Indiana American, Volume 25, Number 5, Brookville, Franklin County, 16 January 1857 — Page 1

T23T " J Ml 10 A NEWS AND BUSINESS PAPBR-OBVOTBO TO FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, MORALS, TEMPERANCE, EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OP SOCIETY. 75 BROOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1857. WHOLE NUMKKR 1253. VOL. XXV.-NO. 5.

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THE At TCW CALL I'm tUUDlng low In Iba i utum gale At It mui, with walling breath IU hollow ound through the grave )arJ pa'e, A reqalero sloe- of death I ' Wailn.tf, Railing Walling aloof la lha l.lnifit breath, Would, tad aoaad I thou wart husband la deata. II eowoda sat now a la Jay of old , When lha ripe anta raulad down, And the amcrald grass In lie Seece of fold Coaeaaltd Uta sheila 10 brown ; wending, Bounding along, meh a gladsome thing I knew not Auiumn fron roey Spring. Grief bad not pressed on my taiidlab brow, Hor lora lit Ha banting blaaa; Bat I da naad Ilka a cloud at evening now, 'loath the aaa'a long ,lanbng rays Beeaiag, Streaming, warning a cloud, of lha burnlihod Wt, Aad I, with too robin, aaak to rail. Sadly, bow moan, the "Autunin gale"la IU hollow blaal I hear Test to too of love, aad Ita mournful wall Far the form that were ever naar : Flylag, SighlBg, Flylag away Ilka a faJee tow ,

walla dawy War fall from Kvenlog's brow. Tta midnight now, aad lha A utumn gala, Rath round ma from dreamy ,la, .A ad I Hat I ita aad and plaiatlTa tala, t. Till my weary eyelids weep ; Sweeping, Weeping, Sweeping away with plalnilro wall O'er memory', graves, U the Autumn gale. F I I'm listening bow to the Autum ralu, Aa It pour la torrert a by; Taw pattering oa mj window pane Telia that the Winter's la nigh; Scattering, Pattering, Scatters leavee from the rearing oak, Uke Iotss sweet rows thai are wrung aad broke. My heart la tad and my ayes are wat, Aad say rosy cheek grow a pale. Few 111 sold blaal are passing yet, 0re my soul , with saddening wall; Sighing, Crylag, lights, for hopes, and lots) to frail, That tossed like leases on the Autumn gale. Oh eaaea from blowing, sad "Autumn's gale!1' Aad hash too patter log rain, To as tad me so of love's sad tales, That ne'er eaa bo told agala; Banishing, Yaaiaalng, Banish lag dreaasa of com leg bliss Sera, aorer was storm eowlld at tbli. Til IE! I set's the glad and happy (Mid, Whose handa were Bird with flowers. Whose sllTtry laugh rang froo and wild Among too Tlue-wreath'd flowers ; I croaa'd bar sunny path and cried, "Whan la too Urne to die?" "lotjell tot yet:" tho child replied, Aad swiftly bounded by. I ask'J a maiden; back aba threw The trasses of her hair; Otters traces o'er her cheeks I k newLike pearls they gllaten'd there; A flush pats'd o ar her lily brow, I hoard her spirit sigh; Hot aow,M she orted, rtO no ! not bow , Toath la ao lime to die in I aefc'd a mother, aa she press 'd Her flrst-bora In her erase, At gently oa nor tander breast She hush'd hot babe's alarms; la quivering tooee bar acceau cams Rar ayes war din with tears; "T bay his mothers 's Ufa must claim For many, many years ." F qntttlon' d oao la man hood's prima, Of proud aad fearless all : Has brow waa foe row 'd not by time, Or dtmot'd by woo or care. In angry accents ha replied, Aad flash' 1 with scorn his eye "Talk sot to me of death," ha fried, "For only age should die." I qaeetloa'dage; foe him lha tomb Had long been all prepared. Bat death, who withers youth aad bloom, Tala taaa af yean had spared. Oaoe mora hie Batata's dying Are Flash 'a high, aad thus ha cried: Lire only life la my desire !" Then gasp'd, and groan M, anifeMed. ' aak'd a Christian ; "Answer thou, When la lha hour of death fv A he ly ealm was oa his brow, " itAnd peaceful was hi, breath: ,, Aad sweetly o'er bis features stole A smile, a light divine. And epake lha lang-jea;e of his soul "My Masts r i time limine!" c. w. tossac-K tstlXEW YKABeM' EflS. ' AHMEN A Vow Tear dawas, with blessings new to crown, Taw giorloas land we lire la Freedom's own; Oh! may tta choicest gins, at Heaven's behest, Pervade Ue vigorous aad lha generous West, May Fortune s beams on this Queen City nail, Aad health, peace and plenty oless you oao aad el j Health ! des rest boon to mortals here below. I havo Sao power, the wish too, to beetnwi Par, toweed of all ita Tlralenee, disease Yield i to my sradtearlan Remedies. Of Swedish. Herbs of rarest Tlrtae made, They throw all other med 1 da es lato shade. The weak dyspepUc, using them, retires, The pale contain ptlre flies to them, and Uvea; Hereon complaints, of every type, they cor, Aae) whoa two blood's corrupted, make It pare, fever aad Asua. quickly they relieve i Aad la Seerallgta never can deceive. Breachllte , Asihams.snd each lung complaint They, astro at once, aad leave behind no talal ; And carta is are they, if n t need loo late, Bvea consumpUon to eradicate. Liver complal als, aeala or chronic, still Baeeoash to my Blood PurlSer and Pill Aad all disorder of each vital part. The lungs, nerves, brain, the ttomarhe or heart, Are, by these means aa surely chased away Aa eights thick darkness by the dawn of Soy. Come thee, ya sick, who would your streagtk renew, Aad ho revived like Sowers by morning dew. Conto to tho fountain, whence for laflerera, Health, strength, long life, la a perpetual nie. If of thoeo Atem you rtak a guarantee, Tern thousand cares are witnessed for me. The proofs are countless, aad ao mind oa earth, feeing thoeo proofs, can doubt the medicine's worth. And bow, adieu: with thank for far ors put. Stay Heaven defend you from misfortune's blast Aad hUaa unmixed your homae and households cheer, aU tho stateae of late new. bom veer. o,S Bast Poarth St.. Oft, IT The rollowtag verse eoetataee a moral, which M woald ho well for all of nt to Inscribe a aa oar phylacteries: Tbaee Is a toter that walir the worlU , la the aaUk noon day aad start ess dark, Protaaa llke, now ri nt eJ and curled, . Hfd "on. ad grim and stark; i'" 'de wit a aeasaleas skill , Doawally, warily, working III. Bui I irow ue charm aa 9 Ja frm harm, If aae red to year saamery ever: hsjWBlketa the street of By-end by, will atop 1 the ho ate of atvan. r

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THE OLD MAN'S STORY. I ihall never forget the commence mont of the temporanro reform. I waa a child at the time, of aomo ten years of age. Our home had every comfort, and ray paronta idolised me, their child. Wine was often on the table, and both my father and mother frequently gave it to me in the bottom of the glass. One Sunday at church, a startling an nouncement wat mndo to otir people. I knew nothing of its import, but there was much whispering among tho men. Tho pastor said that on the next evoning thero would bo a meeting, and an address upon the evils of intemperance in tho use of a! coholic drinks. He cxpresaed himself ig-; norant of the object of tho meeting, and j could not say what course it would bo best to pursue in tho matter. Tho subject of tho meeting came up at , our table after the servico, and I question- ! ed my father about it with all tho curious esgerness of a child. The whisper and words which had been dropped in my hearing clothed the wholo affair in a groat mystery to me, and I was all eagerness to tho same strange thing. My father said it waa somo schemo to unite church and State. ' The night camo,and troupes of ieoplo ; gathered on the tavern steps, and I heard the jest and the laugh, and saw drunken men reeling out of tho bar-room. I urged my father to let me go, but he refused. Finally, thinking it would bo an innocent gratification of my curiosity, he put ou his hat, and we passed acrosts the green to the church. I remember well how the people appeared as they camo in, seeming to wonder what kind of an exhibition was to come off. In tho corner was tho tavern-keeper, and around him a number of friends. For an hour the people of th pluco continued to como in, until thero w.u a fair house full. All were curiously watching the door, wondering what would Man appear. The pastor stole in and took a scat behind a pillar under the gallery, us if doubtful of tho propriety of being there at all. Two men finally came in, and went to tho altar and took their aoats. All eye were fixed upon them, and a gonoral stillness provided the house. The men were unlike iu appearance one being short and thick-set iu build, the other tall and well-formed. The younger had the manner and dress of a clergyman, a full, round face, and quiet, good-natured look, ad ho lei surely lookud around the audience. But my childiah interest was all in the old man. His broad, deep chest, and unusual height; looking giaut-liko m he atrodo up the aisle. His hair was white, his brow deeply seamed with furrows, and around his handsoruo mouth, lines of calm and touching sadness. Mis eve w.u black and restless, and kindled as the tavern-keeper uttered a low jest aloud. His lips wer compressed, nnd a crimsou flush went and camu over his pale cheek. Ono arm waa off above tho elbow, nnd there was a wido tear over tho right eye. The younger finally uroso and stated the object of the mooting, and asked if thero was a clergyman present to open with a prayer. Our pastor kept his scat, and the speaker himself made a short prayer, and then mado a short address ; nt the conclusion, calling upon any oue present to make remarks. The pastor rose under tho gallery, and attacked the position of the speaker, uaing tho argument which I havo often heard since, and concluded by denouncing those engaged in the new movement as meddlesomo fanatics, who wished to break up the time-honored usages of good soeiety, aud injure tho business of respectablo men. At tho conclusion of his rearks, tho tavern-keeper and his friends got up a cheet, and the current of feeling was evidently against tho ttrangers and their plan. While the pat; tor was speaking, the old man had fixed his dark eyo upon him, and loaued forward as if to catch every word. As the pastor took his scat, tho old mnn rose, his tail form towering in ita symmetry, nnd his chest swelliug as he inhaled his breath through his thin, dilated nostrils. To m e, at that time, there was something awe-i nspiring aud grand in tho appcaranco of tho old man, as ho stood with his full eye upon the audience, his teeth ahut hard, and a silence like that of death throi ighout tho cli irch. He bent his gaxe upon the tavern kocper, and that peculi r oye lingered and kindled for half a monic t The scar crew red ui his forehead. and beneath tho heat ev tirows his eye glittered and glowed Uk those of a torpont. The tuvcru-kceper .p.' ailed before the searching glance, and felt a relief when the old man withdniw his gaze. For a moment he teemed lost h I thought, and then in a low and tromulo us toue

commenced. There was dopth in that ou, nud 1 stooped as weil as 1 could in my voice, a thrilling pathoe and sweetness, j drunken state, and clenched both hands which riveted every heart in tho house, i in her hair." boforo the first period had boon rounrjed. 1 "God of mercy, James!" exclaimed My father's attention had become fix od j my wife, as she looked up into my fiendon tho speaker with and interest whic h J iih countenance, "you will not kill us, you I had never before seen him exhibit. I j will not harm Willie." And she sprang can bat briefly remember the substance of i to tho cradle, and grasped him to her em-

what the old man said, though tho scene is as vivid before me as any that I ever witnessed. "My friends ! I am a stranger in your village, and I trust I may call yon friends. A nt iw star has risen, and there is hope in the) dark night, which hangt lifce a poll of

gloom over our country." With a thrill-

ing depth of voico, tho spoakor conti mied: "O, (Jod, thou who lookoat with compnationupon tho moat erring of earth'a children, I thank theo that, a brazen serpent has been lifted, upon which the druukou can look and be helped; that a beacon has burst out upon tho darkness that surrounds him, which shall guide back to honor and heaven tho bruised and wenry wanderer." It is strange what power there is in somo voices. The speaker was slow and unmoved, but a tear trembled in every eyo, and before I knew why, a tear dropped upon my hand, followed by others like rain drops. The old man brushed one from his own eyes and continuod : "Men and Christiana ! You havo just heard that I am a vagrant and fanaticI am not. As God knows my own sad hoart, I came here to do good. Hear me, and be just: "I am an old man standing alone, at the end of life's journey; there is a deep sorrow in my heart, and tears in my eyes. I havo journeyed over a dark and beacon less ocean, and all lifo's hopes havo been wrecked. I am without friends, homo or kindred upon earth, and look with longing to the rest of tho night of death. Without friends, kindred or homo ! It was not so once." No one could withstand the touching pathos of tho old man. I noticed a tear trembling on tho lid of my father's eye, and I was no more ashamed of my own. "No, my friends, it was not so once ! Away over the dark waves which have wrecked my hopes, thero is a blessed light of happineaa and homo ; I reach aain convulsively for the shrines of the household idola that once were, now mino no more." Tho old man seemed looking through fancy upon somo bright viaion, his lips apart and fingers extended. I involuntarily turned in tho direction where it was pointed, dreading to sco somo shadow invoked by its movements. "I once had a mother. With her heart crushed with sorrow, shu went down to the grave. I onco had a wife a fair angel creature as ever smiled iu an earthly hoinj. Her eyes as mild as a summer sky, and her heart as faithful and true us over guarded and chciishcd a husband's love, iler blue eyca grew dim as tho

floods of sorrow washed away their j ken pathos, the old man concluded : brightness, and the living heart waa wrung MI waa arrested, and for long months until every fiber was broken. 1 once had ; raved in delirium. I awoke, was tontena noble, a bravo and beautiful boy, but bo ccd to prison for ten years, but no tortures was driven out from tho ruins of his homo could have been like those I endured withand my old heart yearns to know if ho ye j in my bosom. O Qod, no, -I am not a lives. I once had a babo a sweet, ten- ( fanatic. I wish to injuro uo one. But dor blossom, but my own hand destroyed 1 while I live, let me strive to warn others it, nnd it livcth with ono who loves chil- not to enter tho path which has been so drcn. ' dark a ono to me."

"Do uot bo startled friends ; I am not a murderer in tho common acceptation of tho term. Yet thero is a light in my ovening sky. A spirit mother rejoices over the return of her prodigal son. The wifo smiles upon hint who again turns back to virtue and honor. Tho child angel vis - its me at nightfall, nud I feel tho hallow ing touch of a tiny palm upon my feverish cheek. My bravo boy, if he yet lives, would forgive tho sorrowing old man for the treatment which drove him into the world, and tho blow that maimed him for life. God forgive mo for tho ruin I havo brought upon me and mine." He agaiu wiped a tear from his eye. My father watched him with a strange interest, aud a countenance unusually pale and excited by somo strango emotion. "I was onco a fanatic, and madly followed the malign light which led mo to ruin. I was a fanatic when I sacrificed my wife, children, happiness and home, to the uccursed demon of the bowl. I onco adored tho gentle being whom I injured to deeply. "I was a drunkard. From respectability and affluence, I plunged into degradation and poverty. I dragged my family iluwn with nio. For years I saw her cheek pale, and her step grow weary. I left her alone amid tho wreck of her home idol, j and rioted nt tho tavern. She never com - plained, yet sho aud tho children went , hungry for bread, j "Oue new-year's night I returned late j to the hut where charity had given ua a i roof. Sho was yet up and shivering over ! the coals. I demanded food, but she burst into tears, and told me thero was j none. I fiercely ordered her to get somo. SIuj turned her eyes sadly upon me, tho ttJtwa falling fust over her pnlu cheek. At this moment tho child in tho cradle awoke and sent up a famishing wai', atartliugtho desparing mother likoa serpen's sting." "We havo no food James; I have had none for several days. I havo nothing for tho babe. My once kind husband, must we htarvo ?" "That sad, pleading face, and thono streamiug eyes, and tho feeblo wail of the child maddened me, and I yea I ttruck j her a fierce blow in tho face, and she fell 1 forward upon tho hearth. Tho furies of hell boiled in my bosom, and with deeper intensity as 1 felt 1 had committed a wrong. I had nover struck Mary before, but now some terrible impulse boro mo brace. "I caught her again by the hair, and dragged her to tho door, and as I lifted tho latch, tho wind burst in, with a cloud of mow. With the yell of a fieud, I g till draggod her on and hurried her out into the storm. With a wild ha I ha ! I clot ed the door and turned the button.

Her pleading moans mingling with tho

wail of blast and sharp cry of her balk-. IS nt my work was uot complete. "I turnod to tho littlo bed where lay my elder son, and snatehod him from his slumbers; and against hie hnlf-wakeued struggles, opened tho door snd thrust him out. In tho agony of fear he cnllod to mo by a name I was uo longer fit to bear, and locked this fingers into my aide pocket. I could not wrench that frenzied grasp away, and with the coolness of a devil as I wat, shut the door upon his arm, and with my knifo savored it at tho wrist." The speaker ceaaed it moment, and buried his face in his bands, as if to shut out somo fesrful dream, and his deep chest heaved UkeV storm-swept sea. My father had arisen from his scat, and was leaning forward, his countenance bloodless, "d the large drops standing out upon his brow. Chills crept back to my young heart, and I wishod I was at home. The old man looked up, and I never have since beheld such mortal agony pictured ; upon a human face as thero was ou his. j "It was morning when I awoke, nnd the ' storm had ceased, but the cold was in- J tense. I first secured a drink of water, and then looked in the uccustomcd place for Murv. As I missed her for the first

time, a shadowy tonso of somo horrible 1 wortis siuck iiko inrge lumpt in nismroai, nightmare began to dawn upon my wan-1 and ho tin nod with heavy heart homedering mind. 1 thought, I had a fearful j ward, and went and sat down by tho bed-

dream, but I involuntarily opened the i outside door with a shuddering dread. As the door 0ened, the snow bum mi followed by the fall of somethine across the threshold, scattering the snow and striking the floor with a sharjs bad sound, My blood shot like red hot arrows through I my veins, and I rubbed my eyes to kocp out tho sight. It wos O Qod, how horrible ! it was my own injured Mary and her babe frozen to ice ! The ever true mother had bowed herself over the child to shield it, her own person stark nud bare to the storm. "Sho had placed her hair over tho face of tho child, and the sleet had frozen it to the white check. The frost w as white in ita half-opened eyes and upon its tiny fingcrs. I know not what '.became of my brave boy. Again thj old man bowed his head and wept, and all that were in the house wept with him. My father sobbed like a child. In tones of low and heart-bro-Tho old man sat down, but a spell as deep and strong as that wrought by some wizard's breath, rested ujion the audience, I Hearts could have bocn heard in their beating, and tears to fall. The old man then asked tho pcoplo to sign the pledge, 1 My father looped from his scat, and snatched nt it eagerly. I had followed him and its ho hesitated a moment with pen in the ink, a tear fell from tho old man's eyo on the paper. "Sign it, sign it, young man. Angels would sign it; I would write my name thero ten thousand times in blood if it would bring back my loved and lost onct." My father wrote "Mortimer Hudson." The old man looked, wiped bis tearful eyes, and looked again, his countenanco alternately flushed with a red, aud deathlike paleness. "It is no, it cannot be; y-'t how strange," muttered the old man. "Pnrdon me, sir, but that was tho unmo of my bravo boy." My father trcmblod, and held up the left arm, from which tho hand had been sovcred. They looked for a moment in each other's oyes, both reeled and gasped: "My own injured. son !" "My father !" They fell upon each others neck and 1 wept, until it seemed thnt their souls would grow and mingle into ono. There was weeping in that church, and sad faces around me. "Lot me thank God for this great blessing which has gladdened my guilt-burdened soul !" exclaimed the man; nud keeling down, ho poured out his heart in ono of tho most melting pruyers I over heard. The spell waa then broken, and all eagerly signed the pledge, alowly going to their homes, as if loth to leave tho tpot. The old man is dead, but the lesson ho taught his grand-child on his knee, as his evening tun, went down ttithout n cloud, will never be forgotten. His fanaticism has lott none of its fury in my manhood's heart. A Damper. A young gentleman lately offered bis services to a young lady for a porty. On their way he cudgeled hit brain for tome time to start an interesting topic of conversation to amuse her with; he could bit upon nothing until they met several cows. Hero was atopic which theswnin instantly laid hold of, and with much simplicity remarked: "Now, ain't it strange what motherly appearance a cow has T" To which the young lady pertly replied, "I do not think it at all strange, sir, that a eow should havo a motherly appearance to a calf !" Humph ! the calf was silent during tho rest of the walk. Truth. Splendid qualities break forth in dark times, Uke lightning from a thunder cloud.

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Ost I VI. Olli OWN (MUT.S "You must 4 drive your own cart, 1 my child. I would drivo it forjyou'if I could, but that cannot be. Uo patient, be brave, be persevering, and you will getouton the othor side of the shadowa before very long." So aaid tho beat friond orphan Hnrry had ever known, to him, ' when ho camo in one day, discouraged, after having for the twentieth time sought employment in vain. Uncle Lewis, as Harry called tho kind man, whose house was'nll the homo ho over knew, was very poor, and now ha waa alto ill, so that it became absolutely necessary for Harry to leave school and seek for work, by which he could at least do something towads earning their daily bread. His heart fainted in bis bosom, as ho met with repulse after repulse from tho tall, and.the rich, and the busy gentlemen to whom he applied for a place. "Do you want to hire a boy, sir?" had been .the poor child's oft repeated question, Fainter and fainter was it spokcn,aa, spark by spark,' his courage died away, and, at last, he tried to utter it in vain, for tho atol of dear Lncle Lewis, and cried: "O how I wish some ono would find a piaeu mi me, aigucu wie ioor uuv, a 1 SV- , f -a .a .1 ... 1 ,iT hall novor, never daro to ask auy ono to hire me again. O, dear, dear, what a dreadful thing it is to be poor! I wish somebody would help us, dear Uncle Lowis." Unclo I.- wis was troubled for the child; he put his pale hand upon his clustering curls, and said, "You are in a world whero all that is good mutt bo struggled for, with a great strusrirlc. 1 You must drivo your own cart,' my child; I would doit for you, but I cannot. Be brave, be patient, be persevering, and you will get out on the 'other side of the shadows before a very long time." Harry loved his unclo dearly; more than ho knew how to express, and the terriblo fear of losing him made him seem dearer thau ever now, to, hard though it was to choko back tho tears, ho did it, and fondly kissing tho hand that carctscd him, he' said with an effort, "I will bo a bravo boy, uncle; you sis all sec that I mind your advice; I will try again to-morrow, and will keep trying till I do got out of tho shadows. If you will only make hasto and get well, and if I can always live where I can sco you and bear your voico every day, I won't complain, whatever may Iks my hardships." "Dear child," said Uncle Lewis, with a trembling voice. He could say no more, though his heart was overflowing with yearning sympathy and love for tho affecate and devoted child. Gladly would ho have folded the gentle boy to his heart, and sheltered him there from all rmlo contact with tho hard and jostling world; but ho knew that this could not be, and ho know, also, that so it were not "well with tho child." Harry must tako tho great and wide world by the hand, as all had done who had wrestled with it before; ho must learn "to labor and to wait." After making ready and eating their simple eveniug meal, Harry sat again by the side of his unclo, and read from tho word of God. He openod accidentally providentially, rather upon this passage: "Trust in the Lord, nnd do good, aud thou shalt dwell in the land, aud verily thou shaltbo fed." 'That blessed book," cried Uncle Lowis; "never was there a troubled heart it could not comfort." And when Harry had finished reading, the sick man folded his hauds and offered I heartfelt prayer. They then resigned themselves to rest "Please sir, dont you want to hire a boy? said our young hero, next morning to a finely dressed dandy of a storekeeper. "If I did I wouldn't have you, you pitiful, whining, milk-and-water-faced scamp; off with von quick; clear!" And tho man started at Harry as if for some offensive act. Harry hurried off. "O, dear," said ho to himself, at he walked on, "I am afraid the Lord did n't intend any of those good promisesjfor me. I nm afraid I shall never get a place, and I am hungry, and cold, and tired; and what shall I do? The hand of despair was tugging at those young heartstrings. "Why, what's this?" exclaimed Hnrry suddenly. A niccportmomiaie laid at his feet, Ho picked it up. It boro the name of tho storekeeper that had just abused the orphan child. Resisting the temptation to avongo himself, nnd supply his wants, by keeping the well-filled portmonnaie, Hnrry turned back to the store and gave it to the owner. Tho man had tho grace to blush as he took it from tho honost and forgiving boy, and he opened it and banded Harry a two dollar bill. Tbo portmonnaie contained two hundred dollars. But this was not the end of thnt adventure. An elderly gentleman, who, over the top of his spectacles, had observed tho wholo affair, arose, as Harry, with his well earned treasure tightly locked in his little hand, left the store, and followed him into tho street. "Come with me, my lad," said he, kimlly; "I know n place where they want on honest boy." The two walked ou. Harry answered, in a satisfactory manner, all the questions put to him by the old gentleman put to him by the old gentleman, and by his son,

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ducted him; and when Harry, at noon, sought his dear uncle, it was to tell him, as woltaa he eould speak for joyous excitement, that he had got 'two whole dollan,' and waa "engaged to do eranda 'for the firm of J. H. Apploton A Co., at two dollars a week." "Commit thy ways unto the Lord; trust also in him, and he shall bring it to peat," aaid Unclo Lowia, embracing Harry with warmth. "Detter days have dawned, my boy; lotus thank God and take courage." And thanksgiving, earnest and sincere aroie from that lowly roof, and entered iuto the ears of the Lord Most High." "These despise not the day of small things," taid he; "lo, I have it in my heart to enlargo their borders, to incroaso their goods, and to make them fat with with the bounty of the earth." And it was even so. Tho faithful, honest boy found favor in the sight of his employers. The humble and affectionate child won his way to the heart of the head of the firm, a father, whose only son had been laid in the grave to sleep, and he adopted little Harry as.his I own- I l lie days oi poverty and distress were over then, both for Harry and dear Uncle Lowis. Harry never forsook, never ceased tendorly to love, aud gratefully to cherish, hit "best friond," as he always called Unclo Lewis, whose health was restored, and who passed a happy nnd cheerful old ago in tho house of the child of his adoption. The IiH rlce and Effecte of Intern perance. i The following is tho most graphic de-, lineationof the miseries and effects of ini temerancethat we have ever seen. It it from tli nro-umantit advanced hv certain citizens of Portage county, Ohio, in ft memorial to the Legislature on that aub - ject. , . , , . "And yet its march of ruin is onward , , , , still. It reaches abroad to others, invades family and social circles, and spreadi .woe and sorrow all around. It cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood it. strength, and age in its weakness. It breaks the father's heart, bereaves the doting mother, , , n . ' . ,. . , 4 . , ' . ' jugal love, blots out filial at'atchmcnt, blights paternal hope, and brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, and all of them paupers and beggars. It hails fevers, feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites cholera, imparts pestilence, and "embraces consumptions. It covers tho land with idleness, poverty, disease, and crime. It fills your jails, supplies your alms-houses, and demands your asylums. It engenders controversies, fosters quarrels, and cherishes riots. It condemns law, spurns order, and loves mobs. It crowds your penitentiaries, and furnishes .v. t 1 1 v. tho victims for vour scaffolds. It it tbo life-blood of the gambler, the aliment of the countcrfeitor, tho prop of tho highwayman, and the support of tho midnight incendiary. It countenances the liar, respects tho thief, nnd esteems tho blaspheiiur Ir vi.i hitna Ah iirihnn rAtrnrnnsae fraud, and honors infamy. It defames bonevolonce, hates love, scorns virtue, and slanders innocence. It incites tho father to butcher his offspring, helps tne husband to massacre his wife, and aids the child to grind the parricidal ax. It burns up m an, consumes woman, detests lifo, curses God, and despises Heaven. It suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, defiles the jury-box, and stains the judicial ermine. It bribes votes, disqualifies voters, corrupts our elections, pollutes our institutions, and endangers our Government, It dogrades the c .izen, debases the legislator, dishonors tho statesman, and disarms the uatriot.It brings shame, not honor; terror, not ' aafetv: despair, not hone: mi.erv. not haupiness. And now. as with the malevo - lence of a fiiend. it calmlv .nrveva it. frightful desolations, and, insatiate w5th havoc, it poisons felicity, kill peace, ru - ins morals, blights confidence, .lav. renn - tation, and wipe, out national honor, then 1 curses tho world, and laughs at its ruin!" Politics in the Chubch.-As one of the best men in this city has been tradu - ccd by the prcsa on account of an alleged attack upon "Democracy" in the pulpit, wo fcol inclinod to plend for him an offset. We call now upon our eminent scriveners here, to preserve their consistency by condemning the churches or perhaps we should say tho church which takes up oncnlv. their side. Wo are crcdiblv ine formed that the Roman Catholic church at M'Koesort was illuminated oue evonins last week in honor of the success of the Democracy In this State on tho 14thPittsburgh Oat. Cy-Love is as natural to women as fragrance is to a rose. You may lock a girl up in a convent you may confine her in a cell you may cause her to change her re ligion, or forswoar her parents these things are possible but never hope to make her sex forego their heart-worehip, or give up their reverence for cassimcres, for such a hope will prove' as bootless as the Greek Slave, and as hollow as a bamboo. 07" A young married lady of our acquaintance, whose union had not been prolific of "little darlings," haa suspended on tho wall of her bedroom, directly over the head of the bed, a little picture, underueath which is tho following quotation from Scripture: "Suffer littlo children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such it the kingdom of Heaven."

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rltsaro st Duty. TSST! Don't tall ma yon bavutgot time, That other thing, claim your attention. There's not the least reason or rhyme, la the wltttl exeuta ihtl you enn mention, DonH Uli me "about othsr flsh" Your duty Is done when yoabuy 'em; And you will never relish Use dish. Unless you've a woman to "fry 'em." My Hkabers: I havo no doubt that, after you hear my discourse, you will ask your mind whether your preacher has taken unto himself a wife, and is now luxuriating iu tho tall clover of connubial bliss, that he preachnth thus. Therefore, I answer boforo time, No; but I have got measure for oue, and expect to conjugate as soon at my somewhat divorged rays of affection can be brought a little more to a focus through the burning lent of love. I deem it the duty of all to got married onco in their lifetime, at least. It is but yiolding obedience to the wise commands of nature. Every gander has his goose, and, the birds all mato at a proper season. Whosoever heard of an old gander going down tll0 goslingless, unieM he WM preVeuted from fulfilling his destination by the arbitrary customa of artificial society ? It is God who tells the brute creation to cohabit and propogato, without the fuss and flummery of a long aud tedious courtship; and they implicitly obey, even to tho wood louse. The same Qod also tells you to marry, and do the best you can to be fruitful; but you don't always do it You frame some paltry excuse or other such as "I have other fish to fry," "too busy to think of it now," "I'll think of it by and by," oVc, and you trudge on through the wide world nlnnA from fVin mArilian nt man. . hood to the ,UDMt of H without hvin effecU,d tbo obJect for which ?ou were 1 I j e l""-ou ufou eann, ana oi no more use than the fifth wheel to a coach, a moon in y.Ume, a lock without a key, or a , 8addle and no horM to ride' j Young man ! if you hara arrived at I the right point in life for it, let every othL . . .... er consideration give way to that of getfi Qf I ,M Keep poking about among the rubbUh of the worId Jj utn6i upagemworth , in the ihape of wifJ Nevef thnk of MAJ.Qg . . , , , , matter for you know delays, as well as vvdd boars, are dangerous; a good wife is the most constant and faithful companion you can possibly have by your aide while performing tho journey of life a dog isn't a touch to her. She is of more service, too, than you may at first imagine Sho can "smooth your linon and your cares" for you mend your trousers, and perchance your manners tweetcn your moments, as well as your tea and coffee for you ruffle, perhaps, your shirt bosom, but not your temper; and instead of sowing the seeds of sorrow in your path, ahc will tew buttons on your shirt, plant happiness instead of harrow teeth in your bosom. Yes, and if you are too confounded 1.1 V nr till, VWVlltH ti Ark all, lun.t . . , , ' ,olf ,ne wl carry swill to hogs, chop wood, dig potatoes fordinner, for her hutband is such that the will do anything to pleaso him except receive company in her every-day clothes. When a woman loves she loves with a double-distilled devotedness, and when she hates the hates 2 a P'611'6 Prmc'P'e' Her lot ein as deep as tho ocean, as strong as a hemp haltor, immutable as the rock of ages. She won't change it, except in a strong fit of jealousy, and even then it lingers, as if loth to part, like evening twilight at the windows of the west. Got married by auy means. All the excuse you can fish up against "doing the deed," aren't worth a spoonful of pigeon's milk. Mark this if blessed with health and enjoyment, and you are notable to support a wife, depend upon it you are not capable of supporting yoursolf. Therefore, so much moro need of nexation; for in union,. ; well as in an onion, there is strength.I afl . fl IT a a-l uei marriea' 1 W au! concentrate 1 7OUT Actions upon one subject, and not ! -tribute them by crumbs amongst a host j of Susans, Sallies, Marya, Eliaas, Betseys, ' and Dc."thy,allowing ' ,ctrcely ououh to nibble Get marri' ! ed and havo "J -u "P I smew - ll 1. a Itl 1 1 9 you journey through this "lowly vale of tears" somebody to scour up your j dull n"'"? momenta, and keep 1 yur whole life- and M1 linn vou I J . a astl a possess, in some son oi nunaay-go-to meeting-order. Young woman ! I need not tell you to look out for a husband, for I know that you are fixing contrivances to catch one, and are as naturally on the watch as cat is fsr a mouse. But one word in your ear, if you please. Don't bait your hook , with n artificiftl fl? of boaut'; if J'0" do tne cnancea are ten to one mat you will i gudgeon-some silly fool of a fish thi sn,t worth hU weiht ,n "wdusWArray the inner lady with the beautiful garments of virtue, modesty, true morali ty, wisdom, and unsophisticated love, and and you will dispose of yourself quicker, i and to much better advantage, than if you displayed all the gew-gaws, flipperings, fol-de-rols, and fiddle-de-dees in the uni Terse. Remember, it is an awful thing to live and die a self-manufactured old maid! My Hearers : Tour days upon earth are but short at the longest, and they she'd be passed as righteously and pleasantly as the weather and circumstances will admit Get married while you are young, and then when the frost of age ahall fall and wither the flowers of youthful affection, the lesves of connubial love will still be green; and perchance, joyour offspring will surround and grace the parent tree like ivy entwining and adorning the time rratched oak. So mote it be! jyThe moat dangerous bat that flies at night is Um triatbat.

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liana With I HI. in. We published a few days back some intertjating details of the progreag of the great rebellion, or mora properly epeaking of the great revolution, going on in China Wo have kept our readers hitherto well posted up on this interesting subject. But anew and different color will thortly, no doubt, be given to this protracted Chinoae revolution. No less a poster than Russia has stepped into the affair, and threatont to become protector and virtually matter of Chiun, under the plea of friendly aatistauce. It is in i iiis manner nations havo been subdued by other nations in all periods of the world. In this manner ancient Roiiioext'Midcil her e mpire, by rendering assistance to kings and emperors ngainst claimants to t heb thronen. In this manuer the British were conquered by the Saxons who came to aid and assist them against the Picts. In this manner it may be perhaps witnessed, at least by our pos terity, that Russia will become psscscd of China. We give this view from the fact announced in the late French papers arrived by the Europa, that the Czar of all the Russias has made an offer to tho Emperor of China of troops ar.d military aid to put down Tai-Ping-Wang, tho opposition Emperor mid head of the rebellion. There is every reason to believe that this information is correct. Russia has always had more intimate relations with China than any other nrtion, not excepting the British. Her intercourse is almost wholly by land, and large quantities of tea are imported this way into Russia. It is aid the tea is considerably improved by its land carriage. Russia also has lately concluded an im portant commercial treaty with China, ly which it appears that great favor has been shown to her, which may probably arise from the assistance to be given ngainst the rebels. Russia is fuul of assisting Emperors against their rebel subject-; : witness Hungary. The terms of this treaty, recently concluded between Russia and China, wc learn, from La Patne of Nov. 9, are in general terms as follows: Russia is to have a seaport, witli three thousand acres of land adjoining, granted to her in perpetuity, on the south coast of Chusan. This port, together with tho above quantity of land, is to be henceforth a Ilusaiau possession. Russia is to have a Consul-Gencral, with full diplomatic powers, who is to reside at the said port. This Russian Con-sul-Genoral is to have powor to appoint three Consuls, or diplomatic agents, for the other provinces of tho Chinese Empire, without requiring any special confirms- j tion Irom the tdnneae uovornmcnL Here is a great step forward mado by Russia. Such concessions to bur by the Chinese Government are greater, wo be lieve, than any which our American negotiators have been ablo to obtain for us, if, indeed, they havo ever tried to obtain so much. Now tho object of Russia in this Treaty is doubtless purely political, for the coast of Chusan, where the port conceded to her is to be situated, is not at nil favorable to commerce. It is subject periodically to the prevalence of typhoons, or violent winds which render navigation, for the greater part of the year, impracticable. Besides, Russia cares but little about commerce; territorial aggrandisement is the great object she has ever in view. While we are on this subject, wo would observe that our Government nt Washington ought to be wide awake on the question of our relations with China, and em ploy negotiator, who will not be outwitted by Chinese cunning. The time is ap proaching when our present treaty with China will hnvo terminated, and n new one will require to be made. On such an occasion will the Cabinet at Washington al low the United States to be treated as an inferior nation? Shall webe deniod the privilege of havings diplomatic agent at Pekin, while Russia maintains one there? We have a naval fore strong enough to make the Cbineso sensible of our greatness, and to enforce demands which the interests of commerce as well as our national dignity justify us iu making. Let tu hope that the coming Administration will not overlook this subject. .V. F. Tim. A NovaX Conoksced. Moonlight eve shady grove two lovers eternal fidelity yong lady rich young man poor very handsome sure to make a fortune old folks in a rage swear eternal vougeDCO young folks won't part die first pathetic scene moonlight again rope ladder young lady's window ojicns flight escajie pursuit capture all the old folks relent die young folks get married move into the old mansion have littlo children much happin Fiüis. fjT Decency is a matter of latitude. Iu Turkey, a man with tight pants on is considered so great a vulgarian that he is not tolerated in respectable society; to spit in the presence of an Arab is to make the acquaintance of his cheese-knife. In Russia that man is considered low who refuses a warm breakfast consisting of fried candles. In this country, vulgar people are such as keep good hours and live within their income. Queer institu tion, that human family. 07" A chap applied nt a polios station in Boston for lodgings on Saturdsy night, who elucidated the question of parentage in this way : "You see, Cap'n, first my father died, and then my mother married agin, and then my mother died and my father married agin, aad somehow or other I don't seem to havo no parents at all, nor no home nor no nothing."

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fjr The man who has a right to do as he ploanea, most generally pi fast It) rlo wrong. OCT A man never forgets aa inswlt to his pride aad pars; a woman to her beaaty or love. OCT A man loves when bis judgetnoot approves; a woman's judgment approves when the loves. OCT If you love your son, give kl plenty of cudgel; if you hat him, cram him with daintiesOSrNevtr, perhaps, are children ao dear to their parents as at present, when provisiont are so high. 0 The mau who can crack a joke is half a minute after a fifty jiourrd weight has fallen upon his sues, may be called excrntiatingly funny. OCT The mau that eows d isa ntinnt between a man and his wife, is very apt so reap axe-helves and mop-sticks a poor crop, and not worth cultivating. 03T There it a firm in Now York, the name of which is Lit, Hatch & Clcc. The clerks are supposed to be all Shanghais. (ErTalk about "mysterious knocking what it more mytteriona than the kuockings of two human hearts, set in motion by the maguetom of youthful love? OCT Some think that if nature had dosigned mau to be a drunkard, she woald have constructed him Iiko a churn, so hart the more he drank, the more firmly be would stand. OCT To judge by the ereet, it an error all abuse and all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned by success, Is hcroitra; if clouded by defeat, temerity. Cotom. Tat'E. A venerable old man has very sensibly remarked: "Let the slandered take comfort it is only at the fruit trees that theives throw stones, OCT Why is a hungry boy looking at the pudding in a cook shop window like a wild horse? Because he would be all the better if he had a bit in his mouth. OCT A sailor being asked how he liked his brid.e is reported to have remarked "Why, d'ye see, I took her to be only half of me, as the parson says, but dash me if the isn't twice as much so L I'm only a tar she's a tar-tar!" (jC7 A lady in Oregon, riting to a friend near this place, says that the cattle in that region live to be so old that their owners havo to fasten long poles to the ends of their horns for the wrinkle to rm out on." :r A modern writer thug defines honor: "Standing a fire well, and shooting a friend whom you lovs, in order to gain the praise of a few others whom yoa despise." CO" the Uostou Post has the credit for the last and latest liquid remedy for baldness: ' I'se brandy externally till Jthe hair grows, and then Uke it internally to dint the roots:' Let People Taut. The man that has no enemies may at once conclude that he has no parte, for it is natural for 1 ttla minds to envy and detract from that which is great as it is for water to took a level. OCT A worthy minister, noted for his wit, on licing asked what kind of person the wife of Mr. was, replied, "I will give you her grammatical charShe is a noun substantive seen, felt and beard." A Thin Dacss. An exchange , paper, under the head of "Good Advice," ad visos young men to "wrap themselves up in virtue." A cotemporary well says: "We are afraid many of them would freeze to death, if they had no better covering." OT A conceited fellow, hi introducing his friend into company, said, "Gentlemen, I assure you he is not so great a fool aa he seems." The gentleman immediately replied, "That it exactly the difference between my friend and myself." 0" "Scolding it tho pepper of matrimony, and the ladies are the pepper-box-est" The above remark was made in our hearing, by an old fogy bachelor. We would givo his name, but we are afraid the pesos of the nwighborhood might be disturbed by the noise of a broom-handle. Tue wat to do It. A sporting young lady tart: "If the course of true love never runs smooth, why don't they water it. and roll it regularly ao many hours oavrh day, until they get the course so smooth that any donkey eould run on it?" That young lady is some. fjCTA Dutchman wanted to wed a widow, and his manner of making known his intention was as follows: "If you is conteut to get a better for a worse, to be happy for a miserable, and if yoa smokes end drinks ale, I shall take yon for no better and much worse. " L'pon which the lady replied, 0. Yew. XJ" A gipsey woman promised to show two young ladies their husband's faces in a pail of water. They looked and exclaimed: "Why, we only see out ficas." "Well, said the cunning spsey, ihm faces will be your husbands' wbenyotj, married."