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" THERE is blood upon your hand, John," said a tall, masculine made wo man, in a homespun dress, as she swept up the hearth of the solitary farm house, in the interior of England, at the close of a cold December's day, in the year 18-. The person thus addressed, was an iron faced farmer, of about the middle size, with dark eyes peeping underneath a pair of shaggy eye-brows. His cheek was flushed, a; though old age had been cours ing like wild fire through his swollen veins, and his brawney hand as he looked at the clot of fresh blood that stained it, seemed to have been made for a descendant of Cain. " There is blood," said Brown, for such was the man's tame ; " but it is off now -bring me my supper." The wife-for such was the first speak er-looked himlong and anxiously in the face. Horrid visions seemed to be float r before Iery n "Why, what in the name of nature ails the woman I" said Brown, endeavoring by an ill-contrived laugh to silence her fears. "If people go where sheep are slaughter ed they must expect to get bloody." " The blood of sheep has not been on your baud," said his wife firmly. " There was a melancholy looking man on the hill to-day. He had money and a valua ble watch. He offered me a piece of gold to direct him to the next village, and set his watch by our clock. Have you seen the stranger, John ?" The iron features of the hardened hus band now contracted intoa fearful scowl. "Woman," said he fiercely, "what have I to do with travelers on the hill side? Mind your own affairs." Then changing his tone to a whine, he said, "give me my food, Meg. I am cold and hungry, and cannot joke with you any longer." "Joke with me !" said the poor wife, with a countenance agonized with hor ror.-"God grant that it may prove a joke." The supper was now placed upon the table. The farmer ate his food in silence and went to bed. In a fewv momenta he was lost in a deep though troubled sleep. Having seen that everything wvas quiet, the good, wife put on her hooded cloak, and went out upon the lawn, It was a cold and cheerless evening. The hills seemed turned inmo misty shadows before the wand of an enchanter, and th~e waving tree tops seemed like the bosom of mid night deep. The bleak wyind howled sad ly amid the elm trees by the way side, and the bay of a distant watch dog came eohoing by the vale. The unhappy wife followed up the track of her husband about a mile. She now was startled by a deep groan. Scanning narrowly the hill side, she perceived a place awhere some persons had apparently struggled to gether in a snow drift, and beyond a lit tle distance, she beheld the melancholy stranger whom she had directed on his course several hours previous, lying upon the ground, wvith a dreadful wound upon his pallid forehead. Brown's wife was a strong and resolute woman. She raised the wounded man, and wiped the blooc from his eyes. Finding that life was nol extinct, she bore him upon her shouldet to her home. Having laid him down it the passage, she opened tho kitchen dooi where Brown was sleeping.. His thick heavy breathing gave evidence that the sleep of drunkenness was upon him. ShE carried the stranger through the kitcher to a little bed room, where she usuall) retired when the abuse of her brutal bus became insupportable. Having staunch ed the wvound-the bleeding of which hat been checked by the coagulating blood thegood wife dressed it in a manner ap. provedhy medical men, gave her patien1 a omnposing draught, and then returne< to her seat by the kitchen fire. The farmer now began to be himself He moved like a wounded snake in hi~ Sunquiet sleep. Ho opened hig eyes an< glare wildly around himi "Therei:i. blood upon my hand," said he. "Meg, i c was all a joke. Ha! ha! ha! a devilish s good joke !" As he said this, conscience o felt tho dreadful gnawing of the worm s that never dies, and shiver along the limbs v of Brown told but too plainly that he had steeped his soul in blood. The fumes of a debauch arose like a mist upon his brain and he slept again. His wife now paid ti her patient another visit, and finding all i working as it should, retired to her deso. d late couch. Morning came, and the so- G bered farmer arose from his pillow of re morse. His face was haggard, his eyes p blood-shot, and his hair, like that of furies, " seemed changed into serpents. P He said but little, and wient out imme- s: diatelv after breakfast. His wife saw it him go up the hill side. She knew that b he had gone to bury the dead body, and she rejoiced to think that he would labor d in vain. Noon and night, and morning h came, but no husband approached the farm S house. Weeks rolled on, and John Brown et was seen no more on the hill side or in Si his homely dwelling. His whistle was ti hushed on the moor, and his foot-fall vi awoke not the echoes of the forest way. bi The stranger, in the meantime, recover ed; a justice of the peace was sent for, w and affidavit was made of the facts in the a. case. The murderous wretch was de- to scribed with fearful correctness, all-all 6 but the face. That was concealed by a tb slouched hat, and could not be described. e< The wife breathed again. With a wo- si mar.'s wit she spoke but little of her hus- - band's absence, and when she alluded to bi it, she spoke of it as an absence of short gi duration, with her advice and consent. II The stranger, who proved to be a no. ju bleman of wealth, endeavored to cheer 1] the gloomy shades of the deserted wo- hi man's heart, but it was a vain attempt. There is no cure for blighted love, no w peace for a rifled heart. God alone can lil gladden the widows's trial. hi "You shall never want, Meg," said the th nobleman, as he sat by the farmer's wife w a few evenings after he was able to walk. lc -"I must go to London; business of im- bl portance urges me there. When you are qi in distress, one hint of the fact to me will tb produce instant relief." c0 A carriage, with an Earl's coronent, ti now drove up to the cottage door. The "Will you not accompany rue my fiith. ai ful nurse?" said the strange, as he pre- ec pared to depart from the dwelling of char- to itable love." b< "Nay, sir," said the wife, "I cannot c suddenly leave the spot of my early hope. vi Here, sir I was born; here I was mar- ta ried; on yonder green hillock I danced th away the sorrows of childhood; in yon- in der little church, whose spire now gleams of in the dying sunlight, I gave my guilty d7 spirit up to God. On yonder plain sleep to my children; beside that old oak rest w father and mother, the first born and the i last upon the catalogue of life. Here, sir, to I have smiled in joy, and "wept in sorrow, fu and here I will die." ci Entreaties were in vain. She withstood hi every kindness of her guest, and finally h. accepted only a reasonable charge for his at board. As the Earl was about to take a k; seat in the carriage, the deserted wile ap. b proached him. uI "Stranger guest," said she, with much ai feeling, "1 have done you good service." ir "You have," said he, while a tear of t< gratitudle stole down his cheek. v: "Will you do me one favor in return I" si said she. q "Most certainly will I," said the Earl. hi "Then wirite upon this piece of vellum tI what I shall dictate," said she with a hur- 'I ried voice. He took the pen and wrote as follows: al "Circumstances have convinced me a that an attempt to murder me on the niight tr of the 10th of December, 18-, on Stone I3 Hill, Lincolnshaire, wvould have been sue-g cessful had it not been for the kind inter ferenco of John Brown and his wife, of Hopedale. "This paper is left as a slight memorial si of an event which timeo can never efiace si from my mind."I "Joux, FARL OF-." She read it over after lie had signed it. f "It will do,' said she. "Now farewell." 0 The grateful Earl sprang into his seat. LI He threw his purse into her bosom. ri "Farewell," said he, in a husky voice, " and awvay rattled his carriage with the I swiftness of the wind. The coronet flash- g ed in the sunbeam, and the vehicle was - lost in the winding forest way. ni --. t< CH APTER II. tI Ten years had rolled away, and the wife of .1 ohn Brown had long since dis- c appeared from Hopedale. Thei old farm house, like a deserted thing, stood solita- a ry and silent amid the smiles of autumn.t A middle sized stranger, with a sailor's jacket and tarpaulin, and bundle dangling .j at the end of a stick over- his shoulder,t rested before the door of the deserted farmr house of Hopedale. His countenance< was sad, and bore marks of suffering and hardship.-Heo looked in at the wasted door way.-He saw the planks worn by the foot of the thrifty housewife, and marked a portion of her dress in a broken pane of the kitchen windowv. The nail Iwhere the good nmn's hat had hung for r er, was terne with a circle naond .t : f nusmoked paint. The crane hung adly in the chimney corner, but the music I the singing kettle was not there. The Lranger raised his hand to his eyes, but rhat causes him to start with affright ? "It is bloody again!" he exclaimed, nd his features were rigid with borrow. Oh, that I could wipe that foul-that !rrible stain from my memory! Ha! it on my hand as fresh as when I mur. ered that poor, melancholy stranger. od of Heaven, I cannot wipe it out." He had cut his hand with a broken iece of glass, and a clot of fresh blood as upon it in reality. He felt not the sin of the wound in his horror; and itisfied that heaven had marked him in s own terrible way, he wiped o:f the lood and turned to depart. He had taken but a few steps from the aor of the farm house, when a heavy ad was laid upon his shoulder, and the heriff stood beside him. He was arrest I for an attempt to murder, and was on on his way with the oflicers of jus e to London. The prison received its ctim-and the gay world smiled as 'ightly as before. The day of trial came. John Brown, ho had taken another name, was tried Samuel uones, and the case brought gether a vast concourse of people of )th sexes. The prisoner was placed at e bar. The jury was duly empannel I.-The advocate for the crown was he de him; the judge was upon the bench. -Brown, as he entered the dock, had wen agitated by the dread reality of his ailt, and the prospect of speedy punish. ent, that he had not cast his eye on the dge. He now looked cautiously at him. e saw the keen eye of the judge upon n, and he started with horror. "Oh, God!" said he, with a loud voice, hile the sweat rolled down his chalk to face. "It is the murdered man. Ha! has come to judge the guilty ! See ere ! His forehead is scarred! Ah ! it as a devilish blow! Back ! back, I say; t the dead man look his fill. There's ood upon my hand ; see there, thou un iet spirit ; that hand was reeking in y gore; 'twas merciless when thou ied out: be merciless now in thy turn, ou man of the spirit land !" Here the prisoner fainted and fell upon or. . ,menfntlinnenemon-L court by this singular circumstance, d it was not until order had been shout I for some time that the trial was suffered go on. It appears that Brown's neigh. >r's all considered hin guilty of the ime of endeavoring to murder the indi dual named in the beginning of this he, and who was the presiding judge of e Old Bailey. The aflidavit was kept green remembrance, especially by one d farmer in the neighborhood of Hope ile, who had appropriated Brown's farm his own use, and who constantly atched the murderer's return, for he ew human nature so well as to be cer. in that no wretch can be so callous as to rget the spot sacred to childhood, inno mnce and early love. The robber seeks s home, the murderer seeks his once ippy valley, while the seducer wanders nid the bowers where passion, like a irk and damning torrent, burst aJway the irriers between his soul and hell. The -fortunate mani, ignorant of his wife's ~tions, and unconscious of thec certificate her possession, ignorant'of her exis nee, even after a long cruise in the ana Sof England, returned to view the plea. n~t honmestead-the green valley-the iet hill-side, and the sunken graves of s parents and children. He h~ad met ec argus-eyed speculator on his way,. he old affidavit hung like the swvord of amocles over his head, and the informer sunset sawv the poor broken hearted Llor borne away to London, andl he usted to a felon's grave. Man careless ' feeds upon the chmehlyard wail!, and ather roses from the sacred plains "Where or.ree the life's blood, warm and wet. Had dimmed the glittering bmyone." The trial proceeded-the evidence was rong, and the jury, without quitting their ~ats, pronounced the prisoner at the bar uilty." "Guilty ?" said Browvn, rising to his et, "can it be i Ah ! 1 must die a fel n's death-and mny poor wife. Oh! iat pang ! Howv her tender endearments se up in judgment against me ; her scft 'ords, how they thunder upon nmy soul! [er smiles of beauty anad inanocence rent God ! howv they sear my heart -must I then die without forgive essi Oh, the thought is torture, ay, rture as dreadful as that experienced b3 -ae vilest of the damned !" Here the prisoner became umnmanned nd burrying his face in his fettered hands r'ept like a child. The strong passion o. rief shook the prisoner's limbs, and arat lcd the chaians with terrible distinctness L short silence ensued, and then th<c uidge put on hais black cap, and prepared o prononnee that awvful sentence which ever can be pronounced without the shaki F the dormant semaibilities of the mos egraded-which none, in fact, b~ut th< ondemned, ever hear without a flood o ears' "Prisoner at the bar," said the judge stand up." Brown rose. "WVI bhava 'ou to say why sentence of dea -,houl( ot be pronounced against you," said thi udge continning his remarks. A sligh rustling noise w rd at the bar, and a female in wido weeds, leaned her head over to spea. the prisoner, "Stand back, n," said a self-suf ficient tip-staff, w ke some of our con stables, imagine 14 adage, "necessi ty has no law," to a "law has no ne cess:ity." The woman th back her veil, look ed the judge fully the face, and said : "May it please y worship to permit me to aid my h nd in his last ex tremity t" The Earl thou le knew the face, and the tone of vo 'and therefore com manded the officer. place her beside her husband. "Meg," said B.' n, while the tears streamed down h ace, haggard with guilt, "it is very of you to visit me thus. Can you fo e your guilty hus band I" "John," said the eek-eyed woman, as she raised her c enance of angelic sweetness to heav "I was forgiven by the son of God; can and do forgive you." The wretched soner fell upon his wife's neck, and t minions of criminal law, with faces lik' tanned leather, and hearts like paving s nes before the Egyp. tian toimbs,.stood ystruck, and waited for the end of this 'traordinary scene. "Woman," at I gth said the judge, while a tear reste in his eye, "it is my dreadful lot to pa. the sentence of the law upon the prisojer. You had 1" retire." The wife started ad looking" in the face, "Joh arl of recollect the par ent 6cr' me at Hopedale!' ndir time a piece of' to who passed it to honor. "My noble hear snd lgnglosth, said the judge, wi ;a look of joy, "weia do I recollect you d your last request, but in this case e law -must have its course. I will, ho ever, recommend the prisoner to mercy .,Mercy!l" said irown, "who talks of mercy here? I h n is blood upon my hand nd en!" said fudge, "remand the prhosoner." The coury u; the prisoner stall, itt e a o his cella l and the wife folloed the judge to his chambers. The next day a pardon for John Brown passed the seals; and the beginning of the week sa the husband and noble spirited wife at Hopedale, with the judge for a welcome guest. Years of peace and joyous plenty rolled on. Loig and fervently did the pardoned criminal pray foi forgiveness, and at last, in God's own time, the bloody stain upon his hand was washed awa.-The farmer of Hope dale, for many years, was considered the example of the country around; and at last when he died, which as shortly af ter his wife had departed for another rest, lie jyas placed in the same grave with her, and over their bones a marble ceno taphi was raised, upon w~hich was inscrib ed in deep and laating letters "They loved in life. In death they were not divided." whee farm house at Hopedale has fallen into ruins. The gray owl hoots upon its exmn.,t-pled A.i.ne. 'oc r e ondake tl instwnhe ss d, the c oorsill, l and f-rik t is winfeen. deAteved fo nther truant, han laed linbon the spo raewt; for, any wier therelone imarbu cn btapvhas raseupn whnchws unsrb the hilsdeat the hore nof duskwithd." Tree fam huea eaehs falen iTo rui s.The r cayuw e saos: upnet promie tossb tean donesil anhe wilurik et singstin evr. A vnn tetun an RbeLe log-boity yung tle-ot fmany in wite rihefreroo, ifeli ova believe him, dhter Oen Jhng on this lie hisaid at the ou man dtsk, th were thrf gates been his hose and hrdre rcavelr and higfet.nme fape n aTo LohEs.Te Pandyalnle ads le promie tir te andn one to wl hnid wihuA utiga Papple.-A ie miugh hene wihis daughter. On wiheariknog ofv many oard, hahnd left at aheol g and the rcaddgtanumber of applesan leave never ee ol ad maids decidely op-r poste fto matimon. hafWe hae neer and have aneover at lawe rfseon fae;ahlhe had accu hislent'sepovery Wt the nverd saee a bringane ta was witan prfettring aplo, girl.ght have anhin toaughten wish orsenoW hmave apee ad ft ath sbced gate andethe paper ofd cheaed.~ prnebu hs death w a hAVE oNEVE EE. hAe neditr ien Vont ais ecideda p sose who catriteionraWe he snever sen wit tetoogilthaht cadno kcowu i. heel ove thecorav of hispcliensnapety his pefyin mangrint faeoor ime hand sovrse utoelayuew.e-wec JediticiL From the Pendleton Messenger. The New Readings ofthe Constitution. The time has arrived when it is the duty of the people to decide, whose interpretation of the Constitution and- our rights under it, they intend to make the guide of their politi cal conduct; whether they will continue to maintain the principles of Jefferson and Madi. son, Calhoun, Iayne, McDuffie and others, whose expositions of the great charter of our liberties, with the light of the noonday sun, have heretofore guided us on the way of equal and just government, or whether they will lay them aside, and adopt the new readings of that sacred instrument, which have of late been promulgated by Messrs Butler, Orr and others. Although these gentlemen profess to belong to the same political school of these conscript fathers and acknowledge their principles, we hazard nothing in saying, that these wise expounders of the constitutional rights of the States, if it were permitted them to return among us, would never recognize the new doctrine so boldly set forth by them, as any part of the republican creed which they devoted their lives to elucidate and establish. It is indeed fortunate for us, that at this day, when the weakness of the State is so forcibly contrasted with the stupendous pow rs of the Federal Government, and when 'eems to take hold of the public "'?r helplessness and hopeless that we can turn to great men - find fnunu ..er. of the people-...... piate remedies for tue those rights, that no question wina.. arisen under our complex system of govern. ment, has escaped their notice. They have, with the power of truth laid down our rights and prescribed the remedies, and carefully considered all the consequences which may The blockade of aur ports; s- ceit e State should secede, and the disastrous consequences resulting from it to our com merce and people, appears to fill the largest capter in the book of Calamities, which has lust emanated from the pens of the present commentators on the rights of the States. The argument which they urge in support of their views, are based upon the supposition that the Federal Government will claim that South Carolina is an integral part of the Union, and not a sovereign State; and that as a part of a consolidated empire, it is the right and duty of the President to enforce obedience and submission, so far as she is oneerned. Without stoping to disprove this assumption, or to show how such views subvert every principle upon which our rights, is separate States rest, we will refer to au thority, which no one will dispute, to show that this thing of a blockade is not so simple -not so one-sided and ruinous, as these learned philosophers imagine. It is upon the supposition that their views are correct, nd that South Carolina is denied the right to secede, that we pr0oos to examine it; for no one will contend, that if the right of the State to secede is acknowledged by the Federal Govenrnment, that a blockade will be attempted. Mr. Calhoun, our own venerated states man, from whose lips we have so often been taught the true theory and practical bearing of our government, on a former occasion, explained the nature and effect of blockade by the General Government of the ports of South Carolina. To his great mind the subject did not appear to be0 invested with such horrible coasequences to the State, or so filled with disaster and ruin, nor did it on that occasion so profoundly disturb the public mind. Although threatened, it was not attempted; for rightly considered, it was frught with greater diffienlties to the Federal Government than to the State. Mr. CALHOUm, speaking of the blockade of our ports, used the following language; "Feeling the force of these difficulties, it is proposed, with the view, I suppose, o: disembarrassing the operation as much as possible, of the troublesome interference o courts and juries to change the scene of coer eion from land to water; as if the govern meat could have one- particle more right t< coerce a State by water than by land; but unless I am greatly deceived, the difficult3 on that element will not be much less thai on the other. The jury trial, at least thm local jury trial (the trial by the. vicinage, may, indeed, be evaded there, but in its plac other, and not much less formidable obsta eles must be encountered. "There can be but two modes of coor eon resorted to by water-blockade and abo lition of the ports of entry of the State, aec companied by penal enactments, authorizin, seizure for entering the waters of the Stat -if the former be attempted, there will b oher npMartisbsden the Geneoni Gonnenc and the State. Blockade is abelligerent right: it presupposes a state of war, and, unless there be war (war in due form, as prescribed by the Constitution,) the order for blockade would not be respected by other nations or their subjects. Their vessels would proceed directly for the blockaded port, with certain prospects of gain; if seized under the order of b!oekade, through the claim of indemnity against the General Government; and, if not, by a profitable market, without the exaction of duties. "The other mode, the abolition of the ports of entry of the State, would also have its difliculties. The Constitution proyides that "no preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another; nor sh-dll vessels bound to or from one State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in 1 another:" provisions too clear to be eluded even by the force of construction. There wili'be another difliculty, if seizure be made I p port, or widhin the distance assigned by the laws of nations as the limits of a State, the trial must be in the State, with all the embarrassments of its courts and juries, while beyond thu ports and the distance to which I have referred, it would be difficult to point out any principle by which a foreign vessel, at least, could be seized, except as an incident to the right of blockade, and, of course, with all the difficulties belonging to that mode of coercion." Tosting the Law. f "All honor to Georgia," was the shout r of the Flag, over the passage by the con vention of that State of the following reso lution: "It is the deliberate opinion of this con . - that upon the faithful execution Slave Law by the proper he preservation of l '^w be- I Crafts Sidt :r.. their owners, in the Was "it faithfully exeu slave was taken .from the Court officers wyho haW hm in custody'? Was it "faithfully executed" when it cost the owner of the slave Sims three thousand dollars to recover him ? Was it "Iithifally executed" when a slave in Washington Pa., was armed by the people among whom he had fled; and when the citizen of Virginia, who sought 1 to apprehend him by due course of law, ,n was thrown into prison for so doing? s Was it "faithfully executed" at Chica go, a Iw day. since, when the slave was set free by tho "proper authorities, not- - withstanding the proof of his identity was 0 undeniable The Chicago Argus (free. s soil) says ti. proof was "full and com- it plete." Do the Northern people afford evidence that it will ho "faithfully executed" when I such cases as the following are reported ? The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald says: t SL~Avn Cas.-Yesterday, Mliss Minor, a lady from Louisianna-who, in coin- a pany' with her uncle, was stopping at the New England-was cited to appear be fore Judge Atkins to show cause why she k restrained the liberty of Mary Bryant, a slave woman who was with her. Miss I Minor did not appear, but said Mary was at liberty to go where she pleased. The Judge declared Mary tree, but she insisted ~ on going back to he'r mistress, whom she had attended from infancy. The colored people whio had been active in the matter were exceedingly chagrined at the result. Do the Northern States exhibit their in- C tention to prevent the breaking up of the Union, when they refuse to repeal the .3 laws on their statute books, conflicting f with that law which the "Union men" South have made the touchstone of the ~ Unioni Do they evince their contempt for the Georgia Platform, when they elect ~ such cpposers of the leaw as Sumner,, Wade and Fish to the United States Sen ate; and such men as Rautoul to the - House of R~epresenxtatives.---Mississip pimn. SoVTrIEur IGHTS IN MURlRAY.-We make the following extract from a letter recently received from a friend in Murray -couty. It will be seen that the cause is progressing in that quarter. The writer says: "McDonald is in the field, and lie was never known to leave it second best. Be sides, the people are buckling on their armor, and are determined never to lay it aside until the last vestage of that hydra. headedl consolidation monster shall b~e driv-en out of Georgia. They have com menced the wvork in this district by nomi natiing Wmn. H. Stiles as their candidate for Congress. When Stiles takes the field, the pigmy from gilmer will hide his diminished head. Let our friends do as wvell in other districts, and Georgia will give-McDonald aiid Southern Rights five -thousand majority. What say you, friends - of Georgia and Southern rights, can you Sbeat such men as Muirphy, Hopktins; Chins tain, Mamrilcar, Cobb,'c.; ivith' such1 3Ipatriots as McDonald, Stiles, Jackson and SIanid others, belonging the Southern rights party, who would honor any station that you might place them in. Let your mot o be, we can and will, and victory'is cer" to perch upon our banner.-Augusta Re >ublic. SECESSION IN MISsoUni.-" The seie$ ionists are beginning to show thenriseI' es in Missouri with more boldness thais ve anticipated. There now remains carcely a doubt, that an effort is to be nade to engraft upon the politics of this State, the So. Carolina doctrine of secest pion, or as we prefer to call it, " nullifica ion." The leaders in this movement ' viil term themselves "Democrats" 'or. 'State's right men," 'and will endeava* o shield themselves behind the Kentucky Lnd Virginia resolutions :. but with all that hey will be rank nullifiers in 'the 'true ense of the term."-St. Louis (Mo.) Intel igencer. EXPEDITION TO TUE GILA.-A com Tiny of nearly one hundred inen from klabama, are now on. their" way to the ;ila, to explore the gold region, andpro >ably to establish a settlement in the teighborhood of the old copper mines bove Dona Anna. They passed4brough efferson, in Cass county, on t '20th ltimo. The Herald says: "They were 11 well equipped with guns, one piece of annon, and wagons, provisions, .&. rhey belong to a stock company.. All lie stock is held in Montgomery. Ala Hama, by very wealthy and enterprising ion, who, if the project is at all success al, intend sending two or three hundred egro men there."-Galveston Register. RICE GRUEL AND CORN MEAL GRuLr -Make a thin paste of ground rice.or ndian meal, and pour into boiling water r boiling milk and water. Let the-rice oil once, but the corn meal must boil alf an hour. Season with salt sugar and utmeg. A little cream is a great im roDiPPEDEGG.-SaIt some boiling -4 drop in a rav egg out of the * *t 'oto break the..yolk; c white is harden. . . r and put :s,. fef poonful..i ith a pinch ot e. f cinnamon, until it -a ,. dd a pint of milk, boil all weu , nd sweeten with loaf sugar. To TAKE OFF a GOLD RING sTICKINo IGIIT ON A FINGER.-Touch it' with Ierenry, and it becomes so brittle that a ight blow with a hammer will break it. To INCREASE THIE GROwTI! OF HAIR. -Hartshorn beat small, and mixed with il, being rubbed upon the head of per. 2ns who have lost their hair, will cause to grow again as at first. -0 COUNTRY SCUoo.-First class, in hilosophy-step, out-close your books. ohn Jones, how many kingdoms in na. ire?" "'Four, the animal, vegetable, mineral, ad kingdom come." "Good-go up head." " Hobbs, what is meant, by animal ingdom t" " Lions, tigers, elephants, rhinoceroses, ippotamuses, alligators, monkeys, jack sses, hack drives and schoolmasters." " Very well-but you'll take a licking r your last remark." " Giles, what is the mineral kingdom I" " The hull of Californy." -' Walk straight up head." " Johnson, what is the vegetable king "Garden sarse, potatoes, -carrots; ing ons, and all kinds of greens that's good yr cooking." " And what are pines, and hemlocks nd elms, ain't they vegetables t" " No sir'ee-you can't cook 'em demn's sawlogs and framin' timber." " Boys give me a piece of an apple, nd you may have an hour's intermission --except Hobbs." - UNDER all circumstances, "laugh dul~ are away 1" Don't be in a hurry to get mt of the wvorld; it is a very good world, :onsidering the creatures who inhabit it, md is about as full of fun aE it can be. Eou never saw a man cut his throat with Sbroad grin on his faced-it is a good preventatve. INTIlE streets of Leicester one 'day' Dean Swift was accosted iy dhiken veaver, who staggering gnJsrev ~rence, said: . s.. 2 " I have been sinning it out." . " Yes," .said, the Dean -see you ave, and ndw:yOp are reelinig it home." A coBBLER ini Mobile, whE, also pro. esses to teach music, has the followiri aig over his door :~ h i '!JbehghtfuI-task to mnend tetender'boot, And teach the young idea how soflt.. A Poor devii 'in one ?of the, estetn ails, says that although- he ha's blef TIa rison six .months,-the onlypbeinzg At as " dropped him a liiie"' if a'fiid spidei- that belongs td?-drgliato