Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1858-09-07

              jkm omj i rr; r 1 mount Vernon, ohio: Tuesday, September 7; isss. VOLtJME 22. NUMBER 20. . XI -" - -jttl js. - r r t l l i- i tiii i i I I I - ' . - . '- ' ' - " : 1 ' r I "IS rClLlSHKD KTEBT TITK8nAT Office ia. Woodward' Block, Tliird Stofy. TERMS Two tlars per annum, payable in ad-aiice; $2,50 rithra six months: f 3.00 after the ex-pirtiek ot be yaT. Clubs of twenty, $1,50 each. . kaths or a n v g tiim; o . 13 5 o a . B s r EC $ e. $ c. $ c. $ c. $ c. i c. $ . f c. 1 001 25 1 75 2 25,3 00 3 60 4 60 6 fO 1 t'quare, - 1 T5 2 25 3 25 4 25 5 25 6 00 6 75 8 00 ! i ( I ! ' S iqmret, - 2 503 504 505 05 6 00 7 00 8 00 10 i i I : 4?ar, - 13 50 4 00 5 00 f 007 00 8 00.10 12 .$15 ; 15 .13 .25 - 40 I 5rre, -chanjenhfe monthty, $10 teeekfy.. i column, changeable quarterly, ..M ....... J column, ehanijerhle quarterly........... ....... column, changeable quarterly,.. I column, chnnrjetible qnarterlu,. JCP& Twelve lines of Minien, (this type) are coun-d"as a square. Editorial notice of ad vertisements, or calling attention t ny enterprise intended to bonefit individuals or corporations, will be 'charged for at the rate of 10 cents per line. JBE& Special notices, before murriaie. or takinsr precedence of regular advertisements, 'double usual rates. ;7P3rNoticos for meetings, charitable societies, fire ooinpanies, Ac, half-price. jfctr Marriage notices inserted for 50 ts ; Deaths 25 cents.- unless accompanied by obituaries, which will be charged for at regular advertising rates. : teffAd vertisements displnyed in lnrg type to be charged one-half more tbnn regular ra'ps. $fk tranient advertisements to bo paid for in advance. 23 PhcEni Bitters. TIIE BEST FAMILY MEDICINE r.ow before the public for the cure of SCROFULA. ULCERS. SCURVY, or ERUPTIONS of the SKIN. FEVER and AGUE, DYSPEPSIA, DROPSY, and in fact most all diseases soon vield to their curative croner- VI - ties. it nas Deen eomputea mat aiirms trie last twenty-five years upwards of FC-tlR MILLIONS of persons hare been benefitted by- the use of these medicine?; a fact, which speaks.VQlumes in favor of their curative properties a single trial will place them beyond the reach of competition is the estimate of every patient. By their use the JJLOOD IS RESTORED TO A HEALTHY STATE andr from all impuritie. The system is not reduced during their operation, but invigorated, and they require so restraint frori business or pleasure. The afflicted hare tn thete meihetnee a remedy that wiil do for them nil that mrriiciiie can poihly ejTert. Prepared by W. U. MOtt AT, il. !., Proprietor, New York; and for sale by ; .' ' I- M. ABERM'i T III, sept. 15:1 v. Jit. Vernon. Ohio. iltifl'sj Jcrcantlle College PITTSHl Udll, PA. ISTAP-LTSIIED TN 1S40. incorporited by the J Legislature of Pennyrlvanin ' Hoard o f Imsfcea.-His Excellency the Hon... James Buchanan, President of the United Stntes,. Hon, Judge Wilkins, Hon. Jude Hampton, Hon. Judge-Lowrie, lion. Charles Xnylor. (ion. J. K. Morobeud. I. Duff, "(nuthor of DufTs Book-keepirg.) PreF-ident, with a supcrrntendent . and five a?;Rtant teachers of Book keeping, and feven other teachers and lecturers. . : ' J. S. Duncnn. one of the be?t penmen in the conn-try (author of the gems of lufine?. :md oinauient.il pcnmanhip.Proft'f or of Penmanship. "Duff's system of Bnok-keejiing 13 sanctioned by the American Institute and ChHinber of Commerce of New York, and raiiny of the leading bu'irress men of the F.K't and Wept, sis the most comprehensive and praerical system of accounts row in., um. and after from ten to fifteen years pia.-iie;i.l application of its principles to bunines.jiver four hundred tu- rdents have attested its superiority, (circular 19-X All the arrangements for. ten-chin g being perfected by rear twenty years' experience of the principal, students graduate in about half the time required in other college-", snving$15 or $20 in board. - Upwards of 4000 students have entered the institution since founded. To obtain lull partii-ul.-trs of he collegiate training for Lus-iness nod the character of the institution, pend fir its pamphlet circular of 50 pages, with samples of Mr. Duncan's writing which are mailed free. Duff's Book-Keeping, Harper's new enlarged edition. Price $1.50; postage 20 cent?. Duff's Steamboat Book-Keeping. Price $1; post-ge 9 cents. " ; Duncan's Bnsine and Ornamentaf Penmanship, erown quarto, $6,Hi mailed " post-paid. This splendid work and Duff's .Book-keeping, have recently been awarded kiftebn first prkmicm silver medals and dim o as, attesting the fact that their being the best treatises upon these subjects now in use. An elegantly bound copy of Duncan's Penmanship l presented to everystudent who hereafter, graduates in the institution- , i'uu o u a Ajwnp, cuiupieie in ia nuuiocrs, 24 quarto pages each, on fine Demy paper, with the author's directions fur teaching, the most thorough eystem for school instruction published, 12ic per number, with a liberal discount to Ibe trade, mailed post-paid on application to the publishers, W-U. Johnston Co., Pittsburgh. Call and see Mr. Duncan perforin wiith the pen. - jan 19. . A. FULTON, BELtAlVD BRASS FOTODER, Tim. 9Veod AtrHrt, inltbar;h, Pn, TS prepared to furnish to ordet Church, Steamboat, -1 Factory and other pells, or all siiss fVem 10, to 10,000 pounds. Chime Dells made to order, Stop and Gage Cocks of all sites for Steamboats. Mineral Water Pumps. Counter Railings, and every variety f Brass Castings, finished ih the neatest manner.- Babbit's Anti-Attrition Mel&L Fulton's Patent Pack-lag for Steam Cylinders. . Pittsburgh, Apr. 7:ly. FAIRBANKS I PATEST L. F. & d. feTJEGESS, CLEVEL ANb, OHIO. . SOLD BY FAIRBANKS fc CO., July My. 189 Broadway, X. Y. A. II. GALE, Dealer in ' Stoves and Agricnltnral Idplements, Tinner .Stnkk, House Fumithiny Ooodt, A GENi.' for the Manchester Scale Works a cele-xt. brated scale; MarUeised Mantels, and Coal Urates; Stewart's celebrated Summer and Winter Cook Stovo. Patronage solicited. :Troy Asid Albany Stove and Agricultural Store, Vp:lj Water Ureet, Sandutky, Ch. ; ju m. Brooks & co. "h f"OST respectfully announce to the publie that JT M. thy have bought the entiire stock of Crocleery, L'kia, Qlatttart, 4 ttomietumitkimg Good; of U. P-Mbbkill, and will bo prepared at all times to fur-Aiah to CoaatrMerehants, Hotels and privat. fami. He-, anything io their - liae, at tho lowest possible prieeforeash.' r We shall immediately itferease the stock by eash pnrcbases of latest stylos and best quality of goods. Mr. Mitchell has be a retained, and will be on land to meet his old cosUuiers at the bid stand Vest's Block, Water! i reet. e:Saadusliv.Ohiv Aoril 6. IRS.ii it tsi.iie.jtu ... : - Dealer in ' ' Pints Lumber, Lalh iSkthMeSi ad Cedar Posts, .ter and Hailroad StreeU. at ihe dot of Poostor, Sandusky, Ohio. - , f kiao; m'Jsni tot ail the Lao-herLmaka y Ziteheoekt 'lLLa 6 dm Michiah, Wholesale' sad lb. i LANK. .. tAXT.tji. LArt. IEW SASH FACTORY. PC. LANE k CO. baying got their New Fac- tory in operation, are now prepared to manufacture all hinds. of SASH. OOORS AND RLTNDS ' Of the best material and in a superior itylaof wotk'-i manship. - . . Ornnmentatj'Sc'hrol!, Tracery and BracVet Wor't'l manufactured to order,. and all kinds of CUSTOM TURNING, done in the best manner, and on short notice. All work warranted. Orders for every kind of work are solicited and will bo prompt v attended to. r Shop at COOPERS & CLAR&'S Foundry, 2nd story in front. je!5:y General Land Agency. D. C. MoTrtOMKRV, - Mr. Vernon, 6ho. I TH1NOA0ED in entering Lands, locating Laud j Ji Warrants and making investments in Real Es-' tate, in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri; also, collecting business attended to; Will start about the 1st of June next. References to William Dunbar, M. IT. Mitchell, Sumuol Israel, ffm. McCJelland, J. W. Vance', 8. W FaTquhar, C. Delano, W. R. Sapp, R.C. Hurd, II. L, Curtis, Alex. C. Elliott, and S. Finch, Mt. Vernon; H. Curtis. Keokuk, Iowa. March 2:t. 158. tf. ' Iuiid tfarranls. PERSONS having 160 acre Land Wan ants, bj sending them to tho undersigned, can have them loaned to pre-emptors of the public lands, at two hundred and fift dollar; payable in one year, secured by the land entered with the warrant This is ah excehent-chance for investment, the lender being rendered doubly safe, by having the benefit of the settlers improvements and selection of the finest lands in the West. JAMES 6. CHAPMAN, June 30. Omaha Citv. Ner.. Tor. J. B. BELL, GENERAL REAL ESTATE AGENT, SUPESI0B, WISCONSIN, "TT7MLL select and enter Lauds, locate Land War-f V rants, and buy and sell Real Estate. , Particular attention paid to Conveyancing, Paying Taxes. Loaning and Investing Money, and examining Titles. :; ... Refer to Judge Valey and Eug. Burnand, New York; Wih.. Dunbar and L. Harper, Mt. Vernon, Marshall A Co., Bankers, and Geo. Willit A. Gorman, St. Paul, Minn.; -Win. II. Newton. Jeo. E. NetUoion, Superior:lWnv. Mann Rnbwny, N." J. - May 2ft. FURNITURE. 'fHE subscriber is now opening at; the old stand JL formerly occuied by M. Houghton, the best ai d cheapest assortment of Furniture ever offered in. this place, consisting, in part, of Sofas, Bereaus, Centre,, Card and Common Tables; Looking Glasses, Wash and Cand'e Stands. Mapogony, Cane and Wood Seat Chairs, Cottage and Common Bedsteads, of various styles. Also, Hair, Cotton and Corn Husk Mattrasses, Loungt-s, Lounge and Church Cushions. All work warran ted. , Persons wishing to purchase will do well to call and examine before purchasing elsewhere. Wasted Cherry and. Walnut Lumber; also, Corn Husks, for which either Cash or Furniture will be paid. Inov. 10:tf.l W. C. WILLIS. T. P. KREnillCK. ROBERT '.IRVINE. FRKORICK & IRVIXE, . -, Manufacturers and Dealers in JJoots and SUbes, ALSO DKA1.RRS I . HATS AND CAPS; BEG LfcAA Eto announce to she citizens of Mt. Vernon and vicinity that they have entered into copartnership in the above business, and have jui-t returned from the Eastern cities', where they purchased at the lowest cash rates-liOOTS, SHOES, - IIAT$. CAPS, &c, . , AVhich they are enabled to offer to the public at n-rfi nlled low price. Our stock of goods is entirely new, and were bought at such figures as enables us to sell at much lower prices than ordinary. If you w.int bargains you are ndi'ited to call at the Boot, Shoe, Hut and Cap establishment of FREDRICK k IRVINE, rany4tf Main-Ft.. orpoite Warner Miller's. T: MANUFACTURERS AND Wholesale Dealers IN K"o. 5 WATER STREET, (feaszlix buildings) OKOKCK X. DAVIS, K. W. F;lOTTO. HOME TESTIMONY: Hartford, Trunibnll Co., 0., March 7th. 1857 . ITiereby certify that I have been dealing in 1he Graffenberg Medicines for the past few years, andean truly ay that I have never offered any medicines tn the public that have met with the decided approbation of the people, like these; particularly the Pills and Catholicon. Thev will readily perform all and more than is promised for them. I have sold about fifty bottles of the Catholicon the past season, and I bear the best results in every case. J. II. C. JOHNSTON, Medical Agent. Read what Dr. Bushnell says of the Graffenberg Medicines Dr. B. is a physician of extensive prac-tic and one of the most successful in the County ( Tnimhn F1 in wtiiK h. M.M., "This certifies that I havo nsed the Oraffenberg rills ana Marshall s Catholicon. sold here by J-H. C. Johnston, in. my practice to niv entire satisfaction. They arc r,d Medicine." DH. ( W. BUSHNELL. Hartford, TrumbuU Co., O., March 7th, 1S57. t arn a physician of thirty year's practice. My principal study has been the diseases of females. They hive generally baffled my best efforts. Obtaining the materials composing Marshall's Uterine Catholicon, I was pleased with them, gave the Medicine a fair trial, and found myself abundantly snccessfuL In ray former practice, I could only mitigate the symptoms of .about half the cases, and could nut cure one in ten. Now I can radically cure at least seven teen in twenty and can mitigate the rest. I consider uarsnall s uterine Catholicon the greatest blessing to ibmales I hare ever met with. JAS. H- WILLIAMS, M. D., Charleston. West BRnroRD, Coshocton Co., Msr 14, 185?. Mr. II. B. Kingsley, Sir: I have been selling the medicine of the tiraffenbarg Company for the last 10 years and have invariably found them io give good satisfaction; and the Pills I have sold to a great many families as regularly as their tea and coffee, and with thy trade they have become a. staple article. Marshall's ytenna Catholicon is a. medicine that has done a great amount of good id Female Diseases. One lady I sold ii to told me she had received more benefit from one bottle than she did from along coarse of medical trjatment by the most skillful physicians. Tours trulr, - JAALB3 WILSON. GRAFFEXBURG FAMILY MEDICINES. MTait. mien. Vegetable Pills,.,..k..........w...i.UU. box 25 its. Green Mountain Ointment,......-.. . " 25 ets. Sarsaparilla.................. bottle, $1 00 Children's Panacea,... ... ..... " 60 Cto. Eye Lotion,...... ; 25 ets. F,?uS A nedy........ box, 50 ete. Heolta Bitters,;;.... package, 25 ets. JJysanUry Syrup, boule, 50 eta. Consumptive Balai..;;....... . f 3 0 JSIarshall's Uterine CatboUeon,. l 50 Graffenburg PiU Remedy, ...V o Manual or flealtb,wt;..irr.pt i Tor iale ty 6. Tf. Lippitt, lit, Ternon t Tittle k Montague, Frederictown : Bishop Misbey, North Liberty; tit. McMahon, MCI wood; M. Dajton, Martlnebargh; W. Conway A Co ML Liberty. -' Orders for Medicines should be addressed to 'ii' ' ' ' H. B. KINGSLET, Cleveland, Ohio; Ami far tit State. P C. A9ICRICA TO GREAT BRITAIN. . This beautiful poem, by one of our most gifted batds, possesses peculiar interest at the present time, it is from the pen of Washington Allston, a son of South Carolina, bat a citizen of Massachusetts, and brother-in-law of the Rev. Wm. E. Channing, D. D., knd'Richard II. Dana, Jr. The verses were first published in Coleridge's "Sybilline Leaves," in 1810. Some of the lines seem to be prophetic- Baton Tranncript. All hail thou noble land, ; . Our father's native soil! 0 stretch thy mighty hand, - Gigantic grown by toil, O'er the vast Atlantic wave to oar shore; Canst reach to Where the light : Of Phoebus travels bright The world o'r. . From his pine embattled steep, Shall hail the great sublime; While the Tritons of the deep With their conchs the kindred league shall proclaim. Then let the world combine -O'er the main our naval line, Bright in fame 1 ; . Though ages long have passed Since our fathers left their home, . . Their pilot in the blast, O'er antra veled seas to roam : Yet lives the blood of England ia our veins;-And shall we not proclaim - - --That blood of honest fame By its chains? While th- language is free and bold . . Which the bard of Avon sung, In which our. Milton told How the vaults of. heaven rung When Satan, blasted, fell with bis host; While this, with reverence meet, Ten thousand echoes greet, From rock to rock repeat Round our coast. - - : , .. While the manners, while the arts ' Tnat mould a nation's soul, : Still cling around our hearts, 11M. .Between let ocean roll. Our joint communion breaking with the sun; . Yet still from either beach, ; The voice of blood shall reach, More audible than speech, "We are one!" From Simms' "Afeybos, or Songs of the South.". EYES', EYES, YC IUVC LED MC TO RLIxV. - ; ",:,... ... : 1. ' :v. Eyes", eyes, ye have led me to rn in, Yet still ye are lovely, and still I adore; Lips, lips, ye have been my undoing, Yet still would I feed on your sweet evermore;-Ye are fatal to fame, and I give up ambition, Content but to breathe in the balm ye impart; To igh away life, in a dreamy condition, Forgetting the soul in the calls of the heart! . . 11. ' Eyes, eye?, ye behold without feeling, The ruin ye make, and the ills ye have done; Lips, lips, in the smile o'er ye stealing, . I see but the sense of the triumph ye've won;. No tender emotion subdues the expression, Which Vanity wears o'er a conquest complete: No tear, starting forth at the mournful confession, Consoles the poor victim that sighs at your feetl ' IIL Why, why, so cruelly sinning, , , - 'Gainst all that i lovely in beauty and youth; Evos why so beautiful, Iipe-why so winning,-; If still so denying to Passion and Truth? ' Know'tt thou not, proud one, that proud gifts in wo-' man Are precious alone while they kindle with heart? And the moment that beauty forgets to be human, All the beautiful gifts of the woman depart? : . ICitcrani Hymn of the Marseillaise. The Marseillaise was inspired by getnoRpa triotism, youth, beauty and Champagne. &ou-get de Lisle was an officer of the g irrison at Strashurg, and a native of Mount Jura. He had a peasant friend named Dietrick, whose wife and daughtera-were the only critics and admirers of the soldier poet's song One night he was at supper with his frien Vs family, and they had nnlv coarse bread and slices .'of ham. Pietrick, linking sorrowfully at De Lisle, said, "Plenty ia not our feast, but we have the courage of a sol. dier's heart; I have still one bottle left in the cellar-r-bring it; my daughter; and let us driuk to liberty and our coutitry!' The young girl brought tHe bottle; li was i(kn exhausted, and De Lisle went staggering to bed; he could not sleep for the cold , buY bis heart was warm and full of the beating of genius and patriotism, tie took a small clavicord and tried to compose a song; sometimes the words were composed first sometimes the air. Directly be fell asleep over the instrument, and waking at daylight wrote down what he bad conceived iri the delirium of the night. Then he waked the family, and sang his prudtiction; at first, ttie wol men turned pale, then they wept, then burst forth into a cry of enthusiasm. It was the song' of the nation and of terror. Two months afterwards, Dietrick went to the soafTldd, listening to the self same music, composed under" his own roof and by the icspira-lion of his last bottle of wine. The people sang it everywhere; it flew from city to city, to every public orchestra. Marseilles adopted the song at the opening and close of clubs hence the name; ''Hymn of the Marseillaise;" then it sped all over France, They sung it in their houses, in public assemblies, and in the stormy street convocation. De Lisle's mother beard it, and said to her son, "What ia this revolutionary hymn, sung by bands of brigands, and which your name is mingled?" De Lisle heard it and shuddered as it sounded 'through, the streets of Paris, rang from the Alpine passes, whila the royalist, feed from the infuriated people, fire n sied by his own words. France was a great amphitheatre of anarchy and blood, and De Lisle's song wai the battle cry. There ia do national air that will compare with the Marseilliase in sdblimity and power; it embraces the soft cadences, fall of the peasant's home, and the stormy clargor of silver and steel when ah empire is overthrowDf it ; endears the memory of the vine dresser's cottage,1 and tnakei the Frefichmani in nis exale,'.crj ; "La bet& FranceP forgetful 6T the trch, o4 sword, ah'3 gullotine; which hate mad,- bis country a spec-' tre of btood in the ' eyes' of nations 'Nor can tbe' foreigner bear it song j sT company of ex Hes, or executed by 1 band of musicians, srUs oat feeling tnat it ii tS pibroaca sT atO attdl wat; Ifliscfllamr. 'Under the Eose'What, it Heans. ' This proyerbial expression,' like most others that have ben long in use, cannot be traced with absolute certainty to its .origin, but can only be made tbe subject of conjectures more or less probable. Some of these conjectures are as follows: v 'l 1. It was once customary for the Popes to consecrate roses, and use them as presents, on-expensive to the giver, but of great price in the eyes of the credulous receiver'. From this brig ioated the practice of placing roses over door of confessionals, and ais the most profound secrecy was there observed, the rose soon became an emblem of recrecy. ' ' . r 2. The expression took its origin from the adoption of red and white rose as the res pec tiye emblems of the houses of York and Lancaster, during the bloody wars with which thpy desolated Eiigland. These opposiie emblems were the sigus of the. tavern near the Parliar ment House, in, Westminister, where were the headquarters of the two rival factions; and as measures of annoyance or of defence were adopted in secret conclave at One or the other of these taverns, everything secret was said to be done ''under the rose." 3. It is certain, however, that the rose was the emblem of secrecy long before confessionals were established, or Yorkers or Lancasterians plotted against each other. Harpocrates, the Roman God of Silence, was represented as a young mau. with one finger placed on his lips and a rose in the other band. It was said that Cupid gave hisr the rose to bribe ; bira from betraying the amours of Venus. The. ancients therefore sculptured a rose over the doors or on the ceilings of their festival halls, as a hint to her guests that nothiug which was said in moments of conviviality was to be repeated elsewhere. Some instances of the same practices are to be found in modern buildings. It was in the pavilion of an Amsterdam burgomaster's county seat, and beneath a stucco rose which ornamented the ceiling, that William III, com-touuicated to his host and another burgomaster his intended invasion of Enyland. In the din. ing room of the 'Bar club" in Birmingham, England, there was once a carved rose in the centre of the ceiling, under which it is said that the Jacobite members of the Club, in its early days, used to drink as their first toast, "The health of the King, under the rose," meaning the Pretender. In the hall of Lulliogton Castle, in Kent, was to be seen, a few years ago, and perhaps still is, a carving of a rose surroun ded by an inscription as follows: "Kentish true blue, . Take this as a token, That what is said here : Under the rose is spoken" In the absence of satisfactory evidences of any other origin, it .may be regarded as tolerably certain that the phrase had the mythological last mentioned. It is the white rose to which allusion -is made. The rose which Harpocrates held in his hand was white, and it is the white rose that Byron, in "The Bride of Abydos," rendered sacred to the silence of the tomb. He says that, over the tomb of Zuleika "A single rose is shedding ' . Its lovely lustre meek and pale; :-.Its looks as planted by despair i - So white, so faint the slightest gala .' Might whirl the leaves on hifh." -e : ' Anglo-Saxans at Canton. . The Americans and the English (says Dr. Yvan) are the"real heroes of this country. In going courageously to seek their fortune in distant lands, they realize tbe only honorabla conquests of the present time, and like all men who run great risks, it is not merely the love of money which urges them to these enterprises. These intelli?ent speculators are . not, as is generally thoujxbt in France, avaricious usurers; the majority of them are men gifted with powerful minds, and who, in the deticacy of their senti ments, carry us back to the periods of Amadis and Galaor. It was reserved for pur witty na tion to discover tLat these courageous merchants who condemn themselves co a perilous and voluntary exile, in order to snare the Tiches acquired by their own labor with some loved one at home, were devoid of all poetic sentiment, and bad ingots of gold in place of hearts! I have known a great many of these hardy adventurers, who lived in this commercial Boeatia without complaining that they were not understood by 'the bankers of Their own country, and by the tea-dealers of the Celestial Empire, posseisin as their sole consolation in the midst of their irksome lnbor the hope that one day they would see again soma fair head which was then hidden in some corner of Kentucky, in the mountains of Scotland, or the sweet cottages of Albion. I can affirm that the steamer which brings to those sad. edifices, the factories, the 'European or American mail, distributes as many soft protestations and tender oath's as commercial bills and inexorable accounts.. And those impassible merchants, who unseal without emotion a missive on which sometime depends tbeir entire for tune, often tremble all over in opening the letter of a young girl, to whom they cosmnnicate all their successes. Jf t had time I would relate some of these secret histories which have had no witnesses but the cold walls of this severe monument this commercial . monasteryand some English or American cottage, and no intermediaries but some unhappy sheet of paper which arrived at their destination impregnated with marine efHavia, and already several months oXALNeu Monthly Magazine. The Oldest BiMe ii tie Worli - The petroit Free Press &j that Rev; t)r! Duffield, of that city, .owns; the oldest Bible in tb world. , Lewis Cass,? Jr. p'roenred it - of a Greek mook, who brought it from the Greek cbnven't in St: CathWrine;- at " tt'e foot of SXoontl Sinai, Mr. Cass befriended this inpak who wai in tronWe, and he," in' retard, presented him with the voluma we have described. Accord iag to hi story, it is' the'wdrV of one ot he ancient monk . scribes ' in I eon venX 'al)0 ve iuusedv When it became nownxthat lir.Casa was parr ting wfth it, n4 thuitv-sfaei goicff osi Icf. the ooontry, the rotad ran of $3820 ai oSued him by the Monks of the city of Rome. It is a book of 600 pages, made entirely of ve Hum, and the printing is all done by hand 'with a, pen and ink. Every letter is perfect in its shape, and cannot be distinguished, by any . impeifecttons, from the printed letters ot the present day. The shape of the letters is of course different from those now in use, but in no other respect can they. be distinguished from printed matter. ' The Free Press says of if: The immense amount of labor may be conceived from the fact that there are two columns on each page, each of which lacks only about six letters of being as wide as tbe column of this paper. They will average sixty lines lo the c olumn. The columns numbering about 1200, we fiive about 72,000 lines in the whole book. Nothing shor of a lifetime could accomplish such a work. . The date of this book is A. D. 930. It was consequently made 590 years before printing was invented, and is 928 years old. There is probaSly nothing on this continent, in the shape of a book equal to it in age. The vellu ra upon which it is printed is of the finest kind, and is made of the skin of young lambs and kids, dressed and rubbed with promise stone until it is vry thin. It U somewhat thicker than com. mon paper, being a medium between that and the drawing. papr now. in' use. The fine veins in the skin are distinctly visible in many places. A pencil mark . was drawn by the operator to guide the construction of each line. Many pa-pes have these lines visible on their whole sur face, no eff rt: being made to rub them out. Two lines rannin? up and down divide th col. umns with roaihemHtical abcuracy. 'At the be erinnihg -of each ohaptpr, highly colored ornamental letters are placed. These ar the only marks of the division of chapters. There are no subdivisions into verses, the chapters running through irt one paragraph to the end, and no descriptive headings. Misery and Indigestion. '; : The longer I live the more I arri convinced that tbe apothecary is of niore importance than Seneca, and that half the nnhappiness in tbe world proceeds from little stoppages, from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a ; vexed duodenum . or an agitated pylorus. The deception as practised . upon human creatures, is curious and entertaining. My friend sup3 late; he eats sortie strong socp, then a lobster, then a tart, and he dilutes these excellent varieties with wine. The next day I'cali upon him. lie is going to sell bis house in London, and to retire into the cooritrf. He is alarmed for his eldest daughter's health. His expenses are honrly increasing, and nothing but a timely retreat can save him from ruin.' All this is the lobster; and when over-excited nature has had time to manase this testaceous encumbrance, the daughter recovers, the finances are in good order, and eypry rural idea eflVciually excluded from the mind. In the same manner, old friend ships aTe destroyed by toasted cheese: and hard salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feel, ings of the body produce correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretch ednesa is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and misgnided food. ' Of stibh infinite con-seqnericp to happiness is it to study the body.-Sidarj Sriiifh.; - . (3rni.s of Cjiougjjt; Friendship takes its proof in actions love in words. .".'-'-" ':V " Education implies that the human race is in a state of projress. It is folly to attempt any wicked begin ning, in the hope of a good ending. - The comfort of a Christian lieth not in his Own fullness, but in Christ's. A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two. different things... - Cato- says, "tbe best way to keep""good acts in memory is to refresh them with new." i Men forget that many a privation " has a hidden joy, as the flower blooms under the leaf. Shadow is sometimes shelter. A year of pleasure passes like a floating breeze, but a moment of misfortune seems an age of pain. ' Pride is the dainty occupant of our bos oms, and yet ever feeds on the meanest infirmi ties of our kind. Beauty eventually deserts its possessor. but virtue and talents accompany him even to the grave. He who hates bis neighbor is miserable himself, and makes all round him feel miserable. Imitations please, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind. - j Correction does much, but encouragement does more; encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. The culture of the social feelings, nnder the dew and sunshine of religion, is a duty as well as a pleasure. - It fklleth out with love as it doth -with vines; for the young vines bring the most wines, but the old is the best. . s --When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. ; Idolatry, in all its forms, is bat the abuse of a truth so deeply lodged in the soul of a man that it cannot be eradicated. ! Adversity overcome - is the" brightest glory: and willingly undergone the greatest virtue. Sufferings are but Ibe trials of gallant spirits. The best way to treat slander is to let it alone and say nothing about it. It soon dies when fed on silent contempt. i If thon wooldst converse profitably; ibon most ejideavor j to Jbe among ; those that either may be made better, or else make thee better. There is no occasion to trample upon the meanest' reptile nor to" sneax 'to'.the greatest priQceJ insolence'and t'aienesS are equally un-manly.. ... - . ' Thit man- who iraits for an opportunity to do much at once may breathe oat his life in idle wishes, tlii final, regret, his useless ihUatioos aad bsjreateaJ.:,; ,.J.:j , , ' j.riRidie-i"el .which principally risas from PffAt hesi bnt ; gross pleasta, too rongh aa entertainment ff Ubr whaJtrs) i;hlj' pol iched and rtoeiCiruot Interesting Wnntty. Discovery of Thirty Thousand Native uonsuans on an inaian isiana. . Ve seen stated upon what may be considered reliable authority, that 30,000 Christians have recently been found opon an island north of Ce lebes.: It has been rumored for a time that there was there a Christian people forgotten and for saken, which, however, yet possessed three Bibles and continued steadfast in the faith; When missionaries first landed on the island they met with a school teacher and his pupils, who repeated in the Malayan tongue, ''As the heart pahteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O Lord.'" No Bibles were found, but its taost precious promises were written upon th"e bark of trees. They knew the Apostles' Creed, and the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Christian customs. Twenty churches and schools yet ex isted. Through the instrumentality of pastor Heldriag, founder of the Magdalen Asylum at Steinbeck, and chief patron of Inner Missions in Holland, four missionaries, who had been educated under the venerable Goesner, were sent out, and 3.000 persous baptised. This ii certainly an interesting discovery. The island on which these Christians were found belongs to the East India Archipelago. The Dutch have for years had political rule in this region. This may account for the original introduction of Christianity among the people, and for the fact that the Heidelberg Catechism was still found in their possession. But still, the particular time and circumstances in which this introduction took place may well challenge special attention, and elicit investigation from iho&e who have the leisure and facilities for prosecuting it. German Reform Met. Curious Premonition of the Telegraph. In Addison's Spectator, primed 140 years ago, is the following account of a discovery in mag netic communication, said to have been made 250 years before. It has the marks ot a myth, but cautiously foreshadows the present reality, like some vague prophecv: "Strada, an Italian Jesuit, in one of his 'Prolusions,' gives an account of a correspondence between two friends by the help of a certa.in loadstone, of such virtue, that if it touched two needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at a distance, moved at the same time and in the same manner. The two friends being each possessed of one of these needles, made a dial plate and subscribed twenty-four letters upon it. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates so that it could move around without impediment. After separating from one another one hundred miles, they were to communicate and lest their invention, by directing the needle to the letter required; tHe other at the same moment saw the sympathetic needle moving of itself at every letter which that of his correspondent pointed at. By this means they conversed, across the whole continert, and conveyed their thoughts to one another in an instant over cities or mountains, seas or deserts." . ... - - v A Mbraviati Mother. V Dr. Durbin, in the course of his remarks at the late Farewell Missionary Meeting, at Boston, stated the following: There are a race of parents that could riise a rae of missionaries. Let me give you an. in stance of an old Moravian woman. A friend Called upon her with .sadness in bis looks. He feared to tell his tale. 'Tour son," said he to the mother, t-is gone." ''Is Thomas gone to heaven thro ish the missionary life? Would; to God he would call my son John." Well, John did become a missionary, and he fell. And this time the committee were very sad, but before opening their lips the bid woman anticipated the story and exclaimed: "Thank God! Would that He would call, too, rav last son, William.'' . And William, too, went arid fell, when the noble women exclaimed, "Would' to God that I had a thousand sons to give to GodL" Ob, would that I bad a thousand such mothers. Then would our ranks be full. But where shall we begin this work? Begin it iiere here in Broomfield-street Church and to-night. Then we shall be sad no more. Men, men we must have the MES I Masonry and Christianity. - . On the occasion of laying the comer'stone of the Guilford Court House, N. C, with Masonic ceremonies, R. P. Dick, Esq., remarked: Far be it from e to compare Masonry to Christianity. The one is as inferior to the other as the works of man are to the works of God the one may assist in teaching us the second great commandment, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself the other alone can teach us the first great commandment, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mini.' Christianity is the great living light which covers the earth, wherever it falls, with glory and beanty. Ma sonry is one of the lesser lights casting the reflected rays of brotherly love, virtue and charity into many a human heart. It soothes the wid ow's wounded heart, and stops the orphan's tears. No good Mason can disbelieve the truths of the Christian religion. . , V Pursuit df a Horse Thief. The Dallas (Texas) Herald contains an ac: count of the pursuit and death of Jo. Meadows noted horse thief and desperado, whose adven tures have given him a wide notoriety In Iorth' eastern Texas. The letter written at Eaufrna, says that JVlessrs. DanO, noodward and Love, of Navarro county, had returned from their pursuit of Meadows. Two of these "men had devoted about three months most dflligeadj to the appre hensioq of the outlaw, exhibiting in their pursuit a ' determination of purpose seldom equaled. theae merjf aner aauiying memseivei tnat Meadows was not in. Texas, crossed Red River n to the Indian Nation, 'where they berjlmicon-vinoed that he and his gang had p'assed and stolen - bomber bt hories oil their s way. " They fiasulT OTcrtookv the dSDerado aad hilld k'ua af- I (r ft desnti ecaSiclv Uasjdow xrrmtxlnnrsi : yards into a thicket, and fell in a ravine, whera he lay, constantly firing with his six shooters at bis pursuers, whenever they would attempt to approach him, as long as life lasted. Paris on Sunday. Rev. D. C. Eddy of Boston, now In Paris, 'One can hardly find -Sandaj in Paris; the streets are full of people; the pleasure grounds are thronged; the shops open; regiments of sol diers marching; in the streets, and a high festival- being had by the working people, who make tha Lord's Day a dair pf recreation. And the fur-ther.one goes, the less.jreverence he will find for God's law and service. ' There are cbnrches, but they are dedicated to art, and music, and show There are priests, but their religion consists, apparently, in a long gown, a shaved head, and a good living; and the motto of these continental countries seems to be, Let us eat and drjnki for to morrow we die. " The' Mormon Bible and Polyeamy. The Salt Lake correspondent of the New Ycrk Timesquotes extensively from the Mormon Bible passages which denounce polygamy! Among them is the following, and others equally rtrong: "Behold David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines which thing ioas abomina-Ue before me, saith the Lord: wherefore thus' saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up to me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph. Wherefore I th Tord rvl vlll nnt j.,, tk. this people shall do like unto them of old, Wherefore my brethren, bear me, and. hearken w iue wum di ine jora; jur mere sn.au. not any man amonjyou have, save it be one icife: and concubine he shall have noRe; fot I ike Lord tr'td, deltghteik in the chastity of. tooinen " ; A Noble Boy. , . : ; . i The following touching episode, in street life life in Paris is a beautiful gem, and should, be in all memories surrounded with pearls of sweetest thought and gentlest sympathy: Annul iiiuo ociucu. iu ios icorDinz, a lime bov of twelve." whose iacket of whifp lnth ni4 apron ditto distinctly indicated that he followed . the profession of pastry cook, was returning from market with an open basket on his head reached the vicinity of the Church of St. Bus t:ice, the li:Me feliow, who could only with diffi culty make his way through the crowd, was violently joistled by a stranger who was passing,' so that his basket tipped and fell to tbe croucdT with it3 conteuts. The poor lad, wheu he saw his eggs all broken and his butter all tumbled" in the gutter, began to cry bitterly and to wring his hands. A person who? happened to be in the crowd that gathered around the little fellow drew a ten-sous piece from his Docket, and. ri. ing it to the boy, asked the rest who stood grouped around him to do the same, to make up the loss occasioned by this accident. Influenced by his example, every one present eagerly complied,' respectable collection of coppers and silver. Wben all had contributed their quota, our young valet, whose distress had vanished . in a mom ent by enchantment, warmly thanked his new benefactors for their kinduess, and forthwith proceeded to count the. sum he had received, which amounted to no less than twentv-two francs and thirty-five centimes. But instead of quietly putting thisj sum in his pocket, he produced the bill of the articles he had lost,, and as its total amounted only to fourteen francs, he appropriated no: more than that sum; and then observing in the group that Purroun563 him a poor woman in rags, the gallant little fallow walked np to her and placed the remainder in ber band. . Certainly it would have been, impossible to show himself more deserving of public generosity, or to acknowledge it in a handsomer manner. The boy's noble conduct was greeted with the applause of the crowd, who wre delighted to find such delicacy and propriety in ooe so young. . .. . A Xittle Fable for little Minds". There is a long, doll, hard season ahead, and-every dollar that the poor now possess will bo worth two, by-and-by, tf they should keep it so' long. Everything that you do not absolutely need in these times is dear at any price, and touching this we have a fable to relate: Once cpon a lime, a young female poulrrel went to housekeeping in a hole in the crotch cf the big elm tree which fends off from ourdweU ling the assaults of the sun during the summer" solstice. It" was late in the fall of the year, arid winter was close at hand, and a hard and long winter the olderand more experienced sqnirrHs knew it was going to be. They raked and scrap " ed together all the nuts they could get and stowed them away in their respective tenement torT further use; and still they thought they had nc-t" enough, for they foresaw short commons in U nrintr Rome rf th tnnM rrfl: Vn VaA m.'. stock of hazelnuts (esteemed a delicacy by the squirrel race) and a few kernels of corn abich they had imported from our barn, without paying for it, offered them for sale to their less consid- erate d re in re n in exenange zor Dunernuis, walnuts, end acorns; but as more corn cou'td be ob , tained only at the expense of being tlot by the farmers boy, who was fond of squirrels too (squirrel-stew,) and the hazel-bushes were bare. these luxuries ought to command, they said, high prices. However, as the times were hard they would be sold at a sacrifice," say one be'acj liful haxeluut for a iozen. common acorns, two charming kernels' of corn for four ordinary walnuts, and other things at the same low 'rates': The young sqnirreTwho had just gone to house keeping,' with s tolerable good supply of tbe common. necessaries of life, thought she had never beard of .bargaui" so UroptinJt ,ifaret an'L notwithstanding' that ' ?d mother he. souzkst ber to sa.vi her- provisions for futnre oeedi sue exenangea na oi ner wjr bindful of the auperauities. She had -enongh, s b thought, of everything' now, and prided herself vastly opon ber smart trading! , rLong be fore spring, however all her . provisions wera, irone. and when tbe grass was green eg.in sb. ihanVfol v nihA ' it -to ava tt;slf uort woutljs' Dfpavtmcnt;