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AN HOUE AT THE OLD PLAY-GEOUND.
BV HENRY MORKORD.
I.qntfln linnr. 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
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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?
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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
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uiu u wuru mure \u say. j. was pii'ascd
with tbo eloquent zeal of the honorable
member from Tennessee when in the oon?>.
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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,
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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#
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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
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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.
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? .> 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
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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.
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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 }
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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 > *
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.]
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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
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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, ,; '
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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."
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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 <.
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