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t t - V I - - A Democratic v Journal-Devoted to National and State Politics, Literature Foreign and Domestic Hews, etc. i l VOL. H. WIISTSTOIsr, NOETH-CARpLIKA, FRIDAY, -AJPHI11 2,1858, No. 43 i - "4 V. i ! . i.. , - THE PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ALSPAUGH fc BONER, Editors and Proprietors. Terms of Subscription. "The Western Skstixel" is published every Friday morning, and mailed to subscribers at two dollars a year, in ad vance; two dollars and a half after six months, or three dollars after the close of the subscription year. To any one procuring six subscribers, and paying the cash in advance, the paper will be furaished one year, gratis.., . , , - Terms e"f Advertising in tlie Sentinel. Our regular rates of advertising are as follows: Oae square, (14 lines or less) first insertion, $1 00 Each subsequent insertion, ------ 25 For one square three months, - - - - 3 50 For six months, - -- -- -- -- 5 50 For twelve months, - -- -- -- - 8 50 3.-? Liberal deductions in favor of regular ad Tertisers. Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding five lines in length, five dollars a year longer ones in proportion. 2 Postmasters are required by law to notify publishers when papers are not taken from their otiices and tliosc failing to do so become respon sible for the subscription-money. 53gT" Business letters, communications, fcc, may be addressed to the Editors of the Sentinel, Wins ton, X. C. All articles intended for insertion, in cluding notices of marriages and deaths, &t, must be accompanied by a responsible name, otherwise ahey caunot be published. OJice on Wat Street, leloic the 3f. E. Church. Portraits of th8 Opposition Seward and Douglas. "What relates to public men is always interesting. History is too much a mere record, too little tinctured with metaphysi cal biography, with individual character, motives, incentives and weakness, to make . it either altogether philosophical or truth ful. It so happens that all government is the work of individuals, and it is equally true that the public good is not invariably the chart by which they conduct the affairs of oniec. Mr. "William II. Seward and Mr. Ste- henA. Douglas are confessedly at the tead of the opposition. "We have coupled them together not so much because they . arc rival chiefs of the same party,, but be 'tshf Sv?: i ltfic'itid''r tti ' aw ti des m all the essential elements of charac ter. They started upon the race of feder al politic from the same point, Mr. Seward going North and Mr. Douglas going South. Each having made the circuit, they have come together, freighted by mutual expe riences and animated by a common pur pose of occupying the -Executive mansion. The great public who are the judges and hold the stakes are interested to know all about the contestants. Mr. Seward is a well educated, cold, pas - si unless, pains-taking, ambitions man. "What he lacks in positive intellect, he more than makes up in prudence, caution, industry and energy, lie is too very much a cast timer of ideas, doing up his own in afancy style, and dressing up oth ers for his own special uses. Mr. Seward is literally and trulj a made man, enthu siastic, as all such men are, over his own works, for he knows that what he has ac complished has been the result of hard, patient study, and a careful husbanding of his resources. Mr. Douglas is, right on the other hand, a natural growth, with greater power, no more heart, and far less finish. Mr. Douglas is a bold, dashing cavalry officer- a pony-nag, good for a brush, but too unreliable and bawky for the' course. A thorough early training for Mr. Douglas would have impaired his pow ers of mind. Mature educated him iust as lie is. Mr. Seward, without education and special training, would have been nothing. This is precisely the difference in this re spect between them. They are both now great men. Mr. Douglas is great in posi tive intellect. He has too some logic. lie is not a scrnpnlous logician. lie is a &tranger t'qthe chemical faculty of analy sis. He cares nothing for premises. lie is indifferent to the integrity of argument. He is ambitious, like Mr. Seward, and we take it ifis this that.has brought them to gether. They are both traveling to the same destination ; they care not a fig what road they take to get there. In another respect the difference between Mr. Seward and Mr. Douglas is obvious enough; the former has less of the "impulse, - and of course the greater power of concealment, Mr. Seward is more of a courtier, Mr Doug las is most frank and manly and appeal's best when most excited. He is reliable as a partisan in war in strife, when the bat tle rages- and then his intellect, his re sources, are most available. In these re spects Mr. Seward is valueless. He will manoenvre for a position, arrange ambus cades and strategic movements, issue pro clamations, excite the passions of the troops, commend their courage and promise them plunder, but somebody else must do the fighting. Mr. Seward is remarkable for persistence, vigilance, patience and for us ing other people's ideas and other people's labor. Mr. Douglas is self-reliant, cour ageous firm and. wilful. His heart. is '-not as large as his bead. .. "With so great a dis parity in this respect, it is hardly possible that he can ever render his intellect truly available. It is not common to say that real goodness of nature, large sympathies, generous emotions and impulses, are neces sary to greatness of mind. It is neverthe less true. When we reflect that the strict est and most faithful deduction becomes wicked deception, unless the premises are truly laid, and that the latter alone taxes the integrity of the mind, this distinction will be seen to be just. Mr. Douglas is not without high estimates of his own powers ; it is k this that makes him rely with imperious will upon his conclusions, for which he claims the weight of unim peachable testimony. He is not without caution, but it is intellectual caution, con trolled by the Rsyperior faculty of ambition. In Mr. Seward, caution is a chief element of his nature, on which he relies as a means to an end. Mr. Seward rests upon ideas, not upon logical conclusions or deductions. Hence his arguments embrace a long ar ray of facts or what he claims as facts. It is manifest in this respect that Mr. Seward addresses himself almost exclusively to the unlearned. There is far more of the dem agogue in his character than in that of Mr. Douglas. Mr. Seward shoots into the crowd ; Mr. Douglas aims at some glitter ing uniform, and we fear is too indifferent whether it be worn by friend or foe. Mr. Douglas finds his enemies in those who do not agree with him ; Mr. Seward finds his friends only in those who vote with him. Mr. Seward is no dictator. He does not owe his elevation to the exercise of his will. Nobody fears him. When the storm comes, Mr. Seward will not be on the quarter deck ; Mr. Douglas will be there and he will certainly make a speech. It is speech es that made Mr. Douglas. If he has been all wrong in what he has said, he ought to .be busy all the rest of his life in refut ing himself. That he intends to do so we have no doubt, in view of his present posi tion on the Kansas question. We have been accustomed to see Mr. Douglas near bv : we shall now be able to recognise him in the distance. He did not make the Democratic party; we have no belief. that he can destroy it. Men are of a day ; principles will live, too often to admonish and rebuke those who have deserted their warnings and rejected their authority. Washington Union. Southern Slavery as seen by a North ern Lady. The following is an" extract in Georgia, to a friend : " "In regard to the subject of slavery, in my opinion, those who are the loudest in denouncing the institution, know the least of it. Personal observation has removed my early prejudice, and I really think the slaves in this region of country are the happiest creatures that live ; such delightful frolics as they have, packing cotton, shucking corn, t&c, can hardly be imagined by Northern fancies. There is a freedom unkown to the laboring classes in Europe, nr even in free America, for they are free from care, and solicitous for nothing. Furnished with the necessaries, and many of the luxuries of life, what cause have they for solicitude? Their personal ap pearance is much less repulsive than I had anticipated. Instead of the tattered rags with which I supposed they were clad, they are comfortable and suitably clad for labor, and at church upon the attendance of which they are very punctual- their dress will compare favorably with that pf Xorthern people in moderate circumstan ces, and the female servants are sometimes more finely dressed than their mistress. When infirm from any cause, there are two powerful principles that insure to them sympathy, and the kindest attention. First, The law requires that servants be well provided for under all circumstances, in infancy, old age, sickness or in health. Second, The relative position of master and servaut are a guarantee. To me it is no wonder that my prejudice has so soon subsided the truth is, the thing has been misrepresented. Methinks when the facts are fully understood, political demagogues will be obliged to seek some other subject with which to influence the public mind and arrav one section of this glorious in heritance against the other." Hon. David S. Reid. A friend who is now absent from this town, (says the Fay etteville Carolinian,) thus writes to us from Richmond, Va., respecting the health of our worthy and much beloved Senator, David S. Reid : Richmond, Va., March 15, 1858. ' Mr. Wm. Bow : Having to pass through this city on my journey North, I conclud ed to tarry a little while especially as our esteemed" friend Gov. Reid is confined here by sickness. He has been detained in this place for more than two months. It affords me pleasure to say that he is get ing better; yet his improvement is of slow progress. He has a cough which I hope is not serious- His physician speaks of taking him out to ride in a day or so if the weather is good. I earnestly trust he will ere long recover and be able to resume his du ties in the Senate. Gov.R. cannot well be spared from that body, for he is a hard working man, and one who can and will accomplish as much for his own State. as any she could send. I learn that he occu pies a high and influential position as a Senator. ' Yours &c. : . G. ' From the N. G. Christian Advocate. The Prisoner at Sea. On a sweet autumnal morning, as love ly as the month of May, a noble ship lay; peacefully anchored in the beautiful har bor of Fair Haven. She intended to sail that day with a cargo of wheat and 27 6 passengers for the shore of Italy. A band of soldiers guarded a distinguished prison er, who professed to hold communion with the invisible world, lie predicted a storm The Captain laughed at him. The Comf mander listened-to the Captain, and scoi-ft? ed the pretensions of the priewier5.5 All aboard, " 6lie"we!glied anchor, and, spread her canvass to the winds. With a calm blue sea, gently ruffled by a southern breeze, bathed in the smile of nature's warm sunshine, she glided gracefully away upon the waste of waters, bearing many from their native, to stranger lands. Ere the sun descended the slope of the western sky, the heavens grew black, and the dark folds of angry clouds rose and spread themselves in dismal sheets upon the sky. A few fearful blasts of wind warned them to take in the sails ; but be fore this could be done the violence of the tempest, with the tread of a tornado, was upon them. The ocean lashed into fury rocked from shore to shore, and the vessel drifted at the mercy of the waves. "Burst as a wave that from the cloud impends, And swelled with tempests on the ship descends, White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud, Pale, tremblint;, tired, the sailors freeze with fears. And instant death on every wave appears Not having seen the sun,' moon, nor stars for many days, and no abatement of the rage of the tempest, driven they knew not where, upon strange seas, they resigned themselves to the safekeeping of a watery grave. Farewell, native land! Farewell, loved ones at home! Farewell, friends and foes ! Farewell ! ! No epi taph inscribed upon pillars of stone, upon the rolling wave, shall mark the spot of our peaceful repose. The briny depths shall be our bed, while wo slumber in the waves. The Centurion and his prisoner, the captain and his crew, the master and his servant, shall sleep without distinction side by side in a watery grave, till the surging waves of the rcsarection morn shall roll pur bodies to. the shore. --. . of the soul Avnfen 'aTTirope nas bl&ri sUTren- dered, and the last sollitary ray has expir ed! In this forlorn condition, in unknown regions of the storm beaten main, expect ing every plunge to go down to the bottom ot the sea, tne night; came down upon them in darkness, black as the gloom ot uncreated space, where a single ray of single light has never fallen. Suddenly a light, above the brightness of the sun, shone around tha prisoner at sea. A being, from the flaming presence of God, clothed with the sun, stood before him. A short inter view, and the light was blown out, and the night was left with the priso ne r at sea. The morning came with no abatement of the lowering tempests. He who in the midst of calm and sunshine predicted the storm, now in the midst of its howling rage, pointed to their deliverance and safe t'. Those who smiled in derision at his former prediction, as a crazy man's dream, now manifested great confidence in his revelations ; aud 275 persons hung with breathless silence and trembling anxiety upon the lips of the prisoner at sea. On the morning of the 15th day, amid the thundering roar of the billows and the foam of the white capped sea, land came in view, toward which the helpless vessel was rapidly driving. The anchors were thrown to the waters ; but the" were pow erless as the foam born bubble floating on the wave. The ship struck the ground and was soon broken to fragments by the vio lence of the angry waves. The shipwreck ed crew, the soldiers and passengers, some on boards, and others on pieces of the ves sel, without the loss of a single life, safely reached the shore, in harmony with the prediction ji the prisoner at sea. Gentle reader, for the present upon this strange Island, I leave the captain and crew, the centurion and his band, the jas sengers and the prisoner at sea. Of all, except the latter, here in the midst of the ocean we take a final adieu! At some fu ture time we may trace the footsteps oithe prisoner at sea. APOLLOS. Not at Home, The deceptive art of po lite society, in which "not at home" is em ployed to convey a false impression, not unfrequently fails of its aim. In classic history the story is told of Scipio Nasica, who was a near neighbor of Ennius, the poet ; and calling one day uponEnnius, he was met at the gate by the servant maid, who told him-that her master was not at home. But such was: her manner, that Scipio at once perceived that in so saying she, had spoken falsely by the direction of her master. It happened soon that -Ennius called upon Scipio, who instead of send ing a. messenger to the door, cried out, "he is not at home." . To which Ennius replied, "I knowyour voice." But Scipio answer ing said : 4:You are an impudent man. I believed your maid when she Baid you were not at home, but you will not believe me when I say it mvseifv . A Full Shower of Prayer. -f There are" many striking and beautiful analogies between the natural and spiritual worlds. Facts and phenomena in one are often. used in the Sciiptures to illustrate the truths of the other. There is a seed time in the world of mind as -well as in the world of matter. The gentle dewsdiV til, and the early and latter rains de scend, both in the world of nature and the world of grace. " In the beautiful language of inspiration, the influences of gospel grace are represented as coming down like -rain uponHbe mown grassland like show els that water the earth. When these re freshing and fertilizing influences are with drawn, then comes drought and barren ness, . both in the natural and spiritual world. The necessity of revivals of religion, those great rains of the Spirit, is strikingly expressed and enforced by Jeremy Taylor: il As the skies drop the early dew upon the grass, yet it would not spring and grow green by that constant and double falling of the dew, unless, some great showers, at certain seasons, did supply the rest ; so the customary devotion of prayer twice a day is a falling of the early and latter dew. But if you will increase and flourish in the works of grace, empty the great clouds sometimes, and let them fall in a full show er of prayer. Choose out the seasons when prayer shall overflow " like Jordan in the time of harvest." In the absence of frequent rains and showers, amid the heat of a summer sun, how soon does the earth become dry, and the fields parched, and the vegetation withered and drooping? When there is little rain, there is little fruit. And this holds true in the spiritual world as well as in the natural. When there are few outpourings of the Spirit in revivals of religion, there is comparatively little spiritual fruit. - And it will continue so in accordance with the laws of the spiritual .world, as truly as in the natural. In this respect, the husbandmen who cultivate the soil are wiser than many spiritual husband men who cultivate the vineyards of God. The former expect and receive the early and latter rains, and are anxious and alarm ed for the result of the harvest if the rains do not come with their fertilizing influence. But now a few spiritual husbandmen seem content if years come and go, and no rains of the Spirit come down on the, fields and .i , - t. . i ii. - . - ' i taSSofiltivate. Eong protraetedroughts 4n summer, which wither arid dry up the' lux uriant fields and cut off the harvest, would escite the earnest cries of the suffering, to God, that he would unlock the brazen skies and pour down abundance of rain. There would be sorrow- and tears, prayers and supplications. If such would be the feel ing and action then, how much more ought there to be strong crying and tears when the fields of Zion are drv and languishing, and the souls ot men are in danger of per ishing! If the praying ones in any or all the Churches would unite their fervent supplications and pour out a full shower of prayer, how soon would a delightful change come over the fields of Zion, and render them luxurant aud beautiful a the garden of God Letter of a Dying Wife to rier Hus band. The following touching fragment of a letter from a dying wife to her husband, was found by him some months after her death, between the leaves of a religious volume, which' she was verv fond of erus ing. The letter was written long before her husband was aware that the grasp of fatal disease had fastened upon the lovely form of his wife, who died at the early age of nineteen : "When this shall reach your eye, dear George, some day when you are turning over the relics of the past, I shall have pas sed away forever ; and the cold white stone will be keeping its lonely watch over the lips you have so often pressed, and the sod will be growing green that shall hide forever from your sight the dust of one who has often nestled close to your warm heart. For many long and sleepless nights, when all beside my thoughts were at rest, I have wrestled with the consciousness of aj proaching death, until at last it has formed itself upon my mind ; and although to you, to others it might even now seem the ner vous imagining of a girl, yet, dear George, it is so. Many weary hours have I passed to reconcile myself to leave you, whom Hove so .well, and this bright world of sunshine and beauty; and hard indeed it is to struggle on silently and alone with the sure convic tion that 1 am about' to leave all forever and go down into the dark valley ! " But I know in whom I have believed," and leaning on his arm, "I fear no evil." Do not blame me for keeping even. all this from you. How could I subject you, of all others, to such a sorrow as I feel at parting, when time will socn make it ap- farent to you ? I could have wished to ive if only to be at your side when your time shall come, and pillowing your head upon my breast, wipe the death damps fronr your brow, and usher your departing spirit into the Maker's presence, embalmed in woman's holiest prayer. But' it is not to be and I submit. Yours is the privi lege of watching, through long and dreary nights, for the spirit's final flight, and of transferring my sinking head troin your breast to mv Saviour's bosom ! And you shall share my last thought, and the last faint pressure of the hand, and the last fee ble kiss shall be yours, and even when flesh and heart shall have failed to me, my eyes shall rest on yours 'until glazed by death.: and our spirits shall hold one last communion until gently fading from my view the last of earth you shall mingle with the first bright glimpses of the unfad ing glories of the better world, where part-' ings are unknown. Well do I know the spot, my dear George, where you will lay me; often, we stood by the place, and as we watched the mellow snn-se.tis it glanc ed in quivering flashes through the leaves and burnished the grassy mounds around us with the stripes of burnished gold, each perhaps has thought that some day one of us would come alone, and which ever it, might be, your- name would be on the stone. But we loved the spot, and I know you will love it none the less when you see the same quiet sun-light linger and play among the grass that grows over your Ma ry's grave. I know you will go there, and my spirit will be with you then, and whis per among the waving branches ' I am not lost, but gone before." Care of the Eyes. Crawford the cele brated sculptor, had an inveterate habit of reading in a reclining position ; one eye had to be taken out in consequence of a cancerous tumor forming behind it, and his life has paid the forfeit, after years of suffering, and the expenditure of a large amount of money. Prescott, the historian, in consequence of a disorder of a nerve, by which the eyes were rendered useless for' all writing pur poses, could not use a pen, as he was un able to see when it failed to make a mark for want of ink ; nor could he distinguish the lines or edges of his paper; yet" with these disadvantages, he wrote all his his tories, using an agate stylus on carbonated paper, being guided as to the lines or edges, by brass wires drawn through a wooden frame ; but with all these hind rances, he has made himself one of the most readable of modern historians aud earned a fortune besides. To avoid these, and similar calamities, we urge upon the young, especially, never to use the eyes by any artificial light, where nicety of sight is required,' nor tojise them TT .nxr .Strain A.i vy-itfTtirm aftr At-r1a.wf lirirt We urge upon all parents, in view of the many incurable eye diseases to cau tion their children against reading by twi light, that is not before sunrise lior after sunset. It would be greatly better not to allow them to read or sew by any artificial light, but if that is unavoidable, let it be imperative that they cease by nine o'clock at night in summer, and by ten at farthest, m the winter. It is a most uuexcusable folly, and will, sooner or later, bring its puuishmeut, to read or sew by gas, or lamp, or candle light, and then sieep after daylight next morning, as a habit. To persons of all ages it is a most injurious practice. -IlalVs Journal of Health. Natioxat. Beverages. All Europe has chosen its prevailing beverage. Spain and Italy delight in chocolate; France and Germany, Sweden and Turkey, in coffee; Russia, Holland and England in tea ; while poor Ireland makes a warm drink from the cocoa, the refuse of the chocolate mills of Italy and Spain. All Asia feels the same want, and in different ways has long gratified it. Coffee, indigenous in Arabia or the adjoining countries, has fol lowed the bannerol the Prophet wherever his false faith has transpired. Tea, a na tive of China, has spread spontaneously over the hill country of the Himalayahs, the table-lands ef Tartary and Thibet, and the plains of Siberia has climbed the Al tais, overspread all Russia, and is equally despotic in Moscow as in St. Petersburg. In Sumatra, the coffee-leaf yields the fa vorite tea of the dark-skinned population, while Central Africa boasts of the Abyssin ian chaat as the indigenous warm drink of its Ethiopian people. Everywhere uniu toxicatmg and non-narcotic beverages are in general use among the tribes of every color, beneath every sun, and in every condition ot life. Professor Johnstone. . Splendid Apple-Pie Melons. The fa mous Apple-Pie Melons, as they are called, and which have excited considerable inter est among the lovers of good apple pies, from the fact that this melon makes good apple pies, will prove a great blessing to all good housewives, for they can now have apple pies all the year round, and not be obliged to pay a dollar, or even two bits a piece, for they can make their apple pies without apples. , We only assert what is easily proved this variety of melons will make pies that nine persons out of ten will pronounce apple pie. Two years since we had two of these melons presented us by James Lick Esq., of Santa Clara. The. pies we ate from these melons at various times satisfied us of the facts stated. One of those melons we now have in perfect or der, weighing forty-five pounds. Thus we have a valuable proof of their keeping qualities. The present week, when at San ta Clara, we were again .presented With two melons of the same species of greater weigh V each over fifty pounds.- Calif or nia Farmer. -v The Governorship of North Carolina. -Most of our readers are cognisant of tho fact that a gubernatorial canvass is in full blast in North Carolina; but few of them we imagine, know what are' the questions in controversy between the competingjean--didates. In the absence of any subject -of dispute pertaining to any peculiar interests of the State, or likely to command the at tention of its Governor, they have managed to raise a fictitious issue, in the shape of our old friend, Distribution a topic as foreign from the duties of the office they seek, as a problem in Ecnlid,or the whereabouts of Sir John Franklin. Such are some of the curious freaks of politics. If the anti distribution man wins, nothing will be dis tributed ; if on the contrary, the distribu tion man wins, why, there will be nothing to distribute. In either event, the victory achieved will have no more significance than the result of a horse-race or a cock fight. For all practical purposes, the con test, is the idlest of mockeries, and we mar vel that the good people of the old North State should trouble themselves about the matter. Surely, Mr. McRae can find a better steed for his electioneering pregri nations than the old spavined, wind-broken jade of Distribution. South-Side (Va.) Democrat. Where Do Tiiev Sr.tND? There are' about a baker's dozen of persons who have heretofore acted with the democracy in the northern States, who now devote all their time to saving the party from the " er rors" into which it is to be plunged by the admission of Kansas into the Union. They see the fact that admission is almost uni versally advocated by the democracy that it is a party measure bj the positive de claration of the President, his cabinet, both houses of Congress, at l?ast twenty-six out of thirty-one-States, by nineteen-twentieths of all the democratic newspapers; and yet they would set up the decision of a mere trifling faction against it they would save the party ! They see too that they aro cheek by jowl with the republicans, whose cause they are trying to build up just to save the character of the democracy. One of our western cotemporaries wants to know "Where he stands?" Why, sir, you stand in the; very centre of the rf-puhiT ranks. You stand against tjtwnocrauc- f nf office. 1 ou stain I Wail y ILi VAAJLV- tiMVJV'-'- - . - . ' - ---i.ini ,niUrx&ntLt!t. Mld, hoiiiie caucus. tsXou - stand againsf the de-;. mofcacFiC -totes-' elected ,' Mr Buchanan. YoiKstajid against niBe-.,, teen-twentieths of the democratic .press.5" As a democrat, you stand in the repub lican ranks, a deserter, an alien, an ene my. Wash. Union. Reckless Temerity. An exchange re lates the following instance of reckless temerity, which we have never seen paral leled : A minister was walking in his garden the other day, when he discovered two saw horses. . Struck with their appearance, ho had them broke for his private use. Hav ing no harness suitable, he put the yolk of an egg on their necks, attached a cart to them with the traces of a thunder storm; blanketed them with sheets of lightning to keep off the flies. He then leaped upon the cart, sat upon the seat ot government, took the whip of a top in one hand and the reigns ot terror m the other, and drove on passing through the gait of a cripple, ove the grounds ot cofree, and when he crossc the track of a snail he was run into b v a tr: of circumstances. It being a heavy trm he was thrown over a fifty cent bluffing a stream of eloquence, where he was daied to pieces against the rocks of a crad&. By hard work he soon gained an iami formed a boat from the bark of a wf, fit ted it with a mast from the north ple and two auction sales. Leaving his liases, he sailed down the river to its mwth, and landed on a tongue of land. IJere he was seized by a sensation and conveyed to a cell, where he was secured Lf a cord ot love to a thunder bolt. The jailer read to him the report of a cannon, and gave him hia liberty a3 a birthday present. lie then mounted the wings of the morning, and ar rived home in time to hear that day broke, and that his fortnne had vanished ; when, catching up the scythe of time, he put an end to his existence by-cutting off the head of his sermon. . A Golden Thought. We know not the author of the following, but it is pretty : "Nature will be reported. "All things are engaged in writing her history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratch es on tjie mountain, the river its channels in the soil, the animal its bores in the stra tum, the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal. Thefalling drop makes its sculp ture in sand or stone, not a footstep in the 8iiow.,or along the ground, but prints in characters more or less lasting a map of its marcu; every act oi me man; iutscriuea itself on the memory of its fellows, and its" own "face. The air is full of sounds the sky of tokens ; the ground is all memoran da and signatures, and every object is cov-' cred over with .hints, which speak to tho intelligent." ' " - .. T. ; . "The -Ladies-" May we kiss the; girls we please, and please the girlewc kiss." i J-. I f; 1 i I j. .c. ; - j . i i' i j i i 3 v." ""- ) . .4 4 i - """v"7 i 3; ' - ; t'
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