Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

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Wk yrmStrwBj : ..ttttt; PITTSTON, PA MBER 9, 1853. 7 WHOLE NUH BER 171; Jtir conrersfttiort iendship and our life, every emotion; /ery new thought i t of our education. ) kind of developoften the latter. ,ny blunder* ; but lan all others, and risequencea. God, he condition of  i liability to jitil,- free, was one of s fr8fh which not Almighty could of accepting thia n of all progress, out dntlnyj Creedom to destroy tlicr. Human pas* left free, as God f' D Hi- i * oy r.ti j Motyoah, German; Meroredi, or Mecretii, French ; Diw Mercurii, vel ferla quarta, LiUin. Thursday, For the Piltston Gazette. DOCTOR UPDEGHAFP. em, even for ihe convenience of claasifiion. • „ Whatever affects the mornl, religious, physical of intellectual condition of a human being, from his birth to his death • whatever tends to moke him a good or a bad man, a dunce or a student, must be considered part tDf his education. Some sort of culture he will receive—let htm look to it that it h of the right kind. Let liirn resist all bad influences; let him osaiduotisly cultivate all good. If be is educated passively by outward mpaps, hi* education may ieod him to the workhouse or tlio gallows ; 11 his mind be trained to net for himself, if iliere be a quenchless thirst for knotvlpdge rind virtue, his educa. lion will redound to his own honor, and to the benefit, ol his racc. Whether he is to be a dione or a laborer, a curse or a benefactor, rests with himself. Let him (eel the weight of his responsibility, and know that whef lifer surrounded by afivtsntqges. or hemmed in bv untoward circumstances, lie cannot- escape the duty of self training, thought and reading.— Yotitig American's Magazine. dnys and our Sundays and our reading; our ♦' loves. Every event in every hope and fear, e and new desire, is a pt. It is exercise* It is son ment or repression ; lor The world makes n there is one greater . mol-e d8plofable in i:s co lias made man free as D' pood and all evil. Thi rorn the fact of being lieso terrible necessit. even the power of the save us. But, instend freedom the conditii aud as the means of wo men have used their the freedom of each o sions, instead of beinf,  directed them, to act by His attractions and to be governed by the laws he impressed upon them, have been placed under a system of restraints and repressions. In. stead of exercising1, educating, and wisely directing the passions, we have  them with chains, and shut them up irf prison ai;d darkness. We have bound and starved them ; and their condition and conduct, where they are allQ«rt)(f, to act, is just what we myht expect from such trea*ment. Every passion and every faculty of the soul, we must rem«m-D ber, is an individual, all combining to make our individuality. They must be treated with the respcct due to thefr individualities. They must have freedom of actionV freedom of enjoyment. God has made no mistakes, but men are full ot blunders j and they cannot go against freedom and nature without going wrong.-—Eaoterid Anthropology. ... • ? ir: our own day the means of education ve been multipliod until they havebome tliin the reach of nil minds. No pfcrSon (l despise their Bid. None btit intellects iriganlic strength and grasp can atlord dispense with them. 'A dwarf behind steam engine may remove mountains ; It no dwarf cfcrt hew them down with a akd Innqnclmna AutUracItfl The recent visit of this uaeful Phyaioian and Surgeon, to our Borough, will long be remembered by many. During his slay at the "Butler House," there haa been almost a constant stream of persons, afflicted either with total blindness, sore eyes, deafness, or some distortion of the human frame, all applying to the Doctor for relief. Indeed ohe Could scarcely believe that blindness and sore eyes were so prev alent in this vicinity. In nearly all those oaaea the Doctor was eminently tuccess(Ul. We would mention otib case which was particularly interesting. Mrs. Leidy, a lady of 74 years of age, and for a number of years totally blind and not expecting ever again to see the glorious light of day, was by an Operation by the Doctor, restored to perfect sight, in less time than it takea to relate the facts. She can now read the amallest print. Many have likewise had their hearing restored, club-feet have been straitened, 6tc., to the surprise and satisfaction of many of the people. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE M. R1CI1ART. OJUi WtMtidier Jlltin tirctt,ttrnitfrf ./ C*• »U*g Store" of IVitntr 4* W vvd. TubuGmtm 8 Jormiat" is PuWi«h«4eteryFridny, at Two l)o i.lars per annum. Iwo Hollars mid Fifty Cants will be eMnnd If »C* P*W within the year. Mo paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid AovKR-riacMKNTs are Inserted conspicuously at Omr not.* jar p«r square of fourteen lines tor'Ikwo insert! out andTw.KN'rvrivK C*nts additional for overvsubscqnen Insertion. A llhwral deduction to those who advert iss fbr sis months or the whole year. , / . ton Work.—Wo have connected with our establishment a well selected assortment of Jon Type Which will etta bio us to execute, in the neatest ntDlc evefy fattet/ of printing. The fifth day of the weak, on which the Idol Thor was worshipped. Thoreaday, Saxon ; Donnerstay, Tentonic and Ger. man ; Thorlday, Danish ; Jendi, French ; Dies Jovia, vel feria Quinta, Latin. ck-axe i and he muni be u Titan-, who mrls them abroad with; his arm.".' Few ire Titans of this Bart. No one who truv estimates the reach ol his own powers vill neglect the vast mines of thought and mowledge contained in good books. In hem he will find steam engines without lumber, to aid him in the task of removng mountains.' .And now Jet us rapidly ■eler to sonic topics related lo trading. VVe of this age are especially favored in he article ol books, not only in those which Jiave been produced by the great winds of former ages, but in such as the utense mental action given to llie people by the facility of publication, continually spreads before us. Tlie pjess groons, nnd in some cases the reader likewise, beneath the weight of new publications. Rare, indeed, are our means for diilusing the re. suit of intellectual labor. A man ihinks a thought to day, and to-morrow it in « hisked all over the length and breadth ol the country, on the very wings of the wind.— Much trash, to be surC}, finds nil articulate voice, and mnny hearers; but we may hope that no small amount of sterling thought is added to the intellectual treasures of the world. F.ach opinion, howev. er erroneous, each system, however novel, has its utterance, and experiences as much justice fiom the world as the passior.s and prejudices of men will allow. Books are bom, fret their time upou the stage, languish, decay and die j but the real thought they contain is iipmortal —it does not perish with the mass of verbiage, paper and calfskin in which it is bound, and, perhaps, concealed, but is reproduced in other works, either in its original purity, or in a form adapted to the advancing intelligence pf the world. As no atnrn of matter perishes, so no particle of thought ever loses its being, Plato, Seneca, Cicero, Bacon, Newton, Milton,—allowing that their works are not generally read by tho mass of mankind, yet the great ideas which they originated still hold their sway over the minds of men, and are reproduced now ir. elementary books on mo. rals, education and lherntenr. Peter Parlev or Mrs. Trimmer mhy be on tho title page, but a greater than they is in the text. Who reads Bacon's 'Novum Organ, um,' Newton'a 'Pri ncipia.' or La Place's 'Mechankjue Celeste V None, certainly, but scholars. But the results of these great works are found in common school books. Friday, tVhcn the clouds with .chaos fled, Shall Hope unveil lysr radiant head, ; Ittune het1 harp lo lays divine, Ind wreath anew Imr. starry shrine 1 s it when Iho race is run, Ind the web of lifnisjpun, When in chambers of the dead Voc (ball rest her aching head j When the spirit past tfD God, The frame shall moulder 'neath the sod 1 • it when the tempeaf* breath Shull re-awake to second birth ; Jion's crystal gates osbar, flittering bright as morning star? s it, tell me, is it then ''air shall bloom the rose again 7 \nd bark I I bear a (pint »ay— , Those the days, and only they, lays in blissful worlds to coinr, When again shall toms bloom ; /Vhen ii|»on a tranquil shore, Threat the swelling surge, no mere ; Ind no more, with fear aghast, Thine to hide then from the blast; Chose the days, and only they, Clouds and storms shall pass away, Ind thine to prove serene repose, \nd rest thee from thy weary woes, But, oh ! think not yet while here, Dried shall he the inoutning tear, Night and sorrow pot to flight, And thine to prove unmixed delight; For, alolle, beyond the tomb, Storms are hushed, and roses bloom. C . K. H The sixth day of the Week, anciently devoted to Friga, the Venus pf the Saxons, go called from trigan (Gothic)^to love.— Prigeday, Sa*on • Freytay, Terttonle and German ; Vendredi, Freftch Dies Veneris, vel feria sexta, Latin. jit #j)tttt K 3onrtinl. Satcrday, MXTSTOB, Pa. Seventh day of the week, was appro priated by the ancient Sakona to the worship oi Seated the Saturn of the Romans. Soatfcrday, Saxon ; Samedi, French j Sonnibend or Samstay, German ; Dio» Satur. ni, rel leria septima, Latin ; Sabado, Spanish and Portuguese ; Sabato, Italian. GEORGE M. B1CHART, KDITOlt. Friday Dcc'r. •, 1853. lbs Law of Exorcise, |3T This Paper circulates Fraa of Post ag« in the Mails, everywhere in Luxerne County. 1 hold that, in and out of man, nothing is made in vain. There is not a muscle of a man's body, nor an organ of his mind, not a faculty nor a passion, that was not made for use—frequrnt and harmonious, il not continual. We are not merely to use our eyes and ears, and our legs and arms, but all our organs. Not merely to use them in certain- ways for which we have any nainral aptitude or attraction. V. B. PALMRR, the Amcircan Newspaper A)jt. U the nnlij authorized Acini for thi« paper in the eitiea of Boston, New York ami Philadelphia, ami i« duly empowered to take adrertisemenU ond niliw.riptiong at the rates required by u«.— Hi« rleehti will he regarded aa payment*. Hi» office* are—BOSTON, Scollay's Building, NRW YORK, Tribune BuiMui);* ; PHli Al)KLPHI4, N. W. Corner Third and Chestnut St*. Sabbatli, The seventh day of the week, was observed as a day of rest, in commemoration of God's resting, after the sixth day of creation. It ia atill kept by the Je»a on Sat urday. The meftiing of the Hebrew word for Sabbath is rest, as testis Cfli'rist rose from the dead on the first day of the week. Christians have since set apart that day (Sunday) instead of Saturday, for religious worship; and it is, therefore, by many, called "The Lord's Day." Sabbathum, Laiifr ; Sabbat, French j Sabbath The Doctor has been obliged to leave sooner than anticipated, in conscquence of several important Surgical operations which require immedfate attention. On his return, which will be in about eight days, he will operate for Artificial Ndseon a gentleman whose nose has been eaten off" by cancer, with other peculiar operatldns. Indeed the Doctor appears to be a man of extensive experience and usefulness, and those who are afflicted will do well to avail themselves of his services by an early application, on his return. 1 wish to be understood. Health is not the restiilof partial, but of integral development. Not the development of a few powers and faculiics. And there can be no development withou; exercise or use. Without these, the fsculiy remains dormant, the organ is in ti rpor, the full bar mony of the system is destroyed. As determent of every organ is necessary to the harmony of the system—'.hat is, health —and os oxcrciw? i« !ipcm!ip ry to develop, meni, it follows that exercise is one of the most important conditions of health. For the Gasette. On the Names ci the Days of the Week, Ac Mk. ISDiTon:—I was asked by a young friend I hi other evening, to give an explanation of the names that are assigned to the days of the week, and the months Of the year. The youthful miud is extremely inquisitive, and it is highly prop rr to satisfy the inquiries of youth, when information is sought on subjects that are suitable to their capacity. What is an Aristocrat? Cfr Casimer Perier, on being called an aristocrat,-replied, "My only aristocracy is the superiority which industry,  perseverance and intelligence will always insure to every man in a free state of apcicty j and I belong to those privileged classes, to which you all may belong in your turn. They are not privileges created for us, but by us. Our wealth is our own—we have made it; our esse is our own—we have gained it by the sweat of I our brows, or by the labor of our minds, Our position in society is not conferred upon us, but purchased by ourselves—with our own intellect, application, zeal, patience and industry. If you remain inferior to us, it is bccause you have not the talent, the industry,.the zeal or the sobriety, the patience or tiie application necessary to your advancement. You wish to bccotne rich as some do to become wis*';' but there is no royal road to wealth an/, more than there is to knowledge. TJio husbandman who will not till his ground shall reap nothing but thistles and briers. What right have you who do nothing tb? yourselves, your families, or your  or to imagine that you will bq selected by your fellow-citizens for their favor, their confidence, their rewards? If,' by aristocrat, you mean one who has earned his promotion by his industiy, then indeed 1 am an aristocrat; and, please Gpcl! 1 may always remain so. You are too idle to labor, and too proud' to beg. I throw back then with indignation and !*•-' sentment the charge which is made." German. January, Tfte first month iq the year, ao called from' Janus, the most ancient of the Kings of Itafy, who was deified after his death. Januarius, (quaia jano. sacratus) Latin, Januarius, or Jenncr, German; Janvier, French. Wilkcsbarre, Nevemlier Slst, 1R63. "KJ Free Masonry. THOtOHT Attn REArtKO As a mnt'.erof interest 10 tlio members of the Order among our readers, we append a condensed history of Masonry in Philadelphia, which in early years will represent also Its State history, prepared by the Inquirer : The first Lodge of Free Masons in this city, about which there is anv reliable infttt (flation, met in 1732 at the Tun Tavefn, on the eas'. side of Water street between Chestnut and Walnut. Native energies of thought are develop, ed In few persons to any great extent. The whole life, from boyhood to age, of what is called the education, is surrounded by formulas and method*, Which too often crush, pervert, and enfeeble the minds they1 are ihtended to develop and streneih., en. I"'ew men of cducaiion are marked by sunh individuality pf character ahd power of action as some of those to whom the iron gates of the temple of knowledge have been closed. A course of culture which is nearly external, which seeks to run tlie mind inlo foreign moUlds, which fills ilie memory with .* mass of information which encumbers the free exercise of reason, which pays more attention to facts ilinn 10 faculties, which pours knowledge into the mind without evolving its latent powers, fails in making a man educated— jails, even in its own purpose, of fixing learning in the memory. IIow niaiiv ot those who have reccivod what is called a liberal education are liberally endowed with knowledge? How many ot tlifrtti ars ablo to (urn what Infor minion tltey possess lo good account? A vast nuruler of physicians, clergymen and lawyersaro treated every year by colleges; bwt how many are endorsed as good by those who are sent to aid T Let us see, what is necessary to thU condition. Nature provides us with air and food. These a mnn may hove in isolation. Rnbinson Crusoe, on his desert island/could breathe the purest air and live upon the most delicious fruits ; he could take all needful bodily exercise, and could find use for some of his mental powers in the study of nature. But he had no exercise for the highest passion of the soul. These demand acoietv. On the exeroisc of these, all high accords of his life, depend. A man must have the eterclse ol benevolence, of friendship, ambition, of la milism, of love. To have these, he must have society, extensive and varied enough to gratify all these passions in all their various developments. The soul, pines and dies in insolation. And as the soul suffers, the body also becomes weak and diseased. Our muscles become weak and wearied with inaction; we long to use them, but by long disuse, they at last have lost their power. So of the passions. We long to love and to be loved ; we long for the sweet accords of friendship, and the inspring stimulus ambition ; these longings are the wertriness and ennui of the soul. Those who do not know their own natures, feel vague yearnings; those who have studied them more carefully, have more definite diseases. These passionate longings of tho soul must bo satisfied, or we can have no t-pirituul health, and the body reflects the soul. Presuming that an explanation of these names ms'y be acceptable to many of your juvenile readers, and that it may not be «Cnintereating to some who have attained the years of matuiity. Without investigating the subject, I shalL moke no farther preface or apology than the following :— February, The second month of Iffe y8af, so edited from Februis (Latin) i. e. the expiatory sacrifice offered up by the Romana for the purifying of the people in thia month.— Februarius, Februar, or Horauny, German; Ferrier, French. In 1735 the Grand Lodge changed its quarters from the Tun Tavern to the Indian King, at the corner of Riddle's Alley in Market street lielow Third. In 1740 the Grand Lodge held its meetings at the Royal S'andard Tovern, in Market street near Second. Benjamin Franklin was at this time Grand Master of the State. The Romans, under Julius Ctesar (who Was assassinated at Rome, befbrfe Christ 43 years) invaded Britain, and converted that island into a Roman Colony, imposing an annual tribute on the This subjugation continued for several centuries, until the Romans were compelled to withdraw their forces from Briiain for their own protection. The Briton? being much harrassed by the Picts and Scots, invited over the S.ixons to assist iliem in repelling those rude invaders, but the Britons soon found that these allies became enemies, possessed themselves of their country, and lit the year 828 united the heptarchy, (or government of seven Saxon Kings, under whom England was divided) into one kingdom under Egbert, who first assumed the title of King of England.-— The Danes afterwards invaded England, and although they were successfully op posed by Alfred, and Edward the elder, '.he Danish l'rinces, Canute, Harold, and Hardicannte, successively, enjoyed the English throne. In 1041 the Soxona dgaln got possession of porter, end Edward the Confessor, and llarold the Second, ruled as Kings; until William, th'S Norman (styled the Conquer)'defeated Harold at Hastings, and William was crowned King of England in 1066. This sketch ol British history is sufficient to account for the English language being a compound of Lat.'n, Saxon, Danish, Norman (French) and Coltlc. Each of these people introduced their language, literature, and thus tee derive from them the name given to the days of the week and to the months of the year. March. The third month of the year, dedieated by the Romans to Mars. Martius, Latin ; Mars, French; Martius or Mars, German. The Romana used to compute the year beginning with March ak the first month. Soon after this time the Masons built a Hall on the site of the present Bank of Pennsylvania. The building, which was of brick, was finished about the year 1754, and was inaugurated with much ceremony. Lodge Alley, now called Gold street, took its name from this building. About the era of the revolution, and for some timo prior to it, the various lodg. cimct at difTere/it places. One lodge ml in Videll's alley in Second street, below Chestnut; others at the City Tavern-*- now Nathan's auction store, in Second at. A lodge Composed probably of British officers, met in 1777, at the corner of Second street and Elfreth's alley. JJooks nre registers of what has been thought and done in former ages. Five thousand years of gad experience. have rolled over the generations ol men, and of these we have records more or lessauthrntic. The thoughts, actions, joys, sorrows, mistakes, triumphs, virtues, and crimes of mankind, the rise, progress and declinc ol States, the physical, intellectual, and mor al progress of the race, the successive changes through which society had passed in its onward march to civilization, and the good or bad opinion* and deeds which have forwarded or checked the progressive nature of man—all lie before us in books with almost skeleton exactness. With this pyramid ol experience looming up above the clouds of Time, and almost commanding our attention, how singulur it is that we should not be wiser and better 1 April, The fourth month of the year, deriving it* name from Aprilis, (Latin) q. Apertilis, ab aperiendo, opening, because in this month vegetation opens and buds ; April, Frcneh and German» May. The fifth month of the yeaf. Called by Romulus, Mains, frtrni Majores (Latin) out of respect to the Senators or Elders of the city of Rome; Mai, French ; May, German.Indeed, every individual who is educated at all, must, to a great extent, educate himself. He must either co operate with his instructors, or strenuously labor with out foreign aid. If the taste for knowledge is keen, and the will to obtain it strong,.all impediments will vanish into thin air.— This taste and this will are all that are de| sired. Hundreds of names can be men* tioned in illustration of the tact. Men have risen from the lowest ranks of life, and achieved a proud eleVatioti over the rith and titled, by possessing this energy of purpose in the pursuit of knowledge.— Obstacles whiqh have seemed insurmountable to more indolent men, they have grappled with and conquered. "Hunger and thirst, whether ol the mind or of the palate, can only be allayed by the possession of their objects. Let a Jouth of a fnan once realize thaf he is an immortal soul, that God's whole universe is without him, and that its matvols are open to his view ; that whatever may be his talent, there are a thousand ministers all arotln'd him to develop and furnish it with food ; that knowledge is ol priceless value, and worthy of all the exertion and self denial it may cost, and ho will indulge in no languid babble about the hardness of his lot, and envy uo person who has larger means and less energy. Courage, then, courage of mind, courago of heart is necessary to the man who desires the rich treasures ol a cultured intellect. He must wrestle, like an ath lete, with all difficulties; he must trample under foot all sensual desires which Would woo him from the rough road to the promised path. He must have a high ideal be fore him he must love knowledge for it self, as well as lor its useful applications. He will find that the proper coutrol and direction of his animal nature, the education of his conscience and religious sentiments, will insensibly blend ttith the acquisition of knowledge. He will see that those soft and effeminate pleoaures, which eitfeoble the body, also Ma* the mind, and make it Indifferent, careless, and easily satisfied with mediocre allaiuineuts ; and he will see that the intellect la never so clear, never darts upon truth with more unerring sagacity, never is capable of such unremitting exertion, as when it is undei the guidance of • moral purpose, and is impressed with a sense of responsibility to God. Moral, intellectual, and physical education ate so cloaely .connected,, that it is difficult to separate A Biblical Reputation. One of the Museum's old and valueu correspondents, Mr. Lord, who is now residing in Illinois, was a short lime sinpe Iraveiing from Jacksonville to Peoria, in' that State. As he was passing a small hut "bv Iho road side, he hoticed a shaggy-headed toy, of about eight years of age, with' large eyes and no hat,* dressed in a worn out pair* of his father's trousers, trying to' balance himself on the splintered top of ft hickory stump. Mare for the purpose ol breaking the monotony of riding all day without speaking, than to gain information, Mr. Lord reined his horse up to the fence, and exclaimed, | "My little boy, can you tell me how far it is to Sangamon Bottoms J" The'G'rahd Lodge subsequently met in an upper room ol the Siate House, and the subordinate lodges were much scattered.In (he world, as it is, all exercise, and consequcully all development, is fragmentary. The blacksmith and the boatman have large arms, the dancer has fine legs, the musician is all tune, the painter all forms and colors, an nrlist is nothing but an artst, a politician is but a politician, the man of fashion is a mere dandy. There is no complete human being any where. There is sharpness and even fore6, in par particular directions, but no integral development and universality of power.— Where is the man who is all he should be in himself and his relations to God, to nature and society' ? Where is the woman, si rone j beau:iful, self-centered, brave, kind, religious, honrslj friendly, loving, wise, accomplished, with a true pride, and a noble -ambition—strengthening the weak, guiding the enittg, animating the despairing, the life and soul of her sphere •, great und generous, and free ? Ho\V much the ' world needs such women !' And such must be, and shall be. The promise is in ' humanity, and the power ol realization.— We have every faculty that is needed ; all thai is wanted is a healthy, harmonious development.In this word exercise lies the whole, idea of education. A perfect analogy of harmony of action belongs to the whole system of animal organs, soul and body. Exercise gives stretigth and facility of action. When we first sit down to the piano forte, how weak and bungling are our first efforts to play. Uay after day wo accustom our fingers to obey the w;ijl, ajid express the musical thought. Day by day it becomes easier to do s«, and we soon learn to play rapidly, and with ease, force und expression, and without the least ef fort. The liublt is formed. It is Uie same with every faculty and passion. Every portion oi the brain is susceptibly of education, of guiuing strength and facility by exercise, of forming good habits. It is as easy for men to be habitually bravo, generous, noble and just, as to be craven,.stingy, mehrt and dishonest. I know men are born with either of these characters, which comes from the education of their ancestors, and in time, all rntty be changed by the same agency. And what is thi« education? It is the influence of everything around us. It is .'otir labor# arid our aniuscments,'our week Jane, The slsth month of the vea"#, (fefifred from Junius (Latin) a Junioribus, i. e. the younger sort of people French; I uilius, Juny or Brachmonath, German. Every noble idea that, has been originated in former limes is the intellectual heri tace of every descendant of Adam ; hundrcds of great minds have tasked their pownrs to tho utmost to give the knowledge wc possess of the mate*icl ivorld, of duty, of government, and of human nature ; ana it is not paradoxical to assert, that any person of moderate abilities ctin make himself wiser than the widest man of uritiqutly. And yet opinions on gqvernmen:, morals, religion, are still rife among us, although their operations in firmer times has been fruitful in nothing'but contention, misery aud crime. In 1802, a new hall, built for the uM of the order, was erected in Filbert at. above Eighth, where it stil! stands. It was dedicated with great pomp on St. John's, Dec. 27(h, 1802. July, The seventh month of the year, called by the Romans, Julius, in fyonorof Julius Ctesar, whbreaS, tefore, it was cafkd Quintilis, the fifth month of the Roman year. Juillet, French; Julius, July or HucMOnath, Germaif. On the 17th of April, 1809, tlife cornerstone of a hew and splendid temple was laid on the present si'.e in Chestnut street below 8th. ThC* design of the building was in the Gothic order, and it was con. sidered the most magnificent Masonic Hall in the 1fro*fd. On the 24th eff June. T811, the new Hall was dedicated, with the usual ceremonies. All the ledges in the city, with a single exception, met at the new Hall. 1ft. 73, a Fiench lodge, met at a room in Taylor's alley. On the 9th of March, 1819, the new Hall was destroyed by fire. The Half was subsequently rebuilt and enlarged.and upon the first day of November, 1820, it was dedicated anew. Somo years ago,'the Masons discontinued their meetings in the Chestnut street Hall, and held their sessions At the Wash-' ington Hall, in Third street, above Spruce, where they still meet. "Bout six miles, I reckon." , "Do you live in that house Vs inquired Lord. "I reckon," was the reply. .. a ' Do you enjoy yourself out here in thtf woods J" "A heap !" . i'Aqfig : "What ails your pants V says Lord. August, The eighth month of the yeari called Augustus, by the Romans, in honor of AugustusCcesar; it having been previously called Sextilis, the sixth month. Aout, t'rcnch ; August, German. , Men still elevate over principle, although it is written in the great book of a thousand years' experience, that the gilded baits which vice tenders to its voturies are Sunday, The first day of the week, so- Called from its being set apart by our Saxon ancestors for worshipping the Idol of the SunD Sunnon-dsy, Saxon j Sontay, Danish; Sonday, Tenlonic; Sounday, German ; Soundagh, Dutch ; Dies Dominica ♦el Dominicus, Latin; Dimanche, French. "But Dead Sea fruit, which tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the Hp." .. "Tore 'em," was the laconic answer. Finding he had hold of a geniqs that couldn't be pumped, Mr. Lord turned jiii horse's head to depart, but in his turn, was now haiied by the boy, who, in a comical,' half reluctant tone, cxclaimed—* September. From all past generati'ohs there comes one long, everlasting wail about the unsatisfactorincss of worldly objects, and yet how many, in the words of Pitt, still make 'the couriiing-hfoase their temple, the ledg ei their Bible, and money their God.' We must learn to profit by what we road, or the past has been of no 3se to us. The ninth month of the year, the Romans beginning the year with March, called thU month September, (seventh month) ffom Stpltm, seven. Septembre, Frenoh ; September, or llerbstmonath, '•What inout your name be ?" Monday, German. look ye here, wot'a the reason why you and mother is alters a quarling?" "Silence, my son. Don't you know wbat you're talking about V "Yea sir-ee L do- 1 was jist a wonderin' wot you'd do if you had as many wives as Solomon.'* "Lord," was the reply. Tjie boy grinned all oyer, even to 11)4, wrinkles in his father's trousers, and, seemed hardly able to suppress a broad' snicker. "You seem pleased," said Lord ; " perhaps you never heard the name before?" "Yes, I havft!" replied the youngster; "I've heard jpap read about you !" Lord put spurs to his horse, and says that even the saqred thoughts to w|iiC?h the incident gave rise, were not sufficient to keep him from snickering the rest ol hi* journey,—Literary Museum. The second day of the week, was, in fike manner formerly devoted to th« wor. ship of the Moon. Monanday, Saxon; Montay, German ; Maendagh, Belgio; Lundi. French ; Die* lunte, vel feria seounda, Latin. Ootober. Good books inflame literary ambition ; they create a desire in the mind to pro duce— The tenth month of tlie year, October (Latin) from octo, eight; Octobre, French; October, or Weinmonath, (Wine month) German. . A drop of ink, Falling fikc dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think " November, "Bah! go to bed.'' "Yes it's werry well to say co to bed.— Solomon had mor'n a hundred wives, all 'em a (ivin' in the same house, and a eatin' together, and ne'er a fight." "Go to bed." "No# Cvot i (iftie you'd have ef yott had ht\f fts many. Why you'd kick up a /Urrt'puH as 'ud fetch Up (he police—and knock things in thupder." A broomstick interrupted the loquacious youth and very suddenly suggested to him the idea of trav. efiiig—which he did. The best way to prevent ladiea' dresses from sweeping the streets, is to hold them up—to ridicule.' Let not the student, therefore, in his zeal to develop his own mind, lose the power ol learning from the minds of others. Lei him be r.either a copyist or a dogmatist ; but a patient seeker after truth, with, faculties alive to what is true, in whatever form and from whatever source it may come. The subject of our essay is so vast, that it would be impossible, limited as we are for room, to enter upon ihe many topios related to it, enticing as they are from their wealth of auirgestiveness. The subject, indeed, is so broad in itself, and has so many relations to all the duties and professions of life, that a short article can merely give a few hints on somo of its numerous departments: Tuesday, The eleventh month of the year, November (Latin) from novem, nine; Novembte, Frencfij November, or Wintefttion. ath, German* The third day of the weak, Cvas dedicated by the Saxons to the worship of Tuisoo, the most ancient and peculiar Idol of the Teutonics. Supposed by some to be Oor! of War) a! Deo THe man who made a shoe for the foiD1 of a mountain is now engaged on a.hip for the heail.of n discourse,—alter wfyfc'l b* will manufacture a plume for General In teiligenco. The twelfth month of the year, Dec*tin ber (Latin) from llectM, (eft, beginning with March; Decembre, French; December, or Chriatmonath, German. : m C. P. H. 05T "How do you like your min inquired Smith. "L1kt» him," t squire, '-why, I like him firstrale, never meddles with politics, reli, temperance." Wilkaa-Barre, Nov. 36, 1858. Montreal was taken on the Kth ol November, 1775. !«»« l»3«CWirD •••D* •••' Kite i-*t "AM 8