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.U SCATIR THE GERMS OF THE BEAUTIFUL. Scatter the germs of the beautiful! By the way-side let them fall, That the rose may spring up by the cottage gate, And the vine on the garden wall; Cover the rough and the rude of earth With a veil of leaves and flowers, And mark with the opening bud and cup The march of summer hours. Scatter the germs of the beautiful In the holy shrine of home; Let the pure, and the fair, and the graceful there In the loveliest lustre come. Leave not a trace of deformity In the temple of the heart, But gather about its earth the gems 6f Nature and of Art. Scatter the germs of the beautiful In the temples of our God The God who starred the uplifted sky, And flowered the trampled sod. When he built a temple for himself, And a home for his priestly race, He reared each arch in symmetry, And curved each line in grace. Scatter the germs of the beautiful In the depth of the human soul: They shall bud ant blossom, and bear their fruit While the endless ages roll. Plant with the flowers of charity The portals of the tomb, And the fair and pure about thy path In paradise shall bloom. WOMAN. Afrection's tears, how bright it seems In woman's tender eye, When trembling in the angel gleams That to the loved one fly. Proud man, with all his boasted sense And reason, never knows 'I he feeling holy and intense, That in her pure heart glows. Ten thousand things will lead him far ' From those he ought to love, But woman is a changeless star That'ever beams above. Her fond, brave heart beats hopefully Amid the deepest gloom, And in it flowers of sympathy, In fadeless beauty bloom. Her love will stand both time and tide I'd cold misfortune's blast, - Aft thr bziog m drforu rMiif - 'Twill burn on to the last. And in the closing scene of life, When death'4 dark curtains fall, A sister, mother, or a wife, Is seen, heard, last of all. From Parton's Life of Burr. AaRON BURR'S TWO MARRIAGES. HIs FIRST MARIAGF., AT TWENTY SIx-Ms. PaavosT.-That Colonel Burr, the most rising young man in the State of New York, hand some, fascinating, well born and famous, whose addresses few maidens in the country would have been inclined to repulse, should have cho sen to marry a widow ten years older than himself, with two rollicking boys, (one of thenm eleven years old,) with precarious health and no great estate, was a circumstance which seetms to have been incomprehensible to his friends at the time, as it has since proved a puzzle to thie writers of biographical gossip. Upon the theo-| ry that Burr w-as the artful devil lie has been j said to be, all whose endseand aims were his] own advancement, no man can exp~lain such a marriage. Before the Revolutivn hie had re fused point-blank to address a young lady of. fortune, whom his uncle, Thaddeus Burr, inaces-|I santly urged upon his attention. D~uring the Revolution he ws on terms of intimacy with all the great fiamilies of the State-the Clintons, the Livingstones, the Schuylers, the Van Rlens selaers and the rest-alliance with either of whom gave a young man of. only average abili ties immense advantages in a state which wvas to a single extent under the domination of great | funilies. But no considerations of this kind I could break the spell which drew him with|I mysterious power to the cottage of remote andI rural P'aratnus. The lady was not beautiful. Besides being past her prime, she was slightly dialigured by a scar on her foirehzead. It was the graceful and winning manners of Mrs. Prevost that first captivated the wind of Col. Burr. She was, indeed, ini all respects, an estimable lady affectionate, accomplished, well versed in litera ture, and as much given to the practice as averse to the profession of piety. But, it was in-her character us a lady and romnan of the world that she proved so irresistibly pleasing to him on their first acquaintance, Ile used in alter year-s to say that in etyle anid manners she was without a peer among all the women he had ever known, and that if his own man ners were in any respect superior to those of men in general, it was owing to the insensible intluence of hers. The reader- may perhaps have observed that young men of spirit and intelligence, who have been brought up in the severe, ungracious way of the stricter Puritans, 'are sometimes too keenly susceptible of the charm of manner, and are apt to attach to it -an excessive importance. But a more lasting charm of this lady was her cultivated mind. Burr was a lover- of pictures, a lover of every thin~g that distinguishes wan from the Puritan, and it was rare, indeed, in those day-s to find a lady ini America who had the kind of culture wvhich sympathizes with such tastes. In Europe, women were only be * ginning to emerge from the gross ignorance which was thought to be their proper condition, and in America, if they were not ignorant, few had the knowledge interesting to a man like Burr. Among his own lemale. relatives, ther-e was penetrating and brilliant intellect enough;I .but how perverting, how reprssed. Sonme of the most renownedi ladies of the time, with a thousand virtues, scar-cely ever looked into a book. Mrs. Putnam was mighty at the spin ning-Weel, Mrs. Washington (as we lately learn from Mrs. Kirkland's pleasant pages) was a de votee of the knitting needle, and the wile of another famous general was not a little proud of her patchwork quilts. Burr had wet few: ladies in his earlier sie wrho, like Mrs. Prevost,i were familiar with the most recent expressions of European intellect, who could talk intelli met with him about Voltaire, Rousseau and Chesterfield, and could appreciate those authors without becoming their disciples. It was not mere compliment when Burr told Mrs. Prevost that it was from knowing her that he had first learned to believe in the understanding of wo man. On the 2d of July, 1782, by the Rev. David Bogart, of the Reformed Dutch Church, Aaron Burr and Theodosia Prevost were married. They were forthwith established in an ample residence at Albany, where Col. Burr relieved the monotomy of business by assisting in the educating of two boys. One of the first uses he made of his dignity of house-holder was to give a temporary home to a friend who was in love, and had a project of marriage which it was necessary for some reason to conceal. That friend was the well-known Major Popham who was married at Colonel Burr's house, and who, fifty-four years after, held the pall which cov ered Burr's remains as they were borne to the grave. Carlos made no more journeys to Paramus. The charm of the " Hermitage" had departed from it. It may interest some readers to learn that the traditions of the old house, and of the family who inherited it, still exist in the vicini ty. Some of the walls of the house are stand ing, and serve as a part of its modern structure. Some relics of its elegant contents-a picture among other things-adorn a neighboring tav ern. Stories of the grand company that used to assemble at the Hermitage are vaguely told by some of the older inhabitants, and descend ants of.Mrs. Prevost reside a few miles from the old estate, in an elegant abode, which con tains interesting memorials of the olden time. At Albany, in the first year of his marriage was born Colonel Burr's only legitimate child, a daughter, whom lie named Theodosia. She had a joyful welceme into the world, the beau tiful child who was to have so terrible an exit from it. A father, ever fond, if not ever wise, received to his arms the infant who was to be to him so much more than a daughter, when her indomitable fidelity was all that liked him to the family of man. IHis SicoNv MAR it ao., AT FOLRscon: --MAn Aain JUMI.-There was talk of cholera in the city. Madame Jumel resolved upon taking a carriage tour in the country. Before setting out she wished to take legal advice respecting some real estate, and as Col. Burr's reputation in that department was pre-eminent, to his office in Reule street she drovo. In ot!er days he had known her well, and though many an eventful year had passed since he had seen her, he recognised her at once. He received her in his courtliest manner, complimented her with admirable tact, listened with soft deference to her statement. le was the ideal man of busi ness-confidential, self possessed, polite-giving his client the flattering impression that the 'faculties of his whole soul were concentrated upon the affair in hand. She was charmed, yet feared him. He took the 'papers, named the day when his opinion would be ready, and handed her to her carriage with winning grace. At seventy'eight years of age. he ..was still On the appointed day she sent to his office a relative, a student oP law, to receive his opin ion. This young gentleman, timid and inexpe rienced, had an immense opinion of Burr's tal cnt* ; had heard all good and all evil of him; supposed him to be, at least, the acutest of hor rible men. lie went. Burr behaved to him in a manner so exquisitely pleasing, that, to this hour, he has the liveliest recollection of the scene. No topics were introduced but such as were familiar and interesting to young nien. His manners were such as this age of slangy familiarity cannot so much as imagine. The young geitlemnan went home to Madame Junel only to extol and glorify him. Madame and her party began their journey, revisiting BalIston, whither, in former times, she hal Leen wont to go in a chariot drawn by eight horses; visiting Saratoga, then in the be ginning of its celebrity, where, in exactly ten minutes after her arrival, the decisive lady bought a house and all it contained. Returning to New York to find that her manm sion had been dispoiled by robbers in her absence, she lived for a while in the city. Colonel Burr called upon the young gentleman who had been Madame's messenger, and, after their acquaintance had ripened, said to him: " Come into my office; I can teach you more in a year~ than you can learn in ten in an ordinary way." TIhe proposition beinigsubm~itted to Madame Jumnel, she, anxious for the y-ofng muan's advancement, gladly and gratefully con sented, lie entered the oflice. Burr kept hinm close at his books. ie did teach him more in a year than hie could have learned ini ten in an ordinar-y way. Burri lived then in Jer.-ey City. His office (:13 Nassau street) swar-med with ap plicants fo.r aid, and he seemed now to have qluite lost the podier of refusing. in no other respect, bodily or mental, did lhe exhibit signs of decrepitude. Somne months passed on without his again meeting with Madame Jumel. A t tile sugges tion of the student, who felt exceedingly grate full to Burr for the solicitude with which he assisted his studies, Madame .Jumnel invited Colonel Burr to dinner. It was a grand ban quet, at which lie displayed all the charms of his manner, and shone to conspicuous advantage. On handing to dinner the giver of the feast lhe said: "I give you my hand, Madame; my heart has long been yours." This was supposed to be merely a compliment, and was little remarked at the time. Colonel Burr called upon the lady; called frequently, becanme ever- wanner in his attentions ; proposedl, at length, and was refused. lHe still plied his s'uit, howevIer, and obtained at last, not the lady's consent, but an undecided No. Improving his advantage on the instant, he said, in a jocular mnanner', that he would bring out a clergyman to Fort Washing ton on a certain day, and there he would once more solicit her hand. He was as good as his word. At the time appointed, lie drove out in his gig to the' lady's residence, accompanied by IDr. Bogart, the ver-y clergyman who, just fifty years before, married him to the mother of hia-Theodosia. The lady was~ embarrassed and still refused. But then the scandal! And, after all, why not? 11cr estate needed a vigilant guardian, and the old house was lonely. After much hesitation, she at length consented to be dressed, and to receive her naltors. And she was married. The cere mony was witnessed onily by the memibei-s of Madame Jumel's family, amil by the eight ser viants of the household, wh-lo pe.ered eagei-ly in at the doors and windows. The cerenmony was over; Mrs. Burr ordered supper. Some bins of M. Jumnel's wine cellar, that had not been openied fur half a century, were laid uder con tribution. The little party was a very ierry one. The parson in particular-, it is reniembered, was in the highest spirits, overflowing with hu mor and anecdo~te. Except for Colonel Burr's great age, (which was not apparent,) the match seemed not an unwise one. To SHAKEa OFF TmoU..-Set about doing good to somebody; put on your hat, andl go and visit the poor; inqiire into their wants and ad minister unto thenm; seek out the desolate and oppressed, and tell them of the consolations of reli'ion. I have often tried this, and found it the'best medicine for a heavy heart.--Howard. THE BEGGAR BOY. " Get away with your, dirty old beggar boy. I'd like to know what right' you have to look over the fence at our flowers ?" The speaker was a little boy not more than eleven years old, and though some people sometimes called it handsome, his face looked very harsh and disa greeable just then. He stood in a beautiful garden, just in the suburbs of the city ; and it was June time, and the tulips were opening themselves to the sunshine. 0, it was a great joy to look at them as they bowed gracefully to the light with their necks of crimson, of yellow, and carnation. The beds 'ilanked either side of the path that curved around a small arbor, where the young grape clusters that lay hidden among the large leaves, wrote a beautiful prophecy for the autumn: A white pailing ran in front of the garden, and over this the little beggar boy so rudely addressed, was leaning. He was very lean, very dirty, very ragged. I am afraid you would have Vtned away in disgust from so repuulsive a specacle, and yet God and the angels loved him ! Ile was looking with all his soul in his eyes on the beautiful blossoms, as they swayed to and fro in the summer wind, until his heart softened while he leaned his arm on the fence railing. And every thing in that long absorbed gaze ! Ah! it was seldom the beggar boy saw anything that was either very good or beautiful, and it was sad his dream should have such a rude awaking. His blood ushes up to his face, and a glance full of evil and defiance flashed into his eyes. But before the boy could retort a little girl sprang out from the arbor and looked eagerly from one child to the other. She was very fair with soft hazle eyes, over which drooped long shining lashes. Rich curls hung over her almost bare white shoulders; and her lips were the color of the crimson tulip blossoms. " How could you speak so cross to the boy, IHinton!" she asked, with a tone of reproach quivering through the sweetness of her voice. " I'm sure it dosen't do us any harm to have him look at the flowers if he likes." "Well Ilellen," argued her brother, slightly molified and ashamed, "I don't like to have beggars gaping over the fence, it looks so low." "Now that's a notion of yout-s, Ilinton. I'm sure if .the flowers can do anybody Any good, we ought to be very glad. Little boy," (and the child turned to the beggar boy and addressed him as courteously as though he had been a prince) "I'll pick you some of the tulips, if you'll wait a moment." "liellen I do be!ieve you're the funniest girl that ever lived !" ejaculated the child brother, as he turned away and with a low whistle saunted down the path, feeling very uncomfor table; for her conduct was a stronger reproof to him than any word could have been. Iellen plucked one of each specimen of the tulips, and there was a great variety of these and gave them to the child. His face brightened as he received them and thanked her. acn , tu dbillows of the boys life, and the after years would bring it up beautiful and fair again. Twelve years had passed. The little blue eyed girl had grown into a tall graceful woman. One bright. June afternoon she walked with her husband through the garden, for she was on a visit to her parents. The place was little changed, and the tulips opened their lips of crimson and gold to the sunshine, just as they had twelve years before. Suddenly they observed a younmg man in a workman's over-ails, leaning over the fence, his eyes following eager ly from the beautiful flowers to herself. lie had a frank pleasant countenance, and there was something in his manner that interested the gentleman and lady.I " Look here Edward." said she, " I'll pluck some of the flowers. It always doe.s me good to see people admiring them; and then re leasing her husband's arm, she approached the pailing (anid the smile rounid her lips wais very like the ol, chmibl one.) saying, are you fomnd of flowers sir ? It will give ime gr at leasurie to gather you some." The young workman looked a moment very earnestly into thme fair, sweet face. "Twelve years ago this veryv monthm," he said in a voice dep and yet tremulous with feeling, " I stood here leaning on this railing, a dirty rgged little beggar boy; and( you asked me this very question. Twelve years ago youi placed the bright flowers in my hands, and they mnade. mie a new boy, aye, and they miade a mian of me, too. Your fauce has been a light nma'ami all along the dark houirs of my life, and this day that little beggar boy can stand on the old pla2ce and say to you, though lhe's an hmuimble anid hard-working man, yet thank God, he's ani honest one." -1 -T'ear drops tremble like morning dew on the shining lashes of the lady as she turned to her husband, who had joined her and listened in absorbed astonishmiient to the workman's words. "God," said she, "put it into my child heart to do that little deed of kindness, and see now how great is thme reward he has given ine.'' And the setting sun poured a Ilood of rich purple light over the group that stood there, over the workman in his blue overhalls, over the lady with her golden hair, and over the proud looking gentlemnan at her side. Although it was a pictuire for a painter, the angels wvho looked down on it from heaven saw somnethiing more than a picture there. DIuoIcAu..-In a small town, in one of thme counties of Ohio, a stranger rodc up to theI door of a tavern, -and having diamnountedl, or dered a stall and somec oats for his horse. A crowd of loafers-that class of indlependenit citizens who are never equal to decent meni except on elect ion day-swvarnmed about the barroom and stepis, wvaiting to be "invited up to the counter." Among this crowvd the strant ger's business was at once the subject of imper tinent speculation. One fellow, more impudent than the rest, made free to imnquire of the trav eller what vocation lie followed ; to which the latter replied that his business was a secret at present, but that he would probably make it known before leaving town. H~aving spent a day or two looking around, visiting the place where whiskey was sold, and making various inquiries as to the amount re tailed, the number of habitual dr'unkards in the place; thme number of dogI kept by mecn whose children never wvent to school or had enough to eat-after, in short, making a comn pletenmorad inventory of the town, ho conclu ded to leave, and having mounted his horse, was about to be off, when his inquisitive friend, urged on by his associates, step~ped up and said : " See here, Captain, yo~u promnisedl to tell u~s your business before you left, and we'd like to hear from you on that point." " Well," said the stranger, " I am an agent for the devil-I'm hutnting a location for h-Il, and am glad that [ have found a place where it will not be necessary to remove the present inhabitants." THERn's TiH R U.-" Plain faced girls should dress plainly,'' remarks Miss Leslie. Was their ever a young lady who was willing to admit that "GOOD NIGHT." "GOOD.1T rar These are the words wh41 music has not left our ears since the gloamna . and now it is midnigh. " Good night, d4 ing ! God bless you; you will have pleasant-dreams, though I toss in fever, haunted by the demons of care that harass me through the Ey. Good night !" The clock on the mantel strick twelve, and no sound was heard in the hous'esave the regular breathing of those little lengein the next room, heard through the door ajar.We dropped our pen, folded our arms, and''- gazing on the lazy fire, while the whole ,panorama of life passed before us, with its mary "good nights." It is-a great thing to be rici but it is a rich thing to have a good memory-provided thpt memory bears no unpleasant, 'it, bitter to the taste ; and our memory carri us back to many a pleasant scene-to the litt ,arm chair by the fireside; to the trundle bed .t the foot of the bed ; to the lawn in front of A e house, and the orchard behind it; to the butter-cups, and the new clover, and the chickensiand the swallows, and the birds' nests, and thi strawberries, and the many things that attract the wondering eyes of childhood, to say nothing'of the mysteries of the starry skies, and the 'eird gloom of the moaning forest. But, thee, there were the "good nights," and-the littWd prayer, and the downy bL , on which slumbir fell as lightly as a snow flake, only warmer,'ahd such dreams as only visit perfect innocence The household " Good night !" SomebodyAn whose brain its rich music still lingers, has written this: " Good night !" A loud clear voice from the stairs said that it was Tomnly, "Dood night-!" murmurs a little something from the trundle bed-a little something tat we call Jenny, that filled a large place in- 7tlie centre of two pretty little hearts. "Good night!" lisps's lit tle fellow in a plaid rifle dress, who was named Willie about six years old. " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my sofl to keep; If I should die before I wake" and the small bundle in the trundle-bed has dropped off to sleep, but the broken prayer may go up sooner than niany long petitions that set out a great while before it. And so it was "good night" all around the homestead; and very sweet mu-ic it made, too, in the twilight, and very ,leas'nt melody it makes now, as we think of6it; for it was not yesterday nor the day befoie, but a long .mne ago-so long-that Tommy is Thomas Somebo dy, Esq., and has forgottent that he ever was a boy, and wore what the ;bravest and richest of us can never wear but once, if we try-the first pair of boots. And so it was "good night" all around the house; and the children had gone through the ivory gate, always left a little ajar for them through into the land of dreams. And then the lover's " Good night," and the parting kiss ! They are asprodigal.of the hours as the spendthrift of his coin, and the minutes depart in, golden showers,'and fall in dying sparks at their feet. "Grd night."-N. Y. Atlas.z ..'" . .... TIE RIGHTS OF SCHOOL3USTEl:S A case of considerable interest was tried re cently before Justice Ladd, of Cambridge Mass. A citizen of Newton was complained of for an assault upon the master of a school in that place. It appears that the master was in the habit, as is now the general custom, of keeping the child of the defendant, with other scholars, after school hours, to learn her lesson, which had been imperfectly recited during school hours. The parent believing that the detention was illegal, went to the school-house and de manded his child. This was after regular school hours. The master sai{the child should go as soomn as she had recited ier lesson. The parent attempted to enter the school room to take his child, but his entrance was resisted by the mns ter and the assault upon the master was the re sult. The court ruled that the keeping of a child until the lessons of the day had been per lectcd was legal; that the parent in attempting to enter the school room, in opposition to the will of the umaster was in tihe wrong ; that a chiild plced at school by the parenits is under the control of the master until regularly dis missed ; anid that a parput cannot withdraw the child from school during the dlay against the master's will, except through tihe intervention of an officer and the school committee. T1hie tefendanit was.linedl 5;20 and costs..-ifoun Tim: LAW ANI) DL-r.--Scme hold to the opinion, t hat " the authiori!y of the TIeachler exi ,ue only during the usual hours of &h1ool/." We do nout take it upon ourselves to settle tile uestion; but we (10 say, Pa'rents should never interere with the rules and regulations of con scientious teachers. Whatever has a tendency to lower the teacher in the estimation of a child, udermines the authority of the p~arent ; fur the teacher is his representative for the tinme. The Teacher's failure is the parent's loss. if therefore commliunications of an unipleasant im ture are to be miade, do not makeyour child the bearer of the mnessalge, we inean a verbal message or unsealed note. If the teacher has incurred your censure, and deserves to be called to an account, for your own sake, and on ac count of others, do not make his pupils the witnesses of his humiliation. Teachers are responusible for the improvement and cond~uct of their pupils. The mode of instruction and the discipline of thme school, ought therefore to be subject to their judgment and selection. If they are not qualified to do their duty, children ought not to be entrusted to their charge. The conduct of the parent, whose action is related above, we consider in more than one respect highly unbecoming, even 11f it could be shown, that the detention of the child is illegal. The Edut cational Herald of New York, appears questions the legality of the usage. CATECUISillG JEFFREY, THlE REVIEYER, From a late number of Fraser's Magazine, we copy the following anecdote of ILord Jef frey: 1 was amused by a story I heard of a simple minded country parson, whose parish lay upon the Frith of Clyde, and so became gradually overspread with fashionablo villas, to which families from Edinburgh and Glasgow resorted in summer and autumn. This worthy man persisted in exercising the same spiritual juris diction over these new cowers, which he had been wont to exercise over his rustic parishion ers before their arrival. And in particular, in his pastoral visitations, he insisted on examining the lady and gentleman of the house in the " Shorter Catechism," in the presence of their children and servants, it happened, one autumn, that the late Lord Jeffreys after the riaing of the Court of Sessions, camne to spend the long vacation in the parish of L--. Soon after his arrival, the-minister intimated from the pulpit that upon a certain day he would " hold a diet of catechising" in the district which included the dwelling of the eminent judgo. Ti ue toe his time, he appeared at Lord Jeffrey 's house, and requested that the entire establishment might be collected. This was 'eadily done; for alost all Scotch clergymen, though the cate chising process has become obsolete, still visit each house in the parish once a year, and collect the family to listen to a fireside lecture. But what was Lord Jeffrey's consternation, when the entire household being assembled in the drawing room, the worthy minister said, in a solemn voice, ".My lord, I always begin my ex amination with the head of the family. Will you tell me, then, ' What is effectual calling." Never was an Edinburgh reviewer more thoroughly nonplused. After a pause, during which the servants looked on in horror at the thought that a judge should not know his cate chism, his lordship recovered speech, and an swered the question in terms which completely dumfounded the minister "Why, Mr. Smith, a man may be said to dis charge the duties of his calling effectually when he performs them with ability and success." A SENSITIVE DEBTOR DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. The Cincinnatti Sunday Dispatch, of the 30th ult., has the following :-The daily journals yes terday told of a poor man by the name of Win. ter who committed suicide by drowning himself, and they added that embarrassed circumstances were supposed to have been the cause of the rash act. And this was his obituary, and he went down into the dark waters, and none, save some half dozen orphan children, who are cast upon the broad, troubled surface of a selfish world, will give a passing thought upon the poor suicide. And what were the "embarrassed circumstan ces" which could weigh so. heavily upon one conscious of an imuortality beyond the grave, as to make him rush heedlessly into the 'dread unknown, and, peril his eternal welfare ? Poor soul it is said that he owed a hard-hearted cred itor a paltry stun or $35. With his scanty sala ry, and large family of helpless children, he found himself unable to pay it. The creditor sued, and shark-like, hungry for the marrow of his victim, after obtaining judgement, for the poor fellow was too honest to gainsay the debt, he attached the paltry sum left in the hand of hi. employees. This was tantamount to seeing his little ones turned into the street, for the money attached was intended to pay his rent, and pro videother necessaries for his motherless children, and so, despair took possession of his soul, and feeling that the dear ones for whom he had toiled and struggled could not be worse off, even if he were no more, lie took the fatal leap, and as the turbid waters closed over his head, there was reg istered by an invisible hand a damning record of life sacrificed to avarice and cupidity. Millionaires may swindle their creditors with impunity, and the law will not touch them. Cap italists and bankers may close their coffers, burs ting with yellow ore, to the demands of their cred itors and starving victims, and still the world will take them by the hand and deem them mar velous proper tmen, and smart withal. But the law-we had ahmost said curses upon it-can take the paltry savings of a poor wretch who de pends upon them to purchase food for his fami ly. It can teach him to be honest, even at the expense of his temporal and spiritual life; but thank Heaven, it cannot pursue him beyond the grave, and we take a vengeful pleasure irvbc lieving that the balance sheet between the rich t ed ti l , ime be We do not know who the relentless creditor is that drove poor John Winter to commit the last desperate act; we do not care to know him ; but we do know that we would not exchange our honest poverty for his conscience, with the wealth of Crcesus thrown in. INDUSTRY AND Gsmtrs.-Thero are many teachers who profess to show the nearest way to excellence ; and many expedients have been invited by which the toil of study might be saved. But let no man be seduced to idleness by specious promises. Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. There is one precept, however, in which I shall only be opposed1 by the vaiin, the ignorant, and the idle. I aum not afraid that I shall repeat it. too often. You must have no depentdemice on your owni genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve thetm ; if you have but moderate uhilities, indumstryT will supply their dlehiciency. Nothing~ is denied to well-directed labor ;noth ing is to be obatained withont it. A YoLNI Lo'v K mr.:ta:-On Satturday, 2Gth tlt.. a younig mian aind woman, were to be imar riedl the followinig Monday, went out in the~ woods neatr Newn'go, 3lichigan, andu sat down ont a log. 31eantwhiile, a cockiney sportsmuan, who wans nut after deer, seeing thme flutter of the lai dvs dress, lired aiid shiat her through thme abdo nin, cau:,ing her death in three hmour.. Nur -ro as P'rv Orr.-An athieletic specimen of au man fromt thei Emterald Isle ealled at the countintg-house of a river-side mercehatnt, and took ufhis hat to make his best bow. "The top of thme morning to ye mister'," says Pat ; " 've beeni told ve're ini want of help." "I've butt lit tle to do,''replied the gentleman, with mercant tile gravity. "'hen I'mn the boy for ye's," says Paddy. B3AYK or NnwBnRntY.-A t the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Banuk of Newberry, S C., held on Wednesday, 7th instant, the follow ingcntlemenm were elected Directors for the en suing year, viz: Rocius F. Atwood, B. D. Boyd, James MI. Bax ter, Joseph CaldwelIl, JIacob HI. Wells, John L. Young, Rt. L M'Caughnrin, John WV. Simpson, Samuel 1t. Todd, John S. Renwick, James A. Renwick, Julin P. Kitiard, anid Aiidrew Turner. At a umeeting of the Directors elect, subse quently hell, 1i. D.,!loydl was unanimously re elected P'resident.- Consrcutidt. W EI.Ix TIlE fltEaECilEs.--In last week's New York Ledger, that audacious daughter of Eve, Fanny Fern, boldly confesses that in the recent rainy spell, which inade walking in skirts ha practicable, she donned a full suit of the umale Fern's habilinmnts and thus equipped, took a long evening walk, to her eminment comfort and delctation. Hecr hutsband, indeed, accoampa nied her, but whether in lher cast-off integutmets the record saith not. Be this as it may, Fanny avows, in the face of a sneering world, that hene forth she will wear the breeches. So says the New York Times. SLEEP.-Women' require niore sleep that mena, and farmers less than those engiaged i any other occupation. Editors, mreporters, prin ters and telegraph operators need no sleep at ll. Lawyers can sleep as much as they choose, and thus keep out of mischief. Clergymen car sleep twenty-four hours, and put their paris~ to sleep once a week. As INFALItlBI.E CUa.-Many testify to the eflicacy of the following remedy in all cases o; flux, dysentery or cholera morbus : Take two heaping teaspoonfu~il of flour of slip pery' elm, and one teaspoonfo' of Henry's cal endmgesia (or three teaspu aful of commom ealine manesa),and mix them in water til they together assume the consistency of "deab ber," and drink three times a day.' FRENCH OPINION OF THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN. We find the following article among the de tails by the steamer Africa: "The Constitutionnel observes that the pre sent difference has given rise to a remark which never before so forcibly struck public opinion, which is, that whenever any difference arises between these two powers, one gives proof of the most perfect moderation, and a condescen sion which is not habitual to it, while the other, on the contrary affects a susceptibility and be comes exacting to a degree not justified by suc cess. The Constitutionnel explains this fact by showing that, although the Lnited States have developed their strength and are increasing in a proportion hitherto unknown in the extent of their territory, the British nation is by no means intimidated, nor does she fear their army nor their fleet. The length of time the Government of the United States has been reducing the Mormons to submission is not calculated to give a grand idea of its military strength. The American navy appears large on paper, because the steamboats which convey passengers on the lakes and rivers are included in the- effective force; but, in case of war, Great Britain would 'have an immense superiority. The English Government is conciliatory, because the United States supply the English manufacturers with cotton, which article provides employment for so large a proportion of the English people. But, as the Constitutionnel truly remarks,. if the English people have need to purchase cotton, the American's feel an equal necessity to find purchasers. So that, although the English Government is ever ready to make sacrifices for the maintenance of peace, the American peo ple would suffer most by a war between the two countries. War would not deprive Eng land of cotton, for the American planters would send their produce to Havre, Antwerp, Rotter dam and all the Northern ports. They would send their cotton into English ports in neutral bottoms, and the Americans would draw their spun cotton from England by a similar convey ance. The only inconvenience to England would he that the intervention of a third party be tween the buyer and sellee would increase the price of the cotton to the English manufacturer, and the Americans would probably try every expedient, and might finally succeed, in manu facturing the raw material at home. The Con stitutionnel concludes thus: "' The manufacture of cotton is for England the occupation and the life of 1,000,000 or 2, 000,000 inhabitants. It feeds entire provinces. During the late crisis on that side of the chan nel-thousands of operatives were supported by public charity. What, then, would be the con sequence when those cotton manufacturers, who work five days out of six to clothe foreigners, should lose that market ? Who can tell what might happen ? It is then that England might see a terrible revolution break out at home. The cotton question would be converted into a social question. It is the sentiment on that situation which renders England so prudent and so moderate with regard to the United States, and which, on the other hand, inspires the Uni ed.Staa with an.. anurance which. in case of necessity, she might carry to a degree of temer ity." Said a young gentleman to a distinguished medical practioner in Philadelphia: " Doctor, what do you do for yourself, when you have a turn of headache, or slight attacks ?" " Go without my dinner, was the reply." " And if that does not cure you, what then ?" " Go without my supper." "But if that does not cure you, what then?" "Go without my breakfast. We physicians seldom take medi cines ourselves, or use them in our families, for we know that starving is better ; but we cannot make our patients believe it." LAC:Ea BEha.-At the late German pic-nic, held in the neighborhood of Pittsburg, fifteen hundred dollars worth of lager beer was con sumed liv the thirsty nultitude. The demand exceeded' the supply-nervous America and lymnpsthie Germ~any could not obtain enough of the delight ful beverage. A venerable gentle una from the Rhine, after drinking three score anid.ttan glasses, complained bitterly of the limn. itedl supp~ly, and inisitedl that on such occasions the sons~ andc dlaughters of father hmnd should le permnitedl to indulge in their favorite drink to the top of their bent. Qrm.:x Vre-rouliA .i Un~ xDMovIua.-Queen Victoria, it is hinted, will appear in the vene rable cha~racter of a grndmouther in the course of a few mon,,ths, when a pledge of the loves of~ P'rince F-redlerick William anid hiis wife wvill be piresentedI to) the loyadlipeople of Prus~ia. This title La~s not beeni a common one in the royal fliuily of England for many years, there having beetn'but two grandmtnhtlers in that family from the ideath of Queen Caroline, wife of G;eorge 11, in 1781', down to the birth of Queen Victoria's first child. Iblertrrs Ar Nuw Ont.iss.-Trhe receipts of Cotton at New Orleatns, (exclusive of the arri vasfo lobile, Florida and Texas.) sintce September 1st to July :;d, were 1,543,868 hales, against i,418,733: bales to same date last year; and the increase in the receipts at all the plorts, up to the latest dates as comnpared with last year, is 118,187 bales. In the exports from the United States to foreign countries, as eomnpared with the same dates 'last year, there is an in crease of 304,229 hales to Great Britain, and a decrease of 19,996 bales to France, and of 48, 321 to other foreign parts. " WaS INEviTAILE.-Theodore Parker closed a 4th of July discourse in Boston last Sunday, as follows : " Nothing could save slavery from its ruin. Omnce it might have been peaceful; but now he thought it must end in violence and blood. If the American people did their duty, ore the 100th anniversary of American Independence was celebrated, American slavery would be no more -and then what a glorious, happy future would be before us I" The New York Times says that the cargo of African apprentices which had been recently taken from a French vessel and returned to Monrovia, are supposed to have been freed slaves sent from this country to Liberia. The surgeon of the French ship says they were shipped by consent of the President of Liberia. and could~ nearly all read and write. If this be so, the Colonization Society of this country should look to it. it would he hardly worth while to go to the expense of sending freed slaves from this country to Liberia to have them immediately shipped by consent of the agents of the society into a worse state of " apprentice" slavery in the colonies of France. CHmAxcE FoR Ax EDiTok.-Tbe Petersburg In telligeiicer wants an assistant editor, and says he must be " a gentleman constructedi mainly of wrought iron, having a metallic skin, embossed with tferruginous warts, and a stomach adapted to the digestionl of blazing lightwood knots and boiling wmater-in short, a steam man. Such a gentleman, or any person desirous of anticipa ting the pleasures of Hades below can find con genial employment at this oflice until frost. Ap ply immediately." BUILDING OUSD WITE C01TT. The uses to which cotton may be applied are numerous, and the demand for it is growing. We have now to, chronicle another 'discpvery, - which, if it turns out to be what is claimed for it, will exercise no small influence upon the :.. ture value of the snowy staple of the South. A. correspondent of the Charleston Couriernotices, with much commendation, a new iuvention, by which immature or inferior cotton may be use. for building purposes. The invention, we are - told, was patented one year ago, and has had "successful trial." By this process "the soiled and water stained cotton of the fields, the wreck of fires, the scraps and bits scattered everywhere, even the sweepings of cotton factories, which, in many cases, are too bad to be purchased even by paper mills and are cast out a, rubbish, are destined to form the material of our public as well as private buildings ; the crude fibre first losing its elasticity, yet remaining singularly te. nacious, becoming finally as hard and as durable perhaps as stone itself." From the description, says the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer, we infer that the process is similar to that by which chairs and many orther articles of furniture are made of papier-mache. The paper pellets which children sometimes chef and throw about become very hard and strong when dry capable of sustaining considerable pressure and of much durability and firmness. Their plastic ity when wet is also great, and the furniture made of this material is at once very light and strong. The preparation of cotton waste for building purposes, we suppose, is by a similar process of reducing the fibre to a paste, with an outside coating of some impervious substance to prevent the absorption of rain. The Courier's correspondent says that a roof thus formed is both fire and water-proof He further says : On the whole, from what we ourselves once witnessed, a plastic cotton building should occu py, in completing it from roof to cellar, about one-half the time required for laying an equal measure of brick wall. When it is consideted, too, that such houses will be as fire-proofas brick, and as strong, if not much stronger, than houses of modern economy in material, and actually stand the contractor in for but one-third the average cost of bricks when laid, the belief seems fully justified that a few years will see oar streets and those of other cities adorned with granitcelike structures, or here and there a fac simile of brown or freestone, not erected by mil lionaires, but by men whose fortunes might not have sufficed otherwise for even unadorned brick and mortar. This invention, if successful, is certainly an important one for the cotton planter. When our cotton fields, instead of our forests and brick yards, furnish the cheapest and best building material, and Mr. Henrys invention enables the planter to send his cotton to market in the shape of spun yarn, the empire of King Cotton will be great, without a rival, and the demand for. new cotton territory and more laborers will keep pace with the new uses of the staple and.the new de. mands on the industry of the plantation,-.N 0. Crescent - mThRa-ANI ATENm CoNOIE The.Rock !sland (111.) Argus, has an inter esting lettler from Purser Danfortli,- U. 8.:X. who has visited Liboria' recently:- a went to see the Congress, now in session, and says : The Senate consists of eight "fast family" Diggers and the House ot Representatives of eleven. The ex-President, Roberts, isnearly white, and wears a white moustache. The, pres ent President, Benson,'is a full blooded darkey, as is also the Vice President, Gates. I was 4o introduced to the Supreme Court, and to the. Attorney General, Payne. They are all colo nists i. e. persons born in the United States, and sent out here by the Colonization Society. They had uit a great question in the House of Representatives; viz: thg.propriety of increas ing the salaries of the officers ; and the speeches were highly amusing. One fellow, who did not seem to be in the secret, had ventured to assert that an addition of $50 to the judge's salaries might break the colony. An honorable member replied with much spirit, as follows: Mr. Speaker and GJermnan:-D~e gemman last up says Liberia may broke. .Uemman, you can't do it, Liberia can't broke-only rich folk's broke. Yah! Yah! (Great applause.) They have four colonies, viz: 3Missurado, Bas sa, Sinoe and Cape Palmnas, the last of which was for many years a colony in the State of Maryland, and was called the "Sttec of Mary. land in Liboria," and our State of 3Maryland has sitartced the colony and pail .annually $10,000 tibr its support. Ilecently the State of Maryland in the U'iited States concluded that she had panid nmney enough for that -purpose, and she stopped the sutp >lies. The colony therefore an nexedl itself to i iberia. The population of Liberia is estimated to be abiout 200,000, neatrly all of wvhom arc native "haushmnen." Tihe colonists proper number about 12,000, anid cast about 1.200 votes. Their counties answer to our states, and. their gov ernmient modelled after our own. They have a jail, three churches and a "e :eptacle-a house where emigrants are kept until they can take care of themselves. Their defence, are four small howitzers mounted on a hill near the town ; four more which laf un mounted and half covered with sand on the beach, where they were first landed ; and one more which is ini the same conidition, on an un slightly place they call a government square. Their navy consists of a little schooner, the Lark, which was presented to them by Great Britain. The whole business of the colony seems to be controlled by a few families, who monopolize all the offices, control the funds an4 tax thie oi to the extent of their ability to pay. A air op portunity, forty years, and under the aid of thie Home Colonization Society, has been given to sce what the negro can do. What little evidence of civilization they do exhibit is only that re'. flected from the whites. I believe now, if the aid afforded them from abroad was withdrawn, that they would nearly all take to the bush in a 'very short time. GOOD AD:CE.-The Musical Review says : "If our friends will omit to write the word TProfessor,' in their favors, as applying.to a mu sic teacher or conductor, they will sa4e us the trouble of erasing its artainly that word, as it is commonly used, sh all not get into our columns except by accident." Akin to this silly " Professor" business, is the abominable habit into which many people and newspapers have fallen, of giving a title, as Colonel, General, &'c., &tc., to every person who -~ keeps a tavern or who provides eatables and drinkables for a crown or who fils any two pen ny office which specially brings him before the ~; public. A YOUNG lady, wh8 is well posted in all the fashionable literature of the day, quotes Byron and Tom Moore,.and works blue-tailed dogpIn sky-colored convulsions to perfection, iabe'st ly inquired of a young gentleman tile other night who this Mr. Lecompton was who had occasioned so much trouble at Washington I " The apothecaries of stigaorur neghboring cities are advertising a :iu'-perfuamery al kiss-me-quick. Only imag idrpt~ty girl il1k. walking up to the counter, and biriefly saying to the clerk-Kis-me-quck.