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sibk>, tint another day should piss without
renewing the search, ami, confident that h< r
upter was on the island, slit* retired that
night to rest, willi the bli-sful anticipation
that on the morrow she should told her be
loved Gait y to her bosmn.
A r aiu she asked permission foi a day’s
absence-, and her father, delighted to find
her once more evincing a disposition to
mingle in society, gladly consented.
With the faithful Jacques. Edith was’
soon traveilng the unite of the pi reeding
dav. Arriving at the heads, lliey found the
hoist concealed among the rocks. It was
soon launched, and. trembling with anxiety
f.ir the result, filled with evil forhodings,
Edith seated herself by the aisle nf Jaeipses,
unri they were snots rapidly neating tins Is
lattd.
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Character of the Mississippi. —lt has been
the fasainn of travelers to talk of the scene
ry of the Mississippi as wanting grandeur
and beauty. Must certainly it has neither.
But there is no scenery ort eaith mure strik
ing. The dreary and pestilential solitudes
untrodden save by the foot of the Indian;
the absence of all living objects, save the
huge alligators which float past, apparently
asleep, oil the driftwood; and an occasional
vulture, attracted by its impure prey on the
surface of the waters; the trees, with a
long and hideous drapery of pendant moss, |
fluttering in the wind ; and the giant river
rolling onward to the vast volume of its
dark and turbid waters through the wilder
ness — fiom the features of one of the most
dismal and impressive landscapes on which
the eye of man ever rested. If any one J
think proper to believe that such objects ere
not in themselves, sufficient, 1 beg only to
siy that 1 differ with him in point of taste. j
Rocks and mountains are fine things un- 1
doubtedly, but they cotdd add nothing of
sublimity to the Mississippi. Pelion might
be piled oil Ossa, Alps on Andes, and still,
to the heart and perceptions of the spocta
tor, the Mississippi would be alone. No
river in the world draining so large a portion
of the earth’s surface. It is the traveler of
five thousand miles, more than two thirds
of the diameter of the globe. The imagina
tion asks, whence come its waters, and whith
er tend they] They come from the dis- !
tant regions of a vast continent, where the
foot of civilized man has never yet been
planted. They flow into an ocean yet vast
er, the whole body of which acknowledges
their influence. Through what vat ieties of
climate have they passed I On what scenes
of lonely and sublime magnificence have
they gazed ? Have they penetrated
The hoary forest, still the bison's screen,
Where stalked the inamoth to his shaggy lair,
Through paths and alleys, rootled with aombregreen,
Thousands of years before the silent air.
Was pierced by whizzing shafts of hunter keen?
In short, when the traveler has asked and
answered these questions, and a thousand
others, it will be time enough to consider
how far the scenery of the Mississippi would
be improved by rocks and mountains. He
mny then be led to doubt whether any great
.effect can be produced !' v 9 combination of
objects of discordant character, however
•grand in themselves. The imaginati.-'U is
perhaps susceptible but of a single power
ful impressioti at a time. Sublimity is uni
formly connected with unity of object.—
Beauty may be produced by the happy
adaptation of a multitude of hai momuns de
tails; but the highest sublimity of effect can
proceed but from one glorious and para
mount object, which impresses its own
character on everything around. The pre
vailing character of the Mississippi is that
of a solemn gloom. I have trodden the
passosof the Alp and Appenine, y< t never
felt how awful a thing is natuie, till I was
borne on its waters through regions deso
late and uninhabitable. Day after day, and
night after night, we continued driving right
downward to the south; our vessel, like
some huge demon of the wilderness, bear
ing fire in her bosom, and canopying the
eternal forest with the smoke of her nostrils.
How looked the hoary river god, I know
not; nor what thought the alligators, when
awakened from their slumber by a vision so
astounding. llut the effect on my own
spit its was such as I have never experienced
before or since. Conversations became
odious, and 1 passed my time in a sort of
dreamy contemplation. At night, I ascend
ed to the highest deck, and lay for hours
gazing listlessly on the sky, the forest, and
the waters, amid silence only broken
by the clanging of the engine. All this
was very pleasant; yet, till I reached New
Orleans, 1 could scarcely have smiled at the
best joke in the world ; and as for raising
a laugh—it would have been cprite as easy
to quadrate the circle. — Hamilton's Mia
and Manners in America.
Amputation of a Jjimh. —The editor of
the Bangor (Maine) Courier givesan account
of a surgical operation in that city, which
he \vitnesseu on Saturday—-the patient hav
ing been previously thrown into the mag
netic sleep by Dr. Deare. The operation
was the painful one of amputating a leg,
and was performed by Dr. Hnsea Rich,
assisted by several other gentlemen upon
Luther Carey, whose leg, from infancy, hud
been deformed, and had caused hint much
pain and inconvenience. The editor of the
Courier says : “ During the operation the
patient complained of a sensation in the
bottom of his foot, as though someone was
picking it; and at one time, for a brief pe
riod, appeared to be rousing f-om the mag
netic state, and half conscious, by suspicion
at least that the operation had commenced,
and at this time there was quite a struggle
iitid much muscular action, but nt; was soon
thrown more fully into the magnetic state,
and was then quite unconscious of what was
going -on; entering into conversation re- !
spactiag the operation aud proposing that
it he postponed to the next week, &e., and
insisting, even after the leg was amputated,
that he would not have it done until it was ;
fairly paralyzed, at the same time expres
sing some doubt whether the Doctor would |
be able to accomplish this. After the oper
ation hat! been performed anti the limh dres
sed, Mr. Carey was placed in his lied, be
ing still in the magnetic state, ami was in- ,
dined id sing. Mis aged widowed mother !
whs called, hi id entered tiro room just as
he was singing with much zeal, w hich great- ‘
Iv affected (lie aged woman, and she burst |
into tears. Mr. Carey was now taken out
of the magnetic sleep, and on rousing up j
appeared quite startled on seeing the com- i
p tiv present: and speaking to his sister j
and to his mother, a shade of sadness passed j
over his contenance, as he told them he had
postponed having the operation pel formed
until the Doctor should be more successful
in paralyzing his leg. A passing smile
over till countenances led him to suspect ,
there might he something in the wind, and J
it ’.lien occurred to him that he was in bed, |
and in attempting to tise, he was cautioned (
not to do it, upon which he rcmatked that j
perhaps his leg was off, and he was placed ;
in bed. Upon being assured of the fact, i
he in great glee cried out, “ Good ! I am
glad the old leg is off” He then stated that
the only sensation he had experienced was (
like that of someone pricking the bottom
of Ills toot.”
Does your School Teacher token Ncwspa- I
per? —If not, we should he very much in
clined to doubt his due qualification for the
important trust confided to him, it is the du
ty of an instructor of youth to teach them,
not metely how to read, wiite and cypher,
not merely Geography, Grammar and Math
ematics, by rote, parrot-like, but how to
think, how to apply these and other blanch
es of education to the piactical purposes of
life, to leach them knowledge of the world,
in short any ami eveiytbitig which w ill he
of use to them in after life. In doing this
what so useful to aid them, or so interesting,
advantageous and instructive to them, as the
daily use of the newspaper, with its novel
ties, its news from all quarters of the coun
try and the globe, its notices of new im
provements in the arts and sciences, in me
chanics, manufactures and agriculture, its
discussions of impoitant moral and political
principles of tight, its record of events, of
changes and revolutions in the various sec
tions of the world, its fun, puzzles and
amusement for recreation of the mind ?
The period is rapidly approaching when the
good newspapers will tie considered as es
sential in the school room, as the Geography,
the Aiithmetic, or the Grammar, and will
be adapted to a far greater variety of pur
poses. Let every school teacher mark our
prediction, and hold it in remembrance.—
Dollar Newspaper.
Influence of W omen. —If men hold the
1 political power of society, women have
| mainly in their hands the more impoitant
moral power. There cannot be a moral
community where they are licentious; there
cannot be a refined society where they are
neglected and ignorant. Upon them de
pend the earliest education. They regulate
or materially influence the principles, opin
ions and manners of tlu-ir husbands and
their sons. Thus the swimd and healthful
stale of society depends on them. It is a
rental kahle fact, that the wife of Oliver
Cromwell endeavored to recall the exile
king, and that all his children save one
were loyal. We must believe that they
derived their feelings and opinions fiom
their mother. Allied, one of the most ex
traordinary men of any age, who rescued
J u|s country from her enemies by hiscoimige,
1 and bv j,;s wisilpm and energy raised her
| from extieme bantu.!:> to 2 !>'•’ degree of
civilization, in his youth was givC” to <: ‘
*ess and pleasure. His mother roused in
him the ambition and virture that has made
| him the admit ation of mankind for a thou
j sand years. Napoleon said that to the
I manner in which his mother formed him at
j an early age he principally owed his suhse
] quent elevation. It was his opinion that
the future good or had conduct of the child
depends upon ihe mother Mothers, while
you are proud of this distinction, remember
the tesponsibility it impresses on you.
A funny incident. —At a looofoco Conven
tion recently held in Tippncanoe county, In
| (liana, a friend of Mr. Cass moved a reso
j lutioii to the following effect :
) “ Whereas General Lewis Cass emigrat
i ed to Ihe West from New Hampshire in
) early life with his knapsack on his hack, and
! unsheathed his sword in repelling the Iri
| dians fmm our Northwestern frontier, and
| in lighting against the British during the
j last war: Therrfore, Resolved, That he
i ought to be supported by the Dernociatic
! party for I‘resideut of the United States.”
A brother Locofoco moved to amend the
j resolution by striking out the name of “Lew
| is Cass,” and inserting the name of “ Mar
tin \ an Buren,” which motion, after an an
imated discussion, prevailed. Someone
called for the reading of the resolution as
amended ; whereupon, the secretary, in a
loud voice, commenced reading;
“ Wheiens General Martin Van Buren
| emigialed to the West from New Hatnp
j shire in early life with his knapsack on his
| back, and unsheathed his sword in repelling
| the Indians and lighting against the Brit
ish”—
By the time the Secretary had got thus
fur the übstmliiy of the thing became so
manifest that the same Locofoco who mov
| ed the amendment sprang to his feet, ex
| claiming, “ Tut. tut,tut, Mr. Chairman, that’ll
i never do! 1 move to lay the affair on the
| table;” and there it was laid accordingly.
It is a beautiful trait in the history of the
| American Government that it has never
shed a Urop of human blood, nor banished
a single individual for state crimes! No
renegade minister grows immortal there by
‘‘saving the constitution and crushing the
hydia of Jacobinism,” at the expense of
human blood and human happiness. lam
delighted to find that the more popular a
| government grows, the more mild it he
’ conies; and that the glory of dispensing
with the services of the lung-man in poiiti
cal afl iirs, was reserved for the first govern
ment erected and conducted hy the people;
by those whom the planners of our bloody
; treason and sedition laws choose to desig
nate as a “ ferocious iabide!”— Scotchman.
Let young people remember that their
good temper will gain them more esteem
and happiness, than the genius and talents
of all the had men that ever existed.
mU 3 ‘X> IS! 1L i! it>>
lIF.CIPES.
For Burns. —Burns or scalds may he re
lit ved, and speedily vured, hy iii application
of ink and raw cotton, Intake out the fire,
and a salve of laid and Jamestown weed,
to heal the wound. The salve is made by
c stewing the leaves or seeds of the weed
in lard, and strainbig through any thin cloth.
This is an excellent artie.e for sores of any
kind. Fresh cuts are soon healed hy its
use, and if you have a horse with galled or
j sole back this is u superior remedy. Evety
family would act wisely to always have the
salve in readiness.
Another. Another good remedy for
burns is a preparation one pan of lard, one
paitof rosin and a half putt of turpentine, j
j simmered together till all ate completely !
melted. The burns, with an application,
i should he washed daily and dressed with j
fresh ointment.
For Chapped hands and limits. — V ash
i two or three times a day with tincture of j
lobelia, or N<>. 6. Honey mixed w ith wu
j ter is said to be good.
, For C/oup. —Roast an onion, slice it,
and press nut the juice ; mix this w ith honey
or brown sugar, forming a syrup, and a tea
i spoonful every fifteen minutes till your
child is relieved. This is convenient and a
good remedy.
Indelible Ink from the Sumach. —'l lie
milk which exudes liom a branch of sumach,
! is the best indelible ink which can he used.
Break off one of the stems that supports the
leaves, and write what m;>y he wanted
with it. In a slimt time it becomes a beau
tiful jet black, and can never be washed out.
Excuse for not going to Church. —There
is no excuse so trival, that will not pass
upon some men’s conscience to excuse their
attendance at the public worship of God.
Some are so unfortunate as to be indispos
ed on the Lord’s day, and think nothing so
unwholesome as the air of a church, others
have their affairs so oddly contrivi and, as to
he always unluckily prevented hy business.
With some it is a great mark of wit and
deep understanding, to stay at home on
Sundays. Olliers again discover strange*
fits of laziness, that seize ihem particularly
on that day anil confine them to their beds.
Others aie absent out of mere contempt of
religion; And, lastly, there are not a few
who look upon it as a day of rest, and there
fore claim tlie privilege of their cattle, to
keep the Sabbath by eating, drinking and
sleeping after the toil and labor of the week.
Now in all this the worst circumstances is,
that these persons are such whose companies
are most required, and who siatid most in
need of a physician.— Dean Suift.
Importance of Selecting Proper Occupa
tion.—But few persons ate aware of the im
mense importance of selecting for their
sons, occupations for which they are espe
cially qualified by their physical constitutions
or mental organs —a ciicumsiancc which is
seldom brought into consideration.
A person, who, while attending to the
duties of his profession or occupation, wheth
er literary, scientific or manual, can gratify
the predominant faculties of their mind, will
always be successful. His business will be
an important source of bis happiness, and of
course will not be neglected. It is not on
ly imprudence, but cruelty, in a parent, w ho,
urged by the pride, ignorance or capiice,
condemns his favorite son to a calling, for
which he can never he qualified hy his men
tal organization. A fearful tale might be
tom “f misery, want, intemperance, vice
and insanity, which iiCV® 1-ad the”’ otigin
jin these sad mistakes. It is weii KnSYt'ti
| that the wily Jesuits, who possessed ari ex
j traordinary power of penetrating the mo
-1 tives of the human actions, wete remurka-
J ble for their success in educating youth.—
I And one great source of the astonishing in
fluence, which that religious order once ex
ercised over a large poition of the civilized
and uncivilized world, has been ascribed
| by writers who flourished many years ago,
to their sagacity in adaption the paiiicular
business or agency of the different members
of their order, to the peculiar qualifications,
with which they were endowed hy nature.
Almost every individual is qualified to ex
cel in some employment—and if all our
children were destined to pursue those oc
cupations fin which they are especially fit
ted hy their mental organization, and which
would sometimes place the son of the hum
! blest artisan in the pulpit or on the bench,
and sometimes doom the descendant of the
capitalist to labor vvitli his hands, it is evi
dent that a tremendous addition would he
made to the motal power of this Republic.
i Cracker. —ln a decidedly handsome nnd
tiiumphanl criticism on an editorial of the
I Savannah Georgian, communicated to the
Macon Telegraph, we find the following,
i given as the origin of this very common
| word :
“ The otigin outlie term cracker, ns ap
i plied hy a British otficer in the revolutiona
ry war to a portion of the native Americans,
|is something like the following: All native
j Americans, instead of the titles assumed by
themselves, of whigs and tories, were call
i ed by the British Crackers and Skinners. —
i The foimer were called Cracker, from the
j sound of their unerring rifles, so much
j dreaded hy his Majesty’s troops, in passing
j the interminable forests nnd impenetrable
swamps of South Carolina and Georgia.—
1 “1 he latter was called Skinners—a homely
figure, taken from the slaughter house—as
■ they followed a detachment of British sol
! diers, as surely as the buzzards, and were
j as faithful in their attention to the property
I and moveables of the slaughtered inhabi
j tants, as that scavenger bird was to their
! carcasses.”
! “ You’re my Prisoner." —A constable
started out for the purpose of arresting a
person who had often evaded pursuit, hut
who, he was informed, was engaged in a j
neighboiing cornfield. The constable wish- j
ing to take him by surprise, took a rounda-
Jiout direction, scaling the barns, sheds, and i
fences, until opposite, when, ** squatting
low,” lie crawled stealthily along, and at
last pounced upon his victim, clinching him
firmly around the waist,exclaiming, “You’re ‘■
my prisoner.” Imagine his mortification |
when, upon a more minute inspection, his j
prisoner proved to be a scarc-crow.
From Texas. —Accounts o week later
have been received, being to the 24th ulti
inn, from Houston, the seat of Government
of Texas. Tim Congress of Texas was
still in session, hut, ns there was no impor
tant business before it, it was expected to
adjourn early in the present month. The ;
revenue collected at Galveston for the quar- i
ter ending on the 31st ultimo is estimated
to reach $*5,000, being twice as much as j
was received for the corresponding quarter |
of last year. “At this rate (says the Civil
ian) the duties collected at Galveston the ,
coming year will equal those of the whole ;
Republic for the past. The finances of the
country were never in a more healthy con- ;
ditmii than at present.”
The following information, relative to the
” annexation,” and to overtures said to have
been made by this Government to the Texian
Goer/ntmtit. with a view to this object, is in
some particulars extraordinary, il true, but
must lie received by our readers, until otli
< revise vouched, as the mere talk of the day
in Texas:
From die Iluuslon Telegraph of January 24.
Much anxiety has been manifested to as
certain the views of the President and of the
members of Congress relative to the ques
tion of annexation. We mentioned some
weeks since that we were confident that the
President was secretly, if not openly, in fa
vor of this measure. We are now happy
to state that this opinion was correct. We
learn that the despatches lately sent to the
United Stales by C. Raymond, Esq. related
to this subject. It appears that Mr. Upshur,
the American Secretary of State, several
weeks since, addressed a note to Mr. Van
Zandt, our Charge at Washington, inform
ing him that lie desired to open negotiations
with him relative to the annexation of Tex
as to the Union. Mr. Van Zandt, not hav
ing leceived any instructions from his
Government relative to ibis subject, des
patched Mr. Raymond to this country to ob
tain instructions. It was probably the ne
glect of Mr. Van Zandt to return a definite
answer to Mr. Upshur that caused the ic
port to be circulated in Washington that our
Government declined to negotiate for the
annexation. In the mean time Mr. Ray
mond arrived heie, received instructions
from the President, directing Mr. Van
Zandt to withdraw all propositions for the
annexation of Texas to the United States,
unless there were a certainty that it could
he effected; alledging as his reasons for this
course that if the negotiations proceeded,
England would withdraw her valuable ser
vices. That he could not com [it omise the
national honor by playing a double game
with England and the United States, by
holding out idlers to the latter that would
be exceedingly offensive to the foimer.—
What course Mr. Van Zandt will lake upon
the subject we are unable to conjecture;
but it seems not improbable that he will re
new the negotiations, if lie receives assur
ances from Mr. Upshur that there is a lea
sonable prospect ‘.hat ihe measure will be
effected. W liether theie is “a certainty”
of success cannot lie determined while it
rests upon the future conduct of fallible
men. Congress, on the other hand, lias
adopted decisive measures. We understand
that a circular lias been addressed by the
members of both Houses of Congress to
the members of the Congress of the United
States who are friendly to Texas, declaring
that they believe that at least nine-tenths of
the “ peopte of Texas would most cheeiful
ly be willing that our Government should
embrace any oveitures from the United
States having for their object the political
annexation of Texas on a footing in all re
spects with the other States of the
Union.” We learn this circular has
been signed by every menincr of Congress
except one ; and has been forwarded to Mr.
Gilmer, of Virginia, to be presented to the
Congress of the United States,
Country Newspapers. —Some contempo
raiy holds forth in regaid to country News
papers as follows—let all tlie people listen
fin his words are vvoids of truth and sober
ness, fitly spoken.
Newspapers that are published in a town
or village are called country papers in op
position to those published in the city.
Some people won’t subscribe to a coun
try paper, because they say they first see
everything contained in the country in the
city paper. These aie very wise people
surely and have very sharp eyes too. If
they don’t take the country paper how do
they know what is in it? Do they borrow
it and so read it without the pleasure of
paying fur it ; or do they guess what is in
it ? No city paper can furnish country peo
ple with matteis in which they are half so
much interested us the country paper can
—because the country papers narrates what
occurs immediately around—marriages and
deaths of their friends—the advertisements
of their neighbors—the sales of personal
property neat them which they are in need
of. These are matters peculiar to other
neighborhood papers alone and most agteca
ble to them.
The advertisements to a neighborhood
paper are the first things to he read. In
deed, properly speaking, the advertise
ments are the most interesting parts usually
of all newspapers to all readers.
A man that does not subscribe to his
neighboiliood paper is certainly ignorant of
one half that passes mound him ; and if be
is a business man, often loses the price of
subscription in the settlement of an estate
or sale of some property in which he was
interested. Besides that, the paper tells
him where to go and get the cheapest
goods; to this store or to that, for those
who advertise usually sell the cheapest—
tell him where he can buy what he wants
—a house or a farm—a horse or a cow, &c.
or where he can sell some superfine article j
he lias. Do the city papers do that ? Not ]
at all. They will tell you a good deal of
what is going on in the cities and tell you a 1
good deal of what youfeel no entertainment \
in whatever—but do they tell you that
which you are interested in—your neigh
borhood news ?
Another class of people say that the \
country papers are made up of the city pa
per. This is another mistake. A large j
portion of our country papers are as well
edited as a moiety of the city papers, and
as often copy us little from them. Wv i
know country papers which me nearly
filled with original matter written expressly
for them.
The light way to have a good neighbor
hood paper is to encourage it. A libeial
subscription will bring forth talent, for if
the editor has not got it, the Almighty
Dollar will find it for him somewhere.
British Naral Force for 1844. — An En
glish paper discoursing on the subject of
Naval Affairs, says, there will he employ
ment this year,for 14 line of battle ships,
carrying from 74 to 120 guns each; 32
fiigates, carrying from 36 to 60 guns each ;
42 sloops of war, carrying from 16 to 20 guns
each ; 40 brigs anil schooners, carrying
from S to 14 guns; 10 brigs, carrying 3
guns each ; one “Long Tom” and two 32
pound cannonade—on the coast of Africa—
-72 steamships, carrying fn-m 6 to 20 gnus;
21 surveying vessels, carrying from 4 to S,
34 packet brigs and schooners, carrying
from 6 to 10 guns each, 12 store ships, car
rying from 4 to 8 guns each ; 10 receiving
ships. This is tiuly a formidable array of
Naval foice these piping times of peace.—
Does it squint lowaids holding on to the
Oregon Territory, or are there some new
conquests to be made in the Pacific Ocean
or Indian Seas 1”
Be “ Sunn." —We knew a farmer in
Maryland, who had a well stocked farm,
and made it an invariable role,'to lay up 500
hard dollars, yearly. He bought himself,
each year, three pounds of tobacco, for whit li
he paid one dollar. He saved all his old
quids, and gave them to his wife, who dried
and smoked them. Il was all the “ sntohin
hurley” she had. They had but one child—
a son —and it was for the purpose of giving
their hoy a good start, in the world, that
they lived so “saven.” The old woman
and pian ate now dead and gone—and their
boy is in the Penitentiary at Nashville, Ten*
i riessce.
j Direction from tl/e Spanish. — Discretion
I is a nice perception Jof what is light and
proper, under the circumstances in which
j a person is called to act. It may be illus-
I tralcd by ihc foclers of a Cut, which nielong
j hairs placed upon her nose, with which she
| readily measures the spare between sticks
! and stones through which she desires to
1 puss, and thus determines by a delicate
) touch whether it is sufficiently large to let
1 her go through, without being snatched.—
This discretion appreciated, where difficul
ties, dangers and obstructions surround,
j enables a person to decide upon the proper
J couise of action.
“They Fought—rind Prayed." —At a
thanksgiving festival in Philadel] Ilia, Rev.
I Mr. Colton related the following anecdote:
| During a recent visit to Vermont, 1 fell
in with an old Revolutionary soldier wiio
was in Bennington battle. He told me that
all of a suitable age to hear arms rushed at
once to the field, and even their fathers could
not keep away. One old man, on whose
locks eifchty winters had shed their snows,
w hen his sons had left for the battle, fell the
j impulse so strong upon him that, turning to
] his good old wife, he said “Sukey, 1 must
i go and have a shot or two myself.” Taking
j a potato, he halved it fora mould, in which
j he rati his bullets; the dinner horn was ea-
I sily converted into a powder flask; then
| taking down the old rusty Queen’s aims,
he picked its flint, and thus accoutred, pro
ceeded to the field. Posting bin.sell behind
a great sound maple stump for a breast
woik.be awaited his opportunity. Pieltv
soon a commanding red coat catue diifting
abot.t in that quartet, when, laying the
Queen’s ai ms on the stump, and lifting his
c-yes to heaven, he ejaculated—“ The Lord
have mercy on your soul.” Then levelling
his rusty gun with deadly aim—down dropp
ed the red coat. Now, anything (said Air.
C.) I ut fighting a man who prays before he
shoots!
A Talking Machine, which speaks passn
ble French, capital English, and choice
Italian, is new to he seen at New Yotk. It
is made of wood, brass, and gum-elastic. —
New Jersey Herald.
A similar maebine, compounded to buck
ram, brass, and soaplocks, and familial ly
called “Green Josey,” is to be seen in
Newton, at the. Herald office—though we
cannot say that it speaks any language
“passably.” It frequently makes the at
tempt, however; and here is one of its lust
“essays:”
“Gov. Gilmer is understood of have had
a standing cart balance for any appoint
ment under the present administration,
which he might choose to except —but he
will not except an appointment of any kind
under this administration.” [See the “ Her
ald's” second editorial column, describing
the Congressional proceedings of January
201h.j
Isn’t that “ standing cart, balance rich !
The usual pluase carte blanche, which, in
the sentence quoted, might be rendered by
“unconditional offer,” is transmogrified into
cart balance! Among all the blunders per
petrated by conceited ignorance in its at
tempts to parley voo, this stands unequalled.
We have seen hicjacet turned into his jack
et in an obituary ; that was a trifle ; but cart
balance overcomes out gravity.— Sussex
(N. J.) Register.
Singular way of courting. — Deacon Mar
vin, of Connecticut, alatge landholder, and
an exemplary man, was exceedingly eccen
tric in some of his notions. His courtship
is said to have been as follows ; Having one
day, mounted his horse with only a sheep
skin for a saddle, he rode in front of the
house, where Betty Lee lived, and, without
dismounting, requested Betty to come to
him; on her coming, lie told her the Lord
had sent him there to marry her. Betty re
plied, “ the Lord’s will be done.”
The Peak of Teneriflfe presents five
zones of different vegetation ; for seven to
eight hundred feet, it produces vines, corn,
olives, etc.; the second zone produces myr
tles, and trees; the third, chiefly pines;
the fourth and fifth produces little vegeta
tion, and is very cold j the upper part is
pumice stone mid lava.
It is the prerogative of Genius to pro
duce novel impressions from familiar ob
jects; and seldom can philosophic genius
be more usefully employed than in ,| IU „
rescuing admitted truths fiom the neglect
caused by the very circumstance of their
universal admission. Extremes meet
Truths, of all others the most awful and in
teresting, are too often considered as so
true, that they lose all the power of trul |,
and lie bed ridden-in the dormitory „f ,| u |
soul, side by side with the most despised and
exploded emus.
To restore a common place truth to it*
first uncommon lustre, you need only trans
late it into action. But to do this, V ou
must have refected on its truth.
To communicate this knowledge is a du
ty of wiseman; to leuin from otheis is.
his highest gratification.
The true spirit. —Professor Longf,.]l,„ r
in one of his beautiful compositions,
speaking of the human heart, says; “What
1 have seen of the worn!, and know of t|, e
history of mankind, trachea me to look up.
on the errors of others in sorrow, not in,
anger. When 1 take the history of one
poor heart, that has sinned and suffered, and
represent to myself the struggle and temp,
tatioii it has passed through; the feverish
inquietude of hope and fear; the pressure
of want; the desertion of friends; the
scorn of the wor'cl, that has little elinrilv;
the desolation of the soul’s sar.ctuaiy, and
threatening vices within, health gone—hap
piness gone—even hope, that icniains long
est, gone—l would fain leave the eriing
soul of my fellow man with Him from
whose hands it came.”
TI isc Sayings. —No respectable mart
whips his wife on the Sabbarh. Always
1 take some other day for pet firming that
1 duty.
The reason that a person should thir.k
twice before lie speaks once is, that there
aie two sides to every question. ]f y, m can
hit the middle, you need think but once
but that is inspiration.
“The sun is out,” is an ambiguous ex
pression, and maybe means that the Sun
newspaper is published or that the kit n os
day is iinohscnred by clouds.
W hen one enters a room where is a Heap,
sanded floor, he may he pretty sure that lie
has got into a clean room ; hut if tbeve is ;*
carpet on the floor, it may nut he clean. Si*
when one deals with a person who is highly
polished, he may have a true friend, or a
mere courtier ; but when one deals with n
plain blunt man and finds him to act nndl
speak like a fiiend, he may leasunahly con
clude that he has a true friend.
lfyou are obliged to wear cotton or wool
in your ears, you will find it cheaper to Luy
it by tlie bale.
A distinguished chemist rrci mmcmls the
following compound as a safe anil excellent
dentiifice, viz: of while sugni and powdt-i
----ed charcoal, iat h one ounce, of Peruvian
hulk, half an ounce, of cream of tartar m e
drachm and a half, and of ranclla tunny
four grains, well rubbed together into .:*
impalpable powder. lie desciihes it as
strengthening to the gums, and cleausing tg
:he teeth, and as destroying tLe thisa green -
hie odor in the breath, which su when aii.-nsi
from decaying teeth. As n preventive off
toothache we have heard washing the mouth
and teeth twice a day with salt and water
strongly recommended by gentlcmev *br
have expork'weil much* benefit from it.
Life and its End. —Remember for what
purpose yon were lrorn and through the
whole of your life look at its end. Consider,
when that comes, in what yon will pot your
trust. Not in the bubble of worldly vanity
—it will he broken ; not in worldly pleasures
—they will begone; not in great connex
ions—they cannot serve yon ; not in wealth
—you cannot carry it with yon ; not in rank
—in the grave there is no distinction ; not
in the recollection of a life spent in a giddy
! conformity to the sillv fashions of a thought
less and wicked world; hut in that of a life
spent soberly and guilty, in the prescut
world.
Secrets. —Never reveal a secret even in
your most intimate friend. It is a saorpil
depositp. and he that betrays his trnst is
guilty nfthe worst kind of desecration.—-
The reply of Charles the Second, when im
port lined by a nobleman to communicate
something of a private nature, deserves to
be engraved on the heart of every one. —
“ Can you keep a secret ?” asked that suli
lle monarch. “ Most faithfully,” returned
the nobleman. “So can I,” was the locotr.-i
ic anil severe answer of Charles,
A “ Jolly Nose." —The following is going
the round of the Pirn's journals: At the
l-lii re, in (lie D pmlmeut of the Upper
Saone, may be seen a man who was former-,
ly an under cook, who has had his nose cut
off by M. Camot, a surgeon of Hure, and
replaced by the rump of a living fowl. —••
This engrafting lias perfectly succeeded,
anil M. Onmnt has only the trouble of, from
time to time, plucking the feptbeis from th?
restored nose.
Official Wit. —A postmaster somewhere*,
wrote to the editors of a paper printed some
where as follows :
Dear Sirs: The Courier addressed to N.
O. Moore, of this place, is no more wanted.
N. O. Moore being no more, his executors,
decline taking it any more.
Avery witty girl. —“ Father,” said a wist
ful looking lass about the age of sixteen, “ 4
know something about grammer, hut I can
not decline matrimony, nor see the reason
why myself and Gilbert cannot be conjvga--
ted.”
Col. Benton, it is stated In the St. Louis
New Era, has been imprisoned twice m
about a year for debt—but pleaded his P r,v ’
ilege us a Senator to ge: free ! Col. I' en ’
ton and Gov. Porter should have theirnames
stuck up in every man’s workshop as mefr
who have thrown themselves upon their dig
nity to avoid being forced let poy their hon-.
ost debts,