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H . A. PHItE^t?«#iVF^P«^». „_, OK DiXUr, and *iflf Cc'«(>'\ u? id^Mee' , ^JwEdT^tkmu^tfttvsY>tfiah 4 «.» N| ; t^-^*?£iai '•\ !i BESt WlTHSTgABl.flL, , !.„ M <1 LaiS^Vsortmoni of 3ot> a*.l Yancd ,' 2riob Frlo«*f *«' I* •*ew^^*j-M* i ||(»ite Jflttirji. For rt» Journal & Republican THE C1UBM OP BIND. Wiethe flood of effulgence dial heralds the morn BireainiugWt through IIMS bulf-opeoed pariah o/J«v. Uthe macule flush which ihv lair cheek lulornn. Tb»t blooms like die rose to its gorgeous array; And tie vmle which illumes thy cerulean eyes j.. s weel at the stars burning calmly arid bright , mutely lheir vigils they hold in the skies., Like butt-as oi «eel on the vesture of night. s, YS1C, Like the i of the piper, which En1*ipe Like [tie zephyrs at evening, singing soli iu I bo kjkelho cadence which flows from Eolus' lyren, n swept by the delicate hand of die breeze |Likeilie song of M erpomenfi melodious and clean Subduing l)i« heart with its magic control, ittie sound of thy voice, fulling sweet on the And waking* 1 s of song in the soul. ,„, ,_,,, flit'li 0.1 thy cUeek will yanislr away i» the glow on thy forebead,of eve disappears- hud the sniilo wliicli illumiues thiae eyes will jsed to the deepening shadows of years ; itupen thy lieu. l\i sr-liadow ihy sk j eslalfire, I delight; LC endure. rra of thy i ins the hea Hunt gem, to embellish lliy soul. <, StpfeTribcr, 1860. C. M. I). .-xptratn. al, mmp- i many onto Jfiisallaitemts, Fall is Coming. From the New-Yoik Trilumc. Summer is over, says the Almanac.— VL- HKIV hope that so many days of .'race are allowed to Winter, after the •n of the traditional term with ( y, so a few weeks of sunshine I nd warmth may yet he added to the ! oobrief twelve which have passed since | hilly May departed. But the signs of j n accnuijiiished season begin to show • hcinselvr^ very visibly, many of them kasant enough in themselves, only like he Virginia reel that ended the evening j oar young days, they lose their zest ,htii we remember that they are the riit <>f the pleasures. Blackberries, for instance, are good kin\* but their enjoyment is a little ' decked when we think that they are the sst fruits of Summer, and we. imagine iflat we taste in them the acid chill of lie fre>h north-wester. Tomatoes are' Tekotne. making their late though blush- ing Lhtrv—but they are here inevitably assi'CiaU-d with frequent calls for cover- ed s and all available broad-spreading i\USth\l.i fabrics, to shelter the precious ones from the mighty cold. Even Teen eon: in this latitude savors of a vmnii.r heat, and purpling grapes sug- j-.-st an approaching shiver. (>jr w:!dflowers are hoisting their gay glials of Autumn, too. The cardinal jbelia flaunts its scarlet spike by the __. aterside, and as it fades its somewhat 3E! LS. atteiv d more of thej pop- e pub- i Pills. 3$ ply: JOHr^fAt itiTAULlSHVt* mi«tiH 'JH».(I >idJ id 1 ti ^itlj|«J bun :vuib :v%'v ixLiLiujihiJl iiii.-'iLUji^ui^ u^lbiL-Aikdfri. i rtt-'iliiou l?;wi I .li <. i\tT))'>Hintl. •-? • A A^-> i_- ^ns^^i r -.-. % \ >* -a*. Vf) M^W- \ \„ kiw^-^ •• ' <)Hi ifynoitf- il'jiii.iiH iV*>bWafltI toil'fo ; plague tnttW*»|ll«'»flthftlPiaiwiek--1 W e have tio 1 solution to this .or other instances of \nature at war,\ of which., the wfcfld is so full; suffice it thatso ' ii' is, and so wlenc6 jyr^VeK'it'hus foeeh P^ll since, unnumberod rtiijl%nfciX)fi,ye<ir8lagoy the sharp toothed fisfyof ,th.«,jmlw?ar:bunji ieroust periods converted ^ho sm^er./^ into diet, and left in,' ( thVir re'j'utamenta such sad remains ris tlic scales and little bones, which make the fossil coprolites so interesting. \ Eat and bo eaten \ |ias been the rule from the beginning, and we may rest assured that It is till right, however we may suspect ia tnlnudjnst- ment when it comes oiir turn to be eaten. But lot us withdraw from this. deep speculation on thistledown and flies to make more practical observations. There is another sign of Autumn go- ing by—that long wagon loaded with girls bound to the hopjpicking ; a merry party it is, rattling along with straw hats and shawls flapping and .flying, and chatter and laughter not a little. This barley-wtno vintage ^f ours is quite as picturesque and pleasant as the classic vintages of the Old World; the grape clusters are not more graceful than the hop flowers hanging in dense masses, on the poles, nor are the vine-yards on the lihine or Garonne blither now than the hop yards of Otsego, Oneida and Madi- son. There have, been pictures enough of the grape harvest; let us commend to some of our artists a study in some of the hop-fields of Central New-York —a rich map of hanging vines, a busy party of pickers ; stout men carrying the laden poles, brightly dressed women busy about the boxes, tlie old man, horse and wagon, waiting for the load, the coue-topped kiln iu the back-ground, on the side a wood skirted meadow leading down to the Otsego, the Oanaduago, the Owahgena, or whichever lake you please, beyond the swelling hills, and the forest just marked in an the prophetic tints • made »f gold and t ial' spot, with •Ann: S 1\\ the o been satis- .nimals LAl>fTS, SICK of Qui- make rt •e men- rivaled, en ad- ith the ^wenty ve their to s Cele- :r Pill* Dng th« they time com- lorougk t o I, r * freffl »**2 rheir ertfj e„sif6ae«5 C»**f and I*-*: ckskr cousin in sky-blue comes out ark another step toward sleet and low. The golden rod stands in bril- n the corner of rail fences id the edge of the pastures. A hand- •me thing is hard to find, but its com >ss shuts the eyes of most from Iroirintr »t, and they pass by to look at :•. plain foreigner raised with |lrepaid pains in a garden. Solomon all his gilded glory, could hardly « been more splendid than the patch :h;s ib'-pised plant which stands in m-'zlpcted corner. If it were a na- if China or the Himalaya, and wo'd w only with nursing and petting, iat a penny the florists would turn by its roots! The asters are not •ly out, when they are in full last of the gay and frail sister- iod. there will be a keen tang in the fingers will be cold picking ap- >ies and potatoes. f the marked features of early Autumn is the thistletown; the air is ill of it. Looking up into the cloud- is sky overhead, as far as eye can dis- i^.iish its \starry balls of down show iU'uuHiy sun-Hiumined against the dark ii'j ether. Walking by-roads or field, ery minute one of these little balloons m-s sailing by our faces *, and in a still *y r »n ih') lake, not a square rod of wa- iTbjt has one of them rolling over the urfuce or waterlogged in it. Surely h* provisions of nature for the diffusion \ »'ft'ds are most elaborate and admir- ^. while the seeds really valuable to tf*- pea* and beans, wheat and maize, ?''' so-.-d, melon seed, and the like, are av )'. slippery things, with a tendency ucip down just where they grow.— 1 downy parachute, no winged appen- a - r, \ aids them, to flutter or soar widely nd spread their useful kind ; such barbs, \ks and other adhesive contrivances make all mankind and cattlekind in- luntary agents for the dissemination burdocks, tongweed, \stick-tights\ d '• Spanish needles,\ are all dtnTed to rms which we deem of any use. Is >re any lesson in this? Were the se reversed, how much would be said the capital arrangement by which the W.\'\i\ plants were secured the widest V^ad ! As it is, we can only say that pthis, as in some other things, our spe- j .1 interests do not seem to have been j leiy considered, and that we had best woid undertaking to say why things are h and uot otherwise. &uch wise inter >retations are apt to lead only to more Ifuzzle. Behold a seasonable instance { ittle thing to be.paralleled, if need by ny big ones. Iu this September air, E ery out-door horae.is in a perpetual ster with flies, nipping bihi before, hind, around. Here and there he. Pitches his bushy tail, and the passing •[•tor admonishes the pupils walking be- w« e him to^mark; the beneficial arrange- •«tent whereby the noble animalJs given • handy fly.flap to protect himself from »ue petty tormentors, 1 ' With all dui» re- ject to the proranlgaUoBa of such easy Nsons, we submittmro questions • If the ^rsewas not to be bhten, why were pot the flies left unmade; or- formed on , »egeta r i an principles 1 Per contra, tfi *o flies were to live, and as a means a ft reto endowed with such sanguinary k Ppetite, why was the horse fitted to a A fiery linger on the leaves;\ —a single smoke rising from a remote clearing to the bright clouds above.— There is a fresh subject for the painter, if he treats it properly and faithfully to American color, foliage, life, and char- acter, it may be a success. His colors may be the clearest and brightest, for at no season are tile green of the meadows, the blue of the skies, and the reflected hues of the waters, more brilliant.— Why it is, we are not able to say, but certainly at this time of year there often spreads with the sunshine over the face of Autumn an almost metallic lustre, quite unlike the moister and softer col- oring of Spring and Summer. Outlines are hard and sharp, shadows are distinct and clearly cut, and a peculiar vividness of both form and color, is perceptible on all things. Grasshoppers are not very plenty this rainy season, yet they continue to annoy us rural people in one way or another. Yesterday a party of ladies who had on their way to church crossed a meadow, netted in their barges (or whatsoever the external lilm of ' ; woven air \ which forms the outer covering of their appar- el is called) a number of these energetic insects. Escaping one by one from the gauzy folds, they made themselves^'ery conspicuous and troublesome on such occasions. The well-known ode of Burns to an .inseot of shorter name and classic reputation, as seen crawling on a lady's bonnet at church, might be paral- leled by a poem on the merry grasshop per at church. There is one on the shoulders of that lady in the next pew in front, crawling with four of its legs from plait to plait, evidently meditating an effort of the other-and stronger pair; it stands vibrating its antennae, looking all around at once with its panoramic eyes, and wondering at which of th< many summits around it should aim its flight. But the chi'd behind cannot re- sist following it up with the tip of his pink finger, and there! she has touched it off! and away it goes like a shot to ligh', full on that bald head in the front pew, and adhere to it with all its claw: Children laugh, grown people's faces look-queer, as the sufferer, nervously lifting his hand, brushes the unknown in vader back to drop inside his collar, where, with rapid grasps of its sharp- fore feet and vigorous kick with its hin- der one, it suggests to him the idea of a ><•< •..-,-•••!. « (I !i rtciliioa \?u\n 1 .11 r.,w^')Hinn,i |l •• •»..-» ,--r»iA ^nnfutwTi nnr' ••^V'- j /L'^'l --•'- ! ( '/\i •« • .^^T\ T \ :,;; \ ,ft! f*f$r^^;:^W$! '^^.pkp&fc. ffl 8 ^sayK^^ ,re -..#.^*\•• \ \ '' ; U ! , ,m ,WMMU<U, '.UOTilS^UNT^.N. ¥.,>WEDNESDAY; 1(0I&,<. p\' ! \^ o.i! H. i yu,-,. • '•---•*\\ ; \ ,i \ tip km*,, | tl,75 AT HID OF Tgfe YIAB Imk BT i<o1vif:K int«1rY. ; , „, test if^yLwillT—wid it U haitdly doilbt- t i , fill $hat^ey,iHll. ..,-„. I, tie'tf tliem clearly comprehend that dc- ,n Tt Is'jjoofl itb bs sseaiously^ nffefttedl^vtMiion'to'a good'eause does not Ittvolve o/«t^#iHi iWgod<| 11 tlMng,'' rr -iirt* ioare4y,i«iJ ,th6 support of bad httm *hi> may seek godd thinff |r b^^ ; ^«ha^e.Y^r;opo.we^,throug^ with that cause efiurt tor human weli-Henig solicits and, —Ear o,therwjse[ If a corrupt, unworthy requjres our .co^treralion. He : whb' aspirant shall procure a nomination on shuhsth'epe'rf(<rh«liw!«iirf» po)itio>ll duties, the ticket'apprbved by upright, consci- itf'prdbaibly ai selfish, i cowa.rdlyj iWanj cntious cftiiensj it is their imperatiTedu mau, if not .al flagrantly bad one. A ; ty to the__gpqd.oa.u8e \as well as to their thousand,«yfoi|i!»es for such skulking from.; <»wn integrity, 1 jo erase his name from the requirpmotits of public duty havo'j their .ballots arid substitute that of one beet^dhvlsed—'lion*-of them $frtTj.|atiSible conspicuously Upright and deserving.— as Jonah might have maflojbr Aisexper- The better partjy may thus lose ah'bffice, Sment in the same line, which carried { but it will gairi a lesson richly worth a him into the whalers belly. Do you say : dozen offices. . . .. . that o;ir current 'polities are preponder-[- sound principh Thi rtntly corrupt? Then it is your pressing have a right to duty to contribute your best efforts So j sonatod by good men, and that it is fatal irse ye their purification. Do you say that none of the candidates are entitled to a good man's support? Then select candidates who arc, and vote for them. Do you [deem all parties alike and equally bad ? )Then start an hotiest party and support ft, even though you stand alone. It is not your duty to vote for bad men or bad measures, but it is your imperative duty to vote. A thousand abuses may, and many do, exist in connection with government, but political emasculation will cure none of (hem. If good and pure men abjure politics because they are more or less corrupt, their voluntary impotence will only serve to render bad len more, powerful than formerly. If amblers, bruisers, bullies, and' grog- eiiders have too much power already, nil the public service suffers in const-. ueiiee, what must be its fate if politics re utterly surrendered to these classes, nd they discover that they may do their .'orst wih absolute impunity'? An ex Governor (Weller) of the State if California lately shocked sums ears >y declaring, iu a Douglas speech, that he had voted at the beck of his party, to ate oii(! whom he knew to be a pro- onal gambler of thirty years' sland- Uig to the most important post: of sheriff f S.in Francisco, over one whom he rc- >gnizcd as a citizen every way deserv- g of and fitted for office! This seems hard thing to do, and still harder to •ow ; but how much better would he be who, knowing the rival candidates to be such as Col. Weller described them, Id refuse to vote at all ? Meroz.\ But how are we to know the right, i the wrong in politics?\ is often asked; \we are absorbed in our stu- dies, in our labors, in our private duties; hear but a vague, wild clamor of nination and recrimination—each par- ty charging the other with all the sins . condemned in the Decalogue, and accus I g every evil purpose. The journals we habitually read may be or their adversaries may : how tell? W e have not time nor taste for reading everything that is said on each side, much of it coarse and re- pulsive ; we hesitate, fearing to go wrong, | which would be worse than not going at j all. How shall we, without imposing inquiry and investigation, know the right from the. wrong in politics] How be sure that we cast our influence and votes! nto the scale of Righteousness and Hu- nanity V Without admitting that any ' citizen has a moral right to be ignorant of the vital facts which distinguish the Right from the Wrong in our Politics, I suggest a few touchstones that evcry man can readily apply for himself: I. Cast your eye over the circle of your neighbors and townsmen, and men- tally divide them into twoolasses—those who live virtuous, exemplary, useful lives, and those who are neither desira- ble lior creditable members of the com- munity. See what proportion of the former class side with each party, and what proportion of the latter. If a ma- jority of those whom, entirely apart from politics, you would recognize as good citizens, are found on one side, and a majority of the opposite class on the other, you may judge therefrom with which p-irty you probably ought to act. II. Make a list of all those you know who are distinguished for benevolence, philanthropy, and ^an earnest, even if mistaken, anxiety and effort to make life less burdensome to the unfortunate); then make a counter list of all those who seek to live at the expense of their fellow-men—gamblers, rum-sellers, pan- ders to lewdness and fosterers of vicious appetites generally—and see how each thereafter, i to any and It will be taught that and righteous measures bodied in or pei _.\!«*. Tho manner of the qfv£#Beer.who in fllcte'd the- pudishtnent, and\ Hi* shbiie- irjr/entconTersation wil^jip^.alfoqt.it, jo, dicatcd that it was by no means an unus- ual occurrence with him. I had acciden- tally encountered him, and ho'was show- ing me his plantartiori. lln going from one side to the other, wo had twice cross- ed a deep gully, at the bottoiu pf'which was a thick covert of brushwood. W e Thus shall bettilr nominations bo secured .Mirer vista be opened 'vt*y ono who is honestly inquiring for th^i side of truth and right- So ^h ill Humanity be iudis- Purity, and Worth bear dently intending to hide herself ifrom olubly allied ti vay evermore. to seek to eonhmend or advance them | in the bushes. through the no nination of any other.— \ Who are you there?\ -' \ - \ ' \Sam's Sal, sir.\ \ What are you skulking there for?\ The. girl half rose, but made no reply. \ Have you been here all day ?\ '• No, sir.\ \ How did you get hero?\ She made no answer. \ Where have you been all day V The reply was unintelligible. After some further questioning, she . V 1 , _. ,. . '\_ r ,, . j said her father accidentally locked her Who Iras not, let-the power of that!. . . . ,. •' , , . , , ., . . . ' , . , ' in, when he went out in the morning. <Iiarm which binds the heart to the liome I .< rr , , i: i , (r ,. -?n of its early days—to the spot blessed i _, ,/ , , • , 7* .»• •' i i i , ,. .. J , •'., , 'iii i 1 \ Pushed a plank ofl, wir, and crawled bv a father's smile and a mother s love ? . „ ' ' Amidst all the bustle and occupation of Ul ' r '' , . u ^'- .. . - , , .... , •,»,,.. ,•' • t , lhe overseer was silent for a moment, auvanoed ife—amidst a the disappoint-!. .. , .. . , . . . . _,,,,, ' _.,,., i, ,,, 1 1 . . ookuig at the girl, and then said, \J hat mentsand trtaUthethciughtswdl wander , t - )o _ ( . ( ^ (i ; back to those Happy days when all w ,!S arose at one, and walked towards him ; ,nd fondly I\ 1 ' Home! Sweet Home! _, I IN . i i - ». | IfWoys bring them in if they chose to.— *•' . J Bho'jf depended on thenv for their food, and they bad only to atop 1 the supplies to 1 oblige them to surrender.-— F. L.. Ohn- << fJTEW SERIES—No. 39, 1 Tradrgy—i Sewe in Real Life. From the Oinnha Nfbraakian. Proud as 1 am of beautiful Nashville, the capital of my native State—^much as' I admire its marble capital, standing so palace-like on Cedar \Hill—and appreci- were crossing it a \third time\ and had| «^g »f I do the beauty, wealth of mind, nearly passed through the brush, when \* *\'*\ ' *\\' ' tho overseer suddenly stopped his horse, exclaiming, \What's that 1 Hallo ! who are you there 1\ It was a girl lying at full length on the ground at the bottom of the gully. thoughtful composition—competition to hn listened to by people who read Irving, Diokens, Thaokery, Carlyle, Macaulay, Everett, all the week—carmot be | pro- duced by any living man unless he dis- tils his heart's blood into sentences, and converts into paragraphs the very aub- stance of his brains. It is a fact, too, that reading is far more fatiguing than speaking. Take a book and read nloud for an hour, and you will be tired. Speak for an hour in animated and earnest manner, and you will find yourself cheered and refreshed. It acts upon- the body like wine, some- times. Men there are who have addres sed great assemblies two or three times without once being aridlaste of many of its citizens of either sex—I have seen much in that city to regret and deplore. A stranger may not land there but he has to pass through a most disreputable locality in WaterSt.— j every day for week At the hotels ho will find the well known ; painfully fatigued. black leg and faro dealer associating with j Nop is it difficult to learn tho art of ex- gentlemen, and if he be a stranger in their , temporaneous speaking. It is easier to ways, he is likely to become a victini ol | learn to speak well than to write well. his own confidence and ignorance, as of Great speaking, as we have before re- their skill and, cunning. j marked, is tho mingled overflow of a full One evening, shortly after the close of j ...j.,d and a full heart. Thorough study the Mexican war, 1 found myself at the , „f the subject, a sincere interest in it, old \inn\ once kept by the noble Fur-; and a little practice, will enable most of guson, in company with Frank C, Bill | mon t o address an audience so as to com- N., and two or three other friends who m and and retain its attention, had with me faced death on the plains of; There is no doubt that preaching will and afterwards \reveled in tho be one ..f the vocations practiced among •f the Montaznmas.\ We had ....... to the end of time. It is natural, it ^rwt^a Koike*, the mi, allow*! by law ? haS?«3?5.\i dSS?''\ when h n «\? e is >«• Th« Joeing lUiWMtea. ha, 4Ulg« drtulation- l.u. arTorJI 0> a dwlrable madlwa fo, mtotnM,,*. \ Mexi( halls dined together, and the wine had w been idle ; therefore we felt inclined f any kind of fun which might present i <nry that the wise i way, bring them light ii ger ov id life • the ,d lo 1 the in tin. i thcr richer ed a s of the tion w place assim the la 111. of tlu which rally Justit and w tient Polit i Iielig J latter ;oiild s. is ••villi ufate.l tt. r. \..t.e : tiill--, party op peal: V, to tl •hii-h is o f the cs—a s ion ill: on th .•em s the 1 in el);;ir.iel-.-r in lb Whe most a to ( ie sen most blen if an it did e other, tr.-ng ' fonnei- :• pop' th-.-r o ^ frequicntly tiinent ; aver.-ie uinir o v man * not c. the ,» t'ia' von unhs s and pii ul-ir dis iral or a •lice, to ; of II. to an f II -ligt n.llid rl .lot- his resu r pn yo u rpos cuss prin nd n ahst mi ii •1 i : •HI lleri - I'oli mp- >per at \ e to ions ted, :atu- r.iet litV, inu- w'ith .!: a ties, lavantula or scorpion. When you bring j cFass is divided politically. If a major- grasshoppers to church, ladies! try to • ity of the former is found on one side, keep them quiet; it is uot the thing at all to pop them about upon your neigh- bors. We had a novel meteorological spec- tacl'o*one hot, cloudy, thundery day, not long since. The observer, whose clear account I give, sat looking upon the lake, when a mile or so above, three or four lit \shadow streaks of rain \ descend- l from a dark cloud, began to move across it from west to east. Soon they •w darker, and began to revolve around h other like the shafts of a reel, round and round, faster and faster, while the L-loud above blackened s and lengthened ' <>r a* •' such a U -ligmu would b • doVnward ' through tliem, the water be- j oeath^began to whirl in rapid circling waves, and spray arose and filled the air. The thing quickly assumed the form of a marine waterspout (of which the ob?er-' ver had seen many in the tropics) and moved across the Jalce, whirling with great velocity, and roaring \ like a great fanning-mill,\ said a fisherman who was nearer to it than he likjed, and why esti- mated the cone of up^tlrawn water, and spray as being V'as big as a house.\— Passing off to sW, it diminished, do- ing no damage saVe stripping and strew- ing a few th msandsW leaves and twigs, and seemed to rise up and soar of£ bal- loon-like, to the eastward. Probably it was identical in charadter, though infer- ior in mischievous povt-er, to the torna- does of like appearance, one of which destroyed houses and' barns, with such explosive, fury, near Utica, a few years since. \ OWAHQBNA. —The following is Said to. be a. _goi»d explanatiott of the difference between printing and publishing:—Ajady having,: kissed A gentleman iii jjhe prjesooee of ajal editor; jokingly ho^edjjtbat lie wou\d not say anything about i t in,his paper,— \Ah ! no, madam, 1 ' replied the editor; \ we often print su^ things o^rsejLve.s, but we never publfeh penv f '.\;\''*•' •herishiiig if such these were. If there be any party that revolts at the blending of religion with politics, it is not likely that one whose religion is at all vital and pervading will find himself at home in that party. -These mere hints as to party affini- ties can be acted on by any rational be- ing without aid from any extraneous source, and without undue absorption of time. A few hours' intense reflection and comparison' in'lhe silent night watch- es must supply almost any bne#ith da la whence to determine with 1 reasonable approach to certainty-with wnonVahd on which side he ought tb a'rrtiy himself.—* And, having thus made his' decision, he should^aeb upon it, not haltingly, grudg- ingly,partially, but with generous alac : rity and unshrinking fidelity. ' If there be a commuhity whereof the conscien- tious, •Crdd-fearing' members 1 are less earnest or less . effective in politics than' others', then ought their religions jieal to find enlargement of its aoojpe if tidtf an increase of its iotensitry.; > '-' ! • i* • And much the larger share of politic*! labor will naturally devolve npen Ybttng -r-Many of* the auppjcwwd inoceasersI of] knowledge have only iivea a new mMne, [jtodoften a worse, t^> wh»» t wiwt, well known before. — 4t Let the light beam on me,\ as the) felioir said when the Hsantling struck him. green sn wiideriKKss. rsurelv lh« nore brightly ! the'trees waved a foliage ! and the waters murmur- ifter melody ! Life was then one dream of beauty—a bright vision which received its coloring from that freshness of feeling which -made life fraught with enchantment, ere the young heart had learned to harbor one suspicious thought; or one generous and ardent feeling had beeti chilled and withered by the worldly wisdom and selfish prudence of a cold, heartless world. In those hours when sleep asserts her dominion, and fancy seems to delight in blending, in one fan- tastic group, the past and the present— who has not visited the home of infancy, and felt his heart beat quirk as he again trod the avenue of that >weet sequester- ed spot, and heiird the kindly welcome, ami saw that look of tender love, which was wont to reward every infant exer- tion in the acquirement of knowledge? There is the cheerful, affectionate band of glad companions, wnb-played and sung in harmless glee; who with smiles lit up the hall, and cheered with songs the hearth; whosci voices mingled in one hymn of praisej and who bent the knee around one family altar. Sweet and cherished recollections! Yes, in dreams we may revisit that home, and all —even the loved, the lost, are there. But if we should visit it in our waking hours, might we not ifealize the. story of the Persian, who ca|me to the place of his birth, and said \The friends of my youth—where aire they?\ and echo an- swered, \Where are they?\ The heart may form new—it may form dearer and stronger ties—chains of affection, to be severed only by the hand of death ; but there is one feeling which can never be felt again—that,unsuspecting confidence, chatarm enthusiasm,which lent its kindly- glow to all it in^t. We may love well —we may rejoice in the possession of a more rational, more intellectual happi. ness—but the [first charm of life has passed away like a leaf on the stream that will never feturn. Pieices of Music. The art of music, whose power has been acknowledged by the most pro- found thinkers of all ages, is of later growth than her sisters, poetry, sculp ture and painting; and its means of communicating ideas are also less posi- tive and direct;| but the principles which governs its manifestations arc strictly analogous, and We recognize in its very vagueness that yearning after the Infinite, that feeling for'ineffable loveliness.which defying, by the Electrical rapidity of its action upon the mind, the slow deduc- tions of reasons ; and all powers of anal- ysis, approaches the Divine it its bright mystery and inexplicable influence upon our sentiments ijnd emotions. The exquisite| sensations which sweet sounds excite ate generally said to be reason of association. A strain which delighted us in ;early life, whenever it again meets the'ear, will, in some meas- ure, restore toitha heart the sunshine and the fresh-brdathing verdure of youth. A song which \W, first heard from the lids that we loved will ever after thrill through the hearft with joy or sadness, according as thoipasston has been fortun- full. The chain of asso- i t,he electric touch is felt lie frame, and thoughts lumbered in the breast start at the magic sound into a sudden and vivid existence. Such is the power- music, that we havt jn of feature, aud of ap tly iron frame, who, at the sound of some unforgqtten melody, have shed tears, and have |elt the full force of mu-j sic like children] •*— Difficulty ik a severe instructor, set er AIS by the supreme ordinance of a >arental Guardkn and Legislator, who knows us betterjthan we know ourselves, aud, lie loves u^ better, too. He that wnestles.with us strengthens our nerves, and' sharpens out\ skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ! TWs.amicable.conflict with difficulty dbliges.us to ah intimate acquaintance with oiir subject, and'eom- f els us to consider it iri all its relations t will.npt suffeif us tb. be superficial. she. was about eighteen years of age. A bunch of keys hung at her waist, which tlie overseer espied, and he said, *• Ah, your father locked you in, but you have got the keys.\ After a little hesitation, the girl replied that these were the keys of some other locks ; h,r father had the door key. Whether her story was true or false, could have been a^c'rtained in two min- utes by riding on to the gang with which her fath.-r was at work, but the overseer had made up his mind as to the facts of | the case. \That won't do.\ said he, \kneel down on your knees.\ The girl knelt on the ground ; he got off his horse and holding him with his left hand, struck her thirty or forty blows across the shoulders with his rough, flexible rawhide, whip, but with no appearance of angry excitement on the part of the overseer. At every stroke the girl winced, and exclaimed, \Yes sir!\ or \Ah sir!\ or \Please sir!\ not groaning or screaming. At length he stopped, and said, \Now me the truth.\ The, girl repeated the same story. \You have not had enough yet,\ said he, \pull up your clothes ; lie down.\ The girl without any hesitation, with- out a word or look of remonstrance or look of entreaty, drew closely all her garments under her shoulders, and lay down upon the ground, with her face towards the overseer, who continued to (log her with the rawhide across her naked loins and thighs, with as much strength as before. She now shrunk, away from him, not rising, but writhing, grovellirg, and screaming, \ Oh, don't, sir! oh, please stop, master! please, sir! oh, that's enough, master! oh, Lord! — oh, master! master! oh, God, master, do stop! oh, God, master!\ A young gentleman offifteen was with us ; he had ridden in front, and now, turning on his horse, he looked back with an expression only of impotience. at the delay. It was the first time I had ever seen a woman flogged. I had seen a mau severely cudgjled and beaten in the heat of passion, before, but never flogged with a hundredth part of the severity used in thiscas;?. Iglanced again at the perfectly passionless, but rather grim, business like face of the overseer, and again at the young gentleman, who had turned away\; if not indifferent, he had evidently not the slightest sympathy with my emotion. (July my horse chaf- ed with exe'tement. I gave him the rein and spur, and we plunged violently into the bushes and scrabbled fiercely up the steep acclivity. The screaming yells and whip strokes had ceased when I reach- ed the top of the bank. Choking, sob- bing, spasmotic groans only were heard. I rode out to where the road coming digoiiallv up the ravine, ran out into the cotton field. My young companion met me here, and immediately afterwards the overseer. He laughed as he joined us, and said : \She meant to cheat me out of] a day's work, and she has done it, too.\ \ Did you succeed in getting another story from her ?\ \'No ; she stuck to it.\ \ Was it not perhaps true?\ \Oh , no, sir; she slipped out of the gang when they were going to work, and he has been dodg.ng about all day, first i.- desirable, and gooil sh'.uld, in thi* selves to bear upon the masses of kind, to instruct, elevate and warn them. A young mum of very plausible ad- Many things will change, and will pass dress and most genteel appearance, had: away. The church usage of to day will in someway got into the company, and ! nut,'perh:ips, be known a century hence, though from words that he dropped, I ! but better ones will be devised. But knew that he was a gambler—I content- preaching is eternal. Mau will never be ed myself with avoidiiigany conversation ' willing to do without it. It is import- with, letting the rest, do as they pleased ant therefore, that the art of preaching in regard t > him. I heard them call him ; should share in the general improvement Morford. and afterwards learned he came \,f the age, and that the secret of holding from respectable stock. . ' After we had drank a few glasses at the bar, to \top off\ with, a walk was proposed ; and Morford volunteered to show the boys some fun, and was select ed as pilot. This did not please me overmuch, but I would not let any whim of mine break* up tho party, and so I !Yo?eIty of Prairie TraTd. \\ BV N. P. WILLIS. The prairie ride from Chicago to the Mississippi by the \Burlington and Quincy Railway,\ is likely to be the newest experience—the strangest aftd most instructive—at present within t(ie reach of the American traveler. It Is about an easy day's journey across the prairie State of Illinois ; and, while it is full of surprises for the eye and the mind, the accommodations of the cars are so admirable as to make the trip remem- bered as a mere luxury. People who are in search of new sensations,' shoujld go to Chicago as a starting point for that : ride, as they go to Niagara or Trenton Palls. To overtake a thunder shower, whirl through it and outrun it, was the first of the day's exciting novelties. W e saw it ahead of us on the prairies, as you see a single black cloud in the sky, with the sunshine around it. It was moving in tho same direction, probably at about/ twenty miles an hour, aud we seon bc- uan to overtake it, with our better har- nessed thunder and lightning. The con- ductor pointed the dark mass out to me, HOIne fifteen or twenty minutes before we entered the outer skirls of the, shower, and we were in a pelting rain, with light- ning and peals of thunder, for perhaps ten minutes, when we emerged in fair .veather on the other aide, and leaving the storm to lag behind us, like the \slow eoaeh,\ that it was! But, certainly, it was very queer thus to give thunder and lightning the go-bye. It seemed to me, somehow, anticipatory of another state of things. When we F i nd moving great bodies of men should mdcrstood. irotir part, we are convinced that rearhers of the future will xpe.-d- to cople—not read.— L'djvi r . Management of a Colt. ate or unsuceess ciation is struck, through the win that had Ion; ful influence o\ known men stei In the first place, never entrust him to W e visited various saloons in 5 Union • the care of a person of ungovernable tem- and other streets ; and Morford, thinking . per. Secondly, he should be treated lie had got matters in the right train, ! with kindness from the beginning, until started, at the head of the party, for the he is ready for labor... Since Rarey laid faro rooms of Sam B., one of the heavi- his method of subduing the horse, before est gamblers in the city, situated on Wa- the public, I have made the horse and his ter street, aforesaid. \ ' [diseases my study.. The colt should be We were passing a long brick building 'commenced with when quite young, and but a short distance below the bridge, handled carefully, as he is quick to resent when a succession of screams, evidently an injury. I begin as soon as he is able from females, and other indications of a | to run about—get him so that he will general row, fell upon our ears. As the not run away at your approach—get his noise came from the brick buildings, we head in your hands—if he wants to get were not long in making an entrance , it away, let him—you can easily get him thereto, and in a moment witnessed one ! again. After handling the head so that of the most disgraceful scenes that man he is not afraid, pass on to the side and can look upon. \ limbs. The sooner he gets used to hav- Two frail women were engaged in a '• ing his legs handled, the easier he will be beastly fight, while other brutes, in the to shoe when necessity requires it to be garb of men and women, were encour-j done. See that the dam gives plenty of aging the combat. The scene did not I milk. If she does not, teach the colt to last long, for Morford, with a cry of hor- j drink cow's milk ; thj?re is nothing bet- ror, sprang forward, and dashing the ; ter to promote the growth. Great care combatants apart, drew one of them-to- j should be observed iu not using the dam wards him. J so as to heat the milk, as a great many \Good Heavens ! Pauline— you here !\ c °lts are rendered worthless by so doing- he exclaimed, in a voice of agony. ' I should, in no case, let the colt remain \Yes Henry,\ said the girl, whose I with its mother after it is five months .icrsonal beauty was great, notwithstand-J o\d, as it gives her time to get in good Sng the evidence of intoxication, and j condition for the winter, and it is also whose likeness to himself was striking— [ the best time for him to shift for himself. \You broke father's heart by turning a Do not let him remain out after, the gambler, and I thought I'd finish the nights get cold and frosty, as it- will do wor k \ him no good and much harm. There is She never finished the-, sentence that plenty of skimmed milk at this time of »hc had commenced. I the year; give him all he will drink ; it With a wild cry of despair, the young! will not hurt him. After he is weaned man drew a pistol from his pocket, and° I i* the time to commence halter breaking before a word could be spoken, or a hand i h\m.— Cultii>:or. be raised to rescue, her brains bespatter-[ ~ \•\ — ed the wall near where she stood. And _ MflrUng Fnn. while yet the report echoed in tin id the stifling smoke rose over her d. body, the young gambler cocked a sec one barrel of his revolver, and coolly saying. \Good bye, gentlemen, 1 must go with my sister !\—fired and fell dead beside the corpse of his victim. It turned out to be true that she was his sister, and this was the first knowl- edge he had of her having, like himself, parted from the path of honor and rec- titude. Our fun was over for that night, and we went back to our quarters a sobered and saddened set of men. None of us will be likely to forget that tragedy as long as life lasts. Extemporaneous Preaching. The people prefer it. They like a man to look them full in the face and address therfTTroldly, from the heart, and not the manuscript. The electric speakers have all spoken extempore. Wesley, Whit- field, Spurgeon, Beecher, the Catholic preachers who have produced the great- pressions, and the widest and long Once v I met a y upon the laughable ing herse 'ii traveling in a stage coteh ing lady who seemed to be nstant look out for something and not content with laugh- took great pains to make . —J^e pleasaitest paft-bf a man's life Ts generally that which passes in court- 'ftvt^^wEa^ '^18^ tW.par*y r^lovM^lticI with dlscre-j tion. ,«J*oy% Rehire, Ijope^al^th^ pleas*' ibnjfotio^s pf.i\' and toasted counselors tof'&os*w&have [• ^l^-^flH 801 ^ £* &? *™ & 27* wTl?TJF I i«g ^otTo^s off e sdttf, r^se in the #ui Me«.:- l Tkeya»etne d#%'e©mptaiorisf au Tt^_Ai>DBOiiH r : \ M and totisl^oounseloraefiaaiewW have : 8UU ? W?\\ ^ uot yet dedded on their iMtt«i|-i'«lHMtf' -^A WeAejrn editor,<iQnlplftiningthat have iinwasted energies «nd (fee ewhusvj he couM not sliep arte night* summed lasuvwhickiyears are apt toxnrimy'if^p ibe<saii&sj: U -\\«* • J \' ? - : !! -*' = ; ig. babe^of sixteen man thi. The? *re «ntrammdled< by fubtto miwala to uiUguidedor etfete .^i^'»'|-- , 'Li'- v '^iHl*4Jri*«U -* «. • ; J£VT-I iteiteaUcMgtMtt tb* presetttVibs^faTji ^^^A^f^hmm * E for itei$tli^ >,»31^«^ ^ <;,..=„ >:;.•; ;, , u selve. poverfully and hwtingly' felt fcyf * ^#«kt ont Jjepeattt,\ as tn*i their actions In the present political oon-| said when a fellp^r went to kiss her. lione,;aftthi IOW, rise in t going to one place, then to another, as - _ , - ,, . . , . . , . . . _, she saw me coming. She saw us cross- ^'J h(ivc a l luok ! a ^'^ into the e ^ ° ing there a little while ago, and thought ot the people, and given them sermons we had gone to the quarters, but we | turned back so quick we came into the) gully before she knew it, and she could do nothing but lie down in the bushes,\ \ I suppose they often slip off so.\ \ No, sir ; I never had one do so be- fore—not like this; they dften run away to the woods, and are gone some time ; but I never had one dodge off like this before.\ Was it necessary to punish, her so! severely ?\ j \ Ob', yes, sir,\ (laughing again.) \If I \ hadn't punished her so hard, she would, have done the same thing to morrow, and half the people on the plantation add have followed her example. Oh, you've no idea how lazy, these,,niggers are; you Northern people don't know anything about it. They'd never do any- work at alt if they were ftot afraid of get- ting Whipped.\ We!)soon afterwards met an old man, who, on'being closely questioned, said that he had seen t&e girl leave the gang as 1 they went to lirork after dinner. ' It appeared that she had been at Work during the forenoon, but at dinner time the gaflgf •*«*. mpye^_ i and..as it, passed Awitfgh th'e'galJy she slipped out. The drivel ftad^tioji missed her. The over- Seer ssM'SBtft Swhen hefjrst toqk charge of this |rttotfetion-tt» ! 6e]_frdes htn aViy j-A^gWA^deal^-ithey disliked.him sp much. They used W> My it was hell to be on his place; b*t *fter * few mooth* Jtkey got! uJw*W<hts trsya, and hked him befter' peopf hot and fresh from their own souls. | It is better for the preacher. The man who writes his sermons is the slave of the desk. A sermon of an hour's length fills thirty or forty pages of fools- cap, equal to six or eight of those col- umns. The best portion of every day, therefore, must be up to the mere manu- al labor of accumulating tww knowledge for the enrichment of his own mind and the minds of his hearers ; the pjreacher is polishing up sentences, and rbunding off sentences, when he ought to be out in the world enjoying nature, observing life and ga'heringnew illustrations,eiiilarging his experience and expanding his chest; he is a very prisoner in his library, por- ing over musty books, looking to books and depending upon, books for his infor- mation. It is not book men, bat out of door men who move the masses, i Books are good, are indispensable, but jthereis such a thing as being besotted with books. Dull preachers often are. Of all toil done by man on this earth, literary composition is most exhausting. This is the, reason wily s o many preach- ers lose their lives and health in a voca- tion which, rightly pursued, is most fa- j yorable t o longevity. They think it is! the delivery tof the sermon that kil|s them* because their bodily weakness takes the form of sore throat. On the contrary, it is the writiujf that does the business— the Six-or eight hours of daily bending oirer the; topk.>- TWs'!*#-' wbit ^reduced 1,- Edwards to a living sfeeUton, and that generally If many ofi sf/toejr m * -fotfnigwti fltiftfeajwl rest of,, ve tiiem of leges until they negroes on the plantation ecmld | *^,^^ the Vest. He had/** ^ [ #^^^^ afSj^^^S ** ^km^l<& in^9e t%*. WneS| tia^ffl^it^^^aw s^aers with pallid-^reaehers, and raaka* clergy '* ' synonymous terms. wsmi.msz^tg'grS'^ ifceventilotQler- wearing hlmsetffwit. I • or fifteen pages a day, of superior, others laugh nlsc Now, traveling in a stage coach is very prosy business. People in this situation are apt to show themselves peevish and selfish ; so the young Jady's good humor, for a time, was very agreeable to the travelers. Every old barn was made the subject of a passing joke, while the cows and hens looked demurely on, lit- tle dreaming that folks could be merry^ at their expense. Animals are not sens- itive in that respect. They are not like- ly to have their feelings injured because aking fun of them ; but when we to human beings that is quite a different thing. So it seemed to me, for after a while an old woman came run- ning across the fields, swinging her bag at the coachman, and in a shrill voice begging him to stop. The good natured coachman drew up his horses, and the good old woman coili- ng to the fence by the [roadside, squeez- ed herself through two bars, which were it only in a horizontal position, but very near together. The young Ia)Jy in the stage-coach made some ludicmus re- mark, and the passengers laughed. It icmed very excusable ; for in getting through the fence the poor woman had made sad work with her old black, bon- net, and now taking a seat beside a well dressed lady, really looked as if she had been blown there by a whirlwind. This was a new piece of fun, and the girl made the most of* it. She charicatured the old la ly upon a card ; pretended, when she was not looking,.to take patterns of her bonnet, and in various other ways tried to raise a laugh. At length the poor woman turned a pale face toward her. My dear,\ said she, \youare young, healthy and happy ; I have been so too, but that time has passed ; I am now de- crepit and forlorn. This coach js taking me to the death bed of my child. And then, my dear, I shall be a^ poor old wo- man, all alone in a world.where merry girls think me a very amusing object.— They will laugh at my old-fashioned clothes and odd appearance, forgetting that the old woman has a spirit that has loved and suffered and will' continue to live forever.\ Tho coachman stopped before a poor looking house, and the old lady feebly descended the steps. • How is she V\ was the first t^emblijs_g inquiry of the poor mother. \Jus t alive,\ said the man who was leading her into the houpe. . j .,.••......• Putting up iAe steps, the driver^mount- ed-iris' ^*,\W-WiSflfe^W ' agft]^ 1, W f ii&Btr' ; ' ^^\mm^^m^^^ ___ ^mS^mi^ will do her good, telegraphing • ut, at the beginning of our spir i-els, in another life, I am sure I shall have a vague impression ofhaving done unething of that sort before—this expe- ence of distancing a well trained thun- der cloud being laid away in my mein- ry. But it is to the wild animals of the rairie that the swiftness of the railroad rain is most inexplicable. Ages upon ges have established certain relative •ates of speed between man and the sub- ect races of creation—the mounted ninter being the fastest pursuer for which he elk, the reindeer, the bear, and lhe •raiiie wolf, the fox and the wild cat. he skunk, otter and martin are all pre- wired. The small line of rail track, al uosl hidden in the grass, is not reco_g i/.c. I by these wanderers over the vast .laiiis of the West, and, while thinking themselves still safe in their own hori- bounded wilderness,-they suddenly the coming of the new monster!— .It is a daily experience of the trains on this railroad across Illinois, to overtake >ome one or more of them ; and it is vu- \ions—so the different conductors ami urakemen all told me^-hownone of them iccni to have the sagacity to escape bv •unning off at a right angle*! Almu-t •nvariably they flee before the pursuer. u>d are rundown, at last,to fall fainting ,.vith terror and exhaustion in-the neigh- borhood of the track. To the wild birds on the praires the ilarm whistle seems the most Tqrmida- ble part of it. \With the settler's cattle grazing»loose, it •is.jnecessary to:have the scream of'the pipe unusually sharp and loud ; aqd the engineer often pulls the . string of his.fearfnUzenitB-piercer wheu , a flock of wild geese, 1 widgeons -or prairie hens are'flying over,-' Murder!\ the voice' if the new monster'! To the great sar- ng of the huntsman's p6wder ,and shut, half the birds,*at least, waL fall 'sensless to the'iground,' from pure^fright'! , We' ; - iw but one approach tc> a tragedy of\ his kind— an-astonished eagle,\ wln-an we \ nit to his^pecd^or a horizonal flight of ibout |_fi.ve or six miles,\ .and whom the >rakeman pointed put to me as likely to- •ome down. But when he found we -vere getting fob; close-.upon 'him, .the oyal bird took .suddenly t o s a _serie§ of v rations, and was soon $ut of sight— viser, of course, as to the future policy >f keeping above the*level of things, new' .nd noisy ! Every Man His Own Insurer. The following suggestion to merchants, housekeepers, and {hose erecting new. buildings, may not be valueless : Keep matches-in metal boxes, and out. • f the r ach of children. Wax matches ue particularly dangerous, and sttoujil ie kept out of the way of mice and rats. Fill fluid and camphene lamps only ->y daylight, and never near afire -or .ighk Far better dispense with them dtogetherr Do not deposite wood or coal ashes in .vooden vessels, and be surcthat cinders • re entirely extinguished, before depos- Never take.a light or ashes under the taircttse.. . Be careful never to place a light near urtains. ^ Never fake a light into sicloset. No smoking should be permitted in .varehousesor barns. Where ifurnaces are used, the princi >al register should always bo fastened .pen. a) Build all Sfomneys from the earth. Stove pipes should be at Tea»t four niches from ^woodwork, guarded by tin, and enter substantial brick chimney* horizontally/' TheliUttB OHM. Do you ever think how much work a ttlechild does in a day? How, from sunrise to sunset, the dear little feet pat ter around—to us—-so aimlessly. Climb- ing up here, kneeling down there, run- ning to another place, but never still.— Twisting and turning, rolling and reach- ing and donbling, as if testing every bono aud muscle for their future uses. It is ery curious to watch it. One who does so may well understand ^he deep breathing of fie rosy little sleepers, as with one arm tossed over its curly head, it preparesfor thenertjday'rgymnastics. Tireless through the ^£y, till that time comes, as the maternal love that so pa- tiently accommodates itself, hour after hour, to its thousand wants and caprices, real and fancied. . A busy creature is a little child, lo be looked upon with awe as well m jU>- ligbt, a s its clear eye tocrks trastingly into feces that lo God ^i*|£! essayed to wear a mask &j&m**f* ppm. in its little chair to over the white lie W^-^.-JKi\** shottd
