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Single i sertions. one dollar per square; semi-monthly, mont ly and quarterly advertisements charged the same , for a single insertion. ?3^"*The number of insertions desired must be not< on the margin of all advertisements, or they will 1 p iblUhod until ordered discontinued and charged a cordingly. |l Ifcltttrfc Calf. TI3K OXLY SOY. B V M It S . JANE WE A V E It. Mr. Ilarcourt sat alone in Lis study. Tl; walls were crowded with book cases, tilled wit the massy tomes of the law; his table was co' ercd with papers of importance; and a pile i notes, which had just been paid by a client, la -,t bU oll,.tw_ The eostlv lamp that bun X* v v v< vv 1 above li s head threw its full light oil the upp< part of his face, bringing the massy.brow out ii to bold relief, and giving additional sternness I his cold and inflexible features. All at once 1 rang the bell. "Is master James arrived ?" he said, abrupt! when the servant entered, sir." "Show him in then." In a few minutes the door of the study opei ed again, and the lawyer's only son stood in ll presence of his father. lie was a youth ofaboi seventeen, fair and manly to gaze upon, but wil that look of dissipation in his countenance whit mars even the noblest beauty. An expressii of feminine softness and irresolution in his tac contradicted the proud and self-willing glance his dark eye. He seemed, indeed, to judge fro his looks, to be wholly a creature of impulse. "So you have been in another scrape, sir," sa the old man, harshly. Tiie youth bowed his head aud bit his lip. "It cost me four huudr -d dollars to pay f< the carriage that was broken, and the horsi foundered in your drunken frolic. What hai you to say to that sir ?'' The young man's eye wandered irresolute around the room, without daring to meet h father's face. Nor did he make auv reply. "How long is this to last ?" said his paren ? - I ,,r.t t,.M \'i ill a uiutc wuv* a. .-^.v j ^ again and again, that I would disown you these things went on ? You are a disgrace, si to tne?a bl>>t on my name. Thank God, yoi mother did not live to see you grow up!" The youth had been evidently nerving hims< to bear his father's rebukes with as much iudi fcrenco and coolness as possible; I ut at the mei tion of his mother's name, his lip ijuivered an he turned away his head to hide the tears gatl ered in hi^eyes. Had the stern, irritating o! man known how to follow up the chord he h i struck, his son might yet have been saved ; la he was a hard, and correct matt, unaccustotiu to make allowances for difference of charaetc and ho resolved to drive his sou into obedient by the strong arm of parental authority. "You turn away to laugh you rascal, doyoff said Ire, enraged. "You believe, because vt are my only child, I will'not disinherit yoii.But I would cast you off if you were ton thru my only son : and I made up tny mind, to da t?? tell you, at otice to go. There js a parcel notes, live hundred dollars, I beficve: lake ii and to-morrow 1 will make it a thousand, befo you depart. But remember, this is the last uigl you shall spend under my roof?the hist cent my money you shall ever touch." When the mother was alluded to, the you I bad almost made up his mind to step forwar a-k pardon for his evil course and promise s ' ? ! . A_. lemnly Iiereatier tu live a ureoi sinci proprne\ but the sharp and angry tone in which Mr. 11a court pursued the conversation, and the won of banishment with which it closed, tended I make him irresolute. He colored, turned pal and parted his lips as if about, to speak; the he clasped hi* hands half in supplication; hi the cold contemptuous look of hi< father check* him, and he remained silent. The angry tlu.however rose again to his cheek, and bccan fixed there. "Not a word, sir,'1 said the father, "It is t< late pleadi% now. Don't be both a block he;i and a coward. 1 told you if you ever got in such a discreditable difficulty I would di-ow you. But the warning did no good. Vousiiu reap as you have sown. Will you go?*' The youth seemed again about to speak ; bi his word* clicked him. The spirit of the son, i well as that of the father, was roused. He fo the punishment was disproportion* *1 to the < fence, even great as it had been. He took tl notes which his parent held out to him, cruri pled them hastily together, and Hinging thei scornfully back, turned and left the r*>oin. Tl next instant, the street door closed with a hea\ clang. "He has not gone, surely ?" said the fathc startled lor a moment. But his brow darken* as his eye fell on the notes. "1 es let him gi the graceless villain; lie is hereafter no son mine. Better die childless than have an lie who is a curse and a disgrace to your iiaiue.I>id I not do my duty to him ?" Ay! old man, that is the question. Did ye do your duty to him ? Were you not liars when you should have been lenient?did yn not neglect your son for years after his mother death, careless of what kind of associates lie cot sorted with?and when lie had heen led aslra did you not in total disregard of his willful cha acter, the result of your own indulgence, did y not, wc say, attempt to coerce him by thren when you should have drawn him by the gent cords of love ? Look into your own heart, an see if you are not just as turn asonabh; as yoi son. Can a character be reformed in a dav Your profession should have taught you bctto old man. J5ul the boy has gone from your ro forever, for well he knows how inflexible is yoi stern, self-righteous heart; and indeed with portion of your own pride he would sooner ei off his right arm than solicit your aid. Ye take up that mass of complicated paper and o doavor to forget tlie past scenes in their absoi bing details, hut yours must be a heart of ad;i ~ mant, if in despite of your oft-repeated reason ings, you can justify your harshness to him.? Remember the words you have uttered. The id may apply to more than one. uAs you huv if. sown, so yon shell nap/" '}' James Ilarcourt went from his father's lious in utter despair. Pride had supported him dm n. iug the last few moments of the interview, ate h-1 had met his stern parent's malediction \vnn on as j ter defiance, bnt when t lie door had closed upo ^ | him, and he turned to take a last look up at th J0 window which was once his mother's, the tear c. gushed again into his eyes, and covering his lac in his hands, he sat down on a neighboring ste and sobbed convulsively. "Oh ! if she had In en living," he said, "i would have never come to th is. She would nc - have left me to form asssociations with thos who wished to make a prey of me?she wou! not have galled me by stern, and often und< served reproaches?she would not have turtle me from my home, with no place whither to g< 10 and temptations around nv on every side. Oh 11 my mother," lie said casting his eyes to Tleaver 1 , "look down on and pity your poor lx>y !" At that instant the door of his father's hous 3 opened, a? if some one was about to come fortl ? A momentary hope shot through him that h j parent had relented. But no! it was only ll" j servant who had been called to close the slur ? { ters. Ashamed to be recognized, the youth ha: lw lily arose, and turned a corner and disappeared ! Years rolled on. The lawyer rose in wenh Mitd eon.-ideratton ; honors were heaped protusi ly on him; he became a member of Congress, Senator, a Judge. I lis sumptuous carriage r<>! ed through the streets daily to bear him to an "* from Comt. An invitation to his dinners w;i 10 received jti triumph, t!iey were so select. I llt every respect Judge llarcourt was a man to b {' envied. :l' But was lie happy? lie might have bee reader, but for one thing, lie had no one t ?\ love. lie felt that people courted him only froi 0 interested motives. Oh ! how he som-tinu In i longed to know what had become of his diseai . J dt d boy, confessing to himself, now that yai lu i iiad removed the veil Ironi his eyes, how harshl lie liad used the culprit. "Perhaps, if I had borne with him a little lor *r ger he might have reformed." lie said with s j sigh. 'die. always had a great heart, and hi 'e I pour mother used to say he was so obedient.? j But he got led away !" [ At this instant a servant cautiously opened hi ls i library door. I "It is almost ton o'clock, vottr honor," lie s.aiii t ' ' j "and t!:e carriage is at the door." j "Ay. ay," said tho Judge, rising,as the servan 11 disappeared. "I have forgot imself. And th:i '' desjK*rale fellow, Koberls, is to be tried for tii 11 mail robbery." . .Many nn obsequious bow greeted the Judg< | as the oflicers of nis Court made wav for lit:: through the crowd, for the trial was of tmivers: interest, and liad collected together large mm A' hers. He smiled affably toand taking hi 1 scat ordered the* business to proc-ed. lie* ]>v soncr was brought in, a large, hold, tine lo -kin 1 man, but the Judge, uccnpk-d with a ea-e he ha U heard the day before, and in which ii" was wr ** ting out an opinion, gave little notice to tli r* J diurnal, or indeed to any of the procec lii.g :c i until the usual formalities had It-en gone throiigi j and the serious part of the evidence began t?> h ! i heard. Then the Judge for the first time, d ,'1 | reeled a keen glance to the prisoner. ~~ j "Sun ly. 1 have seen that face before," lie salt j Hut he could not rciiiemh'-r w here ; and !? turi: > \ j ed to scrutinize the jury-box. The case was a t le-r one. The t"stimoii ' j when completed, formed a mass of evidence ilia ' I was irresistible. Two men swore positively i '' j the person of the accu*lmicti ' j was death. ) On hearing the verdict, the prisoner set hi I mouth firmly, and drew himself up to his fu '" height. Hetbre sentence was pronounced, h " j asked leave to say a few words. He did it i j so earnest a tone that the Judge immediate! * *'! granted it. wot.deling that a man who looked s | courageous should stoop to beg for his life. :1| j "1 acknowledge, my crime.'' taid the prisotiei ( "nor do 1 seek to palliate it. Hut neither do t till* IfH'I'l'V*. T MH fuin"* ?ic 1 li'll'A I I *i i K*1 it a dozen times. l?ut I ui-h l<> say a word o ! ti e cause that brought me t" I hi* place." ,M ! Kw-rv lark was stretched forward t?> catch ill I ! word* of tlie speaker; even tlioJu i^ h-aia* tui over the bench, cot?tro!l.*?l by an interest lb II | which lic*c?tihl liut account. ^ j "I was born of reputable, uriy, disliiiguMiei I parents," said the man, "and one at least was a i atimd. I'.ut she died early, and my father, ini '1> 1 incised in ambitions schemes, quite loi'ijot tu< i so that I was left to form iiiv own nsu for^ivini;. h ; "At leiiirtli," continued the sneaker, ttirniti full on the Judge. until their eyes met, "at leiigt 's one evening, my parent sent forme in his studi i'- I lind been guilty of some youthful folly, an v, having threatened me about a fortnight helot r- with disinheritance if I hgain vexed him, he no' ?tt t<>lil 1110 that henceforth I could be no child < Is his, but an outcast and a beggar. lie said, to< ]e that he thanked God that my mother had in id lived to see that day. That touched me. J la ir J,c then spoken kindly?had he given me ' ? chance I might have reformed ; but he irritate r- no- with harsh words, clu cked my rising prompi of j ingS <,f good by condemning me unheard, an Hr| sent me forth alone into the world. From th: ;l I hour," continued the prisoner, speaking liarshl 111 and with great emotion, "1 was desperate. s went out from his door a homeless, friendlef n- boy. My former associates would have shrun - from mo, even if I had not boon too proud t( i sock them. All decent society was shut ngains i- 1110. I soon became almost starved for want o - money. lint what needs it to toll the shifts y was driven to ? I slept in miserable hovels? c consorted with the lowest and vilest?1 gambled 1 cheated, arid yet I could scarcely got mv bread e Vou who sit in luxurious homes, know not tin means to which the miserable outcast must re J sort for a livelihood! llut enough. From oin step I passed to another, til! I am here. Fron n the moment 1 was cast out from my father' e house, my fate was inevitable, leading me lr s slowly descending steps, until I became tin1 feloi c I now am. And I stand here to day, ready t< p 'endure the utmost penalty of your laws, car.-les of the future as I have been reckless of the past, it Ho ceased : and now released from the torron it of his passionate eloquence, which had ehainei e. their eyes to liiin, the spectators turned towar< d the Judge to see what effect the prisoner's word had produced. Well was it, that no one had look d ed before, else that proud man had sunk cowerin? . from his scat. They would have seen how Id 1 eye gradually quailed before that of the speake i, ?how lie turned ashy pale: how his whole facr at length, became convulsed with agony. Ay e old man, remorse was now fullv awake. In th i 1 f _i?*. ... i IT . .1 .1. i. criminal ne rccogmzcu Disomy sou; mbuiui^ii is tlieu of ilie word* lie had once used, ''? * y<>> a wir, so yon shall reap''' I>nt hya mighty etfor t- lie was enabled tc hear the prisoner to I he end s- and then feeling as if every eye was upon liin 1. penetrating his terrible secret in his looks, h h sank, with a groan, senseless to the earth. The confusion that occurred in the Cour a House when it was found that the Judge ba< I- been taken suddenly ill, as the physicians sail J by a stroke of apoplexy, led to the postponeniett is of the prisoner's sentence, and before the nex u session ?>f the Court, the culprit had received i e Conditional pardon, the result it was said of lit mitigating circumstances which he had urged si n eloquently on his trial. The terms on which : 0 large portion of citizens petitioned for his pat n j dun r* quired that he should forever after resi 1 :s j abroad. It was said that the Judge, althowgl r- scarcely recovered, had taken such an interest ii s the prisoner, as to visit him in a long and score y interview the night before lie sailed to Euroje. About a year after these events, Judge liar 1 court lesigticd his olliee on the plea of id healtii a and having settled his affairs, embarked for tin is o!J world, \\ liore lie intended to reside for man; - years, lie never returned to America. !'>u travellers said that lie was residing in a s'-elu le< is vnll?-y of Italy, with a man in the prime of lif who passed for his adopted son. It was tl:o re 1. claimed outcast. A smiling family of grand children around him, the happy father could >a it ' in the l:ingiiag'.ibbat!i Would Impel. ssfv enslave the woil 4? nig cla-ses, with whom we are identified.' | Thiol; of lalior thus going on in one monote y j nous and etermd cycle ? limbs forever on tli j rack, tlie fiatcis forever pUing, the eyed.all ' lincvcr^ti iiiiiin'r, tlie tiro v.* forever sweating, tli I " # C ' ; feet forever plodding, the hraiu forever thiol. '* i I'ing, the shoulders forever drooping, the loin forever .-selling, and the restless mind foicvc .v j scheming. Think?asyonr imagination heboid 1 j the illum ing wheel of work, the treadmill < ,} j labor, thus going round, and round, without j ehaitgf, without pause, from morn to nigh: from moon, to moon and from year to year1 ! think, if you can, of the desolations that tuns t follow tiiis absolute reign of labor over tli I whole realm of lime. Think of the beauty i s wou d fibre ; of the merrv-heai tedne-s it won' ' | extinguish: of tin- giant strengths that it woul *' lame ; of tli?? rcsmurecs of nature that il \voul< " i exhaust; of the aspirations it would crush ; } i ihe sicknesses thai it woiihl breed; t?T tlu^ pro 0 j?'ct> it wiuiM wreck ; of (lie groans that i I u.nsld exl-rt; of the lives that it would ilium i late ; and of the cheerless graves that il woiili ' prematurely dig! See thein, toili ig ami moil in;:,sweating and fretting, giinuing and hewinii !l | weaving ami spitting, strewing and gathering | sowing an I reaping, razing and building, dig '' trill*; ami nlatiliii" miladim; and sioiiuir, slii 1 ts r> I o1 o ving and struggling ;?in the garden and in th I field, in the granary and in the ham, in the fat tory and in the mi.I, in the warehouse and il ' the shop, on the mountain and in the ditch, of spring, in the energy of youth and in the im I- I . ..I * . c.... i....': *i ..l.l. : :l.. j.iMriiur ui Jim*, w ik'ii ill ?iiin i> iiii'iiiiy uiiiit ' iog in tin* blood, and when disea-e is eatinj up tin' strength when death is iii the lonel; 1 home, and wlicii happy licarlli;? tli'.is the whet 1 j of labor would go round with I lie earth, Jim ' i and tlu; children of'industry, chained to its stir . faee, imisi follow its ruiiioits ci run in v? ?1 ti ii? ?ns 1 till exhausted by iniatiiral ellbrls, they tela: their hold, drop oil, and suddenly disappear! )f Ahstkmious Dnrr.?Many cases of illness [j both in ,adults and children, may be readil; . -'cured l?y ahstiucco front all food. Headache ,1 disordered stomachs, and many other attack? ... are often caused by violating the i tiles of'health ,v and in coiise?|iience, some parts of tlie systcn ,r are overloaded, or sonieoftlie organs are cloy , gcd. Omitting one, two or three meals, as th case may be, gives the system chance to res ,j and allow the clogged "organs to dispose ? llwir hlitdioo: 'i ln> or.-icfici- ol uiviiifx dnilT a """ ' - ( ...vv.wv ^ n r? (| to dear out the slomadi, though it may allbn ^ the needed temporary relief, always weaken (j the system, while abstinence secures the gmx 1( result without doing any injury. .. Said a young gentleman ton distinguishei 'l medical pract'mner in Philadelphia, ' IJocloi .s what do you.do for yourself when you have k turn of the headache, or slight attacks ?" ) "Go without my dinner," was the reply, t "And if that does not cure you, what then V f "Go without my supper." I "But if that dues not cure you, what then?' I "Go without my breakfast. Wc physicians I, seldom take medicines ourselves, or use then . in our families, for we know that abstinence i; fj be.tcr; hut we cannot make our parents believt i it." e Many cases of slight indisposition are curet 1 by a change of diet. Thus,-if a person .suffers s from constipation, has a headache, slight at y tacks of fever or dyspepsia, the cause may of a ten be removed by eating rye mush ami mo a lasses, baked, apples and other fruits. A ThriSiingSccwc. 1 The ship Tiodc Wind, which took fire 01 1 her passage from New York to San l'rancisco 1 had among her passengers eight missiomiric: s and their families, sent out to California am. " Oregon by tlie Homo Missionary Society.? ? One of them writes home the following descrip tioi; of the scene of board. r Tlie morning of the twenty-first day of ou '' passage, when in lattilude 1 deg. l i mill,, am 1 loiigtilud" 132 ilegs. 3S mius., onu of the sailor: c" c.iiiio running to l!io officer on ti:e quarter-dec} * crying out, ''The skip is on fiie!' Tliis offi '' cer went forward and saw the smoke coining * out of tlie chain lockers and crevices o '? the deck. He ordered the force puinp t( 1 he manned, and went back to the cabin when Captain W.and the passengers were at break fast. He communicated the fact to the captaii 1 and they both left without any suspicious beinj excited as to the cause. After breakfast I wen -* upon the deck, and the unusual stir on tin c forecastle my attracted attention, 1 went for I ward and soon learned the cause. a The ship was on fire in the cargo, some f" where, it was supposed, between the sccoiu ' i and the third decks, but how extensive the tin II was could not be immediately ascertained. / hole was cut in the deck, ami a stream of \va ter from the force-pump which would throv 1 about five barrels per minute, was thrown ii 1 upon the burning mass. Several other place 1 I were cut, and lines for passing buckets wen formed by llie passengers. Wo toiled on ii litis way for some three hours, but could se< '' no indication that we were getting tlie lire un '* der. The ventilators seemed rather to shov 1 that it was spreading aft under the cabin, whiel 1 was then Vgiiiiiiug to be filled with gas am smoke. 'llie ship was then turned head to the land we wc.e four hundred and littv miles from it:? The magazine was hoisted upon the upper dec! and placed w here it could be easily throwi overboard, tlie life boats got out, and provision * and water, and the clothing whieb \\c wouh need till we could reach the land made ready " At this time another large opening was tinuli and a box on fire, was broken to pieces; am its contents j assed upon deck. Another am : another was broken up in the same manner ' lili a place was made, large enough to adnii ? one of the sailors, who boldly went down wit n tin* hose in his hand, lie directed it agains i- the burning mass, till he fell exhausted on tli Hour. He was dragged out and another a ;f hold as he, came to his place. I:i a inonieu i or two he fell, like his companion, and \va _ dragged out insensible, and carried upon th< ? deck. Anotl'.er ai.d another took his place am e slurred ids fate. s Thus it went on, till every one of our sixt; e snihu's had taken his turn. At one time I conn ?- tol sixteen of these generous fellows lying td s gethcr on the dec!-. Ti e ladies came fron r the cabin and ballad their hands with camplio s which would, inmost cases, bring them to ii d a short time. As soon as one was recoverei :i M.fiiciently to walk he would go back and ul t, for bis services again. Several of the men wen - 1 b'ouglit up out of tins place as many as eigh t J times. On iIk* most of 11'.om the gas whic! 0 | t'acy inhaled seemed to have an effect somcthiu* it | like that of laughing gas particularly whei d; tiey were partially resuscitated. It was no ea d | sr matter to restrain those powerful men whei 1 j tkey endeavored to throw themselves over >f j li-aid, or do themselves or us some bodily >* | Uirtn. it i Fur four hours wo labored in this way am i* von may may imagine the terrors of our posi d : turn. We could but fear that the strength o * ' the men, self sacrificing as they were, woult f. j not hold mi till the llasnes were extinguished ;, j Smie of them could do no more, and lhc j joyful news came that the fiio was out. .\< it more (lames?could he seen, no more sinolo ii | arose. We began to breathe freely, and hop< J | that that deliverance had been sent to us. Af ii I the rest of an hour an examination was madi I"| but no signs of lire discovered. We all lay i,: down upon the deck (it was very warm) am cj passed the night. The next day was the Sab v ' bath, and never did a more grateful, a mori -! tie\*(?ut assembly come together for the worshij ! . of(?od. " | -? ??> ?- ?*? ?1?- 1 Hatti.k of Nuw Okluans?" I'hilo Jack )' ! son," writes to the Savannah Journal an in ' ' teresting account of a visit to (Jeneral Jaeksoi ' at the Hermitage in 1&J2, from which we ex " ' tract the following: '' j " I longed to hear him speak of his gren ' j battle, Ulld one of the greatest battles, too, n j modern history, tIn? crowning exploit of hi j military life, the battle of the 8tli of January before New Orleans.. Me bad just retnrnei v Ire ni bis last visit to that city, ami Jameiitet '? the decease of most of bis old compatriot since that battle. All the odicers except Col h Ticbaillt, lie observed, were dead, lie tliei 11 grapliieallv described the field, the fortijicolion* as he laughingly called them, and the victor in a manner I shall never forget.?"Mi ' Katon," (said (Jeneral Jackson) "lias grcatl ' erred in his description of the American works s ii,. t.,i c I li-i.l ?l sfroil"' breast work of cotloi ' | hags.' There wvv not a bay of cotton in th s I ficbt, sir ! I had some store Ijoxcs and sain J hags, or hags tilled with sand, and these wcr extended along tin; lines; hut they were s d low, that at the elose of the action, when th lititi.sh surviving (leneral in command earn il tiding up on an elegant horse to surrender hi sword, when he got near me I heard him c.\ I claim, with mortified surprise, 4 Barricades 'Thy , I could leap them with my horse ! ! I laughed heartily at his astoiiislnnciit, for sr ' he could, and besides, 0:1 one u'iny the work: 5 were not completed ; I had nothing there but: 1 corn field fence, if the Hi itish had only known * to turn it. But by keeping my men constantly : throwing over faeiues and ladders on the work: the British were effectually deceived. But,' 1 (continued Gen. J.) " I never had so grand ant s awful an idea of the Resurrection as on thai day. After the smoke of the battle had clear - ed oft* somewhat (our men were in hot pursui - of the flying enemy) then I saw, in the dis tance more than five hundred Britons emerging from heaps of (heir dead comrades, all over lie plain !?rising up and more distinctly visible , as the field became clearer, coming forward am surrendering as prisoners of war to our sol ^ i diers. They kad?fallcn at our lirst fire oil tbeni ] I without having received a scratch and lai prostrate,.is if dead until the close of the action.' General Jackson regarded this'action, justly as the. most glorious achievement of his life r That, victory was as glorious to his country a: I to the hero of New Orleans, yet the strategy o 5 the General in this masterly battle has neve 1 been duly appreciated in any history of it . have read." r ? -? f Family Harmony.?1. We may be quiti ) ! sure that our will is like to be crossed in th< 2 day; so prepare for it. 2. Everybody in the house has an evil na i | tare as well as ourselves, and therefore we ari r not to expect too much, t 3. To learn the different temper of each in i dividual. 4. To look upon each member of the familj as one for whom Christ died. 5. When any good happens to any one, t< 1 rejoice at it. i G. When inclined to give an angry answer i to lift up the heart in prayer. 7. If from sickness, pain, or infirmity, \vi v feel irritable, to keep a very strict watch ove. i oursevlcs. 3 8. To observe when others are so suffering l> and drop a word of kindness and sympathj i suited to their state. i_> i). To watch for little opportunities of pfras ing and to put little annoyances out of tin v way. a 10. To take a cheerful view of everything j and encourage hope.* 11. To speak kindly to the servants, aiu ; commend them lor little things when they de - serve it. < 12. In all the little pleasures which mayoc l cur, to put self last. s 13. To try for "the soft answer that turnetl 1 away wraih." 14. When we have been pained by an un e kind or deed, to ask ourselves,?"Have I no 1 often done the same, and been forgiven ?" J 15. In conversation, not to exalt ourselves t but bring others forward. ? 1G. To be very gentle with the younger ones h treat them with respect, remembering that w t were once young too. e 17. Never to Judge one another, but attriL s ulea good motive when you can. t IS. To compare our manifold blessings wit! s the trilling annoyances of life, c ID. To read the scriptures every mornini J and ash God's blessing to attend each motnbe of the famly through the day. f j _ - _ 4-O-S - | Live net to Vourself. j On the frail little stem in the garden hang i | the opening rose. Ask why it hangs there j ' I hang here," says the beautiful flower, " t< 1 | sweeten the air which man breathes, to opei I I my beauties, to kindle emotion in his eye, ti j show him the hand of his God, who peneilet - j each leaf and laid them thus on my bosom L j And whether you find me here to greet hirr 1 | every morning, or whether you And me on tin ,r j lone mountain side, with the bare possibility 1 | that he will throw* me one passing glance, my end is the same?I live not to myself." 1 ]k*side yonder highway stands an aged tree solitary and alone. A on see no living thin* ' | near it; and you say, surely that must statu j for itself alone. " No," answers the tree ' " God never made me for a purpose so small " For more than a hundred years i have stooc ' here. In summer I have spread out. my arm: I and sheltered the panting flocks which hastenec to my shade. In my bosom I have concealtc ; and protected the brood of young birds, a: r j they lay and rocked in their nests; in tin I storm I have more than once received in my ' body the lightning's bolt, which had else de ' stroved the traveller; the acorns which I haw ? matured from year to year have been earrtet ; far and wide, and groves of forest oaks cat claim me as their parent. I have lived for th< 1 eagle which has perched on my top, or tin humming bird that has paused and refrcshe< 1 its giddy wing, ere it danced away again lik< a blossmn of the air; for the insect that ha: ; found a home within the folds of my bark > and when I can stand no longer, I shall tall by j the hand of man, and I shall go to strengthei I the ship which makes him lord of the ocean - j and to lik dwelling to warm his hearth am - | cheer his home?1 live not to myself. 1 ' On yonder mountain side comes down tin ! silver brook, in the di-tance resembling tin j ribbon of silver, running and leaping as i t ! dashes joyous!y and fearlessly down. Ask tin I' leapcr wlut it is doing. " 1 was born," sing s the brook, "high up the mountain, but then , I could do no good ; and so 1 am hurrying I down, running where I can, and leaping when I I must, but hastening down to water the swee s valley; where the thirsty .entile may drink . where the lark m iy sing on my margin, wher i 1 I may drive the mill for the accommodation o :,! man, and then widen into the great river, am y ! bear up his steamboats and shipping, and (1 . nally plunge into the ocean, to rise again ii y vapor, and perhaps conic baek again in th i. ( loud to my own native mountain,and livem i I short life over utraia* Not a drop of wate e I comes down my channel, in who that sleeps in the caverns of the d?.ep, as Well . i as upon the mighty sun uhich warms and - 1 , cheers the millions of creatures that live in l?Ur; ^ ; light?upon all has he written, " None of Us . 'H 5 liveth to himself!" * . 1 Geokgk Washington*.?In rny boyhood, but J * t old enough to consider and remember, I saw - ji - George Wellington; in his coach going to 1 chureli, and at other times when drawn by six Ja * horses, with several servants in showy, liveries; . 1 in his graceful and commanding seat"on horse- * ? back ; in a court dress, small .s^-ord, and hair in i j a bag, delivering his farewell address to Congres; 1 I in his drawing-room, with all his secretaries;' Pickering, Hamilton and Knox, smoking the. ^ , j pipe ot* peace with a tribe of Indians, all solemn ^ j as he was ; and once, as schoolfellow and play ' j mate of his wife's grandson, Mr. Custis, 1 had . * J . ; the casual honor ot dining with him in ti*eV.*J3 grave and nearly taciturn dignity of his fami5 j iy circle, with several servants in attendance/ * < f j and a secretary, Mr. Dandridge, officiating as r I carver. General Washington's Revolution campr" " -i 1 j table chest presented to Congress on thn-eigh-' i tecnth of April, 1844, as a relic t.o be preserved* ^ is one of the many proofs that he not only loved' j good cheer but, as governor or manager of men, v. t j promoted conviviality as an affair of state an J General Washington uttered with passionate -.4 outbreak, when disobeyed and disappointed in 'J battle, i have seen Lis minute, written direc4 tious fur the liveries of his servants, and con-. A r corning*lie choice and rent of a bouse; and _? have been assured, by a gentleman tvlio ^pent i r some days with him at Mount Vernon, when no ' j longer on his guard, that the pnee reserved and ^ j solemn statesman chatted freely on all subjectsT \ .! IwjersolVs History. 1 < f ???; Some weeks since, the Florence Gazette v. published an account of the capture of a w]Jjj T l| man, who was found in a cave near the Muscle ' 1 1 Shoals on the Tennessee river. The same pru. : - per, in making allusion to its former article $ gives the sequel of the story as follows: % We gave the name of the unfortunate individual as Goring. Our article attracted the 1 attention of Mr. Goring, the father of the poor outcast, who resides in Knox county, Tenn-? I " From the description, as well as from informa1 timi received through a letter, the old man was satisfied that it was his son who had been abli sent nearly seven years, and when last heard of was in this vicinity; and although poor, '> feeble and bent beneath the weight of sixty j e years, he set out for the purpose of finding and reclaiming him if possible. He arrived iu ' Florence on Wednesday morning last, nearly exhausted from fatigue and excitement We 11 were present when the old man was told of the finding and capture of his son; and the - recital caused him to weep like a child. We r voluntarily offered him our aid, and in company with him and two others we set out for Baiiibridge, at f he font of Muscle Shoals, where young Goring was stationed. On arriving, the s old man ha-tened to where his son was stand? ing. He offered him his hand and asked himr ') if he knew him. The son gazed at him and i answered he did, and called him father, while "> the old man again wept as if his heart would 1 break. They then had a long private conver. sation, iTnd after some persuasion the poor uni fortunate man agreed to return home with his s father. We came to town in company with > the father and son, and the young man gave a f very interesting his ory of his life and the cause which induced him to withdraw from the . world and seek the seclusion of the woods. : lie said that tho-e he worked for would not I pay ffim, and the world generally had treated ,! Iiiut badly, and being naturally melancholy and I; . . retiring, had concluded to shut himself out 1 J from the world, lie regretted his conduct,!' j s and said he would have come in long before 1 ! he was caught, but was ashamed of the tat1 j tcred garments he was clad in He says his s mind was never impaired, but he always shun2 ned society and had an involuntary shrinking at the approach of man, .and this feeling haa - grown on him duiing his wild adventures in j the woods. In company with his lather ho i left for home yesterday morning, and we trust 1 lie will soon see his aged mother and other re; lations who are now anxiously looking for his 3 arrival. The Perils or Falsehood.?In the beautis ful language of the eminent writer?"When 5 once a concealment or deceit has been practised f in matters where ail should be fair and open as 1 the day? confidence can never be restored any ' more than you can restore the white bloom to ' the grape or plum, which you have once pressed in your hand." How true is this? and what 3 a neglected truth by a great portion of mankind, e; Falsehood is not only oiie of the most humiliat J ting vices, but sooner or later it is certain to lead 3 j to many serious crimes. With partners in trade, s j with partners in life?with friends, with lovers, p I how important is confidence ? llow essential j that all guile and hypocrisy should be guarded e | against in the intercourse between such parties? t' How much misery would be avoided in the his1 /? . .... tory ot many lives, had truth and sincerity been i* controlling motives, instead of prevarications and f deceit ? "Any vice," said a parent in our liearl! in;*, a few days since, "aiiy vice, at 'east among the frailties of a maiden character, but falsehood. 11 Far better that my child should commit an ero ror, or do a wrong and confess it, than escape y the penaltv, however severe, by falsehood and r hypocrisy. J.' t me know the worst and a remee dv may possibly he applied. 13ut keep me in b the dark?let me ho misled or deceived, and it is impossible to tell at what unprepared hour a >r crushing blow, an overwhelming exposure, may it conic." i. ? o Next to my friend 1 love my enemies, for from if thorn I first hear of mv faults. J