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A Scene in Virginia.

On a lovely morning towards the
close Of spring I found myself in a very
beautiful part of the Great Valley of
Virginia. Spurrcd onward by impa-
tiencc, beheld the sun rising in splen-
dor and changing the blue tints on the
tops Of the Allegheny mountains into
streaks oithe pureSt gold, and nature
seemed to smile in the freshness Of
beauty. A ride OF about fourteen
miles, and a pleasant woodland ram
bic Of about two, brought myself and
companion to the great Natural
Bridge.
Although | had been anxiouSly look
ing forward to this time, and my mind
had been considerably excited by eX-
pectation, yet was not altogether pre-
pared for the visit. This great work
OF nature is considered by many as the
second great curiosity in our country;
Niagara Falls being the first. do
not expect TO convey a very correct
idea OF this bridge, for no description
eau do this.
The Natural Bridge is entirely the
work of God. Ii is of solid limestone,
and connects two huge mountains to-
gether, by most beautiful arch, over
which there is a great wagon-road.-
Its length, from one mountain to the
other, is nearly eighty feet; its width,
about thirty-fve; its thickness, about
forty-fve, and its perpendicular height
over the water is not far from two
hundred and twenty feet. A few
bushes grow on its top, by which the
traveller may hold himself as he looks
over. On each side of the stream, and
near the bridge, are rocks, projecting
ten or fifteen feet over the water, and
from two hundred to three hundred
feet from its surface, all of limestone
The visitor cannot give so good des-
cription of this bridge as be can of his
feelings at the time. He softly creeps
out on shaggy projecting rock, and
looking down chasm from forty to
sixty feet wide, he sees, nearly three
hundred feet below, wide stream,
foaming and dashing against the rocks
beneath, as if terrified at the rocks
above. The stream is called Cedar
Creek. The visitor here sees trees I'M
der the arch, whose height is seventy
feet, and yet, to look down upon them,
they appear like small bushes of per-
haps two or three feet in height.
saw several birds ay under the arch,
and they looked like insects. Threw
down a stone, and counted thirty-four
before it reached the water. All hear
of heights and depths, but they here
see what is high, and themble and feel
it to be deep. The awful rocks pre-
sent their everlasting butments, the
water murmurs and foams far below,
and two mountains rear their proud
heads on each side, separated by a
channel of ublimity. Those who view
the sun, the moon, and the stars, and
allow that none but God could make
them, will here be impressed with the
conviction that none but Almighty
God could build a bridge like this.
Tie rev ofthe bridge IRON below
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Marshall Ney's Death.Scene.

The vengeance Of the Allied Pow.
ers demanded some victims; and the
intrepid Ney, who had well-nigh put
the crown again on Bonaparte's head
at Waterloo, was to be one Of them.
Condemned to be shot, he was led to
the Garden of Luxembourg on the NOR
ming Of the 18th of December, and plac-
ed in front of a file OF soldiers, drawn
up to kill him. One of the officers
stepped up to bandage his eyes, but he
repuIsed him, saying, Are you ignor-
ant that for twenty-five years | have
been accustomed to face both ball and
bullet" He then lifted his hat above
his head, and with the same calm
voice that had steadied his columns
so frequently, in the roar and tumult
of battle, said, 81 declare, before God
and man, that never betrayed my
country; may my death render her
happy. Vivc la Francep He then
turned to the soldiers, and striking his
hand on his heart, gave the order
SOLDIERS, fire." A simultaneous dis.
charge followed, and the "bravest OF
the brave" sank to rise no more. "He
who had fought fve hundred battles fo'
France, and not one against her, wa:
shot as a traitor AS | looked on the
spot where he fell, | could not but sigh
over his fate. True, he broke hi.
oath of allegience-so did others, car
ried away by their attachment to Ma
poleon and the enthusiasm that hailct
his approach to Paris. Still, he wa.
| no traitor.
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Loves Immortal Wreath.

"Who can separate hearts that have united
Or divide waters that have met and mingled
INTO one!"
Think not, beloved, time can break
The spell around US cast
Or absence from my bosom take
The memory Of the past.
My love is not that silvery mist
From summer blooms by sunbeams kiss d.
Too fugitive to last:
A tadeless flower, it still retains
The brightness of its early stains,
Nor burns it like the raging fire
In tainted breast which glows;
All wild and thorny as the brier
Without its opening rose.
a gentler, holier love is mine,
Interchangeable and firm, while thine
Is pure as mountain SHOWS;
Nor yet has passion dared to breathe
A spell DER loves immortal wreath.
And now, when grief has dimn'd thine eye,
And sickness made thee pale,
Thinks thou could the mouner fly,
And leave thee to the gale!
Oh, no!--may all those dreams depart
Hope sheds upon youthful heart,
If now my bosom fail,
Or leave thee, when the storm comes on,
To bear It's turbulence alcne.
The ivy round some lofty pile,
Its twlnng tendrl filings;
Though fled from thence be pleasures smile
1t yet the fonder cings;
As loneier still becomes the place,
The warmer is its fond embrace,
More firm its yerdant rings;
AS lift loved its shade to rear
Der one devoted to despair.
Thus shall my bosom cling to thine,
Unchanged by gliding years;
Through fortunes rise, or her decline,
In sunshine, or in tears;
And though between us oceans roll,
And rocks divide us, still MY SOUL
Can feel no jealous fears,
Contiding in heart like thine,
Loves uncOntaminated sErine
TO me, though bathed in sorrow S dew,
The dcarcr far art thou;
loved thee when thy woes were few,
And can alter now!
That face, in joys bright hour, was fair
More beautiful since grief was there,
Though somewhat pale thy brow;
And be ltmine to soothe the pain
Thus pressing on the heart and brain.
Yes, love, my breast at sorrows call,
Shall trcmble like thine own;
lffrom those eyes the teardrops fall,
They shall not fall alone.
Our souls, like Heavens aerial bow,
Blend every light within their glow,
OF Joy or $ PROV known.
And griet, divided with THY heart,
Were sweeter far than joys apart.
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Frdnklm'S Toast --Long after Wash
ington's victories over the French and
English had made his name familiar
over all Europe, DR.. Franklin chanc.
ed to dine with the English and French
ambassadors, when the following
toasts were drunk: -
By the British Understanding.
land; the sun whose beams enlighten
and fructify the remotest corners OF
the Garth
The French ambassador, glowing
with national pride, drank-"France;
the moon whose mild, steady, cheering
rays are the delight of all nations; con-
soling them in darkness and making
their dreariness beautiful"
DR.. Franklin then rose, and wit h his
usual disnified simplicity, Said--"Geo.
Washington; the Joshua, who com
manded the Sun and Moon to stand
still, and they obeyed him.
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Education is companion which no
misfortune can depress--no crime can
destroy--no enemy can alienate-no
despotism enslave. At home, a friend;
abroad, an introduction; in solitude, a
solace; and in society, an ornament
1t chastens vice, it guides virtue, it
gives at once, grace and ornament to
genius; without what is is Man! A
splendid slave 80. 10 tuna .,ugr
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Human happiness has no perfect Sc
curity but freedom; freedom none but
virtue; virtue none but knowledge; and
neither freedom, nor virtue, nor knowl-
edge has any vigor or immortal hope,
except in the principles Of the Chris
tian faith, and in the sanctions of the
Christian religipn.-iIfy. Qutncy.
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An empty head and a full purse are
more respected than the man whose
purse has been lightened by the una'
voidable shafts of misfortune.
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True Mdgnanimity.-Ha,h any
wrongod theel-be bravely revenged;
slight it, and the work is begun; for
give it, and It's finished. He is below
himself who IS no. ahoye an. inl,,Iy,
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| belive that if Christianity should

belive that if Christianity should
be compelled to flee from the mansions
of the great, the academies OF the phil
osophers, the halls of legislators, or
the throng of busy men, we should
find her last and purest retreat with
woman at the freside; her last altar
would be the female heart; her last
audience would be the children gath.
cred around the knees of a mother; her
last sacrifice, the secret prayer, es-
Gaping in silence from her lips, and
heard, perhapS, only a. the throne Of
God.
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Home.-There is world where no
storms intrude, a haven of safety
against the tcmpests OF life. A little
world ufjoy and love, Of innocence and
tranquility. Suspicious are not there,
nor jealousies, nor lalSehood with her
double tongue, nor the venom of SLAM
der. Peace embraces it with outspread
wings. Plenty broodeth there. When
man entereth it, he forgetteth his
sorrows, and cares, and disappoint-
ments; he openeih his heart to conf
dence, and to pleasure not mingled
with remorse. This world is the we'll
ordered home Of a virtuous and anita
BILE woman.
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A little fellow, tired of the monoto-
ny of the school-room, began to amusc
himself by making faces, blowing
through his hands, &c. AT last he
whistled aloud.
"Who whistled"
"Bill Cole" answered the boy who
sat next to him.
"Come here, Bill Cole" said the mas
ter-"what did you whistle for!"
"Mathter, didn't whithle."
master, he did; saw him do it."
"Mather, didn't, thertainly," lisped
the little culprit, "it tchi,heted itseLr''
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Midnight.

Hulerlhnd, IN his treatise on sleep,
has some curious, as well as lorcible
ideas on the necessity Of deyoting
midnight to rest and sleep. He con-
sidcrs that the period of twcnty-iour
hours, which is produced by the rcgu-
lar revolution Of the earth on its axis,
marks its influence most definitely on
the physical economy Of man. Dis
eases show this regular influence in
their daily rise and fall. Settled reg
ular fever exhibits q tWenty-tour hours
hux and reAux. In the healthlul
state, there is manifest the same reg
ular influence, and the more habitual
our meals, our hours of exercise or en-
ployment, and our hours Of sleep, the
more power there is in the system to
resist disease. In the morning the
pulse is slow and the nerves calncr,
and the mind and the body better tit
ted for labor. As we advance to.
wards the evening Of the day, the
pulse becomes accelerated, and an al
most teverlsh state is produced which,
in exciteable persons, becomes an alb
solute evening fever. Rest carries of
this fever by its sleep, and the refrcsh-
ing opening Of its pores which sleep
produces. In this nightly respiration,
there is an absolute crisis Of this even-
ing fever, and this periodical crisis is
necessary to every one, for it carries
off whatever useless or pernicious par
tlclcs our bodies may have imbibcd.
This evening fever, Huiuland
thinks, is not entirely owing to the
accession Of new chyle to the system
but to the departure of the sun and Of
the light. The crisis of this fever, to
be most effective by its regularity,
ought to take place ut midnight when
the sun is its nadir, and then the body
becomes refreshed for the early morn
ing labor. Those who neglect this Pc
riod, either push this diurnal crisis ia
to the morning, and thus undermine
the Importance OF its regularity, or lose
it entirely, and arise to their labors
unretreshed by sleep. Their bodies
will not have been purified by the
nightly crisis, and the seeds OF disease
will thus been planted.
Nervous people are peculiarly sub
iect to the influence Of this fever, and
think they cannot labor without its
excitement. Hence their mental eff
forts are performed in the night alone;
the important time for the crisis Of
their nervous excitement passes over
in wakelulness, anh refreshing perspi-
ration clcanses the body or strength
ems the nerves. Such people will
wear out soon, unless they change
their habits and seek rest when nature
and the human constitution dictate.
These considerations ought to be
deeply studied and regarded by all
who are in a ruinous habit of turning
night into day, and Of changing the
functions OF each.
n failure Of health viii soon mani
fest rhe truth of these remarks.
There is something beautiful in the
r,,I1,,.;,o.
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There is something beautiful in t.
following lines:
Take the bright she'll
From its home on the lea,
And wherever it goes
1t will sing Of the sea.
So, take the fond heart
From its home and its hearth,
Twill sing OF the loved
To the ends of the earth.
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Chicago 4 Rock Island Railroad
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Spring .fs9'Nss gesssessS,
IN and after Monday April l3th 1866, aud unit
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lst mail train at 500 A n
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X. \. Depot. Rock Island
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distinct directions 10 the Of their bag
gage also to procure tickets before taking their seats
IN the cars the Conductors collect fares only 10 sta
ti0ns on the line u the Chicago ARock Island railroad
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W. H. WHITMAN, Asst Snp't.
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