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The Lost Child and the Lamb.

I love to trace the hand of special
Providence. see it in the astounding
events and revolutions recorded in history
like {" the fiugcrs of a mans hand" on
the wall Of the kings palace in Babylon.
I see it in the downfall of dishonesty
and the avcnging of crime, where ruin
overtakcs the guilty like n flood. see
it in the reward Of virtue and the bless.
edness of the righteous, when an invisi-
BILE finger roots the plants of heaven by
the rivers of water and the leaf fades
not. And | see i! in the humble walks
of life, when the heart in peacefulness
and silence resigns itself 10 the Divine
will and then goes forth to his labor from
the morning unto the evening in the suu-
shine of God.
In the town of Corinth, which lies
west of Bradford, in the State of Yer.
mont, an incident occurred very many
years ago, which luminously marks the
finger of a special Providence in the
care of the :" little ones" and illustrates
the beautiful truth uttered by our Saviour
when he said, "That in heaven their an
gels do always behold the face of my
Father which is in heaven"
1t was in the year 1850 towards th'
close of summer, when a small child
the son of husbandman by the name
Fi6eld, an early settler in Corinth, wan
dered from home on a bright morning
and was lost. The little fellow wa
only five years old. He had been absen
from the house some hours before HI
was missed; as he had been wont to pla.,
with children in the field, his mother sup
posed he was with them as usual.
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" Take INV Hat"

Some have supposed that "take my
hat" is saying which originated in this
wise: A handsome young lady put upor
her head gents hat for which he Ell
forced the penalty of kiss, and another
swain, eager, TO inhict the same punish
ment, said to the fair one "take my hat;'
whether she did or not is not now the
question, but this did not originate the
saying; nor did it, rs some suppose, ori-
ginate from the fact that frolicling blade
who had too many bricks in his beaver,
insisted most earnestly that the town pump
should "take his hat but as near as
we can ascertain, and it is matter of
history, the saying is as follows:
About nineteen years ago, fine look.
ing old gentleman, from Western Virginia,
entered store in Nashville, Tennessee.
Said store was owned by bluff, honest
old trader, who knew great deal more
about the quality of the liquor sold at the
back end Of the counter than he did about
the fneness of the fabrics at the other j;
nevertheless, between the two extremities
of that shelf, he contrved to make both
ends very comfortably meet the necessi-
ties of the case. The Old Virginian cast
his eyes around the shelves, and finally
remarked
"Well, neigbbor, you'll see, have gol
hats
CA slight sprinkle" was the answer,
and then followed the query, =" "Whar are
you from?"
'Old virginiar' was the response.
"Right smart old State" replied the
Teuuessean, but getting rather too old to
keep her har on"
"What do you mean?" cnquired the
Virginian.
We'll just what say, uncle, it can't
keep her bar on-tor instance, now, |
should think you hev been a right healthy
child of the Old Dominion, but she has
shed you at last, and like Sampson Of
old that's jest the way she is losin' all the
best har off her venerable head"
The old Virginian looked around the
store rather bothered with the liberty this
,ss
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Autamnal rains descend, the waters be.
I

Autamnal rains descend, the waters be
come deep and turbulent.
On this island, with lamb lying dowr
by its side, beneath atall blackberry busl
picking its supper from the berries
was the boy; an eye at the distance
lighted OH the lost one, and shout of JOY
echoed from the hills. They found him
safe and sound, gleesone rs the lamb al
his feet. Aud thereswas JOY, / ween, III
his fathers house TINT night; (" for this
his SON was dead, andis alive again; he
was lost and is found59
How this little chila got upon that Is.
land, no one could tell. Whence came
the lamb that was with hims No flock
of sheep had been seen by the searchers
in all the woods. He must have wan
dered with the lamb and waded this
stream, where even the shoals were dam
gerous to Il child. AZ night they must
have rechned OH the,grass together, and,
perhaps the little creature lisped its eve
ming prayer and then laid his head on the
lamb and fell asleep!-r
II was lamb-left somewhere to itself,
The plaintve spiritof the Solitude!
The mystery attending the prescrya.
ton of this lost child, thus found by the
side of lamb three Emiles from home,
and three days in the woods, has never
been unfolded. His loss, and the man.
ner in which he was found, watched over
by this lamb, are facts Of undoubted au.
thenticity. They beautifully exemplify
u special Providence, hnd bring to mind
as we think of lost man in this will
deruess of life-the words of the great
precursor, "Behold The Lamb of God,
who taketh away the sins of the world"
TIE SEcnEr.-"I Ilnoticed," said Ben.
Franklin, ga mechanic among Il number
of others, at work on a house erected, but
little way from my Office, who always ap
peared to be in a merry humor, who had
kind word and cheerful smile for every
one he met Let the day be ever so cold,
gloomy or sunless, ahappy smile danced
like snaboam on his cheerful counten.
ance. Meeting him fone morning. re.
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The proposition was agreed to-the
liquor was imbibed, and next followed the
hats. The merchant tossed down four or
five wool hats of various sizes, and invi-
ted the old gentleman to select one which
would fit him. He looked at them, ex-
amined the sizes, said they would do, and
requested the store.kecpcr to hand him
down few more.
"Thar's all the sizes, I've got," but
here's few more if you think you'd like
Gem BETTER" and so saying he tossed
down three more.
"Thcm is all right" said the old Fir-
giuian turning them around; and the
Stout old storekeeper, blowing with exer-
ton, descended from his perch, where he
was straddling from shelf to counter:
AS soon as he reached the floor, the old
Vircinian remarked that he had not got
enough yet.
ooh, you want 'em for your niggers?
SAYS the storekeeper; well, why didn't
you say so when l was up" and he
again proceeded to perch himself up like
q mercantile colossus. When he had
blowed himself into his former position,
the old man quietly remarked:
"Why, stranger, warn't talking any
thing about niggers." The fact Is the
old man was rather enjoying the extra
trouble he had put the Tennessean to.
"Well, what do you want with so
many hats ?" inquired the latter.
II want 'em for my sons" said the
old man.
The storekeeper began to count those
on the counter" yht," said he, a
pretty big spread Of boys already, Iii
swear, but here goes" and he added one
and then another, and yet fourth, and
picked off the fifth, and finally, seeing
that the old man stood in,movable, earn.
estly counting the hats, he tossed down
three more and was about to descend
himself, when the old man told him to
hold on and throw down few more.
"Oh, come, uncle" said he, you are
iokiug;" but to please him he threw down
twenty.
"That's jest one too many" said the
old man with much gravity.
"What-you don't mean to say you
have nineteen sons" !"
"Yes do mean to say so" was the
old mans answer.
"And whar in the name of the State
of Tennessee arc they!"
"Well, they are i'll Tennessee" said
the man, "right yeer, in this city-up al
the hotel"
Stranger" said the storekeeper, hi:
incredulity making him sputter and slut
ter as he said it, elf you ken show me
nineteen boys of your make, thar's the
hats"
"Hold on, them" said the old man
and off he started. In about ten min
utes, down street he came, heading line
of nineteen boys marching single file
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SELF. HEATING SMOOTHING lnoN.-
We saw few days since, something very
interesting to houskeepcrs, viz: smooth.
ing iron which is kept hot by charcoal
burning inside it. There is a draft hole
at the broad end, and chimney at the
other, by which tho combustion is kept
up. Once filling with coal will keep the
iron hot for nearly two hours, and twen-
ty.fve or thirty cents worth, it is said,
will supply an ordinary family for year.
1t is Kentucky invention, and we under
stand supply will soon be brought here
for sale.-Frankfort Commonwealth.
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each bearing good gun, and followed
by their venerable mother. They enter.
ed the merchants store and ranged along
the counter-the storekeeper run his eye
along the line with astonishment.
And you say" he enquired, =" that
these boys are all yours"
"Ask their mother" said the old man,
" she says they are"
"Do you say SO, madam :" he inquir-
cd.
"Yes, I do," was the reply" and |
ought to know"
"Well, you ought, III swear" said
the storekeeper. cold friend" he added,
al amt got word to say, jest take my
hats"
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4 Coon OSE.-A gentleman in his
eargerness at table to answer call for
some pie, owing to the knife Slipping on
the bottom of the dish, found his knuckles
buried in the crust, when a wag who was
seated just opposite to him, very gravely
observed, whilst he held his plate, "Sir
lnny trouble you for bit uhtlst you'
hands iu."
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A MARTYR IN THE NINETEENTH CEH-
ruRr.--Intelligence has just reached
Amsterdam, that NJ. SchGfflcr, a young
Dutch Catholic Missionary in Cochin,
China, has been put to death for preach,
ing Christianity. He was denounced by
the mandarins, arrested, bound hand and
foot, conveyed to the capital, Hue Fo,
and condemned to death by sort of judi.
cial commission. He was hanged on a
very lofty gibbet. More than 10000
troops attended the execution, to prevent
any hostile demonstration on the part Of
the numerous Christians at Hue TO.
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misunderstanding upon mans hor-
or in this don't.care-a.fg- g-for.anybody age
of CANNON and gold, is something like
crossing rotten bridge with load of
cannon: you may get over, and YOU may
not; but the probability is that you'll set
swamped.
When man pledges his honor to you,
he is apt to think you Il pawnbroker whose
loan is worth more than the articles
pledged; consequently you can keep the
pawn, willie he retains the benefit derived
thcrefrom.
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M,sERIEs CONSEQUENT on GUILT.-
Guilt, though it may attain temporal splen-
dor, can never confer real happiness. The
evil consequences of our crimes long sur
vive the commission, and, like the ghosts
of the murdered, forever haunt the steps
of the malefactor. The paths of virtue,
though seldom those of worldly greatness,
are always those of plcasantness and
ncace.
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make it the fountain of cheerful and pure
emotions. Speak gently, then, a happy
smile and kind word Of greeting, after
the tolls of the day are over, cost nothing
aud 60 far toward making 4 home happy
and peaceful.
JUVENILE S1MpLrCIrY.--A friend says
the following story is fact. Two boys
of tender years, who went by the names
of Tom and Jack became members of a
district school in certain New Eng land
town. On making their appearance, the
teacher called them up before the Assem-.
Lled school, and proceeded to make
certain intcrrogatories concerning their
names, age, &c. Well, my fine lad" !"
said the teacher to the first one, what
is your name Z"
"Tom," promptly answered the juvc-
nile.
"7om" said the teacher-"that dosn't
sound well. You should have said
Thomas" Now, my son, turning to the
other boy, whose expectant face sudden.
ly lighted up with the satisfaction of a
newly comprehended idea, -" now, then,
YOU tell me what your name isr
"Jack-as ?" replied the lad, in tone
of confident decision.
The teacher was taken with sudden
fit of coughing, and merely motioned the
lads to take their seats.-Hartford Times.
A SMART BoY.-A farmers wife, in
speaking of the smartness, aptncss, and
intelligence of her son, lad of six years
old, to lady acquaintance, said:
"He can read flucntly in every part of
the bible, repeat the whole catechism, and
weed onions us we'll as his father"
"Ycs mother" added the young hope.
full, "and yesterday licked Ned Raw
son, throwed the cat into the well, and
stole old Hinckley's gimblet."
DAScERoUs.-A young man having
cut his finger, sent for physician, who,
, after examining the wound, requested his
servant to run rs fast as possible, and get
him certain plaster. "Oh myw cried
the patient, "is the danger so great p'
"Yes," was the reply, "if the fellow
don't run fast, Pm afraid the cut will be
well when he gets back"
THE man "what is opposed to news,
papers," paid hundred dollars last week
for a galvanized watch. In going to
, Buffalo he always takes the canal not be-
ing aware that there is any railroad buil1
"on that route"
THERE is journeyman tailor in Bos
, ton, whose nose is SO red, that he can sew
i. the finest work in the darkest night, with
| no other light than that afforded by hi:
$ flaming proboscis. His head is quite
5 bald, from the efFects,of carrying "build
r ing materials" in his hat.
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An Irishman being asked on a late trial
for certificate of marriage, barred his
head and exhibited a huge scar, which
looked as if it had been made with fire
shovel. The evidence was satisfactory.
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ARRIVAL OF THE CUBAN PRISONERS
The ship Prentice, Capt. Woodbury., ar
rived at New York on the 18th instant,
from Vigo, Spain, with ninety-fve Of the
Americans who were engaged in the Gu.
ban expedition, and have been liberated
by the Queen, at the instance of our Gov
ernment. Their names follow
William Wilson, Armand Weir, Dan'l.
DeWoolf, John Cooper, II. Thomson,
Dan. Geay, Peter sacoste, John B. Bos-
well, Thos. L. Lee, Jno. D. Brown, Thos.
Little, Cornelius Duffy, Michael Gigger,
Joseph B. Cunts, james NJ. Wilson, Ran.
som Beach, Michael keenan,, Thomas H.
McNail, John Johnson, George Holdship,
r. M. Grider, David Winborn, Hiram
West, NJ. R. Scott, VIM. L. Wilkinson,
E. @. Bell, Preston Essex, Wm. Wilson,
WIN. H. Mckenzie, Charles Daley, Jos.
II. Halphin, T. Boyd, VIM. X. Herb, Jno.
F. Bachelor, Henry Hart, Jno. McKin-
ness, Henry Stanmere. Jno. G.. Bush, w.
H. Hundall, N. H. Ludwig, John Carter,
Edgar Crcssey, S. H. Pernell, Thos. Den
ton, c. A. McMurray, A. Phillips, Geo.
w. Berry, John A. Sewers, NJ. l.. Hefron,
Corncliun Scibring, +. c. Mallau, John
Saifirt, VIM. Losuer, Louis Nagle, James
D. Baker, John II. Prewitt, William H.
Cameron, C. c. Cook, George W. Foster,
]. C. Chapman, John klyne, Isaac Free
born. D. @. Rennslan, George Harrison,
!; -. - f'il'..n". John Brown Augustine
t..,.a,s,. :: S;i"r2ou, .:fai"s Smith.
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VOL. XVII.--NO 10.
Criminal punishments in China.

The Chinese are represented as a hu.
maine people. We would not so conclude
from the character of their modes of
punishment. r. T. Meadows, ESQ.,,
translator to her B. Ms Consulate in
China, recently read paper before the
Arctic Society of London describing the
execution of thirty -four rebels or bandit
rs they are termed in Chinese phraseolo.
gy. The scene of the execution is thus
narrated Nv Mr.. Meadows. We think it
can scarcely be matched in the annals of
civilized people.
The scene occurred at the ordinary
place of execution at Canton, where it is
stated that more than FIVE hundred human
beings have been put to death within the
past eight months; that Mr.. Meadows
was accompanied by two English resi-.
dents at Canton; aud that he found in
the place, which he entered by strongly
guarded door, few of the lower officials,
but no visible preparation of any kind,
except cross ut which the tllirty.fourth
criminal was to be cut up, and fire of
fragrant sandal-wood burning before the
shed where the Mandarins sat to super.
intend the executions, in order to conceal
what is described rs the horrid effluvia"
arising from the decomposcd heads re.
naming there.
After waiting (says the account,)
considerable time, all the criminals were
introduced, most of them walking to
their places, but some carried in baskets,
and tumbled out on the spot appointed
for them, where they lay powerless,
either from excess Of fear or from treat.
meat inflicted, during trial and impnson-
ment. A man stood behind each crimi.
nal, and placed him in a kneeling posi-.
ton, with his face towards the ground,
holding him in this position by grasping
his hands, which were bound behind his
back. In case of resistance, which hap
pens very rarely, the criminals queue is
held BY u second assistant and dragged
forward by force, SO as to keep the neck
extended. When all the criminals were
placed in the required positions, the exc.
ra,'one! .e:Gs,l s.',r. ~ .::7=:i f7.li.s,
.; lid ie MS N9r:,. In lie pla,
sr'tt iHsl cc, tae l.an was i n,;id ;o".s-
ing :, sertai f.on! the ranks of .I.s
a;.!g. -, soS { ct.5szz::fi,o., E:sssce:.;
9, -. -. ..:..s-:l: Oh
that Tier,
.ao n.lg fer
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) Ga~:.. it,: .i,:J :cc!lcHcd ;i.c aeatun,
aud with them numbers went, for the
news by this time, had flown from ham.
lei to hamlet, and the adjacent villages
were reused. The sympathy among
farmers, in their insulated life, is strong
They feel for each others veal or woe.
They are never wearied in watching at
the sick bed, and nothing can be more
revcrential, kindly and sacred than a
country funeral in christian land. Near
aud distant ncighbors gathered again,
more numerous than yesterday, to make
wider and greater search. They divid
ed themselves into extended llanks, each
separately by large interval, but within
sight and hearing Of his fellow, and en-
tered deep into the woods, where for
ages lofty trees and dark thickets, un-
touched by the woodcuttcr's axe, had
concealed the dense and lairs of wild
beasts. Woods, hills and vallies, steep
rocks and rccesscs were scrutinized. But
there was still no trace of the boy in the
wilderness for miles around. Another
day was spent and another night sue.
ceeded, and their dormitory seemed, to
these unhappy parents, like the awful
resting place after funeral.
The third day came, as yet no trace,
nor foot print, nor clue to the discovery
of the lost one appeared. Whether dead
or alive, torn to pieces by wild beasts, or
languishing on the cold ground, under
the agonics Of starvation, they knew not.
The poor parents were almost distracted
in this state of dreadful suspense-for
they loved their child, and that boy was
an endearing, noble little fellow. The
thought ofhis death, and Of such death.
was horrible.
The labors Of exploring the country
around were this day renewed with un'
tiring zeal. The anxious villagers went
forth in squadrons and sections and cx
tended their search still farther over the
woods and among the streams. Like the
vigilant hunter, they beat the bush anc
left no place untried In the ardor o
their pursuit, they drew near to an islanc
in the river Wait, just as the last rays o
the sun were tinging the hills and the
tree-tops and seemed about leaving then
in darkness and despair.
In the easternly part of Corinth-
which borders on Bradford, then callec
Moretown, where 4 lovely village nov
lies on the bank of the river beneath ;
towering cliff, and overlooks, with it
background of Crescent-formed hills, ;
large meadow-the Wait winds its wa,
to the Connecticut, which it enters OIL
the south side of the Bradford. Fiv,
miles from the mouth of the Wait, with
in the bounds of Corinth, and in tn
t middle of the river, there is small is
land. The channel between this islan'
and the mainland, in the sultry months j
quite shoal, and the stream only ripple
over the pebbles; but when the vernal o
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80 - fA'' 'oS|
10 ;ie cxcc;uoner, wha :sas thus sufli.
cient supply for his must extensive opc-
rations. The number decapitated on the
occasion described was thirty.three aud
the cxecutioncr took up fresh sword as
soon as he felt the edge Of the one en-
ploycd becoming dull usually the case
after cutting off two or three heads.
When all was ready, the man stood
firm, with his legs somewhat apart. On
hearing the word span" pronounced by
the officer experimenting, and after
sharp order to the criminal, "Don't
move~ he raised his sword straight up,
and brought it rapidly down with the
full strength Of both arms, giving addi.
tional force to the blow by dropping his
body perpendicularly to a sitting pos
ture. The horrid task was soon done;
after cutting off the head of one victim,
the man threw himself. by bound, into
position by the side of the next; and in
somewhat less than three minutes the
whole thirty-thrce were headless-the
head, in every case but the first, being
completely severed at one blow. In
three or four cases, where the criminals
retained their full strength, the bodies,
after decapitation, rose quite upright;
and Mr.. Meadows is satisfied that unless
restrained by the man behind they would
have sprung into the air. When this
part Of the tragedy WIS over, the more
horrible work of slow death was carried
into effect upon tire remaining criminal,
who was bound to the cross mentioned
above. He was a strongly built man,
apparently forty years old, who had es.
capped in the first instance, but who had
voluntarily surrendered himself to GER
tain death, in order to save from torture
his wife and family, who had been seized
by the Chinese government with the
cruel policy usual on such occasions. In
this instance, the flesh was cut from the
forehead, breast and extremities of the
sufferer with short knife, which was on
the table before the meeting; the body
was Immediately taken from the cross,
and the head cut of. The duration of
the punishment was about four or five
minutes. The bodies were then packed
up in collins and carried away.