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$2 PER ANNUA VOLUME VII. iflrrtfii itnnj. The Madison Mystery. I. | People sneer at New Jersey. It ia lookI ed upon by themajority cf the American citizens as a sort of Purgatorial State.? Jersey and Jericho seem to bold the same 'relative positions as places to which evil / -doers are traditionally banished. If vou S^buy ft place in New TJersey, your'friends 'regard you with a species of wondering . '(lad you built a villa by the banks of Acheron, voa ccMild not be more com tniserated. According to the popular mind, meanest and cider are the two chief products of thiR calumniated State. It ia a land of apples and artful dodgery. I don't care ft anap of my fingers for the morals of the Jeraeyitea, but I can not withhold my admiration for their State. I love those broad lenguea of quiet \ orchards that, in tbe month of May, bear \ unpon gnarled branches the drifts of rosy w snows of blossom, and in September are ) fragrant with the perfume of "quintillkww r1 ripened and qumtilliona green." I love the calm Passaic, despite its beauties having been twaddled over through a volume of turnpike road, verses, by a Macadamized jK)et known as Klaccus.* I love its green banks ; its black and slippery mill-dams; its daring leaps through the chasms and over the .precipices as Pater son ; its quiet ponds mantled with lazy w.tier Hliea, underneath which the pike luiks with waving fins in wait for tbe dragon-fly, who flushes overhead, here and there, on his sail like wings There is something soothing and orvilized in the face of Nature in New Jersey. The very factories and mills there, although as industrious as any, seem to hush their clackinir into well bred. sid>dm./4 murm..*-. The aweetest spot, ?? my -mind, in thin State is Madison. It is a quiet country tillage, with hut few stores and many churches, forcing upon the traveler reflec lion that the place is more pious than mercantile. The roads ate well shaded witli large trees, that droqp lovingly over tlie pedestram, and project him from the ; fierce sun with their green arcades. The | . land on ail aides rises into knolls and sinks J into valleys, the one crowned and the other lined with knotty oaks, and tall o'ms. and transparent maples. Along 1th? old fences, ragged and quaitit, the chipmuck rui.a in and out of ho|?a as if J?c were first cousin to the rat. There are many p >nds scattered through the fields here; some bordered with thick sedge, in which a sportsman's imagina lion might conceive hosts of wildfowl lur king.; others horied deep at the bottom of funnel-shaped depressions of the soil, and surrounded by sad circles of trees that shroud the still waters in an evcrlasl. tug gloom. There is a calm and self possessed-look ing hotel in .Madison, Even in the hottest day it seems as eool ss Sir Charles Coldstream. No unseemly air of bustle pervades it. Its piazzas are tranquil as '.be cloisters of a monastery ; and if we beheld at vesper time stealthy footed files of monks moving along tlieni, it would scarce seem out of character with the I building. IThe servant* at the Katydid IIousc are noiseless and grave. They perform their duties as quietly as if they were religious ^ exercises. There is a laundress always at work in the back garden, who, as it were, washes to herself. None of the usual noises attendant on suoh Iwvatory exercises are to be heard, and if she pursued her task in vacuo she could not ere ate ieae disturbance. Every body in the establishment seems to wear list slippers. The proprietor comes on you suddenly as if he were slid along a groove like the ghost in the 'Corsican I trot hers,' and there is a thin, unearthly youth, answering to the name of "Cleb," who invariably enters your room through the keyhole or some chink in the wall, for the Arst intimation you receive of his ptea nee is a distant voice (which Cleb seems at sorn > period of his life to have letl behind him, and which has never since been able to catch him up) demanding, 'Did you call, Sir f I think that Cleb must hear ghostly sounds, for he is constantly gliding in upon the guests st sll hours, demanding whether they called. The large parlor of the Katydid House is Inhabited chiefly by the the mother o( the proprietor?an old lady who remembers Washington?and a large brass -stove, which, being at one end of the ) room, looks like ons of those monumental brasses occasionally seen in the old tKnglish provincial churches. I have not the remotest idea what this old lady's V /name may he. Her son I know only ss ! -the proprietor of the Katydid House, and I herself only as (lie mother of her son.? Jndeedkshe goes tut by the name of 'The Mother,' and haa a trsnge exterior way of speaking of herself as 'thia child,' aa if rhe were merely an observer making allusion to aomo one with whom ahe whs entirely disconnected. The great object in life to which the Mother seeing to have devoted herself is to induce |>eo)>le to play on the pinno, a strange centipedal inatruraont that stands behind the door, and looks as if it could crawl up the wall at any given moment. To entrapping such persons aa visit her into awaking the mel ody that slumbers in this ingenious piece of furniture, the Mother has consecrated iher remaining days. I don't believe that ahe has erer succeeded, but her persever anc*: la wonderful. Tbs remaining mem' ber of tbe Katydid House is Mm lietty, -sister of the proprietor or bona, an elderly female who pervades the kitchen, and to !?rtio?n tS? superintendence of the cuJlnsry ?!te i 3 Saintly nail political jtaapa department is confined. She resembles somewhat in texture an aged fowl tha fans been boiled for soup, and is fond o continually smoothing down her blacl silk apron with both hands, as if six was endeavoring to perform some electri cal experiment ami was gathering tlx fluid. Miss Betty stands behind the dooi of the kitchen (which adjoins the dining ; room), watching the effect of her cootoerj j on the guests, and 1 believo suffering con j siderable agony if the beef-steak pudding , or mo lrisn Riew is not entirely apprecia ted. There were but l*o gnosis at ibclvaly i did House last summer. They came lati I one night in July, by the last train frorr ! New Vork, aod took the best suite o | rooms in the bouse. A tall, handsonn lady, and a middle aged gentleman. Tin j lady, who seemed about twenty-eight i was of a middle height, btondo complex ion, and graceful, flexile form. She wa very pale and sad, however, and seemct bending under the weight of eoroe secre sorrow. Iler companion was a singula looking creature. He looked more lik< the gnarled Vruuk of some blasted tre< than like a human being. His arms wen long, crooked, and large-jointed, am when he moved them about, they soauiet ; more as if tossed by the w ind than stir red by any spontaneous motion, lie wa | dwarfed to deformity ; bis unnaturally I '?ng tags that seemed, in the act of walk j ing, to intertwine one with the other, ro I senibled the flexible roots on which tin ! ntrange, unearthly trunk was supported | Ilia bend was large and draped with i j ,prefusion of wild, flaxen hair, that fel ) over hi* bumped shoulders like the gloo ' my white mosses that droop from cypres j stumps. Il'.s eyes were of a strange, col I orlese character, like fa led opals, yet occa ftiounlly an evanescent flee would tluei out, giving tbem a terrible ferocity. The night these travelers an iveil at tin Katydid they commuted the crime of les< miqjeste against the Mother, by declining to lake a^pper at the public table. Tliey required, the queer, deformed man said all their meala in their private apart inents. 'Never heard of sucli a thing,this chili didn't!' said the Mother, indignantly when Miss Betty communicated this in lelligence. 'These city folk are terribl hard to please. Now tl is child though that they would he kind of socinbl when thev cotue, and the young womai might ha' .played on the pianny ; Mil ? uny re h goiu' R'??? themselves up i their own rooms, why they ain't tlio sot of pussou* thin child would knot stock in fur. Cook 'em up, indeed !' 'The visitor? hud not 'been longinliaLi tillg the &atydid before they becam tin stories. Mudi-on was a quiet village un industrious village ; but even the tnos respectable and reserved of hamlets couli not tUnd with impunity a lovely bu melancholy female in company with i dwarf of fabulous ugliness taking up tliei ubode at the principal hotel, and remain ing continually in their own npartmetit 1 by day and-night, and never having a much as a doctor or even a clergyman t see them. Humor flapper! about the pui in a very short time, ami its wings grei considerable under the judicious treatmen 1 of the mother. According to that venc table authority, sounds of quarrel wer 1 heard to issue frequently from the apart menls occupied by the mysterious pair and Cleb reported that, on one occasior ' when he had made one of his noiaele* entrances through some chink or key hole into the parlor, he beheld the pal and beaueiful lady {tinning the dwarf t the floor by the throat, while the Intte was struggling violently, and gurglinj out the most violent imprecations. Tin most tqtraordinary part of this scene wn that the dwarf?whom one would hav supposed grateful for the interruptionwas as exasperated as the lady at the in terforence, and with his opaline eyes glow infll at a wllllo Imil ftr/lnm/l noramr ? O -- - I?"" "1 torily out ot the room. This dish of got ?ip, After being proporly served up by th Mother, served ah a wonderful appolizc to'the good people of Madison. II. 'Again I ask you, what liavo you don with liim I' Poor thing ! poor thing !' ejftcuated ill dwarf, waving his long, branch like arm: and casting a strange glance'intended ft: commiseration, at the pale form that stoo - before hiua, with arms folded, and an e) presaion of the most furious hate buruin in her eyes. '1 say, what have you done with hiu ' Adam Drake ? Answer me, you fiend 'She will never recover, I fear,' mm mured the dwarf, piteoosly, to himself.? : 'Never. Slie's getting worse every day Tho woman ground her teeth, an stamped upon the floor. 'You devil incarnate I' she oried, 1' ' tear the secret out of your black, bittc lieait before I bave done with you I' 'It's terrible to behold a noble intellet in ruins/ continued the dwaif, musinglj | in the same sad tone, and looking as he were contemplating a'Colosseum ot Temple of Minerva. 'Hadn't you lietu lake your soothing draught, Agnes, m lovet You are getting excited.' An as he spoke he rose, and in a tender mail tier approached her holding a small boi lie mat lie lieu drewn iron nts pocket. 'If you come neerer I will leer you flesh wilb my l*eth 1* said (lie woma wbom he celled Agoes, hissing out tb word* with compressed lips. 'I see you | game* You wish to make me as med i reality as you effect to believe me. Bu you (ball not. I will keep my senaea ur til I heve torr. the secret from you, the let poor heart break if it will. I wi Mirer' leave ?rio, Adam Prak? t I wi Cane Turn t? Bifi wil pre?Deuotxii to tjje arts, swans, lit LANCASTER. . H., SOUTH i Hve with you, I will haunt you until 1 1 tha I j discover what you have clone with the ma f j child T ! the [i 'Mind completely gone 1' sighed the pn ; j dwarf, rocking to and fro on his chair, i hit; j and watching her every motion with his ( ' i | blue?white eyes. , me r ; *1 know every ?tep you took in the 1 ha ; mHtter,' sbe continued, 'bv instinct, when Yc ? I was prostrated by tbe sudden announce- kn merit of my husband's death, and the j < r pains of labor camo upon me; and when th< on my bed of agony I was hovering so firi between life and death that every thing tre - around mo was dim and dull, you spiri-j B ted av.'av my child?the child that stood i Ch i between you and your heirship?and ! vei f when I came forth froru my trance you : voi b stood with your cold, colorless eyes by ! th< 0 my bedside, and told me it was dead.? i git , But even then I knew that you li-ed, my I of brother in-law ; sick, and faint, and dull , s in brain as I was, I felt the feeble breath ha 1 of my infant in the air that surrounded be; t me. I fell the pulses of a life derived po r from mine throbbing through the distance pa 0 palpably, aud Keating in unison with the nt< o treating of my own heart 1 Ohl 1 felt <it. bo 0 between the mother and her child there su| 1 stretches a chain that no ono sees, but { an 1 which no forco cau break, no distance co' - outmeasure.' sts s 'It is melancholy to see her thus,' said ? the dwarf, still speaking as if to himself, im You have not killed him, I know," she lot - continued. He lives?I feel it. You j be s were too great a coward for murder ; hut wr I you have concealed him. Where is he V | St A long pause. The dwarf did not re i ga I ply, hut rocked on his chair. i lit 'Tor oigbt years I have incessantly ns- i dl< s ked you-that que* lion. You thin* be | he - cause, when I brought you before a law j Jar court, you escaped, that your mystery is ty i safe. You are wrong, Adam Drake. I l have a clew. Look here J' j spi 0 And as she spoke she slowly drew from set e her bosom a slip of paper, lorn, apparent- mi ; Iv, from a notek, f??r it was long and nar 1 v r..w. The dwarf started and turned m< , white. kis 'Memorandum. To pay Mrs biudon for '.he?' ini j 'Where did you get that ?' shrieked the dwarf, leaping from Ins chair, and advancing toward Iter with hi* long hand clutch no e ingly extended. 'You robbed me, you t fury !" I fee e 'Aha! that -rouses you, doe* it I 1 Mi u thought so. \Vli*i tills up the blank *f- 1 pa f tcr wlmt * hate read !' rtaid the wom?D, | n retreating before him;'Mint but the child! | ly, t How secure you thought yourself, did you (In r not! Hut even demons aleep, mill when you ?!ept I found a cert .in note book in stc i vour pocket, and in that pocket book was cla e the clew I wanted. 11 I (lit! not believe pa ?, through those loop years that I would find : it this clew, Adam Drake, I would have j 'In J murdered you a long tinte since!' Kc I 'Look out yourself,* cried the dwarf, ku a making n bound at Iter like a w ild cat. r 'Stand off!' she cried, drawing a small on i- stiletto, and lifting it above her head.? re< n 'Come closer, and I will kill you !' an h At this moment a voice, that seemed eh 0 to come from ?omo spot about four miles i ir off. said, hollowly, 'Did you call, Sir!' wi v The antagonists turned aud beheld an it Cleb?Cleb, who, as usual, had entered till 1 through the key hole, and wi*? now stan ty< e ding before tbeni like a ghost that had p suddenly lieeu summoned to appear. wc 'No. Hegone!' said the dwarf, say i, 1 th< s *Yes. Stay !'said the lady., decisively. '. 'la rhe lady ot the house 'below #' wi o 'Do you mean the Mother ?' naked Cleb o v.ically going a few miles farther back in r to the interior of the State. llj, i? 'Tlie old lade. I m???n ' * * . . O, D 'She's in the parlor,' said Cleb, from a (h, s groat (iiatanoo, orj e 'Very good ; I will go ami ace her. I ,,f _ am not afraid of you,' she added, turning i to the dawarf, 'but I must live until I find * | r. him.' And before he could utter a svlla wj | hie in reply, she had passed through the 'pf i I door, and was gone. ru ? III. in 'Lor' a ma*aey!' ejaculated the Mother, ' | lifting her hands in astonishment, 'this (Jf child never heard any thing like ainoe she e was born ! And to take the darling lit- ,v tie baby away too. Oh, the inhuman e sarpent! Hut don't you be afeard, Jar- ^ ?, ling. The boas is around, this child tells ir you. He'll take care you don't come to f d no harm. Mayhap you play on the pi- I cJ(( t anny, neighbor ? There's a beautiful one g over, there, if you do.' I'm not afraid of any thing be can do,' . i, said the lady called Agnes, who, *s you j " !' may conjecture, had been confiding her , 1 r- sorrows to the Mother, 'though he would ' ?" - kill me if he could. But I am alone, and ' ?. .' I must not die until I find ray darling ?. tl child. Ah ! what's this f It was a play-hill?a splendid and onor ,ul I! mouse play bill?announcing that at the >n >r Madison Theatre, or. that evening, would 1 | be represented the celebrated draina of >t 1 'Holla and Hizarro;' the part of Holla by : 1, Mr. Skenk, and the part of Cora by the if | renowned article, Mrs. Seraphina Hindon; a the Child, by Master Hindon. ?r 'Why, she's fainliug right dead awayP y exclaimed the Mother, on beholding her d guest suddenly drop the play-bill which I w* i she had picked up ..ff the table. 'Ob, la, ( *u t- ; Hetty I here. Hetty T I 'nf I And Hetty caine from the kitchen, rap [ ir idly eleotrif\ing herself wrtli her apror., ) n and was a great bustle and fuu, and re- | 'r e sto:alive were applied to the fainting U- ^ ir dy. n 'Why, what's the matter, deary ?'askit ed the Mother, as soon as Agnes recover- w| i ed her sense. 'What makes you take on of n eo!' eh II 'Why, don't you see I' cried, Agnes, j an II clutching the play-Mil. 'Th^ theotre?,? astet ^ - - . ? v. . tlic I'rcHN?it* teeming* Khfou snrvof. It ?>ie wonden off on<*lt ?|?j. rxfitutr, (gkcatiw, Bgrirtiltm?, Sutrrual Siupiom CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNINC. it name?Mrs. Hindoo?thatis the wo- 1 iu that has my child I Where is the V tatro??I must go-there. Oh, God be itsed fcr all bis morcies ! 1 have found . Whence Coi n at last"!' j . ... 'This child thinks that it must be Far- ! Wl an'wef r Bowyer'a barn that them players ??.cut Mitacnh ve took. Cleb! where'* this theatre? J CU%' "J4* ^ 8,1 u're up to all mischief, and ought to I rom an e ? r 6 null ?r, moth or ' . ... i .u,.? ?..ii U?ob, answoritig from the vicinity of t"< " v"" ) White Mountains, immediately con- LMC 1 <P" ' ' ned the Mother's surmise. The thca- i ron' ^ H 1 c- ?> ? e ! letr* :?bout five e whs t armer Bowyer s barn. : ?.p , , ir, ... * j * . . i Hie whole apn? 'Come Willi me, cried Acnes, seizing i , 11 ib by the arm before that astonished | (l!uc 1 ! C.R ,n?{ . J . , . ... .. bis prol ?osis. I ilnloouist could communicate with his . 1 . r . 1 iri , the amount of ice to reroon.trate. 'Unne-1 inu.t go , , ^ H[)10 ,re. Show me the way. And drag. h m<1 ? ig Cleb after her, she tore roadlv out . , , e, . ' , .? , ' * ted bv h est or 1 the house. I , cj " * . i Down the hot, dusty road, with Hjing | ? Pnni^ !a 1 ir and wild face, and Cleb fleeting along ^ m?nc<'. 1 .r ... ' . i . S i .1 increasing in sizi jide her like a pursuing ghost, fled the l , f?i , . * > i . t f . i ' 8IZ0 ftuOUl I ll*"i ?11 or mother. People stared after the i , , ir, and Mr. Ilippy, the .n.giMr.to, d,e,?? " . r II i ii stand ng pe/pen, ieting theni in full career,drove rapidly t , , b *. ,* . me to make out a commitment for the ! j1 ,10,W ,n T l< |>posed lunatics. But on went ylgnea, i ,,as e*cnP.?* ? a' d on want Clob, un.il, breath!.,, and n.?t, rered with do.., .hey bur.1 in a. .ho f"r " ,urt. f . . p *, , , ; Now to Uio <1 ige door ot r armer Bowyors barn. ?? it, w, , f I senber b crop w The Madison 1 lieatre was in a state of , , , , ' . , . I land was plough mense preparation for the coming me t , . . ; i f-i n .i.ij r. i ploughing turns irania. the floor that had so often ; J, ,i c ... . . a ., . . . . the influence ot en belaboied by flails in threshing time \ c . e s . . , r of early frost up, is now covered with a green baize.? , ; , r . . .ii i .i has a tendency anted scenerv stood here and there a .. r .i .i* . f . tiii tweon the furrov inst the walls. A fat rr.an, who looked , ,i r a ii K''11 ul by vour ;e the manager, was fixing tallow can. ,i t . i i i -i i Bio same oflice. pa in the foot lights, while a pale, un- . .i.i -.1 a 11 f i . i ol the eggs were all It v woman, with flahliy checks and I .. ^ , i i i ,. I others were so a ge handsome eyes, was lending a pret- f , , child up and down in front of n bow ?n ll,fl ^rt J1"" ;g?ii man who busy in mouthing the J"ne* 1 icre'fr;,1 M ?ech of Holla io his army; one could 1111169 ? ,l i at n glance that the large.oved wo | j'r.?Por ,,n ? 1 10 injurr of "subsci in would play Cora. i J Agnes make a dart at the child the ... ,. CJ ,. nncnt she entered, and covered it with ' " " 1 sp,>* . # _ Settino ol*t 1 'IJillo !' cried Cora, in a voice liko a trees to set out i in's, 'what s all ihist' ... -? My child ! my dear, dear child !' for the t?o fo'.lo Your child! What do you mean, the earth will ha v'am I he's mv child t' and sett'* ?d'?"1 4 Wo;nan !' cried Agnes, starting to hor haa fiozen it, tin * *1 know all ; you were employed by j transplanted lal r Drake to take care of this child?to I rili,ou of tnulcln *?. ?t off an vour own, were you not V .nice or any otht If 1 waoT answered (V-o, father faint- i*Ucr and more he told mo tho mother *? dead, and ?fl0r tho cold !.* ,tt it was a hy blow of Ilia own.' sity. Last year He lied. The child was mine. .Me thousands dollar ,'e it from me, and I have come to re \\? do not kno-. in, j,. Nothing under heaven shall occurrence in tin rt us'? ish the number c But I can't jrivo him up without an- summer. If, tin ,rity Besides, what will the play do! ter should he se ,11a can't play without a child you we may reasonal ow of their ravages. Listen. I am rich. I will p?y J?" j Remedy for i d your troupe double your expected , 0ft|,0 Lyun (Ma; ;eipts for to night. You shall have j vjomo years y sum you please, hut I must have the | jrvcrv northeast U(j ? ' _ t in. I made a ec This proposition scented to ho received 1 ()f fOSjn? ono pu th the greatest favor hy the manager i rC(j |eHt|, applied d company, and Agnes, pressing the , |)ftrt vvl^ro lUo -j lie ono to her heart, set off for the Ka 1 jt j,nft never leak did House. ,\t*i it n i ?? .1 r . I menuea 'tie com *\V here is Mr. l>rake f were the first wj|o jjrj , >rds she uttered ns soon as she entered. > , , ,, it] * . \* ii *1.1 it leaked had I v. lie s gone to New i ork, saul the Mo t ? i r t ? | leak stopped. I 'Thank God !' exclaimed Agnes. 'I ' c,,re 'or a '0,k. ll never see him again. . REf,REV a curious ox peri r . . e . ?. e this season. Tw Ccrioaitikh.? A plate of butter from ... , t ?. * ii .*. ! a letter front a a cream of a joke. A small quantity | . . , tar, supposed to have been left where i succ?s8. ' lj e Israelites pitched their tents. The , " titer had n i t i j .* .i . ?o"* It consiste tginn! brush used in painting the Signs ; r. . i i , , ,* leach potato set. the limes. A bucket ol water from . . 1 , ' in ii ? a _ _*.l i*i i" the usual lis well. A piece or soap with which . , . i i i 3 iri ted, was a largo man was washed overboard. Ihestrnp . . . h lieh is used to sharpen the water's edge. <1,d cr?P f I""* le lead pencil with which Britannia res'ilt was t 'ed the waves. A portion of yeas', used UV,C9 fr,?m ,h*'y raising the wind. A dime from the ,ed ,n th? u.i,u! >on when she gave change from the last j .W?,r? e* ens,wi arter. The saucer belonging to the cup , 16(1 ? lhl" *' sorrow. A fence made of the rnilin^ ] |?Cnt ?n a sr,ta;n a scolding wifo. The chair in which i '? "^"son* j e sun sets. The hammer which broke ! ^HfC?n'v 1 '/ the meeting. A buckle to .fasten a P'?ce. ?l,t" 4 lgbing stock. Kgg* from a nest of ,n*,, 11 : ieves. Hinges and lock from the trunk '* ie TUT. I an elephant. A sketch from a politi* They w*ei in's views. ta nt or speck o and large, w'oile ,T " T T . i to them, wa* ai T.iere, now ! cried a little niece of ours o|(, (tv, me rumaging a drawer in a bureau, I i i?.. _* f i I lVM* * ivite vc ere naw ! (.ran pa ha* gone to liesv- | own roncliiaion. without hia spectacles. What w;ll lie j turai Gazette. ?' And shortly afterwards, when an- j ^ tub full of. ler aged relative was supposed to be i reinem|H,r, is n k unto death in the house, sue came ; \,ftrrow .>f eood nning to his bedside, with the glasses i ^ WI( >S|,.;r rtj|0 her hand, and an errand on her lips : wi? not> ,lC ,0st '!.OU f?n l? di? ; ?"d convenient They tel me so ofH buttho r, Go... to Leaven f ' trees, or nnylhh ;*hf)fVn- , , . well^-OAfr Hit Well, here are gran pa s srectacles.? jwbs win1 on t you take the.n to h,m. my Mper;,.lice f m m Suene years ago Ja a man and wife both one ?' asked the heaves ver fe-of a oertain gentleman, in a state of str;.w ?n,j Inef ipefaction, as ahe was holdiug his ach- feed a lump of 1 ? head in both hands. a hen's egg, to Yes, I suppose so,' wsa the reply. 15 poun< Well, then,' said she, '1 came home four years after unit last n.ght, and ought to be aabam- },eaves fi of myself.' tleman. To PIUEVKXT Waktko?The hook and line with acicnliflc cosrei lich a fidtonnan csught a cold?some hy using the fr the 'other fish' a man had to fry?tbo gause or perfori ib with which an idea struck a poet? or of a candle, d a yard stick to measure narrow es- from tlickeriug 1 pes. taring. % uirnts, .fnrtign nail itaurstit J! tun, nail thr 3?! JUNE 23, 1858. imltural. #uulhu| lUaii mcs the Cat-Worm? ~~ 7 ~~ tlio query of your Con- The Evlience of Things not er in the January Aqri- I Beautiful in Paul's definition ying that the Cut Worm an(^ definition is well illust gg laid by an ash-colored 1 a wr?lpr '? of our exchange butterfly, w hichever ' 0u 1? the deepening twilight of a This miller is about an evening, a pastor called at the with win<rs evnuiiilimT of otie of lr.s imrisbioncrs. and fc half to two inches, and ,<v^ m the doorway a small boy, v ighlhe of an inch lung.? | hands c\ tented upward, holding aranco of the insect is 'What are you doing here, ;uilied musquito without ^r'en'^ ' inquired the minister, lie eggs aro deposited to | '^'.v'"5 ,ny kilo, sir,' was th six or eight each, in a reply. ng the grass roots, clo?e 'Flying your kite ?' exclaimed rhere they aro not affec- '?ter ; 'lean nee no kite, you wet. The warm breezes none. them, and tliev at once know it, sir,' responded the destructive work, rapidly cannot s? it, but I kuotr it is tin 3. They n/tain their full fer^ 'l P"Uid of May, and then un | Mure than four years ago, ll leaving their worm-dress t ca,ue, ani bore far above us, 01 (liculnr in the earth with i ?"? l',al was very dear to <p, whence the butterfly ' 'c'1 ',L'r >n onr charge, and id is now living about a 'l "'"le, and laid it in a ens except depositing its egru w'1'1 many tears, on a wintry uai jeny. i 't on a shelf in a cold dark p!a< irect question, why "?ub- j slowly faded, and lost thai e> as so injured, when tho ne>8 which we can never forget, led a second time. Each *su|'Citor part, the immortal; had the eggs down beyond ,n?vod to a home of fadeless be; the sun, and the action 1 WHS l',e custody of Jesus. Jti flesh plowed grounds t?chnnjiits of our hearts was not to clone all openings ho "Je connecting ties were length* ?*. The harrowing Sp0. 1 broken, We loved her while 1 correspondent performed ' 'ove "er 8l'"* l?vcd us wli ?n tip's situation tnanv i ''e8'' * Wc are S11U' f'ial s''? 'ovei notdiatcbed at all, and I l'ie',#r ,,ew condition, tw as to do lit tie damage, higher and s.iil higher in thu 1 : was plowed the second i'lc'avol,s' we feci her pull. ll i ire turned up to the in- ? *l 18 conscietiliousnc mid heat, and a large ' u,i<i chmcnt of the better world 11> hatched, to ?ho great ' We 8"^'1?01,0 (,f 'l',e powers of i nbcr." | to come'?we, are drawn by In Wm. Shisn, jr.. that blissful centre of Chris-lb >>/ Co., Ohio. j Christian aspiration. She is wit ? ? | and attracted bv gentle influence nckca. Those *? Iks have tending? (Jod forbid that we si 10 ii fall, had better do it ceive ouiselves 1 we ate niovip 11 of the leaf will allow, , her peacelul home, with the pi w; tig reasons, viz; First j the same glorious companiotishi vo become more compact For years previous to her < th tir roots before winter j she was a Christian of tbo high* an it would otherw ise if ! I bough not fifteen, she hud ina er. Second, any prepc- menu in the divine life that sha ng, or any defence against I maturer vears. I i.usually an r winter enemies, can be nature, grace had eminently rei t Soroughly made than , loveliness, ller religion had i is st it in with more inten ; cations, but whs simplicity in Ci t.bei field mice destroyed sitting of filial tru-t and'filial r * worth of fruit trees.? ! She seemed to us like ?-n? bcloti thai there has been any better sphere, hut, sent to abi?h n muural world to dimin , f>>r a brief period, that we migli )f tJie vermin during the I good x btunan being could b rflfi ire, the coining win i world. Her mission ended, she rert i, and tlie snow doep ' lv withdrawn from a condition t ?lv ?xp?et a re. occurrence bad signally exemplified the pc j simj.le faith to purify her effect i.u.v K?s.? A correspondent re,d0r 'u*r cheerful under in my >8.) jVeirs. says: ! don and mucli ftiitferiug. ago*J had a leaking 'L.' i A little more than four yeai storm drove its waters I out of out sight. It doth ?ntf msition of four pounth appear to 11s w hat she is, \\ 1:j it I iaseed oil, ond ounce : s<>t'n H"d enjoyed ? With wbot hot -with 11 brttsli to the become acquainted ? \\ hat alt (/ jatiaed the main house. ',HS s'">l "iade ? \\ hat are Ik (I since. I then recent j ? Let us patiently wait a po titrion to mv neighbor, ' >Nt3 shall know at!. Jlhiran window which] ? ?? II 8 applied it, and the ! Apology Makiug t hjis always proved a 1)r. Franklin, we are told, In I servant who was never in the wr< unit ksowiko.? I 11 ieil j iavt, the device to which the sr lie fit with a few potatoes sorted to cover up his deficiencei reive months since I saw too much for the philosopher, tanner stating the great friend/ was his filial reply, '\ at tender! mi experiment must part, I never knew a 1 Jade in |^ie previous sea i was good at an excuse, who wa d in inserting a pea in anything else.' rod planting the potato i There is a great danger !e->t w *y. The result, he sta- 1 vhiiU of the Most High should y iehl of peas and aspleil- 1 a similar system of evasion in !< ?es, hut tiio most impor chargo of their duties to him. h c en tiro freedom of po- | less with our lips, it i* true, pen 1 ?e, while all those plan enough ; but when our, hearts I way in the same field ward to follow oOr tongue it is 1 v deteriorated. T was 1 cover of some dexterous apoloj -ement to try the experi- 'good' acts, as w*c call them, scale in my own garden mere shields to cover our bad. planted not quite half a have some darbug lust to grat net, in six ranks, cutting ponder over it, but before wo in each, and putting a pea to our hearts, we cover it up wi peas grew up and flour of spiritual obedience. The lust i. t .1 .1 _ ??' ? nai i uug mo poiH avarice. >? e may nave a snort, e perfectly Tree from nil ItonaMc way of making n larj f disease, and very line mouey. The way we excuse i in the same bed <1 >se for yielding is by a calculation o aether lot planted in the gree in which we will Lc ahht to 7 half of which were rot- with the money when obtain? >t?r readers to draw their when the act is consummated, < ? Letter in the Athicvl- excuse?*1 had at least tlie go< church in view.' soicpsuds, farmers should ( Hut no single ioMance, howt ?orth as much ?s a wheel- exhibit the evil c fleets of this manure. Every bucket What we ought to consider is ii uld be thrown where it influence or the character. Tit The garden is a good making man never meets his (j plnco in w hich to dispose communion. As there is nothii >ots of grapevines, young to repent of, p..) there is notion tg of the sort, will do as to be saved. Jlu slides past the mtratrJ. i ami narrow gate. Even if he t [> on iiKAvr.a.? I will give ter it, bo would be entirely until or what it may he worth. paniomhip with the inhabitants < I had a horse which had It would bo like the couuleifei y badly. I fed him cut has all his life been guilding b tl wet, I put wiili his endeavoring to set up his stock nation tallow the size of in the hiinf itself. NVhcn ho each mess, until I fed poor wares to the celestial mar Is. I know him three or can he he received among sainti the enre, hut heard of no grace? 'em hiin.? Country Gen- There is a habit of excuse: wards man, which brings down vakvxm utrrKiiinv.? i\ conreuip* 01 llie world j?* well i ipondent inform# ?# that pleasure of (Jod. Tlio young o#trum of n conn of wire idiiinks often to declare in (1 Ued metal on the thotild- presence tlio real cans.? of Kit it will keep liter candle formUy with worldly mage, and lire grease from gut-1 etay hwh) from the tln-alre, f<>i r~ IN ADVANCE nrkrts. N U M B IS Ii in. * wilh tlic thoatie or bull go?r, iie pi\< * | ! ! ?ome evasive reason. Alas, for the inju. O rv lie does both to himself and others' by refusing to tell tho truth ! Each subtor Seen I fuge to which H man thus resorts, tlo?s of faith 'ls 8',are '? low-.-r his moral tone, until at rated bv 'Mst *'10 ln,y simplicity and earnest cess a o lfi- _| 1 . . 11 i miners * Ul "lM euaiacier is ciesiroyeu. ne may summer j ascend llie hill b?.auiitully, it is true. but residence 's crawling under the yoke of his felluixt sea- ' 'owme,)- ^'s 'H one unworthy, villi bo!11 though unwilling servitude to .lie world a hue I U,K^ 100 u^leu practical treachery to my little ! h?RVen Greatly docs he belittle the I cause in which he professed to he ene"l>rompt ' k\>r the man of the world does not know which most to deepise the cause the min- j whicd acknowledges such defenders, or chii see I l'i0 defender w ho is nshatnccl of such a ! cause. lad 'I Let our prayer ever he, to be entire in >ro for 1 our pcuiteuce before God, atid brave in I our confession before man.? Episcopal .e angels ' border; it of our i*r o? ?ri? us. Thev ' A Beautiful Paragraph we robed The man who stands on his own soil, iket, and, who feels that bv the laws of the land in ft we put which lie lives?by the law of civilized :c. wlieie nations?he is the rightful and exclusive iprcsaive- owner of the soil he tills, is by the cotisliBut the , tutioti of our nature under a wholesome been re- ( influence not easily imbibed by any other suly, and , source. He feels, other things I cing e llie at- ; qunl. a man as a lord of the inanimate severed. , world. < >1 this great and wonderful tried, not , sphere which, fashioned by the ham] of icre ; we God, and upheld by Ills power, is rolling ile in the ! through the heavens, a part is his? his hus none from the centic to the sky. It is '.lie Rising space on which the generation before icnven of moved in its round of duties, and he f?o!s s not im himself connected by a link w ith those tss. As | who follow hint, ami to whom he is to for which j transmit a home, /'crimps a farm hits die world J come down to him from I.is fathers.? r toward They have gone to their hot home! hut hi hope, J Pecan trace their footsteps over the scenes th Christ, of his daily labor. The roof which shol?s, we are tors him was rated by those to whom ho lotild ! ' j owes his being. Sumo interesting domesg toward j tic tradition is connected with every enospect of 1 clocure. The favorite fruit lice was ninn I ' p. j ted by l?i-? father's hand. Through the leparlure, t fields lies the pnth to the viilage school ?. f jr type.? ; cnilier days, lie still hoars from tho de attain- open window the voice of the Sabbath tned ns ot hell which called his fither to the house liable by i oftlod; Tear at hand is the place where rfected her I his parents laid down to rest, and whore 10 coin pi; - : when his time shall come, he shall he laid lirist, con- ' by his children. These rue the feelings bedionce. j of llie owner of i/ie soil. Words cannot ging to a : paint them, they flow out of the deepest i with us foundations of the heart ; they are the t see how j life spring of a fresh, healthy and genera! 0 in this : national character.?Ed teard EerrcM. vhere she Bcautitul Comparison. At the recent nnmvetsarr of the AnierUons, and . . ' a priva- . ,cau Haptisl Publication Society, the liev. Mr. Williams of llaitimore made a most s she has i felicitous speech. .Minding to the hooks. not y^et I tracts, St;., of the Society, and to show ,,| what their publications were designed to ainmcDls ' accomplish, he related the following as ?r enjoy an illustration : litt'e and A nian once stood beneath rv tree, and i in its branches above saw two birds,which from their actions, seemed to be in great 1 distress. He presently discovered a nest, ad onco a . ,rom w 11 As heads of several little ,\t birds were protruding with open mouths, irvant re- r?Ct,i\c their Accustomed nourishment. 1 became ^ *?!,ke was winding its way slowly to \lv good : w;,r(l little family, and just as it had ou and 1 I approached 6o near as to whet its tongue man who 1 H moment before pouncing upon its prev. s '?ood at ono l',e Parent birds came soaring, on j rapid winjj^ bearing in its beak a leaf, tho ser- i whieb it quickly deposited across its resort to i young, and then flcv.' to its mate upon the dis Hn adjacent limb, wliero (lie two sat with Wo con- apparent unconcern. The leaf as the litentiallv speaker said every farmer knew, was poi move f??r son lo l'ie frr>ako ; hut tho bird and the under the j make J?n?w this by instinct, and no soongy. Our er had the latter discovered tho leaf than are often 'l tended from its murderous design with W'c |U;iy alt possible haste. ify. Wo ' ' ',0 p?>"t tintural liistorv involved vijc it in- I 'n ''* * 1S 1,1 worth repealing ; tho ili an act , application of the anecdote was simply may l>o i l'l>* but ones. ! We, it was said, had tens of thousand 'e sum of I of btt'a birds all around us exposed to ourselves l',e sn:,kos f)> temptation, and the leaves f tlic de- lbe books which oursociotv is publishdo good ' *n?' were the antidote recommended to d. Then "bield diem from the dangers with which eomes the '^ey were constantly threatened. I Ppayeil?Prayer is a heaven to the jver, can slop wrecked man, an anchor to them that habit.? are sinking in the waves, n stuff to the is general limbs that totter, a mine of jewels to the e excuse poor, a healer of diseases, ntr.l a guatdirod in fill an of healih. Prayer at once secure* ng in him ' the continuance of our blessings, and g in him dissipates tire cloud of our ealaniites.? i straight O blessed prayer! tlron art the unwearied Irould en- conqnerer of human woes, tlie linn foun t for jo?w- : dalioii of human happiness, the source of of heaven, ever-enduring joy, the mother of philos ter, wlio phy. The iiihii who can pray truly, use coins, j though languishing in extremest indigence in trade , is richer than all beside ; whilst the bring* hit wretch who neter bowel the knee, ket, how through proudly seated as monarch of all i saved bv nation*, i? of all men the moat destitute ? Chry*o*tom. making to on it tho , A Mother waa hugging and kitting a \h the dia- 'four year old,' when the exclaimed ? Christian 'Charley what doe* make you ?o sweet ?' to world's Charley thought a moment, and liavipf i non c??n- been told that he was made out of (be He may ground repled?'I think another, OnJ iuataoce, must have put a little (linger in the dnaL lie fall* in eti't rMi 1' 1 * :?!(Dm 9 t TrfW