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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.