Daily American telegraph., 1852-07-16
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.


TIE Tor OF VEsuvIUs-As Peter Llnnet
and myself landed on the summit of this burn
ing, mountain, old SOL as if to gratify us, peep
cd out from under u cloud, to show us tne
richest and most brilliant prospect nau ever
beheld Naples at our feet Castel-a-Siare In
our front. 1t is curious TO trace the olnerent
streams of lava that have issued during recent
irruptions. The crater of Vesuvus is tar more
cnrious and interesting than that of Etna. At
ter standing on its crest to admire thesplendid
Iapdscape, we got into the crater and turned
to Peter Linnet to ask him what he thought OF
it. After crossing himself most devoutly once
or twice he replied, Please your honor, its tor
all the world like the devils Workshop Pc
ters conceit was perfect. If | were to describe
for hours, could not portray it better. The
whole hollow which we walked over had here
and there dense smoke issuing from various
holes and assures, and in some parts 1T was so
hot that on poking in piece OF stick 1T came
out flaming, and lighted my cigar with it,
Some places, especially near the mouth OF the
great crater, were so hot that our boots were
actually burned. Of course, we approached
on the weather side, to avoid the dense sulphur
GUS smoke that was issuing from it; but sud
den change of wind might suffocate one in an
instant Peter refused to light pipe, saying,
as he crossed himself By the powers below,
he thought the old gentleman made smoke
enough, without our adding to it-My Aduen-
t,weS, By Colonel MaraoeH.
Now DoN'T TELL-Ellen's mother was so
very anxious to have her always have an open
and ingenious temper, that she was alarmed
by the least appearance of concealment One
day she overheard her talking with her cousin
Jane, who was older than herself, and among
IL .rl,a .k,.1n
"now don't you tell" She Immediately called
them both to her, and Ellen told her at once
the whole story
"Why dear mother" said she, there is a
birds nest just by, and SO low among the ivy
that the boys can reach it. Last night one of
the poor little birds fell out of it's nest So
told cousin of it, and she came and put it back,
and am afraid the boys Wilt find the nest, and
take away the little ones from the poor bird so
| begged Jane not to tell them of it."
Must we not think that this was very kind
little girl, as well as very frank one? And
must not her mother have felt very happy to
find two such excellent qualities in her little
grl2 Ask your mother what she thinks about
it.-YoutFS Companion.
PLAIN DIET.-This is what children ought,
on every account, to be accustomed to from the
first. 1t is vastly more for their present health
and comfort than little nice things with which
fond parents are so apt to vitiate their appe-
tites and it will save them great deal of NOR
tfcation in after life. If you make it a point
to give them the best of everything; to pam
per them with rich cakes sweetmeats, and SUI
gar plums; if you allow them to say with
scowl 81 don't like this" or " can't eat that"
and then go away and make them little toast,
or kill chicken for their dainty palates, de-
pend upon it, you are doing them great inju-
ry, not only on the score of denying them a
full muscle and rosy cheek, but of forming one
of the most incOnvenient habits that they can
carry along with them in after life When
they come to leave you they will not, half the
tune find anything they can eat; and thus you
will prepare them to go chafng and grumbling
through life the veriest slaves almost in the
world.-Dr. Humphrey ....
HAST Thou BROTHER ?-Sister, hast thou
brother? Wouldst thou train his heart to vir-
tue. and preserve thy own sex from the snare
of the fowler? Teach him by your. conduct,
and stamp upon his heart by your tenderness a
confidence in the existence of virtue which can
look temptation in the face unmoyed, and turn
with plying contempt from the willy words OF
the betrayer o teach him to iove virtue, and
he will protect and not destroy it, Impress
upon him his responsibility to God for the right
exercise of that power which was given him
for the protection of woman and posterity
your own sex, and Heaven, will keep it in re-
membrance.
How rich, how very rich her reward, who
through divine assistance, raises brother, a
fellow mortal above the snares of sin and the
temptations Of the world. All yes and in
heaven she shall shine as the stars forever
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