Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 February 1856 — Page 1

D. M. CANTHILL,]

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THE MONTGOMERY JOURNAL

tiuued till all arrearages are paid. JZT For torm9 of Job work and Advertising, see x'.ill of Rates on 4th page. amjiL'iw in

'SAOM scoENii'a j'onT-roLio.'

TVai but au eiulilum of the pence oi ilta\ w.

A pensively I lingered in the v^le ^here ail seeiued wmpt in deepest solitude, iletiioughtl heard Ions and pituwus Re-echo s*dly ia tho.diitaut YOOJ.

In mournful numbers on my ear it fell, A voice of misery—v' wild to-fuii! Thut seemed talc of liciutielt woe to tell, ''Qf buttled hopes and yvurs ofaui.i u3 caie.

j^AR. 1 CL AIIILP" the boon of rxtCiL-ou iortliesLAT m. "s. r.

la published e^erT Thnrsiinv, at $1.50. iI" pivUI i, -,|r«nc6 of (lie ^iri-lo, a piilhc nervation "tdvaace: $2 within the year and $2,50 after the between the "bix buildings, ami George-

"Written for th« Jourual.

A FRAGMENT.

nigbt, fair Cjnthia serenelj sniik'J.

.» er natures calm repose, with silverj light, Sho gilt the verdure of the woody wild, "\Vber« broad Tuluga rolled ia splendor bright

Aloft In" il'r

tha m\W

nrtiudlv

breathed,

'^ild irleus of seod and ever bloonaug tioweri.

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ceutle music thronjh the syltan bowers. Ur ii-om the Naiad's urn tho waveleu Ite.ircd shivering, while Carlo, who,

Ob, i4 it thus—Alas! thnt men for gold lmmoitals BIND, und SCOCEOIC, UUD A»K, AIIJ SLAT \Vooi6 hido your verdure, jour light and mittens un withhold, And thou piU- itoox, refuie thy borrowed r.-iv

T11 gales of mercy on this region blow, "NT ot consolation to the heart ol pa.:i, iluke the pui-o light of Liberty tv glow, Sever tho-fetter aaU the gulling ch.tiu.

My cocatry'si honor sr^ed tue jj.onous da\\

ze s'l'L^riek/oi-horror aaJ ilui-wy.' 1

'TwassutLi: That broke the etmins 1 ruued to ileav

HAND,

'Written for tho Jo^riaiil.

lh.0 Snow is Falling-.

Tho snow ii falling,.geat'y soit'y, On the path of low und loity, Swift it glides o'er hill and mountain,., Sporting on the stream and louutuiu, every tiny willow, 2n*estiiag on the fouiain.z' billow "While tbiy sing reiiuium lolly, The ur«,white snow is tilling so.'tljf.

Into the barn-yard gently creeping Juto every crevice peepiu/, The quaint old bum's turned to a castld, Ita «v«g are decked with diamond t.isde.3, Aud the fence si dark and lusty, And tiie sty so old and dusty, Aro wreathed in r»bes both bright and lo'Ay liy the siio\r that's falling soitiy.

Tho good old''(]ame busy knitting, The little snow-bird's softly twitting, I While the lire is brightly gleaming, ,Thus she sits so sweetly'dreauiing 'Now a maiden bright and moivv, -^Child-like lovely as a fairy,

JShe does not know her heart beats lofty, "Uecauso the show is falling softlv.

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:'Into th'e' grave-yard gently stealing, lL "As if it had both life and feeling, On the maiden's grave falls lightly,.. And the babes it dresses brightly There it fiilleth sadly, softlv, On the grave of low and loAy, ^or well it knows sad hearts are weeping, lor the loved ones gently sleeping. .£5 .-".-i Lua/.

S0 The Sandusky Jiegister narijates the following affecting story: In the Lunatic Asylum atColumbu? is a pair of iusane lovers. Mental anxiofjy of it peculiar character is supposed to- have deranged the intellect of the young ilian, who was sent to the Asylum some (time ago, eurcd, it was hoped permanently, and sent home. While at home he fell deeply in love with a young girl, hn returned his devotion, and they became derly attached to "each other. But, un pily, tb& malady returned upon the yc man ..he was separated from the obje his love,* and sent back to the Asyhu Left to herself, to muse upon her here ment, and the sad destiny of her lover,

niihd of the girl le ame a'so affectedi most, as it might seem, from sympath ^^ndiny^ not long,-before she, too, ^Jnjmurpd within tho walls which shelb hifn. Iney arc both there now. ojcca^sio'naTly they seem to hare recovered tjheir ^'VeasdhjiiMF -are permitted to hold ialter-

!iapmng jt of

avethe al-

was nx-d

oiviows with oiie another. In one of thjese,

tbo" poor jprl begged her lover to msj.rry her, butile implied with a melancholy, -[real onouglilo Jean-Jfrom, tjie listnersj.— "Yofr-'^owv%ai- ive tianiiot be marrjied, tiiifit for that happine*|s— poor, Hufoituuate cieatures that we arcl'

is If you wo.ukl get along ia the world on hold iap y«ur head^ ersn if ybQ Jka tbattherd in it.

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A miserably clad beggar-boy was found young master.

«xpirntion of the year. No -subscription discon- town and Pennsylvania Avenue.- His lit-: pleased tho Holy One so soon to end his.j boat's length ahead. i- ii probation here. 0, how 'unsearchable ar

tie dog was licking his face and hands, manifesting tho most intense agony of his dead master.

Last Wednesday Tiiglit1 was' intensely

rW^d V" i-

impatient

3 gazed enraptured on the charming scene lent's square, he crossed the Avenue, and I I can't go and leave him behind.' Tjirth seemed puradi.e i« mortals given," jlookinr no at the windows of the wealthv, I 'This last link of earth must be broken,' Wb.re aature's voice, bamomou* ftnu ^ervae. Qh

]imv co]d

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1 the heart with ^riel^ahall,iiii...be o'erj Claus eoriie

is haV)J not 1

and to eep

ith

Ti ht-n stern V\'heuthe That thrill the hear Sown the chimney on Christ-

At let's moan th«curse ol'tmsiairlaaJ, My mother does'nt love me. Carlo here

t? jnmped upon his master, who now ran

with, iu llico beds {ers

along until he came under the shelter of a jj-pacions mansion, when he loitered and looking up and said to himself, "This is a big house, but nobody lives here only a single gentleman. O, if I were but his

jsonl 1 slionld be happy, so happy! but

is lit to go to s-diool. 1 widi I ha --f*tto.i when! was a baby—then I should! j]y

have gone to heaven now, wlvn I die,' where shall I go? To Heaven! How cold the stars look! Can Heaven be up there. .1 "Yes! my good boy," whispered his good Angel.4* "Heaven is on high, and you will one day reach its mansions of blessed ness, where tho depth wretchedness will but enhance

Tl ie little boy hastened onward, seeking the shelter of the buildings on the north

dog barked, and, by such eloquence as he could command, prayed his master to get up and go on, but-the boy heeded him not.

The Gcuardian Angel whispered him to rise and hurry homeward—not to go to sleep, on the peril of his life. To all these motions arid promptings, the boy murmured his evening prayer: "Now 1 lay me—down .to—sleep, 1 pray the Lord—my soul—to keep

And if I die'—before I wake, 1 pray the Lord—my soul to take."' The Angel conUl do no more. His influences failed to move the soul of the boy. With earnest thoughts (like figures throw upon a screen) he passed under the inspection of the Guardian Angel. Already was the boy among the sunnydays of his child-

hood, birds were singing in the trees, and p]e

fluttering about from flower to flower, for hc was in a beautiful garden, and music filled the air. The Angel well knew his boy's hour had come but thare was no murmur in his seraph-soul against God's inscrutable providence. He had witnessed the many miseries of his change with the intense sympathy of his angelic nature, but ho could say, "I can wait! The Judge of all the earth will do right."

THE BEGGAR BOY AND HIS ANGEL. ear to hear, ami, poor dog, he did what he The Wreck -of a Pilot Boat—Thrilling **\. I could by licking the hands and face of his I 3 'A Narrative of the Cabin Boy.

.lid by

pi ooat ion ueie. (.), how nnseaiohablo are

cold, the .'tars shone like diamond sparks, the enigma ot the universe. Look around: sixty seconds, and this second to be sta- came a largo portly gentlem:' This poor boy had been making his rounds, See, my brother, a city containing many tioiiod. We afterwards learned that the a cane, and looking the pi

many guests happy in the warmth and com- the spirit of the l.o? stood up beside the. [1:Ui |,arge of the helm, at which time"the gentleman, forts of wealth. lie stopped on the pave-Angel, disenthralled', "lie was like one boat was lying to with t-hrec reef mainsail. ment, and begged for money, for he dared {suddenly wakened out of the darkness, and seeing (ha light Mr. Murphy put tlie jnot go home without the means to buy! brought i.ito the broad day light of day.Vhel'tn about, but the vessel would not obey at least one pint of whiskey, and he'Clothed upon with vestments ot li.^ht and the ice with which it was surrounded had but one cent in his pocket. But it beauty, he looked around him liko one prevented its doing so. 'We soon after was freezing cold, and those alighting from amazed. He was lull of joy, but all was stn-.tk, and thu boat was thrown on her carriages hurried into the hotel, and those too new lor him to comprehend what beam ends, with the deck tilted towards th

J^iuieUell iCAiiLziz^ carnages hurried into the hotel and those too new or him to compreaend what beam ends, with thedeck tilted towards tho stairs went Bridget, and knocking at her!

my pocket—let me take that.'

Sheltered by the treasury, ho ran along So, diihl ol Heaven, you will need shivering, while Carlo, who,

impatient ol

of nothing of earth any more.'

jilelay, was always running ahead. When 'But my dog! Carlo! O, let mo take my the boy came around the corner of the Pres- dog! He is all to me. lie only loves me.

said the Messenger ot the Highest, to the

iu my pocket, nothing in my bug, and Guard-Angel. hn Hen«le will say I have spent all I The Angels then folding their arms

I have begged to-day and will kick me out ahout the spii it-boy, with the velocity of Williams, and the colored cook whos doors. O, if I had been born in one of thought rose with the raleased soul up to

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Penury may take the place of ease and

there's no place in this world for me.— •'friends may forsake you, and the unpity- the seats and cabin utensils. Tho next by was 1 born.'' I will ask my Sunday i11Lr world pass you, with scarcely a look title in the afternoon floated the bed, and school teacher to tell me, if I can get my:

-'Word of eompasM'on.

to earn a

I10SS-

Cheer up, ami hasten home! See

Carlo is impatient—he barks, runs on and returns, aud barks again."

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he bec-ame exposed to the sweeping winds every anticipation ot uetter days in the opening. 1 was much exhausted on reachpouring down from the heights of George-j unknown future. town and Kalorana. Benumbed and be- jj Do not loose faith in human excellence, wildered. lie ran forward till he came to because your confidence has sometimes been tho Circle, with its high iron fence, and betrayed, nor believe that friendship is only made for the gateway, to gain the direct I a delusion, and love a bright phantom path across it but the iron gate would not which glides away from your grasp. move chilled and despairing, he sat himself down on the stone step. The little

Do not think you are fated to be miserable because you are disappointed in your

expectations, and ballled in your pursuit. Do not declare that Cod has forsaken you when your way is-hedged about with thorns or repine sinfully when ho calls your dear ones to the land beyond the grave.

Keep a holy trust in heaven through every trial bear adversity with fortitude, and look upward in hours of temptation and suffering- When your locks aro white, your eyes dim and your limbs weary when your steps falter on the steps of death's gloomy vale, still retain the fieshness am buoyancy of spirit which will shield you from the winter of the heart.

How TO GET FltUIT TllKUS TO VOUI1 LIKING.—MU. EDITOR.—In the fall, October or November, take a branch of an ap-

butterflies of inconceivable beauty were nfPrlnwn to tho. third year's crowth.

Ave re

To him the future was all unknown, but ho well knew the Messengers of the Highest would soon be at his side. And, as the pulse of the boy was fluttering, he listened if, perhaps, soYiie belated citizen would eoftre speedily, and yet resuscitate the dying child. But no sound was heard, but thesighin^'of the winds, through the distant forest trees. Carlo became more and more frantic. His yelling bark, short and aiy tyief, full of mpaning, would have spurred oxi'lha 'distant traveller' 'Vat- there was iiQfthc ?Teip..J^2ftnd J?'arirxK,

'THE UNION, THE UNION IN ANY EVENT,"

frozen todeath on Wednesday night, (Jan- Swiftly' came a Messenger from thoj^ont E. K. Collins, thus ,refates his suf- noitering in her kitchen, to her servant, nary) the.2d. lie \yas found a butcher Ilirone ol God, bringing with him robes fo inSJJS while thirty hours on tire wreck:—i "what a quantity of soap grease, vou liavo on his way jo market, early on Thursday of light, and stood before the boy. -\\\, struck the shoal about 5 P. M., there. We can get plenty of soap for if. morning, sitting on the steps at the en-J ^.T come,'said the Messenger, 'to tvako Thursday morning. It was bitterly cold, Watch for the_/ai man, and when he comes reservation ihi.s-boy to immortal life.' .. •... and a thick mist like a cloud, rose from along toll him that I want to speak to him.' rejoice, replied the uardian, 'it has, KO that we could not see the 'Yes, ma'am,' says Bridget, between

tho time. O, what a joy it must oe to be fountains of sympathy and happiness in not the lor an hour an-t loved! Io have a sweet, kind mother to j(s depths, no cold burthen settle over its boat leit. During all this lime scarcely I grease man, did she! It will keep me kUs, and to have brothers ami sisters to withered hopes, like snow on the faded flow-

blasts or discontent moan and

Polity of blankets, and to have Santa shrink through its desolated chambers. tv, and hardly

plenty vour luxurious room may' be ex- and lomid my v.ay to the bed, upon I i'r

vcar tree-, such as suits your taste

take off down to the third year's growth, cut it smooth and lub it 011 a red-hot iron so as to scorch and shut the pores of the wood thoroughly, then bury in the ground all but the. last year's growth. If placed in good gr®imd and well taken care of, you will have fruit in five or six years. I have somolimes dipped the lower end in melted rosin, but think burning preferable. 1 have a tree near my door that is nine feet high and well proportioned, that I took from a graft four years ago to "this rosin was applied, and whatever sprouts sprung up the next summer were bent dowu and became roots. .We can get fruit considerably quicker this way than from seeds, and we know what we have growing, and when grown the whole tree is Of the same kind, and whatever sprouts come from the roots in after years can bo transplanted, without g'tiffing.- In case of drouth the first year, they should bo watered.—J. Beckwcth in

Siuv a tlu!|

And eitars flowers their lovely beauties laved,! coming out cou.d not be induced to unbut- change hatl pa^ed upon him. shore, 'ihe sea broke over tho boat heavi- mistress' door, put her head in and exclaim- for"You friends an benefactors. lie h-ar.- I ynl11' knife. Trim closely anil expect grapos la soiUat showers, th« tnisu of limpid uew. toil their over-coats to get to their pockets, .. 'Lot us go said the Angel. Iy, and the lee yawl boat, the largest we ed: the" voun" ravens when they cry You

and so the poor boy utterly fulled ot sue-j -'O slop, said the bov, *1 have a cent in bad, was swept away before we had time I 'Fat gentleman's in the parlor ma'am.' hllV0"sickness and pain Don't renin" be1' famine your Fruit Trees:--Th3 voting i'o sound was k«a'rd save v.hea the zephyrs

I lrt mr. tnL-«» tli.if I .i —:»t. j.i «. I ,i

lashings, ami the vawl was swept towards the shore, leaving me on board, with Mr. R. B. ZMiteholI, the -other boy Wellan

all!0 none

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lls

these houses! How bright and warm they tho Paradise ot God, leaving the dead body recently shipped. look! They have rich, heavy curtains ban- to the charity ot a city rich in Christian! About half an hour after the boat left' she said: loose, but not so loose but what I euuiches, out ith no House of Keluge (oi this was about 10 o'clock, as near as 1 'Will you pardon the terrible blunder of can see through in the chinks. There are 'tj'e outcast and the homeless.—"l'lcrcu .in retnonber) the cook died. We were I a raw Iri"-h girl, my dear sir? I told her tv. boys and throe girls in that house, for SCIIT.EMIIII, IN AMERICA. all iu the companionway wliicb leads to the to call iu the fat man to take away the I 1 have hten them all so nicely and soj ^''i/ J' ashiar/ton, January 8, Ibotj. I cabin, at this time, and the cook, when ho Isoap grease, when she has made the miswarmly dressed, in cloaks and fur caps,"] (died, was seated on the lowest step, and take you see.' gloves on their hands, The Winter of the Heait. I fell over on the floor. Bill Williams died The jolly fat man leaned back in hi«

going out to walk but have not a button Let it never come upon you. Live so about halt an hour afterwards, and rolled chair and laughed such a hearty laugh

on my shirt nor jacket, to keep them but- g0()li Angels may protect you from over by the dead man's side in so doing.— never comes from your lean gentry. ri0 toned. Mother would not sew them on, bis tenible evil—the winter of the heart. Mr. Mitchell, who was a larye fat man 'No opologics needed, madam, said he, jam! 1 have to hold my jacket together all Let no chilling influences freeze up the! seated on the same step with me, and did it is decidedly tho best joke of the season.!

any one spoke indeed, wo were so benuui-

bed with the cold that we lost all sensibili

Your life-path may lead you through They ail died easily, first falling into a

r.ight, with all sorts of pretty presents. trials, which for a time seemedi utterly to quiet sleep before expiring. I had three

de your progress, and shut out the flannel shirts on and an oil skin overcoat,

light of heaven from your anxious which kept mo dry.

changed for a single lowly room—the soft Inch I lain down. It was wet and en- ...

couch for a straw pallet—the lich viands: crusted with ice, and the floor was covered

the coarse food of the poor. Borne with tiozen water, in which were swimming

You may be forced to toil wearily, stead- I'riday morning I remained in the cabin !''C'

livelihood you may en-j up to my armpits

counler fraud and the base avarice that jl did not suffer a great deal, considering, last farthing, till you well turn iu disgust from vour fellow

nigh turn disgust lrom your letlow 1 wished for the morning to break, and the being-. night .seemed as though it would, never end. Death'may sever the dear ties that bind But with the morning my'position became you to earth, and. leave you in tearlul dark- more dangeious. 'Ihe tide rose so high in of present

ii .i .i .-ii ,--.t i" late the fact in the wav it was once told by would exert the last farthing, till vou well \et seems io me now no a fearful dream.

That noble, manly, boy, the sole tho cabin, that there was not room enough

eternity hope of your declining years, may be ta--| left for me to breathe in, and I came near!

ken from vou while your spirit clings to suffocating :ve ly

side or the vessel, the sea raised so that I went, and up rose our fat friend with his

Mr. Murphy was compelled to cut the I blandest smile and most graceful bow.

cared what happened.—

About 11 o'clock the tide had fallen so that the cabin was fit to enter. I craw'

-to prevent which I broke the

him with a wild tenacity, which even the window in the state room, to get air. ncUiei any Lnitaiian could go to shadow of the tomb cannot wholly sub-! I remained in this way until the tide

due. I WCUL down, and about 11 clock I forced! ..

I went do'

But amid all these sorrows, do not come my way on deck through the state-ioom, as

side of the street, until, passing from the So the conclusion that nobody was ever so ilie cabin door was so blocked up by tini-, woi 1 to ST* about tint protection afforded bv the 'Six Buildings,' deeply afflicted as you are, and abandon I bers and floating wyod as to prevent its ,'V

wanl two o'clock, I saw a east bearing down towards in to to fingers, which were frost bitten, open. On reaching the gaff, I waved my hat, but no one heeded it on deck. I then took my I

coat and shook it violentv, but the schoo-

nor kept on her way, and not a soul

I returned to tho deck, terrified at the prospect before me, as night was approaching, and 1 could not have survived the horrors of another night likt^ the last. I got loose timbers with the intention of making a raft, which the returning tide would sweep in towards the shore, ami 1 got out on tho sand to construct it. By this time the people 011 shore saw 1110 011 the wreck, and they launched the life-boat and took mc off, after having been on board for thirf}r-two hours. 1 was taken] to the light house, and on Saturday I came up to the city in tho steam-tug Titan,fi

the onen air, ami the cold wind had .i" i. -i I never made the efiect ol increasing my sensibility. 1 ... looked anxiously la,,i nml but l" ^"'-"!. Sj't lottos, imt ahull pvol conJ.l see nothing slirius. At to-

jast Learing down towards me, and, eager ', "~R

attract attention, 1 climbed up the gaff °. ',?t

make signals, and in doing so burst my I

iu^rs. whioh wow frost bition, open.

board saw or knew of my condition. ™"'inded of the great principles o{ ti.f

The Washington Star remarks

that for two or three weeks past the gold received from California has been more than usually loaded with the small crysfals of the natural alloy called iridosmium, (the hard and intractable substance used for' tho tips of the gold pens.( This body is iufusable unalloyed with other metals,

and

insoluble in acids. Until late

ly the quantity ol it has been only about half an ounce in ouo million dollars.— Last week, however, one deposit of only one hundred and sixty ounces contained sjven ounces or more of iridosmium.—• From intractability and extreme hardness it is a great annoyance to the .'workers of gold who use a metal containing.it, and it

Anecdote of a Fat Man

James Bush, the Cabin boy of tho pilot Gotham, one morning, as she was recon-i

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nothing eai nany niore.^ it was so encrusted with ice. I was in the 'in the parlor,' thought' the lady.— 'under all eireimisl an^es in life. Be not

boat, but be ore Iliad time to ^et to the blundered," but down to tho parlor sha

"Bridget," said a lady in the city of

ooking out I! each whisk of her dish-cloth k-jeping aj

light ahead that looked as it it bright look out of tho kitchen window

ins judgements towards the race ot man,. ],own from the jib-boom of a large ship, and no moving creature escaped her! gratified, they would have proved vour loss it. that you can see at a glancoV and us ways past finding out None of us thought it was tho light-house, watcheful gaze. At last her industry perhaps 'ruin. God croiwo.1 your purposes

•Ham replied the Angel .Messenger, is as the lamp off-that point revolves every seemed to be rewarded, for down tho street saved you.Y Wait patientIv, and like 'ilii-' will facilitate your keeping debt and .in jlom i-ihing yon will sec tho end of all dealings credit with every lield. You will leanv

'\our servant informed mo, madam that be(]

kne^ he had been but I the ca«e immediately, a smile wre-ulrjd

abouL her mouth in spito of herself, as

half after the 'Ha, ha, ha, so she took me for the soap-

laughing for months, such a good joke.' And all up the street, and round the corner was heard the merry laugh ol the old gentleman as he brought down his cane every now and then auu exclaimed "such a joke!'

AMOS L.AWKEXCT.'S POCICET-BOOK.—We

,t I hnd in a stray newspaper, savs the Boston

Journal, t,le foiiow:ug good story, lut know

1 a'u

one

in the freezing water.— p°'ket-Loo.c. that lcio:it ed to lum, oeserves to he repeated. We wd. try to re-

not where it oiiginated, and consequently cannot give the proper credit. It is too ,n

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.i rp. Lawrence, naturally recalls manv anecdotes during the wnole oi lliursday night ami .. ,,

good to ue lost: "The publication of the Diary of Amos

of an anniversary clebration in that city, a large number of orthodox clergymen were seated on the platform, and among (hem was the well known preacher to the seamen. A remark had been drophied by one of tho speakers, implying a

I,i'av1011- I,a.lI,0.r

.1 „i •-. io ,i, word, ami springing to Ins ijet lie exclaim-

ii ii .i .., a .i. |0l, in his indiscnbahlc manner: "Ao

jet-book. It is such a pocket-book as was 1" before. On one fold of it is

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lof

his

FEBRUARY 21, 18-56. WHOLE 10. 391

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might have been.

out to 0

picture of good

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lliis request, so direct, was hot td be re"- bo comfortless, chihlrcn poorly clad, yon fused so in a state ol some wonderment,

cabin when I was called upon to enter tho 'What can it mean? Bridget must have over-anxious about the event. It wiil work ^e1rV

erf, sir, wants to speak to you, and ("qj. logs. You are poor. So is the cooi, damp cellar in ind, and thoy says would you be good enough to walk ,nnltii«ile—so was Christ. lie had not will not shrivel very much.

whe.c to lay his hea'. Your dwelling may

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or 0ur

lor your good.

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it su

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present a stul

cu i.MU m.i. i.a

bather Ia\ ,01", ol Loston.

,. r., ,, ,, laud widowers are most given to suicide I

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nc'('a" 0f

fire, up at the

the whole world and

own soul?' You open another

schooner due 1. 1 luhl and read, ihe gold is mine, saicth the and, eager'

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povertv, 097 were committed by

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.t ivelv from August to Iec'ember they are 1

1 have

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f. .i I mis day seen 3Lr. Amos Lawrence pock-

ll'"a°l11,10 ll"r,L°!'11

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rcnce what all this was for. Ho told me

th:il hc

thc'

umbered that, as men grew edd,

6elhs, a 1

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»ne he looked to his money lie wanted to

Cospel, by which he ought to hold and use his worldly goods and therefore he kept money in each of those folds of his pocket-book, for all good uses which Divine Providence might suggest. Now, Mr. Chairman, what are you going to do with a man who carries such a book as that in his pocket? Do you mean to send him to hell? Do you. think the devil and his angels would permit a man with principles like these to enter his domains.— Why, sir, such doctrines carried to hell, would make an uproar and revolution there more terrible than ever before known, and it never could bo easy till he was cast out. I ask again, what do you mean to do wiili him? Pat her Taylor's question was not answered whether trouble the case I10 supposed might create in the locality fie named, certain it is thut his own speech made quiet a sensation of the platform."

"A negro woman, soon after having experienced religion, stole a goose to make merry with her consort from a neighboring plantation. Of course she was whipped, for the gooil of others as well as of herself. Soon after these circumstances, a communion was to take place in the neighborhood and .Dinah prepared to" go.' Her mistress remonstrated with, her, and mentioned the goose affair as a sufficient reason for he

sometimes causes them heavy losses^^flt is not to offer herself on such a holy occasion .. ..... believed that most of the gold now re-J to which she replied, 'Lor, Missus, I ain't life he has been an early riser, and boasts water, 62 tallow, SO^cork, 15 oak timber* ceived from California contains large gwine to turn my back on my bre'ssed Mas-|that lie has nover drank but, one cup of! 73: mahogany 68 air, 0,0T5& Fractions auanfities of this sftfefetanee, jsao-q nojild goosciy^ ^cofleo, .and that was iu..tho year I84S, I are discarded, t£" t- .... ....

the number of suicides increase in tho ra-

cases "1,420 were committed by this

Contentment. Calendar for February.

You have trials. They arc the common Planning your work (or the spring and^

all. Bear them patiently, and with fmmmer should not be deferred longer.

submission to the will of God. Think Determine the use of every JkI(l,-the erop. not that thev are needlessj You may do-!

ri\c good from them. Yon have met with ble manure, cither cultivate less land ory disappointment, and who has not? Before '-"y 1 Peruvian guano.^ Land cannot vou complain, think how much worse it! '",e cultivated with proat without manure

iirnc.s past, disappointments have turned 4 a less quantity..

God. One smile from him compensates }jC' delayed until next month. Put thorn

[,(« able to educate them as you

"r up the steps went the gentleman, and up h. These are sad trials. Make known I wounds, and will sometimes bleoil

y0!H s(s to Go:L Hecan niis0 np

hands of God than this sick-

pain. You will arise from that,

ness and pain.

better man.

you would Hke to speak to me at your You have had bereavements. Loved sen ae, mai.ain. Jones have been taken from you, and you 1 he mortified mistress saw the state ,j]j

soe

around your hearth-

stone. It is a sad thing to loose those '"'g-'t place. whom we love. But there is One who, in

Suicidcs in iranco. joi a process for extracting teeth without: There have been 300,000 suicides jj, 1 a.n^and to^another process described by France since 1800, and the number i« in-j before tho Loyal SeottUh Soincreasing with appalling rapidity. There

were in France in 184t), 104 suicides niorej'j0,

than in Lv'd8, .)i

LS.'IT, 1M) more than in 18o(J, 11'2 more

to say, there has been an increase oi per cent in ten years, without any lelation to the iuciease of population, and the total number from 1-4O to 1853 will rapid increase. SuiI eide is more common among men than amomj women thioe times more common in Paris than in the Provinces rarer I among children, it is now spreading among Itlieni) it occurs more frequently in old age l)10dfl,'y in tnis city was immensely valuI than at any other period of life bachelors jl"'e, a \.eh known gentleman, then living uerej but inco dead, left in a great hurry,

persons

of large fortune, 2,000 wore c-ommiltcd

by persons who worked for their liveli-1ll,u

Lnitarian goto heaven! Mr. Chairman, ., gratualing hims'df that Cant Frtlsmt* more common in the nrst and soconu days I n, OIMOUI of the month than at any other period

hood, and the others by persons more or Pmfn'lt of. Alter a wuvie, it leaked out ho less ]ioor. suicides increase most rapidly,

means I

989 sought death by drowning 790 by hanging. 578 by fire arms, 424 by leap-

ing from windows, &e., 207 by daggers, I

158 bv poison, 10 by throwing themselves

vation..

It's a' good sign to have a man cntor vour office with a friendly greeting, 'Hero's tho money to pay you for my paper.'

It's a bad sign to hear a-man say ho is too poor to take a paper—ten to one he carries a jug of "red eyo'' that cost him half a dollar.

It's a good sign to see a man doing an act of charity to his fellows. It's a bad sign to hear him boasting of it.

It's a good sign to see the color of health in a man's face, v* it.

p'epa.nu

geiung tu his lady

,I1C'"!»

1 lat 111

r° U001' I under locomotives, «fcc., aud 0110 by star-1 S01* ^un Irancixco Buueltn.

It's a bad sign to see an honest man wearing old clothes. It's a bad sign to see them filling holes in the windows.

It's a good sign to see a man wiping perspiration from his face. .... It's a good sign to see a woman dressed with taste and neatness. l'ts a bad sign to see her husband sued for her feathers and foolery and jewels."

AN ASTONISHING MAN.—There is a very remarkable man now living in Pulaski county, Kentucky, named Elijah Denny, who is perhaps the oldest man in that State—being, it is: said, one hundred and eighteen years of age, and as active as a man of forty, lie served seven years in the .Revolutionary army, and was wounded at the battle of Savannah, and at the bat- of stone, 205 brick, 125 cast iron, 45Q tie of Utaw Springs. He at present steel, 4§6 copper, '486 lead, 709 silver.* works on the farm. Thro' out his whole 654, gold 1,203 platinia, 1,218 glass, 180

[PUBLISHER. 0

mercies? Had your wishes been Map your farm, if you hare not already.'wj

pvnr'

losses. It was best

seed, and tfiTmanures. If shoitof sta-

Cannot you see that, I mid a heavy drying pays much bolter^

1 rim Grape Vines.—This should not be delayed beyond this month. Vines trim-

^Slarch do not'have time to se'ro'oror

badly. Improve the first pleasant day with.,

u'ith

1 1 1

confidence.

u'''^

gootl. Per'Imps yon need nothing

sav

'i0 ''-'IOA-O I oi' destroyed if not dugout

Irm

Seeds.—Have them all in readiness.—» Asf-oi tho potatoes, and put the seeds in banols by themselves. If you have a surplus, market them now—tho}' will be pooi." property in Juno. Let all the garden seeds lie selected and labelled, and put in tho"

all our afflictions, is himself afflicted, lie mt.ila:d package will be a vexation to mar knows how dark and desolate your home is happine.-.s oi a whole day. February in the absence of the one who has been ta- I'10 y_a'c l*ri3 opening year. Let it ba' hen from it. But do not murmur. It is lightly improved in making ready and you all right, and will do good. Be chc-.-rful,

iyj'l

be contented. Pray without ceasing. Be ''mo and liaiveot. American Agricidtur* without ceasing, to Father's will has in 'this cup,' and let his name be Io-

that tho Father's wiU has been

'tm

fieM. every tree in your orchard, 'J

'something then of every crop and every!? Hold, with o-ieli passing year. Out Sdons this month, if you find any chuico vai ioties of fruit when away from

In the end you will see .•ill find your loss gain, your all of unhappiness in home. If upon your own premises, it can

'01?

:ol:

s' work at tho right timo will

many dollars.

Seed-sowing is a busy timo.

an hour spent Incn iu looking up soma

pass on smoothly through tha seed-

liemady fcf ToDthacho.

Chamber's Journal alludes to discov* ery by Mr. Bhmdell, dentist, of London,

c'°1)'

°'r

'[l'

ailu

cauleiiz.ng the dental

htr,PPillS

than in 1&41', 209 more than in 1841, 208 idepemlent of the ordinwry intimidating more than in 1840. '21 more than iu 1839 I

than in 1840, 04*2 more than in lf?84—that "C.uloiis iha sensibility that the tooth is ex1 I L1 Jl (*f Ol I P! I I'P TV: II Illl noin

teeth without pain, in-

1841 208 dependent of tin iri~in *I8o9 mode of holding than in I'a:'enL's face. Mr Blundell's pj-ooess in

mo,le of

Jed hot iron before tho

•'*PI'"t'dfion of ice to tiio jaw, which so'

ri'Krt

riVA..

tiacted entirely without pain. Tho process ol JL)I\ iloberts is to cauterize by means: ol a wiio applied to th.) patient's tooth peifcctly cold, and afterwards instantaneously heated to the icnnircd extent bv a small electric batten*.

A W OI I.D-BE Hi:iH TO LEmESDOnFE.— .Soon after i\ was known that Leido-.dorfo'.s

4,595 suicides, 282 are alt ibutcd t»i

an*^

Wsls

abisent some months, when he-ro

tinned, to the great wonderment of his

aC(lJ:'l,llL,ncos-

wi)0

t(,'

lia

,''L'C1,1 ',.0.

.• i. ii ,i". Lea

ai 10

and insanity augment inwni iblv from iicii* oi the vast estate, ho January to 'Jul',Vand decrease progress-1

wlUlonL

u«,h

"ntircly in tho

whe«*o he hwl been, or ndiatin

tfst

and most common in the best educated do- hens, and finding, as wa» partments the number of suicides, crimes

Indies, looking up

l»e believed was tho

ceremony popped tho question.

^cejiied, and married forthwith, con-

aiul aiI oliier

claimants would liavo to

asl.,!o'

wll,le

fio of their vicinity to Paris charcoal is Ca.iloniia, womd bo without a rival in tho the favorite means of death out of 4,59oj

llf'-

0 1

CI.1

S'^at nabob of

}ta!c. After the marriage, -in the necessary documents, and dimony to sustain the claims &t' fair, he found, fo his astonish-

h.id.mado a small mistake, and

J,)(j "niai rioil the wrong nig-

Ki-xr THE Mocxir Srurx DCRIVG COLVI WLATIII~: .—In the Journal Health Dr. I fall advises every person who goes-inter'" the open air from a warm apartment to keep the mouth shut..tvhjigjyalkiug.j£ riding. He says ./5 "Before yon lenvo the room bundle lip'" well—gloves, cloak, comforter shut youH mouth before yon open the street door, and keep it resolutely closed, until y$u havo walked briskly for some ten minutos then if you keep on walking, or have reached your home, you may talk as nilfoh as yon jdease. Not so doing, many a heart onco happy and young now lies in the churchyard, that might have been young and happy still. But how If you keep your mouth'olpsed and walk rapidly, the air'can o-nly reach the lungs by a circuit of the hose and head, and becomes warmed before reaching the lungs thus causing no derangement but if you converse, largo drafts of .1 cool air dash directly in upon the lungs, chilling the whole frame almost instantly. The brisk walking throws tho blood to tho surface of the body, thus keeping np a vigorous circulation, making a cold iuipossible,, if you don'fget into a cold bed too qnick after you get home. Neglect of theao brings sickness and premature death to multitudes every year."

WEIGHT OF A CUBIC FOOT.—Of sand or loose earth. 95 pounds compact so I, 124 strong or clayey soil, 127 pure clay, 135 mixture of stones and clay, 160 masonry