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BY N AT WCNDIILAK like girls, the girls, the happy girls ! 10 ginger, how we love , em I Sweet, pretty girls with sunny curls, 0 what can be above 'eml We love to see these run and skip, And hear them laugh and giggle ; We like to mess the nectar lip, Hal how it makes us jiggle! 0! none but hateful, hunchbacked churls Can help but love the merry girls ! The lass, the lass with rosy cheeks! 0 roaring, fightbig Ctesar ! We'd clamber up Ise Alpine peaks, To get a chance to squeeze her! She's plump and neat xa any doll, And, glory, how we'd flounder— We'd give our fortune, pipe and ail, To get our arms around her for none but hateful, hunchbacked churls Refuse to squeeze the merry girls! The maid, the maid with laughing eyes!! O save us, mighty Juno! Who can the pleading orbs despise 0 we can't do it, you know! We'd kiss all babies now in town, And try to look mime snugger; Weld always smile .and never frown, If we could only hug her! Fur *sae but hateteJ, hunchbacked churls Will needy long L' hug the girls! Croak os. croak on, yc " bathes" old, We'll /isten to you never! We'll bag the girls till we grow o/41.! We'll love theta on forever ! 0 ! sing and talk of single bliss, But we'll not kear yoar story! We'd sell ourself for sue sweet kiss! 0! glory! glory! GLORY For none but hateful, hunchbacked churls Can kelp but love the merry girls! ENGLISH' GRAMMAR The Comic Grammar says But remember, though box In the plural makes boxes, The plural of ox Should be area, not orar. To which an exchange paper adds: And remember, thouE, , h fleece In the plural is fleeces, That the plural of goose Aren't gooses nnr geese,. We may also be permitted to add : And remember ' , though house In the pluial is houses, The. plural of mouse Should be Mice, and not mouses. Pitdadelpkia, Gazette. All of which goes to prove That glummer a farce is ; For Wharis 'the ptural Of rum and tnolasses The plural, Gazette, Of rum don't us trouble ; Take one glass too much And your sure to see double. Brooklyn Deity Advertiser A pair of blue eyes-- Just to vary the strain— Say? the plural of kiss, tq do it again !" And this without straining The sweet variation, Is**liatwe call ilia esience 101.kaftetificaton. sir A few months ago, the editor of the Oharleaton Mercury prayed that toga ships Might be sunk. Quite a num ber elf these, 'laden with stone, have been sunk right before its eyes. The Louis ville Journal haps die is grateful for the answer to his prayer. This is anoth er evidence Of ill(' acComistidaiing spirit of the Yankees—expending thousands of dollars to gratify the desires of one .of their bitterest enemies. or A. witness la a`certain court, not .6 thousand ,miles from Rappahannock, an being interrogated , as to whether the defendant in a certain case was drunk, "wail, I can't say that I have Men him drunk exactly; but I once saw him sitting in the middle of the door, waking grabs in the .air, saying that he'd be.hanged' if he didn't catch t,he bed the next time it run past him." sir A sen Ole Manchester politician suggested to the Duke of Newcastle that it woold be cheaper for the English government tO ship all the unemployed cotton factory hands to the south of Europe and feed them, then to fight America. The Duke's reply is not giv- I_,A3a,lK.er, F'roprietor_ Communicated for "The Mariettian." "When Dieters diagree Deeiples are Below will be found two articles co• pied from aScotch paper, one, an extract from a speech delivered by the Rev. Dr. GUTRRJR of Edinburgh, on Sabbath Evening Sermons ; and the other on Dancing by Dr. JOON BROWN, son of the late Dr. Brown Professor of Exegetical Theology in the Divinity Hall of the United Presbyterian Church. We had always regarded the Scotch Presbyteri ans as being of the most rigid puritanical type, and were not a little surprised to find the orthodoxy of Sabbath evening preaching questioned and dancing de fended by some of the highest Presby terian authorities of Scotland. Dr. Guthrie is, by far, the•most popular pul pit orator in Scotland at the present day, and spends much of his time in reclaiming the vicious, feeding the hungry, and clothing the naked. Dr. Brown besides being an acknowledged crmnoisseur in the fine arts is a gentle man eminently distinguished for his literary and scientific attainments. His writings of late have had a very exten sive circulation. One story entitled "Rab and his friends" has, of itself, al most immortalized him. And he is, withal, a gentleman of high Christian character, and is therefore well qualifi ed to give good and wholesome advice to his fellow sinners, and this we believe rarely comes amiss. "C." Che: de duties of Parents toward their 8y Dr. lent Brown, of Edinburgh, Scotland. You should also, when the time comes, explain to your children what about their own health and the ways of the world they ought to know, and for the want of the timely knowledge of which many a life and character has been lost. Show them, moreover, the value you put upon health by caring for your own. Do your best to get your sons well married, and soon. By Well married, I mean that they should be married old fastsionedly. for love, and marry what is lovely. I confess / think falling in love is the best way to begin; but then the moment you fall, you should get up and look about you, and see how the land lies, and whether it is as goodly vs it looks. I don't like walking into love, or being carried into love; or, above all, being sold or selling yourself into it, which, after all, is not it. And by soon, I mean as s ion as they are keeping themselves; for a wife—such a wife as alone I mean—is cheaper to a puling man than no wife, and is hts best com panion. Then for your duties to yourselves. See that you muke yourself do what is immediately just to your body, feed it when it is really hungry; let it sleep when it, not its master, desires sleep ; make it happy, Poor hard-working fellow' and give it a gambol when it wants it and deserves it, and as long as it can execute it. Dancing is just the music of the feet, and the gladness of the young legs; and is well called the poetry of motion. It is like all other natural pleasures, given to be used, and to be not abused, either by yourself or by those who don't like it, and don't enjoy your doing it—shabby dogs these, be ware of them 1 And if this is done, it is a good and a grace, as well as pleas ure, and satisfies some good end, of our being, and in its own way glorifies our Maker. Did you ever see anything in this world more beautiful than the, lambs running races and dancing round the big stone of the field ? and does not your heart get young when you hear— " Here we go by jingo ring, Jingo ring, jingo ring; Here we go by jingo ring, About the merry ma teazle ?" New York Gazette. Reading iournal Ilfariettian This is just a dance in honor of old Jingo ; measured movements arising from and giving happiness. We have no right to keep ourselves' or others from natural pleasures ; and we are all too • apt to interfere with and judge harshly the pleasures of others* hence we who are stiff and given to other pleasures, and who, now that we are old, know the many wick ednesses of the world, are too apt to put the vices of the jaded, empty old heart, like a dark and ghastly fire burnt out, into the feet and the eyes, end the heart and the head of the young. I remember a story of a good old Anti-burgher minister. It was in the days when dancing was held to be a great sin, and to be dealt with by the session. Jessie, a bonnie, and good, and blithe young woman, a great favorite of the minister's, had been !I VOL. 8. Free." Children, 141 srxt fOrp . tntlit ritunthattia alattrual for te OLirtle. MARIETTA, FEBRUARY 8. 1862. guilty of dancing at a friend's wedding. She was summoned before the session to be "dealt with"—the grim old fellows sternly concentrating their eyes upon her. as she stood trembling is her striped short-gown, and her pretty bare feet.— The Doctor, who was one of divinity, and a deep thinker, greatly pitying her and himself, said, " Jessie, my woman, were ye dancin'?" " Y es," sobbed Jessie. "Ye maun e'en promise never to dance again, Jessie." • " I wull, sir; I wull promise," with a curtsey. "Now, what were ye thinking o', Jessie, when ye were dancin'? tell us truly," said an old elder, who had been a poacher in youth. "Nae ill, sir," sobbed out the dear little woman. " Then, Jessie, my woman, aye dance," cried the delighted Doctor. And so say 1, to the extent, that so long as our young girls think "nee ill," they may dance their own and their feet's ; and so on with all the round of the sunshine and flowers God has thrown on and along the path of his children. Dr. Guthrie of Edinburgh, Scotland, on Sabbath evening Sermons. As to Sabbath evening sermons, he never allowed a servant of his to go out on a Sabbath evening, nor any member of his family. The good old Scotch plan of a man and his family spending the Sabbath evening under the domestic roof was the best way of all—(applause). If there was no other way by which the servant could get to church through the day, then one of the members of the family should stay at home a part of the day and let the servant go to church in broad daylight. Then a great deal might be done by parents. He was surprised at working people allowing their children so much out in the even ing. He would say to every father and mother, " Take care of your lambs when the wolves are abroad." More mischief was done in two or three hours after six o'clock in the winter evenings than in all the other 'hours put together. He thought ministers in Edinburgh could preach with great profit on some of those practical duties of life; and he did not know of a more important one than this, that they should preach from the pulpit to parents about the duty of taking care of their children in the darkness, when evil deeds were done. DRATOOF A CONTEMPORARY OF BURNS. —Walter Glover, known as the carrier between Dumfries and Edinburg in the time of Bnrns, died on Sunday last, at Ferneyside, in his native parish of Lib ertou—an exteordinary example of longevity, being in his 104th year, hav ing been born on the 18th of July, 1758. When Burns was exciseman at Dumfries, rtim.was extensively imported there, and Glover was frequently employed to con vey it to Edinburg. The permits 011 these occasions required to be signed by the poet, and, contingent on -the arrival of the vessels, these documents were Often required either at a very late or very early hour. Glover was wont to state, as a proof of Burns' regularity and busi ness habits, that sometimes, when he used to apologize for disturbing him at these untimely hours, the poet said, "Walter it is but my duty, and never hesitate at any hour to call on me to do it." Till within the last twelve months this memorable old man was in the hab it of walking frequently to Edinburg—a distance of between three and four miles; and his chief enjoyment was sitting by the fireside playing his fiddle, which he did with considerable skill.---Scotsman. TOBACCO AND LONGEVITY.-A writer in the Christian Ambassadore says: " The _account given by your correspon dents of aged persons yet living, re minds me of a veteran and his help meet,' on whom I called in Oswego, New York, last summer. His name is Peter Buell. He was born in Brook lyn, New York, in 1753, and conse quently is now one hundred and eight years of age 1. He is living with a second wife, who is seventy-three years old. By his first marriage he had fif teen Children, and by his second, ten— making-in all twenty-five children. The eldest child now living is . eighty-two years old. This aged friend enjoys com fortable health—visits his neighbors-- sight and hearing good—and has used tobacco one hundred years. air If a man is doomed to the stake, he would generally perfer that it should be beef or venison. • Ter - Yl - )o---CDrie 1:).11,,r a Year WHAT NAPOLEA'c DID :—JUst before the great battle of Wagram, while fhe .army was encamped on the Island of Lobau, near Vienna, Napoleon walking one day with one of his Marshal's on the shore, passed a company of grena diers seated at their dinner. "Well, my friends," said he, "I hope ytin find the wine good ?" "It will not make ns drunk," replied one, "there is our celler," pointing to the river Dannbe. The Em peror, who had ordered a bottle of wine to each \ man, was streprised, and made an immediate inquiry. He found that forty thousand bottles sent by him a few days before, for the army, had been pur loined and were unaccounted for by the Commissaries. They were immediately brought to trial and condemned to •be shot, which sentence was speedily car ried into execution. Here was a venal offence, insignificant, indeed, when com pared with the frauds upon the urgent wants and necessities of our soldiers, re cently brought to light, but it received a severe and merited punishment. A few such examples in our army would do a world of good. THE QUEEN'S FIRST Lova.--Before Queen Victoria's marriage to Albert, her majesty cherished a tender passion for a young Scotch nobleman, subse quently Lord Ephinstone and Governor General of India. Her ministers were very much disturbed at the state of af fairs, since the laws of England forbid the Soverign to marry a subject, and the Queen, like many heedless girls, was reported to have said that she was queen and would marry whom she pleas ed. It was Lord Palmerston's diploma cy that served the occasion. He very adroitly shipped the young lover off to India, commissioned to a high and lu crative employment,and in the meantime Albert of Coburg, the handsomest Prince in Eur Ope, came along and did the rest. The one became Governor General of India ; the other first subiect of her majesty. A 'USEFUL DOG.-Mr. Schenck, at the Farms, has a dog which goes out near the railroad track every night, a few moments before it's time for the cars, and waits until they pass, then picks up the paper which is thrown off by the expressman, and carries it to his master. He is always on hand at the regular regular time, and never fails to bring the paper when it is there. Monday night he came back without it, and so confident was Mr. Schenck that it had not been thrown off, that he walked to Rockport, and learned that another person had been on the route that day, instead of the regular expressman, and had forgotten to throw it off. This same dog used to get the paper by the stage coach, ere the cars commenced running, and never missed being at his post when the stage came along.—Cape Ann Ader. SOLDIER'S STRATEGY.—The soldiers in some portions of our army, display the highest powers of strategy in their schemes for smuggling liquors and other contraband articles into camp. One day not long since, a party started out with their coffee pots to get a supply of milk, but the officer of the, day, think ing he smelt whiskey, ordered every man to give him a sample of their milk, which they did, by pouring out a lot of the lacteal fluid, and were allowed to pass. That night whiskey was found to be a bundant in camp, and then it was dis covered that the soldiers had sealed up the ends of the spouts of their coffee pots with bread, filled the spouts with milk and .the pots with whiskey, and so passed the inspection of the officer., Cr On a bitter cold night of last month, John Fanwright, of London, C. W., while drunk, turned his family all out of doors into a neighboring bush, and went to bed. The attention of the family was soon called to their house by seeing it in flames. The eldest girl reached it first, and, opening the door, she called toiler father, who answered, when she rushed in and pulled him out by the arm, he having been lying on the bed. When taken out it was found that every stitch of clothes he had on was consumed, his body being literally roast ed from his head" to his feet. He lived for about four hours, suffering the most excruciating pain. cir Spitting has long been regarded as an American weakness, but it is only lately that the full extent of its applica tion to one section of the country has been discovered ; it is now well known that .the citizens of the Southern Con federacy expectto-rate as a nation. thim A HEALTH-SEEKING SHIP.-A Paris correspondent of the New York World says that an American in that city pro poses to build a steam vessel for the ac commodation of consumptive patients. The writer says A portion of the year will be spent in Nice, and when tbis becomes tiresome and monotonus, or the weather begins to prove chilly, they wilt steam away for Madeira, or even farther south, as far as the Cape of Goad Hope, and thus the patients will be kept in a warm and even temperature continually, Five hundred francs, or about one hundred dollars a month from each patient will, the pro jector thinks, be amply sufficient to pay a handsome profit to the , managers of the enterprise, and heis already in com munication with one of the largest naval constructors in France in relation to the matter; and he hopes some tirne during the comming year to see launched the liealth-seeking ship. An IRISHMAN'S WlSH.—Patrick Quinn was a baggage master on one of our railroads, and attentive to his busi ness. A few evenings since, while at his post, he was accosted by an excited passenger, who, in a rude and boisterous manner, demanded to know the where abouts of his trunk. Pat, after several times replying to the interrogatory, lost patience and thus put an end to the stranger's troublesome questioning : " Och; mister, I wish in me soul ye were the elephant instead of the jackass, for thin ye'd have yer trunk always under yer eye." The passenger didn't ask for his trunk another time. .ARMY GUNNERS.--Some of the news papers advise the soldiers, especially artillerymen, to wear oiled wool in their ears to protect them from the concussion. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger who professes to know, says "No man's ears will be hurt by the re port of artillery,, if he will open his mouth, just as we throw up .a sash to prevent our glass being shattered by the dischhrge of cannon, so we should open our mouths to save our ears. The con cussion conies then on both sides of the drum of the ear, and has no. ill effect." LONGEVITV.—In the United States, during the last year, twenty-four persons have died at or over one hundred years of age. Of these, seven were of African descent, one Indian, and the rest whites. Twelve were females.. Two of the cen tenarians were from Connecticut. The highest age claimed was for Havana, the Indian, who died aged one hundred and twenty. There were but sixty-three names on the pension roll at Washing. ton, of Revolutionary pensioners, on the Ist of July last; and not more than fifty, it is probable, are now living. 'JANE YOU Corn FEET ?—Every night on lying down and every morning on rising, dip them in cold water and ru, them, bard with a rough towel. If th towel-rubbing be followed by sharp fri tion with the naked hand, it is as im provement. Have you headache ? then keep your lower extremities warm, stop drinking tea and coffee, eat less, don't sleep with your head high, and avoid hot feather pillows. 'Be sure that you always breathe a pure air, and exercise much. A Nosr.n BOY.—The troops paid off Sunday afternoon deposited in the hands of Governor Tod over $3,000 to be for warded to their friends. One noble lad who received only six dollars and five cents, handed over thb six dollars to be sent to his mother, retaining only the five cents for himself. A mother's training will develop the man in that boy, if spared to reach maturity. A CAUSE OF THANKSGIVING.-A clergy man, while praying, " Thou! 0 Lord, halt made man after thine own image, and woman like unto him with but little variation," was interrupted by an old sinner in the congregation, with the ex clamation—" Thank God 1 for the, little variation !" air Winkle, the prize-fighter, who re cently had a contest with Elliot at Wee hawken, has died from the Pummelling he received at the hands of his antagonist. Elliot was arrested, and is now held for examination on a charge of leaving the State to engage in a prize fight. The story that Mrs. Eunice Bradly, residing in Trumbull county, Ohio, had recently been blessed with eight children at a birth turns out to be untrue. The Albany Argus says it was a literary man that invented the hoax, and not a litter ary woman that gave birth to the brood. NO. 28. ARISTOCRACY.- 4 -Tho best hit at repub lican aristocracy is the following from the witty John G. &Lie : Of all the notable things oit t earth 7 —....„„ \ The queerest one is pride of birth, Among our ', fierce Democracy !" A bridge across a hundred years,' Without a prop to save from sneers— Not even a couple of rotten peers— A. thing for laugher, sneers, and jeers, Is American aristocracy ! Depend upon it. my snobbish friend, Your farolly'tbread you can't ascend, Without good reason to apprehend You may find it waxed at the further end By some plebeian vocation 1 Or, worse than that, your boasted line May end in a loop of stronger twine, That pleagued some worthy relation ! Because you flourish in worldly affairs, Doik't be haughty, and put on airs, With insolent pride of station! Don't be proud, and turn up your nose At poorer people in plainer clothes; But learn, for the sake of your mind'srepose , That wealth's a bubble 'that comes and goes ; And that all proud flesh, wherever it grows, Is subject to irritation. [From the Louisville Totffwal. 'WITH THY SHIELD, OR UPOI =I The loss of a shield was regarded as. per !tarty disgraceful by the (greek sohliers. The dead were borne home upon their shbel&— " Return with thy shield, my son, or upon it," was the heroic injunction of a Spartan mpther. Sound the trumpet, sound ! The die is ctist, The Rubicon of fate iipassed, The loyal and the rebel hosts,. Kentucky, throng thy leagueryd coasts, And on the issue of the•strife Hang peace and liberty and life . ; All that the storied. past endears) And all the hopes of coming years; The startled world looks. on the field— Thou eanst not fly—thowdar'st not yield— Then strike ! and make thy %man. feel Thy triply-consecrated steel, And!with or on thy shining shield' Return, Kentucky, from the field. Strike•" though the•battle's dead be strown O'er land and wave from cone . to zone ; Strike r. though. the• gutf of human. blowL Roll o'er thee-Aire the primal Hood. Treason at home—beyond the sea Its ally, ancient tyranny, Democracy's relentless. foe, Aim at thy heart thew deadliest blow;. Freedom's last hope remains• with• thee, Oh, armies of democracy ; Then lead• thy martial hosts abroad , In the•grand panoply of God, And with or on thy shining shield, Return, lentuetcy, from the field. Wave r banners, wave, and let the sky Glow with your flashing wings on high Tnerels mueic.in each rustling fold Sweeter than minstrel ever told ; Oh r who that ever heard the story Of all our dead who fell in glory. Still pressing where the starry light Streamed like a meteor o'er the fight, Till their expiring bosoms poured The red libation of the sword, Would leave Kentucky now, or thrust Her beaming forehead in the dust, Where treason's reptiles writhe and hie* Like fiends shut out from Eden's bliss ' Better the freemen's lowliest grave Than golden fetters of a slave ; Then with or on thy shining shield, Return, Kentucky, from the field If bribed by lest of power or gold Thy country's welfare thou has sold, Iscariot-like thy name shall be Ib freedom's dark Gethsemane; Disgrace and fell remorse shall plow Eternal furrows o'er thy brow; By angels, men, and fiends abhorred— Like Judas who betrayed his Lord. Outcast at bome--acios.3 the sea Shunned like a leper thou shalt be— No spring shall slack thy burning thirst, The hre shall shun thee as accurs'd— Day shall be cheerless—no repose At night thy swollen, eye shall close— Lift to indignant Heaven thine eye, Curse God in blackdespair and die! Kentucky, bast thou son so base Thy fame unsullied'would' disgrace Attaint his blood, disowd his race, His line, his very.name 'efface. Then charge! thy grand battalions free From ell attaint of treackery 7 . Charge on thy foes! make all , the air Vocal with freedem'o holiest prayer, And:with or on thy shining shield, Return, KentuckY, from the field! State of the " Dark and Bloody Grawnd," The trumpet peals its final souri Down every mountain height, arrayed, Comes thundeting on the Jong brigade; By every valley, pass, and river, Sabres and bayonets flash and quiver ; Shame to the faithless sea who falters When impious hands assail their.alteis, And fill each font of happiness With waves of woe and bitterness; ' The dead their august shades present By IFrankford's battle monument— Not now their souls can be at rest, Though in the Islands of the Blest— " Remember us," their Voices cry, " When comes the hoUr of elmfiict nigh, Draw on the traitor ranks abhorred The sword of Gide7n and the Lord! And toith,or on thy shining shield, Rettirn, Kentucky, from the field !" WHY SLEEP RESTORES When we are wearied out with toil, And bruised with pains of earth's turmoil, If for a time of slumber deep We lose ourselves in dreams and sleep, We rise, from strength's exhaustless hoard Enriched and thoroughly restored, When, but a little while before, We were so feeble,drained, and poor. Thinker and saint, man good' atid Wise, Canst tell me whence tins doth 'ariie? Dear friend, I verily can tell The cause, and explicate it well.. With grief and blows when wortrand torn, If sleep we may, we wake at morn Refreshed in every nerve and Thought,. .. Because this marvel lath been wrought;., The instant that asleep we fall, The soul escapes its fleshy pall, t And is absorbed in heaven from this, To lave with love and bathe in bliss Its stiffened limbs and flagging powers Through all the nightly slumberous hours ; And when returning morn arrives, It fresh from God's embrace revives.