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The Intellect can't bear fashionable refine
ment and dies under it in one or two genera
tons. If you would select youth who is like
ly to make his mark in the world, take one who
is carting mud in clam shell wagon, or build
ing houses in the sand and not not the delicate ba-
by who is fondling China lap dog on the par
lor carpet. Daniel Websiers father made his
cradle out OF pine log with an axe and auger.
Iewis Cass was rocked by his staid New Hamp.
shire mother in second handed sugar trough
The greatest architects for the manufacture Of
genius are Poverty and Repubioanism.
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A Word FOR THE PURlTANs.-One of the
most quoted hits at the Puritans is the remark
OF Macaulay, that their opposition to bear-bat-
ing was s.not on the ground that it gave the
bear pain, but because it gave the people pleas
ure." Now Mr. Macaulay Says Brown, who is
not no Puritan,) suppose You have judged correct
ly of the motive of the Purtans' hostility 10
5ear-batng. were the Puritans in the wrong2-
To relieve the question of all prejudice, let US
take, "for the purpose of this trial." out of the
Roundhead and Cavalier atmosphere, and in
quire about Spanish bull-fghts. Why do not
lnoralists everywhere and Of all sects denounce
bull or even of the half brute who goads him
on to battle2 Is it not that to find pleasure in
cruelty to man or beast depraves the mind and
bardens the heart of the spectators That's the
point, Mr.. Macaulay; and the Puritan's were
right Never mind the bear-he could bear il
leycuse the pun) much better than the people,
who grew ursine and brutal while they rejoic-
ed in the agonies of Bruin.-Post.
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AN EooENTRIo NEeRo.-The Lancaster Era.
miner in recording the death OF q negro, in the
jail of that city, says:
"Finture was kind of O wag in his way, and
often when engaged in some burgarious exploit,
would rest awhile for the purpose of indulging
his waggish propensties. A favorite past-tims
with him after entering some houses during the
night time, was to seek chamber occupied by
females and children, and while they were sleep.
ing amuse himself by tickling their feet-apply-
ing feather to their nostrls-pulling the cover
from their beds, &C. To his credit, be it said.
that he was never known to offer any indignity
or do harm-except by frightening them-to
woman or child.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24

THE HAPPY EDITOR WHO SAW DRED SCOTT IN
ST.. LoUIs.-Ths morning | saw and talked with
the veritable "Dred Scott" the best known COL
lored person in the world. Dred who is sen
der, very i'll looking and very black negro came
into an office where l was sitting, and | was
formally presented to this great embodiment OF
Constitutional Law, this Ebony point on which
the Union turns. After being assured that this
was actually "Dred Scott" | expressed my sur
prise by asking him if it was so. He answered ::
''Wel since dose gentlemen say so, it must be
true. and if you can't believe dem, you wouldn't
believe me-" told him his case was different
that he was matter of record in the Supreme
Court and of course was not to be doubted. He
said he was the same person about whom all "dis
we're fuss was making" He said he was free
and believed his wife and two children were
I4advlsed him to 60 East and exhibit himself; (;
but "Dred" has not half the enterprise that they
have who are making dis yere fuss abouthim.-
Then Dred Scott went out of the room,and with
him went the Missouri Compromise, and all that
judicial wisdom which has been expended upon
him. looked upon Dred Scott with more d
mazement than did upon the Mississippi River.
Parties must be hard up for issues, when they
are built up around such poor specimen of
humanity as this very common darkey. "Dred"
had better 60 East and show himself-EditOriat
Correspondence Of the Rochester american.
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RULES FOR HOME EDUoATIoN.-1. From your
chidren's earliest infancy inculcate the necessi-
ty of instant obedience.
g. Unite frmness with gentleness. Let your
children always understand that what yon say
you mean.
8. Never promise them anything unless you
are quite sure you can give them what you
promise.
4. If you tell little child to do something,
show him how to do 1t, and see that it is DONE
8. Always punish your children for wilfully
disobeying you, but never punish them in anger.
6. Never let them perceive that they vex you
or make you lose your self.command.
7. If they give way to patulance and .nnnAr
wait till they are calm, and then gently reason
with them on the impropriety of their conduct.
8. Remember that little present punishment,
when the occasion arises, is much more effectual
than the threatening of q greater punishment
should the fault be renewed.
9. Never give your children anything because
they cry for it.
10. On no account allow them to do at one
time what you have forbidden under like cir
cumstances at another.
II. Teach them that the only sure and easy
way to appear good is to be good.
70. Accustom them to make their little reci-
tails with perfect truth.
13. Never allow of tale-bearing.
IA. Teach them that selfdenial, not selfin-
diligence of an angry and resentful spirit, will
make them happy.
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SAUSAGE LOTTERY Yesterday the enterpris-
ing boss of very cheap eating house, who takes
the foreign papers, adopted the dodge OF Pa
risian establishment, and on strip OF whlte
mnslin and in greatly variegated lettering, an-
nonnced nl that every day, from 10 to 2 O'Clock,
customers might enjoy the chance OF eating the
sausage of gold His 'sassengers are hye ~
cents plate-dog cheaP--and within every M
tieth link he says he hides golden dollar. The
chance of hitting upon the dollar VIII De likely
to draw the hungry crowd, and the lear OF
champing it down unwitttlngly VIII secure talth'
ful mastication and digestion in consequence. =
" Y. Times.
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s. DERBY DAY.-How much the great "Derby
Day" the great day for the horse races] is
thought of in England may be inferred from the
fact that the bishop of Winchester had fixed a
certain day, the 9th, for visitation, and his
clergy were requested to meet him at a particu-
lar locality. But he found after the address was
issued that the day he had appointed was DER
by Day." the day of the great race at EPSON,
and the indulgent bishop accordingly issued an
other circular in which he changed the day, and,
what was worse, was candid enough to assign
the cause of the change. The religious Journals
have consequently raised hornets nest about
his ears for this backsliding, but he probably
cares little about these attacks for it is a well
known fact that the Queen herself, many of the
lords spiritual and temporal and nearly the
whole of the slower house" make point of at.
tending this great sporting festival. In fact
parliament recognizes the custom by always ad.
iourning over to the "Derby Day."
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POETRY Y ,
Some Things Love Me.

some IhlngS Love Me-
BY THos. BUCHANAN REED.
All within and all without me
Feel melancholy thrill;
And the darkness hangs about me,
Oh, how still!
To my feet, the river glideth
Through the shadow, sullen, dark;
On the stream the white moon rideth
Like bark
And the linden leans above me,
Till think some things there be
In this dreary world that love me!
Even me!
Gentle buds are blooming near me,
Shedding sweetest breath around,
Countless voices rise to cheer me,
From the ground;
And the lone bird comes-I hear it
In the tall and windy pine.
Pour the sadness of Its spirit
Into mine;
There it swings and sings above me.
Till think some things there be
In this dreary world that love me-
Even mel
Now the moon hath foated to me,
On the stream see its ray,
Swinging, boat-like, as 'twould WOO me
Far away;
And the stars bend from the azure
| could reach them where lie
And they whisper all the pleasure
Of the sky;
There they hang and smile above me,
Till think some things there be
In the very heavens that love me-
Even me!
Now when comes the tide of even,
Like solemn river slow;
Gentle eyes, akin to heaven,
On me glow
Loving eyes, that tell their story,
Speaking to my heart of hearts;
But | sigh; a thing of glory
Soon departs.
Yet, when Mary scars above me,
| must think that there will be
One more star in heaven to love me-
Even me!
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INTRODUCTION OF YANKEE DOODLE TO EUROPE.
Hon. Robert @. Winthrop, in his address at
the Boston Musical Festival, relates the follow
ing:
During the negotiation at Ghent, of that trea-
ty of peace to which have Just alluded, a fest
ival or banquet, or it may have been ball, was
about to take place, at which it was proposed
to pay the customary musical compliment to all
the Sovere;gns who were either present or re-
presented on the occasion. The Sovereign Peo-
ple of the United States, s,-represented there, as
you remember, by Mr.. Adams, Mr.. Bayard, Mr..
Clay, Mr.. iona Russell, and Mr.. Gallatin-were,
of course, not to be overlooked; and the musical
conductor or band-master of the place called up
on these commissioners to furnish him with our
national air. Our national air, said they, is YAM
kee Doodle. Yankee Doodle, said the conduc
tor, what is that2 Where shall find it2 By
whom was it composed9 Can you supply me
with the score2 The perplexity Of the Com
missioners may be better conceived than describ-
ed They were fairly at their wits ends They
never imagined that they should have scores of
this sort to settle, and each turned to the other
in despair. At last they bethought them, in a
happy moment, that there was colored servant
of Mr.. Clay's, who like so many of his race,
was first rate whistler, and who was certain
to know Yankee Doodle by heart. He was sent
for accordingly, and the problem was solved
without further delay. The band-master iotted
down the air as the colored boy whistled it, and
before night, said Mr.. Adams, Yankee Doodle
was set to so many parts that you would hardly
have known it, and it came out the next day in
all the pride, pomp and circumstance of viol and
hautboy, of drum, trumpet and cymbal, to the
edifcation of the Allied Sovereigns of Europe,
and to the glorifcation of the United Sovereigns
of America
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24

Low NEcKED DREssEs.-ln the early days of
Pennsylvania, it is said, there was law
That if any white female of ten years or up.
wards should appear in any public street. lane,
highway, church, courthouse, tavern, ballroom.
theatre, or any other place of public resort, with
naked shoulders, q. e. low necked dresses.) being
able to purchase necessary clothing, shall paw a
fine ofnot less than one, nor more than two
hundred dollars.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24

Harry Il tells good story of a young
man who had light and incipient moustache.
One day, while lingering the few hairs, be
said to Harry: Hadn't better dye this NOUS
tachea'
oh, no replied Harry, let it alone, and it
will die ITSELF
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24

SINGULAR CIRCUMsrANoE.-As a son of Mr..
Jacob Reinhart, residing at Upton, Franklin
county, Pa, lad about twelve years OF age,
was passing along on the bank of the West Co.
nocoheague creek, his attention was attracted to
q boy, still less than himself preparing bats for
his hook and line, as he was fishing. When
near him the boy manifested great alarm and
fell back into the creek. Young Reinhart, with
unusual presence of mind. Immediately procured
a pole and thrust the end of it into the water
where the boy had fallen in. and although he
was so deep in the water as to be out OF sight,
vet he took hold of it, when young Reinhart
drew him to the shore He had scarcely got
him out ere he perceived the cause OF the little
fellows alarm, which was that q large black
snake. about four and half feet in length, had
wrapped itself tight around the boys body.
Fortunately he had been using knife for
cutting bats, which he dropped when the snake
first attacked him. Picking it up, young Rein
hart Immediately applied it to his shakeship, to
release the little fellow from its coils; but 80
tight was it fastened around his body that he
had 10 insert the blade fatwise between the
BODY of the boy and the snake, and then turned
the edge, and by q vigorous cut severed it in
two. In doing this, however, he did not escape
being himself bit on the finger, without, how
ever being much injured therefrom, as the in
fammation produced from the bite was slight.
The snake had wrapped itself twice around the
body of the boy This is certainly singular
circumstance, and owing to the presence OF
Young Reinhart the lad was saved from pre-
mature death.-Ffanklin Repository, May ~.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24

Sir David Baird, with great gallantry and hu-
manity, had queer temper. When news came
to England that he was one of those poor pris-
oners in India who were tied back to back to
fetter them, his mother exclaimed, Heaven pity
the man that's tied to my Davy'
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24

ESTABLISHING AN HEIR.-The Honorable Pat
rick Kane, late Probate Judge of neighbor
ing county, was waited upon one warm after
noon by buxom matron with child in her
arms whose business was, as she said, "ofa Pro-
bate nature" Mr.. K. being polite man, init,
mated his readiness to learn her wishes. "Now,"
said she, hushing her baby, and squaring herself
for a regular talk, "you see, Judge, my husband
was forehanded man, and left good farm well
stocked, and just because l am lone woman in
the world, his relations are going to throw me
out of all but my third. Now, Lawyer - told
me, some time ago, that if there was an heir, he
would take it all and should he his guardian.
"How long since your husband died." asked
the Judge. "About thirteen months" was the
reply. "And how old is the child2" "Four
weeks was the answer. 81 am afraid this case
is beyond my Jurisdiction" said the Judge; "you
had better 60 back to Squire -" But"
said the woman, "if your Probate Court can't
establish an heir, what is it good for 2"-Detroit
Ado,
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Jones, (who thinks that Smith has been lit.
tie too free) Mr.. Smith, wish to speak to
you privately. Permit me to take You apart
for few moments" Smith, (who isn't in the
least friphtened) Certainly, sir, if you'll prom.
ise to put me together again.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24

Mrs. Jamison says :-"The bread of life is
love; the salt of life is work; the sugar of life
is poetry; the water of life is faith" Hand US
the bread and sugar, never mind the salt
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24

There is an inscription on tombstone at La
pointe. Lake Superior, which reads as follows
a,Jobn Smith, accidentally shot as a mark Of af-
lection by his brother"
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se that she would be beloved sister to them
and so, in the seventeenth year of his life, in
the seventeenth month of his reign, Francis the
Second died.
"With his death the Guises fell, and Catha-
rine de Medicis was once more Regent and Mis-
tress of France and prepared to avenge upon
the Queen of Scots whatever sights she had
borne during that short, sad reign.
MARY was now an orphan and widow; her
protector, Henry H., was dead her nncles fall
en- her royal mother-n-law and cousin her i'm
placabe enemies; her birth-realm torn by con-
flirting parties: she herself poor, young, friend
less Queen. She was, says the English spy,
Sir Nicholas Throckmorten, a heavy and dolor-
Gus wife, as of good right she had reason to be,
who, by long watching with him through his
nineteen days sickness, and by painful diligence
about him, but especially the issue thereof, is
not in the best time of her body
$50 writes Throckmorton, to her foe Eliza
abeth. "Take care of her for my sake, pleaded
the dying king. %, Francis!' exclaimed Charles
*, looking at her portrait, happy brother!-
Though your life and reign were so short, you
were to be envied in this, that you were the
possessor of that angel, anu the object Of her
love-"
John Knox, recording the death of Francis,
speaks of him simply as the husband of our
Jezebel.'
MARY has recorded somewhat of her own
feeling of bereavement in a letter to the King Of
Spain.
"You have consoled," she writes to Phillip II,
''by your letters, the most afflicted poor woman
under heaven, God having deprived me OF all |
loved and held most dear on earth, and left me no
other comfort save that of seeing others deplore
his loss, and my too great misfortune. God will
assist me, if it peases Him to bear what comes
from Him with patience, for, without His aid,
| confess should find so great calamity too
heavy for my strength and little virtue.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24
A Job in the Wheatfield.

We are often tempted to head each page of
our paper with the old fashioned but expressive
adage-"A stitch in time saves nine"-some-
times ninety -nine This morning, in ''country
ramble," we had occasion to cross wheatfeld
and instinctively or perhaps from force of early
habit, We pulled up and carried with US nine
separate punches or roots of Cookie" as we
have been accustomed to callit (Weforgetits bo-
tanical name and do not know that tits called by
any other name from Maine to Texas.) hedelay
necessary to take up these nine roots may have
been two minutes. The whole time occupied
in crossing the field and pulling the roots GER
tainly did not exceed nine minutes. Query.
Would not the proprietor of that field-who, by
the-way assured US that it was "very clean of
foul stuff'-fnd it time we'll laid out, to send a
boy over the whole wheat plot to pull up all
cookie roots, which are very easily seen at this
seasona We are sure it would. We have fol-
lowed the plan from boyhood. When less than
12 years old, one part of our spring work was
to 90 over twenty-five or fifty acres of wheat
and pull up the cookie. AS we sowed clean
seed three or four acres day was not consid-
cred hard task. Is it not worth q months
work of boy to clear fifty acres of the pest 2
But at the same time with the cookie pulling, we
carried q two-inch chisel, fitted with long
handle, with which we dug up all the red dock
roots we could find, and also any stray thistles
and mullens that showed their heads. With
the narrow blade it is easy to take out the deep
roots of these plants without greatly disturbing
the adjacent wheat roots. Wheat growers try
this cheap method of clearing your fields, and
you will soon find decided improvement in the
marketable quality of your grain. Nothing
lessons the value of wheat more than those
black little seeds of the cookie plant. Two or
three successive weddings of the above kind will
nearly eradicate this pest. But word for the
boys. Pulling cookie, like pulling potatoe vines,
is hard on the back, though it operates in time
better than any strengthening plaster Make
the work for the boys as light as may be, and
and make it attractive. Offer the boys apre.
MUM of twenty cents per acre for entirely e.
radicating this pest, and charge them six cents
for each plant found growing at harvest time
and our word for it, you will find the work vel
and cheaply done. We speak from experience
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24

One editor in Georgia asks another, whether
he can bite the bottom of frying pan out with.
out shutting his nose2'
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A WoMAN's TRIoK.-Painting is said to be
carried to great excess at the present time a.
mong the fashionable ladies of Paris, notwith-
standing the use of paint ruins the natural COM
plexion. A malicious practical joke which an
English lady devised to torment the painted
beauties, is thus ''made note OF" in Paris let
ter to the New Orleans Picayune:
"They tell very good joke here of an elder
" English woman who had trained little Ha-
vana dog to lick the faces of the persons who
kissed it. They say that whenever she meets
with lady under false coors, she makes her
puppy jump on the lady's lap; the lady caresses
the dear little creature without suspecting that
it is perfdious little scoundrel, which unpaints
her cheek with its false but vigorous licking
Not long ago this English woman was at bril-
liant party in the Faubourg Saint Honore; she
singled out among all the guests an Italian lady
of noble birth, who is extremely addicted to
paint, and at the conventional signal, Bib jump
ed into the Italians lap and began to ply its
tongue with great enersy-one side oil the Flor
entire's cheek was like peach smothered IN
cream, the complexion OF sweet sixteen, the
other side was shriveled wrinkled, yellow. 1t
REQUIRED all the French dexterity Of smothering
laughter to suppress the peals of merriment
which this sight excited to explosion; aud the
malice of the English woman was delighted by
the laughing eyes of the whole room. But that
night Bibi was taken sick with violent gastri
tbs, and two days afterwards it growled its last
how wow-wow in the arms of its weeping and
desolate mistress, who told everybody that it
was the paint of the Italian that killed this an
gec pug, and she spreads this report so indus
trously, it is said there is no small chance of
its getting into the court house in the shape of
suit for SANDER The rumor goes that the Eng
lish woman is now busy training King Charles
dog to the mastery activity of tongue which
distinguishes fen L Hacanais."
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