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Uncle Bernard's Story.
EY THE REV. DR. BETHUNE,
"Oh, Uncle Bernard," cried altogether a
group of little people, "tell us a story I"
Uncle Bernard, a white-haired old man,
whose chair had been drawn to a warm corner,
for the winter was howling against the windows
—looked up from his large print Bible, smiled
fondly on their rosy faces : "A story I a story I
let me read you one out of this good book."
"Oh, no I" says bold little Bob, as he caught
the old man round the neck, "we know all the
Bible storks; tell us a fairy tale!"
"Yes, yes, Uncle Bernard I' chirruped the
rest, "a fairy tale, a fairy tale! you never told
us a fai,, tale."
"No, decry, I have never told you a fairy
tale. Fairy tales are lies, and young folks like
you should not love to hear lies, nor should old
folks like me tell lies." .
"Oh, but Uncle Bernard, we know that fairy
tuts ain't true, but it is such fun to hear them."
"Well, my little dears, I'll try and tell you a
story that sounds like a fairy tale, and yet is
all true. Sit down, and listen."
"Once upon atime, and a great while ago,
there lived in a wide wood a wild man, and his
name was Sthenos. His father and mother
bad been keepers of a lovely garden, where
they dwelt in peace with our God; but he, very
early in his childhood, had wandered off and
lost himself among the shadows of the forest,
where he sgon forgot all that he knew. Not
only his head and face, hat also his whole. bo
dy, was covered with long shaggy hair; Isis nails
were like claws; and he could climb the trees,
or swim in the water as easily as walk on the
ground. Gigantic in height, his shoulders were
broad, and his limbs sturdy. He could ontru,
the wildest deer, hit with a stone the flying
bird, and kill with his knotty club the fiercest
beasts. He ate only what he toolc in the chase,
with some pleasant herbs, or fruits, or honey,
which he found in the hollow trunks, and in the
rocks; and he drank only from the springs, or
the deep river which flowed through the valley. '
He slept in caves, or in the crotches of trees,
lest the prowling beasts, should catch him un
awares. Yet, savage as he was, he had n eer
thin nobleness and rough grace of mien which
distinguished him from the rough brutes around
him; and made them acknowledge him as their
lord. Thus he lived, lonely and }nppy, and,
notwithstanding his strength, full of fears.
"One day, as he was pushing through the
thicket to reach the river, he heard singing
sweeter than any he had heard. He thought at
first thatit was a bird. But he knew the songs
of all birds, and that this was not like any of
them. He dashed on, and saw reclining on
the bank of the river a creature so lovely that
he stood still is wonder, trembling with a new
feeling that shot like fire through his heart and
joints. Her form:a—his woodman's eye saw at
once that the delicate proportions were those
of a female—was something like his own, but
fair and elegant, while his vine brown and
shaggy. Around her waist was a loose white
robe, and about her shoulders floated a scarf
blue as the sky. While she sang she looked
upward as though some one was hearing her,
whom Sthenos could not see, %ad then she lis
tened, as if to a voice be could not hear. Soon
turning her eyes upon him, she smiled with
ravishing sweetness, and beckoned him nearer
Awe-struck, hut drawn irresistibly on, he fell
at her feet, gazing at her beautiful face.. She
now spoke in accents of Isis early speech, which
now came back to his understanding, and said:
"Sthenos, our good God, whom you have so
long forgotten, has not forgotten you; but, pi
tying your loneliness and misery, has sent me
to live with you and Ile your friend. Already
I love yon, and you must take me to your heart,
ttnd give me your love."
"As she spoke, she bent down and wiped his
forehead, from which she had parted his met
ted locks, looking with her clear blue eyes into
his, until his whole being seemed drawn out to
her, and he laid her head, with its bright gold
en curls, on his broad breast, and felt an eesta
cy of inexpressible happiness."
"And now that I am to dwell with you, dear
Sthenos, lead me to your home."
"Home!" replied he, "I know not what you
bean!"
"Where do you rest after the chase, or amid
darkness? Where do you eat your food, where
%ft, you most delight to be? That is home."
"I hare no home. All places in dm forest
are alike to me. Where weariness or night
comes upon me, there I lie down; when I have
killed the deer, then I eat. I have never thought
of a home."
"Conie, then, said she, sweetly, let as seek a
spot where we will make a home for onrielees,"
and putting her slender he.nd in his, she led
/lam until they came to a fountain gushing out
11,1:14 ender a rock, bef,rn which a sunny men•
a . •-•
, ,'. ar
" I SEE NO STAR ABOVE TIM HORIZON, PROMISING MORT TO GUIDE US, BUT THE INTELLIGENTI PATRIOTIC, UNITED WHIG PARTY OP TIIE UNITED STATES."-OVERSTEIL
doW spread itself out towards the southwest,
blooming with hare-bells, and daisy-cups, and
Pansies, and mnny more wild flowers. "Is it
not charming?" said she, "the spring shall give
us water, nod the rock guard us from the fierce
north wind, and we can look upon the sunlight
and shadows, ns they float together over the
green grass and the flowers, that spring up
through the verdure."
Sthenos smiled, and, though he could not
understand her meaning, he felt a charm of
Nature he had never before known.
"Now," said site, "the sun, though its light
be pleasant, looks down too hotly upon us; and
when the night comes, the dews will fall and
chill us. Go, break off boughs from the trees,
and strip the broad bark from the decayed
branches." This was an easy task for the vig
orous man; and, in the meantime, she had
gathered heaps of dry mosses, and the spicy
shoots from the hemlocks, and spread deep
over the leaf-covered ground. Then, leaning
the thick boughs against each other, and lay
ing, by her directions, the curved bark over
lapping in successive and continuous layers,,
upon them, Sthenos saw es Lis work, a rude,
but safe hut, and said, "This shall be our home,
I go for our evening meal;" and dashed into
the forest. He soon returned with wood pi
geons nod a young fawn, which he had killed,
casting them at the feet of his gentle wife. who
bad already arranged, in leafy cups, the berries
which she had gathered from the meadow; and
Sthenos beheld wild flowers, mingled with long,
trailing, delicate vines, adorning the entrance
to their home.
The simple meal, soon prepared by her
hands, he thought more savory than he had
ever had, but, before she suffered him to par
take, she pointed upward, and with clasped
hands mpg praise to our good God, the giver.
An hour of delicate friendship stole away, as,
hand in hand, they looked in each other's eyes
—thoughts he knew not how to speak, and she
needed no words to utter. Then another hymn
to our good God, the sleepless preserver, she
warbled from her lips of gurgling melody, and
the pair sank to rest.
Thus sped on day after day, and night after
night. Gradually Sthenos lost his fierceness,
save in the struggle of the chase. She had
fashioned fur him soft garments out of fawn
skins and feathers, which he now wore, less for
need than to please his skilful friend. His
shaggy hair was smoothed into curling grace;
the hut constantly received new conveniences
and ornaments from his strong or cunning
hand, and happy was he, after his toils in the
forest, to return, hearing a rich honey-comb, or
lending a goat with full udders to his home—
dear, because hers.
On waking, one dewy morning, lie looked
fondly in her loving face, beaming with tender,
holy thoughts, and said "You call me Sthenos
but have never told the name by which I ate
to call you, my dearest."
"You have just pronounced the name I love
best, except when you call me your wife and
your friend. I have had several names in the
land whence I came to be near you, but that
by which our good God wished you to know
me is Enthymitt, to your side; and whatever
love can do, I will gladly perform. With your
strength and my affectionate zeal, and the
blessing of our good God, we shall be happy as
we may in this wide world wood; but the good
God has promised me, that when you shall
have learned to sing and pray with me, that
our two beings 4111 he blended into one, and
we shall leave the forest, to go and dwell in a
garden, with our good God, far more beautiful
than the one from which you strayed a long
while ago."
The children were mute in wonder and sad
ness, when suddenly the chamber was filled
with ravishing light and delicious odours, and
three radiant angels hovered over the bed; and
the children could see far up into the sky, and
saw a glorious being under the Tree of Life,
before the throne of God; and in the smiling
countenance of the glorious being they recog
nized, strangely but sweetly mingled, the love
of both father and mother. And one of the
angels said (he was the tallest of the three) "I
pointed out the way to them, and encouraged
them to strive to reach the garden."
"And I," said the second, on whose bosom
shone a gem like a golden anchor, "bore them
up on my wings."
"And I," joyfully exclaimed the third, who
bad eyes like the first spring violets washed
with rain, "have made them both one forever."
Then turning to her sister angels, she said :
'Tour tasks for them are over; but I go to fill
their united beings with immortal happiness I"
"Ah, Uncle Bernard," cried Gertrude, that
is better than a fairy tale, but what queer names
—Stlienos and Enthyin in—what do they mean?"
"I made them out of the Greek," answered
the old man, "and by Sthenos, I mean man left
to himself, when he would be a mere savage;
and by Enthymia, I mean wisdom sent to him
by our good God, to teach him how to live on
earili, and prepare for heaven. When man is
transformed to holy wisdom, and uses his
strength for wise ends, he becomes all good,
and God takes him up to the second Paradise."
"Yes," says little Charley, "and the angel
with the anchor is Hope."
"And the tallest angel is Faith," adds Rob
ert, "for faith gives pious people courage."
"Ajul the gentle, blue•eyed one, must be Love,
for Love lives forever," whispers Gertrude in
Uncle Bernard's ear.
"Bless you, deer child, you look like her I"
whispers back Uncle Bernard.
Aiiir•Printers make curious mistakes some
times. An editor out west recently quoted the
line—
"Hell bath no fury like a woman scorned."
But in setting it up, the s was accilentally left
out, which made it rend—
" Hell bath no fury like a woman COANED
But the error was not a mistake, after all.
par Why must your nese neeensurily he in the
middle of your farl7 B.rowe it in tie reenter:
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1854.
From the Charlestown Courier. Jan. 21
The Mexican Treaty.
Our distinguished and successful Minister to
Mexico, arrived in this City from the Mexican
Capital, via New Orleans and the South Caro
lina Railroad, on Tuesday last, and immediate
ly went to his plantation, whence he returned
on Thursday last, and is now at his residence
in our City. He we will'leave on Monday next
for Washington, to report to our government
the results of his eminently successful mission
and receive instructions for the future. We
had the high gratification of an interview with
him last evening, and of congratulating him on
the great advantages he has secured for his
country, and the honor he has won for himself.
He is in fine spirits and delighted with Mexico
and its climate, ascribing to his residence
there his highly improved health and looks,
and, indeed, a very large share of rejuvenes
cence.
On his arrival in Mexico he adopted no di
plomatic costume, but continued to wear the
plain dress of nn American gentleman, and
that, he says; sufficiently designated him. and
secured him all due recognition and considera
tion ns the American Minister; and, in compli
ment to him, Santa Anna doffed his own gor
geous apparel, and received him in a plain,but
favorite, dress of brown. When Gen. Gadsden
reached Mexico, Santa %Anna claimed an in-'
demnity of *35,000,000, under the 11th article
of the treaty of Guadalupe. relative to Indian
incursions and depredations on Mexican terri
tory, and insisted on the Bartlett bounder',
line, which excluded us from the Mesilla Val
ley. Gen Gadsden nt once boldly and firmly
rejected the idea of indemnity altogether. He
insisted on the Graham line. which gives us
the Mesilla Valley, covering an area of some
1,300.000 acres) as the true boundary; and in
timated that Gen. Garinnd was on the march
to assert our claim to the Graham line, by tak
ing possession of the disputed territory,and pro.
poi" a settlement of all difficulties on an en
tirely new basis of negotiation.
Finding the thing feasible, be immediately
despatched an express to prevent the further
advance of Gen. Garland; and the following
were the ultimate results of his able and admir
able diplomacy. Ho accomplished a treaty,
in which Mexico surrenders all claims for in
demnity sunder the 1 I tit article of the treaty of
Guadalupe, and yields us the Mesilla
and, in addition thereto, cedes to us, for the
sum of twenty millions of dollars, an immense
region, embracing n part of Chihuahua, and
about one-third of Sonora, including the gold
.region, (believA to be one of the richest in the
world,) covering in all about thirty-nine mil
lions of.acres, and giving us n new boundary,
strong in natural defences, and running to or
near the head of the Golf of California.
This cession embraces too the Garay route
of the Pacific railway, through the valley of
the Gila, (the very route designated by Gen•
Gadsden himself, at the Memphis Convention,
of which he was a member,) of which Charles.
ton is the Atlantic and San Diego the Pacific
termini, with Memphis Os the intermediate stn
tion. Of the $20,000,000 to be paid by us for
this vast and valuable neression of territory,
we are to reserve $5,000,000 with which to ex
tinguish all claims of our citizens on Mexico,
including those under the Garay grant. The
peninsula of California is not included in the
cession, but even that would probably have
been obtained by further negotiation, had not
the insane expedition of Walker caused Santa
Anna to set his face resolutely against it. The
new domain acquired, it is suggested, to form
into a territory (and hereafter into one or more
States) by the name of Aresonin, the first Gov
ernor of which ought to be a South Carolinian,
as a tribute due to South Carolina diplomacy.
Santa Anna has already finally ratified the
treaty on the part of Mexico, and it only re
mains fur us to exchange ratifications with the
Mexican Minister at Washington to conclude
the affair. On the exchange of ratifications,
$3,000,000 are to be paid down, in cash, to
Mexico.
We doubt not that our citizens will take an
early opportunity; on his return from Wash
ing,ton, to testify to Gen. Gadsden their high
sense of his masterly diplomacy and patriotic
services equally honorable to himself and his
native City and State.
Whether Gen. Gadsden will close his mis
sion with his present laurels, or return to Mexi
co as resident Minister, will depend on the
pleasure of the government. The mission was
conferred on him unsought, and his continu
ance in it will be equally unsolicited, although
it will not be withheld if deemed for the inter
est of his Country.
[From the Charleston Mercury. Jan. 21.1
We copy below, from the Mobile Register,
an abstract of the treaty just negotiated by our
Minister, Gen. Gadsden. IVe have reason to
believe that the statements of the Register are
entirely reliable with regard to the provisions
of this treaty.
[From the Mobile Register.]
Gen. Gadsden, the American Minister to
Mexico, passed through this city yesterdny
en route for Washington, being the bearer of
an important treaty which he has negotiated
with the government to which he is accredited.
The salient points of the treaty are:—First,
the establishment of a good boundary line; sec•
and, the abrogation of that clause of the treaty
of Guadalupe that binds the United States
government to the costly and almost impossi•
ble obligation to protect the Mexican frontier
from Indian incursions; third, the recognition
of the Sloo grant across the Isthmus of Tehu•
antepec; and, fourth, the indemnification of the
Garay grnntees.
The boundary line, which gives the United
States a strip of territory sufficient to form a
new State, is as follows,—Draw a line on the
map from a point two miles north of El Paso,
in a south•westerly direction, to the intersecting
point of the 111th degree of longitude and the
Slot degree Of latitude; thence a west 14 mirth
Course to a rblnt t•ro miles above the head of
the Bay of California; and the new boundary
line will be exhibited proximate to the treaty
stipulation. It gives to the United States part
of the State of Sonora. This country is said to
abound in mineral wealth, and its soil is rich
in agricultural resources.
By the provisions of the treaty rescinding
the clause of the treaty of Guadalupe, touching
frontier protection from the Indian tribes, it
will hereafter be the duty of each government
to defend its own frontier, and drive the Inch.
ans to their strongholds in the interior.
In consideration of these grants end cessions
the United States are to pay to Mexico $20,.
000,000. Of this sum $3,000,000 are to be
passed as soon as the treaty is ratified, ned
$5,000,000 are to be withheld by the United
States until the Garay grantees are indemni•
fled.
“Aresonitt,” will probably be the name given
to the new territory and future State; the name
being derived from the rich mineral mines em•
braced within it.
Model Speeches,
A Bridegroom, Speech.—" The Health of the
Bridwroom and Bride."
MY FRIENDS: Of myself at this most mystic
hour I will say nothing. No; but I thank you
for my wife'. Wife! Blissful monosyllable
A blended harmony of all earth's music! Wife!
that calls up, as with no enchanter's wand, the
homestead and the hearth, the kettle singing,
rejoicingly singing, on the bar, and the eat
sleeping, profoundly sleeping, on the rug; a
word that intensifies so many meanings! The
call of butcher and baker and milk below,
and a quarter's rent, and water-rate, and the
Queen's taxes. Ladies and gentlemen, when
I only glance at the wedding-ring on my wife's
finger—that ring and that finger which it hoe
been the summit of my bliss this morning to
bring together; when I look upon that simple
hit of golden wire, it seems to me tliat, in the
words of the bard of Avon, have put a gir
dle round about the world;" is world of beauty
and truth, of constancy and love. When I
look nt that ring—and how can I help looking
at it?—does not its brightness fascinate and chain
me? Yes. I will repent it—l an proud to re
peat—chain me When I look at that ring
am I not reminded of the circle of domestic
duties, a circle even and complete and without
a flaw; a circle harmonious with golden utter
ance; a circle of purity without alloy; a never
ending Still beginning round of earthly happi
ness? My friends, when the honey-moon in
over—n 4 that it ever will be over with my own
—own—[here give gee briiie's name, Arabella
or Dorcas, as the name may be]—and myself,
(for we propose to-enjoy twelve honey-moons
every year of nor lives;) when I enter my
house—and hero let us return due thanks to
my honored father-in-law who has furnished
that unpretending mansion with equal taste
and liberality, though he will forgive me in
' this confiding hour, when the heart swells and
the tongue will speak, if I jocosely observe to
him that the house has a wine cellar and that
his taste in tawny port is unexceptionable;
when, I say, I enter my house, and for the
first time sinking in my nrm-chair, place my
slippered feet open my rug—that rug worked
by certain hands with hear's-ease and roses—
I shall say, to myself, here is my paradise and
here, ]here look at the bride very passionately,]
my Eve.
On Receiving a Piece of Plate.
GENTLEMEN. In having filled the office of—
there Tut in the office, tchether that of Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, Churchwarden, or
Treasurer to a Cricket Club] I assure you I
have had but one object, your interest. That
object, I fearlessly assert, has never ceased to
accompany me. It has gone to bed with me;
it has slept with me; it has got up with me; it
has shaved with me. Your interest, Aentlemen,
has been the polar star to my eye, the staff to
my hand, and the roses to cry feet. Do I say
this to make any claim upon your gratitude?
No, gentlemen, in giving utterance to these
solemn and profound emotions—for they are
solemn, since they are not often evoked but
upon serious occasions like the present; they
are profound, for they come from the very hot
tomest bottom of cry heart—(gentlemen, it
,is sometimes the allowed privilege of deep
feeling to violate grammar—a privilege that
my impulsive soul must lay claim to at this
moment)—in giving utterance to this, and
much more than this, much more easily con
ceivea than spoken, I merely state that in ful
filing your service I have fulfilled my own per
sonal pleasure! Ihave sought noother reward;
I expected none; I wished tin none. Neverthe
less, gentlemen ,when I look upon the splendid
candelabra before me—a candelabra of four
teen branches—l beg to assureyou that I shall
again and again,in the deep midnight, contcw-
Platethe fourteen was candles that will be con
tinually burning therein only no so many lights
to higher exertion; as so many vivifying suns
kindling and strengthening me in your service.
[lf the piece of pinto should be a snuff-box,
say And, gentlemen, whenever I open this
box, whenever my finger and thumb shall
take from within a restorative pinch, and ta
ken, when my finger and thumb shall fillip off
the particles that may adhere, I shall moralize
upon those particles, and think all reward but
dust, but that reward, your friendship, your
support.]
[lf the token presented be a watch, say :
And never, gentlemen, shall I hear it tick, but
my heart will pulsate in unison with its sound;
never will it strike the time, but my fancy will,
with backward flight, return to the present mo
ment, the happiest, proudest moment of my
life.]
[Should the speaker be a married man, and
should a silver tea.pot be also presented to his
with, he may say : It is said, ladies and gentle-
men, that a man must not praise himself. Yet
how is it possible to avoid such eulogy when
called upon to speak of his wife, who is of him.
self, the dearest and most pieeicus part of his
existence. Gentlemen, I thank you fer Mr..
You have inscribed some of her vir- I
tues on that silver tea-pot; I fearlessly say
some of them, gentlemen, for I do assure you
—though do not misinterpret such assurance—
it would take an exceedingly large silver tea
board to boot to bear even in short-band a no
tice of the qualities that, like the flowers upon
the satin gown in which she appears before you on
this happy occasion,cover and adorn her. Ladies
and gentlemen, whilst thanking you for this
teapot, permit me to say that you could not
have chosen a more appropriate present for our
domestic hearth. What the tripod was to the
ancient priestess, the tea-pot (with considers
ble improvement) is to the English housewife.
If it does not inspire her with prophecy,it does
much better; it fills her with gentleness and
good-humor, and makes her cheerful in bestow
ing cops of cheerfulness upon others. Gentle
men, it is said by Arabian writers that Solo.
mon's genii were confined it; kettles; then al-
low me to say they must have been ten-kettles;
for from them, ministered by women, men drink
quietude, refreshing calmness, and domestic
wisdom.]
We could add plenty of other samples, but
feel assured the, with only a tolerable memo
ry and presence of mind excercised at some
half-dozen tables, the speaker may adapt the
above sentences to almost any subject, inciting
them like broken glass and blowing them
again into different subjects.—London Punch.
The Means of Grace.
God has placed us in this world with the
mysterious gifts of LIFE, which in a wonderful
manner, and to a certain degree, He has en-
trusted to our keeping. For this purpose that
is for sustaining life, He has given us certain
:41EANS which we must make use of; among the
chiefest of which are—pure air, good ventila
tion, regular exercise, warm clothing, and
wholesome food. These all serve, in their scv
oral ways, to keep us in health. They do not
constitute health, tor necessarily ensure it,
but health cannot be enjoyed without them.—
They may therefore rightly he called "MEANS
OF nent.Tn."
In addition to this bodily life, God has given
us a still more wonderful and mysterious life,
namely: THE LIFE OF TIIE SOUL This life, al
so, in a certain sense, and to an awful degree,
lie has entrusted to our care, to nourish and to
keep. Neither has he, in this instance, left us
unprovidcd with means for the performance of
this great charge. These means are rightly
"MEANS OF GRACE," that is, means whereby we
attain grace, or spiritual strength. Among the
ehiefest of these are—prayer, public, family,
and private—reading God's word, hearing the
word, and receiving Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper. And as we cannot neglect the means
of health without injury to the body, so we
cannot neglect the means of grace without in
jury to the soul. We know by daily experience,
that we may eat wholesome food, but if we
walk about unclothed, the food will do us no
good—our body will not be kept in health; so
it is evident that it will be to little pus-pose
that we chithe onrsel yes warmly, if we refuse
to cat. No means of health can be neglected
without bringing its consequent punishment
on the body. And we may be sure, that to
every means vouchsafed, God has attached a
peculiar blessing.
Just so it is with the "means of grace."—
Each has its peculiar work of strengthening,
or refreshing, guiding, or helping. his wrong,
therefore, to suppose that our souls' health can
prosper, where one of these is knowingly omit
ted, and it is presumptuous in us to choose
which is most conducive to our souls' prosperi
ty. Each and all are given to us by God; each
and all, therefore, are important and useful.—
And we cannot wonder that the soul of that
man does not prosper, who (though ho reads
his Bible ever so diligently) refuses to wor
ship in God's house with his brethren. Neith ;
er are we surprized at all the coldness of that
man's religion who, though he prays and reads,
absents himself from the table of the Lord; not•
at the unstable nature of that man's faith, who
attends (it may be) the public means, but for.
gets to worship in private or with his family.
Reader I whoever you may be, let me ear
nestly desire you to think over this seriously
as it regards yourself. Think what would be
come of the body if you were to neglect to feed
it, or clothe it, or to give it fresh air and exer
cise. Without each of these, would it not gra
dually sickest, become unhealthy, pine away,
and die? Think, then, also, what will become
of your soul if feu neglect to pray, to read
God's Word, to hear it preached, or receive
food for it at the Lord's table. Is it not na
tural to suppose that it will also die ?
But ah I what is meant by the death'of
soul—the "second death," the "worm that dieth
not," the "unquenchable fire?" ask of him who,
after his body had been buried with funeral
pomp, entreated that a messenger might be
sent to his brethren, "lest they also should
come into that place of torment." And what
is that life, which, begun and nourished hem,
shall expand into satisfaction and happiness,
and bliss of a never ending existence? They
alone will be able to tell, who, "when Christ
who is their life shall appear, will appear with
Him in glory."
A Humbug of Society.
Poets may write it up, moralists may preach
it, and editors may mato about the elevating
influence of education and accomplishment up
on females; but practically it isn't worth a
straw. Mary may he n good scholar—paint,
draw, dance, sing and play, but so long as hor
father and mother peddle pop-beer and ginger.
bread, Mary cannot be more than third-rate, in
the estimation of society at large, or rather we
may so)* among the best people—people who
handle moral questions as you would a decay
ed cat, with a pair of tongs. Again it is said
to be an excelleqt thing to ear% one's brbad, to
be independent in Co far As the daily wants of
a healthy body are ooneeined. But just you
let a young lady go to work, to retrieve a lost
fortune, in a Tailor's swop, Millinery establish.
ment, or Printing office, and see how many no•
son are turned up by her late associates, and
by many, too, who daily hang on to the skirts
of a rich uncle, too proud to work.
And again, you see how sudden the change
from the respectable work-woman to the snob,
when some break of fortune brings to a serving
girl a fashionable home. How forgetful I
Well, well—it in human nature we suppose
to be proud, and however ridiculous it appears
it's no use arguing or sneering against it. But
it does make one laugh occasionally to see
people straighten up so suddenly and ao smart.
At Home in the Evening.
One of the grossest neglects of youth, pro
clueing incalculable mischief and ruin, is the
spending of his evenings. Darkness is temp
tation to misconduct; suffering the youth to be
out, when the light of day does not restrain
them from misconduct, is training them to it.
We have already an abundant harvest of this
seeding. Riots, mobs, crimes, giving fearful
foreboding, are the results of youth becoming
fit agents of outrage by running, uncared for,
in the evenings. What we see in these res
pects is deplorable•enongh—but what is this
compared with what we do not see—multitudes
making themselves miserable and noxious to
the world, end what is that to come to! Pa
rents should look at the trail, that pleasures
end recreations are often dourly purchased—
the price of their own impaired comfort, and
the blighted prospect of their offspring, It
must be obvious that in this matter there can
be no interior of all evening recreation and
employment, yet their is nn evil not only de
strnetive to youth, but planting thorns in many
paths, and covering many lives with desolation.
The information demanded must proceed from
judgment and conscience—must be enlighten
ed. Heads of families meat learn that the
place on earth best adapted to be a blessing,
is home; and by example and wholesome re
straint they must tnach this truth to all under
them.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
Monday, J.. 30.
The Speaker laid before the Senate a com
munication from the Canal Commissioners in
reply to the resolution of the Senate calling flir
information in relation to alledoed frauds in
the Collector's office et Philulelph;a. The Com
munication states that the investigation is. in
progress, hut they are not prepared to report
in full. The losses thus far discovered are on•
ly to the amount of a few hundred dolars.
A few petitions on subjects heretofore men
tioned were presented; and a few bills reported
front standing. Committee.
The nomination of Rev. Dr. DeWitt as State
Librarian, was reported from the select Con.
mince on the subject, and immediately taken
up in Executive session. and confirmed unani
monsly—yeas 24, nays 0.
The same Committee niso reported nomina-
tions of Trustees of the Asylum for the Insane
poor.
The nomination of Dr. Geo. Dock and Dr.
Mercer Drown to supply vacancies in the
Board. were confirmed upanimously—yeas 28,
nova, O.
The nnminntion of Pr. Betton, A. J. Jones,
Esq., and Hon. A. G. Mester were considered,
but some objections to the confirmation of Mr.
Jones and Mr. Hiester being made, the ques
tion was postponed for the present, for the
purpose of enabling some Senators to elicit in
formation.
Mr. rlendrielcs, Banks, reported the Supple•
meat to the Act regnlating Banks.
Mr. Darlington called en the bill to incor
porate the Columbia and Maryland Line Rail-
road Company. Passed final reading.
The bill to regulate the compensation of
Connty Trenstirers for certain services to the
Commonwealth was taken up, passed Commit
tee and was then laid over.
The bill to divorce Thomas French and his
with was again referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee, with instil...films to report it back by
Monday next. Abjonrned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Meaiek.
. .
The Speaker laid before the House a state
ment from the State Treasurer and Anditrr
General relative to the expenses on the public
works. which was rend, and 5000 in English
and 2000 in German ordered to be printed.
Mr. Wright, presented resolutions from the
Borough of Frani:ford in favor of the consoli
dation of the City andcounty Districts of
Philadelphia; rend and laid on the table.
_
Mr. Eldred moved a resolution to raise a ape.
cial Committee to report on the propriety and
necessity, and as to the time of presenting be
fore the House, a law relating to the subject.
Messrs. Carlisle, Fletcher and Moore, pre.
mites] remonstrances against the consolidation
of the City and County Districts.
The House then took on the bill to consoli
date the County and City Districts of Philadel
phia on second reading.
Mr. Moore stated at length bin objections to
tho bill. Ile was opposed to it on the general
ground that no permanent or substantial good
would be effected by the passage of the law.—
All the benefits claimed for it by its friends
could he reached as well if the law relating to
the municipal corporations now in existence
were enforced as they could be by this
He considered this a mania similar to the wa
ter
lot city speculations,and morns
operations of a former day. Ho thought it
wan designed as a work of speculation alto.
gather, and urged that the Legislature should
protect the masses from the avaricious grasp of
speculation. They had suffered long enough.
The passage of this bill would further fix on
them the coils and woes of abject poverty.—
High taxes, highs rents, and general corruption
would heroine the order of the slay. Ite moved
. the indefinite postponement of the bill. Not
agreed to.. _
Mr. Carlisle said he represented a portion of
the County which was agricultural in its char
acter, and that he was elected without any
pledges. He considered the question nt issue
ns no humbug. It was one in which the whole
population of the City and County of Philadel.
phin were interested. A change in the mimici.
pal arrangements of the county were demand.
The present mode of collecting. taxes was a
great and growing evil, which this bill was cal
culated to remedy. The fire department also
required a change, which would be effected by
this bill. The murders. riots and devastation
which now pervaded the operations of that de
partment would be put en end to, and the pub.
lie good demanded it. All parties of the City and
County demanded it. Great speculations were'
now going on by those who called theraielies
reformers, which ought to be now and at once
stopped by the passage of this bill.
Mr. Hurtt said this was a subject of great
importance, and purely of local character, *s
pared by great and goad men. The people of
his district were in favor of it, and ho felt him;
self in duty boned to snstaie it.
The Brat section of the bil9k was then agreed
toceas /3, nays 4.
The second , e^tion "te'n; under corsidem-
NO, 5.
tion, Mr. Hart said that there were some alter•
ntions which in justice ought to be made, and
which he had promised to attempt to hare
done, but owing to the tremendouspressure
from the outside he had concluded to forego it,
that the bill might pass speedily and, pat n
stop to immense speculations nod ?mode which
were now going on in the City and County:
The section was then agreed to.
The remaining sections of the bill being un
der consideration, Mr. Ziegler offered a pro
viso that nothing in the bill should be so as td
prevent the city from subscribing stock to Chi
North Western Rail Road Company.
Mr. Patterson opposed the amendthent. and
all others which should interfere with the agree
ment made between the members of the city
and county; but would agree that the matter
should be left to the majority.
Mr. Stewart advocated the amendment offer
ed by Mr. Ziegler. He hoped the proviso of
fered would be adopted by the House. It was
important to the interests of the Western por;
tion of the State.
Mr. M'Combs thought that as the interests
of the State were intimately concerned in this
bill, it becomes her representatives to act can•
tionsly and with prudence in passing any law
Which interfered therewith.
Mr. McConnell rose and said that he hoped
the amendment of the gentleman from Butler
would prevail. The constituency whirls he re
presented were deeply interested in the com
pletion of the North Western railroad. Indi:
ana county, in a spirit of liberality, had made
subscription of fifty thousand dollars to the
road. They had made this subscription, rely
ing on the good faith of Philadelphia city to
make the subscription authorized by the last
session of the Legislature. This amendment
is nothing more than on extension of that au
thority to the city. The section, without this
amendment, would prohibit subscription to any
railroad, and thus virtually, by an act of the
Legislature, prevent the city of Philadelphia
from carrying out in good faith what she is
morally bound to do.
Mr. Strong was in favor of the amendment
offered by Mr. Zeigler, although not opposed to
the suggestion of Mr. Patterson, except that
adopting his suggestion would delay action by
the city councils, which was speedily needed
for the completion of the North Western rail
road.
Mr. Wright regretted that the amendment
had been offered. He was opposed to it. He
thought it would have the tendency to prevent
the passage of the bill.
Mr. Carlisle opposed the amendment. He
did not think proper that exactions Buell as it
contemplated should be countenanced.
Mr. Zeigler followed in defence of the amend;
meat offered by him. His object was to pro
tect as well as he could the interests of the
North Western railroad company, and that if
it was not now protected in this bill, future ac
tion would be so uncertain and problematical
as to amount, perhaps to an abandonment of
the work.
The debate was further cmitinued by Mr,
Hart in favor, and Mr. Hillier in uppositton.
The question was then taken on the amend=
meat, and it was disag,,, , d to.
TEAS.—Messrs, Abraham, Barton, Bush, By;
eric. Chnmberlin, Collins, Conitnins, Dangher
il ty,Ellis, Fletcher, Foster Gray, Gwin, Hamil
ton, Hart, Herr, Heistand, Hills, Hippie, Horn,
Hummel, Hunsecker. Hurtt, Jackman, Linn,
Magee. Maguire, McCombs, McConnel, Miller,
Muse, Putney, Rawlins, Scott, Sidle, Simonton;
, Stewart, Stoekdale, Strong, Wicklein and Zetg
'
NnYs.—Messrs. Adams, Atherton, Baldwin,
Ball, Beans, Beck, Beyer, Bigham, Boyd, Cald
well, Calvin, Carlisle, Cook, Crane, Davis, Dee.
gan, DeFrance,gunning, Edinger, Pry, Callen
tine, Hillier. Hunter, Knight, - Laury, Lowry,
Eanderfield, M'Kee, Montgomery, Moore, Mo.
ser, Palmer, Parke, Parade°, Patterson, Rob
erts, Salldde, Shenk, Smith, (Crawford) Smith,
(Berks) Struthers, Wheeler, Wright, Chase,
speaker.-45.
So the question was determined in the neg
tire.
The Section was then agreed to; yeas 58,
nays 24.
The yeas and nays were required by Mr.--
and Mr. -, and are as follows, Nix:
YtAS.—Messro. Adams, Atherton, Baldwin,
Ball, Beans, Beck, Beyer, Bighttm, Boyd, Br
arty, Caldwell, Calvin, Carlisle, Collins, Davis,
Deegan,DeFrance, Donning, Eckert, Edinger;
Eldred, Foster, Fry, Gallentine, Gilmore, Hil
lier, Hipple, Hunseeker, Hunter Hurtt, Jack
man, Kilgore. Knight, Leery, (Lehigh.) Low
rey, (Tioga,) Mandersfield, M'Kee, Miller;
Montgomery. Moser, Palmer, Parke, Permlee,
Passmore, Patterson, Porter, Poulson, Roberts,
Sallade, Scott. Shenk, Sidle, Smith, (Becks)
Smith. (Crawford.) Stoekdale, Struthers, Whee
ler, Wright and Chase, Speaker.-3S.
NAYS.—Abraham, Barton, Bush, Chamber
lin, Crane, Cummins, Cray, Gwin, Thestand,
Hills, Horn, Hummel, Magee, Maguire. Moore,
Muse. Putney, Rawlins, Simonton, Wicklein
and Jeigler.-24.
So the question was determined in the affir
mative.
further discussion on the %i 11; tlio
House adjourned•
AFTERNOON SFIRSION.
The House again resumed the consideration
of the consolidation bill. The remaining see ,
Lions were rend, debated, and the bill passed fi
nally—Yens 77, nays 3.
SCYATE.
Tuesday, Jan. 31
The Senate, after some little unimportant
business, proceeded to the consideration or the
amendthents made by the House to the bill
consolidating the several municipal govern
ments of the County of Philadelphia into the
City
Ci The amendments were severally discussed
and all concurred in..
The bill therefore, goes to the Governor.
Mr. Goodwin read in place a bill to incorpo.
rate the Board of Directors of the Fite Depart
ment of Philadelphia.
Mr. Foulkrod read in place a bill to anther.
ise the Commissioners of the diStriet of Spring
Garden, to subscribe to the stock of the ilecitp
field Railroad Company:,
Several local bills were Considered and pass
ed.
The Senate then adjourned.
ROUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES.
(2uite a number of bills of a purely local
character were introduced.
Mr. Wright read in Once a bill to incorpor•
ate the North De Perim Railroad Company.
Mr. Menderfield read in place a bill to juror..
pirate the Board of Ditectors of the Philadel,
phia Fire Department.
Tho fullowing bills, with a number of others,
were taken up and passed finallyi--
The hill to incorporate the ICeesingtoe Fire
Marine Ininrace Compiny.
To incorpcirate the Excelsior Hook and Litd•
der Company. of Philadelphia.
To Incorporite ihd Frauktbrd end Darby
Creek Meadows Compels,:
. To ineorpow. the Coapaardrealth Inettraace
f;orupany.
To incorporate the Dime Savltgo Bor.k of
Philadelphia.
To extend rise charter of the North Ameri ,
can Coal Company.
The lionsq then arljeranc: