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' Farm Stock,
Best stallion, $5 00
Second best do. 3 00
Third best do. 2 00
Best 2or 3 year old colt, 3 00
Best colt under 1 year, 1 00
Best brood mare, . 3 00
Best pair of work oxen, 400
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Best bull, 3 00
Second best do., 2 00
Best cow ; 4 00
Second best do., 3 00
Best 3 year
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Best 2 year old do., 2 00
Best lot of calves, 2 00
Best fine wooled buck, 3 00
Second best dJ., - 2 - 00
Best Soul Mown do., 3 00
Best long wooled do., 3 00
Second best do., 2 00
Best fine wooled ewes, 3 00
Second best do.. 2 00
Best long wooled do., 3 00
Best lot of Southdowns, 300
Best boar, 3 00
Second best do., 2 00
Third best do., 1 00
Best sow, 3 00
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Best litter of pigs, 2 00
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Best harrow,
Best cultivator,
Best hill side plow,
Best windmill,
Best wheat drill,
Best corn drill,
Best horse rake,
Best reaper, 3 00
Best mower, - 3 00
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Second best do.,
,Best Indian corn,
Second best do.,
Beet rye,
Best oats,
Best buckwheat,
Domestic Manufactures
Best butter,
Second best do.,
Third best,
Best cheese,
Second best do.,
Third best do.,
Best honey,
Best 2 loaves of bread
Best display of preserves, 1 00
Best display of pickles, 1 00
Best specimen of hard soap, 1 00
Best specimen of tallow candles, 1 00
Best hearth rug, 1 00
Second best do., 50
Best carpet, . ~. 3 00
Second best d0.,2 00
Best flannel, 3 00
Second best do., 2 00
Best quilt, . 3 00
Second best do., 2 00
Best wool socks, 1 00
Best worsted do., 1 00
Best ornamental needle work. 1 00
Best silk embroidery, 1 00
Best worsted do., I; 00
Best specimen of shelwork, 1 00
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at the. discretion of the Judges.
Mechanical Implements and Manufac-
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Best pair of horse shoes, 50
Best made meat vessel, 50
Best cooking stove, 1 00
Best washing machine, 50
Best set of farming harness, 1 00
Best set E•f single harness, 1 00
Be‘st pair boots, 1 00
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Best side sole leather,l 00
Best kip and calf skin, • 1 00
Best side harness and upper, 1 00
Best specimen of marble work, •1 00
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Best bridle and saddle,
Best 2 horse carriage,
Best buggy,
Best lot of cabinet ware,
Best greatent variety of tin ware.
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Best and greatest variety of apples, 3 00
Second best do 2 00
Best doz. fall apples; 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best doz. winter apples, 2 00
Second best, do., 1 00
Best doz. of peaches, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best pears, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best plums, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best quinces, 1 00
Best native grapes, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best display of grapes, 2 00
Best cranberries (cultivated,) 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best display of flowers in bloom, 2 00
Second Best do., 1 00
Best variety of dahlias, 2 00
Second best do. ; 1 00
Best display of plants, 2 00
Vegetables.
Best potatoes, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Bost sweet potatoes, 2 00
Best half dozen tomatoes, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best half doz. peppers, 1 00
Best " " beets, 1 00
Best " 44 parsnips, 1 00
Best " " carrots, 1 00
Best " " turnips, 1 00
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Best " " onions, 1 00
Best 44 " stalks of celery, 1 00
Best two heads of cabbage, 1 00
Best two squashes, 1 00
Best pumpkin, 1 00
Best beans, 1 00
Best pair of turkeys,
Best '' geese,
Best " chicks,
Best " shanghaies,
Best display of poultry
The articles and stock exhibited must be
manufactured, raised or owned by the exhib
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Journal" or other publications for one year
may be substituted. And instead of the_pre
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Floral departments, literary premiums of.
equal or greater value may be awarded.
From the Westchester Republican
THY WILL BE DONE.
flow oft these words escape our lips !
But yet how swiftly in the hour
Of trial, from our spirit, slips
RemeMbrance of their hallowed power!
rfow often, does their utterance'
Unmeaningly upon the ear ; ,
Or, scarcely yields us one, of all-
The blessings they were meant to bear !
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In youth, when all around is light,
When skies are clear, and hopes arc bright,
And shine—like sunbeams thro' the dew—
On all within the spirit's view ;
We little think, how vast the power,
These oft.ropeated words convey;
Nor dream, that in affliction's hour,
They tg,ke its keenest sting away !
But, when we writhe beneath its stroke,
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When thosc, on whom we learn to trust,
--Like Isreal's bruised read, which broke,
And pierced them with a traitor's thrust,—
Betray our confidence,--defame
Our actions, and malign our name;--
When sickness stands beside our bed;
And hopes, we've cherished most, arc fled;
When anxious thoughts perplex the breast,
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And—like the Patriarch's dove,—in vain
Seeking some place of earthly rest,
With drooping wing return again;
Or, when we've found, as oft we think,
Some fount of joy, amid life's waste;
The stream, at which we knelt to drink,
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Becomes a Marali, to our taste;
When, too, whatever be the hand,
Which holds it o'er us, from the rod,,
Comes forth the voice of the command,—
"Be still and know that I am God !"
Oh ! then it is, this simple prayer •
Can smooth° the ruffled brow of care;
Can bid the spirit's tumult cease,
And spread around the light of peace.
Then, then, it is, the Christian's heart
May deem earth's hardest victory won;
When, while he writhes beneath the smart,
He bows and . says, "thy will be done !"
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FORGET AND FORGIVE ;
Or, Never Nurse Your Enmities.
There'are some individuals who seem dis
posed never to forget or forgive an injury,
no matter how amply atoned for, or how long
perpetrated. They seek vengeance, and thus
they nurse their bitter feelings for years.—
This, as it strikes us, is a false policy
in many points of view. It is difficult to
pursue the journey of this life,. without jost
ling against some one, or being jostled against
ourselves. And if on every such occasion,
we should hoard up the ill feeling thus caus
ed, life would become one long scene of anxi
ety, dissatisfaction and distrust. The wiser .
plan is to forget and forgive, to regard hu
man nature as fallible, and human temper as
imperfect. • •
The most careful often discover that they
have committed sins of omission or corrimis
sion, that they have caused pain, impaired
confidence, and provoked They may
not have intended anything of the kind, and
yet, a hasty remark, or even a sudden look,
has perhaps had the sad effect. There are
perhaps few persons in the world, who are
without enemies. It sometimes happens,
too, that they cannot discover when or
where they gave the offence, and thus they
are unable to explain or make reparation.—
Nevertheless, ever and anon, some litle inci
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'dent occurs, calculated to show that the old
feeling still exists, that the enmity still lives,
and that an opportunity is never lost on the
part of the aggrieved party to retaliate and
seek retribution. It is extremely difficult to
bear all this quietly, calmly and patiently.
_The "better angel" will whisper a generous
poliny, but the "little demons" of anger and
passion which always find a place in the hu
man mind and the human heart, are apt to
prompt a course of retaliation, and thus the
parties become still more widely separated.
A few days since we happened to converse
with two old politicians who in years gone
by, had been zealously opposed to each oth
er. As they parted, we expressed surprise to
one, especially as the other had travelled out
of his way to assail him with more than or
dinary warmth. The reply was, "I never
nurse my enmities. Life has troubles and
anxieties enough in the present, without
hunting up the difficulties of the past." The
remark was full of wisdom and philesophy.
If we keep constantly before us, all the anx
ieties of former years—if we never fogetor
forgive an offence—if we vex and perplex
ourselves in relation to things that have gone
by—if we recall, revive and remourn the
buried feuds of other periods—memory will
become a curse to us, and the darkness of the
past will constitute a perpetual shadow, and
chill, depress and annoy. If moreover, we
do not forgive others, how can we hope for
forgiveness ourselves ! If again, we magni
fy into serious errors the thoughtless indis
cretion of a man of passion, of pique or of
prejudice, and foster such errors for years—
how can we look for a more generous judg
ment in relation to our own infirmities !
That frame of mind is most to be envied,
which is at peace with all the world,—which
1 feels that it has never wilfully committed a
wrong or inflicted an injury—and that there
-fore there exists no just cause or reason for
hostility or ill-will. Of course perfection
I cannot be found on earth. All are certain to
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I err more or less, but it is in the power of all,
either to explain an unintentional wrong, or
, to make reparation • and this done, • the cause
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for anger on the- part of the injured should
cease. But how often do we hear individu
als exclaim, even on the receipt of a slight in
jury, that they "will never forgive"—nay,
that they "will pursue the offender to the .
I stave." They forget their own errors and
i s.
infirmities, and often mistake or misappre
-1 hend the facts. Difficulties frequently oc
cur, because of contrary views. One person
I may be firmly impressed with a particular_
version of a transaction, while another may
recollect the incident in a light or a-spirit ex
actly the reverse. Both, too, may be confi-
I dent and conscientious. Why, then, should
discord ensue, friendship be broken, enmity
engendered '? But if, in the excitement of
the hour, one or both should so far Corset the
proprieties of life, as to use harsh and'unau
thorised language, the honorable and manly
course is to take back the improper words at
the first opportunity, and thus, f possible, to
repair the wrong, and neutralise the sting.—
This, however, is not the way of the world,
generally speaking. The unkind feeling
thus hastily caused is •nursed, becomes a
source of bitterness through life, and - often
decends, unsoothed and unsatisfied, to the
grave. In most cases, neither party will ex
plain. Often, too, the cause of difference is
reported to other persons, and in exaggerated
terms ; these repeat it again and again, until
a deadly feud is produced. The enmity is
nursed and strengthened, from day to day
and from year to year, and finally becomes a
passion, and forms part and parcel of the very
nature.
And yet, we repeat, this is all wrong, un
wise, irreligious and unjust. It is far better .
to forget and forgive, to explain and repair,
than to keep up a constant source of anxiety,
especially if the error be ours, or if it be mu
tual. And even when otherwise, ar.d when
we know or believe that we are the aggrie-
I ved or injured party, it is at least magnani
mous to seek and be satisfied with an expla
nation. The enmities that are nursed and
, thus kept constantly alive, become demons
' in the end, which not only irritate the mind
and embitter the-heart, but impair the health
and shorten life itself. In other words, there
are not a few individuals, who die victims to
their own infirmity of temper. They fret,
excite and exhaust themselves, until, at last,
they fall into premature graves.—Pennsylva
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Its Rapid Progress.---A Coming Storm.
It is stated that no less than eighteen hun
dred persons have left Liverpool for Salt
Lake City during the present season, and at
the last dates, thirteen hundred more had en
tered their names, and were preparing to
take their departure. The imposture there
fore, is evidently spreading, especially in
certain countries of the Old World. This is
the more remarkable, because within a year
or two, the doctrine of polygamy -is openly
proclaimed by the leaders, and it is practised
to a frightful extent at Utah. How, then are
we to understand the increase of this delu
sion Is it attributable to the fanatic spirit
of the age, to the ignorance of the converts,
or to the plausible misrepresentations of the
missionaries who preach the doctrine? That
any intelligent wife should embark for Utah,
and thus subject herself to the indignity and
outrage ; is indeed surprising. Within a
short time, one or two publications have
appeared, purporting to give true and faith
ful accounts of life among the Mormons. If
the details stated by the authors be true,
Utah is already a plague spot on the face of
the'Union, an abomination in the sight of
Heaven, and will sooner or later be the scene
of violence and collision. The period may
be remote, because a long time will elapse
before the neighboring States approach suffi
ciently near to feel the pernicious influence
a the plurality wife system, and because too,
tote Mormons already number a very formi
dable body of men. But the overthrow of
Mormonism seems to us inevitable. Either
the leaders must abandon their obnOxious
doctrines and their practice . , or they must
leave Utah and seek a resting-place some-
where else, or they must prepare for a fearful
conflict. We cannot for a moment believe
that these men are themselves deluded or de
ceived, for they manifest too much shrewd
ness in ordinary matters. Why then have
they introduced poligamy as a feature into
their system, aware of its immoral tendency,
and also aware of the injury it is likely to
cause to. Mormonism generally. It is diffi
cult to answer this question with confidence.
The motive must either have been licentious
or fanatical. One of the works recently
published, entitled "Female Life among the
Mormons," contains details so revolting, that
we indulge a hope that they are rather the pic
tures of imagination than the statements of
reality. If half be true that is told in this
book, some of the Mormon leaders would not
hesitate to commit any crime. The writer
says
"There was one thing I could not fathom,
one my stery unresolvable, and though I am
not naturally suspicious, or prone to indulge
unreasonable conjectures, I found it impossr•
ble to banish ail thoughts of foul play from
my mind. Indeed, several circumstances,
all light and,trivial, taken separately, yet of
considerable importance in the aggregate,
had inspired me with a sort of vague indefi
nable suspicion that the Mormon Chord:
was the centre of a secret organization,
whose plots and plans were of the blackest
description. I had known for years that the
scum of society, the refuse of prisons, and
criminals hoary with all sorts of sin, were
freely admitted and registered in its ranks.
I had been aware of political machinations,
and plundering expeditions against the help
less, and unsuspecting emigrants, and yet
had fondly imagined that such things arose
rather from the turpitude -and evil disposi
tions of the Mormon leaders, than from the
absolute and unchangeable nature of the
Mormon Church. 1 know that a thing pure
and heavenly in itself might be perverted
to favor the pusposes of designing men, but
after a white I began to suspect and ultimate
ly discovered that the root of the evil was
Mormonism itself; that a Mormon, if he
acted out the principles of his church, must
be hypocritical, sensual, devoid of all con
science and devilish."
"Another source of mystery and terror in
Utah, was the almost constant exercise of
Lynch law:, and, of this, too, women are
mostly the victims. Let a woman, if she
dare, commit such acts as would be likely to
bring polygomy into disrepute, expose the
weakness or sensuality of an elder, or mani:
fest a disapprobation to the existing state of
things, and some hideous punishment would
be sure to be hers—when, where, or what,
it would be impossible to tell, though none
the less hideous and certain—that is, if in
formation of it ever reached the ears of the
elect and sanctified.",
This is indeed terrible, if imp. And yet
the reader can readily imagine to what a de
plorable condition of affairs, polygamy, prac
ticed as it is said to be among the Mormons,
must inevitably lead. At our last ad vices,
Brigham Young was still proceeding as Gov
ernor, the intelligence of the appointment of
Judge Kinney not having been received or
acted upon. If that gentleman accept, we
may look for an effort on his part, to check
the progress of the iniquity that now disgra
ces Utah. With what success remains to
be seen. If, however, lie too should decline
the Governorship, it would indicate a condi
tion of affairs well calculated to alarm, and
the General government wpuld.be compelled
either to abandon all contefilY'e.r:.:thez
mons, or to vindicate its powgi-.of;sonit
moresignificant manner. .
Another question arises. - Are these.hun
dreds and thousands of foreigners who are
pouring into Utah, fully aware of the system
as practiced there, or do they join the Saints
under some delusion or misrepresentation 1
In brief,do they become converts to polygamy
at the same time when they become Mor
mons, and are they fully awakened to all the
consequences 1 What too, is the real condi
dion of affairs, as relates to the government
of Utah, and the government of the United
States 1 The question in all its bearings is
becoming one of absorbing interest, and it
cannot be met too soon. The authorities at
Washington seem disposed to avoid the res
ponsibility, and hence we rarely heat any
thing of :Mormonism from that quarter. A
collision, we repeat, is enevitable, sooner or
later, unless the system of polygamy be
abandoned, and hence the poor deluded
strangers who are deceived into the adoption
of this imposture should be admonished in
time, and understand what sort of organiza
tion they are identifying themselves with.
If after being made acquainted with all the
facts, they still persist, the responsibility be
upon their own heads.
Anticipation of the Future
It is an elevating and spiritualzing exercise
of the mind. It tends to carry the soul a lit
tle way toward its proper region. It tends
to lesson the false importance of things of
this world, and to slacken their holcf It
contributes to obviate that unnatural and
pernicious estrangement and dissociation
between our present and future state. It
tends to habituate the spirit to seek arid find
the grand importance of its existence in its
hereafter. It tends to awaken a lively and a
sacred curiosity, which is surely a right and
worthy state of feeling with which to go
toward another world, and to go into it. It
may help to turn to valuble account the varie
ties in the present system of our existeuce—
the facts in surrounding nature—the imme
diate circumstances of our own being—by'
prompting, on each particular, the thought
and the question. "What corresponding to
this—what in contrariety to this—what in
stead of this—may there be in that other
world?" It may aid to keep us associated
with those who are gone thither. It may
give new emphasis to our impression of the ,
evil of sin, and the excellence of all wis
dom, holiness, and piety, the thought,
"What manner of effect is this, or that.
adapted to result in, in that future state I
Foster.
Q 7 "Punch" teaches hook-keeping in one
lesson of three words, "never lend them."
More about Lightning and its Conduc-
Lightning rods do not attract electricity,
nor is that their object; they are simple con
ductors of the electric fluid, and are erected
higher than the other parts of buildings so as
to act as highways for the fluid from the
cloud to the earth.
The great number of houses, towers, and
ships without rods that have been struck with
lightning, afford evidence that it always se
lects the nearest object from a surchaig,ed
cloud to reach the earth. With respect to
lightning and its action, Sir Snow Harris,
who has perhaps written most ably on the
subject: says: "lightning is the evidence of
some occult power of nature forcing a path
through substances which offer greater or less
resistence to its progress, such as atmospher
ic air, vitreous and dry vegetable substances,
and the like. In the case of such bodies, a
powerful evolution of light and heat attends
its course, together with an irresistible and
disruptive force, by which compact substan
ces are rent asunder, whereas it finds an easy
path through some substances which offer
but little resistance, such as copper, iron,
&c." By good metallic conductors, then,
lightning becomes transformed into an on
seer, harmless current, hence the great bene
fit of and necessity for the use of such pro
tectives in all countries subject to severe
thunder storms. A lightning rod, to he ef
fective, must be of such a capacity as to con
duct all the electric current unseen to the
earth, for if too small it may be fused, and
the current will discharge itself through oth
er parts of a building- It must always be
continuous, and, terminate in some moist part
of the earth, to conduct it away and dissipate
it in the mass below. The larger the elec
tric conductor, the better, for it possesses the
greater capacity to conduct the current with
safety and ease. If the bed of a stream is
too narrow to allow the passage of accumu
lated waters, they overflow its banks and
carry destruction in their course, but if its
banks are high and spacious they confine the
water, and protect the surrounding vales ; it
is the same with electric conductors. If all
houses were built of metal, such as cast iron,
they would be perfectly free from danger by
lightning, as great masses of conducting ma
terial obviate all danger. We have seen
many lightning conductors put up too small to
be of any great value, and others erected dis
playing equal ignorance of the nature of light=
ning. Thus, some rods are made to termi
' nate in a dry sandy soil and others in ground
which becomes hard, dry, and caked in sum
mer. The effect of such methods of termina
ting the conducting rods is like raising a dam
to obstruct the progress of a swollen river.—
Conductors shall always terminate in moist
earth, or in water.
For the central tower, 150 feet above the
roof of the new House of Parliament in Lon
don, Sir Snow Harris recommends a capaci
ous condector of a copper tube two inches in
diameter and one-eight of an inch thick, and
conducted to the earth in as straight a direc
tion as possible, and also connected to all
other metal tubing in the building, for the
purpose of spreading the electric current
through numerous channels, and thus weak
en its force.
Sheet copper for cenductors 5 inches wide
and 3-Bths thick, is sold at 31 1-2 cents per
foot. Such strips of copper have proven to
be safe conductors for ships, and they will
make most beautiful ones for houses. As
conductors : require. ta_ be large-possess mass
,- according to their length, those for houses
need not. be so broad as those for ships.—
Such copper sheets cut into - ribbons 2 1-2 in
ches wide, would embrace a solid capacity of
nearly half a cubic inch of metal, costing not
quite 16 cents per foot. How easily these
can be laid along the crowns of roofs,-and up
the sides of gables and chimneys . It would
be well to have a point extending above eve
ry chimney in a house, and ill of them per
fectly connected to the copper strips, and the
latter terminating by a suitable rod in the
earth. Copper is eight times a better con
ductor than iron, and not so subject to o.xy
dation
We have lately seen lightning conductors
composed of copper and iron wires, twisted
together and connected at the foot in the
ground with a cylinder of zinc. The object
of this combination is to prevent—as we
have been assured it would•—the iron being
coated with an oxyd, which impairs its con
ducting qualities. Sir Humphrey Davy no
ticed that substances would only combine
chemically when in different electrical states,
and that by bringing a body naturally posi
tive into an artificially negative stale, its
usual powers of combination were destroyed.
Copper is a metal but slightly positive, and
by bringing it in contact with another, to
render 4t slightly negative, the decomposing
action of moisture and air are rendered null.
He therefore attached a piece of zinc about
an inch square to a plate of copper, and im
mersed it in sea water, and the result was
that the zinc preserved fifty square inches of
the copper from corrosion. An iron nail se
cured to the copper plate produced the same
results. The copper was preserved, but the
iron and zinc, slowly corroded. If a cheap
lightning conductor, composed of iron and
copper wire, can be preserved from corrosion
by a small zinc cylinder in the ground— ,
which can be renewed often at but little ex
pense—then an object of some importance is
accomplished ; bnt this is a question which
only relates to the preservation from ox.yda-
Lion of the conductors.—Scientific American.
Anecdotes of Reif-. Sidney Smith
A PRIVATE, GALLOWS.—Young delinquents
he never could bear to commit ; he read
them a severe lecture, and in extreme cases
called out, "John brimme my private gal
lows !" which intalaly brought the Mule
urchins'weeping on their knees, and "Oh !
for Grd's sake, your honor, pray forgive us!"
and his honor used firacionsly to pardon
them for,{ this time, and delay. the arrival of
the private gallows, and seldom had occasion
to repeat the threat.
SMALL MEN.—An argument arose, in
which my father observed how many of the
most eminent men of the world have been
tors
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diminutive in person; and after earning seve
ral among the ancients, he added, "Why
look there at Jeffrey ; and there is my little
friend who , at bas not body enough to
cover his mind decently with ; his intellect
is expesed."
SORROW FOR A. GREAT MAN DEPARTED.—
•At a large dinner patty my father, or some
one else, announced the death of Mr. Dngald
Stewart—one whose name ever brings with
it feelings of respect for his talents and high
character. The news was received with so
much levity by a lady of rank who sat by
him, that he turned round and said, "Madam
when we are told of the death of so great a
man as Mr. Dugald Stewart, it is usual, in
civilized society, to look grave for at least the
space of five seconds."
PARENTAL ADVICE.—"Lucy, Lucy, my
dear child, don't tear your frock ; tearing
frocks is not of itself a proof of genius; but
write as your mother writes, act as your
mother acts ; be frank, loyal, affectionate,
simple, honest ; and then integrity or lacera
tion of frocks is of little import. And Lucy,
dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know,
in the first sum of yours I ever saw, there
was a mistake. You had caned two (as a
cab is licensed to do,) and you ought, dear
Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a tri
fle g What would life be without arithme
tic, but a scene of "horrors? You are going
to Boulogne, tine city of debts, peopled by
men who never understood- arithmetic; by
the time you return shall probably haVe-4 0 -
ceived my first paralytic stroke, and 1 shall
have lost all recollection of you ; therefore, I
now give you my parting advice. Don't
marry anybody who has not a tolerable un
derstanding and a thousand a year, and God
bless you, dear child !"
A BABY ESTABLISIEVEINT.—The usual es
tablishment for an eldest landed baby is, two
wet nurses,' two ditto dry, two aunts, two
physicians, two apothecaries ; three female
friends of the family, unmarried, advanced in
life; and often, in the nursery. one clergy
man, six flatterers, and a grand-papa! Less
than this would not be decent.
CANNON LAW FOR THE LASSIZS.—Says the
Rev. Sydney Smith, Canon of St. Paul's :
"Never teach false morality. How exquis
itely absurd to teach girls that beauty is no
value, dress of no use Beauty is of value
—her whole prospects and happiness in life
may often depend upon a new gown or a be
coming bonnet : and if she hes five grains of
common sense she will find this out. The
great thing is to teach her their just value,
and that there must be something better un
der the bonnet than a pretty face for real hap;
piness. But never sacrifice truth."--111t:
moir, by his daughter.
Scenes in Sebastopol During an At:
- A letter from a young soldier, a native of
Belfast, addressed to his "Dear Cousin Kate,"
gives some interesting details as to General
Ay re's attack. The writer says :
"My dear Kate, you can have no idea of
the horrors of war. It was awful to look at
these poor wounded fellows, suffering under
every description of wounds, through heads,
necks, bodies, arms and legs ; some, in the
pangs of death, talasphemirig, others railing,
and others were praying, while the blood
trickled from their wounds—such ghastly
wounds ! One poor fellow was severely
wounded with grape. The officer asked him
if it was grape that caused the wound. "Yes
sir," he replied ; "it was d—d sour grape to
me." The most of them bore their suffer
lugs very patiently. The second• brigade of
the third division, to which the 9th regiment
belongs, were the only troops engaged on
the left. Some of the men of the regiment
told me that Johnny behaved most gallantly
in leading oar the men, arena- with the offi
cers, when under fire, in charging the Ceme
tery 'plain and gardens, where they were
compelled to take shelter behind the house
these, on account of their small numbers.
They could neither advance nor retire.—
They would have taken the Garden Batteries
had the Round Tower on the right been ta- -
ken by our troops there.
"During the time the brigade was charg
ing through the Cemetery plain and gardens,
they were exposed to a most galling fire of
grape, round shot, shell, and musketry, and
even when under shelter of the houses, the
enemy never ceased firing at them, tumbling
' the houses and walls clown. Some of the
reaiments were in the rifle pits, and if one
da r ed to show himsel f he was instantly struck
down. They had to remain there until dark,
when they returned to the camp.
"These gallant fellows actually got into
the houses of Sebastopol, which they plun
dered according to the custom of war. En
closed is a perforated card-board pattern .for
my dear Louisa, which was taken from a
house at Sebastopol in which a Russian Gen
eral lived, by one of the men of the regi
ment, who gave it to me. He told me that
when he and some others broke into the
i house, after di iving the Russians away, they
found a woman and four children in it. As
soon as the saw the English soldiers they
supplicated for mercy, but our gallant fellows
were too generous to harm them, and made
signs that they had nothing to fear tram them;
so they retired to a corner where they re
mained until our men left the house.
The man who gave - me the card-board
came to camp laden with plunder. I shall
enumerate the articles I saw him with :—A.
general's goldlaced coat, a guinea pig, a val
uable microscope, the card-board; knives and.
forks, a most ingenious Russian toy, some
plates, some bottles containing wine and
rum, a pair of lady's satin slippers, (the lady
who wore them must have had a remarkably
small foot.) How he managed to carry theta
all surprised me. While in the house they
destroyed beautiful pianoesi mirrors, &c.,
hut while there he said they did. not forget
their duty. When they returned to camp
their forage caps were gaily decorated with
gold lace and satin ribands.
"The brigade returned to the earnpat dark,
and through Some mismanagement of high
authorities, they were forced to relinqush
the position they had so gallantly taken, a 1..:
tack