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Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-12-04

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dns, Virginia euneticaiy sealrd Peaches Pop
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GOODS. such summer Cashmere Plaid GiuRhAms Prints
11hd aud Stripped Domestic Bloarhcd aud uhboached Cot
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shippers by this Vessel VIII get their good. lor
odsunaion At one half rate of freight cheaper than h
oih'r rut" aud in less time. Insurance lac effected on
the best -. X ". {.
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Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
NOISES ON ROCKS.

l never had time to examine and
throw into classes the varieties Of the
mosses which grow on the two kinds
of rock, nor have Ibeen able to ascer-
tain whether there are really numerous
differences between the species, or
whether they only grow more luxuri-
antly on the crystallines than on the
coherents. But this is certain, that
on the broken rocks of the foreground
in the crystalline groups, the MOSES
seem to set themselves consentfully
and deliberately to the task of pro-
ducing the most exquisite harmonies
of color in their power. They will
not conceal the form Of the rock, but
will gather over it in little brown
mosses, like small cushions of velvet
made of mixed threads of dark ruby
silk and gold, rounded over more sub
dued films of white and gray, with
lightly-crisped and curled edges like
hoar-frost or fallen leaves, and minute
clusters of upright orange stalks with
pointed caps, and ibers of deep green
and gold and faint purple passing into
black all woven together, and follow
ing with unimaginable fneness of
gentle grawth the undulation of the
stone they cherish, till it is charged
with color so that it can receive no
more; and instead Of looking ragged
or cold or stern, as any thing that a
rock is held to be at heart, it seems to
be clothed with soft, dark leopard
skin, embroidered with arabesque Of
purple and silver. But in the lower
ranges this is not so. The mosses
grow in more independent spots, not
in such clinging andtender way over
the whole surface; the litchens are fan
poorer and fewer; and the color of the
stone is seen more frequently; altered
if atall, only little chiIler gray than
when it is freshly broken;-Ruskin'
"Modern Painters" !" Vol. ".
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
CAPTAIN PRIEST ON THE VEGETABLE
KINGDOM"

The term vegetable le-sometimes pro-
nounced vegetables probably de-
rived from thepeculiar long and pointed
form of this description of esculents,
hence originally called wedgeeatables,
then vegetables, and now refined into
the present term.
Annual Towering plants resemble
whales, as they come up to blow.
Flowers are very warlike in their
disposition, and are ever armed with
pistils.
AS the human family, the lower
portion of all plants are radicles.
They are migratory in their habits,
forwherever they may winter, they are
sure to leave in the spring; most of
them very polite and full of boughs.
Like dandies, the coating of many
trees is their most valuable portion.
Cork trees and boot trees for instance.
Grain and seeds are not considered
dangerous except when about to shoot.
Several trees, like watch dogs, are
valued mostly for their bark.
A little bark will make rope, but
it takes large pile of wood to make
a cord.
Though there areno vegetable beaux
there are number Of spruce trees.
Most trees are respectable, but q
variety of locusses may be found among
them.
1t is considered only right and pro.
per to ak trees before you fell them.
Fruit trees have military character
istics; when young they are trained
they have many kernels; and thel
shoots are straight
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
PArIENcE WIFE cHr1pREN.

One of the requisites for the sue
cessful training of children at home,
or in the school-room, is "patience."
Every teacher, whether the mother or
a hireling, will find her labors made
easy by the constant exercise of this
cardinal virtue. If they Slet patience
have its perfect work" in their own
hearts, it will be visible in all their
conduct, and exert salutary influence
upon the minds of the young, in whose
future well-being they feel deep
interest.
There may be hours when, perplex-
ed with care and worn out with undue
labor, the mother may feel the risings
of impatience in her heart; but nip it
in the bud, before the fruits become
visible in acts of which she may after
ward bitterly repent. Let no unkind
word or hasty blow be given in anger,
lest the rembranee of it should prove
a poisoned arrow to their bleeding
heart, when those loving eyes are
closed in death, and the head which
nestles on her bosom is pillowed in the
grave. Children are won by kind
words; but cross looks and harsh tones
deter them from seeking our sympathy
or giving us their confidence. The
mother or teacher should regard the
sports of childhood as a blessing, ioin
in their innocent amusements, and
draw from thence some useful lesson
for their future consideration. They
should learn to look up to her as a
friend in whom they could confde,
who will bear patiently with their
childish follies, and in kindness seek
to improve whatever may be amiss in
their manners or morals.
But should they turn deaf ear to
her teachings, and scorn her instruc-
tions, seeming inclined to follow the
evil promptings of sinful and perverse
heart, she has then need of double
portion of patience to support her in
this great trial, and enable her at last
to "overcome evil with good" and
bring them, by the force of precept
and example, to walk in wisdom s
pleasant ways. Be kind, be firm and
patient, and hope on till the desired
result is obtained,
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
LET GO ALL THE ANCHORS.

There are some very good people
who will not sustain this or that be-
nevolent enterprise of the Church, be-
cause they regard it as less important
than some other. They viii not do
any thing for foreign missions, because
they think our own country should
first be evangelized. They will not
sustain church extension, because they
deem the education of the ministry a
paramount duty. They withhold sup
port from the superannuated servants
Of God, because they imagine it will
do more good to scatter abroad tracts
and books.
Such Christians would do well to
initiate the skillful mariner, whose ship
the fierce winds are dashing on lee
shore. He lets go all anchors. If
the kedge will not hold the best bower
may. If both these fail the sheet
anchor may arrest the drifting vessel.
If no one of these alone will suffice
they altogether may save his life. So
it is with the benevolent enterprises
of our Church. They are all needed.
They brace and stay each other in
the great work of arresting souls drift
ing to ruin, and anchoring them safe
by the throne of God. Each may be
instrumental in saving some who would
be lost if it were wanting. Every
church edifice erected tends to raise
up missionaries and colporteurs and
theological students. Every church
freed from debt is enabled to contri-
butte more literally for the support Of
all that is good.
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
YOUTH WASTED.

When Coleridge, in his younger days,
was offered share in the well-known
London Journal, by which he could
have made two thousand pounds a year,
provided he would devote his time
seriously to their interest, he declined,
making the reply, SO often praised for
its disinterestedness, 81 will not give
up the country and the lazy reading of
old folios for two thousand times two
thousand pounds. In short, beyond
three hundred and fifty pounds a year,
/ consider money real evil" =. .
'1azy reading of folios" led to laziness,
the indolent qualification of mind and
sense. Degenerating into an opium
eater, and mere purposeless theorizer,
Coleridge wasted time, talents, and
health; came to depend, in old age, on
the charity of others; and died, at
last, with every one regretting-even
his friends-that he had done nothing
worthy of his genius. The world is
full of men having Coleridge's faults,
without Coleridge's abilities; men who
can not, or will not, see beyond the
present; who are too lazy to work for
more than a temporary subsistence;
and who squander, in pleasure or idle
ness, energy and health which ought
to lay up capital for old age. Most
persons, who are guilty of this neglect,
instead of asserting, as they think,
their independence, only betray how
strong a hold Incidence or sensual
qualification has upon them. Better
far better, had Coleridge worked when
he was young, than lived to be what
he became, a dependent, if not 9
gger.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
ANECDOTES OF GENERAL ETHAN ALLEN

At East Manville, on Grand river,
some twenty miles below Grand Rapids,
Michigan, lives family by the name
of Hopkins, and here, in the possess
sion of an aged lady, niece of General
Ethan Allen, is his sword.
Aware, says our informant, who saw
it two years since, that the leaders of
the revolutionary struggle were often
selected for their weight and metal, as
well as other military accomplishments,
we were not surprised to find their
arms of similar temper. The sword
in question was without ornament, and
might be a hundred years old by its
appearance; very heavy, with an iron
hilt, on which is engraved in rude
characters, as if cut with jack knife,
the name "Ethan Allen;" the blade,
long, straight and single-edged, in the
style of the Damascus steel.
Though the strong rust spots were
proof that a long term of peace is un-
congenial to weapons of war, this
relic of the olden time seemed to
possess in pent-up silence all the fire
that flashed from its surface when
waving in triumph over the gates Of
Ticonderago.
One of our company intimated tc
the owner that if fifty dollars would
be any object, he would like to present
the sword to his father, an early frienc
and adviser of Gen. Allen, with the
assurance that it should descend, al
. heirloom Of great value, through sue
eessive generations.
The lady, casting glance at The
huge logs of which the house was
built, with flash of the eye said t.
be peculiar to the General and hi,
, family, quietly remarked: "There ar,
some things in this house that money
will not purchase-this is one of them.
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20

sits quietly down ia plain, house in
the northwest suburbs, and writes
sermons, which peedily change bis
pulpit into a battery, and memorizc
every Sabbath by moral tlunder-
storm. Private as petilence comes
another, FIVE years later, into London,
and his wild cry, lonely, at first, as
that of Johns in the desert, at last
startles the press, the Parliament, the
country without, the throne within, and
it is felt that one man has conquered
the two millions. Nay, was there not,
two thousand years ago, from an
obscure mount in Galilee, heard a
voice, saying, "BIessed are the poor
in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom Of
heaven?" And has not that voice,
though clouded by opposition, choked
in blood, crushed under the gravestone,
at length commanded the attention, if
not yet the obedience, of the world?
Let no one say in despair, 81 am but
one" in his unity, as in the unity Of a
sword, lies his might--if his metal be
true, his singleness is strength-he
may be multiplied, indeed, but he can
not be divided. Minorities, and minor
tiles of one, generally do the real
work Of mankind.-Bards cfthe Bible.
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
THE ANNUAL AMOUNT OF HEAT

1t is remarkable fact, that countries
lying within the same degrees of
latitude differ greatly in the ranges
of their temperature. On the west
coast of Europe the winters are COM
paratively warm and the summers
equally cool, while on the eastern
coasts of America the reverse of this
is true. Thus, in countries lying 16
degrees further north in western
Europe than New York, the average
temperature in January is 80 degrees,
and that of July go degrees range
of only 30 degrees. In New York the
range of variation often amounts to
nearly 100 degrees.
In January last, the thermometer,
in New York, stood from 5 to Z degrees
below zero, for some days; while it
ranged from 95 to 90 degrees above
| it, for some days last week. But
although the ranges of temperature
differ greatly in different countries, the
actual amount Of heat, annually, is
according to the position of countries
in relation of the poles of the equator.
In Europe, by long observation, it
has been found that the mean temper
ature of place remains nearly the
same. The winter may be unusually
cold, and the summer unusually hot.
while the mean temperature has not
varied one degree; a very cold winter
is generally succeeded by very warm
summer, and Uica versa. This has also
been found to be the case with our own
climate-the relative distribution ot
heat over summer and winter under.
/ goes comparatively small variations
A cold winter is generally succeeded
by a warm summer. We have noticed
an exception, and only one, to thii
rule; that was the summer of 1885
which was wet and cold, and succeed
ed very long and cold winter. Thi
was accounted for by three very large
dark spots on the suns disk, whicI
were seen distinctly with the naket
eye for at least an entire week.
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
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Nv. FUR NJ A S ,
Street, bet. Main and Water,
Lakes Block
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RATES OF ADVERTISING:

year (invariably in advance), $500
menths, I,9O
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
tram mnst be- treated like infants. |

Grain must be treated like infants;
when thehead bendsit it must be cradled;
and thrashing is resorted to, to fit it
for use.
Tares are most found with hesmaller
grains-which require sowing.
Great indulgence in fruit is danger
ous-and too free use of melons pro-
duces meloncolic effect.
Old maids are fond of pairs-but
cannot endure any reference to dates
Sailors are attached to bays; oyster
men to beeches; loye-sick maidens, to
pine Ya'skes Notions.
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
Strips

IA western poet, says the Knieke7-
beeksr, epnposed the following in just
ont hour by q Conneeticut clock
There can BE no danger while there is
SO nnch 'tspriR 10. the country:
What !btist inis glorious Union ID,
An 60 to drawn triggers
Just for a thunderin b
Emmaneipated niggersl
The. eagle Of Amerika,
That hew across the seas,
An throwed the bloody, British lion
Ker-slump upon her knees,
Say shall we rend him linn from linn
Wun wing wuh way, an wun tother,
And every sepperitt pin feather,
A fyin' at the other?
It can't be did!
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20
WHAT CAN Owe DOT

As the figure one is to the ciphers,
few or many, which range after it, so
is the hero, the saint, the poet, the
prophet, and the sage, to their species.
One man enters, thirtv-four ycars>ago.
the western metropolis of Scotland,
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20

A person who tries to raise himself
by scandelizing others, might as well
sit down on a wheelbarrow, and try to
wheel himself.
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20

In life we shall find many men that
are great, and some men that are good;
but few that are both great and good.
II Cotton.
Domesticity is the tap-root which en-
ables the nation to branchwide and high.
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20

81 say, Mr.. Printer, do you take In
diana money!" sEn-o.'' "Wbat's
the reason?" "Can't get itg'-Intor-
rogator mizzled.
Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-20

Ch vance will be required for ail-advertise-
nsnt b where actual responsibility is known.
Ter eent for each change be added to the
ah1r
Business Cards Of five lines or less, for
one 90
tisements viii be considered by the year,
rnIt ccifed on the manuscript or previously
n nron between the parties.
EH sements not marked on theeopy for speci-
f11 - Of insertions, viii be continued until or
deft and charged accordingly.
Easements from strangers OF transient per-
sens. & 81 paid in advance.
I lege of yearly advertisers viii be confined
riei1 M eeir own business; and all advertisements
not s. ing thereto to be paid for extra.
All d advertisements charged double the above
re
l ements on the inside exclusively will b
ehnrt fra.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-13

The Doom OF TAETALUs.-We have an account
in fabulous history, of certain King of Lldia
called Tantaus, who was condemned 20 ssr.-'-
his crimes against hia eassss~y y DeIng plunged
into sh- .-~ser MS chin, with the choicest and
most luscious fruits suspended over his head and
30 placed that he could neither relieve hunger
or thirst. This has been considered one Of the
most agonising tortures which human ingenuity
ever devised.
Mllard Fillmore has been doomed to suffer ago
MES good deal similar in their nature. Having
had taste Of Presidential honors, he was seized
with most inordnste appetite for q renewal OF
the banquet. nottingham sprung up, and
seemed destined, in the eyes of hungry office.
seekers, to swallow up all other political organi-
cations. Fillmore made haste to present himself
at its shrine, and General Gustavus Adolphus
Scruggs, one of the high priests, commissioned
to do the needful in the premises. The distin-
guished ex-President was put through by said
ScrugSs, who seized him with great cordislity by
the hand, and said: "Now, MIR. Fillmore, this will
make you President" Fillmore, in the fulness
of his faith, responded: 81 hope so most sincere.
ly.'' In this faith he remained until after the
fourth instant, with all these bright fruits and linn
pd waters flowing around, until, at length, on the
day aforesaid, he drew his last political breath
Cruel, wasn't it? Alssl for Fillmore-Louisville
Democrat.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-13
sy- The Louisville Democrat. commentin

Ey- The Louisville Democrat, commenting on
the result of the recent election in that State,
says: ...
II is matter of wonder with the Know-Noth-
ings how the Democracy carried Kentucky. They
ought to wonder how they got as many votes as
they did, Had it not been for old party prejudices,
they would have lost every county in the Com.
monweslth. They had the most odious organizes
ton, and the most sbominable creed, that party
ever had to support. But the cause, bad as it was,
was still worse managed. They were as much de-
fciert IN brains as in principles. They lodged
and shufled about until nobody knew where to
find them They claimed the State when all men
of sense ought to have known it was gone. They
wrote and spoke, and spoke and wrote, and the
more they spoke and wrote, the worse it was for
their party. They did US excellent service in
speaking aud writing; and all we need to keep
the State forever, and get after while about all
her vote, is to have in the opposition just such
editors, and speakers and committees. They
could do the work. We had excellent speaker e.;
no party ever had better but they will all agree
that tie know nothing speakers did US most good.
II wasn't altogether their fault; they had caue
that was enough to kill any party OF men aud bury
them too. All sensible men saw the tottering
tunbng concern; and the curiosity is, that it didl I
tumble TO pieces before the election; and yet blind
paTtissns wondered that Democrats bet on the
State
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-13
NEW-YORK

We expressed the hope before the election that
Mr. Buchanan might be elected without the vote
of New-York. We have got our wish. The moral
Of it is that corrupt and scheming politicians may
understand in future that the vote of that State
large and powerful it is, is not necessary to the
election of President. We can conceive of nc
greater good to the successful candidate than to be
iuaugurated free and untrsmelled Of New-Yor
politics. She has been milestone to the neck o.
every administration that has paid respect to bel
pretensions. Just in proportion as Mr.. Buchanan
ignores the existence of such q political power
will the domestic character of his administration
be peaceful and pleasant; and we shall be greatly
disappointed if the next four years does not teach
lesson to this empire State of power and pirates
the moral effect of which will be most saluta1y or
our elections in the future. 1891.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-13

CRooKER's MILLINERY Recommendations
dsy was the Fan opening day of the above estsb-
hshment, and prompted by desire to see some
thing very nice as well to be in fashion as near
ly every body, we thought, was tbere,) we went
along with the tide and looked at the large and
fine display of millinery and fancy goods there to
be seen. Mr.. Croker has brought on a very large
and varied stock embracing all the articles belong
ing to the trade, Of every style and quality. TIE
stock ofbonnets, flowers, ribbons, trimmings, head
dresses, &C.. is far beyond what we expected to
sse The finer qualities Of these various styles of
goods are indeed superb, surprising anything we
have ever seen. The bonnets,, particularly, we
look upon the prettest things in that line ever
introduced to the lotion of the public.
Mr.. O. is prepared to sell millinery goods at
Wholesale as well al RETAIL and country dealers de-
string to purchase will do well 10 examine his
stock