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tmm. Mrala.
When the ilea ef ear Ktea
la wraaght eat lain umI ameke,
Tkwa Uw algMy Valma itrirw ;
Ut the flwaece, hard the stroke;
IlMIS tlM WVMy MaWWlblOWi
Titers teMiln to aaBfciaa glow,
There, oa aaifef the wansV- -'
Uaaa eleagieg aaaaaw aari'd.
Haaitka Oar! amaHuM gain,
la to BMilag bread from brain.
Where that aaaMleas eteae It rated,
Where Um patriot's baaes wen placed,
Uvea1 aa-JHaWtorrf aa) praised
DM k last aawaaiaai graced:
There ha sleep whs karw bo rail,
Thar aaaloat WtkawkaMiandt
llara ka starred walk aowiag eeed,
Wkara ka aUmd the wanes bow fed.
Hard the laser! amlltkagaia,
fa to atattaf based from brato.
Jn that chamber, loan and dreir,
Sits a pott writing flower,
Bringing Heaven to eartli more near,
Raiaiag thoughts to dewey abowcrx
While ka atog of sectar rare,
Only ia tke tok-bowl there ;
(7 Of ftaataof gad he chant high trust,
Aa ha emta the Bwaldjr cruet
Hard the labor! email the gain,
It in making bread from brain.,
When the prophet' warning voice
Shout the burthen of the world,
Sackcloth nberfmut be hi choice,
Aaaeo oa h head be hurled.
Where tyrant live at eao,
Where fake prieata doaythey pleaae,
lie ia Moraed and pierced inside,
II U atened and crucified.
Hard the labor ! amall the gain,
1 to making bread from bruin.
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Patriot! Poet! Prophet! feed
Only on the mouldy cruet:
Tyrant, fool, and false prieit, need
All the crumb, and scom the just.
Ixird ! how long ! bow long, oh Lord !
(Ilea, oh God, mind' unaheathed word;
Iat the pea become a aabre,
Let thy children eat who labor;
Hlea the labor! bleea the gain,
ln the making bread from brain.
Aa kliglBg Room Mate.
An anecdote has recently been related to
us of the celebrated Vincent De Camp, iwell
known throughout the south-west as the most
polite man of the day, and a very correct act
or. On ono occasion ho had been driving
hard, from morning till night over the rough
rnat'.n in the neighborhood of Columbia, S.C.,
and ullightcd at the only comfortable inn in
the place, very hungry and tired. Sticking
his eye-glass to his eye, he demanded a hot
roast fowl, some good brandy, and u com
ibrtable room for the night. The landlord
was exceedingly sorry, but he could not give
liim a comfortable room ; the only place ho
could sleep would be in a double-bedded room
with another gentleman. " Very well," said
D., " let's have the best you've got."
' After discussing his supper he turned in,
and was soon bound asleep. His slumbers
were doomed to be of short duration, hovvcv
or, for before long he was awakened bv cries
$X "Sir! sir! sir!" from the oth?r bed.
Ifi" (lfu Mam mv nnl t" rtripd D tlinialinrr
his glass up to his eye and endeavoring to
peer through the dark ; " what's the matter
my dear lellow 7 Is the ho-jso on Arc or ure
there bugs in your bed ?"
" Neither, sir ; but my God, sir, von snore
so terribly that I can't sleep, sir it's terrific,
sir."
" God bless my soul !" repeated D., very
iiiuuh shocked, "that ever I should be m rude
ax to snore in a gentleman's presence ; I real
ly ask your pardon, sir, and hope you'll over
look it; it wasn't intentionally, I assure you."
The apology wus accepted, a "good night"
wasexchanged,and both parties went to strop
again. Soon, however, a rumbling sound wus
heard in D.'s bed, every moment growing
loudci, until at Inst it resembled theatrical
thunder. The othor .lodger, driven almost
to madness, started upand exclaimed
By gracious ! this is too much I can't
stand it. Sir! sir!! Wake ui, sir!"
" God bless my soul ! What's the matter,
now ?" cried I)., starting up in his bed ; "you
sooin to bo very restless, sir."
Restless, sir ? I believe you," said tho
disturbed one, " you'vo been snoring again,
sir, aud 1 cannot get to sleep."
" You don't say so !" said D., " have I been
repeating my rudeness to you, sir?" I am
really extremely sorry, my dear sir, but 1
was really asleep. Good night very sor
ry ;" and off he went again, and began snor
ing aa loud as ever, aud was again awaken
ed by his room-mate's complaints,
Snoring again, have I, sir!" said D.;
" well, tho fact is, I have had a Imrd day's
journey and eaten a hearty wuppct and if I
snore 1 can't holp it. I have apologized twice,
and that is sufficient. I am now about to go
to sleep again, but allow mo to inform you,
sir, that it you wake mo up again, snoring
or not snoring, I'll ju.t got up and give you
the d dest thrashiugthat you ever had in
the whole course, of your life ! Good night,
sir." His slumbers were undiEturbcd.-r-JV.
O. Picayune.
i, Gaa Cotton
" Talking of cotton, a dfscovery 1ms been
made, which, if war is rendered iashionablo
by Franco and Spanish alliances, will afford
an opening for u large consumption of tho ar
ticle, to tho exclusion of ' villanous saltpetre.'
Ono Schonbein found out that cotton posses,
sed an explosive power, and has communica
ted his discovery to tho world ; but will not
wear his laurels, or rather his cotton enp, in
peace. Numerous other 'scientific mm' havo
put forth claims to the invention tlio discov.
cry, and there is not a day passes without the
publication of some of the cxporinicnts un
dertaken by Schonbein's competitors nr their
friends aud patrons. In India you have so
maify sarttns and o much cotton, thut it will
be agreeable to vmi to be informed of n few
of the experiments and tho manner of them;
and it will be equally agreeable to us on tins
side of the water, to hear that you have eli
cited some new facts bearing ujkmi this very
interesting nliitir. It is not forgotten tliat-ol"
tricity gained something by- the experiments J
of vour O Shuugnessy.
" M. Morel, a mechanical engineer of Par
is, presented u box of cartridges ready pre-'
pared for small arms. Rurncd nu tho hand
it causes no sensible pain, lcn cs nu stain,
and produces no smoke. Dipped in water and j
pressed, and afterwards dried between two I
leaves of blotting paper, it preserves its tul
minating properties. Gen. Gourguud fired
a charge of fulminating cotton from an or
dinary fowling-piece, at a distance of forty
yards from tho object at which he aimed. flu
fired a holster pistol at a distance of 25 yanls,
and a pocket pistol at n distance of 10 yards.
At forty yards a bull from the fowling-piece
traversed a plank ol beech ol 0.;I5 centime
the health of tho minors. The experiments
in blasting, tried iu tho Cornwall mines a
short timo ago, wnto most satisfactory aud
conclusive in favor of the gun-cotton. An
other of its si range qualities consists iu its
not bcin.g deteriorated by damp or wrt. Some
gun-cotton which has been steeped in wutor
for sixty hours, and dried by exposure to tho
air, exploded with tho same facility, aud as
instantaneously, as cotton which had not been
wetted. Professor Schonbein stated that im
mersion iu water for two months has not im
paired its explosive qualities in tho slightest
degree. The experiments with fowling-pieces
and rides wcro highly interesting and
satisfactory. A gun charged with 30 grains
of prepared cotton propelled an equal cliargo
of shot with greater forco and precision, at a
distanoo of 40 j;anls, than was dono by tho
same gun loaded with ISO grains of sun-
powderrsA rifle charged with MJ grains of
gunpowder sent a ball through 7 boards hall
an inch in thickness, and at a distanco of 40
yurds ; the same rille charged with 40 grains
of gun-cotton propelled the ball into the 8th
lourd. Another rille, which had been used
for elephant shooting, and consequently car
ricd a much larger ball, charged with forty
grains of gun-cotton, propelled u ball through
8 boards at a distunco of 0(1 yards. In no
cukc was tho discharge accompanied by a
greater recoil than usual; ai4-thc.a-orts
Were not louder than thoso accompanying the
discharge of guns and rifles loaded with gun
powder. A hundred weight of the gun-cotton
is on iu way from Buslo to Woolwich, ha v.
ing been onJcrcd by government with the
view of testing its applicability to heavy ord
nance. Professor Schonbein states thut the
manufacture ol the gun-cotton is unattend
ed by risk, and that it can lie effected iu the
thort space of eight hours, and at u less cost
than gun-Kwder. If these statements should
turn out to be correct.' tho adoption of the
gun-cotton will follow as a matter of course."
European Carrrsioiulrncc.
Ci'NKtxc a.nu Discretion. Cunning has
only private selfish aims, and sticks at noth
ing which may mako them succeed. Dis
crction has large and extended views, and,
like a well formed eve, commands a whole
eye
horizon: eunnini? is u kind of short sichtetl-
tres thickness ; at i!o yards the ball fromliojntS8 ,iat discovers tho minutest objects
holster pistol lodged in the plank without pet
fo rat ing it ; the ball from tho pocket pintol
made tho samo impression on tho plak us
that which might havo been produced TJy u
charge of ordinary gunpowder. The eliargo
of. fulminating cotton leaves scarcely any .and makes a man incapable of bringing about
residue in Uie fiarrel. The recoil of tho gnu 0Vl!U those events which he might huve dono
is extremely slight, and the report is not loud-1 ,ud ho passed only for u plain man. Dis
or than that of a large detonating cap. M. i crction is tho perfection of reason, and a guido
ouoasKo, a I'oiisu reiugee, iikcwiso present-
which are near at baud, but is not able; to
discern things at a distance. Discretion,
the more i. is discovered, gives a greater au
thority to tho pcrtfm who posesses it : cuu-
mng, when it is once tictuctcu, loses its lorce
cd a fulminating substance which has tho ap
pearance of cotton, and which was tried with
an artillery niuskctoon, fired at forty yards.
The ball produced the same effect as that fir
ed by fulminating cotton,' but it loft a con
siderable deposit in the barrel. The cotton
powdor of Al. Chodsko was compressed into
a wadding in order to charge tho gun, whilst
ttho fulminating obtton was not. Both matxhe samo manner as vivacity is often iniata
rials icnito bv-tlio blow of a hammer on an
anvil, but not by tho blow of it hammer on
wood.'
44 In juxtaposition with these experiments,
it will bo interesting to place some which were
made in the grounds of Mr Iturrou of Stan
more, under Professor Schonbein's superjn
tendence. Previously to trying its powers
with fire-arms, tho professor made sevural e.-.
poriments to show its explosive properties
and perfect combustion. Ho placed somn
gun-cotton upon a heap of tho strongest and
most easily ignited sporting gunpowder. Tho
cotton was then fired by heated platinum wire;
and, although thcro were innumerable points
of contact lielwcen the cotton aud tho pow.
dor, tho former exploded o instantaneously
as to lcavo tho gunpowder uncxploded. Tho
gun-cotton explodes at about 400 degrees of
Fahrenheit, with a vividness of flame which
is perfectly dazzling leaving scarcely any
rcbidulrbehirid. It has been mated that no
smoko is emitted ; this is erroneous. A slight
smoke, or rather vapor, is thrown off; but it
so soon disappears us to occasion no incoii
venionco. After repeated explosions of "the
cotton, the room in wlncrf tho experiments
were- conducted wus perfectly clear. It is
difficult to o'or-cstirnato tho advantages at
tendant upon tho use of tho gun-cotton in
mines ; since tho smoko proceeding from the
coarse gun-powder used for blasting purposes
occasions so much anuoyanc? anu injury to
to us in all the duties ol lile : cunning is a
kind of instinct thut only looks out after our
immediate interest and welfare. Discretion
is ouly found in men of strong sense and
good understandings: cunning is often to pr
met with in brutes themselves, und in per
sons who are but the fewest removes Irom
them. In short, cunning is only tho mimic of
discretion, and may pass tijiou weak men iu
ken for wit, und gravity for uisdoui.
Woman's Fortitude. I have often hail
occasion to romark the fortitude with which
women sustain tho most overwhelmini! re
verses of fortune Those disasters which
breuk down the spirit of a man, and pros
treto him in tho dust, seem to call forth all
tho energies of tho softer sex, aud give.mtch
intrepidity and elevation to their character,
that at times it approaches to sublimity.
Nothing can bo moro touching than to behold
a soft und tender female, who had been till
weakness and dependence, an J alive to eve
ry trivial roughness, while treading tho pros
porous paths of life, suddenly rising in men
tal forco to be the comforter and supjwrter of
her husband under misfortune, aud abiding,
with unshaken firmness, tho bitterest blasts
of udvorsity.
Censuuk. Censure, says uu ingenious
author, is tho tax a man pays to tho public
for being eminent. It is folly for un omi
nunt mun to think of escaping it, and a
weakness to bo affected with it. All the il
lustrious persons of antiquity, und indeed of
every ugo in tho world, havo passed through
this fiery persecution. There is no dofoncn
against reproach but obscurity ; it is a kind
of concomitant to greatness, as satires and
invectives wcro an essential part of a Roman
triumph.
Mental Contuol. When we turn our
serious attention to tho economy of tho mind,
wo perceive that it is capable of a variety "I
processes of tho most remarkable and most
important nature. Wefind also that we run
oxort a voluntary wvvot over thesn proceN.v
cs, by which wo control, direct, and regu
I a to them at our will ; and, that when we d
not exort this power, tho mind is left to ih
influcnco of external impressions, or castinl
trains of association, often unprofitable, and
often frivolous. We thus discover that th.
mind is the subject of culture und discipline,
which, when duly exercised, must produn
the most important results on our condition
as rational and moral beings ; and that th
exerciso of them involves a responsibility of
the most solemn kind, which no man can
possibly put away from him.
Domestic Life. "Domestic troubles,"
wroto lamentingly a king who is already
gono from tho theatre of tho world, "are m
this respect different from public ones,
that they bow down tho soul by repeated
pains, which every moment calls forth."
"I am a most fortunate man," uroto iu
confidential letter another king who yet bears
upon his brow ono of the noblest crowns nl
Kurope, "und you will not find many who.
like me, after a twenty yenrs' acquaintance
and a nineteen years' marriage funis now tin
heart of his wife us divine, her eyes ashca
enly, as iu tho first days of his love.'1
Krllelicve about n sixteenth part ofuhat
you hear, und Hssihly 7?u may be near tJi
truth. If you believe a quarter, you ar
green; If a half, you are soft, if the lnh.
you are a fool.
A D.iMrKit to ii.ikjoinc: Aiiiiimuk
scenes occur occasionally in grave usein
lilies. During the late session of the New
Hampshire Legislature, u newly Hedged or
ntor rose to make his maiden speech in the
I louse of Representative!. A bill had Is-en
brought iu to tax bank dividends, and waleh
ing his opportunity, the tltlmlant uddre-ei
the members: "Mr. Hjicaker, the gentleman
from Dover who introduced this bill does u
seem to aware of its inevitable rt-sulls -lie
houiil Mlrip the widow." (roars of laugh
ter, and cries of the widow T what wid
aw 1 not iu this public hall, I hope, Ace. &c ;
As soon as the tumult subsided in sotie
degree, und the orator could make himseli
heard, he indignantly proceeded: "Gentle
men need not think to put me down bvclum
or. Is there no f-ympathy hero for the wid
ow aud orphan f I say, Sir, thi.sjs forworn
than hlripping. Put on this tax und I t-a-.
you drive the widow to her lust shift.
Here the clamor liecame so greut, that the
speaker despairing of a hearing resumed hi
scut. It was almost ten minutes before tic
I Iou.sc could transact its regular bi)sinc(o.
A Hot Mouthful. An exchange relate
the following anecdote of u countryman w h
had'nt been round much :
"A gentleman at one of the hotels in an
eastern city, sat beside a countryman, wh,
from appearances, bad just "como down."
Me us i "slitted sfons," as he termed silv r
forks, villi remarkable agility, und the fraci
see ile j.ou'et and other viands, were sent '-
their long account at magnetic speed. On
tho opposite side of the table stood a plate 01'
peppers, the genuine red hot ones, strong e
uougli to shako a man to pieces, which the
couutryiriun eyed for it moment and then
plunged his foi'kover. and convoyed one en
tiro to his mouth. lie munched. and munch
ed.und munched away until ho could Muni
it no longer, for he was the color of crimson,
and the tears jsiured down his cheeks.
Ho hastily took it from his mouth, and lav
ing it down aside of his plate, exclaimed.
"There confound ye! lav ihere ami cool will
yc." '
A Goon Ankciiuti: Ui.u ok Nkvv. W e
arc told thut tho following conversation n
overheunl among "tho Volunteers on the Ui'
Grandn:"
ttci.NK, Night. Two Volunteers wrapped
in blankets, und half buried iu mud. Vol
untCQ 1st "Jim, how unmn you to be a vol
unteor?" Volunteer yd "Why Rob, you
son I Imvn no wifo to euro a red cent fiir me,
and so I voluntcnrod und besides, llikrwur.
Now tell mo how you lanm here ?" Volun
teor 1st "Why, the fact is, you know, l-I-l
havo got a wife, un'd so I camo out here, he-
causo like peace." Hereupon bollivolnn
tcors turned ovor in their iiiaiiKcis, goi a
new plastering of mud, and went to sleep.
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