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              I" '. . f i. v - ; 1 i , 1 (Q U ji- VS. 1-1 I I ! YQLUME 23 p)e tfft. Jjertioo getncci-qiic B'wer, Ma rubisHsn evert TUESDAY KDKXIAO, XXY ,. IIARPJBli. OSes la Woodward's Block, Third Story. .TERMS Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad-Vance; $2,60 within six months: 3,00 after the expiration of the year. Club of twenty, $1,50 each. . o iint or a d v h b t i i ie : C3 O e. $ c. $ o. $ c.'$ c.'$ e.'$ 1 tr it guarr. - 4 tqniri;- 00.1 i 2i 1 73 5 25 3 00 3 60 4 60S (0 I 7J 25 8 254 25 25 6 00 6 738 00 2 58 3 60 4 50 5 06 6 00 7 00 8 00 10 ' 3 50.4 00 5 00 f 00.7 00 3 00 10 .'12 ..$15 15 f nnrt, cttMgenble monthly, $10; wetkly,: tolumm, changeable iMrer..., J column, chttnqerble ttHarterlv...... 1 R 4 column, ehangtabU quarterly...... ..'25 1 column? changeable quarterly, 40 tt& Twelve lines of Minion, (ihia type) are coun-Nd as a square. Editorial not5oe of advertisement, or callinjr attention to anj enterprise intended to benefit individuals ot eorporations, will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents per line. JSff Speoial notice;, before marriage, or tali in g precedenoe of regular adrertisemenU, doable Usual rates. . .ffisT- Xotioos for meetings, charitable societies, fire companies, Ac, half-price. y&r Marriage notices inserted for 50 cts ; Deaths 25 oents, unless accompanied by obituaries, -wh'ioh will be charged for at regular advertising rates. ."Advertisements displayed in lurgt type to be charged oue-half more than regular rates. - p&AU. tranient advertisements to be paid for in advance. . met Advice to Lawyers. The following, written by the eminent Chief Jus tice Story in 1833, is worthy of the eepecial consid eration of legal gentleman at the prosent time. Ev-ry young lawyer should place it in his scrap book, and every time be has a case to try, read it alone before going to the court: j Whene'er you speak, remember every cause Stands not on eloquence, but stands on laws-Pregnant in matter, in expression brief, Let every sentence stand in bold relief; On trifling point, nor time, nor talents waste, A sad offence to learning and to tajte; Nnr deal with pompous phrase; nor e'or suppose Poetic flights belong to reasoning prose. Loose declamation may deceive the crowd. : And seem more striking as it grows more loud; But ober sense rejects it with disdnin, - As nought but empty noise, and weak as vain. Th froth of words, the school-boy's vain parado " Of books and cases all bin stock in trade The pert conceits, the cunning tricks and play Of lnw attorney, strung in long array, Th' unseouiing jest, the petulent reply, That chatters on, and cares not how nor why, ruilious, avoid unworthy themes to scan, They sink the speaker and dugrsice the man,. Like the false lights by flying shadows east,-JM-arce seen when present, and fi.rgot when past. Begin with dignity: expouud with vaco . Knch round of re.is'nin. in its tiino and p!a"c; Let order reign throughout e.tch topic touch, Hur urgd its power too little, nor too-ttMch; WWeeach strong thought its uust attractive view, In diction claar, and yet sevtroly true, And, as the argument in splendor grow, Let each redcl't its light on all oslow. When to the close arrived, make no delays, By "pretty, flourishes, or verhal plavs, But sum the whole in ono deep, solemn strain, Like a strong current hastening to the main. .' Nonsense. Nonsense ! thou delicious thing ! Thought aod feeling's effervescence, lake the bubbles from a spring, V In their sparkling evanescence, Thou, the child of sport and, play. When the brain keeps holiday: When old gravity and reason jAre dismissed as out of season. And imagination seises The. dominion while she pleases Though to praise thee can't be right, ' Yet, Nonsense, thou art exquisite ! When for long and weary hours, We have sat with patient faces, Tasking our exhausted power " To utter wise oldcommon-places;' . Hearing and repeating too; Things unquestionably true-Maxims-which there's no denying. Factsto which there's no replying; Then how often have we said, With tired brain and aching head: "Sense may all be true and right. But, Nonsense, thou art exquisite !" : w When we close the fireside round, . When young hearts with joy are brimming, While gay laughing voices sound, And eys with dewy mirth are swlmmin;, In the free and fearless sense Of friendship's fullest confidence, Pleasant then without a check, To lay the reins on fancy's neck, And let her wild caprices vary Through many a frolicksome vagary, : Exclaiming still in gay delight: " Oh, Nonsense, thou art an exquisite ! 0 . EPITAPHS. . Some virtuoso baa been hunting up all the queer epitaphs in England, and in a racent num. ber of "Household Words" has given us a earn i pie of his collections. We extract some of the . more marked. After noticing some of the verv I 3g B B B B I g -8 8 2; " rt. & r )0f(ni Curiosities ff .. old and some very well known specimens of odd .epitaphs, he goes on thus: What sort of matrimonial existence must Mr. Dent of Winchester have passed I wonder who soon as bis Deborah was grassed over, could - - indite upon her so flippant a couplet aa this? ' " Here lies the body of Deborah Dent, . - She kicked up her heels and away she went." r ,. We charitably Bope that it was the extreme -' seductiveness of the rhyme which caused him to represent the' ladies as having departed so very t Summarily Our epiUpb makers go a good deal 1 oat of their waj for a good rhyme. And when they 6nd a- dyssillable to match with auotber, Ahey hesitate at nothing inofder to bring it 1a. ; s At Doncaster," fur instance, I re'ad: T ' fn,Aii brothers, by mis fort uuo surrounded, va died of hU wounds, and the other was drowned. "' An1 gin, at Bedford, Ueon: ' ' , 4 . 1 1 . K Warrimg. day, apjoroUd was, Andber wedding elotbes provided, " But wheuih, day arrivedid, ,. ' , , " Sickened and she died did." ' 1 ' ; 'i ,(!': A prolonged medical sUtement of the disease Jf which, tb departed nay chanc U have ied - . .t .... . ' iBnmmvj popuiax,- a acUob, ia Cornwall, tbere is this particular iacbouui of how bad Mr, Morton came by Lis end; ' "Here lies entombed one lloger Morton, Whose sudden death was early brought on, Trying one day his corn to mow off. The raior slipped and fcut his to oflV The toe, or rather what it grevf io, An imflammation quickly flow toj The parU they took to rtortifyihg-, . And poor dear Rogers took to dying.". And here h a still more entertaining ono, up on a certain ludy in Devonshire, singularly free from any nonsensical pretense or idle bravado: "lUro !1-s Detsy Curden, ' iSiie wood a leafed but she cooden, 'Twas na grief, na sorrow as made she docay, But this bad leg as carr'd sho away." Whenever I read (and it is often) of folks who were po&iionatel deairious to leave this vale of tears, I shake my bead and quote the simple minded Botty: "For all this," it; I "they wood a leaf 'd but thej cooden." To complete these medical extracts, I mav quote this warning cypress flower, culled from a (Jhelteuham cemetery: "Here lies I and my three daughters, Killed by a drinking of the Cheltenham waters; If wo had stuek to Epsom salt,' We'd not have been a lying here in the vaults." There is to, my mind a touching sorrow con veyed iu the following most nngramatical verBes, evidently composed by one of the unlettered Wiltshire parents themselves: "Beneath this stone his own dear child,-Whose gone from we, For ever more into eternity: Where we do hope that we shall go to he, But him can never more come back to we." And something of the same kind although in a less degree, I feel belongs, to this one from Ouilsfield, Montgomeryshire: "Beneath this yew tree, ISuried would he be. Because his father, he, Planted this yew tree." There is an incompleteness about many epi taphs, of which this one in Wrexham Church yard is a case in point: "Here lies John Shore; I say no more; He was alive - . Iu 65." : r- V ' '. - ' -" - " " - - - And in others there is more stated than is quite necessary. In Grantham Churchyard we read: ' . "John Palfreymao, who is buried here, Was aged tour and twenty year; And near this place bis mother lies; Likewise his father when he dies;" . This superfluousness sometimes extends even to manifest falsehood as in Llanymyiiech Churchyard, iu Montgomeryshire, where it is thus written: '" " Here lies John Thomas, : And his three children dear,-Two are buried at Oswestry, -And oue here." Dr. I. Letsom wrote the following epitaph for his own tombstone; but it is not likely that he allowed his trends, or at leo.st road it until he was under the turT, or out of practic-: ; - ' When people's ill, they comes to I, I phy u-, bleeds :tud sweats 'em; .:" ometitues Miey iivj, sometimes they die; What's th.it to 1. I. Letsom" (lets in. The best of these professional adieus is, how ever, that upon a certain Mrs. Shoven, a cook it consists ot the two stanzas, or, as she might nave called them herself, a couple of courses: "Uuderneath this crust, " Lies the mouldering dust : Of tleauor Batchelor Shoven, Well versed in all the arts And the lucrative trade of the oven. "When she'd lived long enough, , : She made up her last puff, A puff by her husband much praised, And now she doth lie . And makes a dirt pie, - In hopes that her crust may be raised.' I cannot conclude these jottings from the tombs more fatly than with this notice or rather with these two voices, from the North, communicated to me by a'stone cutting friend. A reward, it seems, was once offered for the best epitaph upon a celebrated provost of Dundee. The town council were unable to decide between the relative merits of the two which follow, and both were therefore placed upon the monument: . "Here lies John, Provost of Dundee, Here lies Him, here lies He." The second ran even still more remarkably: " Ilere lies John, Provost -of Dundee, Hallelujah, Hallelujee!" A friend informs tis that a unique inscription may be found on a stone erected over the remains ol Parson Brady, a Presbyterian divine, who died a number of years ago- lie was buried in a small town in Perry county, Pennsylvania. It ran somewhat after this fashion: "Herb Lass Parsos Brady, . "This stone was erected by his sorrowing congregation, and cost forty dollars." " Here lies, cut down like unripe fruit, The wife of Deacon Amos Sbutoy . f She died of drinking too much coffee, . . Anny Dominv eighteen forty." The Smiths. Who has not acquaintances among the Smiths, a most extraordinary name? Sometimes, there were very learned discussions gntng on concerning the origin and wonderful extension of the race. Studious explorers aaiong derivatives and rotninal roots found in the name of John Smith a work of mystery. Some philologist in Provident wrote thirty columns to enlighten the pub-He on the subject, and threw dowu his pen be cause it was exhaustles. Some profess to have discovered that the great family of the Smiths are the vt riub'e descendants in a direct line from Shem, NmhV son, the father of the Shem-itish tri'ie, or Shem hence the decimation Sbm Shemit Sliroit Smith. Another learn ed scli'Ur in Philadelphia, contends for the tin-tversality ,of; Juhn Suitth's name not only in our 1 owubut auone.. all dands. Commehcihr with the flebrews; ho says .they1 had . no Christian httues, and cpnseqaentlyVno'. Johns in Hebrew tne names stood simply Sh41ar or Shemit. In other aatvdns, ho wer,, the VJoAW Siih U found full, ou and undivided Jet ns trace it; , lti prrbaAnes S mjihius. . ,'-.t Italian Giovanni Stoithi.1 ' - Spanish JuanT Smithaau u' Dntch Hans Schmidt. . MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, French Jean S meets. Greek Ion Skimitton. Russian--Ionloff Schmittiweski. polish Ivan Schmitti weski. Chinese Thon Schimmit. Icelandic -Tahne Smitison. v Welsh Jiohn Schmidd. Tuscarora Ton Ta Smittia. Mexican Jontli F'Smitlix. . . To prove the antiquity of the name, the same aazan observes that in the temple of Osiris. Egypt, was found the name of "Pharaoh Smith- osis, being the ninth in the eighteenth dynasty of the Theban Kings. He was the founder of the celebrated temple of Smithopolis Magna." We congratulate the respectable Smiths on these learned and profound researches which bid fair to explode the opinions that the great family of Smiths were the descendants of horse sboers, anvil and hammar men. To them these re searches must be delightful. My neighbor of this name, who, not long since, consulted me about the probability of his heirship to & princely estate in the English Court of -Chancery, can now easily establish the antiquity of his family. A New York clairvoyant told him to go ahead in its prosecution as he was the residuary lega tee. The Clow. Interesting &ie City Life Abduction Seduction Abaa- j ;. . ;V" y. donment.' ' The New York Tribune, of Wednesday last, gave us this Chapter of one of those phases of city life that too often are presented to the pub lie. It is the case of a Miss W. ( whose name is suppressed) against Francis C. Sexton, who, on the charge, was held in bonds of $2,000. The Tribune Bays of the matter: Sexton,' some months ago, formed the acquaintance of Miss W., an interesting girl of sixteen, who lived with her parents, and was very attentive to her. He is about twenty-five years of age of prepossessing appearance, and is married to a beautiful young lady. Recently he returned to New York in the steam frigate Niagara, on board of which be is said to have been employ ed. On Tuesday afternoon last, Sexton, while promenading Broadway,; met Miss W., and, after a Bhortwalk with her, induced her to accompany him to the Western Hotel in Courtland street. where he told her that ha was stopping. They remained at the hotel a short time, when Sexton, as is alleged, induced her to cross the ferry, and, persuading her to enter the cars, they proceeded to Newark, and put up at a public house. Late in the afternoon Sextonr as is stated, went to Miss W. and told her.that the cars and steamboats had "stepped running, and that there was no means of their going back to New York that night. ; The young lady -appeared in great t'e;ir, but ha repeatedly assured her of his proteo tion, aa 1 told her that they could obtain separ ate rooms at the hotel aud remain during the night, li jo ins were sOou-erigaged. but it is al leged that during the night Sexton arose, and by some means or other entered the room occupied by Miss W., and succeeded in violating her person. -" " ; ; . " y The following day they returned to this city and put up at the Westeru Hotel, where they rev maiued two days, he having meantime succeeded in allaying her fears, and inducing her not to return to her parents. On Friday night last they were both seen at Wallack's Theater, and On the following morning Miss W. insisted upon going home to see her parents, whom she, believed would have great fears as to her absence. Sex. ton finally consented to her going home, and conducting her to within three or four blocks of her residence, obtained from her a diamond ring, cross and chain, bade her adieu, promising to call in the evening and escort her to some place of amusement. , A painful scene ensued upon the arrival of the young lady, and the curtain fell upon her full confession to her parents. - Officer Webb served a warrant upon Sexton in prison, the process sit ting forth that he had abondoned his wife, Cornelia A. Sexton. Mrs. Sexton made, complaint before Justice Connolly relative to the abandonment, not being aware at the time that her husband was then a prisoner in the same building.: The Virtues of Borax. j The washerwomen of Holland and Belgium', so proverbially clean, and who get. op their linen so beautifully white, use refined borax as wash ing powder, instead of soda, in the proportion of one large handful of borax powder to about ten galhns of boiling water; they save in soap near ly half. - All the large washing. establishments adopt the same mode. For laces, cambrics, &c, an extra quantity of the powder is used, and for crinolines (requiring to be made stiff) a strong solution is necessary. Borax being a neutral salt does not in the slightest degree injure the linen; its effect is to soften the hardest watery and, therefore, it should be kept on every toilet table. . To the taste it is rather sweet, is used for cleaning the hair, is an excellent dentrifice, and in hot countries is osed in combination with tartaric acid and bicarnate of soda as cooling beverage. Good tea cannot be made with bard waer; all water may be made . soft, by adding a teaspoonful of borax powder to an ordinary sized kettle of water, in which it should boil. The saving in the quantity of tea used wilt be at least ouo'fifih. Ex. Paper. . ' Pearl in Miami. Yesterday, by the politeness of Mr. O! instead Gates, who has recently sturted a new Jewelry Store in this city, we were shown a beautiful ring of exquisitely cunning device, in which was tastefully inlaid specimens of pearl which had been found in-Xha-Great-Jliami. Several very line specimens of this article have been found iii or-fteir this river, recently; of superb quality. A' yet, no particular exeitement ' prevails, tEqnghTn" this' ibxciiable age who can tell wbat wilf happen. " Mr.T Gate's is certainiy1'desBr-ing of praise for the skilifuf "manner' in which he has executed the work. Vjua JETnotrer. A wonaerru story. The London Times publishes an extraordinary narrative or a young taaj who nan escaped the massacre of Oawnpore, turned Mohammedan, ana was compeuea to live twelve months among the rebels, bhe was only sixteen years of age, and was one of the tew who escaped the treach ery at Uawnpore ot the infamous Nena Sahib. Brutally treated on board the boat when it Was seized by the Sepoys, she was apparently left for dead; but, on being thrown into the river, she re covered mide her escape met, at some dis tance from the banks, Miss Wheeler was sab- seqaently separated from her, found succor from a negro eunuch, and after escaping from the Se- poys, met with this sable friend at Lficknow, who contrived together into the palace of the begomj where she lived in comparative comfort for some time. A slave attached to her enabled ier to es- cape to the Moulvie, at some distance. The Moulvie appropriated to her an apartment in his palace, but the approach of the British army Compelled him to send her again into Lucknow, where she, a second time, became an inmate of the palace of the Queen. When Lucknow was besieged bjr Sir Colin Campbell, she made her escape, but, being unable to find her way in the city, she was forced out of it by a band of Sepoys who carried her into Oude. They were much distressed; they were eager to surrender, but did not know how to proceed about it; upon which i this lady of sixteen gave thetn some good ad vice, and undertook to carry a message from them to the British general. 'They assented, and gave her a safe convoy. It does not appear from her own narrative that she executed the mission. "But she found her uncle at his residence, and in due time was conveyed to Calcutta, where, of course, being respectably connected, she is rendered perfectly safe and happy. A Man With two Wives. A young man named Merrill, formerly of Aus-j tintown, managed to get himself into a matrimo- nial, or rather, bigamical difficulty, a few days since, by marrying Wo girls, last week, in the snort space of twenty four hours of each other. He had lived in this region, ubtil within two or three years past, when he went to Alliance in this State. Previous to goi ng away, he had cour ted and gained the affections of a respectable young lady named M'ss Jane Kerr, who lives with her uncle, Mr. Benjamin Jjane, of this town, ship. Before Merrill left for 'Alliance, the par ties were engaged to be married. While absent, Merrill seems to have forgottla hia pledges to the "girl he left behind," and commenced pacing . vo.joung ,aay, ia ms pew nome, ot weaUbj and respectable parentage,. and an only child. iiiis yonng lany He liucX:eeJeWTi'5ttm- izing, as is the fate of those who "love not wise ly, but too well." Her parents xorcea mm to . . f , i . 1 marry hr After which, he .immediately started for this place, and with all possible dispatch ful filled his ensawement with Miss Kerr. With her , - . - - he started off on a wedding tour, and was ab. sent four days. During, his tbssnce the friends J " v J of bis Alliance wife bad arrived here in pursuit of him. Aspertainmor the character of his c?on dnct here, his pursuers informed the friends of Misi Kerr of the state of affairs, and Merrill learning that his dissraceful Dlottincr and con- duct had been exposed, decamped, for parts on-1 known, leaving two newly made widows, whose I transition from girlhood to their present onfortu-l nate condition, was about ns rapid as things are t generally done in this very fast age. It is to be hoped that Merrill will be overtaken, and receive j the punishment his conduct merits. Warren Democrat. ' Slave Perquisites. The Petersburg Y a)' Democrat notices that among the shipments recently made from Abbe? ville, S, C, to the North, was a bale of cotton the property of a negro slave. The Southern Guardian, of Columbia, S. C, thus remarks upon this fact: ;; -.-.. ' . . This notice of the Democrat affords ns the opportunity of saying what everybody in this State knows, viz: that the plantation negroes have the privilege of raising their own crops, their own fowls, eggs, pork, corn, peas, watermelons and vegetables, their master giving each a piece, of land for the purpose, and not interfering with their raising of poultry cr stock, but rather aiding them to be industrious and economical. We have known as many as six, seven or eight bales of the slaves' cotton, from a moderate sized plantation, brought to market with theic master's crop, and we have kiwTwn, further, that in nu merous instances the master took more pains in getting a good price for his "people" than for himself in selling his produce. These lots, con istiog of a few bales, were perhaps divided a. mong twenty or thirjy slaves, yet the master always got the buyer to make the calculations and distribute properly the payments among the producers. It is a happy time for the slates. Besides these products they are privileged, in their leisure hours, .to get ready for market sundry domestic manufactures wooden trays, baskets, brooms, Lc. These people are well clad and fed.V No starvation no perishiog from cold or want of proper clothing will be found on the plantations of the South on the other band, on a well-regulated place everything betokens comfort, hilarity and contentment. ' ;- - : . . Found Murdered. .. 'V On 'at Monday morning, Mr. Stewart Alexander, found the body of a man floating in Sun-fisb creek, near his Mill, with bis throat cut from ear to ear. ; The body was recogaized as Mr, Joseph Carel, of Brush Creek, Scioto county. He was about 65 years of age. He left home n last Saturday night,-while his wife was asleep, fie had no money.wjth bim. His oSrn knife was found. in vpool of blood on. jh . bank, of the creek, near where his body was fonnd.. Ue was insane, at tiroes, and has. often -wished that he was dead, - and it is supposed by many that he killedhimself.,; Wjb , . understandI ; ho has. s wif kny four child ree living in .. Scioto coooty. An examination of the affa j willtake plaee to df Wednesday at Squire McLelland'sin. Newton Townshipw County Union. SEPTEMBER 21, V Hteh Life. J Bayard Taylor, while in the Arctic reeion in winter, used to eat a half-pound of meat at a I meal to warm himself. He thus SDeaks of the cold which he endured in Layland: J I should have frozen at home in a temperature - 1 which I round very comfortable in Lapland, with my solid diet of bread and butter, and my par J ments of reindeer-skin. The following is a cor I rect scale of the physical efTects of cold, calcu- lated for the latitude -of 65 to 70 dc. north: 15 - 1 above zero, unpleasantly warm. Zero, mild and agreeable. 10 deg. below zero, pleasantlj . fresh J and bracing. 20 deg. below zero, sharp, but not severely cold. Keep your, fingers and toes in motion, and rub your nose, occasionally. 30 deV below zero, very cold; take particular caro of your nose and extremities; eat the fattest food. j and plenty of it. 40 deg. below zero, intensaly cold; keep awake at all. hazards; muffleup to the eyes, and test yonr circulation freely that it may j not stop before yon know it, 50 deg. below zero, a struggle for life. Jt An. American at Paris went to a restaur ant to get his dinner. Unacquainted with the French language, "yet unwilling to show his ig-. norance, he pointed to the first line on the bill of fare, and the polite waiter brought him a plate of fragrant beef soup.- This was very welL and when it was despatched he pointed to the second line. The waiter understood him per fectly, and brought bim vegetable soup. , "Rather more soup than I want," thought he, j'but it is Paris." He duly poin ted to the third "line, and a plate of tapioca broth was brought him; again to thefourth, and was furnished with & bowl of preparation, of arrow; root. He tried the fifth line, and was supplied with some gruel kept for invalids. The 'by standers now sup posed they saw an unfortunate individual who had lost all his teeth; and our friend, determined to get. as far as possible from the soup, painted 1 in despair to the last line on "the bill of fare The intelligent waiter, who saw at once what he waned, politely handed him a bunch of tooth P,CK3' in is was too , much our countryman paid his bill, and incontinently left. A Romantic Marriage. Quite a romantic wedding took place at Ma- zomama, in this county last evening. The groom was a returned Californian, who left his wife for the auriferous land about seven years ago; and the bride the wife that was left.- Some time after he had reached California a year or more his wife received intelligence of his death. Two or three years later she heard that the story of bis death was not true, but that he nver in tended to retorn. Upon this, with the advice of f.da . b nWinoA . A. Two or three days since the wanderer retnrn- ed and called nnon bi fnr.r ,;f ftl.i.ff tions revived, faith was plighted anew; and last e.eu:D(r hfl npP hh'u:ntr hr:j. , ' . vir Mrtn ti, u '. ror tne second time, ine happy pair, thus re- naired. nr fnrtbwifb t Uv (,. :. -. .1 1 tCOlt tne OVenir.( train past nn thtir hnflol tnnr -Xadison (JVhVi Journal. : John Chinaman Affords an inexhaustable source of amusement to the Califorhians, vho are continually making un of the animal. A late paper gives an ac- count of one John Kiser, of Amador,, who set e(i an account with a Chinaman by giving him bis note, which the latter offered to an attorney M 8 basis of suit for debt. The evidence of ob ligation ran thus: "know all men by these presents that the gy- ascutes am let loose and the celestial nation am in danger, quite a faiso iu rice, if this paper is presented, all right, if not, this is null and void and of no effect, no more at present but remain your humble servant until rain comes. now I lay me down to sleep and I pray the Lord my soul to keep." fables' Jlfpartmcnt. Be A Woman.; Oft have I heard a gentle mother. As the twilight hours began,. Pleading with a son, of duty, Urging him to be a man. But unto her bine-eyed daughter,-" Though, with love's word quite ai ready, Point ehe out this other duty. "Strive, my dear, to be a lady." What's a lady? Is it something ' Made of hoope, and silks and airs, ' TJaed to decorate the parlor, Like the fancy rugs and chairs ?-:. Is it one who wastes on novels Every feeling that is human? If 'tis this to be a lady, TLg not thU to be a woman. Mother, then, unto yoitr daughter Speak of eomething higher far' . Than to be mere fashion's lady "Wmn" is the brightest star. If ye, in your stroDger affection, Urge your son to be a true man, - Urge yonr daughter no less strongly . ' To arise and be a woman. Yes, a woman brightest model Of that high and perfect beaaty, '-- Whero tho mind and sool and body Blend to word oat life's great duty " B a woman naught is higher " On the gilded list of fame; y ' On the catalogue of virtue ' -There's no Brighter, holier name. 1 y ' - . ' - ,B a woman on to duty, , , y 'Raise the world from ail that's low, . . .. Place high in the social heaven . y "'." Virtoes fair and radiebt bowj' ' Lend thy influence to each effort . . . " That shall raise our natures haman; y Be not fashion's gilded Tady, . "; Be a bravo whole-souled troev woman. - !DirTerent Kinds of Women. ' A preacher of considera&ule celebrity, ia 1 recent "sermon,", uttered the following touching woment . i . . 1 ' i w . . . . . . . - - - - There are three classes of women. First, do-1 tneatlc drudgei, who are wholly taken np in the material details ..of . their . botneheeinnx.and child keeping.? Their bonsekeeping is s trade and no 'more, mod after they have done that, there' is no more which they can do.' . In Kew finiland it it svssnsJj cUjss'etung es8 eVf 17 year. ' . Hart there are domeitlo dolls, wholly taken 1858. up with the vain show which delights the eye and ear. : . They are ornaments of th eetate. Similar toys, I suppose, will one day be more cheaply manufactured at Paris, NoremburS, at Fraakfort-on-the-Main, and other toy shops in i-urope, out of wax or paper m ache, and sold in Boston at the haberdashers by the dozen.' These ask nothing beyond their functions as dolls, and hate all attempts to elevate womankind. . ; But there are domestic women, who order a house and are -not mere drudges, adorn it, and are not mere dolls, but women. Some of these a great many of them conjoin the useful of the drudge and the beautiful of the dolls into one womanhood, and have a great deal left, besides. They are wholly taken up wiih their functions a housekeeper, wife and mother. A Hint to the Ladiei. It is very rarely, indeed, that a confirmed flirt gets married. Ninety-nine out of every hundred old maids may attribute their ancient loneliness to juvenile levity. It is very certain that few men make a selection from ball-rooms or any other place of gaiety; and as few are in fluenced by what may be called showing off in the Btreets, or other allurements of dress, our opinion is, ninety-nine hundredths of all the finery - which woman decorate and load their persons with go for nothing, so far as husband catching is concerned. Where and how, then, do men find their wives? In the quiet homes of their parents and guardians, at the fireside, where the domestic graces and feelings are alone demonstrated. Thase are the charms which most surely attract the high as well as humble. ' Against these all the finery and a rs in the world sink iuto insignificancy. Excels ior. S?We wish that every one would read the following paragraph which we clip from the Godexfa Lady's Book for August, and govern themselves. -We have been obliged many a time to forego our dinner, at a public house, the indiscretion of some fop, who chanced to sit near us, and whose handkerchief was saturated with perfumery. It is a vile practice. Nothing has so good and wholesome a savor as clean linen; and to attempt any improvement upon it 13 to "add perfume to the violet." Tis even so Mcsk. -We would advise people when visit iug iub wny uui iu use ine viie. etuu. a wrong construction will bo put upon them. We once heard an old lady say that no :One used it who had not something more powerful to overcome Any person having the slightest degree of con sideration would not use it in an assemblage of persons, for to many it is so offensive as to cause headache. He Xever Told A JLIe. v . Onre there was a little boy With cu:ly hair and pleasant eye; A boy who always told the truth, And never, never told a lie. And when he trotted oft" to school, - - The children all about would cry: : "There goes the curly-headed boy, -. The boy that sover told a lie." And everybody loved- him so 1 - BecaOHe he always told the truth, That eyerr day as he grew up,: . 'X was said, there goos the honest youth. . And when the people that stood near Would turn to ask the reason why, y The answer would be always this, B&oause he never told a lie. . Gen. Havelock to his Little Boy. Mr Dear George: This is your birth -dav and here I sit, in sight of the bouse io which you were born, five years ago, to write you a letter. Now, though a little boy, you ought to have wisdom enough, when yon get these lines to call to mind now very good Crod was to you on this day, in preserving the life of your dear mamma, who was so sick that no one thought she would recover. At that time, too, t was in very poor health, but am now bo much better, by God's mercy, that I have not bad any snffering to complain of since I returned to India indeed, since I saw you last, when I got oh board my steamer at Bonn, to go up to Mains, on my way to India. -They tell me that nowadays it-is the fashion for little boys like yon to do 00 work nntil they are seven yeftrs old; so if you are spared, you have two more years of holiday; but then you mast begin to labor in earnest. And I will tell you what you must begin to lear n The first thing is to love God, and to understand Jesus Christ, since he was sent into the world to do good to all people who will believe in Him. Then, as it is likely yon win be brought to be a soldier in India, yon will have to be taught to ride well, and a little Latin, and a great deal of mathematics, which are not easy) and arithmetic, and English History, and French and German, nindoostan, drawing and fortification. Now, yon will say that this is , a great deal-quite a burden, and av carUload of learning. But if yon are, from the first, very industrious, and never let any day but the Sabbath pass over without four honrs' diligent study, at least, yon will soon find that the mountain of learning be fore yea Is cat -down into a very small hill in.J deed. y. . The Early toss cf Parity of Character, Over th beaaty of th plam and the apricot there grows a bloom and beaaty more exquisite than the fruit iiielf a sofV debcate plush that overspreads its blusbing cheek. Now, if yon strike your hand over that; and it is ones gone, it is gone forever Toe it never grows bet once. Take the Sower that hangs in the morning im-pearled wkh dew arrayed as no queenly, worn an ever was arrayed with jewels. Once shake it so that ttie beads will roll off, and yoa m&y sprinkle wuter on it as carefully as you please, yet h can never ba made again what it was when the daw fell silently upon it from hewvenl On a frosty morning yoa may seethep'ans of glass T??rT. ' jpes-mauntiB8, trees, lakes -blended in a bajaUfuljr.anfaMtja pictars. Now lay your hand npon the glass, and by ihm scratch of pur Cajer, or tit wixeUh of yoar goutjrs' grpavfinntt. NUMBER - 22.CI palm, all the delicate trasery will be Obliterated i So there U in jonth a btastxa3 purity of char v:.v i . ". . 1 . X . . bvki, wwui, hucu vuvw umcaea ana denied, can never be restored; a' fringe more delicate than frost work, and which,, when torn and broken, will never be re embroidered. A man who Bas spotted and "spoiled his garments" in" youth, though he may seek to make them white again. can never whollv do it. ftn m m .w them with his teare. When man leaves his father's house with the blessings of his mother's tears still wet upon his forehead, if be' once lose that early pority of character, it is a loss that h can never make, whole again. ; Such is the con sequence of crime. Its effects cannot be eradi cated it can only be forgiven. unts on Health. Heaven never eranted a richer boon thart health, and without it, all ther blessings anr comparatively valueless. Yet it is often lightl esteemed and carelessly thrown away, and nev er fully appreciated - until it is gone. I Lav seen the mistress of a" splendid mansion sur rounded by every luxury which, wealth could command, lying upon her couch, pale and mis erable, fretful and unhappy. Within her reach . were the most delicate viands and exquisite fruits, yet she could partake of none. Health was no longer bers. , She - had parted with it for the sate of gratifying her vanity, by wear ng thin shoes, to display the beauty of her foot and now, when consumption was preying upon her, she repented her folly, but it was too late and though she would willingly give all that she possessed, the priceless treasure could not bj recalled. ; . , . The thin ghastly-looking gentleman, who re clines in bis luxurious easy chair, with his gouty foot upon a pillow, sighs and groans in anguish. byiand thinks of the many weary nights of pain. when the bed of down and the silken covering sould bring lira no repose. How he envies the plow-boy, who whistles on the green fields, whose step is elastic, and whose heart is light and gay at his toil, while bis Bleep is sound and refresh, ing. ; . ' .. . - What is wealth to the invaTid but a bitter mockery which can yield no happiness? Then prize the rich boon of health, ye who possess it, and lift your hearts in gratitude to God, even though your lot be one of poverty and toil 7 'y"'-: --::" V - : Eating Fruits. . . No liquid of any description should be dranl within an hour after eating fruits,' nor should Anything else be eaten withio two or three bors ' after thus time being allowed for them to pase outof the stomach, the syBtem deriyers from them all their enlivening, cooling and opening influences. The great rule is, eat fruit and ber ries while fresh, ripe and per feet, in their natur' al state without eating or drinking anything lor" at least two hours afterwards. With these restrictions, fruit and berries may be eaten with moderation during any hour of the day, and without getting tired of them, or ceasing to ba benefitted by them during the whole season! ' It is a great waste of lusciousness that fruits and berries, in their natural state, are not made the sole desert at our meals, for three-fourths of the year; cum an enjoyment and health, and even life, would be promoted by it. UaUa Jour, of Health. . , Sleeping after Dinner. This habit, which is becoming so very popu lar in this country, and particularly so with young , persons, is an exceedingly pernicious one. in our climate, tne stomach does not Der form its functions during sleep, except with slowness and difficulty; so if it be heavily loaded, it remains in a semi-torpid condition, until ther siesta is finished. The result of such a daily torpidity is indigestion, or some one of the thousand different forms assumed by the hydra, dyspepsia. In hot countries, the action of the digestive on gans is much easier than here, and sleep, unless- very sound, impedes the stomach functions but very -slightly, if at alL The siesta is, therefore. a natural and proper thing for the tropica, al though totally inappropriate to the United States, umtOTist. With whiskers thick upon my face I went my fair to see; " Sho told uis aba could never love . y A xar-fdeed chap like tne. - . I shaved Jhem clean, then called again, ' And tbonght my troubles o'er; , , fbe laughed outright and said I was More bart faetd than before ! - ' y - ,aip -. ' Thb His. There is nothing funnier in Cock ney's vernacular, than Jeame's letter, .when hw ' is in doubt which to prefer of his two lady loves. Mary Han a and Hangelina. He writes "Ther they stood together, them two yonng woman. don t know which Is the andsomest. .-1 cood'n help comparing tbem) and I could n help com paring myself to & certain animal I've read, of. that found it dilBckJt to make a choice bet wigsV 2 Bandies of A." . . - , -fSF An Iribh .gentleman being at Epsom ra ces and tfbserving ia the Fist ef borses that star' ted for the platej one called ' Brothersm," fook sneh faney to the name that he betted consid' rable odds in his favor. Toward the eooelus ion of tSe race, hls"favonte was unlackily in the rear, on which he vociferated' in so4 load a key as to drown everr other voice: "Ah. rav lads. there be goes Bothers m forever I See how he drives them all before hi ml" 1 -. - r Iir JeoriRDT. A merchant not "remariab!y converiant with .geography, picked op a news paper and sat down to ro. He haa not pro . ceeded far before he cam to a passage staling hat one of his vessels was in jeopardy. Jeop. rdvl Jo6pardvP said "the Bstooisbsd merchant vho had previously heard 'that tho v3r ra oat. "let me sea, that isrSoaJSwrtern tnthe.' terranean; wall I am glad ah hasgCl into rcrsla u I thooght it was all over wills' tsr