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r * o 9** * I - _ ??? TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.] "thid z>n.xoxi or uiBianTT is htexuxtvia-iiiAiaoia." [PAYABLE IN ADVAHCE BY DAVIS & CREWS. ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1859. VOL; XV... jFrom lit/* Sitiwi/ nf th* I *i. _ * JOHN WEST, THE TEXAN BRAVOMany years ago there lived near San Antonio a family by the name of West. Emigrating to Texas from North Carolina, just previous to tlie Revolution, by which Tex ns bad gained her freedom, the bad gone through all the trials incident to that stormy period, and were, by Acclamation, conceded to be the bravest among the brave. Shortly after the conclusion of the war, John West, the young 'est of three brothers, returned to North Carolina, takinfr with liltn l.?e ,>?.< ~ ^ I Texas one of tlio most beautiful women of j that Slate, renowned far and wide. for Wauty. For seme three }-ears John West < seems to have realized that ideal of happi J iiess dwelt upon so much, yet so seldom realized in this world. His vine clad cot- j tage, his flocks, his humble, but honorable : avocations, his sweet wife and infant j daughter, were his world, and he sighed for i no other. There can be no paradise upon 1 < earth without the slime of the serpent be- j' ing visible on its llowers, and this one was j i no exception to the common lot. i i The Revolution had indeed gained for j < Texas freedom from Mexican tyranny, hut 1 had left the country overrun with scoun- ; <lrels of every dye, who revelled in crime of i all kinds, unchecked either by law, or that ' thing stronger than law?public opiti >?i. 1 Strong bands of these " Free Companions" j J roamed from place to place, levying black j ' mail upon all who were unable to pay it, j 1 not unfrequeutly committing the most' ' wanton murders. j Among the few men, who were opposed j to these lawless proceedings, John West i 1 stood conspicuous, denouncing them open J ( ly without fear of the consequences. As i , must be expected, this manly conduct ' I brought on him the direct threat?. of veil i geatice from the vieiou*. for nii!? - around | Ills dwelling. Things could not Imij; iv j, main thus among Mich un-n wiilnnt < <>m- s ing to a crisis, ami one culil stormy night > a band of men knocked at bis door re1 questing admittance. His uitV* objected to his opening the door, hut the soul of West never knew fear, and without knowing any thing of the character of bis nocturnal t visitors, he admitted them. Some ten or ( twelre ruffians of the most repulsive stamp j entered the room, and with loud curses, | demanded liquor and food. West, still not c suspecting anything wrong, sat before 'j them what the house afforded, and while ^ turning to go into the other apartment was ^ felled senseless to the ground by a blow from behind, and immediately gagged and j rri.? ? i * ? - ' wuuuu. x lie aiCKClllU" bCCII^b WUICI1 IOl lowed we shnll not attempt to depict. The c sun whieli had risen hut a moruinir liefore. I ii on a scene of primeval happiness, now lit up with his first rays, mouldering ruins, ^ blackened walls, two charred and grinning (j skeletons, sad memorials of yesterday's { happiness, two flowers breathed upon by death ere they were faded or soiled by the j simoons of a hot and pestilent world. Ten years have flown by since that night of horrors. Ten years of sorrow, pain, j joy ; ten years of stupendous change. In ( that time have been enacted some of the ? r i ^ most sublime dramas of Time; the Lone , c?? _?!?i -i ; i - i -i -i outr ui i uxub biiii bimics ungniiy ill me firmament; bu?. oininiuiis clouds seem to ^ threaten its brilliancy. Mexico again asserts her right to that beautiful province ^ wrested from her grasp by the heroes of ^ S;in Jacinto. The tocsin of war again ret sounds over the rich prairies; and every where the people are eager to "whip Mexico." Recruiting officers are every where . opened ; and into one of these let us step for a moment, reader, and study the rich J variety of originals which we shall find there. Asweertera fine manly voice is trolling some fine old ballad, commemorative of American prowers by ?ea and land. Here, sitting on the bare lloor is a party of liunlers, looking on at the strange doings ?to them?of their more civilized companions. Suddenly all are hushed still as death, for they instinctively know that 4ome deed of blood and violence is al>out lobe perpetrated. "Liar,' shouts a tall commanding inan to a cowering and fright, ened man at his feet; " you are one of the vidians who burnt my house, murdered my wife and child, and would have served me the same wiv. if I had not trot nut of your eluthes; you are ll.e last of 'em, but j it shall never be said that Jack West ever ' took the life of his bitterest foe, without 1 a chance; your mustang is a good one, 8 mount him, and if you can get away you ' can have your life, but if I catch you, no * mercy, for your infernal gang showed ine and mine none. 1 . "Go, five minutes start, and the Lord have 1 mercy on you if tlie mustang fails you." ' The speaker turned, and walking up lo the * light, commenced putting fresh cups on his revolver, and arranging his arms. The * man to whom iie had been streaking arose, * and casting a look of hatred and fear at ' We?t, rushed precipitately from the room. ?* WU*t do you intend to do to him, Colonel I" asked a pompous, portly individual < coming up, and laying his hand familiarly f * on the shoulder of West. " Send him to t hell,** was the instant reply, and the large t man shrunk back into the crowd, for all I knew the character of West, aad none i Oared to arouse him. Without a word to ? any one, he left tho room, and in a moment \ uie lurious heat of his horse's hoofs told that tho avenger was on the track of hiB victim. For miles and miles the prairie stretceed out, like an undulating sea, terminating its waves of verdue in an im- P?* mouse cypress swamp ; and towards this ?P1 swamp the wretch who was Btrangely afforded a chance for his life, was now has- ma tening with frantic speed. It was a strange "o' race. Tho moon, full orhed, rodu high in the SUF heavens, shedding a flood of silvery ra- foci diance on all objects, making it almost as are bright as day; a stillness profound a3 the val grave reigned around, broke only by the co11 tramp, tramp of the pursued and pursuer. anc Nearer and nearer does he draw to the c'n doomed wretch, and with .1 shriek of despair docs the hopeless man see that it is *ow impossible for him to roach his place of ,,I,( refuge. Kveti now thn breath of his ene- Wl1 my's stee?l comes like fire into his face, and wai with one more bound they are si.le by ma side. 44 Spare me ! O, for God's sake, mer the i*y !"' yelled the terror stricken fugitive.? last The only answer was a sharp, quick flash, vas I stunning report, and the murderer stood fou in tlie presence of that God whom he had plat outraged by his crimes on earth. Gone ! the imauucaled, unannoinled, with his wnite con ghastly f < upturned to the sky, and the one red blood dabbling the -et white flowers, woi he last <>f that murderous band which had She liarnd forever 1 lit; happiness of the cold, :md -tern man, silling on his horse looking ?hu iiipas-iivclly on ihe face of the dead man, uatj Linking dreamily, perhaps, of the dear lonie, and its dearer inmales, lost to liiin [ier II this world forever. | ]{?*a<Ier, this i-, no fancy sketch. John bla> ^Vest is not the name of the man, one in fout ri.lent of whose varied life we have endeav- to. >red to give you ; but his name is inscri- joy, ed high 011 the rolls of fame. Should bill lii? <'\*t-r llie?>t I lit- "Ve of a Texan li.:tinr??r eru? i<* wiii, perhaps. leinln-i the niglit befoie hav In- wall* of Monterey, whore lie t Id iliis 'ere itoiy to his companions, s;mJ a ?t rippling 'ho vho formed one of the group of listeners. CIW Vale. rayi ?...? ?les | BIG TREES. S On the 23'! and 24th ol June, T visited ovei lie celel rated Mammoth Tree Grove, in fi?e Calaveras c<?., Oregon, accompanied l>y 11st' iro. J. [). ltlain and liro. II. Bland and won adv. We readied the grove at four p. tn. tcr in the 24th, and put up at the "Mammoth of i free Grove House," the only public, in- tion Iced the only dwelling house at the grove. " .'lie accommodations were satisfactory. A wa)' emiweekly paper, entitled the"Uig Tree Pcol bulletin and Murphy's Advertiser," is edit* at ' id and printed on the stump of what is P001 ailed the big tree, though it is not by any w^'' wfs irti?cai irco id iuegrove, lucre tl,c re ninety-six of those wonderful trees in a ?f f ircuit of about one mile. These trees do the lot stand alone, but in a forest of large CHO roes, generally pines and cedars. They kee] ire truly wonderful, and like our great 8rty akos, one must see tbeiu fully to appre- to 1 iate their vast dimensions. Sugar-piues, outight feet in diameter, and more than two erat iundred feet high, standing in the near ings leighborhood of these wonderful growths, aboi eein mere saplings in tlie comparison, that The Father of the Forest" lies in stately twe< ;raudeui- on the ground, having been nier down down, nobody knows when, his huge w?iti urin measuring one hundred and twelve tend i;et in cireuiiifereiioe, and by estimate four and tuudred and fifty feet in length. I say byes- to d niiate for the Ion is broken off three bun- ion Ired feet from tlie root. But as the tree is 'nor iglit feet in diameter whore it is broken, it fron s reasonably supposed jogging from the ver i reiierai taper, that one hundred and fifty beli< eet must-be added to complete the length, that 'The Mother of the Forest" excites com- til I niseration. Tbere she stands, denuded of too! ler bark one hundred and twenty feet from mar be ground. This was done about four She ears ago, and yet, so tenacious is she of atjyl ife, a few green tufts still adorn her head. ye8 "he frame work of scaffolding is still stand- aR8C ng, and. the spiral stairway, formed by ji,e arg?! pins driven into the tree. We did a|| \ lot. n^cend this stairway, as the gentlenrtan- ?? y conductor thought the pins might not be mog eliable, "The Big Tree" was cut, or jje at her bored down, souia limo actn - gee eveled stump forms the floor of an arbor, vhich, as stated above, is tlie editing and gOQ irinting office of the " Big Tree Bulletin." Hie butt-cog, some thirty feet long, lies on j be ground, and is ascended by a neat ^ Uirway of twenty-six steps. Tlie trees pfR ire perhaps all named. Besides those ( ibove mentioned, there are "The Two of M Juards," "The Three Graces," "The ^ Twius," " Hercules," etc. Some lake the ftt ft mines of the several Stales and of our dis- ^ .iuguished men. -Winficld Scott is a tree M >f most noble dimensions and proportions, . md most grandly represents the -noble j,^ jhitftain whose name it bears. But nin'e enough about the big tree*. Wonderful ire the works of God!?Bishop Scott. . . ty.1 " Did You Ever"?A boarding Mi&a e$ei leclining u eat" a word too vulgar for je- ban Inod ears defines it thus," To insert nutri- gej^ ioufi pabulum into tbe denticulated oriSce j R >e!ow the protuberance, wbicb, being rna%- keel icated, peregrinate through Um euriiagi- ' totts cavities of the larynx and Se finally, *??! lomicilisted id the receptacle for digestible )artic)es." too THE TOWN TATTLEB. Br IIETTV IIEAUTLT. Hiere is, strange to say, one clas3 c >plo in this our enlightened nge, who nr >osed to tlie publication and circulatio nowspapere and all other printed infoi lion, upon principlo. They seo in th v disseminator of knowledge a median ?erior to their own, and like Othellt ling that their occupation is gone, the loutl in tlieir denunciations of the inn ion. Need we state that this band i n posed of those whose very 1 if 1 meat it is to tattle and make mi ef? Who that lias lived in a small countr rn, has not at some time or other, com ler the influence, or been acquaints h one of these pests, who, assuming nn interest in the affairs of other: nifest kindness that warms itself int< victim's confidence, only to betray it a , ? Is there a habituated place in uu t country, in which the gossip has no rid a resting place? We s-.id resting t'e ! That is plainly a misnomer, fo tattler never rests. She (for we mus fuss that the busy body is general!; of our own sex) never tires in tii k that she has given herself to do i will find some subject for remark if no cause exists, she will one i is gifted with a most prolific iuiag ion, and draws upon it ad libituh er for the delectation of herself o friends, who are accustomed to lock lier for news. Many a life has bin 'ted, with the ungenerous and ur ided suspicious which she h:is given risi Many a heart, in the fullness of it has had its sweetness turned into thi eruess of woe, by tlie infusion of he ;1 doubts. Many a young dreame c seen their almost verified hopes sea d before her pestilential bfe;Uh. Fron bosom of many and many a pun l f 11 ro line fnr/iuflr clmt nnf flu i of hope, dooming them to a lifelong >air. ee her now, sitting at her window rlooking the street through which Ini sb or inclination calls her neighbors 1 the vulture a human prototype, ilti: lid be her, an she sits picking chara< to pieces, and fixing the sharp claws slander in the very vitals of reputi . Thus 6he discourses. There's that Miss Trippet! She's a a gadding about, and minding othei |>le's business when she ought to b? lome, helping her inotlier. Now thai r woman is worked almost to death le her stuckup daughter promenade: street, dressed up in the highest styk auhion. I don't know where she geti money to buy all these things, but 1 Cl.~ Tkf_ V II? y?coo? one nun mr. x Hruiy, il)Hi is the store, don't have so much tc for nothing. She takes good care pass his store every time she goes Now I wouldn't do a thing to oji e against any one, or huit their fuel i, but I am determined to find out all ut them two. I feel perfectly satisfied , there is something wrong going on bes in them. Still I don't want to act upot e suspicion, so I'll just set Phoebe tc sh. Then there's her brother. He pre' Is to be a partner in a store in York comes up here, dressed up in his finery azzle us country people. It's my onintliat he gambles. lie has lots of ley, for I saw him pay the stage drivei i a lot of bills ; five sand tens, the dri said when I asked him. Now I .don't sve that any young man could ever earn 1 .1.. --J r _i ?. ?? ? (tuiguiib uuucokiVf rtuu L blJrtll I rubl UII' know the truth of it. Her mother, ! How do I know that she was evei ried ! I liavn't got any proof of it! came into the village unknown to body. She says that she's a widow! , a grass widow. Now I'll venture tc rt that she is a vixen, and has driven man to California, or suicide. I'll know hese thing* as sure as I hive." there gods the netf minister: He's the it slUctc-Up parson that I ever knew, may be good and pious, hut I'd like tc some evidence of it. I don't like liis ntions to ifisa Pray. 1'herti can't any d come of it. These ministers will ats beat watching. I offered to assist in visiting the poor, but he told me , he didn't need my assistance, yet Miss v and him often meet at sick beds, and he houses of the pootef Neighbors. A nge pladS to carry on artiorirs. I'm delined that our church sfiall be purified, II events. I wouldn't distress ar.y one, I'll have the whole thing exposed.'' Oh 1 yes doctor, you can ride in your to lt? sure, but I know it ain't paid for, just like to know what kind of meJii he's giving to Mrs. Forceps. ThereV ething wtong there, too. She's a hear lealthy woman, and vet Ium i to her houee two week*, and he call* y day. TO heiieve that her poor husd don't know all that's transpiring. Til the doctor'? hoy to find pot all about it. irft ourions, hut I am determined to p things right.1* Tie potaoti than gathered in solitude, ft i spread in iataf <2oees through the mttrity. Unr wbfcpera. nods, or open arks, all do tbew work, and misery ft often tbe^pmequeno* AMERICAN FILIBUSTERING Never nation more ontirely misunder stood the true grounds of its own strength tlie true basis of its own glory, or the tru< o elements of its present and future prosper n ity, than did the United States when thej r* suffered themselves to be prevailed upon tc e go filibustering. We are not speaking n now from a moral, but only from a politi ), cil point of view. v America has nothing to do, like tin 0 Laird of Dumbodike's trees, to grow u[ s while we sleep. If sho can maintain : e government sulliciently powerful to proteel s life and property, if sho continues to doubk her population at the end of every twenty v five years, sho has a destiny beforo hei e which leaves her no reason to envy lh< 1 lauds or the prospects of any nation of lh< a earth. The elements she contains withii i, herself are sufliciently homogeneous tc ) fuko into a single nation ; and that natiot * 111 net if lliiiwrfi no 4 '"v" ? t ...HW.f .. (jV/ V.? no IIIUV uiu IIUW pro r ceeding, become in no very long time, as t numerous as the Chinese themselves, and r fur more powerful than all the States o r Europe put together. Is it not strange t, that the heirs of this magnificent inhcri v tance should have been so blinded by van e 'l)"? by party spirit, or by ambition, as It K believe that they could accelerate the des tinv which is so clearly working out it their by piratical inroads upon neighboring ; nations ? The mission of America being as we have said, to grow and increase, how r can she more effectually counteract it thai - by sending her sons to contend with dead c ly climates and hostile populations for tin , possession of land in all respects inferior tc u that which she enjoys in such abundanc< s at home? Why should America, inhabit B ed by a race which evidently flourishes r best in the Northern part of the tcmperat< r zone, seek to force her way into the regions L where her sons, if they establish them , selves, must become in a few generations 0 enervated and degenerate, and probabh ? unable to maintain the possessions whicli r they have acquired ? A hundred years hence, the then people of America may find emigration, if not a necessity, at anj - rate a convenience, but even then w< think lliey will seek for iheir new settle g uienlfi rallier in tho temporate regions ol , South America and Northern Asia, than in the burning and insalubrious jungles ol ^ the tropics. Let America look at our experience and profit by it. Our colonies in I the temperate zones, the States themselves among the number, have been hereditably 4 successful. Within tho tropies, our success has beeu much more more checkered, and our great tropical empire of Ilindoostan is held only a price of blood, of treasure and ? of anxiety, which makes us often half inclined to regret tlio success of the British i . ? . r filibusters of the eighteenth century. Entertaining these views, wo have read ( with most lively satisfaction the anli-Walk, er proclamation of President Buchanan, i and the excellent article in the Washing ( ton Union, which for has furnished I ed the occasion. It will be a happy day I for America if she can prevail upon herself I to act according to the policy of the President, and to adopt the principles of his organ in the press. She may take it as the feeling of all her well wishers on this side of the Atlantic, that nothing would tend to raise her so much in tho eyes of.-Europe, as to see her people, as well as her Gov' erument, separate themselves emphatically . and entirely from any appearance of sympathy or interest-in tfie transactions of such second rate adventurers and reckless homicides as the so-called Generals Walker and Ilenningsen. Europe is not so straight laced that there would not l>e in many quarters a secret, or, perhaps, an avowed 1 sympathy for the splendid in^iitiea of a , Cortez, a Pizarro, or an Alvaraco. But America would be little flattered could she , be made acquainted with the remarks that one hears on the delusion of a great nation which suffers .ittft charactej to be soiled before the wocttUiy the outrages of a set of their ow'ri^i?er<ible trade, and which is betrayed into ajjUmonslration of 1 .sympathy for men who Trove dragged its , flag through the dirt withdut Offering it in , return tfa slightest moral'and political advantage. * ' .. , The decided statid vtbTeh Mr; Buchanan half made in thidt ib'atter, ta'the more creditable to ^im because,' irf making it, be is by , no meansrto be considered afi tbfl representative of the party to wh'onif be owes his 1 election. Such countenance as the filli Dusters have received fa Ameapa, is mainly owing, we believe, to the desire of tlie South to bring new slave .Slates into the Uuion.?London Times, Advict to Young *Ladleg.??iever be afraidx>f blushing. Accept no present of value from nien.. Avoid lightness of car riage. Be modest and moderate in. dress. Be not often seen in public. Affect ho . languishing. Don't talk loud. Never deal , in scandal. Beoeive saltfte* roodefttly. Be . affable wilh mea but atft familiar. 8ymn.tkS.^ ? l?l- .1? ii>vuim wnu tiiTruiiiunumnej jm not si Ways laughing, and' uikln^tj?e discreet. Suppose not all imq to (sola lottf with yotf i who show you civilities. Let ito lord he . gilt on your part. Speak not your mind I on all occasions. Seem not-, 'hear ira proper conversations, V;-** "* ' , It is said that a young lady on Bosto* Common, dressed in the extreme of. (aahion, i was mistaken by some hoys.for. ? public ' tent,and tbe^ Wad ao:tt?lly crawled gamre distance undfdfaho iboy di&i covered tbeir ' ^ * t. i - - . WHAT WE LIVJB FOE. " We live for those who lovo us? For those who are kind and true ; Fur lit* Heaven tliut smiles above up, And which we arc hastening to." So sang the Hutchinsons in 0110 of the touching heart songs. The thought may fc a moment arrest tlio attention of a few wh listen to its utterance in melody, but tli mass hear nor heed it not. Tliey seem I live as though life has no great purposeno higher aim than the gratification of sel Those in the crowd are jostling each othe fiercely almost are treading down ?ac other; to reach (heir particular goal. Th pale face of sorrow, or tho wail of distres are unheeded. Gain?gain?is the mat detied cry. Gold and lands for to-day, fc tomorrow wo die. Let the dogs lick tli sores of the poor, and despised Samaritan turn aside to hind up tho bruised an wounded unfortunates. Stock in heavei brings no direct dividen in money. Len< ing to the Lord, will not add two per ceil ' ner in mi tli in iln? t --- ..IV junuj llvAiUIUUIilllUllS.? Such scents to be the common understatu f ing. Men act as if life wcro an ctcrn J ty. But the night cometh, there are grav< to fill ami worms to fatten. Wealth fine 1 no exclusive privileges under the sod, < "over the river.1' Bonds, mortgages an ' stocks are not current in the " hereafter r ' No''sharp practice," no "shrewd busine: | transactions" there. No extraordinary p< cents, for thoso which have entered into a inheritance which fadeth not away. N poor faces to grind, for all aro rich. The are joint heirs with Jesus Christ to an etc nity of bliss. Sorrow and pain ; the crotc and tattered garments; the bruised and ii jured heart, have been left in iho grave, an the paupers on earth become the owners < Heaven! Oh! how often we have thouffl i _ ? of what may the feelings of the rich, tt pompous, and the proud, when the see tho: they scorned here, robed in the unfadin and dazzling fabrics of eternal angel life.? ' Wisconsin Chief. i < > <? r The Art of not Quarreling.?How is ? we never quarrel, Mrs. Xantippe? Wei > I will tell you. You see, for a quarrel, an . especially a good quarrel, it is necessary I F have two parties. One peraon can't mafc i a quarrel. Now, if I am in a quarrclsom F humor, and break out, my wife remair cool and collected and doesn't say a wort i If my wife is peevish, and displays mor i teniper than is becoming to one of bt beautiful sex, I, her husband, remain as ur moved as the monument, or else cheat m\ self into the belief that I am listening fc the moment to one of Grisi'a heaven! songs. Thus, whilst one party is volcani cally fuming, the other is as calm as a col potato. In all our quarrels there is, iu thi way, always a controlling power. Serious ly, we never quarrel, because tliere is a phi losophric compact between us never t quarrel together. Wc only quarrel one a a time, and it is astonishing, if you leave i quarrel alone, how very soon it dies out That's our secret, Madam, ami I should ad ' vise you and all Xantippes to follow it.? Punch. - ^ ^ Health of Children.?Multitudes of cbil dren from three to six years of age ar duly stimulated in the way of education developing to excess the nervous tempei anient and at the same time weakening al other portions of the body. The child i too closely confined in doors?has not sul ficient exercise?and on account of thi over-straining, of the nervous system, i not profited as it should be by nourisli ment, rest or sleep. Such a course of train ing also begets certain diseases arid weak nesscs from which the system never rccov ers. Scarcely any subject i9 so importan connected with early education, or in th whole range of humaa improvement, a this, and it ia encouraging to see public tention called to it. At the meeting e the Middlesex Association^of Teachers licit recently At E?lden, after discussion this sul ject somewhat thoroughly, the followyjj , resolution" wa9 unanimously passed : Resolved, That it Is the opinion of tlii Association that the children in our prima ry schools should not1>e confined to ettld; in tbelr eeats rriore than three hours pe day, and it the interests of children, tin parents and the community require (ha they shall be under their teachers' tuitioi a longer time per day, ihfc additional hour should be devoted to eiercises calculate to promote the moral, the social arid fliysi cal welfare of the system. u All," said a miserly father, to bis soi William, "h'eartv breakfasts till *ni? t.?i of tlio worldj dnd'treniendous suppora lh< other half.w ( 5,'r 411 8dppoae/'?id that tb?|ver are only those who die of hlinger.* - : At a- cattle show recently a fellgl} win *aa trim king himtdf ridi?rt<w?$tj tkftrtflfaa ous,at ]Mt'broke forth! "Catt tbete bdr priW cattle f Why, they ain't uoibln' U tfhat otfV folks raised. My. father raise* the biggest calf ef any txfea 'roiiod old M ? W- -i? * I pans. - von * aouoi n," reat?rk?d s by 8twid?r,"and tbe noi?}?t?" An old tfreatrtf, Mid b? iu poM& (b*t ffrtoftg girfo wot? tfcto drefcu , aUtslf-itttti tfs s made of rtiqfeetto &jp4rte mod^ty, FAMILY FAILING. Tlio habit of viewing everything in ridiculous light is one of tlie family failin that I would warn against. It too oft . leads to an unimiablo desire to detect a1 hold up to redicule the faults of otlie and it almost always destroys the finer fe 1C ?- admiration for what is beautif and the tender and more lovable qualit of puttiug the best construction upon t P action of others, *kc. A critical, con orioi r> fault-finding person in a most anamial I' being; and let us not conceal the true o< c ousness of such propensities in oursolv under tho guise of a sense of the lud js ? j rous. In many families, however, whore bo e lovo and good temper prevail, there is wl may bo called an irksome, rather than a s is . ' , fill, mode of carpinir and con trad iiitinc n IU . ? PI another. No harm is meant, and no offeti (I . j' is taken; but what can bo mors irksoi than to hoar two sisters, for instance, c< tinually setting each other right upon I j fling points, and differing from each otl j in opinion for no apparent reason, but fro habit of contradiction ? and such a hal Ja does it become that one may soraetim js see persons who have acquired it, conti )r diet their own statement just made, the n I ment any one advances the same opinic . , ; It is generally on such trifles that the b g habit shows itself, so that it may seem nee r less to advert to it; but it is a family fau and should bo watched ajjainst, for it is n ? 0 annoyance, though a petty one, never to 1 able to open your lips without being harrf ^ sed by such a contradiction as, " Oh, r r- ' j that happened on Tuesday, not Wedm ^ day;" or, if you remark that the clou j look threatening, to be asked with a to ^ of surprise," Do you think it looks li ^ rain ? I am sure there is no appearan of such a thing." Narrate an incidei 10 ,e every small item is corrected ; hazard opinion, it is wondered at or contradictei _ assert a fact, it is doubted and questionei till you at length keep silent in despair.Friends Iutelliyenccr. it 1 PUNCH'S TEST OF GOODNESS. J The Test of a Good Husband.?Loi at the key hole of the latch key on t street door. If the paint is not rubbed < two or three inches around it, if t edges are as sharp and clean as win j the door wns first painted, you may 1 sure that it is a truthful indication of 0 good husband, who is most regular, and early as scarcely ever to have occasion use liis latch-key ; or supposing he does, so accurate in his aim as to be able to 1 the key-hole the very first time of nimii ? at it. IIow many husbands, who go hoc late, would be able to do the same. The Ttst of a Good Young Man.?Tli test takes pretty nearly the same circle the above. However, intead of the stre door, look at his watch. If the key ho where it is wound up is bright, and withoi the smallest marginal note?if there bet a ? ^ scratches, run lining in a giddy maze arour t, such as betray decided marks of fur bling, you may look upon it as a shinir mirror of a good young man, whose ban when he goes to bed, is as steady as h ^ conduct has been through the day, e How to Prosper in Husiuess?In I i. first place, make up your mind to accon - plish whatever you undertake ; deck 1 upon some particular employment and pe s severe in it. All difficulties are overcom f- bj diligence and assiduity." s Be not afraid to work with your ow s lands, and diligently,, too. "A cat i i- gloves catches no mice." i- Attend to your own own business, an never trust it to another. " A pot tint - belongs to many bt ill stirred and wort t boiled." e i Be frugal. 'That which will not mak s apot will make a pot lid." Via abstemious. "Who dainties fovi >f sjall beggars prove." J Rise early. " The sleeping fox catch'e > ^ultry." . . , j g I Treat every one with respect and civility f Everything is gained, and nothing lost bj s fcurtesy* Good mariners insure success '* ?^dVer anticipate wealth from any otb'e y wirce than labor.' " He who watt* fif r <?fcd men's shoes may have to' go for i a lohg time barefoot." " . t "Heaved \tllp* those who help them i selves." s *ff you impicity follow t^ese precepts 1 iAtliinc wllf Jlinifer vah fmrri imimiili - ss' :: l ! ? ?? 1' M0rc> n Informs us thai of j rae* whom ho helped to d cigar light, o f loaned a,newspaper, twenty ?W "Than! 5 jjou, sir." tk ^iWet^eti wothen lo wboti he paid a courtesy?*tfch as givingjap hi s seat, picked op a dropped veil, shawl, o the like,only seven said, "Thank you and two of those were " forrinera.* * u I should thhik these omnibus wheel would be fatigued after running all day, * observed Bam. w Wefj^yee* replied 8eti ] taking a squint at them, u thay do anpei 3 to ba ttrtde." * # ' " Cync%6ni * time an iriattfinn nrtd * tiegt were flgljlinjr* *nd while grappling ?il taLch other,- the Irtch&Mft eaeUiotod. p MYoti black dWli erf eaotigfc; I * figtii tfll 1 die.^ '** ? c| ? go'l! t tabs P1 oat tii* darkaj, u always iot?.n i , v>\.r* * 1 w.t 1 ? - From the Btutoti Rteordtr. R CLIMBING TO f H* HOOT. nt - iga uooeri rushed in from school on* bright en September afternoon, with morii tlian uaaa} ud impetuosity. Ilu threw down liia hookaand rs, exclaittied? e]. " Aunt, t itm tirml of tliia atudy, itudj: study,. When I'm a dozen year* older, I jes shall be throtlgh with it hll, arid then?then** ho ?a?d here he paused as if overpowered bjr l9) the magnitude of tlie thought. >lo " What then V1 asked his aunt, tookiaj? jj. up from her sewing, and smilliig, half tad* c3 ly at the boy's eager face. ic. " Tlien I shall be almost a man, and I mean to be one people will b?ar of, too. >th Perhaps I shall earn heaps of money, aad tat be ver.v r'c^ > on the whole, I would in. like to he a meidher of congree*, and mat* lUQ famous speeches like those I've heard fathef ,co read sometimes. At any rate I expect to b4 no very happy, and enjoy myself iiniilettahm ,y" 4 : ,ri_ u Robert,1' said his aunt, aa alia looked ier out of the window to tlie glowing we?t,vfrher? m the new moon shone very pala and dim ^jt udid you ever hoar of the boy that tried to os catch the moon !" ra. " What do you mean auntie; is.il ? )0 story you have to tell I t don't think i-cvllr ,n. ** * aj 4 Once on a ph-rtsant eronirig, n.boy, net ,j_ as old as you, nor as wise either, I should lt think, stood looking from the window d An his father'p house, towards the west, wtiere lje the sun had set but a little while before. A IS. high hill rose just before him, its huge fotfJii 10] standing out clear and bold against the nid? j8. dy sky. The moon was shining brightljr ,]s just over the summit of the hill, and it reelno ly seemed to the boy that if he shou'ii ke climb tliith r, ho conld estel! the glittering riri*? in 1 *" * ' w j <,! !? anu uringit lioint In triumph. The next evening, there wu tl.ii v. . An moon again, a little higher up in the el air } : blue, but not so far but. that lie thought lit j . could reach it stilt, tt looked so bright and beautiful thai ho could riot twist tti? charm. So out lie wont into ihe shaf^t frosty air, very eager and lioj>*ful. Fim ^ he had to crpss some fields,, arid lie wii iitonished to find that tlie hill wm< much far^ ther off than lie had thought. Ho# hug* ^ and higli itsecitled as be appr?ach?d it, hew gloomy tiow tliattho silnahine had all left ~ ^ its steep aides; Cut he could see tbia crescent moon shining so temptingly that \ ft began to cliirib." " Oh what a foolish boy 1" interrupted .* Robert. , . f t "It was hard world, I can assure yotli There were many stones and low, tangled bushes, and vines full of pickl6s. while alt us i the time it was growing darker and darket; At last he wan so *<?'?? ?nm? CUUIU K? um ih? as .longer, bill sat down on a grant roek ei cried as hard as lie could cry. II* ?n?ii liave entirely forgotten the moon by thai time, and worst of all, he began to thirf that he had lost his way, and wouTi n^**r , reach home ngain. But u he looked round through his tears, be caw below him the bright evening lamp ehining from the windows of a tittle brown house in iha aietnnce. lie looked, longer, and oh, bow gfaci ho was when lie recomzed the dark , forms of the great opt trees thkt gre.it bell tore hrs own father's door, and wis sure i- that that ligfit was shining upod his otrm le brothers aind sisters * who badj ft'e'ter thougl i r- liko him,' of climbing to thb moon. He o turned h? stop's in the direction of Ml light as fast a* his weary little feet cob'ld n carry him, and at last arrived n sound, anJ very thankful, though I ith'agkM somewhat foot-sore and exhausted, and with a little inclination for any future rfi'oon-ttiial. it i"g expedition. But suppose, Robert, ha e had realty reached the top of tfie hill, would lie hate found the moon any n'ea St e there !" " fio, indeed," answered Robert,'a th?fe o it would hsive been, a winging like a grMk lamp in the skvj farther off tliafr even H?i s what about ilj auritie,?do ^orf taaaa t? _ make a rttortilf as the boolt* call it, eat of that stlty; little fellow f* Ir "See if toil carinnf. ;?unnllr i.' said she. r u ^es, t UiTtik I fcatfsaid be, afta* a la# f thioatet1 nxaie{ 44 tlid moon ialiVe the ? k joym'ent I mean to have whea I aaa a *. Yo? thick I ahiiM h? obliged to eftab rough . places, and Alh't i?v War thronrh a *rMi rn*nj difficulties, awl whe? I'm at the 'op, t shall Uei no htppkf than before, and wiffc i I wm? 6oy agua?wiy, aunt, it thai thf iilaaiiji|'r 11 Something like it,1* ahe mlJ; M many 6 climb very bard and long to win the riebea r and the glory that you were wishing far, and if they attain the?n, and not wholly 11 Io*e their way, they are still nona the M> * ter satisfied." ' M But you would not wUh me to ?t atii) ? and do nothing all my life,?you said the other day that 'onward ?ad upward,1 WMt la be my aim," ?i " "Yea, if yoewlU mwwfcw dhelAewl i, wbioh you a*? mkiny Sa Ml one tewwi ir which amy wordly cferatio* w# Rft j?% Thepri* hen* that fehMtk i| Ik. 1 ? ?A-l ? * -- ? ?? Q UIQ uvavousy awi wwu gnus IV HI |pm f|| lor* him, *o4 ?bo, imlwd of woM% t? be rich or great* *m ttytaf e?ri??4ty %*, %? -'|| Ufa ImdeM 8on,owr flattow# **.. /, * Thar* it mw>y?good wife . daoc^plaj on the puno, or ?of WfJk #/