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Spanish Proverbs.
Virtue nets:ir dwells within that heart
Where shame has ceased to hold a part.
One ounce of mirth, devoid of folly,
Is worth a ton of melancholy.
The 'change of weather and the wind
Discourse for fools doth always find.
Whene'er a good man comes to thee,
Examine not, his pedigree.
If thou a shilling's worth wouldst know,
To borrow it thou needst but go.
To reason lend a willing ear,
Or she ere long will make thee hear.
There is no evil, in the end
To good perchance that may not tend.
The night make night, the day make day
And life will gaily pass away,
The man who doth a widow wed,
Must let the living praise the dead.
My birthday first did hear me cry,
And every day doth show me why.
The husband sometimes must not see
And blind the wife should often be.
TREACHERY IN FRIENDSHIP,—The spe
cious pretender who artfully gains the
confidence of an amiable and unsusnect
•ing-heart, then wantonly betrays it, of
all villains deserves most to be detested.
The robber may possess generosity, the
murderer will sometimes, display great
and rare qualities, but the false betray
er of implicit friendship can have r no
character above contracted littleness.
It is a maxim, well established in incral
philosophy, that men are influenced .in
their conduct by what appears to them
to be. their intereet. Yet what ingenui
ty can discern an interest in basely
abusing the trust:of an honest man, who
has paid you the compliment to suppose
you worthy of his Confideneb IS there
'any pleasure in.vieviuititt.: keen rnorti
ticatiens of one whom, by the same blow
you have cruelly injured and greatly dis•
appointed ? If such a sight can please
jou, how much has vice changed the
original simplicity ofyour nature ! The
propensity of first gaining a confidence,_
then to betray it, springs from a quarter
which, at a first view, we should not
sespect. P.or, from a.care.ful scrutiny of
the bosom, we have found it uniformly
grafted on a little ambition for low i
Praise, Corrupted minds imagine there
is a cunning in ensnaring an innocent
heart; and, when used with success, the
gentle tickle of vanity excites in their
bosoms a pleasurable sensation. But it
is a savage pleas - ure, such as the hawk
enjoys when he darts upon the heedless
warbler of the forest ; or such as is ex
periencod by the double tongued serpent
when he has charmed into his power the
unsuspecting flutterer of a neighboring
bush. •
A BIT or. A SLIVER.---Oulifernia - has
long been celebrated for " big things,"
animal and vegetable, and the following
adds to the liar :
'Before Justice F. at San Juan, Neva
da' county, was brought a Hibernian,
charged with assault and battery upon
a fellow countryman. Many witnesses.
were examined ; andjnally, Jimmy C
—was called to the stand.
"Mr. C--, state what you know
about this case.".
" Well, your honor, Barney and Pat
rick had Et bit of a quarrel about some
wood they had been cutting, They were
standing near the woo - d-pilei a frout of
the house, and after jawing a little'
Barney picked up a bit of a sliver, and
give Patrick a little tap on the head,
and ho went over on to the wood-pile—
and that was all there was about it."
Justice F.—,"You see Barney hit
Patrick on the head with a bit of a sli
ver. What kind of a sliver was that ?"
" %Veil,- your- honor, 'twas a small
thing—a bit of a -chip."
"But we want to know how big it
was ; give as your idea of about the size
of it,."
" Well, your honor, ( after some hesi
tation,) I think it was about two feet
long, and about as big round as my
wrist ?" •
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/10.RSE-FI_SII u PARIS.—The Prefect
of l'olice in Paris has issued certain reg.
ulations.under which the sale 'of horse
flesh is -permitted .in the city. The
animals aro to be billed in ptiblic slaugh
ter houses, in thi presence of competent
government official's, after a previous
e.xaminatiou ; the meat is to be stamped
before its removal,. which is to be effect
ed in close vehicles,-and the shops which
are allotted for its sale will be intimat
ed - by , Special signs. Any -restaurant
selling horse-flesh without clearly an
nouncing the ftict, or which shall fraudu
lently mix it with other meat; .will be
liable: to iitinieliment under Abb penal
3,11 c4abgtOnti remisilliranizt 3ournat • for # e.ome
MARIETTA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1866.
Influence of Sensible Women
Bulwer says : "It is a wondrous ad
vantage to a man in every pursuit or
avocation to.secure an adviser in a sen
sible woman. In woman there is at
Once a subtile delicacY of tact, and a
plain soundness ofjudgement, which are
rarely combined to an equal degree in
man. A woman, if she be, really your
friend, will have sensitive regard for
your character, honor, and reputation.
She will seldom counsel you to do a
shabby thing, for a woman friend always
1 1 desires to, be proud of you. At the
same time her constitutional timidity
makes her more cautious than your male
friend. She, therefore, seldom counsels
you to do an imprudent 'thing. By fe
male friendships, I mean pure friend
ship—those in which there is no ad
mixture of the passion of love, except
in the married state. A man's best
friend is a wife of good sense and good
heart, whom he loves and who loves him
—if lie have that, he need - not seek else
where. But supposing the man to be
without such a helpmate, female friend
ship he must still have, or his intellect
will have many an unheeded gap even
in the, strongest fence. Better and safer
of course, such friendships where dis
parities of years or circumstances put
the'idea of love out of the question.
Middle life hes rarely this advantage;
youth and old age have. We may have
female friendships with those tuuch old
er than ourselves.. Moliere's old house
keeper was a great help to his genius;
and Montaigne's philosophy takes both
a gentler and loftier character of wis
dom from the date in which ho finds, in
Maria de Gooney, an adopted daughter
"certainly beloved by me," says the
Horace of essayists,' "with More than
paternal love, and involved in my soli
tude dud retirement, as one of the beat
parts of my beiog." Female friendship
indeed, is to a man "prcesidium et dulcs
decus"—bulwark, sweetness, ornament
of his existence. To his mental culture
itis invaluable ; without it ail his knowl
edge of books will never give him
knowledge of the world.
GOOD ADVICE.—Never cut a piece out
of a newspaper until you have looked on
the other side, where perhaps you may
find something more .valuable than that
which you first intended to appropriate.
Never put salt in . your soup before
you have tasted it. .1 have kuoWn. gen
tlemen very niuoh enraged by doing so.
Never burn your fingers if you .can
help it. People burn their fingers every
day, when they might have escaped if
they had been careful.
Lot no gentleman ever quarrel with a
woman. If you are in trouble with her
retreat. If she abuse you, be silent.
If she tear your cloak off, give her yuur
coat. If she box your ears, bow. If she
tear your eyes out, feel your way to the
door—but fly.
Don't put your feet on the table.
True, the members of congress do so,
but you aro not a member of congress.
If you form ono of a large mixed com
pany, and a diffident stranger enter the
room, and take his seat among you, say
something to him, for heaven's sake,
even although it be only "Fine evening
sir." Do net let him sit bolt upright,
suffering all: the apprehensions and
agonies of bashfulness, without any, re
lief. .Ask him?_ow he has beon—tell
him
,you know his friend so and so—any
thing will do to break the icy stiffness
in which very decent follows are some
times frozen on -their debut before a new
circle.
Early,on Saturday evening, July
L 4, a son of Captain Frank Boardman 4
of East Haddam, Conn., aged . ten,Years,
and a daughter of Mr: E. Marston, of
the . sante place, aged'uleven - years, went
in bathing at the Upper Landing. Mrs.
Marston sat, upon the bank watching.
the children, when suddenly - her aiten-_
tion was specially attracted by their
cries, and she found they had got be
yond their depth. With inetherly
in
stinct she plunged into the water to
rescue the little one.s, and Ives. herself
carried under. All- three soon appeared
at the surface, struggling for life, but
the effort was unavailing, and they fin-
ally went down to a watery grave.
ca. The Philwielphiti Ledger says
that it is safe and easy enough to darken
the color. of the hair.. A weak solution
of acetate of, iron,will, it is said, , effent
this, and, mixed with a little glycerine
if rubbed daily into the hair, will perma
nently darken it and benefit the health
besides. After a certain age, iron - and
the of t
.suiphurenun, tatter to, re
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Is
store the dee. giitialphur, mai , be
'astral.
A PARADISE IN PENNSYLVANIA. , =.4III:
Eloise Hunt, of Heiner's Run,- Clinton
county, Writes thus :
" My home has been for Six years in tiq'
little rocky basin shut in pa every side
by the Alleghenies, without a neighbor,
a church, or a school, 'seeing no human
face for weeks—ay, even months some
times-except those of my husband and
child. Living tb.usiihave come to love
in a strange absorbing way all that na
ture has throvau around me. `Earth with
its varied growth of trees • and shrubs,
plants and mosse's,,rocks and, water, the
clouds, blue sky and stars, everything
is beautiful tome:; even the dead leo.ves,
the old decayed trees and bare rocks are
beloved. Think, then, how inexpressi
bly dear the living trees and flowers and
moving water.
"I have tame trout, six yards, from
the door, that leap above the water to
catch bits of meat from my fingers.
The pheasants make their nest- within
sight of ttii house, and sometimes the
male bird is seen drumming on the old
log only a few rods up the mountain side.
I have planted wild flowers round my
doors, and in summer, the humming
birds go through the open house on
their visits to the flowers. Strangers
from the world have said : " How can
you exist in this dreary place ?" "Their
eyes cannot see as mine : nor can they
hear any of the pleasant vetoes I hear,
and so I simply tell them what they
comprehend : It is my necessity.' My
place, which is so lonely to others, is so
pleasant to me that I have named it
Paradise, and here-I will teach my son
a love of truth, purity and beauty."
RIP VAN WINKLE IN AAIERICA.—Whon
the Union troops under McClellan and
Itoseersos, in the summer of 1861, were
penetrating 'the mountain region of
'West Virginia, as they marched through
a .quiet nook on the side of Laure
Ridge, they saw a, v,enerable matron
standing in the door of a log cabin.
One of the men fell into conversation
with her, and found her. views on the
issues of the day were not very well de.
fined. At length he said
" not refuse to hurrah for Old
Abe, will you, old lady ?"
IN'ho's old Abe ?" asked the dame,
growing more astonished every minute.
- "Abraham - Lincoln, President of the
United &little,"
" Why, hain't General Washington
President.
" No 1 he's been dead more than sixty
years."
"Genrut Washington dead ?" ehe re
peated, in blank amazement.
Then rushing into the cabin, she call
ed "Yeou, Sam!"
" what is it, mother ?" said a
voice .
In a moment she reappeared with a
boy of fifty, whom the men afterwards
learned was her.son.
" Only to think, Saul," she cried • ex
citedly, "Genrul Washington's dead.
Sakes alivo ± I wonder what's going to
happen next."
THE MF.inentsrs.--The London Pat
riot says :hat Wesleyan Methodism has
come to a stand-still in Great 'Britain.
In Staffordshire and all the Southern
districts it has been steadily losing
ground for several years. In the Lon
don circuits during the year there was
an increase of nearly six hundred mem
bers, but in so many of the. others was
there a decrease that the total gain
shown on the numerical retkirns for the
year jnst closed is scarcely more than a
single hundred. Complaints aro made
of a general laxity of discipline, of ate
abandonment of love feast, and slacker
attendance at the class meetings.
THE " DUNKERS . ."--This religious sect
held their annual meeting near Waynes- .
bore', Pennsylvania, a few days ago.
Among the-questions submitted and de
cided by the meeting was " Shalt we re
ceive colored persons into our, church;
and shall we saluto them with the holy
kiss?" The meeting decided that they
should be received, but that the ques
tion of kissing each member could de
cide for himself, with the understanding
however, that those who refused the
kiss were to he"regarded "as "'weak
brethren 1" ' . •
la" A rural chap visiting Grand nap.
ids, Kick., got
_playfully, drunk, when,
ohs: ruing a bull pup, he went dosyn on
his bands and kneee to have a little
game - with hinr. Tho pup feeling cress,
gralibed him by.the n'ose, and after much
- trying and twisting tore it ofr.,
cam A poor,hen•pecked husband de-
Sires us to offer in his behalf a liberal
reward for his wife:s lost tempei. We
do se 'gratuitously:
'For the itfarieitian
Who is to Blame?
A gpi* deal has been said and writ
ten about the evil effects of Intemper
ance. Every one, who will but reflect
for a single moment, cannot fail to .dis-.
cover.that the liquor business has a
tendency to increase to an alarming ex
tent, taxation, crime, pauperism, and
insanity. it fills our prisons, alms-hous
es, and lunatic asylums, with thousands
of wretched inmates, such as criminals;
paupers and maniacs, whom the Govern
ment must keep and support. It brings
distress,' poverty, and ruin to thousands
of families that migtt otherwise be hap
py and comfortable. In short it causes
bodily suffering, mental agony, prema
ture death, and eternal ruin; and thus.
drags its victims 'down through a dis
honored life to a drunkard's grave and
a drunkard's retribution, This• we all
know to be matter of fact. None can
deny it. - History, experience, and Ob
servation confirm it. But who is to
blame for ail the unnumbered evils, un
told injuries, and deep damning effects
of Rum? Where are the men that
cause this woe, that blood, those scars,
the tears of that wretched wife, :or tfris
groans of those orphan children ? Is
the rum seller to blame ? Is he the au
thor of all this Misery ? But this is 'a.
weighty matter and a solemn charge.
Let us not be too hasty in 'pronouncing
judgement in the case. If we carefully
examine the subject we will find that
others besides the rum-seller, are in
volved in producing those monstrous
evils in society. The prbprielor, who
rents his house to the rum-seller, is' not
one iota better. He willingly rents his
property to the rum seller in order to
get gain, and does it knowing the dread
ful consequences which ensue from the
infernal traffic, and by so doing he be
comes his abettor and a party in the
crime. Justice, reason, and common
sense dictate that the sentence passed
upon one, should also be passed upon
the other'; therefore,,if you blame the
rurnsellor, yon are bound to censure the
proprietor also, for one is as guilty in
the sight of Heaven as die other. But
if yoa go to those men and talk to them
upon the subject, they will tell you that
neither of them has violated the law of
the land. The rum seller will tell you
that he is engaged in a lawful business,
and to prove it he will show you his
"License." The question then arises
Who gave the rum seller the legal au
thority to conduct this traffic ? Why
the Legislature. That honorable body
passed the law licensing the liquor traf
fic, which gives the rum seller the 'legal
right to make drunkards, paupers, and
criminals. Therefore4f you blame the
rum seller and proprietor, on every
principle of justice, reason, and common
sense, you are compelled to blame the
members of the State's Legislature also.
Nay, more than this, you are bound to
pass the same sentence upon ,the-mem
bers of every subsequent Legislature,
who refuse to exert themselves to have
that law repealed. .
But still we have not yet reached the
fountain head. The question is; Where
does the liquor come from? Who makes
it ? If there were no liquors the Legis
lature could not enact laws to regulate
its sale because there would bo no such
traffic in existence. Hence it is neces
easy to go' to the distillery, or malt
liouse, and find out the man that manu
factures the deadly poison. The distill
er, or the brewer, has the greatest weight
of guilt, resting_ upon him. He is the
man that °pule the fountain, and pours
terth a flood-tide of evils.
Allow me then to ask once mote
Who is to blame for the evils of Intem
perance ? The proprietor ? No. The
rum seller?:No. The Members of the
Legislature? No. The distiller or the
brewer? No. These, it is true, are, all
to blame in part, and. each will have to
answer for his guilt at the bar of God ;
bat still the entire blame does not, rest
upon them,. " Who then," say you "is
to blame ?" I answer : Those who drink
the liquor. The rum drinker; are the
drunkard makers. And in making this
assertion I do not mean the habitual
drinkers ;
.but the periodical; the moder
ate and the fashitMable drinkers. In
short cill thew thht drink intoxicating
liquors as a beverage, I-care net wheth
er they be Church memberstiiildireligious
professors or sceptics and infidels; nor
whether they drink in priblio houses or
private dwelliogs—whetherlt he out Of
a tumbler in the bar room' or out of a
silver goblet in the parlor; the fact is
still the same. Is it not self evident
that if people did not.drink liqUor the
rum sellers dould not sell. any ; and if
VOL. Xll.-NO. 52.
the rum seller could not sell any, the
distiller would not manufacture any ;
and if the distiller would not manufact
ure any the Legislature could not enact
laws to legalize the infernal traffic, be
cause there would be no such traffic in
existence. Hence the only sure and
certain way to stop the flood tide of evils
is not'to drink any intoxicating liquors,
as a beverage, at all. Here then is the
point where the reformation mßst begin.
It must commence at home. It must
start at self. It must take its rise from
each individual.
Remember if we be:ever so moderate
we are identified with the drinking par
ty and the drinking system; but if wa
abotairientirely we raise a decided pro
test against the drinking system, and
connect imirselves with those who are
trying to save our country and our race
from the greatest foe. Reader, where
do you stand in regard to this' matter ?
On which sida is - your influence ? Are
you for or against the drinking party ?
J. S.
Marietta, July 30th, 186 G.
JONES' CORNER.—Jones has been
among, the spiritualists; he joined a
circle the other night and had manifes
tations. The medium was a tall, thin,
angular, cadaverous individual, who
looked as if, after getting up the frame,
nature had been . seized with a fit of
economy, and neglected to put in the
underpinning and plastering. The cir
cle was mixed, being made up of elderly
females, thin men, with a few pretty
girls. Jones seated himself between
two of the last, and all clasped bands
around a table. Jones says it was de
lightful. He squeezed the little hands
and when an unusually loud knock star
tled the circle, the little hand squeezed
Jones'. Sniffkins, who is so skeptical
that his father don't believe him, was
the first to ask questions.
'Where was I born ?' asked Sniff.
' In the poor house.'
Sniff's turn up nose now became red.
`Correct,' said Jones.
How many children have we in fam
ily?'
Here a dispute arose as to whether
the spirit rapped eight or nine. So
Sniff asked again.
`One,' was the reply.
Probably correct again,' remarked
Jones.
Here Mr. Sniffkins arose in a wrath,
slapped his beaver on with a bang, and
left the room.
The circle is not harmonious,' said
the medium in a deep sepulchral voice.
Jones thought it was, as he pressed
the little hands.
Let me ask a question,' said a vial
gry old lady.
Is the spirit of my husband present ?,
He ie.'
'Are you happy John without me ?'
Very - happy.'
Where aro you John ?'
In h —l.'
John's relict looked at the medium.
The medium smiled. He looked as if
he had the toothache. The circle
laughed, whereupon John's relict seized
a lamp and hurled it at the medium. It
broke over his devoted head, and left
the circle in darkness. Jones says a
spirit kissed him. He tried to seize
the spirit, and caught one of the pretty
girls . about the waist, whereupon there
were screams, In the meantime Jones
was aware of a furious engagement on
his right. A light was produced, when
it was found that John's relict had seiz
ed a venerable Cob, mistaking him for
the medium. They were separated,
when the " mejurn," with the coal oil
dripping over his woe-begone counten
ance, said " the circle must be broken
up," it was not harmonious.
. A POST MASTER'S REPORT :—Uncle
Sam receives some queernotes. Among
them we quote a report made by a post
master of F---- Illinois.
"F— co. ills july 9. 1857.
Mr. james Bakanin president of the
United States Deer sir Been required by
the instructions of the post office to re.
port quarterly i know herewith fooltill
thatpleasin dooty by reportin as follows:
The harvestin has been goin on petty
and most of the nabors have got their
cuttin about dun wheat is hardly a av
irage crop on rolliu lands corn is yellish
and wont turn out morn ten or fifteen
bushels to the aker the helth of the com
munity is only tolerable meesils and
cholery, now broke out about 2 and a
half miles from here there is a powerful
ayvakin on the. subject of religun in the
potts nabolood miss nancy smith a near
nabor had twins day before yesterday
One of 'them is a poor scraggy thing and
wont live half its day this is all I have
to report the present quarter giv my re-
SpeetS to mrs. Bakanin and subscribe
myself. Yoors trooly
Assa•JsxsxMs, p. m.