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This-is the age of Tel regftphs- and Stenography. ,2.BEo pointed. Don't write all round a subject without hitting it. 8. State. facts, but don't stop to mor aimse. It's drowsy business. Let the reader do his own dreaming 4. Eschew prefaces. Plunge at once into your'subject, like a swimmer -ri bold water. 25. If you have written a sentence 'thbt you think particularly fine, draw youp. pen through it. A pet child is alvays the worst in the family. 6; Condense. Make sure that you really have an idea, and then recorit .ir the shortest possible terms. We ' yant thoughts in their quintessence. . When your article is complete, .strikeout nine-tentbs of the adjectives. IThe-English is a strong language, but -*on4l bear two much "reducing." -8.- Avoid all high flown language. The' plainest Anglo-Saxon words are 'th' best. Never use stilts when legs vi I doas well. 9. iae.your sentences short. Ev cry period is a mile stone, at which the reader may halt and rest himself. 10. n Wrf legibly. Don't let your Aanu~criptlook like the tracks of a pir half drowned'in ink. We shan't .aake any one for a genius, though ijdwrite as~crabbedly as Napoleon. !ANs ANcIENT CITY.-The famous city of Petra, in Arabia, has been a thene -of admiration and astonishment 'to all the' tourists of recent times; but "another-town, apparently far more an 16ifit 'ind'of greater extent still, exists " the north of Affghanistan, and is ,1 thruighout the east by the name 'of Bamecan. The city consists of a greater nminber .of apartments cut out rof the.solid rock. It is said that in .many of them the walls were adorned with psintings -which look still fresh, . after centuries of desertion and solitude; sonies of them are adorned with the rich - eat carved work. There aresupposed to be more than twelve thousand of subhth'abitations in Bamecan, but the -atives who ate Mohommedans, enter. tsinva' superstitious predudice agaiust ithabitinig such homes. They have old 'tid~itions which declare them to have biiein the' first habitation of mankind, snd that strange city is casually men tkoned1 by.some of the classic authors; yet-by whomi its rocky abodes -were .exoavated, who were its inhabitants, or -what etheir -history-all have passed from the recollection of the world, and nexlsbronlyin fabulous or uncertain tales. "'7 6i bF o9 CIARACTER.-ManZ im jjte o ti Iimself' the ability to be con ~~a~t ~y~idwn proper force, and pla 9a~i h9nog n, thlat ability. A man spils. r#' and a mani of honor, are .synonyinous terms. Ho who can em. Airace a purpose and-persist in it, who ,:canadt frotn a- resolve, unsupported by present inclinationi-nay, even in oppo .AitiQTL,to present inclination, emotion or .op.esion'-of him we say, "Hie has a becharacter?"'."He is- a man," We nd~spise athe man who is always only 'what things, accidents, circumstances fikldhie fickle, the inconstant, the aft8"eing. We honor him who can ro '~j ts nd the impression which 1~v~se upon who knows how to pipn ints in the face of them; y)Oels~uC be instructed but not barged bythem.- .Z'. H. Jacobi's Pinna Lve." THE YEZIDIS. BY A. U. LAYARD. No. 1. The mysteries of this sect -have been traced to the workship introduced by Seimiramis into the very mountains they inhabit-a workship which, impure in its forms, led to every excess. The quiet, cleanliness and orders of their villages, do not warrant these charges. Their known respect of fear for the evil principal has given them the title of Workshippers of the Devil. Some years ago they were a powerful tribe. They recognize one Supreme Being, but do not offer any thing direct prayer or sacrifice to him, and appear to shun with superstitious awe any topic con nected with the existence of attributes of the Deity. The name of the evil spirit is never mentioned, and any allu sion to it by others so vexes and irrita, tes them, that they have put persons to death who have wantonly outraged their feelings by its use. So far is their dread of offending the evil one carried, that they carefully avoid every expression which may resemble in sound the name of Satan, or the Arabic word for ac cursed. Whenever they speak of the Devil they do so with reverence. They believe Satan to be the chief of the an gelic host, now- suffering punishment for his rebellion against the divine will -but still all powerful, and to be res tored hereafter to his high estate in the celestial hierarcy. Christ according to them, was also a great angel who had taken the form of man. He did not die on the cross, but ascended to heaven. They hold the Old Testament in great reverence, believe in the cosmogony of Genesis, the deluge, and other events recorded in the bible. They do not reject the New Testament nor the Ko ran, but consider them less entitled to their consideration. Still they always select passages from the Koran for their tombs and holy places. Mahommed they lock upon as a Prophet, as they do Abraham and the patriarchs. They expect the second coming of Christ as well as the re-appearance of Imaun NIehdi. The origin of the name is traced to the-celebrated Omminde Caliph Yezid, t great persecutor of the family of Ali tn their own religious history; but there is reason to believe it must be sought ror elsewhere, as it was used long before the introduction of Mohammedanism, and is not without connection with the early Persian appellation of the Su preme Being. It is difficult to trace theirceremonies to any particularsour cc. They babtize in water, like the Christtiaus, if possible with seven (lays after birth. They circumcise at the same age and in the same. manner as the Mohammedans, reverence the Sun and have many customs in common with the Sabeans. They have great rever ence for the Sun and have built a tem ple and dedicated it to that luminary. They are accustomed to kiss the object on which its first beams fall. For fire, as symbolic, they have nearly the same reverence. They never spit in it, but frequently pass their hands through the flame, kiss, them, and put them over their right eye-brow, or over the whole face. The colour, blue, to them is an abomination and never to be worn in dress or to be used in their houses. The place to which they turn their eyes whilst per forming their holy ceremonies is always that part of the Heavens in which the sun rises, and toward it they turn the faces of their dead. Lettuce and Hi bicus esculentus, and some other veg etables, are never eaten by them; pork is unlawful, but wine is drunk by all. They have no religious observances on marriage, nor are the number of wives limited. The men and women u1erely present themselves to a Sheikh, who ascertains that there is mutual con sent. A ring is then given to the bride or sometimes money instead--a day is fixed for rejoicing-they drink sher bet, dance, but have no religious cere monies. Their year begins with that of the Eastern Christians, whom they follow also in the order and name of their months. Some fast three days at the commencement of the year, but that is not considered necessary. Wed nesday is their holiday. Some fast on that day, yet they do not abstain from work on it as the Chirstian do on the Sabbath. Their names, both male and female, are generally those used by Mo hammedans and Christians. The name of George is however objectionable, and is never given to a Zoridi. Tennessee is said to be the only Statt in the Union that had not a foot of rail road on the 1st of January,_ 1849. THE ORDER OF JESUITS. BY MAOAULAY. Before the order of Jesuits had ex isted an hundred years, it bad filled the whole world with memorials of great things done and suffered for the faith. No religous community could produce a. list of men so variously distinguished none had extended its operation over so vast a space; yet in none had there ever been such perfect unity of feeling and action. There was no region of the globe, no walk of speculative or of active life, in Jesuits were not to be found. They guided the councils of Kings. They deciphered Latin inscrip tions. They observed the motions of Jupiter's satellites. They published whole libraries, casuistry, history, treat ise on optics, Alcaicodes, editions of the fathers, madrigals, catechisms and lampoons. The liberal education of youth passed almost entirely into their hands, and was conducted by them with conspicuous ability. They appear to have discovered the precise point to which intellecual culture can be car ied without risk of intellccual emancipation. Enmity itself was compelled to own that in the art of managing and form ing the tender mind, they assiduously and successfully cultivated the elo quence of the pulpit. With still great er assiduity and still greater success they applied themselves to the ministry of the confessional. Throughout Cath olic Europe the secrets of every gov ernment, and of almost every family were in their keeping. They glided from one Protestant country to another under innumerable disguises, as gay cavaliers, as simple rustics, as Puritan preachers. They wandered to coun tries which neither mercantile avidity nor liberal curiosity had ever impelleil any stranger to explore. They were to be found in the garb of Mandarins, superintending the observatory of Pe kin. They were to be fauni-, spade in hand, teaching the rudiments of agri culture to the savages of Paraguay. Yet whatever might be their residence, whatever might be their employment, their spirit was the same: entire devo tion to the common cause, implicit obe dienco to the central authority. None of them had chosen his diwelling-place or his avocation for himself. Whether the Jesuits should live under the artic circle or under the equator, whether he should pass his lifb in arranging gems and collating manuscripts at the Vati can, or in persuading naked barbarians in the southern hemisphere not to cat each other, were matters whichli he left with profound submission to the decision of others. If he was wanted at Lima, lie was bn the Atlantic in the next fleet. If he was wanted at Bagdad, lie was toiling through the desert with the next caravan. If his ministry was needed in some country where his life was more insecure than that of a wolf; where it was a crimc to harbor him, where the heads and quarters of his brotlien, fix ed in public places, showed him what he had to expect-lie went without re monstrance or hesitation to his doom. Nor is this heroic spirit yet extinct. When in our own time a new and ter rible pestilence pass around the globe; when in some gtreat cities fear had dis solved all the ties which hold society to gether; when the secular clergy had deserted their flocks; when medical suc cor was not to be purchased by gold; when the strongest natural affections had yielded to the love of life, even then the Jesuit was found by the pallet wvhich bishops and curate, p~hysician and nurse, father and mother hadl de serted, learning over infected lip~s to catch the faintest accents of confession and holding up to last beforeo the expi ring penitent the image of the ox piring Redeemer. CURIOUS FACT.-An Indian, says an observing writer-, had tamed a black snake, which lhe kept about him during the summer months. In autumn lhe letj the creature go wvhither it chi se to' crawl, but told it to come to him again upon a certain dlay, whlich he named, in the spring. A white man was pires ent, and saw what was done, and heard the Indian aflirmi that the serpent would return to him the very day ho had ap pointed, had no faith in the truth of his prediction. The next spring, retainingi the day in his memory, curiosity led him to the plac3, wvhero he found the Indian in waiting, and after remaining with him about two hours, the serp~ent came crawling back, and put himself under the care of its old master. The case has been accounted for by supposing that the Indian had observed that black snakes usually return to their old haunts at the. sameverrial senson; and as he had tamed, fed, and kept this snake in a particular place, experi cuce taught him that it would return on a certain day. This may be one way of accounting for it;. anotheris, to suppose a real mag. notic ,onnection between the Indian and the snake, of the fdscination and charming between serpents and birds, which, upon a certain, drew the snake to his master. "There are more .things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than art dreamt of in our philosophy." W.* "T. DANTEL BOON'S COURTsRIP.-In the immediate neighborhood of his fathers' new settlement on the river Yadkin, another adventurer, named Bryan, soon made his appearance, and plarted him. self upon a beautiful spot, washed on one side by a lovely mountain stream, near which had been the favorite hunt ing ground of the young sportsman. On a certain evening, Boon engaged a friend to meet him at that spot for the purpose of engaging in a "fire hunt." In this wild sport, one of the parties usually rides through the forest, with a pine torch borne on high, which, shed. ding light through the gloomy precincts, so dazzles the eyes of the deer, that the other party, who is on foot, shoots the game between the eyes, while the be wildered animal is staring at the blaze. Boon's companion was to bear the torch, and accordingly appeared on the field, and commenced the usual round. They hiad not proceeded far, when Boon gave the concerted signal to keep the light stationary. The horseman obeyed, and waited in momentary expectation of hearing the sharp andl fatal report of his friend's rifle. Not hearing it, how VeI*, he turned his horse to ascertain thc cause of the unwarrantable delay, wien he saw his friend drop his rifle, and set off in pursuit of some sliadowy b-ject over brush and briar, fence and tield. When Boon gave the signal to his friend, lie indeed saw the flame of the torch reflected by a pair (f brilliant eyes, and he im-nediately cocked his gun, and brourht it to his eye; but instead of standing stupified at, the supposed fawn wheeled precipately and fled. During this usual movement, Boon caught a glimp-se of the flowing folds of a petti coat, dropped his rifle, and made chase after his game. So intense had been his interest in the pursuit, that he was little less surprised than his new neigh bor Mr. Bryan, when he found himself standing in the doorway, having driven the object of his chase into the paternal arms. Boon's embarrassment and surprise may easily be imagined, when he saw the consternation of the father, and the panting terror of his beautiful daughter, who had scarcely turned her sixteenth sinner, and whose lustrous ringlets were flving about her face, neck, and palpitating bosom, in the richest con trast of light and shade. Strange as it may appear of our htardy backwoodsman, lie became agita ted in his turn, with all the stern and rugged qualiti--s of his nature, ho was taken catie by a maiden's charms. dwhat was no less strange, the hhrshing Hlebe, who had run into her father's arms, dleclarinig that she was pursued by a pantthmer, now perceived that lie was not such a frightful animal as her first impression in the dark had led her to suippose.* Indeed, Boon was at this time just in the first flush of youth; his person straightL and well proportioned, and the whole appearance of the man presented such a her', to the eye of the unsophis ticated girl, as her imagination was likelv to create for itself in that remote and secluded scene--in short, they lovedl tmutuall, and Miss Rebecca Bry an ini a very short timo became Mrs. Boon. A Tm>1.L.Y HmNr.-Tho editor of the Cmihiivatonr remiiinds his readers that eater pil ler- sh ould be iattenidedl to ini season. andi thalit w henm this is dione the labor of ex. I rpaiona wili be trifling, lHe says; "Onie easy mmodc of destruction is to apply strong sop vumds to the' nest-ifC the3 Iren is large ai swab tied to thme end of tihe pole will ac complish thme putrposo effectually. Suds which have been used by the wash wvoman aire ais good as ainy, and b~y rubbing ai swab on thme neal, after it has been dipped into tihe suds, leworms are quickly destroy. An article in a Southern paper, an nouncinig a person's decease, says, "hii manes were committed to that bourne whence no traveller returns, attended bmy hisfriendls. A TR EAK OF' $QUATERWXIFE. BILL SAPPERI'S LTTit Tb I -C o0n. LIBERTI, Missury, May 6th, iforty 5. Cousin Jim, tha aint nuthii'ioccur red wuth ritin'about injour settlement fur a long spell, but about the. beginin' of last .week,.Athur -war a rumor sot afloat in town, which kept the winen for two or three days- in a continoom snigger; and it warbalf a day afore the. men could find dout tIe .rights of the marter-sech anther feaseo -s':alli the gails got intr, war deltihtfd41 "t-on. template. The boys kept a askin' one anutber, what in the ye&rthi wur 'the marter, that the gals, kept a whisperin' and laffin round town. Iso?,-at inst it cum ot! aiA l iat do you think, .4ii , wur the marer?-You couldn't -ues in a week. It aint no common ocoura rence and yet it's mighty ,. ntral . :Lit tie Jo Allen, the shoemaker, had .an addition to his family, amountin' td jest three babbya-onie, boyind 'two s! His wife is a 'leetle cretur,butI reck on she's 'some' in countin' the:'census, and sech anuther excitelvent as lier lit tle brood of pretty tabby's haiskicked up among t*he wiien is pert'ecly intic in' to bachelors. When the interestin' marter wur first noised about, the wim en wouldn't believe it, but to know the rights of it tia put on thur bonnets and poured down to- see 'Mrs. Allen, in a perfect stream of curiosity; and,' surr. enough, thar tha wur, three.rual peert lookin' children, all jest alike' Bein' an acquaintance. of Jo's, he iuck me in to see his family, and it wur rMaly an interestin' sight to see the little: creturs. Thar tha wur, with thur tiny faces aside each other, hevin on the prettiest caps,-all made and fixed by theyoung winin, as a present to the mother, and then thur infantile lips jest' pehin,' like so many rose buds "ponti hile thur bits of hands, transparent as spar macity, wur a curtin' about and push in', all doubled up, agin thut little 'nos es, and thur mother all' the time loolin' at 'em so peert and pleaed,.jQqt ais.cf she war feelin' in her own mind tha war' hard to. beat-added "to 'which, thar stood thur daddy, - contemplatin', with a glow of parental feelin', the whole unanimous pictur! It ain't in me Jim, to fully describe the universal fierits of sech a scene, and I guess it couldn't re ccive raal jestis from any man's pen, ,cept he'd ben the father of twins atleast. 'Gracious me!' sed Mrs. Sutton, a very literary womin, who eliays talks history on extra occasions; 'ef that. lit tIe Mrs. Allen, ain't ekill to the mother of the GrashiP She looked at little Jo, the daddy, fur a spell, and tuk to admirin' him so that she could acarely keep her habds off on hirA-she.hadr't no babbgs, poor womin! 'Ah! Mr. Allen,' ses she, 'you are suthin' like a husband-you're determ ined to decend a name down to your ancesters!' I raaly believe she'd a kissed 'him ef thur hadn't ben so many wimeti thar. The father of the babbys were mitely tickled at furst, 'cause all the wimen wur a praisein' him', but arter a spell lie gin to look skary, for go ivbar ho would he found soome wimnen tryin' -to git a look at him-tha jest besieged his shop winder all theO time, and kept peepin' in, and lookin' at him, and -askin' his age, and whar heoeum from? 'At :last sum of the gals got so curious tha asked him whar he did come from, any how, and as soon as lie sed Indiainee 'Dick Mason becum one of the popularest young men in the settlement among the wimen, jest 'cause 'ho war from. the same state. Things went on this ivay for ft spoll, till at last tha heerd of 'em in the coun try, and the wimen all about found some excuse to come to town to git store goods, jest a purpose to see the babby's and thur parents. The little daddy' war wusser plagued now, and they starr'd at him so that ho couldn't wvork--thes fact wur, hisu mind wur gettin' troubled, and some of the wimen noticed the ska ry look he had out of his eyes, and kept a wondlerin' what it meant. One mornini'it war noticed by some of the gals that his shop warn't opened, so tha got inquirin' about him, and. arter a sarch he cum up missin'.-.well, UI'h of the opinion thar wvur ~ai ' etet mont in town then, fully ekil th18 president's 'election. "Eer <. inn started her' husbind out .de ik#t orders not to umi 'back' ~tl iti IE, and sech a scourin' is 'they gin' country round .wotld a caught antr human,-it did ketch Jo--on his roftd to Texast. When Uhoy goE1guilback in the town~ agin, acI coutteoof mairied ipen held a secret, talk with him; t jarn what the marter wur, that he Waf 'em fron gitvooeussedponhe'd'd tveiand tthafeforehw;kiewit 'dud ehe bttto clear out, for the wimen uld-bedNte to ta4e goo4:g. rothj. ir, 0a th e the men to was n a mheeti ifbdhdelfbiitin~f fh'iedet, that ift'n t hrim o Ibeie fAt hebrtilfe thsee bfibbfyq and Uad-hlfs Hen accoidi'' to 61pint ynie 1fifhhid? eio wimen, and artir he had retired, tbh went into comniittee.f te *hole upon the marter, and apiiked' tbree of thur numb"ito' i at aiedtii'6n tA, e etoeviill'; A'set 'osolti6iis tein' what tha 'dlo in the'prises-.and oV ef rii a i6iil'7&ationinth- Wfti er case of.Jo- Allert, his little, vi'ifc nd Lhreefbeautifu healthy abby c When the hour ofmeetin'h arri, MrsP Siutten'g parlrg wqzr: 0rowsed with thewimen of the pettlent n artdr aypiter WiddeitDdnt tib e ecr, thasrplted thecbitee ow re solves reddy, and Mrs. Bittoa' beln' the head 'fU the cdnitt'she 'Wft. k and read: tli6 followih' dfai tiup pier: Whereas,:Itihas beenased.hyltfie wise Solomot-of old,,tht-at theda-world must; baeepled, tharfore, -wholdit/toF be the inviolate dutysofevery :mart to git married, and, moreover, rear up cit' izens an4 fture. mothers totour glorioue reppblic;.agd, :j Whereas, It is gratifyin' 16 ,Buny natur', the world in genal, 'Misisry. at large, and ,LibQrty in partickle, .that this atileieit'bas set- an, exiiaplb to the ances' of intuo timp, 0hi iil not only iate tige ibits'.f tiii ei lightened stito 'a pahif for ild* il dren, but a envy to th6 Mibf Europe,,not forg ttin' th6 &idIiidth ethl ioj df ' lig a P itee to insawdedi Mong-thio'aidst families, f evQr hei-earter-the iioter that hs shed strei'lustieupon, the. ,sex in'ieneral; aid,' Whereas, It is the ,iilanichelfylot of some to bo deprived of doin tharduty in the'great cause of human.natur', be cause the young men is back'ardabout speakin' out it is time thar some-mens ures be taken inimical to -,our'general prosperity, and cngouragin' te thp ris m' generation ofyopg Xlag und toyn thiforg,. 1Iestyed, That, asnarned e , our sympathies; like. teeayfi of ?. f tui'5b6or, yearn'a with adi ni and respect fur th-tntittle . s Alljen, and. aswe see, er l jeUtlo babbys reclinin' upon tur m O e male maternal bosom, our bati earts with one accord 'wish we could say ditto., Resolved" That in'the case o Mrs. Allen we see an illustrious exkdiple of the intarnal andextarnal' pio&rcss of that spieading race, the Angel %axons; and time will coie,hen thodothers of the west will plant thar, glorious shoots from one pinnacle of the Rocky Mountains to the tother, and intiltbar cry of liberti wiUshe hollore& from 'one pint to the next in continooal- screetchi -Resolved, That Mr. Joseph Allen, the father of those three dear/little babbys, shall receive. a monument at his doth, eend while he is .livin'i' the wimon shall onyevisit his shop ince a week to look at him, 'ceptythe raided winien,who shalbepermitteda to;-see hirn twice saveek-and no ..oftbener,per vided'and oeptin.tha want togiggsps ired-fu'r apur of. shoes. - Resolved, Mistele Joseph Aller)jirl hav the .custom of the wholuiet, for he is a-glorious livin' example of .a dotin' husband.. Arter ' these 'resohiions 'hd 'been unanuously passed, Mrs. Suttoin d dressed t.he meetid' in a strepta of "ble gance, wharin she proved' W a whistle,'that a famil'y war: liq furst gonsideration fair settlera y new country, and towu. tsthe~ Mqes tion.- g~eao hd o 'n at thur ne ghbor Allen, but hi a sech a husbind would be a suftii'r a W laiditjto the settlEra'et.' gals arruna . ty eeN Your fuirst Cousmn, BrrL r4~3