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IIKHTOUATIO.
A fpirit of the pi imul morn
AVbom Ciod'i own beauty did adorn
Ainrat on hill of Puradiae
Ii saw Creutiou'a morning ri.o,
Thai morning, benuleou, grand, and holy,
Kro (inner fell to vice and folly, .
Row fallen with all that rebel host,
When with their angel leader lot,
l'roni Heaven' iinmeaiurablo lower
AVeru hurled thoee mighty angel power,
In reulnm of night and peiiul pniu,
Tim poured hi melancholy (train :
Ah ! morning bright with heavenly blie,
Upward I look from thi abym
To thy fair scene, and, shuddering, wait
The dread decree nf mighty fate. ,
Age oil ac, iiieichlea lire
Shall bum till all at lout expire,
lly Jean' blood aiiudued. Oh, wake,
Cehwtiul music, breathing low,
All ure redeemed. Tin fiery woe
Shall cease. The bow of God aublima
JShull bend, the ign of love all time,
And all Creation hail the duwn
Of Love' eternal, cheorful morn.
Ueatttlful Sketch.
It was night. . Jerusalem slept as quietly
amid her lulls as a child upon tlio breast ul'
its mother. Tlio noiseless seuiiiiul stood
liko u status at his post, and tlio philoso
pher's lamp burucd dimly in the recess of
his chamber.
But a darker niylit was abroad upon the
earth. A moral darkness involved the na
tions in its unlmhted shadows. Reason
ched a faint glimmering over tlio minds of
men, like the cold and inefficient shining of
a distant star. X ho immortality of man s
spiritual nature was unknown, his relations
to heaven undiscovered, ami his ftituie des
tiny obscured in a cloud of mystery.
" It was fit that period two forms of ethe
real mould hovered over tho hind of God's
chosen people. They seemed like sister an
gels sont to earth upon some embassy of
love. 1 ho one was ot majestic stature, and
in the well-formed limbs, which her snowy
drapery -hardly concealed, in her erect bear
ing and 8'eady eye, exhibited the highest
degree of strength and confidence.' Her
right ami was extended in nn impressive
gesture upwards whero night appeared to
have placed her darkest pavilion ; while on
her left reclined her delicate companion, in
form and countenance the contrast of the
other, for she was drooping like the flower,
when unmoistened by refreshing dews, and
her bright but troubled eye scanned the air
with anient but varying glances, suddenly
a light like the sun flashed out from the
heavens, and Faith and Hope hailed with
exulting songs the ascending Star of Beth
lehem. ! ' .
Years rolled away, and the stranger ap
peared in Jerusalem. He was a moek, un
assuming man, whoso happiness seemed to
consist in acts of benevolence to the human
race. There were deep traces of sorrow on
Iris countenance, though no ono know why
ho grieved, tor he lived in the practice of
every virt'to, and. was loved by all the good
nnd wise. By and by it was rumored that
tho stranger worked miracles ; that tne
Jblind saw, the dumb spoke, and the dead
Heaped to life nt his touch ; that when he
commanded, the ocean moderated its channg
ttidq, and tho very thunders articulated, he
iis the Son of God. Envy assailed him with
llie charge- of sorcery, and the voice of im
pious, judges condemned . him to death.
.'Slowly-.w5l thickly guardod he ascended the
i Jiill of Calvary. A heavy cross bent him to
.the earth. But Faith leaned upon his arm,
jnd Hope, dipping her pinions in his blood,
ipiounted to the skies.
.,. .
Steam Power.
"TTho steam engine owes its present form
Wd perfection chiefly to tho genius and la
'bors of the late James Watt, Esq., of Eng
land. Although the idea of propelling boats
V tho force of steam was entertained by
different individuals in different countries
'Ion" before it was carried into practice, yet
tholirst successful effort of steam nnviga
'tion was made by our countryman, Robert
Fulton, In 1807. This year the first steam
"boat, the ''Clermont," ascended the Hudson
'to Albany. Fulton never contemplated a
Velocity for boats greater than eight or nine
miles per hour, Out Hie average speeu nu
giVen to boats on the Hudson is no less than
fifteen miles per hour, and sixteen miles is
no unusual rale. 0nwtaZ' Philosophy.
(r When Lord Sandwich said he did
not know the difference between orthodoxy
. and heterodoxy, Warburton, the Bishop, re
plied, "Orthodoxy, my IorJ, is my dory,
: nnd heterodoxy is another mat$ dory."
.JSymt,
V. 1.. H.MH,
F.dttnranil Proprietor."
VOL. 1.
oRsaoxtf
Mr. VrollnuhuysfB, on prohibition. .
At the late New Jersey Statu Temperance
Convention at New lirunswiek, Hon. Theo
dore Frclinghuysen delivered the following
address ; .
Mr. President : I always rejoice in the
privilege of meeting a temperance associa
tion. It brings mo near to nn enterprise
of mercy, that seeks the doliveranco of our
fellow-men from an evil, among the most
afflicting lo all our interests for this world
und tho world to tome.
The prohibitory law against all traffic in
intoxicating liquors ns a beverage, lias been
assailed as unconstitutional, and it behooves
temperance men to review the case, and ex
amine tho foundations upon which it resists.
I propose, therefore, very briefly to urgo
the arguments which sustain tho law ; and
to show that the Legislature not only hold
the authority, but nro bound in public duly
to prohibit the commerce. They pronounce
it lo be a nuisance. If this be true, all must
agree that it may bo law fully forbidden and
abated. Whatever impairs tho public
health or corrupts tho public morals, is a
nuisance. Tho oldest law writers on this
subjec', define it in such terms. A few
simple illustrations will make it clear. A
business, rightful in itself, will bceomo a
nuisanco should it be misplaced. The loca
tion of n butcher's slaughter-house on the
streot of a town or city, thickly settlod, is
a nuisance ; it impairs tho health and dis
turbs the comfort of the pcoplo. Now, hero
is a lawful pursuit. We must have butch
ers, butchers' slaughter houses and yet,
even this may bo restrained by tho act of
the Legislature under heavy penalties, if
put in a wrong place ; and the liko law us
to tho soap-boiler on tho great principle,
that the place of such busitiess must yield to
tho health of community.
So with card-playing. Why, thoro is
no harm in tho cards nor the house uso of
them, except tho wasto of lime and thought.
But if n man sets tip a ganiing-tablo and
draws in the young, and entices men from
thoir homes mid families to play for money
or its worth, it is a flagrant nuisance, to be
put down as n corj-upter of tho morals. It
lends to idleness, and vice, and profligate
manners. It assaults the virtue of any peo
ple; ; and tho Legislature as tho guardian
of the public weal should suppfes it. And
tho race courso belongs to the same class.
A man may try tho spoed of his horso on
his farm, or on the highway. It is lawful ;
he may indulge in tho amusement without
crimination. But should he step a little
further and challenge to a public race, when
bets nro to be made or when without that,
largo numbers are to be gathered, it is a
nuisance a wholesale demoralizer. It
tempts industry away from safe and honor
able business it invites the young and un
wary to doubtful and corrupting companion
ship, opens tho door and paves the way lo
all manner of evil. The legislature, from
tho first, forbids it in our own State. At
one short period they were prevailed on to
repeal the no licenso law ; but this opened
such a floodgate in the" influx of dissipation,
gambling, intoxication, and depravity, that
they soon restored the law to our statute
book with increased penalties. And if they
may subject to heavy penalties persons en
gaged iu this unlawful business, what is
there in intoxicating liquors, bought to bo
sold contrary to law, to move the law-makers
to any partial legislation in exempting this
scourge of our race ? And if stolen goods
may bo searched for anywhere on a magis
trate's warrant, after outh made by a credi
ble witness of his bolief that they aro so
concealed, whence can arise any apology for
rum thus concealed for unlawful sale ?
The case of lotteries gives a striking analo
gy. Our statutes forbid the setting up of
lotteries. A lottery is a nuisanco, because
it entices men to put their earnings to tho
decisions of chance, and this in itself is cor
rupting and becauso it tempts them to
idleness nnd neglect of all domestic duty,
and therefore it is prohibited. And inas
much as any attempt to regulate such nn en
terprise would be vain, the legislature would
eradicate the evil and forbid under penalty,
the sale of lottery tickets.
It is perceived, therefore, that matters
and pursuits rightful in themselves, become
nuisances as they injurously affect health or
mor.ita. And this feature of legislative
nower mnv be seen in our oldest codes of
law, applied also to other kindred cases
indeed the doctrine may be traced far into
nast a sres of the common law. It is rooted
in the first principles of public duty and en
lightened conscience.
Xow tho traffic in intoxicating liquors as
a bevcr.T'e, tried by these great rules, stands
ot iKo hirl nf all mischievous trades. Wo
hnvo thn rminful experience of moro than
sixty years, that it has always been regard
ed as an insidious enefny to public health,
;tt nn.! -Aee. The legislature for all
i j , .
that time, and longer, nas l .
the fruitless attempt to regulate ine uu...."
by licenso to n selected few, by proniwuons
against nales by small measure and by
frowns against any tales without license.
And the evil has grown stronger, year f'
ter year, and has become a monster, almost
(lelying law and public sentiment, wore
lUBU one nuiMireu grujjljHnes in new yur
wick, more than seven hundred in Newark,
and multiplied all over otir own State, cor
rupting the morals and destroying tbe
health of oiir people as no other practice,
trade or habit could do, and as all toeether
never have done. Talk of regulation it
laughs at regulation it fatten upon it.
Thirteen of our Stutas have jieldtJ with.
MKHIf. ..know aotwWl
kanws nnuuntof Coronet,
cxtt, oaaooN territory, batprpay, ootobbh
sad, yet doep conviction to tho truth, that
uo remedy can reach the miscliiut, but un
absuluto prohibition of tho traffic. They
prohibit all sales of lottery tickets, because
such sales would porpetuate lotteries so
they prohibit all tales of intoxicating liquors
as a beverage, becauso they see and know
. I . Ml ..! .1.-
mat any mere regulation win susiuin mo
trade and perpetuate tho wasting mischief.
The clause of forfeiture of the liquor
seems to have alarmed somo minds besides
counselors who have spoken through the
press. A moments thought will relievo
the fear. Thcro is no magic terror in the
word. For what is a fine but a forfeiture of
so much of a man's property to tho Stttto ?
suppose Hint ill tne law agaiusi uorsu-ruciug
tho law-makers had assessed tho fine ac
cording to tho worth of tho horses snv,
for instance, 1,000 or $2.000 would it
not bo taking the property of tho transgres
sor quite as really und substantially as by
e . .v. 1 I :.. i, ...1.!..- .
lorieiimg me norses I ii is uiMuy uiy
property," says the objector ; and is not
every fine taking away your property f
lee, and if that does not arrest tho forbid
den race or prohibited sale, tho luw may
take your person next, and that, togother
ith your property, put the ono in the pub
lic treasury nnd the other in tho public
prison and this, nntil the law is maintain
ed and vindicated.
Tho true nature and just aims of all sound
government, is to guard the rights and mor
als of tho whole people, watchfully.
I add the intcretts.ot tho pcoplo when no
direct question of morals can be raised, but
only considerations of comfort and well-be
ing. Henco it is that to kill game, or to
fish for shad after a certain day, exposes to
a penalty ; and in all matters touching the
public welfare, tho legislature have tlio au
thority nnd have immemorially exercised it.
And all considernto men should give tho
law their aid and countenanco, for the sake
of a greater good. Granted that the uso of
wine in itself is a lawful indulgence, yet, if
its tendency is injurious, it it lends to other
excesses, if it opens the way for the poison
ous adulteration of wines (as it does most
grievously,) and of all exciting liquors ns
Paul did in his day, so should wo. Who
would not deny himself to save a friend ?
to snvo his country I And who can gravely
maintain that the snlo of intoxicating liquor
is not harmful, and most destructive of
health, character, and domestic comfort ?
I would fetch melancholy arguments from
the tears of neglected families broken
hearted wives and starving children from
the poor-house, the prison, and the grave
yard I would ask for the sake of human
nature it it be not tune to abolish torover tins
ruinous traffic ! And to accomplish it, .wo
must stand together we must raise a puro
and lofty standard, nnd then lead, and not
wait to follow public opinion. And this
without dread of a littlo extravagance. A
cause that is worthy of a hearty support,
will always kindle enthusiasm, and this
sometimes bo followed by occasional extrava
gance. If a reformation did not kindle
warmth in the bosom, it would bo a very
strong proof that it had no great merit. I
would wish it to glow with an ardent enthu
siasm, and prompt to vigorous, unflinching,
self-forgetting action. Let the same spirit
which animated ourforofatliors in the strug
gle of the Revolution, shape our temperance
enterprise. They threw overboard tho tea
into the ocean, not troro any spite against
the tea, but for the great doctrine which
opened that eventful drama. They there
by declared to the world, and the world per
ceived with what determination, that they
would neither pay tho tax nor drink the
tea. So may we finally resolve in this
purpose of mercy, and seek God's blessing,
without which no enterprise can prosper,
and with which none can fail.
Tourteea Years Ago.
Some idea of the rapid stridos that 'Voting
America' is making may bo gathered from
the fact that just fourteen years ago but a
single house, and that a log cabin, stood
upon what is now the site of St. Paul, Min
nesota, a city that supports four daily news
papers, and whero upwards of 43,000 pas
sengers have been landed within a year.
National Intelligencer.
That isn't anything. 'Fourteen years
ago ' Antiquity forsooth. 'Fourteen
years ago,' some of our married ladies hadn't
learned thoir A, B, C. 'Fourteen years
ago,' Texas wai not in tbo Union Mexico
had not been taught good manners Cali
fornia was a no account place 'Fourteen
years ago,' we lad 1,031 newspapers, now
we have 2,520. 'Fourteen years ago,' we
had about 2,000 miles of railroad in the
United States ; nowwehavo over 17,000.
'Fourteen years ago,' Morse was just start
ing his telegraph ; now wc havo 30.000
miles of wire. 'Fourteen years ago, the
prodigy called 'Young America,' was riding
mg the hickory at school and yawning over
1 RKia nr pencil ; but now-a days, the hope
ful child is conquering Japan by diplomacy
studying Geography in the tropics and
i vorli. Sea inviting the Sandwich Maud
Soul i America scauns lceoerirs mi iuh
i pR to dina ;ln an,l wondering if Cuba
i wou,n't b0 a eooJ place for him to manti
facture his cigars. Montyomery (Ala.) Ad
vertiser. OCT John Hawkins, of Devon, England,
was the first person mentioned in Knglish
hislory who trafficked in African slaves,
which he told to the Spaniards of America,
in 1067.
ot (olilra nromUe ef UWit, )
tad Hlr. d MlrlanOV
The F.niperar Naancloa 111.
Among tho multitudinous circumstance
of a striking and extraordinary character
connected with tho history of Louis Napo
leon, not tlio least is a fact stated by a well
informed corrponilent in tho Illustrated
London News, of lust Saturday. It is
there affirmed, that, during his exile, h
fused to read with great interest the proof
sheets of M. Thiers, "History of the Consu
late nnd Empire," which wero supplied to
him by Mr Forbes Campbell, who w as then
preparing on English version of that work.
Tho following remarkable postage occurs iu
a letter which tho 1'rinco addressed to Mr.
Campbell in 1817, when returning tho
proof sheets of Vol.5. It will bo seen
that even at that early period the Kmpnror
mcdiutod the English ullianco w hich ha hat
sinco accomplished :
"Why was not I born to thnro in tho
glories of those heroic timet f But, on re
flection, it is hotter as it it. What a tad
dening spcclaelo to behold tho two greatest
and most civilized nations of tho world do
tlroying one another (s'tHtreyoryer) two
nation that ought in my opiuion (ttton
moi,)lo have beta frieudt and alliet, tud
rivals only in tho am of penco. Let us
hopo the day may yet come when I thall
carry out tho intentions of my Uncle, by
uniting the interests and policy of England
and France in nn indissolublo alliance.
That hope cheers and encourages me. It
forbids my repining at tho altered fortunes
of my famiiy.''
K Predict lorn of the Present War.
Tho Rev. John Cumuiing, D. D., of tho
Scotch Church, London, in a lecture deliv
ercd in Exeter Hall, iu the year 1847, pro
nounced, nmong other matters, the prophet
io words written -below. They aro copied
from his "Apocalyptic Skolchcs":
"Having explained the pouring out of the
six preceding vials, tho learned lecturer pro
ceeds with the seventh his text is Rev. xvi.,
17 to 21.
"Tho seventh vial is ready to be poured
out, or if not already pouring out, wo aro
unon tho very verco of its bcinir to. It
trembles in the hands of the angel. We
may expect that during the action of this
vial the mountaineer in tho fastnesses tho
miner in his s'ubterranonn caves the voya
gor upon tho ocean's bosom the Arab In
his desert tho Moslem in his mosque tho
Cossack in his steppes tho King upon his
throne the mother in her household tho
babe in tho cradle all will feel its vibra
tions, rcceivo tho taint of its influence, and
respond in a thousand echoes to the voice
from above, 'It is done.'
"Thcro will bo rocking thronot; there
will bo subverted dynasties ; there will be
dislocated systems ; thoro will bo nations
scattered and shaken as by a whirlwind ;
and the hearts of the great and the mean,
the rich and the poor, trombling for fear of
tho things coining on earth,
"Now you will notice that undor the sev
enth vial the ten-kingdom form is no longer
to be the distinctive chnracteristio of the
Romish nations ; they nro to assume a now
shape ; they will be divided itito a tripar
tite shape ; threo great masses will be the
ultimato form into which all the nations of
Europe nnd Christendom will bo divided ;
as toon ai you see three great leading pow
ers coming into collision, with broad Europe
for tho battlo-fiuld, nnd tho evening of the
world for the hour of the conflict, you may
expect that the downfull of Babylon and tho
advent of Christ and tho dawn of tho mil
lennium are near. It is probnblo that this
tripartite division will consist of France
leading its hosts upon the ono side, as tho
great partisan of the Papacy ; tho Autocrat
of all the Russia, who lias more than once
blared a cruel came, may lead tho second
part ; and I have somo idea that this old
England of ours, so illustrious by its sainted
suflercrs, its noble army of martyrs, its
dovoted Christians, its preached Gospel, its
spreading Christianity, iu circulated liibles,
will also be tho third part ; and whon tho
conflict comes, it will bo as of old England
airainst tho world, the truth of God against
the npostacy of Satan and tho infidelity of
man."
JtiT "You teach," taid tho Emperor Tra
jan to Rabbi Joshua, "that God is every
where, and that ho resides among your na
tion. I should liko to toe him." "God's
presence is indeed everywhere," replied
Joshua, "but he can not be seen ; no mortal
eye can behold his glory. Well," continued
Joshua, "suppose we try to look first at one
of his ambassadors." Tho emperor con
sented. Tho rabbi took him into the open
air at noonday, nnd bade him look at the
sun in its meridian splendor. "I can not,"
said Trajan ; "the light dazzles mo."
"Thou art unable, "said Joshua, "lo endure
tho light of ono of his creatures, and canst
thou expect to behold the resplendent glory
of the Creator ! Would not such a light
annihilate thee !
X3T Tho hiaot is said to have originated
in a secular nnd political transaction, not in
religion. Rollo, Duko of JVormamiy, re
ceiving Gissa, daughter of King Charles, in
marriage, and wim ner me mvemuuru oi
the dukedom, refused, to perform the usual
ceremony of kissing tho king's foot in to
ken of subjection, unless tho king would
hold it out for that purpose, and when urged
t it. answered hastily, "No, by God,"
whereupon tbe king gave him tho name of
the by Hod or unfit, ana we name nas pass
ed to all stubborn and pecvU.b. insiaters on
their own notions.
HI tlHt.Hir t'lWM.
Vl Dollar a ear.
is, uss.
NO. 26.
Mr. Slroiilkani' Churn.
SK'n!ing of churns, wo have uever teen
any other labor tuving contrivuiico in that
department, that for practical conveiiieuco
aud utility could coinpure with that of Mrs.
Sirongatlmni, a nolublo English houstwife
whoso acquaintance we bud tho pleasuro of
making in one oi tho rural districts ot Now
York some yean sinco. Having occasion
to call upon her one summer morning, wc
found her occupying her lingo chintx cover
o J rocking chair, rocking' and knitting as
though the salvation of the family depended
upon the assiduity with which tho applied
herself lo these occupations. Not thut she
was uncivil or unsociable by any means, for
tho moment wo had taken the proffered
chair tho sot in with a steady stream of talk
that was as instructive ns it was entertain
ing, for beside her admirable qualities as a
housewife tho lady possessed rare conversa
tional powen.
During our cull the directed one of her
daughters to sonic duty in a distant part of
the liouti, addii(g, "I would attend lo it my
self, but I mutt fetch this butter." Now,
wo Lad known something of tho process of
"fetching butter" iu our early dayt, and the
idea of a mow-white chum tud an irksome
expenditure of elbow grease was as natural
ly associated with it in our mind, as was the
cimpens'itory slice of now bread nnd butter
after tho achievement of the victory. We
therefore cast our eye about us involuntaii
ly for these indications, but wc looked in
vaiu. Of either churn or churning there
was no more nppearanco than might have
been seen in Queen Victoria's drawing
room any day in the week. Our curiosity
was excited, and we resolved to keep our
eyes open, satisfied that if wo did "we should
see whut wo should seo." And wo did.
During a momentary pause iu the conversa
tion the lady rose from her chair, removed
the cushion, raised a tort of trap door un
derneath, nnd looked into the apparent
vacuum with an earnestly inquiring eye.
The secret was out. Under the soat in her
rocking chair was a box in which she do
positod tho jar of cream, and tho agitation
produced by tlio vibratory motion of the
chair converted tho liquid into butter.
Ry this arrangement the lady was enabled
to kill, not two only, but four birds with tho
same stono. She could churn, knit, take
her cose in her rocking-chair, and entertain
her morning guests at the same time. And
such butter as sho made I Yellow as gold,
sweot as tho meat of tlio cocoa nut, and as
hard, too: "rural" market. You may brag
of your patent churns if you will, but for
novelty, economy, convenience and immac
ulate butter we defy thorn, one and all, whon
brought into competition with Mrs. Strona-
tham s incomparable contrivnnoo. Uf nor
butter wo thall retain a lively and grateful
remembranco to our dying day ; her churn
we shall novor forgot ei tho r. iix.
A. Xew Continual.
The cortil roefs of tho Pacific Ocean havo
been in part, measured, nnd nro found to be
of amazing extont, and a new continent is
in process of formation. All tlio labor is
accomplished by zoophytes insects; and
if wo wish to form some conception ot tueir
duin trs, we have but to remember that the
corn! formation of the Pacific occupy an
area of four or five thousand miles, nud to
imagine what a picture tho oceon would
present wero it suddenly drained. We
should walk amid huge mounds which had
been cased and capped with tho stono theso
animals had secretod. Prodigious ones
would rise from the ground all lowering to
tho tame attitude, reflecting the light of tho
sun from their white summits with dazzling
intensity. Here and thcro wo should see a
huge platform, once a large island, whose
peaks as thoy sunk were clothed in coral,
and then prolongod upwards until they rose
beforo us liko tho columns ot some huge
temple which had been commenced by tho
Anadinsof an antediluvian world. Clinm
pnllion has said of tho Egyption edifices,
that they seem to have been designed by
mon fifty foot high. Hero wandering
among these strango monuments, we might
fancy that beings ono hundred yards in stat
ure had been planting the pillars of somo
colossa citv thev bad nover lived to com
ploto. Ihe builders wore worms, aim tne
quarry, whence they dug their masonry,
the crystal wave. In the event of this vast
extent of coral reef being upheaved, where
or whonee will the water of the l'acihc re
cede I Either the western shores of the
American continent and away to the Rocky
Mountains will be submerged, or the horet
of opiiosite Asia, for innumerable agca the
cradlo of man't development and civiliza
tion, will sink into tho great abyss; and
tho ships of the inhabitants of this gloho
when it adds ten thousand years to its ngo
will sail over and find no soundings whore
millions to-day toil in unresisting servitude,
and whero cities from gorgeous cupolas and
storied palaces fling bark the rays of the ri
sing and the declining sun.
Irish AriRioti.TUBAL raonucE. The
Irish agricultural returns last pt.bl.slied
show that the cultivation of bent has de -
. .
creasou io a rcirairwe Cjini ui iraium,,
the number of acres in lfi53 being 43 per
cent, less thnn in 1 950. The extent of land
under oatt shows littlo difference ; but bar
ley has decreased about 7 per cent. Pota
toes, while thev show only an increaw in
acres of about . per cent., have increased in
produce about 45 per cent, since 1 )0 the
, . e i arn l in nr,n ,nn I...-.
prouuceoi looocrop oeii'g iv,..
re.1 moro man uwv oi viuki - - "-,
and 14,000,000 more than that of 1?30.
The t.eve fur Nuimli-ua la Vraaee
Tomh. ExUuel fMn t reetnlly pukliihed letttr
from Tarln i ' ' ' " ' ' "
"The lure of Napoleon ia, with llit French, art
iuleiiM and all-pervading piuwon ) in ahnokt twjf
Iioum you euttr you find hi rtatua oratatuette, or
hi likeuew aiifraved or painted, or nmt memento
of him. Her nnd lltro I found t MS. In pencil
inaik la wh'oh, I believe, ho uuatly wrote and
found It carefully kept, e!f jnnlly bound, and val
ued above all other poMeMou of tho family. Er
er)whe.e the rtreet of Par reminded trilb ill
erie of buy nn J men selling ileaeriplion of Xo
Icon' lomb. Thai lmh llaelfepoak volume. I
lure ren nuiliing inore for-emi ) everything that
inn rule an J tfutl, uitliht aud ihade, form aud o.
at, caii do to iluiil aud lo awe, teeiu to ban been
achieved bore. The ulraue ia flankad by r
oopliaji rrdiiiK Ukjb pliutki, aurmouuted by col
umn crowued wilb negmeula pediment, and ded'
lea led reelily to llie faithful lluwhul Duroo
and Hi rtrand. .
"IViing through a brume dor yon behold two
brouxe vurjatiJe of colcwnl proportion, holding
the g!ube, Kepter, nnd iniierial crown. Ba-re-lief,
coiiuiKinurulive of the hero, adorn the gullery
that, running under the Iiilt altar, and lighted by
funeral lump, lead Iu the crypt, who pavement
i ornamented with a vrowu nf laurel iu Maaaio I
sculptured laurel wreulh encircling th aamea
of the victurie of llivoli, Pyramid, Marengo, Aw
terlitx, Jenn, Freidlsnd, Wagrum, aud Moakowa
decorate the baluilrade aruuud lha tomb, while
twelva colnaal Utue, each commemorative of a
victory, tand against the pilaitert that fact it
The louib iuklf cvnaikl of an Immeuaa maunlylli '
uf porphyry, weighing ltfi.OUU pound, brought
from Ikt Uuga, toveriag a a.'gepkngua, alao af
a iugl block, (lauding upuu two pb'utba Uutt ru
pone eu a block of greu grauila, brought (rut tbe
ViHge mountain, lb whola aiquuuUly poluhed.
A Ihe I'leuch como iu crowd lo behold it aud
rend the nwmoiub'e wonl borrowed from Napole
on' will aud cut in the marble, 'Je desire que met
eriulrrt repoaenl fur lei horde de la Seine, au mil
ieu de re ptuple Franruit que fat mme,' I deira
Ihal my uhe may rrjioae on Ihe banks of the
Seine, aumiiglhu French people whom I bavelov
cd so well, yon are tthiioat peminded thut their en-
thiuiasui amount tu adulation."
Uow to be Happy.
I will uivt you two or threo good rule which
muy help you to become, happier than you would
bv without knowing them but at to being com
pletely happy, thut JoU cuu never be till you got to
Heaven.
Tho first it, ''Try your beat to muke other hap
py." "1 never waa nappy, sum a certain King,
"till I begaiito tuko pteaauro 111 tho Welfare of my
people but ever ince then, In the darkest day, I
have had auuahine iu my heart." I:
My aeouud rule ia, "He content wllh little."
There are many good rvaton fof thi rule, W
deserve butliltlu, we require but little, and "better
ia little, with Ihe (bar uf God, than great trenwre,
aud trouble therewith," Twu men were deter
mined tn be rich, but they et about it In different
way for Ihe one lrore to raiao up hit meant to
hi derirea, While the other did Ilia beat to bring
down hi desire to hi meant. The teaUlt was,
the one who Coveted much Wat alw aj repining,
while he who daaircd but littlo wa ulwuy content'
ed.
My third rule it, "Look on the sunny tide of
tiling."
Look up with hopeful eyea, .
Though oil things eem forlorn
The nui liiat art to-night will rise)
Again to-morrow morn. ,
The akippiug lamb, the ainging lark and the leap
ing finli tell u that liappines ia not confined to out
place. Uod in his goodneaa hn spread it abroad on
the earth, in the air and in the water. ' Two aged
womcu lived iu tho mine collage ; ono Wat always
fearing a itortn, and llie oilier Waa always looking
forsiiiwhine. Hardly need I nay which it waa wort
a forbidding frown, or which it Waa wliusa fact
waa lighted up wllh joy.
My fourth rule i,"Be alway prepared to die j"
thin relieving tho mind from apprehension at t
Hie future,
Tit religion Ihal rail give .,..
Rwecteat comfort while wt live,
A nd religion can anpply ' ' :,
Bolid comfort when wo die, , ' i
$-tT JJishop Ueber, upon departing for
Iudia taid in his farewell tertnoh "Life
bears us on like tho stream of It mighty riv
er, Our boat at first glides down tho nar
row channel through tho playful murmur
ing of the littlo brook, and tho Windowt of
its glassy borders. Tho trees send their '
blossoms ovor our young heads ; tho bowers
of tho bunk seem to oiler themselves to
our young hands; we are happy in hope,
and wo griup engufly at tile beauties around
us; but tho stream hurries on, and still out
hands are empty. Our course in youth nnd
manhood is along a wider, deeper flood,
amid objects moro striking and magnificent, '
Wc arc animated by the moving picture ot
enjoyment and industry passing us) we aro
excited by short-lived disappointment, The
stream bears ns on, and onr joys and griefs
are alike left bciiiuil us. YV may be imp
wrecked, but we oan nut bo delayed wheth
er rough or smooth, the river hastens to
ward it homo, till the roar of tht ocean ia
in our ears, and the wave it beneath our foet
and the land lesson from our eyes, and the
floods aro lifted up around us, and we take
our leave of earth and its inhabitants, nnd
on our further voyage thcro is no witness
save tho Infinite and Eternal."
OCT Jeremiah Mason said, "Unlest a man
occasionally tax his fatuties to tho utmost,
they will soon begin to fail." President
John Adams said to Mr. Quiney, who found
him rending Cicero, "It is with an old man
.... ..I.I I...K.M . ir -..,! wind fh nnf.
i, ..... ,.r i. ,. ,,ui. rk him
iih iv nu it uut ui miiii iwu n' ""'
, u w Tli;s0 t(V0 rucs, so far a
1 .iUi c, s conln;n t10 lecrel 0f
, . ,
gtw... -- o
;tiTTIic l.usintt war, snys the Calais
(Me.) Advertiser, seems to have a good ef
fect on the lumber business on this river, at
w c h am there aro two large vessels now
. ()a(i ,)y UlB Mvs!(rs ?otlvn wj,,
, y f i. ra)CU anlj s ; and ti,at tbe
. . ' n
i ,ave shipped severul cargoes to trance pre
vi'ius to this, this season, amounting in nil
to over otic million of feet.