BY S. B. BOW.
VOL. 4.-NO. 37.
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1858.
TnERO.SEBU.su.
rUOM THE CERVIX.
A child sleeps under a rose-bush fair.
The buds swell out in the soft May air;
Sweetly it rests, and on dream-wings flics
To play with the angels in Paradise ;
And the years glide by.
A maiden stands by the rose bush fair,
'The dewy blossoms perfume the air:
She presses her hand to her throbbing breast,
.With love 3 Brst wonderful rapture blest;
And the years glide by.
A mother kneels by the rose-bush fair.
Soft sigh the leaves in the evening air ;
Sorrowing thoughts of the past arise,
And tears of anguish bedim her eyes ;
And the years glide by.
X aked and lone stand.? the rose-bush fair.
Whirled arc the leaves in the autumn air,
Withered and dead they fall to the ground,
And silently cover a new-made mound ;
And the years glide by.
nAMILTOX AXIJ Bl'ltlt.
BY KCFCS CHOATE.
In commencing his remarks, the distinguish
ed lecturer proceeded at the outset by an elo
quent tribute to the memory of the Father of
our country, saying that in all his life never
had he done a noble deed which earned him
lame greater than in this that in all his great
life he never followed, never led, and never
acted with, a party. lie was our Father. All
history, all tradition, hand him down to us by
this title of endearment our whole country
was the object of his solicitude, aud anything
less in magnitude than all this was beneath
lsis pure, patriotic ar.d noble heart. Noble
in life, happy in death, his deeds sjeak his
praise, and at his tomb at Mount Vernon the
tears of an entire nation were shed.
At the death of this our Father, the age of
party in our country began, and of those who
fchonc in party lines was found the name of
Aaron Burr. This was a man who first Ap
pears in public life in the army of 177-3, and
lrom then his course is seen. Every
where unsleeping, everywhere vigilant, every
where diual to himself and everywhere too
much for those who btood in his way and
Jiero we must stop. Nothing more of him
could be said that will redound to his credit.
In public civil life accidentally elevated
never acting with the Federalists, though nev
er asserting himself a Republican, elected to
the Senate by some unknown means, from the
State ot New York, and from thence to the
Yice-rresidency, and then in an evil hour the
competitor of Jeiferson in a contest lor the
Presidency. From this time in all good things
we do not see his hands. lie was among us
in stirring times, he moved in hours when our
l ights and liberties were discussed and settled,
and in all this the name or hand of Aaron Burr
docs not appear. From 17SJ to 1S01, as a
statesman we hear no more of him ; as a pcli.
tiei.in we see enough of him, but for any trace
of patriotism in all his acts we look in vain.
Restless and active, vigorous and determined,
with .vpl -ndid address, he was everywhere ac
tive lor himself, always torpid for his country.
Himself, and but himself and his own inter
ests, was his god, and that alone he worship
ed. Crossed in his path, he spared no man
in his wrath thwarted in his designs, he left
nothing fair or foul unturned to accomplish
hi t end, sparing no man in his selfishness, and
no woman in his lusts. This is the impotent
conclusion of a life which might have been
turned to every grace, and used for every ad
vantage of his country.
Such was a small sketch of his character ;
but to define it more closely, the speaker
said he should take the most obvious meth
od cf constrasting hint with another of the
same age and time. But where to find his
contrast 'was the difficulty. When he was
selfish, there were enough who were patriotic ;
where he was cld, there were plenty whose
warm hearts beat solely for the common weal ;
but to find his exact counterpart was difficult
indeed.
In lookirg among the great names of the
lay, it appeared that the name of Hamilton
suggested him whose life, briefly told, might
h!iow the greatest contrast. To his great
name and to his great life it was pleasant
to turn, after such a pain as one must feel af
ter a view of the life of Burr. And in regar
ding the life of this distinguished citizen, the
speaker was sure his hearers, as they scanned
the pages of the history of our early days,
must be almost overwhelmed with tho majes
ty of talent which every recorded event uis-
plays Washington, ana anams, co..,
Franklin, Hancock, Warren, Mason and Ham-
ilton, all in oneago,all in one day anu gener-
ation, and men whose histories were each re-
corded testimonies ct tne same patriotism,
and the same devotion to our nauona. a,.u
Klorv. The eloquence ol some, tne states
manship of others, tho valor anu military tKiu
of still more ; and again, those in wnom ait
these blended, all were devoted to our conn
try nothins was reserved for self. There
was a splendid collection of splended talent
such as the world never saw. There was that
devoted patriotism, never excelled, and tho
great monument of all, the lasting memento
of all their virtues, is still over their graves
in the magnificient column more lasting
than bronze or marble the Declaration of
Independence applause a column gazed
upon by us all in J uly of every year, and a
inonnment which speaks their glory in fitter
terms than were ever graven on stone, aud
w hich find their proper and appropriate tab-
let on every true American heart.
After the Declaration of Independence,
Hamilton and Jefferson first differed, then
grew divergent, and finally alienated altogeth
er. That great .Democrat, after achieving
that mighty paper, retired to his farm, and
took no part in all the years of the war of that
time. At the opening of pcaco he was seen
in the Congress of his country, and there be
came the father of American Democracy.
Different was it with Hamilton. Seen iu all
the war, present at Cambridgo and at the sur
render at Yorktown, he was familiar by heart
with all the war. At the age of '26 he return
ed to New York to practice his profession of
the law, and here was the character of the
later Hamilton developed. The years before,
were the years of passion, -and characters for
med in them were nccessarilly ardent and has
ty. War had not then begun, and men spoke
passionately of its glories, but knew not of
its horrors, and had not had their passions
calmed by its awful realities. At its close,
those who began it in youth were now middle
aged, and a new era began with them and with
tho country. From out of the army came
Alexander Hamilton and began the life of a
statesman. Men called hint a monarchist and
one-power man, and he was so, and no wonder
that he was. Had he not seen the impotency
of the old Philadelphia Congress? Had he
not seen how the one-man power how the
deference and obedience paid to one man had
carried the atmy over all difficulties in the
war; discipline had conquered seeming im
possibilities, and how many easy things had
been lost by the unavailing and divergent ef
forts of an unled mob No wonder all these
things made him distrust public rale.
Alter the revolution we still find him in the
public service, still working for his country,
and always the plainest and frankest man of
his day. All our laws, all the details, stages
and provisions of our laws and our liberties,
felt the guidance of his mind. In the great
idea of uniting the States of the Confederacy
into one grand whole, his mind was active,
and much to his exertions and his influence is
due the acceptance of our National Constitu
tion by the States, a-id much to his mind and
talent is due the framing of a State paper
which from then to now, and from now to all
time cannot be changed iu a huir for the bet
ter. From the acceptance of the Constitution
through the first days of our whole country,
he was still active., and still the leading mind
tfthe day. Our laws, much of them, owe
their solidity to him, and our finances are all
his. He was the man who kept us neutral in
the great European struggle, and kept us on
growing and strengthening every day.
Into the private life of Hamilton the speak
er would not extensively look, but still would
siy that the record would beat the closest
scrutiny. In Ins bar-life in rew 1 ork he was
close in his studies, mighty in his efforts, and
very moderate in his charges. Laughter.
His great effort, the defense of Croswell be
fore the New York Supreme Court, is still to
day spoken of as ono of the proudest efforts
of the American bar, and by some held to be
the very greatest that has yet been spoken,
and is one which would, If he had nothing
else to glorify him, alone lift him high anion
those who knew the Constitution and could
expound its ideas of liberty. At 17 years of
age he addressed his fellow-citizens in pub
lie ; at 22 he was a known and marked man,
and every succeeding year he added fresh
triumphs to his fame, and planted new and
grateful emotion toward him, in the hearts of
his countrvmen.
To compare such a man with Burr was in
deed difficult. Each foremost in his own path,
each first in his own chosen way of life and
action but, alas, how different the way, how
opposite the path of action. The view would
bear no elaboration of explanation. To those
men of those davs who had achieved and se
cured our liberties, to those three men Wash
ington, Jefferson and Hamilton was duo to
all and to each the abundaut gratitude and
warm love of a whole people. They were
men. nnlike somo of the lesser lights who
have since filled their seats, who were not era
zy for Liberty, nor demented for Slavery
they were men who never thought to see the
North against the South, the East against the
West, and still less to stir the strife for per
sonal ends men to whom a Topekaand a Le
compton qcstion would be but a small ripple
on Ue snrfacc of the unfathomable deep o
their tri(jtisiu. They wcr0 men who inau
I ratuJ onr country wu0 commenced it in
gJory and set jt on Us onwani path like a bride
grQom coraing fr0ni his chamber, or a strong
man C0Uimenc5Dg to run ilis race.
Tnf. ,4sick Man as Uj0 Czar Nicholas
wou)J hav(; termcd Mexico, is in a bad way
Every thing is out of joint in that unhtppy
country business at a stand tho national
debt, already enormous, indefinitely increas
ing two or three parties fighting for the gov
ernmcnt open rebellion threatened in some
artsne Indians restoring primitive sav
- .1. :Anp irwl rt .1 wi r7 anil
aeness in omer suuuuua
murder life everywhere
A newly married couple, riding in a chaise.
. n.-A..tn.nftft A man 4.11mA in
WCre UDloriunaieijr uwi-.w
thcir assistance, and observed that it was a very
Lhoekinz sight. "Very shocking indeed, re
plied tho gentleman, "to see a new ma.r.eu cc-urr
- -.1 1
fall out so soon
A SURPRISE PARTY SURPRISED.
Surprise parties" are tho last new "agony,"
and not the least surprising, and agonizing
was the ono in which my friend Nellie Hunter
played a conspicuous part.
Mr. Hunter, an exceedingly wealthy and
eccentric old gentleman, resided in the coun
try in a large, old-fashioned house, with his
daughter, Nellie, two servants, three dogs and
two cats. (I am particular in my enumeration,
as they were "each and every one" objects of
solicitude to the old gentleman.) After the
above description, introduction and digres
sion, I will hasten on to the unfolding of the
'o'er true tale."
One bleak, cold December night, Nellie sat
alone by the fire, enjoying uninterruptedly
the comforts of a severe cold, for which she
had been eating (by the persuasion and recom
mendation of old Debby, the help,) a large
dose of raw onions, the effect of which, Debby
old her, would be miraculous, together with
bowl of hoi punch, which she had prepared
lor her to take before retiring. In vain Nel
lie protested against imbibing any more nos
trum declaring herself perfectly satisfied with
the efficacy of the onions, and did not require
he punch. And in truth the ouions did seem
to have touched her feelings as she sat, the
tears streaming dow n her cheeks.
But hark ! did you not hear it ! Bells, sure
ly bells, upon the midnight air, making night
hideous with their unwelcome jingle. To
make assurance doubly sure, in rushed Fete
with the astonishing intelligence that more
than forty 'leven sleighs had turned in at the
'big gate," and were tearing down to tho
house like mad. Poor Nellie, in this dire ex-
remity, knew not what to do at first. "A sur-
rise party !" and she to receive the guests
with oniony breath and red eyes. How could
she give to the female portion the kiss ol wel
come ! O horrible !
A happy snggestion from Debby to eat cin
namon plenty in the spice box in tho pantry.
Hastening to tho pantry, she drew out the
spice-drawer, seized a paper containing (as
she supposed) cinnamon ; tearing open tho
cover, she raised the paper to her mouth, and
poured half tho contents down her throat.
With a shriek she dashed tho paper to the
floor, spitting, sneezing, coughing, and per
forming unconsciously a double step mazour-
ka. Yes! 'tis true, 'tis true, and pity 'tis true,
that she had made a grand mistake a sad mis
take, and had swallowed a quantity of red pep
per, screaming lustily on leouy ior assis
tance, she rushed through the kitchen to her
own room. Observing a bowl on tne table,
and supposing it to contain water, she caught
it up and swallowed a large mouthful of Deb-
by's boiling punch. The bowl shared the same
fate as the paper of pepper. Away it went,
crash against tho stove, lhe whisky taking
fire at the insult, raised up in a mystic blue
blaze, to the horror of the cats, which lay do
zing beneath the stove. Away they scamper
ed to the hall, endeavoring to make their es
cape. Poor Nellie, now almost frantic from
the effects of the pepper and whisky, and half
blinded by tears, (no longer crocodile tears,
but tears of intense agony,) seeing a lar:
pan of water setting on a bench, dipped her
face, head and hands into the cooling liquid
Again and again she splashed the welcome
water on aching brow and burning mouth. In
the midst of her ablutions, she was startled
by an exclamation of horror from Debby.
'Good gracious! what's the gal about sure
as I am a livin' sinner she has washed her face
in my black dye stuff ; now you'll bo as black
as a nigger for two months, that's sartin.'
Nellie glanced at her hands, and the awful
truth broke on her startled vision. There was
no relief for poor, wee Nellie, save to retreat
to her room and there remain unseen. "Re
member, Debby, I'm not at home." She
started with all the speed she could summon
to reach her own room before the company
would enter the front door. To reach it, she
had to cross the hall; she had very nearly
gained her door, when the front door burst
open, and in rushed Pete, closely pursued by
a larjio' black dog. In his fright he did not
perceive Nellie, who was still running swiftly
and in her abstraction and agony she saw or
thought of nothing save her own concealment
The first intimation that either had of the oth
er's presence, was a severe blow on Nellie'
nose, from the redoubtable Pete, who ran a
gainst her with such force that both were pre
cipitated to the floor, the blood flowing from
the nose of the unfortunate Nellie. The do;
bounded over Pete's head; whereat he gav
6uch a deuce of a shout, that Mr. Hunter.
heating the noise from his room, and not be
ing aware of the Party arrival, seized the
poker and rushed out, closely followed by his
three four-footed companions (the dogs). See
ing Nellie on the floor, her face black, and
blood flowing from her nose, and Pete flound
ering, kicking and j elling at the dog, he natu
rallv susnectcd some foul play. Then several
gentlemen of the party came in. Tho
gentleman supposing them to be the attackin
party, made at them with tho. poker, dealin
his blows promiscuously amongst them. The
dos, tenacious of their niastor's rights, ob
serving the strange dog, made a simultaneous
rush at him as he was about to make his es
.nr, nt the front door, and such a scene as
followed barking, screeching and howling
and to add to the confusion,' tho cats got mix
ed op in the melee. Some or e cailed for wat-
-water to throw on the dogs. Debby, tak
ing the hint, ran to the kitchen, caught tip a
kettle of boiling water, and threw it not on
the dogs, which had by this time got out on
the portico but on the greater part of the
surprise" or surprised party, who had been
coming up the long steps of the portico, and
ho, hearing the no ise of the dogs, in their
urry to escape, particularly the ladies, had
missed "their footing," falling, rolling and
umbling to the ground, just iu time to receive
the contents of the kettle.
The scene that followed beggars description,
uffice it to say, that what with the blows in-
icted by Mr. Hunter, and the scalding water
3 lavishly bestowed by Debby, not more than
half that "surprise party" returned homo un
der a week. The very mention of a "surprise
irty," causes Nellie's nasal proturbcrauco to
ingle.
The Burning Mocntain. As is generally
nown, there is a vein of coal located above
water level in the Broad Mountain, about sev
en miles from this borough, and near lleck
scherville, which for twenty-one years has
been on fire. The vein, which contains ex
cellent white ash coal, is some forty feet in
thickness. The origin of the fire is attributed
o a couple of miners, who, having some work
to perform in the drift in the depth of winter,
built a fire they being cold in the gangway.
The flames destroying the prop timbers, were
carried by a strong current, rapidly along the
passage, an 1 the lire communicating to the
coal, all subsequent efforts to extinguish it
were ineffectual. The men were cut off from
escape, and were undoubtedly suffocated to
death. Their remains were never found. A
few davs since we ascended the mountain at
the spot of the fire, and were much interested
in examining the effect of the fire upon the
surface. The course of it is from west to
east, and where the vein is nearest the sur
face, the ground is for tho space of several
hundred feet sunken into deep pits, and trhile
the stones exhibit evidence of having been
exposed to tho action of intense heat, every
vestige of vegetation had been blasted. It is
9 desert track in tho midst of smiling fertility
The ground in some places was almost too
warm for tho hand to rest upon it, while steam
from water heated by the internal fire, rose
from every pore. The fire has evidently ex
tended lor several huudred yards from the
place it originated, and finds vent and air to
continue its progress, at the pits to which we
have alluded. A score of years has passed,
still it burns, and will burn until further fuel
is denied tho devouring element. Thousands
of tons may yet feed the fire, beforo it is
checked. Potlscille Journal.
Mr. Shillabcr, teUs the following rather re
markable gun story : Speaking to-day with a
son of a gun, regarding some gunning exploits,
he told me of a singular instance of a gun
hanging fire, which, were it not for his well
known veracity, I should feel disposed to
doubt. He had. snapped his gun at a grey
squirrel and the cap had exploded, but the
piece not going off, he took it from his shoul
der, looked down iu the barrel, and saw the
charge just starting, when bringing it to his
shoulder once more, it went off" and killed the
squirrel.
Australia Heat. The following is an ex
tract from a letter, dated Adelaide Feb. 11 :
"I can assure you we have nearly been roas
ted alive ; we have had ten days and nights of
the hottest weather remembered for several
years past. The heat at noon in the shade
was 136 to 146 dcg. according to situation, and
during the night it was never less than 94 to
104 deg. in-doors. The hot wind never ceased
blowing, and the innumerable deaths from
coup de soliei have been appalling in extreme."
A Tkasscexdentalist. A gentleman of
Boston, who takes a business view of most
things, when recently asked respecting a per
son of quite a poetic temperament, replied,
"Oh, he is one of those men who have soar
ings after the indefinite, and divings after the
unfathomable, but who never pays cash-"
PisrovEMES bv me Microscope. The mould
on decayed fruit, stale bread, moist wood, etc, is
shown by the microscope to be plants bearing leaves
flowers, and seeds, and increasing with incredible
rapidity, for in a few hours tho seeds spring up,
arrivo at maturity, and bring forth seeds them
selves, so that many generations are produced in a
day.
Mr. Snooks was asked bow he could account for
Nature's forming him so ugly. "Nature was not
to blame," said he, '-for when I was two months
old I was considered the handsomest chill in the
neighborhood, but my nurse one day swapjieI me
away for another boy, just to please a friend of
her's. whose child was rather plain looking."
There is a Cockney youth who, every time he
wishes to get a glimpse of his sweetheart, cries
'Fire '." directly under her window. In the alarm
of the moment, she plunges her head out of the
window and inquires "Where?" When he poeti
cally slaps himself on the bosom, and exclaims
"Ere, my Hangelina."
They mean to raise a tall lot of students in
Wisconsin. Its board of education has resol
ved "to erect a building large enough to ac
commodate five hundred students throe stories
high,"
"ILIKti" THE HAIR.
At the boarding house where Dave and his
friends put up, are a number of servant girls,
and it is the idosyncracy of servant girls to
take their share of toilet articles, such as hair
oil, perfumes, &c, while they are rejuvenat
ing the apartments of the boarders. Dave
and his fricud Robert were very careful of
their respective toilets, being in a courting
way, and had been paying extra attention to
personal adornment.
They were in the habit of getting a pintot
hair oil made up by the druggist at one time ;
and finally they were in the habit of finding
thai a pint of this costly hair oil wouldn't last
a week, and that all the servant girls in the
house emitted the same perfume they did. It
was not long before they came to a conclusion
in the matter. So one evening, when the
hair oil cruse was empty, they took the bottle
which contained it, and straight they tent to
the drug store. There was a whispered con
versation with a laughing clerk, and mixing
various articles in a pint bottle, and the fol
lowing was in the prescription book as the con
tents :
Of Lac Assafoetida, which for the informa
tion of our readers we will state, is a highly
concentrated exact ol that delicious drug of
this, 1 oz.
Of Liquor Potasse, (a fluid celebrated for
its coirosivc power, having the power of tak
ing the hair off a dog in ten seconds,) oz.
Of Balsam of Fir (the stickiest aud gum
miest article known,) 1 oz.
Of honey 1 oz.
Of Alcohol to make the ingredients fluid,
pint.
This was well "shnck," and deposited in the
usual place occupied by the hair oil.
The next day (Sunday) Dave and Bob
dressed themselves for church, and after fin
ishing travelled down stairs. But they came
another way in a few minutes, and secreted
themselves in a room adjoining theirs where,
from a couple of panes of glass over the door,
they could see everything that went on. Af
ter the people of tho house had gone, two or
three servant girls came in Dave's room.
'Whist,Molly," said a large red-headed one
"Misthur Dave has somo more of the ile,
and my hair's as dhry as powdher ; lets have
a regular fix up wid the folks all away." This
was acceeded to, and they all went to oiling
their locks, being very lavish with the fluid
which was quito thin in consequence of the
alcohol. In a few minutes red head says :
"Whirra, what smills so V with her nose
turned skyward.
'Sure it'3 the parfume," interrupted a short
and dumpy specimen, with her hair down her
back.
'Parfume indade," says the red head
"that's not parfume it's the rale bad smell."
"Mebby," says the dumpy, Patch Chuwly.
I've heerd folks say that Patch chuwly smills
dreadful at fust; a purson must get used to
the srnill before they likes it. Sure it's a per
fume used by the quality."
This satisfied red-head,and after a thorough,
"iling," they left the room. In about two
hours the boarders came home from church.
"Good gracious, what is it ! Bless my soul,
Mr. G., I shall faint ! Oh ! my dear there must
be an unclean animal in the room ."' and a
thousand other expressions were heard as the
boarders got a sniff at the Patch Chuwly, when
thev entered the house. The master and the
mistress of the house were puzzled, confoun
ded, indignantjand vainly endeavored to dis
cover the locality of the smell. At dinner
time, there were not a half a dozen boarders
at the table ; and thoso that were there were
rapidly thinking of backing out, as the three
girls who "iled," were waiting on them. !
Finally dinner was given up, and with doors
and windows opened, tho inmates alternately
froze and suffocated. The day was a dry one
to them, but it soon wore away.
At night the three girls attempted to comb
their hair. The alcohol had evaporated, leav
ing the balsam of fir and honey, and they
might as well have attempted to comb a bunch
of shingles. At the first dash that red-head
made, her comb caught, and through the influ
ence of the potasse attbe roots, tho whole
mass of the front hair' came off red-head's cra
nium, which she discovered with a yell that
would have niado a cannibal envious. The
same result attended the rest of the hair with
the exception of enough to do up as a scalp
lock to ornament with feathers, in Indian style.
The other two girls met tho same fate, and a
bout ten o'clock that night, they might have
been seen wrapping up their lost Patch Chuw
ly locks in pieces of paper. The next morn
ing they were informed by the mistress that
she did not desire to employ bald-headed ser
vant girls and with their "chists" they de
parted in almost a scalped condition.
The discovery of Dave and Bob's connec
tion with the transaction was not known till
lately, but their toilet articles since then have
been as sacred from touch as the tomb of
Palestine.
A down-easter advertises for a wife in the
following manner : "Any gal what's got a
cow, a good leather bed and fixens, five hun
dred dollars in hard puter, one that has had
the measles, and understands tendin' children,
can have a customer for life by writin' a billy
dux, addressed Z K, and puttin' it on uncle
Ebenezer's barn, bine side, jinin' the hogpen."
OUTDOOR EXEECISE AND EECEEATION.
Some few weeks since, the London TiWff pub
lished an article on the relative degrees of health
and longevity of tho people of Great Britain and
of the United States, in which the superiority of
the former country in both respects was broadly
asserted. The writer attributed tho dwindling of
the American race, as he was pleased to term it,
to the endemical diseases of yellow and other fa
vers with w hich portions of our country are un
happily afflicted, aud to the impropriety in the
manner of living. To the letter more than to th
former causo is owing, we think, tho results men
tioned. The errors in this respect commence with
tho child. Instead of giving it such an education
as will produce a full physical development by
constant outdoor exercise, it is confined in a close
nvrscry and subjected to a modcof treatment pre
cisely opposite to tho proper one. The frame is
at the outset made weak and puny; and habits are
engendered and diseases contracted which cling
to it during tho time when verging towards what
should bo a maturity of strength and beauty, which
it never reaches And thus in the very morning
of life, when the sensations have tho untiring ac
tivity which novelty begets, the mind is, through
a lack of vigor and development of the body, filled:
with langour, dejection and despair, and diverted
from its most noble and devoted aspirations.
There is but one method of establishing and pre
serving the good health and physical develop
ment of a people, and that is, a proper degree of
healthy exorcise and recreation, both before and
after the period of intellectual maturity. InfanU
ehould be upon all suitable occasions carried into
gardens and other open spaces of country, where
they can breathe fresh air, and as soon as they are
able to walk, and at a later period, should be al
lowed to walk, romp, and indulge in the various
delightful amusements w hich the impulses of in
genious youth dictate. Tho unhealthy restraints
in dress which foOlish fashion has tmposcd should
be abolished, in order that the lungs and less del
icate organizations of the system should have full
play to perform their functions, and expaad to
their greatest natural development. With the ad
vance of the more vigorous and aspiring efforts of
intellect, athletic games and employment of a
more manly and corresponding character should
be freely indulged in. having in view the increas
ed physical strength and more mature judgment.
These exercises should take place daily, and M
much as possible in the open air, and walking at
different periods of the day should constitute one
of their most Important features. And, finally,
when the delightful visions of youth give place to
the cold, cautious and calculating ideas of the ex
perienced, this bodily exercise should be daily
continued, and with the hoars set apart for it
should be also allotted hours for intellectual and
other recreations, which shall unbend the mind
from the cares and vicissitudes of business and
household duties, and give it a corresponding Ti
vacious and healthy exercise with the body.
Imitating Washixgtox. A young friend of
ours tells the following story of himself:
When young, he had read the well known story
of Georgo Washington's love of the noblo
principle of his son, so well manifested on tho
occasion referred to of George's cutting down
the cherry tree, acknowledging his transac
tion, and receiving a full and free pardon, bo
sides praises and kind caresses from his father.
So Jim, actuated by so noble an example,
thought he would try the experiment on. Ho
supplied himself with the hatchet, and going
into his father's orchard, cut down some choice
fruit trees. He then coolly sat down to await
the old man's coming, and as soon as he made
bis.nppcarance, marched up to him with, a very
important air and acknowledged the deed, ex
pecting tho next thing on the programme to
be tears, benediction and embraces from tha
oflended parent. But sal to relate, instead of
this, the old gentleman caught up a hickory
and gave him an "all fired lamming." Pills
burgh Dispatch.
A man in tho most abject poverty was re
cently assisted by one of the benevolent as
sociations of Boston. lie was without food
or decent clothing, living in a miserable gar
ret. Only a few years ago this same man was
a New York merchant, withat least $100,000,
living in a splendid residence and riding in a
princely carriage.
Election at York. At the election for
town officers, at York, Pa., on Saturday, the
Democrats were defeated by 10G majority.
The entire People's Ticket, (American and
Republican fusion) was.elccted, and gained in
the contest nearly three hundred votes over
the last election. Tho vote was the largest
ever polled.
There is a divine out west trying to persuade
girls to forego marriage. lie might as well
try to persuade ducks that they could lind a
substitute for water, or rose buds that there is
something better for their complexion than
sunshine. The only convert ho has yet made
is a single lady, aged sixty !
The influence of Senator Douglas in Illinois,
and over the men of that State, is well exem
plified in the votes of tho Illinois delegation,
on the English bill. While other anti-Le-compton
men faltered and failed in the hour
of trial, the Illinoisans, one and all, stood
firm.
Death op Rev. Da. P. II. Mater. Rev.
Dr. Mayer for more '.ban fifty years pastor of
St. John's Lutheran Church in Philadelphia,
died last week in the 78th year of his . age.
Ile was President of tho Pennsylvania Bibla
Society. - .
What threo authors would you name ia
commenting on a large conflagration ? Dick
ens, Howitt, Burns.
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