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' ;'.fle;Wffff :r''yvff:: :;;:-v ''F:ff ft ' t '- ' yr-ry ; '.; 1 2yy ' ' : s j ! . i . "NO UOBTH,'NO SOUTH, NO'-eAsT, NO WEST-PUB YHOLE COUNTBY." : 1 lrJyy?y ; -V .vfti : ;i . ",j !; ; If i V J 1 ,.? .1 TflE PIOJTEER. EKitet Proprietor. TERMS, 3 -i follow! fill be ,blUhed weekly t the OMlimWnl beta, ...... unDen,) 1 . 1 00 '.. 60 1 tm 3 ,lx .V Two J thre ' : V .-n a- - ,,ifrDm twelre month. S'YYYY I.YYYY. YYY. Vor.D,n10?n? Hdtfor m coantr ofl, I Joh J1118 rDHde 'or State office, ..;.... prcecorrenonl!ni wits k .L"Ei"LCVfc m't Invariably accompanr all orders, either for anrxpt, Mi Ml juUvniUtng : job work to he paid for on deli very , AijporKoaaorderiu.cadrertUeiueau are uuld rcponii- Pic xur tut aaroe. ; ? IS QUIET DAYS. ; " Tli Jjlng car grows strangely mild ; j Kow in be azj autumn weather ' 31 beart is like u happy child,' . YXoii life and I, friends reconciled, . 1 Go over the .hills together. 1: ' ii -: I Mjr peaceful days rua sweet and still . As Vater slipping over sand, ' .Sctking the shadows of free will, : To gather tender lights than fill ? Day's orcr-lavish hand' " ' 1 TIhJ summer wood with music ring?,(h The singer's is a troubletl breast; ! ; Ima no more the bird that sings, Bilt that which broods with folded wins ti ,pon its xjuiet nest. i , ' f " . - Oh; fairest month of all the year, . h, sweetest days in life! they melt ; ' . Wltliin, without, U autumn's cheer, September there, fceptemlcr here, r Be tranquil and so sweet, f i . j Oft have I watched all night with grief, ytVll night with joy, and which is best? An, both: were sharp, and lxth were brief, M lieftrt was like a wind-blown leaf, ?I give them both for rest. ! : ' . ' Fiir Quiet, close to joy allied, Hut loring sliadicr walks to keep, y aay is ver at my side ; ' i ' A)d all night long with me abide 1 ; frcace and her sister Sleep. j Then lira. Warren said, in a roice choked with emotions i ' ' ' ' . , ' Porgirc me, my boy, for tempting you to vioLate your conscience Would that all young men would show as high a sense of duty.n ; i i r ; . " i Every one of the family put down their wine un- tasted. " . : I "The boy is right" said Hr. Warren. "Drinking wine leads to deeper potations.! We have done wrong in setting such an axample before our chil dren. Here. Ellen." he called to the servant, "take away this decanter." j r ' i j j j ; And, as the table was cleared of the wine and glasses, Mr. Warren said, solemnly; : - ! ' " "Aow, here, in the presence of you all, 1 make a solemn vow never to have any more wine on my table, or drink it myself,, as a, beverage; and may. my influence and precents.be as binding on ray children as the request of this boy's mother to him. Ana 31 rs. Warren sottly responded ; :- "Amen T. I ! ;.i ! : . ', . 3fr. Warren turned to Alfred.1 i . , We are not drunkards or wine bibbers' here, my boy. I have always preached, temperance to my children, but I hare never realized before how an occasional glass of wine, if partaken of in good so ciety, could injure. I see it. now. If a person can drink one glass, he can drink another, and yet an other, ond it is hard to kh rw just where to draw the line. 1 thank you for this lesson.: 1-will show that hava as much manliness as a mere bo v. My chil dren, will you follow my : example, and pledge, to abstain totally from wine as a beverage r - "V c will, father, was the response. j This pledge was never broken by any:bf the f ami ly, and never did Alfred have cause to recrret that he resisted the temptation to drink one cup of wine. 1 ears afterward, when he was a prosperous and worthy merchant, and sweet Jessie Warren was his wife, the' often spoke-;' of,- the consequences that might have followed, had he yielded to that one temptation; and Jessie tries to impress as finnprin- .-ipies upon the minds of her chiMren as Mier Jills- bund's mother instilled into the heart of her boy. it A STB0NO TEMPTATION.! A yVmJ man, or ratlicr boy, for he was' not sey- cnlwh years of age, was a chrK in unc ui u. K1-ai' HM.roiniK cowmisnmenls of Iew York, i: An or phan iand poof.' Ue must rise, if he rose at all; by his own .exertions. "His handsome, honest face, and fiTc.brdial manner, won him the friendship of all his fllow-laliorcrs, and many were the invitations lie repived to join them in j the club-room, in the theatre.' and even the baf-rootn. But Alfred Harris had pie pure teachings of a Christian mother to withhold him from rushing headlong into dissipa t:.:i jind.vicc; and all the persuasions of his com radef ciiuld not iuduce him to join them in scenes like Ihik lie feared the consequences, j - . Owe Evening, one of his . fellow-clerksj George WarVen, the most high-toned and moral orie among them, invited Alfred to go home with him to sup- i ir,A S!tA t hA nnuaintance of his family. The j, u -i j I J"y felAtlly assented, for lie spent many lonely even I : iii, rn!v hia books and his thoughts for com- IIU vmmj WILT THOU LOVE; HER STILL? i Wilt thou love her still, when "the'eunnv curls That over her. bosom .'now. .1 " 't Shall be -laced with the silver" threads of age, And her step falls sad and slow;? j . Wilt thou love her still when thej summer smiles On her lips no: longer live ? . t '4I will.love her still, j : ' j - t With right good will r I j ; Thou wilt love her still ? Then our darling one To thy sheltering arms we give. '-"! ' ' :' J I f i I Wilt thou love her still when the changeful pyes f Have grown dim witli sorrow's raid ? ;. j When the bosom that beats against! thine own j Throbs slow with the weight of pain ? i When her silvery laugh rings out no more, 1 And fled are her youthful charms ? ' 'Thiough'good and ill, i I will lore her still r.: j; Thou wilt love her still ? Then our dearest one We give to tliy loviiig armi ! j , I i jj i- '-i When her father is dead, and 'the! emerald; sod Lies soft on her mother's breast, j I , ' When her brother's voice is no longer' heard, Antl her sister's hushed to rest, 1 1 1 i t lit thou love her still ? for to thee she looks. Her star on life's troubled sea. 4tI Will Lv. '" '""i "T"T Tj ; , "llirough good and ill !?i EE DID HOT TILLS. DEATH. : A writer In one of our New York daily capers re counts a pathetic incident which occurred not long since on board an ocean steamer. 1 1 - f A little ragged boy, aged about nine yeafs, was discovered on the fourth aay oi tne ontwara voy age from Liverpool to New York j and carried be fore the first mate, whose duty it was to deal with such cases. When questioned as lo the object of his being stowed away, and who brought him : on board, the bov. who had a beautiful, sunny face. and eyes that looked like very mirrors of truth, re plied that his stepfather did it, because he could not afford to keep him, or pay his passage but to Halifax, where he had an aunt who was well off,' and to whose house he was j going. The mate did not believe the story, in spite of the winning face , and truthful accents of the boy. He had t;tyi too much of stow-aways to be easily deceived byjhera. he said; and it was his firm conviction -JjiotJe boy had been brought on board arul-pfrovided with food by the sailors. . The Httle fellow-was very roughly handled in consequence. Day by day he was ques tioned and re-questioned, but always with the same result He did not know a sailor on board,! a"d his father alone had secreted hin and given him i the food which he ate 1 ! I! fl At last the mate ' wearied by the boy's persistence in the same story, and perhaps a little anxious to implicate the sailors, seized him one day by the col lar, and drasrerinc: him to the fore, told him that un less he confessed the truth in ten minutes from that time, he would hang him on the yard-arm. He then made him sit down under it on the deck. All around him were passengers and sailors, and in front of him stood the inexorable mate with his chronom eter in his hand, and the other officers of tlie ship by his side. In was one Of the finest 'sights! iniag-. inable to see the pale, proud, sorrowful facelof that noble boy his head erect, his beautiful eyes bright through the tears that suffused them. ( "W hen eight minutes had fled, the mate told him he had but two minutes to live, and advised him to speak the truth e His Royal Highness, Prince Champagne Charlie nas an enormous fortune, for an income; bat 1'arlia- ment iswdc asKea to pay some or nis travelling ex penses. He also married a lovely Danish princess a few years ago, and all the poets sangln her honor like all the weddinff chimes pealinir together: but it is now Jwhispcred that 'a lady of title, who rer cently disgraced her family, owes her ruin I too her future ging." That he is fond of cider-cellars, and the songs that are sunff there, and the people that congregate there, is also subject of common rumor. That he is mentally a dull young matt, of whom no generous word or action has ever been made pub lic, is not; denied. He seems to show all the qual ities that are most to be deplored in the worst of his, ancestors ; ana a more humiliating family for a royal family than th fifirman Iri n era -aia be har(Ltti&-ruvl: art: luaux prii bcuhwucu who already avoid tlie Prince as much as they ban. It is unpleasant to have to' deal with a man jwho in sislsupon1 playing at cards for money, -carefully tiikes all he wins,-and never pays a Shilling he-loses. This is no meaner than his great-uncle Adonis, Prince Resrent: but now all the glamour is gone. s no longer a halo, but a wig. wnenyou a Pope it is very well to hear of the lioJy The wig believe in Father that he cohimits crimes as a man, and not as the Pope. longer, a bad man and save his life ; but! he replied, with thef utmost : pleasure, But when vou believe in a ; Pope no kruejand treacherous pontiff is merely a Prince Champagne Charlie's grand -lath er, the dqll old George, was as little royal perhaps as Charlie: but people believed in royalty men, and they do not believe m it now. j P i ,: -While the poverty and suffering of Jnglana. mt crease so rapiaiyvtnat tney leave tne strongest anq t most painful mipression of all upon the minas oi strangers; while the problem of crime becomes more pressng every day, and there is a general feel ing that the country is moving before the breath of an undeclared revolution ; while the House' of Lords has but to take an attitude of opposition tathe pop- 7 -ii U i i i i Liu uiar will io near me universal growi ox popuiai; uiss simplicity and sincerity, by asking the mate if he migiit pray.- , ' ' - I . :j . i J . j j : The niate said nothing, but nodded his h&ul,and turued as pale a ghost, and shook with trembling like a reed with the wind. I And there, all eVes turn ed on him, this brave .and j noble little fallow, this poor waif whom society owned not, anctwlXose own stepfather could not care for him rthere he knelt with clasped hands and eyes upraised to j heaven, while he repeated audibly the Lord's Prayer, and prayed the dear Lord Jesus to take him to;heaven. Sobs broke from strong, hard hearts as the mate sprang forward to the: boy :and clasped him to his bosom, and kissed him and blessed mm, and tola him how sincerely he now j believed 'his story, and how glad he was tlrat he had been brave enough to face death, and be willing to sacrifice! his life for the truth of his own word. ; I . J if . ! and the frank declaration that, -it exists opinion on 1 I I. w itu tlie marriage vow on her pure voun hen wn yive-our rinld in thpi i flips I 8 ixinv t . He fqnnd hU friend's family very social and en tertaining. 3Irs. Warren, the motner, was a pieas ant,winning I might almost say-fascinftting wo man ; qne of the kind whose every act, praisew;or lhr 3Iri Warren was a cherry, social gentleman, j fnnA of telling stories- and amusing young people. alRtpr. Jessie how shall I describe VliVl "FATHEB. COME HOME' ! i - : . i i 1.-: . Music has drawn many a heart back f nan yield ing to a'temptation ! it was on thq point of doing, anil binds the world together in stronger bonds of brotherhood than anything else of a humanizing tendency. 1 Rut how much more I effective when aided by a little dramatiexffect. A Ixiiidon cor respondent gives an affecting description of the singing of the pathetic; ballad of j "Father, Qome Home," in one of the London theatres, which left but few dry eyes in the house, and must, have nerv ed to stronger resolutions, any present who were in the habit of giving way to the weakness -of indulg ing in intoxicating drinks to excess.-- This corre spondent, describing tlie scene, says that the lady came in front of the curtain, amid great applause, and commenced : VFather, dear father,' &c Ev ery word was distinct, and she sang the ballad with great feeling. - In order. '" however, to describe the scene which followed each i verse, it is necessary to give little diary's song: f j j ' "Father, dear father, come home with nic nowj The clock in the steeple ctrf ken one! " r I Yon promlihed. dear father,' that yon. would come home, Aa wn an yonr daj work was done. Onr fire has xone out our hoaae is all dark. And mother been watching since tea; With poor little Benny sick in her arms. And no one to help her but me. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. The name of Franklin has has now tT wn great in electricity. His mind was of a peculiar C:ist that recalled tlie vigorous simplicity of the Greeks. He was a modern Solon, a speculative Thales. He had wandered away from Boston a printer's apprentice. and had found employment and success in Philadel phia. From his parents he had received tip inheri- tance except tne nouiesi a spotless example, a healthful, constitution, a sane mind; and alter a vigorous struggle and several failures the philo sophic printer had won the respect and the atten tion of his fellow-townsmen. He founded schools. ibraries, and vaHous useful mstitutionsinlnsjiaout 61?Hii!irit P&uLns. vsyn Tranklin lived! obs:ure i be a woman with small; delicate featnresj a j sniall only by popular sufferance, it is not to be supposed that the, follies of a Prince Champagne Charlie will be 'tolerated beyond a certain point. If tlie ilouse of Lords, how much more does the thronej survive only by popular permission ? Arid in England the. question lias very nearly become one of economy merely., (is a permanent executive preferable,? is the pageant of royalty desirable, or seven longer practicable, for such an executive ? ! 1 1 !j Champagne Charlie had better be satisfied with a salary of j seven oreight hundred thousand dollars a year for doing nothing in the most offensive" man ner. There were Englishmen jiving! in iAmerica who ased,. "Why should we be taxed without rep resentation ? " There are ( Englishmen living in England! who ask, "What do we gain by paying such enormous sums to such a Champagne Prince Charlie ?" Harpers Muyazme. Exercise for Girls. f Exercise is, no more than food, a thing to he taken and profitted ti el armi. tThef child who should be compelled every day to swallow a breakfast and a dinner composed of objects disgusting to it, would thereoh. But it is often assumed that the same girl will obtain all the benefit of exercise if obliged to Tjvalk' solemnly up and down a terrace for so many ho.urs,, or to use the dumb-bells and perform calis tbenic exercises in her dull school roomj Real ex ercise, especially in 3'outh, must be joyous exercise spontaneously taken, not as af medicine, but with the eargerness ol natural appetite. Romping games ib childhood puss in the corner, blimi-rc- w "IT- rind nil IIipi H1iir1itfnT wAHrJT .;-.aflsr, I'etus racquets, ana liattie- ore, and all with screaming permitted, trd libitum are ior inaoors. uui ox uoors: jome nuni ine Hare, and Hide and Seek, and hoop, and ball, and cricket,, and kite-flyuigand aboye all that blessed fully unlaay-like,V:andticujated for the prod uc taon of ;tom-boys ? Never believe a word of it 1 The; most high-bred of iwomeii hdvebeen the most free and joyous of chiklren. ) Then come a little later, or almost as soon, the two great exercises of ladies, whereby more iieaitn amij vigor can be galn jexl by ladies than in an other way, namely,! garden ing and riding.! Oh ! fathers of daughters who will by-and-by ask you to spend thousands in paying :theirmillihers' bflls,. taking thm jto fashionable re sorts ' and giving them rich settlements: will vou iiotpare a few tens or hundreds J to give them the aenwj oi irarutJH, or iuc rouiru winy nait win se cure for i them health and bloom and years of strenirth and life which all vour thousands can 'tiot buy a " few years hence., i Of .all the penny -wise nouna-iooiisii policies j in uiefworiu is urn. wnicn gruages me gin oi rouneen ner pony or ner rooa T " f ! i 4 .1 . f . or. -grouna, ana lavisnes on ner, fiour years aner- wards. silks and iewells. and! all the costly aDnur- denances of fashionable life. How is it that Har riet HosmeY has become the woman of whom Amer- ather taught her to ride and. shoot before Gibson i aught her to model f'Sleepfng FALSE HAIR, j ; We extract the (following truthful false hair from Dickens' "All the Year Round; need scarcely say the sentiments expressed are syn- onimouslwith our own : "Dues any lady ever loo& at the arrangement of any other lady'si hair ?! Does any lady ever look into a hair-dresser's shop ? If so; how does the hideous chignon, in its present proportions, iioiu.its grouna r it any woman s ueau grew into such monstrous shapi;s as-may now be seen in all directions wherever vomen are Congrega ted together,! it would be a cause of mourning to her family, of consultation timohg eminent sur he possesses physical strength; energy, and joyous mimal spirits, such as win every prizeJ'and charm very heart. Putnam MaQtczine, Fawns;" because fid honifi. n except to hi3 narrow world, and his' eniinent.powers j. head, and of i small stature. had won him no general renown, lie hau,;pernaps, youth with the pleased himself in his youth with tne nope ot ex celling in letters; he hatl formed his style by a care ful study of Addison; he, wrote clear audi sensible essays that showed the purity of his tastqj and the weakness of his fancy ; and yet in literature he had been far excelled in notoriety, if not fame, by his unprincipled - companion ; Ralph. Franklin's rare humor, the wit of a philosopher, shines pjit in his "Busy-Body," his "Almanac," his "Ephemera," or his famous '"Whistle;" he uttered keen apothegms that live like those of Solon, and sharp satires that want the bitter hoielcssness of Diogene. f But his literature scarcely possessed the shining i marks of genius, and was plain, cold, and lifeless. He was an excellent writer, but he was never great. His genius, like Bacon's, lay in his power of i swift in duction from moral or physical facts. In morals He taught Instead of making the most of khe natural beauties with which she is gift ed, the frizzles, and cuts, and gums her front hair hi to all sorts of uncouth forms,, and surmounts her back half with an enormous ball of somebody else's tresses! The lady appears to have two heads one (the artificial) considerably larger, than the other. The hatjhas to be ierched on the hose, and a.1 most preposterous! result is presented. ) However,! there is one virtue about the chignon it is honest. There's no deception, gentlemen. H.ven it the ladies were desirous of the porte r's trvin knots to lead people i to supix)sb that on their heads areJ composed of he was the wisest of his contemporaries, young mechanics that "time is money." it is money;" that purity, honesty, and her ful. dcnl ' iriri .rtnnt Alfred's own age. a half-bash- half-saucy, dimpled-faced, rosy-cheeked mai- pmrkling with wit and pleasantry, and pretty . 1 : X.t. fnr nnv voung man to iau in we im i rnuti" f firsl sight. was 3fr. Warren's family, and it was no won- charmetl with them. , They I ? Come home, come home, come home.1 , , Ilea, fathv-r, dear father, come home,' At the conclusion of the last line, the drop-scene drew up, disclosing Ihe father sitting at tlie door of a public house; in a drunken,' bemuddled state, with pipe and pot before him. Little Mary was;trying to drag him from his scat, at the same time pointing to a curtain behind; as she took up the refrain from the lady and touchmgly sang, ''Come home,1 fcc. The other curtain was drawn aside, disclosing a I Tins -i ... : derilhat Aiireu was i'"'- - y wretched room, with the poor mother sitting on the nvetc not very wealthy people, but were m easy cir- with a sickly-looking boy in her lap, and in ftllttStanCes and on a proinisiu rKn "'u'- me aci oi xeeiug uuu wim a spoon.'. ; onnniutne- . virv ion felt as well acquainted with them ously with the drawing of the curtain; the light was K!lt,.mfnfU Thesunncr brought toar upon the tableaux, giving them a v all ns it ne u - " truly stirtling effect Alter a moment or two, the was delicious, especially to a boy whose sniall saia- act-tlrop came down, and the lady proceeded : Lonld afford him only the plainest living. ' "Father, dear father; come home with me now, i ryp" :. v.miilit In Mri Warren The clock In the steeple strikes two ! i . . ; . I After supper wine was brougUt in. Jirs. arren. The n fcM wft aud u worscJ 1 t nnt herself, and witn a wmningsmue pii- i5ut ne nas Deen cajimsr tor yon. f i.1 U glass of the sparkling liquid to their guest Al- A took It Wlin Bonw uraiw, Each of the iamuy neia a giass, But Alfred feared rex ft to his lip. tA nlnlge their visitor. JoSdrlnK Jleeetthe goblet on the table, while a iJrning flush overspread his face. : . I'lTbat! do you not drink wine?" iu-ke.1 Mrs. yTjuTtn. in ner P.c. r s mother's lap, and it just raises 'its little head and 1 . . . ww.n taiichtnot to drink it. saia Aiirea. i i t-:.k .t. i: I X Dai C uvu o tYoa have bad good teaching. I doubt not," saul 4iliadv "and I honor you for respecting it, but I Indeed, he Is worse, mother says he will die,'." Perhaps before morninp shall dawn, ! ; ' j And this is the message she sent me to bring-' Come qnickly. or bo will be gone, t !( ; Come home, dome home, come' home, i ; riease, father, dear father, come home." : . j The act-drop rises again, and now the child has hold of the pewter pot, trying to take' it from the drunken parent, and as she continues the list two lines, "Come home," fca, the other curtain is drawn aside, and wo next see the child(stretched out in its falls back with a gasp. .With the lime light reflect4 . 1 r . . . mg sirongiy upon.it, mere was a reaiuy about me whole, terrible to view. Sobs were Ieard from all parts of the hall, coming from the female part of the audience, while tears trickled down many a V thin it ma. ' . : . nrtra the audience, while tears trickled j- Jny you take It. I should not be willing for George cheek Even the lady who san, tJ JL 1 to a bar-room in company with dissipated affecttil, and could ; scarcely proceec lun rirele. it is liUU"J ' ,vjne never hurts' any one. Excess that it is injorioc ytsurs. iydung men, and call for wine; but at home, m rue . - t t- ;fpTnL A moderate use of It is only when carried as. ion naa ociicr uriu up tne to him said. 10 sang; the song was affecttil, and could ; scarcely proceed with the third Terse: -If- "' '' t : H . ' ij 'Father, dear father, come home with me now, ; 1 ne dock In the steeple strtkf TTTt -The house is so ionelj, thehoars are so long, For poor weeping mother and tae, . f l ea, we ar aione-poor Benny is dead, -: And gone with the angels -of light! j .1 ; . And these are the Tery last words that he said , 'X want to kiss papa good night P :. f ; Come home, come home, come home, '" ' ' riease, father, dear father come home. s; - Again the drop rose, and displayed little Mary on her Knees appealing to her father, who, with pot elevated, is in the act of striking her with it, when she sings, "Come home," and then 'the back curtain - tfn(KtllL He raisea ii rowarauis cog,,. But now the sobs break out more freelv. and f'. tnt moment there rose op before him two females are fcarried out fainting. I The scene rr-l; with nleading eyei-the face of was inostly harrowing. ? .-, , i : . therln beTveri. The boy laid down the glass Srfirm hand, and with firm tones he said : Sffitokit Itmymosdyingre . I t An,H never taste of wine, and if I quest m ?; :-'! nn-W. I r" " - Yon most pardon my seeming aiswuij, wown on them and pointing upward. The father jfuow. . I falls forward upon his face.' the act-dron riesranria bat I cannot arm . . and for a minute all is hushed save the sobs of the auaiecce So Httle as that will never hurt you. iT.T w KitUnr by Alfred. tone too ss be had set on the table, and gave it ivjth a chamiing smile. Bake. she irT . v,nt the faces around him inrr Wine Was MauM6 ' Hi., rf..A self-respect were better than wealth, luxury, or any other suc cess. His own labors were unceasing; lie wrjte, toiled, thought incessantly for his fellow-men he was noted and observed for his modesty and discre tion; his acute mind was ever seeking for useful novelty in science and in conduct ; and hence, when Franklin came to stand before mankind! covered with his splendid scientific renown, and the repre sentative of the new republic that seemed; about to revive the classic refinement of a better age, he was received in the courts of Europe as a worthy suc cessor, of tlie philosophers of Athens and . Ionia. As Washington appeared before the!world,' clothed in the purity, the probity, the valor of a Fabricius or a Cato, so Franklin was universally compared with the acute sages and philosophers of Greece, To Franklin electricity owed the most wonderful of all its achievements in the eighteenth century. Har per weekly. j -- - i - - MAILGABET FULLER. During her visit to-London, on her way to Italy, Margaret Fuller passed an evening at Knickerbock ei Cottage; and I had also an opportunity to study her peculiar manner when she made an address at the anniversary of an Italian school, at which Maz1 zini, Gallenga, and others made speeches! In this address (1847) Miss ; Fuller said that it was quite customary in her own country for womeij to speak in public? This seemed to me to be not a Very accu rate, though it might be; a prophetic remark. - i It so happened that our party in Genoad Leghorn, Naples, and Rome, was a good dear with that of Miss Fuller. Between Leghorn and Civita VeCchia our steamer, an ingiisn one, was run into in me night by a French-steamer. As they were going in opposite directions, at the rate of twelver miles an hour, such a shock in the dead of nignt, .Knocking . . a Y?iX A. L , - 1 I us out or our Derins was not niieu to sooiue an anxious spirit. This first impulse, was to rush on deck to see if we were! actually sinking!. Fortu nately the bow of: the Frenchman had merely smashed one of our paddle-lioxes, and th wheel it- seir, DUl nau not injureti vne nun; mi i jumpeu down to the ladies' cabin, to reassure my j wife and the other ladies. The door was opened by Miss Fuller in her night-dress. Instead of .hysterical fright, as I expected, my hurried report that there would be time to dress before we went to the bot tom, was met by Miss Fuller by the remark that seemed to rre superhuman in its quiet calmness : "Oh wp had not made up our minds, that it was worth i while to i-Mi aiarmfan v erny woman American woman, ar least is V off ofi their own hair, it would be useless; uor the hair dnssersj anxious to advertise their waresjhaf e ren dered that deception an impossihijity. j Their shops are full bf chignons. Plain chignons, frizzed chig nons; chignons woven into a pattern similarjto the large "basket-work used chiefly for waste paper bas kets; chignons with supplementary curls ; chignons! with straight, flimsy tresses pendant from them;! chignons of every variety have Jong been fAmiliarj to the male observer, as we iook raw our iasniona ble hairj dresser's moreover, we become , aware long and thick plaits of hair, of arrangements curls, and of similar devices, braids and, bands to a most astonishing extent And these hirsute decep-j tions are evidently not! intended solely for elderly) ladies, as were the fronts (hideous devices) .of thd by-gonb generation, but for tlie ladies of all agesf It would1 seem as if a real female head of hair were not to be found in these times. The 'glory o a woman-is in her, hair,' we are told; but nothing l said about the glory being attainable by the use o somebody else's hair. Men have their faults, heav en knows : but in matters of this sort they show I little more sense than women. It is fashionable to wear a beard, and most men's faces arc, imprqveel I y it ; but false beards, chin-chignons so J to speaks, have not become popukr. We are afr.iid to ery out too loudly against tne cnignon. x emaij msie is i grewsoine thing to meddle with, and it is very posl sible that a sudden change might! be made, and we might find ladies with their liair, whether scanty or abundant, plastered tight down to.their heads. S it is with crinoline, j In moderation, and in its cart Her days, itwasa graceful and convenient fashion. The convenient and graceful period vpry quickly vanished. The era of iron hoops, of horse-hajr substarices many inches t hick, of enormous size and utter unmanageablencss, set in. The crinoline be came ah instrument of torture to wretched mefi, and intist have been most inconvenient and hncom fortable to its wearers. When at last the fashhjn changed, was the sensible part of the dress retained ana tne ansura rejected r xhoi a; uii i iw unrri ble, straight, clinging skirts, vfith long, j trailieg trains, succeeded, and on the whole it may. he sajd lUitl I lie IViaillir Ul iOSUluu is hujbc luuii i noa Griffin and Number of Janiinalcnles, ' - . f some hay is placed in a glass of pure rain-wa- m,- i r t j . , er. an anoweti to sons ior a iew uavs in a sunnv hl.ipp' nnd if it hft thfin removed.l the water will be pound, under a powerful microscope, to contain pndny very small moving things j which are called Infusoria, from their being produced after infusing the hay.j The eggs .which1 were; on the" hay bred jthere myriads of small things, yhich often have a jvery beautiful coat of jtransjpauan flint or sillica. If jthe water is kept clean, and is npt allowed sto de jcompose or smell, generati6n.!aftcr generation of the linfusoria live, die, and fallto the bottom of . the lass- Thev form a very delicate film there, and" minute portions of it, iwheii examined under a high magnifying power, show the silicious skeletons or shells very distinctly. Now many? strata in the ieaith are formed entirely Of the j-emains of infuso ria,- and a very familiar exanlple Is the 1 riK)ii-pow-der from the polishing sIat$,of Bilin, u Bohemia. A single grain of Tripoli-power contains no fewer than. 17,000,000 of the transarcit flinty skeletons of dead animalcules ; yet ih layers of earth which are made up of theni at Bilhlg extend for miles. i -In the harbor of Wipenar, m tne Uaitic, tney lncreaso aAl t;..i- - Jtimimt.,wTvrr'rVrr' feet Of mud- are formed every yearj there, and every of it contains 1,000,000,000 of tlie be.utifu silicious re mains" ofj the infusoria. . In the inland of Barbad()es there is a thick mass of thf most beautiful flifrty sea animalcules, and they arp in iuch numbers tha't it must be supposed jthe devd ninute things were y falling m! showers from the sea to the I THE LAHD OF nQiUTAELi: LIGHT. ! I am longing. to-night,ay longing ;j I - 'y For the mansions where sin la unknown, Where there never come moments oZA1&8a i ) Now the heart feels so mournfully lone, I ' f And a shadow of mystical dartnesJ A - f O'er the fairest life-pictorcs is thrown. '. There are times when the veil that hldeth The bright realms of rejoicing from view,! QfihlmTa rv loclimmWhne: JJ.'';. d Throngh tkc Aldonn yWi thoughtfully peering I One may catch! some grand note of .the True, t And the spirit reyivea oy lue ccnoi , , 1 Ta rpf rushed to Continue the way t-i 1" Through a world sbUUle accord! ptf 14 .r With the chine of a beautiful lay, s n And the heart grows 'strong for the morrowV And can bear every illjof the. day.j I . ' v" :, , i :.v j ,-:-..:..t'.;;, . Soon the shadows will flee from the mountains,' j And the spirit though heavy to-night, Shall be light and rejoice in the brightness, j And in friendship again find delight: ; Yet the hour seems sweetest while weeping r or me lanuox immutauie ngnii s y , An ArmT of Prist ta. The ecclesiastical authorities of Rome have jatt . published a census for the present year. These sta-: tistics show that the regular clergy is composed of ' 2,2G5 persons, thus divided: I Cardinals, 82; blshi ops, Mi: priests ana ciotks. i,sw,'ana students si the ecclesiastical colleges, b4i. The religions com munities count 5,215 souls. 2,059 men and 25 wo mon. The lav population amounts to 197.108 sol- i diers in garrison, 10,207; prisoners tmder sentence 328; Protestant, 637, and Jews, 2,682, making a- total of 220,532, or an increase or 3,104 over: ino- ycar 1808. The number of families is 42JSI3of an average of rather more than five persons .to each. Males are more numerous than females,' the figures being 118,873 and 101,659 respectively. I longevity ia (rrnntr nmnnir Hia latter Of npntoni Who hllVO attained the ago of 76 to 80, the women count 2,307, jind the men 2 144 onlv: from 80 to 00. 550 and 495; and between 90 and 100, 55 and 84. I i Tim number of Cardinals residing in the Eternal City has remained nearly the same during tenyeara, never having been oeiow z nor arxvein; at pres ent it is 32. The same remark docs not apply to . the Bishops, who have! never been so few. . In 1804 they counted 40; at this moment 1 there are no more than 26 - Priests and regular clerks have also 31-. minished during the last decennial period, the num ber never being so low, in ioo4 it I was i,oo.f n present it is 1,8GC. On he other hand, the ancnibcra of religious communities have augmented ;in 1800 the males were 2.3UU, , ana tne leinaics v; progre'ssion has been constant and tbo figures now are 2,939 and 2.250. This Increase is naturally ex plained by the Confiscation of the Church property, in Italy, and the expulsion of the monks and nuns 11111 mvil UiVUUirviM w.v. "-. laving sought an asylum in the capital of Christen dom.. constant bottom.-!-Crow? Health. 1- finrrifis'lReRR. Twenty clerks in a store. . .TKventoliands in a Village. All .want to get along sn the! world, and expect to. One of the clerks will. rise 'to 'be a. jwrt ner, and make a fortune. One bf the compositors will jOAvn a newspaijcivana' become nn influential citizen, l une ot tne apprentices will become a mas ter builder. . One, of the printers jwill reach the acme of human greatness. One bf the villagers will' get. a namisome iarni, njiu ijve fi pairiareiij uui which isv destined' to be the lucky individual ? I There is no luck about it. The thing is as'plaiin as the rule of "three. The young fellow who will distance his competitors is he who masters, his business,, who preserves his integrityJ cleai-ly and purely, who nev er gets in debt, who gets friends by deserving them, and puts his money, in the.'sayjngs bank., There are some other, ways to fortune1 that! look shorter than the dusty old highway, but the men of the community, the men who achieve something worth having, good fortune, and name,! and serene old age, all go this road. j.; ; f v- An additional 1 verse was sung about ''poor Ben ny" being witn tne angels above, j The drop rose, the father, sober how, Is weeping5 over the coffin. with little Mary on his, knees, singing; Home,j uvuiu Aaau. ucoi 4iAiCA O WiliC UULUC I Al LUIS Z - it. A . I J ; i . . : tr. -T .r-.trr- tmnttJons will UilliUU3 AJe i;uruu ja arawn asiae, ana mue, uenny I fear greater temptations will suspended OTeJ. win 8milinJ ?! 1 tTYYTY, rn the litUe circle, ' . Xooc Fpoke fir revcral xnintits. - , ' t ? for her cool philosophy and strong-nerved stoicism in great danger ! ! f ! ' ! 1 The narration in the memoirs of Miss Fuller of her first meeting with her future husband, the Mar quis d'Ossoli, is not accurate. Her party had been attending some of the services of Holy Week in St Peter's ours had heard the miserere in the Sis tine ChapeL As we came away from the Chapel, and met the throng from the great church on the steps, Miss Fuller stepped out quickly to overtake us, say ing she had lost her friends ; and as it was nearly dark, she seemed quite bewildered more alarmed, indeed, than when we were really in danger of be ing drowned in the Mediterranean. She had taken the arm of a young gentleman in the crowd,; who had politely offered to escort her home, or to a cab ; but on joining us, she took leave of him, as we thought, rather ungraciously. She certainly did not give her address to him, but left him in the crowd, and we ourselves took her to hex; lodgings. How and when they met again, we do not know. But this was the first time the Marquis had seen her, and be left her in the conf pf i m,wi thout knowing who she was or where she lived.- Putnam' Jlaaazine, ' ! " - - ! 'I .1 111 ! i V Modern Improvements. The earth transformed, should: be the title bf our new geographies. Truly man is working changes almost fcs marvelous as those which geological hooks now ; teach us to believe tooK place in ine stupen dous youth! of the world, i The Dutch pump an ocean dry. I If we cannot mak use of jthe i North west passage to India, we sever continents and nnte oceans.) We cannot level the Alps, but we out through them. And now M. Lesseps, reversing the example of the Duth, proposes to transform the great desert of Sahara into a vast lake or ocean,- jby letting (the waters of the Red SeaVinto that immense basin. This was, doubtless, only a humorous su ffPStlOn. OO mo"V W TgrLT--,! 1 1 Jn wet anini fVOnaeriUl I n-f : no v,ow 1 i oaa 1,a nmianf Mmiul Mir Tfrf ia . i vx. uiaj lite AJ UiUJCVI Utll UUfc. AS MO not easy uj see now ju. jesseps is 10 get uie ieu oea waters across me xxiie, wnicn iiows oeiween them and the great desert, but, an English epic po et says: s - J :.;:U-' I fn m j , ;. "When energizing projects men pnnne,? J What ajo the miracles they cannot do f ; Surely the eminent Frenchman, vho has performed what the greatest English engineers pronounced to be impossible, will never permit so trivial an obsta cle! as ja mere river to stand betweenj him and the accouipnsuiuen. ui ima siupenuous project. : out In the Lot's Wife. account of the destruction of the five cities of .'the Plain, the text (Genesis jxix. 20,) "She be cauie a pillar of salt," does hot afford anyj ground for the common impression that Lot's wife became a statute of rock salt, i Thje word rendered ;'a ' pil lar," denotes generally any fixed object, and I that rendered "salt" denotes also, bitumen.j f . Professor Daubeny; in his Vork on volcanoes! supposes that volcanic agency ;as the physical in strument employed by the Almighty to destroy the five cities of tne riam tlKat the Salt or Dead Sea arose eitner iroui tne suosiaence or-tiie. tfiam, or front the damming jof the? Jordon by a current of 1 A l M. Al - I ! T ' .1 . 1 - " . : lava; mat mu hiiuwlts oi lire aim unuisione were occasioned by the fall of jvolcinicfejectious; and (agreeing in this with Henderson, the well-known missionary traveler in Iceland) that Lot's wife, lin gering behind her friends, hiay have been first suf focated and then encrusted with saline and other volcanic materials, t f - How it came abont that "Ike Goose HWHirfi." A practice prevailed in some barts of the South, "before the war, to haVe a igoose-pulling, frolic altout the holidays, conducted as follotys?-A goose would be tied by the feet to thef limb of. a tree, just high enough for a horseman, in passing under, by raising jin his stirrips to reach the head of the fowl and give it a pulL j The string! not being strong a sharp jerk would bring down the, bird. ' Each 'f sport"? paid the owner of the goose a "bit! for the chance to pull it from the limb. If he succeeded the goose was his. jjSometimes it would; be hung'a little too high, and so elude the grasp" of the catch er as.-he roae unaer the branch on which the jweb footed I bird was suspended, j In such case, as the horsemen galloped' past in quick succession, the re mark would -be made by the laughing and hooting by-standers, that "Everything p-as lovely and the goose nung nign. f i what would be the effect of such a transformatijon on the climate of Europe ! .From that burning fur nace of Africa comes the hot breath that melts the Alpine; snows in May, and clothes jthe mountain sides with yerdure, and gives Spain and Italy and the South of France' tljcir delightful climates. Without this, the glaciers would creep further down ward into the Swiss valleys, the crags would remain snqw-covered until late in Summer, an4 the coun tries North lof the Alps would suffer the rigorsof an j Arctic Wmter. On the whole, i M. i Lessens would I better let the desert alone. It won't, navl to changeit into a seccdMcditcrraneani Ptfta'j. -stag. - J.3. , - IT"-- Tiiere is a great deal of cant and Nonsense talk ed about sectarianism. It is often imagbicd that if ii man is fdnd of his church ho is a sectarian. Tou might say 'a man is sectarini' if he likes his 'OWn house and family better than. others in theusamo. street. ' The man I call sectarian Is the man who is fc not contented with ihe blessings of .nnmher line in Hie. street,, but who is always throwing stones or mud at number two ; who is not content with his own wife, and family, i but who talksj and gossips about 'nriqther manrs family. Give mo, the "man who hasiloncst, earnest conviction about Ids own G'.iiircli, arid 'I extend to him the right hand of icl lowship. ' fcove your church, and do till you can for it; but fry and I magi no at the same.timo that, other, men are as concicntious as you are,! and give -them' the right hand of fellowship when they uo nil they can for their church. avraan Mchtoif. j TiiE moment we discover that any thing causes, excessive pleasure or ioy within us, let us separate our heart from it, and, to prevent it from seeking iur repose, in the creature,' let ns present to it God, tho true object of love, the sovereign good, r. It we aro faithful in breaking up all attainments to ihecrca tnre;thatis, if .we prevent its entering- ia to thow depths of tlie soul which our Lord reserves for. him self, to dwell there and to be thefe respected, atlortxt and loved, we shall soon experience that pure joy which He never fails to give to a soul freed and de! tached from undue human affectioni. ; t 1 1" Whosoever will , may comei" "I thank GoU' said Richard Baxter, "far thattvordl WJnwoevtr, If God had said that there was mere? for Richard Baxter, I am so vile a sinner that : I would have thought He. meant some other Richard Baxter; but when He says Wlwsaever I lyiow that includes me, tne worst oi all Kichardiliaxtera i .i i; unimportant atten menj Never appear I 'r . In ybur intercourse with the femaleex never let yourself down to them likea-illy coxcomb ; rather secK to: eievate mem o you; ; Aostam xromiuisome flattery, yetshow them certain tions thatone may neglect with to prefer one lady alone: ; It takes no great tim to lovej God, to be refreshed y his presence, to elevate our hearts to Him, or to worship Him in the depths of Our soul, to offer to Him all we do and all we suffer; this is the true kingdom of God tctViin v. which cannot be ; dia- turbed " . .;;('.:;; f . Thk presence of God calms quiet and reixise even idaring midst of occupation -but we must God without reserve. the soul, and give- .it the day, and in thf be given I mav be as hot-headed as ! nlease. as ' ady o take offence, as . prompt to blows, bat I cktim the rightas.a sinful man prone to evil; to haves, the con secrated minister of Christ at my jslde,- suggesting thCLjtnotlvcsof forbearance and charily, explaining away so far as honesty may beV the occasions at dls pute,,and standing across my path with entreaty pcrsuation, and solemn warning to. prevent" iny wrath and wrong. en. AVaOcer. f'jj..-K r A i.. . 1 ' . ; rt- it f f t-tf.. - r Whenever wc perceive within us anxkyos' dc- y res for anything, . whatever it may b,- nod. findf, that nature is hurrying us with too much, haste 'to do what is to be done, whether itt tie to. 'say.; sbmV thing, see something, or to do something, let as stop short, and repress the precipitancy of our thought and the agitation of our actions for.G6d has said that His spirit docs not dwell in disquiet i ; Be careful and not take tod much Interest In what is going on around you, nor to De bauch engaged in, ii-t is a fruitful source of distraction?; As sotm as we have found what it is ; that God, requires of n. iri any thing that comes up, let ns bUr Uiero ana scnarate ourselves from all the rest; - By thatmcaoar we shall jllways preserve the depths of the soul free' and equable, and rid ourselves of jmaay Ihlngf that : j embarrass our hearts and prevenl! them, from turn ing easily toward God. ' 1 , Ir'' " V;T' ' Wnn.B rintwnrtllv bnV. IfitOS be with Ood than with everything else. To.be rightly, engaged, we must be In Ills presence and cimloyetl for Him. At the sight ot tne' magesiy. otvau our. nterior ouffht to become calm and remain tranquil. Once a stogie word -ol the Saviour suddenly cabjwd a f nrimisl v jiHtAtd sea one look of His at ns. and of ours towards Him, ought always to pcrformi thd same miracie witmn us. , . Tnn Germans say, i" We live precious, then, should each phcable is this to ever never can recall a life an hour. thouzli it should spoil a second of it 7. . . . ; m.i V-.t l. ' ! Tn.T man alone can be truly called1 well cduea- ted, who possesses sound "and general Information : upon a variety of subjects bearingdlreetly upon thQ daily wants of life; and If for tliat kind of knowl edge is substituted an ecquaontafice, no matter how profound, with subjects who do' not bear upon the daily wants oft life, the . person J. whd : lias, reed vtxl ! exclusively such a kind of education, is, we submit ! anything ratlicr thanJ admirably educated, " l . I . f We must endeavor to awake within ourselrc from time to time, the desire of. being devoted to God in all tlie extent of our powers la pur intellect; ' ' to know him arid think on hfm,' and in our will, to love Him. We must i desire, too" that oorrontwanl senses may bo oqnsoc rated to Him la all thcir.oper- ; ations,.; i ;.. !. ,! . y : TaE r.v re hpse of rears-1 U not Bfe! t: KhowledgV, ' : , trnfh. I ye, lK'o"uty, good uess, faith, alviecan givp v.i ility to the mechanism of existence. 1 '" 1- .v nis-UE never can be shame where thcro is no sin. ,i up to i Adam and Eve never would 'have used the fig-leaf f ( ... . "- . . ( . ....... ..II . I once' How total iUtow sd-: nase of existence, )V e enf i We cannot extend uY must obey the suxnmons: even. be at a momentV notice 1 1 Whr .if i r-.-.
Weekly Pioneer (Asheville, N.C.)
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