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MAURI AUKMhii
Ami wifo nr* equally concerned to
avoid nil oflfcrtfroa of cnoh other in tho beginning
of tboir. conversation ; every little
thing can bloat an infant blossom, and
tlio breath of tho south wind can shake
tho littlo rings of tho vine, when first they
begin 16 curl like the locks of anew weaned
boy ; but when, by age and consolidation,
they stiffen into tho hardness of a
stow, and have, by tho Warm embraces of
the sun nnd the kisses of heaven, brought
forth their clusters, they can endtiro . the
storms of tho north, and tho loud noises of
a tempest, and yofc&never bo broken; so
nro tho early unions of an unfixed marj'iago;
watchful and obsorvant, jealous and
busy, inquisitive nnd careful, and apt to
fake alarm to every unkind word. No
man c:m tell, but lie that loves his children,
how many delicious aCccnts tnako a man's
heart dance in the pretty conversation of
thoso dear pledges; their childishness,
their liitlo angels, their innocenco, their
imperfections, their necessities,are so many
littlo emanations of joy and comfort to
him that delights in their persons and society
; but be that loves not. his wife and
children feeds a lionets at home, and broods
a nest of sorrows, and blesaing itself can>
not make him happy ; so that all the commandments
of God enjoining a man to
'iovo his wife/ are nothing but bo many
necessities and capacities of joy.
Sound Advice to Parents.?The Philadelphia
Ledger, undor the head of "Early
indulgence of Appetites," gives this sound
.advice:
Parent* should ponder well od the danger
of an early and capricoua indulgence
of the appetites and imaginary wants of
tboir children. Repetition soon becomes
n habit, and a habit once formed, even in
childhood, will often remain during the
whole of after lifo, acquiring strength every
year, antil at last it sets all, human and
divine, at defiance. Let parents who yield
to the crie3 of their children for dainty and
promiscuous food, or who allow them to
torment domestic animals, or to strike their
nurses, or to raise the band against any
person, copsider well on tho consequences.
The moral efforts of pampering the appeiites
of children are moat melancholy. Is
the mothor afraid of an explosiou of pasCtnn
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Bhape of a cake or (art, as a peace offering.
Does it annoy a whole company by its
h: boiatering or ill timed pranks, it is persuaded
to be quiet by the promise of some
sweetmeats. If it has been good, as the
pliraso io, and loaraad I to loUoro, lLa r?irmj
is still _ too frequently something for the
stomach. Eating is regarded as] the chief
end and object of life by a child, who sees
in it the chief-incentive to good behavior.
*# A premium would truly seem to be given
for gluttony, TI19 use of the nobler senses,
and of the faculties of the mind, the
easy cultivation of the kindlier and better
feellingof our nature?generosity, ./disinterested
nieks, pity, filial love?all are overcome
or postponed in favor of the one sensual,
selfish and absorbing act of gormandising.
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Mutual Affection.?If there is a sin
gla blissful moment, like a star Bparkjing 1
in tho shadowy firmament of life, it is that
which discovered a-long-nourished aflec?
tion to he mutual.>&The moon as she rides (
on in the infinity of "space, has not a greats ^
er influence upon the ocean-tide, than tho
passion of love ypon tho tido of human
thought'?now permitting it to settle doVn
in a stato of tempprary tranquility?and I
now bidding it heave and swell by the 1
magic of its viewless power. Without it
what would bo the world ? Asa creation ,
without light. Yet possessing it as wo do, j
bow does it discompose Ihe soberest plans ]
of reason?-how tho loftiest bulwarks <Jf
stem philosophy bow down and disappear
before the fragrance of his breath 1 It is '
poeiry ot thought whon reason^ slumbers '
on bor stately throne, or wanders away in
- fcappy dteama.; It ia scarcely to bo feigned,
for it nppeare in a halo of soft witching 1
v light, which dazzles while it fascinates the
jniod'a eye. It is to the spirit what sunshine
i?.to flowers, luring the /fragrance
from its young nature, or as the hand of- I
. beauty1 to the slumbering lute, passing over i
^ the silent chords till it doth "discourse most
cloquentmmic.". . ,
^ . A man who advertised to give Mtha best '
of sound, practical advice for fifty cents,
would be applicable at any timft mil
io &U pahoos- and conditions of life,' on f p- '
plication-^v a victim, upar mail,' sent tbo 1
folloytDg^;'^?tftif givo a boy a dime to
ft tre?
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book-setter, "No>^Ml?4 noW **? Clean-1
ttjfo. "Why V e*cViwj*3r :tfca >iUy Md
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felt an amorous flame for a German
princess. Sho was not insensible to a
reciprocal passion ; and to have him about
her person without giving scandal, sho c^oated
him her general. Tliey lived some
time much pleased with- each other ; but
the princess boenmo fickle and the general
jealous. He made very sharp remonstrances;
the princcss, who wished to bo free,
gave hira his congc, and he was constrained
to quit hor. But his passion al every hour
increased; ho felt that ho could not live
out of her prosouco, and lie vi'iilnred to enter
privately into her closet. Tho princess
looked daggers, her eyes Hashed lightning,
and Bhe condescended to givo no other
answer to his tender appeals, than a command
to withdraw instantly from her royal
presence. The despairing lover declared
he was ready to obey her in everything
hnt that; that, ralhct' quit hor beloved
presence, he preferred Lo dio by her hand.
Presenting hie naked sword to tho disdainful
princess, he bade her, rather thnn drive
him from her presenco lo piurco I113 heart,
that heart which beat alono for hor ; and
the princess, being instigated by tho devil
or lovo for another?pretty much the
same thing in a furious women?took liirn
ai ma wora, nna run mm mrougu tuc DotI\\
Fortunately, Lis wound did not provo mortal;
he got well at the end of three
months, and likewise was curcd of his passion,-which
had flowed away with the c flu sion
of iiis blood.
A Pungent Sermon.?St.jJerome, in.
one of his sermons, gave a rebuke to tho
women of his day, which has seemed to
to so apropos to our own, that it is circulated
jupt now in Parris quite universal"Ah
11 shall tell yon who are the women
that scandalize Christians. They are
those who daub their choecks with red and
fllfiip avaq nrlfli Klnnl* tUnoA
w..va. v>u viuv? vnvoo nuu |Hnavut
faces too white to be human, reminding us
of idols?those who cannot shed a tear
without its tracing a furrow on tbo painted
surface of their laces?whosor ripe years
fail to teach thorn that they are growing
old?those whoso headdresses are made up
of other people's hair?those who Chalk
wrinkles into the counterfeit presentment
of youth, and those who afFcct the demeanor
of bashful maidens in tho presence of
troops of grand-children.
Eaiilv Impressions of Piety.?Knowl
edge, planted by the hand of affection in
tho hallowed sanctuary of home, is wont to.
take deeper root tban "seed sown by the
way side." Parents who write, with their
own pencils, lines of heaven upon the fresh
tables of tho children's hearts?who trust
not to the hands of hirelings their first,
holiest, most indelabla impressions?will
usually find less thau others to blot out
when the scroll is finished, and to mourn
for when they read it in eternity.
A man in Cincinnatt i recently cut his
thrOat, because he lived next door to an
amateur trombone player. Tho coroner
held an inquest and returned a verdict of 1
'justifiable homicide.' ]
'This way, captain !' shouted an English :
?nlilier nfc Trilrprmnn *T Iiown ? ** Serine '
Well bring him hero.' 4I should like to, i
jut the scoundrel won't let me go !' (
The old gentleman who undertook to
-ako the twist out of the.maelstrom, hoe <
yono out West to whitewash the Rocky :
Mountains,. Ho goes for largo jobs.
The advantage or ciianqe.?A porson
asked an Irishman why ho wore Ihb stockings
wrongaide outward. 'Because,' said
he, "there's a hole on the other side.
To enjoy life you should be a little misarable
occasionally. Trouble, like cayenne,
is not very agreeable in itself, but gives
jreat zest to other things. <
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An editor in Iowa Bays ho has become (
so hollow from depending on the printing ,
business for bread that he proposes to sell <
himself for a stove-pipe. *
The name of a man in -Vermont who ,
feeds his geese on iron filings, and gathers t
steel pew from their wiogB, is Sharp. <
Itita proverb at our colleges, that the J
student* wjio graduate with the highest
honor* are seldomever heard or after* \
wards, '
"Wby is the Delaware River like a hot- 1
tie .of ink1? Beoause Penn (pen) was the
lint wbo pat i?in use. ;
' bld j^ hit you on purpose?' asked the 1
raagfetnX**f*0$b, xio, yer honor,' eaid^at. -j
'be jabbiraIjebitme on the head, atrce.' j
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THE LATE KEBET.LION IN JAMAICA.
Tlio following letter, says' the New
York News, is handed uq for publication
l>y ft gcnllcmntr who has roqeiveil it from ft
relnlivo in Jamaica, who has ft largo negro
population under his spiritual care. It
was wrilletf^ilhout ft view to publication:
Oxfoiid, April 2.?Yon ask me for n
sensible account of the rebellion nnd its'
-^putting down. To understand tlio mailer
properly it requires somo experience of ihe
negro charactcr rfnd habits; rules that
would apply to nn "instructed and indnstrious
while population living where there
was n considerable incitement to labor
would bo inRpplieal^e to onr population.
The people are an a rulo very barbarous in
their notions. They have none of l!io self
reppect or liner feelings, either of affection
or taste, necessary to self-control or government,
and are exceedingly cunning and
uiitruthfnl to a degree as well suspicious
in the extreme. They were, however, at
the same time, considered by' all as utterly
wanting in the power of organization, and
trusted and looked upon as tioublesomo but
harmless people, at the time the rebellion |
broke out. Iq the midst, then, of such a'j
population, living in perfect security, at lh? I
tail end of the island, a rebellion utterlj*
unprovoked, but those who had rendered
themselves amenable to the law for some
petty offences were sentenced by a bench
of magistrates, broke out with the most
crucl atrocities, nil the white families being
obliged to fly for their lives at night, without
even clotliing, whilst, some, not fortunate
enough to escape thus, were barbarously
murdered. At this time there' wero
but a few hundred soldiers in the whole
island, and symptoms of dissatisfaction and
rebellion before ttnheeded in the rest of the
parishes, now understood in their full significance
when looked nt in the light of
the events of the day, ripened into action.
From the nature of the people they wero
incapable of understanding clemency, and
the only hope of stopping what seemed to
bo a dangerous rebellion was to make a
stern exampli of those who lind risen in
i?< iu3 against, me reprcsemauves 01 government.
This Gov. Eyre did, and for it lias
received, by innumerable addresses from all
quarters and every das?, the highest approbation.
The stories circulated of eight
wells of dead, of women flogged, and people
wantonly murdered, have been proved
to be absolute falsehoods, intended to calumniato
Governor Eyre and the officials.
That the people are disaffected, have a notion
that the Queen means to give them all
the land for themselves, and has sent them
presents which we are keeping from them,
and consider themselves oppressed hccauso'
they find they still have to worlc and can't
eat bread in absolute idleness, I havu had
abundant evidenco to prove; and when .
people with such feelings aro worked upon
by such men as George W. Gordon, n
thorough paced demagogue, with nothing
to lose, being over head and ears in debt
and disgrace; who shut his own father in
prison and nearly beat him to death; who
mooJlngo c\l 1 ovor 1 i?o iclon/1 nncl
harangued the people on their grievances,
which existed only in his own brain, and
bid lliem follow the example of Hayti;
when he spoko lo thorn of the Governor as
ajjad man, who was helping Iho white
people lo enslave tliein?was it wonderful
that their ignorant minds, worked up thus
to a pitch of excitement, should burst out
into ""rebellion, and require a strong haucLto
put it down ?
The Silk Spider ok South Carolina.?Dr.
13. G. Wilder, late 6urgeon of the
55th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers,
gave the first of four lectures upon tho
above subject in Boston, Tuesday evening.
The Journal gives the following brief but
interesting synopsis:
The first of this species of spider was
Jiscovercd by the lccturer on the north end
of Folly Island, in Charleston harbor,
while in camp there in August, 18C3. lie
wound from its body, in one hour and a
quarter, 150 yards of yellow silk. The
next year anotnor otticcr wonnd from 30
spiders 3,484 yards, or nearly two mile3 of
the silk. A Single thread of tl>is was
strong enough lo sustain a weight of from
44 to 107 grains^, In 1805 Dr. "Wilder
showed his specimen to Prof. Aggasiz nnd
others, to whom the species was new. Returning
to Charleston, he resumed his researches,
and after a variety of adventures
and disappointments, 6uccecded in getting
a number of the spiders.
In the course of tlio season these all
iied, from luck of knowledge as lo their
habits, mode of living, &c. From the eggs
deposited, howaver, many others were produced.
It is the habit of the stronger to
devour the weaket, so that out of several
thousand only a few hundred were raised.
The fact, however, was clearly demonstrated.
that they could be raised and live
through a Northern winter. In the cue
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;ccuiug Atjuiurcs me meinod. of securing
'.be silk, and other facta in regard to this interesting
discover/ will bp given.
? Specimens of the silk were exhibited,
which were of a golden yellow and a silver
white, and aa brilliant aa the metals in ^bp>.
aearance.?JR. I. Press.
A. Proposed Rail Road Convention.
?A call ha? been issued for the PresiJents,
Chief Engineers and' General Superintendents
of all tfie railroads of the;
United States io. meet in Convention, at
t^bifadelpbia. on the 4th of July ^lext, the
object being to. consult, tela'the conalruo-'
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PATENT MEDICINES,
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PAINTS,
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GLASS AND PUTTY.
BRAN39Y AND WINE
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PIIII.OTOKEN^ or Female l'rieiitl.
KEROSENE OIL,
Chimneys and Lamps,
WITH MANY ARTICLES NOT MENTIONED.
2Orders prompt!;/ attended to.
Money required to attend all Order*, as
the CASH SY"STh'M is entirely in
.practicc.
EDWIN PARKER.
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stock of Goods, consisting, in pari, of
DEY GOODS,
HATS
LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S
FURNISHING GOODS,
Northern-Made Shoe Pegs,
YANKEE .NATIONS,
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IN DRY GOODS,
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GINGHAMS, SPIilN'O DELAINES,
PRINTS, OF EVERY VARIETY AND HUE,
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STYLES BONNETS, LADIES' "HATS,
RIBBONS, LACJE, ; ' V /' - . ' |
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