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Covenant of Redemption.


1t is easy to understand that every
Divine purpose and concurrence must
conform to the absolute nature Of God,
aud must be wrought out in manner
answerable to that nature. What is
thus true universally, must be true, in
most emphatic sense, of that sublime
purpose, aud concurrence of salvation
by grace, which the sacred Scriptures.
through which slone we know any.
thing about either grace or salvation.
teach US is the highest manifestation
of the glory Of God, and therefore the
highest exhibition of his nature and
his projections. If it is true, there.
fore, that God exists in an sbsolute
unity of essence, but that the mode Of
that unity is threefold personality,
then it is ipfallibly certain. that if there
are any sinners in the universe, and
God should save any of them, he will
do it in a manner answerable to such
a nature. Now the Scriptures teach
us that there are sinners in the uni
verse, that God does save some of
them, that he does this through a
Covenant Of Redemption, based upon
|
that very mode of the Divine existence,
and that, in fine, such is the exact
mode in which God does exist; all of
which | have proved at large in a
former Treatise This being true,
upon the only authority which is In
fallible upon the question under con-
sideration nothing is left but to ad-
NIT the eternal purpose and coaGur-
renee of the one living and true God,
the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost to
save lost sinners through Divine grace
which Is the Covenant Of Redemp-
ton or else to reject the sacred Scrip
lures, in which alone is found either
this great doctrine Of salvation, Or this
great doctrine Of the Divine existence.
DR.. Brvckiarldqe
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Pat and the Welded Party.

Last month General Sampson
Dove, of Winnepusa, married the dar-
ter of the American Keounsel (consuD
to Dublin Miss, Jemima Fox. Did
you ever see her, stranger?" New
cr," / said well, that's cruel
pity, for You would have seen a peeler,
| tell you-a real corn fed gal, and no
mistake. Just what Eve was, guess,
when she walked about the garden and
angels come to see her-not so ever
lastin' thin and yapry, like sun-beams.
Well, they first went to Killarney on
wedding tower and after they had
stared at the lovely place till they had
hurt their eyes, they came down here
to see the groves Of blarney, and what
not. Well, the gineral didn't want
folks to know they were only just mar
ried, for the people always run to the
winders and out doors to look at a
bride, as if she was a bird that was
only seen once in hundred years.
It's announcement, that's a fact, and it
makes a sensitive, delicate minded gal
feel as awkward as wrong bot. So
says the gineral to Pat: Pat says
he, don't go now and tell folks we are
onlys just married; lie low, and keep
dark, viii you, that's q good fellow ;
Bedad, never fear, your honor, divil
a much they'll get out Of me, can
tell you. Let me alone for that l
can kape q secret as well as ever a
priest in Ireland
Well, for. all that they did stare in
way that was caution to owls, till at
last the gineral saw that something
/ was in the wind, above common, for
the folks looked amazed in the house,
and didn't seem half pleased either
So, says he, one ebay, Pat, / hope
/ you did not tell them we were only
4 just married, did you2 Tell them
/ You were just marsied, is it, yer hon
or? said be, let me alone for that !
They were mighty inqusitive about it,
and especially the master-he wanted
to know all about it intirely. Married
is it I? says |, why they amt married
at all the diyil parson iver said
grace over them ! But I'll tell you
what, if you won'trepeatit to nobody,
they are going to be married in about
9 fortnight, for ! heard them say so
this blessed day, with my own ears.
Ii the gineral wasn't rayin, hoppin'
mad, it amt no matter. IN half an
hour he and his wife were on board
the steamer for England, and Pat is
/ in bed here yet from the licking he
1 got. '-Dnbt5n University Magazine.
A single drop Of ink has moved mil
lions Of men
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gabbath @eaaing,
A Grave Without a Monument.


The noblest of cemeteries Is the
ocean. It's poetry is, and in humaa
language, ever will be, unwritten. ITS
elements of subliuiity are subjects of
feeling, not description. It's records.
like the reflection mirrored on its wave
less bosom, cannot be transferred to
paper. Its vastness, its eternal heay-
ings, its majestic music, IN storm, and
its perils, are things which had en-
deayored a thousand times locomotive.
but until 1 was on It's mighty bosom,
looking out upon its moving mountain
waves, feeling that eternity was distant
from me but the thickness of single
plank, had tried in vain to feel and
know the giories and granduer Of the
sea.
/ there first felt what John of Pat
most meant when be said Of heaven,
i" There shall be no Eaore sea- But
there is one element of moraIsuhlimity
which impressed my mind and which
] should be pleased if ] could transfer
in ell its yiVidness, to the minds of
your readers. The sea is the largest
of cemeteries and all its slumbers sleep
without monument Ali other grave
yards, in alllands, show some symbols
of distinction between tue great and
small, the rich and poor bat in that
ocean cemetery the king and the clown,
the prince aud the peasant, are alike
undistinguished.
The same wave rolls over aud the
same requiem, by the miHstrelsy of
ocean. is sung to their honor. Over
their remains the same storms beat
and the same sun shines aud, there,
unmarked, the weak and the powerful,
the plumed and the unhonored, will
all sleep on, until awakened By the
same trump, the sea will give up its
dead.
thought Of sailing over the slum-
bering, but devoted Goodman, Rho,
after his brief but brilliant career, per-
iShed in the President-over the laugh
teF-roving Power, who went down in
the same Inflated vessel-we may have
passed. In that cemetery sleeps the
accomplished Fisher; but where he
and thousands of others of the noble
spirits of earth lie, no one but God
knoweth. No marble rises to point
out where their ashes arc gathered, or
where the lover of the good and wise
can go and shed tear of sympathy.
Who can tell where lie the tens Of
thousands of Africa's sons who perish
ed in the " middle passage ?r Yet
that cemetery hath ornaments of which
no other can boast On no other are
the heavenly orhs reflected in such
splendor- Over nc other is heard
such noble melody. In no other are
so many inirnitable traces of the power
of Jehovah. Never can | forget nv
days and nights as | passed over the
noblest Of cemeteries, without single
human monument GILES.
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gOft's sgpuk,
iron THE PREss-1
With the Angels.
ny KATE W

/ had a rosebud given NE, beauteous it'll,
flower,
L gave to it the choicest place within my garden
bower;
fondly hoped my little bud would live for me
to bloom,
All me God took my treasure to decorate the
tomb.
L had blessed birding, sent from a Friend on
High,
With pride I stroked its plumage, and little
dreamed 'tqcouM de;
With thanks to God for such blessing, next my
heart laid its head,
Alas I woke from dreaming, to find my bird
ling dead.
A little note was sent me- adorned in feshy
guise,
In the form of lovely infant, to bless my yearn-
ing eyes;
Oh well L loved my darling-then ! felt the
Christening rod,
And read the message sent me, g Prepare to
meet thy God! !"
My pretty rosebud's faded, my precious bird
lng's flown
But, &c Glory be to Jesus close by my Father IS
throne
Is a shining little Amgel with a harp within
his hand,
And crown upon his forehead, in that blessed
angel band. M
Paala. Illinois.
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Killing Corn.


In cultivating Indian corn, I am
confident that killing" is q disad-
vantage to the crop. OF this | became
fully convinced several years ago on
contrasting the results with those of
the opposing system, in field belong
ing to friend Since then I have
instituted variety of experiments.
and have found that the least surface
is eligible, and that in all notifications
of soil and temperature, corn which is
not "hilled up" is the most vigorous,
less injuriausly affected by draught,
and produces more and souqder corn.
Germantown Telegraph.
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DREADFUL CONSEQUENCES. - What
are you doing, my son p said father
to his boy Billy.
Smoking sweet fern cigar, father;
| made it,
"Throw it away this minute; don't
you know that a boy that smokes
sweet fern will smoke tobacco, and if
he smokes tobacco be viii drink rum,
and if he drinks rum he will lie, and if
be lies he win steal, and if he steals he
will commit murder, and if he murders
be will be hung
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A Tall Mans Troubles.

The inconvenience of an immoder-
ately tall stature we have often heard
discoursed upon, by men whose atti-
tude lowered aloft-but never more
pathetically than by an aged bachelor
friend OF ours, who stands six feet four
! In his stocking feet" 1t is to this
melancholy fixed fact this sad in-
superable calamity that overlook him
between the ages Of fourteen and TWEEN
| ty-that he attributes his wretched
condition of single blessedness. Four
times has he fallen on his kness (the ne
Plus EXTRA of humble affection) and
offered himself to as many chosen ones
of his heart. Four times has be been
jeeringly refused
The first girl at whose feet he pros
trated himself, gay, laughing, roug-
ish little witch of eighteen begged
him to pick himself Immediately up !;
it must be very inconvenient, if not
even painful, she said. for one who is
so long-legged to lie in that position
She was proud of the affection of one
who stoodlso Aigh in the world but
being unambitious in her views, and
preferring an humble obscure station
in life, to courting the worlds gaze,
she respectfully" declined his propo-
sails.
The'second girl, who, unlnckily was
as diminutive Hebe as the first-ex-
pressed much ironical sorrow for her
unhappy fate, but it was plain at a
glance that they did not match and,
besides, she was extremely sensitive TO
cold during the winter, and therefore
very partial to small low posted rooms,
which would, if she married him, de-
prive her of her dear husbands society
till spring.
His third iaamorata excused herself
by saying that she thought husbands
and wives ought to walk arm in arm
in the streets, which, in their case,
would be nanifestly impossible. Be-
sides, she would be unable to accept
his hand at the marriage ceremony,
without mounting "a stool-and that
would be SO ludrieious
The fourth and last of his dulcineas
"a servant girl, to whom in sheer des-
pair he offered himself, as bis last
chance ere he verged into the sere
and yellow leaf" of confirmed oelbacy
returned him an answer more cut
ting than all the previous ones. Ma
king very low courtesy, and putting
on look of extreme humility, she re-
piled with malicious affectation, that
she was but mean body, a poor seq
want girl, and could not possibly think
of looking so high!
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AN INDIAN BRAVE The Austin
(Texas) ItelJigencer, gives descrip-
tion of the gun, bow and arrows, trap,
pings, &C., of an Indian recently killed
in Burnett county, wild Camanche--
and adds: MIR. Hunter, of Burnett,
describes his conduct and death as
being brave in the highest degree A
party Of about ten had pursued and
overtaken the Indians, about the same
number, and at last intercepted them.
The Indians took to the timber. The
whites attempted to pursue, when this
Indian turned on foot and faced the
whole party. With his gun on his
shoulder BIO rushed at one and another,
although fred at all the time with six
shooters, and succeeded in keeping
them at bay. He did not FIRE, and at
last, when shot several times, Mr..
Hunter says he got down on his knees
as quietly as man going to prayer,
and making an effort to draw his bow
fell dead, pierced with doaen bullets,
The party join in the belief that he
met his death to enable the balance of
his band to escape. Only one of the
others was killed. He was not tall,
but was model Of symmetry, and dis
played great power of muscle.
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AN editor complaining that he could
not sleep one night, summed up the
causes TINS: A wailing baby sixteen
months old +; q dog bowling under the
window +; q cat fight in the alley; a
toothache; and a pig trying to get
into the house through the back door.
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-05-23

A country dominic had hundred
boys and no assistant i wonder
how you manage them, said friend,
without help.n ''Ah," was the an
swer, II could manage the hundred
boys well enough it's the two hundred
parents that trouble me--there's no
man aging them."
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Go THOU AND DO LIKEWISE. The
following lines were written on an en-
velope enclosing dollar and half,
from one of the patrons of the Man
helm iSsnttnel:
1.-THE little sum enclosed within.
Il sent to a worthy printer,
Far work he did and trusted cut,
4 gear ago this present winter,
Let not the message be delayed
CAD knows tits time tho bill was paid"
Knowing that all our subscribers in
arrears may not be poets, we take &C.
casiol to state that any letter enclos-
ing remittance will be just as accept
able without verses as with them-the
jingle Of gold dollars being more plea
SAINT in paying our expenses than the
jingle of poetry.
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Louis XIV, who was . slave to
his physicians, asked his friend Moliere
what he did for his doctor. "Qh,
Sire," said be, when / am i'll | send for
him. He comes we have chat and
enjoy ourselves. He prescribes. |
don't take it-and / am cured"
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TRANscENDENIAL4sM \ on know,
madam, that you caprot make purse
out of a sow's ear
"Oh, sir, please fan me- have
iutimations Of swoop. When YOU
use that odious specimen of yqlgarity
again, clothe it in refined phrasealogy
You should say, it is impossible to
fabricate a pecuniary receptirle from
the a4ricular organ Of the softer sex
of the genius hog"
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A couple (not long married) were
contending about what shonld be the
name Of their first and only child.
William, my dear, ] want to naRe
him Peter"
ooh no my love; / don't like Pee
ter-he denied his master Let us
call him Joseph
why, William, / can't bear 10
sophie denied his mistress.
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In crowd, looking at the body of
man killed on railroad, fat Dutch
man remarked;
"In the midst of life we are in debt"
A son of the Emerald Isle standing
by, answered
Be jabers, ye may well say that,
for he owed me two dollars"
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SHORT LECTURE TO You've LADIES.
Have good piano or none. Be-
sure to have dreadful cold when re-
quested to favor the company" Cry
at a wedding. Scream at a spider.
Never leaVe your curl papers in the
drawing room. Drop your handker-
chief when you are going to faint
Mind you are engaged if you don't
like your partner Allure ringlets on
wet days. It's vulgar to know what
there is for dinner Nuts are bad if
you are going to sing. Never see a
black coat as long as there is red one,
and always give the preference to the
eldsf brother. Get married at st
Georges if You 0an-gct married.
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AN amusing story, gays Toledo,
Ohio, correspondent Of the Knacksy-
booker, is told of the acute sense of
smell of a tobacconist of our city Hs,
together with his clerk, was examining
some tobacco submitted for his inspec-
tion. After carefully inhaling the aa-
yor, by three or four protraoted shifts,
he exclaimed to his clerk John,
can't you smell old leather in the to-
bacco 7" John presented it to his OIL
factories, and thought he could. !"
The chief" then smelled again.
and declared he could also detect a
very slight favor Of maple sugar
This last aroma John pronounced be-
yond his powers. Samples of leaf
tobacco, yea know, are taken from
each end of the hogshead, aud also
from the nentre. The samples exam
ined were from the ends. On taking
a sample from tho middle, there was
found an old boot heel, full of maple
begs! Judgment on tobakker from
this quarter, is nov regarded as final.
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g59istellaug,
[FoR THE PREss.]
WILBUR STANT0N:
OR,
THE DOWN. ARD STEP
lFoR THE PRESS
BY NETTIE.

On summers day in the year 1850,
the rain was descending almost in tor
rents, and two females were standing
watching the dark clouds with anxiety
depicted in every feature, when one of
them, with great earnestness, said =
"Oh I! Rosa, don't you think the storm
will soon be over 2"
a." Yes, Carrie, I think tkds storm
will soon pass over now, but we will,
undoubtedly, have many more to en-
dure before life is past. Storms of
sorrow which will be far more fierce
than this"
" Why, Rosa, what makes you talk
so sadly to-day 2"
Well, Carrie, do not feel really
sad, but very serious when coutem-
plating the important step you are
about to take 2"
True, it is very important step !;
but do you not think the married life
is very pleasant ?"
Undoubtedly it has many pleasures,
but then it may have many sorrows,
too"
+" Rosa, you must quit talking, or
you will make me feel sad and my
mind is too full of bright pictures to-
day to Indulge in such serious train
of thought"
This short conversation was held by
two cousins, Carrie Clark and Rosa
ROLAND, on the day of Carries we'd
ding. Ahi as they stood there gaz-
ing at the stormy sky, little did Car
RE think that storm far more fierce
than that would burst upon her youth
full heart, ere many years had fed
Carrie Clark was not what the world
would call beautiful, yet there was
something in her soft blue eyes, some
thing in her gentle manners, that made
you think her lovely.
Wilbur Stanton was a young man
residing in the village of N, not
far from the home of Carrie. He had
loved Carrie ; sought and obtained her
VOW to become his bride and on the
day my story begins they were to be
united. Yes, the wedding day had
surely arrived-the day for which they
had waited with Impotence. Altho
the day commenced with raging
storm, yet the clouds parted and rolled
away, the rain ceased, the little wed
ding party assembled, and without
much delay the village pastor pro
nounced them man and wife" Their
their young hearts almost bounded
with JOY.
In short time Wilbur took Carri
to his home 10 the village. They wer
established in their new home, ant
seemed truly to he basking in the sun
shine of Happiness. Let several month
pass by almost like dream of con
tinued bliss, and then I will introduc
you to another scene.
1t is beautiful Sabbath morning
and the young wife, after making q
necessary household arrangements,
preparing to go to the House G
God" when her husband said
Carrie, I think viii not go t
church this morning"
Why not, Wilbur it is a Lowell
morning z"
YES, / know it is lovely morn
ing, and for that reason | do not war
to go. / am tired, and would rattle
stay at home and enjoy it,
"But, Wilbur, it will not tire yo
to go to church; and it certainly
wrong to neglect the House Of God
order to take our ease
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A little boy, returning from the
Sunday School, said to his mother;
Ma, amt there KlTFx-chism for
little boys /? This cAT-echism is too
hard for me ?"
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A Great Country, Indade!

The following letter is given as a
sample of some sent home to Europe
by our immigrant population
My DEAR FELLOW GUDaEoNs -
Having promised to write you all the
facts in relation to America, | hasten
ed to redeem my pledge.
/ think this is the greatest country
on the face of the earth, Compared
with it all others are mere mud
puddles.
New York-where I am at present
is vast city, exceeding ssin splendor
any city of ancient or modern times.
It's streets are paved with solid gold,
and lined with crystal palaces; while
at intervals gigantic trees raise their
great glories heayenward-fof, al
though it is the dead of winter, vege-
tation is in full bloom, and the clear
air is darkened with millions of singing
birds. Speaking of birds reminds me
of large dark fowl, which is found
here, called the crow. A friend of
mine yesterday shot one, and served it
up for my especial beneftfat dinner
his family generously refusing to be
helped to the least portion so, for
etiquette's sake I was forced to eat the
crow-which, l must confess, tasted
deliciously. Tomorrow he has prom
ised to have for me dressed skunk,
with lobelia sauce.
America is the Poor Mans Paradise.
Any person coming here, on his arrival
is Immediately taken in charge by a
select committee, appointed for the
purpose, and placed in good situa-
tion-so no one is ever out..of employ
ment, and all may..acquire fortune in
a short time; in support Of which
statement, | append the following;
Wages Of a good mason, $25 per
day.
Wages of footman, $25 per day
Wages of a servant girl, 1926 per
day.
PROVISIONS.
Beefsteak-free.
Poult-y-free.
Etc, etc.-free.
Here laboring man is considered
just as good as a millionaire, and the
servant girl enjoys the same privileges
as her mistress. 1t is truly the land
of equal rights. Stealing, drunken
ness, lying and murder, are unknown,
while men holding Office are noted for
their rigid honesty, and serve with a
singleness of eye to the public good.
| have expressed my establishment
at the abundance of money here, drop
ping from plethoric pockets in show
ers; beggars some days harvest fahu-
lous sums and an old rag picker
gathered in one year some $4,000
from single sewer. Vessels are ar
irving from California, bringing I'M
heard of quantities of gold; and in
getting it ashore SO much is spilled,
that the laborers wade knee-deep
through the dust, which is given to
any one who will cart it away.
I have met with the greatest kind
ness here, and I think seriously of
making New York my permanent
abode. Now, in conclusion, my dear
countrymcn, having given you plain
and truthful statement, let me advise
you all to pack up your duds and du-
deems, and come to this blessed coun-
try.
Yonr anxious countryman,
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TIE other day. Dutchman in Gin
cinnati was severely thrashed by his
vrow," and while smarting under the
iuaiction he complained to the Mayor,
and ha6 bis better halt arrested for the
charge, whereppon she was fined three
dolurs aud costs she, not having the
money, her husband was called upon to
fork oyer; upon which he opened his
eyes III great surprise, exclaiming,
Vot for | pay? she zip metz The
statlfe" was explained to him, and
he paid, but announced that hereafter
his wife might waIlop him as much as
she pleased, but he would never again
take steps to uphold the majesty Of
the law