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A Touch of Nature.

A letter>writer who strolled into a
pawn-broker's Office in New York, de.
scribes a scene as follows:-
"Wc noticed among tho group an
interesting girl about seventeen years
of age, in faded yet deep mourning
There was an expression of anxious
melancholy upon her pale and beautiful
countenance, which riveted our atten-
ton. She was not among those who
were bidding, bnt was undoubtedly
waiting until some article was offered
which she was desrous of possessing.
At length the auctioneer offered
miniature and locket. The pale girl
started, and rushing towards the coun.
ter, exclaimed in voice of deep ans
guiih -
so, don't sell them, sir, for mer-
cy's sake keep them a little while
longer. l shall be able to redeem
them, shall, indeed"
"What's the bid for them," continu.
ed the auctioneer.
d" Do not bid - shrieked the girl
81 had to pawn them to get bread for
my little sister:it is mothers miniature,
and her hair which that locket contains;
my poor dear mother gave it to me
when she was dying. o, dc not sell it
pray don't !"
1t is impossible to describe the SEN
sation produced by this appeal among
the assemblage. There was not a SOL
itary bid for the articles: but we saw
an elderly gentleman, IN the garb of a
Quaker, 90 to the desk, and in a few
minutes afterwards we saw that pale
girl press his hand to her lips, and af>
tet eagerly kissing something which he
handed to her, she rushed from the
ROOM"
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PROSPERITY AND ADvERsITY.-The.
virtue ef prosperity is temperance; that
of adversely fortitude. Posperity is
the blessing of the Old Testament (; adj
versity that of the New, which
carrieth the greater benediction and
the clearer revelation of Gods favor.
Yet in the Old Testament,if you listen
to David's harp, you shall hear as
many hearse.like airs and carols; and
the pencil ofthe Holy Ghost hath Ia
bored more in describing the afflic tions
of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Prosperity is not without many fears
and disasters and adversely is not
without comforts and hopes. We see
in needle work and embroideries it is
more pleasing to have a lively work up
on sad and solemn ground, than to
have dark and melancholy work up.
on a lightstome ground judge there-
fore of the heart by the pleasure of the
eye. Certainly virtue is like precious
odors, more fragrant where they are in.
censed or crushed ; for prosperity doth
best discover vice, but adversely doth
hest discover virtue.-Lord Bacon.
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Peculiarities of Celebrated Au-
thOrS


thors.
Racine composed his verses while walk.
ing about rcciting them in loud voice
One day. when thus working at his play
Of Mithridates, in the Tuileries Gardens
a crowd of workmen gathered around
him, attracted by his gestures they took
him to be madman about to throw him
self into the basin. On his return home
from such walks he would write down
scene by scene, at first in prose, and
when he had thus written it out, ho would
exclaim. My tragedy is done |" consid.
ering the dressing up of the acts in verse
as very small affair. Mcgliabecchia,
the learned librarian to the Duke of Tus-
cany, on the contrary, never stirred
abroad. but lived amongst books and mp
on books. They were his bed, board,
and washing. He passed eight and forty
years in their midst, only twice in the
whole course of his life ventured beyond
the walls of Florence once to go two
leagues of, and the other time three and
half leagues by order of the Grand Duke.
He was an extremely frugal man. Lying
upon eggs, bread and water, in great
moderation. Luther. when studying, al
ways had his dog lying at his feet
dog he had brought from Watburg and
of which he was very fond. An ivory
crucifix stood on the table before him,
and the walls of his study were stuck
around with caricatures Of the pope.
He worked at his desk for days together
without going out; but when fatigu
and the ideas began to stsgnate in his
brain, he would take bis flute or his quit
ar with him into the porch, and there ex-
ccute musical fantasy flor he was skill
ful musician,) when the ideas would flow
unon him as fresh rs flowers after SUN
mer's rain Music was his iuvariable
solace at such times Indeed. Luther
did not hesitate 10 say that. after the
oloey, uusic was the first Of arts. \lu-
sic said he, "is tho ari Of the prophets
it is the only art which ike theology,
can calm the agitation of the soul, and
put the devil to flight" Next TO mu-
sic, if not before it, Luther loved chil.
dren and flowers Ihe great gpared
man had heart as tender as wo-
mans, Calvin studied ia his bed. Eg-
cry morning at five or six o'clock, no hod
books, manuscripts aud papers carried
to him there, and lie worked on for
hours together, Ifhe had occasion to 90
out on his return he undrosscd, and went
TO bed again to continue his studies. In
his latter years he dictated bis Writings
to secretaries He rarely corrected any,
thing, The sentences issued complete
from bis mouth. Ifhs felt bis faculty Of
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composition leaving him, he forthwith
quilted his bed, gave up writing and com
posing, and went about his outdoor du-
ties for days weeks, and months togeth-
er. But as soon as he felt the inspira-
tion fall upon him again, he went back to
his bed, and his secretary set to work
forthwith. Rousseau wrote his works
early in tho morning; lie Sage al midday
Byron at midnight. Hardouin rose at
four in the morning, and wrote till late
at night. Aristotle was trem endous
worker; be took little sleep, and was
constantly retrenching it. lie had
contrivancc by which lie awoke early and
to awake was with him to commence
work. Dcmosthenees passed three
months in a cavern by the seaside in la
boring to overcome the defects of his
voice. There he read, studied, and de-
claimed, Rabelais composed his life Of
Gargantua at Bellay, in tho company of
Roman cardinals and under the eyes of
the bishop Of Paris La Fontaiue wrote
his fables chiefly under the shade of
tree, and sometimes by the side of Racine
and Boileau. Pascal wrote most of his
Thoughts upon little scraps ofpaper at his
by-momcnts. Fenelen wrote his Telema-
chus in the Palace of Versailles, at the
court of the Grand Monarque, when di'-
charging the duties of tutor to the Dau-
phin. That book so thoroughly demo-
cratic should have issued from such
source. and be written by priest, may
seem surprising. De Quincy first pro-
mulgated his notion of universal freedom
of person and trade. and Of throwing all
taxes on the land-the germ, perhaps, of
the French Revolutiou-in the boudoir Of
of Madame de Pompadourl Bacon knelt
down before composing his great work,
and prayed for light from heaven.
Pope never could compose well without
first declaiming for some time at the top
of his voices aud thus rousing his nervous
system to its fullest activity. Tie life
Of Leibhitz was one of reading. writing
and meditation That was tic secret of
his prodigous knowledge. Alter mn at
tack Of gout, he confined himself to a
dict of bread and milk Often be slept
in a chair. and rarely went to bed ill af-
ter midnight. Sometimes he was months
without quitting his seat, where he slept
by night and wrote by day. He had an
ulcer in his right leg, which prevented
his walking about, even had he wished to
do so--EHea C0ok's Journal
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Songs of the Flower Spirits.


| sNow-DRoPs.
Stcalthily, stealthily up to the light
When his cleaning wand first passes,
We creep in our garments of dazzling white
Ere the vernal leaves and grasses.
And the sun looks down with wondering gaze
! As ifin carth's bloomess bowers,
| 'Twere the virgin snow Of the winter days
That had budded into flowers.
And we lift up our ice-crowncd heads to feel
The warmth of his proud caress,
| For each kiss he gives is magic seal
OF strength and loveliness.
cRocUsEs.
From prison and gloom, and the ruthless cold
We struggle and pant, and are free,
And the MONDAY is rifling our leaves for gold
But at night, right wcarily,
Well close the gay woof of our stainless domes,
Lest the frost with his shining feet,
Should wander within, and our fairy homes
Become his winding sheet.
See, green swards bristlc around us we'll,
And the crisp SHOWS drift away,
And trench lies around onr citadel
'Tis safe as in rosy day.
vIoLETs
The skies are weeping to behold. us,
IIark, how the zcphyrs call
Feel how the sunbeams yearn to fold us,
Hear the sweet dew drops fall
We arc not dead, but are sleeping latc
On our mothers Least below,
Without us the Spring seems d, solate,
She loveth her violcts So
Wake, sisters, wake for the moss is green,
And our herald leaves have sped
Up TO the day, and the young bee queen
Is singing her songs overhead.
PRrMRosEs.
Well may the pretty stars look down,
And wonder to see us here,
As if we had dropped from their purple
crown,
To Spanglc the earth's green sphere
But we are pale by their burning ray
We wear not their gorgeous hue
Pale with the knowledge of swift decay,
And pale with our labors too;
For long VIC wFestlcd with storm and breeze.
Ere the glad dawn touched our eyes,
And taught us the might of these forest trees,
The glory ofyonder skies
ELrEBELD.
Where scdges are freshwith the play of waters
That pause to toy with some favorte
flower,
April's darlinss, her hluc-eyed daughters,
We clnster and bloom in each CHANGING
shower.
The enats hum round us in happy glee,
The children riot in lightsome mirth,
Our azure tents in the grass to sec;
They seem to have watched our sunny
birth
And near the wan valley lilies blow,
Whose sishs are swccter, the south-wnd
says,
Than ever the lips of bright blossoms
know,
All has he forgotten the roses rich days?
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TASTES DIFFER.-In n lecture on
what he has seen abroad, Wendell Phil.
lips observes -
In Italy you will see a man breaking
up his land with the cows and the root
of tree for a plough, while he is dress
ed in skins with the hair on. Iu Rome.
Vienna and Dresden, if you hire a man
to saw wood, he does not bring horse
along. He never had one, or bis father
before him. He puts one end of the saw
on the ground and the other against his
breast. and taking the wood in his hand
rubs it against the saw. 1t is a solemn
fact, that in Florence, city filled will.
the triumpbs of art, there is not single
auger and if a carpenter would bore
hole he does it with red hot poker
This results not from want of industry,
but of sogacity Of thought. The people
are by no means idle. They toll early and
late, men, women and children, with an
industry that shames labor saving Yam
KEGS. Thus he makes labor, and the
poor must live. In Rome charcoal is
principally used for fuel and you will
see string OF twenty mules bringing
little sacks of it upon their backs, when
one mule could draw all of it in cart.
But the charcoal vender never had
cart, and so he keeps his mules and feeds
them. This is from no want of indus.
try, but there is no competition.
A Yankee always looks haggard and
nervous, as if be was chasing a dollar
With us money is every thing, and when
We go abroad we are surprised to find
that the dollar has ceased to be al
mighty, If Yankee refuses to do a
job for fifty cents, he will probably do it
for a dollar, and will certainly do it for
five. But one of the lazzaroni Of Naples,
when he has earned two cents and eaten
will work no more that day if you offer
him ever so largo a sum. He has
enough for the day, and wants no moro.
So there lie no eagerness for making
money, no motive for it, and everybody
moves slowly.
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VAsTNEss OF PARADISE LOST When
you read Paradise Lost, the feeling you
have is one Of paStnesS. You faat nm.
der great sky brimmed with sunshine,
or hung with consultations the abyss
of space is around you: thunders mutter
on the horizon you hear the IT. ysterious
sigh of an unseen ocean: and if the scene
changes it is with the elemental move
ment like the shifting of mighty winds,
OF all books; it seems most purely the
work Of disembodie6 mind. OF all poets
he could most easily afford to be blind ;
Of all, his poetry owes least to tho senses
except that of bearing everything, ex-
cept his music, came to him through a
mental medium, and perhaps even that
may have been intellectual-as in Bee.
thoven, who composed behind the veil of
deafness,-LoroeH.
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such a depth that his head came in the
gneiss, and his body in tho sandstone
formation; then it is easy to conclude
that his body petri6ed into sandstone,
and his head into quartz and gneiss
Upon no other hypothesis can the quartz
and gneiss head Of this petrifaction be
accounted for. 1t is hardly likely that
the man was buried in sandstone strata,
where all but the head pctriicd and that
then by some con-ulsion of nature, he
was jammed into the lower primitive
rocks, where he lay for ages, until, by
some other convulsion of nature, be was
thrown out into the stream, where found
Whichever of these theories-is adopt
ed. the old theory about man not being
found in the primitive rocks is complete
ly overturned. and geologists will have
to acknowledge that there care more
things in heaven and earth than ere
dreamed of in their philosophy"
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A Southerner gave party to few
friends, who, happening to converse
about Sambo's power of head endur,
ance, the gentleman said he owned a
negro whom no one in the party could
knock down or injure by striking on
the head.
A strong, burly fellow laughed at
the idea, and as Sam, the colored,
was about entering with the candles,
the gentleman stood behind the door,
and as he entered, Sans head receiv-
ed powerful sockdolager.
The candles flickered little, but
Sam passed on, merely exclaiming:
Gentlemen, be careful de elbows,
or de lights will be distinguished. -
Norfolk Mews.
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BOOK AND JOB PRINTING
Done in modern style and at short motto
Law of Newspapers.

l. Subscribers who do not give express no
tce to the contrary, are considered as wish
ing to continue their subscription.
IL. If subscribers order the discontinuance
of their papers, the publisher may continue
to send them till all that is due be paid.
Ill. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their papers from the Office to which they are
directed they are held responsible till they
have settled their bills and ordered their pa
pcrs discontinued.
". If subscribers move to other places,
without informing the publisher, and the pa
per is sent to the fornlcr direction, they are
held responsible
v The courts have decided that refusing
to take a paper from the office, Or removing
and leaving it uncallcd for, is prma facie ev-
jd,n nee Of intentional fraud.
VI A Postmaster ncglccimg to inform n
puhlshc. when his paper is not taken from
thc Office, makes himself liable for the sub
ScfirtinD price.
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The Ignorance of Learned Scholars.

A correspondent of the Transcript
furnishes to that paper the following Gu
rious samples Typographical inaccuracy
which occur in the " Encyclopedia of
Geography" ponderous svo. of 1000
pages.publisbed in Edinburgh.and edited
by Hugh Murray, T. X. S f., assisted
by Profs Wallace and Jameson of the
University Of Edinburgh and Prof.
Hooker. of the University of Glasgow,
and Mr.. Swanson, F. r. S, and F. i
S. lie says that the work contains
many other statements which are equal.
ly wide of the truth and equally ridicu-
lous:
The United States territory is sep
araied from Canada by the St. Lawrence
River. {p. 1927
New England, now the most flourish
ing Of the States, &c. (p. 1897
The President continues in Office fur
years, and may be e-eected-but this
has not taken place with any except
Washington. Up. 1882
The general aspect Of the Eastern
States is that of nn unbounded forest
tp. l340)
The rivers running across the Eastern
States have been united at different
points, and it is expected tina, a coDtn-
ued interior line from North to South
will be ultimately formed THE writer
is speaking of canals p l342)
DR.. Franklin once on journey judged
it wise to bear upon his person label.
expressing his name. his business. whence
he came. and whittier he was going. Up.
l343)
There are twenty-five colleges and sew,
enty'four academies under the patronage
Of the general legislature and national
university has been planned (p. l344)
Boston, the capital of Massachusetts,
of the State of New England, and. un,
til lately of the whole Union, is built on
a peninsula East Boston. where all the
business is carried on, consists of num-
Der of narrow streets and alleys" &c.,
(p. l346)
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REMAINS OF MADAME SoNTAa.-
The London Musical World gives
letter addressed by Count Rossi-hus-
band of the late Madame Sontag-to
a friend at Paris, in which be deeply
laments his bereavement, and adds: 81
am waiting for the arrival at Hamburg
of her dear mortal remains, in order to
60 there and meet them. shall then
accompany them, to their last resting
place, in the Convent of Maria Jhal,
near Dresden, where her sister is a
nun, and where, in consequence, tho
holy prayers Of those who loved her
most will not be wanting. lam hav-
ing a small chapel built there, with
two tombs, and, after satisfying this
the wish Of my heart, l return to my
family"
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The Two Last Candidates for the
Presidency.


1t turns out that the meeting to nom-
mate George Washington Frost Mellen
for the Presidency was no hoax after all
He was actually nominated. So George
Law has at last found his match, perhaps
more than his match. il we may judge
from the poetry Mr.. George Washington
Frost Mellen's nomination has inspired.
For example, the following from the
Lynn { (Mass) Daily:
From Greenland's icy mountains,
From Afric's coral strand,
From foul Cochtuate fountains,
And exc from Newfoundland,
There comes voice of thunder
From every hill side swelling,
1t calls on thee thou wonder,
George Washington Frost Mellen!
You can't repress the whirlSind
When it goes it with a rush,
Nor still Niagara's torrent
By simply saying " Hush !"
'Tis vain the hopes that round thee cling
Even to think of qnelling,
Thou A lax of the western world,
George Washington Frost Mellen! u
Pray where are Laws poets2 Is
there no one to step forward and cele-
brate In sounding rhyme the great ira
der in steamboat contracts flint-locks,
railroad jobs and Democratic reviews
Let not the live-hoax candidate" and
his friend Saunders, 60 down to posterity,
like the brave heroes who lived before
Agamemnon, "carent quia rate sacro."
We need not say we shall be proud to be
the organ of any bard who will properly
celebrate Mr. Laws pretensons to any
position to which the people. or the law,
may elevate him.--N Y EUentng Post.
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Hifalutin.

Doesticks is only an imitator. The
California humorists originated that
extraordinary style Of literature, and
they still do it up much better than It
can be done in this latitude. The San
Francisco Pioneer has capital burles.
que of newspaper putting, of which
the following fragments answer for a
specimen;
"The cabin, in its appointments,
takes down anything ever before
known. In richness Of delicacy, and
color of display of the blending, it beats
all and the dreamy luxury suggested
by the cast iron sofas and lounges, re.
minds one of opium smoke and chloro-
form. Each state-room is furnished
with an orma- loo>loo card table, jack
knife bedstead, of new pattern, tho
head board containing a musical box,
which so charms the Heas that they
become absent.minded and starve to
death; an elegant dressing bureau, fur.
nished with all the appurtenances Of
the toilet-the far-famed Boston pom.
atum Cts component parts being goose.
grease and peppermint) and lip-salve,
family jars of-cologne, bottles Of
hair brushes, cards of-combs, several
of-besides dozen linen shirts.and
under doings, and handkerchiefs, sus-
pended by golden cords within reach
of the slceper's nose while in bed; also,
a sheet-iron night>cap, billiard table
and Bohemian glass boot-jack.
In the forecastle, the same good
taste has been observed. The floor is
richly carpeted with the-ax>thc- min
ister carpet, from the 'loons of the
land : berths furnished with the self
turning-over apparatus, which, being
wound upon returning, turns the sleep
er over every two hours without dis
turbing him; and picks up the small
change and keys that drop out of his
pockets. Every sailor is provided
with rocking chair with his name in
gilt on the back, "a copy ofUncle Toms
Cabin, a mans pocket handkerchief,
white kid gloves. five pounds Of rose
scented cavendish, gold pen and a
German pipe.
We assure our readers that the
Highfalutin' is well worth a visit; and
visitors will be welcomed by 'the gen.
tlemanly and highly accomplished of
hccrs, whose urbane department. etc.,
etc. 1t will be easy to recognize the
officer by his distinguished air, aristo-
cratic bearing, and patch of tar on
the weather side of his pants, just as
tern of his starboard pocket This
captain can be found doing the deport.
ment on the quarter deck, in a blue
coat and brass buttons, with his right
hand under the lee coat>tail, and has
the appearance of undergoing the pro-
cess of suffocation between a pair OF
chrome yellow side-whiskers and o
shcetiron shirt collar"