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BY BLLER T. AI.LXRTON.
Too little rest, too little sleep.
Too many hours to sow and reap—
At last disease and pain !
Weak grows tho never loosened hand ;
The strongest rope parts, strand by strand,
Beneath a ceaseless strain.
Let him who burns hie midnight oil
In tho lonely and nnwholsome toil,
Think, when he trims his lamp,
That thus he trims his life as well,
And hasten® toward his last low cell —
Its drunkness and its da nip.
He who would travel far and long,
And keeps a stately stride and strong,
Must rest beside the way.
A ceaseless pace at first mny win,
But he who halts at wayside inn,
At last shall win the day.
To weary feet all streams are deep,
All roads are rough, all hills are steep,
As way-worn travelers know.
One hour of rest is princelevs boon
To him who toils through heats of noon.
With painful steps and slow.
Then, ye who hope to make your mark
Ei e your last night-fall cold and dark,
And stand above the throng.
On some far, sun-kissed height I thought,
Or do some deed no hand hath wrought—
Work, rest —and so be strong.
—[Lake Mills, Wis.
Blackhead, the Vi rate od Colonial
Bays.
The career of Teach, alias Blackboard,
says All the Year Round, throws a cu
rious light upon the manner in which
his majesty's colonies where then gov
erned. Teach went into busiuess at
once, and having ‘ cultivated a very
good unuerstandig” with Charles Eden,
Esq., the-governor of North Carolina—
with an excellent prospect of success.
His friend, the governor, made no scru
ple of convening a court ot vice admir
alty at Bath Town, which condemned
his captures as lawful nrizes, although
he never held a com mission in his lile
‘These proceedings,’ 'adds his biogra
pher, ‘show that governors arc but men.
Black beard was a typical pirate, possess
ed with a mania lor getting married.
His friend, the governor, after the
manner of the plantation, married him
to his fourteenth wife—a young creature
of sixteen—whom he treated scandal
ously. It is not on record that Black
beard like bluebeaid, slew his wives,
On the contrary, he had, at the period
refen ed to, about a dozen living in va
rious places. Obviously he was a man
of domestic instincts, modified dy a rov
ing life, and liked to have somebody to
welcome him home wherever he v\ as.
His cognomen of blackbeard was de
rived from ‘that large quantity of hail
which, like a frightful meteor, covered
his whole face, and frightened America
more thau any comet that has appeared
for a long time. This beard was black
which he sufferd to grow fo an ex
travagant length ; as to breadth, it came
up to his eyes ;he was accustomed to
twist it with ribbons in small tails aftei
the manner ot our Ramilies wigs and
turn them about his ears iin timq ot
action lie vsol'ea sling over his shouldets,
with three braces of pistols. Ibis was
the regular pirate fashion, and its use is
obvious. In boarding, the pistol was
the favorite weapon of the ravers, who
always wore two or three brace in silk
sling, hung rather around the neck than
over the shoulders- Armed thus, the
freebooter was nearly as well off as if he
possessed revolver. He bad only to
cock and fire, drop one pistol and seize
another ready to his hand, without the
risk of losing his weapons. This re-
liance on the pistol was, doubtless, one
reason of the success ot the rovers in
close ‘fighting. To add terror to Ins
appearance Blackbeard stuck ‘lighted
matches under his hat, which, appealing
on each side ot his face, his eyes naturally
looking fierce and wild, made him al
together such a figure that imagination
cannot form an idea of a fury from he.l
to look more frightful.’ He was a frolick*
some fellow, this Capt. Teach, m his
grim wav. One day, being at sea, and
being a little flushed with drink, he de
termined to make a little inferno ‘of his
own,’ and to that end went down
into the hold, with two or three others,
and having filled several pots full ol
brimstone, set them on fire, and was
proud of having held out the longest
against suffocation. Another evening,
beinc in a pleasant mood, drinking and
playing cards with a tew choice and
kindred spirits, he blew out the light,
and crossing his hands under the table,
fired his pistols, laming one man tor life;
and when asked the meaning ot this
said 1 ‘lf he did not now and then k 1
one of them, they would forget who he
was.’ One eyrie story of Blackbeard and
his crew runs thus: ‘Once upon a cruise
they found out that they had a man on
board more than their crew, such a one
was seeu several days among them some
times below and some times on deck, ye
no man in the ship could give an account
ot who he was or from whence he came ,
but that he disappeared a little before
they were cast away in their great shii j
but it seems they verily believed it was
the devil ” Like many other great bad
men, Blackboard did not improve upon
acquaintance, and his friends, the pUn
tern, at last got tired of his society, lie
dress frim the governor of North Caro
liw was hopeless, and the governor of
Virginia was applied to. This gentleman
at once sent Lieut. Maynard with a
couple of sloops, to capture the pirate.
A desperate fight ensued. After some
very hard firing, Blackbeard, after hurl
ing on the enemy some ‘newdash oned
sort of grenades’ -case bottles failed
with powder and slugs-boarded him ;
bnt this time met his match, and tell
dead, after receiving tweuty-hve wounds
fighting like a fury, to. tbe last. Ills
bead was out off and swung to the bow
sprit of tbe nuwrious sloop.
CONYERB, RA„ JUNE >,3:3. 1870.
•HiiiHl Up a Homestead.
The feeling that you are settled and
fixed will induce, you to work to improve
your farms, to plant orchards, to set out
shade trees, to inelose pastures, to build
comfortable outhouses, and each success
ive improvement is a bond to bind you
still closer to your homes. This will
bring contentment in the family. Your
wives and daughters will tall in love
with the country, your sons will love
home better than grog-shops, and prefer
farming to measuring tape or profession
al loafing, and you will he happy in see
ing the contented and cheerful itices of
your families. Make your home beanti
Ini, convenient and pleasant, and your
ebildren will love it above all other pla.
ces ; they will leave it with regret, think
of it with fondness, come back to it joy
fully, seek their chief happiness around
their home fireside.
Woman and children need more than
meal, and bread, and raiment; more than
aeres of cotton and eoru spread out all
around them. Their love tot - the beauti
ful must be satisfied. Their tastes must
be cultivated ; their seusibililties humor
ed, not shocked. To accomplish this
good cod, home must be made lovely,
couveniencies multiplied, comforts pro
vided, and cheerfulness fostered. There
must he both sunshine, and shade, lus
cious fruit and fragrant flowers, as well
as corn and cotton. The mind and
heart as well as the fields must be culv
tivated ; and then intelligence and oonr
tentment will be the rule instead of to
exception. Stick to improve and bo.in
tity your homestead, for with tais gmod
work comes contentment.
A Useless Baby.
A couple of days ago a squaw diefl out
at Yankee Blade, and the Indians juried
her and her infant together, withqjt tak
ing any trouble of making a corfcse of
the latter. It is a custom of the Piutes
and Shoshones to bury the dead : iclber
and living child together when th< letter
is too young to help itself. In th p in
stance they dug a hole, threw life wo
man into it and laid the infant oil her
breast, covering them with brush- In
explanation of tlieir conduct one ofjthein
said : ‘Baby no good ; no got milk ;•
bimeby heap cry , die pooty soon lany
how,’ It would be an impossibility to
convince au Indian that lie is doing
wrong by thus abandoning a
infant as a prey to the coyotes and tear
rion birds { it was the custom ot his
fathers, and he can see no wrong in it.
A white man does not 'ike to interfere
in such a case, for to try and rear the
child wo’iid be a hopeless task, and no
white man would teel justified in dash
ing its brains out with a stone. Besides
the Indians would teel greatly aggrieved
at any interference with this pleasant
usage of theirs.—[Austin (Nevada) Re
veille.
Appearances uYd Beceptivc.
Saturday afternoon a Grand river avs -
nue grocer found an old.wornout buck
skin mitten lying on the cheese-box, and
said unto his clerk :
‘Boy, transplant that old dilapidated
shred from this grocery to the alley.’
It was transplanted, and hour after
the grocer and the clerk had forgotten
all about it. Some minds are so consti
titled that trifles come and go like shad
ows. Along towards night a farmer
droped in,eyes wide open aud hair on
end, and as he looked swiftly around him
he excitedly inquired !
Mil see ad old mi'ten around het'es ?
‘Well, I believe I did. There was
one lying around here, and I told Jim to
throw it into the alley,’ replied the gro
cer.
The farmer made for the alley like a
shootting-slar, tramped around fer five
minutes, aud rushing back into the store
called out i
‘That there old mitten had a S2O bill
in the peak of it 1’ ,
‘No’
‘Sure's you live it did, and I want it
or an other like it 1’
The grocer has been missing since that
date. The last seen ot him hs was
waltzing around among old juDk dealers
and rag-buyers, wearing a sad smile aud
claiming to be in search ot an old .mitten
valued only as a keepsake from his dead
brother’—[Detroit Free Press.
‘Seed His Track,’
The Og’ethorpe Echo says : ‘A cor
respondent sends us the following expe
rience, given by a negro woman of this
county, at one of the colored revivals,
recently :
Preacher —‘My sister, hab you ebber
viewed the Savior in dour trabble ?
Lydia—‘No, sir.’
p ‘Dar muss be sumfin wrong if you
nebber seed your Christ while you bin
gittin ‘ligion.’
j, ‘I come mighty nigh to see him
wunce.’
p_~‘How nigh you come to see your
Lord V
L—‘l seed He track,’
Lydia was received into the church.
*—
George Washington was the only sol
diet - President we ever had who was a
success, and his success was noi, in any
sense due to the attributes that made him
a commauder All the men who have
been made Presidents since because they
were soldiers, are land marks of calamity
in our history, and the last experiment
is go disastrous in this particular that the
country caunot forget it or recover cour
age to try another soldier in a very
great while. It is not to be said that
Gen Hancock might be or would be a
repetition of our bad fortune, but only
that the distaste tor military Presidents
that Grant has given, pu aside the
claims of all soldiers, however good.—
[New York Herald,
A Very Bad Boy.
A bad hoy thus describes his misdeeds
and their punishment in a letter to a
of mm : My sister Em has got n feller
Who has been coming to see her most
every night for some time. Night be
fore last just to have a little fun, I went
into the parlor, and crawled under the
sofa, and waited there till he an’ Em had
got settled ;• ami just as he vras asking
her it she was witling to become hie
dear partner for life, and trust to his
strong right arm tor protection and sup
port, I gave three red hot Indian wav
whoops, and bumped myself up against
the bottom of the sofa, and fired off nil
old horse pistol that I had borrowed of
Sain Johnson, ami my gracious! how
that feller jumped up and scooted tor
the door ! lie never stopped to get his
hat, but went tumbling bead over heels
down the door steps. As for Ein, she
was just that scared that she sot right
down on the fioor, and screeched like
blue blazes, till dad and mother came
running in, just as they got out of bed,
and wanted to know what the matter
was. But, Em only yelled louder and
pointed under the sofa, till dad got down
on his kees, and sa v me there, and pull
ed me out the* hm4 leg. When he
had gotout in the wooiT*‘Shwd,,. he
wrapugn me over his knee ; and tfdbv
wenjrat me with an old truuk strap, and
✓{"haven't got over it nicely yet.
/
A Smart Boy.
A young man called on his intended
the other evening, and while waiting for
her to make her appearance he struck
up a conversation with his prospective
brother-in-law. After a while the boy
asked :
‘Does galvanized niggers know much?’
‘I really can’t say,’ answered the
amused young man, aud silence reigned
for a few minutes when the boy again
resumed :
‘Kin you play chequers with your
nose V
‘No, I have not acquired that accom
plishments
‘W’ell, you had better learn, you hear
me ?‘
’Why ?,
‘Cause Sis says you do not know as
much as a gaivanizd nigger, but your
dad bus got lots of stamps, and she will
marry you anyhow, and she said when
she got aholt of the old man's sugat
she was a going to all the Fourth of
July pefdeshuns and ice cream gum
sucks ; and let you stay home and play
checkers with that hollyhog nose of
yournJ
And when ‘Sis* got her hair, hanged
and caiue in, she found ihe parlor de
■gened by all save her brother, who was
innocently tying the tails ot two cats to
gether and singiug , T want to be an
angel.' /
'A Mother’s Secret! LoytW
The ni-mhhoijmod.— and L
streets (says the VVashington Sunday
Herald) was thrown into a state of ex
citement yesterday morning by an infu
riated middle-aged female clothed in
black, with short red hair, and armed
with an interesting looking cowhide,
with which, with fiendish delight, she
cut the air right and left, as she bowled
along at leu-kuot speed. Halting in
front of a respectable looking house, she
attracted the attention of the ininales by
throwing a brick against the door. Halt
a dozen heads were thrust out of as
mauy windows, among them that of a
well known young gentleman recently
married. The excited woman observed
this, secreted her cow hide, and with a
saintly smile said :
‘Tom, come down here 1 1 would speak
with you a moment.’
Thomas complied with the request,
and, accompanied by his blushing young
bride, opened the door and confronted
his visitor. That ancient institution
cleared the frout steps in one bound,
caught Tornraey’s left ear in a firm grip,
and began to belabor him unmercifully,
saying as she did so:
‘You young wretch! You puppy 1
You ungrateful whelp 1 [Whack !j Got
married, did you ? Run off from your
mother, and manias that ga 1 there, do
you? [Whack 1 whack 1 whack!] Now,
sir, jest git your things ready [whack]
and come home! I*ll let yer know that
until yer are tweuty one [wback j yer
ain't going to git out out ot my clutch
es I’ [Whack!]
Tom's wife rushed to fcis assistance at
this juncture, s-iying:
‘Tom, my darling, slap her good, and
come in.’
But tom tearfully replied, as an extra
sharp cut landed on his back i
‘1 canV my (ough) darling; mother
says I niusu't,’ Meekly he descended
the steps, and was led off by his mamma,
followed by a large crowd. The newly
made bride went into the house, slammed
the door, and quiet reigned.
A Parable. —A popular preacher re
cently quoted the dream of a seer, who
s&w a man io great torment in every
limb but his righj foot. He asked why
wa3 he releafed. ‘This man,’ was the
answer, ‘is being punished for his selfish
ness and indolence, and was never
known to do a good deed, except that he
once kicked a turf of fresh grass to a
tethered ox, standing in the hotsnn, and
for this one act that toot is saved from
torment.’
An exchange makes the statement for
the good of correspondents, that they
need not commence their communica
tions, ‘I take my pea in hand,’ as he
don’t care whether they write with their
toes or with the pen in their month, so
1 they scad the news.
How the French Dispose# of Mex
ican Robbers.
When the French were in Mcx'oo, the
stage robberies in the vicinity of Monte
rey became almost as frequent as they
are getting to be between uerennd King
bury. With 1 the practical common sense
for which the French are distinguished
when they go about killing people, the
French general Monterey devised a plan
tlmt worked like a charm. lie picked
out a half dozen of his smallest Zouaves,
and dressed them up as femails, and put
them in the stage. Each unprotected
female had a short breach-loading car
bine concealed under his petilpamts, and
they covered their demure faces by veils.
Of course, tho robbers surrounded the
stage, and the ladies, with an excess of
feminine modestv, climbed out of the
vehicle, and tell in line with the rest of
the passengers, when ot a sudden an
epidenec bloke out among those Mexi
can patriots, for each lady, on an aver
age, destroyed about three of *hem, and
the rest lost all taste for female society,
and went away disgusted.
The ladies returned to town in high
glee, but lor a long lime tho Mexican
bandits entertained such a lofty venera
tion for the gentler sex, that an old bon
net and shawl displayed conspicuously
in a stage secured it immunity from iu-
Wrupliou.—[San Antonia (Tex.) Her
ald*,
A good story, and a true one, is told
in theVPittsburg Leader anent our vem
erable judicial mill, Judge Humphreys,
and it bsars repetition. The other day,
holding t the circuit court, old Pump,
grew weary ot the endless tongues of
attorney s| and calling to a bailiff, said
huskily, *(jo over to the hole in the Wall
and give ibe a drink of whiskey.'
The bailiff disappeared and reappear
ed shortly Xvilii ail inch and a half ot
corn juice in a glass, enough for any
Christian nteut, but not a sufficiency tor
an Alaban* judiciary system.
‘Go back,' trebled the judge, ‘go hack
and tell llkgerty to send me a drink—a
drink ot whiskey.
The bailiff disappeared again and re
appeared a second time with a tumbler
brimminyf full.
‘Ah I’ said the wearer of ermine, that
now is ailiink. But what,' wiping his
lips witljthe cuff ol his coat, ‘what did
he say
‘Uli, Ihe didn't say anything, your
honor,’/answered the bailifl blushing.
‘Oh/ves, lie must have made some re
mark | now what did he say 1'
'Wf) 11, I don't like to lei) you, sah,
you nr honor.’
‘Go on and tell me exactly what he
sui/,’ demanded,o!d Pump.
/Well, sah, your honor, tie said, ‘I sent
Jflm a drink ot whiskey at first t I didn't
Ifuow the d—d old fool wanted to take
a bath !'
‘Hem, hem, go on with the examina
tion of your witness,' sighed the judge
to (tie attorney for the plaintiff, and the
bailiff slunk into Lhe bacK room aud but
led his head against the wall till he
knocked a dollar's w orth of plaster ofl.
He had on a suit of dilapidated jeans,
sported a flowing red necktie, and glori
ed iu the name of Elias Morton. .Skip
ping toward the clerk ot one of our
prominent hotels, he thus delivered him
self :
‘Ah, good morning. Ah, have you
suitable apartments for the accommoda
tion ot single gentlemen ?'
‘We have, sir, a good many rooms.’
‘Soft clean beds ?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Well lighted with gas?’
Wes, sir.’
‘No, bugs ?’
‘No, sir.
‘Much noise to disturb slumbering
guests ?’
‘Call bells to rooms V
‘Yeg, sir.’
‘Attentive hell boys?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Speak all languages ?’
‘Yes sir.’
‘Give good fare?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Colored or white waiters ?’
Colored.’
‘Laundry at hand?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘All the necessary precautions used to
prevent fire ?’
‘Oh, yes, sir.’
‘Can be woke up at any time for any
of the trains ?'
'Yes, sir.’
‘How many trains leave here daily ?’
‘Four sir.’
‘Does the bus leave the hotel for each
train ?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Are they comfortable conveyances?’
‘O yes; I think so.’
‘Who is the best preacher in town ?’
‘I cannot say, sir ; oj iaions differ.’
‘Ate you a member ot the church ?’
‘No, sir.’
‘Well, all I have got to say is, that it
is about time you were, for a man who
can stand up as you have done for the
last three-quarters of an lour, and aj
swer correctly my simole questions;
with such bare-laood coolness, should
belong to some church, or be forever
lost. Good day, sir.’
And off he went.
The moment a girl has a secret from
her mother, or has received a letter she
dare not let her mother read, or has a
friend of whom hei mother does not
■know, she is in danger. T.ie fewer se
crets that lie in the hearts woman at any
a rr e the better. It is almost a test of
purity. In gHhood do nothing that, if
discovered by your father, would maL* 1
y )U blush.
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No. 4-8.
Tlu: Cirnvt Neglected.
Bayard Taylor gives u painful remin
iscence of Haydewv the psmteh. He de
scribes going to see Tom Thftmk, at the
Egyptian M*all, in Piccadilly, in April,
{846, pit a ticket of admission presented
lo him when Ids moans were barely suffi
cient to [ rvim> the needs of life, day
by day, without a penny over. Tom
Thumb's show-rtoom wis opposite Hay -
den's studio. Taylor wanted to see
Hayden's pasture and lingered about tho
door, hoping to get a peep inide, Ho
saw a stout, broad-shouldered man talk
ing excitedly to the doorkeeper. Ho
was about sixty, shabbily dressed, and
with a fierce and bitter explosion glauo
ed at the crowds hurrying in to see the
dwarf. As the ctoor opened to admit
llsyden, for it was doubtless Im, Taylor
saw two persons inside, and he would not
help feeling a Tang of regrot that he
did not give np his dinner that day, and
add at least one to the fiedtowiug of tho
neglected and despairing artist.’ A few
days afterwards poor Hayden fell dead
by his own hand before hie picture,
which few would go to see. while all
Loudon was rushing with its shillings to
pet Barn urn's monstrosity on the other
side of tho hafl.
A.— .
A Brief Essay on Mules.—The
mule is the most unhealthy animal in
the world—unhealthy to have around
you.
He is continually possessed of a year
ning desire to strech bimsnlt—especially
his hind legs,
No man ever sees a mule, when he
kicks him.
The man is generally seized with
obseiiTe vision just at that juncture.
We have seen a man gel up after a
mule had kicked him—very rarely
though—and swear with both hands up
lifted that he didn't believe the animal
had stiiapd a peg; he looked so imoveable
and unconcerned.
A mule is a very ‘quick* animal-
Great quantities ot that substance
lie hidden away beneath his tpe calks.
Caution—take our word for this and
do not go huutimg around in that vicini
ty. . ..
You can't weigh, h mule With hay sort
of aelkurucy. ' ■
An ounce ot male Whighs more
than a pound ot any other known live
stock. .
The mule is generally a very headstrong
beast.
lie is likewise exceedingly hceU
strong.
A mule—but blame a mule, any
way.—[Chieogo Journal.
Anew and gigantic seal df the State
of California has been designed by a
gentleman of that State. It is compos
ed of forty-one varieties of wood, al 1
grown in California. The San Francis
co Post gives this description of it; ‘The
seal i 4 feet and 4 inches high in diam
eter, and 12 inches thick. The figure of
the goddess Minerva is 2 feet 6 inches
high, and the grizzly bear at her leet,
carved from Ca'ifornin laurel, is 15 inch
es long and inches high. The old
‘forty-nine’ who is digging gold in the
foreground, and the landscape represent
ing the Golden Gate in the background,
are very well curved from woods that
harmonize well in color. Tlie obverse
of the seal contains a patriotic design,
the central figure of which is a gigantic
‘bird of freedom,’ carved from tiega
wood in a very artistic manner.’ It will
be sent to the Centennial.
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Agriculture is an employment the
most worthy of the application ol man ;
the most nncieut and the most
suitable to; his nature. It
is the common nurse of all persons in
every age and condition ot life ; it is tho
source ot health, strength, plenty and
riches, and of a thousand sober delights
and honest pleasures. It is the mistress
and school ot sobriety, temperance, jus
tice, religion, and, in short, of all virt
ues, civil ami military.—[Socrates.
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Fare,
The sky in crowded; the rocks are bare,
The spray of the tempest is whit? in air,
The waves arejout wtih the waves of play.
Anil shall I not tempt the soa to-day.
The trail is narrow, the wood is dim,
Tho panther clings to the arching liiub ;
And the lion’s whelps are abroad at play ;
And l shall not join the chase to-day.
But the ship sailed safely over tho sea,
And the hunters came from the chase in glee,
And the town that was built upon a rock
Was swallowed up in the earthquak; shock.
—-[Biikt Haiitf.
A Detroiter who was deceived by the
warm weather in March into taking his
larlor stove down, had it back again in
tour days- Next week he look it down
igain, and the r ext restored it. lie re
membered of six different changes, the
ast of which was made yesterday, and
lie sat with a leg oil either side of the
grateful heal, he patted lhe, lop ot the
stove and remarked: ‘Don't blame jot
ttall—Pin the fool; you are iij> hern lor
live thousand years now, and I'll WR* a
man to keep yon red hot all through
July and August.’
Over a store in a town in New York
State can be found this sign: John
Smith—teacher ot oowtilli->ns, and other
dances— gramer taut in the neetest man
nt). f rrS h salt herrln on draft—likewise
Godfreys cordial, rules sassage artd other
garden truck—N. B. A. bawl on frida
nite prayer meet in clmesda also saline
singin by the quire. !
On a farm in Lancaster county, Pa, is
i fence of chestnut rails made in 17C'),
ot 116 years ago. - 1 "