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Year: 1860

Who are the truly great? Not always
those who occupy high position among
the sons of earth. 1t may not be those
who have toiled up education's steep,
and who have ascended to what men call
fame's highest pinnacle of renown, whose
eloquence enchains the minds of millions,
and who sways them at his will. 1t may
not be him who has thousands of votaries
that bow at his shrine, for wealth and
friends may gain man high position
midst his fellow-men, even if not deserv-
ing. 1t is not always those that occupy
the highest positions that are most de-
serving, very far from it, The truly
great are those that do not strive to OBJ
tain high position among the sons of
the earth, but whose greatest motto is to
do good, and benefit his fellow-mau, re-
gardless of self and the opinions Of the
fashionable and wealthy ones of earth.-
Live not for thyself but for others, is the
rule which he is striving 20 carry out,
and when he shall enter the scenes of an
other life, for his noble actions and phil
anthropic zeal he shall receive never
fading crown of glory. We need build
no monuments to such worth as this
monuments that would pierce even to the
clouds would be far too insignificant;
their monuments are their noble deeds i'm
perishably engraven in the hearts of those
whom they have benefited. Let us SO
live that when we have finished this life
we shall be enabled to say we have done
right and be this the enduring monument
to perpetuate our name.
Year: 1860

A constable in Williamsport, Indiana,
while paying a visit to young lady a
few miles away, proposed game of
euchre as the evenings entertainment,
which was accepted by the young lady.
When the cards were dealt the young la
dy proposed "hyer" of fifty dollars, to
which the constable demurred. The young
lady protested that she would never play
with gentlemen unless there was some
stake up, but the gentleman still demur-
red, when, as a compromise, the lady pro-
posed that they would play. and if she
should beat him he should marry her,
which the gallant constable couldn't do
otherwise than accept. At it they went,
and the lady proved to be the winner
The constable was invited to stay all
night, and in the morning they would
proceed to the squire's and be made one
flesh. He plead pressing business and
went away. She followed him to his
fathers and stayed there three days with
out seeing the young man, when a COM
promise was effected by paying the dis
consoate lady two hundred and fifty dol


lars to fill the breach.
Year: 1860

A Go-AHEAD LUNATc.-A reverend
doctor of Georgia had rather a slow de-
livery, which was the occasion of an
amusing scene in the chapel of the lunatie
asylum. He was preaching, and illus
trating his subject by the case Of man


condemned to be hung and reprieved upon


the gallows. lie went on to describe the
gathering of the crowd, the bringing out of
the prisoner, his remarks under the gal
lows the appearance of the executioner,
the adjustment of the halter, the prepara-
tion to let fall the platform, and just
then the appearance in the distance of fthe
dust covered courier, the iaded horse, the
waving handkerchief the commotion
in the crowd. At this thrilling point,
when every one was listening in breath
less silence, the doctor became rather pro-
lix. One of the lunatics could hold in
no longer; he arose and shouted: Hurry
doctor. for mercy's sake, hurry! They'll
hang the man before you get there!
Year: 1860

AS the season for making hay is ap,
preaching, we will give few words OF
caution in advance. Don't dry yoar
hay too much. Hay may be dried till it
is as worthless as straw. AS a good
coffee-maker would say, Don't burn
your coffee, but brown it," so we say,
don't dry your hay, but cure it. Our
good old mothers, who relied on herb tea
instead of "potecary medicine" gathered
their herbs when in blossom, and cured
them in the shade. This is the philoso-
ply Of making good hay in the shade.
The sugar Of the plant, when it is in
bloom, is in the stalk ready to form seeds
If the plant is cut earlier, the sugar has
become converted into woody matter.


Hay should be we'll wilted in the sun,
but cured in the cock. Better to be a
little too green than too dry. If on put
ting it into the barn, there is danger of
cheating in the NOV" put ON some salt.
Cattle will like it none the less.


Heat, light, and dry winds will soon
take the starch and sugar, which consti-
tute the goodness Of hay, out of it; with
the addition of shower, render it almost
worthless. Grass cured with the least
exposure to the drying winds and search
ing sunshine, is more nutritious than if
longer exposed, however good the wealth
er may be. If ever cured, it contains
more woody fiber and less nutritive matter.


The true art of hay making, then, con-
sists in cutting the grass when the starch
and sugar are most fully developed, and
before they are converted into seed and
woody fiber, and curing it up to the point,
when it will answer to put in the barn
without heating, and no more Ohio
Eurnner
Year: 1860

EQUAL DAYS AND NIGHrs-A bout these
days the sun Uses at 6 and sets at 6, max
ing the days and nights equal all over the
earth. The sun is vertical to the equator
and sends his rays at the same angle to
the North and South Pole. A six month
day is now begun at the North, and six
month night at the South Pole. The sun
will travel North for the next ninety days,
or until he is vertical at the Northern trop-
ic, % 120 from the Equator. He will at
that time send his rays just SO many de-
grees beyond the North Pole, making per-
petual day there and will fall just so far
short at the South Pole, making perpetual
night there. To person standing on the
North Pole the sun appears always in view,
during these six months Of light, but at
first just above the horizon and then rising
gradually higher for 90 days, and then
subsiding for 90 more, when it has gone
from view for $50 days. a Polar resident
if there be any, has no idea of diurnal time,
and probably none Of diurnal motion.
Year: 1860

A PRIEST IMPRISONED FOR REFUSING TO
REVEAL CONFESSIONAL SEcGErs In the
Northern Circuit Court Of Durham, &.
W., a man was recently brought to trial
for stealing n watch. Among the witness
es was Father Kelly, a Roman Catholic
Priest, through whose hands the watch had
oeen returned to the prosecutor. Being
asked from whom he received the watch,
he replied that he had received it in con
nection with the confessional. lie aas
then told that he was not asked to reveal
anything stated in confessional, but to re,
veal simple fact. Mr.. Kelly said the re.
ply to that question would implicate the
person who had given him the watch, ard
would render certain his own suspension
for life from the functions Of his Office
Justice Hall, who presided, denied the va
lidity Of the plea, and the reverend gentle
man, persisting in his refusal was commit.
ted to Jail for contempt of court.
Year: 1860

though whole days had elapsed since l
passed its portals. So true is the remark
of Montague that we measure time often
rather by events than by duration; and
the greater the number of incidents that
occur in any period, the longer that period
appears when we look back upon it,


retired to my chamber, but for some
time sought repose in vain. When sleep
did at last visit me, it was ftful and dis
turbed, and in my dreams re enacted the
scenes of the evening. | awoke in the
morning, feverish and unrefreshed, and it
was some days before | fully recovered
from the effect Oh my nervous system OF
my first night in London.


GAN ASSASSIN Hosr In the village
of Celies, in France, situated on the banks
of the Loire, is small inn entirely isolat-
ed from any other habitation, and good
quarter of a mile from the town. The
proprietor of the inn and the field which
extends before it, after having made useless
attempts to prevent the laying of railway
near he house, offered at last to undertake
himself, at his own expense, the necessary
work Of digging up the earth and making
the embankments upon his ground. The
reasons for his persistent efforts, although
not at first understood, were however.
soon brought to light. No sooner was the
spade put to the earth, than the workman
discovered first one dead body then Sec
ond a third, and finally one at the foot of
every tree growing in the field. This
startling discovery that revealed all at
once so manv crimes, raised the public
voice and provoked an investigation the
nnkeeper, whom rested old suspicious
and old stories Of travellers having sudden
ly disappeared, feigned great Indignation,
and at once denounced his accusers. But
his daughter, who had hung herself few
months before without any apparent cause;
the strange rapidity of his fortune; the
many efforts made to prevent the con-
struction of the road through the fatal field;
the condition of the bodies discovered,
some evidently quite recently buried and
bearing upon them proofs of the crime
committed: all these circumstances com
bined to lead to the immediate arrest of the
inpkeeper and his family. Itappears that
for more than thirty years the more COM
mon sort of Travellers and especially ped
dlers, were in the habit of stopping at this
inn, attracted to it by the cheapness of the
price; and they had then, it would seem,
been assassinated in the night and bespoil-
ed of their stock or money.


1t was trul an attrocious discovery land
one which has excited the greatest horror
and fear throughout the neighborhood. -
Translated from Il Eco n italian.
Year: 1860

What a tendency there is in this Am
ercan world Of orr to value appearances
rather than realities! 0ne.half of our
families are constantly in the struggle to
keep up appearances. The fault com
inences very early in the history Of our
families. Our young mechanics or mer-
chants marry early, and it is we'll they
should do SO, provided they would be con-
tent with simple style of living, suited
to their means, and be satisfied with in
creasing their furniture and dress and
other family expenses, only as they are
prospered. But the young mechanic feels
too often, when lie marries. that he must
live in the same style that the bosses do
His wife-.too frequently young, gay,
dashing thoughtless girl-feels even more
ambitious than he does, and the pair
start in life with furniture above their
means. Everything then must cores
pond, and dress and expenses Of living
become extravigant. Then follows the
inevitable Bridget, whose waste and
board and wages amount to large sum.
Then commences the lifelong struggle to
keep up appearances. The struggle is
a hard one against the wind and tide and
current The man may work hard and
earn much. but he and his wife started
W, ong. For the first year the wife should
have done her own work. She should
have been contented with palmer furniture
designed for use and not ornament, and
he should have been contented with less
luxurious eating, and drinking and smok-
ing. Oh, this struggle to keep up ap-
pearances is terrible to young mechanic
Is is a hard, hard life to be all the time
striving to gain and and to keep the front
seats in society when property does not
warrant it.


The young merchant, too, often makes
the same mistakes. His career, his strug-
gle and his end will be similar to that of
the mechanic, upon slightly more dan
gerous scale, and, generally, with more
ambitious wife. There is wrong feel
ing about both husband and wife that
their respectability and even their success
in business will depend upon the style
they assume. The young merchant is in
uioiO uouSOi vi ouiPioSh III hcoPihS UP
appearances than the young mechanic
The work of the latter furnishes an income
known before hand, while the profits of
the former are uncertain. The former
will likewise labor under the constant
temptation of striving to get rich too fast
and will sustain his means and his credit
to keep up appearances as a thriving mer'
chant


Young professional men have the same
rocks before them in the voyage of life
Many spend their whole existence in row
ing against wind and tide. Their young
wives, too, have more iambition---mor,
pride OF rank and station---and more O
the foolish notions of idleness and luxury
Few of them are fitted for their condition,
and they have the sad project before them
of a struggle to keep up appearances
When will men learn to be contented will
the station in which God has placed them
-HarJord { Conn Co'rant.
Year: 1860

Many Of our public men have been
blessed with wives and mothers who were
the ornaments Of their sex, and their quiet
and ennobling influence contributed large.
ly to the subsequent greatness Of their
children and husbands. Mr.. Parton tells
the following story OF General jackson s
wife:


When General Jackson was a candi-
date for the Preside ncy in 1928, not only
did the party oppose to him abuse him for
his public acts, which if unconstitutional
or violent, were legitimate subject Of re.
probation, but they DETAINED the character
OF his wife. On one occasion newspa-
per published in Nashville was laid upon
the Generals table. He glanced over it,
and his eye fell upon an article in which
the character Of Mrs. jackson was violent.
ly assailed. So soon as he read it, he
sent for his trusty old servant Dunwoodie


Saddle my horse" said he to him in
whisper, land put my holsters on him
Mrs. jackson watched him, and though
she heard not word, she thought she
saw mischief in his eyes. The General
L
up the paper and understood every thing
She ran out to the south gate of the yard
of the Hermitage. by which the General
would have to pass. She had not been
there more than a few seconds before the
General rode up with the countenance of
madman. She placed herself before hi
horse and cried out:


ooh, General don't go to Nashville
Let that poor editor live--let that poo
editor live" He replied: "How CAM
you to know what was going for?" Sh'
answered, II saw it all in this paper afte
you went out; put up your horse and g
back" He replied furiously. But viii
go-get out of my way" Instead of do
ing this she grasped the bride with bott
hands He cried to her | say let go my
horse I'll have his hearts blood; the vii.
lain that reviles my wife shall not live. .


She grasped the reins but the tighter,
aud began to expostulate with him, say
ing that she was the one who ought to be
angry, but that she forgave her proSecu.
tors from the bottom of her heart, and
prayed for them-that he should forgive,
if he had hoped to be forgiven. At last,
by her reasoning, her entreaties and tear.
she SO worked upon her husband that he
seemed Modified to certain extent. She
wound up by saying, "No, General, yor
shall not take the life of even my reviler
you dare not do it, for it is written, Ven
geance is mine, l will repay, saith tn
Lord"


The iron-nerved hero gave way befor
the earnest pleading of his beloved wife
and replied: 81 yield to you; but had
not been for you and the words of the Al
mighty, the wretch should not have live
an hour"
Year: 1860

We sometimes meet with men who
seem to think that any indulgence of af-
fectionate feeling is weakness. They will
return from a journey and greet their
families with distant dignity, and move
among their children with the cold and
lofty splendor of an iceberg surrounded
by its broken fragments. There is hard
ly more unnatural sight on earth than
one of these families without heart A
father had better extinguish his boys eyes
than take his heart. Who that has ex-
perienced the Joys of friendship, and val
ues sympathy and affection, would not
rather lose all that is beautiful in nature 5
scenery, than be robbed of the hidden
treasures of his heart? Who would rath-
er not follow his child to the grave than
entomb his paternal affection? Indulge
in the warm and gushing emotions offra,
ternal love. Think it not Weakness
Teach your children to love; to love the
rose, the robin, to love their parents, to
love their God. Let it be the studied OBJ.
ject of their domestic culture to give them
warm hearts and ardent affections. Bind
your whole family together by these
strong cords. You cannot make toe
strong.
Year: 1860

We find the following good story go
ing the rounds"


The late Mr.. Murrell, whose death re-
Gently figured in the Dublin papers, had
been absent from Englad more than a
quarter of century In the early part oi
his life, when studying for the bar in Lon
don, he became acquainted with an ac'
tress of exceeding beauty, named Dely,
and finding he could not procure her as a
mistress, resolved to venture upon her as
a wife. They married, but as their dis
positions were not exactly similar, they
were not superlatively happy. One morn
ing on returning from rehearsal at the
Royal Circus, where she was then per
forming, she addressed her astonishet
hush thus: "Murrell, l believe yor
are heartily tired of me, as l am heartily
tired OF you; so, that if you will SETTLE
five hundred year upon me, l will put
YOU in way of dissolving our inarri
age" The proposal was made by the
lady only three months after their mar
riage. The husband eagerly embraced
the offer, and gave her his bond for per
forming his part of the contract; on which
she produced certificate of her previous
marriage to performer at one OF the mi
nor theaters, who livid in Lambeth.


This point being ascertained, Mr.. NJ
refused to pay the annuity, and she found
there was a flaw in the drawing up, which
put it out of her power to compel him.
She therefore told him that unless he en-
tered in new and legal agreement, she
would take step which would still ren
der her marriage with him perfectly valid
He laughed at her but, she performed he
promise by bringing a certificate and pro
ducing register, by which it appeared
that the performer, previous to his mar
riage with her, was married to vocalist
who was then alive. This disconnected
the gentleman, who, however, managed
to get quit of her opportunities by giving
her f3, 900 in hard cash, on condition o
her going to America, where she onc'
more entered the connubial state, and oh
tanned great notoriety as fine actress
Year: 1860

RETURN OF THE JEWS TO PALESTINE
There are few current subjects of more
absorbing interest or deeper Significance
than the events now almost daily trans
piring which point to the re-possession
of their own land. The tide of progress,
after lapse of centuries, may be said to
have fairly turned in that direction, and
the prayer long offered by that chosen
but now scattered people, that "Judaf
may be saved and Israel dwell securely
and that the Redeemer may cometo Zion, .
is undoubtedly fastening to fulfillment
The Sultan ofTurkey is encouraging jew
ish emigration to Palestine, and is offer
ing to sell them as mnch land as they
choose to buy. and it is said. has even
expressed his willingness to dispose of the
Mosque of Omar to them, which, 1t will
be recollected, stands upon the very site
of the Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah
This mosque is one of the Mahommedans
most celebrated shrines, being scarcely in
ferior in national importance to those o
Mecca and Medina.
Year: 1860

Ey-A private letter from London TO
a gentleman in Albany. New York
states that Savers, in a confidential con-
versation with a friend, admitted that
IIeenan was too heavy and strong for
him, and expressed satisfaction that he
came out of the ring alive. The writer
adds, at is the serious belief of many
who saw the fight. that had not the blow
by which Sayers' arm was so terribly in,
iured been warded by him, but fallen full
on his head, it would have put fatal end
TO the fight
Year: 1860

LIKELY Negro Woman with eight children the eldest a
~ likely bsy fifteen years old second likely girl tkr
Said negroes sold for fault the
home for them will sell any person who
will them from the county Good lets in Edgehed
West Nashville will be taken in part payment Address Box
eos Nashville P. o. Roy92-dsw
Year: 1860

II an acorn be suspended y piece OF
thread within half sn inch Of the surface
of some water contained in a byscinth
glass, and so permitted to remain with
out being disturbed, it will in few
months burst, and throw 4 root down iD-
to the water, aud shoot upwards it taper
ing stem With beautiful little green leaves.
a young oak tree growing in this way on
the maDtel shelf of room is very pref
ty object.
Year: 1860

An old lady, on being witnessed before
q magistrate as to her place of legal set
Element, was asked what resson she had
for supposing her husband bad legal
settlement in that town. The old lad y
said: "He was born and married, and :hey
buried him there; and if that ANT settling
him there, | don't know what is"
Year: 1860

Here I remcmbe to speak of those Nor
thern allies that to-day you are afraid to
trust. You are right, tell you now
you are right, and am going to give
YOU a little extra advice. Some of you
were wanting to know how long they will
stand BY you. They will stand By you
just SO long as you pay them, and no lon
ger, and the moment you cease to pay
them, the moment you ccase to have po-
session of the Government, SO soon will
they leave you. That is the kind OF
men you have for your Northern allies.
Gentlemen, | take it that you are all men
of sense, aud SO | put it to you here to-
night, if was to get up here aud sag
that | believed Slavery was divine in.
stltution, and that all my previous decla-
rstions we're false, that was Convinced
lad been wrong, and that it was preferable
to liberty. and a religious institution fa-
yored of God, as Gov. Magof6n has said


would not every oue of you put your band
upon your purse, for fear | would steal
your money! You would at once say


"tbat man thinks to-day as he always did


and in addition to all the :ascalities we
have charged upon him, be is an internal


bypocrite; we will not trust bim." 1t is
because | come out and tell you what
believe, that you to-day trust ue to &c
among your negroes. Move the scene o


YER the line, and it is just the same
The man who has ever seen the sanctitJ
of the bearthstone preserved inviolate


and who has gone into some common
school to receive his education, and who
has watched the unparalleled development
of the Free States, whoreads hisI primer
or bis English Reader and studies the
Bible. and rises from the reading and tell.
you that from bis observation the coDdi


ton of Slavery is the tue condition ofhu


msnity, will some day teach you that a


last the unjust thing shall not prosper
and a lie shall not life forever. He who
has seen all these things, and turns round
and tells you, in the South, | have lived
under ell these institutions, and | bell W
Slavery to be a good thing. divine IN


stitution, the best state of society, don t yor
know enough to say that that man is moi
ft to be trusted Some of your orators
said, to-day, State the truth, and make
them tell the truth survive or perish.
Year: 1860

THE TEMPERANCE Firing An71LLERT.-This
new organization is doing good work, and en-
rolling large numbers on the side Of Abstinence.
They hold their meetings eyery Tuesday even
ing at their headquarters in the Methodist
Church Block,
Year: 1860

BELL AND EVERETT DEMoNsTRATIoN.- w e
publish, in another place, communication
giving an account of the late Bell and Everett
demonstration at Timbuctoo. The sympathy
there manifested between the Douglas and
Bell parties was owing to the fact that both
of these parties are for the Union, whilst their
opponents purely sectional.
Year: 1860

WANT TO MEET THEM, BUT oAN'T.-Our can
didates, De Long, Barbour and others have
been and are anxious to meet Whitesides and
his brother candidates on the stump, but they
back down. They seem to be afraid. We
saw a letter, yesterday, from one of our can
didates to gentleman in this city, request
ing him to have it stated at the meeting of
the Breckenridge party on Friday night
(none was held } that the reason that the
Douglas candidates were not present to con-
front Whitesides and his compeers, was that
these gentlemen had peremptorily declined
meeting them at all, at any time or place.