SUE IFJS A FUASTOM OF bFLIGHT.
WRITTEN BY WORDSWORTH.
She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment’s ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;
Like twilight’s, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn;
A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt to startle, to waylay.
I saw her upon nea, w view,
A spirit, yet a woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin liberty:
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet, records, promises as sweet;
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature’s daily foo l;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
l’raise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.
And 1 now see, w;;k eye serene,
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life mid death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and skill;
A perfect woman, nobly planned
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still, a-id bright
With something of an angel light.
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TO Ot\E 117/0 WILL LMjESSJAXD.
I lore tbee, dear’;.- 1 *ve then.
As the floweret l ive* the dew.
As I1.'- < .in. ibi - loves the billow,
Swelling beautiful and blue;
As li < i t.ubow 1- ve the e! collet
That Pea slumbering in the air—
O, yes, I ! >ve thy sunny brow,
i oterer bright and lair.
In sunshine and in darkness—
In sorrow and in cure—
In festive hall or silent grove—
1 love thee everywhere.
Mid th o ;es of fi;i i tut flowers,
In sadness or in glee,
Thy p: te un- cliied i uuntenance
Is ever bright to me.
I love thee, wildly love tine.
And 1 would tiiis sentence brief,
Mere written with the crystal dew
I’pon each tender leaf.
1 would that it were murmured
By the iaughing meadow streams,
That it might dwell in nil thy thoughts,
And all thy glowing dreams.
I would that every happy bird
On every bush and ire.
Mould sing it to thee softly.
Vet with warble wild ana L ee.
I would that every zephy
That conies from o’er the lea,
M ould hear upon its lr • ,i
Those burning words to tin
A Perfect Wife.—ikunuud IJurk- beau
ideal of a perfect wife is worthy of e. n-idc
ration by our fair friends. Here it i>:
“A |>erletf wi! is ban 1- une. but it is not
a beauty arising from the feature*, from com
plex iou. or from shape. She has ail three in
high decree, but it is aot by thc-e that she
touches the heart; it is ail that swo-tm- - .
teinjKT, benevolence. innocence and sensibili
ty which a lace ex pros, that form-her beaut..
bli" has a lace that just ruu.-cs or r attention
*t first sight, it grows upon v u every i*a*
ment, and you Wonder that it did not more
than raise your attention at first. Her eyes
have a mild light, but they awe when she
pleases ; they command, like a good man out
of office, not by authority, blit by virtue. Her
Hatue is not tall, sue is not made to be the
admiration of every one. Mm lias the firm
ne-s that does u i. exclude delicacy, all the
softness that does not imply weakness. Her
voice is soft, low music, not formed to rule in
public a.-simblies, but to charm those who
can distinguish a company from a crowd; it
has i.- advantage; you must < •mo close to
bear it. lo describe her body, describe her
mind—one is the tran ■ riot of iho other. Her
u.'i iersta ruling is rot . 'town in the variety of
matt, r it exerts it,-ok upon, but the goodness
of the choice die makes. Her politeness
flows ratlmr from a natural disposition toohlisre
than i.ny rule- on that subjc f. and therefore
never fails to strike these who understand
good breeding, and those who do not."
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Live Yhtiiin You it Income.— if a man
'visiles to live happily and contentedly, he
f-lioui l make a determination, under every
circumstance, to kve within his income. It
is not a oifimuu matter to do when once a
strong will is cxciei.-ed. Half the wretched
ness and misery we meet w ith in this world is
occasioned by nc-j-leetiria tie- golden rule of
life. How many anxious days ami weary
night- have been passed ; how many house
holds have been broken up ; bow many kind
hearts hare been changed; how many affec
tionate dispositions have i>ct n soured by men
living beyond their means! 1: i- an old
adage that - win a wi nt comes in at the door,
love flies out at thew mdow. and wo are sorry
to say that it is only, in a vast majority of
cases, too true. Human nature is not proof
against the sharp stings of ill-fortune. Too
often changes the affectionate wife into the
household virago, n: ! the hu-hand into the
drunken sot. J-v >my can always be prac
ticed without meanness, and a man who lives
within his income is making for himself a
bed ol down for Ins declining years, and set
ting an example for his children which will
secure their happiness and j rosperity when
he is dead and gone.
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There is loud complaint raided against the
British lor capturing and surrendering up
General Walker to the authorities nl‘ llon
duras, when it was known in advance he would
he shot. Many are calling upon our govern
ment to interfere and revenge his death.
This eur government cannot uo. (ion. Wal
ker became a citizen of Nicaragua live years
ago. and in thus expatriating himself, he tied
the hands of the government of the United
States so far as anything our country can do.
Nicaragua is the only power on earth which
could legally proceed in the matter, and as
that government long since rejected Walker
it is useless to hope that a hand will he raised
to avenge his dea'h.
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Touciiixfj Instance ok MATRfMt'NixR
Devotion.—Frederick Leech, convicted in
Anderson District. S. C., of the murder of
Hampton Cobh, was sentenced last week to he
hung on the 11 th of January next, llis
wife visited him in prison, and at the dose of
the interview va ry quietly remarked to her
unioitunatc husuani that she supposed she
would not see him again, as there would be
such a large crowd at the hanging, there
would be no chance lor her to sec, and be
sides that, the children would all want to come.
I he good lady then called at a grocery store,
complained ol having the “cholic,” turned
oil a couple of gla.-ses of ■■medicine,” and
then set out for her “desolate home.”
A Nobee Path of Horses.—Mr. Russell
V ood, of Holyoke. Massachusetts, had a very
narrow and miraculous escape from death last
Tuesday. While co ning down a mountain
with a load of ood. he fell oil’, and was par
alyzed as to be unable to ■ ove. and was obliged
to remain under the wagon wheels from 3
o’clock in the afternoon till 11 in the evening,
when l-.e was foun nd rescued by his alarmed
arid searching family. JI is horses had stood
still eight hours, although so impatient to be
gone that they had pawed deep holes in the
ground beneath them. If they had moved.
Ji'- M o"d most have h.-i-fi killed
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DAWN OF DAY.
Daybreak never was described with greater
beauty than by Miss Prescott, in her new At
lantic Monthly story. She describes three
persons sailing on a lake, waiting for the
dawn:
Ever and anon they passed under the lee of
some island, and the heavy air grew full of
idle night sweetness ; the waning moon, with
all its sad and alien power, hung low—dun
malign and di-tant. a coppery blotch on the
rich darkness of heaven. ’J hey floated slowly
still; now and then she dipped a hand into
the cool current; now and then he drew in
i his oars, and bending forward dipped his hand
j with hers. The stars retreated in a palid veil
that dimmed tlie'r beams, faint lights streamed
I up the sky—the dark yet clear and delicious.
! They paused motionless in the shelter of a
I deep rock ; over them a wild vine hung and
I swayed its long wreaths in the water, a sweet
i briar starred with fragrant sleeping buds
■ climbed and twisted, and tufts of ribbon-grass
; fell forward and streamed in the indolent rip
ple ; beneath t' 'lie lake, lucid as some
i dark christal slice;. . with olive transparence,
a button of yellow -.ml; here a brean poised
on -lowly waving fins, as if dreaming of motion
it a perch Hashed its red tin from one hollow to
another.
'J ho shad .w lifted a degree, the eye pene
trate 1 to l'uither regions; a bird piped warily,
then fi t l\. a second and a third answered, a
! urtli took up the late, blucjay and thrush,
i itbird and bobolink; wings began to dart
;ii ■-*nt them, the world to rustle overhead; near
and far the dark prime grew instinct with
sound, the-bores and heavens blew out gales
of in lodv. the air broke up in music, lie
lifted his oars -iloutly ; she caught the sweet
brier, and lightly shaking it. a rain of dew
drop- ds-hed with deepest perfume sprinkled
them; they moved on. A thin mist breathed
I from the lake, streamed round the boat, and
j lay like a white coverlet upon the water; a
I light wind sprang up and blew it in long rags
and ribbons, lifted and torn, and streaming
out of sight. All the air was pearly, the sky
was opaline, the water now crisply emblazoned
with a dark and splendid jewelry—the paved
work of a sapphire; a rosy fleece sailed across
their heads ; some furnace glowed in the cast
behind the trees; long beams fell resplend
cntlv through and lay beside vast shadows;
the giant first stood back and intense against a
red and risen sun ; they trailed with one oar
through a pad of buds all unaware- of change,
stole from the overhanging thickets through a
| high-walled pass, where, on the open lake, the
j broad silent, yellow light crep from bloom to
j bloom and aw ke them with a touch.
The Newsboys of New York.—Some
interesting facts concerning the New York
newsboy • have been furnished a correspondent
of iiie i i ’ll- ij hla K:n|uirer. by the super
intendent of their lodging-house in Fulton
street. Fifty of these curious specimens of
our - ty are lodged and li-i n .ditly at that
■ a , : ui are bright, sprightly,
i \ ne.k ie_ little Imo Generally thev
i: tin an>l mu }i a> have what they
< ill !i mi's arc driven away from them by the
v oe and debauchery of their parents, l lying
IV iii the a ! 1 -•;< * in thee unfortahleshelter
ii the i ...li: !i"H-e. a> ihe lull nights come
on. thev i!rj ■ - t in the bank (a small table
ph rei' i v.iiii ho!, s an I numbered) all tlie
.-p; • iii":."} they have, reserving a sufficient
supply to start them in business on the fol
lowing morning. Sometimes, on occasions of
great excitement, the boys make us much
money us their betters. For instance, on the
d y w hen news came of the Heenan and Say
ers fjoht. papers sold like buckwheat cakes on
u frosty morning. 1 ptomid-day, on individ
• ual ca]»ital of five cents, several boys made
from ''•'I to s | ; ar. ' one plucky lad. who cun
a fiord to pay smaller bovs to work for him.
reported at night that his gross receipts were
SoS! Of tlii- sum one-half was clear profit.
The news' oys are a peculiar set. It pays to
study them new and then.
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Is There to be a ‘‘Neighborhood
War ?”—In his famous Princess Anne pro
imneiamento. Gov. Wi-e tells us that " when
I ihe hour of buttle comes”—into which lie
■ and his Breckinridge supporters would pre
cipitate the people of the < (Id Dominion—
•• we at th ■ South will have active work to do,
in urging war t Southern traitors in our
i midst and at our uoors. it will be a neigh
I bm ho >d war. at both cuds and in the center
j of the continent.” And who. a.-ksan indig
nant writer, are • We at the .South ?—who?
1 why, •• v.e. ' the supporters of Breckinridge,
i “ will have active work to do. waging war
against Southern traitors, in our midst and at
- our doors.'! What trait’ "s ? Who are they?
^ ou. gentlemen, w ho have had the impudence
to think for yourself, and conscientiously be
lieve that Bell is a safer man. a more conser
vative man. than Breckinridge—and under
whose administration the I nion will be pre
served. the Constitution upheld, and the laws
eniorced ; and you, too. gentlemen who have
dared to express the opinion that Douglas is
the regular Democratic nominee and the ex
ponent of the regular Democratic principles,
i ou are the “traitors,” and against you this
war be waged, according to the logic of Gov.
ise ! rFrcderickslmr-.- Herald.
Hi no for the Nineteenth Time.—A
w< .-torn Miss iuri cotcmjiorary tells the follow
ing1 “ < )n Tuesday last, news came to this
i town mat a man was seen hanging between
Independence and Maxwell’s Landing. The
coroner wa* promptly notified of the fact, and
lie. in the di-charge of his duty, as promptly
repaired to the scene; hut to his surprise
found the man alive, kicking and walking
about as other people do, with no rope around
his neck—where the rope ought to he. lie
; (the coroner) made some inquiries about the
victim, and the old woman—that is Mrs. Elli
eott. tiie wife of the hung man—replied lie
was cut down, but not dead ; and further re
marked that it was about the nineteenth time
he had attempted to hang himself and hadn't
yet succeeded, hut she'd he teetotally darned
if he mightn’t hang the next time until lie
was dead; that she never Would cut the cord
again to let him breath easy. \\ c understand
that Eilicott is in the habit of hanging him
self every time he lias a family jar. and al
though lie has made so many attempts has
never yet got without sight of the house
where his wife would never fail to let him
down before his wind shortened.
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A Prophecy of General Jackson.—
Mr. ('handler, in a speech made at West llox
bury, Massachusetts, refers to a private letter
of General Jaeksen, as follows:
" l have recently seen a remarkable auto
graph private letter, written by General Jack
son to a triend in Georgia, just after the pas
: sage of AT r. Clay’s compromise measures. Af
I ter speaking of the whole nullification pro
' ject, as only General Jackson could speak of
it, lie proceeds to assert that the whole thing
had no merits, and that the complaint of the
tariff was a mere pretence, arguing that the
(principle which was complained of. was just
as had in Mr. Clay’s hill as in the old law.
The tariff, lie says, is the pretence now for
the disunion cry, in a few years it will be the
negro.”
“ W hat do you ask fir that article?” in
quired Obadiah of a young Miss. “Fifteen
shillings. “Ain’t you a little dear?”
M by. she replied blushing. “ all the vountr
men tel! me su."
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ARE WOMEN NATURALLY POLITE?
Mrs. Wyllys asks that question, and then
elaborately answers it herself, thus :
Are women naturally polite, did you ask.
dear, good natured public ?
Did you ever know a woman to make room
in an omnibus, five on a side, when number
six was entering, flounced and velveted, until
ordered by the dri\ er ?
Did you ever know a little pair of gaiter
boots to turn one inch either to the right or
left when they could have saved you from a
streaming gutter by the operation? Patent
lecher don’t behave so—not they !
Did you ever know a woman to say, “ I am
sorry to have given you so much trouble,”
when the dry-good clerks have turned tilings
topsy turvy, without finding the shade or color
that never existed ?
Did you ever know a woman who did not
know “it was outrageous,” for another woman
to travel with a baby, or didn’t regard it as
“cruel and barbarous,” if any one objected to
the crying of her baby ?
Did you ever know two women to talk of a
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third without ridiculing her, even if she was
her “dear particular friend?”
Did you ever praise one young lady in the
presence of another, without being confidently
told of some enormous fault or deformity in
the other that you hadn’t dreamed of ?
Did you ever know a pretty woman to make
an impression without half a dozen other
pretty women ruining the effect of it the
instant she left the room ?
Did you ever know a woman to apologize
for having knocked another woman’s bounet
into “pi,” (that’s printerism, but expressive
notwithstanding,) with the corner of her par
asol ?
Did you ever hoar of a woman who had an
idea she was making trouble by lier little airs
and graces?
Wc don’t believe you ever did, reader.
They are a race of unaccountubles, these wo
men, just as sweet and piquant as June roses
sometimes, and then again like so many ven
omous thorn bushes.
There’s one thing we never ceased to be in
wardly thankful for—that we are not a man,
and consequently not obliged to marry one ot
’em. Why she would drive one crazy in a
week, with her whims and fancies, her exac
tions and pretty ways. We would make the
mo-4 henpecked husbands iu tlie world, unless,
indeed we had the nerve to run away. or shut
her up in a closet lbr a week, until she prom
ised to behave better. Wlien a woman choscs
he can be the nearest, thing to an angel of
uiivtliiiiu in the world, and what a pity it is
lie doesn't alwav- chose. [Life Illustrated.
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Am; kh an Wiimkn.—An exchange says
in a loti* i-site. what every one must feel to lie
true : “ W uiin n have the love anil admiration
• if nmn in every country, and in no country
are they so worshipped and so indulged as
they are in America. \Vcshall not allow any
one to surpass us in true and sincere respect
for the sex; but candor compels us to say
that our American women are becoming
; oiled. Over-indulgence is making them
prcsumptous. The gratification of all their
whims, even when they consist in rude push
ing into promiscuous assemblies, and indeco
rous crovvdingaboiit foreign visitors, has made
them forget that such conduct is improper,
indelicate and unfeminine. 'J he best society
ha- done all this, and is encouraged to go on.
Of course, the several grades of society be
low the best, such as the second best, the
third best, and so down to the worst, feel jus
tified in following so distinguished a model,
and if the thing is suffered to go on, we have
i a fine prospect of having the most immodest
and impolite female population of any coun
try in the world.
'1 he custom of showing extraordinary cour
tesy to women, iii traveling and in public
]daces is coniuicudal.de; and our people have
often taken pride in it asa national trait. But
it has been carried too far. Many women de
mand as a right civilities whose chief merit
consists iu the gracious made of offering them
and in the gracious mode of acknowledging
them. When a woman gets into a crowded
city railway ear, and a gentleman rises to offer
her a seat, she generally takes it as a matter
of course, without a whisper or a sign of
thanks. Sometimes, indeed, she rudely pushes
her way to a seat, and demands that room be
made for her by men who have paid their fare,
and have, by all ordinary rules of traveling,
and by common sense, an exclusive right to
their places while they choose to occupy them.
The most unpleasant sight that can he pre
sented to the eyes of a man who would like to
venerate the whole sex to which his mother,
his wife and his daughters belong, is a mob of
well-dressed women, all inflamed l evoud all
sense of propriety, by an inordinate curiosity.
Such sights were witnessed during the visits
of the 'Japanese and the Prince of Wales;
not to any extent in Philadelphia, hut to a
great and shameful extent in other cities, ll
such conduct goes unrebuked, it will be
thought proper, and it is time that our women
l»e told, that the discreet of their own sex arid
all of the other, regard it as disgraceful in
the highest degree.
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Mechanics.—The fashion of the aristoc
racy, so-called, putting on airs and turning up
their noses at the idea of associating with
mechanics, is fast passing out of date. Me
chanics are beginning to be valued at what
they are worth, as all men should be, and it
they do not get a position in other respects,
the fact that they arc mechanics cannot with
hold it from them. If they do not conduct
themselves in a manner to be worthy of it,
they have no right to expect it. The learned
professions are so crowded that it takes a man
of more than ordinary talent to acquire any
thing more than a competency. Men are
beginning to train their sons, and very prop
erly, for other things besides law and medi
cine. And we find young men who have
received the advantages of a liberal education
turning their attention to nice h mism, as more
likely to secure their independence. That
man shall work, is a decree from heaven, and
that a man who works for a living is not enti
tled to as much respect as the man who gets
a living without working for it, is an idea
which, if it ever existed, is fast vanishing
from the minds of men.
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A Sensible (Iirl.—The Madison (Wis
j ennsin) Patriot says that a few days since a
■ couple of y >ung folks called on Squire l’., and
after considerable hesitation requested to be
united in the “ holy bands of matrimony,”
which request the Squire at once proceeded
to comply with. The bride, from the lateness
of the hour and the peculiar nature of the
call, thought some explanation necessary, and
■so very innocently remarked: “We came
from Columbia county to attend the Fair, but
finding the taverns all full, and no place for
Aleck to sleep, we concluded to get married
so he could sleep with me !”
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An Irishman had been sick a long time,
and while in that state would occasional eeasc
breathing, and life be apparently extinct for
some time, when he would come to again. On
one of those occasions when he had just awak
ened from his sleep, his friend Patrick, asked
him.
“And how'll ye know, Jimmy, when yer
dead? yer after waking up every time!”
“Bring me a glass of whisky, and say
“here’s till ye. Jimmy,” and if 1 don’t rise
and dhrink. then bury me.”
LI VE FOR SOMETHING.
“ Thousands of men,” says Chalmers,
‘•breathe, move and live, pass off the stage ot
life, and are heard of no more. Why! They
do not a particle of good in the world, and
none were blessed by them as the means ot
their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a
word they spoke, could be recalled; and so
they perished. 'i heir light went out in dark
ness, and they were not remembered more
than the insects of yesterday. ^ ill you thus
live and die? Do good, and leave behind
you a monument of virtue.
Live lor something! \e noble Southern
youth! sons of the men who fought for and
treed the western world from the yoke. ye
i who have time, leisure, opportunity and
means! ltesolve to live tor something.
What if you have property to keep you
from God’s vineyard? Does he require noth
ing at your hands? Are you not responsible
to him for that property, for that time, for
that opportunity, tor that mind? Live tor
something! Strive to live so that your name
will be engraven on the tablets ot time, as
with the graver of an angel, with the names ot
the good and great who have lived and who
will live for God and their country.
The opportunity for good is round and
about us cm all sides; even in workshops theie
is influence of example, such as faithtuhmss,
sobriety, virtuous acts; the poor hod-carrier
can “ live for something,” while the boasted
milllionaire passes away soon to be foi got
ten.
Death has taken hence within a year men
and women, whose names will be long remem
bered ; whose lives are worthy of the imita
tion of the youth of our land. W ho can think
of a man gone lienee who did "live for some
thing?” and not desire to live like him—not
a stain on his name, and nothing said ot him
but in the fond language of friends and kinds*
men. Young man, young woman, live for
something.
The Number of Languages.—The least
: learned are aware that there are many lan
: guages in the world, but the actual number is
probably beyond the dreams of ordinary peo
i pie. The geographer, Labi, enumerated eight
hundred and sixty, which are entitled to be
i considered as distinct languages, and five
thousand which may regarded as dialects.
' Adelung. another modern writer on this sub
1 jeet. reckons up three thousand and sixty-four
! languages and dialects existing, and which
have existed. liven after we have allowed
either of these a-the number of languages,
we must acknowledge the existence of a most
infinite minor diversities; for almost every
1 province has a tongue more or less peculiar,
and this we mav well believe to be the case
throughout the world at large. It is said that
there are little islands, lying close together in
the South Sea the inhabitants of which do
not understand each other. 01 the eight
hundred and sixty distinct languages enumer
ated by llabi, fifty-three belong to Kuropc,
one hundred and fourteen to Ati'ica. one hun
dred and twenty-three to Asia, four hundred
and seventeen to America, one hundred and
seventeen to Oeeaniea, by which term he dis
tinguishes the vast number of island* stretch
ing between Hindoo-tan and South America.
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IIf.adkd off ky ms Wife.—A distin
guished candidate for an office of high trust in
j a certain State, who is " up to a thing or two.”
i and has a keen appreciation of live beauty.
I when about to set off on an electioneering
tour recently said to his wife, who w.ts to ac
company him for prudential reasons :
“ My dear, inasmuch as this election is
complicated, and the canvass will he close. 1
am anxious to leave nothing undone that
would promote my popularity, and so 1 have
thought it wou'd he a good plan for me to
kiss a number of the hand-omest girls in
every place where I nun he honored with a
public reception. Don’t you think that
would lie a good idea.”
“Capital.” exclaimed the devoted wile;
“and to make your election a sure thing,
while you are kissing the handsomest girls, I
will ki>s an e jual number of the handsomest
| young men?”
The distinguished candidate, wc believe,
has not since referred to this pleasing means
of popularity.
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The Ansi tun i v of Secession Doctrine.
The whole I'nion bought ami paid for Louisi
ana, it has expended millions of dollars in
huht-houscs, custom-houses and forts. Can
she walk out of the 1 nion at her pleasure,
taking all this money with her?
We have got California and New Mexico at
a cost of 81U0.UU0.000, we have erected a
mint, built custom-houses and other public
buildings at an immense cost, and has she the
right to trudge out with all those things at her
own pleasure?
We are called on te buy Cuba at a cost of
$•>00,000,000. just for her to say when she
feels able to take care of herself, “why,”
friends, 1 have a perfect right to go. there is
euly a compact, not a government, and 1 will
just walk nut of the I'nion and take a little
airing. Perhaps I will go back to my old
mother country, and when she wants to make
another raise, she will sell me again ” And
thus this thing may be repeated until the
mines of California and Australia would he
exhausted.
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An Editor s Hardest Work.—Every
j one who has had any experience in the news
I paper business will heartily concur in the
I views presented by a Virginia paper, in the
| following article :
j “ Many people estimate the ability of a
newspaper and the industry and talent of the
! editor, by the quantity of editorial matter it
j contains. It is comparatively an easy task
| lor a frothy writer to pour out daily columns
j oi words. His ideas may flow in one ever
• lasting flood, and yet his paper be a meagre
| and poor concern. Hut what is the labor and
| toil of such a man, to that imposed on the ju
dicious, informed editor, who exercises his vo
! cation with an hourly consciousness of its re
I sponsihilitics and duties to devote himself to
tHe conduct of his paper, with tho same care
| and assiduity that a sensible lawyer bestows
i upon a suit, or a humane physician to a
I patient, without regard for show or display.
! Indeed it is hut a small portion of the work.
’J he industry is not even shown there. The
care, the time employed in selecting is far the
most important.
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1)AO UEli REOT Y PE B Y Llfi IITN1NCi.—0n the
16th of August last, a flash of lightning
struck a wind-mill at Lappion, in France, in
which theie was a female, who was killed by
i the electric fluid, and on whose body there
! was left the picture of a neighboring tree,
with all its branches and leaves complete.
This singular tatooing by the lightning was
i seen and attested by medical examiners and
| the municipal authorities of the place.
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j A series of investigations extending
i through the last twenty years, and conduct
j ed in the most careful manner by the ablest
, physiologists of France, Germany, England
| and America, have demonstrated that the
| liver of man, as well as that of most other
| animals, secretes sugar from substances
brought to it by the blood, and it is found
that the liver continues to produce sugar
some twenty-four hours after death—even
when the organ is removed from the system.
The Syrian relief fund, in New York,
amounts to SI 2,51 { sq.
PRENTISS' DUEL WITH GHOLSON.
A writer in The Vicksburg Sun furnishes
the following incident of the celebrated djml
between Judge Gholson and k
.hose: A. the «re, ]
Gholson leaped exactly three teet one inch
and a half from the ground, not with a ball
through his hair; because the ball had struck
the toe of his right foot, glancing in a west
wardlv direction, hitting G hofeou s second in
the pit of the stomach, causing him to “double
up'1 with such violence that an empty pistol
he had in his hand few forward with such a
force as to hit his principal on the head, caus
ing him to jump as aforesaid, because he was
so'eompietely astonished, believing his antag
onist’s ball had hit him on the back ot the
head! Gholson was cured of a corn on his
right foot, but had the tooth ache for a week.
Gliolson’s second took the cramp cholic.
The ball of his adversary passed so close to
the lips of Prentiss as to takeaway his breath,
causing him to fall upon the ground, from
w hich ever afterward lie had a slight lisp in
his speech. _
The parties were reconciled on the ground
in this manner: After they hud untangled
and unrolled Gholson s second out ol a haid
knot, and somewhat relieved him, Prentiss,
lisping considerably, said “Gholson, you owe
me a dollar.” “What for,” said Gholson.
••For curing your corn,’says Prentiss. "So, ’
says Gholson. “you owe me a dollar.” “\\ hat
for?” says Prentiss. “Pec-ause,” said Ghol
i son, “your ball lilt my second in the stomac h
and caused him to hit me on the head, which
gave me a toothache, and now I 11 hate to
have the tooth pulled, which will cost me a
dollar.”
“Well,” says Prentiss, let’s call it square,
and they shook hands on the shot.
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The Toxiit e.—Other things have been
subdued, but w ho lias ever subdued this un
ruly evil? Laws have been made, penalties
mllictcd; God lias spoken, and man has back
ed with the enactments the statutes ot Jeho
vah ; but what letters have ever bound, or
can ever bind, the lawless tongue? 1 he
deadly poison of its inflictions, regardless of
all law and all restraint, has spread through
the lile-hood ot society: and character, mtlu
enee, everything lovely and of good report,
have fallen before it
The duty is a personal otto—every man
must bridle his own tongue, or all other re
straints are vain. \ ou may multiply enact
ments, but these cannot tame the tongue.
Man will talk unless he puts ;i restraints upon
! himself. The duty, therefore, comes Injure
to every man s heart; it i> a personal duty;
and it is diltieult. and cannot bo done without
effort. Jt is so easy to speak what we think,
that it is hard to retrain trom it.
The prevalence of the evil, too, renders
it dillieult to cure. How common is evil
speaking! How great a part of the coin crea
tion of social visits is made up of small talk,
evil talk, and nonsense, and slander about
our friends and neighbors! Hence, the one
who begins to put a bridle on his tongue
must be content to be thought singular and
| unsociable; ami this will require courage.
: We must remember, tuo. that we are imt to
i hear slander any more than to speak it ; we
must govern our ears as well as our tongues.
! And our t bought le.-snc.-.- increases the iliiti
cultv. Though we have two ears, and but
one tongue, we should therefore hear and
think twice before we speak.
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S\M A.M> 1 UK 1>KAI TV.-" 'Well.’ sais 1.
and I rested agin on my elbow, and looked up
into her beautiful face—h>r there’s no way a
gal looks so pretty as when in that position,
it' they have to look or to you, it kinder
causes them to throw the head back, open
the eyes too wide, and covets the whole lace
with .strong-light. Hall the beauty, and more
than half the expression is lost. Uesidcs. the
neck is apt to leak cordy. \\ lien they look
J down, the eyelashes fill, and the eye is better
j shaped, mure oval, less round, and is more
, iiijuid. 'J lie beautiful bow shape of the mouth
shows better, the mights hang graceful, and
there s shades here and there m the lace that
sets it of grand. Northin’ ever look- ) re?tv i i
glare. 1 hat’s the advantage in pain tin.’ It
makes one know what he couldn’t lam without.
.My clocks have been themakin of me. that s
a fact, llaubiu’ figures on ’em seems to stu
dy drawiu’ and paintin’, and that made me stu
dy natur.’ An artist has more than two eyes,
that’s a iact. ‘Sophy.’ sais 1. ‘afore l go. 1
must try and take you, just as you now sit.—
.'him Suck.
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IN l>l AN SrMM Kit.—Say - ilie Newburyp<>rt
Herald in its pretty wav. when speaking ot
the weather ; The Indian Summer, that un
classified asternal struck off from the corner
ot the regular seasons, and revolving in its
own independent orbit between autumn and
winter, is upon us in all its gorgeousness and
glory. It dwells in the warm smoky atmos
phere, it whispers in the eddying currents
that rustle the red and yellow leaves along
; garden walks; she sits behind the purple
: curtains that draper the distant hill-tops.
Out in the country the orchards arc fragrant
with the smell of apples and cider, and forests
blush beneath the rays of the October sun.
! like garments dyed in blood. T here is no
season so sweet and delicious as the Indian
Summer. It robes nature in the beauty ot
ripeness before entombment, and whispers the
, hope of resurrection in the very hour of
j death.
Tiie French peasantry are proverbially
smaller than the English, and late statistics
| have shown that they are also shorter lived.
But the climate ol- France is as salubrious as
that of England, the associations of the two
i people are substantially the same, and the
| French, if anything, are a happier, and ought,
| therefore, to have a greater longevity than
there neighbors. We must took to the diet
i of the French for an explanation, and when
i we so look the solution presents itself at once,
j The staple of a Frenchman's food is bread,
j It is, indeed, the best bread in the world; but
bread alone is not a thoroughly nutritious
healthy diet.
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The Stars ani> Stripes.—Washington
seems to hare been the inventor of the
thirteen stripes, signifying the union of the
thirteen colonies. The tiag was raised in
1770, and was confirmed by Congress in 1777,
with the addition of thirteen stars on a blue
field. On the 4th of April, 1S13, it was en
acted that the United States flag should con
sist of thirteen stripes, alternately white and
red, with twenty stars, white on blue field,
and that one star should be added for every
new State, the addition to be made the 4th of
J uly following the admission of each State.
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Death of the First Banjoist of the
Country.—The original banjoist, l-01d Joe
Sweeney,” died at the late residence of his
father, in Appomattox county Virginia, on
Saturday evening, the :?7th ult., about the
age of forty-five years, lie had traveled ex
tensively in Europe and almost entirely over
the United States, and enjoyed probably a
greater reputation that any other man as a
banjoist, having been the first white man to
introduce the banjo to the public.
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Can Beecher Keep a Hotel?—A new
hotel is being erected near the depot at Ad
ams, Jefferson county, in which, it is said,
Henry Ward Beecher owns §80(H> interest.
1 TOUCH OF NA TURF MAR FS TIIL H IIOLL
WORLD KIN.
On board the steamer Ocean, between
Cleveland and Detroit, a circumstance oc
curred not long since which is pleasantly told
bv a correspondent ot 1 he ( levcland lloiald .
“A young girl, apparently about seventeen
years of age. was seated upon a pile ol cheese
boxes with her two little brothers, aged eleven
and thirteen years. They were orphans,
bound from Alleghany, Pennsylvania, to
Michigan, where they expected to find a home
with an uncle.
After having purchased second-class tickets
for the three, the girl had spread her old quilt
on the pile of cheese boxes, and prepared to
pass the night in quietude. She had hardly
arranged her nest, however, helbrc she was ac
cidentally discovered by a second-class passen
ger, a tail young man of about thirty-three,
who had loved her in secret almost from her
infancy, and who had been for the past two
years rafting lumber on the Ohio river. Hav
ing acquired about two hundred dollars, in
hard money, he came to Cleveland on the
lUth to participate in the celebration, when,
as lie expressed it, "some mean cus had
picked his pocket of every darn cent but four
dollars.”
Doing unable to find the thief or the mo
ney, he had started for the West, with the
determination to hire out on a farm. 'J o his
surprise and joy. he found himself on board
the same vessel with the object of his heart s
earliest affections.
Siding up to her. he exclaimed :
• Why, Cynthia Ann! how do you dew ! I
didn’t hardly know you ! \\ hy, how you ve
growed. W here are you going /’
• I’m going to uncle's in Michigan.’ was
' the feeble reply. * You knew mother was
j dead, didn't you /’
1 Why, no.’ ami his voice softened. 1 \\ lien
‘ did she die, Cynthia Ann/
‘ She died last January. I Tide wrote me
that if I’d come up there, he'd give me and
| the hoys a home.’
I • Cynthia Ann.' and the young man’s voice
: trembled, • there ain’t no man 11 he so glad to
i give you a home as I will. I’ve allers thought
a heap of you. I told your mother whenyou
' grow'd up 1 was a going to have you. Aow.
: Cynthia Ann. jest say the word, and you're
to hum now.'
‘ What 11 become of the boys/’ inquired
the agitated maiden.
1 1 11 go with you and leave'm to your tin
ele’s.and then wo’Ugo \\ ost and hire out this
' fall and winter, and then next spring we ll
buy a small farm and live to hum !'
The girl gave a warm sigh of acceptance.
leaned her head against the honest breast m
the hanlv youth, as much as to say, ‘ If you
want anything, take it.’
I he man snatched a kiss from the ripe,
ruhy lips, sprang down from the cheese boxes,
and exeiiiinietl. If there's a minister or jus
tice of the pc-aee on board this boat, I've got
| a job fur him.’
I • I am a justice of the peace ’ remarked a
venerable looking man from \ork State; • re
1 mount the cheese boxes, and you shall be a
married man in less than live minutes,
i -Weil, hold on. Squire 1 1 liaint got no
mom-v, but I'll give you an all j ’tired good
| axe.’
• Xever miml about the pay.’ said the wor
thy Squire. ‘ i'll take my pay in seeing you
happy.’
’i he fellow remounted the pile of cheese,
clasped the hands of hi- dearly beloved, and
in two minutes the ceremony was performed
—he had entered into a new existence. Kiss
ing his little bride once on her ready lips, he
seated himself on a big c heese and eoimuetict .
no doubt, for the first time to realize what lie
was. what he had done, and what ought and
! must be done,
I Starting up suddenly, lie exclaimed, half
aloud, to hiiu.-eli’: • Well, by In-key. this is a
pi city hard way of passing the first night!’
The bride blushed and replied, * Xever
! mind. John, we are ju>t as happy as if we
j w ere rich. Come, sit down.’
Hut .John had an Idea, and he was hound
Lto put it operation. C ling to his pile of bag
gage. eon -isting of one large meal bag. Con
i tabling a change of shirts, socks, ncek-'o uul
kerch.cf and ill hoots, he took from the leg
of one of the boots an excellent axe. and
walking up to the clerk's < llice. he exclaimed:
• 1 say. 1 >ok here. Cap'll. I’ve paid tor a deck
j passage, hut 1 want a bed lor myself and
; w——i—fc. 1 liaint got no money, but here is
an all jotired good axe.’
The gentleman in the office replied that the
clerk had stepped out, hut would he back in
a few moments, whereupon the man went back
to tiie pile of cheese to look at his precious
j treasure.
Having our sympathies aroused, we hastily
ran around among the passengers, told the
story, and took up a collection to procure a
stateroom for the young couple. To the credit
| of our lady passengers, they were the most
liberal in their donations, and in less than ten
minutes we had collected 81 1 9lT Presenting
thi> sum to the agreeably astonidied young
man. we Informed him that he could now pro
cure a stateroom with two beds—one for him
self and wife, and the other for the bovs.
Thanking us with his big, watery eves, he
rushed to the clerk’s office, w here he was met
by Captain l'icrce, agent of the line; Capt.
r.\ans. commanuer oi me ooat, anil .ur. ( al
ter, clerk.
Capt. Pierce exclaimed, • Here, my good
fellow, here’s a ticket for yourself and wife
to go to Chicago. (let West as fast as you
1 can ; go to work on alarm, and look out for
the land sharks.’
Capt. Evans pulled out a glittering coin
and said. “ Here’s five dollars! keep yourself
iu good condition, and-;’ here the wor
thy Captain forgot iiis speech, and ran oil'
; laughing
'i lie clerk, Mr. Carter, handed the man a
key, and said. ‘You arc welcome to one of the
best staterooms on the boat. It has two boils
j —one lor yourself and wife, the other for the
i boys.’
Capt. Evans having returned, exclaimed :
j 1 Give the boys another room. They haiutno
j business in there. They haint no business.
| Here he broke down with laughter again, and
; tlie couple retired to their sumptuous apart
ment, as happy as mortals are allowed to boon
I this earth, and the passengers gathered in
knots to praise the liberality of all concerned,
I and the comical oddity of Capt. Evans.”
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A Bad Habit.—The practice of wearing
| tight finger rings is excessively dangerous.
But a short time since we read an account of
; a man having died of lockjaw, produced by
wearing a tight finger ring. An exchange
■ notices a woman in Newark who wore a lame
i flint ring so tight, it became impossible to re
| move it. An examination showed the finger
j to he quite dead below the ring, and that de
composition had commenced. The ring was
a quarter of an inch wide by an eigtli in
thickness. She went to a physician to have
it removed, but without avail, and the physi
sian was compelled to resort to amputation as
1 the only means of preventing a fatal result,
i '1 he linger was accordingly taken off at tho
i base. It is believed the woman wore the
: ring through superstitious motives, as she
manifested more uneasiness at parting with
the ring than with the finger.
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Marshal Vaillant sent to the French Acad
emy an account of an insect which amuses
itself bv boring holes iu leaden balls.
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
lie that swims in sin must sink in sorrow.
The comprehensive money-syllable—Gold.
The toilette, says Balzac, is the expression
of society.
To surpass the fashion, says Balzac, is to
become a caricature.
Bill posters practically obey the injunction
stick to your business.
The man who confines himself to the drink
best for him is ta //-supplied.
A large quantity of sorghum is being grown
in North Carolina this season.
lie that finds a thing steals it if he endea
vors not to restore it.
In the game of life we should watch for the
“last trump.”
lie that is a drunkard is qualified for all
vice.
Bury not your faculties in the sepulchre of
idleness
The consciousness of sin is the first step to
ward amendment.
To-morrow is the day on which lazy peo
ple work and tools reform.
The toilette is at once a science, an art. a
habit and a sentiment.
Little drops of rain brighten the meadows,
and little acts of kindness brighten the world.
Persons must surely rise to eloquence not
by distinction, but by seeking a worthy end.
Charity would lose its name if influenced by
so mean a motive as human praise.
Intellect is not the moral power ; consci
ence is. Honor, not talent, makes the gen
teluian.
Men arc said to admire that which they
look up to. and love that which they lock
down upon.
Generosity cousits notin the sum iriven,
but in the manner and the occasion of its
being bestowed.
To quell the pride even of the greatest, we
should reflect how much more we owe to
others than to ourselves.
What difference is there between forms
and ceremonies':' You cun sit upon one and
stand on the other.
Cincinnati has 23.1G1 men engaged as
operatives in manufacturing and mechanical
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Aii artist proposes t<> build a "Bachelor's
Hall.’’ which will differ from most houses, in
having no Eves.
In England every child is required by law
to be aide to read and write beldre it is per
mitted to enter the coal and iron mines.
The brute covers himself; the rich man or
the fool arrays himself; the el' guilt man
dresses hini.-eif.
•Ji’lln \ ine Hall, a writer of relig’otis b : >ks
died on the _!lM ultimo, at Worcester. Eng
land. aired eightv-seven years.
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So long as men are iniprudent in their diet
and business, doctors and lawyers will lide in
carriages.
Hawthorne is among his acres in concord
once more, engaged, it is said, on a romance
of English Lite.
The question now is not so much wlio shall
be President of the Union as whether we
shall have a Union.
Love can excuse anything except meanness;
but meanness k.ils love and cripples even
natural affection.
Happiness must arise from our own temper
and actions, and not immediately from any
external conditions.
The vibrations eurmuiicated to the air by
the human voice are occasionally sufficient to
break glass vessels.
Time never passes so slowly and tediously
as to the idle an 1 listless. The best cure for
dullness is to keep busy.
Bain never falls in Peru. The trade-winds
blowing across Brazil condense all their
moisture upon the Andes.
The name milliner is derived from Milan,
the city from which Milan-ery goods were first
imported into England.
W c must not undervalue physicians. Per
haps the fabric of society would fall without
them. They are its "pillers.”
‘•Figures won't lie.” is an old homely ex
pression ; but few man can look oil a fash
ionable women's figure now-a-days and say
as much.
A man advertises fora competent person to
undertake the sale of a new medicine, and
adds that "it will be found profiatble to the
undertaker.”
A grocer’s apprentice hung himself in Paris
lately, and desired his parents to grave upon
his tombstone: “Born to be a man. but died
a grocer.
Seneca says that love is a disease. It
seems, sometimes, to be a combination of dis
eases—an affection of the heart and an infla
mation of tbc brain.
1
A Yankee, according to the latest author
ity. is a driving man. lie sees aqueducts in
bubblingsprings,buildings in stones, and cash
in every thing.
A proposition to introduce German into
the public schools of St. Louis lias been de
feated in the board of Education by a vote of
nine to eleven.
Sounds arc more intense as the air is den
ser. In the arctic regions persons can (''in
verse with ea«e at more than a mile distant,
when the mercury is below zero.
Madame George Sand, nowin the sixtieth
* of her life, has just written a book in imita
tion of Jane Eyre—that is, in making the
heroine a governess.
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The now Enited States Arsenal at San An
| tonio, Texas, is progressing rapidly. The
| magazine, just finished, has a capacity of
eight thousand cubic feet for ammunition.
Punch says : ‘ The Prince of Wales promi
ses to bo as great a traveler as he is an accom
plished dancer. His next intention is to go
through all the steeples of Russia.’*
The Louisville Journal says: “Since the
thin disguise of patriotism was stripped from
that vain egotist, William L. Yancey, he is
uothingbut the naked l.'"
The powder used at Old Point, Virginia, in
j firing the great Floyd gun. is in lumps aa
j large as hickory nuts, and almost as hard as
j granite.
The beautiful red and purple silks, which
are now so fashionable throughout the civil
ized world, are colored w ith a substance ex
tracted from coal tar, called mauve dye.
When the French Express at table speaks
: to any one not close to her, she has her words
repeated by an aide-de-camp or chamberlain,
who stands constantly by her side.
Of the two ladies who opened the respect
ive balls of New York and Boston with the.
Prince of Wales, Mrs. Gov. Morgan was, in
early life, a milliner, and Mrs. Gov Banks a,
factory girl.