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' vqlpmb vi. W ' ' is, 18^: ; i ? THESOtftHERfTENTERPRlSE X* IwMd Efiry Tbwtdiy Morning, bf PRIOE & M'JUNKIK. PROPRIETORS. , Wm. V. Prioo C. M. McJlinkin. SI a Year, in advanoe; $150. If delayed ?rlfrt& ^artrq. kt a. Pi it L?t others ?rit? of ihoso who fought On nuy ? blootljr icM? " Of those, whose daring deed* wore wrought With sword, and spear, and shield; But I Wilt write of heroes bold, The bravest of tbo brave, - ' . * Who fought for ueithor fame nor gold? Whs All an unmarked grave 1 Heroes who conquered many a field Of hard and sterile soil? Who made the sturdy forest yield To unremitting toil; Heroes who did not Idly stand, But dealt such fearful blows That aeres, broad, of worthless land Now blossom like tho rose. The heroegof ttifiplow and loom, The anril and the forge ; _ The delTUW"d*>wh antra the gloom Of yoader rocky gorge: Heroes who built yon lofty tower, And forgud its henry bell. Which faithfallv prwUini the hoar, And msrks its flight so well. Heroes who brought front every clime Rich argosies of wealth ; Kinnt tl HlPfir*"' *?1 Wgoepirnefli what canto by stealth ; * WW won a guerdon fair and bright, And left no bloody stain? ? ? Ko War?t.Auir , 1 ' Ihindly^nghtUpon Godrs wide domain. Aim wot 14-wide rwtntnon workers orarn d| Ifolaurel wreath of fame? No monomer*, above tbetg mravo; . ? Tktgr tsOei bat for t xa1( * Among fie lowly who pled Their weary way along, -.#* # With faith and oowSdonoe that God Cesreoteth every wrong. #ma From the Home Msgmsiae. The Prayer Meeting. nr. a ARTina. ?You will be at the meeting to-night, Mars ton V said a man to his friend. They had stopM?l at tta Mnrnav A# a anJ MP* rating " Oh, yee; I wouldn't in las one of them Wednesday night meetings on any account. I enjoy litem very much; and gain strength for duty. You will be theref" " Of course; nothing but a matter of life and death oould keep me away." " Good evening." " Good evening. Come early, Maraton." And the two men separated. Both had re eently joined the Church, and both were ardent In their new life, almost to enthusiasm. On his arrival at home, Mnreton found that preparations for tea were not in a very encouraging state of advancement; so he said, in a cheerful way to bis wife, who was going about with a baby \u her arms, Vnil mitaf Knrww im il?t? /? a 1 - ?? J "f B- "? ?, '>""? This U Wedneeday night, yon know, and I wouldn't fail b?ing at tlie meeting on any account Give Mnggy to me. There; now your hands are free. 1 ought to have come a little earlier." The pale, weary-looking wife smiled on her liusbana, as she handed him the baby, and said, pleasantly, " You shall not be late, dear. 1 will soon hare all ready. My head has ached badly all the afternoon, and thia has kept me behind hand." "I'm sorry for that, Anna. Does itache stillf" The husband's voice was full of kind interest. "Yes; and I feel unusually weak. The first warm weather of the season always tries me, you know." A shade of concern came over the face of Mr Marston, as his eyee followed the retiring form of his wife, lie was an industrious young man, with only a small salary ; and bis wife was trying to get along without a domestic. They had two children?a little boy four years old, and Maggy, the baby, who had not yet completed her first yoar. In a shorter time than the husband had expee ted, his wife's pleasant voice called him to eopper. He gave her the baby as he eutcred their little dining-room, and the sat down with it in her anne to poor out the tea. " Does your head ache still f" inquired Mantes. Badly; but I think a eon of tea will do me J n p[OOCL "I hope so, indeed. Give baby back to mc. I can hold her." And the husband reached out hie hands for little Maggy; who, pleased to rotors, almost leaped Into his arma - a <ni niDH uiai n?r uaca, .uoujer, mm man' | loft, riling from the table, in about ten minutes, and reaching the baby to his wife. It U lata, and I inust be away, or the prayer seating will open before I get there." Bat Maggy, who was very fond of her father did net wl3? to Mhve Him ; and so struggled, arts* haituuttw had received her, and cried to be token back. "Papa moat go, darling." Marefon bent dawn, and triad to aoothe the grieving little one. da he did eo, Maggy got her arms around hit neek, and hold on tightly. H took quite an effort ^ htnd htdi, and cornmaSTag walking rapidly away in the direction of the ehureh at whien the pray ar Keating waa to ba held, ha was conaelous of an unpleasant preeaure upon bis feelinga. What did tots mean V , He began at onee searching about in his mind for the eauee. At drat, he oonU aaa nothing clearly; but gradually thought want back to the hotne no had just left, and to Ms pale, weary-looking wife and children, grieving Maanaa ha had left them. " la thin right I" The question came suddenly npoa him, and almost arrueted Ids stejw. "I am sorry to leave them alone to-night?' he said within himself; "and wouldn't, except for the prayer meeting. I gain m much strength and eomfart In this meant ?f.grsoej that I feel as If It would W wrong to neglect It." And to he walked on. but with slower etepe, hht thonghU still returning to his. home, and Imagination giving more and more rlvid piotaree of his wite and child r?i? Is grief ??* h abaoaa*. At last he stood still. v v 141 need the blessing I 4?ad hoped to reeaiee this evening. The strength, the W)fnfqft,*tne rmce," he eaid, still talking with tilmeelf.? But, poo: Anna I ^hi# honl lor her t?t ha left ninst not consider 1r>y" "lt"" iH<<V..rrt will give the strength and oomfhrt T need, even if 1 do not ideet to-night with Hie people.* " Qh4. James, u it youf Mra Marvton alart?t at the unexpected apbearance of her husband, who saw, as she looked up, that hot* eyca were weV " Have you forgotten anything ?" ' Yea" he reulied. as K* ?tn?l *tu. .? . b-?unusnnl tenderness npotf her. * What is itf Can I get It for yon t" " 1 forgot to stay at homo -with my wife and ehildreu/' <aid the voting man. "Oh, JamesI" Tears gushed over hla wife's faro. " And I've come bach to remain with them," Ml*. Mars to n leaned her aching head upoD hor husband's shoulder, and sobbed. This unexpected circumstance quite broke down the little selfr~*TT? >? ? n.,nnlnpd. 'v-. jfliVv' " l)id you feel l?noly ?" " Lonely, sad, and discouraged,* she answered. - But you iirc Kyud wm kind, snJ J *? weak and foollalL Go back. JApies. to the prayer meeting. 1 shall feel better now." j "No, darling," said liarnton. "I will stay at homo to help and comfort my lonely, sad nnd discouraged wife ; and I think 1 shall he serving God in this, with a truer spirit of worship than I could possibly feel in any prayer meeting that I t went to at tho saorifico of a clear home duty." i " JIow does your head feci now, Anna ?"* vu < asked halt an hour later, as thev rat J ctdldren I 1 In his arms. * "It Is free from pain, and I feel so much ivt? i ter. J think yapr i ik.?nafcnl..l. w.1..mn>J,m,,i? But, oiler' i you iiavc been absent nil day lona, I can't bear < toluv^rnu go out 1b tho evening. I love to 1 .fcesfyon ?-?dR>Unfie: .amiyou doo t know how t much cood it always docs lite." i Mr. Marston ami led back upon lils wife a loV? 1 ing smile. Keys thoughts were awakened hit ! "There are other souls to be cared for aa well t as my own, he raid, a little while after, aa he sat < musing on the occurrences of the evening.? "The souls of my wife and children. How can ( I help them on the way to Heaven ? By going out to religious meetings, or by staying at home 3 aifcsn iiii! fiaauaBET.* : t?r the souls of others, Ood will water 'my own soul. He hat placed these precious ones la my ? care, and 1 must be faithful to the high mission." To think right la the first step towards doing right While his wile sot at her work, Mr. Moraton put his little boy toabed ; first talking to him about lloavsn, mod tts pure inhabitauta,and then f bearing him say bis prayers. " God blest you. my son I!' he said, in liisheart, as he laid on bis lipa the good-night kiss. Another new thing In the household of Mr. Mnrston occurred that* evening. As his wife sewed, he read to her, first from religions books, and then from the Bible. When bedtime drew nenr, he said, in a serious, hut gentle voice, " 'Fin-re are home prayer meetings as well as church prayer meetings; and God has said, * Where even two or three ore gathered together in ilis name, there He will be in the midst of them.' Shall we not open a prayer meeting in our house, Anna; a home prnyor meeting!? There are two of us here, and God has declared that evon with two lie will he present." "I am not strong enough for duty, Jnmea Every day I feel that human strength is but weakness. Pray with, aud pray for me, that divine strength will be given. Mrs. Mnrston spoke with glistening eye. Then they knelt down together, and opened a prayer meeting in their home; und Mar-ton J gathered in the act more strength ?nd eon>fort Mian could possibly liave been found at the pub- * lie meeting, had he gone there in violation of 1 his home duties, and sung and prayed ever so a, ferveutiv; for right actions, from religious principles, aioue bear us heavenwards. A Thrilling Scene. I BY E. C. IIRLAVAW. I ? ? Permit ma to sketch to yon a scene related to a me l?y an eye witness, which occurred in Con- * uectiout while the people in one of the towns in v that State were gathered to diacusa the merits of v the question of license, whether one neighbor *1 should longer be permitted, under the sanction of law, to destroy another, and bring pauperism. ? crime and every description of imseiy on Uie ' neighborhood. This town had suffered greatly from the sale * and use of iutoxicating drinks. The leading in- . Huenoes were against the total ghstinenee doctrine. At the Heating the Clergyman and Pby- " sician of the town, aa also a leading Deacon in 1 one of the eliurehee, were in favor of contlnu- ' log license, for permitting a few men of good moral character to sell, tor they all agreed in ? the opinion that the motlrrai* use was not injnri- ' una i that Intoxicating liquor wan a good ereature of God, and to hamper Its sale to be used in mod- ? ... -- - -?--?- - --- 4 MVd uaprat ^rsmintnn mimau liberty, I v and a reflection on the benevolence of the Al- ' mighty. With such powerful advocate* in favor J of the old custom, the feeiiog of the meeting ap- | peered to b? all one way, when a gentleman, who was presept'from another Htate by acoident> 0 but wl>o had been a former resident ofU??* town, L begged leave to differ from tho highly Influential * ana respectable individuals who had spoken on \ the subject He entered into a history of the ? town from its earliest settlement; he called the * attention of the assembly to the desolation the 1 traffic and moderate drinking had brought upon f families and htdividunls; he pointed to the l'oor 1 House, the prison house and the graveyard for the numerous victims of the Cradle; he urged, end with eloquence, that in mercy the flood- t gates might he shut down, and prevent, as far as 1 possible, the continued dssoUtiM* of IsmUiM, by < sustaining the immoral bnsineea of Hum Celling. I Hut all would not do. The influence of ths Clergyman, the Doctor end the Deecon woe too much I for him. lfo one followed on his side, aad the < chairman of the meeting was about to pd? the t question, when, all at onoe, there arnae from e I distant corner of the room a miserable-clad ami I miserable-looking female; her appearance Indl- i oated the utmost wretchedness, and that her t earthly career bed almost closed. After a roo> ? meat's silence, and all eyes feeing fixed upon her, I < she stretched her attenuated body to its ntmoet j i limit, and bur long shrivelled arms to their I ( . , / # ' f wifh rognrd t<bhft" jrate d^h 'ff,, "f: =rd'? grare Y They **?" ?''!?*#Wt^'7P Itbmt roixWrnte (Irinkinn wM >fiW#? W?? 9? > I to be avoided?ft nil whMeTgp^lVwI fl>6* wouh n?v?r admit that they drank to Vsww. Thej ousted mom and pou and jaw V'!'- t!v shred or a finger to the prlctfli, tty..?on witi d?< no better uuthority ihnneqB^HB^Hp' themselves safe tinder yo*< I raw the gradual chm I* and prorpeoto with dumay M U It: or: 1 saw! that we were dll to he overwUrTsqiia In one etttn mon ruin. I bogged, I pi rtv (i,.I agonized t. ward off the blow : I tried to. b<eat' Ulu spell? the delusive spell, with wh i nte drinklog had involved my love$> oiiejfc?;but the odda were greatly acnir.et apnslite had been formed?the Minkier of God ??d that the poison u?i was ilmmt boys was a good crpaturs of God ;-the Deacon sold them the poison the Doctor^sahl a little conld do no harm as he tooK hjMp|Br?'"ee with them, and so all but ntysell ?<4r% they conld not escape, and ono after mother of them was conveyed to the il igis i' of the drnnkard. New look# ^ ? ?? probably eee me for the laafctmw*??"y wnd i? ilmoet run. I bavtf dhtfr ! toy c.rffcaasted ramo from toy present. Itgan -j^ur Pjowr //ov*' ?to warn you all, to warn yJfc P*ne<<jt, to'warn fou. false teacher o( GodV v -d. tq warn yob, i.ae w?w eiioi^TWW,'?Wjr'b her armaji gb dung, and ber tall torn streuJiSo to jb- Vfl ?n<l her vofce raised tp An nt?t tcjpij G?JL * J *h<tll m*ii yevr tjiert tn'fA , yvrnyn >? yrtur*, tnul 040 ttinjl iritnet* igainut yoA all." The wretched female vanished rrom the assembly. A dead silence prevailed. k pin might have been heard to drop?the jriest, deacon and doctor hong their heads. Th* ['resident slowly arose, und with subdued voice, ind with groat solemnity, put the nue'tion ; " Is it the pleasure of this inciting that any nore licensee bc^granted to sell intoxicating lijnor in this town?" The response came like a clap of thunder in me universal gathered np NO. Friends of humanity all over ,tho worid, had ron been at this meeting would you not* have Jllistrlliiiirnnn lUnSimj. A Tough [Experience. Orvill Gardner appears to be doing well at upcrintendent of the coffee saloon! establish ?d o reform a low neighborhood in New York.? iardner gave the follfiwlnp account of liia former Ife at a meeting in fJcwark, N. J. r My life has been an eventful one. I have rasa* id through niaay scenes when my brain has been >n Are througfc-ihe use of strong drink. We go n a saloon and sit down, and paying onr shilling, ake the liquor dealt out to us, and than wait for om# one to come in and treat. Somd one docs :orne in and we drink again and aguid, until ire ind our way in the gutter. 1 have been in carera ted- in prison ; oh, how ninny times 1 ean't ell. I own the eorn. 1 have been locked up all iver the country. 1 have been locked up here, b New York, Albany and all through Canada, nd away down South.-always for getting drunk, >r getting in a fight while under the influence of he n\^ddepiug,oup. There ia.no use of. talking, havo been through the mill. But a merciful rod lies spared me, and stayed my step* ere yet t was too late. 1 have dissipated in all the luxiriea the devil has ever been nblo to cook up.? f he ever got up a new dish I woe a chief imp in etting it forward. Now on Sunday.'with, my rife on my arm, I go to church. My God 1 what pbnn.r? \VI.*4 ? - B->. ......... vivt iimii. iit; ieni m? cion lown to earth to save sinners. I mirt vriiiiltr .way from the pt.th of righteoushi^'-tfptNt^ust iot. I can never forget tlie dny on wty>h JlVeus onvcrted ray hca^tf.#o3 washed q^MMraw, was unspeakably happy. 1 knew thw^'whrft onstitutcd true happiness. I would advise .all o got religion. W hat is moro nobler than to ee a yonng man espouse the cause, of temperance; nd what looks worse than to dee aif old man laggcring toward a drunkard's .grave Y It is try warm here to-night, but. !'?r 1>e*h in much rarmer places, from which I otilv escaped by the nercy of God. Iliad hard woik to leave off rinking rum. Gin and sugar in the morning corned necessary to my existence, I wns a percct slave to ruin. Uuin led me iu all sorts of rouble, and never yet got me out of a single crape. Rum is a very large tow-edged sword, ud with it the devil cuts off scores of human hengs. It nearly took my head otf. I did not igu the pledge. My conscience kept troubling ie every time I took a drink of rum. and 1 went o Boston to see If a spree with Loou companions here would net destroy its pangs. The first iove I made there 1 was locked up. Borne riuud got me out of jail, and I got drunk and :ept druuk for some time. I had a little touch f the tremens, and raised a four story window o jump out and kill myself, hut the Lord saved >j?. 1 had to walk the street all night, for leer would jump from the window. 1 returned, ringing ray guilty conscience with mc. Flnaly 1 got a bottle of old Jamaica j and went down n i^ong island, nn<l there, alone, I struggled witlt he appetite within tne. I prayed to C*?xl to id, and ha did. I roaa up nod said, " tioijL 1 viU quit," I resolved never to touob another Irop of liquor, odd 1 burl ed the lioUle. Oodlias ilded ma, and may it please Jlim, the boilla will icver have a resurrection. Mau can accomplish freat and wonderful things If he only puts himelf in exercise. - ? ?ss? Haw Srroxns Mark Hmooh*.?dome of the nost distinguished naturalists in the world beieve that tpldsrs baVe the art of crossing streams hf wAtar on krldgM of ihrtr own nmKlug, Mr. limit rslatas the toltowb.? owriousfsct * Having placed a large, full .gn.wn apider on i eana planted upright fn the midst of a stream >f water, ha taw it demrfnd the cane several imee, nod whon it had arrived at the surfaoe of he water. 8nddenly He lost eight of it wholly, Mit a few minotea afterward, to hie great aatou shments he pereeived It nuletly pursuing its ivay on tha other aide of ilia stream. Having ipnn two threads along tha oans, it had cot one >f them, which, carried by the wind, had become attached to ac me object on the bank, amlVo served lha spider as a bridge across the water.'* U Mw niAi;c? H lary man itwfc n* n ?rookj ?d twlnirtkcs a Vtookcu) itoe. "Who ever n Tidy Kfj JJP i? \)leu*M llint did flbt dink* # v*Pa "l1* r, n?n, titih-M lie Inul ' a fotlie to k?ep.lip ?pponi?iM<Nb "2"hc gfcat VHfM Jtliieve*, rs and criminal* that fill j out pltantinrie*.an< ?j(n-hou?ct, lima como to miiAt iviyirointlit mv in idleness, FTj6?<w<'s^^^^SSt^*" butlneaa part'of tfae r' #HTiii|^^t'TffE^li.;.?uik.' our great ana neek Tof li d ti-niiied up in their boyhood to be 3 "vV r ?bo3P5? old enough tp play 1 n th n atrwt," * h^i^in'old aftanghtybe taught J row to Work. VgiT f fM^i^t8^#rud08tryjj : Io)::.*/tlni when i? grows j*p to b* ir man r I Mt^jl r'nn? trbo ffjw poor, let thdif chlHreh . I w to"1**1" ?*" yenm ?r age. beHon 5y ptifc ynvin U- Inbor. ' J-'uch r?. f hnvilSu Wen-what, work i?s t>nd Jjitviiuc < l ed ?J. ;,r itiun~. .... - ?-- ' I Hv ,|<| uiiiww vixnii weir OTIU ! rs tyithIiudiu>:N There law repuleiv^nlis in i ! .rk s-.'t I oliii r tlutn nn<l tt? gel itdCfif.M no n or how, in the only aim. They nream-fl 1>U?v t SpRHbll 61 Yvp'vk. 1h? ron??, I <pu ? ? that they don't stkfe to ore thing hut * WW ue ; mid they rov? about the world, got. into Bchief, J?nd finally tiud their wk* itno tna Stft'ti tsoqraKalinkhnrfee. 'yaffil t > ' W the habits of tdl^hesH, vice may general-1 Ijrh und. WiMUrtbft mind a?'i hand# sic not. nin ?Ja ewnigh to do. They are found in the liwMlHmi In the evening, learning yulgarl lIflp>oTAne Habits from iireir .'..< ?? iu ?v>^-l imflkny be seen jmog'wig iw ound groceries, bnr-l rouLMand stores, where- they congregate, but I Mfvmc. seldom if e ver found eraaged in study. ^N^Wf^Wfy js not only a bod boy. bnt-a d?sg. .folds parentis, for it is through tboir negTc'. B becomes'thw?. Tfo parents, however poor! I JImi! times of cheap books and newb|>t?ju.-r!>. mf'' 1st their children grow no In sdt?n?f* it I f cannot be kept at 'manual labor, l?t their irr \ be kept at work-ma'., il.ei* wt??-' - ihJeAftout mOnybu 'wji?mri^rmsy Undertake in after life. W i-know many boys? voui g men?old enough to do Winers fdr themselves, who ennnot read and much lese, write their own names. They are too lazy f for ignorance and laziness are twin brothers; we always feci for ssich young men their habits are formed for fife ; the twig bent in ubiJillttKiu bos grovrr. to be ft distorted Ires. and there is no help for it; thfjhiusit pasj through life-as they have lived?'ia.iazincar and igno rank'. Think of this, young readers, and tak< he.nl that your character be not formed like unt< tbeis. t ^ t ' Kynr Psnsonvz or IlKAt.Tii.?JiraffleaaEJUaaaa pf 'lurvsrd College, lately Mated facta that eho* Oial^W* ealioUfS who hwvo dieting"] "hod tbvm .^^^^WWha?L?Jt^fon>rcge-iW^r ^on'or tl. 1.1 I of indifferent ?1t" iiintenTo.* Ii Is an. hn questionable (act that literary and scientific per suits nra of themselves uromottw of. h??|tli Wo arc always nmuaed to Wnr youn& men ami school girls talk of lint ing injured tlicir eonstitu lions, or destroyed their health, by hard study, Study 1* not anawerabl* for tba oi?????u* Uu. om t/voKS la not study. Study im plies vigorous exercise of mental fMculties, which is incompatiblo with prolonged dreaming over books. When the mind relaxes its efforts, inter mils attention, the student should leave study, betske himself to either play or physical Jul or ?hs should rent the minu and exercise the body. Nor is the going of the mind to repletion fWi. ? ?'i ? ,j , ,.h..>o..vn,.?i ucjnn vi scnoiareiiln hoi richness or wiwlom?promotes neither health or life* Especially is this detrimental when accompanied, as is usually the cose with students, by halite of free eating, sufficient of themselves to Hdathe health of those even who ure habituated f< out-of-door exercise. It is bad habits, and not study, which ruin the health of students. Contemplate Kirke White boosting that he was dyisg over ids books; then turn to WsjlerScott-, old, with his immense nmouut of literacy tabor, giving his nfternoons to oul-of door exorcise, like o runn of sound sense! Which prescuts tilt true example f Think of it, dyspeptic student, snd Mush fur shatne, as sou ought, that your unjustifiable habits hava rubied your health. But in the name of justice, u\akc not study a seapegont for your tins) lJeforo us ka feehlo specimen of a man, who has dragged nis existence through the winter in a state of seinVstupidily, tumble to study, ne bo says; yet thriei a day, nt the table, he duct the work of a healthful man. Thus he uses up his remaining life and energies in disposing of the excess of food wtlch he puts Into hi* stomach, gradually but solely exhaustion his vitality i/? gratify hi* palate. Tlil? is not study, it is animal indulgence.?Lift Illunlratcd. Family faitiyes.?The hnbitof view ing everything in a ridiculous light is one of the family failings that I would wain against. It too often leads to nn ubnmtahle desire to detect and hold no to ridicule the faults of others, anil it almost alanys destroys the finer feelings of admiration for tvhajr is iteautifitl, and 'Ivf |ral?f and 'W"" l^ynlile t}Halitle^ar^?<.^MftlJo B uew conaxniciion njlsn the action of utiles, etc. A critical, censorious, fault finding woman ia the most unaimtv hie living t and let US not conceal the true odiousiivm of stteh propensities In ourselves under the guise of a sense of the ludicrous. In many famb lies, however,-where both low and good prevail, tuersia what may ho called an irksome rather than a (Infill mode of chirping mid contradicting one another. Ko harts is meant and no offence Lb taken, hut' what can be more iiksoma than to hear two sHUr*,for instance, eoiitiuunUy setting tsc'a vi&ui tr'ftfng points and differing from eoch.otliM' in opTnlon for no apparent reason, but fri/u n habit of contradiction? and *tu-]i a habit ddi-s it become, that one may somotlioes see |>cr?ftna who have acquired it contradict tlitir nwi statements juat nit.de. the moment i iniune inrinrv vnu nun.: opinion. ir is }_'ono wilTw tu?p that tin* bad habit shows If, to tk4t It mny teem nrOdlc-- to advert to it; but !fc i* a faniily fault, ana iliould be watchad ngainsl, for It is tin annoyance, though but a petty nee, naVcr to be able to open your bin without being hanraeaed by such contradictions as, Ho, tliAt happened on Tuesday, not Wednesday j* or. if joy remark that the clouds look thrwrteiiing. to be asked with a tone ftf surprise, think it l<K?k. Hke rain ? t am acre tntfelf appearance <>t mien a thing, .narrate an Incident, every small item is corrected ; hasard an opinion, it is wondered at or contradieted ; assert a fast, it it doubled and (joeation cd ; till at length keep wiener?in despair. { Print#* Intflligenter ,_jieA _ "" 1 ~ TtN^uwtKK Ktwnox.?Returns at XatlivllU from sixteen counties girt a net gain of aboul itfMK} to Ifeikorlaiidtt for Ooeernor. Qturck and Hatlon (Opposition) at e ak?t*<J to Congress Asery, Bitseriaga, Mrabeon, jnobabty. Laslvr'i (l 'JJ-u it ioi ; .HI. Tits Cj.ay Kami: y.?An old lfettor, written in 1&48, by the I'erter Clay?then preach ; ??r?t i It on, lib, given the following facte in regard to the origin of the Clay family j "Your wishes to know sumrthlug abont the history of our family could not he gratified with, in the limits ot a letter. Tile fallowing eoneise ncconnte must suffice. In the reign of Uuecn Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh brought over h? the Virginia plantations, among others tiirae bri*ht*i. *o?a af Bir John Clay, of Wslen Enf land. He gave them .CIO,00t? each, wol*. "?2: a very largo fortune at that time. Their narnee > "Were Charles, Thome# and lienrj*. They settled on Jnmse Uiver, near^arocstown. Two of them, Charle# and Thomas, l?ad lurge families. Henry had ?k? ehildrerr. !fih?-pnnie Henry ha* . Jmu Uaiuled iUwr. in. ?r #be fai.iimyself from Thomas Clay. Thn# the two brotht?l# alluded to a to the .progenitor# of the Clays in tho Uritteck'btrfea. -J&J;?ii" ' > - ' '-i ' My fnthev, a# von liti*e beard, wnz aalergyman of tbe baptist denorairutfjon. lie died in early life, leaving #*vfn eWdreri?foflr boo* and tVruo daughter*; ?]! of whfart'dieil without klilldren, with the exception of llettry tait tft selC,. My mother V*'e married 11.< ' < , nOd r?i?ed * faintlyof children, two <>?,? hofn tua Hill living?Nathaniel W. Watkms find Frank Wat kins, residing in Missouri My brother K?uy I'M nad eleven children?*six daughters end five sour. The daughters ere nit wmi, sr.;! or- ??n .11. Clay, dr., who was killed at the battle of Buena Vista?his wife having previously died, Uaving three children, who are with tftcir mothor'o Wnw?i?i.; Tlirce of .toy brothers sorts are settled near him. In the lnlgtinorhood of Lexington. Two of these, Thomas and James II. Clay, arc munied ssd d'dtig Wall?one a lawyer, the other a farrrtor. John, the yaitng e*k whom Von saw at Washington, Is with his father at Ashland. Hteodord hie eldest ton, is in the Lunatic AsylvJtfl in Lexington, a continued luustlu.^/^ "'kt >i^ut feel'oge ?*vr<m'?h of worsfs 1 hut. only makes them distinct and clear, but it . makes them strong. Oi/thc other hand, no man should pray so little as lie would when he only prays by vocalisation and utterance. Hi ere ought ! to be in every man's life, every day, appointed j periods in which there should be utterance in prayer before God, in whieh a man should be ! accustomed to develop his feeling in actual lan- j gunge and words; and over and above that, and aner that, there should be prayer and thought ejaculation?the nnliltlng of unexpressed feel i?g? both of llietn should go 011 together, work, ing and co-working with encli oilier. There era many persons who are deficient in prayer, because they never have cultivated themselves by expreasing their prayerful feelings. There seems 1 tr? t,(. a rtiffli-nltv in Imoinninv. I nliimnsc Unit it i? tlwty* lmr<( to speak in an unknown tongue, and to apeak tit a Umgnn * do not understand Wsfhsy'j" F*" * * ***e*aow? t-?tnvyiJi; one rtrnif feelings Of shares. Many Obrl?iluns lirink Inoni taking up the oroe? of family prayer, but uioat unwisely are thejr dealt with alio nre dealt with tenderly uppn this subject. Any man who has a family round about him, whatever it roajr cost in the beginning, will do wisely to take up family prayer. A* to reading It from a book, .every man mnathave bia own liberty ; it iebetter to rend from your own religion# experience than from any other volume. 1 am sure that a man who does not walk at all, but n innn who walk? well with crutches is better than a man who walks with either a cane or crutch. The expressing of devout and thankful feelings before Cod in prayer, is one of the moat needful ttuug* for Christiana Man's Wants.?Uev. J, C. Knowllon, in an aJ. dree# delivered before the l'enobteot Agricullu ral Society, give# the following summary of the wants of man; 1. He want# to 1>? well horn?that is, he, wants to be born of healthy parentage, and in a moral ly mid physically healthy locality. If ho la born wuong, lie seldom get# right through life. 2. lis wants to tie Weil aduoated, or well brought np. And by education he meant that every power ami faculty 01 Hie iiniui una boay be developed, and brought to perfection. 8. He wnnta employment. He was made to labor. When idle, lie is always committing sin. It cannot be otherwise. Labor is the conditio:i of happiness, and happiueas is for what we live. 4. lie wants a location, a house?one place in the wide world which he can call his own. Ko man ever enjoyed all of life without. And this house he wants to liavo adorned, embellished. There is no one who has not some sense of the picturesque, the beautiful; aud tin: more home is adorned, the more happiness it will afford. 6. He wants a companion. It la not good for a man to be alone. After a home, every man wants a wifej every woman a husband. He needs a wife ; to assist him in the aeeuinulalion of money. This, said the Rev. gentleman, although net strictly au agricultural subject, is collateral to it. 6. Man wants Christian hope for the future, when he sliali have don* with earth aud its labors. ^urcs on " 1 he Cm ixttnn J,aw or Amusement" lave occasioned 6otm? comments, is In favor of dancing,-at least as it is practised " on the Highland* of Scotland and the green sward* of Hwilzland, ana In the rural districts of Germany." 11a object*"strongly 'to fashionable suppers and partial*, and would seero to speak in the follow, ing |>msngv, not wiUiout personal observation ; ' Why; 1 hnve sat beside n professing Christian woman in oiif of the beautiful parlors of a. fashionable metropolitan avenue, .whose jeweled pud ears sn?l Angers, and da/sling brocade, an much ae said to the .uweinbieu gtivsu., /'none of your dresses cost as much as mine and rhen I have aeon her go into the supper room and eat enough to make a swine have gripes of conecience, and than tarns out, obese, and panting for breath, made marvellously religious l>y sandwiches and champagne, aud wind np the farce with a niros discourse on the sin of dancing. Now, I think that If she had transported a portion of her ennsoirnee from her stip|r?rs to her stomach, though she might have an inch or two less of phylactery, the loss would have he. n compensated by several additional yards of - Christian consistency." DEATH or * OMtUr.*-T|l? nrtn.... ><< axr.o i Leone Weekly Advertiser, of dune 9, announce* the death of the Bishop of that diocese,"the Right ' Rev. Johu Bo wen, LI* D.. uppotutad to the see in 1867. Hating had several attaeka of the yellow fever, to often and eo fatally prevailing on that coast, and having got over them, it was i hoped that hie lilt would be SJMired for mauy i yeara Librrtv will not deeeeud to a people ; a pen i pie must raise themselves to liberty?it i?a blew ng that must be earned before it mo be ei^oyt d ' * * . .1,'V ; * *y . ' * + ** X Ten Dom.ars fob Initiation.?" For Initiation fev ." into tb* Order of the Sons, I have paid two dol- . , lare each for my three aona, my m>n-iu law and myself, and have rdways seen to it. that the weekly dote liavo be n kept paid in advance."' So said a grey haired'patriarch, whose works have shown that he hud rnthcr pay ten fold that amount, than that one ot those lovely wiM should ever * tarry nt the wine." Although living four or five mile* from the place of meeting, and be- ing almost a tirely doj a ulent upon the labor of -T**r or?- ?.?nd* for supDort. yet seldom doea Lla ^ . double-seated buggy fail to pfl?iit Weekly visit . to the JHviaion, bearing ita preeinna freight, the father and the sona. Eve* since hie connexion , aa ' with the Order, we have adtnifed tits devotion ^ to the cause. And his constancy, air.id sunshine mot ?,!?? ?-.-"?* ore rrtm."! -i..' iJ?>ir*elll of UETjl -ovnpra helUu- stiU *" |g- ? lliRitu 1_ sncciffcea tlinn he. ?_ This, reader, is the proper spirit. And wfcat M the bosom of every father in the land were animated by it? How long, think you, before the moo*tor vice would l>e banished frobi our borders f Wo all know tlie power of a father's influence. How perfectly natural lor Ms boys _ follow hia example, and How natural for them to tread in hlsfootsteps in the,Division room, the experience of Ml has seen. And there are rnanv av-. fathers to every community, who should "enrol * 1 thetpselves niuong thwchamuions of 'IVruporsivM^ if for-no other leaeon, for the sake of their pro* <* ^ ciou* spcs.?Bon of Temperance. V An iMoosrom T>rrtci*i>,?I ?m this day In recij-t of a letter from Dr. G. <>. Griffin, of De*. mopolis, Alabama, in which the Doctor says- ^ .* - wThaco Is oiro Mr. Pike, fruit treabgent for tb? Geneva Nurseries, Kew YOt*,.wtjo is camamif * that region of tha Sfnte, and to induce the plant* *r? io i.urchsr? his "*? he (Mr. Pike) informed them Unit J>r. Cloml had given him au order tor $5,000 worth of trees! In j^tice I* myself and-, to my many distant friends, f^hus promptly and . {>ubItaly assure l>r. (JHfhn, and all others, that I iave not given Mr. 1*iko an order for a dime's worth of frmit or any other trees! Mr. Pike vis- ^ w r.S,I irtTT r* tt !? , > Mi iff . | l.i.l ifllBWy*' 'f" " *cd WevTi the a bill of hi* trees at greatly rarvcM rate*. Mr friend, Mr. Kelson, who has experi* once on the an Meet, assured me that his Northern tree* would not nnswer Well here. It la well, then, to be on your guard, for Mr. Pike, if he will impose on yoa such falsity, to induce you 'b purchase, is it not probable he may impose on you in anv order you may give him? "N. B. (JLOUD, M. D." Montgomery, Ala., July 30, 1859. Tub Cot'stftt Parse.?It must be a fact patent to every couptry editor that provincial news papers, to use an English term, are denied of all but local influence, and even thia is wVrrnliSdO*' ed by the opinions of those city hebdornadala w hich occasionally invade the rural district* It is humiliating anil geuiue-clipplng ; but the fact is so, that the country paper may indite easaya on and classic home, and are forgotten. Ko ejty cotetnporarv deigns even a look at their elaborated ideas, bat pass them by, in bnsty search after shocking casualties, distorted murders, and spicy erioi. cons. Wesnpposo this is oa the tame tirlneinln that concludes all country cousins green, or at least slightly verdant, and not wearing tlie polish inseparable from the friction of city life. The rustic muy have beauty as claim to toleration, but rusticity is so apparent to conceit, that repu? tution would l>e perilled to show off or introduce to fm-hioiinble notice. We wonder if the time will ever come when merit will be appreciated for itself, without indebtedness to those meretricious incidents whose sway is so despotic. [Carolina Spartan. Its Fruits.?Aslt our Judges what It is that creates the endless stream of culprits and fills the prisons with criminals, and they will reply ?JSTfcUi-KRANCB. Ask the Philanthropist what it Is which overspreads the world with poverty and prostitution and wretchedness; w hut it is which creates so much desolate and broken-hearted widowhood, and dependant and betpbss orphanage, and lis will reply?Intempkiuwc*. Ask the Physician what it is which is destroying the flower of youth and manhood, and perpetuating, from one generation to another, a tad traia of cureless diseases. What it is which fills the Asylum with Tannines, and the Hospital with afflicted, ami he will say?lrsTKMriWANok Ask the Christian Minister what it is which ia impeding the triumphal unroll of the Gospel; wnat. 11 10 wmcn 10 preventing the increase of Heaven's population and peopteing Hell with unhappy multitudes, and he will reply?Iktbkpkbanle.?licv. T. Albrighton. What Nkxt??Pink, the New \ork Correspondent of the Charleston Courier, thus describes the latest invention. Travelers should bless the "cute Yankee," who has contributed so decidedly to their comfort: Some Yankee has been inventing a clock, which not only keeps time, but ulso cooks your food. It is designed principally for travelers who start early in the morning. It is an alarm clock, and has a roan's coffee ready for hint be. M la. t l.t fl'l.- -- 1 - ' I .. 1 I m I im f>.. I 111, jnuUS ill OUCMUUO I# thus sketched: Suppose a person wishes to rise and travel at four o'clock in the morning j all ha has to do is to set an inner dial to that hour, while the outer clock dial indicates the true time. He also makes certain dispositions of the lighting apparatus which are self suggestive.? Precisely at four o'clock a lever is moved, which causes a drum to revolve against a friction match, the flame from which ignites the wick of thn spirit lamp. In half an hour, the coffee is ready, when another drum revolves, igniUt another match, and lights a candle, and at the same time the haute of a monk pulls a rope and rings an alarm hcil, ettecluaiiy arousing the alc^-T, Tn* " Sutm."?'There is something lovely in the name of sinter, and |ta utterance rarely fails ta cail up the warm affections of the gentle h/Srl Tl>? tl.Mw>lo. ?t.-* I- J '? quiet, beautiful, and purr. Passion ha* no piao* with Its associations. The hopes and fears of love, those strong emotions, powerful enough to shatter and extinguish life itself, find ho home there. The bride is the star, the talisman of the heart. the diamond abort nil price, bright | and biasing in the noonday sunt. ? sister, V?t grin <>f mil ler light, oalm as the mellow tnoon, A LaAftSFD Pron*.observe that, they hare got to he so learned in Boston, that tire mic of the English language in the newspapers (a being dispensed with. One comes to us with a coiii sgs siderable portion of Ua " hadcr " upon the death wpr of Rntus Choate printed in Latin, instead of English. As Boston prides herself upon being ths "Athens" of America, Veskatra think that if they discard the English language they ought (q lake the Greek instead of the Latin. ^Claeinaa/t 2?a^t,?rer * J - >c/ gjgi' *'