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Year: 1860

Have you never seen gay. giddy erea-
ture, more like the butterfly for beauty and
nimble nOthingness than anything else,
eourting admiration. inpatient of control,
inpatient of industry, selfindulgent, and
seldom willing to be self-saerifcing? Have
you never heard charitable friend inter
preting the sure dismal end of such an one?


Have you never seen fathers and mothers
anxious as to what shall become Of their
darling child? But God sends an angel to
commune with heri-a babe. And now by


the sanctuary of the cradle, the whole world
IS dead to her. All pleasures spring up
around about that spot All toll for her
child IS cOurted as privilege. There is
no such thing as self-sacrifce, simply be-
cause there IS not enough to be done; or
rather, there is no self-saerifce except that
of letting others d. what she herself wish
es to do for the child Her love makes her
benevolent Here was child that could
not be controlled or taught to live for 9TH
ers but the moment the great power of
1--we was awakened in her soul, and she had
an object which absorbed her affection, her
whole life was changed. And 50 God re-
deems, by the Gospel of marriage, thou

sands Of times, those whom the outer Cos
pei does not seem to touch-for both are
the same, and one is the type and pTehgur-
alton of the other. The sense of inward
richness gives very different light to all
outward happiness. When one has been
touched within by the love Of God she'd
abroad in the soul. outward things no lon
ger look to him as thCy did befOre-H. "
Beecker.
Year: 1860

BONES FOR FRUIT TRKEs.-There is moth
ing like decsying bones for all sorts Of fruit
trees They are perhaps best for pear trecl
next for apples, and then for ounces bal
are good for any kind Of fruit, unless it be
cranberries, which seem to live and grow or
little but air and water If lit is not con-
venient to reduce the bones in sulphurie
acid, break them up small and place them
about the roots of the tree.
Year: 1860

The elder Miss Spinney, to whom Widow
Leech made remark, assented to it, at the
same time ogling piece of frosted cake,
which she presently appropriated with great
refinement of manner, taking it between her
thumb and fOre6nger. keeping the others
well spread, and the little finger in extreme
divergence. with graceful undulatiOn of
the neck. and queer little sound in her
throat as of an M that wanted to get out
Year: 1860

Nobody read without feeling the force Of i ps.hos M
tenderness lie homely ngscity M practical truth Il exhibits
the ofwo brothe whom the representative Of
solid character and the other Of impuve feeling and brilliant
talent and the mode by which the separate ndens OF the
lives made hazmonIse In plot shows little artistic
power Among the throns Of novels which pe upon the h
tenton Of the novel reader this worthy Of especial
tce." |..I
Year: 1860

From The Taunton Mass Gazette. u
The story great variety Of characters and interesting u
aons every way well designed tske and keep the at
tenon Of the novel reader The style and structure Of the work
evince taste and sk and Its moral tone unexoepdOnabls
Year: 1860

The following is one of Lincoln's illus
trations, made in speech at New Haven,
Conn. Speaking of the right apd wrong
Of slavery, he said:


The other policy is one that squares with
the idea that slavery is wrong, and it consists


IN doing everything that we ought to do if it
is wrong. Now | don't wish to be misunder-
TODD, nor leave gap down to be misrepre-
sented. even. | don't say that we ought TO
attack 1t where it EXISTS. To me it seems that
II we were to torG government anew, in
view OF the actual presence of slavery, we
should find 1t necessary to frame just such
government as our f0refathers did, giving t.
the Shareholders the entire control where the
system is established, while we possessed the
fruits. Applause. From the necessities in
the case, we should be compelled to form Just
such a government as our blessed fathers gave;
and, surely, if they have 50 made it, that adds
anOtheE reason why we should let slavery
alone = here it exists.


ii l saw yenom0us snake crawling in
the road, any man might seize the nearest
stick and kill it; but if | find that snake in
bed with my children, it wculd be another
question. Laughter. | might hurt the
children more than the snake, and the snake
might Dite them. Applause Much mure,
if | found it in bed with my neighbor's chill
dren, and l had bound myself by solemn
compact not to meddle with his children un-
der any circumstances, it would become me
to let that particular mode of killing the gen
tleman alone. Great laughter But if
there is a bed newly made up to which the
children are taken, and it was proposed to
take batch Of young snakes and put them
in with them, / take it, no man would say
there was question how | ought to decide.


Prolonged applause and cheers.


That is just the case The new Territories
are the newly made bed to which our children
are 10 go, and it lies with the nation to say
whether they shall have the snakes mixed up
with them or not 1t does not seem as if
there cosld be much hesitation as to wha.
our policy should be. Applause.
Year: 1860

The profound intellect of Bishop But
Ter was able to remove doubts respecting
Christianity as a divine system, from the
minds OF others. ! have before me the
record Of three persons who were conyin-
ced Of the truth OF the gospel, and their
0wn lost condition as sinners, by the study
Of his Analogy Of Religion. Yet Butler
himself was in darkness in his last hours
A friend in attendance said to him, You
do not believe IL Christ. lie is able to
save 20 the pttermost, that come unto God
by him / never understood that verse
before, said the dying Bishop, after a mo-
mcnt's reflection, and those words of the
divine Teacher lifted the clouds of doubt,
and restored confidence and peace to his
soul. All his life he had been studying
the mysteries Of redemption, but the truth
by which he was brought to rest on Christ
at last, was so plain and simple that the
little child may understand it.


Perhaps no one eyGr EQn a pr0uder
homage to his intellectual greatness, from
his own age, than DR.. johnson. But in
all his wide surveys of knowledge, he
found no lofty and exclusive portal through
which iuteIlects ike his might enter the
kingdom Of heaven. He must bow low
and enter the door of faith in Christ, side
by side with the little child. Throughout
his life he recognized the cross as the only
way to heaven, and this conviction deepen
ed to its close. His last days he spent in
prayer and strong entreaties, lying low at
the throne of grace. To his faithful ne
gro servant he was frequently explaining
the simple truths of the Bible, often say
ing to him, Attend, Francis, to the saliva
tion of your soul, which is of the greatest
Importance


1t has been said Of John Foster, that
few spirits can have passed away from
earth endowed with more intellectual grasp
and penetration to meet the wonders and
grandeurs of regions immense and untrav-
ersed.' Yet one year before his death he
said, IF that great cause Of faith and
hope, the all sufficient merits and atone
ment of our Lord and Saviour were taken
away, | should have nothing left" On his
death bed, when conscious Of the failure of
his mental powers he exclaimed, But |
can pray and that is glorious thing


In the one great and all important con-
cern Of life, how insignificant are those
distinctions Of ghich the world thinks and
MAKES SC much. Are we great, here we must
become humble. Are we lowly, here we
stand on a level with the greatest; for
: whosoeger shall not receive the Kingdom
of heaven as 4 little child, shall not en-
ter therein The gospel of Christ in its
adoption to man, how wonderful; in its
benefoence, how worthy Of It's divine Au-
thor .-4mertcan Messenger
Year: 1860

III. AluCulu Oh GHe mexican w ar.


The following is an extract from one OF
Mr.. Lincoln's speeches in Congress upon
the Mexican war, which shows about how
he stood upon that question:


But as General Taylor is par excellence,
the hero Of the Mexican war; and as you
Democrats say we Wings have always op-
posed the war, you think it must be very
awkward and embarrassing for US to 60 for
General Taylor The declaration that we
opposed the war is true or false, according
as one may understand the term opposing
the war If to say the war was unneces-
sary and unconstitutionally commenced by
the President be opposing the war, then
the Wings have very generally opposed it.
Whenever they have spoken at all, they
have said this and they have said it on
what has appeared good reason to them
The march of an army into the midst of
a peaceful Mexican settlement, frighten-
ing the Inhabitants away, leaving their
growing crops and other property to de-
struction, to you may appear perfectly
amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; ;
but it does not appear so to US. 30 to call
such an act, to us appears no other than a
naked, and impudent absurdity, and We
speak of it accordingly. But If achen the
,oar had begun, and had become the cause
Year: 1860

Boots and Shoes Cheaper than ever.


T HAVE bought large and well selected
IL stock of every variety in my line at very
low prices, and will sell at small advance
on cost. | would cordially invite my custo-
mers. and all others, to call and examine my
stock before purchasing elsewhere. Look at
Year: 1860

necessary, the Inspector of the District
shall trace said levee and make out a
plan of it, specifying the length of the
levee, its height, and the number of feet
of base. and then transmit to the Police
Jury copy of said plan; the Inspector
shall be personally responsible for the
acts done by him in his capacity, and
shall furnish a bond, with good security,
to be approved by the Police Jury, in
the sum Of --, for the punctual and
faithful performance of his duties.


Each of the Inspectors shall keep a
book, in which he shall record all the
orders given by him in his capacity to
the inhabitants of his District for re-
pairs to their roads, lcvees, bitches or
bridges, and refer to the Parish Attor-
ney all the delinquents by whom fine
may have been incurred; and it shall be
his duty to lay said book before the
Police Jury at each regular meeting.


In case of emergency or absence, the
Inspectors may appoint one or more
deputies, but they shall be under the di-
rection and control of the Inspectors,
and their appointment shall be made
only for one month at time, and no
longer.
Year: 1860

per day, and be fed at the expense ol
the owner of the land on which they
shall be working


ART. II. Any person refusing to send
his slaves after due notice to that effect
shall be liable to fine of S. for each
and every negro he should have fur
nished; and the Inspector will see that
the Parish Attorney do sue said de-
linqnent, and report thereof to the Police
Jury.


ART. Is. Any inhabitant who shall
have sent one or more slaves to stop a
creFasse on another PERSONS land, shall
be entitled to the value of the slave or
slaves who should happen to drown
themselves or otherwise lose their lives
by the effect of said work. In such
case the Inspector, assisted by three in
habitants, shall proceed to the appraise-
ment of such slave Or slaves, and the
process verbal of such appraisement shall
be the base of the claim for the value of
the slave Or slaves from the Police Jury:
and the payment shall be made out of
the funds of the parish. In cases where
slaves shall be wounded or disabled, the
owner shall be entitled to an indemnity,
to be determined and paid as above.


ART. l9. The Inspectors shall see that
the regulations concerning levees, roads,
bridges and bitches are strictly enforced; !;
and any person refusing or neglecting
to execute any of the ordinary works
ordered by the Inspector, within the
specified delay, shall be liable to fine
not exceeding $25, except in cases
specially provided for.


ART. 20. In case of immediate danger
of the breaking of any levee, the In
spector shall (if in his opinion public
security requires it, dispense with the
notices to the front proprietors; and he
is fully authorized and empowered, with
the consent and advice of six inhabi-
tants, to employ sufficient number of
laborers Or slaves to provide the neces-
sary materials, and to do all the neces-
sary work to avert the impending dan
ger; and all expenses thus incurred and
approved by the Inspector and the six
inhabitants aforesaid, shall be audited
by the President of the Police Jury, and
paid by the Parish Treasurer; the Police
Jury reserving the right Of action against
the property of the owner for the reim
bursement Of all sums thus expended in
pursuance with this resolution.


ART. 2l. The Inspector shall cause to
be removed Immediately trees, edges,
dead animals, or any other incumbrance
whatsoever that may obstruct the pas
sage; and the person in front of whose
plantation shall have been found the ob-
strnctIon, who, after due notice, shall
refuse or neglect to remove or canse to
be removed such obstruction, shall be
liable to a fine of $25.


ART 22 Itsshall be lawful to no one
to ride on the levees of this parish.
Year: 1860

AS 1t mas Deen StfennOuSly aSScftcO
that the opinion of the Court in this
case does not deny the right of Terrific
rial Legislatures to prohibit slavery in
the Territories, (says the Courier we
republish that portion Of the decision
which bears upon the point. After con-
sidering the Constitutional authority Of
the Federal Government to acquire ad-
ditional territory, and noticing the alb
sence of any express regulation in the
Constitution, defining the power which
the General Government may exercise
over the person and property of a citizen
in Territory thus acquired" the Chief
Justice proceeds to show how the prin-
ciples of the Constitution prevent Con.
gress from exercising absolute and un-
controlled authority. He says:


Taking this rule to guild us, it may be
safely assumed that citizens ofthe United
States who migrate to Territory be-
longing to the people of the United
States cannot be ruled as mere colonists,
dependent upon the will of the General
Government, and TO be governed by any
laws it may think proper to impose.
The principles upon which our Govern
ment rests, and upon which alone they
continue to exist, is the union of the
States, sovereign and independent with
in their own limits in their internal and
domestic concerns, and bourd together
as one people by a General Government
possessing certain enumerated and re-
stricted powers, delegated to it by the
people of the1severalu States, and exer-
cising supreme authority within the
scope of the powers granted to it
throughout the dominion of the United
States. A power, therefore, in the Cen
eral Government to obtain and hold col
onies and dependent Territories, over
which they might legislate without re.
striction, would be inconsistent with it's
own existence in it's present FORM
Whetevcr it acquires, it acquires for the
benefit of the people of the several States
who created it 1t is their trustee, act
ing for them, and charged with the duty
of promoting the interests Of the whole
people of the Union in the exercise of
the powers specially granted.


At the time when the Territory in
question was obtained by cession from
France, it contained no population fit to
be associated together and admitted as
a State; and it therefore was absolutely
necessary to hold possession of it as a
Territory belonging to the United States,
until it was settled and inhabited by a
civilized community capable of selfgov-
ernment, and in condition to be admit
ted on equal terms with the other States
as member of the Union. But, as we
have before said, it was acquired by the
General Government, as the representa-
tive and trustee of the people of the
United States, and it must therefore be
held in that character for their common
and equal benefit; for it was the people
Year: 1860

ECHOES OF THE VALLEY OF LrFE.-IIear the
story of the child that went forth into the mount
ain ravine, Whilst The child wandered there he
cried aloud to break the loneliness, and heard a
voice which called to him in the same tone. He
called again, and. as he thought, the voice again
mockpd him. Flushed with anger he rushed to
find no one. He then called out to him in anger
and with abusive epithets all of which were re-
turned to him. Checking Mith rage, the child
ran to his mother and complained that boy in
the woods had insulted him, with many vile
words But the mother took her child by the
hand and said -" My child, these names were
but the echoes Of thy own voice. Send forth
sunshine from thy spirit, and thon shalt never
have a cloudrd day. Carry about vndctive
spirit and even in the flowers shall luik cnrscs
Thou shalt receive ever what thou givest, aud
that alone" Always, said the speaker is that
child in the mounan passes, and every man and
every woman is that child.
Year: 1860

EdS~ Attention is also directed to the following
clause in the Revenue Act -" Each male inhab
liant of this State over twenty one years of age,
and under sixty years of age and not 10y law eX
empt from poll tax shall pay poll tax for the
use Of the State and County Of Three Dollars
provided the same he paid between THE FIRST
DAY OF MARCH AND THE FIRST MON
DAY IN AUGUST but if said poll tax is not
paid prior to the first Monday in August, it shall
be Four Dollars.
Year: 1860

IT is the result of every day experience, that
steady attention 10 matters Of detail lies at the
root of human progress and that diligence,
above all, is the mother of good luck Accuracy
is also Of much importance, and an invariable
mark of good training in man. Accuracy in
observation, accuracy in speech, accuracy in the
transaction OF affairs. What is done in business
must be well done for it is better to accomplish
perfectly a small amount OF work than TO haf-do
ten times as much. A wise man used to say,
Stay little, that we may make an end the
sOoner.o
Year: 1860

slave population while the masters were
fighting us-


Does not every. consideration which
should influence men point to firm main-
tcnance Of the supremacy Of the Constitu-
ton at the outsctr If war is to follow dis
union why not crush diss1nion at the start!
It is sometimes an adt3ntagest. hold
man at 30 close quarters that he cannot
strike you. It ismost nanifestly an advan-
tage 10 30 treat the secession movement
that it cannot rise from the impotence Of
rebellion to the dignity Of war.
Year: 1860

A few years ago, Mr.. j. w. Boynton OF East


Hartford, while gathering up the leaves under
an apple tree in the spring, observed beneath
them few fresh unfrozen apples. 1t suggested
at once that dry leaves would answer well as
packing material for fruit, and The next fall and
every season since, has used them for this pur-
pose. We saw, few days ago, some specimens
thus preserved, seemingly as fresh and as pi-
quaint in flavor as when first gathered yet he
assured us, they were varieties that would have
decayed months ago, il unprotected. His plan
is to pick the apples carefully at the proper
time, but not to pack them until the forest


leaves are perfectly dry, ann the weather quite
cool. Then the apples and leaves are packed
in alternate layers, and the lastlayer Of leaves
packed in as close as possible, by placing any
convenient weight on the cover of the barrel
The leaves are Of such elasticity that the whole
may be compressed so tightly as 10 prevent all
shucking, etc, and yet not bruise the apples in
the slightest degree. In this latitude, Mr.. Boyn-
ton has never found it necessary to keep these
barrels in any place warmer than an open shed.
1t would be advisable, of course, everywhe re
to keep them in as cool place as possible, In
the spring they are to be removed to cool,
airy cellar, or to an apartment especially for
fruit, in connection with the ice-Eouse..f /
Year: 1860

We leave it to you reader, if the beauty Of the
family don't invariably turn ont the worst Of
the lot? If she don't cultivate the outside Of
her head to the total forgetIulness Of the inside?
II she is not petted and fondled, and fattered,


and shown off until selfishness is written all
oyer her? If she is not sure to marry some la
zy fellow, who will bruise her body, or heart,
to jelly, and be glad to come, with her forlorn
children, for morsel of bread to the comfor-
table home Of that snubbed member OF the fam
lily who was only our "John or MARTHA" and
who never, by any possibility, was supposed by
them capable Of doing or being anything? We
leave it to you II the "beauty Of the family be
boy, if he don't grow up an ass? If he be
not stre to disgust everybody with his conceit
and affectation, while he fancies he is the ad :
mired Of all eyes-if he don't squander away
all the money he can lay hands on, and die in
the gutter? We never see avery handsome
child Of either sex, set up on the family pedes-
tai, to be admired by that family and frieeds to
the exclusion Of the other children, but we do
not feellike patting these children on the back
and saying, "Thank Providence my dears, that
YOU were not born beauties" 10 7s'iiuH
Year: 1860

In no other way can so much, so varied, so
useful Information be impartedi and under cir
cumstances so favorable for educating the child's
mind, as through a judicious, well conducted
newspaper.


To live iu a village was once TO be shut up
and uninstructed. Bbt now a man may be a
hermit and yet cosmopolite. He may live in
the forest, walking miles to post Office, hav-
ing mail but once week, and yet he shall be
found as familiar wish the living world as the
busiest actor in it. For the newspaper is spy
glass by which he brings near the most distant
things--a microscope by which he leisurely ex-
amines the most minute objects-an ear trum.
pet by which he collects and brings within his
hearing all that is said and done all over the
earth-.a museum full ofliving pictures Of real
life, drawn not on canvess, but with printers
ink on paper.


The effect of liberalizing and enlarging the
mind Of the young, and this weekly commerce
with the world, will be apparent to any one
who will pender it. Once, liberal education
could only be completed by foreign travel
The sons of only the wealthy could indulge in
this costly benefit. But now the poor mans
son can learn as much at home as hundred
years ago a gentleman could learn by journey
ing the world over. For while there are some
advantages in going into the world, it is the
poor mans privilege to have the world come
to see him, The newspaper is great collector,
great traveller, a great lecturer. 1t is the
common peoples Encyclopedia-the lyceum
The college. ~...rs.r.. a.r..s
Year: 1860

Ofall the unisances that infest society, the
gossiping nuisance in the most unbearable.-
People that want to know what you had to eat
who watch from behind their blinds to see
when you 60 out and when you come home
and who are as much interested in the color of
your wall paper and the pattern Of your cur


tains, as they are in italian war, or the latest
news from Europe. II they wound stop at this
point, nobody would complain, but they are not
satisfied until they have picked your character
and falngs to, pieces, with tongues sharper
than thorns. We wonder if they ever paused
to consider how much they wasted in this non
paying employment. ''It is the least part Of
wisdom" says some one, ITO speculate on the
petty defects Of every day people" Only sup
pose, for moment, that every time we should
turn the telescope u another direction, and spy
out some darling fault OF our own. How long
would it be before the world would be reformed
by this means! The best and wisest man that
ever lived, would find something to alter and
improve, and we are very .teftain there would
be no time left to find fault with other peoples
failnss. If you can't hnd enough In your own
daily life to busy your thoughts, you must BIS
very unnteresting specimen Of humanity. Let
your neighbors alone--take care of yourself and
we can warrant your having enough to dol