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various branches. Office—Main-street, Penfield, Ga.
Jan. 12 ly 1 !
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Feb. 19 8
D. 11. SANDERS,
attorney at law ,
ALBANY, GEORGIA,
Will practice in the counties of Dougherty, Sumter,
Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker,
Decatur and Worth.
Jan. 1 ly 1
WHIT e. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Augusta, Ga.
WILL promptly attend to all business entrusted
to his professional management in Richmond and the
adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh Street, three
doors below Constitutionalist office.
Reference —Thos. R. R. Cobb, Athens, Ga.
June 14-ly
JAMES BROWN.
Jl TT O it JYE IT Ji T #> .# If.
FANCY HILL, MURRY CO., GA.
April 30th, 1857. _
ROGER E. WHIGIIAM,
ATT 0 RNE Y AT LAW,
Louisville , Jefferson co., Ga.
WILL give prompt attention to any business en
trusted to his care, in the following counties:
Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Columbia,
Warren, Washington, Emanuel,
Montgomery, Tatnall and
Scriven.
April 26, 1856.-ti
LEONARD T. DOTAL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, henry go., ga.
Will practice Law in the following counties, to-wit:
Henry, Spaulding, Butts, Newton, Fayette, Fulton,
Deßalb, Pike and Monroe. Feb 2—4
H. T. PERKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA,
Will practice in the counties of Greene, Morgan,
Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock,
Wilkes and Warren.
Feb. 12 ly 7
The Literary Attractions of the Bible*
Extracts, from an Address delivered before the
Clio Society of Oxford Female Colleye , May
27, 1857,% Rev. Tikis. Henderson Pritoh
a r nt. of Hartford , N. C.
Younc Ladies of the Ct.to Society:
I have come at your bidding, A preacher of
righteousness, addressing those whose pursuits are
sacred to Minerva and the Muses, I have sought
to select a subject in harmony with our respective
characters, and hence announce as the theme of
tliis occasion,
Tiie Literary Attractions of the Bible.
“The winter is past ; the rain is over and gone ;
theilowers appear on the earth|; the time of the
singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle
is heard in our land. The fig tree putteth forth her
green figs, and the vines, with the tender grapes,
give a good smell.’
Beautiful as the May morning it describes, is
this sweet song of Soloman. What scenes of love
liness passed in review before the poet’s eye, as
he painted tliis exquisite picture! The earth is
spread with a carpet of green beneath Lis feet.; the
(lowers of the valley, with the tender fruit, scent
the morning gale with delicious fragrance ; the
pearly dew rests lightly on the petal of the rose,
and weeps the departure of night ; while, amid
the warblings of a thousand songsters, the plain
tive note of the turtle is heard In the wood.
“The world is all beauty to the eye, and music to
the ear.”
But elements other than those of beauty, min
gle with the scenery of earth. Take a stand with
me upon some monarch of the mountains, and
view a midsummer sunset. Behold the'king of day,
aseneby one his glories brighten and fade away in
the west, and watch the sombre shadows, as like
living things they crawl upon the earth. Peak
after peak, the mountains rise, just as God threw
them up in primeval ages ; in solitary grandeur
they stand with the impress of their Creator’s
greatness upon their eternal brows. No sound of
man or beast breaks in upon the awful stillness
that brings the soul in direct communion with its
Maker. Those midnight worshipers of God, the
stars, crowd upon the evening sky ; the moon ri
ses, full orbed, in quiet, queen-like splendor, while
“the feather-footed clouds,” as messengers of light,
“wafted from the islands of lie blessed,” seem to
beckon us away from earth lo heaven. Unknown
emotions arise unbidden in the heart ; the soul is
thrilled as it contemplates this impressive Sab
bath of nature, and man is ready to exclaim :
“The heavens declare the glory of God,
And the firmament showeth his handiwork ?”
But why is the earth so beautiful ?” Why has
God fitted up with such gorgeous magnificence a
world which is but his footstool, and the tempo ra
ry habitation of man ? Why is the globe so ex
tensive and of such varied climates ? Why is it
clothed with a garniture of such loveliness, and il
luminated with such lamps as the sun, moon and
stars,'greater and lesser lights ? Surely in a pal
ace less splendid might man have passed his three
score years and ten. The only answer to these
questions is, that the earth is grand, and glorious
and beautiful, because God created it, because the
invisible tilings are declared by those which are
visible; because we look through nature up to na
ture’s God.
Such being the exbaustless magnificence of the
work of Jehovah, may we not expect his word to
be of a kindred character ? If the glory of the
one part of revelation attest hiss almighty power
and godhead, may we not look for the effulgence
of the Eternal to encircle the other with a halo of
light and beauty ?
It is not my purpose, young ladies, to preach
a sermon, on this occasion. I shall not attempt
to illustrate either of those great truths so beauti
fully embodied in the testimony of Locke—“ The
Bible has God for its author, salvation for its end
and truth without mixture of error for its matter.”
It is rather proposed to consider the sacred
Scriptures in the light wliicli the accomplished
anderudit’ Sir Win. Jones regarded them, when
he said, “The Bible, independent of its divine ori
gin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more
fine morality, more important history, and finer
strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be col
lected from all other books, in whatever age or
language they may have been written.” ’Tis
true, the Bible utters but one voice—the voice
that thrilled the morning stars, and made the sons
of God to rejoice—the voice that spreaks glad tid
ings of great joy to a ruined world ; but it utters
this voice in ten tbousaud tones. ’Tis true, the
Bible is a temple, with but one altar and one God
but it is illumiuated by a thousand varied lights,
and studded with a thousand ornaments. Some
of these lights and ornaments let us endeavor to
appreciate this morning, hoping the while that we
may thus be induced the more frequently to en
ter this holy temple, bow at its solitary shrine, and
worship the true and living God.
Our theme, then, is not the Bible as a Book of
salvation, but the Bible as a l ook of literature, and
we propose to consider its excellence in respect
of History, Law , Science, and Poetry .
Have you anything of the spirit of the anti
quary in your composition, young ladies ? Do you
love old things because they are old ? Have you
a passion for the antique ? Nay : I need not a
wait a response, since there is something in the
very nature ofthe cultivated mind, which invests
everything of a former age with peculiar interest.
We are filled with wonder, when we consider,the
rapid growth oi some of our cities, which seemed
called into existence as if by a magician’s wand.
Witli pleasure, we observe our progress in science
and improvements in architecture; but with a
higher, though an elancholy joy, would we wan
der among the ruins of those cities, whose glory
had departad centuries before we began to exist.
The Crystal Palace of the nineteenth century
may fill the eye with the symmetry of its contour,
and delight the taste by its exquisite details ; but
the bosom heaves with a more irrepressible emo
tion, when one looks up at the broken columns
and faded glories of the Coliseum and Parthe
non. Could we stand this morning by those dark
and mysterious monuments of human folly—the
PENFIELD, 6A., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1857.
Pyramids of Egypt —* and see their gigantic out
lines marked on the distant sky, the genius of the
Sast would whisper strange stories to our hearts.
louuting them, as a warder upon a tester, the
worlds history would pass in panoramic view be
fore us. Thebes, with her hundred gates, and
Memphis, and Alexandria, cities of fair renown,
would rise painted on the eye of memory, and
the Memnon notes of Egypt’s glory would sound
again in the ear. With this feeling reverence
for the past—-even heightened, may we turn
from these memorials of other days to the sacred
Scriptures: for here is a relic of antiquity, vene
rable by thirty-three centuries of existence. —
Here—in the Pentateuch —is a monument, com
pleted before the Pyramids of Egypt were begun !
Here a record of nations, that saw the dynasties
of Herodotus and Manetho perish from the face of
earth, and here are strains of sublimity that min
gled with the thunders of Sinai’s summit, a thou
sand years before the Bard of Greece, sang “the
Fall of Troy!”
Interesting as are the oracles of God, because
of their antiquity, they are not the less so, from
the importance of the revelations made. One of
the first thoughts of being is, whence am I ? and
whither am I tending ? whence originated the
universe, above, around, beneath me ? These ques
tions would eternally echo through the silent
chambers of the soul, unanswered, did not the Bi
ble respond in note sublime, “In the beginning
God created the heavens and earth, and breathed
into man the breath of life.” When we read
that one nation imagined they sprang from the
earth they inhabited, another from crickets and
grasshoppess, a third from mushrooms, and a
fourth from dragons’ teeth, and many other such
absurdities, we feel to say of the Bible, as Cicero
did of the “This little book is of
more value than all the libraries of speculative
philosophers.” The Bible only gives us an Agent
competent to the creation of the world. Without
the light of revelation, what would we know of
the history of the races—the science of ethnolo
gy ? The tenth chapter of Genesis contains all
the information we have touching the fathers of
the nations, and by its disclosures, meagre though
they be, men of learning have been able to trace
the history of man, and to classify the many fam
ilies that now inhabit the earth. To be brief,
what is a summary of the facts of moment in
man’s history, which the Bible reveals ? The crea
tion—the deluge—the tower of Babel—the con
fusion of tongues, and consequent dispersion of
mankind—the call of Abraham—the history of
the Jews—the four great empires of prophecy, the
Medo-Persian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman—the
prophecies touching Jesus Christ, his coming and
crucifixion—the establishment of the Roman hie
rarchy ; —in short, a complete compend of the
worlds history, past, present, and future.
All these events, too, are described in a style of
unrivalled excellence. Herodotus, the father of
profane history, was distinguished for his unaffec
ted and childlike simplicity. Thucydides, for the
spirit of his narratives, and the graphic power with
which he painted a picture, and Sallust for his ele
vated and smoothly-flowing style. Os modern
historians, Rollin, Robertson, Hume, Gibbon Ban
croft and Prescott, are writers of varied and strik
ing excellences. Still Moses far exceeds in point
of style, as he preceded them in the order of
time ; he is unapproached and unapproachable
in the simple elegance and rugged grander of his
diction. Longinus has quoted the expression,
“Let there be light and there was light,” as an ex
ample of sublimity; but is it more so than the
very opening note of the sacred Scriptures ? “In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth:”
Is it not rather in keeping with the wonderful
dramatic power of the whole description ? How
like a drama, says another, and where the inter
est deepens towards the conclusion, does it, step
by step, awaken and increase our attention and cu
riosity. First, the formless deep arises—naught
is seen but the undefied and heaving waters—
naught is heard but the broodings of the eternal
Spirit. Then, light flashes forth, like some ele
ment already existing in all things, though veiled
so instantaneous is its appearance. Then the fir
mament arises, dividing the waters from the wa
ters. Then, heaving up from its overhanging seas,
the dry land shows its dark and earthly substance
to bear the feet of man. Then the waters, the
genial warmth of the sun, begin to teem with life,
and the earth to produce its huge offspring, and
to send up its stately and fruit-bearing trees, to
feed the appetite and relieve the solitude of man.
And then the preparation for his coming being
complete be appears. The stage having been
swept and garnished, and lighted up, the great
actor steps iorward. “And on the sixth day God
said, let us make man in our own image.” How
magnificent these preparations ! how fine the gra
dations, and how grand the conclusion ! Man, the
image and representative of his creator, is left mon
arch or the realm of creation.
We might notice the varied beauties of many
ofthe sacred historians, especially the inimitable
directness and simplicity of Luke, the beloved phy
sicain ; but I may not dally by the way to pluck
the flowers that hang in festoons around every
book of Scripture. The second part of the sub
ject demands our attention, and I proceed to re
mark that the Bible is as preeminent in govern
mental philosophy as in history.
Plato once said, that all laws were of divine or
igin. Modify the remark, and affirm that all good
laws ate of divine origin, and I endorse the dec
laration. Surely many of the ancient world were
not from heaven. In one country we find theft
allowed, and even condemned, if perpetrated with
address. In another, piracy and rapine honored,
if conducted with intrepidity. Again jwe see ev- ’
ery feeling of humanity outraged by parents, ex
posing their children t 6 perish for deformity of
body, or weakness of mind. And worse still, we
see false religions leading their votaries to heap
the altars of their idols with human victims, and
parents even sacrificing their children to horrid
deities ; and whilst they shrieked amidst the flames
their dying cries were drowned by the clangor of
cymbals, and the fierce yells’of fanaticism. All
these abominations, too, we find authorized by
custom and sanctioned by law. Were such laws
of celestial origin, we ask? Rather of infernal,
than divine paternity were they. But there were
some good principles of goverment among the an
cients. Many excellent laws may be found in the
code of Solon, and the Pandects of Justinian, and
’tis for these good laws that we claim an origin
higher than earth.
Gratitude.
Sanctified gratitude is heaven begun. The city
of the living God abounds with worshipers. It
resounds with hallelujahs. The voice of angels
is praise. The language of the saints is adoration.
The anthems of the church below are her respon
ses to the symphonies of the church above. Grat
tude is the music of heaven in the soul. The full
swell of the benevolence of the Most High meets
a most perfect concord in the everlasting gratitude
of the redeemed.
Let gratitude then abound on the earth. Let
it continually actuate every believer’s breast Let
us set ourselves diligently to prayer. “Pray with
out ceasing,” says the apostle ; and immediately
adds, “in everything give thanks ; for this is the
will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” 1
Th. 2 : e 7,18.
Obey this command, O believer. Look around
you for causes of thankfulness. Be eagle-eyed to
discern your mercies, rather than your miseries.—
Look not always at the dark spots in every pic
ture, lest your mind be darkened like them. Fix
your eyes also on the bright and beautiful, that
your mind may reflect their image. Let the one
teach you to pray. Let the other teach you to
praise.
The tide of gratitude increases as it flows. It
rises higher, and higher, both before and around
us, and extends itself widely on every side. When
we render thanksgiving to our God and Savior
for one mercy, the second presen te itself to view ;
then a third ; then a fourth ; then others succes
sively arise, and roll in upon our remembrance.—
The goodness and the mercy of the Lord are like
the mighty deep, unfathomable. His acts of love
are as the ocean waves, innumerable ; and innu
merable, therefore, should be our acts of thanks
giving.
“My soul, in pleasing wander lost,
Thy various love surveys.
Where shall my grateful lips begin ?
Or where conclude thy praise ?
From the Montgomery Mail.
Signing the Pledge.
The following is the substance of conversation
that actually took place in Mobile, a few days ago,
between two well-kuown “old socks.” The names
of the parties, for reasons which we deem it un
ueccessary to state, are omitted and others, for
convenience sake, substituted:
[Scene. — Royal street near the Market. Time :
about 9 o'clock , a. m.]
Tom,. —(With one hand resting on Bill’s shoul
der, his hat caved in, and the index finger eleva
ted about on a line with his head.) —“Bill, you
must—hie—quit drinking—knock off—hie—en
tirely—quit making a—hie—vagabond of your
self—and—hie—sign the temperance pledge. —
(Releases his hold on Bill’s shoulder.) Now, jis
look a-here—hie—that money what you spends
for—hie—bread, will buy you tiuo —hie— loaves
of whisky. No ? The money—hie —what you
spends for one loaf of—hie—whiskey will buy
you—hie— two drinks of—hie bread. No ! that’s
not it neither. (Stops to think, and plays his
right index finger on the palm of his left hand.)
Let me see—hie. The money —hie —hie—the,
money what—hie—you spends—hie—for one
drink of whisky will—hie —buy you—hie two
loaves of—hie—bread for your wife and children
—hie—that’s it.” (His head falls and he staggers
against Bill, who having as much as he can do to
hold himself up, staggers against the brick wall.)
Bill. —“ Now, Uncle Tom —hie --you knows I
never—hie—drinks much—hie—liquor, no time ;
so what’s the use—hie—of my signing—hie —the
temperance—hie—pledge 1 — hie. For men as
can’t—hie—drink a tod—hie — occasionally , with
out getting drunk—hie—them temperance socie
ties is—hie—mi-mi-mighty good things. But —
hie—for me and you, what never—hie — does git
—hie —DßUNK—hie—wh-what’s the use ?”
In attempting to stand up and relieve the wall
of the united weights, and look dignified, Bill “fell”
and carried Tom with him to the side walk,
where we left them trying to help each other up.
They had not, at last accounts “signed,” but
Bill was on the day following, one of the first to
answer to the charge of “drunk in the street,’
before the Mayor.
Piety inPublic men.
It is a sad misfortune that so many men who
occupy important public stations are not practical
Christians. Men who legislate for the State should
be such as fear God and are impressed with a sense
of moral obligation ; and those who administer
the laws should be examples of morality. We
commend to all our public men the sentiments of
George Washington in his last address to his
countrymen :
“Os all the principles and habits which add to
politiacl prosperity, religion and morality are in
dispensable supports. In vain would that man
claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor
to subvert these great pillars of human happiness
—the flrmest props of the duties of men and citi
zens. The mere politician, equally with a pious
man, ought to respect and cherish them. A vol
ume could not trace all their connection with pub
lic and private felicity. Let it simply be asked,
where is the security for property, for reputation,
for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert
the oaths which are the instruments of investiga
tion in courts of justice ? And let us with caution
indulge the supposition that morality can be
maintained without religon. Whatever may be
conceded to the influence of refined education on.
minds of pecluiar structnre, reason and experience
both forbid us to expect that national morality
can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
.... .'A great man is one who can make his
children obey him when they are out of his sight*
Miasm and Malaria.— Miasm and malaria are
the great death agents thoughout the largest por
tion of the habitable globe.
Miasm is malaria, but malaria is not miasm.
Miasm is an emanation from decaying vegeta
tion. Malaria is bad air, whatever may be its
source. All impure air is malaria.
Miasm is so ratified by a sun of ninety degrees,
that it rises rapidly above us, and is innocuous.—
The cool of the morning and evening of summer
time condenses it, and causes it to fall to the sur
face of the earth, where it is breathed by man,
and is the fruitful cause of pestilence, plague and
epidemic fevers. Thus, the higher persons sleep
above the surface of the earth, the healthier is the
atmosphere.
While, as a general rule, it is better to Bleep
in apartments having, a window and the fire
place open in all seasons, yet where miasm abounds
evidencing its presence by chills and fever, fever
and ague, diarrhoeas, and the like, it is better to
sleep with closed windows than to have them op
en, because men are known to fatten in jails and
small prison cells, while the breathing a malaria
a single night has originated diseases, which, from
the violence of their action, are scarcely distin
guishable from the effects of swallowing corrosive
poison, as witness the National Hotel disease.
But although the air inside of a house is sup
plied from the outside, yet, if the windows and
outside doors are closed, it is supplied in such
small quantities, through the crevices, that it is at
once heated by the in-door air, and carried to the
ceiling, where it is above reach. The difference,
between the thermometer in our hall and the one
out-doors, about five o’clock of a summer, morning
is ten drgrees. Hence, during the prevalence of
miasm, at least in August and September, it is
better to close the chamber windows, but let an
inner door and the fireplace be kept open .—HalTs
Journal of Health.
Flirtations of Married Women. —Three cent
occurrences in Boston from the text for a sensible
sermon by the Hartford Courant. Says the Cou
rant :
She “innocent flirtation” of married women is
one of the abominations of modern society. Even
a desire for promiscuous admiration, is wrong in
the wife. Let her be ever so beautiful, it is a
disgusting, an appaling sight, to see her decorat
ing that beauty for the public gaze—to see her
seeking the attention of all the senseless fops a
round her, and rejoicing in the admiration of other
eyes than those of her husband, There is always
among the sedate and wise sensation of disgust
when a married lady attempts to ensnare and en
trap young men by a profuse display of their
charms, or an unlicensed outlay of her smiles.
Such charmß and such smiles are loothsome to the
indifferent beholder—“the trail.of the serpent is o
ver them all.”
Such wives should know, if they do not know it
already, that their influence over the virtue and
prudence of young men is as deleterious as if they
were the most abandoned ofi women. They lead
them to believe theje is no purity in the sex—
that married virtue is but an outside show- -aDd
that delicacy and propriety are but masks or out
side dresses. The effect of their character is that
of a silent corruption, sapping the foundation of
honor and probity and £rath. Let them beware.
Bacon Going back and Forward. —The Cin
cinnati Commercial treats us to the following
commercial item—an interesting one, in view of
the present state of commerce between England
and America :
Bacon was in active demand at Liverpool, and
had advanced one shilling per hundred. This was
consequent upon the heavy shipments made back
to New York, reaching in all, nine thousand box
es, and thearticieis now selling in New York at
nine and nine and a halfj rendering the reshipment
from Liverpool a bad adventure after all; and we
understand, from a gentleman just from Lwemool
that two thousand boxes which had arrived at New
York per steamer Edinburg, would not be dischar
ged, but will be taken back on the same steamerj
to Liverpool! We should call this seeking a mar- 5
ket under difficulties in a somewhat emphatic man-,
ner. Let us look at it a moment. The bacon j
in the first place, was shipped to Liverpool from
this country last spring, remained there all the
summer seeking a market, but not finding a buy
er, came back to New York with the hope of find
ing a market there, but being disappointed, is
about being conveyed back to Liverpool again, in
hopes of finding a market there this time.
Operatives Without Employment * —We are
told that in Philadelphia and its vincity there are
thirty thousand opperatives and working men of *
various kinds without employment. Many of
them have families, and thus the distress may
be said to extend already, directly and indirectly *
to a hundred thousand souls. In Manayunk and j
Frankford alone, no less than fifteen thousand
persons, men, women and children, who have
heretofore had regular employment for years, are 1
now wandering about in idleness and anxiety, the 1
factories and workshops in which they have here- 1
tofore been engaged being closed. This is the
condition of affairs now, and matters are likely
to become much worse as winter approach
es, Unless some means of succor and assistance
be afforded.
In Cincinnati, of some twenty thousand employ
ees in clothing establishments, fully- one-hklf have
been discharged.
In Lowell Massachusetts, all the cotton mills of the
Lowell Corporation have stopped. The mills in
the caipet department run five days in the week.
The Middlesex mills are gradually stopping there
looms
In New York the Methodist Book Concern has
discharged all but eighty of three hundred hands*
Four thousand cigar makers are also thrown out
from the various concerns. Families are discharg
ing their servants, while, at the same time the sup
ply is rapidly increasing. The intelligence offices
are crowded. - ~
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Law is like a save: you may see through it,
but must be considerably reduced before you can.
get through it.
TERMS t
$1 in advancej or, $2 at the eod of the year.
johnhhTseals
PROPRIETOR.
VOL. XXHI. -NUMBER 46.
Material for and Romance. —A letter from a
friend informs us of the marriage at Baltimore of
two of the rescued from the “Central America.”
Both parties pecame muiually attached to one
another on board the and on the very
evening preceding the disaster sealed their affection
with the usual “vow.” When the gale came on,
and the panic was at its height, the young lady
threw herself in his arms, and with a gallantry
quite becoming the romantic occasion, the gentle
man impressed her brow with one of Tennyson’s
pattent “soul-sent” kisses, and “slid” her over
into the first boat that was lowered. He saved
himself on a plank. Upon arriving at Norfolk the
lovers met. But the youug man appeared strange.-
He had lost his valise, and all his money. The
young lady assured him that money was nothing.
The young man shook his head and .looked sad,
as much as to say, now, maybe you thiuk so.
Fear not. Father has two hundrd thousand. Ah!
gasped the. affianced bridegroom, (we speak novel
fashion to give Bonner a chance to make a point,)
and he looked extremely philosophical, but said
no more: They suddenly vanished, and we sup
pose are now enjoying all the blessings of matri
monial. <fec M <kc .—Petersburg Va. express .
Literature of the Sea. —The literature of the
shore will be called to account for its influence on
the character aad well-being of the seaman. The
song-writer, who, perhaps a hungry and unprin
ciple sribbler, penned his doggerel lines in some
garret, little careful except as to the compensation
he should earn, the dirty pence that were to pay
for his rhymes, will one day be made to answer
for the influence that went forth from him to those
who shouted his verses in the night watch on the
far sea’ or perchance upon some heathen shore.
The infidel who may have sat in elegant and
lettered ease, preparing his attacks upon the
Bible and the Saviour, thought little, probably,
but of the fame and influence he should win upon
the shore. But the seeds of death which he
settered may have wafted whither he never thought
to trace them. And in the day of retribution, he
may lament his own influence on the rude
seaman whom he has hardened in blasphemy and
impiety, and who has sported with objections de
rived by him at second-hand from sue 1 writers,
while he figured among his illiterate and admiring
companions as the tarred Voltaire or Paine of the
forecastle and the round-top, the merriest and bold
est scoffer of the crew.— Rev. W. R. Williams.
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The Poor Boy Don’t be ashamed my
good boy, if you have a patch on yur elbow.
It is no mark of disgrace. It speaks well for
your industrious mother. For our part, we would
rather see a dozen patches .on your jacket
than hear one profane or vulgar word escape from
your lips, or smell the fumes of tobacco in your
breath. No good boy will shun you because you
cannot dress as well as your companions and if
a bad boy somtimes laugh at your apperance
say nothing, my good laa, but walk on. We
know many a rich and good man who was once
as poor as you are. Fear God, my boy, and if
you are poor, but honest, you will be respected
—a great deal more than if you were the son
of a rich man and were addicted to bad habits.
The Bible. —It lives in the ear like mnsic that
never be forgotten, like the sounds of church
bells witch the converts hardly knows how he
can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things
rather than mere word. It is part of the national
mind, and the anchor of national seriousness.
The memory of the dead passes into it. The
potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in
its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials
of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the
representative of his bestmometns,and all that there
has been about him of soft, gentle, and pure,
and penitent, and good, speaks to him forever out
of his English bible. It is his sacred things,
which doubt has never dimmed and controversy
never soiled. In the length and breadth of the
land, there is not a protestant —with one spark of
religiousness about him—whose spiritual biography
is not in Jus Baxon Bible.
A River On Eire. —The whiskey rectifying
establishment of Meniy W. Bulut, Georgetown,
Md., was destroyed by fire on Saturday night—
The bursting of 350 barrels of whiskey, and
the running of the blazing fluid into the river,
was a sight to behold, The surface of the water
was covered with a blue flame, and the Poto
mac looked on fire. A Boston packet lying close
>y, pushed out into the stream, for fear. of being
surrounded by the devouring element.
Thk Chinese Sugar Cane.— lt is said that a
company has been formed in Norfolk, Conn., to
manufacture castings for sugar cane mills. There
is estimated to be four hundred thousand acres
fianted with the Chinese ean this year. Os course
he most of it is planted merely for cariosity, and
for want of proper means for grinding and knowl
edge of extracting the juice, a great number of
failures will be reported. But a single successful
demonstration that the cane will produce sugar
enough to be a profitable crop, will be a set off
against all the failures resulting from ignorance aa
to its cultivation.— Prrvtdeace Post .
Woman's Temper.-— Above all things let woman
cultivate a sweet and amible temper. It is this
that makes home happy. The sweet temper of
the wife makes the flowers that gem man’s path
way. Man, perplexed and annoyed with thecarea
and toils of a busy day, goes home and ia soothed
to rest by the music of kindly coined words. It is
like sunshine glinting the dark and stony places
in the herat. Let it be cultivated; for husband
and children are a thodsand fold the happier for *
it Women should strive to possess a calm, sweet
temper, and if it should so happen that any mau’a
ey es falls upon this, we would say that he should
pray with aU fervency for a better temper than
he has. How can live with cross,
crabbed, ugly men all their fives, and still be so
much like angels, is so us one of the ♦‘hidden
mysteries*”— Spirit of ths Age.