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I /atniltj jlQmspaper—JBeontcil la National auit Itate ^nlilits, liltratart, Imnsnarats, 3Horbtts, ^arrip ash Bomtatic Mms, fct. BY JOHN W. BURKE, Editor and Proprietor. “BE JUST AN1) FEAK NOT." TWO DOLLARS, per annum, in advance. VOL. IV. CASSYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1852. NO. 25. THE STANDARD,! advertisements. IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT CABSVUXE, OA. *Office.—S. IK. Corner of the Public Square. Terxs.—Two dollars a-ycar, in advance, Or Three dollars at the end of the year. No paper discontinued, except at the op tion of the editor, until all arrearages are paid. Miscellaneous advertisements inserted at *1 per square, for the first insertion, and 50 cents for each weekly continuance. Legal advertisements published at the usual rates. Advertisements not marked, will be pub lished until forbid, and charged accordingly. Letters on business must be addressed, post paid, to the editor. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. AUGUSTUS R. WRIGHT, CAS8Y1LLH, OA., Will practice Law in the several courts of Law and Equity in the Cherokee circuit. April 24.12 ~ly- CHASTAIN & YOUNG, ATTOltlSrUXS AT LAW, EltLZJAY, OA., Will practice in the counties of the Cher okee circuit. April 24. 12—ly. ROBERT H. TATUM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, TRENTON, GEO. Bosiness entrusted to his care in any of the Counties of the Cherokee Circuit, will meet with prompt attention Nov. 21. 43—tf DANIEL S. PRINTUP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ROME, OEO. Also Agent lor the Bank of the State of South Carolina, and will make advances on Cotton shipped to Cliarleston, only charging legalintcrcstforthc time the advance is made Sept. 5, 1830.—tf. JAMES MILNER. MI XJST3 Attori March, 4,1W2. JOHN H. GLENN & (ii,x3rjxr, fit La^V _ [,LE, ga. I—tf. MARCUS A. HIGGS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CASSVILLE, OA. Will attend promptly to all business con fided to his care. May 29, 1851. 17—tf. J. D. PHILLIPS. •ATTORNEY AT LAW, CASSVILLE, GEO. Feb. 19. 2-ly. W M. T r W O F FORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CASSVILI.E, OEO. March 15 tf E. 1). CHISOLM, attorney at law, VAN WERT, OA. Will practice in the Cherokee circuit,and will transact any business entrusted to his care. Jan. 29, 1852. 51—!ly DAWSON A. WALKER, ATTORNEY and counsellor at law, Spring Place, Geo. Refers to Kehks & Hope, Augusta, Ga., Wiley, Banks, & co., Charleston, 15. C. A. Wells & co., Savannah, Ga. April 24.' 12-1 y. COME AND TRY MAC. AT ADAIRSVILLE. GA. D. n. HOOD, W OULD most respectfully inform the citizens of Adairsville, the surround ing country, the people in “gineral”—and the Ladies more especially, that he is now- receiving and opening a very neat and care fully selected stock of Spring and Summer Goods, Dry Goods, Hats, Caps, Bonnets, Boots, Shoes, Hardware, Cutlery, Drugs and Med icines, Crockery and Glass-ware, Nails, Groceries, &c., all of which he most respect fully and emphatically offers at' prices rea sonable, and to suit the times, which all will agree must be low. He does not pretend to say that he sells Goods cheaper than anybody in town—but there’s one thing he ttriU say,—that if you will only try him onrx, you will be certain to come back and trade with him •' some more.” His motto is, and always has been, “Live and let live.” He would earnestly request the Ladies and Gentlemen who trade at Adairsville, to give him a call and examine his Goods, and ask the prices, as he considers it no trouble, but a pleasure to wait on all, whether they buy or not. Joe and Ben are always ready, and ex- tremelyrKMaows to wait on you at all times, and under any circumstances, and the truth is, these Boys,—Joe and Ben are mighty hard to beat; and when Joe is not other wise employed, he is what can do up your Tooth Carpentering’ * for you. He can “pull out'’, your Teeth, or fill them up cither. Adairsville, Ga., April Id, 1852. NEW Plain and Ornamental BUGGIES FOR SALE! T HE undersigned having permanently lo cated himself in Cassville, and engaged the services of Mr. Robert Melson, who is well known as a first rate wood workman, and having procured a good stock of well seasoned timber, and good fashionable trim ming, lie is prepared to make or repair all kinds of Buggies, Carriages, &c., in neat Northern style. All orders will be prompt ly, attended to, and no disappointment will be made to any who may patronize him un- , less in case of sickness. Please call and see - viddad&c for yourselves. r WM. BRADLEY. N. B. He is also prepared for Glass cut ting. Gilding and painting signs, both plain and ornamental, and other ornamental work, such as Gilding, Bronzing, Painting. &c. His shop is near the north-east corner of the square, where he will do work low for cash; and produce will be taken at the market prices. May 6,1352. ^netrij. HIV GOODS- PATTON & TRIMBLE, ADAIRSVILLE, GA. H AVE the pleasure of announcing to their customers and the public generally, that they arc now receiving a large and handsome stock of Spring 'and Summer Goods, selected with great care by one of the firm in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore,, which they are offering at unu sually low prices. Thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore extended to them, they weald ask a continuance of the same, and think they can make it the interest of All to give them a call before buying elsewhere. We still continue to take in exchange for Goods, Com, Wheat, Peas, Bacon, Lard, Feathers, Beeswax, Tallow and Rags. Adairsville, April 14th, 1852. JAMES G. LOiNGSTREET, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CALHOUN, OA., Will practice in the several courts of the Cherokee circuit. Refer to Hon. John P. Kino, ) Augusta, R. F. Poe, J Ga. Richard Peters, Esq., Atlanta, Ga. W. Akin,Esq., Cassville, Ga. April 24. 12—ly. JONES & CRAWFORD; ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CALHOUN, GA. April 24. 12—ly. JULIUS M. PATTON. ABDA JOHNSON. PATTON & JOHNSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Cnssvilte, Geo. Will practice in the counties of Cass. Cobb, jChattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and Walker. [Feb 12. JOHN A. PRAWF0RD. F. C. SHROPSHIRE. CRAWFORD & SHROPSHIRE, ATTORNEYS AT IAW, CASSVILLE, CEO. Businnss entrusted to their care in any of ihe counties of the Cherokee circuit, -will meet with faffhful attention. April 8. ATLANTA CHEAP BOOK AND MT7SJ6 ST03RE. \T71LLIAM KAY, Wholesele and Retail W Dealer in all kinds of BOOKS, Sta tionary, Music, Musical Instruments, Fancy Goods, &c. Ac., Atlanta and Newnan, Geo. Merchants, Teaceers and others who buy in quantities will do well to give us a call, my arrangements being such as to enable me at all times to keep a stock bn hand suf ficient to meet the demand, the same prices at both Stores, and those extremely low.— Call and see for yourselves. Particular attention paid to country orders, and forwarded per return mail, Ex press, Stage, or Railroad as directed. Atlanta, March 25,1852.—ly. J. B. PARROTT, ATTORNEY AT "LAW, March 11. 5—»y. no m. mi, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CASSVILLE, GEO. Is engaged in the pnetioe of the Law in the counties of Casa, Floyd, Gordon, Whit- Add and Walker, in. th* Cherokee Circuit, andinCobb. Cherokee and Gilmer of the V- Blue Ridge Circuit. Pmrtieular attention mu A the eeOeetM§ business. [Stays, W®k BRICK HOTEL, By Wm. Lat|mer f CASSYILLE, GEO. O'?” A comfortable hack always in readi ness to convey passengers to and from the gtate Road Depot. Jan. 29. “ tIegKobe HOTEL.” CASSVILLE, GA. i rTtHE undersigned would in- JL form, the public that he has taken charge of this large and commodious House, situated on the south-east comer of the pub lic square, and by his attention and care hope to merit a liberal patronage by the Public. His Tabic will be the best that the country affords No ns ins will be spared to make all comfortable that mav call. S. J. HIGGS. Cassville, Geo. Sept. 25,1851.34*tf. HOWARD HOUSE, MARIETTA, GA. J OHN F. ARNOLD, formerly of the Ma rietta Hotel, R now at the Howard Rouse, where he will be glad to entertain ids former friends and patrons, and at many new friends as may favor him with a calk Breakfast always ready for the up train of Cam on arrival » Marietta, Geo., May 6th, 1852. Experience. BY MAJ. PATTEN, U, S. A. About the world I've journeyed much, I've travelled far and near, And my experience is such As you shall shortly hear— I’ve seen the worst—I've seen the best, Of ^so-called) human kind, Where all are busily in quest Of what they never find. I’ve known a man who robbed the poor, And yet was rich himself, And drove the beggar from his door, With plate upon the shelf. I’ve seen a judge who justice sold, Have heard a gamester pray, And known a wife that did. not scold « Upon a washing day.” I've known a lawyer-plead a cause, Who never sent his bill, And known a doctor, (not of laws,) Jake his prescription pill. I’ve knowu a tradesman speak the truth, I’ve heard a. parson swear, And kuew a hackman once, in sooth, Who charged but lawful fare. I've known a person play at whist, Who would not play at loo; And known an abolitionist Who did a slave pursue : To lavish on his offspring wild, A miser hoard his gold, And seen a mother leave her child, For stranger's bauds to hold. I've seen a maiden who had slid, Who had a modest air, And seen a belle who (seeming) did Not know that she was fair. Once on a rail it was my lot To get a « passage” free, And on a steamer once I got A decent cup of tea. And I have seen, once in my life, A husband—be it known— Who did not treat his neighbor's wife Some better than his own: And also seen—I'll be. (don't wink!) As gentle as I can— Some time ago it was, I think, I saw an honest man ! JOHN A. O r 8HISLD8, TAILOR, «b the 8. W. Comer Pohlie.Sqnara. 1,1*52 && €\je ftnnj-follrr. Howard, the Apprentice Boy. A TRADITION OF HARVARD COLLEGE. BY CAROLINE LEE HENTZ. When the Almighty placed the progenitor of mankind in the Garden of Eden, and gave him command over the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and all. the works of His hand, it is not supposed lie maJe known to him the various powers of the things, animate and inanimate, over which he was appointed ruler. These were to be gradually learned- by the exercise of that immortal intelligence—that breath of the Deity—which animated his new-born manhood. After the transgression, when our first pa rents were .exiled from those fair bounds which sin had dared to enter, they were thrown, by the divine displeasure, on their own resources for subsistence ; and urged by necessity, they explored the bidden treas ures of the earth, which drank for the first time the dew from, the brow of industry— that moisture by which man was henceforth to earn his daily bread. Labor thus became the heritage of our race. The glebe was upturned, and the deep furrows-traced, be- before the harvest produced its golden' grain, or nature yielded its increase. Is it not With the intellectual os with tlie moral world? Must not man go down into the depths of his mind to discover its richest gems—and is not necessity the task master who rules and directs his operations? If this be true, it is not amid scenes where - this stern moralist is unknown, we are to look for the most indefatigable laborers in the un fathomable mine of the human intellect— True, there are many whe, bom to opulence and rank, and bettering themselves only the treasurers of Heaven, have girded them selves for the task—have wrought nobly and faithfully, sustained the heat and burthen of the dayjmd aided and strengthened those who were toiling on with feebler hands and wearier footsteps. But there are rnore who, struggling with a morose and wayward des tiny .wrestling with penury and neglect, with the sinews of the unshorn giant, have tram pled them under foot, and made them the very stepping stones of their elevation. I will not bring, as examples, individuals whom histories are identified with the first impressions and studies of childhood—such as dm great coamographer and world-dis coverer of Genoa—of the philosopher who laid his hand upon the «lightning's mane,” and directed*!* gory eoune. I will turn to Isas frequented ground, and sketch the char acter of one .whose name, though not widely known, is eonsecratei in the regions where he dwelt. Is the vicinity of tha metropolis of New anted hfoparentage without ana acknowl edged relation—he was thrown for care and protection upon the fondly of a tanner.— Fortunately for him, this family was kind and good; and the delicate and lonely child was cherished with parental tenderness.— But his benefactors were poor, and the wants of-a growing family impeded the exercise of their loving kindness and Christian charity. The sensitive boy often felt as if he were a burden on their care, and sought by every means in his power to prove his gratitude and devotion. As he was of slender frame, no rough manual labor was im£fecd upon him; but with most mistaken tendetness, the office of nurse was allotted to him, as congenial to his strength and loving disposi tion. Howard—(the friends of the name less hoy had given him a name which every lover of mankind cherishes with reverence) —used to wander abroad with the infant, his foster sister, in his arms, and a book in his pocket, and seeking the shade of some nat ural arbor, seat the infant gently on the grass, and taking his book in his hand, al ternately scan the well thumbed page and caress the gentle child—who would gaze up into the deep blue sky, or down into the clear blue stream, with smiling earnestness, as if holding communion with kindred cherubs there. His extraordinary powers of mind, and exquisite tenderness of heart, were thus early and simultaneously developed. One beautiful summer afternoon, he thus sat in a little bower, near the tannery and not far from the road-side. It was one of the most wildlybcautiful,picturesque spots in New England, and the young dreamer drank in draughts of beauty and sublimity almost maddening, for he had no one to whom he could breathe his enthusiastic emotions—his aspirings after the destiny to which, even then, he felt conscious that he was born. This evening he was ronsed from his rever ies, by the approach of a gentleman on bare back. The gentleman rode leisurely, with the reins hanging loosely on the horse’s neck, as if he were taking in the whole 'loveliless of a landscape shining with the glory-hues of meridian summer. He was attracted by the student boy, and the quiet, musing infant at his feet. Dis mounting and suffering his weary horse to browse on the grass of the way-side, he walk ed towards the boy, who threw his book on the ground and rose with natural politeness, as the distinguished looking stranger ap proached. He had never seen a man with so imposing an appearance. He was richly and elegantly dressed, and the unmistakeable stamp of a proud intellect was on his brow He fixed upon the boy an eye keen as a fal con s, and gazed upon him a few moments without speaking. There was something magnetic in the glance, and Howard felt its influence to his spirit’s core. Why should the stranger look on him so steadfastly ? He was not a beautiful boy, though thought and sensibility often made him appear so. He was dressed in a suit of brown homespun, and his shirt-collar, though white, was of the coarsest domestic. .What is your name, my hoy?” asked the stranger. Howard, sir!” n Docs your father live here, at the tan nery ?” «* No, sir—I never had any father.” The stranger smiled. ««And your mother—where does she live?” She's dead; she died when I was a baby. Mrs. Mason took me home, and I’ve lived with her ever since.” The gentleman kept his unreceding gaze upon the boy, whose naturally pale cheeks at length grew crimson under his scrutiny. Are you fond of reading ?” he asked, pointing to the book lying on the grass. « Yes, sir—I love it better than any thing else in the world.” i< What book is that ?” « It is the Life of Franklin, sir. I almost know it by heart. I love to read of great men who were once poor boys; because* ■” he stopped and blushed, and began to pall the leaves from the low branches sweeping over him. Because what, my boy ? Do not be a- fraid to speak.” tc Because, though I am a poor boy now, I think I could be a great man some day, if 1 tried hard.” <4 Do you go to school ?” No, sir.” 44 Why not?” 441 hare to stay at home and take care of the baby.” A scornful smile played for a moment on the lips vf the stranger, followed almost in stantaneously by a dark frown.- 44 A pretty employment for a boy like you.” Howard shrank from the expression of that haughty, handsom face looking down upon him. An irresistible repulsion made him draw back as far as possible from him. «It’s all lean do for them .the boy-r—«* and if it hadn't been for there, I should have been a beggar.” j 4. Well, I shall be back in a few days, and 1 will call and see Mr. Mason—perhaps I can do something for you. You are too smart n boy to spend your time watching mfi bttle brats as these.” The gentle little baby, who had apparent ly listened with quiet interest to the con versation thus for, here suddenly put its chuoby, ana-browned arms round one of the etraagw's ankles, and looked up smilingly in his foes. 44 Let go,” he exclaimed, in a *ter* voice, drawing back so suddenly th*t the little erea- tdre, rudely loosened from its hold, win thrown upon the ground, to the great indig nation of Howard, and probably “ its own astonishment. Howard sprang for ward, raised his protege in his arms, and giving a rebuking glance at the stranger, exclaimed— 44 You are not a kind gentleman, sir, or you wouldn’t hurt a baby. I don’t wish you to do any thing for me, I thank yon, sir.” The stranger laughed, touched the boy's head lightly with his whip handle, told him he was a boy of spirit and bid fair to be a hero; then sauntering back to his horse, mounted him and rode away. 441 do not like him,” said the boy; 44 he is not good; he is cruel and wicked, I know. If I cannot be a great man without his help, I don’t want to be one at all. Poor little Alice!” continued he, kissing away the tears that stood on the baby’s velvet cheeks.— 4< How could he call you a brat, when you are so sweet!” About a week after this incident, the stranger called on Mr. Mason, and had a long conversation respecting the boy, the re sult of which was communicated to him af ter his departure. 44 Come here, Howard,” said Mr. Mason, taking the boy's hand and drawing him be tween his knees. 44 There's been a gentle man here, who says he has taken a fancy to yon. He’s going to take you home, send you to-school, and make a man of you.” Is he ?” cried Howard, an expression of unconquerable repugnance settling on his countenance. Yon are to leave us,” continued Mr. Ma son, his Toice growing rather husky in its tone, 44 and forget that yon have ever been with ns. He is a rich, proud man, and it would be a disgrace to him to have it known that a tanner’s boy was in his house.” I'll never live with him—I’ll never leave you for him, sir,” answered Howard emphati cally ; 441 cannot tell the reason, but I hate him.” It was strange to hear so gentle a boy speak in snch bitter terms, especially of one who had made him so munificent an offer.— But an unconquerable aversion to the stran ger, made him recoil with loathing from a proposition which promised him all the in tellectual advantages for which his young and ardent mind was earnestly panting. The moral principle triumphed over ambi tious desire, and he resolutely refused to leave his benefactor, for the protection of the haughty stranger. 44 He refuses !” ezclamied the gentleman, when informed by Mr. Season of the boy's obstinate determination. 44 The ungrateful little wretch ! well, let him stay and be a tanner, if he will. I would have done some thing for him, bnt now ” Here he uttered a blistering oath, and de parted. Years passed on. The self-education of Howard continued, marked by the most as tonishing results. The little Alice was grown to be a loTely, affectionate child, no longer requiring of him the cares of a nnrse, though still clinging to him with more than sisterly affection. Nothing more was heard of the stranger, who had so singular ly crosed his path. There were times when the boy felt the 44 strong necessity” of ac quiring knowledge urging him so powerful ly, that he looked back with keen regret, upon the unaccountable moral antipathy, which had led him to reject an offer which would have placed him in that station of life, an inner voice told him he was born to fill- As he grew older, the difference be tween his own nature and those around him became more and more apparent, and dis- content, which he deemed ingratitude, preyed upon his heart. He assisted Mr. Mason in the labors of the tannery, with aU the zeal of which he was possessed, but his frame was slender, and what tittle strength he had was consumed by an insatiable thirst for knowledge—a mental fever, that - became more and more burning and "intense. A number of literary gentlemen, who heard of the extratordinary apprentice boy of the tanner, at length came to sec him, and. through their influence, he obtained admis sion info one of the collegiate institutions of New England. He left the humble home, where he had been so kindly sheltered, with many tears, but kindling hopes. Alice, the pretty and affectionate Alice, was inconsolable at his vacation and teach her aH he learned. ' Poor, poor boy ! how tittle he knew the future which stretched out before him, a green, enchanted land. The home he left was a Paradise to the one which now received him. He knew not the conditions on which he was permitted to receive the droppings of this' sanctuary of learning, where he hailed with rapture the dawn pf his literary Mil lennium. He was compelled to perform the moat servile offlees for the other students, as the wages of his own instruction. He car ried wood and water ap the high and wind ing stain, usually fonnd in snch buildings, till his frame, which, as we have said before, was any thing hut robust, bowed beneath the burden, and hie spirit groaad under the Egyptian bondage of kti destiny. Still he toiled over Ua scholastic duties, till he dis tanced aU hie nqreprtitnrn in the literary career on Whieh he had entered with such soaring ambition. At last, in an suspicions moment, he be came acquainted with some students of Har vard University, and learned with rapture, that he might there be received into the cherishing arme ef the Alma Mater, finely end —conditionally, withent any at thane depressing circumstancee which weighed him down with a bo—riiwunmn of degradation. Be sought thorn grown sacred to saenee, end he was welcomed—as the. child of genius and want is ever welcomed—there as a son and a brother. Here his heart was warmed, his mind expanded, his views elevated. He became the candidate for the highest collegiate honors, and so great was the love and admiration of his classmates, they would gladly have woven with their own hands, the laurels which were soon to decorate his brow. But while thus gaining friends and admi rers among the wealthy and noble, he did not forget his early benefactors, his sweet foster sister. Most of his vacations were passed at the humble home of his childhood, and he fulfilled his promise to Alice of im parting to her, as far as possible, the infor mation he acquired. In summer, he would lead her to the green bowers, where he used to sit with her, when, an unconscious infant, she lay upon the grass or nestled in his arms, and read with her the. pages where genius had impressed its burning tines.— Child as she was, he never looked forward into life, without associating her with all its hopes and all its joys. Should he become distinguished in any of the great paths opened to the sons of ambition, she should be his companion, sister, or something dear er still—and the child, though she dreamed not of his future visions, read, studied, thought and felt, with reference only to him. But poor Howard did not always find his path strewed with roses. In spite of the most rigid economy, he could not help run ning in debt. He bad no means to meet the demands against him, and he knew not where to turn for assistance. He could not drain the purse of the good tanner, the fath er of Alice. He shrank from the thought of taxing the kindness of his classmates—for he was proud—because he was poor. One evening he sat down in the loneliness of his. chamber, with a heavy heart. His head ached with the burden of great thoughts, his spirit with the burden of desti ny. He thought of the post with bitterness, of the feture with despair. He remembered the apparently munificent, but haughty stranger. As he had grown older, some thing had whispered to him the secret of the stranger's interest. He had an instinctive conviction that he was his own father, who, having left his infancy in destitution, re fusing him even the dignity of » name, per haps urged by an importunate conscience, was willing to receive as a dependent on his bounty, one whom shame prevented from ac knowledging as his son. Never had he felt •o deeply the wrong and injustice inflicted upon him—by being defrauded of the holi est rights of nature; never had he felt such inappeasablc heart-yearnings. Oh! for a mother's bosom on which to pillow his aching heart—a sister’s fond arms to twine him with one dear caress! What was literature, fame, honor, to him ? Who would exult in his success, or glory in his renown ? A gentle child appeared to glide before him; a child in the first tender bloom of girlhood; and fixing on him her soft, loving eyes, seemed to say—*4 Have you forgotten Alice ?” At the remeniberance of Alice, his pover- erty pressed upon him with a crushing weight. He tried to banish her from his thoughts. At length he remembered Him, who feed- eth the young ravens when they cry, and took up his Bible, which lay before him, and on which lie had just pillowed his aching tem ples. lie turned to the forty-second Psalm; and when he came to the fifth verse, 44 Why art thou cast down, O my Soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me ?— Hope thou in God! for I shall yet praise Him, who is the help of my countenance and my God!” he read aloud, in devout and trem bling accents. 44 Forgive me, 0 my God,” he cried, lifting the Bible upward, as if he would make it the wings of his soul, when a shower of bank notes fell from the fluttering leaves, as if the divine pages were suddenly animated by a living spirit of benevolence. The eollegi ans, conscious of his necessities, and know ing too his evening custom of reading the word of God, had adopted this method of relieving his wants, without wounding his departure, but he promised to return every pride. Sinking on his knees, in -an ecstacy of gratitude, he accepted the bounty as from the hand of Providence, and the dark eloud of despondency passed away from his soul. So onward he urged his course—upward and onward—cheered by friendship, inspired by hope, warmed by zeal, lifted by ambition, and more than all, sustained and sanctified by religion. From the bright promises of snch a youth, what a ..glorious manhood might not be anticipated! But alas! the scourge of New-England came on the wings of the chill eastern blast, and marked bim as its victim. The eyes, which had been the lamps of science, now burned with consump tion’s wasting fire—its dry, hectic cough checked the clear, impassioned utterance, and its slow agonies arrested the elastic mid buoyonant step. It was bard to die thus in th* dsy-spring of his fame. He had just reached that height from which he could look down and back upon the rough ascent he had climed, and see the green fields and magnifiicent plains stretching beyond. He could hear the music of the distant waters as they gushed and sparkled in the tun.— At Mores gazed from the summit of Manat Pisgah, on that promised land be must never he permitted to enter, he east his yearning eyes upon the some, over which the curtain of death wm slowly, darkly Still he hewed hie head end <4 Even so, Father; for so it seemeth good in thy sight.” He was borne to his early hone. Alice, his child-love, sat by him, as of oM, and he talked to her of heaven and heavenly things. Just before he died, he learned that 1 rich and proud gentleman of the city of Boston, hod left him the heir of all his fortune, ac knowledging him to be his son, with his last breath. «‘ It is too late,” cried the dying yonth.— 44 Wliat are riches and honors to one on the threshold of the eternal world ?” Yes, it was too late for him bnt the child of his benefactor was made the recipient of his wealth, and he was thus enabled to pay the debt of gratitude. His spirit still walked the earth in the gentle form of Alice, who was indeed one of the ministering angels sent by God, to let mankind see of whom the kingdom of Heaven is made. Howard died—but his memory is immor tal. His name is hallowed in Harvard’s ven erable walls. It is associated with all that is best and brightest and most worthy of emulation. His monument is a shrine where pale genius comes to worship and gather strength, from example, to struggle with the ills of destiny and the trill—to be victor in the conflict. For Howard was victorious, though he died, at last a victim to the life- battle which be had undauntedly fought. He gained immortality—he left a name—s pare, a glorious name—and the great pur poses of his being were accomplished. ’Tis not where wealth uprears its pillared dome, That pilgrim genius finds its favorite home— ’Tis not where grandenre dwells, rolls the deep tide By which the spriugsof science are supplied. The mind, on its subHmest pinions soars, When clouds are heaviest, and the tempest low're; And from its eagle eyrie, in the skies. Smiles on the dark storms that below it rise. Crodtjr Killed by Kiidieu. A young woman in Vermont married a poor but worthy man against her farther * wish. He drove them from his house, and closed his door and heart against them.— They came down near Boston, and went te work, and prospered. After many years the father had occasion to come to Boston.— He concluded to go and see his daughter, ex pecting a cold reception. His daughter and her husband received him most kindly and lovingly. After staying with there awhile, he went back to Vermont. One of his neighbosr, hearing where he had been, asked him how his daughter and husband had treated him. 41 never was so treated before in my life.* said the weeping and broken hearted father. They have broken my heart; they have killed me; I don’t feel as though I could live under it. 4 What did they do to you P asked the neighbor, 4 Did they abase you F They loved me to death and killed me with kindness,’ said he, 41 can never forgive myself for treating them so cruelly. I feel as if I should die t* think how 1 grieved the precious child when I spurned her from my door. Heaven bless them, and forgive are my cruelty and injustice to them.’ Who does not see in this an infallible cure for difficulties between man and man ?— There is not a child nor a man on earth, who would not feel and say that that daughter, though so deeply wronged and outraged ly her angry father, did right in treating him as she did. That father was her enemy, bnt she was net bis. He' hated her while she loved him. Laagevity, In these days, we are very rarely walled upon to notice the death 01 one who has lived a century. Though such are like An gel’s visits, 14 few and for between yet they do occur sometimes. Such a ease wm brought to our knowledge a few day* ago. A negroe woman named Nan, died at the residence of Henry Britain, Esq. in Ogle thorpe County, on the 15th of May, 1852, at the advanced age of 108 years. She was born in the State of Maryland, and carried from thence to Virginia, when a small girl; she was brought to Georgia about the year 1800, and has resided in Ogleihotpe County, from that time till her death. Nan wm the prop erty of the same family sod the descendants of the same family daring her life. 9m wm for a half century a consistent member of the Baptist Church. Such length of days rarely occur, and when they do, whether in the person of mas ter or servant, we should notice the foot.— Temperance Banner, .. Bit Yk Can’t Vote.”—Great was the amazement and dismay among the Irish la borers when the steam shovehe were first put into operation on a certain seetiouof the Vermont Central railroad, and owe of the sturdiest of the Hibernians, after gazing at his huge rival for a few moments thus apos- trophised the eneaty: 4* Well, foitb.ye are a lag divil of a haste, and mighty strong in the arms : may he, now, ye think yereelf as good M an Irish man, bnt (with a look of in effable eontemf t) d n jour sowl, ye can't vote!” pm- The constabulary force of Ireland is over twelve tbonaend persons, who east the gaarenmani over two millions and a hnlf 01 umiullj. Sunday, Jua»~20th, wm the 15th ~ kantaurearj of Queen Victoria's aceeretos th jfenBritiah throne.