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SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1G, 1859.
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"THE CO VS."
IT OLirtlt triSDCLl HOLIES .
Tla tfime any old fellow jcot mixed ni.h the boys!
If their h is, take hira ont, without tnnkmi; a noive !
Ibnr t.ie almanac's cheat anil the catalogue's spite!
O.d Tine i ft bar! We're tx-en'y la mifkt !
YVe'r twenty! We're twentv! Who ravs wc arc
more T
H" tiper TonTUtj:icanipc! show hint t?ie tloor!
? temple at twenty " Yw. trhi'e. if von ,U-asc;
Where the ranw flakes fall thickest, there' nothing
Was it mow I spofce oft Exerts the m'rtake!
Look cle yoo will ee not a in of a flake :
We want some new partand for those we have sbed
And these are white roses in plare of the red !
We've a trick, we voting frllou s, yon may bare been
Of t--l! rag (in rmblir) as if we were old ;
Thift hoy we rail -Doctor.' attd this we call 'Judge ,'
It a neat little fiction of eonn-e it' all fudge.
T't View' fre 'Speaker' the one on the right :
Mr M lyor.' my youni; one. bow ore von to nitin 1
That a onr 'Jlember of ConjrrcM.' we rav when we
e a i ; .
There' the -Reverend.' Wlai's Lis name T don't
. aiake roe Laugh !
That bnv with tlie rrave niathcaiatii-ril look.
Marte bt-l'eve be had written a wonderful book,
Ami the Koyal Academy thought it wa Irurl
So tliey chose him right in : a icood joke it was, too !
There's a lxy we pretend with a three-docker bruin.
Tt could harness a team with a W-ii-a! c; ai:i :
W en he pi';e f.r onr manhood in vlUMo.i tire,
We eil'ed him the -JtMice' but 'mw In s T e
Squire.'
And there's a n ee yrnn-rter of exeeWnt pith ;
Kate Trie ! tocoare.il him he naming hira Ntnith
Bit he 'loirei :i n ; tivrt'te bra re an I t!:e fi-ro
Jm real on his med.il -My conv.rry' -of tcc.
Ton bar thst boy lanhin? ? Yon think he's H fun
Bnr .h an rvlslanh too at the trim I lie ha dine:
T : c'-il l.i-n lan'h lond a they troon tobis rail.
And the p r m.iu t ial knows him binhs l.uk-M of a!'!
Tea, we'rj lovs alwav : plavinir with toniu- or with
pen,
And I s tne'i ne have aked "?'ti!I we eve- be men T
ShaH we ai way be yonrhtul. an lli i jin ami ev,
Till the l:u ilcar cu npa.ii.o dr.p n.a a.vay f"
Ten here's t" onrboy'ioo.1, its a and its irrav!
"ibe sra-s of it Wint.'-r, tlie drWK i.f its M ir !
An-l wTeri we have dne wit'i o 1- life Li--: inir tors.
Dear rtt!ie:ta';e rare of tv c n'.lren, t'te Hoys !
"JiETnonuT KS'iHfop.'. crtrnrii
Ann n.K.i nritrii.Mat'Tii
The Pacific Christian AJrorx'e nf hh n!t..
unJor the tiSove c-pti.:i. cmil:uii l-irtt-rlv of
th . plnntiit f thf S-uluTn Mi th list Ohn-h
iiiOri'; n. H- tiun'; it a jpvnt STifvatut.
pci-inllv tn.it the rants nf the division of tin'
chnrch fhonlJ K 1 ii l lt-firo tin- piiblic. mid hi
anl the ent-ral nortlurn el imlir nf ttt-l lr
the-ir own (lncutr.ent, nn J" makes the follmtiiijr
TW.kltfS aMwirioiis. viz :
Wc allege ns ftcts cnt".lle of fnl! Jem
onstmtion. that the southern co:ffreni-fs were
the fir.t asr?nsjrs nn.l innovnrs in the mat
ter which let! to th.-ir svei-s.-ion ."
2. Tliat the north not, np to the litre
of wpnr.ition. dt-pirt in the least from the di
cipltne nnil the tiitie-hotiorvd nstagvs of the
chnreh on the eulject of glavt-ry."
1. Mr. Pearne will not deny that it ww a
ifferenee f views anil practice between the
north and south, on the enhjert of slavcrr, t!tnt
divided the chrtrch. He wi'l not deny that if
there h.tj been no agitation of the slaverr qttft
tion. the chnrch ha.I not diviled. D'J the
smith bein the a?itatitn ? When ? w here T
by whom J Brinty forward yonr witnesses, I5ro.
Pearne.
2. To his second proposition I allege that
the whole conrse of the north in slavery nota
tion and chnrcli leptslntion, was, and isC wholly
ani-Methodistic, nn warranted by her ancient
discipline and unsanctioned br Iter '-rime-honored
usages." Prior to 1730'. there was noth
ing in the Methodist discipline on the subject of
slavery, nor had the Methodists, either in En-
rope or Amu 1. 1 n Il-xii'laLL'J llpJ.ltl'T?I?nWTy-
ject. "The time honored nsayes -f the chnrch"
had been to let the civil relation of master and
eltve rest where the New Testament had left
it, with the eivil government. Preachers and
members in the slave-holdin States held slaves,
and were not reonired to free them even in
St ites that allowed their freedom.'
But in 178 the ever restless north begran
. the ajrttation, and gut a rule passed condemning
slavery in the preachers of the sonfh The
soath. being a minority, snbmitted to this offi
cions, anti-scriptoral intermeddling with their
rights, rather titan separate from their brethren.
Encouraged by this victory, the north, in 1784,
came forward in their strength, with Dr. Coke
at their head, and adopted a new test of mem
bership, renmng all the slaveholders in the
chnrch to free their slaves, where the .States
would allow it, on pain excommunication !
To this the south wonld not submit. TNm
sands withdrew, and the chnrch was soon on
the britvk of rain. Dr. Coke and his northern
innovators were compelled to retrace their steps
and subtend their new rule within six mouths
after it wns adopfed. See History of the Dis
cipline for 1734-3. Say, Mr. Pearne, was this
F no "departure from the discipline and time
honored usages of the chnrch V' Where are
yonrdeijHtnstrations T
Again : Up to the year 1739, there never
had been a word in the ""General Rnles" on the
sul.ject of slavery. Those "Rnles" embodied
the "only condition" of admission into the
Methodist societies : but in that year the nori
changed and secularized that '"time honored"
inurnment by inserting, asmne of the sins most
generally practised, "the bnying or selling the
souls and Imdies of men, women and chillren
with an intention to enslave them." Say, Mr.
Pearne, was not this "departing in the least
from the discipline and the time honored nsages
the chnrch on the snbject of slavery ?" Let
u have your demonstrations.
Again: As late as 1340. the General Confe
rence of the M. E. Chnrch adopted the follow
ing resolution in regard to slave holding preach
ers, viz t
Rtsa'c'd, By the delegates of the several
annnal conferences in general conference as
sembled, that, under the p'-ovisionnl exception
of the general rule of the chnrch on the sub
ject of slavery, the simple holding of slaves, or
the mere ownership of tlave property, in Stati-s
or Territories w here the laws do not admit of
emancipation and pt-ruiit the liberated sluvi-g to
enjoy freedom, constitutes tio legal JinrritT to
the election and ordination of ministers to the
various grade of ;flioe, known in the Hiistiftry
of the M. E. Chareli. and cannot, therefore, be
considered as opirating any forfe iture of right,
in view of stich election and ordination."
And yet : In 1 344, the ery nt st general con
ference tliil virtually dejose from oliice n South
ern Bishop, one of the offices known'to the
Jlet'no lint loirii-trj-." for bi ing the legal owner
of sl:vi-s in a State that did not allow of entaii
cipitiu!i, notwithstanding he made the slaves ns
froe ai he coald under the circumstances, and
lerire:1 no be;ieSit whatever from tlieir t-erv:-ce.
X tw. Bro. Pearne, once more, was Jhia
dejKH'n f Bishop Andrew, under the circum
stances, no departure from the discipline ?
W.i tt rule reia.rid or justified it ? I think it
will bp very hard work for Bro. Peanie to de
monstrate his pro;osition.
The render wnl see that from 1780 to 1314,
m period of 4 years, the south had been contin
ently goaded, liarrasscd, and insulted and out
raged ly the doings of northern anti-slavery
men, with a policy unknown to ancient Meth
odism. The connection of the southern minis
ters w th sacli men wa- a constant draw back
up n toeir own ministrations among southern
people. For the sake of peace and unify they
did often submit to northern impositions whicii
were unjustifiable and humiliating, and which
greatly circuiuscrilied their usefulness among
slave holders and their slaves. But when their
own beloved aud devoted Bishop was deposed
and disgraced by them, they could submit no
h nger. and called for, and obtained n division
of the church, that they might pursue their own
apjstiilic work of saving souls, in pence and
h iruionj. Ther are now pursuing their proper
work on the ot.l Wesleyan Methodist plui,
leaving Cn?sar to manage his own allilirs. while
t'tey attend to the work of (Sod.
Mr. Poanitfc says: '.'The Southern church
has rcjH atedly violated the plan of in panititm."
We deny this, and demand the proof. The
south tMk" the "plan of separation" from the
north, ns a peace measure, bud have ever bcw
disposed to abide by it, while the north did. nt
the General Conference of 1843. solemuly de
clare the whole plan null and void from the be
ginning, mid that the bihops. preachers iiud
memlTs of the church. South, had withdrawn
from the Methodist Episcopal Church, out!
thereby forfeited all iheir right, title and inter
est in an.l to every species of property belong
ing to the id "Methodist Episcopal Church
prior to the Separation ! ! Xow, Bro. Pearne,
who violated the "plan of separation " Tlie
church property referred to above, and which
the Northern General Conference of 1S4S de
clared the south had forfeited to them, is speci
fied in the plan of separation ns including not
only thi ir proper share of the bonk concern and
charter d fund, but all the printing establish
ments. j11. oi. schools, met-t'ug Uouuve, par
s maji ami huning grounds. &c, iu the soutli!
That "plan of s p tration" was adopted in 131 1,
by near I'm norllieni vit-s to one southern,
tae entire ote being ulmo-t iiuanimiots. And
yet. ill 1313 I hey s -detnnly repudiate tlieir own
a. t, mid cl tiui all the southern church property!
Xo wonder there' is a terrilde s minimis- when
these facts are n-ad to the people, from their
own hi-torv of th sc event. It is cimutrh to
make nnv one wri'h.- vhi is onueetcd with
tiiem if his heirt has any feeling in it ! Bull
fiibe.tr. We should not mcmio.i tiiese things
at all now, if we had n .t lie.-n drivi n to it in
.If defense.
Mr. P. ame s.m s. " there has bet n more agi-
t-t ion oft.iv si iv rv oueslion iu the Willamette
Valley si. ice oar coiiutigth::n ever before." lie
seems iisiioed to make the itnoresston that irr
itate the slaverv iinestiou. In this he is as
far from the truth as in his other statement.
We have never agitated the question l slavery
at ail. All we have done was hi iinlv to rend
ii:ti.-ii of tlioe hi-toric dtkMimet-.t of the
climc'i resjteiting her si ivcry l-.-gi-I ttion. ami
d.vi i. ii. and t.i make s:h1i res.tarus on tiiem ns
was in c .a t V to s t ourselvi s. as a deiiomina-
tian, nSit bt fore the neojde. I J:ose diH;n-
mt-u:s are all of northern authority, and we
hare ctH'.fi on all at the time, w ho iinesliom-d
t4te c .rr. etness of our reading, or the fairness
of our interpretation, t j come li:r ant, then and
there, nr.d corn i t us bv the documents. Could
wc have acted more fairly ?
Mr. P. arae says, " liev. O. Pi.-ht r did him
self oppose the division of the churv-h as umii-c-
t ssary.'' So 1 did for a time, until I saw there
was m hop- of peace from the north. I wrote
a letter of alTec innate remonstrance, to the
IVistern Cnrittiftn Adrocate, in which my for
mer letters bad been published, but it was not
permitted to s-e the light I
In conclusion, we hold Mr. Pearne responsi
ble for most or all of the slavery agitation" in
this valley. lie has ltoen in the lield. both
against slavery and the Southern Methodist
Chr.rc'', from lng before we came to Oregon ;
has wii t.-n against slavery himself, ami re
H nested others to write against it for his paper.
We are not di posed to enter into con:rmer
sy with Mr. Peanie. or any one else, lint w ecan
not allow his mis-statements to go uncorrected.
Despite all the opposition of the . C. Ad
vocate. Southern Methodism is phmttd in Ore
gon; and under the Divine Messing, it wil
vntuiri i rs m iiivr iu rui'"i vroiiiii into
church members; and having the scriptures
as the rule of our faith and practice,
aud having tlie Spirit of Christ within us,
we have nothing to fear.
We hope Bro. Pearne will lay down the
weapons of his useless warfare, and cease to
fight against tts. He cannot prevail. God is
w'th us. We shall succeed. Let the Southern
Methodists be faithful to U oil, and to one an
other, prosperity is before them.
Mr. Pearne holds that the plan of separation
failed because a majority of the Northern An
nual Confcrenws Hd not concur in authorizing
the general cotference to change the sixth re
striction rule.
The reader w ill see, by consulting the rule,
that it had nothing to do v ith the division of
the church, but the simple disbursement of the
proceeds of the Look concern, aud chartered
fund.
The only contingency in the division of the
chnrch w as the necessity for it in the judgment
of the annual conferences in the slave-holding
States. That was coufirmed, and the church
legally divided. O. FlSHEK.
Salem, Ogx, Aug. 4, 135D.
Death of a Miser. The Newark (X. J.)
Mercury, says :
On Tuesday night, nt his stone house on the
Blooinficld turnpike, in the 11th ward, died
William Patterson, aged about SO years, a na
tive i.r Scotland, and for the last quarter of a
century, known by old and young as the
Swamp Miser." For years it has heon the
habit of all passing his neglected and cheerless
dwelling, to point out to companions and strin
gers the resilience of the miser, and many cn
rions incidents arc-mentioned ns havint occurred
iu his life. He died as he had lived.- bilking of
interest and gain and surrounded by nothing
conducive to comfort except such things as had
been furnished iu his hist hours by kind neigh
bors. He would have no doctor, though one
was procured against his will, who was asked
by the dying m:m how much he was going to
charge for the visit, saying he would rather
Fpend the money for something else. Neither
would he have a clergyman, saying he believed
none of their doctrines. His belief w as pecu
liar. After a certain number of years he expects
to return to this wtald a young man, and he
had amassed his property with a view to that
event, expecting to receive it again, with inter
est, when lie returns. Two m phews it is said,
tire his heirs, and will come in for a large sum.
It is said by some persons that has a wife
and child, who wi re driven from his presence
years an. and whom he would Lever consent
to see. The house in which he lived, on the
east bank of the canal, is a low stone building,
and the furniture of his room consisted of three
chairs and three chests ; one of the choirs and
one of the chests made his bedstead, and he
lay upon tiiem without covering, seldom un
dressing himself, and w as alw ays seen stauding,
sitting or lying with his hat on.
What Tuf.v "Haise" it North. The
Ea Crosse Veimtcrat has the. follow ing :
East week one of our eastern friends, coming
down from St. Paul, stopped at Winona over
i niiht. Being a stranger he inquired of the
landlord "v. lint kind of hind they had back
on the prairie V ' D d splendid land,
sir!" "And what kind of country have yon
back off the blulf " " D d splendid coun
try sir!" " Ami what do von raise mostly round
here?" " We ru ise h'll ."'
Pike's Peak Item. It seems to be a pre
vailing fashion among Pike's Pcakcrs, to in
scribe some motto on tlieir w agon cover, em
blematic we suppose of the proprietor's senti
ments. The other day we noticed the follow
ing inscription on a wagon, bound for Pil e's
Peak: "For Pike's Peak, or bust!" hi a
fetv days we again saw the suii.e wagon, re
turning, and the inscription read, Busted by
G o 1" So goes tlie world.
M tniMTV OF NATI It.4I.IXFP ITI
Z !:.! XO TIIKI1C ATll t: cor Tit".
Gen. Cass, the Secretary of State, thus ex
plains and ill ft mis the position of our govern
ment towards its naturalized citizens, who vol
untarily visit their native countries, and are
demanded for service in the Mnny. The rule
refers only to such persons as owed military
service to their eovemmeiit, nt the time of leav-
their native country. That service may have
been due by virtue of enlistment, conscription,
or, as in Austria, by reason of legal rciuire
ment wh'c'i imposes upon every person born
upon her soil, n stated number of years of mili
tary service, such, voluntarily returning to
their country, are snbject to answer a demand
to perform the service due at the time of their
departure. To this class only does the opinion
expressed by Gen. Cass apply. We think the
doctrine is correct, and have little sympathy
with the ilctuagogism rife upon the Subject
demagogism which on the one hand, seeks to
make capital against the administration, and on
the other curry favor with naturalized voters,
by claiming fr them privilege? Inconsistent
with international law, uml sound reason:
Depaktmknt or State, 1
Wasmisothx. J i' tie 1-1. I3.".
Sir In answer to jour letter of tlie (ith inst..
I aaveto inform ton that the brief leiti-r from
this department to which von refer, dated the
17th of May List, and addressed to Mr. Felix
Lecleic, w as in reply to an application for in
formation, and was principalis intruded to rec
oil mend cuatioii to our naturalized fellow -citizens,
until es of France, iu returning to that
torn. try. a the o i ration of the t rench con
scljltoii "a t S were n.it precisely known here.
: 11 1 might bear injuriously tiptiit that class of
A UH-ru-iiii citizens. Most" of the continental
European nations have a system i.f military or
ganization by which their citizens arc compelled
to serve in the iinny by conscript icn, ns in
France, wli.-'c the duty is designated by lot, or
by drafts, as in l'rus-ia. w lit re every person is
r.iuired to take his turn a soldier."
Tlie coti.litien of American naturalized eiri
zens rviuniii'g to their native coimtiy, where
the system ! compulsoiy service pn-inils, and
who Ial left before peifoMiiitig Mich service,
has fretjiu-ntly la-en the subject ol discussion
with some of the European powirs. tiiiiie re
cently it has ari-ien between the Fiiitctl Mates
and Prussia, nnd the n-prcsciitetivv of this
country at the Court of Berlin has brought the
matter to the attention of the Prussian govern
ment. In the instructions which were sent to
him. dated M :y 12. 13oi, it was explicitly stat
ed that this gi-vcmniont is opposed to the doc
trine or perpetual iiilegianee, anil maintains the
right of perpetual expatriation and the right to
form nets- political ties i ls 'w here. Upon this
subject it is obsericd. that ill this age of the
world the idea of controlling the citizen iu the
c'mice of a home and l.ind.ng him by a mere
p llitical theory to inhabit for his lifetime a coun
try which he constantly desires to leave, can
hardly be entertained by any government what
ever. The position of the United Slates, as com
municated to the minister at Berlin for the in
formation of the Prussian government, is that
native born Prussians naturalized in the United
States ai.d returning to the country of their
birth, are not liable to any duties or "penalties,
except such as were existing at the pi rital of
their emigration. If at that time they were in
the army or actually called into it. sm h cmigm
tioll mid n:lliil-.iliy.ni..n il.t-imt ,vm..,t tli..i..
frttttt the l tptl penalty w hv- lliey iiicmrvd by
their desertion, but this i-.ilty" may be en
forced ngiiinst them whenever thev shall vol -unta
i!y place themselves within tlie hcnl ju
risdiction of tlieir native country, aud shall be
proceeded aimiitst according to law. But when
no present liabilities exist against them at the
period of tlieir emigration, the law of nations,
in the opinion of this government, gives no
riyht to any country to interfere with natu
ralized American citizens, and the attempt to
do so would be considered an net unjust in it
self nnd unfriendly toward the United States.
This ijuestion cannot of course arise in the case
of a naturalized citizen w ho remains in the Un
ited States. It is only when he voluntarily re
turns to his native country that its local laws
can be enforced against liim. I am. sir, your
obedient servant. Lew is Cass.
WATF.n-MEi.oxs. The water-melon is a
delicious fi nit when it can be obtained during
the hot days of summer. The Mountain Sweet
stands nt the very head of the list, as to rich
uess and flavor. Plant on rich land plowed
deep and made line. The rows should not be
less than ten feet apart each way. In moist
land, raise the hills a little with the hoe before
planting. Put six or eight seeds in each hill,
and cover about one inch thick with line, mel
low loam.
As soon ns the plar.ts ar high enough, give
them a little mellow earth, hilling them up close
to their two broad leaves, w hich if done w hile
wet. or thai finp dust will adhere to them, is
as good a prr entire against the striped bug ns
we have ever ioiitid ; though they fniuently
eat up an entire crop alter all we can do. If
any one knows of a remedy, they would confer
a great favor upon the public, by letting it be
known. We were told by a friend, last year,
that he put .a handful of sawdust on each, and
tin- bugs itiii! ediately left; his reason for which
was. that the bogs always btirn.w in the ground
at the root of the plant.-, and are troublesome
only in hot weather, and as the- sawdust natu
rally absorbs heat from the sun. it becomes so
hot that they cannot live iu it, and . so they
leave. Ashes, plaster of lime, sifted on while
wet w ith dew, ore good till they get washed oil",
V'heu they should be sifted on nuain. Of all
the pests of the garden, this is worst. As soon
tun i-aii t.io tbc. run'R witi-L tail- tlie vii-.i-s uitli
liorse and cultivator. If the weather should
prove dry, stir the ground the ofteiier. Suffer
not a weed to grow, especially while the vines
are small, and you hr.ie a clianee to tend with
liorse and nlow or culliiatcr. If the weather
should be showery and the weeds hard to kill
by cutting up, covir them up, ami tiny will
soon scald and die. This can be done the
quickest with a luiito slccl pltw, t bruiting a
ridge to each row.
As soon as all danger from the. bugs is over,
thin the plants to ttvo in a hill, don't lenve more;
wc would soy one, if sure that one would live,
aud could have one iu each hill. When the
melons begin to ripen, look oat for thieves. Be
on the alert, and the first fellow you catch,
make an example of him, that others may also
fear. Let mi false sympathy prevent t oil from
banding him over to the rigor of the "law. It
w ill be doing the offender also a kindness ; for
rv.hoevcr begins by stealing melons, are almost
sure to get to the Penitentiary, unless they are
reformed. Plant largely, so that you can give
liberally to those that ask for them, but the
mean sticking rogue turn empty away. If
you have more melons than you know what to
do with, tin y w ill make most excellent molas
ses. In- fact, you could not put an acre or two
to better use, than raising melons for molasses.
Ohio Farmer.
tV Less work for the archill ct, and more for
the gardener, would give ns more abundant
b.-auty at less cost, where the column aud its
ndoniings are ever renewed, and the painting
atd gilding warranted untarnished by time.
Li'" The sun produces life, or causes death,
according s its rays fall and so doth love.
RTOPi'itn sutrsi'.ti'EitJi.
A certain man hit his toe against a pebble
stone and fell headlong to the ground. Hewas
rcxed, and under the influence of nngrr and
active solf-sulheiency. he kicked old mother
earth right saucily. "With imperturable gravi
ty, he looked to "see the globe itself dissolved,
mid come to naught. But the earth remained,
and only his poor foot was injured in the en
CHiiiter." This is the way of mini. An article
in the newspaper touches him ii) a weak place,
and straightway he sends word to stop his pa
per. With groat se f -complacency he looks on
to see a crash, when the object of his spleen
shall cease to be. Poor fool, he has only hit his
toe ngainst a worlu that does not perceptibly
feel he shock, aud injures to no extent, any
one but bjmseh'. -XVashington L'niem.
A Hit tod Good nn Lost. Bill Polk,
ai he is familiarly called, is a m:n of decided
wit and humor. He seems to be disgusted w ith
the eternal agitation of the nigger question, and
does not appear to linve much respect for the
good sense of the agitators. The Franklin
t Tennessee) I'erieic relates the follow ing "good
one" of him:
A good story is told of Bill Pelk. in connec
tion with his canvass with Thomas for Congress.
1 lr inas had spoken trrst nt Shelby t ille. and ns
is now tlie case with nearly nil nnti-Democratic
speakers nnd writeis. thought to make great
capital out of the nigger itu-stion. He sifi kc
long a-id loudly nhrut Kansas and Lecomj t n ;
in fact, he spoke of nothing else. At the ciih-e
of his speech Poll; arose, nnd with that peitilii.r
comical look which he knows so tti 11 hoir to as
sume, lie called loudly forthe Sheriff" of Bedford
County. No rcsMusc, and again Bill called at
the top of his lungs, Mr. Sheriff"; I say, Mr.
sheriff, come here.
Presently the Sheriff appeared nnd asked
what he wanted. I want, says Polk, a caro
ncr's jury summoned in mediately. My com
petitor has found n dead carcass, "right here in
tills room. The Kaus:i3-Xchrasku bill has
Ix-cn dead for two years; it is fust becoming
putrid, and I want an in-jnest held over it to
that it may be decently buried. It is ueedh-ss
to sat- that the nitrgor speech of Thomas was
very effectually killed bv this unexpected scliy
of itiii poik. "
II? The Post tells a tory abcut an An:t:?
cui citizen now resident at White lh;i;:s, who
commenced wedded life under flattering auspi
ces. One morning the couple found an addi
tion to the family in the shape of a bouncing in
fant several months old. This created much
excitement, particularly as the newly married
hu.-l'i'.nd w as understood to sustain putt mill r -bilious
to the little stranger, a tvoiuau of the
place, having a spons-ts Li California, being the
mother. I-gil adi ice wa.' taken, ami exem
plified the usual ' gioiiaus uncertainty of the
law." " One learned counsellor," says the
Post, "gave the opinion that, as the mother
was married, the mail in California was ohligi tl
to lather the iiilan'. A sister of the bride
did not object, she said, to the baby being pass
ed over to its lather ; that was all just enough,
but sheeliil not w ish her sister to havethe troub
le of it. - The question is now undergoing in
vestigation nt the tea tables, r.ud a report is ex
pected shortly." .
Geseual Cas.- The Washington corres
pondent of the Charleston Arrttirw7ii his letter
of May 10, says : The Seen tury of, State. Gi-n.
Cass, "has recently had scvcial alarming attacks
of illness, which have almost reduced liim to
death's door. A remarkable feature of his
sickness is, that it pass-.-s awny quickly nnd he
se-ems to be completely restored to his usual
vigor of body aud mind. His attacks are ac
companied by complete insensibility and t iolent
cent ulshilis. Gen. Ptiss's vigor of uiind aud
body, considering his advanced nge, is quite re
markable, and is s, lid to Irave resulted from hie -n-markable
temperance. lit never touches
alcoholic drinks ; cats but two light meals a
day ; does not wear woolen next to his body,
under the be-lief that it is unwholesome ; dresses,
in the severest winter weather, in very lijrht
clothing. He is, perhaps, the richest man in
the State of Michigan, aud one of the richest in
this country, but is still very fond of niakiug
and kecpiug money.
How Hard they Take It. A voting ladr,
says a friend, married recently, and the mother
uf'her husband being in very poor health, she
w as taKeii luinieuiateiv Home liv ner In ire loril
to nurse and take care of the "old folks." In
the course of a few months the mother was re
moved by death." The dutiful and sympathis
ing daughtcr-in-hm thus cxprt ssed Tier grief nt
this event, to a com pan)- of her neighbors, who
called in to take tea with her on an afternoon
soon after her la-reave incut : "Oh, dear !" said
she. "how much I miss my poor, dear mother!
Why, it seems to me I can see her now, just as
she used to sit at the breakfast table, reaching
out her fork after the best potaloc." This re
minds ns of -a mau without a tear;" a Missouri
husband at the grave of his" wife : "I have lost
cows, he said to a neighbor, as the coffin was
lowered into tlie grave, "I've lost sheep; and
I've lost bosses, and lost caaves ; but this is the
west of the whole lot 1"'
CF Mr. Backus, the editor of the Canajoha
rie (N. V.) Jiadii, is a deaf mute, but how elo
quently be gives voice to the language of grief
iu the following passage from his last paper :
We cannot this week fill our usual column
every lime hitherto, before this, that welinve
sat in the old place, to the now regularly recur
ring duty, w e have had dear little lingers ramb
ling along-our kness. or making strut- snatches
at the paper. A little face, all lit with happy
eyes, bo-peeping into ours. A little head, mai
ding as it shook its curls, a mock "by by, papa,"
and turning back again to the sweet childish
teasing. But now, alas! the little fingers are
no longer here ; the little eyes ore dim with a
dimness that shall never know the old lustre
again, and the little curls are yonder, beneath
that sod that gleams so greenly beneath the
trees and the glimmering white tombstones.
Kn.naots FF.KVoirQi ExciiED.Notlong
since there was a great religious excitement
among negroes in the ueighboi he.ml of a certain
southern city. Numbers were baptised ucarly
evci'v fhiy. On one occasion toe colored preach
er was leading a big fellow named Boh into the
water to baptise him. Boh was a little in ad
vance, and coming to a "stepping off' place,"
dow n he went, dragging the picacher after him.
After considerable lloiimlering and spluttering
the- both reached the shore, when Bob, very
much excited, delivered himself thus: "Now,
look lienh! some mau'll lose it nigger yet by (lis
dam foolishness !' The solemnity of the occa
sion was somewhat disturbed by this outburst,
and Bob, concluding that hydropathy was not
exactly the thiiig,-tnaichcd off".
Csr" Illinois would make forty such States ns
Klioile Island, nnd Minnesota sixty. Missouri
is larger than all New England; Ohio exceeds
either Ireland, Scotland or Portugal, and equals
Belgium aud Switzerland together. Missouri is
more than half ns large as Italy, and larger than
Denmark, Holland, Belgium, aud Sw itzerland.
Missouri and Illinois are larger than England,
Scotland, Ireland, nnd Wales.
13?" Hunt's M rcinnit s Magazine enumerates
no less than thirty-eight substances which are
employed to give potency, flavor, consistence,
and other desirable qualities to lager beer.
Among them are chaik, marble dust, opium,
tobacco, henbane, oil of vitriol, copperas, alum,
strychnine, nnd other deadly drugs.
VS" Forget not that human virtue is polished
steel, which is rusted by a breath.
si:xTon joxes' i.etti ii.
In our compendium of States news, pub
lished last week, was a paragraph stating that
Senator Jones, of Tennessee had written a let
ter declaring in favor of Judge Douglas for the
Presidency. In the Memphis Appeal wc find
Mr. Jones' card. It was in reply to a state
ment of Mr. Currin that "Gov. Jones was at
the head of a ' little clique who are attempting
to saddle S ephen A. Douglas upon the democ
racy as a Presidential candidate in 1600." Cur
rin is a bolting democrat, who is running for
Congress in the Memphis district against a Mr.
Avery, the regular nominee. Gov. Jones says:
I know not, Currin, (pardon the familiarity :
I have the right thus to nddriss you,) what riir
clioue, if I have one, thinks on" this subject;
ami, iu the absence of such an organization, I
assume that I myself, solitary and alone, con
stitute the clique no man niid no party being
responsible for me or my opinions. T speak for
myself I am for Stephen A. Douglas for Pres
ident of the United States in IgllO.
1 seek to saddle him on nobody, or party.
The time has passed when the people will per
mit any man. to saddle himself or any dhe else
on them.
While I repudiate the charge that T seek to
saddle Mr. Douglas on the Democratic party,
yet 1 am for him, because, after a long and ifi
iinate association with him, I kiiow him to be
honest, sound, conservative, aud national, true
to the Constitution and all its requirements.
And ' i-t, further, I think it impossible to elect
any man residing in the South, and I In-lieve
that he is the only man north of Mason aud
Dixon's line that emi be elected, that would be
true to the South; hence I am for him. and if
it suits your convenience, taste, or interests,
yon may proclaim it to the world. 1 neither
seek nor care to know w ho is far or against him,
for the reasons above given. I know I nm for
him. and if he shall be nominated, as I hope
he may be, I shall l;c found battling for him,
and doubt not 1 shall have yon, my friend Cur
rin, clad iu that full, ancient Democratic ar
mour of yours, fighting km gallantly as you al
ways do, side by si:!e with me. 'ITen, indeed,
there will be a "clique'' a Douglas-Currm-Jotiefi
" clique" not ol Memphis, but of the ini
tio!). Wit!) great respect ai d kindness, and many
prayers for yoar health, 1 am jo.tr fieiit',
J.t ii:.- C. Joses.
Br.ASDixtJ is Noma Carmna. Some
crimes are- punished w ith branding, in North
Carolina. stiH. The infliction f this penalty
iii a recent itist-fr.ee. is thns described :
" The-shcrifT and his deputy then b-imlfoliled
tlie prisoner, tied his bands, and bound his head
firtiily to the bar. Taking the branding iron
frnui.ti e furnace, tie sheriff applied it red hot
to the check cf the bigamist, burning a plain
letter B an inch and a hall long, and nearly an
inch deep. ' The prisoner was then remanded
to jail, where his head and hands were intro-dni-cd
into the pillory, mid forty stripes save
one' wt-re applied to his bare back, altir which
he w as discharged." . '
Evcty jail in North Carolina is provided w ith
a whipping post, s'ceks and pillory. Murder,
rape, arson, burglary, and the higher crimes
and misdemeanors, arc punished with deaths
manslaughter by branding the letter M in the
right hand. The convict's hand is bound to
the bar, and the branding-iron held lipou the
palm until he can say, " God save the State"
three limes. Under this law a fellow who stut
lers generally has his hand burned off Theft
and minor off ences by whipping, standing in the
pillory, or sitting in the stoe-ks.
From toe SpiuSeM (t.'ot) RrpnWican.
The Swing as a Clke kck Conpi mpti:x.
I wish to say a few words to '-whom it may
concirn" on the use of the swing one of the
gymnastic exercises as a preventive and enre
of pulmonary disease. . 1 mean the suspending
of the body fy the hands, bi- means of a strong
rope or chain fastened to a bean) at one end
and at the other a stick three feet long, conve
nient to grasp w ith the hands. The rone should
be fastened to the center of the stick, which
should hang six or eight inches above the head.
Let a person grasp this stick, with the hands
two or three feet apart, and sw inr vcrr mode
rately at first perhaps only bear the weight, if
very weak and gra'dually'increase aa the'mus
cles gain strength from the exercise, until it
may be used from three to five times daily.
The connection of the arms w ith the body (with
the exception of the clavicle with the sternum
or breast bone) being u muscular attachment to
the ribs, the effect of this exercise is to elevate
the ribs and enlarge the chest : and. as nature
allows no vacuum, the lungs expand to fill the
cavity, increasing the volume of nir the natu
ral purifier of the blood nnd preventing con
gestion or tlie ucpesite ol tiioeicnlous matter.
1 have prescribed the above for all cases of he
morrhage of the lungs qud threatened consnmp
tion for thirty-live years, and have been able to
increase the measure of the e-est from two to
four inches w ithiu a few months, and always with
good results. But especiallj- as a preventive I
w ould recommend this exercise. Let those who
love life cultivate a well formed, capacious chest.
The student, the merchant, the sedentary, the
young of both sexes aye, all should have a
swing tlpon which to stretch themselves daily ;
and I am morally certain that if this w ere to W
practised by the rising generation, in a dress
allowiuga free and full development of the body,
thousands, yes, tens of thousands, would be
saved from the ravages of that ojiprobriuta
medicorum, consumption.
Holyoke, June. 1 eCil. - I... LONG. M. D.
Speak Kindly to thy Mother. Young
man, speak kindly to thy mother, nnd courte
ously, tenderly, of her. "But a little time, and
you shall pee her no more forever. Her eye is
dim, nnd her form is bent, and her shadow falls
toward the grave. Others may love you fondly,
but never again, while time is your's. shall any
one's love be to you as that of your old, tremb
ling, weakened mother has been. Through
helpless iiiliiiiey her throbIing breast w as your
sale protoetioifniid support; in wayward, testy
hovhood. she bore patiently with your thought
less rudeness, she uursed you safely through a
legion or ills and maladies.
Her hand bathed your burning brow, or moist
ened your parched lips ; her eye lighted up the
vigils, w atching slei pless by your side ns none
but her could watch. O, speak not hvr umuc
lightly, Tor yon cannot live so many years as
would suffice ' to thank her fully. Through
reckless" and impatient youth shr is your coun
sellor and solace. To a bright manhood she
guides your s tops for improvement, nor even
then forsakes or forgets.
Speak gently, then, and when yon, too. shall
be old. it shall in some degree lighten the re
morse which shall be your. for other sins, to
know that never wantonly have you outragtd
the respect due to your aged mother.
Giieat Prices ron Olo Coins. A great
sale of old coins, by auction, hns recntly taken
place in Loudon, ami enormous prices w ere ob
tained. Three Anglo-Saxon pennies of differ
ent types were sold in one lot for $10! ' Pen
nies of Alfred's time sold for from 50 to $80
each, and one half-penny of great rarity broucht
more than one hundred dollars ! . A good penny
of Henry the Third, of the highest rarity, sold
for upwards of $G00. Among the coins struck !
for America may be mentioned the Lord Balti- j
more penny, said t j be uniques $362 ; a New
England half-penny, 75; the fifty-shilling
piece of Oliver Cromwell, S-25 ; eold'five-shil- .
1 ling pieces of Charles II. 146. !
HOW THE OIEBL.IXD IS CAIC.
ltlED-I.VrEKESTI.H PAKTIClLAIi.8.
The first overland mail to the Pacific left St.
Louis Feb. 16th, '58, nnd the first mail from
San Ft ancisco arrived there on the lDth of Oc
tober following. Xo mail route in the world
has been run with more regularity, and when
it is taken into consideration the difficulties un
der which such a mighty enterprise was started,
and the extent and dangers of so lengthy a
stage route, it is only surprising the feat was
ever accomplished. But two failures to arrive
on contract time have thus far occurred. The
list mail which arrived from San Francisco on
the 31st ult., brought nineteen hundred and
eighty -seven letters, and that which was dis
patched from St. Louis carried out one thou
sand. The rate of increase we have good rea
son to believe, will be much greater hereafter,
as there is no longer any doubt of the security
of transportation on this route. The number
of letters sent from Memphis, and all cf the
towns on the nite, cannot be known to us, but
they probably" equal the number made up at
St. Louis. When the mail was first started,
the through matter was sent in the smallest
sized leather pouches used by the Department.
It is now sent in the largest size, and the way
nitul is put in a second sired bag. t
The public will, we doubt not. be surprised
lo hear that a sealed letter Lag is made up in
London for San Francisco, to go by this route,
in the intermediate time of the departure of thiT
California steamer from Xew York ; three of
these bags have been carried there, aud sent
off in one miil.
It was i:s- rted at the last session of Congress
that it cost government 8G0 for each letter
transported this was in the infancy (if the
route now since more interest has been mani
fested by our Pacific neighbors and those ben
efited at home in the Atlantic cities, it costs but
one dollar or less.
By a table published iu the St. Louis Demo
crat, showing the names of the stations, &e.,
we learn that 710 horses are used in the perfor
mance of one trip, and one hundred drivers.
There are lt4 stations on'the rout;-. We have
no estimate of the stock on the M cinphis branch,
but :f the station. are as close as between Fort
Smith and St. Louis, the service must require
at least 150 horses. The company, of course,
double their stock, going both wavs constantly,
aud -with their teams employed hauling feed
aud water far the use of stations, the total num
ber cf horses and mules in their employ and re
quired to keep up the1 overland mail service,
cannot lie h-ss than eighteen hundred, valued
in the aggre-gate at not less than S3CO,000 !
This fact alone exhibits the magnitude of the
enterprise.
IR. I FAY I.nrTISC'f LEITIEE.
Mr. Bcsh: I see you printed Dclazon
Smith's speech. I read it of course. I read
nearly everything. But I have heard hiin
speak so often that I could tell w hat was coming
about two lines ahead vf the place. I like such
easy reading. You remember Dr. I Fay Lew
ting's speech on Humbegs. It issnblimer than
Di-lazon's. I lu-ard hiai speak it once, I tell
y:ti he spoke it powerful. - Vou could hear him
a mile w ithimt the hollering the crowd kept up.
I want you to print it. I tell you such reading
is a sight better for the rising generation than
lve stories and legislative proceedings, snch as
you c-ditors bi-giu the papers w ith. It begins
with fust rate moral stuff", a little down on pill
neddlcrs and phrenologists. After while he
begun to come down a little and it made the
cold chills run all over a feller, but near the
Tiist it just naterlv made your hair stand on end.
It is a wonder he is not talked offer Congress,
or something I see he copies a heap after
other gre:-t men, but that is common. That
about the democracy of Oregon grec-tin? Both
aud Naomi, is something Delazon sauT about
some women folks m Washington, I believe.
The part out of the Sentinel is a little too
lofty for a man that has seen the gentlemen
very often. What he took from the writings of
General Lane he spoke just like an exhorter
winding up. when the sinners won't come. All
along it was like some general or governor on
the fourth of July. Just nt the last, when he
put in the screaming and wheasiug, I thought
iu my soul I would bust and die right off into
an everlasting blaze of glory.
Americas Eagle.
P. S. Don"t forget to print it. A- E. N- .
We think the Doctor has had his address
copy-righted. Ers.
The Age's Darkest Blot. If this age, in
its political, social and literary aspects, is pe
culiar for any one thing more than another, it :
is for its shams and hypocrisies for its shifts,
perversions nnd unrealities. - Its conscientious
ness is eaten quite out of it. It takes infinitely
more pains to do the false than the true. Var
nish is better than gold notoriety than charac
ter the seemiutr than the reality. Popular
opinion is carried by a Sourish of trumpets and,
the humble and sterner virtues are elbowed out
of Chnrch and State. - Office falls upon begging
importunity or audacious presumption, while
merit is neglected because it is modest and
seorus to publish its own praise. The public
officer pays for the service of plate presented
by his retainers, and the judge draws up the.
resolutions w hich prove him incorruptible. We
shall only rise above all this meanness and dis
honesty by cultivating a manly consciousness
by feeling that we have duties to perform as
well as privileges to enjoy that onr true stand
ing and character depends on our sacrifices and
our toils; upon apprehending, keeping and do
ing the truth. The cringings and the truckling?
of one class, and the audacity of another, result
from the absence of that manly independence
of character and selft-respect which an honest
acting out of the truth engenders. We break
the heart of the living from negli-ct, and lie onr
eulogistic mementos over the dead. Away with
such hollow-hearted acting and thinking ! Be
nn honest, whole-hearted man. Scorn to act a
lie as much as to speak it. Let sincerity mark
every volition nnd principle aud stimulate every
act. Let your moral and political creed bo
read in the vital hieroglyphics of your life.
Matrimonial Statistics. We take from
tlie Courrier des Etats L'r.is the following mat
rimonial particulars, which that paper claims
were furnished by a member of the English
Parliament. There is ingenuity ,'at all events,
in the arrangement of them. Says our author
ity : There are at present in London
" 1,302 wives w ho have left their husbanels to
follow their lovers.
2,371 husbands who have run away from
their wives.
4.120 couples living nparf by consent.
191.03 couples liriug under the same reef
iu 9 state of warfare.
162,30 couples hating each other cordially,
but veiling, iu public, their ferocious hatred
under a feigned poiitemss.
510. 1&2 couples living in a state of indiffer
ence lo each other.
1,100 couples reputed happv by the world,
but who are not quite so in reality.
135 couples happy in comparison with others
more unhappy.
7 couples really and truly happy.
We have heard of cool things ; but nev
er anything cooler than the following : The
landlord of a hotel in Independence called a
boarder to him oue day, and said : "Look here,
I want you to pay your bill, aud you must. I've
asked you often enough, and you don't leave
niy house till you pay for it." " " Good." said
his lodger, "just put that in writing, make a
regular agreement of it, aud I'l. stay with you
ns long as yon live." r
CALIFOB5IA VK. OREGO.t FOB LATE
APPLES.
California will grow late keeping apples to an
extent, and of flavor, size and beauty never
surpassed by the most favored nations with
which we exchange fruit scions. Not an or
chardist but already points to his late bearing
and late keeping fruits. Not one but will tell .
you he cut liis last apple in May or June; not
one but knows, his trees increase in size and
years, they will bear fruits which when it be
comes desirable, will be kept for winter or spring
sales, instead of being, as now, from absolute
scarcity, sold in the fall. Oregon has sent ns
more winter fruit than we have produced be
cause her orchards are more matured, and she
has less local demand ; bat although we under
stand large calculations are made by fruit grow
ers there of the continued freedom and high
prices of our market, they are laboring under a
certain error. California's young orchards are
just, coming into bearing, just ehowing their
fruits, jast making their mark. In two more
years one million of trees will be in fruit, under
all varieties and differences of soil, climate and
culture. Their fruits will be constantly fn the
market, in quantities and at prices that forbid
all importation. The question of late fruits
will be settled then to the taste of all, and ru
inously to those who, having no Lome demand
for their products, rely upon onr want of power
to eompete with them! Napa ( Cal.J Reporter.
rn XOT COXFIXED TO JIA.V.
The following interesting paragraph ia taken
from a work entitled "Passions of Animals
timall birds chase each other about in play,
but perhaps the conduct of the crane and trum
peter is the most extraordinary. The latter
stands upon one leg, and hops abont in the most
eccentric manner, nnd throw s somersaults. The
Americans call it the mad bird on accccutc-f
these singularities. Water birds, such as ducks
and geese, dive after each other and clear the
surface of the water with outstretched neck and
flapping wings, throwing abundant fpray
around. Deer often engage in sham battle, or
trial of strength, by twisting their horns togeth
er, and pushing for the mastery.
AH animals pretending violence in their play,
stop short of exercising it ; the dog takes the
greatest precaution not to injure by."his bite ;
aud the on rang oatang, in wrestling with Lis
ke0jser. pretends to throw him and makes feints
of biting bina. Some animals carry oat in their
play the semblance of catching their prey ;
young cats, for instance, leap after every email
and moving object, even to the leaves strewed
by the autumn wind ; they crouch and steal
forward ready for the spring, the body quivering,-
and the tail vibrating with emotion, they
bound on the moving leaf, and again spring for
ward to another. Bcnger saw young jaguars
and cougars playing with round substances, like
kittens. Birds" of the magpie kind are the
analogues' of monkeys fall of mischief, play
and mimicry. There is a story cf a tame mag
pie, that was seen busily employed in a garden
gathering pebbles, aud with much solemnity
and a studied air buried them in a hole made to
receive a post. After dropping each stone, it
crie-d "currack !" triumphantly, and set off for
another. On examining tlie spot, a poor toad
was foinid in this hole, which the magpie was
stoning for Lis amusement.
Gkeelt Meets a Slave Dealer. We
find the following going the rounds of the wes
tern journals :
" Horace Greely at Leavenworth met a gen- .
teman who expressed great pleasure at seeing
so distinguished a philanthropist, and wished
him success. "Indeed," replied Mr. Greely.
' I am happy to hear such sentiments, and to .
sec such men as yourself, where I did not ex
pect the least sympirthy, iu this land where the
iniquity of the natkn is so firmly rooted. God
be praised, the work goes bravely on."
" With your aid," returned Mr. W.. "slavery
will soon cease to exist in Missouri. The num
ber of slaves is now fast-decreasing. I am my
self doing something towards removing them.
Only last week I took away thirteen..'
My good friend, how J where to ? '
" To New Orleans."
: "Great God! exclaimed Horace, "what ! a
dealer in human souls ! "
" Yes. sir, if that is v h.-t yon call it. I buy
and se-11 negroes. I am indented to you for the
profits of my business. Havt holders here sell
me their slaves for haT il eir value in the
South, to keep your dist -js'es from stealing
them."
The Cheatei Fi x. A starved fox per
ceived a hen who wrs kkiLg worms at the foot
of a tree. He w as ;,l or.t to pounce upon her,
w hen he heard the noise c-f a drum hung on the
tree, and caused to move by the violence of the
wind agitating the branches. Oh! oh! said
Master Fcx, raising his head, are yon there T
I will be with you presently. Whoever yon
are, by the noise yon make, yon should have
more flesh on than a hen. She is a very com
mon meal ; I have eaten it so often that I hate
long been disgusted with it ; yon will compen
sate me for the bad meals I "have had ; I find
you just in time. Having said this, he climbed
the tree, and the hen flew off, very glad to es
cape a danger so imminent. The starved fox,
seizing his prey, worked with claws and teeth ;
but w hat was his surprise, when he discovered
that the drum was hollow and empty; that he
found but air, instead of flesh. Sighing deep
ly. Unfortunate that I am, he cried, what a
delicious morsel I have lost, for air, wind and
noise !
A prudent man should never desert a reality
for an appearance. That which makes the
most noise is not always the most solid or inost
advantageous.
The following is the only trace we have
left of the Parnassian flight of a young gentle
man in the country, who was evidently in a
bail way. Verse 4 :
J.e iookt at tao sosweetc, i lookt at jane,
8 in! we both felt considerably nonplussed ;
we was both happy enough to go insane,
y find xve sat tln-re for a short time and bossed.
CP It is in dispntes,'asin armies where the
weaker side set up false lights, and make a
great noise, so as to make the enemy believe
them more numerous and stronger than they
really are.
EjF Knowledge may slumber in the memo
ry, but it never does ; it is like the dormouse m
the ivied tower, that sleep? while winter lasts,
hut awakes w ith the warm, breath of spring.
CF" The beneficence of the poor man cannot
be so extensive a blessing to others as the be
neficence of the rich man ; bnt it may be quite
as intense a blessing to himself.
EF In a graveyard in New Jefey, there is
a tombstone on which is inscribed the following
simple yet touching epitaph : He teas a good
CP" " I never knew," said Lord, Erskine, " a
man remarkable for heroie bravery, w hose very
aspect was not lighted up by gentleness and
humanity."
A puzzled etymologist complains that '
Worcester is pronounced Wooster, and wants
to know how rooster ought to be spelled !
EF The mind is like a sheet of white paper
in this that the impressions it receives the of
tenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
CF" Time is like a river, in which metals and
eolid substances are sunk, while chaff and straw
swim upon the surface.
VW Success produces confidence, confidence
relaxes industry, and negligence mins that rep
utation which accuracy had raised.