Bedford Independent, Volume 2, Number 30, Bedford, Lawrence County, 12 August 1857 — Page 1

THE BEDFORD INDEPENDENT.

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BEDFORD. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUG*yM& 18 57.

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“Uncle, may I ride Milo?” I said ic bright June morning, as he sat at e breakfast table. “Ride Milo!” “Yes! It’s such a beautiful day.” “But he'll throw you!” “Throw mo!’ And 1 laughed mcrily and incredulously. “Say yes, car uncle,” I continued, coaxingly, there's no fear and I’m dying for a anter.” “You'll die of a canter then,” he etorted, with his grim wit, “for he'll reak jrour neck. The horse has only eon ridden three times, twice by myelf and once by Joe.” “But you’ve often said 1 was abetir rider than Joe.” Joe was the table boy. “That' a good uncle, now lo.” And I threw my arms about his icck and kissed him. 1 knew, by experience, that, when did this I generally carried the day. dy unde tried to look stern, but I aw he was relenting, lie made a

but I went faster. It was not long before the colt had it all his own way. At first I tried to check his speed; but he got the bit in his month, and all I could do was to hold on and trust to tiring him out. Trees, fences and houses went by us like wild pigeons on the wing. As long an the road was clear, we did well enough, but suddenly coming to a blasted oak, that started out, spcctrc-likc from the edge of a wood, Milo shied, twisted half around, and planted Ins fore feet stubbornly in the ground. I did not know I was falling, till I flet myself in a mud hole, which lay &t one side of the road.

Here was a fine end to my boasted horsemanship! Rut as the mud was soft, I was not hurt, and the ludicrous spectacle I presented, soon got the upper hand of my vexation, “A fine chance I have of finding a husband, in this condition,” I said to myself, recalling my jest with uncle.— “If I could find some mud dryad now, and pass myself off for a mud nymph, I might have a chance.” And T began to pick myself up. “Shall I help you, Miss?” suddenly said a deep, rich, manly voice. I looked up, and saw a young man, the suppressed merriment of whose black eyes brought the blood to my check, and made me, for an instant, ashamed and angry. Rut on glancing again at my dress, I could not help i laughing in spite of myself, I stood in the mud at least six inches above the tops of my shoes. My riding skirt was plastered ill over, so that it was almost impossible to tell of what it was made. My hands and arms were mud to the elbows, for I had in-; stinctivcly extended them, as I fell, in order to protect myself.

The young man, as he spoke, turned to tnc neighboring fence, and taking off the top rail lie placed it across the puddle, then putting his arm around my waist, ho lifted me out, though not without leaving my shoes behind. While he was fishing these out, which he began immediately to do, I stoic behind the enormous oak. to hide my blushing face, and scrape the mud from my stockings and riding skirt. I had managed to get the first a little cleaner, but the last w as still as thick as ever when my companion made his appearance with the missing shoes, which he had scraped till they were quite presentable, and leading Milo by the bridle.

“Pray, let me see you home,” he saiJ, “If you will mount again, I’ll lead the colt; and there will be no chance of his repeating his trick.” I could not answer for shame, but when in the saddle murmured something about “not troubling him.” “It’s no trouble, not the least,” he replied standing hat in hand like a knightly cavalier, and still retaining his hold on the bridle, “and I can’t really let yuu go alone, for the colt is as vicious us he can be to-day. Look at his cars and the red in his eyes. I saw you coming down the road, and expected you to bo thrown every minute, till I saw how well you rode.— Nor would it have happened, if he hadn't wheeled and stopped, like a trick horse in the circus.” I cannot tell how soothing was this graceful way of excusing my mishap. 1 stole a glance under my eyelids, at the speaker, and saw that be was very handsome and gentlemanly, and apparently about six and twenty, or several years older than myself.

ast effort, however, to deny me. “Why not take Dobbin?” he said. “Dobbin!” I cried. “Old, snaillaced Dobbin, on such a morning as bis. One might os well ride a rockng horse at once.” “Well, well,” he said, “if I must, I must. You’ll tease the life out of me f I don't let you have your way. I *ish you’d get a husband, you minx, you’re growing beyond uy control.” “Humph! Ahusband. Well, since you say so, I’ll begin to look out for one to-day.” “He’ll soon renent of his bargain,” said my uncle; but his smile belied his words. “You’re as short as a pic crust, if you cant have your own way. “There,” seeing I was about to speak, “go and get ready, while I tell •Too to saddle Milo. You’ll set the house afire if I don’t send you off.” Milo was soon at the door, a gay, mettlesome colt, who laid his cars back as I mounted and gave me a vicious look I did not quite like. “Take care,” said my uncle. “It's not too late yet to give it up.” 1 was piqued. “I never give up anything,” I said. “Not even the finding of ahusband, eh?” “No. I’ll ride down to the poor house and ask old Tony, the octogenarian pauper, to have me; and you'll be forced to hiro Poll Wilkes to cook your dinners.” And as I said this, my eyes twinkled mischievously, for uncle was an old bachelor, who detested all strange women, and held an especial aversion to Poll Wilkes, a sour old maid of forty-seven, because, vears ago, she had plotted to entrap him into matrimony. Before he could reply, I gave Milo his head. John (.illpm, we are told, went fast.

I had hoped that uncle would be out in the fields, overlooking the men; but as we entered the gate, I saw him sitting, provokingly, at the open window; and by the time I had sprung to the ground, he came out, his eyes brim full of mischief. I did not dare to stop, but turning to my escort, 1 said, “Sly uncle, sir, wont you walk in,” and then rushed up stairs. In about half an hour, just as I had dressed, there was a knock at my door, my uncle’s knock, I could not but open. He was laughing a low, silent laugh, his portly body shaking all over with suppressed merriment. “Ah! ready nt last,” he said. “I began to despair of you, you were so long, and came to hasten you. He » waiting in the parlor still,’ he said in a malicious whisper. “You’ve myj consent, for I like him hugely, onh’i who'd have thought of finding a bus-1 band in a mud puddle.” I slipped past my tormentor, prefer-] ring to face even my escort than to run the gauntlet of uncle’s wit; and was soon stammering rny thanks to Mr. Templeton, for as such my uncle, who followed me down, introduced him. To make short of what else would he a long story, what was said in jest, turned out to be in earnest; for in less than six months, in that very room, I stood up to become Mrs. Templeton, i How it came about I hardly know,, but 1 certainly did find a husband on j that day. Harry, for that is the name by which I call Mr. Templeton, soys that I entered the parlor so transformed, mv light blue tissue floating about [me so like a cloud wreath, my checks so rosy, my eyes so bright, my curls , playing such hide-aud seek about my

CAIGHT. The Rev. B. C. Smith,of the Presbyterian Church at Prattsburg, N. Y., had fallen under the censures of the clergy of his church, for preaching heretical doctrines. The Presbytery met to investigate the charges, and as the most summary and conclusive mode of setting forth what the doctrines were which he had preached, Smith proposed to deliver a discourse before the Presbytery which should embody all his views on certain points, < and if they were erroneous, they could condemn him out of his own mouth. This was assented to ; and the discourse was delivered and listened to by the learned body with close and critical attention, prepared to detect the evidence of heresy lurking , under every figure, or tapering off in every period. The hour of judgment jeame, and the clerical members of the Presbytery, in the presence of the congregation, condemned him out of his own mouth. The sermon was rank heresy, a concatenation of er-j rors, and one man set it down as blasphemy. When the whole body of them had committed themselves unalterably against the soundness of the discourse, the pastor rose and gravely, i informed them that he had read in 1 their hearing the 82nd 1-ecture of Hr. Chalmers on the Epistle to the Ho- 1 mans!!! The audience burst forth in storm* ,,f applause. The feelings of (be Presbytery, depicted in their faces,! may be imagined, but not now described.— Kranmlte Journal.

gtiTXho Terre Haute Express reports the death of Mrs. Hannegan, wife of cx-Senntor Hannegan, at Covington, Ind

Western Court Etiquette. The Judge of s western court re- ; ccntly decided a point adverse to a i cei tain lawyer. The lawyer was stubborn, and insisted that the court was i wrong. 1 1 “1 tell you that I’m rightl” yelled i the court with flashing eyes. I “1 tell you that you arc not!” retort- ' i ed the counsel. 11 “Crier,” yelled the Judge, “I ad- i journ the court for ten minutes," and I pitched into the counsel, and after a i little fight, placed him hors du com- j bat, after which business was again resumed, but it was not long before ! another misunderstanding arose. “Crier,” said the court, “we will adjourn this time for twenty minutes,” and he was about taking off his coat, ' when the counsel said: “Never mind, Judge, keep on your coat—thep’iut is yielded—my thumb’s out of joint, and I’ve sprained my shoulder.” For the last twenty years the above anecdote has periodically gone the rounds of new spaperdom, and is probably regarded as a fancy sketch, which is not the case. The circumstance*, as detailed, actually transpired in | what is knowrn as the Kickapoo circuit, of southwest Missouri, in 1835, the Hon. Charles II. Allen, being the judge in question—a man of many eccentricities, and known very generally in the west as “Horse Allen.” He, studied law under Henry Clay and served in the Kentucky Legislature as a Clay man, but went to Missouri, joined the Democracy and figured extensively. When bis time ns judge expired, Gov. Boggs appointed another in bis stead, upon which he entered the executive mansion, pistol and

HE INDEPENDENT K PCBIISBICO IVIHV WltUSIBDAY BY c. G. BERRY.

face, that not expecting such an apparition, he lost his heart at once. Ue adds, for lie still knows how to compliment as well as ever, that my gay, intelligent talk, so different from the demure Miss he had expected completed the business. Harry was the son of an old neighbor, and had been abroad for three years, and before that he had been at college, so that I had never seen him; but uncle remembered him at once, and had insisted on his staying till 1 came down, though Harry, from delicacy would have left after an inquiry about my health. My uncle was one of those who will not be put off, and so Harry remained. “The luckiest thing,” he says, “I ever did.” Milo is now ray favorite steed, for Harry broke him for me; and we are all ns happy as the day is long, uncle included; for uncle insisted on our living with him, and 1 told him, at last,! would consent, “if only to keep Poll Wilkes from cooking his dinner.

Beautiful Women.

A “large Opening" fop a Lillie Improvement. \ The following letter was ua for publication, Itisvcry “miiqu*” and speaks for itself:

It is said that the most beautiful women arc to be found in the ranks of the nobility. The present Duchess of Southerland and the late lady Hlcssineton may bo mentioned ns types, but the beauty of the Lady Hlessington was of a higher intellectual style than that of the Duchess of Southerland. The present Duchess of Wellington, formerly Marchioness ofDouro, is as beautiful ns a fine piece of sculpture, and as cold and inanimate. The great Sheridan family were remarkable for their beauty.— The two sons were regarded as the handsomest men of their day. The three daughlcrs—the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Lady Blackwood, and Lady Seymour, wore pronounced at the famous Eglington Tournament ns the Three braces of England. The women of France are not generally beautiful, but very attractive and charming.— The art of pleasing was the first idea of the men and women of France.— The Empress Eugenie is described ns one of the most vivacious, witty, and versatile women in Paris. All the portraits in this country greatly exaggerate her size, for she is rather a small woman. MEANS OF PRESERVING BEAUTY. At one time, not very long ago, in Paris, bathing in milk had been practiced as a means of preserving beauty. bv all the fashionable women who coul<J afford the luxury. So extern

cow-skin in band, to teaci lency better manners, 1 strained by others. Ho I yeai a ago. broken doJ and otherwise. —GalvetM vilia n.

&|||i||AailI out tin I, asks to if the fire has gut is just right, fir mouths with a smack of tion, but never say, “I thank

T BUMS; .50 Per Annum, In Advance.

Znnesvill Muskingum County Ohio May the 22rd 1857 I Sir I have been informed thatlhcro [is u good opening in your town for a | Lawyer will you behind enough to I in form me w hether such is the fact ! or not I have a family of four Children am thirty seven years old and an old line Democrat pretty sharps good speaker and an old sthcol Presbyterian and hope a Christian poor man you have it all in the above answer ass soon as received and oblige voura j****

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Alleged Cure for Small Fit. ’Plic consul of the United States at the Uio Grande del Sul, Brazil, has transmitted to the Department of State a very interesting communication from Dr. 11. Landed, of Port Algcre, claiming the discovery of a cure for the small pox. Dr. Landed states that the idea of using the remedy to bo mentioned first occurred to bim during a terrible epidemic of that disease in 1837, but that be first administered it in 1842, since which time his success, and that of his son, Dr. John Landed, and other colleagues in the treatment of small pox, have been [ most flattering. As the Secretary of State has communicated Dr. Lan-1 dell’s paper entire to the leading jour- • nal of the medical profession in the . United States, it is only necessary forj our purpose to extract that portion oi 1 [the paper which discloses the remedy • and its proper exhibition: “Dissolve the vaccine that is contained on a pair of plates or a capillary* tube, which is about four or six drops of vaccine lymph, in four or six ounces of cold water, and give to the patient a table spoonful every two or three hours. “The favorable result of this exhibition is that it mitigates thcsymp-l toms, modifies the species, and cures the small pox. | “I recognize that us vaccine applied externally prevents the small pox, so, also, being taken inwardly, in the manner above indicated, it cures quickly and efficaciously the small pox in ad its stages. | “Under its use, the fever, the etcI liriutn, the hoarseness, diarrhoea, pneumonia, cerebral congestion, and finally, the secondary fever disappear. I “Beginning the treatment on the seconder third day of the eruption the small pox becomes as vericella or varioloid; although the cpidcrtn is , tliickcd and in a state of congestion, and in five days becomes dry without suppuration. “Apply the same treatment on the fourth or fifth day of the eruption, the Ismail pox become as if they were ttic 1 true vaccine; fill and dry in the space' of ten days with suppuration. “Considering, then, that the vesi- ' clcs and pustule* ought to be opened, for two or three times, always that they contain any liquid, and beginning the third day to prevent the secondary fever. 1 have had since 1842 more than thirty cases, and in fourteen paid particular attention; there were three severe confluent eases, and eleven less severe, although distinct, j “Since 1 had recourse to this treatment I have not lost a single patient of the small pox. At my request some of my colleagues are using this system, and they, as well as I, Lave reaped the most flattering results.

I tell you what, men, young and old, if you did but show an ordinary civility toward those common articles of house-keeping, your wives, if you gave them the hundred and sixteenth part of the compliments you almost choked them with before you were married, if you would stop the badinage about who you were going to have when number one is dead (such things wives may laugh ntbutthey sink deep some times,) if you would cease to speak of their faults, however bantcringly, before others, fewer women would seek for other sources of happiness than your apparently cold, sottish affection. Braise your wife, then, and you may rest assured that her deficiencies arc fully counterbalanced by your own.

.< tit nwullu ''.uo niei one »i‘«r W.00 discount to merchants ami others ading by the year, when their advertisei exceed a quarter of a column, r Patent medicine advertisements to bo or in advance, or secured.

[OUSAND MULES A MINUTE.

BY A. B. M'LLOCK. L. mutiuD of the earth around the sun is be rate of sixty-eight thousand miles an I’— ComToCK,

attorney at law “to the Clerk of the Court atPauldings County Ohio.” “A Lawyer,” “an old line Democrat-' who is “a good speaker” a"** “pretty sharp” wants an opety Bro. Philip, what can you do him?— Paulding -Eagle .

Igixtv-ciglit thousand miles n hour! f Why man, the duce ii in it; I What matchless proof of mighty power— I A thousand miles a minute ! I This wondrous ear keeps rolling on I With all iU land and ocean, The engineer isnever gone, Ur varies in ms motion.

No “running fast, no "running slow, No bursting of the boiler. Nothing to pay, of nil who go No one e'er gave a dollar. No upward grado.no do» award grade, No stopping at the station, Cause for to repair Into not been made Since the All-wise creation.

To which he answered, looking at Harry, “you ace what a spit-fire it is. and you may bless your stars if you don’t rue the day she went out to hunt a husband.”

BUGS.

Wo met a friend the other day who “let on” in this style. “I soy, Mr. Editor, what’n thunder did you publish that whole column about bugs fur, when you know of a much better way to get rid of the plagucry things?” “Do we?” we asked.

TlIE f’HTT.H, —Fpw things pear so beautiful as a young child its shroud. The little innocent U looks so sublimely beautiful and oo. filing among the eold terrors of death. Criiueless and fearless that little mortal has passed alone und-er the shadow. There is death in its eublimeat and purest image; no hatred, no hypocracy, no suspicion, no care for tho morrow darkened that little face; death come lovingly upon it; there is nothing cruel or harsh in its victory. The yearnings of love indeed cannot be stilled; for the prattles and smiles, 'all the little worlds of thoughts that I were 10 delightful, are gone forever. Awe too, will overcast us in its presence, for the lonely voyage, for ih« child has gone, simple and trusting, into the presence uf sn all wise Father, and of such we know is the kingdom of Heaven.

PLAIN TRITHS. A London newspaper, in noticing a meeting held to consider the subject of popular education, at which Prince Albert presided, says:

Since time began, ne'er left the track, Or catted fur wood or water, No switching off. no running hack, Collisions cause no slaughter. Because the truck is always clear, The watchmen never slumber, No train behind we ever fear, I instructions ne'er encunilier.

“Why yes—spirits turpsatiue!— Don’t you know you told me of?—I Well, the little torments were destroying my water, musk and other “million*” tremcndjusly; so I got a quart of this spirits, went home and sprinkled it about the bill*, dipped some feathers in it and stuck them down all around, and oh! scissors, you ought to have seen’em travel. I don’t know how fast a bug ought to fly, but I’ll bet that at any bug sweep-stakes they’d take the pile, for they did make beautiful time.”

The premature toil of the children of the poor is a necessity which results from the enormous amount of wealth which the poor are compelled to produce for the ostentation of the immense shoals of lazy sybarites with which this country is infested. Of these luxurious and insatiable devoured, Prince Albert and his family are the center. The family of this idle foreigner alone costs the working classes of England npwards of one million sterling per annum. Now, if. we estimate the yearly caruings at £25, which is above the average, we find that Prince Albert’s family costs the country ns much as forty thousand families of the workingmen; that is to say, forty thousand families of operatives arc robbed—devoured, in order that this one foreign family should live in idleness, luxury, and s| lender. As we have said, Prince Albert’s family is but the center of this system—of this extravagant and devouring idleness, which the working classes have to support, and to sustain which tho working man's child must toil in noisome and fetid factories, when he ought to be learning in school or gamboling in the field. Sfter a few more gentle digs at the royal ribs, we road: Far less Joes our fat and princely lecturer choose to state that that lana, of nil the countries on the face of the earth, is the one in which the means of human well-being do most abound; that all the ignorance and crime, all the indigence and squalor which deform and defilo this richest of lands are the natural and inevitable product of that infernal system of government which, like a black arch of hell, spans and darkens the nation, shutting out from the souls of the people the light, the love, and the beneficence of the Deity who formed them for happiness; and that of this black arch Prince Albert and his family arc the keystone and crown.

sivdv had this been done, as to cause a scarcity of milk for domestic purposes, and while the people of Paris were drinking tlicir coffee and chocolate without milk, the beauties were literally’ swimming in it every morning, till it was discovered by the police that parlies were in the habit of buying back the milk, and selling it to their customers, to be used for tea, chocolate, and coffee!! The celebrated beauty, Madame Vestris, in order to preserve her charms and keep off wrinkles, always slept with a plaster of a peculiar kind on her face; and as she prided herself on having the prettiest toot and ankle in Europe, she had anew pair of satin boots sewed on her feet every morning. She never wore one pair above a single day. Some beauties had adopted the plan of putting slices of raw meat on their checks on going to bed, in order to keep off wrinkles and keep the skin soft and fresh. In the East, the principal articles used for preserving beauty were the bath and friction. Prominent among, the various cosmetics used Ly fashion-1 able women is the celebrated Creme ill Encloi, which was extensively used bv the court fashionables in the time of Charles II. This fluid is effective in calling the crimson blood to the external surface. It is composed principally of the tincture of dandelion, inspissated with water. In Germany, arsenic is used extensively to give n clear complexion. But when once the use of poison is commenced, its use cannot ho dispensed with, except at the risk of life. THE SOURCE OF BEAUTY. But after all it has invariably been found that a woman with an unpolished and an unloving heart, whatever beauty she might possess, failed to secure the admiration and respect of mankind. An elegant and polished mind, sweetness of temper, and an animated manner, are the real sources of woman’s beauty.

The signal lights we oft descry, But no alarming token ; They glitter in the evening sky, .And dance withjoy un >ken No application of %e brat Reversing of the motion, No fear of telegraph mistakes, No sound to mar devotion.

So silently the vast machine Olieys the laws of (leaven. The movement is not felt or <een, No jsr or tumult given, “Through tickets'’ only cun we have— No other to be taken ; Whether we live or till the grave, The motions wilt not slacken.

“But they will return again," we said. “Just so; and then you will have the fun ofgiving them another dose. I only gave”ein the spirits twice, and I have’t seen nary bug for about two weeks. I think you ought to put that plan in your paper, for its worth a V to any o^e.”— Fr>c Trader .

But take us on with lightning speed Until we reach that station, Which stamU, says Faith and 1Id|ic agreed, At portals of salvation. “Free pass ” each traveler awaits— Observing rules to win it; ■.Soon wwjlmll reach those pearly gates— A thousand miles s liiiuute!

FINDING All IKBAND.

A Child Left to Perish in the Woods—The Heartless Parents Discovered— Lynching Threatened. —On Sunday last a lad, picking ' raspberries ncr the town of Chemung, I heard a strange noise in the bushes. { It frightened him, and he culled for ' aid, when it was ascertained that the 1 noise proceeded from an infant, placed ( upon a bare rock. The child was taken care of by the Poor-master, Mr. Pbineas Ungers, and removed to the Poor-bouse on Monday. The Superintendant of the Poor proceeded to Chemung and investigated the mystery, when it was ascertained that the father of the child wo* a married man, named II. B. Rogers, and that its mother—a Misa Hover—together with its grandmother, had placed the helpless infant in the woods, where they supposed it would die, and thus hide the shame of the illicit intercourse between the unnatural parents. The child was returned from the Poorhouse, and the guilty father held for its support. All the parties connected with the disgraceful affair have heretofore maintained a very correct deportment, and are members of the Baptist Church. The people of Chemung were justly incensed at the conduct of the mother and grandmother, and there were some serious threats of lynching. —Elmira (AT. T.) Gazette.

The Calmest Sea son.— Lieut, Maury in hia new vlkann of Wiosi .apd Current Charts, s* gone jntc of the abstract logs of ascertaining f he nh • > favorable time for layrtfj,- f, 1 antic Telegraph, with reference . gales, fogs, and ice. The season that presents the most favorable combination of these is also the most favorable season for passenger travel across the Atlantic, and that season is found to be the last of July and first of August. This part of the ocean is most tranijuil in summer. Taking averages, we have in it fewer gales, but more fogs and ice in June than in July or August, but fewer fogs snd least ice in August. The last of July and first of August appear to ho the most I favorable time for lay ing the Subt Atlantic Telegraph. This inform*. ; tion Hiay bo useful to invalids and i others crossing the A tiantic, as well as those engaged in that enterprise.’*

■v rr.r.nr moriiiksd.

OLD NICK CAL GUT, The law of Ohio appoint* an inspector of liquors—a practical Choir ist, who is to test the various liquor offered for sale, and report there is more than a due portion o poison in them. One Dr. Cot is tin Chemist in Cincinnati, and he ha. made some rich develop ements in regard to the poisonous liquors on sa! in that citj. Haring examined th collars of the common people, he called upon old Nica. Lo/icwjjyh a few days ago, and asked to~ be shown k [specimen of his 400,000 bottles of wine. ()hl Nick was terribly indig.s nant, whereupon I>r. Cox had him art rested for contempt. After a week* [consideration he conaidered that, riel? , a5 ho was, he had better come Vlownf an he compromised by alloningv I Hr. to c xnmine his wine.

PKAISK VOI R WIFE.

Praise your wife, man; for pity's sake give her a little encouragement; it won't hurt her. She has made your home comfortable, your hearth bright and shining: your food agreeable—for pity’s sake tell her you thank her, if nothing more. She dont expect it; it will make her eyes open wider than they have for these ten years, but it will Jo her good, for all that, and you too. There arc many women to-day thirsting for the words of praise, the language of encouragement. Through summer’s heat, through winter's toil, they have drudged uncomplainingly, and so accustomed have their fathers, brothers and husbands become to their monotonous labors, that they look for and upon them as they do the daily rising of the sun audits dailygoing down. Hohicly, every daylife may be made beautiful by an appreciation of its very holiness. You know that if the floor is clean, manual labor has been performed to make it so. You know if you take from your drawer a clean shirt whenever you want it, that somebody's fingers have ached in the toil of making it so fresh and agreeable, so smooth and lustrous. Everything that pleases the eye ami tho sense has been produced hy constant work, much thought, great care, nnd untiring efforts, bodily and mentally. It is not that many men do not appreciate these things, and a glow of gratitude for tho numberless attentions bestowed upon them in sickness and in health, but they are so selfish in that feeling. They’ don’t come out with a hearty—“Why hor pleasant you make things look, wife!” or “lam obliged to you for taking so much pains!” They thank the tailor, giving them “fits;” they thank tho man in a full omnibus who gives them a sent; they thank the young lady who moves along in the concert room— in short they thank everything out of doors, because it is the custom, and come home, tip their chairs hack and

The Home of llio Pori IVrrhal. The quaint-looking house occupied ' by the laic James (i. Pcrcival, at Now i Ilarcn, Ct., was sold at auction, on Wednesday last, for $1,700, to satis- 1 fy a mortgage. The poet was State : Geologist of Wisconsin at the time of his death, in May, 1856, but died without property except his poems,! house, and library, all of which wore mortgaged. The house, like its own- : er and occupant, was aoong the cu-1 riosities of New Haven. Uothwero, nearly inaccessible to the public.— 1’ho dingy, brown stone tenement,! located in the suburbs of the city, was built in a manner to secure thej most effectual retreat from that society which he so studiously »hun-| ned. Neither window nor door is visible to the passer-by, and the on-: ly entrance is at the roar, which is j approached hy a path winding from ( tho road. Two small windows, well protected by heavy shutters, are inserted in the gable ends. In this re-1 treat the poet lived alone with his library, seldom permitting an intrusion upon his seclusion. Tho library, which contains some 10,000 volumes,I will probably he purchased by the; State of Wisconsin, which has ox'pressed a desire to obtain it. It is now stored in tho hospital at New 1 Haven, in one room of which Pcrcival passed several years of his lonely j life. Me was never married. —Levin I riffs J' urnuL

A jolly doctor in t hit city, told ui the other day th** people who wcr« prompt in thc’/rpnynientialwavs rccovred from their sicknens,as tfiey were Rood customers, and physicians coqltl |not afford to lose them

Boston lias given up her steam fire engine, the “Miles Greenwood,” as a failure. Thereupon the Railway Times proposes a problem fur the inventors of Boston. Printing presses arc driven by steam. A teakettle on wheels runs all about to drive pilcr. Any body knows that a furnace, boiler, cylinder, and cross-head, in a workman-like arrangement, are more compact than forty men, easier to wake up. not so soon worked out of breath mi a great deal cheaper in term* of well, but, alas! it could art vote. With ft steam firo engine, Boston would need only 120 firemen; and the jgreat political ndvant ages of tho old kvstem would have boon lost, So tha i Miles Greenwood” is sold. Now what is wanting is a steam 6rc engine which, in addition to throwing we ;r well, can cast more ballots that/ ny hand company. Tho invent who enn solve that problem will receive | the cordial thanks of the tax-pay erg |of Boston.