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Maiden mind ! attend my lay : 13e this flow "ret ne'er forgot Whispering through the far away,- ' Oh forget forget me not !" Duty stern may bid us sever,- Tears bedew our parted lot ; Yet these flowers shall murmur ever V Ah, forget forget me not !" List beloved ! what it sayeth ; List each blossom's whispered sound ! As it's lowly head it layeth On the dew besprinkled ground, Methink ! each dew-drop is a tear, That brims its dark blue eyes ; Bemember when you wander near " Forget me not," it sighs ! Household Orders. Nancy, go and comb your hair, "Betsy, stop your laughing there ! Xate make haste and wash the dishes, And, Susan, mend your father's breeches ! Sam, run and feed the hogs ! Jim, go out and bring some logs ! I'll whip you Jo, you ugly snake. If you don't stop a kick'n Jake ! Brother Sam is fond of greens, But Jim prefers salt pork and beans ; Jake goes in for cakes and pies, And George for roasted turkye thighs ; But apple dumplings give to trie, Oh ! apple dumplings ! Jubilee ! WHAT TO EAT, DRINK AND AVOID; A Guide to Health and Long "liife. BY R. J. CULVERWELL, M. D. ZOs tke Passions. The most powerful emo 'ions are anger and despair. Scarcely a day passes but we hear of the fatal consequences of giving way to both. The intermediate feelings, 'he gradatory progress from simple irascibility of temper to ungovernable fury, and from mental de pression to the depths of imaginative misery, that ve see exhibited around us, swell out the list of human grievances that beset our travels through It is not to be expected that, man can so mely iriew aggressions, or so firmly with stand mi sfortunes, as to pass onward, unseathed one or the other ; ut there is a certain amount 'f philosophy, necessary to meet misfortunes, vrhich, i f we do not possess, we ought to endeavor ; acquire, else, like the reed, we should be sha ken by every wind. " But as the power of dioosmg is denied To half mankind," "is the duly of all to fit their temper to' their cir rumstances, and not suffer trifles to .annoy them to vox or depress them. The mind can be cul l'f?led to withstand the shocks of the .disasters .mmon to the world, and also to resignation for ose which cannot be averted. s,erene and master of j0unjel(Vn.?Pi"'? r what may come and leave the ret tq.Hea.von " , , Hie leading passion in human nature, is irrita- V.iiy of temper ; it is the source of nearly .all our wvn discomfort, and that of those, around jus, and 5 m easy it is2 with a rational mind, to con- qqer and subdue it. If it led to any good result it might prove a healthy ebullition, but as it mere ly excites the brain, and to no good purpose, and seldom gains the end which reasoning might not accomplish, it is a waste of bitterness and even time, at the cost oftentimes of serious personal disturbance. Women have been thrown into hys terics, that have led to epilepsy and death, by in dulgence in angry disputations: and men have sacrificed friendships,.bioken the peace of homes, and scattered desolation among their dependents and followers : . "For one irrevocable word, Perhaps that meant no haun, you lose a friend : Or m the war of w ords, your hasty hand Perforins u deed to haunt you to the grave " And such is Life. It has been. thought next to nay, it has been believed to be an absolute impossibility to govern the temper ; that as every thing in these days depends upon organization, if we are organized to be murderers, the crime must follow, and lie only is virtuous who is happily abundantly possessed of the moral faculties. The young 44 limb," the scold, the termagant, the violent and hasty man exclaims, 1 can't help it," and on viewing the destruction that may have been effected, cries out, "I don't care." This is a mos fallacious notion. Phrenologists, at the same time that they admit that organization influences our conduct, know full well and insist upon it, that our conduct, or rather education, influences our organization, and that organization may be cultivated ; that " bumps," as they are styled, can be encouraged and depressed, and their contents called into action or subdued ; and therefore, if phrenology mean any thing, it means that vicious ness and virtue depend entirely upon cultivation, and that such lolly ought to be helped and ought to be cared for. 44 Bring up a child m the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." But it is even possible to alter habits of a later growth; and as, in the regulation of health, man must 44 chalk out" his own conduct to secure it; so in the control of his wayward feelings, he must bestow a little attention in the study how to do it. So much for the morbid excitement of pas sionate phrenzy. Even in a selfish point of view, irascibility of temper ought at all times to be checked. The flushed forehead, the blanched lips, the swelling throat, the fierceness of the eye, and the towering voice displayed in an ordinary fit of anger, are pretty sufficient indications of the tumult within and the spirit without. There are few of us so irritable that we cannot repress these ebullitions of temper if we like, at least to a very consider able extent ; and, as it is confessedly very difficult to stay the torrent when in full flow, it behooves us to determine, in those seasons when reason is sufficiently cool to counsel correctly, to place that salutary restraint upon our propensities to passion and acerbities of temper, which never do any good to OTHERS and are sure to prove injuri ous to ourselves. A calm, serene, and cheerful mind may be se cured by cultivation : even persons of a natur ally fretful, pevish, irascible temperament will be astonished to find how comparatively easy it is to control and regulate their humors, if they will but resolutely determine to bring them under domina tion. It is not my province here to dilate upon, nor to fathom the opeiations of the mind upon the body, arising from " Anxious study, discontent and care, Love without hope, And fear and jealousy ;" but is is imperative I should not pass over the antag onist to the one I have chiefly considered, and that is despair. Despair is but the nurtured offspring of gloom and depression : it is a growing thorn in the heart of .man it makes him 44 sink in lethargy before his twie." Melancholy or mental nervousness, as it may be called, is generally the handmaid to the sick couch ; not always so, but more particularly upon the complaints these pages are consumed in de picting. Here the faint-hearted man, unlike his angry brother, weeps in his regret, rather than gloats in his revenge ; neither more nor less does he demaud our sympathy. The two conditions are the saddest of suffering humanity. Like an ger, it occasionally attains its climax, and it then may be called 44 human weakness" nay 44 folly." A man may feel his sorrows like a man, but, to antedate the quotation, he should also hear them like a man. In these fits of extremes the senses may be held to be at fault, and mayhap they may 1)6, but in all errors there must be wrong some where ; the question is, can not the feelings of depression the abandonment to grief the abso lute despair, which often ends in self-annihilation be corrected . can not it be checked can it not be removed ? My belief is, it can. It is not .merely to be achieved, I admit, by resolution; for .the resolution unfeustained by removal of the cause doubles upon itself and becomes as naught; but where the cause is known to be irremediable, the next wisest part to play, is to put up with it, for deapohdino- will riot remove iu We must remem ber the fable of Hercules and the wagoner. The god rebuked the lout for his tears, and bid him whip his team, and put his own shoulder to the wheel. He did so, and soon got out o'f the rut. Richelieu exclaimed to a hopeless adventurer, 44 Despair should not be found in a young man's vocabula ry." Whatever dilemma we may be in, our first effort should be directed to its removal. The more we fret, the further we are off. In nearly all nervous affections there is a strong tendency to depression of spirits ; it is part of the malady, it may be as much the occasion of it as thS con sequence ; and in the attempt to cure the disease, likewise, must our efforts be carried to the cause as well as to the symptom!'. A morbid dulness is even soothing to some minds ; and so easily are impressions caught up, that set but the train in motion, and the thought is established. The mel ancholy man knows no comfort but in dolling out his griefs ; he ponders over his imaginative dis tresses and delights in his woes. Night affords no respite to his sufferings ; for sleep " Like the world, his visit only pays Where fortune smiles: the wretched he foisakcs. Swift on his downy pinion flies from wo, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear." Quarrels. Dissension like small streams, at first begun, Scarce seen, they rise and gather as they run. Garth. The little eddies of the wind that set the dust in commotion, are precursors of a thunder storm in hot weather, and of a strong wind always ; so Quarrels often precede a thundering time where two high-tempered persons are concerned, and, as the Hoosiers say, a right smart sprinkle of wind, m minds of calmer temperament. What renders the matter more disastrous, they uniformly occur between those who are on terms of intimacy, per haps lovers, and not unfrequently, the married pair. To the disgrace of human nature, they are gener erally based on trifles not worthy of a passing no tice. In the second chapter of the Apocryphal Book of Tobit, is a case to the point. Anna the wife of Tobit, during his absence, obtained a kid. When he came home, instead of kindly inquiring how she came by it, he threw out some uncourteous hints concerning its acquisition, which drew from hei the retort, that he was no better than he should be. The two eddies o'f anger met, and quite a storm ensued. As is usual in Quarrels, the old man first committed a wrong, the old woman put another wrong to it and two wrongs never made a right. If the wife had remained cool and met the fire of the husband's anger with kindness and affection, he would have flashed in the pan, and no explosion would have occurred To preserve the current of connubial felicity placid and serene, great caution is necessary. A harsh word, a sour look, a trifling neglect, an unkind hint, an unjust suspicion ; often raise a tornado, that makes the whole house shake, and often repeated will shake the strongest love. But one should get angry at a lime both is two too many. Among neighbors, mere trifling differences sometimes amount to tedious and expensive law suits. The intrusion of a pig, the killing of a chicken, the picking of a little fruit, often engen der a lasting hate. The dispositions of such peo ple are like Locofoco matches, they are liable to take fire from their own friction. Much may be done to remedy these evils, if all would resolve, and put the resolve into execution, to curb their tempers, bear and forbear, soar above trifles ; be kind, courteous, and act the human not the brute. The most efficient remedy, above all others, to cure the evil, is, to .live in the full and constant enjoyment of religion. A profession, merely, only makes the matter worse, for human nature and religion are both disgraced. Cold and lukewarm professors, who happen to differ, are the bitterest quarrellers to be found, especial ly if they belong to the same church. Hypocrites are stil worse, for they cover themselves with a cloven infallibility, that is as dangerous of ap proach, as spirit gas with alighted candle, or gun powder with a fire-brand. Pure, active, and every-day religion, transforms our nature more and more, a'nd gives us an increasing power over the infirmities flesh is heir to. To profess reli gion, and not adorn that profession by living up to it, is a dangerous experiment. One Missing. The Jlev. F. Coyle, in a lecture on memory, delivered at Adelaide, (reported in the South Australian Register,) instanced stage drivers, whose memory of the orders and direc tions given them is remarkable. He once rode outside with the owner and driver of a stage from Troy to the land of the Knickerbocker; the dri ver could not have had less than fifty parcels and messages to deliver by the way ; but hd was at a loss he knew he had forgotten one parcel, but 44 ding him if he could remember what it was." At length the stage arrived at his own door, when his childreu came running out with a 44 wel come home, Pa; but, oh, where did you leave Ma ?" '4 May I be teetotally scorched, (said lie,) if I hain't forgot Sail." That was tile missing parcel, Gambling in Four Scenes. BY REV. HENRY W. BEECHER. Scene First. A genteel cdffee-house, whose human screen conceals a line of grena dier bodies, and hides respectable blushes from impertinent eyes. There is a quiet Utile room opening out of the bar, and ihere sit four jovial youths. The cards are out, the wines are in. The fourth is a reluctant hand ; he does not love the drink, nor approve the game. He an ticipates and fears ihe result of both. Why is ho hdr ? He is a whole souled fellow, and is afraid id seem ashamed of any fashionable gaiety. He will sip his wine upon the oppor tunity of a friend newly come to town, and is ioo polite lo spoil that friend's pleasure by a part in the game. They sit, shuffle, deal ; the night wears on ; the liquor-fiend has made it safely dumb. The night is gelling cold ; its dark air grows frehher ; the east is gray ; the gaming, drinking, and hilarious laughter are ovet, and the youhs wending homewaid. What says conscience ? No matter what ii says ; they will not hear, and we will not. Whatever was said, ii was very shortly an swered thus : 4,This has not been gambling ; all were gentlemen ; there was no cheating, simply a convivial evening ; no stakes except the bills incident to the entertainment. If any blames a little exhihration on a special occa sion, he is a superstitious old croaker ; lei him croak." Such a 'garnished game is made ihe text to justify the whole round of gambling. Let. us look, at Scene Second In a room so silent that there is no sound except the shrill cock crow ing the morning, where the forgotten candle burns dimly over ihe long lengthened wick, sit four men. Carved marble could not have been more motionless, save their hands. Pale, watchful, though weary their ey-es pierce the cards, or furtively read each other's faces. Hours hare passed over ihem thus. At length they rise without words ; some, with a satis faction which only, makes theii faces brightly haggard, scrape off the piles of money ; others dark, sullen, fierce, move slowly away from their lost money. The darkest and fiercest of the four is that young man who first sat down to make out a game. What says he to his con science now ? "I have a right to gamble,' I have to be damned, too, if I choose ; whose busi ness is it ? " Scene Third Years have passed on. He has seen youth ruined, at first, with expostula tion ; then only with silent regret, then con senting to take part of the spoils, he himself has decoyed, duped, and stripped them with out mercy. Go with me fnlo that dilapiddted house, not far from the landing at New Orleans Look into that dirty room. Around the broken table, sitting upon boxes, keys, or rickety chairs, see a filthy crew dealing cards soiled with to bacco, greese and liquor. One has a pirate's face, burnished and burned with brandy, a look of grizzly, matted hair, half covering his villain eyes, which glare oui like a wild beast's from a thicket. Close by him wheezes a white, faced dropsical wretch ; vermin-covered and stenchful. A scoundrel Spaniard, and a burly negro, the jolliesi of the four complete the group. They have spectators drunken sailors, and ogling, thieving, drunken women, who should have died long ago, when all that was womanly died. Here hour draws on hour, sometim.es with brutal laughter, sometimes with threat, and oath, and uproar. The last few stolen dollars lost, and temper too, each char ges each with cheating, and high words ensue, and blows, and the whole gang burst out of ihe door, beating, biting, scratching, rolling over in the din and dust. The worst, the fiercest, most drunken of the four, is our friend who began by making up the game. Scene Fourth Upon this bright day, stands wiih me, if you would be sick of human ity, and look over that multitude of men, kindly gathering to see a murderer hung ! At lasi a guarded cart drags on a thrice guarded wretch. At the gallovvs-laddbr his courage fails. His coward feet lefuse to ascend ; dragged up, he is supported by bustling officers ; his brain reels, his eyes swim, while the meek minister (filers a final prayer. The noose is fixed, the signal is 'given ; a shudder runs through the crowd as he swings free. Afier a moment his convulsed limbs -stretch down and hang heavily and still ; and he who began to gamble to make up a game, anil ended by slabbing an enraged victim whom he had fleeced, has here played his last game himself the stake. American Phonographic Jourtat, Good Pay for a Republican President. The French Constitution fixes the salary of President the Republic at G00.000 france per annum or about SI 0,000 per month. It heing impossible to propose an irfcrease of salary in the face of thai distinct provision, a law has been passed allowing hirii an additional sum of ii 10,000 per month for expenses of represen tation," or for balls, entertainments, &c, &c. By this arrangement the President is made to touch the pretty little sum of $b'60 per day. Why is the letter K like meal ? Because vou cannot make cake without it. Devil's Worshippers. Mr. Layard, in his recently published work on the Antiquities of Ninevah, gives a very in teresting account of a strange people, who haB been little known iPthe rest of the world, but who haie inhabited Mesopotamia and the neigh boring countries time out of mind. These am ihe Yezidis, or Worshippers of the Devil. We extract the following account from the lat number of the Loudon Quarterly Review : The third expidiuoii of llr. Layard led hiu'j among a still more remarkable people, perhapi in their origin not only much older ihan thu Nestoriau form of Christianity, but even than Christianity itself. Me is admitted into their rites, almost into the inmost sanctuary of ih;it singular race, who bear the ill omened name of Devil Worshippers. He is the first Euro pean, we believe, who has received almost un reserved communication as to the nature of iheir tenets, though probably from the i-'iiorHncd of the Yezidis themselves, he has by no mean's solved ihe problem either of the datu or the primal source of their curious doctrines. How extraordinary the vitality even of iho wildest and strangest forms of religious belief! Here are tribes proscribed for centuries, almost, perhaps, for thousands of yaers, under the narrid most odious to all other religious creeds lu ted and persecuted by the Christians, as, if mil guilty of an older and more wicked belief, at least infected by ihe most detested heresy, Manicheism trampled upon, hunted down, driven from place to place by the Muselihen, as being of those idolaters, the the people ibit fl out a bank, towards whom ihe Koran itseff jus tifies, or commands implacable enmiiy. Against the Yezidis, even in the present day, the Mos lem rulers most religiously fulfil the precepts of their Scripture making razias among thein, massacreing the males, and carrying off the women, especially the female, children, into th eir harems. That fanatic persecution, which accidental circumstances suddenly and fatally kindled against the Chaldean Christians, has been the wretched lot, time out of rnfhd, of the Yezidis. Towards the Christians the Koran contained more merciful texts towards the Devil Worshippers, none. Yet here are they subsisting in the nine teenth' century flourishing tribes, industrious tribes, cleanly beyond most Asiatics-not found in one district alone, but scattered over a wide circuit (some have lately taken refuge from Mohammedan persecution under the Russian government in Georgia.) celebrating publicly theif religious rites with their sacred Orders and with ihe unviolated lumbs of their sheiks,' their groves, and their temples. The manners of these tribes are full of the frank, courteous, hospitable freedom of Asiatics lbey are res olute soldiers in self-defenceand a'l least, not more given, in their best days, to marauding habits than their neighbors, and only goaded to them by the most cruel and unprovoked perse cution. J heir murals, as far a transpires in Air. Layard's trustworthy account, are much above those of ihe iribes around them they are grateful for kindness, and by no means, at least as far Mr. Layard experienced, and we may add some earlier travelers jealously un communicative with Franks. It is this strange and awful reverence for the Evil Principle which is the peculiar tenet in the creed, and has given its odious name to this ancient and singular people. With them and old Lear alone the "Prince of Darkness is a gentleman." They will not endure ihe profame use of any word which sounds like Sheitan, or Satan ; and they have the same aversion some slight touch of which might perhaps not be unbecoming in ihe followers of a more trim ami holy faith to the Arabic words accurse and arcused Satan, in their theory, (which ap proaches that of Origen) is the chief of the an gelic host now suffering punishment for rebel lion ayainst the Divine will but to be hereaf ter admitted to pardon and restored to his high estate. He is called Melek Tnous, King Pea cock ; or Melek el Kout, th- Mighty Angel. The peacock, according to one account, is tho. symbol, as well as the appellative of ihi inef fable Being no miliums emblem of pride. They reverence the Old Testament almost with Jewish zeal (a tenet absolutely inconsistent with Manicheism :) they receive, but with less reverence, the Gospel and the Koran. Their notion of our Saviour is the Mohammedan, ex cept that he wa3 an angel, not a prophet. XO3 By telepraph from New York, we earn that "Whiskey is quiet." Glad to har v It kicks up considerable of a noise hereaway , b6 -caiionally. Chicago Journal. ! Moral Boots An advertisement in1 ona of ihe morning papers says : "Wanted a female who has a knowledge of fining boots of a good moral character." We suppose boots of a good moral character are such as have whole soles. A young gentleman lately bathing in thq Missouri river, on observing some ladle ap proaching, drowned himself from uionve of extreme "delicacy, FoolUh young uu !
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