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by W. A. LEE ANT) HUGH WILSON. A1JBEV1LLE, S. C., EllTDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1SG6. VOLUME XIV. NO. flfj mmwarnJHSBbS nai^uinu i'uj: rA. Three little forms in twilight gay, Scanning the shadows across the way ; ?Six little eyee, four black and two blue, Brimful of love and happiners, too, Watching for pa. .May, with her placid and thoughtful brow; CJentle face beaming with smiles just now ; "Willie, the rogue, so loving any gay, Stou'.ing Hly kiettes from stater Alay, Watching for pa. I .Nellie; with ringlets of sunny hue, | Co?ily nestled between the two, l're?eing her cheel; to tha window pane, j j "Wifhiug the ahscut one home again? "Watching for pa. O, how (hey gaze nt tlie passers-by! "lie's coining tit Inst," the gaily cry; "Try again, my pets," exclaims uiainmv, An J Nellie adds: "There's the twilight otur | "Watching for pa." Jnck nods and smiles, as with liusy feet Ho lights the lamps of their quiet street; That sweet little group he knows full well, May, and Willie, and golden-haired Nell, Wutehing for pa. }<"on joyous ?honla from (he window seal, And eager putter of childish feet; (Joy nnisieitil chiiiiei) ring through the liall , A imuily voicc rcppotidcJ to the call? 'Welcome, pupa." GENEBAL WASHINGTON AT H0M2. I nv .TAMKS l'Alll'ON. (iencral Washington stood six foot tliree *" . In his slippers, nixl, in the prima of liis ! lif>i was rather slender th:?n otherwise, but i v . iS straight :is an arrow,, Jlis form was : 1 ' Is well pio*>orti?)tic>l and evenly developed. | " t'o tint he c*i tied his lallnesj <*rnci;ful!y.and j looked strikingly well on lior.-tb.u k. There ; *' I as never l?een n more ae'ive, sinewy fitr- i ^ nre than !.is when he was a voimjj i::au ; | it was only in later life that his iiio\vuM>ti!> I' t>e<-a;n<3 slow and dignified. 1 iis wifo wa; i ?? p'umf), prelty liu In women, very s-pri^liV . 1' Iv and yay i:i her younjj days, aul <piil>* ' ":?.s foti.l of havlnjj her own way as ladies i 'usually mo. SLo s'rJ led down into a <! '{ ood, pl-tin, domestic \vif<*, who lookud | >li-trply a ter her servant*, and was seldom 11 t=e**:i wilhent her k lining needle* in fu!i | ji'jiV. Sim was f-tr t*i?> ? ln-imf ? !...? 1 vlioul 1 now call an educated woman.'1' Scarcely any of (lie laities of that day knew much more than to read their prayer >' buolc aiul almanac, ?n 1 Ictvp tlie m|?! ' < account*. Mis. Washington probably !l never read a book through in her life ami < as to litir spelling?the less said of it the s better. j tl Washington him?el', before he becamea 0 public man, wns a^bad speller. People were , 11 not so particular then as they are now ; * and besides, there really was no bottled ^ ( yslera of pp-lling u hundred years ago. '' AVI - ??11Km me weneiai wrote lor a 'rheain of j L paper,' a Leaver 'halt,* a suil of 'cloaths,' | and a pair of 'satliu' shoes, there was no f Webster unabridged to keep people's spell- j c ing within bounds. Nor was he much of i r h reader of books. IIh read a little of tlie c History of England now and then, and a 1 "paper from the Spectator occasionally on 5 rainy days, but he had vory little litterary j 1 taste, lie was essentially an out-of-doors ! 1 man, and few things were more o isagreea- i ' ble to him than contitieuii'iil at the desk. : v ! There was nothing i:i his house which jf couhl bo called a library ; he had a few I old-fashioned book", which ho seldom j ' disturbed and never read long at a 1 time. j !l The General and his wife livod happily | together, but it is evident that, like most I ' heiresses, she was a little exacting, and it j f is highly probable that the groat Washing- ' I Inn u/nc oAnml imnc ? * 1 ' Uw...v.....w ".o/.o'j wiui a curiam , *lecture. The celebrated authoress, Miss ; * Uremer, is our authority for this surmise. ( She rela'o?, that a gentleman once slept at l Mount Vornon in the room next to that oc- I s cupied by tho master and mistress of the 1 mansion; and when all the inmates woro ! in bed, and the house was still, he over- ' ' heard, through the thin partition, tho voice 1 of Mrs. Washington, lie could not but imieu, unci n whs a curtain-lecture whicli | 1 &!ic was giving her lor>l. He had done | 1 something during the d*y whch slie . ' thought ought to liava done differently, ' and she whs giving him her opinion in romewhat animated and quite decided < tones. The great man listened in silence ( till she had done, and then, without a re- 1 'mark upon the subject iu band, said : i ''Now, good Bleop to you, my dear." 1 "What mo ex ample (o husbands ! I When VJfmfihington was appointed to ] UomnianJ tbo revolutionary armies, it it j i i plain from his letter* borne tfaat ono of i l)iB greatest objections w pcoeptinpj the ap* . pointment wa<i, the'uoeasttw?u/d| Ifeierm- 1 ed it, that it would capse his to have I iiim absent from home. v". ( General Washington was a vcfty rijfe rnnn; his wife was very rich, a^iher three I children were heirs to great wealths He bad a little principality to govern. Besides the farms about his own residence oh the Potomac, with eevetal hundred slaves op v> on thorn, ho possessed wild lands in most of the best local ions then known, as well as shares in several incorporate! companies. lie derived an important pai l of his influence from the greatness of his wealth and tho antiquity of his family? Lings which were then held in much more re-poet than they are now. Washington's sstuto was nut worth more than threequarters of a million dollars; hut it gave liim far more personal con-cjueneo in the :ounlry than ten liinea such a fortune :ould at present. The ri<di planter of that Jay, living as he did 0:1 a wide domain of bis own, (lie owner of those who served lim, riding about in his coach and six, and ivilh no near neighbors to restrain, censure, or outshine him, was a kind of fartier-prince. It was fortunate for Washington that lie :om? to liis wealth when his character was nature. Ueing a younger son, ho had no expectations of wealth in his youth, ari l ic grew up in a very hardy, sensible man:er, on an enormous farm, not a fourth >art of which was cultivated. J lis fath< r lying wlieu he was eleven years old, he ;aine directly under the inlluence of his nothe'-, who was one of the women of nIiouj people say, 'there is no nonsense ibout her.' She was a plain, illiterate, jnercri'iic, strong-willed lad}-, perfectly ca)ab!e of couJucling the a If. ii is of a farm, md scorning the help of others. When lie was advanced in years, her son in law ificrod (o manage her business fur her. 'You in-*?3' keep tbo account*, Fielding,' vas her reply,'for your evesight is .better ban mine, I can manage my attains myelf.' < ?n another occasion, Genera! Washing on asked ber to como and live with him at lount Vernon. '"I thank you, George,'sai J she, '"bat I refr being indepeiiJuM!.' A'id so to i!i"? la*L s!i>: SI vo i in her own lain f;tiiiii:ouse, and sujh iinte'?dod theeul urc of iier ou r. a:;iv?, noi dudai'ting to abor with her own baij.l?. Wiieti L ?f.iy tie visited her he lound heratwoik iis ier garden, with her old sun bonnet on, nd she came in to cue hiai saying : 'I wouhl not piv 3 011 so poor a eninpli? nent, Man pis, as tu ctav to change iu\ 1 i Ori>. 1 have ofi?*n tt. lhat sho must hive osem Y.?J Tr?>two?i..l( *13 tlr-ur;-, ! % 'hat! s I KclconJ i I) svis C.?j?[r.?i !i?;jii, and in many coun'ry home* b >t!> i;i >1'1 Englaii 1 and in New?honest, tricl, energet:c women, a linle rough in bfir in.iiuiurs, but capable of eminent. gotirosity when there i-> occasion for It. I Jung l-iio sun of GUuh a worn in, and trained ?y her isi simple, rational manner, George iVashinglon was pr*p.ife?l to enjoy the ut that lVl! to liiin, without b-jing .spoiled >y it. Wit!) all iii< wealth he wn; not r?xi>??n! roai labor. C titivating a largo tract ol ounfry, he ppent much of his time in iJing about to visit the different farm-, to onsiik his overseers and superintend his inj'irovoinents. It; is computed that he {milt about one-half'of the days o( his ifu on horseback. Lr.ke all out of-iloor nen, bo was exceedingly fond of a good i. 1 - 1.1 : . i /i?u u i.mu nnitu no ilil'l 1.1 COIIlUIOtt villi his mother, who was said to b.j us 500J a ju l^o of horses as any man in Virri iia. Nothing was more common titan or itiiii to (R'Hiiit his hor*e r.fter break*st and ride all day, only dismounting fur l few minutes at a time. On those great plantations far from any arge town, and worked by negroes, the nasier was often obliged personally to su>erintend any operation which was but >f tho ordinary routine. No di.u'jl vben General Washington entered in his liary, "bottled thirty-five dozen ol cider,' he hand with which ho wrote the words (till smelt of the liquid. Wo find in lis dinry many such entries as these: "Spent the groater part of the day in making a new plough of my own inven ion." 'Peter (my smith) and I, after hevcal ?(Torts to make a plough after my own new nodel, partly of my own contriving, were "ain to give it over, at lonst for tlio present." 'Fitted ? two-eyed plough, instead of a hick-bill plough, and wiLh mud) dilllotily uiade my chariot wheel-horses plough, Put the pole-end horses into the plough n the morning and put; the poRtiilion and u:_ i i h. i? _? ? ? .1 - iiuu nurse 111 n;e imoriioon j untitle ground being well swarded over, and very, heavy ploughing, I reponted putting them 'in' at ill, lor fear it should give thum a habit of stopping in the chariot.'* "Apprehending the.herrings rtero comn, hauled llit) seine, but caught only a few of them, though a good many of other sorts of foh." j|yi 'Seven o'clock, a messenger cirttoe to inform mo that my mill was.in great,danger of being xie&troyed. I .immediately hftrried off all hands, with shoVefs, ,<tcM to its attittavco^ and gart thfcre myself just time en'dngh to give it ^vreprifve fortius ! time, hy wheeling travel into (ho j ! which tiio walei* hud wa>hcJ. When I was there a vorv heavv iIiiiu<I?sr shower I came oil, which hi>l(d up-.vards of ail hour. lltiieilwh.it time the will ror?n?re?! to j uriiid a hu.-rhel of corn, ami, u> my i;ur? . . . . I !>ri?c, found it was within Ijvo minutes of i ati hour. OM Anthony attributed this to j the lo.v hc.d of water, btu whether it w?? j so or iso! ! cnn:u?t sriy. Tho wollcs ait) all I decayed and out. of order, which I lather i tiii;y lo ho the cat: .< . | Hneh a mil! w?j hould think hardly j worth bavin;*. Keen llio. vi^.-roi:- \V':i?!?i injjtoa colli I not jj;?rt :v Vii^hia Mian!.-.lion into good irder. V'e read el.-ewhero i'i , ins uiaiy li;.V h?* o.viu-d oik* liu:t<ir<-?l ;ui I i one owe, ninj yi:t ha<! (i> hny I niter ( so:r.i:iiiu's I" -r (:? ; u~<- of 2ii.- lam;!*- i [ Would tho r?"iil?rr !<ko lu k:mw l!io reason? General Washington himsei! tells I lis. lie iii -nliuns in his diury that one i morning in Kel.uiry, 17CI >, no \w:it otit tu ! where "my earj?ot.ter.s" weio hewing, the ! .sai?l carp-nter.; l?i:ig hislaves. "I, ! found,'ha wrote, "that lour of them, naiuoi lv, Georg", Tciii, Mil.c, r.nl J'oung Hilly ; !ia*l only hev.e.i yim hundred and twenty i feet since yesterday at ton o'clock." Sur| |?ri>eu at this irmnjjri! r<'su!t of a d.iy's laj bor of four men he sat down to see how j they manage-!. I'mler tho spell of th" : iii.OJ.ci a ijt iiiuv vw ui iv?ri U'Jl Rlfll ! in a wond.ifuilv hunting and tlawdlinjr : manner. !! leoorda that, alter tiiev hal i . ? . i ; prepared :t iO^ tor c.klmij iiilo Iuim-ils | "Uiey spoilt twutitv-fiv" minutes nioro in ; crHlinrj the ( : .)? < rut .-aw, stun ling to cotinii'.or w'.at to <1". ?>a\vi:j? ti.o static in two ; places," etc. lie 1'ouuu that 'he four men j 1m l i]ouo c::ac:!v one man's work ilio day bvf..,.', sui>]>.>-ii!-y eon!.] w.ijU ;;u f t- ' ter than thwy hn<i done whi'?t he w * I ?* I ? <] ;h-i.i7, ami that ?ne imtliig-eit, activ.j jr.? borer eotiid do :?? .'it as much hewing in two liny a- (!iv won'.! i:i a w.-.-lc. !!. !?. : we have the rennet why a in-tii potvsMn^ one hundred arid ? no eo.v?? !ia 1 to l?ny (tor. rr this v;a< thi cwi wi* ? i'?:? bt:?t , iartiK-r in Virginia, an I on-: <>!' fhc> rH.<- ' : what mii>l have bijen tho eon l.tioli u! t! t; ] ouiiiinn- p:antiiliu:is 1 m ii<:11 o* i,is liuj'', hr.wovrr, \v,i< t ;:i t: < :iiv >A sSiv.-v <>il;il;>ty unral-UMli.:-:vi>. If ?!?;.'u j br >!iC d-.il simony !!i- ni, il ?r.n .*r wiio ll "1 til ; !:( I VC ill.il CIHTL'y to . iisaka t!i'j !(-j-jivie sirinis^uim-iilt. Tin* ill> ?i:? |>:>x olir lavij'il l,i-> ll. o u'Vil l0!?. II. enters hi. ! .?? : ! ''Alter t.'i'.iin j tl.a il >ot >r's <!iro?.:tioiis in reg-ir.l to my jriop'.o, I set out lor my jtrirltr-s, n*:*1 ^ ?l t'l-.-ro nhotil Iwtlve | o'clock, time cm ti:? to liml everything isi the utmost confusi..-!!, disorder ami backwindings, my overseer on his back with is ! broken le:j, :in<] mil hall' a crop, e-pt'ei;il>y , uf corn ground, p impaired." In (heats despcrato circumstances, with l-ho dead to bo buried, the dy iu^ to be ' comforted, the Rick to be minNtered to, and tho well to bo 'i aiupilzed, t'??, master proceeded to arrange hospital*, soperato the t r-ick from the well, provide n??r-*-s and give instruction as to tho trcat.-nen; of iho disj ease. i Such were some of the employments of Washington wlu-n ha whs. a Virginia |>!an ; tcr. . fli? ??]ita?un?s were few, but the worn | such a.-) he. keenly cnjuyel. We ie;?rn ! from diary that he hunted, during tlioy Fcaj son, about twice a wt*el\, and it is plain jthatthe^e were Lis happy day?. There | are scores of entries like the following: I ' \V?iit huulii:? aft >*r breakfast, ami found a fox at Muddy 1 l-ilo, and hilled her after a chase of butter tl.au two hour*, and after treeing her twice the last of which times fclte fell dead cut of the tree, after being thire several minutes apparently well." | There were balls occasionally at Alev| ar.dria, and wo find Washington a'tendinc them, and entering into humors and gay? etics of the ein?itainmei.t with much spirit. The u-uai course of the day at Mount Vernoti was snuethng like this: The mast?r rose early, shaved and dressed j himself, except that, lii.s rjueuo wa3 artan; ged t?y a servant. Ilia firdt visit was to tho stable, It is recorded of him that ho once j applied, with his own strong right arm, a stirrup *lraj> to the shoulders of a groom I who had allowed a favorite horee to stand j all night, in the ewent ami dust of a day's I hunt. I think T known rr<>utlnmn > in th? i - ; ' " v Ledyer ofituewho will bo able to forgive this | action without the least difficulty. After a ; light breakfast of corn et?k<*, hon?;y ami | tea, tlic General would .tell, .bin guest?, if i lie 'nt-d any. and he usually Ija.l, to ainusu j themselves in their Own way till dt^ntft; lithe, offering tji^in.hi? stabled, bis..bunting and fiMtiug apparatus,' hid- boats and his ; hooka to their choice. Then he would raou^t liishoreo and j;iltf about his* farms, returning at ^alf-past two, in time to dress for diooer at three* He Vraa always dressed * with cBro for this meat, won fill Other occai sions of ceremony, lie likod-plain-dislies, . ditok'tokWbsbifcwed afe, 'an& was^pprtloi "ularly fond of.^ked.appies, hickory nuts, i* ;r j Hii'l other einij>'c products of tho country, i It was his custom to sit a good while :?( t!io table after <Iinticr, rating nuts, sipping i wine, and miking over his hunts and his ad* ventures while. in service dining the Frcnch i ' war. Ilis usual toast was, 'All our friends.' i The evenig was sj eat. in ll.e family circle j . round the Maying wood fue, and by ten ! i o'clock ho wits usually as* I eon. Such was ' 1 lue ordinary iifo of this illustrious farmer j , at homo, 1 i fi.ro his country c:<llcd hint t<> ; 1 the p hi !<> <! !' n<! hf.r liberties; and it. was j jn?t the kind of life that was best f'tted to ! J * I pa-pare hiuj for the command of an army j of American. fiiriit?n, J' fi'Ui the JiHi'iiiiiy Star, i\"i'cniltrr II. j MS. AKXtMUS WAItD. ? This g.-utlcman, \v!io prefer - s?iil to ro- J tain ilu' p^eu'l.jnym timler linger which he ; t has become fa*non?, made his lirst nppoar- ' :s!>cc in Ij<>iuh>n as a k-clnrer last ? vening; j : lit] liis mjccc>s was only lunik-'.] by the j very eireunverib^ >1 accommodation uf the ; Kjryptimi Hal!. Wo do nut remember! ! any entertainment within the past !'?*w j j years which lias at the very ontsvt proved 1 ! decided a "!!:ii," and we can or;ly liope | 1 Mr Wmi-.I'- v..; I.W.I. I-.. . -... . . ...'J - - M, , < IIH.II, lil-t UVf? | Ft oincJ at liiii-.-s painfully weak?will ! uiUmv hi in l.o li.in.-fer hi* h'ctiuo anil pnr.. ! omnia to a hail capable of admitting tins ! tmsch larger assemblages wliicli will, be* j yond is 10 ul'.ri'low of a ?:;!>*, be <r!>id lo j hoar liiiti. The 'lecture' is a skeU-Ji tie- 1 scrijitivc of lite in the Mormon States, an J ' I . . ! of incuh nts in i lie journey thither and 1 i bade. It is illnstby a panor.-tina. ! which, as Mr. "Wind's programme truthful- ( !v aswits, 'is rather worse than panoramas \ u-mdlv are," iicrotnpaniid by a ?ehetiuii of piano-fuile music, performed bv ;ni invisible p'nyer, who, nevoid iug lo his en plover, receives '.CIO a ni -lit and his We can v<>ry wo'l uiulersta'id how iniv. who |*:i:ntv**t ono of tlic-fo j , > was, cm ;i certain invasion, unaiii? iifii.-!y oefore Ili'j i.*ii to re? cuiv'iii<! cliairs wliirli lli? aii-iif n?*e throw at Lis Lead: l a!, luckily, ihu c!iai?ii of il.o i n'!*i'!ai:iii!<nt docs Hot ?]?.-j ill tLo pan | uii.ni i. Jil tin* It-i'tlit*? of l.i-l. i-tvninr;, wiiric* no trick-? of sp< lli: j? could flu-lu-r w:M?t of v. it, Mr. Ward >Lowed Lim ?:i f a ,??'tni!t:u Lna.oi'.)!i-1, aiul f it: <1 i.i>t a I tile l:l!ic-,uiiy in i.uuwtl.i.jj at ail witli Lis r>.? uvnU* !l roti^ii tito tiproaiLni? !ati<;Lt?*r of his ai'.livme. K?|<oci:?i'v tLi* tin* case with i!ie introduction, wliic!- v.an one contitntal >tri:i^ of dry pkvs, odd sayitijr-', and lll!i.? hits Mr W'm.-.iV. . 1 . - ..... .. ...'j | m uinti iiniiiur* U needed only bail* a dozen words !o "?et ilii? hou?<o it? a roar,' ami thereafter the difficulty was to keep them quirt. In those ! portion* ol Ills leetiU'O, Ii'iiVi'V. r, fpecia'ly I devoted to a pcscription of ihr Mormons, I Mr. Ward (or the lime being talks seri"ii.s- | 1 v, ath1 gives us bone jule statements, which are very trustworthy, and, we grieve : to it, f-oinewliat. dull. Mr. Ward's effort*, however, to coulmun serious, are fu-1 tiio , and we speedily find him introducing ono or other of thosn remarks which, ul| tried with a peculiar di\tiess, Hist tickle a >c? jieujuu iierc :ina mete, ami then awake i ilto laughter of I ho c-til it o room. Mr. Ward's manner of recital adds nut a kittle to the pungency of his jokes. Ilo asniiiiies an almost Lord Dundiaarvisli un? con>ciovif nc-ss of his own fun ; and it is on? Ioccasionally that 8<>ino particularly j "good thing" provokes a slight twinkle of j Ins eye. The entertainment, as a whole, is re-lily excellent; but any commendation ol ours in list be superfluous when we lork i at the following testimonials, which Mr. ; Ward himself has promised : ' Totni;?j, October 20, 1S6G. j "Mr. Ahtkmus Wauii : l "My J)c.tr tiir :?My wife was danger! oitsly unwell for over sixteen yeHrs. She S was so unwell that she couldn't lift a t?>i | spoon to her inonnth. But, in a fortunate moment, slie commenced reading ono of | your lecture.*. She goi belter nt once, i She (ruined strength bo rapidly lh??t plto j lifted the cottage piano (juite a distance from tho iloor, and then tipped it over ; to her mother-in-law, wilL whom alie had ' hud bon:e littlo trouble. We like your lectures yory much. I'lca^o fend roe a ' barrel of them. If you bhuuld require ! my more recomtncndntioit*, you can get | any number of tliem in tins place at two j slitilings each?the price I charge for - tliis i one, and I trust you rony be evitr happy. J '"I am, sir,.yours truly, and bo is my wife. R. SPRINGERS." ;.An American corrcupondeiH of h disfiiigiiishcd journal in York&hire thus speaks of ! Air. YVhfdV power as an orator} ''/t ginuJ sen no, Mr. Arteinus W?r<P?M??dmg on the platform talking; many of thet-mudienoe sleeping tranquilly , in t|\eir f Heats j, .others leaving the room jand not returning; others crying-like a child at eaine or the jokes?all formed i a most itopr?tti*e fccena, inx^ibowed the poW(jfr8J ,0f this ^rator, And when announced, that be uhould never j , f ,?3?- ttsjp* ' ? lecture in that town again, the nppl'.Ufo w;is absolutely deafening." MISMATCHED COUPLES. I M?trim?>fiv cannot change liutnan charo c aeter, ami when two persons of essentially j , antagonistic natures are unfortunately iu?i - ' ^ to.! in its bonds, it,is only by the exercise v of mutual forbearance that they can hope | t to live together in peace an?l amity, In?j ^ tell-.'ct, therefore, sho ild never mate with I , imbecility, iut principle wish immorality. i f nor purity with gro>si:o-s. No good ever t came of such, union*", yet they take place j , every day. Passion li'inds the judgment iu the.-c ca'-c*, an 1 when the love lamp goes | out and thooulinarv ibivliul.i !rt,.L-c. * - ""J "**"* *"? ! , of the parties, at least, is suro to stand : ( ajdiast at the realities it reveal <. The most i .... . I ' f'.ioiis!; tiiitig a loo! c?? do is to many a , liifrlily gifted woman. 11 is . va.'.i'y?for ( ^ ail weak men ar? vain?is sure to take ! . i ( lire nl tiiu <Ji covery. wliieli will soon be J foretvl ujion him in spito of l?is stupidity | ( that his wife m his superior. If ho is of i brut;d nature ho will endeavor to shelter i i i Iiis natural inferiority belsin I his marital J authority, and taunt ami torture the being j j who, by light of mind, if not by law, is 1 j his suzirnin. If, on the contrary, he falls helplessly nito tlm po-.ii ion of a dependant | ] and submits fj-iiotly to l?o guided and ! | governed by iKe stronger nature to which ; ( l:e has allied himself, he will simply b?; | . pitied ami despised. In either case, he i , will have ru'i^c to regret that be married, ; above bin intellectual degree, and the ! lady, that she slor>j/e<l to conquer. Mom; unf rlunalo still are thoso mi;- J unions in which baseness is nitric tho yoke j fellow of virtue. Love, or any thing approaching to it, impossible in such contingencies. "Who can feel any nlloction | . (or what is vile, and mean?who respect ' what is yrosa atiri sensual ? Xot all the ' i marriage vows that ever were marie before I . ,1 ! priest or deacon can compel the heart to an j | allegiance ho monstrous. Nor is i!ie luw-sonleri man, mis-allied I with a lofty minded, pure-hearted woman ; much less miserable than she. He is not capable, indeed, of the nouto anguish to wisicli Iter Uocn sunse of shame and con- | ' M-ioiiMifrS t>f degradation and wrong con- | Initially su'ject her; but, according to' iiis cmi-ih nature1, h?j suiV.jrs. It has been well said of such i man, that ho becomes | i wretched when the 'ulna dawns upon him , thai the woman who does his biddinir, and ' i ; submits to his humors, i.->, in fact, his stipe rior, nud ought to bu liis lord; that sho j j can think h thousand thoughts be)*ond the i nower of his mud died brain ; that in the I i - bend on the pillow opposite to him, lio h j i thousand feelings, mental mysteries, latent I ; senii** and rebellion, whereof ha only dim? J ly perceive? the existence r.n they look fur- j lively from her eye"; treasures of love j doomed to perish without a hand to gather them; sweet fancies and images of beauty that might unfold themsclv. s into flower; bright wit, that might glitter like diamond could i?-bu brought into the sun; and llio tyrant iu possession crushes the ' outbreak of nil those, drives thorn back, j like slaves, into the dungeon and the dark- j ness and then ehafi-s at the thought that | sworn bondwoman is rebellious?his wretched subject undutiful and rcfractory hI heart, il not in deed. Young Man,what r.ie you doing and ?vhat havo you been abotit since the end of the ! war? Have you put hand manfully to woik . to retrieve your own fortuno and your i Slate's pro?pt*rity , or are you idly lo;ding, discontented and disheartened, a burden to yourself and to your friend* ? Have you bestowed a thought upon the dignity of honest, pen>eveiing labor, or do you still wander in vnguo dreams of popular oratory and applause ? Have voli rolled up your sleeves for the >1 I 1. I??. 1 .1... :I . iiiu j'iuui;u, iuo JVM'lii ui lliu (lUVii ^ or do you Btill haunt debating societies an J street re9orif>, discussing political questions that you do not understand ? Have yon set to work to do something to build up a substantial character and fortune, with the retpect and l)onor of your friends and countrymen, or it re you hanging round bar rooms and billiard saloons, destroying your he/tltb and reputation, I and wasting the precious moments of life to the pleasant but'sad ending "click of tho balls r Come, my young friend, tell us what you are doing and what you are about? Your friends, the State, your Father in Heaven, have a right to a^k you this quegI tion. What answer do you give to ill ? Brunswick Courier. 'Myf,Faihqr,jja(J_A Cow.'?Mr, Fiddler commences one o(. hi* stories wrtb?'My father had a tow,1 ate. A critic-?iy8 he thinks it tolerably apparent ihnt he bad a calf hUo. llty pie'way, the critics, ire de? baling whether P?i(J4ler baa one pr two (Vs. Another journal declares in fotbr of tb? pair, 'as.every opepfojilf t,B.y?r Fiddle-d-d f A ^tB^very.r-^gP*:. .inany,/eet bas ft horsfl? Si*: Jon-feet in Irpntami two behitid. "J * ' 1 ,;v i POVERTY NOT SO GREAT A CURSE. If there is anything in the world that a a oung man should l o more grateful for han another, il id the poverty which no- a :essita'cs his starting in llfo under vciy ;reat disadvantages. Poverty is one of r he best tei-tj of human quality in exislmoe. A li iumph over it is lilco graduaing with honor from West Point. It iemonstrate* stuff* and stamina. Il is a |. :erli!ir'?te of worthy labor credilab'y per brmed. A young man who cannot stand i f his te-t is not good for anything. lie can | lever riso above a drudge or a pauper.? j j; \ young man who cannot feel his will t lardi'ii as the yoke of poverty presses j infill lllm mill lit?3 * ?11?t*\r 1 ??M ? <?? j'lwvu * IOVJ ? llll UYCI v lift! u!ty that poverty throws in his way, nay as well retire into somo corncr and ( jitle himself. Poverty saves a thousand f iincs mo'c men than it ruir.s ; tor it ruins J I hoso win) are not particularly worth saving^ j t while it saves multitudes of those whom j ( .veullh would have ruined. If any young i] nun who reads this letter is so unfortunate < is to he rich, [ give him my pity. I pity i t fou, my ric.h young friend, because you |: ue in danger. You lack one great stimu- j i us to effort and excellence, which your ioor companion possesses. You will bo j \ rerv apt, it* you have a soft spot in your j ? liead, to tliiiik yourself nbovo him, and j that sort of thing makes you mean, and j ( injures you. "With lull pockets and lull ^ stomach, and good linen and broadcloth , jn your back, your heart ?nd soul pletho- ( ric, in the race of lifo you will find your- < ( elf surpassed by tlie pocr boys around you, before you know it. , No, my boy, if you are poor, thank God and take courage ; for he intends to give you a chance to make something of your- ( self. If you had plenty of money, ten chanced to one it would spoil you for all useful purposes. Do you lack education ? | flave 3'ou been cut short in tlie text books? | Remember th it education, like some other tiling?, does not consist in tbo multitude j of things a man possesses. "What can you do ? That is the question that sotties the business for vou. Do you know ! your business ? Do you know men and j how to deal with them ? Has your mind, by any means whatsoever, received that 1 discipline which gives it action, power and facility ? If so, theu you are more a man, and a thousand times belter educated than thft follow who frr?flllti?<! from tli/rillrtrrn ^ ~ V.VQV with his brains full of stuff that Iio cannot apply to the* practical business of life? stuff, the acpiisitiou of which has been in no sense a disciplinary process, so far as he is concerned. There are very few men in this world less than thirty years of age, and unmarried, who can afford to bo rich. One of the greatest benefits to be reaped from great financial disasters is the saving of a largo crop of young men.? Timothy Tilcomb. A Rary's Ri >c:nAiMiv?An editor thus does up the biography of a recent ac cession to hid household : We have had so many kind friends asking about l!;e baby, that wo thought il necessary to biogrnph thochnp briefly, and somewhat after the cm rent stylo of the day : "It's a boy. lie's a buster. Weighs irne pounds and a quarter, and < old women tell us that ho will grow lica- j vicr as his wii'ght increasa?. lie's the first boy of which we've been proprietor, and of courso is tho only baby , in town. The oM woman before mentioned declares iiini the very image of his pa: ' "A faithful copy of his faithful sire, In face and gesture." ' But iu justice to tho youtli, we must say we think liim an improvement on the | original?a word of progress, you know. This young American is as old as could j be expected, considering the time he was born, and will doubtless be too old for j his father in a few year*, if he has good luck. ' lie is qoito reticent on politico, and only wants to ho lei nloue. lie tliiuks he favor* Mrs. Winslow's pol icy. 1 We havn't named him yet; we want to give him a distinguished engnomen, , but the frame of our great uiea ia at pre- < sent.bo precarious that we dou't !iko the risk. It is perhaps unnecessary to say, aa all , biographers do of distinguished personages, , that the su bj->ct ot this sketch was born at , an early age, of 'poor but respectable pa-? rents."' " " It was Blucjasey who gpoke of his 'paternal pa'.as- poor, but *00 il.? . 'Doyou enjoy goi.iig to. cburcli now? a?ked a lady, of Mrs. Partington, '.Law , me, J dp/ replied Mrs. P. ^Nothing does j ma so much good as to get up early on Sunday - morning and go tochurcb and bear ( a popular miuistor dispose with the Gospel.' ' ' ' ' ' 4 ' . *?.*?^ . ? .-..iii.. I If you visit a yeuug- woman, and you are wpn, and she is won, you will both be 1 one. V . [u:'?/ v.. v. ' V * Nevku.?Never tH6to nn atou^when yj^K|^& ro not hungry; it in suicidal. ^Hh?3 Never hire servants who go in pairs, isters, cousins, or anything else. '8851181 Never speak of your father as ''tho ojHBSB nan." Never reply to tho epithet of a druol^KSffl| nd, a fool, or a fellow. B0 | Never speak contemptuously of womfl^ :ind. nmgfflw Never nbuno one who was oncoyour om friend, however hitter now. Never smile at the expense of 37our roH98 igion or your JJiblc. aS9| Never stand at tho comorof a street. 9 99 Never insult poverty. ?~? * siSSBS! A few days sinco a young lawer w&fflBgj 'xatnining a bankrupt as to how he liadBSfl peril his monoy. Tiicro were about threH^H housand dollars unaccounted for, lio attorney put on a ne.vcro Bcrutinizin^KSlK acc, and exclaimed, with much eelfcom-H BE >laccncy, 'Now, sir, I want you to tell thii^EIS :ourt and jury how you used thoso thre^R3| hoiuand dollars.' The bankrnnt nut i serio-eo raic face, winkled at tho audicnr.flJBB uid exclaimed, 'The laicyers got that JwBgS Iho j'idgo and audience wcro eonvulsec^^^B .villi "laughter, and the counsellor wa^HES jlod to lot the bankrupt go. Coleridge was descanting in tbe presenca^Efl >f Charles Lamb upon tho repulsive ap-^BB pcarance of the oyster. 'It isn't hand^EH some, Coleridge,' said Lamb; 'but. it haM^H Lho advantage of you in ono thing.'? flH?| 'What is that ?' quered Qplobridge, whoMHB as every one know?, was an exkauslloss^DS talker. (It knows when to shut its^^f month.' BttB Borrowing Trouble. ''The worstHEg evils," (says the proveib,) "are those whicli^^H never arrive." 13y way of practical coun*^^B sel lo all borrowci-s of trouble, I would WH face the real difficulties and troubles|HR blcs of life, and you won't have time for HB practising the arl of self tormenting. fffM The most contented people in the world tire thoee who aro most occupied in allevi- Bflj ating with Christian heart and hand, tho flS sorrows that the flesh is heir to. Visit tho homes of ignorance and poverty and vice, H and in facc of the tcrriblo realities you will BE there witness, your own petty cares will seeii) as nothing. MHI The anxieties of tho fancy will-vanish al- BS logeiiior, wmte you win ue lar better able BO| to bear those burdens which, though real, wfl will scorn light to you by comparison. gH An Irish lawyer, of the Temple, going to lunch, left his direction in the key hole : KB 'Gone to the Edinburgh Castle, where you figj shall And me ; and if you can't read this, Sj carry it to the stationer's, and be shall read it for you.' ? A lady in Oregon, in wiiticg to n friend H in this city, says tliat cattle in that region flj live to finch a great age, their owners have fl| to fasten long poles to the end of their H horns, for the wrinkles to run out on! 'l_>o you Bee this stick, sir?' 6aid a very H stupid acquaintance to Sydney Smith; SB 'ibis stick has been all round the world, j?| sir.' 'Indeed,'said the remorseless Sydney, M 'and yet it is only a stick.' l5 A recent criminal trial at New Orleans fl had a rather novel catastrophe; the pria- ff oner was acquitted, and his own and the flj connsel for the prosecution committed to a jail for contempt of court. 9 'Were you guarded . in you condacf 9 while in Now York?' said a father to his ffl son, who had just returned home from hi* is visit to the city. 'Yes, sir, part of th* 9 time by two policemen.' al An Irish witness in a court of justice^ 9 being nsked what kind of 'ear marks' the 9 og id question nau, repnea?\tle bad no parlicular ear-marks exQppt a V0?y short .ail/ * 1 At the General Sessions four men were Indicted for stealing beans. A gentleman present asked another, 'What-..Lave (hey >een doing V '13oan stealing,' was the reply. For Ever and a Day.?A contemporary jays that 'the machinery of (be Danderburg will last for ever,' and adde that, 'at* terwards, it can be sold for old iron.' 'You have only yourself to pleagp/ "aid a married friend to .an old bachelor. 'True,' replied be, 'but you canbot toll what a difficult task I oan find it*' v ! a ihjwspupor itiw suirieu uol rong llgO, Lho first number of which contained a lei?i j ter fronya correspondent who signed himself 'a constant reader;' ^ t 'Mr. Query wonders if, when Night fklk,. ?he doaon't hurt herself? She probftMy tloo* just about na much aa Day harts her* ?elf when she b'naJts. ; Tlie lady whote dress waa too dirty to wear, and not dirty enough to beiradiKl, uiiu u luuwusr 01 seijoud import to aeciae* 4 A Dark CognuBdram.?'Sam, why am Jo hogs de most intelligent folks in the world ?' 'Because do^r jao?? ebery thing*' 'Toby, what did tlie 1stalitOS do t, hey orotwed the Kud Set!' 4I d?M0g felt. I gueth they drtoJ th&iuaulvee,' *<? V? . * v .