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Year: 1860

The Sisters OF Charity have a house in Buffalo
for recaiming fallen women. Fifty-four penitent
Magdalenes have been received and kept for an av-
erage of three years, until good habits had been
fully established. Then they found places where
they might maintain themselves in respectability.
One hundred and twelve have been received in the
oloSs IF
Year: 1860

HEENAN AT HoME.-It was the intention of Heenan
to have remained over night in this city, but upon
his return from Cohoes to West Troy Yesterday
afternoon, so great was the pressure of the crowd
to see him, and so annoying the attentions he re-
ceived, that he concluded to return at once to New
York. We understand an effort was made to un-
hitch the horses from the carriage in which he
rode, with the intention on the part of the crowd
to make asses of themselves by drawing him around
and which natural bent of genius was only prevent
ed by Heenan's active personal efforts In Albany
the "boy awakened similar degree of enthusi-
asm When will these pugists have their day
like ordinary dogs?-TroY Times. yulH 2Oh.
Year: 1860

Howard the philanthropist, was standing
in crowd by the door of post Office when
man uttered volley of oaths. "Look to
your pockets !" cried Howard, buttoning up
his own tightly; always take care of your
pockets when you find yourself amongst
| sEcarers. He who will take Gods name in
vain will think little of taking your purse, or
doing anything else that is evil


a worthy clothier of Edinburg was accus-
toned, previous to engaging his clerks, to
put the question to them directly. ''DO you
arrear :, iif -9sols need pot think of enter
ing my house. ] permit none to talk o my
customers whose tongues are set ON fire of
hell"


a few years since, two soldiers at Chatham
laid shilling wager which could swear the
most oaths in FIVE minutes. As the winne1
(what misnomer y vas uttering his last he
was struck speechIess with paralysis, and re-
manned so till he died.


A barge master W $ casting off his boat
from pier in the Thames. A person very
civiIly asked him whittier he was going
Being in a bad humor (swearers generally
are he shouted out, ''What is that to you
/ am going to the devil Ere half an hour
had elapsed his idle words were verified. 4
steamer ran his barge down, and the shock
of the collision pitched hin, head Rrst into
the river.


A youth, scarcely twenty, was riding a
skittish horse. The horse started the youth
was annoyed, and awore loud and strange
oaths that he would thrash him till he re-
rented of it. But as lie raised his whip. the
horse reared and threw him against"n picket
fence and when the bystanders ran to him
he was corpse. His oaths were still echo
ing through the woods as his soul was ush-
cred into the immediate presence Of God.
An American planter had favorite do
mestic negro who was hidden to stand oppo-
site to him, and to wait on the table. When
ever his master took the name Of God in
vain, Gas he often did J the old African made
low and solemn bow. On being asked Why
he did SO he replied, .'NEassa, can never
hear that great name but that it fills my
whole soul with fear and trembling The
master was touched and reformed.
Year: 1860

A BRAvE SoLDIER.--The Paris Constitutional
gives the following anecdote OF the late war III
Italy:


During the battle of Magenta the combat
was exceedingly severe around the railway sta
ton. and as the French regiments advanced, men
were busily employed III removing the wounded,
fearing that If their comrades should by chance
be obliged TO fall back the men lying on the
ground would be trampled under foot An OFF,
Ger perceived soldier on his knees near his mus
ket busily employed in biudimg up his head
with handkerchief, having received thust
from a bayOnet, which had passed through his
cheek and entered his left eye. The officer ask
ed him what he was doing, and seeing that he was
badly wounded, told him to go to the ambulence
TO the ambuence," said the soldier, 'and whyr
Because you have lost your eye,' said the cffi-
Ger. 'Yes,' said the soldier, 'but the other is
still good, ut the same time pointing to his mus
ket to show that he could still take AIM In II
qua Tter Of en- hour after the railway station was
in the hands of the French. A ball fred by
the Austrians struck in the arm Of the sd me sOl-
dier who was climbing up one Of the windows,
and he fell The same officer ran and raised him
up. 'Ah is that you. captain? said the soldier
thank you, but the rsscsls have broken my arm
Yes, said the officer, have you not had enough
Of il now?' The soldier did not for moment
reply, but, after taking up his musket, hs said
with q smile, 1t is only The leh captain, the
other is still good and he again hurried 10 the
combat. The captain went on also, aud, in u
few moments. again saw him fall down from
shot in the breast. Poor fellow said the OFF,
Ger, leaning over him. The soldier heard his
voice, and, with dying accent said. Captain you
must not be angry with me; :or had left the
field, two other men would have been HIT where
as, In my case, it makes no great matter as my
time was evidently come and the poor fellow.
falling back. expired, 1t was the officer VIM
told the story and his turn was killed at Solieri
no. Such is the fortune OF war"
Year: 1860

When the vessel has settled down in sandy
bottom il Is preserved many months from break
ing up and its position may be much the same
as II wodld be when floating in calm water, IL
1t be not tilted over by any under current drifts.
The light of course, depends good deal upon
the depth, and upon the nature of the bottom;
but where there Is no CHALK to give a milky
thickness to the water, the diver pursues his
work in u kind OF gloomy twilight. BY the aid
OF this he can see and feel his way round tho
ship, bu, when he ascends to the deck aud winds
down into the principal cabins he fiuds every
thing pitch dark, aud has nothing to guide him
but his hands. This is the most difficult, yet
the most frequent labor he has TO encounter; the
danger being that in large vessel where the
cabin stairs are deep, and the cabins long and
broad, he may get his air tube twisted round
some unfamiliar projections and TO squeeze off
his supply OF life from above. In positions such
as this he requires all his nerve and lf.posses-
sion, all his power OF feeling his way back in the
exact road that he came. He may have got tbs
precious casket TO which he has been directed in
his arms but what Of that il he die before he
can reach the stairs The cold helpless masses
that bump against his helmet, as they float along


he low roof over his head, are the decomposed
corpses OF those who were huddlcd together in
the cabin when the ship went down. 4 few Of


these may be on the floor under his feet, but
only when pinned down by an overturned table
ora fallen chest. Their tendency is ever upa
ward, and the remorseess sea washes away the
dead infant from its dead mothers arms, the
dead wife from her dear husbands embrace.--A
II the wreck be in the channel the small ctabs
are already beginning to atten on their prey
The diver diseutangles himself from this silent
crowd, and ascends the welcome stairs to the
deck. The treasure he has rescued is hauled up
into the attendant diving boat, aud he returns
again to his work. He seldom meets with au
accident under water; never. perhaps, with
DEATH and the chief risk he runs is from get
ting some heavy piece ofship lumber overturned
on his long train of air-pipe. Even in this case
he feels the sudden cheek and the want OF air,
gropes his way 6ack to the obstruction, removes
it, signals to his companions to be raised, aud
reaches the boat exhausted and alarmed. but
not so mach as to give up his place iu the trade.
ali tho Year Round
Year: 1860

The LIFE AND DEATH OF A MIsER.-Michael
Baird, who lived near little York, PENNSYLVANIA,
was miserable miser. His father left him "a
farm of five hundred acres in the vicinity of York
with some farming and household articles. Mi
chael kept tavern a number of years, married
and raised four children. He accumulated an
| immense estate, which he reserved so tenacious
ly that he never oforded dollar for the educa-
tion OF his children. He never was known to
lay out one dollar in cash for anv article he
might be in need Of: he would either do without
It, or find some person who would barter with
hlm Tor something which he could not convent
emily sell for money. He inrmed largely, and
kept large distillery, which lie supplied entire
~ with his own grain. He kept a team for the
conveyance OF his whskey to Baltimore, where,
when he could not sell for money to suit him,
he bartered for necessaries Tor his family and tav-
ern. In this way he amassed an estate worth
100000.


Such was his attachment to money that he
was never known to credit single dollar to any
man. Upon the best mortgage that could be
given as security he would not lend cent
lie never vested dollar in public funds, neither
would he keep the notes of any bank longer than
he could get them changed He deposited his
specie in large iron chest until it would hold
no more. He then provided a strong iron hoop
ed barrel which he also filled. After his death
his strong boxes yielded S256,000 in gold and
silver


The cause Of his death was as remarkable as
the course of his life. A gentleman from Vir-
ginia offered him twelve dollars a bushel for one
hundred and ten bushels of cloverseed, but he
would not do it for less than thirteen dollars,
and they did not agree. The seed was after
ward sent to Philadelphia, where it was sold
for seven dollars bushel, and brought in the
whole, five hundred aud fifty dollars less than
the Virginian had offered for it. On receiving
an account of his sale, he walked through his
farm, went to his distilery and gave directions
to his people; he then went TO his wogon house
aud hanged himself
Year: 1860

&c, 4 c, d Q.
We are now manufacturing the best Boots ever
made in this county-acknowledged to be the best
by every one who purchase their Boots of us; they
are manufactured of the best stock by one who has
long been considered the ablest in the coun-
Year: 1860


"a fIph confsss'dis halfredrsss'd -
A simple saying, brief and wise
The ready ruth is ever best,


II ruth without disguise
IF, in weak and angry hour,


We utter bitter words and strong,
o! lei US strive with all our power
To rectiiy the wrong.
If we attempt TO mar and stain


A fellow beings peace and name,
What does our selfish spirit gain
But ireifulness aud slsamet
Remember that we but distress
Anosher's quiet and our own
Then lei US hasten to confess,


And: if We can, atone.
But there are deeds done in the Lark,
More banetnl slili than careless speech ;
" lis when we single out mark
That secret spite may reach;
And arrow from an unseen hand
lswing d 10 wound someguiltless breast;
And who can such a Toe Withstand,
Hidden aud unconiesseds
God jnageih justly. and will bring
Grief Tor the mischief that we do
We cannot work an evil thing


Bot we shall suffer loo,
Then let us lay the bosom bare,


Before the injured one aud Heaven,
And in a 9nsh Of heart fell prayer,
Confess aud he forgiven
Year: 1860

life, he NAV have his heart back The de-
sired resuscitation is effected by means of
certain charms, but The seventh heart is
nevertheless thrown on the ground, and the
eldest brother perishes like the rest, while
the Avenger takes his mother and sister
home


An important parsonage in the family OF
the Avenger is his fathers sister, 1t was
by her counsel that he obtained his gifted
wife, detained her garment while she was
bathing with her six sisters, and refusing 10
restore it till she had promised not to leave
him. In fairy tales all the world over
this mode of ensnaring sem supernatural
personages is exceedingly common, and
therefore we but lightly touch on this Incl
dent, as being less characteristic than any
of the others.


The wise aunt, consulted once by her
nephew, presents him with knife, that he
is 10 give his wife who will assuredly make
a proper use OF il. With these inlunctions
the nephew complies, and the wife no
sooner receives the weapon, she cuts out
the heart of every one in the tent, including
her own and her husbands, and filings
them up in the air. The aunt visiting tie
tent, finds every one alive, though destitute
OF the most important organ of vitality and
with view of recovering the lost hearts,
proceeds 10 lake, where the six sisters OF
the wife are bathing, aud weeping for the
seventh. OBTAINING the clothes OF one of
the bathers, she will rot re store them save
in exchange for number of hearts, found
by the sisters at their aerial residence, and
which may possibly be those recently ex.
iracted. Loaded with these hearts, which
have been purified in celestial region, the
aunt returns TO the tent, and all on receiving
their hearts become pure and holy The
wife proposes that, they should now join
her sisters, aud ascending through the air
in reindeer sledge, they penetrate thick
mist, and at last reach a warm, blissful
place, in which they are living 10 the pres
ent day.


In consequence of missionary operations
the legends OF the Finnish races not unfre.
queutly show a curious mixture of the
Christian with the national elements, the
Apostles sometimes appearing as powerful
allies OF the ancient gods. We can hardly
help sufficient that the Christian doctrine oI
regeneration is 10 some extent shadowed
forth sn this last and least savage of our
Samoyede tales.
Year: 1860

Ii went IN the morning. bright and ra-
diant morning-many went yesterday more
10 day, and there are dews TO be shed for
the departures of tomorrow. And can it
be wandered that pleasant summer morn
ngs should beguiIe them into going? Is i:
a marvel that they do moi wait for The bur-
den and tie noon, bot follow the lark and
her song over the ruin of the rainbow =
That those words so beautiful, they should
make SO true, and Joy cometh in the morn
ing?"


Going in the morning ia glorious morn
ing-when the sky is all beauty, and the
world is all bliss; ere the dews have goue
TO Heaven, or the stars gave gone 10 God !;
when the birds are singing. and the cool
winds are blowing, and the flowers are out
that will be shut at noon, and the clouds
that are never rent in rain, and the shadows
inlaid with crimson lie away to the west.


We have sometimes seen a little coffin,
like caskei for jewels, all alone by itself
in huge hearse, melancholy with plumes,
and gloomy as frown-and we have tho'l,
not so should we accompany those little
way, VINO 60 in the morning. We have
wondered why they did not take the litIle
coffin into the carriage with them, and lay
it gently upon their laps, the sleeper there
Iuled 10 sumber without bosom or era
dIe We have wondered what there was
for tears in such a going-in The early
fo hnn7a-iiro fair
white doves with downy wings emerging
from neither night and futtering for en-
trance at the windows of Heaven. Never
yet has there been a hand wanting 10 take
the wanderer in, and shut out The darkness
and the storm.


Upon those little faces, it never seemed
10 us, that death could place his great sea
there is no thought of the charne house in
those young listeners 10 that invitation,
whose acceptance We are bound 10 forbid ;
then should be morning songs and not sighs;
fresh flowers and not badges of morning
no tears nor clouds, but bright, dews and
bright dawnings together.


Fold up the white robe lay aside the
forgotten 10Y smooth the little impressed
pillow, and gently smile as you think oi
the garment. of the harp of gold, and ol
the fair brow with iis diadem of light smile
as you think that no years can make thai
memory old. An eternal, guieless child,
waiting about the threshold of Paradise for
the coming of a friend from home.


Here the glad lips would quiver with an
guish the bright curls grow grizzled and
gray the young heart weary and old, but
there, changeless as the stars, and young as
the last, new morning.


The poet tells OF green bough rent By
the tempest from the tree. and swept rude
ly along the breast of an angry river, and a
mother bird with cries of grief futierine
beside il, for her nest and nesilings wers
there. Oh better to be- walled away from
earth, Than thus that they should drlf
around the world in storm.


L. L
Year: 1860

Bury me in The morning, mother


Oh let me bave light
OF one bright day on my grave. mother,


Ere you leave me alone with the night
Alone in the night the grave, mother
Ills thought of terrible fear
And YOU VIII be here. alone. mother,
Andslars will be shining there,
So bury me in the morning, mother,


And let me have the light
Of one bright day on my grave, mother,


Ere | am alone with the night.
You tell of the Savinnr's love, mother,


feel it in my heart
Bat oh from this beautiful world. mother
'Tis hard for the young to part;
Forever 10 part, when here, .mUihet


The soul is fam TO stay.
For the grave is deep aud dark, mother,
And Heaven seems far away
Then bury me in the morning, mother,
And lei me have the light
Or ole bright day on my grave, mother,
Ere am alone with the night.
Never unclasp my hand mother,


Till it falls way with thine
let me hold the pledge of thy love, moth


or,


Till | feel the love divine
The love divine-oh look, mother,
Above the beams see
And there an angels face, mother,


Is smiling down on me,
So bury me in the morning. mother.


When the suubeams flood the sky
Tor deaths the gate Of life, mother,
And leads US tS the light on high.
Year: 1860

How long the conversation holds out TO
burn between TWO persons only is CURIOUS
ly set down in the following passage from
Count Goufallioner's account of his i'm
prisonment


Fifteen years existed in dungeon
Ten feet square Du ring six ears had
companion; during nine | was alone. |
never could rightly distinguish the face Of
him who shared my captivity in the eter-
nal twilight of our cell. The first year
we talked necessarily together; we related
our past lives, our Joys forever gone, over
and over again. The next gear we COM
municaed 10 each other our thoughts and
ideas on all subjects. The third year we
had no ideas to cummunicate; we were
beginning To lose the power Of reflection.
The fourth. =, The interval Of "a month OF
so, we woUld open our lips TO ask each
other If it were possible that the world
went on as gay and busrlng as when we
formed a portion OF mankind. The fifth
we were silent. The sixth he vas taken
away-I never kne " where, 10 execution
or liberty. But was glad when he was
gone-even solitude was better than the
pale, vacant face. One day Iii must have
teen year or two after my companion
left me) the dungeon door was opened,
whence proceeding knew ,.rhe follow,
ing words were uttered "By order of his
Imperial Majesty, intimate TO YOU that
your wife died year ago" Then the
door was shut. and | heard no more; they
had flung this great agony upon me, and
left me alone with il.
Year: 1860

OwLIsH.-A disagreeable old bachelor,
whose proposal 10 marry was refused for
the fifteenth time, last week, by young
lady, was heard Immediately after the re-
fusalto deliver most bitter philippe
against the fair sex in general, and cOnefu-
ding remarked


That the reason why Adam was pot to
sleep before the creation Of Eve from his
rib. lay IN the fact that if he had been
awake, he never would have consented to
any such Outrage upon his future peace,
or that ofFis bre hren.


What q G0sIY old owl
Year: 1860

The threats from the South are very
different from the threats from the North
The threat from the South, in the matter
of disunion, is to withdraw from associ
alton with the people of the North. II
proposes to take nothing from the peo
pie of the North which is theirs. Not a
right-not a liberty-not single ad
vantage, physical, moral, or political, does
it propose to take from the people Of the
North. 1t is simply threat of sepera.
ton. On the other hand, the threats
from the North are of coercion and
slaughter-with total annihilaton of all
self-goyernment or liberty in the South.
Considered apart from all prejudices, il
would appear most innocent and reason.
able that people, if they think fit, should
withdraw from association with another
people, and should govern themselves and
their own destinies. Ii the people from
whose association they desire to with.
draw are neither plundered nor wronged
by them in any way, why should their
separation be objected to? No people
can have any right to coerce continued
association with another people, simply
on the ground that the association con.
tributes to their interest or advancement.
Every principle of honesty and justice
dictates that, if a people do contribute,
by their association with another people,
to their benefit, they cannot be blamed
for withholding it, If it was voluntary,
it can be voluntarily withdrawn. Dona.
tions cannot be converted into rights
But when to leave voluntary association
is denied as right-whilst it is claimed
as right to coerce continued associa-
ton; and the threat of violence and death
is put forth against the innocent people
who simply affect to control their own in
the separation they meditate-it is clear
that all conventional relations are broken
down between the parties. Force, in
stead of assent, becomes the bond of
union; and if the Union is continued un-
der such threat, its subjects are tribu-
taries, colonists, slaves.


And yet, whilst it is thus clear that the
South, in her threats Of separation from
the North, purpose to leave untouched
and unmolested every right and interest
of the North, the answering threats of
the North are most aggressive, brutal
and malignant. The sword and the
scafiold are the instrumentalities they
present to the Southern people, to obtain
their continued associations. The well
fare of the South is no longer a consid
Grafton of her union. The welfare Of the
North is the sole criterion--and that well
fare is to be wanted and fattened by the
blood of the people of the South Charles
ton Mercury.
Year: 1860

To meet at the breakfast table, father,
mother, children, all well, ought to be a
happiness to any heart; it should be a
source of humble gratitude, and should
wake up the warmest feelings of our ma
ture. Shame upon the contemplate and
lowbred cur, whether parent or child, that
can ever come to the breakfast table,
where all the family have met in health,
only to frown and whine, and growl, and
fret; it is prime facie evidence of a mean
and groveing and selfish and degraded
nature, whencesoever the churl may have
sprung. Nor less reprehensible to make


such exhibitions at the tea-table; for be-
fore the morning comes some of the little
circle may be stricken down with some
deadly disease, to gather around that
table not again forever Children in
good health, if left to themselves at the
table, become after few mouthfuls, gar
rulous and noisy; but if within at all reas-
enable or bearabe bounds it is better to
let them alone; they eat less, because they
do not eat so rapidly as if compelled to
keep silent, while the very exhilaration Of
spirits quiclens the circulation of the vi
tai fluids, and cnergizes digestion and as
similation. The extremes Of society curl
ously meet in this regard. The tables of
the rich and mobiles of England are models
of mirth, wit, and bonhommie; it takes
hours to get through a rcpast, and they
live long. If anybody will look in upon
the negres of well to do family in Ken
lucky, while at their meals, they cannot
but be impressed with the perfect abandon
of jabber, cachination, and mirth; il seems
as if they conld talk all day, and they live
long. 1t follows, then, that at the family
table all should meet, and do it habitually
to make common interchange Of high


bred courtesies, Of warm affections, of
cheering mirthfulness, and that generosi-
ty of nature which lifts us above the
brutcs which perish, promotive as these
things are of good digestion, high health
and long life.--HaHs Journal Of Health.