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Year: 1859

rN.c ar. remarkable for wars, and rumors OF


wars" of intrigue and blood shed for good reas.
an;rv and bad conduct. for sound rules and corrupt
manners, when virtue fills our heads out vice Sa. our
they are quite sure of heaven, appear to be IN no
GREATER hurry to 90 there than others. but put on
the livery Of the best masters only to serve the
worst in an age when modesty herself Is more
independent Of principles on which to depend and
free thinking not in thinking freely but in being
free from thinking in an age when patriots will
hold anything but their tongues-keep anything
hut their words-lose nothing particularly except
their characters 10 improve such an age must be
difiicult-to instruct such age must be danger
GUS, In an age like this We call the attention OF
he public b.
Year: 1859

~ lido not pity person groaning un-
der the miseries Of the toothache, who has
not courage enough to have the tootl,3ex-
tracted


do mott pity a beggar, who lost his
money by gambling.


do not pity a man who fails in business
in consequence of his own extravagance.


1 do not pity man who becomes poor,
after expressing his poor neighbors.


do not pity q man who burns his fin
gers by using them for snuffers.


1 do not pity a man who cannot buy 9
breakfast, after buying . morning dram


do not pity man who marries scold
ing wife it is his own fault.


/ do not pity old maids there are pleu
ty of men in the world.


do not pity the man who fails in busi
ness because he is too penurious to adver-
tise.
Year: 1859

The NEXT CExsUs.-Nexs year the 9th
census of the United States is to be taken
This enumeration is one of the most labo-
rious and difficult tasks which the Govern
mcnt has to perform. A timely suggestion
is made by the National Intelligencer which
is worthy of consideration and which we
quote in the hopes that it may he needed
before the Census takers shall be called up
on to discharge their duties. s.%-The suggcs-
tion is this


That each farmer this fall, as he gath
ers his crops. shall keep something like an
accurate account Of the quality and value Of
the same; and if he will take the trouble
to make out q statement of the names and
ages of his family the number and value
Of his horses and mules: the number OF
acres of land clesred and timbered the
number and ages of his servants, the num-
Der of bales Of cotton. barrels Of corn bush
els of wheat. oats, rye, barley. potatoes,
&C., and the value of each, and leave it in
some place where any member of the fami-
ly, who may be at home when the deputy
marshal shall call, can readily get hold OF
it. It will save time to all concerned. and
very greatly assist to make the census re-
turns perfect, complete and satisfactory.
Year: 1859

Ash-Wednesday, the first day of Lent, falls
this year on the ninth day OF March. The reg
ulations for Lent in the Diocese of Cleveland
are the same as in the Archdiocese of Cincin-
natl For the information of readers, we copy
them from the Catholic Telegraph


/. All persons who have completed their
twenty first year, and who are not exempted
from the obligation of fasting by sickness, de
bility, old age, hard labor, or for other well
known reasons, are obliged to observe all the
DAYS of Lent, Sundays excepted, as fasting DAYS


2. On those days but one full meal is al
lowed, which should be taken about noon


3 A cup Of tea, coffee, or thin chocolate,
with bit of bread, or cracker, may be taken
in the morning, and collation., or food, not
more than the fourth of an ordinary meal, or not
exceeding eight ounces, may be eaten in the
evening.


4. Warm fish is not permitted at the cola


s. Abstinence from flesh meat is enjoined
on all the Wednesdays and Fridays of Lent,
and on the two Saturdays of the Ember and the
Holy Week. .r #-


6. The use of flesh meat is allowed, by dis
pensation, at every meal on Sundays; and at
one meal on Mondays. Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays above named.


Z. Those exempt from fasting are allowed
the use of flesh meat at every meal on the days
on which it is allowed to others but once.


8. Fish and flesh are not allowed ON any day
of Lent at the same meal Oysters are fish.


g. Eggs, milk, cheese and butter can be
used without distinction of days; but abstinence
from all OF these is recommended on Good Fri
day.


The greater scarcity and higher price ofveget-
able diet have led to the present mitigation OF
the rules for Lent as observed last year


The faithful are exhorted to observe the Lent
in the spirit of the Church, to assist at the daily
Sacrifice of the Mass, 10 receive the Holy Sac
rament with more frequency and fervOr, to at
lend at the devotions in the various churches,
RETAINING from pastimes and amusements un-
suited to the penitential season, and deEeting
to the relief of the poor, especially the nnem-
ployed and virtuous, what is withheld from the
qualification of appetite and pleasure.


We advise all who are addicted to excess in
drinking liquor to abstain from it altogether
during Lent, to make a good communion at
Easter, and firmly resolve from this moment to
sin no more. Thus shall they spend good
Lent, and ascend from the resurrection of grace
to the resurrection of glory, from newness oi
Life here, to endless life in Heayenl
Year: 1859

These morning meetings are still held with
regularity in many of the cities. In Cleveland
they are kept up with interest. The anniver-
sary of the first morning prayer meeting for
business men held in the first Presby terian


Church in Cincinnati took place a few days ago,
and SO marked was the interest that the Church
was not sufficiently large to accommodate the
congregation. The prayer meetings had been
held daily for the preceding year, and the An
niversary was emphatically ga union of hearts. 4"
Year: 1859

MCGUIRE AHEAD.-This enterprisiug boot and
shoe maker is now prepared in his newly finished
and furnished store, to attend faithfully promptly
and expeditiously 10 the wants of his customers
His present stock of boots and shoes of all kinds,
from the heavy Pixies Peak COW hides, to a ladies
delicate and tiny slipper, is large enough to select
from, while his workmen are rapid in finishing
custom work. Call upon him and judge Ofhis yft-
ness for his business.
Year: 1859

read it for me.,PI had scrap of uncovered
paper at the bottom; and by another good


Providence ] happened to have a bit Of red
lead pencil in my pocket I wrote ON the pa
per, Get US down Colly's gone mad" this I
shut in my tobacco box. and was fortunate
enough to drop it just at the feet of couple of
men who were standing by the engine house
door.


+ Directly all was hustle to rescue rs. They
got the kite up again, and watched it mount
ing slowly-slowly, and when the slack twine
fell between Colly and myself, 1 took it in my
hand and could have kissed it. Poor Colly,
with his teeth ehattering, still fancied I was
spirit, and done all /. could to favor that idea
until they got another cradle up for as. Then
having got him in, scrambled in myself, and
elutching him fast, I shouted for them to
lower, and so we got down, he wrestling and
fighting with me all the way.


/. He was in the mad-house for some months,
and then went to scavengering, for he never
could face any height again, and have never
had the same clear head since that adventure.
Year: 1859

The fir tiotlng match IN America for a
purse, was in 1918, when purse WAS made
for one thousand dallars, that no horse could
be produced which could trot a milo in three
minutes. The purse was won by "Boston
Blue who trol,ed the mile inside of the time.
Year: 1859

PAGE C was pretty extensively known
in the olden time as one of the hardest of
the hard a court passed without half a
dozen indictments against him for assault
and battery. lie had just been tried aud
fined heavily, and was standing in medl'a
tive mood upon the upper step of the court
house door. One step below him stood a
stranger whom Page had never before seen,
and who certainly had given him no cause of
offense Without word Page struck the
unsuspecting and astonshed individual a
''sockdollager," and of course tumbled him
headlong down the flight Of steps. The
grand jury was still in session, and within an
hour another Indictment was returned, a plea
of guilty entered, and fine assessed and
paid AS Page walked up town from the
court house he was asked what motive he
had in striking the man.


"WeII, the fact was said he, she stood so
fair couldn't help it,"
Year: 1859

Counselor R--, WHO was afterward ap
pointed to the bench Of the Supreme Court
in ,he--Siate, is a lawyer of extensive
legal attanments, and in accepting the
ermine forsook very large and lucrative
practice He has, however the reputation
of being the longest wnded counsel and
most prosy advocate that ever tried a case
in these parts. His jury arguments rarely
fell short of seven hours in length and his
examinations of Witnesses were tedious he
yond conception The following 'veritable
fact" is told of him as illustrating his style
in this behalf:


At court, not long since, Mr.. R was
engaged in the trial of cause where the
opposite side had attempted to prove the al
leged signature of Ehenezer Carleton a for
gerry An expert had sworn that in his opin-
ion it was not ihe hand writing Of Ebenezer
Carleton, and WAS turned over to Counselor
R, who cross examined him in this wise:


"Mr. Witness look at this signature again;
look particularly at the letter h Nov tell
the Court and jury what yon see ia the first
hair-Iine of this letter that makes you think
it is not genuine SIGNATURE


This question being answered as well as t
could be, Mr. R continued,


"Now look at the turn at the top of the II,
and tell us how that differs from the turn OF
an II in the genuine signature


And SO he went on, examining the wit
ness as to the up strokes, the down strokes,
the loop, and the turns Of this letter h, for
nearly an hour, till the patience of the
Court was pretty well exhausted.


"Mr r." said the judge, 'arc You
not making this examination rather tedicus!'


"Perhaps so. May it please your Honor,
the witness may now pass on to the letter
b."
Year: 1859

SOMETHING ABOUT CHILDREN.-Children are
taught to tease, very much as they are taught
to cry. With all his little wants, real or mag
mary the child runs TO its mother lie wants
a definite and decisive anawer-one which will
settle the question-nnd his mind will be on
the rack until ho has it, Itis not in the nature
of the child to feel otherwise He will have no
peace himself, and will therefore give his moth
er no peace, till he understands and knows that
the point is settled, and how it is settled II
YOU give him no answer till he has spoken ten
times, he will speak ten times and then, if he
has any reason to suspect that speaking twenty
times more will obtain an answer more iavoIa-
BILE to his wishes, he will speak twenty times
more.


And this will soon grow into a habit But
give him an answer the first time he speaks, and
he will not be obliged second time to obtain
one and never alter decision for his teasing
aud he will soon give i up as of no use. Ifyou
have leisure, and the occasion seems a proper
one, you may lot him argue his case before YOU
decide t--but not afterwards Indeed if he
has learned by experience that your decisions
are final, he will seldom, if ever, attempt it --
lie will consider an answer as an answer His
mind will be at rest on that point aud soon find
something else with which TO amuso himself
Year: 1859

Court commenced at 2 o'clock. Jacob
Wheeler being upon the stand replied TO o
question by Mr.. Backus that he saw Langston
and Watson going up stairs together that after
noon.


Mr. Lowe being re called by the prosecution
said that he did not remember seeing Patton in
the room after they had been down with the
warrant When John was taken ont he sew
several persons, perhaps eight or twelve, were
behind him, but witness could not say these
had been in the room with John. Witness had
made no agreement or proposal to let the boy
Year: 1859

A SHoT INTO the Flock We wonder if the
following PaXhan shot from the Notes from
the Plymouth Pulpit" by Henry Ward Beech.
er hits any body in all this region round aboutl
We hope not Mr.. Beechcr said


There are sitting before mo in this conarega-
ton now, two hundred men, who stuff their
Sundays full Of what they call religion, and
then go out on Mondays TO catch their brothers
by the throat, saying " Pay me that thou
owest; it's Monday now, and you needn't think
that because we sat crying together yesterday
over ouF Sayior's sullerings and love, that am
going TO lot you Oft from that debt, it it docs
ruin you to pay II now"
Year: 1859

" A smart young student of anatomy re
Marked In the hearing of his sister, that the
reason there were so many old maids in the
world was owing to their tight.lacing, which
SO hardened their hearts as to make them i'm.
Penetrable TO the shafts of Cupid "And the
reason there are so many old bachelors" re-
torted the sister, is because of their tight
straPPIng' as they cannot get their knees to de.
clare their passion :"
Year: 1859

Every part of the steamer was again searched for him but in vain :; and it seemed certain that he could not have gone ashore

 The next day I was talking with the Rev. Mir. Goggles, not about the gambler but on general topics. Of course, his life, as an itine- 1 rant, was full of interest to me- He told me how cheaply he lived and travelled from place ] to place that he was often hungry and never had over ten dollars at once have only five now," he said and to ve- rfy his statement, he took from his pocket a half eagle.

 ] glanced at it. There was a hole in it, with ring attached It was certainly the property of the young man from Cincinnati. What is the ring for p I asked. "Ths piece was given me by woman in Arkansas, who was converted under my preaching"

 The liar. had already made up my mind the mysterious gambler. Before dinner time, l had an opportunity to whisper my views to the captain, and while we were at dinner his stateroom was searched. A large sum of money was found there, and many of the gam ber's tools, as we'll as the dress the un- known" had worn

 Parson, can you swim p asked the captain .s the Rev. MT. Goggles came upon the boiler deck.

 " A lttle," he replied, with demure smile.

 "You will have chance to try I am going to throw you overheard"

 The captain took him by the collar, and ex- plained the matter to the astonished passen- gers, who were quite ready to assist in empty ing his pockets and then throwing him oter- board. The money taken from him, was paid over to his victims.

 The last we saw of him, he was swimming vigorously toward the shore, cursing the cap tain with quite as much zeal as he had used in praying and exhorting.

 The young man from Cincinnati got his cher ished coin, and trust learned a useful lesson.
Year: 1859

Every one has heard of the sympathies Of an
imals towards each other. Cries of distress
will often call them forth When the dam of
new born lamb has died, some affectonate
sheep, although She may have one of her own,
has been known to foster and suckle The helpl sss
young one. In my own immediate neighbor
hood, the youngest of large litter of pigs--a
poor little helpless creainre--who was not able
to get at its mother for nourishment, was
warmed under the wings oI good natured hen.
1t was fed by hand, but when turned down the
hen was always ready to take charge of it, and
thus it was reared. These instances might be
multiplied TO a considerable extent, showing
the active benevolence Of some animals but
the following fact will prove the existence of a
combined intelligence in creatures which have
reason 10 believe has been hitherto unnoticed b
naturalists US existing among the teatherod ere
alton. The accuracy Of the anecdote may be
vouched for.


In the Island of Ceyoln there is to be found
II very cunning and sensible crow, somewhat
smaller than our own native one, having glossy
back, and altogether all engaging, pretty bird
Now, in the yard of the Governor of Ceylon, a
dog was one day amusing himself by guawing
bone, the aps Of meat upon which attract
ed the attention of one of these crows. 1t
alighted ON the ground, hopped round the dog
and tho bone, and evidently awited for an op-
portuniy of seizng the latter. The dog how.
ever was on his guard, and by certain growls,
and probably angry looks, which the bird un-
derstood no doubt, protected his property. The
crow was too hungry to be bafled He flew
away but soon returned with o companion.
They hopped up to the dog, when the fresh ar
rival watched his Opportunity and gave sud-
den pull at the dogs tail. Not being used to


such an insult, he suddenly turned round in or
der to see who had taken this liberty with him
The bone was for moment left unprotected,
and was Immediately seized by the first cunning
crow, who flew away with it, joined by his com
lpanion, and they doubtelss had merry feast
upon il -Onoe-d- Week.
Year: 1859

Just now the wild pigeons roost in innumera
BILE numbers in the Chenango Swamp, Crawford
county, Pa, about two miles long by two or
three wide, grown up with tamarack or larch
trees and alder bushes. The editor of the Ash
tabula Sentinel has been among the pigeons
He says:


"When within two miles of the roostlng-
place, we began to hear the roar of the wings of
millions of birds there congrogatcd, which
literally equaled the roar of Niagara. But the
sights and sounds that greeted us as we neared
the swamp, beggar description. There were
probably a hundred hunters assembled and at
work. These were divided into parties of not
more than two or three-some in the tama-
racks and some in the alders. At shot fired
in the bushes the birds rose ina mass and set
tied on the trees and when fred upon there,
they flew to the bushes. This changing
continued all night AT q single shot, the
flock always rose and flew "a short distance to
settle or be fired upon again. This scenc lasted
all night.


The usual mode of hunting the pigeons, is for
two men to 60 together-one with gun. and
the other with bag and lantern AMI matches.
AS soon as the shot is fired, the bagman strikes
a light, and bags the birds; and this must be
done speedily, or the wounded ones will hide
and be lost. Six dozen is quite heavy load
for any man. We 8 gin eout under five dozen
very soon. We were told to fire with one bar
rel at the bushes, and with ths other at the
bile up. The term boil up, is a very natural
one; for at every shot, the flock will rise
straight upward, and after circlng few
moments. make swooping course. and then
alight perphaps within few yards of where
they rose. The number killed seems almost
incredible. One man killed four dozen at a
single shot, and nine hundred i9'she night.


Pigeon buyers take the birds Y fast as killed,
at twenty cents dozen, and they are Immediate
on an isla,Id in the swamp, N9cmployy man
to blow horn all night, to direct the hunters
10 their camp.


The Sentinel says


The habit of these birds are an interesting
study. They appear to have no individuality
and all their actions are in focks-thc focks
seeming to be the individual. At night they
come in hocks, and in the morning they make
up in aocks to leave, uniting smaller into larger
cncs, when the appearance is like swarm Of
bees. At the sight of flash they instantly
+ change their course or scatter. We noticed an
immense flock like cloud, when large meteor
shot athwart tho sky, at the scintillation of
which the feathered host scattered in all direct.
ions. In the morning, a little after sunrise,
they begin to leave, and in fifteen minutes they
are gone, spreading in all directions over the
country to feed. From this roost they diverge
daily in all directions over a district whose
diameter is probably 200 miles, to return again
every night, and be hunted from bush to bush,
and kept in motion by the rapacity Of man,
instead of the rest that Nature directed them to
seek in this Sequestered resort.
Year: 1859

RECENTLY, most extraordinary race took
place in fashionable Ladies' Seminary school
in the Thergarten, Berlin. where thirty three
young ladies contested for the championship in
swimming. The winner, who is nineteen years
of age, and very handsome, is said to have
proved that she might as well challenge the
other sex as her own. The race was followed
by an elegant luncheon, only ladies being
present; and the promenaders in tho neighbor-
hood listened with astonishment to the iusty
cheers that followed the toasts
Year: 1859

"My deaf madam said a doctor to his pa
tient, 81 am truly gratifed to see you yet in
life. At my last visit yesterday, you know
that told you you had but sixteen hours to
live" Yes, doctor, you did; but did not
take the dose You left me-"
Year: 1859

Those orators who give us much noise and
many words, but little argument and less wit,
and who are most loud when they are the least
lucid, should take lesson from the great
volume of nature she often gives us the light
ming without the thunder, but never the thunder
without the lightning.
Year: 1859

There is place in New Hampshire where
they never have old maids. When a girl reach
es the age of twenty-nine, and is still on the
ladder of expectation, the young fellows club
together and draw lots for her. Those who
escape pay bonus to the one who gets her.
Year: 1859

A bad temper is a curse to the possess
sor, and its influence most deadly where,
ever it is found. 1t is allied to martyrdom
to be obliged to live with one of a COM
planning temper. To hear one eternal
round Of complaint and murmuring, to
have very pleasant thought scared away
by their evil spirit is sore trial. It is
like the sting of a scorpion-a perpetual,
nettle, destroying your peace, rendering
life burden. Its influence is deadly; aud
the purest and sweetest atmosphere is
contaminated into deadly miasma wher-
ever this evil genius prevails. 1t has been
said truly, that while we ought not to let
the bad temper of others influence us, it
would be as unreasonable to spread q
blister upon the skin, and not expect it
to draw, as to think of family not suf-
fering because of the bad temper of any
of its inmates.


One string out of tune will destroy the mu-
sic of an instrument otherwise perfect, SO
if all the members Of church, neighbor-
hood, and family, do not cultivate kind
and affectionate temper, there will be dis-
cord and every evil work.-Steel.