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I A LOVE STORY.
i Some years ago a member of the. United
| States Senate, distinguished not only for his
I talents but his fine personal appearance, was
| seated in a richly-furnished parlor in the
city of Washington, engaged in a lively
conversation with one of the most amiable
and accomplished tparried ladies that ever
honored our national capital with their pre
sence, The subject was the common and
most agreeable one of marriage ; and the
lady, with a .beautiful enthusiasm natural
to her character, was pressing upon the no
tice of her. distinguished bachelor friend the
claims of a young female friend, whose po
sition in society, amiable disposition, and lih
-1 eral education, eminently rendered her fit
to be the wife of a distinguished statesman,
who had seemingly already spent ioo many
years without a proper companion to divide
his honors and bear with him the ills of life.
The gentleman, who had for a long time
entered with hearty good-will into the half
serious and half playful conversation, sud
denly became excited, and remarked, that
he could, on such a subject, bear all that
was said in jest, but when Serious arguments
were brought to urge him to change his
condition, then his reply must be that such
a tiling could never be—that to love he
could not, tor his affections vyere in the
grave.
The lady was struck with the Senator's
manner, and surprised that throughout her
long acquaintance with him she had never
suspected that he had found time, amidst
the struggles of a laborious profession and
a high political position, to “fail in love."—
With the blandishments only known to the
sex, and with a curiosity prompted by the
kindest of hearts, she asked for an explana
tion of this seeming mystery, and the gen
tlemau. for the moment overcome by the
eloquence of his interlocutor, explained as
follows:
“It was my good fortune, soon after! en
tered upon the active duties of my profes
sion, to engage the affections of a lovely
girl, alike graced with beauty of person and
high social position. Her mother, her only
Hvlug parent, was umbhious; and, in ‘he
thoughtless desire to make an alliance of
fashion, opposed the tuiion of her child with
one who had only his talents and the future
to give in return for so much beayty and
wealth. The young lady, however, was
more disinterested; mutual vows of attach
ment were exchanged, a correspondence
! and frequent personal interviews succeeded,
and the future seemed to promise a most’
happy consummation of all our wishes. At
that time I had just commenced, under fa
vorable circumstances, my profession in my
native town; and, making some character,
was finally engaged as counsel in a suit of
importance before ope of thq courts holden
in the city of Philadelphia, The opportu
nity was favorable to make an impression if
1 possessed the ability to.do so; and l glad*
lv accepted the position, and bent my whole
energies to accomplish my ambition. Ar
ranging to write frequently to one who di
vided my heart with my business duties, and
to receive frequent epistles in return, 1 set
out for Philadelphia, expecting to be absent
at most not more than two weeks. The
law’s delays, however, detained me a month
beyond the anticipated time; and, although
I succeeded beyond my most sanguine ex
j peotations, and established myself in a posi
! tion before the highest eourf of my native
Stqtfi, my triumphs vyere dashed that in all
the time thus engaged i had not received a
line from Lancaster, instead of which, the
atmosphere was filled with rumors that the
person upon whom i had set my affections
had been seduced into the ambitious designs
of her thoughtless parent, and that I had
been discarded—a thing I could not believe,
and yet the dreadful silence seemed to in
dorse., -
“At fast, released from my engagement,
i I took the usual,’and, in those'days, the only
j conveyance to Lancaster-—the stage. The
i idleness consequent upon traveling gave
time, for consuming thoughts, and my sus
pense became painful to the last degree, and,
unable to bear the slow pace of my con vey
ance, 1 determined io anticipate the usual
time of my journey by making the last miles
upon horseback. In carrying ou't this de
termination, I mounted a fleet steed: but
just as I reached the suburbs of my native,
place, tbs animal, from soiqe unacqiimitable
cause, sprang from the road, threw me with
force, breaking my arm and otherwise inju-
ring my person. Picked up by my friends,
I was conveyed, helpless and full of physi
cal and mental agony, to my home. Scarce
ly had the surgeons pe? formed their neces
sary duties, than one, whom I esteemed a
fiiend, announced to me the gossip of the
village, and, among other things, detailed
the particulars of (he courtship ami engage
ment of the young lady in whom l was so
interested with a well known person of a
neighboring city—a person whose claims
to regard no one could dispute. These
things, stated with such apparent good faith,
connected with that fearful silence pf six
long week* had no other effect than to in
crease my anxiety to unravel the mystery;
and on the following morning, concealing
my wpunded limb under'a qfoak, probably
pale and'haggard, l presented myself at the
mansion of my mistress. I was received in
the presence of the mother. $/|e confirmed
my suspicions. The young lady stood by,
the picture of despair, yet’ silent a* the
PENFIILD, GA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1856.
grave. Desperate at what seemed this bad
faith. I returned to my house, wrote a hasty
letter demanding my correspondence, and
returning, at the same time, every once
cherished token of affection. I received all
I sent for, save, perhaps, some forgotten
flower.
“That pight the young lady, accompanied
by a female servant, left for Philadelphia.—
Arriving at her uncle’s house, she complain
ed of being with and
retired to her room. Complaining of some
serious pain, only soothed by, narcotics, she
sent her faithful but unsuspecting servant
and friend to a neighboring drug-store for
laudanum, received it, expressed the wish to
be alone, and seemingly retired to sleep.—
The following morning not making her ap
pearance, the family became alarmed, broke
open the door, and found the young lady
dead—in-her.hand the little keepsake re
tained from my correspondence. The un
cle, as if comprehending the particulars
which led to this dreadful tragedy, had the
body encollined, apd with it returned to
Lancaster. Placing all that remained of
this once lovely being in the parlor, he
brought the mother forward, and displayed,
what he was pleased to term, the result of
her work.
“I was seat for, and arrived to witness
theeloqueut agony of that mother’s hears.
Over the cold remains of the daughter she
revealed the particulars that led to the aw
ful result. My letters and hers, by untiring
industry, the.command of large resources,
and paid agents, had been all intercepted.
The reason of my prolonged absence in
Philadelphia had been explained as the re-i
suit of the fascinating charms of city belles;
even an engagement had been pronounced.
All this while the victim had been full of
hope. She had heard of my arrival in Lan
caster. but not of my accident; for long
weary hours she sat in the parlor waiting
my presence, but doomed to disappoint
ment. Here was seeming indiffei’ence. a
confirmation of all that she had heard. On
the other side, I was made the dupe of the
mother’s arts, and the fiend who had poison
ed my ear was merely the agent to carry
forward the great wrong. The lost inter
view | have described, which resulted in the
return of correspondence, was enshrouded
in the consequences of all these plans. The
result was death to one party, and the buri
al -of the Heart of the other in the same
grave that closed over one who could not
survive the wreck of her affections.”
Many years have passed away since the
incidents detailed in the above sketch trqns
, spired; many years since they were reviv
ed by the incidental conversation in a fam
ily circle of Washington society; hut the
Country strangely becomes interested in the
event* from the fact that the “White House”
may possibly have a bachelor for its occu
pant; but one, not so because ot indifference
to woman, hut really from the highest ap
preciation of one of the loveliest of the sex.
Mk&im,
A writer in the. Irish. Quarterly fcioview
pens the following remark* concerning
poor Maginn ;
Ho now turm.-d for comfort and inspira
tion, to the ford fiend, brandy, which has
been the cause of misery and death to so
many men of genius. We regret the er
rors of Addison and Steele • we sigh at the
recollection of poor AJorelauu, the’ painter,
#orbing at kfe last picture, with a brush in
one haucf and a glass of brandy in the oth
er; for lie bad arrived at that-terrible con
dition in which reason could only reach
him through intoxication; arid Maginii, not
so fallen as this, sunk deeply. The weary
hours of lonely watching brought no re
source but that which copious , draughts of
the liquid could supply. Health was fall
ing away, the brightest years of life were
past forever; and as the dim future lower
ed, he gazed upon it under the influence
of the. demon which enthral led the brilliant
souls of Addison, of Bhefidan, Qbarles
Lamb; and which sent the once stalwart
form of Theodore Hook, a miserable,
wretched skeleton to rfe grave.
The writer of Passages from the History
of a Wasted Life, relates a 6ad story of
this brilliant inebriate :
Mngiun bad a (laughter to whom he was
tenderly attached. She was ahoui to be
married, but her father lijid no portion to
give her. Suddenly he determined to keep•
steady und work. He did sth—abandoned
drink, and soon earned enough to enable
him to furnish a house splendidly for the
young f*oupie, who were accordingly united
and set off on the marriage tour —on tlie*i 1
return fronr 1 which, they were to occupy
the pretty new dwelling.
On the evening after the marriage, Dr.
Maginii walked pi Uje wtili-fuf'bi&hed bouse
—sat down on the sofa, and afterward
walked yver the apartments well pleased.’
“Ah!” said he. “I have reason to l>e
proud !”—-Then lie sent for a friend to coma
and admire it also; and after iff] bad been
inspected; the two sat,down ip the draw
ing room,
“Now,” said Magic n U> ; ihe \>jd woman,
who was left in the cure of the bouse 4hd
Jfrirrrilure, “go and fetch a bettk-.of brand y
and we’ll ilriuk the young couple's health-’’
The spirit was fetched and drank, and
then more was procured. Qthvq* persons
were also sent foiq und thy beautiful draw
ing mom soon converted into a scene
of bacchanalian revelry. Songs were song,
speeches were qiade, and healths drank,
and so it went n all night. The hall had
now been set in motion, and on it went.
The doctor’s money was all spent, so arti
cle after article was sent to be pawned I
Then went the piano—-then sofas—beds—
all but the chairs they sat on and the table.
At last, these went too, and the carousers
sat on the floor round u punch bowl! Nor
did they cease* their revels until the bride
came home to a house from which every
article cd furniture Had boon swept, away!”
There is a scene of degradation snch as
•HM’ in the slums of St. Giles could not ex
cel. And it was one in which literary
gentlemen were the chief actors. Truly,
the pledge is needed in high life as well as
in low Hie.
NEW ZEALAND, PAST AND PRESENT.
The traveler who visits the island of New
Zealand in this age. finds a very different
people fro n those whom Captain Cook be
came acquainted with there, in 1760. A
hundred years ag9, the inhabitants of this
island were a most disgusting set of savages.
Civilization and Christianity have wrought
a surprising change in them. The present
generation, through the efforts of the mis
sionaries, are quite an intelligent and en
lightened people. I have been very much
interested recently, in reading a volume
from the English press republished in this
country, in which the writer sketches the
modes and customs of the New Zealanders
before the introduction of Christianity among
them, and contrasts these modes and cus
toms with those which now prevail on the
island. The volume bears the title of the
“Southern Cross and Southern Crown.”—
From this book let. me condense a few facts
respecting these natives when the mission
aries first went among them.
One of the most singular and barbarous
customs of the people, which has now, to a
great extent, disappeared from the island,
was that of trftlooing. The operation was
extremely painful. The poor fellow who
was to undergo the process was laid on his
back. A pattern, m Q ve or less intricate ac
cording to the rank of the victim, was first
traced on his face, arms, and breast, with a
charred stick. Cuttings were then made in
the flesh, according to this pattern, by a
sharp kind of chisel, made of bone, driven
in by a mallet till the blood flowed freely.—
The chisel having been previously dipped
in some dark liquid, the lines remained in
delibly fixed in the flesh. An English sail
or, who was taken prisoner by the New
Zealanders in 1816, and who, after all the
rest of the crew were murdered and eaten
before his eyes, was. saved and made a chief,
was obliged to undergo this operation. He
says that it took him six weeks to get over
the pain produced bv the tattooing.
The dress, both of the meu and the wo
men, consisted of mats, made of large
squares of woven flax. One of these was
fastened round the waist, and fell just below
the knees. The thrown'over the
shoulders, covered the upper part of the
body. It took the women, who always
made these mats, six months to complete
one of them. Both sexes frequently wore
grotesque figures of coarse domestic cloth
around their necks. But their favorite or
naments were feathers. Mr. Marsden, a
missionary appointed by the London Mis
sionary- Society to. labor among these peo
ple some fifty year! ago, relates an amusing
incident that took place while he was on an
exploring expedition which he made in the
southern part of the island. He was ac
companied by some foreign chiefs, who
thought it a good opportunity for trade, and
so provided themselves with nails, fishhooks,
etc., and one of the party took with him a
choice supply of feathers. In the course of
the barter, one of the chiefs observed a very
handsome mat worn by the wife of the New
Zealand chief, and determined, if possible,
to procure it for his oyvp wife. The owner
would not part with it, however, for any oi
the articles that were offered in exchange.
The chief then tried his feathers; and tak
ing out a few of the least valuable, placed
them in the hair of some of the other women
present. They soon attracted the attention
of the lady of the mat, who became impa
tient to possess so valuable an oriianqeru.—
The chief offered to give her same in ex
change for the mat. But she still refused
to part with it. By and by, however, some
of the choicest feathers were displayed be
fore her eyes. The sight was too much for
her resolution. She threw off the mat and
seized the leathers ; nor could any young
lady in Paris or New York—so I should
judge from the narrative —have been more
delighted with a costly diamond than this
matron with her plume of feathers from the
snowy albatross.
One or more slaves, according to the rank
and age of the master, were always killed
and eaten on the death of any distinguished
man. The reason for this custom was, that
the people deemed it nyetjisary for the de
ceased to Save attendants in another world,
and so. the bodies of these slaves were kill
ed. that their souls might be at liberty to
bear their master company. The principal
wife ofa chief or other distinguished man
generally hung f herself on her husband’s
death, that she,, too, might, go with him.
THE ANGLO-SAXON HACK,
Os the five races of mankind* the Can
easiau has long beqn preeminent in pby :
gieal beauty and intellectual power; and of
, the varieties of the Caucasian yace, the
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Anglo-Saxon, is its “erown and flower.”
Tiie result of the mixture of two varieties,
and until a few <entnrie unknown, and
indeed nOn-exietent, it seems destined to
subdue the earth by the force arts
and arms, [t is the colonizing and con
quering race ot modern times. It. is to the
world, what the lonians were to the Egean
sea. Its commerce, its missionaries, its’
trading houses, and its colonies, are to be
found in every land under heaven, from
Greenland to Terra del Fttego, and trom
Spitsbergen to the Antarctic continent.
In the Pacific, it has occupied the great
continent, of Australia with its dependent
islands. The numerous clusters of isles,
which dot that great ocean, are ruled indi
rect)v by its missionaries, in Asia, it
holds Hin-iostan, while it. has China at hie
feet, not daring to refuse the deadly poison
which it offers her, and which is eating
out the heart of her vitality. In Africa, it
has subdued her south temperate zone,
while the Gold Coast, is under her sway.
In the western hemisphere, it rules the
northern continent, from the frozen lea to
the Gulf of Mexico, while in South Ameri
ca, it is making constant strides to influ
ence and political power. It seems destin
ed with its subvariety of Anglo-American,
to rule the entire globe at no distant day,
and so to he the imperial race of mankind.
—Rook Inlander.
MINERALS WE EAT,
“All know,” says the Portland Transcript,
“that many men have a great deal of brass
in their composition, but perhaps all are not
a ware, of the variety of minerals that enter
into and form a part of the human system.”
A wiiter in Dickens’ Household Words
thus tells the story:
These minerals, which are interwoven
with the living structure of the plant, are
taken up into the fabrio of the animal. And
to us they are as important as the meanest
vegetable that grows. I, who write this,
boast myself living flesh and blood. But
lime strengthens my bones; iron flows in
my blood; flint bristles in my hair; sulphur
and phosphorus quiver in my flesh. In the
human frame the rock moves, the metal
flows, ana the materials of the earth, snatch
ed by the divine power of vitality from the
realms of inertia, live and move and form
part of a soul-tenanted frame. In the very
secret c ham her of the brain there lies a
gland, gritty with earthly mineral matter,
which Descartes did mt scruple, with a
crude scientific impiety, to assign as the res
idence of the soul. You could no more have
lived, and grown, and flourished without
iron, and silicia, and potash, ana sodium, and
magnesia, than wheat could flourish with
out phosphorus, glass without silicia, cress
without iodiqe., or clover without lime. We
are all of us, indeed, “of the earth, earthy.”
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Steam Melodies.
It has been stated that some inventor in
Worcester has succeded in turning the un
earthly screech of the steam whistle into
harmonious music. The invention was at
tached to one of the locomotives on the
Worcester and Nashua railroad on Thurs
day, and the editor of the Worcester Trans
script, who was one of the party that “fa
ced the music,” thus speaks of the sensa
tion created as the engine left Worcester,
to the tune of “Old Dan Tucker:”
The effect was magical, nay wonderful,
exciting and arnusiug. Men left their
fields and workshops, and rushed for the
railway; with them came women with ba
bies and without; children innumerable,
and swarming like ants when their ant hill
is trodden on, all agape and agrin with
wonder and delight, everything animate
was on the <jai vive.
The horses danced pirouettes to the mu
sic; the very pigs relaxed the tension of
their tortuous tails, and stupid calves, that
ne’er had heard of melody, in dumb amaze
ment snuffed the music laden air, and stood
agape, their pendant tails outstanding
straight behind, ’fwas marvellous, and
we should not have been surprised if all
the bending woods, charmed by the Orphic
strains, had walked adown the shaded hills
and niade obeisance to the Calliope, even
as, to the terror of Macbeth, the lofty Bir
nam wood came down k to Dunsinane.’
A Warning from the Scaffold.
On the 31st of May, Nicholas Graham
expiated the crime of the murder of Joseph
Brooks, in San Fraucisco. The following
is a part of his dying confession, which is
worthy of being read and pondered upon :
I acknowledge my guilt, and the justice
of my sentence of death. lam satisfied to
die; I feel that I deserve to die. The free
use of spirituous liquors is the cause of my
coming to this disgraceful end. For the
past seven or eight years I have worked
constantly; I have spent all the money
that l earned for liquor, and have drunk
deeply. I write this for publication after
my death and if the notice of ray execu
tion and the cause of the crime tor which I
sufier should deter but one of my fellow
citizens from following in my footsteps,
and induce him to refrain from the use of
man’s greatest curse, (rum) I feel that I
have not lived or died in vain.
My fellow creatures, let the voice ofa
man*on the brink of the grave be heard in
solemn warning against this detestable
vice. I know from my own experience,
that the use of intoxicating drinks is the
cause of the greatest evils of life.
C TERMS: #I.OO IN ADVANCE
i JAMES T. BLAIiV 1
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Humanizing Effects of Cleanliness.
A neat, clean, -fresh-aired, sweet, dieer-i
iul, well-arranged and well-situated Infuse,
exercises a moral as well as a physical Hi’;
I finance over its inmates, and makes the
me tn oers of a family peaceable and consid
erate of the feelings and happiness of each
other; the connection is obvious between,
the s'ate of mind thus produced, and hab
its for others, and for those higher duties
and obligations which no law can enforce.
On tiie contrary, a filthy, squalid, noxious
dwelling, rendered still more wretched lay !
its noisome site, and in which none of the
•decencies of life can -be observed, contrib
utes to make its unfortunate inhabitants
.selfish, sensual, and regardless of the feel
ings of each other; the constant in dulgence
of such passions renders them reckless and
brutal, and the transition is natural to
propensities, and habits incompatible with
respect for the property of others, or for
the laws.
Powerful and Pungent.
A venerable lady who resided in a su
burban cottage, kept a few hens for her
own amusement. In feeding them one
day, she wet her feet, and a severe billions
attack resulted. She sent for a box of anti
bilious powders, and she was about taking
a dose, when the idea suggested itself to ‘<
Lei thai. nature was nature’s best restorer,
and she threw them iuto the garden. In
a few days she found herself fully recover
ed, and with a sharp appetite, und looking
at her chickens, she resolved to have one
boiled for dinner, and her neighbor’s son
soon brought in one with a dislocated neck.
After thirty minutes she took it from the
pot, only to find it as hard as a stone, and
she replaced it, and gave it another trial,
with no better success; and the third time
she tried if, until after two hours and a
half she gave it up as a tough subject. The
trouble was this—the chicken had partaken
ot the anti-billions powders, and there waa
no “bile” left in them !
Mark tha Moral.
A traveler setting out upon a long jour
ney, was assailed upon the road by curs,
mastiffs and half-grown puppieq which
came out ot their kennels, to bark at him
as he passed along. He often dismounted
from his horse to drive them back with
stones and sticks, into their hiding place#.
This operation was repeated every day,
and sometimes as often as twenty times per
day. The consequence was, that more
than half the travelers’s time was consum
ed in chasing those dogs and puppies. At
■ last, he was overtaken by one of his neigh
bors, who was going the same way, but
bad set out a long time after him* The
latter traveler was very much surprised to
find the other no farther on his journey,
and on hearing the reason, 6aid, “Alas! is
it possible you have lost your time, and
wasted your strength in this idle occupa
tion? The same animals have beset me
all along the road, but ! have- ■‘saved mv
time and my labor, in taking no r, ... .7
their barking, while you have lost yours
in resenting insults which did you barm,
and in chastising dogs and puppies, whose
manners you cannot mend,”
How True.
Avery eminent writer has said that al
though we seem grieved at the shortness
oflife in genera!, we are wishing every
period of it at an end. The minor longs to
be of age, then to be a man of business ;
then to retire. Ths usurer would be vory
well satisfied to have all the time annihi
lated that lies between the present mo
ment and the next quarter day; the poli
tician would be content to lose three years
ot his life, could he place things in the
posture that ho fancies they will occupy
after such a revolution of time, and the
lover would be glad to strike out all the
moments of; existence that are to pass
away before the next meeting.
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character of the young men cf
a community depends much on that of the
young women. Iftlie latter arc cultivated,
intelligent and accomplished, the young
men will feel the requirement that they
i hcmselves should be upright, gentleman
ly and refined; but. if their female friends
are frivolous and silly, the young men will
be fouud to be dissipated and worthless.—
But. remember, akoays , that a sister is the
best guardian of a brother’s integrity.—
She is the surest inculcator of a faith in
woman’s purity. Asa daughter, she is
the true light of the home. The pride of
the father oftenest is centred on his daugh
ter. She should, therefore, be the sum
and substance of all.
□CPA joint sto ;k company has been or
ganized in Paris to facilitate gambling.—
The directors state that having found by ex
perience that Bourse speculation on a large
scale only can succeed, they are desirous of
extending the associative principle to small
capitalists, clerks, tradesmen, widows, &e.
They represent that during the last five
months they have distributed among their
shareholders the enormous dividend of i
twenty-seven per cent., over and above #
nine per cent tor expensesx>f management.
They propose increasing their capital from
4,000,000f.n0 25,000,000f., by the issue of
shares at 250f. each, so that now is the time
—if we believe them-—to realize great gains
with no labor or risk.