Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-07-17
STATTNTON VA. WEDNESDAY, JULY II, 1850.

Charles got out on it 10 get shne ana hooh 'i'a s
over where the water was deep and the first thing we saw
he had slipped off and was struggling In the wafer ii0H
threw off his cap and jumped clear from the wharf no ING
water and after great deal ofhaId work. got ChaeS OUT
and they waded up through the mud to where 'he
was not wet and slippery and then helped 'neh -
climb up the side. Charles told Henry not to say any'ng
about it, for if he did, his father would never let MIN 81
near again. Henry very sorry, and all the way
going home, he kept saying
"'What will father say when ne sees me lo-hign'i
wish | had not gone TO the wharf!"
'Dear, brave boy" exclaimed the bereaved falher )
.and this was the explanation which cruelty feiuSeo u
hear and hot and bitter tears rolled down his cheeks.
Yes tha, stern father now learned and for the first time,
that what he had treated with unwoned severity as au'
was but the impulse of generous nature, which, orgeuul
of self had azarded life for another 1t was but the quick
prompting of that manly spirit which he himself had al
ways endeavored 10 graft upon his susceptible mlnd' and
which, young as he was, had already manifested se on
more than one occasion.
Let me close this story in the very words of that ather'
and let the lesson sink deep into the heart OF every parent
who shall peruse this sketch:
.Evervthnp that now see that ever belonged TO him.
reminds me of my lost boy Yesterday found some rude
nencis which it was his delight to make Tor the
amusement of his younger brother Today In fu'niagn
an old closet came across his boots, still covered with
dock-mud, as when he last wore them (Yon may lhlhN
il sappe but that which is usually unsghy an object
is now most precious 10 me.o And every morning and
evening" pass the ground where my sons voice rang lhe
merriest among his playmates :.
A these things speak to me vvidy Of his active life;
but cannot-though have often tried cannot recall
anv other expression of the dear boys face than that mue
mournu one with which he turned from me on the night
so harshly repused him. Then my heart beeds atresh
ooh how careful should we all be that in our daily con-
due those little beings sent US BY kind FroVdehce'
we are not laying up for ourselves the sources OF many o
Ter tear How cautious that neither by nconslderae nor
cruel words OF looks unusy geve their generous eel
ioqsl And how guardedy ought we to weigh every ac-
ton against its motive lest, in moment of excitement we
be led to mete out the yenla error OF the hear e PuiS
men due only to wilful crime!
Aas perhaps few parents suspect how often the erce
rebuke the sudden blow, is answered In their chioen oy
the tears, not of passion of physical or mental PAIN but
ola loving yet grieved or outraged nature"
will add no word TO reflections SO true; no correatSe
incident to an experience so touching.
IesonAScE IN ENGLAND.-Taking the whole Of north
ern Europe-Including Scotland and France and Belgium
(where education is alta low bb)-we find that oeverytwo
and quarter of the population there one child acquiring
the rudments Of knowledge: while in England there Is
only one such pupil to every fourteen inhabitants 1t mas
beeu calculated that there are the present day in Eng
land and Wales nearly eight million persons who can nell
ther rad nor we-ha is to say, nearly one quarter OF
the population Aso that Of all the children between ilve
and fourteen more than half attend place of nstruc-
ton These statements would be hard 10 believe, five
had not to encounter in our every day life degrees off e
racy which would be hard to believe, if we were not
thoroughly used to it. Wherever we turn, ignorance not
always allied poverty, staes US in the face 1--we look
in the Gazette the list Of partnerships dissolved, not
month passes but unhappy man, rolling perhaps IN
wealth. but waowing in ignorance, is put to The erpert-
,aent,tm crcis Of "his mark" The number Of petit ju-
rors-n rural districts especay-who can only sign with
cross is enormous 1t is unusual to parish docu-
ments Of reat local importance deaced with the same hu'
initiating symbol by persons whose office shows them to
be not only "men of mark" but men Of substance.
house wife in humble life needs only turn to the file Of
he, radesmens bills to discover herogyphics which rem
er them so many arIthmecal puzzles In short, the
practical evidences of the low ebb to which the palneSt
rudmens of education in this country have fallen, are too
common TO bear repetition. We cannot pass through the
Streets we cannot enter place Of public assembly, or ram
bic in the fields without the gloomy shadow of Ignorance
sweeping over US Household Words.
15-The long and painful anxiety in resardto Mr. Panes
great discovery for producing light aud heat from watels
at length most painfully relieved. The Journal OF Com
merce, of Thursday afternoon, says
ga party composed of distinguished chemists from this
city, Princeton and Boston, and other gentlemen interested
met at WoIchesie day or two since, to examine the ap
paraus constructed by Mr.. Paine, to illustrate his alleged
discovery of a new method of manufacturing gas. MIR.
Paine left town the approach of these gentlemen, but
his brother remained to do the honors. They first visited
The machine at the Exchange which remains in the "dam
aged" condition to which alluded last week. They
then adjourned his house, where The gas is shown burn
ng and succeeded in detecting the trick by which visitors
have heretofore. been deceived They will furnish full
account OF the exhibition in day two, and expore"
this humbug which has excited such large share ofpub
lie attention."
EGYPTIAN BUnIALs-The ancient Egyptians believed
that the soul would return after the lapse of ages to in
habit in this world, the same body from which it had
been separated by DEATH In this belief commenced the
process of ebalmng by which the bodies that people
have been preserved with wonderful integrity to the pre-
sent day. To so extraordinary point had the anseptc art
been brought that appears from Dodorus, there was
mode of preservation of the eyebrows, eyelashes, and the
general external character of the person. who could be
cognzed by their form and says Dr.
Pocock, in his Travels through Egypt, "Many Of the
Egypans kent the bodies their ancestors in houses but
never at their own residences adorned very great ex
pense," The painters art has in modern times superseded
these curious picturegalleries.
o. A Washington letter in the N. Y. Courier says
Various interests in both Houses consulting together,
with view of carrying adjournment of Congress from
The st nf Annnst to the st OF October after passing the