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PUBLISHED BY HAFGOOD Sl ADAMS, m inn ilici. VOL. 40, NO 36. SI Kfrrklg nmilq Sonrnal, Sruotfb WARREN, TRUMBULL COUNTY, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1 3 5 6. ta jfmbom, Slgriraltarf, literature, (Bburntion. local Snfriligtnff. auit tjjt Owns of Daq. TERMS f tWE DOLLAR AND 11 FT Y CENT, rsa awwvil, m advahm. WHOLE NO. 20 61. Poetry. Written for the Chronicle. WISH I WAS ASLEEP. BY S. BOUTON. "O Tim. I Wish I was asleep."—Sterns. I would not, if I could, foretell The tad e-enta of coming years; I would not dare to lilt the Teil That hide oar future shame and tears: Bat I can ace, around ai, sow, Enough to mikc the angels weep:" . Crime stalks abroad with braicB brow : I wiah I waa asleep. 'What one waa deem'd the baleful eooree Whence all the Nation s miseries flow; By att retarded aa a curse, la deem'd a preciooi blessing now: And, ob hia prostrate brother's neck The tyrant's foot to keep, I aee the Nation! ana atretch'd oat I I wiah I was asleep. When patriots no longer dare To meet a tyrant's frown; When Liberty's last barrier la rudely broken down: And whea I see her hideoos foe Cone, with exalting leap. To curie her soil with crime and woa, I wish I was asleep. Embraced Ib Slavery 'i withering arms. The fruitful soil, the genial clime Of Kansas most lose all their charms; Host be the home of Grief and Crime: And, from Nebraska's far-off Tale. The Bocky Mountain's ragged steep, I seem to hear the bond-man's wail I I wiah I was asleep. Bat Southern insolence has rous'd The spirit of the North: To stay Oppression's rushing wares The mandaU haa gone forth: Those tyrants, who hare "sown the wind," Most soon "the whirlwind reap:" I tremble at the coming storm: I wiah I was asleep. From the German of Julius Strum. I HOLD STILL. Favin'i furnace beat within me qui r era. God's breath upon the flame doth blow. And all my heart in anguish shivers. And trembles at the fiery glow; And yet I whisper As God will ! And, in his hottest fire, hold still. Why should I aturnor ? for the sorrow Thus only longer lived would be: Its end may come, and will, to-morrow. When God has done his work in me; So I say. trot tine As God will ! And, trusting to the end, bold still. lie kindles for my profit, purely, Affltctions glowing fiery brand. And all its heaviest blows are, surely Inflicted by a Master hand: So I say. praying As God will ! And hone in Him. and suffer still. I HOLD STILL. Choice Miscellany. OUTLIVED HER USEFULNESS. Reverence for old age should be in stilled very early into the minds of child ren; and, like all seed sown by a moth er's hand, it will take deep root there. Then will the virtues of the aged shine brightly before the mind, and their in fiimilies be looked on with great leniency and piety. Next to motherless children; do the "stricken in years," claim oar sympathy. "The mossy marbles rest Ob the lips which they had pressed la their bloom; And the names they lored to hear Hare beer, carred for many a year On the tomb." . Not long since, a good looking man in the middle life, came to our door ask ing for "the minister." "When informed that he was oat of town, he seemed dis appointed and anxious. On being ques tioned as to his business he replied: "I hare lost my mother, and as this place used to be her borne, and as my father lies here, we have came to lay her beside him." Oar heart rose in sympathy, and we said, "You have met with a great loss." Well yes, "replied the strong man with hesitancy, "a mother is a great loss in general bet our mother had outlived her usefulness she was in her second childhood, and her mind had grown as weak as her body, so that she was no comfort to herself, and was a burthen to everybody. There were seven of us sons and daughters, and as we could not find anybody who was willing to board her, we airreed to keen her among us a yea about But I've had more than my share of her, for she was too feeble to be moved when my time was out; and that was three months before her death. Sat then she was a good mother in her day. and toiled very hard to bring us all up." Without looking at the face of the heartless man, we directed him to the bouse of a neighboring pastor, and re turned to our nursery. We gazed at the merry little faces there, which smiled or grew sad in imitation of ours those little ones to whose ears no word in onr language is half so sweet aa "Mother;" and we wondered if the day would ever come when they would say of us; ""She has outlived her usefulness she is no comfort to herself, and a burden to everybody else!" And we hoped that before such a day day should dawn, we might be taken to our rest. God forbid that we should outlive the love of onr children! Rather let us die while our hearts are a part of their own, and that our graves may be watered with their tears, and our love linked with their hopes cf heaven. When the bell tolled for the mother's! burial, we went up to the sanctuary to pay our last token of respect to the aged stranger; for we felt that we eould give her memoiy a tear, even though her own children had none to shed. "She was a good mother in her day, and toiled very hard to bring us all up but she had outlived her usefulness she was no comfort to herself, and a bur den to everybody else." These cruel, heartless words lang in our ears as we saw the coffin borne up the aisle. The bell tolled long and loud, until its iron tongue had chronicled the years of the toil-worn mother. One two threes four five; how cleaily and almost merrily each stroke told of her once peaceful slumber on her mother's bo som, and cf her seat at night-fall on her weary father's knees. Six seven eight nine ten ran? out the tale of her sports upon the greensward, in the meadow, and by the brook. Eleven twelve thirteen fourteen spoke more gravely of school days and little house hold joys and cares. Sixteen seven teen eighteen; sounded out the en raptured visions of maidenhood, and the dream of early love. Nineteen, brought before us the happy bride. Twenty spoke of the young mother, whose heart was full to bursting with the strong love which God had awakened in her bosom. And then stroke after stroke, told of her early womanhood of the love and care, and hopes and fears and toils through which she passed during those long years, till Fifty! rang out, harsh and loud. From tbat to Sixty, each stroke told of the strong, warm-hearted mother and grandmother, living over again her own joys and sorrows in those of her children and children's children. Every family of all the group wanted grand mother then, and the only strife was who should secure the piize; but hark! the bell tolls on! Seventy seventy -one two; three four! She begins to grow feeble: requires some care: is not always perfectly patient or satisfied; she goes from one child's house to another; so that no one place seems like homo. She murmurs in plaintive tones, that after all her toil and weariness, it is hard she can not be allowed a home to die in; that she must be sent rather than invited from house to house. Eighty eighty one two three four, ah, she is now a second child now "she has outlived her uttfulnets she has now ceased to be a comfort to herself or anybody; that is, she has ceased to be profitable to her earth-craving and money -grasping chil dren ! Now sounds out, reverbi eating through our lovely forest, and echoing back from our "hill of the dead," Eigldy nine ! There she lies now in the coffin, cold and still she makes no trouble now demands no love, no soft words, no nder little offices. A look of patent en durance, we fancied also an expression of grief for unrequited love, sat on her marble features- Her children were there clad in weeds of woe, and in irony we remembered the strong nan's words, "She vat a good mother in her day," When the bell ceased tolling, the strange minister rose in the pulpit: Ilis form was erect and his voice strong, but his hair was silvery white. lie read sev eral passages of Scripture, expressive of God's compassion to feeble men, and es pecially of His tenderness' when gray hairs are on him and his strength faileth. He then made some touching remarks O on human frailty, and of dependence on God, urging all present to make their peace with their Maker while in health, that they might claim his promises when heart and flesh should fail them. "Then," he said, "the eternal God shall be the everlasting; arms." Leaning over the desk, and gazing intently on the coffined form before him, he then said reverently, "From a little child I have honored the aged; but never till gray hairs covered my own head, did I know truly how much love and sympathy this class have a right to demand of their fellow-creatures. Now I feel it. "Our mother;" he added most tenderly, "who now lies before us, was a stranger to me, as are all these her descendants . All I know of her is what her son has told me to day that she was brought up in this town-! from afar, 6ixty-nine years ago, a happy bride that here she passed most of her life, toiling as only mothers have strength to toil, untill she had reared a large fam ily of sons and daughters that she left her home here, clad in weeds of widow hood, to dwell among her children; and that till health and vigor left ber, she lived for you, her descendants. You, who together have shared her love and her care, know how well you have re quited her. God forbid that conscience should accuse any of you of ingratitude or mourning on account of the care she has been to you of late. When you go back to your homes, be careful of your words and your example before your own children, for the fruit of your own doing you will surely reap from them when you yourselves totter on the brink of the grave. I entreat you as a friend, as one who has entered the 'evening of life,' that you never say in the presetice of your families nor heaven. "Our mother has outlived her usefulness she was a burden to us." Never, never; a mother cannot live so long as that: No; when she can no longer labor for her children, nor yet care for herself, she can fall like a precious weight on their faithful bosoms, and call forth, by her helpless ness, all the nobla, generous feelings of their natuies. " Adieu, then, poor toil worn mother; there are no more sleepless nights, ro more days of pain for tbee. Undying vigor and everlasting usefulness are part of the inheritance of the redeemed. Feeble as thou wert on earth, thou will be no burden on the bosom of Infinite Lnve, but there shalt thou find thy long ed for rest, and receive sympathy from Jesus and his ransomed fold." WEDDING SCENE IN GRANADA. A garrulous old senora, in weeds for the disastrous fortunes of the legitimists, has so constantly lectured us on the peril ous position of the Americans in this State, that we have loaded up our mus ket and revolver, sharpened the bayonet and paper knife, and otherwise secured tsur domicile from an invasion by the ragged battalion so constantly impressed upon our mind as secreted in the bushes outside of town. She has no doubt on the subject, and im her solicitude for our welfare crossed herself most devoutly the enemy was just there, ready for the fray ; and when we insisted that they were unarmed, she unhesitatingly dis solved our dream of security by inform ing us that they were armed with a fear ful weapon, the name of which (he had forgotten, but that only required to be thrown up in the air, when, describing a parabola; it would descend uj9n the Americans and kill them wherever they were. And then, behind this cloud of aerial enemies, there would come a squadron of cavalry, valiant (o despera tion, mounted on high horses, careering onward with heads bent down and hearts indifferent to danger, shouting in feaiful unity "Viva Chamoro!" and sub jecting all his enemies to destruction. In view of this dreadful event, we arm ed for the emergency. Every noise was attentively considered,' and several times at the dead of night, when the native guard has exclaimed, "Queen vive?" with more than ordinary energy, we have jumped from the hammock and pre pared for a host of visible and invisible enemies- Thus nervously situated, about 4 o'clock last Sunday morning the roll of the drum on the plaza set the printing office in motion. Going out, the only thing to be seen was half a dozen women squatting around the door of the cathedral, and these being question ed said a marriage was about to be per formed. The surprise was agreeable, and so we congratulate the public that we have to describe a matrimonial en gagement where we expected a warlike conflict. If making two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before be greatness, what ought to be the esteem of him who makes a house full of tax payers where but two previously paid revenue to the State. The roll of a drum was a preliminary movement, after which flaming sky rockets were sent up by the advance guard of solicitous friends. Soon a large attendance of curious men, women and children made their appearance on the ground, although it was still dark. Soon a band of music made its appear ance, at which the crowd was much re galed. The men and women joked and laughed, the boys skylarked, while the printing office put on its dignity, and kept a bright look out for items. All this while a brisk fusilade of sky rockets was kept up, strongly reminding us of the unknown weapon about which our ancient female friend remarked. After a time, a bevy of gaily dressed people apperred, some holding lanterns, others supporting the bride, while the balance amused themselves sending up rockets, A rabh was made to see the new comers, but for the life of as we could not detect the happy pair. They were all alike, in the night, and their ad vance was in no wise orderly; but as they came up, the musicians pealed a louder key, the rockets were sent up faster and higher, while the door of the cathedral slowly swung upon its hinges before the throng and then we stood within the sanctuary. It was a time and place to ! inspire reverence, and every voice was bushed. The father soon came out in his robes of office, and advancing into the crowd, was confronted with the parties. The bride was there supported by ber mother on the left, and the groom and his broth er on the right. The mother of the bride aud brother of the groom were theie as J witnesses. She was pretty, just turned eighteen, plump as a partridge, with large oriental eyes over which dropped a soft and dreamy expression. Her hair was dark and glassy as printei'sink, her mouth of just proportions, to nil of which was added a form such as nature loves to model, Of the groem, we cannot say much, except that we should dislike to swop horses with, or bet against him in a jockey race or a cock fight. After a short ceremony, the question was asked if any person objected to the marriage. No person seemed disposed to spoil the fun, and the proceedings went on. The mother of the bride manifested considerable emotion as she was asked to give her daughter away, and the groom wore an anxious look throughort the ceremory. The young bride kept her eyes fixed on the ground, while her bosom heaved a response to every sentence that fell from the good man's lips. She gave her hand to her future lord, and the marriage rings wer exchanged.. Then came a salver filled with gold coin, which was the dowry. This was bless ed and given to its proper owner. This portion of the ceremony was performed in the vestibule of the church, after which the party adjournel to the altar, where the lecture was to be given, and the con cluding ceremony performed, and the benediction pronounced. In front of the altar, the parties all knelt down and the padre repealed a passage from the Bible. He next lec tured them on their duties as husband and wife, and instructed them in the charities that should adorn and make happy their future lives. Four wax candles were lighted, and one placed in the hands of each of the parties, and an other passage in the ritual repeated. A silk vestimeot was next laid across the shoulders of the two, and then a chain knit together in the centre, was passed around their necks. Thus bound together, the father sprinkled them with holy witter, and while solemn music filled the sacred edifice, he""proceeded to place upon their tongues the consecra ted afer. They were again sprinkled with holy water, the chain and silken vestiment removed, and the concluding exercises finished. In the interval of these ceremonies, and while they were proceeding, parts of 'the ritual were read, and music filled the church. As the grey dawn fell upon the city, the benediction was pronounced, and the party left the church. Men with rockets went first, next came the happy couplef followed by the musicians. Up street we marched to the hospital, and down to the Convent of San Francisco, passing on the right, we came to the house of the bride. There iine was passed, and all hands engaged in a jolly good time. It was Sunday, but the people went on rule "the better the day the better the deed" Company B, First Light Infant ry, stationed in the convent, turned out spontaneously ana gave me weaumg party three cheers, and many of its members were afterwards invited to join in the festivities; which they did. The announcement leads that on Sunday morning, February 17th, Senor Andres Mana wasa married to Senorita Morales, in the parochial church, by Pa dre Bernabe Montiel. CURIOUS MOUNTAIN IN CALIFORNIA. ' j In Toulume county, California, there is a very peculiar mountain, from which great quantities of gold have recently been obtained. It is composed of old lava or basalt, resting on ancient gravel and other depositions from water. On its top it is as level almost as the waters of a lake, only decendingvery uniformly to the west. Its heigbth above the sur face of the surrounding country varies from one to five hundred feet. Its width is generally not far from a sixth of a mile. though differing in different places. But its remarkable peculiarity is that, through ito length, which is some fifteen or eighteen miles, it winds and curves, with other variations, in exact resem blance to a vast river, just exactly as it would had 'it once been disgorged, a OA ruoulten, fiery flood, from the old burn ing Sierra volcanoes, and poured down the deep channel of some vast river, bearing on with its mighty current, quantities of rocks and pebbles and sand, mingled in and formed into part of itself upon its edges, filling up the whole bed of the river, and then cooled down into a moveless solid mass. From its shape it has received the name of "Table Mountain." Various tunnels have been made by miners through the 'hard ba salt, to reach the bed of the ancient riv er, and there is a wild excitement among California miners regarding the immence treasures supposed to be under the lava. He who has outlived his friends, feels that his home is beyond tho grave. MEN AND WOMEN. The secret of fascination in men, is beyond all computing or explaining. We wise men are always indignant, when the Queens of Love and Beauty prefer the coxcomb and the fool. We try to persuade ourselves that they do not. We try to believe thai the aimable and ac complished Clarissa, sees the odious Lovelace in his true light; and even while we talk with her, and expatiate with eloquence upon life and the land scape, Clarissa deems us dreadful bores, and longs for a look and a word from the odious Lovelace. I beg you to notice whether the youths who are tipsy, the youths who gamble, the youths who are dissipated in every way, find any diffi culty in procuring partners for the dance. The most exemplary Belindas, have a hundred satisfactory reasons why they cannot refuse to dance with the whole Boosey family. They give their ap probation to debauchery, and dissipation of various kinds, in the only way they can give it, by countenancing those who are guilty. They treat the dashing Caesar Borgia, precisely as they treat the accomplished Chevalier Bayard. Do you mean to tell me that, just in the degree they countenance the dashin Cajsar, they are not responsible for his conduct? Has the favor of woman come to be so cheap, that it is given to boots and dress-coats, without regard to the man who occupies those articles of apparel ? A woman who isists that the courtesies of society compel her to treat a man, whose whole life is an insult tol her sex precisely as she treats a man who respects and honors her, is an un fortunate of whom I wish to speak gen- tlv, as we do of the unfortunate Swiss cf the Yalais, who are afflicted with goitie. But they should also be tenderly re moved from society, because they infect it with a fatal disease. Earpert Maga zine. RATS. We noticed the systematic attack made by rats in New Haven, on some children, each singling out his victim, and jumping wi:h a simultaneous squeal upon the little girls playing in a yard. A little boy of two or three years was caught by the knee, and held until the child's grandfather went to his assistance, and then, as the rat scorned to run, it had to be killed. Attempts had been made to poison these rats with partial success, and it may have been in re tali a'ion for their poisonous attempts that this concerted charge was made. The rat is one of the most interesting animals on the globe. In Europe he marks historical eras different hordes of invaders brought their peculiar'rats in their train. Europe has seen the rats of the Go.hs, Vandals and the Huns. Eu rope has now its Norman rat and its Tar tar rat, and the great rat of the Parisian sewers is of recent date and Muscovite origin. The brown rat, otherwise known as the Norman rat has established itself all over the world, by the commerce of civ- ilized times it had possession of France for the last six or seven centuries; but within the last it has found its master in the Muscovite and Tartar rat, called in Paris the rat of the Mountfaucon. The new rats, previously unknown to Europe, descended from the heights of the great central plateau of Asia, from which the Hun and Mongul horseman who spread right and left, and took possession of Rome on the one, hand and Pekin on the other. The establishment of the Muscovite rat in France commenced with the extir- pation of the brown or Norman rat that rat has almost disappeared, and is found only in the cabinets of the curious collec tors while the Muscovite rat is daily in creasing in size, ferocity and courage. The Russian rat devours the dog, the cat, and attacks the child asleep. The corpse of a man is a dainty for this beast, and it always commences by eating out the eves. Its tooth is most venomous : -------- and the author from which we derive most of this article, states that he has ! known of ten cases of amputation of the ! necessitated by the bite of this rat. The cat turns tail upon this rat, in its ferocious state. A good rat. terrier 1 is the best destroyer, but fortunately rats are ratophagus, cat one anotner, ngnl duels, indulge in broils and intense feuds, and grand destructive battles. Were it otherwise, they would make this world an unpleasant place for man to live in. We should have to fight our way, and not unfrequently, like the Aarch bishop of Mayence, should be dragged : from our beds at midnight, by an army ' of rats, and devoured on the snot. The rat is the emblem of misery.mur- A der and rapine a cannibal and a rob ber devoted to principles of war and spoiliation. Will it ever disappear? ffartford Cottraut. Written for the Chronicle. REST—NO. IV. A vague idea of a Supreme Ruler of the Universe, may exist in the minds of men who have no definite views of his character, and who do not wish to have, who are willingly ignorant of all that appertains to his Being and perfections: and as they do not "like to retain God in their knowlege," and are glad to for get Him, we may conbludc that they have no fixed belief in the reality of his existence. Such an obscure apprehen sion of our Maker can never produce a proper sense of responsibility, or be a ground of consolation. luey only, who endure, as seeing Him who is invisible, who recognize his universal and perfect government, and who hope in his mercy, can repose under the shadow of his wings, and be at rest. They can look with compose ure on the tumultuous scenes of earth; can contemplate surrounding dangers without dread: they look above, and see "the hand that moves the world:" and they know that the Judge of all the earth will certainly do right The his torical portions of the Bible furnish many instances of that "quietness and assur ance" that calm fortitude in perilous circumstances, which ever attends a fiim reliance on the power and wisdom and goodness of God. When the three iewish Captives were required to fall down and worship the image Nebuchad. nezzar bad set up, they were not terri fied; they camly resolved to obey God rather than man. After their first rofu sal, when they were arraigned and ques tioned aa to their disregard of the king's mandate, they replied, '"O Nebuchadncz zar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter." They felt no solicitude about it: they knew not bow the affair would teminate: they only knew that they were safe in tho hands of God that was enough. The result proved that their confidence was well founded They met a powerful friend in the fiery furnace. Nebuchadnezzar in astonish ment exclaimed, "Lo, I see four men .loose walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt: and the form of the fourth it Hie the Son of God." Can we suppose that, after this Divine interposition, these men could ever be restless and anxious and troubled view of passing events? I think not. They may have prayed and wept, as Daniel did, over the sins and consequent miseries of their nation: but for their own individual safety they eouli feel no anxiety. They knew Him in whom they trusted; and in Him they found S. B. [Written for the Chronicle.] PIANO FORTE PLAYING NO. 3. tions. Our tastes and passions can be descended, ) come gross and sensual as to the style of music most acceptable to us, or ele- v they might make, and which they my one day be held accountable for not making. To those persisting in so nar leg, row and contracted a view of life and its pleasures, we have only to say that they are as much to be pitied as was the fobl most ish king who could amuse himself all day playing with straws, and thought - Tlie uses and abuses of Piano Forte playing, and the purposes it should sub serve, directly and indirectly, form a subject much too comprehensive and im portant to admit of being properly treated ( upon in one column of a newspaper. A few suggestions thereon, however, it is hoped will at least repay a perusal. It j is an admitted fact by all persons of any intelligence on the subject, that different ' styles of music effect the heart quite as ! differently as different kinds of literature 'do the mind. While the composition and execution of music require the best efforts of the mind, in effect, the appeal is directly to the heart and the affec vated and refined, just according to the training they receive. What resalls should we have in view, in the cultava- tion of music? This is a question of much importance. We cannot perhaps give our answer in a few words, better than by saying, to make us happier. wiser and better. I am well aware that very many look upon this, and every other art, and science, as matters placed at their disposal, whence to derive a mo- mentary gratification , a mere pass-time, utterly regardless of the attainments himself very happy. It is true musio can, and may be used to a certain ex. tent, as a promoter of mirth, and hilari ty ; but to use it exclusively for such purposes, would be to controvert tfe de signs of our beneficient creator, in one of his best gifts to "man. If young ladies who cultivate only a superficial, coquet- tisu, oeau-caicmng Biyie 01 music, auu spend the hours in this endeavor, that might and should be devoted to making something like creditable and valuable attainments in the art, if they could only be made to know how limited is the sphere in which they are contented to move, and how contemptible and really culpable they appear to the thousands, who, though possessed of no greater tal ent at the commencement than them selves, have risen to eminence by their indomitable energy and perseverance it would certainly make them feel un comfortable enough to consider their former ignorance, bliss indeed. But some may say, we never expect to play except for our own amusement, and that of our friends, who have no better taste than ourselves, and we are perfectly satisfied with our style of amateur play ing. Let such be assured that the pleas ure they now derive from such small at tainments will be augmented an hundred fold if they will make a constant perse vering effort to progress. Their daily achievments, though small, will afford true pleasure ; and so will the concious- ness that their talent in this respect is not lying buried. Much has been writ ten of the influence of music in the home circle. We will only mention the fact, that in order to have it produce the effect of rendering a home infinitely more pleasant and attractive than it could otherwise possibly be, and binding the hearts of its inmates together with strong er ties, much, very much depends upon the character of the music used. There is a class of music which, if it appeals to the heart at all, causes only its coarsest and most sensual strings to beat. Pa rents, as well as teachers are in a great measure responsible in this matter. IIo often we hear parents say, they "don't like these scientific pieces," they are all a senseless jargon, and they " would much rather hear Bowery Galls," "I bought a Yaller Gall for a guinea," and the like. If they are really so unfortun ate as to have .a taste so crude, they should commence at once to improve it, and they will very soon begin lo prefer that the silly, vulgar negro songs, and jigs, should be confined to the untutored African, whence the style originated. In the cultivation of music, there can be no standard of attainments. It is the privilege and duty of every one possess' ing musical talent to cultivate it just so far as lies in their power. Nothing can be more foolish and absurd than for a person to cease putting forth efforts for advancement, because he cannot hope to equal or surpass the skill of some one else. Amateur. For the Chronicle. Mestrt. Editors: L want to ask you and your readers a question or two, which should ere this have been asked by some one more able than myself to do justice to the subject; and perhaps a word from an humble source may awak en a thought in the bosoms of some whose influence may be felt, that will not sleep till some efforts are made to remove from our midst the wotte than Moloch of our day the demon god at whose shrine arc offend up tLe miad. happiness and purity of these who would be noble, good and true. Why is it that the zeal which so ani mated the good people of Warren a short time siuce on the subject of Temperance, 1 ....J a. t. WV17 Tiara - the efforts then made to redeem our made to redeem our, town from the effects of slavery to the rum uucrcafc, ucxu du u.'tii u.uuuubu. . V .....1 Do those true hearted men and women who first atffmpted to rid our village of this monster, whose slir.y length i sot- coiled on so many of our hearths, and whose venomous bting has already en tered so many a mother's, and so many a child-heart, give up at length, and acknowledge themselves vanquished? After an absence of a few months, I re turn home, and before I have clasped one friendly hand, or met the smile of one familiar face, my heart is saddened j by meeting an aged man on horseback, his head silvered with the frosts that mark the pilgrimage of three score years or more, reeling in his saddle and scarce ly able to retain his seat. And litis is the condition in which Warren sends the aged man to meet bis wife and children! Warren for the paltry clink of copper, will coil the condor round the body, crushing out its very life corrupting, poisoning the soul! War ren ! I love the name and the pleasing associations it ever brings with it of past friendships cherished still, and past scenes that will live in memory while life shall last, and this is why the tear unbidden comes to my eye as I approach ed, and I feel like one who mourns the corruption of a friend. To the young men and young ladies of Warren, those who were my school-mates and friends but a short time since, let me say a word. We were boys and girls togeth er; and the merry laugh and shout aud school boy jest of three years ago are singing in my ears to day; for memory is ever buisy and she often makes the past seem present. As I think of those bright days and of the time we have had for improvement since then, the thought comes, cannot tee do something fur the cause that so demands our aid? If we have a friend who has learned to love the sparkling drought,, to linger long at the wine, let us remember that a kind woi'd fitly spoken may redeem him, then the whisper of the "still small voice," the blessing of the Redeemer and the smiles of an approving Heaven will be our rich reward. . J. WHY SATAN NEVER DISTURBS A WOMAN. Mohammedans relate the following story as an authentic and veritable piece of " tradition," illustrative of the fact ' that the devil himself has duties to per 1 form in the world, and that all things would go wrong if he were to be idle, and neglect them, viz : "In the days of Mohammed, there wis an Arab who had a very pretty wife. " The devil transformed himself into so exact and accurate a likeness of her' husband, that she could not for the life of her tell nhich of the two washer hus band. Both claimed her i. e., the real husband and the devil in his likeness. "The case excited much interest in the neighborhood, but no solution of the difficulty could be obtained. At length the case was brought before the Majesty, the Prophet, for a solution. " Mohammed after a little reflection, bel.I up a certain earthen pot in his hand, with a spout like a teapot, and said to them both " Now, which ever is the real hus band, will enter this vessel by the spout, and thus establish his claim to the wo man ? "The devil, as having more capacity in that way than the sturdy Arab, of real flesh and bones, entered at once into the pot, as suggested. The moment he entered, Mohammed closed the top of the spout, and kept him shut in. " But by the time Mohammed had kept his excellency shui up for a few days in that earthen pot, it was ascer tained that the world was getting wrong in all its machinery. Mohammed was therefore constrained to let the devil out from his confinement, to take Lis ntees sary place in the management of the af fairs of the world. But before restoring him to his liberty again, Mohammed ex- he would never trouble the 'fair sex any more, but confine himself to what he could do amongst the male sex." ' PERFUMERY. ' 1 The extensive flower farms in the neighborhood of Nice, Grasse, Mont pelier and Cannes in France, at Andri nople, (Turkey in Europe,) at Broussa and Uslak (Turkey in Asia,) and at Mit cham, in England, in a measure, indi cate the commercial importance of that branch of chemistry called perfumery, t British India and Europe consume an nually, at the very lowest estimate 150, 000 gallons of perfumed spirits, under va rious titles, such as eau do cologne, es scence of lavender, esprit de rose, 4c. The art of perfumery does not, however, confine itself to the production of scents for the handkerchief and bath, but ex tends to imparting oder to inodorous bod ;A. win il etarrh nnii enrpocp --r . which are consumed at me loueue ei fashion. Some idea of the importance . r , ... when we state that one ot tne large per fumeries of Grasse and Paris, emrloys annually 80,000 pounds of orange flow ers, 60,000 pounds of cassia flowers, 54,000 pounds of rose leaves, 32,000 pounds of jasmine blossoms, 32,000 pounds violets, 20,000 pounds tuberose, 16,000 pounds of lilac, besides rosemary, mint, lemon, citron, thyme, and other odorous plants in like proportion. The quantity of odoriferous substances used in this way is far beyond the conception ' of those even used to abstract statistics, giving rise to an amount of industiy truly gratifying. 1 USE MINUTES. It is asked, says Channing, how eaa the laboring man find time for self-cuk tare ? I answer, that an earnest pur pose finds time. Seising on spare mo ments, it turns fragments into gplden ac count. A man who follows bis calling with industry and spirit, and uses his earnings economically, will always find some portion of the day at his command. And it is astonishing how fruitful of im provement a short season becomes, when eagerly seized and faithfully u& 34 has often been observed that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour in tie day given to some interesting subject, brings unexpected acoumulatioras. of knowledge. God's grace is proportioned to the man's effort. Esvt not the condition of others, and contentment will bless your pathway. The world admires genius, but ecur. age and fortitude more.