Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-03-12
WHOLE NO. 1,010.

table illumines the whole with a softened ligh
Little Eta, with her knitting, occupies 10
stool in her fayorite corner and great, elder
dog yawns lazy at her feet: beside her sits HI
mother, gancing lnerrily at her swift fiyin
needles, half jealous that her daughter can BET
her. Farmer Bacon has either fallen asleep in h
easy-chair or is busy contemplating the brigi
day-dreams that now fill his daily life with glaC
ness. Paul Boston sits reding his loved Bible
now and then he glances from its pages to admir-
the opening beauties of rose-bush that orn0
ments little stand by his side. He has not for
gotten the faded bud which was once given him
and which he still cherishes a precious link O
| the past. jerry eDters-look into his dark eye
you know at once that success has crowned hi
efforts, whatever they might have been. Smil
| on, Jerry, one does not often hear the welcome
| yes from as sweet lips as those of Susie Viii
liams.
The beautiful and the useful is at last blend
| ed. There is quiet joy and happiness wher,
discontentand almost misery once reigned. AnG
are there not many such honest Oh, that they
snould be called homes The body is fed and
nourished--tour walls keep out the winds and
rains of heaven, but the soul goes unwarmed
and fearful tempests oft wreck its lifelong hap.
| piness. Home should be sacred spot, loved
retreat where we may find rest and living light.
! We think too much OF the merely physical,
too little of our spiritual wants Why were they
| given us, these cravings, if there were not
means to satisfy theml God gave us passion
for the beautiful-lIe painted the sky and deck
ed the earth for our enioyment-He clothed
the fields with blossoms-He made lines of
beauty in every created thing-the essence OF
beauty lives with Him.
We may be po0r-but the poor have tastes
and wants-trees and flowers cost little. The
poor often buy needless luxuries to satisfy the
animalappetite. Why not purchase the needed
ailment for starving souli labor is drudgery
when it ministers only to our physical wants.
We know and feel that we were made for some
thing different, something better. Beauty soft
ems, relieves, blesses the troubled heart. Bles-
sed be the gift which the Almightys word hath
hallOwed.
From the .7merican Messenger.
The CARELESS BRIDE.-She had been poor,
but she was from respectable family in my
congregation, and went to the West to teach and
bring home aid to her father. She was success
full. She had just married, and with her hns-
band was coming in a steam boat on one of the
lakes to visit her parents and sisters in Yer-
mont. He had adorned his bride with costly
attire, and withal had presented her bridal
ornament, principally of gold, of great value.
Thus attired, she was thinking of the satisfac-
tion she should feel in reaching home, and again
mingng in her fathers family and with old as
sociates.
They were walking together on deck eating
fruit. She held her gold in one hand and 4 ag-
ments of an apple in the other. In q careless
moment she stepped to the side of the boat to
throw away the latter, but instead, she threw
away her golden ornament.
In a moment she exclaimed, what have done7
Thrown away my gold /" Both stopped to look
for it, but all in vain. Her treasure had sunk
IN the deep dark waters. Her husband now
gave her look that she never forgot. 1t was
look of sorrow and reproof. And wherever
she went, whether at home oramong her friends,
this one thing filled her with grief. She had
lost her gold but that was not ALL she had lost
her marriage present and what poor return
was this OF her husbands love.
tits presumed that every person has golden
moment, point of time, favorable opportu-
nifty. On that moment may hang the question,
whether he will shout with seraphim and cheru-
bin in world Of light, or wall with iends in
despair forever. At that golden moment the
Spirit was striving. The question came home,
sspeu me; and ffnst, tstt ,as tast 1 may turn
to the right hand or the left" sslVill you be a
christian, or will you noti "Wilt thou not from
this time say unto me, My Father, thou art tho
guide of my youth This is the accepted time.
Jesus whispers, Come, for all things are now
ready. This has been happy moment for
every sinner who ever passed from death to lfe.
Millions have embraced this moment and are
now singing redeeming love.
But Others, sailing on the same waters, in the
same boat, on their return passage and seeking
bhSil uhai uoluo CiEtIeSS airs Throw away the |
golden moment. 1t is gone overheard, down
in the deep, black waters of eternity. Now it |
IS too late. They may cry, What have done! |
My probation is lost Now like the weeping !
bride, they may look on the great Redeemer as
an injured friend. But all in vain. The golden |
moment, the accepted time, is gone. No pearl |
OF ocean or gold of Ophir can buy it back.
The PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFIoE.-The
fact that Mr.. Buchanan did not take the oath |
of office until after the delivery of his inaugu-
raj has given rise to the impression with many
that it was an unusual thing. Such, however,
is not the fact. John Adams, John Quincy
Adams, jackson, Van Buren,, Polk and Taylor
delivered their inaugurals before taking the
OATH Harrison took it just before delivering the
closing sentence; and General Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Pierce took ii
before the delivery. Tyler and Fillmore had no
occasion to deliver addresses, as they were
elected to the Vice-Presidential office and sue
ceeded to the Presidency by reason of vacancies
from DEATH These inaugural addresses, it may
be remarked are not an essential part of the GER
emony of installing President, do not neces-
sarily belong to it, and are, in fact extra. con-
stitutional. They are purely voluntary on the
part of the President, who is only required by
the constitution to take the oath of office.
1t is remarkable fact that all the inaugural
speeches of Mr.. Buchanan's predecessors,
though he is now the fifteenth president of the
United States, have been delivered since he |
was born, so young as we are nation. Wash
iugton delivered his first and only inaugural |
speech to the Senate, as did both Adams and |
] Jefferson, but he delivered none on his second |
election. Though Jefferson d livered his first
inaugural in the Senate Chamber, it was ad-
dressed to his "Frends and Countrymen."-
Since his time the inaugural speeches Of the
Presidents have been addressed to the people,
and hays been delivered from the portco OF the
captol.-BaH. Sun.
A SINGULAR CAsE.-0n Sunday last Drs. |
Freeman and Perry of Saratoga, amputated the
leg of Mr.. Smith, resident of that village. |
The cause of the amputation was the actual
death of the limb. MIR. s., who is a laboring
man of industrious and temperate habits, some
six weeks since, while walking, was seized with
q sudden pain in the leg, about half way from
the knee to the ankle, and Immediately all sem
sation or fseling below the region OF the pain
ceased. The look and color OF the skin and to
the touch was that of dead body, and all life
or animation below, midway from the knee to
the ankle, was entirely erldicated. The above
physicians attended the sufferer and used all the
skill and ingenuity known to tho medical profess