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with a joyful spirit. Be independent; a young housekeeper never needed a greater moral courage than she does now to resist the arrogance of fashion. You know best what you can and ought to afford; then decide, with strict integrity, according to your means.

An Incident of the Revolution.

The want of provisions in the camp of Burgoyne, just previous to his capture by the Americans, began to be severely felt; the Americans had seized their last supply, which some boats contained; all resort to the country lying round, where tory friends were to be found, was totally cut off. The prosecuting Americans had fenced them in as with a wall of vengeance which could not be passed;-famine had commenced its unnerving power, sickness was multiplied among the soldiery, fever attended with its deliriums, raved from couch to couch. Water, water was the incessant cry. And although the Hudson on one side of the camp, poured along its silver waters, and rapid streams of Fish Creek roared sweetly in the ears of the sick and desponding forces, yet it was impossible to snatch a drop from those dreadfully guarded waters; a hundred bullets were sure to pierce whoever made the attempt, soon as they stooped to touch the silvery current. But such were the cries for water, by the sick and the dying, that their women, moved by pity, were made superior to the dreadful crisis (imagining that the Americans would not from feelings of gallantry shoot a female) snatched hastily their pails, and ran to the shores to try what the event might be. Their opinion of the enemy, as it proved, with respect to their persons, was correctly formed, for while they could not find it in. their hearts to spill the blood of defenceless females, they were sure to riddle their pails as they hung from their hands, so that little or no water could be procured.

In this dilemma, a faithful wife, who had left her native country for love of her husband, who was one of the unfortunate Hessians sold by his government to the King of England at a certain sum a head, to fight in a cause the merits of which he knew nothing; this woman, as she moved from couch to couch, listening to the moans of the sick for water, suddenly resolved, "I will try, perhaps I may succeed to bring a little." Her husband tried to dissuade her, but she persisted, her sympathies were strong, for as a kind and comforting angel she made it her business to hover over the diseased and wounded of her countrymen-the Hessians-all the while she had been in the army.

She sprang along the adventurous path that led to the dreaded shore, her husband following close as far as he dare; already she stood on the brink in full view of the guns on the other side; for a moment she cast an imploring glance that way and then to heaven for protection; her right hand had dashed the vessel deep into the water; a struggle to clear the open shore and reach the deeply shaded bank, had marked her agitated demeanor, when a ball, aimed at her pail, struck, as she had stooped over the vessel too low, her angel bosum-the blood spouted and dyed the ground before her quivering frame fell crimsoned in the gore of her faithful heart. Her husband, who had waited but a short distance for her return, had not moved his constant eye from his all of earth, while within his soul vibrated between the vast extremes of hope and despair, her screech struck his ear, her reeling frame showed him that the shaft of death had cleft his heart asunder. She had but touched the ground where she fell, when his arms enclosed her, dyed in spouting blood from her bosom; frantic with grief, he dreaded not the flash of the deadly rifle, but bore her to the camp struggling in the pangs of dissolution, while he impressed on the fading forebead, the last kiss of fervent affection.

The grief of this man was respected, not a gun moved its trigger, hushed were volleys of the sympathising, yet brave Vermonters; her pail and not her person, had been the aim of the distressed marksman, the green mountaineer.

"CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME."-This passage has done vast mischief. It has been many a time laid as a sweet unction to the very heart of selfishness and cupidity. It seems to be the common opinion that it is in the Bible, but this impression is false.It appears to have been derived from 1 Tim. v. 4: "Let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents. '—Nat. Magazine.

A Fortunate Kiss.

The following little story by Miss Bremer, is tak en from Sartain's Magazine. For its truth and reality she says she will be responsible:

In the University of Upsala, in Sweden, lived a young student, a lovely youth, with a great love for studies, but without means for pursuing them. He was poor and without connections. Still he studied, living in great poverty, but keeping a cheerful heart, and trying not to look at the future, which looked so grimly at him. His good humor, and good qualities made him beloved by his young comrades. Once he was standing with some of them in the great square of Upsala, prating away an hour of leisure, when the attention of the young man be. came arrested by a very young, elegant lady who at the side of an elderly one, walked slowly over the place. It was the daughter of the Governor of Upland, living in the city, and the lady with her was the governess. She was generally known for her goodness and gentleness of character, and looked upon with admiration by the students. As the young men now stood gazing at her as she passed on like a graceful vision, one of them exclaimed: 'Well, it would be worth something to have a kiss from such a mouth.'

The poor student, the hero of our story, who was looking intently on that pure and angelic face exclaimed as if by inspiration, 'Well, I think I could. have it.'

'What!' cried his friends in a chorus, 'are you crazy? Do you know her?' &c.

'Not at all,' he answered; but I think she would kiss me now, if I asked her.'

'What, in this place, before all our eyes?'
'In this place, before your eyes.'
'Freely ?'

'Freely.'

'Well, if she will give you a kiss in that manner I will give you a thousand dollars,' exclaimed one of the party. 'And I!

And I!' cried three or four others; for it so happened that several rich young men were in the group, and the bets ran high on so improbable an event: and the challenge was made and received in less time than we take to relate it.

Our hero (my authority tells not whether he was handsome or plain; I have my peculiar ideas for believing he was rather plain but singularly good looking at the same time,) our hero immediately walked off to the young lady, and said: '-, (min froleen,) my fortune is in your hand.' She looked at him in astonishment but arrested her steps. He proceeded to state his name and condition, his as piration, and related simply and truly what had just passed between him and his companions. The young lady listened attentively and when he ceased to speak, she said, blushing, but with great sweetness:- -If by so little a thing so much good can be effected, it would be foolish for me to refuse your request;' and she kissed the young man publicly in .the open square.

Next day the student was sent for by the Governor. He wanted to see the man who had dared to seek a kiss from his daughter in that way, and whom she had consented to kiss so. He received him with a scrutinizing brow, but after an hour's conversation was so pleased with him that he offered him to dine at his table during his studies at Upsala.

Our young friend now pursued his studies in a manner which soon made him regarded as the most promising scholar at the University. Three years were now passed since the day of the first kiss, when the young man was allowed to give a second one to the daughter of the Governor, as his intended bride.

He became, later, one of the greatest scholars in Sweden, as much respected for his learning as for his character. His works will endure forever among the work of science; and from this happy union sprang a family well known in Sweden even at the present day, and whose wealth of fortune and high position in society are regarded as small things compared with its wealth of goodness and love.

Tommy Doddy makes a very fair attempt indeed at a joke. He says that Edgar Poe used to drink strong tea to excite him to poetical inspiration.Tommy says it is no wonder that T should make Poe a poet.

If a man could have his wishes, he would double his troubles.

A Physiological View of the Day of Rest.

BK DR. FARRE.

The ordinary exertions of man run down the < culation every day of his life; and the first gene law of nature by which God (who is not only giver, but also the preserver and sustainer of li prevents man from destroying himself, is the alt nating of day with night, that repose may succe action. But although the night apparently equa zes the circulation well, yet it does not sufficien restore its balance for the attainment of a long li Hence one day in seven, by the bounty of Prov dence, is thrown in as a day of compensation, perfect by its repose the animal system. You m easily determine this question as a matter of fa by trying it on beasts of burden. Take that fi animal, the horse, and work him to the full exte of his powers every day in the week, or give hi rest one day in seven, and you will soon perceiv by the superior vigor with which he performs i functions on the other six days, that this rest is n cessary to his well being. Man, possessing a sup rior nature, is borne along by the very vigor of h mind, so that the injury of continued diurnal exertic and excitement on his animal system is not so in mediately apparent as it is in the brute; but in th long run he breaks down more suddenly: it abridg es the length of his life, and that vigor of his oi age which (as to mere animal power) ought to b the object of his preservation. I consider, there fore, that in the bountiful provision of Providenc for the preservation of human life, the Sabbatica appointment is not, as it has been sometimes the logically viewed, simply a precept partaking of th nature of a political institution, but that it is t be numbered among the natural duties, if th preservation of life be admitted to be a duty and the premature destruction of it a suicidal act And if you consider further the proper effect o real Christanity, namely, peace of mind, confidin trust in God, and good-will to man, you will per ceive, in this source of renewed vigor to the mind and through the mind to the body, an additiona spring of life imparted from this higher use of the Sabbath as a holy rest. Researches in physiology will establish the truth of revelation, and conse quently show that the divine commandment is not to be considered as an arbitrary enactment, but a an appointment necessary to man. This is the po sition in which I would place it, as contradistin guished from precept and legislation; I would poin out the Sabbatical rest as necessary to man; anc that the great enemies of the Sabbath, and conse quently the enemies of man, are all laborious exer cises of the body or mind, and dissipation, which force the circulation on that day in which it should repose; while relaxation from the ordinary cares of life, the enjoyment of this repose in the boson of one's family, with the religious studies and du ties which the day enjoins, constitute the beneficia. and appropriate service of the day. The student of nature, in becoming the student of Christ, will find, in the principles of his doctrine and law, the only and perfect science which prolongs the pres ent, and perfects the future life.

ONE OF THE DARK SPOTS OF LONDON.-The Daily News, in alluding to the lower parts of St. Clement's Lane as a "London fever hole," thus draws the abode of men and women of "merry England:"

"A track through the heart of the Black Forest, or a pass through the bowels of a mountain in Arabia Petrea could not be more close and dreary. You might walk here in a good stiff hurricane and hardly know it; a summer shower might pass and leave you dry. You are in a region of perpetual shadow,? and the women and children who sit and sprawl upon the floor-steps are scarcely less in doors than when languishing in their dark and foetid rooms; and no wonder, for according to actual measurement, the courts vary in breadth from six to twelve feet.Here are the holes where our human fellow crea tures swarm like vermin. According to a report published in the Daily News, no less than fifty inmates were found to reside in one of the houses in Middle Serle's place, (formerly Little Shire-lane,) and in Shipyard many of the houses are built back to back, entirely preventing thorough ventilation. The gentleman who made the examination, states that water butts are kept in under-ground cellars, the walls and flooring of which are continually, damp to the touch, and where the water, imbibing the filthy exhalation of the place, acquires a dread ful odor; that the ceilings of some of these cellars

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Man can serve on the etat major of France not spent two years at the school of the , and passed through a series of most dif aminations. This school was founded in And although the extraordinary men who ser Napoleon's Marshals-and particularly MarSalt and Berthier-had themselves performach of the duties of staff officers, still it was a special corps should be provided, and the dat major was accordingly formed. In peace this school consists of 50, 25 of whom It has now been early as staff officers. to 80. The 30 best pupils of the military of St. Cyr may choose the corps in which serve, and of these about one-third select major; but even they must pass their prery examination before admission, and go the two years' course of study. The same pdes to the applicants for admission from the Folytechnique and from the officers of the army. The course consists of mathematics, fortification, topography, artillery, drawing, by, languages, &c.-in short, all that will make mplished soldier, and enable him to move key and manœuvre it when moved. When the amination is passed at the end of the two course, each man must serve two years in an , two in a cavalry, and very often two in an regiment; so that in addition to the theohe may know the practical working of eveach of the service. After all this he becomes retat major. It is not too much to say exists no better strategists or tacticians, no O more thoroughly understand the adminisof all that concerns an army, than the offiof this distinguished corps. A French general at to suggest, the etat major are ready at once ry his plans into execution. Why have we no corps with us? and why are not the officers who passed in the senior class at Sandhurst more est? Who stops the way? The British culd appertain to no cliques or coterie, howwerful, however high-placed. It belongs, as at, to the British nation, of which it is, and been, the honour, the glory, the bulwark, he pride.

ter in Frazier's Magazine, in an article on etal faculties illustrates the evils of excessive exertion, by the affecting little anecdote of er Scott: One day, when he was thus exmself beyond his powers, Sir Walter said to and Hall who also suffered and died from is the brain-"How many hours can you "Six," said the Captain. "But can't you e spars ?" "If I do, the horse won't go." the better for you," said Scott with a sigh. pat on the spurs, the horse will go well but it is killing the horse."

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Women make idols unto themselves, but to find them clay.

Every man is a fool in some points, every woman in one.

Most men are to women like heathen idols, double jawed.

There are scars in the heart over which the moss of time never grows.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

The word Man-a synonyme for falsehood. Casting pearls before swine-Woman placing her affections upon a man.

Man's heart is like a feather bed, it must be roughly handled, well shaken, and exposed to a variety of turns, to prevent its becoming knotty and hard. To have known some persons, is a talisman against other impressions.

What heart lays bare all its secrets?

If you cannot inspire a man with love for you, fill him to the brim with love for himself-what runs over will be yours.

The best cure for love is contempt.

Love is of man's life a thing apart-'tis a woman's whole existence.

Matrimony is a circus where many noble creatures enter, run round and round, kick up a fine dust, but few get properly trained and broken.

The records of all ages show that a woman's love has no limit.

Never accustom those you love to do without

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The Way they Manage in Arkansas. A gentleman way off in Arkansas, who had been stopping at a cross-country tavern about two weeks, writes to a friend about the manner in which hotel affairs are conducted. He says:

"The regulations of the house are written in a bold round hand, and tacked on the door of each bed-room. The rules are rigidly enforced, and the slightest deviation is met with the penalty. Here they are:

1.-Gentlemen will black their boots before leav ing their rooms, or they will not be admitted to table without an extra charge of a bit a meal.

2.-Gentlemen going to bed with their boots on will be fined a quarter for the first offence, four bits for the second, and turned out and sued for their board for the third-the landlord holding on to the plunder.

3. No person allowed to call twice for the same dish, without paying an extra bit.

4.-Gentlemen not on hand at meal times cannot come to the table without paying an extra bit.

5.-Any gentleman found going to the ladies' rooms will be fined five dollars, and perhaps turned out if the case is aggravating.

6.-All travellers are expected to treat before leaving the house-the landlord holding on to the plunder until he comes out.

7.-Loud snoring not allowed, and a fine of a bit fór every offence.

8.-Country soap for washing given free; a bit a week for town soap.

9.-A half a dime will be charged for the privi lege of the back porch on a shady afternoon.

10.-Liquors with white sugar, a bit a drink; with common sugar, five cents.

11. The landlord trusts that his boarders will observe the above rules, and say nothing, or means will be taken to see that they do.

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There is no fear of knowing too much, though there is great fear of practising too little. The most doing man shall be the most knowing man.

Love is the fever of the soul; passion is the deirium of that fever.

The eye is a sure index of the character. Physiognomy reveals the secret of the heart.

Affection, like Spring flowers, breaks through the most frozen ground at last: and the heart which seeks for another heart to make it happy, will nev er seek in vain.

Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirits; wherefore, jesting is not unlawful if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality, or reason.

He who pretends to be every body's particular friend, is nobody's.

WHO WROTE THE VESTIGES OF CREATION ?-This book has been ascribed to Byron's daughter "Ada ;" on what ground we never could ascertain, except that she was an erudite lady. A late number of the London Athenæum repeats the report that Robert Chambers is its author, and with apparently conclusive evidence the testimony of Mr. Page, one of Chamber's literary employees. At the time the "Vestiges" was published, Mr. Page says he was engaged as one of the literary and scientific collaborateurs of the Messrs. Chambers. The first time he saw it was in the hands of Mr. William Chambers, who came into his room one day with the remark, "Here is a curious work, making some sensation," and requesting that he (Mr. Page) would write a notice of it for the Journal (Chamber's Edinburgh Journal.) For this purpose, Mr. Page took the work home, and he had not read twenty pages of it before he felt convinced that it was the production of Mr. Robert Chambers. When asked for the review, he said he could not prepare one for two reasons: 1st, That he did not think the work suited for notice in the Edinburgh Journal; and 2d, Because he believ ed it to be the production of Mr. Robert Chambers. Mr. William Chambers received this announcement with apparent surprise; but denied all knowledge of the matter, and there the subject dropped.Some time after, however, and when the work was being severely handled by the reviewers, Mr. Robert Chambers alluded to the matter, affecting ignorance and innocence of the authorship, upon which Mr. Page remarked, that had be seen the sheets before going to press, he could have prevented some of the blunders. The consequence of this remark was, that Mr. Robert Chambers sent him the proof. sheets of the second or third edition of the "Vesti ges," with the request that he would enter on the margin any corrections or suggestions that occurred. Mr. Page states, that he made some notes; but he does not say whether these notes were adopted into the re-impression, However, he has, as he declares, "made a clean breast of it" at length: and he concludes with the remark: "If merit is attachable to the work, the author will reap bis high reward,-if demerit, the blame will, at least, fall on the right shoulders."

SOUND OF BELLS.-The nearer bells are hung to the surface of the earth, other things being equal, the farther they can be heard. Franklin has remarked, that many years ago the inhabitants of Philadelphia had a bell imported from England. In order to judge of the sound, it was elevated on a triangle, in the great street of the city, and struck as it happened, on a market day, when the people were coming to market were surprised on hearing the sound of a bell at a greater distance from the city than they ever heard any bell before. This circumstance excited the attention of the curi ous, and it was discovered that the sound of a bell struck in the street reached nearly double the die tance it did when raised in the air. In the air sound travels at the rate of from 1130 to 1150 feet per second. Sounds are distinct at twice the distance on water that they are on land.

RUSSIAN SERFDOM.-Among the limitations of Russian serfdom in which it is different from the chattel slavery of the United States, are these:

1. The master cannot sell the serf without the land on which the serf lives.

2. Families cannot be separated; and the unmarried children, after the death of parents, constitute a family.

3. The master's power over the body of the serf extends not to maiming or periling life.

4. The master cannot require the serf to marry contrary to his own choice and affections,

5. He is entitled to the labor of only three days in the week, and cannot require labor on the Sabbath, or on high festivals.

6. Serfs cannot be held except by the nobility and certain privileged persons and classes.

7. They cannot be held except in proportion to the master's property in land, there being required for each serf the possession by the master of twenty

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LIKE BEGETS LIKE.-A few days siuce, a lady entered one of our dry goods stores on Merrimac st., and wished to examine some blue Thibets. She was informed that the last of "those blues" had been sold the day previous, but that they had some green, which was a really splendid article, and would suit her just as well "if she only thought so." The store keeper evidently thought he had struck a bright idea, and. kept insisting in about the same language. The lady finally concluded she would accommodate the gentleman, and allowed him, in accordance with his earnest request, to cut off some of the green. When the package was duly prepared the lady moved toward the door, with a smil. ing "good morning, sir."

"You have forgotten to pay me," said the store keeper.

"That's no matter," replied the lady, "it will suit you just as well, if you only think so."

And she actually walked away, leaving the gentleman pondering on the effect of his own wit, and the remarkable facility with which she stole "his thunder." The general opinion appears to be that the lady was not "green," if the Thibet was. We go in with the majority.—Lowell News.

POPULAR FALLACIES.—An article on this subject in the Washington Sentinel refers, among other things, to the cotton bales behind which Gen. Jackson's troops are supposed to have fought at New Orleans. It pronounces them a fiction of the imagination. The only foundation for it was that a very few bales of cotton goods were flung into the breastwork, but no breastwork was anything like entirely built of them. Gen. Jackson always denied the cotton bale story.

Many people believe, and always will, that Gen. Taylor at Buena Vista called out, "A little more grape, Capt. Bragg," though the Captain himself has stated that they never were uttered.

It is a settled popular belief also that the Russians burnt Moscow to drive Napoleon out of it, and showmen repeat the burning every year in panoramas. Yet the city, so far from being destroyed, was hardly more than scorched. The suburbs, where the French were quartered, were set on fire as a cover for the Russian attack, and that was about all.

POPE'S SKULL.-William Howitt says that, by one of those acts which neither science nor curiosity can excuse, the skull of Pope is now in the private collection of a phrenologist. The manner in which it was obtained is said to have been this:On some occasion of alteration in the church, or burial of some one in the same spot, the coffin of Pope was disinterred, and opened to see the state of the remains; by a bribe to the sexton of the time, possession of the skull was obtained for the night, and another skull was returned instead of it. Fifty pounds were paid to manage and carry through this transaction, Be that as it may, the skull of Pope figures in a private museum.

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"As far as I know," should be, "So far as I know." As far as expresses distance.

"Whenever I sing, I always am applauded," should be, "Whenever I sing, I am applauded."

"For ought I know," should be, "For aught I know."-"Aught means anything; ought implies obligation.

"No less than ten persons," should be, "No fewer than ten persons."-Less must be applied to quantity-as "No less than ten pounds." Fewer must be applied to things.-Merchants' Ledger.

FRESH AIR.-Horace Mann has well said:People who shudder at a flesh wound and a trickle of blood, will confine their children like convicts, and compel them month after month to breathe quantities of poison. It would less impair the mental and physical constitutions of children, gradually to draw an ounce of blood from their veins, during the same length of time, than to send them to breathe, for six hours in a day, the lifeless and poisoned air of some of our school rooms. Let any man, who votes for confining children in small rooms and keeping them on stagnant air, try the experiment of breathing his own breath only four times over, and if medical aid be not on hand the children will never be endangered by his vote afterwards.

SCHOOLS IN AMERICA.-1 can positively affirm, from personal observation, that, in point of general discipline, the American schools greatly excel any I have ever seen in Great Britain. In Canada aud in the States, every suitable provision is made for the purpose of decency-a thing usually neglected in the parish and burgh school system of Scotland. I was much pleased with the arrangements in the American schools to prevent disorder, or improper interference one with another among the pupils.All are seated at small desks, not more than two together, in rows; so that the teacher can conve niently reach every seat in the school. It is customary, likewise, to cause all the pupils to enter and depart slowly and decorously, instead of being suffered, as I observe, even in some of the more pretentious schools of Edinburgh, to rush rudely out like so many wild animals.- Wm. Chambers.

WONDERFUL SPORT.-We won't say where the following took place, but that it did occur there is little reason to doubt, if we may believe the Concord (N. H.) Daily Patriot, from which paper we quote: A gentleman invited a city friend, whose gunning had been unhappily confined to the frightening of "peeps," sparrows and such small fry, to his place in the country, where he said some fiue duck shooting was to be had. On the morning after his arrival in the rural district, the cit proceeded before his host was out of bed, to the lake in the vicinity of his friend's domicil, where seeing half a dozen ducks taking their morning dip in the cool element-for there was no ice at the time-he levelled and let fly at the lot when four of them gave up the ghost by the impulsion of the first shot.The other two ducks flew towards the land, and both were winged by the second discharge. The host came to the spot by that time, and saw his old drake and harem entirely used up; and turning to his friend, he coolly said: "If you have any taste for wild boar hunting, I have a splendid litter of pigs in my stye behind the barn." The sportsman's eyes were then opened; but it is dangerous to talk to him about ducks since.

THEATRICAL WIT-In "Black-Eyed Susan,' Wood, of the Boston Theatre, gets off the following:-William is telling a sailor's yarn to the lands men, and in the course of it, is describing the capture of a shark which had been hanging round the fleet for some time. "What do you think we found in him?" says William? "Barnum's Life," says Wood, as Gnatbrain. "Why so?" "Because the public swallowed it, and I thought a shark might ?" "Well," says William, "perhaps he might, but he didn't Guess again!" "Lots of ladies' bonnets." "And why?" "Because I have not seen a bonnet on a lady's head for six months." The audience roared and the play went on,Post

LONG PREACHING. "There is nothing," se of Bath, in his recently published autobiogra "there is nothing against which a young pr should be guarded than length." "NothingLamont, "can justify a long sermon. Ifit be one, it need not be long; and if it be a bad ought not to be long." Luther, in the enume of nine qualities of a good preacher, gives sixth, "that he should know when to stop." has an essay on patience under long preaching was never more wanted since the common than now, in our own day, especially amon young divines and academics, who seem to their performances can never be too much att to. I never," says Jay, "err this way myse my conviction always laments it; and for years after I began preaching I never offend this way. I never exceeded three quarters hour at most. I saw one excellency was with reach-it was brevity-aud I determined to it "

NOT SO VERY GREEN-A young and appat verdant slip, who gave his hailing place as Varmount, found himself surrounded, upon tain occasion, by a crowd of quizzing upstarts seemed bent upon displaying their own smar at the expense of the yankee.

"Hello, Jonathan !" says one, "where you bou "Deoun to Bosting, on a little tramp," wa reply.

"What's your business in Boston ?" continue inquisitive gentleman.

"Oh, I'm deoun arter my pension money, sponded greeny.

"Pension money!" ejaculated whiskereemuch do you get, and what are you drawing sion money for ?"

"Oh!" answered the countryman, "I get cents every year-tew mind my own business tew let other folks' business alone!"

The crowd had no more remarks to offer. answer was entirely satisfactory.

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PARLIAMENTARY LANGUAGE.-Sir De Lacy E was going into action, when a cannon ball too his horse's legs, and sent him sprawling inte dust. "No matter," said Sir De Lacy, rising shaking himself, "It's not the first time I've los seat."

A doctor and a military officer became enam of the same lady. A friend inquired of her w of the suitors she intended to favor. Her was that it was difficult for her to determine, as were both such killing creatures.

It is with narrow-souled people as with nar necked bottles-the less they have in them more noise they make in pouring it out.

If "all the world's a stage, and men and wo merely players," where is the audience and ord tra to come from?

PURGATORY.-A modern Italian priest defines gatory as "the fire that makes our pot boil."

THE LATEST FASHIONS.-There is no end to vagaries of fashion. It is now said that the style will be to wear bonuets on the head. Th dies will scarcely be recognized by their inti friends.

A pretty woman like a great truth or great piness, has no more right to bundle herself und green veil or any other abomination of a like acter, than the sun has to put on green spectacl

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What! do without a paper? no,

I've tried it to my sorrow,

So, to subscribe for one I'll go,

Nor wait until to-morrow.

Should lovers drown or hang themselves. Or other foolish caper,

I never get to hear of it

I do not take the paper.

Why, there's my heighbor, Jotham Stout, He always has the news,

And, having news to talk about,

He never gets the blues.

While others yawn in ennui,

His mind is light as vapor;

The cause is plain to half an eye,

He always takes the paper.

While neighbor Stout hears all the news, And knows each current price,

And always minds his P's and Q's,

By taking good advice,

I cannot tell the price of calves,

Or poulty, coffee, tape, or Any kind of merchandize,

Because I take no paper.

Though I have studies which req ire
Much time and mental labor,
Yet I can spare a little time,

As well as Stout, my neighbor,
Though the time be precious, I can use
A longer midnight taper:
And thus take time to read the news;
Therefore, I'll take the paper.

Original.

Letter from Edmund G. Howe, Esq. We think the numerous friends of Edmund G. Howe, Esq., President of the City Bank, will be pleased to read the following letter from an uncommonly shrewd observer of men and manners:

ISLAND OF MALTA, Dec. 31, 1854. By reference to a map you will perceive I am about in the centre of the Mediterranean sea, a pretty long distance from home,and having travelled through England. France and Italy, have made a journey of nearly 6000 miles-consequently have teen a good deal of countries, men and manners.Englishmen and Americans are the mass of travel. lern, with now and then a German; and I must bear witness to the uniform courtesy and politeness of the English traveller to Americans; they speak of us and our country with kindness and respect, I might add admiration, admitting (if our Union is reserved) that the son will ere long outstrip the father.

The system of passports after you reach Paris is e of much annoyance, besides in the aggregate making a considerable drain on the traveller's purse, eting frequently in a single city three to five dolAt Stopping at Naples for a few hours, and deTag to go into the city, we first encounter a police into whom our passports must be shown to enable to leave the vessel-then being rowed to the fre we must go to the police office and obtain a en permit to go into town-desiring to return de vessel, we must repair to the same office, up our first permit and receive another to re-all on board and the steamer ready to sail, the manifest of passengers is brought out, each Banger called by his name and checked off as S *ed to check an invoice of merchandise in Asy.

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HARTFORD, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1855.

lum street-this over we made sail for the Island of Sicily, and near Messina we found the Cunard steamer Arabia aground on a sand bank, with 1000 French soldiers bound to the Crimea. Our French steamer, with true French politeness, lent a hand and got her off and she moved on with her freight of human beings to the scene of slaughter (to many doubtless the scene of death) with the tri-colored flag of France floating over her a sight which Wellington or Bonaparte forty years ago would not have believed mortal eyes would ever behold.

In due time we reached this place and found it one of a good deal of interest-the island contains about 130,000 inhabitants, 30,000 of which are in its principal town (Valetta) where I am. It is, as you know, under the English government, and its fortificatious are not only very extensive but of great strength and beauty, and well worth seeing. The world may starve out England here, but it would seem she might defy the force of arms to wrest from her this important speck in this sea. The garrison consists steadily of about 3000 men, besides which there are a good many English residents, and that language consequently a good deal spoken. The native Maltese speak the Arabic language, and it is said quite well-certainly I know nothing to the contrary. The bare-legged, dirty Arab and the slouching, slovenly Turk are common in the streets, and remind me that I am getting well on towards the Eastern world. The town is entirely built of a beautiful stone found on the spot, of rich color, easily worked and durable-contains many very fine buildings and is a specimen of cleanliness in a city I have never seen excelled if equaled. The climate is delightful and said to be very salubrious. Its fruits are delicious, and some of its orange groves, now ripe for picking, charming to behold. There are some quaint customs here and I will name the street dress of the Maltese ladies of the better class-they wear no bonnets, dressed generally in rich, plain black silk with a mantilla or long shawl of the same material reaching about midway to their feet, gathered over the left shoulder so as to form a kind of hood which is placed quite over their head-this with their dark complexion, raven hair and jet black eyes, gives a sombre appearance, but is nevertheless graceful and attractive, especially when it covers (as it sometimes does) a pretty face. Their public carriages are a kind of cab for two or four persons, hung on leather springs over two high wheels, drawn by one horse (generally poor) which is led by a nose-halter by a bare-footed, bare-armed Maltese on foot, who of course must get along as fast as his horse or passengers, which is generally pretty fair speed. While this will not compare with the public carriages that grace our Court-house Square, they are better than none.

The island is rocky and produces but about one fourth of its consumption. Alderneys and Durhams do not figure here much, but as a substitute, they have a species of goat which are well cared for, watched over by a herdsman in numbers from one to twenty, as they browse among the rocks, driv en up regularly like our cows and milked; and al though only about the size of our native sheep, many yield from four to five quarts per day, which is daily on our table, and thus supplies to the island this important and healthful food and beverage.Thus our beneficent Creator provides for the want

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of man every on soil and in every clime. Here too in this far off island, Connecticut shows herself in her clocks, and in many a shop window here is Jerome, Brewster and Brown ticking away time as steadily as in their native land, either of which of "these beautiful time pieces," as the shop keepers told me, I could have for two pounds sterling. As their faces are more home-like than any I meet, I do not fail daily to look upon them.

This is the coldest season of the year here, and yet we have daily on our table green peas from the vines in open air. The soldiers from France and England on their way to the Crimea all stop here, and I am told they have been going forward at the rate of about one thousand per day. I learn the allied forces before Sebastopol are now about 150,000, and the Russians about the same number. The officers of the English army wounded and disabled in the war are here in considerable numbers, and several have told me they do not look for an immediate engagement, but that Sebastopol is sure to be taken in due time and held by the allied powers at their will.

The last of the race of the Knights of Malta, who about three hundred years ago took possession of this island, died the past fall. They have, however, in their glory long,long ago departed, but their marks are left. The Cathedral (Roman Catholic) built by them is of great interest, rich in statuary, ancient goblin tapestry, but above all in Mosaic work, marble inlaid with gold, which covers the entire floor of the immense building, and is of great beauty, and I might say gorgeous magnificence. Under this have the Knights been buried, and thus it serves as their sepulchral mocument. Their ancient armor is also preserved in great variety, and is shown you in a large ball in the Governor's Palace, and in my judgment much exceeds in curiosity that in the celebrated Tower of London, which you have seen.

My course is still onward to the Nile, but I shall rejoice when my face is homeward turned, and I shall return to my native shores with feelings of no lessened pride that I am an American, nor with dimin ished gratification, that my home (humble as it is) is in that portion of our country called the "land of steady habits." With a merry Christmas and happy New Year to all my friends, 1 am yours.

· State Beform School. Being in Meriden a few days since, with several gentlemen from different parts of the State, with a few leisure hours upon our hands, we visited the State Reform School. So delighted was our company with this Institution-its discipline-with all that they saw and heard-so admirably adapted did they regard it, to promote the reformation of juvenile delinquents-to transform into industrious, intelligent and virtuous citizens, those who by the old system of treating youthful offenders, would necessarily fall into the rauks of daring and hardened criminals-that at their suggestion I promised to furnish your readers with a brief sketch of its objects and history, hoping thereby to interest them somewhat in its favor.

This institution is a substitute for jails and prisons for lads under 16 years of age, in the State, guilty of offences punishable by imprisonment. Its object is not to punish, but to improve, reform and save. Most of the youthful offenders are victims

of vicious conditions and associations. This school surrounds these unfortunates with entirely new circumstances and opposite relations. Gathered from the cold, starving and frowning world in which they had vegetated, into spacious and comfortable apartments, with neat and warm clothing, clean and soft beds, wholesome and nutritious food and their ears greeted with kind and encouraging words from teachers and superiors; everything instead of appearing like a prison, to them, wears the charms of a new and enchanted world. New ideas break in upon the dark waste, of their understanding.Plastic as wax, they are easily formed to any mould. They are encouraged, by obedience, study and industry, to hope that a bright future is before them. The sun of hope, with its brilliant rays, illumines their heart of hearts and they no longer despairthey no longer consider the world their enemy or themselves blanks, in the great battle of life.

In 1851 the Legislature of this State, believing that it was more wise, humane and economical to educate and reform unfortunate youth, than to run down, capture and punish adult criminals, projected this institution and appropriated ten thousand dollars, to be paid over to its Trustees when the same amount, raised by voluntary contribution, should be placed at its disposal. The sum was generously contributed, and in 1852 thirty-one and a quarter acres of land were purchased for a building site, at Meriden. The buildings, which are of brick, are located upon an eminence, having a sightly and commanding prospect, affording pure air and free drainage, and are about one hundred rods west from the Meriden depot.

There is adjoining, in a westerly direction, a farm of one hundred and thirty and a half acres, belonging to the institution, having an orchard, ten acres of wood land, a stone quarry, &c. The soil is mostly an alluvial deposit, and the Superintendent assured us, was susceptible of the highest cultivation.

The buildings now erected constitute but a part of the original design, which will be completed as soon as the Legislature will appropriate the needful. They consist of a central or main building, 48 by 49 feet, facing the east-a south wing, 36 by 82 feet, and an addition at right angles to it, for superintendent and family, 45 by 47 feet. This addition faces the east and projects on a line with the main building. All these have a height of three stories, with a basement. When the north wing and the addition shall be completed, another story added to the main building, and a two-story rear wing, 48 by 120 feet, added, the edifice will present a fine appearance and afford ample accommodations for three hundred pupils, together with those for superintendent, chaplain, teachers, and their families.

It will require considerable of an outlay of funds to erect suitable fences, embellish the grounds, plant fruit trees, enlarge the barn, equip the farm with proper implements and to furnish the houses in a plain way as it should be at once.

Already our $40,000 have been expended and the Trustees are cramped by poverty. This should not be. This institution is among the most important under the guardianship of the commonwealth and is an honor to the State. In these statements we have spoken particularly of the outward and material condition of the establishment. What awakened so much of pleasure, interest and enthusiasm in our company, was the excellent discipline of the school -the cheerful, hopeful and orderly deportment of the boys, and the good character given of them by their teachers, in regard to their obedience and improvement.

It was about nine o'clock in the morning, and by

the way, one of the most frosty-biting of the season, when we were escorted from the directors' room into the school department-a well-lighted, well-ventilated, and high-studded hall, 36 by 60 feet. There were seated about one hundred and twenty boys, from the ages of 10 to 16, singing the multiplication table with a hearty good will. Seldom have we visited a district school where the pupils responded with greater promptness or more correctly to questions pertaining to their studies, than did these lads. Mr. Hoadly, the superintendent and one of the warmest friends of the school from the first; Mr. Little, teacher and assistant superintendent, and Rev. Mr. Maine, teacher and chaplain. appeared admirably qualified for the discharge of their responsible positions. They evidently had the command both of the love and respect of the boys. The school was addressed by several of our party upon the advantages, prospects and duties of the boys. Mr. Hawley, our City Missionary, was among the number. Those lads from Hartford, about thirty in number, seemed delighted to see and hear him.

When those scholars were requested to rise who could read without spelling their words, a large majority stood up. By several inquiries of this kind we learned that more than half the pupils were studying Arithmetic, and that some thirty could figure in vulgar fractions; that nearly half were learning to write, and that some twenty were taking lessons in sketching and some of the figures upon the black-board give indications of some talent in that line. Then all those boys were requested to rise who were resolved, by obedience, industry, study and truthfulness to become valuable men; with one elastic spring, every boy was upon his feet as quick as thought. Their bright eyes and cheerful faces told that the answer came welling up from the very fountain of feeling. The government of the school is moral, mild and paternal-no more force or severity is employed than is necessary to enforce order and discipline. Mr. Little assured us that it was less difficult to manage this than ordinary district schools. For discipline and encouragement the boys are divided into four grades, which have reference to moral deportment and intellectual progress, or rather a desire and effort to improve. The names of those lads in the first grade are allowed the highest position upon a large black-board upon the wall in front of the school. The other grades occupy the spaces beneath in their order. It is considered a severe punishment by the school for an offence to be lowered a grade, and to merge up from the lower strata and to gain a position among the best boys upon the board is to them the highest reward in the gift of the teacher.

On the first of March last, there were only 15 scholars in the school, now the number is 125.

The school is dismissed and we are conducted into the kitchen where flour and beef are being transformed into food. The bathing and wash room, supplied with tubs, towels and plenty of water, conducted by pipes, from a spring a mile and a half distant, and having an altitude of 25 feet above the foundation of the edifice, indicated that cleanliness was an important rule in the establishment. The dining room was sufficiently spacious to seat every member of the school. In one room the boys were learning to make willow baskets; in another, some were sewing, and in another room they were practicing, we understood, with the awl and end; and` the balance were engaged in domestic employment about the institution. We ascend to the second story and find ourselves in a spacious and well lighted corridor, 36 by 130 feet, with a row of single cells of wood on the west side, well ventilated.- ̈

These apartments are furnished with a cot-bed, matrass, sheet, pillow and plenty of warm clothing. The boys are locked up in these cells during the night. This is about all the indications of a prison we saw around the institution.

In the 3d story of the main building is the chapel but it was without seats and we presume it has not been used as yet.

Adjoining the school department is a libraryroom with shelves and closets, and all that was wanted to perfect the department were booksquite an omission. I wish in this connection, Mr. Editor, to make a request to our citizens, in behalf of these boys. Many of them have acquired a taste for reading, and books mostly of a favorite character are now needed. Hundreds of volumes, no doubt, are now mouldering upon the shelves of private libraries in this city. These will be gratefully received by the school, and will be a source of unfailing pleasure and advantage to the boys. Those persons who feel disposed to donate books for this purpose, can leave them with B. Hudson, 209 Main street, or with David Hawley, 33 Church street, or at the Courant office. C.

The Congregational Polity of a Consociated Church Seventy Years Ago.

The Congregational Church in West Simsbury, (now Canton, Ct.,) Feb. 26, 1785, re-organized, and with their confession of faith and covenant, adopted the following Articles of Agreement:

1. We view the Scriptures the only rule of faith and practice.

2. We take the Lord Jesus Christ to be the only Head of the Christian church.

3. We suppose every particular church, by the Gospel, has a right to hear and determine all matters of discipline that respect its own members; and that no Council has any right to determine for them, or do any thing binding without their con

sent.

4. Nevertheless, as in the multitude of counselors there is safety, we view it advisable and allowed of by the Gospel, for a church, as circumstances may be, to call in other churches and be advised of (by) them; and that every particular church ought to give account of its proceedings to other Christian churches, when occasion calls for it.

5. We look upon it that a visible Christian church consisteth of visible Christians. (viz.) of such as to appearance are believers, for if they are not to appearance believers, they cannot be the proper objects of brotherly love.

6. We view it that infants, or children of such as are members in complete standing in the church, or. in other words, in full communion, and none others, according to the Gospel, are proper subjects of infant baptism.

7. We suppose it would not be right for any church to bind themselves by any set of articles of human composition, so but that they may add to them others, or take from them, whenever they see sufficient grounds from Scripture. J. B.

"Were the whole Christian world to revert back to the original model, how far more simple, uniform and beautiful would the church appear, and how far more agreeable to the ecclesiastical polity, instituted by the holy apostles !"-President Stiles.

Anodyne vs. Disease.

He, who has taken a powerful anodyne to coun teract the effects of intense pain, has had a grand opportunity of witnessing a campaign upon a large scale, as interesting to himself personally as that of the Crimea to the embattled powers of Europe. He may lie calmly, (or, at least, we have done so,) and watch the battle between the two contending

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