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LIST OF JURORS
FOR APR.II, TERM, 1845
GRAND JURORS.
Allison John, Fernier, Henderson Township.
Bonslough John, Merchant, Blair.
Bridenbaugh Philip, Farmer, Tyrone.
Bingham Emanuel, Curpenter,
Campbell Robert, Merchant. Antea.
Cumnains William, Farmer, Barrett.
Caldwell William, Tanner, Tyrone.
Galbraith Ephraim, Justice of the Peace, Blair.
Gwin James, Surveyor, Antes.
Hileinan Philip, Farmer, Frankstown.
liewit Peter, Gentleman, Blair.
Irvin Joseph, Farmer, Frankstown.
James John, Gentleman, Blair.
Kelly George, Farmer, Dublin.
Lowe John, Innkeeper, Blair.
Miller Henry, Fernier, Henderson.
McCune Seth R. do. Frankatown.
McCracken James do. West.
McNamara Thomas, Manager, Allegheny.
McCoy Samuel, Sawyer, Henderson.
Renner Jacob, Carpenter, West.
Robeson David, Farmer, Allegheny.
Stains Aaron, do. Cromwell.
Taylor Matthew, do. Dublin.
TRAVERSE JURORS.—ernier wttac.
Anspaugh Jacob, Farmer. Barre° Township.
Bucher Conrad, Gentleman, Porter.
Boggs Samuel, Farmer, Henderson.
Beck Christian, do. Snyder.
Conrad James, do. Blair.
Ulayton William, do. Tell.
Cowen George, do. Allegheny.
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'Caldwell &mule!, Ironmaster, Franklin.
Cheny GeHien, Fanner. Barree.
'Condrun James. Merchant, Frankstown.
Dean Samuel, Fanner, Woodherry.
Dean William do. Hopewell.
Donelly Thomas, do. Morris.
Flenner Daniel, do. Walker.
Foam Frederick, do. Huston.
Gorley John, Grocer, Blair.
Green Charles, Fanner, West.
Gehrelt lacob, Constable, Springfield.
Hays William, Tanner, Harm.
Hay John. Y. Blacksmith. Franklin.
Hoover David. Fennel, Huston.
Hamilton Lauren, T., Carpenter.
, Hite Jollies. Farmer, Henderson.
Harnish Jahn, do Frankstown,
Kratzer John, fronmaster, Snyder.
Lowry Lazarus. Farmer, Allegheny.
Lane James, Jr. do Henderson,
Leve \lames, Merchant, Berme.
Moore William, do Porter.
Moore Perry, Fanner, Morris.
Miller Charles. H. fanner, Henderson.
McWilliams Jonathan. Farmer, Franklin.
Neff Isaac. Miller. West.
Robeson Moses, Tanner, Snyder.
Rees Thomas. Chairmaker, Wooiberry.
teed William, Esq. Fanner, Monis.
Smith Joseph, Esq. do Frankstown.
Stroup John. do Union.
kinyderJoseph, do Tod.
Simpson Alexander, do Henderson.
Shaver Henry. d o Shirley.
Templeton William, do Tyrone.
Tate David, Justice of the Peace, Blair.
Travis Jame., Esq. Farmer, Franklin.
Wike Henry. do Huston.
Williamson Joshua, Watonmaker, Blair.
Young John, Fanner, Allegheny.
Young George, 8., Silversmith, Porter.
TRAVERSE JURCIIB.-••SECOND Wren.
Beek ‘' Hum, H. Farmer, F'ratiltstowp Pp.
Bender Thomas, Carpenter, Woodherry.
. Clapper Henry, (of D.) Former, Frankstown.
Davis George, du. Morris.
Dell Levi, do. Union.
Entire David, Innkeeper, Cromwell.
rockier Jacob, Farmer, H e nd e rson.
, Greenland Hiram, Saddler, Cass.
Gibbnney Daniel, C., Fuller, Allegheny.
Holtman George, Blacksmith. West.
Hamer Collins, Farmer, Porter.
Heffner Peter, do. Walker.
Hrrton George, W., l!lackarnith, Frunkstown.
Hilernan William, Farmer, Morris.
-Johnston John, do. Barree.
Kelly Michael, Machinist, Blair.
Kennedy Alexander, Farmer, Dublin.
Lightner Henry, do. West.
Lear. George, Merchant. Shirley.
Moore David, H., Gentleman, Blair.
Miller George, Farmer, Antes.
Martin John, R. Cordwainer, Blair.
' Nen' Daniel. Farmer, Porter.
Peightal Emanuel, do. Hopewell.
Price Asa, do. Cromwell.
Patterson Photons, 'Pinner. Blair.
Smith John, (of Hugh) Farmer, I3arree.
Smith Thomas, do. Frankstotvn.
Simpson John, do. entlerson.
Stewart Daniel. Jr. do. Frankstown.
Bmelker Thomaa, A, do. Shirley.
Snare Conrad, do. Hopewell.
Stonebaker John. H. do. Franklin
Swoops Caleb, Constable, Cass.
Wilcox George, Carpenter, Barrer.
Weaver George, Carpenter Blair.
,Y. kearsley Henderson,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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011ioe on Main street, one door West of William
Dorris' Store.
Huntingdon, Jose 12, 1844.
TO LANK BONDS to Constables for Stn,
M A O of Execution, under the new law, jut
pritredd, and for sate ; at this office:
FONT Y.
"To charm the languid hours of solitude,
He oft invites tier to the Muses lore."
The Grave of Franklin,
Dr. Franklin Iles interred in the north-west cor
ner of Christ Church Cernetry, Fifth and Arai
streets Philadelphia.
No ellisell'il urn is rear'd to thee,
No sculpiur'd scroll unrolls its page •
To tell the children of the free
Where rests thd patriot and sage.
For in thnt city of the dead
A corner holds thy sacred clay ;
And pilgrim feet by reverence led,
Have worn a path that marks the way.
There round thy lone and simple grave,
Encroaching on its martile gray,
Wild plantain weeds and tall grasewave,
And sunbeams pour their shadeless ray,
Level with earth thy letter'd stone,
And hidden oft by winter's snow,
Its modest record tells alone
Whose dust it is that sleeps below
That name's enough—that honor'd name
No aid from eulogy requires—
'Tie blended with thy country's fame ;
And thistles round her lightning spires.
Lines to an Xndian Air.
BY U. MONCRTON MILNF.S, ESQ., M. P.
Slumber. infant ! slumber
On thy mother's breast;
Kisses without number
Rain upon thy rest:
Fair they fall from many lips,
But from her's the best,
Slumber, infant! slumber
On thy mother's breast.
Slumber infant ! slumber
On the earth's cold breast;
Blossoms without number
Breathe about thy rest;
Nature, with ten thousand smiles,
Meets on dear a guest.
Slumber. infant ! slumber
On the earth's cold breast,
Slumber, infant! slumber
On an angel's breast;
Glories without number
Consecrate thy rest:
Deeper joys than we can know
Wait upon the blest.
Slumber. infant! Slumber
In thy heavenly rest !—/i. Magazine.
A COUNTRY RECOLLECTION;
OR, THE REFORMED INEBRIATE.
IT 7511571 T Trans since I was in a certain neigh
borhood among the mountains of New 'ersey, where
the richest cultivation enhances the beauty of sce
nery unusually fine, though nut wild or bold enough
for sublimity. It was a valley somewhat extensive,
bordered on the south by abrupt and very high hills,
wooded to the summit, except a small strip of culli•
voted land near their base, and terminating on the
north side in sloping uplands covered with the
wealth of harvest. A quiet stream murmured
through themes lows, now narrow •d between high
bankr,now expanding into a lakelet,near which stood
a flour mill. The house where I passed' some days nt
this time had lawns sloping down to the stream; and
I remember there flourished three large drooping
willows, which I hoped might always escape the
axe and grow old as guardians of the crystal water.
Their exact locality was fixed in my memory by
the circumstance that over their tops might he seen
a cottage situated on the aide of the mountain, just
in the verge of the wooda, and about half a mile
distant. The loneliness of its situation gave it
something of romance, and I observed then that
what had once been a garden was choked with tall
weeds and briers, and that a rods screen of boards
had (welt built directly in front or the cottage, so as
to shut taut till view or the neighboring dwellings.
This strange precaution seemed misanthropical ; or
was it adopted for the purpose of concealing from
Curious eyca what might pass within doors? To
my inquiry who occupied that hermit's hut, the
reply was—
Walter B—.'
, The B— who married Jane S— I'
The same.'
Her name called up distant recollections. Iliad
seen Miss S. once at a rustic ball. She was a coun
try beauty, rather better educated thou most of the
damsels who were her companions. Indeed, her
(tuber used to complain that she spent too much
time in rending. Ills idea was, that after a girl lint!
lett school and completed her education, she had .
nothing more to do with hooks. Hut he rarely in
terfered, except by a little grumbling, with her pur
suits, especially at his house was always in the best
order, and his dinners excellent.
Jane was a choice housekeeper, and her leisure
hours elle spent rte pleased herself, not heeding her
father's ominous shake of the head, when he saw
her earnestly devouring a hook, or noticed the
shelves in her little chamber filled with hook..—
.She will leave all' such follies when she marries,'
was his consolatory remark; and in truth when the
indulged girl did marry, whethershe Oyu op her rea
ding or not, she did not suffer it to interfere with
her household duties. She was the most exeMplary
wife and mother in the country; and all the neigh•
born predicted happiness from her union with young
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B. His father left him a small farm, well stocked, • r , indignation at what he termed the cruel obstinacy
with a house large enough for comfort and even of his wife, he made no effort to see her or the chit.
elegance; and few men began life with better pros- dren ; but after shutting himself up a month or two
pects of contentment. Walter was active and am- in the cottage. which had been saved by timely at
bitten., and wanted to secure something more than tention front being burned the night of Jane's es
a competence for old age. '.sly acquaintance with cape, he departed, none knew whither. He left a
the young couple had left them thus, and I Was na- reproachful letter to his wife, professing himself
turally somewhat surprised to find them living in a l driven to desperation by her desertion, and laying
home of so little pretensions. on her the blame of Ins future crimes. No furni
. The only marvel about tt,' said the friend to ture of any kind was found in the house, the grea
whom I expressed my wonder, .is that they have a ter part having been disposed of to procure food
home at al:. When Walter tank to drink, his stack i and—liquor.
went first, and then his farm was neglected, till at Two years nfter this occurrence, (I have the par
last, when sold to pay his debts, it brought km; than I titulars from* a friend.) a crowd was assembled
[traits value.' • round the jail of the little town of A mur-
Alas ! it was the common stoty of the intemper- der, under the most appalling circumstances, had
ate man. First, moderate indulgenCe in frequent I been committed in the neighborhood; a man to
convivial meetings with his friends; then occasional I whom suspicion attacked had been arrested, and
excess that unfitted 'him to work for days, during after strict examin a ti on wan com mitt e d f or t r i a l,—
which lime he would vow and resolve. and.pledge I Particulars that had transpired left no doubt of his
his word to his wife that. each should be the last, guilt on the minds of the people; and it was with
followed by more frequent returnings to the same suppressed execrations that the multitude followed
excess, till the doom of the victim was sealed, and the suspected felon to prison. When he distal,-
the very friends who had lead hint into vice aban- I ',eared from their sight within the gloomy walle,the
tinned him in disgust. popular rage broke out in groans and murmurs.—
.
' Since the desertion of his boon companions, Wal- One woman, young and interesting in appearance!
tar had become gloomy and sullen ; a mood which . who had listened with undisguised eagerness to a
under the excitement he now daily sought, gave knot of idlers discussing the case, walked away
Place to wild and savage ferocity. The little chit- when they ended their confere nce,
. and presenting
dren ran from him if they new him on the road ; herself at the door of the magistrate who had con
and it was rumored that his wretched home too fro- ducted the examination, asked leave to speak with
quently witnessed his cruel brutality towards his hint. It was the wife of B. She had seen her
unoffending wife. But he .00n removed to this retired husband led to jail, loaded wills the most terrible
cot on the mountain, and the screen of boatds he erect l suspicions, and she came to have her worst fears
ed effectually excluded all observation: allayed or confirmed. The magiatatrate soothed
I listened to this melancholy history with the her by assuring her that the evidence against 8.,
deepest sympathy for the unfortunate girl, now it though strong, was only circumstantial, and by no
helpless mother. She had sought no assistance means absolutely proved his guilt. It was impoasi
horn the neighbor., and few visited her, partly be- the to say what might be the end of the trial ; but
cause they dreaded her husband and partly because I there was ground for hope. Poor Jane clung to
she herself did not encourage them. But some I this hope.
compassionate person sent her protisions from time r Oh, sir,' sobbed sire, 'if he is guilty and must
to time, die, it is I who have murdered him! I deserted
While I looked at the little dwelling which was
Lim when all the world cast Ism off!'
now the scene of so much misery, with an aching When the unhappy wife returned home, it was
heart for the countless victims of this dreadful vice, Ito
give way y to the bitter anguish of remorse, to
bright flash suddenly shot up from the roof of the ! weep and sob all night, as if her heart would break.
hut, while at the same time a volume of smoke I 'Hew have I been able to kneel night and mor
poured from the cb'mney and upper windows. At sing
to ask pardon of God,' she cried to herself,
the same moment a fenialerusbed from Awkind the . , C re e nse niy ; aid to save a f e llow Laing from
screen before mentioned, clasping an infant to her
destruction? And yet these little onee,'—and she
breast, and dragging along a child about four
years ! hung over her sleeping children; the fair boy, with
of age, and rapidly descended the slope of the moon-
bright check, shaded by his clustering curls, and
tain. Not many paces behind, her husband follow- I the sweet dark-eyed girl, so like hint before excess
ed, calling upon her with shouts and execrations to had marred his manly •beauty. Could she have
return; but his evident intoxication rendered it im- brought these innocent ones into wretchedness__
possiblefor him to equal the speed of bia flying perhaps guilt? Had she not done right to snatch
wife; and well was it for her, for a large knife was f/rem from ruin, even by abandoning their father?
in his hand, which he brandished with frightful me- She knelt once more and prayed for guidance, for
traces. In less time than it would take to narrate discernment of the right ; and her mind was calmed.
what passed, several of the neighbors had run to I The next day, before noon. the jail was again
meet her. Just as she reached the stream through visited !ry groups of idlers, gazing into the window
which she rushed with both children in her arms. of B.'s cell, which looked upon the street. It
then Rank exhausted on the bank, t h ey crowded might lie that the prisoner wine maddened by their
round her with eager offers of assistance. I taunts and derision; he was leaping about with
B. now coins urn heedless of the men and wo- hawk gestures, clapping his hands end laughing
men, who regarded him with looks of fear and her- innunderaiely, or thursting his face between the
ror. He had dropped the knife, but had not changed bars to grin defiance at his tormentors. Suddenly
his threatening tone; and with shocking impreen- a western her face concealed by a drooping bonnet
Lions ordered his wife 'to get up and come home and Had( veil, glided through the crowd. and reach
this instant.'
ing up to the window, offered a parcel to the pri-
The prior woman uttered no reply; indeed she ironer. He grasped it eagerly, with a wistful look.
suss hardly capable of speech; but the miller, a but the women did not stay to be recognised. It
aturdy man, answered for her that she should go no was ol•served, as she hastened away, that lire saps
more to the home of n villian who hail nearly killed tottered and she held her heed down, apparently
her. These words provoked B. to unbounded fury overcome by emotion. Well might the fearfully
he rushed on the man who had spoken th em with changed countenance of the accused appal one who
such violence as to throw him off his guard, and had known him in better days.
would have strangled him but for the interference I The parcel contained a portion of food more pal
of others. When he found h imsel 1. overpowered by i atable than is usually allowed to prisoner., and a small
superior strength, he revenged himself by the most pocket bible-1 he book B. had once prized—the gift of
fearful curses, vented especially u p on I s l a poor Wife, his (lying mother. His mime was written on the
whom again, with abusive epithets. he ordered to go first page , in her hand. Many
times in the week,
home, and not expose herself in this ridiculous
always at dusk, did the same compassionate viener
Mond at the grated window, and offer food or books
to the printer, who was evidently affbeted try the
kind attention. Ile ceased his idiotic dancing and
laughing; he answered nothing more to the up
' brairling.of vagrants without; and those who look
ed in at his window saw him eeated quietly at the
table, reading, or with his head on his hand in deep
thought. With thankfulness Unspeakable Jane saw
this change; but her joy was dashed with sadness,
when on one of her visits the prisoner besought her,
with piteous entreaty, to bring him a bottle of brandy.
It flow occurted to the Wife to do what eke hail
never dared when B. was at home—to force on his
Perusal some tracts containing the most awful warn ,
ings against intemperance, and encouragements to
the victim to struggle for recovery. He had no
other hook to beguile the time; Ile could not now,
as formerly, rail at or punish her, even had he any
suspicion who she was. What might ensue if he
read them 1 Her eflint was crowned with success.
Not a week, had passed when the abject entreaty for
liquor—which hid been urged night after night—
was dropped, to be renewed no more. Jane's heart
throbbed when she thought of this; but alas! even
if he were really reformed, would he live to prove
hiinklf so?
Thus days rolled on, and the time for the trial ar
rived. The prisoner had communicated with his
counsel; witnesses had been sent for; the principal
lawyer engaged in the prosecution had unfolded the
chain of evidence by which his guilt was to be pro
ved, and the court was to open next morning. The
accused had received some of his former acquain.
Ilances during the day, and as night drew near he
way alone. On his table lay a letter he had just
'No, Walter,' said his wife, rising at lost, and
confronting hint with pale but determined face— , No,
I will not return to you. I could have borne, as I
long have done, your harshness nod violence to•
wards me; but you have this night mired your hand
against the lives of these children, and ea it is my
duty before God to protect them, I leave you fore% cr.'
Whatever reply the drunkard might have made,
it woo drowned in the indignant clamors of the by
standers, and he woe dragged off to jail. His wife
was cared for by her sympathising female acquain
tance, and soon provided with a permanent situation,
where by the labor of her hands she could support
herself and her little ones. And roan, very soon,
did her changed appearance 'mar witness to the im
provement. She became contented, and even cheer
ful; and the playful caresses or her children be
guiled her of many sad thoughts.
When B. awoke from his intoxication, in prison,
the recollection of what he had done overwhelmed
him with shame and remorse. Ho sent for one of
his neighbors, and entreated him to go on his part
to his injured wife, end supplicate her forgivenesri,
and pledge the moot solemn promise of future
amendment. Jane wept much ; she forgave him
from her heart, as she prayed God he might be for
given; hut she could not, dared not trust his oft 'lir);
hued word, and sacrifice her children. Her determi
nation was fixed ; and far weeks together, though'
with bleeding heart, she returned the same answer
to the entreaties of her reprentant husband. She
dared not even see him, lest her resolution iiright
be shaken.
When at Inq B. wan dipcharge,l from jail, full el
wtitten ; he was paring the room, tranquil, but with
a mind filled with painful thoughts. The jailer
opened the door, announced a name, received the
prisoner's startled assent, and the next moment the
long estranged husband and wife were together.—
B. did not stir; he was petrified by surprise; but
Jane rushed to him, her arms were round his neck,
and she wept aloud. Her husband wan moved, but
struggled apparently with his pride. He unclaaped
her arms, 'stepped back a little, and looked earnestly
at her.
Sad indeed the contrast between the two the man
almost spectral in aspect, haggard, wan, emanciated
--not even the shadow of his former self: the wo
man blooming in the freshness of almost rmaiden
beauty. Nn unhallowed vigils, or excess, or evil
passions had stamped their traces on her brow, or
marred the symmetry of her form; and the very
purity and tenderness that shone in her expression
rebuked the conscious sinner as loudly as if an an
gers tongue had proclaimed his degradation. As
ho shrank back and stood thus silent, Jane stretch
ed out her hands beseechingly—
Oh ! Walter,' alto cried, have you not yet for•
given me?'
Forgiven you, Jane ! Oh, heaven ! what a
wretch I am !'
It was wrong, Walter, to desert you, even at the
worst—but oh ! say you do not b'ear hard thoughts
towards me.
Tell me, Jane, is it you who brought me these?'
pointing to the books.
Yes, Walter, for I thought you would read
them now, and —'
She was interrupted. by the sobs of•her husband;
he sank on his knees as if to thank her; but, to
prevent that, she knelt with him, and prayed for him
in the deepest emotion of her heart.
When B. was sufficiently calm he asked after his
children, and pointing to the table, said,
There, June, is a letter I had written you, in •
better spirit, I trust, than the hat. If it were Cod's
will I should live longer. I might make a better hus
band and father; but I dare nut think of that now.'
Jaqe longed to ask one question, but her tongue
refused to titter the words. Her husband seemed
to rend thu meaning of her anxious looks.
'Before high heaven,' said he, I declare toyou
that I am innocent of the crime fur which I shall
be tried to-morrow.'
A shriek of joy, scarce suppressed, burst from
the wife; she clasped her hands and ratted them
upwards—gratitude denied her speech.
Then you will live!' she gasped out at length.
'No, Jane—l dare not hope it; and I deserve to
die. I ant guiltless of murder, hot what have I
been to you and my children I What hove I been
these few past years? A reckless outcast—my own
destroyer—the enemy of God! I tell you, Jane, I
have long looked to the gallows as the end of my
career, end hare come to it nt last. But I have
mastered the tyrant that brought me to this; yes, I
have !'
he laughed convulsively as he said this, and his
wife turned pale.
Look here, Jane, look here !' and lifting up the
cover of his bed he produced several bottles of
brandy and whiskey. They were full.
'I asked you to give me liquor,' he continued,
and you would not; hut others, less merciful,
brought these to me. Do not shudder and grow so
pale, Jane ; I swear to yoU I have not tasted one
drop, though they have been there fur a fortnight.
Those books saved me, for I real of even worse
cases than mine. I took nn oath, June, on the Bible
you brought me the first night, my mother's Bible,
that I would never taste liquor again; and I kept
these to try if I could keep my resolution.'
Oh, Walter!' was nll the sobbing wife could
say ; hut her tears were those of joy.
You know, Jane, I was always fond of books,
and if I had not been a slave to drink, I might have
been fit society even for the judges who are to try
me to-morrow. Oh, if I could only live my life
over! But it is too late now; yet it is something
—is it not l'--and his pale fare kindled, 'to think
that I Coll, that I have, overcome the fiend at last—
that I will net die a drunkard ! Rememl er that,
and let everybody know it. I have it written here
in your letter. God will remember it when my
soul stands before him in judgment.'
Oh, my husband, you shall not die !' cried the
wife, as with streaming tears she clasped him to
her arms.
The will of God be done, and that I can now
any sincerely. I run willing to go. The Bible says
no &orlond shall enter His kingdom; but lain
not a drunkard. lam a degraded wretch, an out•
cast of men. about to die a felon's death; but I feel
a triumph, Jane, a joy unspeakable, that I have con
quered! my worst enemy. I thank God that he has
supported me through the struggle. It was a terri ,
ble ono.'
I need not at length record this interview. I
need say no more titan that, after weeks of the Most
agonizing suspense and anxiety, Jane had the hap
piness to hear that her husband was fully acquitted
of the crime laid to his charge, to receive him once
more and welcome him ton home. For months ho
lay helpless, the victim of a wasting sickness, hut
his wife worked day and night to procure him com
forts, and her children played round his bed, and in
her heart was what the poet so sweetly terms a
"hymn of thanklultreaa" never silent. When he
recovered, he found it not hard to hear her company
in her cheerfull toil, and never would he suffer him-
self to he persuaded to touch what once had proved
his bane, and so nearly brought hirn to an igno
minious end.
It is not long since 1 heard arr addrees of touching
~..Yeaac.)Tics> CDO aaZ3C)O
eloquence on the subject of Temperance, delivered
by Wal'er B-. There was truth in every word
of it, for be deeply felt what be uttered, and it come
home to many u heart, and drew tears from many
an eye. Ire told his own history, and described
himself as once the most wretched snd lost among
the victims of that vice; and yet !here bad been
others, more lost than he, who recovered. It was
this, he said, that first inspired him with hope for
himself.
Tact and Talent.
Talent is something, but Tact is everything.—
Talent is serious, sober, grave and respectable.—
Tact is all that and more to. It to not a seventh
sense but it is the life of all five. It is the open eye;
the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, sod
the lively touch. It is the interpreter of all riddles
--the surrnoun ter of all difficulties—the remover of
all obstacles. It is useful in all places, and all limes.
It is useful in solitude, for it shoWs a man his way
into the world. It is useful in society, for it shows
him his way through the world. Talent is power--
Tact is skill. Talent is weight--Tact is momen
tum. Talent knows what to do—Tact knows how
to do it. Talent makes a man respectable—Tact
will Lake a man respected. Talent is wealth—
Tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes
of life, Tact carries it against Talent, ten to one.--
Take them to the theatre, and Talent will produce
you a tragedy that will live scarcely long enough
to be condemned, while Tact keeps the house in a
roar night after nip ht, with its successful farces.--
Take them to the Bar ; 'relent speaks learnedly and
logically—Tact triumphantly. Talent makes the
world wonder it gets on no faster—Tact excites
astonishment that it gets on so fast; and the secret
is, that it has no weight to carry—it makes no false
steps—it hits the right nali on the head —it loses
no time—.it takes all hints—and by freeping its oyo
on the Teother cock is ready to take advantage of
every wind that blows. Take them into the
Church ; Talent May obtain a living—'fact will
make one. Talent gets a good numb—Tact a
great one. Talent contrives—'Foct converts.
Talent is an honor io the profession—Tact gains
honor !rum the profession. 'Fake them to Court ;
Talent flats its weight—Tact finds its way. Tal
ent commands--Tart is obeyed. Talent'is boner;
ed with approl ation—Teet is headed with prefer
ment.
j' A great library is a splendid monument to
intellectual exertion; but, like other monuments, it
is erected to the deatf, and bears n touch of the mel
ancholy of the tomb; with this difference, that the
book-shelves are the catacombs in which arc entomb
ed men's minds ingest] of their bodies.
HOPE writes the poetry of the boy, hut memory
that of the man. Man looks forward with smiles,
hut backward with sighs. Such is the wise prov
idence of God. The cop of life is sweetest at the
brim, the flavor is impaired as we drink deeper, and ,
the dregs are made hitter that we may not struggle
When it is taken from our lips.
nay, Jim, they tell me there is a man down
east that he is so industrions that lie works 25 hours
n day.' How is that Citify 'There is only 24
hours in a day !' Why he gets up in hour ber .
tore daylight, you stupid nigger!'
(3.. A country sculptor was ordered to engrave
on a tombstone the following words; A virtuous
woman is a crown to her husband.' The atone how:
ever, being small, ho engraved on it a virtuous
Woman is os. to her husband.'
A certain tavern keeper, who opened an oy_
s:er shop noon appendage to his oilier establishment.
was upbraided by a neighboring oyster-monger as
ungenerous and selfish. 'And Iv* (said he) would
you have me cell-fiidt ?'
Three men were in company,—Strante,
Wright, and Moore. Says Wright—. There is
one rowde amongst or, and that is strong,' No,'
says Strange, there is ofie more.' Ay,' says
Moore, , thut is right.'
Ty The humble are not always the harmless, if
you tread upon a scorpion, you must expect he
use his sting.
n' By prudent deportment, pertinent expressions
and commendable actions, riches and reputation
Ore required; but contrary causes have contrary
effects.
cr:r The man who lost his eye-sight by iernling
a borrowed paper, has recovered it again since he
became a subscriber.
(0 - . Socrates being asked what was the hest meek
of gaining a high reputation stud— , To be what
you appear to be.'
CO" A person being asked why he had given his
daughter in marriage to a man with whom he wee
at enmity, answered, I did it out of pure revenge.'
j A wit and a fool in company, are like a crab
and an oyster—the one watches till Cie other opens
his mouth that ho may catch him up.
Always be as witty as you can with your
parting bow—your lustapeech is the one rernetn
beret!.
(C)=. To be great is not in every one's power, but
to be good is in the power of all.
Calm T le the Imo?, Of ell Gas eunitin,Jr