El
16otirq.
ADA.
BY FLORENCE PERCY
Hers is one oftliose sweet faces
Made to light eitrth's darliest places.
Wherein childhood's playful archness brikbtabs earnest
thoughts repose—
She is fairer, purer, sweeter,
Than s lien woman's years shall greet her, •
lien as is the bud unblossorned sweeter than the
!wiled ro.e
There Is no voluptuous splendor
In her fare so pure, sender,
Naught of mid-summer perfertiOn—'tis the promise of
young. Tun—
e of womanhood's completonosO,
° ' But an innocence. a siveetness
Dearer far, as is the morning lovelier than the perfect
EMI
• Less'an angel—more n woman,
Less ethereal and more hutnan.
Will she be, when dye more Aprils shall have browned
each sunny curl—
She will seem another creature
Changed In heart. and hope, and feature,
When the woman's cares and trials drown the drenin
Ingo of the girl
Lapsed in bright and gorgeous dreaming,
With minance's rose-ray. givaininv,
Yet she makes a gentle effort to awaken from its power,
Conscious of a sphere of being
Just beyond her tinted seeing.
Like a bee at morning browsing . In a yet unopened
ESE
And she looks with childish wonder
Toward the misty realms beyond her,
Where aro cares and R9ife and discords—toil for heart
..,. and band and brain,
lint ' , he hearkens. :01 lin
Lilio a young lard faintly' hearing
Frum beneath its m.ther's pitliuns, the rude rushing
the rain
Mao will ho 11. partial preacher-- "
hood mud tit he will teach her,
Hopes and fears will fill her bestan—joys and griefs NOW
try their power;
But the innoeettry tender
lialolu her,hrow with splendor,
Will depart as dogs a raiit-drop from the forehead of a
GEE
As a women`she is fated
She will be adored and hated,
Know' all depths of joy and sormw—see glad days and
gloom y oars;y
And her tvt.ii that how lies glowing
Though great vales—by streams sweet firming.
Will wind sadly through dark places where the ground
is wet with tears.
Ali, tho 'evil days' are nearing . ,
When, her dnii , dreams disappearing,
She will wake to mourn the absence of this freshness,
joy and truth,
And her spirit backward turning
Will be vag uely, 'vainly yearning
For the tender light and gladness of the morning -land
of youth.
Ah, that woman's gladdest laughter
Ilan a mournful echo after!
Ah that, time should sow wild discord "mid her heart's
resounding strings!
Ah, that wealth and pride and power °
Should ecilpsii love's holy
dower—
That earth's soiling dust should gather on her spirit's
snowy
.wingsl
Stay awhile, oh, dawning naidon
Corning time with change is laden—
Linger yet upon the threshold of thy womanhood's
domain; \
For as years around thee cluster,
Though,they bring thee added lustre,
They will take abloom, a freshnessthat will never come
again
PERFECTION OF THE MIND.
Mental perfection should be the great aim
of life. To this end should all our labors;
struggles, and prayers end. Irl youth,' in
manhood, in age, wo shoUld seek to render
more perfect our powers of mind. We are;
never too old, and but' a few weeks too young
for mental improvement. To perfect our
minds we must contemplate perfect objects.—
We must appropriate their perfections to our
own mental use; cherish, admire, love them.
We must look for beautiful things, that luta-
gee of beauty may throng our minds. We
must cultivate amiable feelings, that harmony
of soul may enrich the inward temple with the
music of its numbers. We mutt 'strive, for
perfection of action, that in our daily walk the
halo of angel life may surround us. Deformi
• ty will not in`ake . us more perfect. Vice will
• not help' us in ouy work. Tho artist never
studies deformity to augment his treasure of
t beauty. The musician never makes discerds
~ _and hearkens to them thereby toscultiviite the'
sense pf harmony and beauty in his soul. So
in life we should surround otivfolves with the
best °Nests. We should alway seek the corm
puny of sweet thoughts, lovely objeoth,
ble feelings,. pleasant words, good oflice's
These help to pried our' 'minds. Our
thoughts are the chisels which carve the slat.
;,2 ; nary of our aouls. ;They do it well or ill at
t h e y are right or wrong. Bad thoughts are en
mies worse than all outward once.
pr. charming eays, I4The perfection'ef Mind
18 to have a, prOpensity to seek agreabl'e and
interesting objects. to have attention, turn
spontaneously to beauties of naturoonceelle
cies of human charaeter—God'sperfections,:—
A mind thus filled is always improving, always
happy. A. mind which turns to disagreable
things, party agitations, future uncertain
ties, etc: must be depraved. All objeoti; may
be viewed as expressions of goodness."
MI
311tortitantoug.
lELIFE OR DEATH.
A True Story of the Natural bridge In
Virg
ELIIICBURRI't
— The scene opens with a view of - the great
Natural Bridge in Virginia. Tliere are three
or four lads standing in the channel
. below,
looking up with_nwe to the vast arch of un
hewn rocks, :With the ahniglity bridge over
these everlasting abutments, when .the morn
ing stars sang together. The little piece of
sky spanning those measureless piers. is full
of stars, although midday. It is almost
five hundred feet from where they stand, up
those perpendicular bulwarks of litneStone, to
the key rock of the vast arch, Which 'appears
to them only the size of a man's hand.. The
silence of death is rendered more impressive
by the little stream that fillip frpM rock to
rock down the channel. The .sun is darkened,
and the' boys have unconsciously uncovered
their heads, as if standing in the presence
chamber of the majesty of the whole earth.
At last this feeling begins to wear away; they
begin to look around them. They see the
names of hundreds cut in the limestone abut
ments. A new feeling comes over their hearts,
and their knives are in hand in an instant.—
, What man has done man can do,' is the watch
word, while they draw themselves up and
curie their names a foot above those of n
hundred full grown men who had teen there
before tbsem
They are satisfied with this feat of physical
exertion,'' except one, whose example illus
tralntes perfectly the forgotten truth, that
there is no royal road to intellectual eminence.
This ambitious yliuth sees a name just above
his reiieh, u name that shall bo green in the
memory of the world, when those of Alex
ander, Cmsar, and Bonaparte, shrill rut in ob-
livion. It was -the name of Washington.—
Before ho marched with Braddock to the fatal
field, lie had been there end left his name n
foot above , all his predecessors. It was
glorious thought of a boy.to write his name
side by side with that of the father of his
country. He grasps his knife with a firm
hand-Land clinging to a little jutting crag, he
cuts into the limestone about a foot above
where ho stands: but, as he puts his feet and
hands into those gains, and draws himself
_carefully to his full length, he finds himself a
r oot above every name chronicled on that
mighty wall. While his companions are re
garding him with concern and admiration, he
cuts his name in huge capitals, large and deep
into that flinty album. JIM knife is still in
'his hand, and strength in his sinews, and a
new created aspiration in his heart.
Again he cuts another niche, and again he
carves his name in large capitals. This is not
enough. Heedless of the entreaties of his
companions, he outs and climbs again. The ,
graduations of his ascending scale, grow wider'
apart. lie measures his length at every gain
ho cuts. The, voices of his friends grow
weaker and weaker, till their-words IT finally
lost, on , oar, Ho now for the first time,
casts a look beneath' him. Hail that, glance
lasted a moment, that moment would have
been his last. Ho clings with a convulsive
shudder to the niche in the rook, An awful
abyss awaits his almost certain fall. Ile is
faint with'severe exertion, and ,trembling from
the sudden view of the dreadful destruction to
Which he is exposed. His knife is worn half
way to thlslaft; He can hear the voices but
• not the words of his terror.stricken compan
ions below. What 'a moment, What a meagre
chance to escape destruction. There is no
retracing his steps. It is impossible to put
his hands hitt; the same nioh with his feet and
retain his hold a moment. His companions
instantly perceived this new and fearful di
lemma, and await his fall with 'emotions that
Ireeio their young blood.' He is too high,
too faint, to, ask for his father and mother,
his brothers and sisters, to come and witness
or avert his destruction, put one of his dom
panions anticipates his &tire. Swift as the
wind ho bounds down the channel, and' hie
fatal situation is told.upon his father's hentth
stone.
-,Alinutets of .alraost et. igi
and there, were hundreds abrading 'in: as
rocky channel, and. Inindrode on , the ridge
above ell holding their breath' and riwaning
the fearful .catestrophe. The poor boy lidera
the, hum of now and ;numerous .voices, both
above and , below... He. can Just distinguish
the tones of his father's voice, who is shouting
with all the energy of despair:.
VVlllieml 'Don't Wok down. Your mother and.
Henry, and Harriet, Lire all here praying for
you. Don't look down. Keep your eyesi to.
Warde,the top.' !
. the b 4. din'xit,ook down'-418 oYe's, aro fixed
lllio it flint, t4wardliaven, arid 'his;young heart
on:ltim whoyelgott there. He grasps again
his knife..! !He tfuts another niche; and onoth.;
er foot is 'added' to the hundreds, that „retnoie
him froth' human help from below. ' Huw
carefully he uses his wasting blade ! How
anxiously ho selects the softest place in that
pier How. ho avoids every, flinty grain
How he economises his physical powers—res
ting a moment at each niche he tuts. How
every motion is watched from below. There
stand his father; mother, brother, sister on
the very spot where, if ho falls, he will not fall
ono.
The sun is half way down the West. 'The
lad_had made fifty additional niches in
.the
mighty wall, and'now finds himself directly
under the middle of that vast arch of rocks;
earth , nud trees. He must out his way in a ,
new direction to get , over this overhanging
mountain. The inspiration of hope is dyidg
in,his bysonii; its vital heat is fed by the in
creased shouts of hundreds perched upon cliffs
and trees; and others Ni:ho stand with repos in
their hands,,, on the bridge above, or with the
ladders below. Fifty gains more must be cut
before the longest rope can reach him, Ills
wasting blade again strikes into the hmestone.
The boy is emerging painfully, foot by, foot
from under the lofty arch. •Spliced ropes are
ready in the hands of those who are leaning o
ver the outer edge of the bridge. Two minutes
more and all will be over. That blade is worn
to the last half inch. The boy's head reels ;
his eyes are starting from their sockets. His
last hope dying in his heart—his life must
hang upon the last gain he cuts. That. niche
is his last. At the last faint gash he makes,
his faithful knife, falls from his hand, and
ringing along the precipice, fell at his mother's
feet. ,
,Adinvoluntary grotto of despair runs lino
a death-knell through the channel below, and
is its still as the grave. At the height of near
ly three hundred feet, the devoted. boy, lifts
his hopeless heart and closing eyes to corn:
mend himself to God. 'Tis but a moment—
there !--one foot swings off !—he is reeling—
topling over into eternity ! Hark !--a shout
falls on his err from above! The man who
is lying with half his length over . the bridge,
has caught a glimpse of the boy's head and
shoulders. • Quick us thought the noosed rope
is within reach of the sinking youth.. No one
breathes. With a faint convulsive effort, the
swooning boy dropsitis arms into the noose.--
Darkness comes over hint, with the words God!
Mother ! whispered on his lips just loud e
nough to be beard in heaven, the tightening
ropo lifts him out of his last shallow niche.—
Not slip moves while he is dangling over
the fearful abyss ; but when a sturdy Virginian
reaches down ;Ina drains up the iad,,nnd holds
him up in his arms before the fearful breath
less multitude, 'such shouting, such leaping
and weeping for joy, never greeted the ear•o
human icing so recovered from the yawning
gulf of eternity.
QUESTIOIC—What would you do if you were
a young ban ? '
Asswto.—l can hardly tell ; but T can tell
you what I think I should do :
Ist. I should endeavor to excel in every
good thing. I Would endeavor to excel in
toy business. I would try first to have 'a good
business, I mean a Wiliness fine in itself t a
useful one ; one calculated to piomote the
comfort and welfare of man. I would not
have a mischievous or a hurtful one ; such a
one , as 'ministered to vice and misery'; though
it would ; greedy 'depend upon my tastes and
natural abilities what particulat• ono I Would
have. "'should endeavor to select it' . business
as much in harmony withiny nature, tastes,
and familties as poskible. Tit)) best one for
someyoung en - would be those of the builder,
the printer , the gardener, the boat 'builder,
the machine maker, the engineer, the paper
maker, the oolen and the cotton ' manufact
urer, the storekeeper, Sce. If I were a young
man I would endeavor to find out for what
particular branch I was best fitted and fix on
that. '
th roll. on
tental_ len,
Wtiquait.; 4)(titi4-to.l
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
2nd, Then, having chosen a good business,
I would endeavor to excel in it,; I ,would. if a
printer, try to excel in printing. 1 would en
deavor do do my work as well and as reasona
ble as possible. 'I would do my best to get a
knowledge of the business in all its,usoful and
'important departments; .I would endeavor to
conduct it on the most cOonoroloril and efficient
: Plan. l i would emPloy,,myself chOly,,id'pridt
irig the best, the most, important
,and useful
vrorks. I should endeavor, to make
'worker as cheap and plentiful as 'lf
woro' a'farmer, I, would tritO 'Malm m es
tate,ao health.Yl as produptive, and as agreed
ble. as I could. ICI *ere a clerk, a reporter,
d`leaturer or an dd , thq, I, Would still ondeaT
roi If t were a builder,. a Pinot. d
, a b ocula kur o Dr a tailor, I would de the seine.
' I would try' to.nutke.the. bait of My bushier's.
twoul4 my beet to' knOW as Midi about it
as any' out Imo*., ; 44 . / !mild' try "td ita-
Vine . . I •
Bd. I would endeavor to do my duty hodest•
ly and faithfully - to - all with whom I might
hago`to do.. If river° ati.emploYer, I would
exidOtilicir to .do Tistich to My Workmen. I
would not only,ablde qtoyagreements with
tlieit; but, Would make de just ) , it'S' illipral agrpo
moats as possible. If I were a vrorkmttn, I
Ntould endeavor to do my duty to my employer,
I I would do my work well. I would respect
my employer's interest. I would not waste,
or abuse, or injure his goods. I would not be
servile, but respectful. I would be manly but
not rude. I would preserve ray 'independence
but would not be insolent. I would, of course
prefer a good, a kind, a just, n liberal employ.
ev to. a :.disbonest, exorbitant, and fait hie
one. I should' feel free to improve my cii
curostances ; but when I bad found a good sit
uation, I should not be in haste to leaye it.
If I secured the respect nad cdafidence of my
employer,4 would remain with 'him so long
as he gave me prope,r t, encouragement to do
so.
9th. If I were a young man, I should also
look' Ortvard to something like nn independ
ence.. 1 would,not be niggaydly,,,but I would
be economical. I would spend my money
where I had a chance of Spending it to advan
tags ; but 1 would not throi it, away., I
would no more throw away dollars and.centei
than I would throw away the nee of my limbs.
Money is power. It enables a man who has
no bands, to procure as much;od and clOth'
ng as the man Who has twik ands ; and it
enables a man who bas no feet to travel as
nst tie' the man who las. Money will almost
command anything. I should Consider it as
much my duty to husband my money, and to
increase my stock, as to irdProie my health.
I should, nevertheless, be as careful to study
the art of using it.to advanthge, as I was of
getting it: It is almost impossible to con.
ceive the amount of good or evil a man with n
great deal of money is capable of doing,- if he
lig disposed not to use it aright. He might by
drkining and other improvements, increase
both the health find the wealth of a part of
the world we inhabit.
Mr. Peperage's 4th of July Oration.
q shall close,' said the eloquent orator :by
an allusion to the vital greatness and sempi-
ternal importance of the national Union.'—
This sentence was greCted by a salvo of tre
meodous cheers and cries of 'Goat, Pepper-
age!'
'The Union! perorated Mr. P.—'inspiring
theme! How shall I find words to describe its
momentous magnificence and its beautific
lustre? The Union!—it is the ark of Our
safety!!—the palladium of our liberties!!!—
the safeguard of our happiness!!!!—and the
agis of our virtues"' In the Union we live, ,
and move and go ahead. It watches over us
at our birth—it fans us iu our cradles it ac
companies us to the district school—it gives
us our victuals in due season—it - selects our
wives for us frOm 'America's fair daughters,'
and it does a great many ether things; to say
nothing of - putting us to sleep sometimes, and
keeping the flies from our innocent repose.
While the. Upion lasts, we have the most rea
sonable- proSiiects of plenty of fodder, with
occasional drinks. By its beneficial energies,
however, should the present supply give out'
wo shall rise superior to the calonlations of an
ordinary and narrow prudence, and take in
Cuba, Hayti, and Mexico, and such parts of
nll contigeous lands as may offer prospects for
an advantageous investment. Panted be the
arm, then, and blisteed' the tongue, and
humped the—back and broken the legs, and
eviscerated the stomach, of every person Ishii
dares to think or even dream of harming it!
May . the heaviest curses of Time fall upon his
scoundrelly soul! May he 'smoke none but
New Orleans tobacco! May his family be per
petually ascending the Mississippi in a steam.
boat! May his own grandmother disown him!
And may the eufforages of his follow-citizens
pursue him like avenging •ftiries, till he is
driven howling into Congress. For oh! my
dear friend—my beloved fellow-citizens—who
can foretell the agonies, or the sorrows, or the
blights, and the anguish, and the despair, and
the black eyes, and the bloody noses, that
would follow, upon the dispersion of our too
happy, happy family.
The , accursed myrmidons of despotism, with
gnashing teeth and blood-stained eyes would
rush at large , over this planet. They would
lap the crimson gore of the most wealthy and
respectable citizens. Tho sobs of females and
the serelms of children would mingle with
the bark of dogs and the crash of falling
coluranb. A universal and horrid night would
mantle the skies, and oho by one of the Strong
of the universe go crumpling Into ruin,
timid the-gleam of botirio knives and iho lurid
glarC of exploding eteamboatsr—rtsinans'a
Mont? ty:
• What are Vie coming to when; our Infirmly.
pericidipais
. po;kliU fun at onr:glorlone, pftered
U 040 0 .0, like-. 41 10 above.
QP It thing?, citt,is, the publin, truiver
,avoid avulgar. 'whisker. This
Is of various Wilds i A:short, scrubby. ,
witablo red whisker is a •vulgar, whisker; n
Weak; Funny; White; , motheaten whisker is a
vulgar whisker; twisting, twining, senti
mental, oorksorow of a
,whisker is a vulgar
Whisker; a 4ig lilaok,,brutal-looking whisker
le a vulgar whisker; a mathematical,.'„motho
dioal; master ofart-sloal diagram of a whisker
is a vulgar whisker. Whatever 'is not AV of
these—Fill do.
xpie- Job Printing promptly (needed
S.tihx.ESTOßlES.—Thero are a great many
Snake Stories running the rounds of the pa
pers. The most extraordinary envie the last
from Elba, Alabama. A fight beiween a large
rattle snake and four hogs,—all the parties
being killed,—but not exactly like the Kil= ,
kenny Cats, with nothing left but their tails.
The snake was torn to pieces, but bad t*o
rattles loft—quite enough to identify himl
Now it hrts'heen a commonly reeeived opin
ion that hogs &etre:) , all snakes that come
within their reach. The fact has often been
witnessed by farmers ; and snakes instinc
tively leave a locality where hogs froptent.
The hog fearlessly attacks a snake—aware
from natural inst.nct that his tough skinand
stiff hair protect him from .the fangs of the
snake. how then could a snake kill four of
these animals and be cut in pieces in the ope
ration ? When a hog- or dog once seizes
snake, he shakes him until all vitality is
destroyed—when . the snake is' seized he can
not strike a blow. The story wants confir
k =don.
A New Yoax CABBAGIL—A Gothamite
con
temporary tells us that 'a farmer ou Long
Island has just raised a cabbage of such ex
travagant dimensions, that he had to blast 'it
with powder in order to get, it tit for crout.—
The outside leaves aresio be dried to serve as
hurse•bluukets, ivhile the stalk will take its
place as a pump opposite Stab's tavern in
Hempstead,' A great place for cabbage heads
is York State
twri_,Baritbas Bates, a professional iuebri
ate to Albany, having twtce sullered ten dol
tars and costs for indulging, tried to make an
airangeinent with tlte•magtstrates to 7by
the year. He calculated to be drunk a Joe a
week uu au average, and proposed for a d
CUUIII 01 1U perA;t:lll. to pay lur a year n ad
vance. Tudprupogal was rejected I 7 the
Justices.
13ustneb - 90.1. - arbs.
1)1t. S. B. KIE.UPEIt. Office in North
11:1110Ver treet to U dour, la else & Caitipbeds
~111,0 1111. 0 11:parueularly from 7 to U u
A. 31., anti uuu..J to i u cluck, f. M.
alt. 1. C. L 0 0 All S
60Ual Hanover street, • AIM
uuxt, &ha - to thu rust
lEEE
isti_,Wlllbo absent from Carlisle the last ten days
of sa,:n mentn. 'LA ug. 1, uo
..1 - 111. GEO. IV. Is.IELIACII
LtNTI...IT carefully attends to all
upon the teeth and iiiipicent
parts t r ust ulSease ur irregtilarlty may require. lie will
ulna insert Artificial 'loath el usury description, such as
Plvotriiinigle and Block teeth, and 'teeth with COntiu
nous times," suit will construct Artincial Palates, lib
turators, Regulating Pieces, and every appliance used in
the Dental Art. —operating room at tin) residence of
&Lama itlltutt, 1% est nigh street, Carlisle.
DR. GEORGE Z. BRETZ,
OEIIOE at the resident, uf
.4.111a11t hishrother, on North Vitt Street, Car
lisle.
OTlCE.—iintiee' is hereby given
_LI that I have, this . day, associated with me in the
prAetlee of my pmfession, mu: M. Penrose had Thos. I.
Esqrs. Alt business, in future will bu attended
toby the above under the virtu of -Manx s PENItOn."
koh. 14th 1855. W. M.1111).1)14.:, Atly at Law
GP. HUMEICH, Attorney at Law.
• —ollie° lu Bootees How. All business entrust
ou to uitu will be promptly attended to.
VVILIAAM C. RHEE3I, Attorney
at LAW. Oillce in Stmet, Carlisle, Pa.-
4x:o - Business entrusted tolinn xW lx promptly at
ended to. Feb, 7.'65.
N. GREEN, Attorney at law, ,has
A • settled In Mechanicsburg, for the practice of his
proiession. All kinds of Legal Writing, Collections,
Court business, &c.. promptly attended to. Of lice oPpo
site Dr. Long's residence. IaiIItVEYING in all its ditto•
rent branches promptly attended to.
GB. COLE Attorney at Law, will at
tend.promptly to all bualucas entrusted to him.—
Ware lu the room formerly occupied by William lrvino,
Esq., North Ilanover street, Carlisle.
April 20, 1852.
(I. W. BRANDT, Maim dcturer of
‘_fi • 311neral Witten, Protich Mead,
Bottled Ale, Porter and Cider,
North Haar Street, ututr the Rail Road Bridge, Carl
QCRIVENELt AND CONVEY AN
CER.—A. L. SPONSLER, tato Register of Cumber
laud county, will carefully attend to the transaction of
all such business as may be entrusted to him, such as
the, writing of Deeds, Mortgages Contracts, &c. Ile will
also devote his attention to the procuring of Land War.
rants, Pensions, Ac. as well as tho purchase and sale
of Real Estate, negotiations, of loans, ac. WI ...Wilco on
West High Street, formerly occupied, by W. M. renrosi,
Esq. near the Methodist Church..
N. ROSERS i itHL, House, Sign,
Fancy and Ornamental Painter, Irvin's (formerly
I arper`s) ltowi nom*. llituer's Dry Goods More. lie will
attend promptly to all the above description* of paint
ing, at roasortable prices. The various kin ds'or, grain l
attended to, such as mahogany, oak, walnut, ice., in -
imprcvved styles, ,
11.
DOLE.--A
S.—A. mammoth assortment of
Tools (401 kinds now *potting at
~hall and soo them. J. P. 'LYNEI3.
.rcHTLASHING MACHINES of the
twit make bonatantly_ on hand and for sale at tho
Car lido Vontidry and Mach ine Shop.
NttANK 6 AIIDNER.
FRENCH CORSETS.-,--Just, i•eceiv
ect, b fuether supply' ot'Froneh Corsets ofextra st
toe. Aleo mint* LlllOll Fringes for trimming Ilmminee
june2o GEO. W. HITNEIt.
•
WALL PAITIL-411A a
•rece
Window
iTed
splendid stock of Raper lianglurs:
shades and Firoboard Prints, embracing nil the newest
and most approved styles. The designs are neat and
hitste, and the Trims suet as cannot fail to give satis
faction. We Invite cur frlendanud the public general
ly to call and examine oar assortment before purchasing
elsewhere. IL sAvroN,
L.
march2l East Main Street, Carlisle
pa x Faney Printing cheaply done.