looked as if she were thinking, .a in altugetherabore haiiiuganything todo with .3ou . • Ellen was sitting next to _her. sister, so that, I saw both. l was aterested in watch. ing {.be changes in her lace. Iler first glance at the poor children settled into a Look lof tender interest, "Cousin \larv, that little boy is blind !" Tt was not long before she was exchanging smiles with his sister, whose bright blue eyes shone with delight. Ellen had a beautiful bunch of loses front the green-house, which she was carry ing to her little cousin Jane. I noticed her repeated glances at it ; at last with a eiuddeit resolution she whispered to me:: "Cousin Mary, wouldn't you give your roses to that little boy, you know Jennie can have some any time ?" "Certainly, dear, if you wish to." So Ellen slipped down from her seat, and carefully placed her beautiful and fra grant flowers in the hand of the little blind boy. His sinter said to him "A lady gives you the flowers. Willy." How pleased and happy he looked ! nud how sweetly he said "thank you:" He could not see their delicate colors, but he had not always been blind, as I learned from his mother, and their fragrance bteught btu:Vale memory of their beauty. And was not Ellen happy too ? It was something Kate could not understand. If Ellen had received beautiful roses Or kind looks, they would not haVe made her half so happy as she always was when she thought of these poor children. "3.1 y little sunbeam,"-1 called her, for like sunbeams her kind feeling wont out . gladdening, brightening, beautifying a round her, so that she found gladness and beauty everywhere, not knowing how much of it came from her own loving heart. INTERESTING TO FISHEREEN.---The Burlington, (Vt.,) Free Press tells of a u• nique mode of fishing, wnich has been suc cessfully tried in a trout stream of North ern Vermont, and which we take plea sure in recommending to the attention of all long and ruby nosed disciples of SVAL TON. The. discovery was made a few days ago by a woodchopper in Hyde ' Park. Being thirsty with labor, ho chop ped a hole in the ire of a mountain strain, and laid him down to drink. While in the act of imbibing the refreshing fluid; his nose was Soddenly /Old unexpecydly eeizod by h htingryleviathan of the brook, Who buried his 'teeth deeply in the rosy protuberance,'wliteL he evidently thought wee a savory The' astonished ' • wontlnitier,'WhoSit alarm entloived,him Withitiperhuntait up - his head with ajerk; and pulled out upon the lee a apleildid - trout, , whieh Weighed two • and a half pounds 'Me editor of the Free Press'litie talktiC.'with' a 'tmen who etlw the lacerated • and awellen nose, and vouched for the authenticity ofthe story. 'We do not believe, 'however, that `that this minle of fishing come into vogue. .. • • ' ... A SAGACIOUS READER OP TGE WORICS or OCD.-0-A profounil writer in the • Wil mingtun (N. O.) Herald sage :—"Lovii • the moon, for she shines in the night, to tis light in the dark, whereas tbe sun , only:shines•in the dAy time, when there is of light, -and his Assistance is' not wAnted.'l Boyle Roche could.hardly have bee ten that. 4 01 'Prooteithe hardness of the times, Mir PA Man Oki° wl4o kills only half ik pig at a tittlft, - . . • 1. -- . . . .. ' . ...' ~. . ,—.... '1 • : . :if I '', -; '' .:. ' 1 -i .• .', :., , , ' , - , , ~,, : ~. - il 'i: D „ 4......,. 5 , 1 .r ' ' ..: - • •1 . 'i e. , . • . , • , ~ . •, . ~ , .. . ,• I ' . . • . . • .' ', • . - .....L 1 ' . . , . . . , ''' .- ' 44? , •''' 4 0 " - , , liklhard Middleton, a • Britirh soldier, once attended 'divine service with the rest of his teginteni, is achiirch in Glasgow.— Instead of pulling nut a Bible to find the parson's text, ho spread a pack of cards be fore him. This behaviour was observed by the clergyman, and the sergeant of tho company to which he belonged. The hit ter ordered him to put up the cards, and on his refusal, conducted him after service before the Mayor and preferred a formal complaint of Richard's indecent belie- vtour. " Well, soldier," said the Mayor, "what excuse have you- to offer ? If you can make an apology, it is well ; if not; you shall he severely punished." "Since your honor is no good," replied Richard, "as to permit mo to speak for myself ; an't please your worship, I have been eight days on the march, with the bare allowance of sixpence per day, and I consequently could not have a Bible or, any ether good book."' On saying this, Richard drew out his pack of cards, and presenting one of the aces to the Mayor, continued his fuldress to the magistrate, as follows "When I see an ace, may it please your honor., it reminds me that there is only one God ; and when I look upon a two or three spot, the former puts me in mind of the Father and Son, and the latter, of the Fattier, Son and Holy Ghost; a ' four, of the four Evangelists, Mathew, Mark, Luke end John; a five, thb five virgins who were ordered to trim their lamps, (there were ton, Indeed,) but five, your worship may remember, were wise, and five were foolish ; a six, that in six days God created heaven and earth ; a seven, that on the seventh d r ay he Vested from all that he had made ; and eight, of the eight righteous persons who were sa ved from the deluge, viz : Noah and his wife and threessons, and their wives ; a nine, of the lepers cleansed by our Saviour, (there wore too, but only one offered his tribute of thanks;) and a ten, of the ten commandments." Richard thou took the knave, placed it beside him, and passed on to the, queen, i - on which he observed, us follows: "This queen reminds me of the Queen of Sheba, who came from the uttermost I parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Snlommi, as her companion the king does of the great. King of Heaven, and of Kiug ;George the Second." ( "Well," returned the Mayer, "you have ' l , i eqll me a good description of all the earls except the knave." . i i "If your honor will not be angry with mo," returned Richard, "I can give you the same satisfaction ou that as on any in Ithe park." • "No"' said the Mayor. "Well." reutnu•d the soldier, "the great est knave I know is the sergeant who brought the ht fore you." "1 don't know," replied the Mayor, "whether he be the greatest knave or not; but I ani sure he is the greatest. fool." The soldier then continued, as fol lows : "When I count the number of dote in a pack of cards. there aro three hundred and sixty-five—so many days are there in a year. The cards in a pack are tifty•two mauy weeks are there iu a ye r.-- Wheu I reckon how many tricks there are iuipack, I find there are twelve—so tun ny months in a year. So that a pack of cards is both Bible and almanac, and prayer book to me." The mayor called, his servants, ordered them to entertain the soldier well,, gave him a piece of money, and said ho was the cleverest fellow he ever heard in all his life. FILM. DEVOTION AND ITS REMIRD.--. An old rag picker died in Paris, in a state of the moat abject poverty. His only relation was a niece. who lived as a ser. vast with a greengrocer. The girl al ways assisted her uncle us far as her slen der means would permit. When she learned of his death, which took place suddenly, she was upon the point ofpar- Hag') with a journeyman baker, to whom she had been long attached. The nup tial day was fixed, but Susette had not - vet bought `her, wedding clothes. She hastened to tell her lover that their mar riage must be deferred, as she wanted the price of her bridal finery to lay her uncle decently in the grave. Her mistress ridiculed the idea, and, ex horted her to leave the old man to be be. vied by charity. Susetto refused. The consequence was a quarrel, in which the young woman lost at once her place and lover, who.sided with her mistress. She hastened to the miserable garret where her uncle had expired, and by the sacri 'fiee not only of the savings for her , wed- ihng attire, but = of all her slender ward robe, she bad , the old man decently inter ed. Her pious task fulfilled, she sat a lone in her uncle's room, weeping bitterly, when the master of the faithless, lover, a young, good-looking man, entered. "So, my good Susette, I find you have. lost, your place !" said he ; "I am come to of- your you one for life—will - you marry met" "I, sir 1" exclaimed Susette: "you are joking." , "Ne,..faith, I want ; a wife, and I'm sure I can't find . a .better." ,"But every one ,would laugh,atyou for parry ing a poor girl, Bite_ me' ?', ~ "Oh, if thpt is your only objection, weehall.seon t over it ; come, come along : thy mat t is prepared; to receive you. Suse hesitated no longer, but she Wished to' take , with her: a penned's! ot her deceased . , uncle ; it was it cat he had had IRC,AIettY years. The old Man was so flip Of the animal that he detirmined ihaVilven her death should not separate_lhain, - for he had her stuffed and placed on the tester of his bed. , As Outten° took puss down, she ; uttered, an exelamation of !uprise at find- . i ing , her so heavy. The. lover hastened to open the animal, when out fell a show , er of gold. A thousand - gold napoleons ,Were concealed in the, body of the cat ! andthis sutra,' which the old miser had starved himself to amass, became the just reward of the noble girl and her disinter., Osted lover.. ;, ' 41 A Holy Pack of Cards. - • • - • • • '' - ' - ' .. - . ... • .: ..„: .. ......., GE TTYSSURG ; -...:PA4'.`..5..1:',.41j),AT...'k”i.N . .11 . 11 . :.0,; f,•0141.-tt..-:!:::06.i..:.....- Change of Climate. History informs us that many of the countries of Europe which now possess I very mild winters - atone time' experienced i severe cold during this season of the year. The Tiber at Rome was, often frozen over, and snow at one time lay for forty days in that city. The Hexing Sea. was fro Zen lover every winter during the time of Ovid. and the rivers Rhine and Rhone used to Ibe frozen so deep that the ice suotained I loaded wagons. The waters of the Tiber. Rhine and Rhone now flow freely every winter; ice is unknown in ROme, and the waves of the &mine dash their wintry foam uncrystalized upon the rocks. Same one has ascribed these climate changes to agriculture, the cutting down of dense forests, the exposure of the upturned soil to the summer's sun, and the draining of great marshes. Wo do . not believe that such great changes could have been produ ' ced on the climate of any country by agri culture, and we are certain that no such theory can account for the contrary change of climate, from warm to cold winters, which history tolls us has taken place in other countries than those named. Green land received its name from the emerald. herbage which' once clothed its valleys and mountains; and its east coast, which is ,inaccessible on account of perpetual ice I heaped upon its shores, was in the eleventh century, the seat of flenrishing Scandina vian colonies, all trace of which is now lost. COld Labrador was named Vinland by the Northmen who visited it A. D. 1000, and were charmed with its then mild climate. _ The eause of these changes is an import taut inquiry. A °pamphlet by John Mur ray, civil engineer, has recently bean pub lished in London, in which he endeavors to attribute these changes of the climate to the ohangeable_position of-the magnet io poles. The magnetio Variation or de clination of the needle is well known. At the present time it amounts in London to 23° west north, while in 1658 the line of variation passed through England, and then moved gradually - west until 1816.= In that year a great removal of ice took, `Place on the coast of Greenland. - Hence, it is inferred that the cold meridian, which now passes through Canada and Si beria, may, at one time have passed through Italy, - and that if the magndtio meridian returns, as it is now doing, to its old lines in Europe, Rome may once more see — her Tiber frozen over, and tho merry Rhine lander drive his team on the ice of his classic river. Whether the changes of the climate mentroited have been caused by the change of the magnetic meridian or not, we have too few facts bSfore us atpres ent to decide conclusively ; but the, idea, once spread atiroad, will ewe lead to such investigations as will, no doubt, remove every obscurity and settle the question.— Scientific Jimerican. NIAnTIAL OF THE UN/TKD STATHS.- Xmong the Americana who attended the late ball given at the Hotel de Ville. Pa- ris, was Jack Spicer, of Kentucky.— Jack rushed the dress somewhat strong, and sported epaulette on his shoulders !large enough to start four Major Generals lin business. Jack was the observed of all the observers, and' got mixed up with a party !hat his friends could not account, for. Wherever the martials of. France woo, there went Jack ; and when the marshals eat down, Jack did the same, al ways taking the post of honor.. The day after the ball Jack called on his old! acquaintance, Mr. Mason, our Ministiti to France, who started. up a little conveY! sation, in the following manner: "I hear, Jack, you-were at the ball last night I" "I was, sir, and had a high old time." 'Tor which you are indebted, ? sup• pose, to the high old company you got mixed up with t , By the way, how came you associated with the marshals 1" "How t by virtue of my office—they were marshals of, France, while I am noth ing else thati' a marshal of the Republic. I showed my commission and .took post accordingly." "By right of, your office ; what do you mean I" "Read that and see." ~, Here Jack presented Ur. Mason with a whitey-brown paper. with a seal big enough for a pound weight. • What in the name of heaven is this I" , "My commission of , marshaP—l re ceived it in 1850, when Issaisted in taking the census in Frankfort." "You don't mean to.eay that you travel on this 1" don't mean anything else. -That makes me a 'marshal' of the Republic, and I intend to pave the office duly hon. ored." • Mr. Mason allowed that Jack was•doing a large business on a very small capital. We should not wonder if the , reader did the 'same. A census marshal of Frank. fort mixing in with the marshals offranee is certainly rushing matters in a tuannar that requires as much brass as epaulettes. Jaok, we are happy to say, is equal to the requiitiments. We all remember, the story of the: inn keeper who became proudAs be revered, and taking down the sign of the Ass, pc up a portrait of Ileorge IV. in its 'place.= His neighbor iinmediately raised the oast off'effigy, and •iin this sign be conquered.'" The first jandlord, alarmed at the mereaa fug popularity of his, rival, rand understanik t ing the cause, wrote underneath the griM Visage r of his majesty, ', o Thia is, the real PLaTit Gises.--A new American manu facture, that of plate glass. hae'been coin mimed in Williamsburg, New ' York, I where. plates of glass ten feet wide and twenty feet long, will be made. A,plate 1 ten feet egnare can be made so strong that . it will hold a ton weight, and eo clear that we could read the fill print of a newspa per through a piece fOur inches thick. It is a singular (act that the best English plate , glue is made lrom American sand. With New ,Jersey, possessing the proper raw material in- so remarkable a degreeiit is ' ' singular that this article 'has been, so long 1 imported. l RINCIPAIMMU "FEARLESS . A 1 4 .1.1) 'FREE." Tise,Heat Conspanloo o . althc,i,Jour-i Extraordinary. behind' faneyieg f, Aeard, elighti ,firfotfalls; .~, , the flagon .fee i., ney or Life. and In ! Hope Contentment. Nervy, and' ' . i uc ti on HI would not go unaitentied," salt ,as Humility, were close behind us, and We I set out upon thefjouthey of life. ~ ~ale y I wore all but one company. , . I dreamed adream in the nudst of my slumbers, '' ' And as fast as I dreamed it was coined lino to be allowed one attendant 1" I r "These ever follew in mivtraiw," saitl , ' ~ • numbers ; .‘Yee, .. lie "pi le d ; oand one only, Ai my Coll2pAlliPtl.; "they. never leave ine.7 . ,It, appeared ,dutt a law had lately been ne, number shall, appear before you, and you i In ohdosieg what i few otirre would choose , That , a tax on old bachelor'a pates shou ld be May choose one of thorn. . Great wisdom thou hes t unexpected attendant blereings" ' is required 'to select ,140 most desirable xr And in ordel to ke them all willing to marry, iv A mow Evokes, ov Tll6. 114 K. ER.FAMILY The tax was as heavy as a man could well carry. companion." "Grant me the . FROM, Deowsuzo.—The Baker ,veeelisie: But the bachelors grumbled, and said, 'twas no, Power." 'eaid 1 , "I° so - while crossing the' Wisconsin river in'ti • ' "use, lect one who will prove the beat friend and f e r ry b oat , , I& s 7 e . 0 6 i fi e kfit . 4 , 4) , to swore injustice and horrid abuse, three , a trr MII . _ the most profitable companion." And that to save their own heart'sblood this place, narroalteeetiped rail. 'loving , -..- from spilling, ' ' I waited awile, communing with myself or leir comPanY bYtdr4Wilifig.*i?.; l Onatich a vile tax they could ne'ar pay a shil on the subject. and inwardly praying that Mr. J. C. Baker, hit Wife, qlid,alln, Gild., . ', I lin g ; 1 might be guided aright. - - E . B a k er . , ', .4Nettie nileni determined their meal to pursue, Soon a train .of • attendants appeared, 'lt appears' that after ,they had gene' 11 , lik) they se t up all the old baehelors at vendee. and one by ono they passed before me.— • short 'distance from shore.• Irtid'U'ver,V A,crior was sent through :the, town to and fro, First came ono who called himself Ambi- swift current; where the 'Water I it' froni 17, To,,nitfie hie drum ilitthishtrurnir on ticblow wa , lion. He was, a haughty ,aspirieg person to 2.11 feet deep, one ,o 1 Abair .wheel °horses . a :1 1 1(s ' r fo t r i t T y o o u h t i ra:heloni at sold bore :ore li to-L 3 y." Y : —full of promiles. He , epoke to me of took fright, rue* *ward and ;crowded wealth, and fame, andglely, and told me And presently allthe Oldmaids in the, town, the leading mien over the tient end, of the' ta'cli, in her very lien 'bonnet and gown, that if I selected' hint for my companion, boat, at Me l seine ` tilde precipilating"Me. From ; thirtrtolsixty, white, red; fair and pale, he would lead me to, the, heat pinnacle G. EL Baker into the CurrentV" He being Of every description, all flocked to the sale. of worldly eminence. i ' . a good swimmer, .after,i great: exertion, The auctioneer then with his labors began, "Thou art not needful. Ambi t i on; " said And Cried out aloud as hmheld tip a man, 2,, reached a snag, some (latrine° ; below, I ; 6 thou wouldst ratherbe a hinderance to '' blow tRUO fin a bacbllory whq wants to buy , ~ whence, after a ,ret of ahout i to, nm , intit me in my onward progress. Pus on' thy, he with dif fi culty s ucceeded in swimming