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MOSES RAV LINOS,
ALBKANDIR KINO,
PATRTCKIAMMIL,
CUMBERLAND, ID.
HEALEY * SHRIVE],
Wholesale and Retail Di lers la
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PANTS, OILS,
Dye-Staffs, Window Glass, A Pbysreleat'
orders put up with dispateh t the lowest
prices—Corner of Baltimore and Meehanle Ble.
JOHN BEALI
' IRON FOUNDER and MiOHINBT,
, Reaps eeastantly on hand and n .nifaeteres to
1 order, Steam Engines, Stove Orates, end
every thing in his lias of buel ess, oorner of
Harrison aod Centre Streets.
X. H. JUUTLEI r '
Steam Cbalr and Cabin t Factory,
Centre Street, near the Luth an Chorih.—
Turning and Bawing ef all del rlptlons done
to order. Coffins and hearse fui lsbsd atahort
notice.
• 1. B. H. OAMPBEII,
Wholesale and Retail D< ler In
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PA; ITS, OILS,
Dye-Stuffs, Window Glass, Ao. hysiaiflks' or
ders put up with dispatch at th< loweat Wieet,
MoKaig's Row, corner of Bltimro A Liberty
atreeti.
' JOHR S. RUSSB£T T
Candle and Soap Man ifacinntr,
and dealor in Groceries, North 1 eehanlo (Rett,
near Bhtpley'r Hot i. I
■ K. F. lOKERXAH >,
r Upholsterer and Pap< ■ Han get,
and dealer in WALL PAPER, t 'HOLBTERP,
An, MoOleary's Row, Haiti mo* street, offy#
hie servioee to the publte. ,
IAI2I P. WRIOjT,
Watches, Clocks, Bread-Plus, At,
Baltimore Bt.,f
i ANDREWS A IWASTZyXLBXR,
Wholesale A Retail Df ler la
Books and Stationery, reriodlcaL,
Useful end Fanoy Articles, Balfmore Street. n
the room under the Maeenm. A to, Book Bk
ders and Blank Work Manunetarera at cjy
prices.
• • JOHB O. TEBXRtt ~
Wholesale and Retail Thaler 1*
Confectlonarles and Faiey Artlcla,
and ell ktade of Toye. Wedflag end othir.
Cakes prepared to order at the'ehortert aotlet.
Baltimore EL, 1 doors west of ScKmg's Row.
CHARLES W. IBRBOLE,
Dealer in and Mnnnfaotnrer Of
Boots,Shoea, Hats, Caps,
.-£"<el'e New Blook, Baltimore Sine*
. \ .-SPEWKLL wm, •
f" DKALHR IS
Foreign aid Domestic Dry Goods,
J BoKaigl Row, Baltimore street.
'rtlT D. WTERSW,
FANCY IS(J GOODS MERCHANT.
MoKaig's New Aoek, opposite the Pest Oftt,
BaOmete Btreet. \ \
WILLIAM E\gSALL, * CO„\
Wholesale A Retail Dealers In
GROCERIES, TEA 2, LIQUOIS C.\
near the Depot, E4f. Street. \
A. J. BOOIS,
Dealer U \
Groceries, Provisions, Feed Ac,
•)0. wholesale dealer ia Salt,c>tal Mae be-
low ClahMgh's Llqnor ftore,
--t .;. HEMAB X. BOItOCC,
Dealer im
Groceries, CoifeetioMry, Toys, *f.
! North Mchaaie neap Peej't Corner.
\ * ' LBARJI
Hestanratenr A Dealer k Oysters,
Comer ef Belli more and M Mkaale ste.
. Pjf.tere served ay to order at notice. aJ.
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CHAPLINE A DILLON,
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THOMAS KcKEfi,
Miinufacturrr of
Chairs, Tables, Bedsteads,
At fkort notico'und on reasonable tormi.
i Contro Street, one door Bouth of Plonoor Bu
gint llouie.
JOHN le. THOMAS.
Wholesale and Retail Dealor In
Tobacco, Scgars, Nnuir, Pipes, Ac.,
Mdobanio Stroet, keeps on hanl nn narortmont
of Gtrtcun Gegarj, which *ro offorod low.
8. HEIDELBESGER,
Kopi always on hand full a\Apply of
Clotbs, Casslmeres and Vesting*,
and Read;* Made Clothing of all descriptions
Baltiiatra Street, opposlto Barings Bank.
P. K HALDEMAN,
Restanrateur A Dealer In Oysters,
Wild game and fresh fish, at wholesale and ro
tail. Baltimore Street, 3 doors west ol HcKaig's
Block
THOS. CAIN, j
(Of the firm of Uhtka A Gain.)
Merchant Tailor,
Ona door weal of Bush Si Saylor'e Tobacco
Store Baltimore Street, Cumberland, Md.
H. D. CARLETON,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
MoKalg'ft NowDlook, Baltimore Street, koops
on hand aad mnkos to ordor all kinds ofGMit'ti
aod Boys' wuuring appareL
WW ■TAir'B
MERCHANT TAILOR,
Adjoining Bol\tdre Hhll, Baltimore Htreot,
Cumberland, Md.
~JOHN tf. WOODS I DE,
Manufacturer A Dealer in
EC., WJT JUE ■ET mc mm. _
STEAM SAW-MILL,
Lynn's WLarf,
CUMDKBLAMD, 81D.
JOHN JOHNSON,
Till and Slicet-Irun Worker,
Rpectftilly aak a share of publlo patronage.
Tkaaod Hheot Iron waro always on hand and
for nalo low. McOleary's tVw, BAWrn®rr!Jf.
JAM ES T. M AGILL,
Manufkotnrorof
Tin, copper and Sheet-Iron Ware,
Keeps constantly on hand end makeeto order
all kinds of Tin-Ware, copper and sheet-iron
wars. Ordors from a distance will be pfompl
ly flllod. fieinmes' Row, Baltimore etreoU
WILLIAM LILGOUIL
Attorney and Solicitor,
pm* OJJIv ntml door to Q*o. A. F'oam't,
Cumberland, Maryland.
RirißlXOß
QEO. A. PMARRIS, Ettj., Cumberland, Md.
Hon. WM. T. HAMILTON, FI dyer Eton*, Mfd.
DR. X. 0. GASKILL,
BURGEON DENTIST,
■ George's street, w*t door to ths Cumberland
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J. W. MAGRUDRR,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
Hardware, and Pocket Cutlery,
Corner Baltimore and Mechanic streets.
THOMAS JOBX9, -
Wholesale and Kefail
Dealer In Hardware,
Corner Baltimore and Centre streets*
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CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1859
poetical.
For the Civilian & Ttltgraph.
The Potouinc.
BT DEV. A. J. WEDDIIA.
On tie beautiful Potomac
la the centuries long ago,
Floated the Indian warrior's bark,
And the maiden's light canoe;
And the wood-crowned hills, stood bathing
Their dark shadows in the streams,
As thoy watched at eve, like sentinels,
The SUB'S departing beams.
The old and stately forests,
Raised their hoary branches high.
Like hands upraised in worship
To the silent, beauteous sky;
While within their lonely solitudes,
Gathered dark and stalwart men.
The ancient rulers of the soil.
Of riser, rock and glen.
Thor sang their songs of war and lure,
In wild notes loud and free,
Till theforeatsdoepand the mountains high
Joined in their minstrelsy :
'Jflie wild deer started from his lair,
As if aome hunter nigh—
And the panther answered echo back
With his long and plaintive cry.
But the forests proud aro fa'ling
Aud the warrior tribes arc gone,
They chant no moro their battlo songs
Nor hunt the timid fuwu;
But where the council's watchfiroe burned
Is reared tho stately dome,
And the mansions of the conquerors stand
W'bers stood the chieftain's home.
Beneath us lies the scattered dust
Of tho mighty nations dead,
But their spirit bands, at midnight
Throng our streets with noiseless treed ;
They gather on their ancient hills.
Float o'er their own loved streams,
Like the viewless tones of musio
Or the Images of dreams.
Aud the beautiful Potomao
Still flows in sweetness on,
As It hears its Northern treaaurss
To the children of the Sun :
Its waters sound a requi< IU
In A2oliau harp uotea low,
O'or the forsst rulers of the Iwd
In ths centuries long ego,
(Original.
For ihv Civilian <£ Tvlegroph.
"Aud lu Use Clurdcn u New Se
pulchre."
It Is s distinguishing characteristic of the
Bible, that it abounds in tboso terse exprea
sions, which are ever the stimulants to thought.
Perhaps there Is no sentence 111 the inspired
volume, which in some sense, may not be re
garded as B centre, arouud which cluster
many siuocfatiens of an interesting, and in
structive character. While tha leading de
eign of the ecntenco may be to fortify some
truth already elated, or to act as a preventive
against some future misconception or error,
in its tubordinale significance it may also sug
gest sucii thoughts, as aro well adapted to
vorify the declaration of the apostle "that all
scripture is given by inspiration of God, and
in profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for cor
rection, for instruction in righteousness."—
Tills rich fui'ness in thought-grms,bus doubt
less mufch contributed to the high estimation
in which the Bible is held, as a literary trea
sure.
The primary design of the words quoted
Above, that in tiie garden there was a new
sepulchre, seemß to be to shew the fulfilment
of the prophecy iu Isaiah concerning Christ:
"Ho mailo his gravu with tho wicked, and
with tho rich in his death (Isaiah lii't-8). To
build a tomb for a person was a mark of es
teem and honor, and the fact that Jesus of
Nozareth waa buried in a new scpulchro is a
striking fulfilment of the prophetic descrip
tion ot his burial. The fact, too, that this
new sepulchre was in a garden also bears a
confirmatory relation to tho prophecy. There
was a potters-field for the burial of strangers,
and public cemeteries for tho interment of
the people generally, but nono except the
richer portion of the commuuity were able to
havo their burial places la a garden. No
one who could have seeu the "man of sor
rows," aa at the close of day he toiled up the
steeps, of Olivet to spend the night on the
mountain, would have thought tiiat he, wiio
was thus rejected and despised among men,
would after an ignominious crucifixion as a
common criminal, be laid in a garden ; a
placo whora only tho rich, and noble, could
"sleep their lost sleep."
God in thus fulfilling s prophecy so con
trary to human expectation, evinced, that
His waye are not ts our ways—that He it is,
who disposes, and governs tho minds of men,
and that it is a principle of divine action, to
accomplish groat results in the face of great
opposition.
Put whilst it was tho primary design of
this seemingly unimportant expression to show
the fulfillment of what bos been foretold, the
simple statement, that in tlto garden there
was a sepulchre, suggests a mournful ttieme
for contemplation.
Ths gardens mentioned in scripture took
their names from the prevalence of certain
trees In them; thus they were termed tho
"garden of nuts"—the "garden of pomegran
atoe"—the "garden of olives." They were
not located in the immediate vicinity of tiie
residence of the owner, but were situated in
the suburbs. Belonging almost exclusively
to the wealthier claseos, they were adorned
with all that could render them attractive
and delightful. In them nature and art com
bined, lent their aid to the enchantment of
the senses. Pavilions, half hid in the luxu
riant foliage, and tastefully decorated with
the embellishments of fancy, invited the ram
bler to rest in their shady seclusion, while the
music of the streami, as they glided rippling
along their baakt of bright vsrdnre, and the
dancing of ths cascades, as they played in
the sunshine, gave lift snd animation to the
scene. Basque* also were eotnetimee given
MINERS' AND MANUFACTURERS' JOURNAL.
in these gardens—the merry laugh rang thro'
their darkly shaded avenues, and the voica
of mirth, mingled with the sound of music.
But in this place of festive gayetv—amid all
the bloom and beauty—a sad memento of i
mortality rose — the whiU'l sepulchre.
Thcs in every garden there is a sepulchre
—in every scene of life and joy there is some
memorial of approaching decay—upon all
with which we are acquainted, is impressed
the stamp of dissolution. In the physical
world, progress or growth is but thesuio pre
cursor to decay—the thousand forms around
us in all their varied life and beauty, bear
withiu themselves the elements of decompo
sition. Vegetation with its myriad forms of
development, all eloquent with life, buds,
blossoms, and fades—the flower loses its love
liness an<j withers away—tha verdure of
summer, grows russet and sere in tho winds
of autumn, liven the stern rock, battling
for centuries against the tempest and storm,
crumbles at length in tho conflict of ages.
"Passing away," is tho minor strain in the
sad song of nature.
History confirms the solemn fact, of death
in tho midst of life. Nations, luxuriating in
their opulence—reposing in their splendor
and arrogant in their power, have risen, cul
minated, and fallen. In the height of their
pomp and power, the principles of death
within them, wartned into life and activity hv
the vicious zeal of corrupt demagogues, work
ed their destruction. The Empires of the past
exist only in name. Babylon tho great—
tho beauty of the CliaUlees' excellency, is
fallen. At the zenith of her grandour, hor
citizens dreamed away the hours of her de
fence in the arms of licentiousness, wliilo tho
Persian Monarch poured upon her a flood
which extinguished forever the light of her
Empire. Jerusalem, torn by internal vio
lence and dissensions, is hurled down by the
Roman army. Athens, enervated by the cor
rupting vices and effeminacy of her people,
languished and decayed. Itome, throned on
her seven hills, the mistreu) of the world,
racked by injustice and paralyzed by immor
ality, is trodden under foot by the Vgudal
and Goth. Thus tho glow of prosperity
which mantled these nations ere they de
clined, was but the hectic flush concealing
the insidious workings of a fatal disease. As
witli solemn footfall wo tread among the
graves of buried centuries, ws see inscribed
on all the mausoleums of departed greatness,
the mournful requiem of the past:
"Tb boast. herniary, ttie pomp of power,
! And ell Ihst beauty,all tbat wealth e'er gave
Awnit alike the inevllable hour;
The patlie of glory lead but to the grave."
Tints also with human life —in every garden
there is a sepulchre. We gaze down the gay
thoroughfares of our cities, teeming with life
and bustling with commotion, and see the
loug procession bearing with solemn tread
the "lost one" to that bourne from whence
us traveler returns." We stroll into the
country, and everywhere we go, the white
tablot peering above tho sod, reminds us of
our mortality. We come nearer home—into
our own loved circles, death has beCti there;
the grim monster has invaded our owft
hearths, and taken from us a parent—a child
—a brother—a sister—a friend.
There is within our own bodies s strong
inherent tendency to dissolution. Bensatli
the flash of health and glow ot life, the ele
ments of corporeal disorganization are work
log our decay. Uow touchingly beautiful is
the figure used by the prophet, to portray
this sad fact of our mortality, "tee all do fade
as a leaf." But though death is thus the
destiny of man on eartli —man was never
meant to die. Death is not the child of
God's love—it is the child of sin. The body,
with all its parts so beautifully and perfectly
adapted to each other, was never made to
moulder in the tomb. The bloom which
glows upon the check of health, was never
made to pale or fade. The sparklu j eye,
kindling with tho enthusiasm of ve soul
within, was never made to become dim and
lustreless in the grave. The heart which
sends the life-blood throbbing through the
frame, was never made to be frozen by the
chilling blasts of death. Oh no I death is
an unnatural thing. God made his creature
man to live forever. lie made the casket
which eushrines his image for a better des
tiny than this. But man sinned, and by his
sin brought death into the world.
As we are thus continually reminded, hy
tho decay in nature, by the fate of Empires,
and by the evidences of mortality around us
and within us, of the mournful effect of
Adam' s transgression, the burdened soul,
shrinking from the thought of a last long
day of nothingness, cries out, is Here no helpt
Must nature ever die—must nations ever be
consumed in the conflagration of their own
wild passions—must this body once destined
for perennial bloom, moulder in the grave
forever ? Reader, that sepulchre ill tho gar
den, witnessed tho most glorious scene in the
universe of God— there, the Lord of life and
glory, hurst the chains of mortal corruption
and illumined tho dark recesses of the tomb
with the Shechiuah of his presence— there
was captivity led captive there was the
pledge given of a complete and glorious re
surrection. Now, ae we look on nature, and
see springing from the mass of decay and
death around us, new forma of light and
beauty, we can anticipate with earnest hofie
that period, when "the whole creation, which
groaneth and travaileth together in pain until
now, waiting for the Redemption, shall be re
deemed—when this earth cursed for man's
transgression, purified by fire, shall be made
again an Eden of peace and holiness. As
also, amid the revolutions of time, we see
emerging from the mouldering rufns of wicked
dynasties, the elements of a purer and a
nobler political faith, we can look forward
with confidence to that glorious era predicted
by the' prophets," wl jn the nations shall beat
their swords into plough-shares and their
spears into pruning hooks, when nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they loam war any more, but all nations shall
be given to Christ for his inheritance and the
pttyripost parts of the earth fbj his posses
sion. *1
pluistign mournar, as yon think ovar the
ravages which death has nude in your own
heart, ae yen start book from Ae thought et
the grave with all its gloomy associations,
remember the sepulchre in the garden I then'
can you exultingly sing, %
On the cold cheek of Death, smiles and roses
are blending,
; And beauty immortAl awakes from the tomb.
JUisceilanfQiis.
A Genuine Mtgro Sermon.
Negro sermom are common, but. they are
chiefly simulations or imitations. A genuine
one is a novelty ; and therefore we give the
following, which was taken down phouo
grapliically, as uttered by a "colored ox
pounder" named "Daddy Jim," before a con
gregation ef whites and blacks, in a cabin near I
tho Seminary Buildings, Limestone Springs,
S. C. It is not, perhaps, so racy as a ficti
tious production, but it has tho merit of ac
curacy and reality, which is something in
these degenerate days. It has been forward
ed to us by a friend who resides in the vi
cinity, and commences with a prayer, thus:
"Dou dat dwellest way up among de bims
and do choruhims. Don has scd whar two
or tree of dy childers aro a gaddered togeder
as techere, and a aiming at one ting, dare dou
will come to bress. Be pleaied to mount de
white gospel ateed, an take a gentle ride roun
ds territory, an atop awhile at Hell's gate,
shorten Saltan's chain, an sink him one tou
sand fadanis lower. Bress all de bond an de
free-bond; bress our dear massa an our dear
missus; may dey draw togeder like de match
horses ob de ancient time, an may de springe
ob de-body tinv tip an call em bressed."
Then comes the sermon i
"Gentloiuon an ladies—My tcx cm dts ec
ctsion mought be foun', if I mistake not, j
bout de 9th verse of 2d Peter, 8d chapter: |
"Ds Lord knowetli how to deliberdeongodly j
out ob teintation."
"Kindbearted an tender bredring, I'm a- |
gwiue to speak a few words to you dia ebe- j
ning, and rcskover to you how dat de Lord
lmb care ob all you ongodly ladiea and gen-,
tlcmon. Hence we roceive how dat God Al
mighty told Noah to build a big ship, an lie
put into it a ho an a eho ob ebcry kind. Den
de big cap. an gen. come along, say, 'whar
de ole man gwiue to git er.uf water to float
his big ship?' Byin by, den Noah he go in
lie ark, eu all de ongodly ladies an gentlemen
kep on a eiagin an a danein, a fiddiin an a
cuuk-iitiu. • masigUi ait % gtrtn In mir
age. Den de doors ob de ark wus abet an
de doom oh healien wus opined, an de rain
gan to ascend an rascend up de earth. Den
de waters dey come up te de first floor, dey
nay, 'Nehher mind, fiddlo up;' an dey went
to de second floor. Den de water it come
dare, an doy put der heads out der winder au
say:—'Noah i ain't you gwiue to lit us into
your urk ?' 'No, l'se full I' Den dey hold
on to de eaves an dormer wiiiders, and de
water cum up obor em an take em down de
•tream. Hence we receive 'dat de Lord j
knoweth how,' etc."
"De Lord commanded Jonah to go proph
esy gin Niuevah. Den Jonah went aboard
ship, an a big hurricane cum, an Jeuah, lie
an do captain, had a big talk, an dey trow
Jonah oberboard. Den a big whale swallow
him. Den Jonah he tink it alt ober wid im,
"illre, but bym by he gan to pray, ail de more
he pray de more de whale gan to grow eick.
Finally he trow up, an Jonah gits on dry
groun. Hence we 'restive,' Ac., Ac."
"De great king, Nebucheduezzer, gin out
word dat whom call on de name ob de Lord
for tree day do lion shall hab im. Den Dan
iel he go strate home, an open all de winders,
an pray to God Almighty. Den do ongodly
men dey take him to de king an he put him
in de lion's den. Next mornin' fore do crack
ob day, da king go to de den an say, *Ho>
Daniel I lion bite you ?' Den Dan. say, 'No
O king! I feel I lib forebor. Dk Lord he
shot de lion's raouf, so lie no bite mo.'—
Hence wo 'receive,' Ac., Ac."
"Do Lord lie say to de angol Gabriel, 'Go
git your silver trumpit.' Den he blow to do
Norf, an he blow to de Souf, au be blow to
de Fast, an he blow to de West, an all de
ongodly ladies and gentlemen go down to
bell; but de righteous dey hab a golden
crown on der hea<L silver slippers 011 der
feet, an wliito robes comin down to der toes,
an golden harp in der moufa, Ac., Ac."
A llappt Home.—ln a liappy homo there
will be no fault-finding, 110 overbearing spirit
—there will be no peevishness, no frctfulnoss.
Unkiudness will not dwell in the heart or be
011 the tongues. Oh, tlie tears, the wasting
of life, and health, and strength, and time— !
of all that is most to he desired in a home, :
occasioned merely by unkind words. The
celebrated Mr. Wesley remarked to thie effect, .
namely, that frcting and scolding seemed like I
1 tearing the flesh from the bone, and we have
no more right to be guilty of this than we
have to cnrao, or swear, or steal. In a per
fectly happy home, all selfishness will he ro- 1
moved. Even as "Chriit pleased not him- |
self," so the members of a happy home |
will not seek first to please themselves!
but to please each other,
Cheerfulness is another ingredient in s '
happy homo. How much does a sweetness >
emanating from a heart fraught with levc
and kindness, contribute to render a home 1
happy. How attracting, how soothing is that
sweet cheerfulness that is borne on the couti- !
tenance of a wife and mother.
How the parent and child, the brother and '
sister, the mistress and servant, dwell with
delight on thuso chcorful looks, thoss confi- 1
ding amilcs that beam from the eye, and
burst from the inmost soul who arc dear end <
near. How it Listens the return of the fa- :
thev —lightens the care of (he mother —ren- I
ders it more easy for both to resist tempts- |
tion, and drawn by the cords of affection, !
how it induces them with loving hearts to i
return to the psrenta! roof.
Oh, that parents would ley this subject to
heart—that by untiring efforts they would so
far repdsr home happy, that their children
and domestic! shall net seek for happiness in
forbidden paths.
iifS>ii new 1 —aw
BAT" Whet has been your business 7" said
a Judge to a prisoner the bar.
" Why your honor, I used to ba 4 dentist
rjow lam a pugilist; then I pot teeth in—.
new I knock 'em rt "
rl t
Sut .hovengood's Dog.
► When I wer a boy, and my lego not long
•r than John Wontwortli's dad fotchad homo
a daddrappcd, wutliless, mangy, fleabitten,
gray old fox lioun, good for nutbing bnt to
owallor up what orter lined the bowels Ovo
us brats. Woll I naturally tuck a distaste to
him, and had a sorter hankcrin arter hur his
feelings and discumfertin ove him every time
dad's back were turned. This sortor kept a
big skecr alles heforo his eyes, and an orful
yell in his throat reddy to pore out the fust
moshun he soed me make. So ho lacnt to
swallcr things as he run, and allers kept hie
laigs well onder himself, for he never knowd
how soon he mought want to use om in trot
ting his trilling carcus beyond the reach ovo
a grate flyin rock. He knowd the.whir, of a
rock in moshun as well, and ho never stop
ped tu so who fiung hit, but jist let his head
fly open to gin a howl—room to cum—and
sot his laigs tu gwine the way his nose hap
pened to he a pintin. He'd eliy roun every
rock lie seed in tlio road, for he looked on hit
as a calamity tu cum arter hiin some day.—
Ef ho left home sum nabor's dog tanned bis
liide, and if bo stadc at home, I was allers ar
ter bit tu tan hit; so he didcut see much more
peace of mind nur a suckit ridor dus in a
Baptist naburliood at sacrament time when
the river am up in good dippin ordor. And
in all my born days I never seod him agwine
tlic same way I wuz ; ho made that an on
brakabil mil. I think I got my fust noledge j
l ove gittin way frum imagunary trobul and
j common tribulasliun, from him; and with
the vantage of a boiesum par ove laigs and
the power ovo usin em, I allers found his
plan tu work woll. I tell you Georgy, that
| rumiln Bhi tli"j greatest invenshun on yearth
; when usod carefully Whtlr'd I been tu by
I this time ef 1 liaudt relyed ontu these yßrtf
j laigs 7 D'ys see om 7 Dont ttiey mind yon
I ove a par ove cumpusos made to divide a
I mile into quarters t They'l do, I'll be cir
-1 cmnistansliully dad-drapped of they dont.
| Well, one day I tuck a pig's bladder ill on-
Itu the sizo ove a duck aig and filled it with
powder and korked hit up with piece of
spunk, rolled hit up in a thin sculp ere niect
and sot the spunk afire, and flung it out; lie
swallersd hit at one yerk, and sot tu gittin
away for doin hit. I liearn anoiso like sum
thin laistin, and liis tail lit atop ovo my hat.
His head were way down the hill and had
Vnck drtti outer a roof. His fore laigs
wero fifty foot up the road making runnin
moshuns, mid his liine ones a straddil ore the
fence, liis innerds wer liangin in links ontu
the cabiu chimly, sept about a yard in mam's
bussum. As tu tlio dog hisscl, as a dog, I
never seed him agin. Well, dad flung five
or six hundred onder my short with the dried
skin ofeu a bull's tail, and gin me theremain
durnext day with a waggin whip what he
borrowed fruin a feller while ho wer a wat
teren his bosses; the wagginor got sorry fur
mo and hollered tu me tu turn my beggin
[and squealin intu fust rate runnin, which I
I imniejiutly did, and the last lick missed ine
bout ten fut.
—i
#6TThe following poem from the Ran
Francisco Golden Bra, is not only Homeric
in stylo, but complete in itself, for it ends in
the total annihilation of the combatants:
" On a pine wood shed, in an alley dark,
were scattered moonbeams, sifting through a
row of tottering chimneys and an awning
torn and drooping, fell, strode back and forth,
with stiff and tenso-drawn muscle and pecu
liar tread, a cat.
His namo was Xorval; on yonder neigh
boring shed his father fought the cats that
came in squads from streets beyond Dupont,
111 search of food and strange adventure.
Grim war he courted ; and liis twisted tail,
ami spine upheaving in fantastio curve, and
claws distended, and flatly pressed against a
lioad thrown back defiantly, told of impend
ing strife.
With eyes a-glcam, and screeching blasts
of war, and steps as silent as the falling dew,
young Norval crept along tlio splintered edge
and gazed a moment through the darkness
down, with tail a-wave triumphatly.
Then witli an imprecation and a growl—
pcriiaps an oath in direst vengeance hissed—
he started back, and crooked in body like a
letter S, or rather like a U invertod, stood in
fierce expectancy.
'Twas well. With eye-balls glaring and
ears all aslant, and open mouth, In which
two rows of fangs stood forth in sharp and
dread conformity, slow up a post from out
the dark below a head appeared,
j A droadful tocsin of eternal strife young
Norval uttered ; then, with a face unblanched,
and moustache standing straight before bis
nose, and tail fUmg wildly to the passing
breeze, steppe! tti&i incautious invitations to
tlio foe.
Approaching the other, and, with prepar
ations dire, eacli cat surveyed the rentage of
the field. Around they walked, with tails
uplifted and backs high in tlio air, while from
their fhoutbs, in accents hissing with consu
ming rage, dropped brief but awful senten
ces of hate.
Thrice around the roof they wont In circlo,
each with eye upon the foe intently bent:
then sidewise moving, as is wont with cats,
gave one long-drawn terrific, savage yell, nnd
buckled in.
The fur flew. A mist of hair huug over
the haltl# field. High 'bove the din of pas
sing wagons rose the dreadful tumult of tho
struggling cats. Ho gleamed their eyes in
fronzy, that to me, who saw the conflict from
a window near, nought else was visible but
fiery stars that moved in orbits most eccen
tric,
j An hour they struggled in tempestnous
| might, then iqint and fainter grew the squall
of war, until all sound was hushed. Then
went 1 forth with lantern, and the field sur
veyed. What saw I 7
' Six claws—one ear—of teeth, perhaps a
handful; and save fnr, nought else, except a
solitary tail. That tail was Norval's—by a
ring 1 know't. The ear was—but we'll let
the matter paes. The tale will do without
the ear.
It is mid some babies are so small they can
creep into quart measures. But the way
eome adults can walk into eueb a massure is
'astesi'shing.
NUMBER 1
The Long: Ago."
OH I a wonderful stream is ths river TISI,
As it runs through the realms of tears,
With a faultless rythm and a musical rhyme,
And a broader sweep, and a surge sublime,
And blends with the ocean of years.
ilow the wiutersare drifting like flakes of snow,
Aud the summer like buds between,
And the year in tho shoaf—so tLey come and
they go
On tho river's breast, with its ebb and flow.
As it glides in tho shadow and sheen.
There is a magical Isle tip the river Time,
Whero the softest of airs aro playing;
There'a a cloudless sky and a tropical clime,
And a song as swoet as a vesper chime,
Aud the Junes with tho rosee aro staying.
And the name of this isle is tho Loso A00,.,
And we bury our treasuree there j
There are brows ef beauty and bosoms of
snow-
There are heaps ef dust,but wo loved tlism to t
There are trinkets and tresses of hair.
There aro fragments of song that nobody
sings,
And n part ef an infant'a prayer ;
There's a lute uuswspt, and a harp without
strings,
There are broken vows, and pieces of rlngi,
And the garments that ih need to wear.
There are hands that are waved when the
fairy shore
By the mirsge is lilted In air ;
Aud we sometimes hear, through the turbu
lent roar,
Sweet voices ws heard In thm days gone
before,
When the wind down the river is Mr.
Oh 1 remembered for syo he the hi cased isle,
Alt the day of life till night—
When the evening oomes with its beautiful
smile,
And onr eyes srs closing to slumber awhile,
May that "greenwood" of sonl be in sight.
a Wo do not know who is the author of
this gorgaous piace of poetic imagery. We
have seen it credited to B. F. Taylor, to Mrs.
Judson, and to ethers. But there can bo but
•no opinio! as to its merits.—Kr>.
MOUMIHQ CUSTOMS.— A French writer
gives a summary of tho different observances
among mankind, relative to mourning and
funeral ceremonies, which we think will in
terest our reader*. All the world, saye he,
are acquainted with the grandeur of the Ro
inau obsequies and funeral games. The
Greeks also burnt the corpses ofdlstingnished
men, with funeral feasts, and ths lamenta
tion of hired weepers, though they generally
displayed a less sumptuous grief, and bettor
regulated piety. The Persians bnried the bo
dies of ths dead ; the Scythians sto them ; the
Indians enveloped thorn, for preservation's
sake, in a sort of locker > the Egyptians em
balmed and dried them, exhibited them on
festal days, placed them at She table among
their guests, guarded them as their most pre
cious possessions, and lonnsd and borrowed
money on these strange pledge*. In onr time
tho custom of dancing at funerals is only
practised in India and among tome savage
nations; but funeral entertainments still pre
vail in many European countries. Amongst
otherß the ceremony of interment is solemn
and silent, which nevertheless docs not inter
fere with the wish that all may be forgotten
as speedily as possible. Wo observe morej
ostentatious rites for persons of consequence.
Their carriages follow them to the graves,
and sometimes their horses are paraded,
which having been made to i-st seem to par
take of the affliction of the occasion. The
Orientals, frem whom we borrow these cus
tom, went further—thoy mado the horses in
funeral processions weep, by blowing a par
ticular kind of powder up their nostrils.
In Italy the mourning was formerly white
for women, and brown for men. In China
it is white; in Turkey, Syria and Armenia it
is blue: in Egypt, yellow ; in Ethiopia, grey.
Each of these colors had, originally, its mys
tical signification. White is the emblem of
purity; celestial blue indicates the space
whero the soul ranges after death ; yellow, or
the tinge of dead leaves, exhibits death as the
end of all human hopes, and man falling
like the leaf of an turn n; grey represents the
color of the earth, our common mother ; and
black ths funeral costume now adopted
throughout Europe and America, is an allu
sion to ths eternal night.
In England, the sovereign never wears
black ; be Is clothod in dark purple aa mourn
ing. Till the reign of Charles VIII,
white was the funeral garb in Franco. The
Emperor Leopold, who died in 1706, used to
suffer his beard to grow in disorder during*
the whole poriod of mourning. In this he
imitated the Jews. The dowager-empresses
nover left off weeds, and their apartments
were hung with black till their death.
The Chancellor of France is the only per
son who never wears mourning,
But the most remarkable of all these usa
ges, ia, perhaps, that of the people of those
ancient nations, who dressed themselves as
women when thsy lost their relatives, in or
der, it is said, that the ridicule attached to
their vestments might make them ashamed
of thoir grief,
STOOV Snom-DEas.—lf ever a catalogue of
our national failings bo completed, it ahould
embrace that of having round shoulders, so
called. We sro very largely a nation of
atoopers, from the farmer in bis shirt-sleeves
to tho advocate at his table. There ia not
the slightest necessity for this, and it is un
gainly aa it ia unhealthy. Boyi who have a
tendency to 'Lop, should be made to straigh
ten themselves, and if kind counsel wilt not
bring them to their perpendicular, ridicule
should be resorted to and persevered in until
the thing is done. There is a probability
that net more than one pair ef stooping shoul
ders ia a hundred stoops unavoidably. Free
exercise of all tba muscles of ths chest, back
and abdomen, In the erect position, will cure
the evil. Walking has no tendency to de
this.— m,
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• ble apd Promisory Notes, tcalways on band.
PSALM or DAVID.— The following elo*
qnent extract it from a late lecture by Henry
Biles on the Pen Ima of David:
Great haa been their power in the world.
They reeounded amidst the court of the tab
sruacle; tlicy floated through the lofty and\
wlemn apace of the temple; they were sung *
with glory in the Halls of Zlon ; they were ?
iung with sorrow by the streams of Babel—
And wnen Israel bad passed away, the harp
of David was still awakened in the Church
of Christ. In all tlw eras and agee of that
church, from the hymn which it first whis
pered in au upper chamber until its anthems
filled the earth, the inspiration of the royal
prophet |gu enraptured its derations and en
nobled its ritrtale. Chorused by the winds of
heaven, they have awelled throughout God's
own, the sky and stars (-they have rolled orat
the broad desert of Asia, in the matins and
vespers of ten thousand hermits. They have
rung through the deep valleys of the Alps,
in the aobbing voices of the forlorn Wkl
densee j through the deeps and cares o"bi s< *
Scottish Highlands, in the rude chanting of
the Scottish Covenanters; through the woods
and wilds of primitive America, in tha hero
ic hallelujahs of princely plfgrima.
A IIKMARKTABLB Won AS —The Norfolk
papers notice the death in that city on the
2d Inst., of a colored female namod Sarah
Mallory, who at the time of her doath, was
in her hundred and twentieth year:
Her youngest child attended her funeral as
tho last of the fstmily; hit hack is bent, and
his locks frosted o'er with tic snows of seven
ty-seven winters. Bhe never used glasses,
and to tho day of her death could thread a
needle as readily and easily as over. Her re
main! were inclosed in a neat mahogany
coffin, on the top of which were the initial*
"S. M. JE. 120." They wero followed to
the grave by a large nnmher of both oolora.
Around the hearae wero venerable negro men,
who with a white saah across their shoulders
acted aa pall bearers; behind wero twenty
four old colored ladies; many of them poasi-.
bly three score and ten years of age, who
were attired in black dresses, black capes,
with three rows of white ribbons around, and
lead eolered chip bonnets, with a white cur
tain trimmed with three rows of black tape;
then followed several carriages ; while crowds
followed out to see the lost of this old lady,
who bad lived out six score years.'
"WIDOW or Brnws.—An English gentle-."""
man viaitio|[ the widow of Robert Burns, tha
Scottish poet, at Dumfries, was exceedignly
anxious to obtain some relio of the bard, ai
he called it; that is, some scrap of bis hsud
writing, or any other little object which coulAi
bo considered a memorial of the deceased.
Mrs. Burns replied to all bis entreaties, that 4
she had already given away everything of
that kind that was remarkable, or that aba ■
could think of parting with ; that, indeed,
sho had no relic to give him. Stilljtho via-. J
tant insisted, and still Mrs. Burns declared '
her inability to satisfy him ; at length driven
to extremities by his good humored entree-
ties, she as good humeuredly said—"Well, S>
air, tmicee yon take myself, I really can think '
of no othor relic (relief) of him that is In my/
power to give, or yours to receive." 04'
course, thie closed the argumont. [
M"During tho Revolutionary war, wbee
drafts were made from the militia to recruit I
the continental army a certain captain' j
gave liberty to the men who were drafted J
from his company, to make their objections, 1
if they had any, against going into service, 1
Accordingly, one of them, who had an ira- 1
pediment in his speech, cams forward and
made his how,
"What is your objection t" said the cap
tain.
"I ca-can't go," eaid the man, "because t
at-t-it-stutter." ~
"Stutter I" said the captain, "you don't PI
there to talk, but to fight."
"Ay, but they'll p-p-put me on g-g-g- ■'
guard and a man may go ha-ha-half a mile
befere I aay wh-wli-wh-whogoce there 1" |
"Oh, that is no objection," replied thecal
tain, "for they will place some
with you; he ean challenge, and yds can firs." 1
"Well, b-b-but I mar be ta-ta-teken and
run through the b-b-b-body, before I can cry ]
qu-qiK-qii-quarter 1"
This lest plee prevailed; and the captain
laughing heartily dismissed him.
WIJAT reason have we to believe that So -
omon was not so rich aa he is supposed to
have been ? Because wo have the highest
authority for the fact that he slept with his
forefathers; if he bad been rich he would.,
undoubtedly have had a lied of hie own. J
A genius once undertook to* name ao.l
classify the different sorts of fools ir 'IU *
world: \
"First, the ordinary fool; second, the foot
who is one, and don't knew it; third, tlis
fool who is not satisfied with being a fool in
reality, but undertakes, in addition, to ploy
the fool."
A Chinaman stepped into a jewelry shop
in San Francisco, and inquired if they hail •
any "consistencies ?" On being asked to ex
plain himself, he said he didn't know what
consistency was, bat had been told that ir
was a jewel.
A loafer teok a fish in the marbet-h'rr
and slipped it nnder bir vest. The tail
hanging down eo as to be seen, the firrt w.
he met suggested to bim that be should oi. l
wear a longer jacket or steal a shorter fie-. v '
A negro bey was driving a mule, -vhiW
the animal suddenly stopped and refused to
budge. "Won't go, hey ?" he said. 'Feel
grand, do you ? I suppose you forgot veur
father was a jackass r
■" ' 1 • -•- -
Tobecce leaves put round tha lliMB
peach trees, just beneath the aurfat*|Hß?
ground, are reoopi mended as a JPtw
of tha peach worm. HH,
AD eld tea captain used bo say, hejflESl
care how he dressed when
nobody knew him; and didn't caro J hfe'
dressed when at home, becanee
knew him him. __ Bt
An exchange teile of ap_
soldiering and waa * alf