WBY JOHN I PA!
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
on IMC t In Street,
ONE DOOR SOUTH OF SADLER'S HOTEL.
OF THE
TERMS OF THE PAPER :
v Ctoo gollars a gear, in ubanre.
Having recently visited New-York, and se
lected from the old and elegant
Foundry of Geo. Bruce, Esq.,
A QUANTITY OP
3Sfm nub asljionnhlf (tqpe,
We are now prepared to Execute
In tno Best Stylo,
'JMuitipty Hie titans, and you
tnulllpiy the ncsulls,'
Is one of the eatobfiahed maxims of business.
OKDKKS FOR
PAMPHLETS,
HANDBILLS,
CARDS,
CIRCULARS,
LABELS,
CLERKS' BLANKS
SHERIFF'S do.
CONSTABLES' do.
MAGISTRATES'.
ATTORNEYS' do.
OR FOR
Required by the business Community,
WILL BE EXECI'TF.D WITH
K1HEECTKESS,
DISP1TC II'-
AND
Various is.lxxc3.is of
1
(Bko)U) txvl Mcccllod $cuAj
ALWAYS ON HAND.
$x (trttuffb to (DrbtrXSD
WW..,. mjMw
By MILLER ov ORR,
HAS been refitted in a style of neatness not
surpxssed tv any in tie Southern States,
and where can be found the l.-irgrst stock of
Wine. r;-' '-Cordials,
Brandies,
Gins,
AND
ej?ars,
EVER BROl (HIT TO Tills MARKET.
Thankful for past Ekvora, tin y would solicit a con
tinuance of the we from all tbeil friends and
'"the rest of mankiud."
Pnirr Pun : Puir:
We have no allusion to a newspaper puff, but
to a puff as is a puff, on a genuine imported Ci
gar such as you can find at the Eagle Saloon.
Old Crescent Brandy,
Vintage of 1810, to be found at the Eagle Saloon.
Pinett's Old Castilian Brandy
Vintage of l-l'S at the Eagk Saloon.
P. H. Goodwin & Co s Brandy
A superior article for medical purposes, for sale at
the Eagle Saloon.
"Wines.
Madeira, Port, Malaga. Sh. try. and Teneriffe, of
a superior quality, can always be found at the
Eagle Saloon.
Albany Cream l.i: and Newark
CI DEB
(A superior article) to I"' had at the Eagle Saloon.
Sardines, Lobsters, Pickles,
Catsups, &.C., &.C.,
For sale at MILLER V ORR'S
Eagle Saloon.
Charlotte, Feb. 20, IgBg tf
FRO.tt SKBISIOPOL.
THERE is nothing new from
the Crimea, by the last ar
rival, but at S bastopol. on Trade
Street, thixe is something; new.
The undersigned has purchased of James Briant,
his grocery and Liquor establishment, and invites
the public to give him a call, assuring them that
be will accommodate them with articles of the
best quality, and in a style to suit the most fas
tidious taste. Give Sebastopol a call, and judge
for yourselves.
WM. PHELAN.
Feb. 5, 1856. tf
Bass Wanted.
HUGG1NS & HARTY, at their Store on
the corner of Main and Trade streets,
will buy cotton Rags, and give the highest
market price,
rhulotte, March 4, 1856 ly
ALE KINDS Or
mm mm m
iff 1
A Family Paper, devoted
ROBERT GIBBON, M. I.
OFFERS his professional services to the pub
lic, in the practice of SURGERY, in all
its various departments.
Dr. Gibbon will operate, treat, cr give advice
in all cases that may require his attention.
pgOffice No. 5, Granite Range, Charlotte.
lb. 19, 1S.-JC Jy
ROBERT P. WARIXO,
Attorney at Law,
(Office in building attached to the American Ho
tel, Main street,)
Charlotte, N. C.
Jan. 29, 1 ?56. tf
S. W. DAVIS,
Attorney 6c Counsellor ut Law,
4 II. MMlEiO TTEy JT. C.
Jan. 1, 185G tf
FEHALE
TI1E second Term,
or Summer Session
of Miss Sarah F. Da
vidson's SCHOOL, will
commence on the 3d of
March next the 1st Mon
SCHOOL.
day of the month.
Charlotte, Feb. 96. P5fi. tf
URS. WHEAIjAJV,
Opposite the Iost-Oflice.
ALL DRESSES cut and
made by the celebrated
A-I5-C method, and war
ranted to fit.
BONNETS
Trimmed in the latest style, at
the shortest notice.
Charlotte, Feb V2, 185a tf
3fl$S. W. A. Yofng
will be pleased to give
instructions to a few
pupils on the Piano
FoRTE. Terms made
known upon annlieii-
I 4
tiontoher at the Mansion House, (lormerly Sad
ler's Hotel.)
March II, I-Y.C 3m
g2? ast Notice.
PUBLIC WOTITE is hereby gi
ven, that all the Notes and Accounts ot
ftpratfl & Allison, ftpra tl, Daniel
A Co., and Allison A I:inel, are trans
ferred to the undersigned, for the benefit of the
I creditors of said Firms respectively, and that
tney are in the bands ot J. ti. Daniel lor imme
diate collection. Longer indulgence cannot
be given, as the debts must be paid
JOHN ALLISON,
J. 11. DANIEL.
Dee. 25, 1855. tf
c.inn.
K8. SAM E E. & JOSEPH W. CALD-M-W
WELL have this day associated themselves
iu the practice of Medicine, and one or the other
of them can at all times be found at their office,
next door to the State Bank, up stairs, unless pro
fessionally engaged.
In all dangerous cases Dr. P. C. Caldwell will
act as consulting phvsician fr.-e of charge.
SAMUEL L. CALDWELL,
JOSEPH WT. CALDWELL.
Jan. 2-2. 1?6. ly
fFDlt. P. C. CALDWELLwill be
at the Office of Doctors J. W. fc S. L. Caldwell
from 8 to 10 o'clock, every morning. After that
hour, he will be at his own house, subject to the
call of any of his friends, unless prolessionally
absent.
BOOKS
For Sale
AT THE
CHARLOTTE BOOK STORE.
T
HE NEW PURCHASE, or Early Years
in THE FR Wi st Rtf Itohi-rt Carlton.
THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI HAUA
in Turke y, Persia, and Russia Edited by James
WMoru r.
STANHOPE BURLEIGH, The Jesuitrs in
our Ummts. One of the most interesting Novels
that has been written in many years by Hdtn
Dhit.
THE MUSEUM of Remarkable and Interest
ing Events, containing Historical Adventures
and Incidents.
BLANCHE DEAR WOOD a Tale ofModern
Life.
EVENING TALES beinff a selection of
wonderful and supernatural Stories, translated
from t!ie Chinese, Turkish, and German, and
compiled by Ht nry St. Clair.
LEXICON OF FREE
MASONRY,
f.V Containing a definition
of all its communicable terms.
The True Masonic Chart, by J. L. Cross, G. L
The Free-Mason's Manual, by Iiev'nd K. J.
Stewart.
Mackev's Ahinan Ream of South Carolina.
The New Masonic Trustle Board.
THE ODDFELLOWS' MANUAL, by the
Rev. A. B. Grash.
LOWEIE & ENNISS,
Charlotte, March 4, Book-Sellers.
ROBEKT SHAW
TAKES this opportunity of informing the
public generally, and all who intend going
to Kansas in particular, that he intends to con
tinue the
Saddle and Harness Business,
At his old stand, in Springs' Corner Building,
where he intends to keep constantly on band a
eupplv of
Saddles, Bridles, Harness, A.
Of Every Description.
n:.s friends are respectfullv invited to call and
1 .. , i - ,:
supply themselves, as every article in nis uiw
will be afforded on the most reasonable terms,
ltd A IKIVG done at the shortest notice
and with neatness and dispatch.
Charlotte, Feb. 20, lo5. tf
J. B. F. BOONE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
IBOOi k &B0I8,
Sole Leather, Calf Skins, Living a Bindixo
-Sins,Shoe Tools or Kvert Description,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Oct. 20, 1854, tf
Sit
to State Intelligence, the News
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY,
(Siiural ntelligenrc.
MOUNT VERNON NOT FOR SALE.
The following letter, says the S. C.
Spartan, addressed by the owner, John A.
Washington, to Mrs. M. S. Wofford, of our
village, brings out the startling fact, after
all that has been done by the ladies of the
South, and the greater labor and means they
are still willing to bestow upon the move
ment, that Mount Vernon is not for 6ale.
How is this? What is the explanation? At
the instance of the Ladies' Mount Vernon
Association of Richmond, Edward Everett
delivered his great oration on Washington
in the Capitol of Virginia, realizing for the
funds of the organization over $800, and it
is to be repeated at various points in Vir
ginia and elsewhere, for the same purpose.
In addition, stimulated by the advent of
Everett in the Old Dominion, the Legisla
ture of Virginia passed a bill incorporating
the Ladies' Mount Vernon Association of
the Union, and yet patriotic ladies, ready
and able to stimulate the sacred purpose,
are told "that Mount Vernon is not for sale."
Mount Vekkon, March 14th, 1856.
To Mrs. Maria S. Wofford:
Madam: I have received your letter of
March 6th, respecting the purchase of
Mount Vernon by the ladies of different
parts of the United States.
In reply, I respectfully inform you that
Mount Vernon is not for sale.
I am, most respectfully, your obd't serv't,
John A. Washington.
THE UNITED STATES AND ENG
LAND. The Mayor of London recently gave a
dinner to Mr. Buchanan, our retiring Minis
ter. In response to an address from the
Mayor, Mr. Buchanan, in the course of his
remarks, alluded as follows to the difficulties
between the two countries:
"With regard to the two countries, what
a dreadful misfortune it would be to the
whole human race if they should ever again
be involved in war! How it would injure
and throw back the cause of civilization and
human liberty! How it would delight the
despots of the earth to find those two nations
destroying themselves, and in that way
destroying every hoped progress to man
Kind l I nold it that tnere can be co political
slavery wl ere the English language is the
language of the country. It is impossible;
and, so far from there being any jealousy,
so far from its being proper that there
should be any jealousy in either country as
to the honest and fair extension of the
frontiers of either, it ought to be considered
a blessing to mankind that they should have
the opportunity of extending their freedom
and liberal institutions over all the un
settled parts of the earth. I am sorry to
say that, with all these feelings and senti
ments, from the first separation of the two
countries there has unfortunately always
been a group of unsettled questions. There
is a cloud now impending over their rela
tions; but I trust in God, and I believe that
that cloud will be speedily dissipated, and
that the sunshine of peace and friendship
will becomo more and more bright between
the two countries, until all the dissensions
which ever existed between them shall have
passed away, and shall only live in history
as a record of the folly of two people who
could fir a moment suppose it possible to
engage in a fratricidal war."
A SHOCKING SCENE IN THE WEST.
Captain E. Stevens, of the steamer Ohio
Belle, was murdered a few days ago by a
man named Jones. The Memphis (Ten
nessee) Newsgivesthe sequel of the terrible
tragedy . The details are truly awful, and
well calculated to cause a thrill of horror.
The News says :
The murderer was taken abaft the shaft
of the boat and lashed to a stancheon, com
mencing with the rope at his feet, and wind
ing it around his body in continuous folds
until it reached his neck, where it was
drawn very tight. It was then passed
around his head and across his mouth so
tight that it stretched the corners of his
mouth back considerably, cutting them so
that the blood run down his jaws, and
leaving him in the greatest agony. A lady,
hearing of the manner in which he was being
treated, went below, and begged them, for
God's sake, not to treat a human being in
such a manuer. At her solicitation he was
released, and bound fast in an arm-chair,
and the chair bound to the stancheon by a
different rope. In this situation he was
left. In the meantime a cabin passenger
was mak:..ig himself conspicuous by boast
ing that in California he had helped to hang
over fifty persons that he had hung men
for as low a sum as five dollars and if they
would give him a chance he "would soon
dispose of that scoundrel." A short time
afterwards this "hangman extraordinary"
and a friend were missing, and soon after
our informant heard a splash. He and
some other passengers then went below to
see the prisoner, but when they had gone
aft they found the rope that bound the chair
cut, and the man and chair both gone. His
fate can well be imagined. He was thrown
overboard.
It is said that a bar of iron of almost
anv size may be instantly sundered while
m m
hot, by the simple application of a roll of
common brimstone.
of the World, Political Information,
TUESDAY, APRIL 8,
WHO WOULD BE A QUEEN.
It is a queer thing to be a Queen or an
Empress, and it strikes us not altogether a
pleasant one. There is an aim ut of pub
licity attached to certain little lomestic af
fairs from which a lady of delicate feelings
must be supposed to shrink, but which
those placed on thrones cannot well avoid.
The bulletins about the Empress Eugenie
have, for months past, been as regularly
published as those pertaining to the siege
of Sebastopol when it is to come off, and
what the sex is to be, ha? been canvassed
as coolly as any other stave question. In
Paris nearly everything is a spectacle, and
the most recent and attractive spectacle
has consisted of the Imperial baby clothes,
to a sight of which the public are admitted
by presenting tickets, which are freely
given to every respectable person. Such
is the crowd that a line has to be formed,
and kept moving, under the management of
the ubiquitous police. In order to be fully
prepared, there are two complete sets of
baby-clothes, masculine and feminine ; for
absolute as Louis Napoleon is in France,
he has nothing to say in determining wheth
er it shall be a prince or priicess.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Daily News writes that the magnifi
cent juvenile Wrardrobe is under the pro
tection of Madamoiselle Felicie. There are
napkins, caps, frocks, jackets, wrappers,
hats, bonnets, shoes, drawers, cloaks, man
tles, mantelets, capes, talmas, muffs, col
lars, socks, stockings, flannels, rattles, pil
lows, and boasts of nameless articles per
taining to a nursery, enough to set up a
foundling hospital. But when the costly
material and delicate workmanship of eve
ry one of these articles is considered, the
mind, perplexed to think what they can all
be wanted for, might fancy that some poli
tical convulsion had driven all the sove
reigns of the world to 'one place of refuge,
and that this was the common and ample
wardrobe of all the royal babies in existence.
The colors of all the habiliments are white
and sky-blue. There is a very pretty cra
dle (not the one given by the city of Paris,
which is not yet quite finished,) with white
lace and blue hangings. The imperial
crown is embroidered upon every article.
The ladies examine every thing most minute
ly, and the c-onstant of the guaids on
duty, that "touching is not allowed," are
all impotent to prevent the curious fair
from taking up the fine fabrics in their
hands to look at them ckser. Some of
M'lle. Felicie's assistant artistes walk a
bout the salons and answer all questions in
a very graceful manner.
Although everybody will have it that the
child is to be a prince ; and although the
statistical decline that the chances are
fully equal, that it will be a princess is
scoffed at. I suspect (says the correspon
dent of the "News,") that Md'lle Felicie
would not be greatly disappointed if it were,
after all, to be a girl. She seems to have more
especially lavished the cunning of her art
upon certain darling little blue bonnets,
which, it were a pity to think, would never
be wanted. I should state that the toilette,
whether for a boy or a girl, is complete
with everything that can possibly be re
quired up to the age of two years. The
entire cost of this toilette, is unprecedent
ed. After the above h id been put into type, an ar
rival from Europe brought intelligence of a son.
Mademoiselle Felicie will probably fall heir to
the female wardrobe out of which she will no
doubt be able to realise by sale many thousands
of dollars.
The reading of the above has reminded
the Editor of the "Wilmington Journal" of
a mistake made by a candidate for some of
fice, "out West." The office-seeking man
rode up. towards the evening, to a small
log house, where lived one of the sovereigns
whose vote he was anxious to secure. On
entering the house, he found no one in but
a lady, exceedingly ill so ill as to be con
fined to bed, who told htm that her husband
had gone to the next village for a Doctor,
and that she feared she would die before
his return. Anxious to comfort her, he as
sured her that there was no danger ; but
she refused to be comforted. By way of a
final effort at consolation, the unsuspecting
politician told her that he had been in the
same way himself several times and got
over it. As he did so, the busband and the
doctor, accompanied by an elderly female,
entered the house, in time to hear the last
remark. The doctor, the husband, and
the elderly female laughed, and even the
sick woman laughed some, if she were dy
ing the electioneering gentleman mizzled.
That evening the county had an inhabitant
the more, but next day a candidate the
less, for the joke got out. and the poor man
was laughed off the track. He could not
bear to be asked about how he felt, etcM
and finally put off to California, where,
somehow, the thing followed him. At the
last accounts he was on the Fejee Islands.
Militia of the United States. We
learn from a document from the War De
partment, which was laid before the House
of Representatives Thursday, that the
Militia in the States and Territories amount
to the large aggregate of 2,479,725 men.
This does not embrace the militia of the
State of Iowa or of the Territories of Oregon,
Washington, Nebraska, Kansas, and New
Mexico, from which no returns have been
reoeived".
Southern Rights, Agriculture,
NORTH CAROLINA.
1856.
THE BEAUTIES OP CREATION.
BY JOHN BROWNING.
Ours is a lovely world ! how fair
Thy beauties, even on earth, appear !
The seasons in their courses fall.
And bring successive joys : the sea,
The earth, the sky, are full of Thee,
Benignant, glorious Lord of all.
There's beauty in the break of day ;
There's glory in the noon-tide ray ;
There's sweetness in the twilight shades ;
Magnificence in night Thy love
Arched the grand heaven of bine above,
And all our smiling earth pervades.
And if thy glories here be found
Streaming with radiance all around,
What must the Fount of Glory bet
In Thee we'll hope in Thee confide,
Thou mercy's never ebbing tide !
Thou love's unfathomable sea !
NAME TN THE SAND.
BY G. D. PKENTICE.
Alone I walked on the ocean strand,
A pearly shell was in my hand,
I stooped and wrote upon the sand
My name, the year and day ;
As onward from the spot I passed,
One lingering look behind I cast, '
A wave came rolling high and fast,
And washed my lines away.
And so methought, 'twill quickly be
With every mark on earth from me !
A wave of dark oblivion's sea,
Will sweep across the place
Where I have trod the sandy shroe
Of time, and been to me no more ;
Of me, my day, the name I bore,
To leave no track or trace.
And yet with Him who counts the sands,
And holds the water in his hands,
I know a lasting record stands
Inscribed against my name
Of all this mortal part has wrought,
Of all this thinking soul has thought,
And from these fleeting moments caught,
For (rlory or for shame.
OUR HOI&ES.
Genius hath its triumph, fame its glories,
wealth its splendor, success its bright re
wards, but the heart only hath its home.
Home only? What more needeth the heart?
what, mnrft oajl i t gain ? A tvua t to r-
than the world more than honor, and pride,
and fortune more than all that earth can
give; the light of the noonday sun may not
yield, and yet the tiny flame of one pure
beam of love enkindleth, and sympathy
makes it burn forever. Home! how more
than beautiful thou art! how like an un
taught religion a golden link between the
soul and heaven, where the presence of a
pure heart makes thee radiant, and the
music of its affection floats like the chorals
of unseen cherubim around thy tranquil
heart!
THE SPIRIT OF KINDNESS.
Show me the man who desires to make
every one happy around him, and whose
greatest solicitude is never to give just
cause of offence to any one, and I will show
you a gentleman by nature and by practice,
though he may never have worn a suit of
broadcloth, nor never heard of a lexicon.
I am proud to say, for the honor of our
species, there are men, in every throb of
whose hearts there is solicitude for the
welfare of mankind, and whose breath is
perfumed with kindness.
The exhibition of kindness has the power
to bring the irrational animal into subjec
tion. Show kindness to a dog, and he will
remember it; he will be grateful; he will
infallibly return love for love. Show kind
ness to a lion, and you can thrust your head
into his mouth ; you can melt the untamed
ferocity of his heart into an affection stronger
tiian death. In all of God's vast unbounded
creation, there is not a living and sentient
being, from the least to the largest, not one,
not even the outcast and degraded serpent,
that is insensible to acts of kindness.
If kindness and love, such as our biassed
Saviour manifested, could be introduced
into the world, and exert its appropriate
dominion, it would restore a state of things
far brighter than the fabulous age of gold;
it would annihilate every sting; it would
pluck every poisonous tooth; it would hush
every discordant voice. Even the inani
mate creation is not insensible to this divine
influence. The bud, and flower, and fruit
put forth most abundantly and bountifully,
where the hand of kindness is extended for
their culture. And if this blessed influence
should extend itself over the earth, a moral
garden of Eden would exist in every land ;
instead of the thorn and brier, would spring
up the fir-tree and the myrtle; the desert
would blossom, and the solitary place be
made glad. Bishop Upham.
THE DEAD CHILD.
Few things appear so beautiful as a very
young child in its shroud. The little inno
cent face looks so sublimely simple and
confiding amongst the cold terrors of death.
Crimeless and fearless, that little mortal
has passed alone under the shadow, and
explored the mystery of dissolution There
is death in its sublimest and purest image ;
no hatred, no hypocrisy, no suspicion, no
care for the morrow ever darkened that lit
tle face ; death has come lovingly upon it;
there is nothing cruel or harsh in its victo
ry. The yearnings of love, indeed, cannot
bw stifled ; for the prattle and sadle, and all
Literature, and Miscellany.
the little world of thoughts that were so
delightful, are gone forever. Awe, too,
will overcast us in its presence, for the lone
ly voyage ; for the child has gone, simple
and trusting, into the presence of its All
wise Father ; and of such, we know, is the
kingdom of Heaven.
" THE OLD WOMAN."
It was thus, a few days since, wo heard
a stripling of sixteen years designate the
mother who bore him a venerable woman,
whose face bore the marks of the conflict
in all its furrowed lines. The most griev
ous of the ills of life have to be borne by
the mother ; trials untold and unknown on
ly to God and herself she has to bear inces
santly ; and in her old ago her duty done,
awaiting her appointed time she stands
more truly beautiful than in youth, more
honorable and deserving than he who has
slain his thousands, and stood triumphant
upon the proudest field of victory. Young
man, speak kindly to your mother, and even
courteously tenderly of her ! But a little
time and you shall see her no more for over !
H eye is dim, her form is bent, and her
shadow falls graveward ! Others may love
you when she has passed away kind heart
ed sisters, or she whom of all the world you
may choose for a partner she may love
you warmly, passionately children may
love you fondly ; but never again, never
while time is yours, shall the love of woman
be to you as that of your old, trembling, wea
kened mother has been. In agony she bore
you through puling, helpless infancy her
throbbing breast was your safe protection
and support in wayward, tetchy boyhood
she bore patiently with your thoughtless
rudeness, and nursed you safely through a
legion of ills and maladies. Her hand it
was that bathed your burning brow or
moistened the parched lips ; her eye that
lighted up the darkness of wasting nightly
vigils, watching always in your fitful sleep,
sleepless by your side as none but her could
watch. Oh ! speak not her name lightly,
for you cannot live for so many years as
would suffice to thank her fully. Through
reckless and impatient youth she is your
counsellor and solace. To a bright manhood
she guides your improvident steps, nor
even then forsakes or forgets. Speak gent-
j , Ibvoi CLUU i c v ci truLij' urjuui mumu , nuu
when you, too, shall be old, it shall in some
degree lighten the remorse which shall be
yours for other sins, to know that never
wantonly have you outraged the respect
due to "old women."
THE SOCIETY OF WOMAN.
No society is more profitable, because
nonemore refining and preservative of virtue,
than that of refined aud sensible women.
God enshrined peculiar goodness in the
form of woman, that her beauty might win,
her gentle voice invite, and the desire of
her favor persuade men's sterner souls to
leave the path of sinful strife for the ways
of pleasantness and peace. But when
women falls from this blest eminence, and
sinks the guardian and cherisher of pure
and rational enjoyments in the vain coquette
and flattered idolater of fashion, she is un
worthy of an honorable man's love or a
sensible man's admiration. Beauty is to
them at best
a pretty plaything,
Dear deceit
We honor the chivalrous deference which
is paid in our land to women. It proves
that our men know how to respect virtue
and pure affection, and that our women are
worthy of such-respect. Yet women should
be something more than mere women to win
us to their society. To be our companions
they should be our friends; to rule our hearts
they should be deserving of our minds.
There are many such, and that there are
no more is rather the fault of our own sex
than their own. And despite all the un
manly scandals that have been thrown upon
them in prose and verse, they would rather
share in the rational conversation of men of
sense than liuten to the fully compliments of
fools ; and a man dishonors them as well as
disgraces himself, when he seeks their circle
for idle pastime and not for the improve
ment of his mind and the elevation of his
heart.
THE WANTS OF THE AGES.
It is a man's destiny still to be longing
for something, and the gratification of one
set of wishes but prepares the unsatisfied
soul for the conception of another. The
child of a year old wants little but food and
sleep ; and no sooner is he supplied with a
sufficient allowance of either of those very
excellent things, than he begins whimper
ing, and yelling it may be, for the other.
At three, the young urchin becomes enamuor
ed of sugar plums, apple pie, and confec
tionary. At six, ins imagination runs to
kites, marbles and tops, and an abandonee
of play time. At ten, the boy wants to
leave school and have nothing to do but bird
nesting and blackberry hunting. At fifteen,
he wants a beard and mustache, a watch,
and a pairof Wellington boots. At twenty,
he wishes to out a figure and ride horses;
sometimes his thirst for display breaks oat
in dandyism, and sometimes in poetry; he
wants sadly to be in love and takes it for
granted that all the ladies are dying for him.
The young man of twenty-fire wants a wife;
and at thirty he longs to be single again.
From thirty to forty be wants to be rich,
and thinks mere of making money than
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spending it. About this time, also, he
dabbles in politics and wants office. At
fifty he wants excellent dinners and wine,
and considers a nap in the afternoon indis
pensable. The respectable old gentleman
of sixty wants to retire from business with
a snug independence of three or four hun
dred thousands, to marry his daughters and
set up his sons, and live in the country ;
and then for the rest of his life he wants to
be young again.
IMPROVEMENT OP YOUTH.
Youth is the seed-time of life. If the
farmer does not plow his land, and commit
the precious seed to the ground in spring,
it will be too late afterwards ; so if you,
while young, neglect to cultivate your minds,
by not sowing the seeds of knowledge, your
future lives will be ignorant and wretched.
The soil of the human heart is naturally
barren of every thing good, though prolific
of evil. If corn, flowers, cVc, bo not plant
ed and carefully cultivated, nettles and
brambles will spring up ; and the mind, if
not cultivated, and stored with useful know
ledge, will become a barren desert, or a
thorny wilderness. The Rev. John Todd,
iu his Student's Manual, a work that every
seeker of knowledge should read, very ap
propriately remarks : "Those islands which
so beautifully adorn the Pacific, and which
but for sin, would seem so many Edens,
were reared up from the bed of the ocean
by the little coral insect, which depoaits one
grain of sand at a time, till the whole oi
those piles are reared up." Just so with
human exertions. The greatest results of
the mind are produced by small but contin
ued efforts. Wo have frequently thought of
the motto of the most distinguished scholar
in this oountry as peculiarly appropriato.
As near as I remember, it is the picture of
a mountain, with a man at its base, with his
hat and coat lying beside him, and a pick
axe in his hand ; and as ho digs, stroke by
stroke, his patient look corresponds with his
words, "little by little." "The river roll
ing onward its accumulated waters to the
ocean, was in its small beginning but an
oozing rill, trickling down some moss-covered
rock, and winding like a silver thread
between the green banks to which it impart
ed verdure. The tree that sweeps the air
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the howling of the tempest, was in its small
beginning trodden under foot and unnotic
ed ; then a small shoot that the leaping bare
might have forever crushed : it now tow
ers to the heavens." As spring is the most
important part of the year, so is youth the
most important part of life. Surely, edu
cution has a claim to your principal atten
tion, and demand the morning of your days;
then, as we said before, why do you throw
away your young and golden hours? Why
don't you go to work serionsly, and in such
a way as to briug honor upon yourselves,
your parents, and your friends, and not
wretchedness Rockinghan Register.
I HAVE NO TIME TO READ.
The idea about the want of time is a mere
phantom. Franklin found time in the midst
of all his labors to dive into the hiddon re
cess of all his philosophy, and explore the
untrodden path of science. The groat
Frederick, with an empire at his direction,
in the midst of war, on the eve of battles
which were to decide the fate of his kingdom,
found time to read and revel in the charms
of philosophy and intellectual pleasures.
Bonaparte, with all Europe at his disposal,
with kings in his ante-chamber begging for
vacant thrones, with thousands of men whoso
destinies were suspended by the brittle
thread of his arbitrary, pleasure, had time
to read and converse with books. Caesar,
when he had curbed the spirits of the Roman
people, and was thronged with visitors from
the remotest kingdoms, found time for read
ing and intellectual conversation. Every
man has time; if he is careful to improve it
as well as he might, he can reap three-fold.
Let farmers and mechanics make use of the
hours at their disposal, if they want to obtain
a proper influence in society. They can,
if they please, hold in their hands the des
tinies of our Republic.
Meanness. The Detroit Tribune re
lates the case of a man who fell overboard,
from a boat on the lakes, in that vicinity.
His life was saved by throwing out into the
water a bunch of shingles, upon which he
caught and floated until he was rescued.
When taken on board, without expressing
any gratitude for his deliverance, he told
the captain, with considerable agitation,
that he should expect pay for his shingles
that he had thrown overboard .' Capt.
Ward replied that he was very sorry that
if he had known the shingles were his, he
would not have done it.'
VW The above equals the case of Bill
Johnson, the constable, who levied on an
old lady's ducks, to pay a small grocery
bill. He wanted the old woman to drive
em up and ketch 'em for him. She told
him to ketch 'em himself, and bo he phased
'em round and round the houso, and every
time he'd ketch a duck, he'd set down and
wring its head off, and charge mileage!"
EF" Mrs. Partington says : "Know No-thing-tm
is the worst ism on e- rth, except
Reumatiam.
"Ike," hearing this remark, looked us
and-said "Yes, ma'am, but they are beta
very similar 'tis painful to get along with
either of them "