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BURY ME NEAR THE SEA.
BY B. I'll AN KLIN HUGHES.
Acs, 1 feel the dentli damp gathering
Oa my pale white brow,
An<l [ know the doctor's visit
Is not needed now.
I et 1 ve one request dear mother,
One to beg of tiiec,
Though from here tis quite a distance
Bury me near lift sea.
Bay me where old ocean’s billows
Boat upon the shore,
II here the sands with shells are thickly
Strewn : 1 ask no more.
i hanks, dear mother ; God will bless you
For your care of me;
| Don’t forget my prayer, dear mother;
Bury mo near the sea.
Now 1 hear the heavenly music ;
Oh ! how bright they seem ;
Those, 1 Incan with shining raiment—
Mother, do 1 dream?
Closer! I am-going, mother,
Angels beckon me ;
But, dear mother, you'll remember,
Bur*) me war the sea.
[Waverley Magazine.
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Dignity of Farming.
The tread mill has long been the standard of
tiresome labor, simply because of its dull mo
notony. And so some unthinking people
i speak of the farmer’s life as a very tread mill
—lull of dull monotonous and never finished
labor. Hut let in a little thought and how the
picture brightens! How full of interest, vari
ety and pleasure becomes the life ofthe think
ing farmer. Closer than any other is his alli
: ance to nature and his reliance on nature’s
1 Hod. The sun, moon and stars are his allies ;
the winds and the rains, the dews and frosts
and snows, are his agents. To others these,
elements may be beautiful or grand or terri
i ble, they may bring pleasure or annoyance,
| comfort or suffering, but to him they bring
| life and health, give food and raiment and
j minister to Lis wants, his comforts, his pleas
j ures and his profits. His toil honors the
! earth and it yields him grateful reward. Na
ture puts the drops that fall from tlie moisten
ed brow to the same use with the dews that
fall from the sky. What fellowship! What
alliance ! Think of it you sun-tanned farmer
as you sit at nightfall resting from your daily
toil*. Think of it and bless tlie kind Provi
dence that has so blessed and honored you
and your calling. Think of it and never de
spond. Never think that "yours is a dull life.
The sun lias its work—producing, graduating
and regulating ail those revolutions which give
us the seasons daj' and night, seed time aud
harvest. Grand and mighty results, in com
parison with which tlie slow turning of the
furrow is as nothing. Hut the revolutions of
the ploughshare around the farmer’s field,
turning its foot-wide furrow, is as essential
an agent in the life and happiness of men as is
either the sun, the moon, or the stars. What
though nil these shine and the seasons come
and go—the winds blow ami gentle showers
full, the partnership is not complete until the
farmer’s toil has turned the elements into use
and accepted the gifts of Providence. Think
of these things, farmers. Think of them, pa
rents, and teach your children that man can
find no broader field, or more useful pursuit
for healthy development and innocent, exer
cise of highest and best, gifts of mind and
body. Such reflections will do you good—will
strengthen you in the long, weary days when
the burden is heavy and is hardest to bear,
and should stimulate you to more careful cul
ture and thoughtful care of your farm, •
A Cavamiy Fntur.—At the battle of Trau
tenau, the Prussians had slowly pushed the
Austrians out of the town into the open coun
try beyond. The Prussians pursued and fol
lowed step by stop their slowly retreating
enemies. Beyond the town one of Austria’s
most celebrated cavalry regiments, the Wind
ischgratz Dragoons, stood waiting to sweep
the Prussian battalions frem the open ground
if they issued from the shelter of the houses.
These dragoons have long held.a high reputa
tion. The Prussian infantry could not ad
vance, and it seemed that the houses of Trau
tenau had been won in vain. But assistance
was at band. The First Regiment of the
Prussian dragoons came trotting along tlie
main street, deployed into lino almost as they
debouched tVuin the town, and with tlieir
horses well in hand and their sword points
low, bore in a steady canter straight down
upon the Austrian cavalry ; these did not wait
inactive to receive the attack, but rushed for
ward to meet their foes; no shots were ex
changed, not a saddle was emptied till tne
close. When within a few yards of each oth
er, both sides raised a cheer, and welcoming
the hug of battle the two lines rushed upon
each other. Horse pressed against horse,
knee against knee, swords went up quick and
came down heavily on head piece or on
shoulder, points were given and received,
Mows quickly parried were returned with
lightning speed ; here an Austrian was borne
to the ground, therea Prussian was sent reel
ing from his seat, and for a few minutes the
mass of combatants swayed slowly backward
and forward. Hut then, as if some shell
had burst among them, the Austrian soldiers
flew scattered from the melee, and the Prus
sians riding hard after them, drove them from,
the field, but themselves being under the fire
of small arms, suffered a heavy loss.
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Not Deri* K.voticni foe Pkayek,—A story
is told of two raftsmen, who were caught in
the big blow on the Mississippi, at. which
so many rafts were swamped and so
many steamboats lost their sky riggins. The
raft was just emerging from Lake l’epiire as
the squall came. In an instant itwaspitching
and writhing as if suddenly dropped Ohnryb
dis, while waves.broke over her with tremen
dous uproar, ima expecting instant deduction,
the raftsman dropped on his knees and com
menced praying with a “vim” equal to the
emergency. Happening to open his eyes in
an instant, he observed his companion, not
engaged in prayer, but pushing a pole in the
water at the side of the raft.
“What'B that yer doing, Mike?” said lie,
“get down on yer knees now, for there isn t a
minute between us and purgatory! ’
“He aisy, Pat,” said the other, as he cooly
continued to punch with his pole, “be aisy,
now; what’s the cue of prayin’ when a feller
I can tech bottom with a pole?”
Mike is a pretty good specimen of ft large
, class of Christians who prefer to omit prayer
as lung as they can “tcch bottom. ’
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The Benefit of Heins Knocked About
in the World.
It is a good tiling for a young mfin to be
“knocked about in the world.” though his
soft-hearted parents may not think so. Ail
youths, or if not all. certainly niwiteen-lwen
tictlis of ill e sum total, enter life with a sur
plusage of self-conceit. The sooner (hey arc
relieved of it the better. If in measuring
themselves, they discover that it is unwarrant
able, and got rid of it gracefully, of their own
accord, well and good; if not, it is desirable,
for their own sakes, that it bo knocked out ot
(hem. A boy who is sent to a largo school
soon finds his level. Ilia will may have been
paramount at home, but schoolboys are dem
ocratic in their ideas, and if arrogant, he
is sure to be thrashed into a recognition of
the golden rule. The world is a great public
school, and it soon teaches a new pupil his
proper place. If he has the attributes that
belong to a leader, he will be installed in the
position of a leader; if not, whatever his own
opinion of his abilities may be, be will be com
pelled to fall in with the rank and tile. If not
j destined to greatness, the next. best, tiling to
which lie can aspire is respectability ; but. no
man can either lie truly great, ot truly respect
able who is vain, pompons and overbearing.
By the time the novice has found bis legiti
mate social status, bo the same high or low,
the probability is that the disagreeable traits
of his character will be softened down or worn
away. Most likely the process of abrasion
will be rough, perhaps very rough, but when
it is all over, and he begins to sec himself as
others see him, and not as reflected in the
mirror of self-conceit, lie will be thankful
that, he has run the gauntlet, and arrived,
though by a rough road, at self-knowledge.
Upon the whole, whatever loving mothers may
think t>o the contrary, it is a good thing for
youths to be knocked about in tlio world; it
makes men of them.
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Elopement of a Bruib.—An amusing scene
whs lately enacted in Cirencester, the chief
performer being a Mrs. B-, from the
neighborhood of Kedditch, who arrived in the
town with her newly-married husband. The
quarters chosen were situate at an inn, not a
long way from Dyer street. Everything seem
ed to go on *‘as marry as a marriage bell,” the
husband calling his wife his dear viola adorata.
The married couple were accompanied by the
bridemaid and “father in church,” who were
on the eve of returning to Tewkesbury, after
having seen the newly-married couple oil' to
London. The delighted husband was so
pleased with his young wife’s charms that,
during their stay at Cirencester, he made sev
eral purchases out of money he was foolish
enough to obtain by the sale of some houses
in the neighborhood of Redditeh. Tuesday
evening was fixed upon for the start, and din
ner for the four was prepared at throe o’clock,
at which they were seated when a stranger
arrived at the inn and seated himself in a
chair by the lire. An awkward scene ensued.
It appears that some years ago the stranger
was the first love of Mrs. B-, and immedi
ately she saw the gentleman, she rose from
her seat, shook him by the hand, and invited
him to partake of dinner. The invitation
was accepted. At thisjuncturc.Mr. B-left
the table and called out his wife. She follow
ed, and shortly again resumed her scat. The
husband went out for a. walk to console bis
feelings, and on bis return he found that the
two had fled, the lady-love not forgetting to
take his purse, containing some £-12. He im
mediately searched t lie town, but to no effect:
his viola tricolor (or “heartsease”) had duped
him.
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The Usages of Society —Some of what are
called the usages of society are irksome to
many of us; but it will not. do to contemn
them. So long as they do net require of us
any sacrifice of principle it is better to con
form. There can be no harm in masking mor
tification with a smile, in "withholding tlie ex
pression of our opinions and sentiments wlutn
their utterance can do no good, in evading
questions which it is against our interests to
answer directly, or in being polite to people
whom we cannot esteem. Candor is a virtue,
but it is not advisable to wear one’s heart on
one’s sleeve in socioi.y. The ruio laid down
by Pascal, one of the purest of men and most
rigid of moralists, is a good one: "It is not
a condition,” says that excellent man, "that,
we state only that which is truth; weave
bound also not at all times to say all that is
true; because we ought, only to give publicity
to things that may serve a useful purpose,
and not to such as may cause pain to individu
als without conducing to general utility."
un utai an gossiping uusy-nouies wouiu give
heed to this sage advice—this sound, Chris
tian logic.
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A “Dropped” Letter.—A few days since a
young gentleman saw a lady on the street, in
Richmond with wiiose appearance he was
struck, and there being no mutual friend at
hand to introduce him to her, fell upon the
plan of writing for permission to see her
homo, and dropped it so that she might get it.
lie wrote his letter, and watching his oppor
tunity dropped it on the sidewalk in front of
her as she was passing .up-street. She saw
him drop it, and picked it up. She went up
and handed it to him, thinking he had dropped
it accidentally. Jlo informed her that it was
for her; he had dropped it so that she might
get it. Thereupon she opened it and read it,.
Very much to the surprise and chagrin of the
gentleman she forthwith pitched into him
“tooth and nail,” and administered as sound
a Hogging as she was able to do. Bystanders
interferred and released him from his un
pleasant. position.
Moral—Be sure of your game before you
drop a letter.
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Tub Idler.—The idle man is an annoyance
—a nuisance. He is of no benefit to anybody.
He is an intruder in the busy thoroughfare of
every day life. He stands in our path, and
we push him contemptuously nsido. He is of
no advantage to anybody. He annoys busy
men. He makes them unhappy. He is a ci
pher in society. He may have an income to
support him in idleness, or he may “sponge”
on liis good nalured friends, lint in either
case he is despised. Young man, do some
thing in this busy, bustling, wide-awake
world. Move about for tbc benefit of man
kind, if not for yourself. Do not be idle.
God’s law is, that by the sweat of our brow we
shall earn our bread. That law is a good one,
and the bread we earn is sweet. Do not be
idle. Minutes arc too precious to be sijuan-1
dcred thoughtlessly. Every man and every
woman, however exalted or however humble.
Lean do good in this short Efc, if so inclined;
! therefore, do not be idle,
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Cotton Raising—A New Labur System.
An intelligent Alabama planter, writing to
the Selma Messenger says:
More money may bo made growing cotton
at. thirty cents per pound with free labor than
was at ten cents in the days of slavery; and
this too by working gangs of hirelings, as at.
present, or by tenants upon smell farms. The
failure to cultivate the lands this year is ow
ing more to the incompetency of men engaged
in the business than to the unfavorahleness of
the seasons or the indolence of the freedmen.
Our present system of labor, or rather mode
of farming, for in truth we have no fixed sys
tem, must soon pass away, because it is not.
adapted to the wants of a whole community.
Old men, women and minors who own land,
and a large amount of real estate is owned by
such persons, cannot attend in person to its
cultivation, while there are other persons who
will not take the trouble to do so. We must,
therefore, haven system of agricultural labor
suited to the wants of all What will that
be ? Certainly a tenantry, but this cannot be
established in a day—time alone can mature
it. The soil of every free country is occupied
and cultivated by tenants, and such must lie
the ease here sootier or later—in ten, twenty,
or fifty years, perhaps—at first by a mixed
tenantry of blacks and whites, but ultimately
no doubt, by the latter alone.
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Axxmrr.ATiox is Impossihi.e.—It is ascer
tained, ami is capable of the clearest proofs,
that, the simple elements of which all sub
stance is composed cannot by any conceivable
means be destroyed. They may indeed be so
changed as to present not the least resem
blance to their previous forms; they may be
so mingled with oilier bodies that their iden
tity cannot be traced ; they may be dissipated
into invisible vapor, and be apparently anni
hilated; but we learn from the science of
chemistry that, in every shape the same ele
ments remain inextinguishable and unaltered.
The phenomena of solutions afford some of the
most obvious illustrations of complete change
lU'iiilminrl 1 n lin/lino wit li/vut nntiiliilo ti,.n 11'
a piece of silver be immersed in diluted nitre,
in a short time the silver will be entirely dis
solved Its hardness, its lustre, its tenacity,
its specific gravity, all the characteristics
which distinguish it as a metal, arc gone.
Its very form has vanished, and the hard,
splendid, ponderous and ohaque metal, which
a few minutes before was immersed in the
mixture, is apparently annihilated. The
liquid, however, remains as limped ns before;
it proseenis no difference in appearance to in
dicate a change. What, then, has become of
the solid -piece of silver which was placed in
<lie liquid. Must we conclude that it is anni
lated? Put some pieces of copper into the so
lution and tlie silver will ro-appear, and fall
immediately to the bottom of the glass in small,
brilliant metallic crystals. Though solution
is one of the simplest processes of nature, the
limited faculties of man will not permit him
to comprehend the mode in which it operates.
There is not one phenomenon in nature that
the mind of man can fully comprehend, and
after pursuing the inquiry ns far as the men
tal capacity will admit, hois obliged to confess
that there is an operating power beyond his
comprehension,
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Joking.—It- is not. everybody who knows
where to joke, or when, or how ; and whoever
is ignorant of these conditions, had better not
joke at all. A gentleman never attempts to be
humorous at the expense of people with whom
he is but slightly acquainted. In fact,, it is
neither good manners nor wise policy to joke
at anybody’s expense; that is to say, to make
anybody uncorn fort able m erely to raise a laugh.
Old JKsop. who was doubtless the subject of
many a gibe on account of his bumped back,
tells the whole story in his fable of “The Hoys
and the Frogs'” What was fun to tiie young
stern was deatli to the croakers. A jest may
cut deeper than a curse. Some men are so
constituted that they cannot take even a friend
ly joke in good part, and instead of repaying
it in the same light coin, will requite it with
contumely and insult Never banter one of
this class, for he will brood over your badin
age long after you have forgotten it; and it is
.not prudent to incur any one’s enmity for the
sake of uttering a smart double entendre ora
tart repartee. Ridicule, at best, is a perilous
weapon. Satire, however, when leveled at
social follies and political evils, is not only
legitimate, but commendable. It lias shamed
down more abuses than were ever abolished
by force of logic.
Matrimonial Maxims.
Better be well hanged than ill wed.
Commend a wedded life, but keep thyself a
bachelor.
He that marries a widow will often have a
dead man’s head thrown on his dish.
Take heed, girl, of the promise of a man,
for it will run like a crab.
The rich widow cries with one eye, and
laughs with the other.
The cunning wife makes her husband her
apron.
Three daughters and a mother arc four dev
ils to the father.
lie that loses his wife and a farthing, hath
great loss for his farthing.
Honest men marry soon—wise men not at
all.
Three women and a goose make a market.
Who takes an cel by the tail and a woman
by her word, may say he bolds nothing.
You need not marry; you have troubles
enough without it.
-Practically, the Atlantic cable will be of
little use to the great body of the people, if tho
mammoth charges of the monopoly arc to be
maintained. Precious little conversation will
be carried on between England and America
at the ralo of a hundred dollars in gold for
every twenty words. If the success of the
present cable leads, as we suppose it will, to
tho establishment of competing lines, some
benefit to the public will be the result. But
at present its music is too costly for the mil
lion, and, so far as I heir advantage is con
cerned, it might as well remain voiceless,
[Memphis Argus.
To Render Wood Uninflammable.
Make n saturated solution of potash, and
thicken it with paste as for distemper paint
ing. then add suiheieut clay to give it the
consistence of thick cream, adding yellow or
red ocher or other mineral coloring matter, if
desired, for the sake of appearanee. Wood
painted with this composition is said to be
proof against rain, and to be incapable of
being inflamed, although it may be carbonized
by a fierce heat.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
-When does ft carpenter put. the wind in
debt? When lie makes the u ind-otc.
-Why is an andiron like a yardstick?
Because it lias three feet.
-Tf yon have a cough, don't go to church
to disturb the rest of the congregation.
-The falls of Niagara pass 100,200,000
tons of water over their brink every hour
-A witty follow says that a hoop skirt
hanging out of a door reminds him of the peel
of a belle.
-There is a young man in Vermont who
feeds his geese on iron tilings, and gathers
steel pens from their wings.
-“Boy, did you let off that gun?” ejacu
lated an enraged schoolmaster. “Vos, sir.”
“Well, what do you think 1 will do to you?"
I “Why, let me off.”
-A learned coroner being asked how he
accounted for the great mortality this year,
exclaimed, “I cannot tell: people seem to die
this year that never died before.”
-“Poor old General Debility!” exclaimed
Mrs. Partington, “it is surprising how long
he lives, and what, excitement he creates ; tho
papers are full of remedies lor him.”
-“Where shall I get a panel?” said tho
sheriff to (lie judge.
“Why, 1 suppose, sir, that you can get
enough of panels out of doors."
-A little boy seeing a drunken man
prostrate before the door of a groggery,
opened the door, and putting in his head,
said to the proprietor, “See here, sir; your
sign has fallen down!”
-Tf you are disquieted with anything,
you riiouki consider witn yourselr, is the
tiling of that worth, that for it I should so
disturb myself, and lose my peace and tran
quility ?
-A gentleman traveling on a steamer one
day, at dinner was making way with a largo
pudding close by, when lie was told by a ser
vant that it was dessert. “It matters not to
mo. said ho, 1 would eat it, if it wore wilder
ness. . .
-Thcstudy of truth is perpetually joined
witji the sincere love of virtue; for thoro is
no virtue which derives not its original from
truth; as, on the contrary, t bore is novice
which lias not its beginning in a falsehood.
Truth is the foundation of nil knowledge, and
the cement of all societies. i
-Gratitude is the fairest blossom which
springs from the soul; and the heart of man
knowotli none more fragrant. While ils oppo
nent, ingratitude, is a deadly weed; not only
poisonous in itself, but impregnating the very
atmosphere in which it grows with fetid va
pors.
What Next.—A young countryman lately
took a notion to get married. After the cere
mony was concluded, Jonathan took a quarter
of a dollar from his pocket, deliberately
walked up to the parson and handed it to him,
Baying, “Parson, keep the whole, you needn’t
give me back any change,”
Fiudf..—-The chief and common companion
of pride is ignorance. Our pride feeds itself
by dwelling upon the possession of some or
nament which we believe to be extraordinari
ly brilliant. But did we see the precious jew
els which adorn many others in like circum
stances, we should shun to wear ours, and
should meekly set ourselves to increase our
store of grace.
——A gentleman was always complaining
to his father-in-law of his wife’s temper. At
last papa-in-law, becoming very weary of those
endless grumblings, and being a bit of a wag,
replied, “Well, my dear fellow, if I hear of
her tormenting you any more, I shall disin
herit her.” The husband never again com
plained.
-“When 1 goes a shopping,” said an old
lady, “1 alien asks fur what I wants; and if
they have it, and it’s suitable, and 1 feel in
clined to take it, and it’s cheap, and it can’t
bo got anywhere else for less, I almftst allera
take it, without chaffering about it all day, as
some people do.”
-“Mu, i want some liquid generosity on
. i....i ,...u i.
J
“Si
“Si
“What, in the world does the hoy mean by
liquid generosity?” “What is it my sou?,”
••(Josh, mam, don’t you know? Why it’s
molasses, to be sure 1”
t j u !■ -g- is
-From all parts of the State wo
have the gratifying intelligence that the
prospects of good crops has been very
much increased within the past three
weeks. Many planters who had some
time since, given up all hope of even half
a crop, are now confident that their lands
will produce as much as usual-—[Natchez
Democrat.
-Confederate Gen. Roger A. Pryor
and Air. Thomas' W. Pittman, dramatic
author and critic, and clerk of the Jeffer
son Market Court, have formed a copart
nership for the transaction of law business
in New York.
-A European dispatch over the At
lantic cable says: “It is quite probable
that a Congress of the great European
powers will be called to meet in Paris in
October, to settle tho preliminaries for a
more perfect in Europe.4’
-The President’s message to Queen
Victoria, containing twenty-seven words,
passed through the cable in eleven min
utes, and was delivered to the Queen al
most immediately.
-The Aberdeen Examiner says that
Wm. McBeth, who stole a horse in that
vicinity lately, is now hanging by tho
neck, “a swollen, blackened corpse, near
Mantin’s Bluff.
-One hundred and sixty-throe miles
of the Union Pacific railroad are now
completed; bringing it within thirty-one
miles of Fort Kearney. So says an Oma
ha dispatch.
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