BURG CHRONIC LEWIS BY 0. N. WORDEN & J. An In-dependent Family and News Journal, TIIIRTY-FIVI2. Tas itm or kh'i ur u nuts sgurs is tt. BY N. IV WILU9. Oh. weary heart ! thon art halfway borne! ; Wetland on lilVi Wfrniiati bi,:lit A far fr"fa ebiMltood i mnrotnir, otnmt Am to tin jrawr'a lustful uicht. Gi Youth ami Hope a parting U-ar Yoalh tartr4 with a at the prow Him promised but to brioR ui hn, Aod Beaton Uke th RUt'lanr n: On backward look the lat the lact Ooe .ileal tear for Youth la parti Wh auea with nope and Piuwion bak! H'btf oonm wiih me and Memory on ? Oh. lonely looka the downward track Joy', niUKtc buihed H"pf' nwi goo I To Pleasure and hr giddy troupe Farewell, without a a e or t-ar! Rut heart ui way. and spirits droop. To think that Iti may U-mv hcivl Ilave we uo charm wIk-o Youth i flown Midway to death left sad and Iuel Yet, stay! 'twere a twilljrht tar That snda itt thread arrws the waTe, I aea a bribleuinft liirht from tr Steal down path b-yond the frraTe! And now, bleu Ood ! iU cldn line Coaaea o er and Ujhta my ahadowy way. And aliow tbe d-r hand rlasjMjd in mmu ! Bat, lisll what tboitt sweet voice. aJ : The better land' in right, And by its eiivtemnfc light All !" from Life'a midway i Urirrn, 0av her whuaa clanped hand will brine tbw on to II Ten! l,c ffiljtoniele. FRIDAY, FEB. 2i, IS56. The "Difficulty" Laid. Some weeks since, c referred to the fact that the first Congress uuder the American Constitution commenc ed its first session in the Spring of 1789: adjourned 2'Jth Sept. that year; and second cession commenced h'th of! Jan. 17i0. Following from this star ting point, as follows Cong. Tara. 1- 17S9.17M0 2- 1791,179'.! 3- 1793,1791 4- 1795,1796 4-1797,1798 6- 1799.1600 7- 180I.1803 8- 1803,1804 9- 1605,1806 10- ;807,1U8 11- 1809,1810 Cong. Tun. 12- 1811,1812 13- 113,1614 14- 1815,1816 15- 1817,1818 lfi-1819,1820 17- 1821,1822 18- 1823,1824 19- 1825,1826 20- 1827,1828 SI-1829.1B3U 22-1631,1832 0115. Years. 23- 183.1,18-4 24- 1835,1836 25-1837,1838 26-1839.1640 1 2S-1843 ism ' 29- 1 84 5,'i84s ! 30- i847!i848 j 31- 1849,1850 i 31I1H531851 1 3ilis55 1856 : -.a 11 i. ;u 1 the 2d instead of the Is, session of the j 31th Congress. A correspondent says ; .1 u.i j. this is "the half century question over again," and raps us as follows : Mi. Chboxicle : Your seeming difficulty about whether this is the 1st or 2d session of the 34th Congress, is singular, taking into consideration the acknowledged learning of the typographical corps of the I in the 19th century. As the 1st session of the 1st Cen tres begun on the 1st Monday of Dec. 1769, so the 1st session of the 34th must begin on (he 1st Monday of Dec. 1855. Thus : Dec. 1789 Ada '66 years, to Dec 1855 fi6 1655 As the 33d Congress closed 4th March, 1855, the 34th must begin on the 1st Monday of lec. 1855." But then Congress did xot "begin on the 1st Monday of Dec. 1789," for "Gen. Washington was inducted into the office of President, on the 30th of April, 1789, in the presence of Cong ress. 29th Sept. 1789, the 1st session ADJOURNED. And the SECOND session began 8th Jan. 1790. Every session occupying a year oniy, mere appears , clearly an overlapping or an extension of time, somewhere in the time past. Having sent our "difficulty" to Mr. Greeley-, he explains it thus : V1hikgto-c, D.C, Jan. 28, '56. EscCnannicLi You are as wrong as can be. Tbe 1st Congress commenced in 1789, and closed 4th March, 1791. J he lid com' rnenced Dec. 1791 ; the XX.YIVth of course opened Dec. 1855, as it should, and will close ; iu March, 1857. Where is the difficulty 1 Yours, Huaica UattLtT. 1 It appears, then, that the 1st Cong-; ress extended from April (instead of Dec.) 1789, to March, 1791. The ' apparent error was the opening of the ' -r. . . , 1 ,. I first two sessions nearly a year earlier , than the 3d Dec. 91 since which I that is the uniform month for opening. ! Tietommiie.. e i t i i u j j Speaker Banks has had an arduous ! task in putting 230 Members, most of j them new men, on the Committees ; ; but he has answered public expecta-1 tions by placing the most important I in thA lmnrU nf tho lnvor nf Vrfmlnm I ,!,., i,: t i, t !, an advantage which has not been i . . b , ' enjoyed in very many years, but is of, great influence in shaping legislation The Committee of Ways & Means is composed of Messrs.Campbell of O., Howard, Sage, Campbell of Ta., and DeWitt, Republicans ; Cobb of Ga. and Jones of Tenn., Democrats ; and Davis of Md., South American. Elections Washburn of Me.,Col fax.Watson, Bingham, Iiep.; Spinner, Dem., voted for Banks ; Hickman of Pa. ; Stephens of Ga., and Oliver of Mo. Territories Grow,Giddings,Pur viance, Granger, Morrill, and Perry, Rep.; Richardson and Houstou.Dem.; and Zollicoffer, S. A. Fob's Affaihs Pennington, Mat teson, Sherman, Burliugame.Thurston, Rep.; Bayly, Clingman, Aiken, Dem.; and Fuller of Pa. Manufactures Clark of Ct,Dnr fee of R.I.. Kniirht of Pa.. Bliss of 0 Edwards of X.Y., Rep.; Crawford of Uowdell of Al., Dem.; Campbell of Ky., Ricaud of Md., S.A. Mr. Kunkcl is first on the Militia Committee ; Mr. Pearco is on the Committee of Public Expenditures ; IiTlJ 011 Jad'AU Affair?. R. CORNELIUS. The Indian Battles at Walla-Walla. Col. Kelly, victorious! In the Chronicle, 18th nit., was a letter from Lieut.Col.JAMEsK.KELLV, commanding the Regiment of Oregon Mounted Volunteers, dated 8th Dec, which letter left hira in a condition of much danger. The last arrival from the Pacific states that his camp was called Fort Henrietta, and that his object was to recover Fort Walla Walla, which had been some time pre viously captured by the Indians. Col. Kelly's friends in DuffulocValley will be particularly gratified to learn that he has emerged from the conflict with victory and with honor. The annexed account of the last three days' fights, is from a volunteer's journal as copied by the " Statesman :" "Dec. 9. Indians made their ap pearance in the morning, on the battle ground, but not half so thick as the day before. Kept a continued firing all day, but doing little execution, as the boys were getting pretty good at dodging. v.'o ir.ys took the hill, and after two hours' sharp shooting, routed the ludians out ol their tren ches, fcc, that they had dug, leaving guns, knives, and blankets. At the ame time tne Indians were seen an- vins off their stock up the river. "10th. A few Indiana presented themselves on the hill, filled up some of our trenches, and dug new ones of their own. Wasco boys on the hill, and Linn boys along the brush; fought on thc hill an hour or two, when the Indians began to retreat. Maj.Gkiuu ordered a charge, when Linn and Wasco pitched in and ran the devils past their upper camp three Indians k'1IeJ- As we w cre coming back they fired a few times at us, but no one was hurt during the day on our side. At! WjJ1 and Cft 'mcn unJor Col.Kclly, moun- ? . . 1,1 ted on horseback and pursued about forty miles ; found considerable stock, but not one Indian. From the appea rances in the Indian camp, there must have been fifteen hundred or two thou sand Indians. There were one hund red and thirty lodges ; some were twenty-five and thirty feet long, and others only large enough to contain six persons. " 13th. Col. Kelly and company returned with thirty or forty Indian horses. Houses nearly all burned ; grain, etc., destroyed by the Indians. " It is supposed that in the four days' battle we killed about sixty Indians, and wounded probably about the same number. Our list of killed and wounded is as follows : Killed 2 Captains, 6 privates 8. Wounded 2 " 14 " 16. The Wounded all appear to be doing well. "The weather for tho past few days has been cold, with occasional gusts of rain anJ gnQW k Preacher's Speech. Upon the reception, at Waltham, of the news of Mr. Banks' election as Speaker, a general illumination was made ; the parents.wifc and sisters of ! Mr. Banks were greeted with cheers; anJ Rev. Jr. FoSTEK addressed the crowd as follows : j thank Vou, friends and fellow cit iZCns, for calling me up, even in thej small hours ot Saturday night, to join my congratulations with yours over this day'8 S?om w?rk: To-night we may say with emphatic exultation, QW .the winter' of our discontent majc glorj0us summer by this sou of" Massachusetts. To-day witnesses the backward turn of the ponderous wheel of Oppression that has so long 4,,otnn 1 ' rn nvor an(1 rrnsh th Fpirit of Freedom through the entire ! North. Now ha3 the old fire-ship of! Slavery stranded on the firm Banks of New England. To-day, for the first time in many years do we witness the out-stretched arm of Almighty Power . , ... A. ,& r staying the desolating tide of Wrong whf,e he voice from above pr0CiailU!i "Thus far shalt thou come, but no far ther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. ' We celebrate here and now the most glorious triumph thej spirit ot Liberty in our country lias ! achieved since the days ot .Lexington and Bunker Hill and Saratoga and Yorktown. All honor to those noble men who have achieved this triumph! All honor to the worthy son ot Massachusetts who is doing his share in straighten ing up and stiffening the back-bone of the North, which had become so drooping under the soft nursing of V ebster and Everett and Fillmore & Co. This day's work seals the freedom of Kansas, and saves the Union. Now let Congress and the people regulate Kansas affairs, and secure to Freedom her inheritance there ; and then, when we have advanced N. P. Banks to a still higher post, or put some other statesman into the Presid ential chair.withCongress to back him up in a thoroughly anti-slavery cons truction of our noble Constitution,we will let Slavery slide I Then may we soon "Proclaim Liberty throughout the land, and to all the inhabitants thereof," and thus for eveb "stop this Slavery agitation!" LEWISBURG, UNION Good moral Habits Lord John Russell has lately deliv ered an address iu Exeter Hall, Lon don, and we make the following ex tract from the full report of it in the London Times : Young men in these days, and for aught we know in all ages, expect to have moral and religious progress made not only easy, but pleasurable, triumphant and ingenious dignified with theories and sweetened with in dulgence. They want a royal road to improvement a wide road, a pleas ant road, and not very tedious. So LordRussell does not hesitate to warn them, and gives them the stern old advice that the only way is to be found in good habits. Bad habits and vicious inclinations, in one form or another, are the real obstacles to progress, and they are powerful ones. Strong restraint is necessary to sub due them, and that restraint is to be found only in morality and a good teacher. Good moral habits are the very sinews of the frame, whether that be the frame of one mind or of all society. Thej m. .u CbP that make tho muscles, that forms our sol id consistency, that gives us working power, and make us true men. All the talk in the world goes for nothing if it does not end in good moral hab its, the want of which is sure to make a clever man a fool, wise reforms nu gatory, and a great nation profligate and corrupt. Let Heaven send good harvests ; let our cities resound with the hum of factories aud the traffic of streets ; let earth be covered with railways, and the ocean with our ships ; but let the salt of life be wanting let luxury spoil the rich and iutemperauce degrade the poor ; let the moral sense be once blunted by bad habits, and then all that should have been for our wealth becomes occasion for failing, and harvests, cities, factories, railways, ships, arts, science, everything on which we were lately boasting ourselves, pisses over like a traitor to the camp of destruc tion, and obstructs that moral and politi cal progress of which it sectns to bo the chief meant. Immorality, whether publio or private, is the one source of mischief, and Lord John Russell has read a good lesson to a self-flattering and self-indulgent generation, when he points out that no thing is to We done, and no progress trade, witboot good moral habits. Whether all the young men who beard him last night thought this any more than so much ser monizing we know not, but if they live long enough they will find it all true, to their pleasure or their cost. Convents---Hiss Bunkley's Book. Some weeks ago we called the attention of our readers to tbe subject of convents, and we were gratified to find that our re marks and suggestions met with a most favorable reception, and were very exten sively circulated through tbe means of other journals, religious and secular. We have waited patiently for some movement in our State legislatures toward embody ing in laws the undoubted sentiment of the people on this subject bat we have waited in vain. Our legislators are as much afraid of responsibility as the Chi nese, and they shrink from the very acts which, if performed, would give them the popularity for which they sigh. There is but little manliness among oar public men. They seek to be only the unthinking, irre sponsible indices of party. They hope that their official conduct may be satisfac torily negative, and that at tbe next can vass there will be no wrong -that is, inde pendentaction to charge them with. They do not aspire to lead the public mind ; they only hope to follow it, and, like the timid apostle, they follow afar off, keeping a relative position, which will warrant them to hurrah for a victory,while it will give them a good start in a retreat. More than anything else they dread to meet the cry of persecution. By the threat of this the great American party has already been everawed, and the re formers whom the mighty surge of Amer ican feeling lifted into publio place have found the fiery patriotism that glowed so fiercely in the council-room, damped and chilled almost to extinction in the nngeni al region of legislative publicity. Tbe Americans, tbe Protestant, the freemen of the country must try again. Men who can do nothing in publio assemblies have no business there. Let them return to the quiet walks of domestio life, which many of them are well calculated to pur sue with advantage to themselves and tbe community. Tbe times require other men in public places men who fear God, and only God. Having appealed in vain to our legisla tors, we now appeal to the people. Is it your will, men of America, that women shall be held in slavery, the worst of all slavery, by foreign priests, in your very midst? There are scattered over our country hundreds of strongly walled and barred houses, into which young women are artfully inveigled,and from which they are not permitted to depart. In these pla. CO., PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1856. ces their lives are oue continual scene of oppression, cruelty, outrage, and disgrace. The torments inflicted by Spanish inqui sitors were humane, contrasted with tbe cruelties of tbe convents. To them there was at least a speedy end. By the force of their very violence they were brief, and under sharp bodily pain the sonl was of ten exalted to almost serapbio grandeur. In the convent, soul and body are ricked by ingenious contrivances, nntil the one becomes exhausted of sensibility, and the other of nervous energy j and the lively, romantic girl, pare from her mother's hearth, is transformed into a soulless thing; with affections dead at the root, with the mind broken at its springs; a passive living corpse in the hands of the priestly ghouls, who have made her this. We will not insult yon by adducing proof that all this, and more, is trne. You can read, and you have read, and you have thought too, about this matter until you need no statement of evidence to determine j your judgment. The book of Miss Bunk- ley, if there were no other, is abundantly j sufficient. It is a plain statement of facts, which bears the stamp of truth so certain ly that no unprejudiced reader can read it and doubt its perfect faithfulness. It cor roborates all bt should reasonably in fer, had we no positive testimony ; it is corroborated by the official reports of Ca tholic authorities, and by many other wit nesses, who, like herself, have been so happy as to escape from tbe coils of priest ly art and tbe barbarity of priestly lust. We have nothing in bar of all this but the simple denial of the parties accused of this horrible wickedness. Shall these dreadful places remain among us, and shall they be imperia in imperio, sovereign estates of the priests, within which there shall be no law but their own will J This is the question for you to decide. God made man the protec tor of woman, and there is no obligation laid npon him by his Creator which an American is so ready to fulfil Yet here in America there are hundreds of women inveigled into places where they are un protected by the law. Their very names ' are changed, and thus the register of their j baptism is virtually effaced. They have i ceased to livt to society. They are no . longer components of it Walls and ban prevent escape. They are entouibeii; shut . in from all aid, from sympathy, from pro-. tection of law, the foul work of prostrating the will and perverting the morals is be gun. Day after day, with persevering art, it is continued. Hounds do not so rjmorsely pursue the hare as the priests and accomplice nuns hunt down and worry j out the wretched victim, lured from her father's house by wily agents of these dens of silent, unrestricted wickedness. What will you do about it ? All this monstrous wickedness is powerless to re sist the expression of your will. We would not have you interfere with religious rights or even superstitions; we would have you vindicate the sovereignty of your laws and bring every woman in the land under their protection. We would have you reannex convents to the United States ; and not suffer independent Pashalics to be established here, within the domains of which Oriental despotism may lord at pleasure over helpless women. We would let the law iuto the inmost chamber of that ecclesiastical web, and thrust it between the bottle spiders and their prey. The way is eay and sure. Let publio meeting be called immcdi diately, to consider this subject. Let pe titions be drawn op and circulated, de manding the necessary legislation. These will be signed by almost all to whom they j are presented, and a wonderful energy will suddenly bo infused into our legislators. We would recommend the formation, throughout tho country, of "a league for the protection of woman," which should ascertain tho sense of the community and secure the expression of it All this would be uoecessary if we had In the Legislatures of the couutry "men with bones in them." It would only bo necessary for one to move for a committee to inquire whether any legislation is re quired for the better protection of women. The committee once raised, there would be no difliculty in devising and procuriug proper laws,provided the committee should bo men fit for the times. Tbe thing must and will be dono. We earnestly counsel all with whom our words have any influence, to vote hereafter for no candidate for the Legislature who will not pledge himself to the abatement of the nuisance : the removal of the shame, the disgrace of convents, as they now are. Call the meetings. Circulate the peti tions. Institute the league for tbe pro tection of women. Who will begin f Christian Advocate & Journal. Dinner at the Old Homestead. This is said to be a pretty hard eld world ; and some say this is a pretty hard old winter. Perhaps it's so, but let one under tho plea of cousinship, or good looks, or friendship, or very remarkable talkativeness, be bidden to an annual re union dinner at the Old Farm Homestead, and he will believe there is one bright greon spot in it, any way. A pleasant, profitable, glorious time is that, when the old folks gather the children, and the children's wivts, and the children's hus bands, and tbe children's children, and the children's cousins (we like to have tltem included) around the old table, in oao of those kindly re-uuions which come only once a year, and yet last one a long lifetime. The oi l nest has perhaps been well nigh forsaken for many a month, or many a year. The vine, the sweet brier, and the rose, have long since clambered up over windows where little heads used to pop out and giggle at the blast. The ebrub which little hands planted and watered, and which little hearts wished was " a great tree, high as the house," has outstripped that little wisher's aspirations, and now interlocks its broad arms with other branches protectiog ly high over tbe place where they were born. The old walls and the old buildings are all as they were then, only like their teuauts older and grayer grown. Tbe old well sweep swings and squeaks; the old gate rattles and slums ; the old dog and cat bark and purr uo longer, but their successors do; the fire blazes up cheerfully in the same old corner; the parlor walls are just as homelike aud cozy, and just as " mutu" as when the girls did their "spar kin';" the kitchun and pantry are junt as savory of good thing as then ; the " old arm chair" is more rickety, but invites you just as hospitably to rock your cares away; the old cLjck Lu tMirbapa 11 tieked Outt" and a younger, mote ambitious one rattles ahead with a faster click in its place; but the old hearts at home, thank God, still beat on with that same, steady, parental old throb of half a century or more I But the wiuter is long and passes heav ily. Tbe old folks want to see the child ren again, at home. And so the dinner at tbe old homestead is prepared. Tbe chil dren, and cousins, and friends come in load after load, bundled in big coats and shawls and cloaks and tippets and hoods with many a giggle and red nose, till the old homestead is almost full it never u quite full. The warm greeting, tbe merry laugh, the lively jest and kindly smile, pass round and round, till heavy eyes spar kle, anl sober lips laugh in gladness. But the dinner is ready. "Come, children, right along, sit down there, and there,aod there," till the table is fullhow joyous if without a vacant seat And 4uch a live ly time is there ; and such a dicner I The turkey and the chickens and the pork and tbe beef; the potatoes, tbe onions, tbe beets, the turnips, and a garden full of other vegetables ; tbe good, new, chcrry rcd "rye and ingen" bread, and wheat bread and biscuits and cake of all kinds, white and delicious as that at the wedding"; the butter and cheese "as m butter and cheese," the smoking coffee and tea and clear cold water from that "moss covered bucket that hangs in the well ;" the pre serves, the sauce, the tarts, the jell, tho cream, the pickles, the apples, the peaches and the Lord only knows what else, which crowd one to splitification and forgetful ncss how duliciously tempting they pile up and how they pile down I Surely the cooks did Justice to that dinner and the eaters ditto. Surely, big full hearts give it, and big, empty stomachs receive it I Of all dinners, give us a dinner at the Old Farm Homestead. Of all unions,give us a re-union under that old moss grown roof and around that old time-honored, hospitable board. The old lady watches your every movement and want as kindly aud as lovingly as when your hands were helpless as infancy. She is pleased when you are pleased, and sorrowful when you are sad ; now as then. She welcomes you as kindly, sympathizes in your sorrows as truly, and drops as bitter tears for those who are sick or dead, as when she first sang your lullaby or taught your infant lips to pray. The old gentleman watches your coming with a kindling eye; he knows what is best for you and provides it, as of old ; he listens to your manhood's story and compares it and you with what you were when such and such a thing was done on the farm ; he gives you the same stout Patriarchal spirit as when he sent you forth to do and dare in life's broad battle. Forget not the Old Folks, at the Old Farm Homestead, in your eagor chase af ter pleasure, gold and fame. "Love them truly, treat them kindly, visit them often, and take tbe children, for you can do it only a few years longer. Let old age and youth the Past and the Future mingle together very often, for it stirs np all tbe good there is in us and makes the heart better. Those gray hairs are way marks to the down hill of life whither we all are tending. What we do for them, we do for ourselves in advance. Have a kindly care, then, for those who sheltered you in infancy and sent you out in life with hon or, virtue and a good name. Tbey have done more for you than you can do for them ; therefore what little thou doeat, do quickly. H'cirre Mail. Out West, the qulifications a man must have to render him eligible to office are fever and ague, a pork-house, a hogshead of whiskey, a bowie knife, seventeen grown up sons, a military brother-in-law, and plenty of dog leg tobacoo- YEAR XII....WIIOLE NUMBER, C19. At $1,"0 Per Reasons why Every Farmer should Pursue his Business as a buence. 1. liccaute Agriculture it a Scicnre. Every man who has pursued, even mod erately, tbe Science of Vegetable Physiol ogy, understands peifictly that almost all the modern improvements iu fruit culture have been made because men have devoted themselves to the study of the great facts in regard to the growth of plant ; the cir-! enmstauces in which they flouri.-h most ; the chemical analysis of the elements aliich compose them, and the modifications of which they are susceptible, by pmpt-r care and cultivation. Just so in respect of the , various soils which the farmer has to man age. If he knows the chemical eletneiits which compose them, and th : which compose the various products he wishes to grow, be will be able to adapt his crops to his soil, and hismanure to both, in a way which will prove to all that Agriculture has its laws; and that acting in conformi ty with them, is the basis of the only true art in farming. For example : wheat con tains gluten and starch in such proportions that they compose together treenft five er centum of its entire substance. Mow, if the farmer undertakes to raise wheat on a soil which does not possess them, his Inst labor and wasted capital will be the penal ty of his ignorance of tbe scientific condi tion of permanent success. On tbe other hand, the knowledge of these conditions, j and tbe application of them in the excrcL-e t of oaatioo, common sense and reasonable skill will bring an abundant reward. ! Every department of the great business ' of farming is full of the illustrations of i tbe point that we are now on : namely, that Agriculture is a Science, ami that its j laws, when known and applied, will secure I results as certain as any that attend tbe ' application of the laws of Hydraulics in Machinery, or those of light and chemis try in the beautiful productions of the Daguerrean art. 2. Because Agriculture jiurmed as a Science, with the needful caution and er- severance, is a suurce vf tlie hiyliest and most constant pleasure. No thinking, active mind is content with mere processes of muscular efftrt. To i such a mind, tbe tread mill of a farmer's work, pursued from generation to gencra ; tion, in the same unvarying mjnotony, is i tiresome enough. Tbe toil becomes doub j ly toilsome, because it is enlivened by no living and inquiring thought. And the i farmer himself becomes almost as stupid as the cattle he feeds, except politics, or literature, or religion, shed at intervals, and from afar, a beam of cheerful light on his mind. But let every process have its j well digested theory ; let every piece of , work, while done iu its time, and most ef- ficiently performed, be an experiment which compares different modes of tnanu : ring or cultivation ; let every change j be made on sober thought, and with a full knowledge of the objects to be gained, and of the best and cheapest means of gaining J them ; in short, let tbe life of a true ci- ence send its healthy pulsatious through I the whole system of a farmer's work, and he feels a joy " unfelt before" iu every work to which he sets his hand. His 1 farm becomes his laboratory. The pleas J ure felt by the - Chemist or Artist, as he i communicates these discoveries which brin; j o I the ends of the earth together, aud revolu i tionize the social conditiou of naiious, is shared by the careful and laborious student ; in Scientific Agriculture. For he is ap- I'b'"o similar principles, aud his labors , tend to a similar result Every crop is a study to him, for it has its own laws to be studied. Every season has its charm fr I him, for its changes aud chances must be Carefully watched. Fie must make suns, showers, and snows, aud frost, aud fire, all ! to minister to his interests and work out ! his ends. And in doing all this and all this he will do, if he works with open eye and careful baud will he nut find a plea sure so constant as to euliven his heaviest toil, aud so varied as to strip of their charms the falso attractions of city life, aud so purely intellectual and reCued, as to place him in dignity aud aim sidd by Ftde with the great brotherhood of thiuk j ing men, whose bands have been biiy, J but whose braius have been more busy i still; and who have done most for the wealth and comfort of the race, because they have done most for its improvement in all solid and enduriog Science. 3. Jijcause it would Oe greatly to the pe cuniary advantage, vf the Jartntr to pursue his vocation as u Science. If he pursues his work simply because he has done so before, or because his fath er or his neighbors hare dote so, he shuts out all improvement, of course. If he makes changes blindly, he is much more likely to lose than to gain. Besides, if he makes experiments at random, some of Lis neighbors aud perhaps be himself will set down his failures to the account of Scientific farming; and be the more con firmed in their old ways, because of his blindness and blundering in a single case. But if he studies, during bis leisure, the result! of former experiments iu tbe de partment he is enquiring about ; if be con verses with intelligent mcn, who have been successful iu the same braucb, aud who i understand and will ezplain to him the Yeah, always is Advance. principles and processes which they have adapted, he wi'l be safe in following their example. Ohio Firmer. Anecdote of a Chaplain. nenry Clay Di-an, the present Chaplain to the United States Senate, was soma years ago a resideut f North Western Virginia. While .reaching one day at a church situated a few miles from Fair mount, he was aunoyed by the inattention of his congregation as manifested in turn ing their beads to see every body who came in. "Brethren," said he, "it is very difficult to preach wb?n thus inter rupted. Now do you listen to me, and I will tell you tbe name of every man as ha enters tbe church." Of course this re mark attracted univrrstl attention. Pre 1 scnily some one entered. "Brother Scat terfield" called out tie preacher, while '. the "brother" was astonished beyond mea ! sure, and endeavored in vain to guess what was the matter. Another came iu : "Bro ! thpr Joseph Miller," bawled the preacher 1 with a like result ; and so on perhaps in 1 other cases. Atcr a while, the congrega tion were amazed at hearing their preacher call out, in a loud voice : "A little old man, with a Moo coat and a white baton! : Den't kuuw who he is, you look foryour ' Selves." Pat's Idea or a Cheap Newspaper. j A gentleman visiting his estates in Ire- land, was standing in a field noticing work that wa being done, when he overheard Paddy telling Pat of some terrible intelli gence from the seat of war. The news seemed so very astounding that Pat couldn't quite make up his mind to swallow tho whole of it without some further authori ty ; so he inquires, " An' faith, where did ye get hold of the intilligcnce V " Oob," said his companion, " and didn't I rade it in tbe chape newspaper that's prented in tho town." " An' d'ye belave what ye ece in the chape prents ?" inquired Pat. " An' why shouldn't ye belave that as i well as any other ? it's a gentleman aa j prents it." j " Because," said Pat, by my faith, I : don't think they can afford to spake the : truth for the money !" I Strange Optical Instrument. ; There has lately been exhibited in Paris, j a huge concave mirror, an instrument of a ' startling species of optical magic. Ob standing close to it, it presents nothing j but a monstrous dissection of your physi ognomy. On retiring a couple of feet, it gives yonr face and figure iu true propor tions, but reversed, the head downward. But retire still further, at the distance of five or six feet from the mirror, and behold . you see yourself, not a reflection it does ( not strike you as a reflection lut your veritable self, standing between you and ' the mirror ! The effect is appalling, from, the idea it suggests of something supernat ural ; so s'riking indeed is the exhibition, . that men of the strongest nerve will shrink ' involuntatily at the first view. - " You say, Mr. Spriuglcs, that Mr. Jay cocks was your tutor. Does the Court un- derstand from that, that you received your i education from him ?"' " No sir. By tutor I mean that ha learned mo to play on the French horn. : He taught me to toot hence I call him I tutor." i It is state! that the capital invested in the oyster trade of Baltimore amounts to : $3,000,000, and that five hundred vessels and fifteen thousand men are employed in it. There is an ordinance there prohibi ting the sale of oysters during the sum- ; mcr, which has driven 51,000,000 of the j capital to Philadelphia and New York. In Philadelphia there is an establish , mtnt for the manufacture of paper bags, , for druggists, confectioners and other dea lers, with machinery driven by steam. It , produces 00,000 bags of various sizes pur day, and consumes nearly oao ton and a ( half of paper per week. A corpulent bachelor friend of ours, , had both his ears frozen, last night, while) in bed soonzing away iu his selfish lone liness. If such a warning does not terrify ' him iuto matrimonial speculations, we hops he may never thaw out when he freezes again. -Mil. H isronsin. A prfy of Belgian emigrants located about 20 miles nonh of Green Biy,Wis, , have been suffering severely from exposure : and lack of supplies. Tho people of Green Bay sent a delegation to their relief with. provisions. i Messrs. Conistock & Cassidy have united ! the Albany Argus, and the Albany Atlas, i iuto one paper. These pnpera were tha ! organs of the Hard and Soft (Hunker and j Barnburner) sections of the Dumocratio :irlJ- j According to official reports, published I in the beginning of 1.S55, the capital of France with a population of 1,000,000 ' souls, has only forty-six churches, or ona : church to 23,900 inhabitants. I A letter from Yadkin rounty, North. Carolina, say s, " The Yadkin river is fr.i-z-n entirely across, which has not beea tha case befor f jr twen'j years.'
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