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Po1soNs IN LIoUoRs.-The extensive

PoIsoNs IN LIoUoRs.-The extensive
adIlteration Of liquors offered in the mar
ket as pure, and the introduction Of poison.
ous Ingredients into those which are pro.
nounced healthful, may well excite alarm
and call for the attention Of our Legislature.
Why there should be so much brain fever
delirium, tremens, andsomuch sudden death
among our young men who indulge at the
bar, cannot be explained upon any common
principles. An expert chemist Of thiscity
bought of an importer a bottle Of what was
called genuine champagne. Analyzation
proved it to contain one-quarter O fan ounce
of sugar Of lead. -.
Thesame gentleman analyzed sixteen sam
Piles Of wines-Port, Sherry and Madeira--
in which not one drop of the juice Of lie
grape was found. The base of the Port
wine was diluted sulphuric acid, eolored
with elderbery juice, With alum, sugar and
neutral spirits. The basis Of the Sherry
wine was pale malt, sulphuric acid from
bitter almonds, with per centage Of alco-
holic spirits from brandy. The Madeira
wine was decoction of hops, sulphuric acid,
honey, Jamaica spirits, &c.-M ?. Com.
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PRETTY GOOD.

A Luzerne county (Pa.,) orator, whose
name we have lost, was called on lately al
Wilkesbarre for speech. He is one OIL
the old style Of men, and has blunt man
ner of getting at matters, but we do moi
remember to have seen anything better
than this in our late readings. The whole
speech is good, but we have space for only
two extracts NORTH Ioa0a Times.
"In this contest, on the one hand would
be the proud Caucasian race, with theil
scientific knowledge, their far-seeing intel
ligence, their indomitable will, their love
of dominion; race that has habit Of
planting Empires wherever commerce leads
in farthest India, in America, in Australia,
in China, and the Islands of the Sea and
whose dominion begins when they first plant
foot upon the distant coast, and continues
forever. On the other hand would be the
negro, with his banjo and his barlow knife,
Susanna don't you cry,' and possibly one
of Old Browns spears. Place dozen pike
in your swarming 6shpond, and tell me
how long will it be before your pond will
be filled with pike and the rest have al
disappeared? How long has it been since
the formidable gray rat made his appear
ance amongst US, and what has become of
all our black rats? ? But the amiable phi
lanthropist would stand up and exhort to
brotherly love, chow good and pleasant it
is for Jrethern to dwell together in unity ;
and read from the Declaration of Indepen-
dence,' swe hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created equal.'-
Let him try his exhortation upon the pike
in his fishpond, and let him read his nice
quotations to the gray rats in his cellar, be-
fore he presumes to address the Caucasian
race!
But away up North and down East,
there are some pious Puritan women, and
it seems some men also, who long ago took
this world in charge, and with their aprons
around them, labor day and night to bring
it to level with their rolling pins Let
the stupid world behold and be instructed |!
Don't they know? Didn't they once make
tea in Boston harbor. Didn't they bring
over Plymouth Rock in the 'Mayfower'-
Plymouth Rock, that gray petrifed Puri-
tan, that glorious old Blarney stone?-
Their hands at present are empty. They
have hung all the Quakers; they have
burnt all the witches; they have abolished
mince pies and Christmas cakes; they have
locked up all the whiskey. Aliens are
kept in durance and service seven years, as
long as Jacob was to serve old Laban for
Rachel; and it is said the Goldfish no longer
swim on Sunday, but crowd against the
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WoMAN.-A grabbed acquaintance Of
ours has just repeated to us, 'Frailty, thy
name is woman We were trying to get
him to call with US on very beautiful lady
of our acquaintance. He is scholar, o
wit, and gentleman, and yet dares to re-
peat that villainous line in our hearing
Alas for him !! we fear he is past redemp.
ton. We cannot conceive why the fail
sex have been so often villi6ed. We de-
clare it unjust, and we enlist ourselves in
their defence; Notwithstanding Virgil hath
said, woman always various and changes
ble,' and Shakespeare, 'Frailty, thy name il
woman r.
Woman is not more variable than man
Her constancy has stood the test of fire and
blood, and torment, in thousands Of in
stances, and shall she be called fickle?-
We verify believe that woman's friendship
is infinitely more disinterested, infinitely
more pure than mans. She will follow bel
lover through veal and woe-through evi
report and good report-through poverty
through sorrow, and misery, and death
She will love him in his sin, and in hi
glory, and in his shame, and in his degra
dation; and she will bind him the closer
to her heart, as he falls the lower. Viii
man do SO? No-let but the breath o
evil report dim the brightness of the pure
name of that being whom he loves, let he
sin but once, and he will forsake her for
ever. Will he love her in abuse and i'll
treatment? But supposeshe coquette, ant
trife with the affections of the worthy P
Has she not been taught by example I? How
many hearts have broken and bled to deatl
when forsaken by man? How many womel
have given their whole affections away, ant
poured out their whole hearts upon lover
and then been forsaken ! How often hav'
attentions been offered to crafty vanity, ant
to please pride How often? Alas VIII
shall answer the question ?-NeaO Yor1
Paper.
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LIFE WITHOUT LovE.-We sometimes
meet with men who seem to think that any
indulgence in an afectionate feeling is
weakness. They will return from ajour-
ney, and greet their families, with a:distant
dignity, and move among their children
with the cold and lofty splendor o an:ice,
berg, surrounded by its broken fragments.
There is hardly more unnatural sight;on
earth than one of those families Withouta q
heart. A father had better extinguishs .
boys eyes than takesavay his heart Who
that has experienced the joys Of friendship;
and values sympathy and affection, would
not rather lose all that is beautiful I'M ma
ture's scenery, than be robbed Of tie hid
den treasure of his heart? Cherish, then,
your hearts best affections. Indulge in
the warm and gushing emotions of flial,
paternal, and fraternal love. r,.
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NELLIE
Oh,
THE FATAL GIFT,
CHAPTER V.
BY WILLIE LIGHTHEART.

Three years have elapsed. Many are
the changes which take place in that brief
space of time, in real life but if the reader
will look within Joseph Benson's little cot
tage, by the rippling waters of Sunny river,
he will find very little change there.
Nellie is mother now; and the beauti-
full little being, rolling so happily upon the
hearth rug, and smoothing the soft coat Of
the little white kitten, has learned already
to say mamma
Very dear to Nellie and her husband is
that Aaxen-haired, blue-eyed little prattler.
1t is because she is under the roof, that Jo-
seph Benson hastens home so early in the
evening, and fingers at the door so long in
the morning.
1t is pleasant, comfortable and happy
home. Look around the sitting room
There is blazing, cracking, Kissing log
fire, throwing a warm, ruddy glow over the
neat carpet, and lighting up the pictures
on the walls. Around the room are the
cane-seated chairs, all nicely busted; there
is the sofa the two side-tables against the
wall the old-fashioned clock in the corner !;
the silver-plated candle-sticks on the man
tel, with host of little ornaments between !;
in the centre of the room stands the pol
ished mahogany dining table, with the
leaves down, and a snowy cloth nicely folded
into a square, upon the top; then there is
the side-board, with the castor-stand in the
middle, and the tumblers tastily arranged
around it, and a neat diaper thrown over
the porcelain pitcher. But that exquisitely
wrought, massive and magnificent decanter-
stand on the little table in the corner-did
YOU ever see half so beautiful piece of
workmanship! Three square bottles, filled
with sparkling, clear, transparent liquors
the wedding gift from Mr.. Benson's wealthy
friend. 1t has been upon that table tor
three long years often looked upon, han
died and admired by visitors; but no hand
has ever removed the shoppers, and no lips
have been pressed to the beautifully curved
mouths of the decanters. An ornament
only such has it been. Around the slender
necks of the beautifully cut decauters are
suspended golden labels. Oidscotch Whis-
KEY, Holland Gin, Jamaica Rum-such
are the carved names upon those glittering
labels
At the time when the present chapter
opens, Nellie was seated by the fire watch
ing little Lily, as the beautiful child played
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LITTLE EALLEeoRY.--A LESSON TO MAN.
"A humning bird met a butterfly, and
being pleased with the beauty Of its person,
and the glory of its wings, made an offer Of
perpetual friendship.
Il cannot think Of it, was the reply, sas
you once spurned me and called me q poor,
drawling dolt.' y E
Impossible = exclaimed the humming
bird Il always entertained the highest re-
spect for such beautiful creatures as you ,
perhaps you do now said the other,
'but when you insulted me I was CATER
pillar. So let me give you who may think
yourselves rich, little advice, Never in
suit the humble, for they maysome day be.
come your superiors.'
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The ADVANTAGES OF POVERTY AND Az

The ADVANTAGES OF POVERTY AND AD-
vERs1TY.-You wear out your old clothes.
You are not troubled with many visitorss-
You are exonerated from making calls:-
Bores do not bore you. Sponges cannot
haunt your table. Itinerant bands do not
play opposite your window. You avoid the
nuisance Of serving on juries. No one
thinks Of presenting you with a testimonial.
Notradesman irritates you by asking, lis
there any otherittle article to-day, sir?'-
Begging letter-writers leave you alone. I'm
posters know it is useless to bleed you
You practice temperance. You swallow in
6nitely less poison than others. You are
saved many deception-manya headache.
And lastly; if yon have true, friend iuthe
world, you are sure, iu very short space
of time, to discover the agreeable fact.
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THE -Whistling has at las
attained the dignity of a national vice.
There is a character we meet everywhere
for whom justice demands special ordi
nance. 1t is the hardened and unmerci
full whistler. His lips are in perpetua
pucker, which respects neither time, place
nor person. Not content with abandoning
himself to the most obstreperous ventose
demonstrations in the open highway, where
the shrill stress of his pipe may be some
what alleviated by mere extent of atmos
phere, he bursts forth with high and pene'
trating notes in the car, in the public sa'
loon. We have beheld, in musical assem-
blages, lips nervously working to an ori
fee ; only this morning some one made US
miserable all the way down town.
The advocates of whistling assert that ii
is cheerful exercise, betokening good
heart. They point you to the birds, fol-
precedent and example. But We have
ever found the habitual whistler selfish,
defiant, desperate creature, who will brook
no interruption, and will get a rush of blood
to the head before he will be whistled down.
And the birds don't whistle all the while,
besides being able to diversity their per-
formances by melodious singing. They
likewise have large repertoire. Your hu.
man whistler is in most cases confined to
a few airs. He is prone to stay by one
strain, with which he pierces you through
and through, in the very wantonness Of
cruelty. Your frown, your silent entreat-
les, are lost upon the hardened piper
Conscience be is without; mercyis far from
him. Books of etiquette do not reach his
case. What is left but legal enactment ?
Bulletin.
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A NOBLE SENTIMENT true
heart has given expression to its generons
nature in the following beautiful sentiment:
Never desert friend when enemies gath.
er around him-when sickness falls on the
heart-when the world is dark and cheer
less is the time to try true friend. They
who turn from scene of distress betray
their hypocrisy, and prove that interest
moves them. If you have a friend who
loves you and studies yourintefest and hap
piness, be sure to sustain him in adversely.
Let him feel that hisformer kindness Is ap-
preciated and that his love is not thrown
away. Real fidelity may be rare; but it
exists in the heart. Who has not seen and
felt its power? They deny its worth who
never loved friend or labored tosmake:a
friend happy. ~ sNsSS-E =
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low, whispered song, in the midst of which
she would burst into tears-all, all alone.
But the cathedral bell tolls ten-somehow
it sounded so sad-and Nellie folds up her
work and lays it in the little drawer in the
workable; and after lowering the gas
light, she kneels down in the darkness;
bows her head upon her bosom, clasps her
little white hands together and lifts up her
heart in prayer to Him, whose name is
Love; whose heart is all compassion and
pity to his troubled ones, and those who
look up to Him through their tears.
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For the Yorkville Enquirer.
LUCK.

| Luck! What is it? The term itself is
derived from the Danish tongue, Luk, and
means in our vernacular chance, fortune,
hap.
But will chance or fortune smile, if We
make no honest endeavor to possess it p
Chance what is it any how? Is there in
reality any such thing as chance? live
are necessarily compelled to mental exer-
else to become scholars, is it not the result
Of our industry and diligent perseverance
Has chance anything to do with it never
Sit down, young man, and wait for luck or
chance to make scholar Of you, and you
are certain to die in blissful Cd ignorance
five are compelled from sheer necessity
to toll for our daily bread, can We set down
to the repast obtained by the sweat Of our
brows, and bless chance for it?
If wealth is obtained by assiduous toll,
can its possession be the result of chance
Never!
Sit down and fold your hands in ease and
indolence, my young friend, and wait fol
luck to make you an opulent and influential
man and you are certain to die beggar
Such a course has sent hundreds to the
penitentiary, and thousands as paupers to
the poor house.
Young man, do you want good luck p
Go to work with all your might You will
have luck then; you will gain friends, po'
sition, and maybe wealth. Those friends
will aid you, when they see you disposed
to help yourself. Quit lounging about the
streets-get away from the doors of mast,
stinking grogshops! Don't lie on old boxes
at the corners of the street, and stare at la
dies as they pass by. Throw away that Sc
gar d! Shake off your old lounging associ,
ates!. Roll up your sleeves; clean out eel
lars; chop wood; do anything rather than
be idle, you will have good luck then. Il
you have bad luck and get down, get W
again. Shake off the dust and try it once
more-saying to yourself nIdesperandum
Don't wait for the tide, Shakespeare talk'
about. Make tide; get on it, and ride i
to the desired goal. "Laziness is the Devil
cushion" and remember that the indus
trious man is tempted by only one evil
while the indolent that are all the time
carping about ill-luck, actually, as the ole
proverb has it, tempt the devil.
Rip ahead, every body; go it with al
your might; and we shall hear no more o
ill-luck, and misfortune Live within you
income ; lay up dime or two every week
Then the goddess of fortune will smile upol
YOU, not before. ROVER.
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make me i'll for week. Onesweeping day
4 went brayely to work, cleaning thorough.
ly the parlors, three chambers, the front
stairs and hall, after which I lay dowuEsnd
rested until noon, when arose and eat q
heartier meal than for many day. Since
that time I have occupied some portion Of
every day in active domestic labor, and not
only are all my friends congfatulatiug me
upon my improved appearance, but in my
whole being-mind, body and spirit--do !
experience wonderful yigor,, to which !
have hitherto been a stranger Eouhg la-
dies, try my Catholicon.' y
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d will be down directly, Joe,' said she,
placing her hand upon his shoulder as she
passed out.
Very well, Nellie,' said Benson; and
his eyes turned once more towards the glis.
tening decanter-stand. Twice was his hand
stretched forth towards the bottles and twice
was it suddenly drawn back with an EN-.
phatic MOP Better-oh thousand times
better had he drawn his pistol, and placed
the muzzle directly to the decanter-stand,
and shattered it in a thousand fragments
about the floor. Alas he drinks-a long
long draught.
TO BE CONTINUED
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NEARLY HoME.-sAlmost welland ne,

NEARLY HoME.-'Almost welland near
y home, said the dying Baxter, when asked
how he was by friend. A martyr, when
approaching the stake, being questioned as
to how he felt, answered, 'Never better, for
now I know that I am almost home Then
looking over the meadows between him and
the place where he was Immediately to be
burnt, he said, 'Only two more styles to get
over and am at my fathers house, Dy-
ing said Rev. s. Medley, is sweet work,
sweet work; home homeP Another on
his death.bedsaid, Il am going home as fast
as can, and bless God that I have good
home to go to.'-Hera1 Of Truth.
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coast to listen to nasal Psalms, and close
their eyes, the live long day! In distress
ing want of occupation they cast about
and, 10 G.! far down South they behold great
evil, an evil that taints all the air, and
cries out of the ground, and then they a.
dopt the language of the worthy deacon
when he thrust pin through the delicate
waist of an humble bee, PN teach you there
Is q God in Israeli"
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~ The old project Of forming new
State out of Northern Mississippi, Western
Tennessee, andthe extreme western point of
Kentucky, has been revived, and the Ten
nessee Legislature has given it its sanction.
The proposed State would be bounded by
the Tennessee river on the east through the
State of Kentucky and Tennessee, and by
the Mississippi on the west, and would
contain population of about zoe, 900.
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A SENSIBLE YOUNG LADY.-Said 9
young lady, who was fashionably educated
at boarding schools, and INDUCED in idle
ness at home, so that there was neither
strength or elasticity in her frame, 4 usee
to be so feeble that I could not even lift {
broom, and the least physical e1ertion woult
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A THURINaIAN BUTcHER.-An extra
ordinary affair is related in Frankfort
journal GA female, after being twenty
one years in the service of butcher at
Frankenheausen, in Thuringia, left him a
few evenings back, taking with her sum
of two hundred thalers, which she hadsaved
up. After walking some distance, she met
two gendarmes, and after telling them that
she had the money in question in her pock-
ct, expressed fear that, as night had set
in, she might be robbed in wood through
which she had to pass but the officers told
her that there was no danger, as they had
just been in the wood and had seen no sus.
picious characters. A few minutes after,
one of the gendarmes, acting under an i'm.
pulse for which he could not well account,
returned to the wood to see if the woman
had passed through it safely; and, to bis
horror, he found her lying murdered in a
pool of blood. Near her was large knife,
with which the crime had evidently been
perpetrarted; and as it was one of those
which butchers use, he conceived the sus-
picion that the murderer might have been
the woman's master. He, accordingly,
rode at once to the butchers house, and
seating himself at table, asked to be al
lowed to eat his supper. At the same mo-
ment he placed the bloody knife before
him, and one of the butchers children
cried, That is our knife Two or three
minutes after the butcher himself entered.
He turned deadly pale on seeing the knife
and the officer. When accused of the
murder he could not deny his guilt, and
gave up the two hundred thalers which he
had taken from the woman. He has been
ordered for trial"
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CLAY:


! Ode, ,oritten on the occasion Of the laaugura
tion of the Clay statute, at Ne,o Orleans, Apr
18th, 1860.
Immortal Mind! thy burning torch
A desthless halo fings
Around the Prophets crucifed,
And Sybsritic Kings;
We chant, to-day, q pecan song
To thy divinest flashes
To our imperishable one,
The Mill Boy of the Slashes
The fervid breast of Nature poured
Its deluge to his sips,
The bee-winged breezes charmed anew
Hymettus to his lips,
Till, like o cleaving peak his thoughts
To sunward regions ran,
And God beheld beneath his throne
A mountain. hearted Han.
His lispings fell like vesper dews
Upon the alien leaves,
Waking their inspirations through
The palpitating sheaves;
Then from those clarion 'wood-notes wild
Anointed dreams upsprung,
Wedding the lightning Of the brain
To the thunder Of the tongue!
We've have seen him in the pride
Of his colossal youth,
We've have heared his vestal VOWS
To the Eternal Truth;
We've have felt our spirits quail,
Our very beings bow,
When the supernal tempests shook
That monumental brow!
And never yet, since morning stars
Sang oyer Galilee,
Have nations seen the peer OF this
Apostle of the free!
His was the avalanche of wrath
That smites the despot down,
And girds the brows ofjustice with
Ar undisheveled crown.
His trumpet-tones re- echoed like
Evangles to the free, ...
Where Chimboraza views world
Mosaic'd in the sea-;
And his proud form shall stand erect
In that triumphal car
Which bears to the Valhalls gates
HEROIC DOllVdTt
He spoke for Greece, and freedom few
Along her sacred rills,
Waking the mighty soul that slept
On Marathonian hills;
While bold Bozzaris launched his flag
Upon the gulf of night,
And hurled living thunderbolt
AGAINST the Ottomite
The pillars of the Union quaked
Before discordant shocks,
When Heaven had sent It's liberal SHOWS
Upon his houored locks:
Though all the Angels beckoned him,
His conquering arm uprose,
And wrenched his country's flag away
From its rebellious foes.
Then with perennial laurel wreaths
The matchless mind had wrought,
His ladened bark went drifting on
To find the "Kings of Thought
And though the stately vessel long
Hath left its earthly strand,
The helmsman's voice re-echoes back
From out the Phantom Land.
Live, Patriot, live while oceans chsfe
Their adamantine bars ..
While mailed Orion flames his plume
Mid dbright-battallioned stars;
Live, Patriot, live! while glory thrills
The heart. strings of the free,
And Mississippi ppurs its grand
Libations to the sea
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WRITTEN FOR THE YoRKvILLE ENQUIRER.