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-A h r .m w a a tn n wi
tiotTto those who Jvrni.r byhc year,
U mas to the EMo" to ust be postpaid. ;
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jv itdcnESTEii qutpone.
We weri 'waited upon on Saturday last by
j geiitlemaii of reipectabl,and honest appear.
1 frnm Seiiuate, in lhi State- Mr. George.
.ntock4-who furnished us With the narra-
-tire of fad ffiven rinTbel4oW and which demon
iiite ofeiivjclearly, lo such as believd in ghosts
L J . jtnockings,," thatilhode.
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Editor 4- Proprietor. . j )f 1 . . ' . HSrvLI Ce'Irruo,,; ' .. ( ! VOLUME VII NUMBER 8.
1 1" ; SALISBURY. N. C. THURSDAY. JULY 4. 1850.
: , : J
Island has at
Lhih beetl honored with a spiritual commu-
ilcatinn," which by no means falls short, in
Lint of nto at teastr.with those which, have
taie IUcKe8ter and Straford places, to "die
nj ioto.'V We maj premise of Mr. Com
. ft that jwe' hear htm spoken of by an ac
Ljaitiiaiicej as a young man of undoubted ve
ici; ; an will add, that alj the persons ref
7,-Vfed to in 'the reation .below, so far as we can
j,e(rtalir, pe men of good reputation, and a
tjoe any deception w hich the strange circum
jiaiiCfJ iifihe case" -would lead us to suspect
ity had b'len guilty of. '
1 -Wr. Coniatock is' a workman in theempJoy
(with others) of Mr. Darnel Fiske, who re.
'h18 only P A w rods ron1 the South Scituate
pokt -fllceon the turnpike between this city
W Fbtin td. He relates ip us that on Wed
DcmUy -'nignt of last week, while himself Dan
i? A, riskj.son of Daniel Fiske,) JohnrPeck
iam. aiid rfterry Knight, were sitting and read-
jm in a bii k room of Fiske's house, they were
(jltt)ly rOiised by a loud rapping on the door
ll'lidig intp the yard. They went to the door,
liui itiiiiid fu one there. The rapping was re
. pait iJ lutj siill saw no one. Mr. Comstock
then w.i nt lout and stood where he could see the
door, suciciing that it might be the work of
inMie who wished to practice some decep
tion I'l'ri )hc family and watched to see what
iroj ice( llir noise. The rapping was repeat
p.!, sod wis heard by him 4iut no one could be
seen. It Continued through the evening, while
i ,er1 the pstrty Were watching the door
foni the utside,but no clue could be obtained
u thvr cawse of jhe sounds. .
. .On Thursday, night the same rapping was
j eoriiliiurrf; only it was much heavier at times
and actually shookf the whole of that side of
! ilio house. In the course of the evening it
, Wa litiard iii the closet, and other doors, but
washit-flv confined lo the door firsl mention
ed. On thjis evening three of the persons
'fosmed say that' they saw, very distinctly, , a
" white fiure; pass tbr windows, and onef them
oWrvedlt so closely as to bo able, he thinks,
tn tati almost precisely its nerght. I be out
in? of a'uee, we foriroi to mention, had been
Mrn at one of the windows on the: eveniu"
(N VIO.UD. i
()n Friday night the rapping commenced a
jin in good earnest, and was continued with
uch vijidr that the inmates beian to fear for
the wallof the house; In the course of the
inve.ver, one of the gentlemen nam-
errand . to the .woik-shop near by,
others accomnanvinir him. irave hb
ilM.i.fiiil an opportunity to chance the plan
atiiuk. .On their way to the shop and back
Hiin, stones nearly as large as a man's head
nVr?rbfi)wn past them with the "swiftness of
.Uili'iiiiigj; and, on reaching the yard gat,e,one
wasseeij to strike the pavement in the yard
with agfeat deal of force, and was searched
tr, ut could not be found. Another seemed
'in fall inljo a basket by the door, and the bas
ket rocktKl and tumbled about aa ihoorh some
' had hold of it, but nothing touched it, and
ti.) stone! could bo found.- In the house, and
while ar were sitting quietly at least ten feet
from Ihojfiro plac, a lighted lamp on the man-
-tel piece! left jis place, whirled swiftly over
, -several times, and alighted in the middle of the
fl'Mr, w burc. it almost immediately went out.
On carhihg for it, it was found, Vright side
p," utider a meal chest, at theLack of the
rMim. cast.irorKhook or handle for remov.
in'g thejeovers Of the cooking stove left its
'.' place, aUo, and alighted in the middle of the
ifl.Mir nb one at the time being within reach-
f in distance of it. Tho falling of these arti
cles, Ml, C0mstpck says, resembled the firing
f a guo, pr the' falling of a very heavy weight
upon ( hi floor. 1 '
v- '" Soon jailer this, Mr. Peckham JaUempted to
I sit ilowb when his chair was snatched from
jhim by jsome unseen hand, and thrown . across
. the room. His tap was also taken from him
and in ilike maimer thrown into an opposite'
. corner! On attempting to sit down upon'a
nch.ihe bench commenced rocking ; and be.
Wind it imp. ssible to retain his seat or hold
'he bfrfrh still, j '
At a, late hour the company retired to rest.
A! er iyie of the jvarty Mr. IVckharn we think
, p-had Undressed himself, his shoes, of "their
own rroti..n," apparently, started from their
place, and made the circuit o( the room, with
much iwittness,; bringing up against the bed
' room. ojoor with such force a to bring to the
room the inmates ofihe room tidjoining. Then
a sound resembling a whistl was 'heard, af.
irwjiJs several deep groins, and finally a
')) or cry of distress, '.wbih Mr. Com
. '" k represent as truly painful arVd agonizing.
1 his closed the performance of the night.
f Prdrtdence Post.
TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICjllON
The Pennsylvania correspondent ofiihe St.
Louis Republican, May 3d, relates the follow
ing occurrence ; t ' !i
A young man recently made bis escape from
the galleys at Toulouse.X He was 8trrjg and
vigorous, and soon made his way acrpss the
country and escaped pursuit. He arrived the
neit morning before a cottage in an opelp field.
nd stopped to beg something to eat aid con
cealment while he l-eposed a little. Jut he
found the inmates of the cottage in the greatest
distress. Four little children sat trembling in
a corner, their mother was weeping and tear
ing her hair, and the father was walking the
floor in agony. The galley slave asked what
was the matter,-and the father replied that they
were that morning to be turned out of doors
because they .could not pay the rent. ! "You
see me thus driven to despair," said the! father,
14 my wife and little children without libod or
shelter, and I without the means to provide for
them." The convict listened to this ta!le with
tears of sympathy, and then aid :
I will give you the means. I have! but just
escaped from the galleys ; whoever secures and
takes back an escaped prisoner is entitled to
reward of fifyfrancs how much djes your
rent, amount to V t h
X Forty francs," answered the fatheri! t
" Well," said the others put a cord I around
my body, I will follow you to the city, they will
recognise me, and you will get fifty francs for
bringing me back."" o. never 1" exclaimed
the astonished listener." mr children should
starve a dozen times before I would do: so base
thing." a
The generous young man insisted, 'and de-
clared at last that be would ei ve' himself ud. if
would not consent to takef htm. Af
ter a long struggle the latter yielded, and tak-
tng htm by the arm led him to the city and to
the mayor's office. Every body was surprised
that a little man like the father had been able
to capture such a strong young fellowj but the
proof was before them ; the fifty francs were
paid and the prisoner sent back to the; galleys.
But after he was gone, the father asked a pri
vate interview of the rrtayor, to whofnhe tdld
the whole story. The jriayor was sofnuch af
fected that he not only added fifty francs
v veiling.
d had KQ
and I he
From the Bible Society Record
What kind of a Bible do you
SThe Bible distributer, in the prosecution of
his benevolent work, meets with many interest;
ing a no amusing incidents. His work onngs
him in contact with all classes and descriptions
off men. Many receive, him kindly ; and bid
htm God speed in his work, in the estimation
it 8UUU, me oioie is aoove ai -price. i ney
accept or purchase it -with tears of gratitude.
I A, few months since; a young woman, who
bid grown up in profound ignorance, not know
irig one letter from another in tbe alphabet, was
induced to learn to read, by the free school,
ahd by the kindness of a pious woman who of
fered to board .her, for her service night and
mjorning, while she went to school. She had
rriade some progress ; and began to spell words
of two sylables. Having heard that a Bibje
agent was in the neighborhood, she came and
dfesired a Bible. When asked if she.cotild
read, she said her parents bad no Bible, and
sne was Wot able to pay for one ; but if she
had one, she would read it as soon as she could
and would esteem it very highly. I She was fur
nished with a Bible : and who can calculate
the results which may spring from this incident?
lb one instance, a nrian was found who had
reared 21 children to men and tcomln. He
Was ; eighty-six years ola had never owned t
$ible ; and refused to pay for one.
When a man was asked, if he wanted aBi
11 1- J I? J i. ' P W i - .
oie, ne repnen yes, it l can get one ot our
denomination's Bible." Another one, when
asked a similar question, replied, " he would
Jay for a Bible, if he could get one writren by
Sohn the Baptist." Another oue wanted a: Bi
ble in which he might record the ages of his
children. Another one wanted a Bible, be
Cause the preacher had prbmfshed to spend a
(light with him 6oon ; and he might vait to
kead and pray. In one case, a large family
Bible served an old woman and her three sons.
fettled around her. They had it year about.
In another case, when a man was asked if he
wanted a Bible, he replied; No." His fath
er in-law had a big family Bible, which he ex
beeted his wife would get when the oldlman
(lied; and it would be useless to have twd.
I ' M.iS. .
more to the father's putse, but wrotejjimmedi
ately to the minister of justice, begging the no
hie young nrtsoner s release. The minister
examined jnto the affair, and finding that it was
comparatively a small offence whiebjhad con
demned, the youngman to the galleys,! and that
he had already served out half his tinjie, he Or
dered his release. Is not the whole incident
beautiful?" I f
GUANO.
This article is producing a
wonderful revo-
tuliouhllioli the iioor bttid in middle And lower
... . ? ' i i . - "
'rgiftia. Lauds which formerly produced from
I to 5' buheis of wheal to the acre, now proV
miie Jo give 20 to 25 bushels. Upon corn, to-
baccdlund many other articles, its effects are
equaljy wonderful. Indeed, it may with truth
be said, it causes many blades of grass to
'.Rrnwjwhere nothing grew before. We under-
'standi t he whole quantity now in the U. States,
and dn the way to arrive up to October next,
coliot exceed 7,000 tons. Take- from this
tbe pjipply f(Jr Maryland Pennsylvania, and oth.
er Njirtbern Slates, where it is generally used,
t leases but a limited supply for Virginia. Far-
tn,rs would do well to Took to this matter in
f'tf?rlUchmond Times.
Beauty of Jewesses.- It is related that Chat
eaubriand, on returning from his Easfern trav.
els, wassked if he could assign a rejason Why
the women of the Jewish race we re j so much
handsomer than the meni when he gafe the fob
lowing one : " Jewesses," he said,have es
caped the curse which alighted upon their fatb-
less husbands, and sons. Not a Jewess
was to be seen among the crowd of pjriests and
rabble who insulted the Son of Goal scourged
Him, crowned him with thorns, and subjected
Him to infamy and the agony of theeoss.
The women-of Judea believed in ttie Saviour
and assisted and soothed Him underjaflbction.
A woman of Bethany poured on his! head pre
cious ointment, which she kept in a ase of al
abaster. The sinner annointed his feet with
perfumed oil, and wiped them with be r hair.
Christ, on his part, extended mercy tf tbe Jew
ess. He raised from the dead the on of the
widow of IN am,. and Martha s brother Lazarus.
He cured Simon's mother-in-law, artd the wo
man who touched the hem of his garment.
To the Samaritan woman he was a spring of
living water, and a compassionate jiidge to the
woman in adultery. The daughtersj'of Jerusa-?
lem wept over him : the holy womer) accompa-,
nied him to Calvary, brought him balm and:
spices : and weeping, sougni mm in ine sepui
chre. t . VVoman why weepest thiou V ' His
first appearance after the resurrectjon was to
iMary Magdalene. -Hef aid tOxhe " Mary !
At the sound of his voice Mary Magdalen's eyes
were opened, and she answered, V jVI aster V
The reflection of;a beautiful ray must have rest
ed on the brow of-the Jewesses" I
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THE QUAKERS BRIDLE.
A Methodist and a Quaker were travejling
in company, when the-Quaker reproved the
iMeinociist tor tneir Doisierous.man.ner oi rwor
, ship. r x,r ;'' '
4 Why,' said he we can take mfjre pleasure
j in our private rooms of meditation, wheris we
think of nothing worldly, durmg our star.
Sir,' says the Methodist, if yoq willjfake a
private room, stay one hour, "and when you re.
turrf say that you have thought of nohingJ world
j I will give you my horse,' which proposal
was accepted. f f
22 After the time had expired, hid friend ask
ed him if he claimed the horse. J I '
4 Why,' said he, I could, not hflp. fhinking
what I should do lor a bridle to ride hi
with!'
m home
J Courier.
The wheat bet ween, York and Lincoln is a).
entirely destroyed by the rust. Lincoln
most
- fixtra Fine BROAD CLOTH.
IHE sfibscriber hns jnt receivrd a superior piece of
A v BLAOn BIlOAnoI.OTIIt
J rejilly wimeihing suprrxir. CJentlfuien wish
purchase an extra fineicoat, would do well to call
xamine this Cloth. -
DlnO Uflfl II fins AatArtmiint tf Tl TtlW-Ir Hrrvvaf ri
Oliv, Green and drab Cloths and Carsimeres. Don't
toget to-catl at ihe sign of the KflD FLAG.
Salisbury, May B. E. MYERS.
wnicn
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and 4
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The Nauvoo Temple Again Dstrped.
fatality seems to attend the templej atf Nauvoo.
It was finished by the Mormons ijn 1845, was
nearly destroyed by fire in 1848, ad on the
27th nit., a tremendous hurricane demolished
the walls.
The fcarian community of Socialists, under
Qab t, bad purchased it and werej engaged in
repairing it with a View to fitting it up for
schools, studying and meeting hals, and a
great refrectory for a thousand peons. The
workmen vi-ere engaged on it, whjei the storm
burst forth-with such viojlence thai the walls
came tumbling down, and the workmen had to
fly for their lives. . Those walls tbM remained
standing had to be, pulled down. .1 be surround
ing buildings were also demolished, and in the
wash bouse, where six Icarian 1 women were
washing thero, was Sr6 sudden inundation
from the rising crceki that the women had to
escape through the windows, 'f he communi
ty are going ta undertake the erection of ano
ther large and?fine building.
BURNING OF THE STEAMER GRIF
FITIL The Cleveland Herald furnishes some fur
ther particulars of this isad catastrophe, as fol
lows: ;
We have the painful record to make of the
most terrible calamity that has ever occurred
pn our inland seas. The soul sickens at the
aeiaus. in a moment some tnree nuuareq per
sons were aroused from the healthful sljeep 0ff
morning to enter upon the sleep that knows no
waking. How true that 44 in the midst of life
we are in death." A large portion of the pas
sengers were foreign emigrants, from Germa
ny, who had left thejr native land, crossed the
ocean in safety, and perished almost in sight
of the homes of their adoption. How gad the
wail that will be wafted to the Fatherland-
kindred separated, and whole families cut off'
and buried by stranger hands!
I he steamer Griffith, When about fourteen
miles below Cleveland, about four o'clock this
Monday) morning, was discovered to be on
fire around her smoke pipe, on the main deck
She was about three mils from shore. The
second mate, on the watch, gave orders to run
her ashore. The boat Was then headed for
shore, and when about half a mile from the
shore she struck a bar, and before the" flames
burt out above. Immediately alter she struck,
the flames burst out in forward and after cabin
and pilot house. An officer gave word to the
passengers to save themselves. Captain Roby
gave orders for the woodpiles to be; thrown
over, which was done. 1 he cabin atid deck
passengers were then jumping over in' crowds.
The Captain remained on board, on tie upper
deck, forward of wheel house, until the last,
with his family, and until the flames drove
him off. He then threw over his wife, children
mojiher.in-law, and the barber's wife,- and jump
ed in himself, and remained on the surface a
moment with his wife in his arms, When they
sank together.
The only females saved were theV: barber's
wife and three of the steerage passengers, two
of whom were Germans. Among the cabin
passengers were fifteen ladies, jail of whom
were lost. We Jearn tpere were on board in
all 330 persons : 256 steeraee and 145 cabin
Ptssengers, and 30 of the crew, Frpm 30 to
40 are saved.
We left the scene of the wreck at two o'clock
this afternoon, and at that time one hundred and
forty bodies had been Jrecoved, and most of
them those of German emigrants. They Have
been found six or eight -together, linked in the
close embrace of death.. An English woman
and her four children, who 'had been sent for
by the husband, a resident of this city, had ris-y
en early and dressed themselves in their best'
to greet the husband and father ! I All were
lost ! " .
The row of corses along the beach, with
green leaves laid over the face of each, and the
limbs distorted, was a sight we hone never a
gain to witness. j
The wreck of the Griffith lies kbout forty
rods from shore, and is a mass oft ruins from
which the pipes project. When she; firsl struck
it was in seven and a half foot of water.
Strength of the Sword Fish. -Another illus
tration of the well known power and agility of
the Sword Fish, the formidable enemy of the
whale, was discovered by the worknten engag
ed in repairing the brig Leonidas, whaler, at
this port, a day or two since. In searching for
the cause of a teak, which had occurred du
ring her last voyage, it was found that the side
of thejressel had been penetrated quite through,
including the copper sheathing and two thick
nesses of solid oak plank, not less than five
inches, by the sword of one of these fish. The
sword was about twelve inches in length, and
had produced a seam by splitting a plank at its
entrance. It was broken off smoothly at the
side of the vessel. New Be Jfoffl Mercury.
CRUpLTY CHILDUDN.
Several shocking cases of cruel personal
chastisement inflicted upon children bv
their "pwnl parents,! have recently been
made khe subject of investigation in oar
police;courts, and occasioned considerable
anima.dverJsion in the newspapers. Cases
such as loese, however, which come to
light, and obtain public exposure, bear an
infinitely Vmall proportion to those which
are never! heard of. excent. oerhans. bv
immediate, neighbor, whoare occasionally
horrified bv the shrieks of mal treated
children. We also hear, from time to
time, of parents who lock up their chil
dren in backrooms, where tbev are half-
starved, and beaten) at frequent intervals.
-We believe that a monstrous amount of
cruelty isjjnflicted upon children in this
and in sinjiilar ways, of which people in
general hjtve no suspicion. But the pa
rents, whn brought to justice for misde
meanors of this kind, are never without
their excises : the children have been "in
corrigible!," "unruly,""wicked," "aggrava
ting." and so on ; and it is alleged that,
44 nothing will mend them but blows"
which, however, never do.
There is surely a terrible want of heart
as well as judgment in this ferocious
manner of dealing with the short comings
and faults of children. Parents seem to
be absurd enongrb to suoDose that their
children can, at will, exercise the qualit ies
of trained and cultivated beings. At their
very, enterance into life, when only the
physical powers imperfectly developed.
and while the animal will and instinct
entirely predominate over the moral and
intellectual nature, which has scarcely
yet germinated, they are expected to exhi
bit self command, Self government! truth-
ulness, abstinence, uprightness, and those
other, moral fruits which usually blossom
in atjuit years, ana generally reach their
full stature only in advanced life. And
do those parents who are so ready to treat
the faults ot their children with such vi-
1 Jl I : 1 - l - . .!
oience, tnemseives uispiay in tneir own
character the qualities which they de-
O . I 1-11 1 . a..,.
manu irom tneir cniiaren i a child is
cross, makes a noise, throws down a tov
and breaks it, beats his younger brother.
or sets up a shout: of screaming: when he
is told to do something he does not like
and, forthwith his parent runs at him.
smacks him on the side of the head, brings
down the birch over his back, strips and
thrashes him, or even knocks him down
on the spot! Is this the exhibition of pa
Hence, loroearance, temper, and sense
which is calculated to exemplify to th
child the good conduct which bis parent
desires in him? Is it not rather the very
worst possible example for the child, and
calculated to make him more cross, more
cruel, and more regardness in bis future
conduct?
Parepts should also consider that the
faults of their children are, for the most
part, bqt the continuation or copies of their
own. They, themselves, in originating
the bodies of their children, originated
their minds, temperaments, and moral dis
positions ; and it would be quite as ra
tional, in most cases, for the parents to
flog and punish themselves, as to flog and
punish their offspring because they dis
play the imperfections of nature which
they have inherited from those who gave
them being. A child does not make its
own temper, nor has any control, while
a child, over its direction ; but cruel and
unthinking parents very often treat them
as if this were the case. If the parent
has conferred an irritable temperament
upon the child, is it not rather a duty on
his or her part, to exercise the greater
slf control, forbearance, and patience, so
that thje powerful influence of daily ex
ample may, in course of time, correct and
modify the defects of birth ?
Parents, we believe, are too apt to cor
rect their children, while themselves un
der thp influence of ill temper. They are
irritated and provoked, and the despot,
which sits in the dark corner of every
. l I
man s nearr, rises up anu smites me unre
sisting child, who in most cases, quite un
thinkingly and undesignedly, has caused
the provocation. The kindlier feeling of
the parent begins to operate when his an
ger has had time to cool, and, in his lone
ly hours, the crying, piteous face of his
poor child rises up before him; but the
misch!iefisdone,i the child has been wrong
ed, and, perhaps a sense of injustice and
rancorous bitterness excited in his heart.
We cjan never think, without pity, of the j
parent who lost a noble and promising ;
son by death, and was haunted through
life a'ter by the recollection of his paren 1
tal severity. ' My boy," he said to a
friendj, 44 was used to think me severe, and
he had too much reason to do so; he did
not klnow how I loved him from the bot
tom of my heart ; and it is now too late."
We believe that the government of
men jand children, by means of physical
force, is very much on the decline among
intelligent persons at this day; indeed Mr;
Carljle seems to be the only writer, who
continues to lift up his voice in its favor;
but, still, it is a great deal too prevalent
in practice. Whipping and scourging are
not by any means, abandoned by fathers,
and mothers in their domestic menage;
although the number of cases of aggrava
ted cruelty, which come to light in the
police courts, may be, for obvious reasons
comparatively small. Force is felt to be
a direct arid palpable thing. It is always
and
But
at hand. It is summary and prompt ;
its immediate effects are apparent.
its ultimate efFects are not so easily de
tected, and perhaps they are generally
under-estimated, because obscure and re
mote. But it cannot, we thiak. fail to be
perceived bvanv one who fives bis nr her ' J
e " ... . , - HlCtlon.
stiojeci,
ous effects upon society at large. There
is - also an enormous amount of cruelty
practised by little children upon dumb,
brutes, originating, we bcievc, in tho
physical punishment practised upon them
in the family and in the school. You see
it in a lot of boys beating a poor ass upon
a common, in another set tying a.pano
a dogs tail for their diversion infa prt
vale juvenile exhibition of the squelching
of a frog, in spinning a cockchafer in
pulling the limbs from a fly, and in such
like cruel diversions. In some cases,
children may engage in such shameful
pastime from thoughtlessness, or perhaps
through tho example set to them by older
boys; but in the large proportion of cases
it has its origin in the cruelty and pain
inflicted upon the children themselves,
which educates them into a disregard of
the pains o( other creatures, and even
causes them to take a pleasure in its in
to tne
a physical iorce
ot children, are
to their future
attention tor a moment
that the consequence of
training and correction
exceedingly deleterious
moral character.
When the parent relies chiefly upon
Pain for the control of the child's Will,
the child Jjecomes insensibly to associate
notions of duty and obedience Avith terror
and fear. And when you have thusasso
eiated in the mind of the child the idea of
command over the will of others by means
of pain, you have done all that ou can, ,
to lay the foundation of the bad character, j
the bad son, the bad boy, the bad husband,
the bad lather, the bad neighbor, the bad
citizen. Parents may not think of this
when they are flogging their children,
and beating them into their own faults;
but it is so, nevertheless. There is no
doubt whatever, that the commands over
the wills of others by means of pain, leads
to all the several degrees of vexation, in
justice, cruelty.oppression and tyranny
44 It is, in truth," says Mill. Mhe grand
source of all wickedness, of all the evil
that man brings upon man." The child
soon learns its power in the same wav.
t cries for a toy, and by the annoyance
which it causes to the nurse, succeeds in
obtaining it. It thus learns to cry for all
that it wants, and becomes a little tyrant
Detore.it can walk : and then the child is
said to be 44 spoilt. " But the parent or
;s the same power of pain to
bear upon the child in turn : it is beaten
because of some fault or excess, and thus
the lesson of tyranny is practically enforc
ed and impressed upon the young mind.
But many parents entertain the notion
that it is necessary to 44 break the will" j
of the perverse child. They do not re
flect that the strong will forms the foun
dation of the strong and decided character
that, without strength of will, there will
be no strength of purpose, that when the
will is thou roughly cowed and broken,
man is reduced to the abject state of the
crawling crouching slave. No fallacy is
more dangerous than that to which we
refer. What is necessary, is, not to break
which is to destroy, but to educate the
will ; and this is not to be done through
the agency of force or fear, the faculty of
Will, ought rather to be strengthened and
developed by being led out in proper direc
tions. When the child wills vhat is wrong,
other faculties may bcappealeij to, and its
attention diverted into other directions by
memory, hope or affection. Through the
power of love and persistent gentleness,
by denials when necessary, and thp care
ful education of the power of self govern
ment, the child may gradually be brought
into a habit of docility and loving subjec
tion to others, without the necessity of at
all appealing to its sense of pain. You
cannot train the will, by the fear of pun
ishment. You may restrain, break or
dislocate it, but you cannot thus educate
it..' The strong-willed child feels that he
ha.s as least one property himself and
justice ; -he resists, and sooner or later, his
will, deformed and perverted, will proba
bly start into desperate and unmanagable
rebellion. Thus many men, who might
have been the ornaments of their race,
are converted, by the mismanagement of
parents, into its curses.
The bravest and strongest men are
I those educated by love and not by fear.
The Goths held that, to inflict blows upon
a boy was to destroy his courage ; and
they carefully abstained from it. The
Quakers among ourselves have long been
in the practice of rearing tranquil and
brave children-souls, without the aid of a
cane ; and we know of spyeral schools,
which have turned out the very finest
specimens of youthful character, where
the scourge has been entirely dispensed
with. It speaks to reason, as we have
seen, that it should be so. (There may,
however, be cases where a physical pun
; ishment is justifiable ; but these, as we
believe, form the rare exceptions ; and our
remarks apply entirely to that indiscrim
inate usef physical punishment, which
! ii. i . : .1 1
we hold to oe so injurious to ine murt
characters of children.)
Another observation, with which we
would conclude our article, is this : that
the practiceof punishing children by blows
teaches them cruelty to other living ob
jects which are in their power. As their
sense of pain has been disregarded, so do
they acquire a disregard for the pains of
others. They come to take a pleasure in
inflicting pain upon their younger broth
ers and sisters, upon schoollellows under
their own age. and upon dumb, sentient
creatures. When the elder boys at Eaton
otice proposed to abolish the system of
Fagging, they were strenuously opposed
by the younger boys, though they were
then subject to all its tyranny ! The ex
pected pleasure of tyrannizing, in their
furn nvr nther hnvs vounffer than them
,...., " - - J IT?
Parents ought carefully to teach
their children to have a tender feeling for
every object that possesses life, and to ab
stain from the inflicting of all unnecessary
pain upon their children. Eliza Cook's
Journal.
A Dialogue between Cuffce and Dick.
Cuffee. 44 Dick, what make you have that
'ugly bunch of hair under the chiu ?"
Dick- 44Cuffee, you booby, don't you see eb.x
ery gentleman has what de white folks cat! the
goatee- without de goatee no man de gentle
man." Cijflee 44 Why Dick, I thought gentlemen
read books and thereby get knowledge, learn
honesty and good behaviour. Me think the
goiajee not teach these things."
Dick 44 Cuffee, you much mistake, becasa
as soon as my goatee begun to grow my know,
ledge begun to stretch, and pend upon it Cuf.
fee I have now got more smart and polite than
any my beardless black brothers."
Cuffee Well Dick, although you have
got so wise and smart, you look as ugly as an
old goat. But tell me Dick, don't lice get in
the goatee ? Yes Cuffee, they do, but 1 comb
dem out."
Cuffee 41 Oh Dick, it gives me pain enough
to comb my kinky bead, and it would add pain
to have a lousy goalee to comb."
Dick 44 My heart big, me no regard the
pain of combing, becase it makes the goatee
as etit-k as an eel and as pretty as a dove. And
overmore, it lakes away the itching from th
throat."
Cuffee 44 Dick, you may comb the vermin
out de goatee, but after your, much combing
and slicking, it still looks like an old struling
goat."
Dick- 4 Cuffee, I see you have a bad pin
ion of -de goatee, but I like de goatee becase it
makes all my black brothers gentlemen, and
puts whites and blacks all on de level, and we
all eentlemen tosether who have de coatee."
Cuffee 44 Dick, as your goatee has cnad ,
you wie and so polite a gentleman. I suppose!
)ou have got what de white folks call taste, and
I believe that bunch ol hair under de chin suit
your taste, but 1 think it is a bamboozle taste.
Explanations of the 44 Knocking." The
New York Merchant's Day Book has the fol
lowing :
44 A gentleman who has heard and watched
attentively the phenomena of the mysterious
rappiugs, has furnished us with bis solution of
the matter which, as being the only rational
explanation we have heard, deserves to be re
corded. 4' He says that the rapping, when he first
heard them, reminded him instantly of the
discharges of an electric battery, each detona
tion being double, as is the case with them.
Now, by supposing that one of the ladies is
powerfully charged wiih electricity in a posu
live form, while the other is charged negatively,
the phenomenon of the sounds, the rapping, is
at once accounted for. It is well known that
a person in a magnetic stale receives and re
flects whatever is in the mind of the person in
communication ; and this readily explains the
general correctness of the answers given lo
, questions. It accounts, also, for the incorrect
, replies given, by supposing that the impression
of ihe questioner's mind upon ibat of the mag.
i netizee is weak, confused-or imperfect. This
' appears to us to be an eminently tational view of
, the cae, and places the whole subject, if not
! out of the pale of mystery, at least behind the
I ranks of novelty, by including it at once among
the innumerable demonstrations of animal'mag.
uetisin.
The Mississippi.The great crevasse at
Pointe Coupee bringe disaster upon the richest
and mot populous regions of the State. Hun
dreds of plantations nnist be overflowed, hous
es will be cariied away, stock destroyed, crop
ruined. It is imposqble to estimate the loss,
present and prospective, which this inundation
ihreaten?. It will in all likelihood cover up a
legion of fertile country as large as some wholo
Stales in the Union, and drive from their homes
a vast multitude of our most industrious and
most valued citizens. All this follows, from a
break in the levee of the Mississippi not wider
than the space between Canal and Common
street?, through which the floods are pooling
wiih ftightful and irresistible violence. .Y. O.
icayune.
M
DESTRUCTIVE CREVASSE.
The grand Levee in Iointe Cujee gave
way on ihe night of the 8tb irH., the water
forming a Crevasse of one hundred and fifty
yaidsin width, through which it is said to run
wiih the rapidity of the falls of St. Anthony.
By this crevasse the whole of the Attakapai
ro jntry, says the Picayune, the garden SfMrt of
ihe State is in danger of inundation. Incalcu
lable dammage to hundred of plantation? mut
enue. The effort to stop ibe ere vasse has been
abandoned, and ihe water i sweeping every-
before it ; destroying houses, stock, dec.
thing
by are Tomb-tunes like empty Whiskey
Barrels ? v
Because they arc emblems of Departed Spi
rits. A young lady thus write anonymously in the
columns of the Farnilv Herald For my
selves, outweiffhed the pain of their pres- . i confeM that the desire of my heart
f i . . . v i a i
and my constant prayer is, iHa I nay oe mess
ed wiih a good affectionate husband ; and that
I may be enabled to be a good and affectionate
wife and mother- Should I be denied this, I
hope for grace to resign myself but I fear it
will be a hard trial to me."
J . a
ent slavery. The practice oi curport-ai
punishment had thus educated ihem into
a love of it as exercised upon others.
And the fact is strikingly illustrative of
the workings of the system of physical co
ercion, as well as of its ultimate deleteri-