am] our (Md, if w« are faithful to hint in our Jay and lima. Finally it must be claar a* nom day, that the diraotiug and overruling action* of divine providence, are two dierfnot fra ture* of the government of God, and dif fer a* widely in their nature and applica tion* a* any other two features of hi* government, one direol*, the other over rules and control*. This view of the sub ject, is the only one we can take, to pre sent the government of God in this depart ment, all consistent with the character ascribed bimin the scriptures, namely, a being holy, jost,and good. Newbern, N. C. For the Christian Sun. A REMINISCENCE. As I sat looking westward watching the golden tingtd clouds which the God of day bad penciled with indexcribible beauty, my thoughts wander jd back to bygone moments. My bead was rested on my hand, which derived its anf port from the railing of the verandah. How long 1 remlned thus,] know not, but I was aroused from my reverie by the voice of a sweet girt, who thurf acfcosted me, “ do cousin Foy, just tell tne what mem ory was thi re paintsng for you! there were bright and dark spots both in tbe piclUM, J know from the-changes it pro fluced in your countenance, now please don’t refuse, I have besn watching you tor at least ten mirmtjs, ^thinking you would at last finish dreaming, hut I‘ve grown so impatient to know what you are dreaming of, ycu see I have interrupted you.” “Well Annie’’replied I “since you seem to be so much interested in ray dreaming* of late, I must tell you, I was thinking of my Schooldays—that delight ful epoch of my life, and need I add, was comparing th*m with tbe present. It carried me back to tbe time when I sal at my mother’s skle, and learned the first rudiments of our language. From tbence I’ve traced ray life through many gay h'kI joyous hours, until I found myself the boardiug-school girl ; here Annie is the brightest part of my pictifre—’twas there I met for the first time a young-girl too fair, too pure, too sweet for this world’s dark frauds. From our first meeting I - admired her beauty and manners, and that admiration soon ripened into a friendship that only a school girl Las experienced. She was my cousfant cotDpanron and in her presence (bur years flew so rapidly by, I could scarcely believe it was ro, when our schooldays * ended and we parted. ‘ W* that had loved as sisters loved Now bid a long adieu,’ At copious Ht_i« our language, it would prove by far loo deficient to paint the heartfelt sorrow of that parting ; all otlr past enjoyments crowded vividly before my eyes, a* the passionately threw her Arms around my neck, when we parted* Dear girl I I’ve never seen her since, bnt her memory is (acted, and I would not that her Image in memory should be mar red for all tha wealth ofOphir. For months after our parting her letters regularly re ceived and answered cheered my heart and paitly filled tile vacuum produced by her absence. At length otis catno telling of her marrage, although it Was expected it made me sad ; perhapf I Was selfish, but if so I nope to be forgiven when it comes to be remembered bow happy we were together. The time I generally received her letters came, and with it no letter, I almost reproached my - self Tor loving her so fondly, when week, after week catrie bringing me 00 fetter, At length after I bad written several let ters without an answer I received the fol lowing. Dear FlorJ— Please excuse my not answering your letters as punctual as,before marrage,wbioh Pm sure you will do so When yail remem bar that, a married woman baa more cares and not so muolx time for writing as th e young lady. We are all Well. Addie Fe n n il for bouts did 1 sit musing on tha note When suddenly a suspicion, that it Was dot tar will to write thus, flashed across my mind. I compared it with tho long ia tsresting and familial letter she ,wrote Just two months b'efots. How- different thought I and was more than ever con vinced, it was not the letter of her Will. t mingled with the gay and others Were Around seeming, to ask of me tha friend ship of other daya, but my heart was chil led from the oeldaeaa it received from her I had thought faultless. Perhaps it caused fee to be too indifferent tbwards the friend aliif of others, but if so, I hoped to be excused, 1 —• ,diS ’•f-vi, I Time with Iti batmy influence, after long mofithi, partially healed the wound hut I never could forget oiy old' School mate, I cased1 more for eyferf’o frieed ship- and' ie&rrted' iffUSoU fiptf ribmhiKs lh« value of one, to onfold the heart to in time of Jistress. These two long year* ami more, rolled on without the least know ledge of her, I formerly, yea, even know ing what { did, considered as a dear friend. Judge ot ray surprise when on one occasion, a letter was banded to me marked Baton Rouge, it was the post mark that had so oft greeted my heart from that schoolmate of yore. In the wr.'t ing I recognised that of my old friend, and hastily broke the seal, it read thus— Dear Floy, Before these few lines can reach you, I shall be numbered with the dead. Oh I why did I not disclose to you the secret tint so often has caused my heart to ache, for want fof sympathy, long before now : you my once dear, and yes, may I hope, even now friend. How I can claim you as such I can't tell, unless it is fr< m the clear conscience that I possess, of never having wronged you, in will or deed; ex cept the last few words ,1 wrote to yon, which were dunned from me by a cruel tyrant. Floy, it pains me to speak thus of one 1 have sworn te love, honor and obey, but I feel had I eommunicuted it to months ago, J should have saved my poor heart many moments of the most miserable patn 5 that of wronging a friend. Will yon forgive me ? There is an in ward voice that whispered to ms, to write these few lines, and the asms says yoa will forgive your old friend. Oft I reme mber the happy moments we’ve spent to gather ;"indeed while indulging in these reveries, I see all the pleasure that is left for me. My latier days have bien 'so clouded. T feel that heaven will appear more brighter. My weakness which was brought on by incessant anguish of mind, compells me to conclude. Farewell dear Floy, until we meet above. ' Addis Alas! exclaimed I, that one so young and beautiful as my own dear Addle should meet with such a fate- My conscience bale me go to her and tell her she was not only torgiven but had uever been cen sured and I obeyed its dictates but alas ! she was laid i n the cold bosom of the earth before I arrived, and I only saw the homestead where she had spent so trany unhappy hours, and the tyrant that l.ad by a slow process laid ,her in the grave. These, tbess were rav thoughts and know Annie, that you have not failed to discover the dark spots of my picture 1 I,ve seeu them all, all ’ she replied but please don’t be so sorrowful, l will be the second friend, I’ve hear! you call her name before and say I was somewhat like her. May I fill a place in your heart Floy 1 and let it be our prayer that our earthly lot may be different from that of hei’s. We shall meet above where “sickness, sorrow, pain and (Jeatli, are felt and feared n» more,1’ and will try t& cheer your heart by imitating the example of her you have so dearly loved.’ Holy Neck. Va. For the Christian Sun. A THREE FOLD CORD. Mr. Editor:—We rekfl once In the Soriptures of a three fold oubd, and we bear innoli taid about ite utility in biinglng about important ends. What is it f I an swer as follows. 1 knew a minister in O— who knows from experience of a cord mncli stronger; fes it was practically demonstrated to blurt when he saw in the begining of our late Cold/ Winter’s" placed in hie yard a nmb fold oofid, in eubstance and shape as nine (cords of wood) out there by an old acquain tance and friend, who though he makes no pretentions to ohuroh relation, he excels in this particular his prefussing neighbours.— Siioh cords, after warming the body, bind np in the souls affection in the endearing re» memberence Of snob benefactors, and it not quick ly broken. The parlies, are the writer, and his neigh • bour, A Harlan member of Congress. B RMflUCT. Yellow Springe, O. - r , - - - .■ , /■ TEMPER AH C & WHAT HARM HAS TEMPERASCE BONE HIM J Ha has fired in the seotioD where he bow is, 30 or 80 years, been a professor »f godir a'ess the most of that time; and when he made profession, lie professed to ootae out from thg World and to harld scores. Keep the world before yon. Pay or yonr paper in Advance. Ambassador. —-—»■»-« Sw - Oldest Man in America.—A correspon lent of the CasiTille (Ga.) Standard says .hat there fs now living in Marry County, Sa., on the waters of Holly Creek, a Revo uiiunary vetran who has attained the age of 134. His name is John Hamss. He is mown through thb region in which he lives jy the appellative, “ Gran’sir Hames.”— jrran’sir is contracted for Graudsirc. A ;rand?irs he truly is. As I was on iny way ;o visit this relic of the expired eighteenth isntury, I inquired of an oldish gentleman o* ibout Sixty, if he knsw him. “Oh, yes, I snow him,” said he, “ho is ray grandfa ther 1” John Haines was born in Mecklenburg County, Va., and was a lad ten years old when Washington was in lii* cradle. He was .hirty-two when Braddock met his defeat in the Monongahela. He and several of his neighbors set forth to join the headstrong and ill lated commander, bat, after several day*’ marsh, were turned back by the news of his overthrow. He migrated to South Carolina nearly a liundreJ years ago. He was in thirteen considerable conflicts during the War of Indepcadence, aad in skirmishes and rencounters with Indians, with Tories and with British, times beyond memory. He was with Gates at Camden, with Morgan at the Cowpsns, with Green at Uillsbore and with Marion in many a bold rush into a Tory camp or red-coat quarters/"1''''''’” Thirty Days to Jerusalem 1—A writer in Harper’s Magazine asys the Holy City is now lest than thirty days trorn New York. Such is the power of steam. The route is thus: New York, to Liverpool, eleven days; Livsrpool to Marseilles, four days ; Marseilles to Alexandria, eight; one day of rest, two days more to Jaffa, and two days on horse back to the gates of Jerusalem. A Snake Within a Potato.—The Chicago Journal, of Thursday, says: “Mr. Glia?. E. Day, of the South Side, yesterday showed us a boiled potato, which on being opened was funned to contain a small snake over two inches long. It is an ugly looking thing. The development took place at the dinner ’able.” Till ReIgH* of Art.—In thin wonderful age, Art law* har master toadies on almost every thing. The soilings over u* and the carpets we tread on, are hallowed by Art. Art wind* the railway through the moun tains and the mud : makes her machine* of wood and iron, to aot as if with knowledge and annihilates space with lightning tamed down to the tuteledge of a buy. Nothing is too lofty for her touch and nothing too hombie. A new proot of ihisoid conviction, haejust fallen under Otfr notice, ir the shape otaOitTiiaRTioPiiX', from the Laboratory of that woi Id renowned Okeirih-t Doctor J. G. Ayer. If we understand the iohjeot, he has tarried thot article to the farthest perfection of which it is capable. Instead of employing Drags in its composition, as we have always though the necessary and only way, be lias with consummate skill extracted the virtues of the medicine! to be employed and combin ed them alone in their parity together. The composition is then mixed and rolled by machinery and steam power into aeperoia pill which is wrapped in an envelope ol gelatine, protection from the effects of peather or time, and then thickly coated with sugar, to servo aa its passport over tha palate. Notwithstacdign all this labored perfection they are offered to the Public at less than one cent each. However humble the department,’we think this may be safely oharactericed aa the consummation of Art in Its line. Mbrnihg News, Balt. fW“ Mr, Galim Terry, ofthlsplaoe, was, on Monday, arrested by officers sent here from Fayetteville, charged with the murder Of Capt.Wilkerson, plying between Jhis piaoe and Fayettville, some four yearsifinee. It appears that Terry, who was engineer of the boat at that tine, confessed to a man named Buel Evans of Fayetteville, that he knocked Wilkerson overboard with the starting har Evans went before a magistrate of Fayette ville and made oath to the statement ( hence the arrest. Terry is now in jail awaiting his trial. Wilmington Herald. Cure for Rheumatism.—The Medical World thinks this may be beneficial to many sutjsct to rheumatism: '• Where ode third of the male popula complain of some rhehmatic pains, in the fickle climate of New England, but more especially along the sea-shore; phyaicans hare power to mitigate an immense amount of severe suffering by prescribing the volatile oil of mustard. It is employed aa a rubefacient, being first diluted in its own weight of alcohol at forty degrees! Some palieDts may object to its pungen dor, but ibat is tefnporaty, while the rem edy may in somej»*e« prove a permanen cure. Make the application at least twice a day, and protect the part with soft flan neb’’ A Can’tain CcRb foe a Rattlesnake Bite ob Spider Sting.—Take the yolk of an egg, put It in a tea-cup, and stir in it at much salt as will make it thick enough not to ruu off; spread a plaster and apply it thick enough not to run oft ; spread a planter and apply it to the wound, and I would insure your life for a sixpence. The subscriber hint tried the above remedy in anamber of cases and nev* er knew it to fall. P. Perryman, M, D., tin American Cot* /on Planler. When Mach non, the Greek Physicion was slain, Hornet said nfhim, “ a good Physician is worth as much as a whole army.” Then a good medicine like Avers Cathartic Pills, is worth a great deal more, because it cures as well, works wider and lasts longer. The circle of the best Physician’s labor mnst be narrow, while snch a remedy is available to all—can be had by every body, and is worth having. • BIT VART Died near Suhsbdry, Gates County N. C. on the 4th inst. Mr. Wm_P.Woodward, in the 25th year of his age. In ihe death of this young man,, an aged fa ther and mother and devoted brothers and sis ters are greatly bereaved. He was amiably disposed, and quite affectionate, and was much loved by his family and friends- He prayed earnestly and it is hoped obtained pardon and died in peace. W. (Portsmouth Transcript please copy) Died suddenly on Sunday the 5th inst. a Lynchburg. Va. Mrs Martha S. 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