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Those were the days when hooks were things “The people" could not toticli ➢lade fbr the use of lords and kings, And only made for such. To work the loom, to till the soil, To cat the costly gem, To tread the round of daily toil— , Was quite enough for them. Time was when just to road and write Was thought a wondrous deal For those who wake with morning light To earn their (icily meal— The man a more submissive slave The less his head-piece know ; And so the mans from habit gave Their birth-right i p a low. 1 . 50 w look abroad—the light of Truth Is spreading far and wide, And that which tills the English youth Must shame our ancient pride. "ris mist, alone can wield the sword, In spite of wealth and rank ; The artisan may thee a lord With thousands in the bank. We scram not those of high degree. For so were wrong to do ; But poorer men as rich can be, And quite as noble too. The prince may act a gayer part, But hd who works for bread May hare, perchance, a warmer hearts, Pcraps a c'earer head.' Then grieve not for the ' l O.l oitl times," Behold it brighter day ! The 'muses or our Whet, crimes Aro wearing fa•t away. Before the Pen, the l'ress, the Buil ; Must old opinions•full ; The mighty project ennnOt Then aid it one aunt ON atttitn etrrte. [From the Parlour Annual, The Thinker. BY F. W. s, Of all the conquests made li3lmati, none can equal, none can bear comparison with the mighty and profound achievements of THE THINKER. 1 3 rem his dome of tho'ght truths buried deep and long have come; at the sound of his bidding, nigh, and feats have thus been accomplished, which the close investigator alone could fathom. . It is the Thi.nkrr who has scanned the hidden mysteries that reach far beyond the surface of things, who has sounded away into the immense unknown, and brought out therefrom "truths sublime, that wake to perish, never," those secrets of the uni verse; which unravel and portray the nicer and more expiate skill of the Groat Ar chitect. It is his penetration that "gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name," that "finds tongues iu trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing." Strung with a delicacy of texture fine as Olympian dews, the varied atoms of matter dilate beneath his gaze, and particles that go to make up the sheen of things, magnifiy beneath his tread. The nook, the glade, the rock bound coast, the monutain peak, and the cloud-capped tower furnish hint lofty sen timents for contemplation ; thus ho quaffs front nature's fountain pleasures pure, un sophisticated, and which never cloy. The lightning's flash and the thunder's roar are Ito him, not the fabled monsters of the old en time, but simply the natural effects of !natural causes, which, like all things in the material world, act in harmony. The cavern and the mighty abyss below, he brings vividly to view, examines the keolo gical structure and compound of our globe, and from out its strata deeply embeded there, he gathers facts upon which he dwells with an intensity of emotion, and a capaciousness of thought. The coral beds of the wide, blue sea, partaking of this un der-current, upheave from their rocky ba sis, and upward tending, and still, their beauty and grandeur are too well fitted to his refined taste to be passed listlessly by, and here he expatiates in astonishment, in admiration, and in awe. From the teeming panoply beneath, to the canopy above, reaching away into the illimitable regions of space, he feasts his own enlivened and forever-expanding capa bilities, till imbued with wonderous and high-wrought conceptions, he grasps the remote. and unfolds from out their clois ter, objects strangely vast, and immensely complicated. lie even essays to taste of angels' food, to study the science of God, and become acquainted with those things which celes tial intelligences desire to investigate. Not only the whole broad earth is beau tiful, but the great arcane of animate and inanimate being pour forth an eloquence that far surpasses speech, and he opens the volumes of the universe and reads therein in characters of living light, till his own nature becomes resplendent, embellished with those tints which beautify and adorn that inner temple, thus eminating a halo of brightness, and shedding mellowed splen dor where obscurity has veiled We finer lineaments that are scattered here, and there, mid everywhere, over the fair face of creation, and which proclaim. _ . . g‘Ths hand that made us is Divine:" The range of the thinker is far from be ing circumscribed—far from being tram meled down within those limits which nar row, and cramp, and clop and fettering, bind. No slavish fears, tic' contracted prejudices warp his enthusiasm 1 11reot and commanding, the image of his Maker, he stands unmoved amid the confusion of elements, borne aloft by the nobler and' the highcr, he sways the scepter of his ownlutiversal dominion like as , ca workman who necdeth not to be ashamed." .illark him! Free and boundless he flits upon the wings of the wind, roams at pleasure wheresoever he will, and at random. "Lives in all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; To him no high. no low, no great, no small, He tills, he bounds, connects, and equals all." Mr. Webster on the Evidences of Christianity. A few evenings since, sitting by his own fireside, after a day of severe labor in the Supreme Court, Mr. Webster introduced the last Sabbath's sermon, and discoursed in animated and glowing eloquence for an hour on the great truths of the Gospel. I cannot but regard the opinions of such a n►an in some sense, as publio propeity,- This is my apology for atletuping to recall some of those remarks which were uttered 10 the privacy of the domestic circle. .said Mr... Webster : "Last Sabbath I listened to an able and learned discourac upon' the evidences of Christianity. The argiimentS were drawn from prophecy, his tory, with internal evidence. They were stated with logical accuracy and force; but, es it seemed to me, the clergyman failed to draw from them the right conclusion. He dame so near the truth that I was astonish ed ho missed it. In summing up his argu ments, he said the only alternative present ed by , these evidences is this : Either Christianity is true, or it is ti delusion pro duced by an excited imagination. Such is not the alternative, said the critic : but it is this : The Gospel is either true history, or it is a consuniate fraud; it is either a reali ty or an imposition. Christ was what he professed to be, or he was an huposter.— There is no other alternative. His spot less life in his earnest enforcement of the truth, his suffering in its defence, forbid us td suppose that ho seas suffering an illusion of a heated brain. Every act of his pure and holy life shows that he was the author of truth, the advocate of truth, the earnest defender of truth, and the uncompromising sufferer for truth. Now, considering the purity of his doctrines, the simplicity of his life, and the sublimity of his death, is it possible that he would have died for an illusion ? In all his preading the Saviour made no populai appeals. His discourses were all directed to the individual. Christ and h=s Apostles sought to impressoupon every man the con viction that he must stand or fall alone— he must live for himself, and give up his account to the omniscient God, as though he were the only dependent creatnre in the universe. The Gospel leaves the individu al sinner alone with himself and his God. To his own master he stands or falls. He has nothing to hope from the aid and sym pathy of associates. The deluded advo catcs of new doctrines do not so preach.— HUNTINGDON; PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1853. Christ and his Apostles, had they been de ceivers, would not have so preached. If clergymen in our days would return to the simplicity of the Gospel, and preach more to individuals, and less to the crowd, there would not be so much compla:nt of the decline of true religion. Many minis ters of the present day take their text from St. Paul, and preach from the newspapers. When they do so, I prefer to enjoy my own thoughts rather than to listen. I want my pastor to come to me in the spirit of the Gospel, saying, 'You are mortal ! your probation is brief; your work must do done speedily; you aro immortal too. You are hastening to the bar of God; the Judge standeth before the door.' When I am thus admonished, I have no disposition to muse or to sleep. "These topics," said Mr. Webster, "have often occupied my thoughts, and if I had time, I would write on them myself." The above remarks are but a meagre and imperfect abstract, from memory, of one of the moat eloquent sermons to which I ever listened.--Congregational Journal. pitoreltancotto. A New Jersey Justice. A distinguished member of the New York bar was retained on one occasion by a friend, also a New Yorker, to attend to a complaint made against him before a New Jersey Justice, for an alleged assault and battery upon one of the residents of the "old Jersey State." "I appear for the prisoner," said the counsellor to the modern Dogberry. "You appears for the prisoner, do you? —and who .den be you?" interrupted the justice, eyeing him from head to foot with marked curiosity: "I ton't know's you; Vriir he's you come from, and vet's yer name?" The counsellor modestly gave his name, and said: am a member of the New York Bar." . . "Veil, den," replied the justice, you gan't practice in die here gort." "I am a counsellor of the Supreme Court of the State of New York," reitera ted the gAtorney. 'that makes not'ing tifferent," said the inveterate justiee. ilien," said the ballad lawyer, "suppose I show to your Honor that I am a counsellor of the Supreme Court of the United States?" • "It ton's make a Tit petter," replied lie of the ermine; "you ain't a gounsellor von de State of New Jarsey, and you gan't britetis in dish gort." _ _ This decision accountsfor the fact. that New Jersey is not in the United States' On another occasion, the same dignitary said to a jury, who had been listening to a "trial" before him of an unfortunate fel low for some offence against the State: "Shentlemons of der shoory, sthand up: dish ere yellow, dar bris'ner at the par, sass he ish von Few York; now I (links he pes a putcher poo, and if he ish a putcher boy he trives pigs troo de shtreets, and ven he trives der pigs, he kits oder beeples pigs mit deiu vet he hat before; dat's vet I calls pig-shtealin.' Now, shentlements, if de yellow shtea'ls pigs in Now York, I tink he vi!l shteal a gow in Jarsey, and darefore I tink he be a grow t'ief, and your shudgetuents all be kitty. Vot you shall say, shentlemeans of de shoory—ish he kilty, ow not kitty? If you say he ish kilty, I sends hint to do Shtato Brison, mid two years." And ho did send bite. Children. The part that children play in the econ omy of families is an important one. But, important functions often devolve upon creatures trivial in themselves. Not so in the ease of children. The child is greater than the man. The man is himself, and that is often a shabby enough concern; but the child is a thing of hops and anticipa tion, we know not what it may beoome.— The arch laughing glance of those eyes, which flash upon us when the bushy nut brown hair is thrown back by a toss of the head—what a lovely creature that may be come, to make some honest man's heart ache ! That boy, with flaxen hair slightly tinged with the golden, while his clear; re solute eye looks fearlessly at everything it encounters—what may he not accomplish in after-life! To us there is more of ter ror in the passions of children; • than of grown men. They are sit dieproportioned to their causes, that they rudely draw back the veil from bur own hearts, reminding us "what shadows we are, and what shad ows we pursue/' Of . all expressons of pain; we can least endure the wail of an in fant. The poor little innocent cannot ex plain its Sufferings, and, if it could, so lit tle lies in our power to alleviate them.— There is nothing for it but to have one's heart rent by its complainings, and pray in one's helplessness that its dark hour may pass away. IC 4 - Waste not, want not Row Iluebands may Rule. BY FANNY FERN. "Dear Mary," said Harry - to his little wife, "I have a favor to ask of you. You have a friend whom I dislike very much, and who I am quite sure will make trouble between us. Will you give up Mrs. May for my sake, Mary?', A light shade of vexation crossed Mary's pretty face, as she said, "you are unreason able, Harry. She is lady-like ; refined, in tellectual, and fascinating, is she not?" "Yes, all of that; and for that very rea son her influence over one so impulsive and yielding as yourself, is more to be dreaded, it unfavorable. I'm quite in earnest, Ma ry. I could wish never to see you togeth er again." "Pshaw ! dear Harry, that's going too far; don't be disagreeable, lot us talk of something else. As old Uncle Jeff says, how's trade?" and she looked archly in his face. Harry didn't smile. "Well," said the little wife, turning away, and patting her foot nervously, "I don't see how I can break with her) Har ry, for a whim of yours; besides, I've pro mised to go there this very evening." Harry made no reply, and in a few min utes was on his way to his offiee. Mary stood behind the curtain, and look ed after him as lie went down the street. There was an uncomfortable stifling sen sation in her throat, and something very like a tear glittering in her eye. Harry was vexed ! she was sure of that; he had gone off for the first time since their mar riage, without the affectionate good-bye that was usual with him, even when they parted but for an hour or two. And so she wandered, restless and unhappy, into her little sleeping room. It was quite a little gem. There were statuettes, and pictures, and vases, all gifts from him either before or since their mar riage—each one had a history of its own, some tender association connected with Harry. There was a bouquet, still fresh and fragrant, that lie had purchased on his way home the day beferei to gratify her! papjon for fleweri. There was a choice edition of poems they were reading togeth er the night before,with Mary's name writ ten on the leaf, in Harry's bold, handsome hand. Turn where she would, some proof of his devotion met her eye. But .Mrs. .May ! She was so smart and satirical ! She would make so much sport of her for being "ruled" so by Harry ! Hadn't she told her "all the icon were tyrants r' and this was Harry's first attempt to gitvern her. No, no, it would not do for her to yield. So the pretty evening dress was taken out; the trimming re-adjusted and remodel led, and all the little et ceteras of her toil ette decided. Yes she would go: she had quite made up her mind to that. Then she opened her jewel case, a little note fell at her feet. She knew the contents very well. It was from Harry, (slipped slily into her hand on her birthday, with that pretty bracelet.) It couldn't do any harm' to read it again. It was very lover-lik l for a year old husband. But she ?ticed it! Dear Harry ! and she folded it Lack, and sat down, more unhappy than ever, with her hands crossed in_ her lap, and her mind in a most piteablo state of irresolution! Perhaps after,all Harry was right about Mrs. May; and if he wasn't, one hair of his head was worth more to her than all the women in the world. He had .never said one unkiird word to her, never( he had an ticipated every wish; he had be e n so atten tive and solicitous when shetfas ill. How could she grieve him l . Love conquered. The pretty robe was folded away, the jewels returned to their case, and with a light heart, Mary sat down to await her husband's return. . The lamps were not lit in the drawing room when Harry came up street. She. had gone then Rafter all he had said!) Ho passed slowly through the hall; enter: eel the dark and deserted room; and threw himself bn the sofa with a heavy sigh. He was not angry, but he was grieved and disappointed. The first doubt that creeps ovor the mind, of the affection of one we love, is so very painful. "Dear Hurry !" said a welcome voice at his side. "God bless you, Mary," said the happy husband, "you've saved me from a keen sorrow:" Dear render, (won't you tell ?) there are some husbands worth all the sacrifices a loving heart can make ! —Olive Branch. OLD TOWSER.—Don't you remember old Towsor dear Kate Old Towser so shaggy and kind ; How ho used to lay, day and night by, the gate, And seize in terlopersbehind ? 0 The Louisiana Legislature, by a majority of two-thirds, have refused to gq into an 'election for a U. S. Senator' in place of Mr. Benjamin. llg" Edward Harris is the Free Soil can didate for Governor of Rhode Island and Stephen Harris for Lieutenant Governor. °,s (7 Love or Home. I have at times tried to imagine the feel ings of a man who is about td 6migrsite, fully convinced that he never again will look upon his native land—to my mind it brings thoughts allied to death. I could fancy that I was going away to die—going to live somewhere until death came—in some huge prison,—with a jail-like sky above it, and an area that might stretch hundreds of miles, with a wide sea around it, on the margin of which I should wander alone, ifighing away . my soul to regain my native land. Eveiy thing would be strange to sue; the landscape would call up no rec ollections ; I should not have even a tree to call my friend, nor a flower which I could say was my own. Ala! after all it is something to look upon the churchyard where those that we love are at rest, to gaze upon their graves, and think what we have gone through with them, and what we would undergo to recall then► from the dead. Reader, pardon these childish thoughts—they forced themselves into Joy mind, and I have recorded them, they seem to awaken my memory anew, and strip me of a score of years; they have a foolish hold on my affections. But surely It is a worthy passion to cherish; there seems, something holy about the past; it is freed from all selfishness ; we love it for its own sake ; we sigh for it because it can never again be recalled ; even as a fond mother broods over the memory of some darling that is dead, as if she had but then discov ered how much her heart loved it. Growing Old. So long as *e may grow therein in wis dom and worth it is well, it is desirable, to live, but no further. To my view, insani ty is the darkest, the most appalling of earthly calamities, but how much better is an old age that drivels and wanders, mis understands and forgets? When the soul shall have come choked and smoothed by the ruins of its wasting, falling habitation, I should prefer to inhabit that tenement no longer. I should not choose to stand shuddering and trembling on the brink of the dark river, weakly drawing back from the chill of its sweeping flood, when Faith assures uie that a new Eden strenches green and fair beyond it, and the baptism it invites will olense the soul of all that now clogs, clouds, and weighs it to the earth. No; when the windows of the mind shall bo darkened, when ihe growth of the soul, shall have been arfested, I would not weakly cling to-the earth which will have ceased to nourish and uphold me.—: Rather "let the golden bowl be loosed and the pitcher broken at the fountain;" let the sun of my existence go down ere the dusky vapors shroud its horizon; lot the close my eyes calmly on the things of earth, and lot my weary frame sleep beneath the clods of the valley; let the spirit ,which it can no lon ger cherish as a guest, be spared the igno miny of detention as a prisoner; but freed, from the fetters of clay, let it wing its way through the boundless universe, to where soever the benign Father of• Spirits shall have assigned it an everlasting home. Lainino—laidni.r—larning," is the cry of father an' mother—if my boy had the 'laming,' what a janius he'd be . In course, ye old fools, your bouchal would be a swan among the goslings; but it isn't 'laming, half the world want ; instead of 'laming,' by which they mean cobwebs pick ed out of dead men's brain, if they would get some discipline. Discipline—discipline-- discipline, that's the only education I ever saw that brought a boy to any good. What is the use of battering a man's, brains, full of Greek and Latin'pothoeke,"that be for gets before lie doffs his last round jacket,' to put on his first long-tailed blue, if ye doh% teach him the old Spartan .vir ttio:of obedience, hard living,.early rising, and them si - ni aSSies Where's the use of instructing him in hexameters and pen tameters, if you leave him ignorant of the value of a penny piece? 'What height of Illotherime stupidity it is to be fillip' a boy's brain with the wisdom, of the ancients, and and then, turn hint out like an omadhuun, to pick up his victuals among the moderns ? —Blackwood's Magaz in e. The Festival of Life. Life is a ball-rpoto, whose guests are constantly pouring in at the front door; and out at the back door, without apparent diminutions of the number within; who are neither less gay nor more miserable on ac count of the perpetual entrance and exit at the two thresh holds of Titue'and Eternity. And whosoever looks into the ball-room its ages to come, will find its youth still as buoyant, as graceful an'd as beautiful as over, just as happy and 'unconcerned as if Death never had oceured, and never would occur upon earth'? Oh life! the faoinating dig j guise with which Youth infests thee, is tby prooious amulet, for it is their hands that encircle thy blooming fields with thosO gorgeous curtains which veil from the eye of consciousness the rough scenery that lies beyond—its retreating storms, its por tentous clouds; its Mournful . retioapeOt, and its painful future VOL. 18, NO. 10. youtitte Column. THE LOST KITE. kite! my kite ! I've lost my kite ! 0, when I saw the sieady flight With which she gained her lofty height, How could I know that letting go That naughty string would bring so low My pretty, buoyant, darling kite, To pass forever out of sight? A purple cloud was sailing by, With silver fringes, o'er the sky; And then I thought it came so nigh I'd let my kite go up and light Upon its edge so soft and bright, • aee bow noble, high, and proud She'd look while riding on a cloud ! As near her shining mark she drew, I clapped my hands ; the line slipped thro'gh My silly fingers; and she flew Away ! away ! in airy piaY. Right over where the water lay. SJ,e veered, and fluttered, swung, and gave A plunge—then vanished with the wave ! I nev e r More Shall wrica to lzti On that false cloud, dt oh the brook ; Nor e'er to feel the breeze that took Mr dearest joy, thus to destroy The pastime of your happy boy. My kite ! my kite ! bow sad to think • She soared so high, so soon to sink ! True Courage. Two little boys went to puss the after noon and evening at the house of one of their playmates, whp had a party, to keop his birthday. Their parents•told them to come home at eight o clock in the evening. It was a beautiful afternoon, and a larje party •of boys met at the house of their friend. The first part of •thetr vlsit,waa, spent out of doors; and never did boys hive a more happy time.. They climbed the trees, they swung on ropes,—and as they jumped about, and tried all kinds of sports, they made the, place ring with their joyous shouts. When it became too dark for out-door play, they went into the house, and commenced new 'sports in the brightly-lighted parlor. As they were in the midst of the exciting game of "blind man's buff," come one en-, tered the room, and requested them all to take their seats, for apples and puts were to be brought in. But just as the door was, opened by the servant, bringing in the wait , er, loaded with apples and tints, the clock struck eight. The boys, who had been told to lea*e at that hour, elt troubled enough. ise temp tation to stay was almost too strong to be resisted. The older brother, however, had the courage to whisper to one at his side, that he, must go. Immediately there was an uproar all over the room, each one ex claiming against it. "Why, ,said one ; "try mother told me I might stay till nine." "My mother," said another, "did not, say any thing bout my coming home; she will let ihe stay as long as I wish." "I would not be tied to my mother's apron-string," said a rude boy, in a distant part of the room. A timid boy, who lived in the next house to the one in which these two little boys lived, came up, and said, with an imploring . look, "I am gying home at half past eight. Now do stay while longer, and then, we will go bode together. , I do not wish to go home alone in the dark." And cyan the lady of the house came to them, and said, "I do not think your moth-. er will he displeased if you stay a few mo ments longer, and cat an - apple and a few nuts." , . • , NoW, what could these Poor boys do ? How could they resist so much entreaty I Fora moment they hesitated, and almost yielded to the temptation. But virtue wa vered only for a moment. They immedi ately mustered all their courage, and said, "We must go." Hastily bidding ,them all good-night, they took their hats as quickly as they ; could, for fear, if they delayed, they should yield - to the temptation, and left the house. They stopped not a moment to look back. 'upou the brightly-shining windows and happy group of boys within, bnt taking held of each other's hand, they ran as fast as they could on their way .home. • Do you not admire this noble, pt'oof of the pourage .of these, little hSYs, and of their disterinination to do their duty ? Go you then and do ` like Wise, and you shall have thcir rewa r. Itr The young and thoughtless should remember that the frequent use of "thnname of God, or the devil;,allittidnato passages of Scripture; mocking at anything serious or devout; oaths, vulgar by-words, cant phrases; affected' hard words, when %miller terms will do as well; swaps of Latin, Greek or French; quotations froM plays, spoken in a theatrical manner; all these, much used hi conversation, render a person very oontetuptifile to grave and wide Men: Pg" If'you woutd Krespected, respect yourself;