'BrD. A. ar, 0. . 5: BUEHLER.'
VOLUME lIVL
Colstentiniteut.
' • AT MIA
T hipk'se thou , the gad that reedits roves
O'er rocks and mount/due, lieldsand groves,
With 'wild, unbridled bound,
, • Finds fresher pasture than the bee,
On thf my, haul. or vernal tree,
Inteht to ,tore her industry •
• Within her waxen round?
Plnk'st thou the fountain forced to turn
Thiiiuglynarble vase or sculptured, urn,
Affords a sweeter draught,
Than that which in its native sphere,
Perennial, undisturb'd and clear,
Mows,
the lone traveller's thirst to cheer,
k ra wake his grateful thought 7
Think'iit thnu the Man whose inanslons hold
The worldling's pomp and miser's gold,
• Obtains a richer prize
Than he who; in his cot at rest,
• Finds heavenly peace, a willingguest,• • '
An • the promise in his breast
• urethitskim .
• 4 v%
4 s
` When ,r a pitAnb delight
!kit she ':, /-7 '( , • upon my sight ;
A love apparill A Sent ,
, To be a moment's ornament 7
Bee eyes as stars of twilight fair ) •
Like twilight's too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From Berme and the cheerful cltisn i ;
A dancing shape, an image gay, ti,-4: • ,‘•
T .
o haunt, to startle, and waylate
.I yaw her upon nearer view,
Aspirit, yet a woman :tool
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin liberty ;
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as. sweet ;
A creature nettoo bright or good
For human Attire's daily food k •
For transient sorrow! simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.
And now I aeo with eye serene
The very pilte of the machine ;
A being breathing` thoughtful breath,
A. traveller betwixt life and death
The.reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and skill,
A perfspet woman nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command ;
And yet a spirit'still, and bright,
litritlcatoMelliing of an angel light. -
from L einsG' Wordwsorth.
Triumph of Piety.
Lord was, a man of the world.
His pleasures were drawn from his.riehus,
his honors, and hlit . triends. His daugh
ter was the idle of his heartf„ '
Much had
been expended for her education and well
did she repay, in her intelleetual endow
ments, the solicitude of her parents. She
was highly accomplished, amiable in her.
disposition, winning in her manners.—
They were ell strangers to God.,
At
At length Miss attended a Moth
<dist. Meeting in Lona 9 o ; deeply, EL-
Wakdeflt-AP4 41404 .-hArrii i r:" l4 k Tia l
NovistiO.was dislighted„in the thermic. of
the sanistuary and 0004 moetings. .;To
bee the charms of and,
were •over-
,She frequented the's() places
Where she met with congenial minds ani-
Joated with similar hopes: Elbe wasoften
.iound in the house of God. •
'Fhe change was marked by her fond
iiiher.witk painful solicitude. •To see•his
lovely daughter thus infatuated was an oo
..casion of deep grief, and he resolved to
.correct: her erroneous •notions on •the sub
joet of the real pleasures and business of
life. He placed at her disposal large
soma.f money, hoping that she would be
induced to go into the extravagances of
others of ber birth, and leave the meetings.
Ilutshe maintained her integrity. Ho
took her on bog journeys conducted in the
most engaging manner, in order to divert
hermind from•roligion, but she still de
lighted in the Saviour.
After failing in many prooppta which,
lie anticipated would• he effectual in sub
duing the religious 'feelings of his daugh- '
tor, be introduced her into company under
einsumstances in which she must either
join ,in the xecreation of the party or give'
offence. Hope lighted upon the counto
canoe of this affectionate but misguided.
father, as healer his snare about to entan
gle the object of his solicitude I ' It had
been•arranged among his friends that soy
waliount ladies; on the approaching fes
tive acaainon, should give a • song accoin
pidiedhy the pianoforte.
This - hour arrived, the party 'Womble&
Several had'performed their parts to the
delight of the party, which waa in great
e
Mae - was now called on
far a • sorig,''and many hearts nbw beat
high in hopes of viotory. Should she de
dine, she was disgraced; should she com
ply their triumph was complete. This
was a moment to seal her fate. With per
fect self-rases/ion she took her seat at
the pianoforte, ran her fin4ers over the
keys, and commenced playing and sing
ing, in a sweet air, the following words :
"So room for mirth and trifling here,
For worldly hopes or worldly fear,
If life so soon is gone;
Irwin thb Judge is at the dobr,
And all mankind mast stead Wore
•
The' inexorable throne !
.Nomattet what my tho ughts . employ,
n utsA•mcwe misery or oy;
B u t. 1 when both shall end,
Whre'shill I find my destined place ?
'Skein any'everlatitiug days
Wttk ten& or ands spend?"
She axone from her seat. The whole
Earty,wal subdued. Not a word was.spo
qui..zotbir father wept aloud I One by
(medley left the house.
never rested until he be
came a Christian.. He lived an example
ofChristhm benevolence, having given to
betievolent. Christian enterprises, at the
time of his death. nearly a hundred thou
sand pounds.
4 „Henry Ward Beecher recently preach
ed & oi l man against old school Calvaniem,
irt.whicit he said he wished it hilly under
stood by bla people, that he served thorn
• • • " 0104._hit,pf the
leclared, g4inCal
iiversalikt, a Uni-
Swedenborgiart ;
Ward Beecher, a
believer in the
trying to. make
im—that is ill,"
inV
1 -
The boy rose meekly, and did as he
was told. His name was James Watt,
afterwards Sir James. Ho was honored
by the title of Knighthood, being the first
who applied the power of steam to any
Useful purpose.
The above anecdote is literally true,
Watt was born in 1136. This incident
,
occurred when he was in his twelfth year.
Ho 'was the son of a poor , tradesman in
Greenock, and probably never had read a
book—the spelling book and the Bible ex
cepted—Wome Journal.
Never cross a Bridge till you come
Under the above heading we find a son-
Bible and well written paragraph from the
Maine Yarmor. The editor says :
"Are yeti' troubled about tho future ?
Do you see dilFioulties rising in Alpine
range along your path ? Are you alarm
ed at the state of your business—at the
uncertainties hanging: over your life—ai
the dubious prospects in reserve for your
children—at the gloomy contingencies your
fancy sketches and invests with it sort of
life-like reality—at the woos which hang
over the cause of • the Itedeemer, or at any
other earthly evil 1. Do not cross that
bridge until you come to it. Perhaps you
will never have: occasion to do so, and if
you do, you may find that a timid imagi i
-
nation has overrated greatly the toil to be
undergone, or, has umlorratett tho power of
that grace which can lighten the Christian's
every, labor. , - •
In approaching the notch of the White
biontlialms from one direction; the travel
ler finds himself .in .the midst'of conical
bills, which seem to• surround him as he
advance,, . and, forbid lurthei'progress.—
He can see but a short distaned along the
winding avid.; it seems as , if his journey
must stop abruptly at the base of thesti
barriers.,,. But lot him advance; and he
finds that the road curves around the frown
ing hill, boforo: and leads him into
otherand still other straits, from which he
finds escape simply 'by advan cing. Every
new. discovery of w passage around the
obstructions, of his path, teaches him to
hope in the practicability of his road.—
He cannot see far ahead at any time; but
a passage discovers itself as ho advances.
He is neither -required to turn back, nor
to'soide the stoop sides of towering hills.
His road winds along, preserving for miles
almost an exact level. lie finds that no
thing• is gained by crossing a bridge before
he cornea to it. Such is often the journey
of life."
AN ,EXCIELLENT RULE.—"In a mixed
conversation," says the pions John New
ton, "it is a good rule to say nothing with
out a just call, to the disadvantage of oth- .
era.'•' The same writer says, "I was once
in a large company whore very severe
things wore spoken of Mr. W., when ono
person seasonably observed, that though
the Lord was pleased to effect conversion
and edification by a variety of means, he
had never known anybody convinced of
error by what was said of him behind hie
back. This was about thirteen years ago,
and.it has been on my mind as an useful
hint over since.
An hour's industry will do more-to be.
get oheerfullness, suppress evil rumors,
and retrieve your affairs, than a month's
Mourning.
'possible to industry
A Tale of a Tea-Kettle. ThO:lipleit of Kindness.
On a winter's evening, nearly one bun- As we cast our oyes aver our fair do-
Bred years ago, the tea-board was laid out, main, earth, how much do we see of the
and the window-curtains Closely drawn. goodness and love of our Creator. The
in the huMble parlor of a small house in whispering of the breeze, the sighing of
the town of Greenook, in the weer of the zephyr, the murmuring of the gentle
Scotland. A tidy, active matron was bust- stream as it runs along iti quiei bed, all
ling about, slicing the bend and butter ; a conspire to show how much . the giabdness
blazing fire , gleamed and roared in the of God is shown in every moving thing ;
grate, and curled around the black sides of tke Ilan as ho site in all his splendor, and
the kettle .whichreposed in the midst of it; 'covers the heavens with his golden beams,
and the fire e =hied and.the water boiled the breeze, as it plays among the trees, all
with a faintly popling sound, and a stream whisper the same answer—" Love." But
of white *or carne wining . out of the how sad it is to look abroad among the ha
spout of the vessel-with a .cligry hiss.---, man creatures that God has made, and Ilea
Now the matron,aforsaid Bait firothiog ex- how little of the true spirit of kindness is
traordinaryin all this • kettles had boiled shown to each other. .How mach of ho.
and fires had hurned, from the beginning, man woe and suffering there is themorld,
and irebahly would do . so to the • end of the end how much of it might be aleviated if
chslirter; . '-'' man would but sympathize in hie fellow-
As the matron stooped to pour the boil- man's woes. .
ing liquid into the tea-pot, her son James. Go to the c riminalin his darkened cell;
a boy of twelve stammers, sat on a low reproach hinafor his crimes; show him
bench in front of the fire, his elbows rest- the long Unlit of evil consequences which
ing on his kneea, whilst his hands, placed must enevitably follow his ruinous course,
under his chin, supported his head. The and he wilLanswer you .in sullen looks,
boy was intently gazing at the fire, the with no feelings of remorse whatever ; but
kettle, and the steam ; swallOwing them speak in gentleness, and what a change I
with tis eyes, absorbed in deep thoughts, The hardened criminal who has not wept
and lost in contemplation. The boy look- for years, would bow his head and weep.
ed at the fire, and the mother lookbd at Speak to him of his now sainted inother;
the boy : "Mae there ever sic' an idle . gone to share the portion of the redeemed
ne'er-d'-weel in this wail', as our JaMie 1" in Heaven ; carry him in the arms of re
was the question which almost uncon- membranes back to thk days of his child
sciously she proposed to herself. - hood, when she knelt beside his . little bed
A Mrs. B stepped in at this me- and poured out her prayer for the salvation
ment, when, turning to her visitor, Jamie's of her darling boy to him to whom she
mother said, "Mrs. B --, did you ev- had dedicated him while yet a child, and
er sea the likes o'- our Jamie 1 Look at the penitential tear will steal down the
him I .he'll sit there for hours, staring at cheek of ono who, perhaps, had not wept
the kettle and the steam, till you wad think for years. • . -
his eed would come o't o' his heed I" _ Gentle words will soften the' hearts of
And, the truth to tell, there was some-,
thing peculiar in the glance of the boy's
eye ; there was mind—active, speaking
mind—looking through it. He seemed as
one who gazed on a wondrous vision, and
Whose every sang was boWd 'up in the
display of gorgous pageantry floating be-
fore him. .He sat watching the escaping
.steam - until the thin vaporous'column had
appeared to cast itself upward in fantastic,
Changing shapes ; sometimes the subtle
fluid, gathering:in force , and quantity,
would gently raise one side of the lid of
the kettle, emit a whitepuff, and then' let
the metal fall with a low clanking sound.
There was power and strength in that we.,
tery clink! ; as the dreaming boy saw this,
and unbiddn thought came into his mind,
and he knew the.flerce struggle was sym
bolical of intellect warring with the etc-
ments. of Providence. •
'And still he gazed, and saw
dreams ships sailing without 'lvied or
sails, wagons propelledro'er tleitirts wild
n
"•aid na r" 1 -PloraNKtutitt,o..s.
/Te t "
+4u by' your tea. if nd ve Blaring
at the fire again, yell feel the wield 9: my
hand."
GETTYSBURii, PA., FRIDAtIKENIN,Gi,SEPT,EIABER7O,IBSS.
those whose consciences •have 'long boon
seared by crime or deep affliction. It
was.not the Gwhirlwind" that moved the
hardened criminal to tears, but the 'still
small voice" of affection. Thus we see
how much of tbo happiness of earth's mil
lions is derived from the true spirit of
kindness a spirit which we all may exer
cise. May we in future try to - exercise
this 1°,014 , spirit, and thus make the soci.
ety in which we live happier and better.
AN Itionixter. , —A correspondent in
forms us, of an incident which . occurred at
the Congregational church in Westmin
ster in this t3tate_last Sabbath.' The cler
gyman, an aged minister; was propelling
from the text spea iixtto.wise Men ;
understand yo what I say," He had's&
vanced as far as "thirdly," when he ob.
served that many of his. hearets overcome
by tho heat of the day, had fallen asleep.
Stopping .in discourse, and wiping the
perspiration from his furrowed brow he ex
claim, ed • '
~I,4tr'.-fismniisiscr'4l34 'ilitylastali42 44 .
oPpressive, T will stop _ a while , and request
the choir, in the meantime, to sing the
tune of 'Coronation,' commencing, qtly
drowsy powers why sleep ye to . .
The effect was electrical, bringing the
audience to their feet. They remained
standing ; while the sublime chorus,
from the combined voices of the choir
and tiongregtition, filled the house, and
effectually destroyed : the 'disposition to
sleep.. Thepreacher,resumed his discourse
at "thirdly"......Lyriti Rites:
IiEWAHH OP TIM MASH•• WHO. NEVER
LAIIOIIB.--Ip a sermon delivered by Rev.
Dr. Bollows, of New York, before the
Western Unitarian ennforence, is the fol
lowing paragraph
"For my own par!, Loy it in , all solem
nity, I have lived to become siocerely ,
suspicious of the piety 'of 'those who do
not love pleasure in any form. I cannot
trust the man thit never laughs ; that is
alway sedate ; that has no apparent out
lets for those natural springs of sportive
ness and gaiety that are perennial in the
human soul. I know that nature:tat:o
her revenge on such violence. I expect to
find secret vices, malignint sins or horrid
orimea springing up in this hot-bed of con
fined air and imprisoned space; and, there
fore, it gives mo a sincere moral gmtifi.;
cation anywhere, and in any community,
to see innocent pleasures. and .popular'
amusements resisting the religious bigot
ry that frowns so unwisely upon them.—
Anything is better than that dark, dead,
unhappy social life—a prey to ennui and
morbid excitement, which reitilts from un
mitigated puritanism, whose second crop
is usually unbridled license and
_infamous
folly." •
The New York Mirror speaking of th e
room appropriated to the mothers at Bar
num's Baby Show, calls it a most udder
ifen2us place. The Alirrot's jokes are al
ways full of puns,' but that is Fuller.—
Query—Why ware those same matrons
like stars in the galaxy ?
&B. No answer permitted in the Post.
Boston Post.
The above reminds us of a piece of po
etry with which we once met. •A senti
mentalyoung gentleman, learning that ono
of his female acquaintances was about to
ascend in a balloon , with an =omit, ad
dressed her as follows : ,
Forbear dear girl,, the task forego,
And thus our anxious troubles end;
That you will mount y full well we know,
Bat greatly fear you'll ne'er descend.
WbenOngels see a mortal rise,
So mild, so beautiful and fair s
They'd woo her spirit to the skies, •
And keep their angel sister there.
These lines fell under the eye of snot&
or gentleman friend of 'the young lady,
who at once put the finishing touch on
them than • •
That graceless chap with whom you fly,'
Despite of all you do or say,
When sailing in the upper sky,
Will get Ton in the "milky way."
Exchange.
A. workman who was employed in blast.
ing at Halifax, while being wound up out
of the hole, after he had tic the fuse, was
suffered to slip back again. The man fell:
close upon the impending danger. and in
tha sudden view of almost certain death,
fell upon his knees in prayer. While pray.
ing, a thought struck him ; he drew out
the fuse, and commenced swearing at the
workmen at the top.
itITIARLEBO .AND FREW"
Mike Muck,: unil (lie Bull.
.
The story of Mike Fin& and tho hull
`would make a cynic laugh. Mike took a
notion to go in a awimming, rind he had
just got his clothes olf when be saw Dea
con Smith's bull making at him=lllo bull
was a vicious animal, and had coma near
killing two or three persons—consequently
Mike felt rather “jobus." Ile didn't want
to call for help for he was naked, and the
nearest place from whence assistance could
arrive was the mectiug.house, which was
at that time filled with worshippers, among
whom was the "gal that Mike war pay
ing bit devours td." $o lie dodged the
bull as the animal ,came at him, and man
aged to catch him,by the tail. Ire was'
dragged round till nearly dead, and when
he thought he coull hold on' no longer, he
made up his mind le had better'oholler."
And now we will..lot him tell his own
story ;
So looking at the smatter , in all its beai
ing, Ileum to the e‘nclusion that I'd better
let some one kno*ehar I was. So I gin
a yell louder titan 1 locomotive •' whistle,
and it warn't longlmfere A seed the dea
con's two dogs a Onlin' down like ae if
w L
they war seeing hich ( could get that
lust. I knott'd o they were ruler—,
they'd jine the bull -In me, I was sane%
for tkey were mink wenornous, and had 'a
spite agin me. flegi.sys I, old brindle, as,
ridin' is as cheap si, welkin' op,this route,
if you've no objections, I'll jist l take a
deck passage on that ar' hack o'yourn.—
So I wasn:t very 101 l in 'Letting astride of
him ; theii, if you'd Sin *itir, you'd have
swore thar warn't ;Tibia! In that 'ar Mal
the sile flew so orfully as he critter anal
rolled round the - field—ore , .dog on one
' side and one the °thin., qui' to clinch My
feet. I prayed and-eursed and , cussed
and prayed, until I coalltit tell which I
did at last—and` nettillw tiarren% el no use
they were so orfully iniZed , up.
IVO, I reckon I:rid lout half an hour
..
this way, when old Aim e thought it. ere
time to stop'andtakeini supply of wind
and cool off a lit* . i3O when yre'got
round to a tree that stook thar, litiisatur
ally halted. So- sez I, old boy, you'll
loose one Trismenger sirtain..,i,;So I list
63n3 up a branch, kagerlatin' to roost
thar till I Starved Afore I'd be rid round
that ar way any longer. I war makin'
tracks for the tope( thApe, when I heard
suthin' makiit' an !fel Inizzin' overhead.
I kinder looked .4, and if thar wan't—
well; thar's no use l Swearin'-=.-but it war
• , .
the biggest borneVettest ever hilt. You'll
4 1 gin in" note. I 'r ckon, Mike, 'cause
there's
. .no help fo yell. But an idea,
struck ins then th t I stood a heap bet
ter 'Chance a ridin'i the bull than war I
wits. Sez I Old fellsiv, It you'll hold on,
l'Illido: to the itel,•7caVaff n ',soy lmAy. let ,
-that bo
_w hoz' it OM, .:. 4 1, ... ~ . ;;...
So I just dropt . aboar him agen, and
looked aloft to see What I had gained by
changin' quarters, :lad, gentlemen, I'm a
liar if titer wan% nith half a bushel of the
atingin' varmints rbady to pitch into the
when the word .rgct' was gin. Well. I
reckon they got it, fpr .mll hands" started
tor out company.
,some of 'em hit the
dogs—about a quart ltruck / me, and L the
rest charged on brinde.
This time the dole led off fast, dead
lbent - lor the gild deacon's, and al soon as
' old brindle and 1 could get under way we
followed, and as I wit , only a deck pas
sengeri 'and had nodin' to do with the
steerin' the craft, I ;are, if I had, w e .
shouldn't have rim th at channel anyhoW.
But, as I said beforeA the dogs (auk-the
l i g
lead—brindle.and I'n'xt, and the hornets
drolly arter. T he d s yellin'—brindle
bollerin—'the hornits izzin' and stingirt.
we bad got
j.
Well, bout two hundred
yards from . the bone, and 'the deacon
heard us and come 0 . 0 I seed him hold
up his hand and turn white. I reckoned
ho was prayin" then I r he did'nt expect
toile called for so soon ) and. it warn't long
afore the whole cang retatio it--:nte O. wom
en and children-- come out, and then all
l
bandit, went
,to yellin. None of 'eat had
the Mit nation that br i ndle
d,
and.l belonge
to this world. 1 jiin rned my head and
passed the 11011, congqgation. 1 see'. the
run would be s up loon; for brindle coultria
turn an inch from - a fence that stood dead
ahead. Well, we reached that fence, and
1 went ashore over theiwhole critter's head,
landin' on t'other aide, and lay there stun
ned. '
It wnrn't long afore some of 'em as
was not scarred { CUM runnin' to see whir
I war ; for all hoods kilkelated that the bull
and I belonged togetistr. But when brin
dle Walked off by hiself, they seed how
it war, and one ore said ' , Mike Fiuck
has got the wuat of scrummage once in
his lile." .GentlegnM, from that day '1
dropi the courtin' ueiness, and never
spoke to a gal since, kind when my hunt is
up' on this earth, then) won't be any more
Fincks, and its allowin' to Deacon Smith's
Brindle Bull.
ANOTHER OF WKEHINOTON'iI SLAVF.B
DIECOVERED.-A writer in the .Itocheater
American says that a former slave of Gen.
Washington, named !Richard Stanltup or
Stanhope, lives at Urbana, Ohio, at the age
of JOS years. Ile !we iu his posspeion
the original papers giving his freedom, in
iNishington's own hind writing, for which
he has refused quits a sum of money.—
He had rather part with his farm than his
pipers. Ho owns tbout 100 acres some
ten miles south of die villago of Urbana,
bought with, money given him of ,
his il
lustrious master. He is now , living with
his sixth wife, and, to all appearances, en.
'oying life as well as, the youngest.
BUT LITTLE DIFFERENOE.—Min M'.
Dowell, in the last number of the "'Wo
man's Advocate," utters the following
bold but significant truth : '
"As women are more affected by the
prevalence of immorality thane men, it is
really strange that they de not frown down
those vices of men which are so frequently
fatal to their "own tranquility.' Many a
female who would not re lase to dine with
a profligate, would think lierself foully in
sulted, were she invited to take sea with 'a
courtesan; but the only difference between
the two is, one wears pantaloons, and the
other panialetts—the moral is the same"'
_ Y•
S •~111~
[Font . Ma New York . Tribune
Police Court.
IMAKSPEARE RUN MAD—IMPROVEMENTS
ON TRH IMMORTAL BARD--OOLLIER BE
HIND TUE AGN.
' Peter Knight was found wandering in
the Fourteenth 'Ward. The officer could
not determine whether he was intoxicated
or crazy, but, as he said ho had no home,
ho Was taken in charge as a . vagrant, He
had btieu traversing the streets, with fol
ded arms, talking to himself in odd bits of
plays and poems. He possessed a facili
ty of quotation equal to Richard Swiveller,
Esq.'s but ho was as reckless about the
exactitude of his extracts, and jumbled up
his authorities with as much confusion as
Captain Crude hithself. He seldom gave
a quotation right, but wonld break off in
the,middle and substitute some wordaol his
own or dovetail in an irrelevant piece from
some strange author; or mix up half-a-doz•,•
en authors wttli interpolations - of his own,l
in an inextricable verLal jumble.
ClerkL-What's your name?
Prisither--“Priter Knight; hm a native to
the "Mar-row-bone"—that'a
,Shakspeare.
Clerk—wati you intoxicated yestee.
day ? --
Prisoner-cells true, tis pity; piwtis
there isn't the ' 46 devil a doubt of it"-tfikt'e
e
Clerk—Wher d id, you get•your liqttiref
Prisoner .
—" Where the bee sucks, there
srieks Peter Knight all day, limo base
ivlorious 'slave, thinks% dm I will re-,
veal the noble • name of • him who gave,
wtnel .No Bob"—that'sl
Beaumont and,,Fletcher. , •
' Officer mills whisper—lf you don't tell
you'll , have to go to jail.
. ,
Prisonerii-I do remember en apothecary
and hereabouts. he dwellsno he don't,
he lives over', tn . the Bowery'—bnt in lie
shoo a . cod fish bangs, and on his shelves
a beggarly accourit• of empty bottles; no
ting this penury. to myself, I said, if any
Man did need a brandy punch, whese sale
istfty dollars fine in Gotham, here lives
a caitiff .wretch who has probably-got plen
tyof it under the counter. Why should
I hero conceal my fault I Wino ho ! I
cried., The call was answered. I have
no wino, said he, but 'plenty of wide--;
Silence! thou
,pernicious caitiff, quoth 1 ;
thou inviiible spirit of wine, since woman
get thee by no other name, why let us
call thee gin and sugar. lie brought. the
juice of cursed juniper in a phial, .and
the porches of my throatAlid pour tidal.
pho Wolfe's distillment.% Thus was I by
a Dutchthan's hand at once dispatched—
not drunk nor sobety.sent into this dirty
Station-II nose three-quarters tight, with
all my imperfectiona on my head. The
fellow's name? My' very suet reltels.
ut;'tihdilie ` is lt.robler hi. the mind to
sUffer: ot• tllll . breilY
Dutchman or to take arms against his red
haired highness; and by informing end him?
His name, your honor, is Bobblespoff
kin in the Boivery.. Thai's Sliakspeare
mixed.
Clerk-LHave you got a home I
Prisoner—My home is on the deep,
deep sea—thit'a Plutarch'S Lives.
Clerk-How do you get your living?
Prisoner—Doubt thou the stars are
fire; doubt that the sun cloth move; doubt
truth to be a-itar, but never doubt that
,I'll
get a living while the' oyster sloops don't
have but one watchman-011We Billy S.
again.
Clerk—Do you pay for your oysters
, Prisoner—Base is the slave that pays ;
the speed of thought is in my limbs—
that's Byron.
'Clerk—Do you steal them and" then run
away
Prisoners-.l've told thee all, I'll tell no,
more, though abort' the story be ; let me '
go back where I was' before and I'll get
myliving ,without troubling the Corpora
tion—That's Tom. Moore, altered to snit
circumstances. , • • .
Justice (evidently at a loss, in a whis
per to mystified elerk)L-I think he is cra
zy ; what do you think it's' best do with
to do with. him.? •, .• , . . •
Prisoner (overbearing)—"Off with his
head ; so much"—that!ts, Shakespeare cur
tailed. . •
. •
Juitige—Will you promise to` dispense
with the brandy and gin if you are dis
charged ? • ••
Prisoner-0, I could be happy . with
either were 'Wier dear charmer bottled
up and the - cork . pUt Dibdin,
with a vengeance. • '
Judge—What do .you suppnae• • will be
come of you if you go on in this way,
living as you have done? • . •
Prisocier--Alas poor Yorick I—Peter,
I mern. Who knows were 'he will lay
his bones ? Pew and short wit the pray
ers he ithid,eand nobody'RfeelanY sorrow,
but they'll cram' him into his Clay cold bed.
and bury somebodY else on top'of him to
morrow; the minister will - come. put on
hie robe and read the service . ; the choir'lt
sing a hyinn; earth to earth and dust to
gravel; and that'll be the last et Peter
Knight. • • •• •
Clerk—Peter, we'll have legend you
up for ten days. •
Prisoner—Fare thee well, and If.for 1
ever all the better. That'allyreit revised 1
and . corrected
GRATTAN'S VENERATION FOR OLD
Tazits.—He loved
,old trees, and use to
say, "Nevei cut doWn a tree for fashion's
sake. 'The tree has its roots in the,earth,
which inhibit has net." ' A favorite old
tree stood near the house at Tinnehinch.
A friend of Grattan's thinking, it obstruct
ed the view recommended him to cut it
down. "Why so ?" said Grattan. "Be
cause it stands in the way of the house."—
Grattap—"You mistake'; it is the house
that stands in the way of it, and if either
comes down, let it be the house."
It is 'doubtless hard to die; but it is
agreeable to bops we. shall not live•. here
forever, and that
.a better life will put an
end to the troubles of this. If we were
offered immortality oil earth, who is there
would accept so melancholy a gift I What
resource, what hope, whao consolation
would then be left ne against the rigor of
fortune, and the injustice of tun?'
41 , 110, •
A. solemn and beautiful thought is ox.
pressed in the following :
It is rebated of a well-k °omit divino, who,
' whon living, was Balleci tho "Prince of Di
vines," that, when on his death bed, ho
was dictating words to an amanuOnsis, who
had written :
"I am still in the land of the living."
"Stop," said the dying, man, "correct
nal. Say, lam still in the hind of the
dying, but hope soon to be in the laud„of
the living l" . . , •
Beautiful thought it is so. In
his dying scenolithe christian is enabled to
contrast this passing, dying world, with the
one :!which is to wino. '
ONE WAY TO COOK CLUCKENS.—The
following, is highly rocommeuded. ..Out
tho chickcp up, put in a pan and cover it
over with water; lot it'stew as usual, and
when dono make a thickening of cream and
flour, adding a piece of butter and s popper
and salt; havo made and baked a pair of
short cakes, made as if for pio crust, but
rolled thin anti out in small squares. This
is much better than chicken pie, and mare
simple to mako. • Tho crusts should be
laid on a dill), and the chicken gravy put
Otis!. it whilo both are hot."
TOMATO PRESERVES.—Tako tho round
yellow variety, as soon as ripe; scald and
peer; then to seven 'pounds of tomatoes
add, seven pounds of white sugar, and
let them stand over night. Take the
tomatoes our of ,tho sugar and boil the syr
up, removing the scum. Put in the toma•
toes, And boil gentlY fifteen or twenty
minutes, removing the. fruit again, and boil
until the syrup thickens. On cooling, put
the fruit into jars and pour the syrup aver
it, and add it few slices of lemon to 'each
jar, and you will have something to pleas
the moat fastidious.
TO'KEEP MILK SWEET.—iklr. Boyd, ti
correspondent of tho Scientific American,
states that ho has practiced a peculiar me,
thud, with much success, •of preserving
milk sweet in the pans.' It simply consists
in placing a piece of new hammered iron,
or throe twelve-penny' nails, in each tin
pan, then pouring the warm milk over
thorn. He. botiloves , that electriCity has
something to'do with producing •the result.
Ho hlpi tried many'capeiliments before he,
he hit fi•pon this one, which he foinul to
preserve the milk sweet for u longer period
than any other plan tried by him. •
A MorromENT TO Gunn. SMITH.—WO
ate happy to loarn that Gorrit
,Smith con-
templates a disposition of his great pro-
perty that regards the good of the living,
and islocal, practicable and full of promise.
The Oswego Palladium says that it is his
purpose to found and endow a great edu
cational intilittition some Where -it) Central
Now:4l)44..3othiehlte. 4,v •iledica to . the,
bulk of his property. pis plans are near
ly matured. The institution is to he a
UniverSity of the highest elass, and estab
lished on- the most lilierM principles. It
is to be surrounded by en ample farm, to
give the, opportunity of tillage to such Silk
dents as desire to strengthen and invigorate
themselves by labor, and it is to make
suitable provisions for cases of struggling
merit.
Bunting a Marderer.—Tho Danville
(Va.) Register gives WI moonlit of the cap
ture of a negro who murdered a, colored girl
recently, belonging to Capt. Normally, of
Caswell county, N. 0. Two negro dogs
were used. On Monday morning last about
fiVo o'clock, tho dogs were taken to the
place whore the negro was last seen, the
older ono belled and put on the trail. He
apt etkred. to be perfectly at home, and took
ur 'ho trail with ease, and the whole party
f flowed in pursuit. After winding in va
rious directions, through plantations and
woods, over hills and dales, they finally
came to a bait at a thicket. Hero they
found tho brutal and inhuman monster
snugly stowed away under cover. He made
a faint effort to escape, but was brought to
a stand by. the dogs, after running some
fifty yards.
WASHING SILVER WARIS.-It semi
that houskeepers who' wash "their silver
with soap and water, as the'coMtnon prac
tice is, do. not know what they 'are about:
The proprietor of one of the largest and
oldest Silver establishments in the, city . of
Philadelphia, says that houskeepere ruin
their silver by washing it in soap suds
makes it look like pewter. Never - put
a particle of soap abou t your silver,:then it
will retain its original , lustre. When it
wants polish, take a piere of soft leather
and whiting, and rub it hard.
EMIGRANT WEM.TIL-At Castle Gard.
en, an account is kept of the money each
emigrant brings—all specie, o f course.—
Since August Ist, 1655 emigrants have ar
rived and confessed to a total specie means
of $72,095 being $44,56 for every man,
woman and child. The Germans bring
most—their average is ,E6O for every soul
landed. •
Tug Texas Baptist states that Gen. Sam
Houstou has deposited as a donation in the
Treasury of Baylor University, • in , that
State. between s4so'and $5OO as the avails
in'part of lectures delivered by hint last
winter while visiting the Norton' cities.
The remaning proceeds of the lecturvs,
when received. will probably make the
whole amount about $7OO.
A Nrono litnrArs. PREACILEIL—Mrs.
Zelpba Shum, a lady of color, bas been
preaching is the pulpits of various primi
tive Methodist chapels in, England...—
Her discourses. are said to be much ad-
About t.welye hundred gallops •of liquor
were poured into the gutter. at Bangor,
Me., on the 26th utt., by order of Judge
Lyon, of the ' Municipal Court. Nearly
or quite two-thifda of it was 'seized on
board tschooner.
An eieellent old lady says the only
Way to prevent steamboat explosions, is to
make Ms engines/a "bile their water on•
shore." In her oeition, all the Willa' IS
'by "cooking' the steam" on boaiii.
TWO po7.TATLISI-PER
INUMBER 4 p,
Cost of War.
The expense of the Bataan War begins
to command attention in England. Is • is,
indeed, beginning to grow alarming :---and
Earl Grey, in the House of Lords„. exprei
ses apprehensions which eatinOt fail ore
long to become general throughout Eng-,
land. The cost of the war this year, lathe
three departments of the army, navy and
ordnance, meads $280,000,000, 'and this
is to be still further and" very largely in
creased by Votes of credit, &ammo° of tho
Turkish 'loan and other expedients, All
this involvei a corresponding increase of
taration,—not for a year o? two, but per
manently,—as these expenses go to swell
the enormous aggregate of the National
debt, the annual interest of which is becom
ing a most opproisive buiclen on the indus
try of the Britieh people.
Earl Grey foresees * the embarrassments nod
evils to which this state of things s mtuit in
time give rise, He deolareiVwith a frank
boldnes3 not often witnessed, that no man
in his Senses believes that the 'Turkish Em. •
piro, for the integrity of which 'this war is
waged, can last forty years;—predicts that *
England will bo compelled to pay the ifi
tercet nn the loan which she guarantees,
and that changes may occur which will is
lease 'Fran& from all obligation to paf her
sharp. ;'—and•that the whole burden of this .
extravagant and ill-judged expenditure will
thou full upiin the English people. The
inevitable result, in 'his opinion, will be
snob an increase of 'taxation as will pieve
exe4lingly oppressive to the. English peo
pleiland increase the 'tide of 'emigration,:
which is already bearing so'many thousands'
k
of them, with large aggregates of wealth,
across the Atlantic to the United States.
The'Earl's words of warning commanded
little attention" in the House of .Lords,Obnt'
the day will come when they will bo remota
bored and heeded., - .
Esiinent Jews.
,
The, London CorrespondentAf tito )r.
Commercial' Atloertisce, in his - recht, • bitter
by the Pacikstates- that the bravo anti
skilful defender of Sebastopol; General,TeS6
leben, is'a LithuanianCTow, irho at the com
mencement of;thesioge was but "tt simplo
lieutenant, and gh9 now achieved a world
wide reputation for ;kill and, valor., Achille
,
Fould, late Minister. of Finance of ,Louie
Napoleon, and yetone of hie ablest counsel
hiiis is a Jaw,_and, is one' of the .itonse of
Fould, Oppenheim & Co., bankers in Paris.
It was through Mr. Fould's sagiteions sug
gestions that the reductionl, in the French
5 per cents to 43 per cents •wab so macs.
fully effected, and it is more than probable
he has advised Ale anbmission of the late
various war loons to, the people, instead of
appealing to the Stook Exchange for sup-
Mr. B. Mtsraidi, as an author and - poll.
.tiehtu, is wolf' known on both sides of Wet
Atlantic. As leader in tire Moose of Com
mons and Chancellor of the Exchequer, ho
has occupied positions only granted to the
first winds in the British Empire, He is
also a Jew and of pure blood. In the Uni
ted States, the Senato has two of the chit-
dm of Jacob, viz Senators Yuleo and
Benjamin. , The latter, though but a shoo'
time in the Senate, has already much infltt
enco in that august body. Senator Yulces
father was a Jew from the coast of Bar
bary, and WO believe from Morocco.
Earthquake in California
Thu Los .A.ugelos Bear of tae 14th July
sayu: •
"On last Tuoiday evening our city, was
thrown into commotion by the most. vio
lent shook of an earthquake ever before ex
perienced in this country. The walls of
some of our moat substantial buildings wore
riven from top to bottom. Nearly every
house was deserted by the, terrified occu
pants. Some of our merchants have suf
fered severely from the damage they
sustained in having their goods thrown
front the shelves, aud some of our brick
buildings have been materially injured,.
although no. walls have yet fallen down.
The shock' occurred at precisely a guar,
tor before 8 o'clock in .'the evening, as
some pendulum clocks indioated that were
stopped by Oscillation,.and lasted probably
not to Oxiieedfive seam& We , learn that
'a shock ocuurred here in 1847, but was not
so violent as this.
The shock was felt at the Mission of San
'Gabriel, at the Monte and at 'Coco-mango,
some fotty miles frent this city.. We are
informed:that the shock was so violent •at
the Mission,lhat the bells of the church
were thrown down and the ground cracked Open
It is impossible to calculate tho 'damage
done to buildings iu this city, as all are more
Or Nod jejurod. The presumption is that .
had a second shock occurred of the same
violonco our city would . have • ism a wawa
ruins." • - • '
Liberia.
Augestes Washington, a well edneateit
colored man, who emigra ted to Liberia, and;
wrote a series of depreciatory letters re- ,
specting the condition of that colony to the
Now York •Tribune, writes-frem Monrovia,
.under date of June 19th, in a more hopeful'
tone.. He expects to visit the United States
) in about a year and carry' out with him a
colony ; of friends and acquatintantshs: He
is a teacher Of the senior-class of the Alex
ander High Seheol, in Grook and Lulu,'
and has been at it for about fifteen months.
Besides Wit, he tn; built two bon* lit AO
heart of the 'City of 31OnrOvia, cleared and
planted a (aria twenty miles - distant, 'oa
the St SiPaul river, made 64,800 by taking
daguerreotype% and supported Ins family by
keeping a . store, tto.
Balloon 4scension' on Iforieback--00.
the 20th ult. Mr. Elliott made a .balloga
ascension from the city of
horsebaok. The . horse was Larnemad'iathe ••
Aerial car, and at a given signal, with Me •
Elliott. on his hack, they ascended into dui •
region, of the air. The horse's boohooing
for a moment "clawed the air," but, hem
tentra himself by gaging as thepeculiar
nation of things. As far u tntraye eo
reach both bone and rider wooed to botitii.,
ting along milady but Rarely. Is ha 'di "
that they landed Well odor tho 'mwto
tbs minisippi rider,