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Time, dear couaiD, is young to you,
And scenes of earth you greet as new, t
And not a cloud, as yet, appears, H
Foretelling gloom in coming years. e
And this is right?I love to see ji
Your kind, young heart so full of glee ; s
But in these joyous hours of youth, ?
You should embrace the Gospel's truth ; j(
For titne is but a fleeting show, s
With smiles of joy, or tears of woe, "
While hope, and love, and beauty's bloom, 0
Are jewels gathered for the tomb. t
But as the rose is little worth, ^
Till light doth call its brightness forth, *
Just so will be thv noble mind. c
Until by grace and art* refined. ?
EUGENE. 11
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Cedar Falls, Dec. 1st, 185V. a
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Jflisttllnnmifi trailing. "
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Clay, Calhoun and Webster. *
BY W. T. HASKELL. g
I [We make (says the Charleston Standard)
the following extract from a lecture deliver- j
?d by General Haskell, at Lexington, Ken- (|
tuoky, a* reported in the Observer <k Reporter.
That pfoper remarks that the recent a
insanity of the distinguished orator was oc- a
casioned by two severe attention to literary ^
It 19 believed that he has entirely a
recovered ui* tnental composure, and will j:
now carry out a p.'an long ago determined j
upon of lecturing in the principal cities of ^
the Union:] , /
u And now, I dismiss, for the presold,, all tj
issuing cnaracters, save Ulay, ana 1 no long- J
?r dwell on him, a* a distinctive character. m
bnt aa one ot a mighty trio, Clay, Calhoun u
and YVebater, who to ua were, what Pitt,
Fox and Orattan were to England. U
1. In aooial life?in marriage, for exam- m
pie?Clay would have pressed forward with <]
a " coup d'etat," like an ancient Britton, a a
sturdy Welchmau in Glendower'a day, an a
Arabian Chief, each one of whom would
have seizeed hit reluctant bride and borne
her to bia home.
Calhoun would ponder long and warily, *
and with circumspection, like an European h
monarch, who negotiates a match for pur- a
posea of State. n
And Webater, like Prince Hal V, of Eng- tl
land, who wooed and won, without diplomacy,
the gentle Katherine, the daughter of g
the Puc do fteigner, and mother of Henrv (
VI, of England, the victim of that she-waif \
of France, Margaret of Anjou. and the l<
bloody Gloater, in the Tower of London. a
2. In forensic debate?the force of Clay, o
was hie reaistleaa eloquence?of Calhoun, 4
bia sophism and wonderful power of meta- a
pfcystoai dwquiaiUoii, Hud satute analysis'- A
Webater, of open and eolid argument.
8. As a historian, Clay would have boen o
n speculative theorist?Calhoun a sceptic '
and examiner, and Webster wnnld Iuva C
been guided bv example and the fuel*. C
4. A disappointment, in a struggle for *
dominion, Clay would have felt witb the C
5ricking of the pangs of pride nnd ainbi tl
o? baffled?Calhoun, with the restless fever
of defiant discontent-*?ami Webster, would I
bnve encounterod^ with oaltn and phiioeo ii
pbical composure. fc
fi. In administering Government, Clay n
would but? been both oomprorajring and ?
ooiMbrvative?Calhout), head-strong, restless
and defiant?Webster, for standing on the ?
laws and the Constitution. i
4. As a monarch, Clay would lmve pre- I
ferred to have been an autocrat?Calhoua, ?
% \
i
in Athenian Archon, elevated on the broad- (
?t principles of Democratic suffrage, and j
Webster would have liked a limited and
institutional monarchy.
1. As a historic character, Clay resembles
he chivalrous and daring Henry V, of Engand,
on the field of Agincourt, charging
vith visor up and lance couchint in rest,
igainst the mailed and willing, bold and
nocking, mad and feverish Percy, the relonbtable
and undaunted Hotspur?Prince
Llal, swift bearing on astride his richly ca>amoncd
and well-housed, white steed, his
lostrils wide-expanded, and challenging,
terce neign. his white mane streaming on
lis boldly uplifted crest, and waving tail,
ashing wildly the mad and sulphur-charged
vind, careering o'er the field of battle, while
?ercy bounds with a defiant shout, to meet
dm in the longed-for conflict Calhoun,
he subtle strategist, the calculating Saladin,
vhose Damascus scymeter flashes throagh
he severed neck of foeman, who know not
ill they nod their heads that they are deached
from their bodies?while Webster,
Toeur de Lion in arms, hurls his ponderous
lattleaxe, v/ith colossal strength, until the
nailed links fly apart, and the descending
reapon grinds bones and blood, and fire, ino
one undistiuguishab'.e, shapeless mass of
ove-splitted, lightning stricken humanity.
8. They are like three different streams
f eqaal volume. Ciav, like St. Anthony's
''alls, or a cataractic, Niagara cascade, finding
in crenmy foam, and rainbow beauty,
oaring and hissing in tumultuous eddies,
earing on, impatientlv pressing forward, to
earch the blue and tranquil depths, or earnstly
crowding on, betwixt high rocky
hores, begrit with lignious forest tnonarchs,
ts banks all fringed with vines and flowers,
weeping like the streams that feed the
lediterranean blue, drawing a world of waers
through Bosphoric passes and HeicuBan
straits, with an under current gliding
low beneath, both to and fro, like l'ontis
nd Propentis, through the ^Egean 8eas,
>y rock girt isles scorning the muddy Nile,
iut into the bluo depths of old ocean's mnlitude
4 Poluphlobtvio Thstlatsea ' waves.?
;allioun,a multitude of innumerable streams, j
rushing the mountain bases, threading with
rinding and devious course the many tanked
woods and gloomy forest depths, and
lealing swiftly through ten thousand valies,
and gathering all together to make its
;rand debut to the unfathomable deep, defintly
to breast the winds that sweep the
oeom of the illimitable field of waters?
nd Webster, ocean's self, pealing in roartig
voices, and in thundering tones, its cvrlasting
anthems 'round the rock-built
hores, that hem about the habitations of
he chifdren of Almighty God.
9. And Clay, again, a planet, like the
ery Mars, menacingly streaming through
he fields of space ; Calhoun, like Mercury,
wift in his flight, close round the aun,
ense and constant to its centre of attracion,
chasing the living creatures that tread
poo it, so that they cannot leap six inches
bove its exacting and inexorablo surface;
nd Webster, like Jupiter, boldly aspirant
o ' snuff the moon and with his playful
bsence of a strong attraction, permitting
iving things to leap a mile high up towards
leaven, or Saturn, feeding not on infants,
>ut devouring giants at a gulp; Clay, like
lurora, heralding the day-spring of croaion
; Calhoun, the baleful Syrius, the raging I
)og-Star of the skies; and Webster, the
uperseen and all-seeing Noith Star of the
pper deep 1
10. In music, Clay would have loved to
sten to the ringing tones of the war-bugles'
ounding note ; Calhoun, the multifarious
iacord that makes an operatic harmony ;
nd Webster, the still, deep-rolling solemn
nthera.
11. If an element, Clay would glory in
ersonating a chaining, unchained storm ;
lalhoun, the shifting and unsteady, variable
rinds; and Webster, the strong and steady
rcczo, slow-moving, as with its rolling Dipsoo
it sweeps the forest, as when the Al(l'gbty,
with his resistless breath, strikes a
bunder-harp of pines!
12. In war, Olay, like Charles XII, of
Iweden, would prefer the fierce assault;
lalhoun, like Scott, would practice thestraegetic
siege, or turn his enemies' right or
eft wing, instead of breaking his centre;
nd Webster, like old ' Rough and Ready,'
r like Cromwell, would tell his men to
trust in God, and keep their powder dry,'
nd meet the foe in an open, pitched, fair
'eld and bull-dog fight.
lb. If Clay was challenged to ibe iieiu
f honor, he would fight at once, like the
tdmirnble Criehlon; Calhoun, like our
iuakui Revolutionary General, Nathaniel
ireen, would reason out of it; and Webter
would look upon the ebajlenge like a
Christian, and treat it with conscientious in
litference.
14. If they were called upon to make a
reaty, Clay would endeavor to force it by
ntiinidation ; Calhoun, diplomatically treat
t with Richelieu-like and Machievelian cunlieg;
Webster, by open, fair, straight forrard
dealing.
16r In religion, Clay, if be bad consecrat*
d bie energiee to teaching it, notwithstand*
ng he died en Episcopalian, would have
teen as enthusiast, and as was the exclusive
mi aristocratic habit of his mind, be would
m
bnvc believed in the doctrine of election, or t
predesliuarianism, and allowed but a vory c
select few to be saved, and the balance to t
be incontinently damned; Calhoun would 8
have been a free-thinker; and Webster, in f
favor of the established Constitutional f
Church. t
18. In patriotism, Clay was for Compro- i
noise, Conservatism and Union; Calhoun, I
for Secession, Nullification?I loved him too j
well to say treason?revolution and disun- I
ion ; Webster, for Union, independence and
a common cause, at every hazard. o
17. In habits, Clay was dictatorial, mag- ?
istorial and genial; Calhoun, wary, diplo- 1
matte and exclusive; and Webster, gentle, \
self poised and dignified. c
| 18. In poetry, Claywould bare been be- t
roio and lyrical; Calhoun, didactic; and I
Webster, like ' the blind old Bard of Scio's #
Rocky Isle,1 would have essayed an epic. L
19. In art and architecture. Clay would I
have fancied painting and sculpture; Cal
houn would have mathemat:cally taxed his I
brain, in labyrinthinestiuctures,Buch as Ulys- j:
ses threaded in the rock girt isle of Crete, 'J
where the Fates held in light, and the dis- p
taflf, and the wheel, when Atropus clipped c
the string of fate ; and Webster would have a
builded monuments and pyramids. I
20. It is remarkable, that in all the writ- g
ton papers left by Clay, there is but little s
gleaning from the fields of ancient or mod- fl
ern literature?less in Calhoun's, and they f
are to be found but sparsely in Webster's, v
but when.found, apposite and appropriate. 1
And now. I leave these twenty points of t
contrasts for future additions, as they may J
| occur to me, until some modern Plutarch ! [
shall put the touchstone of analysis aud f
comparison to them still further." I
Blue Beard.
WHO HE WAS AND WHAT HE DID. r
This bugbear of every nursery in Christendom
??* Mt a fabulous monster veiled ir. g
human fortirr- 41a actually lived, moved f
and had a being in the fifteenth century ; v
not, however, as a long robed and turbaned ,?
/% j ?- * * *
unemai, as tne pictures which used to make c
our blood curdle would lead us to think. I
On an eminence which overlooks the lit- 1
tie village of Charaptoce, near the Loiree, I
stands the imposing ruin of an old feudal cat- r
tie. Its gray walls bare and broken, rear
themselves against the glorious sky ; and g
amid the crumbling turrets, the bat and I
the owl beat their wings, and shriek in their i
midnight revels. The superstitious peasan- i
try avoid the neighborhood from fear, and I
when the storm whistles and the winds t
moan, they imagine the sounds to be wails j
from tho injured dead of the old ruin. The f
dread of the place is no new feeling, but has
existed among succeeding generations of d
peasantry ever since tho reign of Charles the c
Seventh. It was at that tune the dwelling t
of Gilles De Retz, a fearful baron, who, as ?
he was then, flml still is called " Barbc
Blue," was, no doubt, the original of our
time-honored, or rather feared Blue Beard, t
Ilis deeds of blood, which were but tlio every
day incidents of his life, made him the ter- t
ror of tho surrounding region. The bare <
mention of his name was enough to subdue 1
ihfl mnat rcKollirtuo ~~ ?1?** "?: '
, - ? ?? .VVVMIVH* UIVUIII III1U BUUIIII.HfllOn ; (
! and even the parent* believed that the winds r
which reached them by passing over his do- ?
mains, were sulphur tainted. p
Well does the history of this man reveal t
the dark superstition of the fifteenth centurr
: and also the impunity with which one c
in high rank might commit tho most re- t
volting crime against humanity. De Ketz c
had once been in possession of imraeuse cs- s
tates and untold wealth. Hut by the most a
debasing excesses, he not only squandered t
his fortune, but also ruined his constitution, c
so that while yet a young man. he bore the
appearance of decrepitude and old age. lie t
could not, however, consent to pay the pen- I
alty of his sins by thus becoming old before j
his time. In the blindness of his suporsti 'J
lion he conceived the hopes; of reclaiming
both health and wealth by the power of
magic. Having beard of a famous Italian
alchymist who had performed some great a
miracles by this art, he sent for him to the a
I. rpi .
Chiiic. me cunning magician at once read v
his man, and encouraged his hope, he was r
therefore employed at a high price to undertake
the work and invited to the lofty castle
as his home.
The fiist object was the winning back of I
health and vigor, without which all other t
treasures are of little avail. Numberless ?
were the arts ho tried, and mysterious the f
preparations he made. j
The dark dungeons and secret subterrane- i
an passage beneath the castle were the *
scenes of his work. Here the terrified peas- <
antry imagined that the Italian made a com- <
pact with the prince of darkness, and sold 1
the duped De Betx to biin in compensation for i
his aid in restoring his health. Among {
many nonsensical and harmless experiments, c
were also some of a cruel and abominable 1
character. He induced his infatuated em- I
plover to believe that there existed in the t
blood of infanta a oharm for restoring youth i
and vigor. He assured him that by bath <
ing daily in the warm blood of those inno- t
cents, the young youth life which had so late- i
ly coursed through the tiny veins, weukl be '
ransferred to hi* own. Tho bloody baron j h
lid not shrink for one moment from the com j w
nission of the horrid crime, which this pre- t
oription rendered necessary. Tender inants
were secretiy stolen or forcibly toinitl
rotn their parents, and kept in dungeons of c
be castle, till their blood was required. It c
s believed that not less than one hundred
tumble mothers were thus bereft of their
roungest born. This fiend in human shape
tired a magician, but not a niurdorer.? v
rhat office Tto reserved from himself, nor It
lid his savage nature shrink from the horrid : a
vork it imposed. With his own hand did a
te pierco the hearts of his affrighted little j tl
ictims, until there was blood sufficient to j tl
over his whole emaciated body. This is I a
tut one instance of the monstrous cruelty of
)e Retz. We think very likely his wives a
hared the fate of the poor infants, and that it
be story of Blue Beard in wide trowsers, t'
aose robe and turban was not exaggerated, w
But crime cannot always go unpunished, g
!ven then when the rich ruled over the u
toor, justice and mercy triumphed at last, si
"he cries and entreaties of the heart-broken tl
>eople around his domains, reached the ears t
if his superior, Jean V. He was arrested, h
nd brought before a tribunal of justice.? y
lis palace was thrown open to the public 1
;aze, and its horrid dens and vaults were n
wift witnesses against him. He was found d
;uilty of murder by scores, and after con- a
easing many crimes before unknown, ho tl
ms uurm ni wie stake in JNantes, 1440.? c
'his was the original of M Blue Beard," and A
here, although more than four hundred c
'ears have passed away since he paid the
>enalty of his crimes, the broken and rag- ?
red turrets still stand as a memorial that s
ho wicked shall not go unpunished. f'
The Fighting Preacher.
We have heard an excellent story of a
everend gentleman, onco a citizen of Tilts- c
>urgh. "
He was what the ladies called " a dear a
;ood man." and young misses " a duck of a ^
ell." Ilis charity was not confined to those j
vho were his immediato followers, and in
til the private relations of life he bore the v
tharacter of nn honest and upright man.? 1
t is said, however, that he possessed a vio- ?
ent temper, and when anything disagreea>le
occurred, he behaved in a manner by no a
noans clerical. 1
On one occasion, a member of the congregation,
as passionate as himself, reproved v
iim for using language in the pulpit highly u
mproper in itself, and altogether unbecom- v
ng one professedly devoted to the service of
lis Divine Master. The clergyman replied
hat he was governed by his own senses of '
iropriety, and that he would permit no pup- v
>y to speak to him in that manner.
To this, a blow was the only reply. A a
[readful tight was the consequence, which "
ontiuued for the space of thirty minutes, at
ho end of which time the layman was fore- v
>d to cry, B
" Hold, enough 1" 1
The battle ended, and the preacher, with | v
in injured face, walked home in triumph. *
News of the quarrel spread like wildfire
hrough the congregation. Old ladies put
>n their bonnets and ran over the city to '
icar all the particulars ; fast young men v
ailed on the reverend gentleman, compli r
nented him highly for behaving so well, t
ind left him with the assurance of their ?
;reat regard and distinguished considers- h
ion. H
The Sunday following the church was fill- w
d to excess?all anxious to hear the miniser's
explanation. People of all ranks, all
onditions?men, women and children?
aints and sinners?professors of the nianlv
irt of self-defence?all individuals who, till p
hat time, knew not wlir.t the inside of a '
hurch was made of, were assembled there. "
Just as the great bell struck for the last "
ime, the clergyman entered the church.?
)e!iberately he wended his way to the pul- 1
it, and contemplated the scene before him.
i'he choir sang the psalm commencing with :
" Bleat is the man who shuns the place
Where sinners love to meet ." I
After which the preacher made a short 'I
ind fervent prayer. lie then took his text, 11
ind delivered the following address, which '
i.--.I-J ? i? _
.?? ..nuuvu w us oy a gentleman who was !11
tresent: ?
" Brethren?We are commanded to love c
>ur enemies, and to respect those who des- *
>itefully use us. It is our duty to do so.?
forgiveness is the finest quality in the chris- ?
ian character. It distinguishes him from "
til others. and causes him to be looked up- s
>n with respect and admiration, lie who "
s able to forgive an injury is more than a
nan, because he rises far above his fellows, ''
tnd is conscious of possessing parts to which ,
>theis are strangers. In my short chequer- ,
td career, I have always endeavored to over- 1
ook every little injury I have received. In
nost instances I have been successful?thus
iroving that the immortal and that the 11
thristiau arises far above the mere man.? 8
3ut, my dear brethren, it has not always c
>een the case. Frequently my proud heart v
tnd violent passions prevail over the com f1
nands of wisdom and tho voioe of pru- 11
leuce. A few days since I forgot my posi- f
ion, and struck the offender. I am well 1
iware of the fact that we are commanded,
vhen smitten on the right cheek, to turn to t
im (ho left, and T only think it proper to do
o; but, my brethren, when a maw underakk8
to cave in my head, i'm there p
The sporting characters present gave
bree tenific yells, which created so much
onfusion that the services immediately con
luded for that day.
Wearing Flannel.
Put it on at once, this first week in Noember,
a good, substantial, old fashioned,
ome made, loose, red woollen fiannel shirt,
nd do not lav it aside for a thinner article,
t least until the first day of May, even in
lie latitude of New Orleans. We advise
lie red, because it does not fill up, thicken,
nd become leathery by wearing.
Wear it only in the day-time, unless you
re very ranch of an invalid; then change
fete o csmtlue a?a ^ ? 1 ~" *l '
. ?v> ? niuiiini vno IV mcrp III?iruuijj II1U
wo hang alternately on a chair to dry in a
larin, dry room. If leaving it. off at night
ives you a cold, never mind it; persevere
ntil you take no more cold by the oruis
ion. No one ceases to wear shoes because
l>ey caused corns ; it is the proper use ol
hings which makes them innocuous. The
jss you wear at night, the more good will
our clothing do you in the day-time.?
'hose who wear a great deal of clothing at
ight, must wear that much more in the
ay, or they will feel chilly all the lime;
nd our own observation teaches us, that
Ite people who muffle up are the most to
omplain of taking cold. But why wear
annul next the skin, in preference to silk or
otton ?
Because it is warmer; it conveys heal
.way fiom the bed}' less rapully; does it sc
lowly, that it is called a non-conductor ; il
eels less cold when we touch it to the skin
hat) silk or cotton. If the throe are weted,
the flannel feels less cold at the first
ouch, and gets warm sooner than silk or
otton, and does not cling to the skin when
amp. as much as they do. We know what
shock of coldness is imparted to the 6kir
?hen, after exercise and perspiration, at
rish linen shirt worn next the skin ii
irought in contact, by a change of position
villi a part of the skin which it did no
ouch a moment before?often sending i
hireling chill through the whole system.
A good deal has been said and writter
bout silk being best on account of its elec
rical agencies ; but all that is guess-work
Ve are mere blind leaders of the blind
rlicn we talk about the subtle agent; and
mil we know more of it, it is th? greatei
riadom to be guided by our sen-ntions.
Another reason why woollen flannel ii
ictter, is, that while cotton and silk absorl
he perspiiation, and is equally saluratec
rith it, a woollen garment conveys the niois
uro to its outside, whore the microscope, 01
very good eye, will see the water s.andi.ij
11 innumerable drops. This is shown anj
lour, by covering a profusely sweating borst
dtli a blanket, and let him stand still. Ir
short time, the hair and inner surface ol
he blanket will be dry, while the moist or*
rill bo felt on the outside. If we would b<
rise, we must use our senses, and observe
or ourselves.
Soma persons prefer white flannel, wliicl
nay be prevented from filling up, il firs
veil washed in pretty warm soap suds, thei
insed in one water as hot as can be wel
?orne bv the band. After being once made
woollen white flannel shirt should nevei
e put in cold water, hut always washed a;
hove, not by putting soap on it, hut bj
cashing it in soapsuds, not very hot.
[//a/fs journal of Health.
Immortality.
There are two crreat noints certain?twr
O I
oints that are fixed and unchangeable.?
>ne of these is, that lite soul of man is ini
torlal ; and though the laxly perish like tin
ovveis in sunn nor, the soul will >till live on
rowing mi?re brighter and more glorious
lie other is, that there is a God of peifecl
>ve, wisdom and power, who enfolds al
te beings into whom He has hi eat lied
lie breath of life in the peifection of his lo^s
fetween these two points?the certain im
lortnlity of the soul and the certain aftec
ion of God?hangs life. If I did not know
liese, I should uot dare to stand before yoi
D-day. I should close my eves to tliesigbi
f this calm face here in the coffin, 1 should
lose tny ears to all sound of lamentation
nd should run hence to bury my bead ir
he dust, and die myself. If we were no
ure of God's love and the soul's immortal
ly, I do not know what reflecting man 01
ensitive woman could enduie life a mo
nent. Knowing these, I can look on thii
see in the coffin and say, it is weii wttii tin
nan ; he 19 not dead, hut sleepeth. This ii
lie only liouae from which his soul has gon<
ome to his Father and to our Father, t<
is God and to our God.
To the mortal affection* death ta exceed
ngly afflicting, hut when the religious sou
) awakened, death is a triumph. For lh<
ouls of those who die are not dead, bu
lad with wing*. On eerth you have no
rholly lost your friend. IIis memory re
nains with you year by year, his morta
mperfectiona shall fade away till you shal
hink of him as an angel, for a time sojourn
ng in the flesh.
Borne three score and six years ago. whe
he coming of this child was foreseen, a whol
11 world of preparation wm made for the baby J
j nnd when ho did come, he was received in *
l world of affection and tenderness. So I y.
\ think it must be in the other world, that hi*
i coming was foreseen, and that ministering
angels wero ready on his coming to welcomd
him with joy and affection.?RobertSi
How to Take Life.?Talrn lift* Hk- *
i man?lake U by the fore-lock, by the should'
; en*, bv the spine, by every limb and parL?
I Take it just as though it was?as it is?all
earnest, vital, essential affair. Take it just
as though you personally was born to thgt
' ta'sk of performing a metry part in it; as v
i though the world had waited for your com- ing.
Take it as though it was a grand ops
por'unity to do and to achieve; to carry
forward great and good schemes; to help
and cheer a suffering, weary, it may be*
heart-sickened brother.
Tho fact is, life is undervalued by a great
majority of mankind. It It not made
half as much of as should be the case.?1
Wbero is the man, or the woman, who ac1
complishes one titheof what might be done I
i Who cannot look hack upon opportunities
I lost, plans unachieved, thoughts crushed, aspirations
unfilled, and all because for the
lack of the necessary and possible effort. If
1 we knew better how to take and make the
i most of life, it would be far greater than it
is. Now and then a man stands aside front
1 the crowd, labors earnestly* steadfastly, confidently,
and straightway becomes famous
' for wisdom, intellect, skill, greatness of some
sort. The world wonders, admires, idolizes 1
t and yet it only illustrates what he may d<?
? if he takes hold of life with a purpose?by
the head and shoulders. If a man bat say
he will, and follows it up by the right effect*
there is nothing in reason he may not expect
to accomplish. There is no magic, no
' miracle, no secret to him who is brave in
i beart, and determined in spirit.
[Hot ton Mirror.
1 A Touching Incident of the "War.?A
* young English sailor, who in a RlcirmiaH
wiib the Russians had shot a man, describes
1 his feelings in a letter to his friends, which
1 strikingly shows how greatly war is opposed
to the sensibilities of our nature. Seeing ?
1 the man nt whom he had aimed fall, he felt
' that he must go to him. " He lay quite
still," he says, " and I was more afraid of
' him lying so, than when he stood facing me
' a few minutes before. It's a strange feeling
r to come over you all at once, that you have
killed a man. He was a fine young fellow,
not more than twenty-five. I wentdownon
j my knees beside linn, and my breast felt so
' full a5 though my heart would break, lie
had a real English face, and did not look
r like ah enemy. What I felt I can never
> tell; but if my ii e would have saved his, I I telle
ve I would have given it. The wound
was fatal, and he soon breathed his last.
1 " I laid his head gently down upon the grass,
^ he continues " Hnd left him. It seemed
' so strange when I looked at him for the last
5 time. 1 somehow thought of everything I
5 had heard about theTuiksand the Russians
and the rest of them ; but all that seemed
t so far off, and the dead man so near."
1 The Mercantile Si'tr Agencies.?In
' more prosperous days, (says the New York
' Freeman's Journal,) we have not failed to
r denounce these institutions as degrading and
' unrepublican in theory and practice. We
would now ask of what use have th?v
What argument can be urged for their continuance.
When the storm came they proved
of no account. Those who trusted most
implicity in their reports, have been swept
? away. We therefore urge this as a most
fining opportunity to relievo the mercantile?
name of the country, from the stain that
' attaches to the maintenance of such a de;
i grading system of espionage, forming a part
in our commercial system. Now is the>
I time for our merchants to sweep away this
1 vile thing that cavers the land with a netI
work. Hetter a crop of bankrupts than ft
crop of spies 1
-? i^I?
Dantaof.s.?A man in Franco lately lost
' his nose by a Railroad collision. The nose?
'! that was destroyed was rare in its ugliness?
II an enormous red bottle nose. A scientific
I i > *
ouigouu, uy h rmnopiftstic operation, riot on.
ly repaired the damage, but furnished hinl
> a better, or at least a handsomer nose than
I he had before. But the man regretted hla
original bottle nose and sued the railway
r company for fc'2,000 damages, showing it
- want of gratitude to science which all the
s faculty justly condemn \
* On Thursday morning last, at the depot
s of the South Carolina Kailroad, in Angusta,y
an expert thief picked the pocket of Hon/
A. II. Stephens, of his pocket-book, oonj
taining one hurrdred and twenty dollars/
6 In proportion aa men are real coin, and
1 not counterfeit, they scorn to enjoy credit for
1 what they have not. " J'aint me," said
* Cromwell, " wrinkles and all." Even oof
1 canvass the great hero despised falsehood.
Ekdowmrnt.? A fifty thousand dollar
subscription for the endowment of Walwr
n Forest College, a Baptist institution neft
? Raleigh, N. C-, baa been completed.