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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER; DEVOTED TO LITEKARY, SCIENTIFIC, AGRICULTURAL, POLITICAL, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. VOL. 1. ONEIDA, MADISON COUNTY, N. Y., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1852. NO. 20. THE ONEIDA TELEGRAPH Will b« published every Saturday at Oneida, (De pot,) Madison Co., >«. Y . ». FROST, Editor & Proprietor. A. K. EATON, Conductor »f Scientific Department. OFFICE—No. 2, EMPIH BLOCK , (up stairs.) TERMS—One dollar and Twenty-hve Cents per annum, in advance, to office and mail subscribers, On* Dollar and Fifty Cents, in advance, to Village subscribers, who receive their paper by the Carrier Where tea or more copies arc scut by mail to one office, they will be furnished at One Dollar each, and the person obtaining the names and sending us the money, shall receive a copy for his'trouble. Wher* payment is delayed beyond three months twenty-fire cents will be charged in addition to the •bore rates, and fifty cents additional if delayed beyond six months. Good inducements will be offered to agents to •anvaM for subscribers. RATES OF ADVERTISING One Square, 8 Weeks, $1 00. 3 Months, 3 .00 . \ •' 6 \ 6.00. \ \ 1 Year, 8.00. A liberal discount made to those who advertise by the year. ty All communications must be pott-pauL~ dDrfginnl |tortrtj. Li«e* for the Telegraph. Ia gazing over Nature's widespread plsn, From the mean insect to its master, man, From the low flower that bends its humble head, To the proud oak that stands with arms out-spread, From the young sparrow as it mounts on high, To the old EagU with the flashing eye, From Use small stream with crest of sliming foam. To tho broad ocean, the brave sailor's home. And from the eastern cradle of the sun, E'en to its death-bed when the day is done,— All things in Nature, ever strive to rise, Till each to end its new found glory dies. T** flower just bursting from the velvet bud, The stream that widens to a swelling flood. The playful cloud, the sun's bright ray adorns. Breaks in new beauty to a thousand forms. The child, whose hnppy laugh and face upturned, Heralds the mastery of a task new-learned, All things to man this well known lesson teach, That all are striving some great good to reach, Vbn that attained, fresh beauties onward rise, Like clouds piled upon clouds in summer skies. But the fair flower that hastes its glory on, Ere the dows fall, lies withered, faded, gone , And the yonug sparrow, urged to upward soar, With » few summer days, his life is o er, The stream that hurries on vwili eager force, Loses in ocean depths its secret sunn-*-, So all things with their envied glory on, Struggle awhile with life, and then are gone. And thus with man The all immortal BOU! Is aver pressing to some future goal, Is ever reaching for some tew made prize. That hangs but just before his longing ryes. The mind is never stilled with low desire, But ever haunted by ambition's fire. Strains avery nerve to quaff his eager fill, Drinks to the bottom, but is thirsty still, A seen* of toil, and misery and strife, A flickering florae* man s uncertain life. And, reacbisijl still for some expected fame. Fate drops Ae curtain, Death puts out the flame. But trace mid stars the glorious path on high. That leads to lands far, fur beyond the sky. Though earthly forms may mingle with the dead. This heavenly path the ransomed soul will tread, Mountings on seraph wings to joys unknown. Will swell the anthem at the Savior's throne. Glories on glories wait the humble saint, Soeh a* no tongue can sing, or artist paint, And vain imaginings can uever bring Th«glories of that never-ending spring. Though bright the visions that our thoughts may a**. How brighter still, the fair reality— Bow high in happiness the jsoul may rise, la not a prospect for our mortal eyes. Bnt this we know, through all eternity ,W< still shall sail o'er glory's boundless sea. Nor gain till that eternity is o'er It* *r*r searing but receding shore VIOLET. ^Littla Falla, February 14, 1852. •frlwIlnnnmH'. mirage on Seneca Lake. A correspondent of the Genev a (N. Y.) Courier, thus describes a scene on this beauti ful sheet of watfcr: \After a few minutes' stop at Lodi Land m g the bout takes a diagonal course for tho landings on the west side of the lake, and in its crossing you arc furnished with some of the finest views of the tour. Long Poin t and Lo di Point stretch far into the lake apparently in the north view, and tho high hills around the head of jthe lake riso up in majesty, while the beautiful rising ground stretches up from the east and west shores, varied with wood nnd field, and here and there a church spire tower ing above the groves. As you are half across, look back to the points o f land before reforred to, and you will see as perfect a mirage as ever delighted the curious traveler, or ever de luded the thirsty Bedouin in the desert of Sa hara or Arabia . A pieeo of ground is seen suspended m the air over the bosom o f the lake, stretching out unsupported, from the shore The woods on the extremity o f Lon g Point, are half submerged with water, and from tho waves their tops tower into the sky. *l*Ii*s lake stretches into tho land, and you see land and trees above and below it. From The Fugitive Slave Law. A SCENE IX BOSTON A colored girl, eighteen years of ago, a few years ago \escaped from Slavery at the Sout h Through sccnta o f adventure and peril, almost more strange than fiction oan create, she found her way to Boston. She obtained emplov- ment, secured friends, and became a consistent member of the Methodist church. She lie eame interested m a \ery worthy young man of lier own compltXIOII, who was a member of the same church. They Here soon mar ried. Their home, though humble , \\;is the abode of piety and contentment. Industrious, temperate, and frugal, all their wants were sup plied Seven years passed away. They had two little boys, one six, and th e other four years of age. Those children, tho sons of a free falher, but of a mother who li.id been a slave, by the I.ms of our S >ulheni States, were doomed to their mother's fate, '1 hese Boston boys, beneath the shadow o f Fanned Hall, iliti sons of a free cilueii of Boston , and educated in the Boston free schools, were, b\ the compromises of the Constitution, admitted I sol,,e I )OI,,Ls of view,you ma y imagine.or seem to be slaves, the propert\ of a South Carohm- lo RPe the ff roves 0,1 <me shorc stretching out an planter. The Boston father ha d no right 0Ver ti,( ' watcr - aml allnost \™lmg the groves to his own suns. The law, howevtr. had long | reaching from the other shore, been consider^ 1 a dead letter. The Christian | Why this phenomenon of nature has never mother, as she, morning and evening, bowed with her children in prayer, felt that they were safe from the slavehunter, sifrrounded as they were by the churches, the schools, and the free institutions of Massachusetts. The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted It revived the hopes o f the slave-owners. A young, healthy, energetic mother, vv ith two fine- bins, was a rich prize. She would mak e an excellent breeder Good men bega n to say, \We must enforce this law , it is on e of the compromises of the Constitution.\ Christian ministers began to preach, \the voice o f law is the voice of God. Ther e is no highe r rule of duty We must send back the fugitive and her childi'< n, even though we tak e our sister from the sacramental table of ou r common Saviour.\ Th e poor woman was panic stricken Her friends gathered around her ami trembled for lier. Her husband was absent from home, a seaman on board one o f our Liverpool pack ets. She was afraid to go out of doors, lest some one from the South should see her, and recognize her. One da), as she was going to the grocery for some provisions, her quic k ami anxious eve caught a glimpse of a ni.in provvl- ng around, whom she immediate!} recognized us from the vicinity o f her old home of Sla very Almost fainting with terror sh e hasten ed home, and taking lier two children by the I hand, lied to the house of a fn< ml. She and been referred to by travelers, or pools, who have made tho unsurpassed Seneca the theme of their description, or of their song, I know not ; but to m e it is the most wonderful and beautiful phenomenon visible around the lake, if I have not misjudged its causes, they are, that different strata o f air stretch over the lake, affected, and formed bv the temperature of the water,—and rays of light passing from the denser medium next the water, to the rare above it, are refracted from the perpendicular, and bent to the direction of tho eye, and as objects are seen m the last direction of the rays, they necessarily appear elevated so that the water appears to nave risen into the air, or nearly to the tops of the trees. If it be about the middle of the day, with a south wind, we may 6eo the effect upon tho lake's surface of the wind changing from soutli to north. Th e large swell in the distance, is fretted over with counter ripples, which does not a t first seem to disturb tike present direction o f tho waves; but it increases upon it until the swells subside, and the ripples increase in size and spread over the whole surface of I h e water.\ Dream-Life iu the Sick Room. Origin of the Maine Liquor Law. The following account of the origin o f this law, is from a speech of Hawkins, the celebra ted temperance lecturer, of Baltimor e :— Ho said that at a Washingtonia n meeting, in PorjJBnd, theiit was a continued drunkard, who was impoverished and bowed to the dust by drinking, came up to sign th e pledge, fol lowed bv his miserable vvite. So soon as lie signed the pledge, she burst into tears, and followed linn bai k t o her seat. After this, th~e drunkard (Sweet was Ins iiaine) went to work and picked up a piece of furniture here, and another there, and supplied his house with necessaries and comforts—then lie bought lnm a little cottage, uud lived for seven years happily w ith his little family. After so long a time, he entered a splendid drinking saloon J city, and the\ prevailed on him to Mont Blanc. | Sclf-wlaalHf Clock. Those of our readers who havo visited ! After years o f mathematical labor and me- Svv.fczerland, and havo seen Mont Blanc from j results, Prof. Willis, of Rochester, Chainouuix , will lias completed and has now in constant opera» tion, a self-winding clock, which determine! the seconds, minutes, hours, days, week.*, month s and years o f time with unfailing ac curacy, continuing in constant motion by it* self, never requiring to be wound up, never running down, but moving perpetually to long ns its components exist. It might easily bo called a perpetual motion, and it is so in on e sense, but the inventor very properly make s no such claim. The scientific will at once understand this upon msjiectioii. ,, , , ; The Rochester Democra t says that an intel- ather chokes up a crreat e , , , . IIT • ii ™ i ° limblo description would be imwssiblo. lhe sen snow capped moiiii- ii . » 1 allow that tho following sketch,written from tho village of ChamouuiXaj is a life like picture o f that interesting coun try :— M y first and only Alpine excursion was to the Mer de Glace, one of tho great, indeed llifi grentest glaciers at the Alps. This gla cier is not a broad, smooth, glistening mass of ice, as I had supposed ; it is a river of ice ' ten or twelve miles long, a nnlo wide, and from two hundred to two thousand feet in thickness. It fills, or r; [CLAUEXCE, the hero of \Dream-Life goes away to school—becomes a climber, and un der the goad o f 'little coward' ventures too far—receives a shuttered arm for Ins temerity . ] ,, , ,, a. | .1 \After tins, come those loner, weary davs icr trembling ihililn n weie hid m tlieguiet ] ( ^ H - 1 J esc.ipe, the officer, ' | Iu less than hour after IK r j r. hi. a writ, came for her antst , | It was a dark and stormy day The ram. | freezing as it fell, swept in Hoods throi.gli the streets of Boston Night cuue , cohl, l>l;u k, ami tempestuous Al midnight In r fi lends took her in a hack, and conveyed her, with her children, to the house of her pastor. A | prayer meeting had been appointed there, at 'that hour, in behalf o f their suffering sister A small group o f stricken hearts were there assembled. They kneeled in prayer. The |>oor mother, thus hunted from her home, her husband tar away, sobbed in the bitterness of her anguish, as though In r heart would break Her little children, tit nib'iug befote a doom, the enormity of wlinh they wcrt incapable ot appreciating, cried loudly and uncontrollably Th e humble minister <. uight the cunt igioii — His voice became inarticulate through emotion Bowing Ins head he ce iscd l> prav and v i< Id ed himself to the Mibb.ng-. of svinpathv and grief. Th e floods ot anguish were unloosed Gmailings and hum ntatioiis tilled the room.— No one could pray Before the Lord thev could only wet p. Other fugitives were theie, trembling in view of a doom more dreadful to llieiii than death. After an hour of weeping, for the voice o f prayer hail passed away into the siil-liiintv of Jlliutterable anguish, they took this Christian •Brother and her children, in a hack, and eon veyed them to one o f the Cumin! steamers, which fortunate I v was lo sail for Hnht.ix tin confinement, when you he still, through all the hour* of noon, looking out upon the cheer ful sunshine, only through the windows of your little room Yet it seems a grand flung to have the whole household attendant upon you in th e city, am _ t _ _ _ drink, an d he was mule druuk, dead drunk. It was given out that lie was dead. They laid him on a tnuk and took him home.— His wife came to the door to receive his corpse, but so soon as she saw he was drunk, she serenincd in agony Ho was earne d into a chamber an d put on a bed, and she sat by his sido until lie cam e to his senses. She then asked him where he go t Ins liquor. He re fused to toll She locked the door, ami threw the key out the window to her little son, antl directed hun not to unlock the door until she told hun to. She then told her husband he should not leave th e chamber, neither would she. leavo it, until he told her where h e got Ins liquor. For a lon g tune he refused, but finally told her she would always have her own way, and said lie go t i t to Cole's. Col e kept a splendid saloon, and he got j>oor Sweet in and go t hun drunk. She then ordered the door open, and put on he r bonnet. \ Where are you going ?\ said Sweet . \ I am goin g to Cole's.\ \ Dou't ' g o there,\ said lioT *%ou will but disgrace yourself.\ \ 1 shall not efisgraco me so much as you have disgraced me, \ and off she went to Cole's. She found som e youn g men in this splendid rum hole. She tohl Colo who alio was, an d commenced begging him not to soil her husband liquor, and told her melt gorg e which lies between snow cappe u momi- ii.i . i.i.n/t f fa , , r . i i i clock stands upon two upright* about 0 feet tains, and moves dowu one foot every day, de- • -' • - - °- ocending at an angle of thirty degrees. A s the mass molt* at the lower end, where its drippings form a swift river, the ice from above presses its way down ; the motion cracks it transversely,and opens ten thousand chasms, each of which is a blue, bottomless abyss.— Its surface looks like mountain blocks of mar ble split from the quarry, antl standing on edge irregularly together. Boulders o f gran ite, weighing fivo hundred tons, ho lightly on the glaciers, like pebbles on an ice pond, and are borne down by it to the valley. Imagine II mountain with a motion of ono foot per day 1 Reall y tho speeds seems as great as that of tho floods of Niagara. After looking at this terrible momentum, th e wonder comes how it could bo staid ; whether it be not easier to say, even to the ocean. \ Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.\ Walking out upon it you see death within a step, and feel yourself ata aUui . Oue step is enough. The sides o f these mountains aro always shedding snow, ice and rocks, winch altogeth er form a glnncier. Ther e nro many of tin-in among the Alps. From theso meltings the Arve, tho Arvernon, and other streams take their rise. There is a class o f men, or rather a race, who ni^ko it the business o f life to under stand tho Alps , and to guide parties passing from ono point to another. Withou t their leave. She refused, and fell upon lier knees and begged in the most pitiful terms. He begun to talk obscenely to her, and aroused her indignation. Shu then seized lnm by tile collar, and held hun with oue hand as m a vice. Willi the other hand she slapped his fuco bac k and foryi, until he was most so veroly chastised, and then left for home . The youn g men who were present, then told th e rum seller he well deserved Ins flog ging. It was an infinite shame to msult a a woma n he had so wronged, when t,he came to plead with hun in such a matter. ng story. He cursed her, and told her to j coolness and experience, t o aid, travelers could ~* « ... - ^ I10 ( mri g ,„ tta y 0 f exploring, or even visiting these savage solitudes. 'I hey aro a sober, virtuous class, and win upon every one by their very noble qualities. From nil that 1 heard, I doubt not they would die if neces sary t o the safety of those who put themselves under their guidance These guide* are ready even to asceud Mt. Blanc. Jaquos Balmet, one of the most daring and experienced was the man wh o first made the ascent when he wius seventy years old. high, with a large,-highly finished dial. It* mechanis m is all exposed to the closest scruti ny, aud tho movement of its simplo escape* merit and its direct motion, is as plain to the oye as tho truth and force of its well applied principles is to the oiniil. Tins is no mechan ical toy or humbug, but a thorough philoso phic npphcation o f profound natural law, and has deeply excited the attention of scientific men. A scientific company will soon report unon it* principles ami construction. FLU sr.—A letter in tho Boston Liberator, from Ohio, gives an anecdote o f Kossuth winch, though not romantic, is a little droH. The vvritor is speaking of his arrival at Salem, a place full of Quakers, where lie made a speech :— \ They created a big dinner, and he refused to touch it—which is an honor to hun, iu m y opinion. He had come on other busmess, he BKid, ami, with German ,*a«</ froid, took from a bo g or something, a loaf of bread and a grea t piece o f pork, (pity the Turks hadn't taugh t him better,) which lie conjugally shar ed with Madame, and sat there munching it, wlnlo the mob uproariously called for liim to show himself at the window, whereupon he put out his dark sublime head, but without vouchsafing the len*t o f those graceful wave* of tho hand wo hear about. Not he ; he act ed sensibly, and held fa»t his pork and broad, merely saying, ' Dauk you—dank you ! I must now, gentlemen, attend to de claim* o f Hungry.'\ THE POWER or KINDNESS.—The Jackson ville (III.) Journal says that when the super intendent of the asylum for th e poor in that county first took charge of it, be found an in sane-man who ba d been loaded with heavy chains for years. Believing that this cruelty kep t tho man insane, he toot tho responsibili ty of tnking them off, and gradually restored the m to liberty. The man at first raved, ex acting fresh torture ; then ho doubted, and realized that ho was free. He was overpow- He started forth alono to explore some ice | «V II . I , , « f , l ^rge farm among .U almost inaccemilble and w , th dcllghu exclaiming ct-nbtantlr, as Well, the ,ux day Sweet eam o home, unapproachabh, peaks. The old man was |je lookwJ upo *J Ula outcr world of sunshine, drun k again, and so lie iu xt day and the never l.ear.L^ more Whenever you read of'.. oh how ^ a „ tiful ;» TIl0 gratitude to hi* next, when she turn..! he got his Inpior at any ones ii.nV.i.g thcascent ot Mt. Blanc,. Ubemt0r prevmlet }. At lf.rgth he voluntarily you may set it down that the guide* ascended i ,„ ,„„ r L, ,„ ,| it for lnm Cole's again Sh e immediately started foi Cole's ami found about 1 JO men surrounding an auctioneer, who was civiu g oil' goods bo The doors are opened and shut softly, nnd they I fore the door of Cole's saloon : all stop noiselessly about your chambe r ; and I when vou groan with pain, you are sure of I meeting bad, sy mpatlnzmg looks. Your moth er will step gently to your side, and lay her ! cool, white hand upon your forehead ; and ht- I lie Nelly will gaze at you from the foot o f your I bed with a sail earnestness, and with tears o f 1 pity in her soft hazel eyes. And nfterward, as your pain passes away, she will bring you her prettiest books, antl fresh flowers, and whatever she knowsyo u will love. But it is dreadful, when you awak e at night i fiuin your feverish slumbers, and sec nothing 1 but the spectre shatlons that the sick-lamp upon the hearth throws aslant the walls; and hear nothing but the heavy breathing of the old nurse in the easy chair, and the ticking o f ' the clock upon the mantel. Then , silence and thi) night ciowij upon your soul drearily.— guide s aseeiiclcl, U) ^ ork ]n tho gftri | el ; i though he had that is, guide* Havo been employ- f |)( , ar , v , 0 , t u „ r of locon,^, nn d cd they have gone before and behind lnm,, u . came mlmly KCQVOrcil , He is now work- told lnm where to put Ins pike or p ace j , „ ft farm / • Her former visit to Cole's was knowu over! , \ b ,oot < tr,C(1 ' or him every loose, tlan -J the city, and had caused very general talk, I gerous stepping place, cut out steps fori FRANKLY STATKD.— h is very noticeable, and she had become generally known. She i'\ m on l ' lu ,L ' r . v ste <>p o f the summit, nnd | that all the opposition to Kossuth, m Congress, dodged into the saloon , and the people at the ' evi ' n cttr ned him along, and lifted hun up, j has come from the Southerners. But wo have auction, sec MIL,' her go iu, pushed in after her I mil y ^c brought him down, and thus se- I never seen the reason fairly and frankly stated, - - - - ° •— * u --'-'—> -'— * ' - 'unti l wo found it in a late number of tho New York Weekly Mirror. Hea r tho honest and outspoken editor .— \But let us not depart from the land-mark* of the past, nor despibe tha peaceful policy of our fathers. A crusade in l>chalf of \ down trodden \ humanity of tho old world, must be followed or preceded by tho AUOLITION or t>y the collar witli her left, b r ' Jst . nc;lcl '*' ,ie clouds rise nnd seem to be' SLA\KRY IN THE NEW. Tho slaves of the HI' clenched fist m Ins face | '\oving righ } off, and ready to lift tlieir misty i South and the serfs of Hungary, before God, have equal rights. I f we once break away from the Political code, and accept tho Moral, and left th e auctioneer alone. They 'said, 1 turwl to him the eclat and glor y o f having \there go.s Mrs. Sweet—another battery' \ performed the hardy, perilous feat o f aseentl- A s she cut.-rcd, she saw her husband in the ' '\R Mt - All the guides get nro the act of raising the cup in his hps. He dropped j llot bem R mentioned, and the stipulated sum. Ins cup and escaped through the back door i As twenty of them are usually employed, it She then began to talk to Col e as before; and j a)St3 nbout $500 to ascend the king of tliu ho talked to lier as b, fo re. When lie com- i A, l )s - A-\ thu travelers are waiting to see menced his obscenity, she went inside tile bar, \ in> bc>ary crown, for he seldom reveals Ins inl and seized Co ! hand, and run .... ... . ... . with her right hand until it was well j)oun<ktL.). curUln > mit wl \-' n tll( -'. v aro almost gone they' and then shoved linn out head first, and kak- , ,t;t themselves down again, as if to screen him oil him as h e ft II into the street. She then entered the bar and survey cd the splendid bot- are round abou t him ' The mother's Bible. Thin Book is all that's left me now' Tear* will unbidden start— With faltering lip and throbbing brow, I pre** it to my heart. For many generations past, Here i* our family tree My mother'* handB the Bible elaip'd, So*, dying, gave it me. Ah! well do I remember tho*e, Who*e names the»e records bear, \Who round Lhe hearth stone usod to close, After the evening prayer. And tpeak of what these page* said, In tone* my heart would thrill I Though they were with the silent dead, Her* are they living still! My .father read this Holy Book To listen, brother*, dear; How calm was my poor mother'* look. Who learn'd God's words to hear. Her Angel face^—I see it yet f What thrilling memories come! Again that little group is met, Within the halls of home' Tb»u tra«*i friaatl man ever knaw, Tfcy «*a*taa«y I've tried, Who* all w«w fab* I've found the* tro*, MjT **—*eUor *nd guide. Th* mis** of sartb no troaaure* give That aeold thi* volar** bay: I« i***ainf m* tb* way t o li-rt. It taught tn« how to die 1 next dav. Thev took them in the gloom of | , . midnight, through the tempest-swept streets, «-II«TI«»* than this, lest the slave-hunter should meet llieiii Her,' Hut even here, the memory of some little brethren and sisters of the church raised a lit-' prayer you have been taught, which promises tic money from their scautv meins to pav her j » Morning after the Night, conies to your passage, and to save her, tor a few day s,\from \ throbbing brain ; and its murmu r on your fe- starving. after lier first arrival m the cold land \ vt \ r( - ,cl \P*. ns > ou Lircathe it, soothe* like a of strangers. Her husband «oon returned to j caress of angels, and woos y on to smile* and Boston to find his home desolate. Ins wife and sleep. Ins children exiles iu a foreign land. These ! And with such fancies drifting on your facts need no word painting I think that this | thought, you count for the hundredth time narrative may be relied upon as accurate. 1 the figures upon the curtains of your bed — received the facts from tho hps o f one, a mem- vou trace out the flower wreaths upon tho pa- ber of the church, who was present at that per hangings o f your room;—your eyes rest midnight \ weeping meeting,\ before the Lord I idly on the cat playing idly with tho fringe of Such is slavery m Boston in the year 1852.' Liul vour thought is active. It shapes at your ! ties and furniture. In her indignation she at betl-sitle the loved figure of your mother, or it j once broke all the bottles, ami set th e cotks calls up the whole company of Dr Bidlow's I ,>f the barrels of hijuor all running Then | The same traveller thus speaks of his last! boys; ami weeks of study or of play, group | s h <5 saw a show-box of toys ami sugar things, p look at this mountain. He writes under date like magic on your t|inekoned vision •—then a i and snid, \ lo-'k tin re ' a trap for our children ; „f Octobe r 1st twinge of IIHIII will call again the dreariness, j to draw the m here and make them drunkards.\ 1 _„ . , , iii. .i II i , iii i i i I Thi s mornin g I took a ast look at Mmt and vour head losses upon the pillow, am! your She found an old jajj with some honor in ami i .. * , , eye searches the gloom vainly for the pleasant' empl.cd its contents all over the l.'ys and ru- j , '\^j \\\\ \ Ul a \' 1 thvTe faces, and your fears brtxid on that drearier, | inc-tl them. She then saw a largo lookmgl.iss. | 1 \ \ coining night of Death—far longer, and fur J •• There, \ she said, \a thing put up for drunk- I ards to see their faces.\ She took a jug and at his bidding As we all watched anxiously I whore shall wo bo ? Our own Republic will their sublim e hesitation, I understood what' bo rent asunder and the Sun of Liberty in David said of Uod, \Clouds and darkness ' Europ e will go down m blood.\ Shade of Calhoun ! Has the Nort h nothing to do with Slavery? JOHN S. C. ADUOIT. Brunswick, Me., Jan. 1852. —JVfw York Evangelist. SIMPLE CIBK FOR CUOIP.—Wo find in the Journal of Health, the following simple cure for this dangerous disease. Those who have passed night« o f great agony at the lied side o f beloved children, will treasure it up as a valuable piece of information. If a child is taken with croup, instantly apply cold water, ice if possible, suddenly antl freely to the neck and chest with a sponge. Th e breathin g will instantly be relieved. So soon as possible, let the sufferer drink as much as it can ; then wipe it dry, cover it op warm, and soon a qui et clumber will relieve the parent's anxiety, and tad the heart in thankfulnc** to the owner which has givan to the pure gushing moutain *uch medical qualities. the curtain :—y ou see your mothe r sitting with her neetlle-work beside the fire;—you watch the sunbeams a* they drift along th e carpet, from morning until noon; and from noon till night, you watch them playing on the leave*, dropping spangles on the lawn ; and as you watch—you dream.\— Jke Marvel. A SMART WOMAN .—There is a smart wo man, not a thousand miles from Boston, who, during a latee year earned enough to repair a lat the entire inside of the bouse that she and her husbond occupied. On the following y ear she earned enough with her bands, to furnish the dwelling with new and costly fur niture. The next year she was enabled to buy herself a gold watch and chaia. The following year she purchased her husband a bran new suit of clothe*. La*t year atoe b«- oam« a medium to th* \ *fw*tual favppang*,\ and we have not learned bow muak */!*«**•- ed by the operation. hurled it against the glass, ami broke it to pieces. Al>out tliis time, another rumsoHer rushed in and addressed the audience, \ why will you all stand here and tec so much property de stroyed ?\ The womnn then rushed at him, saying, \and you are another scoundrel.\— He took t<> his heels and escarx-d. Having destroyed everything, she went into the street for home, and met the Mayor and two or three policemen, ami she snid to them, \ how have you done your duties?—You are in office to protect me, and my husband, and our children, and you have left us to be murdered by this man, and if you won't protect us, I will take the law into my own hands.\ The multitude cheered her, arid the Sheriff returned, acknowl edging the justice of her complaint The wide-spread story of this trausretion, Mr Hawkins said, begot the \ Maine Liquor Law.\ A CAT I N THB MKAL .—Two barrel* mark ed \ new corn meal \ came into the depot in thi»city by Carpenter 's express, directed to no one. Marshal Jones, happening to be round, thought that it looked like a suspicious heap. \ It may be me«l,\ said he, \ but there can be no harm in examining it.\ * Accordingly he waited upon the express man, and took the barrels into hi* own custody On opening tbera each on* captained another barrel, sur rounded, by • little \ new corn meal\—oae of thetx fail «f rum aod the otk «c fall o f brand*. A> theyr we*» dii«ot«d to Bobodj-, nobody has lost anything.— Auymtim Fmrmar. iu the valley or upon the mountains; pure lofty, unconiprising, endur ing, unnpprouchable seemed this the highest of tho Ali>s like unto Htm who made it; yet, as the sun lighted it up and fringed its top, wo* beautiful as a mountain of silver, as if ono migh t cosily ascend and step off from it into heaven. Every peak, and dome ami ncekle, gleamed with white glory, and all the circle of mountain gave witness to the majesty of Jehovah. \ Above me are tho Alp*, ^ The palaces of nature, whose vast wall* Have pinnacled in clouds their anowy scalps Ana throned eternity in ice halls Of cold suhlimity, whero forms nnd fall* The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow '• All that expands the xpirit. yet appals. Gather round theso ttuniinitn, as tosiiow. How earth may pierce to heaven, yet Uave Vain man below.\ A sad catastrophe, Mr. Mirror, to follow up on th e adoption of the Moral code ' Well, then, do you stick to the immoral one! The Opal is iMtlsfietl with the moral, with all its horrible consequences of liberty to tho white and black.— Opal, published by inmate* of Utica Asylum. The Kingston Journal says an animal of tho wild cat species, measuring over three feet in tho body, was shot by Mr. Daniel Mory, in the Boverkill Swamp, in Ulster county, on Monday last. Ho was a full grown, well do- velopoa specimen of his kind, and was not al together an acceptable fellow to come in con tact with. It is said that several years ago, two of these animals were shot near tire vil lage of Kingston. AUSTKIANISM EXOUDZD.—A negro man named Thomas 8tewart, a free man, is pub licly advertised to be sold a* a slave at the public jarl of Newcastle county, DeL^fcr the «yfm« of cominjf into that state agiiaat tha will of the GovMommt JErw Attftk did »ot nerve Mr. Brace in that monet. Tho fottewing is tho advice of an examining Judge to a lawyer on admission' \Sir it would be idle to trouble you further. You are perfect, and I will dismiss you with a few words of advice, which you will do well to follow. You will find it laid down as a maxim of civil law never to kits the maid when you can kiss the mistress. Carry out this principle, sir, and you're safo. Never »*y boo to a goose when sh* has the power to lay golden eggs. Let your faco be Jong, andyOuf bills longer. Novor put your hand into your pocket when any one else's is handy. Keep your conscience for your own private use, and don't troublo it with other men's matter*.— Please tho Judge and butter the jury. Look wiser than an owl and a* occular as an hour clock, a^d above all get money, bouestly if you can*%tg dear sir, but get money. I welcoui*. you to the bar.\ MOUSE COLOKKD .—Dry good store* att *onietima* the aeanea of luaiettrnt eonrera*- -ions. The other day a young lady stepped mto a well known «*i»bli*hin«nt in towa, mA enquired of a handsome clerk 'Sir hare yon any mow* colored ladMB* glovea V ' Mouse colored ladies' Miss V 1 Yes, a sort of gray—just the color of your drawers there,' meaning the store drair^ era, which were painted gray. ' My drawers, Mis*,' maculated tke yoaaf man, glancing downward athi* dr*** to *»• jr avarythin* was right and <%hf; 'my; drvf an , niiaaTwty,\ Tfc# yn«* lady • shut***.