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Volume 6.

C.U^EISLTND. NEW JERSEY. THURSDAY. l>KCEMiEir27715ua^

•' NUMBER 31. j

BABY, DARLIHG BABY. ■ t CABBIS CABLTOB. Baby, darling baby. Tottering ruuud the floor ; -Steeping in the cradle. ( Standing al the door; Blithsome tlioo. and happy, Free u Bird of air — •Feeling naught of sorrow, 'knowing naught of care. Prattle on tny baby. Would that through thy life, Thou mighlesl ken as little Of itl deadly strife. :Soon enough liion'lt learn it, t The lesson conned by afl — 'God help thee, then, my baby. That thou mats't never fall FAITUFDLNEBS. When the swell of the ocean N* louger i* seen ; • And the tolingo of summer Shall cease to be greou ; When the snn shall forget To pise lustre and heal ; And tne scent of the rose lie not soothing uud sweet ; , Wh.-n the moon shines no more Upon mountain nnd glcu, Tit then I'll forget thee. But never till then ! AHBET W Poison drops of, rfreand sorrow, Bitter poison drops they are ; Wearing for the coming morrow Bad memorials of to-day. Angry words I Oh, let them never, Prom the tuoguo forbidden slip; May ear heart's beat impulse ever Check theiu ere they toil ti e lip. 1 For Ike "Omu Wave." 10 SABBATH SCHOOL TEACH lbs. Ma. Leach : — I beg permission to communicate to the Sabbath school teachers of Cape May county tbrongli yoor valuable columns. Indeed, it ap|K-ars to my mind that you teachers of the preseul age. need instruction as much as your pupils ; especially, it is so. in our own county. Allow me to inquire "what was the Sabbath school iasiituted for f Was it -simply that children might he taught to to read? Certainly not What then •rero the benefits hoped to be derived from them ? I will easwer ; it was that ■children might be early impressed with a the truths of the gospel, and of the necessity of their soul's salvation, while in the morning of lite. It is a fact, generally conceded, that our teachers' who hare cbargo cf scholars from the ages of five to thirteen, merely listen to the rrading of fe chapter in the Bible, and attend to changing library books. There are some exceptions, I confess ; but are they not "few and fur between f" Teacher, stop and consider the (abject,, nnd ask yourself, "fs this ell my posi•tion requires ?" If this bo your only daty, I dose ; but my opinlou ii widely -different, and it may be well for you to bear it. The office of a sabbath school teacher ia one of the most important statione connected with the christian -church. It ig here that the youthful •mind ia placeft tc receive knowledge •which can never be lost. Let the teachstudy the chapter during the week, . to be read the coming Sabbath, that he -or the may be able to explain the mean- i ing of it to the children. Remind them i -often of their siufalnees end impreee the truth upon their consciences that they I most one day die. If you have a reiig- i ious paper (and you surely should) read i to them some portion of It ; .and by %> i -doing you will notice them becoming I more interested in the religion of Jesus I Christ, and more attached to the Sab- , bath school. Lastly — always bear in t • miad that the beings committed to your i •cure hare immortal souls, and if you are I useful ia imparting holy troths that wil[ apeak for good oa their cb traders when t God Aall judge the Universe, then you , may expect io be counted with the Stars , 4 ut l'h right hand ag-8m— . Send in a dollar for -a year's eubecrip- i lion; commencing with the New-Year. I

From Arthur i Home SUgulac. : - " "bUTY Jr iftST." BY CAPRICE. A pretty, pleasant room, iu comfortable furnituro littered with books and papers, nod children's toys, a lady al . work by tbe open window, where the sweet summer air blowing iu. lifted the j light muslin custains, like nails above her head, ao idle, discontented little girl j lonnging over iter slate and school j books, at a distant table, I can sec this picture whenever I think of those j words, the first lime I ever obeyed j them. "But the boys want me to go, mamma; tbey are trying their new kite, nnd tbey want me to come and see them fly ' il." * "And your lessons, my dear; would j you neglect them ?" "I can't do all these hard sums, anyway/' . t ^J'Xol without time; and patience, and per-everance ; not without giving your whole heart and mind to the work/with energy and principle enough Mo put aside whatever tempts you to leavo it," said my mother. "It is a hard lesson, v the hardest you ever had to learn, bnt it will be an era in your life if yon conquer it. Come, be brave, my baby ! 'Duty first I' " Something in the ring of the little words rlvived my flagging courage, and thongh John, nnd Robert, and Tommy - cuiue ruuniug iu from the garden, accompanied by a party of eager children, ! - all ready for the sport, and clamorous for me, their favorite playmate, I resls- j 0 ted the temptation, and kept steadily at j >1 my work, though the slate was often It dimmed, and the figure-* blurred by j left*— till the last obstinate solution j t wbb wrested' from a mysterious problem, j aad I could march, proud as Alexauder - at the lu-ad of conquered armies, with . my hard-won victories to school. It • was an era iu my life, when I learned to • give thqju-iumph over inclination to du- ) ty, and the echo of the little words bar 1 colored my whole life. That I have 1 1 tried to obey them, I call heaven to wit- 1 l nets', that saw the straggles and suffer- 1 > lugs of after yeara, when a greater 1 ■ temptation blurred my moral vision, and ' i the apptoval of conscience seemed a. • poor reword. i I was ten years older, twenty by the ' i calendar^— a grown young lady, and tbe 1 i bethrothed of a grave, sensible man, ' i doable my own age, at the time of which ' , I wish to speak, when my future has- ' ; band took me to visit his relatives, that 1 1 I might mnke their acqusi tance before ' . my marriage, and learn to know his f pretty sister Alice, who was to bo my bridesmaid. j 1 The "perfect lore which easteth out j I fear" was not mine for Mr. Autsdcn ; I 1 respected and admired him— I reverenced ' his goodness, and was proud of bis tai- ' ent, affectionately attached to him, and * grateful, with much wonder, for the love D be lavished upon me. Yet had be not 1 chosen me I should never hareHfted my a eyes to thai stately height, and with all 1 my wlllfulluess I never dared any action £ that could bring a lasting clotod on his sober face. An only, petted daughter, I was uxtrevagautly gay and willfol, and 1 be had a kind indulgence for my faults and follies that greatly endeared him to ^ and made we respond to his profes- '' sionsof lovc with au honest affection for which neither he nor my parents had bat of that deeper passion, which fills the heart, and agitates tbe " soul, which changes the girl to woman, I nothing — ray rest wat yet dream- ^ and my peace untroubled. Mr. Amsden's little' half-sister, Alice, |, younger than himself, was ^ object of anxious Interest to me from # tbe first. Io shape, site and complex- s] ion, «r« were not unlike, bnt manner and e temperament wholly different, or ebe 0 not come to me, and made the eon- ii

| treat between ns, of a grave and sensitive woman, $nd a rcekleae, happy- chiljL« j It could not be the difference of circnm- . ! stance, for Alice was an only daughter, ] too, andJuuHt^t '"educated and indnlgt ed as winch as*!, apd Mtejieauliful farm , on which tbey liredYnpplied its owners 9| with ample means for any luxury they 5 1 desired. Tbe mystery baffled me for a 1 j day or two, until Farnham Ainsden, the | j nephew' and adopted son of my litre- ; ' bund's father, came home after a short ; absence, and then I knew what-spell was [ [over Alice — then I saw why the color! j wavered and burned on her round check, j . | that was healthy on mine — why the lash- 1 [ cs constantly drooped over her conscious ! > brown eyes, while mine were freely open I ! for all the world too read; why Iter pret- 1 ; ^ ty month smiled in quiet happiness, nnd ! I rarely spoke, while with chattering sing- j ■ ing nnd laughing, jny tongue was nev- j er still all day. The oldif)eople rather j I enjoyed the change; they were of kindly / ■ natures, disposed to like, me f°r Leoni ard's sake; tlioy soon loved tue for Al- . ice's and my own; and even the tall con- [ ' sin, a yonnger and handsomer type of Mr. Amsden ; condesoended from his ; lofty reserve a little, and took some kind . notice of me as Alice's friend. From ! anything in his manner I should never have guessed his relation to my foture i sister, he was kind and gentle with her j i as a brother might be, yet all the tender ; cares, and looks and words, which I had . i learned to consider proofs of n dearer | love, were affkent; but that she was de. I ; [ voted to bint, heart and soul, was plain | enough, yet it was not till long after his j j arrival, when we were occupying the ' • same bed, and I poured an eager flood i | of whispered inquiries into her cur, tliut she gave me the longed-for particulars j | of her engagement, a very different one | from mino. My story had been of Mr. j j Amsden's goodness, of the beautiful j presents he made me, the .-bluing black"' horses ho bought by my request and udviee, the huud»oiue house tuy kind pa. j rents were building and furuishing for our future home, tbe regiment of seamstresses at work on my bridal out-fit, and tbe brilliancy of tbe betrothal ring that sparkled on my band, ever in the dim light of our little room. There was nothing in my experience like the love stories I had read, and I never heard one in real life ; bat with cheeks burning and lips apart, 1 for Alice's answer, that should me into tbat world of joy and myswhere she dwelt apart,, and on tbe borders of which my feet were already set. At first her words were very re- ; served and eold. Farnham Atusdcn was her counsin ; ■ was anv ^orphan ; had spent all his ! patrimony on a fine legal education, and | then went to California to practice. He bad failed, and fallen sick there, after a and tedious stuggle, and her father (I could only guess that It war at her urgent entreaty) had. gone af'er him, brought him home, and established him as his adopted son, upon the farm, to take charge of it during the livea of his parents, and hold it after their death — Leonard being already amply provided for by bis own exertions — upon conditions which Alice did not name "And bow long ago did all this happen!" asked I, sclf-appolnted Grand In- | quisitor into other people's affairs. | "Several months — a year." j "Then why are you not man icd ?" , "It has not yet been spoken of among I us," she answered, shrinking a little « further away. 1 But on other subjects the was more 1 confidential, and I soon anderstood that ' there had been a tacit engagement before | cousiu went to Calffortfla, and du- , ring bis long and painful struggle , against fate and fortune on thoso golden i she had never given him up, or I ceased endeavoring to be what he had 1 called ber— bis angel of comfort and of consolation. Than these reminIseenoee, loading to others, she recited

i- verbatim long passages from bis well j L» remembered letters, and recalled all the] i. tender memories of their mutual love, 'seeking — as even then, in my incxperience, I could not but feel — rather to n feed her heart with sweet recollections ef the post, than with the nearer realij lies of tho present and future, dearer, as ] they should be. She fell asleep iu u e geutle pause, at last, and her innocent | j. breath Hunted over my cheek like a kiss t of happiness and peace — but I lay rest- j s J less and wakeful for many hours. Eve- j r | ry beat of my heart echoed to the thrill- j ing words I had heard, und I felt like ! . j one awakened by piercing music from j B heavy slumber. There were then, those | „ | iu tbe world who did uot love and uiar j . I ry like Alice's brother and I -wi^ bus- 1 j I tling ceremonials and commonplace cu- . i dcariuents — who did not regard mar- . j riage as the acceptance of uti oiler, arid r a lover as a second father. A lover ! e j the name burned like lire upou my lips! . .Mr. Amsden was not my lover, he wu. . my friend, ;uy future husband only — a - man, plain, sensible, upright, aud kind, J f [ of steady temper, of spotless honor, of J a dignity, influence, aud wealth — a man to j make a good husband, an excclleut head j of a family, a respected master of the r house; but uot— not— a romantic lover. B My pulse should nevrr flutter at his co- i r raiug, my heart should never leap to tell i r me "be is near;" nor could his kiss ever | | kindle that burning glow upon my | r i cheek, or his love be to me ns Alice had . ussertt-d, the dearest tltlifg I hud in the j , | world. "Such dreams are not for mo," j j ; I reflected, "I am too gay, too uuseiiii- | . ' mental, too coiumonplucv, to love a* Al- j ) , icc does, or lie loved as she is. I shall I I i never feel it — 1 don't wnnt— I would not i for the world. I aiu happy, to.,, iis-my j j J own way, uud Mr. Amsden is certaiuiy | . kinder to tne than that stately lover of 1 | hers is to her. Poor fellow ! he looks ' ;• moody and unhappy, and not so good. . ' tempered as Alice's husband ought to ' , « bo ; but perhaps he is only absent and . reserved, and r.ow that 1 have his secret, ! wo mast be better friends, for Leonard'* j I and Alice's sake, and 1 must Iryjind dot cover if bu melancholy is real, or ouly as- | | tamed to make that handsome face mure ir- | rcsistable ; at all cveols. I'll give battle tu j it, for I cannot endure to see people look I 1 to solemn for no earthly reason." 8o I | fell asleep, toothed by this determination . j . to dream that the coasins had exchanged faces and figures, and that I liked my iun udo 1 husband infinitely belter for tbu change. The beautiful eyes ef Fernbam beamed on j me. with the gentle kindnot of Leonard, the j melodious whittle I had heard on thctluin ' that day becamo a familiar sound in our , stalely city hooje ; the elasticity and fir« i of the yonnger mm replaced thu sober. . worlJ-woru manner or tho elder, bat not ] the lets was Alice happy, for now her lover was dciolod and fond, and maeh the mor» was I— until morning dawned fragrant and cool, and all romantic dreams took flight with the shrill crowing of the Shanghai* fowls, the screams of geese and guinea-hen*. ( nod all the feathered rabble that clustered on tho greti plant under my window for their morning meal. It wat nil to rresh.and pleasant that lingered there, elowly braid ] ing my hair as I watched the crowding families of chickens tbat fed on the boun'.y of good Mrs. Amnion at the back-door et«p ; tho motherly enws. lowiag in a distant pasture , tho impatient calves, ktroggling nr.d 1 kicking to reach them from an adjoining en- 1 closure; the sleek nod shining horses, goiug and coming from the wiWing-lroogh ; tbe 1 rolling over nnd over, nt piny in the thick grass ; end the elephantine vig. or of the tidy little O -rman girl, preparing breakfast in the kitchen. Her disk was crossed by the tall figure 0r Farnham in ' straw hat and graceful working dress. | coming down tbo path that led under my window, and witbont a moment's coasiden- 1 lion I launched after him a great bouquci tbat stood on my toilet table j the first shock of tbe assembled flowers knocking off his >at, the component parts roll over 1 him jn wild confusion— verbenas glowed on ' his whito collar, blue periwinkles lodged ' on his whiskers, and-grcat yellow marigold- i and dahlia# nestled la bis ciusicrinf u»ir Hieathless with fright and run, I wi «-H si | lenily till he looked up. aad hi* moody Tec- i cleared a little aslt caum in rg.u — a cex

It tain look changed it till it hardly seemed » | the same ; he madome a magnificent salaam ^ I of acknowledgment, and spoke quite gayly , — '•Follow your flowers by a less direct ) | «ay. Miss Lisiv," bn said. ."and I think yon ^ will tin it Grvtchen ha* Jbreakfasl ready * | and he *lrflde off to the stable*. 1 pinned " j up my hair and ran down to find il loo trurl ' j everybody had hmakfailed an hour before ; t i and i|uiii-Vt-hamod of my turdinoss, I was t ; hastily drinking my coffee, when Farnham , j Stalked in Hguin. 1 saw at a glance that lie . j list) l-»i none of his gruciuusness ; *'I am | cuing over to l.islon." ho announced, and ttoreSvnoin ter either, or both of you. iu ^ ! the light huircy ; it is a ten utile drive, l<ut ! I M,'"k >oa would enjoy it if y0n would 1 : have the courage \'o go with mo." He t , spoke to Al-ec. but h« looked toward me. or lie aonld bare seen the crimson blu.lics . I with which she tefaacd — • tibe was sorry «he had uot lime1' ' ■ v . ( '■' '« I REMEDY FOB 60HE THROAT. A | A* diseases of the throat scorn to be nn_ v j usually pr»vat<mt in all p.trU of the roun. V ; try at rrmwnt. any remedy that may ho | ^ : fcB9jrti~*V..ild hare a wide circulation The \ j following lQM.udic-1 by a Ind; friend to rite ' j editor ol the Syracuse Coerier is prunouncj ed by her in'alible .— -A small quantity of ^ i j aheep s ►utt. *ey a spoonfull. chopped Gne I | and hoi L-d in about a gill of milk, nnd \ , drink on retiring to bod. Of course the 1 i throat is to l>t- bound witn flannel, our lady ' I iuformati; tried the experiment on Monday I j oisbt. an 1 although she was so hoarse Oh _ «ratiriog to b»-d that she could not make herself hearJ, she was able to converse freely the next morning, and at noon o„ Teefj day had ... f.r recovered as to be able to ! appear on the .if-t. Yesterday ghn re. ' . aunt.-d h«-r m*-.oI vocation*, l.cl those who ; ere aflLcted with .ore throat try the rgmcJ dy. and Iho-r who do not neo.l it should cut this paragraph out an J preserve it for | future reference." THE PUZZLED^ WlSHKAlf. j Du-ing our lu«i eonflie^with Great Brik | liau. a number of oor tronpV were engaged ^ ia. repair ug tho fortification OT^fTagara i und whil.t to engaged thu enemy comtneqe- , ed a pretty sharp fire, so thrfl ;i occapiod Iteerly the whole of the time or our forere ( io keep on the lookout for the shot, of the enemy. Finding that they did not make m trh headway, they stationed a son or tVi Krnere ; aid Isle to give wan.iug wheu a shot or . .hull was coming. This the sentinel faithfully perfotmed, alternately singing out '.hot,' •shell,' -sliot.' j "'hell,' until finally tho enemy startoj a 1 t'ougreve rockot, which I'at had never seen lie Latitat d, and seeing il clovnto, he , | -hunted, » j 'Shot, and bo jabers the gun with it.' ^ Gni. — dVe never read the following without feeling twenty percent improved ! '■>: '*• [ 1 wo neighttors mot. one of them was cxCcedtttgly r.cli, and the ether iu nioJoruta j ( ircnmstaucos. Tbe latter begnh to Congratulate the ftlV. titer of his great possessions. andhippt'neM which lto mast enjoy, and ended in contrite- r ling it with Itis own condition. •My friend,' said the rich man, will you allow mo to a»k yob one qudtlionT 'Certainly, sir.' •Would you bo willing to take tny property and lake the whole care of il -fur ytntf ' boarding aud cloibiugT "Xo, indeed.' "Well, that's all I gel P ' Hon II. C. Lmgnecker, silting membeh or Congress Trout the Seventh Cohgre.sional district of Pennsylvania, has notified Thomas B. Cooper, tho member elect, that he will contest hie right to a reat in the Th rty-seventh CungreasT He puts thu contest on the ground of illegal acts in several districts. The American HiMe .Society lias cloven lolporWars, native Italian*, engaged in it. «dy. and i» aaid to be doing more in tT( field than eny other Bible Society in tho world. It acts through tho Uwiss Italian Committee; of which the celebrated Col. Froncbio and Dr. Merie D'Aubi^ne are membeis. Th os. R. Cobb, of ttenrgia, is (aid 4|» hare issued a recommendation to the ding States to fi* the time in the Ordinance or Beceestoo, to take rn'eet on tbn 150i cT 20th of February, and in the Lxgre the commissioners oT the nesnr ritates shall u ret to cuusnlt on ttie pro priety o t stepping out of the old Union inanother btn«d ou the Constiiu'.iou of «h . United Slates,