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BY S. B. EOV.
GLEAREIEED, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST L5, I860;
TOL. 6.NO. 51.
THE SOUL.
"WVre yonder King of day sod night,
One blazing diamond of light,
The boundless space thro' which it roTTd
A sea of limpid virgin gold :
Were yonder moon to human sight,
A pearl that only shone by night,
Whose falling beam of pplendor breaks,
The breast of countless silver lakes :
Were every star that decks the sky.
A gem of brilliancy on high.
Which Nature's Uod had made to tell
liisoaskct inoxhaustible :
What were all these. O man ! if wise.
To give for that which never diej ?
Oh ! luk the planets, aa they roll.
The worth of thy immortal soul.
THE OAKEN CHEST.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GEBMAX.
In Modena, in the vicinity of Riggo gate,
the proud colonnade of an old palace attracts
ihe eye of every stranger. If ho walks thro'
the magnificent portal, and the sumptuous
'state rooms where the eye is dazzled and the
aetise bewildered, he thinks he will retain a,
recollection of the splendor he 1ms beheld;
but he wauders on, passes out of the houses
that he entered with wonder and amazement,
and he will certainly fuel a slight shudder of
dread as he casts hack his glance, and his mind
Mill alone be occupied ly an oaken chest
which he saw in the palace. It stands in a
large, spacious room, against one of the bare
walla that have no other ornament than a wo
manly portrait, which hangs over this, with
carvings richly supplied, dark chest. If the
glance of the visitor falls on this picture,
which beams forth afullss of beauty, splen
dor and youth, be will deem the room which
before seemed so bare and empty, sufficiently
ornamented; bethinks they did right not to
tring any other picture into this room, as none
would be worthy to bang by the side of this
one. As the searching eye of the visitor sinks
deeper and deeper into the blue depths of an
expression betraying an inexhaustible source
f love and resignation, ho feels by continued
gazing on a face beaming with happiness and
beatitude, a sense ot satistactiott stealing
through his beart,that there is on earth some
thing that has the power to transport us into
Heaven ; he does not leel a presentiment that
be is standing at the grave of all that is look
ing down on hi in with a look of almost super
terrestial splendor. The young maiden whoso
mile Sempieri gave with such wonderful fi
delity in the picture, smiled even more happi
ly in that hour when the painter, with master
ly hand, at the request of her lover, fastened
tier features into the canvass, on waich they
"are preserved, after hundreds of years, in
magical gract and beauty.
It was on her wedding day. She was one
of the loveliest daugrtrrcrs'TPthe nohlo house
f Orsinis was betrothed to one of the hand
aomest and most knightly princes of the old
and powerful rnce ol the (Jolonnas. Through
the love of these yonng hearts, the deadly
hate which had existed between these two
families lor years, was not only ended, but
changed into feelings of the warmest friend
ship. Loud shouts of laughter and rejoicing
rung through every room and hall of the proud,
magnificent palace on the wedding day ; and
Jf here and there a remnant of the former an
imosity still brooded, it would vanish before
the smile that beamed from the charming
countenance of the young and lovely bride,
reminding one of sunshine in opring ; It would
disappear at the sight of the overjoyed bride
groom, o'er whose lace flitted the rays of pur
.'kt bliss.
The joy and rapture of the united entered
ihc hearts of all that witnessed their happi
iess, and all rejoiced with them. No one
oould resist the serene and cheerful atmos
phere that pervaded the beautiful festival, and
each one in overgushing joy sought the pleas
ure that best suited their tastes.
Towards evening the varied crowds of guests
rushed forth from the sumptuous parlors of
the house, into the gardens, brilliantly illumi
nated with a thousand variegated colored lan
tern, into which above all the moon poured
its ott and mellow light. Suddenly the face
of the groom, wearing serious expression, ap
peared among the many happy groups, and
in astonishment they asked him what had
caused a shadow on his countenance, which
but a few minutes before beamed forth joy and
happiness. "Icannot find my bride!" lie cried
hastily, and in tones betraying the anguish ol
his soul, he added, "She toid me a while ago
that she would hide herself, and in a place
that I never would think of looking for her
or find her. She seems to have disappeared
completely, not o vestige of her remaining."
They laughed at the prince for his apprehen
sion, and jokingly aided him in searching the
orange grove but in the hearts of the most
cheerful there was uneasiness, as the night ad
vanced; the festivities drew to a'close, and,
In spite of the most diligent searches.no trace
of the bride was visible. Greater and great
er grew the anxiety, and more eagerly were
the house and garden searched as the night
shades descended ; but of all the hours spent
in breathless suspense, not one of their slow,
and to ever' guest painfully gliding seconds
brought back the lost one.
Words of distrust were uttered by the la
menting Orsinis ; and answered with outcries
of sedition by the offended Colonas ; daggers
were drawn on the ground where only a few
hours before pledges of ever lasting,friendship
were made, and the glittering blades of swords
flashed through the dewy foliage, where be
fore brilliant eyes beamed with love and hap
piness. It was a frightful, terrible change !
The more affecting, as during the preceding
pleasures no one had the least apprehension
t a rupture! But though they blamed and
acenssd, though they defended themselves
and called on God and all the saints to witness
their innocency ; though they endeavored to
wash out injuries with blood, and carry away
with passion many a heart was pierced with
urk suspjeiou, neither an imprecation, a ruur
tter nor cry of despair nothing nothing
brought back U.e lost bride.
The place of Orsinis was closed after the
marriage which ended so tragically; desolate
remained the halls, where pleasure and happi
ness were changed, as it were, with lightning
peed, imo grjef and despair. Only after
Hundreds of years was the long-closed portal
opened by one of the descendants of the no
race of the Orsinis, and light and air were
once more allowed to circulate through the
rooms that had been veiled in night and dark
ness so long. b
?he.clo8el house was restored to pleasure
2t k1 llth when 008 da.v-the eye of tbe lady
& botiaefWhnt walking through the rooms
on the arm of her husband, fell on the oaken
chest, standing solitarily in a large room.
This old chest-pleased the young woman.
When she heard that it descended f rom a Ve
netian lady of nobility who allied herself with
the house of Orsinis several centuries ago.and
that she brought it to Modena, and in wbich
ever since the costly wedding robes of the
Duchess of Orsinis were retained the curios
ity seized her to know w hether after so long a
lapse of time any traces remaiucd of the rich
costumes of past ages.
She ordered the chest opened. The lock
was rust-bound, and its ingenious mechanism
long withstood all efforts ; but at last the ob
ject was accomplished. But who will des
cribe the horror of the young Dutchess, her
husband, and that ot the servants who opened
the resisting lock of tbe chest, when they all,
on raising the lid, beheld a skeleton reclining
in the dust of decayed brocade garments.
With this stiring of pearls Count Colonna
once begirt bed the lovely bead of his young
bride, when Sempieri painted her portrait,
and with these rows of pearls the fair being
on her wedding day fastened the orange blos
som with which her golden curls were entwin
ed. This necklace was the first terrible vestige
of the over-happy bride, who once in the
Orsini palace disappeared so mysteriously!
This dreadful discovery was followed up which
was made after so long a period of time, and
soon there remained no doubt but that this
fresh and blooming life found death in the
oaken chest.
The skeleton and the pearls were again low
ered into the awful depths of this terrible
grave, and over the same was hung the pic
ture of the handsome young bride.
So the room , in the Orsini palace is, to a
cct taiu degree, a churchyard, or vault for the
dead. There has, 'tis true, but one spirit
lound test here, but what may this heart have
suffered, this one mind endured, ere dt-ath re
leased both, and broke the bright eyes which
even now sparkled through the gloomy space,
and once so happy and full ot hope, looked
fondly on the world and into the seeming gol
den future t
Many persons, says the Historical Magazine;
for June, are under the impression that the
name given to the State of Pennsylvania ori
ginated from the influence exercised by Wil
liam Penn on the Councils of England. Such
is not the case, as is proved in the following
extract from a letter written by William Penn,
dated January 5th, 1081 ; "This day, after
many waitings, wjtehings, solicitings and dis
putes in couucil, my country was confirmed
to me under the great seal of England, with
powers and privileges, by the name of Penn
sylvania, a name the King would give it in fa
vor of my father. I choose New Wales, being
a hilly country and when the Secretary,' a
Welshman, refused to call in A ew Wales. I
proposed Sylvania, and they added Penn to it,
though I was much opposed to it, and went to
tbe King to have it struck out. lie said, it was
past and he would not take it upon him; nor
could 20 guineas move the Undersecretary
to vary the name ; for I feared it might be
looked on as vanity in me, and not as a respect
in the King to my father, as it really was."
A Hit at Heroic Doses. Dr. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, who seems to understand physic
as well as he does poetry, at a recent meeting
of the -Massachusetts Medical Society, uttered
this sarcasm on the American creed for medi
cine : "How could a people, who have a revolu
tion once in four years, who have contrived the
bowie knife and the revolver, who have chew
ed the juice out of all the superlatives in the
language in Fourth of July orations, and so
used up its epithets in the rhetoric of abuse
that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to
supply the demand, which insists in sending
our yachts and horses and boys to out-run,
out fight, and check-mate all the rest of crea
tion how could such a people be content with
anything but heroic practice ? What wonder
that the Stars and Stripes wave over doses of
ninety grains of sulphate of quinine, and that
tbe American eagle screams with delight to
see three drachms of calomel given at a single
mouthful."
Charmed bt a Snake. The Rochester, X.
Y. Union relates the case of a child, two years
of age, daughter-of Mr. Davis, in that city,
charmed by a snake. One day Mrs. Davis
found the snake in the arms of the little girl,
who was fondling it as she would a kitten.
The mother was naturally much alarmed by
the apparent peril in which she saw her child,
and seized a stick to destroy the reptile. The
snake slowly retreated, showed its tongue, and
hissed at the mother. The child cried, and
begzed so hard of its parent to desist, that
she allowed the snakto retreat to its hiding
place. The child apparently thinks of noth
ing else butber companion the snake, and,
under the fascination, is suffering a physical
decline. She now weighs but eighteen pounds.
Physicians have advised that the meetings,
which take place as frequently as the child can
get out of the house, be gradually interrupted,
until they be entirely broken off.
Interesting Incident. The death of Mr.
Gales, says the Albany Evening Journal, re
vives a reminiscence of the only time his pa
per, the National Intelligencer ever suspended
publication. It was a warm and able advocate
of the Madison war policy, seconding the ef
forts of Clay and his compeers, and so power
ful was its influence that when Gen. Ross, in
command of the British troops, entered the
capitol after the unfortunate affair of Bladens
burgh.his first inquiry was not for the Capitol,
the President's house, or the departments,
but for the National Intelligencer office, and it
was the first establishment demolished, caus
ing a short cessation in its regular publication.
With this exception the Intelligencer has been
published regularly for sixty years.
The scales of iron that accumulate around
the anvil in a blacksmith's shop tfre more
valuable than manure for peach trees. A shov
elful put around a healthy peach tree will be
very likely to keep it in good condition; and
it is said that trees already diseased have re
covered by tbe application of these scales.
Iron in any form will answer a good purpose.
The first fruit of the treaty with Japan has
ripened in the shape of a large exportation of
an excellent quality of tea and of an amount of
raw silk estimated to be- worth $1,000,000.
The whole amount of the purchases from this
countrjfcof Japan productions is estimated to
exceed five millions of dollars.. Thia, for six
woatbs, is a pretty heavy business.
WHO AEE THE DEUSES!
These rude mountaineers, whose name, a few
aays ago, hardly called up any distinct idea of
race or locality, have suddenly been invested
with a tragic interest,' and one feels a curiosity
about their history. Obscure as they have been
imuerio, me Uruses of Mount .Lebanon havo
earned an indelible record, though it will bo
written in blood, in the history of the nine
teenth century. Burnt and depopulated towns
desolated fields, orchards and gardens and
neaps ot butchered men, womeu and children
mak their destructive path around the foot of
Mount Ilermon, and down the lovely slopes
aud quiet vaies ot Lebanon.
The Druses have not borne h.iiherto a partic
ulaily bad character among uncivilized races
Uiuuon calls them "a free and warlike people
the Druses of Mount Lebanon," and dispatches
in a few words, "the little that is known.or de
serves to bo known" about them. The travel
ler Clarke, speaks of their "openness, sinceri
ty, and engaging manners." Another account
represents them as "eminently tolerant living
on good terms with both Christians and Mo
hammedans." Rude and barbarous thev un
doubtedly have been but the incredible ferocity
receutly diaplayed has not been thought
neretolore to be a feature ol their character.
To steal, and if necessary, to murder, are of
course universal maxims among savages, es
pecially those who inhabit w ild and mountain
ous regions. But the Druses, in this respect,
nave compared javorrbly with the fierce and
predatory Koords, who live in the ranges ot
mountains taithest East, on the confines of
lurkcy and Persia, though still within the
limits of the Turkish empire. One of the
Koordish chiefs frankly admitted to Dr. Grant,
that robbing was their trade, that thev followed
it with murder to prevent detection, where
their victim was of sufficient consequence to
he feared and even when be was too poor and
weak to be an object ot dread, they did not let
him ojjf without scourging. So true it is, that
cruelly becomes an appetite, a demoniac de
light in the sufferings ol others. But the
Druses have not been thought to carry on their
plundering profession with unnecessary cruel
ty. A fact wbich lends strong confirmation
to the general belief expressed by the Euro
pean journals, that the Turks were at the
bottom of this bloody business in Syria. The
unparaleled ferocity which distinguishes it is,
in fact, rather a 1 urkish than a Druses charac
teristic.
The oiigin ot the Druses is veiled in mys
tery. Some writers give them a descent
which partakes of the romantic. A French
gentleman, it is said, of the noble family of
Drnex, led a regiment under the command of
Godfrey ot Bouillon, in tho crusade of the
eleventh century. . Pressed hard by the Sarac
ens ou ojieoccesion, and separated from the
general arm-, he withdrew into the deep passes
of Mount Engaddi, near Bethelem where he
fortified himself against the enemy. The sub
sequent reverses of the Cnristian army left
him enclosed as it were by the Saracen power,
and made his separation from the European
force perpetual. He made good his defence
however, against the Saracens, and finally,
withdrawing more deeply into those inacces
sible mountain ranges, he settled a colony
there which, by a corruption of the name
Druex, were in later times called Druses.
Others say that these Druses are the same as
the Davazes or Dasazes, described by the his
torian Elmalin. One horriible circumstance
of identity at least exists between the two ra
ces. It is the incredible incests which their
code allows. Parents and children, brothers
and bisters, inermarry among the Druses with
out the slightest compunction. Their precari
ous and brief connections hardly deserve,
however to be called. Tho Druses divorce
their wives as often as caprice may dictate.
Others suppose them to be of Arabic origin,
and a heretical ofishot from the Mohammedan
system in the tenth century. Gibbon describ
es them as a set of Mohammedan separatists,
who followed a crazy and blasphemous fanatic
by the name of llakern, almost equally an ene
my of Christians and Moslems, in the eleventh
century. Certain it is, says Volney, that they
have a contempt for all that Mahommedans
hold sacred. They do not practice circum
cission, prayers, fasts or festivals, as enjoined
by the Koran. They drink wine, eat pork,
aud practice all kinds ol abominations in the
eyes of strict Musselmen. The confused med
ley presented by their language, rites and tra
ditions, has baffled and bewildered tho most
sagacious and learned historians, -who have
made them the object of antiquarian research.
These savage mountaineers scarcely number
50,000, while there are in Syria 250,000 Ma
ronites and Christians of the Romish Church,
and 350,000 of the Greek Church. Among
these 600,000 Christians, the Druses are rav
ening and destroying like wolves in a flock of
sheep. To such an extent, have the Christian
populations of Turkey been dispirited and de
moralized by long and cruel oppression.
Verily the yoke of Turkey is "an iron which
entereth the soul." It is time that the yoke
was broken high time at least that the indig
nant humanity of Christendom should demand
that it be no longer bound on the necks of our
Christian brethren by Christian hands.
The Druses themselves.will of course, be
impenetrable to Christian and civilized influ
ences, so long as the Turkish power remains
unbroken. That empire is now like a vast
ruin of some old dismantled castle, whose
crumbling walls and subterranean passages are
fit only to be the haunt of robbers. That Eu
ropean power which shall boldly demolish it
and open the space at least for the erection of
a new structure more in keeping with the ad
vanced humanity and civilization of the nine
teenth century, will have the approbation and
the thanks of Christendom.
Presidential Election Day. An act passed
Congress in 1845, "to establish a uniform timo
for holding elections for electors of President
and Vice President in all the States of the U
nion." This act fixes the election on "Tues
day next after the first Monday in the month
of November," which this year is the 6th day
of the month. All the electors must be cho
sen, or appointed on that day, except in the
Electoral College, or where a State has failed
to effect an election on the day designated.
The Augusta, Ga., Chronicle says that Mr.
Senator Toombs in a recent speech he made
at Warrenton, frankly admitted that Col. Bell
was "as sound as himself upon the Slavery
qustion." .' ; '
When a wife kisses her husband, and looks
unutterable afieftion at him, she is In want of
a "twanty-spot,"
A TOUCHING ST0EY.
The following affecting narrative purports to
uve oeen given by a lather to his son, as warn
ing derived from his own bitter experience o
grieving and resisting a mother's love and
counsel.
"What agony was visible on my mother's
lace wnen she saw that all she said and suffer
ed failed to move me ! She rose to go homo
auu x lotiowea at a distance. She spoke no
more to me till she reached her own door.
"it is school time now," said she. "Go my
son, and once more let mo beseech you to
ininii upon what I have said."
"I shan't co to school." said I.
She looked astonished at my coldness, but
replied nrmiy : Certainly you will go, Al
lred, I command you."
"1 will not," said I in a tone of defiance.
"One of two things vou must do.Allred ei-
ther go to school this morning, or I will lock
you in your room, and keep you there till
jou are ready to piomise implicit obedience
to my wishes in the future.
"I dare you to do it, can't get me up stairs.'
Alfred, choose now," said my mother.who
laid her hand upon my arm. She trembled
violently and was deadly pale.
"If you touch me I will kick you," said I
in a terrible rage. God knows 1 knew not
wnat l said.
"Will you go Alfred ?"
"No,' I replied, but quailed beneath hereyc
"Then follow me," said she, as she grasp
ed my arm firmly. '
i raised my loot oh, my son hear me!
raised my foot and kicked her my sainted
mother ! How my head reels a the torrent of
memory rushes over me ! I kicked mv moth
er, a feeble woman my mother ! She stag'
gered back a few steps, and leaned against tho
wail, fetie did not look at me; I saw her
heart beat against her breast.
"Oh! ITeavenlv Father." said she. "forgive
him he knows not what he does!"j
i ue gardener just then passed the door.and
seeing my mother pale and almost unable to
supsort herself, he stopped. She beckoned
him in.
"Take this boy up st3irs, and lock him in
his room," and she turned from me. Look
ing back as she was entering her room, she
gave such a look of agony, mingled with the
most inteuse love ! it was the last unuttera
ble pang from a heart that was broken.
In a moment I found myself a prisoner in
my own room. I thought, lor a moment, I
would fling myself from the open window, and
dash my brains out, but I felt afraid to do it
I was not penitent. At times my heart was
subdued ; but my stubborn pride rose in an
nstant, and bade me not yield. The pale
face of my mother hannted me. ; I flung my-
seit in bed and soon leu asleep. Just at twi
light I heard a footstep approach the door. It
was my sister.
"What may I tell my mother for you ?" she
asked. .
"Nothing," I replied.
"Oh, Alfred ! for my sake, for all our sakes,
say you are sorry. She longs to forgive you.'
I would not answer. I heard her footsteps
slowly retreating, and again I threw myself
ou the oed, to pass another wretched and fear-
ul night. Another footstep slower and fee
bler than my sister's disturbed me. A voice
called me by name. It was my mother's.
"Alfred, my son, shall I come ?" she asked.
I cannot tell what influence, operating at
that moment made me speak adverse to my
eeimgs. Ihe gentle voice of my mother
thrilled through me, and melted the ice of
my obdurate heart, and I longed to throw my
self on her neck ; but I did not. But my
words gave the lie to my heart when I said 4I
was not sorry.' I heard her withdraw. I
heard her groan. I longed to call her back.
But I did not.
I was awakened from my uneasy slumber,
by hearing my name called loudly, and my
sister stood by my bedside.
"Get up, Alfred. Ob don't wait a minute !
Get up, and come with me. Mother is dying.'
1 thought t was yet dreaming, but I got up
melancholily and followed my sister. On the
bed. and cold as marble lay'my mother. She
was not undressed. She had thrown herself
on the bed to rest ; arising to go again to me,
he was seized with a palpitation of the heart,
and borne senseless to her room.
I cannot tell you with what agony I looked
upon her; my remorse was tenfold more bit
er from the thought that she would never
know it, I believe myself to be her murder
er. I fell on the bed beside her. 1 could not
weep. My heart burned in my bosom ; my
brain was on fire. My sister threw her arms
around me, and wept in silence. Suddenly
we saw a light motion of mother's hand ; her
eye's unclosed. She had recovered conscious
ness, but not speech. She looked at me and
moved her lips. I could not understand her
words. "Mother, mother!" I shrieked, "say
only that you forgive me." She could not
say it with her lips, but her hand pressed
mine, bhe smiled upon me, and lifting her
thin white hands, she clasped my own within
them, and cast her eyes upward. She moved
her lips in prayer, and thus she died. I re
mained still kneeling beside that dear form,
till my gentle sister removed me. The joy
of youth had gone forever.
Boys who spurn a mother's control, who are
ashamed to own that they are wrong, who
think it manly to resist her authority, or yield
to her influence, beware ! Lay not up for
yourselves bitter memories for future years.
A Good One A Paris journal says that a
Yankee was politely invited by a Chinese mer
chant to make him a visit at his house, and
that the Oriental host overwhelmed his acci
dental gueSt with hospitality, providing for
ini a splendid sort of throne, in his best room.
and inviting a continual concourse of friends
to pay their respects to the distinguished
stranger. The house swarmed from morning
till night with courteous, obsequious andadmi-
mg Chinamen, till Brother Jonathan began to
be abashed by the homage he received. But
one day the Yankee, having picked up a rudi
mentary knowledge of the Chinese tongue,
stopped, on entering bis friend's abode, tope-
ruse a magnificent inscription over the door,
which he found to run as follows: "Here
will be seen a real live North American a
species of creature rare in this country. Ad
mission two cents, payable on going out.
Thk Summer of I860. The present summer
promises to be memorable for hurricanes, hail
stcrms, hot weather, big crops, astronomical
wonders, an unusual influx ot Asiatic and Eu
ropean royalty, and a superabundance of Pres
idential candidates.
EARTH'S DEVILS.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent
discourse, thus draws a picture of that large
class ot men who delight in tempting to ruin
the innocent and unsuspecting :
"It is not the indiau alone w ho loves to car
ry the scalps he has taken in battle ; there
are thousands of beings,male and female, who
love to carry in sight the number of victims
they have seduced or corrupted. to count them
over and boast of their crime. There are men
who love to corrupt young, who love to teach
them fallacious vices, and seduce thesn into
evil compliances, to put tho leaven of perdi
tion into their souls, and wait till it begins to
leaven the whole lump. They seem to have a
horrible gloat of pleasure in doing this. They
resist all the efforts of their victim to break
away ; and if he does get away they pull him
down again and God lets such men live !
Did you ever see a spider spinning his web
in the corner! With what delicacy of his
loom does he spin all the web! how it shines
in the sun ! and who has spun it all right ; and
after spinning it he makes himself a little hole,
In which he goes back and lies in wait for a
singing fly that has survej-ed and philosophiz
ed the Universe, lie looks upon the web, and
the moment he touches it how the spider rush
es out to seize him ! and if he be a small in
sect, and a large spiderie will bite him aud
roll him up in the web ; or if he bo a large fly,
he commences rolling up and preparing by
and by to eat him ; aud if, for a moment the
poor little fly turns to escape, how he rushes
out and instantly seizes him again, and rolls
him up and up, over and over, more closely
than ever, and then drags him down to some
corner!
I have seen men treat men just so. They
spin just such webs, and then sit in some dark
corner till they wind their coils arouud him
till he is hopelessly entangled in the web;
leading him in their infernal work, and rolling
him over and over again in its meshes; and
if the poor victim begins to. sing and buzy in
his efforts to break away, how I have seen
them rush out again and carry them back and
utterly ruin them in their house of infamy !
Wiiat we are made of. Tho following is
from an article by Oliver W. Holmes: "If the
reader of this paper live another year, his self
conscious principle will have migrated from
his present tenement to another, the raw ma
terials even of which are not yet put together
A portion of that body which is to be, w ill ri
pen in the corn of his next harvest. Another
portion of his future person he will purchase,
or others will purchase for him, headed up in
the form ol certain barrelsof potatoes. A third
fraction is yet to be gathered in tho Southern
rice field. The limbs with w hich he is then to
walk will be clad with flesh borrowed from the
tenants of many stalls and pastures, now un-
concious of their doom. The very organs of
speech with which he is to talk so wisely,
plead so eloquently, or speak effectively, must
first serve his humble brethren to bleat, to bel
low and for all the varied utterances ot bristled
or feathered barnyard life. His bones them
selves arc, to a great extent, in posse and not
in esse. A bag ot phosphate ot lime, which he
has ordered from Prof. Mapes, lor his ground,
contains a large part of what is to be his skel
eton. And more than all this, and by far the
greater part of his body is nothing at all but
water, the main substance of his scattered
members is to be looked for in tha reservolr.in
the running streams, at the bottom of the well,
in tho clouds that float over his head, or dif
fused among them all."
Never Boy What You Don't Need. If
the poor-house has any terror for you, never
buy what vou don't need. Before you pay
three cents for a jews-harp, see if you can't
make just as pleasant a noise by whistling, for
which nature furnishes the machinery. And
before you pay seven dollars for a figured vest,
young man, find out whether your lady-love
would not bo just as glad to see you in a plain
one. that cost just halt the money. It she
wouldn't let her crack her own walnuts and
buy her own clothes. When you see a man
pay $5 for a Frenchified toy that a philosophic
lankee baby will pull to pieces in five minu
tes, the chances are that he will live long en
ough to realize how many cents there are in
a dollar ; and if he don't he is sure to bequeath
that privilege to his widow. When a man
ask9 you to buy that for which you have no
use, no matter how cheap it is, say you are
sure some one else wants it at an advance.
Money burns in some people's pockets, and
makes such a pesky hole, that every thing
that is put in drops through past finding. -
Republicanism in Washington. A Wash-
ngton corrospondent says a laige number of
Southern people are traveling Northward now
through Washington, and they express uni
versal astonishment at the strength of the Re
publican sentiment in the Capitol, and its tol
eration in a Southeren city. They are frankly
nformed there is some doubt of its being a
Southern city any longer; that Republicans
claim their intentions to simply convert it into
a tree national city. There is no doubt that a
rapid revolution is taking place in the senti
ments of the population of Washington, as it
becomes better acquainted with RepupHcan
ism. Success to it. .
Mr. Douglas has been giving it out in his
recent speeches that Mr. Webster endorsed
the Sqatter Sovereignty principle. Now bear
the old expounder in his i th of March speech
of 1850 : "Sir, wherever there is a particu-
ar good to be done wherever there is a foot
of land to be stayed from becoming slave terri
tory, I am ready to assert the principle ot the
exclusion of slavery. I am pledged to it from
the year 1837 ; I have been pledged to it again
and again ; and I will perform these pledges.'
An ingenious French philosopher is at pres
ent maintaining the hypothesis that the feed-
ng of the negro races continuously on exclu
sively animal lood, would effect their conver
sion into white men. Lie grounds his belief
mainly on the fact that in some districts where
a large quantity of food is consumed, the pe
culiarities of the negro physiognomy are con
siderably reduced. Guess agaic, Doctor. ,
"Good morning, Mr. Grumm ; what is the
news to-day?" "Ob, there's no news; my
wife was sick - yesterday, and didn't go out ;
no news no news." .
A Yankee in Panama sought shelter at the
American Consuls from an earthquake be
thought even the earthquake would respect
our nag. f
. . , THE TETJE ELITE.
-Every-body has heard the designation "trua
blue," applied to Presbyterians.
Dr. Murray, in his speech before the assem
bly of the Free Church of Scotland, at th
tri-centenary celebration, playlully refers to
its origin :
"I havo often been asked why wo arc called
"true blue." I did not know how to answerr
But I asked a Scotchman. "Well" said he,
"wheii we were persecuted, the ministers us
ed to go to the mountains, and when they
were going to have communion they held out
a blue flag, which was an invitation to the peo
ple of the coilutry around to attend ; and their
descendcuts are called trne blue from that."
That is one explanation, bat I have found out
another for myself. A few years ago I was In .
Naples aud Rome, and went to Pompeii,
where I spent some time among its splendid
frescoes of variegated hues. All the other
colors had faded away, but tbe blue was as
bright as the the day it was put on, although
it had beeu buried for nearlv two thousand i
years. The true blue never gave out that is
tho meaning of it. (Laughter.) The blue.
Presbyterianism is so blue that it never give
out."
The Japanese and the Ethnological Soci-.
ett. Tho committee appointed by the Ethno
logical Society of New York to hold an inter
view with the scientific members of the Japan
ese Embassy have furnished their otSciial re
port, from which we make the following ex
tracts: .
The subject of nn embassy, alledged to havt
been sent from Japan to Rome, A. D. 152Sr
was broached. Matsnioto stated emphatically
that no formal mission to a foreign country
ever cccurred previous to the one of wbich ho
is a member, accredited to the United States.
He observed that some 278 years ago, several
young men, connexions aud representatives of.
three princes, visited Rome, but without any
governmental authority.
As it was rumored that some members of tho
Embassy had become indignant on their peoplo
being compared to tbe Chinese, wo wero a-
greeably surprised at the candor and magnan
imity of our informants, when interrogated re
specting tbe sources whence they originally
derived tea, silk, porcelain wood engraving.
paper, printing, aid gunpowaer. 1 he answer
was,uuinformly,"Chind." As itseemspossiUie,
if not probable, that navigation was as early
developed by the islanders of Japan as by tho
natives of the neighboring continent, their
opinion was asked respecting tho origin of the
mariner's compass. The answer was thesame,.
and as promptly given, "China." Indicative
of views and feelings untainted with national'
prejudices, these replies are characteristic of
superior minds. They were surprised on bein
informed that the seamen of Europe and Amer
ica are indebted to the same-so-urco as them-.'
selves for that invaluable gift of science to art.
When asked if such books as that before vts
(one printed in colois) vere rare, the reply
was they were very common, "in much
plenty." The report of old travellers .was
confirmed, that the Japanese have what we call
encyclopedias, or dictionaries of arts, and col
lections of manuals '" like this, numerous, as
it would seem, and certainly as. fully illustra
ted as any modern French scries; and at one
fifth the cost, too cheap as we may think, the
Parisian issues are. So far as regardstbe pro
duction ot a cheap and useful literature, Japan
may be said to have been centuries in advance
of Enrope. The cost of this book. was. about
eight to ten cents.
A Man with a rag bag in his hand was pick
ing up a large number of pieces of w hale-bone
which lay in the street. The deposit was of
such a singular nature, that we asked tho
quaint-looking gatherer how he supposed they
came there. "Don't know," he replied, in. a,
sqeaking voice, " spect somo unfortunate fe
male was wrecked hereabouts."
It is believed in Washington that theduun.
ion letter was planned for and submitted, to a
meeting of leading Southern meti, who are
concerting a secession league an the South,
and have gone so far, as to appoint, secret a
gents to asertain what will be done by foreign
governments incase their plans are carried
out. Isn't that treason ?
M:jor Culbertson. who has jest come from
the Rocky Mountains, says that the head: wa
ters of the Missouri and Columbia rivers aro
so close together, tint he at one time drank
from the Missouri, on the cast side of the Rocky
Mountains, and in half an hour afterwards
from the Columbia on the Pacific.
Gov. Ramsey of Minnesota has offered a re
ward of $250 for the persons who, on July 20,
kidnapped from St. Paul an alleged, fugitive
slave, named Henry Sparks. They carried
him oh without any legal forms or any warrant.
Manx surmises have been formed about tho
oil found below the surface of the earth in
Pennsylvania. The best out yet, is that it has
been put there by Nature for the purpose of
greasing the axis that the earth turns upon.
Th nnmlwr nf offin'-s in tho refrular armv
of the United States who have risen from the
ranks is 23. It is not generally known that
there is, a law providing for the bestowal of
commissions on deserving soldiers,.
It is said that there are at present in Enrope
18,140 actors, 21,600 actres&es, 1,7.73 managers
of theatres ; and the number ol persons attach
ed in one way or another to dramatic estab
lishments amounts to 82,000-
It is said that there are now running on tho
railways in the United States not less than
3000 passenger cars, and some 80,000 freight
cars ; under the whole pf which some 688,000
wheels aro running.
The "M'Keesport snake" lias been seen a
gain. The individual who was so fortunate
as to obtain a sight of the varmint estimates
it to bo about the length of two coal barges
or thirty-five feet.
Tho people of Downingtown, are making
efforts for the establishment of a Bank, under
tho free banking law passed last winter.
Shares of stock, amounting to over $50,000,
have already been sold.
A man once asked a company of little boys
what they were good for 7 On little fellow
promptly answered, "We are good to mat
men of."