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. But. within the lust few dyys, a vis
ion of loveli'ncts had crossed Ms path,
of which lie had' never iu his most
enthusiastic moments dreatned. Bid
he love Helen Bentley ? lie could
not admit it, and yet there was a spe
cies of intoxication to him induced by
i the souitd of her voice,-which he could
i; not (Tefine--a seduction in her manner
‘ wham lie could not resist. INot that
, ijtiis charm she possessed for him, cv
fe' or caused lmn togo bevohd the Bounds
of cold conventionality, in his convex-1
K sufion with her: but it caused him to
• seek her presence, us no w, to gaze up
on her. and to listen to the sound of
her voice ; and her imago was oftener
pictured by bis imagination than was
consistent with perfect indifference.
Sometimes lie was almost ready to !
resign himself, body and soul, to the
delicious intoxication which cam cover
■'him, whenever tie thought of her.—
Again, he thought, “what have I to
do with love ? Does not the state of
my physical health preclude the idea
■of love with me? And independent
of this, does not the recollection of
that horrid night constantly intrude
itself between me and the joys of Site ?"
And then his cup of'bit terness would
overflow, and ho would seek his
chamber,' or plunge off alone into the
dark woods and hide himself from the
. .eyes of his gay companions.
These thoughts were chasing each j
other through his mind, when Tom i
Butler entered the drawing-room.— j
. Fit/.Warren, so far as the attention !
paid Helen ov Morton was concern- ,
ed, had never bestowed a thought up- j
on them. He was a very clever, good- ;
hearted —-intelligent—common-place j
young man. such as one never feels j
jealous of. When Torn Butler, though, |
on the strength of a slight acquaintance j
with Morton, seeing the rest of the'
company engaged, and following the j
bent of his inclinations,; approached and ;
began a conversation with him and j
• Helen. IMz'Warren saw at once that j
he was a very different man from Bil- j
ly Morton, and something very much j
like jealousy crossed his mind. )
Ilo.soon perceived this, and he was I
not so far gone but that his native:
sense of honor, reproved him severely, j
Notwithstanding this, when shortly af
ter a simultaneous changing and shift
ing took place among the company,
he continued to get near to Helen,
where he had an introduction to Tom
Butler.
Strange to Shy, he shook off his
mood i ness, and commenced a gay con
versaiion vithTTelen. Helen- was vc- i
rv much astonished that day. She \
had seen FitzAVurreh before in some of
Ids moments of affected gayety; indeed,
she had become ratner ; familiar with
his capricious changes—but never be- J
ford had she been addressed by him I
in language so brilliant and manner so j
jovous. And-Tom Butler, who*was a
favorite hims r df among his lady friends,
and who was pronounced by them to
be an exceedingly entertaining man,
was astonished ami even delighted,
with his new acquaintance. With the
perfect good breeding which character,
jzed him, he allowed the stranger to
take the lead in the conversation, arid
to display his eloquence to one in
whom lie felt an interest, merely be
cause he was a stranger.
The ; same feeling induced him to
move off to another part of the. room,
in order to give FitzWmrren an oppor
tunity of conducting Helen to the table
and obtaining a seat with her. Nor
I did FitzAYffirron fail to' perceive and
acknowledge in his Mart this gentle
manly proceeding on the part of But
ler.
y&T cannot describe the dinner, read- j
er, or tell all that was said at it. Mr.
Hpufler, Sr., and Col : Banks were much
f pleased with each other and carried on
fe ft very edifying conver. alien between
aLthemfvdvcs on the-prospects of the eot
fdh crop, kc. Mr. Ifentley, they being
*‘-'rded rntar him, occasion al l y took a j
pS'-t Hr tl|pir cohversation, gs cverv
! ' ••-::f‘U* feewan iviforest in tlife Subject
on which they ■ukre' conversing,' arid
as the two gentlejgwn wm*e very well
inform -d, internand had the art
of conver. mg wMl.njj.ry often, though,
Mr. Beiitly.Attefnl|| and conversa
tion was unvoted one of the
ladies and tb< ir beaux.%p\t Mr. Bent
ley '» table, you never tr» with one of
these great talkers-wfra|cngross the
whole conversation, andjefase' to allow
any one else an oj ■•porfmity of speak
ing at a! i. Mr. ikmtle^always con
tended that such mojfjflatcis Were not
republican ; and c'ousjWtcmfly, lie nev
er invited thosohjjjßp assumed such
nrottopolieg. Quprfid' contrary, Iris
chief qbiccfevyg^)--encourage each one
of his sag something, cf'en if
&hatJWething was not oxprJsscd in
tWeflBJ betrufffnl language.
Jf)n t%t day, h-iWever, though sornc-
Jpt his post's were rererve'd, none of
/ tht-m |#rctimid, and'they required nb
drawir®(,- . Mr p,, m ley’s principal
consist and in wal elfin 5 the
I,TO1 ,T 0 ' flirtation b'-Uvet' n Char-
au nc'. He
JWB&- rfeallv doublfu] -wMo what would
-;|jt>e tlieTkur. :• . :bn though!,
H s ho Wked on the j roud and l
•* listened to her rich tows
and rounded sentences, that his friend
Charley stood a fair chance of losing
In's heart in igood earnest. Again, as
he recollected how handsome and elo
quent and generally fascinating Char
ley was, lie thought that Mrs. Holmes
was at least equally in danger. Still
again, when lie knew that, they Were
both fully aware of each other’s inten
tions, and that they were conscious
that the guests were watching them,
he Felt convinced * that they would
I guard well their hearts; and would
be very cautious of displaying anything
like genuine feeling.
What a strange propensity it is that
some people of the best and purest
hearts have, to conceal the natural
goodness and tenderness of those hearts.
J Why is it so? Undoubtedly it is be
i cause these people hate hypocrisy.—
! They see so much of cant and aiiecta
i t-iou of goodness, and acquire thereby
j such a contempt for it, that they are
; lain to wear a mask, and conceal from
! the eyes of the world the genuine foel
! ings of their hearts, lest they too wear
the appearance of the miserable failing
; they so much detest,
i Sometimes conduct of this kind pro
| ceeds from the cause I have mentioned,
and sometimes the rude blast of disap
pointment scars and hardens the
heart —at least in its outward form—
and causes it'to exhibit to the world,
j in sheer self-defence, an appearance of'
I hardness entirely foreign to it.
Mr. Bentley was of course intimate
i with all the workings of his friend’s
heart, but his acquaintance with Mrs.
! Holmes was by no means thorough,
I and he was not satisfied as to wheth
i er or not she was, as the world report
ed her, a mere heartless coquette. To
[ the reader, time will solve the-ques
| tion.
Os course Charley did not wait on
Mrs. Holmes to the table. He chose
| to offer his Services to the quiet, love*
;lv Miss Morton, while Mrs. Holmes
was waited on by Billy Morton. It so
j happened though, that the two couple
j sat exactly opposite each other, so that
| a conversation between one couple, re.
: qnired to be in a very low tone to avoid
! being heard by the one opposite.—
1 Whether this was the result of chance,
or of design on the part of the cunning
Charley, I cannot say. It is very cer
tain that Mrs. Holmes and Morton had
taken their seats before Charley’s ar
rival at the table, and that there were
plenty of vacant seats, besides those
just opposite theirs.
Charley was very‘devoted in his at
| tentions to Miss Morton, and Mrs.
! Holmes was'equally absorbed in con-
vernation with her companion. They
were mutually oblivious, not only of
cadi other’s presence, but of each oth
er’s verv existence ; and the dinner
passed off with scarcely a glance from
one to the other. It was strange how
suddenly Mrs. Holmes !vd become, so
deoplv interested in the con versaiion
of the rather prosy Billy Morton—she
who had, before, been ready to die of
ennui at being forced into a tete a tete
with any one who was in the least
dull.
The same game was kept up by
both parties in tho drawing-room, and
toward the end of it, to tell the truth,
Mrs. Holmes 'grew rather tired of it.
She thought that she would put an end
to it. and in passing near to where
Charley'sat, seemingly perfectly un
conscious of the existence of all the
world besides the gentle, pensive girl
with whom lie was conversing, in the
low, gentle tones he knew so well how
to assume, she addressed him gaily and
banteringly. Her address was in the
form of an enquiry, to which she ex
pected .an extravagant and bantering
answer, in Charley’s usual maimer. —-
Td her surprise, however, his answer,
as he rose politely from his seat, was
conveyed in his gravest, most measur
ed tones, and in as few words as pos
sible. life then resumed his seat and
liis conversation with Miss Morton,
without bestowing on Mrs? Holmes
another word or look, or, apparently
another !bought.
The truth was, Charley was paying
off a score which Mrs. Holmes, in her
forgetfulness, had allowed entirely to
escape her memory. 1 have failed 1o
keep tli • reader entirely posted, and
must go back a very little. Off the
first night of Charley’s arrival, he and
Mrs. Holmes had promenaded the
orange groves, arid made desperate at
tempts'to prove to each other that they
were very unsophisticated individuals;
perfectly innocent and ignorant, of the
‘ways of the world, of'the wiles of flints,
ko. They grew very candid and sin
cere/ and communicative and intimate,
and laid bare to each other, the in
most secrets' of their hearts. They
parted lhat night, mutually pleased,
arid wltlr the best understanding in
the wovl 1.
•’The -next' morning at breakfast,
Charley'addressed Himself to the lady
iti rather a familiar, confident mariner.
Nbf to Iris •'surprise; v tierf answer was
"cold—almost rude, as.she continued a,
conversation in which she was engag
ed at the time. Charley smiled very
’feuifetiy to himself and gyve her from
lhat moment a avid*' berth.
It was no.difficult matter, either, for
kim to forget Mrs. Holmes, of anyone
jtlsepfwhile -seated by the -side of her.
whose soft and liquid tongs were now
filling bn his ear, and Ids oblivion of
all else, was not altogether assumed.—
Mrs. Holmes seemed to bo,'entirely
aware of this, and this knowledge was
by,no moans consoling to lifer. She
had' thought, when, in the morning,
she had answered him so coldly, that
a word from her, in her peculiarly
winning; fascinating way, would be
sufficient to place their conduct towards
each other on the footing of the night
previous. - -
Her surprise then was great, when
lie answered her in the manner de
scribed. Her first impulse was to turn
off and leave him to himself. “But
this,” thought she, “would look too
much like sueqeys to him. If Igo off
now, without forcing him to alter his
manner, he will think lie has succeed
ed in repaying me for my conduct this
morning”—for by this time she began
to recollect—“on the contrary, if I en
tice him into a conversation, and make
him forget and leave his present com
panion, my power over him will be
established. The more supremely,
from the fact that it will be done just,
now , while he is disposed to be a little
rebelious.”
Vv itli these thoughts, she seated her
self on a sofa near to where sat the
object of her machinations and said,
“My dear Miss Morton, it is unfair
that you should entirely appropriate
to yourself the only lion we have at
Bentwold.”
“I am not aware,” was the reply,
“of an effort to appropriate any one.”
“Indeed? It is nevertheless true
that you are guilty of the act, whether
intentionally or not.”
“Well,” again replied Miss- Morton,
“as I am not guilty of any intention to
offend, you will hold me excused.” ,
“Why,” said Mrs. Holmes, “you
must not look so handsome.”
“Moil must go to nature with your
complaints then.”
“ Seriously, though,” said Mrs.
Holmes, “we ladies are willing you
should have your share of Mr. Hamp
ton's company, but we protest against
monopolies.”
‘.‘And I also,” said Charley rising
and actually yawning. “I also wish
to make known a pro test. It is against
being called by the name of a beast,
and against being interrupted in a con
versation so interesting as that irom
which I have just been broken off.”
And he sauntered over to the other
side of the room.
[to be continued.]
cm Snsti tut ions.
The following terrible picture of
juvenile depravity, is from the New
York Mirror. It. is no wonder that
murder stalks abroad in that city
when the dark stream of time is fed
from a fountain so prolific. We.’ may
•well ask what is to be the end of all
this?
“One of the most pitiful and painful
sights in this city, is the thousand
and one barefooted, ragged and filthy
children, idling about the streets, or,
in stormy weather, playing old brooms,
at the street crossings. Running
among the omnibusses and carriages,
they perform, it is true, a fair share of
What little street cleaning is done, to
the shame of our authorities' be it said—
and their remuneration consists of the
few pennies dropped into their palms
by pedestrians.
“No less than a thousand of these
unfortunates may be counted in Now
York on any rainy day. They are
principally girls, most of them under
ten years of age, but many of them
twelve, fourteen, and still older.—
Mixed among these girls are enough
boys to educate.them in all the vicious
uess and vulgarity of their sex ; and
between their own depravity, ingrain
ed by a life in the streets almost from
infancy, and that caught from their
male companions, they present a pic
ture of debasement which might de
light a fiend bent on the annihilation
of humanity.
“Low slang, obscenity, and blasphe
my of the coarsest kind is their current
language from morning until night.—
'ihis is visible to any one who travers
es our streets, unions his eyes be
strained on Africa, or some distant land
of lesser heathen. When +hc night
comes these children scatter to their
haunts —-where ? Some go to homes
more filthy than the streets they have
been sauntering or sweeping, where
drunken fathers and mothers eagerly
seize the earnings of their children’s
sin and shame, to prolong the foul
orgies of Five Points and kindred pla
ces ; and some seek ruin holes, or hells
of vice still more disgusting.”
JL)u> it a Pukposk.— An honest
old farmer had an unruly bull, which
had a' remarkable, love for hint “in a
horn, v and a singular pencliunt for giv
ing his acquaintances and friends
a “lift in the World.” One day
tho old farmer was driving the bull
home much against his iuclination, and
getting enraged, he suddenlyhoisted
the ola man across the fence intb the
rdf id. but fortunately only slightly
hurting him. The old,man regained his
• equilibrium, and then lie saw the en
raged animal s;.iwiug tlie air. with Ids
head and neck, and paydng'the ground,
The good old man locked, steadily, at
him a moment, and then shaking his
fist at him, exclaimed —“ Confound
your apologies—-you needn’t stand
there, yog tar mil on tier, a bowin’ and
did it a purpose, darn
von.” ”
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IFOR THE JKWKMfiCTJENT PRESS.
[No: 11'.] g:
Another Case
NOT REPORTED IN’ TUB ROOKS.
You’ra well awiiTo of in fitly Kinds
Os extracts, and my memory liuds
’XiMather hard
To hold thorn all, especially wlutV
Extractions aro included :• —thou
l’vp never cared
In such aflairs to ho much versed: —
Exf’ractiQn of a tooth's the worst
J ever shared,
My tooth had ached for several days,
And pain, ns an electric Maze,
Ran thro’ my gums;
To have it drawn I was not willing,
For really this seems like killing; ,
And all the sums
Os pain 1 thought that I could stand,
Before I’d bear the doctor’s hand.
Fingers and thumbs.
But Wednesday night. I got so ailing,
I found nip 'courage father failing'/
And, I, forsooth,
Concluded that I, in the morning,
Would go and give UlO doctor warning
To draw my tooth ;
But at the very thought I shivered,
And prayed that I might be delivered,
Unhappy youth I
Tooth-ache was deaf to all my prayer,
And so I mounted William's mare,
. A little ring.
And on to Johnson's I went jogging,
Just like an urchin to a Hogging
From some old hag:
My. heart with very fear was throbbing,
While in my tooth old Pain was jobbing
I [is roughest scrag.
Within a mile I reached the housqfe
Os. Doctor, who, like pickled souse,
Is always ready :
He sat in his piazza reading
. Something on blistering or bleeding,
Jlis nerves all steady,
While mine were in a perfect Iremble,
Though courage 1 tried to dissemble
With laughteT needy.
I told the doctor what was needed,
And quickly lie with pleasure heeded
What I requested:
He went and got that ugly thing.
Which pain and pleasure both doth bring,
As I suggested;
And when I Saw it I’d a notion
To cut and run clean into Goshen,
Before I rested,
At last I thought I would not run.
Though T could better face a gun
• Than those tooth-drawers
The doctor took his little knife,
And cut my gums as if for life,
Like tom-cat clawers :
The instrument in cloth was wrapped,
And then upon my tooth was dapped
Like. swinish gnawers.
Tho doctor shut lus eyes to pull—
I would have hallooed, but so full
Was my poor mouth,
1 scarce could breathe, much less bawl out;
But if I could, I do not doubt
From North to South,
I had been heardbut ’twaS denied me,
The luxury—oh! how it tried me 1 —
Ofcgroans uncouth.
The doctor pulled with all his might,
* And made me see Egyptian night:—
Lord how I hallooed
When things had got out so that I could;
Then on my feet I jumped and stood,
Next laid and wallowed
Upon the bench on whicli I'd sat,
And many a bloody mouthful spat,
And several swallowed.
The doctor’s wife then thought Td faint,
And gave me aid, kind hearted saint, :
. I 011 the bench;
She bathed my temples with cologne,
I uttering many a grant and groan
From Doctor’s wrench.
When I got up and homeward started,
A nigger sniggered as I parted,
The saucy wench.
Turmvold, July 23d, 18-18. T.. L.
Meet' <&h€£He.
S. 11. Hammond, editor of the Al
bany State Register, has just publish
ed a book in which he gives ail account
of a sojourn a few. weeks in the wilds
of Northern New York, from which
we extract the following’ spirited de
scription of a deerr chase on the water:
.“We lay to under the cool shadow
of a huge fir tree that leaned out from
the rocks, to rest awhile from our la
bor, and piijoy the beauty of the scene
ry around us. I had just lighted an
Havana, and was giving its “perfume
to tire breeze,” when, from a point just
ahead of us. we saw a fine deer step
into the lake, and, after stooping his
head to drink, wide forward and
strike out apparently for the' opposite
shore. It would seem that he prefer
red swimming across to a journey
around the lake. We waited until
lie had got so far from the shore, that
wc could cut hint oil’ from returning
to it, and then put out in chase of him.
The lake was entirely calm; not a rip
pledestroyed its glassy surface, save
the long wake in the rear of the deer
himself. Heaving the sound ot our
paddles, he turned his .head and dis
covered us: Per a moment la' seemed
to hesitate ns to with ft 'course to take,
he looked .first in one direction, then in
another, as if .to ascertain the surest
point of escape. W o were now be
tween him and, tiro slyup,, and .ho
struck boldly forward. Our vessel
was a clumsy as well as a trail one,
arid wo gained oh him bm slowly;
still wo did gain on hum When the
chase began, he was soipo thirty rods
in advance of us, swimming for dear
life! towards the llwmhd; point on the
opposite sheik, sorne' lrnl-f a milc (Sr inore
distant.
ft, was. no, boy s play to overtake
that deer, In tile excitement of the
race, however, we forgot the labor and
.burning heat 'of the sun- —we to*bk no
bcedtp the big drops of sweat that
oliascd eaeli other down our face, ns we
pilled wnth might and main after.him.
Y»*t we lmd no thought ofotaking his
life—that we''might easily lnive done,
lor rhy loaded rifffe Iffy in the bottom oi’
■ our little cruft.’ Out object was a -trial
of speed, to witness his wildcat fright,
and his desperate efforts to escape .-.'our
‘ pursuit. Well, we pulled steadily af
ter him: a stern chase is said to be a
long chase; but when we were two-,
thirds of the way across the lake, our
j canoe wan. at his tail. 1 fad we been
Mess excited, it would have seemed to
;us cruel to witness the agony of his
fright. lie would plunge forward
with an effort that' Would.,raise him half
out of the water,- and then settle down
again desperately at his work. With
a look or horrible wildness, and nos*
i trils distended, he struggled forward.
Once we shouted a wild halo as our
canoe touched him. Andt he poor an
imal, t’Qgardi-fig himself as lost, bleated
out, in the extremity of his terror. Still
. he pressed nobly forward, our canoe
in tierce and hot pursuit, until his hoofs
touched the bottom, then llie chase
was no; lew desperate. leaps brought
him to the beach, and ho plunged tri
umphantly into his native wilds. W e
hoard his long bounds, and the crash
ing of the''dry brush growing fainter
and fainter, until they were lost in
the distance, and all was still again.—
That deer will remember ns to his dy
ing day—nor shall we soon forget him.
There were few dry threads in our gar
ments when the cliaso was ended, and
they were not wet by the water of-the
lake. Our acquaintance, like many
that are formed in tins life though
brief, was impressive.
‘Slowly,’ but not ‘sadly,’ we paddled
back to our brush shantee, and while
the sun seemed hanging like a lantern
in the tops of the forest trees, we sat
down to our supper.”
—
| c Mvil to him- who evil tkfaiksA
Never entertain suspicion of your
neighbors; if you can’t clearly ac
count for all their actions, give them
the benefit of the doubt. If Miss
Stubbs did marry old Dr. Pill giver,
who is thirty years her senior, don’t
insinuate that she married for money,
because lie is rich, and she but a me
chanic’s daughter. If the dry goods
clerk across the street- sports a gold
chain, resplendent vest, and the latest
style of pants, on three hundred a
year, do not pity his tailor, or hint that
j his employer would do well to keep a
! sharp lookout. Keep an easy con
science ; “there are more things in
Heaven and earth than are dreamed of
in your philosophy.” If you step on
a piece of banana peel, and slip and dis
locate your ankle in front of a doctor's
office, don’t entertain an idea that the
M; .IT, put it there in hopes that some
body would break his limbs and give
him a job.- “Suspicion haunts the guilty
mind.” Therefore, be ye not over
suspicious. The milkman sells the
grocer lacteal fluid, twenty-jive per
cent, of which is pump water," and gets
sugar sanded proportionately; von
use both in your, coffee, made of burnt
rye, and sip it complacently as you are
calculating how you can shave some
body with that lot of damaged de
laines. Verily, this is an age ..of hum
bug! You grind the carpenter down
in his contract-, and he builds you a
house that tumbles about your ears in
the first gale of wind, then you are
indignant at the dishonesty of man
kind.
”0 wad some power the giftie gie ns,
l'o see oursuls as others see us.”
So sang the poet; but if it were so,
what should we do? The sight to man
would be intolerable, and, filled with
loathing, a multitude would flee for
i ever from the haunts of man. ’Tis
; best as it is. Keep a clear conscience.
| Brooklyn Aayle.
The Beginning of oloruoxism.
Twenty-eight years ago, Joe Smith,
the founder of this sect, and Harris,
his first convert, applied, to the senior
editor of the Journal, then residing
in .Rochester, to print his “Book of
Mormon,” then just transcribed from
the “Golden Bible,” which Joe had
found in the cleft of a rock, to which
! he had been guided by a vision.
\Yc attempted to read the first chapter,
! but it seemed such unintelligible jar-;
| gon that it was thrown aside. Joe was j
j a tavern idler in the village of Palmy
! ra. Harris, who offered to pay for the
printing, was a substantial fanner.' —
Disgusted with what we considered a !
weak invention of an impostor, and not 1
caring - to strip Harris of his bard earn
ings the proposition was declined.
The manuscript was then taken to
another printing office across the street,
from when' O, in due lime, the original i
“Mormon Bible” made its advent.
| ‘-Tall trees from little acorns grow.”
But w 1 1 0 wou 1 and halve ant icipal ed from j
such a bald,shallow, senseless imposition j
such world-wide consequences ? To re- j
member and contrast Joe Smith, with j
his loafer-look, pretending to read from I
a miraculous slate-stone placed in his j
hat, with the Mdnnbmsm of the pres- j
cut day, awakens thoughts alike pain- :
ful and mortifying. There is no limit, !
even in this most enlightened of all ages j
of knowledge, to the influence of ira- i
posture ami credulity. If knaves,
or even tools invent creeds, nothing is
is too monstrous for belief. Nor does
the. fact—a fact not denied or disguised
—that all the Mormon leaders, are ras
cals as well as imposters either open
the eves of their dupes or arrest, the
progress of their delusion.: —Albany
Journal.
A Trt'our.T.EP-oTstE Coxfon eo ATtegf.
—One Sunday when the Minister of
INlney entered the kirk, ho was no less
surprised than indignant to iind that
“draft, pialj-witicd) Jamie, Fleming”
had taken possession of the pulpit.-
“Come dbon,”Miamie,” “said his rever
ence.' “Como yc. tip, sir,” answered
Jamie; “ihey’re a stiftheekit and re- '
' hellions generation, sir, an’ it with talc
us brtitii to manage them."
(MwUS HI * _ F .1
EfjjgMf I’oi: BrjimiNGM.-Griic fol-;
I low “receipt was scat by it.gentleman
!of New Orleans to his friend in Plnl
|ad el phi a, who writes that the wash
! was satisfactorily lested upon the roof
( of the Phoenix ToundryJn that ncigh
■ borhcKxl. It is not only a protection
1 against fire, but renders brick work
! impervious to water. »he basis is Im.
(which must first be'slaked With hot
I waffV in a tub to keep in the steam.—
' It should then be passed, while in a (
i serni-fiuid state, through a fine solve. -
! Taffo six quaffs of the fine lime, and j
Lone quart of'clean rock salt for each gal- j
! lon of water-—-thesalt to be dissolved
M)V boiling, and the impurities to be
skimmed off. I’o five gallons of this
mixture, '(salt and lime,) add one pound
of alum, half a pound of copperas, three
fourths of a pound of potash, (the last
to be added gradually,) four quarts of
fine sand or hard wood ashes. .Add j
coloring matter to suit the fancy.
Appiv it with a brush. It" looks as j
j v/eli as paint, and is as lasting as slate, j
! ft (stops small leaks, prevents moss from i
j growing, and renders the work incom- 1
; I_> u stable.
-
! C'OLERTDCe ox K emill.E.—l always !
I had a-great liking—l may say a sort of
| nondescript reverence —for John Kem
| ble. Yv fiat a quaint creature he va>. :
j ] remember a party at whicn he v, as .
discoursing :n his measured manner. ;
when the servant announced liis car-
I riage. He nodded and went on. The ;
j announcement took place- twice after-’
I wards, Kemble each time nodding his j
i head a little more impatiently, but still .
( going on. At last and for the fojirl.li
! time lie entered and said, “Mrs. Kem
j ble says, sir, she lias Ihe rhenrnatese, :
! and cannot stay.” “Add wm,” dropped I
I John, in a parenthesis, and proceeded
I quietly in liis harangue. Kemble)
j would correct anybody, at any time,
and in any place. Dear Charles Mat-j
} thews—a true genius in his line, in j
|my judgment —told me he was once!
performing privately before the king. |
j The king was much pleased with, the j
I imitation of Kemble, and said “ I liked J
j Kemble very much. He was one of,
|my earliest friends. I remember once ;
j he was talking, and found himself out :
jof snuff I offered him my box.. lie j
| declined taking any —lie,, a poor actor, j
could not put liis fingers into a royal)
| box. I said, ‘take some, pray ; you [
: will obleege me.” Upon which Kemble j
| replied, ‘ it would become your royal j
I month better to say, oblige me ;” and i
| took a pinch.
To cure manage—take lard and sul- i
: pliur—mix together, and put' in lamp |
; oil sufficient to make it pliable, more j
or less according to the warmth of the 1
| day. Rub the part affected with the j
| cot), till you take off the scurf, then j
| rub on the above with the hands. In !
i two,days go"over them again, and as j
; often after, as you see signs of the dis- j
j 0 tISC ••
I.
To cure scratches—rub the part af- j
feet ad thoroughly with a cob—then j
take of Ihe above mixture and rub on i
thorough 7 v with a cob.—Apply once i
a, day until cured. If you drive in j
the mud, wash with soap suds before 1
i applying the.above, Feed occasional- )
! ly one tabic spoonful of sulphur.
A. Cure for lice. —Apply the above ;
i mixture at the points where the lice are i
j most inclined to congregate ; feed sul- j
; phur, if convenient. You may be sure 1
; if you doctor for the .mange, you will I
| kill the lice.
j A teacher in one of the Sabbath j
i schools in this city, while explaining j
i to his class, a week or two ago, the un- i
bounded power of Deity, was asked j
|by one of his little pupils, if it was
| true that God could do anything if lie ;
chose.
; “ Yes,” said the teacher. “ ITc !
; made the world and all that is in it,
I and nothing is impossible to Him.” j
“ \\ ell,” said the, little fellow, “I :
! know of one thing he can’t do any-'
| how : he can’t make a two year colt(
| in a minit.”
A merchant in this city suddenly |
entered ' his counting house the other j
day, and found one of his clerks rear- j
ing a large book in the air with the !
end resting on his chin.
“Why mint- you at work ?” he in
quired.
“ I am Sir.”
“ a ou are.! at what work?”
“Balancing the ledger, sir.”
M AVLAXEsT MoiiAL SCIENCE. —
At n late mooting of the Trustees of
La Place Collegiate Institute Ala., it
veas unanimously resolved that Way
land’s Moral Science “contains Aboli
tion doctrines of the deepest dye/' and
the accordingly “denounce
said book and forbid its ■further use in
the Institute.' 1
A gentleman meeting one of his
friends who was insolvent, expressed
great concern Jbr his entbarrassmeiit.
“ A ou arc mistaken, my dear sir," was
die reply, “'tis not 1, his my creditors
wiio are embarrassed. 11
“Lot us put no tun} tition in the path
of the young, 11 as the frog said when
lie popped Ins head under water oh
seeing a, boy 1 ick up a stone.
—■ ;o:
John Randolph, once said “ he ex
pected Jo hyo p.o see tlie time when
slaves in \ irginia would advertise for
runaway masters,—as it took all the
corn to iced the hogs, all the hogs to
feed the negroes, and there was nothing
left lor the planters.. 11
‘ ! Bafney, I,aver yo ii been ?
“ To Widow Millionv’s ball, and an
dligant time we had at it—four fights in
lifgy minutes, and a knock down with
tlie watchman that left but one whole
nose m tlie house, and that ' belonged
to the tea-kettle, lte dad the likes
never was scerysince we “waked Doncl
],v- ■ ■ .. ' '';
It tlig.Bibla wore a Journal,
uiany it re
ceive- siguecl “A cbnstantycader!”
1 Midler of Mom, Greene <\
Aronson.
m acceptance s% e nomination f jr
(l "‘
fine Shm Lair and' theXJraska Act,
etc. lIMBI ’
New York, Sept, 4, 1854.
! In answer to your com-
I . nuriiCcktion I rcspootfnlly rcn?r you to
| pffdiMtytl proceedings of the State
I Committee at their recent, jpecting irf
! tins'city, and need only add,Mu this
j more formal manner, that ray liomina
| tion for the office of Governor, bv the
democratic Convention ofjuly list is a</
ccpted, and ray former letter to vou ori
the subject is of course recalled/
ily political princples and opinions
cannot beunknovn to the "people of
this State, and your letter calls lor no
avowals; but I will not omit 1o notice
j very briefly, one or two of the excithw
topics of the day.
We have, among other things, sol
jcrnnlv agreed to deliver up fugitives
I from service, and unless we wish to dis-'
| solve the Inion the contract should lie
j lalthfulh performed.. If any among
|us regard it as a hard bargain, still so’
■ long a- we continue to take the benefits
; vv iii'li t!;- 1 const it n lion confers, common
' ]i onf-s: v"requir;-.4lhat we should bear
! the inirdens which'it imposes. ✓
foam decidedly in favor of allowing
the people ol every State and Territo
ry to regulate their domestic institu
tions for themselves instead of carrying
such matters into the halls of Congress'
where they have proved a dangerous
bone oi contention. There is no sub
stunt iax reason why, there should I>c strife
between the different sections of the
Union, and all controversy will cease
when ea'clt discharges its constitutional
obligations to the others,- and the peo
ple of every section are left to man
age their own internal affairs in their
own way.
Yt bother such sentiments arc now
popular or not, I entertain no doubt
that they will ultimately be approved
by a great majority of the people of
this State,.-Error and fanaticism mav
triumph for a time, but reason will pre
vail in the end.
1 have received letters from all sources
asking pledges that I will act in ac
cordance with the. views of the writers
upon several matters which are not of
.a strictly political character, and I
avail myself of this occasion respectful
ly to answer, tjiat' while I have no de
sire to conceal my opinion upon any
question of any public nature, I can
not yield to any such request.
The practice of giving pledges to
suit the views of particular classes of
electors is one of recent date, and has,
for the most part, been introduced by
men of doubtful character. It has of
ten been resorted to as a means of cheat
ing the people; for experience .has prov
ed that promises, made to catch votes
arc as readily broken as they are made.
If the past life of a candidate for office
does not furnish sufficient guaranty for
the rectitude of his future conduct, it.
is much safer to vote against him than
it is to trust in promise's. None of our
ill ustrious Presidents or Governors ever
resorted to pledges to further an elec
tion, and without presuming to rank
myself with them, I think it safe to fol
low their example. lam very truly
yours, GREENE C. B RON AON. "
Messrs. Archibald C. Niven. Joseph
P, lon ell. Winslow C. Watson, John
Murdock, Oliver Cook, Committee of
the Democratic State Convention.
The JFerils of Gold "Wining.
A correspondent of the ’Williams
burg Times, writing from Australia,
narrates the following incident illustra
tive of the dangers which beset the
Australian miner:
“Perhaps no death is more terrible
than that which awaits the digger. The
heavy yellqw dust, with its tempting
look, keeps the miner burrowing in
tile earth with thousand of tons sus
pended over his head, and by a tenure
less reliable than that which held the
sword of Damocles. An acquaintance
of mine—Nutter, from the State of
Maine—-persisted in taking out a rich
pillar from a very dangerous hole, and
succeeded; but lie was not fairly on
the ground again, whoivfifteen or twen
ty square yards sunk down with a dead,
heavy crash. Little stones accidentally
falling and hard lumps of earth have
killed those m holes, and great care is
..ecossary to guard against these,
evils.
“At Balarat, where lie holes are.
very deep, accidents, arc very com
mon ; one occurred there lately. A
man digging, found the bottom growing
soft, but paid little attention to it until
his legs sunk in so that ho could not
pull them out; he shouted*fbr his mates
to let the rope down, and he fastened
it around his waist, but they could not
pull him up. 1 lelp came and they twist
ed off the crank of the windlass, then
seized the rope in their hands, but it was
of .no uvail.mTke, water bubbled up a
rouud the man in the hole, the quicksand
rushed in, buried him to the waist and
neck, stifled his cries, and rose thirty
feet above his head. To dig him out
was useless in lack next to impossible.
The rope was cut and- its end passed
beneath the quicksaud.
“In another instance, a man driving
sixty feet under 'ground loosened a
large stone, and found water trickle
through where it had been, but not
dreaming of danger from water, he
struck his pick in, when tlie water burst
through with gloat force, lie had the
presence of mind to drop his pick and
turn round. The water drove him vi
olently into the main hole, and being a
swimmer, he kept, upright in the hole,
until he was up, when, carelessly get
ling - out, he slipped and fell, losing his
life by the fall.
“But notwithstanding the many ac
cidents ill at occur, perhaps they arc
not greater for the persons employed
than in any other business or traffic in
Jim yiTero arc numbers,at the mines
w'Lo would' not go To tlie bottom of
s6me of the- holes for all the gold in
Australia; but the great majority would
gladly place their lives against a for
tune, myself for one/ 1 ~w -■ -• « '