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BY D. A. & C. 11. BUEHLER
voLumE nvid
Our ' 0 n.
DT MART DELL.
Our own I What can we call our own Y
The dower we cull taday,
i The biid,iyhose song we love so
hum smin from us away. c•
The heart whose friendship most we prize,
We cannot call our own;
.Change o'er the heart loth quickly pass,
Aud friendship all is flown.
Our yitintli belongeth but to time,
Who steals it soon away,
And leaves instead the wrinkled brow,
And locks of silver grey.
What, is our own ? All, naught of earth,
Our l ife, our youth, our joy;
The flowers that bloom around our path,
\Worth's care mid blight destroy: • •
But there is something naught can steal,
Ifwelcotned to our heart ;
No changing times, and shifting scones,
Can cause it to depart.
Thimortal Truth, we here with us
May blend if we but try,
And make it ours to share our time
An immortality. 1 . Flag of our Union
[From the New York Obserrer.
Dld..lefferson dle an Infidel
Your lust issue calls attention to the
fact that the Congress of '5l distributed
three hundred copiesof the works of Thom
as Jefferson, among several Colleges and
other literary institutions ; and that these
works contain infidel sentiments. It is
touch to be regretted that the author of
the Declaration' of Independence should
have ever•entertained or published "is/fi
de/sentiments." We cannot deny the
fact. Ile so identified himself with infidel
ity, while he held exalted position—and
his expressed opinions to the world were
such us to leave no doubt of the fact, that
the Patriot, Scholar, and Statesman, was
an avowed infidel. But there is ono-little
Circumstance in the history of Jeffoisou,
which I do not think is generally known
It is Luis : Li lus old age, when ho had re
tired to the quiet scenes of Monticello, he
visited, one Sabbath, a country church ;
it happened to be communion day,mid
when the invitation was given to the com
municants to colic forward and partake of
the titieend detiiuutA, this 'man, who had
given the influence of his high name to
wards extinguishing the light of Christian
ity, and obliterating the hope of the world;
t his man came humbly forward, and meek
/y kneeling at the altar, received those
precious remembrances of the death of
Christ, which, afford so much comfort to
the believers. It is something wrested
from the powers of darkness to know that
it man of Jefferson's mind and ririnatisx of
character Should respond to an invitation
/tkii the
"Ye 'that - .'do truly and earnesity.zeileut
of your sins, and are in love und . eharity
wi•li your neighbors, and intend to lead a
new life, following the centtnautnnents of
4;tah and walking front hent.tvforth in his
holy ways; draw near with fitillt, and
take this holy sacrament to your comfort ;
mid make your humble rmyession lu
dll
mnighly God, meekly kneeling upon your
knues."
I have this fact from a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, now ovar
three score years of age, who was born,
raised, and spent the greater portion of
his lite iu Virginia. if my recollection of .
our interview is correct, ho received the
account from the servant of Christ who
administered the sacrament.
Some of Jefferson'sold manuscripts were
published, I believe, after his decease, by
au infidel relative. Is there net some rea
son to believe that ho would have retract
ird them publicly, had he lived a little
longer I
Tomnovs. The public mind is awak
ening to the importance of physical edu
cation.
At the recent ladies' exhibition of gym
natitic, calisthenic and dancing exercises,
Dr. J l . V. C. Smith, Mayor, in his speech
to Ili& parents and teachers while distribu
ting the prizes. addressed them at much
length ou the importance of developing
the muscular apparatus of children, and
made the pertinent remark : .•That the
girls he know, when a boy, who used
to climb trees Mid fences with the boys,
who were called Tomboyti, by their medi
um, were now, wherever found, leading
women in society, with strong healthy
bodies and minds.
Mayor Smith was right. Our girls
bad better bo tomboys than mincing young
ladies. Under a right system of educa
tion they would bo as far from ono.ex
treme as the other; but if we must have
an extreme, give us that whioh secures
strong limbs, rosy cheeks and a constitu
tion that will ling.—Lye Illustrated.
The EMPRESS EUlANlE.—Without be
ing-by any means the perfect beauty her
flatterers deciare her to be, the Empress
is certainly one of the very loveliest look
ing women that could be found. Her face
is lighted up with such an innocent, gen
tle and vivantous expression, and a smile
of such exceeding sweetness as render her
perfectly chartnieg: Her manner is at
mice graceful, dignified and gracious ; she
looki absolutely radiant-on a public occa
sion, and perloruas her part so 'perfect y
and with such a look of absolute happiness
that she seems not only Ili though she had
been born to the station to which her eingu-
lar (mum had raised her, but appears. be•
side her impassible and undemonstrative
partner, aitliough she was some sovereign
in her own right wholunt espoused some man
,ceumble rank andeought unconsciously to
Werke (or his comparatively cold and on
' gracious manner by the overflowing of her
own royal and native: courtesy. , And yet
to see her small, sweet, but pale and/wea•
• rplooking lace at other times one, would
Arty that she had already entered , on that
t destiny.. of sorrow of which the -line_ of
• pain..across her brow would seem to be
nature's own prophecy.
•
A. .111IerAut..= Some ono has culled the
telegraph. "the hightiay of thought."-L
--Tis se art error—,-oit is the thread of
Ooniersatioo."'
•
Genius is the, gold in the mine ; talent
,
lithe miner who works and brings it out.
NW PEPPER'S WIFE.
'"Mrs. Popper, I labor' under the im
pression that it ishigh time. you were
getting breakfast. .As my former house
keeper understood all my, wishes with re
gard to these things, I found it unnecessa
ry to 'give any , orders respecting them;
but with you it is different. As you have
never got a meal InAis house, of course
you know nething, Of the regulations of
the household. In the first place, you
will make the fire" Witte kitchen, put on
the kettle, Sao'., then you will make a fire
in hero. That done,
you will cook break
fast and bring it in here, e#,l have always
been accustomed to taking mine in bed,
and dolnot consider it necessary to depart
from that custom on your account"; but
should you prefer it, you can eat yours in
the kitchen, as it is quite immaterial• to
me."
This occurrod the morning after Mrs.
Pepper went to housekeeping. Mrs. Pep
per was a sensible woman—she made no
reply to Mr. Popper's commands; but as
soon as her toilet was finished, she left the
room, and sitting down in the kitchen, she
thus ruminated :
"Make the kitchen fire I Yes, I'll do
that. Then make a fire in the bed-room !
I'll see to that, too. Then take the break
fast to his bedside I Just see if Ido !"
Anti then Mrs. Pepper sat and thought.
deeply for a few minutes, when, appa
rently, ha . ving arrived at a satisfactory
conclusion, she proceeded to business.
Having got a nice fire kindled in the
kitchen, she carried some coal into Mr.
P's apartment, and filled his stove, having
first ascertained that there was not a spark
of fire in it. That duty performed she
next prepared the breakfast, of which she
partook with it great relish ; and after
matters and things were all set right in
the kitchen, she went down town on a
shopping excursion.
Meanwhile Mr. Pepper began to grow
impatient.' Ile "labored under the fin
pression", that the atmosphere of his room
did not grow worm very fast, and he began
to feel unpleasantly hungry. Peeping
out front behind the bed.curtains, he
saw P how affairs were with° regard to
the-stoves- - Something like a _suspicion
of th 3 real state of affairs began to
dawn upon his mind. Ile listened for
a few minutes, but'all was still about the
house.
Hastily dressing himself, he proceeded
to investigate the affair. He boon com
prehended the whole of it, and was very
wrathful at first; but he comforted him
self with the reflection that he could pun
ish Mrs. I'., and he felt bound to do it,
too. After some search he found the rer
mainaof the breakfast, of which he par
took with tk gusto, and then
~sat ,down to
Welt for Mrs. SU . Was 'it':lcintrtimo
in coining, and he had ample ti mu to nurse
his wrath. While sitting there, he thus
soliloquized :
"That ever I, Philander Peprr, should
be thus treated, and by a woman, too, is
not to be believed. 1 can't believe it, no,
nor I won't either. But she shan't es
cape, that's certain ; if she should, toy
reputation for dignity would be forever
gone; for havn't I told Solomon Simple
ton all along how I was going to make
my wife stand around, and how I was go
ing to, make her get up and make the
fire every morning, and let me lie abed,
and how I was going to shut her up,
and food hlr on bread and water, if she
dared to say she wouldn't do it."
"A cozy little arrangement, : Mr. Pep
per," said a soft voice behind him.
Mr. P. started up, and there stood Mrs.
P. behind his chair, laughing just as hard
as she could. Mr. Pepper. .put on a severe
look.
"Stt down in a chair, madam," he said,
pointing to tho one ho had just vacated,
"while I havo a little conversation with
you. Now I should be pleased to know
why you did not obey my orders this
morning, and whore you havo been all the
forenoon?"
"Whore I have been this forenoon, Mr.
Popper; I have not the least objection to
tell you ; I havo been`down town doing
a little shopping. I have puichased some
lovely nankins ; just look at them," said
she, holding them up demurely for inspec
tion ; only paid a dollar a piece for
them.—extremely cheap, don't you think
so ?" she said.
Mr. Popper was astonished; how she
dared to turn the conversation was a mys
tery to him. Suddenly his bottled wrath
broke loose. Turning fiercely upon her,
ho said:
"Betsy Jane, you disgust mo ; you
seem to make very light of this matter ;
but it is more serious than you imagine,
us you will find to your cost presently.—
If you do not instantly beg. wy pardon iu
a submissive manner, I shill exert my
authority to bring you to a proper sonso
of your misconduct, , by imprisoning you
in ono of my chambers until you are wil
ling to compromisirstriet obedience to my
ivishes."
At the oloso of this. very eloquent and
dignified speech, Mr. Pepper drew him
self up to his full height, and stationed
himself in front of Mrs. P., ready to re
ceive expressions of sorrow and penitence;
he had no doubt that she would fall down
at his foot and say
"Dear Philander, . wont you please
forgive me this limo ; I II never do so any
more."
• And he was going to say, "Bossy Jane,
you'd bettor not ; 11 but instead of doing
all this; wbado you think she did
Laughed him right in the face,!
Mr. Peppir was awfully wrathy. He
spoke up in 'a voice of thunder 'and
said
"Mrs. Pepper, walk right up stairs this
very minute, and don't let the grass grow
under your feet while you are going, noi
titer.: you - have began your nutlet in
good season, Mrs. Pepper, but I'll have
you know thatit won't pay to continue
them any length of time with me. Mrs.
Pepper. Again I command you,to walk
up stairs." • .
"'Well, really Mr. P., it is not at all ne
cessary for you to' speak so lond- 7 1
not so deaf as all that comes to ; but as for
walking up stairs I have not the lout 'ob
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GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAyEVENINVOULY.e7,;BSS4
• ' •
jeetion to doing so, if you. will wait until
I have recovered from in fatigue ; but I
can't think of doing so before:"
But you must, Mrs. P." '
"thea all I've got to say is this, you'll
have to carry Ind, for I won't walk l'
"Mr. P. looked at his wife for n moment
with the greatest astonishment, but as she
began to laugh at him again, ho thought
to himself
"She thinks I won't do it, and hopes to
get off in that way ; hut it won't do; up
stairs she's got to go, if I do have to car;
ry her ; so hero goes ;" and taking the
form of his lady in histkrms, he soon had
the satisfaction of seeing her safely lodged
in her prison, and carefely looking her in,
he stationed a little red-headed youth on
the front door stops to attend to calls and
also see that Mrs. I'. did not escape ; and
then he betook himself to a restaurant for
his dinner, and. after dispatching • that he
hurtled off to his office, and was `soon en
grossed in busineqs.
About the middle of the afternoon,
our young sentinel rushed into the
office, and said, never stopping to take
breath :
"Mr. Pepper had just batter run home
as fast as he ean, for .that woman what's
shut up bo making an awful racket, and
she be tearing around there, and rattling
things the distressingest kind, and if she
beant splitting up something or other,
then I don't know what splittiug be I"
Without waiting to hear more, Mr. P.
seized his bat, and hurried off home at a
most undignified pace.
Opening the hall door, he stole up stairs
as carefully as possible, and applying his
eyes to the key hole, ho beheld a sight
which made him fairly boil with rage.
Mrs. P. was sitting in the fire-place,
reading his love-letters. The one she was
engaged in perusing at that particular
moment was trout a Mrs. Polly Primrose,
who it appeared had once looked favora
bly upon the suit of Mr. -Pepper; but a
more dashing lover appearing on the scene,
Miss Polly sent him a letter-of dismissal,
promising her undying friendship, and ee
-1 companying the same with a lock of her
hair,
and some walnut meats.
llut it was..not the love-letters alone
that Made Mr.l 3 : so Mitidgeliiiii: — lle"had'
been something of a traveler in his day,
and had collected a great many curiosities
in his rambles, which he had deposited
in a cupboard in the very room where he
had confined Mrs. P. and she had got at
them.
She had s plit up an elegant -writing
desk with his Indian battle•axc, in order
to have a tiro, as the day was rather chil
ly. In one corner of the firc•place was
P's. best beaver, filled up with love
letters. •
it a ukall-tutlo, eloge te. -Mrs: P., WILS
a beautiful Ilat China dish filled with bear's
oil, in which :die had sunk .31r. 1"s best
satin cravat, and havin, , iirol ono end of
it, it afr ,, rdul her sufficient light for her
labors—for Mr. I'. had closed the blinds
fur the better security of the culprit.
On some eoals in front of the fire was
Mr. P's silver christening bowl, iu which
Mrs. P. was popping corn, which she ever
and anon stirred with the fiddle bow ;
meanwhile occasionally punching up the
fire with the fiddle, for Mr. P. bad, with
commendable foresight, removed the shov
el and tongs.
Mr. P. condescended to peep through
the key hole until he had obtained a pret
ty corieet idea of what was going on with
in. Never wag a Pepper as fired as he.—
Ho shook the door; it was securely fas
tened within, and resisted all 116 efforts to
open it. "bordered Mrs. Pepper to open
or take the consequences ; but as she did
not open it, it is to be presumed that she
preferred the consequences. Mr. Pep
per darted down, the stairs like a mad
man
"I must put a stop to this," ho thought,
"or I shall not have a rag of clothes to my
back."
Procuring a ladder, ho began to mount
to the bed room ; but Mrs. P. was nut to
be taken easily. She knew that ho bad
left the dookunlocked, for she had_exam
ined it as soon as he had loft; but she
had no idea of letting him have the bene
fit of her fire, so, hastily seizing large bot
tles of cologne, she threw the contents
upon the fire, and in a few minutes had
the satisfaction of seeing it entirely ex
tinguished. That duty perforated, she
left the apartment, and locking the door,
she stationed herself in a convenient po
sition to hear everything that transpired
within.
In a few moments Mr. P. was safe in
the apartment, and as soon as ho had clo
sed the window, ho stood bolt upright in
the middle of tho room, and said in a deep
voice—
"Jazobel, come forth !"
No answer.
"Jude, do you think to escape?"
Still no response. Mr. P. begins to
feel unettv, and hastily begins to search '
the room, but had not proceeded fur when
ho hears a slight titter somewhere in the
vicinity of the door.. Ile listens a mo
ment and it is repeated. Darting to tho
door, ho attempts to open it, but ho finds
himself .a prisoner. There is one more
chance, he'thinks, and hurries to the win.
dow ; but, alas ! for Mr. Pepper, his wife
has just removed the ladder, and he cannot
escape. .
Ho sits down on a chair and looks rue
fully around him, and Presently he arises
and picks up a few fraginenti of a letter
which is lying on the carpet, and finds it
from Polly Primrose: He wonders what
she has done with the lock of hair.
At this moment his eye falls upon ,his
daguerreotype, which is, lying upon the
table before him; mechanically taking it
up, ho opens it, and sees-Lwhat Y nothing
but his own face—all the rest of him be
ing rubbed off, and around his lovely phis
is the missing curl and the walnut meats
carefully stowed' in the curter of the
case.„ Mr. Pepper fairly blubbered a
.
loud. . .
"Good 1" thought Mrs. P., mwhen you
find your level, I'll lot you out and not
till then. A little wholesome disoipfine
will doyou cied, - and aia. fully, limp*.
red to , adminteter it."
"FEARLESS AND FREE!"
flow long Mrs. Pepper - kept: her 'lite
lord in durance vile, deponent saith not,
auk k as to what passed between them
when be was released • from , captivity; we
aro not any better informed; but of this
we are sure, Mr. Popper might have hien
seen, a morning or two nfterwaxds. to pht
his head into the bedroom and say in a
meek manner—
" Betsy Jane; I've made the kitehin
fire and put on the tea-kettle ; won't ybu
please to got up and get breakfast." • - '
Female Shop-Seepera.
The life of cities presents ns with a vast
number of incongruous sights and ma l
ous exhibitions of misappropriated things
and misplaced men. but among them all
there is none loom incongruous or shock
ing to the sense of the eternal fitnestiof
things, than thespectaeleir abroad-shoul
dered man, with brawny fists and a &ice
moustache, engaged in the effeminate Us
iness of selling tape and ribbons +is
counter to a delicate woman. There Aro
curtain employments which are Called min
ly,
.but selling muslin to ladies is- not ine
of them. Mon are required to till sihe
fields, to build houses. to make lawiii to
act is soldiers. to preach sermons, to elon
gate ships, and to perform a thousand ilth
or duties which nature has silainlyilftAid
den 'women to engage in. by denyingter
the necessary physical qualities for suc
cess. But site is In ni:Kaanner disqualified
for shopkeepiug „ , and for the business of
selling-to her own sex the articles of °fila
ment and dress of which she ought to be
the best able to judge. On the contrary,
she has every qualification for the business,
being neat-handed, patient, voluble, and
conciliatory in her manner. In bqiif,
' woman is naturally fitted for the business
of shopkceping, and society suffers a great
wrong by her being kept from one ofshe
occupations for which She is so eminently
well quallified. Society suffers a double
.
wrong by it, for mon who usurp the, m
ployment of Women are . kept from thitcre
oupations in which they might rendelces
sential service to mankind, while wined
are either doomed to idle and unprofitable
lives, or driven to employments which are
degrading to their natures, or destruetive
'to their heslth. .„Doubtless the true JO
-1 tion of a woman is that of a naother rif a
family, superintending her housebol -af
)e
, fairs and waking home happy for he r, us=
band' and children. But it so li s p . ns
that there are always vast numbers Wo
men who do not fulfil their , true &Alloy,
and while waiting for their opportunity
I must resort to the best means of obtaining
a living that may ho open to them.
tally
painful
this season of the year it is 'tally
painful to see the hearty and stud", fe4;
lows wasting away their lives in effeminate
employments among silks. musliu4-snl
• art Metal' tie wtsnisstrittr might Iner44)
eially engaged for themselves and others
iu g3therilig in the harvest of our ripened
field's, in cutting wood, catching fish, tend
: its; herds, delving in mines, or doing a
bemired other things to help to sustain
human life and add to the prosperity and
greatness of the nation. .
TWe London "Post"—the great chroni
cler of the fashionable war, whose Jenkins
thinks himself well employed in writing
descriptions of ladies dreasess that aro
worn to aristocratic balls and Queen's le
vees—is envious of all the mustachioed
shopkeepers of Oxford street and Regent.
and wants to pack them all of to the Cri
mea, to servo as soldiers in the ranks,
and, recommends all the Duchesses, Mar
chionesses and Countesses—the queens
of fashion—to do their shopping only at
those places where they employ women to
wait on customers. But the great difficul
ty lies with the ladies themselves ; for it,
is said that in shopping they prefer to deal,
with men—and that, after all, will proba
bly prevent any change iu the existing cus
tom among shopkeepers in this city. But
we wish it were otherwise, and that the
women would form a union, for the sake
of woman, and agree to purchase only of
their own sex.—N. Y. limes.
A NI C E COUNTRY FOR, NRII.VOUN
A Texas correspondent describes the do.
mastic productions of that favoured land
in glowing terms:—
"Texas is the paradise of reptiles and
creeping things. Rattle and moccassin
snakes are too numerous even to shake a
stick at; the bile of the former is easily
cured by drinking raw whiskey till it pro.
duces intoxication; but for the bite of the
latter there is no cure. The tarantula is
k pleasant institution to get up a quarrel!
with. Re is a spider with a body about
the size of a hen's egg. and legs five or
six inches long and covered with long black
hair. He lies in the cattle tracks,
and if
you sop him, move out of his path, his bite
is absolutely certain death, and he never
gets out of the way, but can jump eight or
ten feet to inflict his deadly bite. Then,
there is the centicede, furnished with au
unlimited number of legs, each leg armed
with a claw, and each claw inflicting a
separate wound. If he walks over you at
night, you will have cause to repent it for 1
many months to come, as the wound is of
a particularly poisonous nature, and very
difficult to heal. The stinging lizard is
a leader evil, the sensation of its wound
being likened to the application of red hot
iron to the person; but one is too thankful
to escape with life, to consider that any
annoyance. But the inaects! flying, run
ning, jumping. creeping. digging. hump
ing. stinging! they are everywhere. Ask
for a cup of water. and the rejoinder in
our 'Camp invariably is : 'Will you have
it with 'a bug, or without!' 'lle horned frog
is one of the greatest curiosites here, and
is perfectly harmless. It has none of the
cold, slimy qOalities of its Northern breth
ren, but is frequently made a .pet of.—
Chameleons are innumerable, darting over
the - prairies in every direction with incon
ceivable' iwittness, changing their color
according to the colons( the object under
which thay may be. • The woods on the
blinks of the bayous are alive with mocking
birds, singing most beautifully, and feather
ed.game is abundant, and very tame, as
it is rarely sought after. The only varie
ties that I have ever seen. are the quail,
partridge, snipe, mallard, plover and pol
-1 riu hen.
A Dialogue.
"Istute,Lave you paid the printer ?" in
quired an
. .old lady of her husband ; who
was delighting the family circle by reading
aloud to them from a fine-looking news
paper--(excuse our blushes, for we editors
are as modest as maidens.)
""No, Rebecca, I have not," answered
the old gentletnan, adjusting his specta
cles—qut you know it is only a trifle.—
Tho printer, I see, gives a polite dun, but
they cannot mean me, as ram one of their
political friends, and at all eventa my two
dollars would be a trifling moiety to them."
"Well, Isaac, if all their subscribers
were to say the same thing, the poor fol
lows woold •starve, unless they could con
jure their types• into cora, and the press
into a flouring mill. And surely, you. as
their friend, should be more punetual in
paying them than if you were there polit
ical enemy ; besides, it would show your at
tachment to , them and the good cause they
advocate."
"I thought of settling my subscription
when I.was in- town last," said TAM, win
eing. under the rub, "but the money that I
teemed for my pioduco was, better than
usual, and I did not like to part with it,"
"Why; certainly you would not pay
them in bad money."
"No, my doar, but% sometimes I am ob
liged to take uncurrent paper, and I pre
fer paying my debts with that, when I can
get it off. Oh, these banks, these banks I
Any way, that sort would suit the printer
just as well, as they don't keep it long.—
My neighbor, Jenkins, said ho offered them
money that nobody else would take, and
they did not refuse it.
"Shame on you, Isaac," exclaimed the
good old lady, "you would not, I hope, ito•
irate the example °phut miserablelellow•
Jehkins ; why. ho- would jew- the Verson
out of half of his stipend and pay the bal
ance in trade."
" "Yet ho paid the 'Hinter, grandma," in
terrapted a little taxed haired miss, who
stood besidelier randfathers's knee.
Well; well, I'll . call and pay thein,"
said the. old gentle Man, nettled, "for an
article treadin their paper,tbe other clay
was worth twice the amoot 'of the sub
scription."' • _
- "And you know, grandpa, you saidlhat
the piece about counterfeits saved you
twelve dollars which you would have ta
ken from the Yankee pedlar," again inter
rupted the little girl.
"Yes, it did so, Mary. and for thittivtiew
I go in town, ll pay off my old spore,
and the neat year too ; iu advance, ie the
bargain." •
Mr. Isaac kept his word like tin
honest man. Whether because his con
science smote him about the uneurreut
money, or because ho was convinced by
the arguments of his amiable, spouse and
(Vey- elt eek e d grand - ildv:we -ea tin *tiny
be that as it way, we assure , our retiders
that our pockets rang that tangible - proof of
friend Isaac's probity aurtattronage, until
we paid our debts. • Now, we feel assured,
that if the good ladies in the town and
country, and-throughout all creation; as
that most veritable nondescript, Jack Dow
ningovould say, only knew how the heart
of the poor printer ht gladdened by the
salutation .of such 11 _man. as Isaac, they
would read this paragraph to their bus.
bands, and say in the language of the good
old book—"Go thou and do likewise.'
EtTRAORDINARY CASE OF FASCINATION.
—About two weeks since a little girl near
six years of age, named Co!lista Hill of
Gilmanton Centre was searching for ber
ries in the field, when her attention was
artestell by a peculiar singing noise and on
looking she perceived two large black
snakes, one of which was ill an erect atti
tude and gazing fixedly upon her, accent
paning its. vibratory motions by: as she
says, most beautiful singing." She
first attempted to run, but found herself ut
terly incapable of doing so. She then
looked at the snake until she • became
so pleased with it that she took it into her
lap, and held it until alto thought it asleep
and then fled to the house. For a num
ber of days she visited the snake, un
known to her parents. who , finalty dis
covered her feeding it every day, becom
ing more and more attached to it, until it
would wind itself about her neck, and
even take food from her mouth. Finally
she was prevailed upon to place it in 'a
box and in that it is still kept; except when
being fed. Hundreds in the vicinity have
been to see it, and it is the opinion of
medical men who have seen her that she
is completely fascinated, and that the death
of the reptile would prove fatal to her.—
Her parents have had many tempting of
fers to permit her to be taken about and
exhibited with the snake, but, though they
are poor, they have sense enough to ro•
fuse such offers. The snake is over four
feet long.
"The little girl was asked if she was
not frightened when she first saw the
snakes. She said.she was terribly fright
ened; and when asked, why she did not
run, she tried but 'could not ; she:also tri
ed to scream for her motber, but could
not speak a word. The idea is that she
was paralyzed by the magnetic power of
the snakes. The first time she remained
with them a lung time---could not tell bow
long. Afterward daily she staid with them
several hours, feeding them regularly.—
She says they liked sweet things best, and
that she stole throe cakes of maple sugar
that her mother had laid away, and sweet
gingerbread whenever she could, to give
them. 'Mt big snake would try to (hive
the small one away from her when fed,
land she cuffed him several times; and he
returned the compliment by taking her
fingers into his mouth several times, with
out doing much harm. ConseqUently she
don't like this' snake as she does the oth
er one, though he is generally fond of her."
HIGH AND DOERVED COMPLIMENT.-
At the Dorchester celebration on the 4th
inst., Colonel Aspiniatall. late United States
Conant to London, , and an officer •ot
the war of 18 12, who lost his arm in the
service, stated in his speech that the late
Duke plifirellington (no mean authority,)
styled the march of General .
Scott to Mexico "the military mimetic of
the ise."
,••. , . • •
Mig 00QUITTS RKIIIIKED.--4sOrtl •••••••,
a nobleman, both by nature and birth, was
noted for his Virtue, his unassuming man
ners, and grace and elegance of person.--
He had married, when quite young, a la
dy of - equal yank with himself, though she
was by, no means handsome ; but he loved
her with almost romantic' fervor.
The Countess of L— was a moat su
perbly beautiful woman. and once, in
comp any with a number of friend+. boast
ed that she could conquer Lord if
she could only gain his attentions long e
nough. The boast was received with
doubt by her friends.
"Ile is eminently a chriatian man," said
one. •
'A. fig for his christianity,” said the
countess contemptuously.. "I tell you. I
can make him 'sue me for a smile ;' I
wish I could gain hie arm for one' quarter
r „
of an hour.' .. • '
Her wish w g6itfi ed ; tint very e•
vetting, at a bri ijtfit party, Lord N—'
and his lady appeared. Blazing with cost
ly jewels, radiant as pearl, the unprincipled
Countess rivited every eye ; she was in
deed fairer than a poet's dream, With
the most ' delicate menteuvering, she gained
the attention.ol LON N---:, anil walk
ed triutoplvintly through the blaze of beat t'
ty, casting significant glances on those she
met who had heard her idle boast.'
But though as polite as' thu most ac
complished man of t he world, she could
see that Lord N— was totally unmoved
by her elegant style, or her coquettish airs
and glances. Finally as she gave some
„14t;le quotation, which he considered deli
.`eately complimented by the aproval of his
wife, !he Countess Ventured to sneer; . she
I was piqued because he, quoted his wife,
that plain Lady N—, befora_her,.. the
iniperiouti, the acknowledged belle ol the
whole empire. Lord N— turned his
dirk eye fully upon her,—
"My dear madam," said he, in an am
phatic manner, "one approving word from
my wife is wortlia thousand trout' any
other woman however brilliant anti beau.
tiful she may he," •
The blood mounted to the cheeks and
brow of the. Countess ; she felt how soh•
lime wee the dignity of virtite, but she did
notyer,despair, Seeing lady N—conver
-sing with one of the blandest of sererciges
she exclaimed—, • -
"Look, my lord tairef you not see bow
entirely engrossed4iur lady seems with
the handsome rine," youlshould be jest
"l • - •
am not," lie replied still more stern
ly rmy wife and I have a motto, that 'true
linnet will never suffer itself to be tempt
etr—and as , fur myself, with reference to
Lady N---•,1 can say.in the divine
language of Scripture, "theheart 01 her
husband doth safely trust her.'!
Thu coattette wits sileuc'ed klier anima
gbile; anife'who
reason why. As for the Coutitet.s. she
was heard often afterward to declare that
could she obtain a husband like Lord N
—she should consider herself the hap
piest woman iu the•world.
"You Foaoux ME."--A gond joke is
told at the expense of one of our church
going citizens who is the, fßther of an in
teresting fsmilly of . children, and .ainong
them a bright, eyed . boy numbering four or
five summers, the pet
,of the household,
and unanimously voted the drollest little
mischief alive.
On Saturday night he hail been bribed
to, keep peace and retire to bed at an hour
earlier than usual, with the promise • that on
the morrow, he
. might go with the family
to, church . On Sunday morning it was
found inconvenient , to put the youngster
through the regular course of washing and
dressing necessary for his proper appear 7
ance at the sanctuary,. and the family
elipped olr without him.. They, had not,
howeveronore than got comfortably seat
ed in, their pew,, when in walked the young
stir with nothing on but a night rapper
and cloth cap.
"You forgot tne," said he, in a tone loud
enough to be heard all over the•church:
The feelings of the parents can be more
easilly imagined than deseribed.--Lajay
elle (ind.)Journal. - • -
To MAKE FRUIT PIES.—No temier-crtist
should be made to apple or any fruit pie. It
is always heavy and, not lit to eat.. Place
a narrow rim of.pasie around the edge of
the plate, and fill with the fruit either raw
or stewed, and cover it. The
. juices will
be retained much better, and it will pave a
sight of flour and butter, which is no tri
fling consideration in these days, and. what
is of more consequence, will save dyspep
sia, which cost more. Alter cutting they.
are taken out with a spoon:
Fox FROM A STEEPLE. —A young Ger
man,-namod Joseph Hoffman, 101 l front the
steeple of a now Catholie Church, which is
being built in Hamilton, Ohio, killing him
instantly. The top 'of the cross is 165 feet
abeve the ground, and he was on a staging
about twenty-five feet from the top of the
cruse. He lost his balance and . fell,. strik
ing on the roof of the building,'and break
ing his back and neck. ' The force of the
fall threw him some twenty feet froen the
building, very much mutilating hie body.
HIGH GllOUND.—ipierica is the only
.
country on earth that can by possibility,
lay any claim to the national capital of the
globe. The researches of Maury have do•
reonstrated that, by wind and wave, it is
down stream from our country to all the
wqrld—and that all nations must theca& to
reach it. With an ocean ou either baud,
its power descends with celerity to 'every
country on• the sphere—and that, too,
from oven the deepest interior of our torri
tory.—.firmageddon.
NEVF.R MAURY Eon A FonTuttr.—
We overheard a poor tmforteuate get the
following sookdolager, the other day, from
his better half : "You good for nothiug
follow !" said she, "what would you have
been had I hot married you? Whose
was the baking kiver, whose the gig
trough, whose the frying-pan, and the
irou.hooped bucket, but mine, whoa you
married me ?" • • • •
Why li a sick 'Jew diamond
Ileum foil,
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM:
INUUImB2I,
;... . .
togN ii, , Tv AIHINOTON'II GAIT ITOTgo•-•411
carrespontlent.of The Charlestown Couri;
er relates the following interesting ci teem
stance : ' '
"I was' present'when .Gen.,Washingtott
gait, hia last vote. it was in the Spring'
of 1799, in the town of 'Alexandria, Hett.
died the 11th of December following:—
The Court-house of - Fairfat County was
then over, the Market-House and imenedi•
ately fronting'Gadaby's tavern. • The en.
trance to it was by. a slight flight of crazy
erieps on the ontside. The election was
progressing--severai thousand persons in
the. Coort.Huuse and immediate'
neighboring streets, and I was standing on
Gatlaby.'a ateps, when' the . Father of hitt
Country drove up and immediately ap
proached the Court-House steps, and when
within a ward. or two of them. I saw eight
or rein good-looking men groin ditTerent di
rections, certainly without the leastconcert;
spring.simultanennely and place, themselves
in po,itintrA to uphold and support the
steps should they fall;in tho General's as
cent of them. I was immediately at his
back, and. in that position entered the
Court-House with him—followed , in his
wake through &dense crowd to the polls
—heard him vote—returned with him to;
the outward crowd—heard him oheered.'
by more than two thousand persons as he
eniered.his carriage, and saw his depart
' tire, 'There were five or six -candidates
on the bench sitting, and as the General
approached them they rose in a body !:
bowed smilingly. and the salutation haw.
ing -been returned very gracefully the
General immediately cast hiseyes toward'
the regieitry of the polls, when Col. Den
--
f think it . was, said: 'Well, Genet-
al, how do you 'vote 1' The. Senecal
looted at the vanilidates and said : 'Gen
tlemen,•l vote for thediures, not for men,' ' r
and turning. to the recording table audibly -
pronounced his vote, saw it entered, made
a graceful bow, and retired." • ,
A WARNING TO AMERICA AND AMU.
OANS.—Miss Anna Ella Carroll, of Mary
laud, has commenced the publication of a
hook in the New York Crusade, under thri
title of ..A Warning to America and Anter
icing ." The Express says. Miss Carroll
is connected 'with the oldjand honored Car- ,
rol family of ilditryland : with Charles Car.
rol, who signed the Declaration of Indepen
deuce-,and with , tho respected Archbishop'
Carroll, who fondly hopedt.i see his church
independent of Rome, and who. we judge s -
had he lived, Would never have stannitted
to 'he imposition(' oldie papacy as practis
ed in the present (lay. Mimi Carroll, in in
troducing her book to thb public, and which
we hope. will do great good in a noble
cense, respectfully alludes to her Roman
Catholic ancestors; and gtves her reasons
ferentering upon the work of addressingthe
public' in behalf of her Country and the
4) 49lPlWAgitiepndigolplolglo ,l l l
American spirit, :Miss v. euicet
bOok to the President of the American par
ty, to whom she says
"You, then ell' pemit the , delicate hand
of woman to 'midst in the • culture of the
vine and the olive, which flourishes only
on the boil of freedom.; and to resist the
attempt now industriously being made to
supplant time laurel by the cypress, the sas
salras..iind hickory_ by the pnira4ree And.
shittim Wood. . • ,
Some person offers girls , thefollowiPg
advice. Never marry a man' until you
have ;men him eat.
,Let the ciantlitlate , for
your hind pass through the
,ordeal of eat
ing soft boiled eggs. If he can 110 it'and
leave the table apread, and napkin. and his
shirt unspotted—take him. Try him
next with • a spare , rib: If he, can accom
plish this feat, without putting out one of
his own eyes, or pitching the bone!! Into ,
your 14p, name , the wedding-day at once
he will do to tie td.
PRETTY SATARI.-A little urchin, some
twti or three years old, being a little dis•
tance florn the house, was suddenly start..
ed by .a loud claP- . of. thunder. Ho was
much frightened, and made rapid tracks
for the house. But as the shod was the
'nearest shelter,' he entered. and cleating a
defiant look at the 'clouds he exclaimed,
thunder away, lam under the shed , I"
To CLEAN . PelNT.—The beet thin'
or cleaning oil paints is a sponge, dippe
n ammonia which is copiously,
with water. Soap &fictive's the turpen..-
tine as well as the linseed oil end not only
,
destroys the smooth and , shiny surface,
but exposes Oen the lead to the influence•
of the water and air, end is, therefore, nOt•
proper to be used:
BRUPORT OTIGANNARAN'S 011ARACTZtte..
Brid4et came to New York. and foiled to.
her inexpressible regret that she had lost
her certificate across the sea. But hes
cousin Patrick supplied her with apothem
in thelollowing words- 7 "'fhiscerdfies
that Bridget O'Flannahan hail * good
character when 'also left Ireland, but.sho
lost it on the ship coming over."
LOOKINO OUT FOR ♦ LQNO
Lontion,lituea say:
~ w hatever delusion tiiinisteta - were in,
as to the duration orthe warlaat,year. we now
bnow that it ie wise to make up our mioda
to twenty years at least; that we named*
more like,ly to shorten the war br an went •
than under estimate. „
To Remove. INK FROM A
LIN fiN Dip the spotted part of the linen;
into welted tallow, wash ow. end Ilinepohl.
will diiappear, and leave the linen u
white and pure as•befere it was loaded.
There are,trees in Wisconsin dna le
takes two , men and a bo to loolcio the ,
top of them. One looks till he i gets thid,
and another commences where he len of
,
The iniipailly of the Sods peopho to
writtenefrotone,is well known. Ai Kir.
eudhright, at an, minangumtino," en old
women on site pulpit stair,askedone elf her
aompaniona if the new Cahill*, was w
reader. • "And hoer Can he read. women,
wait the reply, "the man's
Min." :Tr*
whieh'the first made *newer, "I ric
heae4-1 wieh they. woste,tellitie