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VOLUME XVIII TO 1.111: Tr' 3111Leoiaciat.cl.vo Once'nlore, kin)] Petrov; With pleaeure - here,• To Wit,leome with you:, the incoming year,' And' if you wilt ifonerthebard of my Timm, , ' t 'se these Voices' shall not be !o The mistic old yelar sinks titvair la the earth', 'Mid the g coot ortlie — grtrve-ainither—tgites-birth, The joys and hopes that 'deck the bright past, • Are hurtling by es the tempest's fierce blast So manhood, 03th its Stir forehead of truth-, - The ringlets that kiss the bright templetiV youth,• The time-ail - I.'o/U locke of venerable gray, Have written, the marks of rathless decay; Since our lest Now Year hr..w many dark fears Have hidden in angui sh 'or melted in tears,. How many warm hearts lie pulseless and That goicken'd with 'hope at the sound of life's thrill How many lone heads, in sorrow and paint Have yearn'd to behold the Past, but in vain, The Present and Future come up in their- trio° , To banish all thoughts, save death and the tomb: Realor , ele , is Time! on Whose swift fle_cting_wings, ,re -Ir,- tierce the bright hopes of all earthly thins, l'o thi.e we all how as grass to the storm, And-to thy stall mandates in sadness conform. Yet arrtidst the sad musings of the old year. There are many bright spats of unfading cheer, And now-to-recount-them_our.muse_shallessay, Mayuar - tssk be as pleasant and cheerful as they. Our nation so gloat, and serene in her pride, Still rocks in the tempest which Treason defied, But tho'Rattlesnake flag in sorrow and shame, Now dips its broad bars in the blood of its fame. But perched as an eagle, upon his white rock, We hull our bright flag un , cathed by the shock, Supreme in its glory, unstaineJ by its scars, Its trophies are lit by the blaze of ifs stars! Front the lakes to the gulf our banners we'll plant, tirreirFiiii — ggin's guns speak well for our Grant, While br.ive Butter regales the enemy's rankv, - And the wares of treason vainly beat our Banks. Again. our brave boys waked Early one morn, Erc the hound., htd answered the huntsman's horn, ..To horse" "to horse;' cried the valorous clan, Our Hunter was Early, but he's met Sherry-Lan. Then our Meade cf honor we wear in our pride, And dr tik a long toast to the gilh t Burnside, While yet we've a Hooker who grapples the foe Where the clouds of heaven add strength to the blow And can Iforget what our Sherman has done Neglect his bright laurels so gloriously won, NO, not only he, hut our soldiers and tars, . A)1, all, shall endure through Treason and wars From the field to the ciipital now we proceed, Though Path & Abe was slew he surely has Speed,- And the,Court Supreme asks to join in the race, Which gave sin n Davis, and , virtue a Chase. - But we turn from the seat of power and trust, To the p.ople who 'give the men and the dust, Who spurn the base proffers which Treason would give, And tell us in thunder, "The nation shall live!" Like'n ngels of mercy, sent down from above, Our Christian Commission sends tokens of love, Ty our bra ve-hearted heroes, who languish and die t 'Heath the street placid smiles of a Southerp sky. the Ladies too t4inee they all go for Union, two to a -titan, May t`wy always remain as steadthst and true, As they are now to the old red, white and blue So peasant and peer, from hill anti from valley, A rrayi:d in their might call freemen to rally, • Determined to leave the Rattlesqake dead-- And bruise its vile brother, the baie Copperhead When the conflict is o'er, as soon it must be, Our Country redeemed, rtsplendent and free, Nltsll flaunt its proud flag in the tare of mankind, The 'holiest symbol e'er wrought by"the mind. Then the stars that look down from their home of blue, Shall gild Freedom's goddess with silvery The hydra of Treason shall sink to its grave, And its only foot-prints the brand of the slave. The future is ours— God speed the bright day, ' When the banners of triumph shall trash in each ray, That beams from the fountain of Morey and Right, A ad bathes a dark•n•orld in the sea of Its light! gut fearing your patience, will wearyand tire, ;Tio'n Fhall bOOrt CAIISO to. torture ray lyre—; With sorrow I hid you a lasting adieu, IVbile a tear trickles down tor iriendbhip and you Oh, please and rekernber with kindneaq and joy, The ••Rccone." tried friend, theXmoi b.R BoY ! And may the kind Angels 'er smile upon thee, 'fte works of.thy love, and warm sympathi. 'l' I I }.; CARRIER. itikifoM.l7-3,7;148;,,Z4T'ini A i i .Li:A§l[Ne INCIDEAL-4lie Rev. Dr. Kendall; who•reeently returned from an offi cial visit to California, communicates the fol lowin., incident: . • "A' poor little bby brought to the Sanita ry Fair held at Iklatsville - a white chicken, Which was all ha hakto offer, saying, iimight make some broth_for a poor sick soldier.,— lie had deekeqvis little offering with rib bon of 4rea, wlitte and blue,' but he had no money to pay the entrance fee, and was re jected at the door., "As he passed down the otreet, , a gentleman, seeing his distress, Is toned to his story, gave7hito a ticket and sentilim in. , The simplicity of:the child ; and the beauty ,of the Offering attracted'ait;ctitiMa, -and the chicken was put up andsold for four hundred. dollars in goldlor the:Sanitary Com mission." Neret.argue . ,a s que4iort with a sin,le, min who has-got beyoMi, i irty,, Her ideas by. that .time ore as fwcod.as , ,the Rocket' Gib raltar... You might - es.well.try, to metamor phose a cooking'stove - late a 'eaiary bird„ as to allege Ver'nl4l6oferthitigC '„ObStio#,ey, 'did atlPhloced.4imitity.ii.the_singtilar gum bar-4' "always go, the same Way. Theoaly hop iforiterdialvation is.a obaixecitihwe, 41. X1itZ33.11.-S"'-et. WAI NESBRO' Gt3tSlikp DRUNWWS. r up the Nit groggeries," say-n:1813y ; t tife sole of bad 'huel-preserve . the 117nd the.i,.„driorant from intemperance, e are With 'yeix-; bat the eductiteitelas ses need' fie' law; regard _for their dam-ober aetetr is a• erifficient proteetion." , Strange' delusion Linexplicable ' blindness to the facts of 'history and 'the. occurrence of every day ! Without referring to books, memory, unassisted, supplies us with a eats.-` logue of Well-known names, the bare men tion of 'which refutes the plea- we have quo ted. 4 :I.e t e .r:.t sne of the bri est spirit§ of antiquity, one of • the three greatest generals of the world, whose tutor was Aristotle, who slept withe - p - o - ems of Homer under his-pillow, conquered th e world, and died of &drunken debauch in the 33d year of his age. The fall of the Roman Empire was pre. cipitated by the _drunkenness of its ehrpe rors, as human nature.was eternally dishou ored by the enormities committed by them in.their turY. Of the-ten sovereigns who have reigned in Russia since the accession of Peter the Great, all but four were beastly drunkards. 11 the Empress Elizabeth, it is written, Ot "She was completely brutified• by strong li quors; from day to day she tjas almost in a state'ot bacehic ecstHey ; she could not bear to be dressed; in the mom:ann. her women loosely attached to ,her some robes, which a few cuts of the scissors disengaged in the evening." And the passage gies atie idea of the g,eneral condition of the Russian court -for-more-than iU years_ _ _ The present kin; . , of Prussia, whom 11m buhr instructed and praised, thanking God on his knees for giving Prussia so wise and noble a Prince, is a notorious drunkard, the contempt of his subjects, the scoff of Europe.' The late King of the Sandwich Island, upon whom a corps of missionaries exhaust ed their eloquence and-skill, was a drunken caricature of the kingly office to the last. The City of \Vashington, where the elite of the nation is supposed to congregate, is the most drunken . town in the Union.— Champagne is one of' the great powers of the country, a thing relied upon to corrupt the very men-who are ,s.ent to Washington un der the ithpression thlt they are our wis est and our best. Daniel Webster has been known to re sent himself before the people in a state of intoxication so advanced that he could talk little ether than gibberish. We have seen bins do it. Hannegan, a Senator of the U. States, was an abandoned drunkard, and when sent a broad as plenipotentiary, disgreced the coun try by the most continuous and outrageous drunken debauchery. Some of the most important enactments ever passed by Congress, enactments involv ing the welfare of future empires, have been passed _while the floor of the House was strewed with honoriible and intoxicated mem bers. The tea-room of this city, established• for the convenience, not of the city's vagabonds, but of the city's "fathers" . and head men, was, for many disgraceful years, a scene of drunkenness. t w I ham committed murder Henry Colerige, a man abounding in amia ble qualities, who inherited much ot• his•fath• er's genius, with all his fatlrer's,infirmity of purpose, could never master his propensity to drink He was a scholar, a gentleman, a poet, and a—di•un'kard ! 'Edgar Poe—hut why speak of lefni The story of his miserable end is more famil iar to the people even than the melandholy refrain of the "Raven " Cl.arlcs Lamb, the gentle Charles, the kind the tender , the beloved, could sacrifice so much for his sister, but could not help being carried home and put to bed in ins . en sibledrunkenness. Douglass Jerrold is a devotee of gill.- For many years, it is said he has been pairing his fine powers by habitual excess in drink. Byron, Burns, Steele, Bone, an a lost o other names, eminent or illustrious, might be added to the list of distinguished drunk ards. Burns, we are confident, had not died in the prime of life.a defeated, heart-broken wan, his destiny all, unaccomplished, if he had, not been addicted to couvival drinking. And who knows bow much of Byron's reck less verse the world should curse the gin bottle'? -- In our colleges, is, not the. secret demi. John one of the anxieties of president, pro le,t,sor, and parent ? At our fashionable par ties, is champagne,--or vilest of drinks—moderately eons. Do not our grand banquets generally 'efintoon. casions of disgusting ex( the son's of leading citizens the perate in their• youtY7 is it pc wh?' buy brandy drops by the •pc Talk 1:10, wore of shutting up . only the low ,iroggeries. All grogoeries arc low.,and all o•rog is pernicious, whether sipped by gen. denten, sucked by ladies, or swilled ,by the "diegs of the people. "—.\. 1. 7 . Life Illustra ted. If a well•bred woman is surprised in care less custurne, she does not try to dodge hiio the door to conceal bficicneics, nor does she turn red and stammer.confused excuse's. She . remains calm - in& sell-posses,Sed, and makes up in dignity what' sh.e may want 'in ciecciratiun. ===== . . . Western paper thus ad dresses the iniaerable old bachelors:--,-"If our Maker.theught-it .4vrougfor,.Adami ,on, to live single,wEeo there Was not.a woina.a . o the earth, how crimivadly guilty are r4d bache lors with the world fall of pretty girls." RAN LIN ~ c(O'TY; PPINSVISANIA;FAIDAT'no . ANINt; iiAMT.AAV, 0 Isos '''' RE c l* ERENCE . IN A WISE . • • BY AiratlSTA. MOOR. ' A. • "Well, Katie, s 6 you expeCt to .marry ward, after all. 1 thought you wore only flir ting, with bbn " "That Was what -. I intended, Mary buti somehow, the artful fello4 has cheated Me, into agreeing to haie him." kL.I. thought bow all your grand talk about treedbm'' and never bending your neck lo . ! any man's story wduld end. Tis the-old stw ry. ' "Not so; i'm , not gOing to wear the yo 6. Edward is to obey me. Ho will I know.—' He has hard] , •11 but Mims now, aud..l .te - bas hardly any wi.. _ 111 don't intend that he ever shall have. ' lie -don't-preterni4o=o, ,p.pose ma in any_th rig. I wouldn't be.hired to have him Were 'he to presiine to . treat me as Helen Notman's lor er treats her, and I told her. so. He is ala ways telling her of her faults.' "They have agreed to kindly tell each oth'.2 er of their faults and help each other-to over come them. I think this a most ,excellent way." "Well': I don't. lam free enough to tell Ed. his Ihults,-but-lie would not dare to re turn the compliment. It would. make -me angry in a minute. Ip fact, Mary, I think ama fortunate girl. I have found a man. with plenty of money, a gentle and' yielding dispor ition, very generous, who worships me, and is_ willing that ,I should always have my own way, who is, in short, unable . ' to hinder me front having it." , "A - utrdo you.think that you can have the blessing of (.lod ou your marriage when it is entered upon in a spirit so utterly the re verse of Lehat he requires ?. I suppose you admit that the Bible is authority. Consider what its teachings'are," • "I do—it says 'Submit one to another:— I suppose I shall submit to Ed. a pail of the time; it. should only be fair." "Kate, the Bible says Wives, submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the Church.— Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be • unto their ioivn husbands in everything, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.' How dare you presumptuous•girl, resolve to wimple on god's-arrangement and his laws ? You may be sure thilt trouble is before' you if you go forward to 'the marriage alter with, such a spirit as,now animates you.' As for Edward, he'is infatuated-indeed, if he gives his honor and his happiness into your hands." Kate, angry at 'such plain talk abruptly turned from her•companten and walked rap idly away. The - expected marriage took place. For a s few months Edward walked in a trance of sensuous and imaginitive bliss; then down he came, and never more •did h ascend the hills of jay, Ile was, as Kate sat , quite un able to control or to cope with her. Ale was too gentle, and lie loved her too tenderly.--: She had over him the immense advantage of loving him very little. She could tear his' heart strings every hour. rHe could scarce. ly stir, her's at any time. You perceive,- good reader, that she-"had"- him.— - Children' were born to this pair. Kate managed•theui something as a tigress might manage her _young. Edward was allowed to m- 1-1--, _rave no word in the matter. In ''t few years the poor np.n, crushed and overborne, died Kate was provoked, with him for this piece of independent action. She liked him; she made him very useful. She had riot thought he would go without leave. BUt he did it. Kate lorded it for a few years more till her children became too strong• for her. Then they, albeit they knew not what they were doing, 'avengad their father. They broke their mother's spirit and her heart, and yon bent, gray. minobling old crone in the alms• house is all that remains of the once lively and beautiful .Kate. She had sowed the kyintif she reaped the whirlwind. • " riTik - tha Two boys were apprentices in a carpentet's , shop, One detvntined to make himself a• thorough workman; the other •didn't care.' Ond read and studied, and got books that , Would help him .to understand the principles of his trade. II;e spent his evenings at home reading.' The other liked fun hest. He 'of ten went with other boys td have a.`good time.' Come,' be often 4tid to his shoptuate, 'leave your old books and go with us. What's the use of all this.: reading?' 'lf I waste these golden moments,' was the answer; I shall lose what I never can make up' while the boys: were still apprentices, an Offer of two thousno dbllars appeared in the newspapers for the best plan for a State Rouse, to be built ha one of the Eastern States: Thn studious boy saw the advertise. meat, and deter Mined to try 'tor it. After . ' careful study, he,' da , ew out his plans, and sent them 'td the' ecriumittee. • We suppose he did not really expect to gain the prize; but.itill he' thoug,ht"r•there is, nothing like trying.' : • • In about tlweek afterwards 'a gentleman arrived at the carpenter's shop and-.inquired, if as arehite'et by the mine of Washington' Wilberforce lived there „ 'NO,' said the carpenter,. 'no areliifeb, but` rye 'got an apprentice by thai: 'Let's see said the gm:alai:6in. The young man was summoned and infor medthat his plan, bad , bein aedepted”, and'' 'that,the two thousand dollars were The gentleman then said' that the , boy must put up the' huilding;:and his employer was' so proud; that ho, -willingly gave ..him his time I and jet him go. The studious ytniug ear. pester beeame,one,of the finest aielkiteets of our country., Ele- made a fortune,' un&stands high in the esteem of everybody; whilThis I fellow.apprentiee can hardly, earn fodcf,,foi I him-elf and family by his daily labor. , The Two Apprentices Politicks . ' . 1 i !tavocrileii 11111! NEW' YEAR Bing-out;wild liells,,to the wild sky,• The flying clew!, the ftosty,lightti • The year is dying in-the nighty Ring-nut r wiltl bells. anti ,let, him die,, Ring Out ttre rind in tire new, Ring, happy bells across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Aing.out the false, ring in the true, Ring out the grief that..aaps the mint:, For those that here we see no naoie; Ring in redress to, all mankind. Ring 7 out-a-slawly-Alying-tais And ancient fciims iiipai:tY strife; Ring in the noDler modes of With sweeter manners purer lithe. Ring 'out the want, the' care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the . times;• Ring oat, ring out my mournful rbytiaerry Ring out the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride, in place and blood r The civic slander and,the spite; • Ring in the lore of'truth and right, _ Ring in the common love of food, Ring out old shapes of foul disease, • .Ring out the narrowing lust of 'gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in a thousiind years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger" heart, the kindlier hand; - -.Ring out , the darkness of the land, Ring in the Curlwr That is to be. RATS DESERTING THE SHIP. AN OMINOUS SPEECH Iu the Rebel. Senate recently, Senator Foote made the following remarkable speech. lie confessed that the Confederacy was on the verge of ruin, predicted the defeat of Hood, admitted iat Sav'unnah was &I the verge Of capture, that Charleston' would soon follow and concluded by announcing his in tention to retire in disgust to private life : In the rebel Senate, the currency bill com ing up, Mr. Foots, of Tennessee, said he saw much ground for despondency and 'apprehen sion in every quarter. If this financial bill said he, I§ defeated in the two houses of Con gress, so admirably digested as it is, so im posingly avouched and sustained as it is, I shall utterly despair of our. cause; if this measure shall be defeated, I.,shall regard the war as virtually at an end,' and all the gen erous hopes of our patriotic and much suffer ing countrymen as 'cruelly and .criminally blasted. Sir, we are upon the very edge of ruin.— Our financial allairs are most soriouly disor• dered. Abroad. owing to the most trim; mismanagement of every kind, no respe4 consideration has been yet accorded to u seems likely to be accorded hereafter. home series of legislative acts haye fr sanction here which must :be inevitably to tae rights and State sovereignty am popular freedom, if not speedily modifieu rives • is rapid ty ohnegating4d taut powers, and building up an irresponsi ble military despotism the like of which has never been seen before upon this earth.— Other acts are in progress here, which, should they pass, mast produce popular convulsions which will put' our whole governmental Ays tem in the most serious jeopardy; enormous abuse of power, heretofore committed to the executive department, have occurred, which have everywhere filled the minds of our coun trymen with distrust and alarm. Ten days hence freedom of deliberation tvill have been effectually extinguished in this body, by means which I may not specify. The free dom of the pres 4 will in all probability, come to an end about the same time, by the opera tion of causes which I have heretofore dis cussed ' in' this hall. In the midst of these alarming occurren ces, and while corruption is known to be dif fusing itself along all the channels of official intercourse, what is the condition -of our ar ' mies ? Lee is nobly and successfully defend ing Richmond and Petergbut. The unjust, unwise and deeply criminal displacement of the gallant and efficient Johnston from the command of the army Of Tennessee and the tratsfer`of that' army to the neighborhood of Nashville, has opened all Southern Georgia, South Caroliha and Alabama to the army of Sherman. Fort McAllis er has fallen, 'Sa vannah is about to fall, The to of Char leston seems only to be deferred a' few days later. Hood's army has already met with a great disaster at Franklin, and is, in ray judg ment, fatally compromised. Presidential in terference istithe cause of all these dire mis chiefs, as it .was of the result of the unfortu nate baule,,nl' Murfreesboro',. and the still more disastrous one at 31issionary Ridge Should flood's army, be destroyed—an event which ',fear is but too probable mid 'Sher man come round to this vicinage in ships, as I do.not doubt, he now intends, what 'will be. -the fate of Richmond ?-,,Sir it is under such eireucustauties-that it is deemed wise to throw ..unseemly obstacles in the way of passing, an iitficient:finaneial bill ?, Is this• the proper time to talk.about repudiation ?, Is this the time to refuse to catmint° a proposition look ing to an honorable peace ? So think many in this house,.• who constitutes a inajOrity; lint 50,46-net think. _ • , Sir, I:haVe spoken oat my views frankly -and explieitly,.and now wish' to!•-say to this House, that the course ' of events:here and else:l7llB'm hifk been, .receatly. stichl that :1 Shall - deem it a duty which' I Owe alike to my own 'character and. to the principles Which Lhave heretofore steadily - maintained to withdiaw from this body altogether.-, atu a fteenian and thc.repre , entative of free r A BY ; ALFRED TENNYSON. ine&;-ritid I"knOW'riet liew;to re4islate -chains. I will . t °Jolter' eAs ur es adopted •&trot • sessions of this body, which my whole soul abhors and my whole .understanding r oondeme. .'This is per haps, -theilast,ti M e that I : wilt 'address ; this bodY, or diSauSs questions here' under tErniiderationi. I shall with:tita* "td•Sotrie`se -questered,spot,.where I eanuenfciy somelit tle 'repose and freedom fro m. taxation, 1,11 disturbed in my retreat by the hand, of op: -pression, I will seek in tbreigri entries that freedoin and happiness which I ' , considered is denied mo here: - - - It is the earliest of all btlinan influerfees.. No one can!teil when - it :begins., : , 7 lt ral almost with our birth.cortainly„w,ith the• rs an farrite - ST — dawn of mtellectua con-: aciousness,- Long before -ilk ‘d4s: 'of fath-: erly correction, or of scholastic discipline, or of pastoral care, a silent, gentle, but power- , Sul. influence is .already : .passing from, the fade'and voice of the =UT to the 1 . 10 7. C'9f her Child... She has, as it were, 'the * first word y she has the early spring of the-soul all to.ler self, to soli the prectous seed. ' - toiig:E;efore., the deceiver and. betrayer can• apptostib withiheir.fiattering lies, she may be,.tfirough - i the grace of God, laying the foundations of holy priniple deep within ila& heart; The earliest lessons are the deepest; the earliest memories are' the most abiding," The mother's influence iss, of all others, the most constant. *No Wiet. agency can, la this point , of view, be broSglit into.compari 'ion with it. It surrounds the little ones , like an atmosphere. A mother's influence it; also the most lasting.. The life and- the joy of home, its gentle sway does not terminate in our eav ing the parental roof. Like a guardion an gel, it still follows us through all the future scenes of life. ft is said, that a slave•boy was separated from his.mother while yet a child, and set tled uuder a hard master, on a plantation thirty miles away. Though.at no great dis tance, they were scarcely ever permitted to see one another. But the heart of the , child was still in the home of his mother; her smile cheered him in his toils, and her im age visited him in his dreams. "My moth er," he says, 4 'occasionally found opportuni ty to send me . some token of remembrance and alrection—a spgar plum or an apple; but I scarcely ever ate thent—they were laid up, handled and wept over, till they wasted away in my hands." Touching sacred words ! 'So there, too, and among theseliapless chil dren of oppression, the sanctity of home is felt ; nor ann long and Weary absence, nor all the power of a tyrant laW,. rend asunder •those hearts whom God, by' His own bles- Bed bond has united.— U. Pres. A Little Heivine. Some time last ;torah a soldier named `teatley, belonging to the 17th Ohio, died fever in the hospital at Nashville, Ten 2e, and was buried in the military grave. near that city. In .another of the hos. Is was a son who had been badly woun but who was able to hobble. along after father's remains to their final resting In Milford, Ohio, lived two mother tildren, a young girl,_and' her little brother, who were now left Parentless by the death of their father in Nashville. This girl had received a letter from ber wounded broth er that their father was very ill, and perhaps they would never look upon him in life again. The girl took her little brother to an aunt's residence, and immediately set out Upon a journey without any knowledge of the coun try or the different modes of travel,and.with scarcely means enough to• buy food along the road. She arrived in this city on the cars on last Saturdoy,•and she was humanely-.and gratuitously transported safely ever the Nash ville railroad to see her poor father and woun ded brother. But, alas! when she arrived in Nashville she fjund that her father had died. She sought that grave alone, and bent.. ber little form over the new-made mound, and wept tears that eyes like her's alone could weep. . She was an orphant now,, and who was there save the aye of the All• Seeing And 'watchful Maker of us all, who pitied the fate .of that poor pitrentleis orphant girliiveeping over the grave of her father? Alas, who seem ed to care ?, Returning from her visit to the grave with her beautiful eyes dimmed with tears of sorrow; she met her wounded' broth-. er on the way back to the front ; she clung to him as if death had sealed the embrace forever, and her kisses were the last - tibiae of Jove which•she could give him. , In half an hour they were separated, he going with the soldiers to the fiont, and she left alone in a strange city, milessaway from friends and { home. That tender embracl, that fond 'mad affectionate kiss of love, that sad hour of part ing and mournful good-bye, all may have been the last. They may never meet, ttgain. The brave young girl-left fbr home day last. She is but fourteen years of 'ago, her face and form is pretty, at•d her eyes and hair as black as a raven's wing.'' She is very intelligent indeed, for a girl,ot her age, and the look of sympathy and , the story ,of 1191 Unfortunate situation in 'life, brought { many a tear from' the eyes of those who stood around. and looked upon dm sadeountenattee of that brave and beautiful, girl May fleav en watch over and ,guide the footsteps of the poor orphant—Mary, Wheatley. • • ' Too Tnui.—Fashionable beiirdin,glsehools are, generally, respectable institutions , where young ladies attempt to learn French, and succeed only, in kaining folly. , . It is better to . throw a guard about the bit by's cradle, than to sing a ' psalm at a butt, luau's death-bed; better to ,have, a care while; 1116 bud is bursting to the , s'un7, 'than' dhent the heat has scotched the Tidart'ef the mil u (Ica bosom. . - _Always!. In the ehild,-the maiden; alewife., the tbotiler;:religios - allipes iritWrolzi.;he niguaot beauty of its erre, which nothing err earth -..cati mar.. .Never,was the female elifir aetei.perfeet vithou the steady ,fAitlt of ty. ~,11exurry, iptellect„ wealtb,--they, are t all , like pitfalls, dark ;R. Ole ~brlghtest Llay'; less : divines light, unlessthyp, her soft beatns. arirtiuq, ati4. Milking twice glOoitt,illitt, 7 ,bieth. :seemed all. lovelihess before." " ' Religion is 'dr sickness, in ifealth ' poverty, WO never riT 24l4ll l••'`l" 7- 7ii•77.- - o .1 &goo. - ut,Softs music seenis to'float thenitrylandllte bur den of the song 'llao! peace is. here?" • ~ Could weJookinto, ,thousamls of farni(igs Ao-,d_ay whezedis_count sits sullen! , •fic , htin A , ith lifeosto should find the chief cause ,of anhap,pinces, the want of religion, in woman. f Atid l in,felons' yells—%u planei of ciiine, misery, de,itiletion;ignorance, we'should be phold' in alhits most herriblodefortnltY the lrnit of irreligion in wutian. • . "011; religion !Aertiginter niajtgty,- high on thy throne thou sittest,glorious , and exalted. Not above the clouds, for , nuith clouds come :never. be Mien then, and, ill & 'tit:di:plaits soul; _no_t_betteatit the olonds2frorAtioye thee is tho heaven, opening through the broad i•ihta of 'exceedibg beauty.. Its gates,' in the Splendor ofjitiPer and p"' re• cious stones, wititc: with, a dewT i light that Maier fhisheS tio - r blaie's, but s teddy procee deth free' the ..throne. of God. Its towers• bathed in refulgent glory ten times the bright 'less of ten thousand su , t sok, undazz lipg to:the eye. - And there religion pcii s. Art t, on tfe.sl; ryit wh ispers,"lest—up he fox.vet: 3i • Art sorrowing? "Eternal 'itiy.h then welgliertf diyam with' ttnmerited ignonti. ny? "Kings ;Ind priests in that holy name." Art thou poor? "The very street before thy "mansion - shall be gold." Ari thou friendless? .".I.le angels , shalt :be thy eompanions,:aud God thy, friend andlather." Is religion beautiful? We answer: All is desolation and deformity ,where, religion is not. enee. • A CLEAN SELL.-:1 shrewd countryman was in town the other day, gawky, uncouth, and innocent enough in appearance, but in reality his eye teeth cut. Pas Aug up Chath am street through the Jew's quarter, he was continually encountered with importunities to buy. From almOst every' store one ritsh• ed,in accordance with:the annoying custom .ot that street, to seise upon and. try and force him to purchase. At last, one dirty looking fellow caught him by the' arm, and clamorously urged. him to • become a custo mer. "Have• you any shirts ?" inquired tiki countryman, with a very , innocent look. "A Splendid assortment, sir. Step in sir. Every price, sir; and every style. The clean est in the streets, sir." "Are they clean'?"- • "To be sure, sir. Step in, sir." „ ; "Then," resumed, the countryman with the most perTodt gravity, "put on one for you need it'" The rage or the shopkeeper may be halt glued as the countryman, turning upon•;hss heel, quietly pursued his, way. UGLY LOOKS AND. A- GOOD HEART.--Some newspaper philosopher; who is more selici tons about the sound sense than the elegance of what he utters, expresses himself as fol lows on the subject of female beauty: A lady with eyes that resembled peeled onions—and a nose as crooked as a pplitioians creed—a chin like a hoe, and a mouth stretch ed from ear to ear, and opens like a jack knife will be sooner respected and beloved, by those whose opinion it is worth one's pains to se cure, if she possesses a gooi heart and 'kind disposition, than ifshe were as beautiful sl9- 3.lilton's Eve, with, a •corkscrew , disposition, and a heart , f lead. . _ A SINGULAR. OASF f .- t gentleman of one of our suburban• cities rai-ea a cotbpany two, or three years since for o 0 of our regiments. and departed for the-bats e-field, leaving be hind a young wife. IA few mont4gterwitids. the lady gave birth to a child, iiniksgbee'- quently tAie name of .her, husband apttearpd, among tbOSe:kilred One of the liafflei. lought by: the Pothme army: 'A bod,y, said to be thatiof h'erliutiband, was •sent i to her, and the remains were interred, she believing all the time, that'she, was burying her bus bfind. The lady remained single' about a year; then removing her mourning, wastmar ried again,, , and now bas a child by tyre sec ond husband: ..11 few - weeks 'ago the Wife waS somewhat surprised at reading the name. of her .arat. husband in &list of Massachu setts soldiers who bad recentlybeen.relcased. from a rebel prison, he,having arriveclat An utipolis, Md. She now ha's two living him bands, mid childront by botb..—Boston Zav eldr. ' Ono \ of dur.exchargi,es speaks . of-a "Snisli eZ scamp_". We wish they were all finish ed. OldOidJohn B. was' a Ilypoehondriae, and one of his Chillier:is was that he was a glabi vassal. One'daY; tts- he was about taking a 'seat, his wife, Who' was-be and him, sudden ly jerked' his chair' .aw y, and fed' heavily to the Boor'. :"There 1" 'cried she, trim phantly,t ‘.'that-goca'to -p?ore what t always 'said. ' 'Yo'fire• no more made of glass than I au; else you would have been broken into a. thousand pieces!" "Is your, bQuse,a,w'arni oae?..' asked a man in 'search ot. a tenanent, '2.1.i ought to Ise the iSaintcts: give it tico catifj recently," was:. r d l4- l, 7 - 4' c 'tor, Ar la nu o. -sidnel!kiire/no4er aired. a 'farthing abontiO tt ~K ne,',rn e irtiudi antic . weiatten4ell an old /lathe+. funeral. (•. grant that our latter coil not Lua Lk:. La. eI4::P . *( ir'lLPear NUMBEF 30 Zs g - ;--=u::--=
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