The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-06-14
PCNCH'S PROVERBS.

Other persons were born about the same time
as thyself, and have been growing up ever since,
as well as thou. Therefore, be not proud.
Preserve few secrets from thy wife; for if she
discover them she will gricve, not that thou has
kept from her thy secrets, but thy confidence.
Educate thy children, lest one of these fine
days they educate thee in school with no vaca-
tons.
o, how good was Nature, that placed great
rivers near great towns. 3
traveller, journeying wisely, may learn
much. Yet much may also be learned by linn
who stays at home.
do not say to thee, "Marry, for it will eSaIt
thee;" vet was there subtle meaning in those
whose usage it, was to say, Marry, come up"
We know nothing, and yet it is knowing
something to know that thou knowest nothing.
Bya conceit, certain red fly hath been called
ladyb and hidden to fly away home. The
counsel is good, even to her who is neither bird
nor 1y. There is no place like home.
He who holds his tongue will one day have
nothing else to hold. Yet it is not good to be
over garrulous.
The weathercock, working easily, can tell thee
the way Of the wind; but if the weathereock
sticks, the course of the wind will not be influ-
enced thereby.
Virtuous love is wholesome. Therefore be
virtuous, to make myself worthy of seflose
not of course that thou art thereby prevented
from loving somebody else.
A cat, even if she be friendly, never approSch-
es thee by direct course. No more docss a
truth, oh friend; but winding round thy stfpid-
tiles, and rubbing up against thy prejud*es,
it reaches thee gently = and then perhaps
scratches. 8
A stitch in time saves nine. IF therefore Nou
feelest one in thy side, be thankful, oh friei I.
Love the moon, for she shines in the nryht,
to give us light in the dark; whereas the sun
only shines in the daytime, when there is pl .nty
of light, and his assistance is not wanted uch
is the difference between real and false chs%ity.
Solomon knew several things, allowing 70 his
AGE, but could teach him a few others
SENATOR HUNTER ON THE HIGHER Law.
We cut the following extract from the speech
of Senator Hunter, of Virginia, made at Peters
burg, in Virginia last month as reported in the
Washington Sentinel:
"Fellow-citizens, such distinction does not
in truth exist. The Catholic of the present day
no more admits the supremacy of the Church in
temporal matters than the Protestant; their diff
ference is in regard to spiritual concerns. The
Protestant maintains the right Of private jadg-
ment in matters of conscience the CatG 3lic
believes that in spiritual affairs the decisions of
the Church ought to override the indivi ual
Judgment. But Protestants and Catholics all
Christian churches and individuals believe shat
the allegiance which they owe to God is biz ;her
than any obligation to man and that in a 2on-
fict beaioecn human and Dirine la,cs, you Gust
serpe God rather than man
AFFECTING INCIDENT
A seaman of the fleet before Sebasti pol,
whose hmily lives at Polperro, in this cothty,
was ordered on shore for the purpose of assist
ing in burying the slain who fell in late at
tack of the Russians on the British batteries
and almost the first person he met with on land
ing was one Of his brothers, of whose presence
in the feet he was not before informed, and