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VOU THE LAST DAY OF THE TSAR.
This year is just going away,
' The moments are finishing fast;
My beirt, have you nothing to say
Concerning the time that is past?
Now, whilo in my chamber alone.
Whore God will be present to hear,
I'il try to remember and own
The faults I've committed this year.
0 Lord, I'm ashamed to confess
U,jw often I've broken tby day;
Terhaps I have thought of my dres3.
Or wasted the moments in play.
And when the good minister tried
To make little children attend,
1 wa thinking of something beside.
Or wishing the sermon would end.
How often I rose from my bed,
And did not remember my prayer;
Or if a few words I havo said,
My thoughts have been going e'a .'where;
El-temper, and passion, and pride.
Have grieved my dear parents and Thee;
And seldom I've heartily tried
Obedient and gentle to be.
But. Lord, thou already hast known
Much mora of my folly tnan I !
There is not a fault I can own.
Too little for God to descry.
Yet hear me and help me to feel
How wicked and weak I must be;
And let me not try to conceal
The largest or smallest from thee.
This year is just going away,
The moments are finishing fast,
Look down in thy mercy, I pray.
To pardon the time that is past ;
And as soon as another begins,
So help me to walk in thy fear,
That I may not with follies and fcins
Disfigure and waste the new year.
The Eomish Church in America Curious
History of a Russian Princs as Missionary
in Pennsylvania.
Correspondence of the Newark Daily Advertiser.
Rome, Nov. 8, 1855.
M. do Laroche Heron, one of the famous
confederacy of writers who sustain with so
much ability the uaily organ of the Itomau
See at Paris, (p Wnicers,") has been some years
engaged in collecting Materials for tho His
tory of the Church in the United States, em
bracing the establishment of its first missions.
The work is not yet published, but as the au
thor appears to hare had access to original
sources of information, it can scarcely fail to
furnish many interesting incidents and anec
dotes touching the introduction of civilization
in the new world ; the history of which great
epoch can never be properly illustrated with
out a careful u?e of the hitherto nncollated
nd comparatively neglected private memoirs,
-diaries and correspondence of the first Chris
tian missionaries, French as well as English,
"by whatever partial names they may have
been called.
One of M. Heron's latter chapters will
bring into notice the story of a young Hi ssian
prince who appeared in the mountains of
Pennsylvania as a Christian teacher some
thirty years after the missionaries of Fort Du
quesno had disappeared with the French
troops, and whose self denying life and labors
fall therefore withiu the observations of the
present century. Tha father of Prince De
metrius Gallitzin, for many years the Russian
Ambassabor at Pari9, was among the intimate
friends of Voltaire and Diderot. Born at the
close of the year 1770, he was early fash
ioned according to the doctrines of their
school, though his German mother, a daugh
ter of one of the military favorites of the
great Frederick, maintained her Christian
faith. The young prince, rho embraced his
mother's profession at the age of seventeen,
was destined for a military career ; but after
serving for a time as the aid-de-camp of an
Austrian general then in the field, he was
placed under the charge of an educated young
German to complete his education by travel.
Arriving in the United States in 1792, he
resolved, after much anxious deliberation, to
abandon th& nigh career before him, and en
tered the seminary of the Sulpicians, then re
cently founded at Baltimore, to prepare him-
cc w hub vuwuuu oi a jnristiau missionary
Three years after, he received the priesthood
from the hands of the venerabb Bishop Car
roll, being the fifth priest of that communion
ordained in the United States.
The first mission assigned to him was that
of Conewago, already a flourishing parish with
another priest. From this central point he
ministered some years in a wide sphere, cm-
'bracing Hageratown ., and Ciimberland, in
Maryland ; Martlnsburg and Winchester, in
Wgmia. and Cbjimbersburg, in Pennsyl
Uia, WUh a view to concentrate and au-
efficiney of bis labors, he at length
r'ri, position in the Alleghanies, (now
Wd b the county of Camfria), to found
a colony ; ana accepting tne donation ot a
farm from a benevolent family, entered upon
his new enterprise in 1799 with a dozen fol
lowers, having first constructed a rude chapel
out of the trees of the forest. In order to
attract settlers, he soon after purchased
large tract cf territory, which was apportioned
into small farms, at scarcely more than nam
inal prices. Many of them were given grat
uitously to German immigrants, whom his
enterprise had attracted, io meet Ms nu
merous engagements, he counted on a large
patrimony, his father being now dead. But
the Emperor of Russia could not pardon such
an apostacy in the sons of one of the most
princely nobles of his court, and in 1808 the
missionary received from his friends the fol
lowing note:
" The question of your rights, and of those
of the priooeaa your sister, on tho. estate of
your father in Russia, has been examined by
the Senate of St. Petersburg, and it has been
decided that, by reason of your Catholic fath,
and your ecclesiastical profession, you cannot
be permitted to partake of the property of
your deceased father. Your sister is, there
fore, sole heir of the estates The Council of
State has confirmed the decision of the Senate,
and the Emperor, by his sanction, ' has given
it the force of law.
Nevertheless, the princess, Mario Anne,
promised to accord to him voluntarily his por
tion, and at different times actually did remit
to him considerable sums of money, which he
consecrated to the payment of his obligations,
and the wants of the poor under his care.
The sister, however, ultimately married, and
all hope of receiving the promised inheritance
was cut off, though he might have recovered
it by returning to his family and country.
Preferring the rep.oach of his chosen profes
sion, the faithful pastor cheerfully adapted
himself to his new condition, imposed upon
himself many austerities, lived in an humble
log cabin, and devote 1 all his energies to the
instruction of the mountaineers, whom he had
drawn about him. often making long journeys
among the intermediate forests in the pursuit
of his vocation He found time also to pur
sue his studies, and published several tracts
in defence of his faith, which have gone
through numerous editions in both Europe
and America.
This venerable patriarch of the Allegheneys
had renounced with the other princely privi
leges of his birth, his family name and title,
and was known during the forty-one years of
his laborious missionary life, as the Rev. Mr.
Smith. He died at Loretto. a village that he
had founded in the mountains in May, 1840,
" leaving," in the language of bis friend and
colleague, the Rev. Mr. Ileyden, " ten thou
sand Christian professors where ho found
twelve." In founding his colony he expended
the sum of 750,000 francs, received at vari
ous times from his sister. A snitable monu
ment in the place of his death marks the grat
itude of the people whom he so faithfully
served. They are chiefly Germans.
' 13y a recent Papal brief, I learn that the
Benedictine monastery at St. Vincent de La
trobe, in Pennsylvania, has been raised to the
dignity of an abbey and the Rev Boniface is
named the first Abbe-Mitre (mitred-abbot.)
This institution was founded only nine years
ago, by this same abbot, accompanied by fif
teen associates (friars), and to-day he counts
i his jurisdiction five monasteries and one
hundred and fifty Benedictines. The prog
ress just now of the Roman Church in the
United States is regarded here with more than
usual satisfaction.
Singular Epitaph.
The following is the inscription on a monument
erected in Horsley Down Church, in Cumberland,
England :
Here lie the bodies of
Thomas Bond and Mary his wife.
She was temperate, chaste, and charitable.
But
She was proud, peevish, and passionate.
She was an affectionate wife and a tender
motner.
But
Her husband and child, whom she loved, seldom
saw her countenance without a
disgusting frown,
Whilst she received visitors whom she despised
with an endearing smile.
Her behavior was discreet towards strangers,
But
Imprudent in her family.
Abroad her conduct was influenced by good
breeding,
But
At home by ill temper.
She was a professed enemy to tlattery, and was
seldom known to praise or commend ;
But
The talents in which she principally excelled
Were difference of opinion aud discovering
flaws and
Imperfections.
She was an admirable economist,
And, without prodigality,
Dispensed plenty to everv person in her family,
But
Would sacrifice their eyes to a farthing caudle.
She sometimes made her husband
Happy with her good qualities,
But
Much more frequently miserable with her
Many failings.
Inasmuch that in thirty years cohabitation,
He often lamented that,
Maugre all her virtues.
He had not on the whole enjoyed two years
Of matrimonial comfort.
At length,
. Finding she had lost the affection of her hus
. band, as well as the regard of her neigh
bors, family disputes having been
divulged by servants,
She died of vexation, July 20, 1708,'
"' ' Aged 48 years.
Her worn-out husband survived her four months
and two days, and departed this life
- November 22, 1768, :
.., Q ie Sth year of his age.
llham Bond, brother to the deceased,
nr 1 1 Erected this stone as a -
eefcly monitor to the wives of tin's parish,
- J bat they may avoid the infamy of having
Their memoiies handed down to posterity
With a patchwork character.
Is a Know-Nothing Fit to Sit on a Jury ?
Supreme Couht General Term.
The People of the State of New York
against Edward Christie and others. Opin
ion Morris, J. Facts. The defendants
were jointly indicted for riot, committed in
the Ninth Ward of the city of New York on
the fourth day of July, 1853; the defendants
pleaded not guilty ; and on the fourteenth day
of December, 1853, the issue of traverse so
joined came on to be tried before Hon. Fran
cis Tillou, Recorder, dee , the defendants
being tried jointly. ,
On the first juror Samuel Carson being
called, he was challenged for principal cause
by the defendants, on the ground of his hav
ing formed or expressed an opinion of the guilt
of the prisoners, or some of them. This chal
lenge was denied - by the people, and issue
was thereupon joined. The defendants coun
sel, John McKeon, offered as a witness, .to
prove the challenge, the juror himself. This
was objected to by the people, and the objec
tion f ustaincd by the Court ; to which decision
the cTTfendants' counsel excepted.
It was admitted, for the purpose of argu
ment as to the challenge of jurors, that on the
fourth of J uly last past, there was a procession
of a society called the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians a society composed of Irishmen
and Roman Catholics ; that the defendants
were members of that society ; ?nd it was ad
mitted for the purpose of argument as to the
challenge of J urors, that a portion of the de
fendants an? Catholics, and a portion foreign
ers ; tbat the alleged riot took place in the
neighborhood of Abingdon Square, in the
Ninth Ward of the City of New York, through
which the procession passed, and that during
the riot, expressions of a hostile and insult
ing character were used by some of the parties
engaged as, tor instance, "Kill the d-
Irish,'
Kill the d-
-d Popish sons of
-s,
Kill the d-
-i Yankees.". It
was also contended by the defendants counsel,
for the purpose of the challenge to jurors,
that a strong prejudice existed among the po
lice and inhabitants of that section of tho city
against Irish and Roman Catholics.
Several jurors were called and rejected,
some were peremptorily challenged; one of
the jurors being called and challenged to the
favor, on the ground that he had a bias, prej
udice, or impression against the prisoners, or
some one of them, triers were appointed by
court ; one juror so challenged for favor and
was rejected by the triers, when James Black
was called as a juror, who was challenged to
the favor by the defendants' counsel, on the
ground that the juror called had a bias, preju
dice, or impression against the defendants, or
some of them.
This challenge was denied by the people,
and issue was thereupon joined. The same
triers as in the former cases were, by consent,
iu this case appointed. The defendants called
as a witness to prove the challenge, the juror
so called, who, after answering several ques
tions in relation to the ground of challenge,
was asked the following question.
Q. Have you any bias or prejudice against
Roman Catholics ?
To this question the district attorney objec
ted, and t nt n led that the juror was not bound
to answer, if he thought it would disgrace
him. The Court sustained the objection of
the district attorney, to which decision the
counsel for defendants excepted. The Court
thereupon informed the witness that he was
not bound to answer the question, if in his
opinion the answer would tend to disgrace
him ; to which instruction and decision the
defendants' counsel excepted. On the ques
tion being put, the juror declined to answer.
The defendants thv.n moved tho Court to
compel the juror, as being a witness, to an
swer, which the Court refused to do ; to which
decision and refusal the defendants' counsel
excepted.
Timothy II. West was called as a witness ,
on the part of the prosecution, and testified
as follows : That he lived at No 23 Eighth
avenue ; is a houso carpenter; saw the proces
sion ; there was a space of twelve feet or
more through which the stage-driver passed ;
heard the expression, " Kill the d d son of
a b h." After witness left his son in Troy
street, witness returned to the stage. He
then met a policeman, and told him the " Or- j
der of Hibernians had attacked the stage- j
driver, and were about to murder him on the j
spot " McPherson went in and told them to
diperse ; two men made a pass at him ; I step
ped back to Eighth avenue ; he did not see the
mat final at the time of the affair with the
stage.
On being cross-examined, the witness was
asked . -
Q. Do you belong to the Order of United
Americans?
This question was objected to by the people.
The objection was sustained by tire court, and
to this decision the counsel for the defendants
excepted. Tho following question was then
put:
Q. Do you belong to any Order ?
This question was objected to by the people.
Tha objection was sustained, and to which
decision the defendants excepted. ,
OPINION.
As the foundation of American jurispru
dence is the right to be tried by an impartial,
unprejudiced jury ; it is a right paramount to
all others, and is not to be sacrificed to the
fear or apprehension of wounding the feelings
of others. -
In this case a new trial should be ordered
for the following errors :
1. The juror, Carson, should have been
received as a witness to prove that he had
formed ot expressed an opinion of (he guilt of
the prisoners, or of some of them.
The juror who has formed an opinion and
has not expressed it is the only eouroe from
which the fact of the formed opinion" can
be obtained. There ia neither dishonor nor
disgrace attached to the fact that a man had
formed an opinion- upon any subject which
agitated public consideration, -and there ia no
reason why the juror should not b oaed as
the witness to prove the cause of challenge.
The prosecution at the trial did not object
that the challenge assigned against the juror
should not have been for principal cause but
to the favor, and, therefore, he cannot take
such position here.
2d. Under the admission of facts made by
counsel as the foundation of challenge, the
court erred in refusing to compel the juror
Black, to answer the question whether he had
' any prejudice or bias against Roman Cath
olics." .
The question should have been permitted.
3d. The question to the witness West,
whether he belonged . to the Order of United
Americans," should have been permitted by
the court; for had it by the witness .been
shown tbat he did, and that such order was
established with prejudice against, and to op
pose Irish and Komon Catholics, "such fact
was proper for the jury to receive to enable
tlern to determine how much, if any, the
witness's evidence was warped by the princi
ples of his order.
From the St. Louis Democrat."
Exciting and Dangerous Encounter with two
Wild-Cats.
. Mr. R. D. Simmons called at our office for
the purpose of showing cs a remarkable speci
men of a wild animal which he had shot and
captured a few days since, while on a hunting
excursion, below this city about thirty miles,
near Ilerculaneum. It was of the panther
species, and measured in body 2 J feet long
and 20 inches high. It had a short stumpy
tail, six inches in length, black and white
spotted ears, grayith hair and large limbs, to
which was attached long claws, of wonderful
polish and sharpness.
lue details of the capture of this ferocious
native of the forest are thus narrated by Mr.
Simmons :
He was armed with a bouble-barreled shot-
pun, one of the barrels of which was useless.
Not dreaming for an instant of meeting such
formidable game, he wa3 sauntering leisurely
along the Autumn woods, depending upon a
brace of hounds to arouse any game tnat
might be in reach. Suddenly the deep bay
of one of the dogs broke the silence of the fo
rest, and soon was joined by the answering
voice of the other. Mr. Simmons quickened
his steps in the direction of the hounds, ex
pecting to find a coon, 'possum or squirrel the
object of his dogs' alarm. As he came in
sight and glanced upward, he observed, at a
height of about forty feet from the ground,
lying along a limb of an oak tree, an animal
which he at first supposed was a domestic cat.
He stood doubtingly, watching its movements
for a short period, and then concluded to try
the effect of a load of shot in its body, at all
events. ' Simultaneously with the report of
the gun, which reverberated far and wide
through the woods, down tumbled the game,
which no sooner had struck the ground than
bth hounds attacked it with great courage
Tke charge of 6hot had lodged in its side, and
its fall had broken its back, yet its natural
strength and ferocity were so great that in a
monent or two both dogs quit the contest,
and came cowardly and crouchingly to their
master's feet.
Mr Simmons, while the fight was raging,
had been reloading his gun, and when ready
fird another charge into the animal's body,
which proved a death shot. lie now went
forward, and was surprised to behold the size
and character of the animal that lay dead at
his feet. As he wa3 reloading, and while his
dogs were taking fresh courage and smelling
around their once powerful enemy, he was
startled by a crash in the leaves and dry bush
in front of him, and looking up beheld at a
distance of about thirty feet, another animal,
which he at once thought to be the mate of
the female he had killed. It was crouching"
as if ready to make a spring, while its tale
was lashing the ground behind, its hair erect
on its back, and its eyes flashing with rase.
The situation of Mr. S. was very critical. He
knew his dogs weie worthless against such a
foe, and he felt certain that a charge from his
shot gun, instead of relieving him of his ene
my, would but aggravate its wrath md ren
der the contest one of still greater desperation
and - danger. Excepting the putting on of a
cap, his gun was loaded.
As he lifted up the butt of the piece to do
this, the animal made a huge bound, and
alighted within 15 feet of where he 6tood.
The dogs had fled. . At this moment Mr. S.
remembered the popular belief that the only
way to conquer a ferocious beast was to look
it full in the eyes, and accordingly returned
the fixed gaze of his enemy with all the reso
lution he could command. He then slowly
stooped down, and seizing the dead wild cat
by one of its legs, began a slow and deliberate
retreat, not quitting for an instant his gaze,
and depending solely upon his feet to guide
him to an open field which lay at a short dis
tance.. .The male wild cat followed, inch by inch,
maintaining, however, a respectful distance,
and awed, as it seemed, by the superior look
of Mr.' S. The skirt of the wood reached,
tho animal pursued no further, and the hun
ter took his way with a brisker step and a
lighter heart for home.
We suggest a grand hunt for this remaining
wild cat of the Missouri woods. Can't we
have something after tha fashion of the Old
Germany boar-hunt?
jCSTTwo young ladiss of Indianapolis,
Ind , were out riding in a buggy by them
selves, and after driving through the most
fashionable avenuen, concluded to try the
plank road. Well, to the plank road they
went, and while trotting briskly along they
were suddenly arrested by the toll-gate keep
er, who demanded his toll. " How much is
it ?" asked the girU " For a man and horse,'
he replied, it is five cents." " Well, then,
get out of the way, for' we are girls and a
mrre.- Get up, Jenny!" And away they
went, leaving the man in mute aetonishznent.
(From the London Times, Nov. 20.)
Great Agi'ation ia England.
Refusal et the Qceen to hear the Pbo-TLE.-Three
open air meetings were held on
Sunday in South Staffordshire and the neigh
borhood of Birmingham, upon the subject of
U t,:u : r I i a' . i
luu uigu price ui ureau. iwu ui luvw meet
ings were in the morning ; one at Spon-lane,
Staffordshire, and the other at Deritend-pool
near Birmingham. At the former 10,000
people were present, and tt was resolved to
send a deputation to the Queen to represent
the alleged grievances of the people in the mat
ter of dear bread At Deritend-pool about
1,000 persons were present, aud several
speeches were made by operatives. Here the
proceedings were mixed up with the people's
charter and the writings of Mr. Urquart.
A JVIr. G White read a memorial to the
Queen which had been agreed to in the morn
ing at the Spon-lane meeting. It was to the
effect that the people of .South Staffordshire
were suffering great privations in consequence
of the high price of food ; and it prayed her
Majesty to issue an order prohibiting the ex
portation of grain, and to establish public
granaries, and check undue speculation in
corn. Mr. White stated that he had written
to her Majesty's Private Secretary, asking.
when it would be convenient to receive the
deputation, and that he had received an an
swer to the effect that memorials to the Queen
should be presented through the Secretary of
State for the Home Department. The speak
er proceeded to say that the memorial had
been the result of a solemn vote from a res
pectable meeting at Spon-lane, and that if the
Queen would not accept it from the people,
they would depute two members of Parliament
to present it, and tbat it should not be sent to
sir George Grey to burn in the fire.
He then asked if the meeting wished the
memorial to be presented to the Queen and
not to Sir George Grey, and nearly all the
persons present held up both hands. In con
clusion, the speaker proposed a resolution
which he said had been adopted at the Spon
lane meeting, declaring that " a full and free
representation of the people was the only
remedy for their grievances." This proposi
tion however, was not seconded. It was an
nounced that another similar meeting is to be
held next Sunday. A Mr. Hawkins said he
had that morning addressed a meeting held at
Kidderminster, and was attended by 5,000.
The inhabitants of that town were now wide
awake, and intended next week to hold a
torchlight meeting. He recommended the
imitation of their example. The meeting then
quietly dispersed
JT-The Germantown (Phila. Co.) Tele
graph, a neutral paper, thus speaks of Mr
Buchanan in connexion with the Presidency :
Mr. Buchanan h undoubtedly the "favor
ite eon of Pennsylvania, and we believe heTortabIe kitchen of the well-to-do, working
stands higher at this moment, among his Dem- Pian, wheie the wife and tho tea-kettle 6ing
ocratie fellow-citizens, than he ever did in his
life. The late elections in Pennsylvania, for
delegates to the State convention to be held at
Harrisburg on the 4th of March, have resul
ted, as far as they have taken place, trium
phantly in his favor. Indeed, viewing his po
sition at this time, in connection with the
Presidency, in other States of the Union, so
far as there is any chance of knowing it, there
would appear to be a common acquiescence to
his nomination, which really looks now like a
question of time only. We are giving expres
sion to feelings long entertained, when we
say, that we are gratified at this prospect.
Mr. Buchanan possesses commanding abilities
as a statesman, is a man of high respectabil
ity, enjoying an elevated social position, and
is a thorough Pennsylvania patriot. No man
belonging to the Democratic party avowing
and sustaining the principles of that party, as
now engrafted upon their platfor ji would be
less objectionable to the Opposition ; not be
cause the Opposition believe that he would be
less faithful in carrying out the yrinciples of
his party, but because they believe him to be
honest in his views and purposes able to dis
criminate between right and wrong, and too
just and generous to outrage tha feelings of
any considerable portion of the people by the
exercise of petty tyrannies which are sonetimes
within the power of the Chief Magistrate ;
also because he has the firmness to assert and
maintain the interests and honor of the coun
try, and the talents to do so intelligently, as
well as the dignity to give weight and charac
ter to all his proceedings and negotiations.
The CniEr J cstice. A Washington corre
spondent of the New York Courier says ;
' The country will learn with regret that
tho absence of Chief JuBtice Taney from the
Supreme Cours is caused not by business en
gagements, as has been erroneously stated,
but by illness. He is confined to his resi
dence in Baltimore, and I learn that on Thurs
day last his physician could give no opinion as
to when it would be prudent for him to re
move to Washington. This venerable and
learned Justice has now presided over the Su
preme Court a period of twenty years, and his
legal knowledge and sound conservative char
acter have earned, in an eminent degree, the
confidence of the bar and the respect of the
country. Tho age of the Chief Justice is very
advanced, and the attack under which he is
now sufforins naturally awakens the most se
rious apprehensions of his friends and associ
ates. I need hardly add that already specu
lations are circulated in whispers concerning
the succcssorship, respecting which I will on
ly remark that I trust they may be proved by
the event, premature and superfluous."
An AW in Pennsylvania. By a reent
Pabal Brief, the Benedictine Monastery of St.
Vincent, at Latrobe, baa been raised to the
dignity of an Abbey, and the Rev. Boniface
named the first Abbe- Mitre (Mitred Abbot.)
This institution was founded only nine years
ago by Father Boniface, accompanied by fif
teen associates, and he now counts in his
jurisdiction five Monasteries and one hundred
and fifty Benedictinoi.
Winter is Coming.
Quietly, yet surely, old Boreas' breath U
stealing on us, bringing death to earth's ver
dure and a chill to the Liartaof the poor.
The joys of summer are gon. Iu many col
ored flowers its waving foliage iu sunny
skies and balmy air, are seen and f Jt no
more. Withered leaves like ycwlfol hopea.
are scattered before winds, aud go rustling
down to the cold earth like the expiring mur
murs of childhood. A little longer, and the
boughs which sparkled with the morning dew
and sheltered the glad-hearted little songster,
will be bare and cheerless as the hearth of
many homes onco happy, but now, alas, de
serted I A little longer and the white snow
will cover the fields where merry feet portcd.
and lay cold and cheerless as the tablets which
warV the last restirg-placeof roe-lovJ forms I
A little longer, and the icy LlasU will pierce
the hearts of poverty.
Winter is coming, but it brings no terror
to those who have homes and cheerful com
panions. They will close the windows, draw
around the fires, atd laugh at the angry blast
that howl fitfully by. But how ill-clad, ill
housed, and ill-fed poverty will bhrink from
the piercing air that comes stealing through
every crevice and chilling the life-blood as it
slugglishly courses through their bhivering
frames 1 God pity them ! Earthly piety will
fold its hands and pray for them saintly
charity will send its missionary boxes to clothe
the heathens of a distant clime and our own
poor will suffer. Such is the world. We
bbut our eyes to the want of our neighbor
and weep over the imaginary ills of thow who
do not care for our charity.
Sensibly Spoken.
The following is from the Democratic Tram
crij4, and as it speaks on an important mat
ter in a very sensible manner, we give it a
place in our columns :
Talk of the parlor with it touch-me-nct
elegance we care nought for it. Let it
covered magnificence riot in darkness its red
velvets lie in shrouds its pictures gaze dimly
through crape its Bplendid piano stand
dumb ia its linen cover its worsted roses and
pinks, and gilt flower remain unplacked in
dark corners its carpets bloom unseen. Let
the shutters and double curtains exclude ev
ery beautiful ray of light ; while we can have
the pleasant, airy, yellow-floored and uncar-
peted kitchen.
This is the place for real enjovment the
kitchen, with its bright shelves and its clean.
white tables, white with time. The kitchen.
with itsoldeasv chair, and broad Ehinino-
hearth, with it cracking and blazing fire.
We do not mean the kitchen in the ereat
house, where fcervants have entire control,
and the lady of the house never set her foot
within its precincts; but the homely and coin-
together, and the little children prattle round
the mother while tier own hand set the table
fur tea.
" There may be snow in the gleaming, or
sun arrows lodging in the top of the trees
there may be city walls about, or blue undu
lating hills. It matters not, in such, every
thing speaks of true comfort."
Daniel Webster's Marriage. The man
ner of Daniel Webster's engagement to Mis
Fletcher, is thus pleasantly discovered by a
letter writer : " He was then a young law
yer in Portsmouth. N. H. Atone of his vis
its to Miss Grace Fletcher, he had, probably
with a view of utility and enjoyment, been
holding skeins of 6ilk thread for her, when
suddenly he stopped, saying, 'Grace, we
have thus been engaged in untying k.iots;
let us see if we can tie a knot, one of which
will not untie for a life-time.' He then took
a piece of tape, and after beginning a knot of
a peculiar kind, gave it to her to complete.
This was tho ceremony and ratification of
their engagement. Aud now in the little box
marked by him with the words 'Precious Doc
uments,' containing the letters of his early
courtship, this unique memorial is still to be
found the knot never untied."
A New Liquor Law in Maine. The Port
land Advertiser says that Samuel Wells ha
nearly completed a draft of a new liquor lw
understood to contain all the principles of
the old license law. The law of 1S40 provide
tbat the selectmen, treasurer and clerk of
every town, and the mayor and aldermen,
treasurer and clerk of every city, aiy li
cense as many persons, of good moral char
acter, as they may deem necessary," to be
retailers of wine, brandy. rnn.oiettr oiaug
liquor in said town or city ; and every per
son so licensed shall pay to the treasurer for
the use of the board granting the license, one
dollar." The principal restrictions of the act
are, that liquors 6hall not be sold to Indians,
or United States soldiers, or minors, and that
no revelling or drunkenness shall be allowed
on the premises, the penalty annexed being
ten dollars, and a liability to a suit oa the
retailer's bond
XiT As Corn Cob Meal is really a good
food for cattle when mixed with oat straw,
fodder or hay, and when thus used operates
as a great saving, we advise all formers not
to sell their corn on the cob, but to have it
shelled, and Fell the grain only, reserving
the cobs as food for their cattle. In view of
the FCircity of the grass crop, it is at once the
part of humanity as well as interest to econo
mize everything on a farm in the shape of
cattle food.
To Tell Good Eggs. If you desire to be
certain that your eggs are good and fresh,
put them in water if the buts turn up they
are not fresh. This is rn infallible rule to
distinguish a good egg from a bad one.
JC2T A witty doctor onco said that tight
lacing was a public benefit, inasmuch a it
killed all the foolish girls, and Uft the wia
a to grow to le women.