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icrkimcr louto P£W0^fa] I . . ..... . . TERM 8-I2 A YEAR. “ F m f e r i t f a n d |1 50 IN ADVANCE. Y0LUME XI. flEMIMER, ITEPIESBAY MOMIIft,, JULY 2,0, 185B, lE M B M 46 . B e u f0ctr«t, - rtTBLISIIEn EVBiar ■W'EOIfESDAT MORNWa A t R e r k im e if , C o ., If. Y* ROBERT EARL, >, C. C. W IT H E RSTINE/ P roprikxoss . TERM S .—^The Democrat w ill be left at the residence o f village subscribers at $2,QD atjear. Mail subscribers, §2,00 per year, or $1 50 in R a t e s o f A d v e r fisin s * One square or less, one insertion,. . .$0 50 Each subsequent insertion, ............... 0 25 One square 3 months, ................................... .. 3 RO 5 60 t insertion, e square 3 month s, ... .. One square 6 m onths, ..................... liberal deduction willbe made tothose who advertise by the year. BOOK AKD JOB BBINJTKG In all its branches, executed with neatness and dispatch, and on reasonable terms. SELECT POETRY. A MOBlillNG SONG- Let me now forget the past. Let me turn away from time! Let me thii^ that life will last Ever in a glorious prime! Mine shall be a world of joy, Full of hope and free from pain; I w ill live a dreaming boy, I will never weep again! Let the future cease to frown, Let him hide his misty vale. Let the Morrow cease to mourn, ’Tis a weary, weary tale! Ob! To-day, To-day is Icing! He is kind and full of mirth; . L6t his royal praises ring, He alone shall rule the earth I Only sinful men. I see. Fearing past or coming time; Hearts o f truth ate ever free, Resting on a faith Sublimfr. Sorrow, thou art here defied I Well I know thy fearful power, But content is now my bride. And my life—the Present Hour! A D a R E S S ®tet,lVS:n.ED BY cniNTOST O assid Y, iSSQ., Celebration, in the village of Mohawk, July 4th, 1853. There are same places which by the circumstances of nature, by their geo* graphical position, and their relation with the intercourse of nations, become iiistorjeal; wiiich are sitt^ed that they are necessarily the avenues of the great movements of Commerce,, the the atres of the warlike contests of.haticfns and of the growth of civilization, and whieh develop© ^ ’eat events and the great men that are their Heroes. The H istory of the World iS not the History of all the World. Compared with the numbers of the race and the i geographical limits of territory, the na- j tions with which History has occupied itself, have been but as the leaven which animated the otherwise crude and inert mass. The Historian like the Statuary or the Painter seizes upon certain lin eaments of the times, in which lies the expression of the intellect, the faculties and the nobler passions and covering the bulkier form With some genei’al drapdry, presents to us the ideal of the a^fe. We do not scdn thh eye or mea sure the brow and, comparing them with the magnitude of the form, aSk, Why should the artist’s soul be centel‘ed upon things so i^all? We seogthe whole race, but^ we recognize at times in some nation or people the sublime face of humanity turning upwards to Heaven, expressing what was greatest and noblest in man, and his aspirations to what is still nobler in the Heity.T— “ Athens, the eye of Greece;” is the phrase of the English Poet who had im bued himself with the profoundest, spir it of philosophy. Even now we Ipok back to that beaming eye and that face and brow upon which shone the spirit of this greatest era of antiquity, We, still hear those ancient Orators whose resistless eloquence Wielded a't will the fierce Deinpcrity, ’ Shook the argehalj and fuliniried over Greece, To Macedon and Artesferxes throne, To sage Philosophy we lend,our ear, IVqrn Heaven descended tothe low roof d home Of Socrates. Y ettho’ the greathess of fhe face #as mainly the result o f ; intrinsic 4 ^cfellence of character, mnc^ ,ivas dtib to their geographf^, polpan,--^ N The Mediterranean Ws^ centra^ g< of the ^rth. Which its name impbrts. 7 ^ **' The navigatibn which first ventured ijt- seJf within the indentures o f the Helles pont, put forth with increasing boldness on .the inland sea. These passed aw^y as the circum stances which developed the greatness 9 f distant provinces beg^n tq operate. The great, naigration which poured the hordes of the.north upon Southern Eu rope delayed the final defel- ppmeut Qf ancient civilization; for the provinceahad clearly begun tp dictate to the Empire, and the Byzantine seat of gorernment pvershadowed the Oitjr o f , the Caesars before the whole fabric was buried in the common ruin. When Europe awoke to the new civ ilization,, the Atlantic was the|Oentfal Sea of the Earth. France, England, Spain; even diminutive Portugal and Holland, became the actors in the great drama,. From the eastern shore com merce put forth its adventurous barks, it reached the Indies round, the Soulfa- erh Gape of Africa, by a devious route and through stormy seas. It was in the hope of shortening the passage that the genius o f GolUmhus first suggested the idea of circunmavigating the Ocean.-— He failed—a Continent lay across his path. His destiny was greater than he ||iQi||ht, his mind wrought more nobly than it knew; for instead of merely open ing: a road to the Barbaric East, he un folded the gates of-the glow i^ West and disclosed a new and ritgin world. But even the Cdntrnent which lay on the way of the fabled Indies, and occu pied the faculties and thoughts of the world for centuries, is itself no longer an impediment to Commerce orJOiviliz- ation. Our Empire reaches to the Pa cific, and on one side we look back to Europe., on the other to Asia. The Isthmus is practically done away by the rail road and the commercial route, and will soon be literally severed by a £ Canal. The two Oceans are now the Central' Sea of the world; and the keys of its dominions are in our bands. But even in this wide domain there are places stamped by position to be peculiarly the theatres of great evehts. Our own State is one of these—nature has marked her for great purposes and set the seal of the magnificence upon her. Her 0 cean-bound Isles, her Lakes gemming her inland scenery With ro mantic beauties or spread widelj^ on her frontiers, opening their broad bosoms to Commerce, the Cataract that thunders on the West, and the Rivers that rising in the centre and the North unite in the flow of the noble Hudson—all these con stitute her present and unalterable great ness. The Alleghany mountains which stretch along the Continent from near the Gulf of Mexico, through the other States, forbidding or obstructing their access to the West, dip as they reach Our own State, and sink into fertile plains. The Canal coimects the Lakes with the Ocean by a descent no greater than that of the tidal waters of the Riv ers, and the Rail Roads find a level which gives them the: superioiity over all their rivals. Art follows in this, the path which Nature marked out, and which the primitive energies of the peo ple pursued. Long before the pioneers of civiliza tion had leached the wilderness which was to melt before them, like the frost of Winter before the breath of Spring, the Red-man who dwelt witbra it seamed to catch the*inspiration of the scene, and be elevated by the greatness of na ture around. Without acceding at all to the truth of those sentimental pic tures of savage life which represent the aboriginal people as endowed with vir tues and sympathies and devotion and with generous emotions with which their Viperoha blood haver .wariued, R U juc- ticfe to say that th^ tHbcs who irihabit- ed the valley of the MohaWk had, be fore the coming of the white man, de veloped the germs of a promisihg civil ization, hkd organized institutions of government, had formed a confedera- tioh on a basis which implied some idea of public faith and aS the’ first fruit of their Amphyctrionic Councils had exhib ited instances of rude but powerful or atory. “ The Si^ Nations, (said Hewitt Clin ton,) were d pl^ttliarand extraordinary people, contradistinguished from the mass of Indian nations by ^rCat attain ments, in polity, in negotiations, in arts and war.” “ They had many towns and villages giving evidence Of perma nence, (says another writer.) They W’ere organized into communities Whose social and political institutions, simple as they were, were still as distinct and well defined as those of the American Confederation. In consequence of the su perior social, and political organization, the Spartan like character incident to forest life, the Six Nations, though not the most numerous, were beyond a doubt the most formidable of the tribes at a later day inarms in behalf o f the Crown.” The fearlj French adventurers seeihed to recognize the 800106 Of this distinc tion when they spoke of the Wandering tribes of the {irairie as Lee gehs du large,” and o f the nidfe fixed races as “ Les gens des F^mtles,” Who shalb say that if no higher bivilizatioh had intervened to overshadow and blight that gertti Of ptilitical organization, the Savage racO^ould licit have gone from small beginnings to some great end, And that th’e Iroquois Would not have made upon this scene an Empire State? Such was not to be the course, of Mstorj'.-— No sooner had the kfOry of a new Iknd ;Oiie forth than hOsts of hardy 4(^veh-’ lurers sought its shores. Different were their motives and various the thoughts that stimnlated them: Some wCnt to escape the penalties of kiolatfed laws, some in Obedience to its decrees and tlmnsands.Went for gold. We need hot l(»k to tHe^page of History fo toll iis how maddening was the incitement whioh the' fabulous stories of wealth amassed, hidden stores, of recessed mines compact with ore, of plains glit tering with the golden sands, was to the needy crowds of Europe. The picture is hofbre us now and the scene, laid upon the coastsof-Gaidbrnia and Aus tralia, is acted oe*r in States then unbfarp and accents then unknovvn. Nor need we go to History to learn the bitterness of the disappointment of those who placed their sofe hope oh the glittering bauble, when sad and weary they found themselves three thousand' miles from home, a desert waste before them and on each side. Some there were who bad nobler objects, worthier aims, Who' sought a treasure to which compared the dross of--earth was valueleiSi’-^ I mean that fearless hand whdm- the persecutions of royalty drove from the land of their fathers, their homes, their altars and their firesides,the scenes of their childhood and all the-fond «s- Ifociations which go so far to make up the sum of earthly happiness, to brave the dangers of an unfathomable dei and to seek iU a new” hemisphere that privilege. Worth more than gold; which their native land denied them ! . While the settlers of New England and o f the Southern States had a com paratively easy task in the encounter with the savage inhabitant of the vil:- derness, the Pioneers of New York were exposed to a greater and more powerful and more persevering and more cruel enemy. When in t|ie collision o f civil ization with barbarism the latter was driven back, the contest did not end.— The war paths of. the savage, pointing to the Mohawk valley, ran back to the Canadas, and the ilFrench stimulated the inroads Of the savage upon the frontiers with rewards, and sometimes lead them in person, adding cruelties of their own to the natural brutality of their allies. When the Revolution broke out. New York was again the battle ground o f the Union. She was the Flanders o f Amer ica. The future voice of History may pronounce a measured and merciful sen* tence. upon the conduct of the mother country whieh preceded and which led to the Declaration of Independence, but it will have no measure o f condemna tion for the spirit in which England pursued the war that was to subject the rebellious and defiant children. It was a warfare unparallelled in its atrocities and with the cruel necessities of which she would not trust her owil soldiery.— Troops were brought from a needy Ger man principality-mercenaries who could not understand the language, of the colonists, or sympathise in their cause, and the tomahawk and scalping knife o f the savage was enlisted against the rebels. The torch- set fire to the dwellings of the backwoodsman, his fields were desolated, his wife, his child ren were massacredr torture and burn ings at thestake were the warfare which civilized England at the end of the 18th century employed against h^r own children. The British troops held pos session of the sea, port of New York and ofi the- Canadas. T h e ‘settlers of the Talley of the Mohawk lay between, and the hardships of their posi tion was aggravated by the presence of large nuinbers of Tories, whose orig inal sympathies or the temptations o f British gold; had enrolled on the side o f the .crown, * |t,is not necessary for me tq dwell -hero ytpon w isonUpiiv in the’undis- cipUned but hafd^ settler had to en counter the combined vengeanbe of the •British, the Tories, the-Hessians, and the Savages. The story is a part of the tradition of every family among the orignal settlers of the Mohawk valley, who can still point to some memorial amid the beautiful and now tranquil scenery. Stealthy surprises, and mid night \onslaughts! massacres, terrible flights from the savage enemy amid the storm pf savage elements, and.glorious jmbaW in which rebel spirit and Chris tian courage triumphed over British power and savage ferocity. One of the Historians of that protracted contest sums up the couclusion of the war with the picture of the desolation it left be hind. “ The vale of the Mohawk, in cluding its intersecting valley of the Schoharie-kiil was among the most thickly populated and wealthy agricul tural districts ol the country at the commenceihent of the War. The pro ductiveness of its soil and the riches of its people rendered it ever an inviting object of plunder to the enemy, es pecially to the savages and the swarms of refugees, who had fled from the coun try and were sharing a precarious live lihood among the Indian wigwams and in the wilds of Canada. Its geograph ical condition moreover rendered it the most easily assailable of any well peo pled section of tfie whole tinion; while at the same time the larger armies of the enemy were employed elsewhere, and of course required the greatest por tion of the physical strength of the coun try elsewhere to oppose them. The consequence of these and other circum stances that might be enumerated, was that no other section or district of country in the United States, of like ex tent, suffered in any comparable degree as much from the pf the Revolution as did that of the Mohawk. It was the most frequentlly invaded and overrun, and that too by an enemy far more bar barous than the native barbarians of the forest., Month after month for seven long years were its towns, its villages, its humbler settlepients, and isolated habitations fallen upon by an untiring and relentless enemy, until at the close of tho contest, the appearance of the whole district was that of wide-spread, heart-sLokening, and universal desola tion. In no other section of the Opfl- federacy were so many campaigns per formed, so many battles fought, sp ma n y ’dwellings burnt, so many murders committed. And those who were left at the return of peace, were literally a people “ scattered ahd peeled.” ' It was the domputatioft two years before the close of the War, that one third df the population had gone over to the enemy, and that one third had been driven from the country or slain In battle, or by pri vate assassination, and y et a m oug th e in habitants of thef remaining third in June, 1783, it was stated at a public meeting held in Fort Plain, that there were three= hundred widows and two thousand Or phan children,” All honor to the brave people who maintained so nobly the unequal con test. The egotism of New England, 'the pride of the South I»Te claimed an undue shai'e o f the horfomnf patriotisa for their pebple, and m a^fied the eon- sequencc.of events thattOCcurred with in their borders. But here was the true battle field o f the Revolution, anfl if long suffering and williag martyrdom ensure a place on the calendar of Rkt- riotism, here died itsim e heroes.— Here the spirit of thq Jpvolutioa was fostered. Here the unioji of the Colo nies was pe'rfocted, and this State was the piVot upon which tlte Confedera tion rested and moved.’ ' Here ihe bur den o f the contest fell, kpd hefe the bat tles of- the. Riwclution werip eventually brought to a,.close by the victory of Saratoga. But more than this. In this and Schools like this the ebaraeter of the Republican people whs formed. Ih the rude settlements pf cur forefathers the great lesson of self-dependence and self-reliance which iS the fruit of .^Re publican Virtues, was’ learned. The settler in the wildernpes sufficed fot himSelf. His axe and. Ms spade were his ways and means in i^ace, his rifle was his war. establishment, the great Bible in the cottage parlor his church. The Colonial Government was of little value as a protection to him-, the home Government across the^Oceaii still le^. The pressure of war - compacted neigh borhoods closer together, and the value of co-operation was learned, and the sentiment of mutual reliance enCoUi'- aged. The neighborhoods in protect ing themselves from extinction protect ed the country and saved the cause of the Republic. Froni this normal school poured out the raefeof pioaeers who ex plored the wilderness, aad erected new States in the far W est,, They carried with them the habit n f ^f-reliance.— They were Republicans !n the truest seiise, and deepest imbuedwith the doc trines of that school of Democracy whieh seeks the. .highest i^elfare: tof the Community, not in the inmeased power of the State, but in the wdest freedom of the citizen, and which levelopes the greatness of Society, oWyly cherishing the individuality of its nemhers. It was this idea which distioguished the Democratic theories of JmersOn from those of the liberals of fcurope, and which made the fate « f oyt* Revolution so different from that .Of France, which deviating into sentimental attempts realize, the communistic';reycries communistic';reycries of Ihrms X mere mil itary Dictatorship* and whioh comm enc- ing again with the same erwr has in Our day reached the same fat4 consumma- The idea of personal independence, the fruit of border life, ol Agricultural pursuits, and th§ cause md the effect of Democratic Institutions Produces the true citizen in peace as wel as in war, or rather it produces that harked, well defined individuality of clsract^r that is as ready to rise againS taisgoverh- ment at home as to repfl aggression from abroad; which. defied t le numeri cal superiority of oppositbi, and haz ards all and dies if need oein the de fence Of an abstract right—^hich gives tp its country in War a GErrman H ek - KiMER, In Peace, a M ichaei . H offman . If such has been the past Hi tory of the people who have figured on tl s eventful theatre, the pioneers o f civiliz tion—the avant-guards of the Revolutu 1 , and the teachers of Democracy what ndy We not hope forthefuture? On thisn tal day of Freedom it becomes us'to lop: forw'afd to the hopeful future as wellks to the past which purchased it with So Many sacrifices. Hdw imraehSelthe tcoh-. teraplation ! In what vast poportipns the vista opens which expinds with the illimitable future. Even! the Pres-; eht is too great for the corajrebehsion of the mind. We have w o re us a field so ; v a st,, an age so ferile in ini- provementsi a people so ene getic, an aggregation of means so grea ;, that jthe mind with difficulty rfealiZei it. We have Works o f interndl comi mnication greater than the most powe ful nktion of Europe,-^rail roads of a |pan never before contemplated, muUipl/iug with a “\^•dity that defies compelition, and. mysterious telegraph ihtdfiplying as fast, cdnstitutirig the irhn fibre of the Rational brain as. the mils form the iron bands that binds the nHtej'ial body of the Union. , . 1 , if the Present affords ip niucji, of' greatness, what Inust the 'Rtflure he ? Who’ shall attempt to pr^ietthe fu ture'pf that Htate on the Piciflo, whose: just discovered greater than any of the European Con- America. and thk CMrie% and the OhilianS What ^haU t a e las hundreds of thbii^'aiifi^ bf Men, more numerous than eVer Nap 6 le<>h'd 6 nq[uer- ed, and surrender to'pur flug; And ab- jpre all other allegiance anil Jay: down their war-like arms,. and — - erS' to the far west a States 1 if ^ekee thus world and enridhes the n»\y m th fresh blood, what w ill; be the Insult of the riyuhy and collision of War ? If iin Pierce utters Whfei he iii^oclkims to every American ditizeil that, “ so long as. he can discern every itur p its place upon that bnsign, withemt Wealth to pirehaa© for him or title to secure for him a |J%de^ be bis right to stand unabashed even in the presence o f princes; with a proud con sciousness that he is himself one o f a nation 6f sovereigns, And that h*e ckff- not, in iegRlmafo pursuit, wander so far from home that the agent whom he shall leave behind in the place which I now occupy will not see that no rude hand o f power or tyrannical passion is laid upon him -with impunity. He must realize that’ipoft every sea, and on every soil where our enterprise may rightfully seek the protection of our flag, American citizenship is an inviolable security of A.merican rightk” If our Secretaries bf - State command t>Tir legates abroad to iVear the costumes of their Republican homes, lest perchance they be mistaken In the Courts abroad for the Chamberlains o f royalty or for royalty itself and lose in dignity by the error, what will be the national de meanor when its power equals its au dacious will? If the boast \I am an American citizen” IS uttered thus boldly now, with what accent of exul tation add defiance will it not be pro nounced when it designates a citizen of the Republic of confederated North America? The imagination refuses to venture upon the field of inimitable. Conjecture, - \Let us at least hope that while all the dements of national pros perity combine to make ns great, while the march of events raises up here a new civilization Which shall surpass the old, while the national tone m bold and reliant let us at least hope that the spirit o f the people will not be so self-su^cient as to make thSin forget, that their bappineSfs And the fate of their country repose in the hands o f an all-relying Providence—that their na tional strength is in the Union bf the States, that ttte perpetuity of their In stitutions depends on the preservation of the rights o f the States, and corrup tion is the bane bf the public councils, and the virtue of the private citizen the true-conservative element which is to prolong the life o f the Republic. Let them not forget at wiiat sacri fices their liberties were purchased, that for them their fathers pledged ‘ their Lives, their Fortunes and their Sacred Honors,” not in idle words a- lone, but in brave deeds. Let tbeOi cherish the memories of dej^arted pa-, tiiotism, and resolve to transmit the and long will this happy valley smilb in the light of Liberty, and its children for many generations celebrate in pa triotic pride, with the salvos o f artillery, and hon-fires on the hill-slde, and mul titudinous processions knd ehoralsongs of praise, the anniversary of tho j^de- pendence of the great and glorious Re public. T hree S core 421 D T en .—^Wheh I was a boy I used tp think threescorfe and ten years a y e ^ sufficient spell of the.world. I wondered how anybody could grumble at so liberal an allow ance of life; and indeed, for my own share, I would no more have hesitated to give up my claim to the odd ten years than, the gold sellers do at the diggins to throw the odd ounces into the bargain. That, I say, was in my .boyhood, when I was too far off from what I was dealing so generously With; to be able to‘understand anything a- bout it. I know better now. Three score and ten might have suited the Is raelites very /Well, whbn they were wandering in the wildernesk; but I km decidedly of the opiuipn. that Moses, when stating the limit, hM prayer printed in the Book, of Psalms, made, no allusion to us. In fact, ^the period in itself is objectionable, in as Amcll as it is not a period at all, but more like a semicolon. It is not even an even number—which is odd; resembling more a half-way house than a final resting place. It makes me .iincom- fOrtable to heat people tblking of three score and ten, as if they thorigbt it im proper to; fly in the face of Mc^es-’r- -Jhambers, , . , . , : Y oung SA tan .—An ebony urchin was employed to cleanse the chimney of a building in New York, ahd IfaVing jascended to the \height of his ambi- Hon,’’ proceeded to descend again, hut- unfortunately! mistaking the flup, which , had .been the field of his labors, he* jfbund himself, oh Mhdmg^, m the pri- yAte apslrtraent of a limb Of the UaW, whose disposition tp gtudy was ot course Immediately knocked, into; a cocked hat. It would be impossible to des- pribe the situation bf the pkrtiek. Eb ony, fearful lest Ms abrupt entrance jsHbuld hb punished, '-stood rivCte'd to the Spot^ The Laivyer struck dumb, jstarted, from his sea.t,, ppon his. ghastly, bhiJteaunt horror was .depicted in aw-, M 'kkfaetersl' He ^meditated fiight, bvidently, Tiut he spoke not. Ebony k06ri found tongue, and in adeents, ^yhlch only increased the lawjfer’^s ter- fofs, cried out, \ATy father's earning loon!” There was “ s«d.” The presence 6 f one such beiflg as aampje introduced, was endiigh to unnerve the stptifet heart. With one terrific fie reached the kitchen, and having en sconced himself in the farthest corner, he sat watching the fire-place in anx ious silence. , Why is an old coat like an iron. privilege and must beliis acknowledged kettle? Because it represents HlflY. A bbienb ! s We find Sweet is the carol of a Bird When -warbling on the spray, And beautiful the moon’s pile beam ■ That lights us on our-Way; Yet lovelier friendship’s loot and word Than moonlight or than W’arbUng bird. H o w prized the-coral «hd-tbe shell, . And valiied, too, the pearl; W h o can the-hidden treasures tell O’er which the soft waves curl? Yet dearer still a friend to me Than all in earth, or air, or sea. MISCELLAIY. QUAKER SHREWDKte&S. An aged Quaker, who kept a grocery in the vicinity of Albany, at one time became notorious for selling small eggs. The village gofesips wero ready to tes tify that they saw the oggk he bought, atid found tfieru to be very large and fine looking, and where he could find so many small sized eggs as he daily sent out to his customers, was a myste ry that even Mrs. Grundy could not fathom. There were two mysterious looking holes in his counter, about the size of an egg, and public curiosity was excited to the h%hest pitch, to ascer tain what purpose they were put t o ; no one ever saw him use them in any Way, and fie seemed desirous to keep them covered With wrapping paper constant- ly- . This fact only excited the curiosity of his good ne^hbors the more. Some said he had some Way of squeezing the eggs through these holes, to subtract in A sleight-of hand manner, the Substance therefrom for his own use. The only answer anybody could get fio'm the old man when questioned Concerning tfie Bse of the holes, was, “ My friend, i f I tell the truth it would not benefit me or thee, and I don’t wish to lie. It is a pity that lying is a sin, for it eoines so easy in trade,^’ AJ last it was resolved by some o f the spinsters to watch his actions through the cracks o f his shut ters after he had closed his shop for the hight, and thus endeavor to find out their use. This resolution was put into execu tion one night, ahd sure enough they Caught him actually passing eggs thro’ the holes, by the light of a penny dip. All those that passed through the small est one he placed in a basket ; and those that passed thrpUgh^the largest in an other; and all that\ would not pass through either he placed in a tin pan and took them tp his house in the rear of his shop. On his way thither he heard the rustling of women’s dresses, and in an instant he was caught; so he called to them, and in the blandest man ner said; “Sistersyouhavb given^ur- Selves much trouble to appease this cu riosity^ and I will therefore tell afl to ye. Ye see 1 sort my eggs iqto tfi^ee sizes by means of these holes. Tlie largest I use in my owh family; the next size I sell a half penny cheaper on the dozen than any of my neighbors',’ for cash, the smallest I send to those Who will buy no other \^vay than on credit.” The ladies werb satisfied with their lesson in trade, and spread the news abroad till we have heard it. S tr . iv e to m a ke H ome Don’t let a fretful, fadlt-flnding dispo sition dcstrpy your domestic happiness; for, as sure as you do indulge a morose and cross temper, you destroy your own comfort ,apd the comfort of kll a- round you ; the influence of your ex ample will be felt for generations. Let there come one ctpls .and discontented spirit ihid a family, arid it Will tfifu a happy family irito distress anS corifii- sidri j fdreven sickness is not so dis tressing, where there is cheerfulness eily influenced by the example of the fretful and cross. When they hre Spoken to in a cross and fretful man ner, they soon pass it alptig, and a lit tle brother or sister is soon , treated .m the same manner. il!rid if the influ ence ended in their childhodd It' wbuld not be so bad, but.it does. Uot—not ex-- ceptwith their death. It Is the duty of each one of the family to make home happy; but it is the special office of fife, aS fi Wife, triother, daughter, siStCr, let cheerfuliless rei^U; 117^ An Examination Uommittee, a- bout to test the .capacities of an indi-' yidusl fpr SChopl-teacbing, put the fol lowing questions to him. 5 , ^ \At what time did Fraiipe proflpce her greatest General?” . ' . ! \At what period?” pausirig hud ; Scratching hiS head; “ at what—-ah! you’ve got me there I” after, y e l l; old bosses, you havc-got me rigriin-I” ‘ Why does a sculpture file the riiost horrible of deaths? Bechuse he makes faces and Vdsis. t B e • world i s r o u n d - . • I feinepiber well,” said Tom,= “ that circumstance—my uncle, when I came from school, asked me among many questions, if the earth was round ?” Yes, sir,”-1 replied, “ the world is roundi and like a ball seems swinging in the air.” “ I don’t believe-it,” said he, “Scrip- ter don’t say • so. ^cripter tells about tfie four winds from the four corners of the earth,-arid that’s proof enough that the-world’^ four.-sqiiare. And the snii doth set and rise, .or^ our eves, lie,— Now I believe that the sun sets in ^ hole on -t’other side; and that the sky is solid and round, apd-the world’s four square and flat-footed.” “ What supports the earth ?” I in quired. “ Pillers,” said my uncle, trium phantly. “ I’ve always beam ’em say,” re plied my uncle, “ that a little lam in’ is a dangerous thing. Go and ask your aunt Polly.” “ Now, liricie;” said 1, “ hang a big pumpkin to the ceiling, and daub it over with molasses, and when you sed the flies gather around it, imagine that it is the world, and the flies its inhabi tants,” “ That’s the way it works,is it?—r Well, Tom, is it a fact that the Chi nese walk with their feet feruent ourj and their heads down?” “ Yes, sir.”. . . . • - “ And is it a fact that the devil’s fire-works is right under the earth?” ^ sirT*** ^ ‘ Well, I wonder if the d ------ d Chi nese ain’t bothered a good deal with the smoke ?” Aif U ncaii E ed - for A men .—A corres-; pondent of the Methodist Protestant re-^ lates the following story, which is tod good to be lost: A very sensitive preacher in. .a certain village not more than a hundred miles from Baltimore was discoursing with great warmth on the uncertainty of hu man life. To give the greater effect tp his remarks, after assuring his hearers that they might die before an hour elapsed, he said: “I, your speaker, may be dead beford anotfier morning dawns.” “ Amen !” was the audible response of a pious and much beloved brother in the congregation. The preacher was evidently disconcerted for a moment.—:• He thought the brother must have mis understood his meaning. Pausing a mo-^ ment, he repeated the declaration with still greater emphasis ; “ Before another hour your speaker may be in eternity,” “ Amen !” shouted the brother, a- gain. It was too much , for^the sensitive iriian; and stamrnbrifig out a fevv addi tional remarks, he sa1:_down before he had finished his discoufSe^i “ Brother said the preach er next day to his kind-hearted friend of the amen corner,’ What did you mean by saying ameii to' my remarks, last night? Do you wish I vras dead?” “ Not at all,” said the good brother,’ “not a t all. I thought that if you should die, you would go id glory; rind 1 iflean’t ameU to that:” -R emedy for the C herry S lug ,-^ Th© cherry slug or snail makes sad h’a'Voc in bur cherry trees in this vicin ity.. -I Kate previously found lime ef fectual in destf-oyingjthem.' Last sum'- mer I tried dry dilst, taken from the ground near the tree/ with a shovel make it fine, or you may scrape it from tfie highway when it is dry and dusty. Apply; profusely; that nbfle of the slugs escapd a good suffering, and my word for it, they will be minus equally as' well as if you had used lime. Renew the applicaticfli as often as necessary. So says A. S. Moss, o f Fredonia, N. Y ./ in Country Cent. whose field o f labor was a town, in thi interior of New England, one Sunday, at the close of his -services, gave no tice to his congregation tliat in the; rarsbof a week fie intended.to go on „ Inisridn-^to the heathen. Theraem- herl of his church were struck with a- larm and sorrow at the Sudden and un-- pxjiected announcement of the loss of t3ris& beloved pastor, and otfe deacon,. &- %ltation exclaimed; “ Why, my dear ^r, vou never spoke of this be fore.” “ Oh. brother,” said the parson,’ I don’t expect to go out of town.” A young farmer haVirig' purefias-'; ed a' watch, placed it in his fob, and strutting across the floor, says to hjs wife, “ Where shall I drive a nail t^ hang iny, watch upon, that itAvifl not, bbdisturbed aud broke?” \ I d.o not ,knbw of A safer plaee,’( replied his wifo; \ than our old meal barreL ty a s u r e , no bUe will think o f going ffaefe'to dis turb it.” - 55\ A gentleman, told a lady she Was wonS'ms handsome; she Replied—“ | thank ^eu for your opinion, and wish* I could say as much for you.’’* , i You m i^ t, madame,” saidWe, *‘if you toid^Jblg a lie as I did.” 17^ A merfibAnt whq\latel)r adver-- tissd fon .who cohld bear eon* mnerneAi^tmeiS ai^werdd by one whQ had lain seV^n years in jail {
