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BY 15. P. WALTON & SON.
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i'T PEL1ER, TIIUItSDAP.
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VOL.XI.V, NO. 19. WHOLE NO. 2320.
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iUatcljman & State Journal.
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M.OO Ifpartrrtnt m(
mfttl In ulrtace, in'ervit tlwtji ehatfea
ftmn th ww nr
the year.
jjJoctni.
IJLLA LEU.
A SONG OF TUB SOUTHERN IjAND.
nr julia
ly her hrt tha woolbtne eliftgtth
To tb riaffc itijwHh. irn ;
Whr ih Ktmb- luw mtlr hrlftftUt
FrfHB lh baton, of the e ;
With t vffuwful Uvmn,
Iy btt where tweet violet h
Wht th lnt kMp grot la atrtion
T Um hitttbiftf f lie earn.
There, there, ley her,
There, there, laoe her.
Oar ft it Rile,
Owt y-mf, Elle, -Otir
Icmi E.U,
KIU Ui!
IWnt Morning the mmm.
Liter henMRttig like the bee.
We heheved bet mmh bright owner
I'raM the HmA where tank ere free.
Oli, he wet M eweet tad huljr,
MikimiI nv'eicowM Uitelier Ue,
And the ten brightly, slew!;,
An the tHwt hv Ike tee .
Yei, we here lei her,
Rer kNl Iter,
Oar tweet t'lle,
ihit f.ir Pile,
Oer tilla,
KIU I !
11 hat where the long jreii iwtrftih
On the berk of ma ay a tree
Wtore the lot.!? willow weepeth,
Lite a auereer by the tee.
She wii lately, ht wee gtle,
A all gifted rouit be ;
FahM la a It nee nentle,
Slamhariag ertr the if biiif tee !
We hate left hl,
tfwlly Irti her.
Our fir Kile,
Our youog KIU.
Our ht CiU,
Lite Ue !
Troes lllecKwood.
THE DAISY.
The UaUy brweeenii 00 the rucka
AhI the purple heath ,
It hi who m on the moi' ',
Tbat UiraaaV the flees banwath
The eegt, flit hi pride of ptac,
IlthoU it by hn eett
Aihi In the ana4, it rbteu tod
Th latl't deioewliug breat.
II (fore Iheeockoo, aarl.nl prta;
lit tllter eirclat kaowi,
Wba greottiNC b4 begin twellt
Anal sephyi bmH the aowwe ,
Afi4 when Deewnber hreotei bowl
A We; the Moorland bare,
And ottij fcloaai the ChimaMt toe,
The eWUy atil I if there !
EaaMrt'udewer! to It
Alliecet ate alike,
The SrtUra hie ftaaam height
The Dotr han by his ljko
The seal akiavetted Eiqutmiiui,
llegin with icy .
And onderneail. the horning noon.
The patatol'il Chimae.
The emigrant on dtaiaai hoie.
51 id Meo and facea alrang,
Behold it duwtrieg on the rd.
Where'er bi feottlep rnng ,
And nbon hit yearning homeirfc hrart
Wvuld bow to it daipeir,
It reada hta eye a ksn eege
Tbat Cod it everywhere!
Felrhing Waler from the Wclh
lf ( annoy morning,
While he Ink wet tinginf eweet,
4 Tow hejuod the ancient mravbouM,
PttJ o( light I J tnopiogteet.
Twa n loaelf ntatdoa foiagi
Why, lot jonng beam tell,
Wttb her lonely pHehec laden,
1 etching water front the well.
Shadowi Uy all-wait the pathway,
Atl nwnr lb quiet laao.
And tho Uof lHa motelng
Mttv4 thent toaut f.o agaia.
OVr the taatblea, nc the abdw,
l'tni-d the miieVn oftha firm,
Willi adnrmnd htrt hMn her,
TtlaViag of nu ill or hatu.
rUsum, luraly, were bar muting.
For the umIJidj lea re in rain
HKihl to preat I be if hrifhUting iinate
On bee eier but brain.
Loatm had yayoua luidi went by kei,
Iike adiwi, half-waktag diam ;
AoJ ber t mil waa tj coaiwui
Of lift' glJJit tuwiuer gietni.
At the old laat't thadv Itirning
Lay a well nf water bti; lit,
il tig, toft. It hallvlujah
To thograeiout Htorntn; Itjht.
Fetn-laavof , Iwoad and (rtD, bent r it
Where itt tilv'ry droileit tell,
And the UirietdwtJt betide it,
lu ibe (ultMl fox-glut e ball.
Hack the bent the t hading frrn leave,
Dipt U e pitcher in the tide,
Pirw it, with the dripping watera
Flowing oVr it glaiad tide.
Dm, before htr aim eouhl place) it
On her thtay, wav r hati,
Hj hei ii4 a )oulh wat ilindingl
Iaii e i 9itel tP ifcn ir 1
Timet of trrtituloua ematioo
Tiailtwl uon ibv wwiBieg brvetv,
Gentle word of bildouoa
WlujrVt 'net tli the aucient treat.
Hut the holy, We4 teorrii,
It hetrertM in not tn 1 nil i
Life Ut4 mil asvtti maaaia,
i"fii)jD wir fivM the mil t
Down tha rural Una tbejr taunteiedt
lie the buriUn-piicbti bora ;
tlie, with dewi; eyei dwalookiog,
Giew more betuieout than before!
When ly nearU the tlUnt loioiltaJ,
Up he itd the pitcher liglit j
Like a Ctiincrown he placed a
Ou bet bair e wartlttt bfighti
K Dibit mi of the coming butdent
That for lorn of him ahad War,
Caltin errrjr buido blttvtd,
Ifhltfore but lijbtfd llivret
Theo, tltll wai ng benedlctiona,
Fuitlier lyriber oil bediew,
While hi thaduw tttm'd a glory
That acru the pathnay g ow.
J'w ahwut her houtehult! dutira
i3iteul) the maiden wrut,
And an eter-retlUnt halo
Willi her radiunt lile wtt blent.
Little knew the ee4 matron,
At htr ftet like mune fill,
Whta abundant treasure found the,
Fetching watei fiua the wtil. atiaiK
iUisccllmicous.
OUR COUNTRY.
Tiiking tlie track suggestcil last week by
our senior, vc licruwitli present three brief
articles, from different sources, but all di
rected to the s.imc point : the prospective
grcatnen vf tht United Slates. The Uni
tkh Stntes, rtnpliaticnlly : for upon the rnrt
I'BTuitv or this Union one Constitution,
tmo Government, one Nation depends tho
realization of these sublime visions. De
stroy this unity, separate our vast country
into distinct sotcreignties, and the Western
continent shall simply be n copy of the I2as
torn presenting a repetition, perhaps for !
centuries to come, of the old history of i
tho rise of great nations upon the ruins "of,
petty statos of tbeir decline and fall ; a
long succosslon of conflicts and jbatiges
of growth and decline of life ami death.
ls such our destiny? In all such revolu-itions
tions, which compose the history ofthepast,
the world has on the whole advanced. "God
is in history." He lias visited nation after
nation "with tho indignation of Ins anger,
and with the flame of a devouring firo, with
scathing, and temper, and hailstones,"-!1''0
, 1 ....
yet these events, most untoward hi their
day to human eyes, have but served to ac- dauntless in her mien, and collossal in lier
coniplisli His vast and beneficent designs. 'strength, she displays upon her banner the
Tho world has grown wiser for its severe slar,ul" P1'3"- Shedding its radiance upon
j. .... ..it ... us, let us reciprocate the celestial light j and
ran .ug. 1 he ea tl. has passed tho eras of ,nd McM ourieUejf we ,tall have
heathenism and arbitrary power of philos-' nothing to Tear from her power, but every
pby and king-craft, and entered upon that thing to leant from her example.
of Christianity and civil liberty. In this e-
ra it is the lot of our country to lead. Shall
we doubt that our favored lot is of divine
appointment ? Shall we rebel and perish ?
Surely, if God is in history if we are to
" acknowledge the band of God in those
great men, or in those miglity nations which to perceive it. IJoth sides or the globe
aris come forth, as it were, from the dust tho two lienii.-pliores nre ours, by our po
of the earth, and give a new impulse, anew l"tlo"i f"r ue the land of two oceans,
form, or a new destiny to human adairs'-! rrom "ur'lll,,er sll("u h"l Europe-
. . ...
is it irreverent or impossible to believe, that er shore we greet the Ocea'nica and African j
God's band was in that great historical act, j continent. And atl between the oceans isl
the 1'r.nEitAi, Union? in tbatdcvelopemout 'our own; to bo filled with our own people,'
of new and marvellous political powers of' u"dl!r "" institutions, speaking one
, i i i . . r. I language I he interior structure of this1
attraction and ,A,0,.-draw..,g stato after , OOIjI110wt pecu,jariy flls lo bo ie marl ofi
state, and binding all to a common centre the globe. Its rivers open the interior, from
and into a stupendous whole, as complete, ' almust every part, and gie natural outlets;
as harmonious, and in its way as beautiful j i,s 'ales nre embosomed oceans, giving to I
and beneficent, as the sublime pattern from ,h.e nrll,er fr""li !". and an j
. . , . ., , , . . . inland commerco, scarcely less than the At-
which ,t was derived ! And ., it irreverent J Umie or 1acifio s,loro. Such arlificial way,
or uiiroasonabre to hope, that in the proser-as are needed, cpecially the great thor-!
vatiou ot tins system of government hi the
unity, peace, progress and substantial glory '
,,. : . i r i .i" i i
ol our country, is to be found the heaven-'
, " -. , ncix-ii
appointed luvM'rtiNo of a better destiny :
for the troubled earth tho consummation .
of its hiflhost clorv. until " the new heaven
and the new earth" ? Ours is the system
of government founded upon the liberty mid
equality of man deriving all its powers
from the consent of the governed : where
shall be found
a better ft.ipim wlipro a ,
higher or safer power than that of tho will
1
of civilized and christianized men, until thousand cities spring up where ono now
we ascend to the divine the perfect the ' toils and groans with the wheels of indus
last and the ilcrnal era! U'J. "d let cunals and roads, and rivers be
Ours, in an important tense, we !oe to 'n1cree'1 ,a buudred fold, our resources
,. . ,, ., , , - ... ,. ! when developed, will require them all. Our
think, is tho land or promise." J he j mjieral lreaJrcs are no a fe not a little
greatness and glory, within our own grasp, j lead, a little iron, a little coal but all min
nnd the immeasurable good that can bo ac-, orals known to science, or discovered by
complished for millions groaning in bond-! art-aro ,,ere- 1'vory year's discovery teach
ago and sfghiug and longing for deliverance! 09 us,,mU ,.h,0 fe"'- .fou,d wi
. . . . . soon bo added to the catalogue. Our ag-
these are considerations that appeal to ricultural products, in variety, surpass com
ovcry American citizen to stand by his pntatiun, and in quantities defy the imagin
cotintry in every emergency, to pledge un-,'"". Were nil our fields in tilth, and the
yielding fidelity to the Federal Union. ,pro.lucu given to couunerce for distribution,
wo could supply the globe, though every
t'ma ih.No.ib limuk h.vmw for rbiury. foreign acre rested fur a thousand years !
The United States the Centre of 1Iunl'$ "S"-inc.
future Civilization. Prospective Greatness of the U-
Accustomed to look with wonder upon nited States,
the civilization of the past upon the nu-
blest dories of (ireeco mid of Rome no. The London Times says that by the end
on mighty empires that Imvo risen but to
fall the Enghkh t-yo has never fied il-clf he U"e htaies will ho i!il),(WU,()UO, and
on tho grand plicnomenoii of a Great Na-jadJ- " l,ie LT"'" 'a18 u,al luxw U
lion at Schiwl. View ing America as a for-1 ""ed States will be the greatett nation the
ward child that has deserted its home and j woild over saw I" There can, few imagine,
abjured its parent, we have over looked up- " "o doubt of this result, in tho coiitingen
on her with a callous heart, and with an c)- hero stated, and we will not allow our
evil ejo judicially bind to her progress. In j teivea to doubt that it will take place. Our
a region teeming with vegetable lifo rest-PPulalir," thus far, has incroused beyond
ing upon tho subterranean treasures of civ-ial' former example, and there is no roasou
ilizalion intersected by noble mors, v huso . V bel,evc that its progress will bo less rap
tributary and capillary streams carry food future.
and life into every part of the land, the An- Imperial Rome, we believe, bad under
t-lo-Saxon race Ins established itself in mmh-
ty cities, the centres of mauufiicturing, com-
moiciAl, and agricultural wealth; and has
inirenohed itself amid noble institutions
with temples enshrined in religious tolera-
lion. with universities of nrivite bcoiiest
and public organization, with national and
uiishacklcu schools, and with all thcresour
ces which science and literature and philan
thropy ucmuiiU iroin the citizen or from the
Stato. Supplied from the old world with
its superabundant life, the Anglo Saxon
tidu has been carrying its multiplied popu
lation to the West, rushing onward through
impervious forests, levelling their lofty
pines, chasing before it the denizens of
the jungle, and driving to an ocean frontier,
uhero civilization will at last find them, the
savage hordes that still usurp the fairest
portions of creation. Nor is this living
flood the destroying scourjje which Provi
dence sometimes lets loose upon our species.
It breathes in accents which are our own.
It is instinct with English life; and it
bears on its snowy crest tho auroral light of
tho East to gild tho darkness of the West
with the purple radiance of salvation, ol
kiiowlcdgo, and of peace.
Hut while the frontier of civilization is
thus advancing with giant strides, the fixed
population of the American States has been
vying with European communities in the
cultivation of the arts which contribute to
domestic comfort and national aggrandise
ment. Their railroads, with all their im
perfections, supply the necessities of the
traveller, and remunerate the public spirit of
their projectors. Their steamboat estab
lishments, whether on coast or on river, are
unrivalled in European States ; and their
telegraphic lines, superior in cheapness and
utility tn ours, have been carried lor thou
sands of miles into regions where the iron
pathway lias not been able to penetrate.
Nor is their mineral wealth equalled by that
of the most favored quarters of the globe.
Her empire of coal i ber kingdoms of cot
ton and of corn ; her regions of gold and
of iron, mark out America as the centre of
future civilization ; as the emporium of
the world's commerce ; as the granary and
storehouse nut of winch the kingdoms of
the East will be clothed and fed ; and
ue greatly fear as the asylum in which our
children will take refuge when the hordes
ot Asia and the scmi-uaruariaiis of bastern
Europe shall again darken and desolate the
West.
. 1,1 ,m" -'peaking of America, we have no
desire to undervalue our own beloved couti'
try. Wo wish not to exchange for ber ro
ptjblicsn lifttftutions, a mortarcliy Ifatiowed
uy time and rooted in the bnlms and lie ti
f l,B people ; and still less do wc de-
CIIU IU ICffiaUU IIU I IIU I ILUI Ilk. 411 UKJ , i
with the aristocracy of wealth and talent'
which a dcmnr.r.itir. Rnintntinilv r.ntt ulnnn I
I recognise. Our object is to persuade Eng.
land to respect America to love her as the J
' fi"-l'''f f ber political family and, with j
"i0ii of a parent, to rejo.ee ... her,
progress, and pray Jiir the prosperity and'
consolidation of 1,'or en.n r. Thnnl,
The United States the Commer
cial Centre of the World.
The States of North America are to be
the commercial centre of thu globe. This
destiny seems so inevitable, that one hardly
i
requires more than inspect. on ol the map
"ugniares irom ocean to ocean, the inland
,nKmVBys. f'0"1 tho Atlantic to the Pacific
are within our own hounds. We have no
t .
prusim on our border: no Russia beyond
lar. Our vast interior is not grouped into
national estates, blocking each other up,
and wasting each other's means by mon
strous armies ot watch or attacK. e can
ask of Commerco what she needs, and !
whether it is northward or southward, east-1
ward or westward, ber path lies among our I
own people, fahortly the carrying trade ol
wie gione must ue in our lianas : upon our
3,,or"aro ' B ust
ni Hip wnrm 4 inprrhnnilisn lint Int n
ol" ll,e "ext '"n"- century tho population of
" dominion, when in the plemtuue ot lier
power, about one hundred and fifty mdlious
of people. Itut her position was widely dif
ferent from that of the United States. Her
subjects wcro the victims of her military
1 Pver ; they weru conquered nations, snea
kwg a hundred dillerent languages, and
bearing within their hearts a never-dying
hostility to their conquerors. Acquiring
her ascendancy by the swurd, she was com
pelled to maintain it by the simo means.
Her wholo history is one continued tecord
of outrage upon her neighbors, of war a
broad, and revolt and coiicpiracy in the bo
som of Italy. The temple of Janus was
closed but twice in five hundred yeais, and
tho Caledonia General who said that "she
created a desert, aud then called it peace,"
if this speech be any thing more than a
rhetorical flourish of Tacitus, described her
whole policy in the most accurate terms.
The great empires of modern times have
been acquired in the same manner. The
Russian Czar reigns over CD or 70,000,000
of human beings, and forty thrones, the
trophies of successful aggression, are shown
to tho curious stranger in St. Petersburgh,
as memmitoca to provo that the national ex
istence of as many separate people have
been extinguished in blood, by the over
shadowing power of Russia. Tho history
of the ilntish Einmro in India is a record
of blood and murder, which can scarcely
find a parallel in the " Annals of Tacitus,
or the luminous pages of Gibbon." The
proceedings of the earlier Ilntish satraps in
this unhappy country, were justified by the
man who defended them most successfully
(Lord Erskine) on tho ground of expedi
ency, or rather, necessity alone. On no
other was it possible to defend llicm. There
is this thing about the history nfthcscgrc.it
empires, which should bna warning to nil
nations who evince a disposition to enter
upon a career of conquest. The conquer
ed country may add to the numbers, but it
cannot increase the strength of the con
queror. On the contrary, it is always a
thorn in its side. Tho, immense armies
which Rome found it necessary to employ
in order to keep down the spirit of revolt in
the provinces, drained lief of her wealth,
debased the minds of her people, placed tho
Government at the mercy of the military,
and after plunging her n)r centuries into
miseries, of which modern nations can form
no conception, led finally to her complete
annihilation as a power. Ireland is at this
day a thorn in the side of Great Britain,
and Poland is an efTectualJcure upon thu
umbitioii of-Itwsia.
Hut the caso is widely different with the
United States. We bae hero no conquer
ed provinces to bold m subjection no re
volts to suppress tiy the arm of the milita
ry no foreign nations bound m fetters and
foaming for revenge. Every Stato is sover
(ireigu and independent each has the same I
iiumucr oi prmiuiius huh in sisters an
regulate their own iiiietml alTiirs by means
of their oitn Legislatures and all submit
the conduct of external matters to a com
mon head. No nationalities have been ex
tinguished in our progress no captive peo
ple, weep over the da)s of their nation! in
dependence. If then, the Union should
bold until wo shall have acquired such a
population as tbat indicated, woshull be the
most wonderful nation in mure respects than
one. We shall bo homogeneous, for all na
tions melt into the great Anglo-American
family, and assimilate with the utmost facili
ty. Richmond Dispatch,
IVom Gatef'i Ltd;'! Hock, for Ja.oary.
A TOUCIMXG iYAItlMTIVE.
BV LOUIS OAVLORII CLARK.
I have often wondered why it is that pa
rents and guardians do not more frequently
and cordially reciprocate the confidence of
children. How hard a thing it ii to con
vince a child that his father or mother can
do nothing wrong. Our little people are
always our sturdiest defenders; thev are
loyal to the maxim, that " the king can do
no wrong," and all the monarcbs they ever
know are their parents. I heard the other
day, from the hps of a distinguished physi
cian, formerly of Now York, but now living
in elegant retirement in a beautiful country
town of Long Island, a touching illustration
of the truth of this sentiment.
" I have had," said the Doctor, " a good
deal of experience in the long practice of
my profession in this city, that is more re
markable than any thing recorded in tho
Diary of a London Physician.' It would
bo impossible for me u detail to you the
Hundred) part of tho1ntercstiif aud excit
ing things which I saw and'heard. That
which affected me most, of late years, was
the case of a boy, not, I think, over twelve
years of age. I first saw him at the hospi
tal, w hither, being poor and without parents,
he had been brought to die. He was the
most beautiful boy I ever beheld. Ho had
the peculiar cast of countenance and com
plexion which we notice in those who are
afflicted with frequent hemorrhage of the
lungs. He was very beautiful ! His brow
was hroad, lair and intellectual ; his eyes
bad the deep interior blue of the sky itself;
Ins complexion was like the lilly, tinted just
below the cheek bone, with a hectic flush
'A. on Consumption', waoio efceek,
'Mid ruio bloom, the rote.'
And bis hair, which was as soft as floss silk,
hung in luxuriant curls about his face.
Hut, oh I what an expression of deep mel
ancholy his countenance wore ! so remark
able, that I felt certain that the fear of death
had nothing to do with it. And I was right.
Young as he was, be did not wish to live.
Ho repeatedly said that death was what he
most desired ; and it was truly dreadful to
bear one m young unci so beautiful talk
like this. 1 Oh,' he would say, ' let mo die 1
let me diet Don't try to save me; I want
to die 1' Nevertheless, he was most affec
tionate, and was extremely grateful for eve
ry thing that I could do fur lu relief. I
soon won his heart, but perceived with pain
that his disease of body was nothing to his
' sickness of the soul,' which I could not
heal. He leaned upon my bosom ami wept,
while at tho same time ho prayed for deatl.
I hate never seen one of his years who
courted it so sincerely. I tried in every
way to elicit from him what it was that ren
dered him .o unhappv but bis lips were
sealed, and ho was like ono who tried tof1'0 management f railways, they might
turn his face from something which opnre
sed his spirit.
" It subsequently appeared that the father
of this child was hanged for murder, in It
county, about two )ears beUttv. It was the
most coid blooded homicide that had ever
been known in that country. The excite- j irom the rest, Jiiie the easy chair of an
ment raged high; and I recollect tbat tlie "'uefiiiaii, in which you can entrench your
stake and the gallows vied with each other isrelrn"d """,""0 that the world was mado
f.u the victim. The mob labored hard to! rr al""e- llut 0,ll' a sma" Part of tlle
get the man out of the jail, that they might
wreak summary vcnj'cancc unou him by
hanging him to the nearest tree. Rut law
triumphed, aud he was hanged. Justice
held up her equal scales vrilh satisfaction,
and there was much trumpeting forth of
this consummation, in which even the wo
men merciful, tender-hearted women
teemed to take delight.
" Perceiving the boy's lifo to be waning,
I endeavored one day. to turn his mind to
religious subjects, apprehending no difficul
ty in one so young; but he always evaded
the topic. I asked him if he said his pray
ers. He replied :
" ' Onco always now never.'
This answer surprised me very much;
and 1 endeavored ccntly to impress linn
with the fact that a more devout frame of
mind would be becoming in him, and with
the great necessity of his being prepared to
die; but ho remained silent.
" A few days afterward I asked him if
he would permit me to send for the Rev,
Dr. II., a most kind man in sickness, who
would brt of the utmost service to him in his
present situation, lie declined firmly and
positively. Then 1 determined to solve this
mystery, and to understand this strange
phase of character in a mere child. ' Aly
dear boy,' said I, I implore you not to act
in this manner. What can so liavo disturb
cd your young mind ! You certainly be
lievo there is a God, to whom you owe i.
debt of gratitude t'
"His eye kindled, and to my surprise
I might nlmost say horror I heard from
his young lips,
" ' No, I don't believe there is a God 1'
" Yes, that little boy, Vounir as he was.
was an atheist, and he even reasoned in a
logical manner, for n mero child like him.
I cannot believe there is a God,' said
he; ' for if there were a God, he must bo
merciful and just; and ho never, never,
NEven could have permitted my father, who
was innocent, to bo hanged 1 Oh, my fa
ther I my father 1' be exclaimed passionate
ly, burying his face in tho pillow, and sob
bing as if his heart Would break. t
I was overcome by emotion ; but all
tbat I could say would not change his de
termination lio yrould have no minister of
God beside him no prayers by his bed
side. I was iTInftleflth all my endeavors,
to apply any balm to his wounded heart.
" A few days after this I called as usual,
in tho morning, and at once saw very clear
ly that the little boy must soon depart.
" ' Willie,' said I, ' I have got good news
for you to-day. Do you think that you can
bear to hoar it V for" I really was at a loss
how to break lo him what I had to commu
nicate. " He assented, and 1 listened with the
deepest attention. 1 then informed him, as
best I could, that from circumstances that
had recently come to liglit, it had been
rendered cortain that his father was inno
cent of the crime for which ho had suffered
an ignomiiiiousdeath.
" I never shall forget the frenzy of emo
tion which he. exhibited at this announce
ment, lie uttered one scream the blood
rushed from his mouth he leaned forward
upon my bosom and died."
EXCJLISII It.llLW.ll3.
Tun last word reminds me I bat I must
say a word or two hero about the English
railways. In point of speed I think "heir
reputation out runs the fact. I did not
find their average, (with the exception of
the road between Liverpool and London,)
much above that of our best northern and
eastern mini M Imv mnU f.tt
hardly twenty miles an hour with the ordi-
- " - m. ' - . . .... ..II I 1 1 1 11 L I V. I
nary trains, and about 3(5 miles an hour
with the express trains. Hut the nerfect
order and system with which they are man
aged ; the obliging civility of all persons in
the employment of the companies to travel
lers, and the quietness with which the bu
siness of the road is carried on, strikes an
American very strongly. For example,
suppose you are on a railroad at home.
You are about to approach a small town,
where you may leave, and lake up, perhaps,
twenty passengers. As soon as tho town is
in sight, the engine or its whistle begins lo
scream out tho bell rings, tho steam whiz
zes, and the train stops. Out hurry tho way
passengers; inrush the new comers. A
gam the bell rings, the steam whizzes with
a noise something between a screech and a
yell, but more infernal than either a noise
that deafens the old ladies, delights the
boys, and frightens all the horses; on1 rushes
the tram whizzing and yelling over a
mile or two of country, before it takes
breath for the like process at the next sta
tion. In an English railway you seldom hear
the scream of the steam whistle at all. It
is not considered part of the business of an
engineer to disturb the peace of the whole
neighborhood, and inform them that he and
the train are coming. The guard at tho
station notices the train when it comes in
sight. He immediately rings a hand bell,
just loud enough to warn the passengers in
the station to get ready. The train arrives
no yelling, screaming or whizzing; pos
sibly a gentle letting oll'of the steam quite
a necessary thing not at all for cfTect.
The passengers get out and others get in,
and are all carefully seated by the aforesaid
guard or guards. When this is all done, tho
guard of the station gives a tinkle or two
with the hand-bell again, to signify to the
conductor that all is ready, aud off thu train
darts, as quietly as if it knew screaming lo
be a thing not tolerated in good society.
Hut the difference is national after all.
John Hull says in his railroads, as in every
thing else, " steady all right." Urother
Jonathan, " clear the coast go ahead I"
Still, as our most philosophical writer has
said, it is only hojs and savages who scream
men learn lo control themselves wo
hope to sec the lime when our people shall
find out the advantages of possessing power
without making a noise about it.
If wo may take a lesson from the EiiL'lisb
learn vastly more from us in tho accommo
dation of passengers. What are called
' first-class carriages" on the English rails,
are thoroughly comfortable in the English
sonc of the word. They have cents for six
each double-cushioned, padded and set
,racl " "glauu is in nrst class cars, lor
it is a luxury that must be paid for in bard
gold costing four or five times as much as
the most comfortable travel by railroad in
the United States. And the second class
cars in which the great majority of the
British people really travel what are they 1
Neat boxes, in which you may sit down on
a perfectly smooth board, and find out all
the softness that lies in the gram of deal
or good English oak for they are guiltucss
of nil cushions. Our neighbors of this side
of the Atlantic have been so long accustom
ed to catering for the upper classes in this
country, that the fact that thu railroad is
the most democratic institution of the day,
has not dawned upon them in all its breadth.
An American rail car, built to carry a large
number in luxurious comfort, at a price that
seems fabulous in England, pays better prof
its by the immense travel it begets, than
the ill-devised first aud second class carna
ges ou the English railways. Horticultur
ist. Tho married ladies of Fairmount, N. J.,
have organized themselves into au Indepen
dent Order of Odd Ladies, in order to be
revenged upon their Odd Fellow husbands.
Their lodge is kept open half an hour long
er nihls than th3 Odd Fellows.
English Women in the Conulry.
There are other guests in tho house Sir
Charles M , Lady P , aomo Irish
ladies without titles, (but so rich in natural
gifts as to make one feci tho poverty of
mere rank,) and a charming family of
grown up daughters, it would be difficult
perhaps, to have a better opportunity to
judge of llio life of the educated middle
classes of this country, than in such homes
as thi. And what impressions do such ex
amples make upon my mind, you will ask 1
I will tell you, (not without remembering
how many fair young readers you have at
home.) The young English woman is less
conspicuously accomplished than our young
women oflho same position in America.
There is, perhaps, a little of that jc tit scais
quoi that nameless grace which captivates
at first sight than with us, but a better and
more solid education, more disciplined
minds, and abovo all more common senso.
in thetwholo art nftecmvcrsatioii,. including
all the topics of tho day, with so much of
politics as makes a woman really a compan
ion for an intelligent man in his serious
thoughts, in history, language, and practi
cal knowledge of the duties of social aud
domestic life, the English women have, 1
imagine, few superiors. Hut what, perhaps,
would strike one of our young women most,
in English society, would be the thorough
cultivation aud refinement that exist here,
along with the absence of all falc delicacy.
The fondness of English women, (even in
tho highest rank,) for out-door life, horyes,
dogs, fine cattle, animals of all kinds, for
their ground, and in short every thing that
belongs to their homes their real, unaffect
ed knowledge of, and pleasure iu these
things, aud the unreserved way in which
they talk about them, would startle
some of my young friends at bono, who are
educated iu the fashionable boarding school
of Madame , lo consider all such things
" vulgar" and " unlady-like." I accompa
nied the younger members of tho family
here this morning, in an exploration of the
mysteries of the place. No sooner did wo
make our appearance out of doors, than wo
were saluted by dogs of all degrees, and
each had the honor of an interview and per
sonal reception, which seemed lo be pro
ductive of pleasure un both sides. Then
some of the horses were brought out of the
stable, and a parley took place between
them and their fair mistresses; some favor
ite cows were lo be petted aud looked after,
and their good points were descanted on
with knowledge and discrimination ; and
there was the basse cour, with its various
population, all discussed and shown with
such lively unaffected interest, thai 1 soon
saw my young companions were "born to
love pigs and chickens." I have said noth
ing about the garden because you know that
it is especially the lady's province here.
An English woman with no taste for gar
dening, would be as great a marvel as an
angel without wings. .And now, were these
fresh looking girls, who have so thoroughly
entered into these rustic enjoyments, mere
country lasses and dairy maids? Uy no
means. They will converse with you in
three or four languages ; are thoroughly
well grounded in modern literature; sketch
from nature with the ease of professional
artists, and will sit down to tho piano-forte
and give you an old ballad, or the finest
German or Italian music, as your taste may
dictate. And yet many of my young country-women
of their age, whoso education
wholly intended for the drawing room is
far below what I have described, would
have fainted with terror, and half-blushed
with false delicacy, twenty times iu the
course of the morning, with tho discussions
of the farmyard, meadow and stables, which
properly belong to a wholesome country
life, and are not in the slightest degree at
variance with real delicacy and refinement.
I very well know that there are many sen
sibly educated young women at humo, who
have the same breadth of cultivation, aud
I lie same variety of resources, that make
the English women such truly agreeable
companions ; but alas, I also know that
there are many whoso beau ideal is bound
ed by a circle that contains tho latest fash
ionable dance fur the feet, the latest fashion
able novel for the head, and the latest fash
ionable fancy-work for tho fingers. Ilorti
culturist. DOYS.
Mrs. Denison, the accomplished assistant
editor of the Olive Hraiich, gives the fol
lowing excellent exposition of that queer
and inexplicable creation a boy :
A boy is the spirit of mischief embodied ;
a nerfect teetotum; spinning round like a
jenny or tumbling heels overhead. Ho most
invariably go through the process ol leaping
over every chair in his reach, makes drum
heads of the dour, turns tho tin-pans into
cymbals, lakes the knives out to dig worms
for bait, and loses them, hunts up tho mo
lasses cask and leaves the molasses running,
is boon companion to the sugar barrel, sear
ches up all the pie and preserves left after
supper and eats them, goes to the apples ev
ery ten minutes, hides his old cap in order
to wear his best one, cuts his boots acciden
tally if he wants a new pair, tears his clothes
for fun, and jumps into the puddles for fun,
and for ditto tracks your carpets aud cuts
your furniture. He is romping, shouting,
blustering, and in all but his best estate a
terrible torment, especially to his sisters.
Ho don't pretend to much until lie is twelve,
then the rage for frock-cuats and.bigh dick
ies commences. At fourteen he is loo big
to split wood or go after water, and at the
time these interestiii!; ollices oiiL'ht to be
performed, contrives to he invisible; wheth
er concealed in ibe garret with somo old
worm-eaten novel for a companion, enscon
ced in the wood-shed, trying lo learn leger
demain tricks, or bound off on somo expe
dition that turns out to be iu most cases
more deplorable than cxplorable to coin a
a word. At fifteen he has a tolerable expe
rience of the world but, from fifteen lo
twenty may we be clear from the track
when ho is iu sight; he knows more then,
than Washington and Itctijamiu Franklin
together ; iu other words, ho knows more
then, than he will ever know again.
Just hail one of these young specimens
" boy." at sixteen, and how wrathy he eels 1
If he does not answer you precisely as the
little urchin did, who angrily exclaimed,
" dou't call me boy, I've smoked these two
years," he will give you a withering look
that is meant to annihilate you, turn on his
heel, and with a curl ot tho lip mutter dis
dainfully, " who do you call boy 1" and
O I tho emphasis.
Hut jesting aside an honest, blunt, meM
ty, mischievous boy, is something to be proud
of. whether as brmlirr nr .r.n rn :n nii i.:-
v. dui, , iui i, un
scrapes Ins good heart gets the better of
mm, ami ieaus mm soon to repentance;
and bo sure ho will remember his fault at
least five minutes.
How the Eye is Swept and Wann
ed. For us lo be able to see objects clearly
and distinctly, it was necessary that thocyo
should bo be kept moist and clean. For
this purpose it is furnished with a little
gland, from which flows a watery fluid,
(tears) which is spread over the eye by tho
lid, and is afterwards swept off by it, and
runs through a hole in the bono to tho in
ner surface of the nose, where tho warm
air, passing over it while breathing, evapo
rates it. It is remarkable that no such
gland can be found in tho eyes of fish, ns
the eleement in which they live answers the
same purpose. If the eye had not been fur
nished with a liquid to wash it, and a lid lo
sweep it off, things would appear as they do
when wo look through a dusty glass. Along
the edges of tho eyelid are a great num
ber of little lubes or glands, from which
flows an oily substance, which spreads oyer
the surface of skin, aud thus prevents tho
edges from becoming sore or irritated, and
it also helps to keep the tears within tho
lid. There are also six little muscles at
tached to the eye, which enable us to movo
it in every direction ; and when wo consid
er the dillerent motions they are capable of
giving to tho eyes, wo cannot but admire
the goodness of Him who formed them, and
has thus saved us the trouble of turning our
heads every time wo wish to view an object.
Although the eyes of some animals are in
capable or motion, as the fly, the beetle, and
several other insects, yet the Creator has
shown his wisdom and goodness in furnish
ing their eyes will thousands ofluile globes,
and by placing their eyes more in front of
their head, so that these little insects can
see almost all around them without turning
their heads. A gentleman who has exam
ined ihe eyes of a fly, says that the two eyes
of a common one are composed of 8000 lit
tle globes, through every one of which it is
capable ol formingan image of an object 1
Having prepared the eye of the fly for tha
purpose, ho placed it before his microscope,
aud then looked through both, iu the man
ner of the telescope, at a steeple which was
21)9 feet high and 750 feet distant, and he
says be could plainly see through every lit
tle hemisphere, the whole steeplo inverted
or turned upside down.
American Eloquence.
A writer has a good remark upon Amer
ican eloquence ;
" But am I asked what is the best field of
American eloquence? I answer, the stump,
decidedly the stump 1 This is the Ameri
can rostrum from which aro to come the
highest efforts of eloquence. The direct ad
dress to the people themselves, is, so far as
the production of eloquence is concerned,
incomparably superior to that of the legis
lative halfs. Our congressional and legis
lative oratory is not, nor can be, of the high
est order, for tho want of that prirao cle
ment of oratory proper sympathy between
the orator aud the audience. Alt are alike
bound down bv the adamontinc chains of
party and sectional interests, which no pow
er of eloquence can move or sway. So far
as any practical influence upon the audi
ence which ho is addressing is concerned,
the orator may just as well address tho pil
lars around him, or the marble statues
standing in the niches of the wall. Rut
when ho is speaking to the people, he knows
he is speaking to those who are both honest
of purpose and free to act. Ho may havo
prejudices to remove ; but the people will
listen lo reason and argument, and when
convinced will burst asunder all the ties of
party, and go for the right."
Hiiilical. Mr. Recs, a well known
street preacher in Cincinnati, was accosted
by a would be wag the other day and ques
tioned as follows:
" Do you believe what the Ilible says a
bout the prodigal son and tho fatted calf?"
" Certainly I do."
" Well, can you tell me whether tho calf
that was killed was a male or a female calf,
eh ?"
" Yes-, it was a female calf."
" How do you know that 1"
" Because," said Rees, looking the chap
iu the face, " I sco tho male is now alive.1
To TAKE A SlT.CK FROM THE EVE. We
lately learned a very clever and safe mods
of extracting any little speck from the eye,
vlieii it cannot be easily removed by the
hand. It consists iu licking it out with tho
tongue. The person affected lays his head
down with his face upper-most, and the op
erator, desiring that tho eye shall be kept
open, comes across it gently with his tongue,
so as effectually to wipe it clear of the ex
traneous body. This, wo find, has been a
common practice among somo classes of
stone-cutters, on getting what is called a Jire
in their eye; and we doubt if the whole of
the resources of the medical art could afford
a better remedy. This process of remov
ing specks from some eyes must be both
delightful to the operator and the person
operated upon.
Poisons. Vessels of copper often give
rise to poisoning. Though the metal un
dergoes but little change in a dry atmos
phere, it is rusted it muisturo bo present,
its surface becomes covered with a green
substance carbonate or tho protoxide of
copper, a poisonous compound. It has
sometimes happened that a mother has, tor
want of knowledge, poisoned her tdinily.
Sour krout, when permitted to stand some
time in a copper vessel has produced death
in a few hours. Cooks sometimes permit
pickles to remain iu copper vessels, tbat
they may acquire a rich green color, which
they do by absorbing poison. Families
have often been thrown into disease by eat
ing such dainties, and may have died, in
somo instances, without suspecting the
cause Dr. Thompson.
Well Put, Old Lady. Mrs. Parting
ingtoit asks very indignantly, if the bills
before Congress are not counterfeit, why
should there be such a difficulty in passing
them.