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;V WEEKLY FAMILY NEWSPAPER?Independent of Party Politics or Religious Sects.?Devoted to News, Literature, Morality, Agriculture, the Arts,&*c, IORGAKTOWbTc^) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1854. { Yolitmc YL?Whole No. 271 THE MONONGALIA MIRROR Is published overy Saturday moniiM, ??? olliee on Frontstrcct, next door to . ? old Post oirico Btand, at tho Allowing tfcrins. 51 50 a Year Cash in Adv*sce; 52 00 AFTKIt SIX MONTIISIIAVEEXtlltED, $2 50 IF SEVER PAID, lOilhoilt COO'SiOTl. in* No paper will bo discontinued until all arrearages are paid up, cxccpt at the op ion the Publisher. . No subscription taken Tor a shortor peno than six monthB. . TERMS OF ADVERTISING . _ | . $1,001 For 1 jonaro, 3 weeks, - * each additional insertion, - ?? For one :.juare, 3 months, - ? ? ilu. G months, - - | do. I yoar, - * zin'nn' .RSKSBSgMfeSrj POETRY. insanitv. Itev. Mr. Gregg,?ot Cheshire, England, we think,-author of the beautiful hymn written on | 1st Timothy iii: 16, "Seen of Angels," com-1 meneinu, " Beyond tho glittering starry skies, | ic, hud an insane brother, tvho lived with Iiiin, | and spent his time wandering about tho yard and I narde'n, sometimes finding his way into his bra- ] ther's study, but never seeming to take much in- j tercst ill the tilings about him. Mr. Gregg, there fore, used 110 precautions in referonce to his man-1 uscripts, generally allowing U,em to remain ex. posed on Ins desk, especially while in course of, completion. On this occasion, he had written the hymn, with the cMcplion of the two last lines, and being unable to get a suitable climax, walked out to refresh himself will, pure air, and contemplate hii subject. Afier he left the room the lunatic brother walked to tho desk, and read ing the manuscript, look a pen and wrote, ? Clapped tlicir triumphant wiigs.and cried, The glorious work is done!" ? As tho hymn is in a very few books, wc will I nnnte it: I Beyond tho glittering starry skies, Far as the eternal hills, Yon heaven of heavens with living light Our great Redeemer fills. Legions of angels, strong and fair, In countless armies shine, And swell His praise with golden harps Attuned to songs divine. "Hail,Princo!" they cry, "foreverJiail! Whoss unexampled love Moved thee to quit thoso glorious realms And royalties above." While he did condescend on earth, To suffer grief and pain, They cast their honors at his feet, And waited in his train. Through all his travels here below. They did his steps attend I Oft wondering how and where at last The mystic sceno would end. They saw his heart, transfixed with wounds. Willi lovo and grief tun o'er; Tlicy saw him break the bars of death, Which none e'er break before. They brought his chariot (loin above, To bear him to his throne, Clapped Uicir triumphant wingvind ened, "The glorious work is done!" This is but a single instance of the sublime thoughts and aspirations which so often play over the insane mind. CitA/.v People.?Miss Dix tlie phi lanthropist slates, tbnt among llie hun Ureds of crazy people with whom her missions of lovo have brought her into companionship, she has not found ono individual, however fierce and turbulent that could not bo calmed by Scripturo and prayc, uttered in low and gentlo tones. The power of religious senti ment over those shattered souls is mar vellous. The worship of a quiet, lov ing heart, afi'ecla them like a voice from heaven. Tearing and rending, yolping und stamping, singing and groaning, gradually subside into silenco, and they fall on their knees, or gazo upwards with clasped hands, as if they saw thro' tbo opening darkness a golden gleam from their Father's throno of lovo. Four Grand Arguments for tho truth nftlie Bible; the miracles itrecords, the prophecies, the goodness of the doctrine and the moral character of the penmen. The Bible must be the invention either of good mon or angels, bad men or dev ils, or a revelation from God. It could not bo tile invention of good mon or an gels; for they neithor would nor could make a book, and tell lies all tho time tboy woro writing it saying, Thus aaith the Lord, when it was their own inven tion. It could not bo invented of bad men or devils; for they would not make a book which commands all duty, forbids nil sin, and condemns their souls to bell to all olernity. It must have been given by divine inspiration. The London Times devotes a column lo '?Know Nothingism" in Iht United Stales and is very severe upon the order and ils organisation. LAKE OF TIBERIAS ANB THE JORDAN. Tlie " Lake of Tiberias," is a perfect con trast to the Dead Sea, because of lis surpri sing loveliness. Beautifully rounded hills, clothed in exquisite verdure, shut it in ; the clear watersglitter like silver ill the sunbeam Tho snow v summit of Hermon gleams away to the north ; the battlemented city of Tibc rias, nt a distance, lends enchantment to the view. By moonlight the sceno is quite as I beautiful; besides those associations which ! throng the heart and hush tho voice, that lift up the silent prayer, and make one feel, for the lime, that he has lived long enough on earth. Tho lake is now found 10 fill a concave ba sin about one hundred aud sixty-five feet ol greatest depth J is about twelve miles long, and five broad ; delicious fish of five varie ties abound, and it is still subject to violent squalls, as In the Saviour's time. Nothing has changed save that silence and desolation have crept over the onfce busy scene, a desert succeeded to a continued cluster of villages and towns, the * desolating despotism of the thieving Arab and laity turk, to the compar ative protection of the Horiian Empire. Tiberias, to be sure, has been greatly injured by earthquakes j the last -one, in Jauuurt, 1S37, completely leveled part of the city j walls, filled up some of the streets with fn-. ins, and by its destruction of life, gave the poor people a warning which they are not disposed to take. But tho oilier pluces u long the shore, Chorazin, Bethsaida, Caper naum, etc., are entirely gone. The site of i some of them is greatly ili dispute ; half a i dozen houses mark the location of Magdalo, which recent travellers have fancied to be j Capernaum; but Tiberias is the only town worth naming; and that, though handsome j enough when seen froni the hill tops, is u , mass of poverty, filth, disease, Jewish fanat icism, and melancholy ruin. It is one of the four Holy cities, Hebron, Jerusalem, Saffet and Tiberias; and thousauds of exceedingly j wretched European Jews, who come here to die, are stripped by tho government of near ly everything they possess, and, through in-; dolence, destitution, uncleanness.tho debili ty and disease of tho fervid atmosphere, ami natural depression of spirits, no doubt die soon. We hod taken pains to see the Jews iu various countries, and had wondered ev erywhere at the miserable quarters into which they are crowded, tho ancient rags.in which they pretend to clothe themselves, and the woe-begone visanes, which tell loudly e nough how the iron of oppression has en tered their souls. But ill Palestine, theie is still a lower depth which forlorn wretches have reached; more rags, filth, sickness and despair. The cities they most frequent ate especially disgusting; the quarters given up for their abodes urc amazingly uncomely and uncomfortable. It accounts a littlo for the different views given by travelers of the same place, that Jerusalem for instance, in the Christian portion, is as clean and w?H paved as it is disgustiug and impassible in the Jewish. Only at Damascus do the Jews seem to live and flourish, decorate their persons gaily, fare sumptuously, occupy houses gorgeous as an oriental dream, and amass fortunes 111 the eyes of all men, with none to molest or muke them afraid. The Jordan was never thoroughly known until the laborious, successful and reolly no ble expedition permitted rather that patron ized, by our government. A British.lieuten ant, indeed, had attomptcd it, but his un timely death deprived tho public of any ben efit from his sufferings. Lieutenant Lynch j did his work so thoroughly that it need not j be done again; having answered some of ihc I most interesting questions, sometimes indeed in a very unexpected manner. As tho Dead Sea lias been reported to lie more than one thousand feet below tho sua of Tiberius, the distance between these two expansions of the Jordan being but sixty miles, and no rumor existing of any great falls, it was supposed that some serious mis take hod been made in the reckonage. The Americnn party settled this matter quite j satisfactorily. The distance between the! one " Sea" and tho other is really only sixty | miles, but the Jordan makes two hundred of j it by its perpetual windings; and though it j has 110 cataracts, i t has continual rapida, po ' that a wooden boat could not live upon the uneasy stream, and tho one purchased at Ti berias had to be abandoned bocause of its shattered condition. The Jordan is in fuct u headlong mountain torrent, rushing eomo-1 times twelve knots an hour, changing its' wintry depth of twelve feet into a summer shallow of sometimes less than three. The plain, through which this winding stream hurls itself down with such rapidity that the bathers ure every year washed away and drowned, called tho "Glior,'' is generally treeless, barren, and cheerless. Some naked and lofty mountains border the sides, and add to the desolate air, and frequently one bank is lined with an impenetrable jungle of canes, willows, tamarisks, and olcawlurs.? N. 1'. Quarterly Review. Tho clergyman was censuring a young lady l?r tight lacing. 'Why,' replied the miss, ?'you would not surely recom mend Zoom huhts to your parishioners.*' Tim clergyman flinilenl. Progress in India. The Rov. It. \V. Hume, missionary nt Bombay, states that llio circulation of their religious publications is mainly by sale at vory low prices, through the a 'gency of native colporteurs} tlio fact that a little sum is paid for them being the hest evidence that they are valued and read. Their colporteurs havo visited the ; country south as far as Goa, north near jlyto Surat, and east nearly five hun dred miles, selling in all the villages, 'even in places which tho missionary has nover reached. Tie says a largo part of tho more in fluential young men havo acquired and, are acquiring a knowledge of the Eng-( ! lish; and there is a passion for English education among all the better classes in | the large towns. This is a highly im i portant fact, and means are devised, by i circulating libraries and other methods, ; to furnish a supply of good English reading. He adds, " A mctgnijiccnl system nf electric tel egraphs is rapidly progressing here, | which will bring all tho distant cities of this groat country into closo neighbor- j hood. Soon, by its means, wo shall J I have instantaneous communication with Madras, Calcutta, Delhi, Agra, Labor,! Benares, etc. A grand system of rail-! ways is also in progress. Education is i advancing, superstition is on the wane: j God is carrying on his work in many. ways, and hastening' on tho day when j the idols shall be abolished, and the. kingdom of his Son fully established in , this dark land. Tho number of converts j is still small, it is in many respects the j day of small things; but our hearts are i cheered by Many encouraging indica-| lions of progressj And more than all, j wo are strengthened by the assurance j that God will fulfil his groat and pre-! cious promises in dh'e 'timo, and that! i idolatrous benighted India shall'yet bo | full of the knowledge and the glory ofi j God. Slow as it may seem to us, God I , is, I am persuaded, hastening on the ful-! I filmont of these promises with lightning j 1 speed. Let us be rememberod in your j prayers. Would that there were more I of a spiiit of prayer among the church- j es on our behalf." Another Deputation to India.? ltev. Dr. -Anderson, the senior -Secrete-1 ryoftho American Board, and Rev. | Mr. Thompson, of Roxbury, Mass., I have sailed from Boston, intending to visit the missions of the Board in the ! East. One of the important questions ! which is affecting tho missions uf every I missionary society in India, and upon which tjiey will confer with the mission aries, is the extent to which tho natives I should ho taught tho English language, i There are numerous English free*! schools under British patronage, attend- j ed by great numbers of young mon; but us they tolerate Hindoo superstition tho missionaries have been inclined to; open English schools on nn evangelical plan. The effect of the education-seems to be to causo a disrelish for the use of the nativo languages, thus depriving! the missions to. u great extent of ihe uid and influence of tho pupils in spread ing truth among their countrymen. Ail American Volunteer in Turkey, It is grateful to tho Christian heart to dud un occasional instance of regard for eternal things, in tho midst of armed hosts and contending nations'. A corres pondent of the New York Observer thus writes of an adventurous Ameri can Christian in Constantinople: " There is in this city a voluntary col porteur, a Mr. It., a native of western New York, a faithful and indefatigable laborer. He occupies himself chiefly among tho mecchunt marine of all Eu ropean nations, and his success in sell ing tho Scriptures and evangelical books to Roman Catholics as well as Protest ants has been vory great. Tho Lord is manifestly with liirn, and he finds* access everywhere, and to all porsons, in a ! wonderful manner. Mr. R. was in I Smyrna at tho timo of tho Kosta affair, and a few days after tho sharp collision I botween the American corvetto St Lou I is ami tho Austrian brig-of-war Hussar, I Mr. R. sold o largo number of fliblos on board tho latter vessel, thereby ac complishing a more salutary victory | than that of Captain Ingraham himsolf. | Ho has engaged in tho same business j in California, in England, in Malta, in I Naples, and Rome, und had tho honor i to be expelled from tho latter place by I a special ouler of tho police, for no oth I or crime than his great usefulness." Catholicism anil Ruin.?The editor of the New Yoik Tribune says: "The Catholics, who number less than one sixth of our population, keep two-thirds of tho grog-shops, where grog-shops are tolerated, and sell most of tho li quor in stealthy violation of tho law whero selling is legully interdicted; while tho foreign-born population of our country is scarcely u sixth of the whole number, it appears that a largo majority of tho crimes against life?at least in tho freo States?are committed by this fraction, and tho most of the culprits ovinco by thoir choice of spir itual advisers that they arc Catholics." From the Xcw York Picayune. ! AN ELECTION STORY. ' Years aoo, in a certain county in ! Pennsylvania, tho northern part of wliicli was peopled by tho descendant? ! of Germans, politics wore running liiplj, j though merely on local questional llie opposing candidates of tho Whig und ! Democrat parties were both lawyers, ione a Democrat, nick-named Dignity I Brown, and the other a Whig, known to his brother lawyers and tho public as | Volunteer Davis, and sometimes as 1" With-alldue-defercnco Davis." 1 Election was drawing neat?a moot ing was appoiuted by the Democratic ) wire-pullers, to be held in tho upper I portion of tho county, for the purpose nf making sure of the/German interest. jOur friend, Dignity Brown, had nover been in this region of his county enough to be known, nor had tho inhabitants : been at court often enough to distin guish one lawyer from another. As i witnesses they hated them all alike, atid asjurymou they admired all alike. He i had nover been among these people, we say, but as tho conte.it was oppioaching, and the chances for Dignity's staying at I home or going to Washington seemed evenly balanced, it seemed necessary that the Germans should be aroused to a sense of their duly and danger. Ac-: cordingly, the call tor the meeting had been published. Now on the meeting day?or ratnor evening?it happened, altogether acci dentally, that our Whig Candidate, Vol 1 ontoer Davis, was returning from a con ference with his friends of "the upper end." Twilight was just meliing into night as he drove up to the tavern where the meetiug was held, tit which lie tho't, unobservedly, to stop a few minutes to 'refresh himself and his hnrse, and pick up a few points in Dignity's harangue for a speech when a Whig meeting should be held. As lie drovo up, fingers were pointed at him, ehoit conferences held, some of the onterrified were smiling and others laughing outright, until Volunteer Da vis began to think they meditated some practical joke upon him for thus coming as a spy into bis enemy's country,when all at once bis doubts were relieved by thoappearanceof a committee of two who simultaneously took him Jby the hand, plying each arm vigorously in tho pump-handle"and cross-cut style, saying at the same time, 'Welgome, Mistber Brown 1 Tree jeers for Misther Brown!' and up went three lusty cheers from tho lungs of the 'iinn-heaited Democracy.' 'Oh, ho!' thought our liero j 'sits tho wind in that quarter / Well hero goes; I'll do 'once my friend but now my foe' u bit of service. I'll make a speech for i him 1 If any mischief's done, why I'll prove an alibi, if fortunately these mis tukou men don't take out a writ of Ha ! beas Corpus for my body before I am i demo.' t | j . The meeting was organized while Da ' vis was hurriedly refreshing himself, ! concocting a speech, and trembling lest j tho simon-pure Dignity Brown should appear. But that individual was in blissful ignorance of tlie state of things at Grundle Town, for, having stopped at the tavern of a good Whig, he found after travelling n mile, that his lynch pin was gone and that there was tio get | ting alung without it. No blacksmith , was nearer than tho ono at tho inn ho had just left?so back ho trudges to have j tho loss repaired while the opposing I general was in his very camp. All this j was accidental, of course, and it was ac cidental that tho blacksmith was half an hour making tho pin, and that he should burn his fingers so seriously in tho job that the apprentice should finish it?ac cidental that it all resulted in a deteu tioli of Blown for two hours from the j road. In the meantime affairs are approach ing a crisis atGrundle Town. Davis is beginning bid peroration? bid German friends aro all ear: 11 Fellow citizens, with all duedefer cnco to the opinions which men enter tain concerning their own language, I frankly tell you 1 can see neither wit nor sense in the German. [Looks ofI astonishment from his auditors.] So, much am L convinced of this that I in* I troduced a resolution last winter against I printing our laws in Gorman. [Much 1 ' fooling evinced, and hero and tliore a low murmur of dissatisfaction.] But I intend this winter lo bring forward a mom strenuous regulation. I shall a bolish German schools. [Cries of'trow him mil eggs!' ?Schlang him om der kblT!' and similar pleasant and reassur ing remarks cume thick and fust.] If a man can't speak English I intend bo shall havo no vote! [Uotider uud bl it zen, donner mid dorio, and the gentlest of tho lust arguments of an ilicoused, crowd, an egg spread its golden hues Over his breast like a gorgeous sunflow er growing out of his vest pocket. It was lime to bo gone.] And with all due deference, (shouted ho as he raude a retrograde movement) if any man, after tho year 1S36, teach his child German, I ahull have him imprisoned." Ho bad to run for his life. Impreca tions, stones and clubs, were behind him thick ns hail, and tho cloud whence they bad come was following. The landlord, who having boen busy, in his bar, had heard none of tho obnox-I ious sentiments of Ilia favorite candidate, | was thenderstriick to see him flying ; through iho house, followed by tlio yell-1 ing crowd, and not knowing how tn i gain a knowledgesooner spread himself! between the pursuers and the.pursued, I crying ?' Lilher Minnnel, was is I" The crowd bad no lirno to answer, but the burly figur^tf mine host obstiucted j tbom suliicieffly to give Davis time to j mount his horse, a lluut little animal j that could not easily bo overtaken. A pursuit was attempted, but the crowd finding it in vuin, sulkily dispels- j ed without going liacjs to the scene of' the difficulty, but swearing eternal ha-1 trod to Drown and all his kith and kin ' forever. This ill-used individual rode up to tlio [ town about two hours after this fatal blow bad been struck at his fortune, but finding the inn closed concluded that the meeting had adjourned in despair of seeing him that nigllt, and so he quietly turned bis horse and jogged on bomo ward. At tho election he was surprised to find lhat Grundle Town, a rock of De mocracy in former times, bad gone deadly against him, with the exception of tho landlord, who never could rightly understand the matter. Davis kept his own counsel, and held his place in Con gress for three years. It is not repotted that bo ever volunteered a speech for any one since. A Kan sua Newspaper anil a Kansas City.?The "Kansas Weekly Herald'' is the title of a newspaper received among our exchanges on Saturday, all the way from the "disputed territory.'' It is a neatly printed sheet, published at Leaven worth, by Osborn & Adams. It is the first paper established in lhat territory. The "City of Leavenworth," where the Herald is published, is situated about a mile and a half below Fort Leavenworth is "laid out" into streets, squares, &c, and is growing with true Western rapidity and thrift. It is destined to become a large and important place of business It is not far fiom the new cily ol Kickapoo! The "following notices appear editorial ly: A large number of hands are engaged in cutting out the streets dfrfrircrtj.' - ! The population of this city is nearly as follows: 99 men 1 woman, 0 babies. To tal 100. Truly a flourishing and promi sing town. Leavenworth was already talked of as the future capital of Kansas. We trust it will have something to fill a school-house with belore the capital is built. Of the 99 male inhabitants of the cily, 10 advertise themselves as "Attorneys and Counsellors at Law!" There is one phy sician, a hotel, a steam sawing mill, sever al dry goods stores, a book store, drugstore, and other trading establishments.?Halt. Situ. Aid to Sabliatli-Schools. A Colporteur in Illinois who reports the formation of four Sabbath-schools, says, " I gave some tracts to one of these schools, which created such an interest that tho teacher took up a collodion u mong tlio scholars, and obtained one dollar and ninety cents, with which bo bought books for premiums to tho best und most diligent scholars. A Univer salis!, tho father of some of the chil dren, said to me, ''Your books liavo dono n groat deal of good in the Sun day-school. Why," said lie, " my boy would hardly take any interest in the school until they gavo books us premi ums, and now ho cannot bo kept at home.'' A eirl fifteen years of age committed MOO verses of Scripture to memory; a boy of eleven, in his spare time, learned OSS verses, nnd a girl of uvolve learned 255, in three Sundays. These children not long since took no intoiest in Sundny-schools. Is not the fact that nearly two hundred children who once spent the Sabbath in play, now ailend the Sabbath-school to learn ihe word of Bod, and bo instructed in tho way that leads to eternal life, woll worth the self-denial and toil of .tho col porteur, if nothing moro was aliected 1" Aristocracy of Appetite.?Wo never nail an idea until recently oi* tlio oxls iionco of an aristocracy of appetite.? ; We overheard in llie market the I'dlow : ing brief dialogue between an nbl lady land a little girl ivliilo they were stand ing in front of a vegotahlo stand:? "Grandmother," said the little girl, "buy some of these encumbers,'' "No, my child replied the lady. "Why not?" asked the little girl. "Because I should hate to be seen carrying them home, when everybody knows tltoy uro only a cont a piece 1" Question.?I amcotirting a girl I have but little acqttaintnnce with; how shall I come to knowledge of lief faults ??bit Itur/i'e JUxprrst. T The (lest ant! only suro way, we can iirv' agine, would be to marry her. A knowl edge of her faults will come 'soon pnotfflfijg alter the matrimonial knot is lied. Ttjr j it. WELL DOSE. The Tribune (ells the.following story : On Sunday evening not many nightfo ago, the Jlev. Thompson performed u marriage ceremony at the Tabernacle? both' parlies said Yf.s at tlio proper time, and the reverend gentleman said Amen. " I want you to perform the same lliiug for me," said a well dressed, youngish man to Mr. Thompson. " When V " Now?right off to-night." " Can't you put it off a little t It will make it rather.late." "No?tlio lady says now or never, and I am very anxious. Will you go V' Yes j where is it?" i "Close by?only a few steps west of the Park. Wo are all ready and will not detain you but a few minutes on your wuy home." | Mr. T. went to tiio place which was ! a respectable boarding house, and ev erything evinced decorum. The ludy, young and pretty, nnally dressed, and altogether a desirable partner for the gentleman?was presented, and a short prayer as usual on such occasions, of fered, and their hands joined. " You, with a full sense of the obli gations you assume, do promise here in the presence of God and these witness es, that you will take this woman, whose right hand you clasp in yours, to be your lawful, wedded Wife, and as such you will love and cherish her forever." I " 1 do." " And you, Miss, on your part, will you take this man to bo your lawful, wedded husband?" "NO!" We hare hoard In times past, when showers were -fashionable, sfjme pretty heavy claps of thunder; but none that over rattled about the tympanum of that bridegroom was quite so loud as that stunning little mouosylahle. " No, I never will!" said she most emphatically, and walked away proud I ly to her seat, leaving her almost-hus band looking and probably feeling just tlio least trifle in the world foolish, j Mr. Thompson remonstrated?not to | induce her to change that No for Yes, but for trifling with him in a solemn du ty of, hjs calling, and asked for an tix? planauon. I " I meant no disrespect for you, sir, I or to trifle with your duly, or the sol emu obligation you^were called upoii 1t:> ratify; but I bud iWother way to vin ! dicate my character. L cume to the city I a pool* setting girl. 1 ttorked for this 1 man. He made proposals of marriage to mi.', but from oilier circumstances I doubted his sincerity and loft his em ployment and went back to the country for a while. When I returned, I found I the door of my former boarding house closed against me, and thi* lady whom ! r have esteemed as a kind friend, cold | and quiet, indisposed to icnew my ae quaintance, and 1 insisted upon know I ing the loas'on. I learned that this man | had blackened tuy character, denied his 1 proposals of marriage, and^aid I was ' ?no matter what. 1 said to the lady, !4 lot me come back find I will prove my I innocence. Will you believo what i Isay, if he will marry me.'" I 41 Yes, I certainly will, and so will all who know you," said sho. " I renewed the acquaintance?ho re newed bis proposals?I accepted, and snid 4 Yes, bring the minister at once/? He slandered me?I deceived him. 1 proved my words true, and his false.? It was t!io only way n poor helpless girl could avenge herself upon a man who had proved himself unworthy to he her husband. It was only at the right lime to say one word?one little word. I have said it. 1 hope it will be a lea-; son to men, an example to other girls,1 and that in many other and different cir-j cumstances they will learn to say No."| 14 If I was mad for a singlo moment," said Mr. Thompson, "i curried none of it over the threshold. It was a sovore lesson, but well applied. I went home pondoring on tho word?No." 'j'homis Borland, a clerk in the office of the Adjutant General, received notice of.his dismissal from office orer the signa ture oftheHnn. JefTerson Davis. Accom panying his notification was a letter from the Adjutant General, informing the clerk that it had been shown to the satisfaction of the Department that he beloujred to a Know-Nothing Association, and 'had vo ted or attempted to vote for Mr. Tovyseis, the candidate ol that party for Mayor of Washington.' Upon tills allegation Mr. Borland, who is u sou nf the minister to Central America, was dismissed from pub lic seivice. His offence, it is thu; official ly admitted, was the exercise ol this right of sulfrage according to the dictates of his own judgment and concience, and without previous consultation with his next official superior. Backbiter.?What'i tfie meaning of a "backbiter,'' laid a Kev. gpntleman'djtritfg an examination at'*' parochial JchbSl.' Ii .was a puzzlo. It went down the classlil] 'it came to a simple little urchin, who said "Pr'aps it be a flro," ; AGRICULTURAL. early Corn Sccil. Farmers are loo negjjggot in 3elec,'"8 corn fur the rie.M plattfjng. Ihe usuu way is to wait until ami then while husking) to s?1ect some 9! the best looking ears for seed; but it is not the best way. % worthy Iriend Farmer 1), is'somewhat noted 11! the pojs'ssor 01 a superior variety of corn and 0,1 ?"01 ?. of its being thrtc veckt tarlier than usual ^varieties, his neighbors themselves lorlunate, if they cangejjfi . gee'd of him, and he is sometimes annoy ed bv the repealed dralts on his choice s lected eara. Wow what is the secret^ ? this superiority 1 Let me tell y ou and then let me say, "Uo thou and do likewise. Farmer ll has always plan.cdmo common kind of corn, the same as Ins neighbors but for years he his made it a P"^ce.t0 pass through the field every few dq jSfr* the curn begins to turn( and se ears that first ripens,'nnd carefully fcJK and hang them up. Each lot he keep . bv itself, so that he can tell which came off first, which second &c.,and when h plants in the spring, he uses ,.r? mat which \w lirii selected. . By continuing this course or, pi act c<. h- now has the satisfaction of having ? crops about three weeks I neighbors* besides being a superior qoal.t}. The-same'principlewm apply ?oi-WM i of ?eed. ir you wish early peas, bean , potatoes, &.c. just take the same pains to select the earliest ripe; ond/??KlSL them next spring when plant ftp ti n comes From much observation 1 am cot - vinced that more depends unon the selec tion and proper care of seec!, than upo'i early planting. Have y our a^odground read'v, and do not be in a hurry p until the "round is well warmed. A v. ry Z man has told mejhjt plant corn when the bobolinks mi.ke tbjif appearance, and not before Ju.t b ar this in mind in connection with the sel lion of jotlr seed.?Purity Reorder. How to Judge CtiWc. "In'ali domestic animals, the ?k?* *r hide forms one ofthe beSt means by ? h.?h ,0 etiimate their fattening rroperhe, In the handle of oxen itthe hide be soil am. silky, it affords proof of tendency to ink.! meat! A beast having a perfect tflft will have a.lhick loose skin,' were on a layer ofsoA bt,.ywljUag slightest pressure, and springing ba<* to wards the linger like a 1 er Such a skin will usually bo <fV en 1 withanabuhdance ofsol'tglossy. ^fe ^ in.r like a bed of moss, and hence !.i?.eu termed a mossy skin. But a thick sv', short hair, always handles hard and incfi embraced,in the above.shotl extract. Jh handlin" of animals, we have alwayr ton-y considered a most important po>M m a good feeder, and it is to much neglected Notliin" but practice \vill_ enable one,l understand the difference in this partuu |ar. We have heard Capital judgHnray they would prefer to buy an their eves shut if tiley were allowed to handling the animal rather !than judge y appeatance only without handling.-I a. Farm Journal Th" Acorn Crop.?The Illinois paper# mention the fact that though the drought lias cut off the late crops, there,!# a most astonishing mast. The same estrtoreinary yield ol'acorns is to be seen in the Valley of Virginia, and prevails also in this quar ter of the Stateas far as our information ex teflds. Trees are loaded dowjniwjth this fruit, and lor the purpose of (aftftiiti;! hogs they are equal to cot(i; particularly is it the case with the acorns from the- -white1' oak. Whilst mast fed pork is noti-steem ed No 1 ill quality, j et by taking porkers from the woods'for a lew weeks,fifior lu* slaughtering anil feeding corn, I.he fat and meat is solidified rendering it difficult J? tell anylifference from a thoroughly corlr led porker?Fred. Hcralil.. Destiny'tif liattia.? t'lio author'^t "The Coming Strugglo," has puMish ed another book', in which he says that I tho Summary of events iii Itussja'H mi-? sion nn(I destiny, as dedoctSd'frotn tifoj prophecy, is the ftillriwihg: "1. H.4] wrests a prtrtio'll itf thu Ass^rlo->Macedi>| nian territory from Turkey, anil "In--; comes " kiln; of tho north..2. [id overthrows tho Turkish pi/wei, takuj] possession of Constantinople, ami uJ comex the "dragon." 5. Urt'conqueS tho uonlinentill nations, and becomi s, "(Jog of Mngoti" hut "lie attuuiji'J the conquest of Sjria and Imliii,' mujvij ilestroyeil with all his liosts, in itevajj ley of Jellnsephai, nenr .feriis?l(*fu."i*B the personal coming of Christ." K When Philip Henry, the father of tfl celelinited oiininieuintur, soui'lii iln Ihnfl of the fliily iliiu liter 8 rid heiress otAJ aw ows in murriiige, an ohjrciiiM, * ? ...nil hy her fitllier^vim, udutilted thai.J.i wia a gentleman, n scholar,.ami an exi > lljH preacher, hut he was n flli'aiffifot :mi3 iiiil mi/ t lVIt Kri'jic II f/n ' ic /mm." "True,''said tlie'danj/t ?. i. Had well welched tile' i *'ri.ll -i.if n ??i, ties ai.'l lirai-es i,f i!,v c:i I i lOW ? 'rrr /)' It mi,! I I ,i!.j like 1'u un "illiMiin,;'' iiin) t! v wu riej lifts'*|?!grii?e:'ge lu^i'M