VOLUME. 5.

GAPE ISLAND. NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12. 18(50.

Woitefi* sr"

ONE BY ONE.

Om by one the raodt »r* flowing. One by one the momenU fall; 8mm arc coming, aom* src goinr, !>• not ntrive to grup tbvm all. Om by on* tfcy iot ie» wait Him. Let thy whole atrength go to aach, Lai not falnr* dreams cUU< Him.

Learn Hum first what lhaae can teach. One by one (bright gifta from IleaTen,)

Joys are ijent thee here below ; Take them readily when giren,

Beady, loo, to let theta go.

! Owe by one thy grief* *h»H meet thee,

I>* net (ear an armed band:

*t)**-wH1 fade as others greet thee, Shadows passing throngh the land. 1 Oe not look at life's long sorrow ; Sea how small each moment'* pain ; . (iod wdl help thee for u*-»orr«»w •

Kretjr day begin again.

Erery hoar that fleets e* slowly.

Has tie task to da or hear:

tLewnoowa the crown, and holy. If thorn Ml each gem with care. Do noil linger with regretting, Or for naaeion In.urs despond, JL'f. the daitr (fit Tii^BTTtng,’ ~

Look too eagerly boy ond.

Honrt are golden link«,'0«d's token. Seeching I leaven ; hat one by ona. Taka them lervthe chain be broken Btw the. pilgrimage be dona.

.of tenderness, looked ont with paosionj ate ferror.'and In joyoos mirth flashed and sparkled with the light of a tbojisaad dew drops—dihmoods we were joi ing to say—but we nerer saw a thoo- ' sand diamonds —Her name was Laura— ■ which, when breathed softly, by a very i soft lover. Is a very soft name—nnd her . clear, ringing laugh fell all around you like a shower of silver beiia. Moreover, she wore a dark wine-colored dress

Dimples are the perpetual smiles oT natty»—the'very cnnnibgeat device and lork-g-p!ate of love. When ihe earth m dimpled by lielD and Talley*, it always seem* to laugh ; when th < uc- an is d:aipleil by the iighl breesc. it sparkles with joy bsneslh the sonrhius of lieoven. We cannot look (or frown* on a dimpled face frowns and dimples will hot associate togetlier. How soft, how rougisb, how bpsa-

Uful a

> the dimples in the elbows and

trimmed with lilac-colored fine lace,

shculders, the pret y hands and feet of the .

... . , . | rosy l»abe. ^iothero dote upon those darwhich u the prettiest of dresses, and i ' . ,

, • * ling dimples, and delight to kis* them. Hut bus the effect to make a eery plain girl perh.p, the mogt pertectlv weh.nUng dimlook, absolutely charming. She ner- ( p| e , at least to the e s of an enihusiostic cr perforated her cars to han£ thereby a j young man. are those which come peeping pendulum of glass and bran; and the ' (be cU-ck* and around ihe month of only ornament oh the Hide white band, j "••ret seyeuteen." when sweet ►ev,ni< «n

which needed none, was a plain gold 1 ring, sacred to the memory of a mai-

> deti'4 promise.-

Well, one.ercning it, was moonlight, j in the summer time—we sar alone in the

porch by the cottage door.

A. CHILD*& PHAfsH.

The following awMt and simple expression of «-srly appeal, is from the pen of

Dane Pray, Jr

Esther! now the day is past 1 <*n thy child thy hles-ing csstl Near my .pillow, baud in band. Keep thy guardian angel hand !

' Amt throughout the darkling night.

Hies* me with a cheerful light !-

Let-mu nasal muni again, —

Free from every thought of pain ; Passing through life'* thorny way, Keep me. Father! day by day.

TiUltTT-fliXTH COfcUKhM.

In the Senate, on Tuesday of last week, Mr. King, of New York, had the resolutions or the RochesUr UaiOn meeting read, nud then said tbfl^ nil parties in New York, are attached to the Union. Mr. Brown, of Mi&aissippi, made a speech in opposition to the views of the President's message. He denied that the I>red Scott decisiow settled the slavery question. The debjlc was continued by Messrs Doolittle.

Kind AVpCoxaiDCBATK.—“Widow Xloarn- of Wisconsin, Clay, of Alabama, and

fsl, what on nirth are yon thinking about !'* | others,

—‘•Nothing in the work' but my depurin! j Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, presented husband. He w^uch a devoted man ; ; a manorial froifl'Abb legislature of hi*

esaai* some areh. provoking sally, (•eeping ont and Hying away the moment after, coming and going with the moat bewilder-,

ing’ coquet!ery.

, THE LITTLE ANGEL ’

,, ,| A gentleman in the neighborhood or Holding i , ' , f

j ^ i t-endou wa* once rfiduced '

j lli.t Iiul, ’•bite IiukI In . ptiillc pre»-, b „

■ sure, o«<> arm had stojeii uround her

- i waist, jiud a sljent rong-wf joy, •like.-her bedside, who io.W>diate v * ihdi I the munc t>f nigiit,” was in our soul On Ins inquirirg who the child »»». th« , Our.lips met in a sweet, delicious kiss, *jck Womau replied, “Oh. sir! it is a littD ; aud bending softly to her ear, ne whi>- "ho frequently come* to read the j pereda tale ot passionate detwlion—we ! Scr ‘P ,or *'‘ ,0 10 “J comfort, and

. i proposed. In a moment she tore her j hand from ours, and with a look of in-

always bringing home his little kindness to me. 1 couldn't help thinking. ju*t cow. when I heard Mrs. Brown's sassige* slazliag,about what poor Mr. Monrulnl osed to do to me. He kuowed 1 wa* fund i f

*i»Mges, slid he hardly

» sick. ]Wi*<-n he enlereil ihe : room, he perceived whittle girl ki

'ime* I d ask. -Sin * Just?* like a* no

j effahle aci-ru, she saiihan a voice tremb-

AWsmms |ivas famyaight Days witkontTeod. hug wiih su|iprcssed rage, “What! The wifa of Me. Hervy C.m- marry an editor! J'ou gelottf!” We

of Madieon township, this county, \ g |jd,

•had bawt deranged for about three! y, jeata—ao mock so some of the time j » TODY'S LETTEH or BAD Nrwi. that abe bad to 1m confined by her P*wsor Bai.laywacki>, Ftn. 14.

frieoda. On the 18th of Sept, last, she : lJear Wn 5—1 haven’t sent ye a' • declared her determination to commit j letter since the last time I wrote to ye.

has just given me sixpenr.-," On further inquiry, be learned that she was one of ibe girls belonging to an adjoining chlbbaib gchoal. Ho took an opportunity after ward of questioning ibis child us to lb* reason of her conduct, when >be answered . -• Because, sir, I find ills Said in the Bible, that ’pure religion and undeflled before tiod and the Father la this, to visit the lafherless and widows in their affliction. '• “Well, and did you giro her any money?' “Yes.sir.” “And where did you gut it?’>

Ip rouse we moved from our former place ; “Si r Ttt wus the reward given mu in the

ofliviii’and didn’t no where a lelber ! ,tcho01 '" 1 ‘ h * 1 WM lrB,r, .* r Warily «f th* n,ignl Sod „ . bot I „o» . ill, pl.-o.or, I “»!« “ J »»• •*'■* • Ur V

uTT. op iot pin TO inf.™ of lb. !? rt “ r

... ' pblusBitigs which, the children of the poor death of yer own livin’ unkla Kilpat- ; ( , n ,^ r lh . luo) deriv e' fro» .S-bbith.

rick, who dltd very suddenly last wake, j , c boot instruction,

after a lingerin' sickness of six wakes, j The poor man was in convulsions the 1

snicida by starvation. A night or two jfueaviotts she bad taken from her hus- • bandy, JHXkrt »om* ioWy doliars ia • rnwncy, aadanaounetd her inuntion to atari fior Ohio>^oiled in tbia, she Mid ■ she would either cat bar throat or drown

Briluli Hoom of

aw* ueveiwiuvu »•»• •.■■»■ • " u “ , , , I^rda has just given a decision in case of • told tbaWmily -<he mclutelyWaisted whole ‘me of h.s fines., l.y.ng perfec-, lU brini4>f TMlnuWi wbich ba , oil this deurmination for sixt^eight J ^ iho whlc, spachloasinUrly-i btM1 in liliff , tion , jnc# 17# - u on8 0( • days, when death came to her relief on j talkin’ incoherently, end crying for »«- t |, e most D0 | t d will casesaf modem time*. • Swaday ereuiag, tba 20th of Novem- '■ l l ,er —• ao opportwnity of informin’, and has led to a statnta which enacts tEal 1^, i ye by the post; which wint 2 days afore ! the power of devising property for the purWe M« W»N acquainted with some | h ' c ^ e<kti, > * nl ^ Ibin } on '^ the pos- pose of arcamnlaiiua shouldbs restrained >members of Mr. C.'s family, and have ' 10 P*J-—I’m at a jfreat loo to tell j iS'Cenerml to twenty-one years after the • made the most cartful inquiry in regard ! *°t his death was occassioned by, but i de * ,h of ‘h«‘cs‘-tor. If I’mert-Thellnsou’s

~'to tki«~~re^affisMcTaW. MuJ 0. was frsrJL w^BjJijsJast sickness. He I wi,h ^,|'" d

Slate, in lavor of the coostruction of the Pacific railroad, Mr. Mallory, of I-'lorida, introduced a Lil! to regulate and increase the pay. of the nayy, and nlso a bill to modify the pay of pursers

home in his life witlinnt (etching me , **> (he navy. J *

s sasnige in hi* pocket. ID wa» fond of! hnlie House, Mr. Boyce, of Sooth rgg* luin*elf. ami would ecka»ionally letch Curoiina, resuuiA bis speech on the ala- * fv-w of tt.om for bimselL But ho wu- v tI y qui-xtiun, and the debate was con-

' forget' tnu aaesige*; and j uiHicd by Mr. English, of Indiana.

j Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, movedto proceed to a bailol for Speaker.rtru

. j core, the person having the largest notuThe venerable lady of a celebrated phy- j her of votes to be elected, but oo action sicikii. one day coaling her eye out of the j was had oil it . .

wiudnw. observed her husband in the funer- j Mr. Wssbbornc moved to proceed to al iT.K-e.Moo of onu of hi* paUents, at | 0 role fo , Speaker, and advised memwhich ohe eSclalUKN) : I i. . I -

, . , . , , ,,, bt*s to absuin from speechmaktng, “l do wish my limliand would keep ! , . , , „ . „ ,. c , ' . which Mr. \\ mslow, of Sooth Carohaa. a wav from *uch procu*kiou*; it appears 1 ‘ v

Idu inn.K lit- " tailor c^r,,n K k.m. ai. i “"'"S 1 ' 1 '“Hi". X«UnW«l, 01 * or lt.- • I being pressed, he said be would agree

**— j to a Imliot if pairs were provided for fr TO "rT* u /“ ,ii J«- usvtdi u» r..

Spounluls of flour, a little salt, a quart of wuler. eight egg* well beat op. a gl*a* of brandy, and mix Ihera all well together. The longer they are made .before dressed, the better. Javl before you do them, im-ll half a pound of butler, and beat ii well in. Fry them in bog’s lard. ,

he' bet'll a rilling ]

A gentleman calling on a friend who, on account of certain dun*, was a good deal at boni'-, and had given ont to bis friends as sn*excuse that he- was etmfined to kis room,

publicans cried out, No.

Mr. Anderson, of Missodyi^ prengnted the memorial of the mail comrucuns, urging action in order to ennbfe'.tbo government to liquidate their claims. Mr. Winslow, moved to adjourn. Mr. Stanton, of Ohio, moved a call of tbo House. Mr. Winslow oppoaed any ftirther balloting this day, on acconnt ’of the number of democratic absentees,

which was ou the rAi'rcf Jionr, arked him if Mr. Stanton intimated that some of he-had been ill. Yes, replied the other," i them were absent, purposely, to preyent

" i an organiution. Mr. Barrett moved

cloady waigbud and attended t ha a hole . time, and t^oae w ho were with her are

.'(Irwafc, aha did vwt Uke' two ounce*

Um entire fix*-)-

time of his confinement; but bay that

a series of chance*? suits wera instituted

aatisfled that, besides the water she i “• *1 bralhed liis lust, the doc j by rarion^qreeaa who hoped to grasp a

“I. have bad s severe fit of the n

Av. ir.-,»l<twr(rirait«i>k.»g->«u«d. Jlr. Kilgore perceive yon are roeei-siic." ' * “

“Jiqi," inquired a Schoolboy of one of bis males, “what is the meaning of relics ?' ••Don’t you know T Well, 1 can tell yon Yoa know the master licked me in schuol yesterday? “Yes.” ‘“Well.he wasn't satisfied with that, but kept me aftur school and

Itched am again.. This is what 1 call i

lick. .

thurgiv np al hopes of his recovery. j portion of the jtnmensa wealth lying idle i needn’t tel ye anavthing about his ; and anenjeyed before liirsi. Costs, want

during Ui ,

- iflgln day*. Mrs. O.- wan forty-four sgc, for je will no that in May nixl he : of energy oa the part of thh trnstce*. and

year* of *gc stud at the beginning of ' w ‘ £>a * d bar ben*25 years ou Id, lackin’ tin f»lbrt caa*e*, have *o affretod the estate. food in very vigor-, »ontlia, nnd had ho lived til that time ,bo1 ir »ore.reroaius to be divi*

ilCiL sii months fled ded'banthera was at the timo of the te*.

’ tann'i death

suid that if tba domo^rata would furnish for Messrs A drain and Reynolds, the republicans would for the other absentees, but after some further colloqqy,. the struggle nded in an adjournment. [u the Senate, ou Wednesday, Mr. Powell of Kentucky, introduced a bill toaboiish 4ho franking privilege. Mx. Chandler, o e making appropriations

•Ps. can n person catch » n T lb iD8-iL^jdrAli^iE]»rovement of Grand Haven don't run after it. ^ ^ other harbors in Michigan. Sever“C eriamly not. ... ...... -W.lt th.n, haw did ,o, rereh Hi. “I jieltuooi and pnr.le bill. »erej.re-

„iUg«d^ria<Meefrom food in very vigor-, rootitu

<MH gsl^ysical bcsilU. She waa TSTge andj hu ikwi

’irrfu^ was veiy aolid.—During t ie! Hi* property T* rery bmriderablf 4aat three week of her; starvation she ] developed upon hU next kin who i<| 1 iatensely. She could setdom be deed some time since, so that i expec I la bed without fainting. Her *» *‘l be decided equally twunc us—uuu j eh became irritable, so that she Mu »® deer Lany ye’ll gel two thirds .coaid scarcely retain the water site ' of the a hole, and ye no he had u fine -drank. Daring Use whole time there ^ sowld to pay hu deta, j was bat little setioa of the other diges- Bnd the remainder he lost on the 1km» i wive orgaaa. There was no movement n>rc ' ^tit it wm the opinion of all the *1 the bowels, eaeept ~ on tao or three ' Kcsiut that he tend hav won the •oqpasiooi when she was prevailed on to if :,ial bos bes ran agin hadn't ben fi^a aoae cathartic pilla. She would , 1° f** 1 (or him—bad luck to the bast 1 NMibave taken any medicine bad her at- But poor sow], hel niver ate nor drink tawdMtaaot given her a dozen pills at a *°J luorc . »'d now Lany ye haven’t & fitea.—Sbe thought Hmt qaaatity.would livcn ’ rclashun in the wide wo ld, except to bn life. She did .ot; O'jrelf “d jer d nore«,«b.t kilt io

k.o. nut ot) but the mjoieile oonber f*" I* 1 * "»•

no. ante of do.^1 Sk. reuioed her Bolleea’t dvoll .|*n, tbie “orefol ■ and her resolute deter- i hut will sale the letther with

t bbUI three or four days | bl,,ck • B,cin g *«. B “d pat da your uo-

! lie’s coat of arms. So i beg you not j to brake ike tale wen ye open the letter ^ | til two or 8'days aft* r ye resere it—by

\Yoau.—It wa-t nnt arbitrary vengcanc th»t Uicrpctl. “In t(t« sweat of thy face

shall thou eat ‘jjvsd.

Man is ioa;ot ktituted as to be iacahlr o

^ j Cndiiig iiappini-s* In idleness. He is in his

wormal *ut«s or nearest to it, when all hia acullies. physical; menial and moral, ara u healthful exercise. Kvea ia sleep, when ti c tired.body rests, and that rerover* the energy weeded for a renewal of the contest on theTnonow, flie~w1ad' probably never alee) a- And the sleep MseU, ia the result,

qtdwarily, of fatigue.

A SvniAX.—Little CoJ. Thompson was a candidate Cor Congress .in Indiana. He was short of stature, though broad enough te make up for the lose of lengthitude. He asked a neighbor who bad always been pa the other side of politics te vote for

him.

•;Not a bit of it," uid Jenkt. is a tower ing passion. “Do yon sappoae 1 am goieg

to rota for a 8yphax T*

“A 8yphwx 1" gasped the Colonel; “l

scoud and referred.

I-ewis T. IVigfall, tf. S. Senator from Texas, was duly sworn nud book W*

—-— * T . ,, siot. Twelve thonsaud conies of the “No. thankVou. madam ; T belong to thei ““ -- rrw— ,

report of Messrs. Mordecdt acaTJels-

yon’ve got Y’

“Fray, sir, let me help.)on to some bos.

laiXL

Temperance Society, and c n’t take any-

thing-strong. 1 ’

“Shun " said a Hutchniqn, “yoa may saT what von please 'bout pad neighbor*;,! hav* had te vont neighbors a* never w*s. Mine pig* and mine beus come home mil dere car ►pill, nnd todder dmJ tW6 of them come home missing."

TEDLOVE

jfcwlw tWen, , w -.

how he Often fell in love i l ^* t li “ e ** wil * ^ pwparvd for pray. Mr. Jinks. «bai is a Syphai ?" . ^ »i i tbe moraful tiding*. “bypha*. you ickoranwou* 4o*l," roared ■X*-.-. .. . _ j Yer ould swalebart, Msry, sends h<^j old Jruks, “is a thing too big for a taonkuy,

“•*’ lor to ye, uubekuowest to me. When j and not big enough for a man I" was | the bearer of this arrive* iu Hamilton, | —

ured'girl with ! nx him for this Ictlbcr, and if he doesn’t j ^ an-r.—»la,.gei down o n

"" m 1 ... ' ’ 0|ie i your hands aadkiwna, a vioule. pluase.

Bnd ; Morusa.—Why, what on earth shall 1 do

In black. j that for, pet r* ^ * From yer Inving ent, 1 Aarisv.—‘CauM I warm to draw an {

Jedr 0’Hwlli#aE. ’ Mkephsni!

who had faw : 00 W ' J ' C *‘ o*** it >«, tell him it*a the it thru »*— x-j ! (h* 1 «r»kt* of yer cnkic’s death, i

K ura cue nad a

“Isn't the world older than it n**d to be?" Mid a youngTiopeftil toiihsenior,

j “Ye*, my son."

| “Th*n , what \do folk* mean by old

! time* r

i "Hillo*. there !—u4«ot‘* your hurry i—

; where are you going T”

j “Going ? I’m rcucing for an office.”

I “What office ?''

“Thu sqairp'* office : darn it, I’m aoad." A pretty girl was lately complaining to friend that she hod a cold and was very badly plagued in her lip# hy chaps. . Friend.” said Obadiah. “thee aheald never suffer chaps to come ooor thy lipa." The roUcwir.c.*oloitoo, being *hu first re ceived from a la£y. to the conundrum lately propounded is eotitlud to the prise of

the Muff:

Why 1* a muff like * silty gentleman ?

field were ordered to be printed. A mulnlipn was adopted to meet at one o'clock until the House organized. Mr. Mason, of Virginia, defended the nse of ike word servile, which he had applied to northern society. Ho believed it expressed the true, destinctioii between tiic States where slavery did exist and where there were noaUrcr^ There was a serving class, he mid, in the Iree States as well as in thdL slave. They were made servile by therefiffttors, aad copid be seen wearing their tnutU-nlliverp and the badge of their

servitude.

The President's message, and thn slavery question, as applicable to the territories, were discussed at length by Mr. Hat inn, of lowa.„>lr. Foster, of Connecticut, defended the republicans from the charge of ahftury agitation. It had been, said Mr. F., iwiMdaced into ths message, and oh this floor, by gentle wen ou the other side. Mr. F. discussed that part of the Prcsidciii'a tKcasago relating to Mexican affairs. He opposed the appropriation recoin mended by the President, ou thegrouml that it wa» nncoMtititUonal and viola-

UaL-XM*. M»'. ta«l jU'. of interanlitmit) )».. A,rer b»bl-

j tag an «xaeut^e seswou the ScButo ad-

. . ; jourued-

squrexiag.

to momeatf!

—AdvcrUs* your business.

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