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BY F. C. PENDLETON. | VOL. I. THE O®WS3H3ISS! 1? &g 2 Is published in the city of Maeon every Saturday M‘»rnilip, at THREE DOLLARS i.'i adr an re. foer dollars nt the end of the year— two dollars t .r six months; and mailed to country subscribers by the earliest mails, enveloped by good strong wrappers, with terrible direc tions. (W No subscriptiitn received for a less period than six months —and no paper discontinued, Until all arrears are paid. Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rates of advertising, with a reasonable deduction to yearly ad vertisers. Religious, Marriage and Obituary Notices insetted free of charge. j£r Any person forwarding a tf.S’ dollar bill, (post paid,) shall receive six copies, for to be sent to different persons, as directed. BCr letters, on business, cither to the Publisher or Editor, must come post paid to insure attention. P O E T It Y . From Blackwood's Magazine. KAFOLEON OFF IS II A XT. BY B. SIMMONS. *—— “I shnll never forget that morning we made Ushant. I lmd come on deck at font o’clock to take the morning watch, when, to »nv astonishment, l saw the Emperor come out of the cabin at that early hour, and make for the poop ladder. Having gained the deck, Cainting to the land, he said, ‘ Ushant ?—Cape r shant ?’ I replied, ‘Yes, Sire,’ and with drew. Tie then took ont a pocket-glass and applied it to his eye, looking eagerly at the land. In this posit on he remained from five in the morning to nearly mid-day, without pav ing any attention to what was passing around him, or speaking to one of his suite, which had lxcn standing behind him for several hours.— No wonder he thus gazed : it was the last look of the land of his glory : and 1 am con vinced lie felt it as such. What must have been his feelings in these few hours 1” Memoirs of an Aristocrat, Ac. What of the night ?—ho ’. watcher there Upon (he armed deck. That holds within its tliund’rous lair The last of empire’s wreck— E’en Him whose capture now the chain From captive earth shall smite— Ho! rocked upon the moaning main, Watcher, what of tlx* night ? “The stars are waning fast; the curl Os morning's coming breeze Far in the north begins to furl Night’s vapor from the sens. Her every shred of canvass spread, The proud ship plunges free, While bears afar, with stormy head, Cape Ushant on our lee,” At that last word, as trumpet-stirred, Forth in the dawning gray A silent man made to the deck His solitary way ; And leaning o'er the poop, he gazed, Till on hisstraining view That cloud-like speck of land, upraised, Distinct, but slowly grew. Well may he look until his frame Maddens to marble tlicre ; He risked Renown's all-grasping game— Dominion or despair— And lost; and lo! in vapor furled. The last of that loved Fiance, For which his prowess cursed the world, Is dwindling from his glance. Rave on, thou far-resounding Dtcp, Whose billows round him roll! Thou’rl calmness to the storms that sweep This moment o’er his souk Black chaos swims before him, spread With trophy-shaping bones— The council-strife—the battle-dead— Rent charters —cloven thrones. Yet, proud One ! could the loftiest day • Os thy transcendent power Match with the soul-compelling sway Vv'bich in this dreadful hour Aids thee iC hide, benath the show Os calmest lip i».nd eye. The hell that wars and works below— The quenchless thirst to dtS • The white dawn crimsoned Into morn— The morning flashed to day, And the sun followed, glory-bum, Rejoicing on his way ; And still o’er ocean’s kindling flood That niuser cast his view-, While round him, awed and silent, stood His fate’s devoted few. He lives, perchance, the past again, Front the fierce hour when first On the astounded hearts of men His meteor-presence burst — W hen blood-besotted Anarchy Sunk quelled amid the roar Os thy far-sweeping musketry, Eventful Tkerinider! Again he grasps the victor-crown Marengo’s carnage yields, Or bursts, o’er Lodi, beating down Bavaria’s thousand shields; Then, turning from the battle-sod, Assumes the Consul's palm, CJr seizes giant empire's rod In solemn Notre-Dame. And darker thought oppress him now: Her ill-requited love, Whose faith, as beauteous as her brow, Brought blessings from above — Her trampled heart —bis darkening star— Devoted to Literature, Commerce, Agriculture, Foreign and-Domestic News, Amusement, &c. The cry of outraged M tn— And white-lipped R >uf, and wolfish War, Loud thund'ring on his van. Oh, for the sulph’rous eve of June, When down that Belgian hill, H s bristling Guards'superb platoon He led unbroken still! Now would he pause, and quit their side Upon destruction's marge, Nor king-like share, with desperate pride, Their vainly-glorious charge ? No ! —gladly forward lie would dash Amid that onset on, Where blazing shot and sabre-crash Pealed o'er his empire gone ; There, ’neath his vanquished yagles tost, Should close his grand career, * Girt by his heaped and slaughtered host! He lived—for fetters here ! Enough !—in noontide’s yellow light Cape Ushant melts away— Even as his kingdom’s shattered might Shall utterly decay; Save when his spirit-shaking story, In years remotely dim, % Warms some pale minstrel witli its glory To raise the eong to Him. SUNDAY READING. GO TO CHURCH. There is no one tiling which helps to es tablish a man’s standing in society, more than a steady attendance at church, and a proper regard for the first day of the week. Every head of a family should go to church, as an example to its members : and every branch of a family should go to church, in im itation of the example of parents who loved them and watched over their best interests. Lounging in streets and bar rooms on the sabbath, is abominable, and deserves exeern t’on ; because, it lays the foundation of habits which ruin one, body and soul. Many a voting man can date the commencement of a course of dissipation which made him a bur then to himself and his friends, and an object of pity in the sight of his enemies, to his Sun day debauchery. Idleness is the mother of drunkenness —the Sabbath is to young people generally an idle day; therefore, if it be not properly kept, it were better struck out of ex istence. Go to Church, —lf you are a young man just entered on business, it will establish your credit—what capitalists would not sooner trust anew beginner, who, instead of dissipating his time, his character, and his money in dissolute company, attended to his business on business days, and on the Sabbath appeared in the house of his God. Go to church with a con trite heart, and bending a knee at the throne of your Maker, pour out a sincere thank offer ing for the mercies of the past week. Go to church, ladies, and remember that religion most adorns the female character. INTERNAL EVIDENCE OF THE SCRIPTURES. Search diligently the word of eternal life, enriched and ennobled as it is, with the chain and the accom, 1 shmeuts of its prophecies; with the splendor of its miracles ; with the at testation of its martyrs; the consistency of its doctrines; the Importance of its facts; the plenitude of its precepts ; the treasury of its promises; the irradiation of the Spirit; tlte abundance of its .consolations; the propor tion of its parts; tlie symmetry of tlie whole, altogether presenting such a fund of instruc tion to the mind, of light to tlte path, of docu ment to the conduct, of satisfaction to the heart, as demonstrably prove it to he the in strument of God for the salvation of man. Moore, THE BEAUTY OF PRAYER. Oh, the easy and happy resource the poor sou! hath to the high throne of heaven ! We stay not for the holding out of a golden sceptre to crave our admission, before which our pre sence would lie presumption and death. No hour is unseasonable, no person too base, no words too homely, no fact too hard, no oppor tunity too great. We speak familiarly : we are Itcard, answered, comforted. Another while, God interchangeably speaks unto us, by the secret voice of his Spirit, or by the au dible sound of his word ; we hear, adore, an swer him ; by both which tlie mind so com municates itself to God, and hath God so plen tifully communicated unto it, that hereby it grows to such a habit of heavenliness, as that now it wants nothing, but dissolution, of full glory. Joseph Ilall. CECIL. Previous to his conversion, Mr. Cecil, one night lying in bed, was contemplating the case of his mother. “ 1 see,” said he, within hiin se f, “two unquestionable facts: First my mother is greatly afflicted in circumstances, body and mind ; and yet 1 see that she clieer fnlly bears up under all, by the support site derives fr« m constantly retiring to her closet and her tib :. Secondly, that site has a se cret spring of comfort, of which I know no thing; while l. who give an unbounded loose to my appetites, and seek pleasure by every means, seldo mor never find it. If. however, there is ai-y such comfort in religion, why may 1 not attain it as well as my mother? I will immediately ask it of God.” He instant ly rose in his bed, and began to pray. But 1m; was soon damjted in his attempt, bv recollect ing that much of his mother’s comfort seemed to arise from her faith in Clirist. “Now,” thought he, “this Christ 1 have ridiculed. He stands much in my wav, and can form no MACON, (G v.) SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1338. part of tnv prayers.” lu utter confusion of mind, i jere.'ore, he lay down again. Next day, however, he continued to pray to tlie “Supreme Being,” and -began to consult books, and to attend preachers. His dii’lcal. ties were gradually removed, and his objec tions ans we cl, and his course of life began to amend. lie now listened to the pious admo. n't 0.)3 of his m >!her, which had befo c affic . ed to receive,with pride and scorn; yet they fixed themselves in his heart like a barbe l ar row : and, though the effects were at tlie time concealed from her observation, jet tears would fall from his eyes as lie passed along the st reets, from the impression she had left on | his mind. Now he would discourse with her, ar.d hear Iter without outrage ; which Iter to hope tliat a gracious principle was forming in his heart, and more especially ns he then at tended the preaching of tlie word. Thus he made some progress ; hut felt no small diffi culty iu separating from-his favourite connec tions. Light, however, broke into his mind, till he gradually discovered that Jesus Ciiri.-t, so far from “standing in his way,” was"tlie only “ way, the truth, and the life,” to all that come unto God by him. v Intelligencer. IMPORTANT MEMENTO. A traveller, passing through Savoy came to an inn, and saw the following admonition printed on a folio sheet, and hanging in its public room : “ Understand wc 1 ! the force of the words—- A God! a moment! an eternity! A God who see 'thee, —a moment which files from thee, —an eternity which awaits thee !” MI SC ELLAN E O U S. CURIOUS TRANSFORMATION OF INSECTS. Ail winged insects, w thout exception, and many oft.iose which are destitute of wings, have to puss through several changes before they arrive r.t tiic perfection of their natures. Tnc appearance, tlte structure, and the or gans of a catterpillar, a chrysalis, and a fly, al e so dilferent, that, to a person unacquainted with their transformation, an identical animal would be considered as three distinct species. Without the uid of experience, who could be lieve that a butterfly, adorned with four beauti ful wings, furnished with a long spiral probo scis, instead of a mouth and with six legs, proceeded from a disgu * : ig catterpillar, pro vided with jaws and tee-‘.I i, and fourteen teet? Without experience, who could imagine that a long, white smooth, soft worm, hid under the earth, should he transformed into a black crustaceous beetle, having wings covered with horney cases ? Besides their final metamorphosis into flies, catterpiilars undergo several intermediate chan ges. All catterpiilars cast or change their skins more or less frequently according to the species. The silkworm, previously to its chrysalis state, east its skin lour times. The first skin is cast on tlie 10th. 1 ltii, or 12th da)', according to the nature of the season; the se cond in five or six days more ; and the fourth and last, iu six or seven daj's after the third. This changing of skin is not only common to all catterpiilars, but to every insect whatever. Notone of them arrives at perfection without casting its skin at least once or twice. The skin, after it is cast, preserves so entirely the figure of the catterpillar in its bead, teeth, legs, color, hair, &e. that it is often mistaken lor the animal itself. A day or two before this change happens, catterpiilars take no food ; they lose their former activity, attach them selves to a particular place, and bend their bo dies iti various directions, till, at last, they es cape from tlie old skin, and leave it behind them. The intestinal canal of catterpiilars is composed of two principal tubes, the one in serted into the otiicr ; the external tube is com pact and fieshy; but the internal one is thin and transparent. Some days before eattcr pillurs change into the chrysalis state,they void, along with their excrement, tlie under tulte which lined their stomach and intestines. When about to pass into the chrysalis state, which is a state of imbecility, they select the most proper places and modes of concealing themselves from tlieir euc'mies. Some, as the silkworm and many other, spin silken webs of cords round their bo lies, which completely disguise the animal form. Others leave the plants upon which they formerly fed, and bide themseves in the little colls which they make in tlie earth, '('lie rat-t; ied worm abandons the water upon the approach of its metamorpho sis, retires under tlie earth, where it is changed into a chrysalis, and after a certain time, bursts from its seemingly inanimate condition and appears iu the form of a winged insect. Thus the same animds pass the first and longest jterio i of their existence in the water, another under tlie earth, and the third and last in the air. Some catterpiilars, w hen about to change into a crysulis state, cover their bodies w ith a mixture of earth andof silk, and conceal them selves in the 100 eso l. Others incrust them selves with a silky or glutinous matter, which the)' push out from their mouths, without spinning it into threads. Others retire into the ■ holes of walls or decayed trees. Others suspend tbem-clves to tlie twigs of trees, or to other elevated bodies, with tlieir beads undermost. Some attach themselves to walls, with tlieir heads higher than tlieir bodies, but in various inclinations ; and others clioo-e a horizontal position. Some fix tIK-m.se!ves hv a gluten, and spin a rope round their mid dle to prevent them from falling. Those wli’ch feed upon trees uttach t in-nisei ves to brunettes, instead of tlie leaves, winch arc less durable, and subject to a greater variety of accidents. Tnc colors, of (he cattcrp.llars give no idea of those of the future flies. T..e metamorphosis of insects has been re gurdcla.sa sudden operation, because they ot.en burst ti c.rsi ell or silkv covering quick ly, and immediately appear furnished with wings.—But. by more attentive observations, it has been discovered, that the transforma tion o! catterpiilars is a gradual process from the moment toe animals are hatched till they arrive at a state of perfection. Why, it mav j be asked, do catterpiilars so frequently cast i their skins? Tlie new skin,and othcrorgnns, wore lodged under tlie oid ones, as in many 1 tubes or cases the animal retires fiom these cases, because they have become 100 strait. | The reality ot these encasements has been demonstrated by a simple experiment. When i about to moult or cast its skin, if the foremost legs of a catterpillar are cut off, the animal ; comes nut of the old skin deprived of these legs. From this fact, Reaumur conjectured ; that the crysalis might lie thus encased; and concealed under the last skin of tlie catterpillar. The probosis, the antenneae, the limbs and the wings of the fly, are so nicely folded up. that they occupy a small space only under tlie first two rings of the catterpillar. In the first six limbs of the butterfly. Even tlie eggs of the j butterfly have been discovered in the catterpil- j lar long before its transformation. From there facts it appears that the transfor mation of insects is only the throwing o!fex ternal and temporary coverings, and i.oi an nl toration ol t e original form. Catterpiilars may be considered ns anologons to the fetuses of men and of quadrupeds. They live and re ceive nourishment in envdojres, till they ac quire such a degree of perfection as enables them to support the situation, to which they are ultimately destined by nature. A HINT FEE WARM WRAT'WR. Somewhere in Java, or in other Eastern re gains, tlie aboriginal legislators while bolding a “palaver,” keep themselves cool by a device that might perhaps be advantageously adopted in Congress during the warm weather. A jar sufficiently large and filled with cold water is provided for each member, who gets into it du ring tlie session, and sits until the hour of ad journment. immersed to his neck in the trnn qnilizieg fluid. The measures taken arc the re fore calm and deliberate, and the debates are likewise free from beat and ill-temjcr. Tlie Javanese Solons cannot lush themselves into a fury by a violent gesticulation, for any attempt at making a splash would probably result in be ing spilt. Thus, these cold water jars have a tendency to prevent all jars of a warmer and more disagreeable nature, and had the pugis listic Cotigress men who have of late been so outrageous in the House of Representatives, been “put up” in tbe Javanese fashion, tiie re cent difficulties in all likelihood would not have occurred. Under these arrangements, the phraseology of thcllou e might p< rlnp? require alteration. Instead of “ living out of order,” a gentleman might lx- told that he was “ oui of water,” and instead of ordering him to “ take his seat,” the member might be required to “get into his jar.” The effect likewise of so many diversified countenances protruding from the crockery could not be otherwise than pic turesque and entertaining. Lycurgus in a pipkin would surely be as imposing as Dio- j genes in a tub. WOMAN. The progress of society manifests itself more clearly in the development and beauty 1 of the female character, than in any other way. In a rude and uncivilized community, woman is a disregarded creature; as it ad- I vauccs, she is the mark of its exultation. It Is not too much to sny that to the women of America wc must look for the security of our institutions and our future greatness as a na tion. Old tilings are rapidly passing awnv, old prejudices, old superstitions and old no tions, involving the false relations of society, Anew year has dawned upon us, and woman is the morning star of the return of the golden rising; she is the herald of a spiritual sun, whose beams are to search the darkened depths of humanity, and reveal tlie great problem of our nature. —There is not o :e in a million who knows what man is, or the re lation he bears in the interminable universe of Ixing. Tne thoughts of the millions arc bow ed down to earth, and are centered in them selves—they have no conception of the na ture of love, end tl eemo’ioris which bear tliat name give tlie lie to its philosophy. Titov do not understand—they cannot comprehend— tlieir intelligence has not expanded to tliat de gree of recipiency wire h drinks in the vast revelation of .humanity, its end. its mighty dec. filiation, and the causes which have operated to produce its present state, and the causes whtch must energise for its concnmation. They do not know that woman is the recipient of celestial love, and that man is dependent on her to perfect his character; that without lier, philosophically and truly speaking, the brightness of his intelligence is but the cold ness of a winter noon, whose beams can pro duce no fruit whose light is cheerless and de i pressing. They do not know that woman is all affection,.and tliey cannot appreciate the I comprehensiveness of the truth. We have no disposition to flatter the sex : wc would raise them above the humiliation of flattery. Adulation is not congenial with tlieir better nature; and this we arc desirous of un folding. If tin y can only lie made to under stand tlieir real character, they w ill fiiel mid I acknowledge tlie truth of this remark, tliat iu | C. li. IIANI.LITER, PRINTER. proportion as they admit sclf-sat’sfaction from 1 tie: praises of man, they arc removed from his | purest admiration. In this expression, wo would not be understoo 1 as being tlie advo cates of prudery and that false modesty which prides itself in the distance it holds from man. On the contrary, wc would expose the narrow minded views of that class of teachers indica ted in the “ Young Lady’s Friend,” who by warning the sex against unthought of impro proprieties, save no other end but to suggest them a wrong. Women ought to associate freely with men, according to the unwritten rules of decorum which are stamped on the heart,. Tne precepts of prudery are steeped in the guilt of contamination. Truth, and the loveliness and delicacy of cherished affection’s beautiful dreams of the ideal woman, gentle hopes and aspiration for the pure and perfect attainment of the angelic character, arc enough for her guidance, without the transferred co lorings of a stained sufferer. Woman has heretofore occupied a false po sition in the world—an unnatural one. She has been so long regarded as a Weak creature, an inefficient actress on the great stage of life, a mere puppet to fill up the drama of exist ence, that she has too often come to he of the same mind herself, and forgotten her high des tination in the frivolities of an hour. Wc have no patience with those persons who wish to treat her as a mere Rosa Matilda, who can be allured by a pretty compliment and satisfied bv the gossamer of romance. Beset, as she has been, by the intellectual, vulgar, selfish, the designing and the false, no wonder she has sometimes folded her wings in despair, and for gotten her heavenly mission in the delirium of imagination. But this cannot be always. There is a remnant of blessedness with her, in spite of evil influences, there is enough of tlie divit e mastc r left, though the portraiture is worn and blemished ; and the time is fast appioaching when the picture of the true wo mm will shine lor its fame of glory, to capti vate, to win bock and restore the objects of her mission. N. Y. Whig. DEVOTION TO STUDY. Incessant labor—intense industry—lias been one of these results. One of the Cottingcr professors, having full use of his limbs, assur ed me he had not left his house for thirteen years. The longest walk he took was from bis sleeping apartment to his observatory, both being under th# same roof; “all his adven tures, wore” literally “by the fireside, and all his m gmtions from the blue bed to the brown.” Another was pointed out to me who, in addi tion to his public duties, had read fourteen hours a day, without intermission, from the time he was Dine years old. On his wedding day he read only eleven ; but, to make up for such truancy, lie ro c next morning three hours earlier than usual. Now all this is absolutely folly. “In vain do ye rise so early and so lato take rest.” Ten or twelve hours of actual in tellectual exertion, in the course of the twenty four, are enough for any man who wishes to keep the mental sap circulating briskly through his brains. Deprived of that wholesome cir culation, the brains turn mouldy ; and mouldy brains breed maggots. Blackwood. HIGH LIVING AND MEAN THINKING. [Tow much nicer some men are in their persons than in their minds. How anxious to wear the appearance of wealth and taste in tilings of outward show, while their minds and h arts are poverty and meanness. Sec one of the apes of f< shion with his coxcombries and ostentation of luxury. Ilis clothes must bo made by the host tailor, his wines of the finest flavor; but his reading is of the poorest frivoli ties, or of the lowest vulgarity. In the grati fies! ion of the animal scare, he is an epicure; but a pig is a clean feeder, compared with his mind. A pig would eat good and bad, sweet and foul alike, but his mind has- no taste ex cept fertile most filthy garbage. The pig has no discrimination, and a great appetite; but the mind which we describe, is satisfied with little, and that must be of the worst kind. If we could see men’s minds as v/e sec their bodies, what a spectacle of nakedness, destitu tion and deformity we should behold! How fallen—how degraded • Tail’s Magazine. COOL WATER. The Philadelphia Ledger suggests the fi 1 ’ lowing mode of keeping water cool in warm weather: Let the j ir, pitcher or vessel used for wa fer, he surrounded with one or more iolds of coarse button, to be kept constantly wet. The evaj cruticn of the water from this will ctrry ofl’the heat from the water inside, and soon reduce it almost to the freezing point. In India and other tropical regions, where ico cannot be procured, this practice is common. Let every mechanic or laborer have at his place of employment two pitcliers thus provi ded, aid with lids or covers, the one to con tain water for drinking, the other for evapora fion, and lie can always have a supply of cold water in warm weather. Any person can test j this by dipping a finger in water and holding it i in the air on a warm day. Afler doing this three or four times, he will find his finger un comfortably cold. Feeling. —Feelings arc stars, which are guides only when the sky is clear; but reason ! is the needle which aids us even when the sk y js obscured. When you are at church go to sleep—Sun i day *9 & day of rest. NO. 3(5.