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JOB PUTTING.
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iriMor. nan > ml wrMK, ta again upon us, with
|(jwnil UK an.;: irwnns of wisdom, which, with
rijjff re. nrring Kail.” come home to the hoart>
offlite sorrowing ami the bereaved. Among it»
••ot4 bonoi; ' which no noon will-i-ew the ground.
k#di|place these beautiful
AUTUMNAL LEAVES.
'Sg> i hildren i t the dying lummer,
I Oft in grief I Hear we nay,
m. 'k. <>i pastortext it mournful,
•** S Kor In i rewheth of decay.
AJW i.jj,,. a i 'iic mid friendless mother
i 3fS» Droop thy j aifeftt ; » blighted head,
/«if mourning lor h r children
I [.ting pound her pale anil dead.
“tiler foul nr; i hove gently rocked ye
afl lu ito even'ng clear and still.
♦WMii'l 110 sna’f last Imam hath kissed yt
A go k! night behind the hill.
IlftVh-n that Milt and hreexe hath wakened
|W Veu, gain .it early mom.
| #Ali 'da a in a joy seemed laughing
ft, (’ . r <emo Id neom newly-born:
♦< ind hen a eping Jews are fa I ting,
B;,s t mu • heard the great winds sweep
Mm p i your leafy lattice, calling,
fift* I iki llic deep, unto the deep.
lioa vc lie lorcverscattered
1.i1i.! pale mourners in the blast,
II jr come n dead convention
*' "W f.JU'f. mn in last, ’’ **
f- remind me of familiar
Jh Idren, of Lite's fruitful tree,
vl verefair, but. fading, vanished
r: mi the light of day, like ye.
•i ore’s book of life lies open,
>l. n, go read the minimi fair!
sil the wind in her cathedral,
Ul o a psalmist, chants its prayers.
.m will be to thee a mother,
i'.*“d » ,11 huhi thee oi; her breast
n ‘it is that every other
ll le on ; irlh retsv-ih rest.”
A> am the Pioneer.
Iwoso OF THE BLACKSMITH.
.
it' joi.h r. nm,
II ,vit I' >'V) i, t mn r high,
f v 1 ,oi ‘ *- fire.
An4l».kett* bfo-rt(Twl[j|)|v
A 1 weld tb r , , r „ ~
»Ui 1 foi tin lire—
jS* I f irm the a , . .
* .iceful spade
Willi apt, tell ~
1 it blow,
Or fusbiun the tr ....
ft» Millie
Py the flame, g . , , , ,
’ tmg cheerful glow.
Whnl though rot 1 .
' I- l>e (pent
ilv the forge-Are , , ,
ed uml warm;
1 an promt in hit i , . ..
* ' *.thered strength,—
In mv thick mid I
, ' , awny arm;
1 yci.ru for no paml ,
. . fume,
No Ht.ir cmtmiaoii , ,
V, J breast:
bite me but an no* .
.... , <»t name,
M\ labor-uml m
• nut.
% Then hurrah for mv ant, ....
... .• ... 1 bright,
I For the amey smith’ „ ,
I ~ ... • ' Hour!
i Hurrah for tin* coal fire ~
I gilt,
Anc the m, A . -
I ~ .. . 'Hitip (he--
I lor the ilttone, pray cin. .
, me t-moke,
I hot the Inller, tone* i .
And hurrah for the mlp'" *"f* ’
Of 11,. heavily toJMn^^'
I 1 or it give h a ghulsoox l
Whii-h
now plcu, “
The.yoodof my fellow inen;
A” t‘t' ml the while rparks fly,
Vmi f mil by mv lurid fire.
Wi th mg the hammer bign.
t the spade. foi the blade ttr the tire.
Uk .mss.— I year it from the earliest days
tame your principles ni.aiasl the jicril of
jit » ' Von cnti iu> movi. 1 exercise your rea-
I V" . live m js'ifi.'i't dread of laughter,
i you us* «yoy your lift if you live in the
ft,iiay terror of death, li you think il
i‘ tddtff ■ front the times, and to make a
i F mt'.alfl, iti» it, ho'ever rustic, how
r futinu, . howevci pedantii’ it may ap-
I tip it. vH kir in^dcone, but seriously
/rut iffy -a* a n.an who wore a soul of
i tva in bis boaom, and did qot wait til it
i breatl <d into by the ireath of fashion.
Ths focntaib of content most spring
th WUvi.; ami he who luw so little
iidff <*f tuwuaii nature, i* to seek »*(>
*V y. I-**' ug »tny thinpr hut his own di*-
iliou| will wuat ins life in IniitUss effirls,
•ouilip y She whkh lie propose; to
vc.
Curious Anecdote about Dr. Franklin and
bis Mother.
It was an idea of Doctor Franklin not u
settled opinion, that a mother might, by a
kind of instinct of natural affivtion, recog
ai/C her children, even though she had lost
the recollection of their features; and on a
visit to his native town of Boston, he deter
mined to ascertain by experiment whether his
theory was correct or not.
On a bleak and chilly day in the month of
•January, the Doctor, late in the afternoon,
knocked on tlie door of his mother’s house,
and asked to peak with Mrs. Franklin. He
found the old le' knitting before the |>arlor
fire. He infr ed himself, and olmen’ng
that he under i <1 she entertained travelers,
requested lodging for the night.
She eyed him with that cold look of disap
probation which most people assume who im
agine themselves insulted by being Mppoaed
to exercise an employment which they deem
n degree below their real occupation in life.—
She assnn-d him he had been misinformed—
she did not keep a tavern, nor did she keep a
house to entertain strangers. It was true,
she added, that to oblige some memliers of the
Legislature, she took a small number of them
into her family during the session; that she
had fonr members of the Council and six of
the House of Representatives, who then
I warded with her, and that all her beds were
full.
Having said this, she resumed her knitting
with that intense application which said, as
forcibly as action could, if you have conclu
ded your business, the sooner you leave the
house the better. But on the Doctor’s wra|>-
ping his cunt about him, affecting to shiver,
and observing that the weather was very
cold, she |Miintcd to a chair, and gave him
leave to warm Himself.
The entrance of boarders prevented all fur
ther conversation. Colfo was soon served,
and lie partook with the family. To the
coffee, according to the good old custom of
the times, succeeded a plate of pippins, and u
[taper of tobacco, when the whole company
formed a cheerful semi-circle before the lire.
Perhaps no man ever |wssessed colloquial
powers in a more fascinating degree than Dr,
Franklin, and never was there an occasion on
which he displayed them to In-tter advantage
than the present one. He drew the atten
tion of the company by the solidity of his
modest remarks, instructing them hv the
varied, new and striking lights in which he
placed his subjects and delighted them with
apt illustrations and amusing anecdotes.
Tims" employed the hours passed merily
loi-ng, until snpjiei was announced. Mrs.
Franklin, busied with her household affairs,
siqtfwsed the intruding stranger had left the
house immediately after coffee, and it was
with difficulty she saw h.m seat himself at
the table with the freedom of the family.
Immediately after snpfs-r, she called an el
derly gentleman, amemlaTof the Council, in
whom she was accustomed to confide, in an
other room, complained bitterly of the rude
ness cf the stranger, told the manner of his
introduction to her house, observed that he
seemed an outlandish sort of a man. She
thought he had something very suspicious in
Ms appearance and she concluded by soliciting
lier friend's advice as to the way she could
most ea-dy rid herself of his presence. The
old gentleman assured her that the stranger
was surely a young man of good education,
anti, to all appearance, u gentleman—that,
perhajts being in agreeable company, he paid
no attention to the lateness of the hour. He
advised her to call the stranger aside and re
peat her inability to lodge him. She accord
ingly sent her maid to him, and with as much
complacency as she could command, die reca
pitulated the situation of her family,observed
that it grew late, and mildly intimated he
would do well to seek lodgings.
The Doctor replied that he would by no
means incommode her family, but with her
leave he would smoke one more pipe with her
Imorders, ami (hen retire.
lie returned to the company, filled his pipe,
and with the first whiff his conversational
powers returned with double force. He re
counted the hai'dshi|w endured by their an
cestors; he extolled their piety, virtue and
devotion to religious freedom. The subject
of the day's debate in the House of ilcprc
sentiitiv* s was mentioned by one of the mem-
Ix'rs. A bill had I wen introduced to extend
the perogalives of the royal governor. The
Doctor immediately joined in the discussion,
sujiported the colonial rights w ith new and
forcible arguments, was familiar with names
of the influential men in the House when
Dudley wa- Governor; recited their speeches,
~ud applauded their noble defence of the
character of rights
During a discourse so appropriately inter
esting to the delighted company, no wonder
the ••lock struck eleven uiqtereeived by them.
Nor was it a wonder that the patience of
Mrs. Franklin became entirely exhausted,—
She now entered the room ami addressed Lite
Doctor before the whole company, with a
warmth glowing with u determination to be
her own protectress, She told him plainly
that she thought herself imposed on, but that
she bud friends who would defend her, and in
sist* d that ho should immediately leave the
house.
The Doctor made a slight apology and de
liberately put on his great coat and bat, took
jiolite leeve of the company, and approached
the street door, attended by the mistress and
lighted by the maid.
While the Doctor and his companions had
bet u enjoying themselves within, a most tre
mendous storm of wind and snow had occur
red without, and no sooner had the maid
iiftud the latch than a roaring north-easter
itoiccd open the door, extinguishing the light,
uni almost tilled the airy with drifted snow
«nl hail A 1 soon as the candle was rebgbt
VOLCANO, AMADOR COUNTY, CAL., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1855.
ed, the Doctor cast a woful look toward the
door and thus addne-ssed his mother:
“ -My dear madam, can you turn me out in
this storm? lam a stranger in this town
and will perish in the street. You look like
a charitable lady—l should not think that
yon could turn a dog from your house this
cold and stormy .light,”
“ Don’t talk of charity,” replied his moth
er; ‘’charity begins at home. It is your own
fault, not mine, that yon have tarried so long.
To be plain with you, sir, I do not like either
your looks or yonr conduct, and fear you have
some had design in thus intruding yourself in
to my family.”
The wrath of this parley had drawn the
company from the parlor, and by their united
interference the stranger wa-s p nnitted to
lodge in the house; and os no lied could be
had, lie consented to rest in the easy choir
before tlnr parlor fire.
Though the boarders np(wared to confide
in the stranger’s honesty, it was not so with
Mrs. Franklin. With suspicious caution -he
collected her silver spoons, jiepper-box and
porringer from her closet, and after securing
her parlor door by sticking a fork over the
latch, curried the valuables to her chamber,
charging the negro man to sleep with his
clothes on, to take the great cleaver to bed
with him. and to waken and scire the vagrant
at the first noise he should make in attempt
ing to plunder.
Mrs. Franklin rose before the sun, roused
the domestic*, and was <|uite agreeably sur
prised to find her terrific guest ejtiiefly sleeje
ing in his chair. She awoke hint with a
cheerful good morning, inquired how he had
rested, and invited him to partake of her
breakfast, which was always served previous
to that of her Itoarders.
“And pray, sir,” said Mrs. Franklin, “as
you upjiear to be a stranger in Boston, to
what distant country do yon belong?”
“I belong, madam, to the colony of Penn
sylvania ami reside in Philadelphia.”
At the mention c»f Philadelphia, the doctor
declared he for the first time perceived some
thing like emotion in her.
“ Philadelphia! ” said she, while the earnest
anxiety of a mother suffused her eye; "why,
if you live in Philadelphia pcrluuw you know
my sou?”
“Who, madam?”
“ Hen Franklin, my dear Ben. Oh, now
I would give tl»e world to see him! He
is the dearest sou that ever blessed a
mother.”
“What! is Hen Franklin the printer your
son? Why, he is my most intimate friend.
He and I worked together and lodged in the
same room.”
“Oh! Heaven forgive me!” exclaimed the
lady, raising her tearful eyes; “and have I
suffered a friend of my son Hen to sleep upon
this hard chair, while I invself rested on a
soft bed I”
Mri Franklin then told her unknown
guest that though he hud t>een absent from
her ever since he was u child, she could not
fail to know him among a thousand strange
faces; for there was u natural feeling in th •
breast of every mother, which she kuev
would enable her, wit hunt the possibility.of
a mistake,, to rvognixe her son in any dis
gui.'c-he might assume.
Franklin doubted, and took leave to dis
pute his mother’s proposition on the power of
natural feeling. Hu said he had tried this
“natural feeling ’’ in bis own mother, and
found it deficient in the power she ascribed
to it.
“And did your mother,” Inquired she,
“not know you? or if she did not <«ns to
know you, was there not in her hwlneu
to-you nu evidence that she saw something
in your appearance w hich was dear to her,
sti that she could not resist treating you
with » , «rtk'utar tenderness and effect ion!”
“No, indeed,” rejilied Franklin, “she
neither knew mo, nor did she treat me with
the least symptom of kindness. Bhe would
have turned me out of doors Init for the in
terposition of strangers. She could hardly
Is* persuaded to let me sit at her table. I
knew I was iu my mother’s house, and had a
claim upon her hospitality; and, therefore,
you may suppose, when she temporarily com
manded me to leave the house, I was in no
hurry to obey.”
“ Surely,” interrupted his mother, “ she
could not have treated you so umuolherly
without some cans*:.”
“ 1 gave her none,” replied the doctor.—
“She would tell you herself 1 hod always
been a dutiful sou—that she doated u|K>n me,
and then when 1 came to her house as a
stranger, my behavior was scrupulously cor
rect and resjiectfel. It was a stormy night,
and I had been absent so long that 1 bad be
come a stranger in the place. I told my
mother this, and yet, so little was she influ
enced by that ‘ uatm al feelidfe ’ of which you
speak, that she absolutely refused me a bed,
and would hardly suffer what she called ray
presumption m taking a seat at the table.—
Hut this was not the worst, but no sooner
was the snpper ended than my good mother
told me with an air of solemn earnestness, that
1 must leave the house.”
Franklin then proceeded to describe the
scene at the front door—the snow drift that
came so • ipportunateW into the entry—bis
appeal to tier “natural feeding” of a mother
--her nnimturnl and unfeeling rejee tion of his
prayer—and, finally, her very reluctant com
pliance with the solicitations of other persons
in his behalf—that he might be permitted to
tlti-p in a chair.
Every word in this touching recital went
home to the heart of Mrs. Franklin, who
would not fail to perceive that it was a truer
narrative of the events of the preceding night
in her own house; and, while she eadeuvoml
to escape from the self-reproach that she had
acted the part of an unfeeling mother, she
could not easily resist the conviction that the
stranger, who become more and more inter
; eating to her as he proceeded in his discourse,
, waa indeed her own son. Hut when she ol>-
served the tender expressiveness of his eyes
M he feelingly recapitulated the circumstance
under which she attempted to .tarn him shel
terless into the street, her matcnml conviction
overeoroe all remaining donbt, and she threw
herself into his arms, exclaiming—“ It must
b©—it must be my dear Ben!”
Wonderful Juggling;.
We extract the following from an article
in Thr Crayon, descriptive of travel* in
British India. The scene of the occurrence
is laid in Madras:
“ But the most wonderful performance
that we saw this morning was a feat of pure
jugirling, of which I have never l>eon able to
find any solution. One of the men came for
ward upon the graveled and hard-trodden
avenue, lending with him a woman, lie
made her kneel down, tied her arms behind
Lev, and blindfolded her eyes. Then bring
ing & great nag-net made with open mashes of
rope, he puts it over the women and laced up
the mouth, fastening it with knotted intertwi
ning cords in such a way that it seemed an
impossibility for her to extricate herself from
it. The man then took a closely-woven wick
er basket that narrowed toward the top, lift
ed the woman in the net from the ground,
and placed her in it, though it was not with
out the exertion of some force that he could
crowd her through the narrow month. Hav
ing succeeded iu getting her into the basket,
in which, from its small size, she was neces
sarily in a most cramped position, be put the
cover upon if, and threw over it a wide strip
of cotton cloth, lading it completely, in a
moment, placing his hand under the cloth, lie
drew out his net quite untied and disentangled,
lie then took a long, straight, sharp sword,
muttered some words to himself while he
sprinkled the dust upon the cloth and put
some upon his forehead, then pulled off and
threw aside the covering, and plunged the
sword suddenly Into the basket.
“ Prepared, os in some degree we were for
this, and knowing that it was only a decep
tion, it was yet impossible to see it without a
cold creeping of horror. The quiet and en
ergy with which he repeated his strokes, driv
ing the sword through and through the bas
ket, while the other jugglers looked on appa
rently as much interested as ourselves, were
very dramatic aud effective. Stopping after
he had riddled the basket, be again scattered
dust upon its top, lifted the lid, took up the
basket from the ground..'bowed it to us empty,
and threw it away. At the same moment
we saw the woman approaching us from a
clump of trees at a distance of at least fifty
or sixty feet. ‘
"Throughout the whole of this inexplica
ble feat the old man and the woman were
quite removed from the rest of their party.
The basket stood by itself on the hard earth,
and so much beneath the verandah on which
we were sitting that we could easily see all
around it. By what trick our watchful eyes
were closed, or by wliut means the women
invisibly escaped, was an enlit mystery un\
remains unsolved. The feat is not a very un
common one, but no one who had sc* . it
ever gave me a clue to the manner iu v inch
it was performed.”
No nmwi oivck.—A man of our ac
quaintance, in bis early days, was the posses
sor of rather more than ordinary talents, and
has been always noted for hb> quick percep
tions aud ready adaption of answers to ques
tions given him, but is now, from various
causes, at times a raving lunatic. These de
monstrations were evinced more particu burly,
during thunder storms and violent gusts of
wind, which ho averred wen: visitations of
displeasure from the Almighty. While stop
ping with a friend who, by the way, was fund
of Questioning “ V ncie 1 ’ortcr,” to hear his
readily turned answers, he was aroused oue
night by a furious gale of wind.
Tile poor lunatic could not sleep; he got
out of bed and was standing by tie* window
when his friend observing him, asked ~
"Why don’t you stay iu bed, Uudc Por
ter?”
" Because I’m afraid.”
"What are yen afraid of?” his friend asked
again.
“ Afraid of Gml to Vie sure, 1 have give
Him offence, and He shows Ilia displeasure in
the wind.”
“Aint you afraid of Ike <kvilV ’ wickedly
interrogated the wag.
t “ No,” —bluntly replied Uncle Porter, " 1
hate net * ifftmUd Jum! n
Goon Wivks,—That young lady will make
a good wife who does not apologise when you
find her in tlie kitchen, but continues at her
task until the work is finished. When I hear
a laily say, “ I shall attend church and wear
my every-day gown, for 1 fear we shall have
a rain-storm,” depend upon it, she will be suit
to make a good wife. Then a daughter re
marks, “ I would not hire help, for I can assist
you in the kitchen,” set it down she will make
somebody a good wife. When you hear a
young woman say to her father, "Don’t pur
chase a very expensive or showy dress for me,
but one that will wear best,” you may always
be certain she will make a good wife. When
you sec a female rise eal ly, get breakfast, aud
do up her mother's work iu season, and then
git down i.nd knit, depend upon it, she will
nmire .i pH.-' -rife. When you see a female
atMijc, idle ren n trade, so as to earn some
thing I supp- i herself, and perhaps aged
par-t-i* you loaf be sure she will make one
of 'tb • I < wi res. The best qualilius to
look .4> wfr i Hire are industry, hvmanityi
n® li ,i • i -rokncc and piety. Whcu you
Its 1 tt'M 1 iei els no danger; yon will obtain
a%e«sj ir< and not regret your choice to the
i'll t fofieki
Talking and OtusMg—Ft i* wj 1 to talk
'll in hard to do. We can ut! of ns talk, but
ran are all do?
There is a difference, very wide and signifi
cant, between Uie two. He or she who talks
the newt, a* the world goes, dors the least,—
Hither is exhausting—and as contrastive in
nature as in |>osition. The man who starts off
slap-dash, and pats his hands and head square
upon the shoulders and hips of things, is the
doer. It is he who rales the world, whether
its circle l>e the neighborhood of his locality,
the city, State or nation He who dallies—
talk*—and talks and dallies—never does else
of consequence. His hands have no power
t f grasp ; his bruins no pluck and energy. He
s the tnlii-r.
We like the doer. He Is the man or she the
woman for us. Talk may lave its plaee, but
it never yet of itself made a pin, lifted a brick,
weaved a fabric, or germed a useful, solid
thought There is as much difference be
tween the two as Vt ween a gingerbread horse
at the baker’s and a bold jiacer ut the race
course.
A friend of ours set the tabic in a roar the
other day by telling a story of a clergyman
in Scotland, who was invited to attend u umr
riage feast, given on the arrival of the happy
coujde from a distant port of the country,
where the young husband had gone for his
bride, and now brought her homo to his fath
er’s bouse. The good old clergyman was call
ed on to make a prater at the beginning of
the banquet, and lifting up his hands, he suid,
“ O, Lord, thy tender mercies arc over all thy
works. Wc thank thee that thou hast taken
care of these thy young servants, and brought
them safely all the way on their journey. O,
Is»rd, thou preserves! man and beast T* This
was hardly complimentary to the blushing
bride, but she had the good sense to Isditvc
that the old man had no allusion to the
"beauty” when he spoke of the “beast,” and
so it paused off well enough.
Goon and Had Novels —The late Miss
Bronte, author of "Jane Hyre,” Is reported
to have said, that no author ought Ut write a
book, unless he or she can add something to
literature, from individual observation Her
works prove that she has practiced this whole
sonic rule. It is to be regretted that all at
I hoi sdo not imitate her example A really
meritorious book, even if merely a fiction, is n
direct contribution to the can sc of civiliza
tion. But the floods of immature volumes
which are annually poured upon the country,
especially those devoted to fiction, vitiate the
taste, ami deprave the morals of the commu
nity. The mere book maker, the modern lit
erary hack, instead of being a benefit to man
kind, is really an injury To read is not to
acquire knowledge, unless that which is read
contains something new ; and in novels we
cannot have this unless authors write from
their own experience. Nine-tenths of the fic
tions published are m n re re-product, on- wem
copies of those who have pro tjed them, >
it a wonder that men of sense rarely read uov
cl* now-u-daya ?—Pkiitddfina t-dger.
What a Love kok Nati a.u. Hist r- ca»
no.— I may accm to exagerate the advan
tages of such studies; hut the question idler
all is one of experience; and I have had >‘X-
Prienec enough and to spare that what 1 say
true. I have seen the young man of fierce
passions and uncontrollable daring, cqiend
healthily that energy wh.ch threatened daily
to plunge him into recklessness, if not ini mu,
upon hunting out and collecting, through rock
and bog, snow and tempest, every bird am, egg
of the neighboring forest. I have seen the
cultivated man, craving for travel and for
success in life, amt up in tin: drudgery of Lou
don work, and yet Itoej in ■ his spirit culm,
and perhaps his morals all the more right
eous, by .‘'pending, over his microscope, eve
nings which would too probably have gradu
ally been wasted at the theatre. I have
seen the young Loudon beauty, amid all the
excitement and temptation of luxury aud
flattery, with her heart pure, and her mint:
occupied on a boudoir full of shell aud fossils,
flowers and sea-weeds, and keeping herself
unspotted from the world, by considering the
lilies of the field, how they grow. And
therefore it is that I hail with thankfulness
every fresh book of natural history, as a fresh
boon to the young, a fresh help to those who
have to educate them.
Mrts. Paktisotov ami the Bear Woman.—
"They are exhibiting a bear-womau uptown,”
said Mrs. Sled, as she dropped like a kedge
anchor into Mrs Partington’s big arm diair.
Mrs. Partington looked painfully at Ike, who
was pegging a top by the door, to the danger
of sundry jars of preserved plums. “ A bare
woman, indeed!” said she. "1 wonder what
they will exhibit next? Though the bare
ness isn’t the shame—'Us the knowing of it.
There was Ere, now, wasn’t thought any
worse of, and moved in the first society, til!
she found she was naked. 1 ' "My dear Mrs.
P.” said Mrs. Sled, interrupting her, "this is
a woman that thought to be, in some respects,
like the animal called a bear” "Ob, ah,”
said the old lady, “ well, I don’t know which
would be the improperest to make a public
thing of, fur i orrupted taste is as bad as vis
cerated murals.”
A gkntleman on board a North rivf
steamboat received his key from the cle.i*.
who pointed to a state-room marked B. By
mistake he opened the one next his *ma,f.i*i
A., where he discovered a Only igT
making her toilet. "Uc awayi goM«y!”
•creamed the lady. " Letter B,” ycl 'dUic
clerk. “I am not touching her vicj:”
shouted the indignant travel, r, «
| JW“The truly great and «*K>d f ip iflCelfti'l,
U-ar » cou'.u nane- more prin< ( ly' than tf«;r
iik wont; Cor it is the temper ot -lie htg^jsi
)vilm-tn p ‘o rao>t »tp
iieart*. lik* ih<'
wards <■ ucn it
iao t (liirfhflu
[ NUMBER I.
Victoria ia Prance.
When the tonal which brought (He royal
to Boulogne, on the recent Visit ’of
Victoria to Paris, came to, a pont volant, or
companion ladder, covered with crimson vel
vet, was extended from the fore When
thi* was fired to her deck. IWe Albert
handed her Majesty forward; bat no sooner
bad the Queen put her foot no it and left the
Jc<-k, than, ah on her Bret touching the soil
of r ranee the Emperor, who had previously
dwmotrated, came Itoward, took'her Majesty
by the bawl, and minted her on both cheeks
—a salutation custom nr-/ »t> ong rov d p, r-
MHiatree on such oeuwona. 'I , / l n
which Prince Albert heeded i. ,1 r,„
ward, the Emperor’a offering, ate m.
cety’s reception of the salut w. r p,. r j., ;
not«| as exceedingly graceful, mtnr-.1, ftn.J
nnallhctcd. The English present, who were
not aware of royal etiquette munch matters,
seemed at first a little taken by orpr • and
then responded to what many of them suje
|(oaed an nnn.sual act of amity on the part of
the allied sovereigns, with three very iieany
cheers, it was expected that the Empress
Eugenie would have accompanied the Em
jKTor to receive Queen Victoria, but it aje
l>eai> *hat she was prevented by the delicacy
of her heaitli. No one of the visits of tire
royal |>srty produced a deeper impression
than that to the tomb of the first Napoleon,
The Queen arrived at nightfall, followed b\
numerous staff, stfftouoded by the vetefUns of
our old wars, who had hastened to trie* her,
while she advanced with noble comp - ore, to
wards the last resting-place of him who was
England's most constant adversary. Whin a
spectacle.' How many reit,. c nruncea, with
nil the contrasts, they brought up to the
mind! But when, by the light of torches,
the glitter of uniforms, annd the strains of
the organ playing (Jod Save the Qnc-c •»
her Majesty was led by the Emperor to
chapel where the remains of Napoleon in
the effect was overpowering and immense, the
emotion profound, for every one was relief t
ing that this was no ordinary homage oterrd
at the tomb of a great man, hut a sdltubu
act, attesting that, the rivalries of the past
were forgotten, and that now the union he
(ween ihc two peoples hail received its moat
'gnai consecration A « rka of royal mots,
romplcd by the j resent is now
iioniiwd ar Paris, ueys, a Loudon letter iti
the Tribune. ,
Tn Demis ot a Mcthi. tike *
fin* u*!--k;ud af always *e*y-|reA**«nd
’■> i . r ch.ld,
rihe houUnev r
docs tlsat * cm allow Prato
think of hi> looks ew*s| to b*. %< .it and Wu
in all his Na its.
Hbe shoe I ', ’each him ‘osobev a lc<*k ,-to re>>
spec* those t4dw than Woweli; *
never make a < ■ mason wEfaJ***
it is performed in tS* r.gi Tf ■. *
Never speck of a 'ii'afc, 4 ! ' |
-r r. [>cat his remarks bef
way to spoil a child. •? "' S V_
Never reprove a cl ' -
let your fern of Vote /»,- ;■ 4
reeling. Strive to m<q
respect, not f«*ar Hooey* ,
ji"' n id edaeaiing a soul hrrA-u\ '
Touch your children to ivaftt, y*- "}
selves —to pui nway a ihtar wy
it. But on not forget’ thei you w
chi’d. The griefs -vfilitiJe ones are
neglected j lory art. gees’ for them
jiaticntly with them. awl never iu an
rouse their anger if it < sn be s voided
a child to It) useful *her ~er opportu
nmy offer. y /.
Tiicrk wkrb (vumu iw fn««« Daw
meet with i(ccer specula <wif > the c< >
our miseeltancoas newsjdp
are more and more imptessc 1 witlyW^[|^P
of the axiom, that “tbi* is not’
der the sun,” the mor we vend/
gone before.
A foreign savant, i Frenchman
touches Upon n fioi/.t that neither An
Beyle seem to have Irene id Of m then
losophy ’—the ehronohgii *1 deOuA'noe
mankind since the epe-ition. In tho yracle &
height. Tt cI , eli« us that Adam 1 1 . ■
12d feel ki. is*. Eve's, 11« ket 9} i--
Noah's, Uj, Vbnshatu’ SI tect t' wkm
a fuJliug otl . # .S , rr I : that rf Mon. .
feet; Ah X.. ivt'e, 10 ft-;:, mid Joliua ( ewn
5 feet.
. !ly t! .o xevwiof decad ■«, suggests
this autboij if I’’ 'cnee had uot 'a-ea gra
eioiwly [der •< -t it, w» in our day ;i’i»l
general! 'n. * liii'A »<<4 t C Ivcen no burger i iau
twette bugt
t&r A still pool aoon becom un oigunnt.—
A machine without motion becmufi rusty.—
Am! niiii - /wit, gforiow, majestic in his cre
ation - * ihout action, still, lifeless, deod. I*;-
couies an icy weight—a common nuisance ~
whom rtf - body feels dwjtosed tokk-kouto'
*ty Wa live in stirring times. It lie
cut,c- every man to do somethin# -to et-rt
•li it df for the common weal, to ai--
t/v ■ and I ushahead. Whut I>,ut arc v>n Unm
a man of snow, which the children WS hi
and itell till it is kno ked over an '’ fo<t while
you fold Jtmr arms, tit- your f.>a and ft rt i.l
* l 'f "****?. K'owof With * v *c„..t -urc above
and around you. Arouse, )r the norms will
*°°u *•» f on your earcaas
.. mj run rnr Poor.- Tin- Veer
* " •> -tfiriw, of the 10th alt, has the f ill*.a
r iieai;
Flour has ueeline I $1 yet barrel witiuo the
*‘iwt weA, and will decline stSI? furtlicr •
ileo* i were sold at Uoll\ Ll» A w«rd*y
at thy rale 9 to 10 cents tie pound, dr,—edlf
Qavxplleaks can now be ho’t for U cents rka*A
jmieid. Potatoes are coming in good uLma
dai it and cheap. Fruit wu- never okcui^F -
or hctiir Po .r f Iks Uer.u t