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Year: 1860

WoMAN.-A grabbed acquaintance Of
ours has just repeated to us, 'Frailty, thy
name is woman We were trying to get
him to call with US on very beautiful lady
of our acquaintance. He is scholar, o
wit, and gentleman, and yet dares to re-
peat that villainous line in our hearing
Alas for him !! we fear he is past redemp.
ton. We cannot conceive why the fail
sex have been so often villi6ed. We de-
clare it unjust, and we enlist ourselves in
their defence; Notwithstanding Virgil hath
said, woman always various and changes
ble,' and Shakespeare, 'Frailty, thy name il
woman r.


Woman is not more variable than man
Her constancy has stood the test of fire and
blood, and torment, in thousands Of in
stances, and shall she be called fickle?-
We verify believe that woman's friendship
is infinitely more disinterested, infinitely
more pure than mans. She will follow bel
lover through veal and woe-through evi
report and good report-through poverty
through sorrow, and misery, and death
She will love him in his sin, and in hi
glory, and in his shame, and in his degra
dation; and she will bind him the closer
to her heart, as he falls the lower. Viii
man do SO? No-let but the breath o
evil report dim the brightness of the pure
name of that being whom he loves, let he
sin but once, and he will forsake her for
ever. Will he love her in abuse and i'll
treatment? But supposeshe coquette, ant
trife with the affections of the worthy P
Has she not been taught by example I? How
many hearts have broken and bled to deatl
when forsaken by man? How many womel
have given their whole affections away, ant
poured out their whole hearts upon lover
and then been forsaken ! How often hav'
attentions been offered to crafty vanity, ant
to please pride How often? Alas VIII
shall answer the question ?-NeaO Yor1
Paper.
Year: 1860

| Luck! What is it? The term itself is
derived from the Danish tongue, Luk, and
means in our vernacular chance, fortune,
hap.


But will chance or fortune smile, if We
make no honest endeavor to possess it p
Chance what is it any how? Is there in
reality any such thing as chance? live
are necessarily compelled to mental exer-
else to become scholars, is it not the result
Of our industry and diligent perseverance
Has chance anything to do with it never
Sit down, young man, and wait for luck or
chance to make scholar Of you, and you
are certain to die in blissful Cd ignorance


five are compelled from sheer necessity
to toll for our daily bread, can We set down
to the repast obtained by the sweat Of our
brows, and bless chance for it?


If wealth is obtained by assiduous toll,
can its possession be the result of chance
Never!


Sit down and fold your hands in ease and
indolence, my young friend, and wait fol
luck to make you an opulent and influential
man and you are certain to die beggar
Such a course has sent hundreds to the
penitentiary, and thousands as paupers to
the poor house.


Young man, do you want good luck p
Go to work with all your might You will
have luck then; you will gain friends, po'
sition, and maybe wealth. Those friends
will aid you, when they see you disposed
to help yourself. Quit lounging about the
streets-get away from the doors of mast,
stinking grogshops! Don't lie on old boxes
at the corners of the street, and stare at la
dies as they pass by. Throw away that Sc
gar d! Shake off your old lounging associ,
ates!. Roll up your sleeves; clean out eel
lars; chop wood; do anything rather than
be idle, you will have good luck then. Il
you have bad luck and get down, get W
again. Shake off the dust and try it once
more-saying to yourself nIdesperandum
Don't wait for the tide, Shakespeare talk'
about. Make tide; get on it, and ride i
to the desired goal. "Laziness is the Devil
cushion" and remember that the indus
trious man is tempted by only one evil
while the indolent that are all the time
carping about ill-luck, actually, as the ole
proverb has it, tempt the devil.


Rip ahead, every body; go it with al
your might; and we shall hear no more o
ill-luck, and misfortune Live within you
income ; lay up dime or two every week
Then the goddess of fortune will smile upol
YOU, not before. ROVER.
Year: 1860

coast to listen to nasal Psalms, and close
their eyes, the live long day! In distress
ing want of occupation they cast about
and, 10 G.! far down South they behold great
evil, an evil that taints all the air, and
cries out of the ground, and then they a.
dopt the language of the worthy deacon
when he thrust pin through the delicate
waist of an humble bee, PN teach you there
Is q God in Israeli"
Year: 1860

A SENSIBLE YOUNG LADY.-Said 9
young lady, who was fashionably educated
at boarding schools, and INDUCED in idle


ness at home, so that there was neither
strength or elasticity in her frame, 4 usee
to be so feeble that I could not even lift {
broom, and the least physical e1ertion woult
Year: 1860

A THURINaIAN BUTcHER.-An extra
ordinary affair is related in Frankfort
journal GA female, after being twenty
one years in the service of butcher at
Frankenheausen, in Thuringia, left him a
few evenings back, taking with her sum
of two hundred thalers, which she hadsaved
up. After walking some distance, she met
two gendarmes, and after telling them that
she had the money in question in her pock-
ct, expressed fear that, as night had set
in, she might be robbed in wood through
which she had to pass but the officers told
her that there was no danger, as they had
just been in the wood and had seen no sus.
picious characters. A few minutes after,
one of the gendarmes, acting under an i'm.
pulse for which he could not well account,
returned to the wood to see if the woman
had passed through it safely; and, to bis
horror, he found her lying murdered in a
pool of blood. Near her was large knife,
with which the crime had evidently been
perpetrarted; and as it was one of those
which butchers use, he conceived the sus-
picion that the murderer might have been
the woman's master. He, accordingly,
rode at once to the butchers house, and
seating himself at table, asked to be al
lowed to eat his supper. At the same mo-
ment he placed the bloody knife before
him, and one of the butchers children
cried, That is our knife Two or three
minutes after the butcher himself entered.
He turned deadly pale on seeing the knife
and the officer. When accused of the
murder he could not deny his guilt, and
gave up the two hundred thalers which he
had taken from the woman. He has been
ordered for trial"
Year: 1860

THE editor of the San Jose Reporter recently
found upon his table beautiful wreath of flow
ers, and here is his acknowledgment of the odor
exhaling gift


Upon our desk crimson rose,


In modest beauty lay,


And waited to our grateful nose,


The scent of gardens gay.
What plying heart, we said, and sighed,
For us hath had this care 4?
An answering voice behind us cried,
"Our devil threw it there"
Thus oft we find in human life,


The good is mixed with evil,
And acts we deem with virtue rif
Are bats thrown by the devil
Year: 1860

MISS HARRIET MARTINEAU on EARLY RISING.


1t is of great Importance TO persons of seden-
tary occupations to obtain brisk exercise as the
first act of the day. Whether it shall be walk
ing, or some vigorous exercise at home, is
matter of choice but a man will study all the
better after breakfast for having cheered his
spirits and quckened his circulation by a walk /:
and will add, by what some people would call
an unpleasant one. | speak from experience
here. For thirty years my business has lain in
my study. The practice of early rising was. |
am confident, the grand preservatve of health,
through many years of hard work-the hours
gained being given, not to book or pen, but to
activity. ] rose at six, summer and winter and
(after cold bathing) went out for a walk in all
weathers In the coolest season. on the rainiest
morning, never returned without being glad
that ! went. | need not detail the pleasures oil
the summer mornings. In winter, there was eli
ther a fragment of gibbous moon hanging over
the mountain, or some star quivering in the river
or iccles beginning to shine in the dawn, or. al
worst, some break in the clouds, some moss on
the wall, some gleam on the water, which car
red home in the shape of refreshment. | break.
tasted at hall-past seven, and had settled house
hold business and was at my work by halfpast
eight.
Year: 1860

THE SECLuSION OF THE SOUL-Who is so un-
thinking not TO be sometimes impressed with
that great mystery of our spiritual being, its
utter isolation from an all surrounding universe
How perfect the seclusion in which every indi-
Nidnal finite soul dwells apart from every other?
We do, indeed, hold an imperfect intercourse by
teegIaphic signals passing through matter but
walls Of edamant conld not more etfectually
separate MS from direct spiritual communing than
The state in which God has created us. There is
something impressively solemn In this deep
secluson, this everlasting loneliness. No other
FOUL knows us no other finite spiritual eye has
ever seen us the nearest friend has only inferred
our existence; like the natural belief in a God,
"Onr Invisible things are understood from the
thlngs that are SEEM" even our inward power
and humanity. The thought is sometimes our
pride it places in such gloomy grandeur each
souls lnviOlabe individuality. 1t may also give
rise TO feeling tinged with melancholy. o!
could another know us, as we sometimes led
TO eXcIam, just as we know ourselves, we would
be willing even that he should know our sins :;
could he also feel and know to the fullest extent
all the palliations TO which they are entitled in
human eyes.


There is one soul that knows us, personally,
Intimately thoroughly-kDOws us not by media,
hy signals, outward or interior, not by induction
from effects. or free knowledge from causes, but
hy direct and immediate presence by more than
presence, even by pervadng, inter pene-
tratng spirit; not only by an occasional or
partial beholding, but by an unintermtted
knowledge of our all, our sense, our memory,
our intelligence, our consciousness, even when
least sensible least known, least conscious to
ourselves. "Thou hast possessed my reins thou
knowest my thoughts when awake | am still
with thee And then to think this soul thus
prrvading all other souls forming the universal
medium, II we may nse term so much profaned
of all spiritual exIstences, and yet losing nothing
of that distinct personality which it presents to
each. not impairing in the least that distinct in
dvdualty with which every finite spirit stands
before the infinite There is in such view all
that the highest philosophy can demand, and yet
all that meets our lowliest human thought our
deepest human sympathy Taylor Leeis.
Year: 1860

Gives total gross income off,.
Allowing the expense Of working
this road to be IS cents per mile,
for the distance run by the loco
motives, which is p cents more
than the cost of running on sew
eral roads in this State, and the
expenses would amount to.
Year: 1860

WAsHlSGroS's Enthusiastically the an-
nlversary Of the Birthday cf the Father Of his
Country was observed BY the military generally,
albeit the streets were in condition that called
for the most liberal outlay Of soldierly devotion,
to encounter the mud and mire, everywhere
Astounding. The gallant Zouayes were out in
the afternoon, and attracted much attention and
admiration by their fine appearance and excel
lent drill. The Sons Of Columbia and the
American Protestant Association we're also out
on paradc.


Last evening there were held several brilliant
Assemblies aud Balls commemorative of the dav
Year: 1860

Florence Correspondence of the Providence Journal


ILLNESS OF Mr.. PARKER.-The Rev. Theo-
dOre Parker lies near the point of DEATH here
III Florence. Six weeks ago, at Rome, the ac-
counts of his condition were SO favorable that
his friends hoped that his lease of life might
perhaps be prolonged for considerable period
FraScati, about ten miles from Rome, his ener-
gies experienced a severe trial Immediately
after that his strength began more completely
to give away. l saw him for the first time af-
ter an interval Of seven years on the hill near
the melancholy ruins of Tusculum, and was
impressed not less with the visible wreck which
disease had made of the frame of the strong
man. 1t is painful to see the temple and
shrine so broken and the pure lamp burn
ing with only feeble flame within
l could not but think then how much
greater is man in his works than in his
physical selt-in what he does than what at
the moment he is. There were the great frag-
ments OF the ancient Latin city, spared by the
elements for nearly two thousand years after
the hands Of the builders had crumbled into
dust: And so with our great eountryman in
the work he has done. He has used, as it will
prove, to good purpose, the splendid intelec-
tual power which was his in the service of
his Maker and his fellow creatures. Let those
who have been his enemies henceforth love
him, for he wished to be the brother of us all,
and was faithful to God, to conscience and the
human race. More than dogmas, he Worship
ped the two great principles of justice and
love, which are the essence of God, too much
to please the world. But for that let him be
forgiven.
Year: 1860

a GEOLOGICAL ExcURsIoN.-The class in
geology at the Millbury high school, to the num-
Der of twenty, rode to Princeton, on Saturday
morning, and spent the day on Mount Wachu-
set. They were accompanied by their princi-
pal, Mr.. Rockwell and his assistant, Miss May
nard, who made the journey one of instruction
as well as pleasure to the pupils. They were
not disturbed by rain till on their way home,
and as they rode past our Office they did not
seem to mind the storm in the least.
Year: 1860

FAREWELL SERVICE Rev. j. G. Adams
preached his last sermon as minister of the
Universalist church here, yesterday afternoon,
to an overflowing house. His text was Phi
lippians :27-"Only let your conversation be
as it becometh the gospel of Christ; that
whether l come and see you, or else be absent,
l may hear of your affairs that ye stand fast
in one spirit, with one mind striving together
for the faith of the gospel" His discourse
was mainly general view of ministerial du.
ties, urging with great earnestness that it was
not his office to teach science or make the pull
pit supplant the lyceum he should lead the
devotions of an assembly of worshippers, and
give to personal religion the highest place in
his teachings. He had aimed to do this but
in the future he should make it still more
prominent. He expressed satisfaction at the
progress in Worcester of the grand idea of
Gods paternity, as shown by the condition of


ing in other pulpits here. His church has
doubled its members in the seven years of his
ministry. To him, he said change of place
was always an affliction, and especially from
the heart city of the commonwealth" zone of
the most favored he had ever known" Man,
however, cannot always control his abiding
place, and the christian may forever trust the
leadings of Him who careth even for the spar


rows fall. The closing prayer was by Rev.
Mr.. Shipper. Mr.. Adams leaves warm friends
here. He has been worker in every good
cause. His departure is universally regretted
by all who have known him, both from within
and without his society, and their best wishes
go with him to Providence, his new home.
Year: 1860

For KILLDEER IsLAND.-If it is pleasant
weather, the German Turner's and friends will
go out in the eight O'Clock train, this morning,
for Webster They will pass the day on the
island situated in the pond which bears the
mellf1uous name of Chanabunyagungamaug
Year: 1860

want it understood this is not q Rattle or
lift Entertainment 1t is designed to obtain
work and customers, and to this end every one
who will bring me work to do in the jewelry
Matchmaking or Daguerrean business I will
present with as many tickets as they will ex-
pend dollars in my line. Those who want
watches cleaned or repaired, any Jewelry or
Oague, rean work done have only to pay me the
regular price. The work will he warranted
watches for one year, and besides obtaining the
work at the going rates they will receive as
many tickets in my great distribution as they


xpend dollars for work. Remember that /
will Lot raise the price of my work. Purchas-


RS need not have the work done now, but at
my time hereafter the tickets will be good for
1'atch repairing or likenesses.
Year: 1860

1t becomes more evident. as pony after pony
comes in, that the Democracy are disorganzed,
discordant, beliserent. The doom of the party
is sealed. Without union there is not the shadow
OF hope, and union is now and has been i'm
possible. The Douglas wing will not leave its
leader for any other IN America; the Admins
tration forces will not support Douglas at the
sa,rifee of their principles, and so thore can be
no combination. A few Of the leaders of each
faction in isolated cases may agree to use their
efforts to force an amalgamation, bat the rank
and file of the wings will never come together
under the same banner


Indeed, it is unsafe to attempt union. As
public sentiment now stands an agreement h.,
the leaders on both sides would not be sanct .e,l
by the people, but would end in open revolt
Thousands would go over en- musse to the pub
lans or to the Bell and Everett party The liz
tie community about US is an ep;tome of tn,
American people. We know of dozens who
would countenance no Reunion of the divided
Democracy except by entire and unreservcd sub
mission of one faction to the other The pref
erence is often expressed by Democrats of Lin
coin over Douglas. Lincoln over Breckinridge
as the case may be. While this feeling exists it
is folly to think of re union of the Democratic
elements, 1t can not bolster up one tottering
ruin. The party is wholly dissolved, more SO
than the Old Wing party, whose principles are
still living, acknowledged and intact The pros
poets are fair that Douglas, the boastcd majority
candidate of the once great Democratic party
will not obtain one electoral vote in the Union.
The wise men of the East admit his chances are
absolutely hopeless in his own State of Illinois
Nor are his hopes much brighter in Indiana
Pennsyivania will not sustain him. In truth it
begins to be apparent that the whole North in
solid column will support the Chicago nominees
South the banner of Bell and Everett advances
borne high and proudly aloft. We NAV be Wis
lonary, but with the single exception of South
Carolina, we believe the Union ticket stands As
fir chance of success as aay in all the South
eFn States. The contest is virtually between
Lincoln and Bell, with odds in favor of the for
ncr. Breckenridge, from present appearances
will be third in the list so far as electoral yotes
are concerned, while Douglas can never reach
chanceiin the House of Representatives. Old
Bullion was true prophet when he said Doug
las could never reach the Presidency His legs
are too short altogether to keep up in such
race as this.
Year: 1860




BY HENRY wADswoRTH LoNGFELLow.
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes pause in the days occupation
That is known as the Children's Hour.
hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study see in the lamphght,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair.
whisper, and then a silence;
Yet know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
sudden raid from the hall,
By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall
They climb up into my tnrret
Ger the arms and back of my chair;
If try to escape, they surround me;
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwne.
Till | think of the Bishop Of Bingen
In his Mouse Tower On the Rhnel
Do you think, o blue-eyed handitti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as am
Is not a match for ou all
have you fast in my fortress,
And will not leG you depart
But put you down into the dungeons
In the ronnd-tower of my heart.
And there will keep you forever,
Yes, forever and day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And lnoulder in dust awaY
Year: 1860

A IlousE.-Therc are two aspects Of q house
that are mighty interesting and suggestive. One
is when the house is finished, yet before it is oc
cupied the other, when it has received many
tenants. and has returned to solitude and silence


In the former instance. the mind is ready at
picturing the future OF the house-what vnric.
ties Of future will be realized there, what human
passion evoked-some good. some bad. Chill
dren have to be born there, lovers to meet, and
many old people to die. and so on, until the
head aches under the weight Of the probable to
come Of the place.


In the second instance, all those matters are
of the past and fit through the apt brain of the
man contemplating out of doors To him, the
beyond is more suggestive than the future has
proved to the previous watcher. One has been
content with the actual and the ordinary; our
present watcher looking up to the dwelling Of
one or more lapsed families imaGines a murder.
perhaps; aud q, is not improbable) ghost, in
connection with the wasting pile
Year: 1860

ALL that q wife really Graves in this world is
LovE--the love of her husband and children.
Now, the word Love means respect, attention,
pretty compliments, tenderness. fondling, COM
panionship-and eight women out Of ten will be
snpremely happy-even in poverty-if their hug
bands treat them with loving Kindness. Make a
companion, eonfidant, friend Of your wife--ard
she will be happy even with the hunger pain
gnawing at her stomach. without love. woman
is usually miserable, even when surrounded with
pomp and circumstance. Any husband can
make his wife love him il he chooses but he
must be devoted. tender. gallant, and should not
spare those little terms of endsarment which are
so easily spoken. halfdozen well delivered
kisses will leave sensible woman in heaven for
q whole day. Show us the man who will deny
his wife this felicity, and We will show you a
man who is indifferent about his own happiness.


Selma Reporter.
Year: 1860

SIGNATURE OF TUE CRoss.--The mark which per-
sons who are unable to write are required to
make instead of their signature is In the form Of
cross, and this practice, having formerly been
followed by kings and nobles is constantly refer
red to as an instance Of the deplorable ignorance
Of ancient times. This signature is not, however.
invariable proof of such ignorance: anciently, the
use Of this mark was not confined to iiterate per-


IONS for amongst the Saxons the mark Of the
cross, rs an attestntion Of the good faith of the
person signing, was required to be attached to
the signature Of those who could write, as well
as to stand in the place of the signature Of those
who conld not write. In those times, IL a man
could write, or even read, his knowledge was
considered proof presumptve that he was in holy
orders. The word etericms clerk synoni-
nous with penmsn and the laity, or people who
were not clerks, di@not feel any urgent necessity
for the Of letters. The ancient use of the
cross was therefore universal alike by those who
could and those who could not write; it was, in
deed. the symbol Of nm. oath from its holy associ
ations. and generally the mark. On this account,
Mr. Charles Knight in his notes to the Pictorial
Shakespeare. explains the expression of "God
save the mark" as a form of ejaculation np.
preaching TO the character Of an oath. This
phrase occurs three or more times in the plays Of
Shakespear; bnt hitherto. IL has been left by the
commentators In its original obscurity.