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aotal AMI 1]trsOnal.


william Wells, Eek Parte.-Ths case was
taken up Yesterday morning in the Supreme
Court of the United States; and il involves the
following points: A marine, William Wells, was
convicted of the murder of youth, named Mum
dell, al the December (lS5l) term Of the Criminal
Court for the county OF Washington, and was
sentenced TO be hanged on the 23d Of April, 1852;
but on that day 1.-THE gallows having been erected
and all other preparations made) President Fill
more granted him pardon of tho offence Of
which he was convicted, upon the condition that
he be imprisoned during his natural life in other
words, committing the sentence of death for i'm
prisonment in The Peniientiary al Washington.
Wells accepted the pardon with the conditions
annexed. But, on 'be 18th Of. April last on the
ground that the pardon was absolute and the
condition void " he prayed the Circuit Court for
writ OF habsas corpus, which was awarded and
issued. The court, however, refused 10 order his
discharge, deciding that the President, by virtue
of his Office, had full authority for his action in
the premises. Now, by his counsel, Colonel
Charles l.. Jones, he goes before the Supreme
Court of the United States asserting thai the de-
cision of the Circuit Court is erroneous and
against law, and that his confinement is illegal
and without just cause hence he prays that the
Supreme Court, IN the due pursuance and execu-
ton Of its appellate jurisdiction in such cases,
will award and issue the proper writ Of Aa5eas
corpus, directed the marshal Of the District Of
Columbia, with view " that the petitioner he
discharged from his illegal imprisonment"
The motion was yesterday argued by Mr. Jones
in its support and by the United States Attorney
General in opposition to il.
The question is under the advisement Of the
court.
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a msats.
THREE MORE NIGHTS OF THE
DIo7A

III YOU wish Ia be amused and sec
Paintings OF a high character SO 10
IRON HALL.
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Astronomy.-Professor O. M. Mitchell, OF Gin
cinnaii, will deliver course Of six lectures, on
astronomy, at the Smithsonian Institution, COM
mencing on Monday night. The other lectures
will be delivered on the Goth, 2sth, and 3lst Of
December, and on the second and fourth of Janu-
airy.
During the present week, the lectures at the
Institution have been attended by many ladies'
and gentlemen; and on such occasions an hour
may be there pleasantly and probably spent.
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Tel holy Pre1emtment OF De0tn OY q
Young Lady Of Kinderhook, New York,
and its Sad Fulnlment.
We have to record a most melancholy in
stance of the power of hallucinat,on over the
mind and health, in the person of highly re-
spectacle and intelligent young lady of Kinder
hook, in this State, who some two years SINCE
while in the enjoyment of robust health, was
visited one night at her bedside as she affirmed
at the time) BY an apparition, who in solemn
accent informed her that at the age of eighteen
she would be an inhabtant Of another and
better world. She made the incident known
to her mother who vainly endeavored to erase
the circumstance from the mind of her daughter
by treating it as the hallucination of dream
The daughter, however, averred that she was
in possession Of her faculties and wide awake
at the time OF receiving the spiritual visitor I;
and such was the effect it had upon her mind,
that, girl full of life and glee, she became
thoughtful and reserved, and gradually sank
under its depressing influence, pining gradu-
ally, until recently she became tenant Of the
graveyard just as she was entering upon her
eighteenth year.--Kinderhook Rough Notes.
A Trout Fish LIVING IN WELL TWENTY
FIVE YEARs.--Mr. +. Hoyt, correspondent of
the Country Gentleman, writing from South
East, New York, Nov Is, says;
"Can any one tell how long trout fish will
live7 Twenty-Five years the past summer l
came on the farm where now am. Almost
the first work that l did after getting in my
spring crops was to drain a bog swamp, the
outlet Of which leads into the Croton river.
/ had an old Scotchman to do the ditching.
One day he brought mp trout fish, about the
size Of mans little finger, in his whisky jug
by the by, we used a little on the farm then,
and not since then. / put it in the we'll near
the house, and it is there now, grown to a
size-say about foot long and large in pro-
portion. 1t has been fed but very little, once
In while some one throws in a..grasshopper or
a cricket, to zee him catch it The we'll is
thirty feet deep, and water hard, and settles
down nearly to the bottom, and then again
rises to near the top. He has been taken out
few times to clean the we'll, but not for the
last five years.
Friday last got grasshopper-the las,
one expect to see this fall-and gave it to
him. The water is now twenty-five feet deep,
but II hardly touched the surface before he
had it. If any one has fish older than mine
would like to know it,
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Sentinel, under this heading, says that -four
fell in that village last week about seventy five
cents in the barrel" and that, as the country is
full of all kinds of produce, there is to
keep up the high prices" So we think; but in
this vicinity instead of produce "coming down."
il is going up! Potatoes the only description
of food cheaper the present year than at this time
during the last. The high tariff is particularly
oppressive to the stomachs OF the poor, while
those in comfortable or affiuent circumstances are
far from being csntented with the exorbi,ant de-
mands upon their pockets.
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Rev. w. w. Bennett has been appointed,
by the Virginia Methodist Episcopal Church
South conference, the presiding elder for this dis
trct, and the Rev. d. s. Doggett pastor of the
Eighth street Church, in Washington Rev..
A. Duncan is now stationed at Alexandra.
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KUNKEL'S VARIETIES,

Grand Exhibition of Chromalropes, Fading Cbrys
lane Views, and the Unrivaed Chemical
#s Dloramas, al
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Will continue during the week, and on Wedues
day and Saturday afternoons at O'Clock, on
which days Children admitted at l24 CTS.
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LIFE INSURANCE.!
LLIFEINSURANCE COMPAN
OF NEW YORK.

Sdint raul, NOV ZZ-OtI
LLIFEINSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK,
OFFICE ILL BROADWAY, TRINITY BUILDING.
NETT ACCUMULATED FUND, FEBRUARY /, 1853
$2,O1S,775 64!!
I>His Company has now established itself on such
firm basis, that it can offer to those desiring in
vestment on their lives greatest of all
IN life insurance, viz full and perfect security Its his
tory is almost, if quite, without parallel. Com.
mencing LIST February l843, 90 years ago. without
dollar OF capital except its receipts for premiums Il
now actual cash capital which is invested in Bonds
and Mortgages on Real Estate, principally in the cities
of New YORK and Brooklyn, worth double the amount
loaned thereon, of over 900. Its receipts pre-
miums during the past five have been nearly g.
2OO,O OO and for interest investment $3.50, 0Oo
and has paid policies terminated by death during the
same me nearly $4,000 Its dividends (after
ing fund sufficient to rensure all tsandng pOlices
were SO cent the first five years. and SO Is per
the last five, the amount of premiums paid being
average of over AZ per per for years
These dividends added the policy their rever
sionary value payable death with the insur-
ed or can be applied to the reduction of future premi
at the option of the insured The business of the
Company is conducted strictly the cash plan--no
creds-and is believed to hold greater induce
ments than any other COMPANY, whatever.
Its rates OF premium low those of any good
office, and believed to be lower than who
TESS to insure from IS to so per cent less.
FREDERICK 3. WINSTON, Pres't.
Isaac ABBOTT Secy.
Charles Gill, Actuary.
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BOOTS & Statto,terp.
DAHL in THE FIELD ONCE MORE.
Books, Stationery, Pepper Hamgsngs,
ENGRAvINGs, AND FANCY GO0ns,,
Nm. Dahl

w LII y HI III n
ON ROBERTS STREET, SAINT PAUL,
HAVING recently returned from theEss, with W..
ry extensive and various stock of oods .eIecfed
with great care and with special view to The
in his line ofbusiness and good many otb.r h Hae
beauty, taste and value BESIDES to which he ~,
attention Of the trade and the public generally
that he 10 prepared to crafty all who may favor him
OOKS
All the late publications in light literature; ipcudn
The Slave Of the Lamp; Katharine Ashton the I'M.
Harson; Julienne; The Coauette Wild sc.n.s y nlsy
ters Life; the Artists Wife; Eventde; salt Water Bnh
0es WST5ing Man, n1nx Way in the World, &c, &C.
Psalm and Hymn Books; Religious Tales, &c
LAW BOOKs.-A large assortment of the most re-
Catholic Books in Large VARIETY!
STANDARD CLASSICAL WORKS IN En.M.S =,
spanish and German Languages; Dictionaries; Coilier
Shakespeare; Histories, etc., etc.
WRITING AND OTHER PAPERS
Papers; Kent Mills Folio post; Mercantile Blue fa;S
Fooscap; Cream laid legal cap, long fold; Burss.s
Co. and Jameson L Co. ouarto Post; Commercial do:
fine, gilt, commercial and Pearl Note; High rlsred
cream damask laid, fine embossed note papers
ENvELOPEs-Of all kinds from the costliest to the
coarsest-IOm the large" Official" to the petae ELL
COUNTING HOUSE STATIONERY
OF all kinds known
DlanA hooks Tor the Counting IRoOvpo
OF all numbers, full bound or otherwise. Mercsnts
Blanks, Pocket Books, Remembrance, &c.
all Papers, Borders, etc
The most extensive and beautiful assortment ever bro,
70 81 For richness and variety Of patterns these
papers and borders cannot be excelled. -
SURVEYORS INSTRUMENTS e MATERIALS
large and choice assortment
Cotored Landscape Emgrarings and Images
of Christ and Mary In Alabaster
And vast variety of other things; among which are
Pearl and velvet porte monnaes, Comedian wrist
buttons with gold fastenings Gold rings, pens pins
Comedian rings playing cards dice
back CANNON boards, lndeble ink, Ivory tablets pen.
eli points, tissue golden gloss for the hair
Thompsons hair wash; Music and musical ms
ETC., etc.
GIVE DAHL CALL
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SCHOOL FOR BOYS.

SCHOOL FOK BO1Se
A SCHOOL FOR BOYS has again been opened at
N the School Building the grounds of the Epis-
cOpal Mission, MIR GEORGE F. KELLIE, an experen-
ced and highly competent instructor having charge Of
the English department. The Rev. DIR. VAN INGEN
will hear the recitatons in the classics, and give his
personal attention daily for part of each day MI.
Kellie brings the highest recommendations both to
capacity teacher and skill in the government and
discipline of the school room. April 25-dtf
GOODS BY EMPRESS.
lust received at the Boston Boot and Shoe Store
- a number of cases superior Thick Boots, which will
be sold at q bargain b. w. MORSE Il co.
K June %, 1855. diff
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G.. HI. Il l.. LAELIN,


175 South Water Street, Chicago, Iuinnis
GENTS for Latin Brothers Laid and Wave Letter, Cap;
n Flat-Cap, Medium, Demi and other Papers; Crane
Co. Superior Coored Medium Bond Tissue and Envelope
Papers Smith Peters Printers Cards and Card Board,
Looms Co.'S Domestic and Imported Cigars; Thomas Ct
Miller & Co.'S Tobaccos; Westhed Vhps and Lashes
Lhin 4 Smiths celebrated G"u Powder and Safety
Vuse, &c.
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BAKER dE BANGS,
1kALkks u Stoves and Tin Ware, Hardware, and
~ wooden Ware, Cutlery, Counter and Platform
csslss, 1zsski1y Flows, ana Farming Tools of every
description. oo@try dealers applied at reduced pn.
es.-kt he nsw building corner Of Third and Mime
ooA o0sesA ~ RAM. July 3, 1s66-dtf
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f1ratttatrfe.
7----------
JOHN s. PRINCE,

.-s.. JOHN S. PRINCE, r.- !
~ AGENT FOR -,
THE CONTINENTAL INSURANCE CO..
New York. Office, No. Is WaH Street
II Asa Cash Capital of $500, 900. and will insure
LII buildings, Merchandise and Personal Propertv
against Loss or Damage by Fire. -
ECTORs:
WILLIAM v. BRADY President
Dan IL. Arnold, A. Studwel
Geo. Griswold, Jr., Lycurgus Edgerton
w aus sherman, g. b. Chittenden,
John Caswell, Peleg Hail.
David Lane, Sheppard Candy
Samuel D. Babcock, Lowell Holbrooi.
VIM. NJ. Vail, Charles M. Connolly
John Paine, Horace r. CLAIM
Charles H Booth, Geo as ): Stephenson St. u,
IhOmas Smull, G. F. Dambmann,
James A. Edgar, Aurelius B. Hull,
Daniei burgess, Joseph w. Patterson,
Joseph BatteIl, Hiram barney
lhomas Illeston, J. II. Ransom,
Wilson G. Hunt, CA Avery
James Freeland, Robert H. McCurdy
r. =; T. II. Gibson, William w. stone,
wellington Clapp, Henry c. bowen,
Geo. w. Lane, A. A. Low
Edward Lambert, Bradish Johnson
Charles LamsOn, Thomas Fraser
Charles E. Beebe, Henry Eyre
VIM M. Richards,
GEORGE T. HOPE, Secretary.
Applications for Insurance upon Dwelling Houses
and Personal Property, can be made to
JOHN 8. PRINCE,
Feb: 26, ls55-dtf At the Winslow House.
ST. PAUL MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.
Cap1t0l STOCK $5O,OOO.
AND CONSTANTLY INCREASING
ALEX. WILK1N, President.
w. p. MURRAY, Vice President;
GEORGE w. HARRINGTON, Secretary;
c. ii. PARKER, Treasurer
Are now prepared to issue Cash or Mutual Policies,
as favorable rates Of premium any other
company.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Franklin Steele, Alexander Ramsey
Chas. w. Borup, Alexander Wikin,
Chas H. Parker, Henry M. Rice,
Chas ID. Fillmore, William l.. Ames,
Levi Sloan, William p Murray
!ohn harrington, George w. Harrington,
Abram NJ. Fridley.
Office on St. Anthony street, in the room formerly
occupied by the Territorial Secretary.
February. 1854. 45-ly
THE Al ERICAN MUTUAL LIFE IN.
SURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY,
Nep Hdren, Conn.
PRPETtAl CHARTER .......... CAPITAL 1884 GOO
A PUBLICATIONS. received and Policies given by
n WIZ. SPRIGG HALL, Agent.
Office corner Third and Wabashaw SITS.
SAM WILEY, N. d., Medical Examiner.
March l, 1855. DIFF
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st. paul auot's
s ALEXANDER REY.
WHOLESALE GROCER, FORWARDING AND COM
MISSION MERCHANT,
Ioauer Iea,ee 81 pn.I lE....a.u

ALEXANDER REY,
GROCER; F0RWARDiNG AND COM
LoD0 Leree, St. Paul, Mnnesota,
LAS in store to close out before opening of naviga
ton, the following stock of goods, which he offers
the trade at the lowest rates. TO make room for his
lew spring stock.
200 sacks extra and superfne -four
300 do corn meal,
1000 bushels corn, white and yellow,
1000 do oats,
SO Dbl 0 and clarified sugar,
6do crushed and powdered sugar,
i iS ST. SCI. : s3s .. house syrup, ~
SO sacks Rio coffee,
IS half chests tea, Of all descriptions,
100 boxes do do
sbags whole pepper,
10 boxes ground do
boxes ground allspce,
20 mats cassia,
boxes ground casaia, ...
Dbl cloves,
2 bxs ground cloves, .
Dbl nutmeg,
lOpackages Assny BONES gelatins,
! Dbl tapiOca,
Dbl sage,
8 bbls pearl Bayberry,
10 boxes vermicelli,
10 do macaroni,
do farina,
do broma
20 do chocolate,
10 bbls almonds,
do walnuts,
! do nlberts,
do Brazil nuts,
l do Pecan do
boxes Smyrna currants,
baskets olive oil,
100 boxes sardines,
"a do clans.
"a do Holsters,
abb. picked herring,
10 1bbls do
20 do white fish,
80 cans IL and Glib mustard,
so dozen d and alb do
80 do vinegar preserves,
IS do ketchups,
Is do pepper sauce,
10 do preserved fruits,
do pie fruits,
10 boxes yeast powder,
Dbl cream tartar,
kegs soda salaratus,
key carb soda,
SO boxes summer pressed candles,
SO do palm soap, Riggs
IS do family soap,
do variegated soap,
do CASTLE soap,
SO packages chewing plug tobacco all quat,
SO bxs smoking tobacco, Goodwin 4 Murray
SO reams wrapping paper-four sizes.
100 Mills percussion caps, d
SO sacks assorted shot,
10 boxes canister rifle powder,
5 kegs blasting powder,
$50 kegs Boston nails, every size,
90 do wrought do.
80 coils MANILA rope, every size,
do tarred do do do
rs bales oakum.
Is bbls pitch and rOsn.
do tar.
WINES AND LIQUORS
100 bills whskey,
20 bbls Monongahela,
20 do old rye,
10 do Bourbon,
Is do New York brandy,
do Holland Gin,
5 do Port Wine,
do claret do
do white do
do old Madeira,
do old Sherry Wine,
rs boxes claret wine,
10 do southern wine,
10 do brandy cherries,
100 empty kegs, and 10 gallons,
SO demijOhns, various sizes.
And large assortment of wooden ware willow ware,
and nnity of articles belonging his lne large
to euumerate.
Also, Pork, Lard and Butter. Feb. 22-dtf
CHARLES e. MAYO & CO.,
Have received complete stock of everything In their
line, and prepared to sell the lowest terms for
cash, every description of
NJ q r. r
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Net1 Fork.

NEW YORK ADVERTISEMENT
From the Newspaper Agency of 9. M. Pettengii 4
Co, 1l9 Nassau ST., N Y, and 10 St. Thomas
street, Boston.
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REMOVAL.
nR. MORTON has removed his Office to the Drug
| ~ store recently occupied by L. c. Kinney, two
doors below the Worlds Fair store. Feb
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HardWa are,
WOODEN WARE d. TINWARE

- l. 5 o
A great variety of Cook Stoves.
Comprising the "Charter Oak" "Black Diamond" and
others Of the most approved patterns.
Lead Pipe and Pumps Of all sizes hand and set to
order
Particular attention paid to Tin Roofing and putting
up Fave Troughs At the old stand Third street, Saint
Paul my "a 55tf.
GROVELAND GARDEN AND NURSERY
BETWEEN ST. PAUL AND ST. ANTHONY, NEAR
THE HALFWAY HOUSE.
TIME subscriber, would invite the attention of those
Il who wish to set out fruit trees this fall the
suing spring. to their stock of trees that have been
growing in this Territory from three years. In
connection with the Scott Nursery, at Davenport, Iowa:
they prepared fill all orders for either
dwarf trees of and every description, tina, will
be required for this climate, together with Currants
Gooseberries, Grape Vines, &c. Also anything in the
ornamental line, such Roses Dahlias, PhloxcS, and
the various kinds of Towering plants usually keptir
such establishment.
Orders respectfully solicited from those who wish
TO set fruit trees embelish their grounds. AS
have not sufficient quantity on hand to supply the
demand, we hope to receive orders EARLY FALL
make up the deficiency at the nursery ut Dav
export, where we expect to spend the winter Orders
may be addressed to left at the store of Mr. j. E
Fullerton, st. Paul. l.. FORD CO.
ST. Paul. Oct l3.-tf
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THE CONTINENTAL
insurance Company,
NEW YORK-OFFICE NO. Is WALL STREET.
LII AS Cash Capital of $5OO,O 900, and will insure
Ill Buildings, Merchandise and Personal Property
against loss damage by Fire.
WILLIAM v. BRADY President
GEORGE T. HOPE, Secretary.
Applications for Insurance upon Dwelling Houses and
Personal Property, can be made to A.
Aug. 23, le55-dtf JOHN 8. PRINCE.
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"OLFE'S SCHIEDAM, SCHNAPPS;
w Ayre's Cherry Pectoral
Jayne's Expectorant;
And all the Patent Medicines In use;
For sale at the MULTUM IN PARvO DRUG STORE.
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ARTISTS MODELS IN ROME.

lam good deal interested and amused
by the professional models who most do
congregaie" on the great flight of steps
leading up to the Trinila di Monti from
the Piazza di Spsgna. There are often
to be seen picturesque and varied groups,
and single figures of striking character.
Handsome peasant women, with charm
ing brown babies-wild long-haired boys
from the mountains = raven-bearded
young men and snowy-headed old men
and coquetish young girls, with flashing
eyes and dashing costumes. There is
one grand-looking old man, with boun-
teous white beard, who is said to do great
business in the sanity and patriarchial
line. He is a muliitudinous Moses, and
inexhaustible Joseph, and the pictorial
stock Peter of many seasons. There is
also powerful, handsome, dark, and ter
rible looking fellow, who does the brigand
and bravo. These various candidates
for artistic favor seem TO have the most
social and agreeable relations with each
other-indeed, / have remarked the pa
triarch chatting and laughing with the
brigand in familiar manner, and scarce
ly in keeping with his venerable charac-
ter. But let an artist or two ascend the
steps, and presto! the dark-eyed girls
cease their idle gossip, and spring into
position-look archly or mournfully over
the left shoulder, or with clasped hands
modestly contemplate the pavement the
pretty peasant woman snaiches up the
baby she had left 10 creep about at its
own sweet will, and bends over it tender
and Madona-like; while, at a word from
her, a skin-clai little shepherd boy drops
his game of pitch-penny, and takes upl
his role of ST. John. Perhaps dark. dig
nifed, but somewhat rheumatic old wo--I
man, with her head wrapped up in a.
brown cloIh, makcs modest venture Of
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herself as St. Anna while the fine old
man have described makes the most of
the comparatively unimportant character
of St. Joseph, or separating himself en-
tirely from the group, looks authoritative
as Moses, or inspired as Isaiah, or reso-
lutte as Peter. The handsome bravo or
brigand gives 6ercer twist to his NOUS
tache, slouches bis pointed black hat, aP-
pears to be concealing a dagger under
his brown cloak, or on the point of draw
ing an imaginary pistol from his belt,
sets his..teeth, scowls, and cultivates the
diabolical generally. II is altogether,
very amusing and skillful process of can
vassing. GRACE GREENwooD.
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HuGH MILLER,s FIRST LESSONS.

We commend the following charming
thing, from the Autobiography Of Hugh
Miller, the distinguished geologist, to the
special attention ofteachers of young chill
dren:
''I had Just been sent, previous to my
fathers death, to DANES school, where
was taught TO pronounce my letters to
such an effect in the old Scottish mode,
that still, when attempt spelling word
aloud, which is not often,-for / find the
process very perilous One,-ihe aa's
and ee's, and Ehs and vaHs, return upon
me, and have 10 translate item with no
little hesitation, as go along, into more
modish sounds. A knowledge of the let
ters themselves | had already acquired by
studying the sign-Posts of the place.
rare works Of art, that excited my Utmost
admiration, with jugs ndglasses, and bot
ties, and ships, and loayes of bread upon
tlleul, all OF NutCn COulu1 - ti1C oItiCtco
had intended, be actually recognized
During my sixth year spelt my way,
under the dame, through the short Cate
chism, the Proverbs, and the New Tesla
men,, and then entered upon the highest
form. as member Of the Bible Class; but
all the while the process of acquiring
learning had been dark one, which al
ways mastered, in humble confidence in
the awful wisdom Of the school-mistress,
not knowing whittier il tended whsn at
once my mind swoks to the meaning Of
the most delightful Of all narrations,-.he
story of Joseph. Was there ever such
discovery made before! Iac;u4Ey found
out for myself, that the art Of reading is
the art of finding stories in books; and
from that moment reading became one oi
the most dslishtful Of my amusensnss.-