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The Blue Bird's flon({ we soon shall hear, Sweet harbinger of Spring Its notes are welcome to my ear, 1 love to hear it sing!

It comes, the soonest of its raco. And flic* wiih gentle wing It seeks the old frequented place,

And there it loves to *ing.

Come, gentle bird, and let us hcur Thy early notes of Spring And may thy mate, as wont, be near.

To share the joy ye bring.

Come, build the nest, the hollow rail la where it used to1^ The food ye want, it shall not fail,

And we will welcome thee!

The Blue Bird's song we soon will hear, Sweet harbinger of Spring Its notes are welcome to rny ear, 1 love to hear it slug!

THE WELCOME LAND. BY J. O. LYONS, LL. D. Once, on afresh and fragrant evo I wandered up ati island steep The tints which rosy sunset leave. Lay purple on the heaving deep A day of tempest, dark and stern. Was closing in an hour aa bright As ever gemmed the summer fern, Or turned the mountain stroams to light.

Unmindful of ihe breakers' war That raged along the lonely strand, 1 watched beyond the waves afar, "The green hills of my father-land." Long have 1 chaacd them o'er the sea. By surge and temptest tossed and driven, And where they roso to weleomo me, Clothed in the fairest hues of heaven.

Heir ofeternal life! be strong, Nor in thy darkest hour repine Though pain and sorrow chase thee long, A land more leauteous far is thine Ay, though thou fall, unwept, unbleat, Thy monument a blasted sod, Thine is the christian's pleasant restThino arc the radiant courts of Hal.

IS E A N E O S

Bonaparte*# llnblt*.

}li« partiality for the bath he mistook for a necessity. He would usually remain in hath two hours, during which tim« I used to read to him extracts froiu the journals and pamphlets of the day, for he was anxious to hear ami know all that was going on. While in the bath he was continually turning on the hot water lo raise the temperature: •o thai 1 was sometimes enveloped in such a dense vapor that I could not see to read, and was obliged to open the door, Bonaparte was exceedingly tempt rate and averse to all excess. His flatterers, probably under the idea that sleep is incompatible with greatness, have evinced an equal disregard of truth in speaking ot his night watching. Bonaparte made others watch, but he himself slept, and alept well. His orders were, that I should call him every morning at seven. 1 was, therefere, the firat to enter his chamber hut very frequently. when I awoke him, he would turn himself and say, "Ah, Bourrienne, let me sleep little longer." When there was no very pressing businwa, I did not disturb him again till eight o'clock. Ila generally alept seven hours out of the twenty-four, besides taking a short nap in the

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the private instructions which Bona

parte gave me, one was very curious. "During the rtiOTt." said he, "enter my chamber as seldom •a ncwrtWe. Do not awake me when you have anveood news to communicate with that there is no hurry hut when you bring me bad news rouse me Instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost This was a wi« regulation, and Bo* naparte found hie advantage

Memoir* qf NapJam

VOL. XVII. NO. 31.

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THE FLOW KB THAT BLOOMS THE BRIGHTEST. The Sower that blooms the brightest.

Is doomed the first to fade The form that moves the lightest, In earth is soonest laid. Th3 bird that sings the sweetest,

First droopB away and dies And happy hours are fleetest, Beneath the lower skiea.

The vow that's scaled the strongest, Will soonest waste away, And things will laat the longest.

Which soonest should decay. The heart that ne'er knew trouble, ifas every thing to learn For life is but a bubble,

From the cradle to the urn.

There is a world of glory, Where pleasure never die*. Where the youthfal and the hoary,

With praises rend the skies Where chryutnl streams

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Then,

leaping

O'er the crimson onyx stone, And where the voice of weeping Id never, never known.

children, can you cherish. That pearl of matchless price Which when your forms shall perish,

Can buy your paradiw. Where night's dark shadows never Fall down upon the plain. And where the saints forever

With crowns of glory reign.

from the Cincinnati Mirrury.

THE IILUE BIKI.

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Messrs. J. C. Riddle & Co., of Montgomery, Alabama, propose transposing mails, government stores, osc., for vis,* 400 per month. That is, ihcy propose to do for #160,000, per annum, the same service for which Messrs AspmwaU & Co., ask the Government 8S50000 Their bid is 3100,000 under that of J&essrs. AspinwaH & Co.—Monigom.-

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If the moon has proved to us, incontrovertibly, that one of the celestial luminaries is a solid sphere, carved into elevations and depressions analogous to those familiar to us, as the mountains nnd valleys of the terrestrial surfaces.— Mars teaches us as emphatically that another among them is a world, filled with its rain and snows, and clouds and seasons suited to the purposes and wants of organic life, which is intimately dependent upon such adaptations for its being.

Mr Mackay,an English barrister, has published 9 travels in the United Stales. The following is

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in relation to the beauty of Amciican

women: ,. ,, "There are two points in which it la seldom equalled, never excelled-thf classic chssteness and delicacy of the features, and the smallne*s and exquisite symmetry ol the extremities. In the latter respect r-—» dies are particular!

the ooth, where it to .— bloomed. Bat it is mo more lasting in the north and northeast a remark which wilfapply to the whclo refiiuQ nwth of tbc Potonw» iiid fist of the Ukee and I have known instances of Piu!a-

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Are the Planets Inhabited. Are the planets inhabited? is a question that naturally presents itself to the human mind, and for a fWution of which we as naturally look tt^be science of Astronomy. But when the immense distance which separates us from »he nearest of the planets is remembered, it can scarcely be matter of surprise when the telescope affords no direct evi dence of the question, whether the planets, like the earth, are inhabited globes. Yet though it gives*no direct answer to the inquiry, modern astronomy has collected together a mass of facts, connected by the positions and motions, the physical character iind conditions, and the parts played in the solar system by the several globes of which that solar system is composed, which form a vast body of analogy, leading the intelligent mind to the conclusion, that the planets are worlds, fulfilling in the economy of the universe the same functions, created by the same Divine hand, for the same moral purposes, and with the same destinies as the earth. Thus, for example we find ihat those orbs like our own, roll in regulated periods round the sun that they have nights and days, and successions of seasons, thai they are provided with atmospheres, supporting clouds and agitated by winds and thus, also, their climates and seasons are modified by evaporation, and that showers refresh their surfaces. For, we know thai wherever the existence of clouds is made manifest, there water must exist there evaporation must go on there electricity, with its train of phenomena, must reign there rain must fall there hail and snow must descend.

Notwithstanding the dense atmosphere and thick clouds with which Venus and Mercury are constantly enveloped, the telescope has exhibited to us great irregularities on their surfaces and thus proves the existence of mountains and valleys. But it is upon the planet Mars, which approaches nearesi to the earth, that the greatest advances have been made in this department of inquiry. Under favorable circumstances, its disc is seen to be mapped out by a varied outline,some portions being less reflective of light than others, just as water would be less reflective than land. Buer and Meadler, two Prussian astronomers, have devoted many years' labor to :he examination of Mar*, and the result has put us in possession of a map of the geography of that planet, almost as exact and defined as that which we possess of our own in fact the geographical outlines of land and water have been made apparent upon it. But a still more extraordinary fact, in relation to this planet, remains to be considered. Among the shaded markings which have been noted by the telescope upon its disc, a remarkable region of brilliant white light, standing out in bold relief, has been observed surrounding the visible polo. This highly illuminated spot is to be seen most plainly when it emerges from the long nights of the winter season but when it has passed slowly beneath the heat of the solar beams, it is found lo have gradually contracted its dimensions and at last before it has plunged into night on the opposite side, to have entirely disappeared. But the opposite pole, then coining into similar relations, is iound to be furnished with a like luminous spot, which in its turn, dissolves as it becomes heated by the summer sun. Now these facis prove to us incontestibly, that the verv geographical regions of Mars are fac similes of our own. In its long polar winters the snows accumulate in the desolation of its high northern and southern latitudes, until they become visible to us in consequence of their reflective properties that these are slowly melted as the sun's rays gather power in the advancing season, until they cease to be appreciable to terrcstial eyes. The fact is a most striking one in reference to the present question.

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Circulation of the Dlood.

For the discovery of this wonderful function of nature, we are indebted to Dr. Harvey, who lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth the knowledge of which has conferred incalculable advantages upon mankind. The velocity with which the blood must flow when the heart beats

violently

for, in the

is inconceivable

ordinary

cotfrsc of nature,

the heart contracts 4000 times in one hour, each time ejecting one ounce of blood.

To be more particular in our description, it is necessary to state that there is provided in the central part of the body a hollow muscle, invested with spiral tubes, running in both directions. By the contraction of those fibres the sides of the muscular cavities are necessarily squeezed together, so as to force out from them any fluid which they at that time contain by the relaxation of the same fibres, the cavities are in their turn dilated and, of course, prepared to admit every fluid which may be poured into them.' Into these cavities arc inserted the grand trunks, both of the arteries which carry out the blood, and of the veins which bring it back. This is a general account of the apparatus: and the simplest idea of its action is, that by each contraction a portion of blood is forced as by a syringe into the arteries and at each dilation an equal portion is received from the veins. This produces, at each pulse, a motion and change in the mass of blood to the amount of what the cavity contains, which in a full grown human heart is about an ounce, or two table-spoonsful. Each cavity at least will contain an ounce of blood. The heart contracts 4000 times in one hour from which it follows, that there passes through the heart every hour 4000 ounces, or 350 pounds cf blood. Now the whole mass of blood is about twemyfive pounds so that a quantity of blood, equal to the whole blood within the body, passes through the heart fourteen limes in one hour, which is about once every four minutes.

"Wives of Working Men.

Spenking of the middle ranks of life, a good writer observes :—"There we behold a woman in all her glory not a doll to carry in silks and ribbons not a puppet to be dandled by fops, an idol of profane adoration, reverenced to-day, discarded to-morrow admired, but not respected desired but not esteemed ruling by passion, not affection imparting her "weakness, not her constancy to the sex which she could exalt the source and mirror of vanity we saw her as a wife, partaking the cares, and guiding the labors of her husband, and, by her domestic diligence spreading cheerfulness around her for his sake sharing the decent refinements of the world without being vain of them placing all her joy, all her happiness in the merited approbation of the man she loves. As a mother, we find her the affectionate, the ardent instructress of the children she has tended from their infancy training them up to thought and virtue, to meditation and benevo-^ lence addressing them as rational beings, and preparing them to become men and women in their turn. Mechanic's daughters make the best wives in the world."

Saying: "Turkey."

In the exciting scenes which attended the rebellion of '37. known as Mackensie's Rebellion, there were many rich and

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latter respect particularly, the American laparticularly fortunate. I have seldom seen one, delicately brought up. who had not a fine hand. The teet are also generally very small and exquisitely moulded, particularly those ot a Maryland girl who, well aware of her attraction', has a thousand little coquettish ways of her own of temptingly c*hiliti»g them. That in which the American women is most deficient is roundness of figure. But it is mistake to suppose that well rounded forms are not to be found in America.— Whilst this is the characteristic of British beau:v, it is not so prominent a feature in America. In New England, in the mountainows districts of Pennsylvania ami Maryland, and in the central valley of Virginia, the frmale form is, generally speakinc. as well roonded and developed as it is here whilst a New England complexion is, in nine cases out of ten. a match for an English one. This, however, cannot be said of the American ladie* as a ci«*. They *re in the nr rity of cawa, over delicate and languid a jct chiefly superinduced by their want of exetd-e. An English girt will go through as much exercise in a forenoon, without dreaming o» fatigue, as an American will in a day, and be overeome by the exertion It is also true that American is more evanescent than English beauty, particularly in fade e'er it has well

HMiutae* -v- can be sustained, where the first mar* d.lphia beauty as Wy aid «£uri¥ as «ny th.t

specimens of Yankee

character displayed. Some of Uncle Sntn's truant boys, who could not curb their fighting propensities, crossed the lines, and joined the patriots. They soon found themselves nccesaitnted to fill their own camp kettles, inasmuch as thepntriota had not the means to either teed or pay. If the farmers' hen coops were visited under such circumstances, who would wonder! Complnints at length reached the officers' ears, and several were reprimanded for the outrage. last the b'hoys began to get tired of complnints. etc., and they agreed to lick the first man who said "turkey." A

few

were out on a

say turkey

to an honest man, d—nyou! you siv 'urkry to me. will vou I stole vour turkeys, did I! Take that! will fhu—and that!"

We find the following amusing

jeu

on the Shields and Brcese uf-

fair, in the Bulletin— If Shields and Breese will shoot or not, No human being knows

Some think a fight, with Breese engaged, Would surely end in BLOWS.

It may be so indeed the case With other such agrees. Ami statesmen's duels often end

In kicking up a Breeze Another— One's faith in metal's soundness grows

Much weaker when one sees Great Shields, that grape shot could not hnrt. Demolished by a Breeze!

MATRIMONY.—"You ought to marry." "Never."—"I know a good girl for you.M—"Le» me alone."—"But perhaps, y0l,—pshaw!—you don't know her.— She is young."—"Then she is sly."— .. Beautiful ."—"The more dangerous." —'Of good family."—"Then she is proud." —"Tender-heat ted."—"Then she is jealous."—"She has talents."— "To kill me."—" And one hundred thousand dollars."—"I will take her!"

MAKBIA3ES on SUNDAY.——it said, that the Pennsylvania courts have decided that marriage i* a civil contract, and that they have also decided that no contract made on Sunday ia valid.— The Register says that the question is now being agitated whether marriage# in that State on Sunday are lawful, and whether indictments for bigamy

hatJ t&feen

place on Sunday,

TERRE HAUTE, IXI).. MiliCII 31,1849.

A Fat Man.

A laughable incident happened in Eleventh street in this city recently.— A raw, inexperienced Irish girl just arrived from the old country, with the verdure of the Green Isle still frosh upon her, was taken into employment as a house-maid,.. .A^o'^g other duties assigned her, she was directed to colloct all the scraps of fat and other matters from the various depositories of the kitchen and luy them usidtf, with instructions to give them to the first "fat man" that should como j|long—"fat man" being the technical appellation of those individuals who traverse cities in search of materials for soap. Having collected the materials, the girl took a position opposite the .street door and by and bye seeing a gentleman of respectable rotundity approach, accosted him, inviting him to walk in, as her "misthrcss" wanted to see him. The gentleman was astonished at this invitation to a strange house, but nevertheless walked in, and was directed by the girl to take a seat in the parlor, where he said he would await the lady's commands. She then went to her mistress, informing her that there was a fat man down stairs. "Well" said tlte mistress, "give him the fat." "But," said the damsel, "does'nt he wunt to say you?" Astonished at this pertinacity on the part of the dealer in grese, and still more astonished that he should have taken his seat in the purlor, she went down stairs, when her astonishment reached its climax at finding a very genteel good-humored-looking gentleman occupying the apartment. There was mutual embarrassment. The lady blushed—the gentleman stated that be was there on her invitation and, with much stammering, the lady staled it was a "soup fat man" she expected to see! Apologies for the awkward mistake of the girl followed, which the fat man at once rtccepted, and with various explosions of laughter at the contretemps, the gentleman good humoredly took his leave.—Nerd's Guz.

Oratorical Ballooninp.

On the occasion of Ex-President Polk's recent visit to Richmond—he was welcomed by Mr. Speaker Hopkins in the following manner: "It would not be befitting in me, on this interesting occasion, representing as I do, sir, gentlemen of all parties and everv variety of political sentiments, to review the various important measures which distinguish and immortalize your administration. But I may say, that previous io vour administration, the setting sun of Heaven never cast his last evening rays upon the confines of oui* glorious Union. But now, sir, and forever, that brilliant orb of light when he emerges from the billows of the Atlantic, darts his first morning rays upon the sandy beach of our Eastern sea. shore and after performing his daily rounds through the heavens, when he dips his broad disc into the placid bosom of the calm Pacific, his

lingering

upon

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beams still plav

American soil

rip.

and

soon became a "wee hit unco happy" on the exhilarating "barleybree." In this condition one of the party accosts an old farmer who was passing by— "Hello, old Tory, say turney "No. I csn't, what'll I ssy that for f* "Well, just say turkey. thnt'B all! come, old fellow said Playfait\ in a very coaxing manner. "Well! TurArv'" snid Auricola.

Instantly the dd farmer was knocked down, and pounded most sorely, whilst Flayfair ejaculnted between each thump, "I'l lam

you to»

in the glittering gold

of California." Whether the orato§survived this effort—the Virginia papers do not say.— We consider it somewhat doubtful.

HAIL COLUMBIA!—Among the letters of excuse for non-attendance received by the Committee of Arrangements for the recent Franklin Festival at New York, was one from "old John," a father of the Press. He relates the following incident in his early life. "One day when I had got to be foreman in the office of the Philadelphia Gazette, an evening paper, a piece of poetry came in at a late hour, und. as was supposed, all set up. But, just as we were going to press, it was discovered that the copy was written on both sides and that we had omitted half. By dint of good scratching we got up the remainder in pretty good time. That picco of poetry has made considerable noise in the world since that day. It was the song of "Hail Columbia," in the original manuscript of the author Judge Hopkinson."

PRECEPT vs. PRACTICE.—Dr.Channing had a brother, a physician, and at one time they both lived in Boston. A countryman, in search of the divine, knocked at the doctor's door. The following dialogue ensued— "Does Dr. Channing live hero?" "Yes, sir." "Can I see him?" "I am he." "Who, you?" "Yes, sir." "You must have altered considerably since I heard you preach." "Heard me preach?" "Certainly. You are the Dr. Channing that preaches ain't you?" "Oh! I see you are mistaken now.— It's my brother who preaches—I'm the doctor who

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No TIME FOB QUARTERS.—A Highlander, whoso regiment had been surrounded, bad cut their way out with the broadsword, with a loss of half their number, being the last in retreating, was stopped by a forward Frenchman returning from the pursuit, who charged with his bayonet, but soon finding the disadvantage of his weapon, cried out quarter!" "Quarter ye?" said Donald, "py my soul I'fe nae time to quarter ye maun e'en be conientit to be cut in twa!" making his head fly from his shoulders,

A solemn philosopher announced, as the result of his deliberate reflections, that it was a remarkable evidence of the goodness of Providence, that great rivers always run by great towns.

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Mrs. Hemans.

An essay in a late number of

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Black-

on Mrs. Hemans, contains some interesting particulars of her private history. The following is an extract:— "Not long after the first publication of her poems, the next great event of her life took place—ber introduction to Capt. Hemans. The young poetess was then only fifteen, in full glow of that radiant beauty which was destined to fade so early. The mantling bloom of her cheeks was shaded by a profusion of natural ringlets, of a rich golden brown and the ever-varying expressions of her brilliant eyesgavo a changeful play to her countenance, which would have made it impossible for any painter to do justice to it. No wonder that so fair a creature should excite the admiration of a gallant captain. And the love on both sides was ardent nnd sinccre for Capt. Hemans, soon after their introduction was called upon to embark with his regiment for Spain. On his return in 1812, they were married. Of their domestic happiness or unhappiness nothing is said but six years after, in 1818, we aresimply told that the captuin went to Rome— and never returned. The separated pair never met again. To dwell on this subject, says her biographer, would be unnecessarily painful yet it must be stated that nothing like a permanent separation was contemplated at the time, nor did it ever amount to more than a tacit conventional arrangement, which offered no obstacles to the frequent interchange of correspondence, nor to a constant reference to their father in all things relating to the disposal of her boys. But years rolled on—seventeen years of absence, and consequently alienation and from this time to the hour of her death, Mrs. Hemans and her husband never met again."

An Illustration,

We were amused the other day with the following anecdote illustrative of the uses which man can be put to, in emergencies—and as an argument in favor of making mechanics of one's sons. A ship was wrecked upon the shore of an uninhabited island. The crew and pascongers could all do some kind of mechanical labor, save one. He was, as they say in England, (and the phraseology is finding its way out here) "bred a gentleman." He could not work.— His hands were tender, and his gloves were kid. It was decided he must do something or he could not eat so the workies set their inventive faculties agoing. They soon agreed upon a novel, simple,* but very effective expedient— they made the poor fellow a nice, warm pair offeather

pants, nnd

to sit upon a

dodd—ge.

compelled him

basket and hatch eggs!

The Dodd Dodge.

The Cincinnati

Despatch

tell a story

of a countryman in market, who was diddled out of a pair of chickens and a turkey, in rather a funny manner. The purchaser not finding himself possessor of the required small change, gave the farmer what he supposed to be a ten dollar gold piece, saying he would step into his house near by and get the money, leavingthe^oW as security. Aftersome time had elapsed, and the purchaser not returning, a closer inspection of the eagle was had, and found to be one of Dodd's advertising coins. Our inexperienced country friends must beware of this new

GOOD.—An amusing incident occurred a few days since between an old (whitehaired) Whig and a parson somewhat tinctured with locofocoism, that is worth relating. The parson called upon the whig for a donation to the church. The whig responded, 'I am in such a good humor about the election, just name your sum and hero it is.' The sum was named and given. 'Now,' says the Whig, •I'll tell you why I am in so pleasant a humor. Just look how the Lord has drawn the line between corruption and honesty. Mr. Polk is President of the United States on Saturday the third of March, and then goes out of office. The Lord is President on Sunday, and on Monday he will hand the government over to honest 'Old Zack.' The parson pocketed the cash more pleasantly than he did the remark.—St..

Lnuis Republican.

STARCH PUDDING.—One who has satisfactorily illustrated the truth of the old adage that tho "proof of the pudding is in eating the string." has the following rcceipe for making Starch pudding. Four table spoons of starch, three eggs, one quart of mi!k and a little salt. Pulverize tho starch—beat it and the eggs together,—heat the milk, when near boiling add the starch and eggs, stirring it briskTy till it boils, when it is doue servo with cream and loaf sugar. It is said to be a most delicate dish.

An anecdote which has been going the rounds of the papers, has just started again. It relates to Rev. Dr. Kirk, of Boston, who officiated on Sunday in Rev. Mr. Beecher's church, viz: Early in life, a ludy of fortune, whose attention was awakened towards him by his conspicuous talents wrote him a note, offering her heart fortune and hand.— The Rev. Dr., however, with more terseness than gallantry, replied to her, that she had better give her heart to the Lord, her fortune to the church, and reserve ber hand for him who should ask it.

The following was lately stuck upon the door of a centre street grogery.— •This hoose is removed round the corner till tho repairs are done.' Some fellow wroie underneath, 'Inquire of Mr. Snooks in the cellar, till the house cJmes backl"

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The Natural History of the Sabbath. The Creator has given us a natural restorative—^leep and a moral restorative—Sabbath keeping and it is ruin to dispense with either. Under the pressure of high excitement, individuals have passed weeks together with little sleep, or none but when the processes longcontinued, the over-driven powers rebel, and fever, delirium and death comes on nor can the natural amount be systematically curtailed without corresponding mischief. The Sabbath does not arrive like sleep. The day of rest does not steal over us like the hour of slumber. It does not entrance us almost whether we will or not but addressing us as intelligent beings, our Creator assures us that we need it, and bids us notice its return, and court its renovation. And if, going in the face of the Creator's kindness, we force, ourselves to work all days alike, it is not long till we pay the forfeit. The mental worker—and man of business, or the man of letters—finds his ideas coming turbid and slow the equipoise of his faculties is upset grows moody, fitful and capricious and with his mental elasticity broken, should any disaster occur, he subsides into habitual melancholy, or in self-destruction speeds his guilty exit from a gloomy world.— And the manual worker—the artizan. the engineer—toiling on from day to day. nnd week to week, the bright intuition of his eye gets blunted, and, forgetful of their cunning, his fingers no longer perform their feats of twinkling agility, nor by a plastic and tuneful touch, mould dead matter, or wield mechanic power but mingling with life's blood in his daily drudgery his locks are prematurely gray, his genial humor sours, and slaving it till he has become a morose or reckless man, for any extra effort,or any blink of balmy feeling, he must stand indebted to opium or alcohol.—North

British Review.

"N. P. Willis, the editor of the Home Journal, very justly observes,

A Sceue not in the Bills. The Yankee Blade tells a story of a greenhorn who was absorbed during the close scene in Hamlet, where the prince upbraids his mother. A rat taking advantage of the stillness, approached the peanuts, etc., which lay at his feet in tho pit. The Countryman finally found the varmint nibbling his shoe leather, and prepared for action. At this moment, the cry of Polonius behind tho arras, aroused the mad prince, who rushed up the stage, cryingout: "A rat, a rat! dead for a ducat!" just as the countrymatt brought down, with crushing force, his cowhide boots upon the offending rat's head, and leaping to his feet, he cried with delight: "This way, mister! this way! Here he is, here he is!" at the same time holding up his mangled vic'im by tho tail, to the view of the whole theatre.

TOUGH.—Some of our contemporaries have been trying to see how tough stories they could tell, but the Maine Farmer'takes the rag off from the bush.' It tells a 'crowder'of a chap in Cobbos-seeconte-dom, who took a gill of camphene by mistake for gin, but whose life was saved by a most ingenious process. Afterthe stomach pump,nnd all thought-of-means had been tried in vain, the grocer's clerk simply

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were an apprenticeship to the trade of authorship, it would be as essential that a young author should pass a year as a compositor in a printing office, as thai a future sea captain should make a voyage before the mast.' Mr. Perley, of the Bostan Bee, even goes further, and contends that'washing rollers, bringing wood and carrying newspapers, are till necesr sary to the education of a good writer,' and he goes back with a good deal of gusto, to the good time he used Jo have, when in the morning he got a great piece of warm ginger bread at the baker's shop, tor his promptness in supplying the subscribers at the shop with the paper. Willis says his grand father and father were printers before him, and that he served two years at the case. He adds,'whatever may have been the merit of our own style of writing since, we are convinced that we owe, at least its freedom from certain defects, to the training we received while so small as to stand perched upon two type loxes at a 'brevier case.'

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To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.—A strong writor, who. it is presumed, was a married man and wore his own pantaloons, says "Early marriages make us immortal. It is the sole and chief of empire. That man who resolves to live without woman, and that woman who resolves to live without man, are enemies to the community in which they dwell, injurious to themselves, destructive to the world, apostates from nature, and rebels against heaven and earth." That will do.

COOLNESS W EXCITING CIRCUMSTANCES. -In a recent case tried in Cincinnati to establish the precis© time of the death of a man who with his wife, were blown up by a steamboat explosion, an Irishman was put on the stand who was also blown up, but escaped. Said the attorney to him, "When did you last see the gentleman alive!" "Sureyour honor,as me and the stove-pipe were going up, we met him coming down."

"I had rather not take a horn wiih you,' said a loafer to a bull btit the bull insisted upon treating him to two, and the loafer got quite high.

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S. Buckingham, Esq., at th« rtaee®* Peace Convention at Brussels If we take a retrospective yi^v, of fliU tho great empires and kingdoms of an: tiquity, from Egypt and Babylon down JO Persia, Greece, Rome, and ask what has become of all their wealth, power, and magnificence, history answers that they are no more, that they are.sw^pt with utter desolation, and,that,all aro prostrate in tho dust, with scarcely A hope of re-animation. The rnighty cities of Thebes and Memphis, Nineveh and Babylon, Persepolis and Palmyra, once the glory of their respective regions are now desolate and abandoned, and even Athens and Rome, notwithstanding the fragments of art which still give dignity to their ruins, are but the shadows of what they were so that instead of giving, as heretofore, the liglna of philosophy and science, or the laws and edicts for the government of tho rest of the world, they are both sofeeblo as to be unable to stand alono without foreign aid. To what fatal caust is All this general wreck and destruction to bo attributed? History answers, to tho sack of armies—to the ambition or lust of conquest—to the dreadful scourge of war Cities, which it required centuries to build up, to people, and to adornj were destroyed and depopulated in a few days. Fiolds, which it had taken ages of toil und labor to make productive of all that could nourish, cheer, or delight man, were ravaged and reduced to barrenness in a few campaigns. Instead of obeying the command of the Creator^ at his first formation of man, which was 'to increase and multiply and replenish the earth,' war has brought about the most opposite results, namely, to diminish, to decrease, and to uproot all thtit smiling peace, and her attendant handmaid, prosperity, had previously pro* duced.

Facts vs Truths.

I believe some of the best propheciM are to be found in the great poets nay, I am a fanatic in this matter, and if I were asked whether I would consent to the destruction of our great historian or our great poets, one being obliged to go. I would to retain the latter. I consider theirs are loftieV teachings. The historian is a teacher

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The subjoined extract on the 'Historical aspect and results of war' is from very able and eloquent speech d«Hv«iHid by

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ihe poet

Truth and facts are not tho

same, but they have been confused by men. A fact is something done, something that has happened, and is not necessarily a truth. If you say the sun rose, it is a barren, profitless fact but suppose we go on, watch it every day, we don't say the sun rose, but the sun rises.

It has grown, then, out of a faot

into a truth resulting from the contribution of many facts. As it takes many flowers in a still to yield a small quantity of thte required perfume, so the still of patientinduction and wise thought,study, and research bring out of the barren facts their soul of truth—Mr.

George Daw•

General Taylor is, or will be the first ofour Presidents bearingascripturalnamo —an intensely Important discovery, certainly, for which we hope he who made it—the editor of the Newport Mercury —will receive all due credit. The cognomen Zachary has not very frequently appeared appended to men in distinguished public life.

More than a thousand years have intervened between the election of Pope Zachary, and President Zachary. It is a curious circumstance that the Papal temporal dynasty was cqtnmenced under Zachary, 1107 years a^o and in tho same year that the American Zachary is called to our Presidential chair, temporal power expires, and a new constitution government is formed in Romo upon the basis of universal suffrage.

Care of Cholera^

Dr. John W. Mooro states in a Mobile paper that he cured one hundred or more extreme cases of cholera, not losing one, by the use of tobacco. He administered in the form of enema of the strength of one drachm to a pint. He first tried it upon a negro whose pulso was gone, his tongue cold, .and his muscles so rigid that he rested only on l\is head and heels. In his own case, Dr. Moore took into his stomach a spoonful of tho decoction, with perfect relief from cramp and diarrhoea. He has no doubt that cholera may be as easily managed as the fevers of our country. —_ "My dear, don't say talc, saiy narru« tive, said a modest lady to her son, who was relating a very interesting "tale" he had just read in the newspaper.— While the little fellow was thinking of his mistake, the old house dog walkerl in shaking his tail nnd looking quite familiar at the boy, when he exclaimed Ma, make Sancho quit shaking his narrative!

"Tirn. have you a coat of arms?" "No, I've nothing but a jacket. But talking of coats o' arms, do you know what the Posi-Masicr General has for his'n?" "No." "It's a tortoise going it slow, witfi a letter on his back marked 'despatch."

While the dog-law was under discussion in the Massachusetts House of Representatives the other day, says the Lowell Journal, a waggish member sent a private note to the Speaker, proposing that the subject should ho referred to, Messrs. Cur-tis,

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