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X'A. PLANTS, Editor;
"Independent in All Things--rNeutral in Nothing."
Publisher.
A. B. McLAUaHLlW,
VOLUME III.
POMEROY, MEIGS COUNTY, OHIO, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1860.
NUMBER 16
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, THIS LITTLE GIBX THAT MEETS MS.
: There's a little girl that meets me, .
V .- .And with laughter ever greets me,
And to kisa her oft entreats me,
!.-!"": . As I stray ,
"'Long the path of life so dreary, '
Where the saddened heart, and weary;
." ." Shades the sunlight shining near me, "
On my way.
" She has eyes as blue as Heaven;
Only aged about eleven; -
V-,. . v 8ueh a, heart, '."' :
i : That forever she is singing,
"1 ' And hersweet voice ever ringing.
Beauty o'er the wrapt beart bringing,
r .. .. Sweet as art-1 . '.
With her sunny hair, so curly;
.1 yithler teeth, so white and pearly,;;'
I have met her late and early
-: . ; j ... . By the way. .. -. vi
' And I take her by the hand, and press it
' , In my own, just to caress it ' '
. upretty little hand God bless it!" '
' " I do say. - ... . . . , '
May the world smile kindly on her,
Benedictions fall upon her,
Angels be her guard of honor,1
; ' As she goes ,
-9-i,
" Through this world of ours, singing,
c Peace to the troubled spirits bringing,
--No grief her pure heart wringing -,.-. -v
With its woes. . . ;
.May the sweetest harp In Heaven
Brightest crown that e'er was given,
i' Where the waves of life are driven '
.: Past the throne,
Echo to her dainty finger,
'Pon her pirre brow ever linger,
11' While each angel be a singer,'
, . Calling home! .. ',-,., :
..jr. ffltstcllanri
THE YOUNG BLACKSillTH.
,: Mr. Solomon Wintbrop was a plain
farmer an austere,- precise man, who
did every thing by established rales, and
could see no reason why people should
grasp at things beyond wha had been
reached by their great grandfathers.
He had three' children two boys and a
girl.' There was Jeremiah, seventeen
years bid, Samuel, fifteen, and Fanny,
thirteen. .
.. ,It was a cold winter's day. , Samuel
was in the kitchen reading a book, and
so interested was he that he did not no
tice the entrance of his father. ( Jerry
was in an opposite corner, engaged in
ciphering out a sum which he had found
in his arithmetic. . ; , . ;
, "Sam," said the father to his youngest
boy, "have you worked out that sum
yet?" .
1 '.'No, sir," returned the boy hesita--tinglyJ
. . . ..
"Didn't I telf yo'u to stick to your
' arithmetic till you had done it?" uttered
Mr.; Winthrop, in a severe tone. ; ' j
. , Samuelhung down his head and looked
troubled.
"Why haven't you done it?" continued
the father. ' '
can't do it, sir," tremblingly re
turned Samuel. , V -.
"Can't do it? and why not? Look at
Jerry there with the slate and pencil.
He had ciphered further than you have,
long before he was as old as you are."
"Jerry was always fond of mathemat
. ical problems, sir, but I cannot fasten my
mind on them. They have no interest
for me." , , . . . . .. .. . '
"That's because you don't try to feel
an interest in your studies. What book
, is that you are reading?' ' l
" "It is a work on philosophy, sir."
" "A work on fiddlesticks! Go put it
away this instant, and then get your slate
" and don'tlet me see you away from your
arithmetic until you can work out those
.roots.. Do you understand me?" ' '
;' - Samuel made no answer, but silently
he put away his philosophy, and then he
got his slate and sat down in the chim-
- ney corner. His nether lip trembled,
and his eye moistened, for he was un-
happy. His father had been : harsh to
" ward him, and ha felt that it was with
out a cause. ;, -
- "Sam," said Jerry, as soon as . their
father had gone, "I will do that sum
for you." '' '
."No, Jerry," returned the younger
' brother, with a grateful look, "that will
- be deceiving father. I will try to do
the sum, but I fear I shall not succeed.'
..'i; Samuel worked very hard, but all to
no purpose. His mind was not on the
subject befere him. The roots , and
squares, the basis, hypothenuse and per
pendiculars, thougb-onjparatrvely:Bnn-ple
in themselves were to him a mingled
mass s.of incomprehensible things, and
the more he worked the more he became
perplexed and-bothered :
The truth was his father did not uii
derstahd nim. . ' " ' .V L"' "
,-. Samuel was a bright boy, and uncom
monly intelligent for one of his . age.-
. Mr.: Winthrop was a thorough mathe-
mauciap ne never yet came across ai
problem he could not solve, and he de
sired that his boys should be like him,
for Tie considered that the acme of edu
cational perfection lay in the power of
conquering JbiUelid, and he ptten ex
pressed his' opinion that, were Euclid
living then, he could "give the old geo-
metrican a hard tussel." He seemed not
to comprehend that different minds were
made different capacities, and what one
Tmnd grasped with ease, another of equal
power,: would ,; fail to comprehend.
llence, because Jeremiah progressed
rapidly in his mathematical studies, and
could already survey a piece of land of
many angles,' he imagined that because
Samuel made no progress in "the same
. branch i be .was idle and careless, and
treated bin: accordingly. . He never can
didly con versed; withhiaonnger- son.
with a view to ascertain the true bent of
his mind, but he pertinaciously adhered
'to it.v . ; -J. ' J r k! l-ii U
There was another, thing that Mr.
- Wmtnrop could not see, and that w
that Sairfuel was continually ponde:
upon such a matter as was interesting to
. him, and that he .was.scarcelv esef'
i nor did his father see, either, that if he
wished his boy to become a mathemati
cian, be was pursuing the course to pre
vent such a result. Instead of endeav
oring to make the study interesting for
the child, he was making it obnoxious.
The dinner hour came, and
Samuel
had not worked out the sum.
His father
boy to go"
was angry, and obliged, the
without his dinner, at the
same time
telling him thaf he was an
child. ' "C
idle, lazy
Poor Samuel left the kitchen and sat
down" and cried. At length' his mind
seemed to pass from the wrong he had
suffered at the hand of .his parent, .and
took another turn, and the marks of
grief left his face. There was a large
firs in the room below his chamber, so
that &6 was not ,rjc"d
up, ne went io a small closet, and trom
beneath a lot of old clothes, he took forth
some long strips of wood and commenced
whittling. It was not for mere pastime
that he whittled, for he was fashioning
some curious affair from those pieces of
wood. He had bits of wire, little scraps
of tin plate, pieces of twine, and dofcens of
small wheels that he had made himself,
and he seemed to be trying to fit them to
gether, after some particular fashion of
his own.
Half the afternoon had thus passed
away, when his sister entered his cham
ber. - She had her apron gathered up in
her hand, , and after closing the door
softly behind her, she approached the
spot where her- brother sat. ' f;
"Here, Sammy, see, I have brought
you something to eat. 1 cnowyou must
be hungry." ,
As she spoke she opened her anron
and took out four cakes, a piece of pie
and some cheese. The boy was hungry,
and he hesitated not to avail himself of
his sister's kind offer. He kissed her
as he took the cakes, and thanked her.
"O, what a pretty thina: that is you
are making!" uttered Fanny, as she
gazed upon the result of her brother's
labors, "Won t you give it to me after
it is done?"
"Not this one, sister," returned the
boy, with a smile, "but as soon as I
get time I will make you one equally as
pretty," -
ranny thanked her brother, and
shortly afterward left the room, while
the boy went on with hiswork.
before long the various materials that
had been subject to Samuel's jacknifc
and pincers had assumed form and come
liness, and they were joined and grooved
together in a curious manner. . ,
The embryo philosopher set the ma
chine for . it looked very much like a
machine upon the floor, and then stood
off and gazed oh it. His eye gleamed
-with;jif peculiaifglow of satisfaction and
he looked proud and happy. While he
stood and gazed on the child of his la
bors, the door of his chamber opeued
and his father entered. V I'-
'What pare you not studying?" ex
claimed Mr. Winthrop, 'as be noticed the
boy sarnding in the middle of the floor.
baniUGl trembled when he heard his
father's voice, and turned pale with fear.
."Ha! what is this? 'said Mr. Winthrop,
as he caught sight of the curious con
struction on the floor. "This is the
secret of your idleness. Now see how
it is, you cannot master your studies.
You spend your time in making play
houses and fly pens. I'll see . whether
you'll learn to attend to your lessons
or not. There!"
As the father uttered this common
injunction, he placed his foot upon the
object of hisdispleasure. The boy., ut
tered a quick ly and sprang forward,
but too late. The curious construction
was crushed to atoms the labor of long
weeks. Looking at the mass of ruins,
and then covering his face with his
hands, he burst into tears.
"Am t you ; ashamed? , said ..Mr.
Winthrop, "a great boy like you to spend
your time in making clap-traps, and
then cry about it, because I choose that
you should attend to your studies.
Now go to the barn and help Jerry shell
corn." - '
The boy was too full of grief to make
any explanation, and without a word he
left his chamber; but tor long days after
ward he was weary and down hearted.
Samuel," said Mr. Winthrop one day
after the spring had opened, "I have
seen Mr. Young, and he is willing to
take you as an apprentice. J erry and I
can get along on the farm, and I'think
the best thing you can do is to learn the
blacksmith's trade. I have given up all
hopes of ever making a surveyor out of
you, and if you had a farm you would
not know how to measure it or lay it out.
Jerry will soon be able to take my place
as surveyor, and I have already made ar
rangements tor having him sworn and
obtaining his commission. But your
trade is a good one, however, and I have
no doubt you will be able to make a good
living at it.
"".Mr. ", Young was a blacksmith in a
neighboring town, and carried on quite
an extensive business. Moreover, he
had the reputation of being a fine man.
Samuel was delighted with his father's
proposal, and when he learned that Mr.
Young also carried on quite a large ma
chine shop, be was in ecstacies. His
trunk was packed a eood supply of
clothes having been p'rovided; and after
kissing his mother and sister, and shaking
hands- with his father and brother,
mounted the stage, and set out for his
new destination.
He found Mr. Young all he could wish,
and went into his business with an as
siduity that surprised his master. .
One evening, after Samuel Winthrop
had been" with his new master six months,
the latter came into the shop after all the
.. .. i .i
journeymen Had quit wont anu gone
home, and found the youtn busily en
gaged in fitting a piece of iron. There
were quite a number of pieces on the
bench by his side, and some were curi
ously riveted together and fixed with
springs and slides, while others appeared
not yet ready for their destined use. Mr.
Young ascertained what the young work
man was up to, and be not only encour
. . . . . . , .,. .tit
aged him in his undertaKing, dus nestooa
for half an hour and watched him at his
work. Next day Samuel Winthrop was
removed from the blacksmith shop to the
machine shop.
Samuel often visited his parents. At
the end of two years his father was not
; a little surprised when Mr. Youpg in
formed, him that Samuel was the most
useful hand in his employ.
' Time flew fast. Samuel was twenty
one.'; Jerry had been free almost three
years, and was one of the most accurate
' and trustworthy surveyors of the county,
Mr. Winthrop looked upon his eldest
son with pride, and otten expressed a
wish that his other son should have been
like him. Samuel had come home to
visit his parents, and Mr. Youne had
come with him. ' ,
"Mr. Young'' said Mr. Winthrop, af
ter the tea things had been cleared away,
"that is a fine factory that has just been
erected in votir town
"Yes," returned Mr. Young, "there
are three of them, and they are doing a
very heavy business.
I understand they have an extensive
the' fact'o-
nes. Now if my boy earn is a good
workman, as you say he is( perhaps he
might get a first-rate situation there."
Mr. Young looked at Samuel and
smiled.
"By the way," continued the old farm
er, "what is all this noise I hear and see
in the papers about those patent Win
throp looms? They tell me they go
ahead of anything that was ever got up
before1."
"You may ask your son about that,"
said Mr. Young, "that ia some of Sam
uel s business.
"Eh? What! My sou? Some of
Sam", -.
The old man stopped short and gazed
at his son. He was bewildered. It
could not be that his son -his idle son
Was the inventor of the great power loom
that had taken all the manufacturers by
surprise.
s "What do you mean?" he at length in
quired. "It is simply this, father, the loom is
mine?" returned Samuel,' with conscious
pride. "I have invented it and taken a
patent right, and haVe already been of
fered ten thousand dollars for the patent
right in two adjoining States. Don't
you remember that clap-trap you crushed
with your foot, six years ago?" '
"Yes," answered the old man, whose
eyes were bent to the floor, and over
whose mind a new light "seemed break
ing. ' . ..
. "Well," continued Samuel, "that was
almost a patent, though, of course, I
have made much alteration and improve
ment, and there is room for more.
"And that was what you were study
ing, when you used to stand and see me
weave, and then fumbled about my loom
so much?" said Mrs. Winthrop.
"You are right, mother; even then I
had conceived i the idea which I have
since carried out."
"And that is why you could not un
derstand my mathematical problems,"
uttered Mr. Winthrop, as he' started
from his chair and took the youth by
the hand, "Samuel, my. son, forgive me
for the hastiness I have used toward
you. I have been blinded, and now see
how I misunderstood you. '..While I
have thought you idle and careless, you
were solving a philosophical problem I
could never have comprehended. For
give me, Samuel I meant well enough,
but lacked judgment and discrimina
tion." , - - - -
Of course the old man had long before
been forgiven for his harshness, and his
mind was opened to a new lesson in hu
man nature. It was simply this: Differ
ent minds have different capacities, and
tlo mind can be driven to love that for
which it has no taste. First seek to un
derstand natural abilities, and disposi
tions of children, and then in your man
agement of their education for after life,
govern yourselves accord ingly George
Combe, the greatest philosopher of his
day, could hardly reckon in simple ad
dition, and Coburn, the mathematician,
could not write out a commonplace ad
dress. The Charm of Life.
There are a thousand things, in this
world to afflict and sadden, but, oh ! how
many that are beautiful and good! The
world teems with beauty and objects
which gladden the eye and warm the
heart. We might be happy if we would.
There are ills that we cannot escape
the approach of disease and death, of
misfortune, the sundering of "earthly
ties, and the canker-worm of grief; but
a vast majority of the evils that beset us
might be avoided. The curse of intem
ance, interwoven as it is with all the lig
aments of society, is one that never
strikes but to destroy. " There is not one
bright page upon the record of its pro
gress, nothing to shield it from the hear
tiest execration of the human race. It
should not exist it ought not. Do
away with all this. ;. let wars come to an
end, and kindness, mark the intercourse
between man and man. We are too self
ish, as if the world : was i made for us
alone. How niuch happier would we be
were we to labor more earnestly to pro
mote each other's good. God has blessed
us with a home that is not dark.
There is sunshine everywhere in the
sky, upon the earth there would be in
most hearts, if we would look around us.
The storm dies away and a bright sun
shines out. ' Summer drops her tinged
eurtain upon earth, which is very beau
tiful, even when autumn breathes her
changing breath upon it. God reigns
in heaven. Murmur not at a iseing so
bountiful, and we can live happier than
we do.
Manliness.
The purpose of life is to form a manly
character, to get the best developement
of body and spirit of mind, conscience,
heart and soul. This is the end; all else
is the means. Accordingly, that is not
the most successful life in which a man
gets the most pleasure, the most money
or ease, the most power or place, honor
or fame; but that in which a man gets
the most manhood, performs the greatest
amount of human duty, enjoys the great
est amount of human right, and acquires
the greatest amount of manly character
It is of no importance whether he win
this by wearing a hod upon his shorn
ders or a crown upon his head. It is the
character, and not the crown, I value
The crown perishes with the head that
wore it; but the character lives with the
immortal man who achieved it. . .
Tight Rope Performance.
lhe Kansas Ulty Metropolitan says
that Senator Doucrlas is enlaced in a
I "tight rope performance on Mason and
Dixon s Line, but as he has a "mighty
small chance of legs thar " it apprehends
he will fall and break his neck, or hurt
himself considerably.
From tbe Cleveland Review.
LIF 17PON THE RAlliROAlK-
The best part of my life having been
spent upon railroads, and the last ten
years as a locomotive engineer," I am
prepared to speak from facts, and the
first one is this
It has always seetned Btrange to me
that the traveling public took so little
notice whether they have a good, careful
and sober engineer to guide them en
their journey. That fact is never thought
of. But let me say to ' them, that the
man wha holds t.liA fibrottla-valve in his
hands: he who. regulates andL&Pidea- thi
awful power that lrags them with almost
the speed of thought, have more to do
with their safety than they usually get
credit fbr
In the first place, we will all admit
that trains are liable to accident, and es
pecially passenger trains, that at times
run with almost lightning speed. There
are a great many different kinds of dan
ger to be apprehended when upon a fast
run. In the first place, that of broken
rails, and upon anight run, it is impossi
ble for an engineer to see them until too
late. Then, again, there are switches set
wrong by villains, or by the stupidity of
those who have charge of them, and
which is not an uncommon , occurrence.
Then, there are cattle upon the track,
rocks falling down from deep cuts, em
bankments giving-- out, and a thousand
and one things that the traveling pulic
never give a passing thought.
. I was led into the above reflections
by an incident not long since, in which
I was the engineer on the night express,
from
to
our
leaving
time was
10 P. M.,
but we did not get
M., on account of
away betore
11 P.
waiting for connecting trains
Our regular running time was thirty-
five miles per hour, and it was expected
that I was to make up the lost hour by
faster runninga speed far too gjfcat for
the condition of our road at that time.
Howeverj if the wheels kept under the
engine l was bound to mane it.
The higbt was intensely dark, and for
the first fifty miles we did well, and had
made up twenty-five minutes ; and in ten
minutes later I would not have given one
farthing for the lives of all on board that
train ; we were upon a heavy descending
with high embankments,' and 1
was giving ner an tne steam sne could
work, the scale indicating one hundred
and twenty pounds to the square inch ;
you may be sure that, with a six-post
wheel, we were going at a tremendous
speed. All at once we discovered but a
short distance ahead, by the flicker of
the head lights, the bright show of
horses' feet twinkling as thelighjlanced
upon them. I knew that a few rods
from the spot, we passed through a large
covered bridge, and whether those horses
would leave the track before reaching
the bridge, I could not determine; I
knew it was impossible to come to a stop
betore we reached the bridge at the
speed we were running.
I was also well aware that the horses
could not get over the bridge, as there
was nothing but tics tor them to walk
upon. When I first discovered them, I
whistled "down brakes. " We ah ere gain
ing upon them, when, after reaching the
bridge, in the place of turning off, they
both, side by side, jumped through the
track between the ties, and their whole
bodies lay above the track.
Now, I had rather run over any four-
footed animal in the world than a horse.
They are almost sure to throw a train off
the track, and in this case I had two to
contend with, both fast in the middle of
the track, and in a wooden bridge with
a pan of eighty feet from the creek be
low.
I saw at once our case Was desperate,
and as desperate cases need a desperate
remedy, I instantly whistled "off brakes;"
pulled the throttle-valve wide open, re
solved to strike to them at fifty miles
per hour, for that I knew Was our last
and only chance. Frank, my fireman,
saw how things stood. Poor fellow he
had been on the road for a long time,
but this was the first time he ever knew
fear. His face was deathly pale. He
crouched down in the tender among the
wood. I knew that he saw death ahead.
As for myself, I thought over all my
past life in a flash, yet I was not excited.
It is true I saw a shocking death ap
proaching with lightning speed, and
home, and those I loved flashed upon
my memory. I said to myself "Be a
man, and live or die at your duty."
I shut my eyes, and with a thundering
roar we were upon them. I felt the old
engine quiver, and then a dull grinding
sound as flesh, blood and bones were
ground together, and for a few seconds I
knew nothing. I soon came to my sen
ses. My face wa3 covered with blood
and entrails, and in fact the whole engine
was perfectly clogged with gore and horse
flesh. ' We -were yet thundering on. I
whistled' down the brakes, and we
stopped about one mile from the spot.
The engine looked like some huge Fiend
bellowing for more blood, and scraping
the ground with its ponderous claws.
The Conductor came forward to learn
what the trouble was. I soon explained
how matters stood.
Frank was yet down in the tender, and
I did not know but he was frightened to
death. We soon brought him out of
that, and put him in the baggage car; he
was too weak to fire any more that night.
The baggage -master came and took his
place, and we were soon under way once
more. Not one passenger on that train
ever knew how near eternity they had
been that night, and it is best, probably,
they should not. It has been acknowl
edged by all competent railroad men,
that the tremendous speed we weie run
ning at, was all that saved us from de
struction, as it was impossible to stop,
and having the train fully stretched out,
with all the couplings extended, it did
not give the cars a chance to bound from
the track. I never wish to be placed in
a similar position. D. W .
''Spread Eagle."
John A. McClernand, the Douglas
Eepresentative from the Springfield,
Illinois, District, in a late speech in the
House, gave burst to a flight of elo
quence in which he Baid that Stephen
A. Douglas was "an eagle," and "as he
soared far above the heads of his enemies,
his tail quivered in the air in proud de
fiance of them."
EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.
IJhe following questions were pro
pounded for written answers at the Ex
amination of Teachers held on the 7th
insti
l5 GEOGRAPHY.
1. Name the Middle States and the
Capital of each? . .
. What are the natural divisions of
landr Give an' example of each?
--What are the natural divisions of
water? Give an example?
4. What grand division in the western
- HjWWPUMe?
"'S. Why do most of the rivers between
the Allegheny and Rocky Mountains
flow towards the Mississippi?
6. What is the Gulf Stream?
7. Name the largest lake entirely in
the United States, and its outlet?
8. How is England bounded, its Capi
tal and largest two rivers?
9. What range of Mountains in the
South-west part of Missouri?
10. What countries constitute the'
Chinese Empire?
GRAMMAR.
1. How is the possessive case of nouns
denoted ? What exceptions to the regu
lar mode'?
2. Give the rules for forming the plu
rals of nouns, and write two examples
under each rule.
3. What are radical, and what de
rivative words ? Write five examples
of each kind.
4. Define mode, tense, person and
number, and voice of verbs ; state h-ow
the passive voice is formed, and give the
exceptions, if any, to the rule for its
formation. .
5. When a noun denoting occupation
is in apposition with a proper name in
the possessive, in which is the sign of the
possessive used ?
6. How. many, and what parts of
speech may. what be? Write sentences
to exemplify all its offices.
7. Write a simple, a complex, and a
compound sentence.
8. What I know not t teach thou me.
Parse all the words.
9. Letme give you apiece of good coun
sel, my cousin: Write when you can. Parse
the words in Italics. ,
10. Upon the Board's being convinced
of your qualifications, depends your get
ting a certificate. Parse the words in
Italics.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Name the six fundamental rules of
arithmetic and define each.
2. There is a certain number to the
double of which if you add 12 then 5
times that sum will equal 150; what is
the number?
3. What is the least common multiple
of two or more numbers? Give an ex
ample? 4. Reduce 3-4, 7-8, 4 1-2 and 2 to
their least common denominators?
Why are the values of the fractions not
altered by the operation?
5. If a man walk 20 44 rods in 7 1-5
of au hour, how far will he walk in
I 14-15 hours?
6. If 2-3 of one dollar buy 1-5 of a
sheep, and 3-7 of a sheep be worth 1-14
of an ox, what will ten oxen cost ? Give
the analysis in full.
7. There are two fields,' One contain
ing 10, the other 12 1-2 acres find the
side of a square field equal in area to
both. - " I
8. What is the effect of dividing both
terms of a fraction by the same number?
Why ?
9. What number is that, to which If
3-10 of 7-12 of 4 9-14 be added the
sum will be one ?
10. A man after doing 3-5 of a piece
of workfin 30 days, calls an assistant,
both together finish it in 6 days, in what
time could the assistant do it alone ?
Social Amusements.
Put no obstacle in the way of the en
joyment of everything that wealth and
liberality . can contribute to divert the
spirits and gratify the imagination and
elevate the heart; but let it be remem
bered, that over all these preparations,
the spirit of intelligence and discretion
should preside;' and that there can be no
permanent happiness where there is a
departure from propriety. . He is not the
kindest friend who pours forth the most
liberally of his abundance ; bu he who
so manages his contributions, that, while
he promotes the innocent hilarity, does
not jeopardize the moral habits of the
companions collected around him.
We are all getting to be more grave,
and dull; and phlegmatic, than is wise
or prudent. The plan of our association
is too strictly utilitarian. We prune
off und pare down, until the fruit, as
well as the foliage, is in danger of de
struction. We are very little of an im
aginative people. There is not much
that seems expedient, unless its exact
value is first mathematically ascertained.
The May-poles are cut down; the sports
and gambols of merry England, the.jo
cund hilarity of beautiful France; the
song, the dance, the improvisatore of ro
mantic Italy, are out of climate; and bur
public days are too often days of dis
graceful intemperance, because there are
no national games, no lawful, pleasura
ble pastimes, which ' may be honestly
substituted for the daily labor of life.
James T. Austin.
Misery In Hungary.
Hungary seems to be in a very precari
ous state. We translate the following
from the Opinion Rationale of March
10: A letter from Pesth informs us
that the Austrian Government has just
ordered the fiscal agents to immediately
collect by all possible means six months
taxes in advance. The regular taxes
have doubled during the last ten years;
they have also doubled during the last
war, and have become so heavy that
many tax payers have preferred to aban
don their property rather than pay any
lodger taxes which exceed the income.
Notwithstanding the forced recoveries of
the rise, the levies, the sales at auction,
&c, the treasury last year has only been
able to close its accounts with an arrier
of twenty per cent. . The misery has be
come so frightful in several parts of
Hungary that the government has been
forced to establish Commissioners of
Want, and in many places the unfortu-.
nate peasantry were obliged to devour
grain put aside for sowing. In view of
such facts is it not a provocation to
open insurrection?
THE SLAVE TRADE'."
If the papers of this morning had
conveyed the startling intelligence that
a hostile army had suddenly landed upon
our shores, at. some defenseless point,
and, under cover of the last night s dark
ness, had ravaged a dozen or two of our
New England towns, and, hurrying a
few hundreds of captives on board their
fleet, had been off with the morning
breeze none knew exactly whither;
what a ferment would this land be in.
How government would, by this time, be
signalizing by all possible telegraphs, to
all. possible-ships of Wijr,toJbe off after
them; and how many merchant steamers
and even clippers, would weigh anchor
their decks crowded with volunteers
to join in the hot chase! And as the
days wore away, and the next Sabbath
came without tidings from the deep, how
many pastoral long sealed in the pulpit
in regard to matters of public weal, un
der this new pressure of sudden feeeling
would ' be opened in supplication for
GodVbenison upon those who pursue
for His malison upon those who are pur
sued. And, as time should roll on, and
the future make report of the success of
that foray,- and should inform us that
some Eastern nation had done the deed,
and, huddling its ravaged victims be
tween the stifling decks of its 6wift ships,
had got them such as survived the
shock, and the horrors of the passage
securely over to its own country, and
sold them there to its own worst citizens-
to be their slaves of lust and gain:
with a shriek of horror, what a howl of
rage would follow the flash which should
tell the tale among the wires, from the
Atlantic to the furthest outposts, from
the St. Lawrence to the Southern Gulf!
What public meetings would be held;
what fiery columns would be printed;
how the government would take it up;
how quickly war would follow war
which almost the Peace Society would
make exceptional to it3 appeals; and
with what eagerness of mind the public
would await the issue of an armament
that should go forth to chastise the
wrong, and to bring bacSi the recrffafit
of the stolen and outraged company!
And yet when you come" to sit down
and look the matter calmly, in the face,
what is it that on our supposition has
been done? '
A party strong, cunning, cruel
enough to do such a deed has stolen a
few men, women and children, from
American soil, transplanted them to a
strange shore, and sold them there to be,
for the rest of their days, and in alhiheir
posterity, the chattels, the merchandize,
of those who buy them. That is all !
" Unly this, and nothing more" God
bath made of one blood all nations of
men for to dwell on all the face of the
earth; and some Eastern men have stolen
some Western men, and sold them to
their countrymen, to be their bond
slaves forevermore! That is all! What
is all the commotion for?, Why is the
nation so disturbed? Why is the gov
ernment in arms about it? Why why,
because they have no right to steal us.
We have no right to be stolen. The
truth is self-evident: All men are cre
ated equal; they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights;
among these" are life, liberty, aid the pur
suit of happiness; to secure these rights
governments are instituted among men.
Uur fellow citizens have been robbed of
their right to their own life and liberty;
it is the business of the government to
secure to them the return of their stolen
rights; by a war that shall shake the
earth and redden the sea, if heed be.
This would be good and sufficient logic
to insure the expenditure of the last dol
lar in our nationa treasury; the last drop
of blood in our national veins!
Consider now the most monstrous;
most mournful indifference with which
this same nation is at this same moment
regarding transactions identical, in their
essential character, with those of which
we have drawn an imaginary picture.
We need only to transpose the '
geographical adjectives to make the
language of our supposition exactly de
scribe the language of the reality.
Eastern men, and sold them to their own
countrymen, to be their bond-slaves for
evermore!" From our own land nay
from seaports under our very eye, and,
for aught appearing to the contrary, by
the hands of our own church members
-ships have lately been sent forth, and
are now being sent forth, to the shores
of Africa, to steal men, women and
children, huddle them into their dark
and noisome holds, and hurry them over
into our Southern ports, to sell them into
hopeless bondage.
There is absolutely no difference in
principle between the two cases the
itnagihary and the real. The Africans
are men as well as we; though les fa
vored in civilization asyet, they have
the same right to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness that we have. It is
just as wrong and Bince we are the
strongest, a great deal meaner for us
to steal them and sell them, as it would
be for them to steal us and sell us!
And yet where is the outcry concern
ing dishonored tight! Where is the
government interference? Where the
public meetings? Where the volunteers
to right the wrong? W'here the public
prayers and sermons? Where the first
symptoms of a calnij strong, conscien
tious public sentiment that will set the
matter right, let whatever politicians be
damaged thereby? Where that deep,
noble feeling of execration of the pirati
cal abominations of the slave-trade which
our fathers had, and uttered in such
manly strength! Congregaiionaliit.
How tne ThUtle Sve4 Scotia
The followinsr is related as the origin
of the use of the thistle as the national
emblem of Scotland : When the Danes
invaded Scotland, they availed them
selves of the pitch darkness of night to
attack the Scottish forces unawares.
In approaching them unobserved, and
marchinof barefooted to nrevent their
tramp being heard, one of the Danes
trod upon a large prickly thistle, and the
sham erv of nain which he instantly ut
tered suddenly apprised the Scots of
their danger, wno immediately ran to
their arms, and defeated the foe with
trnit Klano-hter. Tbe' thistle was thence
forward adopted as the national insignia
.of
Scotland,
- SHADOWS OF NEW YORK LIFE.
The truth of the adage, "One half of
the world knows not how the other half
Kves," is vividly realized j the recent
developments made with reference to the
tenements of the New York city ptto.
It has- been shown that half a million
of men and women two-third of the
population of New York are compelled
by poverty and the avarice of Shyloekg,
to live iw hovels, technically called "ten
ement houses," in parcels, on an' aver
age, of thirty-five persons to each house.
But this only an average. In the
eleventh: yterd J J3 jarhouses contain
1,653 families, or nearly 70 souls each;
24 otherd contain 407 families, being an
average of 80 souls to each; and in an
other ward, 72 such houses contain no
less than 19 families, vr 95 souls each!
But this is, by no means, the worst.
There are 580 tenement houses in
New York which contain, by actual
count, 10,993 familfts, cr about 85 per-!
sons to each; 193 others, which accom
modate 111 persons each; 71 others,
which cover 140 each; and, finally, 29
which have a total population of no less j
than 5,449 souls, or 187 to each house! j
lne "tenement house, ; which is- now
one of the "institutions" of New York,
stands usually upon a lot 25 by 100 feet,
is from four to six stories high, and is
so divided internally as to contain four
families on each floor- each family eat
ing, drinking, sleeping, cooking, wash
ing, and fighting in a room eight feet by
ten, and a bed room six feet by ten; un
less, indeed which very frequently hap
pens, says Jlr. .Uallicray the family
renting these two rooms takes in another
favxily to board, or sub-lets one room to
one or even tmo other families! , .. -
The "modern improvements" of these
""barracks" are astoaading. .
One of the largest and most recently
built of the New York "barracks" has
apartments for 126 families. It was
built especially for this use. It stands
on a lot 50 by 250 feet, is entered at the
sides from alleys eight feet wide, and by
reason of the vicinity of another barrack
of equal height, the rooms are so dark
ened that on a cloudy day it is impossi
ble to read or sew in them without arti
ficial light. It has not one room which
Can in any way be thoroughly ventilated.
The vaults and sewers which are to carry
off the- filth of the? 12$ ftariiies have
grated openiffgs ifc the-alleys, and door
ways in the cellars, through which the
noisome and deadly miasmata penetrate
and poison the dank air of the house and
the courts. The water-closets for the
whole vast establishment are a range of
stalls without doors, and accessible not
only from the building, but even from
the street. . Comfort is here out of the
Question; common decency has been ren
ered impossiblej'and horrible brutali
ties of the passenger-ship, are day after
day repeated but on a larger scale,
And yet this is a fair specimen. And
for such hideous and necessarily demor
alizing habitations for two rooms,
stench, indecency and gloom, the poor
tamily pays and the rich builder re
ceives "thirty-Jive per cent, annually on
the cost of the apartments!"
Chtttftrd.
Onward ia the Ishguage of creation.
The stars whisper in it their courses ; the
seasons breathe it as they succeed each
other ; tbe night wiud whistles it ; the
waters of- the deep roars it up; the
mountains lift up their heads and tell it
tor the clouds and Time, the hoary-
headed potentate, proclaims it with an
iron tongue. From clime to clime, from
ocean to ocean, from planet to planet
all is onward.
From the smallest rivulet down to the
unfathomable sea, everything is onward.
Cities hear its voice and rise up into
magnificence; nations hear: it and sink
into the dust ; monarchs learn it and
tremble on their thrones; continents feel
it and are convulsed as with aij earth
quake. ; ' i
Men, customs, fashions, tastes and
prejudices, are all onward. . States, dis
tricts, counties, tonws, cities, and villages
are all onward. That word never ceases
to influence the destinies of men. Sci
ence cannot arrest it, nor philosophy di
vert it from its purpose. It flows with
the very blood in our veins, and every
second of time chronicles its progress.
From one stage of civilization to an
other; from one towering landmark to
another; from one attitude of glory to
another, we still move upward and on
ward. :
Thus did our, forefathers escape the
barbarisms of past ages; thus do we con
quer the errors of our time, and draw
nearer to the invisible, bo must we
move onward, with our armor bright,
our weapons keen, and our hearts firm
as the "everlasting hills." Every muscle
must be braced, every nerve strung, ev
ery energy roused, and every thought
watchful. "Onward" is the watchword.
News from Home.
London to be Tunneled for RaUroaA Pur
poses, The longtalked-of tunnel under the
city of London, to get rid of the surface
arrangements in a crowded city, is being
commenced. Shafts are being sunk at
several places along the line of the pro
posed railway, one having been opened
on an unoccupied piece of land at King's
Cross, near the railway station, and an
other near Euston Square. When a suf
ficient depth has been reached, the exca
vators will commence tunneling in the
direction of the London and North
western Railway station, with which a
junction will be effected at a short dis
tance from the present terminus. At
the Paddington station a commencement
has been made, and here, as in the junc
tion with the northern lines of railway,
the communication will be above gi ound.
As at present arranged, the line will
have its city terminus in the New Victo
ria street. The underground railway
will be provided at one of two,, places
along the line with ventilating shafts.
But it is considered that there will riot
be any great necessity for these, as the
numerous stations along the line, and
the open cuttings at each, end, will pro
vide sufficient currents of air; for the
purpose. The London paper from which
we copy Joes not give the probable Cost
of this work, which, for a city the size
of London, must be a considerable un
dertaking. "
Terrible Mutiny at Sea Thtrty Shot ajkel
r. Ninety Wounded ,,t . .
A very serious case of mutiny oc
curred oh board the ship Norway, of
New York", apt: 'Major; on her recent
passage from Maco to Havana, which
earae very hear proving disastrous to
her officers', passengers and crew. Thl
Norway sailed from Maco, Nov, 26, with
about one thousand coolies ok board, and
when five days "out, at abotft i o'clock
in th evefcisgy the captain being tilow
at the time, a mutiny broke out among
the coblies,'who set fire to the ship in two
places andi endeavored to . foroe Che
hatches. Mr. Stimpson of Boston, one
of the mates, had-charge of tne deck, and
the watch, 1ritt the exception of the
mat at te wheel, was ahrft talking in
sail. : . , - .,
Mr. Stimpson rushed to the hatch' ail
commenced the. struggle. The crew
from aloft, and those below, tried to
seize the boats and leave the ship, when"
the surgeon, an English gentleman, drew
his pistol and threatened to shoot the
first man who dared to make the attempt.
The crew then rallied and went tr the
assistance of the of5c8r, and a fighf en
sued, which continued from six in the
evening Until after daylight the next
morning. Thirty of the coolies were
killed, and mor than ninety wounded,"
before the mutiny was quelled. The
captain then gave the coolies one hour
to deliver up .fhe arns in- their; posses
sion; if they did hot, hd threatened to cut
away the. masts, set fire to the ship, take
the boats and provisions and leave them
to, their fate. The mutineers' soon' cams"
to terms.- - ?!V,;-T r.-v ;?.-- '
s. Capt. Major had E hk wife,. and tw"
daughters with him, .and also a ladj
passenger and child but dUTiag the high!
the lady passenger died of frighf, and in'
the morning the child; fte4ied.' ;n vrli
The Origin of Artiste
It is indeed rciaarkable that the moat
distinguished artfeti lave been; born iii
an artistic sphere, or in a position of life
more ordinarily favorable: to the culture ,
of genius. They have nearly all had ty
force their way upward in the face of pov
erty and manifold obstructions. 'Thus
Gainsborough and Bacon were the sons
of cloth -workers ; Barry -was an Irish
sailor boy, and Mac Use a banker's ap
prentice at! Cork; Opie and Roniney,
likelnigo Jones, were carpenters West
was the son of a small Quaker farmer in
Pennsylvania; Northcote was a watch
maker, J acison a tailor,' , and Etty ,
printer; Reynolds, Wilson , and ilkie
were the sops of clergymen ; Lawrence
was the sotf of a publican, and Turner of
a barber. Several of our painters, it Is
true, offginally had some eonbeetioa
with art, though in a very humble way,
such as Flaxam, whose father sold plaf
ter casts; Bird, wheornamented tea tra
Martin, wkowaa, coach painted; Wright
and Gilpin, I who were ship" painter
Chantrey, who was a carver and gilder;'
and Dadvid Cox, Stanfidd sad Roberts,
who were scene painters. ,. ri.f - , -. . ; ,
ia-rtngFast.' ; ' . "; '
This phrase ia applied frequently to
certain young men who are following a
fashionable course of life, attended with
more or loss dissipation and extravagance;
But - with the greatest propriety- this
term may be applied to all those who1
are hurrying through life overworking
the brain and giving . but little rest tr
their bodios or minds. Carlyle very
truly remarks that "the race of life baa
become intense; w&e pe to him who stop
to tie his shoestrings.' What a fearful
amount of "wear and tear" to the peo
ous system is there in every department
of life! What a continual strife is there
in every community for Wealth for
distinction and pleasure!: How much
disappointment and envy may be found
rankling ip the brfifasfc tff many persons
Dr. ArtJof J, of Rogby, usect ttfsay, "it
is not work that injures a man; it is vex
atior. that does it." It is this "fast liv
ing" in our country which produces so
many ills that flesh is heir to under
mines the constitution breaks down the
nervous system produce premature old
age and shortens life. ;v t
I the TV or Id a MlstaUef - t ;
One of the saddest mistakes which
the good people have made Is,, in sop,,
posing the world , to be a mistake. . ;Tc
these people, and their number is hot
smallj the world is but a theater of paii
and sickness, sorrow ahd death. ' Joy is
illusive, pleasure is a cheat, laughter is
a mockery, and happiness a thing im?
possible, and not even to' be looked fof
on this side of the grave, The perform
ance of a duty is the ('taking up" of
what they call a "cross." .They are ac
tiTally afraid to be happy, under an over
shadowing impression that they have no
right to be happy in this life. They be
lieve there is something Intrinsically bad
in the world they inhabit, and all the
joy that proceeds from it. They havo
an idea that the moral evil which afflicts
the human race has struck in. . To them
life is a trial, severe, unrelenting, pfiri
petual. All that seems good and gracr
ful and glorious in the world is a hollow
sham, for the deception of the iftrwarj'
and ruin of the unwise. .. . .-
fe Korthera Sehoel Tctchlrlj
The Virginia Legislature met iatefl
and inaugurated its proceedings in the
House of Delegates by' passing a reso
lution "that the Committee on Schools
and Colleges inquire into the expediency
of reporting a hill prohibiting school
commissioners throughout the common
wealth from subscribing to any teacher p
male or female, who hails frotn the north
of- Mason and DixOft's line, Unless they
shall have resided In the State of Vir
ginia for at least ten successive yeari
previous.
46T The following excellent advirr
should be carefully rd and pondered
by all young men-. "NeveT make use of
a refined woman's name in an improper
place, or at an improper time, or in mixed "
comnanv. Never make assertions about
her thatyott think nntfuts, allusions that
you feel she herselt would Diusn to near
When you meet with, men who do not
scruple to make use of a woman's name
id a reckless manner, shun them. for
they are the very worst members of tb&
community men lost to every senw of
!hnor and every feeling of delicacy.
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