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to submit patiently to misfortune's blast
till it has passed away then to shake off
grief's tears and be happy as ever, even
more purified than before.
If knowledge is the source of so much
pure joy, how worthy of our exeriion to
possess it Then let us avail ourselves
Of every opportunity for improvement, and
trip not at every little obstruction, OBJ
stacles there are, it is true but they may
be overcome9 Then let us 60 forward
and confne not our minds to the insipd
routine of useless amusements, or mere
bodily decorations. Let us tread down
life's rugged ihorns, and rise to a sphere
congenial with the desires and aims of a
virtuous, we'll refined mind.-Literary
Commerce. ...-
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THE CHOLERA IN EGYPT.

According to the following extract from q
letter from Egypt, published in an Euglish
paper, a contractor was responsible for the
filth which caused the spread of the cholera
among the pilgrims to Mecca:
The cholera app are TO be raging 10 Egypt
The epidemic which has b4oken out in the
Hedjaz is entirely owning to he putrid ema-
nations which have exaaled heir pernici ou 8
vapors from Mount Arapbat since he fetes of
the Courban Bairsm Thousands of sheep
are sacrificed during the celebration Of those
ceremonies. The Sultan Abdul Medjid had
founded an endoa ment of 40 900 piastres, to
be spent annually 10, The iitermeu: of the re-.
mains and offal of the sacrificed beasts, which
created so fearful an amount of maliria TIN
this last occasion it appears that the 40, 200
piastres have been duly pail, to the contrsc-
tor for this business, who has quiz fly pocket
the money aud left the putrid mass OF flesh to
engender disease and carry death aud desiruc
ton over the world. The Vicsroy Ismail start
ed for Constantinople on the first tidings reach
ing him of cholera having broken out in Cairo
aud Alexandria. Prince Hahn of whose ial-
ent as an artist, and of whose h twkiug match
es have so often written, has set very diff
ferent example He has remained 10 most
contaminated parts of Egyyt and. Instead OF
fying from the danger, has done all that lay
10 his power to mitigate the evil by going
among the people aud exhorlng them to use
ordinary precantion aud put in practice such
simple sanitary measures as he could induce
them to attempt"
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MOTHERS AND BABIES.

child's Infancy is the period, of all others
when mothers care is indispensable to its
comfort. After this is past, her place may
be supplied but until that time when
Hannah resigned her son to the service of the
Temple, no living thing is so dependent as an
infant, and this dependence is patu ally on
the mother. She who can disregard this call
OF Nature who can Danish her child 10 the
bosom OF stranger-is not worth talkiog to.
Those ladies who leave their infants 10 the
care of strangers at home, while they figure
at watering places, or make needlessly pro-
longed visits away from it, have already
stilled the voice Of Nature in their breasts
and it is not very probable that reason and
conscience retain habitation there
But there Is another class of women, who,
| strange enough, appear inclined to reason
| themselves up to that point to which those
others have fallen-a class who talk of eleva
| ting women above the drudgery of nursing
who habitually speak of all employ ments
| which confine a woman to the house as de-
grading, and insist that all such shall be
shared by the other sex. Old Dame Nature
| when let alone, appears to regulate this mat
ter very nicely-to prompt an affectionate
husband and father to hold baby when moth
| er is a,igued, or is not at leisure; or in times
OF sickness to abandon his vocation, if possi-
BILE. to share her cares But, with all this,
| the baby is the mothers peculiar care. To
her it was especially given end she is espe
cislly accountable for its welfare so long as
it is baby. By the order of Nature she
stands between it and the fatber. The child
is pre-eminently hers and ooe of the great
fst political evils Of which we have to com
plain is the law which place the father be
tween the mother and her child If a woman
| be, even in the lowest degree, fitted for the
| office of mother, even the father of a child,
| be he ever so judicious, has moi right to give
| directions about its Treatment, except with
refers nee 10 and Difference for the wishes OF
the mother. A child mus getpast babyhood
| before it comes within the sphere of afather's
| authority. A man should think OF this in
| choosing the mother Of his children. and be
| careful to selecto who he's sense enough to
take care Of the baby; for, if she lacks it, nc
wisdom of his can supply the defciencH
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AN ENGLISH ADVENTURE IN TIE
SOUTH SEAS

Having approached as near the land as we
could prudently, our Roadway was stopped,
and we waited the arrival of canoe which
was coming out of the way Soon after the
canoe came alongside. In it were eight or
ten natives, comely. vIvacious looking youths,
all gestures and ordinations; the red feath er
in their headbands perpetually noddiug. With
hem also came stranger, d renegade from
Christendom and humanity white man in
the South Sea girdle and tattoed in the face
broad blue band stretched across his face
from ear to ear, and ON his forehead was the
tsperipg figure of a blue shark, nothing but
Fms from head to tail. He was an Englishman
Lem Hardy be called himself who ha DESERT
ed from from trading brig touching at the
island for wood and water, some ten years
previous. He bad gone ashore as a sovereign
power, armed with a musket and bag OF
ammunition, and ready, ii need we're, to pro.
secute war on his own account The coun-
try was divided by the hostile kings of sever
al large valleys. With one of them, from
whom he first received ov ruress he formed
an alliance, and became what he now was,
the military leader of the tribe, aud war-god
OF the entire island. His campaigns beat Ma.
poleon's. In one night attack, bis invinci-
be musket. backed by the light infan try and
spears and javelins, vanquished two clans,
and the next morning brought all the others
to the foot of his royal ally. Nor was the
rise of his domestic fortunes at all behind the
Corsiean's; three days after LANDING, the ex.
quisitely tattooed hand of princess was his;
receiving along with the damsel, as her por-
ton one thousand fathoms of fine tappa, fifty
double braided mats of split grass, four hun
DIRE d hogs, ten houses in different parts of her
native valley, and the sacred protection of
an express edict Of the Toboo, declaring his
person invioable forever. fea
Now, this man was settled for life, perfectly
satisfied with his circumstances, and feeling
no desire to return to his friends. Friends,
indeed, he had none He told me his history.
Thrown upon the world founding, his pater,
nal origin was as much a mystery to him as
the genealogy of Odio: and, scorned by every
body, he fed to the parish workhouse when a
boy, and launched upon the sea. He followed
it for several years, dog before the mast,
and now he had thrown it up for ever.
And for the most part, it is just this sort OF
men-so many of whom are found among sai-
lors uncared for BY a single soul, without
ties, reckless, and impatient of the restraints
of civilization, who are occasionally found
quite at home upon the savage islands of the
Pacific. And, glancing at their hard lot in
their own country, what marvel at their
choice
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A SECOND ROBINSON ORUsOE.

Gen Scott, in his autobiography, gives an
account of R bnson Crusoe, Mr.. Pain,
who lived solitary life for many years on
the Island of Cape Brenten. He says:
"Mr. Pain sailed from Boston in smack
for the banks of Newfoundland and other fish.
ing grounds, in 1874, before the outbreak of
the Revolution. Having made up the cargo
in the Gut Of Canso, Paiu begged his compans
ions to let him remain till the return of the
party the following season. They assisted 10
building him hut, and left him good sup
ply of personal and bed clothes, and some
axes and other tools, gun with ammunition,
fishing tackle, and other such stores as could
be spared, together with Bible, Paradise
Lost and the 'Pigrams Progress Prayers
we're said at parting, and the smack sailed for
home. "a
This was the last that our adveuturer saw
of the human race divine for nine or ten
years. the Revolutionary war supervened
There was no more fishing and curing of fish
Causo not being nayigated at that period ex-
cept by vessels driven into it by stress of
weather There was no DAD aud no trail
across the mountains to any sett iement what
| ever.
For the first year, and indeed. till his sup
| plies began TO fail him, Mr.. Pain, then young
| did not lament his condition But when the
second and third seasons came, and again and
| again there was no return of bis friends, it
seemed evident they b "a abandoned him, his
spirits droopel, aud he was in danger o. be-
ing lost 10 despair.
ssBut man is the most flexible and pliable
| CT all animals. According to his own account
Mr. Paih began soan TO relish food without
| salt; the detr aud fleece goat were abundant
| furnishing him with both food aud rAiment t.,
! and with which he contIived 10 entrap after
| his powder and shot were Exhausted So, too,
| iu respect to wornout hooks and line; these
| were replaced by bones ard slips of skin, so
that there was no want OF s'6nney prey, by
| the fifth year he began TO like his new life as
we'll as al first His books were more than q
solace to him, and the autobiographer can
testify hat he could accurately recite, from
memory, entire chapters of the bible, and
many of the book OF Paradise L 9st"
"Fnally when at the end o the war, his
ola master in smack came in sea CT of him
or his remnins, he become so at,ached 10 this
ne mode of existence that he refused to re-
turn to his native soil. A good supply CT
necessaries was again left wi h him His lt-
tie property at home was Invested ia cattle,
with materials for small house; some furni
ture, &c.. all Of which were sent out to him,
with an old sister 81 farm laborer, lad-a
relative: Before 1872 some new connections
and lahoiers had joined him, and he has be
come thrifty farmer.
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GLANDEsTINE CURrsHIp.

Clandestine courtships constitute an evil
which the youth of both sexes should be
specially cautioned against. Whatever may
be read 10 romance about the success and
happiness of secret love, rest assured that the
result of such courtships in real life is uncer-
tain, and TOO commonly dishonersble. How
ever pure aud sincere the feelings of either
party may be, the concealment implies a
doubt the integrity of one of the parties.
Either the man is ashamed of the woman, OF
the woman is ashamed of the man or some
body interested is ashamed of one or the 9th
ef OF Them, or they design to deceive q conf
ding parent or GUARDIAN; but look at it 10 any
way or light, the proceedings is disreputa.
able. eaF
1t may be ssid..th it sometimes occur that
mutual affection is formed, which without
any reasonable cause, is opposed by the pa
rents, and which cannot be, abrogaded without
v1ole nee to the feelings, or it may be urged
that love is not to be overcome by mere ar
gument or persuasion. 1t rarely happens,
however, that parents are insiigated by any
other motive in regulating the conduct Of
their present and future happiness; and must
be admitted that they are more likely to be
bettsr able to judge the probable results OF
any act than youth and inexperience can pos
sibly be 1t may seem spirtei and adventu
rous.to sacrifice everything for what is called
''love," but the admiration aud enthusiasm
which attaches to such an act will be brief
aud transient; the realities of life will gath
er around, and soon prove that reflection and
judgment should be exercised and advice list
ened to in regulatiLg''ou behavior and actions
and more especially in affairs of the heart,
from the important influence which they exert
over the future well-being of the parties con,
cerned.
Besides being morally wrong and uDjusti-
fable, however; q clandestine courtship, es>
pecially with respect to the female, is ,iujur
ious to present prospects and character. The
young woman compromises her reputation;
for people will talk; scandal will Originate
and society is prone to be censorious. The
man, too, ifnot restrained by some puriety OF
principle, is ever ready to regard the woman
with suspicion. He naturally thinks, that il
girl deceives her parent, she will deceive
others. So, girls. have q care that in at.
tempting to deceive others, you are not your
selves deceived
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18th, one hundred and eighty-four Liberals
and one hundred and two Tories had been re-
turned, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hughes
and Baron Rothschild are elected from the
London and Metropolitan boroughs.
Earl Russell has written few more notes
to Mr.. Seward, regretting that his previous
explanations were not acceptable. Official
correspondence shows that England and
France acted in concert in their concessions
! to the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee is questionably reported to
be in Germany. Spain has recognized the
Kingdom of Italy. The Pope is said to have
communicated Macmillan. s.
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FRESH AIR.

Man acts strangely. Although a cur
rent of fresh air is the very life of hi
lungs, he seems indsfatigable in the exer
else of, his inventive powers to deprive
himself of this heavenly blessing. Thu,
he carefully closes every Granny of biz
bedchamber against its entrance and he
prefers that his lungs should receive the
mixed effiuvium from his celler and lar
der, and from a patent little modern
aquarius in lieu oft. Why should man
be so terrified at the admission Of night
air into his apartments 1t is natures
OVERLOOKING current, and never carries
the destroying angel with it. See how
soundly the delicate wren and the tender
little robin sleep under its full and imme-
date influence and how fresh and vigor-
Gus and joyous they rise amid the sur
roun ding dew-drops of the morning.
Although exposed all night long to the
air of heaven, there lungs are never out
of order; and this we know by the daily
repetition of their song. Look at the new
born bear, without any nest to go to. 1t
lives and thrives and becomes strong and
playful, under the unm1tigated inclemen-
cy Of the falling dews of the night. I
have here male turkey, full eight years
old, and he has not passed single night
in shelter. He roosts in cherry ,ree,
and is always in the primest health the
year throughout. Three duag-hi!l fowls
preferring this cherry tree to the warm
perches in the hen-house, took up theil
airy quarters with him early in October
and have never siace, gone to any roost
ing place. 57ei 5sa ef
The COW and horse sleep safely on ths
cold, damp ground, and the roebuck lie
down to rest in the heather on the dewey
n1ountain-top. l myself can sleep al
night long under the full moons watery
beams without any fear of danger, anc
pass the day in wet shoes without catch
ing cold. Coughs and colds are general
" caught in the transition from an over
heated room to cold apartment bu
there would be no danger in this move.
ment if ventilation were attended to-
precaution is little thought of howard days
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REMEMBER NE.

There are hot Two other words in the
language that can recall more fruitful
train of past membranes of friendship
than these. Look through your library
and when you cast your eyes upon q
volume that conta MS the name of an old
companion, it will see, Remember me-
Have you an ancient album, the reposi
tory of momentos of early affection p
Turn over its leaves, stained by the finger
of time-sit down and ponder upon the
names enrolled on them--each speaks,
each says Remember rue. O. into the
crowded churchyard, among the mai BILE
tombs, read the simple and brief inscrip-
tions that perpetuate the memory OF de.
parted ones they too have voice that
speaks to the heart o the living, and
says, Remember me- Walk in the scenes
of early rambes the well-known. paths
of the winding streams the overspread
trees, the green and gently sloping banks,
recall the dreams of juvenile pleasure, aud
the recollectlons OF youthful companions
they 90 bear the treasured injunction,
Remember me. And this is all that is
left of the wide circle of our earthly
friends. Scattered by fortune, or called
away by death, or thrown without our
rank by the changes of circumstances or
of character--in time we find ourselves
left alone with the recollection of what
they were.
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70 CORRESPONDENTS.

Persons writing communications for
this paper, should bear in mind that it is
an old and important rule Of the Press, to
reject all articles written on both sides Of
the paper. This rule the Day Book can
not deviate from.
Several we'll written, and, in one or two
instances, interesting communications
have been received, but we have been
compelled to reject them on the above
mentioned account.
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CLEAN HANDS.

When l was about six years old, gentle
man, who called on my father TO transact
some business, perceived that my hands were
dirty, and those ofmy brother Fred in the
same condition
my boys" said he, II hate dirty fiugers ;
now if you are Gle IN when I call here again
on next Tues lay, will make you present.
AS soon as it was light on Tuesday morning
m brother aud got up and began to wash
our hands. We used more soap that morn
it G than we had used for noah be ore, and
if ever our hands were clean they certainly
were then The gentleman did not CO me till
dinner time, so we thought it better to have
another scrubbisg at our hands, and once
more we were up to our elbows in soap suds.
The gentleman came, and, after examining
our hands, which bad not a speck on them,
he gave each of us five new, bright, sparkling
pieces of coin, which We took to be golden
giness They were only pocket paices but
we we're too young to know the difference
they were just as valuable to us, so we fan
cied ourselves to be as rich Jews"
''Now,my boys, said he, y GU see It'll posi-
BILE to keep your hands clean when it answers
your purpose to do so. should be ashamed
of boy who would be mean enough to wash
bis hands to make money, and not keep them
clean to make his paren,s and fir ends CONS
f rt BILE. The love and coed op MON of your
parents ana friends are worth allth money
in he world
never forgot this god advice, and now
record it that others may derive as much ad-
vantage from it as have dose.
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NEWS SUMMARY.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
manufacturers The proviso of section "a
that cloth fabrics, or articles made of thread
yarn or warps, upon which duty has been
assessed and paid, shall be assessed and pay
duty on the increased value only thereof, is
held TO apply to cloth fabrics made wholly or
principally of thread yarn or warps of domes
tic manufacture, and upon which an exercise
duty has been paid. It does not include i'm
ported thread, yarn and warps, or thread or
wire manufactured from any metallic sub.
lance.
sa- Therefore, unless such fabrics are made
principally of domestic thread yarn or warps
they are subject to tax on the entire value, as
may be the case with thread trimming. Ia es-
timating the increased value of fabrics. or
the taxable value, the value of imported
: thread yarn or warps, or the value of wire or
thread made of any metallic substance, can
not be deducted
About two hundred applications for pardon
were received on Monday, principally from
the twenty thousand dollars class. Among
the applicants was Duff Green Nearly one
hundred pardons were granted, mostly to the
class named above. upon tho recommendation
of Provisional Governors.
The Times Mobile special despatch of the
22d says the Methodist Bishop Andrews has
issued notice to the Methodist Episcopal
Church, requesting the conferences to hold q
session the coming fall to elect delegates to
the General Conference commencing in April
next
1t was reported in Tarmville on Saturday
that bridge on the Southside Railroad, a
few miles from Lyndhburg, gave way with the
up train last Thursday, carrying down the
entire train, and killing four persons outs
right, including the conductor and woundiug
nearly every passenger on the train. i.
Dates from Europe are to the l4th instant
The English elections show a net gain to the
Liberals of seven. To the evening OF the
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ACURIOUS CASTLE.

The Castle d'Hesdin, near Bruges,
was favorite resort of Philip of Bur
guudy, and place of rest to which he re-
tired to amuse himself at his leisure. 1t
contrasted strangely with the pleasure
palace Of Louis XII, near Tours, where
the grounds were known to bristle with
various deadly instruments intended to
MAIN trespassers. Hesden was as full
of pitfalls and trapdoors as m ,dern
theatre; but they only served to perpe-
trste the coarse though harmless Jokes in
which the fun of the middle ages consis-
ted. They seem, indeed, to have only
suited the robust and healthy constitutions
of the people of these days. A few ex-
amples, taken from the records Of the cas-
tie, may not be uninteresting
"A stranger, issuing, for instance, from
a gallery in the neighboring passage,
was startled by the sudden apparatioD Of
wooden figure spouting wat r. A
weLting and fright were the necessary
consequences. But when the joke Was
carried further, set of brushes were set
in motion, and the patient emerged with
white or black face, as the case might
be.
Another still more powerful engine was
one which seized man and thrashed him
soundly. In the centre of the great gall
lery was trap, and near 1t the figure OF
a hermit who prophesied. Ladies were
his most frequent victims. They no 500
ner felt an interest in the telling of their
fortunes, than the ceiling opened and
poured forth rain thunder cIaps followed
in quick succession, preceded by appro-
pirate lightning and, as the air grew
COLDER snow fell Taking refuge from
the storm, the patient entered DANCE
rous shelter above pitfall leading into a
sack of weathers, from which escape al
last was permitted.
The Castle d Hesdin was full of tricks
of this description. Besides the pitfalls
just described, there was IN the great gal
lery a bridge which dropped saunterers
into the water. In various places there
were engines which spouted water when
they were touched. Six figures stood 10
the hall spouting water and wetting PEG.
PIC AL VdflVus ways. Az TIC oHtrdlCt VI
a gallery were eight WATERSHEDS rushing
upwards, which wetted people passing,
and three small pipes we're so fixed close
by, as to cover them with -four. IF the
panic stricken victims rushed up to q
window and opened it, up came figure
wetting them and closing the frame. L
splendid missal on desk caughta curl
Gus eye, the person who went to it was
either covered with. SCOT or dirt. A
mirror close at hand betrayed the trick
but whilst the ctim wondered at thu
b..ackness OF his face, out rushed -four.
| dredger that made him white.
The most elaborate OF all these tricks
was one combining almost every species
Of deception. A figure OF man was made
to start in the great gallery, frightnine
people by talking OF crying. AT the
noise, the loungers ia the other rooms
rushed in, upon which number O.
figures, armed with sticks, came forth
driving everyone pell- oell to the bridge
where they fell, of course, into the water
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"You haven't opened your mouth during
the whole session. com ,lained member OF
the legislature to representative from the
same town.
aOh, yes, have" was the reply, ~
yawned through the whole of your speech