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POE TRY Y .
JOY.

JOY.
There's joy.in the music of morning BELLS,
That floats like spirit. through wild wood deiis'
And echoes away DER the green old hilis'
Joy in the lullaby babble Of rils,
Joy in the beauty Of grand old trees,
And JOY in the humming ofhoney-bees.
Joy in the clear ringing laugh Of a child,
And Joy in ramble through woodland wide'
Joy in the cloud ships that sail Ger the SKY
Joy in a laughing babes beautiful eye.
JOY in the stars, on the bosom OF night;
Joy in rich lips when you put out the light;
JOY in those cousinly strawberry stros,
Through the green. meadows, DER the bright knobs
Joy in the harvest ofhay, fruit and grain,
Joy in the patter of soft summer rain.
Joy in a troop ofwild, frolicksome. boys
Cutting wild capers with boisterous noise.
Joy in the tinkle Of feet in dance,
Joy in improving an opportune chance.
Joy in quilting" and JOY in glee
Of old fashioned "husking'. .or "npple bee."
Joy in n spelling school," joy in the sports
OF "sliding down hill"--of building 'snow forts.
SCHOOL exhibitions, and sugar camp" fun
Joy in most every thing, under the sun!
Joy in my spirit, when this begun'
Doubled in quantity, now that I've done.
Musical World LAURA LEE.
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SALE OF RoBEsrIERRE's GUILLorIsE--
SAD Loss TO BARsuM-Among the items
o: our late French news, there is one which
will be highly interesting to all our readers,
but doubly interesting to Barnum in view of
grand speculation thrown away. Among a
parcel of old Government lumber recently
ordered to be sold at auction to the highest
bidder, in Psris,the identical guillotine OF the
horrible Reign of Terror, and the basket
belonging to il, into which the heads OF its
victims--lrom ten to hundred per day
dropped, under the bloody system of Robe
sperre, including the head Of that hesr,less
butcher himself. This horrible machine,
framework, sliding-knife, and basket certi.
fed by Government officer, were sold a,
public auction, before an immense crowd oi
spectators, for fifty francs; and directly after
the articles were committed to a bonfire
amid the cheers Of the people. The guillotins
Of RossspisreTrsssrved snosz the relics d
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The Three Generals.

or the three military chiefta:ns-Wash-
ington, Bonapartc, and Wellington-Wash-
ington, by large odds. exhibited the finest
specimen of physical manhood. Bonapurte
possessed the largest brain, and had the finest
cerebral Developments; Washington had,
however, three mental qualities which the
Corsican had not, TO wit; calmness, perse-
verance, and adhesiveness. Bonaparte was
in his youth very handsome man; in his age
he was decidedly passe; Washington from his
earliest youth to the hour of his departure,
had benignant expression in which serenity
and goodness ever warred for the mastery.
Wellngton's face was that of q martinez,
and had what is called a vinegar aspect; il
was stern, but it was not intelligent in its ex-
preston. OF three, in maturity, Washington's
face exhibited more forcibly "the action OF
the mind within" Napoleon, in youth, was
slim in form, rather meager in outline: in
age, quite corpulent, or rather pussy, ap-
proaching the obese. In height, Napoleon
was about five feet six inches, and when not
on horseback was rather insignificant look.
ing, and would in a crowd have passed un-
noticed, but for his marked intellectual char.
acteristics. However, he was more presen.
table than Wellington. Both in physique
were inferior to Washington. ...|..
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Parting Compliments.


A Syracuse correspondent of the New York
Evening Post, locofoco, draws this Aattering
picture of the AdamaHtines:
"Ther separation is not to be regretted.
They are, as body, such a corrupt set of
rogues; so many of them have been cheating
our State prisons Of their dues for SO many
years; SO many Of them never appear in
politics except to make mischief; that there
was no possibility of giving the party in
fuence or strength while their connection
with it gave them any sort Ct claim to its
forbearance. For the sake of peace, many
Democrats have hesitated to stigmatze the
bank-robbers, steamboat thieves, canal con-
tract thimble-riggers, and post-office robbers
who compose majority Of them, as they de-
served, because they did not wish to create
bad feeling, and disturb the harmony of the
party with which they were in apparent COM
munion,, Now we hope the pure mon of tho
party will have their tongues loosed, and that
they will be prepare to call thief thief g. a
robber robbcr, and tr, at .em accordingly"
A consummation devoutly to be wished;
but The Post, Prince, John g. Co., rather
seem to have their tongues tied than loosed
as respects the Fugitive Slave Law.-N Y.
Tribune,
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ST. CLaIRSVntB, ONO, FRIDlY, OCTOBER "A, 1853

Spring to count the hours to the harvest time
when their harvest Of honors should come il
the plentitude of riches, but how many are
weary and worn with the struggle, and with
the Autumn are ready TO sink into the dark
ness of an unpityng Winteri All! the tale
is not half told-Rachel yet mourns for her
children, and each year must add to the sorrow
which is in every earthly cup.
Yet there is a beautiful lesson in this pas
sing season. Not forever hath the sap gone
from the trees, and the color from the leaves
and flowers. There is spring time in the
storehouse of Gods bounty, and His open
hand shall sow the seeds of new hopes and
new affections In the days ye: to come. Then
shall the bitterness of the waters be turned
to soothing sweet, and the chalice of our
dreams be again welled up with bursting
beauty of the young life swelling into being
around. And If, perchance the heart hath
dropped and died, and the dead leaves have
fallen upon the grave of the mourner, yet is
there still more glorious spring-time in
store, when the dead shall arise in the glorious
beauty of the Supernal.
Shall we, then, mourn for the dead summer,
yone!-Sdndushy Register.
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WHOLE NO. 81

: Of his acquittal. How bitter, how crushing
} The disappantment,
And who was to bear the sad tidings to tha,
mother! Who was to awaken her from the
happy dream to the horrible realityl
Her younger son, who wept there by hls
convicted brother, he was to apply the torch
to his mothers hopes thrt would burn them
into blackened embers.
We thought Of this, and others thought of
it. And is it strange, II tear sprung into
the eye, ard for a moment shut out even the
form ofjusii;e, and turned the vision inward
toward the weakness Of our common nature.
and the sorrowing gaze Of Mercy, even praying
at stern justice'sfeet.
kissane has, since his conviction. attempted
suicide. Death must be welcome to him. Il
were better much thsthe were in his grave;
that his shroud had enfoded him while the
robes Of innocence lay about his childish
heart
Death! 10 the happy thou art terrible,
Bui now the wtetched love to think office:
%, thou tue conforter-ihn f.iend of ali
VINO have no friend besidel"
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THINGS THAT ARE CoHIHs.-Ylnhnod
will come, Old age will cons, and the dying
bed will come, and the very last look you
shall ever cast upon your aeinaia, . - will
come, and the agony OF the parting breath will
come, and the time when you are stretched I
lifeless corpse before the eyes Of weeping
relatives will come, and lhe coffin that 10 to
enclose you will come, and that hour when
the company will resemble to carry you to the
churchyard will come, and that minute wheA
you are put in the grave will come, and the
throwingn of the loose earth into the narrow
house where you are laid, and the spreading
ofthe green sod over it-all, all will come on
every living creature who now hears me; and
in few little years the minister who now
speaks and the people who now listen, will
he carried to their long homes, and make
room for another generation. Now. all this,
you know, must and will hapPen--your COM
mon sense and common experience serve to
, convince you of it. Perhaps IL may have
been little thought of in the daysof careless
and ,houghtless and thank less uheoneera
which you have spent hitherto; but call
upon yeu to think Of now, to lay itseriously
( to heart, and not longer to trits and delay.
when n the high matters OF death and .judgnsst
aud stsrniy afs thus ID eysd<ssy ssssSe uss
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may be bistibguishedfrom the laity. Inspeak
lng' she gesticulates very little, never hestat,
Tor word, but flows on without let or hin
drance, except, of course, when interrupted
by the applause Of Ger audience. This. read.
er'ls the portrait Of Rev. Antoinete L. Brown
How do you like the picturel
! Miss Stone was dressed on this occasion as
she always is, in the plainest and neotest style.
she wore striped silk dress, the skirts of
which reachee littlh below the knees, leay.
ing the distinctive bloomer pants visible
For the qualification of the curious in such
matters, we may state here that Miss Stone
does not wear them gatheret at the ankle af.
ter the Turkish fashion. She never wears
any jewelry, and her head is never set off
with hany kind Of head-dress, her hair falling
straight upon her shoulders, except a small
iock on each side, which is turned up under
each ear. She has clear sweet voice, which
IN the expression of tender emotions, almost
steals the tears from the eyes of her hearers.
wherever Lucy goes she is sure of large
audience, and she is always the lion, or per:
maps we should say lioness of the occasion.-.'
1et 1t must moi. be supposed she one Of the
furious, ranting orators. Not at ALL On the
contrary, she is exceedingly mild in her man.
ner' never gets in a passion, but speaks in a
hrm' determined tone, and every thing that
she says is characterized by such an air Of
sincerity that, while you differ with her in o.
pinion, you must give her credit for that qual.
lty at least She is an abolitionist, tempe
ance advocate, woman's rights supporter,
and we believe she is in favor of many of the
lsms of the day. Miss Lucy is evidently one
OF those women who imagines she has
mission to fulfil, and who really believes she
is now working in the path which her Crea-
tor has marked out for her. Well, let her
think lso-every one has right to their own
opinion.
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Let the sickle do its havoc among the grain
Jet the fruit be gathered--let fair fingers
pull the bursting lunches of the grape. Thus
shall good provision be made for the wants
which wait before Us, and the sad reflections
of the season shall be modified by wine and
assuaged by fatness.
And still there will be mourners. For all
are not alke-and the life Of the one may be
the destruction OF the other .-Blfalo Express.
Ave, there will be mourners for the dead
Summer, gone. The dead leaves that shver
awhile on the sapless trees, then rustic down
to their graves on the ground, are not more
than the beautiful hopes, now dead, but which
had birth in the swelling fullness OF the early
Summer. Young maidens built castles in
their glowing dreams, which they deemed
would be realities when the harvest time oil
fruits had come:--where 10 the realization
now! Their slow step and pallid face tell a
sad tale, and the murmursd prsyersto Heaven
to bear them on Is but the voice Of the dead
Summer, gcae. Young menstsrted with the
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A TALL ScAREcRow w.--Scarecrows-
manufactured arrangements, "Set up in the
cornfeIds to scare away the crows"-have
their merits, just like every body else. Al
least we were once led to believe 80 from
what we overheard while listening to small
gathering of juvenile rustics "orer in the
Jarseys."
"Scarecrows! Hc! he!" says one of the
party-an over-grown, slabsided, spooney-
looking youth-"IIe! he" says he, evidently
in reply to some remarks that had preceded
his. "You don't know anything about scare.
crows Ifyou'd seen one that Uncle Ben
made once, guess you'd think so, too.
Why, Uncle Ben made one once, and set il
up in daddy's cornheld, that nearly frightened
the feathers off of every crow that looked at
il; and by golly! one crow that had been
pecking around the field for two or three days
after he'd seen it, actually flew away, and
brought bacs all the corn he had stolen in that
time-fact!''
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the first French revolution for more than hall
a century, and then sold at fifty francs! What
a speculation was thus thrown away, sure
enoughi Barnum could have given two thou.
sand dollars for 1t, for in his hands IL would
have been worth fortune to him at twenty.
FIVE cents ticket, children half price.
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AMERICAN MANNERS.

DR.. Potter, in recent address at ALBANY
said:
81 am little afraid that great many peo.
I pie in this country are rather too prone to
undervaue this part of education. Certainly
we have no admiration for anything fnical or
affected in manners.--We do not want the
manners Of village dancing school, But
genuine good breeding, gentle manners, ease,
modesty and propriety of bearing, we do ex-
ceedingly value. When shall we cease 10
be described as a splitting nation! as aloung-
ing people! When shall we cease to be
known by our slovenly speech, by our prac.
tice of sitting with our feet higher than our
headl During an excursion of several months
in Europe las: year, met hundreds, of
English at home, and on the continent in
every situation. never saw one spit. \
cannot remember that every saw any one,
however fatigued, lounging or sitting in any
manner. So long as the State
shall feel itself obliged to provide "spittoons"
for its Legislative hall-so long as the direc-
tors Of our railroads shOll find occasion to put
inside their carriages printed requests to the
passengers to use the spittoons and not the
loor, and not to put their feet on the seats
10 long as we shall continue to fill our con-
'ersation and our political harangues with the
slang of the ish-market, let US not be sur
'rised, nor angry, if foreigners sometimes
make themselves witty at our expense. And
n the meantime let all those who are ntrust-
ID with the care Of the young, use their
Utmost efforts to correct these national bar
,arisms, and4o form the manners Of the ris-
ng generation after model more elevated
nd more refined"
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THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.

subserjbers who do not give express ho.,Ie W u,'
are considered wishing to continue SUI
scription. . ,,,. siscon,inu.nce of their De.
;oa;, ,he publishers may continue TO send 'hem uh
S aSseibcrs neglect refuse to take their period
csls from the offices TO which they are M NI,i ang
are held responsible till they have seuieo VIC '' '"
ordered them discontinued. ., ,,.,s y,i,bout IN.
If subscribers remove to other p'aocs W. Sont 10
forming the publishers, and the les;,,c lei,ou'ss or ~
the former direction, they are held resronsc nor
s. The courts have decided that relus"s Isma w tbe,n
;odcas from the office, removing and leaving ,a e
siied for is pma facie evidence of nteh'ioha
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FAITH-AN ANECDOTE.

: A few days ago, q little boy sailed gayl
} down the waters of the st. Lawrence. ii
J was but six years old, an image of beaut
J 8oated for him on every distant cloud. Hi
favorite reading for many months had bee
De Foes Robinson Crusoe, and as the boa
passed in and out among the thousand island
Of the river, he painted to his mother in glow
ing colors all thaf 1t would be possible 10 do
If, thrown adriit upon a spar, he should b,
some strange chance find himself alone upol
the pebble beach, Very charming he tho
the fairy-like islands, with their tender screer
of birch and muple, yelling just enough from
feeble human sight the warm glow of the
sun.
The day wore on, the islands were passed
and now the boat began to descend the rapids.
A head wind lifted the breakers, the sky dar-
kened, but the child and mother felt the ex-
citement of the scene. Like living human
creature the strong boat kept its way. 1t
took manly pride, it seemed in mastering
the obstacles 10 its course, and as it rose and
fell with heavy swing, a sense Of power,
half divine, filed the hearts and souls of the
passengers.
The boy stood still. Tighter and tighter
he grasped his mothers hand, and, with blue
eyes darkened by earnest thought, looked up
on the face of the water. Soon the rain be-
gan to fall heavily, the water was still more
agitated, and the>shothss felt that when the
keel of the vessel CRATES against the rocks,
visions Of storm and wreck passed through
the little ones mind. She saw that he was
frightened, and began to question whether it
not be best to CARRY him to the warm cabin,
and by song and story to beguile his excited
mind. Just at this moment he gently press
ed her hand, and looking down upon him, she
saw the expression of serious thoughts give
way, sweet smile drawing on his lips, as he
said softly to himself, rather than to her, the
following lines:
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"Then the Captains little daughter
Took her father by the hand,
Saying, is moi God upon the water.
Just the same as on the land7"

The pleasant poet who wrote the simple
lines of which the above were the child's bro
ken remembrance, is now in foreign land.
The drawing rooms of the noble open readily
to his genial presence, and the tables of the
litera.iring with the cheer and merriment his
joyous tunes excitas but 20 words nf oo.s.iy
compliment, though spoken by royal lips, will
fall more sweetly upon his ear than would these
words of that trusting child, could he have
stood by his side, and watched the dawn of
faith in his pure soul rs he spoke. Oh, little
children! God teaches US, in many ways,
that to make others happy is one of the tru-
est objects OF life; it is better to make others
good; but it is best of all to turn the heart Of
a little child in trusting love 10 its Heavenly
Father. II, like the absent poet, we are ever
able to speak or write one word which shall
do this, let us bless God for his high privilege
Montreal Juvenile Magazine.
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GTTwo of the more prominent feminine
actors in the recent "Whole Worlds conven-
tion," in New York, are thus graphically de-
scribed by one OF the papers of that city:
The Rev. Mrs. Brown is one Of the best
specimens of the human beings who have of
late years broken ont of the sphere for which
they were destined by nature, and who have
aspired, not only to the stations occudied by
the sterner sex, but to the important privilege
of wearing neither garments. She has very
pleasing expression of face, anda remarkably
sweet and musical voice. Her style of speak
ng is occasionally forcible, abouuds with fig
ures, and very seldom wearies the listener
Unlike the generality Of temperance speakers
of both sexes, she scarcely ever INDUCES in
anecdotes to illustrate her arguments, but in
stead thereof she embel.ishes her speeches
with quotations from Scripture--very natur
al that, for divine. Gu. reverend orator dres
es very neatly, but unfortunately there is no
thing in her style that marks the profession
to which she bslougs. In that ''good tip'
| coming" 1--WE wish they would fix the daylsi
is to be hoped that some plan will be devise
BY sis:1tS ems!s mauHs.s .. ~ H!a.sr
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PAINT YOUR HoUsEs.-Now is the time
for preparation; soon after the heat of summer
is over, say in September g. October, is the
best time to paint. One coat laid in
Autumn is equal to two in Summer; the
lead dries more evenly, and the oil holds ii
much longer than when spread in hot weather
Paint laid in the Fall weather 10 more lasting
than when pu, on in the Spring, because the
surface becomes hardened IN the winter with.
out exposure to the Intense heat of July and
August, and is therefore much less likely IL
suffer from the effects Of the ensuing summer
Whenever white lead adheres to the hand
when rubbed over it, put on thin coat. A
house once we'll painted, if lightly covered
every third year succeeding, will be mor'
economically painted, and kept in better
preservation than in any other way.
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RUN.-Last evening we saw well-dress.
ed, gen,lemanly man, walking with an un-
steady step along Chestnut street, holding by
the hand sweet little girl four Or Ave years
old, who was vainly endeavoring to accom-.
motute hehtiny steps to his Unsteady move.
ments.
With a sorrowing heart we observed them
as the little child gazed at her reeling protec.
tor with wondering and bewildersd look.
saying as they crossed 9th street. Papa is 'ou
sick, what makes 'ou walk so queer papa"
"Hey," he replied, "sick, no, come along Su-
sy, nothng's the matter only these pavements
are SD uneayen-come along" II don't
think the psvemen,s uneaven, papa. the bricks
is all smoothe to my feet, papa. look here,
how fat it is," and the pretty innocent tried
to place her foot on single brick, but q sud-
den lurch OF her leader drew her roughly on,
and they passed beyond our view-,hat drum.
ken father and his little unconcious ehld-un-
concious-but soon to awake from the sweet
dreams of childhood to the fear Iu life Of ths
Drunkards Daughter. Reg.
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tCin. TINES.

TIE BlBLE.--"How comes it that this lit.
tie volume, composed by humble men in a
rude age, when art and science were in their
Childhood, has ,exerted more influence on the
human mind, and on the social system, thar,
oil other books put together! Whence comes
1t that this book has achieved such, mar.
velious changes In the opinion of mankind
mas abolished infanticide--has put down pol:
ygamy and divorce-created for fanatics that
blessed thing, christian home and can
sed. Its other triumphs by causing benevolent
institutions, open and expensive to spring mn
with the wand of enchantment, What sort
oil book is this, that even the wild waves
and human passions obey it. What other
engine OF social improvement has operated so
!'ng' and yet lost none Of its virtue! Since
II appeared many boasted plans of ameliora-
ton have been tried and failed-many codes
OF jurisprudence has arisen, and run their
course, aud expired Empire after en-
pire have launched into the tile of time. and
gone down, leaving no trace on the waters.
But this book is still going about and doing
good-leading society with its holy principles
cheering the sorrowiul with its consolation
the empted-encouragin
the Notwithstanding the troubled spirit.
and smoothing the pillow of DEATH"