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_ ED?GEFIEL____________ fb4ilftim&C "We will cli;m to the PiIlars of the Temple of o l erties, sand it It nmust fall, we will Perish auldst the Ruins." W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. EDGEFIEU), SNOVEMBER 3, 18 1(cled Igodn,. THE LITTLE BOY THAT DIED. I am all alione inl my elamber now. Ar the mi*dnigit iur is n-ar, A udthe fa-rgots crack.ail the el-svk's siull tick, Are tl:e only siids I heiar An.-1 "!yr Ily stoul in its slitn.le. Sweet I11e!intgs of' ?hisls li.lc', For iiy ha1art :nili iav eyes are full when I think Of thk. rttle bcov that ilied. I went -.ie hliit t., mv l'ater's li me W--lit ime to the lear esnes all, AI5l I softly 41penel the g:ardlen gate, And sotlyf the ioo of thlt.mil ; ly iinttli-r eamte tit tee iiieet her soon, She ki.seline- amn.I then -he sighish. A aid her lerl 1ell oi :iiy neck. aIId [alv weipt For the l:tzle boy that died. I shiall mins h:n wlien tie flowers etnie lita t garie wlire lie hiYLael. I st Ill, :iiss hi ini Imere by tiie fire-sitle, WVilen the flotwers hi:re all sleyed, I livdl se h3i.. toys :iad einity ehiaiir, A il tile ho:1e e usedh too rIle And they will speak with a s:leit si.-veh, Of the little boy that died. I .ll see h's littl- !i-t -r agamn, With her playmatiesa absut the s]..or Anil lIl watch the childrei inl their sloortc, .\s I nevevr slid bel'pre ; Awl if. inl the group. I see a cliil1, Ti:t's dimnp!el anil laughin-eyed, I* lock to see if it may ins.-t be, The little beey that l:ed. We sia!) go ism- t., our Fath r'.. lihu v, To our Fatlir's house in Ih skie, Where the liope 4,f our sils s.imil have no lt. Our love no broken ties: We shall levr ene aiiks of the rrer (if Peace, AaaIl batle inl its bli!sIi tile: A nIel e of th.jeys of itr .leaven :4ial b. TI-: little boy that died. WHAT IS A FRIEND 1 WuVIT is a frmie. ! A b.:in:g whio, Throi.h al thle eht:it t limie ili:iy bring, E'ei tho::i urijtoys iav le but few, Will still arounIl u toeilly eling. Wio, in vOuth's brigiht :IIIl lerilliait iernt A olearer ciarm tit lle.a-re ld, Whose smile ca -wietea anih Iel crorn Each gift tait Heaen s kiiily sends. Wheose approbation onwarilelcers Our suuls t manltosi i tous i- r Thircmdr sceii- sof toil. a1 w41 e, ansl tears, Gileling tle darke.,t haties ,of life. Who slmare- our jipy. if feel tulie snille-, And shrinik not shlill shie darkly lower, But with I halloweel balm he-guiles Tle antauishi af each trying hour. A, if we winl a weatlli from fani, Whese heart willi j.sy anl ,id-ee.will thrill A nel if a shad, Aw o'er our name Shoulj come, will shiel and love us still. AIM when b y eath were calleel away -Fro all our joys .-til sitrrows hevre, Will often to otir mm..ory pav The trilute of a burniw oitar i t U1 1C0 1 15. Highly Concentrated Sermon. My dear dIandies andt betlles, fops and flirts, Isoafers anid othecr stragglers downa thme lili! or lire, mny text to daty is that much used ad abused sayinig: SDoe~s your~ mnoher know you're outl !" Poor silly inafatuated grub weormns, I would say fronm yotar shinaes andt capers thaat she dlon't k anowe y*ou're out. Youn, younlg laIdy, with a patrasol like a wilted cabbage leaf oan a ramrod, anid chmains of ha~ir downt eachi cheek, like a biottled tailaed spidler dipped in blacking had been his everlausting elopemeant over your rouge colored face, leavinag :a broatd trail after him, atnd oin your baick a pee'k of braii, and your* mincinhg gauit like you weae pickinig your way iamiong rottean egzgs, or wav~s barefooted in a biar patch, and vumur arma linaked to a braiialess daindy, (but I -will come at himt ais soon as I :tam done witha you) e'iggteling :alonie the street; ,ad for what ? tobthuat up indigenit virtue or sufferiang innocence, to pour bahna on the wounded spirit of poverty, or oanly to siiear your own giddy heart with the corrodiung grease of vanity, to hear fools whaispesr as you patss, owhat a fair girl !" Reamenmber rain onle. beaumty is but skint deep. and the stormas of matrimnony and the bleak winds of athliction, rubs it all out anid leaves the counteancte as unbecotming as a weeathier-beaten barnt door, unless you put otn a coat of the cverlasting paint of metekttess, worth and love undler the varntish of beauty. If you can laugh like luam who wians, aand knaow thaatyou are loved and lovely, and that you are still beautiful, now that the gloss wehiich hid your goodnaess beneath its dazzling glare is gone, you shed a happy influence oat all near you, make us poor tmortals feel like a man alanost frozen to death feels when he sets downi to a cheer ful fire at his own home. lie hears the storm but heeds it not, lie is happy onice more. But have you dhone this !I amt a fraid you are butt a butterfly, bornt a womiant to die an inseet. Alh! I don't half like that laugh, it was forced ; you pretendi to be pleasedl with thuat fool's wit, whent yott ktaew it was stolen! Oh why such deceit, giddy fluttering worm of the cabbagec patch, y~ou are sold, sotul andl~ body, for a little etmpty, winidy, useless adat laution ; yes, soldl to that old snake thuat fool edl your matmmy in Adatm's truck pateh ared oh! seissors how lie wvill strip that finery and raise a dust for a tmile arounad, with that peck of bran. Say, flowver-stnekinag butter fly, dloes your imothtet know yotn are ott If she does shte is ntot faithafid to her trust, ad.oitghit not to be trusted aigain any more thtan the tian who stole atcorras froim the h-imid eow - on home gonazet, nml try to f prepare yoUrself to be a woman, and then whei you are abroad, anybody will know that your mothor knows you're out. Now you that was cUt out for a man, but so villainouily spoiled in making up, I'll it tend to vour case. For what end did you burst upon the world's door :iad rush in unealled, like a m1an1 chased lv a mad bull, what good (o YoU eNpect to bestow upon your fellow man ; soie usetul invention, some heroic act, some great discovery, or even one solitary remark ? No: those who look for anythinug good or useful from you will be just as badly fooled as the nit, who caught the skunk, thinkinig it was a kitten ; or the woman when she made greens out of gunpowder tea. You know where the neatest, tightest pantts Cn be bongrht on " tick," but you dun't know where the next useful lecture is to be delivered; yon know the fashionable color of a vest, but y'ou niever studied the gorgeous hues of a rainbow, uless it was to wish for a piece to make a cravat of; you know how a fool feels in full dress, but you don't knaow how a man feels who cats the bread honestly earned by the sweat of his brow; you know how a monikey looks, for you see one every day twenty times, in your landlady's looking-glass, b you (ol't know how a man freels after doing a good action; you don't go where that sight is to lie seehl. OhI, you wasp-wai-Atd, ent-fish Mouthed, iabhoon shouldered, calliper legged, goose eyed, sheep-faced, hewhiskered drone in the worlds hee-hlive ! what are you good for f Nothing but to eat your tailor, ieatly lisp ly note a line from some milk and water poet's sentimeitality, eat oysters very grave ly, smuoke eigars lazily, make silly girls net the fool most salmiuefully. I say, (locs your mother know you're out, poor useless toad ? I am afraid that you have no mother nor iever had. You are of no more use in thuis world thian a time-iece in a beaver-dami, or a hair. matress in a hogpen. You fill no larger slnce in tie world's eye thni the toe-iail of a musquito would ill a market house, or a sttail dog inl all out of door: vou are as little thought of as the flellow whi> knocked his graiad-mother's hist - tooth down her throat, and as for your brains, tell thousand such Could be lreserved in a drop of brandy aid have as mch sea-room as a tadpole iii Lake Superior ! and as for your ideas, you have but One, and that is stamped on your leaden skulls in letters an inch deep, "that tilors and temales were made to lie gulled lby you, md that all iimay envy your appear lice. J'oor useless tobacco worm you are rot t ItI eltiie ; go, start, buy a toddy on tick from sonme good itatured landlord, aMid eat lunch intil you are as tight as a drmi, sneak to bed and think of nothing un til vou full asleep, to dream of apes, pants, I straps and tailor's bills, ntot to awake until the dinier bell calls you to eat agaitn. I II ow many harmless, shallow mortals of another order go skulking about on the sur rice of the woldd's great waters without an aim, imad without a motive, guided by chance, I whim or impulse, like a mellow-biig in a bigi eddy under a shady willow, until they ::re swallowed Up by the greedy bass of death, aid the first thing they know, they kitow n~othiing? When I see one of these i al- I ways thinmk, poor bug, your mother don't know you're out. IlIov many silly ones iieglect their busi-. ness id get after some foolish pleasure and e ba~se it like a bony a fter a but terfly, ut il they wvear out their cotnstituttion, beating the ground in the vain hope of' catching the phiantomi, and fially tall into some hiddeit pit, covered wit h tlowers, to rise no muore(! I then thinik, pour fool, youtr mother doii't knowv you are out-and you won't be out sooii again. When I see a young man step into the skilf of dtssipatioin and statrt downa the stream of~ pleasuire, using the oars of impi1ruidenice, while folly holds theo helm, passing the shores of propriety faster thanut a streak of Iightnting could patss a sick crow, and is at last drawnt over the hlls of~ total destrume tioin, and (lashed iinto as many atoms ats a dop1 of water from a four story roof, I then anofe Iyslf for I can't ask of him, did his mohrknow lie was out ? Whuen I seea boy leaving the pison' dootr after a long~ aitd dreary coinfinenment, with a pale face and withered hanmds, his step~ weak atid tottetring, and skulking along, dodgitig all he meiets like a guilty thiing, shutting his eyes from the usuil glare of daylight, cut off' from the society of his fellow beings for some trivial otlfece coniuuitted in the thoughtlessness of eriig boyhood, wheti if' mild treatment had beens resorted to anid the ci ime butried in si lence, and iinducemetnt held out to himit to think well of himself, peirhaps that boy might have been sav'ed from treaudinig the slippery road of villainy. I say, wvhen I see this, I 'think of thte grey haired mother at home, the scalding tears of misery chasinug eachi other ofl' her high cheek bones, anid her bony hands shiakinug wIt agule and sorrowv for her only hope, her son, while her boiled eyes rests on nothing; I say to myself, poor sufflering woman, you dotn't knowu he is out! yes, lie is out of jail, out of money, out of friends, out of credit, and out upon the world a scoundrel for the rest of his days all for thme commission and punishment of a boyish crinme. So the wuorld goes, and so it will contintie to go until it runs down't, and I begin to think that but fewv of our mothers knowv we are out. We wuill he dismiissed. " nrare you writinig there, my boy ?" asked a fonud pareint, the other day, of' his hopeful sons anid heir', a shaver about tent Iyears or over. " My composition thuir." "Whint is the subject ?" "The higher law, thir," replied the youth. fuil l'arkerite. " Blut, really, I shall hbe un abhle to concentrate my ideas, and giv'e thtem a logieal relaution, if I am to lie cotnstanttly iutei rupted in this mainer by irrevalett inirie~s !" - S ~ t K sa vs if a fl'ller. can' 1)he let shmake handls with a gill unless lhe has a glove on, why aiin't lie mai~de to cover his lips, and is.- thiroumb hiskiuhlAini ino ? Every one hseadthis jpitrse, but few, we fancy, know its origin. One of our exchangfmes gives an account of it, which is good enough to be true. It runs asfollows: About nine years ago, a fine looking old gentleman from western Virginia entered a store in Nashville, Tenn. Said store was owned by a bluff hoinest old trader, who knew a great deal more about tihe quality of tie liquor sold at the back end of tie counter than lie di(1 about time fineness of time fabrics at the other, nevertheles<, be. tween the two extrenmeties of that shelf, contrivinig to make both ends very comfor tably umeet tihe necessity of tihe case. Tie old Virginian cast his eyes around the shelves and finally remarked Well neighbor, I see you have got hats." "A slighimt spriiklt," wvas tIhe answer ; and then otillowed the query, " Whar ye from ?" Old Virginin," was the respomnse. "Rgtsmlart old State, replied thle Teniessecan, " but gettimng rather too old to keep her hair on." "1 What to you imean ?" inquired the old Virgiian. " Vell, just what I say, uncle; canl't keep ier hair oni-for insta;ce, now, I shmld think volt have beenm a right he:lthy child of the Old Domininil1, but she has "shed" you at last, and like Samion of old, that's tihe way she is losing all time best imair ofT her venerable iem." The old Virgiiiamn looked around the store rather bothered with the liberty this Temiessecan was taking with his mother State, and finally remarked I eamme here to talk about hats, stranger, anid not her." " Well, well, numcle, don't git wi-athy now. I was oliy venturing a political op1in1ion about populatiomi in general, aid oi timt head we won't quarrel: but before we look at tie imts, a1s they are intinmtely coinmect. ed with leads, s'piose we take a mite of bald fiace." The proposition was agreed to, time liquor was immbibed, and nlext followed time hats. The merchant tossed down four or five wool hats of various sizes, and invited tihe old gemitleman to select one which would fit him. lie looked at them, examined the bizes, said they would do, and requested time store-keeper to hand him down a few Iniore." "Tlat's all time sizes I've got," said lie, but heres a few more if you think you'd like 'emii better, so saying lie tossed lown three more. iriniai, turnimmg them around, mnd time stut Did store-keeper, blowing vWith exertioik, descemded from his perch where he was standing from shelf to counter. As soon its he reached time floor, time old Virginian remarked that lie had not got enouglh Vet. " O, you want 'em for your niggers ?" says the store-keeper. " \\ ell, why didi't vol sav so when I was up ?" anid aain lie roceelled to perch himsell upil like a mer canitile Colo~ssmis. Whenm lie hadl blowed himself into his former position, time old m quiietly remarked. " Why stranger, I warn't talking any thing albout niggers." Tle flact is the old man was rather enjoying time extra labor lie had put tie Teimesseean to. " Well, what do you wait with so nianmy hats A" "I wanit thema for may sonis," said time old man. Thie storc-keeper begamn to count thiem oni time comuter. " 1ii.:ht," saitd lie, " pretty gootd pile already, I'll swear, limt here goes," and( addetd onme anmd then anmotheur, amid vet a fourth, amnd lie piked off a fifth, amid linaly seeing time old manr inunoveabie earmnestly counitinig thme hats, lie tossed tdown three more, amid was about to tdescendu himmselIf. wh'ien time old mam tumid im to hold oni and throw down a few miore. 0 , conme unle~," saitd lie, " you are jonkimng;" but to please hmiim lie threw downm twenty. "That's just one too maony," said time oit1 maon with umuchm grai ity. " What!I-vou domi't meani to say you have ineiteen soins ? SYes I tde mani to say so," was time old mi m's answer. "X And whmar in time name cr time State of Tienniessee are they ?" " Welh, thiey are ini Temn'nessee, right here ini this city-up at tihe hotel," said time old " Stranger," said time store-keeper, his incredulity miakimng imn spumttem amid stutter as lie said, " if you kein show me nineteeni boys of your raisin' thar's time bats." I" Hoid on, thmem," said time old nman, and off lie startetd, imn about teni iminutes downm thme street lie caime, leatding a line of inime teen boys, marchinig single file each bearinig a gu, amid followved by their venerable mother. They entered time nmerchant's store andt ranged alonig time coumnter. Thie store keeper ran his eyes along time line wvithm as tomishmenmt. "Amid you say that these boys are all yours !" lie imnquired. "Ask their mother, she says they are," replied time old muan. "Do you say so, madam ?" lie inquired. "Yes, I tie amid I ought to knmow," was time rej~lv. "Well, you might, I'll swear," said time store-keeper. " OldI friend," lie added, " I ain't got a word to say -Just takeo Theam 11als, And Mine Too." "IHAL.1., lien." " Ilallo back again! wh'lat ye wvant?" i-low's yer folks this rmorninmg ?" " I'm pretty well-mothers smuart as usual-Jim antd Tomi's kickin'-andt father died last nigt." " Your father died ?" " Yes lie kicketd time buckct about 12 o'clock, and I've got his watch !" Tumr.ts is am editor-a confirmed old bach-who dleclines necepting wedding cakte whein lie publishes a marriiage. lie says it looks like counitenaninug iimtmimuony, I fin dcmil ie iin lmur-k It was night. rusalem slept as quietly amid her ill as bild upon the breast of its mother. T oiseless sentinel stood like a statne s post, and the philoso pher's light bu .dinly in the recesses of his chamber. But a darker n it was abroad upon the earth. A mora rkness involved the na. tions in its uniig ned shadows. Reason shed a fai t gl ring over the minds of nien, like the co aid inetficient shining of a distant star. immiortality of1 man's spiiritual nature wis unknown, his relations to Heaven undisco ered, and his future des tiny obscured in cloud or mystery. It was at thi .eriod that two forms of etherial mould g[ ered above the land of God's chosen pa . They seemed sister angels sent to ea 'upon some emnbassY of love. The one as of majestic stature, and in the welll, rined limbs which her snowy drapery ly .COCCeld, in her erect bearing, all endy eye, were exhibit. ed the highest d .eo of strength and con tidence. I1er ri arni was extended in an expiressive ge upwards, where night appeared to have- 16ed her darkest pavil lion, while on hei ift, reclined her delicate companion, in and countenance the contrast of the of for she was drooping like the flower -i unmoistened by re fresiing ldews, an er bright but troubled eye scanned the with ardent but varying glances. Suddel a. light like the sun flashed out fromie-4 -Heavens, and Faith anid flope biailed 'ith exulting songs the ascening Star of Ibtlehen. Years rolled a y and a stranger was s. a in Jerusalem!"J He was a meek, and n..assuming man,. hose happiness seenIed to consist in acts' f benevolence to the inman race. * The Fvere deep traces of sorrow on his coa 'iance, though no one knew why he gri A for lie lived in the practice of every e and was loved by all the wise and g By and by .it was rumored that the ivger worked miracles, that the blind saw e dunh.spake, and the dead leaned to life' isouch; that when lie comntanded, 'ocean moderated its ebafing tide, and , very thunders arten. lated, lie is the so~ ;-God. Envy assail ed ~ ~ ' of. 'ih h sorcery, :and the ed flimn with thle 'e voice of impiousj s condemned him to death. Slowly thickly guarded, lie ascended the l ill A heavy cross bent him t e earh. But Fat leaned upon his a A 1o dipping her pilionls in his blood untehs to the skies. ery thunder irn Gd Envy assai,. Ailvcrie yjour Busitwtss. Do nzot liil !1oar light unader a Lild. Whlatever y'ouir Occupiationi or cni'r' srmay be, it' it need et - lvertise it thor s:1pliortHop dippin herpul ,c' pingily aid eficiently, in some shipe or otlier, that will arrestV public attentioni. I freely confess that what success I ha;e hid inl Iif'e may fairly bie atti-ibuted more to tie! Iuhilic press5 thiaut to nearly aill other causes coimbined. There may possibly be oc Idtetis t ynst do iot reqhire adve'tisig, but y cannot aell conceive what they are. Men in butsiness will sometimes tell fou that the have thied advertising, and that it did nt 11:1. This is only wh-en advertii1tg Is! (one aringly and grudgingly. Hoie i pati doses of advertising ,ill not Piy Ii annot sllcie whata thriey ofe pye inmakinges wisoetimes t el youtht thyhv tidinidtertiig and thtiei dillne sarn and permannt. oe-a ptheycanot ofadver ton aderise nothpey -make-gthe catient asick, not tofecting tise'. In this country where every body reads the newtspapers, the matinimst hav~e a thick skull whlo (lees not see that those are the cheapest and best mediumas through which lie can speak to the puhblic, where lie is to find his customers. Put on the ap peatrance of business, and 'generally the reality w'ill followv. The farmer plants his seed, and while he is sleeping his corn and potatoes are growing. ' So with advertising. While you tare sleeping or eating, or coin versing with one set 'of custoinors, your advertisement is being read by hunidreds and thousands -of persons who niever saw you, nor hieardl of y-our businuess, anid nev'er would, had it not been for your advertise tmeiit appearing in the new~spapers. No-r' BAn.-T1he lawvyer editor of a coun Ptry Whtig paper, who arrote a very " blind" ha~nd, was frequeiitly annoy'ed by the com. positot's' itnquiries concerning words which they could not deciphier. One day a comt positor, wthio was as little acquainted with the disposition of the editor as lie was with his hiandwriting, entered the sanctum, and holding the copy before his eyes, iniquir'ed what a certain crooked mark stood for. 'Te editor just at that time did not wish to be ititerrupted, and exclaimed: "Go to the dhevil." The compositor -retired, not to his Sa tanic majesty, but to the printing office and w~hen the editor read the proofs, lie had the pleasure of seeinig a line in his leading editorial read " He (Mr. Webster) will, in all proba bility, go to the devil." 'The copy wvas looked for, and the crook ed mark was rendered-"hbe nominated." DA~xcER OF SiLEkPING IN CHURCH. The Cincinnati Commercial is responsible for the folloni lug rather tough story : " Last Sunday, in one of our churches, an old gentleman, a worthy member of the Chris tian persuasiotn, fell asleep and began dreaming he was on a hunting excursion. All of a sudden and to the astonishment of every bed3', he hallowed out " Fetch him'i, Dash; a glorious shot-three wonodcocks with one barrel-hurrah for me ;" and he rose up from his seat' and cheered lustily. Ho wvoke himself up his hiallowing, and immediately seized his liat and walked out -blushing like a red-pepper." "Osa of thme rarities of life," says Elizta Cook, " is a wvomn thoroughly satisfied Iwith her dmwhlter-itn-law." A GOOD ANSWER. The noted " wise man" has laid down two rules for answering impertinent and foolish questions, he says: Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be like him." Answer a fool according to his folly, lest ie be wise in his own conceit." It is not always easy to determine which of these apparently contradictory rules should be followed, when some self-conceit. ed upstart undertakes to astonish you with a question which he supposes will evince a remarkable shrewdness on his part. But Greeley of the New York Tribune, has, for once, hit the nail on tie head, in replying to a correspondent signing himself " A Stu. dent," and wishing to know the editor's opinion of secret societies. His answer is: " A Student should bear in mind that about tie most cowardly and indefensible secret society we know is tit compose(d of' one member who writes a letter and with. holds his name." We think that "a studentt" might by this time return to his studies, satisfied that Greely could " see as far into a millstone as those that pick it." Men will make themselves ridiculous, but none show themselves greater asses than those who are continually harping ott what they call " secret societies." The societies to which they refer, so far from being secret, "are known and read of all men," and the members who compose them are not ashamed of their connection. Their principles and doings are before the world, and what are called secrets in their case, are just what are found in every well-regu. lated family, sld in all tie busitness trantsac tions of life. This sickly whining about " secret societies" is egnal to an emetic, aiy time, and makes the meddler appear about as dignified, in the eves of disceringq, per sois, as lie would if lie were under the in. fluemnce of a good dose of ipccacmina. But it is diffictlt for some anitmals to conceal their ears.-Olive liranch. " AnIt Cu.I oK 0X D.%c,;."-" I long resisted all solicitations to this employment, but at last allowing myself to lie overcome, I grew passionately fond of it, and now, I lost tle spirit of subordinationt, did not love to work, imbibed a spirit of idleness, and in short,. drank in all the brain-sickening effluvia of pleasure. Dancing and company took tire place of reading and study, aud the authority of my piarents was feared, but not respected, and rew serinns4 .mrein an.;---__ Yet,-I entered no disreputable assembly, rnd in no case kept bad company. Never tieless, the dancitng was to tie a perverting influence, an unmixed moral evil. I con sider it a branch of that worldly educatiotn, which leads from Heaven to Earth-from thinigs spiritual to things sensual and from ;od, to Satan. Let them plead for it who will. I know it to be ati evil, and only evil. No man in his sense, will dance," said Cicero, a heathen. Shaite then on those Christians, who advocate a course, by which many sons have become profligate, anid matny daughters have been ruiied." PLE ASISUus.-What is pleasure -Cheer ul lours-peaceful entertainients-hope I1ul blessing,. [i every land in every age, and amio:g every people hours have been reserved from daily avocations, and devote d to pleasure. Iy doing this, solemn and mourtnful feelings are banished anid the gloomy tides of life, which impetniously swell arnd lash tihe sunny eliff's of' ouir exist ence, are ever impeded arid subdued. It is thten that the minrd is ligihtented and relieved fronm all tihe stupendous anid harrassinig cares that gather thickly around the path. way of' man, anid is restored to its full bloom and iigor. T1hen it is that the clay ey tabernacle of miortals, crushed down aid wvorn out by fatigue and suff'erinig sprinrgs forth and imbibes deep) draughts from the f'ounttaitns of pleasutre. Marty arid various are the prlea-ures wh'lichu this wor'ld lavisheos upon miati. E~n'r.ovnia .ixu ExtrLovn.--he Syra cuse Star well says that no miani works wiil lingoly or zealously who feels that hre is iiot literally compenrsated for Ihis service. Ott tire corntrary, his labor is miore a matter ol necessity than pleasureC, and is perf'or'mied gr'udgirngly arnd withn indiff'erence. Emiploy-~ ers scarcely ever consider the wants of airy famiily besides their owni, thinking, we suip pose, that they can live upon air; at least they award it to them, andi having forced a mnair inito tihe acceptance of' a salary inusufli cienit to aff'ord riot ontly necessities, burt tire comforts of lif'e, assume a " holy hiorr'or" at his speculations. Th'le bond of' attachments betw~een the employed arid emiployer is of' entirely too slight a tenrure, it exists but f'romt year to year, and is purely rmercenary. Very f'ew clerks even after they hiave estabrlished their usef'ulniess, are requtitted by a salary equivalent to their nrecessities, arid we have known many~ cases whtere the dlemiand for an additional hundred dlollars to a salary has had the eff'ect to deprive the merchant of the services of' a valuable clerk ; because thre place might be filled for a less sum, even though less eflicienitly. He thtoughut he saved by the operation, but lie did not. What lie gained imi wIages lie lost ini shop lifting. A Limuomsli Joxn.-Onre of the coolest jokes of the season has been perpetrated by the liquor-dealers of Newv Yor'k, ini relating thre pr'ice of wines and brandies on account of tire shrort vintage of Europe. Those fellows are a jolly set, to lbe sure, or they never wuould have been guilty of such d~own'righrt wvagger'y in this hot weather. Those jolly old coves know a little better than airy one else that thre vineyards of Fi'antce and Germainy have about as much to (10 with tire potabnles sold in this counitry, as sarsapairilla root has to do with the " lpu rifyirng" fluids that are vernded under its namre. A short crop ohf grapes would have as little influence upon the piroductioni of wines arid br'andies ini the United States, as a short crop of' terrapin woumld upon tire Imrnmrrfnctue of mock turtle sonnp DEATH OF DANIEL WEBSTEE. The last of thre illustrious trio of intel lectual giants is no more. South Carolint has mourned her beloved Calhoun-Ken tucky has mourned her venerated Clay Massachusetts now mourns her gloriou Webster-and our nation mourns them all -:ill in little more than two years, succes. sively borne to their honored graves. They were contemporaries in public service, and compeers in intellectual eminence and lofty endowments as orators, statesmen and pa. triots. Beyond all comparison they were the three greatest men of the republic, since the days of the revolution-and long will it be ere our national firmament will be again illuminated by such a constellation of intel lectual glory-and long will the nation la. Ient the irreparable loss of their wise counsels and patriot services. They came into public lilfe almost simultaneously, and their glorious sunsets have been separated by but short intervals. Alike have they spent their entire maturity in the service of th:!ir country, and alike have they all died iN harness and at the post of duty. Alike did they deser ve, and alike were they denied the highest honor of the republic-and alike did they tower in colossal grandeur above all the men of their times. While tfe popular vote conferred fano on others, t'ev conferred faime on their country, and their memory n ill live and be reverenced, while liberty is worshipped, and public worth is cherished inl this land of the free. The illustrious subject of this obituary notice was born in Salisbury, at the head of the Merrinask River, in the State of New Hampshire, on the 18th of January, 1782. llis ftther was a ftarner, but had been an officer in the War of the Revolution, and was for many years a Judge of the Court of Common pleas. Mr. Webster owed his early education to the free school system of New England, and. graduated with high Academic honors, at Dartmouth College in 1801. lie commenced the study of the law in his native town under Mr. Thomp. Son], afterwards a meniber of Congress, and completed it in Boston under Governor Gore of Massachusetts-and was admitted t the liar in Boston, in 1805. At Bos. cawen, a village near the place of his nativity, lie began the practice of his pro fossion, but lie o m removed to a wider fi.-ld in Portsmouth, where lie soon stood in the front rank of his profession. His en trance on public life was in 1812 when at the age of thirty, lie was elected to -repre. sent his native State in the popular branchi 1816, hre removed to Boston and made it the theatre of his professional labors and Iaie. From 1823 to 1827, lie was a mem ber of Congress from the city of Boston, and distinguished himself alike in parlia mentary debate and by his forensic triumphs in the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1827, he was elected to the United States Senate from the State of Massachu. setts, and continuously served in that body, with a single interval, until his call to the Department of State by President Fillmore. fi 1841, lie accepted the Department of tat- under President Harrison, and coin tinited in that post, under President Tyler, until ie had negotiated the Ashburton Treatv. In 1845 lie returned to the Senate, an1rd left it again in 1850, to resume the office of Secretary of State, under Mr. Fillnore, which office ie continued to hold until the day of his death. The State of Massachusetts gave him her electoral vote for tire Presidency in 1830, aind at tire time of his death,,lie was the nominee for tire Presidency, by a p~ortionr of the Whlig party of Georgiar. He (lied at Marshtield, his residentce in Massachiu~etts, of iniflammation of tire bowels, Sunday morning at two innutes before three o'clock, ini tire 71st year of his ago. His speeches, parliamen tarv, forenrsic and pop~ular, constitute a~ legacy t' hris counrtry of inestimable value. -(Charleston Courier. Trns 'Thnuxr ox Wz.nsER.-ilorace Gieeley, of tihe Newv York Tribunre, not doubling that ere ihis papier of Saturday reacebed a majority of its readers, Mvlr. Webster would be no lonager anron gthre living, publishes ini that issue an obituary notice, upwards of two columns in length, "Clay-Calhioun-Webster-theO mighty trio wvho for forty y-ears have filled so larrge a space in tire eye and ini tire heart of thre nation--have all departed. It seemrs but yesterday thrat we saw them sitting together ini tire Serrate, vigorous iin mindi arid appa. rently firm ins health-anrd no~w they have pa- sed from among us forever. When shall onr country look upon their like agair -' Hfox. Tr. HBrI.E R K IN.-lt was rumored that tis gentlemanr had beens removed from tire Collectorship of Sarn Francisco. Tire Plhndelp~hia Sunr says: " He has nrot been removed, but ire ten dered his resignration, wich wvas accepitedh. Th'ie vacancy thus made has been filled by the approinrtmrenrt of Beverly C. Sanders as iis Euceessor. Th'le reasonrs whlich led to this action on tire part of Mr. King were, that a difference of opinion hrad arisen be. tweern him and1 tire government relative to the amount of duties whlich ought legally to Ibe imposed onr imported goods arriving" at San Francisco, arrd that ihis decisions as collector of tire port, had given offence to thre Frenrchr and British importers, but par ticularly tire former, arid did riot mieet the approbation of our own governrment. Or this issue, therefore, Mr. King conceived that tihe most honorable course for him to pursue, wvas to resign his office, wich Ihe according lv did." SMrrn O'lluimr:.-lt is feaired that thh noble Irish patriot and miartyr, is not des, tinied long for tis life, lie is slowly pass ing away, oppressed by ill-health arid mehan chroly. We trust Iris epitaph may beo written with Emmett's, by a free country, and ii tire blood( of that countr-y's oppressors Th'lere is a heavy day of r-etriburtiorr hanngii over Ernghland for thre arngs of poor lre lamnd FUG'ITIV5s ARRESTED AND REscUED. A telegraphic despatch from Pittsburg gives the following account of the escape of a number of fugitive slaves: - "We learn from Sandusky, Ohio, tht great excitement was occasioned in that city yesterday, by the arrest and subsequent rescue of some fugitive slaves. It appears that during the morning a number of fugia tives from Kentucky arrived in that city; en route for Canada. Immediately on their arrival they were escorted by their friends to the steamer Arrow; but just as the boat 'was about to leave the fugitives were arrested by some slave catchers, who attempted to take them ashore, in which they were defeated by the combined efflorts of a number of persons or both colors, after a sharp strug gle. The slave catchers then left the boat, and the fugitives are now on their way to Canada. The Kentuckians are much cha. grined, but console themselves with tho reflection that the citizens are responsible." Fiir.--We learn from the New York Express that Mr. P. T. Barnum's celebrated mansion took fire on Tuesrlay afternoon last, during the wedding ceremony of Ir. B's eldest daughter, and for a time threaten ed to make the superb building a mass of ruins. As it was, the fire destroyed the -roof, &c., to the extent of about a thousand dol lars. The Fire Annihilator and the new water-works put up by Mr. B., alone saved the valuable property from total destruction. There were over 1000 guests present at the time, and the confusion may be imagined. TuE: Baltimore County Jacksonian, gives. the following account of the deplorable state of the potato crops in that section of coun try : THE POTATO RoT.-It is now clearly as certained that the potato crop in this county is a total failure. We can hardly hear of an exception. Many farmers in this vicinity will not attempt to take them from the ground. The best crop in this section, we have heard, is upon a place owned by Mr. John If. Ing, where they were planted on a high piece of ground, and heavily manured with guano. Ii this instance they appear. ti.. have escaped the rot in a great measure; thus far. OKRA I EMP.-A specimen of hemp.Made from the stalk of.the well-known pkraplant. hps been sent to us. These stalks row fron twelve-to-thirteen.feet high, and wilt e four thousand -n-. a. Povdras street, opposite Freret's '6tteai press. It is said that-this okra-e nemp will last longer in water than the common article. The specimen sent us is white and glossy with long fine threads.-N. 0. Picaypue. A MA3uxoTn H-on.-There is now on ex hibition at Calasis, Maine, a hog raised by Mr. Nathaniel Lamb, of Milltown, which stands seven feet six inches high, and girts six feet eight inches, and weighs twelve hun. dred pounds. It is one year and six months old. Tu: corn crop in this district is turning out even better than was anticipated, and we hear of large lots offering for sale. It is now selling in this place at fifty cents per bushel. We trust this cheapness and abundance of corn, will enable those of us who have to buy pork to get it this Fall on good terms.-Abbeville Ban ner. " r are happy to learn," says the Baltimore American of Wednesday, "that the efforts which are now making to build, by subscription, a new and powerful sea steamer, to ply be tween thils port and Charleston, in connection with thme steamer Palmetto, have been very successful. A portion of the capital necessary for the undertakinug has been promptly sub. scribed, and it is hoped the preliminary arrange ments will at onuce be made to seure thme conm pletion of thme vessel early in the coming Sprinug." NE" PUnric BUII.DING AT NEW YORK.--A large building, capamble of holding 10.000 per sons, is soon to be built in thme vicinity of Madison square, Newv York. The interior of the new edifice wvill be laid out in thme form of an anmphitheafre, and arranged so as to be brought into service for equestrian or other public perforumances. 0I a How grand and impressive is the stillness of midnight, wheni " millions of suns" shower beauty on the sleeping earth ini si lence. In such an hour, the wvaking mind must commune with itself,. with nature and withi heaven. Lonig pent up thoughts rush out-fresh comminglings, with the past, the present and the future, occupy their place. A Divinity is seen, felt and acknowlhedged, above, withuin and around us, and the quies cent pulse of nature seems emblematic of an eternal rest beyond the tomb. These consummate wags must have laughed, inwardly, clear doivn to their heel taps, as they informed their customers with apparent gravity that the short grape harvest wvould oblige them to raise their prices. Lit. Museum. MIsvoRTUNrs are moral bitters, which frequently restore the healthy tone of the mind, after it has been eloyed and sickened by the sweets or" prosperity. THIERE are two kinds of immortality ; that which the soul really enjoys after this life, and that imaginary existence, by which men live in their fame atnd reputation. - A BONAPARTE IN LecK.--Prince Lucietn Bonaparte, it is stated in the English papers, has just had the good fortune to break the batnk at, the noted German gaming place, Hombuerg. lic wvon 480,000 francs, or Su.N>,000-rather a weak batik. A SrANIsH proverb says, that the Jews rnin themselves at their passovers, the Moors -at their marriages, and the .Christiads'at their hIn uits.