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Synopsis of Views Heloltvs to the J Prevailing Customs and System* of School Government, and suggesting an Etposition of a System for the Intellectual, Moral and Physical Education of Hoys, by SVm. pkmctt, Teacher of Mountain Lodge School, Green villey S. C. ? [concluded from last week.] And il is but just that these reasons should be brought to beAr in calculating progress. For out of them spring almost all the difficulties with which teachers have to contend. These, ulso, opernio to produce gfoiho full tide and ebb to which our school* are subject. These causes are extraneous, over which the teacher has no more control than he husovcr the revolution of the plnJ-.cts, j A system, to bo a good one, must bo adaptable. This requires altontion to the truth that every child seems to l>c possessed of three distinctive elementary characters, each of which seems to bo independent of the others. Yet they are so interlinked that a systematic excitement of them may and does produce an harmonious result.? TtlA firtt stf tu or* titiJIooliiul s*ots?ro the second in a moral reuse. and the third is a physic*I organization. Each of these is subject to its own laws, and depends, for development, upon the daily, not weekly, ays ? I tematie exercises of all its peculiar facilities. What will devclope the intellectual nature alone, will leave the moral and physical unexercised, because it is subject to its own peculiar laws. Each needs exercise?daily, systematic, inialerato, not excessive. They re quire to he jointly and harmoniously exercised. The peculiar characteristic* of each of these departments must be well defined Ixfore any system of school government can be adjudged proper or not. A distinction which appertains only to the intellect, is to think, to compare, to reaaon, to analogyze; but the intellect never feels. It is the exclusive province of the moral sense to feel, such as sentiments of lienevolence, justice, humanity, conscientiousness, Ac., Ac., but never to think. It is the province of the physical to constitute the medium through which the one thinks and the other feels. The harmonious systematic development of the three ia u education proper." Every system is good just in proportion to its adaptability for the joint and tho harmonious development of the whole as a unit. I hold it to be consistent with these views to assert, that no one can feel morally right who thinks intellectually wrong, and that ma Ano nan tktnlr mtAllooliiolUt >Ult< IIV VMV vwif MflWA IlllVIIWkUnilJ ll^llk w I V/ rr fe^la morally wrong; and that a modification of this feeling nnd thinking is determined by the state and condition of the pliyei cal organization. These convictions suggest the necessity of a plastic system of management, by which action may produce that Approximation to perfection, of which human nature is educationally susceptible. It is true, that in health, which relates to the condition of tho physical, the mental qualities of children are more plastic, and that these moral feelings more teadi- 1 ly respond to their appointments. To give lability to the structure of each of these departments, each must have a good foundation. Health is the foundation of the jy physics!; observation of the intellectual, and the exercise of the sentiments proper to tnvtn, the foundation of correct moral feeliftgs. Health can onlv result from thesaluS tery exercise of their bodily function. This exercise must be daily, systematic, moderate and regular. To introduce a system favor1i5 -ihg tfais end, we must give countenance and support to the re introduction of ancient flra-inn oounea. which unfold the oroanic frame* of the boy*, and prepay .for. . #*#? w wwe .Mi ^^gArr-lV*; ?"W M Virtue or patnotWo.? Boys m*y be intellectually and morally eul ^Uvafedp vfe in t?>* al*?Hce of a tound f 1 fa^Vaa. ppyative or ^v^Uble. Secondly, J,pfjcjper jutellection results from activity of nw^^WS*??*?? and'insular the beginning point of ^ "^T' powers: Esch faculty bs it* sphere of action, and responds to it* natural appcleuciee in the outward world. The intellect of children is ascending in its atiucture, and they cannot exercise the powers of analogy, comparison and doduc lion, until observation lias furnished ideas for these higher faculties to exercise upon. Thousands are training tho intellects of boys who are in utter darkness as to the powers and nature of the mind, and are pursuing a course which, I think, is at variance with tho constitutional structure of its powers. These powers must be daily and systematically erArrimul ? v -?> J VI VKgMb IIIVV WU* tnct with their appropriate object*, daily warmed with their congenial stimuli; otherwise these powers languish and become forever stinted in their growth. The law of moderation applies to exercise here as elsewhere. No teacher on earth car. take aw?.; -I a singlo faculty from, or add one to, the mind. lie must oj>erate on the facultative capital as he finds ; and here capacity and potter account for the various stngos of progress with a given lime. If trained according to its constitution, the minds of boys will expnnd, and grow, and bud out to ma turity. The great law regulating labor of any sort is moderation, 'ihis law is written by the finger of God in legible characters across the belt of his universe. It must regulate all our actions, feelings and propensities, of whatever sort they may be. Tbe grand object of this regulation is to lop off every excess, and bring up everything to the line of u enough." Guided by its influence in the regulation of our customs, we would not gorge t)?u minds of school-boys nine months, and turn them out to starve for three; we would nui exercise these minds on Monday and Tuesday, and give them no exercise on Wednesday and Thursday; and turn them over to parties and gun-sports on Friday and Saturday. Each day must have its own exercise, subject to the great law of moderation. Under it* auspicious influence, boys would be able to attend their studios and their school daily from lht January to 30th December, without experiencing the ill consequences of long vacation*, or any of those bad effects arising from cramming and pressing their capacity and powers for a part of the year, in order to form some excuse for suspending labor. God never intended this belter skelter way of doing thiugs to be prac'iceed in his dominion, otherwise he would not have given us tho constitution we have, and made it subject to order and moderation. There is just as good reason why the planets should suspend their revolutions, the stomach its functions and digestion, and the lungs their respiration. At variance with a sound school-policy is the adaption of too many studies ai once. Farmers tell us that in a grassy time It is not good to seclionalize their working forces. My experience is against dividing the mental force* of boys too much l>y multiplicity of pur-<uils, unless the time of the day could be better sectioned than its shortness permits. The anxiety of parents to see their children, while very young, carrying big books, has led to taxing capacity and powers be yond ability, and desire to do so has been mistaken for ability, and desire ends in discouragement, and the crop fails. I give it as my opinion, that a boy bad better concentrate all his mental forces upon some given study, till its strong holds are taken, and adopt another for conqueat, making the lormer only secondary in his devotions to study. There is but one thing which is at war with the practicability of the system here suggested, and that is at war with every thing good or great in the world. It is Idleness. This is the sin of the age ; when analysed, it is found to be tho embodying shell of every vice. It has grown to its present mighty dimension, because, with the young, labour is regnrdod as disreputable. I regard It as the sin of the age. Out of its hideous protean form peer a thousand ills, personal, educational, moral, social.? Throughout all the length of the land, it is betraying itself personally in vagrancies, nncoupled with any legitimate business; it shows its blight educationally in the gross iluvlrnAaa lliat aisi%Ai>MAM?k* ? -**-1 ? ?J ? J CBw% vopomntn iiwui nr^iwi?u Oji | portunities of improvement; it in teiiing iH effect morally in yielding facilities to temptation, and 19 manifesting itself socially almost everywhere It >a the Htagnant pool, from whose congregated feculencioa arise the miasms that enfeoble intellect and infun a vitiated tone into society. It is manifesting it* effects in 'intellectual softenings, moral declension, and physical degeneracy. The 1 arrest pf this monstrous evil, oan only be nc ootnplished by carrying reform from the nursery up through' all the grades of our educational and social institutions. But I have said that the onpiastic systems of mental training, >0 incongenial with the constitntion of the human mind, is the cause fof those error* associated in the popular svstems of public instruction ; equally true \l it, that the same sigzag system of moral training, a?inconsistent with the constitution ot tnan a moral nature, is the promoter of all manifestation of different foelingn. The ex pansion of the one is one thing, nnd the era dicalion of the Other another thing. The home of children must ho the tnnin nursery for the expansion of their moral feelings and the formation of character. Reliance on alien service, in a case of such importance, is criminal indifference. The teacher may fail to do, in a few months, what parents have failed to do in many years. The cast is not at ail improbable. Parents can ncvei shift their responsibilities on teachers, noi teachers theirs on parents. Each is responsible in his own person, and in that light will God view them severally. In the close of these desultory though ts I will add nn additional word upon the sub ject of physical education. 1 have said that the manifestation of mind in boys, and the tone of their moral feelings,are astonish ingiy connected with the condition of theii physical system. There is much more np pertinent to tho development of body, than we have over dreamed of in our deepest philosophy. Aside from tho truths of he reditary transmission of qualities, and t he fixed fact that perfection, or imperfection either mental, moral or physical, is trans mitted to offspring, physical education pre sents us with a subject pregnant with mucL merit. God's laws, regulating the physi cal world, are unchangeable, therefore the) are uniuodifiable; they are inflexible, there fore they are not plastic to meet all our ca price* ; they aro universal, therefore we can not escape their action?our ignorance o them will not shield us from their enforce inent against us; they are founded in wis dotn, and address our intellects; tliey ar< founded in consistency, and address them selves to our adoption ; they are founded ir benevolence, and therefore address them selves to out moral feelings We cannot leap over them, nor run round litem ; they nit the outside bulwarks of the universe. Theii infringement is ever followed with n penal ty. All responsibility must bo personal, I cannot be corporative?one cannot obey foi another. ? iu... ? i1 w;n, iu uu |iu\8icuuy euucaieii aright ought to l>e made acquainted with llieii own anatomy, their organs, and phyaiolog) of function, and llie organic laws theuce etn ergent. Without thi> knowledge, exercise on wliicl dcvclopeinent depends, may he hurtful.? The physiology of digestion is the founda tion of a rational system of Hygiene. Die tetica have much to do with intellect and morula. The abandonment of tea, coffee and tobac CO, alcoholic stimulants, indigestible* anc narcotics, and the adoption of ptnin, nutriliv< food, have vety much to do with (lie forma tion of the mind, the morals, and a sound bodily developcmcnt. It is in vain to educate the minds of om youth, and lenve their bodies undeveloped it is in rain to educate the body, and leavt the mind undeveloped; it it in vain to edu cate them both, and leave the moral charac ter undeveloped. They must he equally de veloped, and then the human being, as t man, has approximated to the highest per fection of which he is educationally suscep tible. And this is my idea of education.? The crown of this approximate perfection its leaf and flower, its mellowness, its fra grance and flavour, is the leaven of tru< religion. This is the cord that must bine the strong man. Kxertion w the price of a noble life.? The pursuit of a noble object adorns, and elevates, and enobles, and vivifies life.? Without a definito aim, life is like a rudder l?ss ship, drifting about between life anc death, buffeted by the winds of circuin stances, and entirely at the mercy of tin waves. While one with folded arms waiti for future opportunities, another makes tlx meanest occurrences subservient to a golden result. One labors to find something to do the other labors to do something. W her the Alps intercepted his line of march, Na noleon said, " There shall be no Alps 1"? When difficulties from poverty, beset him Franklin resolutely determined thero shouk be no difficulties. Greatness has in its vo cabulary no such word as fail. It wil work; it must succeed. llAppy is he who at the sunset of life, can recall the yean that have gone swift-footed by, withou bringing beiuro him afcttrfu! array of sounn dered opportunities. ? . ?Irish Pmcvkbbs.?Kvery gooee think hi* wife a duck. No new* in a newspape isn't good news. Manners make tho gen tleinan, and the want of tiiem drive* iiiit elsewhere for hi* shooting. A inias is ? good its a mile of old women. Too rounj cooks spoil the broth of ft boy. It is a gooc head of hair that ha* no turning. Il'slbol ish (o spoil one's dinner f?y a ha'porrli o tarts. There are a* fine bull* hi Ireland a ever came out of U. Necessity ha* no Jaw but an uncommon number of lawyers. Bet ter t<> look like ft great fool than to be th< great fool you look. A soft answer ma) turn away wrath, but in a Chancery suit, i $oft_ nimveMs only likely to turn the wale l r ?L '' Itlrrtfh ^nrtri|. Passing Away. 1 HV C. 8WA1X. Look from the casement?look, and tell 1 What'* pawing, inoiher dear; Since dawu, I've heard the funeral bull, Slow pealing on my ear; And now there comes the solemn fall ' Of footsteps sweeping nigh, ' Look down the street, 1 hear their feet, Some funeral's passin? br. . The mother gaxed w ith anxious face, , But nothing there was seen, I Except each old accustomed place, And what had always been. A moment yet, dear mother, slay ; | Strange sounds are on the air, L Like angels singing oti their way, Or voices deep in prayer! ' Oh, lift my pillow high ? more high? For 1 am faint and low ; ' Help me to look upon the sky. And bless them ere they go I ' The mother raised her daughter's head, But no word oould she speak ; ' The hope that from her bosom fled, Left tears upon her cheek. The night looked thro' the easement old, f And saw a cheek so pala? A form so wasted, thin and cold? No skill might there prevail ; ! Hut that which conquers Death yet bearoe? Upon her wasted brow ; i And sweet, as though an angel dreamed, The sufferer rested now ! > All, who llie mother's grief may tell f Or who may comfuit biingl Vet, high above the funeral hell, She heard the angels sing 1 , IHiottllnntous rati rag. The Sky. It is a strange thing how little, ia general i people know about the sky. It is the par . of creation in which nature has done mor . for the sake of pleasing man, more for th . sole and evident purpose of lalkiug to hilt | and teaching him, than in any other of he works ; and it is just the part in which w . laest attend to her. The noble scenes o I earth can be seen nnd known but by few.? > It is not intended that man should alway live in the midst of them ; he conjures then I by his presence?ho ceases to feel them if h< is Always with them. The sky is for all r bright as it is, it is not *' too bright no ; good for human nature's daily food." It i ? titled in all its functions for perpetual com . fort and exalting the heart, soothing, purify . ing it from dross and dust. Sometime . gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes aw i ful?never the same for two moments to gether?almost human in its positions, rI . most spitituul in its tenderness, almost di . vine in iU infinity ; its appeal to what is iiu . mortal in us in as distinct as its ministry o . chastisement, or of blessing to what is mor 3 tal and essential. And vet we never attorn | to it, we never tnake it a subject of thought but as it has to do with our animal eeuss tion. We look upon all by which it speak . to tis more cleady than to brutes, upon al I which bears witnei* to the intention of th Supreme that we are to receive more froti . the covering vault, than the light and lb I dew that we share with the weed and lb . worm, only as a succession of meaningles 3 and monotonous accident, too common aim 3 too vain to he worthy of a moment of watch > fulness, or a glance of admiration. i If, in our moments of idleness and insi ; pidily, we turn to the sky as a last resource i which of its phenomena do we speak of?? One says it has been wet, and another it ha been windy, aud another it has been warm , Who, among the whole chateting crowd I can tell mo of the forms and precipeces o - tho chain of tall while mountains on th | horizon at noon yesterday I Who saw tb , narrow sunbeam, thai caute out of die south i and etnote upon the summits until the; t melted, and mouldered away in a dust v bluo rain f Who saw the dance of tbedeai clouds when the sunlight, left, them !ir night, and the west wind blew them befor i it like withered leaven! All ha* pout uii r greeted or unseen, or if the npethy be eve haken off, even fur an instant, it i* only b; i what it extraordinary. And yet it i? not ii j the broad and fierce demonstration* of th elemental energies, not in the olash of hail I nor the draft of #hiil*vind, that liie highea character* of the sublime are develop*}.~ f (iod is not alway* so eloquent in the earth t quake, nor in the fire,.a* in M the slijl sinal , voice." They are but the blunt and tin - low faculties of our nature, which cannot on i ly be addressed through lampblack an. r lightning. It jp in qui^?nd' subdued pa* ? sages of uttpbtrosire mfijssty, the deep, tin i calm, nnd the perpetual?that which rou* r be sought ere It is seen, and loved ere it i I understood?-thing* which the angel* worJ out^for u* daily, end^yet vary eternally 7 . ^ J* -"'.7,' . V/yw'jTCffi found but ono\ Ii is though lhe?e that llie iessoh of devotion is chiefly taught, and the blessing of beauty U givt-n. c, [John Huslin. < '* . 1 b Toons Women's Part in Life. b Tliere is something in a pleasant faced a damsel which tuke* a young man'* ey&r~ whether he will or uo. It may be magnc- " ti??n. It may be the sympathy of that \y which is beautiful in men's natures for thai * ' which is lovely in women's. The women ,c< have great power over the sex called sterner. " Particularly so. If they be young, pretty. M and marriageable. Young women ! do you know that it is yoU who are to mold some ? man's life f Have yon eter thought of the responsibility tliut attaches to you long be- w fore you nro married ? A word you may say to a young man whom you may ? never mnrry, nor oven see a second tima^ 11 will possibly exert an influence over hi* life ? that you don't dream of. A smile door B wonder# in lighting up the dark corner# of a man's soul?a word in the right place may electrify hi# whole being. A wrong influ- 8( ence will do more damage in a single instant, than a life time may correct. Tne fashionable extravagance of a large majority of the young women, in town and country, fright- |f ens young men away from all intention of matrimony, leads them to look upon the g whole sex with disliust, and drives them to scenes where they are not bound hand and ^ foot by the unreasonable demands of wives who would spend faster than they could * make. And the fact that this tendency shows signs of increase makes the cast . g worse. The fever of fashionable dress, the!" ignorance of housewifery accomplishments, '< the lack of the peculiar homc-virtifes that arc calculated to make a home lovely?infect ? the villages now a day* as they do in the *' city. . ? NVhcn nn earnest, energetic, hard-work- a ing, sensible young fellow, who is in search . of a wife,sees this, he fears and hesitates, refusea to marry at all, perhaps, and so does on- ^ ly half the good he could in the world? j, simply because he has no notion of fuifiling ? the homely but very truthful adage which tells of placing a man's nose continually j, I, upon the grindstone. We commend the fi t subject to the regards of our young women e readers. Let them cultivate the domestic t e virtues?make themselve true women? tuna - ... J...!? ' i, ?uu? o nviiinu o uuiica?cin_-risn uicir nanus r less, and their intellect moro?and their lot ^ e will be happier and better. More than this, f they will find that there are mates iu the - woild for them and those worth having.? ^ a Will not mothers bring the true mode of j, i life before their daughters in the light iu j, e which it ought to l?e shown?which is no- ? ; thing more than that of common tense.? H] r That i9 the rarest of virtues ; more valuable u a because there is comparatively little sf it to Q be found.? Germanto\cn Telegraph. 8 I Couldn't. 11 Leaning over a fence, a few days since, we ^ I noticed a little four year old " lord of crea- * I tion," amusing himself in the grass by watching the fiolicsome flight of birds 11 f which were playing around. At length a r' , beautiful bobolink perched himself upon a ^ I drooping hough of an apple tree, which ?* * tended to within a few yarda of the place 11 ' where the urchin sat, and maintained his ^ ' position, apparently unconscious of the close ll ^ proximity to one whom birds usually consider a dangerous neighbor. v Tl.? K?.. 1 i -J i f t j v?t nvcuicu ;itu>iiiKii?u ai ima impue dunce, and after regarding liim steadily for e a minute or two, obeying the instinct of hia s baser part, he picked up n atone laying at ] Ida feet, and wan preparing to thiow ?t, . steadying himself carefully for a good aim. t The little arm was reached backward with- ( out altirming the bird, and Hob was within ^ , an ace of damage, when lo I his throat n _ swelled, and forth came Nature's plea: 44 A t] H link?a link, Uib-odink, bobolink?a n }r 110 weet?a-no-weel! I know it, I know it ? lt ?adink?adink?adink a-link?don't throw < ,j it?throw it?throw it." And lie didn't.? ^ e Slowly the little arm subsided to its natural ? 0 position, and the despised stone dropped. 5 1 The minstrel charmed the murderer. We f, .. heard the songster through, and watched ? ,f his unharmed night, as did the boy with a n j ?urro'.Yitn countenance. Anxious to near an c t expression of the little fellow's feeling*. we 0 t. approached liim end inquired. " Why jj . didn't you stone liim. my boy ? You might ? r have killed liim mid curried liim home.''-? v ^ The littlo fellow looked up donbtingly, as ? , though lie su-pccied our {penning, and with y B wu expression, half shame and half sorrow, a \t be replied t *' (Wouldn't, 'c??s hq sung so - t| t Who will aver that music hath 110 charius c . to soothe l ho savage breastMelody awak- ^ . on? humanity, and humanity mercy ? The tj | angels who rang at the Client ton, whiftpeted j, f, to the child's heart.? Clinton Coutant. . */< t| I NitwsPAHKuIlotinowKna.?Thoso persons h - who display their noxiousness to read the k' t Western iJemdcfat " by borrowing the pa> t pars of regular subscriber*, are requested to w ? wait until sa'?d subscriber* read it ; I hem I5 c selves first. If thev can't possibly wait, by ? , calling at this office. tl..,y shall l?e furnished ? , giatisjf we l ave lo 'Miti.p thepr^" tp dq J E?u- ? >>* fxWkMjm? i'lW5i I . ' ' I' ? r.- 1C J . '-v jmmenced life, whir' evt*|'&?&?ring prbs ect, and a Wifb nnd toiely chydion traml V- I leased hijur. Unhappily, by >W degree ecaine?to make a lubg mutter shorten runkard. One evening he left his vufeJM? iars v?twr iqu ivuiitiuri. IMp thoJ . ;j onse of ft man who sola him the deadly qUon, and sank dow n in u kind of atujwiction, ejUHy mistaken foP .sjllsep. -All, Vita t ' i impanuVri* had .'.tainted him. Near midighl the ljindlotd's wife came into the bar>Otn : u I vrish (lint man would go home, if he's 1 : ' 1 ot one to go to." t'Udsh ! hufth 1" Mty. ? tlm landlord, "lief ill call for something el.-e directly." "I wish lie would make haste about it, ten, for it is time every honest pereou yaa i i bed," ??id l?ia wife. I " Jle'o taking the shingles off liis house ud puuiug w?v?i< on ours," said the laud- i J >rd. tv" jL'i^ At this time .Tames began to coine to his mses, and commenced ruhhinghis eyes and relcliift" liiisudf n" i.? i.. f v.... - j, -? ! n?? littu juki hwokg, tying " I believe I'll go." ' y I "Don't be ii? n hurry, James," said the mdlord. "< ' v Q'*""1 _'W.xs" 3k v. I "Oli, yen. I must go," says James, " so ood night!" and utV lie started. . #1 JB*?| ffl After nn nbtence of sometime, tlie land- 9 ml one day mot and accosted liim : 44 Halloo, Jim ; why havn't you been to r ee us!" - J9| " Why," says James, "I had taken shinies enough oft' my house, aud it began to iak, ro 1 thought it was time to stop tho jak, and I've done it I" I The tavein-koeper, astonished, went home ?tell his wife about it, and James ever ince has left rum alone and attended to his wn business, llo is now a happy man, nd bis wife and children are happier than 1 -M Miv ' v ' J JW u Aunt Mauv, wliy don't you write a took ?" said a young girl to a nieek eyed, nfellectual-looking woman of thirty. 441 o not think it is light for a person of your bililics to confine her efforts to her ow-n orae circle ; remember that much will l?e equired'froin those to whotn much is given." 44 Why, my dear Lena, I am now writing wo boohs, and r.oble ones I hope to mako jf thorn, too." 44 Aie you, Aunt 1 0, I am so glad !? Vhat are tho subjects, characters and so>rth ? Can I See them I" 44 O, yes ; you can see them. Come horo, Hiarley and Mary," said she, calling to two Kb-vinmrcu, wiio w8f8 piayig in llio garden, beneath the window.? ilere are tnv books, Cousin Lena," raid tie, pleasantly, aa they entered the room. Li uol here a hue beginning for two glorias works ?" Lena looked disappointed as she replied, There certainly is Aunt, but I do not see hat your being the mother of two fine chiliren is a sufficient reason for burying your nlents in obscuiity." " I do not intend to bury my talents, Leta, 1 intend to engrave upon these children's niiKls all that is good, and true, and beauti111 in iny own soul, hoping and believing iiat the inscription that I shall thus trace ipoll tlio hooks of their lives, will be far lighter and more enduring than any conlibutioua I could make to the passing literaure of tho day. jWbile I was writing what i-ould be of comparatively little real use to ny one, some foreign influence might be racing upon the pages" of these precious ooks that which, in nfter veurs, 1 might ainly wish could be erased." M - Anecdote ok General Havklock.?-At he annual meeting of the Peninsular and )rienta! Steam Navigition Company, ou londay, the 14th, the Chairman told an necdote connected with the loss of one of heir ships : The Erin wns lost in the Chi eMi seas. Un lioard that ?l?ip-? a passen;er in private clothe*?wns Colonel (now >eneral) Havelock. When the vessel struck, etween 12 and 1 o'clock in the morning, n Ttle of wind tvn* blowing. Ool. llavelock prung upon the deck, and seeing some con:sion, said, in that sharp military t >ne that I ways arrests attention. " Men, be steady, nd all may be saved ; but if we have Ql)fusion all tnay he lost Obey your rders, and think of nothing else." They Liu ?u, mid befiAvcU: :n the moet WftelbyStP? k oanner. Next day all the lives on board I rere saved, together with the specie and the nalie. On the shoro immediately after-V -? rard* Colonel Ilavelock metered the men, . >J nd HHid, "Nov/, my men, let u? return lianks to Aiuiighty tiud for the great roerv He has vouchsafed to us." They all uelt down ; ho uttered a short pmyer of liaiikHgiving, end as his (the Chairman's) llbrlllailL who u'im nna of tl?n nfRnaru lie fihip, loft] him, the Colonel then rose u[> d nd talked away aa coolly as if nothing had appeal. We learn with pleasure that tbo Ir.dy who I A ?s said to be the Innocent enuae of tho h [olloch trial, about tnree rpiartere of ayenr JTO, SO far troro living tho ooneamplion, ns ,. ,,|>piclaiMiad l>v some of 1-er ine-l c?| iende at I he tjme, i* now " as well m 4 old -