The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-03

Three years have passed, and John Cum
ming remains true to the resolution formed or
his sick bed, and strengthened by the faith and
hops, aye, and the charity which kept guard
over: him, His services are anxiously sought
by all who have important or intricate suits
and nls fame, as lawyer, is widely circulated
1t Is perhaps worthy Of remark, that he has
had tnore than one case, of which the ina gina
ry one, upon his sick bed, was the type; and
that tie brought to the defence of the prisoner
not oslly the skilful pleadings Of professional
tact, but an eloquence of feeling and sympathy
whieh touched the hearts, and drew tears from
the eyes Of all present as asa asas 81
Howard Livingston is still his firm friend
and she friend, indeed, of all mankind. 1t is
impossible to express the depth of love and ten
dernAss which the family of John Cumming
have:for this man, whose whole heart and soul
are tiound up in the exercise of that true phi
lantlsfopy, that is the only one that expresses
the wal sentiment. ..r e=
There lies no desert in the land of life,
Forehn that tract which barrenest doth seem.
Labofed Of these in faith and hope shall TEEN
With heavenly harvests and rich gatherings, rife.
@ - = AhMER DAUGHiER.-l lcIc - d " " IL
ofbGxon beauty f1ourishing in the shades Of the
ounsry.-Farm houses are dangerous places.
As you are thinking only of sheep or of curds,
you may be sudden] shot throu gh by pair
of bright eyes, and melted away in bewitch-
ing smile that you never dreamt Of till the mis-
chief was done. In towns and theatres and
thronged assemblies of the rich and titled fair,
you are on your guard; you know what you
are exposed to, and put on your breast plate,
and pass through the most deadly onslaught
of b9auty--safe and sound. But in those svl-
van retreats, dreaming of nightingales and
hearing only the lowing Of oxen, you are Ia
ken by surprise Out steps a fair creature
crosses glade, leaps a stile; you start, you
stand--lost in wonder, astonishment and ad-
miraiion; you take out your tablets to write a
sonnet on the return of the nymphs and dryads
to earth, when up comes John Tompkins and
says, is only the farmers daughters What
have farmers such daughters now "a days.
Yes, I tell you they have such daughters
those farm houses are dangerous places. Let
no man with a poetical imagination, which is
but another name for a very tender heart, fiat
ter himself with fancies of the calm delights
of the country; with the serene idea of sitting
with the farmer in his old fashioned chimney
corner, and hear him talk of corn and mutton;
ofjoihing him in the pensive pleasures of a pipe
and brown Jug of October; of listening to the
gossip of the comfortable farmers wife, of the
parsdn and his family, of his sermons and his
tenth pig, overa fragant cup of young hyson,
orlaEpjny the delicious Injuries of custards and
whipI creams. In walks fairy vision of won
drous witchery, and with courtesy and a
smile OF most winning and mysterious magic,
takesiher seat just opposite-It is the farmers
daughter! A lively creature of eighteen. Fair
as thf lily, fresh as May dew, rosy as the rose
itself: graceful as the peacock perched on the
paes:t there by the window; sweet as the posy
of viclets and sgilliyers; modest as early morn
ing, and amiable as imagination of Desdemo-
MIA or Gertrude of Wyoming. You are lost!
empty flbert or frogbitten strawberry for
your.peace of mind, if that glittering creature
be not as pitful as she is fair. And that comes
of gging into the country, out of the way of
vanity and temptation, and fancying farm
houses only nice old fashioned places Of old
fashioned cuntentment.
Tie Hebrew people, remarkable all over the
worlG for their thriving peculiarly in business
Of mercantile nature-for they never touch
agriculture still more remarkable from the
fact that their entire number in the world at
preseat is about the same as in the palmiest
days of Judea.
This fact is worthy of note in the statistics of
the jewish population as among the most sing
uar circumstances of this most singular of all
people, Under all their calamites and disper-
sions they seemed to have remained at nearly
the same amount as in the days Of David and
Soonlon, never much more in prosperity, nev-
er much less after ages of suffering. Nothing
like this has occurred in the history of any
other, race; Europe in general having doubled
its population within the lass hundred years,
and England nearly trpled hers within the last
half century; the proportion of America being
still more rapid, and the world crowding in
constantly increasing ratio. Yet the Jews seem
to stand still in this vast and general move
ment
The population of Judea in its most palmy
days., probably did not exceed, if it reached,
four millions. The numbers who entered Pal
esine from the wilderness were evidently not
much 1nore than three millions, and their cen
sus, according to the German statistics, who
were generally considered to be exact, is
now nearly the same as that of the people un-
der Moses-about three millions. They are
thus distributed:
In Europe, ,915, 5,OOO of which about 658,
900 are in Poland and Russia, and 45O, 900 are
in Austria.
In Asia, 74s, 900, of which 300, 900 are in
Asiatic Turkey.
In Africa, 5O4, 900, of which 300, 900 are in
Morocco.
In 'America, North and South, 81 900.
If we add to these about 900 Samaritans,
the calculation in round numbers will be about
1886, 600.
This extraordinary ixedness in the midst of
almost universal increase is doubtless not with
out treason, if we are even to look for it among
the mysterious operations which have preserved
Israel a separate race through eighteen hund
red years.
OLDEST STEAMER IN THE WoRLD.-The lug
gage steamer Industry, belonging to the Clyde
shipping company, and the oldest steamer
afoat has just received an overhaul of hull
md machinery, and has been fitted with low
,ring funnel to enable her to 60 above the
Glasgow bridges to load The Industry was
'uilt Of wood, by Mr. Eye, of Faire, in 1914,