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piter, full-orbed, appeared of unrivalled
magnitude. “A thousand times larger
than our moon ” said Cora, “ does’ that
splendid planet appear, and this the as
tronomers have told us. Jupiter's moons
revolve with incredible swiftness, or the
great attractive power of the planet would
soon draw them to its surface.”
Now Cora approaches Saturn—that glo
ry of our solar system, which she had so
often seen with her mind's eye, its splen
did rainbow arch, and its retinue of moons,
reflecting light on each other, and produ
cing a magical effect. The travellers pas
sing Herschcl, flew among stellar worlds.
Said Cora, “Are these worlds all inhabit,
ed?” “All” answered Aerial, “or in a
state of preparation for inhabitants” —and
immediately they approached near to one,
so near, that Cora, saw vampires roaming
over the plains —huge serpents creeping in
the jungles, and forests, and amphibious
animals of strength, sufficient to destroy a
navy, floating their giant trunks on the
waters. So strange was this, that Cora
looke 1 enquiringly at Aerial. “ You have
read,” he answered of the Basilosaurus,
and of others, who inhabited the earth, be
fore it was fitted for the residence of man
—this world is yet in a state of prepara
tion, for a higher order of beings.” And
now the chariot flew swifter than light
ning, and scenes more glorious than Cora
had ever imagined burst on her vision.—
“ The great telescope at Cambridge, does
not present so wonderous a view. Not
Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope, not
Lord Ross, nor Tycho, in his sea-girt
isle, witnessed revealings equal to these,”
said Cora. Constellations, with which
she was acquainted, vanished, and others
more glorious in form, some of them form
ing in starry light, her own name, and
those of her chosen friends appeared.
Comets, like flaming swords, or fiery balls
were darting through the heavens. Nebu
lae, which in the distance, seemed but
fleecy clouds, or specks of ha/e, on a near
approach, assumed the most fantastic
shapes, representing in silvery light, flow
ers and shells, and all the lovliest things
of earth. Then again as the travellers
with liu-hinimr sneed towards them.
IhClr capncluua nliajica wcic lust, lur Illy I
-of worlds, sun upon still, in meridian
light appeared, where only a minute nebu
la had glimmered. The car darted among
suns of every color, their sattelites, lost in
their glory', till Cora overpowered by the
dazzling light and overwhelmed, by this
inconceivable glory, said, “Let me return
to earth.” And then, the chariot in its
course to earth, seemed suspended amid
the great Nebulae of the solar system, our
own milky way, and while the circling
orbs with their eternal harmony', the music
of the spheres, moved on, and while the
young enthusiast listened to this unearthly
music amid that heavenly melody, she
heard a voice, soft and clear, which had
for years been silent on earth. It was the
voice of her mother. “ Cora.” it said. |
“ the true and pure love of earth lives even
am id these brighter glorits, and the voices of
earthly love mingle with the music of the
Spheres .” Cora sprang forward, as if to
leave the car, and at that moment, her re
peater, ringing out the hour for her to a
rise, awoke her.
At the table she said to her indulgent
Father, and to Prof A. “ May I tell you
of my strange morning fancies V’ and af
ter repeating the dream, still so vivid, she
said, I know my dream is tinged by my
thoughts during the day, and I half fear
that fiction and mythological fancies, min
gle in my mind too much with solemn
truth, and astronomical fact. Some I know
call me fanciful, and ideal, and deem me
unfit for sober duty. - ’ “No doubt, my
daughter, tlieie are some, who have no
thoughts of iheir own, and will frown on
yours, and will accuse you of wasting
time in an ideal world, while they spend
theirs in repeating gossip, and in arranging
the affairs of others, who are little benefit
ted by their interference. You are inde
pendent of those busy people, having your
own thoughts ever for company. I ac
knowledge that our specul ttii n may lead
us to neglect duty, but I have often believ
ed that great thoughts assisted us, even in
minor affairs, and my little Cora, your fa
ther will not censure you for your aspira
tions, or your enquiring fancies, while you
perform so conscientiously your duties
here, while your father's happiness is so
near your heart, while you perform a ma
ternal part to your little motherless broth
ers, ever schooling your rapid mind down
to their infantile capacities, and while you
are willing to lay aside your favorite pur
suits, to care for a sick servent.” “Nei
ther can 1 find fault,” said Prof. A.,
while you so faithfully pursue the dry ab
struse de ails of science, never satisfying
your conscience, except by pefect recita
tions.”
Cora gratefully acknowleged these pleas
ing approvals, which to her sensitive na
ture, were necessary, and her father added
“I am not afraitl of fiction for those who
lore truth —truth ever mingles with ficti n,
and I recognize in some of your fancies
high authority. Your aerial guide told
you, that the inhabitants of earth were nt t
fitted yet for the companionship of higher
intelligences. In one of your lessons in
Butler’s Analogy, you reccollect he says :
“ W’e are ail inferior part of the creation of
God. There are natural appearances of our
being in a stale of degradation.” And a
gain your nebulae changing like the phan
tasma of a magic-lanthorn had ils origin,
doubtless, in a conversation, to which you
listened, between Prof. A. and myself re
specting the revelations of Lord Boss’
powerful telescope, which converts a hazy
sped to a splendid ring, and a ring, as in
the Cancer Nebula, to a cone like a pine
apple lichly studdied with spiial Nebuhe
“like a scroll gradually unwinding on the
evolutions of a mighty shell.”
■ But” said Cora, as I tell you, all my
thoughts, 1 am not quite happy this morn-
ing. When I think of our world, with the
solar system moving three times faster
about some central orb, than about its own
sun, when I think of its whirling into space
and when I consider the vastness of the
Universe, I some times think that I, that
we shall be forgotten, amid the myriads of
worlds that claim the Creator's care.”—
“Fear not Cora,” said Prof. A. for our
earth has been the theatre of a sacrifice of
love, and mercy never exceeded. The Crea
ator is sufficient to all the created, but oth
er minds than yours, have trembled in
view of His Majesty,”—and taking up one
of the most sublime and beautiful writers
of the age, be read. “ Beneath such maj
esties, feeling as in faintness, that surely
I must be lone and forlorn, I turn over,
with a cheering delight to that sweet home
picture of Luther’s, where he speaks of a
little bird, that in summer’s evenings, came
to his pear-tree at sunset, and sang ever
so melodiously, and without one note of
misgiving, because, though dread Eternity
was above, below, and around it, God was
there.”
SUNDAY READINGS, FOR SEPT. 9.
UNBELIEF.
“ But there nre some of you that believe not.”
—John vi. 64.
The chapter from which these words are
selected, contains our Lord’s celebrated
sermon on himself as the bread of life.
This was a doctrine at which the Jews
stumbled, because they were destitute of
that spiritual perception, by which alone
they could discern the beautiful and inter
esting representation. Let us view
The affecting truth recorded. Who are
ihcy that believe not ?
Those that discover a spirit of indifference.
When the Gospel is not valued above ev
ery thing else, and its blessings sought af
’ ter with intense anxiety and earnestness, it
I is not rightly believed.
Those that live in the neglect of religious
duties. There are many duties connected
I with godliness, in the neglect of which it is
impossible for a true believer to live.—
, nni - 1— l—Llw-Uj uWm
j themselves from the house of God, and yet
profess to believe in the truths and doc
trines of Christianity ; hut whatever they
may pretend, they are only practical a
t heists.
Those that yield to despair. The Chris
tian has his doubts and fears ; but when
| there is a constant discrediting of the truth
[of the Gospel, this is unbelief. We should
, beware of the two extremes, presumption
! and despair. Be not high minded, but
! fear.
The reasons that may be assigned.
Insensibility: The man wdio knows and
feels his lost estate, will not be long be
fore he seeks to remedy it. There must
be conviction by the law, before there is
conversion by the Gospel.
Theprtite of reason. Ttits mane ttiec.reeKs
count the Gospel foolishnes; they could
not imagine how there could be a system
of religion, without bearing some affinity
to the false principles they entertained in
their minds. Reason cannot comprehend
the unbounded essence of the Deity, no
more than a man near the sun could grasp
it in his arms; neither can reason under
stand all the revelation of God, more than
an individual can enclose all the beams of
the sun in his eye. We have natural
proofs of the being of a God, but we have
not capacities to comprehend the infinite
perfections of his nature. When reason
is lost in its upward flight, let faith lay her
hand upon Scripture, and say, “Yea, let
! God be true, ami every man a liar.”
SEARCH AND YE^ SHALL FIND.
A man was angry with his wife, as was
often the case, cither because she talked
too much, or contradicted him, or for some
I other reason; in short he was out of humor
! with her, and resolved not to speak a sin
| gle word to her for a long, long time. He
kept his resolution for a few days very
strictly. One evening he is lying in bed
and wishes to sleep; he draws his night
cap over his ears, and his wife may say
j what she will, he hears nothing of it. The
wife then takes a candle and carries it in
to every hole and corner; she removes
stools, and chairs, and tables, and looks
carefully behind them. The husband sits
up in bed and looks inquiringly at her
movements; he thinks that the din must
have an end at last. But he is mistaken.
His wife keeps on looking and searching.
The husband loses patience, and cries:
What are you looking for ?
For your tongue, she answers; and now
that I have found it, tell me why you are
angry.
Hereupon they became good friends again.
H
Sympathy. Time, which is absolutely
necesary for the formation of intimate
friendships in the higher classes, not re
quisite amongst the lower orders. The
soul forms more ties and relationships in
one week amongst the men and women of
nature, than in ten years amongst those
of society. [ Lamartine.
Quarrels. Quarrels leave scars which
cannot be so well closed to the sight, but
they will lie open to the memory.
Candor. The shortest and surest way
| to live with honor in the world, is to be in
i reality what we would appear to be.
Women love flowers, and flowers
are like women in their beauty and sweet
ness, so they ought to grow up together.
No flower-garden looks complete without
a woman in it, and no woman ever seems
so lovely as when she is surrounded by
flowers.
BQf- It may not prove uninteresting to
•tailors generally, to learn that Mr. Van
Buren is personally superintending the cn
! largement of Ivs cabage patch at Linden
1 wald.
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THE HUNGARIAN WOMEN.
To the great moral resources of Hunga
ry, in her present death struggle for inde
pemlance, must yet be reckoned the char
acter and devotion of the women. For
1 years back, it was the women of Hungary
who gave the most powerful impulse to the
national feeling. It was they who foster
ed the Hungarian language, and its litera
ture, and who inspired patriotic sentiments
in. their husbands, sons and lovers. Ever
since I’esh, by the Magyars themselves,
from its rapid progress, called the “ New
York of Old Europe”—became the capital
of Hungary, the noble-women refused to
spend the income from their large estates
at Vienna. —They looked on the Hungari
an families of the Esterhazys, Koharys,
Nadastys and Czichvs, which arc almost
domiciliated in Austria, if not as absolute
traitors, at least as deserters of the cause of
their country. Girls refused to marry men
who would not vow to shun Vienna, and
in no case to accept the office of Chamber
lain, or any other court title of distinction.
Every national effort, from whatever source,
was sure of being rewarded by the women.
The highest in rank, Countesses and Bar
onesses, taught infant schools, and in
structed the children of the poor in the lan
guage and history of their forefathers.
One of these, a Countess Brunswick, sister
to the Judex Curia :, the man second in rank
only to the Viceroy Palatinus, established
and taught in several of these institutions,
during my presence at Pesjh; but had to
make several journies to Vienna before she
could obtain the royal consent to this act
of philanthropic and patriotic devotion.
“What do you teach these children V ’ de
manded the late Emperor, Francis 1., when
she remonstrated against the interference of
the Government. “I teach them to be
come good and useful men and women, ’
was the noble reply of the Countess. “ I
wish,” retorted the Emperor, “you would
teach then, to become loyal subjects.” Ed
ucation in Austria has ever been looked
upon as the proper means of teaching the
young iko prerogatives of their rulers, and
the duty of submission on the part of the
slaves.
And here I must pay a just tribute to the
personal charms of those women who de
vote their lives and fortunes to the moral
and intellectual elevation of their country.
When beauty fires patriotism, we may in
deed be prepared to witness deeds of hero
ic valor, —and what beauty is this that
acts as a talisman on a brave people in
arms for their dearest rights! No fading
moonlight countenances, blanched by pri
vation and sorrow —no waning cheeks lit
up with the paroxysm of despair—no pol
ished marble, with its cold, repulsive in
difference —no figures of the drawing room,
tortured into shape by some heathen mil
liner—no withered relics of conventional
endurance. There is a wild, daring, pierc
ing beauty about these women, sprung di
rectly from the Caucasian mountains, by
the side of which your soft, blue-eyed flax
en-haired Saxon maid looks like a faint
lithograph by the side of one of Coreggio’s
incarnations. —Such women, deeply imbued
with a sense of their country's wrongs, and
a female purpose to avenge them, are now
lashing the frenzy of the men to deadly
combat. — Philadelphia Ledger.
THOUGHTS
What is joy ? The honey of existence ;
really beneficial and agreeable when parta
ken of in moderation, but highly injurious
when used to excess.
What is contentment ? The philosophy
of life, and the principal ingredient in the
cup of happiness—a commodity that is un
dervalued in consequence of the very low
price it can he obtained for.
What is happiness? A butterfly, that
roves from flower to flower in the vast gar
den of existence, and which is eagerly pur
sued by the multitude in the vain hope of
securing the prize; yet it continually e
ludes their grasp.
What is crime ? A wretched vagabond,
travelling from place to place in a fruitless
endeavor to escape from Justice, who is
constantly engaged in hot pursuit. A foe
to virtue and happiness, though at times
the companion of poor innocence, which is
too often made to suffer forthe guilty.
What is justice? A pair of scales, in
which the actions of mankind are often
weighed; thelrue weights being sometimes
bought up by power and wealth, whilst
others that are incorrect are substituted.
What is idleness ? A public mint, where
various kinds of mischief are coined and
extensively circulated among the most des
picable of the human race.
What is fear? A frightful and danger
ous substance to the real guilty, but a vain
and harmless shadow to the conscientious
ly honest and upright.
What is fortune ? A capricious dame,
who often rejects those that are most anx
ious to solicit her favors; whilst others,
more unworthy, are the recipients of her
bounties without their solicitation.
What is fashion? A beautiful envelop
for mortality, presenting a glittering and
polished exterior, the appearance of which
gives no certain indication of the real val
ue of what is contained therein.
What is wit ? A sparkling beverage that
is highly exhilirating and agreeable when
partaken at the expense of others; but when
used at our own cost, it becomes bitter and
unpleasant.
What is thought ? A fountain from
which flows all good and evil intentions ;
a mental fluid, electrical in the force and
rapidity of its movements, silently flowing
unseen within its own avenues; yet is the
controlling power of all animated matter,
and the main-spring of all our actions.
What is knowledge ? A key that unrav
els all mysteries, and which unlocks the en
trance, and discovers new, unseen, and un-
trodden paths in the hitherto unexplored
fields of science and literature.
THE PROSPECTS OF HUNGARY.
The Washington Republic has* private let
ters from Warsaw to the middle of the past
month, which gives a more distinct idea ot
the character of the war now waged by the
Austrian and Russian emperors oil Hunga
ry than any account which has yet reach
ed us. The Republic says:
“Vast supplies were daily being sent
from Warsaw to the army, and it was evi
dent no steps would be neglected to reduce
the Hungarians to submission. All admit
the horror of the war, the atrocious man
ner in which it is conducted, and the great
doubt of its success. The Russians see
with dismay that they have to anticipate
nothing but the possession of a wilderness
—the Hungariaas destroying every district
as they leave it and poisoning every foun
tain. The sympathies of all the neighbor
ing nations are with the heroic soldiers of
Kossuth ; and the Emperor of Russia evi
dently did not anticipate such a war as he
meets with. Tliert are sixty thousand Hun
garians in Comorn—a strong bomb-proof
fortress, on which, though it is closely in
vested, the allies have been able to make
no impression. The garrison is six times
larger than is necessary; and if Bern an l
Detnbinski are able to raise the seige, the
allies will receive a blow from which they
, cannot recover; and the Hungarian army’
■ in the field, thus strengthened, could not
but triumph.
“All accounts say that the only salva
tion of the invaders consists in forceing the
Hungarians to an action, which they skil
fully avoid, aware that no large army can
I subsist in such a country as Hungary,
where waler is scarce at all times, and con-
I cious of their power to annihilate smaller
bodies. There is, besides, no comparison
between the intelligent, free, Hungarian and
the Russian soldier, who is subsisted on
bread alone. A terrible scourge is also
said to have seized on the Russian soldiers,
known as the ‘lice pest.’ The individual
is attacked by vermin undertheskin, which
is increased until the whole body becomes
nnp maa of corruption. Hitherto no rClTl
edy has been discovered, and the person at
tacked is considered as doomed ; and the
letters say ‘hundreds have, at their own so
licitations, been thrown into the river to
terminate their sufferings. The cholera al
so makes terrible havoc on the ill-fed al
lied army.”
“If Hungary succeeds in this contest, all
Poland will be in arms, and the Czar will
bo occupied certainly for years to come,
with his own affairs.”
THE MOUTH.
The mouth, like the eyes, gives occasion
to so many tender thoughts, and is so apt
to lose and supercede itself in the affection
ate softness of its effect upon us, that the
first impulse in speaking of it, is to des
cribe it by a sentiment and a transport.
Mr. Sheridan has hit this very happily—
see his “ Rivals.”
“ Then, Jack, such eyes! such lips! Eyes so—”
We never met with a passage in all the
poets that gave us a livelier and softer idea
of this charming feature, than a stanza in
a homely old writer of our own country.
He is relating the cruelty of Queen Elean
or to the Fair Rosamond:
“ With that she dashed her on the lips
So dyed double red ;
Hard mas the heart that gave the blow
Soft were the lips that Med.”
Sir John Suckling, in his taste of an un
der lip, is not to be surpassed:—
“ Her lips were red, and one was thin,
Compared with that was next her cliiu,
Some bee had stung it newly.”
The upper lip, observe, was only com
paratively thin. Thin lips become none
but shrew? or niggards. A rosiness be
yond that of the cheeks, and a good tem
pered sufficiency and plumpness, are the
indispensable requisites of a good mouth.
Chaucer, a great judge, is very peremptory
in this matter :
“ Witli pregnant lippes, thick to kiss percase:
For lippes thin, not fat, but ever lean,
They serve of naught; they be not wortli a bean;
For if the base be full, there is delight.”
Ixigh Hunt.
STOP THE BOAT.
Banvard, Smith, et id genus omne , will
soon have to hide their diminished heads, if
what the Louisville Courier tells be true.
The editor of that paper says he was much
amused the other night, while attending
the exhibition of Lewis’ Panorama of the
Mississippi river, at a respectable old gen
tleman from the country in the vicinity of
Rock River, of which a beautiful view is
given in this picture. He sat apparently
w’rapt in the contemplation of the ever
changing scene, giving utterance occasion
ally to some commendatory remark. All
at once he burst out:
“ Well, who’d a thought it ?—if they
hav’nt got my very house right down here
on this picture; yesthar’s the place—barn
—the big walnut tree, the old gate’ and
and as the picture came more fully in view
—“if there aintold Bally and the white
mare ! Well, it :s surprisin’; how the mis
chief he come to get it so natural I aon't
know— stop the boat and let me get out , r ’
HE IS “THAR.”
The monosyllable “there,'’ or, in the
backwoodsman's language thar —has its
original meaning so singularly perverted
and enlarged, ard lays claim to so many
and such peculiar significations, that it is
worthy our especial notice.
A man who accepts an invitation to a
frolic or a fight, a wedding or a funeral,
probably answers, I'm thar. A person
wishing to imply that he is perfectly at ,
home in anything, says he is thar; a good
hunter or fisher is also thar. A jockey
once sold a draught-horse with this re- j
commendation: “ He ain’t no petikeler
beauty, stranger, to boast on, but when
you get to the bottom of a hill with a
heavy load, he’s thar I tell you.” The
poor man, however, found out that his new
purchase, under such circumstances, cer
tainly was thar , and thar he was likely to
remain, as neither words nor blows could
induce him to budge a foot.
HENRY VINCENT.
Very few people in this country have
heard ot the name of Henry Vincent; and
still fewer know anything of his history,
yet we may say without fear of intelligent
contradiction that he is the most eloquent
man, taking Demosthenes fora standard of
eloquence, now existing in Great Britan.
He is not only capable of stirring up the
masses, of whom he is, by his fieryj im
pulse and glorious utterance, but he over
whelms the cultivated classes by his mas
tery of facts and logic. We find in the
National Era, from the pen of Henry B.
Stanton, the following very good biogra
phical and personal sketch of him :
The name of the young and eloquent
Henry Vincent thrills the heart of millions
of Britain*>laboring poor. While an ap
prentice in a London printing office, he
aided by extra work during the day in sup
porting a destitute mother and her children,
while midnight generally found him ab
i sorbed in some book adapted to expand his
mind. His intellect outran his years, and
he become a radical reformer when yet a
boy. At the age of 14, he made a speech
to his juvenile companions on thethen en
grossing subject of Catholic Emancipation.
The French Revolution next possessed his
enthusiastic soul, lie stood dumb with
emotion when he first saw the handbill at
1 the door of the newspaper office, headed
| “Revolution in France!” He rushed
| home, got his six-pence, bought the paper,
| and ran through the streets announcing
i the event to all whom he met. Soon fol
lowed the Reform Bill excitement, which
absorbed his energies. Although but six
teen or seventeen years old, he was chosen
a member of a Political Union, and partici
pated in its proceeding... Arriving at his
majority in 1836, he resolved to consecrate
his powers to the elevation of the laboring
and disfranchised classes of the people.—
He joined with Mr. Lovett in the Char
tist movements of 1837-38, travelled the
country a* a lecturer, and was immediate
ly ranked among the most vigorous and
brilliant advocates of The Charter.—
Such was his success among the hardy
mountaineers of Wales, that the Govern
ment became alarmed, marked him for its
victim, and, on his coming to London to
visit his widowed mother, dragged him
from her dwelling at dead of night, on a
charge of sedition, thrust him into a dun
geon, tried him, convicted him, and sent
him a year to Monmouth jail. The crime
proved against him was, using violent lan
guage and making the people discontented
with the Government! Just before the
close of his term of imprisonment, he was
again arranged on a similar charge, and
doomed to another twelve months incarce
ration. While in prison, he was treated
with such barbarity that fears were enter
tained of a rescue by the Welsh, with
whom he was highly popular, and he was
removed to London. His journey thither
was a triumphant procession, crowds gath
ering and cheering him at several of the
principal towns on the route. While con
fined in a solitary cell in the London peni
tentiary, Mr. Sergeant Talfoutd brought
his case before Paliament, eulogized his
character and talents, and arraigned the
Government forthe liarsh treatment inflict
ed upon him. This woke up Lord Nor
manby, the Home Secretary, who visited
Vincent, heard some very plain talk, had
him removed to Oakham jail, and furnish
ed with decent lodgings, and pen, ink, and
paper. After suffering twenty-two months
(the Government having remitted two,)
this pure-hearted young philanthropist was
released, and the same day partook of a
complimentary dinner, when he made a
speech in defence of his principles and con
duct, worthy of the theme and the man.
Soon afterwards, at the great election in
1841, Mr. Vincent was invited to contest
the borough of Banbury for a seat in Par
liament, the whole body of non-electors,
and a large minority of the electors, being
in his favor. On the morning of the elec
! tion, (the result being very doubtful be
j tween the Whigs and Tories,) a committee
| of the former offered him a large sume of
i money to withdraw from the contest. He
1 had scarcely spurned the proposal, when a
Tory deputation offered him £ 1,000 to
l abandon the field. He refused the bribe
| with scorn. He was defeated, but he re
! tired with honor, leaving hundreds of con
verts to his principles behind him. He
I subsequently, on special request, stood for!
| Ipswich and Tavistock, having failed of
j carrying the latter borough by only 44
1 votes, against the combined power of Bed-!
ford. At the general election of he
polled a very large vote for Plymouth. His ,
chief object in yielding to the solicitation of
his friends to mingle in these contests was, 1
to improve the opportunity they afforded
him for bringing thorough democratic prin- j
ciples before the people.
Mr. Vincent united with the Free Suffra
gists in 1842, and during the past seven j
years he has traversed England and Scot-1
land, addressing multitudes in favor of
Peace, Temperance, Education, Free Trade, I
and Parliamentary Reform, winning a high !
place among the advocates of radical re- j
form. His speeches arc a continuous flow
of rapid, fervid eloquence, that illuminates
the reason, kindles the imagination, and
fires the heart. In person, he is below the i
middle size, symmetrically formed, with
very handsome features, graceful and elas-;
tic in his action as a deer, and his voice
thrills the blood like a war trumpet.
CtaT 1 This is a great country. “Vjja
A Hint to Ci.f.kks. —Dr. Bacon, of the
Day Book, makes this nice calculation :
“ If a clerk will commence on a salary
of six hundred dollars a year at the age of
twenty one, with a merchant having acap
ital of twenty thousand dollars, and save
out of his salary two hundred dollars and
lend it to his employer at seven per cent,
on his note at six mouths, add the interest
to the principal when the note is paid, and
lend it again, and so receiving liis interest
semi annually reinvest it, he will at the age
of forty, have possessed himself of all his
employer's capital, and a large share of his
profits.”
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Advice to Wives.—Sweetness of tem
per, affection to a husband, and attention to
his interests, constitute the dutiesofawife,
and form the basis of matrimonial felicity.
These are indeed the text, from which ev
ery rule for attaining this felicity is drawn.
The charms of beauty, and the brilliancy
of wit, though they may captivate in the
mistress will not long delight in the wife:
they will shorten even their own transito
ry reign, if, as I have seen in many wives,
they shine more for the attraction of every
body else than of their husbands. Let the
pleasing of that one person be a thought
never absent from your conduct. If he
loves you as you would wish he should, he
will bleed at heart should he suppose it for
a moment withdrawn; if he does not, his
pride will supply the place of love, and his
resentment that of suffering.— Mackenzie.
American Propagandirts. A Califor
nia emigrant, writing from Chili, says :
“We think some of overturning the
Chilian Republic before we leave. It sa
vors much of the Mexican, and the officers
are generally disliked, from the President
downto theofficcrs of the customs. The for
eign residents here, all American and Ena:-
lisb, complain bitterly. I told an old offi
cer yesterday, one who had served them,
fought and bled for their cause, and was
now for overturnin the government, that if
they would say the word, we would upset
their apple cart, and give them a Constitu
tion like our own glorious one.”
It j'iTJiiiii7,
SECTS IN JERUSALEM.
As the Christians are very numerous,
there reigns among the whole no small de
gree of complaisance, as well as unre
strained intercourse in matters of business,
amusement, and even of religion. The
Mussulmans, for instance, pray in all the
holy places consecrated to the memory of
Christ and the Virgin, except the tomb of
the Holy Sepulchre, the sanctity of which
they do not acknowledge, for they believe
that Jesus Christ did not die, but that he
ascended alive in heaven, leaving the like
ness of his face to Judas, who was con
demned to die for him, and that as Judas,
was crucified, it was his body, and not that
of Jesus, which was placed in the sepul
chre. It is for this reason that the Mus
sulmans do not perform any act of devo
tion at the tomb of the Holy Sepulchre, and
that they ridicule the Christians who visit
and revere it.
The Jetvs—the ‘children of the kingdom’
—have been cast out, and many have come
from the east and the west to occupy their
places in the desolate land promised to
their fathers. Their quarter is in the nar
row valley between the Temple and the
foot of Mount Zion. Many are rich, but
they are careful to conceal their wealth
from the jealous eyes of the Mahometan
rulers, lest they should be subject to extor
tion.
It is remarkable that the Jews who are
born in Jerusalem arc of a totally different
cast from those we see in Europe. Here
they are a fair race, very lightly made, an I
particularly effeminate in manner; the
young men wear a lock of long hair on
each side of the face, which, with their
flowing robes, give them the appearance of
women. The Jews of both sexes are ex
ceedingly fond of dress; and although they
assume a dirty and squalid appearance
when they walk abroad, in their own
houses they are to be seen clothed in the
costly furs, and the richest silks of Damas
cus. The women are covered with gold,
and dressed in brocades stiff with embroid
ery. Some of them are beautiful : and a
girl about twelve years old, who was be
trothed to the son of a rich rabbi, was the
prettiest little creature I ever saw; her skin
was whiter than ivory, and her hair, which
was as black as jet, and was plated with
strings of sequins, fell in tresses nearly to
the ground. She was of a Spanish fami
ly, and the language usually spoken by the
Jews among themselves is Spanish.
The house of Rabbi A , with whom
I was acquainted, answered exactly to Sii
Walter Scott's description of the dwelling
of Isaac of York. The outside and the
court-yard indicated nothing but poverty
and neglect: but on entering 1 was sur
prised at the magnificence of the furniture.
One room had a silver chandelier, and a
great quantity of embossed plate was dis
played on the top of the polished cup
boards. Some of the windows were filled
with painted glass, and the members of the
family, covered with gold and jewels, were
seated on divans of Damascus brocade.
The Rabbi’s little son was so covered with
charms in gold cases, to keep off the evil
eye, that he jingled like a chime, of bells
when he walked along.
The Jewish religion is now so much en
cumbered with superstition, and the extra*
ordinary explanations of the Bible in the
Talmud, that little of the original creed re
mains. They interpret all the words in
the Scripture literally, and this leads them
into the most absurd mistakes. On the
morning of the day of the Passover, I went
into the Synagogue under the walls of the
Temple, and found it crowded to the very
door; all the congregation were standing
up. with large white shawls over their
heads, with the fringes which they w
commanded to wear by the Jewish
They were reading the Psalms, and aft,
they had been there a short time, all t|
people began to hop about and to shat
their heads and limbs in the most extraord
nary manner ; the whole congregation >
in motion, from the priest who was dancin,
at the reading desk, to the porter who ca
pered at the door. All this was in con*
quence of a verse in Hie 35th Psalm, which
says, ‘All my bones shall say, Lord, wh<
is like unto thee ?'— Curzon's Monastery
in the Levant*
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Galignani mentions that on the Qm
Napoleon there is on the point of bein
finished a large house, on the site of that
which was the residence af Abelard. .(
marble table announces that Abelard dwell
there in 1118.
Price of a Polish General. The Eij.
peror of Russia has issued a nroclamatio
offering a reward of tWenty-seVerv thom
and dollars for the head of General Re*
the Polish General, at the present tin*
heading one of the Hungarian armies.
First Towns in America. It will seen
curious to those who are not aware of the
fact, that the first towns built by European!
upon the American continent, were St. Au
gustine, in East Florida, and Santa Fe, th
capital of New Mexico. The river Gib
was explored before the Mississippi w a ,
known, and gold was sought in Calrfornu
long ere the first white man endeavored to
find a home upon the shores of New Eng
land. There are doubtless trees standing
within the fallen buildings of ancient Pan
ama that had commenced to grow when
the sites of Boston and New York wer
covered with the primeval wilderness.— Et
Commendable. Party politics were en
tirely kept out of view in the late electioa
in Minesota for a delegate to Congress,anj
forthe Legislature. A happy people an
those of Minesota. Long may they be so
blessed. We should think many hem
who have witnessed the bitter jealousies,
uuchar iableru sand bickerings, to sar
nothing of the selfishness and dishonesty,
which grow out of the extreme spirit e:
party, prevailing in elections elsewhere,
would envy the Minesotans their citizen
ship.—Pliila. Sun.
Genius. Genius is in the heart. The
sublime wearies; the beautiful deceive*
the pathetic alone is infallible in art.—
There is more genius in one tear, thanu
all the museums and all the libraries in the
universe. Man is like the tree, whichi
shaken to make it shed its fruit. He nev
er can be moved, but tears must fall.
[Lamartine
The Discontent Spreading. The Pro
vince of New Brunswick has echoed the
sentiments put forth in the recent address
of the Kingston (Ca.) Convention. A
meeting was held at St. John a few days
since, by the merchants and businesspeo
ple, to take into consideration the grievan
ces of the province, and seek a remedy for
them, at which meeting sundry resolution!
were adopted relative to the policy of the
Imperial Government with regard totnnk
generaley.
Bidding for Office. Several persons
in Chautauque county, New York, art
making themselves ridiculous by extrava
grant promises of what they will do, pro
vided the people of that county will elec:
them to the office of county clerk. Ont
offers to give SIOOO to the county, and pa;
the greater part of the balance to deputies
for doing the business. Another eclipses
him by offering SISOO per year forthe ben
efit of the widows and orphans of the coun
ty and SSOO to the needy population gener
ally.—Express.
The Oath of Kossuth. The following
is the oath of Kossuth on being elected
Governor of Hungary :
I- Ludwig Kossuth, elected Governor by
the National Assembly, swear that I will
maintain the declaration of independenceoi
the nation in all its consequences : that I
will yield and enforce obedience to the
laws and to the resolutions of the National
Assembly. So help me, God.
Avezzana. An enthusiastic meeting oi
Italians was held on Saturday night in
New-York, and it was voted to present
Gen. Avezzana with a magnificent swor!
as some token of the esteem in which be
is held by his countrymen in the United
States. Young Dr. Mott, of New-York,
who, while in Italy for his health, where
he greatly improved, took part in the strug
gle for Roman liberty, was introduced to
the meeting. Looking upon Italy, as bit
second mother he was extreamly happy ,;
the opportunity which offered to devote Ins
reemted strength to her cause.
The “Lipp.vrd Style.” Mrs. Swis:!
holm. a very forcible writer out West, thus
describes Lippard’s peculiar style :
We know no name for your style; ■' inl
have not learned that any critic invented
any other than the “ Lippard Style,” which
must mean a style that requires the writer
to be born with St. Vitus’s dance, to be
inoculated for the delirum tremens, tabs
the nightmare in the natural way, get b- 1 ’
ly frightned at a collection of. snakes, an
write under the combined influence of
manifold causes of inspiration.
Wire-work is now being successful'.’
substituted for wood laths in the ceiling so
houses and public buildings. The Wi fe ”
either galvanized or immersed in a c b eltl
cal preparation, which prevents it I' o ®
corrosion.
“Well, Alick how's your brothel
getting along these times ?”
“Oh, first rate- got a good’start i “
world ; married a widow who has i>”
children.”
tSfsf” “ What shall we write about
“ About half a column ,” responded