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I. t Insurance, il desired, in tail ETNA INSURANCE COM. P INY. lldrtforil. ftitil ATl.ANTin VlllV. ANI1 MAHfNKPft Pr')ldcnce. persona wishing to insure on property will do 'U to call ou bini before eOcctlog the same. Insurance on LI t'E mar also be effected with hint Jn the NATIONAL LIFE INbL'lUNCE COMPANY, 'or anj-,tnn and to any amount mwuj4 aiu,uvj ai one hsk. f, u. tuxiLflVZH, BratUcboro, Jmuary Cth, 18 J7, S POETRY. wiikn Tin: puhsi; is fui.i.. Oh ! happy ftro the hours when the puree U full Time piuM-i orer Itowern when the parte It full ; Where'er our fancy wemti, We tire f ure to meet with friend, AikI thcre'i not li log that oTcntfi when the purtc li full. But weary are the liouti when the puric it low, And few an J for the Mower when the purio U low j Where'er our footttcpa range Comeii the chilling breath of change, An J the bent of Meads took itranyc when the purccla low. Morn cometh with a dance when the purne li full i There U muilo In bt-r glance when the purse ii full Life then U lomelhlog worth, 1 here U pleasure upon earth. There U beauty, tong and mirth when the purse Is full. TUB PLOW, Clear the brown path to meet the coulter's gleam t Lo ' on he comes behind bis smoking team, With toll's brlgnt dew-drops on bis sun burnt brow The lord of earth, the hero of the plow ! Itrit in the field before the reddening sun, Last In the shadows when the day is done, Line after line along the burning sod, Marks the broad acres where his leet have trod ; Still where he treads the stubborn clods divide, The smooth, fresh furrow opens deep and wide ; Matted and dense the tangled turf upheaves, Mellow and dark the ridgy cornfle'd cleaves ; Up the steep hill fide where the laboring train Stands the long track that scores the level plain ; Through the tnolit valley clogged with oozing clay, The patient convoy breaks Its destined way At every turn the looceulng chains resound, The HMlnglngptowshare circle glistening round, Till the wide field one billowy waste appears. And wearied bands unbind the panting steers. O. Jr. Jlolmei. MISCELLANY. GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES. We live at an epoch full of splendid discov ery. No period in history, equally brief one at the close of the fifteenth century, when Co lumbus found the Western uorld, and DeGa ma the way to the Eastern, alone excepted has yielded so brilliant a harvest of reliable ge ographical knowledge as tho six years closing with 1855. The period covers investigations oflhrlh, Yogel, and Do Lauturo, in Middle Africa ; of Oswcll, Livingstone, and Anderson, in the South ; of Lieutenant ilurton, in the East. It covets the highly interesting but curiosity-provoking excursions of Herndon and Page up the Maranon and Parana into the heart of South Ameiica. Il covers the explorations of M'Clure, Collinson, IUe, and Kane, within the Polar circle. It unfolds an index of cour age, labor, and patience well rewarded, that might stimulate tho most indolent in civilized life into the spirit of adventure. The index is that nf a bulky volume, containing stores of facts precious to science, with very little that is not tributary to some department of knowl edge Hut foremost and chief, as tho leading discoveries of the time, and the crown and com plement of all preceding research, rank these three: 1. Tho discovery, in 1849, by Captain Os well and Dr. Livingstono, of the great Lake Ngami, in Southern Africa, thus partially con firming Greek and African tradition, and the conjectures of geologists, that the unknown des erts of that continent beneath the Lunar rango nrn diversified with expanded sheets of water, and possibly an inland sea. 2, Tho discovery, in 1850, by Captain M'Clure, of a Northwest passage lo China, three hundred years after Sir Hugh Willough by first attempted to find it, and after thrro hun dred years of gallant endeavor and matchless suffering in the pursuit. 3. Ihe discovery, in 1855, by Dr. Kane, of an iceless circumpolar sea, the cxistenco of which had been prc-supposed by science. Iho latter two achievements leave only sec ond-rate honors to subsequent maritime explor ation. Not but that there is a world of work to be done ; not but that lhcro are as valuable facts in the sea as ever came out of it. Ilut tho main glory of adventure consisis in pioneer ing tho way, which, once indicated, they who follow are but instruments in the hands of the true discoverer. Is not the discovery of the planet Neptuno credited to Lo v errier, who demonstrated its place in tho concave, rather lhan to the star-gazer who, guided by his data, found it! So will the glory of finding the Northwest Passage belong primarily to M'Clure who, ftom the heights of Baring's Island, saw, seventy niutical miles away, across impassable ice, points which Parry had reached from the opposite side; and like the Spaniard, who "si lent upon a peak in Darieft," first saw the Pa cific, looked down Barrow Strait homeward. Yet no little fame will bo his who, working his way through intervening ice, effects, not mere ly demonstrates tho passage. So likewise the honor of proving an open polar sea belongs to Dr. Kane; while a largo residum of credit is reserved for the sailor who shall attain and nav igate those unvisited waters. Nor is tho field of unfinished labor at tho North confined to these two enterprises. The coast line of the North American continent is yet to bo defined ; the extent and direction of various straits, bays, and inlets separating the Arctic islands are to bo ascertained ; tho islands themselves are to be surveyed ; Greenland is lo bo circumnaviga ted, All these things will doubtless be ac complished before 1057, the most ol them dur ing the current century. An expedition fur nished with all tho results of M'Clure, Collin son, and Kane, and instructed thoroughly by their experience of ice and cold, is already planned in England ; and, if managed with senso, intrepidity, and attended with good for tune may forgather the labors of a generation or two. The propriety of expediting overland from Canada a subsidiary company, provided completely with the appliances of scientific and geographical observation, will not, wo suspect, be overlooked by her Majesty's Colonial Office In South America, the grand labors of Hum boldt and lionpland only less valuable because effected beforo the natural sciences had assum ed their ptcsent better classification with the minor attempts of Herndon and Page, only whet the appetito for information, Paraguay is still a terra incognita ; tho upper waters of the Am azon have been but cursorily noted ; the ham mer of the geologist has scarcely disturbed the echoes of the Andes, with their wondrous peaks and table-lands, abrupt chasms, and irregular stratification; the shelves of our museums boast very few representatives of the animal and veg etablc fecundity which throngs tho prolific plains at their feet. The Southern half of our hem' isphere is, in fact, a vast arena for renumera live research an arena uninterrupted and un impoverished by desert sands. Tho Emperor of Iltazil, we are glad to note, has organized an expedition to so much of the course of the Amazon as lies within his dominions. It is designed tu start early in the coming autumn Africa more than makes up for the deficion cies of South America in the article of sand, lis animal kingdom is also upon a more stupen dous scale, adding that formidable obstacle lo other peculiar perils of exploration. Never theless, lhanks to the enterprise of the Viceroy of Egypt, the intrepidity of Dr. Livingstone, the pliant adaptability of Captain Button, muoh has been acbcmplishrd. Tho Whito Nile has been examined within two degrees of tho equa tor; advancing from tho vicinity of the Cape, Livingstone has traversed tho tniddlo region obliquely, up to the eighth parallel of South latitude; and, varying his track, he has cross ed the samo country from ocean lo ocean, as shown upon the chart prepared by him, which accompanies the present paper. Upon tho lat ter route, from longitude 25 to the Mozam bique Channel, ho had been anticipated by I'e rcira, in 1790. Burton has recently returned from some remarkable investigations in the country back of Natal, throwing light upon tribes unvisited by Europeans. Africa, never theless, affords a vast area for research. Ethi opia is still imperfectly kno-.n. A tract as large as the United States is clothed m utter ob scurity. We know nothing of the Mountains of the Moon but their name. The sourco of the Whito Nile is undiscovered, Tho inland sea we have referred to has never been seen or sounded. Whole nations, known to us by re port, have yet tu witness that phenomenon, a white man. Such is tho field still open for ex ploration ; and it is scarcely lo be imagined that tho adventuroos spirit nf our lime will long leavo it without cultivators. We already hear of hunting parties, and individuals pushing by degrees inward from the various European set tlements upon both shores, supplying, if not exact scientific and topographical data, addition al anecdotes of the aborigines. There is, more over, the great Egyptian expedition now upon tho Nile, recruited from tho European schools of science, furnished with apparatus, boats, necessaries, and a powerful escort, and instruc ted to stop non here short of the mysterious head of that river, should tho search carry them to the Lunar mountains, or to the moon itself. Burton, too, at the head of a strong company, has landed in Zanguchar, on tho eastern side, in latitudes0 South, designing to urge his dis coveries inward until ho joins tho Egyptian patty, and with them to seek the intercontinen tal sea. Should these projects be realized to the extent tho character of the men engaged in them warrants, the dark curtain that has from the beginning shrouded Middle Africa, will at last be uprollcd, and tho land of ivory and gold dust become as familiar to curious civilization as the land of Iho olive and myrtle. Turning to Asia, wo find great reason to re joico that the "golden realm of Cathay" is tn be thrown open to the world. Tho first step having been taken, Chinese obstinacy will do the rest. China is broken. The barbarian will pour in. Fotcign intervention will satis fy and tranquilize rebellion, restore activity to industry, and by settling upon solid foundations the guarantees of trade, lend it new vitality. What immense tracts will thus bo made pene trable to the curious explorer, what boundless fields opened for educational and missionary ef fort, what provocations presented to antiquarian and historical inquiry, u hat temptations to men of science, what curious and secret processes, invaluable to the agriculturist and artisan ! Indeed, no anticipations, however enthusiastic, can bo fairly pronounced extravagant, when we reflect that this is tho eldest empire uf earth, Iho home of one-third of tho human family, tho mother of thoso immortal arts, without which mankind might still be in tho dawn rather lhan in tho noontide of civilization. It will not be long before Japan will yield to tho samo press ure now applied to China, and expand tn tho approach of commerco and travel. There will then remain for examination only ono promising theatre of tesearch, namely the Australasian archipelago, still indifferently knoun oven to the Europeans scattered about it. Australia, had our own Government pos sessed it, would long ago havo been mapped, acre by acre, in the Land Office, and its entire topography delineated minutely. We havo no means of conjecture us lo the time the British Government will be likely to tako for tho samo task. Certainly, in tho anomalous character of tho animal and vegetable life, observed there, wo have the prospects of results ptofoundly in teresting to the naturalist; while for data to ho supplied only by tho rocks of that eccentric continent tho geologist must continue to wait patiently. Timo, and the enterprise of his children, will accomplish these things, and greater. In another century, perhaps the phra ses, "unexplored region," "only partially known," and other similar blazons of geograph ical ignorance, will cease to disfigure the map. What may we not expect from iho accelerating movoment of the ago? BATHING AND DROWNING. That period of tho year has arrived which may be aptly termed tho drowning season. The dare-devil spirit and impulsivo, reckless habits which characterize us as a nation, havo rendered us so familiar with what we are pleas ed to call "accidents," that wo havo come to regard these fortutious events as matters of courso, and are enabled to calculate their pe riodical return with far more certainty than our astronomers can predict ihe approach nf a comet. Paradoxical as it may seem, there is something like order and system in our accidents. Our disasters are regulated by limes and seasons. The well-known hymn, slightly altered, states tho case exactly "Each season has Us own mishap, Its peril every hour." Fires and burning fluid explosions arc in or der from November to March, On tho break ing up of winter falling through the rotting ice is for a few weeks tho favorite method of find ing a permatute grave. Tho gunpowder mania comes an about the fourth of July, and accom plishes a vast amount of mischief in a very short timo. Then comes tho season of steamboat ex plosions and conflagrations, railroad collisions, &c, which lasts until people get home from their summer jaunts, and tho picnic excursions are over. The period which wo have denomi nated "the drowning season," usually com mences in tho lattter part of Juno, and is of about three months' continuance. From river, pond and seashoro the wail of wo has already begun to ascend. How many bright and premising youths will find a "watery bior," cro tho sum mer solstice is passed I How many hearts will bo crushed, how many hopes blighted, how many homos darkened, as the cold and dripping forms of sons and brothers are slowly boruo from the placo of boyish revelry to the silent and darkened chamber ! What then ! ' Shall bathing and swimming be abandoned, because attended with danger I By no means, One might with as much rea son abandon the uso of fire, because that ele ment sometimes destroys properly and life. Children, boys especially, ought to be encourag ed lo learn to swim. .It is a healthful and in vigorating exercise and u most useful art, life itself often depending upon it. But in acquir ing the art, every possible precaution should be taken against the mil to which the beginner is exposed. A few words of caution to our young readers, and sotno directions to the older ones for restoring persons apparently drowned, may, therefore, provo not altogether useless. It is probable that drowning is usually oc casioned by excessive fright. Tho body is as light as water, and if a person on suddenly find ing himself beyond his depth, could keep per fectly cool and self-possessed, there would per haps be little danger of his sinking. He would soon find away to keep his mouth and nostrils out of water, even if ho knew nothing of swim ming. But all experience shows that it is too much to expect a novice to retain his calmness and composure under such circumstances. Buys, and men too, will be terribly frightened, when they find themselves sinking in an element which they have never learned lo master, in spite of all the philosophy they may bo able to command. It is about as useful, therefore, to exhort them to keep cool when they find themselves drown ing, as it would bo to advise a boy to turn bold ly round and face an infuriated bull, rather'than trust to a good pair of legs for escape. Two simple precautions would, wo think, avctt most of tho fatal casualties from balhing which happen among boys. First, let thoso who cannot swim select a safe place for bathing; and, second, let them never venture beyond their depth, unless there are those present who arc capible of rendering assistance, in case of dan ger. The inexperienced should be especially careful not to bathe whero the bottom is steep, irregular, or full of holes. They should also shun the neighborhood of mill-dams and water falls, whero there are strong currents and ed dies. No placo is safe for a novico to bathe in unless he knows il tu be free from these ob jections ; and even then, it would bo rash for him to venture further than he can safely wade, unless thoro are good swimmers in tho patty. In diving, select a deep place, and strike ihe water obliquely. If seized by the cramp, strike out the limb boldly, drawing the toes upward, noinaltor how great the pain ; meanwhile, make for land wall your arms. If in a moment of peril a companion comes to your aid, do not grapple him, or you may both perish. The person rendering assistance should approach the sufferer with cate, getting behind him if possi ble, nnd seizing him with one hind or his teeth. When life is not exposed, health is often en dangered by tho reckless manner in which boys plunge into water in a warm day. Swimming, although a very healthful exercise in itself, may be perverted into a source ot great evil to the body. Boys should understand that to go into Ihe water when in a perspiration, or immediate ly after a hearty meal, or when greatly fatigued, or at mid-day in very hot weather, or to go in several times in ono day, or to remain in too long, or lo attempt to swim to far, may make invalids of them all their days, or even cost them their lives. It is well known that persons rescued from the water have been restored to life, an honror tno after their apparent death. But perhaps it is not so generally know that few well au thenticated cares arc on record where resus citation has been effected after a total submersion of five minutes. Mr. Woolly, a medical as sistant of tho Ilnyal Humane Society of Eng land, has met with hut one case in the records of that Society, in which tho individual was re stored after remaining under water five min utes ; and Dr. Taylor says, "in numerous ex peiimenls on drowned animals, I have never found that life could be restored after the ani mal had been entirely submerged for tho space of four minutes." Still by patient and well directed efforts, the apparently drowned may often bo restored lo animation, and we append the new rules of tho celebrated Dr. Marshall Hall, F. R. S., for treating such cases. I. Send with all speed for medical aid, for articles of clothing, blankets, &c. II. Treat tho patient on the spot, in the open air, freely exposing Iho face and chest to the breeze, except in too cold teeather, III. Placo tho patient gently upon tho face, to allow any fluids to flow from the mouth. IV. Then raise tho patient gently into tho sitting posture, and endeavor to excite respira tion 1st. By snuff, hartshorn, &c., applied to the nostrils. Sd. By irritating the throat by a feather or by the finger. 3d. By dashing hot and cold water alternate ly on the face and chest. These failing of success, lose no time, but imitate respiration thus, V. Replace the patient upon his face, his arms under his head, that the tungue may fall forward and leave the entrance to tho windpipe freo, and that any fluids may flow out of the mouth then, 1st. Turn the body gradually on the side and a little more, and then again on the face, affr natclu, to induce inspiration and expiration. 2d. When replaced, apply pressure along tho back and ribs, and then lemnvo it, to induce farther expiration and inspiration, and then pro ceed as before 3d. Let these measures he repeated gently, deliberately, but efficiently and porseveringly, sixteen times in the minuto, only, VI. To induce circulation and warmth, while continuing these measures, also 1st. Rub all the limbs and trunk upwards with tho warm hands, making ,Tnri prcuure energet ically. 2d. Replace the wet clothes by such other coverings as can be procured. JV, E. Fanner, Daniel Morgan, the Rifleman. The name of Daniel Morgan, tho celebrated commander if tho A irginia riflemen, is a household word in Virginia. His remains repose at Winches ter. Jerseyman by birth, ho early emigrated to the Virginia wilds, and was a wagoner in the French war. Tall, muscular, and inured to all hardships, ho was fond of adventure, famed for intense daring and hair-breadth es capes. He had been grossly insulted by one British officer, and severely punished by anoth er in the name of King George Ho vowed vengeanco and kept his vow. At the opening of tho revolution ho raised a battalion of riflemen, and drilled them to per fection. They spurned tho bayonet, and relied on tho deadly aim of tho rifle. He used to say the business of his men was to kill, not to be killed. At tho battle of Saratoga, seeing the day was going against the Americans by reason of tho extraordinary skill and energy of Gene ral Fraser, with his Scotch division, he resolv ed to resort to tho only measure cunccivablo to arrest the linn of battle that threatened to over whelm them. Summoning to his presenco the best marksman in his command, whoso aim was never known to fail, ho said to him, "Murphy, do you sco that officer on tho iron gray horse 1" "Yes, sir," was the reply of the soldier. Mor gan rejoined with an almost faltering voice, "Then do your duty." Murphy ascended a tree, cut away the inter laced branches with his hatchet, (this was a part of their variegated armor,) rostcd his rifle in a suro placo, watched his opportunity, and as suon as Gen. Eraser had, in his animated movements, como within a practical range, Murphy fired, and tho gallant Eraser fell mor tally wounded, being shot in Iho centra of his body. That fall decided the day. The enemy soon gave way, and Saratoga became immortal. But Morgan, the rough soldier, was a man of tender feelings, and he almost wepl at tho deed, and always said it tioubled him, becauso it looked so much like a kind uf assassination of a brave and noble officer. Though gallant as that officer was, he had placed himself there to bo shot at, and was engaged in shooting others. It was in a similar way that Nelson fell on the deck of the victory. WHICH IS THE LADY I 'Who lives there, Hettie?' And Cousin Henry pointed tu the pretty pink cottage, hid ing behind its dark cedars and drooping larch es, which we could see very plainly from tho front chamber window where we sat together. 'Oh, Mr. and Mrs. Garret live there. They are young people, and I wish you could see the lady, Cousin Henry.1 Why, Hettior 'Because she is perfectly lady-like. It is really a luxury to ones (esthetic faculties to watch her. 1 cannot keep my eyes off her when she comes in hero; every movement is so full of grace. She walks across tho room, or takes a scat, in a way that is perfectly cap tivating ; in short, she realizes my idea of a la dy, graceful, elegant, refined what are you laughing at, Cousin Henry!' 'At yourself. Forgive me, dear, but I see you havc'nt lost your old intensity of language sinco we parted. I believe, however, extrava gant adjectives are one of the failings of your sex. I should like to see this paragon of yours.' 'Well, you shall, to-morrow afternoon. How fortunate that mamma invited her and Mrs. Pease to tea.' 'And who is Mrs. Pease!' 'Another uf our recent neighbors. She lives in that neat, straw-colored brick-house just down the road. But, dear me! she isn't at all like Mrs. Garret, though they are old friends and school-males. Sho's fat and dum py, and so clumsy and gauche. They do say, though she is very kind hearted. Hark I does'nt that robin sing sweetly in the old elm!' And listening to the notes as they pulsed up and down through tho green leaves, I forgot all about the gossip with which I had been en tertaining my companinion during the morning. I had not seen Cousin Henry Ward for four years. He had been in California during this lime, and his return was an occasion of great rejoicing lo me. There was no tics beside those of kindred existing between us, for Hen ry's hluc-eyed wife, Clara Hunter, had been Ihe tenderly beloved companion of my girlhood. She was niiw visiting hor parents in tho West, and as business brought him to New York soon after his return, he managed to run up to Wood fern fur a couplo of days. Cousin Henry was a Utile eccentric in his views and opinions. I am certain I never quar reled with any other man half so much as I have with him. I am certain I never loved two others as well. His heart was a warm, generous, true one; and his perceptions of character were remarkably acute ; so, from childhood we had quarreled. Tho next afternoon our neighbors made their advent. Mrs. Garret was elegant, fascinating as ever, and I saw Cousin Henry, who, like most men of his temperament, highly apprecia ted grace and beauty, was much attracted by the lady's manner. Perhaps her faco was not regularly beauti ful, but its brightness and vivacity more than atoned for this; and there was a grace, an esse and self possession in every movement and man ner, which impressed every one. Very unlike this her friend, Mrs. Pease. Her manners wero not unladylike, and her con versation was pleasing and intelligent; but her mould was very different from her friend's, who, perhaps was not aware of the marked con trast between them, for Mrs. Peaso's figure was large, heavy and inelegant. I do not believe she could havn committed a graceful action ; and while Mrs. Garrett's taste in dress was ex quisite, Mrs. Pease's sense of fitness of arrange ment and harmony of color was remarkably ob tuze. But just beforo tea, a circumstance occurred which materially affected our relativo estimates of the ladies. Mrs. Winters, another of our neighbors, call ed to seo us. She was a pretly, rather char acterless, and, on the whole, well-meaning sort uf a woman, who lived in a very dashing style, and was very anxious to ignore her early life, which was obscure, But then, wo all havo our weakness, and if Mrs. Winters lacked mor al courage in this matter, most likely you and I do in soma other, reader. I observed that our new guest seemed a lit tle embarrassed when I presented her to tho others, and partly divined tho causo, when thoy spoko of being natives of tho same town. 'You have, however, altered much, I should hardly recognize you, Mrs. Winters,' remarked Mrs. Garret, in tho cotirso of their conversation. 'But you know wo used to meet almost every afternoon, as you returned from tho factory and I from school.' Her voice was very low and soft, but it seemed to mo thoro was a littlo con sciousness in tho smile that curved the lips of the lady, while Mrs. Winter s faco changed suddenly to crimson, as she stammered some in coherent reply. Mrs. Pcaso interrupted her suddenly, and very earnestly ; 'I too, remember you, Mrs. Winters, because of thoso dolightful visits we used to have together at your uncle's the Col oriel. You know ho was thn lion of our town, and then, my father thought so much of him.' Mrs. Winter's face boamed with smiles, as she turned it toward Mrs. Peaso, but I doubt wheth er eho felt so happy as that lady just then, 'Well, Sarah,' remarked Mrs. Garret, whilo wo were atsupper, 'lalwayslhoughtyou hadn't the slightest loaven of arti'nynur nature. But 1 really doubted il, when you made that very effective speech to Mrs. Winter's.' 'Did you Annlel Well, I couldn't help feeling very sorry for her, when you alluded to her factory life. She wishes to forget her an tecedents, and if we cannot respect her motive, wo certainly should her feelings.' I don't agree with you, Sarah." The ele gant lady was evidently a littlo disturbed, 'If people aro so weak as tu be ashamed of thoir antecedents, they should bo exposed and morti fied. I intended she should understand 1 knew just how she was, and how sho worked for sev eral years in my father's factory and married hit foromsn. 'And now on account of tho sudden fortune ho has acquired, she presumes to take airs, and set herself on an eminence with those who al ways thought her infinitely beneath them. It's really quite ridiculous.' 'But her manners aro certainly refined, An nie, as much so as many a rich man's daugh ter.' 'Well, her father was a drunkard, and her mother a poor shiftless creature. That remark of yours about the colonel, must havo been very acceptable, fur I honestly believe he was the only respectable relation Martha Winters ever had.' Somo occurrenco, I forget what, prevented any reply to this ironical conclusion of Mrs. Garrett's. 'And this is your idea of a perfect lady, oh, Nettie !' said my cousin when wo were alone that evening. 'I shall never love Mrs. Garrett any more,' I answered, thumming desperately on the piano keys. 'Any woman who could intentionally, wantonly, injure the feelings of another, cannot be a lady.' 'You are right, cousin Nettie,' said Henry, who came up to me, drew up my head, and smoothed down my hair, just as he used to do, when we sat in the late autumn days, under the barberry bushes, 'no woman can be a lady who would wound or mortify another. No matter how beautiful, how refined, how accomplished she might be, she is coarse-grained, and the in nate vulgarity of her nature manifests itself here. She is plebeian not in birth or fortune, it may be, but in her soul.' 'How I wish all good people were beautiful and agreeable,' I said. 'Now there's Mrs. Pease, after all, she's the true lady,' and then I fell to thinking. 'Of what are you thinking Nettie!' at last asked my cousin Henry, and I looked up to find his dark searching eye on my face. 'I was thinking, Cousin Henry, how the an gels estimate uf us must differ from our own ; for they, with their clearer vision, behold that 'beauty of the soul' which no homeliness of set ting can change or obscure. How little must this earthly loveliness we so highly, perhaps so rightly value, seem lo ihcm Oh, when shall we to whom beauty is jay, a happiness, a lovo and yet wo feel and acknowledge a loveliness beyond any that is outward and sensuous, be cause it is of the right, born of God, and eter nal when shall we learn to say this is beauty! always recognizing and rejoicing in it!' 'When this mortal shall have put on immor tality,' answered the deep voice of my cousin, and then we went to the window, and looking up together to the shining stars, said simulta neously, those grand, solemn triumpnant, words of Paul tho Apostle : "When this mortal shall have put on immortality.' THE WANE OFTHE CRESCENT. From "Boat-Llfe In Egypt," by W. C. Prime. It is profoundly interesting to stand in a spot where, daily, for a thousand years, the prayers of men have been offered up ; where the stones are worn with the knees of sincere, if mistak en, believers; where thero has never been a day, since the ninth century, when the voice of the muezzin was not hcatd across tho court and through the shadowy arches, uttering that sim ple and sublime passage that has been so often uttered above this city and all the East that ono might think the ait would sound il with its own morning winds forever after, "God is great. There is no deity but God. Mahommcd is God's apostle. Come to prayer, come to pray er ; prayer is belter than sleep; come to pray er. God is most great. There is no god but God." At noonday and at sunsctting the samo chant has filled these arches with solemn molody. One cannot stand and hear it now without feel ing that the voice is the same voice that uttered it ten centuries ago, though the men through whose thin lips it escaped on the air are the dead dust of those centuries. Aye is sublime. A creed, though false, is nevertheless magnifi cent if it be old ; and I cannot look on these tottering walls, theso upheaving pavements, these crumbling towers, without a melancholy regret stealing in along with other feelings that this worship, this creed, is approaching its end, and that the day is fast coming when Islam and tho creed of the Prophet will bo to men like tho memories of lsis and Apis shadows flit ting around tho ruin' of old Egypt. In broad daylight, when eyes and intellects are wide awake, tho shadows are as clouds dark with memories of crimo and wrong ; shapes of hid eous deeds, blackening the very name of hu manity. Ilut in night time and tho moonlight, when wo do not see these, thero will bo shapes like halos around tho falling minarets of Tooloon and Amer as around the obelisk ol Heliopolis and the unchanging pyramids; memories of simple but grand faith in Ihe hearts of old men that worshipped God, and died in every year and month of all tho thousands that have shone upon these stones; shadows that will forever haunt tho places that aro sanctified by man's holiest emotions sincere and prayerful trust in God, though it were in a false god; shadows that aro changclul, but always there; long shapes and forms cast on the walls by the altar flames, that remain and appear and flit hero and thero on pavement and wall, though altar-fires be long extinguished, and tho wall lie in dust on tho broken pavements of the temple. But is this so, and is the end approaching ! I asked myself the question in the city of Vic tory, seated at my open window in the night lime, the moon shining gloriously a dazzling moon my table drawn to the window, and tho flame of my candle rising steadily, and without a flicker, in tho profoundly silent air. Two hundred thousand people were lying around me, and I asked who and what they were, and what part they formed in the grand sum of human valuation! Literally nothing. They are not worth the counting among tho races of men, I had been conversing that sarna day with intelligent Musiulmans, who not only express ed their belief, but added Ihelr anxious hopo that tho advance of English power in the East would soon mako Egypt an English possession. I heard this every whoro among them. If they knew anything about it and Turks ought lo know muro of it than Americans they would see that it is their manifest destiny, England begins to see it as before she has only wished it. I answered my question, Yes, tho end is nut far distant. The mosque of Amer, traditional melro of tho duration of the faith, is falling. I saw with my own eyes a huge piece of its wall go crashing down inln the dusty coutt, where the still sunshine fell on it as if it had been waiting for it ; and no ono will ever dis turb ils ruins. Just before break of day, from the mosque of Mohammed All at the citadel.the morning call to prayer sounds over tho city. The Sultan Has san, uld Tooloon, and another and another take it up, nnd three hundred voices aro filling the air with a rich soft chant, that reaches tho car of tho Mussulman in his profoundest slumber, and calls him up to pray. Docs he obey 1 There was a time when, at that call, the city of Selah-o'dccn had no closed eye, no unbent knee in all ils walls. But the Mussulman is changed now. He heard the call in his half drunken sleep, stupefied with hashish, and he damned the muezzin, and turned over to deeper slumber. He heard It in his profound repose, after counting over the gains ho had made by cheating his neighbois, and he did not feel like praying. Ho heard it in the perfumed couch of his slave, and ho forgot the prophet's in the present heaven. He heard it yes, there wero a few old men who remember the glory of the Mamelukes ; who heard their fierce shouts when the Christian invaders met them at the pyra mids; and who, wearied with long life, look now for youth and rest in heaven, and they, when they heard the call, obeyed it, and theirs were tho only prayers wasted on the dawning light in all of Cairo, and when they cease there will be none to pray. About the Comet. A Mr. Jones was once put on trial before the church of which he was a member, for some misdemeanor. He put in an earnest plea of not guilty, assured his brethren that the evidence, even of his accusers, would ac quit him, and declared his readiness for trial. Unfortunately for Mr. Jones, the evidence was all one way, and all ncainst him ; but before a vote was taken on bis expulsion, he wished to put himself right on the record, and accordingly said : "My brethren and sisters : when I put in my plea of not guilty, I did so under a firm belief that I was innocent. It is, perhaps, needless for me to add that after listening impartially to tho evidence adduced, I find that 1 was mistaken, and yielding to what I perceive to bo the gener al sentiment of the church, I cheerfully with draw my assertion of innocence, and acknowl edge that I sm guilty." Mr. Jones sat down beaming with frankness and open-hearted honesty. When we published our comet theory, we thought that it was, perhaps, somewhat gaseou3 but so was the comet; somewhat erratic but o was the comet. Under the pressure of the evidence which has been adduced sinco the pub lication of our article, we are compelled to be lieve that it is possible that the comet, after all, did not strike, however improbable the idea may seem at first glance. In thus retiring from the field of comet discus sion, we wish to tender to our numerous western exchanges our thanks for the open and childlike spirit with which they received our argument. It speaks well for their simplicity of heart and. freedom from guile. To our friends in Roches ter, and more particularly in Boston, we would remark that we can appreciate their incredulity, when we recollect how fully their minds and columns Are engaged in tho discussion of the Main Street Bridge and spiritualism. For that more numerous class of papers which have pub lished our articles as an "ingenious argument," but expressed doubts as to its scientific accura cy, we can only say that their caution was com mendable. Buffalo Commercial. How to Avoid beiko Personal. Sheri dan Knowles being advised by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton to read Gibbon's Declmo and Fall, in order to get a good plot for a new play he had engaged to write, went, in his usual impulsive manner, and immediately subscribed to Sanders Si Oiler's public library. Paying down his sub scription for three months, he walked away. Being on the eve of going into the country, ho did not take any books then, but on his return to London, nearly four months afterwards, he called and asked for the work in question. The clerk looked over tho nams and said, "our subscription has expired, sir; I cannot let you havo any books until you have paid for another 3uarter in advance" The wrath of the Irish ramatist was roused, so ho soundly rated the cleric, declaring that " Saunders & Otley were a couple of swindlers !" Ono of the partners hearing this came forward, and repreached Mr. Knowles for his personal insult. "Personal, my dear sir," said the wit, "not a bit of it you are Mr. Saunders, d n Mr. Otley if you are Mr. Otley, d n Mr. Sanders I would not be personal for the world I" The partner smiled at the felicitous retort, and put Knowles on the free list. Mechanics' Institute Vaiiieoatid Woods The Philosophical Club of the Insti lute, Prof. Manes in the chair, finished their discussion on Wood on Wednesday evening. Among the novel facts elicited, Prof. Mapes stated lhat the French were in the habit of honng holes into growing tress and injecting various colored liquids fur purpose of making the fine variegated woods for cabinet-making and other purposes. By using liquids of various chemical properties at different times, under the action of Ihe force pump, some remarkably beautiful re sults are obtained by chemical action. He also described a process of making imitation tortoise shell from wood treated with hot tand skillfully manipulited over the surface by means of a feather-like substancee held in the hand of the workman. Very many of the fino tortoise shell boxes of French manufacture, the Professor said, would be found, on examination, to be nothing but wood treated in this manner. He also stated that it was the practice of some intelligent timber-growers to select choice trees and repeatedly, puncturo tbenvwtih a blunt in strument, thus provoking the growth of im menso warts often weighing half a ton, the beat of which sell in France as high ss forty cents a pound. N. Y. Times. 4th. Death fiiom a Sinqulaii Cause. Mr. C. C. Cooley, whom we spoke uf in our issue of yes terday as being at the point of death, from the effects of having a tooth extracted, died yester day. Mr. Cooley was a contractor in Colonel Colt's pistol factory, whero he bad been engag ed for several years. His ago was 37 years. Some three weeks sinco he applied to a dentist, who extracted for him an eye tooth, from which he was suil'ering much pain. Tho tooth was properly extracted, and nothing remarkable oo curicd at the time, but, soon after the operation was performed, Mr. C.'s jawaud faco began t& swell and to pain him sovercly. His face con tinued to swell, until tho infiamation had exten ded to his head and throat, when his nervous syetem became so much affected that delirium set in, and continued, wjth but slight intermis sions, up to ihe time of his death, All the rem edies prescribed lo reduce the infiamation and remove tho delirium proved ineffectual. Ho could tako no food or nourishment of any amount for several days previous to his death, and sank ' away gradually from mere physical oxhsustion, until within torno forty-eight hours previous to his death, when mortification took placo, com mencing in tho affected portion of the jaw, and extending to the throat, nnd thus forever ended his sufferings. Tho physicians who attended him, wo understand, havo remarked that they never before, during; their extended practice, met with a precisely similar case, nor ono that so completely baffled, their skill. Uartforti Times. Tho editor of the Port Gibson Rovoillo, R. H Purdon, is but 19, but Is evidently a fast boy. Ho has edited a paper four years, has been en gaged a dozen times, at loast, without marrying, and above all, fought a duel with the editor of the Natchez Free Trader, receiving a wound in tho arm, after which he returned to his desk and went on writing as if uotbing had happened