Indiana American, Volume 25, Number 14, Brookville, Franklin County, 20 March 1857 — Page 1

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A NEWS AND BUSINESS PAPER-DEVOTED TO FORBJGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, MORALS, TEMPERANCE EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE, AND THE BBST INTERESTS OP SOCIETY. VOL. HV.-NO. u. BROOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1857. WHOLE NUMBER 1262.

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For lbs Indian A mar Kin. 11(1 ES. tl . L. M. Asoa a starry ma wounding billow tu s might r rsga to mount tha ihort, IlM Sal Utile elt vaooti, IsMfSf bmio. msM i ISO Null ! CI. xlt Inftjr pn ;., e Preeumptnou. st rive U reach tho awful helgM. let Ilk lb war sinks loth doaolat level Of Ua impotent might . OflM Troth's like ar.cleni mir I Satten maJoatT IIa strewn around, iriftjim with man? ft enlatlr trgcnJ, M rates are Ivy -cmancd. Te aroSttease of creed, jo groat brain tol'ere. fa sin te rear iho Tempi 4 jre try, Tka) Uegiag mm I rail through tu broken arcben A4 Iber la no reply. f Um 4rrsd OTtttrle of an nnknown country Oer vague Immortal hapes aro Joume) lug on, Oar mortal Saara maat bear a, company Until Um goal la wee. ,a haart hare faith am! I the da knose, Wettpwiloailr tonight; 9mW. UM tnwai of tho morotn mmm r Um essst of light. ATM EVC. t a. a. rKTt a. BSWMtmlr sink tha r iming sua ! Yel twilight lingers Iii I, Aad beautiful at dn-ame of haaren Tre elambwrlng o the bill. leap with all her glorious things. ath Iba Holy Spirit's a Inge, A Ml rendering uaek tho huea uo ro ll reatlng In a irsare of lave. atrateiMaa made from tha traea, O ar jon dark reek reclined, Patte tike tba whispering word ef peace Upon Ma heavenly m ; AM laus -Ilk pinions steeped la 4uw, raeth gaatly, m If alMllag through FMjm ftaMb aawart.Uiay aama to blaaa T sflrtt with UMir holius . A ad leader gtutarlag throng ef etoad tatbrlaf from UM akt , wgalsatr aMve.ao sveail glow, Tbey aaem u ganay'a rya Brbjatstaewree or a bettor phare, ftsaa aawa at noon te wortkip bore, Aad from ibataaortaao of lore, lavtralag io uteir baas sbo The Mae tadet ef lha g.,ldan ass, Tba abjhtarch aatlag high, Tba low on thai gau upon Uta haaren, Tae brtgbt atraataa leaping by, AM Mr log with rail, ton I deep Us giatias an tka water, ikep, Aaal mingle with tho moon- Mtte n;s Uka um aon light of par tad daa. TaaenfHlef tha bely ere, CooMa through tba ailont a'r, Ta Arsling'iiiiddati iprlng.and wake The gah of inuia there; Aad tba mrdapth, of olha, beaSS paealng Ibir, r, atmott doam 1 hat are raa rlaa and wander ihr "jh Their apaa path of traahlaaa ' Kaab seel IsllUd with glarloe dreamt, Baab pa oa ta hoaiea wtM AM tboag it I eoarixg to the Mr laa Of glnry aadallad. AM haty Mplratlna a'.nrt Foartbtront tlio tami.lu f Iba haart, And Swsjaganfkjf Mnh'ad i'k Una are rhaoOer aplriU la tha gales of Imavuu. mho wou Tin: WgAIIY. Haart, b'. ü, li In Um earbaete f thy wee, Saw Ibnu (llently and i.i . Oaseae M woe walaar ti,.i m. - etbou Uli I a ikon Uli ' Tatnly all thy ;werd tro apnken Till wa ward af 0d haib brokea Lata 'a dark mi atari. . gtoi or M Be in. 1,1 at III I Raat Una sUII I Til Uty "alhar't w irw of grtaa, Walt thon )ai bofara h fa. g. Ha lay tara dallruranaa winImp iMs suit ! fcatd, my o i j Hy thy grase, 0 may I ha All aebmkMlro. allanlly, To UM auoat lalow mt lUy rod Urd.myO ii ' ObopnaH, Klaa;! Na thy f.iiinoM m,i w Uli, yet rVa'l faith in thov Till from night iba day hall prtng bapborl, Ring! PARODY ON Till: i.tsr itosr or V.rimEU. Tta tbo la, I rait a of anpper, Loft alaoming alono. All lis light brown roatpanless Am Ua tiara d aad gnaa. ffa eake af tu kind rod Reeeeklo Is nigh, Tweteam an ih pi itm, Or near lit ataie lie. Ill ant taara ikoo, thon lone one. To meat a roLa fain, tlaca Uty males are sll raten, Coma lio on my plate 1 TMakladly 111 hatter Thy i teaming aide o'er, And think an thy aweolnoaa "aon thou art ao mare. Teas alt rakM mul follow, Tbroo ilmoa arary day, WkeabMsklMl Is rtMy Tboy matab asjan ; TTbou hungry la mighty Aad slek nee bts lowo, Ro cake eaa Inhabit The table alone. i-MAatPlEP" As own at noon tide, on a slobby loa, matt Ute taint frsgranee from dltlsnt BaWn, ry or my bojhnod'a brlgbleat hoora Ta-way la loaUng from tba paat to raa. Ibeeang ary farorlu a-nga: aha read the booke "o4 M raa.!; aha aatwerod vha aareaa totd bar mora than words con Id well exWHb tba mate eloquence or Under look a. I esBBot atll her lse; ws brestbsd no vew, Sfae worda or lore warn on bar lips or mine; TatoalUier thought another ban t ahoeld twin TM wrsaut af ersago blosseus round bar brow Ab, won t Waa lonely wai the weary way I trod along Ute deMrt, wbile a bsnd 0 f dree ate sad bopc: firm jouUi encbantad hand Were with ae; Ml tbe dsarett dlMte-day. GO" At a late publio meeting, tho following -dr-. tout wm given. Tbo author will got "buttore I" when bo gets home: -Tho Proas the Pulpit the PtticoaU, tho throe ruling Powers of the day. Tha first spreads knowledge, the acoood morals, and tbe third spread a-coo-Idarably.

THE LEGEND OF SAMNE.i THE M&IDEtf AHCHITICT Of'sTRASBURO.

n I Ii I Ihn heart, and not I lid brain, Thai lo Ilia highest d-ntt attain. Lomirmow. How many aro dnily lamonling that femnlo vocation! nro so few, nnd that dondonco must therefore bo tho lot of tho great majority of women who nro not among tho Tory small number born to fortuno. Would it not bo wi.cr th ut l.imentatlon to oxamino carefully bow farctistorn or prejudice hitvo unnecessarily rctric . tod tho careen of industry nnd nrt, In which tho delicate taste nnd neu live rcfiuomontof Iho female iniud might find auch fitting exercise? ' The Logotid of S tbinc, tho d ut-ltter or Erwin do S.-'inbacli, tho architect of Strasbourg, i nn Ulaat ration of tlio beautiful adaptivem- of feminino talent to the highest walks of nil; ovon tlie most sublime combinations of architecture upon tho most gigantic scnlo. In tho fourteomh Century, many of tho greatest of tho vaat Cathedral of central Enroo wcro rising tow.ird completion, their fretted lowers piercing tho heavens to an elevation that tho greatest, works of

antiquity never nMainod; the whole of j against tho crock a ted pinnnc'.o cf tho turtheao etttpcudoua strttcittres ao covered j rot, ho perceived that it was no other than rUh curving of ouch minute and exqui-. S.ibino hersolf; nnd that she trod tho gidsito boautv, th;tt ono roiht Canrr myiiuda j ly path nlong the narrow wnlls, ncroaa the

of lace-working Atomies had wrought I'neso aculpturod mountains from tlio living rock, in theslow propre of countless nges, as tho coral worm grail ually bmhlt tip trnp-1 io continents from the Ixuo of tho fwtbesn Iim dodp. , 8o graat was tho enthusiasm with ; which theso vast Christian templos were 1 raa red, so abundant tho attpply of nrtistie . skill, tliatat the time Krwin do Sioinbach ,

subnuttod his plan of tho great tnuer of which sho had already dnnmod the Strasbourg to Uiahop Conrad, of Lichten- dcn'jn. bonr, tho most skillful artisans flocked in As Bernard stood concealed in the shadsuch multitude to tho wor'.c, ihM tho ow of n butt roan, anothor stealthy atop cbroniclorsof tho time compared them to was heard; and n tall, dark flguro emerged a whole population engaged upon it, form- j from tho dark intriencios of the upjnr part ir.g, as they state, ono of tho moat extra of thU vast building, and advancing toordinary spectnlosof tho time. And such ward the nposito side of tho topnf the wus tho ono-mitidedaest with wlilch this portal to tho one where Sabino was work-

mass of artists conducted thoir nlmuluineuus labor, that no rin-lo nanto in proa- j erttrd prior to that of Stein buch. Of tho i original planner of tbo vast temple, of nil the cunning carvers of tho countiesatittne, and all tho quaint aad excoMont devicos so highly wrought, so carefully finished in overy part, iho i. inios nro nil unxnown nn noaoiooa in tuis vast labor of lovo and faith. The name of Sabine nlnne is sontchod from tho gor.ernl obscurity by a trait of sentiment which provo, as tlio beautiful line of Longfellow, nt tho bond of this articlo soiwcotly express is that 1 1 U lha haart, an I nwt M hraln, Thal m too blgaaat doth mIIbIii." Irw!n do Stvinbnch died, as so many had dono beforo him, crq tho omploiion of the tompls, nu.l dying with tho nmb - . II a a a a .a a .a a tlonnf a true mil t, coi pnod hiaaou Jean and h s d.ughte S.il.ino (1h'i devotod ! with buecesMlo tho art of tholf f.ttl not to allow nny name but that .f 8:oinbnoh to bo"'mo nasnchited with iho ti r minntion of the rapidly advancing structure. It wns decreed that tlio completion of tho work should bo confided to tho architect who should, within twulvo d iyn, pro. ducu Iho niont excellont plan fwT I ject. Amot g tlmaj xi,o had worked In j th VMt aWr'er of Kr win, wm Iwo vonthful nrchiloct-sculptori, who ha, I behehl, not without tho loop sympathy ut axliata, tu well As lovers, lliu t ilet.t, Ilm devotion, und tliu Li.nityof S.tbnio. Tho elder of those was Bernard do bun tl on, a Silcsiao, n youth of mild character, lincture l with a strong ctut of tho deep devotion, whh h aiiimato.l many of ih of that high period of Chriatum art. Tlio younger uns known by tho nnmu of Poljr4orea and was a uativg of Doulegna; of a rockles nntl nmb tiuna cbamcter. On . the eleventh day be exhibited a plan for completing tho wor!;; it was a m ignilleont doaign, full of the boldnoss and during which tlistingiiuhod tho character of its author. 8abino saw It, wondered nt its beauty, and retired to a email cell in the old atelier, fetch was her own peculiar du 1 to, to weep; for she saw that her brother Jean waa vatupii.bcd :t!ao tho nioek llernard, wiio who had fouiul nioro favor in the se cret heart of tho artist-maiden, than the daring Folvdoro. Night eamo at last to Lido her bitter tear, and the wept hcraclf to sict-p. Dot in that sleep tlio highest regions of nrt aeemcd miraculously oponod to her. She law in tho droamland of her artist vision temples nnd p-daccs In which tho hihoat beauties of Gothic art wore carried far beyond nil she had seen m . trth; ami waking, the dream was o f pfebta, ao clear, that ibo traced tlio lomn; of the splendid vlaion npon a aheet oi parchmant with inch accuracy, thnt it scraed n realization of herdronm. It was tho twelfth day tho prixo was adjudged to Sab.ne. Tho work advanced rapidly, tha matchlass sculptures of tho portal of tho great clock -tower excited great enthusiasm, and all expressed the deepest adnrration except Po'ydore, who had daringly demanded tbo hand of tho nuidcn-nrcliitccr, and been refused. But what excited tho greatest wonder was, tha npi 1 pro;ro$ of thoso iuiricr.io ana ci.iooTate sculptures, wu-.cu . overy morning seemed even moro IM anced and more beautiful than tho night a S a . a a m V before; insomuch that it was deemed mi raculoua, nnd inpcrsiition wliispcrod atrango stories of bauds of angels toiling in the night at tho edifice, and thatSubiuc was visibly protected by iicaven.

5 "J moro I." cotniloto tin cxquiaito portal, when, on of ho day but one, tt rertt. jnrtof tho work wu found defaced

and broken. It wns tlion that tlio fickloness of popular favor was truly shown; the 1estrnction, it was averred, WM tho work of domons; t ho labor of Sabino wcro rejected of God. Ik'rnurd do Sunden alono still believed in tbo piety nnd goodness of Sabina; nnd it i.iglit, tho last night, his figure might luve been seen gliding from pinnacle to pinnacle, among tho mingled turrets and eOafTulding of tbo cathedral, toward the summit of tho jr,reat portnl. Arrived at plc whoro 8- mutilation ! "con committod, ho was noar falling from tho yet unprotected wall on which ho stood, ns he saw advancing toward him a shadowy, white figure, so slender, ao graceful, so beaming with a divine earn catncssiuul expression, that, as tho boautiful hoad seomod attrrottndod with a kind of glory In tho ray of gontlu moonlight tli.it fell upon it through nn opening of the tracery, he thought ho bohold one of the angels whoso immortal hands had been supposed to havo shod such siicrhumnn bu.iuty upon tho sculptures of tho portal. Dut as ho stood and gazod, supported ! tottering planks, over tho gaping void of OrnTtOffM benealh not with the cunning j and experienced step of tho waking, but with the wonderful instinct of tho sleep- ! ing. Thus was tho magical progress of tho work explained to the wondering Dornnrd, as lio beheld tho sleeping girl ply tho mallot and tho chisel with a rapidity and skill tint plainly alio wad sho wm ilrenmin tho ntcuticn of tho work, of ing, commonood with mallet nnd chisel a destruction, as active as tho restoration which wns going on, on the opposito tide. The to figuron might havo aymbolized tho spirits of Oood And Evil of croation and destruction. "Taa!" exclaimed Bernard, In an under tone, "yes, Polydoro! thou art as truly the demon wlm destroyed, as that girl is tho angel who criatid tho work!" Polydoro turdod fircoly toward tho a;cakcr, by whom ho found himself thus unexpectedly discovered, and advanced furiously toward him; a fearful struggle was about to commenci on the narrow wall, with n yawning gulf on oithor side, hundrodsof foot deep, when Polydoro, In In rage, missed his footing, and foil headlong MtO tho dorp, d.nk chasm below. Tho day lud arrived when tho great (WW of tho clock-tower was to boexhib10 tho puWIrj tho morning boamed brightly on the light now stonework of tho vast building; ami as the workmen prepare I to remove the scaffolding and screen the wejffcam, completed, a it suomod. by it inlniciu :ho Imtly of Polydoro, with tho evidences of his guilt, the mutilating mtklllt awd chlael, lying noar Ida band, vns dicovt red beuentli tho arch of the groat and now porfoct jtortal. I it necessary to odd that Sabine bothe IIb of Bernard do Sundoii, and tha'. tl-y planned and executed many BUnliiul works tojother, not thi louat of arhlph are tbo ox;uialte sculptures of M ! vdwtjrg? The aUtito of Sabine, which commonurates h;r story, and hor shnro in the a 1 i .nient of tho cathodral of Strasbourg, in the chisel of M. A. Onuta, now intrusted w ith tho ropnn and rostoration of this exquisite monument of tho art and thu faiiU of tho Miiblle Ages. rider Sir. uir unit tlio DrlnUiitg lrefeneor. It w us Cmiferonco day, nnd tho mombcii wcro nsjiomblod. Klder Slrango n I'aitor, proaided ns moderator. Cnaes of dealing wcro called npmi when Dr. D., after some hesitation, nroso from his scat, .i ul after del iberatoly placing ono foot on tho scat behind him nnd folding his nrun art on hia breast, ho fixed his eyes upon tho ceiling above ntnl add: 'Brethren, I am sorry nhem! I am sorry to nny nhem! that I went to tbo grocery tho other day ahem! and while I n tliero, I met several other person:; and ns it wns wot nnd cold, wo all con cluded to tako a dram; and I am sorry to sty ahem! that I was overtakon and drank too much. I hope, brothron, that you w ill for-tvo mo for it, and I wil! try to do so no more." Tiio Ehler looked at him with a piercing eye, and mid: 'Brother L., don't say you were overtaken, but speak tho truth right out and acknowledge that you went to the grocery to drink that inatead of being overtaken you overtook tho liquor, and tho liquor, as you knew it would do, overcame you; and so you got drnnk yea, drnok! and thereby disgraced religion and tho church both. And if you have not bumbled youisclf before tho Lord and obtained hit CorgivoneM for your sin, I advise you to do so at o;.cc, nud after that tho church ... . w.ll bo prepared to set tn your ease." Poor L's feelings cannot be deicribed. Hi thought excltiaiou from fellowship would follow. But the church, after coniM arable conrultation, agreed to forgive him, ns that was his firat offence; but he understood from tho ovidenco before him, bat another such n case would QO be toi-1 orated. Baptut Watchman. i

i Tba Orphan !! . "lis faded, yeMo calm and moak, Ro geutly wmii.m swarlly woaW." Tho bustlo of tho fight wns over, the

prisoners hud been secured and tho deck washed down, tho watch piped, anil tho schooner hnd once more rolapacd into midnight quiet reposo. I sought my hammock and soon fell nslecp. But my slumbers wore disturbed by w ild creams, which liko tho visions of n fever, agitated nnd unnerved me; the last strife, tho hardships of my enrly life, and a thousand other things mingled together as figures In a phantasmagoria. Suddenly a hand wm laid on my should, and starling up I beheld tho surgeon's mate. "Little Dick is dying, sir," bo snid. At onco I sprung from my hammock. Littlo Dick wns n sort of protege of mine, lie wnsnpnlo olHwttl child, said to bo nn orphan, nnd tiaod to gentle nurture, and from tho first hour I joined tho ichooncri my heart yenrned toward him, for I too had onco been friendless nnd nlono iu tho world, lie had often talked to mo in confidence of his mother, whose momory he rrgarded with holy revoretico, whilo to iho other buys of tho iWp ho had little to say: for they wore ru le and course, ho delicato and aonsitivo. Often whon thoy jeerod him for hi melancholy, ho would go apart by himself and weep. Ho never complained of his lot, though his companions imposed upon him continually. Poor lad I his heart was in tho grave with his lost parents. I took a strange interest iu him, and had lightened his tusk ni much M possible. During the tato fight I had owod my lifo to him, for ho rushed in just ns n sabro was leveled at me; and by interposing hia feeble cutlass had averted tho deadly blow. In the hurry nnd confusion sinco, I hnd forgotten to inquire if he wns hurt, though nt the time I inwardly resolved t exert all my influence to procure him a midshipman's warrant in requital for his service. It was with a (Ming of reproachful agony, therefore, that I leaped to my foot. "What!" I exclaimed, "yon don't mean it ? Ho is not dying T" "I foir, sir," Mid tho messenger, shaking bin bead sadly, "that ho cannot live till morning." "And I havo been lying idle here !" I exclaimed, with remorse. "Load mo to him !" "He Is delirious, but in tho intervals of his lunacy ho aks for yon, sir," ami as the man spoko we stood besido the bodlido of the dying boy. The sufferer did not lio In his usual hammock, for it was hung in tho very midst of the crew, nnd tho closo air around it wm too stifiling; but be had been Citrriod under tho open hatchway, and laid thoro in a littlo open aparo of about four feet square. From tho lotind of tho rlpplei, I Judged tho schooner was In motion, while tho clear, calm, blue sky, seen through the opening ovorhend, and dotted with myriads of stars, betokened that tho fog bad broken awny. How calm it smiled down on tho u an fnee of the boy. Occasionally n light current oh ! how deliclotislyoool in that pent up hole eddied down the hatchway, and lifted tho dark ohestnut lockiof tho sufferer, ns with his head repoelng In the lap of an old veteran ho lay In an unquiet slumber, Ho breathod quiek and heavily. The wound of which be was dying had been intensely pan ful, but within tho last half hour hud eomowhat lulled, though ovon now Ids thin fingers tightly grasped tho bod clothes m If lie iiifforod tho greatoit agony. A bntilo-stalnod and gray-haired eoamnn stood bosldohlm, holding a dull lantern in hia hand, and gating aorrow fully down Umiii tho sufferer. The surgoon knelt w.th hia finger on tho boy's pulad. As I approached they all lookod up. The veteran who held him shook his head, nnd would have spoken, but the teara gathered too chokingly iu his eyes. Tho surgeon said"Ho Is golncr, fast joor littlo fellowdo you soe this ?" As ho IfORl ho lifted up a rich gold locket, wltit-lt had laid ujoii tho boy's breast. "Ho has seen better days." I could not answer, for my heart was full; here waa the being to whom, Mrt a few hours before, I hud owed my life a poor, alight, unprotected child lying before mo, with doath already written on his brow and yet I hail never known his danger, and had never sought him out; it reproached me in that hour. They Rett ced my ngitntion, nnd hia old friend tho seaman that held his head laid sadly: Poor little Dick, you'll novor sco tho shore you have wished for so long. But thoro'll be moro than one, when your log's out,' (he spoko with emotion,) "to mourn over yon." Suddenly the littlo fellow opened his erci and looked vacantly around. "Has ho come j et ?" he said, in a low voice. "Why don't he come ?" Iam here," said I, taking tho little fol lows hand, "dont you know me, Dick? He imiled faintly in my face. Ho Iben said, "Ton havo been kind to me, sir kindor than most pcoplo aro to a poor orphan boy. I have no wny to show my gratitude, unless you will take tho Bible you will find in my trunk. It a small offering, I know, but it is air I hare." I burst into tears. Ho resumed: "Doctor, I am dying, ain't I? for my sight grows dim. Ood bices you, Mr. Danfortb." "Can I do nothing for you, Dick ?-' said I; " you laved my life. I would coin my blood to buy yours." 'I have nothing to risk; I do Vt want to lire; only, 'f it's poiblo, let me be buried by my mother you vill find tho name of tbo place, and all about if, in my trunk." ''Anything, everything, my poor lad," I answered, chokingly.

"The little fellow smiled faintly: it was liko nn nngels's smile. He did not answor. His eyes were fixed on tbo stars flickering in that patch of blue sky overhead. His mind wandered. "It's a long, long way up there; but thoro arc bright angels among them.

Mother used to say that I would meet her I there. How near they como ! and I see I sweet faces smiling on mo from among ahem ! Hark ! is that music ?" and lift ing his fingers, he seemed listening for a momont. Ho fell back, and the old veteran burst into toars. Tbe child was dead. Did ho indeed hear angola' voices ? Ood grant it. Fact, Fun uud rancy . In tho pretty village of Iladdonflold, New Jersey, sotno years ago, there resisidod an old fellow who was familiary known, town and country round, as "Old Joo." Ho had no jiarticular occupation, except doing "chorea" or errands nor any particular location. Ho ato where ho could get n bite, and slept wherever he could get a lodging place. Joe was a regular old toper, and Jorsey lightning had no moro offect on hisinsldos than so much water. He generally mauo his head quarters nt the lower tavom, for there were two in tho town. Ho would sloop and doze away tho afternoon on an old bench in ono corner of tho bar-room, but was always awnke when there was any drinking on. When he was not asked to drink, ho would slip to tbo bar, and drain all the -lasse of tho few drops left in them. One afternoon, Dr. Bolus, the village physician, was in the tavom, mixing up a preparation. He placed a tumbler half full of aquafortis on the bar, and turned round to mix up tomo other ingredients. A few moments aftor he had occasion to uso tho poisonous drv.g, whon ho found to his dismay that tho tumbler bad been drained to tho last drop. "Mr. Wiggins," exclaimed the doctor in affright, to the landlord, "what has become of the aqttafortii I put on the bar a fow momonta ago ?" "I don't know," replied tho landlord, "unless Old Joe slipped in, and drank it" In this inspicion thoy were soon confirmed, for the ostler said ho had soen Old Joo swallow tho fatal draught. The doctor, knowing that ho must certainly die after such a dose, instituted a March at onco. After somo hours spent looking through the barns, out-housos, and woods, for throo or four miles around the village, Joo was abandoned to his fate. It wm a cold night, as tho village topers assembled ' nrotiud the biasing hickory fire in the bar-room, nothing wm thought of, or talk;ed of, but the unfortunate ond of poor I Old Joo. 8omo four daye had elapsed, and nothing having been heard from Old Joe, thoy came to the conclusion that he wns a goner. Tho doctor, about this time, had occasion to visit a patient, some eight milei distant; what was his surprise, when ubotitflve mllM from tho village, to aoc Old Joe iu front of a farmor'a house, splitting wood. "Why, Joe," said the doetor, riding up to tho fonoe, "I thought you wm dead and buriod before this !" "Why, what made you think that, Doctor 'I ' said Joe, loaning on his axe-handle. "Didn't you drink that dose I left on old Wiggins' bar, a fow dayislnee?" "Yes," replied Jue, half ashamod to own It. ' l I yon know what It wai ?" naked the Doctor. "No !" returned Joe. "Why, it wm aqtiafortii enough to kill a dosen man 1" "Woll, now, Doctor, do you know that I thought there waa omethiug quear

about the darned stuff, for after 1 drank It, J reooncilM ui to many en uooomevory tlmo I blowod my nose, I burned a fortable position In life. It makes us feel

hole in my pocket handkorchief." Tub MAhntAor. Fkk. Tho lato Dr. Boynton wni once disputing with a farmer about tho oaso with which a miuistor oarnod money. "Now," Mid tho farmer, "when you nro called on to marry a couple you never expoct a less sum than threo dollars, and you sometimes get ton dollars this for n fow minutes' service." "Pooh !" replied tho Doctor. -I would ngreoto give you half of my very noxt marringo feo for a bushel of poUitoes." "Very woll," said the fnrmor, "I'll tako I your offer, and send you the potatoos." A few days afterwards, the Doctor was ! called on to splico a loving couple at Dog- ' town, a place about four miles from where he lived. When tho ceremony wm over, tho bridegroom said to tho worthy minis - tcr : "Well, parson I s'posel must fork over something for your trouble V hat say you to taking ono of my terrier pupe?! Tho best breed, I tell you, in the country. Shocking nice to have in the barn. Worth full five dollars and I s'poee a figure 2 would do for the splice, eh?" Tho Doctor took the pup with Joy. The joko was too good; be hastened to tho farmer, Mying: "Now. friend, bore is my fee bow shall wo divide it ?" The farmer relished the joke so well, that he increased the potatoes to half-a-dozen bushels. Good Reason. "Doctor," Mid a hard looking customer to a physician, "I am ', troubled with nn oppression about the breast what do you suppose the matter I lT" "All very tuj accounted for." said the physician, "yon hare water on the chest." "Water! Come, that will do well enough for a joke; but how could I get water on my chest when I haven't touched a drop, for fifteen year?' '

Ao Ape-aile Ist m ataeäte-t. Give Paul Mar's Hill for a pulpit, and thousands of Athenians for an audience or let Felix's judgment-hall ring with his noble voice or let him pour forth gospel tidings at Rome Philllppi, Jeruialem, anywhere put him in pnson, in the stocks even; but somehow it seems to deal harshly with our sense of propriety to Me such a nobleman of both nature and grace, in such a humiliating dilemma as that of being squeexed into a basket. It would shock tho sensibilities of most of preachers of our day, terribly, to be thus disposed. They would shako their canonicals in horror at the idea of a peraonal incarnation of this kind. But the Apostlo went into this thing like a man. Jewish doge and Pagan wolves were in full cry after him, thirsting for his blood. But Paul dosired his blood to circulate a little longer, for the sako of the church. He had no objections that theae wild beasts should have it when tbe proper time should come. But believing said time had not yet come, he held on to life. And to mvo it, he must do the best thing that could be done. And as a basket, let down from the wall of Damascus by a friendly hand, was the most likely of all modes of escape, into the basket he wont liko a man. And Satan would have been ploascd to have had Paul stand up from his dignity and decline so humiliating a way of escape, and thus be sacrificed to the fury of hiscnomie, and the church thus bereaved of this burning and shining light. Dut Paul and Satan were never on good terms after their first collision; and there was no harmony now. Satan would have Paul go out of lifo the earliest day possible. Paul .onld not accomodate him; but chose to live as long ns be could, for the sake of doing as much harm as possible to the kingdom of darkness. Satan may inecr, and other people too, at Paul iu a basket calling this a compromise of his propriety, a pitiful humiliation, and all that Kot a bit of lt. Thero wm, it that particular Juncture, but juit one place for the Apostlo; and that was in that same basket It wm batter for him to be there than to have been In the greatest pulpit and before the mightiest audience man ever add reiset I better than even to have had tha ciown of a seraph in heaven. Paul in a basket and Panl on Mar's Hill! There is truly some difference in

theso positions of the ApMtle. But m duty led to each of them, into each of them he weut, and we doubt not with equally joyful promptness. He waa as truly serving Ood while in the basket as when in the noblest pulpit be ever ascended. Ue wm on aa happy terms of acceptance and communion with Ood while dangling at the rope'o end, by whieh he was suspended, as when thundering tn the ears of thousands the extraordinary gospel, or writing theso sublime messages of bis, whieh form so important and vital a part of tbe Word of Ood. The quMtion of all otben is this : Is a man, under any elreumstances, actually where the path of duty carriM him where the Providence of Ood plucos him? This being settled, it matters not where that spot is, that ipot is sanctified by being the a pot axeignod by duty, and ia thereby made more honorable than any other spot on onrth. Let the ohlld of Ood in the humblest circumstances, or in those the most trying and humiliating, be content and happy in hit lot Let him remember the great ApMtle to the Oentilea in the basket, and if Providence puts ui in inch a place, it la the beat plaee in the universe for ui. We hne to think of Paul In that baathat great good men have beeu made sub ject to positions and circumstances very repulsive; and why should not we? Omce has carried them through groat humiliations. It can carry M.Emngelitt led leal UM of tail. In many cases of diaordere) stomach, a teaspoonful of salt is a certain cure. In tho violent internal aching termed cholir, add a tcaspnnr.ful of salt to a pint of cold water; drink it and go to bed; it is ono of tho speediest cures known. The same will revive u person who seema almost dead from a heavy fall, dec. In an apoplectic fit, no timo should be lost in pouring down salt .voter, if sufficient sensibility remains to allow of iwallowing; if not, the head must be sponged with cold water until tho sense returns, when salt will ' completely restore the patient from lethar gy. In a fit, the feet should be placed in hot water, with mustard added, and the lege briskly rubbed, all bandages removed from the neck, and a cool apartment procured, if powible. In many cases of severe bleeding at the lungs, and when other remedies failed, Dr. Rush found that two tcaapoonfula of salt completely stayed the blood. In case of a bite from a mad dog, wash the part with a strong brine for au hour, aud then bind on some salt with rag. In toothache, warm salt and water ' held to the part, and removed two or three times, will relieve it in most cases. If tho gums bo affected, wash the month with brine. If tho teeth be covered with tartar, wash them two or three times a day with Mit and water. QCT An Alabama editor aaya of a late festival occasion : "Several healths and songs were masterly advanced, and received in the climax of ccatacv and unanimity, while elo quence was borne from the speakers' lips on tbe resounding pinioM of enthusiasm, the dying echoes of which were like tbe urmuriDg of distant thunder."

Inicrma r rlatgea . A bill is now before the Legislature to remedy some of the evils ariaing from the intermarriages of blood relations. In tbe annual report of Dr. Anthon, Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane, wo find the follow ing interesting remarks relative to tho subject, which are well worthy of consideration. If any bill is pawed we hope the many excellent auggestioni of Dr. Anthon may be incorporated in it It is a subject worthy of not only legislative consideration, but remedy, ao far as legal restraints can be made effective: While upon this subject, It maybe well for us to refer to the resolution adopted at the Meiion of the lato Legislature, inquiring the number of insane patienti in the Hospital whose parents were connected by tho ties of consanguinity, Sec. Although wo have no means of learning tho extent of this relationship, as appliod to the whole number of patients who are and have boon inmates of this institution, there is, howovor, in our humble opinion, a sufficient number of known instances to arrest thj attention of tho philanthropist, and call into requisition all his arguments to prevent tho intermarriage of cousins. Our own observation, however, has long sinco decided in our mind that physical defects moro com

monly mark the progeny of intermarriages of this sort than is characterised by mental obliquities; but be this nt it may, physiology and the influence of tamperment revolve at the frequent violation of those two great elements, which unobserved in intermarriage, are the leading cansm of mental, moral, and physicial defects in tbe different races of mankind. The moral question involved in thii subject we leave toother hand. It ie too delicate and intricate to engage our attention upon this occasion. We are only desirous to call your attentiou to what is charged aa being a source of much human deformity, in physical conformation ami mental manifestations, and ospttially the lattor. The evidence favoring the charge is too clear to admit of a doubt; and without attempting to illustrate hy Instances to establish our position, we will merely allude to the opinion of tbe inhabitants of almost every part of the globe upon this important subject We have but to look into our own country for a well rooted prejudice whieh prevails to a very mark ed extent against the intermarriago of cousins. Tho prejudico 1om not arise from the fact of tho marriage of con. ins. but from tho fact that the mental and physical deformitiM nnd eccentricities are far more commonly found in the progeny of cousins than iu intermarriage where the parties are unconnected by blood relation. There aro, to bo suit, prominent exceptions to the charge, but tbey are mere exceptions, and the other aide of the question is the rule. I many parti of Europe long and accumulated prejudices exist among the people against the marriage ot first cousins The reasons are not aaked, but living monmento are pointed out as sufficient for a rational eoplo to avoid. So far as our knowledgs extends, the Catholic is the only Church whloh positively Interdicts tho marriage of first cousins. Other religious denominations have mooted theqiiMtlon, but so far m we are informed, have never settled upon any definite. The Impreulon, however, Iim been left, that an evil wm to be found somewhere In the Intermarriage of blood relations. We have but to point to the different castes found in Africa and the South Sea Islands, for examples to Illustrate the de atructlve effects of the intermarriage of blood relations. The Indiana of our con tiiiout, afford another vary atriking argument igainit luch connections. All theso pooplo are remarkable for bodily and intellectual InferiorltiM The muscular system is wanting in site, in tower and in symmetry. Many of the African clans havo married in and in, until tbe present generation of somo of them, might very well be excused of blasphemy if they sbould claim having beeu made in the image of the devil instead of tho Almighty. Their intellectual and moral qualities are lamentable vitiated by tho samo process. Wherever you find in any of those countries an offspring of the negro ami one of nny other nation, the superiority is at once noticeable, both physical and mental strength, neither parent being equal to thoir offspring. The samboes of .South America, the progeny of the Negro ond Indian, are far superior in personal beauty, muscular power and intellect, to their progenitors of either side, and without the leaat disposition to advocate the horrible doctrine of amalgamation with the African, we may refer you every day to examples illustrative of the doctrine that the intermarriage of castes or races improves the progeny of one or tbe other. The intermarriage of the different castes of the Caucasian race, doubtless gives t tbe United States tboir prominency in the world for energy and progressiveness. Were it not for this commingling of the various castes in inter marriage, as exhibited in a I moat every domicil in the country, wo would not now be characterized "the freest people in the world." We might extend this subject almost indefinitely, but the character of s report would Iom its tndenty in an effort lo write an essay on intermarriage. What we havo is only justified in this place, from the fact the law for the ndmiasion of patients to the benefits of this institution, is defective in the particulars referring to the oubject of intermarriage, and we embrace this occasion to call your attention to the great desire of tbe benevolent to hsre tbe law m amended as to require the Medical

w itness to state whether the patient apply- I

ing for admission is tho offspring of blood relations or not The subject of intermarriage with blood relations is an important one to community, and should have a fair investigation, that the charges preferred against it should be laid bare to the public, and tbe truth known, whether in confirmation of or against the allegations. If such marriage are productive of more insanity, moro mental eccentricity, more defects in tho eye and ear, and in general physical development, certainly no humane legislator can object tojirge some remedy to arrest ao dire a consequence as result from inch intermarriage. Itoecalltr Abantasllng. The gospel is preached to tho poople regularly, all over the country rgRgkHH papers and mag.ttit.es are circulated in families, and many valuablo poraons art good examples before tho world but notwithstanding all thia, nnd more, observation teaches us that rascsliiy abounds la all classes of society. Potty thufts are daily committed such as robbing nt drawors, stealing clothes, ami dry good, chicken, ducks, corn, ami other oaUble. Strolling vagabond, dealers in counterfeit money, ami diseased horses era sit over tho country. Usmblers, tMveling and local, nntl residont rogues, are nil on tho alert. Pious v. Mains, with faces aa sanctified as tho moral law-, nro koeping false account, and swearing to t hum, for the sako of gun. Whiaky ftlasfBj are selling by the small, in violation of the i Drug stores are training up drunkarda in high life, and affording facilities for SiU bath drinking which can bo had nowhere elao. Th rich are opprrsaing the po: , and the oor are content to luo in ra and idleness. Country dosiere in prod Oleome to town ami exact twit prices for all they have to sell, and tho owners of real estate in towns are asking double rents, to the injury of business and the growth of towns. Banks and cororntious, intended for the public good, have their favorites, and aro partial in the distribution of favors. Families persecute ami envy otch other. Individuals slander their loiters. Person of low origin put on airs, and falsoly pretend to be moro than they are. Cheating and misrepresentation are lb order of tho day, generally. In politics there ia very littlo patriotism or lovo of country, while domngogtiM seek to mislead, and build up their own fortunes at the batard of ruining the country. In religion there is mora hypocrisy than lialWa san. ossv weh abVUHMlvie in iii crowd Into the church with a view to cloak their rascaliy designs, and more offeetu.tl ly toset vo the Dovil ! In a word, rascality abounds In all classes, and In all countries. The Dovil is stalking abroad in open day-light, without the precaution to dross himself. And if the present generation of men could soe themselves In the Ooepel Olaas, they are as black aa Holl Drawnlotoi Whig OettoroeltT. "I say, Mister, did you drop your picket book?" said a small siaed urchin to n gent whose shadow looked like a smashed pyramid. "Urn! feeling his pockets 'um I ah! well, j-m, my eon." Watt, I" "On e it to me. my son." "What kind of a book was ii, I My, Mister t "Black leather straps, clasp buckle and had two hundred dollars In It In bills, notes and checks. Bonny, where did find tho book?" "I any mister, whattl yer give to get It back again?" Ton dollars." "Well, I hain't found any; only aa you was goln' along, I thought ion lookod just like a man who had I out attthlu' or wantoil to lose sutbln', I didn't know oxackly whlch." "Oetout, you littlo wretch!" "If I And your pockot-book, old horao, all you've got to do to get it is to step up and givo 'scorify tbat you noods it mor'n I do, that's all! culling so ta Geverowr. Governor Chittenden, of Vermont, was a fine specimen of the nobld-hoArted. high-minded, and intelligent yoomanry of New England, and his resilience good old-fiuhioned farm. With ull the generosity and liospitality of tin- m i-t and miit rest of the mansion, thde was not a particle of nristoenuie cxcltisivcness about tbem. Tho Oovernor knew tint man was n man. provided hia character ami conduct wero good, and was no sulscrtbor to the doctrino "that fine feathermake fine birds." Honirspun orvcKct, he cared not what tlio garb was, pro Ideal the wearer carried his heart in the iiia place. One day a man who had some business with the Governor, arrived at feta home on horseback. Seeing a rotighlydrcseed man at work noar tho door he pulled up and called out: "I say you, sir, does Gov. Chittenden live here?-' Thr msn nodded, "Very woll, old fellow," said the rider, dismounting, "you hold my horse while I go into the houao." He found Mrs. Chittenden, nnd stated that he bad called to aeetho Governor on very important business. "Well," replied the Governor's wife, he is about here somewhere; I saw him a moment aince. Oh!" she added, looking out of the window, "there's tbe Governor holding yout horM!" 03r A dying Irishman wm asked by his confessor, if he was prepared to renounce the devil and all his works, "Oh. your honor," said Pat, "don't ask me that; I'm going into a strange country, and don't wast to make myself onsMiosr

Little boys should be seen and

not heard," as tba buy said when ko ce'd not recite hia losson. OCrSome person wm once asked w hy li stood before C? Becenss, a the an swer, a man mnat B before be can C. HoPirt L Yoctr "You airt a orgging, that's what yon dor1 "I know I do, dad, but I'D try to get along without it." tjThe learned man who lately cat a slice off his thumb to see bat km vajtaa war like, is assisted by a chap a a JBo tend, that mad uwss ia a saifteewJ. 0Cr"How long did Adorn WMojo jii Paradise before ho sinned ? stud Ml SjSjsJ. ib'.e Mise lo her husband. "Tfti he-ajpt a wife," calmly answgred iho husband. 00 Ati Illinois e.l tor, Mekirtg ef a rngut who livM in bis ictntty, Samte "The rascal ha broken e retry bar, od j.til, and Sabbath, w bate h id in fo outintry for the last five years. 0C"I 't not rcasoi . ble lo nprmwe rttat when a young Ltd y offer lo hem Mbr c handkerehlwla ( old bweholorw, U SOMn to sew in order that she mav reap? (Or Thcro waa a point ia tha RaoJat remark of n (Jain farmer to a aotitew hat trnuacendotiial preacher. "Pake rare, , t, on don't put the h it an h-g'i in the rock th it the Inmh cannot reach it " OT A loung lady whn wn rebuked by her mother, for ktsin Ii r i'lLrwIa 1, putfi n! the art, by q lo'.n th' agA ' W ha1 .ie vor thnt ineo abort!-! do nolo you, do ye even m whir tw?w. . CO" The only rlaa of men in the world who aro not iu tho habit of d iparnjing their neighbors, era tho nsMeore of taxes: for it ia well known they never ' underrate'' anybody in tue slightest do ree. (Or "If I were ao unlucky," sa d an of. firer, "as to have a stupid son, I would certainly make him a porsoi..- A clergyman who was in the Oompnv, c.ilntly replied, "You think differc .illy from year father." (OrThe late Hcv. Dr. fas was both a great wag an I agroit smoker. "There you are," cried a young lady, who surprised him one day, with n p po in Ida mouth, "at your idol again." ' Y1, nt idam," replied he, coolly, "burning it," (OT A clergyman engaged In catechising the vlllagj school, aaked a yn jugate', 'Whet his godfavthersand goJm .titer i for him?" ' I don't know, pleAM your reverence," rejoined the lad; "they have done nothing fur me yet." fOr Wma- is like ivy the more yon are ruined the closer she clings to ysa. A vllo old bachelor adds: Ivy is litte woman the closer it el Inge to you the more are you ruined. Poor mlo thnt don't w oik both way. Knock down that baehclor! (Of "James, do yon love your s hater?" "Yes, sir." "Well, show mo how mach you love her." The boy mood at; 1 1, t ot knowing what to do. -Jame bow do I express my lore for your mother? H)h. you give her bank Ulla, bot I alu'l got any " (OT Rowland mil rode a great detl. and by exercise prent n cd vigorous health On one occasion, when nakod b a medical friend hat physician ami apathecn-y he employed, to be always so well, re piled: "My physician has always beesi a Aerav, and my atheMry an au" (Or Julia ' Now, Alfred doar. I must leave yon. I am about to shut inyecli out from tins uorld." Alfred "Why, in the name ef mad. nets, Julia, von are not thinking of retiring to a convent ?" Julia "No, dear, doa't alarm yaorveUI am only going to (Hit on my new ctiMv line dress." CtRUlCAL Wit. On a certain occasion it noted infidel bot rowed a sum of money from tho late Rev. Dr. Lath top, ui Wate Springfield. Mans. When ho cams to pay it, ho thought to iK the Doctor lv .-a argument from the Bible. "Yost ought I not to tako interest for thla monev. for the - .. a . i iiuni were inruiQuen to in.u n,n t r i i no, no," s.iid the Doctor, "you nrsnt; the Jews wore indeed forbidden to take Henry of (heir own pooplr, but they wove a-'-lowed to tako uury of thu heathen!" The application waa loo direct lo la mistaken, and the nun w.rs quite wflling to drop the argument nnd pay ike money. (OjT A gentleman was once dining with t f r ei I when a m t: drei I ful stna '.' In hoiea of ita abatement the entert nmont was pn.'oiigc i r thu latest pouib'c hour; but nt length it w rra o er, sog the storm sho wed i.o signs of cctaitig, bat, on iho contrary, grew worae and worse. 'J e host insisted upon bis guest' accvpte'icc of a lodging for the night, iu tiew of the imports bbiy of reselling borne Tho guest com pi. cd, but in u few minutes wmb missed from tin OrWr. Tn half au hour ho reapcsrotl, drenched Whh rain. "Where, in Heaven', name, have you been ? akod the host, viewing the viogn lar object, which looked like a tiog uho' t tho paws, and a weeping wi.Wrw atjvwv she head. "I I said He, qn-etly ahn king off the watci "I have been at home to Ml my wife Usui, a it was such a bail night, I should not return " A Maav Tautr, The moat. sit kaoi of a mean theft was perisetratcd on or nearest neighbor, Rev. Mr. Long, on last Saturday evening, by entering his smoke house and taking eight nicely cared aad healthy ham. Tbe long-lingered gentry should havo moro respect for tba cttth n their excursions, and confine tbeir thefU to outsidsrs. It would be a fit jsWagaaent on this sacrilegious thief if every saeuthful of those haaas would eheste tbat oM of IhM stMMMliM