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Mechanics.

st. Paul was a mechanic--a maker oil
tents from goats and in the lecturers opin
ion, he was model mechanic. He was
not only thorough workman at h s trade, but
was scholar perfect master, not only Of
his native Hebrew, but Of three foreign
tongues, knowledge Of which he obtained
by close study during his leasure hours
while serving bis apprenticeship. 1t was a
custom among the Jews to learn the sons
some tra@e-a custom not cCn6ned among
the poor classes, but was practiced By the
wealthy; and it was a common proverb a
mong them; that if father did rot teach
his son mechanics occupation, he taught
him to steal. This custom was wise one;
and if the fathers CT the present day would
initiate their example, their wr;nlleI cheeks
would not so often bIlsh for the helpless.
ness, and no. un'rcqucnly the criminal con-
duct of heir offspring. Even if a father in
tended his son for one of the professions it
would be an inCaIcuIable benefit to that son
to instruct him In some branch of mecaan-
ism. His education would not only be
more complete and healthy. but he migh at
some future lime, in case of failure in his
profession, find his traIe very convenient
as a means Of earning lis bre.d, and he
must necessarily be more competent in me-
chenica from his professional education An
educated mechanic is molel mechanic
while uneducated mechanic is merely me-
chanic working under the suporintendance
Of another's brain. Let the rich and the
proud no longer look upon mechanism as de-
grading to him who adopts branch Of it
as his calling. 1t is a noble calling-as
noble as the inlolence and inactivity of
wealth is ignoble. DR., Adams.
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Louis was handing his mother out the
carriage, and she stood like a culprit, hall
hidden by the door.
Here, Biddy, take this basket" said he,
handing small travelling satchel, as he
spoke, without looking up.
"Oh, Louis!' was the answer of the sup
posed Biddy.
The young husband started in astoniSh-
ment. That this backened, tearstaiDed,
ashes.covered figure could be his neat,
pretty wife, was almost incomprehensble.
"Biddy's left me, Louis! How DIDO,
mother" but the kiss en- old Mrs. Wharton S
face was accompanied by such burst of
tears as shocked the mother-in law. The
good, thrifty soul, could not comprehend
such sorrow.
They all went into the parlor, where
Emily, with broken voice, recounted her
troubles.
1t wonld be untrue to say ;hat Louis was
not disappointed; he was SO anxious that
Emily should continue the favorable impress
sion which he knew that she had at first
made on his mother. In his own mind he
had determined that she should sing her.
selflike mermaid into old Mrs. Wharton's
affections, and he just now discovered that
there were other accomplishments, which
he suspected his mother, valued more high
ly than music, singing, French or Italian.
The good lady smiled, but not unkindly,
on her daughter-in-aw, for she saw Low
anxious she was to do Der duty.
"No matter, Emily, about your dinner"
said she. eff your kettle boils, give us
some bread and butter and preserves, and
a cup of tea, and we shall do famously.-
Wait till [ get off my things, and l will see
what can do with your refractory fire -
I can generally coax up one like charm" :"
The willing voice and manner relieved
Emily indescribably, and with lightened
heart she led the way to the kitchen.
Mrs. Wharton rolled up her sleeves, tied
her handkerchief over her cap, and pinued
up her gown, (Emily did not possess a cook
ing apron, for which she inquired) then
with an ease which did really seem like a
charm, she kindled fire with the splnts
which Emily had brought at her request
from the cellar.
A suspicious twitch fitted about the cor,
ners Of her mouth, as she peercd over her
spect cles at the beef, the potatoes, and
the spinach, but she told Emily SO kindly
how she ought to have done, and made it
appear so easy, that she, poor, little wife,
gave her hearty kiss, and took another
cry.
Biddy did not return till the next day,
and 10 her astonishment she found that
"ould lady" as she called her, was con-
stantly invading her domain with young
Mrs Wharton, and after some Eninte lliGlble
muttelings about "two misthresses," she
quietly yielded to the presence and the help
of the two, when she was preparing meals,
and in consequence, Emily Wharton now
adds good cooking to the list of her other
accomplishments, as we would advise all
young ladies, whether married or not, to do.
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The First Sagar.

Among a certain class Of i'll traine boy $
smoking and chewing tobacco are though
10 be unqncslionable requisites to all who
may be considered manly and independent
A few days ago, saw a ragged, palefaced, i,
sorry-looking boy, about seven years old.
putting what was evidently his FIRST segar.--
He stood leaning against a house, his
cheeks drawn in, his eyes red and watery,
his countenance bearing the expression of
nausea, and altogether looking as though
he were ready to repent of his foolish bar
gain. Severa! other lads little older stood
around, encouraging him, and anxiously
waiting the result of the experiment. Poor
silly boy! He probably thought it was a
fine manly thing he was learning, instead
of dirty disgusting and unhealthy habit
which will prove curse to him as long as
lie lives, if not broken up. can hardly be-
lieve he would have endured the deadly
nau ca Of the first sesar, with such martyr
ike patience, had he suspected The real ma
ture of the process.he was going through.
There are other boys every day going
through the same initiatory steps,under the
same strange delusion. Some into whose
hands this book will fall, may be exposed to
the same danger. To such | would say.
beware how you woald acquire this habit.
The use of tobacco whethe, by chewing,
snufing or smoking, is both physical and
a moral evil. 1t is only evil anil evil con-
tinually. The most skillfal physicians in
the world have testified to its dangerous of
fects upon the system. The most eminent
men in the various other walks of life, cler-
gymer and teachers, judges and lawyers,
men ofliterature, art, science and morals,
have denounced the use of tobacco as one
of the greatest evils Of the day. It would
be difficult to fnd candid and well inform
ed man, who would seriously deny this pos
ition, SO well established is the fact,
Boys Own Guide.
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From Peterson's Magazine for May.l
EMILY WHART0n'S
BY FANNY SMITH.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS

At eighteen, according to the diploma Of
n fashionable boarding school, Emily Mar
tin was fully qualified to marry. Her mu-
sic was of the most scientific description, far
above The comprehension OF the common
herd; her voice in the highest state Of cult
walton; her French as Partisan as Monsieur
Condor and provincial French nursery
maid could make it; her italian so extensive
that she could sing it with but few mistakes,
and her embroidery and fancy work very
much better than her plain sewing.
So, as | sail before, my friend Emily con-
sidered herself fully competent for the mat
rimonial state, and certain Louis Wharton
though; so too.
After the futer OF bridal fnery and bri-
dal parties was over, the young wife was
carried off to distant village to make &C
ouaintance with her husbands family, and
she came home delighted with every thing
and everybody she saw. Such houSekeep-
ing, such clock-gork regularity, such break
,fasts, and dinners, and suppers; these were
the themes of Emily's conversation for ma
ny day, and she had half a mind to try to
rival her mother-in law and sister in law in
that respect.
But her old interests and occupations soon
superseded her new ones. the more readily
as Biddy, her one servant, was faithful,
thorough going creature, who preferred
having the work entirely under her own
control.
twas four months after her marriage,
and with q CAV heart and willing hands,
Emily Wharton was putting Der frilled pill
Iow-cases on the bed other spare room, for
her mother in-law was expected that day to
make them visit.
She was standing back to admire the ef
feet Of her handy work, when Biddy put
her head in at the door.
.'If you plase. man, said she, Il mus
90 this mint to my sisters. Je@my's
down stairs. and he says the baby's mos
dead intFely. The Virgin save us!" and
Biddy's tears flowed copiousIy.
Poor Emily stood bewildered. 1t was .
case in which she could not refuse to let hel
servant 20, but what was she to do? hel
mother-in.law, the queen Of housebeepers,
coming. and dinner TO get Had it been q
piece Of intricate music to play at sight, she
would have laughed at the difficulty, but
chickens to prepare, and desert to make, and
old Mrs. Whalten to criticise! poor Emily
felt as If her sorrow was as great as Bid
dy's.
"But can't you run down and see the
child, Biddy, and then come back to ge
dinner? You know my mother-in-law is
coming to-day. You shall go away again
as soon as possible. Iguess the baby ism
very sick" said she. as coaxingly as if he
manner would have made it as she wished
But Biddy shook herhead.
"Ifit's IN jist, you see. nam. must stay
and help nurse ii; and il II dies, Margary
aill want nae 10 wake withit. Butl'llcom'
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Know Nothlngism in Philadel-
phia---The same Everywhere.

KnowNothingism is the same everywhere
we presume as in Philadelphia. There, as
soon as the lodges got their candidates in of.
fee, they portioned off the officers, raised
their salaries, and created innumerabe new
offices to fill with candidates previously Sc.
lected in secret. The result is plainly told
in the following extract from the North A
merican of Wednesday last;
"Their can be no exrication from the DIFF
fculty without imposing new and We fear
oppressive, burdens On the citizens. Taxa.
ton has already reached figure which is
alarming. Their is general cry Of COM
plant under it. Property is becoming
source Of loss to those who own it. The
public charges upon it are impovershipg
the holders. Rents are raised on the tenant
to cover, as far as possible, the exhorbant
exactons made upon the landlord. People
are forced to occupy dwellings and stores,
and the like, of smaller dimensions and less
price than they could once occupy, and the
number of spacious and costly buildings in
our city now vacated in consequence of the
causes named is daily increasing Busi-
ness in all its relations, indeed, is feeling
the depressing influence of this condition Of
things; and persons of all classes and cir
cumstances are being obliged to retrench
their expenditures, while they cannot, by a
process Of stinting themselves in their usual
merely necessary wants, save their income" "
II the hungry and c!amorous cormorants,
Of the midnight Order get into power here,
we shall then learn to our cost, that instead
ofreducing the heavy taxes of Ohio, they
will follow the example Of their prohigate
brethren in Pennsylvania. They prate a.
bout economy, but the above extract from
the North American, draws dark and too
truthful picture Of the Inconsistency of their
promises and their practices. They have
not single clear idea of the measures ne
Cessary to the management of the State, on
a systematic and prudent basis.
We have demanded of the organs Of the
Order again and again, to say to the pco-
pie, what evils in the State they would cor
rect, and in what mode. But they do not
answer, and they cannot answer. They
have formed no plans Of action, which they
dare to subject to plain public exposition.
Their organization Is secret, their whole mode
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PRoGaEss OF THE DEMOCRATIC Ass)orA-
rroN--We copy the following from the Lon,
isvilie Times, for the purpose of urging up
on our friends in Ohio the recommendation
it contains. To beat the Know Nothings.
organization is required. The Times says:
"The Democratic Association is orsani
zing rapidlp throughout the West. In the
northern part of Kentucky many clubs have
been formed; Louisville is fall Of them, and
they are making rapid progress in Indiana.
God speed the good work. All that is
necessary to insure brillient triumph to
the Democratic party in the coming elections
is organization; and the Democratic Asso
citation is the most efficient method oforgan.
izing that we are acquainted with. Every
county in Kentucky should adop. ii"
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ET Col. Medary of the Statesman, dares
the Know Nothings to a trial Of strength
with the Democratic party at the next elec.
ton. Hear him:
We dare the concern to sheer trial Of
strength with the democratic party. 1t will
no more accept such a challenge, and come
out on the field against us, SOLITARY and
alone" 9Th its narrow minded and mean
hearted issues against foreigners, against
Catholics, against a liberal policy of natu-
ralization, against the Official eligibility of
adopted citizens Of every shape and shade
of faith, than it would accept a challenge TO
jump into the Ocean. But we shall whip
it in whetever position 1t assumes, if, as we
grayely doubt, it can live long enough in
Ohio, to be above ground when tke time
for fair fight comes. We care not how
many coalitions it forms, it can partake in
none of which its miserable, midnight trick.
cry, and its absurd doctrines, will not soon.
er or later pois m to death anyand every par
ty that accepts the least connection with it.
Ofthis The public mind is rapidly becoming
conscious. Any connection with the Order
for political advantage. is now pronounced
by some Of the shrewdest Of the negocia-
ting parties themselves, an act of despera
ton, tn which victory would be disgrace,
and defeat everlasting destruction.
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G9Baite Qoetrp,
From Peterson's Magazine,
MAY.
ny D. HARDY, IN.

Month OF Natures teeming Joy,
Month of bliss without alloy,
Month OF sunshine, month of mirth,
Floral-fairies at thy birth,
Z Hymned thy praises, welcomed thee,
With their songs Of melody.
Month ofsohg- birds, month of flowers,
Month of health-imparting showers.
Month TO poets ever dear,
Fairest offspring oI the year,
Goddess month OF hope and love,
Welcome from the fields above.
Like a fay op silver wing,
Thou h, st famed the cheek offspring;
Thou hast come the earth to bless,
With er ceeding loveliness;
eunbeams now are out at play,
Everything proclaimes it May.
4 hou hast come with lightsome tread,
BY the graces hast been led,
BY the Loves thou hast been crowned,
For thy tresses now are bound,
With love- wreath of the flowers,
Gathered in the fairy bowers.
In green hooks thy bed receives
Shadows from unnumbered leaves,
Dancing in the suns warm beams,
To the music of the streams;
With thy coming thou hast brought
ral.tributes to each erot.
Butterflies on dappled wing
Deem thy advent welcoming
Grass is springing on the hills,
Violets beside the rills,
And the woods with birds are full,
Singing carols beautiful.
Oh, the blissful hours of May,
Pass like sunny dreams away,
Like the rainbow's arching form,
Vanishing amid the storm,
And as dreamily they glide,
AS the streams at eventide.
Sweeping wings through vornal skies,
Cleaning plumes like rainbow dies,
Lute-like sounds from mossy dell,
Where the crystal fauntNins well,
Winds coquettish out at play,
All proclaim it tgladsome May.
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RT Among the luxuries Of life may be
set down the following; To have painful
gathering on ones finger; husband calling
for hot toddy;' Bobby blowing his trumpet
and beating his drum in the ears Of one S
distracted head; milEmau humping at the
door and child's head in the sugar bowl and
the others foot between the rounds of q
chair; and the performances concluded with
jig by the dramatis persone.
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How to Treat a Wife.

First, get wife, secondly, be patient
You may have great trials and perple kites
in your business with the world; but do not
therefore, carry to your house a clouded or
contracted brow. Your wife may have
many trials, which, though of less magni-
tude, may have been as hard to bear. A
Kind conciliating word, tender look, will
do wonders in chasing from her brow all
clouds of gloom. You encounter your diff
fculties in the open air, tanned by heavens
cool breezes; but your wife is often shut in
from these healthful influences, and her
health fails, and her spirits lose their elias
t:city. But oh! bear with her; she has trials
and sorrows to which you are stranger.
but which your tenderness can deprive of
all their anguish. Notice kindly her little
attentions and efforts to promote your COM
fort. Do net take them all as matter of
course, and pass them by, at the same time
being very sure to observe any omission of
what you may consider duty to you. Do
not treat her with indifference, fyou would
not scar and palsy her heart. which, water
ed by kindness, would to the latest day of
your existence, throb with sincere and con.
stant affection. Sometimes yield your wish
es to hers. She has preferences as strong
as you, and it may be just as trying to
yield her choice as TO you. Do not find it
hard to yield sometimes? Think you it is
not difficult for her to give up always? If
you never yisld to her wishes, there is dan,
ger that she will think you are selfish, and
AM care only for yourself, and with such
feelings she cannot love as she might. A.
gain, show yourself manly, SO that your
wife can look up to you, anl feel that you
will act molly. and that she can conGde in
your Judgment.
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01rThe following queries have been pro.
pounded to us:
Can man be Mason, and K N, and
be consistent?
Can man be an Odd Fellow and a K. n
and be consistent?
Can man be Red Man and K. N.
and be consistentg
Can man be Son of Temperance and
a K N. and be consistent!
Can man be X. N. and member Of
any benevolent association which requires
obligations similar to those Of the above SO.
cieties, and be consistent?
These are questions which ii will be well
to ponder.
In our estimation, he cannot be consis
tent, for while the oaths of the X. Ms com
mand him to disfranchise and exclude from
the rights of citizenship all who are of for
eign birth, or believe in the Roman Catho-
lc faith, the obligations of the other socie'
ties require him to treat all as brothers. ut
matter where born--no matter what re1igi
GUS faith they profess. - Eng.
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BEAUTIFUL ExrRAcr.--Whe tie sum.
mer of youth is slowly wasting away into
the nghtfall of age, and the shadows of the
past years grow deeper and deeper, and
life wears to its close, i! is pleasant to look
back through the vista of time upon the SOL
rows and felioi;ies of cur earlier years. II
we have home to shelte~, AMI hearts to
rejoice with us, and friend have been gail.
cred together around our fresides, then the
rough place Of our wayfaring will tave been
worn and smoothed away in the twilight Of
life, while the sunny spots we have passed
through, will grow brighter and more beau
tiful. Happy, indeed, are they whose in.
tercourse with the world has not changed the
tone of their hoier feeling, or broken those
musical chords of the heart, whose yibra-
tions are 80 melodiots. SO tender and touch
ing in the evening of age.
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Industry is essentially social. No
man can improve either himself or his neigh
Dor without neigaborly help, and to better
the world is to set the world to work togeth-
er. Every useful invention has been car
ried ou' AMI perfected by the CO operations
of many minds, or by the successive appli'
cations Of varied genius to the same object,
age after age. The mechanic must aid the
philosopher, or he must stand still in his
demonstrations, or he will work, and work
without wisdom. The astronomer needs
the telescope, and the chemist his material
and apparatus. The sciences hang on tn.
arts, and the arts on the sciences.
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EF-It is mind which gives beauty to the
rose, and throws sublimity around the
mountain or the comet. tits mind that en-
yeops the cascade with beauty, and the
heavens with grandeur. In proportion to
the minds breadth, the store Of information
it possesses, and accumulated ideas Of its
experience, SO are the intensity and lofti.
ness Of its enjoyment.
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Gg- How little do we appre ciate moth
er'S tenderness while living. How Needless
are we in childhood Of all her anxieties and
kindness. But when she is dead ard gone
when the cares and coldness of the world
come withering to our hearts--when we
learn how hard it is to fnd true Sympathy
how few love us for ourselves how few
will befriend US in our misfortune-th it
is we think Of the mother we have lost.
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a Legislature Transacting its Bu-
siness in Secret.

The Infamous Legislature of Massachus-
etts recently actually closed its doors and
transacted its buriness, which was not of an
executive kind, in secret session. This is
one of the most alarming innovations which
has yet been made in our political customs.
We have heretofore prided ourselves upon
the publicity of our legislative bodies and
our courts Of justice. Secrecy in either
case. nations where it has been al!o we'd, led
to gross corruption or the most outrageous
tyranny, and, if tolerated, will sooa put an
end to our free Institutions - Eng.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-26
A Love" of a Fellow

shoit time since. dashiDg young English
man arrived in Philadelphia and booked his name
at one of the most fashionable hotels as
GEORGE TAYLOR STANLEY RoILAsoN. BY his
gen,omanly exterior and conversational powers,
says the Argus, he soon attracted the attention
and won the est, EN- of some of the first gentle
men who sojourning at the hotel. lie told
how he had been Captain in the Regiment of
the 10Th lIussars, and lost his commission in
consequence of shooting an English Lord in It
aly That he had been in the Crimea as volun-
teer with his old regiment; had seen, sketched
and almost taken Sebastopol His descriptions
of conquests with American ladies' at Saratoga
! last season (he was there) and his criminal in
| tercourse with duchesses, countesses, ladies,
| &c. &c, in England, would furnish splendid
material for "Yaller Kiver."
Mr.. George Tay lor Stanley Roason was Mt
| present engaged in the che mical business at Wa
| terbury, Connecticut. he having an immense la
| boratory there, and was the owner of recipe by
| which a chemical composition could be made
that would give the basest metal the lusire OF gold
out or silver and when once put ON would be
found to be imperishable. His preparation
would give chandelier gold appearance
at a cost of 10 cents, when it costs
s.. Many of our leading manufacturers
purchased the recipe at cost of from $25 to
1900, and Immediately procured the best chemi-
Gals, which they duly mixed, when 10 they cried
soid The captain was sought for, bu: he had
flown to parts unknown.
A day or two since, however, he ventured to
come into the city, and was arrested on three
warrants, charging him with swndng He
stoutly protested that the liquid would accom-
pIish all he said it would, but after being fur
nished with the ingredients and the assistance Of
practical chemist, be failed to perform the mi
racle He then owned up that it was swindle,
cried bitterly, sought wealthy relative, who
F! came forward, paid up the money to the dupeds
! and Mr.. G. Z. s. Rollason was set at liberty.
A day or two after this gentleman came oil