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^ ^ J m -< ""* ' " ?? > ?^??<?^?T I I n. I I ? 1.1 m |> .. I 1 '. ? " ? ^ KEFLEX OF FOPXJILiAiIl EVENTS. V ... - * ' '. . ' . ? ,: '> ; * ' ' .? !.? . .... I <*.:.!/. I. < . | ... .. ; . ^ecot^d to ^pr^si^s, ilte jd| tU^ ^ou% ?nd live ^ifJfiisUii irf ^B^|iil ^iH0U:lcit0e all O^Ihbbcb o|f ^BSlc^liing ~ ^eyssm" cirebnyillb, mm cabolina, tbursmy to wing, august wkm number "k ill! * i iiiti i >i I'M I.JI! ... . * - I lirfili |> Hill ' tfW rtui -I- '1*1 1W fi^n I I " *? , , ( !' - nt.-V --m ?? r jie $ratlitrn ??hrpw _ ? - . mp mnrnmSAT n?, I A,ILBY, C. *. mol+ki*. , . . ,. >. O. Ballsy. -'WHPjPKWjb, JEIMW. . c, M. icJukia, Amtitamt. ?? *4 T? I ' Ti , bA. - T r**ar.?<i >?? TRBHIJ: on DOLLAR ATBAR.tn Adv?nee. Chx PoBtt ? * ?H?K tf PrtayM. > Ar>V?RTI8KMKNTS - ImnM 7? ?mta |wr~8<iaiN <f 13 Jiim ( ? Im) for Oki UntlwMrOon; M 4>f the *oco??; 15 for tke tfckrt U the thirteenth ; *0 Tor the fmmMiprt MJ?i twenty ?Kxtb; 16 for tbo U A*?klrt)r-?{Deb ( H for the Mini Twill ?r half-yearly aalnrti a^eal a feWnl MMm fro* 4m afcor* rati* jrtVan. mkhMfaiaaeAfrah itdMfat ttftenntraH ib*?M bar* the Buwhfri ?r hiiKhia ?j?w thaw; Tto *<9ft*^MtelM*MU?fc*rjedJ*r tiU cr,W?J ?WjMcrtri ^httaj. . *? ??? : -? - - ' ' =* " v WT rwA?cw a. mrRrnA. ^ ' Jhmr m <Var and laughing brooklet, Dm? km frwf Iflnfretfct 1^1 rrl* oro ly ilo jjjihjj, *" Am) wki W?*i l? dwell; Where Mm twH and branch!nr willow* Their weeping k?l?U wave, In a nre+t, aeehuh*! com it, rl" darling-Nelly a grave. ? Stick cJwaterlng vino* are twining Around Wee IomI) tomb, And in Spring Dm brighteet flowers Mingle theif i*wt perfume, While live sighing lephyr* murwar A low ami plaintive wand, The happy angel* are guarding * Iter little grawy wound. When evening'* shade* are gathering. And dew* are falling fast, I often wander to that spot To dream aljofit the pint. Her |deaeing smile*. *o bright, an pure, Tone-again appear, And acetvee ?f otlicr day* eotne back A U>ou*and times more dear. Her apeekiag ejea, so large an?l full, with joy and loVe, And her heart wospure and guik-leaa Her charming voiee, ao toft end rich, llrUilnki f hear it y< tier fculllem form tad my grtet f never can forgot 3Hi5rrllanmi8 IRmiiing. A Short Fireeide Story. One evening ?|>oor man and hi* *on, little boyr aot by Ute wayaide, near the goto of U old (h*n in Gomauy. The father took out a loaf of bread which he had bought in the town ' and broke it. end gave half to )h* boy. ** Not so, father," aaid d le hoy; 44 I ahall not eat until after you. ' You hate been working hard all amy, for am all wagaa, to eenrort ate: aad rou must be rerv hnngry ; I shall wnit till too are dona." 44 Yotf apeak kindly, my ton," replied the pleased father, "your love to me doea me more good than mv food ; and those eye* of yonrs remind me of yonr dear another who has left us, who told vow to tore me as yon need to do, and, indeed, my'toy, yon bare been a great strength and comfort to me; hut now that I hare eaten the first morsel to please yon, It ia yonr turn to *at.n. " Thank you, father; but break this pteos In two, and take you-a (it tie more; for, yon tee, the loaf is. not large, and yow require much moi'e than I do. " 1 shall divide the loaf for you, my hoy ; ban eat it I shall not; 1 have an abundance; and let us thank Qod for his grant goodness in .giving us fond, and in <M rinrf ua-vkiil m l.nf lor alill aIim.. ftd'amT contented heart*. "lie who gate us fh? living t>raed from ll**v*n to aaarfah oar immortal souls, how, should b? not gW* as all ether food which b Mtta?7 to loppurt oar marThe fcther 1*4 fh? on thanked God, afti ihf* b*#*n yp Oiljh* loaf In pieces to beghi %m h|4- iamm mTm thsjr cut oaa portion of the loaf, there fofl out several pieoaa of gold of great valos, The little boy gave a shoot of joy, and was (twinging forward to grasp the unex posted tasasuru, when ha was pulW hack by bis father. - My u*.any. son r he aded, "do not toetik mat itKwtev. is la an* ? ?* M BafSivtMf ft It, fcther, If U ift'nol our* r I know sot, m yet, to whom il belong*: but probably h ?m put there by tbe beker, through torn* mi?teke.* i. . "AV# meet inquire. Run ?.* *' Bui, f*?Wee, Interrupted the hoy. M you are poor and utody. and you have bought the loaf, and the baker may. tell He, end . " I will wot H?ten to yao, my boy. I bought tbte loaf, tail T dkt not buy the gold In It. If thy baker to hi It to mo la (gueranee; Let ail uot be eo diehoneet e to tabu advantage of Mm ; remern ber Vila uho km told Ue to do to oth era ae ?# would bane other* to do to a*. v we share the poverty of Jesus. God's wh Son, oh! let' ns share, also, his goodness,'nod his front in God. We mpt never he rich, but we tony slwsys be honest. We may die of starvation, but God's will be done should we die In doing ill . Y#s, my b6y, trntt in Ood md toaUt in Kt icnyt, and yon shall | never be put to shame. * Now run to' 1 the baker end bring him here ; end T shftlt welch the gold wntif he comes" J 80 the, boy ren for the baker.? 1 M Brother workman," snid the old man, , "you'hftve rondo some mistake, end elmost lost Vbur money ;* and he showed the baker the gold, end toM him how it had been foniul. * I" It Ihioef' asked tl?e father; ^ If it Is, take It away/' " Mv father, baker, k very poor, and?* * ^ " Silcucc, my Amy put me not to] t iiirhm oy il?y complaints. I nin glad t we have eared tliw mah hit money.1* ii Tlie baker had be"n gaaing alternately l< upon the honest father and hi* eager hoy, I and upon the gold which lay glittering * npou tj}? green lorf. "Thou art, in- 1 does}, at) honest fellow," *aid the baker ; \ * and me neighbor, David, the. flax- ? dreaeer, spoke but the truth when he ? **xi thou w?rt the boneateaV niau is r town." * Now, I ahull telV thee about the r gold - A stranger came to my shop I three dnya ago, end gave me that loaf, i and Job! meto-eell it cheaply, or give it * away, to the hanesteel poor man whom * I knew m tbe city. 1 toM David to j< end th<w to tne aa a customer, this p morning; aa lhart won I?1 at not lake the loaf for nothing, i aold it to thee, na a thou kuowcst, for the la*t pence in thy j' puree; aud than, .that wi?h all ha Irons- v ure?and, ear tea, it ie not small! i* ) thine, and jGnd grant tluse a blessing V with UT Tire poor father Uttl his !' ltend lo the ground, while the tear* ft-11 > froui Lt?? eye*. Hi* boy ran and put l hi* hand ebo?t liis neck, and Mid, " 1 n "hall a I w*v*, like you, my father, trust I in God, and do what i* right ; for I nm I *ure it wilt never pnt u* to shame." [tidtuLntryk Ctuititan Jtiayuzine. u ( <| i. Whftre be Found hit Sermon. \ " Dominie," said a plain-spoken ehlor J, to hi* pastor, " where did you get that M good sermon la*t Sunday morning! We t have not had una with more juice in it ? for many a day.** I " Weil," replied the Dominie, " that ? sermon came from the same quarter that { f got the good things of my last dona- I lion-visit./. Part of it came fVom your c hotAe, and part from neighl>or Van , H - V and part from widow It "s; and one of the Wat hints in it onme from your smart hav, Frank. I picked nit thi\t sermon in one day of pastorul t visiting." I lie whs a wise pastor.. He had not , a very large library, and his family in- | creased faster than his Itooks. lint the ( book of hutpan nature is never exhaust- , i?1, and ae lie set out often, and went ^ front bouse to house, studying his peo- ( pie. And by the fireside of his Hock ] lie gathered up the suggestive materials t fo' his richest practical discourses. If \ he was preparing a sernton on "Trusting f God hi I hum of trial," he recalled all ] -the casey^f trouble and affliction that , had coihd (o his knowledge during his ] last day of pastoral visitation, l'eople love to tell their Ironblea lo their min- ( ister, and always will do so, if he is a ] cordial, approachable man, (as evert , pastor should tie.) So, in reviewing the , various trials in which ?? need the l.>i? j vine support," ha drew his illustrations ( from the many tales of liial that had , reached bis ear ami touched his heart, | at the hearthstone of hi* pxridiiouerH. | Elder A bed told him of hi# r.-li , glows grief and despondency ; neighbor | Van It?? bad rpoiiet of Ida anxieties j about a wayward ton ; and good widow , K -? bad Iter usual dolorous lament over Iter bereavement, and what bawl < work it wan to tttako both ends meet, , since her wan bad died of the rlienmalism." Mi*s M- bad told btai all , Iter difficulties in finding Iter way to < Christ. For cacti one of these troubled j souls the good pastor bad a cheer} word ] of oonsolatlon. Wlfi each of tlicro lie ( prayed. And then aent back to bis | *lUutrt and wove all these individual en 1 sea {without making his aHtudone so | personal as to ba recoga'ixed) into bis i next Sabbath*s sermon. This is the secret of a long and lasting ministry. The p:c?tor who studies his Bible and human nature never wears out; for his materials are inexhaustible, his banks mar ba few : but in ?r?r? day'a life one of hi* people add* a now p?K* to that ?k)I?m volnnie?Mw book of human rrperirnct. flow aha 11 a minister of Chria? under tand that pregnant volume, without studying it t And whore ran he study it ao well as by the firesides and sick bed* of hi* Dock f What day over tha tomba of the dead ia aa profitable aa A day of visiting among the home* of the living f If our people need our preaching to help tbem to live, we aa certainly need their live* to help n* to preach. [ Christian InUlliyencer. Tnby moat dreaa eool ia Laf&yattc, Ind. A young woman, a* being naked if aha intended to wear that finger* Hog to ehurohaatd aha did aot intend ' anything elee." 4 . wta*. ... . w ^ "Going Bone." Tbo Conlributorial to ib? Yarkvil'.s [ Inquirer. edited by our esteemed friend, 1 y. W,'I)^r contains the following. It will go to the heart* of many of our -eadyrs. * J. W. f).M has a peculiarly ?appy wAy of word-painting, and of aayng things to the point. Many hearts vfTI respond to the truthfulness of Ida vords: * All ta departure. *ftoing home' freeta our ears on all Honda. Paces are bright, aa lipa repeat such good byes as l?e*e. Young hearts are drawn homerard bv tender ties?a mother's and h isler'a kiss await many a one. Hearts l..i i.?.- .1 :.i? i? tim umv iv*ru Kirut w iff ? IIVHIV IWI tie to grefet them soon?-bosoms that jave never doubled are to |>re?s them 0011?and eyes that have always look* ?l lovingly into theirs are soon to righten in weicome.to them. Heaven less thorn all. We have only blessnga for all the ties that home love lialbw??frr all the hearts pare enough to est to-its inueio?for all lives over rlisch shines the light of a mother's love, leaven bless them all. To our heart hese are all now bat memories?mem>? ie? of childhood. We felt and knew hem?twenty years ago. We have tot been 4 going homo,' rince then. . " 'Going home Y There is a joyous ing about it, that sounds like musie.-? I goes like a gush of glorious life and tope to the fresh young heart, free in he morning of its hope, confiding and irgin to its jron|hful dream. Tears of ay start as wo hear it uttered in the roud accents of trust, '" Going hoiuu.' We have seen a igh elioKid duwn ;i:ij :t tear. (not of 1 ?y.) slaved hmk by :i Ii^tn^less one kMiiMi mkcd w/uti lie \vns'a'Miij* liomn.* iitk.cn'n tin* f/'ritiiiali- lirtmo^iu'- 'fiVam r!i;?\Vti(jk^tli InoseiViiiMu; luciA-j'lfu of utile?f>!iu.gUi'f" |i -1 I ?? 111 j>I..?ion and in ; nor can lie know what luaahefs here Is in ihe Idea of homclesMicss-mndi?as, to rush aw ay from care, away from lie struggle, away from the mysterious >t?rdcr. of existence; for, nil around, here is no cord to hold the spirit up, lor any voice to call it back. * 4 (ioing home.' Our young friends, he students?the young ladies and the onng men?the girls and the hoys? re 'going home;1 and we hid them dien with a heart full of wishes for heir happy vacations?their pleasant milliters?their <mod limes?and ?* o """ * hat, and a' (hat. We wish tliem each nd severally the very best of times? he gladdest of welcomes at home?the lightest of smiles there?the sweetest >f kisses and the rosiest of hours. So uoto it be." Origin of the Names of States. Maine wa* first colled * Marvooshen," >ut about 1038 took the name it now >ears from Maine, a province in the vest of France. The name is originaly derived from the Cenonianni, an an* dent Gallic people. New Hampshire *as the name given to the territory jranted by ihe Plymouth Company U Jii|itain John Mason, by patent, ir 1630, and wm derived from die paten ee, who was Governor of Portsmouth n Hampshire, England. Vermont i< rom verd, green, and inonl, mountain, davnchnyctta was named from a tribe >f Indians in the vicinity of Boston, linger Williams says the word significi 4 blue Iiill.** Khodo Island was so call ?d, in 1644, in relation to tbe Island o lihodes, in tbe Mediterranean. Ken Vork was named in honor of tbe I)uk< A York, to whom ibis territory wm jranted. Pennsylvania was called nf ier William Penn. In 1064 tbe l)uki >f York made a grant of what is now .Ire 8late of New Jersey to Lord Bcrke lev and Sir George Carteret, and it re ttived it* name in compliment of tlx latter, w ho had been Governor of tlx Island of Jersey. Delaware was m sailed in 1702, after del* Ware. Ma ryland was named in honor of llenri' stta Maria, Queen of Charles I., in hi< patent to Lord Baltimore, June 6, 1092 Virginia was called after tbe virgir rpiecn of England, Elizabeth. Th? Carolina* were named by tbe French in bouor of Charles IX, of France Florida received its name from Pone* Je Leon, in 1612, while on hi* voyag* In search of the fountain of youth He discovered it on Easter Sunday?ir Rnimiidi, Pas:ue Florida. 'Ihe btate r>i Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Ar kansaa and Missouri are all named Doit their principal rivers, and the name are of Indian oriein?excepting. i?er Imp*, Kentucky. Kentucky "wh?T wlier first settled by the while men, notorioni lor ila f|uwnti?y of wild Tim key*, an* its cane thicket*, affording tli<in |>f??tec lion?the wiiiles *|H*:*kin{> of this to tin red wen. lluy iimde the name out Con nnd Turkey?" Kentucky," Indian Kn glidi and llieir in< alliums involved ii oine obscurity. Tennevee is said I signify a curved spoon ; Illinois the Hiv er of Men; Mississippi the Whole Riv er, or a river formed by the union c nmny. Michigan was named froin th lake on its borders. Iowa is an India name; also Texas, signifying u Beaut fulCalifornia was tbne named by th Spaniards at a very early day. Boon and learning may giro a ma power and confidence, but,' uufortnnati ly, they are often eery far from givin him ?klter feeliiur or politeness. ^ ,T. ; nfr??}*? *? "rv-r-rr* " Faults Pompey Couldn't Remember. i A good oletgrmnn, vinliing to be rid ' of hit horse, end to try for ? belter one, > directed hie old negro rami to roll hi? beart for what lie would Melt, or to exchange-bUn for naotlieri adding, at U?? same time, an anxious caution not to * deceive (be purchaser, and enumerating 1 the faults of ilia aoiiual, lest eue should be overlooked. I 44 Remember, Totupey, lie has four fbwlts." 44 Oh, yes, Massa, I take care." Poinjiey, jogging along lite road, and ' counting over the iisl to hiii)Kclf, a* the old lady did over her luggage, ** Rig box, little box, band box, bundle." wan overtaken bv a man on horseback *!?? entered into conversation, and, among other topic*, made some inquiiies about lb* horso. tm- . ,'J?otnpey told his story?said that his J ignster had charged liiin to tell the horse's faults to the purchaser without reservation. * Well, what are they I* said the 'stranger, who had a mind to swap. " f)ere is four, Massa," said l\>?npey, | 44 and I don't retnetnl?er Yin all very well ju*t now, but? " " Well, tell me those you do rewenv her," aeid the other. L M Well, isii'.'OTM U dat de horse is white and de while half* get on Mnsaa's coat, and dat don't look well for a cler| ? 44 And the neat P 44 Whjc, when he eomea to a brook, he will put his nose down and blow in ' de water, and Jdasaa don't like dat !" 1 " Wlrat next T 441 can't ' anyhow remember de od- * eas," said J'ompey, jKH'riiig Into tho 1 clouds with one eyo reflect ingly, ( in,.' _i k j..j .1 . - jut; eiinn^lT cvill'iuuru iu siriKe a bargain nhd exchange his own horse, ' which had not quire w>'?crttle an air as 1 iIk?" par?6rt>, for lid* hearty unexeop- ' tionxble animal. It was not long before ' the clerical steed shtntMed and threw his ruler into n ditch. Picking himself up m well m he could, he examined hi* < new purchase h little more closely, and discovered thai the hoise was cutirelv blind. Finding Pompey agaiu without much difiiculty, his wrath burst forth iu a torrout of reproaches. " You black rascal! what does this ' mean! This horse is broken kneed, and as Mind as a mole." "Olt, yes, massa,** said Pompey, I blandly,44 dem's de oder two faults dat I couldn't rememWr!" < A Book of Thanks. 44 T feel so vexed and out of temper ? with lien," cried Murk, 44 that I really ' must " 44 Ito somethingih revenge!" inquir- i cd hia cousin Cecilia. " No, look over my Book of Thnnks." 44 Wlmt'a tliAt 1" aaid Cecilia, na alie saw him turning over the leaven of a copy-book nearly full of writing, in a round text hand. 44 Here it U," naid Mark ; then read aloud: "March 8.?lien lent mo his Mw Hat.** * Here again: Jan. 4.?When T lout my shilling, lien made it up to me kindly." 44 Well," observed the boy, turning down the leaf, " lien in a good boy, after all P. 44 What do you note down in that booksaid Cecilia, looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. 44 All the kindnesses that ever are shown me. You would wonder how many they are. I find a great deal of good from marking them down. I do not forget tliern, as I might do, if 1 only trusted to my memory, so 1 hope that 1 am not often ungrateful; and when I am cross, or out of temper. I always feel good humored ng?in, if 1 only look over u?y hook." 441 wonder what sort of things you put dow n," said Cecilia. 44 hat me glance over a page." 44 Mrs. Wade asked me to spend the whole day at her house, nud made me very happy, indeed." 4* Mrs. Philips gave me five shillings." "Old Martha Page asked after me very day while I was ill." 44 Why do you put father and mother at the head of llils page ?" a?ked Cecilia. 44 O, they show ine so much kindneas, so I just write their names, to remind j myself of the great debt of love. 1 ' know that I can never pay it. And | 1 see what I have put at ll?e beginning ? of my book : H Every pood gift i* from * above this in to make me remember > thai. all the kind friends whom i have, * were given to ine by the .Lord,and that 1 while I am grateful to thein, 1 should, - Aral of all, be thankful to Ilim.M f 1 think that such of my readers an ? have ability nnd time, would And it a capital plan to kdep a Hook of Thanka; i and may such as cannot write them' o down, yet keep * book of remembrance of past kindness in their hearts. f Lovb and Law.?A young lawyer ? who bad paid court to a young lady n without much advancing his suit, acI cu*ed her one day of being insensible to e tlkf. >w>u*/r ft/ /dim " It (tllm DAt r.kl low," she archly replied, * that I am so because 1 am not to be arc*..by the n pototr of attorney." g Fast youths arc now ca'lod young t <MHiivta?u of aoeetera'.ed J w .* . * * American Girl*. American giils of good education do not know Low lucky they are. Every Ameriyffn girl wlio is sane and sound? and many yrlio are neither the one nor the other, has not one but many chances of marrying. It is very different in Europe. In. the country towns in England marrying men are so rare that it is quite c<>minon to see j? dozen charming girls, all well educated, pretty, and Ia<ly-like, fighting for a half starved curnte, or wietched attorney. Among English mollieis, match-making is canted on to an extent unknown here, (save in the very highest circles of otfr aristocracy,) ,...d <i,U ?? v... r??.va tiur) nvi iiviii mrnn un'ino^, UUI ftom sheer neciwity. In France no father expects hi* daughter to get n hu-drand unless rho "buy* liim. Every man who has a daughter begins, when she is eight or ten yenrs old, to save inom?y for her Jot?i. e., the purchase money of her husband. Papa and mamma deprive themselves of luxuries and even necessaries, to amass a respectable sutn ; the boys' education is cut "liort. and their patrimony discounted in order to swell the tloL In proportion to its amount is the quality o( the husband. A father who can give his daughter a half million of francs, will expect a General or Senator ; be who has a two hundred thousand to bestow, will fix his inaik at a rising lawyer, a dashing Colonel or a prefect ; he who has amassed twenty thousand francs will bo satisfied with a young merchant or a clever doctor. 14*Jt he who has no money to give In* daughter will never ex pec I her to marry at all. Marriage'd imvur is a thoroughly obsolete institution in Fancc. In (Germany, and iaieed, throughout Europe, the rule is rapidly becoming the same. A father alio expects Iris daughter to marry, must buy her a husband. . Ileal ta were >nse conquered, the poets say now rhey are U>ugbt.?rj/prpcr's Wceil jr. | A Sentimental JFicki'Ockkt.?The Cincinnati l'fest records a somewhat singular effect of bexuty upon the lienrt of a pickpocket. A lady of that city had Iter portinonaie extractor) from Iter pocket while shopping, and the next morning it was returned by a l>oy, minus a ling it coutnined, and with the following note: " Dkahrbt and Loveliest Giiil? Vonr beauty thwarted my purpose, and for the instant made me honest.? When I gazed into your delicate colored eyes, and in their depths saw the innocence of lire sweet soul that inhabits your matchless body ; when you smiled Upon your companion, and I discovered i.s loveliness as it rippled from your delicious lip* (which I would barter my soul to kiss) over your face, and stopped to eddy in the dimples in your rosy cheek*, my intent wm changed. 1 followed you until I witnessed your disap pointment in not being able to pay for your purchases*, and felt more sorry at tho shadow of sadness that then fell upon your faco than you could have fclt at your loss. 1 Raw you enter your residence, and I determined to repair the Jom I had caused. You inuat |>ermit me to retain the ring, however, w hich I presume bears your initials ; for the memory of your smile, recalled ev ery time I gaze npou there letters, will do more to woik in my character a change for the better, than all the prayers of all the saints. Herewith I return the money I abstracted from your pocket, and hope you may pardon the annoyance I caused you. Adiuu, sweet one. May we meet again. * G. W. C." Evtt. Company.?Sophonlus, n vine teacher of the people, did not allow* hi* sons and daughters, even when" they were grown up, to associate with persons whose li\es were not inotal and pure. ** Father," said the gentle Kulalia one day, when he had rcftised to permit her to g> in company with her brother to visit the frivolous Lucitida, ' Father, you must thiuh that we are very wtnk and childish, since you are afraid that it would he dangerous to us in visiting Lucinda." Without saying a word, the father took a coal from (he hearth and '-and ed it to his daughter, " It w ill not burn you, my child," said he ; " only take it." Hulalia took the coal, and behold hor tender while hand was black, and without thinking, she touched her white dress, and it was also blackened-? " See," said Kulalia, somewhat displeas ed, as t>he looked at her hands and dre<s, * one cannot Ikj careful enough when handling coals." " Yes, truly," said her father; "you seo, my child, that the coal, even though it did not burn you, has nevertheless blnckmrd you f So is the company of inimorftl persons. Old N&wspapkrs.?Many people like newspapers, hut few presorvo them; yet the most interesting reading imag inable is a file of old newspa|>er8. It brings up the very age, with all its bustle and every day a ft airs, and wakes iti genius and spirit more than the most hil>ored description of the historian Who can take up a paper of half a century back, without the thought that every name there printed is now cut upon a tombstone at the head of an ep it**. Behavior. Sever venture to relate an incident or tell a atory with which you are not well acquainted; nor tire the patience of your auditors with little trifling details; nor keep them upon the torture, irfter raising expectation of something thrilling, by withholding it to the very last words. Go straight forward with wlmt you have to communicate without repetition ; state the principle points with clearness and nrpoisiim ?nt m<l?? ' the mailer itself is void uf interest, you 1 will be heard with pleasure. And, if| there should happen to he anything diverting or witty iu what you say, let the laughing he for others; for, in gen eral. the less of it you do yourself, the belter you will appear. Never suffer your mind to he absent in company. Command and direct your attention to present objects; see and hear all that is going on without appearing to set utinize particularly anything. Good breeding does not consist in formal ceremony, but in an easy, civil and respectful behavior. A well bred man is |x>lite to every ]>er*on, but particularly to strangers. In mixed com panics, every person who is admitted is Mtp|>osed to bo on a footing of equality with ilto rest, and, consequently, claims very justly every mark of civility. It is wise to avoid remarks condemnatory of classes and profossion, doctors, lawyers, or clergymen ; and it is prudent to learn enotigh of the immediate connection* of those present to avoid giving pain. . - Nai'Oi.bon at Moscow.?Tlio following ilesci iption of Napoleou at the burning of Moscow is from the Count de Sogui's llislorv of the expedition to Utissiu: . 4* While our troops were yet struggling with tlie eonflagrnlion, ami di%puting the prey with the flames, Napt>leon, whose sleep none hud dared to disturb duting the night, was awakened bv the two fold light of day and o!" i the burning city. His first feeling was 1 that of irritation, and ho would have stayed the devouring (dement by the breath of.his command, hut he soon paused, and yielded to impossibility. Surprised that when he bad struck at the heart of an empire he should find there any other sentiment than that of abject submission, he felt himself vanquished, and surpassed by heroic determination. " This conquest, for which be had sacrificed every thing, was like a phantom which he had eagerly pursued, and at the moment when lie imagined hejhad grasped it, he saw it vanish from liiin in a mingled mass of smoke and flatne. He was then seized with extreme agitation ; he seemed, as it were, consumed bv the fires which were around htm. lie rose every moment from his seat. paced to mid fro, and again sat abruptly down, lie traversed bis apartment with litiriied stops ; his sudden and vehement gestures betrayed a painful uneasiness ; he quitted, resumed, atid again as sudden!}' abandoned an urgent occupation, to hasten to the windows and watch the progress of the flames. Short and vehement exclamations burst from his laboring bosom. * What a tremendous spectacle ! It is their own work ! So many palaces! What extraordinary resolution ! What men! These are indeed Scythians!'n A MoTfiRit'a On AVE.?Earth has some sacred spots, w here we feel like looking the shoes from our feet, and treading with reverence, where common words of social Converse seem rude, and friendship's hands have lingered in each other; where tows have been plighted, prayers ofTeied, and tears of palling shed. Oh, how thoughts hover around such places, and travel back through unmeasuicd space to visit them ! Hut of all the s|?otH on this green earth, none is so sabred as I bat where reets, waiting the resurrection, those we have once loved and clreridied ?our brothers.or onr children. Hence, J in all ages, the better part of mankind j have chosen and loved spots of the dead, and on these sjnrts they have loved to wander at eventide to meditate, llut of all places, even among the clnunel, houses of the dead, none is so sacred as a mother's grave. There sleeps the mvrso of infancy? > the guide of our youth ? the counsellor of our riper years?our ftiend alien others diverted ua; she-whose heart was a stranger to every other feeling I...I I... A -...I --I- - I I " ' i vhv iv.q, nnu *I|U COIIIU IIIIU DOllO IO luvo but onrselvee. There **lie sleeps, mul wo love llie very earth for ber sake. At breakfast one morning, in that quiet and comfortable old inn, the White Swan, in York, a foreigner made quick dispatch with the egga. Thrusting his spoon in the middle, ho drew out the yolk, devoured it, and passed on i to the next. When he had got to his j seventeenth egg, au old farmer, who had already been prejudiced against Mon l: L:? ? . uivui uy ims iiiilsmcniOH, COUUI UTOOK UlC extravagance no longer, and speaking i up, said : " Why, air, you leave nil tlio I wliilh! How is Mr*. Lockwocd to af . ford breakfast At that rale fw ** Vy," \ replied the outside barbarian, " you I wouldn,t have ma eat de vite f I >e yolk I is de slm-ken ; de vite <lo fodder*. Am I to make von bolster of iny bally !"? The fctopw vtf iiuuit/fouud<*]. LrBBitAL 1rtkm<rktatio* or pan C*nt."?A somewhat verdant looking individual called on a jeweler in Montreal, and elated that lie bad managed to accumulate, by hard labor (ut the few nasi years, aome seventy-fir# dollars; that he wished to inreet in something, whereby be might make money a little faster ; and be bad eoncludxl to take some of his stock and peddle it out. The jeweler selected what ho thought would sell readily, and the new peddler started on his first trip. He wns gone but a few days, when he rw turned, bought as much again u before, Mid plaited on liis second trip. Again lie returned, and greatly increased bia stoek. lie sucoeeded so well, and aecumulatcd so fast, that (he jeweler one day asked what profit he obtained on what he sold ? 44 Well, I put on 'bout five |>er cent." The joweler thought that a very small pro6t,uud expressed as much. " Well," spid the peddler, ? I don't know as I exactly understand about your per cent., but an article for which I pay you quo dollar, 1 generally sell for five," Fate of the Apo8ti.es.?Matthew is supposed to have suffered martyrdom, or was put to doath by the sword, at the city of Ethiopia. Mark was dragged through the street* of Alexandria, in Egypt, till he expired. i ..i i '? iiUK.u whs uaugeu upon an olive tiec in Greece. John wan put into a caldron of boiling oil at Homo, and escaped death.? Ho afterwards died a natural death at Kphcsus, in Asia. James the Groat was beheaded at Jerusalem. Jaiues was thrown from a pinnacle or wing of the temple, and then beaten to death with a fuller's club. Philip whs banged up against a pillar at Hiernpolis, a city of Phrygian Bnrlholohnew was flayed alive by the command of a barbarous king. Andrew was bound to the cro?s, whence he preached to the people till he expired. Thomas was run through the body with a lance, near Malipar, in the Ea?t Indies. Mei.axctjion and Luthkr.?When Mclaticlhon arose to preach on one occasion, he took this text: "I aui the good Shepherd." On looking round II ttoll L 1 ?l lil?i??orAn<. a-11 "I ? a ..Uiiivavuo ill I r^|ICClNUIC andience, l?is natural timidity entire!) ovcrcamo biiu, and be could only repent the text over and over again.? Luther, who was in the desk with him, at length iuipatiently exclaimed, u You men very good sheep;" and, telling him to sit down, took the same text, and preached an excellent sermon from it. Tiik Queen's Kelioion.- The Queen is almost as much of a Presbyterian in Scotland as ah Episcopalian in England. When at her favorite residence, Balmoral in the Highlands, 6he uniformly attends the Established Presbyterian Church, and when objections have l>trn made, says she cannot be a dissenter in any part of lior dominions. I understand, too, on very reliable authority, that all her children are taught the Shorter Catechism. [European Correspondence,. I a p Tub soul and nature are attuned together. Something within answer* to all we witness without. When 1 look Ion the ocean in its might and turmoil, my spirit is stirred, swelled. Wfien it sprends out in peaceful, blue waves, under a blight sky, it is dilated, yet composed. 1 enter into the spirit of tbo earth, and this is always good. Naturo | breathes nothing unkiud. It expand*, | or calms, or soften' us. Let us open our souls to its inlluence.? Cenniug. A Tkxab paper informs us that old Sam Houston, when last seen, was dressed "in a yellow vest and a Turkey tail fan." This is not quite so simple as the ticorgiw uniform?"a shirt col | lar and a pair of spurs"?hut rather | more picturesque, and neaily as coinfottable, if the vest was thiu. ' ' On, my heart, if thou desirest ease in thin life, keep thy secret# undisclosed like the modest rose hud ; take warning from the lovely flower, which, in ex* panding its hitherto hidden beauties, when in full bloom, gives iu happiness to the wiuds. Whrn T was young, I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was uot half so sure of most tilings as I waa before; at present I am hardly sure ?-f anything but what Ood has revealed to I tuati.? Wtalty. In the morning, prayer is tire key that opens to ns the trsasury of God's mercies and blessing* ; in the evening, it is the key that shut* tH up under >.i* . protection aud safeguard. All the blessing* of th# go?pol ar* for " whoever will." Are vou willing f then they are for yon, lieliove this, and what becomes of all your doubt-* And fears f TIopr place* a rainbow around the i tomb, and bids the mourner weep no more,