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DUBEL, 4AFTORNBY § COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Ne ¥ Wfll‘pmmpcly attond to all bustuan enteusted. to [- bi ato n the covernt Courts of thin Stat + Deods, Hordd, Artloled of Agres« mont, dos propared at viort nolios, : Wmlfmnotomccuunm Lo,, collacted on rea | form 90 6, C, MoCABH, M, D., BHYS1CIAN aND #UVRG®RON, MoWHQWLLG, N X4 Roalderiga on the Corner of Matha aud Pleasant Atrooti 0: A, CARROLL, M.D., #HYBIGIAN arb aunason, MORTIGRILO; No Ya filde A6 tho restdonce formorly acoupfud by I. Niven, toarly a?) Wig Eiflzftoknmm e, kins All auth lofb ay. the hove «-Al “bzlprofimn’iwmhnafia. \ 1, ANDBRSON p COUNSELLOR AT LAW, BOLI O64 N.Y, $t, R rol . WILLIAM J. | ATTORNEY $ GCOUNSELLOR AZ LAW, MowHORLLOIOLL 064 N. %. [9« Offlce In the Masonite Ifall, drat building wort of Rloroy's Drug Atare. ___ 3. N. LEWIS, Jr. ATTORNRY f-COUMSELLOR AT LAW, NO. 4 PINK Budo noon PNox BnoAbway. Tomy R AEZERENCES~Momuorz16.«Hon. Henry R. Low, B B. 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MONTICELLO WINDOW SASH MANUFACTORY. | HHH dCIHIOMINER having. removed hitutund to 1 tha now billding maxi]: mung x5 the wosk atul of the mug «and havide made mogfihnflm Um inin inovient, of If now propared to 16 - a 35:35“ Wordors In his th a with punoinality aud Olle m 8ASH, BLINDS AND DOORS masked at wholonale and rotel ab the montre wee « qlfully sulloited: _ . , Al ardor by mall or othorwing \ fe AHlooUo,April 26, 166 - , Watts, Olen c PRACTICAL rown Chit, punotualy ate diols Aum lok dif - MoNTICELIEO, i, Y,. lupin and grainteg agus In the nontent Enda ttn y wt 31m f W“ 00 | andt Job3 nout rom.m diatanca | | \named plase wilt | 7 LAW | | It 4n ong minute. Suppose galled for |. abo prea, Onlers frum carpantirn and bulldged | Hortp. - WWW M {For the THE SCHOOL BOY.--A Song. BY Ste Bi Te \he school bell fa ringing; epare for the day I The poplls are gathoring Yor mirth and for 21.1; B ¥ilng down your light clubs on the an? ground, \With msater and You'}L-conquer or die, The old bell is now sounding, From mountain to valley z Your mind and your talent Mult sltmber to more ; 1191, vfli‘. And be doing ell all as you go t W ith master 'and mistress Yowl conquer or die, Go forth to the world, . All gleaming and bright;. The power of your mind » Throw out to the winda; With {old near at hands Lot this he your ary : ~ With master And mistress You'll conquer or die. § [For the Watchrmoau. A Picture from Memory. NY OPIE C. # « Whore the fire burnt bright and onsbe a gl ow, Oar the where abandon come an sw' Making the walls all checkered and bright, And breaking bii waves 6f quivering lights .' . Ofor $33: gum hoatth-stono, and tho deop'ntug ML the farther aldes of the room, Kor the glare of the lamp-light feights away, All the 5mm: thomghts which the haue gives % & the platares dim and old, . wfiwl Jfigfiii pf: A fiféfiawfihfiuu gold, Becmure, whenthe youth of our soul t prat Thore itormead sellos will iive tha Inst. The shrouding miat unvalls to toy view A lnadsoabe frien which is evar han, \* And glorlows still as when first my ey en io {mutt noath{mummy-ides; What sky ii bluo and so orystal clear humanlydopehfiuengeninghm : Aud the gum! old woods in the distance dit, Beem ac olng still as of old, thehyton, Of the songators, that filled {ts leafy shade And an Buen below tts payilions ngyvla. * And the mountains which lied their sunfhita nd In theclone hottzan I seem to viow ; And the brook that wound its allver way, Through flalds of greed and foreata grey. And so oléar and Hraptd. its waters glide, That the wild rose orimions from very pride, (Ro sos hor beauty reflected so well, * Thas sho rivals hor sister tho lily bell. The pure waterllly that floats on the atreans, \Whore vefued heart holds tho fairy dreato. And the maples that bent above the door, Afid «mafia the- upon the floo'r. And the old firm house gtown mor and Aug fold the tale ofits £1; decay an graye The sparrow that builf upon the caves Alum by th’cmplel qumdng laws: And the chorey treo old that hid them so well, What?) the robins reared in thelr loaf screened oll, * Fach your a brood, whoro warhlings were The niontestmnu that wax-magma linf. Andtha mpg-mu Ii the orchard near \Whose plaintive song rung loud and clear, Of a ero-but how sad. his ory, Tike the wall of a foul that longs to JAE. \This platare glows from the. shrouded past, And The hele of love is around It east? -* For there in the spat, and those aro tho soones, Toward which my heart forever leans, Aluno! thit vin in never fad Ana“ g): heath élzgflamfio'r in: nexipla »hade. Maple Lane; Jan: 8d, 1961, aptionltimal, Curious Phenomenon. \How is it you raise so large and nice onions?\ I saked of an Jows farm- dr, as I wae sitting at the table with bim, aud observing some on the table. \'Well matd he, * we sprout the seed with boiling water, and then plant | it early and in good ground, \ Sprout the seed in boiling water I\ I exclaimed. inquiringly, \ What do you mean, sit, by that? Won't belling water kill the seed 1\ _, \Not at all,\ he replied ;, # butit will sprout than in ong minjte's time.\ # It will} | Itlooks incredible!\ I re- plied with surprise, * Welk you tty it,\ he replied, ningly, © whey the time comes to and you'll find it just as I tell you,\ Amd sure onongh when: spring came, and my pelghbor was about planting his onion seed, and being present, I said : vin= ant, told me in Towa, that. to pour boiling * Yary well,\ said he. [ the tom kettle boiling from the stove; he pourad the water thus boiling on the | seed, which he had im a temaegticer.| Looking closely at it for a morecnt, he exolgimed, * My conscioncel you have told xi btfy,‘ 5an look a there\ Looked, and behold, thelittla sprouts, about as large as horse hairs, were shootieg out of the opening onda of the seed He did not retain the water on the gead above three seconds, and in. less than one Ralf minute after 1b. was pour- | od of, the sprouts were.projected from | the seeds. - R My Iowa friend kssured ms that this | process would advance thg growth of | the onion from tworor three weeks. be- yond the ordinary method of planting | without sprouting. Try it, gardeners and farmers: much may be gained by | it.--Cor. Dollar paper. d * canne | Cure ors Cows Tears-Cows sometimenr havo oxtra teats, giving little or no milk, and often very much in tha way of milking. | These may readily be | removed, accordiby to a statement of S. Faward Todd, in the Boston Cultivator, and we copy hiw gccount of one opera» k i-) don: \| ~ \Some four '4 tows (then a heifer) had a foot, as large ara ago, one of my best * | fhm taao's thumb, close to one of the 1G Do nut hay brass of pommmmn and got A good it a fate price. Repalzing done on reasonable torow and footie Ort wot, just pr ia one do Bhiop Stord. \ l ‘ amen AKRHD, £00 to 1600 pounds prime Heonmax, for a which 3 w s - Trades Fanny“! pay the hinhouti’mgkxgfi rié§in t U (howie resin, a Irie yornty . at WO0W'8. Newburgh, MAM-[mm anit. At WOOD, Nawburgk * . i New buri Meron ind HaTé 0bD NYEOR Tha; yo % 50° s HOOK Hitmen . e x au fo a iy (willed 1 H“) $3519?“ bj ”(a 16a at ,] a ODL Newbargh enteric wmmf‘hwm $_.\ e s Newburgh _ \ , wp . Tai Slam \fl dot ge | fon + Aindermost teats, \The calt would suck it, but we could not milk it, because it war so amall and so close to the latge 006. As such an arrangement was very unpleasant when milking, I ventured to 'try an experiment st removing the small one,. Ths cow was tled securely in the tlod together, #0 that tho could not kick, Now, with the pliets, I twisted the ands of a place of very amall wiro together, after it had been put round the tgat gloae | to. the. roots or Inrge end_of it. 'The wite was twisted up so tightly, that. alf circulation was out of; and in about three or four weeks the teat droppad off; and the base of it healed up neatly, léar- Ing no famie. That teat bes never giv- \dueed sorencia in the udder; as I feared while thea wite was on it, and 1mm; 2; fot dropped off, healed in stall by her head, and hor two hind legs | m an us any trouble airce, It never pro- |- mix a_ A CONFESSION _ My friend H. married early in lif. * | The Isdy that he chose was a beautiful | but weak minded girl. H. was a pleas- ure-loving, whole souled - youth, the life of every cirele he favored with his com- pabnye >) __ , nO '. The club of which he was a mem- ber, acknowledged that he was the wit- | tieat and handsomest man amobg them ; early ; and now, Jef me add, only three months had elapsed, when we observed amarked change in our favorite. Fis bright smile was changed for a serious, and eftén sad, expression ; he came to the club-rooms Jess frequently than had bean his wont ; and while there he read bis papor and smoked, seldom joining in any conversation. He had been in the habit of taking but one cigar during the evening, and © | that was sometimes thrown away half consumed. , Now ha seemed to smoke as | some persons drink, \ to drive away dull care.\ 'When the door openéd, he star- ted and held his cigar half hidden by his paper, as if afraid of being eaught.in some forbidden enjoyment. ~ After I had observed my friend,, ove- ning alter eveniug, and felt convinced that some seoret sorrow was destroyin his perce, I one night left the room with him, offering to walk home by his side. He drew my arm within his own and gave rey hand a friendly pressure, As o turned bis face foward the gas light, Isnw a tearstood in his oye, I said, \H. are you in trouble; can I relieve you? Do youneed pecuniary aid? If so, lat me have the pleasure of bestowing it. You havea young wife, and your expenses must have necéssarily increas- ed, perhaps more than you anticipated; and young lawyers sometimes have to walt long for their fees. If you would like to borrow money, say #0, for. I have more than enough for an old bachelor\ * Old bachelor 1 would that I were-\ Here he paused, and turning to me, ad- ded, \ B., revenl not what I may utter- ed, You have always been like a broth» er to me, and you shall know the cause of my distress; I sm sure you will not raske an improper use of what I toll ou,\ 7 Aftor-assuring him that he might safe- ly confide in me, that I would never di- vulge his secret until I received his per- misfiiou, T listened to the © following re- cital ;- } « \I married too hastily ; Clara's beau- ty dazzled me,and I saw not herdefects ; the poor girl declares she loves me, but preferable would be her hatred. I can- mot leave her presence without being obliged on my return to account for eve- ry moment of my absence. Any spot is bettér than my home, yet I cannot seek peace elsowhere, without a cortain- ty that I must pay a severe penalty. My wife forbids me to smoke in her pres- ence, therefore I must go abroad to an- joy what I cannot discontinue at once. Indeed, the desire for such indulgence a fncreases with my efforts to leave it off.\ out of the window this cold might, tho\ I have lesought: her not to expose her health in this way ; but such is her re- wonder why am changed? I would rather die than live thus.\ ~ * solation we were at my fair face. \Well air, home atlast?\ and the door closed ere I had finished saying * good night.\ I ment, was afool. Iresolved that I tw} water on black onion seed would sprout would marry itt less thir a month, to Yours-\ > font | It Ja on ;oh tryPit!\ show H. and other unfortunates: that And fuking | woman can be governed. ~ I laid awake that night, thinking over all my lady friends, and considering| which should ho my victim. Some were too silly, othera too plain looking, but I remember one that wig beautiful, intel- }igent, and, so high spirited, that to sub- due har would be a grand achicvemient. I had wealth, position, and (excuse my vanity) not a bad person. ~The falr one'jp qhestion I had always admired, and she had. invariably received mo well, Indésd I had been assured by an ac- qusinfahce of Miss C. that I was a favor- | ite with het. But as I had resolved t6 Jead ia alogle life, I had pever entertgin- ad any serious intentions foward th4 one T now' deterrained to marry, if she would pocsspt me. I decided, to putos the chains of matrimony, to. prove that they: could not always enslave. bu \- In three weeks from that night Ihad | exught fay bird. 'We were to be unit- | ad - towards the close of the following week, in accordance with my wishes, | that we wight spend the holidays with ay parents id Virginia. i On our taturh we took possession of our ngwly furnistisd mansign, | We gave a large party, of ratherit was my par ty, that might invite all my bachelor 'trignds, as wall aq some poor. unhappy marred ones. nous «2, I was. astonished. when my | bride, agreed to all my arrangements, though Wham us well as T did that- they were poculian - . le UP ~ _\ Ob, a new broom: sweeps. clean, [ thought L - \She will show out when no longer & bride; I know she is proud | and spirited enough' 00). co ;o; The evening 523ml nd (1 confess I was skeptical as to my abili- ty to distark nix-«ltd: pesce of mind, - The guests retived, after paying mo, | reany compliments on 'my cliciceof a wife; and wa were alone, As soon as 1 could. interrupt Mary's gay and- charm conversation, I said,\\ My dear, what | dfi!‘ ginkbf\my hfifinfg - 211116 Ema and emoking arranpenients for the & n- tomen t\ g ”$ng ton, hls -\ C, it wasa Capital ides, my | hus- band; it nitist have plassad.your back- alor friends to sey that you could. not. forget thair gomfork although no dongs f I er one of them. I must note it down, but, as I bave - already said, H. married [ . ddlightfully, and | that it may never be forgotten when we give entertainments; married people are too indifferent about the comforts of poor old bachelors.\ . - : I was again disappointed ; but I de- termined not to retire until I had called forth one frown or pointing look.. arm around me; I gently drew myself from her embrace, El could not do it rudely) and took a cigar from my \case T knew that before our engagement she disliked, the habit of smoking. _ / T calmly seated myself upon 'a lounge and puffed away. bus u Ls ** Did you observe Mre. M/s brooch {\ manned my wife, coming towards ' me, and seating herself by my . side. - \ No,\ I replied, and smoking away vigorously. Mary continued to chat gaily, but sud- denly turned ~pale, and (dropped her herd on my shoulder. . She had faifited, I rang for asetvant, opened. the win- dow, and applied restoratives.. We bore her to her sleeping room, and she goon revived. e I asked, \ What made you ill? Was it the ségar 1 Why did you not speak when you first felt its effects 9\ and I felt myself blush with shame when I asked these questions, Lo \I wished to accustom myself to your smoking,\ answered my wife, \ for 1 could not: bear to drive you from my presence every time: you- wish to snjoy a segar,' ; . 4 Angel,\ I exclaimed, \ I shall never smoke again.\ ee \ Oh, my husband,\ said Mary, \ make no rash promites; the habit is not easi-} ly overcome, and Ido not ask of you to discontinue it ; now that I cannot bear it, I can retire to the library when you wish to smoke, toy ~ Sho has, never been obliged to leave thus; I have never smoked sifice, and could not be hired to take another segar nto my mouth, Ro g > . A night or two after the above occur- rehce, I was sitting by my wife, who was amusing me by recounting the events of the day which had just passed, some anecdotes relative to her house- keeping, etc. I was charmed by her af fectionate and naiveite, and would gladly hase remained by her-side. But she was not. to be subdued in all respects, and in one she had. not been tried. - Since our marriage I had not visited the club rooms, I looked at my watch and care- lessly ratuarked :-\I shall go to the club, Mary; if you grow sleepy Go not wait for me, I have a key,\ ~ A shade of sadness fiifted across her beautiful face, but it was succeeded by one of her swestest smiles? . 'Bpringing from my side she ran to the hall, brought my. overcoat, shoes, etc., placed them before the fire and said, \ do not forget. them before you leave the club, my. husband, and walk |. fast that you may not get cold ; indeed I have another reason for wishing you to hasten home-it will be a lonely ave- ning without you ; but you have depriv< your company,.\ - I hesitated-almost decided not to- go; butit would not do to yield. I Suddenly starting, my friend exclaim- | wont and was almost as dull as H., who | fancied myself a man of great weight in ed, \ Thera she is now, with her head | was also there. He observed my man» | the country, but I find ner, and whispered, ready.\ - , © I answered, * and shall be in venge for my going abroad.-Can you trouble until L acknowledge myself con- ure of taming a shrew ; but I find my- Ere I had spoken many words of con- self wedded to an angel. *I must con, (Suffer me, reader, the solemn allusion) triend's door- foes my mistake and make myself wor: that my Master had entrusted me with I was pressing H.'s hand when the door thy the wife God has given. me. 'Some ten, talents, but _I find I haye no- more |. opened, and a delicate, but beautiful other old bachelor must woo a woman that one. But I will accept the humble lady a light, which showed too to show that a woman can be ruled-I plainly the frown which disfigured her am vanquished and gladly do I yield to- such a victor.\ was enraged, and. declared that any ference? Your wife is beautiful and | heartily. wish them\ well, I will not \ Jowell, Jaat winter, there was.a man | ian who would submit to such treat. graceful and so is mine. \Your wife says she loves you;so does mine. *Hold,\ interrupted 1, \ your. wife says she loves you-ming proves it by consulting my happiness.. You warned | me against my wife's pide . and. spirit; | I grant she. possesses a large share of both, and what would a woman be with- out these traite? Mary has. excellent |. sensé and tact. ;. These teach- bor how |- to control these charaoteristics which might make us both unhappy. Yes, H., any man that Bas braingat all must not choose a beautiful wife without intellect, rather: lethim wed one with-a plain face, a warm heart, and good. sense.\ >. I shookhands with poor H. and pif- fed aim sincerely, then crossed the hall to. the room whare were dssembled many memhers of the club. =P made a farewell | address, in- which, I advised them to fol- | low my example, and shook hands -with all, Some bantered me ;- é er number said their sequaintance - with | my wife had hall induced them to look all promised to sccept my swife's invita- tion to come freely to. our house when- gyer they feltlike having quiet domes-. tio enjoyment ° .I hastened home, onter- od the dining room, where I saw the ing before the fire, near which was dtawn: a great arm chair; on the: table was a rents fora comfortable suppor. ..> _- - Trang the ball and the waiter appear- ed, I asked him who had placed my 'slippors thero, Ho smiled and-faid, \I saw. mistress put them: there, sit.\ : As it was nota Jate hour, I was, sur- prised that my wife was not waiting, al- though 'hor' to rétite if sleapyy! lon >_ ul ceny ade - I asked, \Has. Mis. B. .zetifed t'- The servant replied, \ No, sir, she is in, 'the kitchen, teaching Nanoy and Ellen mre T told the waiter not \to \disturb ~ his\ 'istrefs, but to walt in the buttery till I called him,> EX nana \o Lous < _I then stole quietly down to the kitchs en, and peeped through the glass : over the door. The large pine table contain- books, slates, oto. Thore sat my wife readingto her, and the. eyes of the other. better world, *~ My wife had been sitting with one |. 'but I will hold -on manfully Still, and | up to- an'elderly gentleman and pra around to do as I had done; and 'they | gas burning 1-my slippers were warm-\ cup and saucer, besides. other. afrgnge- | ' lay at Hartford; commenced the twen- Lof a stip, out: with between: two black females: one was: werg gazing on the face of hor : mistress;:1 . (azn if she considered her a being from -=. - Ixeturhéd to the dixiiixg'foom', 'ran 'ed T bade him inform his mistress that I had arrived. |I fear that- rome: long word was left half pronounced, for in | less than two- minutes. ske was in my. O0 (Cool.. nud ® , '* Oh, how good of you to\ return. so early 1\ she cried ; \But why did you f 'Was it not pleasant with - your club! . \No my wife, I shall go to \it no more.. -It answered \very well while I thad no home of my own; but now. T have a dear, sensible, ' loving wife, who; is more attractive than all the clubs in Christendom?) . 099 0) ~: Mary blushed tthe; compliment, and burying her face: in\my bosom, to hide tha tears that would come in ' spite of a smaile, \ May I ever deserve such 'love 'and praise from you, 'my husband/- when you left me this evening, I sat one moment on the lounge and: shed a fow tears, . because I was lonely; then I thought, \This will \not do; Charles must sometimes leave 'ma; I will im- proveusefullyevery hour of his absence. Bo after preparing for your return, I went down to the kitchen to instruct our women; for do you know that they cannot read f*. ', Ve cl f v \Is it possible?\ ~T exclaimed ; \I wonder if Thoma#; the waiter, can read? and thecorchman ? I must ascertain before I ratire this night,\ ~ ~ ~ ._ Thomas was rung tor. T said. to him, \ Tom can you read 1\: oles \*No sit,\ he <replied, hanging his head as if he were ashamed.: {n * Can George 1\ T asked.\ |.. =- ~. ~! A little, sit, he spells out the letter that come to me from my wife. . \* Good. Heavens 1\ exclaimed: Mary, \ He cannot'read the letters that coma from this own wife ! ~ Oh, how dreadful!\ That: night Thomas was: taught to read three lines, and every evening since, Mary and Ihave had our classes one hour, Thomss cannot only' 'read. his wife's letters, but he: can ~answer them, too. (aC 7 - My wife insists on my- going to : the club- onee a week, lest my bachelor friends become jealous of her, but they | have witnessed so much of our happiness, that I thnk the club room will not long be the resort of any but miserable; rejec- ted bachelors and unhappy husbands. a Coming Down. - By coming down I understand this:- Learning froni the many mortifications, disappointments, and rebuffs which we | must all meet as we go on through life, to think more humbly of ourselves, intel- lectually, morally, socially, physically, esthetically ; yet while thinking thus humbly 'of ourselves and our powers, to resolve that we shall sontinue to do our heart and a contented mind. ~ Such is my ideal of true and Christian 'coming down; and I regard as a 'true haro the | man who does it rightly. - Itis a noble than I thought it had 'been ; I had fan- cled myself a great genius, but T find I am only a.man of decent ability; I had I have very 1it- my stature was six: feet four, but I find | that I am ouly five feet twoj I_ bad fancied that in such a competition I. have been sadly beaten ; I had fancied I will not kickdoge nor curse servants ; *- p H. sighed, arose, and walked I will not try to detract from the stand- mane and it ups head: aud t r 'the floor for £ few minutes; then, ap- ing of men who. are cleverer, more em- wheels: short round, lets go both ' hind |\\ profching me heeaid, \ Why this dif inent, < or taller: than myselfy T will feet at you, and 'off like a shot..\ That | R comes of. being in a hurry. \Now if grow soured, rfoping. and misanthropic, L know L am beaten and disappointed, never give up !\ Sach, kindly reader, is CBtistian comming down !-Recreations of a Country Parson. CTs ~ Rey. Mr.. S.. had., far to preach to a congregation att---. .- Af- ter the sermon he.waited very patiently expecting: some. oce» of the brethren to. invité him home to dinner.~: In this he was . disappointed. - Ong .and .. another |. departed; until the house was 'almost as empty as the minister's stomach, 'Sum-| moning resolution, however, Fe valkgd' said :-\ Will. you go boms {a to-day for dinner, brother?\ <,\ \Where do- you live?\ ..\ About twenty miles from bere, siz.\ \ No,\ . said . the man, mote troubled. in 'that. place for 'his - wo tae ats 3.4 ain .. * 'The Garden of Eden might have been., Jocated in Kansas, . The. Bi in says thatthe river of Paradise arose fro one source, aud flowing: 'out of: the: gar- den, divided jnto four. great Tivers tun- ning into differentdirections;. -No where 'but in the south part:of Kansas is such a thing: knownon earth,: ._} ;~ 0.0. The > Postrastor-General has > very . dlosed the Post-Officé -at Pensn- cols in {consequence of the flagrant vio- lation of the rules of the Department; and the of 'public correspondence. | [> Colonel Colt's pistols and rifle facto: ty four hour. system on Thursday. night, and.will hereafter give employment to. a double set of hands. 0); Ac.; :> Aadchifie] 'land which; bein ttached to the stern: in ° ~a ropl ty In ratio to s . . agér’ say Siam. army. The Home say 'Sunday fightgn‘gfiilsnfisihfi ¢ o the bell, and when the waiter re-appear» |- .: |_ _ four men should. m very beat; and all this 'with a kindly | - *Where | coloring, '* but you must go home with |. Mow 100,\ \ Thank you, I will,cheerfully.\ . ' -butthagreat- 'After that time the minister was no | 9G 'I this city; 3 fiendbfig‘: rinisnds the United States -* Providentially Directed,\ ~* Devoully inclined persons frequently imagine that the suggestions of fheir orn ' . ‘Jnku‘niagqns‘ {ma human nature \are the directions of God. ©*_ A te. © They love to be guided by Him, and they love to think. that their pleasant | :desizes and. purposes. are inspired by Him ; thus they easily decsive. them- 'golves. . An amusing instance. of . this 'took place at: & certain Conférence, {Among the attendants was 'a very beau- drew: the admiring gaze of many eyes, particularly eyes masculine, always on 'the lookout for preity. fomining faces. ~ - \During: the intermission at Roon, 'A 'spruce young minister stepped \up to the: Presiding Elder, and said with:an air of segreoy pis cogs ott n 9 C \Did. you observe the young lady who sat by¥the first pillar on the left ?\ - x* Yes,\ said the older, * what of her #\ Why,\ said the young man, \ I feel impressed -that : the Lord desires me to take that lady for my wife. ° I {hink that she will rake 'a pood companion and. helpmeéat 'in the work of the min- Co S L ssc nene, 2s Etl‘he good alder had nothing. to ob- geebis® alltel Araya dg nt . 'Butin a few moments another youth- ful candidate for. ministerial efforts! and honors, and ' for' the nama of husband came: confidentially to make known to the elder a like impression in regard to' the same young lady.. 0 ~~~ ._ =~ .** You had 'better wait awhile. - Tt is not best-to be hasty in defermining the {source of such impressions,\ sail the pru- dent elder. - oo c. And he had well said, for hardjy were the steps of the second youth cold at his feet, are the third approached with the game story, and while the worthy confi- dent marvelled, a drew near with. the question- moe 3C ~ \Did you notice the fine, noble-look- ing woman sitting neat your left?\ _ </\ Yes,\ cried the swelling elder. - . Well; sir,\ went.on the fourth vic- tim of that one unsuspicious, girl, \it is the will of the Lord that I should make proposals of marriage to that lady. -He has impressed: me that she is: to be my wife.\ Lo m. - © The elder could hold no longer, - \Impossible! - Impossible!\ 'he ex: claimed, in an excited tone. 'The: Lord never could have intended that arty: that: .one wo-| man!” «* oe so Cog. \ comin --- tmn _ ' Courting on Scientific Pringiplet. - : Among the \ necessary . gvils\.. of life, courtship may, be: classed as one: of the: most serious. and interesting. . If at- tempted 'at all, it . should, like duelling, The subject has . not] iquette and déportment, de.; but the |. most plain and practicable riles we havé seen, gre those laid down by .Sam- vel Slick, Esq., as follows :- ol. .\ Courtin' a gal, I guess, is like catch \In trouble al- tle influence indeed ; Thad fancied that ing a young b@fie in a pasture. You put the oats in a pap, hide\ the halter; and soft-sawder the critter, and. if comes, up softly and shyly at first, and puts its quered. I married to enjoy the pleas. Rever could be beaten, but in. truth 1) nose to the grain, and gets a taste, stands off and munches <a little, looks round to see that the coasts were. clear, and ad-. yances cautious again, ready for a go if -so, pet! gently pet! it come closer, and you think-you have it, ike & grab at its. you- only hid. put your hand up slowly towards its Shoulder and: then felt along the neck for'the mane, it might perhaps have drawed away, as much 'as to say, hands off, if you please ; T like your- oats but I don't wantyou ; the chance is you {would have caught it. . Well,. what's yoaur:play, now you Have misted it? Why, you: dort give chise, for th ly: scares the onfters. bu giake' the in: the pa cope, cope, cops! and \16 '% you, and' comes up again,\ al 'skittish, stretches its neok out ever so dar; steals &'fow graing; and ther: keeps a 'réspeotful : e. Now, what d you: do: then'* \Why shake. the - and move slowly, as if you ware going to leave the pastur and make for hum, wgnén it rgpehtsffolfi’bmn 80 distrustful, comes fp, and -you alip' the halter on.\ . - with interest 1 Sevanty-six years' old, ho lives in. Mi gan; Ainsworth, the English hovelist, is fifty-four? Dr, Chapin Js forty- i six, ® slight in: fig h ~ matveloggly industrious ;\: Damas, who employs s,corps of writers \to getup novels\ for him,: is \fifty Edward Everbt A8 sixty-four ;\ [Forrest is fifty-two ; Hora forty-seven; Fitz : Greons \ Hn f charming'Ameficaq «post, w is sixty:three ; Marco, B F | alone would \have made | | Mazzint, the Italign hero, i , 'Can: Morris, \ a spbust, genial and jolly fellow,\ is fifty-six. He lives at Undor- cliff, near Cold Spring, \on the Hud ayard Taylor is only thirty-four). though hs ba¥ travelled enough £0\ man of eighty \X Papst: . . ~ Drsotimion wirk > [tractor who was building 2 t esses sli o (Onin. railroad, . obs tas been invento d inEng» | B | the depth 'of three inches. -~ - x |:. Worth Thinking About; tiful, intelligent lookinp young lady, who | ~f uot.paid the aforesaid five millions, and .~. | themselves: to , Louis <- Napoleon, and you are rough, .. Well, you soft-sawder |- it all.the time | ge level which is mine by right, and with that's 'a prefty 'dolll and it gets to |. God's help I will do my very best there. | kinlike if, and it nd tail, snorts, | 88; 0 the 'who\ saw: the fall of théqupii‘QR jifi 11814, and who ® Wriars'thejstgflélépa‘ to the French organ- in this country- The Coutrier' des Etats Unis-in which 'he predicts. the following results © from | the diemem¥ermentiof the Union': . ._ # The United - States, 128. they now stand, are respected by all-tha nations . of the earth ; but if they. wereito divide themselves into two or three confedéra- tions, then . would begin reclamations: from 'all the Powers which might think themselves entitled:to make them.\ \. \ As I gaw the fall of the French Em- pire in 1814 and 1815, and that each Power regained often more than it had lost, I can tell. you what would happen in America if the United States should separate and find . themselves reduced to | civil war. In the first place, France would retake Louisiana,. according. to ancient treaties; Spain would reclaim Florida; England. would appropriate Oregon and several other States ; Mexico, under English profection, would retake | the territory of New Mexico; Texas and California; and England might perhaps keep California ss an indemnity for the subsidies furnished to the -Mexican Gov- erament in this-war against the: former United States. .~ tou \Now you will ask me how all thase tesumptions - could. take place, and . by | what right; that is very easy to explain. | It is: Louis Napoleon. who would: begin by a- very simple and logical procéss of |- reasoning; for every one knows that Napoleon IH aims at consolidating all An roldi Qoi'ficsfmof 'the French army, - medal,\ has addressed a communication |© . |. >i Nes, she has,\ returned my, friend in Heaven.\ \ _ - Biwave ginging. as ___ - haes a gaggtlgimggém &hcighbor, I heard -. ( 26. pIeil volte Slug? s -. .. Amngxng‘tpatbgaru. P s fifll‘FJ3w'eritmfiPW- . . The child . was \up staits; T know that 1 was & childs valde how is aco. *y softness.\ I listened awhile, and then. sams 0 0 0 to 10V T) O.. . «That child has a sweet voice\ .~ a/. * aho is always singing.\ . \C Always singing.\ ~ ._. ;.; 0 \C n : 'Sweet, happy child _ Bird: of angel wings. ~ Who would not envy thea that. gushing flood of happiness within thy soul? - A soul strong to will and to. do, a-soul lighted with the'smile of Jesus,, and anchored in the surest hope ; a gout that with more thin child's strength: Shall part. the 'dark waves as it goes «down the surging fide of death, . - \ Alvays singing |\ 0 ~~ 1C '~-I pasted that way 'abaid,\ Summar was there'in her fulfléfsfilsfl'ewmg he - earth with flowers 'and the with' stars. ~The: samb'sweet 'voice was tril ling on th@'airy 05008 cull 00 00 Co + !O had T the wings of a ove I would fy,\ * This timé the little si 3 ittle singer Wéinfiefl yard. I gazed upon the spiritual soff= \ ness of her 'features-thd aweet eyes. fike * brown birds fiying to the light,\. the fine expressive: lips, the dark silken - curls; I felt that she would soon have her wish answered, fnd ® find a refuge - * Always staging 1\ 0000 | Adtumi-‘snge $1116 wild swan was ' turning towards the South ; the' leaves - were dropping from the trees, and spears * of frost glittering in the grass1 Astrip that Napoleon I had in view, with re- gard -to forsign . policy. Now, Napole- on J, in 1808, ceded Louisiana to the United States for the sum-of-five millions of dollars, which the Government of the United States- engaged to--pay to the American, merchants whose goods and ships had- been seized - during the wars | 'of the French Republic, from . 1792 . to ©1801.) But as the United -States haye &s, for more than forty years, .we have seen brought before. \Congress sessign !. after - session, a French Spoliation bill which has never been passed, therefore, as soon as the Union shall be, dissolved, those who claim this sum will address T. have. 'no. doubt, considering - his character, that he will pay their demands and . retake 'Lonisiana. - ~ England, who suspects some such thing, has already ordered several 'ships:of-war to the. fluff of Mexico.; See how Providence, haying. such an instrument as Louis Napoleon to work with, can bring everybody. back: to harmony.\: ,)}. 0 200005 sono > ' Great Salt Lake. - is now a more-remnant of what was one ountain walls of the valley,, if we may so term th limits of the: basin, are distinct wate marks, the 'more elevated order being from \75 to 100 feet \above- the level of the valley, \They ara> almost conclusive | evidence that a great sea once existed in Utah Valley, whose breakers \have' left the marks 'of their power indented: upoft the front of their mouritain.confines as a monument of their \power.. : The 'whole face of the country appears to ha sed through caloric influerice everybody's beck and: call, . I am not: - learning anything.\ ~ ~ ,> mises od Ephraim; a fatherless boy, hsd gone: ; _ Anto a shop, and after being there afew <. months; this was the complaint he mggl'és’: a no.s =. of the mightiest water collections of 'the | earth. - \Along the base of the forehead. . \Ldon't care how I do ib.\. :: ~ \I am sorey to hear you Bay 80,\ Baid> : you a: story.\ « Ephraim! . with their moral, - ¢ 1+ $ | to Bay = Please .of crape: finttefed from the -of? the.. house where my little: singer jived.. Her.: voice was _ closed. in~ death,\ and -. trembling hands had bound those truant. tresses around her white brow. :. .> is: river of eternal gladness, she 'was strik» -- ing her , golden harp and singing in tha» gushing . fullness: of imperishable glory : -Arthur's Home Magazine} | © ). > 40 -- The Mother of Luck». . =. *I don's want to stay {Beret jI ido'nv’fi l do anything but 'go strands, and be at nearly: every day to'his moth er. «day his Uncle John heard. him. *> > 'sa \\You think you are fit for. something higher, then $\ he said to the boy. . i \# Yes, sit,\ answered Ephram, \I don't - wantto be doing errands all thetime.\\ * - \ But doing strands well is 'the only - real:step.to promotion in Barrow's. ware- house,. - When you have earned a repu- ;. . k : tation \by doifig that Six-anal), 5,2???“55 85, 10 < marl nt tha 1s ness, yo®. will tise thete, and not till ; ed yourself of better society so long, thing for a man to say to himeelf, \I| be conducted according to. some well |.. _\©® Watermarks show that the like then» . < 02 0 Leda der that I can bear to spend .an evening in am not at all what I have vainly tancied defined < rules, E bas anticipation, instead of the enjoyment of myself; 'my mark is far, very far lower been entirely overlooked in books on et« « Pfefif smallbusmass,” mitt efied the boy, with a discontented pucker on his | <2 Uncle John, \for he only that is faithful -, in little things can. bo expected; to: [be. ~:; A{nithful in greater things.. - If: you do not :.; will have noreason \to suppose thht wou , 'will do anythingelso batter, . promozgipl‘i.ftgnhaze‘ ' liked Tine C . Unole Joan . though he sometimés antgd;tg‘ quarrel , Iwill However, -helooked up, as much, as i H g qfl,fsir;!’*flja.nd' Ugh}? P tremely sal ©50 mile: wortied for the: last mo lowing, published seri Illushje‘. ake that fish carinot 'He n all 034 avérage depth is fifty feet, 17 \OMiore.* + so, déalt out . tbo, fomraught I Goks, and in a word, mabagés \bu mess the best be-coulds < When the gen- $lomep who: were Im the: soup Selec mgp to 506 what good t h. hey were: mich surprised; at the midnner. \ n which the necoghtemere kept.! * Wh P* 0, mo whore ® tHoy-asked: - One he kgeflerpf'aéarg 1:33“ : that young min to: man: ie: raid, my Zoncems.’ He found ': ; and offer And he made as goo a cles. Thi By the great.white\ throne, by the : do your present work well, Mr. Barrow ;* Boys 1 &.in;\ ahd so he was promoted. \> . » ba L te
