The Potter journal. (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, April 01, 1863, Image 1
MM== iroz4lllp xv2,--NuApEi ls, THE 4 , ' POTTER JOURNAL PUBIASEMD BY ' M. W. Mehilorney,,Proprieter $1.50 Pa YEATR, INPARIABLY IN ADVANCE. • * * *Devoted to the caueenf Republicanism, the interests of• Agriculture, the advancement of Education, said the best good of Potter seamy. Owning ,no _guide except; that• of Principle, it will endes.ver to aid in the work •f •ore fully Freedomizing our Country. ' ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the. following rates, except where special bargains are niade. 1 Square 00 lines] I insertion, -- -; .i6O - $1 50 tacit subsequent insertionless than 131 , 251 1 - Squire three months, • .1" 2'50 1 . six " • .1 400 1 " nine. " 5 50 1 " one year, . . 600 1 Solemn six months, 20 00 I it u u • • I • 10 00 di u u . ! 700 " ~ • per year. - - ----- t 40 00 i IC II IC 20 00 Administrator's or Executor's. Notice, 200 Business Cards, 8 lines or less, per year 5 00 Special and Editorial Notices, pe. find, 10 .:*„,: i *All transient advertisements (must be pid in advance, and no notice will be taken vi s f o!Avertisements from a distance, unless they tre accompanied by the money or satisfactory rofe.rence. , . , , I * * *Blanks, and Job Work of alt lands, a tended to promptly and faithfully. BUSINESS CARDS. EITLALIA LODGE, No. 342, A. M. STATED, Meetings on the ;rad and -tthWednes ' days of each month. Also Masonib gather ings on every Wednesday Evening. for work and prtietice, at their Hall in Coudersport. • I • . TIXOTIIT IVES ,I W 1 W. Ali.. , SAMUEL HAVEN, Sec'y. Jon& S. MANN,. I ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAIV, Coudersiiort, ets., will attend the several i Courts in Potter and WKean Coun les. All business entrusted in his care *i I receive prompt attention.. Office corn'er ,of West and. Third streets. 1 ARTIIUIt G. OLMSTED, ATTORNEY k COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business entrusted to his . . care, with promptnes fidt:ity. Office on Seth-west corner of Main ,And Fourth streets. . ISAAC BENSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, CoUdersport,i Pa., will attend to all business entrusted to him, with care and promptness. Office on Second st., near the Allegheny Bridge. • P. VV . . KNOX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport; Pa., will regularly attend the Courts in Potte.r and the adjoining Counties: . . 0: T. ELLISON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, CouderSpc;rt, Pa., respectfully informs the citizens of the yil , lageand vicinity that he will promply re . epond to 'calls for professional sq,vices. Office on gain st., in building formerly oc: copied by C. W. Ellis, Esq. C. S. S; E. A. JONES,; DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES,!PAINTS Oils, Fancy Articles, Stationery, Dry Good: • Groceries, Stc., Main st., Coudersport, Pa. D. E OLMSTED,. DEALER IN DIY GOODS, READY-MA/A " Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, ,k.c., Main st., Coudersport, Pa.- COLLINS SMITH, DEALER in'Dry Goods,Grciceries, Provisions Hardware, Queensware, Cutlery and al Goods usually found in_ a country Store. Coudersport, Nov. 27, 1861. COUDERSPORT HOTEL, 11. F. GLASSAIIRE, Proprietor, Corner o Main and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot ter Co. Ps. - ' . '!!'' • . : - , ~ • , Co. , Stable is also kept in connec iioa with this Hotel.. MARK' GILLON, TAIIOII.--nearly opposite the Couri souse— Will make all clothes intrusted'tti him in the •latest and, best styles —Prleeth to suit thitAinies.—Gire him a call.. 13.41 , ANDREW SANBERG 8 BRA'S. TANNERS AND CURRIERS.—Hides tanned on the , shares, in the best mender. Tan nery on the east side, of Allegany river. Cobdersport,,potter county, Pa.--4y17,'61 I. J. 04HSTSD.. . . . . . . 8. 'D. ESLLY OLMSTED & KELLY,' SEALER LI STOVES, TIN k SHEET. IRON WARE, Main st., nearly opposite the Court Rouse', Coudersport, Pa. Tin and Sheet Iron Ware made to order, in good style, on ort notice, , Ulysses; Academy till retains as Principal, Mr.E.R.CAMPBEIL, Preceptress; 6trs. Nicrrts JONES GRIDLEY ; As. eistant, Miss A. E CAMPBELL. The expenses per Term me : Tuition, from $5 to $6.; Board, from $1.56 to $1.76; per week; Roonis for self boarding from $2 toS4-.!Each term commences upon Wednesday and continues Fourteen weeks.) fall term:Ang.27th,lB62;Winter term, Dec.:loth, 1 1862 ; and spring term, March 26th, IU3. r- f - Q. R. BASSETT, Piesident.; W. W. GIUDLS'Y . Sect'y' July 9 186 9 ills, , J. PM DULNZATTAN. HOTEL.. NE W YORK. THIS Popular Hotel is situated near the corner of ',Murray Street and. Broad way ,opposite the Park within One' block of the - Hudson' River Rail Road and near•ibe Erie Rail Hoad Depot: It is one of the most , pleatant and convenient locations in the city. Board lis,-11Oonts $1.50 per days N: HUGGINS, Proprietor. 1.5363. ........ 106,...N0iv•is the time to inlispr)htt I tor.ycti: Piftir —THE JOVR.N . 4,L. • _ . . .. . .. .... . . . ... .._. .... , . „ ... .. _ _ . • . , : . --• • . ... ~;•• ~ • t .4: . . • -r ' ! ..• ; . ~... : . '. ~, • - - :,- , • -, - - - - ,,:,.. : . . ..1, ~' ..;.:N. :` -, ''. •.• .; ;.. c.. ii t. ~ - —:".' • ._ ''.: • ....:(- ' 4.• ' . . , - ' ~' ', '•.--' 1 ' . - -'- 1 .'''- " " - ' .-- ' . , '.: .2,'; .. '' -. .. . 0 _ - 2) -' i. ; ( it ? .M., 'lP' "?..':-. 1) . 4.. .• :.-.. . ilin‘ , 7A 4 . : 1 : •,. 2 , '7; :: ' . :, , • ' :, '" - , . ''' ; - '"" i ..1 ' 5 4: 4.: " . • . . , . „ '•. . , 0 t o r : ... J .:i. , : ,\,,, (1 ,.._. n, ~ , . . - .. \ .0140 . . • . ; " , . . . , . • . . , 1 - ...,r ....T gi 7 ' •,.. 1. , :,;',l „: :: . . - _ . . . . • RE •• CHOOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM YE WILL : j ,§ER593.1".: Yes, tyrants, you hail's, and fee'r 'while you hate The self-ruling, chain-breaking, throne-shak ing State!, ; Thenight-iiitkis - dread'mornink—youfiriatinct is true, The day-star of Freedom brings midnight for - Why plead with the deaf for the cause of man kind? The owl loots ; at noon that the eagle is blind I We ask , nbi youtCreaafine—'-'twire. wasting our time. Our life ffi a menace, our welfare a crime I We have battles 16 'tight, We have foes to sub due,— Time waits not for us, and we wait not for you! ,The mower:lntim 'On, therighAhe adder may writhe ' And the copperhead coil round the blade of his. scythe I "No sidesla yonr statesmen may urge, Of sehonl-house and wages with slave-pen and • s t eourge,l .7 , ,• .• • - No Weis in this qiin'irel 1 proclaim it as well To the angels that fight with the legions of hell! . „ They kneel in Grttriteinple the North and the South, With blood on each:weapon, and prayers in each mouth, Whoie cry 'shall be inswereder Ye Efeavens, ' attend The herds of the lash as their 'voices ascend! '.!O Lard, we are shaped in the image of nee,— Smite down the base millions that claim to be • free. And lend thy strong arm to tl e soft-handed race Who eat not their bread In the sweat. of their face ?" So pleads the, proud planter: What echoes are these? The bay of his bldodhound is borne on the breeze, " And, lost.in the shriek of his victim's despair, His voice dies 'unheard.-:—Hear the Puritan's Prayer' " 0 Lord. that didst smother mankind in thy flood, •• The sun is as sackcloth, the moon is'as blood, The stars fall to earth as untimely are cast The figs from the fig-tree that shakes in the blast! Ali nations, all tribes: in-whose nostrils is breath, Stand gazing at sin as she travails with death I Lord, strangle the monster that struggles to birth, , - Or mock us no more with Thy 'Kingdom on • • Earth!' • • " If Aolinott and Moab must-reign in the land Thou gavost Thine Israel, fresh from - Thy hand, Call Baal and Ashtaroth out of their graves To be the new godifoilhe gipire of-slaves Whose God will you serve, 0 ye rulers of men Will ye build you new shrines in the slave breeder's den? Or bow with the children of light, as they cal On the. Judge of the Earth and the Father. o •All ? Chbose wisely, chOOse quickly , for time moves apace, Lord, lead them in love, ere they hasten in fear, From the fasf-rising flood that shall girdle the sphere! ' Each day is an age in the life of our race , ' -7-Aticentiq 2ontlil9. A few Words for Pharaoh. Ever since we were old enough to - go. to church, wa have heard old Kink ,Pha roah spoken of in terms of disrespect. 'Preachers all seem to have a " pick at him," more especially at his heart,which, if yeti would: believe them; was as hard as granite ! They alwiys tell one side of the story ; let us give, the other. Pharaoh' was king•drEgypt, lb Africa, a country once celebrated for its science, its corn crops, and its masons. When the Pharaoh, about whose , heart we hear so much, was onthe throue, , the Egypt ians owned about two millions of slaves— descendants of a certain white man named '4lbraham. Thesis, slaves vtrct multiply ing very rapidly; were, in the main, con tented ; and were "better off," by far,then the most of us. Pharaoh and the Egyp• tians were muchuattaebedto them," "pro vided 'for them," made all their laws, and they bad nothing in the world to do . but work, .eaL aid.' be finesters had all the trouble. But they were multiplying too fast, (so well off were they,) and Pharaoh was in duced to order, that,;iifter a certain day, all the male slave children born should be drowned or strangled like kittens. This looks bad, and the_ preachers' have 'made the most of tt ; us 'consider his Motive.' It was to thake a slaie insurree- tion impracticable. Now we all know what a horrible thing a slave insurrection is. Stump orators , -sometimes tell us. .Of St.ttemi ago. — I:Taira - the - night elat•es might be incited by some miserable . fana tic like John- Brown to rise, and then what ; would they, do-but outibroatp, burn houses, ravish theit 4g44: l o4ktediesst#4l run pitchforks through the curly-headed' children of their good masters? Who, will say,thal in vim, °fall these poseil?led horror Cit 'Weir - not - beet just to head the little Hebrew slave boys of. one or two 'generations to beayenj,whexe-iheymould tit better off r etiotea to tfie ?liqoipies of Itto @ctoootley,.4llo -ti)o biaseminquon Eliotlittre q3fetios. - COUDERSPORT, _POTTER COUNTY, : PA., WIEDDIESDAIr, APRIL 1, .186 R. It is true, too, that whipping and beat-, ing, even to death, were rather coninaon, and that women, even, were not spared,' but,to'offset this, they had,plenty of leeks; onions, and other Savory" things• to eat and all they_could do. They had no con., cern of mind, no schools to attend,no laws to make, no ores to furrow their faces nothing to do but work, eat and be,jolly. We are certain that if a correspondent of the London Times had taken a boat•ride on the Nile in those days, be would have failed, for language to describe the happi condition of the chivalrbus Egyptian masters and their contented slav,es. But, alas ! they were waked from this hifsitul dream of happiness by a pertinetat agitator named Moses, a well educated wan, but, like too many now, be, made a bugbear of himself by. his altruism. • He; was, a' kind of a "Yankee" interloper. When he -saw an Egyptian beating a, brothel man, cruelly, instead of helping to, subdue the wretch, as he should have , done, be smote the oppreagor so violently ; that he died from the blow. For this' cause it was obliged to run away.. But he 'could not stay away. He heard: something out of a burning bush one day, which inflamed his abolition notions.' (fanatics are always having visibns;) so he; went back to Egypt. When he got back,' everything was going well. The eciuntry was flourielling o the people were united,: taxes were low, and trade prosperous. If Pharaoh had bung him at once, a great; deal of trouble would have been avoided. But Moses insisted on the emancipation, of all the Hebrews. _ Think of that ! Slavery was an old institution, the slaves were happy, and worth about $200,000,- 000 1 How could Moses ask such a sac rifice of property ? He claimed that God; had sent him—that the Israelites were oppressed and all that; but Moses was al minister : what right had he to meddle: with Slavery in Egypt, a purely "pblitical question ?" The other preachers in . Egypt were faithful to Ammon, and let Slavery alone. How much better iti would have been if Moies hid done as our! American Trace Society, and as several of our populir churches haie done—preadh- 1 ed the Bible and kept Out of the dirty_wm, ter of;potitieS " But' nothing would sat'.l isfy him but emancipation. • Of course the pride or the Egyptians was touched. They were a chivalric race,l with hot southern blood. 1 They knew, their rights. To show their contempt fori Moses, they increased the tasks of their' slaves. and whipped' them harder. The Hebrews themselves entreated him 'to go' away and let them alone. .But he Went! on, and kept•up the excitement until the who!e land was convulsed. Miilions of dollars' worth of grain and stock 'were sacrificed, and there' was mourning for the "first born" in every house. At length Pharaoh was over persuaded; issued an edict of emancipation, and away the slaves went', en masse. after they were gone, his reason :returned There was a"reaction" in the public mind The people failedito endorse the procla mation. Pharaoh's heart yearned for hi poor slaves, who had no experience an could not take care.of themselves; ant so lie started after them with a great army and had it not_ been for a sudden fresh of water, hi would in all probal.ility have accomplished: his humane designs. But the waterin th'eßed Sea get too deep! —Religious Telescope. Served ~IIm Might. Is: a car on a railroad which runs into Net York, a few mornings ago a scene occurred• which will not soon be forgotten by the witness of it. A person dressgd as a gentleman,speaking to a friend across the-car said :• ,( Woll, I hope the war may last six months longer.. If it does I shall have made enough to retire from business. In the laSt six months I've made a hun dred thousand dollars—six months more and I shall have enough." A lady sat behind the speaker, and necessarily:heard his remark ; but, when he was done she tapped him on the shoulder, and said to him; "Sir, I had two sons—one of them was killed at ,tlie battle of it'rederioltsburg; the 'other - teas killed at the battle of Murfreesboro.? ,; She was silent a moment, and so were all around who heard her. Then over. come by her indignationl she suddenly dapped the speculator, first on one check, then on the other, and before the fellow could'saya word the passengers sitting near, who had witnessed the wholehlfair, , seized him and pushed him hurriedlyout of the oar, as one not fit to ride with .de: cent people.—Evening Post. One day at a farm 'house; a wag saw an old gobbler trying to eat the' stritigm' of some night caps that laynti the ground to bleach. "That," said' he, - "is what' call introducing cotton into Turltey." 41 ' *me men are so extravagant that !if they - owned' the solar - fivitein.they vionla out the moon up into shillings and eiptaa: der the,proceetis in a-week. `Wanted--=A Governess. A kw, narrow roomy -the single-win dow curtained-with coarse white muslin —the floor covered by a scanty carpet somehow the broad i'lifirch • sunshine brought out everyelenient , of . poverty in the abode' of the poor widow and her daughter. • "Put on a little more coal, Amy I" said . Mrs. Ardenham, ihtidderingly, .drawing her shawl closer around her frail figure; as she'dropped , her needlework, "it istit ferry cold Wit morning l" . • - 'Amy Obeyed silently—yet she . could not help ndticing how nearly the little stock of fuel was exhausted, and remem bering how inadequate their slender purse was -to the replenishment thereof, and her heart sank a little. , Only a little theughifor our Amy was -not one of the despendiog kind. she was a sunshiny little creature, fall of bright infectious hopefulness—but some how, in that squalid room, abs seemed like a fresh rose blooming in a sandy desert I She was very pretty, with brown, tender ) eyes, just the shape of the heavy 'braids of hair above—k small coral mouth and cheeks delicately shaped like the deep iocarnadine of; the pomegranate flower, and as, she totok up the newspaper you couldn't help noticing wlittLa snowy, taper little hand she had, with pink tipped fingers, and dimples at every joint. "Mamma I" said she suddenly, "here's an advertisement for a' governess !" "Well, what of it ?" . "Why, mamma," hesitated Amy, "you know we are very poor, and—and I should like very much to earn a little wouey Ardenbam had bowed her face upon her hands, and in au instant Amy was kneeling beside 'ber. "Matutua, darling, don't cry !" "I did not mean tole so foolish, love, but it all came back to me at that moment —the wealth and station we have lost— the poverty to which we are reduced.— Oh, Amy, it is too hard I" "But think mamma, ' ?" said Amy cheer fully, bow delightful it would be to make wy school accomplishMents help Rs along in the world. ilday !I ; try for this situa tion? I should like iC very-touch !" "If you think it beat, my child," ac quiesced Mrs . , Ardenham, resignedly. "Then I must lose do said Amy, as she be g an to arrange her hair, adjust the' detail s of her simple toilet. "How do I look, mamma?" she laugh ed, when at length she was ready, to de part. And Mrs. .A:rdenham's admiring, affectionate glance brought the . i roses to her cheek, as she trippod away.',• , For she did, look exquisitely pretty— the coarse shawl took graceful: curves about her slender form, and the cheap straw hat, with its, plain black' ribbon, might have been a $5O French 'chapeau without being a whit moil becoming. "Darling Amy !" pondered the mother, as her light footstep died away on the air;—"she is a perfeot little sunbeam in the darkness of my daily existenee : Her, heart has never ttehed i with the 'bitter— nay She , had , drawn it to the dregs !" There was' a vein of poetic appreciation somewhere in the jumble of fun, sent'. meat, good humor, and sarcasm that con stituted Frank Ashley, as he lay lazily on the sofa; and was p playing with two or three golden-haired Children who were tottering about the room.' "I'll tell you ,whiit, Liziie !"' said' he to his sister who s,atj embroidering, "you spoil these young imps about as com pletely as any mainma of my acquaint ance I" "As if you'didn'tl Spoil 'em ten times worse,", retorted 'Uri. Jay, laughing.— "When Succeed id, obtaining a govern ess, perhaps they will'be put under some sort of discipline. But really, have al ways wondered that you were never mar ried'!" • . • "Indeed ! Why ?" "You would haye'' bade finch a nice do . - mastic sort of a hualiand—you are po fond of home !, I koowi that manoeuyering Mies-Roland laid a deeperate•seiire to the rocky citadel of Your heart but 'thought you disliked her." ""You were right she was indescribly repellant to me." "Then who—" ' ' • "Then why did I neva; iSarry anybody else? - Well, listen.! !Lizzie, and I'll tell yon. I was oneelin' love—with one of the sweetest girls, I believe, that ever walked this earth.- - It, was whim I was in Washingtoti—she,iioo, was spending the winter there. Al' first I thought she encouraged my suit,l but. all at once she grevr cold and distant--I determined, at . , all buzzards to know my fate, for I felt how wretched life would 6e witbOtit her. But the'very eveningitbitt T.bad resolved to subrat my suit to her---we were.botb int:iced, to a party . at 'Mies Roland's—l learned,that she hadjeft the Miss I Oland :in direct wor4s i of conyte, brit as deßoat;li it was to .ioid my oo;nliououa shooflies: , "Ard did you credit this ?" Of lourse. Miss .Rolund was tine of her Omit intimate friends. . , I left Wish ington the next day—'-and then there entl= ed alliof loVe that it will ever be my fate to know. i .. . As h e ceased speaking a servant came in.:, I 1 i .qilia. Jay, a lady .is below, who says she bris come to apply for the situation of geverness. I Shall 1 show her up ?" Mrs. Jay assented, and the next mo- Ment ;Amy lArdenhans entered the room. "Yint seem .very-•young i " said Mrs. Ja "I lam : eighteen, ma'am," said Amy ,quietly:.:.. Frlnk Ashley, who had been reading the newspaper,- glanced quietly up at the tone cif her)voiee, and rose to hia feet.-- At th same moment Amy's eye met his --ahegrew deadly pale. "A yl" he exclaimed—" Miss Arden hamjico l' 1 Bu Amy had fainted, An 49ml later Frank - Ashley was an no cepte lover, and the young lady who bad prowl: ed to "take charge of him" re our little 'Amy: , * "tell me all about it Frank," said his sister; when at length he had returned from 'pteconioanying Amy to her humble tenemeet 7 l :a spot which should - soon cease ito be "home." "We: have both been the victims of a misrepresentation, Lizzie. - Miss Roland assured Aray that I was engaged to her • : —what could - Amy do but withdraw ?" "Then she loved you all the time ?" "SO Offs says." . nd instead of my finding a govern, /ou obtain a wife !" laughed Mrs. "Oh, I am very, very glad I" ess, Jay ose of lie moss serious evils of life in this anti) , is want of reverence. The mostrecidus, the most delicate-, and even the ost sacred interests are generally t i dealt with in an easy, off-hand style which has a liab4 of falling, not unfrequently, into !downright profanity. The 'vice is restribted to no particular sphere, it per vade. 4 the nation in all its forms of life, whether pablio' or priiate. - With what absetice of all cereulony do our legisla tors E l eize and belabor principles as old as liberty, and constitutional provisions sa cred as the bided- of our Martyred fath ers. IWe are not speaking particularly the present times, when war may be • 1 peeted to give'a tinge of unusual feroc te the licentiousness of parliamentary ')Lle, but the general spirit of the miry. ' 1 z., . Ple same evil meets 118- even in the illy. The girls are premature women, the boys try to distend themselves gentlemen, precisely because there ut little reverence for parental or any • , r l l authority to repress them. It is to matter nothing at all that parents by natural law, despots in' their houses. Taking advantage of the - 4nown pridciple, that love descends strongly than it ascends, that par love their -children more ardently 1 the children love them, the urchins ' 'nil swing to the natibual animus of' are, Own well more enter j than] IBM disrespect for authority, criticise the house law as freely as senatori the 'Con stiltuion, talk flippantly of *the old man' and he old woman,' and - violently con tend for the sacred rights of staying out late. at nights, of steeping late in the morning, and of snubbing all who attempt to make them less tree. They love father and mother, of course they do; but they prove ho* warm and real love may 'be with Out the slightest admixture of rev- eren e. If lwe enter-the sacred precints of the church, even there the, predominant na=- tional characteristic is not wanting. The pulpit is not the unconditional. dispenser of opinion and sentiment to the pews.— The people may respect the character of the individual clergyman, they may admit his learning and eloquence, they may look to his • ministry for edification, but be is far from being, as in other coun tries, an authority whose dicta are to set tle .the disputes of the. hearers. The pre4ing, indeed, is reciprocal between rostrum and seats. Adore the preacher prepiired his sermon, rod while, be was toiling on it, he felt the power of his cob. greOtion, and found himself recasting senitees, toning down his expressions of opini n, and softening his blows to meet the itivisible princes xi his 'study.. In, short be finds himself; even while be com poses; sitting in the presence of his eon• gregratiou, not as an authority, but rath er as a secretary, to write down -what their multiform] judgments, prejudices, and fortunes may dictote, , If he does not alwa, yield ,to such silent andpowerful dicta inn, it is not because., he , does not feele force of the (remand, but Rather; perh ps, because be has : caught the pop ular . piriti of insubordination', and will, i not r yorence this new -.and strange au* sherry. He is irreverent*, irreverence. ' FUrther l ll3nn-,thin i the prevailingiscl: of reverence is not onlj shown toward the TERZSi-.41.50.- ,PER-. ANNUM authorities of . a State, and toward ,\l2 '. church ur in its highest' as `well - is :iii, - its humblest offices, it does do better in'iti= gar& en , the most sacred verities, ofthat religion of-which the church and its AB cers are, only guirdiane, and teachers.--= The same spirit which sports atid triflei with'ibe National Constitution, and''witli the oath-sealed and oath-bound office of the President of the Union ) hat dictated 1 to the pulpit, that capers in the Sunday: school, and require that the 'e man and , old woman' shall s t bmit to t juniors as o id their betters ia - the relations, ip of the family, is equally A home in the inner= most sanctuary of the - holiest things.'.: It carries there • the same disgusting swagge4 . the same shallow pretence of knowledge the same affected, swollen contempt of mystery, the same, 'or a worse jargon of philosophical phrases. The Bible is rais under contribution' for puns, filthy jests are made to turn !on sacred. doctrines t ' profanity enters legislative halls, cursing • is - unrebuked by the police in the streets ) and even a Christian man is expected so far4o submit to the preitalent, the iris nmphant spirit of irreverence, as remelt to look his displaceqcy if another so-called , gentleman should profane jthe name of God in his teeth.; Nay, this 'terrible vice of irreverence goes still higher; i the members of the, church, the breakers of the sacred- bread in sacrament, trample on the divine word) on the very mysteries of their own faitht• And what makes it still Iroise is, that: their debasement gives them no trouble j their torrid mirth 'comes from them as l naturally as if it were pure. We mean/ simply that, even in Christian society ) among those who seem to make an earn: est religious profession, - irreverent alln= alone to sacred things are gammon, and ,jokes,made from distorted Scripture are- . allowed to serve the place of religions . conversation. Stories are told abundant= ly illustrated by profanity, and the Christ= ian. voices repeat the whole tale, target included. The infection is well-nigh uni= vernal.-11r.. Y. methodist. - A Sleepy Couple% A lady claimed; as her husband a geti:• - den*. The case came into court, when _ the lady proved by the evidenee of , * priest and tbe proper number of witness= es, that the marriage ceremony had bees ' read- over to the parties ) and, the defend: ant's tacit assent obtain to the signature ) by the priest, of his name to the mat= riage contract. The validity of the mar: riage was, of, course, declared, and the.. luckless dbfendant wassetiring ia despair ; when the priest, rho had no objection to another professional jpb, pointed out to the reluctant benedict as an easy aims of relief. • "We cam bury her," says his; reverence, "just in the fewe way thatwrd married you, namely, asleep , !" So said,. . so done. •The. buriai t service was lead • over the bride in her first sound slumber; the constructive widotver. duly put on mourning, and proCeeded to 'pay his ad:- dresses in a quarter more agreeable to him. His deceased wife, as in law she was'to be called, proceeded to vindicate her vitality by legal process; but it would.. not do; , the former precedent prevailed the burial-service was held as conclusive of a death as the marriage service had been of a marriage, and the constructive widower married the lady of his °Woe: The last sensation in Paris is a man who has a perfect genius forJuaking and fitting women's dresses. He is Called the ' Pontiff of the Petticoat. He not only makes the ladies' dresses, but he puts the dresses on. the ladies. - Sometimes as many as fifty carriages are in front of his door at the same' time, the feminine min= .ers being upstairs having their dresses; put on, as a dress should be put on. Pot' cuttin g a dress he charges ten dollars j for dressing a lady he charges fifteen dol.: lars for fitting her for adinner ) and min= ty-five dollars for a party. I think the human heart is like an art: ist's studio. You can tell what thearii i 4 • is doing, not so much by his compLeted pictures, for they; re mostly scattered al once, but by the ha/1 . -finished sketches and desig ns which are hanging„en his . wall. A nd so you can tell thecourse.e( a man's life, not so much by his well-de , fined, purposes, as by the half.forrced plans—rthe' faint daydreams which are hung in the chambers of his heart. Sir Walter Scott said seriously big uutobiography,_ "Throush =every )iat't -or my literary career,, I have telt pinched,: and hampered by my own ignorance. . ' ,' Such is true, wisdom. The wisei atumn really becomes, the more he begina te feel as the sage of old did, when he paid, j TLq ; longer I live the more ,ptratta'ded I bo , , come that I know- nothiag.": • Writers inSu n gii}iti..7siggest-)l4te: - heavy duty be pit upon erinoliae, o•prr der to confine, ice to vie -rich:. that'servant gat awilittitble pep*, be spired the dagger of getting hitn - 1 ist,; death, G FA U RI BE FM =3 MEI II NE