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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. —ihi * rißyuers-v"!-!. * | M O © © E 0= L A M Y - 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,