u M l I I rrf rpfi MM, MM Mf Au A4fc J $ b p iy? $ Wm XM Wm TP' vjp WlW vpt fe II. IIC j j, TOS IIUTtjlliXSOX, Publisher. I WOULD RATIIEIl BE RIGIIT THAN PRESIDENT. IlEsiiY Clay. VOLUME 2. EBENSBU11G, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1861, NUMBER 40. A DIRECTORY. FSr?A:tS EXPRESSLY FOR i;TiIB ALLKG n AX I AX." EiT OF 1'OST QSTiVES. s l'i!f- Put Mi sters. Districts. " i s Creek. Joseph Graham, Yoder. a .. . i .Station, Joseph R Mardis, Rlacklick. r .!',,,!fown, Benjamin Wirtner, Carroll. j brings, Danl. Litzinger, Chest. !v "ri John J. Troxell, Waihint'u. r-usYntrg. Mrs. II. U'Caguc, Kbensburg. r n Timber, Isaac Thompson, White. J;" '':.;'., J- -M- t'brlsty, Gailit.'.in. ; jVo':' Yfia. M'Gougli, Washt'n. t j.n, II. A. Rogers, Johnst'wa. ; . Wm. Gwinn, Loretto. t".il Point, E. Wissingcr, Conem'gh. -; r A. Durbin, Munster. ' v-'jVnT, Francis Clement, Coner.i'gli. pVrVifle, Andrew J. Ferral Sus'j'haa. p ' land, G. W. Bowman, White. Aarnstiae, Wni. Ryan, Sir., Clearfield, j .' 1 Level, George Conrad, Richland, g-'san. B. M'Colgnn, Washt'n. S .-.uThill, Wm. Murray, Croyle. rdiiiore, Andrew Beck, S'mmerhill. rrr'.,t!riun Rev.-D. Haerisox, Psistor. e.u'.uag every Sabbath morning nt 10J 0 ;. and in the evening at 2 o dock, feao- io,)l at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer nieet- ' ."vi-rv Thursday evening at 0 o'clock. )i:ri"k;t Episcf't'il Clturen Rev. J. Gkaxe, .' ii'.T Hi v. iiar'. . in ij. i. .--;. r.t. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately i ... c'clock in the morning, or T in the -Siil.liatb School at 1 o'clock, A. 31. y.-...r meeting every Thursday evening, at -'.ch Indrpr p den f Rev Ll. R. Pov.r.Lr,, pt r. Preaching every Rabbath morning at 'ijo tiock. and in the evening at G o'clock. ..Vl.:;i!i School ut 1 o'clock, P. il. Prayer ucctl'V on the first Monday evening of each rj.vitl.and on every Tv.tsday, Thursday and i'.-icay evening, excej-ting the first week in !i r.-.onth. C-i'.i-i.iitir MfthodlsiT.EX. Jo::x V"ill:as, r Preaching everv Rablir.th evening at o'clock. Rabbatb School at 10 o'clock, Pr.ivcr raccting every Friday evening, t: 7 o'clock. Society every '1 aesaay evening "'.; ?.zr. W. LloiD; PHst.jr. Preacb-L-..'cv.-Vv SabJiath morning at o'clo"i. Tl':rJulnr .'.i '.'.i-v. DavH . 'reaching every Sab'.iath evening c.t 2 ....-.. k. S I'.hathSthool at at I o'clock. P. M. ('...,,;. HE v. M. J. Mitchell. Pa.-tor. .... .. . 1 '.i...! s:-r every rjabuatn morning ai j o ciociv ::i Vtiptra at 4 o'clock in the evening. EBIl'i'SIliJIlG AILS. MAILS ARRIVE. -:::r... dally, at 12 o'clock, noon. at 1- o clocK, noon. MAILS CLOSE. E mem. daily, at 4 o'clock, P. M. Vt'tittra, at 4 o'clock, P. M. LThc mails from B'.i tler.Indiana.i'irongs tsT:;. .ic, arrive on Thursday of each v.'eek, s:5 o'clock, P. M. Leve E'oensburg oa Friday of each week, i:i A.M. rcTiie mails from Xowman's Mill?, 'Cnr fj'.ii ic, arrive on Monday, Wednesday wi Fri ly of each week, at 3'o'cloek P. M. Ljtvf Eber.;burg oa Tuesdays, Thursdays KlSvir.lays. ra 7 o'clock, A. M. Pst Odice open on Sundays froai 0 Is U 'lock,A. M. Vv'ILMORE STATION. Express Train leaves at 9.08 A. M. " Mail Train ,44 8.17 P. M. -i-Lxnrfs3 Trair. 7.3) P. M. '' last Lino " 12 33 T. M. " llxA Train " A. M. Fust LiueWest does not stop. J';'!! the Courts President, Hon. Geo. ;V'-'.": Huntingdon; Associates, George W. rf. Hu-nara jones, Jr. r -'.' '.ont,irtf Joseph M ' D o n al d . kr-j'f'rr and Recorder Fd.vard F. Lytic S irjjT. Uobcrt P. Linton. . T)' n'y Sfiffijjf. William Linton. &'.-,' A'l'jriieii. Phi'iu S. Xoon. . 4 OtininUxiontrs. Abel Lloyd, jaines Looper. CVi'i Comnimior.ers. Robert A. M'Coy T'f strer. John A. Blair. I'jot hunt Directors. David O'llarro, - ':Uatl M'Guire, Jacob Horner Vrtr Uuise Trco'nrtr. George C. K. Zabni. Par House Ste-.curd. James J. Kaylor. il .'r.t nt if A nr.:. IT CI novini -..III I U 0M 111 . w . w I Ja,'o. Henry Hawk. Joha F. Stall. S.Rhey. w-itj Surveyor. E. A. v lcnroy. JwrintenJent of Common Schools. James JU(s cf the Peace. David II. Robert?, --ju KinKeaa. David J. Evans. i Council Evan Griflith, John J.Evawj, ; -tn U. Davis, Thomas B. Moofe, Daniel to Council T. D. Litzinger. ijh Trtanurer George Gurlcy. !yh. .Vntttr William Davis. Directors William Davis, Reese R. Morris J. Evans, Thomas J. Davis, ' 'oues, David J. Jones. urer of School Board Evan Morgaa. '''"i George W. Browa. Elector Georpe Gurlcy. ".-'-.' of Election Meshac Thomas. "V'sronRobert Evans, Wia. Williams iu:r Richard T. Davis. i Uivkijuj 1.50 iu kdTJiBC Select IJoctrn. Pi CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 27, 1&G1. BY OLIVEIt WKXDELL HOLMES. Eighty years have passed, and more, Since under the brave old tree Our fathers gathered ia arms and swore They would follow the sign their bannersbore, And fight till the land was free. Half of their 'work was done, Half is left to do, Cambridge, and Concord, and Lexington! When the battle is fought'and won, What shall be told of you 1 Hark rtis the south wind moans, Who are the martyrs dowa ? Ah, the marrow was true in your childrea's bones That sprinkled with blood the cursed stones Of the murder-haunted town! What if the storm clouds blow? What if the green loaves f;II? Better the crashing tempest's throe Than the army of worms that gnawed below; Trample them ono and all ! Then, when the battle is won, And the land from traitors free, O'ir children shall tell of the strife begun When Liberty's second April sun Was bright on our brave old tree! ETHAN SPiilSGfJ "DIXIE." Ef ever there ivas a spared monument of iiiarc-y, I am that ere monument. VA' ever there was a poor, mean, duown-trou-den cul-s, 1 am in that line ol' business. Ki' when my ease is known there ain't one mineral bust ot indignation, triberlatim ind wrath, then I'll bust myself that's all. Ki the dry bones don't rattle naow, it must be cos they Itaint nary a rattle left. I kin aud will a tail unfold as shall set yer hair cn eend like quill on a frightful koiikcrbine. Them a has tears to shed had better get cm ready to let on, or else forever dry up. Tears as v.'ont flow r.t the recital of niy sufferings aint ginoowine. IIear but strike me. At u secret session of nour perviional orovernmcut i wa.$ resolved that among' other iinprovru"'it-S the 'Tatriarchul In stitution" should be sot up, and I was ap pintcd a ueligate to go daown to Viriuny an get a ccuple of likely niters fur secu. it wasn't tho'.t-ht necessary to tak money to buy cm, as evrybody said aour "fc'outh ren lJrethrii.g" would be glad to help us in propporgatiu their institutions. Hovv wofuily we iniscal but I wont antici pate only blast their picJcrs! Wnl, the inorniu artcr I got to Rich mond, I sot right about fiudiu-n likely pair of iitggcrs. There was one fellow at the tavern where stopped, that seemed to be aboat the right sor, so I went right in to examine him. .1 opened his mouth an looked at his teeth, an punes.eJ his ribs to try his wind. The critter stood all this fust rate, only grinaiiug at me, hut in the course of the examination, when I kim to kickin bis shins, he riled in a minit, kin der lowered his head, kim at me full ehis.-el, aud butted me clean through a door. I went eend over cend, and landed fiat on my back, where I laid a long time, as I Uarsent get up lor fear he'd but mc asin. Rut I gin him a piece of xty mind. uVou internal black sou of Hem, Sham an Jayfit," says I, "what do yer menu V says I, making an effort to arose : but d.iowu went his head, and I straightened agin. "Get-aout," says I, "you onsarcumsized old mereeno. You soopermooncrated mon key, why can't you get aout says I. jiut the hutry cuss only grinned and snorted, till jest us I was gcttin aout of patience he left the room. Tbiukin he'd clean gone, I ris to a settin poster, when quicker than you can think, that pesky Kananite hit me seiners in the postmortem regions, and eend over eend I went agiu. I crauled under the bed and laid till I hterd the nigger go down stairs. I begun to think that if this ere critter was a specimen, perhaps it want pcrlitikel economy to introduce slaves iuto Hornby. Rut I went that night to hear Rev. Dr. Somebody preach, an he siid how Slavery is a Divine iastitootion, an knowin that we are dreadfully iu want of Divine insti tcutions, 1 concluded to try further. Wish I hadn't. Next day I met' in the street two real fat, healthy-lookin niggers a man an a woman they war an 1 says to cm "Haow ara you, darkies '" says I. "Who you call darkies'" says the nig ger that warnt the woman. As his eyes rolled dreadfully, and he begun to curl in his head, I made sure he was going to but me, so I jumped, over the fence into a garding. "What you do that for ?" said the nig ger witu the gown on. "Cos," says I, "that ere husband, of yourn was goin to but me." "Hi, hi, ho, ho, yah, yah!" clled both niggers together. "Pears like I shall laugh myself to def," saj's the nigger without no gaown holdiu his fat sides. "What in thunder you laughing at," saj's I. "Kase," says she, "you fraid Squash goin to but you." An then they both hi hid an ho hod aud yah yahd again. "Who's Squash " says I. "Dat ar my husbin," says she. "Wal, lcoky here, blister Squash," says I, "I'se suthin to say to you." "He no IJisier," says she, "he only Squash." "Wal, then," says I, "Squash wouldn't you an this ere colored female Squash like to go to Hornby:"' " bar dat r.r ?" says he-Squash. "Wal, it lays jest abaout Ncthe IVora here, prelmps .N'otiie by Notheast." "In orf I" said both in a whisper, an locked as seart as though they'd seen a ghost. "Ino good lor niggers to talk boat Xorf here," says he. An then he an totlicr Squash went away as fast as they could. I wcut pokin abaout an haour or so, lookin at the niggers an tryiu to talk with some of cm, but they seemed dreadful shy. 1 was j-rst thinkin what it meant, when a chap with a star onto his hat took holt of my collar, an "Come along," says he. "(Jo altiug youisell," says T, at the same time hittin straight aout, an smashin his nose. Rut in the twinklin of a bootjack a dozen more nad. holt o ie, an 1 was car vied to the court. "Wot's it a41 abaout?" es vs I to the judge. The judge said nothin, but a clerk got up an read a long paper, in which I was accused of bein suspected of bein the Pres ident, directcrr an company of the under ground railroad, an that i was ticm the niggers away. Sa-s I, "Squire, it's a cussed federal lie. Squire," says 1, "my person is sacred. I am a plenty-pcrrcntiury from the suvrinty of Hornby. I'm here on jewdicial bisniss. I'm lookin for a good breed of nifrgers to start the Patriarchal institution with," says I. The judge didn't seem to pay no atten tion to me, but when I stopped, said, as this was my fust ofTen'sc he'd let mc off with o5 lashes ! "L'ouky here, Sq'.iire," says I, "you just try that on an Here a handkerchief was crammed into my mouth. In two minits more they had made a spread eagle of me, an a cussed old nitrgcr whaled me with all his might. It hurt :ivfully, but I bore it like a martyr, as'l was; never screamed once couldn't very well, on account of the handkerchief iu my mouth. Arter I was licked they outied me, ati told me ef I was ketched there atjin I'd be sent arter John Rrown. I was mad all over, but remembered that easy blows kill the devil. I says, "Feller citizens," says I, "I aint an ab erlltiouist I hate em all I allers did. lOverybody in Hornby hates aberlitionists. We've seseeded!" says I. "Feller citizens, I'kin prove it j" an I took aout of my hat a copy of the Transcript "ilerf, feller citizens, is the ordinance of scsession," says I. That ere paper of yourn, Mister Editor, liked to hcv bin the death of me. The craowd yelled and hooted like injuns. They fa id it was an aberiitiouist paper, ed itcd'by Garrison an Xabby Folsom. They seized holt of me agin, carried mc aout of taown, gin me another lickin, cropped one of my ears, shaved half my head, painted half my face black an tothcr half blue, put a riug in my nose, an waouud up by tar an fetherin me. Haow T got hum I kin skersly tell, but when I did "I was a sight to beheld. No body knew me everybody .was afraid of me. Aour folks wouldn't let mc kim into the haouse, an wheu I parsevcred sot the dog on me. Two mortal nights I slept in a barn an sucked eggs for a liveiyhood. At the send of that time I had plucked part of my fethers an rubbed off a leetle of the paint, so that I was partly visible a!in, an folks beguu to find aout who it v.-as. 1 don't wonder they didn't know me. The fust time I looked in the glass I thought I see the devil as much as could be. I hollered fire, and run daown sullcr. I am gradually recoverin my fucsimily, but Doct. Pctflgrcu says I shall never be so harusum as I was afore this afllictin dispensation. The Government has declared war agin Vir"inny, an when I next visit theOld Dominion it will be at the head of the forces of Hornby. . We'll sec if a citizen of a free suvrinty can be licked half aout of his skin an fan cy painted with impunity. P. S. I looked so cutus ttiat soxno ad vised me to take up with the offer Rarnum made me as I kim through New York. He offered mc a dollar a day to stay in his museum as a native of the Guano Islands. Wlsisile Your ivay Solomon, when he became used up when his running gear was given ever to rheu matism and gout, said all wa.3 "vanit' and vexation of spirit." Solomou couldn't whistle. If he could have puckered his lips iuto a vent-hole for a regular whistle, he never could have felt so unconscionably blue as to condemn the good things of this world as vanity. The mnn who can whistle and sing is snug in his boots. Let care, age, poverty and a cart-load of ills overtake him, aud if he can whistle his way through the darkest hours of his trouble, go ca his course rejoicing, and eventually turn up a trump of the iirst water. Folks who can whistle, and do not, are mean, avaricious and unhappy. Judas Isvariot was not a whistler. We'il venture to assert that the owneis of those wretched death traps the tenement houses r.p town, can't whistle, and that, no man ever heard them attempt it. Theie is too :nu:h ge nial, outspoken troouiies3 ia a .'Ccnutuc whistler, to suit the disposition cf a mean man. That's so. If you arc trading with a man and ho. whistles jovially over his business, he won't cheat 3-011. He caa't do it. lie thinks too much of turning his tune to bother about turning the ta bles oa you. So, too, with the woman who is about her daily task tinging. She makes Iter home a paradise of good, din ners, cosy comfort and white curtain's. Nothing will go wrong with her. If she is vexed, she will sing off the vexation. If she is vossesfed of vanity, she will sing away the worst pare cf it, and sing the otner into a fpecies ot ioveabie pride. There are no equalling babies, cress cats, snarling dogs, butfonlcss shirts, and marrow-bone suppers, in the house presi ded over by a woman who slugs at her toil. Singing men are worth treble those who go about their work morose and gouty and moodily, as ii-thcy were going to bury their dearest friend. The l'o-heave-oh" of the sailors accomplishes as much in hoisting the anchor as their muscle. There is a world of strength in that same " Yo ! heave, oh !' The Albany Times, in referring to the science of whistling, sa3's: "Whistling is an institution. It oils the wheels of care, aud supplies the place of sunshine. A man who whistles has a good heart under his shirt front. Such a man onby works more constantly. A whistling cobbler will earn as much more money as a eord wainer who gives way to low spirits sr.d indigestion. VI10 ever heard of a whistler among the sharp practitioners cf Wall I street. A. e pause lor an answer, j he man who attacks v.Ti jvhist'iijg throws a stone at the head of hilarity', and would, if he could, rob June of her roses August of its meadow larks. Such a mau should be looked to." . Therefore, take heart and whistle. Mc thusaleh was a whistler, and whistled his age out nine hundred j-ears. Solomon couldn't whistle, sang only with his stylus, and therefore som pegged out. The man with a "light heart and a thin pair of breeches" is always whistling. . Tun Wau Theapi.no on Men's Corn's. A gentleman had occasion for the pain extracting service of a corn-doctor, and while the operation was going on the talk turned on the state of the times. "Bus iness with mc is remarkably dull," re marked the doctor. "You don't say that the Southern troubles qffeetyour busi ness," said the patient. "Indeed I do," rejoined the doctor. "Rut really you don't say that people, to avoid paying twenty-five or fifty cents, will suffer the paiu of their coins i"' "No," replied the doctor, "but the times make the people wear their old boots aud shoes, aud "they don't have any corns." Charleston. The condition of affairs at Charleston is apparently becoming rath er desperate. Provisions are very high and scarce with the prospect ef their be coming still more so when blockade shall have been made enectivc. Rut this is not the only trouble. The troops there are becoming disaffected, and refuse to obey the behests of their leaders This fact is divulged in an address delivered to one of the regiments by Gov. Pickens, which indicates that they had refused to leave the State to fight the battles of the Con federacy in Virginia. 1, If the league of friendship is once broken, the cabinet of sciresy is unlocked and loving conlideucos fly wildly about like uncaged birds. Spiliiisg Cannon. The process by which it is sought to render cannon immediately unserviceable has by recent events been brought promi nently before the public attention. It is an operation which may be done quickly. The ofilccr in command of a battery, per ceiving that he will be driven off without being able to bring away his guns, spikes them, so as to render them useless to their cap-tors, as well as to prevent them from being turned against him while retreating, or on the line on which he intends to fall back. The commander of a fort, on aban doning it, as in the instance of Anderson at Moultrie, adopts the same measure. Frequent cases are 011 record of an attack ing parry capturing a battery, and being in turn driven from it, though not with cut first spiking the guns. When Paul Jones undertook the destruction ,of the English shipping at Whitehaven, his first movement on landing was to seize the forts, and render the guns useless in the same way. The only defences of the har bor thus rendered harmlessby a stroke ot daring which required but a few minutes to accomplish, ho could proceed unmoles ted to the work of destruction. The great point achieved by spikingagun is to make it unserviceable lor the time being. Even a temporary interruption of its tire is of the utmost importance Rut no spiking yet invented lias been able to do more than temporarily disable the gun, though va nous contrivances have been suggested, some, however, making its restoration more difucuU than others. A favorite mode of spiking is by driving a rat-tail file into the vent, and breaking it off.- If the spike be an ordinary nail, made of soft iron, the drill will readily remove it; while the hard steel of the file will require far greater time and labor. The steel spike, rough and jagged, with a soft point, is also used. If broken off even with the surface of the gun, aud the point clinched inside by the rammer, re moval is made more diSicult. If the spike happens to be so small as to fit iu loosely, it may be driven out by gunpowder ; but but if it be made of hardened teel, with r.u accurate fit to the vent, and is driven in with great force, neither drill nor pow der will remove it. A patent spike was brought out in England daring the Cri mean war, w hich claimed to make a gun permanently unserviceable. It consisted of a rod of finely-tempered steel, turned to fit the vent but to move freely in it, aud terminating in a forked spring in the bore of the gun. It was contended that this spike could not be drilled out, because it would turn with the drill. Rut though this were true, 3-et it's inventor forgot the important fact that the forked points in the bore could be cut off by a single blow on a coid chisel. When a spike is so fixed as to lender extraction very difficult, the remedy is to drill a n-ew vent, which may be done without impairing the usefulness of the gun. To do this a competent ma chinist will require some three hours, or more or les according to the size of the gun. Rut all spiking at the vent is ad mitted to be only a temporary expedient to render artillery unserviceable at the moment. Yet even this has often been found productive of the most inqortaut results. When time is afforded, such as the de liberate abandonment of a military work, spiking at the muzzle is sometimes alopt cd, and when thoroughly done, with far greater embarrassment to those v. ho subse quently come into possession. A shot is driven into the bottom Oi' the bore by wrapping it with felt, or using iron wedges and employing an iron rammer to drive the ball home. When this is done to an iron gun, the only method of unspikiug it is to bore a hole in the breech and drive the ball out, closing the hole with a screw. To do this, the gun, in most eases, must go back to the foundry. In brass guns, which usually have vent-pieces, these can be taken out aud the ball expelled by wedges. Various modes for destroying cannon arc adopted. Shells are sometimes exploded in them, while heavy charges are put in others, over which sand or shot is rammed to the muzzle, and bursting follows. One piece is sometimes fired against another, muzzle to muzzle, cr the muzzle of one to the chase of the other. Iu iron guns the trunnions are broken off; with brass ones, a lire is lighted under the chase, and wheu struck with a heavy sledge while heated, the gun is bent aud disabled. Had time been allowed Colonel Audersou to destroy the cannon in Fort MouUrie before abandoning it, there can be little doubt, from his long experience as an artillery ofiieer, that he would have left to the rebels a legacy of crippled guus unfit for anything but the foundry. jGT" Lazy rich girls make rich men poor, and industrious noor girls raako poor men rick. "Koliodj' Asked You, Sir." Where ate you going, my pretty maid? I'm going a milking, sir, she said. Who is your father, my pretty maid? My father's the miller, sir, shi said. Will yon marry me, my pretty maid ? You offer me freelyj kind sir she Eaid What i3 your fortune, my pretty maid? My face is my fortune, sir, she said. Then I can't marry you, my pretty maid! Nobody asked you, sir ! she said. m ; Courtesy. Courtesy is not an obser vance of the conventionalities of society ; it is in reality founded on common sense and manly feeling. An uncourteous man is one cf the greatest bores in the world. Be offends everybody, aud instead of be ing treated with kindness and considera tion by his neighbor, he is generally in tensely disliked, and no language is suffi ciently strong ty express his demerits. To be courteous is simply to pay a proper deference to the feelings of others. A well educated man is generally courteous. The fact of his mind being liberalized teaches him the ncccsityT of exercising this virtue. Benevolent men are always courteous ; the desire to give pleasure to others is sufficient inducement for them to cultivate this good quality. It is just as easy to be courteous as the reverse. The time ha? gone by when bluntness is taken as a sign of honesty. It has been found that dishonest men can be blunt and rude as well as honest men ; and com pliments of delcrencc to the feeliugs of others, have ceased to be marks of insin cerity. A person who is hibitually dis courteous, generally possesses little sensi bi 1 i ty, a n d h e ca res n ot h i n g abou t woun d i ng the feeling of others, excusing himself by saying that ho only speaks what he thinks ; that is, to put forth his own private opin ion, whatever it maybe, no matter wheth er it wound the feeling of his dearest friend. Of course, if a person's opinion is requested, he must tell the truth ; but even that can be dene in courteous lan guage which will wound no one. If cour tesy were more generally practiced, it would be conducive of the best results. Mutual civility among all classes of society would be found a potent remedy for more than half the evils that now oppress us. Woxpr.r.FUL Children Raillet men tions one hundred and sixty-three children endowed with extraordinary talent, amonj whom few arrived at an advanced age. The two sons of Quintillian, so vaunted by their father, did not reach their tenth year. Jiermogcnes who at the age of fif teen taught rhetoric to Marcus Aurclius, who triumphed over the most celebrated rhetoriciaus of Greece, did not die, but at twenty-four lost his faculties, and forgot all he had previously acquired. Pica di Marandola, died at thirty-two; Johantc3 Secundus at twenty-five, having at the age of fifteen composed admirably Greek and Latin verses, and become profoundly versed iu jurisprudence and letters. Pascal, whose genius developed itselt at ten years old, did not attain the third of a century. In 1791, a child was bom at Lubeck, named Henri Hcmnckcn, whoso precocity was miraculous. At ten months of age bespoke distinctly, at twelve learnt the Pentateuch by rote, aud at fourteen months was perfectly acquainted with the Old and New Testament. At two vears lie was as familiar with Ancient History as the most erudite authors of antiquity. Sanson and Danviile only could compcto with him in geographical knowledge. In the ancient aud modern languages he was a proficient. This wonderful child was unfortunately carried off in his fourth, year. Wonderful children generally dio young. Things that ripeu early rot easy. Therefore, do not force your children into a hurried growth. How to Rreak Bap Habits. Evil habits though they sometimes become ap parently irresistible and incurable, and lead many clever men into speedy destruc tion, yet none ever become so powerful that they may not be corrected. "The firm and rest lute determination is more that, half of the battle gained. Here is the way to break off from pernicious practices: Understand clearly the reasons, and all the rcasous WI13 the habit is injurious. -Study the subject till there is no lingering doubt in your mind. Avoid the places, the persons, the thoughts that lead into temptation. Frequent the, places, associ ate with the persons, indulge the thoughts that lead awty from the temptation. Keep busy idleness is the strength of b.id habits. Do not give up to the struggle when you have broken your resolution once, twice, ten or a thousand times. D not think it is an cjsj matter you havA undertaken, but keep constantly on your guard, that you may not be surprised into sinning. Keep guard constant.! v. v. 1 4. -Ihr
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