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April 2 tf - 12 Fine BuckWheat Flour. - UST received a magnificent supply of Rack Uwheat FLOUR. Also, on handl a good article of lylohlasse. Fine times aheasd-AIhem ! Call soon or you'll be deprived of a great luxury. GL.PENN, Aazwr. 1N,19 . If GOING UP AND COXNG DOWN. This is a simple song, 'tis true, And songs like those are ne vcr nice; And yet we'll try and scatter through A pinch or two of good advice. Then listen, pompous friend, and learn Never to boast of much renown; For fortune's wheel is on the turn, And some go up and some come down. We know a vast amount of stocks, A vast amount of pride insures; But fate lias picked so many locks We wouldn't like to warrant yours. Remember, then, and never spurn The one whose hand is hard and brown; For he is likely to go up, And you are likely to come down. Another thing you will agree, . (The truth may be as well confessed.) That " codfish aristocracy " Is but a " scaly " thing at best. And though the fishes large and strong May seek the little ones to drown, Yet fishes al, both great and small, Are going up and coming down. Our lives are full of chance and change, And " chance," you know, is never sure, And 'twere a doctrine new and strange That places high are most secure. And though the fickle god may smile, And yield the sergptre and the crown, 'Tis only for a little while; Then B goes up and A comes down. This world for you and me, my friend, Hath something more than pounds and pence; Then let us humbly recommend A little use of cxmon sense; Thus lay all pride and place aside, And have a care on whom you frown, For fear you'll see him going up, When you are only coming down. AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT. I was once engaged to be married, (how went so.ftar as that is a marvel to ine still,) iut an incident of so frightful a character ok place as to put the matter entirely, out arty at the Irish lakes, wvhen I aet with ith Lucy, and got, in short, to he accepted. le was residing with her mother, in the 1h11e hotel in Killarney, as ourselves, and e all meat every day. We boated on the ke together, and fished, and sang, and read. re landed on the wooded islands in the (t suniter evenings, to take our tea in psy fashion, and to sketch; but she and I ostly whispered-not about love at all, as remember, but of the wather and the tric; only it seented so sweet to sink our iices and speak low and soft. Once, in a pairty over the moors, while I as leading her pony over some boggy round. I caught her land by imistake in Wead of her lridle, and she did not snatch t away. It was the heydey and the prime imy life, my friend and that yotth of the irit which no power can ever more renew. kew what she felt, and what would please r, as soon as thme feeling and the wish em~tselves were born. Our thought-my ought at least-" leapt out to wed with ought, erc thought could wed itself with eech.' She took a fancy to a liugo muas tdog belonging to a fishermani; and I mzlkt it for her at once although it was ribly .savage, and (except for Lucy's lik g it) not either good or beautiful. Its ane, also-the onily one it would answer amid sometimes it would not to that-was lwser -, ot a name for a lady's pet, at all, id searcely for a gentleinmn's. There was little seeluded field, h ged in by a cop iee, which sloped into the lake, about a nile fromi the hotel ; ;mnd there Lucy agreed fr the first timte) to'meet me alone. I was oe there before breakfast, at eight o'clock ithe morning and you may be sure I was here at six-with Towser. Perhaps I was never happier than at this articular time. The universal nature seemed harmoity with my blissfutl feelings. The mu shonme out bright anmd clear, so that the resh morning breezes could scarcely cool he pleasant throbbings of' my blood, but he blue rippling wvaves of the lake looked 'repessib)!y tempting, and I could not r'e sit a swim. Just a pluntge and out again, hought I; for though I had such pleinty of tme to spare, I determined to be dressed and ready for the interview an hour at least hefre tie appointed thae. Lucy might lke imyself, be a little earlier ; and at all events, with such an awful consequenice in possible apjgrehtension, I run the shadow of a risk. " Miind my clothes, mind thetm," said I'to Towser (who took his seat' thereon, at ne, sagaciously enough,) for I had heard f uch things a:4 elothes beinig stolen frojn ncensious dippers b~ef ore then, with results i(t to be thought of; and ini I went. I re nember the delight of that bath even to this day, the glow, the freshness, the huxu rous softiness of each particular wave, just sthe last view which his eyes rested on is painted on the memory of one who has been stricken blind, or the last heard melody is treasured in that of a man stunned deaf by a fal;. it was my last perfect pleasure, and succeeded by a shock that, I shall -never, I ihik quite get over. When I had biathed as long as I judged o e prudent, I landed and advanced to. wards the spot whlere my garments and ITowser lay ; as I did so, every individutal hair upon'his back seemed to bristle with fury, his eyes kindled with coals of fire ; li gave mec notice by a low, determined grow that lie would spring on ime and tear me into fragments if I approached nearer, il was evident that he did not recognize me the least without my clothes " Tow, Tow Tow, Tow," said I pleasantly, "good old Tow o rmember me:" but& the brute like the friend whom we have known in better day, and applied to when in indiffei ent apparel only shook his head in a men: eing manner, and showed his teeth the mor< " Towser, be quiet, sir; how dare you Tow, Tow, Tow, Towser-(here he nearl; had a bit of my calf off)-you nasty, bri tal dog; go away, sir-go; ain't you ashane of yourself?" Drops of foam oozed throug the teeth of the ferocious monster as h stood up with tail erect at these reprovin words, but he manifested no sign of remors or sorrow. My situation became serious i the extreme; what if hie choose to sit ther( on my personal apparel, until-? At this idea, too terrible to be concluded a profuse perspiration broke out all ove me.' Presently feeling a little cold, I wen back into the lake again to consider wha was to be done, and resolving the fell dc sign of enticing Towser into the water an< there drowning him. Abuse and flatter, being equally thrown aYway upon him, tried stones; I heaved at him with all in force the largest pebbles I could select, thi majority of which lie evaded by leapii from side to side, and those which struLCI him rendered him so furious that I believo he would have killed and eat ine if he could whether I was dressed or not, but he wouk not venture into the water after me still. ' At last, the time drawing on apace foi the appointed interview which I had one< looked forward to with such delight, and ex peetation, I was fain, in an agony of shanm and rage, to hide in a dry ditch in the neigh boring copse, where I could see what tool place without being seen, and there I cov ered myself over, like a babe in the wood with leaves. Presently my juey came down, a trifl iore caretfully dressed than usual, and look. ing all grace and modesty ; the dog berat to howl as sli'e drew near ; she saw him, and she saw my clothes, and thu notion that I was drowned (I could see it in her expres sive countenance) flashed upon her at once; for one instant she looked as though about to faint, and the next she sped off again to the hotel with the speed of a deer. Gra. cious heavens! I decided upon rescuing a portion of my garments at least, oi up1on perishing in the attempt, and rushed out of the thicket for the purpose; but imy courage failed mne as I neared the savage animal, and I found myself (in some confused and palpi. tating manner) back iii m.-y dry ditch again, with the sensation of a loss of blood and pain, my retreat had not been effected-perhaps, out considerable loss, and the beast had bit ten me severely. I protest that, from that moment, frightful as my position was, it did not move mC so much as the reflection of the honors that would be showered down.on that vile creature. I knew that he would he considered by Lucy nnd the rest as a sort, of Dog of'Montargis, an aflectioniate and sagacious creature, watchmlg patiently at his appointed post, for the beloved mas ter that shout ne-ver again return to hin. Presently they ill elne hael. Lucy and her mother, and all the imiaid servants, from the inn, besides may felow-studenats and fish erinen with dragnets, and a medical man with blankets and brandy. (how I envied the blankets and the branty !) As I expect ed, neither the woman's cries nor the men's labor in vain distressed. me *alf so much as tihe patting and caressing of Towser; 1 could not repress a groan of horror and indignation. hush hush !" said Lucy; and there was a silenace, through which I could distinctly 'hear Towser licking his chops. I was desperate by this time, and halooed oub to my friend Saniford-" San ford, and nobody'else," to come into the corps with a l.>lanket. I remember nothing more distinctly. In mediately peals of laughter, now smothered, now breaking irrepressibly forth ; expres. sions of thaaikfulness, of' afetion, of symi pathy beginning-but never- finiished-burst in upon, as it were by floods of mterrimueisM and the biarking, the eternal barking. of that execrable dog. 1 left Killarney thait samec evening, Lucy, and the mother of Lucy, and my fellow students, and the abomninable Towser; I left them for good and all; and thatt was how my engragemnent was broken ol; "ai'W why there is no Mrs. Poeny Flush," concluded the curate, who hxad turned from rose-color to deep carnation, and from that to almost black, during the recital.. IhOME OPEaA.-Since the nlighlt whent lk went to the opera he has been, as Mrs. Par tington says, as crazy as a lhed-bug, and thu kind old dame has beeni fearful lest he shouk become " nmon pompus amenitusI," through hi attempt at imnitatig thle operatics. Thei next morning after the opera, at th'- break fast table, Ike reached over his cenp, and in soft tongue sang : " Will you, will you, Mrs. P.' lelpi mec to a cup or tea'" The old lady looked at him with surprise his conduct was so unusual, and for a mec menat she hesitated. lie continued in a fa niore imipassioned strain : " Do inot, do not keep, me waiting, Do not, pray, be besitating, I am anixious to be drinking, So pour out as qik as winking." IShe gave him the tea with with a sigh as she saw the excitement in his face. II stirred it ini silence, and in his abstractie took three spoonsful of the sugar. At las he sung again: " Table cloths, and cups and'saucers, Onoud white bread and active Jaw, sirs, Tea-gunpowder and souchong Sweet enouigh, lbut not too4 strona; iBad for health to eat hotL buscuit, But I'll risk it-butter'll risk it." "Whlaat do you mean, my boy?" sai Mrs Partiangton, tenderly. " All right, steady, nsever clearer, Never loved~ a breakfst dearer. I am not bound by wItch or wvizard, So dont fret your pureciouis gizzard." " But Isaac," persistedl the dame. Il struck his left hand upon the table, ai 'swung his knife aloft in his right, looking I a pie unon the table. sinig a "What form is that io me appearing ' Is it mackerel or herring I Let me dash upon it/quick, Ne'er again that fish shall kick Ne'er again, though ,hrice as kirge - Charge upon them, uae, charge " F Before he had a chanOe to make a das' upon the fish, Mrs. Partington had14 dasie a tumbler of water int6his face to restor 1 him to " consciousness. It made him catel his breath for a moment, but he Iidn't sh any more tt the table though the oper: f'ever still follows himi elsewhere. She i very uneay'W lbout him. SWEA NG. i" all tile nauseous, conImlicated crimes, T I.aL b.oth1 infest and stigmatise the, times, t There's none that can with-jmplous oaths compare Where vice and follyhave'aa equal share." - Ir is not our purpose towrite a homily on thi subject; but simply to c.a attention in a fev plain remarks, to a wide-Jpread and -prniciou evil, Swearing, like drinking, is confined to n( one elass, or condition of society. The younq and the old, persons of botl sexes--the rich and the poor, the learned and the ignorant, the bond and the free, are more or less guilty of the prac tiee. Should the eye of a-profane swearer light upon these lines, we reseetfully ask him tc pause a moment, and spribuzly ponder the ful lowing consideration. Profane swearing is forbiden by G.<. Swear not all.-Thi cominand is positive ; as so as any precept orfthe Decslogue ; and for the violation of whichou are as respunsilek as vou would be 1;r theft. "Yor, He who said, ' T 1,hou shah , n4t tuafl," hs also .aid, " Swear not at all." If, thmereforeyou have any regard for your Maker, desist fromat the practice of pro fane swearing. Couns-der. that it is a insdess pr.etis.. Welaive heard men justify the use of strong drink on the grounds of its utility-they tells us, it warnmis them iii winter and cools them in summer; and they are firmly persuaded that yall this is so! But who ever heard a just.. or even a sensihle plea for an iath ? who will pretend to say that the use of pwofane language is profitable in any way ? The .-wnjrrr hims.:lfAknoirs that it is not. It makes him uneither wisei, nnr rioioe nour more respectable. Tt increases in no degrree his influ ence; anud it is very thr from reconmending hin to the favorable notice aixt re'gard of tihe good rmd tupriaht, Besides all t a, it is a iwell known fleet, that. b:t little copfyl ' .1 plced hi the a har(d oath. Ills veracitV is mo it commonly suspected by ien of strict integrity; and if be lieveI at aIl, it is because whathe states is known to be trume, imlIpendently o.f his testimony. In short., not one single advantage can be shewn to result from the practice-why, then, persist in it? Consider too, that it is no mark q a genlk man in sirear. We do not say, thit he who swears, is no gentleman-we leave others to de. termine tis-but we do say, that, profiue swear ing is no mark of good .breeding-.of gentlemn lV chameter. What are the facts of the case ? Why, " the most worthless and vil," the refuge of mankind, and the drunkard swegas well as the best dressed and educatedl gentlemwn. "Awl it is a well known fact that, common sailor, who are looked upon as among the most deora. ded in morals are also among the mniost /ftnished in 1 the art of cursing." It requires no particu lar smartness-no special intellectual endow ments, to acquire proficiency in this art. "The basest and meane.t of' mankind swear with asi mm-ha taet and skill, as the must refied." To say thme Ieast,'thuen, the commnion swearer can, am this account, lay no claim to being a gentleman -thme practice adlds nothing to'his resp-ctab~ility. But -the most weighty consideration against swearing is, that GIod will not hold you guiltless. One of the ten conunandmnents is specially di reeted againsat this practice :-" Thou shalt nt takethe name of' the Lord, thy God in vain. No man sno frequently, and so wrantonly, take~ the namie of God in vain, as the p~roime~ :sweaurer. He never umes it, but with proufane lips. Ile necv er uaus it, b~ut in invoking imtprecationls either oni his own head, or on others. For such wanton, inmpions use of his name-a name before which all holy intelligences prostrate thiemselves-God h.ma solenly declared, that he will not hold the swearer gyuiltless ;-" I will not hold him guihiess that taketh my name in vain I" A wful threatening I let the swearer seriously think of it ; and let him abandon a practice, which is not only wholly teiin-oft~able, but which, if not repented of, maust finally expose him te the malediction of his offended Maker. D. ' Aa wrrn H~oors.-Vv ill the la-hies eoni tinue their hoops during the " freezing terni?' --or will the cold, wintry weather, whiel has such a contracting ef'eet on things gen erally, occasion them to disappear ? are th< questions now before a large portion of' th public. We hope hoops will be discardem they are so poky and ungr'aceful. A -ventilators int hot weather, and supporter I of th in drapery when a hady does tnt car to be oppressed with numberless skirts, the) cain lie barely tolerated by a philosophi *mind. But wvheni cold weather shall rende warmth desirable, and plenty of under-ga met necessariy, we do hope that thes ;abominable circularities, whichi make a w( e man look like atperambulatlng sugar hog n head done up int muslin, will be discarded t and that our eyes will once more be deligh ed with the sight of our fatscinating ladi arrayed in flexible, swaying graceful draperi OLD IIltNDEFD.-The long disputed que tion whether Purcell or Handel, was thme at thor of the grand music of the Old IHu dreth. hats been set at rest by a discover d marode a fe~iw datysine~e in Lincoln Cathedra library. Purcell died in 1695, and Hand< in 175i9. But in the Cathedral library, Frene't psalter, printed ini 1546, contai the music of the Old Hundreth, exactly it is now sung, so thatjit could not be ti sproduction of pither of the great musicia ito whom it has beern atributed. at In. like manner, "God save dhe King las tiuuie ont to ha a ?anaeh enmnositio A BACKWARD MOVEMENT, A North Carolina Court, emulons of a< quiring a fame equal to that of Massacht setts two hundred years ago, and of Cor neeticut a little later-the one for her pei sectitions of witches and the other for he Blue Laws, has decided that Universalist shall not. be deemed compelent witnesses i1 a court of justice!' This is due to the pc culiar religious belief of these people. W, wonder that the North Carolinians left thi task to a court and have not embodied thi bigotry indicated by the ruling of the cour in an enactment of the State Legislature t ibe called-somewhat as follows: " An act to increase all ofnees againsl the persons md property of the peopl known as Universalists-such as murder robbery, forgery, brutal assaults, latteries obtaining goods under fidse pretenses, viola tions of contract and all oth-:r acts ordina * rily considered crimes, and against the poer of this commonwealth. and to convert th< same offlences into harmless amusement." For the ruling of the court will have pre cisely the eilhet of enctouraging crime aga.ns the class of people against whom the decis ion of the court has been made. Doubtles it would give the judge great pleasumre to set society back a century or two, and we dart say that at times it must strike him with pe culiar regret that there are no such exhilira. ting spectacles as auto dafcs now-a.days, at which a judge could preside and rejoice his soul with the agomies of the hereties. It is absurd md a disgrace to the age in which we live to make a judicial oath de. pend upon the religious thaith of anly ou, 4it has been long discovered by those who have made the subject a study, that the purity of the witness box and the sanctity of tihe oath ll all cases, Is preserved by the civil enact. men'its providing punishments for peijury, and that thme ftith of men has no eflet what ever. Those who would lie in court would lie any where, and those who are truthful outside of court-would never descend to tlsehood inl court, where they are far mote exposed to detection by counsel thani any. where else. Let North Carolina come back into the nineteenth century again.--Ne BAk Picayune, - FlsLING ICE HOUSES. Every farmer ought to have, and nmidoubt. edly has, a good ice house ; and at this sea son, when the time for gathering in the ice crop is at hand, and the following instrue. "It sometimes happens, that the best ice in the whole season is made in the month of December. It is always well to seeure the first good ice that makes, say, one foot in thiekncs4. This, if it be perfectly clear and free from frozeu snow, is thick enough, and sooner the erop is secured the better. "The first business is to cut the ice into suitable blocks for packing. Whenu there is no inaichinierV to be enmployed in handlinig the blocks, t-o feert by three will be iund a convenient size ebr a house twelve feet square, as they will make a perfect fit inl the packing. The ice should be marked oil with some sharp tool, and a crevice made to be followed with a coarse saw-a cross cut saw, with one handle out, or an old saw ,,ill plate with a handle added, will answer. The stwer should follow the marker as closely as possible, to make straight edged blocks., "In selecting ice for cutting, takei that which is perfectly clear and solid. Air or' Idirt, frozen in, will not keep so well. (aie should be takeen also to keep the blocks Iclea wi hile laying thetu in. After the first laver oft blocks is put down., and the saw dust or sea-weed is packed in solid at the sides,' the s~mmall crevices around each block sh'ould be filled up with Ip1ounded iCe or dry.' s now. If the weather is intensely cold, ai 'very little water may.hle used at thme cracks to i'iake the union perfect. The more coin p'etely you can exclude auir from the bo~dy of the ice, thme better it will keep. " Ilaving finished thme first layer, sweep oli ch-anu, and put in the next, whlich eement to gether with thme pounded ice like the first, Continue this procs until the last layer, which cover with saw dust, or strawv, or sea weed, if more coinvenizent. eighteen iniches ini thickness. If the ice house is pr'operly maide and good ice put in it in this manner, you will ind it very little diminished niexi May, wvhen you open it to get the Iirst block for'the relrigrerator." NOVEL MIEETIN.-Dr. X. attended throng he falls in with a fair pilgrim in black silk, wvhose charming person, snow-whuite neuk, and biewitchingly coquettish airs awak en in his sou1 thme most raptuous love. She e asts upon him looks of the most lhmguish ing tenderness; lie revels in the hope o hving madmne a blissful conquest. ie muns ters up his courage, and ventures to addres, her. "Who art thou, lovely mask ?" asks Dr. X., almiost melted in the glow of love. "Is it possible you do not know me Doctor ?" lisps the lady in black silk. " No, upoin my honor I do nmot knot thee 7 L" Bethink yourself, Doctor." S" Ahi ! thou art surely the gracious fair) who lhas appeared to ime to-day, for thn fourth time, to open to ine the gates of bliss "You mistake, Doctor, I ami no fairy." *"Ah! who art thou, then I" " I am the well known lady to whlom yo have now these nine weeks been indebtel in the sum of two dollars and seven shil lings for washing and ironing !", The Doctor stood like a petrified herring A Ga,,.-An eminent moder'iwr'iter beni - tifully says :-"'The foundation of domesti mhappliess is faith in the irtue of woman mthe foundation politicnl happiness is coni dence in the integrity of' man; and tI: ~foundation of' all happiness, t nmporal an 5eternal,-reliance on the goodi se of God, 15 TnE less a moan does, the more fuss I makes. A hen with one chicken does moi "scratching than if she wer'e blessed with . &mily of Aneen. DR. DICKSON'S AIDDRESS. WE find in our drawer an introductory -.address, delivered by the eloquent DR. DicXsoN;, of Charleston, before the medical r class of tie present winter. Like all other productions of this accomplished physician a and lecturer, it is at once chaste and forcible. We have but room to copy the following passage, upon the necessity of varied learn. ing to the proper illustration of medical t science: " Take comfort, my son," wrote'the illus trious Chathai to the no less illustrious Boy Minister, who so long governed the mighty king.lom of Great Britain, " Take comfort my son ! after all, you have only the Cyclopedia to master." The domain of Scientifie Medicine reaches to-day over all the vast realms of modern attainment, con promising within its recognized limits an acquaintaice with every department' gf hu man knowledge. " What science is there" -xClaims a recent yriter on Physiology, himself all aIdmirable example of oninivo rons aquisitiont-" What soieneo is there which is not involved, in explaining our structure and functions! Anatomy, Chem ietry, Zooiogy, the various brancihes of Nat uraf Philosophy. which themselves require as their foundation Mathematics," are brifiy speoilied, but it would be difficult to say what could be excepted. - Little less,. indeed, than the complete cir cle so tersely indicated by Chatham, will suffice fur the Physician. "To learn to rea son, he must know." Knowledge is conveyed and bound up in language. Classical learn. ing, therefore, and what is called literature, .iare necessary for him as truly as scieneL proper, that lie may understand what lie reads, and be capable to state, to narrate, to infer, to argue, to prove, to convince. Modern languages are indispensable to him, if lie aim at the highest point of excellence and its prompt attainment. It is 1hortify ing to be compelled to wait for translations; and still more, to depend upon others UUt only for the selection of what they chose to distil for us from foreign materials, but for the correctness and truthfulness of the con veyance. I am aware that "all is not pos sible to all," nay, perhaps not to any; but I am anxious to impress upon you the ur gent demand that you should attain to all that is possible, each one for himself Ii is infinitely easy'to know too little; infinitely din - Q a I B-'j -6W which lie will never discover, nay, which s have no means of development, but through diligence, patient study, vehement mental eflort. As in a course of gymnastics we find ourselves, Upon earnest and repeated trial, capable of feats of strength and agility unthought of aud unhoped tur, so I will ven. ture to aissure you that the steepest and loftiest, heights of the apparently impossible are often-and sometimes with unexpected ease too-scaled by the resolute climber. 'Forwaird, then, and be your motto, Excel sior! If your preliminary education have been imperfect, take up again, with manly deteriiaifttiol the gram mar and the diction ary. Master your own glorious tongue, the language of Milton and Shakspeare and Ba con-of Sydinham and Cullen and Rush. Enable yourselves to connunicate your thlaugits in the fixed and stereotyped-not dead-but emphatically living and inmor tal dialect of universal science employed by Iroand Pliny adCelsus, Stahl A G regory. Open with familiar key the new and' daily multiplying treasures accumulated by our Frenchl and German brethren, and it'is impossible ter me to exaggerate the ad vantages and facilities wvhich wvill accrue to you fromi those highly available sources of intelligence. Sen-ERt AD BURaLINGA..-A Washington correspondent of the Newv York Day Book, says: Senator Stunner hias not yet arrived, according to announcement, and it is doubted by manyeif he will ever take his seat again. His sensibili ties have been too severely shocked, n at only by the whipping lie so richly merited, but by the remarks of Senators at the time and since, rs well as his own conviction of the unjustilia bleness of his vituperative speech which brought down on his head both the blows and the general censure of his countrymen. W::en a man has done that which his own conscience condemns, the applause and commendation of his friends must ever fail to give satisfaction and peace to his soul. Burhngame has been here since the com mencement of the session, but a new habit of riding in a qlose carriage to and from the Capi tol every'day has. led to tuie report that he, too, is at home an invalid. I do not think Mr. Burlin game has ever been seen in Pennsylvania avenue since his card relating to the Clifton House af fair was published. He was in Baltimore before his card was in type, and went immediately on to his northern campaign, never again appear ing, except one day to draw his pay,-whilst Brooks was at the Virginia Springs. This is the man the Bostonians feasted and toasted as their "game cock "-a more contemptible pup py or sneaking'eaward never disgraced the name of Yankee. It is enough to make one blush for his race, to see a white man dodge and. run as this poor creature has from the very sha dow of Mr. Brooks. One is almost tempted to fight Brooks for him, if for no other reason than to save humanity" from the disgrace he brings Iupon it. ONE OF THE RicHi MEN.-It is estimated that one of the rich men of New York has now a -. "regular income " of p3,000 a day-about $1, . 100,000 a year. Out of this he can probably c manage, with econcmy, to " lay aside against a rainy day " the respectable sum of a million a. -year. Add to this another million by the ra e pid appreciation of his real estate, and we have dan unusual increase of wealth for this indignl amounting to two millions of dollars. E r e Astor is that gentleman. e A want of confidence has kept many a a man silent. A waent of sense has mad. many persons talkai. We have seen or heard of ray dinary yonpg "en who' never Vi whose performance in actial . li extraordinary. Whenie No77 mein, when we hear them speak of books, of religion, we admire riority; they seem to thr w, the whole state of the wo d; t l - tone of a youthful giant, who is revolutios.. But they enter.*an fession, and the forming Colosunt ' the connon size of man. -Tho: used was- the ideal tendencidski makes the actual ridiculo6s/h U world had its revenge the.mozn thbir horses of the sun to-plou row. They found no example panion, and their--heart fainted. - The lesson they gave hi their '64 tions is yet true, and a bette purer truth, shall one.day e x and put the world to.shame. W e - TiE.80ESOL 'om The London Leader -titus' iaw e e the late restoration of thisI 9P government: as TnE .REsOLUTE."--One ' 1 soinest presents which -was ever the country to another has just arr'v across the Atlantic. It -is the -Br 3overy barque Resolute, which w inder Capt. Kellet to assist in the .or Sir John Franklin ahd which :oming back as a present from th states to England. Everybody raeren aow the vessel was abandonel ~by orde he commander of the expeitioi ter station in 'the Arctic regions the imong the icebergs 4,200 milee und, several mounths back, 'by ~a an whaling crew, blonging to New n Connecticut. The ship had been dws' y abandoned, the English goe vaived all claim to the vessel, ands tow the private property of the rcw4 inerican government showed as - ippreciation of this interesting rehc iur town had exhibited. The two . fli if Congress united in a joint resolution1 ing tbrty thousand dollars to purei 'essel of the crew who found it, :and% >resent it to the English governmdnt 'fi oken of the friendly feelings enternaineiPq hat country for our own. ThisexaitIgy awed oat the whole course of efet 1hich the Resolute had figured. The zpedition fell .under the:-coi yng: it orward; -who appemrd& DMe degree a jealousy of the erhaps the greater sucoess, -of the' nder him. Against the opinion"' thers, he caused the barque 'to be a d; and the government com plte o bandonient. No sooner had -the- se >r Sir John Franklin been announeid, was manned by volunteers; and. Lmnerican government spontaneously ented the services of its own volunteers ssist in the search. The ship which bandoned by an order of Sir Edward her was found by Americans, and . d by the American government.' Nor dr he American goverinent stop short itt th nere return of the ship as it floated. fi he words of the New York Times, she ha >een rapaired and fitted with the utmost are at the expense of our government, wi he design of restoring her to the Queen in. .t least as good a condition as she was in at he time the exigencies of their situatie ompelled her crew to abandon her. Th essel, thus ronovated, has been placed he charge of Capt. H. J. Hartstein, one o( he officers of' the late Arctic dxpedition~~ vho has brought her to Portsmouth.' ppears to us that the ship has thus aeguirea value which it did nos possess when ~it rst left the hbfilder's hands. Evu'y sword' ~very telescope, every quadrant, hasgaine ~omething more precious than a covering 0: ~old, in the friendly care which has beens >estowed upon it. Nothing can have. beae nore handsome than the whole conduct oc he A merican government, from first to lash~. yut most especially in the graceful attentio-.' :o small details. Will not the Ameriean 'fieers be we~comred ? Of course they wiUt right hearty English Chiristmas welcom v'ill be given to Capt. Hlartstein, his officer mud his crew, by every Englishman, ay, ani' wvery. Englishman, that can w~in the~prs. ~ mece of the visitors by the most cordiaI' " lIspitalities. A JusT. CnmPLnET.-The Liverpool Timi with less pretensions than its London namoue, understandi Americ'an polities and AmericanT uharter much better. Commenting on our tine Preidetial election, it thus pays us a comli. ment which no other people yet merit: * " It is am.:zing how soon p.urty spirit, carrisd to the verge of excess, subsides in the Unite' diates when the will of the sovereign .peop$ becomes known. The minority bow .with l strictive respect to that numercal preponderan with it is the genious of the Americanton' ution to represent. However fierce The-.stu' gte. however superhuman the efforts whigh ha been made to secure ietory, tile belligen when the battle is over, lay down their without forfeiting eacti othbr's respect.Ii' quires a tong course of educationaltrt pmacticat freedom to obtain this control, but is possessep by the Americans to an extepn known in Any other country where free in's tions e ist; and the solution of the. eng must be looked for in the, fact that evexdm~ feels himself amatom in the great total equal of the foremnost in thetland ;sand'the respect mu generated pays to the State t9 age of an ungrudeing submission. hlende to be free who can make such sacrificsfof dividual opinion, and yet 3ietl' th3 phillosophy to the co.urse of events 'wlit cannot control. The Union stand a iu ger of disruption white this i animates the bre'asts of Ameritr A woman's tongue has beenfon ble, on actual excperimenlt, to move sand six hundred and ninety-nine an times a miute. And wbist is