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Ln.dnv .Inhn Beside the old brook stream, Hvhcre we were school boys in ohl lime, \viien manhood was a dream ; The brook is choked with fallen leave?, The pond is dried away? I scarce believe that 3-011 would know The dear old place to da}-. The school house is no more, John, lienenth our locust trees; The wild rose by the window side No more waves in the breeze ; The scattered stones look desolate, The end thev rested on line been flowed up by stranger bant!?, Since you and I were gone. The chesiiut tree is dead, Jolin, And what is sadder now? 'Tins broken gripe-vine of our swing Liangs on the withered bough ; I read our names upon tlie back, 1 I And found the pebblesrure. Laid up heneatli the hollow sidu, As we lu?d piled them there. -Beneath the groRs grown batik, John, I |onk< d lV>r our old spring, That huIjb'.ed down the elder path. There paves from the swing ; The ru.-hes grow upon the brink, The pool is lilnek and bare, And not a foot, ibis mnny n Hay, It seems, bus trodden there. I took tho old blind road, John, That. wandered up the hill; 'Ti? darker tlinn it used to l>r? . And seems so lone and still! 1 The birds sings yet among the lionplis Where oiice the sweet grapes hung, But not a voice of human kind Where all our voices rung. I sit tnc on the fence, John, That lies as in old time} That same half panel in the path We used so oft to climb Aiid thought how o'er the bars of life Our playmates had passed on, And left me counting on this spot The faces that are gone. 8PEECH OF THE HON. M. L. EONHAM. The following is the concluding portion j of the able and patriotic Speech of our es- I teemed K^prcsentative, delivered in the House of Representatives, Dec. 16, 1350, on the Election of Speaker. Gentlemen from the North tnlk of forcing us back into the Union; and the honorable member from Pennsylvania (Mr. Hickman) speaks of the numcruial power of the North being sufficient to compel us to remain in the Union. Sir, whenever force is found necessary or expedient, the Union no long'-r exists ; and as to disunion upon the election of a flvlack Republican, I can Fpeak for no one but myself and those I have here the honor to represent, and 1 say, without hesitation, that upon the elec tion of Mr. Seward, or any other man who indorses and proclaims the doctrines held by him and his party?call him by what name you please?I am in favor of an rm* mediate dissolution of the Union. And, sir, I think I speak the sentiments of my own constituents, and the State of South Carolina, when I say so. The honorable member from Ton nocenn I 6 cms to place tbo extremists of the South, and the extremists of the North, as he calls them, in the same category, and censurcs them alike for the introduction of this slny.ery discussion. I ask if he does not antic Spate rebuke from bis own people for the injustice that he doe* to the Representatives of the South ? Does ho suppose that the people of the South will hold us responsible for the agitation of this question ! Who 3>egan it ? Who brought it upon us ? Are -we to be blamed for resisting the election of a* man who comes to us all covered over .and reeking with the pollutions of the II&I per compendium, and nsking U> bp elevated by this House to this place of power! Are we, of tbe South, to be put in tbe saric category with those r-ho propose to impo?e such * man upon us ? I hope that honor able member will retrace that step, and plac? Ibe blame where it betonjp. J feel that be. end I are engaged in a common cause for ftlA 1-?- ? 'l " 1 *" mvviim VI luV.Mgui* UI IDC DOOID. It : ir ODjust to censure members from the South-for introducing ? resolution t<5 counteract the influence of the doctrines of <tbe Helper compendium, end to defeat its repleeentfltiv#. Pefhapa ttiehoaorabiemeoi- ! !? as - bwe honestly done in tijtfe . oast, end/perbftps, ?9n?a naW~~j$& oftm ?I^ry#r* WW: nwrol, *! polltieat ?eil,; 'M'Li in avowm* ft. Ntw^ *nd it 'not ?1iMBed to say so .here,^ ; W met#*' W indk^/UiiiUl^h wtf * * vs.-. - -'i.'v.i- ttstl havo the institution, and he will defend it, 'V. he la not prepared to say it is not'a moral, social, ami political evil.' Sir, after the utteranco of such sentiment coming from the South, I feel it my duty to say here that I not only look upon it as a 'moral, social, and political blessing and good ; a blessing to the black man ; a blessing to tho white man ; it impproves the condition of tlie one and ele vaies t lie tone ot the other; Jt is nil uisli tution wliioli Las been transmitted lo us bv our ancestors, one which wo intended to preserve, and ono which we will preserve in tho Union or out of it against all the power which you can bring to bear against us, peaceable, or we will perish in the attempt. Liko the honorable gentleman from Tennessee, (Mr. Nelson,) 'I own a few slaves, and, as my friend behind me, (Mr. I "..III \ T ...1.1. T I... 1 1"! JWiu.y I >V IMl 1 IJ.IU HIUI L*. 1 IH'V have mainly been inheiited from my ancestors, and, so far frcJhi declaring that lI am'not ashamed to say it here,'I am proud 'to say here I own them.' At this mrfmcut, whilst T am here attending to the duties confided to me by my constituents, my family at homo are protected by a faithful and honest slave, entiusted with fire arms for that purpose. It is my pride and boast flint T livn in ? Sstntf* wliftffl biicli nrnnot f r t? ~ ' .-..v.. r. ... held, ami licit I am a slave holder. Ami, 1st me suv here to the indorsers of ilie Helper compendium, that when you count upon the non-slaveholders of the South to overturn that institution, you reckon without your host. I saw it stated, but a few days ago, that in one of the Virginia companies in forvice at Harper's Ferry, out of some one hundred, there were, ai cording to my recollection, only five slave holders. In one of rlie counties in tlie district of the honorable member from Virginia, (Mr. Martin.) when tho news of the Harper's Ferry invasion reached the county-scat, a meeting was held of only two hundred, and one hundred and fifty-two of the two hundred volunteered their services should they be needed. I ask him how many of those one hundrod and Gl'iy-two were slave holders? Mr. Martin, of Yiiginin. Five. Mr. Bonham. Only five out of one hundred an<l fifty-two ! sir the non-slave-holders of the South who do not themselves own slaves have friends and relatives, perhaps, who do. Besides, they know they have tl.e constitutional right to own them when they may inherit, or acquire the means to purchase them. They have the intelligence too to understand that right and the courage to maiutain it. And when you come to excite servile insurrection, or to forcc us nacK iniome union, mese non-siaveiioldeis in common with their brethren, in the language of an honorable member of this House,once in (he Senate, will welcome your myrmidons "with bloody hands to hospitable graves.' Your sentiment of negro equality they repudiate with scorn. They know their own rights, and need not your assistance to comprehend them. Mr. Clerk, I have dwelt longer on these points than I intended when I rose. I have l ..? 1 i ^ T . 1 _ i uiu u wuru mure \u say. j. was pii'ascd with tbo eloquent zeal of the honorable member from Tennessee when in the oon?>. 1? -i-i: 1 uivimvu VM IIIO PjJCCI.U, UU lH'IIVt'lTU his patriotic sentiments, the burden of which was the Union, although our emotions of patriotism embrace somewhat different objects. 11 is seen to embrace more exclusively the Union?"the mountains, hills, valleys, and streams" of the whoio country. He says: "We loveonr country; we love its mountains its hills, its valleys, aud its streams.' And.again: "Uiu above all, 1 trust, we Jove this glorious Union.' * * * "We love this glorious Union. I repeat-.' * ? I ?1fo might lovo the ConBlitution and the Union, as they came from our fathers, if tlie rights of th6 South could be secured under litem. But the conviction that tbiB cannot be done has been forced upon .me by the continued exactions and encroachments of an unscrupulous majority. And although when our common country needs the services of all tier citizens against outside pressure, I can adopt tbo sentiment of the gallant Lawrencu when ho said, "My country! may she always be right; but fight or wrong, my country 1' Still first, <1.. V *1. - T>?4 -- l .1 mm iitiurt iiiv uumij, iiiu rhrl, and km West, I lovo thesriu'ny South, with nil her cherished inRtifutona nod her. principles. But ihe divergence is'greater Mill, i My patriotism, begin*.jyitli the cradle in which nay infant limW*eiV fOcfeed, with the cottage |ii which I flrit learned to lisp mv mother's name. First, lash, and all the time. it leads me to render my. homage a&ti allegiance to my native State,- South Carolina, ^against all' fUe worlds These are my principles-: nh/1 ikb mi MiJtniiim Tt ? o naKUlt... ?>WU IMJ - ? UdUIVtlOUl more J|ke bi^of whom the English poet bo beautifully said * . "Dsar U that Biied to which 1}is sou] conforms. And d8ar_tt?ijbB1, him to th# "i* y X" ^ ^ k'f ' * _ 4 WIUTTKN FOR TltlC PRESS. JOHN'S BAPTISM. NO. 5. 1. "By wbat formula: did John ndministor Baptism ? 2. Was John's Baptism, Christian Baptism ? 3. If John's Baptism was Christian Baptism, why were the people who submitted to it baptized ? 4. Why was our Lord Josus Christ bapi ized ? 5. Ami, upon what profession of Faith? G. What docs baptism represent ? 7. If it represents tho burial and resurrection of Christ, what represents the de scension ot the Jloly (Jhost, or, the baptism of the Iloly Ghost ? 8. By what mode was baptism administered ? 9. If by immersion, how does "into mean under ?" I now proceed to answer the Gth query, viz: "What does baptism represent." There were thi. gs in former ages which bore a rcxcmhlancc to baptism, such as the oii/i tiic ?i.~ ?.i I ? ??" '"J ? ?? the pasMigo of the Israelites through the sea, divers washings, bathings, ?fcc. lint the thing itself did not exist until it was revealed to the forerunner of Christ. Saul was directed to wash away his sins calling on the name of the L< 1. always sai repent and be bapt e remission of sins, l'eter also sa; j and his family "were saved by water." ''The like figure whereunto baptism (loth now save us.'*? ! This remission of sins and salvation by wa[ ter is properly ascribed not to the element, but to the name into which we are baptized. ......... i... i..1 ? .> IMI.7IIVU U?? l'?t|IIU"lll 1(1 U1C Mllllt; | sense in which his flesh is oaten and his I blood drank in the Lord's Supper. Baptism is there a figure, not a seal, but ; a sign. The sign must signify something, j The figure must represent something. Now , the question is what does it represent.? j lhipti.-m is introduced in tho ypistles to the j ueing acua aim ourud to tlie principles and j pursuits of the present world ; and by faith i in C-liiir-t raigtil as into a new world. The | death of Chri.-t is emphatically mentioned ! an that into which wc are baptized. "Know yo not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ wero baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him ; by baptism into death, that like as Christ I died and was raised up from the dead by j the jjlory of the Father evon bo we also | should walk in newness of life." We are buried with Christ by baptism 1 i J--.I ? T* ? - I iiuvs uciim. > nm uuaui s iiviaenuy cjeam I to sin. The leading idea of a death and ! burial is a separation from the world.? There is hq greater line of separation than that between the living and the dead. Such is the line drawn by faith between the renewed world and the world depraved. So . also, the principal thing denoted by a resurrection is an entrance upon a new state of being. Such is the state of which the immersion of the body from the baptismal j rtnlt-rs is the sign. Religion does not. con! sist in mere negatives. It is net enough to die to the world, but wo must be alive to j God. Thus we see the resemblance of baptism I hv immnrtirtn ir\ tliz* 1% ?? I? I - J tv KU^ Vivaiu ; <iuu icauiicuiuil I of Christ is not only manifest, but clearly and distinctly taught in the scriptures. It is no where said that baptism represents the descent of the Spirit. And Jeast of all shotiM this be said by a pedo-baptist, for if sprinkling a few drops of water upon the head be baptism, and this representing the descent of the Spirit, then tho representatiou would he inndequuto and insignificant, if not oontemptiblo. A few words on the seventh query. "If baptism represents the death and resurrection of Christ what represents the descension of the Holy Ghost or the baptism of the Holy Ghost ?" If I show what baptism represents, I am not bound to show whatoth er lliing represents something else. Similar questions might be naked, for instance. If the sacrifices slain upon Jewish altars re-, present the sacrifice of Christ what represented the Christian's d?ath to Bin ? Or if the Render twig, plucked from the top of the loftiest cedar represents Christ taken from the royal ftifnily of David, what represents the man in the moon f B.. F. C. Nine y Six 3. C. ^ # Useful Ikformation.?Burning fluid, exploaiob are not generaly caused by contact of flames with the fluid "itself, but with the gas that is always escaping frypj tho fluid, wben open to ibe air. People not knowing tblfr fact. think they may safely fill lighted lamps if Iftify^cJo act allow the flame to , touch tbe fluid itself; but (he invisibleg?s rises, touches, tbp.flsme, the lamp explode* and t^ consequences are sad, perhaps fatal. Never 4>riog a lighted l^mp within a foot, at the very neareft, of open fluid, <-J } *'* 'I , . * The greatest pleasure of life is tov^ the greatest treasury conUfetmeti t; tho greatest possession, health ; the greatest ease, sleep; Afcd tbe test medicine; a tftif > * % y J.. being in London in May, be was of course iuvited to the annual dinner of tli6 Literary Fund Society; but be was'followed by ^ Ibe memory of tbe Dickens dinner, and l* declined. One of tbe most amusing papers in the elary of Thomas Moore is the 11 l ._f t.:_ _:?i. t. o PROFESSOR FELTON'S ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON IRVING. IHVINO's DltEAl) OK DINNER SPEECIIMAKING. At the meeting of the Massachusetts IIistoricol Society, to notico iho death of Washington Irving, Professor Fchon, of Harvard College, delivered an eloqueut and genial obituary address, in which we find the following reminiscence of living's aversion to mako a dinner speech. Allow me, Mr. President, to recall two or tlirco little inciden ts that may servo to illustrate somo of tlio aspects of his char after. The time when I saw the most of Mr. Irving was in the winter of 1842 during the visit of Charles Dickens to New York. I had known this already distinguished writer in Boston and Cambridge, and while passing somo weeks with my dear and lamented friend, Albert Sumner, I renewed mv acquaintance with Mr Dickens, often meeting him in the brilliant literary society which then made Kew York a most agreeable resort. Ilalleck, Bryant, Washington Irving, Davis, and oilier* scarcely less attractive by their genius wit and social graces, constituted a circle scarcely to be surpassed anywhere in the world. I passed much of the time with Mr. Dickens, and it was delightful to wit. ness tho cordial intercourse of the young man, in the flush and glory of his youthful genius, and his elder compeer, then in the assured possession of immortal renownDickens said, in his frank, heartv manner tliat from his childhood he had known the works of Irving, and that before he bail thought of coming to this country, lie had received a letter from him, expressing the delight he felt in reading the story of Little Nell, and from that day they hud shaken bands uutur/ra/rfiiculfy across the Atlantic. Great and varied as was the genius of Mr. Irving, there was one thing bo bin unk with a comical terrt>r from attempting, and that was a dinner speech. A great dinner, however, was to be given xr i\- i i' * 1 10 r. uicKens in i>ew l ork, as otio liau j already Wen given in Boston ; and it was evident to all that no man hut Washington 11 ving coiilil be thought of to preside With all his dread of making n speech, lie was obliged to obey the universal call and to accept the painful pre-eminence. I saw him daily duiing the interval of preparation, either at the lodgings of Dickens or at dinner or evening parties. I hope I showed no want of sympathy with his forebodings, but I could not help being amused with llio tragic-comical distress which the thought of that approaching dinner caused him. His pleasant humor mingled with the real dread, and played with the whimsical.bdrrors of his own position with an irresistible drollery. Whenever it was alluded to his invariable answer was, 'I bhall certainly break down 1'?uttered in a half melancholy tone, the ludi. crous effect of which it is impossible to des. cribe. Ho was haunted a6 if by anight, niaro, audX:fcould only compare his dismay to that of Mr. l'ickwick *?bo was so alained at the prospect of leading about that dreadful horse' all day. At length the long expected evening arrived ; u company of the most eminent persons from all the professions and fevery walk of life, were assembled, and Mr. Irving took tbe chair. I bad gladly accepted an invitation, bowever, on condition that I should not bo called upon to spunk?a thing I then dreaded quite as tnuoh as Mr. Irving himself. The direful compulsion of life have since helped mo to overcome, in some measure, the postprandial fright. Under the circumstances?an invited guest with no impending speech, I sat calmly and watched with interest the imposing scene. I had tho honor to be placed next but one to Mr. Irving, and^ me pleasure 01 snaring in uib conversation."1 lie bad brougt llio manuscript of bisepeecb and laid it undor bis plate. *1 sba. certainly break down,' be repeated over and over again. At last the moment arrived. Mr. Irving rose, and was received with deafening and long .continued applause, hi' mouna Incoiirtinrr Kto onr?rtfinmn . He began iu bis pieasant voice 4 got through two -or three sentences pretty easily ; but in the next, hesitated, and afthr one or two attempts, gave it up, with a graceful allusion to tho tournament, aiul the troops of knights all armed and eager Cur the fray, ended with the toast^ 'Charles Dickens, the guest of the nfitioift' 'There,' said he; as he resumed his seat under & repetition of the applaUsq which had saluted his rising, there, I told you I should breakdown, and I'vq done it.' There certaMv never. Was made a shorter * v . v ., after-dinner speech; I doubt it there ever was a more successful one: Tbb manuscript seemed to be a dozen or twenty pages ; bat the printed eoeech wasn^tM . ?r - - VJ-- , *" many lines. I suppose that manuscript oa?y be stilMooxistence; and, If So,I.wish it migbfc .^ublbbed.. Mr, Irving often spoke' with ? good-btimored eary of vbe felicity with whiuUDieken? si way* acquitted ' biroselfbGatotobr.- In the follow l*vio^ > mii & i Jk i+ * V cluiu ui iii? cuii vtrrr^tuuu wiiu lrviuguii the sucjcct, and the final success of his en- n deavors to persuade him to go. ^ 'That Dickens dinner,' says Moore, 'which ^ ho always pronounced with strong empha- 1,1 sis, hammering away all the time with his right arm, wore out?that Dickon's dinner = still haunted his imagination, and I almost a gave up all hope of persuading him.' But s ho succeeded. Ho closed his record with a the philosophical reflection that'it is very 0 odd, that while some of the shallowest fel- c lows go on so glib and ready with the 'F tongue, men wliose minds are abounding ' with matter should find such difficulty in 1 bringing it out. I found that Lockhart F had also declined attend inj* the din nor, " I under a similar apprehension, nnd only consented on condition that his health should not be given.' 1 SHORT SERMON FOR* "YOUNG AMERICA." ^ A clergyman, writing about the 'last ^ young nit-n' of tlio present day* snvs-:?'It . is seMoin that a young man goes (o college with ihe deliberate purpose of living viciously ; hut ho is xvcik. He is tnkea into thecompany of a set of men senior to him- ^ self, with whom it is a gratification to him to nssoeiate; he finds among them habit of thought and expression and act, which j in his soul he is weak ; how can he resist the evil ? nay, how nan ho avoid taking s part in it, for lie must not, he thinks, make -bim?elf singular? and so the licentious ? thought, or the coarse word, or the oath, is j welcomed with a smile, and from the smilo . the advance is rapid to partaking in what lm firvt tliranLr frnm nnrtul'inrr in if In rrlrtro. ... .V, ing in it, ami from thence becoming tlio tempter to others, as lie had been himself tempted, and fallen. Or, again, it may be c not direct sin but idleness, into which a ? i man is tempted by weakness. IIo tnay j find that others are idle, that there are the counter claims of amusements and society which interfere Avith the claims of study ; he does not deliberately determine to be r idle, and to throw away that precious time c which no after exertions or regrels will re cover; but circumstances lead him into t idlemess, and he has not the strength to r resist?he is weak. Ilere, then, is one j main eletr.ent of that childishness which we j have to put away?the weakness which, in j spite of the prompting of our nature, lead* s us into sin or idleness form tho example of t others, or what we choose to call the force ( of circumstances. And closely connected y with this weakness is cowardice. Wo are afraid of our neighbors, oY, rallrer, of our ( own imagination of what our neighbors , think of us. It may be that we despise in <] our hearts the very men by whom we are : led, and detest their sentiments and tone of j mind ; but, neverthe less, wo are led by : | them, we applaud their sentiments, we adopt their tone.' [Was tlio text for the i , above excclleut discourse Inken from Job: t . i ! ?'The foolish man is accomplished, before j his time, and his branch shall not bo greeu Job. xv. 32.] ^ ? ? Power of music.?Memories of beautiful creations in'painting, poetry, and sculpture come 'before mo blended with the char of the flower, clond, and ocean reahn _e j tm. .i ui uftiurc*.*. j.iie axeuumui hi uiio tnuu mjito trace cflpHcious arabesques; then Shelley's exquisite versification seemed to be 1 attained? a new harmonic formation followed, and ther9 tay mirrored in the glass ' flood of the melody the svelte foru of tha^ 1 half-angel, half-woman cratioo, Angelinas ' Eve, sitting in graceful, questioning reverio ^meditating over tho fir^ sin. With flying, rapid ruus nnb trills, introduced by the ' instrumentalist, tho musi passed over euri- 1 ous modulations, suspensions that were like, ' pleading justifications of sotnecomiRg event, and sad, solemn, anticipated tones ; followed by a descent of notes, all sounding 1 'As it the soul of-melody werepeot Within ftgpe unseen instrument 1 Hung m a viewless tower ?? ??". ] And with^nohantld iiipbs beguiled its own , despair.' * ,\ j A Black Republican Value op the ' Unio?.?Henrv Diltfon. f ReDiiblitnnl nf 1 x * I '"V " New Haven, formerly Governor of Con* { neoticut, Writes form Middletown to the ' editors of the New Haven Journal and ' Courier, closing bis letter as follows: " 1 If I knew that oo^f?}h voting for Be ward, I or Chftie, or Bank*, or any oilier ro!*rt.wbotn | I regarded as most worthy to fili the Presidential chair the whole ;&utb wptifdji*c$de M and dissolve tho Union, -Lshould not hesitate a a moment to voto for biiiu ^ BbJm- tl "The leant #?id the soonest mended,1 does y Bot refer frbenit; wwn t? re- fc pairings ever 80 little about i It, you wil] *?M ft flnJ *?>* wonftr mended I for-'?JI that* . sutir, ,; ' ?r ESS * ***' i uid .bM^nwalWd li? mlor. h ^ * - '- r J THE BIVAL CANDIDATES. A Washington correspondent gives the dlowing sketch of the rival candidates for i ie Speakership; Thomas S. Bocook, of Va. the De- ( locratic candidate for Speaker, is a man f thoroughly national and moderate views, member of the greatest experience in the ; louse and one who is universally esteemed >r the possession of sound judgment, good 2mper, great courtosy of manner, and very ecided abilities! lie is a tall and rather Taceful man, of some 48 or 50 yenrs of r...? i r i uv, mill .IUUIIIIHJ ICiUUrCf, lUIIg 1UCO Ul'OWII iilo whiskers anil imperial, mild gray eyes, nd a plentiful supply of dark chestnut* olored hnir, arranged on his head with onsiderablo adroitness. Of course, in the iresent controrerey he has no opportunity o speak ; but it is well "understood that he s at any moment willing to sacrifice his teraonal aims to securo a compromise of ill the interest net openly or secretly in eague with the Republican party. it: i.2~r-5?i t i cm /? /-? uisciiii:! rivai, uomi ouerman, or uino s a man some ten years hi.-? junior, of midlie bight and nervous figure with a fine iquare forehead, liglit brown hair, light' .ward shaven on the upper lip, 'largo bluesh eye?, prondnerit perceptive faculties, ind features of the ordinary New England noulJ, with a touch in them "of firmness, esolute will and Fubtlefy. 'During each )allot Mr. S. appears agitated, and atempts to conceal his nervousness by taking ip a newspaper, which trembles in his lands as lie holds it. Jolin A. Gilmer, of North Carolina, the south American candidate is a large and obust-looking man?much 6uch a man as Senator Toombs in style?with dark thick lair bushing out on all sides of his head, till dark whiskers curling round liis chin md cheeks; deep-set and laughing dark yes, features i'regular and defying all classic nodels, but full of strength, and with a jp.neral air of good humor and slynlss rood breeding and -peace of mind, euch as t-does the eye good to rest 'upon in this lurried and agitated city. OLD FOGY FLIRTATION. Goetlio was sixty and Reltina sixteen uid tlio tenderness between them is to beioiiio one of the classics of German literature ricknor and Fields have just published tho ranslation of their correspondence. It is lot so impossible as it at first seems, for it s a curious fact that some women love the ntellect of a man without^binking of his jerson?(and wonderfully vice versa!)? o tliat age makes no great differencesomeimes. But it would have been better not o^t it "in abook ! Thus discourses an able vriter on a kindred topic :? "All do not know tho Becret 'of the art )f growing old gracefully. It is an art which middle life works at aod perfects. I'be secret lies back there. Serene and wait 1 t _l 1 * * 1 - " ug, uuu uuiuveu age is me result 01 nonorajle and virtuous middle life; aud age, queruous, exacting, burdensome to itself and others, is the product of selfish, frivolous -uiddle life. It is perhaps not without some .hade of sadness that one comes to rank iiimself in middle life. Slowly it dawns upon him?relnetently be admits it. It is no sense of growing old that teaches bins* no flagging of the powers of the spirits, not even the taunt of that opprobrious epithet now-a-days fiippantly flung al mid-'* Jle life?for the fogy"* is not the old, but The middle-aged-man ; but one finds that, with the fuller flesh, and 'firmer muscle, irtidt stronger tread, nnd truer poue of his faculties? while yet his sympathies are all young r?nd fresh, while yet lie waits to follow where il./i >??-! ?i._ i.i iiiv wiuvi tiuu u isci icmi?iuc wuriu >v<m? nnd looks to him,pushes Lim forward where lie hesitates, until he discovers .that, no longer looked upon as young, hejRfost lake his plnce in the toiling and exposed van, rind hew tho way in which other steps shall trend.' ^ Unhappy apinstbhs.?The ugliest and most mischievous Mies wa er?r knnw am* Miss-Government. Her sister,Miss Manitgo:iiont is no beauty. Miss Demeanor surpasses them both ; and, while she Wnglier ?nd haughtier3hnn either of her sister*, sbe & still constantly getting "courted.' While (ve have no particular liking for Miss Goy^pmerit* or Miss Demeanor, we have a dteei3ecl disliking for Miss Fortune. Sbe is ever nicking tyjjr dom in where it is not wanted. kmoDg those unfortunate Misses may be placed Miss-Take, who"' is genonaliy com>ellii& to bear the blame for the litis of Hiss-Government, Miss-Manngeroent, Miss fortune,' and sometimes Miss-Demeanor, to for as, wo can endorse and even tolerate ny of tl? afavQ named MUte^n# *frc? or, etier, lli?n*Mis8-AnnThropy.^?^ier we taye; a perfect abUotTpooe, T^Tre is a rhole family wbo>?cprojany bad etter be'^vefded ; for i*f, IisvLead, M??-Judg<V Sflw^aot^ Mitttopresent, Ilia-Bub, "Mbn'trust, efc.'''' ' * T'T.. . The man wdoib fond of jpaddinga and I iee, places hiimelf fearfully in tho power oM fat ' ?$' ? h: EXCEEPT8. "the greatest gluttons are those who fed upon slander. The world cannot explain its own diflftuultios without the assistance of another. That man will cne day find it but poor, gain who hits upon truth with tho loss oV charity. Tho best adhesive label ydtt can put o'n your baggage, is to stick tb it yourself. Riming accounts will n rttvay Willi a person's credit moro rapidly than ariytlifrik else. Matrimonial history is a narrative of many worilx ; but the story of lova may be old in a few letters. "Caught in her own net,'' ns tho man said when he saw one of tho fairaex bitched in her drinoHnei "Ma, do you know why horses Sl6hft Wear hats?'?"No, Johnny.'?"feeca'us') ft "Wo'nld give them a hos tile appearance.' Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths; we can never see the ktars till wte can see little*or naught else?'arid thus It iS with truth. What were the feelings of the ^Ilhotdtif after devouring the king of Athens daughter ??lie suffered from a lass-he chewed. What is the difference between an oriental fireplace and the largest ship in the world One is an Eastern grate, ft+id the other the Great "Eastern. A fnifid too vigorous and active serves only to eonsurtio the body to ftKfch it is joined, as the richest jewels afre"Soonest4b6b(l to wear their setting*. A pretty girl and a wild horse are Diablo to do much mischief; for tho one runs avu^ with a fellow's body, acd the other runs away with his heart. A compliment ik season.?"My dear madam, you really inuat not eat that,' raid a gaFant gentleman to a beautiful lady, as he abruptly snatched away a plate of beautiful duck that bad beenplaced before her; "I really cannot allow yoUlo'Commit cannibalism.' Tlio lady, buried unieV A *o*fe heap of blushes, declared she would- ne'vet forgive him. As a pY6ot 'of if, they were married the next week. The two extremes.?There are man^ men who are continually going backward* ,?f* and frowards from their wine merchantV tb the chemist's. To the latter go to recover them from the effects of too many visits to the former; and to the wine-merchant the^r rcturu to restore Iherrt frohi what they had been taking At the chemist's. It would be difficult t<t \&y which of the ttr6 bottles?the do<?<$Vor the 'wino-merdhrtA^ ?did them ib'G^wStli?jury.?PtiriJk. Puecocious ifrit.?A few da^s aitscjo il little ragged urchin was sent by a itie&bpnlo to collect a bmall bill. lie begat) in the usual way, but becoming more and xnoriir importunate, at length the gentleman's patience being exhausted, he said to hioij "l'ou need not dun me so sharply?I ant not going to run away.'?"I don't suppose you are,' said tho boy, scratching his head; ''but my master is, and he wants the modey." ~ The wife.?Toiparfa'fco *ecte\ly, att<J ttt her heart, of nil his joys and sorrow*, td believe him comely And fair, though the Win feath drawn n<eypref8 over him, (for a* Carriages afre not torbe etfcitrnctcd** by tfcfc banda and eye?, but with teaaon atrd the heart, so"are lliese judgments to bo made by the roind, not by the sight,) and diamonds ennnot make the woman tirtUbliif nor him to value, her who sees ber ?ut theitl off then, when chastity and modesty are lief brightest ornaments.?Indeed the outward ornament is fit to take fools, bift they are not worth tbo taking. But sbfe that hall) 4 husband, must en($e him to an eternal . den mess, by the veil cf modesty, and the grAve robes of chastity, the ornament of meekness, abd the j?wela bf faith antt charily; her.brightness must bo purify,ajid slie must shine round about with sweetness and friendship, an& she shiftl be pleeaant while ?l?e lives, and desired when the <12**; Jeremy Taylor* A NKAFt>VTANft?trLAND'Hiti;?Therd arc come enrioutifceta respecting Fin ftocctf; the celebrated t)ominicnn prraohcr of Naples Qfn ofiefotMrtm he. preached a. penitential sermon, and introduced so r&art^ i!!a#<relroti< of tfcrror.tbat he goon bronghtbis hearer* to their kneec. While they were thu< showing etery sign of contrition "ifc cri*?l oyt, "Now, ail of jotr who since relyMMit of yofjr $iu?, boM tip yota> bands,' '-j^ery; * mun in iho Vast multitude immediately stretched forth brt habiJ4f'uHoly Anbi^|tf " Michael,' exclrtimed tlocco, "tbC* 'cflkti. . with tbioe adamantine sword slandest at tbe right of the Judgment ?e*t,h?wflno# e*?ry ha?d *bi<5h hasten Tafe^ pcd, and Rocco of course profit*! tyifMi occasion to pour forth a torroqt of eloqaoei iiwctivo iMtuirt ?x)4d?fetHj <. :-;s / ? ..?. - .W: v/: ?49&flit3ww* ; A' : .X< ... * '. *$ .. .'. r ? i .v."- V^'1 **..## + 1