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VOLUME 1. THE ORGAN ' rUBUiiUED EVERY FRIDAY, AT THS Ben Franklin Steam Printing House, BY DAI. EB CLARK. TERMS: Single subscriptions, .... $1 60 Clubs of ten and upwards. 1 00 All subscriptions must be accompanied with the cash, and addressed, postage paid, to CALEB CLARK, Ben Franklin Printing House, Cincinnati, O. .attaj. Th Maine Law. TVm Ldct Nsal. Com all ye ftiendt of Temperance And litten to mi ttrain, I'll Mil yoo how old Alohv faros Down In tho BUM of Maine. There'i out Niil Dow, a Portland man. With great and noble sonl, Who framed a law without a flaw, To banitfa Alcohol. Hurrah for tha State of Maine, The noble State of Maine ; She leadi the Tan of the temperance clan, The noble State of Maine. Thii great Maine Law, with ite huge paw, Hat laid the rommiet low, Their brandy kege and demijohns Do helter skelter go. It makes the " critter" bite the dmt, And not the sonls of men, And bidi the. vender of the stuff Work for tome noble end. Hurrah for the Stale of Maine, to. Th" complicated License laws We've had so long in vogne. Are nothing more than playthings, For the lawyer and the rogue. They'll twin and turn them at their will, To suit their wicked plan, And leave anwhipped of jnltice, all The looandrela of the land. Hnrrah for the State of Maine, Its. Bnt tills great law of which I sing, Has wonderworking powers Just get it in eur rtatuie-Uook, The victory is oars. The Lawyers they cant quibble round Its language plain and clear, H will " clear the track," of the rummy pack If we adopt it here. Hurrah for the State of Maine, c. So now good Sons op RacBia, and Washikotoniak too, Gird on yonr armor for the right, And pu the Maine Law through I And let this Empire, daughter Of brave old Unole Sam, Be first to back ap sitter Maine In this new Temperance plan. Hurrah for the State of Maine, Ac. Hitaefatniw. Somebody In the Cask. Onitis an exciting scene, gays a recent number of the Cleveland Herald, occurred at one of our wharves, yesterday. The hands on one of our steamers were engaged in rolling off a cask, when, to the consternation and surprise of the persons engaged in performing that operation, a VOlCe Was UCOIU wuutu iua " Roll it easy, these darned nails hurt I'd rather pay my passage than stand all this." . . Hold ins? no their hands, their visuals ex panded to the size of two saucers, the two laborers exclaimed That heat the d 1." The mate coming up at this moment, and unaware of the cause of the delay, com menced cursing them for their dilatoriness, when from within, the voice again came forth " You're nobody : let me out of this cask." " What's that V said the voice : " I want to get out I won't stand this any longer 1" " Up end that cask," said the mate. "On, don't you'll kill me!" said the voice. " These darned nails prick me. - Look out I don't 1" again said the casked-up individual, as the men were turning it over. " Cooner." said the mate, " unhead thin Aoalr enl fnlrfl nut that man." As the adze sundered the hoops, and the head was coming out, the voice again Drone furth " Be easy, now I is there any one about T I don't want to be canght 1" Quite a crowd had now gathered around the " scene of action," when, to the utter atiniuhment of the bystanders, a loud gut tural laugh broke forth, which made our hair stand on end, and tne cask" was louno filled with bacon. " What does it mean ?" says one. Tt rpollv heats mT time, said the mate. We enjoyed the joke too well to " blow," as we walked off arm-in-arm with the " Fakir of Siva," the ventriloquist and ma gician. PaaCTiCAL Mm. Prosy old gentlemen who think that Jume Watt wu a greater genius than Rk.UmrA and that the onlr motive which should movesocietv it the Loeo-motiv?. It wu inch a man who once said of MUtou'i "Paradise Loat," that it "wet a very Rood book, but it didn't prove anything." rraeucai mea are rueful, but like cook stoves and Benthsm, they an shockingly utiliarian; and like tailor, set much more beanty in a lot of "Cabbage," than In all the rote bothet that ever grew, CTThe convention o! Irish atsoeiatloni In New York have resolved to celebrate St. Patrick's Day la tha ritual manner of the Sons ol Erin. Wltohcraft In Olden Time. 5 w (i.jce.-.uAH v uu ULU'tiiuuuuoiti reproach for their belief in witchcraft, and the fear ful tragedies which were enacted ia conse quence of entertaining; such a belief, forget that in this respect they were not singular for a belief in witchcraft was almoHt uni versal in Christendom in that age. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the belief iu astrology, magic, and witchcraft was gene ral throughout all Europe. That period may be regarded as the epoch of magi cians, sorcerers, exorcists, and inquisitors. From the year 1448, the belief in. magic began to play a Tery important part in the affairs of Europe, and during upwards of two centuries we read of frequent and most horrible stake murders. During this time, an infatuation a monomania seemed to have seized the people many pretended to exercise the art of witchcraft, and had to pay a fearful penalty for their conduct. It is stated by Del Rio, that in .three months of the year 1515, five hundred per sons were executed at Geneva, for holding converse with evil spirits. Upwards of a thousand perished in this way in the dio cese of Como, and on an average, a hun dred were executed there annually. In France, the number of executions is scarcely credible. We read of 1200 persons being accused of dealing in forbidden things at one time, and the records of the parlia ments of Bordeaux, Pari., and Rouen, are filled" with accounts of such trials. Ger many, too, exhibited an equally lamentable picture of human credulity and persecution. At Wartzburg, in 1627, during a space of two months and a half, there were twenty nine successive auto-da fee on which occa sions there were 157 persons, accused of witchcraft, burnt at the stake I It is es tablished that during the two years, from 1627 to 1629, nearly 10,000 persons were condemned to death in Germany, for witch craft and sorcery. It was at the com mencement of the 18th century that the epidemic madness, known as Vampirism, appeared in Uermany. Motion Journal. Manufacture of Spldex'a Webs. ' In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, an in genious artisan succeeded in procuring a dulficient quantity of spider's webs to manu facture a pair or stockings, which were presented to her majesty, who condescended to wear them on some public occasion. They were of a light grey color, soft, and almost as elastic as a spiral spring. Hopes were ardently entertained by naturalists ol that age, from the Buccess of the hose ex periment, of discovering a mode of syste matizing the web-spinning propensities of these pugnacious insects, after the manner of silk worms, with a view to profit. Va rious plans were resorted to, and every scheme devised to induce them to labor in concert, but all to no purpose ; they would never commence throwing either warp or woof till nearly famished by hunger, nor then, unless they aTe warned of the pre sence of flies. When numbers were caged together, in a place constructed upon what were considered philosophical principles, instead of improving their time, according to the anxious wishes of their contriving captors, they fell to devouring each other by the cruelest warfare imaginable as total extermination seemed to be an object of the victors. A madness was induced by captivity, as the slaughter had no reference to sauaiyiug inuiviauat nunger. at last, a solitary spider remained, in one instance, sole master of the premises, having fought his way through hundred as blood thirsty as himself. Like the last man, he surveyed the multitude of dead ; and, if spiders ever reason, that one must have felt the utter desolateness of its condition. Since then, no attempts have been made to compel spi ders to become the servants of man ; they are highly useful in the particular sphere in which they were expressly designed to act, viz : in limiting the multiplication of small winged insects ; out Deyond tneir in stinctive business, they can never be taught or compelled to spin their silk. Scientiie Tracu. O To live perfectly unsuspected at Vi enna, it would not be sufficient to possess a proud and ancient title, and to be well known as a thorough-going aristocrat : for man ia an inconsistent animal, and dukes and marquises have been known to turn out very radicals. The greatest certainty would Lie in being deaf, dumb and blind : or at least in a condition similar to that of a certain Prussian philosopher, who had labored so hard in study, thought and writ ten so much, devoted himself with such ardor to science, that his physical strength gave way under the constant attrition of his indefatigable mental energy, and he be came so ill and feeble, that his life was at one time thought in danger. At length, after a .whole course of medicine, and an inconceivable multitude of remedies, which his watching and intellectual lubors ren dered perfectly useless, bis physicians told him that they could do nothing for him die he must unless he gave up study, and abstained from thinking. "And where shall I go, then ; what shall I do, if I mast not thiuk ?" said the patient. " Go 1" answered the medical gentlemen ; ' go to Austria." ; "Thereupon, a passport for Vienna was procured, on which was written, ia a bold, plain hand : " E. A., private gentleman, com manded by kit phyeiciane not to think;" and when be arrived at Vienna, and the police officers read the inscription, the gates were opened wide, and a guard of holier turned out for his reception. ETBoyd'iCity Pott, In New York, received on Saturday, for distribution, 36,000 valentines, of which 96, 370 wer delivered CINCINNATI, 0. FBI HOW TO PAY A DKIJT or HONOU. rit, which can tcaicely tail to interest our read ers, and its truth may be relied upon. , A young diplomatist of family and fortune, whose hand tome person, winning manners, and unaltera ble amiability, had insured to him Ihut popuoa fie de lalan, where the music of Musard, and the mysteries of high pity, divided the atten tion of tbt brilliant crowdt by whom ths vast taloous were thronged. For a time M. de tuffered himself to be engrossed by the goildeat et of the' ball room; and to many a enarning coquette and jewelled matron poured fortt hit offerings ol homage with the devotion for wkich he had been celebrated from bit tint entree in to the fashionable circlet of the French capital; but at length, wearied by excitement, and "gid. dy from excels of light, he sauntered intt an apartment sacred to the worship of Mammoi, where he amused himself for tome moments ii watching the fluctnationt of the variont gamei which were progressing about him. This state of things could not endure long. Psrit is as Sroverbially a city of gamesters at St. Petert urgh itself, and ever; elegant who letki to maintain hit position in high society it quite tt familiar with the cards and dice, at with we were about to say hit haeviary; but at inch a comparison would by no meant have sufficed to imply wbat tney intended to convey, we cor rect ourselves, and tubttitnte in lien thereof with hit tailor's bills. Thus, then, M. de , from a spectator, soon became an actor in the busy tcene; and drawing off bit spotless glovet, and advancing a chair which stood temptingly betide a small ta ble niched in a recess draperied with pale blue silk, fouud himself oppoed to a stranger, by whom he had been invited to essay hit skill, or to amuse bit idleness, at one of those convenient garnet of cbauce which may be practised en tale a tele. Never were to individuals mors opposed in manner and appearance than eur he ro and bis antagonist. M. de wai re fined to a fault, aud low-voiced at a woman, while the stranger wit florid, loud and abrupt, to a degree almost incompatible with hit posi tiou st a man of fashion. Thus the parties were socially mis-matched; bnt under circumstances the cardt were matter ol more Importance, than the man, and the two antagonist at once pro- eetsded to business. Unr hero, who had prudently provided tt exigeuciet of this nature, had unfortunately 'reckoned without his host," for it toon became appareut that he was no match for hit noisy op. pouent; aud 'he shining Napoleons which he tirelessly placed npou the table, toon made their way into th gotuet ol hit exulting antagonist. That the play wu perfectly fair, he both felt aud saw, but th success of the opposite party wit to extraordinary, that it piqued hit vanity; and wheu he bad exhausted hit parte, he still resolved to persevere, feeling convinced that tome sadden turn ol foituue mnst too a. enable him to redeem hit ill-luck. He consequently explained to his antagouitt that be had no more money about him, but he wai ready to continue the struggle on parole, a proposition which was immediately accepted, and the game wit renew, ed at energetically as ever, with the tame un accountable result. Prosperity had, however, tended to overcome the good-breediag of hit brother adversary, who became so much elated at the golden harvest which he continued to reap from the pertinacity of onr hero, that his exultation grew wordy aud noisy, and attracted a crowd of idlers abont the table. "Aud nevertheless," he thonted, ai he possess ed himself of stake after stake, which he care fully scored against hit victim; "nevertheless. Monsieur it a perfect matter of ths game! Yet yon tee, gentlemen, that he cannot ttand against my lucky star." Theipectatort acquiesced and marvelled, and still the ttroKKle continued. M. de , who found it infinitely more easy to support the ill timed hilarity of hit companion, made no reply to the vain boasting by which hit losses were ag gravated, but he was gentlemau, and resolved not to afford the fortuuate gamester the triumph of perceiving that he had ruffled hit temper. suddenly, however, the happy winner waxed more facetious than ever; and while recording each separate and additional gain, said with a mockiug laugh, which excoriated the nerve of his antagonist "Again, my desr Monsieur! Yon may writ borne to yonr iamuy. The expression was futile enough; nor wai it nntu it had been several times repeated that M. de began to feel irritated and impatient by iti constant recurrence. He nevertheless contrived to control hit annoyance, and persist. ed ia playing until the party broke up, when he rote a debtor ol a mouaana crow us, in addition to the content of hit parse, to his anmsnner ly adversary. "To-morrow, Monsieur," he said with studied con r tea jr, "this little affair shall be settled, and I will then trust to a futnre opprlnaity for my revaucM. Hit creditor langhed loodly once mora, is turned l is nartini bow. and a r hem threw I himself into hit cib, considerably mffled by tne events oi me evening. Oa entering hit apartment, a picket was placed ia hit hand, aud he found himoelf di lected by his chef to leave Paris on tha follow, ing day with important despatches. Thit wai vexatious enough, at it terminated all hone of the revenge which h bad eagerly anticipated, and he accordingly resolved to devise tome other method of diminishing the arrogant satisfaction ol hit late opponent. ' ' ! - "I have occasionally lost larger wmt," he muttered, a he prepared to retire to rest, "bnt nevar before have I experienced such a dislike to paye debief honor To throw away one'i taouey on 1 brut of thi description is intolera ble. ; J. will make himt experienc. by tome means or another, th dagger of (rifling with the feelings ef a gentleman.'',, ,,, , : Thai resolved, M. do n . toon forgot hit annoyance ia aleepj and in th morning kiteab wai ordered at an unusually early hoar. Some twenty minute subsequently it ttopped tt the residence of his lata antagonist, to whot ton tierge the tiger of the young diplomatist deliv ered a hug packet, sealed with three aonnou iY, MARCH 5, w ampe-nied by a minute note; after which i , peqattietUet ay, mm leie aseeeatful (; tii informed that si ifontunr en cm triolet had left the articles in question, to which nof amwer wai required. The recipient opened the note and read as follows: 'Moniiiur Unexpectedly compelled by di plomatic business to leave Psrit within a few hoars, I haaten to cancel the obligation incurred towards yourself last evening. I do not; tend specie, but value, as from your own lipt I was enabled to gather the predominant sentiment of yonr mind. Thus, Monsieur, anxious to meet your exemplary and praiseworthy principle, to untiringly pressed upon me during the few hours iu which I wai honored by your society, I have endeavored to meet, what must, I am convinced nnder the circumstances, be your dearest with; and I accordingly enclose to you in the accompanying packet, the meant of prae tifing to the widest extent, your very eiemplarv epistolary system." The fortunate gamester eagerly opeued the enormous parcel, and found therein, to hit con. tternation and annoyance, twelve thousand post ago stamps ol live tout eachl TH! DANDY AND YANKEE: OR, FUJI ON THK "BIMl'MON." While the "Simpson" lav at our wharf last trii, a qneer-lookiug biped might have been see i wending hia way towards the boat "tote- ing a large hair-trunk under his arm. Let us destribe him. liit npper-itory wat topped with s 'coon skin cap long uncombed sandy hair streaking out from beneath it ant1 falling around like flax over a brake. Hit coat was built as if for a single breasted vest, with a uarrow rim running around the neck, stilt at s shingle; then altered by in serting sleeves thirt-fashioc into the shoulders the garment being buttoned np ' chuck in front with small brasa buttons. Between ths lower part of the aforementioned coat and the trowsers wai a gap of about three inches, throu gb Which a dingy shirt pulled out like a life-pre-server. His pantt wat of linsey-woolsey, the larger part of the cloth in the neighborhood of hit hinder suspender buttoui, the smaller quan tity remaining growing smaller aud tmaller till it reached tome six inches from the red untan- nea tenet tnat covered the pedal eitremitiet, at twttt sn4ie robtter garters. A talkie com- plertloned countenance, grey eyes, and uu have t human. le walked np the plank on theboat, deposited biftrunk on a cotton bale, crossed his hands be- hirii, took a general view of things in general. and noticing the engineer getting up steam walked around to communicate with bun. "VGneas thit 'eie's a 'mnziu fast ciitter of yoAn." IAD, gruuted the engineer, not disp'isen to enprge his circle of acquaintance by thet 'hes tejieiumu mode. i Never kicks eout ov the breecliiu'." H." Nor rait nt pitches, nor nothin of the sott." Hah." Well," old hots, I guess yern'll never die frtmwastin' yer breath, fur ye keep ycr rusty oil mouth at close as an inter. Ye'r don't p re tea d to lay this 'ere ugly lookin' coosern can run fast. Je-im-ma, tt yeou a teen my brotn etfs wifet, uncle skeet, yer would'nt thiuk it. Yir see he run again time, and tew beat, he ran srj gol alfired fast that his hair whipped and ctVcked, sothnt when hecnm eoutat the eend of tie race, he was clean ball-headed fact but that warn't a primin two what he did one nite raein with a ghost." tllcrc the engineer opened the safety, valve, in e proximity to the coon skin, which suddenly dtaappearetl, thus breaking the thread of the ghost story, iti proprietor soon making his en trance into the ladies cabiu, which wat only oc cipied by a black chambermaid. "Gemman'i cabin next door; no gernnno 'lowed in 'ere without ladies," said the darky, angry at the intrusion of such s looking man into (he cabin. Aitit a gowin tew tetch notbin, lest wanted o examine the critter. What's them art,' point nc to the old state rooms. i ' f or ue lames oens, tar. f ' How many hev yer gotS" ! Bout thirty, tab." 'Whir's the wimen folks?' "On de deck, sab." ' 'Thirty births ayear, I 'ipoie what a fine plase fer a doctor tew settle in Iota ov sickness 'mmi so mtnny," soliloquized be, while he stuck his held into a stateroom to tee the accom modations. "A real narrer contracted, tucked upcantaro, the folks np in our kentry would'nt livt in sich tite. narrer contracted naberhood." paring this toliliquy the chambermaid opened the door into the geutlemen't cabin. "Sah, gemmens de like ob you ain't 'lowed in here 'tall, yer must go from here quicker dan 'mediately." He taunted ont of the door, asking at ii wat slimmed thut in hit face, if there wat a regular doctor settled in that neighborhood, which in terrogatory hot receiving .a response, perambu lated the cabin with hia hands crossed behind, making observations and inquiries, mnch to the amusement of a crowd of passengers, and uone more to than that of a double-refined, patent elastic made to order (by a tailor) dandy , who with hit little tickly goatee, and bigger sicklier moustache, perfumed soap-locks, itandiug shirt Dollar, riling like two side-boards, to fence in tha ftce, galvanited watch chain, wasp waist, little heeled boott.and goose necked eane with a puppy's head on it, containing nearly as mnch braint as the head of the owner was cutting quite t swell, dem ning everything for not be ing s he wished it, and disgusting every one by his self-importance and senseless twaddle. At dinner, by chance, the dandy and Yankee tit opposite each other at the table. After Captain Bell had performed th usual ceremo ny of asking a bleating, the dandy threw him. self back oa his dignity, and called out is t pompons tone to th waiter. . "Yaw dem'd wataw, brwing me the suppor. tih of a young female hen, a fresh laid hegg, and rnb th bochim of me plate wath a speeds, mine of fruit vulgarly called aslnion,- which will giv to me dinnih a delicate flavor." If -V - '' 1852. Th Yankee quick drew himself back ia imi tation of his opposite -neighbor, and ia a nasal tone called ont. "Yeou darned, all-fired, dab-rabited, pesky looking little tar nil black niggar. fetch me a peck ov corn, a bundle ov fodder, and rnb me down with a brickbat while I feed." Men eeaaed to think of masticating, while an uproariout yell arose which fairly shook th touiu, uunug woicn meaanuy wai seen stream ing ont of the door with s linger in each ear. We are credibly informed that Bell lost four snspenacr buttons, and wai troubled with an open countenance sn hour afterwards. The dandy waited for the next boat, while the Yankee made the trip with a chalked hat. An Apolocy for Tobacco. Excepting slavery and liqnor, nothing his ev er been so virulently and universally abused at tobacco. From King Jamei the First to "Sen ses" nobody hat written sboot it that hat not written againtt it. Dickens ridicules it, Wire sbutes it, Ureely denonnees it, and "Seneca" would do all, bnt from the unfortunate inability to do either. Calhoun wai the avowed apologist of slavery, Falstaff entert a plea for a Sherry lack," Tal ford "old Port," and Redi, the Italian poet, for liqnor generally bnt nobody has a word to sty for that weed, which Indian legendi say a God dess produced, and which history tayt a hero first used. Everybody uses it, but nobody de fends it. Charles Lamb tried his hand at a sort of poetical apology, but the poetry wai bad and the defence was worse. Have chswert, smokers, and snuffers loat all spirit, that no one can open hit mouth for thit great tooth-cleaner, health giver, heart-softener, sociability -promoter, and acquaintance-maker? " We reckon not, we 'spose not." We use tobacco we love it, we avow it. Half the great men in the nation use it. Henry Clay snuffi, Joe Manhall chewa, John Van Bnren smokea. and John Quiucy Adamt used to do all three, but quit, and died! tobacco euret the tooth-ache ask any smo ker it it don't and one young enthusiastic ex pressed bit earnest conviction that it wat good for corns. Robinson Crusoe, when he got sick, chewed it, smoked it, and drank a decoetion of it in rum, and got well. Every wit at Will's coffee-house from Dry. do to aadwell smoked. Tobacco it a provoca tive of wit. The Scutch all mult, and the Scotch are remarkable for their acutenees and subtlety of their metaphysics, and the rigidi ty of their righteouanett. Tobacco it a promo ter of metaphysics and morals. The Germans smoke aud the Oerraant excel the world in the extent aud miuuteuess of their Biblical and Classical research, their persevering application and speculative philoi phy. Tebaco nonrishet learning, speculation and perseverance. The Freuch muff and smoke both, aud the French are me leauort oi lasie, anu tne lounuun oi iasn-1 .... . tr . ion, the best of mathematicians aud most skilfnl surgeons. Tobacco produces refinement and elegance, profound reasoning and steadi ness of nerve. English tailors all chew, and their honesty, courage and generosity are pro verbial. Tobacco causei the fulleit develope ment of all the noble feelings. Indians endure torture with more firmness thsn all the stoics from Zeno to Cato. Tobacco infuses a lofty contempt of death. American! chew, smoke, and suuff, and Americans by nniversal conces sion combine all the good qualitieiof all other nations, snd possess besides, sn ingenuity and enterprise that none of them hive. This can only be sttribnted to the fact that tobacco grows here, and it used in more lhapet and more generally than anywhere else. An English King wrote "connterblast to to bacco." He hated it most cordially ind he waa the firmest believe in the "jure dinno" of all the Kings from William the Conqueror to William the Fourth. A belief in the divine right of Kings, a most slavish doctrine, and ha tred to tobacco always go together. The Eng lish aristocracy won't use it they revile it at dUgusting say it it I plebian practice to use it. Tobacco is the dread of aristocrat!. It wat the favorite electioneering tool ot Davy Crocket, and a "chaw" will conciliate one of the nnwaahed quicked than anything but a wink of "red eye." Tobacco it a Democratic initi tu'ion. A dandy will ask a cub-tailor for a cigar light wealth will spit in the tame box with poverty and dignity and dirt mnst sneeze alike if they muff. Tobacco it a levelerof dittinetions. No true patriot and republican with an aver age allowance of braint ever opposed it, Gree ley tayt hard things of it, but Greeley its radi cal and an enthusiast. He opposes slavery, and hanging, and liqnor drinking, and all the glo rious Institution thit our revolutionary iorefath era fought, bled and all that tort of thing, for. Dickens laughs at it, but he it an Englitb ar istocrat, and of course contemns any favorite of the Democracy. "Seneca" abuse it, but Sen eca is a twaddler, and would't have made bad figure in the LMinciad. But this is not ill. Since the introduction of tobiceo into the Eastern continent, Popery hat declined, Science hat improved, Literature hat been more generally diffused, and we have no doubt but that the whole tyatem of Induc tive Philosophy owes itiorigin to this invaluable vegetsb e. Uutil abont three hnndred years ago, the world had puzzled itself with the subt leties of the schoolmen, the chimeras ot the alchemistt, the absurdities ot astrologers they had educed nothing practical-invented nothing useful. Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco then, and not until then Bacon conceived and published his system of Philosophy, sod the world wai many steps father in itt progress. Ex perimental phitloaophy is a result of tobacco. It is said that it itnat th growth aad in jar the health ot the unfortunate individual addie ed to it. We know better." W have as eiten live development and as good health as any man and w nse it habitually and from prac tice. ; ' ffj An old "revolutioner" eayt that of all thesolema hours he ever taw, that scenpied in going horn one dark aight from the widow Bean's after being told by her daughter Sally tnat a ueean t com again, was w most o. J NUMBER 7. Old tetter. tV bo sits ever eautUy opened a tox or a bad get of old letters; addressed to one't self, and began to read, without being chained to the spot, perhaps for hours together. The fascinations of those early loved ones, so near and dear, (gain surround yon, and th realities of the put teem more identified with your existence than those of the present. The counsels and cfaidings, and the affections and encouragement bestowed from parenti and eldery friends are full of a deep and tender feeling, scarcely relized when the reception of all. And then the little items of newt, and th raillery, and the argent invi tation to vitit and sometimes to be present in scenes of interest, remind von of vouth. and love. and, beauty, which hat patted away. Then eomes, too, the motion of the dead of those whose memory bad almost faded from yon, one's own charmed circle being as yet unbroken. Sad disasters come back with appalling distinct ness and pestilence rages snd spends its force. Mere matters of feeling appeared of deep mo ment, and yon almost smile it the perturbation of the youthful mind, now that you have teen the end of all. The then political news, with the marriages of the day, and the idea of torn abont the impropriety of those matters, are be fore yon now at matten ot nutoiy; and yon cm hardly eonjectnre how the world would have gone on without these events lbs invention! and discoveries just brmted, the books that were new, the f irst public appear, anee of the riling scholar, i(now a man of science and of letters) bring back "old timet" moat vividly, aome whose early utortt and sell denial are spoken of with satisfaction, have led unce then a bright career ot usefulness, while many an honored name, then prominent, hit disappeared from the list of the living. The loving and the loved are scattered far and wide, and those who thought exittence scarce could be, without frequently teeing each other, have not met fbr yeait, and ttrangen have taken their placet. A Shrewd Reply. Sir Walter Scott says that the alleged origin of the invention of cards produced one of the shrewdest repliea he bad ever heard given in evidence. It was made by the late. Dr. Uregory, at tdinburgh, to a counsel of great eminence at the Scottish bar. The doctor's testimony weut to prove the insanity of the party whose mental capacity was the point at issue. On a cross interrogation, he admitted that the person in question played admirably at whist. "And do you seriously say, doctor," said the learned oounsel, " that a person having a superior capacity for a game so difficult, and which requires, in a pre-eminent de- gree, memory, judgment, and combination can be at the same time deranged in his i ,,,xAtirutnntlinr. 9' u i " I am no card player," said the doctor. with great address, " but I have read in history that cards were invented for the amusement of an insane king." The consequences of this reply were decisive. Youa Babies not atr Basils. About thirty -five yean ago, there resided in the town of He bron, in thit county, a certain Dr. T. who be come very much enamored of a beautiful yonng lady who resided in the tame town, in due course of time they were engiged to be mar ried. The doctor wai a strong and decided Pres byterian, and bit lady-love a itrong and decid ed Baptist. They were littiag together one even ing talking of their approaching nuptials, when the doctor remarked "I am thinking, my dear, of two events which I shall number amongst the happiest of my life." "And pray what may that be doctor i" re marked the lady." "One ii the hoar when I shall call yon wife tor the first time." "And the other?" "It ii when we shall present onr first-born tor baptism. "What, tprinkledl" Yet, my dear, sprinkled." ' Never shall child of mine be sprinkled." "Every child of mine shall be sprinkled." "Theyihall be, hal" "Yet, my love" "Well, sir, I can tell you, then, that yonr ba biesjwon't be my babies. So good night,:sir," The Isdy left the room, snd the doctor left the house. The sequel to thit true Itory was, that the doctor never married, and the lady ii an old maid. Sandy Hill Herald. Sctbstitots Foa Oil.. Large manufactories of benzule, a hydro-carbon which haa the pro perty of producing an excellent illuminating gai by being dissolved in moist air, are going np in N.York and Brooklyn. The substance it manufactured from tar or mineral coal, aad while it can be afforded at half the price of the "burning fluid" per gallon, it will yield infi nitely more illumination. The ute of it would reqnire a gasometer and gai fixtures in esch house, but th cheapness of the consumption will put moveable lamps of every kind nearly out of use. Col. Ramsay, a Pennsy Iranian, who served in the Mexicsn wsr, has entered into arrangements with the Mexican government for the transmit lion of theU. S. mails and passenger! to and from California, crossing from Vera Crux to Ac apuleo. The liae of ttaget is to connect with steamer! on both sides, end passe n gen are ex pected to go by thit route to California, from New York, in twenty.five days. It Woh't Amwim. The editor of the New York TVmet, woe witnessed the last teats of the lire annihilate, tayt! , A close exeminatioa of the experiments made ynterdiy, satisfies at that, for practical purpos. a, the Auaihilator is sot of any importance. it you eage a tire to a close room and apply them, they will undoubtedly do the work; bat anlest yoa can to confine th flames, th anni hilator It powerless. Let the fire get fairly through the roam aod have free vent, and it could not be controlled by any apparatus exhib ited on Monday, i .y---..