Star and banner. (Gettysburg, Pa.) 1847-1864, December 26, 1856, Image 1
BY D. A. BUBBLER. VOLUME XXVII. Employment for the Winter. T 11E- BEST B 0 OE FOR AGENTS. This beautiful entre of poetry was written by 1b persons out of employment. An ele- the late Jaelge Robert Raymond Reed, of Gear . gout gififir a .fathcr to present to Air l gia, afterwards Governor of Florida. If has fwnrly 1 Semlfor one cupy and never appauned in print before, and the lady try it among your friends ! f for whom it was penned—now a resident of WA t N he T u E i l i ./ ite --i- d A hrteantetss e and c v a e l r a y section da, t o e of o irctr pOrlditielj —has througlh ti our Co . lum u ni. t It cosened t i i s g' o . n v e e lit t o t t o t e e late SEARS larg e type Q uarto Bible , for choice. yet unobtrusive gems, struck out front family use—untitle d the People's Pictorial Be- °rich 'aim of thnagttt, that has ottly to see the light to hare its beauties appreciated.— mestie Bible, with about one thousand engra-, rings.. • Afontp , ssesy ifaiL • This useful book is destined, if 14 can form • Methought that in a sacred wood, an opinion from the Notices of the Press, to have an unprecedented circulation in every I 31 " eben ' ll an II hanko f flowers, -section of our wide-spread continent, and to Soothed by a streandees wandering flood, form it distinct era in the sale of our works.— t Tkingurteleid %tiro' the whispering bowers; It will, no doubt, in n few years become the And dreams did. visit me—so bright, Bible of the American people. flaf•The most liberal remuneration will be An Elyseum only could beget them ; allowed to all persons %Ito may be pleased to : They brought me such intense delight, procure subscribers to the above. From 50 never, never an forget them. 100 copies may easily be, circulated and sold id each of the principal cities and towns of the Union, It will be sold by subscription only. Ttg.,Applielition should be made at once, 11,1 the field will soon be occupied. ICrPorsons wishing to act $l4 agents, and! do a Hare business, can send Mr n specimen py. (In receipt of the established price, $1;,; the Factorial Family Bible, with a well lumnil subscription hook, will be carefully boxed. turd forty trill l per oxpresa, at our risk amt CINIISo, to any central town or village in the Ciiited States, excepting those of California, : I Ireguiti mid Texas. t'V'Regi•ter your Letters, mad your money: will Lama. fn 3 , idit;on to the rietork! w , pct? 1 rilt it hag.: number of Illustrated Family v •ry popular, nail of <itch a high mor al turn' ara.m.ll.tiOnnhlt. Character, that while L ord coon tatty safely ettgage in their ciretila lion. they will confer a public 4 , m tit, tied re- 1 sit vo n atir conirlt.tat ion ihr their labor. ' tol,„(lrlers respectfully qolicited. For fur titer lrit ieulnre, address line sub.eriher. (post paid.)sKAns, 181 Irma. _ II AYE YOU SUIiSCIIIBED IN TIIK , Cosmopolitan Art Association fi . (11: 771,',. 77111 e 11 YW.Ile , QI , ',K !Ito rare imluteements ! Th. , manage- I Y ew ,t have t h e ideavire ot . temeeeci,,.2: that lie rollec•tion el Works of .101 de,igned for , , slistrilmtion iimiiii, the Mt ii,i1.61.1.1 . 5. li 111 t.t , t name, ore received previous to :he 21 , th 0:1 .1 :le ,i.try, ..17, i, ninth I irger and more imstiv than on env pr,•viottA y,ar. Among the I. a;- ie. ! work . in Smil l iture—evecateil iii the titm..t. I o-I.I.• —i. the 'II.W MI , / 1.1,V Ci ' atii Stattie of the i .•Wlttli) NYMPH," The flostb of this Three (i r,:at A titeriemi Statesmen, - ' ‘.tr ) fri tt. Illifethvtor and Calhoun, 1 flezekiah 'livenibrim was a fair Quaker, Also the exquisite 1110111 Bust, "SPItiNG, - ; who sod m.,/asses, eml,fish, chi na . .strt h e n A I'o 1,1 d) .1N I.) DI A N.l, in marble. life ~.i.te. I were- anti rl-thes—and all sorts of liquors. Tog,tipo• with the following I.lroups and Stat.; Iv, t i ke , L ,. t..-!,a,a.,,,,..„. is t i c „.: as . well as i n 11,, in Carrara Marldo-- of the S I t trm.,.2.e....e.; uittte , ._ s .._ ~. ~.._,_ , ni • iii,. I km), N . , , ,,,,,, and • Apple ; 1 ,,. ,,,..h,. ; mag. a. an-a isr....ik.au Ira, a L./ telery Qua deleil ; iliCel t.t the Sea. ; i I.llooolet' ; .'anti, e l k°°- lie ' 4l- '''''eu'hat of old an bachelor. Diril mid I ; i:il;Tritaiii ? With numerous work.: I, =eel ha I a sister that Was..somewhat of au, in Stung, and a collection Of SI:VEli.t L ituN. , Lid autiii. Yet shy can the Lest creature tetKe ' ', a I i.•:,,,, 5.7 rlkiL!hl: 41 4 'Can 411.1, bloo In iti gas a FINE OIL P A INTINGS. , n.-e, aed ~....ittlzuz as charity. Iler name by Ii tiding Artists. The whole of which ore aa- D 'rem., to he di,,eiliatod or Illotteil aiming the :il,. ' 1 lleaelli.alt and D tress walked one Sunday scrilo•r. „hose names are received pr e vie u s to i :Liter:a...ea, in the tt.Romaing month of May, the l'teetity-ciph,q, of fontocry, '57, when thy I , t o ttrcatby .lee fins}, air acd view the Inca. distrilon ion will take place. 4,1:-. The ir.lking was smooth and de -7'it',l:Ms ((F SUBSCRIPTION. tigiotful with no manner of obstruction, Every sub:critter 14 ' /hr.., doihrrs i:4 Mltitled 1 ~.,,,,pt h,,e and there a ditch full of water, ton cope of the splendid Steel Erigraring • 1 ' 1 auttedl he a ire led e-, and too wide for ••;:eituril iv Night," or it rope oistiv of the for t 1. , a man of ordinary jumping capacity to clear lowing $1 Magazines 011 P year : arm a eo p r o f i the Art Jottritel one year. and it Ticket in thel at a singly bound. Hut liez , kialt valued Annual Di.tribtition or Iv,,rk,, of Art. 1 M in c e :l; a : f a t re,,Tile generally do, en his Thus, for every $3 paid, a person not ottle agility, and insteal of walking a few rods gets a hetottied Ett,Fraritic, , or Magazine oriel f„ r the sake of a bridge, he must needs year, butt than receives the -Art Journal one I leap ewers ditch he came to. • year. and it riek..i in the Annual Distribution. I "T1e , .."‘1 /:meet not try that, llezekiali," neOcing I;Pige olalltrx teorth 'if remlin, : f matter . - he+hiPs the ticke.t ,hy u Welt.% valturhle imintitt I said til l kind and cirulde"lle s i ster. or nicer a ::(attiary limy to , ree ei re d in a ddi. I “Never thee mind, Dorcas." °plied .ion. -4 11 , 'climb. “thyre's no dancer ; I've jump. Those Who prefer Magazines to the Engrui etl a bireer dizeh when I wasn't half my vin g ..smorday Night," cnn have either of the: pre*trot ;time... following one year: Harper's Magazine: Co- .. tvAil that's very likely, but recollect ikC. -Lady's Hook, rutted State: Macuzioe. T. ~,•s gr own czacedingly pussy since :Ante Knit:knish , inter litirazine,tiraluon's Ma , mr.ine. Illai•kwtni 1 .Ingtizinc, Southern Literary 'Ales-' .3.3.4 a PiingTr'33"' senzer. - 1 1 "Pussy ::° Well, if I have, that's no No person is reitrieted to a single share.--1 reason why I shouldn't be as agile as be 'rt., ,:d,ii., ii vo member:hips. remitting $l3, fore ; I lei: thee, ItltillS. I can jump this are entitled to six Engravings. and to:ix tick.! ditchwithout so much as touching a fin oes in the distribution, or any five of the Nlagn- ! gee-" zide.i„9tio year, and xis ticket,.. ' "Ala, but the e'll touch thy feet upon the Persons, in remitting funds for metnlier4hip ' ' bottom trill please register the letters nt the 1'0,,t Of- 1 , „,.., lice. to, prevent loss :on receipt of which, a t •••lbeic's ta t a woman ; Dorcas, arid thy vertilicate of Membership, together with the fears magui:y this ditch even to a river Eogrvving or Magazine desired, will be for-t Now, stand thee aside, that I may have a wiieled to am part ofthe cotintrY. ; sweep sex-pling to my abilities." For further partiettlars, see the Novembor 1 ~,Na y , hir.)l4er Ileatliait, thee'd better Art .1 °gruel,' sent free on application. toot The ditch is wide and the bottom ' For membership, address C. L. DERRY,. ' Actotory C. A. A., 318 Broadwetv, New York. lauddY, and thee * '''' atssure 2 / 5 'Tail shy Suu •or Westemollice, Itlti Water street, Sandusky . day clothe--, if no task:'. •Ohie. • - i --0. fudge for your fears, girl, tht-y shall I'V'..lim/y,to D. :\PCONAUGIIY, Honors- not say me a jot. Nay. d 3 not hold . ine, ry I-'werctitry, Gett:isburg, Pa. ' ; as. lam resolved to jump :hat ditch if it ' ----- -- - --- ---- ' were merely to convince thee of my agil The Great Family Weekly Paper. iI i;3-- - lII' ; NEW YOR.I( LEDGER has now I Accordingly, Reickiah went back a few Ir Yards in order that he might h a v e a f a i r .• attained. the extraordinary circulation of ..• and that a Otte Iliindrea and Ninety Thousand copies.-- t, inn, a the impulse thereof might The LEIMER i's devoted to polite literature.: carry . hint over. Having, retraced far e ,origintri tales. sketches, poetry, essays, gossip I nough he came forward with a - momentum anti current peep , and maintains a high moral f proporttoned to hil weight and velocity— torte. 'h is :everstrh!iro ,ecknowheiged to be and found himself in the ditch. The water • - thinbeiefnually Inver m the world I Renee its i splaehed around on all shies and spotted -extraordinary and unheard of Impularity. Mr.' the Sundir ekthes of Dorcas. who could I Bonner, the.l 3 omrictoi of the Ledger, employs, therbestAnlant n the'-eMintiy, and by'sto dOing, lint, uir.iill all her Quaker sobriety and kind I i makes lt the best Mtper, Such writers as feeling„ help hems:ling into a loud laugh.— I Fonnye . ernitSylvanus Cobb, jr., and Emerson! There was Denekiabshowing hisagility,und ! Idennett c ark permenently engaged on it,: Sounder - kg in the mud like a whale. The I slid will write far no other paper hereafter.—' water was not so deep as to be dangerous, 1 Mrs, Sigiureiy, 'also, constantly writes for it ; i; and the sight was too irresistibly comic-for' undo al.kosye f orother popular authors, includ- t eve , a saint to 3 ,l 4 ,„„ tk i t , from laughing. inggifretEmitraD. E. A. Soutlinoral, Alicei „. ~. Cary, kfr s Wauglian MarY,W. Stanley Gibson ,/ lia°ug" oa the -111411.3 da Y" Clara' ' Siiindi, ke.; .!Ce: The Ledger is benutii i At length, wheu her risibility would al= . fully iiiastrated evoryoreele. ' low her power of speech,. Dorcas kindly 'l,llMifeutrfork Ledger it printed .oh•beanti- held out her hand and said : fit] white paper. end is , coMposed of eight pa- isa nine hither, lienekiih, and I will help gee,, making the handtiotnest weekly paper in i bi e 60,2, . the country, !tie, pablishotl efery• Satarday,l mid soh/ at the news elficei in every city anal "Well, well," returned the flow' derer towp th . roughtirit'the ,potietry . ; *nil irmailed in a tone of aviation 7, "thee does well, foelutiagribers tit two dollars per annum ; two f Doreae, to stand there and laugh at .me eopLes ere seat far three delttrs: : Any person Tas thong% it were mere sport -to nee me ohirtmilg eliiht ti,itbscribers +4141 50 matt,. stick inAha mud and- ater up to ray.very (which As oar lowest etnb rites, -and sending ; middle " 2. .. oat pril : ptil ho eatitled to one,.eopr Free.--t . Torrusoinviiptbly; in .adinnee., Address all "Nay, a ny, .Thrtekialt, thee has shown lettors M •,,, ROBIAERT BONNER, [ thy agility so marre.lloirsly that leould not • Priblishe'r of New York Ledger. , help being pleased itt. the life of me *--and r , j, -.-. 41 44na qlreet; Yew Fork. ',now I take shame Co myself for - opposing - At.-th-r:"D'ir k i 6' 03°.d. time to sut i senbe , I .!* thee so strenuously, or hiring doubted thy. Bloke; RED NBENNET'f'S Groot - Ori.inal N o- • . - . , - • . ztettyfor_jumptuß s Ba t . if epees setts vel;of From ' or Lilo, will lio',commenee ' d in the e 3.. 3.ettger on tpa frrsl. pf January --.. ' . new wit h - th y exploit anti rawly to come A SICK MAN'S DREAM. It seemed that, thou wert present there, Thine eyes wiih living lustre beaming; The star of morning decked thy hair, Aci.l aruund its radiance streaming, ha r cirt,4l to thy hp—thy cheek— The hits of immortal glory ; Oh .! we tam weir sueh visions seek, But in s,ctie old romantic store! And near :1 1 ;,.e hang a lyre of gold, Beneath a bowerof.shading roses— R....ers—liike those that. Love unfolds, 'When titv.ra his toils ti.e god reposes ; Ar..l aLea th 7 tin,t-tr: levelled the strings, nurnier i 3 rich and swelling, A Lezl•esebe spirit sweetly sings, from her vicwless dwelling Ret chaegetfull was that music's strain, It ut• hope, of youth, and gladness ; Of Orc,nre's wreath, of true love's chain, And then iNf blighted joys and sadness; At °as: an answering voice there calve, Erv.za a I.ti2ht cloud that then descended, rol hi!, it spcike a quivering flame Was +tufa ti:. ths,y whiteness blended. I war not tell !lie w, , rds so kind, lit that umr- pi,iutire voiee then spoken; For tEe :2i : 7Al—storms rudest wind, .7r7 ,m, and it WU,. broken. Rut 1, Illy Leers, Ar.d. srinlcalia 4.14, 1011/ Of life before thee, bow t•rs, uu:r Laill - 'pis-it watches o'er thee Qui.v.vg JU.VPLVG A DITCIIr GETTYSBURG, PA., F forth, I will lend thoo a hand to help thee out." Thus saying Dorcas drew near the ditch, but Hesekinh having got himself in by his unaided power, declined that ho would got himself out id the • same way. But the mud was deep and adhesive, and as he got one font out he got the other in ; and thus he continued to labor and plunge till ho was satisfied that, his own ability was bet. ter calculated to help him in than to help him out of the ditch. Ho grew wroth and so forgetting the plain language, he ex claimed : "By— 1" "Don't theo swear, Hezekiatt," inter rupted Dei•eae. "Swear !" roared Hezekiah, "thee'd eweer if thee were here !" "Swear not at all, Ilosekiab, but even lend me thine hand and I'll use my ability to pull thee out, according to the scrlpture, which sriyeth—'•if thine ox or thy ass fall into a ditch on the Sabbath day,—" "Now, sister Dorcas, thee is too bad.— Verily thee should not make me so heavy as the former animal, nor so stupid as the latter." "As to the weight," returned Dorcas, "thee must be pretty well satisfied by this time ; and as for thy stupidity, it were in deed unsisterly to liken thee to the long eared animal. But if thee is satisfied on these points and will forthwith reach me thine hand, I'll do as much as in me lieth to Firing thee IA) to land." Hezekish was pretty well convinced by this time that his own ability would never fetch him out; wherefore, humbly reach ing his hand to Dorcas, he said : "Verily, sister, I will accept thine aid, inasmuch as my own ability hath deceived me." Dorcas kindly lent her assistance, and pulling vigorously, Hezekiah at length came to land. Shaking off the mud and water like n spaniel lie returned home, but charged his sister by the way never to mention how he came by the catastrophe. Dorcas promised, of course, and as she was a girrof truth and kind feelings, she was as gond as her word. But once or twice when they were in company with several other Quakers, discoursing soberly about matters and things, Dorcas, looking archly at another girl, merely said : "Did I ever tell thee, Rachel, how broth er Hezekialt, one Sunday—" Hezekiah turned an embafrrigmirik ow!, imploring look towards her; and she (mid : • "Nay. nay, Hczekiab, not a going to tell—hut merely to ask if I had told how thee showed thy agility one Sunday, and jumped into the middle of a ditch ?" "THY WILL BE DOVE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEATEN." "I shall never he happy again." quiver ed the pale hps ; ••earth and sky are alike dark to or, since they laid my only one in the (lust." "Does religion, then. afford you no eon solation ?" asked the white haired pastor, solemnly. ''Does not the thought that you s hall go to him, lift this veil front your spirit I" “No—no—l know nothing—think of! nothing but that I have lost him—lost hint. All is a dead blank ; my heart is like n stone. 0 1 I would give worlds to -loose this awful weight—worlds,' worlds." "And ill should say that this terrible f ..%Vell," said Mr. Adams, in his, harsh weight may be eact off—this cold heart , way, selves.) she combs yours just made warm again !" now !" ! tell me how—for lam in des• i The poor farmer slunk back like a la:dt pair," she cried. ed hound, feelin g , : the smart, but utterly "In one year, dear m a d a rn t " said the unconscious of the provocation. white•heired man, "my only 8011, grown to manhood, was drowned ; my wife was: laid in het grave; toy daughter. takenfrom 'Loudon paper of No v ember2o (Way; : me by death, and my own health so pros.. " Crated that I could no longer minister in rile movement towards Prometanism holy things to my people." , in Bohemia, Moravia and Austrian Sile " How sod !" cried the ynung widow, "in, is becoming daily more notneirse and clasping her hands, while her eyes tilled. ove rwhelming : whole families, in all i “How did you—how confi/ you b ear i t r , : the ir branches, simultaneously emliraejr,g the Lutheran creed, and leading others in "By looking up to my Father, and say-. ing. 'Thy will be done on earth as it is , t h e "me route, to the consternation of inheaven.' Is tll9 prayer new to you r ' the Boman Catholic 'clergy, who a:e atri• "0. no!" murmured the disconsolate Vin g 11 1 1 every possible means to stop the I one, her pale face bowed upon her hands. . current. It appears that the recent con, 1 j ‘ ,, 1 say it every day—but-1 have never' cerdet . wit h th e palte, which disgusts the fell it." more intelligent Inhabitants of these cloth- The Sabbath came round, and the j ! . 'visa, Is the dominant cause of this move young widow, for the first time since her , meet " hush:hors death, went to the ho u se of On her way she met the white- haired man. and with a gentle bat subda. ed smile s be said, "I cen bear it now." A light as frith) heaven haunted on his aged laco. "Then you found his strength sufficient 1" 'Yee," she answered ; "it was a strug gle, but as soon as I felt it was right, the load fell oil." And the white-haired pastor,' as lie stood up to talk to the people, took for his text the words—.. Thy will be.done." HEAVENLY Trumt.—A class of girls, vs rying from eighteen to twelve years, were j engaged in reading the thirteenh chapter lof Luke. In the course of questioning, 1 they Were asked, "What is a parable I" 1"A story teaching heavenly truth," was i the reply. After a' few simple questions upon the story of the barren 6 g . tree, ' the inquiry was math; "Now what is the heavenly truth we are taught`!" The answer was readily given. That Godlooks for fruit on us." "And what its 'the fruit for which' he looks ?" Was naturally: the •itext question, btu the reedy and beautiful spahcalicin ,of Script ore" wee' scarcely ex pecttid, is one of the youngest in the class rose, and without a moment's hesitation repeated,. "The fruit of Ike Spirit is love, joy, peace, long sofferlog, - *gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:J.' 'T3The clergyman who had to resign tho pastorship of tho Church of the Epiphany itt Philadelphia, for .preacbing 'a political sermon, is uow officiating in National Hall in that city: His.friends are about to fs: rent a (thumb for hirn, and have, it is said, already secured $20,000. BLESS AND FREE.". DA►Y EVENING,. DECEMBER 26, 1856. MEETI24 . OF GENERAL JACKSON AND J. Q. ADAMS AT PRESIDENT MONR4rs LEVEE. The foil Wing account of the recontre between' G eral Jackson and John Q. Adams, al i 'woe's levee, the night after Adams' el ion over Jack son for the! Prisideney :the House of Represents• Lives, is tak from Petr:r Parley's "Rec. ollectioni of is Lifetime :" I shall pa over the other individuals present,. orli , noting an incident which ! ,respects the persons in the assembly, who, most I others, engrossed the thoughts oft 'shots. Mr. Adams,•the elect; and .M ;ackson, th'e defeated. It chanced in ti _ rening that these two per sons, involv 'n. die throng, approached each ether r opposite direetions, yet without kno 'lit it. Suddenly. as they were almost t 'titer, the persons around seeing what4was about to happen, by a sort .of insti4o, stepped aside and left them faceto face. Mr. Adams was by !himself. GM. Jackson had a large, 'handsome lady on his arm. They look ed at earl' other for a moment, and then Gen. Jacksoicmoved forward, and reach. i ing out his long arm, said :—" II ow do yon do, Mr. Athos f I give you my left hand, for the right, as you see, is devoted to the fair ; I hope you aro well. sir."— I All this was gallantly and heartily said Ism! thine. Mr. Adams took the General's ! hand, and said„srith chilling coldness— ; "Very well, sir: I hope Gen..lackson is I well !" It wak :curious to see the west-: ern planter, the Indian fighter, the stern: 1 soldier who had written his country's j ! glory in the blood of the enemy at New ' Orleans—geunq and gracious in tho midst 1 I of a court, while the old courtier and (11-j Mount was stiff, i rigid, and cold as a slat.' : ute ! It was till the more remarkable from the fact that, four hours before, the former had been defeated, and the latter! 43 (1 WllB a victor in. struggle for one of the: highest objects ' . human ambition. I The persona character of these two individuals was' n fact well expressed in, the chance meeting ; the gallantry, the frankness and heartiness of one, which which captivated all; the coldness, the ilia ! tato:tit. the selt-ctincentilation of the other, which repelled all. A somewhat severe, but still cute Rimiest 'of Mr. Adams char acter, says : !..q.l;toloubtedly, one great reason of his' u'AleptAttrity, was! his cold, atitipailietio manner, and the suspicion oft selftstinces it suggested. or at least added -greatly to confirm. None approached' Mr. Adams but to receue. He never' succeeded—he never tried to conciliate. I recollect atiannedote somewhat illus.: trative of this. When lie was a catitli• date for the Presidency, his political friends thought it advisable that hestiould attend a rattle show at Worcester, Mass., so as to concilate the numbers of influen tial men who might be present. Accord ingly he went. and while there malty per : VMS were introduced to him. and among the rest, a farmer of the vicinity—a man of substance and great respectability.— On being presented, he said : 'Mr. Adams, I stn verpglad to see you My wile, when she was a gal, lived in your father's family; you were then a little boy, and she has told me a great deal about You. She has very often combed your head.' CONVERMONS TO PROTES rANISM. BURSTING OF A - GlutsosTortn.—A large :grindstone in ihe ouetiine shop of _Beech & long, Gower Hydraulic, at .Hamilton, 0., burst a few days ago, without any ape parent cause, almost instantly. killing John Krebs, who was seated by it at work. The stone, which was Aqui four and a hall feet in diameter, broke into.four or five pieces. One of these struck the joists above, crushing them end the floor upwards; another .struck the foundation wall, which it "bulged" outward, nearly makiug,u_hole. arid a fiord struck the nu. fortunate man. ig.:7•Whatlellie - world ? A dream with in a dreirn.. As we'gtow older. each step is an inward waking. The youth awakes, as he thinks, from childhood ; the full grown man despit , es the pursuits of youth as visi onary ; the old man looks on man hood as # leyeriSh dream. is death the last sleep'? No ! it is the and final awakening.—Sir Walter Scott. Self you are in a hurry, never get be hind a couple that are courting: ~They vrint to make so much of each other.. that they - vi'ouldn't move quick if they were'go. ing<te ti funeral. Get behind *our jolly married folks. who have lots of children at incme, if you wish to get a long fast.— But ivis beet to he it little 'ahead "of t iither of them. • ' - •Poddy's deaoriptiou of a fiddle.can't be beat ; Ile says : • '•lt VMS as big as a turkey 'and as fat as a goose- • he turned it over on its baolr f and took a crooked stick, and dratted it itoross his belly, and, 0, St. • Patrick, how it did squats THE PROPHETS TONE MotiswwED, the Prophet of Allah, lies buried in the city of El Medinah. and all the world of Liam goes up to his, tomb. About this tomb there hangs a great deal of mystery. The vulgar story of tho sus. pended coffin, has long boon exploded, and the question, now seems to be, whether , thine is any tomb at all ? Lieut. Burton,' who recently made a pilgrimage to the ho. ly cities, in the disguise of an Afghan Der vish, furnishes the most reliahlOnfortna- Lion upon this point. . We learn from hie I narrativo that, although thousands go year ly to El Medinah to see the tooth of the . , Prophet, yet no ono over saw it 1 In one corner of the grand mosque of Coat city there is a chamber Supposed to be entirely walled. up with atone or planking, inside of which, the pilgrim is told, are the tombs of Mohammed and the first two Ca lipt's, Abubeker and Oinar. But this walled chamber is surrounded, outside,, 1 with a curtain, somewhat like u four-post! bed. No ono is permitted to , look behind, I the curtain, except tho ounuolis who at, times replace it with a new tine, and they say that a supernatural light surrounds 1 the tomb that would strike with blindness any one that would have the temerity to approach it., This story is now univer sally believed among Moslems. Outside of the curtain, leaving a narrow space between, is an iron filagree railing, which serves to keep the crowd from close contact with the tomb. After many pray. ers and prostrations the pilgrim is made to approach a small window 111 the railing through which he catches a glimpse of the curtain. The exact place of Moham med's tomb is distinguished by a large pearl rosary, and a peculiar ornament sus pended to the curtain, which the vulgar believe to be a "jewel of the jewels of Par adise." Limit: Burton„ however, however, says, to his eyes it resembled the ground stoppers of glass, used for"tho humbler sort of de' s canters ! Through the window in the rail. ing the pilgrims aro expected to throw their contributions, and the treasures of the place are kept in the narrow passage be, tweet' the railing and the curtain. Then. mount is said to be enormous, which Lieut. Burton doubts. • No one is permitted to enter this passage except upon the pay went of an.cxtruonliary sum. What there realty is behind the curtain ! seems to be ll:matter of great doubt, The, Milstein au t horities ore divided in' opinion. Some Say there is no wall behind the cur tale ; others that it covers a sq nitro build ing of black atones, in the interior of:which is the tomb, while 'others say there are three deep graves, but no traces of tombs;, and lastly, Lieut. Burton strongly suspects that the burial place of the prophet is en tirely unknown. Certainly the eunuch's I ,elll , ,y,yif the blinding light that surrounds the prophet's tomb: looks like a priestly gloss to hide defects. lot all the world of J. ilam goes up O. piny at the Prophet's tomb, and millions believe that he now lies there with bloom ing face and bright oyes, and that blond would issue from his body if wounded, rot no one dam to assert that the holy cite is suffered to undergo corruption.—Portland Transcript. THE YOUNG JAN'S LEISURE. Young mbn I after the duties of the day are over, how do you spend your eve nings? When busitiess is dull, and leaves at your disposal many unoccupied hours. ,what disposition do you make of them? I have known- and now knew, many yming men, who, if they devoted to ur.y scientific, nr professional pursuits, the - time they spend in games of chance, and loung ging in bed, might rise to any eminenae.-- You have 1.11 read of the sexton's - sun who became a fine astronomer by spending a short time every evening in gossing , at the stars after ringing the bell for nine clock Sir William Phipps, who at the age of forty live had attained the order of knight hood, and the office of High Sheriff. of New.lfigland, and GOvernor of Massaclint setts, learned to read. and write in his eighteeeth year, of a shipearpenter, in Bos• Lou. William Gifford,. the great editor of the Quarterly, was an apprentice to a shoemaker, and spent his leisure hours in study. And because he had 'neither pen nor paper, slate nor pencil, Ito wrought out his problems on smooth loather, with a blunt awl. David Rittenhouse, the American As tronomer, Wien a plow-boy, 'was observed _to have covered his plow and fences with figures and calculations. Jtunes Ferguson, tile great Scotch Astronomer, learned to read by himself, and Mastered the ele. meuts of Astronomy while a shepherd's boy in the fields, by night. 'And perhaps it is not too much to say that if the hours wasted in idly eputpany, iu conversatior. a: the tavern, were only spent in the pursuit of knowledge, the dullest apprentice at r ouy of our shops m might become an' intelhgent member . of society, and ti fit person for most of our civil offices.' By such a (tours° 1 the - rough covering of, many a youth is laid aside; ; and . , their ideas., instead of, being I confined to local subjects and' teclinicali-j ties, might range the wide fields of urea. I don ; and other stars from among the young men of this city might be added tol the list of worthies tbat Ltr . l3 . our I country with bright yet mellow light... Rev. Dr. Murray. ' ItrZr - ablother," said a little boy, the oth et• day. I've got suol► a bad headache and sore throat too." "Haie you my dear'?" asked the mother•; "well 'you shall ,have some medicine." "It's no matter," re• totted the shrewd urchin, "I've . .got euu, btit they don't hurt ine." FOUND GuivrY.—..David Ridenour, tried at Hsgerstown, Md., for • killing Hiram Popp, has been convicted of murder in the second degree. p:7l. Chandler, a well known .Repub. , - flout merchant of Detroit, is, mentioned as a eanilidato to sueeeed - Genv Cass in the Senate. ' • ' ' A TRIBUTE TO HEN R • CLA.Y. usit,„The following tribute to the bunny.- i"Harry and gallant t he ;West," was paid by Hon. Thopiati F.' .Slarshall during tho recent political.' excitement. u nottgli that Mr. ' .1l 'the speaker, and Kentucky's idol the sUbject - t• “Every one knows that the various sub. jinn; of the Texas;bmindary, tite admission of Califuroia ' the: territorial Asgiotzlition. of Utah and Now .Melieo, the recovery: of fugitives Sieves who had escaped from their . territory to States whoio'constitutions did not allow slaiery, and the abolition of the sluve trade -in the district of Columbia. wore sought by • M r., Clay to. be . united in a single bill and passed us ono tudasure.. In . this form the bill, ,as it 1118 termed,-failed.' But in the shape of sever. al acts on each separate subject, the'princi. pies contended . for bi.3lr., Clay were a ; dopted and became a part of the' legislation of that year. Why the bill reported •by himself was defeated and dismeinbered; yet ' in the shape of; . separate ,acts, adeptly' almost exact accordance with his wishes, is . not for me to inquire. lf it 'Were design 7 od on the part of some Senators, to deprive the dying lender of the honors. Of his fait battle,. it was a vain hope. In.the..publlir , mind, and in common parlance,they, are still ussociated. In, hiswry they will be_ known as Mr. 'Clay's compromitte, Thep are g:nuped and termed the Compromise of 1850, in the Democratic - platform, eieri the Kansas and Nebraska, acts adopt tbrr common netnonelature; and instead'Of re. citing, the several tuts by .theit.titlosi call them the Compromise. , • • Phe friends of Mr.. clay ineditate the construction of a motintinini, to Mark the spot where re pose the - rem ai nit of that' frail tenement, which nnee:held 101 l is fiery rend,. It will be houorable to them, and will form:. to , ,graceful .ornatnent to Alta green woods. which surround the city' of which ho' had himself been so 1(34.00 - living britamont, but.it will be useless to hint orto hie fame. He trusted neither himself nor his, fame to mechanical 'hands or perishable materials "Elzegit monumentuw parenniui'Mre."— They may• lay their pedestals:Of , granite; they may roar their, polished columns they pierce and, flout the Skieii'; they may cover 'their .marble'pillare all over With the, ,blazonry of Ii is deeds, .the..trophieit 'of , his. tritimphinit with images of his form. wrought by tho "butiningmt 'hands—it matters not—he is not there. The' pritiiiiietteagle:has burst . the bars, and soared away from etrifi, and conflict, and calumny. ' .Ho is not dead —ho tru .ctut not the life eternal in yon other world of which religiett teach es,p> but here on earth he livoi the life, the'; life which men call fame, Abet' life the, hope of whiolt forms the Rolace, of high, ambition, which -sustains, . the ,hrove and wise and good, the chlinpions of truth and human kind, throunh all 'their labors— that life is his heyondjill ehttnee,Or 011140. growitig, expansive,.iineueltleso as titnc,,aud hutuatt memory. , flu needs do desi'red none. :It was thOillifige of his Soul he desired to perpetuate, and he Wei scrimp:. ! ed it himself in, lints of flame '' . upon the souls of his countrymen. Not all the mar.' bles of Carina, fashioned by the chisel of Angello into the mimicry of breathing life,' could.convey -to the ,senses a likeuees so., perieet of himself .as that which ho hue left up3u the minds of men. HO carved his own statue—he built his. own .rooltu. meat. In. youth, ho the base broad us his whole country, that it might well sustain the mighty structure he had de-, signed. He 'labored heroically 'through' life on the collos.sal shaft. In. 1830, the -I first half of the nineteenth century, ho'pro-' pored the healing measures which bear his name as the capital, well propeltinned and in perfect keeping with the now fin-' ished column, crowned his work, saw that it %VIP good and durable, sprang to its lof ty and commanding summit, and , gazing. ' mpots.tbat lone height upon a horizon which ombraced all coming .time, with. eternity for his book 'grottud, and the eyes of ihe whole world rivited, upon' his. solitary fig ure, consentedthere and thus to die." THE ACTION OPT. LIONT UPON THE GROWTII- 07 'VIII , ttooTs OF licanre.--- The action of light 'upon the-growth Of the leaves and steins of plants, and the attrac tion of the leaves toward it, is well known. 'hat flowers, leaves and stems turn to the light, is seen by anyone Who keeps 'plants in a whitlow. • The action of • light, hew ever., upon the roots is less .kitown,•!al though itis an equally iniiPirtant subj ect. Hitherto the tandem:ie.; ,of • the rooPt to grow downward liar been attributed to The influence of.gravitatitin, the attraction of the ground, fromi ,whith the refits derive their' nourlahininit but light proilueee 'a &till greater itilluegce.• The roots 'shun; the light in the ,same -proportion- es the. Stems seek, it. speriuttiels Ilan' proved' this Moat' itatisfacierilly, A deep, Stir wits taken, theroughly impervious to I , iglit'," and upon a' wire gratimCat the tipper' mad .al the inside, peas.,ain. 'eress•seed ..were sown in wet moss. At 'the lower end of the" boi,a small , hole was ., maile,-ihrliugh which : the sun-tight was thruwn by minus of a reflector pineed underneath. As, the, seeds began, to vegetate, the rents grew tip ward, and the leaves 'than ward, 167 aril the-liglit. - 4 ' • '• -- • ' Irr , ;Tinte is money I . ! Of ,course it is; else limy could ynu spend it ? oz:r'Who is the strongest•' !siva ? lle that can lift. his micas, ovely day withoat ssinstauce. • IrrA woman may laugh too uittch ; it is ouly'a comb that eau affor. o show its tooth. " , 'Eugla for the' tof his ealth, More evil truths are diaeoe tt by the corruptions of the heart than by, Ow Fein traticine of the whit!. rDr. !calla hat lek West Indies for the lieu, TWO - DOLLARS' PER . NUIVIBER ,4:2. 'ISRELIVIC .EXPLOSION RUOD,EB•. Tho Atlantic brought ua,a brietannounoe4 • meet that an awful explosion had mama iu the : island of Rhodes by which, about nearly five hunared l ives , were lost. • The Press° d'Oricet. publishes A letter which gives some of the details of the destruction of a part of.the town of Rhodes by' the ex., plosion of the powder magaaine "In the afternoon of the 16th of Novena * . bee, Rhodes was visited by a most violent thunderstorm, and several houses were struck by lightning and more or 'leas inju. red. Buddeolyi a tremendous explosion wait heard ; the ground shook as from the effeet of an earthquake' and windows were smash:- ed iu every direction. The explosion was followed by two others and a dense black smoke arose. It was a fter a time ascertain ed that the lightning had fallen on the church of at. J ohn, and had penetrated in. 'to the subterranean vaults underneath, used as adepot for gunpowder, and in whioh an implant° quantity of that commodity had recently been placed. It is impossible io depict the horror of the•scone. Not house was left standing in the whole qua. ter of the city near the church, and that building itself was completely levelled with the ground. The quarter was the richest and handsomest in the town, and not a ves tige of itiow remains: Disfigured bodies Were lying about on.. the ground, and the groans of the dyidg were , beard on every . aide— 'prompt and immediate anis tame tieen given, there' is no doubt that teeny—ayes might have been saved; but ve iny one was thrown into each consternation by-the auddeeneas of the , catastrophe, that. but few 'had presence of mind enough left to, undertake the painful task. Night wen arrived,- and frotu,some strange motives 'of ' safety, which are inexplicable under such • circumstances, the gates were closed, and,q the °predate for assistance were for tt time suspended. Mr. Campbell, the Eng lish , Consul; haVing assembled some work tuen, , inid the gates again opened, and' pro- emitted to the scene of the disaater,and, as .well as, they, could, cleared away the rains, ; iurtieularly at the places where the groans , of still living wero - the moat die, tinotly beard. This work was one'of great; difficulty, for the rah fell in snob terrain' thatit was impo'ssible to keep a torch burn: , , J• At,deylight next morning more effieleut . Means were organized. Several deed hod-, , ies 'were gdt out, and young girls of eighteen, and a child of noven, wore after wards extricated alive. These and three or Pour others, who were saved on the previous night, ere all that survive out of a papule tiou of between 400 or 500, who were In the quarter at the time of the explosion:— Only about ono hundred', and fitly of the bodies have'yet been found, as they are alt so deeply buried under the rulus.i Only two Chriatiaue wore killed, the , quarter be ing inhabited' by Turks. The family , of the " Mel lliuditri Purley Effendi, composed of eighteen persons, have all perished. ' mother, his wife and his daughter ' were found about 500 yards from their house. Some idea of the force of the explosion may be formed from the fact that a barge in the harbor was sunk by a quantity of 'stones falliug'en her, and beating a hole' thmgh - her bottom, and by a sailor being killed by • a stone strikiug him in the'-head at a dip. tam of more than belt a y mile front the spot. trona the Philadelphia Neva of Tucaday. A Cel‘ic Riutratha.—Xesterday morning bright and early, Patrick Mooney, not yet sober, who the night before, quite surly, filled the street* with 'noises loony, bad a bearing by the Mayor, sitting on the stool ofjustatm I "May it plase the 'Court, yer lnior"—said Patrick, with a faint voice " -"Wbat's the dimige I've bin doite—that those lager-headed spalpoene—these star- coated men with billies, should seize bowld a daunt feller, like mesa, who Blends de. fore yo—drag him to the City watob-bowto, where they forced him in the bleak hole, where he couldn't get a cracker or a ha'• pence worth of whaskey Faith, an'sbure, jest now tall ye : I was out to call on Biddy--Biddy dear, my heart's true darlint, —Janne on a big black lamp post, where went to Bemoan lter. By any sowl, the thing' went nidely, till these spalpeette came and seized me I. I had caught a fat young pig, sir, tbiukin'•it a fine fiutina, placed its head beneath my surtout , and commenced to chaw its tail, sir, squalin' music out to Biddy, when theist spalpeens came and sei zed me; seiked tue roughly by the collar, placed the bloody nippers on me, and the pig run home like thunder. Now, per bon- .= or, whet is the Ulan° l' Be as slay tieyou - can, ; for in knew I hate the cativo, as 1' litop these dirty spalpeeus, who have brought me here before yo. Igo in for °coat justice, di inyerasie mon and measures, Irish peraiiils, pigs slid vrhaskey If ye'll just be airy with me,' by the spirit of Bt. Pathrick, l'll not lean against a . lamp-post • whore these spalpeenat eves can see me, I'll not Lite a duotut pig's tail for a sereoade to Biddy, nod, he jabere, vote for ye, if ye iver ruu for Bayer.' . ' But the )1004 . stern, and rigid, told poor ,Pairlok be, should fiue him—fine him for unruty 'eondiet. "Oh, aware Biddy :" Patrick ahonted, "coon and pay the woney for mei or yet- . lover, PathriA Mooney,. will, I),o4mai shore, prison, where be eatinot-the ?nip of Irish whaskey to coussie him la • the hour of tritiolation Yr,' • A Lurk; dhsticiutt.—,A blind band or.' gaols), who !want About tho aroma of. Rochester,N. Frith a pale, sickly daughter, fallen heir to sa estate la .1 Wales, raid to'bi worth $1 000000. A prominent legal - firm in that city Is now tit gligediu making out the necessary *lsm ilYnter Wtaiher.—At Dutrairro, /004 it is stated, !flow Nos fallen to formousal depth= in' many plaoes drifted for miles , depth of fourreem or fifteen fait. 2%. stream, are holm over hard owl the testae pus oyes' theta with as- ism* , safety is gloush the ix: uii grsuits rock.