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V AND SUSQUEHANNA ANTHRACITE JOURNAL. **''•* -"9"1 % Stekh) $W3ppt~-( Dtttotch to jStttts, 1'iftrntnrt, tlje ftkrrnnfilt, Wining, ftlKjitinirol, nnb ajrirnltan! StofwMto of Hit Cnnntq, Snatruriiait, Slmusmtut, ks. ~)~€m lillnra pr Slnunug R tea, 44 Oaily Times. - 3UX.TAti, i's prepare. • ois friends' ed the former hope—it Tmmi•ions and an.' fcoontrynas sought —whose conic ing fit the etchednMfy- * D0,000 men,, equippedj normous out the adequate • complaint i'i» J-for and tini. attention and. VOLUME 4.--NUMBER 13. PITTSTON, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1853. WHOLE NUMBE THE I'lTTSTON GAZETTE, the had the strength to receive meekly all that she had to endure. and all that she had to bear ; how she was cold and hungry always, and badly treated and scolded and beuten at hume. And the little Adelaide cried with pity and grief for the poor little bound girl, and Mabel cried too—it was so unusual thing, this sympathy and kindness, that it effected her to tears much more readily than harsh words or ill-usage would have done. And there the two children sat; alone, for no one had been in the room all this time ; | and Mabel, in talking wiih Adelaide, had forgotten ubout her eJ'rnnd, and her basket of evergreens that she had left upon the doorstep, and thaf she had staid away long past the time when she should have been at home again. liut all at onee she remembered it, and sprung up in anriVht to go hortte. a more fortunate thing than, when in her childish compassion and pity for suffering, she brought tiie poor little hound girl into the house on that New fear's Evo. ' I his wife iri 1779, and notwithstanding his _____ 'severity-six years, he made u proposition Selections from the works of Dr. Franklin, ' ™l° Madame Helvetius. shortly b,j Eves Sargent, Esq. | be*re ,,h? ° 0se ,of ,th» war- But sl.c had re 1 used the hand o( iurirot, and did not DISPUTE ABOUT LIGHTNING RODS. i „„„ . . . . .. . . ( accept hts. rrankliu thereupon wrote her In August, 1772, another committee of ( a ielu,r) u.|jic|, is a tno(lel of ,v]l and t!ie Royal Society, of which Franklin was 1 grace. a member, visited, under the direction of - ______ DR. FRANKLIN. From the New York . THE RESOURCES OP THE Stisqnclinna AnUtraclto Journal AND After she had given the children their breakfast, and swallowed her's she went into the back room of the little shop, and sat down amongst a heap of evergreens, cedar and holly, and box, that she had been lying up into little wreaths for sale. A lady had been there the day betore, and ordered a quanlily of wreaths to decorate her parlor for New Year's day, and Mabel had been obliged to sit up Very late the night befoie to finish them. Now she was laying them carefully into a basket, in which they were t« be sent home. She knew she would have to carry !hem, there was no else to do it: and no mat'.er if it | was storming—if the snow did lie deep up. on the ground; and Mabel had no shoes— if the sharp, sleety iaia was pouring down and Mabel had no warm covering. The huckster-woman never seemed to think that Mabel could feel pain. or cold, or wea. riness ; and when she came into the back room, and found the girl and the basket of evergreens still there, she scoldcd her sharply for wai'.ini;, and bade her begone at onoq aud carry lliem home. So Mabel all barefooted as she was, with only a ragged hood and sn old scanty cape to protcci her from the driving sleet, sturled out upon her errand.. Poor child, it seemed a hnr.l thing to have to contribute to others enjoy litem, and she so miserable herself ! She thought how beautiful, tlie .lady's parlor* vVol'flu be, adorned with the wrentlis, to to mafte,which* her poor fingers had been torn and wotynded } how verv richly the crimson t|olly berries would shine oul from the dark leaves in the brilliant light, and how happy children would romp about the rooms, never,thinking of ihe poor child who had ccme barefoot through the snow to bring those wreaths. It was no wonder lliat the bitter !ear3 Slatted to her, eyes, and wild, rebellious rings against UodV providence rose in her heart. It was a long way that Mabel had, to go. awav from the litllr, ■arrow, crowded •streets, with which she was familiur, up into a fashionable quarter of the ciiy. She did not know her way very well, and had lo look up often to notice the numbers ol the houses : and once, looking up, her eye.- met those of a child not older than herself, standing by a window inside :hc curtains What a contiast between the two children, Mabel starved, and frozen, and miserable —b re feet in (he snow ; and the child a1 ihe window, beautiful as a dream, warm and rosy, and richly dressed, standing a mid»t folds of Uce mid velvet drapery of almost royal splendor. Yol the beoutiful child looked down kindly upon poor Malie! anil smiled, and Mabel swilled back again, for the child's look had been like a sun beam shining down into her eves. Then ilie child beckoned with a little whiu hand, as if for Mabel to come lo her. bu Mabel did not dare to mount the marble steps of that splendid mansion. The child raisi d the window a little, and culled obi lo Mabel, 'Stay till I come,' aud so ran away. Presently she was at the hall door ■Milling to Mabel |o come to her, so kindly, that Mabel, quite encouraged, came up tin steps to the little lady. Mow cold you must bct exclalmfcd the child, compassionately, taking Mabel's frozen fingers in her soft, rosy liunds— with ni cloak on, and no shoes either !— Why how could your mother lei you go out so. The magnitude ol theSultu lions for war has astonished and his enemies—it has fil' with joyful exultation and completely falsified the asser licipations of the latter. which the pro-Russian press by every means to depreciate dition it has represented as lowest ebb of misrule and w has now under arms nearly ' well fed, well paid, and we While notwithstanding the i lay that was necessary to supply of such a force no heard of a want of funds or These phenomena, so unlonki expected, have excited the curiosity of certain European journal*, who have undertaken to examine and 8'd. count for them. Among them, a write* in lie Paris Debalt pi avsa prominent part. Ilia solution of :he mystery is as follows : "The present is the season of the year i in which the Turkish troasury receives most of its taxes. It is only after harvest, that the Rayahs can ruise their capitation* tax ; uftcr harvest the laud owners and-- peasants pay their dues ; at the same pfc. • tiod the export trade commences, and pays.i a tax of five per cent, on all articles; and further, it is after harvest that ths native dealers renew their supplies of foreign merchandize, on oil of hich therd-- is a duty of three per cent.— During the present quarter the Ottoman government thus receives nearlyC the entire revenue of tneyear. This, in a* measure, accounts lor the plonlifulness of money just now at Constantinople, which cannot, however, be expected to contin. ue." If PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY G. M. RICHA11T 8 II. S. PHILLIPS. About the Fashions. A correspondent of the New York Daily Times gives the following in regard to the Parisian lushions, which will be read with interest: OIKct IVtit tid' of M«iw Strut, teconi «l«r» •/ IA« ul*»g 8tvr$" of IVisucr 8■ H ood. the gpvernmeii., the powder inugoaijies a! closing years of his life. Pur fleet, for the purpose of Considering j v b,.al,tifu, u h# (ac,p f he .(.as! effectual mean* for prolefctulg cIo ,s o( Franklin'J long and labom f om ."ghining. 1 . rank.,n drew up rjo(„ fi(£ Though hot without his share a report which was accepted, in which the o( , . , inf|r*(ili hfl retaine(] nia erec ion of pointed rods was advised. A 1 . . • .. r r • • j Iivfcltr interest in public Affairs, his warm controversy, of some notoriety in its day, • , , , 4.r .. . •D ,, .. , , 7 i " !• sOLial and domestic sympathies, his amengrew out of the dissent of one member of . a • . . ' . • .. i f. . .4, A DC 1V , , ny and serenity of temper, his active and this committee, a Mr. V\ ilson, who con i," # i; , • r *.i • I,..,,. i , i. . i vigorous intellect, his abiding faith in antended that the Conductors oujzhl to be V . , , ur tl * . , ,, . • . i .i° ,,, other ar.d a better life. He seems to have blunt, inasniucli as if pointed, they would the uU, expretocd in another's at tract the lightning. io this * runkl.n be!lu)f bv Wordsworth: replied lliat the attruciion wtls die very • , , . •'"«« f» :D"■ i« ""'"-y «• scire. 8 lently and grudually urawn afcay from the A melanc'ioly slave f building. And conveyed without danger to But an old age, serene and bright, the earth. Mr. Wilson .till clung to his I -hid lovely as aXapfond night, u theory in regard lo'.he blunt conductors, . ' m e" 'iuc t0 ''y Bravoand persuaded the king to cjiango his His at this time, in the poinied ones for blunt, at Buckingham ! vivacity, humor, and justice ol thought, house. One of Franklin's friends (Dr. and happy reliance on 1 rovidenoe which it IngenhoUz, a member of the Royal Socle- U a model of style and mood. k JoMkaL" la published ei »rD Frida)r, Bt Two IIDLtAKl iwr Itimum. Two Dollnfa uud HftJ Conn will lie charged if not |ioiil wilhln lim ytur. No nam r will l»' dlaSontlnui'd unlll all arrearage are paid Am-«iTi.a«»ST» arc- i.werwd con.plcuou.ly at Oaa fDoLLA* pD r square or foil rt urn line* for three Inscrtl out and T w**?v«rtv* fun additional ftir«Tery aubaeqiu-n Insertion. A liberal deduction to Ihoao whoadrertlw ror six raontlis or the wliule year. . Job Work.—YVe have connected with our eRUiblUnnmnt u wdlassortm«Mit of Jod Tytic whicli will enable us W -«x«cute,ln the iieatc»t »l)l« «#*«ry variety of priming. ______ 1 have often rcproachcd myself with my neglect of what ought to be one of the protrfinl'nt bfanchcs ol a Paris correspondent's duties. 1 have never yet written a fashion nrliele. I iiavc ncVer yet felt 1 hut 1 was tip to (hat department of the servico. It seems to me to require a host of information and acquirements thut I do not possess. I notice • hat stately American journals have columns devoted to this subject, and 1 suppose thut they must bo read, or that people would not write them. Not lo be behind any enterprising NetV York es tablishiiiG.it, and in order lo distance coinpel i( ion, 1 have been looking about for materials, and gathering a fund of information, which in due time will be luvUhcd on your readers. 1 commence my series of fashion articles with an account of two new garments, known us "Prevel's Umbrella Great-Coat," and "I'revel's Sclf-Kx. pauding Petticoat." POETRY.* What will Mrs. James say because I have sinyed atvuy so long ? and ohD my basket—if anything should iiuve happened lo it, she excluimed with terror. For the Pittston Oasetto, TO MX MOTHER. '—Ei. 20 xii We'll go and see, Adelaide said, and they went down lo ihe door again, and opened it to get the basket, but it was gone. Some one had passed by and taken possession of it, and it was of no use to look further lor it. Poor Mabel burst into an uiioliy of grief. She loo well knew whal would bo her fate if she had lo go buck without the basket, and without having done her Crfahd. Adelaide tried lo comfort her. *DIfoKor Itt, FatLii- anC' My Mother.'' The moon herW '«nJ $8l SUeds down o'er i'1' nni' dale) _ The mitomn winds are hoshed to-nt»lit j And beauty elo'hes the vale ; ; No noise of labor far or near, Is heard, nor should there be ; For I am thinking, mother dear, I'm thinking now of thee. i In the prospectus announcing' the Umbrella Great-coat, M. Prevel remarks with justice, thut the Umbrella is ul bus! bui a cumbrous utensil. It seems to a cerluin degiee to protect the bearer from the rain, but it is apt to drip from the whalebones upon his feet, to gel enl(!ngl«d with oilier umbrellas, to get borrowed and never relurued. The Umbrella gren:cont is intended to serve tis a greatcoat und an umbrella at the same time. Wis made tDf uny impervious material, and has, running along the lower edge, on air-proof tube.— Under llie collar is u Iil11e„ jiiuJv-ho U, oo m - munlcaitng Wflh ihis tube. The wearer applies his tnouth to this hole, and with u few vigorous exhalations with air. The tube lakes the consistency ol u hoop, ihe greatcout assumes ihe form of a diving bell, and the drops full a long way outside the wearer's feet. Such is Prevel's Umbrella Greatcoat. It has one immense advantage. No one would be likely to borrow it. ty,j wroto of Wilson's charlatanism in so heated a manner, that Franklin w ittily remarkedl,he seems ns much heated about this one point as the Janserists and Molinists were about the five." 'J he following clever epigram, upon the subject of ihe king's yielding to Wilson's arguments in opposition to Franklin's, appeared about this time—' '•V\ hile you, great George, for safely htlnf, jlnd sharp conductors change lor blunt, The empire', out of joint j Franklin a wiser course pursues, Jenny Lind, the peerless, the Nightingale of the North, bus got a baby ! —[Exchange Paper. Well, what of it ? Hasn't "Jenny Lind, the peerless, the Nightingale of the North" a right lo have a baby, we should like to know ? Would you ulwnys have lier singing to the cold world, warm as it may be in its admiration of her songs, charming it by her sweet notes? Must she always be warbling lo gaping crowds, who gaze upon her only as a public per. I'm lonely now, I'm lonely now,; I'm far away from home ; Away from Iter who kissed my brow, Kre yet I learned to roam j Whoso heart so often yearned in prsyer For me, her wayward son ; .And but for whose religious care, 1 had to ruin run. 'Never mind about the basket, Mabel,' she said ; I wouldn't care for the basket or the people either ; wouldn't go back to live with people thut treated trie so f and you shati'1 go Mabel ; you must stay and live with mo always I'll ask grandpa il you may n't !' Full of a new idea, llie child fan"across the pussnge, drawing Mabel after her up the staircase again. Running ulong the upper hull past the druvving rooms, she mounted two step? at the ostremo end of die bull, and then knocked lightly at a door — A kind voice said, cheerily, 'come in. Laity-bird ;' and then an old man in a crimson dressing gown, und black velvet smoking cap, with long silvery hair beneath il came arid opened the door. And now—I'm sail, my mother kind j And tears unbidden start; For ort to love and duty blind, I've pained thy tender heart. And have I so ungrateful been! [j, Alas! and can it he ? O Savior, wipe away the sin, And make me more like thee. Anil all vour thunder tearless view., It. keeping to Ihe point. former? Look into the nursery where Jenny's buby sleeps, in its little cradle, and hear ihe low lullaby of her voice. See how fondly she gnzes upon the helpless thing, and when it opens iis liu'e eyes and looks trustingly up to llie face of its mother, hear how she warbles ihe 'Bird Song' lo charm it back lo sleep. Listen to ihe angel sounds ! There is no effort, I-UA.NKI.1N AT VERSAILLES In the opinion of this gentleman, the flourishing state of the Turkish finances is a meie temporary .matter, which will soon pnss away, and give place to that di». may and despair which an empty treasury, and a starving soldiery are Sure to inspire. Tho result, however, may be very different from what is thus predicted. Thtt Sultan has resources of whose existence) the Frenchman afTec:s to be ignorant-Mofwhose existence all tyrants are Jgnoranl—C for no tyrant, r.o tfeurper, no oppressor of the laws and liberties of his country, ever had tliein. Resources (or which no ati-i tumr.nl taxes, no forced contributions, can. be a substituie. Resources which shaill be unfailing when the tributes of Rayahs, the dues of peasants, end thc-per ce'ntage of merchants siiall have been exhausted., Resources such as sustained Athena, against the might of Xerxes ; such as en*., ixbled Rome to bear up against the arms and genius of Hannibal ; such as support., ed Ameiica during the trials and struggles of the revolution. Tiiese are the re-i sources on which Abdul Medjid mainly relics, and which are not influenced by time or seasons, or turns ol fortune; and these never failing resouices, with which neither tyrants nor tyrants' minions have acquaintance, are the valor, the devotion, and the enthusiasm of his people. It was not those autumnal taxes, on on which the French editor lays such astress, that gathered together from every • province of the SuHan's dominions, those; mighty armies which guard jn Europe and in Asia, the Northern frontiers of the Otto, man Empire. It was no mercenary mo. ■ live that impelled those fierce warriers to. come from the extremities of Egvpt and the confines of Persia, to battle with the enemy and oppressor of their race, but love of country and religious zeal, it was not any portion of those autumnal taxes, which enabled the Sultan in one day to. arm, clothe and equip eight thousand "Re. difs," but the voluntary offerings of a patriotic and devoted people. It was not as, debtors to the Stale that the citizefis of Constantinople placed 18,000 soldiers,, armed and equipped, at the service of the, Sultan, but as men who were prepared to sacrifice their property and lives in defcnce, of his independence and the rights of hlAi sovereign authority. Nor is it the dreadof the tax collector that induced the mql„ . titude to pour daily into the Imperial irea- '. sury free gifts of jewels and money, and ■ to placo at the disposal of the Stale their ; horses, their houses, and their lands, butall the noblest passions that can actuate men who know that the ascendancy of; their faith, the freeduin of their race, and. their future position in Europe must de. pend on the result of the coming contest.. This Russo Turkish war, it must be re. mtmbered, will bo no ordinary war, in the t estimation of the Tuik. The insults and! oppressions which Abdul Medjid has sutlered from iiis enemy, have wounded the-6pirit and kindled the indignation of follower of the Prophet throughout the-, length ond brcaJth of the Ottoman empire. The Moslem burns lo avenge these ifisults,, and these oppressions, on tbe hereditary foe of 1ns country and his creed ; to expel from the territory of his sovereign those audacious intruders who have been so long permitted to pollute it with their presence. He considers that bis faith, his freedom, and his future destiny will be in* volved in the contest. He goes into it with his whole haart and soul, and he is prepared to saorifico everything that men hold sacred and precious, in order to bring it to a triumphant termination. lie appeared ol this royal audieilce very simply ultired, with slruight, unpowdered hair, a brown cloth coal, and round hat.— A crowd hod collected to sec him. llis age, his venerable aspect, his sininle drees, contrasted niih the finerv around him, the recollection of his services to science und humanity, all combined to waken the utmost enthusiasm of llie spectators. The king received him with cordiality, charging him l° assure the United Slates of his friendship, and expressing his satisfaction xt iIh the conduct of lheir commissioner during his reaidetice in France. On his withdrawing from this audience, the crowd in llie passage-ways greeted him with renewed manifestations of welcome, und followed him for some dislancc. Yes mother dear, I'm lonely oo» -* My thoughts revert again T-o wheats you bathed my burning brow, And chased away my pain! No other friend was then so dear, No other step so light; O mother! wouJd that thou wert here, To bless thy san to nigh!! '1 had a fancy il was kpock, lie said, stooping down fo kiss the child.— Whal is your pleasure, Queen Adelaide ? Come forward and proclaim it. no art in that seraphic music, ft comes gushing forlli from a heart full of a moth er's afieClioi), overflowing wiih a molher's yearning. How soft and IoDv it is, arid yet how full Of I lie ilifensesl lovo. lie still. Applaud not. It is nature, all nature, supremely sweet though il be. Disturbed not the enchanting harmony by ihe voice of praise. See, those little rjes have closed ugain. Jenny's baby sleeps, and the song has died away, vanished slowly like a dream, or a receding shadow, into The self expafuTtyg pellicoal consists in tho application of similar wind pipe lo tlm liein of a lady's principal under-gar iricnl. One, sovs the invuntur, stands out and takes up the room oi' six ordinary petticoats, and thus sarrs wear and tear, and economises washing, it is hue that when a lady qe.-ires lo get intC) a carriage, the hoop will be likely lo suck at the door.— To obviate this, she must, at the moment of embarking, turn n liitlti screw, hidden n some fold of her dress, and lot out the air. The swollen (olds at once collapse, and shrink into an extremely small com. pass. As she alights from the vehicle, sh8 again applies her lips to the mouthpiece, inflates the tube, and distends her skirls. This perpetual letting in and out of air, 0110 would think, would become monotonous, not to sny tedious, in time. It is possible that a flageolet might in some Way be adapted lo the tube, so that the wind, in escaping, might whistle an air.— Or an urrangemtnt of reeds might produce a melody like that of tt barrel,organ, or perhaps of an jE-ilian harp. No lady could ullege, lis an objection, her inability to ploy upon thCf flute. Hamlet settled that question long ago. Any one can cause a recorder to discourse most eloquent music, by just placing the fingers upon certain vents, and raiding them from ocrtain others. Ask Herr Kccnig if the whole art of a cornet a piston does does not lie in the way he manages his fingers. 1 anticipato an immediate success for the new petticoats. 1 need not say that this invention has been patented. And may Queen Adelaide have her pleasure, grandpa, whatever it may be? Hut mother! thou art growing old ; Thy locks are thin #nd gray ; Thy loving heart must soon be coM ; Thy body turn to clay. It site exacts nothing more than usuallv unreasonable—icell, who s this ? he txclaimed in surprise, breaking off suddenly us he saw Mubel for (he first lime. Poor Mu'ucl ! she had hidden behind Adelaide, trembling with a very vauge fear at the strangeness of her position, and liaH' hoping io escape notice. Now she had to stand forth a'id beur the kind but inquisitive gaze of the old man's eyes. Poor Mabel, she hung her head down in shyness, but for all ihul the old man could see thai the face she was trying to hide was u very lovely one, with its large sad eyes, and the delicate mouth and chin ; even though ,the stain of tears was oil the cheek, thin and pale from want and suffering, and roughened by co.mailt cxposuro to wind and weather. O dreadful thought! und must thou die 1 Whearthau *rt passed uway, O where for comfort shall I fly f And who for me will pray ? silence lrtTEHTIBW WITH VOLTAIRE. Dul why, we ask again, should not Jenny have a baby lo love, to fold in her fond arm?, to kiss and hup, and toss in the air, and trot upon her knee, and chirrup to, and tumble about, Willi a u.other's doming play, fulness ? She has conquered fame ; shall she linger in soliiary age, and die nlone at lust? Shall the heart's affections be wasted in the pursuit of ambition, and shall no loving and irusting face cheer her thro' life, and stand around her death-bed, like bright visions looking upward toward the sky ? Shall she walk the world's high places compHmonless, and without a Slav for her age to lean upon ? No. Ten thousnd times dearer to her mother's heart, is the crowing,;evcn the cries of that little one, than the laudett applause that ever went up from the crowdod audience, on the day of her proudest triumph. Ten thousand times sweeter is its smile, than the fragrance of the flowers that were showered upon her, as a tribute of aJmiraiiun to her transcendent sweetness of song. Yes, yes, ambition is nothing—triumphs urc nothing—admiration of the world, fame and wealth, are nothing. The mother looks upon hercl iid, hur heart clings to its feeblones, and all other world-visions vanish away. "Rock the cradle" Jenny ! Oh ! hard it is, my mother dear, 'J'o think that thou must go, Yd would I not dnain thee here, In this dark world of woe; For joys more pure earth's, to thee, Through. Jksis will be given , And thou wilt ytl remember ine— Thou'U still be miiio—t/i hearcn. J. WII.I.is WESTI.JM Wyoming Scminr.ry, Nov. 1853. The enthusiasm o(' which ho had been the object at Versailles was renewed al Paris. Voltaire had recently arrived there after an absence of thirty years. lie was in his 8.0th year. Franklin called upon him, and was received with evident pleasure. Voltaire at first accosted him in English, but having lost the habit of speaking it, he resumed the conversation in French, adroitly remarking, "I could not resist the temptation of speaking for a moment in the language of Franklin."— The Philadelphia sage then presumed his grandson lo the patriarch of Ferney, and asked his blessing on him. "God and liberty !" said Voltaire, raising his hands oter the young man's head—"that is the only benediction appropriate to the Son of Franklin." l'rom the Philadelphia Inquirer. Where did this poor child come from, Ad. laide ?. he asked wonderingly. LITTLE MABEL. Why, oui of the si reel grandpa, where she was walking in the show with lie) naked leei ! 'Only think of it grandpa !' exclaimed Adelaide, indignantly—, the people she lived with sent her out (o sell evergreens, and I sow her Irom the window and brought her itl. And oh, grandpa, I want vbu to promise that she shan't go hack to them any more—won't you 1 Ma. bel is loo good to go back there, and I want her to slay with ine always, and get dressod in sotnc warm frocks, and be coinforta ble. Maven't I keep liei grandpa, spy V IIow could l.e refuse tile little pleader 1 how turn a deal ear to the entreaties of those childish lips, and the voiceless but most earnest pleading of those sweet eyes uplifted to his, all wet Willi their recent weeping ? Oh, grandpa loved Adelaide too well, and he was too good and kind' hearted himself, to deny her prayer long, i ,.-cd not tell vou of all the questions he asked Mabel, of all the answers that she gave him, but oniy from Adelaide's pleading, and his own conY'otion ol the child's innocence and truth, written so plainly as both wero on her sweet luce, the old man consented at last to keep Mabel in the house, and take care ol her always. She was to be Adelaide s little maid, and help her to dress, and w ait upon her, and Mabel thought it would be a very different thing from being the maid to Mrs. Jamo's rude boys. " Little Mabel, little Mabel, Wanders forth upon the street. The froat upon her yellow hair, Mabel put her hands over her eyes and burst into tears. I haven'l tnv mother, she •Cobbed; but it was not that thought so much as the unaccustomed words of kindness that made her cr}\ The snow beneath her fcet." A few days after this interview the same parties met at the Acadainy of Sciences, and wern placed side by side. '] he sight of these distinguished old men elicited anofhor ouibreals of Parisian enthusiasm.— Tho cry arose that they should embrace. They stood up, bowed, took each other by the hand, and spoke, lint this was not enough. The clamor still continued. "II laut's embrasscr a la Frcncaise," Was the cry ; whereupon they kissed each other on the cheek, and not, till then did the tumult subside.- The scene was Classically colnpafed by the literatcurz of the day, id "Solon embracing Sophocles." Voltaire lived only a month after this second encounter with his American contemporary. It was a very cold, miserable garret room where Maliel Browne, a poor iiiilr bound girl, iuy asleep one New Yeer'» eve. The windows were broken in a great many places, and shut up wi:h old rags, did not keep out the cold at all ; even the #;:ow drifted in, and lay in litile heaps upon the liclo3° 10 the loot of Mabel's straw pallet, whereat !»y covered up with only a picca old car,.£t. wonder how shu could work at all in such a place you are sure you could not. Poor little Mabel ! she knew of na better things.— Her parents had been poor, and had to work even to get aomothiug to eat; and when they died, Mabel was bound to a huckster woman, who gave her hard work and worse treatment all the day long. She had to do everything—wait in the shop, run errands to oarrv (hinge home 10 customers, work about the house, wash and dress the children. and wait on them, and twenty other thing* beside ; so that the poor child was tired enough to sleep soundly when she was allowed to go to bed, even on that miserable brd. Dy and by, while she lay there asleep, n boy came clamoring at the door, and llung it open ; when he ?aw Mabel asleep, he shou'.ed Mown stairs. I'm so sorry, "aid the child, pityingly ; but don't cry, I haven't got ony mother either, I've only got a grandpu, but lie does Iovj me dearly, uives me everything I want. So ifl want some nice warm uloihes lor you, he'll give them to mo I know. But you must come in first and get warm, put your basket down Jiere—1 not carry that basket any moie.' The child tuo!: '.!D* basket" and sot ii down upon the steps, ana iliCS dC*ew Mubol into the house, across the hall, ar.d ujD 1. ° Mr. M'LeoU, bii English writer, puts the following lunguage into the mouth of those who usit the, rumseller's den : "Rock the cradle" Jenny ! "There is my money—give me drink ! There's my clothing apd food—give me drink! There's the clothing and food ol my wife andchlldrfeti—givte me drink ! There's the education of the family anil peace of the house—give me drink ! There is tho rent I have rodbed my landlordi fees J f:ave robbed from the schoolmaster, and innuroeruM? articles 1 have robbed from the.shopkeeper—givs me drink ! Pour me out drink for more I wiii yet fDR? 'orit • There's my health of body and peace oi mind, there's my charactcr as a man and my profession as a christian ; I give up all—give me drink ! More yet I have to give ! There's my heavenly inheritance and the eternal friendship of the redemed— there—there—all hope of salvation ! 1 give up my God ! 1 resign all !—All that is great, good and glorious in the universe, 1 resign forever that I may be drunk." Go out to sing to the world never again —pass forever from iis gaac, to sit calmly by the domestic hearth, gathefing your little ones around you teaching them the value of "the divinity that stirs within them," the duties of life and hope of eter nity. Tell them of the littleness of fafnfe, the folly of ambition, the beauty of liolinese, and the home with the just at last. And when angfls shall gather around the grtal While Throne, among the voices that shall mingle in thn song of the redeemed, yours and theirs shall be heard in the full volume of their sweetness, chaunting ths praise of "Him that liveth forover." broad, carpeted siaircasc into tho drawing room, where she had bern belore. Poo Mabel! sho slood bewildered with aston shmcut and admiration in the centre o hat beautiful room. It seemed to her i Iream of fairy.land ; she had never imag lied the existence of such splendid thing! —The velvet carpel, so rich and.glowing nto which her feet sunk at every step, the uxurous couches and divens, and the mir ■ors reaching from floor to ceiling, the ;orgeous curtain*, and tho pictures and taiuies, and the beautiful trifles scattered iround upon the marble tables—everything vas new and wonderful to Mabel. She ooked down at herself in all her tatters ind misery, and then with a bitter sense Df the contrast between herself arid her suroundings, she would have run wildly from he room, from the house, out into the inow again. What business had she there —but the little lady held her hands, and Irew her up to the grate, through thesilrer ban of which the glowing coals shed uch a warm crimson light. A large cushioned chair stood before the grate, and in his the child seated Mabel ; then she sal town upon an ottoman by her side, nnd ;ommenccd talking to her ond asking her luestiona. Tell me what your name is, little girl, ihe said. Mabel, is it, what a pretty name Mabel is ! My name is Adelaide, but ntD- Dody would ever know it, because grandDa always calls me Lady bird. 1 wish my rrandpa was yours too, he is so good, and le would never let you co out in the cold 10. Tell me now all about it, Mabtl, vhere you live, and what mokes you »o Door. Maybe I can do something for you Dow. And 10 Mabel did tall her all her story, conversational powers. Ilis features were an index of the good temper, amenity, cheer fulness and affability which were his charac:cri*tics. John Adams represents him as being taciturn on Committee and in Congress. In society he was far from being loquacious ; hut no one possessed a more entertaining fund of conversation, or used it more happily on fitting occasions. Childhood, that "best detector of a gentle heart," was always welcome to his ltncc. For the young, his manners, and words of sage advice and pleasantry had an indescribable charm.— SiC Francis Homily, when a young man. called on him at Pnssy (1782) will) a friend. "Dr. Franklin," he writes, "was indulgent enough to converse a good deal with us, whom he observed to be young men very desirous of improving by his conversation. Of all the celebrated persons, whom, in my life, I have chanced to see, Dr. F., both from his appearance and his conversation, seemed to me the most remarkable. His venerable, patriarchal appearance, the simplicity of his manners and language, and the noveky of his observation—at least the novelty of them at that time to me—impressed me with an opinion of him as one of the most extraordinary men that ever existed." A Beautiful Incident. She could scarcely believe that she was not in a dream, when a lew hours after tihe stood again in the library by Adelaide's side before her grandfather. She was such a diiTcrent person from the poor ragged child who had stood trembling there before. Now Cihe Imd a nice bath, and was so prettily dressed from head to foot in garments handsomer and richer than ever she dreamed ot possessing. Her face was clean and pure, and her pretty yellow hair, parted evenly from her forehead, and clustered wavily around her neck ; her neat dark merino dress filled nicely to her figure, and her poor little feet had oft, warm stockings and shoes on. Altogether she looked so pretty and neat that Adelaide was perfectly charmed willi her new little maid, and could not refrain from throwing her arms around her and kissing hrr ; and the kind grandpapa himself patted her on her head and told her to be a good girl. So this was the commencemeht ol Mabel's New Year, and of Iter new life, for after this she never left Adelaide. She was so good, and faithful, and affectionate that all about the house soon grew to love the quiet little Mabel ; and" grandpapa of. ten told hit Ladybird that she nevef did An officer being at sea in a dreadful storm, his lady was sitting in the cabin near him, and filled with tlarm foi the safety of the vessel, was so surprised at his composure and serenity that shn cried out : "Moiher ! mother ! what do you think ? Vlahel ain't up yet, and it is eight o'clock, and 1 hud to dress myself all alone, and Jane ain't getiin' dressed either. I nfcy mother !" A Valuable One.—The Green Co. Pa , Messenger says the editor of the Brownsville Clipper at their State Fair, took the premiums on the following points :— 1. For the best boring machine. 2. For tha best smut maohine. 3. For the greatest Jackass. 4. For the 'biggest hog.' 5. For the greatest cabago head. "My dear, are you not afraid ? how is it possible you can be so calm in such a dreadful storm ?" The little girl sprung hastily up, wa. k«ned by the rude noise, and hurried on her poor ragged clothes, that she might go down and dress the children before her mistress came up. But she was not in lime to escape a scolding for her laziness, accompanied with a slap, and an order to ••go get Bob and Jane ready for breakfast this minute." Mabel was used to such treatment, she had to bear it daily and hourly. She did not cry or say a word, but dressed the children patiently, bearing with alt their rudeness and freifulness. iSough they imitated" their mother, and scolded her, and struck her because she Jiaid to wash them in cold water, and pinched her because their hair was tangled, and she could not comb it out without hurting tlwm, and gave her trouble in a great ma. ny ways. God Imd given the lillla girl a gpntlo, poticol oqtl forgiving #pirH, «od to He rosq Irom his chair, rushed to the deck, drew his sword, and pointing it to the breast of his wife, exclaimed— "Are you not afraid 1" She instantly answered— "No!" "Why I" said the officer. "Because," rejoined the lady, "I know this sword is in the hands of rny husband, and he loves me too well to hurt me." It is a very bad si«n to see a man with his hat off at midnight, explaining the principles and theory of Locofocoism to o iamp post. It is also "a bad sign }o see a fellow lie down in a gutter supposing it to be his bed, and commence calling a poor innocent pig all sorts of hard names mistaking it for his wife. "Then," said he, "remember 1 know in whom 1 believe, and He who holds the wind in His fists, aud the water in the hollow of His hands, i* mv Father." In addition, then, to those resource* which even tyrants have, if they can wring them from their down trodden subject*, Abdul Medjid has those other and better resources which tyrants can never have— the valor, the patriotism, the devotion, the enthusiasm of his people. But tbece aro. doubtless, poor substitutes, in th« esluiMKv tion ol the Frenchman,,for qn nbu»Cja,. and Revt»o»4 , franklin in love in his old age. If yon would teacli secrecy others, begin with yourself. How can you expect another will keep your secret when you cannot yourself? He had an,especially affectionate regard for Madame Helvetius, whom he called "Our Lady of Anteuil," and who came every week to dine at least once with him at his littV colony at Passy. He had lost JEf- The Russian Clergy are ignorant and immoral. The priestly office is regarded as a means of escaping slavery, and the priests pass nearly half their lives in a stats of jntoxicatioq,
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Title | Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal |
Masthead | Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal, Volume 4 Number 13, November 18, 1853 |
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Title | Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal |
Masthead | Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal, Volume 4 Number 13, November 18, 1853 |
Volume | 4 |
Issue | 13 |
Subject | Pittston Gazette newspaper |
Description | The collection contains the archive of the Pittston Gazette, a northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper published from 1850 through 1965. This archive spans 1850-1907 and is significant to genealogists and historians focused on northeastern Pennsylvania. |
Publisher | Pittston Gazette |
Physical Description | microfilm |
Date | 1853-11-18 |
Location Covered | United States; Pennsylvania; Luzerne County; Pittston |
Type | Text |
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Language | English |
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Full Text | V AND SUSQUEHANNA ANTHRACITE JOURNAL. **''•* -"9"1 % Stekh) $W3ppt~-( Dtttotch to jStttts, 1'iftrntnrt, tlje ftkrrnnfilt, Wining, ftlKjitinirol, nnb ajrirnltan! StofwMto of Hit Cnnntq, Snatruriiait, Slmusmtut, ks. ~)~€m lillnra pr Slnunug R tea, 44 Oaily Times. - 3UX.TAti, i's prepare. • ois friends' ed the former hope—it Tmmi•ions and an.' fcoontrynas sought —whose conic ing fit the etchednMfy- * D0,000 men,, equippedj normous out the adequate • complaint i'i» J-for and tini. attention and. VOLUME 4.--NUMBER 13. PITTSTON, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1853. WHOLE NUMBE THE I'lTTSTON GAZETTE, the had the strength to receive meekly all that she had to endure. and all that she had to bear ; how she was cold and hungry always, and badly treated and scolded and beuten at hume. And the little Adelaide cried with pity and grief for the poor little bound girl, and Mabel cried too—it was so unusual thing, this sympathy and kindness, that it effected her to tears much more readily than harsh words or ill-usage would have done. And there the two children sat; alone, for no one had been in the room all this time ; | and Mabel, in talking wiih Adelaide, had forgotten ubout her eJ'rnnd, and her basket of evergreens that she had left upon the doorstep, and thaf she had staid away long past the time when she should have been at home again. liut all at onee she remembered it, and sprung up in anriVht to go hortte. a more fortunate thing than, when in her childish compassion and pity for suffering, she brought tiie poor little hound girl into the house on that New fear's Evo. ' I his wife iri 1779, and notwithstanding his _____ 'severity-six years, he made u proposition Selections from the works of Dr. Franklin, ' ™l° Madame Helvetius. shortly b,j Eves Sargent, Esq. | be*re ,,h? ° 0se ,of ,th» war- But sl.c had re 1 used the hand o( iurirot, and did not DISPUTE ABOUT LIGHTNING RODS. i „„„ . . . . .. . . ( accept hts. rrankliu thereupon wrote her In August, 1772, another committee of ( a ielu,r) u.|jic|, is a tno(lel of ,v]l and t!ie Royal Society, of which Franklin was 1 grace. a member, visited, under the direction of - ______ DR. FRANKLIN. From the New York . THE RESOURCES OP THE Stisqnclinna AnUtraclto Journal AND After she had given the children their breakfast, and swallowed her's she went into the back room of the little shop, and sat down amongst a heap of evergreens, cedar and holly, and box, that she had been lying up into little wreaths for sale. A lady had been there the day betore, and ordered a quanlily of wreaths to decorate her parlor for New Year's day, and Mabel had been obliged to sit up Very late the night befoie to finish them. Now she was laying them carefully into a basket, in which they were t« be sent home. She knew she would have to carry !hem, there was no else to do it: and no mat'.er if it | was storming—if the snow did lie deep up. on the ground; and Mabel had no shoes— if the sharp, sleety iaia was pouring down and Mabel had no warm covering. The huckster-woman never seemed to think that Mabel could feel pain. or cold, or wea. riness ; and when she came into the back room, and found the girl and the basket of evergreens still there, she scoldcd her sharply for wai'.ini;, and bade her begone at onoq aud carry lliem home. So Mabel all barefooted as she was, with only a ragged hood and sn old scanty cape to protcci her from the driving sleet, sturled out upon her errand.. Poor child, it seemed a hnr.l thing to have to contribute to others enjoy litem, and she so miserable herself ! She thought how beautiful, tlie .lady's parlor* vVol'flu be, adorned with the wrentlis, to to mafte,which* her poor fingers had been torn and wotynded } how verv richly the crimson t|olly berries would shine oul from the dark leaves in the brilliant light, and how happy children would romp about the rooms, never,thinking of ihe poor child who had ccme barefoot through the snow to bring those wreaths. It was no wonder lliat the bitter !ear3 Slatted to her, eyes, and wild, rebellious rings against UodV providence rose in her heart. It was a long way that Mabel had, to go. awav from the litllr, ■arrow, crowded •streets, with which she was familiur, up into a fashionable quarter of the ciiy. She did not know her way very well, and had lo look up often to notice the numbers ol the houses : and once, looking up, her eye.- met those of a child not older than herself, standing by a window inside :hc curtains What a contiast between the two children, Mabel starved, and frozen, and miserable —b re feet in (he snow ; and the child a1 ihe window, beautiful as a dream, warm and rosy, and richly dressed, standing a mid»t folds of Uce mid velvet drapery of almost royal splendor. Yol the beoutiful child looked down kindly upon poor Malie! anil smiled, and Mabel swilled back again, for the child's look had been like a sun beam shining down into her eves. Then ilie child beckoned with a little whiu hand, as if for Mabel to come lo her. bu Mabel did not dare to mount the marble steps of that splendid mansion. The child raisi d the window a little, and culled obi lo Mabel, 'Stay till I come,' aud so ran away. Presently she was at the hall door ■Milling to Mabel |o come to her, so kindly, that Mabel, quite encouraged, came up tin steps to the little lady. Mow cold you must bct exclalmfcd the child, compassionately, taking Mabel's frozen fingers in her soft, rosy liunds— with ni cloak on, and no shoes either !— Why how could your mother lei you go out so. The magnitude ol theSultu lions for war has astonished and his enemies—it has fil' with joyful exultation and completely falsified the asser licipations of the latter. which the pro-Russian press by every means to depreciate dition it has represented as lowest ebb of misrule and w has now under arms nearly ' well fed, well paid, and we While notwithstanding the i lay that was necessary to supply of such a force no heard of a want of funds or These phenomena, so unlonki expected, have excited the curiosity of certain European journal*, who have undertaken to examine and 8'd. count for them. Among them, a write* in lie Paris Debalt pi avsa prominent part. Ilia solution of :he mystery is as follows : "The present is the season of the year i in which the Turkish troasury receives most of its taxes. It is only after harvest, that the Rayahs can ruise their capitation* tax ; uftcr harvest the laud owners and-- peasants pay their dues ; at the same pfc. • tiod the export trade commences, and pays.i a tax of five per cent, on all articles; and further, it is after harvest that ths native dealers renew their supplies of foreign merchandize, on oil of hich therd-- is a duty of three per cent.— During the present quarter the Ottoman government thus receives nearlyC the entire revenue of tneyear. This, in a* measure, accounts lor the plonlifulness of money just now at Constantinople, which cannot, however, be expected to contin. ue." If PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY G. M. RICHA11T 8 II. S. PHILLIPS. About the Fashions. A correspondent of the New York Daily Times gives the following in regard to the Parisian lushions, which will be read with interest: OIKct IVtit tid' of M«iw Strut, teconi «l«r» •/ IA« ul*»g 8tvr$" of IVisucr 8■ H ood. the gpvernmeii., the powder inugoaijies a! closing years of his life. Pur fleet, for the purpose of Considering j v b,.al,tifu, u h# (ac,p f he .(.as! effectual mean* for prolefctulg cIo ,s o( Franklin'J long and labom f om ."ghining. 1 . rank.,n drew up rjo(„ fi(£ Though hot without his share a report which was accepted, in which the o( , . , inf|r*(ili hfl retaine(] nia erec ion of pointed rods was advised. A 1 . . • .. r r • • j Iivfcltr interest in public Affairs, his warm controversy, of some notoriety in its day, • , , , 4.r .. . •D ,, .. , , 7 i " !• sOLial and domestic sympathies, his amengrew out of the dissent of one member of . a • . . ' . • .. i f. . .4, A DC 1V , , ny and serenity of temper, his active and this committee, a Mr. V\ ilson, who con i," # i; , • r *.i • I,..,,. i , i. . i vigorous intellect, his abiding faith in antended that the Conductors oujzhl to be V . , , ur tl * . , ,, . • . i .i° ,,, other ar.d a better life. He seems to have blunt, inasniucli as if pointed, they would the uU, expretocd in another's at tract the lightning. io this * runkl.n be!lu)f bv Wordsworth: replied lliat the attruciion wtls die very • , , . •'"«« f» :D"■ i« ""'"-y «• scire. 8 lently and grudually urawn afcay from the A melanc'ioly slave f building. And conveyed without danger to But an old age, serene and bright, the earth. Mr. Wilson .till clung to his I -hid lovely as aXapfond night, u theory in regard lo'.he blunt conductors, . ' m e" 'iuc t0 ''y Bravoand persuaded the king to cjiango his His at this time, in the poinied ones for blunt, at Buckingham ! vivacity, humor, and justice ol thought, house. One of Franklin's friends (Dr. and happy reliance on 1 rovidenoe which it IngenhoUz, a member of the Royal Socle- U a model of style and mood. k JoMkaL" la published ei »rD Frida)r, Bt Two IIDLtAKl iwr Itimum. Two Dollnfa uud HftJ Conn will lie charged if not |ioiil wilhln lim ytur. No nam r will l»' dlaSontlnui'd unlll all arrearage are paid Am-«iTi.a«»ST» arc- i.werwd con.plcuou.ly at Oaa fDoLLA* pD r square or foil rt urn line* for three Inscrtl out and T w**?v«rtv* fun additional ftir«Tery aubaeqiu-n Insertion. A liberal deduction to Ihoao whoadrertlw ror six raontlis or the wliule year. . Job Work.—YVe have connected with our eRUiblUnnmnt u wdlassortm«Mit of Jod Tytic whicli will enable us W -«x«cute,ln the iieatc»t »l)l« «#*«ry variety of priming. ______ 1 have often rcproachcd myself with my neglect of what ought to be one of the protrfinl'nt bfanchcs ol a Paris correspondent's duties. 1 have never yet written a fashion nrliele. I iiavc ncVer yet felt 1 hut 1 was tip to (hat department of the servico. It seems to me to require a host of information and acquirements thut I do not possess. I notice • hat stately American journals have columns devoted to this subject, and 1 suppose thut they must bo read, or that people would not write them. Not lo be behind any enterprising NetV York es tablishiiiG.it, and in order lo distance coinpel i( ion, 1 have been looking about for materials, and gathering a fund of information, which in due time will be luvUhcd on your readers. 1 commence my series of fashion articles with an account of two new garments, known us "Prevel's Umbrella Great-Coat," and "I'revel's Sclf-Kx. pauding Petticoat." POETRY.* What will Mrs. James say because I have sinyed atvuy so long ? and ohD my basket—if anything should iiuve happened lo it, she excluimed with terror. For the Pittston Oasetto, TO MX MOTHER. '—Ei. 20 xii We'll go and see, Adelaide said, and they went down lo ihe door again, and opened it to get the basket, but it was gone. Some one had passed by and taken possession of it, and it was of no use to look further lor it. Poor Mabel burst into an uiioliy of grief. She loo well knew whal would bo her fate if she had lo go buck without the basket, and without having done her Crfahd. Adelaide tried lo comfort her. *DIfoKor Itt, FatLii- anC' My Mother.'' The moon herW '«nJ $8l SUeds down o'er i'1' nni' dale) _ The mitomn winds are hoshed to-nt»lit j And beauty elo'hes the vale ; ; No noise of labor far or near, Is heard, nor should there be ; For I am thinking, mother dear, I'm thinking now of thee. i In the prospectus announcing' the Umbrella Great-coat, M. Prevel remarks with justice, thut the Umbrella is ul bus! bui a cumbrous utensil. It seems to a cerluin degiee to protect the bearer from the rain, but it is apt to drip from the whalebones upon his feet, to gel enl(!ngl«d with oilier umbrellas, to get borrowed and never relurued. The Umbrella gren:cont is intended to serve tis a greatcoat und an umbrella at the same time. Wis made tDf uny impervious material, and has, running along the lower edge, on air-proof tube.— Under llie collar is u Iil11e„ jiiuJv-ho U, oo m - munlcaitng Wflh ihis tube. The wearer applies his tnouth to this hole, and with u few vigorous exhalations with air. The tube lakes the consistency ol u hoop, ihe greatcout assumes ihe form of a diving bell, and the drops full a long way outside the wearer's feet. Such is Prevel's Umbrella Greatcoat. It has one immense advantage. No one would be likely to borrow it. ty,j wroto of Wilson's charlatanism in so heated a manner, that Franklin w ittily remarkedl,he seems ns much heated about this one point as the Janserists and Molinists were about the five." 'J he following clever epigram, upon the subject of ihe king's yielding to Wilson's arguments in opposition to Franklin's, appeared about this time—' '•V\ hile you, great George, for safely htlnf, jlnd sharp conductors change lor blunt, The empire', out of joint j Franklin a wiser course pursues, Jenny Lind, the peerless, the Nightingale of the North, bus got a baby ! —[Exchange Paper. Well, what of it ? Hasn't "Jenny Lind, the peerless, the Nightingale of the North" a right lo have a baby, we should like to know ? Would you ulwnys have lier singing to the cold world, warm as it may be in its admiration of her songs, charming it by her sweet notes? Must she always be warbling lo gaping crowds, who gaze upon her only as a public per. I'm lonely now, I'm lonely now,; I'm far away from home ; Away from Iter who kissed my brow, Kre yet I learned to roam j Whoso heart so often yearned in prsyer For me, her wayward son ; .And but for whose religious care, 1 had to ruin run. 'Never mind about the basket, Mabel,' she said ; I wouldn't care for the basket or the people either ; wouldn't go back to live with people thut treated trie so f and you shati'1 go Mabel ; you must stay and live with mo always I'll ask grandpa il you may n't !' Full of a new idea, llie child fan"across the pussnge, drawing Mabel after her up the staircase again. Running ulong the upper hull past the druvving rooms, she mounted two step? at the ostremo end of die bull, and then knocked lightly at a door — A kind voice said, cheerily, 'come in. Laity-bird ;' and then an old man in a crimson dressing gown, und black velvet smoking cap, with long silvery hair beneath il came arid opened the door. And now—I'm sail, my mother kind j And tears unbidden start; For ort to love and duty blind, I've pained thy tender heart. And have I so ungrateful been! [j, Alas! and can it he ? O Savior, wipe away the sin, And make me more like thee. Anil all vour thunder tearless view., It. keeping to Ihe point. former? Look into the nursery where Jenny's buby sleeps, in its little cradle, and hear ihe low lullaby of her voice. See how fondly she gnzes upon the helpless thing, and when it opens iis liu'e eyes and looks trustingly up to llie face of its mother, hear how she warbles ihe 'Bird Song' lo charm it back lo sleep. Listen to ihe angel sounds ! There is no effort, I-UA.NKI.1N AT VERSAILLES In the opinion of this gentleman, the flourishing state of the Turkish finances is a meie temporary .matter, which will soon pnss away, and give place to that di». may and despair which an empty treasury, and a starving soldiery are Sure to inspire. Tho result, however, may be very different from what is thus predicted. Thtt Sultan has resources of whose existence) the Frenchman afTec:s to be ignorant-Mofwhose existence all tyrants are Jgnoranl—C for no tyrant, r.o tfeurper, no oppressor of the laws and liberties of his country, ever had tliein. Resources (or which no ati-i tumr.nl taxes, no forced contributions, can. be a substituie. Resources which shaill be unfailing when the tributes of Rayahs, the dues of peasants, end thc-per ce'ntage of merchants siiall have been exhausted., Resources such as sustained Athena, against the might of Xerxes ; such as en*., ixbled Rome to bear up against the arms and genius of Hannibal ; such as support., ed Ameiica during the trials and struggles of the revolution. Tiiese are the re-i sources on which Abdul Medjid mainly relics, and which are not influenced by time or seasons, or turns ol fortune; and these never failing resouices, with which neither tyrants nor tyrants' minions have acquaintance, are the valor, the devotion, and the enthusiasm of his people. It was not those autumnal taxes, on on which the French editor lays such astress, that gathered together from every • province of the SuHan's dominions, those; mighty armies which guard jn Europe and in Asia, the Northern frontiers of the Otto, man Empire. It was no mercenary mo. ■ live that impelled those fierce warriers to. come from the extremities of Egvpt and the confines of Persia, to battle with the enemy and oppressor of their race, but love of country and religious zeal, it was not any portion of those autumnal taxes, which enabled the Sultan in one day to. arm, clothe and equip eight thousand "Re. difs," but the voluntary offerings of a patriotic and devoted people. It was not as, debtors to the Stale that the citizefis of Constantinople placed 18,000 soldiers,, armed and equipped, at the service of the, Sultan, but as men who were prepared to sacrifice their property and lives in defcnce, of his independence and the rights of hlAi sovereign authority. Nor is it the dreadof the tax collector that induced the mql„ . titude to pour daily into the Imperial irea- '. sury free gifts of jewels and money, and ■ to placo at the disposal of the Stale their ; horses, their houses, and their lands, butall the noblest passions that can actuate men who know that the ascendancy of; their faith, the freeduin of their race, and. their future position in Europe must de. pend on the result of the coming contest.. This Russo Turkish war, it must be re. mtmbered, will bo no ordinary war, in the t estimation of the Tuik. The insults and! oppressions which Abdul Medjid has sutlered from iiis enemy, have wounded the-6pirit and kindled the indignation of follower of the Prophet throughout the-, length ond brcaJth of the Ottoman empire. The Moslem burns lo avenge these ifisults,, and these oppressions, on tbe hereditary foe of 1ns country and his creed ; to expel from the territory of his sovereign those audacious intruders who have been so long permitted to pollute it with their presence. He considers that bis faith, his freedom, and his future destiny will be in* volved in the contest. He goes into it with his whole haart and soul, and he is prepared to saorifico everything that men hold sacred and precious, in order to bring it to a triumphant termination. lie appeared ol this royal audieilce very simply ultired, with slruight, unpowdered hair, a brown cloth coal, and round hat.— A crowd hod collected to sec him. llis age, his venerable aspect, his sininle drees, contrasted niih the finerv around him, the recollection of his services to science und humanity, all combined to waken the utmost enthusiasm of llie spectators. The king received him with cordiality, charging him l° assure the United Slates of his friendship, and expressing his satisfaction xt iIh the conduct of lheir commissioner during his reaidetice in France. On his withdrawing from this audience, the crowd in llie passage-ways greeted him with renewed manifestations of welcome, und followed him for some dislancc. Yes mother dear, I'm lonely oo» -* My thoughts revert again T-o wheats you bathed my burning brow, And chased away my pain! No other friend was then so dear, No other step so light; O mother! wouJd that thou wert here, To bless thy san to nigh!! '1 had a fancy il was kpock, lie said, stooping down fo kiss the child.— Whal is your pleasure, Queen Adelaide ? Come forward and proclaim it. no art in that seraphic music, ft comes gushing forlli from a heart full of a moth er's afieClioi), overflowing wiih a molher's yearning. How soft and IoDv it is, arid yet how full Of I lie ilifensesl lovo. lie still. Applaud not. It is nature, all nature, supremely sweet though il be. Disturbed not the enchanting harmony by ihe voice of praise. See, those little rjes have closed ugain. Jenny's baby sleeps, and the song has died away, vanished slowly like a dream, or a receding shadow, into The self expafuTtyg pellicoal consists in tho application of similar wind pipe lo tlm liein of a lady's principal under-gar iricnl. One, sovs the invuntur, stands out and takes up the room oi' six ordinary petticoats, and thus sarrs wear and tear, and economises washing, it is hue that when a lady qe.-ires lo get intC) a carriage, the hoop will be likely lo suck at the door.— To obviate this, she must, at the moment of embarking, turn n liitlti screw, hidden n some fold of her dress, and lot out the air. The swollen (olds at once collapse, and shrink into an extremely small com. pass. As she alights from the vehicle, sh8 again applies her lips to the mouthpiece, inflates the tube, and distends her skirls. This perpetual letting in and out of air, 0110 would think, would become monotonous, not to sny tedious, in time. It is possible that a flageolet might in some Way be adapted lo the tube, so that the wind, in escaping, might whistle an air.— Or an urrangemtnt of reeds might produce a melody like that of tt barrel,organ, or perhaps of an jE-ilian harp. No lady could ullege, lis an objection, her inability to ploy upon thCf flute. Hamlet settled that question long ago. Any one can cause a recorder to discourse most eloquent music, by just placing the fingers upon certain vents, and raiding them from ocrtain others. Ask Herr Kccnig if the whole art of a cornet a piston does does not lie in the way he manages his fingers. 1 anticipato an immediate success for the new petticoats. 1 need not say that this invention has been patented. And may Queen Adelaide have her pleasure, grandpa, whatever it may be? Hut mother! thou art growing old ; Thy locks are thin #nd gray ; Thy loving heart must soon be coM ; Thy body turn to clay. It site exacts nothing more than usuallv unreasonable—icell, who s this ? he txclaimed in surprise, breaking off suddenly us he saw Mubel for (he first lime. Poor Mu'ucl ! she had hidden behind Adelaide, trembling with a very vauge fear at the strangeness of her position, and liaH' hoping io escape notice. Now she had to stand forth a'id beur the kind but inquisitive gaze of the old man's eyes. Poor Mabel, she hung her head down in shyness, but for all ihul the old man could see thai the face she was trying to hide was u very lovely one, with its large sad eyes, and the delicate mouth and chin ; even though ,the stain of tears was oil the cheek, thin and pale from want and suffering, and roughened by co.mailt cxposuro to wind and weather. O dreadful thought! und must thou die 1 Whearthau *rt passed uway, O where for comfort shall I fly f And who for me will pray ? silence lrtTEHTIBW WITH VOLTAIRE. Dul why, we ask again, should not Jenny have a baby lo love, to fold in her fond arm?, to kiss and hup, and toss in the air, and trot upon her knee, and chirrup to, and tumble about, Willi a u.other's doming play, fulness ? She has conquered fame ; shall she linger in soliiary age, and die nlone at lust? Shall the heart's affections be wasted in the pursuit of ambition, and shall no loving and irusting face cheer her thro' life, and stand around her death-bed, like bright visions looking upward toward the sky ? Shall she walk the world's high places compHmonless, and without a Slav for her age to lean upon ? No. Ten thousnd times dearer to her mother's heart, is the crowing,;evcn the cries of that little one, than the laudett applause that ever went up from the crowdod audience, on the day of her proudest triumph. Ten thousand times sweeter is its smile, than the fragrance of the flowers that were showered upon her, as a tribute of aJmiraiiun to her transcendent sweetness of song. Yes, yes, ambition is nothing—triumphs urc nothing—admiration of the world, fame and wealth, are nothing. The mother looks upon hercl iid, hur heart clings to its feeblones, and all other world-visions vanish away. "Rock the cradle" Jenny ! Oh ! hard it is, my mother dear, 'J'o think that thou must go, Yd would I not dnain thee here, In this dark world of woe; For joys more pure earth's, to thee, Through. Jksis will be given , And thou wilt ytl remember ine— Thou'U still be miiio—t/i hearcn. J. WII.I.is WESTI.JM Wyoming Scminr.ry, Nov. 1853. The enthusiasm o(' which ho had been the object at Versailles was renewed al Paris. Voltaire had recently arrived there after an absence of thirty years. lie was in his 8.0th year. Franklin called upon him, and was received with evident pleasure. Voltaire at first accosted him in English, but having lost the habit of speaking it, he resumed the conversation in French, adroitly remarking, "I could not resist the temptation of speaking for a moment in the language of Franklin."— The Philadelphia sage then presumed his grandson lo the patriarch of Ferney, and asked his blessing on him. "God and liberty !" said Voltaire, raising his hands oter the young man's head—"that is the only benediction appropriate to the Son of Franklin." l'rom the Philadelphia Inquirer. Where did this poor child come from, Ad. laide ?. he asked wonderingly. LITTLE MABEL. Why, oui of the si reel grandpa, where she was walking in the show with lie) naked leei ! 'Only think of it grandpa !' exclaimed Adelaide, indignantly—, the people she lived with sent her out (o sell evergreens, and I sow her Irom the window and brought her itl. And oh, grandpa, I want vbu to promise that she shan't go hack to them any more—won't you 1 Ma. bel is loo good to go back there, and I want her to slay with ine always, and get dressod in sotnc warm frocks, and be coinforta ble. Maven't I keep liei grandpa, spy V IIow could l.e refuse tile little pleader 1 how turn a deal ear to the entreaties of those childish lips, and the voiceless but most earnest pleading of those sweet eyes uplifted to his, all wet Willi their recent weeping ? Oh, grandpa loved Adelaide too well, and he was too good and kind' hearted himself, to deny her prayer long, i ,.-cd not tell vou of all the questions he asked Mabel, of all the answers that she gave him, but oniy from Adelaide's pleading, and his own conY'otion ol the child's innocence and truth, written so plainly as both wero on her sweet luce, the old man consented at last to keep Mabel in the house, and take care ol her always. She was to be Adelaide s little maid, and help her to dress, and w ait upon her, and Mabel thought it would be a very different thing from being the maid to Mrs. Jamo's rude boys. " Little Mabel, little Mabel, Wanders forth upon the street. The froat upon her yellow hair, Mabel put her hands over her eyes and burst into tears. I haven'l tnv mother, she •Cobbed; but it was not that thought so much as the unaccustomed words of kindness that made her cr}\ The snow beneath her fcet." A few days after this interview the same parties met at the Acadainy of Sciences, and wern placed side by side. '] he sight of these distinguished old men elicited anofhor ouibreals of Parisian enthusiasm.— Tho cry arose that they should embrace. They stood up, bowed, took each other by the hand, and spoke, lint this was not enough. The clamor still continued. "II laut's embrasscr a la Frcncaise," Was the cry ; whereupon they kissed each other on the cheek, and not, till then did the tumult subside.- The scene was Classically colnpafed by the literatcurz of the day, id "Solon embracing Sophocles." Voltaire lived only a month after this second encounter with his American contemporary. It was a very cold, miserable garret room where Maliel Browne, a poor iiiilr bound girl, iuy asleep one New Yeer'» eve. The windows were broken in a great many places, and shut up wi:h old rags, did not keep out the cold at all ; even the #;:ow drifted in, and lay in litile heaps upon the liclo3° 10 the loot of Mabel's straw pallet, whereat !»y covered up with only a picca old car,.£t. wonder how shu could work at all in such a place you are sure you could not. Poor little Mabel ! she knew of na better things.— Her parents had been poor, and had to work even to get aomothiug to eat; and when they died, Mabel was bound to a huckster woman, who gave her hard work and worse treatment all the day long. She had to do everything—wait in the shop, run errands to oarrv (hinge home 10 customers, work about the house, wash and dress the children. and wait on them, and twenty other thing* beside ; so that the poor child was tired enough to sleep soundly when she was allowed to go to bed, even on that miserable brd. Dy and by, while she lay there asleep, n boy came clamoring at the door, and llung it open ; when he ?aw Mabel asleep, he shou'.ed Mown stairs. I'm so sorry, "aid the child, pityingly ; but don't cry, I haven't got ony mother either, I've only got a grandpu, but lie does Iovj me dearly, uives me everything I want. So ifl want some nice warm uloihes lor you, he'll give them to mo I know. But you must come in first and get warm, put your basket down Jiere—1 not carry that basket any moie.' The child tuo!: '.!D* basket" and sot ii down upon the steps, ana iliCS dC*ew Mubol into the house, across the hall, ar.d ujD 1. ° Mr. M'LeoU, bii English writer, puts the following lunguage into the mouth of those who usit the, rumseller's den : "Rock the cradle" Jenny ! "There is my money—give me drink ! There's my clothing apd food—give me drink! There's the clothing and food ol my wife andchlldrfeti—givte me drink ! There's the education of the family anil peace of the house—give me drink ! There is tho rent I have rodbed my landlordi fees J f:ave robbed from the schoolmaster, and innuroeruM? articles 1 have robbed from the.shopkeeper—givs me drink ! Pour me out drink for more I wiii yet fDR? 'orit • There's my health of body and peace oi mind, there's my charactcr as a man and my profession as a christian ; I give up all—give me drink ! More yet I have to give ! There's my heavenly inheritance and the eternal friendship of the redemed— there—there—all hope of salvation ! 1 give up my God ! 1 resign all !—All that is great, good and glorious in the universe, 1 resign forever that I may be drunk." Go out to sing to the world never again —pass forever from iis gaac, to sit calmly by the domestic hearth, gathefing your little ones around you teaching them the value of "the divinity that stirs within them," the duties of life and hope of eter nity. Tell them of the littleness of fafnfe, the folly of ambition, the beauty of liolinese, and the home with the just at last. And when angfls shall gather around the grtal While Throne, among the voices that shall mingle in thn song of the redeemed, yours and theirs shall be heard in the full volume of their sweetness, chaunting ths praise of "Him that liveth forover." broad, carpeted siaircasc into tho drawing room, where she had bern belore. Poo Mabel! sho slood bewildered with aston shmcut and admiration in the centre o hat beautiful room. It seemed to her i Iream of fairy.land ; she had never imag lied the existence of such splendid thing! —The velvet carpel, so rich and.glowing nto which her feet sunk at every step, the uxurous couches and divens, and the mir ■ors reaching from floor to ceiling, the ;orgeous curtain*, and tho pictures and taiuies, and the beautiful trifles scattered iround upon the marble tables—everything vas new and wonderful to Mabel. She ooked down at herself in all her tatters ind misery, and then with a bitter sense Df the contrast between herself arid her suroundings, she would have run wildly from he room, from the house, out into the inow again. What business had she there —but the little lady held her hands, and Irew her up to the grate, through thesilrer ban of which the glowing coals shed uch a warm crimson light. A large cushioned chair stood before the grate, and in his the child seated Mabel ; then she sal town upon an ottoman by her side, nnd ;ommenccd talking to her ond asking her luestiona. Tell me what your name is, little girl, ihe said. Mabel, is it, what a pretty name Mabel is ! My name is Adelaide, but ntD- Dody would ever know it, because grandDa always calls me Lady bird. 1 wish my rrandpa was yours too, he is so good, and le would never let you co out in the cold 10. Tell me now all about it, Mabtl, vhere you live, and what mokes you »o Door. Maybe I can do something for you Dow. And 10 Mabel did tall her all her story, conversational powers. Ilis features were an index of the good temper, amenity, cheer fulness and affability which were his charac:cri*tics. John Adams represents him as being taciturn on Committee and in Congress. In society he was far from being loquacious ; hut no one possessed a more entertaining fund of conversation, or used it more happily on fitting occasions. Childhood, that "best detector of a gentle heart," was always welcome to his ltncc. For the young, his manners, and words of sage advice and pleasantry had an indescribable charm.— SiC Francis Homily, when a young man. called on him at Pnssy (1782) will) a friend. "Dr. Franklin," he writes, "was indulgent enough to converse a good deal with us, whom he observed to be young men very desirous of improving by his conversation. Of all the celebrated persons, whom, in my life, I have chanced to see, Dr. F., both from his appearance and his conversation, seemed to me the most remarkable. His venerable, patriarchal appearance, the simplicity of his manners and language, and the noveky of his observation—at least the novelty of them at that time to me—impressed me with an opinion of him as one of the most extraordinary men that ever existed." A Beautiful Incident. She could scarcely believe that she was not in a dream, when a lew hours after tihe stood again in the library by Adelaide's side before her grandfather. She was such a diiTcrent person from the poor ragged child who had stood trembling there before. Now Cihe Imd a nice bath, and was so prettily dressed from head to foot in garments handsomer and richer than ever she dreamed ot possessing. Her face was clean and pure, and her pretty yellow hair, parted evenly from her forehead, and clustered wavily around her neck ; her neat dark merino dress filled nicely to her figure, and her poor little feet had oft, warm stockings and shoes on. Altogether she looked so pretty and neat that Adelaide was perfectly charmed willi her new little maid, and could not refrain from throwing her arms around her and kissing hrr ; and the kind grandpapa himself patted her on her head and told her to be a good girl. So this was the commencemeht ol Mabel's New Year, and of Iter new life, for after this she never left Adelaide. She was so good, and faithful, and affectionate that all about the house soon grew to love the quiet little Mabel ; and" grandpapa of. ten told hit Ladybird that she nevef did An officer being at sea in a dreadful storm, his lady was sitting in the cabin near him, and filled with tlarm foi the safety of the vessel, was so surprised at his composure and serenity that shn cried out : "Moiher ! mother ! what do you think ? Vlahel ain't up yet, and it is eight o'clock, and 1 hud to dress myself all alone, and Jane ain't getiin' dressed either. I nfcy mother !" A Valuable One.—The Green Co. Pa , Messenger says the editor of the Brownsville Clipper at their State Fair, took the premiums on the following points :— 1. For the best boring machine. 2. For tha best smut maohine. 3. For the greatest Jackass. 4. For the 'biggest hog.' 5. For the greatest cabago head. "My dear, are you not afraid ? how is it possible you can be so calm in such a dreadful storm ?" The little girl sprung hastily up, wa. k«ned by the rude noise, and hurried on her poor ragged clothes, that she might go down and dress the children before her mistress came up. But she was not in lime to escape a scolding for her laziness, accompanied with a slap, and an order to ••go get Bob and Jane ready for breakfast this minute." Mabel was used to such treatment, she had to bear it daily and hourly. She did not cry or say a word, but dressed the children patiently, bearing with alt their rudeness and freifulness. iSough they imitated" their mother, and scolded her, and struck her because she Jiaid to wash them in cold water, and pinched her because their hair was tangled, and she could not comb it out without hurting tlwm, and gave her trouble in a great ma. ny ways. God Imd given the lillla girl a gpntlo, poticol oqtl forgiving #pirH, «od to He rosq Irom his chair, rushed to the deck, drew his sword, and pointing it to the breast of his wife, exclaimed— "Are you not afraid 1" She instantly answered— "No!" "Why I" said the officer. "Because," rejoined the lady, "I know this sword is in the hands of rny husband, and he loves me too well to hurt me." It is a very bad si«n to see a man with his hat off at midnight, explaining the principles and theory of Locofocoism to o iamp post. It is also "a bad sign }o see a fellow lie down in a gutter supposing it to be his bed, and commence calling a poor innocent pig all sorts of hard names mistaking it for his wife. "Then," said he, "remember 1 know in whom 1 believe, and He who holds the wind in His fists, aud the water in the hollow of His hands, i* mv Father." In addition, then, to those resource* which even tyrants have, if they can wring them from their down trodden subject*, Abdul Medjid has those other and better resources which tyrants can never have— the valor, the patriotism, the devotion, the enthusiasm of his people. But tbece aro. doubtless, poor substitutes, in th« esluiMKv tion ol the Frenchman,,for qn nbu»Cja,. and Revt»o»4 , franklin in love in his old age. If yon would teacli secrecy others, begin with yourself. How can you expect another will keep your secret when you cannot yourself? He had an,especially affectionate regard for Madame Helvetius, whom he called "Our Lady of Anteuil," and who came every week to dine at least once with him at his littV colony at Passy. He had lost JEf- The Russian Clergy are ignorant and immoral. The priestly office is regarded as a means of escaping slavery, and the priests pass nearly half their lives in a stats of jntoxicatioq, |
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