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and he still has them-as far off as ever

and he still has them-as far off as ever
Fortunately for him, he "prospected" on
his own account, and found "diggin."
There is always something to be done if
people will only set about finding it out, and
the chances are ever in favor of activity
Whatever brings man in contact with his
fellows may lead to fortune. Every day
brings new opportunities to the social work.
er; and no man, if he has once seriously con-
sidered the subject, need ever be at a loss
as to what to do in the meantime. Volition
is primitive motion, and where there is a
will there is way
NAPOLEON IN BATTLE.-At the first ru-
NOR of the Emperors return to Cham
paigne, the Austrian army las if seized with
panic at single name, had retreated by ev-
cry road from the wall of Paris, as far as
Troyes and Dion. The Emperor of Aus
tria fearful of being surrounded even in the
midst of his own troops, took refuge at Di
Jon. Alexander and the King of Prussia
had got beyond Troyes. These sovereigns
magnitying the danger, through the memo
ry of so many former defeats, and fearful of
snare in the very heart Of France, which
had fallen with such apparent facility into
their hands, agreed to send to their respect
i've plenipotentiaEies at the Congress Of
ChatilEon, the most pressing instructions to
effect peace. Had the Emperor had time
ly notice of these terrors, he could have
signed peace on an European basis, at the
moment that his own empire was fading be-
meath his feet ;but he was ignorant of these
terrors. Alarmed on his own part at the
masses crowding down upon him, he re-
treated toward Arcissur-Aube, where he un-
expectedly came in contact with the army
Of Schwartze nburg. A sanguinary battle
ensued unexpectedly by both generals, be-
tween the French and Austrians. Napole-
on fought at hazard, without any other plan
than the necessity of fighting, and the res
olutlon to conquer or die. He renewed in
this action the miracles of bravery and sang
troid of Lodi and Rivoli and his youngest
soldiers blushed at the idea of deserting
chief who hazarded his lie with such in
vincible courage. He was repeatedly seen
spurrng his horse TO gallop against the
enemy's cannon, and re-appeanng as if in
accessible to death, after The smoke had E.
vaporated. A live shell having fallen in
front of one of his young battallions, which
recoiled and wayered in expectation of the
explosion, Napoleon, to reassure them,
spurred his charger toward the instrument
Of destruction, made him smell the burning
match, waited unshaken for the explosion,
and was blown up. Rolling in the dust
with his mutilated steed, and rising without
a wound amid the plaudits of his soldiers
he calmly demanded another horse, and
continued to brave the grape-shot, and to
fly into the thckets of the battle. His guard
at length arrived, and restored the fortune
Of the day.-Lamcrtines Restoration. a
~ In his late great speech before the
New York Historical Society, Mr. Webster
thus alluded to the influence of religion on
the destiny of our country:
And let me say gentlemen that If we
and our posterity shall be trueto the Chris
tan religion if we and they shall live al
ways in the fear of God, and shall respect
his commandments; if we and they shall
maintain just moral sentiments, and such
conscientious convictions of duty as shall
control the heart and life,w may have the
highest hopes of the future fortunes of our
country: and if we maintain those institu-
tions of Government and that political un-
ION, exceeding all praise as much as it ex-
ceeds all former examples of political asso-
Citations, we may be sure of one thing, that
while our country furnishes materials for a
thousand masters of the historic art, it will
afford no topic for a Gibbon. 1t will have
no decline and Fall" 1t will 20 on pros
pering and to prosper.
But if we and our posterty reject religious
instruction and authority, violate the rules
of eternal justice, triAe with the injunctions
of morality, and recklessly destroy the po-
| litical constitution which holds US together,
no man can .ell how suddenly a catastro-
phe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all
our glory in profound obscurity. If that ca
tastrophe shall happen, let it have no histo-
ry Let the horrible narrative never be
written; let ITS fate be like that of the lost
books of Livy, which no human eye shall
ever read, or the missing Pleiad, of which
no man can ever know more than that it is
lost, and lost forever!
THINGS NOT so BAD AS THEY SEEM
In Melly's travels in Egypt, we find the