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HI- Nehemiah, my love-" said
Mrs Wilkins, to her eldest born, "what
has become of your Sunday pantaloons ?"
I" l swopped 'em away mother, for a
book"
GA book; my darling, I had no idea
that you We're so fond of learning. !
hope it was book OF instruction
eyes, ma'am, it amt nothing else"
I" l am delighted, my son, to find
you so devoted to study. Not for twenty
pairs of pantaloons would l balk the
bent of your genius. But what book
did you find SO irresistably attractive,
my dear boyi Pilgrims Progress
perhaps, or the whole duty OF man =
4" No, ma'am It wasn't 'zactly that,
but something of the same mater it
wer the Whole art of Boxing
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! marked the Spring as she pass'd along,
With her eye Of light and her lip Of song;
While she stole In peace o'er the green earth's
breast,
While the streams sprang out from their icy
rest.
The buds bent low to the breeze's sigh
And their breath ventforth in the scentedsky
When the fields looked fresh in their sweet
repose,
And the young dsws slept on the new -born
rose. W. g. CLARK.
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WESTERLY. R. l., THURSDAY MARCH 81. 1853.
exclaimed Elder,

turning pale.
"Not at all. Mr.. Larkin is rarely at
fault in matters of this kind. He knew
there was flaw somewhere in the prop
erty that once belonged to my uncle s
estate, but erred in this instance. Mr..
Lee is safe, but your title is not worth a
copper. l am much obliged to you for
hunting up this windfall for mel should
hardly come across it myself; and in
consideration thereof, will deal with you
as leniently as possible. Of course, 1
do not expect you to take my word in
regard to the flaw. It's existence, is GER
tain. You had better see your lawyer,
and ask him to call on me. In the
meantime, l VIII say, that, for various
reasons, l am ready to compromise. l
don't wish to encounter the vexations,
delays, and expense of legal proceedings,
and, therefore, if you are disposed to
meet me amicably, will not be too ex-
acting In word, then, have in my
own mind the sum for which will ex-
ecute quit claim to the property. That
sum is FIVE hundred dollars"
Jason Elder groaned aloud.
eff my claim to the property is good
and know it to be-" resumed Mr.
Earl-" eau recover three times that
sum If you compromise, l will act in
a spirit of great moderation. But if you
compel me to resort to law, l will take
all that law awards"
Poor Jason Elder The blow was a
heavy one, and it staggered him. A
careful examination, by his lawyer, only
proved the assertion of Mr.. Earl. His
title to the property was not worth
dollar. Glad enough was he to accept
the prohered compromise, though at
clear loss of over FIVE hundred dollars.
Well for Mr.. Lee was it, that the
blow aimed with such bitter malignity,
did not execute the will of him by whom
it was given. The consequence would,
to all human foresight, have proved
fatal. Not until he was sufficiently re-
covered from his dangerous illness to be
out again, did he learn of the evil that
had been msditated, and how it recoiled
upon the head of his enemy.
His pointed answer was
He digged pit for another, and
himself fell into it,"
The declaration of Elder, made to
more than one, that he had struck Mr..
Lee a heavy blow, was remembered in
with his serious loss from a
defect in his title i; and for long time
he was spoken of, Familiarity,
among those who knew him, as the "man
who struck himself"
A broad illustration this, of what is
taking place daily, in hundreds of in
stances, around us. The evil that is
meditated against others, usually comes
back, in some form upon those who seek
to do their neighbors wrong. In this
matter, there is law of compensation
which acts with unerring certainty The
blow that is struck in malice at another,
may not seem to rebound. But, as
surely as it is given, will its power to do
harm remain unspent, until the circle of
is completed.
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portrp.
MY First Love.
ny WILLIAM w. HARNEY.


The tropic winds more softly breathe
Along the blue Of night,
And memory's shadows rise and wreathe
In the enchanted sight.
They rise, the beautiful, the fair.
From dim obliyions seq,
And wear the forms they used to wear
In life's serenity.
The sweetheart of my schoolboy days,
Her gentle girlish form;
TIE nesting roses on her cheek,
SO Seautiful and warm;
The dimpics round her dewy mouth;
lie, tender look Of We;
The music Of hes gentle voice,
LiAs whispers from above.
The long, dim avenue OF trees
That led beyond the town:
The glimmering Of the village lights,
When night was coming down;
The grave yard, with its solemn tombs,
Where silently We trod.
As though a football could disturb
A soul that lept in God.
The little parlor. and the light
That waved upon the wall;
The warmth Of every mute caress-
we'll remember all
The clear brown eyes, the glowing cheek,
That nestled ~ my breast,
As though il never more could seek,
dearer place 10 rest.
sit beside the window place,
Where We sat long ago,
And dream hear the kindly words
never more can know;
The wavering Of the freight
Is shadowed on the wall,
But by my side the vacant chair
Reminds me Of it all.
We may be wiser since that time,
And have learned to smile
And call them schoolboy's idle dreams,
To fatter and beguile;
But are we better in our hearts,
Or happier now, to know
The girlish plight and schoolboy VOW
We're broken long ago.
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n.y. +" Motber.D asked n little girl

% Mother" asked little girl,
while listening to the reading of Uncle
Toms Cabin, "why don't the book
meter mention Topsy's last namc' l
have tried to hear it whenever it spoke
of her, but it has not once spoke of it..
"Why she had no other name, child. "
eyes she had mother, and know it. "
"What was it 7"
"Why, Turvey-Topsy Turvey."
"You had better go to bed, my dear"
said the mother. You are as bad as
your old grandmother for she can't say
pork without the beans for the life Of
ber.
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THE LETTER.

May lie who has the power, and
always the will, when earnestly, humbly
and devotedly eutreated, support and
comfort you, my brother l shall not
point to the treasures that remain to
you in your surviving children, and their
mother, dearcr than all these put to-
gether. No; I have felt too deeply
how little power have words that play
round the head to reach the heart, when
it is sorely wounded. The common
place Of consolation are at the tongue S
end of all the self-complacent and salts
fed, from the pedant and priest to the
washerwoman. (They who don't fee
can talk. l abjure them all. The
f.thcr of Lord Russell, when condolec
with according to form by the book, re.
piled, would not give my dead son
for any other mans living" May this
thought como home to your bosom too,
but not on the same occasion. May
the Spirit of God-which is not the
chimera of heated brains, nor a device
Of artful men to frighten and cajole the
credulous, but is as much an existence
that can be felt and understood as the
whisperings of your own heart, or the
love you bore to him you have lost-may
that spirit, which is the comforter, shed
his influence upon your soul, and incline
your heart and under standing to the
only tight way, which is that of life
eternal Did you ever read Bishop
Buffers Analogy' If not, l will send
it to you. Have you read THE BOOK
What l say upon this subject / not
only believe, but / know to be true
that the Bible, studied with an humble
and contritc heart, never yet failed tol
do its work, even with those who, from
or disordercd minds, have
that they were cut off from
its promises Of life to come.
Ask and ye shall receive seek and
ye shall find knock and il shall be
opened unto you" This was my only
support and stay during years Of misery
and darkness and just as | had almost
begun to despair, after more than ten
years of pcnitence and despair, it pleased
God to enable me too see tho truth, to
which, until then, my eyes had been J
sealed. To this vouchsafement l have
made the most ungrateful returns. But
would not give up my slender portion
,f the price paid for our redemption
YES. my brother, our redemption-the
ransom of sinners--of all who do not
lug their chains and refuse to come out
rom the house of bondage say that
will not exchange my little portion in
he Son Of David for the power and
.lory of the Parthian or Roman empires,
s described by Milton in the temptation
,f our Lord and Saviour-not for all
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Letter from John Randolph.

The following We insert at the request
of valued friend and in presenting it
we are sure we shall crafty such of our
readers as have not seen it elsewhere.
1t was published in the Washington
Union, with letter from Rev. Septimus
Tustin, lately chaplain of the U. s.
Senate, which we likewise copy:
Mr.. EDIToR-Not satisfied to partake
alone of the mingled emotions OF
pleasure and sadness which have been
awakened in reading the following letter
from the brilIiant and eccentric orator
of Roanoke, 1 send it 10 you for publ
cation, that the readers of the Union
and the public generally, may share in
the sorrowful qualification which l have
experienced in its perusal. 1t proves,
beyond question, that while from diseases
and other causes, Mr.. Randolph exhib-
tied on some occasions an irrasclblc and
peevish disposition, his heart, was, new
ertheless, the depository of some of the
finest and noblest feelings Of which r
fallen nature is capable. DO not ac-
cord fully with all the sentiments he has
here expressed, but in its general tenor
and spirit the letter has my most hearty
1t is a beautiful specimen
of fraternal sympathy and affection, ex-
pressed in terms of tenderness and pro-
priety which l have never seen exc ,lled
1t was written to his half f-brother, Hon.
Henry St. George Tucker, on the oc-
sion on the demise of his eldest son, a
youth of singular promise, possessing
largely the personal and intellectual at
fractions of his accomplished father.
The letter was found among the private
papers of the distinguished gentleman to
whom it was addressed, by his son, j ohm
Randolph Tucker, of Va. st.
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bSr If you would rise in the world,
you must not stop to kick at every cur
who barks at you as you pass along.
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bD- Boys are like vinegar-tse more
4" mother" there is 10 them, the sharper
they become. .'
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CARROLL COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Wings of Carroll county, and all other
voters of the county, who may feel disposed to
cooperate with the Wings, this Fall, in elect
ing suitable persons to fill the different State
and County Offices, are respectfully notified
that the CARROLL CoUNTT VINO CONVENTION
will meet at the Courthouse, in Carrollton, on
Saturday, Ae eh dog 9J August, 1853
at i2 o'clock, NJ, for the purpose of nomi9a-
ting candidates for election,-so far as that du-
ty may devOlve on the Convention.
Each Of the townships, as heretofore will
assemble en- masse, or by Delegates, as may
be deemed most practicable, BY the voters oi
the township.
The committee rely upon the well-tried pa
triotism and unsubduei energy of the Wings
of Carroll and their friends, for full Conven-
ton. And, most surely, the condition of our
State affairs calls loudly and earnestly for re-
newed demonstration Of that patriotism and
energy to which we have alluded.
]. PEARCE.
JOHN STERLING,
GEO. +. kennedy,
J. NJ. TODD,
WIN. MCCOY,
July !, 1853. Wig Central Committee.
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Mental Machinery.

A late number ofthe New-York Tribune has
a lengthy article under the above attention-at
tracing caption. Itmust not be inferred, how
ever, the subject indicated. thereby is new
one, for il has been written about aud practieed
upon for years.
The burden Of the article is to convince
the reader Of the necessity Of a change or re-
form in the use Of letters and we are glad TO
discover that very good case is made out
The main point made is, that the English Al
phabet does not contain a sufficient number OF
letters. It is claimed that there are about for
ty different sounds made use of in our Ian
guage, & that common sense dictates that there
should be letter to represent each Of these
sounds. With Ills notion we entirely agree
We have no doubt that when the AngloSaxOn,
Norman, French, Latin, Greek, land all other
pure languages were FIRST reduced,to written
languages, there were but as many sounds used
in pronouncing them, as were employed in wri-
ting them. The Anglicising of words from
these languages has produced all the Babelism
Of our present vernacular,
All who have had any experience in teach.
ing the "young idea how to shoot" are well
aware that the most difficult part Of their duty
consists in teaching The young photographer
the different sounds Of the vowels.
For instance, A has four different sounds;
has two, and so on, and it is next thing to an
impossibility TO make the pupil understand
when each Of those sounds is 10 be applied
whereas if there was letter corresponding
with each particular sound, when he had learn,
ed to pronounce one of them, and learned the
character by which it is represented. be will
have no further trouble on the subject. As
things now are it is impossible to read correct
ly without correct understanding Of the sub
iect matter, which is an attainment rarely &C
complished by the beginner.
To obviate these difficulties, some one, whose
name we do not know, has invented system cal
led PhonOtopy, but unfortunately for the race i
has not become very popular. But few among
us have taken the trouble and pains to make
ourselves acquainted with it. Those who have
studied and applied it are well pleased with it
Books have been prepared for children accord
ing tOIlhis system, and it would be well for pa
rents to procure a set, and instruct their chill
dren therein, because they can lose nothing
thereby. We mean small children, too young
to be sent to school.
1t is passing strange" that amid all the re-
forms and labor.saving inventions of the age
intended and calculated to reduce the physica
toll Of the human family, the equally importan
subject of economising mental labor has receiv
cd so little attention.
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The RAILROAD MANIA.-lt is time TO consid
er, ifnot to pause Railroad projects are mul
tiplying at an astonishing rate. The Illinois
Central has borrowed twelve millions; the Lou
isvilIe andNashville, three millions; the CinCin-
natl and 81. Louis, three; the New York and
Erie, six; the Pennsylvania, three. Then the
Mobile and Ohio is ready to borrow FIVE mil
lions and the Missouri and Pacific, two. In
deed, we have only begun the list Where
will ii end? Canada is projecting a vast rail-
road scheme-some fifty millions! The Hart
ford Times well remarks thst the map OF Ohio.
Indiana, and Illinois, presents curious piece
of lattice work. Is ii not time to look around
and take a general view, forecast the future?
What an amazing list of mammoth projects
could now be spread out to the eye! Whence
is the capital to come? How is the profit to be
paid?-Phila. Argus.
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school commissioner.

The Ohio State Teachers Association, which
held its session recently in Dayton, unanimous
" agreed in the nomination Of Lorin Andrews,
ESQ. as their candidate for School Commission
er. II will be we'll to remember that this is the
officer that most Of the Wings, and great ma
ny of the democrats propose to select regard
less ofparty prediction. The wire-workers o
the locofoco party, however, seem determined
to have a ocofoco candidate, and purpose hold
ing a convention in August to nominate one
Now we submit it to the honest voters Of Car
roll county, of all parties, if it would not be bet
ter to elect Mr.. Andrews, who has been selec-
ted without regard to party bias, by the teach
ers of the state, than to make the Office sub
servient to base party purposes.
In accordance with our promise, we will We
ry cheerfully support the nominee of the teach
ers of the State, being we'll satisfied they have
made the best choice that could have been made
We hope the teachers Of Carroll county will
confer a merited honor upon one OF their breth-
rem who so well deserves it, by giving him an
overwhelming majority over the party hack
who may be pitted against him by collection
Of political gamblers.
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A French Duel.


A Paris letter tells the fOllOWingstOry:
ga law student became enamoured with 8
Young lady, an artist, and was afianced TO her
He devoted himself with great assiduity to the
completion of bis studies, that he might obtain
A diploma which would make him honorable in
the estimation Of his betrothed. In one oftheir
conversations. they got into an argument upon
some abstruse point Of law, or ethics, or science
and the discussion finally became so warm, that
the high spirited lady. finding it impossible to
couquer her antagonist by the force Of reason
ING, resorted to the GrgumsHisnn baeulium, and
actually loxed her lovers ears. Her hot tenn
per soon cooled, and upon reflection she was so
shocked at the outrage she had committed, that
she insisted upon making some atonement for
the insult. The student, however, assured her
that he was ready to overlook the incident, and
kissed the hand that cuffed him. She declared
she never would consent to marry man who
could receive such an insult as she had been
guilty of inAicting upon him, without resent
ing it or demanding reparatOn. Sheproposed
that the matter should be settled by duel
This being her ultimatum, he reluctantly con.
sented. The preliminaries we're adjusted. sec.
onds appointed, and the parties proceeded in a
carriage together to the spot asst ghned for the
combat The lady loaded both pistols herself,
the stand was taken. the word given. and the
shots exchanged. Both were unharmed, the
balls not having grazed either Of their persons,
Wounded honor, hover was duly healed, and
the dueIlists rushed into each others arms, full
Of love which was just as good as new. 1t ap-
peared that by an artful deceit Of somebody,
the balls we're made of something besides lead.
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~ Mr.. Jno. Arbucke started from Carroll
ton, on yesterday morning with thirty horses
on the cars. He intends going by railway to
New York, whittier he expects TO arrive on Sal
urday evening. This is much more expedi-
tous mode Of taking stock, than the three weeks
journey "overlaad..' The horses which were
pulling our plows here on last Monday, will
be dancing around through New York, attach
ed TO some Of the beautiful carriages Of the me
tropolis, next Monday.
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EEThe Connecticut Legislature has passed
the bill abolishing capital punishment. 1t pro.
vides that the convict shall be confined in a
cell having an outer and inner apartment
the outer cell to be the place Of labor
and rest and into which no one shall enterun-
til the prisoner shall have passed into the in
ner cell and be secured therein by bolt. except
in case of sickness. 1t also provides that he
shall in no case be pardoned unless new evi-
dence Of his innocence shall have transpred
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A RARE CHANCE,

| wish to sell the farm on which now reside ,
situated two miles South of Canollton, Carroll
Co. Ohio. There are about
400 Acres
in the tr ct, the greater part Of which is cleared
A very large frame bank-barn, good brick dwell
ling with convenient out-budings are situated
near the middle of the land.
Carrollton, being in direct Railroad Connec~
ton with Cleveland, Pittsburgh and oil the rest o.
the world and afording good market for all kinds
of produce during the entire year.
For terms inquire of the editor of the Free Press"
CHARLES FAWCETT.
Washington Reporter please copy to the a.
mount of two collars and sen bill to this Office
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CLERks AT WAsHNGToN-Many Of these
gentlemen who recrived appointments under
the new dynasty. have been dismissed, there
not being a sufficient amount Of business to EN-.
ploy them.
The present clerical force Of the various de.
partments has been arranged into four classes
Those Of the Grst class receive 5000. per year
the second $500; the third $500, and the
fourth $1,000
Daniel McCook and Matthew J. Atkinson
Esqrs., formerly of this town, belong to the Sc
cond class. We were unable to find the name
ofMr. Amos in the list.
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Fnrnl for SaIc.

The subscriber offers for sale his farm in Kar-
risOn Township, Carroll County, Ohio, two
miles from Harrisburg and Eve miles from Car
rollton, the terminus of the Carroll Co. Rail
Road-Containing 192 acres-about 1875 acres
of which is cleared and in good state of culti-
vation-well watered-good two story dwelling
house, new bank barn and other necessary bull
dings. Also good orchard IF well selected
fruit, The property is very desirable one and
will be sold on accommodating terms. For fur
ther information enquire Of the ubscriber liv.
ing on the premises.
July Ia, 1853. ALAN karin.
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DEATH OF AN EMINENr PuYsIcIAN.-Dr. N.
Chapman, one Of the most distinguished phys
icians of the United States. died at Philadel-
phia on Friday. Born in Virginia, he grad ua-
ted at Edinburgh. Scotland, and in early life
settled in Philadelphia, He occupied Pro-
fessors chair in the Pennsylvania Uri verslty
from 1911 to 1850, when age and falling
strength caused his resignation, the Trustees
then Conferring on him the honorary distinction
of Meritus Professor As professional
man he was talented, learned and eminently
successful, whilst in private life his cOnvivial
disposition, strong affections, and brilliant wit,
made him the fayOrite of all with whom he was
brought into connection.