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MoSTPXi.iER, Oct. 1860. f2503m Bmm vv. uiLJiJiiJtT. wYO. 13 P.UXE'S BLOCK, li6.vl N0JITHF1EI.D, VT. Sash, Doors and Blinds. mepince to purchase the lir-J) BEST QUALITY of Sash, Doors and Blinds made of the best WESTERS PlE, and in a good "Workmanlike Manner is at the Factory of J. D. CLOGSTON, Opposite C. H. WUtlrr'g mill, Montpelier, Where may be found at all tiruss a good assortment of Sa!;h, Doors and Biinds ; also, Tubes for Chain l'umps, Eave SpCnt, ic. Planing, Jointing, Grooving, nd Tenoning done in the best workmanlike manner Wliile thankf illy acknowledging a constant increase ot custom for the past four years, I would earnestly solici persons who reside in towns adjacent to Montpelier, in want of the above articles, not to fail to consult me, in person, or by letter, before purchasing elsewhere. It jhal! be ray purpose to furnish good work at low prices. J. D. CLOGSTOX. Montpelier. March 1R61- 272 STYLES, DAVIS & STYLES, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS! (Successors to S. 0. Hcrsey,) Ellis' Itlock, ITIoiitpciier. ALSO, TIIK subscribers vc prepraed to execute any kind 1'icture made by the PHOTOGRAPHIC ART. FROM TlIBlB LONG EXPERIENCE , SUPERIOR APPARATUS AND WELL FURNISHED GALLERIES, hey offer their services with confidence that they can ylcaseall who may favor them with their patronage. G. B. DAVIS, Montpeler. A. F. STYLES, Burlington. 239yl A.J. STYLES, St. Albans. Mh - !ftu' 6T. ALBANS. Spring. A flush of green is on the boughs, A warm breath panteth In the air, And in ihe earth a heart-pulse there Throbs underneath the breast of snow. Life is astir among the woods, And by the moor, and by the stream, The year, as from a torpid dream, Wakes in the sunshine on the buds ; Wakes up in music, as the song Of wood-bird wild and loosen'd rill More frequent from the windy hill Come greening forest aisles along ; Wakes up in beauty as the sheen Of woodland pool the gleam receives Through bright flowers, over braided leaves, Of broken sunlights, golden-green. She sees the outlaw'd winter stay Awhile, to gather lifter him Snow robes, frost-crystall'd diadem, And then in soft shower.-Jpass away. She could notlove rough winter well, Yet cannot choose hut mourn him now ; So wears awhile on her young brow His gift a gleaming icicle. Then turns her, loving, to the sun, Cpheaves her bosom's swell to his, And, in the joy of his first kiss, Forgets for aye that sterner one ; 0!J Winter's pledge from her he reaves That icy-cold, though glittering spar And lones her with a green cyma, And girdles round her brow with leaves. The primrose and wood-violet He tangles in her shining hair, And teaches elfin breezes fair To sing her some sweet canzonet. All promising long summer koure, When she in his embrace shall lie, Under the broad dome of bright sky, On mossy couches starred with flowers. Till she smiles back again to him The beauty beaming from his lace, And robed in light, glows with the grace Of EJen-palacod cherubim. 0Karth, thy growing loveliness Arounl our very.hearts has thrown An undimmed joyance all its own, And sunned us o'er with happiness. ittisccllmti). Our Mothers. It was a pleasant morning in May. Tho usual exercises of the school were about being entered on, when our teacher was called from the room. After :m absence of a few min utes, she returned, biii ging with her it, liitle girl, whom she introduced to us as Emma Lee. The child quietly took the place assigned her, and the duties of the day proceeded as usual. Some weeks after this, before schooltime ono morning, we were assembled on the green enjoying ourselves in oar various games for exercise. Helen Gray came up in great haste, saying, " She had something to tell us." With one accord our sports were aban doned, and we crowded around her to listen. She said that un the coming Thursday she would be eight years old, and her mother had told her that she might invito all Ler school mates to take tea with her on that day. ".Now," said she, " be sure to ask your moth ers, when you go home, if 3rou may come ; and we'll have a nice time !" Just then the school-beli rang, and it pre vented any further remarks. Whilst study ing my first lesson, I happened to look over towards Emma Lee's desk, which was di rectly opposite mine, and I baw a tear drop on the book over which she was bending her head. Another, and then another, fell. She quietly wiped them away and continued looking over her lesson. Her class was toon called to recite. Every question that was put to her was answered with her usual cor rectness. Wnen the play hour came, of course the birthday party was tho general subject of conversation. Alter a few moments, I happened to think of Emma, aud on looking around, I noticed her at some distance from tho rest of us al oik'. 1 went (o her and asked her what the rea son was she wept that morning in school ? " Why," sf.e replied ", lieu Heleu Gray "'3 s speaking of next Thursday, sho told us to ask our mothers it wo could come ;" and then her dark eye seemed to grow still dark er, as she said I have no mother to ask." J put my arm around her neck, aid kissed her. Child as I was, I felt that ther re was something sacred in Lcr sorrow, In a few minutes she looked up and said. 'My aunt is very kind to mo ; but when I hear other little girls speak of ihcir mothers, I do so wislt I had a mother, too, to love mo ! I think I never would grievo her." My heart smote me ; for I knew I had grieved my kind mother that morning by my disobedience. She told mo that she did her mother, as she had died but two years old. not remember when she . wa Tbc summons to resume our studies was given, and we were soou busy with our books again ; yet 1 could tot forget little Emma's sad story. Thursday, so much looked for, camo at last, and wc all enjoyed ourselves very much at Helen's homo. Sometim s I thought I saw a shadow on Emma's face, though she seemed to enter in to the pleasures of the hour. 3ut sho was never a merry child. have thought, since, that it was the loss of a mother's love and caro that made her quiet, even in her sports She had no mother ? I remember how long I thought of her after I laid my bead on my pillow that Dight ; and I resolved then and there to lone my mother more than 1 ever had before, Have you a mother ? Thank God for her untiring caro and precious love. Cherish her tenderly ; for next to a Saviour's love, here is the greatest blessing you will ever know on earth. 13c gentle with your companions ; but, oh! be very gont!c with the motherless for there are many, very many such, and, when you can, throw the sunlight of your love and kindness over their sorrowful, clouded path way. Novel Reading. Tho Pittsburg Advocate has an article on this subject, from which we extract the fol lowing : " The idea of a religious novel is a sole cism, and unmeaning ; but a religious alio gory is more descriptive and true a truth figuratively represented, implying something not literally expres cd. A religious novel is equal to a religious counterfeit religiously false and fielitious. We cannot conceive that anything false or fictitious is rendered any the better though qualified by the term religious. If false. U remains false; if fic titious, it remains so. ' Ileligiou is neither fictitious nor false. Then we insist upon the reading and pe rusal of something true, real and substantial; and, above all, would we recommend the reading and study of the Bible. Its truths are important. Let it take the place of nov els on the table, in the hand, in the heart, and in the life. It has none (ike it, and can find no exposition nor illustration in novels. There is no principle, tenet or theory in it that a novel can throw auy light on. Error cannot explain truth fiction cannot make clear reality. The effect of novel reading is seen in various directions from one stand point. Wl.en wo contemplate time, though difficult to define, it is of infinite importance, and once gone ca.inot be redeemed. Our fu ture happiness depends on how wc employ it, and it is criminal to abuse it by anything or in any way. That which will not tend to our highest aud best interests ought to be left undone. We can conceive of no way in which time is more illy improved and so wantonly butchered as in noul reading. The sacred moments so iogloriously consumed in the perusal of a fiction which renders no intellectual or moral improvement, are gone only to be lamented, but not to be repaired. That which is designed for tho highest pur pores and bet employment ought never to be irifiingly used. On (he manner in "fhieh wc spend time depends our intellectual improve ment our moral culture and holiness our tasting comfort and happiness. It the timo employed in reading novels was devoted to inquiry after salvation and holiness, there would be a larger number of representatives in Zion, and in her would shine the perfec tion ot beauty more gloriously. Terrible Things in Righteousness. IV, King, writing from Athens recently, refers to the terrible war of the Druse3 against the Maronites in Syria, and says : " Do you remember the history of Asaad Ksh Shidiak, as published many ycais ago by the American Board r Unco they led huu out from his litilo cell, or dungt on, and pre sentcd to him on the ono hand an imago of the Virgin Mary, and burning coals on the other, and ordered him to embrace either the one or the o.her and he tojk the coals and pressed them to his lips, and returned to his narrow, filthy prison to di) ! Those coals have now kindled a fire on Mt. Jjobanon, which has consumed all the villages and hab itations of his persecutors ! " Terriblo things in righteousness." An avenging God is a consuming nrc. Revival in London. As a result of tho rc inarkablo revival in London, of which we have had previous accounts, it is computed that the number of converts is not less than 250.QOO out of a population of 3,500,000. Two-thirds of the distilleries have been closed since 1830. Hundreds of persons near Rus sia have refunded to the government the du ties on smuggled goods. Lawsuits have greatly diminished, aud in villages onca noted for their profanity, not one oath is heard. The Exhibition Palace of 1862. This structure is to exueed its illustrious predecessor in gran.Jeur, in beauty of design, and elegance of finish. Tha main hall is to be 550 feet long, 230 feet wide, and 220 feet high ! Tho picture galleries, built of brick, will be 2300 feet in length, GO to 70 fret high, and from 35 to 55 feet wide. The nave and trans epts are to be 2200 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 100 feet high. The sheds and other necessary buildings are planned on a corresponding scale. The whole work must be finished in less than one year from the present time, or by tho 12th of February next. The Guaranty Fund, which amounts in all to 350,000, is headed by that truly royal patron of the Arts ond Sciences, the Princo Consort, for ,$10,000. It is stated by competent authorities, that the entire structure will cost 250,000, or $1,000,000. It is to be located at South Kensington. The building will be mad3 suitable for permanently remain ing on the site, and will in every way outshine tho Crystal Palace of 1851, or any other struc ture cf modern times, A writer states that the great hall will contain a cubical area more than ten tunes as laivre as that of the rro&t transept of thellydo Park building, and that it would contain five of tho centre transepts of the present Crystal Palace ; its hight will be unparalleled. There is a vast space to bo oc cupied bv the world's products, its inventions, manufactures, and works of art. America will be allotted all the room she can creditably fill, and it is to bo hoped that no timo will be lost in making preparations for having the country well represented in all the departments. Many manufacturers may prof itably exhibit their goods to the millions that will be gathered here from all parts of the world. It is, however, the American inventors who will, reap the richest harvest of profit and honor. There are a thousand inventions in use in America which ai'3 practically unknown in Europe, that could form ono of the most attrac tive collections of tho exhibition, and tho pub licity thus given them will amply reward the exhibitors. Aside from those directly interest ed m the exhibition, we shall expect tens of thousands extra American visitors in 1802. It" will be a good time for London and the Atlan tic steamers. Even the Groat Eastern will be able tj fiiul profitable eatpl.iyiujnt during the exhibit ion year. London American. Cultivate the Whole Man. You dwarf the remaining faculties when ycu develope one to abnormal size and strength. Thus have men been great preachers, but un commonly neglectful parents. Thus 'have men been great statesmen, but omitted to pay their tradesmen's bills. Thus men have been great moral and social refoimeiK, whoso own lives stood much in need of moral and social reforma tion. I should judge from a portrait I have seen of Mr Thomas Savers, the champion of England, that this eminent individual has at tended to his physical to the neglect of his intel lectual derelopament. His face appeared defiieicnt in intelligence, though his body seem ed abundant in muscle. And possibly it is bet ter to seek to develope the entire nature intel lectual, moral and physical tl.an to push one part of it into a prominence that stunts and kills the rest. It is better to be a complete man than to be essentially a poet, a statesman, a prize fighter. It is better that a treo should be fairly grown all round, than that it should send out one tremendous branch to the south, and have only rotten twigs in every other direction ; better even though that tremendous branch should be the very biggest that ever was seen. Such an inordinate growth in a single direction is truly morbid. It reminds one of the geese whose livers go to form that regal dainty, the pale de foie gras. By subjecting a goose to a certain manner of life, you dwarf its legs wings, and general muscular develop ment ; but you make its liver grow as large as itself. I have known human beings who prac tised on their mental powers a precisely anala gous discipline. The power of calculating in figures, nf writing poetry, of chess playing, of preaching sermons, was tremendous ; but all their other faculties were like thelegs and wings of tho fattening goose. Let us try to be entiro human beings, round and complete ; and if we wish to bo so. it is best not to live too much alone. The best that is in man's nature, taken as a whole, is brought out by society of his kind. In one or two respects lio may bo better in solitude, but not as the completo man.-!. A Slight Mistake. A Frenchman having hoird tho phrase, " I'vo got other lish to fry, " very readily learned itsoipplioation. One even ing, escorting a lady homo, and being invited to walk in, ho thought of the abovo expression, and excused himself by saying, ' I thank you, madam ; I must cook some fish." SVgricnltiiral. Agricultural Prospects in England. The London correspondent of the Na tional Intelligcnoer, writing March 29, draws the following rather gloomy picture of com prospects in England this season : " People flattered themselves that, after such a wet year, the frost would bring the foil into a glorious condition of pulver ization. Now we are told that much of the young wheat which withstood thnimracd mediate influence ef the frost, by being snow-covered at first, is now found to be de stroyed by the singular expansion of the soil. First soaked and then frozen, tho soil has risen so as to cut tho stocks of the tender wheat. A great breadth of ground had ia conse quence to be resown ; and aguin we are told that the fortuues of the farmers hang on a forvvaid spring. So far the snriDtr has been vory boisterous, but the roaring winds are ccriainly belter than a steady rain of some weeks, or an obstinn to frost scaling up the early year. The lambing season was looked torwaru to with eagerness ss the supplying source of mutton and wool ; but the season has, in soma of the midland and southern counties, been most untoward as respects both ewes and lambs. In somo districts the rot in sheep has destroyed many flocks. Thunder and lightning in February have done as much mischief as they usu'illy do in July, and the wind has been more than commonly destruct ive. Still the spting has come, and brought with it many favorable circumstances and all its encouraging hopes. The gardeners are now more discouraged than the farmers. Peaches, apricots, pears and plums are kil led, they tell us. down to the old wood ; and cabbages, broccoli and lettuces are swept swept from the kitchen garden, and cherries are to be things " hoped for, not seen." Still the season is, immediately around us at least, arher and much more promising thao was tho last. All (he early flowers have appear ed and flourished in thuir brief beauty. The honey bees have been nearly entirely destroy ed, and in rnanv counties not one is suppos ed tojemain alivo. lno song of tae biru is heard again in the copse, and tho rooss are as noisy,as bu.y and jtling in the avenue as ever. Iloneysuck- les and hedge rose trees are full of tender young leaves and incipient buds strawberries promise well, and early peas are forward. The farmer admits tbat the fodder has lasted better than he expected it would, and says if the grass is not very backward he shall get tnrougti. jNobody is sanguine abcut tho wheat harvest. We are assured that, under the most favorable circumstances, it cannot exceed an average crop ;!et us hope for that." Lainpas in Horses. . A correspondent of the Mark Lane Ex press writes how a cure of this disease was effected by honueopathic treatment, in the case ot a valuable carriage horso : The animal had been suffering from the disease for sometime before the servant men tioned that it was ailing. An allopathic vet erinary surgeon, who was consulted, declared that it was impossible to remote the diseased fiart except by cu'ting and burning. This we refused to permit, and began to treat it with homoeopathic remedies, but, owing to our want of skill, without any success ; the horse became daily worse ; the palate and gums were so swollen as to prevent the pow er of mastication, and were like a white sponge. In this emergency we took the lib erty of consulting a clever homoeopathic M. L). who advised us to try Rhus toxicodendron A, five drops in half a pint of water, twice day. In sixteen hours from the first dose, there was an improvement in the color of the gums and palate. The following day the swelling began to subside, and in seven days the t reaturo was quiee well, and has never sinco that time (a period of two years and a halt) had any recurrence of the ailment. To Whiten Linen. Stains occasioned by fruit, irou rust, and o.her similar causes, may oo removed by applying to the parts injured a weak solutiou oi tho chloride of lime the cloth having been previously well washed or of soda, oxalic acid, or salts of lemon, in warm water. The parts subjected to this operation should bo subsequently well rinsed in soft, clear, warm water, without soap, and bo immediately dried iti tho suu. Pitting of Small Pox. A friend who has been a sufferer from tho disease of small pox, informs us that if when tho pustules bo gin to appoar, they aro anointed with sweet oil and limo water, as theso aro generally prepared for application to burns or water scalds, it will operate toprevcnt or allay all irritation, and hinder the discoloration of the cuticle and .the pitting which aro so often the. accompaniment of this fearful disorder. l ; j :