fortiraL
MY PIPE.
What, sell my pipe, sir I By old Jove I
LW Hai excuee my Ill•seemed mirth.
Why, boy, to get that pipe I clove
A trooper to his saddle girth I
What's that! Why, more than you have done,
My white-faced lad, or you will do,
If you but end as you've begun,
Mind what I tell you, lad, 'Us truol
Put up your money ; this old pipe
May be, as you have said, a gem.
Whoever looses death's last gripe
Will find it here, a prize to them.
A beauty I yea indeed, a pearl I
See bow the rich, brown color glows;
The blush of a pretty girl;
The heart's core of the deep red roJul
r6.*l sell my pipe, the thing's absurd I
My silver lipped, my amber-tipped I
See here, my lad, perhaps you've heard
About a pack of rebels, whipped
At Elettyhurg t Well, I was there ;
Where chowers of ball plowed up the ground
Beneath the footsteps of my mare,
Who challenged death at ovary hound!
Up came an order from our chief
~To take a belching battery nigh.
Our captain's words were and , brief,
'.Forward I which of ye fears to die
Like ape united mass we sprang
~(P!sr abatis, the Works were Non,
Wish one wild shout the hillside rang,
And thou we spiked each murderous gun I
Just'theme cloud of horsemen rushed
Upon our rear like some fierce gust,
By Tory count they should have crushed
Our little hand into the dust.
Full five to occ the squadron came ;
Thank Go we know not how to fly,
For I'll be sworn, each felt the same,
As men who did not fear to die.
Wild was the crash; the shrieks, the yells,
The screaming . of the frightened stands!
It seemed na though a score of hell■
Had loosed their fiends for biutidy deedir
Wadi man rf all our little band
Youghl like a hundred mon In one,
Slashing his foes ou either hand.
As though %were but a it of fun.
At lea, with half our comrades slain,
We boat the gray-clad tral tors back,
And fiercely over hill nod plata
- Ww-amotw them on their
My •rm was hardened stool thnt day,
Flom shoulder to my sword's rod tip;
But still, no blood was In the frey
Of mine, save from my bitten lip
But I had seen my brother fall,
Hewed down by one groat, giant blow—
The sight hod turned my blood to gall,
And almost checked Ito living flow.
I bout my mare's long.reaching stride
On every flying wretch I scanned;
Sworn that no spot on earth should hide
The murderer from my vengeful hand.
The bight - Was - closing In'around, ' -
With just anoush of light to see,
When suddenly I heard the sound
Of clattering hoofs, not far from me.
I turned my mare, and stood on guard,
My ready sabre on my knee;
My listening heart beat quick and hard,
For something whispered, "This Is hal"
I knew him at our horses' length;
Though but a glimpse I'd had before.
llls 111 rce, hlaok eye., his size and strength,
liis hands all smeared with idsckensd gore!
And in his tightly clenched teeth
Ile hold this pipe, with mocking grin—
A grin alit hid a fiend eenenth ;
A murderous fiend there lurked within.
Ilts'scratched his head, with straming e, es,
Thinking my silent form a friend.
/ marked him for a certain prize,
nd grasped my sabre for the end,
Just then ho thrust his cursed face
Yar forward from hip saddle-bow,
And with a puff, lit all the place.
And knew me fir We deadly foe.
But ere his horse could backward spring,
clutched thin. pipuslth fierecst hate,
Then, with one quick and desperate swing,
,Hy good sword fell, alas! too late I
fie charged, and, In his fearful haste,
Be only took my bridle arm ;
I cut him, cleanly, to his waist:—
•n arm the less, boy, that's no harm I
to, that's the way my pipe was won I
Now, do you think I'd sell my price 1
Why, all the gold beneath the sun
Would not so fill my loving eyes.
I kiss its bowl fur memoriy's sake,
The memory of my br, ther Steve,
Lts presence keeps the thought awake
Of him I slew that summer eve.
pioullaarxmo.
POPPING THE QUESTION
We have heard of many cases of pop
ping' under very singular eircuwstances,
the eccentric, the abrupt, the business
like, the silly, and a hundred oth,:r styles.
Of the eccentric, we would cite the case
of a well-known merchant, who, one day
dining at a friend's house, sat next to a
lady who possessed, rare charms of con
versation. The merchant did not pos
sess this faculty in a very rare degree.
but he could do that which was next best,
ho could appreciate, which he endeavored
to show by the following mode of action :
' Do you like toast, Miss B ?'
' Yes,' responded the lady, quite sur
prised at the question,
Buttered toast ?'
Yes.'
4 That is strange ;sodo I. Lot us get
married.'
There cannot be much doubt that the
lady was taken slightly aback, a fact that
did out prevent the matriage from com
ing off in a month afterwards, nor the
accession of the lady to one of the finest
establishments in the city.
Aa a specimen of the abrupt, we shall
site the ease of a gentleman who had re
tired from business at the age of forty,
and built himself a beautiful house, de
termined to enjoy life to the utmost.—
One day a friend was dining with him
and said half jokingly :
You have everything here that the
heart can desire, but a wife.'
That's true. I must think of it,' and
thew relapsed into silence for a few min
utes, .at-t he -4end of -which -time -he - rose,
begged to be excused for a short' time,
and left the room. He seized his hat
apd went instantly to a neighbor's, and
was shown. into the parlor, with tho in
f6rMation that neither the master nor
miatreaa were at home. He told. the ser
vant that he wanted nei her, and request.
ed'that the housekeeper be stint to him.
She came, and the gentleman thus ad
dressed'hbr .
Sarah, I have known you for many
years, and I have just been told that I
want a wife. You are the only woman I,
know that I should be .willing to entrust
iny happiness with, and if you agree, wo
will be instantly' married. What is your.
answer'?'
Sarah knew
,the man that addressed
her, and knew that ,his offer was serious,
mut aa well weighed as though considered
for s.year, and She answered him. in the .
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I agree.'
4 Would you be ready in an hour ?'
'I will.'
' I shall return for you at that time.'
Which he did, the gentleman who had
suggested the idea accompanying him to
the clergymm's. Many years have
passed slim.' then, and neither party has
seen any cause to regret the abrupt pro
posal and acceptance.
Of the business style, we can cite a
case related to us, which we know for a
true one. A young man who had suc
ceeded to the ill-kept and badly cultiva
ted, though really valuable farm of a de
ceased uncle, saw at a glance that two
things were absolutely necessary to ena
ble him to success ; the first being a wife
to take charge of the woman's depart
ment, and the second a few thousand dol
lars to stock it with. lie could not help
thinkitig to himself that, possibly, these
two great aids to his happiness and pros
perity might be found together, and yet
without attempting to put his matrimo
nial and financial ideas into practice, he
allowed them to haunt him continually
With this upon his mind, our farmer,
9tartbd on a horseback journey to a dis
tant part of the country, and upon his re
turn made an acquaintance upon the road,
in the person of an old gentleman, who
was jogging the same way. The com
panions dined together at itin;
and fraternized pie , sandy, during which
the young man opened his heart to the
-Ider, him all his plans and aspi
rations, when the old gentleman addressed
the younger:
I rather like you, my friend, and your
honest way of telling your story, and if
you will come and see we, I shall be glad.
have three daughters, all as good girls
as ever lived. Nuw, perhaps, one of
Ahem-may he the very- one. you .are_look,
ing for ; if so, I will do my best toward
waking the balance of the matter agree
able. _Ride over arid see we to tnorr,,w,
take dinner, and stay the afternoon, which
wid give you a fair chance to see thew
and judge.'_ .
The young man instantly agreed to the
proposal, making only a condition that the
young ladies should nut he informed of
the nature of the errand. This was
agreed, and they separated.
The next day, at the time appointed,
the young man dismounted at the door of
the house of his new wade friend, and
was heartily welcomed. The flour before
dinner was consumed in looking over the
farm, the young man is admiring its keep•
ing, and the old one in approving of the
sons ble and practical remarks of the
younger, when the meal was announced,
and three young ladies and their ❑other
were introduced. They were all, as the
-old.. gen tleman--had
younger, rosy-cheeked, blue eyed, and
laughing faced, (thumped the young filmi
er especially. The dinner over, they
once more walked out for a chat.
Well, how do you like my daughters ?'
was the old gentleman's first question.
They are all nice girls, very nice,'
said the young man thoughtfully.
' And which of them do you like best:'
was the next question.
' The youngest, Kate, she is charming,
and if I am to be your sun-in-law, you
must give me Kate !'
" This will never do to take the young
est and by all odds the prettiest,' said the
old gentleman, seriously.
' I must have her or none,' was the re
sponse, spoken decidedly.
' How much money did you say you
wanted ?'
' Five thousand dollars will put my
farm in excellent order, and make it
worth twenty thousand to•morrow.
must have five thous •nd dolllars.'
' I'll give you the sum with either of
the other girls," said the old man, pc si
tively ' but I will give but three thou
band with Kate.'
' Then I way as well go to my home
Five thousand I must have, I have set
my mind upon it.'
' And I have just as strongly deter•
wined to do wily what I have said,' was
t e old gentleman's reply; ' so 1 suppose
the umkter is at an end. However, we
will be good friends, and you must sonic
imes run over and see me:
This ended the conference and they
parted. The young man mounted his
horse,' and rode down toward the road,
but just as he was about opening the gate,
stooping from his saddle, the laughing
faced Kate sprang through the shrubbery
to save him the trouble,
'Can't you accept my father's 'terms ?"
'Yes, by George I will if you say so,"
was the instantaneous response.
'Then come over to-morrow morning
before ten o'clock and tell him so,' and
the girl vanished like a fairy among the
leaves.
The young man rode slowly home, but
he was on hand next morning, according
to bidding, and married the fair'lcatc in
two mouths after. _ .
As a specimen of the absurd, we cannot,
do better tl an cite a case that occurred
within the jurisdiction of a country vil
lage in Massachusetts. Thore was a cer
tain Zacharialt Peedles,. stout, industri
ous, sober and bashful farm-hand, a resi
dent of that locality. Zack pas celebra
ted not for what he did say, Out for what
he .did not, his silence being irmattear of
marvel through all that chattering neigh
borhood Zuck, with all .his tacturnity,
was not, proof against the shafts of love,
a9d one day was smitten with the whole - -
some charms of the only child,of the Wid
ow Brown, a bright-eyed, good-looking
girl, possessing the same trait of silence as.
Zack, thought not in so eminent a do-
•
gretl.
The first time Zaok shO'Wed hia;adtnit
ration for Sally- was by seizing up.a large
basket of cow-feed she was aboutto carry
into the stables ) and hurrying thither in
Koqiissiv
a frightened way, much as though he was
taking it from a burning house. After
that Zack seemed to be perpetually on
the watch for opportunities to save the fair
Sal from heavier work. These delicate
attentions could not fail to attract the at
tention of the Widow Brown, who, really
respecting the young man, invited him
into the house to spend the evening, and
from that time Zack was a fixity. Ho
would sit in the chimney corner of the
old-fashioned house soareely ever speak
ing, dividing his attentions equally be
tween the fire and feasting his eyes on
Sally. For two years this quiet adora
tion went on, and the neighbors won
dered why, as there nothing to pro.
vent it, they did not lnatry. It never
had been known witether the idea arose
out of Zack's own brain, or whether it
was a hint front a friend. but at last he
did find courage to pop the question. It
was done in this way. The time was
New Year Eve, and the fair Sally had
been preparing a stout jug of mulled ci
der that she might have something to
cheer Zack'is heart when he came in.—
Zack came, lie drank, and took his a CCII3-
towed scat in the chimney corner, where
he-sat quietly as usual for a fitw minutes,
and then, without any previous symp
toms, he rose up to his full height, six
feet and two inches, putting his head up
the chimney so'that but - little - a hi in l'wn-s
-seen above the waist, and delivered the!
following oration
If somebody loved somebody as well
as somebody loves soinebiidy, soinebui;i
would marry somebody.'
Zack remained with his head up the
chimney after this speech, silent as death,
fur some minutes, until he came foul'
from his place of refuge at the earnest
solicitation of Widow Brown, Willi a lace
glowing_like the setting,sun. Toe thing
was done, however, and lick and t ally
were married in a few weeks after, and
we are convinced th.it if either of them
could be induced to talk, now, alter a tri
al of a dozen years, they would say that
they were entirely sattAled with that
mode of popping the tiuestion.
Among the oddities of the mystery,
the one over which we have poison:Illy
wondered Much, occurred in Philadel
phia, within our own knowledge
- A lady and gentleman, who had been
acquainted but one week, and who move
in thu very tir-t, circles, were walking up
on the street, the lady showing the lions
of the city to the gentleman, who was a
stranger in Philadelphia. In the course
of their ramble they were stopped by a
wedding party, who Grow allighting from
their carriages at a church door The
lady proposed to gain and see the affair
through. The gentleman consented, and
together_they_J: ti-kOd Jill
over. At the instant the gentleman, ta
king the lady's hand in his, led her un-
resistingly to the altar without a single
word spoken, and presented her to the
astonished tninster, with the request that
they should be mad one. In ten min
utes the knot was tied, and we have no
reason to believe that either have in the
ten years they have been joined, seen
cause to regret the suddenness of the
idea.
JOHN MORGAN'S NARRATIVE
OF HIS ESCAPE.
Gen John Morgan was honored with
an ovation on the 7th, on his arrival in
Richmond An interesting account of
his escape from the Ohio peuitenitary,
and subsequent adventures, is published
in the Enyucrer. After narrating Gm
means that Morgan and his six compan
ions resorted to, such as secretly boring
through thick walls fur many nights, ma-
king a rope ladder from strips of bed•
tick, etc., the account, proceeds:
After 23 days of unremitting labor,
and getting through a granite wall six
feet in thickness, they reached the soil.
They tunneled up for some dis mice, and
light bean to shine. This was the
morning of the With day of November
1 663. The next night, at 12 o'clw•L,
dt tennineJ on as the hour at which
die ) would niteuipt. their liberty. Each
Inotneta tli..t inter veiled, was filled with
dreadful anxiety and suspense, and each
time the guard entered increased their
apprehension.
Nothing now rednained to be dune but
for the General and Col Pick Morgan to
change cells. The hour app'Oached for
them to be locked up. hey changed
coats, and each stood at the other's cell
door with his back exposed, and pretend.
ed to be engaged in making up their beds
As the turnkey entered, they " Wined
in" and pulled their doors shut.
Six, eight, ten o'clock came. How
each pulse ihrobbed as they quietly
awaited the approach of twelve! it
came—tit - a sentinel passed his round—
all well After- waiting a fe.w moments
to eee if he intended to slip back, the
signal was given —all quietly slipped down
into the uir, Thatriber,--first-stufliag
flannel shirts and placing them in bed as
they were accustomed to lie As they
moved quietly along through the dark re
cess to the terminus where they were to
emerge front the
.parth, the General pre-
pared to light a match. As the lurid
glare fell upon their countemancel, a
scene was presented which can never, be
forgotteii. There were crouching seven
brave men, who had resolved to be free.
They were armed with bowie-knives
made out of case knives. Life in their
condition, was scarcely to be desired, and
the moment fur desperate chance had ar
rived...
The inner wall, by the aid of the rope .
ladder was soon.s.caled, and now the out
er one had to he attempted. captain
Taylor, (who h'y The is - ray; is a nephew of
old Zaok,) being a - very active man by
the assistance of his, ootarades, .reaeled
t4e,tap,of gate; and .wee enabled to
CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY n, 1864.
get the rope over the wall. When the
top was gained they found a rope extend
ing all around, which thc-Genoral imme
diately cut, as he suspected it might lead
into the warden's room. This turned out
to be correct. They thou entered the
sentry-box on the wall, alai) changed their
clothes, and let themselves down the wall.
Sliding down the General skinned his
hand very badly, and all ; were more or
less bruised. Once dowrithey separated,
Taylor and Sheldon goittrit,One way, ?dok
ersmith, Bennett and lil'Oce another,
and Geo. Morgan and Captain Hines pro.
ceeding immediately toward the depot.
The general had by paying $l5 in gold,
succeeded in obtaining a paper which in
formed him of the schedule time of the
different roads. The clock struck one,
and he knew by hmryinglie could reach
the down train for Cincinnati. He got
there just as the train was, mooring off.—
Lls at mice looked to see if there were
any soldiers on board, and spying a Union
ufficer, he boldly walked up and took a
seat beside hint. He remarked to him
that " as the night was. damp and chilly,
perhaps hu would join him in a drink."
lie did so, and the party soon became
very agreeable to cant' other.
The ears in crossing the Sciota, have
to pass within a short distance of the
pcui'cutia:y. As they pa,acd the officer
; Th - ere's'' - hotel — h tctr
llorean and his officers tare era tiding
their leisure." " Yes," replied the 13 en
oral, " and I sincerely hope he will make
up his mind to board there during the
balance of the war, for he i= a great nui
sance." When the train reached Xenia,
it was detained by some accident, more
than an hour. Imagine his anxiety, as
soldier a!Ler soldier mould pass through
the triin, fur fear that when the sentinel
pa l ed his round_at 2_o'oock, their ab : ,
Hence night he discovered.
Tile train was due in Cincinnati at 6
o'clock. This was the hour at which
they were turned out of iheir eells, and
of course their escape wouil thou he dis
cove:ed. In a few *moments after it
would he I,nown all 0 , or the countr).—
The tiain having been detained at Xenia,
was limning very rapidly t ) wake up the
t:nie It way alteady past nix
The General said to Capt. Hines, ‘• it is
after s x ; it' we go to the depot we are
dead men. Now or never." 1 hey went
to the rear and put on the brakes.
" Juinp, Hines !" tiff he went, and tell
hotly over head in the mod. .71nether
severe turn ti.d brake, and the Gene
ral juinped. Ile was- more successful,
and E:lilted on Lis Searlio' There
sonic soldiers near, who retnarkel, "what
in the li-1 do you wean ity junipinu. off
the cars her ?"fth.l General replied,
what . in the d
• -1,, is the use ot tn),
.g?-_
ing into town when 1 live here; and, be
sides, what business t., it of yours ?"
They we. r immediately to ti.e river.
They found a skiff, be no oars. Soon a
little Loy came over and appeared to he
waiting. " What. are you waiting for ?"
said the (leneral. ••I atu waiting fur
my load " " What is the price of a
Load !" " Two dollars." "11, as we
ale tired and hung-y, we will give you
the two dollars, and you can put us over."
Su over he took thew
Ile remained in Kentucky some days,
feeling perfoetly safe, and sending into
Louisville for many little things that lie
wanted. Wet to Bardstown and ibund
a Federal regiment had just arrived there
looking for him. Remained here about
three or Ibur days, and then struck out
fur Dixie, sometimes disguising himself
as a government cattle contractor, and
buying a large lot of cattle ; at oth..r
times a Tiartermaster. until he got to the
Terine , seo river. here he found all
tueans of transportation destroyed, and
the bank strongly guarded, but with the
assistaoco ot•about thirty others, who had
recognizA 1.110 and joined him in spite
of his reilionst rarities, he succeeded in wa
king a raft, and Le and Capt. Hines
crossed over. His escort, with heroic
refusnd to cros , until he
'via, safely (,ver. Ile then hired a negro
to gut. Lis horse over, paying hits twenty
dollars for it The river was so high
that the horse came near drowning, and
alter more than one hour's struggling
with the stream, was pulled out so ex-
exhausted as scarcely to be able to stand
The General threw a blanket on him
and commenced to walk him, when sud-
denly, he says, lie was seized with a pre
sentment. that be would be attacked, and
remarked to Cnpt Hines,
tacked in twenty minutes,' and commenc
ed saddling his horse. He hardly tied
his girth when 'bang, bang, went the
Mink. balls. Ile bounced on his horse aril
the noble animal appearing to be inspir
ed with new vigor, bounded off like n
deer up the mountain. The last he saw
of his poor fellows on the oppposite side
they were disappearing up the river bank,
fires upon hr a wifoHe regiment of Yan
kees. By this time it wax tlark`un - d Mao-
He knew that a_perfect cordon
GM=
of pickets wouldsurroundth'e foot of the
mountain, and if he remained there till
morning he would be lost. .So ho de•
tortnined to run the gauntlet at once, and
commenced to descend. As he neared
the foot, lending his horse, he name al
most in personal contact with a piekt•t.
ttis first impulse was to kill him, but
finding, him asleep, he determined to let
him sleep on. lie made his' way to the
house or a Union mon° that he knew lived
there, and went up and pawed hilmelt
off as Captain Quartermaster of Hunt's
,regiment, wha was on his way to Athens,
Tenn„ to promo supplies of sugar and
coffee - Thr the Uuion people Of the cowl'
try. The lady, who appeared to be asleep
while this interview was taking place with
her husbarid, at the mention of the sugar
and coffee ' jumped ' out of bed in her
night ciotheai and said ." Thank; God
fur that, for we ain't seen any rale coffee
up here for God knows how long !" She
was so delighted at the prospect that she
made up a fire and cooked them 6, good
supper.
Supper being over, the General re
marked that he understood that some reb
els had " tried to cross the river this af
ternoon." " Yes," said the woman,
" but our men killed some un cm, and
driv the rest back." "Now," says the
General, " I know that, but didn't some
of them get over r'' " Yes," was her re
ply, " But they are on the mountain, and
can't get down without being killed, as
every road is stopped up." lie then said
to her: " It is very important for me to
get to Athens by to morrow night, or I
way lose that sugar and coffee, and I i m
afraid to go down any of these roads, for
fear my own wen will kill me."
The le• r of losing that sugar and cof
fee brought her again to an accommoda
ting mood, and she replied : " Why l'aul.
kan't you show the Captain through our
farm—that road by the field r" The
General says : "Of course, Paul, you
can du it, and as the night is very cold,
I ‘vill give you 810 (in gold) to help you
along." The gold, and the prospect of
sugar and coffee, was too ti.uch for any
poor man's nerves, and he yielded, and
getting on a horse ho took them seven
to- the-bigroad: - -
From tit is time furciard he had a series
or adventures arid escapes, all very won
del Col, bur fi ially be arrived slie within
the Confederate lines
The Gi-neral says that his escipe was
made entirely without assistan c e from any
one on the outside, and so far as he::cows
also v;ithout their knowledge of his inten
tion ; that the announei-nient of bis arri
val at Toronto was one of thotte fortuitous
utiiiiciri . tincvs that cannot lie Lecounted
ror - ; that it assisteddlllM mat'etlidrytiui
doubt. In fact, he says, that his "
prayers" saved him and as this is the
wrist agr. , e2t1,13 way of explaining it, he is
detcralined to belitve it.
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MRS. ROYAL PURPLE JONES
You. madam, htol all your associates
have, in your devotion to the eltesz,ing
and bedi.Letting f your persons, degraff
rd yourselves pitirwly. The whole 111.1111-
her of fashotnahle female souls are but
slaves to the fading bodies in which they
live When I look in upon a fashiona
ble watering place, and see how dress and
personal adornment absolutely monopolize
the time and the thought of the fashion
able women assemble there—when I
witness the rivalry among them—the at
tempts to wit:rhino each other in dia
-1 wonds and all tributaries to costly (Hess
l_whlen- 1 -see flair jealo.usies,_and .their
ill natured criticisms of each other, and
then realize that these women are moth
ers and tho•e of whom whom others
will be made, I have opened to mire a gulf of
barbarous sedidthess—a scene of gilded
meanness and mirlery—froni which I sink
back heart-sick and disgusted. Hood
Heaven, madam ! what and who are you ?
Are you all hotly and no soul Is it de
cent business fir a decent soul to be et ta•
stantly—absorbingly —occupied in orna•
meriting and showing off fur the p,ratifi•
cation of personal vanity the body it in
habits ? Do you realize how low you are
fallen ? Do you realize that you are
come to the small and indecent business
of getting up your person to be looked at,
admired, praised,—that the most grateful
satisfactions of your life are found in this
business, and that the business itself is
but a single moral remove from prostitu•
tion ?
Perhaps you will follow me into a eon
templation of a few of the natural conse
quences of your infatuation upon your
character and happiness. Will you look
upon your fashionable female acquain
tanees, and find one who is making any
intellectual progress ? The thing is im
possible. There is nothing more conduc
ive to mental growth and development in
devotion to the keeping and dressing of
the person of a woman, than there is in
the keeping and the grooming and har
nessing of a pet_horse. Look at a wan
who devotes himself to a horse lie way
be a very pleasant fellow, and oriPriarily
intelligent., but if he is enamored of his
animal, and gives hinise,f up to his care
and exhibition, becoming what is known
as a "horseman," that ends his intellectual
development. When horses gets highe4
in any man's mind,-culture ceases Now,
it would wake no difference,
practically, whether you were devoted to
the person of a horse, or the person of a
pet dog, or the person of Mrs Royal
Purple Jones. The wind that engages
in nu higher business, or that finds it's
highest delight in no higher pursuit than
that of grooming and displaying a beau•
tiful body, can make no progress into a
noble life. Practically you will find this
the case everywhere. You will find that
-your fashionable friends do not growl at
all. They wove along, in the same old
ruts, prate of the same old vanities, go
thie,satue old rounds of frivolity, and only
become less sprightly acid agreeable as
the years pass by. Just what you see in
these people, madam, I see in you.
There is anahei very sad result-whioh
comes naturally from this devotion to your
own person. You are already grown
supremely selfish. 'You have permitted
your personal vanity to control you so long
that you can really see nothing in the uni
verse but yourself. It seem proper and
right that everybody should serve you.—
Any labor that would soil or enlarge your'
small white bands—and toil: that would.
tax the poWers of your petted body- 7
tiny service for others that would draw
you'away from service of your °We person
shunned. Your mother, your pis
ters,.yOurf. friends, are all lsid,uuder
. ute to you, and your petulance under 'do.;
'we will be at
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TERMS :- 41,60 in Advance, or 82 within the year
=II
nial has made them your slaves. Absor
bed by these thoughts of yourself, devot
ed to nothing but yoUrselt, making room
for no plans which do not relate to your
self, you have come to regard yourself as
the world's pivotal centre. It does ❑ot
occur to you at all that the kind people a
round you can have any interests or plans
of their own to look after. All the fish
must come to your net, or you are un
happy; and if those around you are not
made unhappy, it is not because you do
not try to wake them so. Sometimes you
aot like a miserable spoiled baby, and
then ; under the spur of jealousy, you act
like an infuriated brute. The tendency
to this shanief4l selfishness is natural and
irrespective in all who devote themselves,
as you have done, to the care and exhi
bition of their persons. Others may cott
er it from sight more than you do, by a
more cunning art, but it is there. It
cannot be otherwise, acd 1 cannot con
ceive of a type of selfishness more nearly
perfect than that which the character of
almost any fashionable woman illus
trates.
As I write, th. re comes to my memory
the person of u woman whom everybody
loved and admired —the most thoroughly
popular woman I ever knew. She was
welcomed alike in fashionable and refined
society, and behaved herself alike in both.
-She- wasr-n ot, beaus ifu tut she_was_c
ing. She never ornamented het person,
but she *an always well dressed. A sim
ple, well E,ted gown, and hair astefully
disposed, riere all one could see of any
effort to Make her verson pletsing and
these seemed to be h)rgoit en and, I be-
lieve, were forgotten, the moment she en
tered society. WIWI] friends were around
her she had 1/0 thought but of thew—no
desire but give and receive pleasure It
she was asked to sing, she sang, and if it
niinisteri;d to - the pleasure of - others;•she
sang patiently, even to •weariness She
wins as intelli g ent and st in'ulatinv in sober
conversation as she was playful inn spirit,
and though she loved general society, and
mingled freely inn it, not a breath of slan
der ever sullied her name, and not all
emotion wins ever excited by her that did
not d. l.er honor Every wan admired
and honored her, and every wowan—a
much greater marvel—spoke in her praise.
\luny a belle, dressed at ilia licight of
fashion, entered her * presence only to be
come insignificant. Diamonds were for
lfutten and splendid dress was unmen
tioned, while tier sweet presence, her sell
forgetful devotion, to the pleasure of oth
ers, and her gentle manners, were re
called and dwelt upon with unAlloyed
delight.
s.adam, I have been painting fro!
life. .1 have painted Jou from life, and
havo irlinted this friend from Hes( ) mod
her charm t Eitt
the would weep will) her sense of un
wwthiness if she were toll that I had at
tempted to paint her. flow dues the
contrast strike y' u ? Do you nut see
that you are a slave and that she is a free
woman? I.to 3ou nut see that she has
entered into the eternal realities of things,
and that, you are engrossed in ephemeral
nothingnesses ? Du you not see that she
is a r.fined tAminatt and that you are a
coarser one ? Ito you not see that h er
unselfish devotion to t heliappt oess of nth
ere is beautiful, that her unconsciousness
of her charms is beautiful. that her siin-
plicity,is beautiful, and that your selti%
ness and your devotion to dress and your
jealousy and your rivalries are all vulgar
and ugly and hateful ?
It is complained of by many of your
sex that men regard woman as a play.
thing—a creature to be humored and pet-
ted and controlled, and indulged in as a
troublesome luxury. It is complained of
that woman does not have her place as
man's equal—as his friend, companion
and partner. Are wen entirely in the
blame fur this opinion, to the I wited es•
tent in which it is held ? Suppose nien
are to take you Intl such as are like you
as the subjects of their study ; what
would be their conclusions ? Suppose
they were thoroughly lo comprehend your
devotion to your person—to realize the
absolute absorption of all your energie's
and all your time by the frivolous and
wean objects that enthrall you—what
would be their decision ?
your lim,band think about it. Excuse
we for mentioning him, madam. 1 am
aware that he occupies a very small share
of your audition, but, really, the man
who Linde you in money has a right to an
opinion upon this point. You do not
care what his opinion is ? I.t.iought so.
You have ceased to love him, and he has
ceased to oppo,e you.. It is iwpossiblo
for any wan either to love or to honor a
creature so selfish as you are; and your
sex way blame you and those who are
like you for all the contempt which a
certain class of men feel fur women
You degrade yourself to a position of a
showy creature, good for nothing -but to
spend - money-- Xon...te.ach..tuon .con tempt
fur your sex, and it is only the modest and
intelligent women whom you despise that
redeem it to adMiration and love.
I admire a well dressed woman. I ad
mire a beautiful woman, and I.thorougly
approve all legitimate efforts to render the
person both of a man and woman agreea
ble. Men and women owe it to .their
own dignity to dynpe. their .persons be
comingly and well, and Iliay can do this
without an absorbing:passiou for dress, or
giving any more than the necessary a
mount of thought and time to it. The
fact is that a woman- who is what, a women
should be, has no•needof elaborate per-
ional ornament to make her'attractive.—
A pure, true heart ' a self Icirgetful spirit,
an innocent. delight in_ innocent society,
a wish and an.etlort to please, ready usiw..
istry .to the wants of.others, graceful, ao
oomplishinunts willingly. used,
~sprightli•
nese and inielligenee —these ere pass-
,
ports to personal power. Relying upon
these, there is -no woman whose porpOola
simply and becomingly dressed whole
not well dressed. With any or all of
these, the person becomes pleasing.
Gradual Emaugipation,
•
The standing argument for gradual eman
cipation is that it is necessary to prepare this
slaves for freedom. We admit that the negro
brought up in a condition of servitude atichitl.
ter ciepeudence.is not as well qualified forthie
own mastery as either the white or blabk
man who is taught frost his childhood tO
vide for himself; but n Moro ridioUlede-al:
surrytiou was never indulged in than that a
gradual process of manumission will remedy
the defect in his education'. The ground upon•
which the argument chiefly re to is that slave+
ry is the best school for freedom. OILIOO it le
proposed in order to qualify him for freedom
to keep him in slavery for a torte of years
If this idea be correct, the slaves of t he United
States are already the best qualified for free•
dom of any people in the world since they
have been serving in this school all their lives..
If after- being in servitude for two Imadred •
years past, the negro race is not Prepared for
liberty, what reason is there to hope that Ave.'
ten, fifteen or twenty years more of the same
kind of schooling will materially help the'
matter. The trouble is that the negroes have
served an apprenticeship in slavery Coo long al
ready. If slavery has disqualified them for.
independence, what in the name of common
tellt3o is to be gained by keeping them in
slavery longer ? Why not get them out of 11
as soon as possible t
NO, 7.
if we admit that the end of negro slayery
in the United States is deoreed, the question
of the beet mode of preparing the negro for a
change of condition becomes of •the very first
importance Shall he he left precisely where
lie is, /IS the preparatory step to this change?
Such is the proposition of the Graduals. A,
man, therefore, who is d-bauched by strong
drink can be best. prepared for sobriety by be
ing permitted to drink on a few years longer.
ll'hen, by remaining in a state of slavery, the
negro will become prepared for freedom, thee.
gentlemen forgot to tell us. For this Milk
sion we certainly can see the reaion.
The tact about the matter is, that the ad
vocate of gradual emancipation never WM -be
come prepared to admit that the time has
come for the negro to bo set tree. Why this
-hould he is plain enough. The same reason
which leads him to oppose the actual lit era•
(ion of the slave to•day will apply just as for
ea:l7 ten or twenty years hence. or tiny other
Afro._ fienco, to_kiAy
the gradual itfibuncipationiet, from 'any Mo.
use, it practically no Ereaceipaliopist at all.
hi the :+(lite o Niissouri in .particular, and
anywhere ells in time° like these, no one will
be to ,nd urgiug the postponement of einem.
Qipa , ion, except. Irian the hope that 'slavery
may in some say be saved alt gether, or a 1
len,3t with the desire to ease it as long as It
eau be dime.— Aftisourt Democrat.
ADVANTAUES OF Ca Y tvo.—A French
physician is out in a long dissertation on
the advantages of groaning and crying
in getieral, - und especially surgi - ;
cal operations. lie contends groaning
and crying are the two grand operations
by which Datum allays anguish ; tha¢
those patients who give way to their na,
(oral iiwlingS wore speedily recover from
accidents and operations than those who
suppose iL unworthy a wan to betray eupti
symptoms of cowardice as either to groan
or to cry. He tells of a loan who re-
used his pulse from one hundred and
wenty-bix to bixty, in the course of two
iourg, ly giving full vent to his emotions,
. .
the ?told° are at all unhappy, about
anything, let thew go into their rooms
and comfort themselves with a loud boo•
hoo, and they wi I feel a hundred per
cent. better afterwards.
lu ukcordance with the above, the cry-.
log of :.higher should not be too greatly
discouraged. If it is systematically re
pressed, the result way be St. V itus's
Dance, epileptic fits, or sowe other dis
ease of the nervous system. What is
natural is nearly always useful ; and noth
ing can be inure natural than the crying
of children when anything occurs to give
them either physical or mental pain.
Probably must persons have experi
enced the effects of tears in relieving
_neat sorrow. It is even curious how the
feelings are allayed by their free indul
gence in groans and signs. Then let pa
rents and friends show mere indulgence ,
to noisy bursts of grief, on the part of
chil:ren as well as of older persons,
and regard the eyes and mouth as the
safety valves through which nature dis
charges her steam.
To ll2tvt, A GOOD 111Emort.Y.—There
remains a rule which is perhaps the most
important of all, and that is embodied in
the old prayer for " a sound mind in a
sound body." In vain shall we look for
vigorous memories if our bodily systems
are deranged ; in vain expect to draw a
shining blade from a damp rusty scab-
bard. Early rising is as great an assist
ant, to good powers of recollection as can
possibly be imagined. Temperance, strict
temperance, both in eating and drinking,'
are positive necessities, if we could have
our memories in good working order; and
the excessive use of tobacco is, I feel
sure, decidedly prejudicial.
The memory, like much other mentat.
machinery, depends more on the stomach
thauwe are generally willing to allow,—
From dyspepsia proceeds what we vulgar
ly term " thick headiness," indistinct
ness, unwillingness to work, and inabil
ity to do so, even were we willing. Those,
then that would have their memories
powerful and active, must be "temper
ate in all things," and rise with the larks,
t Wese " plough men's - clocks," as our great
Shakspeare terms them. So far for na
tural aid to memory.,
What does
m.A. little fellow, not more than, five
years of age, hearing some gentleman at
his father's table discussing the familiar
line, "An honest man's the noblest work
of God," said he knew it wasn't true:;.his
mother was better than any man that was
ever made.
. .
BUSY PLAcs.—They have a little towri i .
'-Out West," which appears to have, been...
overlooked by Dickens and other English ,
travellers, and which is -"all sorts q.a.:"
stirring place." In one day they recently
had two street fights, hung, a rare
three wen ont or the town on a rail ; got:
up a quarter race, and a turkey shooting,
a gander pulling, a match dogfight, and,
preaching, by a circus rider, who afier
wards ran a footrace for applejack all
round ; as if that was not enough, the
Judge of the Court, after loosing his year'S
salary - - at a single-handed poker, and
whipping a person for saying he didn't
uriderstand the game, went out' and
helped to lynch his grandfather for' beg*•
stealing. ....
ICPJtistioe gives to every no,aeoad.
ing to his due, ana provides that Nur) ,
be done to no one. ,