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he went every Sunday to ST. James's church,
and used to sit in Mr.. Salts seat where he had
view of his wife, but could not easily be seen
by her.
After he returned home, he never would con-
fess, even to his most intimate friends, what
was the cause of such singular conduct
Apparently there was none; but whatever it
was he was certainly ashamed to own it. DR..
Rose has often said to me that he believed his
brother Howe would never have returned TO his
wife, if the money he took with him, which was
supposed to have been one or two thousand
pounds, had not been all spent; and he must
have been q good economist, and frugal in his
manner of living, otherwise his money would
scarcely have held out for ! imagine he had
his whole fortune by him Il mean what he ear
ried away with him), in money or bank bills,
and daily took out of his bag, like the Spaniard
in Gil Blass, ,what was sufficient for his expenses.
Yet have seen him, after his return, address,
ing his wife i'll the language OF a bridegroom.
And have been assured by some OF his most
intimate friends that he treated her, during the
rest OF their lives, with the greatest kindness
and affection.
Dr. King adds in a note that he was well ac-
quaintcd with DIR. Rose. and also with Salt
that he often met them at Kings COiiec-housc,
near Golden Square DIR. Hing WAS an active
Jacobite and Rose was of French connections) !;
and that they frequently entertained him with
| this remarkable story: relating these and many
other particulars which had escaped his memory.
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WARS IN \ NAMR.-Mr. Frog, q tailor, who
had left Charleston at the commencementofthe
war, returned after the capitulation, and got
acquainted with certain ]. w. Gibbs, who was
requested by Frog to stand as godfather to one
of his children, which was agreed to by Gibbs,
provided he should have the naming of the
child. AS they were gong to the church, the
father asked Gibbs if he thought of a name.
"Yes," said Gibbs, "what do you think ot
our Lieutenant Governor Bull!
avery good" said the iather, az approve Of
it very much."
The child was according named Bull. Frog
did not Immediately think of the drcllery of the
name, but when he did, he could have killed
Gibbs for the imposition on his reliance and
friendship.
He thought to have recourse to tho Board O
police to get permission to re-baptize the child
but when he saw Lieutenant Governor Bul
presiding there, he thought it would be an at
front to relate the story, therefore he postpone,
the matter. and the child retains the appellatol
of Bull Frog,--Cona. journal, Feb, 1888.
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out the bowels of the whole European empire.
Turkey now wages contest in which the
four great powers are entangled, and which
will either result in the emancipation or In
creased subjngation of her people. God grant
the former! Russia, with oracular vision, per-
ceives that her only safety is in quelllng the
religious insurrection and conquering Turkey,
may be thrown open for ber triumphal march
upon her now allied and envious foes. But, it
Russia is defeated in this struggle, Hungary
will rise Poland will be restored TO her political
existence, the Germanic States eonfederated
under a republican government, and Austria
blotted from the list of nations. Italy Will
soon fellow in their train and Russia herself be
sapped to the very foundations by the truths OF
liberty. But, if, on the contrary, Turkey fails
of success, Russia will not only confirm her own
government, but will extend Der power oyer the
whole of Europe; therefore, she will put forth
her every effort, and Austria, in order to spp-
press Hungary, will no longer remain peRtral.
but lend her stresgth to aid Russia in her con-
quests. All! poor Hungary, ! pity thee =
The fates seem unpropitiUus to thee! Thy
fields have been desolated--thy cities famed,
thy sires haye bled-tby matroRS been Eeourged
thy sons have been inundated for defending
thee! The star of thy destiny wanders an
exile in a foreign land! And, thy Bem-thy
chivalrous Bem-mingles his dust with moStem'
earth May thy sorrows cease, thy wrongs be
redressed, and thy exiled chief speedily restored
to his native land! Some interpostion of Pro-
yidence-such as the death of Nicholas, or soma
of the leaders of the inimical powers. might poss
bly, avert it, but the chances are now ten to one
that, ere next winter, all Europe and half o
Asia may be seen involved in one of the bloodi
est conflicts since the days Of Attila. May the
blessings of God attend, and the prayers OF hi
people ascend, in behalf of the down-troddel
millions! May the implous thrones and ruler
be hurled from their bases, and anarchy foreve
dispeIled and, upon the ruins thereof, b.
reared eitadels of republicanism. "whose lOft.
tops shall pierce the stormy clouds, to tell pos
terity their fame," and from whose SUNNI
shall wave standard bearing the motto
Liberty now and, Liberty forever!"
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Original 4ostrg.
Written for the Smyrna Times.
TO my MOTHER.
By A. STAFFORD.

have let thee, my mother; yes left thee to wander
Der the bleak landscapes of earth's wide domani
And when am lonely Ger thy kindness ponuef'
And oft, in my musings, I'm with thee again.
am with tbee in thought, in my hours of sadness
when all nv bright prospects are shroded in gloom
thy sweet presence eer fills me with gadness
And releases my hopes from adverstys DOOM
T., fancy Pm with ihee. when am most cheerful
when the hopes have cherished ara dazzling ana
bright; -,
RI. shsn Inv scdatauess e'eg bidsme Z" be CAREFUL,
Is., INV day of rejoicing be turned into night
And ,f on the bed of afflictien languish,
Raving-derious- and tosqrsd with pam
Ono thought of thy kindness disperses my anguisf
yodream thou art present restores p0 again
am with thee, my mother, whep, by retrespectoa,
Those friends iRai were 'rouni me in childhooa'
,r;. ,heu. at that moment the wreath oi affection
Biud. fruly and closely thy wanaerer TO thee.
Think not. them dear idol. can ever forget thee
While have being-with reason to guide
Ear cose TO nv heart bke an emerald Eve set thee,
Aud there shalt thou ever-yes, ever ablde.
ST.. GEoRGE's. DEL. 1854.
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A Dutchman Abroad.

"Hello, friend can you tell me the way TO
Reading :" inquired u down-easter the other
day of a Pennsylvania Dutchman, whom he
found hard at work beside the road q few miles
from Reading.
90, yaw, could tell you so besscr as any
body. You must first turn de barn round, de
pritch over and the brook up stream. den de
first house you come to ish my prodcr fIans
big barn; dat ish de biggest barn dere ish on
dish road; it is eighteen feet Won way, and
eighteen feet back again. My proder Hans
thought to thatch it init shingles, but be sold
dem, and den be shingled it NIT straw, and
clapboard it init rails; after you go by my pro-
der Hans big barn, de next house you come to
ish a hay stack of cornstalks, biIt of straw, but
you must not stop dare too. Den you goes
along till you come to tree roads and den you
kit lost. Den you musht kit over de fence into
a great pig pen init no fence around it. Den
you take de road upon your right shoulder, and
90 down as far as de prltch, den you turn right
again. Ven you.ish comm back, you come by
house dat stands right back along side of
little yaler tog. He runs out and SAYS, DOW
WOW WOW, he duz, and bits little piece out of
! your leg, den heruns and shumps intoan empty
| pig pen dat has four sheep in it. Den you look
way up OH de hill down in de swemp dere. and
sees plue white house painted red, nit two
! front doors on de back side; well, tere ish we're
my proder Hans lives, and he would tell you so
besser as could. don't know
"Wall, swow, by hokee, mister, you are
about as mellergent saynt Jemimy but reck-
on as how you don't know her through, she's
dumb. But say yeou, why don't you dig out
them paskey wees, hey?'
go, dear me, hash had very bad luck. Won
or two days next week mine proder Hans pump
kins broke into pig patch, and ven drove them
home, every tam little pumpkin in de field catch
up vUn little piece of pig in its mouth, and den
der run through de taytnl as if der fence was
after dem, and POST stumbled over me, and
I'm almost kilt, am.'
"Whew! Dew tell"
81 Den links as how must take me vrow.
so goes to Reading, and tells Kottereen if she
would take me for worse or besser, and she me
yaw. So | takes him home, and eat sever
quarts sour krout, and went to bed well enough
; but de morning she shumpt up tead! She wal
a very heavy loss; she weigh more as dres
: hundred aud seventy pounds. Den my little
boy takes sick and tied. O!Pd rather give NJ
tree shillngs ash TO have dat happen, he wa.
so fat as butter Den my hens come nit ders
ears split, and hogs all come home. nit nine q
dem missen"
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@rlslnal Artltlts.
Written for the Smyrna Times
EUROPEAN LIBERTY,
BY yEEas.

The European volcano has @xplodedt The
essption has taken place; asd the liberty
heated lava is fast flowing throughout the land.
The whole Eastern sky is illumed with the
uortents of general eenfagration-whilst
marshaled hosts of her menial sons, accoutred
in the weapons of death and devastation, are
posted throughout the territories ready for the
onset
Fear beams from every loyal eye--tsfror
Ghiils every royal heart, whilst the goddess OF
liberty, gently descending, hovers around each
bondmsn's bead, and fans his burning brow
with the breath of freedom, stimulating his
heart with courage and strengthening his
arm for battle, in which to wipe away the stain
of centuries wrongs Monarchs turn pale at
the prospect and remble upon their totterlng
thrones-~uations start from their uneasy slum-
bers and. graspipg tightly ibeir chains to stifie
their clanking. ask. in ANXIOUS whispers. II the
clock Of destiny has struck the hour of freedom
and rsvenge-gaant artizans and ragged labor
ers, roaming in hungry desperation. thank God
that the crisis vividly approaches wherein the
poor who cannot live, shall at Least haye the
opportunity to die like men,
For, too long already has Austria-the whole
German fanily--been tongue-tied. the Rhine
stagnant in its bed; Poland--the Niobe Of ma,
tions---and her children, with her cut up estate
parce)ed out among the robbers; Hungary
with tks knife at her proud and beauteous neck
italy. locked within her sculptured sapplchre
and a proEaae saldery keeping watch upon it
France, grirnaeiRg in masquerade. the glar'
of which binds men to crimes-of which u =
the senseless and reckless criminali ireland
her people deeaying and disappearing taste
than the ruins. which ruthless civilization ma
left standing on ths soil where. where ca
the eye that scans the present condition {
Europe turn with joy, without grief and vef
gsance Surely, the days of war, and rumo'
of war have arrived The peaceful serenit
which has, Of late years. prevailed over tt
earth. il fast being dispslicd. Those balayi
a.vs ia ghich all nations assembled in harm
NOUS prosperity, and each bore its farest ofe
inc and laid upon the worlds shrine Of huns
indussry and art, now veing with It's sister n
sion 81 lie 2lspdit of superiority offeri'
consrntslations Of success are fast passl
.w.vr This peaceful suspension Of hostllIt
.uuears but to have been !" political pause
--euch ss Foe had ~ conception when ne
ares..d ths Parliamept respecting its awa'tir
3, ps..rsrte q become aoeile. The resu
.r,h;. ss,,ee bid fsir not to affect Great Brit
.los.--ss did his--but they threaten to =
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A Recipe FOX making Good Temper
ed Husband

"a decent country woman, said an English
divine, "came to me one market-day and beg
ged to speak with me. She told me with an
air of secrecy that her husband behaved unkind-
" to her, and thut knowing me to be wise
man, could tell her what would cure him.
The remedy is simple said l. 'alscays treat
your husband tnith a smile The woman thank
ed me, dropped courtesy, and went away. A
few months after she came again, bringing q
couple OF fine fowls. She told me with great
satisfaction that / had cured her husband; and
she begged my acceptance of the fowls in re-
turn. This was at once the victory of love
and the reward of patience"
On the above anecdote we would make a
few remarks. Domestic comfert is more de-
pendent on the wife, and mother. than on the
! husband and father, and We much fear that too
many men are drireR to the public house for
want of those smiles of affection. and those
words of kindness, the power ofwhieh, few men
are so hardened as not to feel We learn from
the Holy Scriptures, that "a soft answer turn-
eth away wrath, but grievous words stir up
anger. Prov xvi Let every wife who would
have sober husband, do all she can 10 make
her house. home of Feace and comfort. II y
sad when man has gross, petulant, scolding
wife, to drive him to public house, 10 receive
the smiles of the publican, whose welcome ia
his ruin. We would say to every wife, "le
clean in your person, tidy in your house, and
Z kind to your husband" Study his temper and
disposition, and ethm see that you desire noth-
ing SO much as his happiness. If there were
more smiling wives, there would be more kind
husbands. Loving smiles and kind words are
powerful weapons to conquer an nnkind man.
and il they should not have the happy effect you
! might at first expect, you may hope that they
! will overcome at last. Should they however
fail. a disappolntment we cannot look for. then
! you will haye this consolation, that yoa did all
! you could to win your husband, and 10 keep hin'
4 ut home, and that you cannot be charged with
: tried to keep him at home with your sniies.
!. Canada Literary Gem.
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Written for the Smyrna Times.
EMP GRANGE.
Dover, July Z, 1854.
by DIDYMUs.

EVERY man that striveth for the martery
is temperate in all things.-1 Corinthians, tx.
20.
Your enemies from without, my dear friends,
are not the only ones you have to dread-you
carry those within; from which, far the greatest
danger is to be suspected, and against which,
consequently, the strictest guard is to be kept
Everything is to be feared from corrupt ma
ture, continually prompting strong and evil
passions to elicit qualification. If, by divine
grace, you can maintain the due government
over these-if you can support reason in her
empire, and preserve to the soul its due domn-
ion over the body, you will more easily perse-
we're in course of virtue-you will more easily
resist the outward seductions of the world and
the devil. In this government of the passions
by maintaining this superiority of the soul
over the body. you will conquer that despicable
and destructive vice of intemperance, the false
pleasures which | am about to develope, and
which will be best done by stating, at large
the nature of the contrary virtue, so essentially
necessary to your right conduct-so immediate
ly productive of your true felicity. For fyor
strive for the mastery-if you wish to attain
the great end of lifc-if you wish to depar
hence with self-appause, and to obtain thu
future crown, you must be temperate in al
things: carefully abstaining from the imprope
use of anything which tends to diminish or de
stEoy the due government of YOURSELF an
weaken that dominion ever your passions whie
every wise man should endeavor to maintain
This is the general notion of temperance; bu
it may be proper to show more largely where
in temperance is more especially placed
what are the particulars wherein it is ger
orally transgressed--whata are the bad cor
sequences of such transgression--and wha
are the proper rules to be observed
order to avoid such transgression. Now, q
temperance in general consists in maintainin
the dominion of reason over sense, of soul ov'
body; so it is particularly conversant in reg
: lating and duly proportioning the measure
sleep, food, meat and drink, and the other co
:, fporal and merely animal qualifications. Wi
respect TO the measure of these, it is not ea
indeed, it is not possible---to lay down al
! ! certain and universal rule, since mems cons
tutions differ so much from each other, and fro
:. themselves at different times, that what wou
:, be excess in one, might, perhaps, be abstinen
= in another; and what would be abstinence
!, one, might be excess in another.
fro BE CONTINUED.
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THE FAST MEH.--In his lately published vol
umes ofectures on s.the moral aspects of city
life,p Rev. E. Chaplin ssys of Young America:
.There are young men, whose sole conception
of enjoyment is concentrated in the word Fast
--wbo grow fast. live fast, go fast on the track
of destruction, with their own folly for loco
motiye. and champagne and brandy for the
steam-power; converting themselves into liquor
casks, propping up door-posts, hanging over
ratings, and startling the bull ear of night with
rickcty melodies and drunken war-whoops.--
There are others, half fop and half ruffian, who
divide their time between the favorite racer and
the pet pug list. and whose idea oi'a millennium
probably, would be that Of protlanted Fourti
| of July"
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Written for The Smyrna Times.
Bible Temperance mo. 8.
BY yoHANAN.

AMONG the various articles embraced under
Bible Temperance is that of alcoholic liquors
therefore, leaying all others, we will. confine
ourselves to this one. and inquire, what the
Bible says on the use of intoxicating liquors.
Inquire, whether we have any evidence from
the Bible, that God designed that we should use
alcoholic or intoxicating liquors as beverage.
This Is the particular point to which the mind
will be directed. Let tnot be mistaken. We
are not to discuss, whether the Bible SANCTIONS
the use Of wine or any other drink as medi-
cine, OF fog religious purposes, or whether the
the simple, unfermented juice of the grape :s
not allowable in wine growing districts, but
| achether the Bible sanctions the use Of atco-
holic liquors as a beUerage Accordingly, we
lay down this proposition: Total abstinence
from all Intoxicating liquors as beperGge Is
the doctrine and temperance Of the Bible
This proposition we SHALL endeayor to substan-
tiate, and then answer variety of objections
and finally look at the coincidence of legal
prohibition with the tests of divine truth
Therefore, lst every argument advanced, and
every fact given, be duly examined and consid-
cred, and may the Lord bless it TO the disspa.
ton Of any delusion of which the reader may
be laboring under, and influence the mind t.
engage in cause whose object is the best IN
terests Of humanity.
/, l. The nature and production Of Alcohol :
The presence Of alcohol, or its equivalent,
absolutely essential to render a beverage intoxl
eating. The juice of no fruits of the cart
win produce drunkenness until it contains tn
alcoholic principle, and its inebriating quallt
!. will be in proportion to the strength OF tha
principle Hence, the reason why some liquor
are more Intoxicating than others. is becaus
!: they contain larger proportion of alcohol,
q poisonous drugs equivalent Alcohol rs nc
! naturally in the vegetable or fruit, it is pr'
j. duced in its progress to corruption, al
y is. therefore, one of the effects of the ours
IS which followed Adams transgressions Re
!, mentatlon is necessaFy to the production of a
Of cohol. You may take the apples the grippe,
A. any other fruit, and eat It all your lie' pr y
re- may extract the juice and drink 70 safety a.
~ Lit will not produce intoxication; but let IN
q Juice stand exposed to the atmosphere and
IN hastens on To putrlfaetion, inns process
O, carried OIL by a series Of fermentat'cns, ~
II. Substances that contain grape sugar. Stne sus
al Of fruits,) or saccharne matter, the frst sta
"a. is alcohol. The elements Of this sugar or 50
M charinc matter are certain gases, caledcaro'
rg orygen and hydrogen, al existing ~ ao'
les equal proportions,- ,--hanlie. while existing
! this slate, no juices win iIltoxicate spd they
a. thus exist ia all ripe fruEts, which are there
i, vs rcndefed wholesome but, as soon as decay
It's gins ferlincntaton commences. In the proc
III of fermentation, the sugar contained IN
~ ;uices 4 yst becomes dscomposed, and then
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Written for tbs Smyrna Times.
MY MOT ii e r.,
nv w. @. STEWART,

BN W. u. SIEWAN
Swee: strains Of music, Gar more dear
To ma. than any other,
Arise. wh, n the kind voice hear
OF my devoted mother
In yeSrs sgonc. when | was young
I often gave her pain
Her loving heart with grief wrung
She ne'er may know again,
Nnw, have reached maturer years.
strive. each passing day.
70 wipe away the startling tears
And make her ag'd heart gay.
Joy to look into her face
And think that she was given
To guide me in my youthful raca
Aud ieaeb the way 10 Heaven
'mLspEIHIA. JusE, 1854.
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OF The following was Addressed to law
yer. IL distance lends enchantment TO th'
view, and view refuses to return IL can dlstanc'
recover any legal redresss"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-11
VIRGINIA RUINS.

The Richmond EHqnirer praises very much, in Il
leading article, collection of sketches of the
ruins of jamestown, made by n Virginia artist
The painter has er Ormed the piOus work Of an
Old Morality, and the editoris grateful therefore,
and lyrical, at the same time, in his sentimental
ism over the past. We have doubt good
work has been begun by the artist; but he should
not stop with jamestown. The ruins Of that
place but typity the ruins of Virginia at large,
and all her ruins are equally deserving artis-
tic record. For eXrmple: Norfolk Is CONNER
caly Il ruin; and Mount Vernon domeSticly an
other ruin and Richmond if not Il ruin might as
well be one as be sustained by the trade in human
flesh. The fields of Virginia, too, are ruined ::
pride end folly, and tobaccO-rasing, chewing and
splitting have contributed to wear them out and
drive the chivalry to new lands. The people, too,
are Intellectually ruiued. There are eighty thou
sand white human ruins who can neither read nor
write; aud there are some hundreds OF thousands
Of illegitimate mulattO ruins, without the position
of manhood or womanhood, liable TO be sold by
their white parents or brothers and sisters at any
moment, to make up for real estate ruins. KUN
Inestles in the Dismal Swamp and in the Allegha-
/ mics in the village, and Oh the old estate All is
ruin Even the old pride of Washington, pray
ing that the Legislature might abolish Slavery is
succeeded by the ruin of justice and the defense
of what the good aud great men of Nirgihia--the
Lees, the Jeffersons the llenrys-mourn@d.- =
Ruin moral and material of estates OF helds, cities
ana towns. Even liS'"i"' '.lN'.
the high-born aristocrat" as she is, cannot keep
Mr.. Sully to continue his mementos OF her rum
The editor regrets "to know that he speaks OF eay
ing Virginia, having received advantageous offers
in another part of the Union" This however, Is
not like Old Morality. lie stuck to his ruins, Nnc
did not rat it.
Alas that there should be ruins in Virginia
her earliest settlements leading the way to tht
oblivion awaiting her older ones, and that humaI
shambles should only postpone the day OF he
cosolation. Unless she adopts new policy anC
seeks profit in more wholesome business
than slave-breeding, she will, we fear, be givel
totally over to bats and owls. But we do not fea
that consumation for her; she will yet seel
safety in freedom, popular education and homes
industry. The way to this result may be lonj
and difficult, out Virginia has come near Il
and though aboundng in ruins she is not altogeth
er dead. The world will yet witness her resusci
,ation.- Tribune: