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BT ELIZA COOK
Oh! let us bo happy en friends gather round us,
However the world may have shadowed our lot;
When the rose-braided links of affection have
bound us,
Let tho cold chains of earth bo despised and for
get; And say that the friendship is only ideal.
That Truth and Devotion are blessings un
known. For ho who believes every heart as unreal,
. His something unsound at the core of his own.
Oh! let us be happy wheu moments of pleasure
Have brought to our presence the dearest and
best,
Tjt tho puls3 alwayj boat to most heavenly taeas-
urc . .
Wbea live and good wiU sweep the strings of
the breast.
Oh ! let ua bo happy, when moments of meeting
Bring those to our side who iilumite our eyes;
And though Folly, perchance, shake a beU at the
greeting,
lie is the dullest of fools who forever is wise.
Let the laughter of Joy echo over our bosoms,
As the hum of the boo for the 'mid summer
flowers,
For this honey of happiness is from love's blos
soms, ' And is found in the Live of thesa exquisite
hours.
run l.,t us be harPV when moments of pleasure
Have brought to cur presence the dearest and
host.
For the puL-e always beats to most heavenly meas
ure .
When love aud good will sweep the strings of
the breast.
" 1 o!ead not a spirit too sad and too weary.
To yield the kiui word, and the mirth-lighted
smile ;
The heart, like the tree, must bo fearfully dreary.
When the robin of hope will not warble awhile.
Let us say, iu oar pride, that we care not for
others.
And live in our wealth like an ox in his stall j
'lis the commerce of love, with our sisters and
brothers,
Ilelps to pay our great debt to the Father of
All.
Then let us be happy when moments of pleasure
Ilave brought to our presence the dearest and
best.
For the pulse ever beats with most heavetJy meas
ure, When love and good will sweep tho strings of
the breast.
THE MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE.
Already had the shades of evening began
to close around mc, when I reached the dreary
mountainous district which it was necessary
for me to cross ou my way to the village of
S ; a circumstance by no means cheer
ing to a traveller mounted on a jaded back,
which "pursued the dog-trot of its way, per
tinaciously resolved not to move a whit faster,
and that, too, in defiance of the almost con
tinued application of whip aud spur, to both
of which, he appeared to have become so fa
miliarized as to regard their visitations merely
as a simple and necessary intimation to
move on ;" for no sooner did he find a re
laxation of their admonitions, than a propor
tionate abatemeut of his speed was the im
mediate consequence.
After having endured the intolerable fati
gue and jolting of a journey of 40 miles, per
formed in such a manner, it may easily be
supposed thut the closing in upon me of a
dark, cold, frosty December night, with a
prospect of an additional eleven miles to travel
oeforo I attained my journey's end, over a
lonely, bleak, inhospitable tnoor, every yard
of which was as strange to uie as the wilds of
Siberia, bad no tendency to decrease my
I had scarcely accomplished two miles of
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uij vueciieia unaenaKing, wnen tne aarKtiess,
which had been gradually growing thicker,
became so black and impenetrable as to ren
der it impossible for me to distinguish my
band, when held up, even within a few inches
of my eyes, the sky was hidden behind a can
opy of unfathomable darkness, through which
not the glittering of one solitary star was vis
ible. All was black as Erebus. The wind
which throughout the day, had been intensely
cold, now became bitterly so, bringing with
it a heavy fall of enow, which beat so strong
ly in my face, as to disable me from holding
up my head, and frequently came in such vi
blent and fitful gusts as to compel my almost
worc-out back to make a stand. To add to
my misfortunes, my horse, I bow discovered
-by, his frequent flounderinga, had wandered
out of his path ; and I expected every moment
r1 would be either entangled among the
trebles , or that we should be buried in a
or burled headlong to the bottom of
some awful precipice : all of which, dangers
my terrific imagination magninea in a ten-ioia
degree.
In this state or ievensn anxiety, woua w
proceed was to encounter more imminent per-'
il. I determined to stop my horse and remain
in my then situation, either till the violence
of the storm was abated, or the light of re
turning dawn should enable me to guide him
back to the high road. Accordingly, I turned
him with hia bead facing the opposite direc
tion from that which the wind proceeded, pull
ed my cloak more closely around me, and
called to my aid all the philosophy I was
master of, remained , anxiously waiting un
til I could pursue my journey with less dan-
Being now in a state or inaction, l Degan
to feel more and more sensibly the bitter in
tensity of the cold, which so strongly affected
my hands and feet, that I doubted wfiether if
bad not actually pinched them from my body.
The snow, which adhered to my hair, and
the brim of my hat, was speedily transformed
into icieles, my cloak was frozen so stiff that
it became utterly useless to me, and bung
from my back as though it had been a board,
and at length so perfectly benumned was my
whole body, as to be almost wholly insensible
of feeling.-
All the while the horse stood motionless as
a statute, seemingly as incapable of exertion
as its rider. But although the use of my
bodily powers were denied me, I felt ay, felt
bitterly that the passions within me were
not dormant, that the power of thinking re
mained, that the mental faculties were unim
pared. Hope, fear, grief, rage, terror, des
pair alternately rent my bosom, each urging
me on to something impracticable, or hurling
mo to the lowest abyss of gloom and despon
dency ; calling up feelings of anger and
threatening, now filling me with terrible ap
prehensions, and now overwhelming me with
horror. In vain I strove to give vent to my
feelings ; in vain I strove to shriek aloud , the
angry strife of conflicting passions choked my
utterence; I wept, it is true ; but my tears
fell no farther than my eyelashes, where they
congealed and entirely deprived me of sight.
Terrible and torturing as was this state of
fearful agitation, the intervals of reflections,
brief though they were, visited me, with far
more excruciating anguish. I thought of
home, of friends, of those linked to my heart
by the dearest, the closest ties of affinity and
affection, of her to whom I had plighted my
troth to the alter, her unbounded tenderness,
her constancy, her love 1 of the sweet pledges
of our union their happy looks, their enga
ging prattle, their artless smiles 1 of the anx
iity with which all these beloved ones were
Awaiting my return ; then came the most ago
nising pang of all, the dread that we were
separated forever, without having been per
mitted the one last embrace, or to utter one
sad, one mournful farewell. Oh ! the bitter
ness, the intense agony of that one thought
is beyond description.
Every moment as it lagged on its leaden
footsteps, seemed an age. A thousand wild
vagaries thronged my imagination. Ifa.icied
that my body was immoveably fixed upon that
dreary and desolate spot, and changed into a
marble prison, in which my spirit was doomed
to remain pent up until the end of all things
should come ; and I cursed the cruelty cf
fate which had entailed on me so barbarous a
destiny nay more, I even dared to call in
question the decrees of the justice of heaven ;
and once, horrid thought ! in the height of
my frenzied desperation. I was on the point
of imprecating its wrath ; but there was a
monitor within mo which cried out; not in
! the still small voice of conscience, but in
thunder-tones, that shook my inmost 6oul
" Forbear."
Again my restless imagination conjured up
fresh objects of terror. I fancied that the
last days had arrived, that the end of time
was at hand ; that tne spirits of darkness, let
loose upon the earth, were hovering around
mc; forms too hideous for description, a thou
sand times blacker than the darkness which
clouded my bodily vision, were flitting before
me, exulting in my sufferings, and making a
cruel mockery of my woe ; and that from this
state of misery there was to mode of escaping,
until the great last conflagration when I should
share the terrible fate that awaits the whole
creation. Oh, how 1 wished that hour was
come.
At length the fury of the storm abated, the
snow ceased to fall, the bowling of the wind
was silenced. I felt the ice which had closed
up my eyes begin to melt, and in a few min
utes more my sight was restored.
The sudden change, from the dark forebo
dings of despair, to tho animating influences
of hope, was like an eiectrio shock to my
frame. I felt my blood, which till now seem
ed congealed, rushing with new vigor through
every vein, and restoring to my half-frozen
limbs their lost animation.
Roused to exertion by the prospect of de
liverance, I endeavored to put my horse in
motion ; but, oh ! what pain, what agitation
did that first effort cost me.
Ilad I been stretched upon the rack, I could
not have experienced more excruciating suf
fering ; but the hope of preservation enabled
me to persevere, and I at length succeeded in
urging my steed into motion.
The elouds, which heretofore veiled ti e
face of heaven, had vanished and the dim
trembling rays of a few of its myrird lamps
which were visible, enlightened the dreariness
of the scene, and, combined with the light
emitted from the snow, which covered the
surface of the savage wilderness, enabled me
once more 4o look around me.
Although I was wholly at a loss in which
direction I ought to proceed, I determined to
keep moving onward, in the hope that I should
shortly find my way back to the high road.
I bad not long acted upon this resolution, ere
I perceived at some distance before me, alight,
which from its seeming to be stationary, I
judged to proceed from the habitation of some
human being.
My horse, too. seemed to be aware of our
near approach to the abode of humanity, as
he involuntarily increased bis speed as we ap
proached nearer ihe spot, on which I k.-pt my
eyes fixed with a painful sensation of mingled
hope and anxiety.
A few minutes more brought me to the ob
ject aimed, which, to my infinite joy, I found
to be a small public bouse, and the light which
had served to conduct me thither proceeded
from the windows-
I hallooed as loud as I was able, and pre
sently a rough looking countryman made bis
appearance at the door. I inquired if I could
have shelter for myself and horse during the
night ; and after having received an answer
in
the amrmative, L dismounted. , witn great
difficulty : and after waiting till the latter was
properly put up in a shed which served for a
jBUble, j?ith the assistance of minehosj.ljaan.
aged towalk", orlrather roll, into the house;
where, round a large blazing fire, were seated
the hostess, a servant girl, and two men, who,
from their appearance, and two packs which
I observed lying upon the floor, I judged to
be pedlers.
Having been disencumbered of my frozen
habiilaments, and placed before the fire the
females chafed my hands and legs; and after
I had swallowed a little mulled ale, which the
landlady strongly recommeuued as the most
suited to my condition, I was conducted to a
miserable upper room, where a bed without
curtains, and altogether of the meanest des
cription, had been hastily prepared for me.
I was not, however, in a condition to quarrel
with my accommodations; and, therefore, re
solving to make the best of the matter, I clo
sed the rickety door, placed a dilapidated
chair (the only one the room contained) against
it, threw myself upon my hard bed, and was
presently asleep.
I had not lam long before I was aroused by
the sound of footsteps advancing up the creak
ins stair case towards my apartment. I lis
tened ; it ceased ; an attempt was made to
open my door ; but this the chair I bad placed
against it prevented.
I started up and listened with breathless
anxiety The darkness in which my room
was shrouded increased my terror a cold
sweat bedewed my forehead the blood rushed
back to my heart, the pulsations of which be
came aadible my frame became almost par
alyzed with horror, and I sunk back upon my
pillow, overcome with the painful intensity of
conflicting emotions. Again I raised myself
and listened. I could now distinctly hear
voices in conversation, which, however, pres
ently ceased, I heard the sound of footsteps
descending the staircase and gradually dying
away in the distance, and once more all was
dark, deep, dreadful silence. I had now a
moment for reflection oh ! how horrid was
that moment ! I thought of the lonely situa
of the house in which I ws lodged, and I
doubted not it was a rendezvous for robbers
and murderers ; that the landlord and the
two men I had mistaken for peddlers were a
part of the gang and it was their intention to
add me to their list of victims.
Appalling as was my situation on the moun
tain, excruciating as were the sufferings I
there endured, I would gladly have braved
both again, to have been released from this
den of horrors.
When I lay thus in delirious terror, I sud
denly felt the bed move under me. In an
instant I leaped from it, and ere could turn
round it disappeared through an open door,
which immediately again closed. Summoning,
by a frantic effort, my last expiring energies,
I rushed to the window, in the hope of being
able to effect my escape ; but to my utter dis
may I found it secured by a strong iron gra
ting, which mocked all my puny attempts to
remove it. Again I heard footsteps approach
ing my apartment ; the door ws forced open;
slowly and stealthily, without any light, some
one entered, and cautiously passing his hand
along the wall, came gradually around the
room towards the spot where I stood I mo
ved on as well as I wa& able in the opposite
direction, and endeavored to elude his scarch
Every step that he advanced increased my
terror; my legs bent under me, and refused
to perform their office. Already he was so
near me that I could hear him breathe his
hand touched me he grasped my shoulder
I made a sudden leap, and falling upon the
trap door it sank with me, and my head was
precipitated upon a cold, damp pavement. A
loud peal of laughter instantly broke upon my
ear ; I got upon my feet, and. looking round,
Eerceived by the light of the lamp which was
urning on a low bench, that I was in a spa
cious vault, the floor of which, was neatly
covered with human limbs, and beside me lay
the beadless trunk of a man, who appeared to
be but lately immclated, as the blood still
flowed freely from the mangled remains.
I had scarcely time to look upon the appal
ling spectacle, ere a door in one corner of tho
vault opened, and the landlord and his two
associates entered, each armed with a cutlass.
Without uttering a word, they seized me and
forced a gag into my mouth, tied my legs and
arms with a cord, and threw me across the
bench
My neck was then bared, one of the ruffians
knelt upon my body, another held back my
bead, while the third raised his cutlass to in
flict the fatal blow.
Already had his arm begun to descend,
the clare of his polished weapon flashed upon
my eyes ; I felt it cleaving the air aa it come
nearer when suddenly a piercing shriek
echoed through the arched dungeon the mur
derers started from their purpose, quitted their
hold of my body, and I rolled upon the floor.
Immediately the vault was filled with soldiers,
but they were too late to secure the assassins,
who. on the first Bound of danger had made
their escape by some secret outlet.
The object of their search, however, lay
before them in the mangled carcass I have
before mentionod, which was recognized as
being the body of their comrade, w ho, it ap
peared, had deserted from his regiment, and
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alarmed the murders and saved ray life, pro
ceeded from the landlady, who in attempting
to prevent the entrance of the soldiers into
the vault, had been slightly injured with a
bayonet.
Having been released from my bonds, I
was conveyed, along with the woman,' to
S , where we underwent an examination
before a bench of magistrates.
As, however, there was no evidence suffi
ciently strong to implicate the woman in the
crimes of her husband and Iris associates,
she was, after a day's confinement, allowed to
get her liberty.
' ' From the Lewisburg Chronicle.
A Long- Night with Wild Beasts.
" .On the 4th of November, 1855, Aevixe
Clark, of Jersey Shore, was exploring the
bu&. for a new road to the settlement of the
Farming and Land Association," a new col
ouy near the site of the famous Ole Bull set
tlement, in Potter county. When evening
drew on, he commenced retracing his steps,
but lost his way, ' in a dense forest at least
eight miles from a settlement. An bid man,
tired with walking, he sat down on log to
rest a momeut and contemplate his situation.
His attention was suddenly arrested by a rust
ling in the bushes close by, and on looking
around, he saw a huge bear coming towards
him ; To draw up bis trusty rifle and shoot,
was the work of a moment, Bruin gave a
fearful roar, which awoke the echoes of the
gloomy solitude, and then was still. Fearing
that he was only wounded, Clark hastily re
loaded his gun with two balls, the last in his
pouch, aud discharged them into the body of
the bear, when he cautiously approached and
found that he was dead. - lie describes the
bear's roar, as be received his death-wound,
as terrific, and calculated to make the stoutest
heart quail with fear.
A dark night was setting down on him he
had no bullets was far in the wilderness,
without food or shelter. He had no matches
to kindle a fire and, to add to his farther
discomfort, it commenced raining. What
was to be done ? To remain there, was ex
ceedingly dangerous. He continued to ffrope
bis way through the laurel, hoping to find a
path that might lead to a hunter s habitation,
but in vain. The howling of a pack of wolves
greeted his ear. He soou became exhausted,
and found that he would have to remain there
for the night. Coming to an aged hemlock.
be seated himself at iU root Could be but
obtain a fire, he would be comparatively safe.
The effort was made by collecting some dry
materials, and, loading his gun with powder,
fired the charge into a dry cotton haudker-
chief. It was a failure ! As the gun was
discharged, another bear, apparently within
twenty feet of him, gave a hideous roar, that
mtde Clark's hair stand on end. . Bruin was
terribly frightened by tho discharge of the
gun, and hastily scampered off, much to the
relief of Clark.
Here be remained, not daring to fall asleep
About two o'clock in the morning, to add to
the horrors of his situation, the yell of a pan
ther was heard, ihe beast approached
came nearer, every few minutes uttering a
screech that froze the blood in his reins ! As
a last resort to defend himself from the at
tack of the savage animal, he reloaded his
guD, putting in some three cent pieces and
steel pens, (for he had nothing else,') which
he hoped mixbtdo some execution. The an
imal came so near that the glare of his eyes
in the darkness resembled two balls of fire!
There Clark remained, without daring to
move with the fiery eyes of the panther fixed
upon him. In this dreadful situation, ox pec
ting eveiy moment to be torn in pieces, he
remained till break of day. when he was re
lieved from danger by the animal disappear
ing. - llungry, weary, and excited, he left
for the settlement, where he arrived about
noon, and related his thrilling adventure. A
party proceeded to the place where the bear
was shot, aud bi ought m his carcass, which
proved to be a very large one It was dressed
and forwarded to New York. It was several
days before Clark fairly recovered from the
fatigue, the fear, and excitement of that
night,
mind.
which will never be removed from his
Daniel Webster in his Youth.
A collection of Daniel Webster's letters,
with biographical notes, is about to be publish
ed iu Boston, from which a correspondent of
the New York Evening Post extracts a few
passages. It appesrs that Da tk-1, while a law
student, helped to support his brother Ezek
ial at college, by copying deeds, &c., the lat
ter also occasionally recruitiug his finances ly
school teaching. The correspondence between
the two, ou the ways and means, is interesting.
Daniel writes to his brother, under date of Sal
isbury, N. II., Nov. 4, 18012, as follows:
I have now by mo two cents in lawful
federal currency. Next week, I will send
them, if they be all. They will buy a pipe
with a pipe you can smoke smoking implies
wisdom wisdom is allied to fortitude from
fortitude it is but one step to stoicism, aud
EtoicLsm never pants for this world's goods.
So, perhaps, my two cents, by this process,
may put you quite at ease about cash."
Again, as late as June 10, 1801, he writes
from Salisbuay, alter having declined a com
fortable office, in order to pursue a profession
Zeke, I don't beleive but what l'rovidei!e
will do well for us yet. We 6hali live and
live comfortably. I have this week come
within an ace of being appointed Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas for Hillsborough coun
ty. Well, you will say, you are no better off
than if you had not come within an ace. Per
haps I am say nothing, but think a good
deal, and do not " distrust the gods." "
gZT " Why don't your father take a news
paper ?" said a man to a little boy whom ho
caught pilfering his paper from his door-step.
"Cos, he sends me to take it," answered
the urchin.
From the Bapttat Register.
Patrick Henry.
The English Church having been estab
lished by law in Virginia, became, as all
such establishments are wont to do, exceed
ingly intolerant towards other sects. In pros
ecution of this system of conversion, three
Baptist clergymen had been indicted, at Fred
ericksburg, for preaching the Go?pel of the
Sou of God contrary to the statute. Henry,
hearing of this, rode some fifty miles to vol
unteer his services in defence of the oppressed
ilo entered the court, being unknown to nil
present save the bench and the bar, while the
indictment was read by the clerk, lie sat
within tne bar until the reading was finished,
and the king's attorney bad concluded some
remarks in defence of the prosecution, " when
he arose, reached out his hand for the paper.
and, without mpr ceremony, . proceeded with
the following speech :
" May it ploase your worships :T think I
heard red by the prosecutors, as entered this
house, the paper I now hold in my hand. If
I have rightly understood, the King's attor
ney of the colony has framed an indictment
for the purpose of arraigning and punishing
by imprisonment, three moffensiTe persons
before the bar of this court, for a crime of
great magnitude as disturbers of the peace.
lie here read. Did 1 bear an expression as
if a crime, that these"men, whom your wor
ships are about to try for misdemeancr, are
charged with what t" and continuing in a
low, solemn tone, ' ' preaching the gospel of
the bon of uod ! I'ausmg amidst the most
profound silence and breathless astonishment,
he slowly waved the paper three times around
his head, when, lifting his hands and eyes to
heaven, and impressive energy, he exclaimed,
44 Great God!" The exc-Liuiition the burst
of feeling from tho audieDce were overpow
ering. Mr. Uenry resumed:
" May it please your worships : In a day
like this when truth is about to break her
fetters when mankind is about to be aroused
to claim natural and inalienable rights when
the yoke of oppression, that has reached the
wilderness of America and the unnatural alli
ance of eclesiastical aud civil power, are about
to be dissolved at such a period, when liber
ty libsrty of conscience i3 about to awake
from her slumberings, and inquire into the
reason of such charges as I find exhibited here
to-day in this indictment 1" Another fearful
pause, while the speaker alternately cast his
sharp piercing eyes on the court and the pris
oners, and resumed: "If I am not deceived,
according to the contents of ihe papers I now
hold in my hand, those men arc accused for
preaching the gospel of the Son of God I
Great God!" Auother long pause, while he
again waed the indictment around his head
while a deeper impression-was made on .the
auditory, llesuming his speech : - ' May it
please your worships : there are periods iu the
history of man when corruption and depravity
have so long debased the human character,
that man sinks under the weight of the op
pressors hand becomes bis servile, abject
fcJave ; he licks the baud that smites him ; hs
bows in passive obcuienca to the man-laics of
the despot ; and, in this state of servility, he
receives his fetters of perpetual bondage. But
may it please your worships, such a day has
passed away ! From that period when our
fathers left the land of their nativity for set
tlement in these American wild for liberty.
for civil and religious liberty for liberty of
conscience to worship their Creator acoordmg
to their own conceptions of Ileaven's revealed
will ; from the moment they placed their feet
upon the American contiuent, and in deeply
imbedded forest sought an asylum from per
secution and tyranny from that moment des
potism is crushed the fetters of darkness
were broken, and heaven decreed that man
should be free fiee to worship God according
to the Bible. ere it not lor this, in vain
were all their sufferings and bloodshed to sub
jugate this New World, if we, their offspring,
luujst still be oppressed and persecuted. But,
may it please your worships, permit me to
enquire once more, tor wuat are tucse men to
be tried? This paper says, for preaching
the gospel of our Saviour to Adam's fallen
race." And in tones of thunder, be exclaim
ed ' What law have they violated? While
tho third time, in a low, dignified manner he
lifted his eyes to heaven, aud waved the in
dictment arouud his head. Tho court and
audience were now wrought up to the most
intense pitch of excitement. The face of the
prosecuting attorney was pallid and ghastly,
and he appeared unconscious that his whole
frame was agitated with alarm, while the
Judge, in a tremulous voice put an end to the
scene, now becoming excessively painful, by
tho authoritative declaration: "Sheriff, dis
charge those nicu."
Sirs. Pascall A Centenarian.
The Detroit Advertiser announces the de
cease, iu that city, of Mrs. Pascall, at the
age of 103 years. At the time of hrr birth,
(we infvr tLut she was a native of Dotroit.)
the French were in possession of that city.
The great conspiracy of Poutiao took place
wheu she was nine yeans of age. ami shortly
before it Detroit passed from French to Eu
glish proprietorship, but fhe livt-i on in the
on'y one of the nine fortified places which
Pontiac failed to capture. At the- creation of
FortLe Noult, afterwards Tort Shelby, at the
iutersection of Ford aud Shelby stivcts, the
was twenty-six years of age, aud when she
had numbered 44 years, 1706, s'io saw, for
the first time, the stars and stripes run up by
; Proctor, commanding adetachmcnt of Wayne's
army. At tne tnal duti uctioa ot tho fort in
1827, she was 75 yeais uid. When she was
68 years old, fire swept over and destroyed the
entire city of Detroit, cxc. pt vua house. At
the age of CO she saw . Ddrolt again in the
j bands of Great. Britain, slid at the age of 61
6he saw it pass nack rgaia into American
hands. She has seen five changes of the na
tional flarr over Detroit in her day.
: An Arkansas Story. .
We know a man living near Black Fishing
Creek Ferry, Arkansas, who is so hard of
hearing that he invariably misunderstands ev
ery thing that is said to him. It so happen
ed that this Dame man was the owner of a skiff
that was lying in the river, which needed some
repairs. At this point a young geutlemaa
who had been paying his addresses to hut
daughter, came up to him as he stood on tha
bank of the river, when the following conver
sation took place.
" Mr. D. can I have your daughter t" said
the young man.
" Yea," was the reply, thinking he had
been asked for his Bkiff, "but she must be
corked, she leaks." .
" It's your daughter I would like to have,"
said the young gent.
" Yes if she is taken out and MtAmM
and corked, she will do rery well she leak
in the bottom. The boys spoiled her," still
continued D.
Here the young man deferred any further
remarks and went away with the hope that at
a more convenient season the old gentleman
would be better able to understand.
A Billion
Few people have any conception of the stu
pendous sum which is designated by this term.
Some writer having stated in an article headed.
" What becomes of all the pics?" that mil
lions of billions of pins must vanish," nobody
can tell how, or where, in the course of a year.
" Euclid," a correspondent of the National In
telligencer, shows up tho absurdity cf the as
sertion in the following style :
"I think, sirs, the author of that articla
thought little of what he wassay.Dg, when he
said that millions of billions of pins must van
ish in the course of a year. Many pins, un
doubtedly, vanish every year ; but any mathe
matician will demonstrate to ns that a 6ingle
billion has never yet been manufactured A
billion, according to Noah Webster, is a mil
lion of millions a cumber so vast, I say,
that the human mind has not th capacity to
lcomprehend it. A manufactory, making a
hundred pins per minute, and kept in constant
operation, would only make fifty-two millions
five hundred and ninety-six thousand per an
num, and would require near twenty thousand
yean, at the same ratio, without a single mo
ment's hesitation, to make that number called
a billion.
3&T The young man who has ruined him
self by robbing the post-office ia Chicago,
where he was a clerk, confessed his crime af
ter his arrest, and says the greater part of tho
money was token in small sums ; after robbicg
the first letter, all fear and compunction cf
conscience icas gone and in a little while it be
came i in possible for him to pass a money-package
through'his hands without stealing it.
What a solemn and awful warning is this not
to take thersf wrong step ; that step taken,
the next is easy, the next easier, and you are
fairly on the road to ruiu Struggle manful
ly, struggle prayerfully, struggle as for your
life against the jirst temptation, the first false
step, the first sinful act. Yield the first out
post to the great enemy of your soul, and you
run tic fearful hazard that you will be lost.
Macklix's Advice to eis Sox. " I have
often told you that every mnn mutt to a great
extent, be the maker or marrer of his own
fortune. I repeat the doctrine. He who de
pends upon incessant industry and integrity,
depends upon patrons of the noblest and most
exalted kind; tbesa are creators of fortune
8nd fame, the founders of families, and can
never disappoint and desert you. You have
genius, you have learnisg, you have industry
at times, but you want perseverance; without
it you can do nothing. I bid you bear this
motto in mind. " Pcrseeranie."
Mormoms CoMtxo. The Emerald Isle and
the James J. Boyd are on their way from
Li7erpool to this port, the first with four hun
dred Mormons from England, and the latter
with a like number of Scandinavians. It is
quite probable that a part of the Scandinavian
emigrants may press through at ouce to St.
Louis, as they contcmplato going to Utah in
the ensuing season. After thee two vessels,
it in impossible there will be nothing further
until the last of January or first of February
X. I". Tribune, Uth 1
Locis Napoleon and tuk Grain Market.
The Eochester Union state? that the igents
of the French Emperor have been largely en
gaged this fall in purchasing wheat in the
West, on his account. Thev have purchased
900,000 bushels, of which tJ50,O0U came to
Buffalo, aud 250,000 bushels to Oswego. All
but 40,000 went dovn the Erie Canal. The
same agents are still buying in Illinois and
other Western States, to go down the Missis
sippi and out by New Orleans
A Good Eeasox. Three or four times a
couple appeared before a clergyman for mar
riage ; but the bridegroom was drunk, and
the llev. gentleman refused to tio tho knot.
On tho "ast occasion he expressed his surprisa
that so respectable a looking girl was not
as.hau.el to sppear at the altar with a man in
such a state. The poor girl burt into tears,
aud said she could not help it. " And whv.
prav i because, ir, tic won t come when
?"
ne is sober !"
iT The Lawtkr Wit.ve.--s. A bold and
jealous dcfondVr of prisoners belonging to the
home circuit. La 1. iti a lata trial at Chelms
ford, tOk'eral times told a witueF, nhoee
character was not no hih, that he must state
nothing that did not pa, in the presence of
the prisouer. At length the timo for cross
examina'i n arrived. The learned ceatleman
J bt-gan by askiug : " Pray, how often have
you been transported I "IN ay," answerd
the witness, " I must not tell you that, for it
was not in the presence of the prisoner."
jT Oxit Too TitfE. -He thst has mrt
of hesrt knows most cf i-orrow.