Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              THE PITTSTON GAZETTE . I —r MB SUSflUBillil lifimiClfE joraiiL STSPttkltj J6fma{raptr~( J0Eaoteit to P.tm, Ijtwntarc, fljt Jllrrrnntilr, Joining, JMrrljanirnl, nitii %imlfttrnl Snltrats of tjje Cnuntri|, Snstnirlion, Slinusrnirnt, 'Vs. Jlirjinrt fo fillips VOLUME l.-NUMBER 19. PITTSTON, PENNA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1850. $2.00 PER ANNUM. ' her aunt, "with precepts to guard your happiness. It would tell you to beware of the first quarrel—never to contend, even in jest—to have no secrets from each other, lest the springs of confidence lie insensibly snapped—to beware of the interference of relations. Out these are maxims which your prudence will sufficiently impress upon you, and their observance at least will haVe but negative effect. Would you have the secret of perpetual loveliness? It is a treasury—Dnot feature nor complexion, but in the soul. Men worship beauty lor the inward graces of which it is the pledge. Would you know how to keep the soul fair? Religion is the only true secret for that. Thus yon, see, my love, how little we can depend ujkju personal perfection—how little on mental excellencies or amiable trails of character, lint the virtues born, of, and nourished by religion, arc Immortal—seek them from Iliin who is the "author of religion, and seek them daily from Him. Be assured thus, that you will ever remain fair and amiable in the eyes of your husband, and be blessed in every relation of life." Prom the X. American if U. 8. (I alette ing the bosom of their parent country, and with every blow striking down her constitution, her laws and her freedom." The rise of Ssnator Rusk. Bachelors and Free School*. The Perils of Falsehood. Disunion. The tragedy at Nacogdoches, and the romatic incidents which led to the Texan war of independence, find thoir parallel only in the Romish history of Lucrctia and the elder Brutus. Juan Costa was a person of great influence and bravery in the wild forest, but fell under the displeasure of Santa ; and his minion Pedras, tlw commandant of Nacogdoches was sent to arrest him. He arrested the father at the supper table, attended by his only daughter—a young girl of surprising beauty and intelligence. lie loaded him with chains and cast him into prison, notwithstanding her tears and entreaties. Finally lie proposed to free the father if the daughter would sacrifice her honor and innocence. She rejected the infamous proposition with a blow in the face; when the armed ruflian swore a horrible oath to execute his will on them both, and then—* Hon. Hi A. Wise, in an address in Virginia, on pupular education, after discussing the subject of taxation for the support of the free school system, made this allusion to the bachelor: In the beautiful language of an eminent writer " When once a concealment of deceit has been practised in matters where all should be fair and open as the dayconfidence can never be restored, any more than ycu can restore the white bloom to the grape or plum, which you have once pressed in your hand." How true is this, and what a neglected truthby a great portion of mankind. Falsehood is not only one of the moat humiliating vices, but sooner or later it is certain to lead to many serious crimes.— With partners in trade—With partners in life—with friends—with lovers—bow important-is confidence ! How essential that all guile and hypocrisy should be guarded against in the intercourse between such parties ? How much misery would have been avoided in the history of many jive* had truth and sincerity been controlling motives instead of prevarications and deceit 7 "Any vice, said a parent in our hearing a few days since—"any vice, at least among the frailities of a milder character, but falsehood. Far better that my child should commit an error or do a wrong and confess it, than escape the penalty, however severe, by falsehood and hypocrisy. Let me know the worst and a remedy'mav possibly be applied. Bat keep me in the dark—let me be misled or deceived, and it is impossible to tell at what unprepared hour a crashing blow, an overwhelming exposure, may come." PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WKEKI.Y BY Man's wicked nature seems to luxuriate in the revels of war. There is scarcely a page in the annnls of our race but what is stained with its blood. It is the great, leading, distinguishing characteristic leatunr of all history. Awmil man's interests, provoke his temper, excite his prejudices, or inflame Ins passions, beyond a certain point, and he plunges into war without regard to consequences. It betrays utter ignorance of human nature—total blindness to all history—to argue that men will not go to war agninsl their interests, and ivilhout. reason. lie that lias the least reason on his side, generally, strikes the first blow. Violence is his substitute for roason Nay, lust of power or love 6f fame, and even baser motives, drives nations to battle. And yet no war is without its misc. l ies and its horrors. Alexander and C;u-sar, Napoleon and Wellington, built their fame upon the lives they destroyed and the misery they created. Such is the true analysis of military glory. But the miseries of civil war are the most excrutiating, and its horrors the most terrific. «h n. Richart * H. S. Phillip*- Shnkspeare gives us nn actual impersonation of these in his King Henry VI, illustrative of the horrors of civil war referring to that between tile houses of York and Lancaster. Ctftt I Vat aide of Main Street, teenwt Story of the " Long Store " of Winner if- HW. The "Gazette" m published every Friday, at Two I Doi.i.ar* per annum. Two Doi.i.ahs and Fiptv Cents will be charged if not paid within the " The rich bnchelor, or man who has no children and much property, should be taxed most of all, if any distinctions of persons at all were made, lie who hath wealth, and no children, needs the protection of the Ntato and the community in which he lives for the security of hisperson and his property, and lie has selfishly evaded (the bachelor I mean) the burthen in society of supporting a wife and family of children—the highest duty of a good citizen. He wants virtue and knowledge of all arouud him to guard his possessions, and ought he not to puy his part of the expenses of the guards ? The free schools arc guards of all persons and property whero they exist, and without knowledge and virtue amorg the |Deople, the State and all its powers. cannot support persons and property. Has the childless miser a suit pending involving thousands of hoarded gold ? Who is to be the jury to try the fate of his dollars ? Can they read and w rite, and cipher ? Does the bachelor sue for injury to his character? Do the jury where he lives value reputation ? Does he want a piece of work done requiring skill 1 Are mechanics where he lives men of skill, well instructed in their business ? The free-schools would give him juries capable of construeing his will when he dies, and a mechanic skilled enough to construct his coffin, or it might be a Divine to preach his funeral sermon! Part 3d.-AcT 2d. "Alarum.—Knttr a son IkatAas killed A if father, dragging in Ihe i/ead iorfi/, Son! ******* year. No paper will be discontinued until nil arrearage! are paid. Advertisements are inserted conspicuously at One Dom.ar per square of fourteen line* fur ,1 three insertion* ; and Twenty-five Cents ad' ditioiml for every subsequent insertion. A lih\ rral deduction to those who advertise for six Who'd litis 7—O, GCxl! it is mv father's face. Whom in thin conflict I unawares havo kliiled. O heavy timet begetting such event# ! From London liy the Aing wan I press'd forth : My father, being the earl of WarwicA's man. Came on the pnrtofYori, pressed by his master; And I, who at his hunds received iny life, Have by my hands of life berenved hiin. I'nrdon me, God, I Anew not wliut I did ! And pardon, fhther, fcr I A new not thee I My tears shall wipe away these bloody mar's, And no more words, till they have flow'd their fill. month* or the whole year. Job Work.—We have connected with our entalD- lisliment a well selected assortment of Job Tvrr, which will enable us to execute, in the neatest 1 style, every variety of printing. Being practical printers ourselves, we can afford to do work on as reasonable terms as any other office in the county. All letters and communications addressed to the Gazelle must be rosT pud, and endorsed by a responsible name, to/eceive attention. * » " K. Ifrnnj.—O piteous spectacle! Obloody time*! Whilst lions war 1 "ittie for their dens, Pour harmless InmlM abide their enmity. Weep, wretched man ! I'll aid lhe«, tear for tear; j4nCl let our heart* anil eye*, lite civil war, Ke Mind with tears and breaX* o'ercharged with grief." Willi dark eyes, tearless, glassy, and fixed as those of corse, yet flashing a double portion of luminous fire site mounted a horse, and hurried away wildely around the country. She halted at every house, 110 matter whether Mexican or American, and rehearsed in tones of thrilling horror, her father's wrongs and her own. All timid modesty, all weakness had vanished from her tongue, utterly consumed in the scorching thirst lor vengeance. She painted in passion's fiery language, and with awful minuteness, the fucts of the damning deed, she bared her virgin bosom and showed the livied marks of the ravisher's fingers among the azure veins along the surface of that expanse of snow, now polluted and soiled, but before pure as the gleam of angel's wings. I Loved Bar. 1 loved h«r when her girlish face, With smiles and blushes rift, First sunn'd with all its matchless grace My cl»c unenried life; When from her young heart'* secrecy, Louisa flung her arms around Iter mint's neck, and thanked her with tearful eyes for her lesson. An mini* ascend the skies, The tell-tale truth* reaistlessly Some would fuln persuade Us that there is no dinger of Dutunion, because there is so little reason for it, and because it would be so obviously against the Interests, the safely, and the happiness of all—some would seem to hope that they may have peaceable secession—and some would argue that disunion could exist without blood. Ruler afather who has killed his son, mM tht body in kit arms. KaTHk*--- Would haunt her timid eyes. Occupation for OhildraiL. I lored her when the festal throng We have before Us some curious statistics in relation to marriage. These have been gathered from various sources. According to the " Register General of ling- Innd," n lady's chance of getting married is at it's maximum, between the ages of twenty and twenty-Jive ! Before twenty, a lady has but tme-Ji/lh, and from 20 to 25, one-third of that maximum chance. After thirty, herchance gradually dwindles away, and hence we may inler that there are so few ladies who ever go beyond that age. Men, it is urged, marry later than women ; and yet it appears, according to the figures, that the great majority of marriages are concoctcd while both parties are under 25. This, however, will not excite surprise with any one who has paid the slightest attention to the progress and devrlopcment of the feelings, the affections and impulses. The young are generally sauguineand enthusiastic ; and inasmuch as the " sexes" are apt to associate more ultimately and more confidentially between the ages of 20 and 25 than at any other period of life —inasmuch as that is emphatically the marriageable season, and that men generally determine upon some regular anil fixed occupation by that time, the chances of marriage, within the period alluded to, are, of course, more numerous. But, let even the susceptible pass over to 25—let them experience one or two disappointments of the heart—let them grow ambitious of wealth or power, and matrimony immediately becomes a secondary condition. The heart grows cold—the disposition cautions —and thus new tastes, new habits and new associations are imbibed, and the society of the gentler sex is comparatively neglected. It appears, however, that men retain the power of contracting matrimony to a later nge than women ; for out of27,483 The OtunoM of Marriage " Itat let me sec :—is thi* no foeman's face 1 Ah, no, t»«, no, it is mine only son (— Ah, boy, if any life be left in tbee. Throw up thine eyes j see, see, what showers arise, Blown with the windy tempest of my heart, Upon thy wounds, that till mine eye and heart! O, pity, (lod, this miserable age/ What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, Erroneous, mutinous, and unnatural. This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! O boy, thy fu/hcr gave thee life too soon, A nd bath bereft theeofthy life too lute I" The habits of children prove that occupation is a necessity with mdst of them.«- They love to be busy even about nothing, still more to be usefully employed. With some children is a strongly developed physical necessity, and if not turned to good account, will he productive of positive evil; thus verifying the old adage, that "Idleness is the mother of mischief." Children should be cncouraged; or, if indolently disinclined to do it, should be disciplined into performing for themselves every little office relative to the toilet, which they are capable of performing. They should also keep their own clothes and other possessions in neat order, and fetch forthemselves whatever they want; in short they should learn to be as independent of the services of others as possible, fitting them alike to make a good use of prosperity to meet with fortitude any reverse of fortune that way befell them. We know of no rank, how. ever exalted, in which such a system would not prove beneficial. Her joyous laughter 'woke; Some hidden rill the Iwrtu among, I.ewi sweetness would evoke; And later when the passive shade Of thought her features worn,— A twilight's wealth o'er summer glad* ! Still dearer than before. To the first we answer, bloody strife very frequently arises, with very liltle reason, against the best interests and highest happiness of tliose who engage in it. We see at this moment sectional prejudices aroused,dire passions provoked, and fierce animosities displayed. I loved her when my plighted bride,- Half fear, half tenderness,-- We dared the tempest to divide Our heart's deep trustfulness : But KMC, when years and eonstnncy The u Extraordinary" Number Seven. Have proved her fidthful vow,— The tendril to its guardian tree,— Oh! m»U I love her now. Agreeing, as wc do, witli Mr. Clay, that disunion and war arc "identical" and inseparable we see no way so effectually to deprecate its approach as by bringing home to the minds of the people the miseries to flow from it. Tliu.s shall we best rebuke the fanatical folly of the political abolitionists of the North, the fierce threats of the disunionists of the South, and arouse all slumbering patriots and statesmen to put forth all tlieir wisdom and all their strength, to guard against such threatening calamities Ami still, wherever the beautiful maid wandered, a deafening yell of wrath and vengeance rose up against the tyrants.— The people of both races, and nil classes flew to arms, appointed a general rendezvous for the 25th of June, at the residence of I lie absent and now imprisoned Juan On the 7th of the 7lh month, a holy observance w as ordained to the children of Israel, who feasted 7 days and remained 7 days in tents; the 7th year was directed to be a Sabbath of rest for all things, and at the end of 7 times 7 years commenced the grand jubilee ; every 7th year the land lay fallow ; every 7th year there was a grand release from all debts, and bondsmen were set free. From this law might have originated the custom of binding young men to 7 years' apprenticeship, and of punishing incorrigible offenders by transportation for 7, twice 7, or three times 7 years. Anciently a child was not named before 7 days, not being accounted fully to have life before that periodical day. The teeth spring out in the 7th month, and are shed in the 7th year, when infancy is changed into childhood. At thrice 7 years the faculties are developed, manhood commences, and man becomes legally competent to all civil nets ; at four times 7 a man is in full possession of his strength ; at five times 7 he is fit for the business of the world ; at six times 7 he becomes grave and wise, or never ; at 7 times 7 he is in his apogee, and from that time decays; at eight times 7 he is in his first climateric ; at nine times 7, or 03, he is in his grand climateric, or years of danger , and ten times 7, or three score years and ten, was by the royal prophet pronounced the period of human life. As to "peaceable secession," what is it but the assertion that any one hits a right to break his contract whenever he sees fit, Being his own judge as to time, place cause, and manner ? That no contract, however solemn, is binding when one parly chances to think that it is not so advantageous as at first f The sum of the argument is this; that because the several States reserved to themselves their respective independent sorereigntirs, lhey have the sovereign right to do just what they please, respeclively, without regard tu the lights of others, or their soiomnly conceded obligations to a higher sovereignty. Epitaph on Omwtl Taylor. DV CHARLES CASSEDV, ESft., OF TENNESSEE. How oft" we see the monumental stone, A worthless name to future ages give ; ltevirse the scene—the patriot now is gone, Whose dust, beneath will maie this marble live .' Let Greece and Rome, their heroes clothe with C V)sta It was then debated by the |ieople as to the mode of attack, and who should be their leader; but. nothing being agreed on, tlio whole assemblage bid lair to break up in confusion, when a tall and powerfully built stranger, who had just entered Texas from the States, came forward and  cd tlm multitude as follows: fame; I,et haughty France, the stem Napoleon own-- Historic truth, aloud, shall yet proelaim, " Their lives had parallels—his had bit one."* Union " I nni n stranger, but I am also a mnn, ami I owe iny life, body, soul, happiuess— ail, all to a woman—my mother! AihI if 1 turn a deaf car to the prayers of an innocent woman asking aid against a vil. lain, may both my mother and my God curse tm«! 1 go for one, and—should you nil May behind—alone, to fight Col. Pe(has and his armed ravisliera of your wives and daughters!" . The speech was received with three tremendous cheers, and then a general shout, » Washington. [.Xativille Banner. Ludicrous.—A young itinerant preacher, in die constant habit of declaiming n great deal about Creation, and especially Courting by Book. A NIGHT BEFORE THE WEEDING. B* MRS. E. F[ A gentlemen sends to the lady of his affections, in another part of the country, a Bible, with the leaf turned down at Romans, chapter 1st, from the 9th to the 12th Nor can we be persuaded that disunion eonld exist without blood. about the first getting up of man, whenever he wished to display his native eloquence to a goC)d advantage, was one day holding forth to a mixed congregation in a country school house. Ilecoming warm anil enthusiastic as1 he proceeded, it was not long before he reached his favorite theme, and started oil' in something like the"Tollowing style: " We shall bo very happy together," said Louisa to her aunt the evening before the wedding—and her check was tinted frith a rich color, and her eyea sparkled with soulfelt happiness. The Federalist, which, l\Fr. Rusli tolls us, the greatest statesman of the age pronounced the ablest analysis of the principies of government-lie hud met with, ancient or modern, after devoting two articles to the subject, assumes it "as an established truth, that in case of disunion, the several States, or such combinations of them as might happen to be formed out of the wreck of the general confederacy, would be subject to those vicissiludes of peace and war, of friendship and enmitv with each other, which have fallen to the lotol all neighboring nations, not united un- " For God is my witness, whom I servo with my spirit in the gospel of his son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you, for 1 long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end that you may be established. That is, that I may be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and me." verses When a young bride says it may easily be imagined whom she is talking of. that seemed to shake the solid earth, utter- ed the first peal of revolution. " We will go. Death to the tyrants ! Freedom for Texas, and the giant shall be our leader." And then, for the first time, was heard in " I doubt it not, dearest Louisa," nnswered her aunt, " take heed only, that you remain as happy." " And when the world was created, and the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the air were pronounced very good, God said ; "J«et us make man." And ho formed man after his own likeness, and declared him the noblest of all the works of his hands. And he made woman also, and fashioned her in the exact image of man, with a little variation— the land of the wild oak u name destined to become an echo to the pulsations of all hearts—the name, Thomas J. Upsk. The next day lift led his raw troops to the attack of Nacogdoches, and stormed ever position against immense odds, after an assault of four hours, the carnage being dreadful on both sides. Among the slain was the body of atrocious Ferdinand Peilras. 'Snch was the of Rusk in Texas, and from that day his popularity has gone on steadily increasing, without even a transitory eclipse, or so much as a cloud to dim its splendor. In vain for three " Oh, no fear of that, my prudent aunt. T know myself and my faults; but my love for him will correct them. So long as wc love ench other, wc cnn never be unhappy, and our ailcclions In return for which the lady transmits a Bible to her lover,"with the 16th verse of the 14 th chapter of St. Luke, marked ; " I pray thee, have me excused." cunnot changed single persons—we again revert to Ijie Statistics—who were married in 1S4H there was only one spinster above 60 years of age, whereas there were tigelve bachelors! der one government." " Ah!" said, "you talk like a girl of nineteen on the eve of marriage, in the heyday of hope and bright anticipations. Dear child !—believe even the heart grows Daniel Webster, a giant in intellect, of whom it may well be said, as Graltansuid of Hurke, "whose knowledge of history amounted to the power of foretelling," tells us—" I will not state what might produce the disruption of the Union ; but, sir, I see as plainly as I see the sun in the Heaven what that disruption itself must produce ; I see that it must produco war, and such a war us I will not describe,- in its two-fold " Tlianl; lite Lord for the variation shouted au old sinner, who sat over in the amen corner of the room, at this interesting juncture of the discourse. An Incident In the LU« of the Duke of In the neighborhood of his father's residence in the County of Meath, the future Duke, when a lud, was one of a party which, after the manner of times, had indulged in free potations until a late period of the night. Mr. Wellesley, or as the i name was then Wealcy, managed to esl cape from his companions, and retiring to his bed, fell fast asleep. Ilis absence was observed, and his retreat detected. It was determined that he should return. One of the party, more or less drunken than the rest, snatched up a loaded pistol, and, carefully drawing the ball with which it was loaded, proceeded to the bedside to discharge it at the head of the sleeper. He fired, Mr. Wellesley was of course awoke, and was forced to get up, dress himself, and was brought back iu triumph to the party. In the morning, however, it was found that the the pistol had passed through the pillow, close by where the head of the future conqueror of Napoleon must have been.—With all the care that his assailant had taken to draw the ball, he had left, unconsciously, in its place, ramrod ; and but that the same potations that confused his perception, unsteadied his hand, when lie pointed the pistol at the young sleeper, tlmt might have ended the career of the Hon. Arthur Wellesley.—Dublin University Magazine. Wellington. Music in Man. The universal disposition of human beings, from the cradle to the death-bed, to old. The day must come when the rapture of passion will decay—when the delusion is over, and wo stand revealed in our real characters. After custom has robbed beauty of its dazzling charms—after youth has departed, or shadows mingled with the light of home, then, Louisa, the wife may talk of the excellencies of of her husband, or husband of the admirable qualities of his wife. But the day before the wedding, such encomiums go for nohting with me." A widower, it would seem, selects a more steady age than a bachelor ; while on the contrary, a widow prefers that her " second husband" shall be younger than herself.— It thus appears that of widows above fifty, who contract a second marriage, more than three-fourths are united 10 men under fitly. " Samivel! Samivel ! be careful of the vidders !" But it ulso appears, that as the chances of marriage decrease, the ages of new partners are found to increase. On a rough calculation, the number of marriages " in which widows appear as principals is about nine per cent, of the whole annual number, and those in which the bridegrooms are widowers about fourteen per ceot of the whole. It might be supposed, therefore, that more widower* contracted alliances with spinsters than bachelors with widows j but, independently of this, it appears that more Widows found widowers for partners than bachelors, a (act which illustrates the old apothegm, that " 'Tis sympathy makes friends."— Many other curious facts are given, to which we may refer hereafter. The subject, we are aware, is always interesting. In France, " the business of matrimony" is, in many cases, rtystematieed, and on very mercenary and oulculative principles. Thus there are "marriage bsokebs," just the same as wo have " stock khoksrs !" [Philadelphia Inquirer. The eflect was ludicrous and irresistable The preacher dropped the subject where he was interrupted, and was never heard to allude to it during a subsequent ministry of forty years. express their feelings in measured cadences of sound and action, proves that our bodies are constructed on musical principles, and that the harmonious working of j their machinery depends on the movements of the several parts being timed to each other, and that the destruction of health, as regards lxDth body and mind, may be well described as being out of tune. Our intellectual and moral vigor would be better sustained if we more practically studied the propriety of keeping the soul in harmony, by regulating the movements of the body ; for we should thus see and feel that every affection which is now connected with social enjoyment, is also destructive individual comforts, and whatever tends to harmonize, also tends to promote happi- years General Costa demanded his arrest, | Mexico had not soldiers enough to take Lhim; and in 1845-6, he assisted to chase 'the last of these out of the country. Af! lerwards he amassed a fortune at the Tex- character." Heatoring and Preserving the Sight as bar, and was chosen one of the first Senators from the new State ajinexed—a place which he mny hold for life if he wills it. And so Henry Clay, after devoting his life to the service of his country—" I have said what I solemnly believe—that the dissolution of the Union and war are identical and inseparable ; that thoy arc conver- A friend who had read tho following valuable item of information but who had forgotten which way " to rub his eyes," for loss of sight by age, requested us yesterday to re-publish the process. It is as follows: Rusk is the only public man in Texas who has never engaged in a duel. " I understand you, dear aunt. You mean to say the virtues only of each can give lasting pleasures to the other. Now for myself I say nothing—for I can boast only will; but you cannot deny that my betrothed is the best and most deserving of all the young men of this town ? Are not all virtues that lead to happiness blooming in him V tible terms." For near sightedntss.—Close the eyes and press tiie fingers gently, from the noaet diitiMrd, acfaeft the eyes, 'fhls flattens the pupils, and thus lengthens or extends the angle of vision. This should be done several times a day, till short-sightedness is The " Western Magazine" puts forth some good notions and strong arguments favorable to the mora general support of the local press—its superiority over for. eign newspapers, ft says: "every person would give more for a history of his own, than of a foreign country. Upon the same principle he should prize more highly a record of his own than a neighboring country. People entertain a mistaken notion when they suppose they can secure a better family paper abroad than at home. Papers intended for a wide circulation do not contain the news; and the insipid matter that many of our foreign papers contain, leaves a deadly mildew and vitiated taste wherever they go. The advertisements of a home paper are far superior reading matter to the wishy washy, milk and-water, love sick trash that is offered to us at such cheap club rules. And then lDy patron, i/.ing our home papers we know when to shed the sympathysing tear with those who have been bereft of a friend, by reading under the deaths ; and when to utter the hearty 11 a! ha ! ha! by reading under the marriages. We say, then, to our western people, patronize your hom% pa- Patronise your home Papers first. " Such a war, too, as that Would be, following the dissolution of the Union! Sir, we may search the pages of history, and none so furious, so bloody, so implacable, so exterminating, from the wars of Greece down, including those of the Commonwealth of England, and the revolution of France—ndtte, none of them raged with siibh violence, or was ever conducted with such blood-shed and enormities, as will that war which shall follow that disastrous event—if that event ever happens—of dis- overcome. ness and health, For lott of tight b$ ageD such as require magnifying glasses, pass the fingers or towel from the outer corner of the eyes inwardly, above and below the eyeballs, pressing gently against them. This rounds them up, and preserves or restores the ■ ■ — ■■ In the oliJen lime, " the whipping post in Boston, Mood on the south side of King street. It was there that I one day witnessed the (logging of a sailor, who was stripped, tied tip, and given thirty nine lashes. A woman was then stripped down to her waist and tied up, 'What V exclaimed the sailor, 1 whip a woman ! no,' pulling off his jacket, though his back was then streaming with blood, he continued, ' give me the stripes intended for her !' But they said it would not answer the law, and the sailor turned his back to the sight, put his hands to his eyes, and exclaimed, ' I will never see a woman whipped !' "—Memoirt of an « Old Gmt." " I will do you both justice,'' answered her relative, " and acknowledge that virtues bloom in both. 1 can say that to you without flattery, Louisa, my love, they on-1 )y bloom, and need a lifetime of rain and 1 sunshine to ripen them. No blessings are more deceitful at first opening. We canpot know in what soil they are rooted. knows the hidden heart? Nay, my idetf pbildren, even could yoil always be as you are, youth and beauty would lose the power to cbarrnD with habit and their constant presence, Men grow soon weary of the loveliest feoe, Besides, your husband must gjrow old himself; and then youthful manners will cease to please him, Your habits, yo«r tMtes, woyld not conge. solution." sight. It has been already said that this is nothing new. The venerable John Quincy Adams preserved his sight in this way, in full vigor to the day of his death. Me told Lawyer Ford, of Lancaster, who wore glasses, that if lie would manipulate his eyes with his lingers, from their external angles inwardly, he would soon be able to dispense with glasses. Ford tried it, and soon restored his sight perfectly, and has since preserved it by the continuance of this practice. Hear Mr. Sergeant also, on the same " Armed rrten Will grow Bp out of this peaoeful soil—not such men as put on armour to establish the Union, the independence and the freedom of thoir country, and laid it down when their liberties were secured—but men supplied with fury's arms, with the destroying rage called military ambition, with the lust of dominion and it# dismol progeny, whose procession is closed with the despot and his bloody sword". subject "The Evening Bulletin," published by A. Cummings, Philadelphia, appears much enlarged and improved, being a double sheet, of the size of the Tribune. A semi-weekly is also issued. Advertising has enlarged many a small business and revived many a dull one.— Those who do not believe in advertising are those who have never ttfed it. The business man who only occasionally advertises merchandise, cannot expcct to become as well known as lie who is continually before the public. Don't Waste, Waste nothing? A crumb of bread mav keep life in a starving bird. A large and useful volume has been wrjtten with one quill from the goose ; and an inch or two of paper has served for a despatch to save an army from falling into the power of the enemy. Waste nothing, feather up the fragments that remain, that not hint; be lost.' " Why did Adam bite the apple t" asked n Sabbatli school mistress of a bright little fellow of six or sevpn years old. "Cause," said the pupil, '-he had'nt got no knife 'n cut it with !"' nial." io-ay ear of pleasure pusses like a floating breeze—but a moment of misfortune seems art age of pain Louisa siglied " Brother will be seen fighting ngninst brother, and father against, son. all wound- } could store your memory," resumed per* nitst %. . A