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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
An important Consideration.
‘Hu rd i> undoubtedly au hoi>t diversity of o
ir : >m itmoug uooj men, in relatioii to wlcat has
: been technically called the wiae <jao>tk)Q, s-oino
i -amp i.s'ng that the lliido s.uctii>ns the us< as a
j beverage, of the pure juice of the grape, in a for*
men ted or intoxicating stair., others, that its sane*
I iion is ccnlined to its use in its un£ermenUid orin
! tc.xicated btate, both, how ever, agree that the use
| of drugged or mixed wum, as a beverage has no
I sanction in that authoritative book. Whatever
j interest therefore may be felt in wine countries,
i in relation to the lawfulness of using, as a beverage,
1 the pure juice of the grape, in its fermented, or in-,
j toxicating state the decision of that great question,
j however decided, can have very Utile practical
bearing here, for however lawful the pure juice
! of the grape may, be in either state, it ia an unde
) niable fact that the pure juice of the grape is not
! generally iu use here, in either of these states, if
j indeed it is in use at all, and it is also an undenia
ble fact, that the wines of commerce are, in the
sense the Bible uses the term, mixed wines, and
because they are so, they axe condemned by the
very authority repealed to, in vindication of theif
use. For it is conceded that wines, the intoxica
ting quality of which has been increased by the
addition of other ingredients, are disallowed by
the Bible, and yet such, are all, or nearly all the
wines of commerce. To these wines, brandy is u
niversally added to prevent the acetous fermenta
tion on their passage across the Atlantic; and
without such adulterations, if brought there at all,
they must be brought in the form of vinegar, or in
spissated, that is, boiled wine. But this is not
all (though this were quite sufficient to prove ac
cording to the interpretation contended for, by the
advocates of pure fermented wine; that the wine
here in use, is unauthorized and profane, therefore
! unfit for use, by either Christian or Jew.) But
I this is not all, nor is it the worst, epurioU9 winea,
that ig liquors falsely called wines, being fabrieat- ■
ed from ether articles than the juice of the grape
and furnished expressly for the American market,
at Madeira, at Oporto, at Cot to in France, and ev
en at London iu England, to all which must be
added, the spurious articles of domestic mano
| facture, with which tho whole country is flooded.
Among these fabrications are some, nay many
of the vilest and most revolting character, and
none, the use of which is healthtul, or even 6afe.
This is not fancy, it is not exaggeration, as eve
ry one knows, who is familiar with the facts of’
toe case, facts established under the solemnity of
oaths iu courts of justice, spread out in parlia
mentary reports, proclaimed by the publie press
in every quarter of the world, and never yet con
tradicted.
Waving all remark therefore, on the use of pure
fermeneed wme, and allowing what is called the
“o'me question]’ proper to remain an open ques
tion, we ea 1 on ali the friends of temperance, the
lriencid of morals, and upon all weil-wishere of the
human race, to abstain from the uae of an article
not only not sanctioned by the Bible, but undeni
able discountenanced by it, as well as by the voice
of expeiience, and the claims of humauity, and to
co-operate with us in banishing it from reputable
society, as au article deleterious in its nature,
and productive only of disease, of crime, of misery
and doath, and therefore an article, unworthy a
iike, of countenance, either by the friends of utili
ty, of morals, cr of religion. Could we 60 change
the usages of society, that these destructive poi
sons falsely called wine, could be banished from
the side-board, the dining-table, and the drawing
room, we should remove a chief argument from |
the beer drinker, and the rum drinker, as well *9]
from the beer drunkard, and the mm drunkard]
for t lie continuance of their destructive habit.
Since the authority of the Bible is confessedly
against the use of the eporious and deleterious ]
wines of commerce ; aDd since the use of still ba-1
ser articles is defended among the laboring class
es, by the use of the wines of commerce among the I
classes who employ them, will not the wise and j
the good among these classes, for their own eakes, 1
and for the snkes of those around and beneath f
them form the high resolve of abandoning at once j
and forever, the deleterious beverag*. Tho sac-j
rifiee on their part, would be small, toe benefit COR- f
ferred on others immense, which resolve, if form-1
ed aright, and carried out into action, would leave !
its impress on the earth, among generations to |
come and meet its requital in heaven, where eve
ry sacrifice made for God’s and for righteousness’
jsske, will be remembered and rewarded.
Will the future and farther indulgence in thse
adulterated wines, afford so pure a pleasure 00
j earth, or seenre so rich a rewanl in heaven, as Is
j promised by their abandonment ®
I Man of wealth—man of fashion — weigh the one
j against the othe;, and having done so, in the
j sight that eternity sheds upon the subject, decide
! the course of wisdom, and let your actions corres
| pond to that decision, and be that derision such
| as shall be approved, when the soul looks in
! an- after life, and from eternal heights upon the
part she acted in the world that was, but is now no
! more.
A Wife’s Prayer.
If there is nny thing that comes nearer to the im
pioration of Ruth and Naomi thau the subjoined,
we have not seen it: “ Lord bless and preserve the
dear person whom Thou has chosen lobe ray hus
band ; let Im life l>e long and bleised, comfortable
•ind holy ; and let me also boeome a great bles
sing to him, a sharer in his sorrows, a meet help
iii a!! the accidents and changes in the world ;
make me amiable forever in his eyes and forever
i make me dear to him. Unite hi 9 heart to me in
j the dearest love and holiness, and mine to him in
all its sweetness, charity and complaoency. Keep
ine from all ungeritleness, all discon tented ness and
unreasonableness of passion and humor, and make
me humble and obedient, useful and observant,
that we may delight in each other according to
Thy blest word ; and both of us may rejoice in
Thee, having for our portion the love and service
of God forever.”
SBiP The difference between a schoolmaster and
an engine driver is, that one auoda the train, and
he other trains the mind.
PIRETELD. GA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1857.
Liberty a B 1 easing, only to those capable
of self-denial.
A republic of raht extent, ia which the will of
the people gave law, was a thing unknown to an
tiquity. The elementary principle which led to
the eatabliehment of such a republic on thiaride of
the Atlantic, was first developed by the reformers
of Church and State, when England awuka from
her slumber of age?,
Toward this republic the eyes of the nations
have since been turned, in whose behalf, as well
as in our own, we are working out the great prob
lem whether man be or be not capable of self
government The exercise of this high preroga
’ live leads only to the inflictions of wrong when
they who exercise it are, either through ignorance
or dep*nrity, incapable of exercising it for their
own advantage. And each, alas, has too often
been the casein times to come whenever and,
wherever either intelligence or moral principle are
wanting.
Liberty was a grievous wTonga© exorcised by
the licentious canaille of revolutionary France;
and so it w-ould be now in the hands of the de
praved mussulman of euany Hiudoatan, or the un
educated serf of enowy Russia. Freedom, that
neither guided by intelligence or by principle, like
the Siroco cf the desert, carries only desolation in
its course. Temperance in all things especially
in the use of intoxicating poisons, is an essential
prerequisite to freedom, Ireland is indeed escap
ing from the incubus of drunkenness. But what
to be hoped for Russia, or even England, for
Russia, whose government derives a revenue of
twenty five millions of dollars a year for rum.—
For England, whose thousands of laborers con
sume (heir five hundred millions ot gallons of beer
annually, can snch men bo fit to govern others ?
Men unable even to restrain, and unfit to govern
themselves.
They only, who are capable of eels denial, are
capable of selfigovernment. Tbty need eall no
man masler. The rights and duties of the rich
and poor are reciprocal; the poor depend not
; more immediately upon the rich than the rich up
on them. When the mass®* shall, through ex
posure to temptation, become degraded and fero
cious, though the rich may retain place and pow
er for a season, their security will be of short
duiatkm and followed by a fearful retribution, so
that the rich have as deep an interest in the mor
al elevation of the poor, as have the poor them
selves ; and how can the poor be morally ele
vated while addicted to the use as a beverage, of
those poisons which paralyze and prostrate alike
; all that is pure and noble ia both natures ? And
1 what security will there be for either person or
property, when the power of the ballot box shall
be wielded by the inmates of the pot-house ? when
freemen, reeling from the barrowra and grocery,
’shall east a majority of those votes which are to
decide the character of those lavra on which hangs
| the destiny of the nation.
The amount of this reckless influence Is already
frightful—it has already impoverished our labor
ers, corrupted our youth and filled our poor bouses
with poor and our prison houses with criminals,
and is it just or prudent to continue to license dis
pensaries and give the sanction of law to agents
for dispensing these elements of pauperism, of
crimei, of disease and death ? Shall we when call
ed to decide the momentous question whether
these nuisances shall be abated, shrink from the
discharging of the trust committed to us as free
men 9 Or shall we meet the occasion as the guar
dians of liberty ought to meet it, and proclaim
to the nations that in this great republic the
elaims of virtue have been regarded, and the!
doom of drunkenness sealed by the ballot.
No Licejtse,
The Appeal.
From the bills of mortality which have been
kept iu different places, it appears that in a sin
gle year twenty deaths were occasioned in Ports
mouth, N. by by the nee of intoxicating liq
uors ; twenty-one in Salem, Maas ; thirty-one in
New Haven, Conn.; thirty in New-Branswick,
N. nod seven hundred in Philadelphia, Penn.
By examinations mode it had been shown that
of eight hundred and eighty maniacs in our asy
lums, four hundred owe their kiss of reason to
the uso of intoxicating liquors; that seventeen
hundred our of nineteen hundred paupers in our
poor-houses, owe their pauperism and their deg
radation to the same oaase; that forty but of the
forty-four murdere were committed under the in
fluence of akobofte stimulus: that sixty-seven
out of seventy-seven found dead, died of drunken
ness; and that four hundred out of six hundred
and ninety juvenile defiuqnents, either drank
themselves, or belonged to fcundes that drank.
•‘I have *bowa,”-*aye that indefatigable
‘Samuel Chipraan, Baq who visted the prisons
and poor-houses of oar State T have shown be
yond the power cf cmftradietfoo, that more than
three-fourths of all the pauperism is occasioned
by intemperance, and that more tlmn five-sixths
of all those committed for crime, are themselves
intemperate. In no poor-house that I have vis
ited have l failed to find the wife, or the widow,
or the children of the drunkard. In one out of
one hundred and ninety persons relieved the
preceding year, were nineteen wives of drunken
and seventy-one children of drunken
parents ; and in almost every jail were husbands
confined for whipping thoir wives, or otherwise
abasing their households.
The annual destruction of human life in these
United States, occasioned by the use of strong
drink, ia said to be at least fifty thousand,
Mr, Chipman found 70 per cent of the deaths
of male adults in one large town which ho visited
was occasioned by the use of intoxicating liq
uors ; and the physicians of Annapolis have giv
en it aft their opinion that one half of the men
over eighteen years of age, in that city, were
brought prematurely to their end in the tamo
, manner.
In view of these facts i& it worth while for the
citizens of this free State to authorize by their
votes the Hcenciug of these moral Golgothae, in
its several towns and hamlets and neighborhoods l
The avenues Cos death are sufficiently numerous,
without opening, and legalizing new ones. From
these licensed Aceldamas disease and death are
not only sent abroad, but every other form of evil;
there, all that ia nobio in the character of man is
debased, all that is groveling and vile quickened
infrrWa, and one generation of vagabond* after an
other .trained op. not only to annoy and disgrace
their families and friends, but to prey upon com
munity. And it is for yon, electors, to say wheth
er these rendezvous of crime and sources of raise
ry shall coniinue, or whether they shall be closed,
and community spared the expense and the dis
grace of sustaining them. By one decisive act
you can pronounce the doom of the corrupters of
our youth, of tlie plunderers of our poor, and shut
up the dene where they have been corrupted and
plundered. Will you perform that act, and save
your forailes and your country from impending
min 9
No License.
feted Doctrine,
Considering the waste of life which intemper
ance occasions, the disciples of Malthus may per
haps be led to place intoxicating liquors in the
category with war, and (amine and pestilence,
and to consider them each and all as necessary
evils, being expedients provided by Providence
to prevent a redundant population on the earth.—
Not to insist on the fact that the philosophy of
Malthus is at variance with the mandate of Jeho
vah, who bade our first parents multiply and re
plenish and subdue the earth, it is snfficient for
our present purporse to remark, that we are in no
great danger at present of suffering inconvenience
in this vicinity from a redundant population. —
When vre consider how small a part of this terra
queous globe is tenanted by human beings, and
how axhaustless in resources these portions of the
earth are, on which the foot of civilized man has
-nevortrod, and when we further consider how
much more abundantly the whole earth may be
caused to produce by an improved system of cul
tivation, there is little reason to fear that room
will be wanting for some few thousand of years to
come, for the accommodation of those human be
fogs that It may please God to place upon this
planet; so that at present there can be no valid
reason for eocooragfog the sale of intoxicating
poisons for the mere purpose of producing disease
and death in order to kill off the present genet a
tk>u to make room for another to be killed off’ for
the same reason, and in the same manner. More
men eao hve, and live better, the wiser and more
virtuous the race of roan shall become.
f Let the voters of the Btate., then, in place of en
couraging, put a stop to the traffic in intoxicat
ing liquors, which would in a great measure put
a stop to the waste and worse than waste of mil
lions of broad stuffs now converted into poisons,
ad dispensed abroad for the mere purpose of de
ranging the intellect, impairing the constitution,
ana peopleing the poor-housu. the prison house
and the grave yard ; which kroadstuffs but for
this abuse would serve to sustain and invigorate
an active healthful and virtuous population, to fell
r our forests, to increase the products of our facto
ries and workshops and harvest fields, and by in
creasing these products to increase the comforts
to be distributed among our people at home, or
to be sent abroad to exchange for foreign com
forts to be afterwards here distributed.
Whatever may be the case some few thousand
years hence, if the race shall continue to increase,
lit would seem quite as befitting at present
r that products of the earth should be applied to
the sustenance of man as of birds and beasts and
creeping things. To say nothing of the four foot
led inhabitants of the forest, the wild fowl of this
continent consumed by the inhabitants of these
United States,
Why, then 6bould we be at the g-atuitous ex
pense end trouble of employing agents for dis
pensing elements which tend uot only to short
en life, but also to make life miserable while it
lasts.
The traffic ha intoxicating drinks is unjust to
wards men, and offensive to God, because,
Ist. It encourages fraud, by encouraging the
practice of adulteration.
2d. It perpetuates intemperance.
9d. It promotes pauperism and crime.
4th. It diminishes the wealth of the State.
Oth. It unnecessarily and unequally increases
the public burthens.
Gffh. It impairs the health of our population.
7th. It impairs the intellect.
Bth. It corrupts the morals.
9th shortens life.
10th. It ruins souls, for no drunkard shall enter
Heaven.
Who, then, fears God or wishes well to
man, will rote the continuance of the abhored
traffic ? Who desires his name to go down to
posterity os in favor of giving license for the sale
of rum, and his children be obliged to admit that
their father voted against. No License.
Ths Yota of Life.
It is a problem that many have sought iu vaiu
to answer, why God has imposed upon man so
heavy a yoke os the drudgery of toil to which the
majority are subject, which, they say, tends to de
grade Uie mind, to suppress loity aspiration, to
deaden spiritual devefopemeot. One point must
1)0 emphasized—that the excessive, the oppressive
demand labor makes upon man’s time aud strength
is not of God’s appointment. Though the body is
uncompromising in its demands, these demands
are limited. Its necessaries are few and simple,
and moderate labor will supply them. The ex
travagant claims upon human energy, which would
moke man a mere beast of burden, or a manufac
turing machine, which wonld devote bis life from
childhood to old age to mere toil, which would
suck the very marrow from hia physical and spir
itual constitution, and toes him a wretched, shrunk
en thing into hia grave, is the result of factitious
wants which man himself has created.
A faithful attention to our physical wants is not
inconsistent with a due regard to the demands of
oar spiritual nature. BcSily toil does not inter
fere rttoesflfcrily with spiritual actihn. The hands
may bo engaged in digging a ditch, at the same
timn that the mind i3 tilled ’with thought-? of the
world to come. While John Pounds cobbled
shoes, he taught hundreds of tho poor children of
his neighborhood and saved them from moral
destruction. Benjamin Franklin adjusted the type
lor his brother’s paper, and at the same time re
volved thoughts that have immortalized his name.
Burns turned the furrow of the field while he com
posed his never dying verse. The ravished slave
labors in the rice swamps and sighs for the home
and kindred from which he was so cruelly torn.
Sp:ritual exercise lightens physical toil, produ
cing a cheerfulness, an elasticity of spirits which
re-acts upon tlie body. The plow-boy whistles in
the exuberance of bis feelings and urges on his
team. The mail at her spinning wheel listens to
the whispers of love and the wheel flies more swift
ly. The sailor thinks of his dear ones he is soon
to clasp to his bosom, and with a firmer tread and
a more steady hand, he mounts aloft and lays out
upon the yards.
Hence it becomes apparent that toil is not deg
radation, and is in uowise ehargable with the in
jury which follows its excess. As well revile the
sun, that causes the grass to grow and ripens the
earth, because its rays can burn, wither and des
troy. Man is to reacli his maturity through an ex
perience of toil. His mission is labor. It is the
first step in his immortal race. It is the Divine
appointment. Who can improve it ? Do away
with the necessity of toil to-morrow, and to what
would mankind devote themselves ? No 1 Labor!
labor ! Thank God for it. The yoke of life is
not too burdensome, unless of our own accord, we
double its weight and fasten it irretrievably about
our necks.— North Western Home Journal.
Energy in Prosecuting the Work.
Itv REV. \VM. A KNOT, OK GLASOOW.
lam well aware that some of us are denounc
ed as enthusiasts and fanatics on this subject. I
do not know how it is with you, but I owd it is
one of the hardest trials of my patience, to hear
very commonplace men, and very cool philanthro
pists speak of us patronizingly as “well meauinjg
individuals.”
Keenness on the question is justified aDd de
manded both by reason and Scripture. “Hating
even the garment spotted by the flesh what
does that word meau ? A garment is uot guilty,
and why should we hate it ? A loving heart feels
its meaning without the aid of criticism. He*
who has a true hatred of sin cannot look with
callousness on any of its accessories. He who
truly loved bis brother will shudder at the eight
of the w r eapon that shed his blood. If human!
sacrifices were still rife in our beloved land —if
certain places were set aside as shambles, where
victims by hundreds were laid on tlie gory altars
of a cruel god, you would bate, would you not,
with a perfect hatred, the bolted door and the
grated windows of that horrid place. You are
not human if your heart does not burn within you
as you pass. Now I say it deliberately, after
weighing my words, the dramshops of the country
are such slaughter-houses—as displeasing to God,
and as murderous to men. Hecatombs of human
victims are sacrificed there ? Not offered in sacri
fice to an idol you say ? No ;it would fee some
palliation of the sin if they were. The blind
heathen thought that thereby they did God ser
vice; but these modern murderers have not su
perstition ns an excuse. They are done for filthy
lucre’s sake. Men, our own flesh and blood, are
lured, drugged, and burned to death in these dens
that other men may make money by the process.
I sometimes stand on the pavement and look in
at the open door. I see naked, haggard parents,
men and women, standing at their counter. They
stood there yesterday and the day before. ’They
are frequenters of the place. They are known as
customers. It is known that what they buy and
drink there is esting out their body’s life and
bringing wrath upon their bouls—is breaking the
hearts of their parents, or casting children, diseas
ed ignorant, aud profligate upon society. Inside
the counter the dealer stands. He has stripped
his coat and is working in shirt sleeves. He is
dealing out the meaus and material of ruin to his
brother, and taking his money in. I cannot be
cool. My head burns and my heart throbs. That
man, stripped, and laboring and sweating there,
appears to be Moloch’s high priest, slaughtering
the sacrifices. I confess it, I never pass the place
with coolness. I hate—God is my witness, I hate
the burnished counter, and glittering brass, and
glaring light, and painted signboard, all the acces
sories of the crime, the garments of the idol, I
hate them for they are spoted with the blood of
men. In comparison alike for the sell* r and the
buyer, aiike for the publican and the drunkard, I
plead that an arrestment may be laid, by the
mighty hand of the nation, on this murderous
process.
In the law (Exod. xxi. 28,) the ox that killed a
man w-as stoned, and the people were command
ed not to eat his flesh. Why ? The flesh of
that ox was as good for food as the flesh of any
other ! yes ; but to preserve human life, God
kindles and cherishes in men a sensitive, keen
passionate aversion to everything connected with
its destroyer. It is both natural and scriptural
it is both humane and godly to be fervent in our
hatred of the enemy who, in our day and in our
land, is the greatest murderer of men.
Delightful! —ln New-York, daring six days
last week, two hundred and forty-four persons
were arrested for iutoxication and disorderly con
duct. Os this number one hundred and ten were
women. Isn’t this a delightful state of affairs? —
And did not these men and women get drunk “ac
cording to law J” How cruel and inhumane must
that man he who will consent, tor gold, to throw
the shield of law around a traffic that sends
women into the public streets bereft of reason, reel
ing in delirium, the sport of idle, wicked boys*
and a fit subject for the- policeman’s lock-up. A
drunken man is a sad enough sight to behold;
but a drunken woman —heavens! what a specta
cle !—enough to make the very stones shed tears
of sorrow. What do men mean that they do not
rise up and destroy every vestige ot the Bum
Fiend in the land ? God aud Angels would soaile
union such a work. —The Examiner, N. T.
L T KRAIS:
1 $l in advance; or, $S at fas end of the year*
i JOHN^LSEALS
V. PnOFBJLETOB.
YOL. 11111.-NUIBEE 41.
The London Post Offloe*
An rn duscriptioa of the London Past
Office is girwci m a recent number of Putnam’**
Magazine* The exterior presents nothing but a
plain, substantial stone buOding, about ISO feet by
400.
But a Busier spot within may nok be found in
the civilized world. There ore employed in the
city no less than I,3d® letter camera, tor theac
cDnarnodatioo of many of whom are provided room*
in the Post-office building, where they arrange
and sort their letters. There are 789 clerks,
stampers, sorters and sab-eortara engaged in the
reception, deiivary, and dispatch of the mails, which
are ao arranged that all letters leave London, no
matter in what dhectioo, at the same hours—
uioe in the morning and nine in the evening.—
Men on horsebacks and in carts are constantly en
gaged during the day in opQeotmg letters from
the various sulHriSees; and to induce publishers
of newspapers to get their papers ready early in
the day, mail-carts are sent to their booses at cer
tain hours to transport their papers to the central
office. Each letter goes through from tan to four
teen processes, and the wonder is how 509 men
can handle 2QQ/JOO with so little confusion and so
few mistakes. A spectator is astonished at the
rapidity with which the letter* are made ts paKf
under tbs stamp. An active stamper will stamp
and count from seven to eight thousand on boar.
The process of sorting is earned on at large tables
which are divided into apartments labelled, ‘Great
Wes*era,’ ‘Eastern counties,’ ‘South Eastern/
‘Scotch,* ‘Foreign,* ‘Blind,’ eek, Those marked
‘Blind’ are carried to a person called the “Blind
Man,” who has more skill in deciphering bad wri
ting than a Philadelphia lawyer. He will take a
letter directed thus : “Broca Predevi,” and read at
once, Sir Humphrey Davy; a letter superscribed
‘’joascueet no Weasel pin Tin, he immediately
sees belongs to John Smith, Newcastle opon-Tyne. n
In short, he is each so adapt at this business, that
H is almost impossible to write or spell so as to be
| unintelligible to him. The mail-bags an made
l of sheep-akin, soft end pliable. They are sealed
up whn wax apon the twine that is tied around
the top. This is thought to be safer than locking,
although hags that have tegs # great distance,
i are secured with locks. The average weight dS
the evening mail from London is about fourteen
, tons. The number of newspapers sent from the
, office yearly is estimated at 53,000,000. The av*
i erage number of letters sent daily fe 291,521. —
The average a amber received is 283,223.
Politeness in Harried Life.
“Will you V* asked a pleasant voice—And the
husband answered, “Yea, my dear, with pleasure.”
It was quietly but heartily said; the tone, the
manner, the loot, were perfectly natural and vary
affectionate. We thought, bow pleasant that
courteous reply 1 how gratifying moot it be to the
wife 1 Many husbands of ten year's experience
are ready enough with courtesies of potiteaem to
the young ladies of their acquaintances, while they
speak with abruptness to the wife, and do many
rude little things, without considering them wrath
an apology. The stranger, whom they may have
seen but yesterday, is listened to with deference
and although the subject may not be of the pleas*
antest nature, with a ready smile; with the poor
wife, if sbe relate a domestic grievance, is snubbed
;or listened to with ill concealed impatience. O $
bow wrong this is—afl wrong. Does she urge
j some request-—-“O don’t bother me P cries few
gracicus lord and master. Does she ask for oeo
essary funds for Betsy's shoes and hat*—
; “Seems to roe you’re always wanting money 1 * fe
i the handsome retort. Is any little extra de
manded by his masculine appetite—H is ordered
not requested, “look here, I want you to do so
and so; just eee that it*B done;* and off marches
Mr. Boor, with a bow and-a smile of gentlemanly
polish, and friendly sweetness for every casual ac
quaintance he may chance to recognize. When
we meet with such thoughtlessness and coarsncsfi,
out thoughts revert to the kind voice and geutla
manner of the friend who said, “Yea my dear,
with pleasure. 0 °1 beg yooT pardon,* comes r
readily to hfe fipa, when by any litttle awkward
nero he has disconcerted, her as it would hi thw
solitary churchyards among the hills, where the
dust of tho martyrs lies, and tombs that rise over
the ash® of the wise and good; nor are there
wanting on even the monuments of the perished
races, frequent hieroglyph** and symbols of high
meaning, which darkly intimate to us that while
their burial places contain but debris of the pas&
we are to regard the others as charged wife the
sown seeds <n the future, —‘Hugh MUler.
A EfnuaUic Fwaetvi dartcgt.’—A funeral epr
tege of unusual proportions passed through the
streets oftoe second district one evening test week.
The hearse was drawn by four white hones, and
fifty carriages followed. By the hearse one fUUk
walked with his hot in Us hand, whilst the re
mainder of the followers were in toe carriages***-
The peculiar ciruamstaocee of the ftmnersl wore
these: About two months ago two German citi
zens, well circumstanced in life, were on e drink
ing frolic together. During their conviviality they
discovered that they both were from a particular
part of Germany. They therefore ratified •
petual friendship, and under the enthusiasm ofthe
occasion, went so for as to make a funeral com
pact, the provisions of which were that the nnst
one to die should be buried by the ©tosr, the sur
vivor to pay all the expense* to hew
drawn by four white horses abdfolWlbyfifty
carriages, and to walk himself by the side oftha
hearse as chief mourner. Onei of
peued to die lost week^J the other fffifl^dhls com
pact as above described.— Kcw Orfispm
cent.
“pgr Under the personal head, to* Washington
Star ays that toe Bon. Senator Iverson, of Gs*fo
again in Washington, at Ms dd quarter* 291 G.
street. m
§y The Mormon currency fe. on life principle of
the wit in one of Douglas comedies. He
says: “My notion of a wtftOf forty ik that A gin
should rrt&cage her, like a rank ora, Wt tWa fWfcr
ties!”