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[From tho Baltimore Ameriean]
lo On It Jobed Ones.
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following lines were composed by a sweet
little girl of 14 years of age, now at one of the
Seminaries of learning noar this city, and sent
to her mother:
The shades of night have taiien,
And zephyrs are flitting past,
Bearing on their cooling wings,
Tho uiein'ries of the past?
The Bret that left our circle,
W?8 the bijou of the Bock ;
The your.gcat and tho fairest?
And ho ia not forgot.
My darling sinter Katv,
Who waa so pure and truo;
She wns uot fit for earthy cares?
So she soon left us too.
God gave us then another,
A little bud of love;
That bud was soon transplanted,
To a brighter home above.
Imagination pictures.
That glorious angel band.
Singing 'round the throno of God,
In tho far off happy land.
And now there are but two,
To sooth our parents dear;
To fun each shadow froth their brows,
And wipo away the tear.
My own dear little brother,
May he stilj remain the same;
When he treads the rosy pathway
" To glory and to fame. .
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May no aim do Kina ana genuc,
A? happy?pure aa now ;
With the marks of truth and innocence
Upon his bright young brow.
May his life be always happy,
Without one single tear,
To dim the hopes of hi young heart?
Is the prayer of his sister dear.
My gentle, loving mother,
Who has to bear much pain ;
God's blessing be upon her,
And make her well again
My kind and noble father,
May his cup be fraught with bliss;
May he live to see his children
Be all his heart could wish.
So may we live in peace and love,
While on this earth we roam;
That when our days are ended,
In Heav'n we'll find a home.
Lizzie.
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6j)*h Credit.
If you would get rich, don't deal in passbooks.
Credit is the "tempter in a new
bspo." Buy dry goods on trust, and you
will purchase a thousand articles that cash
would never hive dreamed of. A dollar in
hand looks larger than ten dollars seen
through the perspective of a sixty day due
. billJhCasb is practical, while credit takes
horf^y to taste ami romance. Let cash buy
,a(di niter, and you will have a beef-stake flanked
onions; send credit to market, and he
Will return with eight pair of woodcocks and
a pocket of mushr-?oin*. Credit believes in
doable breast pins and champagne suppers;
cash is more easily satisfied. Give hiin
three meals a day, and be don't care
rouoh i( |wo of them are made up of roasted
potatoes and *!iule*alL' Ca?h is a good adviser,
while credit is fellow I do not like to
be on litfUing terms with. If yon want
i doubieofrios and contentment, do business
>^with otfih. A special e< I ict with a vermil%?
Peris mint is now engaged in, striking
i medid in commemoration of the visit
ofQ-.umft Vjetoria. It will be executed in
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GREENVI1
Letter from the
hon. jere. Clemens.
^CONCLCDKD FROM LAST WEEK.] ~
ft is gravely urged us an objection to the
order ofK,now Nothings that it ogrinated at
the North, nti/1 ought therefore to be regarded
with suspicion bv the South, by this
reason I linvo seen advanced and such men
as Tootrtbs ahd Stephens of Cfeorgia, nod
Proston of Kentucky?gentlemen whom I
know* personally,am! for twlsnts attainments
and morAl worth I have very great
respect. To my mind it is an evidence of
the weakness of anv cause when men of fair
abilities resort to such flimsy means to supr>rt
it. I do not know how the fact' i*, but
shall concede that it did originate in New
York, and then I shall proceed to show there
is no spot upon the continent where tho people
have sulfered more from foreign emigre
tion, or where they have more *ijn erious
reasons for arraying themselves against it.?
By leferonce to the annual report of the
Governors of tho Alms (louse, I find that
there were in the New York Alms House
during the year 1863, 2108 inmates?of
these only 535 Were natives, and 1063 foreigner^
supported at the expense of the City.
And%uow I propose to use on our bide the
argument of our opponents that there are only
8.000,000 foreigners to 20,000,000 natives.
According to that ratio there ought to he
about 7 natives to one foreigner in the Alms
House. Whereas we find more than 3 for
eigners to one native. No wonder that a
people who are taxed to support.such a body
of paupers should be tho first to set about
devising means to get rid of thein. Let us
pursue the record?in Bellevue Hospital, in
ino name city, there were 702 Americans?
4134 foreigner* ; now the proportion rise* to
nearly six to one. There of ont door poor
?that is person* who had some place to
?lcep. hut nothing to eat and nothing to
make a tire?957 native adults, and 1044
children?3131 foreign adults. Hnd 5229 foreign
children, or children horn of foreign
parents. This ntttcher were relieved during
the* year with money. Of those relieved
with fuel, there were 1248 adult Americans
and 1801 children, 10,355 adult foreigner*
and 17,857 children.
liu't the record is not yet complete?lot ns
turn to the statistics of crime. In the city
prisons there were during tho year 0,102
American*?22,220 foreigners. I pass on
to an abode even more gloomy than that of
the prison cell, and call your attention to
thoae whom God in hi* wisdom ha* seen fit
to deprive of the light of reason. In the lunatic
asylum there were admitted from ?he
year 1847 to, 1853 779 Americans, 2381
foreigner*. For the year -1853, there were
94 Americans? 393 foreignur*. Those table*
might he made more complete by adding
organ gtindera. strolling mendicant*,
and professional beggars, but of these I have
no reliable data, and therefore pas* tbein
with the single remark that I have never
seer. a native America?) who belonged to either
class. These figures are far more exclusive
that, any language could In* to prove
the necessity of arresting the tide of emigration.
Let every American impress them
deeply upon hi* memory, 42..109 foreign
paupers and invalids. 2381 lunatics, and 22,
229 criminals taxing the indusUy, and
hlightning the prosperity of a single city.?
In that list of crimes is embraced murder,
rape, arson, robbery, ptijury, everything
which is damning to the character of the
individual, and everything which is dangerous
to society'. In our section we see but
little of the evils of,emigration?compartively
few come among us, and those are generally
of the best classes of the countrymen.?
It is not as a State that w? ?ufter most, hut
as an intregral part of the Republic.?
The crime, vice, disease destitution and beg
gary which Hows in with every tide of emigration
afflicts us hut little! it is through
their political action, in their capacity of voters,
that the curse extend* itself to us.?
When thousand* upon thousands are carried
to il>* noil* and made to vote in favor of
any man. or any pa. ty for ft shilling, corrupting
the ballot !> >', and rendering liberty
insecure then we sinler?,hen the law of
self preservation give* u* a right, and make*
it ? duty to interp?me.
With stltfh dangers thickening around us,
the memorable order of (Jen. Washington
should be upon every man's lip*: "Pitt
none upon bill Americana on guard to-night."
In time of peace your public officer* are
vour sentinel*. Put none on guard whose
inisoni do not swell with exulting pride at
the mention of Hunker Hill, of Monmouth
or Saratoga, or of Yorktown. Put none on
guaul whose national tradition* are not c .n
lined to otfr own commonwealth. Put noue
on guarfTwhn can dwell by the hour upon
[jibe eloquence of Daniel O'Oonnell, hut have
never hear I the name o Patrick Uenp?
Put none otf|ghnrd wbo turn with odd indifference
from the story of Niagara, or New
Orleans, to boast of Marengo, or Leinsic. or
Waterloo. They oh not love yew late! as
jj wotz do?they will not watch over it with the
same* absorbing interest. Oppression, wbt
choice, has brought liim tier#, and though
he may fee) a certain amount of gr attitude
for the shelter he hfe foggd, he eatit looks
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back to the gray fields of his childhood, he
retiimnbers every stone upon the highways, '
he rends the history of hie nativo land, and
Imrtakea in the pride of its great events; in
?is heart of hearts lie feeU that there his holiest
affections are garnered up. Fear, necessity,
common sense, irtA'y keep him here,
but he loves not the land of the stranger,
cares nothing for its former glories, sheds no
tear over its former disaster*.
With what reverence can the German ro>
gnrd tho name of Washington, when lie remembers
that his pathway to freedom was
strewn with the dead bodies of German mercenaries?
What exultation can the Briton
I feel in the faino of Jackson when he reinem
hers that it was won by trampling the lion
banner in the dust? It is not in human nature
that they should feel as we do, and we
j are false to ourselves when we put them in
| power, or give tliem tho direction of the law.
| Perhaps no party in this country baa ever
j been the subject of much invective as the
American party. All the depths of the language
have been sounded to fish up degrading
epithets to lie applied to men whose sin
consists in loving their own blood something
bettor than that of the stranger. Practices
which are daily used by other parties suddenly
become heinous sins when resorted to
by the American*. ?i?d editors in the excess
of their zen! not frequently run into the most
ridiculous inconsistencies. I have seen one
column of a nowspaper filled'*with denunciations
of the secret feature of the order,
while tho next not only purports to'give the
principles of the party, hut even the very
forms < f initiation. Ono thing is certain,
either those forms were forgeries, or all the
indignant denunciations of secrecy with i
which we have been favored were hypocriti
cul pretences, in no way creditable to those
who employed them.
All parties olwerve more or leva secrecy in
relation to certain portions of their tactics.?
The secrets of a Democratic caucus are a*
profound as tlnne of a Know Nothing Council,
and the will of every niemher is more
completely subjected to tlie majority. A
Know Nothing, after liia party have made a
nomination, may abandon the order, and
then rid himself of all obligation to support,
it, but a Democratis .who has once taken
part in acusensis held in honor bound to
abide tire decision of that caucus, no matter
how distasteful it may bo. If the term
"daik lantern party" was applied to the
rrif U ililirrlit lilottimr ?wl?"
v/i invoo HHV/ ailtlliuirlt'iun?
in caucuses and convention candidates without
consulting the will of the people, it would
he much more appropriate. The State and
the National Councils having both removed
the injunction of secrecy, that reproach is
disposed of; in point of fact it never existed.
Their principles were known from .the l?eginning.
and he must have been ignorant indeed
who had any doubt of the aims and
purposes of the order. Bot it is alledged
that it is a Whig trick gotten Hp to injure
the Democracy. Such arguments are the
usual resorts of weak men, who, when reason
fails, attempt to enlist prejudice in their behalf.
The head of the order is an old - fashj
ioned Jackson Democrat. Wherever they
have nominated candidates they have taken
the larger num'tei from the Democratic ranks.
Judge Cone, of Georgia, who reported the
platfonn adopted at. i'bildclphia, is an
old line Democrat. He was a member of
the Baltimore Convention in 1844 that
nominated Mr. Polk, and reported the reso
lotions adopted by that liody as principles of
the Democratic party. IIow stnnds the case
on the other side I Mr. Wise confessedly
owes bis election to the Whigs. Messrs. Toombs,
ami Stephens, Whig leaders in
Georgia, are at lite bend of the anti-Atneri
can party, and so with Mr. Preston, in Kentucky.
Everywhere you Hnd Whig leaders
among the bitterest opponents of American
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|n iucij>iv?, niiji :i 11 in it vt illg HICK, lliev
have been a long timo finding it nut.
There is another brutal) of the question
which [ approach with more re)tictanee than
will enable lire to consider it dispassionately.
Without behmgiug to any church, I grew
up in the Methodist persuasion. It was the
faith in whieli my mother lived and died,
and 1 could notehauge it if I would. Amotw
the eiolscat be which foil Into my
hands, I found accounts of Catholic persecutions
of the early Protestants. Of men, women,
and children thrown into dungeons,
stretched upon the rack, tortured with (numb
screws, and finally burned at the stake, for
llw crime of worshipping Qod as reason and
conscience dictated. Then enroe the "Order
of Jesus," with the inquisition in its train.?
For centuries ovory page of history is blackened
by the iniquities of that Church whose
. PiilitilV Jirro<rnrillv ftluimi In Ko I tin
[ uui representative of the Almighty, end who
h'M not hesitated at nil tinio* to exercise Jjow
orw in accordance with that claim. Subjects
released frdm obedieno? to their legjal rulora
?murder, perjury, incest?every on me made
venial if it tended to the advancement of
lb* Church.
I know it is said that Ihesapoweis are not
now exercised or claimed.. Where haa it ever
been abandoned when they had power to
ctiforee it! What wihe u?o of the Coufeesional,
?f the Prie>thood do pot etiil claim the
power of forgiveness for.aiti* committed, or
to I* commend ? I hat* searched io va.n
Ibt-apv *uthemio docuiWMrt which, show,
that thefhavc ever abated ohejot.or title of
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the pretensions which characterized them in
other years, and characterize thein now in
other ijuuN. I have visited two conntries in
which the Catholic religion ia established
by law-, and 1 found in both the same intolerance,.
the same bigotry, the same hatred of
the Protestant as of yore. Even the dead
Itodiea ,?f Protestants are denied the right of
buiial i.Tt a Catholic grave-yard. The inaMave'
taught to believe that the rotting
corpses of the faithful would be polluted by
the neighborhood of a brother who bad in
life a different creed. In Spain An assemblage
of more than fifteen Protestants for the
purpose of religious worship is declared an
aniawfui assembly, muu a" the rcnsoasiances
of England have failed to ameliorate this detestable
tyranny. What we see existing elsewhere,
wliat wo know lias always existed
wherever Catholics hud the power, wo may
surely dread for ourselves, without bring liable
to the charge of excessive timidity, partiollliirl
V when wa <ion fhe tvir.Ii! ul.ifloj it>air 'v
making to power and influence among us.?
From 1840 to 1850 tlio number of Catholics
in the United States doubled, and now they
exceeded two millions of souls. At that rate
it will not take thetn long to acquire all the
power thev want, and when acquired they
will not fail to exercise it. In the very nature
of, things the Catholic must bo a persecutor.
. When he believes that every Protestant
is on the highway to hell, when he
believes that it is charity to torture, atid piety
to murder tjiose whom ho looks upon as
enemies to his God. it would bo absurd to
expect tnercy, or look for toleration.
Another great danger we have to dread
is the prevalence of-the mischievous dogma
that the Pope is superior to the Constitution,
and can absolve his flock from oaths to support
it. I know how bitterly this is denied;
hut if American Catholics do not acknowledge
it, they are widely different from their
brethren elsewhere. History is full of instances
of kingdoms laid under interdict,
monarch* excommunicated, and a whole people
doomed to purgatory for some real or
imaginary fault of their ruler*. We all remember
that a King of Franco was assassina
ted bv a priest at the bidding of his superiors.
We all remember that a King of England
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sai-Kcioiu ana asoes, 10 i?e torao 01 lnomas
A. Becket, und tlmt tlic g eat Bruce wunder*
ed for years as an ouMaw, hunted by assassins
and blood-hounds, for daring to punish
a traitor to his country within the preciucta
of a Catholic Church. The beet way of
judging a tree is by its fruits, and these fruits
are familiar to us all.
It is objected, however, that the Constitution
sociues to every inan the right of worshipping
Cod as he pleases, and that in proscribing
Catholics we are guilty of ? violation
of that instrument. Not at all. The
same Constitution which gives to them the
rights of conscience secures to me also the
rights of voting as I think best. It does not
compel me to vote for a Catholic, any more
than it compels me to vote for an Abolitionist.
One may bo just as sincere in his belief
as the other, and both be equally dangerous
to the country. T)f that each voter
must iudge for himself. There is no nrooo
| nation to changb the Constitution, none to
I p.iss u lnw inconsistent with it. The Aiueri
j can party undertook to show precisely as the
Whig ami Democratic parties undertake to
show tor themselves, that it ? safer lor liberty,
safer fer the Union, safer for religion, to
place none but American Protestants in office,
and they leave it to their countrymen to
decide upon reason and argument how far
they are right, or how far they are wrong.?
We do not propose to disturb l.beir public
worship?we do not propose to declare an assemblage
of Catholic unlaw ful, but we claim
the priv ilege of voting to ?uiy*ourselves. I
can see no difference in tbe evil tendency of
the higher law of Mr. Seward, pr the higher
law of Archbishop Hughes. I do not choose
to vote for either, and he who attempts to
force me to, is guilty of the very proscription
bo condemn*.
I wisb I could bare devoted more lime to
the preparation of tin* letter; but it is sufficient
to give a tolerably correct idea of the
position I occupy upon thequesliou to which
I'AII kvUUil OuHm. I IUU tllAllll/vM
l HUi, very truly a??.l r&np'l&lly, youre &c.
J ERE. CLE.VIEN9.
J. E. Peebles, ftunteraville, Ala.
Tub following characteristic story is told
of the Commander-in-Chief of the French
arrny in the Criinon :
"Some yearn ago, Pelitsier on parade one
morning got angry with a touaojjicier of a
cavalry regiment, whose Untie seemed to
him quite defective. He ab.used the man most
violently, and out him across the face with
his mlip. The man seized one of his pistols,
iumMw '.eavored to lire at his commanding
officer, but the pistol missed fire. Pelissier,
swearing a fearful oath, bat otherwise
quite calm, said: 'Fellow 1 I order you a
three days' arrest fo* not having your arms
in better order tn
Thb name of Teotouiiam is said to have
originated m the stammering of a^speaker
at a temperance meeting, who declared that
oalkiing would sathfy (urn but t-total abstinence,
The audience eagerly caught op the
pan. and the name was adopted by the
ohampton* of the cense. t
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Snterrstiiig JHistfllumj.
3JUonfteirfni lugging,.
'Vk extract the following from mi irticle
in the Crayr/n, descriptive of travels in Brit
ish India. The scene of the occurrence is]
laid in Madras !?r
"But tho most wonderful peiformaneeithht
we saw this morning, whs a teat of pure jug
gling, of which I have never been able to
find snv solution. One of the old men came
forward upon tho gravel led and hard trodden
avenue, leading with him a woman.?
He made iier kneel down, tied her arms behind
her. and blindfolded her pvm TWa
bringing a great bag net made with uj>cu
meshes of rope, he put it over the woman,
and laccd up the mouth, fastening it with
knotted intertwining cords in such a way
that it seemed an impossibility for her to extricate
herselffrom it. The man tben took
a closely-woven wicker basket that narrowed
toward the top, lifted the woman in the
net from llto ground, and placed her iu it,
though it was not without the exertion ot
tome force that he could crowd her through
the narrow inouth.
Having succeeded in getting her intb the
basket, in which, from its small size, she
was necessarily in a most cramped position,
lie put tho cover upon it, and threw over it
a wide strip of cotton cloth, hiding it completely.
lu a moment, placing his hand under
the cloth, ho drew out tho net quite un~..A
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ucu aim uisvuwiU^ICUt ii'J UlCIl UMlK ft IWlg
straight, sharp sword, muttered some words
to himself while be sprinkled the dust upon
the cloth, and put some upon his forehead,
then pulled olF and throw Aside the covering,
and plunged the sword suddenly into the
b isket. Prepared as in bome degree we
were for this, and knowing that it was a deception,
it was yet impossible to see it with
out a cold creeping horror. The quiet and
energy with wiiich he repeated his strokes,
driving the sword through the basket, while
the other jugglers looked on, apparently as
much rnWreeted as ourselves, were very dramatic
and effective.
Stopping after he had riddled the basket,
be again scattered dust upon its top, lifted
the lid, took up the basket from the ground,
showed it to us empty and then threw it
away At the same moment we saw the
woman approachiug us from a clump of
trees at a distance of at least fifty of sixty
feet.
Throughout the whole of this inexplicable
feat, the old mran and woman were quite removed
from tho rest of the party. The basket
stood by itself on the hard earth, and so
much beneath the verandah on which we
were sitting, that we.could easily see all
around it. By what trick our watchful eyes
were closed, or by what means the woinuu
invisibly escaped, was an entire myste
ry, and remains unsolved. The fcat is not
it very uncommon one, but no one who had
seen it ever gave me a clue to the manner
I in which it was performed.
Stooging Bog?.
Smokiso man are bad enough tin* hot
weather, ami those pleasant evenings when,
if the people of uncorruptcd brea'l?, like to
put themselves in the wny of gulping a
mouthful or two of fieah air; but smoking
boys, what shall we say to them? Like
I brothers among sisters, Hbey is nuisances,*
that's a fact.
Nevertheless, at the rate we are going on
?we may have smoking girls before the
season is over, as they have in the Havana,
and in Mexico. Mercy on n?I what are we
.coining to! Why, yon can hardly turn a
: corner, or drop into the post office, after sundown
without stumbling over half a score
of little small peimy-hiip ?nny whipper snappers.
hardly clear of their first bib and tucker,
aprons and penny whistles, with?a cigar
in their mouths !
Hoys, boys !?if you knew how the grown
people about you?'the business tnen, boys
?not the idlers no- t' e gossips, nor the
family paupers, who have made their fortuues
by marriage? or something worse?if
you knew bow lhay regarded your dirtine**,
your watchfuluesg, and your folly, and what,
the chances were of your ever being good
for anything kcr4, you would be frightened.
Young man ! Beware ! Should your
employer see you on a Sabbath evening, or
any other evening, after the business of tho
(IftV Wttfl five*r latincrtnrv oivainui ? ^ !? ?
J ? ?""? n jtvI VI >nc
Custom house, with y<?nr Ioj^h hcioh*?y?>u
call them legs, don't you I?ami with a cigar
in your mouth?as you seem to believe,
though the odor in often wo offensive as to
make woman give you a very wide berth?
what think you he w ould way of you ? Not
to you?and what would he thihk of you?
?and how long before he would find lome
excuse for ailowiug you to 'better yourself if
you coft'ld ?' Ami tliia, even though he
smoked hhmelf??tfUhy practice at best?
and growing more nnd more so. every day,
and hence about all the air we breathe in a
crowded city m charged with the nouomr
and pestilential vapor of your lazy after-din
ner folk*, who first over-eat themselves, am?
then over-sleep themselves; and then smoke,
not themselves, for that might be borne with, j
bat other peoplo ?out of house and horns,
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till our very women are linlf persuaded to
avow a liking for w hat is called 44a good cigar
I"?as if thero was any such a thing a*
a good cigar 1 or, as if your cigar smoker,
however beastly, ever smoked auy thing
worse than the very best!
Many a young innn hasrast his jAtco by^.
smoking, only, or Sahbatff bi^Bing?
thougli he never knew it, nor suspected, petbaps,
fncrely because his employer, bciftg
himself a smoker, or th inker, or a Sabbathbreukef,
durst not give the true reason.-?
Wherefore, young man, bewaro! In othef
wor^is, k>oi? out! or, by and by, if you do
Hot lose yourself, you are certain to lose
your place, and your temper, (no groat losa
to a cigar smoker.) if your employer can
manage to do without vou?keep hi* owu
secret, and give some other and worse reason,
more disadvantageous bv far to the reputation
of a young mau of busine*?
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8 irebities,
1
iVAuhignc, In tho History of the Refor*
I mation, says, Tho gospel triumphs by the
I blood of its confessors, not by that of its ad*
venwies."
Happiness can bo m;^le quite as well of
cheap materials as of dear ones.
The man who does most has the least
lime to talk about what he does.
A quiet exposition of truth has a better
effect that? a violent attack upon error Truth
extirpates weed", by working its way into
their plftcc, ""d leav\,g them uo room to
grow.
Nothing but a good life cau fit men for a
bettor one.
A French proverb, "The nolso of the
world drowns the .thunder of God."
A Turkish proverb says, "Tiro devil
tempts other men, but idle men tempt the
devil."
A Spanish proverb, "What the fool does
in the end, the wise man does in the beginning."
Cod. Thomas II. BknVon ia busily engaged
at Washington upon his "Thirty Yeara
in the Senate." His powers of body and
mind, it is sard, are taxed to the uttermost,
ifnd no other but Col. Benton could undor*
go the daily labor that lie now performs.-?
A letter says the second volume of his great
woik will be ready foT the pre.-s early in the
spring. It will be recollected mat he lost
I lie tirft hint ivinlf>r nit rti.i otwl nmnn
scripts intended for this volume ; yet, by indefatiguable
toil and thetaeprci-e ofhi* ginnt
intellect he will ooon bo ready to supply his
publisher with this manuscript copy of the
econd volume/ This is a great national
work, and will tend much to give tone to
American literature.
Edoc at/on.?The object of all truo edu*
cation is to vitalize knowledge. Some teachers
instruct their scholars very thoroughly,
who never educate them at nil. They teach
them to commit the rules of their arithmetic
or grammar by heart, but never lead ~
them to comprehend a single principle;
make them learn thousands of names of
places, without giving them an idea of geography,
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Cckiol'8 Result.?A French office",
while making rcoonnoisance nearSebastopol,
whs knocked down by the wind ofaeannon,
ball, and the shock was so severe as to cause
a paialysis of-his tongue, so that he could
neither move ?t or speak. Obtaining leave
of absence be returned to Marseilles and
placed himself under electrical treatment.
After a few shocks he could move hie
tongue with more facility, and at length,
after an unusually powerful shock, his speech
was restored, and lie was fully recovered.
The tfalt Lake City people have their'
troubles as well as others. The Uuitetk
States soldiers have been playing the mischief
with the hearts of Mormon girls.??
imgliain Young says tlioy have corrupted
the moraU of the women, and he threaten? .
the soldiers terrib y if they return to play
the .same game again. The soldiers have
gone, and with them a number of the Mormon
girls. _ ?
In* the town of Beverly, |fiu8., which contains
a large and prosperous community,
there is not, it is saW a ?ingle. hotel or place
of public entertainment. A stranger in the
place, who wm left by the cars a few dnye
Kf'U couid find no lodgings for the night,
and was obliged to walk into Salem. Wo
don lit if thie > ase has a parallel in the county
_
acorns, uutrerto ol not much uso, save
for the f?*edin<| of swine in our western wildc,
where iho Hliog crop" figures so largely*
Imve l>een fount! by Mens. Duplet, a French
chemist, to yield both oil and ajcohol. From
u hundred pounds of acorns he has obtained
half a pound of oil, and five pounds of ahxv
ho), applicable to chemical purposes.
A California defaulter has made restitution
to a Pittsburg creditor, in the sum of
over one thousand dollars, principal, and interest
in payment of five hundred dollars,
which ho borrowed about two years Ago.?
Instances like this rare, and should bo bald1
before the public gaae as a model and itxKUtlive.