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THE PRINTEL "The printer. in his folio, heraldeth the world, Now come tidings of weddings, toak ings, mummneis, entertainments, jubilcee. wars, fires inundations, thefts, murders. ma.s sacres. meteors. comet,, spectrunts, prodigie..s shipwrecks piracies, sea filhts, lin-suit4. pleas. proclamations. embaseres. oroil-hes, tri umphs, revels, sports, plays: then agarn as in a new-shlaed scene. trnasins, cheauag-trackm, roberies, enormous villanies in all kuds. fune tals. burials, net' discov cries expeditions; now comical then trgical matters. To day we hear of now oflic-sc e.ted. to-morrow of great men deposed, and then again of freush honors conferred; one is let loose, anotier prisoned; one purchaseth, anether breaketh; lie thrive i. his neighbor turredi bankrupt; now plenty. then again dearth and famine; one suns, sto ther rides, wras:;es, angas veeps, and et, forth. Thus do wet ujil: lear buch like. bth pubhc and private at.%% s." OLD LUITUS. Hp stood there alone at that sbadowy hour. By the swingng lamp dimly burning. All sil at within, save the ticking t) pe, All without, save the nsight-watcli sutning; And heai ily echoed the solemn sound. As slowly be paced o'er the fruzen ground. And dark were the mansions so lately tha: With the joy of fttlivity gleamuing, And hear's that wese beating sn uvnarathy the,. Wer,-nuw livina it o'er in their dre..ing : Yei the Paushimt still worked at iii knei., As s lowly he w.altered Lis taight hst. And there lay the merchant all pilow ed i. down. .Anei buildin:c bright hopes for the mor aw. Nor dreanid he that Fate wa then weavig -a wand TI :t would bs ing to hias car amid orrow; Ye: he Psiaer:: was thore in hot alshiswy V004L. And tm st in h'.m framework that rich m'i's dous! The vpnn ..:ife was s:ei:i.g. whom lately had The ties that dirdt only can s'ver; And dreaminag, she started, " et w e~ke wstth a eza.le. For she tieuc4ht they were paatml for ever' But the Psafrta was cl:ckinzg the typews - thl ttw.,uld jelt On the mourrow the truth of th~at aini;;t spel!! And there lay the statesman whose, fever.h brow And restlems, the pillow was preiring. For he felt thirou-:: the shadowy tnakt of hia dream. Ji~s !oinest hopes now poscsessing; Yet the Pasxa worked oan, um:! slencre and gloom, And dag fot Ambision its loniesict teumb. And slowly that workman went gtheresg up H is badge: of gries and of gdldss: A wreath for the noble, a grasve for the low, For the happy~a cue full of sadnests: Str::s:gc stories ot wonder, to emL...Alt the ear. And dark ones ofterror, to curdle w ith fear. Full strange are the tales wL~axb that drrk host *shall bear To palace an'd eat oan she mors'vw: - Oh welcome, ti'zn- t'.. a':re, to mcs:*y -ti To mnany a bearerL'; : Itsalgoalike the wild and n ande: ng asir. For life and its changes nre impressed there. Blosrosr, Aug. 1843 31lauts ~AGRICULTURAL. From the Chartestos Mercury. LllE-31A RL-EXPERil1ENT S Housr.. .Edafors.-In the present awak ened state of public attention to the sub K ject of applying Lime and Iblaa I to the ian provement of our soils, I have thought a detail of the following experimaents illus trative ofsome important principles, might nosonly be interetingr bus prnflsabke. Theo systeun of culture pus into pracsics othe Farmt w here they were made, was e.rmely eah..stin.-t., ,.'o:.u be. ing to obtain from the MIAl its grentest pro duct, and at the simLe titae too iitr-ase its ferility. anture was iw--r'fo- lberaily applied ; but from the texture of* the soil being (as all our stndy atnd p.'or vasl !r) light and porouts. ine Nuengi'. ofi ho mt.n ure wa-a rapidly exhalkd tand lost. j.,: t was obviotis tiat aniess; a greater rete:,tive powei could he ionparied to the soil, no pernanent impovemcm %n oild be elfected itn its quality. It w.a tae solve this pro blen the experiteut. Awereinstittel. First counrse-Ist Erpernent. An acre of ground, most ahundantiy iufcsted v.ithi Nut Grass, was deviJed irn- two eq':.' parts, and the siame t.jnt o-'* a:e wu.-. ure froin lthe city. ?:-o:cre~d bara..:,! dati ver it. and then plou.hIed go; aw.- ia-ustUy Lar;owedl. On oot. i.es. 50 bt.l.els of Shell Lime iti itR burnt for mild state was evenly dieso thatedi, by plazir like qluanti tiesa equaldistances and then lightly har rotiing in. In November. 1i1,: arop of Itye was plan:ed. which ;.rovi-al a g.od one. t.4d th g mei: :ras egeatn te Itco dici.ion 2d Lzpeincnt.- in the Spring after being reaped. the aiutle was pl->ughed under and the ground hatrowed. tn.l -: t ne horse roller passed over, et. is to pre'4 the stuble into the eart" lu prorsiote its quicker decoiapobition ; and in May a crop of lil let was planted, and the roller again pas sed over to promote an equal vegetation cf the seed. The growth was now sensi bly different to the eye ; the limed half, being of a dark luxuriant color, and rapid vegetation.-4tood three full cuttings widh some indications of a fourth. while the un limed was of a less healthy color aid of inferior grow tb, and was exhausted by two, Cutuings. Second coure 3d. ErperiIt. i Do 1 cember, H41. the entire acre *.w' u!:a:, e tnanured vih stzbe -noa.wre--I'at : grau cr portion rirte;.. ii~c uliegu ;!v i.r eut'ut o vot the siue -V.:te crop, e the luroduct turaed out a -ury -Cood , e*.e. bt tIhe grorth rq.a on both 1eks. 4t!s Erperiment.- ea l 11 a :1n.4 ;. . , a low ing a cip 1f Flit: Co.-.. p .: J re drills, 18 incles i he *. -l'. fl . . - 35 bushels go th.e ncre. 'e l..'e. - ngtin shcwing a dectded -ml. rio:r; .tt deeper color of tle '.:dc-.e:z z .f '% stein-and bergentes ofii th<. e:er; e4 ..if limed half indicaing : g..jt!jer: of .he manure and a r(:'lu.- in Lem-..:1 Third cou.se.-->th Erj-erin,:en: F r '.ht lbird liawe, is. Li.thte-4i!3er !4 . e same zicre w:4i : in 1.1c I.-ott a W' gieatcr pourtiun. girtn to the iadl;net hf~ jias initai of sbt-ble manure, a co--.p. (,: L w -peu. heavily littered in the' t.mrent s,1,t ra'l wi: greca suit marsh. -vs 'urult wt d. In Januaary. JoIZ. a crop o' the variety called Potato Oats, wia plautej, receiving the stane mtwe of etlure :n fornierly. The growtia was ttctutmo mitel uch as stelhesti v% itttrsiiel io outr 1-' country, both as to .ize ofstesm. anid n i*b of hit-:, but no different iu thc product of the tIwo hal/es. U:h x;periennt. It wu cut green. ini A pril, and the situ~le .ts imaieiedite-y i.o::,;berd iv. &e., :ond in Nia;- a crom.., f;ntf -' phiatt i. , i.'ct- turn-d out ve'l nit ow'e .nore te thmiieid halr e ititiced n Tar fo~regn i:.o s4: v:t' e :i Iitt 14 vlo fi rt-2A t . 1,t. te 0tut :,.e~' l -.ey .,* ti..: \ ri ivt.V ti ii er:.i.ei til: tVO w - ,t;I -I C-itt ll I; ..ne -.l e h a.' .. n P4 . ht~ nr-.1-16 144.1111:101' ei-e %011 polti:r t.-l d-. ' e imed<- r m'no t it l lct:ier, . c to) e.%- - ofit te! vs:--.ah.: wile. it thYemer oeLf of di:.er:v..nu: f 1,:..!i :.2 ;e waI- of tw: 1.iau:, so i . It. -t::r. it f:-rw re fertility lhut angeh' v.-he..! nawye ,"it o th i, fthe on- ett nutre ti rseiLrp es: n aueI: e::ns tcd on ~uethe ded ilae half -r'.! w!i the imes-d itsre fru ot the rce .nd coais uru,h nnie h :l wi'tt.a g..tri porq4en of '.:an ret :;.tt fcct t ieveund.:inier--! -i thou r.:. it,- g i:e thirdteursabe on L ien. a.ith:ail.'-r erf ;..tin ofu-tue nt M:n r - .-a .. w .;ic iiu.nedh tihen o erd uiion of ptengfeth bu- -a"nttfril.Ta 'he* ltn wo-. the ony t.s e".,t tt tie enc..~e nttibe~ doined.-'*;~ Ite- dottless wactedpo io n t ead s~r tHe-awn by latth1i, :cras- iuts te fu-. Imntit ;. r- iothspatad the i Itin t t ere winu ir t pcient. Ir setal. ntr cp-ri. fth: with ie tatie t te daredi great sudwit;ed o te r T hasofoir aard- t litt;:.le pogesal:..h ben pricipe of itr ieapr-v. fa; t on5. ctied soper:; and rsae.: onl alt i1a perfcihgase."w ocrrc n se ceten it. was the question? Two equa portions A Cre laidl ol, and she saine quan tity of usb1emanure otpplied and wel Iu i; hblt ti Oie. 110 haMtels of chel 1,:I?! (or it the r-tte of 260, lushel- t0 tihe ilt ) nov-%, ewid -sild lightly rakced its. !; L'41 a crup of co-i was pi.nted. :mni the antismed diviiionu I ::-d aliogether., while ti.o timed proithiced i gooii crop, a.A a good griwih ofcra gin<-.. n itre a tidi cation th:t tuie neaii'v wa, r'-rre':ted. It. ;.R4'. Irish Pl',atoets veto. planted the unlimed p: i-, .: 'ml, asiad the lincd n: . .-.1. -:;e!L' I i - : .s crop #J okra e as .-d-*,..:d limed iandl 'r.moizht tan ., r:p. b* the un.anud failed nn :--pl.'. , anad failcl totally. Here the.cxp.rimseat was most smaifacory-alI the resu.s amined at were accomplish.:d. Th. limo crrectud the sourness of tle ,0ati, anI xtirpated a lthe salt grasses aid wVeeds whi,:h had pirf-,iously infecstedi it. it r.eted in trip denJ inert vegetable mat ter %,I nich hiad been abundaut. bat usele.-i and chnyed it into a im.;zr.e f FuJ foir tihe plants. It matiti 11lt -- hi-l6 w a- use less and barreni .,t .jce productive and valuable. It might here be asked-as these expeui ineuts were rnade with hurut shell lime. would Marl have a like efl'ect ? The ef feet of Marl is precisely the same as lime, provided it be laid on in equal quantity and in an equnaly minu e state of divisin. The -sbell lime niglt he mtiore imme.linte in its effec:, but otly f-tm the circun stance of hein, niore ttainautely divideel awl thence beconiin more intinatekt mixed wit;, she wiole siil- I shall be excuaef lezr Vinst. thit le for--going ex pe-rim. ita'. .t "!'C uri,_emenit to our pian -. a :- .. ' ii a ' e ----" use fr lari '.-on 'och ":.:.".. WV 3 sh*,uld thr be anv !.e t , .r or d ..i' a ut it ? 'I'he -tflu e:uala lu; - 'ns.es Is ~t ea inr.a: sub. .- i' : &'4*-I a here b Ii maah' av:,ilabie i.; pe.r- ot:: s?; evre, t'tr t A !!6. h , h- h -uie ; al l,--d bu Iau Irv" i, at1 "n3- -- - - -: neieunt i au, fe t. '%k a i:e-il:I t. It( . : -y 'It'.. -. e :. u t1 an'l ,aei il! aoil, I.. . - i' - . n is.1 It i- ;I fI I - i . |. g : o~je~e f the noppIr,! l.:nd a.'et yJA i-.1yeuud .y rill, *o.<~ mob> .- Ih ai;; ty-br --~ ntau' o.r p -a, ri. in t he more oiperinointul . a . :V:. , r" - .W r * 1 . .- 04- Ili-it fla' V-- a F y.i-:. a,:riCtilture its ,re I .tajr - . . A.md biy it ionly 'ilt %it lit: cs er Ai# i. . imvamur- a id makli e-rnictical 'y -- I ale u.-C in tataa1ble i; C.., Wl il. C. . --.rre :,a noccupt ifon mtore t. . :h:. ut. n..re ; ane i hieh, i* por--p. ly ca. . pei.s a wildh r fia- tar it cxe'cr e--e. of i..e :h a ee-, I.- f - thie ril - ervali -P of -- ,; ;--1e . r--et ' . Ulit youl ecm: cal .i-h nro.-' I.. Ih it, r perat. 'It o 5il aj ' - ti a w!~, .-.;- r A ' ch * . v. lit. ' ,:i. . -- a' pegit., : . e: 1b r it. a it le It. I. I. S-tW Ap; i.- Trr- Ho r.--Tt '. .- e i., .- ! . I *r I h:et:-. r.:1'.. 'i '. per.?:y . ';f ,%'40i : 1, ! n-o n-- ' i-)? t:e c',t-r t-o n n ::aia ev rte t in:,' .1 .t-t h O.. it- ider -vie n ht a: I .' I' - the a tre - 1.: a ret -"ci -tin J : ;II n the Laice- prirt Jf .JIn, a-. J: . - j i*. e-.::s cal ilte ia'k 'Sc -- he , . ,r toe tre-'. 'I hey :a'ch 1nt its it sh' :'t ;ruha. .re n0 6iis. :siad a..art ' eviilder forn. Thc lea i-, m-. '.. l af :a *onwn coeir. 'a hev I..ve nn : Wit's str!i jase N' v ca: thriA.:t tie 'a~mr.. . ': ,.. - up...rd, t~aroa'gh the ,..d, aaje.i so ' hegira of the tre.e. Toit '5 rtta . a.iea I -.a or .4:ee' "'-3,.dut! ini' w.'lhi mar teni ;neth'.. I, -j1'pi-ra-h-'s the kanrk ::t ..o.: ~aa .ub:i- ,';--a:e.. ba ic it i, cover a'd i'.; ('11 ca. -a into' a beetle. 'hae a it -',---- -I. b emel' de- ta.syeal lby emit ng.. rmrii. 'img a ns ire into~. theo hin!' - .:"m: abemr rac'y :P-sce te:mametured their :ienry.Tiey nowi hiavea15 g'asuieda theniasel.".s to' th--- hterk ad hiv eS-a:phr tren ina sea san may t-e' disc avered. Son'- e ham -c irtl wcaad 'ilhe-. atroaundh m:.s ns iml th g effactm : otlt.-- say ini:. i. i-s efeer m at in ll case<. .1 fe w.eeks 'iaee we.c .s an the f'ar,*a f' M- B-irai. h1r~.chid it S!:er burne, o e~rci-.truii tI-'t h- ad laacen ,:mpallerti-l a",'ate.. t..-t. by~ j ..Ubiy a si la..otellt oft geo-j u.:!n.j.:.i .L.Oes :ar' au.l en::h tree. ishab'rautliher urciard :,ce te th~ i.: ta0, ia '. a; ' .t'':We' tat a:.' wny, w.as "'.*nnide - y.~..I: -ard by ~v3 h.er. Got k~u.-- Le. dm . of,1,r.,,,,a,-: io..a-a. a. that h emnd - . o :.: ' tie.-:m-al r 'oe:-.. 's-sod. , 'et:' the y 'in'sy 'e nron. aan: ams tier'~:V str ii "came id trti re.i:t 1: "".aae:1 iin i'tote .'Lert-4, i: . Whe le tao ng-aly t'a rat a'arly -a tIe ,:inran..n aai;i ian .me.t .ax Jutty. Wa'-i the lace befosre apa pivinlt th'e ni,aets. uanies it hie so ait thme m:ue. ant'' throzw the' trice againht thei wet" Itree 10. ..r ISi amachas 'ra anma mie groaua tt. In iihm to the' attes paut a pieeri ofl had'ja.- .?ap, iu 'helir. ofi it a cuiesmat into then br..zt .e' it' '':e t-ce, it . e ac ;-1e th-st as ii dienoli.es in the r~asin' it -,i!l sp re'ad :-r.ad run dnm ..'a: the whoacle - riam '1hlas, Ahu5 ~a gentleann whio 9'':is... desmrovs imseets mak e II. a hrk - ::nn16 andi healthy, andi it is con:,idered a rcem.' any thuas proteetedl. It is wor'thy aof trial. ft should bc inappliedl early int thg sprig, ndn ngaain in .italr or 4August. 'I'his bEret also attacks the qainlce. mountaia ash and someo kinds of thorn.-Boston Cultirator [It ii said 1inat Wiien r ee is itnfested with caterpillirs. ir a hole is bored into the body of the tree and a small quantity of the fJoier of sauph ur le poutred ill antd the halo in liltt-ged. tne caerpillars will speediiy le-wera the tree. We have alitu ! 1ard o tho peach tree wormi being cx pel Ird by boring a gimblet hole in the hedy of the true atd inserting a small qualntiiy of cal'm'el, 6s the spring, taking care to CIO-,a fihe 14I.C. Mlightl no thle isssertionl of n smll iantty of calomel or sulphur into the apple Ircee expel ltse borer ! The experimncut is casily made and is wu.tl trying. Prese:red Citron Melons.-T ake sent fir citron Alelons; pare, core and cut thcm into long slices. Then iweigh them and to every six pounds of melon allow six pounds of the best loaf-sugar. nd the juice and yellow rind (pared oil'very thin) of four large fresh lemons , alo halfa pound of rare-gineer. Put the slices of lemon into a prescr. ving kettle ; cover them with strag alum - water, and hoil them half on hour- or ltu-er, if they do not look gnitc clear. Then drain hcm, lay them in a lro-:d vcssel of oild wacr. cover themtan ta ;0l night. In thei morning tie tho rnr er in a tlirj tush,' cloth. atid hls it in three pelts of clea: pn. p 11 r a g -.u. 6ill the waer is Iotly dlavo:--d1. Ilenl :~e out the bag of gh.xer. H:tving bro oru up the sugar, put it iii : cla-no pire'r vint kenile. ard poor the' cia;.er.- iater over it. When the su;ar is ti-lted put it over the lire put in ifte yellow peel. of tie leointis, ard hail tieti -il am it ill no more scum rises. Then reinove the lemon peels pul in tve seied chrons sa:d tle j .aire ol the lem01onls, and to'l them i 'iCe 1.sruo; i1l thu -lice- arc all quite triiisp..reut, hut inot till they brenk. Wnen k1me.put t::e crr.ons atd syrup inito a .-eurenset i iiin a dry. cool. las-l. p.;ar,, nal leave in ntiroverad for t0o or :nnte day, nil ad iti w-itery particle-. lhave t u;lleuse. Aint rn -rd pult the slices e '-luilly main vdo -Ionthed glas ji-rs. 1:-dl .-t po i the syruip. Lay iniide of e.icl jar ulon the .urf'ace of the syrup - d..uble whit, ti1ue paper cut exactly :a fit. und tht:i close ihi hili of the jrs. Tlis will ie foudil a delion., sweenctat, i <pul to atv brought frmin the W--t In. I he, wtd i i.; wil ivurih ding. We re r'ozntzaeid it highly. Agticultural.,Anecdlote.-.1 knowl.-dge of tilt: i'lvi20, f ilsls is sornettines of gret-a .e-rvie, eveit in the zaving of citie,. a n.-s - his recem hi,tory ofthe lIaek I . .'*.. vr, a aninu g instanicc of lits . 1.t.- d-:*nc Of Rzetnne<. a towi of l"ri t:T.y. .e.Vged by the[ i Dukeol Iaancasoer. Iit *r.ler a chfeet the surrender of the' phiL C, the~ I)nke eniforced a seriec bhickade, hiri. m reluced tho garri-vit tip great striit.; but he kunew they wouild holl oit o t-e 1: extremity, anid determ.nel to try i -- ti 1-C war F'or this purpose. hetilrew l-is l ::idie.as he hal left the placc. : t;.t ..--t mcd a' amihusecade in sumc bustes ind tho t-'ws. lie then caoled nI a;nhlier'of hog-, to lie inrned louse in the in, in hew hope that the starving ;:tr r.iai n. I rusb out fur the prize. But until-ti:iood his tric'. nud turned it to T-i r ow 'i advatiage. They opened onie of the sdily-ports, anti hung ui a yoiug ,ow by the hind legs to the lihtel. She of -oerse Made ; great outcry, nid the hogs came rushing up to the place fruin whesice intne notso p'oceeded; she wai hni cui t1n.1 ai driven through one of the streei, a-1 forced to keep up her tusic. The soldiers spnrang up from itheir itabsrade. -ii order to try, and if possible plrevet:i this uqnbraked fur terination of their exper imtent: law . ames says, the hogs, with that jilt iive perceptioni of the way their .ntetr.4 doti d'' iish themti to go, wichej has~ ever mn:irk- d their nature,, went rushii.ig tumiultu.sly inlto thle townr. ami aityordedd ~tha ga rrison verry seasonable relief. ThIe 1armers Life..-Genitlemen. aillowu ttte uto essshgritulate you of theO hiappv sit. ilarimn in lire in wicah 11hos:-orre placedl. n hlloare engnged in thatetultivatiton of the ,-'ith. Itn independece,. in Iihehhfl om int tmnity, it excels every other, Pru-lenceiC and economyv, and a jtust esti multe of hi' po-sitionl int society, are requli sit's far at tian in all situatimns; but to <.:, nir.- tho facilities tot independence ta gr. cit ai t.i the farmnor? Favorably qi;te~td for aivoiditng temthptations to be ledl away hy the varieties of society he is su rroani-ted with cvery thin:: necessary to comgfortalide existentce. His life inideedl, is a labmorious atte; but labor is no evil-it conrduces to vigor of the body and cer a rily, it is not in idleness that happineass a, c r founid. The very place in which -lisi labrr. are carried on is favorable to hint lie lives not penit tip itn walls, anal int a conutineda or ininriii-ous atmaosphere, hut in the free airs or hecaven,. with the biutidle-ss sky for a roof andl surroiundcd lby every thing~ that lovely is nature. and enticulated to lead the mind from inatare to htatutres Godl. The seniti-itent of leo anid InalmairationU of the benutiful wvorks of the Go-utuir, leads us to see hitm, and to know him. aind to adltrr him. lie wvho Can plod on in hir, ficlds, insenlsible to these becaudes, is tratly or a cloddish hcarm. lie is iinealme~a of experiencing -that stubhime :n... of the Deity: which alone can elevate thte 4.i above the miseries tht envelope .all wee bily concerns, atnd give himit as it were, l fretnsto or the pumre and exsalted IICELLANEOU S. From the Iorks of Miss F. Bremer LITERARY GEM1S. The Sick Chamber,-Health and tit Sut i ave ti aw-nys sung and praise I will now celebrate Sickntess and Shad I will celebrate thee, bodily sickness. whe thou layest thy hand on the head an hear: ofnini. and sayest to the sufferng of hi< spirit "Enough'' Thou art cdlle upon -arth anit evil; alh! how oftenl at tL'u at good. a healing balsam 1 utide sl.osu benigt iuluentce the soul rests afte Its tarl t-trog;;lcs. and its wili storms ari still! more itan oice hast thou preventet Fuoeide, nud preserved from madness Tbh terrible, the bitter words which des troy the heart are by degrees obliteraiet luring the feverish dreams of illness; the terrors % hich lately seemed so near v! are drantn tiay into the distance; w< forget! and n Iwn at last wc arise i ith ex hausted s:rength from the sick bed., o souls often an aikeas out of a long niabi irto new morrin;. So many things du!Jrit:: the ilniess of the body, conspire it silten ti-! feelins; the still room; the the mil.1 tiili::hl through thfe nindow cur. tan.: the low oices; and then. more hanl .oll. the, kind a %-d of those who suirounl is, t!.cir nititin. their solicitude, per. Iap4 : tear ti dti r eyves all thi does us ;-10, e.h en the Wise Solomot ennt eierate! all 'he :Io I hiigs w- hich have :heir time uipone the earth, lie forgot to c'eichrit: . imon; the rest. T/ S-irit 0f /nre.-Meanwhilc the prb;; n;jeared. With an expression of iile th n %timded down upon the -It: 1. ed it awoke frm her deep, taid Ur:::hiel oat her nmormiig prayer, iml lie 5; klt btt d.liians fra;rance of the rre -h lit er;. I :ulud gladly know what Ies ko"a 1hitn on. 0. Earth! when they liegin to 3:11g. thy waves to dance, when hou arraye -t tiy.elf in so beautiful a gar 'ment. t!:1t ev-'m ntitler the shadow of iiglit, :he stars - Ticaven and tihe eyes of men ltoik tipo: lhce with love, when millions ,,f small wiiged beings arise from thy Mower bels, and fill the air with the bar mouious murnit'r of their gay exi-stence, % hen a thrill of joy goes through their vein'. ws heit the whec inspired nature is i so iLove l awl a hymin of eladness; I vo'!d ;l Iad kt;tow i1 thou feelest the gl:edies which gots on from thee the in f:Itte deli-ht i Which thoui cauasest. What I know is. that thou 6irst new life to the heuar: of mnain; ti his blood a gnicker crcn lation; that thua d!eiverest his spirit frm)n the oppcive gr.ay witer of life, that, restin;; o t ihe bmoi of Nature, he can teu a j..) it iitad.ileat of :,l thin;;s else, a pure feli-:.; if love te'r l ., a love of liv int.--o! that I c'iubl lead ot who~ver is sick, in i.,dy c.r mind, on a spring morn ing: lay hn among the young flowers; lt- himn tio to he dlark ) uc sky, and on tile t i;:ht al i livin splendor of the earth ao ut him; let him Ieel the warmith of the stin heaimi. the healing coolness of the air, all the sweet infiliences oflife and of na ture, wshich speak to the heart like the voice of a fricud. like a sr.!ile fron God. Ccrtainly, the uinhnppy titan would here furget fer a time the ungrateful one wio has injared him;, target the cates which are wasting away tho threads of life even r'mtit!rse would let her be stilled be. lievin:; i fior::iveniess: the often deceived woull biefAre has 'eatI. have a few hours i-f ntudi-turbed felicit%: vhen the evenaing coiC, he cati'e still luo!i back upon this pyrin. :sty - I have been happy upon the carib'" Famr mii.1 Jm :or::liy.-"The con c quencrtes wivhicli the actions of imen briii; afte~r thetm comon ittly lie out of their puow Sr to compubte .\ smoal! seed tay grow, LIP :u a ::reat tree, a blaz~'ing fire may be smtiatheried ina ashes. Wh Iethier t ho vic: o. ries ,f heroecs hatve dlone mnore for hu~man it v. thtan the unaolhrusive life of love of ira emknownt tman, is onily seen by the All s.ing Eye aliore n<. Let cacht oue d the guie.l that i..in his, path: atnd in his cal linit, and h is work all remoain, evetn if ii seemn to pni:: way, and will hear fruit it ;ae tim". I iaatirable fame, my best Edo.' lie coitnued, turning towards her a full aend aticttonate glancee. "mtust not be con faoundled ith aimoriality on eartht.-A ntme m:ay lie repeated by tmillions througil cetiries of years-that is famue. The good wshichi you thinik and do, the spirin which ;;tea from you, and which lives andL pierpetitates itself thtroug~h enidless g~enera tions-. thNs is true iimmaortaality opion earth.' Children.-And chihlren-children 0! ye smuall, lovely, beautiful, innocen1 beings. dasrlings of God and moan, thct sapriu~t seems maude for you, arid you foi the spiring; when I see you among thc flowers, the brilliant biut terflies htovering airounad you, I know not what more beau' tifuj a higher life can give. Irore----The gentius of love comes inte lif'e before that of art There arc meta whoii performs noble deeds, others who sing and immortalize' their actions. Withiou1 the deep. powerful love, wvhich causes rec lations and Friends to act and to suffer foi each otbcr, withotut actiotis which shon' hbat *iove is stronger thtan death,' penci anid chie.d wo'uld tnot have created thos< mnaster-pices, song would have broughi tears to no eyes, and music wrould havt been but a play-thin;;. It is thte aspiriti glance of love which gives words of tirn to the Hartist's Iips---they cani utter nothin; heatntifol which that has not first dicated.' The Martyrs for Truth,----It is gomi leatd of the noble hearts which have beat which have bdead for eternal (truths. Oni feels otne's self necar this oceans of nowe - and love, as a drop, a little drop. flum. bly to know ones self is good. If the ~ dropi suirers, what is that to the great whole? Nations bleed; the lives of he. roes pass away in letters: drop, complains not!" A dmiration.-Admiration-rich sourco L of enjoyment ! Why art thou not more s songht! Thy pure streams will never I scorch tho thirsting; now upon this little earth he can he refreshed by thee, after thousands and thousands of years, in a hii;her unrhlding; of God's infinite creation, r Shall ie drink of thy ever young. thy ever r freqlh waters. The pleasure which thou Livest is pure. and followed by no pain. ilappy those who early Icarn to admire what is worthy admiration!" Atlonishing efcc of Guano-At tho recent exhibition of the Massachusetts llorticultural Society. in Boston, the Transcript says that a promising object of attention, was the produce of two seed of sweet corn, planted by J. E. Tesehem ocher. in the Publie Garden, Charles street, on the 12th of.tlay last. in poor san dy soil! Ono without any manure; pro duct, one stalk, one ear, weight 1i lb. The other, m-inured with Guano; produ ced eight good cars and four or five use less ones ; weight eight pounds. Only two sponafuils of G uano were used on the hill. These specimens were taken from a small piece plarted with corn at the Saie ttie. Every other hill manurcd n ith Guano, and the effcct is the same throughout the whole. A I'ici's erenge. -"There's a bone fur you to pick." a sweet tempered man 1wa, want to say to his wife, after he bad said to her simething more than common ly crusty. Shie bore it meekly, (as wives invariably do.) but nursed within her heart a determination ofeveutful revenge. So, on hcr death bed, just when she was onl the point of expiring, she whispered in his car, that one of the two chidren he so fondly loved was not his own, and added "there's a bone fur you to pick." ie besouh hier to say which of the two chil dren was his: she died in silence, with a smile of triumph on her lips. We !carn from the Cleveland, Ohio, lcLrald that the third elopement of the season took place there on the 23d alt., George Cross, keeper of a huckster's shop on the doek, after converting most of his traps into money and gettieg into debt what he could, eloped with the wife anod child of a Mr. flardintg, leaving his own wife and five small ciildren to beg lr bread. In the same town, during the week ending on the 30th August, a mob storned a seumLoat, on aceoant of a dif ficulty with the rate, and seriously inju red one of the passengers; a bully under took to cowhido a doctor, and had the daylight let into hint in several places, with a bowio knife, for his pains; several hou ses and shops were entered by robbers, some of them in the day time, and robbed of all the loose change left iu bureaus and trunks. Cleveland is becoming quite a lively place. Rough and Tumble.-The New Orleans Tropic tells the following story : A Pi'renihman, who kuewv a very little of our language, unfortutiately got into a dif. ficulty with a hack cnotrynan, and fight hie must, and that, too, rough and tumble. But before- he went at it, he was very mox ious to know what he should cry out if he found himself i hiped. After being inform cd that when lie %i as satisfied. all hat he would have todo would be tocrv out en ough at it they weu;; bit poor Monsieur, in hi, dttaliebie, forgot the niord, and finding hi-s -e . were hikely to be removed from their socket-i. he' beg.an to cry cut ; bbt ins tenid of aningi what he was told, he, commnence:d bawling lustily, hurrah ! hzur raht!! Itorrah !!! Tro his astonishment, the countrymatn kept pounding and goug ing the harder, when Mlonsieur finding there was na utse in hallooing, turned and went to work in good earnest, and it was not long before the conmryman sung out in a stelitorious voice, etnough! Say that aigain, said the Frenhman-enough; enough ! cried lie again ; whent the French mant, in his turn, broke out: "Begar da is de vara worl I was try to say long time ago.~ Iic Tio j, TLored.-Ooe evening $Ma ria's fathcr related in her presence ana am eedote of a litle dau:;hter of'Dr. Dod dlridlge, which pleased Maria extremely Wh'len this child, about six years old, evas asked what made cvcry bodys love her! she replied, " idotn't ksnow ititeed, papa, unless it is because I lov'e everybody. The beautiful sitmplicity of this reply struck Maria forcibly. -'If this is all that is necessary to be loved." thought Maria, "I will soon make every body love me." 11er f'ather mntioned a remark of John Newton. that he considered the world to be divided into two great tmasses. one of happitnessa and the other of misery ; nnd it was his daily busiuess to take as mnch as piossible from the heap of tmisery- and add it to that of h.appines.-"Now," thought Maria, " I will begin tomorrow to try to make everybody happy.--I can (d0 for someboidy else. Papt. has often told me that this is the he-.t wvay of being haggy tmyself, antd I am detertmined to try. - L'asf or's Daughlter. IThe Masonme Grand J.ndge of England has voted 41l.000 towards a muonutneatto the memory of their Grant 'Master, the ,,t tk,r,.....