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I .. B ? j?* ..Jgjtv the fancaster feiflex. ?2 PER ANNUM Bis willi the woiiticn of Mat pausing duy. IN ADVANCE a jfamiiy null }'.imiiuu iJiuiajiujirt?Bruutril ta tin Arts, jrtiraM, I striata, ftinrniiau, Agritalto, Satrrunl Suipruntttitnts, jtaign anil Jlamrstic ijrms, anil tjif jUlnrkrts. VOLUME V J J. LANCASTER, C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPT- atfl. la/wT Mtrt ^dftrq. The Firm Banfc. Supposed to have been written by Rev. 'Rowland Kill, at a time when public credit i n Great Hiiiain wan shaken by thu failure of several Ranks. J ha\c n never failing bank, A more (than golden store ; No earthly bank is half so rich, Ilo\v can I then be poor ! *Ti? when my stock is spent and gone, And I without a groat, I'm glad to hasten to my bnuk, And heg a little note. Sometimes my banker smiling says, Why don't you oflener come ? And when you draw a little note, Why n.ot n larger sum ! Why live >o niggardly and poor! * Your bank contains a plenty ; Why come and take a one yound note Wl ..... v - * iuiKiu unvu a iwemy 5 Yen, Iwcnlj thousand ten tiuic* told la but a trilling hiiih. To what your Father linn laid up, Secure in Christ his Son. Since then my banker is no rich. , I have no cause to borrow ; I'll Ii\o upon tny cash to-day. And druw again to-morrow. I've been a thousand times before, And never was rejected ; Sometimes my banker gives me more Than asked for or evpected. Sometimes I've felt a little proud, I've managed tilings no clover; Dill nh, bclore the day is gone I've felt as poor as ever. Sometimes with blushes on my face, Just at the door I stand ; ! know if Moses keep ifle back, I surely must be damned. Should all the bunks ol Kngland break. And Carolina's smash, Bring in your notes to Zion's bank, Yo?,'ll surely have your eaah. And if you have but 0110 imall note, Fear net to bring it in ; Come boldly to the bank of Grace, Tho Banter is within. All forged nobs will bo refused, Man-merits are rejected ; '^'here's not a single note will pass 'That God has not accepted. *T?s only ihosc beloved, by God, Redeemed bv precious blood, That ever had a note In tirino? Those ur?! the gifts of (jod. Though thousand ransomed souls inay s?y Th*y linve no note* at ?!l, Because thuv feci the plague of sin. So ruined by the fall. This bank U full of precious notes, All signed and sealed and Iree, Though many doubting souls may say, T|iere is not one for me. Bn?e"nnbclief will lead the child To say what is not irue; I tell the soul who feels self-lost. These notes belong to you. Tbe leper lud <f little note? "l.ord if tbou wilt, you caij." Tbe bunker eniihed this little" note, And healed the sickly man. We rend of one yoqng man indeed Whose riches did abound ; Hut in the banker's book of grace This man was never found. Put see the wretched dying thief Hang by the bunker's aide ; iie cried, ''Dear Lofd remember me lie got his cash?end died. ???i?i????????i Swxi.i.qw!ko Nkkdi.?a.?Yesterday morning a little child in this city commenced crying without *ny apparent cause, and kept it up until Ute in ibd evening, when its cries were succeeded by screams, Tbe parents of tbe child looked into its inoutb ami discovered near its throat a needlo sticking into its tongue, in such a position tlisl it was evident tluil it had i .1 . i tm _ m s _ come ir?>m ui? aiomacn. trie moiner then remembered that a day or two bo foro the had given her work basket, con twining a needle book, to the child to play with. An examination revealed the fact that the need lee were gone. An emetic waa given the child, and it haw vomited several needle* Iroin ita alomacli, which qjav or may not be all. At *ny rate, the child is better to day. This incident shonld serve a* a caution to tpolher* to keep such thing* out of the reach of their children.? JJnrjtford Prut. Up jumped the Devil, looking solemn, And set these linee, \ To BH this onlnm ' Mrrtrk #tonj. |? T HE SPY. !j A TALEO K L A K KVE K I K. I |, BY II IS I (?KICl'S. Tell her of him whose lonely grnvo Hluill inect her dark eye never, ,| His pillow in the stormy wave, 1 ,, The deep his home forever. J v A buzz went through tho American j camp, ami the scantily dressed soldiers p were seen passing fioiti one tout to an i b other; the whole exhibited a scene of I ? confusion and anxiety, and the deep : f* touches of interest which dwell upon the | ' countenance of officers and men, gave ; w evidence that a more than common saori I w lice was expected from one or from all. ; I' The ''Star Spangled Banner" waved j proudly in tlie breeze, and the insignia of i 1,1 command arranged in due order before { hi I one of the tents, pointed out the soidierI like habita ion of the chief warrior. hi The general sat in his tent, his head hi I was pensively reclining on Ins band, and 1,1 : lie mused on the asperities of a soldier's k fortune, and perhaps in his reverie, he I" heard die tones of his sweet Clara's voice P as she sang : h ' Rest, warrior, rest." ?; He was in that kind of reverie, from ; which it is painful to be aroused, and the j Ti indulgence of which is marked with ail j the "joy of grief." j Geo: go Wort ley entered. A deep ' gloom was on his countenance, indicative of feelings which brooded over some j"! ! blighted hope?over some foud remeiii brance winch had heen ail sunshine, but ' w hich now darkened on his sonl. He en 'M it-red, hut without any military formali | ties, and was kindly received by Ins su ' I perior officer, wiio never considered his 'M presence an inirusion George's counten ance assumed, if possible, a deeper shade of melancholy as lie opened the conver 1 ' HMlion, by informing '.lie General that lie 1,1 offi-red to go on the proposed adventure. The general answered : 1,1 George, there are many wbofu we can l(J I better spare. An giimuiiioiis vlra.b nj waits You if discovered ; should you re1 -'..r :11 .i-i " I nil u \ uu ?iii II?itu u?u iiouur uuu 10 ' a spy.' * J,; ! 'It is my wish to go,' rejoined Wortley. j j ' 1 licse I>rave tcllou* have something to ! bind thein to llie wuild. \ <11 know my j n: tale. Misery has made me diink deep of t-' j his cup, and a broken heart little reeks of joy or life. All things are ready and I j P1 go to night If I fall, give a tear to my ! es memory, but lei.my fate be unknown.' vv As he spoke he extended his hand to the General, who rising from his seat, shook a tear from his eyelid and fervently | grasping George's hand, with a soldier's 10 ; farewell greeting, said : 'Good bye, George, and may God bless | j you.' 1,1 i The American encampment was but a 10 few miles west of the town ot ilutfalo, t I and commanded an unobstructed view of ; w that part of Lake Krie. The morning 1 previous, at the sun arose 'slow wheeling 11 from the deep,' and rolled bac'l the curb , Cl ing vapors from the bo^om of the lake, several ve>sels bearing the English llag H< rode at anchor in full view, with stately l,: pride, and looked like spirits of the waler. I Cl It was known to the American General l' 1 t'?Ml ihey bore important dispatches, and ; tie thought it would fHcilitato his cause, ! and perhaps snve bis nriny from meditai led danger lo become acquainted wilii the ei designs of the opposing enemy. j *-'1 The vessels all r?de in full view, and !ll the breeze of the evening frequently bote w ' lo tli4 ill |>rovided Americans the sound j 111 of uncouth mirth and wanton revelry.? i j The delay of the vessels was occasioned 1 : by a desire of the British officers to learn ' the situation of the American nrtuy; hut i the disposition of the no n by the coin- I mandant was such as rendered every at ' tempt of that kind impracticable. To propose himself as an adventurer, to discover the designs of the enemy by , visiting the vessels, ??* the object of i c< VV-jrtley's visit to the General's tent ? p Gibers were willing to undertake the per ilous task, but Georgo claimed it as a I .* 11 - __ II .. _ tL _ -.lll.L I . iiiftucr ui ri^ui n* wen n* <\ invur, which el vim, however, reluctantly allowed, j t. As he departed from the General's tent, | v an unusual tire beamed from his hereto- ' si fore tranquil eye, and an unwonted glow c> threw a It {lit upon his wan and pallid features. Ho felt the warm blood rush to hi* heart, and invigorate hin whole gys tein. He was then happy, but why, he it knew not. He hastened to his tent to g ' tnake preparations fur hia night's ndven- !> ; aire. His companions :n rank sighed as w he passed by, and the old soldier turned tl I away, and lie thought that perhaps ere. * , long the muffled drum might give to the j a j mournful gale the tidings of hta igi.iinin- si i ious fate. . it The sun had gone down, and but one t I lone and lovely star shone amid the dyi ing glory of the West. Wort ley passed tl from bi% tent, disguised in tho habit of a n British SAilor, and as lie supposed went a 1 forth alone The hanks of the lake were e high and abrupt, and the waves dasher] and foamed with sullen voice at their j rocky base. h lie followed tho winding margin nf the t banks until he came to a small rivulet t that dashed down a deep, abrupt and a narrow ehannel, which, at the bottom, /' | formed a still and eeclnded bay, and in which was coneoaled the boat that was ii 0 o bear liim to tlio enemy's vessel. He reuded Ins way down the rugged descent nd emerging from tlie darkness that always reigned there, he came to his hoat eacefuUv moored in the romantic little ay. and in a few minutes he saw some* lung in the further end of the h at,which ad hitherto remained unnoticed. The bought Hashed on his brain that he had Ire uly been betrayed, and returning the agger to bis sheath, lie drew a pistol i oni Iris left hreast and took deliberate j im, but hisfital design was arrested by j lie human being (if ho deserved the ante), crying out iu a most unearthly oiee: 1 'Don't kill poor Nab." George recognised in tlio voice and [ eison <>f the speaker, who immediately , < ecame elect-, a poor hunchbacked boy j ii whom lie bad conferred many lolling t ivors. His fiist impulse was to turn and I ave him on shore. Gut the moon, which j as just beginning to shine in tlio east j < ouid have betrayed his visit to the litish vessels if detained by a inoveineut i f this kind. The boy returned to bis I i fuelling position, and tlio frail boat was ! > lunched on the sw elling waves. j. The night bad advanced, and was clear i nd beautiful. It was such a night as j n astrologer would have chosen to read j < i the thousand stars the fate of man ind. Silence dwelt on the blue heaving iMOin of the billows?the God of lie i ose remained reclining on his couch of irgeifulness, and : No longer the joy of the sailor hoy's bieust Was heard iu hi* vri<lcly I treat lied number* ; I lie sea bild had tlown to her wave girdled liest, The fisherman sunk to hi* slumbers. Ho had proceeded about half way, | si III ll IH usual ulooinv rellei-timi vliun ' . D J ... I , strung from Lib trance ot feeling, he lai?l j ib hand upon his dagger and sternly i red the being coiled in the boat. To go ; i <ck without accoiiiplibliing the object nf , ib visit was to brand himself with the j ( litliel of a coward. Here his feelings | | L'caine so excited that l.e exclaimed : 'Death sooner than infatuy !' His next thought as a matter of self- . , deuce was to consign the poor hoy to ' ( ie mercy of the waves. The hunchback hoy, with a voice and I inner of touching tenderness, peculiar i I imself, said : I Until.- \* l?t Mr. Wortlev go with , jbojy auioiig them lirit'sli i' Wortlev hung Ins head to think he id meditated an injury to a being who ! It so deeply interested in his welfare.? j, e determined to proceed to the vessels, ' { ;d trust his life to ibo discretion of his I impanioii. j lie ian his boat under one of the most i rihcipal vesiels, secured it so n* not to ! | tcite suspicion, mounted the side, and | | ith a beating heart trod the proud decks i a British man-of war. lie ininglcil with the dusky forms that ! altered around the masts ; and listened | > their simple tales of love which had ' essed them beneath an other sky. Ilis . art fluttered wildly as he heard thesuaen from Ins "guarded way" proclaim | i the rising moon : 'Above?below?good night. All's j . ; lite litutchback instinctively stole away d concealed himself in some retired inter. The sailors were reposing in their 1 tin mocks, and only now and then perms weie seen passing to and fro from one irt of the vessel to another. The warm lood bound* d to Wortlev'* bead?burn J for it moment, and then rushed back Itis almost unpalpitating heart, as he ! stened to the Inst dying pensive cadence 1 F a female voice. It was such as recall- ' I to his mind a sound which had ble?sI him in a happier day. He approach1 nearer ^ho spot, when the strain was jain tesMrcd, and the following verse j a* sung to an air of the sweetest mel- I itcholy : I'll never weave for tltce a song, Nor wildly touch the warbling lyre, , Words nmy bo false or taken, Anil music's notes too soon rxpire, ' Words nmy be false, but <)! believe There yet is oue will not deceive; Will not deceive." *Tii}she !' exclaimed Wortley, and over ' l .. i.:. r..? i: i- - .i jibiu i#v >*>' lie i<; mo lace and continued tile exclamation : 'My God! Maria Woodville I' 1 lie female fell into Ins arms, ami was uiirely unconscious while lie impressed a rvent kiss upon lier pallid cheek, iier | igu? and recollection returned together; lie burst from his embrace and exclaim- 1 I : 'Fly, dear Wortley, fly ! he .is here.' She instantly retreated into the cabin. George was aroused from the inaction { ito which lie w?h thrown by her lan- ' uage and the suddenness of her flight, . y receiving a slab from behind, wlricli ' as only preveti'ed from. being fatal by | 10 point <>f the weapon glancing outrardly from the ribs, lie wheeled around nd in closing jn upon the cowarilly asassin, wrested his sword from Mm, placed . beneath his fool, and snapped it in wain. lie was about to throw the pieces into he lake, when ho saw the enameled nine glanciu * in the moonbeams. With , voice ot haired, higliteued to frenzy, he xclaiined : 'Mac Dole! Cursed villain!' lie sprang, as ho tnoke, toward him, >ut M ?c Dole eluded his grasp and ran o the cabin of the Admirsl, hut soon re umed to the deck with a command to arest Capt. George Wortley of the American Army. The command *?s immediately put 1 nfo execution, and Wortley gloomily ro feigned himself to his fate, knowing that j the man who had barely separated him j from tho woman of his choice, w??;j ;-i j umpli that lie perished by the meanest ! felon's death. George vYortley and Martha Woodville were the pride of two different villages in j the interior of the United States. Their tale was one, perhaps, of too frequent occurrence. They saw each ether, loved, and were engaged?ai.d that engagement was approved by a mother ever solicitous for her daughter's happiness, ller father had rejoined the stars, and none had a right to interfere aught againn ih?s? congenial spirits. The bridai day was ap. pointed, and time, smoothing his wrinkled brow leaned on the anchor of hope, and smiled benignly upon the bliss of human hearts. The s^tig which Martha had been singing on board the vessel was one penned by Wurtley in the days of his happy courtship. Her guardian, Mac l>ole, was a person whom she had been taught to respect and look up to with reveranc-, for he had ever been considered a virtuous amiable ami worthy man. lie vio lently opposed \N ortley's suit, ami succeeded in extorting a promise from Martha not to we?l without his consent. He had other objects in view than Martha's happiness He had sold his honor, and those talents which should have been devoted to his country's good, for Hritish gold, and that powet demanded some one as hostagi?, and he would not turn from his course of villainy.* As such a hostage he delivered up Martha Woodville to men whose honor he knew not. Such was the cause of her presence on hoard the enemy's vessel. George Wortley was tried as a spy, before men whose minds had been embittered against him by the tales of Mac Dole. He did not dent the charge, and was sentenced to the 'yard arm,' with a respite till the next morning ai. sunrise. Martha, w ho had broken from the hold jf her guardian, ran upon the deck and fell iu Wortley'o arms, shrieking, 'Save him ! save bun!' Mac Dole, who had pursued, was in ho act ol forcing her from the embrace :>f her injured lover, when lire Admiral, with a voice of sternness exclaimed, 'Mac Dole, beware!' The baseness of Mac Dole burst upon iiiiu hi uuiv, itnu ue veil uiiii >voriiey was I ? ? roi^.^l ntuii. 11 o af \ilm lliu ! history of Ins life, which was told with us hllie warmth as posaihlo. The o!J Admiral grasped his hand, pitied, and , died a tear for Wortley's f.ite, knowing j that he could not avert it. At the strong solicitation of her lover, and the sympathetic good old Admiral, i Maltha permitted herself to bo removed I Lo a distant vessel, for grief had rendered | liar nearly passive, (ieorgc was left to ( prepare for his fate, and leceiveu all the J kit:dties?;he could have wished in his situation?one of the state rutins having been allotted to him. The day on board the Admiral's vessel passed away in silence, for everything like unbecoming mirth was repressed. The night had come on, and Mac Dole was sullenly pacing the deck, for there he knew he was hated and despised,all hough on the vessel lie wore a -sword, the em Idem of an officer ; lie dared not own his native land. The hunchback boy, who had witnessed everything that had transpired ; still kept himself concealed, grasping a rusty ; kuile that lay on the deck, and which InuJ been in Use b) the sailors in cleaning their 1-. I. I I VI 1,1. 1 ! iisii, ruMiKii upon aidc i n?ie, nun a fatal slab, and with a hysterical laugh heaved hill) into the dark blue waves. He then quickly descended the side of the vessel, ami with feelings of joy that he could not repress, loosened the boat and in an instant was under the windows of the state room where SVortley awaited his coming doom. Finding the casement would not give way to a gentle pressure, he raised one of the oars hM dashed the window to pieces. George sprang and hailed the hunchhack as his deliverer, lowered himself into the boat, and with a healing heart directed their course to tho American shore.? They had proceeded hut a short distance when one of th? smallest guns in the Admiral's ves?>el tired to leeward. Wortley's flight had been discovered, and ill the boats were lowered and in bot pur suit- Every nerve was strained by tho hardy teamen,who seemed faithful to their luty, and tlio I>?ii?111 stnrli^Iit of the evening soon pointed out tbo boat of Wortley and his hunchback companion, moving comparatively slow to the land of their fathers and liberty. A volley of musketry mas fired from the pursuers, when the poor hunchback boy fell struggling into tbe boat. Wortley stood up determined to die the death of a soldier, that his memory should not bo br.stined with the ignominy of a felon's fate. The seamen, as if conscious of his intention, threw in another volley ; when n nierc'ng groan came from the boat and Wortley fell back'while his blood darkened in the billows' The shattered boat rapidly Ailed with water, and soon sank down to moulder with the ae.i covered weeds, Brief was the close and tragical tho result. A storm came rapidly on, the heavens darkened to inky jetness, i|. lume-i at intervals, by vivid flashes of lightning, while the thunder rolled in space and the rain descended in the majeoty of a deluge. Pursued and pursuers were speedily er.gulphed in the surging waves?and lost forever! Anon the moon arose as a7er?the god of repose reclined again on his couch of forget fulness, and the proud hlua waves of Krie rolled on -brightly and gloriously as of old. Vat Wortley survived I Bleeding and exhausted fruin his wou he fell back only to he homo on thet pest hillows when barge sank bene him lo the rock hound shore, where was soon picked up in a state of in^e hilily by a *traoggling scout of the An can soldiers, w ho had been sent out their commander to ascertain the ca of firing from the enemy's vessels, afar on I he lake, whi!? lie made prept lions for the disposition < f his army, case a sudden emeigct.cy should reqi their service anJ bloody action with invading foe. The intelligence whjvh Wort ley ** ?'" in his perilon< adxcnture proved of mence advantage to the American cat It enabled the brave and gallant Si (now the renowned ami war-worn gen al) and Commodoie l'erry lo strike d< sive hit)ws for "Free Trade and Sail< Rights," on Iain] and lake, and gave newed glory to the "Ranner of the Si and Stripes." l'erry "met the ene and they were ours." Martha NVoodville was restored to arms of her gallant lover, Capt. Wortl and blissful w ithout alloy lias been tl wedded union. Be Kind To Your Mother. 11V LIKt.EN UKUCK. Charlie, Charlie, mother is calling y Don't you "hear her I" "Yes , hut I don't mean to go. Sli al ways calling me for something or ot 1 can't get a minute to myself." "Why! Charlie (Jieeii, ain't you asln ed of yourself lo speak so. Mother w? you to go and rock the baby. I've go lfO down lo the mwi i.lll'"> " o f V ? "Well, I won't rock tlie baby, so t!i now. I bate tliat everlasting cradle; I'll go to the post ottice." "No, I mid going myself. Hut, ] bad boy, I guess- you'll bo sorry for I conduct if mother were to die ; and may iLe to* tug lit." "Old she won't," replied Charlie, d ded!y,.as bis sister turned to go out Little Johnny who hail been busily pi ing near the front door, heard this win satton; and bis termer little heart t< alarm at the idea that his beloved mot might die. "I'll go nod rock the ha1 said lie, throwing down bis nlaythi and skipping ' Mother,' he said, in his sweet, voice, "may I rock Walter. I'll iry tc it very "well, indeed.' "Thank you, my little son,' replied mother, 'jou are a good boy; but wli is Charli.e? I called fur him.' "Ho is playing, ma, and don't waul come. Can't I rock the baby as weli lie can ?' 'You shall try, my dear, but you hardly large enough to manage the gi crvdle.' Hut Johnny did manago it very ? Ills tiny hands worked hard to keep cradle from slipping out of its place; i lie made u j"g.j"g, j>'g? s? steadily t the baby slept a good long time, and mother was very much pleased. I took her dear little Johnny upon her I and kissed him ever so many times, c ing him her 'comfort.' and telling I that he would certainly be a man if ever lived to grow up. i.i lummy vuii very nappy; and w lie had leave lo run out lo plav, Ins In feltVv light that ho found it impossihh keep his feet upon the ground, hut w leaping and skipping along at an asl ishiug rate. Hut the naughty and selfish Charles 1 passed a most uncomfortable fureQOot lie knew it was very wicked for bin do as ho had done, and then his I brother's different behaviour had ill j him feel ashamed of himself, lie I roved aoout the garden and through fields seeking pleasure, hut had fo , very little. As is usual with person his state of mind, he had done sev j exceedingly unkind actions. Ill at < I with himself, ho had 'spit out his s| i upon all that chanced to como its way ? had stoned the poor kitten ! chickens, had hurt the good dog 1 and had given the tail of the hor , twitch which hnd caused llio old ful ; to kick violently. If liis heels had Master Charlie's head, he would n ! have done more mischief. When the hell rang for dinner, uneasy hoy went slowly towards house, He would not have gone, had n )t felt very hungry. He walked r into the diibng loom and was goinj take his piace at the table without w ing his face and h inds, or brushing thick, curly hair. "Charlie, my son. I am astonished you should show yourself at tho t in that pl'ght. Co and wash your said his mother mildly. She had heard his naughty words in tho inori and had forgotten that ho did not < when called.. 4Oh ! dear l' said Charlie, crossly 1 ing hack his chair and rushing out c room. He acted as naughtily ai dared, atl dinnertime. He was a bad, tri-ublesonie boy, all the afteri and when he went to bed that nigh did so without kissing his mother j: ' bye, or saying his prayers?and a w , long, miserable day ho had passed ju consequence of his had conduct in morning. That was a day he nevei got, and one which gave him deep to renu mber to the latest day or his When he awoke the next mono was to hear that nis mother, whom, withstanding his ungrateful bchavio dearly loved?that dear kind, mi whose cheek he had the night befoi : fused to kiss, had died in the night. iids in h moment her heart stopped beating, em- and she hud gone from her children foraih ever. ! he | Oh ! then how sorry was Charlie that ? nsi I he hud not minded his mother, and been a ler J good boy upon the last day of her pre- \ by j cious lite. But it was too late now; all -t use the poor lad's tears and remote availed but | nothing?his mother could not speak to ira him, and fell him that he was forgiven, j in He knew that he should never again ? lire listen to her dear, loving voice, or meet the j the glance of her soft mild eyev?his j mother was dead, dead, and he had r.o.1 . tioas f.t.ij- in Lm - ~~~r ?!?- rl im- I that he had seen her in life, ise. My litt'e children, whose place had w :ott you rather stand in when your mother l' iei? dies?the place of Charlie or Johnny ? n sci I Oh ! how very thoughtless little boys, >r's j and girls loo, are in their treatment of re- | their dear, dear mothers. If lliey only b ars could refute, as they can who are mother- o my I less, what a dreadful thing it is to have 1 the mother die, they certainly would try the j to he more dutifhl and affectionate, to f, ev, ' that beat, most tender of all human e icir i kindred. Obey your mother, my children: be j always kind to her; that you may not a have bitter remorse to sting you when. I you can see her no more. Why not To-Day ? v ou" I Reader, you hope, very likely, to U ? . | real Christian some time, ami tit to go to u 18 heaven. . You hope to repent and believe < i on Christ, and have a good hope before | I you die. But why not to day V am- j What is to prevent yt>? ? Why should , '*"8 j you wait any longer ? Why not this f 1 lo j day awake and call upon your God, and resolve tli^t you will sleep uo longer ? I ere | set before you Jesus Chr st the Saviour, j, 11 j who died to make atonement for sinners, ^ I Jesus who is able to save to the utterf . : most, Jesus who is willing to receive.? 118 | The hand that was nailed to the cross is B .1 held out to you in mercy. The eye that ^ . I wept over Jerusalem is looking on you a LC1 | with pity. The voice that has said to ' | many a wanderer, "Thy sins arc forgiven,' is saying to you, 'Come unto me.' Go ! 1 e; j to Je>us first and foremost, if yon would v , know wrlytl step to take. Think not to v , wait for repentance and faith and A new i t ' ' heart, but go to llitu just as you ate.? f I O, awake thou that steepest, and Christ r ' will give tuee ngui. ny not iu uay s so.1 ' bun, moon and stars, are all witnessing ; ' ? I against you ; they continue according to < , I God's ordinances, and you are ever transI i grossing them. The grass, the birds, the ";re | very worms of the earth, are all witness- g ing against you ; they fill their places in t j j creation, ami you do not. Sabbaths and g 119 | ordinances are continually w itnessing ai gains', you : they are ever proclaiming are j that there is a God and a judgement, and e' J vou are livirg as if there were none.? *| II The tears and pray ers of godly relations I " j are witnessing against you ; others are | sorrowfully thinking you have a soul, J 1 l though you seetn to forget it. Tlie very i . : uravestuiies you see every week are wit...,e nesting against you : they are silently < 5 ie i witnessing that 'life is uncertain, time is t l?P, i . ... .. - s-- 1 hI1 snuri, me resurrection is vet to come, lire I tin) i is al ',MI,d-' All, a"' spying, j jlo j awake, awake, awake ! O, reader, the ) ( ; time past inxy surely suHico you to liavo j j hen I Awake to be wise. Awake to bo ' ..... i SH,e- Awake to be happy. And why ! , ; t) not today ; out ' " ? 0I1" j From the St. Louis Observer. , I I , Baptism Slightly Overdone j Not long since, near where 1 now live, :' , lo ' there was a certain young man taken I ' iule sick, whose sickness was thought to be I isJo ,,,Uo death. This youth, from some 1 |lrtj cause, had not been baptized; and, having i l|t0 < been brougbt up under tho immersion, or und Campbellite influence, the question arose, , jn ; What must be dune ] Well the first thing er?| j he must believe is, that Jesus Christ is , ease 1 11,0 ^?" {' God. This, I presume, was pile' "ol vf'r>' lo Kct 'dm to believe, bo hjs cause he bad no reason to dispute it; not i HIKj knowing much about it, inferring from >on 'l's past life, which went to show that he s<) ;i ( had never troubled himself much about How whether Jesus Christ was the Son of God, ] hit or not. evpr But, now, to make a long matter short, j his friends concluded they would not at- 1 t),0 tempt to go to tho river Jordan, but sub- | the fctituto a rain-trough, that was in the i ho . neighborhood, and heat water for tho iglit occasion. S?, they got tho trough, comfy t0 nienced heating tho water and filling it ash- "P? (something liko butchers do about his Christmas times;) hut it commenced leading: and. not likelv to make the that Paired speed, they began to stir in meal able 10 "t0!* leak, until they made what self* weavers call sizing. Well might Jereminot all exclaim : "They have forsaken me the ling, fountain of living waters, an?l hewed :omo them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can bold no water!" However, they put ; him in and took him out'the same day. f the And, a9 I have now stated the facts as , lie they were, [ leave it for your readers to | V(.rv decide whether this subject was xiznl ioon, or bapHud ? v. v. m. 00,<' A lipsey Irishman leaning against a 0 ,e' lamp-post, as a funeral procession wss ** 'n passing by, was asked who was dead.? ' * 10 "I can't exactly say sur," said he, " but I ?.r presume it is the jintleman in the coftin.N pain ' ' ng it - It is stated, upon the authority of those not ' who have heard it, that a car, when her ir he ! tall is pinched between a door and post, other utters the vowels a, e, i, o, u, with great e ro distinctness. If the injury is prolonged,she Yes,! g: w, and y, ?! ?. # I NUMBER 33. Modesty is a handsome dish cover, vliicli makes us fancy there must be someing very good beneath it. This year the harvest moon occurs in Vugust, rising for six successive nights at early the same hour. When Lady Holland wanted -to get id of a fon. she used to sav : 'I beg your pardon, but I wish yoa rould sit a little further off; there is soraebinir in your handkerchief which I do ot like.' Why is the map of Alabama like the arrel of a soldier's musket? Because ne end has a bay on it. Thou can6t not joke au enemy into a ieud, but tbou may est a friend into an neroy. firone a ducking.' is the term used for , young 'feller' in Arkansas, who goes to et up with a young woman. Texas derives its name from an Indian rord, signifying beautiful. When the day 'breaks' what becomes )f the fragments ? A pleasant wife is a rainbow in the sky when her husband's mind is tossed with itorn)s and tempests. The four great evils of life are said to le standing collars, stove-pipe hat, tight loots, and tobacco. 'Sir,' you are just like the motions of a log's tail.' 'How so.' 'Because you are , wag.' Mr. McTbeney, living five miles from Ceokuk, Iowa, lias a horse four years old ibich measures nineteen bands high, and veiglis one thousand six hundred and wenty five pounds. lie was raised in Jliio. \\ ii:.t weapen uoes a young lady relemble whose acquaintances pass her with>ut noticing her ? A cutlass. Joe Fuller says some young ladies are o artificial, that even in making love, hey use uone hut artificial flowers of peech. Refusing to pay your printer's bill and obhing a henroost are the same thing in Dutch, only a little differently* expressed. ??? A cotemporaiy, in noticing the appointnent c>f a friend as postmaster, says : If he attends to mails as well a? he loes to females, he will make a very attentive and efficient officer.' 'Come, Bob, how much have you clearid by your speculation ?' said a friend to lis companion, 'Cleared!' answered Bob with a frown; why, 1 cleared my pockets'.' 'Holla, Rifton, that's a pretty coat you lave on ; farmer's satin, is it not I' 'No, sir; no farmer satin this coat, I . :an tell you. I had it made for myself, ?nd got it new from the store.' Sxow Sqcalk in July.?The wife of George Snow, of Arkansas, gave birth to three children July 26lh. A Western editor having published a long leader on 'hogs,' a rival paper, in # mo same village, upbraids him for obtruding his family matters upon the public. '[ have turned many a woman's head,' boasted a young nobleman of France. 'Yes,' replied Talleyrand, *away from vou.' When is a clock on the stairs dangerous! When it runs down. What is the difference between a ship and a hen ! The ben lays one egg, and the ship lays to. 'Have you a sister? Then love and cherish her with a holy friendship.' If you have no sister of your own, we advise you to love somebody else's sister. A Match-making Macmink.?A fash. lonable mother with four marriageable daughters. If you love others, they will love. If you speak kindly to them, they will Fpeak kindly to you. Love is repaid with love, and hatred with hatred. Would you hear a sweet and pleasing echo, speak ; sweetly and pleasantly yourself. A lady, who was a strict obaerver of etiquette, being unable to go to church one Sunday, sent her card. The marriago of a'loved child may j seem to a parent a kind ot death. Yet therein a father pays but a just debt.? Wed'ock gave him the good gift; to wedlock, then, he owes it. An Irish attorney Mtys ; 'No printer should publish a death unleee apprised of I the fact by the party deceased.'