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Stkftfr foctrg. All Thy Works Praise Thee. BY MARY HOWITT. The moonbeams on the billowy deep, The blue waves rippling on the strand, The ocean* in' its peaceful sleep. The shell that murmurs on the sand, The cloud that trims the bending sky, The bow that on its bosom glows, The sun that lights thu vault so high, The stars at midnight's calm repose; These praise the power that arched the sky And robed the earth-in beauty's dye. The melody of nature's choir, The deep-toned anthems of the sea, The wind that turns a viewless lyre, The zephry on its pinions free, The thunder with its thrilling notes, That peal upon the mountain air, The lay that through the foliage floats Or sinks in dying cadence there, These all to Thee their voices raise. A fervent voice of gushing praise. The day-star, herald of the dawn, As the dark shadows flit away, The tint upon the cheek of morn, The dew-drop gleaming on the spray?. From wild birds in their wanderings, From steamlets leaping to the sea, From all earth's fair and lovely things, Doth.living praise ascend to Thee; These with their silent tongues proclaim, The varied wonders of Thy name. Pather, Thy hand hath formed the flower, And flung it on the verdant lea, Thou hast it ope at summer's hour, Its hues of beauty speak of Thee Thy works all praise Thee; shall not man Alike attune the grateful hymn ? Shall he not join the loftly strain, Echoed from hearts of Seraphim ? We tune to Thee our humble lays, Thy mercy, goodness, love, we praise. Egotism. Loquacity, in conversation, is not more offensive than egotism. -The egotist is a eelf-sacrificing person. He takes on him? self the chief part, in the social hour, whether hi3 kindness is likely to prove ac? ceptable or not. He is resolved to occupy the centre of the conversing circle, in de Bpito of whatovcr centrifugal tendencies he may cause to be felt at the circumference. Every topic, not introduced by himself, he deems of little account. Does some one propound a novel question ? He in? stantly assumes, that it is propounded to him, and undertakes to give an all-satisfy? ing answer. Does some one venture a rare observation ? - He is first to comment on it. Swelling with conceit of self, he extends his remarks. Now, ho utters a turgid sentence, begining with a capital I and now he utters another, ending with an emphasized myself. If the beauty' of some distant place slould be describ? ed, his answer, -according to Mrs. ElUe might be, UI never was there, but my un? cle once was within ten miles of it; and had it not been for the miscarriage of a letter, /should have been his companion on that journey ! My uncle was always fond of taking me with hira. Dear, good man, I was a greatfavorite of his I" ? The egotist rarely improves on any cutting hint, designed to check him in his offensive forwardness. Little change would you see in him, to-morrow, though you should to-day, cause the Asiatic gen? eralization to ring in his ear, "He who has loast wisdom has most vanity." Laugh tor, though really in ridicule, he construes into an expression of applause; and silence, though in fact the result of disgust, he re? gards as an evidence that he is the admir? ed cynosure of all eyes. \Thcn the talk is discontinued, ho flatters himself with the thought, that it has como to an end. because he, the great sun of the company, "has stopped shining. I find on record a little anecdote con? cerning Robert Hall, which illustrates tho flattering effect, produced, in many instan? ces, even by the philosophic taciturnity of genius, on the mind of a conceited talker. Mr. Hall had somowhere, become engaged in conversation with one of that class of dogmatic ministers whose rfotjr-matism is. in Jerroid's phrase, "only pupy-ism come to its full growth." The minister having, afterward, met Mr. Jay, said to him, I wonder you think so highly of Mr. Hall's talents. I was some time ago traveling with him into Wales, and we had several disputes, and I more than once soon si? lenced him." Mr. Jay, not long after this interview,, happened .to meet Robert Hall; and, on alluding to the egotistic minister who, not? withstanding his egotism, had become somewhat popular as a preacher, Mr. Hall replied, "I lately traveled with him, and it was wonderful, sir, how such a baggage of ignorance and confidence could have been squeezed into his vehicle. He dis? gusted and wearied me, with his dogma? tism and perverscnoss, till God was good enough to enable me to go to sleep." It may not be amiss to present, in this place a summary of injudicious and un? pleasant talkers. There is the gossipping talker, for whom Solomon, undoubtedly, meant that wise saying of his: ??Take care how you speak all you know." There is the loquacious or ramb? ling talker, whom the Grecian sage Cleo bulus,probably,had in mind,when he spoke the maxim : "Many words and more ig? norance." To this talker may, also, be appliod to thoso words from an Asiatic proverb : "Behold the drum; notwith? standing all its noise, it is empty within." There is the egotistic talker, whom the admirable Chinese saying should teach a lesson: "True merit, like the pearl inside an oyster, is content to remain quiet till it finds an opening." There is the meaty mouthed talker*. This person is wanting in personality; His thoughts are parasi? tes, clinging to other men's ideas and opin? ions. He is so fond of being agreeable, that if he finds himself crossing a person's views, at the smallest angle, he will sii o back, as quickly as he can, into a parallel of soft and cycophantic suavity. There is the affected talked, whose vocal organs are always artificially strained, like the strings of a fiddle, before they arc trusted in company. There is the churlish talker. "You have often, met one of this class, in the form of a stiff-necked official; and. sometimes in that of a rail-road agent. There is finally, the profane and obscene talker, for whom some wise man of Asia left the words: "Hen, because of speech, have the advantage over beasts; but brutes are preferable to men whose lan? guage is indecent." Now, in contrast with the foregoinglist af disagreeable talkers, as a relief from the languor which the consideration of them may have caused you to experience, permit me to place before your mind the genial talker. To this social star, how much do you owe of the luster and the beauty of your memory's world ! By his chaste and kindly utterances, how often has he made hours which would have be en dull to you, the most delightful in all your life! Does he not soothe you. when you are weary, to a repose in which your lost vigor comes back ? Does he not kindle your blood, when it is cold ? Does he :not cause you to complain less and rejoice more ? Does he not instruct you, raise the tone of your thoughts, and make you better to live and better to die ? How does this person talk ? From a large loving soul, his words come. They always mean something. They rarely re? fer to himself. They exhibit a manly modesty, a cheerful spirit, much prudence, much wisdom, and the beauty of simplic ity. Who has been the best pattern in con? versation ? I do not find such a one among tho philosophers"of the past or of present. For. though these, as an able writer says of Descartes, "receive theirin tellcctural wealth from nature, in solid bars rather than in current coin." yet it mast be admitted that no philosopher has ever lived, whose love of solitary employ? ment did not cause him to be either in? sufficiently intelligible or a little too silent in mixed company. I do find such a one among tho poets; for, though some of the most interesting of all men have been bards, yet no one of this class has been worthy to bo called the best pattern in conversation. Nor do I find a such a oao Among etatepmen. Burke, who wax one of the greatest and worthiest of states? men, said, with a beautiful figure, that t:tho perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but. like the JEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the pass? ing ' breeze." Burke, however, was not - pre-eminently a pattern conversationist. I do not find such a one among those whose names history has celebrated and consecrated, as the names of wise men; for, though Socrates was. undoubtedly, tin wisest man of his time, and was certainly a delightful talker, yet he should be con? sidered a.master in conversation, rather than the best pattern. I find such a one only among a email company <.f men who, from obscurity, went forth into public life, the pioneer proclaimers of the religion of the Gospel. Yes, as the great exemplar in conversation, as in everything else per? taining to human expression. 1 would point to Jesus?the Master ! Never man spoke like this man! How free from harshness, from inappropriate merriment, and from everything bordering on vul? garity ! "When did Jesus speak amiss ? What instance can you mention, in which he indulged, either in flippant loquacity or in idle gossip ? What occasion canyon name, on which he cxibited, in conversa? tion, either the fire of malevolent passion or the weakness of a prejudiced mind ? Arc }*ou young, and would 3-011 know how to converse with learned men ? Bead of the discourse which transpired in the Jerusalem temple, between the young Je? sus and the Jewish doctors. Would you know how to converse in manhood?*Learn how the Master talked, with friends and foes, with good men and bad men, with the wise and tho foolish, while reclining at the table, while visiting the poor, while* traveling from town to town, or while crossing the sacred waters of Palestine, in the performance of his mission of incom? prehensible love ? -0 A Post Office Mistake.?Aman lately went to the post office, and putting his mouth to the delivery box, cried out, " Louder." The clerk, supposingthe man to be deaf, and that he was making- a re? quest for him to speak louder, so that he could hear, asked him in a very loud tone the name of the person for whom he want? ed tho letter. " Louder!" cried the man. "What namo V yelled the clerk. " Loud? er !" againcd bawled the man, who sup? posed the clerk to be deaf. The clerk took a long breath, and with all his might again bawled out into the man's face the same '-question : "What name ?" This was done in so loud a tone that the echo seemed to return from the far off hills. The man started back in alarm, shouting at tho very top of his lungs : "Louder, sir, Louder! I told you Louder ! My name is nothing else." "Oh! ah! ah!" said the clerk, "your namo .is Louder, eh ? Didn't think of that; here is your letter, Mr. Louder, here's your letter." A Benton on Communication be? tween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. '; Such was the extent and solidity of the Roman roads?a single line of road above four thousand Roman, and equal to three thousand seven hundred and forty English miles?and the four thousand cities of the empire all connected with roads of equal solidity besides. The road_ which we propose is only half the length of one chain of theirs. I mention them for their magnificence?their gran? deur?and as presenting an example wor? thy of our imitation. The road I pro? pose is necessary to us. and now. "We want it now. The state of our posses? sions on the Pacific demands it. The time to begin has arrived. All the neces? sary information is on hand. The means are ready. The title to Oregon is set? tled, and a government established there, and population is growing up. California is acquired : people are there : and a gov? ernment. We have a fleet on that coast, troops there and going. Streams of pop? ulation are concentrating there. Since the discovery of the New "World by Co? lumbus, there has not been such an un? settling of the foundations of society. Not merely^ individuals and companies, but communities and nations are in com? motion, all bound to the setting sun?to the gilded horizon of western America. For want of an American road, the}- seek foreign routes, far round, by sea and land, to reach by an immense circuit what is a part of their own land. Until we can get a road of our own, we must use and sup? port a foreign route ; but this is a tempo? rary resource, demanded by the exigency of the times, and until we can get our own read)-. Never did so great an ob? ject present itself to the acceptance of a nation. We own the country from sea to sea?from the Atlantic to the Pacific? and upon a breadth equal to the length of the Mississippi?and embracing the whole temperate zone. Three thousand miles across, and half that breadth, is the mag? nificent parallelogram of our domain. We can run a national central road, through and through, the whole distance, under our flag and under our laws. Mili? tary reasons require us to make it; for troops and munitions must go there. Po? litical reasons require us to make it; it will be a chain of union between the At? lantic and Mississippi States. Commer? cial reasons demand it from us; and here I touch a boundless field, dazzling and bewildering the imagination from its vast ness and importance. The trade of the Pacific ocean, of the western coast of North America, and of eastern Asia, will all take it^ track: and not only for OUr sclves, but for prosperity. That trade of India which has been shifting its chan? nels from the time of the Phoenicians to the present, is destined to shift once more, and to realize the grand idea of Colum? bus. The American road to India will also become the European track to that region. Tlic European merchant, as well as the American, will fly across our con? tinent on a straight line to China. The rich commerce of Asia will flow through our centre. And where has that com inci'ce ever flowed without carrying wealth and dominion with it? Look at its ancient channels, and the cities which it raised into kingdoms, and the popula? tions which upon its treasures became re? splendent in science, learning, and the arts. Tyre, Sidor, Balbcc, Palmyra. Alexandria, among its ancient emporiums, attest the power of this commerce to en? rich, to aggrandize, and to enlighten na? tions. Constantinople, in the middle ages, and in the time of the Crusades, was the wonder of western Europe; and ull because she was then a thoroughfare of Asiatic commerce. Genoa and Venice, mere cities, in later time, became the mutch of kingdoms, and the envy of the kings, from the mere divided streams of this trade of which the}' became the thoroughfare. Lisbon had her great day, and Portugal her pre-eminence during the little while that the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope put her in communication with the East. Amsterdam, the city of a little territory rescued 1'rom the sea, and the Seven United Provinces, not equal in extent to ono of our lesser States, became groat in arms, in letters, in wealth, and in power; and all upon the East India trade. And .London, what makes her the com? mercial mistress of the world?what makes an Island, no larger than one of our first class States, the mistress of pos? sessions in the four quarters of the globe, a match for half of Europe, and domi? nant in Asia? What makes all this, or contributes most to make it, but this same Asiatic trade? In no instance has it failed to carry the nation or the people which possessed it, to the highest pinna? cle of weakh and power, and with it the highest attainments of letters, arts, and sciences. And so will continue to be. An American road to India, through the heart of our country, will revive upon its lino all the wonders of Avhich we have read? and eclipse them. The western wilderness from the Pacific to the Mississippi, will start iuto life under its touch. A long line of cities will grow up. Existing cit? ies will take a new start. The state of the wrorld calls for a new road to India, and it is our destiny to give it?the last and greatest. Let us act up to the great? ness of the occasion, and show ourselves worthy of the extraordinary circumstan? ces in which we are placed, by securing, while we can, an American road to India, central and national, for ourselves and our posterity?now and hereafter, for thousands of years to come." -<s? F. R. S. A few years since, there flourished in one of the Southern cities on the Atlan? tic coast, a certain original eccentric in? dividual, whose sole occupation was the pursuit of the oyster trade, of course un? der difficulties. It was on a grand scale, and "Old Shell," as he was nicknamed, was a prime fovorite with all the young bucks, roystering blades and fast men about town. He was a passionate admir? er of oysters in every shape. His food was almost exclusively oysters. He bet on oysters. He studied oysters. In fine, he was emphatically an oyster-man. -Old Shell" one summer, took it into his head that a trip to the North would be of advantage to his health, moral and physical. To resolve to do anything and to do it were with him one and the same thing. He went! On arriving at New York, he put up at a fashionable hotel; and as he was a tall, fine looking man, dressed well, and spent his money freely, he soon became almost as much ? favorite in the North as he was in the South. There was one thing about him that puzzled every one. On the hotel book of arrivals his name was entered in full with the following capital letters, in a large sprawling hand, attached : F. R. S. On his cards the same mysterious letters ap? peared ; "Mr. So-and-So, of such a city, F. R. S." He never would explain the mean ! mg; and great of course, was the small talk and chat-chat about it, The "gossip market " rose above par in the course of two or three days. One morning a newly-conic English gentleman, of middle age and grave as? pect, was looking over the list of arrivals, lie was struck by the mysterious letters, as every one else had been. "F. R. S.," muttered he; "it can't be! Yet there the letters arc. Who would have thought it ? The clerk was called up and requested to explain. lie knew nothing more than that one of the boarders and lodgers had put his name down with that handle at? tached. "Show him to me ?" said the English? man, eagerly. "There he goes now, sir!" said the clerk, pointing to our hero. Tho r.ext moment "Old Shell" felt him? self gra.'iped by another hand, whilst his arm went through a rapid and vigorous , motion, familiarly known as the "pump handle action." It was tho Englishman; his face beaming with cordiality. " Delighted to meet you, sir. Had not tho slightest idea of seeing one of our so? ciety on this side of the water! When were you a member? My mcmoiy is so defec? tive "? " Member of what ?" said "Old Shell," half surprised, half angry. "O, don't be so modest my dear sir!" "Modest, the deuce! What society ?' "No uashfulness, now ! You are a Fel? low, I. know." "Blast my buttons, stranger!" exclaim? ed "Shell" thoroughly indignant; "do you call me a fellow '!" "Fellow of the Royal Society, sir. Y'ou mistake my meaning. Fellow of the Royal Society of London!" "I'm no Londoner, man; I come from down South, I do ! I am an oysterman, I am!" "Why, what on earth docs F. R. S. mean, then attached to your name?" said the astonished Englishman, science and surprise beaming from his countenance. "Well, stranger, I don't care if I do tell you. You sco, I like oysters, I do; and F. R. S. means adzackly nothing more nor less than Fried, Roasted and Stewed !" K. O. Pieknyune. The Excitement in Virginia.?Rich? mond, October 30.?Daniel Loudon, a Southern State Rights man, has commen? ced organizing Minute Men to defend the Mothe:." State in case Lincoln is elected. Governor Wise will speak here in a da}- or two. Governor Letcher is out in a letter in the Virginia Index, on the course of Doug? las anil the various political questions of the day. It meets with great favor from all parlies. There is great excitement here in re? gard to the probable election of Lincoln. Virginia looks to New Y'ork to save the Union by voting the LTnion ticket. - Chemistry.?An International Con? gress of Chemists was recently held at Carlesruhe, Germany, commencing its sessions Sept. 30. Over 140 chemists were present, coming from every quarter of the Globe; the majority, of course, be? ing Germans. The main subject of de bate was the best method of expressing the composition of substances in the symbolic notation. The deliberations are to be published. -* Thk Largest Y'et.?Nine horses start? ed last Friday, in the race at Woodlawn, near Louisville, Kentucky. This is the largest number that ever contested for a purse on any course in America. -o Will of W. W. Belcher.?We learn that a Will has been found, which if es? tablished will make an entire change in the disposition of. this valuable estate. The property amounts to over 6100,000, and has been sold by the administrators. Independent Press. ^ A Yankee Story. Once while steaming down the Ohio, I heard one that was genuine. I had been sitting in an arm chair under the lee of one of the chimneys, and on the hurri? cane deck, reading a late novel, in 'which I was so much absorbed that I did no no? tice what was passing around me, until my attention was attracted by a Yankee and a Cocknej-, who were evidently try ins: to find out who could tell the most unbelievable yarn. The Cockney led the way; and turning the subject upon hog killing, told of a gang of six hands in Merrie England, who would kill six hogs a minute, and clean them. ""Wal, squire," responded the Yankee^ 'T believe I know o' somethin' a leetle ahead o' that, notwithstandiV that's a party big 'un." "'Ow's that?" " Wall; you see, my frien', I've got an old Uncle Nate, my mother's brother, who got up a little the cussedust masheen to clean hogs with that you ever did see. I It want like nothin' in ali Natur', but it worked mity slick. You see, Uncle Nate spent his hull life at it, and got it just e'en, a'mast perfect. He'd drive a hog in, and wun knife would stick it; and tlien hot water'd squirt on to it: then an? other knife'd scrape off all the brussels, and take out the innards ; and a consarn ed thing would cut it up, and drop it into the bar'l cleen dun. Wal, you see, a fel? ler cum down all the way from Bosting to see the thing go; for he was in the pork packing up thair, and didn't know but what he might want tu git wun. Wal. sur, Uncle Nate got the thing in runnin' order, and then fetched the feller out tu look at it. I happened in just then, so Uncle Nate got me to drive in the pig, while he let on steam. He hadn't mor'rt touch the lever,till the thing started, and you'd ought to bin thair. Yen kuowa pig allers squeels when he is stuck/ Wal, sur, I heerd that pig squcel, and I heerd 'im fall into the bar'l after he was cut up; but, I swar to man. I never could tell which happened first." "Will you 'ave something to drink with me, Mr. Filkins?" asked the Cockney. ''Don't care if I du. korncl," replied Mr Filkins. And as they went down aftei a drink. I again turned to my novel. '-o-' It makes us proud when our love of : woman is returned; it ought to make ui prouder still when we can love her fo; herself alone, without the aid of any sei fish reflection. This is the religion o love. -.?O Arkansas.?The population of Arkan? sas is likely to exceed 5U?.U00, and sh< will probably bo entitled to four, if no' five, representatives in Congress. Sh< now sends but two. THE GLOBE, THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF CONGRESS. IPUBLISH now my anuuat Prospectus of Till DAILY GLOBE, and the C?NGRESSIONAI UL.OBE, to remain subscribers, and inform those who may desire to subscribe, that Congress wil meet on the lirst Monday of next December, whet I shall resume publishing ihe above-named papers They have been published so long, that most pub li. men know their character, and therefore I decir i: needless to give a minute account of the kind of matter they will contain. THE DAILY GLOBE will contain a report of th< Debates in both branches of Congress as taker down by reporters, equcnl, at least to any corps ol short hand-writers in this, or in any other country A majority of them will each, be able to report, verbatim, ten thousand words an hour, while the av? erage number of words spoken by fluent speakers rarely exceeds seven thousand fivo hundred word; an hour. When the debates of a day do not make more than forty-five columns, they will appear iri The Daily Globe of the next morning, which wil contain, also, the news of the day, together will such editorial articles as may be suggested by pass ing events. THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPEN PIX will contain n report of all the Debates in Con gross; revised by the speakers, the Messages of tin l'residt nt of ;hc United Suites, the Annual Reporti of the Heads of the Executive Departments, lh< Laws passed during the sessions, and copious in? dexes to all. 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