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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. in©aa iid § v.w iii aw ©aaaiiSo a j a s a l l a jit, 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.” - -4 o^^ 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* JiiJ fitsT 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