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Crime and Cost in Ohio.

By the reports recently made to the
Attorney General from the Prosecute
ing Attorneys Of the several counties
in Ohio, save nine, we have ascertain.
ed that 2,o45 persons were prosecuted
for crime, during the year ending Oc-
tober 1st, 1876. 1871 were convicted,
and AIS acquitted. The costs Of pros
ecution amounted to $93.O39, Of which
about one-fourth only was regarded as
collectable. Nearly one-sixth Of the
whole number were led into crime from
intsmperancs.-OA iol Eagle.
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MEMoRY.-The remembrance of the
loved and lost, the absent or alienated,
how it comes upon US like a dream of
the past and mingles with the present,
as the shadows of twilight steal quietly
upon the vivid hues Of day. How Of.
ten does a word, a look, a tone, bring
back the memory oflong loved, familiar
faces, and the voice Of those long passed
away, seems mingling with accents
which we have scarcely learned to re-
cognize, so brief has been the period
since we have known their tongues.
How sweet the charms that memory throws
Around the scenes OF earlier years;
How brightly retrospection shows
Long vanished forms--tho' seen through tears.
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"He's Got the Mitten."

Much is expressed in this short sem
tence. 1t tells Of hopes withered, and
Of happiness fled and gone perhaps for
ever. The young and though,less may
sheer at the unfortunate victim, and
the cold wording may drop some pass
ing remark upon it, but if some single
old gentleman like myself should hear
that short exclamation it would elicit
a warmer and a more tender sentiment.
His mind would unconsciously travel
back TO the days Of his youth, and
dwell upon that period when he too
had received this memento of thought
less pride and gIrlish %prudery.
To me it is peculiarly affecting
The girls indeed laugh at my grey hairs
and peaked nose, and quiz my gaunt-
like appearance-yetI was ONO young
and gay, and my happIest hours pass
ed in the society Of maids as blooming
and handsome as themselves. And
from one Of the fairest of her sex | re.
ceived the curse OF youth and terror of
bachelors, "the mitten."- 1t came
%scorching and deadening in its inlu.
ence, and blasted ambition in the bud.
| never loved again. Many years
have since passed away, and my age is
lone and dreary. My home is cheer
less, and fre-side un~occupied; life itself
is devoid of charms, land when | search
Tor the cause, | travel back through
many a wintry year, to that bleak spot
in my youth, when 81 got the milten."
If then | hear Of one in a similar sit
%uation, have not cause TO say it affects
me? Too plain does it tell me of feel.
ings triled with, and affections spurned
and trampled in the dust. 1t reminds
me of those days that are gone, and
the visions Of my childhood-of hope.
and love, and the thousand bright
dreams that played round my heart
when life was young and buoyant.--
Those days, alas! are no more--my
friends are away--and the season of
youth can never return. With sorrow
| confess it, | belong the fraternity of
tive single gentlemen" and am nav at
fit,y-fve, a thin, spindle-shanked old
bachelor, weary of the world and un.
known to its enjoyments.
In defence of the "brotherhood,' |
must say, however, that IN nine cases
out of ten, they can date the COM
mencement of their resolution to lead a
single life from that only cause; nor
can it be doubted that many an unfor-
tunate maiden has had reason to la
ment her indiscretion, and, with be-
numbed fingers and a chill old age, has
regretted the day that she gave her
lover "the mitten."
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Nonsuiting a Creditor.

There vas a certain lawyer on the
Cape, a long time ago, and the only
one in those "diggings,' then, and fol
aught ] know, at present. He was a
man well to do in the world, and wha,
was somewhat surprising in a limb Of
the law, averse to encouraging litIga.
ton. One day a client came to him
in a violent rage:
'Look-here, squire,' said he,' shat ere
blasted shoemaker down 10 Pigeon
Cove, has gone and sued me for the
money for IA pair Of boots | owed him.
did the boots suit your
ooh, yes!-l have got 'em on--fust
rate boots.'
Fair price"
ooh, yes!'
sThen you owe him the money hon
estly?
COURSE
'WelI, why don't you pay himF
'Why, cause the blasted snob went
and sued me, and | want TO keep him
out of the money if kim
lit will cost you something
q don't keer a cuss for that. How
much money do you want to begin
withY
'Oh, ten dollars will do
lis that all? Well, here's an x, so
go ahead and the client went out very
well satisfied with the beginning.
Our lawyer next called upon the
shoemaker, and asked him what he
meant by commencing legal proceed
ings against NJ
'Why,' said he, q kept on sendin,' to
him for money till ! got tired. | know'd
he was able to pay, and was 'termined
to make him. That's the long and short
of it,
'Well,' said the lawyer, he's been a
good customer to you, and | think you
acted too hasty. There's a trihe to
pay on your proceeding, but | think
you had better take this five dollars, and
call it square,
Certain, squire, if you say so, and
darn'd glad to get it, was the answer.
So the lawyer forked over one v.
and kept the other. In a few days his
client came along and asked him how
he got on with his case. M
Rapidly cried the lawyer. 'We've
non suited him! He'll never trouble
you.
Jerusalem! that's great cried the
client. 'Id rather gin fifty dollars than
had him got the money for them boots.
Spirit of The Times.
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Facts for the Curious.

The moon, when full, reflects upon
the earth only about onc.,housand,h
part Of the light Of the sun; and the lu.
mar rays, even when con,rasteG by a
powerful lens, and the focus directed
upon the bulb of a delicate thermome-
ter, do not effect it in the slightest de.
gree; hence the phrase, ''the pale cold
moon," is not only POLITICALLY beautiful,
but philosophically correct.
The volume Of bulk OF carbonic acid
gas resplred by a healthy adult in TWEEN
ty-four hours is said to mount to $4,000
cubic inches, containing about 6 ounces
of solid carbon. This is at the rate of
1877 pounds avourdupois per annum;
and taking the whole population of the
globe at 76o,o0o,00o, the amount Of
solid carbon, or charcoal, every year
produced by the human race will ok.
coed 46,4s2, 43tons! Adding to this
all the carbon produced by the combus-
ton Of fires and gas-lights, by the decay
Of animal and vegetable matter, the ex.
halations from springs, &c., there need
be nj marvel as to the source from
whence plants derive their solid or
woody material, (Which is principally
carbonO seeing that their leaves are
specially fitted for the absorption of
carbonic acid gas from the surrounding
atmosphere.
In Britain, the deposition of dew
from the atmosphere is generally less
during the continuance Of easterly than
westerly winds--a phenomenon attri.
butable to the different nature of the
surfaces over which these winds travel
the former crossing the continent Of
Europcs and thus becoming compare
lively dry and arid; the latter sweep
ing across the vast expanse Of the At
lantic ocean, and therefore becoming
moist or hydrated, requiring but little
reduction Of their temperature for the
copious deposition of dew to ensue up
on terrestrial objects. =
The atmosphere Immediately incum-
bent on the earth has power of absorb
ing and retaining more Of the blue rays
Of light than that at greater attitudes;
and thus, when we cast our eyes on
high, we look through a volume Of the
densest air, replete with blue light;
and so likewise if we look abroad over
an extensive tract ofcountry, the hori-
ION Of which is formed BY distant bills,
they appear blue. or, in other words,
they partake Of the coloro of the medium
through which they are viewed. five
journey to them, the blue color gradu-
ally vanishes, and at length their ordi-
nary colors appear; and now, looking
from the hills towards the spot from
whence we journsyed.i il in turn appears
blue. The ridge called the aBlue
Msuntains,n in Australia, another Of
the sans lame in America, and many
others elsewhere, are not really blue
f.
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Health I Of taking Food.

= toS AN RuA ~ hNNAS
for eating. When the mode of life is
uniform, it is Of great Importance to
adopt fixed hours; when it is irregular,
we ought to be guided by the real
wants Of the system as dictated by ap-
petite.
A strong laboring man, engaged in
hard work, will require food oltener and
in larger quantities than an indolent and
sedsntary man
AS a general rule, about five hours
should elapse between n meal and
another-longer if the mode of life be
INDECENT, shorter if it be very active.
When dinner is delayed seven or
eight hours after breakfast, some slight
refreshment should be taken between.
Young persons, growing fast, require
more food and shorter intervals, than
those who have attained maturity.
Children under seven years of age,
usually need food every three hours; a
piece of bread will be a wholesome
lunch, and a child seldom eats bread TO
excess.
During the first months Of infancy
there can be no set times Of giving
nourishment. The best rule is to salts
fly the real wants Of the child, but new
err tempt it to take food to still its cry
ing from pain when it is not hungry.
Those persons who take a late sup.
per should not take breakfast till one or
two hours after rising. Those who
dine late and eat nothing afterwards,
require breakfast oon after rising.
Persons of a delicate constitution
should never exercise before breakfast.
If exposure of any kind is to be in
CURED in the morning, breakfast should
always be taken previously. The sys-.
tenn is more susceptible Of infection and
of the influence of cold, miasma., &c.,
in the morning before eating than at
any other time.
Those who work early will find great
benefit from taking a cracker or some
nourishment before going out.
Never 60 into a room in the MORN
ing, where a person is sick with fever,
before you have taken nourishment of
some kind, a cup OF coffee, at least.
In setting out early to travel, a light
breakfast before starting should always
be taken; it is a great protection a.
gainst cold, fatigue and exhaustion.
In boarding schools for the young
and growing, early breakfast is an in
d~ispensable condition 10 health. Chill
dren should not be kept without food
the morning till they are faint and
weary. h
Never eat a hearty supper just before
retiring to bed.
1t is injurious to eat when greatly
heated or fatigued. 1t would very
much conduce to the health of laboring
men if they could rest fifteen or twenty
minutes before dinner.
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Our Native Song.

Our native song! Our native song!
Oh! where is he who loves it not?
The spell it holds is deep and strong,
Where'er we 60, whate'er our lot.
Let other music greet our ear
With thrilling FIRE or dulcet tone;
We speak to praise, we pause to hear,
But yet-oh! yet-'tis not our W
The anthem chant, the ballad wild,
The notes that we remember long
The theme we sung with lisping tongue
IT'S this we love-our native song!
The one who bears the ielon's brand.
With moody brow and darkened name,
Thrust meanly from his father-land,
To anguish out a life Of shame;
Oh! let him hear some simple strain
I Some lay his mother taught her boy
He'll feel the charm and dream again
OF home, of innocence, and joy!
The sigh will burst, the drops will start,
And all of virtue buried long
The best. the pures st Of his heart,
Is Weakened by his native song.
Sclf.exiled from our place of birth,
To chimes more fragrant. bright. and gay,
The memory Of our own fair earth
May chance awhile to fade away;
But should some minstrel echo fall,
OF chords that breathe Columbia's fame,
Our souls will burn, our spirits yearn,
True to the land we love and claim.
The high! the low! in veal or wo,
Be sure there 5 something coldly wrong
Aboutthe heart that does not glow
To hear its own, its native song.
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thought. What is deepest, is most sacred in
man or boy, is also the most delicate, easiest
scared away by rudeness; and we have seen, not
boys only, but men for being repuIsed by unap-
precatlng minds more ashamed of their virtues
than their vices-and actually hiding noble
and deep sentiment by an affected rudeness-
The teacher of child must know and love
him, and be able to win his love- and DO. only
be on kindly TERMS, but equal to The ask, if
need be, of drawing from him all his hearts
hopes and fears and aims and of course must
be worthy Of such confidence Then he may
help the growing Soul with his experience and
his love; ana little by little the expanding spr-
it will take hold OF its own great mystery-dnd
before it comes in contact with the responsiveness
of life, will have grown nsensibIy familiar with
its hoped-for destiny-w have become habitu-
ated to reverent and earnest mood--so that
no after bulelting will blot out its high aims
or put its nobIest impulses to the blush. Blu
before any thing like what is needed can be
made practical in education, we must have
teachers, not seers and sayers Of mere rules, bu
of the secret springs Of life and action-in shor
must wait quietly till things are a great dea
better than they are now.-Charter Oak
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The Signs Of the Times.

Antl-slaVery retormers, IN common with all
other men, are too much inclined to calculate
the prospects of eventual success, from the nun.
bers that have come forward and given in their
adherence to their principles, or the rapdty
with which pioselytes to the truth are made
Now we think that nothing can be more errone'
Gus than such calculations. If the truth, in its
contest with error at the ballot-box, gets beaten
a thousand to one, it by no means follows that
error is thousand times the strongest, or that
truth has but one chance in thousand of ever
ucceedng.-Wh estimates the strength OF
parties, on questions where moral principle is at
stake, by counting noses, sadly miscacuIates.
Although the elections the present season have
resulted in truly gratifying increase Of the Lib
erty vote, we by no means consider this the most
encouraging sign of the times. When it is con-
sidered that the Wing and Democratic parties
are the great bulwarks of the slave system-that
through them it yields the political power ofthi.
nation-thal it could never have acquired, auC
cannot for an hour maintain its political suprem
acy on its own merits-cvery thing that tends Il
weaken the old issues, and call the attention d
the honest rank and file of those parties to THU
subject, is encouraging. All over the free State:
numbers Of the party nicknamed Democratic
have opened their eyes, and have, more or les
emphatically, protested against the rule of slave
ocracy. In New Hampshire and Maine it ha
produced schsm which has Frustrated the pro
slavery Democracy forever In the former STATE
the seceders have already joined the true Democ
racy of universal freedom, and in the latter the
will undoubtedly soon do so. In the other FIRE
States the members of that party are asking
slarerY and Democracy can have fellowship tc
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our rulers to take measures to stop the war; and
such petitions were poured into Congress from
men Of every party at the East and the West,
at the North and the South, would not their
wishes be needed, and the war be brought at
once to close! So it seems to us; and hence
we would urge upon all the importance of their
pelitoning Congress to use its constitutional
powers in arrestng this war, and securing just
and honorable peace without any more blood
shed
May we not appeal especially 10 Christians
They believe in gospel of peace; they are the
protested followers Of the Prince Of Peace; and
are bound as we conceive by every principle of
their religion, to do all they can to stay the
crimes and miseries of war. There are said to
be in the United States some As 600 Christian
churches of every name, with three or four mill.
ions Of members; and, if half these millions, in
every sect and party through the land would
only unite in earnest against the further contin.
uance of this war, would they not be sure tc
succeed!
Still more earnestly would we appeal to min.
listers of the gospel They are the moral guides
of the people; and, commissioned from the
Prince Of Peace, and the God of Peace, as
preachers Of peaceful religion, ought they not
to lead the van of efforts for the restoration and
continuance Of peace? Can they, without being
recrennt to God and humanity, shrink from such
services at time like the present! There are
in the whole country, it is said, some $4,000
such herads Of peace; and, if they should all
lit up then voices against the continuance o
l this war, would it not come to an end very soon
And what service would be more important, or
more appropriate to their office!
More powerful still is the periodical press up.
on the mass of minds through the continuity
There are in the United States more than 100
religious papers, and some 1890 or more O
every class, reaching every neighborhood, anC
every leading mind, with their daily or weekly
issues How easy for such multitude of pa
pcrs, if only united and earnest for peace, tc
insure It's speedy, almost instant restora ton
Permit us, then, to bespeak, gentlemen Of the
press, your special corporation for this purpose
We ask it without distinction of party We dc
not wish You in this case to lift your voice ethe
for or against any party as such; nor do we SET
why honest men of all parties cannot consist
emily cooperate for an object which every one
of them desires. You are the law giyers o
that public sentiment which must, sooner or la
ter, determine what measures shall be taken tc
stop this war between sister Republics who's,
interests are, aud whose hearts ought to be, ono
now and ever. viii you not then use your hes
endeavors for peace by opening your columns tc
its claims, and inditing articles yourselves in it
behalf! NUMA.
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gether. They stayed away from town meeting
to inquire-the result will hereafter be SEEN
The Wing party is in divided state on this ques-
ton likewise, and though no important secessIons
have as yet formally taken place, yet anti
slavery and pro-slavery Wings are ranging them
selves; the question is fairly up, and no questions
relating to mere money matters can ever again
sti6e it,
In many towns, too, the parties las in Ames-
bury,) by uniting together in the choice of rep
resentatives, have acknowledged that there is no
important matter which divides them; an ac-
acknowledgement which cannot fail to turn to the
furthcrance Of the cause of human freedom, which
is vital question.
These signs of the times We hail as mort
suspicious to the cause Of Liberty. Though the
parties stand in their vocation of sentnels at
the door of slavery, apparently as powerful and
as yigildnt as ever, tits only in appearance Like
the ice which a spring sun has been slowly PEN
etratlng, looking as strong as when hardened by
the cold blasts of January, yet porous and yield
ing, ready at the first agitation Of the waters to
mingIe in its native element, the parties are
wrought upon by the truth, and ere long will
dissolve for want of cohesion, and leave a fair
field for the great combat between freedom and
slavery God speed the day !-Esscr Tran
script
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Sold to Paw his Debts.

We noticed a short time since, the sudden
disappearance from Charleston, S. c., Of Ger
tain alderman and Bank Director, on account Of
debts which he could not pay, and who was mar"
ried to a mulatto woman by whom he had six
children 1t turns out now that the mulatlo wo-
man was his SLAVE, and consequently the six
children are slaves also! The result is, the cred
tors of the absconding alderman have made ar
raugements to seize the wife and children, and
sell them for her husbands and their fathers
debtsl Think Of that, ye pious and Christian
people; in this republican and Christian country!
mans wife and children-bone of his bone and
blood of his bIood--are sold to pay his debts!'
Here is one of the legitimate fruits of slavery it
first encourages man to licentious habits with
his slaves, and then, when misfortune overtakes
him with group ofhis own begotten slave chill
dren around him, he sees the remorseless credit
or come and seize upon the issue OF his Joins,
and the wife of his bosom, to sell them in the
shambes like beasts There will be fearful
account to settle day, for this horrible state
of things and every man who does not liA up
his voice against it, will have some share in that
account,
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Truthful Extract

-" What think ye was the mission of Jesus,
the Redeemer to man? lie came to tell him
that there was an immortality beyond the grave,
but he also came to II6 up the toing millions
of the human race, from their degradation in this
lower world. Yes, it is truth eternal as God
Jesus came to visit the Poor Han in his
misery to clothe the bent form in finer
garment; to feed his mouth with better bread
to shelter his weary head with the roof of a
dearer home.
He came to the Poor Man as brother
His voice speaks even now, saying to the slave
of the work shop and the mine Brother, arise
for thy time Is near
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SC0Id O.

"a great deal of injury is done to children by
their parents scolding. Many children have
been nearly or quite ruined by it, and often driv-
en- from home, to become vagabonds and wan
derers, by scoldlng. 1t sours your tember, pro-
vded it is sweet, which is a question: if you
scold, the more you will have to scod and be-
cause you have become crosser, and your chill
dren likewise. Seeding aenates the hearts of
your children. Depend upon it, they cannot
love you as well after you have beraed them,
as they did before. You may approach them
with frmness and decision. you may punish
them with severity adequate to the nature of their
offences, aud they will feel the Justice of your
conduct, and love you notwithstanding all. But
they hate scoldIng 1t stirs up the bad blood,
while it discloses your Weakness and lowers you
in their estimation Especially at night, when
they are about to retire, their hearts should be
melted and moulded with voices of kindness,
that they may 60 to their sIumbers with thoughts
oflove stealing around their souls, and whisper
ing peace" ~ y. Evangelist