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' Our brightest hopes een crus'hti The valiant hosts that rallied, I Out glorious cause to save, - Are now among the conquered i Or with thee in the grave Bleep! for thy name is cherished JIvjthe bravest and the best, And iolcliers' hearts and womans' tears Are with thee in thy rest. ; ' i I i ' - . - And Fame bath brought a laurel crown And placed it at thy head, . While memory bedews thy grave I AVithltears, Oh, noble dead ! . ' I I' 4 Thevj tdhl me thou hadst fallen i heti in prison I was bound, : lly line of armed sentinels And the waves that rolled around - And jl wept for thee mv chieftain, i'. ; , Wjjt for thy earlv fall, A Patriot and a Hero ? Thy name was loved by all. V Kiit here beside thee kneeling t Bright ilowqrs, not tears I give, For they are .treasured in my heart -To slied for those that live! , The Slowers I joyfully strew o'er thee AVhose recunl is unstained, - For thou has now thy freedom, ? WhiVl I u-m leftnchained. ? Mr. Goodloe's Fourth Letter. , From the Senteneh " AVaurknton, Julj- 30, 1873. My Bear Sir : 8ince writ ting my third letter, the Charlotte Democrat lias published a series of essays in re ply to me, , over the signature of 'Hornet ;" and at the dose of them it is announced ' editorial l3r, that they are iVoni the pen ot'C. I)ovd, '.Esq., ofthat )lace. -"The author is known - tofbe a gt'iitleinan of great pei-sonal wt rth, as well as eminent at tlic bar ; but al though, he be -"native and to the Plan ner born " there is resiion . to believe that his s invest illations into the liis- torv of the ecklenburir Declaration of Iiidej)endence are of very recent -.date,- and therefore, that they -j have not been very thorough. If I am cor rect in this Kupjws.it ion, the fact! will explain. his facility of falling intJI Nu merous and veiy gmvc errors of tiate-jnen't-and inference. Uefore arraigning him, however, on t hese .charges, it is proper I should ac knowledge that 'heiias detected a mis take of my own. lie says : "There is a eoppy of the Meeklen Imri Declauition. in the State Depart ment in Tlaleigh, in the hanhcriting of .John 31 Knitt Alexander, according to t he testimony of the late Dr. Samuel .Henderson., of Mecklenburg county. The'existenee .of sucb a paper i ad mitted by 3rr. (ioodloe, but his posi tion in regard to it is left in doubt, cither intentional or otherwise on bis part. He 'does, not state whether "lie-discredits the testimony of Dr. .' Henderson" as to this paper being in J. M'Knitt Alexander's handwriting, or whether he accepts that as true and still believes the. document a forgery. He does, however, very directly assail the credibility of Dr. IIcnlcrson8 tes timotiy, and he does this by contrast-; ing his. certificate with another cer tificate in relation to the sa-me' paper in drawing the conclusion that the one can not be reconciled with the other."; Mr. Dowd has Fallen into 116 Jess than three errors, while pointing out one of j mine. For in the first place he jnakes:Dr. Henderson perforin a? feat of legerdemain,' by certifying in Meek- . len'burg, to a paper "annexed," which at the same time was in the "State Department" in Raleigh. Secondly it is true that I macle the mistake ol , supposing that Dr. Henderson's cer tificate to the "paper annexed, re ferred to the one immediately above s it, and the inference was natural - and ' legitiikate. The fault was in the com piler ojf the legislative pamphlet - who hhoiild have stated in connection jwith the! certificate, that the "paper, an- , nexed" was not the one above it but another which had been detached. Ii this had been done, the certificate : ol Dr. Henderson to the character of a y paper which did not appear, would liave been valueless, it is true, but it would Hot have created confusion. 3ut Mr. i)owd. is mistaken in suppos ing that I have admitted the existence of' the paper referred to in Hender son's certificate, as something different from .that certified to by J. 3IcKnitt The truth is I had not thought of it as different, until on a rcperusal of the introduction to the testimony, I v find it mentioned accompanied with the statement that "it is now in the Ex ecutive office of this State." Inj like manner, Mr. Dowd is mistaken in as suming that I meant to discredit the testimony of Dr. Henderson. I -only showed, supposing he and J . McKnitt referred to the same paper, that fhere existed a discrepancy between them.' But I did not undertake to say which of them was in error. ' - . Ibit. T will now nroceed to !:0W ' that one of them was at fault, and! which one. Since my nrst letters j, ero written, I have come into possce -on of -essential facts, which if known at the outset, would have saved much labo rn, and should have put a summr.ry - , enod Uj, the discussion. 1 'rintcd, as j guisaction when he asserts, and re the principal of these facts was, twjbn-1 tites, that the! witnesses had the tr years ago, in the University Magar line, it is surprising that it was so soon i rgotf en? and that now, it seems to 1 e wholly unknown to the public. I Those who have read my letters carefully will remember that in the ! pginning, and repeatedly I pointed cut the fact, that the paper which an-' j eareu in me itaieign xtegisier, ipni I p, 1819, purporting to be the official report of the Mecklenburg proceedings t f May 20th, and bearing that date? J ad about it unmistakable ear - marks f a later origin. It relates events rbieh transpired long afterwards, and ' fen theIIara . IritisK mvasion of our rights," in the ast tense. I inferred from these in ternal evidences, that the paper must lave been written as late as the year 1800, when a fire destroyed the house cif Mr. John McKnitt Alexander with 1 his papers, including the records of t ic county committee, of the revoln t o nary period. It turns out that I v as precisely correct in this" conjee tare ; and that what purports to be the official report of. the proceedings cf a meeting at Charlotte, May 2th, 1775, with the Declaration of Ihde pendence, which forms a conspicuous part of it,; was all written and certified t as late as September 3d, 1800. This certificate is given by John McKnitt Jlexander himself, and constitutes va part of the report referred to. . In it the writer admits that he writes from njemory, of events -which transpired aquartcr of a century before ; aha that he gives the substance of what" was dpne, without pretending that it was apiteral copy. But I give his very words, which I find in the University ijagazine for May, 1853. The writer of the Magazine article, judging from tte clear and forcible style must have lben one of the ablest of the Faculty; apd there cam be little doubt that the paper was submitted to Governor S)vain before publication. He intro duces the suppressed certificate of John McKnitt Alexander with the re mark that "the oldest edition of the Pavie copy'nvas furnished by John Melt Alexander to (renerab Daviej t&cn a resident of South Carolina. The aa:e and the decree of reverence to be given to its contents are unan swerably fixed by this conclusion to the manuscript : -" THE SUPPRESSED CERTIFICATE. ment, though fundamentally correct, yet may not literally correspond with the original, record of the transactions of said delegation jhnd court of in quiry, as all those records and papers were burnt with the house,, on April 6th, 1800; but previous to that time of 1800, full copy of said records, at the request of Doctor Hugh William son, then of New York, but fornierlv a reprsentative in Congress from this State, was forwarded to him by ol. William Polk, in order that those earby transactions might fill their proper jjlace in a history of this State, then tf riting by said Dr. Williamson in New York. "Certified to the best recol lection and belief,; this third day of September, 1800, by I McN. Alexander. I Let it be borne in mind that this suppressed certificate was a part of t!e paper published in the Ilaleigh Begister, April 30, 1819. If that pa pjer had been published entire, the pub lic would never have been deluded With the idea that t hey saw before them the identical "Declaratibn of Inde pendence" of May, 1775 ; but would have understood that it was only what ah old man recollected, after the lapse of twenty-five years, about events in which he participated. Hitherto I have branded the so-called report of the May 20 j;h meeting, as a forgery. Tt turns out, from the certificate of its author,1 that it was not claimed to be al genuine report, written at the time ojf the events of May, 1775, but only what he recollected of them. Stripped of this certificate, and palmed upon the public as of the date of May 20th, 1775, it becomes to all intents and pur poses a forgery, whether the omission of the certificate were intentional, and With this purpose in view, or acci dental. It is, without' this certificate, rfot what it purports to be ; and its publication deluded the old men who certified to its genuiness, into the ijatural error of supposing that they snw before them the veritable Declara tion of Independence, the reading of which by Col. Polk caused them to throw up their caps and huzza for liberty intheir youth. I So it turns out as I had surmised, tjefore obtaining possession of this sup pressed certificate, that the venerable Witnesses to the veracity of the pre tended report" and Declaration, were deceived by the general correspond ence as to the time of the leading facts stated and purposes declared, into the oelief that the paper Was v genuine. When the report appeared, giving the proceedings of a meeting which the Witnesses remembered, and a Declara tion of principles and purposes which tjbey also remembered in substance to have been made, they accepted it as '.i ; i 1 t 1 i enuine oecause n naa no competitor. ?he resolutions of Mav 31st were then &rgotten, though i repeatedly printed ux 1775 in newspapers, North and Qouth. ; Mr. Dowd illustrates his limited ac- Euaintance with the history of the t c ri . 31st May! resolves before them when they gave their certificates that the 20th May Declaration was genuine. In the first place, they say not a word in their certificates which implies they remembered that two Declarations, or sets of resolves, on two different daysy were issued. No one ; interrogated them to this effect. No one said to them, '"Do you regard the resolutions of May 20th, or those of May 31st, genuine, or are both papers genuine?" The inti-bduction to the Legislative Samphlet says, nothing about the 31st lay 4 resolves. . The f authorspf it wculdiiav, bcendeligliteI tpi int. to them as-aT demonstration oiVthe mainfact ; though ''they would hav6 been fatal to the superstructure of fic titious history which has-arisen upon the basis of the curtailed report. Jo. Sea well Jones in his "Defencfe of North Carolina," says not a word about the 31st May resolves. Martin in his history makes no allusion to them. Governorj Swain had never heard of them,-until the' were found by Peter Force, Esq., in a New York ''newspa per of the date 1775, and published by him in 1839 and in whole, by Mr. Bancroft, in 1847. These discoveries undeceiveil Gov. Swain, as I shall show before l am done ; and for many years before his death, in spite of his amia ble temper, which prompted him to hope all things and believe - all things, he could not withhold the opinion that; the 20th- May "Declaration" and pro-! ccedings were of more than - doubtful, not to say suspicious origin. "Not to put too fine a point upon it," his most; intimate friends know that he believ ed not a word, in the genuineness of that beggarly imitation of Jefferson. It is in vain, tnerefore, for Mr. Dowd to assert, j with ever so much confi dence, that the old gentlemen who gave their certificates during and prior to 1830 to the genuineness of the re-: Srt of the proceedings on the 20th ay, 1775, had before them the pro- ccedings of May 31st. I To show how very unreliable is a man's recollection of events, even after the lapse of a quarter of a century, I need only cite this very Heport of Mrj John M'Knitt Alexander, and compare one part .with another. In the supi pressed certificate to it, Mr. Alexander says, "that .the foregoing statcmeut though J fundamental ly correct, yet mav notliterallv correspond with the 1 vmTiaiectur-tr'vi xtriniit3uuoiii!?- pj said delegation and court of 'enquiry &c." In the body of the Report as copied in the Raleigh Register, April 30th) 1813, he says: "Conformably to these principles, Col. T. Polk, through soli citation, issued an order to each cap tain's company in the county of Meckr lenburg, (then comprising the present county of Cabarrus,) directing each militia company to elect two person and delegate to them amnio nower to f devise ways and means to aid and as sist their suffering brethren in Boston and also,( generally to adopt! measures to extribate themselves from the im pending storm and to secure unimpair--ed their inalienable rights, j privileges and liberties from the dominant grasp of British imposition and ; tyranny.'f Further on after recording j the adop tion of the "Declaration," ' the same Report, dated May 20th, 1775, proceeds to state, that, "From this delegation originated the Court of Enquiry of this county, who constituted and held their first session in Charlotte" and goes on to relate other facts about its meetj ings and jurisdiction ; and mentions that Tories were brought before it from Lincoln and Rowan. . These anachronisms prove that however honi orable and truthful Mr. John M. Alex-i ander was, apd he is spoken highly of by his cotcmporaries, his memory cannot be relied on to chronicle "facts and to give the exact import of Re solves twenty-five years after their date. - Eor certainly no man of' un clouded memory and clear understand ingwould give, a history! of events running through years and record them all. as having transpired on the very first day of the period. It was this anachronism to -which I called attention at the beginning, of this series of letters, as evidence of fraud j and since I have seed the suppressed certificate, I revert to it as infallible evidence of the author's failing memory He confounds . what the committee became in the course of months and years, with what it was when it met in May 1775. And in 1800, writing from memory from his "best recollec tion and belief," he attributes Jo the "Court of Enquiry," the adoption of the "Declaration of Independence." Thisjsas if John Adams or Thomas JefFeson, in old age, should have re! ferred in their writings to the Declar ation of Independence, on July 4th, 1776 as the- work of, the Convention which framed the constitution eleven years later, or of Congress; which asj sembled under it in 1789. j But Miv Alexander's j. certificate proves that he had. no purpose of pal ming off his "best recollection and be lief, in the year. 1800, as' something he had written down on the 20th May, 1775. lie, at least, is not; responsible for this fraudulent attempt. J The certificate attached to the pa per as published in 1819, to the exclu sion of the genuine one has already been given. ' But'for the sake of per spicuity, I present it again, as follows : "The foregoing is a true copy of the paper on the above subject, left in my hands by John M'Knitt AJexari- that the original book was burned, April, 1800. That a copy of the pro ceedings was sent to Hugh William son, in New York, then writing a his tory 6T North Carolina, and that a copy was sent to'tfen. W. R. Davie. : ' ";.:; . '; ."r'J. M'Knitt.": 1 learn from the papers, and from various sources, that "J. M. Knitt" isVpr was, Dr. Joseph M'Knitt Alexan der, a son of John M'Knitt Alexander. Why he should give a certificate to an important paper, with the omission of his proper name, and how it happens tlAlt the copy that he, certifies to is cilrtailedof the lessen tial "" certificate winch hits latheidde?iO: paper, in the copy which he sent to Gen. W. R. Davie, are niatters to be explained by those who have under taken to maintain the genuineness of the "Declaration" of May 20th, 1775. However the omission of that certifi cate was brtfught about, the effect was to charrge the whole character of the paper to which it was attached, - and to palm iton the public as a genuine cc temporaneous report,' instead of a state ment according to its author's "best re collection and belief," twenty five years after the event. In other words, these best recollections and belief "5f an Id man, by being antedated, are made o wear the aspect,.and have all the iffect of a forged paper. I il propose in another letter, to close the discussion, with some further no tice of the essays of Messers. Dowd and Wheeler, and the Lecture of Dr. Hawks. I am very truly, Daniel R. Goodloe. T. B. Kingsbury, Raleigh, N. C. , A Happy Daddy. We are not obliged to tell,, says -the jSpirit of the Age, how the following funny letter fell into our hands ; all the reader has to do is to read it and laugh. We congratulate the new made pa-ri-ent, and hope he wilt 'get over his confusion of ideas shortly, so as to bo able to tell his baby from his horse: Dear Sister Emma I now take my seat and sit down to take this -opportunity 'to inform' you:; that I- am a "daddy" at last ; that is, I suppose I am, for Addie has got a nice, fat habv as ever made up faces. We hope that 10 same'blessiii. JN ov7 this is to Uef strictly a business letter. Firstly, asf 1 said before, Addie has got a nice baby, nextly I have swapped away old John and think I have got a pretty nine pounds I mean the baby it isj just as fat as butter, and has a good strong pair of lungs She is red and! has a bobtail the horse, I mean and a white .stripe -in hor face, and is & good driver ; she has got blue eyes and a dimple in her chin I mean the baby and just the prettiest mouth that ever open'd to receive pap ; judg ing from her teeth, I think she is about six years old I mean the horse now. she is sound, smooth and kind I mean the horse or the baby either, now and the doctor says she is the fairest he ever saw, without any ex ceptionhe meant the baby -I got $25 to boot not on the baby, though, for in its case the boot is on the otheij foot, and two or three sizes larger, as; near as I can find out. I am going td harness the horse now and go after mother she was born last night at 20 minutes' past nine I hope you don't! think I mean mother or the horse ; Ij mean the baby. She is as hearty as a pig ; eat at egg, a biscuit, and drank! three cuds of tea I mean Addie she is getting along nicely, and if she don'ti have any bad luck she will get along! nrst-rate. bhe is subject to disorders: of the stomach, and they say that is a; sign of colic I mean the baby I hope it is, for the nurse sa3Ts colicky-babies never die. She talks about her nose as she "takes snuff I mean, the nurse. I am going to name it Edena I mean the baby. There ! I've been reading this: over and I see plainly that I ain't fit to) write. The amount of it is, I am flus-i trated ; 1 anva happy father, and that! accounts for it, so you must excuse mej this time. Your brother, Jim "Lb Necs." The followipg missive evidently written by one of our ver- dant city girl to a relation in the! country was found in front of South-j erland Bros, yesterdayand handed toj us for publication: Piedmont Press. "Dere nansey : As for the lo necsj the loer it is the moar fashunable youj are an les close you ware the moar you are dressed. Miss Goolia gave me a blue silk of herz an hi cut its) nec orf and susan simmonz cut of herz j an we attrax a great deal of atten-j shud to our necs promenadin in the j streets uke other ladies an holdin up our close." The following conversation between two lawyers was overheard : "How much does your client like it ?" "Not! overmuch ; begins to complain of the expense." "Mine is all right ; bound to fight it oji. Can. we manage to get the jury to disagree again ?" "Don'tJcnow : we must work for it." "You will get beat, of course, in the end; but you will appealj of Course? "Of course." A little girl was asked what was! the meaning of the word-happy. She said, "It is to feel as if you wanted to give all your things to your little sis-; j, " Pettigrew's . Brigade. Messrs. Editors. As a part of the history of the old State, which I,, for one,fam so glad you are rescuing from loss,j will you not re-publish, if you can procure it anywhere, the correspond ence that took place some six years agoj between Major W. J. Baker and Captain Xoung, of jcn. Pcttigrew's staff, with reference to the part -that Brigade took in the fated field of GcU tysburg? The reason I ask is, that in a recent communication in' the Richmond Dispatchom Col. Vf. W. Wood, with wferenwt6 Jlothernbl's painting, "Battle of Gettysburg,'1 the Philadelphia 'Centennial, f &c, ho re peals "the statement. t hat - Pickett's supports aia noi come m umo in ino famous charge made by that ; gallan t corps.' Col. Wood does not charge the delinquency upon Gen. Pettigrew and the division (Ieth's which pe com manded in that action. . But this has ben done, without compunction and without retraction by writers . in Vir ginia papers and in the "Histories" is sued heretofore. , j It is not to contravert Col. Wood' statement, which may be correct, that Ifickct's stupport did not come up "pther on the right or left," that I cUll for that correspondence. Nor is ii to. pluck One laurel from the scarred bjrows and Isvell-earned glory of Gen. Pickett and his division, one of whom, and by no means the least, is the gal lon t leader; of the conservative cam paign and the nominee for Governor Of Virginia. It is to get the truth of fiistory, to rescue, from forgetfulness what may yet be needed to defend the iair fame of North Carolina and her ibble sons. i ! '. . v KIwas a member of Pettigrew's jbcjgade. I joined it after the death of its'loved General.' But it was for a llonsr time known as "Petticrrew's ; cry ot, j Brigade," and with mingled affection and pride its older members so called it. When I joined in August, 18C3, Its ranks were decimated, its spirit broken. Pettigrew was gone, and of the field officers perhaps not one, in five were living or fit for duty. But I much mistake the temper and spirit of such men as were left, or languished at Johnson's Island and Iort Dela ware, or mingled with the hallowed dust of the field of glory, if thoie was any flinching or failure in .duty at ixettysburg, JBristow, Han Over, Wil dcrjjfijCKfcira gan the fight,) Spottsylvahfa, i Rich mond, Petersburg, Reams' and Ap pomattox showed the stuff they were made of. Few Divisions did more ef fectual service than Heth's, during 1864 and '65, or were more frequently called on. McRae and Cook earned their laurels by , hard fighting, and they were trusted. It was at Reams' Station, where, after an unsuccessful attack upon the enemy's works, Gen. Heth asked ; that he might take the defences, and Gen. A. P. Hill (Coqm Commander) gave his approval. With. Cook's and McRae's brigades of his own division, and Lane's, of Wilcox's di vision, (all North Carolinians,) ; Ileth charged and , carried the lines most beautifully. General. Leo looked on with great gratification,! and with a soldier's joy and pride, and said to the returning victorious brigades, "Brave fellows, all. can always trust Worth Carolinians", I did nojfc hear this, but many a one in the brigade did. 1 One op the 47m. It affords us pleasure to publish the above communication, from the pen of a gentleman of piety and excellent abilities. The Associate has on two occasions written in defence of Petti grew's Brigade. His last article ap peared in the - Wilmington Journal some two years ago. Maj. Engelhard, one of the editors, made some correc tions and additions. He has purposed for some time writing to Col. Chas. Marshall, of Baltimore, who is now en- faged in preparing the life of General iee, directing .his attention to the gross injustice done Gen. Pettigrew's Brigade, and in fact Heth's division. We would gladly publish the corre-' spondence- referred to by our highly esteemed correspondent, but we have in. vain tried to obtain it for years., The Sentinel was not in existence at the time it was published, and we have not a copy in the office. Probably the Journal, or some of our older State pa pers, can exhume it. ' Gen. A. P. Hill told Maj. Engelhard that the best Brigade in his' corps was Cook's North Carolina, "and that the second best was McRaeN, North Carolina. The third he said lay be tween Mahone's Virginia and Lane's North Carolina. Hal. Sentinel The Sentinel says : The farmers are victimized more frequently than any other class. . They are cheated by commission merchants, by railroads and by dealers in fertilizers. They buy guano, thinking it genuine and warranted, when it is often badly ad ulterated. The New York State Ag ricultural Society, once investigated the matter. A bag of the genuine celebrated Peruvian guano was pur chased from ten different dealers and analyzed thoroughly. 'Six had sold the adulterated article and four the genui n e. T he adulterated h ad .on ly from 3 to 6 per cent, of ammonia, whereas the genuine contains 15 per cent. It is said the genuine bags are refilled. They are branded genuine The trade mark of tjho Peruvian gov ernment has been altered. - Watch out for swindles Jn fertilizers! "Forewarn ed, forearmed." . - Health of Women. . Farmer's wives are not as healthy, and red-checked sjs city people sup pose them to be. In a journey of a hundred milcs wo may see a few rosy, brigbt-cyed, hap; P3'.woman ; but, as arule, from Maine. to California, care-worn faces, sunken eyes, and compressed lips, tell pitiful - . talcslof disturbed rcst, of wearinc and suffering. We Uo not attribute this to the tyranny of husbands. ; Vb. have yet to see Che man who docs not 1 pity his sick wife. ? : It cannot be attributed to tiio 'tyr- anny of fashion ; thousands of thoo - . suffering women do not read .fashion jWks.H'Wo do not propose to7point out all-the causes that oiwratc sa ' de structivcly, but will hsk attentton toii- few not generally attended ti by pa- tients and physicians. i . Wo. speak of women who at mar-" riago gave promise of a vigorous, 1 healthy life, but as the years ptvssed, their hopes faded like the baseless fab ric of dreams. . ; Asking questions, and closely obser- ving their habits, -we ; learn that very soon after marriage tho regular bath was omitted. I;kn.ev it vould rc-fi-csh me, but it" wndt convenient! I had company, or was tir.tl; 4ind put it oft from time to time, until the bath ceased to be a regular habit and is now the occasional luxury. The icsult was, the waste! matterr th'at should have been passed off by the sk in, had to be tarried along, to bo cast out by the kidneys and bowels or was re tained in tho blood, leaymg the breath with impurities, and finally clogging the liver. v 5 t , Here, we have, through" neglect of the bath', overworkedkidneys, (tonsti- patcd bowglndtt torpid, or tired liver. The vital force ever 'working to preserve life, and the machineiy of life, "tossed out flags of d istrcss. Yel low flags, over tongue, skin and eyes ; and finally took away relish for Jbod. The wise woman would have "abstain ed from food and exhausting labor, and would have taken a thorough rubbing, sweating-bath r to open tho pores." , Before going in . and while in, and after coming out of tho bath, (co pious drinking of water to wash tho blood would have assisted tho vital force to go on with thp cleansing pro cesses. ' ' - . nowj'4 dissolves dirt: and through "the skin, kidneys, or bowels, floats it out of tho body. : . Everjr particle of worn-out matter, salts or medicines dissolved and car ried through'the natural channels by so much relieve tho tired liver; when rested it will resume work without spurs or whips of any kind: Sick women have not thus reason ed ; have nofthus been obedien t -to the Divinely appointed law of cleanli ness. Science of Ilcalth. Gems of nought. Filial- Pipty. -There is no greater human excellence than filial pictj, ami no better assurance of success in life than honor to the father and mother. TnE AVorries of Life. The great worries of life are the so-called "little things" which arc from day to day left unadjusted, till they , fasten their victim like a net. The men who ' die of "over-work" are not so much de stroyed by their great and useful la bors as by the vexatious trifles which accumulate till they produce a condi tion of chronic fever and unrest. "Is it Right ?" So long as any person seriously asks this question of himself, in regard to all his acts, the danger of any great departure from the path of rectitude must be small, and we wish that a system of education might be devised and adopted in this country, which might make it as com mon and controlling among our people in after years, as it now appears to bo in youth. : -, Propensities. Whenever an indul ged propensity becomes a passion, and the will is enslaved by blind impulse" the question of insanity is only one of time. 1 Happiness and Virtue. Not' hap piness alone, not even virtue alone, is. the chief end for man, but ratlier a condition that springs from both com bined. Each in it!s highest forms in cludes the other, and they are as in separable as is the sun from the light with which he blesses the weald. , Keep the End in View. It is of. the first importance in undertaking" any enterprise to form a correct idea of the end to be accomplished. Every occupation in lffe has some distinct .. purpose, and only as it is thoroughly , kept in view can the efforts put forth) prove successful. If you love, love morel If you hate, hate less; Life, is too short to. spend in hating any one. Why war against a mortal wno is going the eamo road with us ? Why not expend tho flower of life's happiness by teaming to love, by teaching those who are nearxand dear the beautiful lesson ? Daniel Webster is not the only bright boy born in New Hampshire. Another has been discovered a youth residing in Dover, who refused,, to take a pill. His crafty mother there upon secretly placed the pill in a pre served pear, arid gave it to him. Pre sently jphe asked, "Tom, havo you eaten the pear?" He said, "Yes, moth er all but the seed." . I . .1 V-i . 1-.-, Mi In this wav: - Water is rcrv rafitd- :'f ' : ly abWrbatakcinnto nii ' circtilat K .'CJ ll tion. Then, to Rpeakwery plainly, it ri 1 , Clll ! r s 1 ii. I; I 1 t . ' BIS. r I J . 3 - - - j