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I I oljatDk lallru Hcoi^te « S i l e n t «u» Sno'W '-llalcca y e t p o t e n t oa H i T i n a c r . ” —C l x a p ln . j ONE IM>I.r-AmPER y b a b . * I 1tixvjuria1>l7'ln< AdTraui^e.- VOLUME I. EOET PLAIN, THUESBAY, MAY U, 185L NUMBEE 9. M U S I C . B r MRS. SABAH J. HALE. W hen by his door, in posture meek, H e sees the poor man waiting stand, W ith sunken e ye and careworn cheek, To beg employment by his hand. And when he tells h is piteoiwtale Of sickly wife and children small. O f rents that rise, and crops that fail. And troubles that the poor befall. I wonder i f the rich man’s thought Mounts free as nature’s hymn, to heaven In gratitude, that happier lot B y providence to him has given. And does his heai-t exult to know He too, like heaven, liath power to give 7 To strengthen weakness, soften wo. And bid hope’s dying lamp review ? And when around his gladsome hearth A troop o f friends the rf< h man greet. And songs of joy, and smiles o f mirth. And grace to Uattery’s homage sw eet I wonder i f his fancy sees A vision o f those wretc ere want is wrestling v ,nd scarce a ray of con piiisteUaitg. A BORDER OUTRAGE. By HOBEBT Monnis, K. T. retched homes Where want is wrestling w ith disease, - And scarce a ray of comfort comes. A world ! how strange thy lots are given ; Life’s aim how rarely understood! And men—how far estranged from heaven. If heaven requires a brotherhood. H O P E F O B . T H E B E S T . BY EUZABEl'H A. BUNN. Oheer np, clieer up, desponding one, Look on the sunny s id e ; Though thy frail bark be tossing now Upon a boistrous tide. 'Cheer up, cheer up, tliough madly rave The storms around tliy way ; Itemember, that the dai Icest night Precedes the fairest day. •Cheer up, cheer up, away with grief. And all corroding c a re; The sun will surely shine again, And make each scene more fair. Cheer up, clieer up, and smile Though ci'uel it may seem, In taking from thee Iriends so asting each fair dream. Cheer up, cheer up, spend not thy time la vain regrets and grief; Itemember, that “ tlie robbed who smiles, Steals something from the thief.” Cheer up, cheqr up, and trust in Him Who loves and cures for a l l ; The One who dueth all things well. And marks the sparrows fall. From Gleason’s Pictorial. T H E H A P P I E S T H O M E . BY OWEN G. WARREN. A warmer s^ ^Tis not tire mansion, proud and high, Nor halls of lordly state ; ’Tis not the robes of richest dye. Nor slaves around us w a it ; ’Tis not the steeds tliat prance in pride. With harness flecked with foam ; No—luxury and dominion wide Have nought to do with home. But one condition makes a home— Hearts must be happiy tlrere; A h well in hovel as nr dome. Content can find a lair. Want and disease may bitter life. Discordant souls may bate, Strong interests may engender strife— These are tlie common fate. But, if we ask it prayerfully, Joy to our roof w ill c o m e ; Love, the condition sole must be. For love will make a home. (&\mm 0f A visitor calling at the house of Ml*. Gideon Swallowswamp, in the Ninth ward, and wisliing to see the proprietor .about a small hill, chose to appeal from the decision of the servant, who informed him Gideon was not in, to a curly-lieaded Miss at an upper window. My dear, is your father at home 1” “ W h at did Maiy say, sir 1” inquired the young lady. \Oh she says he ain’t at home, hut I don’t believe her.” \ Is your name Bill ?” “\W ell, yes,” said the man, “ they call me that,” “ Then he’s not at home ; I heard him toll Mary if any hill came here, to remem ber lie was o u t ; besides, I always say what- jever Maty says, sir.” R xddlb ,—^Itwae done when it you can’t guess. Will this do ? Timothy Johnson courts Susannah Dunn. f t was Dunn when it was begun, it was iDuhii wheti it was half done, and yet it wasn’t Dunn when it was done—for it was Johnson. There is a young lady in the upper jiart of New York so modest that she will yiot undress until a newspaper her mother jiuhscribes to, is removed from the room,—- ^ho name of the paper js the-^ Obs 0 rver, jgST When does a young lady wish to iffin more than seven beaus at once ? When fhe tries to fm im te (fasten eight, jl^ r If every man had a'window in his breast, blinds would he in great demand, I was awful frightened the >id I tell yon about it ?” » W hy a cup of cofee was banded to me the other day, which was so pale and tibin, that I thought it was tbe gbost of m e steaf A slanderer of tbe fair sexuuder-' takes to prove that Satan wp a woman named Buoy Fir* I ^ A n old bachelor geoh^st was hoisting was as to him p the alphabet. A ' In the early settlements made below Vicksburg, Miss., there W'as a miserable want of law and morals. Might became right, and weak banded justice stood but a poor chance tp be felt or even heard. Among tbe ungodly reprobates tlia’t in fested the land, living by no lioucst labor, and no useful end, was one Eugene Da- .............................. bull married man, and, what is strange, Iris wife was as much of the rowdy nnshe was traveling with him in all Iii^ excursions, as sisting him in time of need by counsel; and, unless common report scandalized her, lending a strong hand occa.sionally, when a strong hand was needed. Tor several years tins couple resided near a town I wall call Widder, a place now des cribed, wa-ecked in the banking huricane of IBS'?, There they occupied a neat one story dwelling of their own, and when not ab sent upon professional excursions, there they kept open house to all whose hands were against every man, as tlieirs was. This cla.ss of beings cannot be said, in the long run, to enjoy much luqipii ...... but they make up the deprivation of eii Ing theni.selves very fast, when they gi it. This accounted for the uproarous sing ing and sliouting, tliat invaiiably accom panied tlieir orgies at Damon’s dwelling, and for the ferretted of their eyes, and the pokeberiy scarlet of their noses, observable on days subsequent. Nobodyever thought there, hotvevor, r the proprietor always coiumcnced his ists with the ai'owal “ that he had a character to sustain,” and made every one of his guests surrender knife and pi.stol in- told him that he must tell them, what he had done with the money, or they would whip him to death. Thii instruments, tiiply jed, and strong enough to wear welts lis short but comprehensive declara tion was followed up by a display of their whips, four horrid in throng into the hide of an alligator. But the gambler, had been schooled in a profession from wliicb fear is banished.— llis trade bad led him too often within the cracking shot of pistols and tbe cut of steel and bis reply was thundered out bold a.s Auvergnes, “ \Wbip away and be d ------- d ; b u tify( don’t kill me. I’ll kill all four of you !” It is not my purpose to detail tJic horrid scene, the trial of enduianec on one part, of brute strength on tlie other, suffice that the hardened rutHan was more than a match for the whole of them, and that although their thick wliips tvere clotted with blood, and their arms weary with the exercise, his domitible s[)irit defied them to the last. As he fell into a faint they sat dowm, those fbnr ajjprcntice Ipichei’s, to consul with each oilier. It was past midnight. The sultry air of the river bottoms, occasionally heated hy one of those breaths that so iue.xplica]ily meet the traveler in a summer night, gave evidence o f a coining storm. The bite of the mosquitoes that choked the. very air in clouds w ere distressing beyond all anee, and as the half naked body o f tlieii piisoiier hung badeward in its faiiitiic.^-s, the str«i,es of the l ................... ipiug until the end of the spree. Thus, while every public meeting at Wid- Damon’s,thus coiroboratiiig Milton : iliculliii;g, r there never was eeting a i shooting and a difficulty of tbe slabbir sort at _ “ Devils with tbe devils damned bold con cord ; men only disagree!” I que.slion whether Milton was ever more aptly qiiot- In the town of Widder, traded the sub stantial firm of Fahnestock, Beverly A Co,, iduce and commission nierdiaiils. 1 say I substantial film, for uliile all other rses smashed without a.ssels of any sort, this establishment paid fifteen eents on a dollar : and so remarkable was this eveqt considered at tbe time, that it was pi opus-' ed in New York to pre.seut them wiili a service of plate. The house had just re ceived a remittance of funds on account of some shipments of cotton to the very liand- sonie amount of four thousand dollars.— It was duly locked up in the iron safe in' tbe counting room, and the partners retir ed to their liomcs, confident in its security once when my mother enught M ir/if wholly igoomt, mn mod ^It krook tk# irfi 5 4 ^ ” mpM tki My, as they were in their own solvency. But when the store was unlocked next morn ing, the safe, sad misnomer, was found to be wrenched open, the money drawer emp ty, and the valuable packet abstracted. Vain would be any attempt to describe the scene. Fahnestock collaied Beveily, and demanded the money, Beverly chas ed the Co. into the streets, the Co. scream ing fire, murder and tliievc.s, all in a Inealh to know W'lio left the store last, I’eople crowded iq from all parts, to find F. gasp ing in his chair, B. cutting up the raoste.v- travagant pantomies, and the Co. dissolved in uncontrollable anguish. It was a piti ful sight, that affair was. The danger of a man’s falling from grace never excited half so much distress in the hearts of theactois as the loss of the money, ,, Among the lookeis-on and by far the least concerned of any appeared Eugene Damon, who exaiuinetlibo pick lock with a shrewd smile, and vouchsafed his opiuioii “ TJmt it was a juicy th ing!” language tliat certainly meant something though none of the bystanders understood wliat. Great rewards were offined to induce the thieves to be honest. The temptations held out even wont so tar as to propose to give five hundred dollars, and no questions asked, if the money was returned. But ns this in volved the loss of three thousand live hun dred cn.sh already in hand, honn* ty re mained at discount, and thopurloineis geii' erously permitted the sufferers to ask as many questions as they pleased. Falmes- tock & Co, never heard o f their money af* terwards. The amhigiious language used by Da mon had excited various suspicions which his free manner of living, and the hush- ness of his money market afterwards add-' ed considerable w'eigbt, Bo shrewd an in dividual could not but sec, in the sidoway glance and muttered remmks elicited by his passing down tbe street, each day that some thing was browing; but like a man who has smelt tbe rattlesnake before, be only held his head the higher and walked hy.— His wife, to whom he imparted these sub * pioions, counseled him to prepare his weap* ons, but laughing at hey fears, he eonti li ned his daily walks, with no other defence than the usual tools of a gambler, viz; a howie knife and two brace of double-barrel pistols, He had speedy cause to regret h|s care lessness however, for while drinking a t the Coftee House, one evening about duslc he was suddenly seised from behind,blindfold- ad, gagged and conveyed to a skiff in the river, in whiofrfre wa# hurriedly rowed across to the opposite side before he oould form the shadow of an idea what fat# was contemplated for him, OaiTying him up the hank, his captors, four in id),led himhMf a mile h a ik through the den, tied him to ahollow tree,and open ed th# of thidr lawhiii a#h On# of diem, (WMa^ iwowjpliid hy his toM# 4p h# Ilr. V#n#«r, In #f hi# maik bloody Nkiu, tom loo.se by their whip lasbes, i • i , - , tlicir black, eager foi they do 1 I'lic .suggestion of Dr. Veueer (;aiinot be entertained for a moment— tbe reader nuiy readily guess wbatit was. Fi nally, it was decided that Damon should reriiaiiii hanging there until morning and the parly would tlien return. To romuiii there among the mosquitoes! Far moie. kind to have adopted the shorter plan of the Doctor and let the black mould of the cane brake cover the dead. But thunder clouds were banking up on oveiy side and the regulators hurried to the river to g et acro.s.s in time, barely in lime, to cape the storm. Amiid.st the Clashing- of the trees and the howling o f the blasts tlie uiipilied gambler returned to his senses. It had been the bleep of death, hut for tho.se very strings that aroinsod the life wilhm him to re.si.st their horrid attacks. The dash o f cold rain upon llis exposed wounds Avere greatful to ,tlio fever that scorclicd his very vitals, and still better it diove aw ay the mosquitoes. Tlie lynchers weie gone, that was sufficient evidenee that he had not heeti whipped to rdeath, as they threatened; and now, could he but clear tluiso cords, vengeanc within his reach. 0 , liotv that liope strenglheiied hi.s sinetvs to strain and har dened his teeth to gnaw* at the strong fibres that bound liim. W hat a liorrid laugh is sued horn his lungs, as the first hand gave w ay. W ith what an exciting bound he sprang' from the hollow tree, whose virgin hark wfas now first stained hy Jiuman blood, and Avilh his right liand extended toAvards the Thunder’s throne, A'oAvod death to the /ou7'. Of death to himself! But little he heeded noAV the torn skin or gashed flesh tqion his back, he dashed the canes aside, and at a run reached tlie bank. A half mile up the slre.'im brought him toi a farm hoiBse and Avood yuid, wJiore a small skiff, Avilhout oais, Avas last cried to the hank by a chain aqdlock. I'earingoff tlic fastenings, regardless of oais, bo jiu.sli- ed off, and hy the aid of a basin that lay ill tlie bottom of the skiff, propelled it across but at a point some miles beluAV the tow n. By noon tile next day be Avas lying, all unknown to any one exeejit li,is Avile, at his house in a state of high delirium.— This continued for more than a month, dui- iiigAvhicb time the stiong minded w’omaii hung over his bed day and night, fed upon hopes o f delicious re\’enge, nor suffered a living soul to kqoAV that her lutshand w as tlieio, A strong constitution eariied the gambler iliiougli, and be was pioiiounccd by his fiiiihttil miuo to bo out of danger, Their the tAvain sat for lung* hours, for hoiiiH that mu far into the riiglit or moiii- and devised their piojeeis of uivmigo, •c Avris no difference of seiiliuient be tween them as to the amount of the ]iro- vocation, none as to the extent to Avhich tlieir vengeance should go, Dealli, death Avas tjie Jiorrid sum total; but tbe detail**, these required coiijult.-ratlon, and Avho of manner should death bo meted out to ibom I And when should the tow’er of Si- loam fall ? So carefully had the heroine preserved- the secret of her husband’s return, that Iror — n.i — teuRpeej; it. q’liQ that Damon had no evidence that nearest neighbor's did not suspect it, four Jynebers discovered that Damo freed Iiimself, but finding no evidoni he Iiud ever made his escape from tlio.cano brake, they agreed that he must have ‘ died there, so thoy^ concealed the guilty mys tery of his disappearance in their own bj'easts, ’ Mrs, Damon caused an advertisement to ho inserted in the town journal, oftering a largo reward for the discovery of her hus- baneV* body, supposed to Iravo been drowwed'ahout tire night of July — This stop ailded to their assurauco, and iu a few weeks they began to hroalhe freely again, Buifc the avenger was in their path, A State’s waiTant was sworn out against the four for assault and battery on the person of Eugene Damcm. Confronted with the accuser in the magistrate’s court, they were identified hy his plain, direct testimony, as well as by various circumstantial eviden ces and put under the heaviest ball bonds to M ^arhefor# th# next Circuit Gowt, Hut th# hir before whick they were to stand, and the judge with whom they were to be e o n f r iji^ ware eC a for hlghar cbar« they sat depressed, in mind by tbe turn tbe aftair Avas taking, Damon Avalked deliber ately' up to them, drew two double barrel ed pistols from his pockets, and with right and left hands, for he Avas ambidextrous, shot the four through the heart before a gesture or even a W'ord could be interpos ed ! Vengeance w*as never more sudden or complete. The four young men, all in the prime of life, the crowd of horror-stricken friends, the fury of the citizens, the dismay of the officers, must be conceived , rather than described. Damon Avas borne to jail, jdaced in due lime upon trial, and acquitted on tbe score of justification ! L i v e W i t l i l i i Y o u i- M e a n s . W e don’t like stinginess. W e don’t like C economy,” when it comes doAvn to i-ags and starvation, Ave have no sympathy Avitli tlie notion that a poor man should bitch himself to a po.st and stand still, rest of the .AA'orld moves foi-Avard. A R a c e -w ltU a P o r k e r . The following amusing incident is told hy a N cav Orleans paper: A Dutchman, Avho Avas at work on the levee, had taken off his coat, and for Avant of a better peg bad hung it on tbe ground. N oav the Dutchman being a family man, and ■withal rather generous, had taken care to store the pockets of his outer garment lefit t and stand still, Avhile the .world me man’s duty to make an iceberg of liiraself — to shut bis eyes and. ears to the sufferings of his fellows— and to deny himself the eujoyuicnt that results from generous tions,— merely that be may lioaid wealth for llis lieirs to quaiTel about. But tliei-e is yet an economy, which is cveiy man’s duty', and Avliich is especially commendable in the man a \-1 io struggles Avitli poverty— an economy wliicb is con- .sisteut with happiness, and Avhich must practiced, if the poc j iiidcpciidei 3 poor man Avould se ll is almost every man’s privilege, and it beconie.s Lis duty, to live AviUnii his mean.«, not up to, but Avitbintbem. Wealth does not make the man, wo admit, and should ncA'er be taken into the account in “ puent of men. But coiui<e(ence Avays bo secured as ben it can be, by the practic.e of economy and self-denial to only a tolerable extent. It should be secured not so much for others to look at, or raise us in tlie estimation of otliers, a sto .secure tlio coiisoiousiioss of indi'jiendcuc-e and llio constant satisliiciian Avliich is de rived from its acquirement and po.s.se.s.sion. W e Avould like to impress this single fact upon the mind of every laboring man Avlio may jicruse this short article— that it is possible for liim to rise abov’c poverty; ami that the jiatb to independence, tlirongh beset w ith toils and sell'-sacrilice is much pleasanter to tlie traveler, tlmn any one bo <-an enter xqioii. The man Avbo feels that ho is oarning sometliing more than be is .spending, Avill walk the streets Avith a mueli lighter heart, and enter liis borne Avith a imicli more clioeiful countenance, tlian be who spends as he goes or falls gradually bidiind hia necessities in acquiring (lie means of meeting them. Next to tbe s I ua '- tliere is no slaA'evy on is body’s debtor, is ei’ery body’s .slave, and in a much avoiho condition than he Avho serves a single master. >0 pi sake of the future, Ave Avould cry of iiitomporance, th earth more galling thi and iudebtodne.ss. The than that of poverty and iudebtodne.ss. \The man who is overy- lebtor, is ei’ery body’s .slave, a much ' igle raa For the sake of the present, then, as avo II as for the mo.st earnestly Virgo xipou every Avorki man to live within his means. Lot liim by Eometbing evoiy day— if but a penny, be it a penny— it is better tlvaii nothing; inliniU'ly bettor than rumiing in debt a lieiiny a day, or a penny a Aveck. If bo can earn one dollar, lot him U-y,_ fairly and faillilully, tbe. expel inieiiL of livi eents. Ho Avill like it. iving on 00 “ Feoplo Avill laugh.” Lot them laugh. “ They Avill call mo mean and stingy.”— Better call you mean, than say you do not pay your debts. “ They will Avonder I do uot have better fuvnitmo, live in a liner bouse, and attend concerts and the play bouse.” Let them A v o iuler for a Avliilo; it Avou’t liurt them, and it certainly Avon’t you. By and by, j’ou can h.aA’o a fine iiouse and fine furniture, of your oAvn, and they will AVonder again, and come billing and cooing around you like so many pleas ed fools. Try the experiment. Live with in your means. A L o m lo u M lU I o iiali't). Monsieur Fiancis Wey, a Freueb w'ritor of (listiiictiou, Avliojiassed so.veial weeks in London, during tbe Great Exbibilion, lias roeeutly publislied in Baris, his “ impre.ss- ions” under the title \ the English at home.” On one occasion, while riding in an omni bus, bo formed an acquaintance Avitli a fol low pa.sseugei, fium wuoiii ho derived many explanations of the strange thing.s lie saw', One of these wo give. “ 1 addressed to him a. few words con cerning a carriage which just then drove hy. It was too fine to be edegant, and Avas drawn hy^ two bay horses, On the box, adoniod with hoautiful fringe, sat a black coated coachman; thoro was not a wi’inklo in his white cravat-—his snowy gloves wove spotless, In the vehicle, on doAvnv cush ions, carelessly lounged a man without a coat, hia arms bare, bis sleeves turned up to thoshoiiUlor; an apron with the corn ers turned up, served him as a girdle—so the coachman looked like a gentleman driving a maohanlo in his dress,” Mr, W( to store the pockets ^ Avith ginger cakea; for the benefit of his vroAv” and little ones at home. A long, slab-sided, gaunt-looking perker, Avhich had failed in getting liis usual amount of refuse that day, came up shortly after, and smell ing the saAfory ginger-cakes, thought doi less he hath as good a right to steal a i ner, as some of bis race that Avalked two legs, hsA'c to cabbage things of moire A*alue. At all events, he began snuffing the air for a time, w ith a very Avistful look, and finding the smell AA'bolesome, determin ed to have a taste. Accordingly he made a diA’e upon the Dutchman’s coat, and .seizing it by the pocket of cakes, made off Avith it as fast as his legs could carry him, in a A’ery hoggish manner. “ O, mine G o t! mine coats, mine cakes!” cried the llutcbmnn, in consteruafioh; and forthwith his I avo legs Avere moving like dnim-sticks in competition Avitli tlie four of his hungry friencL Away bounded bog and coat, and ouAA’ard leaped the coatless native o f “ fader land” in eager chase.— Talk about the race between Fashion and Boston !— Avhy it was nothing to that race for a dinner. j\Iilc— bog pardon— ewb- stoues Avere passed AAilli a velocity that al most di'CAv fii'o from their fiiny heads, Avhile the quaffing of the racers drcAV the citizens to the doors and AvindoAvs, to ascertain AA'hat boat Avas coming np. Some laughed at tbe fun and so did tbe Dutcbniau, but llie “ Avamm By this ;ide of bis mouth. ;s liad found exit, tremendous rent in tbe pocket, and were leaving a trail behind, that requii'ed none of tbe Indian’s sagacity to folloAV. At length the- porker, finding the contest du bious while he carried wtight, dropped the ooat, and seizing a plum cake, Avbicli dreAV from bis pursuer, deliberately turu- to him W. “ assurauoe doubly sui'e,” ’ The gro£ ed aside to make by devouring the pi'ccious raor.sel. The Dutchman stopjied, picked np his coat and examined it Avitli a Avo-begouo look. Iffien he took the backAvard trail to collect the scattered cakes, miittering “ (), mine Got, vat a connthrys! Even do pig.s steals, like the teyfel: and nohudy linoAvs von nobody isb .safes. Mine G o t! I vills CO pack agiusto Yarmany, and stbay mid mine mudder A*at isli deads, kiine G o t! von cakes lo.sht ! O, vat a Meriky for liberties. Y rav , all isb liberties here— too mtjsli liberties, by tanv, a good deal,” and aw'ay lie Aveut to console himself as best bo could. S e lf R e lia n c e . There is a time in every man’s otiiication Avhen he arrives at the conviction that eu- vy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take him.stdf for better or Avorse, as Ids poi'tion ; that tliougb the Avide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but thro’ his toil, bestowed on that plot of ground Avhicli is gii’cn him to till. The poAver which resides in him is new in nature, and none but ho kuoAVS Avlmt that is Ashicli he can do, nor does he kiioAV until he has tri ed. Not for nothing one face, one charac- tei', one fact makes mnch impression on him, and another none. It is not Avithoiit !-e.stal)lished harmony, this seiilptiiro in 1 memory. The eye Avas jilaced Avhero one ray could fall, that it might testify of that jiarlicular ray. BraA'ely let him speak the, III most syllable of hi.s confe.ssion. ^Ye hilt htilf ex})rc.ss ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea Avhich each of us repre-' seut.s. It may bo safely trusted as pro]>or- lionale and of good issues, so it be faitb- fiilly inipai ted, but God will not have his work made manifest bjr cowards. It needs a divine man to exhibit anything divine. A man is reliiu'ed and gay Avbcu bo lias put bis licart into liis Avork and done his be.st; blit w’lmt he has said or done olhor- 'W h l t t l o r s a n d S c r i b M e r s . There are a great manyany persons addicted to the sin and shame offwbittlir^ whittling and scrib- persi i bliug over the tables, chairs, railings and desks, as well as nibbling at the edibles and knick-knacks of their friends quaintances. W e remember a rather cap ital story, told of a Boston Y'ankee, who for a series of years Avas addicted to nib bling in a grocery store, Avhere he once in a AA’bile bought bis household luxuries. A>t length the grocer thought be Avould keep a small account of the transaction, and be did so, and at tbe end of .the year, among other items in tbe bill, Avas one rather startling to tbe citizen, viz r Ten dollars for nibbles, from July 4, 1850, to the 4th of July, 1851. The nib bles Avero settled, but tlie nibbler gave up bis vocation and practice. Platt Ei'ans, our “ next door neighbor,” relates a squib pretty much on a par Avitb tbe above. A gentleman came to Platt’s store one day, and seating himself upon tbe counter, outs Avitb his knife, and cuts quite a notch in the end of tlie mahogany plank of Avhich the counter top Avas made. N oav anj'body at all acquainted Avitli Platt, knows that be is not apt to sufter in purse or property to any extent without malring a fuss about it. Platt obser\'ed with lior- ror and indignation the onslaught made on his counter hy the man’s jack-knife, and being very busy Avitli bis sharp shears, cut ting ou la garment, be makes a misgo, and off' Aveut both the tails of the Avhittler’s “ My stars !” .said he, “ Efans, Avhat in thunder are you at ?” “ Oh, nothing,” said Platt. “ Nothing ■? W h y look here: you’ve cut off m y coat tall.” “ And you’ve cut a chip out of ray count er,” say.s idatt. “ B a t that d- the little piece I whittled off’ may bo glued f>n again,” said he. “ Bo it can, and your coat tail,” replied Platt, “ that can be sewed on again, it Avou’t' shoAv very bad.” The Avhittler cleared out in h igh dudgeon and al.so left off Avhittling. Moral — don’t nibble, or scribble, arciimd oilier people’s premises; it’s a slrabby hab it, and neither pays j'ou for lo.ss of time, you gorm Mcmjihis Apqical. you lor lo.ss of tune, nor pleases your victim,. Avho.so ]>roperty n-mandize, disfigure, or do.stroy.- driving ’ey asked his noighhor who and what was tlie strange looking oqonpant of - '--’--'in. narrinirn. ............ Aov in Eondon,” waa tlio reply, “ He ia returning in Ids own caningo from ^ the Blaughtof-houBe to hja residencQ, Hia forofathera were in tho earao business; his father left him a fortune of over two millions, and Ifo, out of mod-' esty, follows his faUier’s profession—a very honorable old custaro, This gentleman butcher possesses four roilUons,” the dashing carriage, “ The richest hutoln 0ms P hasb 0YWjm,—W h m the French troops embarked at Toulon for Constauti-’ nopfe, an old man who wim«wed their de- eom M d m m tM n mHom, m d odiomt fmfi with w h m h* m w h d « To how many wan wWob bfatdrjr mmdti will the mmark of ihia a |#4 mm tfpfdy I w’ise, shall give him no iioace. It is a do- liveianeo Aviiioh doe.s not deU\’or, In the attonipt llis genin.s deserts liim ; no muse befriends ; no im-ention, no hope. Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the di vine Proviclonce lias found for yo u ; the society of your coulemporarios, the con- nuetioii of events. Qreat men have always done so, and confided thomstdA'cs childlike to tlie goniu.s of their agOj betraying tlieir pereeplions that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, worldng through their hands, predominating in all their being. And Ave are now men, and must accept in tbe high est mind Uie same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in a corner, not coAvards, ileoing before a revolution, but redeemers and benefactors, jiions aspirants to be no-* bio day, plastic under the Almighty eflbrt, let ns advance and advance on Ohaos and the Dark,— Waldo JS^nerson, A gains - ttiie Bfo F owls ,—The Commit tee on Poultry of the Now Hampshire Ag ricultural Society urge the careful breeding of the domostic varieties of fowls—tbe Dorkings, Bolton Grays, and their oi’ossoa —in prefavonce to the Giant Chinamen,— Noithor profit nor good taste, they say, sug gests tlie breeding of China hens, They - l o t g — -------------------- - fitin; upo and of a certainty are no ornament to farm-yard, their form being awkward and ungainly, and tbeir crow being, as has been obsemd, “ uottbebanestBaxou crow, w , ■ . ^ . ............... .emouiation, a Obmeso sentence, as described by mis-’ sionaries, and a badly blowit dlunexvhoTO,’ mu ... li t.ll, tiiJn. T ph B chsiah Fcmeis m the prinoipali- ilfi, in m fty Turkey md her allies ii ifdd to 100,000 wfee have m fliH iosi, F a t e o f t l i e A p o a tte s r St. Matthew is siippo.sed to have sufierod artyi'dom or Ava.s slain Avith a SAVord at the city of Ethiopia. St. Mark Avas dragged through the streot.s of Alexandria, in EgY])!, till he expired. S. Luke Avas hanged upon an olive tree in Greece. Bt. John Avas jmt in a cauldron of boil ing oil at Eome, and escaped death ! He altei'Avards died a natural death at Ephesus, in Asia. Bt. James the Groat Avas beheaded at Jovnsalein. St. James tlie Less was throAvn from a jinnacle oi'Aving of the temple, and then jcatcn to death Avith a fuller’s club. Bt. Pliilip lar, at Ilicra])olis, a city Bt, Bartholomew Axasllayed aliAe by the command of a barbarous king. Bt. Audi'cAV Avas bound to a cross, Avbcnce he preached to the ])cop]o till he cx|)ii'cil. Bt. Thomas aaus ’ nm through the bodj' by a lance, at Cormandel, in the East lu- Bt. JiidoAA'as shot to death AS ith arroAvs. Bt. Simeon Zelotes Avas crucified in Per- Bt. Matthias was first stoned and then beheaded. s hanged np against a jill- is, a city of Phrygia. oj,«l C r e a m , .SlraA v U e rrlcs, G r e e n F e n s , n.««l U’o m a lo e s , All of the above are now in perfection in the Now-York market. W e 1 regaling n, flesh ar genuine Morris Wliitos, ourselves Avith a hii excellent. Peaches, the it ri]) 0 , and cut eight-acre field of them tos, jnsi to order. JbHruwherries, large and lusciuns, smothered in cream, or by Ibo peek, or larger qiiantitie.s, as desire and jairse may demand. Green I’eas and I'uiuatoes in order to prepare for the table. If any o f our northern readers Avish to knOAV hoAY this is all accomplished, avo Avill add, the Peaches, Green Peaa and Tomat oes, came from Bennnda, and the Slniw- borries, ripe, (Hovey’s,) in largo quantities from Georgia, and we suspect from friend PnAnony’s oigb' near Cohnnbiis. From present appearances, we Bring the season of these luxuries Avill be satisfactor ily long with tbe New-Yorkers. If any avo curious to knoAV the cost, avo ansAA'or, a nice dish of Pcachea and Cream, (not milk,) &o., eighteen pence ; and one shil ling for the same of Bti'ftwberries.-—Hwer- ican AgrkuMw'ht, A B ad S pequiation ,'— The reporting and printing of tlie debates of the Massaohn- sotts Constitutional Convention have cost 130,000, This is a high price indeed, but it is cheap compared with the adoption of the Convention.\—J ’l’ovufract? dfoMthak M awnb DisAsrEPs of 'mu Y bau — The amoimt of property destroyed at sea tho present season has been enormous, We see it estimated that at least fortg^mUliom of dollars would be required to make up the losses of f te year. The loss of life has also been unusually great. The average anmal loss of life on the Atlauriedoes not equal that occasioned by the wrecks of four vessels within the past few months 1 S-piAM m S lavs Howna,-\-.The New York Tribune says I a A stearn'Cngine ca pable of doing iiie work of twenty slaves pip be purchaied fo? the prio# of a single oAOt and f#d i t k i i ooit w a n tha4n|^e boflTi’* OCCUFATIOjr*. It is not the business, or the occupation of a man-that ennobles bis character. A man elevated,, is tha same scoundrel, only he has it in his power to do a, greater amount o f injury. There is a foohsh idea; afloat, that occupation makes the man..— Nothing can be more absurd. Virtue, hon or, and integrity, are the same in the boot- black as in the judge. The honest man who peddles' snuff, jack-knives, and gun- flints, is as muc^ entitled: to our respect aS he Avhose A'essels whiten the ocean. The right doctrine is this— antiquated though, it may be— ^man ennobles bis business.— Fathers sadly miss it, when.they hesitate to give trades to their sons, and croAvd them into professions— as though a poor lawyer Avas more respectable than a good shoema ker, carpenter, or painter. Y'onng ladies,, too, shoAv tbeir lack of sense, Avhen they turn away from honest worth, because iti*s concealed beneath tai* and chalk, smut or ashes, and take to their bosoms, learned, men of the learned professions, who have- not learned to behave decently, or to earn butter sufficient for the bread they make vay witli. xterior may be— is an bo nipation. His industry and initeg- rity will Avork out for him independence bow rude bis exterior may be— is an honor' H is iudust lioue.st, upright man— we ^ istry and in iudependence and honor. W here Ave read or know of. one professional man who has distinguished' himself, we can point to scores of mechan ics, merchants, and day-laborers, aa 'I io ba\'e risen, in defiance 'of the impediments by Avbicb tlieir early life Avas surrounded, to .an elevated position in tbe hearts of man kind. I ’ersous Avlio baA'e exerted tlie Avis- est and best influence in oiir country, Avere cdtlier mechanics or farmers.. If you be lieve it not, read the present history of our country, and you Avdll doubt it no longer.. H o u s e C l e a n in g '. As this is about the season when good liouseAvives clean their houses from gairet to cellar, it may be avo U to say a few Avords on the subject. When you Avasli paint don’t use soap and Avarm vvater, for it Avill take olf tho paint as well as the dirt. Use cold Avater and liard soap. Berub the floora A\ itJi soft soap, and don’t put down the car pets until the floor is perfectly dry. Al- Avays put doAvn some fine clean (mind clean) struAV under tho carpet, and lay it smootli and level. Carpets may be cleaned by pounding them in sb'oug soap suds and Avasliing them Avell out of tlie soap. The .suds must be very strong and cold. This is dune by cutting doAvn the bard soap and dissolving it in Avarm Avatev. Tbe suds shonld led slippery betAveen the fingers.—. Bedsteads .sliould receive a complete scrub bing Avith soap and Avater, and tibould not bo p ut up until pertbotly dry. The. seams and holes should then he anointed with, corro.sivo anbliniate, dissolved in alcohol or sulphur, mixed with cainpheiie, or a solu tion of the diloride of zinc. No person, shonld go to sleep in a damp bedroom.— klany jioojde, by overlooking this caution during liouse-eleaning season, catch severe cold, and make tlieir beds Avitli the clods of the A’alley before the subscejuent Christ- top of the and regular .staj quenl clean at the ise, and descend by steady iges. Borne jieople can clean i'thqr'ith Ahvays^ comniouee to ivgi . . . their lunise.s Av qnietne.ss and scarce disorder ; others do no more Avork but mi a great deal of noise. If there is a dog or cat about tile house it generally disappear.^ till the .squall is oA er. Tlie grand rule for facilitating AVork is system. Arrange all tlio Avorlc to bo done before commencing.. For Avant of system many a job lias to bo done over and over again. — Sckniijic American. Tlia Dni-elaaell«!8. The T)ardauolles are four strong oastIe.s- built iqion tho European and Asiatic coasts of the llelle.spont, ojiposito to each other, and coiuinanding that strait. They are re garded ns the key to Constnntinoplo. Tho name i.s probably derived from the old city of Danlaiinm. Tho e-ntranoo to tho Ilel- lcs])oiit is tlelbiuled hy tAvo castles, Avhich are called the new castles, bocanso they built (subaoijitent to Uio other two,) in tho middle of tho sovcntiAenth century, under Mahannnod lY., to afford protection to the Tin Irish fleets against the Venetiana. The distance from one to the other is about tAVO miles and a quarter. Four hours’ sail to tho North nvo tho old ca-stlea htiilt bjr Mahammed II, immediately after the con quest of Constantinople. They ai'o not more than 1500 yards apart, Farther on tho channel becomes narroAV- , and, at an hour and a half’s sail from 0 old castles, two promontori' 150 yai’dai’da apart.,part, suddonlyuddonly appeal’,peal’, andnd formrm old castles, two promontories, about f ya a s ap a fo that strait rendered famous by the bridge of Xovxoa, by the nightly visit of Boonidas to Hero, and by the passage of Solyman upon a bare raft. The Tiivks have been extremely negligent of the celebrated cas tles of the DavdaDelles, and at times they have been almost completely ruins. The oyareprorided— !8 English feet: ....... T bore. The ties ave now' seldom referred'to, and when the Dardanelles are spoken of, the last erected castles arcweant.’--N i Y, Sunday Ttnm 4 NBWsnAnnn,’-\-** I am poor and eati hardly afford it, yet I take a newspaper for my children,” was the exclamation of an honest, hard'’WQrking man, on being asked if he had a nevvspaper, Would that alt fothens didthe sam%and thns place before their children a good newspaper, trhicb ’w’onld create m interest for reading and afford the y o ing a sonree of enjoyment wMdh in after y e a ii they will reenr to w th pleasure. If parents instead giving their children a quarter to visit loh traveling show', would invest themon-' ey in snbacribing for a newspaper, tbey^ wcmldeonfor a nubstautiid fovor or j ehlld m d themielTea,’'*' G,
