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MARRIED L1FE.-Julius NJ ,ser gives the fol-
lowing counsel, from wife and mother: 81 try
to make myself and all around me agreeable
1t will not do to leave man no pains 10 attract
him, or to appear before him with long face
It is not so difficult as you think, dear child, to
behave to husband so that he shall remain for.
ever in some measure husband. l am an old
woman, but you can still do what YOU like:
word from you at the right time will not fill Of
its effect. What need have you to play the
suffering virtue The tear of loving girl, says
ali old book, is like the dew drop on the rose; but
that on the cheek Of wife is a drop Of poison
to her husband. Try to appear cheerful and
contented and your husband will be so; and when
you have made him happy, you will become so,
not in appearance, but in reality. The skill re-
quired is not so great.
Nothing fatters man so much as the hap
plness Of his wife: he is always proud of himself
rs the source Of it. As soon as you will be live
'ly and alert, and every moment will afford you
an opportunity to let fall an agreeable word.-
Your education, which gives you an immense ad.
advantage, will greatly assist you; and your SEN
sibility will become the noblest gift that nature
has bestowed on you, when it shows itself in af-
fectionate assiduity, and stamps on every action
soft, kind and tender character, instead Of vast
ing itself in secret repinings.
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you have not an idea what life of confinement
and dullncsS led. Had not possessed many
resources and occupations really think should
have gone out my senses. l was insultcd with
degrading suspicious; my very servants were
that my husband would think less Of my beauty
and more Of my good sense and gcod principles!
Even my walks were circumscrbed and few; my
brilliant eyes did all the mischief, they we're sure
to bring host Ofgazers upon me and my Tenn.
pie per istcd in thinking that invited and EN-
couraged the admiration excited At length
he died, and his will stated that was to forfeit
all claim to his fortune if married again. was
vexed and hurt at his want Of kindness and COLI
idence and when took lace in society often
thought that if married hoped it would be to
some one who would prize my mind above my
person. Meadows id not at all answer this re-
QUESTION; but yet was pleased and hattered by
his attentions and could not endure the thought
of dismisSing him. Frequently did wonder
within myself how he would act if by any uu-
forseen mischance were to be deprived of beau.
ty, and the railway accident gave Inc an oppor-
tunity of fascertaning this fact shall never
forget Corbett, the generous delicacy with which
you forbore making the slightest allusion 10 my
supposed misfortune when you asked for my
hand. I have bcstowedi it on you with the great.
est pleasure feeling that your love for me is ba-
sed on esteem and friendship; and although have
just been complaining TO you of the confinement
to which was subjected for several years Of my
life do not imagine that lam disposed to rush
into the contrary extreme and to stale me to the
peoples eyes because am worth looking at
l am quite as fond Of peace and quiet as your
as SELF and undertake to say that you shall lead
domestica life as if you had untrd yourself,o the
variest dowdy of your acquaintance, instead of
unwariy committing the hazardous action Of
marrying beauty"
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-10

ORIGIN OF THE CAUDLE LEcTUREs.-Douglass
Jerrod in the preface TO the new edition Of the
Caude Lectures, gives the following singular &C.
count of their original conception:
1t was, says Mr.. Jerrolh, a black, thick, wintry
afternoon, when the writer stopped in front of
the playground OF a suburban school. The
ground swarmed with boys full of the Saturdays
holiday. The earth seemed rooted with the old
est lead; and the wind came sharp as Shylock's
knife, from the Minories. But these happy boys
ran and ;;n-,red, ard iIoppeu au1 shouted, and
un, orsc Gus men il miniature - in their own
world of froc, had no thought Of the full length
men they would some day become; drawn out
into grave citizenship; formal, respectable, re-
sponsible. To them the skv was Of any and sll
colors; and for that keen east wind cutting
the shoulder blades of DID, old men Of forty
they in their Immortality Of boyhood had the
redder faces, and the nimbler blood for it. And
the writer, looking dreamingly into that play
ground still unused on the robust jolty Of those
little fellows. to whom the tax gatnerer was as
yet rarer animal than a baby hippopotamus.
Heroic boyhood, so ignorant of the future in the
knowing enjoyment of the present!
And the writer still dreaming and musing, and
still following no distinct line Of thought, there
struck upon him. like notes of sudden household
music, these words-Curtain Lectures. One
moment there was no living object save those
racing, shouting boys; and the next, as though
white dove had alighted on the pen hand Of
the writer, there was-Mrs. Caudle. Ladies Of
the jury, are there not then some subjects Of let
ters that mysteriously assert an effect without
any di<coverablc cause9 Otherwise, wherefore
should the thought Of curtain lectures grow from
a school ground among crowd of
holiday sehooboys should appear Mrs. Caudlea
For the lectures themselves, it is feared they
must be given up rs farcical desecration Of
solemn timo-honorcd privilege. It may be exer'
ciscd once in lifetime, and that once having
the effect of hundred repetitions, as Job lec-
tured his wife; and Jobs wife, a certain Moham-
medan writer delivers, having committed a fault
in her love for her husband, he swore that on his
recovery he would deal her hundred stripes,
Job got well, and his heart was touched and
taught by the tenderness to keep his VOW aud
still to chastse his he pmate, for he smote her
cnce with palm branch having hundred
leaves.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-10

WHAT IS a FoP.-The fop is a complete spe.
cimen of an outside philosol her. He is one
third collar one sixth patent leather one fourth
stick, and the rest gloves and hair. As to his re-
mote ancestry there is some doubt, but it is now
pretty we'll settled that he is the son Of taor's
goose. Nevertheless, such are useful. If there
were no tadpoles there would be no frogs. They
are not so entirely to blame for being devoted
toexternas. Paste diamonds must have a splen-
did setting to make them sell. Only it does
seem waste of material. 10 Put five doars
worth of beaver on five cents worth of brains.
LAKE FIs1.-More than $1,000 barrels ard
half barrels of fish from Lakes Huron, Michigan,
and Superior, have been sold in the Cleveland
market since the opening Of navigation this sea-
son.
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From the Youths Magazine.
THE CROP OF ACoRNS.

BY LYDIA H. sIeoURNEY.
There came man in days of old,
To hire piece of land for gold.
And urged his suit in accents meek,
"One crop alone is all seek;
That harvest DER, my claim yield,
And to its lord resign the field"
The owner some misgivings felt,
And coldly with the stranger dealt.
But found his last objection fail,
And honeyed eloquence prevail,
So took the profered price in hand,
And for one crop leased out the land.
The willy tenant sneered with pride,
And sowed the spot with acorns wide;
At first .ike tiny shoots they grew,
Then broad and wide their branches threw
But long before those oaks sublime,
Aspiring, reached their forest prime,
The cheated landlord mouldering lay,
Forgotten, with his kindred clay.
o We, whose years unfolding fair,
Are fresh with youth, and free from care,
Should vice or Incidence desire
The garden Of your souls to hire,
No pa,ley hold-reject the suit,
Nor let one seed the soil pollute.
My child, their first approach beware;
With firmness break the insidiors snare,
Lest, as the acorns grow and throve
Into sun-excluding grove,
Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree,
Shut out the light of heaven from thee
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A physician passing by ston"mason's, baw'ed
out to him, Good morning, Mr.; hard {
work sec: : you finish your gravestones as far ny
In Memory Of and then you wait, suppose, to
see who wants a monument next" "Why, yes"
replied the old man, resting for a moment on his
mallet. "unless some body is sick and you are
doctoring him, and then keep right on"
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Dissipation softens the soul so much, that the
most superficial employment becomes a burden,
and the sligbtestinconvenience an agony. The
roses of pleasures seldom last long enough to
adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for
they are the only roses which do not retain their
sweetness after they have lost their beauty.
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PREpARArroS-Ord"rs have been issued by
the Government of the United States 10" the COLI
struction, in Philadelphia of a large number Of
baggage Wagons for The army. They are to be
ready as soon as practicable.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-10

TIE PopE has sent messenger to Vienna to
demonstrate against the heavy demands made on
the Pspal treasury by Austria, for the mainten
snce Of troops.
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Meadows and his cousin were sauntering slow
ly down Regent street.
Congratulate me-" said the former; have
received the most encouraging and delightful
letter from Adela. She will be in London to.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-02-12
Gov. Hubbard.

Rev. Mr.. DRUMMoND, of Danville, one of the
smartest clergymen of the congregationaist de-
nomination in the State, makes his mark &C.
casionally in the columns of the Le,ciston Falls
Journal. The following, copied from the
Journal of Saturday last, is in his usual off
hand, vigorous style =
We are glad to learn that our Governor
acted as Preslden; of the recent Temperance
Convention at Augusta, and what is better still,
gave in his adhesion TO temperance principles.
and his individual, personal sanction TO the law
to which he had previously given his official
sanction. We have seen his motives impugned
for so doing, but motives are mans own.
they are what man has to face God and eier-
nifty with. Speech, acts are ours-they are
what man has to face the world. Not by the
buildings of motives, nor the blossomings Of
pnrposes-but by the fruits of acts are zoe to
Judge men. Gov. II. has spoken for temper
ance and acted for temperance. We do moi
know him personally, but we have seen him
and we mistake the man entirely i he does not
speak the thing he means. We nerer sa,o q
supple, oily, sneahing soul housed in an aux
ward, bonny, herculean ran,e like has. I,would
be strange mismatcn for a soul of that kind
and body of his Kind to come together. |,
may or may no. be stroke of good policy pc.
lnically con:ddered for him to come out as he
has tor temperance. OF that we leave poliii.
clans 10 jddge. But one thing is certain by
so Icing he has commended himself to the GOOD
opinion and (what would-be governors some
times like berte) 10 the sunrages Of mulitudes
of good citizens who hate dram drinking and
dramshops. We do not like to give pledges
beforehand, but IF we should happen to be a,
home, and if we do not change our mind, and
if good many things should not happen which
may happen, and if one vote more which he
never got before should elect him as it did a
certain other governor. he will be likely 10 gel
that vote, and SO fill the executive chair anolt,-
er year."
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-02-12

lHE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Designed TO be a
GUIDE 10 Justices of the Peace for The State Of
Maine. BY BENJAMIN KINGsBURY, Jr.-
Portland: Published by SANBoRN & CAR
TER. 1852.
The above volume just issued from the press
of Messrs. Sanborn & Carer, of Portland
compiled and arranged by Benjamin Kings
bury j., Esq, of Portland, and member of
the Cumberland bar, is valuable work not
only for Justices Of the Peace, acting as such,
but to all members ofthe legal profession. 1t
supplies very important desideratum with the
profession, especially to the younger members
of the Bar. 1t is well known that TO gain a
knowledge of Legal Practice is the most diff
cult part of the professional students task,
aud one which it often takes long profession
al life to become master of. This volume will
be found an almost indispensable aid in acquir-
ing this difficult part Of the profession and il,
might be, from the hasty glance we have given
it, more properly styled Book of Legal Prac-
tice, than a"Guide 10 Justices Of the Peace, .
although it includes perfect Synopsis Of the
duties Of the latter. in all their Judicial and
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-02-12
The Curtain raised---the Fraud
Exposed,

The electors of New York, in overturning
the wing powers of their State last fall, achieved
a triumph the good works of which are being
brought to light by exposing tremendous sys-
tenn of corruption on the part Of the Wing Ca
nal Board, in using the immense fnnd obtained
from the legislature for the Canal enlarge
ment. ..- ..-. ..
The New York Legislature, now in session.
have ordered an investigation into the doings of
an alleged corruption and favortism, prac,ised
by the late Wing Canal Board of that State,
in the matter of the distribution of the contracts
for the enlargement of the Erie Canal. These
contracts amounted, in the aggregate, to nearly
ten millions of dollars. The allotment of these
contracts, properly belonged TO the new Board
chosen at the late election. But the old Board,
whose term expired on the LIST of January, in
order to secure plumber to hungry whig parti-
zans, took it upon themselves TO give out these
contracts, before their commissions EXPIRED
The distribution was accordingly made in grea,
haste during the very last week of their 1Ifica
existence. The gross corruption aLd favorit-
ism which marked the allotment, has been ex-
posed in consequence of the dissatisfaction Of
the disappointed competitors for the work. Il
appears (says the Hartford times) that there
were about six thousand bidders for the work,
of whom only about one thousand were success
full in obtaining contracts. The great majority
of the Successful applicants belong to the wing
party. There could be no reasonable complaint
in consequence of aletiing the contracts TO
them, provided they had offered to do the work
on as good terms for the State, as other equal
ly responsible parties. But this is so far from
being the case, that it appears from the list of
proposals and contracts, as published, that the
people of New York have been atrociously
swindled out of about three millions of dollars,
in giving out the work to partizans, instead Of
assigning it to responsible persons, who propo-
sed to do it at less prices.
The proof of the charge Of corruption in this
case, seems to be ample and of reliable char
acter. Among the numerous instances of gross
corruption and favortism, practiced BY the late
Board in the Canal lettings, given by the Alba
ny papers, the following are few only:-N.
E. Prime & Co., not canal diggers; but law
yers and editors, obtained the contract on sec
ton No. $50, at 1929. III. Forihe very same
work there were GO lower bids, mostly from
responsiSlepersdms, and of these, Ave were at
about 500, 600 less. Paine & Co. have since
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teralion Of laws respeciing prosecu,ions in

teration Of laws respecting prosecutions in
behalf of the State. 80
The bill to amend chapter IS of the Re-
vised Statutes was taken ups rl1
After some discussion, the House adj
journed, without taking nny question:.
SATURDAY, Feb.7.
Senate. Passed to be engrossed- Bill fela.
tive 10 taking salmon, shad and alewives in
The Kennebec river and its branches.
Finally passed-Bll TO incorporate fhe
Rockand Fire and Marine Insurance Com
pany; bill 10 incorporate the Farmers Live
Stock Mutual Insurance Company.
Inc Senate adjourned 10 ! o'clock Mon
House. Petition of Daniel IIinkIey and
o.nels LOT law restraining the use oftobacco,
was read and lail on the table ~ 'T27.
Mr.. Cheney of Lebanon introduced nm or.
der Tor an inquiry into the expediency of
prohibiting railroad companies from emnlov.
log any person on their roads who uses IN.
toxicatDg drinks.
After some discussion, Mr.. Sanborn nj
OF Bangor moved an amendment instruc,inp
the committee to report such a bill. Mr..
Cheney accepted the amendment, and the
order was passed.
MONDAY, Feb. 9.
Senate. Read and ssigned-BilI incorpor.
ating the Orono Bank; incorporating Towle
Academy. in Winthrop; TO repeal chapter 81
of the laws OF 1913 10 increase the Capital
Stock Of The Ticonic Bank by $4,000.
House. On motion Of Mr.. cleveland
of Passadumkeag, the committee on ag-
ricullure was directed 10 inquire into he
expedIency fproyiding by law for The psy-
OF bounty on wheat and corn raised in this
State.
MIR. White OF Skowhegan presented the
petiIion Of Francis Drew ct al. for law pro.
hibitng the use Of tobacco. 1t was laid on
the the table.
Passed to be engrossed--Bil, to incorporate
the Bangor Savings Bank; TO incorporate
the Georges Bank.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-02-12


mttee-D Democratic Conuentions-State Com
,utee-Discussion in the House, and Editorial
Contention, &c., &c.
AUGUSTA, Feb. It'll, 1852.
The fifth week of the session is gone, and
business is yet pouring in upon the Legislature
with a perfect rush. The Apportionment
Committee had not yet got to work, but the
regular Committees are springing to their du-
ties with unwonted zeal One would suppose
that all the legislation in relation to Railroad
matters that would be required in our State,
for several years, had been had the last few
years-so much has this branch of legislation
enjoyed the attention of the last four five
legislatures But not SO. A great railroad
fight has been going on before the Railroad
Committee the last week which has attracted
much attention and brought many interested
persons into town. It has been on a hearing
of the petitioners for an amendment Of the
Somerset and Kennebec road, relative to pro-
posed alteration in the location of their road
They desire to run up the Kennebec river, from
Augusta, OH the eastern side of the river. in
stead of the tcestern, according to their present
charter. The amendment was opposed by the
Androscoggn and Kennebec road, as an in
fringement of their rights. Hon. David Bron-
Son, of Bath, opened for the petitioners, and
their interests were further advocated by Hon.
Ruel Williams and Lot Morrill,, Esq, of Au-
gusta-which latter gentleman made the clos
ing argument in his usual able and forciblc
manner. The Committee had to appropriate
several afternoons to this casc-ihe closing ar
gument having been made on Friday after
noon The Androscogsin road had all the ar
ray of counsel in attendance, we should think,
that could possibly be picked up on the line of
!she foad-among whom were Hon. S. p. Ben
sum Vi winthrop, who ably advocated the in
'teS'S OIL the road in brief speech-Col.
Hutchinson of Athens, who also made some
1orcloie and pertinent addresses to the Com
mittee, and Hon. W. b. S. Moor. who made
the closing argument on Thursday afternoon
IN behalf OF the remonstrants. The CLOSING ar
Suments each occupied an entire afternoon,
and were strong and able. The Cofnm;t, %. 70.
serve their opinion on the matter to thomse,ros
for few days.
=, The .Gardiner Bridge case comes before this
Committee carly in the coming week, and also
bids fair to create a good deal of interest.
The conference Committee, to which we al
iuded in our last-raised at the Democratic
Convention the previous week for the purpose
of conciliating the conflicting interests of the
party, were unable to agree so as to report
any definite adjustment, at the Tuesday even
ing caucus. Mr.. Bell in behalf of the Com
mittee, made the following Report
Your Committee have had several sittings
upon the matters supposed TO be entrusted
to them, and ask leave 10 submit the follow
ing report: -..,s.t..., g.,.r.l- r15l ,sr
LIST. Tnev agreed. unanimously upon the
adoption IL the, Baltimore Platform Of 1874
and 1913, by the democracy of Maine, and
20 abide BY he Platform and nomiDalions-pf
ihs,next Baltimore eopyentign. seYlg
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-02-12
WHEATLAND, near Lancaster,
----- Dec. %. 81.

GENTLEMEN Il have been honored BY your
invitation on behalf Of the Committee of Ar
rangement, to attend the Kossnth Banquet, in
Philadelphia, on Friday next. l regret that
indispensable engagements will deprive me of
the pleasure and the privilege of expressing in
person, on that very interesting occasion, my
warm sympathy and high admiration for Kos
suth and for Hungary
In common with our countrymen, witnessed
with deep interest the commencement of the
heroic struggle of Hungary to assert and MAIN
tain her ancient national independence against
the House of Hapsburg-Lorrain. When in the
progress of this struggle it became manifest
that under the guidance of Governor Kossuth
the institutions of Hungary, which had kept
the peasants in servle subsection, were TO be
forever abolished and this down-trodden race
were to be elevated TO the dignity, equality and
privileges of freemen, every American heart
beat with intense anxiety for The success of the
glorions cause. Sympathy to the same extent
has never been felt amongst us for any foreign
people, except those for oppressed Ireland. =
The intervention of Russia, however, in viola
tion of the clearest principles of the law of ia
tlons has for the present, blghted all the bright
prospects which the heroism of Hungary had
raised. Yet one good effect may follow from
the nnjustfable interference of the Gar. This
may teach the people of Western Europe to
place faith in the predictions of Napoleon, that
Europe must become either Republican or Cos
sack, and thus arouse them TO sense of their
common danger. If they would live as free
men, they must be willing to die like freemen
under the standard of human liberty, in what
ever portion Of their continent this may be IN
furled. The great struggle would seem now
to be impending; and may Heaven protect the
triumphant; and may Hungary emerge from
the conflict, under the guidance of her patriotic
and enlightened Governor, free, an indepen-
dent, and a powerful Republic!
Yours very respectfully,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
To the Committee.