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9 ^ ? ? ^ -. . -,. -^---^--=^^--i ^ bm^ . ' v 'y' " !B^m " mmm^amm wmmm Jiw? m\ GRi^i^n^ j' V/.T. "An Mepeikieat. JoaFaal: For tie Promotion ot the Political, Social, igricnltnral and Commercial interests of the rSonth. - - jflhrwr, nr Aiftact vojl4} r rHT".. 1. "s.'.,.... yoirkvillie, s. ^.tecubsday, novembee ss. isbs.,,.. ;.; *,..,, -- .< -isto, 47 - ' " ' >> Li SZ i . ; ; -? :-.. ^ . ., m".n n . C|jTOr|!atir}L.; i? ^ ' Tin?' 6LD PHTWTBK. * * itf. w. Vctxsttl " A Printer stood at his cafe one night," la hia office dark and dreak, Aiui his vary sight wajs-dwn as the light Of the mouldy lamp hung sear.The wintry winds were howling without - And the snow failing thick aatf ftttt, But the Priu tor, I "trow, shook bis-toekh Of snow, And laughed at the shrieking blast ; > Me watched the hands of the clock creep round, Keeping time, with-his mail-like tick, In his pld rust-eaten stick. Mis haim were as whits as the foiling snow, And sUeatly. day-by day, * Helfeheld them with grief, like the autmaa leaf, One by one, "passing away." Time had cut with his plow-furrows deep in his brow, Ui9 cheek was fstered and thin, And hii long Rom^n tnse could almost repose Its htndwn his gray-beared chin; And with fingers long, as the hours stole en, - Keeping timeWith the ?lock's dull tielc, He gathered the type with a weary click, .... la the old rust-eaten flick. ?or many loag years, through joys -and through t?*r?, That old Printer's time battered face, So ghostly and Imo, wight and morn had been saen, . Earnestly bent o'er his ease. a fhw years more Death will lock vp his form, - And pvtTl to press in the mould,.' And a stone o'er the spot where obey lay him to rot, v M ? ' wiTI tell us hts natoe, and how ohl; dted hts nbmradee will light that old'lamp by his coee, And Jist to the clock's dull tick* As they set up his death, with a solemn click, In his (fid rust-enrteo stick. m????????dmaa % Stcrg far % fairies. THEJOURNEYMAN GENTLEMAN. Ooftway-ira? an oddity. He especially delighted in mysteries disguises.. Unexpected denouncements, intrigue, and romance generally. ~ ' ? 1 Uonsequenuy ue wasaiways $rj Bad scrapes, and?superfluous assertion ?there was alwqjs 'a lady in the oase.' This made him a bit of a misogamist?an amateur woman-hater. Yet for all he could not let the sex alone! A profound Jove.qf naUjxc and dissipation attracted Joe and myself to the little village of D , on the banks of that charming little atcoam, Erehwoo. We went to fish, to sketch, to see soeoery, end to drink; for, m Joe remarked, 'the waters of .the Erehwon possessed peculiarity refreshing qualities, ghen mixed with a little cogoac.' The afternpon of the second day of our sojourn found us seated upon a flower-spangled slope,, skirted By willows, whose gnarlecT roots were bathed in tl^ pellucid Erehwon. We had sought the spot tQ smoke, converse, and digest our somewhat elaborate dinner in peace and quiet, with tbe beauty of nature before our eyes. As is very apt to be the case when two young men get together, our talk was of woman. * Woman ! what an inexhaustible subject for speculation, conversation, writing, oratory, painting, sculpture, and matrimony! ?It*8 all gammon,' said Joe Conway; ?woroan don't appreciate cultivation, intellect, nor good fellowship. AH they look for ib wealth and position when they love. If they don't find those amiable qualities they won't Jove, and if a fellow hasn't got them be had better let the sex alone. It takes a guilded kev to unlock their precious little hearts.? That's so!' 'You are sadly mistaken, Joe,' said I, 'and j the worst of it is, you don't know it.. You are angry with the husband-hunters who have given you a chase, and revenge yourself by damaging the whole institution of dimity. You are wrong.. A man like you, young, rieh, and?well, yes without flattering I think I may say tolerably good looking, has no chance. You see only the designing ones, who ere bound to merry your bank-account in spite of yourself, and they play off their charms upon you ad nnuscum.' 'But where are the artless ones, who don't want money; who are willing to sacrifice themselves, and at that, for the sake of tender passion ?' They are modest. The braran-faced fortune-hunters crowd about you, and accustom you to being sought. The really good girls require seeking, and as that isn't in your line, you never know how many nioe women there are in the world? I'll tell you what Fll do,' cried Joe, starting up suddenly, and half choking himself with a mouthful of cigar smoke; 'I'll test that question. I'M do it here in this very place. I'll turn a mechanic, ignore my money and my family, make up to the prettiest, proudest girl in the village, and show you she won't marry me poor. Then I'll come out in my puissant to do that which my conversation and true colors, and show you that my cash is acquirements cannot begin to do!' 'What; marry her ? 'Not much ; make her ask me to, and then hiogb at her.' I confess I secretly hoped that Joe would Dot test the question He was a capital fellow, as rich in accomplishments and cultivation as in money. Now I knew very well that D contained some very charm ieg girls?daughters of retired sea-captains, merchauts, etc.?who, however much they might like a mechanic, would not see him. Ah coniraire, a young gentleman of wealth and position would probably prove very acceptable. But he was determined, and when I left for the city I left Joe arranging a chest of tools, and gettiug himself up iu a pair of blue overalls and a paper cap ! Joe bad a wonderful talentof doing everything tolerably well. He played upon a half a dozen instruments, could survey, had dabbled in the fine arts, understood short hand, a little surgery and medicine, was a finished jockey, a fair gardener, had built a fair bridge, written an- epic, and half-voted a pair of boots. " With these somewhat varied accomplish meDta he had no fears, of coarse; butthat J* *euld get on very well as a' carpebter. No ! one knew him at T) , and when he mtrodtrced himself to the '"boss' carpenter of the village; he succeed in persuading him fbit he was a journeyman of unusual talent ~ He received several coramlsrions" during the first fortnight of his experiment, bat on the whole ft was'rirthe* lucky "that he was hot eompeRed to subsist on the proceeds of bis labors, otherwise hemigh have found it j difficult to pay his board?especially as he commissioned me to send him some five dollars' worth of cigars every week. One day, after he had nearly exhausted his patience, and had done no end of plotting and planning in vain, the village carpenter asked him to undertake the restoration of a cornice on one of the oldest and most aristoCiptic houses in D I Joe agreed, and in a short time was mounted on a scaffold almost on a level with the third storj windows of the mansion of old Commodore Halkington, dexterously making his measurements and plans for new cornice. , It was an easy task, for the work was elaborate and the weather warm. Two days elapsed, and Joe bad only got ready to commence patting up the brackets which sustained- the heavy mouldings. Lunch-time came; and (be amateur carpenter, getting in the shade, unpacked his little dinner pail, and began a repaetat once simple and nourishing, when he saw that the window nearest hloi was open, and that papers lying on an escrstorire inside were disposed to blow away. ?I know it's a trespass/ meditated he, (but it's for the proprietors good- . Ill step into the room and save, perhaps some valuable documents/ A little gymnastic exercise brought bim down from the scaffold, through the window, and iDto a very elegant ohamber. 'Hunt,' said be, a woman's room/ There were paintings, statues, ormolu ornaments, and forty other luxarant nothings, aueh as woman of taste love to gather around them. A guitar reposed on the bed, with some books in French and Latin. The conch itsc^bore the impress of a form, as if the to-1 elar deity of the chamber had been lying down, and passing ber time with music and literature. There was a portfolio open upon the table, with a pretty water-Color sketch, half finished j a wetl-stocked libraTy in the corner bose evidence of the cultivated taste ofthe occupant, aod everything about the ?^ 1 ~ UrtJ m 11 U Ito fik rtfifrt fl a!' Dliamoer, uulu tuc ucu mm iu guunci vi snowy curtaias falling from a missiye ^gilt ring, to the canary bird io the window, bespoke a refinement and delicaey on the apart meat, seldom found, except in young and beautiful womeD, who aspire to have their surroundings like themselves. 'Something elegant about this,' said Joe, gathering up the scattered papers, and placing them beneath a'p&per weight on the escritoire. 'I must investigate this?here's an opening for a splendid- bit of romance? poor youDg carpenter and rich lovely young woman, eh? Lord bless me, there has been bushels of novels written on the same plot.' After a hurried examination of the room, he regained his scaffold, and consuming hi) lunch, set once moTe about his labors, sHttlu more hopeful than before. : \ Thus passed a week. Joe got in * very impudeDt habit of entering the chamber almost daily, in hopes of meeting the occupant of so charming a temple. He became familiar with all the books and music, whistled the canary into a convulsion of song and drove himself half crazy with the speculation upon the fair unknown. He had heard her sing very sweetly of & morning when she opened the window, and just caught a glimpse of her form; but she, seeing him, had withdrawn suddenly, aod ^ ~ J knan uklfl fn /4 ianouflr nrkotkop I uc uau UVI uvyu ?U<V ?V vnovu ?v? rTuvfvuv* ?be was beautiful as a rose or ugly as a camel. He h&dfouod a half-finoi-shed sonnet on (be table, several long, fine, brown hairs, apparently plucked out in a fit of abstracted meditation. He had found gaiters of delicate colors an<l j wonderful sraallncss?gloves of correspond| ing delicacy?and tasteful and artistic dresses and sacques. What will you say, oh, my matter-of-fac t and practical reader, when I tell you that my friend Joe Cod way fell in love with a woman he had not seen?one of whom he knew neit to nothing ? Quite naturally the erection of the cornice | progressed but slowly. The master-carpenter wondered at it, but Joe assured him every morning that it would only take a day or two longer. One fine afternoon, Joe found, lying on the escritoire, an essay on music, writtei in the same beautiful band which he had so often seen and admired on the margin of books and the papers in the obamber.? Grown impertinent to an alarming degree, he laid down the saw which he had unconsciously brought with him and perused the | essay carefully. It was well written and powerful, but there ! was an error in the philosophy. It would 1 .lull fna mn tn Tnlnin hpro the mistake ! which Joe saw at once?it is enough that | the fair writer had confused the laws which govern tnelody and harmony, and Joe dej voutly wished an opportunity to point out i the error to her who bad made it. He was just meditating-an epistle to be | left with the essay, when the door opened, ! and his dtesse inconnue entered ! Figure to yourself a young girl?say of j nineteen or twenty?whose every line and | contour spoke of grace and health?whose peach-tinted cheeks, bright eyes, and lips like the inner fold of some tropic shell, told j of vivacity, freshness, and purity. Her hair was of the peouliar pale brown?almost a j wood oolor?which may perhaps be best j described as a mingling of ashy and golden finis, uiid foil in tiiqgled masses?half ringTefs^ h:Jf disorder?on eaA side of a' beck white jod delicate as the pestals of the .cameta., . ^ ^ Siic did not scream when she saw the carpenter sitting coolly in her arm ohair, making himself objectipnablj at/home. She Qtilj opened her Urge gray <ajt% hesitated a moment aod said; ^ ^ .. 'Well, sir!' with an accent between surprise and disdain. , . Joe rose and bowed politely. .... ? : <What do you wish sir?' _ . Joe was somewhat pot to bis trumps. <1 wished to see what itiod of a fairy inhabited so delightful a domain.' Truly a nice speeoh for a journeyman ear? - ?- x. n j? penter lO uiase 10 v oaiiuuuure numiug^u n only daughter. 'Posssibly, yon ire oot'aware'tbat you are intruding, sir. Yon will oblige me by departing.' Certainly,' said Joe, now in full enjoyment of the romance of the thing, 'certainly I will go. but you must pardon me one thing ?J wish to explain a little qnestion on which you have doubts. Harmony in music appeals to the^.intellectpal or roasoning portion of the soul?melody to the passions and feelings.' , The young girl looked a little alarmed, and drew hack a step or two. . _ Oio !'. said he, divining her thoughts, 'I am not iosane. In your essay oo music, you say that 'education refines and intensifies our perceptions of melody.' You should have said 'harmony,' for that rules the brain, which organ is susoeptible to the influence of education. Melody is lord of the heart alone, and yon, mademoiselle, ought to be well aware that the heart cannot be taught either in music or lore.' Miss Hulking ton was astonished. 'Sir,' said she, I do~ not know what to make of your conduct. You are imprudent, and very?very?' 'Audacious! Yes. I acknowledge that,' interrupted Joe, 'bat you must pardon me. I first entered jour room to place some papers in aafety which the wind was about to blow out of the window. Once inside, the air of elegance and refinement exhibited here attracted me. Doubtless you bate noticed that ones surroundings become permerited, as it were, with something of one's sphere^-as in your room, I experienced an emotion of pleasure?ft consciousness of the presence of some invisible but charming spirit, and I made bold to 6nter often, believing that, if yon knew my motives, you would forgive me.' The young lady was beginning to feel pleased. All women like admiration, even from their (so-called) inferiors, if it is delicately expressed. 'The conversation proceeded. Joe proved to the fair essayist that she was in error, and astonished her by tbe depths of his thoughts, the variety of his knowledge, and the elegance of his diction. . On leaving, he held out his band?almost as soft and white as her own?and she, stifling tbe last traces of n false prejudice gave it a cordial pressure. 'You have not worked long at your trade,' she said. 'Since my boyhood,' unblushinglv answered Joe, <but,' added be, glancing at his hands, 'I have generally done the nicer kinds of work?joinery and the like.' 'This excuse passed very well with a wominlJVho had^nevcr had the honor of the acquaintance of a mechanio before. The next day, when Joe heard the win dow open; he presented himself, and after exchanging salutations, the twain again fell into a discussion, which became so earnest that Joe was compelled once more to enter the room. Alas, for the progression of the new cornice ! " For two weeks this state of things continued ; at the expiration of that time, Louisa Hulbington was compelled, mnngre her pride, to acknowledge to herself that she loved Joe Conway, the journeyman carpenter. He wonld not believe it. It contradicted his theory of the mercenary character of woman.- . And, I notice, we never believe anything that contradicts our theories. Finally, when the cornice had to be finished, Louisa petitioned her father to have an ornamental wardrobe put up in her chamber. Of course Joe had the task, although the old Commodore grumbled terrible about employing such a slow workman. It took Joe six weeks to make the wardrobe ! By the time the job was done?very nicely done it was too?Joe's theory was quite done up, and the sweet Louisa Hulkington i had promised to become his bride, iD spite of her father?in spite of the notions of the world. Sensible girl! There was only one thing left for Joe to do?to reveal to her his true position, which I was happy to corroborate. Three months afterwards I said good-bye, to a newly-wedded pair, just starting to Enrope on a honey-moon trip. As I held the tioy white-gloved hand of the bride, and saw ber charming face beneath the gossamer-tissued veil depending from her love of a bonnet,' I said to the proud and happy bridegroom : 'Well, Joe, if you remember our conversation on the banks of the Erchwon last Summer, you can tell me what you think now of the sentiments you then expressed.' Mr dftar O-eorere.' said the Journeyman I "J - / ' Gentleman, 'there are exceptions to all i rules.' j J?* There is valuable truth in the following remarks: The unmarried journeyman, who receives his 88 to 812 per week, and spends it all about as fast as he earns it, will go to his grave poor as Lazarus, growling that capital eats up labor, when it is in fact labor that eats (and drinks) itself. You may shower gold upon workingmen who spend a third of their earning in bar-rooms, thea tm and other ha tww of dissipation, and the; i wHlbe poor and need; after. He who re i eter to have anything ahead will generally ] wee something the feat year after he is one j and twenty; whe'tbef hia wages be f 12 per i "week, or only Wsr-' Tery won he wilt'be a > capitalist in "his fcttnblt Way?that is, his < eatings fVom the frerfs of tire past labor will j be earning him sobhrthiug while be sleeps, i PkfUaams iUatiina.; . TIME. . ' TV !i nlfltail thot >iW nnrt >td? viit fnr no ? xi ig VMHV *??t?w ? ?> ?>^v > < ?*? man.. .But if laden , with sentiment, ( ohinics in most charmingly with the affec- 5 tions. Poetry from nature, or poetry of the ' affections, are the same, and, like Miss Ma- \ tilda Heron's acting, the impreceptible spir- 1 it which penetrated the idea, conveys an in- ' visible influence that communicates with oar ( natures, and vibrates upon every kindly and ' disingenuous heart, finch an influence is ^ communicated by the poems of James Bal- ' online, as the.following simple but touching 1 verses of feeling, aptly exemplify:? i ? - - NAEBODY'S BAUtW. She' was Naebody's Bairn, she was Naebody's ] Bairn,- ' She had taickle to thole, she had mickle to learn, ' Afore a kind word or look she could earn, j For Naebody cared about Naebody's Bairn. t "Tho' faither or mither ne'er owa'd iter ava, Tho' rear'd bj the freausit for fee unoo ama' She grew in the shade like a young lady fern ; ,i For Nature was bounteous to Naebody's Barrn. "Tho' torted by some, and thoj lightlied by mair, i 8he never compleen'd, tho' her young heart was 4 air; ' " , And warm virgin tears, that might melted cauld 1 .aim, . . i J Whiles glist in the blue ee o' Naebody's Bairn.", j acowSAST^ ' * 1 In the Christian Intelligencer of last week, | IVilrp Berfy, one of the shrviVors of th? ill , fated steamer, Austria, gives some incidents . of the terrible disaster which recently befel 3 her, from which we take the following ex- * tract What a lesson does it teach to all the . ? - - i UriDS . _ . .. , _ ^ HOW AN INFIDEL DEED. On board of the Austria, there "were but few Christian*, probably uot more tbao twenty-jive. There were some bold, wretohed infidels. I saw the boldest and most4 Heaven-defying of them all perish. Tbe day before tbe disaster, tracts were distributed iunong tbe passengers, and were kindly received by most of then ; bat this man's depravity was not satisfied to receive one and destroy it before our faces, but he stealthily gathered as many ae be could from tbe passengers, and feaiited on bis shame that be had destroyed them He was as bold as a lioo when there was no danger near; but, when God spoke the following day, he trem bled at the alarm, and he was scarcely able to move. I saw him go overboard. He threw out his arms ns be lay upon his hack oh Che wave, his eyes seemed as if they would start from their sockets, the wrfthings of agony were seen in his features ; and as he was sinking, the last T saw of him was, he clenched his hands, wringing them Tn agony, and he' just "leaving the earth ?, oh ! for what? A momeot more, and, cocild we have stood on the other side of the river of death, we might havo heard the despairing cry of Oh that I had been wise !' I Wept when I saw this. Though so snbdned as he seemed in that hoax, and with Yoltaire, would have given all that he was worth for a short reprieve, yet had he been rescued he would probably, like some others that were humbled when death threatened, be the same heartless mon ster when the rescue came. Some who < prayed when the flames were rushing on them, cursed when they were delivered.? 1 How mysterious! What unsearchable mercy is mingled with God's judgment! .May we not hope, that by their death the godless and wicked on that steamer will be the means of quickening other into life ? We 1 must believe it! ] THE CHEAPEST AND THE BEST, 1 The following article we clipped sometime J since, from a Georgia exchange, we believe, < but failing to place the proper credit on it 1 at the time, we have concluded to adopt it, ' making only such changes therein as to snit < our own cause, at the same time we do not i wish to be accused of wholesale plagarism! < A newspaper, once a week, fifty-two weeks < for hco dollar a, is the cheapest thing any man can buy. The paper, without a mark 1 upon it, is almost worth the money. Yet < how very few consider a newspaper of suffi- < i oient importance to be paid for. There is < scarcely a week's issue that does not afford ' a subscriber, in some way, information worth i a great deal more than he pays for it the < whole year. Hundreds, and it is no exager- i ation to say thousand of dollars have been < secured to many a man, by one dozen lines i in h newspaper, which cost less than four i cents! Did the reader ever seriously ask < himself the question, how much money has the publisher of the paper I hold in my hand expended to get it out? Has he any idea? i Think of it reader, to get out the paper you , are now looking at, the publisher has gone to the cash expense of nearly one hundred | dollars. Do you wonder, now, how essen- , ***1 " fn now Kio no nor ? UttI It 19 1UI CVGijr uiau ww j/?j iwi uio ? j Many persons who have read a newspaper for years, have no correct idea of the time, labor, and money that are spent upon the paper which they have opened fifty-two times in the year. It is printed, they know not how, and comes to them regularly as Sunday does, but they see nothing of the toil, anxiety mental and physical exertions, that have been undergone to give them the paper. How few readers of weekly papers are aware of the simple fact, that more than one half of the type they see in the paper before them, has to be distributed one by one into separate boxes, and put together again in new shape to please or iustruot them the next .weeki Yet it is true. Week after treek this tedious and monotonous work of t putting up and taking down little pieces of j lead goes on. There is no rent for the-prin- 1 ter. In sickness as in health?rift sunshine t is ^in. storm, the paper must not be negleo- c ted.Siooe we have had this paper, we have 1 not failed to issue it every week : and we are c nngutar in this respect Why should not t :be printer be the very-first to be paid ? He t two done more for the money, than any otb i >r creditor has. His-hill is so small that 1 my man not actually aj^wed oy rrovi deuce j jr hopelessly lazy, without sacrifice, can pay t t. ? t If the reader, will, nfter searching the J jolumna of each oumbsrof the paper'hesttb- ^ icribes for, place it on file, amf^prtserrelt i mtil. the year.expires, and.then. take ijco t hilars for it he is not of our way, of think- 1 Dg by a great odds. It ia not no frequently c he case that old filea of papers have been j; carried back and forth to different courts, to t 38 used as evidence in important cases where J arge amounts of property vera pending.? -I A.nd yet the price, of the paper that carried t ;he case was, when it was issued but five .1 :cnts I and without the copy in possession-of . :he proprietors, the rightful- owners of -the t property wonld bare lost it. Onr advice to a jvery man, is, take some good paper?pay -t [or it in advance?and keep it on - file. It .< pays better than any other investment, con- t tide ring the amount invested.?Flog of our c Union. . - :? - - { ' "? ' ; I rHB HAIR OP THE PRESIDENTS. t In the Patent-Office at Washington, IheYe *J ire many objects of interest connectad with (he government, and those whoad ministered it* affair* in fime mnc bv White exmrri. aing some of these objects of cnrwUy vheo n Washington not long since-, there was t aothing that struck us so forcibly as the Am- c pies of sratll focktf of hair taken from the ( Sea3s of the different (Hiief magistrates, from President Washington down to President ' Pierce, secured in. a frame, covered with ( 3;lass. Here is, in fact, a part and parcel of 2 shot constituted the living bodies of these ? llustrious individuals, whose names are as ^ familiar as household words,, but who now i tve only in history and the remembrances j )f the past. . ?< " ] Tbe harr of Washington w nearly ? pure 4 white, fine-and smooth in its appearance. - J That of .John Adams is nearly <he same ^ j> color, thongh perha]*r 8 little coarser.* - a ? The halt at Jefferson is of a different Aaraetef/hetngn fcfixtore of White and *0irarb, or a sandy brown, in'd retber ewrrse. [n his youth, Mr. Jefferson's hatr was renarkable for its bright color.' '' '** The hair of Madison is coarse and of a nixed white and dark. The hair of Monroe is a handsome dark raburn, smooth and free from any admixture vhateVer. He is the only president, creeping Pierce, whose half has undergone'hb jhangetn coTor. The hair of John Qutncy Adams w pecniar, being coarse and yellowish gray In solor. The hair of Gen. Jackson is almost a perVct. white, hut coarser in its character, as night be supposed by those who have extuiingd the portrait of the old hero. t The hair of Van Buren is white and imooth in appearance. j The hair of Gen. Harrison is fine white, vith a slight admixture of black. .. J The hair of John Tyler is a mixture of vhite and brown. ^ The hair of James K. Polk is almost a j jure white. Y , The hair of General Taylor is white, with r i slight admixture of brown. * ..The hair of Millard Fillmore is, on the j >ther band, brown, with a slight admixture ^ rf white. a The hair of Franklin Pierce is a dark r jrown of which he has a plentiful crop.? r Wilmington Journal. r CATSPAWS. The little, ugly, lean Greek hunchback Esop has taught more wisdom during the ^ >ast seventy or eighty generations than any )ther mere man that ever lived. He pnt ^ irords of wisdom into tho mouths of animals. ( He told stories of brutes, captivating to rhildhood, youth and age, embodying deep j philosophy?practical wisdom for every day jse?knowledge of human nature coined for , he market and the fair?proverbs engraved n the child's memory for the use and guilance of the future man?prudence made c ;asy?wisdom praeticalized. Who does not know the story of the mon- r key, the cat and the chesnuts ? Who does not remember how the greedy monkey humid the paws of the silly cat to enjoy his roast ihesnuts unharmed ? A cart-load of treari- ' S68 on philosophy, mental and moral, could . not depict the nature of the cowardly, the J A. -.1 t sunning auu tuc uusui upuiuuo, uc^ci wau it is done in this little fib or fable familiar to every child. Everybody knows well enough what it is to be a catspaw?to suffer 1 in order that others may enjoy the objects ' of a vicious avarice or an unscrupulous ambition. , Catspawism has become a science. No sooner does a mean man or a set of mean men ( desire what tbey have not the courage and , ma] in ess to seek openly, boldly and in per- ( son, than the} cast about for some innocent ( cats, whose paws are to be burned to gratify { their greedy lust for cash, offioe or influence. The cats climb the political trees and beat off j 4iw? i-irth frnita nf nffipfi : the monkevs sit on . the ground and quietly devour them. The ' genuine cats paw is usually a noisy, frank, bold dashing and honest gentleman, who is \ thrust head-foremost into the fire of public i opinion, while the monkeys sit quietly in ] their counting-rooms awaiting tho result of < the experiment. The least the catspaw does < is to risk fame and life for the benefit of his < advisers?the most the old-fogy monkeys con- i descend to do is to furnish a little money on ] urgent persuasion, with the express proviso i that their names shall in no event be made I to appear. I No class of men are oftener converted ib:o singed cats paws that1 ire who conduct jtfbfio-journals. Every shrewed coward that haw a prirate end to gain or an enmity "to latisfy, wishes Us to do all the-scolding and ' lennnciation. -He talks as ri? it wqb onr >ounden duty at all time* to assaute every juarrel and to bear the brunt of all oppoai ion. - If the monkey financier wishes to make l splendid t peculation, catspaw editor is itraightway besought to write up the scheme, ifter the* mOnkey schemer ha* bad hi* ap- letite for (he- public chesnnts excited, he ' rails upon us to advocate some logislation by vbich his watering mouth"may he tilled.-? n Phe monkey is always staid, quiet and tea-: rectable,' conservative in opinion, and 'oa Wetodty terms With men "of all he unlucky cats used byilitt'a# 4oofo must 1 >e continually bataSg .their fingers with 1 [aarrels on his own account. The jnonkeysx>!l along the streets iathoir carriages, while be poor cats plod oo foot, smothered with be dost they raise,.. The monkey*, stretch , heir lazy cor porosities oo their sofas, .white . he devoted catspews are laboring sedulous- , j by day and night for their advancement. . Catspaws were no mm oeoUivaoce when he homely Greek philosopher .cheapened visdona iu bis admirable stories; end when j be revolving spheres shall have measured , Hit two thousand years more, the men of bat time will still see eve 17 day exemplifi sation of the fable of the cat and monkey. Some men seem bbfn'to -be tfsed as the tools >f the shrewejf and unscrupulous ufid td bear be hazard' of the enterprises' wilhost fcnjoyng any share in the profits.?JVhc" Orlttin* } Uourier. " A v^a ^ * MASOJfRY UT TH? TT. fiTATRS. ' The fbffbwiug statistics drb "derrvedTtom c bh latest information contained far the pro* seeding* of-various MaSonftf Gnr&d Lodges if the United"States: ' *'v* ' " 1 " ; lodm. JfamfeWi " llabama -217 * 7y223- ' Arkansas 108 1,029 /ftlifornia ,t; \lA-f 4,474 Sortfc Carolina. 107 5,010 Louth Carolina 36 *3,100 Strict of ColntrtMa..II 699 /onneotioat. > 66 . 6f7fiA lalawant^.w. ... . 1? ? , 46?, Honda 7. 3d 34 < leorgia... 221 12.02T7 frtin ow. .r.. /. ..Y......... 243 * A52B iadiob.,.240- A5M. .108.. 3,178 Inftsa^ 7. 8 170 308 " -0,97fMOMMH U^b??>? * ??!?? ?? < " 118 ?0,91ft-, jUine... .. ? 83 ,.3M assachusetts r. 90 *3,BOOT , *?r?tamd' 58 v "1,820 V Hiehigan > ; 106 #6,000 Minnesota .24., - WfcVlisaissippi 205 7,810 ^li^soitri . 1^6 . 4,903 s" *100 few Hampshire ....' ' "ST *X7ol few Jersey ~ 4ft -2,204few York .^... 409 ,80,Q(tf- , )bio . . 253 10,912 )regon ?! "15" ' 490 ' PcnBsjlrania 16<V - >1)428ibode Island 16.. 1,04ft. Tennessee 174. 7,750 Texas 212 6,451 rermont ?. 44" 2,084 Virginia ? 128 4,614 Wisconsin.. 100 2,907 Total....7. 4,202 183,833 ''Estimated. The Dumber of Tree Masons fn the UnU ed States is probably uuich greater than his table shows, as there -ace many to be 'ound every wheW^ho are not affiliated vith ariyLoflge'' The law Sf ttoe'lSrtffbroity s said to be "once a Mason always a Mason." Tiie Peculiarities op ocr Race.?It s stated" by a competent authority, that the lumber of languages spoken is 3064. The lumber of men in the world is equal to the mmber of women. The average of human ife 19 thirty-three years. One quarter die >efore the age of 7. One half before fhe ige of 17. To every 1000 persons, o06 only eaches 100 years. To every 100, abdut 9 each 65 yearb; and not more than 1 in 500 caches the age of 80 years. There are on the earth 1,000,000,000 of habitants. Of these, 33,333,333 die every 'ear; 7780 every hour, and 60 every minite?or one for every.second. The losses re about haUnced-by-us equal number of >irtha. The married are longer lived than he tingle ; and above all, those who observe i sober and industrious conduct. Tall men ive longer than short ones. Women have nore chances of life previous to the age of >0 years than men, but fewer after. .. The number of marriages is in proportion >f 75 to 100. Marriages are more frequent ifter the equinoxes; that is during the nonths of June and December, And those vho are born in the 8pring are generally nore robust than those who are born itr otb>r periods of the year. Births and deaths ire more frequent by night than by day.? Phe number of men capable of bearing arms 8 Calculated at one fourth of the population if the world. According to the last census of Great Britain, the English people in Scotland mmbered 18,562 male9, and 19,234 fenales; the Scottish people in England and RTnloa 00 704 males, and 42.834 females ; .? W.W~, Ww, . w / [rish people in England and Scotland 219,197 males and 199,850 females. Tte males in the three islands at the soliier's age of twenty to forty, amount to three nillions, three hundred thousand men. So ;hat, with a good malitia system, like that )f the United States for instance, and such i degree of military discipline as experience n this country has proved can be attained jy volunteers, England might bid defiance to all Europe in arms.?Phil. Ing. Walking and Pure Air.?Anximinee aught that air is mind. Some one else ays that air is the hidden food nf life.? Plutarch seems to inoline to Anaximines' jpinion, remarking that perhaps the reason (vhy there is a sympathy of feeling on van)us subjects arises from breathing the same tir. Air is an exhalation of all the minerals of the globe; the most elaborately finished of all the works of the Creator the the rock of ages disintegrated and fitted for the life of man. All classes of xpeiraffim u l.-u I.K '.i ujlr i ibis. Sydney 5mUh says to public ijjeakep Chat if they woold walk twalye mires bdRm speakib^j.they would "never Dreafr~jfoWi!? HrElgftsh aaJVwsitfeji, tytff new, TTortofcaok rites, srftd'feh xfeifTo 1n%, area'tkflMpfr lite edmnorml means or 'physi(f&T deveWfr-?t. ' ' '> i '.U* y menx. ir-r- - - '11:* "?< * -AMfcSHMNTS OF Tftt ftrfOfOF8.-^W*y blass of *6fa haul some ctiVM8i%rtloaiM?imentsto which they torsalMt^ #T Wist ts rtisxattoa to oa*,>i&{*sbstty:MK? to aoothlr. - A ictD who has bee* oanfinetl to -4m office chair afi.dsy^when ha wishssviadi- .,**. vert blmeei^kes* wrik/t m^aS^aynant qtMta.afcten to ihe "votieiuraf ma rricitaaate pewiy'pasbnja* JUasaeweie etumidi principally i d the fy?lim?ibsrHM? the hM eg pari onces-frog? a chnaysof timu, ambit is oo thfeasoownSahst wwsa.fnerfhetitJv vfcrii * ? men taking pteaum -Ife fmttkitm hiohiop pear eptiwly iorefcn. to^it .^aai habits and occupations. Thus we#a? iotellecto cfeiigktipgjp titer. 4ivertipg his ohjtfrc* wlkM> o thejiea s^wa , soa .whj jou^pfl^# 4q,fo4-pflKrj &***$ ?*> life, and why such a diseiepauoy jjkjjjt twean tjwir biograp^ an$l t?m *M?*:-r ?terarjjpeo,.*r* often meats which have nothing %bout them. Their objeQt h; tqjet ^thgir minds Tfofafloic, ^'aWigW of^ t^ jgri^uhaul cqmtfrttlee eipresa. hjm^^a^^sv jferifjjkt toa^ncipq 'themselv?% tg frfcwh tWre is no waste .of rfoagsL 1 _ w *. r"*-w> ** # +y;** wfwv* ' m* ^ith dfya since, (Ssj ft TRfe tWbfcnafr'- fntrim* of October 30tH,}b rttft$man resTdftig Elwiffied4b',r^o^ Ib^lx^cTOs Ifflte to rf*H6W cetijejery. " JrG^arattOT^ fahfc ttoa?&t<f lfc?efc^'dnOflfcTfers pp&e#t&e gtohrein flit TBmsf ittdotierjhht wTO jfc&r rfeScbfed Wif cottn (SeiT<cfltaiiT Hot So jph?trtott38w cWdattj^iidderttfle Vsstetttfce, 'IfcfcSWf theses sbcdedflff in taistng fM dbtBl flforfl 'tW tcdSfft. ttejOleh c<Jtr1<Fnot feaist fte fljfipfttffti "<tf peering intffflfe eoffih 4irtf 'letnflDgtbie'feiwr4or?i<hwMrt mdgHt,- ttod'^omid, in* ust, Ww eSaci-cocateifMA of Hie woman who <fc*i died: i%f* -eftauge story soon Spread, and hundreds-and thousands of persons' were present towie. >the stnmge spectacle^ The hariwiii task the body of his derartodspoosc X ted ly hondtedd of the carious and scientific. The body seems to hare been petrified, and tehwm become *-peafcct stone woman. The pwfabaiity 4s that the body has become adi-N; poser* and will before fong melt and crnm-^v ble. ' - ? ? , . IfipJt is remaafcnble^ thai- there 4s r.oth- \ Lagjeas promising than, in early ye^h? * oertMflinll fozma?b settled, and, as it -mmj be called 0<i*4aba?cUr~. A lad arbt-fcac, to a degree that excites.wander -andadmjration^Uie character and demeajaere of an latelliaint map etin^UM Vfr fwMAy be thal^ aod nothing hia^Jife, **4 will ceaee accordingly tpj&q anything nypajkahle, beoauae it was the precocity ^|one that ever made him so. Ijt is remarked by grayhoandrfamriers thaM^weH-foraedr oompaptshadedj^uppy neyer^alces afeeAdog. They see more promise iq the loosp-jointed; awkward, clammy ?pes. And even ao, there is a kind ofemdity and pnsettiedness in the minds of those-young persons who tarn oat ultimately the most eminent.-- Wbaitdey. A new Virtue in Vaccination.?The Alette Hkclicale' pubises a dlscovary by Dr'LakomsIti, which, if.ItTp borne apt by farther experiments, may be ranked amorg 'Che most singular of the present oentury, viz : Ih'at vaccination is a specific against a disorder which though commonly the pun* ishment of vice, still not unfiequently counts ifveh Che purest among its victim. , Dr. Lukcfftiski, who has communicated his disoovcry to the Academics of Science and Medicine at Paris and St; Petersburg!), asserte that vaccination repeated five or six times or more, allowing a week to pass after each operation, will effectually and certainly cure the most inveterate affection, and also, to a certain extent act as a prophylactic. Low-Necked Dresses.?In the early days of Pennsylvania, there was a law which stated aw follows : "Tbafrif any white feraalfc, of ten years or upward,' should appear in any pablic street, lane, highway, Char6h, court house, tavern, ball-room, theatre, orany other place of publio resort, wrth naked shoulders, (f. e., low-necked dresses,) being able to purchase necessary olothing, shall forfait and pay a fine, wot less than one nor mote than two hundred dollars." The ^closing paragraph of the law, however permitted women of questionable character to batetheir shoulders, as a badge of distinction between tbe chaste and unchaste. mm- 1 i , wendell j10juuus ufl 'If a fellow attacked my opinions in print wonld I reply? Not I. Do yon think I don't understand what my friend, the professor, long ago called the hydroetatiq pundon of controversy ? Don't know what that means ? Well, I'll tell yon. Ton know that if yon had a bent tnbe, one arm of which was the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water wonld stand at the same height in one as in the other.? Controversy equalizes fools, and wise men, in the same way?and the fools knowik',.. The danger or Prosperity,?-Men reiy often suoceed in business and get along until they reaoh that point at which, having secured a sufficiency, there seems to be no partioolar neoesaity for exertion and vigilance, and thinking that everything will go on smoothly, they give themselves op to listleness, or devote their attention to supplyStellas from that point .v.vu-. ^