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v 'eM Z MYPnU-OSOPnr.""- in " fathfr? leWttolaftS of their lutttvitvi to srfttln
.oM;.a?ifnH-nVy;.j,V? i.i--i. hna .n-ni.ti gcieuti worship -their Crentor according: to
What though tLo suE50er4."v-ju? rr.iJis-
si jiibuA uotS4 h WMkhtui-j'-.i.i
,ifv? Learns nsiho lishti,! h,t j
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God knows bow dorp thry l:o,
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hto"r.-':I Tn-th?TtWs.
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.-oIkj'(o Ruff Jt..r., ' . .
'u''hWv2Afpvver h. :'T-!.'; iscciition nntl tyranny lVonV that moment desi
lykc ctiililsc'od'a timj If? rbynj-: "r .'may .it please J"bnr worships, permit m lotn
.Vji ailVr HFPV-if i a i.J-j quira'ouce more, for whr.t are theso men 'about
3-;.--Ay,i nlM-Brf aa'i.cjiwpsr.j Lv: j to to tried ii Thu paper says for pleaching
';'tLfV1-:JItr:'; ;---;-v;;1Ueatioun'd Lis' head. The court and -ar.di--sT
a :VTr-'- '. ' . ,'o i enee were now wrought p to the. msiit intense
-.ct ' float on' tftJ ; - . -t ' ' - " ; pitch of excitement. The face of Hie prose-
E'en to tho last,
;',.'1.fW'Klf pyttiRR,.? ' J
'z?f?
-a. '!-? i ff.15c,5;".9-.v'n? t
- .; fSaUb tny r liiioiophy . . ,
? r4ik3 ,f our icCkn.:,! :? --'l
ivffdafor nye; - -"
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Kvrc?'. r:iiicifS ncre? - s :.
v' flsy wKshlad : .
,f!Bit2p?y tl.gnjht or drsaia, .
VJV ,lrf'Jro a"day arlieft boana, ,
i !: LtiLiuili f fior,tl3 air eamn ;5s'..
1 t;e loio tfU-tlc.
4; :yt"C. jiili taaseii.i; paS bycTiT
t-:5.tat- $ tf,fl,fe.tiVf- r-i ".lit
I
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.-!. -C en tho'ih tbey f .me. J" . I
f . -..
. yrom the Ciiptist lic?iisterj:-
'lvlti?JiICK ITlUfllYJ
.1 !.! Engirt, urcli'Iiiviiyi, .t je n ;altii-f
M byaiv iw.VtiInitV-l-'tv.tu ;fj ail UC4 es-;
t2r4Ssh:n?n f !f:t- 'exceedingly :in
io4ut t;Kiir C-t;'crse!t'?: W' prosecution
' tlf-s,? syit'a ;pf 'cjv"ci'ily!i thivo; Bapit
cldryait hal liecn ' l-ldic'id,i .,Fyudericka-
Tin'ri, for frenching th'-' Jspel -of ta. Scn-tl
jfjod contrary' tytXe'l.Mule'"nenrj-;j hearing
arrvHcc in defeiic.-of ihe- op)es-i Jl -en- w13 cape,-j t() the bar in . 1826. . In the same
Th-A'onrf,'-'beii?'nnkiifctrB-t-i: present '; j -,8 Ks!tiy on Milton." ..appeared in the
. 't'sve tl.;j-ifi.af to baf-whiie the fwRcV- -rit?dVibnrgh-Revi.w and out of Lord rtfccn
t..i-w;s beiR3:'.J 1:, 3'l9 'jIrO 'Jeffrey's ndinir.it ion of that paper, a -we.
-Vt'; th Jur wKtil tUfciJuall:5? v.-ia ,: finished, an intimate friendship. Macan'.ay, - visiting
ftlij lv f gsH ttorney Jiai concluded some Scotland soon afterward, went the circuit with
"jvm-iiks in defeVce "-bf fhe pros'ectitroihti, pjfr; Jofirfty. : His connectiou with tho "Edin
he sirose,.reaca;j2yJi! hij'-1 .for the p?per,; i'.bnrgh Heyiev.- Ikts continued at iutervals ov
a iiMfii'ii mora-'ceBctJ(ny, proceeded .with jer'slnec. "' '. .'.! ''
"fi'e j!i)!cvir!g 6i'??eh :': - 1 r'.:r'J t.-nj) tha Whig administration Mr, Macajila'y
.' .V'M.y ' il 'please d' wufH ipj I 'think l: j? wis appointed commissioner of IJnkrnpts. He
4ter.r read by 4Uet i.rosUtor,7a? T ' eatered 'commenced . his ' parliamentary career about
- tMs'l-.tvt r.'J, 'lh:pjHsr I now hold in my J:.'id. i. Same period, as member for Colne in the
iri have r'liilv :tirnlcrstoo.T the' King's :at-i k-reform Parliament of. 1SC2, and' again for
itlpuly of iho'coiimy'has framed an j'ndibttneiit
ofor the purpose-i'f arr.igniitjr and : punuslung
-toy ifnri's')nmnt, ' three iuoiTensiro' -persons
tlWli ir of this court, for
a crrroe
of
i gre.U jnagnit'udjUsI disturbers t?f the'1 pence.
-Here he read. Did I bear. aa . expression as if
a crime, that these men, hvhom your worslups
:.rrf atiA'it to try for misdemeanor; arc charged
Vw'itij-Tr-wliat .and.oonti p u ijig 'witt A loH- apf
lenan tone, '-pcejicUng thagolsplof Souf :coq.neSt ff , thc GovernoV-general," Lord "Wil-
' Qk1 V.' ' PatiRiBg 'amidst -the most.- profound j Ham1 Bentick, he became President of the
" "'silence aDl1fcrtthieSS.Wpnishm of five appointed to frame. a penal
17 waved the rapctjrreu'n'es round his hoad,1 coda for India; and the principal provisions
;tfvbenj lij'mg ii handstand -eyes. tp..leaverf,jipf this code'have'b'ecn attributed to him. O'.ie
; ;jvjtW'poctTr;! ad expressive energy,-he? qx iFof its enactments .particular, was so unpop-
v$itfaiv&ilYsxt ?'' :'Jhe '.cxclaniatiftt f ular among rho Khglinh inbalitauts, as to re
Itthe VvrflVeliaSfVqmlie -.au'dicnccyrece'lvi or the '-Black Act."i fit.
iVTrrrhoweri'n -.MrilenVy resnmedvj . ; laboiisheii the-right; of appeal from the Local
'-it'3fy:it'y!e.'ts yb'nr worships t: Da a day liKC Courts to tlic , Supreme Cpurt at the rrcsiden
'f iMs-Lyikhn trli'tlf' is about to break her fetters ! cy, hitherto exclusively enjoyed by Europea
' 2. j .hia-ikmd are about to be' aroused ' to I ans, nd put them on the same footing with
UsiaimnataBdMi
-e Volte of 'oppress! dn,'tliat Uas-reached the wil- peal to the highest Provincial Courts. 'Incbn
aerness"orXnierlca,"and the' ""nnatnral alli-'f-vt-nience and delay of justice had been caused
H'lZsi. "- r' Vliastic'al d 'civil power, fare ' j,y the original practice, even when India was
.''-about to bo dissolvedat such a perio'd,.when
t-.irfiiKK-fw ir.f - Miseiynceja -.'about, toi
rawakeroni he.r
V.-iJdie reason' of, sach: charges as I, pmt .exhibited
-H here to; day - in ;tiiia -indictment J."j '.Another
tarful p'ansej -"while? th5 -speaker 1 alternately
nfastjifs sharp piercing ' eyes '' upon' the ' courf
,-t aitd jthe prisonei-. and resumed , "If I.aninof
iideceivedT' according to the ,eonicnts of the pa
'',TrCTJT Trbflr'.bold.in oiiy hand,' these men are ac-
'-'r'rt pteacbirg. theljjospeV of the
oon oi
i : - ( i J i
pause,
vM&K, iiga'n L wstved th paper around ,his
n;,1v..vilT.b:la dAf:per hnpresston was made on
ihs XiStirt Pesuhang" hi'speccij : :"May
MjvorsbsJLIrearW periods ip-
it .
T- ..fn-a'-avhea yeurnintioa acd do,
f - v j ! y, vy-u-iT lig ue.
laser the himvan char-
ikdl rfir, Jilut man stnits un-.irr wc igu vi me
')nnQtVr' i.n:'di'cooes his servile' atnect
' :'lave) 'h licks the'h:.ud that fPes him' i he
r" ..ImV-i r; 'i'iifi t--' '.he mandates of .
Iheespot ; and in tUUiZ
-- v. t . -. . . , . . ' nnnnat?e.
. ""-iBiwrsw perpetna ' '- '
Buttnty it please your worships. -suVX'
ay
I ' l : 1
2uiiMssM'ityTf Froailfcbtt period when our
L-' '..? ' : ., i .,' ' -3 ; -
:Wjre Itrokn and . iieavvp -.UecrcpcL tt nian
shonld'ho" free free to i'wuj-sliip' Gol x.ccor-
t6h6 Di6lV. Vttcro'MV not for" tins f Vrin.
jugite'thii Oe :vrid, if )ve, -tJsir tuisprhig,
) riiiist-3trirb- oppressed and persecuted. But.
the gospel "of f oirr-Siviwur to Adam's fallen
race-". And ta tones of thunder lie "exclaimed
tWhai't hoi-c ' they .viol icd ?"'., YiUUi tie
thiid timo, in a low, digni(i,'d manner, he lift
ed hi3 eves to heaven, and -waved tlio indict-
cu.tliij; sttorney was pallid ivA njlhistly, smd
j ho lpt,carcdanconscious:'th:it.i'.ia whole frame'
with alarm; while thejud-c, in a
f .tretfetilonroio, pal an end to tho scene, now
j l.ceoWing excis5ively painful, hy the authora
'' lis . dechiritloa, -.cherii Jlschargo these
uii.
te "fetch of T. B. Iacaul?.y. '
-Thomas Iisl-NGT05 dACAir.Avis the son cf
i -Zacbarv MacanNy. well known as the friend of
-j Wllberfeice, 'ac,' iovgh himself an African
racrchaat, em'i' of the uiost ardent abolifioni.-t
! of slavery.. In 181S. T. 13. ITacaulay became
la member 'of Trinity College, Cambn lnce,
where he took his Bachelor's degree in 122.
lie "distinguished, himself as A 'student, -havjng
obtained a scholarship, twice gained theChan-
s medal for English verse, . and also
. .
Kaiue,i
the. second Craven Scholarship, tho
jjCTiieSt iionor in classics which the Umver
f sity confers. Owing o his dislike of'Lahe
iics, he-' did not compete for honors at gra
Tjniver-
iuation,. but nevertheless he obtained a Fcl
low,shipnt the October competition open to
graduates of Trinity, which he appears to have
revlined before his snbssqnent departure for
ia'd-ra.'. He 'd jvoted much of his time to the
fUpion5 Debating Sociely, where he was reck
oned an do'pient speaker.
' Mr. Ma'caulav stndied at Lincoln's Inn, f.nd
Lce!s la lbotj lU which tims he was secreta-
VV t'o. the 'India JJoarrt Jns seat was, However,
soon relin'Mshcd, i'or in the same year ho
was appointod Member of the Supreme Coun
cil in Calcutta,--under the .East India Compa-j
ny's hew charter. ; ' '
t Arriviag-in Calcutta,'. Ill :;;rddtibbv. 183 Ij
Mr. Macaulay assumed an important f lust in
addition to his seat at the Council. At the
j closed against Europeans in general, 'but such
practice was obviously : incompatible with the
rihts and tronortv of the natives under the
ij -
new system of opening the country to gener
presort. This mgaSnre- of equal justice, how
over, exposed Mr. Macaulay, to whom it was
universally attributed, to outrageous personal
attacks in letters, pamphlets, and . at public
raeetings
,n ThOiVarious reforms and changes instituted
bv Lord W.' ' Bentinck : and Lord Auckland,
'lyera advocated in general by Mr. Macaulay.
die returned to.Englaud m 1 . , ; -
- Mr Macaulay was elected member for Ed
ihbnr"-hf on the liberal interest in 1S30 ; and
bring 'appointed Secretary at u ur,u re-
. w ..'til--.'.. . ITT. j . 1. .
lieWd the following year, bu -o"',.--
1 geneial election in
1811. ho review of 'bis
political career fsircre iHtended ; although in
i relation to literature, it should be mentioned
i:that he ormosed Mr, Sergeant lalloura s copy
Ri-ht Bill, and was the priucipal agent lu do-
f ' i ' .' en'oalrpf ' he' usually
disnlavs extehiVve information,' close reason
inz. and elooaence ; and has recently bid fair
to ri.vaif the great'esf naioes "tsmoh? onr EngTi;
! '. i i .-' 1 i '! - : . ' ;
Jorators." His conversaflon Irs p'riyata is ei'jal
1y hiTlant and ihsir'uctive!.' ' '
' tj '?.Iacaulay,1 niay. fairly he .regarded as the
ifirst'crfticaT. and historical 'vsnvist of the time.
It is not meant tp he inferred that there are no
other writers who disnlav'as much nnderstan
ding and research as great, perhaps greater
capacity of appreciating excellence, as nuch
acuter.ess and hnnior, and a more subtle pow
er of exerting';,' or of mciisuring, the 'erorts' oi
the iiilcUe'ct niil pha imagination, besides pos
sessliignn eijnal mastery of language in their
own peculiar style ; hut there is no other wri
ter, .who combine's so large an amount of all
those (juah'tics, with the addition of ama:;t;ry
of stylej at once highly classical and most ex
tensively popular. "His style is classical, he-,
cause it is so correct ; and it is popular he
cansri it must he Inte'ligil.le v.ithout efiort1 to
every educated umlerstandiug.
PcreiTssldii or -Fulminating Powder.
If the word - "diabolical" can be. properly
applied to any substance that ' chemical arti
fice has produced, it eprtainly belongs to fhis,
which from the terrific power and force of its
explosion, deserves that' tit;'. . Tho extraor
dinary power of fulminating mercury, or, as it
i3 commonly termed, percussion powder, pro
hibits its use as a projectile, because we -have
not mr.ie any cannon capable of withstanding
its force, in any quantity at .'once. Sufficient
to jiroject a ball or a bomb-shell, would com
pletely shatter a cannon on the instant of ex
plosion. It is a strange mixture that produ
ces fulminating powder, such r. combination
&s none but a true chemist would think of ma
king. Fulminate is prepared with nitric acid,
(that is, spirit of wine,) and mercury. The.e
substances are the 'rcr;sentativos of the at
mopp'.vric, the-1 atonic, and "min:-rjt portions
f the world; and although they are here uni
ted, they bave little affinity to each other, and
nro waiting to Sy asunder at the slightest call.
The fall of a feather upon pure fulminating
powder will cause it to explode. We would
tlescribe the method of Its manufacture did we
not fear to do so, lest some - of our ingenious
readers s'jculd attempt to . produce it. Xone
but persons of the-greatest experience should
ever touch it. ' Not long ago the principal op
erator of Apothecaries' Hall, a man extreme
ly cautious, and of profound experience, was
shivered to peices while drying an ounce of it.
As a means of. igniting gunpowder, it has
proved in warfare of great service, as it addx
to the force of the powder. Eight and a half
parts of powder fired with percussion caps are
quite equal in force to ten parts of gunpowder,
fired in the old way by means of the "gun and
flint.' ' One ounca of fulminate is more 'tha:v
onongh for charging .a .thousand caps. In
charging the caps, tho fulminate is mixed
with a quarter of its weight of water and half
ts weight of gunpowder; (he whole is then
ground together with a wooden muller upon a
marble slab. Percussion powder; like gun
powder, owes its terrific force to the concen
tration into a solid form of the elements of air
n the immediate juxtaposition of combusti
ble materials, which, when fired,, assume in
stantaneously the air, shape and bulk, which
is, by the licit developed at the instant of ex
plosion, fearfully increased in size. All sub
stances that co;iain a great deal of oxygen,
will explode, more or Ichs when ; in contact
with -combustibles; although not included in
the category of warlike stories. Thus, ..at
Gateshead, during the late fire there, dreadful
explosions took .place, although no gunpow
der was present. ; Some ; of the; warehouses
contaided vat qxiantitiea of nitrate, of .soda, a
substance of timilar composition to nitrate of
potash (saltpetre.); The napha and the- sul
phur being mixed with , this formed a com
pound precisely to although not identical with,
gunpowder. ; Chemists are however, acquaint
ed with many substances far more explosive
than fulminate, such as chloride of nitrogeon,
a pound of which would annihilate the strong
est fort in the world. By the time the chem
ists have taught us -to control this frightful
power, let" n:s hope that the peace of nations
u til invfl rendered it useless. Scientific Jimr-
lean.
-. . . Pretty--Very-
"In nassina: up the street the other day,'
says the FalLKiver Monitor, "we met two lit
tie girls of seven or eight summers, who seem
cd to be enjoying vacation finely, and all to
themselves. . Passing through the streets un
mindful of what was going on, they seemed as
happy as two larks, and looked as beautiful as
they seemed happy. Stopping at "one of pur
.it,.4i- divrw nno nf tlioni made, a ourchaso of
buuuj --. .
some caudy-i-a large nice . looking stick and
breaking it gave her companion half, saying
as she lid it . with the utmost simplicity, tm
aginable ''Here, Mary,, you may have tue
largest half, as you are tne smallest." iear,
artless child, what a lesson of unselfishness was
contained in thy simple words! God bless you,
and enable you through life to manifest the
same gentle and sweet spirit, "Hero Mary,
you may have the largest half, as you are the
smallest" What teachers children sometimes
are!" :' . . - ' - ' ' ' '
A"Smaxl Potato." A sweet potato has
i. in -Rnft'tnnrf. conntv. Va., this
lWUL IttlJbU 1 . '
season, which is said to measure five feet eight
inches in length, and nine inches in diameter
i All Who -remember how' the 'heti "fever
raged when' it first broke or.t hereabout, will
apj)feciate a story related in the Flag of Our
Union, by the''01d fJn, concerning one Sap '
Green, a chicken fancier. Sap was fairlj- wild
m the subject of chickens, and snapped up cv-'
;c'ry- thing cin the shape of a big fowl which
came' along,: let' it ' cost what it might. One
day a 'sailor-man' came along with an egg he
lad brought from the 'E-atingics.';. lid called .
it the 'Gigantic Pagoda Hen' said they grew
as 'big as all out. of J doors: and wanted forty;
dollar3 for it.. - -The forty dollars were instant
ly paid, and the 'Old UV goes on to say :
O, how he watched the egg hatching ma
chine while that extraordinary egg was under
going the process. He begrudged the time
exacted by eating and sleeping, but his vigils
were rewarded by the appearance in due time
of a stout young chick, with the long legs that
are- proof of eastern blood. The bird grew
apa'cs indeed, almost as rapidly as Jack's
bean stalk, or the prophet's gourd. But the
saiior was "mistaken in one thing it ate vero
ciously. . Moreover, as it increased in size and
strength, the Pagoda exhibited extradinary
pugnaclty. ' It kicked a dozen of comrades to
death in one night ! It even bit the hands of
the feeder. Soon it was . necessary to confine
it in a separate' apartment. ..Its head soon
touched the ceiling. What a pity it had no
m.ita !
Sp wrote to a correspondent in Calcutta to
ship hirn two pair of the Great Pagoda birds,
witiiout regard to cost,
ed the growth of his
, Meanwhile he watch
single spe-cinfbu. He
kept its existence a profound secret. It was
under lock and key, in a separate apartment,
lighted by a very large window in the roof.
Sp"s man of all work wheeled daily two bu-.-.l.oU
of corn and a barrel of water to the door
of the apartment, and Green fed it when no
one was lookiug. Even this supply was scan
ty, but out of justice to his family Sap was
was compelled to put the monster bird on al
lowance. 'Poor thing!", he would say when
1?jf.iw" the" ilreatufe devouring broken glass
and even bolting stray nails and gravel stones
"it cuts me to the soul to see it reeuced to
such cxtremiy. But Its eating me out of hopse
and : home. Decidedly that sailor must have
been deceived about being moderate feeders.'
When the bird had attained the enormous
altitude of six feet, the proud proprietor sent
for the celebrated Dr. Ludwig Ilydrarchoa, of
Cambridge, to inspect him and furnish him with
a scientific description, wherewith he might
sstcnith his brethren of the Poultry associa
tion. Iho Doctor came and was carcuulv ad
mitted by Green to the presence of the Great
Pagoda Hen. The bird was not accustomed
to the sight of strangers, and began to mani
fest uneasiness and displeasure on seeing tho
man of science. It lifted first one foot and
then then the other, as if it were treading on
hot plates. 'Hi J hi!', said Green, soothingly,
'Pagy, Pagy, come now ; be quiet, will you ?'
'Let mo out, I say !' 'I never knew it to act
so before,' said Green, fumbling at the lock.
whirl ! a rush ! a whizzing of the wings
of the bird was down on the doctor treading
on his heels, and picking at the nape of his
neck. 'Pagy ! Pagy !' supplicated tho owner.
But the' angry bird would not listen to reason,
and Sap received a thump on the head for his
pains. And now both rushed for the opening
door, stumbling and falling prostate in their
eagerness to escape. The monster bird dan
ced a moment, ou their prostrate bodies, and
thendarted forth.' It rushed through a cou
ple"of grape houses carrying destruction In
its progress. .It coursed, through the flower
beds, ruining the bright parterres. '
" Mrs. Green, who was walking in the garden
with her child, saw the horrible apparation,
and stood paralyzed with terror. In an instant
she was thrown down and trampled under foot,
shrieking and clasping her infant in her arms
Green beheld this last atrocity, and his conju
gal affection overcame his love of birds. He
caught up his fowling-piece and fired at the
ungrateful monster i the shot ripped up some
of its tail feathers, but filled to inflict a mor
al wound nothing short of a field-piece
could produce an impression on that living
mass, Away sped the fowl1 to the railroad
track, down which It run with headlong speed
But its career was brief an express train,
coming up in the opposite direction, struck it
full in front, and rushed on, scattering feath
ers, wings, and drumsticks In the air.
'Tell me, doctor,' gasped Green, 'what do
you think of my great Pagoda V 'Great Pa
goda!' said the professor in "indignant dis
dain. .'That was a Stiuthio Greek, Strolhous
in other words, an ostrich ! If yon hadn't be
longed to the genus 7sz'uas, you'd have known
that, without asking me. 'Good morning Mr;
Green.' 'Where is the monster ?' cried Mrs.
Green. 'I believe the poor child is killed
O, Sapl I didn't expect this of yon ! 'Be
quiet, my dear, said Green, it was only an
experiment.'
"'An experiment! Mr. Green !' retorted the
lady sharply, 'your wife and child nearly kil
ledj and you call it an experiment ! Nurturing
ostridges to devour your offspring ! 1 wonder
you don't take to : raising elephants !' 'Xo
danger of that, Maria,' replied her husband
meekly. - '
. I have seen the elephant. .And to-morrow
I shall send my entire ttock to . tho; auction
room Shanghies, Chittagongs, Brahma Poo
Iras, Cochins, Warhens and Warhoos. They'ro
idee birds," great layers, small caters, but they
Gold and Cornan Eloquent Parallel. J
I The Hon. Edward Everett was a leading
speaker at, the recent Agricultural Fair in
Boston, and in tho course, of his remarks, he
made the following contrast between the gold
of California and the gold of .Agriculture:'
"The grains of California gold are dead in
organic masses, How they got into the grave;
between what mountain millstones, whirled by
elemental storm-mills on tho bosom of oceanic ' ,
torrents, the auriferous ledges were ground to
powder ; in what Titanic hands the coveted
grains were sown broadcast in the placers, hu
man science can' but faintly conjecture. We
only know that those grains have within them
no principle of growth 5r reproduction, and
that when the crop was to be put in, Chaos
must have, broken up the soil.. How different
-the grains of our Atlantic gold, sown by the
prudent hand of man, in the kindly alteration
of seed-time and harvest, each curiously, mys
teriously organized hard, horny, seeming lifa
lcss on the outside, but wrapping up in the In
terior a seminal gerni, a livlngprinciple- Drop
a grain of California gold into the ground, and
there it will lie unchanged to tho end of time,
the clods on which it falls not more more cold
and lifeless. Drop a grain of corn, of our
blessed corn, in the ground, aal lo! a mystery.'
In a tew days it softens, it swells, it shoots up
wards, it is a living thing. It is yellow itself,
but it sends "up a delicate spire, which comes
peeping, emerald green, through the soil; it ex
pands to a vigorous stalk, revels in the air
and sunshine, it arrays itself more glorious
Solomon In its broad, fluttering, leafy robes,
whose sound, as the west wind whispers thro'
them, falls as pleasantly on- tho husbandman's
ear as the. rustic of his sweetheart's garment,
still towers aloft, spins its verdant skeins of
vegetable floss," displays ' its dancing tassals
surcharged with fertilizing dust, and at list ri
pens into two Cr three magnificent batons like
this (an ear of Indian corn)," each of which is
studded with hundreds of grains of gold, eve
ry one possessing the same wonderful proper
ties as tho parent grain, every one instinct
with the same marvellous reproductive pow
ers. There are seven hundred and twenty
grains on the ear which I hold in my hand.
And now I say, sir, of this tratscsni uit gold
of ours', the yield this year will be at least ten
or fifteen times that of California.
But it will be urged, perhaps, sir, in behalf
of the California gold, by some miserly old fo
gy, who thinks there is no music in the world
equal to the chink of his gui ncas,that tho' one
crop only of gold can be gathered from the
spot, yet once gathered it Issts to the end of
time ; while (he will maintain) our vegetable
gold is produced only lo be consumed, and
when consumed is gone forever. JJut tms
.would be a most egregious error both ways.
It is true the California gold will last forever
unchanged, if its owner chooses; bat while it
so lasts it is of no use; not so much as its val
ue in pig iron, which makes the best of ballast,
whereas gold, while it i3 gold, is good for lit
tle or nothing. You can neither eat it, nor
drink it, nor smoke it. You can neither wear
it, nor burn it as a fuel, nor build a house with
it ; it is really useless till you exchange it for
consumable, perishable goods ; and the more
plentiful it is, the less its exchangeable value.
Far different the ease with onr Atlantic gold;
it docs not perish when consumed, but by a
nobler alchymy than that ot Paracelsus, is
transmitted in consumption to higher life-
"Perish in consumption," did the old miser
say 1 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not
quickened except it die. The burning pea of
inspiration, ranging heaven and caith tor a si
militude to convey to our. poor minds some
not inadequate idea of the mighty doctrine of
the Resurrection, can And no symbol so cx
pressive as grain. , It may chance of wheat or
some other grain. To-day a sensele3 plant,
to-morrow it is human bone and muscle,vein
and artery, siuew and nerve ; . beating pulse,
heaving Inngs, toiling, and sometimes over
toiling brain. Last June it sucked from the
cold breast of the earth the watery nourish
ment of its distending sap vessels, and now it
clothes the manly form with warm cordial
flesh, quivers and thrills with the five-fold
mystery of sense, purveys and ministers to the
higher mystery of thought. Heaped up in
yonr . granaries this week, the next it will
strike in the stalwait arm, and glow in the
blushing cheek, and flash in the beaming eye
till we learn at last to realize that the slen
der stalk which we have seen bending in the
corn-field, under the yellow burden of the har
vest, is indued "the stair of life," which since
the world began, has supported the struggling
and toiling myriads of humanity on the migh
ty pilgrimage of being. .... .... r
Yes, sir, to drop tho allegory, and to speak
without a figure, it is this noble agriculture,
for the promotion of which this company is as
sembled from so many parts of the Union,
feeds the human race, and all the humbler or
ders of animated natnra dependant on man.
With the exception of what is yielded by the
fisheries and the chase, (a limited th"
an insignificent source
a '
is tho BtewT'.,
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.j. aanj
man .beings, by accurate computatien, woKe
this very morning in the United States, all re
quiring their "daily bread," whether they had
the grace to pray for it or not, and under Pror
vider.ee,' all looking'to 'the "agriculture of the-
country for that daily bread, and the food of
the domestic animals depending oij thm-
demand perhaps as great as their own.
; Mr. President, it is the daily duty of yonrfir
mers to satisfy the gigantic appetite; "to fill
the mouths of these h,urgry millions, I migbi
say, for if by. any catastrophe tho supplywas
cut otT for a few days, the life of the country,.
hm.nti .inklHlf n . . r --w 1 Vul ATT IHf " T
UU11JUU AUMUi Ultt , C .ji
Tho Old 7oman's Speech. 4 .,
"Would to God that the Jklaine Law could
have passed fifty years ago!'.. We turned 4 to
find an old lady on the seat immediately back
of us, venturing her wish in the midst of an
earnest discussion between a Maine law Yan
kee and a red nosed member of the bottle fra-.
tornify. "Yes," continued tho old lady, 'flf--
ty years ago. A husband would not then hare
gone down to a drunkard's grave, my daugh
ters married drunkards and lived lives of sor
row, or my boys have died in jail and the mad
house. Look at me," aud with something of
fire kindling up' in her old eyes, she laid her
bony hands upon the arm of the liquor dealer,
and see a wreck of your accursed business.
I wis young, had enough of this world's goods,
and my heart was fall of happiness and hope.
My God! air, how they have poured desolation
into thU old heart. I am often bitter, and do
you wonder I Such as.ya - robbed nic of all
my children, and at eighty years of age, I am
alone do you hear aUne t And let me tell
you tnis nana never wronged tue least of
God's creatures. But you wronged roe.
You, sir, talk about the Jamicil, and say it's
sacred. God forgive me; but I remember the
d.iy when my home was entered by the consta
bles and skinned of all.' I remember wheu
the Bibli my mother gave me was taken
away for driuk.I remember the "time when
my first born was laid in my arms from a drun
ken husband's- hands aud his little life blood
ran warm into my bosom from its woundst
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Why, sir," and the old woman half raised, io
her seat, "in God's holy name did you' come
iato my house to rob and to kill 7 Was thai
constitutional? I have one child living in
the assylum a maniac. It's all the work of
your hands. There is Hood ihert 1 Blood iir !
Better, sir, have a mill stone around your
neck than to sell rum..,. Tho curse of the wid
ow is upon you. It will follow you- The ser
pents you send ont wiil return and destroy
you and yours.' Give me that boitli.": Invol
untary, as it almost seemed, the liquor dealer
handed the old lady the bottle he beld ia?Lia
hand. She dashed it -out of the car window
and slowly resumed her seat., The people
who had crowded around while the train was
stopping, todiear the conversation, slowly and
thoughtfully dispersed to their scats, and the
now cowering liquor dealer looked the very
embodiment of humiliation and shame. With
a deep sigh we turned away, our own faith
made stronger by tho Maine Law, sermon we
had listened to. . Ah! how many. In cur land
would have escaped the bitterness of life had
rum been banished in their day. Cayuga Chief.
The Sweabee Eebcked. On a certain Occa
sion General Washington invited a number Of
his fellow officers to dine with him. While at
the table, one of them uttered an eath.' The
General dropped his knife and fork in a mo
ment, and in his deep undertone and charac
teristic dignity and .deliberation, said "I
thought that we all supposed ourselves gentle
men." He then resumed his knife i and ork
and went on as before. The remark struck
like au electric shock, and, as was , intended,
did execution, as his remarks, in such cases,
were apt to do. No person swore at the table
after that. And after dinner the officer refer
red to remarked to his companion -'that if .
the General had struck him over the head with
his sword, be could have borne it but the
buiue thrust which he gave him was too much.
It was too mnch for a gentleman. And it,-la
hoped that it. will be too much for any one
who pretends to be a gentleman. . . . .
d" Oliver Millikin is as much of a wag as a
musician, and to make his waggery lb e: more
successful, he affects the dress and manner ' of
aci 'rgymxn. ".With his wlnta carvat and so
ber black coat he makes not a bad imitation.
Ho 'was at one of the 'hotels In Springfield a
few weeks ago, and his decidedly clerical ap
pearance attracting the attention or the ' com
pany as they set dowIT to dinner, he was called
upon to ask a blessing. He did uot refuie,
and got on very well for a sentence or two;
but when he came toward " the conclusion, ; he
found, as it was bis first attempt; that he :Waa
utterly unable to remember the usual' manner
of closing such an exercise.' After' hesitating
a moment, he recollected the usual subscrip
tion of his letters, and ho brought his petition
to a close by . adding with great solemnity,
"Yours truly, Oliver Millikin!" ' '- -
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