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Year: 1860

A Stating OccuRREScE.--A lady who
had returned from India three years ago.
was the other day opening drawer in
what is called bullock trunk To her
amazement and horror a snake reared up its
head, her first impulse was to push the
drawer to, but it was stiff and heavy. She
ran, screaming. down stairs for help. Her
brother. who was in the drawing room,
ran to her assistance. and preceded her up
stairs again. The snake was not to be seen,
and the gentleman thought it to have been
his sisters imagination; so, after some little
time the search was given up. The follow
ing morning a cacary that always hung in
the lady's room was missing and IN look
ing into the cage the snake lay curled up
at the bottom of it, and all that remained
of the bird by his side There was no
difficulty in destroying the snake, and it
was discovered to be what is termed a
green snake, whose nature is to make a
spring at tbs eye, when death immediate
ly ensues. The marvel is how the reptile
lived so long and the lady escaped
Year: 1860

INFANT BAPTISM. An incident occr-
red in small town in an adjoining county,
a few bays ago. which is worth relating
A gentleman and his wife (who had been
married perhaps less than year, conver-
ted during revival among the old school
Babtists. After the immersion of several
converts including the husband the preach
er turned to the lady and inquired if she
was prepared. when she very innocently
and seriously rejoined--"Not at present,
sir. as am opposed to infant baptism.
Year: 1860

There Is no more absurd feature charac4
terizing the present campaign than the la
Of the Republican, over the re.
peal OF the Missouri Compromise. They do
not propose to restore it, and if they did, to
what would it apply? II Kansas is admit
ted as tree State ct the next session OF
Congress as it undoubtedly. will be. the Last,
foot OF Territory to which that compromise
applied viii have been uaed up.s Not an


inch Of tree Territory has been doomed to


slavery by the repeal OF that compromise,
and we are Unable to see whatikese orators


and scribblers are crying about. They, as


early as in l843, denounced the idea OF ex-


tending that line to the Pacific, and when


Douglas proposed the step in the Senate,
they voted it down. So far as the Missouri
line extended, it has become nullity aud
imperative because the force of its provision
is spent. 1t would be wholly imperative
had there been no act OF repeal, by virtue of
its own conditions. 1t would also have been
imperative because of sthe decision OF the
Supreme court declaring 1t void. ji.


La view OF these facts, what In the name
of reason are these men Iamentng over a.
Are not their tears all for effect-Iike those
shed by the hired mournsfs at an East Indian
funeral! They are for no other purpose.
They think the people are SO ignorant that
they do not know the facts we have set
forth, and that they will make them think
that the repeal has been the cause of some
terrible extension of slavery over free Ter.
ritory. t r4ts.Ha


Every intelligent man in the country
knows this is all humb1g, and that there is
not an zach of Territory likely to become
slave which the Missouri line msds free. =
Exchange. q l5&9ei
Year: 1860

son, it is really painful for me to see how little
you understand your duties towards your superiors
in rank and how much you are in want OF that
feeling Of respect which those men, whose hair has
turned white in the service of their country have
a right to demand from you. Do you know that
these men by whom you wish to be honored,
ought first to be honored by you! For tits to them,
and to them alone, that your father owes his
crown and his life; and it is their fidelity, their
zeal and their loyalty, By which you also will be
enabled to ascend tile throne, and to occupy it
with glory. Therefore humble yourself (ineinng
his head with his hand) before these men, and do
not forget that you greatly hattered by any re-
mark Of respect and devotion they may please TO
show you. Your conduct shows that yon are still
too young for the epaulettes conferred upon you,
and must again deprive you Of them. They will
not be restored to you until you have shown, by
your future behavior, that you are able TO wear
them with honor


Thus the unfortunate Prince found himself sec
ond time, deprived Of those gittering epanettes,
Of which he had felt so proud. With regard to
Nicholas, who had taken upon himself the beau
1'dte in this performance, we regret only that he
did not resort to some more novel expedient for
displaying his dramatic powers, for even before an
infatuated court audience the same comedy twice
played, must necessarily lose its effect.
Year: 1860

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. A telegraphic dispatch from New York, dated 14lh inst, says that the Central National Democratic Committee are con- sidering the propriety of changing the place of holding the National Convention to some other point.

 The reason of this is owing 10 the exor. bitant and outrageous prices which have been fixed upon by hotel keepers and other places of accommodation at Charles. ton. A large number of Senators and members have called the attention of the Committee to this matter. and are urging them to take immediate action. The Committee believe they have power to make this change, backed up by the Democracy of the different sections. They will change the place of meeting to Baltimore.

 The Charleston papers confirm the statement that the price of board in the hotels in that city will be raised to five dollars day during the sitting of the Democratic Convention.
Year: 1860

GEMS FROM PETRARCu.-1. If tears become
any one when dying, it is him whom laughter
did not become when living seeing he saw that
which makes death thing to be wept ever at
hand, and suspended above his head. How closely
did this weeping follow upon that laughter


2. In all good studies delighted; but was
especially given to philosophy and poetry, which
even, however, l neglected in process of time,
being delighted with the Holy Scriptures, in
which | perceived hidden sweetness which
once despised, Poetry l reserved as for orna-
mental purposes alone.


3. As truth is immortal, so a lie lasts not;
feigned things are soon discov ered as the hair
that is combed and set with diligence is ruiled
with little blast of wind The craftiest lie
cannot stand before the truth everything that
is covered is soon uncovered shadows pass
away and the native color Of things remains.
No man can live long under water, he must needs
come forth and show the face which he concealed.


4. Desire and strive to die we'll which cannot
be without living we'll The rest commit to God,
who brought you into this world unasked, but
who when you are about to leave it, will not In
troduce you to his kingdom unsought
Year: 1860

SET THINE House IN ORDER.-Alas for him
who grows old without growing wise, and TO
whom the future world does not set open her
gates, when he is excluded by the present. The
Lord deals SO graciousy with us in the decline
of life, that it is a shame to turn deaf ear to
the lessons which he gives. The eye becomes
dim, the ear dull, the tongue falters the feet
totter, all the refuse to do their Office, and
from every side resounds the call, Set thine
house in order, for the term of thy pilgrimage is
at hand" The playmates of youth, the fellow
laborers of manhood, die away, and take the road
before us. Old age is like some quiet chamber,
in which, disconnected from the visible world,
We prepare in silence for the world that is
unseen,
Year: 1860




OUR LAST SLEEPING PLACE.-"I feel the dai-
sizes growing over me-" said the dying poet and
solemn yet beautiful was the thought.


To mingle thus with Nature in her sweetest
forms Of life, is not to die it is as If the passing
Of the soul through vestibule of Junc's own
building, on, to the inner gates of Paradise.


To be waited to the air on the crimson wings
of fire to leave little dust for token, in the
bottom Of an urn, is not like lying, weary
child at rest, close folded in the bosom OF the
earth


To lie beneath billowed maple on hillside
green and sloping to the sun, with birds singing
in the boughs, and Threshold flowers soft tolllng
in the air, is no unpleasant thought. The fever
of the world all past, its srifcs all drifted over,
even as the cloud that sheds a shadow on the
spangled heap, and passes on forever.


To turn immortal with the Arctic touch, and
wear the seamless robe OF winter, for shroud ;
to have the tear that parting wrings from trcm-
bling Nature, lie like an imperishable jewel on
the cheek of death, has little charm.


To be let gently down. some pleasant sum
mer's night, into the cleft crystal of lake, to
ones last sleep, would not be to bid the light
"good by" For there, as If in the lower sphere
of the .fnished HeaUen, the form should lie, among
the doubles of the stars, and the glmmering OF
the moon. The dawn should rcddcn there, and
the great sun move quenchless through the
waters it would not be beyond the flight OF day
that burial place, and yet below the storm,
that wrecks both sea and sky.
Year: 1860

In LUCK.-A Boston clerk employed in the
preparation of an index in the Office OF the keg-
lister of Deeds, in his researches short time ago,
discovered between the Leaves of an ancient vol
ume of record note of the Bank of England,
bearing the date of 1878, for el0O. AS the Bank
is still in existence, and has never been known to
repudiate its notes, the full value of the note in
question will be realized to the lucky Under.
Year: 1860

THE publisher of the Scientific Press, San Fran
cisco, is authorized to give $2,500 reward to any
person who will place in his hands successful
mode or process, for separating the gold from the
sulphurets as found in the mines of this State.
The reward will be paid In cash at once, after
the tests and experiments shall have been salts
factorily proved
Year: 1860

OvEnDoING-Some men-young men espcci-
aly-are proud Of great fcats Of strength aud
endurance. They are not satisfied with ordinary
labor faithfully performed they must be doing
some wonderful thing to excite attention and
secure praise. Some men may be good enough
in their way, but are not generally the most use
ful in society. For all ordinary purposes, they
are apt TO be lazy, and vain and unstable


In the payulness of youth, or the vigor of
early manhood il Is natural for one to love to
try his strength or his agility just for the fun OF
it. Ordinarily, no harm comes from such per-
formances, yet We must be allowed TO say, be
careful in your gymnastics. Not a few young
farmers aud mechanics have, by the excesses Of "
single day, laid the foundation OF disease or in.
trinity for whole life. In the present season of
haying and harvesting, n word of caution here
may be timely. Young men, don't be ambitious
to do n great days work. At all seasons of the
year. more will be accomplished by doing
regularly fixed and moderate amount OF work,
than by oyeraxing yourself at any one period.
The work will be better done, and you will be
likely to live longer to enjoy It's fruits.-Anricas
1gTicuLturia
Year: 1860

SP Rim G CLOTHING


than heretofore having Important advantages In the pur
chase Of our goods extensive preparations and an eNpe
nence OF more than twenty years In the manufacture and
sale OF Cl thing believe desirable styles and bet


Ter workmanship for the same, lower prices than any other
house la the trade Deyong the whole OF our attention to this
branch Of business alone and determined TO build ~ The trade OF
our e Ter Inducements those OF any house IN
any market In this country. -....-


KEEN BALWIN 4 WILLIAMS.
Year: 1860

NJ are noE prepared TO show country Merchants much
"a L.ssr more attractive and cheaper stock Of Spring
man heretofore Having Important advantages In
e pGrer OF our goods extensive preparations and an


enes OF more han twenty years In the Manufacture and
he OF 'ng We believe offer desirable styles, and be
r HoNmsn'p Tor the same, lower prices than any other
mouse IN me Trade Devotng whole Of attention 20 this
branch oi business alone determined build trade Of
our city We oe great Inducements those Of any house In
any market In this country.


WIN A VIII
Year: 1860

DEs ARC FEMALE AcADEMY.-The fourth session of this institution under the charge Of Miss BLACK, commences on Monday next From the many advantages our people have realized in the permanent establishment Of this school, together with the general satis- faction rendered by Miss B., we have full assurance that the number of her patrons will increase, and that she will continue to impart the rich blessings of education to those under her charge. Too much praise cannot be be- slowed upon those who are the founders ot institutions of learning, and especially those who build up and sustain an Academy, as has been the case with Miss Black. May the fourth session of her school have an accession of numbers, and her prospects be brightenec by the erection of an Academy building
Year: 1860

ADVERTISING. G.-Discontinuing to advertise, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, is like taking down one's own sign It is sort of lntlma- tion of retirement from business, and the peo- ple treat it as such; or they may regard it as evidence that something has gone wrong, which requires privacy for investigation Whatever construction may be put upon it, the result is disastrous Now, we advise all our readers who may have fallen into the com men error of the season, to come out Of thelr holes, to put up their signs once more, and to advertise in as many papers as they did Tn other times. While business creates adverti- sing, it is equally true that advertising creates business. It creates talk and stir in busl- ness circles and reminds people that they have no right to be leading drones' lives, even though the times are dull. And even Tn the worst of times advertising always pays well, and the more of it there is the greater will be the circulation of money, and sooner will be restored a condition of prosperity
Year: 1860



 GT- As indicative of the remarkable unity that is now pervading the South, we notice that the Legislatures of Louisiana and North Carolna-States that have hitherto been re- markable for conservatism-have passed reso- lutions that have the ring of the true southern metal about them. Louisiana through her Legislature, without dissenting voice, has determined to send Commissioners to the Gen. eral Convention suggested in the message of Gov. Letcher, and has resolved that the cleo ton of a Black Republican "irrepressible conflict, President would afford just cause for secession. North Carolina, with unanimity scarcely less, has resolved "that if we cannot hold our slave property, and at the same time enjoy repose and tranquility in the Union, we will be constrained in justice to ourselves and to our posterity, to establish new forms and provide new guards for our safety" "The day for the political redemption of the South draweth nigh" These growing evidences Of Southern unity betoken the resurrection of a patriotism that will yet secure for us either ''equality in the Union or independence out of it tD
Year: 1860

Some years since large whale was
caught near the Thames River, in Eng
land, and taken to the shore, where it was
visited by thousands. Its huge mouth
was propped open by poles, and formed
q cavern large enough for good sized man
to enter very easily. A scientific gentle
man, quite eager to examine the interior
of this cavern, stepped inside, and upon
the animals tongue This is spongy
mass, and in this case having been some
time exposed to the air, it was as soft as q
bog and as he stepped upon it he sunk,
and slipping at the same time he pitched
forward headlong toward the whales
gullet. He was now in a really danger
Gus predicament he sank lower and lower
into the oily mass, until he nearly dis
appeared, and must soon have lost his life,
had not the bystanders come to his as
sistance; as it was they had great diff
Guilty in drawing him out of the fish with
boat hook
Year: 1860

AN INCIDENT OF LIFE IN THE GOLD Re-
GIoNs.-Among the deep defiles Of the
Rocky Mountains, lately small company
of men stood around the new made grave
of dead companion. With heads un-
covered they listened attcntivcly to the
words of the preacher as he offered up a
prayer. While in the midst of it one of
the company discovered "the color" in
the earth at his feet thrown up to make
room for tho remains of the deceased. In
a. loud whisper he communicated the
rather exciting intelligence TO his COM
panion. All heard it, even the clergy
man, who suspended his prayer, opened
his eyes to see his auditory scatter in
every direction to stake Of gold claims.
Calling in loud voice to them to stake
him off "claim," he reclosed his eyes,
hastily concluded his prayer and started
off on run to join his fellows in securing
q claim.
Year: 1860

Is all out OF place III q practlcal neWspa-
perl" Softly good friend Be not SO
hasty with your condemnations Watch
this little bird more closely, and you will
find him to be most active and indus
trious friend. All through the long Sep
tember to April, he is hard at word for
you. In the fence corners, beside the
hedges, along the highways, around the
stone-heaps, in many places, the thistle,
nettle, white daisy, and noxious weeds of
an hundred different species, which too
often escape the attention of 'the most
careful husbandman, have grown up to
rank maturity. In the swamp edges are
many patches of rank wild-grass which
you have not found time to cut down.
Left uninjured where they are until
Spring filled with their thousands ofsceds
they would be scattered all over the farm
or garden, giving crop next year, neither
useful nor ornamental 1t is upon the
seeds of these thistles, daisies, weeds, and
rank grasses, that he and many other sim
liar species live. Wherever his food is to
be found, you may sec him, tearing up and
down the withered petals of the ripened
flowers, leaning downwards upon them,
eating off the seed, and scattering the
down through the air. The eye of many
of these small birds is one of the most
wonderful things in nature: its structure
enables the bird to detect its appropriate
food at long distance, and when once he
has perched upon plant, he rarely leaves
a single seed.


The amount of food which one of these
birds requires, is very large in proportion
to the size of his body The ceaseless
activity of his muscular system during
the day, can only be kept up by CORE
spending amount Of nutriment. Every
lady who has kept Gagged canary bird,
knows something about his appetite. The
power of flight of the gold6nch is very
strong. He is clean worker Before
snow falls, he gathers up all the seeds
which have fallen upon the ground, as well
as those which adhere to the parent stem ;
after the snow falls, he is, of course, COM
PEELED to live solely upon such food as he
can find above it's surface, but he rarely
abandons one field until he has exhausted
the supply of food there. We have known
single localities, where the highway was
infested with the Canada thistle, which a
flock of these birds would not abandon
for almost the entire Winter. 1t is OBJ
vious that the amount of noxious vegeta-
tion thus prevented for the coming year,
would be very large


1t may not be out of place here to say
word about it's nest and eggs. The
exterior Of the rest is composed of various
lichens (mosses,) fastened by the saliva
of the bird, and lined with cotton or other
soft materials. 1t is found at various
distances from the ground, upon small
shrubs as well as high trees. 1t is some
times attached to the side only of a small
twig The eggs are five to six in number,
of blush white, marked at the larger
end with spots of reddish brown. Only
one brood is reared during the season, and
the young are fed from the mouth, i'll the
same manner as the Canary.
Year: 1860

BE MOTHER TO Your CHILpREy-Re a
mother to your children; be a companion for
your boys and girls. The follies of tho youno
are too often the manifestations of the sins Of
tne 9, mother-sins OF omission, of neglect of the
child's thought, which instead of being train.
ed as the gardener inclines the twig,is allowed
70 be blown about by every passing breeze
Fill your child's thoughts full: stuff them 10
repietlon with the good, and there will be no
room for the bad to get in. You know how to
satisfy the demands of his stomach, vet Won do
not attempt to cater for his noble, mental and
norai nature: Be companion for your chill
dren. Teach them that if weaned from your
breast, they are not put away from your heart;
and from thence let them still draw their spirit
as they before found their lifs's blood Be
mother -


'My ear is panied, ...
My soul Is sick with every day's report


VI wrong and outrage with which the earth Ia


A mother, The fashionable woman whom
we once met dancing wantonly at a city hall
when her only child lay home sickeninp with
the scarlet fever, is not the type we urge you
TO copy. She was but an ostrich who leaves its
young on the desert sand No be a true moth
er, instinct with all the holy attributes of ma
ternity. There are many of you who can, like
US, point to the mansion of the bIest for the
type OF mother not dead for she still lives in
our hearts, stirring US up with a sweet, soft
voice, yet ringing louder than clarion blasts
through our inmost souls, to duty. Ah if YOU
will but accept the noble Office you are called
upon to perform, if You will but occupy the
heart Of your husband, if you will but fold your
children into your own self, know their Utmost
thoughts, be their confident, their life-sprinp
their guide, Z" "truant husbands - as thew are
called, sons designated as ''only little wild" :"
Will be rare, and the world will be renovated.
10 tnese purer joys, does the true woman say
dress and fashion are preferable Like ail
good actions, these will rebound with blessings
In the exercise Of these duties, in the cultiya.
ton OF home joysand affections, the exposures
and consequent diseases will not be met with.
Life will not be constant state of invalidism
VIII you think Of these things gs-Knicker5ock-
Year: 1860

Friends of the Union, raise your banner on high,
Let the breeze bear il upward, aloit to the sky
From the North to the South, the East and the


West,
Rally round the standard Of the cause that is


best.
On, brethren, onward with the words Of the sage,
That shine SO brightly ON our history's page
+" Divided We fall, but united We stand"
And our Great Ruler will keep us in hand.
Young men and old men, onward still press;
Put your shoulders to the wheel Of the great


car
OF Libcrty, whose freight is richly to bless
Our glorious country, and oil that come from


atar.
Patriots, like 1srael's great King, let your


courage ne'er fail
March Oh, though like Shimcl of old, your foes


may assnil;
The great God of David shall rcquite us in good,
All who by the standard of the Union have stood
While tyrants shall tremble and how down
In the presence of Him, whose terrible trown
Will pursue with His vengeance all that opprcss,
We will look to His power the cause Of our


Union to bless.
Then let the star spanglcd banner arise,
With your prayers borne aloft to the skies
l4ct Americas great eagle fly over the main,
With the names of our leaders, BrccEinridge


and Lane!