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"WE WILL CLING TO THE PILLARS OP THE TEMPLE OP OVE LID TIES, AND IF IT NUST PALL, WE WILL PERISH AMIDST THE RUINS.6 s8N131S, DURISGE & Co., Proprietors. EDG-EFIELD S JUNE 1, 15 OLME H.-No. 2 Wanteda--St. Patrick. L . . When Irish hills were fair and green, And Irish fields were white with daisies, And harvests, golden and serene, Slept in the lazy summer bases; When bards went singing through the land Their grand old songs of knightly story, And hearts were found in ovary band, And all was peace and love and glory; 'Twas in those happy, happy days When every peasant lived in clover, And in the pleasant woodland ways One never met the begging rover; When all was honest, large, and true, And naught was hollow or theatric 'Twas in those days of golden hue That Erin knew the great Saint Patrick. II. He came among the rustics rude With shining robes and splendid crozier, And swayed the listening multitude As breezes away the beds of osier. He preached the love of Man for Man, And moved theunlettered Celt with wonder, 'Till through the simple crowd there ran A murmur like repeated thunder; He preached the grand Incarnate Word, By rock and ruin, hill and hollow, 'Till warring princes dropped the sword And left the fields of blood to follow. For never yet did bardic song, . Though graeed with harp and poet's diction, With such strange charm enchain the throng As that sad tale of Crucifixion: III. Though fair the Isle and brave the men, Yet still a blight the land infested: Green vipers darted through each glen, And snakes within the woodlands nested; And 'mid the banks where violets blew, And on the slopes where bloomed the primrose, Lurked spotted toads of loathsome hue, 'And coiling, poisonous serpents grim rose. Saint Patrick said: "The reptile race Are types of human degradation; From other ills I've cleansed the place, And now of these I'll rid the nation." He waved his crozier o'er his head, And lo! each venomed thing took motion, And toads and snakes qpd vipers fled I' terror to the circling ocean, IV. Why is Saint Patrick dead? or why Does he not seek this soil to aid us? To wave his mystic crook on high, And rout the vermin that degrade us ? Our land is fertile, broad, and fair, And should be fairer yet and broader; :But noxious reptiles taint the air, And poison peace and law and order, For Murder stalks along each street, And Theft goes lurking through our alleys What reptiles worse does traveler meet On IndWs hills, in Java's valleys ? And when we see this gambling host, That 'mongst us practice this and that trick, One knows not which would serve us most The Goddess Justice or Saint Patrick! From the-Saturday Evening Post. SOLVING- THE "GHOST QUESTION." About the year 18-, business had called me to a remote part of B - county, Ten. nessee, and I was staying at the house of a Mr. Rubert. The family consisted of Mr. Rubert and wife,'one son, and two .daughters. The son's name was Austin ; he was about twenty years of age, and seemed to be very intellhgent. The girls were no less intelligent than Austin. Adela, the eldest, was about seventeen, and Julia, the youngest, about fifteen. Prettier girls I never saw. I loved them both as soon as I had seen them. We were sitting by a blazing fire, talking and laughing as lively as if we had been ac anainted for years ; when a sudden noise, as iI'some large building was falling, interrup ted us. " UghlIunkh!! ugh !! !" said some one, as if frighteneclout of his senses. Allof the family rushed to the door, except Julia, who sat still, and remarked, "It is Bill Jenkins running from the ghosts again." -Scarcely had the words escaped her lips, when in rushed a tall, gawky, awkward, almost beardless fellow, puffing and blowing like a locomotive. " What's the matter?" said Mr. Rubert. " Matter enough I" said Bill, his eyes look. ing almost as large as the bottoms of two common-sized tea-cups. "Out yonder," he continued, throwing himself down upon a chair ; " out yonder, I heard a baby a cryin', and then somebody a groanin' and snuilin'; and I tell ye I jest got away from thar." At this I could not suppress a laugh. " You needn' lagod hess," continued hturning tonme ;uf"you needn't laugh, for l'l wear its nfa;itjet so-I'll swear it." I turned t utnadsi " Let us accompany him ac tothpac where he heard the noise, and 'solve' h ghost for him." Austin was silent. " Will you go ?" I asked. Adstin began to stammer out something. " Darn me I" iuterrupted Bill, " darn me, gentlemen, if you get smebaktranme; see if you do bakta ayoe " Then tell us where it was," said.I, "and if we can heat it, we'll solve it sure." " Austin don't care much about going, I believe," said Adela. " You're not superstitious, are you," I asked him. ' No," said he, "I'm not superstitious, but I'rn afraid of catching cold, that's all." ."I propose," said Julia, who had been si lent til now,." that we all go, Mr. Marion, Austin, Adela, and myself. The moon is now up, and it would be a pleasant walk for us, be.4ides, we might have seome real fun." After some hesitation on Austin's part, thi proposition was accepted. Bill told us where he had heard the ghost, but woul not go with us. Oli we started. WThen we came to the spot, we round that Bill hadl knocked down about twenty pannels of the fence. We had gene two or three hundred yards, talkcing very lively, when we entered a low, dark place in the road ; the timber was very tall and thick, which caused it to be darker tha' anywhere else. .When advanced a few paces into this place, our conversation stopped. Scarcely had we ceased talking, when " Boo-woo-woo-ugh I" wentsomething near us.' " What's that ?" said Austin, halting. I advanced, and Julia stepped to my side "1w sBill's ghost, sure." I' Oo-boo-ho-woo-ugh I" came forth again. I could suppre my laughter no longer. pr 1oved to be nothing: more uror less than a hebwas 'cabpng comfortably, and U-m "What is it?" insisted Austin, who had not yet found out what it was. Just then we came to the hog-bed, and the hogs all ran off, frightened as badly as Bill was. "Humphl" said. Austin; "its hogs, I'll swear,'that caused Bill so much running." We turned and went back to the house, and had a fine laugh at Bill, about his ghosts; but Bill would not give up but that his were real ghosts. I learned that there but few persons in this neighborhood who were not superstitious. I was informed that the place where Bill had heard the ghost, was really haunted. I [Among other stories that were told that night concerning the place, one was as follows: Some time ago a man was coming through this place; it was very dark; he heard some thing by the roadside; turning in the direction of the noise, he perceived something white. It looked, he said, like a woman, dressed in white. He spoke to her; she raised her arms above her head, and said: " John Kinsler, if you will be happy, you must marry Jane Merton, and have the Robert family at the wedding. Remember, John Kinsler 1" So saying, she dropped her arms, and as cended slowly upwards, until she was out of sight. John afterwards married Jane, and the Ru bert family were at the wedding. I expressed a desire to see or hear some such ghosts, but Austin thought I would re pent of my wish when I saw them. Bed-time came, and we retired as the clock struck twelve. I lay awake in bed a long .time, thinking of the incidents of the day. . I thought of Adela and Julia; which I loved best I could not tell. Nothing else took place worth relating here during my stay at Mr. Raber's. I left next morning, " living and loving." Two years after the above-mentioned inei dent took place, I was passing through that part of the country again, and of course I called on Mr. Rubert. - I f6und that the neighborhood was as super stitutious as ever. The place where Bill Jen kins had heard the ghest, was still haunted. Many things had been heard; sights had been seen-from an Angel to Beelzebub himself. I was very anxious to come across one of the ghosts, and during my stay at Mr. Robert's I passed through the hounted place at all times of the right, but saw and heard nothing. I finally came to the conclusion that it was all imagination. Onedark night in July I was passing throutth this place, and heard something make a noise in the dry leaves near me; turning towards the noise I beheld something that looked, I thought, very much like a ghost. It seemed to be the figure of a woman. There was no waist in her dress, and it was very long. All this I could make out, notwithstanding the darkness. I stood still to see what she would do. I must acknowledge that I did not feel exactly cool just then, but I managed to appear so. " Marion," said the ghost, " if you will be happy you must marry Julia Rubert. Re member Marion I" Judge of my surprise and horror when the ghost spread out her arms, and ascended up ward, until she was lost in the timber I What could I do? Scared as I was, I did not run, knocking down the fence, as Bill Jenkins did. I started on slowly toward Mr. Robert's ; after I had gone a few paces, I heard a distant roaring behind me that continued more than two minutes. I did not look back, for I did not care about coming in contact with another ghost that night. At an early hour I retired. Next morning when I came into the parlor Julia was there alone. When she e:tered she greeted me blushing and trembling. AfterI had looked around and convinced myself that no one was near, I said, "Julia, at last I have seen a ghost." When I said this Julia again blushed and turned her face from me. " What kind of a ghost was it?" said she. I told her all I had seen, but omitted what the ghost bad said. Julia told me that she had seen one just like it two or three nights before. " I suppose," said she, " that you have be come superstitious ?" I could not deny, yet I would not acknow ledge that I was superstitious. I implored Julia not to mention it until I could find out something more about the ghost, and she promised. I determined to pass through this place every night during my stay at Mr. Robert's, which was to continue about two weeks from this time. For several nights I heard nothing, nor did I see anything like a ghost until the night be fore my departure, when, walking along, I beheld the same ghost, at the same place, standing about twenty feet from me when I first beheld it. I stopped, and the ghost said, " Marion, to-morrow you leave this, place, and you have not asked Julia to be your wife. Go and ask her at once. Remember, Marion I" Instantly I rushed forward and threw my arms around the ghost. She shrieked, and started up ; I held fast, and up we went. No pen cnn describe, no tongue can tell, in fact no one can imagine my feelings at this moment. U p we went. Still I held on to the ghost. But I was becoming sick of my situation. I had my whole weight to hold up, by holding to the phantom. " Let me down 1" shouted r. " Promise me one thing," said the ghost. "PromIse that you will leave the spot as soon as you touch the ground." " I promise anything to get from here," said I. "Let us down I" she shouted as loud as I had. Down we went. But as we wentL down, I was very busy trying to find out some-thing more about her. I found that~she had a large rope around her, and was drawn up by it. A loop was made fur her feet, then one for each band; and she could stand upright with the greatest ease. Just as we touched the ground, I took out my knife and cutthe rope, just above the head of the ghost. She shrieked and fell' to the ground ; I rais ed her .up. " Oh I" said she, " Beelzebob will be here in a moment. See ! there he comes now I" Here she tried to leave me, but I held on to her. I heard a terrible no'se in the dry leaves just behind me. I looked around, and some thing was approaching. As near as I could discern in the dark, it resombled a very large man. It came up very close to me, and stood still for a moment; then it tapped mue on the shoulder, and said, in a rough, hoarse voice, " Come I" I ut my thand down to the ground, and, as luck ouldhaveit, I1 put it on a stiek about as large as a man's arm. I snatched it up, and gave "Beelzebub" a blow with it which brought him to the ground. My ghostly companion again shrieked and felI. I caught her up in my arms, and re treated as fast as my legs could carry me. Presently I ran against the fence, and k'ndek ed as mach of it down as -Bill Jenkins did. But I did not stop, but went on and into the house. I sat the ghost upon a chair and called for a light. She here made agreat effort to escape, but all was in vamn. A light was'brought; a veil covei-ed her face, and it waq with great di~iculty that I re ==ed it- AMar a couuidarable strugle the veil was removed, and lo I it was JULIA RUBERTI She shrieked and fell to the ground, and was then carried off to her room. Just here, in came a negro girl, a .slave of Mr. Rubert's looking as if she was frightened out of her senses. " MassaI massa I run in de kitchen right quick, 'cause Sambo come in dar all bloody, an' a bleedin' yet; he got he head broke." Austin and myself went into the kitchen, to examine Sambo's head. There was a very large gash, cut to the bone, just above his left temple. To be brief, Julia had employed a negro man, Sam to assist herr. He had procured a long rope, and fasted it around Julia, as 1 have already described; and then, climbing a very large tree, put the rope through a fork, and then descended. By this he conld raise Julia as high as the fork of the tree, where she would be entirely out of sight to any per son below, owing to the thickness of the timber. Julia was the ghost that told John Kinsler to marry Jane Merton; and Sambo had al. ways acted "Beelzebub" when necessary. But after he had acted "Beelzebub" with-me, he swore he "neber would do debil agin." I bore no grudge on account of Juha's man ner of courting me-on the contrary, I felt rather pleased and complimented. In about six months from that time, we were married. Years have since rolled by. A robust boy and a pretty little girl have blessed our union, and never have I repented for one moment that I saw the ghost, or that Julia became my wit. The Church Fair. Aunt Hannah lived out of town. " Did I never tell you what a time I had at our church fair last winter ?" said she to me one evening. "No! *rhat of it?" ' Now ain't that strange ? Thought I had told everybody about it, to be sure. La, well, 'twill be news to you then ! You know Nora Thorndale, Judge. Thoradale's darter. She came over to our house and said our con gregation were goin' to have a fair in the vil lage meetin' house! "Do tell," suz I. " Who's goin' to preach 71" " Oh " says she, mighty smilin' " we ain't goiu' to have preachin'; a few young persons of the congregation, who seem to take a deep er interest in the church's welfare than the members themselves, desire to purchase a few indispensable articles for the meetin' house; and we thought if all the church would present us cakes, and pies, and meats, and such things, we would appoint a night to sell them in the vestry of the church, and take the proceeds to buy the necessary things. The plan is well received, especially by the young. You know the money is to be spent for charitable purposes, and on that account everything given us will sell for double its value." " Well, I wouldn't have believed that there was so much wisdom left in the world as to have conjured up that," suz 1. " Tie even so," said Nora. "And what will you give ? You. live on a farm, and Jam era produce lots of things that would be ac ceptable." " Well, I will give two roast turkeys and six chickens, sus I, thinking that would be as much as anybody could expect those hard '-Um! Well, what else ? 'Tis for the church you give it, you know. Church mem bers should not be less anxious for their in terests than the world." " You see- I was a church member and she wasn't." "Well, I'll give ajar of peach jam," suz I. "That will help.along some. A few bush 6ls of apples or a roast pig would be accepta ble !" "She was so ravenous I began to be sorry I'd offered her anything. Howsomever, I thought i'd go the whole hog or none, so I promised the pig and apples. " Of .course you will give us cheese, and cakes, and milk, and cream, and then I think you will have done your part at giving. By the way, we are to have historical tableaux and Mrs. Amos Bruce wanted I should ask you to take the part of the Witch of Endor. All you will have to do will be to dresto represent that lady, and stand perfectly still behind a curtain; and people will pay some thing to see you?" " Well, Pse old and ignorant, and didn't know what P'se about, so I consented. " I sent them the pig, and the turkeys, and chickens and apples, and the reat of the things wanted, up to the meetin' house the day be fore the fair. "The next day husband tackled up his old horse and cha'se to carry me to the fair. Our old chaise, somehow or other, don'tlook very well. There's a hole in the top and sides, and some of the spokes of the wheels are gone. The wheels squeak powerfully, too. Wall, we hadn't but just got into town, when it seemed as if all the boys out of jail come hollerin' and hootin' arter us as if they were possessed. 'f Hurra for the witch of Eador I Her chariot approacheth!I Make way sor her ma jesty ?" they kept squallin' at the top of their lungs. 'Do ak them unsightly critters to be civil," aus I to husband, my patience gone entirely. " At that he climbered out of the chaise,.1 and after umn lick-erty split, tight as he could leg it. And, oh I massy sake I he dropped I the reins on the ground, and the old horse took a notion to go and he went. You see he knew the way to the church, and he put chase for it. Ihusband he came hollerin' " whoa, whoa !" just as I was' riding up to the meetin' house. The meetin' hpouse yard I was full of folks laughing and straining as if they had no respectibility in umn. I got out of the chaise and made my way through the crowd, and when they wouldn't make room I 1 lbowed them right smartly ; I'm desput ~ thin of flesh, and my elbows awful sharp, and I and whe:. I hit u they gave back as if they'd been struck with a dagger. Paid twenty cents to go into the church. he table inside did look beautiful. Nora, she explained the fixins to me. There were 1 tapboxes that contained a hundred things orth one cent, and one thing worth ten, t and they paid five cents a grab, and if you 1 grabbled right you would get twice- yourt oney's worth. Then there .was a ring cake. 'j Twas divided into fifteen slices, and one e lice contained a ring worth fifty cents; so e that got the right slice, got a ring. And t here were guess cakes, and ever so many si inds of such things, too numerous to men on. " Wall; they dressed me up to represent a he witch of Endor. [ never was very hand ome, and they rigged rae up at such a rate hat I must have looked awtul. I stood be- e ind a curtain, and people paid a ninepence a o come in and see me. Some went oir mad; j hildren generally seared. Some went oil a aughing as if they'd split. I evidently pro-t uced a powerful impression on all that saw m. People at last began to come to see .me 1 ester than they could be' accomodated. I ould hear urn talking around the tables aout the witch. of Endor, and the witch of l Endor's pig, and turkeys, and cake ; I began o feel dreadfully as though I was making a I ool of myself. "I stood there feeling dosputly, and had ust made ,up a:face to cry over my unfor- 1 qate cdndition, when nll of a sudden down a afore um all They set up such a h as I never heard before or since. I elbo my way through em' like wild fire; mad the getting out place, and started for l " Wal, I went home with all my wi Endor riggin on. When husband cam the door to let me in he was so frigh that he set the dog on me. The dog towards me growled and run as if he wo break his neck; and I haven't see him frti that day to this. I at last convinced husb#U that I was his beloved wife. When Ix plained it all to hjm the way he growled s a caution. "Wal, they raised three hundred dollrs7 that abominable fair. With it they bo 1 an ornamental chandelier and a silk 1 mshion and -hired carpenters to make gingerbread work all over the meetin' house "I'm just Mrs. Deacon Ware's opii %bout church fairs, I am-that they are the wickedest swindles that orthodoxy tolerated. She saye they are killing to gion, and I think so too. She says that'. 2lder church members think that I was - putly imposed upon at the fair; and I' :lare, I don't believe but what I was." Out of Door Exercise. There is probably not another people to.& bund that take so little exercise out cei loors" as those living in the cities and larg' ;owns of the Northern States. This indoor .onfinement is the direct occasion of two gr ,vils-impaired health, and a destruction rivacity. To be healthful and cheerful, m ime should ,e passed in the sun light, wh. * xygen may be inhaled without stint. S n the house, shop, store, office, study, sa um, or other confinement, where carbonat Lcid gas and other impudties are breat, iud breathed an and again, and it wo ae very extraordinary if 'such persons always naintained cheerful hearts, and enjoyed good dealth. Among the Germane in fatherland. (an nay be true of them here,) their ~ .s sheerfulnes and gaiety would be a narve )or sad grumbling people, out of tempery. :ans. out of health and out of spirits. Ea u the morning, from four o'clock until ten he evening, the thoroughfares in and sbdht he cities in Germany are thronged with lad' md lasses, wending their way to the public ,ardens and other places of resort, where ocial pleasures are freely enjoyed, and tl1e ieart is made glad, and the heahh and viger >f the body improved and preserved. i When the men and women have finishd heir work, or business, they, too, go fo.rth for 6musement. And what is worthy of note, the adies are not afraid of being browned by-the un's rays and the health-giving bree Lhey will spend hours in the sun light, dai ad do marvel that any should object to su 'a airing. Can any one wonder at the superior robust less and cheerfulness of the women of Germl iy, Italy, and other European countries, ov. he women of the northern cities of our cou ry, after contemplating the difference in theo tabits ?. Mothers should encourage their daughte specially, to take much exercise in the o ir, and do not compel the.to taklthe. ired,~boarding-school step. , Allow them un, skip and hop, as if they were really alive mnd full of joy and life. Any girl, from the age of ten to twenty ,ears, who is in possession of ordinary health, hould so accustom herself to walking, as not o be dependent on the cars or the omnibuses n case she desires to visit Mount Auburn or my other desirable place of resort within six niles of the city. Yet, as daughters are now irought up, it would be dillicult to find a girl n the city, of the period of life indicated, that ould walk to Mount Auburn and back with nit endangering health and perhaps ife. If not accustomed.to walking, begin by ex reising moderately, increasing a little every lay, until you are able to walk three, six or welve miles a day. The pleasurcsof life will be greatly enhanced my exercising, as now indicated, or in some ther not less ellicient way. It is no unusual hing for girls to begin to lose the freshness .nd beauty of girlhood-that delight ful period (flife-before they get out of their teens. Bake our advice, providing it meets the ap >roval of your mothers, and you will preserve ,nd magnify the priceless graces of childhood a of womanhood-health, beauty and cheer ulness-and secure that which everybody lesires, a long, healthful, happy and useful ife.-Boston Traveller, What is Respectable Society? We heard a man, otherwise intelligent nough lately sneer at another, '- because," aid he, "one never meets him in respentable ociety !" The speaker did not men, how. ver, that the person he affected to look down pon, was immoral, but merely that his cir le of intimates were not composed of the ishionable or the rich. ' - This notion of what constitutes respectable ociety, is qnite a favorite one with that class f individuals whom Tlbackeray has so uignifi antly called "snobs." Empty pretence al rays making its own characteristics a stand rd, by which it strives to measure the re pectability of persons at large. In a comn annity of mere money getters, wealth is the est of-respectability. Among the proud, iarrow-minded, effete nobility of the Fau mourg. St. Germain, respectability depends pen being descendants from ancestors who Lays married their cousins for so many cen uries, that neither muscles nor brains are aft any longer to degenerate descendants, Vith the dandy officers who constituto a onsiderable portion of the American Navy, espectability consists in having sponged on 'Uncle Sam," in wearIng gilt buttons, and a jilting tailors. Every conceited fool thinks imself, in like way, the only man really reighty, the only persons who is respectable. But true respectability depends on no such dventitious circumstances. To be respecta Jle is to be worthy of respect; and he de erves respect who has most virtue. The umblest man who bravely does his duty, -is more worthy .of respect, is iunore- truly re petable, than the covetous millionaire among tIs money bags, or the arrogant monarch pon his throne. The fine lady who back sites her neighbor, is less worthy of respelt han an honest wash-woman. The profligate Lable, though he may wear a dozen orders at is button hole, is not often really as respec able as the shoe-black who cleans his boots. 'hat which is called " the wvorld" exalts the ne and despises the other, but it does not make them respectable according to the real ieaning of that word. Their respectability but a hollow sham,-as they themselves fre uently feel; and those who worship them ow down to a Fetish, a thing of featbers nd tinsel. The selfish, idle drone, who rastes life in his own gratification, and dissi ates the fortune of his progeny, is not and annot be respectable ; but the hard-working, elf-denying father, who wears out his life to ring up his children is, even though he but day laborer. Nothing can make Dives fit o lay on Abraham's bosom while Lazarus is relcomed there, even with the sot-es the dogs ave licked. This false view of life, which would meas re respectability by a conventional standard, i totally at variance with our republican jn titutions. It creates' an " imperium in im erio," for while the law declares all citizens qual, it erects a social standard which en eavors to ignore that great truth. The coarse, rutish, knavish, profligate criminal-in short, U who fall shortoal their duty to themselves na their fellow men-arn hs whe aera E not "respectable;" and this, whetber they are I rich or poor. While those who live honestly, and strive to do what good they can, consti -*tute in reality the respectable class, irreipec tive of the fact whether they eat with silver forks or steel ones.-Philadelphia Ledger. Catch the Sunshine. Catch the sunshine ! though it flickers Through a dark and dismal cloud, Though it falls so faint and feeble On a heart with sorrow bowed: Catch it quickly-it is passing, Passing rapidly away; It has only come to tell you There is yet a brighter day. Catch the sunshine ! though 'tis only. One pale flickering beam of light; There is joy within its glimmering, Whispering 'tis not always night. Don't be moping, sighing, weeping, Look up ! look up like a man ! There's no time to grope in darkness, Catch the sunshine when you can. Catch the sunshine! though life's tempest May unfurl its chilling blast, Catch the little hopeful straggler! Storms will not forever last. Don't give up, and say " forsaken!" Don't begin to say "I'm sad !" Look! there comes a gleam of sunshine! Catch it! oh, it seems so glad! Catch the sunshine ! don't be grieving O'ver that darksomo billow there! Lifo's a sea of stormy billows, We must meet thema every where. Pass right through theni! do not tarry, Overcome the hearing tidle, There's a sparkling gleam of sunshine Waiting on the other side. Catch the sunsine! catch it gladly! Messenger in Hope's employ, Seat through clouds, through storm and billows, Bringing you a cup of joy. Oh! then don't be sighing, weeping, Life, you know, it is but a span, There's no time to sigh and sorrow, Catch the sunshine when you can. A Fresh Water Sailor. You may not know it, but it is a fact that political influence very often gets officers in our revenue navy, who never scarcely had a glimpse at salt water' before they shipped with a lieutenant's epaulette. One of these " cases," the son of a well to-do planter in the interior of Georgia, went down to the cutter at Savannah, went to sea in her on a three or four days' cruise, and then, on her return to port, got leave to go home for a couple ot weeks, after more "rocks," or something of the kind. When he got there he was the biggest frog in the pond by odds. The "tales of the sea," and the dangers of those "who go down in - great ships," which lie told, were Munchan. senish to an intensity. MAight;after all bad retired.to rest, his father and his family were aroused from their slumbers, by hearing buckets of water dashed againbt the side of the house, in the part where the young lieutenanit'i apartment was situated. And every little while they would hear him roar out to a ne gro servant: "More tempestuous, Pompey-more tem pestuous, you black imp !" They thought him insane, amid hurried to ask what was the matter. " I'm so accustouied to the delightful dasli of the waves against the sido of the vesel," said he, " that I find it impossible to sletp without something as near like it as I can get in this benighted region." There was, probably, some "snickering" about that time. DRA3w OF A QUAKEn LAD~Y.--There ia a beautiful story, told of a pious oil Quaker lady, who was addicted to smoking tobacco. She had indulged in the habit until it had in creased so upon her, that she not only smaked er pipe a large portion of the. day, but fre quently sat up in the bed for this purpose during the night, A fter one of these enter tainmeilts she fell asleep, and dreamed she died and approached Heaven. Nteeting an angel, she asked him if her name was written in the book of life. He disappeared but re plied on returning, that lhe could not find it. " Oh," said she, - do look again; it must be there."1 He examined again ; but returned with a sorrowful face, sayintg it was not there. " Oh,'' sad she in agony, " it must be there I Do look onee moure I" The angel was moved to tears by her en treaties, and again left her to renew his search After a long abasnce, he came back, his face radiant with joy, and exclaimed " We have found it ? hut it was so clouded with tobacco smoke that we could hardly see The good old woman 'upon waking, im mediately threw -her pipe away, and never indulged in smoking again.. A waggish chap, whose'vixen wife, by drowning, lost her precious life, called out his neighbors, all around, and told 'em that his spouse was drowned ; and, in spite of search, co-4 not he found. He knew, he said, the very nook where she had tumbled in the brook, and he-bad dragged along tho shore, above the place, a toile or more, " A boe the place I" the people cr ied, "lwhy, what d'ye mean ? The man replied: " O.f course you don't sup pose I'd go and waste the timne to look below!I .'ve known the woman quite a spell, and learnt her fheshions tolable well :alive or dead, she'd go, I swow, against the current any how I" - A YVar DOUITFU t EsrnoasEMENT.-The Cincinnati Gazette says that a few days ago a business house in that city had occasion to write to a correspondent in one of the interior towns of Indiana, and in closing their letter asked the question, " What is the standing of Mr. -- ?" In due time the .correspon dent replied to the query as follews: " If your question ref'.-rs to Mr. - ' real- responsibility to any limited amount, we answer it is goiod ;but to say that he is ob stinate atnd mulish but faintly expresses his peculiarity of disposition when an account is presented. ile usually pays a debt at the ex treme tail end of an excutiotn, and then doles out. the cash to the constable as though he was driving a nail in his own coffin. The money shaver who took the last seat in the last car of a railroad train, so as to have the use of his money while the conductor was reaching him, was not a circumstanee to the grim death grasp with which Mr.- holds on to his purse-strings. He mean-s to he honest, but his neighbors say that a five cent piece produ es a moral strabismmu that affects his vision quite painfully I" The firm concluded to close their accomrnt at "the tail end of an execution" and " druin" no more in that direction LAST Woans oF Bisnor DoANE.-A private (riend of the late Bishop of New Jersey, who was by his death ded, at the moment of his dissoltion, says that his last words were these: " I die in the faith of the Son of God and the confidence of His one Catholic Church. I lve-io merits; nd man -has; but my From the New York Observer. Public Examinations in Female Schools. To the Editors of the Neto York Obserer: I have lately read in your paper an account of the annual commencement of a prominent Female Seminary in your city, with the names of the pupils to whom prizes were awarded. There are several institutions of the kind in our country, which are conducted on the same principle, and haveitheir yearly exhibi~ions. A still larger number, which decline this cere monial, have, nevertheless, a public examina tion at the close of each year, which is open to all comers-a custom introduced,'if I mis take not, by a leadin-, and successful semina ry in your State, some thirty-five years ago. It has greatly surpris d me that a system so intrinsically vicious should have been al lowed to perpetuate and even diffuse itself without remonstrance. On what basis it rests, other or better than that of giving notoriety to the schrols which adopt it, I know not; while the objections to it are, as it strikes me, palpable and decirive. As part of public school system, I have nothing to say about it. People inky claim it as their right to inspect in this way schools for the support of which they pay taxes. I speak only of private schools. 1 find no warrant for public examinations in such schools, in the true (because the Scrip tnral) conception of the proper social sphere of the weaker sex. They are adverse to that delicacy of feeling and those refined sensibili ties which, next to genuine religion, constitute the charm and glory of woman; and for the absence of which not even piety itself 'can compensate. In this view, they are in conflict with that national se timent f which we are justly proud, which makes the name of wo man a sacred name amongst us, and secures to her a deference and a courtesy in-our pub lie conveyances unknown beyond the limits of our counry. The whole purport and drift of these examinations, Jis to break down that mysterious barrier which, though in visible i - self, guards the innate modesty and timdity of the youthful female from intrusive eyes, and nourishes while it shelters her purest affections. As a father-and I suppose other fathers feel as I do on the subject-it is no aim nor desire of mine, in send ng my daughter to school, that she should be fitted to mnake a de monstration'befure dhe public. I do not want an assemblage, however respectable, called together to witness and applaud her proficien cy in music, in mathematics, in composition, or in anything else. If she has gifts of this sort, I prefer (not designing her fo: the stage nor for a lecturer on woman's rights) that they shotld b garnered up among my other household jewels, and brought out, as such jewels usually are, fur the gratification of the f-icnds we may choose to invite to our fireside. Tue public may applaud my sons, when they deserve it; but I do not wCbil them to applaud ny daughters. And as to gazetliny them for their acquirements-publishing the names of these young creatures in the newspapers, and extolling their performances as you would those of an opera tro pe, or the speakers at a popular meeting-there is something posi tively revolting in it. Is this, in any shape or form or degree,,one of theilegitimnate epdJ of female education? Are w'e'ducating our daughters that the may win the plaudits of the public ? Or d1o we reqnire The help of the public to stimulate their ambition, and make them study as they ought? I beg to say-speaking for very many parents-" non tlavi auxilio,".if we cannot traini our daugh ters without invoking an alliance like this. we prefer that they should go withont an educa tion. It would be pertinent to add, on this point, that we are not in a position in our country which will justify us in coutemning the proper helps and appliances to feuin tic delicacy. There are tendencies itt the opposite diree tion, inherent ii our political and social strue ture, which require to be watched and coun tervailed. The sex is more likely to run into coarseness, than to rise to any excess. of refine ment. It i easy to see what must follow, if we infuse the adverse element largely into our schemes of education, and systematically train them to keep an eye fixed, o all their studies, u on the approbation of the public! It were some mitigation of the evils of this system, if it accomplished its professed object of supplying a satisfhetory test of scholarship: although, even in that case, its intrnusic bad ness would remain. But who relies upon one of these examinations as determining the rela tive attainments of the pupils? Every one knows that the best scholars often appear to least advantage, and cice rrs. Modest genius blushes anid falters, (asd we love it the more for being so trute to itself,) while conceited mediocrity revels in its ".gimt oi'tongues," and tosses its plumies in trium ph. Anid what comn pensation have you pirovidled foir these gentle spirits whom you have compelled to stand up before a tmiscellaneotus crowd, only that they may encounter the pain and m~rtification of failure ;and that, too. in studies which they perfectly understand ? Are these sensibilities of the young heart tus t~o be lacerated and trodden under foot, rmerely that a school may make an imposing display before the publiec? And this suggests a still graver aspect of this noxious system-its in~Jtnence ipon the health of.. the pupils. You are fortutnate in your expuerience, Messrs. Editors, if you have not personally known young ladies of rare promise, whohave either been disabled for life, or hurried to a premature grave, through the excitement and exhaustion induceds by these pitblio "xtiminnttions. It is tnt lonig sine atn amnitthn and camrplliuhdA tencfler wold me that eho had known selholairs, for weeks before one of. theses imntisitoriatl exhibitions, ply themselves with stimulating drinks, that they might be able to study bty night as wetll as by day. TVhe amount ot mental tort ures in flicted upon lurge schools in this way, must beo greater than any pen has yet v-enatured to describe. The time has come when that im personal, heterogeneous public, which has thus far consented to be used as an instrument of this cruelty, shotfid remonstrate against it. It has broken down too many constitutions already, and consigned too many victims to the tomb, or, what is worse, to the insane asylum. - And who is benefitted by this system ? Do parents require it, in order to ascertain wheth er their daughters are faithfully instructed ? They must know (other considerations apart) that, in this view, very little value is to he at tached to thes.e examinations. If they wish to see the working of the school in which they are interested, let them visit it, indifferently, during term time. Are public extaminations requisite iu order to insure propei diligence on the part of the pupils ? The teacher who plads this, makes a confession of incomnpe tey which ought to be fatal to all his pre tnsion4. Ia the controlling argument, the reptation of the aensn~ary is concerned ? Then I cannot consent that a child of mine shall be subjected to the wrongs of a system like this, for the purpose of giving eclat to a school. 1 have merely broken the shell of a great subject; one, Messrs. Editors, on which 1 have no personal interests at stake, personal or relative, private or official. I shall ho hap py if the cursory views I have thrown out shall have the effect, in any quarter, of abating the prolific evil of public examinations in female schools. H. A. B. pr As eminent artiste-American, of course lately painted a snew-storm uo naturally that he sght a bad cld by sitting Ues It with his CHURCH GoNo.-Attendance upon Divint service is recognized as a duty which we owe alike to our Maker, to society and to our selves. At this season of the year it is cer' tainly a most agreeable pastime, and thost who lounge away the delightful spring Sab baths in indolence, cloistered up in the dull shadows of the house, deny themselves a posi tive physical luxury-not to take into account the responsibility that such a course involves. The revelation of God, through his works on these quiet spring Sabbaths, is most im pressive. He walks in the majesty of love and beauty amid the teeming glories of the landscape, now undisturbed by the din of labor and vocal with accents attuned to His praise. The plough stands idle in the field, the fire has gone out in the furnace, the fe. vered pulsations of trade no longer agitate the great heart of the city, and-he spirit of worship pervades the quiet scene.. The whis pering breeze and singing birds have caught the inspiration, and their soft voices seem to chime with the peel of the church bull, to summon all God's creatures to the temple of His praise. Go, then, to the ministrations of the Sah. bath-set up an altar at some of the shrines of worship, and let the genial influence-of de. votion kindle into vernal beauty the garden of the heart.-Augusta Dispatch. EQUAL JUSTICE TO MAN AND WOMAY. Rev. E. H. Chapin, in a recent diecourse, ays: "The refined woman recoils with virtuous corn from her fallen- sister, but often wel omes him by whom she fell. We are told tbat Christ said to the woman's accusers, le that is without sin among you, let him ast the first stone," but smitten by con cience, they went out one by one. And who is not in some way'allied 'to this great. uilt? The fact of common weakness should at least make us merciful. It is not j'st that pon the woman alone should fah the blot of ihame. The test is a great lesson of charity id mercy, and is a great lesson of justice ilso. There is neither jtitice, honor, nor deli cacy in our modern custom, which scarcely rowns upon the guilty man, while pouring 3ut all. the vials of wrath upon the guilty woman. It may, or may not be true, as some insist, that this foul cancer in society can mever be eradicated; but we ougho at least to insist upon it that the shame shall be fairly livided, that the sinning man shall be branded s deeply as the sinning woman. Suppose wvery guilty man bore the mark of shame in bis face, in the market, or at church, how ong would the evil continue ? But the mean sees of man has thrust the whole shame upon vuman." e HOLLANp WIToerT Usar LAw.-The use of Hlolland furnishes a striking proof of he correctness of the theory of free trade in oney. The rate of ititerest has been, for a ery long period, lower in Holland than any here else in Europe; -and yet is the only omaptry-in which usuary laws has been altis ether unknown, where capitalists are allow d to demand, and borrowers to pay, any rate f interest. Notwithstanding all the violent 3hanges of the govenment, sahd the extraor inary'disturbance .fler'financial coocerns ince 1790, the rate- of intereet in Holland xntinued comparatively steady.. During the hole of that period, persons who could offer mexceptional security have been able to bor. ow at from 2 to 54 per- cent.; nor has the iverage rate of interest charged on capital, ,dvanced ot the worst species of security, wver exceeded 6 or 7 per cent., except when he G(overnmient wa negotiating a forced oan. But in England, where the law declared hat not more than live per ceLt. should be aken, the rate of interest for money advanced )u the best l.inded security varied, in the ame period, from five to N or 17 per cent >r about five times as in Holland. Tus Mossy WiAstEo ni WA.-" Give me," as Stebbing, " the mon~ey that hats been~ asted in war, and I will purchase every foont f land on the glode. 1.will clothe every man, oman and child, iu an attire that kings and ~ueens might be proud of'. 1 will build a lhool house upon every hill side, and in every alley over the habitable earth, I will supply het school witht a competent teacher ; I will mild an academy in every town, and endow Lt, a college in every State and fill it with ble professors ; I will crown every hill with a ~hrch consecrated to thme promnulguation of~ the ~ospel f peacec; I will support ini its pulpit n able teacher of righteoiusness, so that on ~very Sabbath morning the chime on one till shall answer to the chime on another tround the earth's broad circumference ; and e voice of prayer, and thei sonaoJ, praise, nd th~e smoke of a universil hcelocaust shall tscenmd to heaveu,." THE RmFmLH AND THE Bow.-The London imes says : If but 100,00J men could be nowv uarhed out int England, possessing as good conmand of the rifle as their forefathers iad of the bow, we might laugh at the very otionm of invasion. There is not the least eusonm why this should not come to pass. Mr. lYhitworth declares that he will make a rifie mend a ball into the muzz~le of another rifle at 00O yards' distance, the exact counterpart of obin Hood's famous feat of sending one ar ow into the center of a target, and then split ig it with another. A Gooi Tune.---That was a strildingly in ellient person who icalled upon is sign pain-~ er ty have i ~tmiday filhool procesion; bn r gainmted, antd said * Me'tr gom' to have a great tearini' tint with rr Fourth o' July Sunday School Celebira iou, and our folks wants a banner.' " Wall," naturally enough responded the iite? " you ony/h/ io bave. otne. * What will on have paiunted on, it ?' "Wall, I .d'n know ; we ort to have a text ' skripter onto it for a motto, hadn't we?' " Yes; that's a very good idea ; what shall tbe ?" "Well, I thought this would be about as pood as anyi, " Be sure you're stakt and then 9 ahead I" A Du'rcnxANi turned to a negro boy, and sied him. "Boy, do you think a nigger has got a toni?" " Oh, yes," said the boy ; " T reckon they ot souls." " Well, boy, do you think you woull be al owed to go to Heaven ?" " Yes, sir, I spec I will ; I 'lows to git in." "Now, boy, whereabouts do you think hey'd put a fellow like yout in Heavenu?" " I danno, air," said the boy ; " but I ekon il git in somewhar 'tween be white eople and de Dutch." TU SEAT OF WAa.-The following names if towns are within the lhnes of the present European combat. Gzzo-This is a villarre o finorthern Italy muder the goverment of ~'enice. It is situacd ulrout eight miles North North-east of Vicen ma. Its population is some one thousand :six tundred and sixty. The name is prouounced fatzo. Loiello-A market town of Piedmont, and idivision of' Novara, and twenty-five miles outh.South-east of that town. "he popla ion is about two thousand' one hundred and ifty-one -Camtino-A village of the -Sardinitan Arrival of the Steamship Asia. NEW YonY, May 26.-The steamship Asia has arrived from Liverpool with dates to Saturday, the 14th inst. LIVERPOOL COTTON MABE.-Sales of Cotton for the week 53,000 bales, of which speculators took 1,500 and exporters %000 bales. The market opened at an impro. ment of Id. on the prices current at thecloe of the previous weelk, but closed stan advance of only id. The sales on Friday reached 6,000 bales, and the market closed steady. Manchester advices are reported untaor able, as the trade was dull and prices de. elining. The money market was slightly. euier. ConsoLs were quoted from OI to 91* for money and account. The bullion.in the Bank of England had decreased 2165,000. Flour, wheat and corn had alightlyadvanced. Bef, was quiet, with unimportant. sales. Pork was steady, and holders were offering freely. but not pressing s'ales. Tie Emperor Napoleon's departure from France was a perfect ovat ion ; and his recep tion at - Genos, where ho arrived on the 12th instait, was most cordial. He immediatel7 Uiued an addres<, enjoining :he utmost disc pline among the troops, and saying. that his only fear was that the troops would show too much enthusiasm. He said he expecfed to proceed on the 14th to the headquarters of the armv. The King of Sardinia had visited iheEin peror Napoleon at Genoa. The Sarlinia official hilletius continued to report the retrogade mowements of the Aus trians, u hose headquarters was Robbio, asmall marke. tkown in North Italy, in Piedmont. The Sardinians had retaken their former po.4ition. The Britis!i government had formally pro -1.0imed .-irict- neutrality, and warned all British subjt ti iaga'nat vio'ations. The war departueit has issued an impor tant notice, authorising the formation of vol. unteer corps throughout the kingdom. Great activity pre% ails in the English dock yards, and fully eqaal to what it was at the eioht of the Crinean war. The Parliamontarl elections are nearly all over, and the result bs about the same as pre. vinusly reported. The army of Lyons is tinder orders to pro. cee to Italy. French fegislation in regard to the corn laws has been postponed indefinitely. The decrease in the Bank of France, during the month, is twenty-five million francs. The Paris Bourse has been active and higher,'but had declined three fourths on the 13th inst. The German Diet has adopted the propohi. tion to put the Federal garrison on a war ftoo in-.. . Buth of the Prussian chambers have unan imo.::ly wthoris;ed the war loan asked by the guveri m -mt. Avices from Constantinople report an in crens.ing agibt:iou in the provuees. . The Arabia liad arrived'atwIiverpool, but too late- to atfect the market. - Latest froml XexiPo. NEw .Oa:,xms, - May 20.-The..steamship Tennessee arrived belogthe.itytls mob, andahe brings dates Ukith to the 19th, and from Vera Cruito lheid lit. There is a movement at the Capitalin favor of the return of Gen. Santa Anna. General Wall was. marching towards T&S" pico with one thousand men. Tbe csonducta (an armed conveyance) leaves the city of Mexico on the 24th with several million dollrs for Very Cruz. The English resideuts strongly remonstrate to ounsmul Ot.way, relative to the Tacubaya affitir.' Kosse~rit m S.AuDIu.-A letterfrom Turin says: Kossuth, of whom nobody has heard in Eigland for some i ime, or even here, is secret ly at w'ork in Sardinia, where he is incognito, and holding communication by -means (if emissaries, with the Hungarian portion of the army-one-third of the whole, anud the very troops which forimerly defeated the Austrians under his authority, and which have been re moved to Italy. in order to keep them as fiar as possible f'rom their native land. Here they have beena fraternising with the Italians, tlirough the instrumentality of Kossuth, and probabl will revolt is: a bodly at last. Alrea dy thete is dlivision and dissenion between tihe Austrian and Hungarian commandersgand that is another reason which accounts for the ta rdy movemelets of the A ustrian troop. Tat E EOCaACY ot- TEX.ia oN 'B H OrEN No oPT'rU SLfAv i: Tuart.--the following resolution Wats adopte-1 by a Demoeratic meet ig in Galvestion, 'the 2d May. ltesolced, That our del -gates to the conven tion to assemble in Houston, b~e instructed to vote against the adoption of any and all plat f rms which in any way would tend tothe re opening of the Afrienu slave trade.. And the f.ollowing by a Dcmocratie meeting hell i i Parker co-inte onl the 2d ultimo: 14f.elml, '1 liat we demur to any law of Con gre.s making the foreign alare trade piracy, as a usuri~ationl of power not warranted by the Co.istitnliios of .th~e l'aited States, and oght to be repeal. ____ He-e is a tonehiuij *. . ion of' a mbon light scene : After wrhirl.. -.'me time in the ecstatic msaaes of a dely.g walt2, Car nelia and myself stepped out unuoberved on to the halcony, to enjoy a few of those ma mnts o.f solittudi so pr ans to lovers. it wea glorinna triight-,tlt air was oeo and andt rs~fre'shaing. As I gusedI 011 the beatitiful being at my side, I thought I neover saw her look so lovelt the foll moon cuvt her bright ravs over her whole person, giving her an al m~st angelic appearan-e, and imparting to her tlowmn' euris a still more golden hue. One of her soft fair hands rested in' mine, and ever aniu anon she met mg. ardent gaze with one of pore, confiding love. Soddenly a change camne over her soft features, her full red hp . trembled as if with suppressed emotion, a teat drop rested on her long drooping lashes, the muscles around her faultless mouth becam3 convulsed, she gaped for breath-sand, snach ug her suddey away, buried her face in her an. cambrio, hdkerchief, and-sueesed. IrrEMPR3aNCE xr MADEIRA.-The Eon. ames 0. Putnam, in a recenit .letter, makes the following statement: When in the IWand of Masdeira!I saw a few ases of intoxication amongthe-poorer people. And Iliad from a nine years resident clergy man this explanation : T1hat before the failure o' the wine crop in Madeira (formeriy. the annual yield was about 15;000 pipes of wine, now live or~ six hundred) thereiwas scarcely any drunkenness on the Island, butth~lre had placed wine beyond thramach ofthapoor; they now cultivate the sugafcnrfroin whiAi was manufactured a strongg~)irit now in corn mon use ; and the result ~adrunkenn'ess appeared asthe wine disap k&' The above isimportantf true, as'well in dt social as a moral point of view. 'Is it a fact that the wine-growtng countries of the- world are among the most tem rate ? And, ifso is not the subject entitle to' more than ordi nary consideration at the -hands- oftheO en. lightened and judicious friends>' of thetruly noble cause of temperane? . We hare heard it asserted as a fixed truth~thatt4runkenness is uncommon where wine * ,lentiful, anid reeber very well that it benstated that *iSen the fountains of ri'Mere 'fled withe'iatead of aterfd'uting thbjeai thisi N l6 jre e ma"