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Tiie Mother's Smile.
BY A. E. CARPENTER-
Tlierc arc clouds that must o'er shade us-
There are griefs that all must know
There arc sorrows that have made us
Feel the tide of human woe ;
But the deepest darkest sorrow,
Though it sere the heart awhile,
Hope's cheering ray may borrow
From a mother's welcome smile !
There are days in youth that greet us
With a ray too bright to last v
Theie are the cares of age to greet us4
When those sunny days are past ;
But the past scenes hover o'er us,
And give back the heart awhile,
All that memory can restore us
In a mother's welcome smile !
There are scenes and sunny places,
On which mem'ry loves to dwell .
There are many happy faces
Who have known and loved us well; .
But 'mid joy or mid dejection,
There is nothing can beguile,
That can show the fond affection
Of a mother's welcome smile !
"Justice to Marry of the West."
ORIGINAL SONG RY A LADY OF PHILADELPHIA.
air " Avid Lang Sync."
Leave vain regrets for errors past,
Nor cast the ship away;
But nail your colors to the raasi,
And strike for Harry Clay !
From him no treason need be fear'd,
Your cause he'll ne'er betray; -
What name to freemen so endeafd '
As that of Harry Clay !
No vain distractions fill his head,
To lead his heart astray; ' "r "
For ever' noble promise made,'
Is kept by Harry Clay !
Then let not treason's hated form,
Thus fill you with dismay;
But, gaih'ring strength to breast the storm,
Stand fast by Harry Clay J '
llise bravely for one effort more,
Your motto thus display;
Protection for our native shore!
Sustained by Harry GlayI .
And o'er our gallant Chieftain's grave
Pledge we our faith this day; : .
In weal or -wo, no change to know,
'Till triumphs Harry Clay !
CHORUS.
'Till triumphs Harry Clay, my boys,
'Till triumphs Harry Clay;
In weal or wo, no change to know,
'Till triumphs Harry Clay '.
ARKAX-sato Lyrics. Some Arkansas man,
in whom the Promethean spark burns as bright
ly as a prairie on fire, addresses a song to one
L. D. Evan, Esq. a candidate for Congress, li
is to the sune. "Yankee Doodle." The follow -
is the chorus and is sufficient to show the
talent of ihe writer:
'Go ii, Evans, with a squeeze,
And go it with a looseness,
Or l'o the figure as you please,
But don't -betray your oooseness!'". .
A Vegetable Waistcoat.
" Tom,what sort of a waistcoat is tliat you
have jmi ?" , - -,
" Why a cluih" waistcoat, o be sure."
" Didn't it come from old Thrcadneedle, the
tailor'?"
" Well, then,' nVagcJabjc
" A yh'dV tyxj ri7 a ' '
" A y&pi Li' made of cWf
Mr. Editor : -By inserting the following
graphic, and most touching sketch, from the
Six Nights with the Washingtonians, by T. S.
Arthur, j'ou will oblige many of your readers,
I have no doubt. It is well calculated to illus
trate two things; the working of conscience,
under the influence of light and truth ; and the
adaptcdness of the Bible to furnish that light
and truth. Those who, unfortunately aro on
gaged in the sale of that, which Robert Hall
declared to be liquid death and distilled damna
tion, would do well to give the following arti
ticle, at least one attentive perusal.
A friexd to Temperance.
The Drunkard's JBiMc.
"Mi. President," said a short, stout man,
with a good-humored countenance, and a florid
complexion, rising as the last speaker took his
seat, "1 have been a tavern-keeper."
At this announcement there was a movement
through the whole room, and an expression of
increased interest.
"Yes, Mr. President," ho went on, "I have
been a tavern-keeper, and many a glass have 1
sold to you and to the Secretary there, and to
dozens of others that I see here," glancing
around upon the company.
"That's a fact, broke in the President ma
ny a gin-toddy and brandy-punch have I taken
at your bar. But times are changed now, and
we have begun to carry tho war rigtit into tlie
enemy's camp. And our war has not been un
successful, for we have taken prisoner one of
the rum-seller's bravest generals! But go on,j
friend W , let us have your experience."
"As to my experience, Mr. President," the j
ex-tavern-keepcr resumed, "in rum-selling and
rum-drinking for I have done a good deal of
both in mv day that would be rather too long
a story to tell to-night, and one that I had much
rather forget than relate. It makes me tremble
and sick at heart, whenever I look back on the
evil I have done. I therefore usually look
a-head with the hope of doing some good to my
fellow men.
"But there is one incident that I will relate.
For the last five years a hard-working mechan
ic, who had a wife and several small children,
came regularly, almost every night, to my tav
ern and spent the evening in the bar-room. He
came to drink, of course, and many a dollar of I
his hard earnings went into my till. At last he
became a perfect sot working scarcely one
fourth of ihe time, and spending all he earned
in liquor. His poor wife had to take in wash
ing to support herself and children, while he
spent his time, and the little he could earn, at
my bar. But his appetite for liquor was so
strong, that his week's earnings were usually
all gone by Tuesday or Wednesday, and then
I had to chalk up a score against him, to be
paid off when Saturday night came. The score
gradually increased, until it amounted to three
or four dollars, over his regular Saturday night's
pay, when I refused to sell him any trore li
quor until it was settled. On the day after I
had refused to sell him, he came in with a neat
mourning breast-pin, enclosing some hair no
doubt, I thought of a deceased relative. This
he offered in payment of what he owed. I ac
cepted it, for the pin I saw at once was worth
double the amount of my1 bill. I did not think,
or indeed care about the question, whether he
was the owner or not; I wanted rny own, and in
my selfish eagerness to get my own, 1 hesita
ted not to take a little more than my own.
"I laid the breast-pin away, and all things
went on smoothly for a while. But he gradu
ally got behind again, and again I cut off the
supply or liquor. This time he brought me a
pair of brass andirons, and a pair of brass can
dlesticks. I took them and wiped off the score
against him. At last he brought a large fami
ly bible, and I took that too thinking, no
doubt, 1 could sell it for something.
"On the Sunday afterwards, having nothing
to do for I used to shut up my bar on Sunday,
thinking it was not respectable to sell liquor on
that day I opened this poor drunkard's family
Bible, scarcely thinking of what I was doing.
'The first place that I turned to was the family
record. There it was stated that on a certain
day he had been married to Emily . 1
had known Emily when I was a young man
very well, and had once thought seriously of
- - m t
offering myseli to ner m marriage, i remem
bered her happy young face, and suddenly
seemed to hear the'tone of her merry laughter.
'Poor creature!" I sighed involuntarily as a
thought of her present condition crossed my
mind" and then with no pleasant feelings 1
turned pver the next leaf. There was the re
cord of the birth of four children; the last had
U'een made recently, and was in- the mother's
1i'and' T ' . 1 '
"1 never had such a strange feeling as now
came over me. I fell that 1 had no business
witlijihisjifiok. But 1 tried to stifle my feel
ings, and T' turned over several leaves quickly.
1 suffered my eyes to rest upon an open page;
these words arrested my attention:
"'Wine is a mocker, strong drink is. raging;
whoso is deceived thereby is not wise.'
"This ..was just the subjecj. lhaj, iindenJhe,
feelings 1 then had, I wished to avoid, and so
I referred to another place. There I read
" 'Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who
hath wounds? Who hath babbling? Who hath
redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the
wine. At last it biteth like a serpent, it sting
elh like an adder.'
"I fell like throwing the book from me. But
once more I turned the leaves, and my eyes
rested upon these words:
'"Woe unto him who giveth his neighbor
drink; that pultesl the bottle to him and makest
him drunken.'
"I closed the book suddenly, and then threw
it down. Then for half an hour 1 paced the
room backwards and forwards in a stale of mind
such as 1 never before experienced. I "had be
come painfully conscious of the direful evils
resulting from intemperance, and still more
painfully conscious, that 1 had been a willing
instrument in the spread of these evils. I can
not tell how much I suffered during that day
and night, nor describe tho fearful conflict that
took place in my mind, between the selfish love
of the gains of my calling, and the plain dictates
of truth and humanity. It was about 9 o'clock,
I think, on that evening, that I opened the
drunkard's Bible again, with a kind of despair
ing hope that 1 might find something to direct
me. I opened at the Psalms and read two or
ihree chapters. As I read on, without finding
anything that seemed to apply directly to my
case, I felt an increasing desire to abandon my
calling, because it was injurious to my fellow
men. After I had read the Bible, I retired to
my bed but could not sleep. 1 am sure" that
during that night I thought of every drunken
man to whom i had sold liquor, and to alhtheir
bescared families. In the brief sleep that I ob
tained, I dreamed that I saw a long procession
of loitering drunkards, with their wives and
children in rags. And a loud voice said "who
hath done this?"
"The answer, in a still louder voice, direct
ed, 1 felt , to me, smote upon my car like a peal
of thunder
"Tii'bu art the man!"
"From this troubled slumber I awoke to sleep
no more that night. In the morning the last
and most powerful conflict came. The ques
tion to be decided, was
"Shall I open my tavern, or at once abandon
the dreadful traffic in liquid poison?"
"Happily I decided never to put to any man's
lips the cup of confusion. My next step was
lo turn the spigot of every keg, of every barrel
of spirits, wine, beer or cider, and let the con
rents escape on the floor. My bottles and de
canters were likewise emptied. Then I came
and signed your total abstinence pledge, and
what is belter, never rested until 1 had persua
ded ihe man whose Bible had been of so much
use to me to sign the pledge likewise. Aid
now, Mr. President, I am keeping, at my o!d
stand, a Temperance Grocery, and am making
restitution as fast as possible. There are at
least half a dozen families that my lavern help
ed to make poor and wretched, to whom I fur
nish a small quantity of groceries every week,
in many cases equal to the amount that used to
be spent at my bar, for liquor. Four of my old
est and best customers have already signed the
pledge by my persuation, and I am not going to
rest until every man that I have helped to ruin,
is restored to himself, his family and society."
A round of hearty applause followed his ad
dress, and then another of the reformed drink
ers took the floor.
"5 S." Wants a Wsfe.
There is an advertisement for a wife in the
Oxford Mcrcuiy. The advertiser says he is
of "tolerable size, fair appearance, small pro
perty in a respectable business, perfectly tem
perate, industrious, and of a lively disposition,"
&c, and wants a wife of the same qualities.
He says that communications will be re
ceived till the last of November, and must be
addressed to "S. S., Oxford Post Office, N. C."
and that such communications will be obserred
with honorable and inviolable sccrcsy;
Our brother of The Fayettcville North Car
olinian assures us that the above is no joke,
and he pledges himself to aid the ladies in for
warding any billets they may choose to corn
ea
municate
We were, a day or two since, very much
amused in a hotel with a joke that Wyman, the
ventriloquist, played on a . countryman who had
called for a julap. He had no sooner raised
the glass to his Hps than he thought ho heard
a dog at his heels he turned around to look,
but discovered nothing the second attempt
with the glass had the same effect, except that
the supposed dog growled more savagely the
countryman stared more wildly than before, ex
claiming "What's thai?" A voice was heard
from the glass, saying, "I'm rum, and rum is
the devil." Down dropped the glass of rum,
the countryman crying out, "By holey, I'll not
taste rum again." Wo think that Wyman de
deserves a premium for his aid in the temper
ance cause. Clipper.
A book is a whetstone, upon whioh-some shar
pen razors, but wise men sharpen their wits. .
TZie Hindoo Wife.
'In a small enclosure, behind a miserable
hovel,' says an Eastern writer, 'we saw a wo
man tied to a stake, and a man standing over
her with an air of cruel deliberation, beating
her severely. As each blow of the thick bam
boo fell on her naked shoulders she uttered a
painful shriek of suffering. She bore the in
fliction some time without the least attempt to
retaliate; but at length, goaded to madness by
the untiring brutality of her tyrant, she made a
sudden spring at his leg as ho advanced to re
peat the blow, and seizing him by the calf, bit
him so energetically that he howled like a
scourged whelp. Springing aside, however, he
got beyond her reach, and then beat her with
redoubled ferociiy. She now bore the blows
without wincing, fixing her large dark eyes on
him with an expression which seemed to say
'You may kill me now, I have had my revenge.'
The rattling blows of the hollow bamboo might
have been heard a hundred yards; still she did
not move a muscle, but sat on the ground sul
len and enduring while the anger of her husband
appeared to kindle and gather strength from her
non-resistance. He would have fled from a
firm and resolute self-defence, for every crea
ture in human form that loves to abuse another
is a coward, who revenges his own fears on
whatsoever he can make afraid
Several persons who were looking with per
fect unconcern on this disgusting picture of ig
norance and oppression, informed me that, it
was for some triflng error that the domestic
tyrant was thus beating his wife. Unable to
endure the sight of this protracted and merci
less chastisement, I sent one of my native ser
vants 10 the enraged Hindoo to request him to
have mercy. The moment tho woman saw
this interference in their family matters she
broke from the cords that bound her, and rush
ing upon my unhappy messenger with the fury
of an excited tigress, she poured upon him a
vollov of such eloauent abuse for meddling be
tween man and wife, that I was perfectly as
tounded, and the man scampered away as if he
had been bit by a scorpion, though the rest of
the bystanders only smiled, bne nau no soon
er nut to flight ihe mediator, than she quietly,
and as a thing of course, went back 10 the stake,
where tho man anain bound her, and coolly
proceeded to thump her to her heart's content.
T.onir noes o s averv have broucni tne iiin-
a o j ,
doo woman to think the passive endurance ol
1 -treatment a virtue and an obligation, one
respects her husband in proportion as he makes
her feel she is a slave. If he did not rigorous
ly exact the most entire submission if he did
not oblige her to treat him as a master, wnosc
eve must be watched with fear and trembling,
and whose smile must be received as a conde
scension impossible to be repaid, she would de
spise him. Nothing will cause a Hindoo wo-
man, except among the highest classes, to reoei
against her husband's authority as soon as mild
imntment. Once in her lite, as a part 01 me
bridal ceremonv. she eats with her lord; but if
he were afterwards to permit ner to eat in ms
presence, she would despise him, as wanting in
j . . .
a proper sense of his own dignity vvero ne
to suffer her 10 armroach him while he is taking
his own refreshment, she would cease to respect
him. She never presumes to use a word of en
dearment or familiarity, and always calls him
'Master,' using the words and manner 01 me
sbivns nf iho. familv. when addressing him. She
is not held to belong to him as a companion or
partner, but as a piece ol property, ana wisnes
no further rights.
A dminhtr from its birth is deemed an in
cumbrance, and its existence hardly tolerated,
while the son is the idol and tyrant of his mo
ihnr. Yet in old aoo that mother is too fre
quently left to perish from neglect and want.
The whole life is a story of wrong and oppies
sion. Such is the social position of tho women
of India. These are the mothers and instruc
tors, of the nation, and the result may be read
in her bistnrv? A hundred 'millions in bondage
to a handful of strangers, with tho richest soil
and the most genial climate starving, wuu an
ihn plntnnnts nf wnnlth and DOWCr pOOr, ab-
ip,m nnrl rlpsniRml. Bv an immutable law, the
r..r t -j
moral character of a nation uepenua uu maw ui
its instructors. In India tney aru uuuu, iguu
rant, superstitious slaves; and children can nev
er be altogether unlike their mothers.
Gemma Silver.
Few persons are aware of the poisonous
qualities of this compound. It is very good
foi gun mountings and various other uses, but
should nover bo used in the form of spoons, or
other vessels for cooking. It is composed of
coppor, arsenic and nickle. It oxyutze3 very
rapidly, in contack with any acid, even slight
vegetable ones, and the, small particles which
aro taken into tho stomach, imperceptibly act
as slow but surq poison. Pure copper spoons
would bo proforablo. Every one is acquainted
with tho nature of arsenio; nickle is equally
poisonous. Lit. Messenger.
A marriage recently took place in Now Or
leans, between an old couplo. The man was
seventy-nihe the maiden fair" in. her cighty
Tdurtli year.' ' ., . ,
Notes osa ISie Census.
The laws of life raid mortality between tho
sexes are very remarkable. They may be sta
ted thus:
1. In the present condition of the white pop
ulation of the United States, the number of V
males born per annum are about twelve thous
and less than the males. This detcrminirs of
itself that Polygamy is not a natural cumlhiou
of man, and that thc.lawa of nature and religt'.i
are the same that one man shall be htrsban 1
of one woman.
2. At twenty years of age, the female ex
ceed the males." This proves that betv.ei-i
birth and twenty, the mortality amtmg th buys
has beTi much greater than among the girl-
3 From twenty to forty, the men again mm it
exceed the women, which shows that this it
the period of greatest mortality anion women.
4. From forty to seventy, the difference rap
idly diminishes, the females, as in the early
part of life, gaining on the males. This show
this is the period of greatest danger and expo
sure to men, the least to women.
5. From 5eveniy onwards, the women out
number the men. This shows, coicluivel ,
that relatively speaking, in comparison with
men, the healthiest period of female Ii(e is the
close of it. Absolutely; however, no period, ti
either sex, is so healthy as that of youth, th;
blooming period of boyhood and girlhood.
The above deductions of statistical tables
correspond with every day observations on hu
man life.
Women arc exposed to peculiar hazards i:i
middle of life, but, in the long run, fcirjthe lar
gest part of exposure, danger, and risk, in civ
ilized nations, fall upon the men in the active
periods of life. Cin. Microscope.
Marrying Because t-je Weather is
Co3d.
The Philadelphia Ledger advises bachclora
to get married because the winter is upon us.
How does he know that they will be bettered
by the change? There is no certainly of getting
a warm viifa. We sleep comfortable enough it
we sleep alone. There is no such botheration
with us. as married men have- such as youf
wife bawling out in the middle of the night
when you are enjoying a sweet dream,
'John! take your elbow off!'
James! lie further on the other side!--You'll
have me out of bed.5
'Joseph! you've kicked the kiver off!"
'Henry! gel up you lazy dog its day!'
'Richard! turn out and put on the lea kettle'.'
&c. &c.
Nothing of this kind ever troublca us. There
we lie in our little cot, which is just large,
enough for one, with its clean white sheets
spread over our person, tucked comfortably in
about the sides, and our head raised to a digni
fied height by having our corduroys stuffed un
der the pillow. How comfortable! We wish
we were there now, instead of here. When
we go to bed, we never have occasion lo ex
claim, with ihe virtuous, yet self upbraiding
Roman
'We have lost a day!'
On the contrary, we stretch, our weary body
out to its full length, (we don't curl ourselves
up in bed, as vulgarians do,) and say, in a tone
of self-satisfaction
"Well, here lios a single gentleman, an hon
est editor, type sticker, and devil, after a hard
day's work."
Wo then say our prayers, turn over on our
left side and go to sleep. We always sleep
soundly, because there's no stain nor grease,
spots on our conscience to prevent it.. N. O.
Sun.
Happiness oi IPigs.
The following is the conclusion o( he Joarned
and philosophical report on swhje, by William
Lincoln, at the Agricultural Fait held'at Albany
a short time since :
"Pigs are happy people.. We may talk dis
paragingly about lining like a pig. To livo
like a pig is to Hto 'tike a gentleman. Although
it is not pormiUed by the order of Nature that
a pig should laugh, or even smile, he enjoys tho
next best bcssing of humanity, the disposition
to grow Tat. How easily he goes through tho
world! He has no fancy stocks to buy, no
bank notes to pay, no indignation meetings to
a.Mcnd, no log cabin assemblies to hold. Ho
has no occasion to take the benent ol the bank
rupt act, or to havo his estate confiscated to
defray the expenses of tho settlement. Free
from all tho troubles that disturb tho busy woild,
ho is as unconcerned among the change's of
earthly affairs, as was the citizen who was
waked in tho earliest light of morning by being
told day was breaking: 4 Well,' said he, as he
turned again to his repose, 'let day break, he
owes me nothing.'
"When wo look at the comparative coiidi
lion of tho human race and of the swinish mul
titude, wo may como to tho conclusion that if ,1
man will not be a man he had bettor be a pig."
It was once said of a boautiful woman, that
from her childhood she had ever spoken smiling
ly; as if tho heart poured joy from the Hps, and
they -turned' it into beauty. J '