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CAPE ISLAND. CAPE MAY COUNTY, NEW JERSEY; WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1865. * , < . _ _ at

NO. 36.

§• rlcct 1'ottrn. thi: old not si: clock. Oh, the tOO, old clock, «rt tk^houocUokl clock, Woo the bright**! tnlnf. *o4 arat**l ; It* hinili.Ahouith obl, h*4 o tou.-l, o I (uld. And It. chimes ran* .1111 the esrselval. 'Twaa a monitor, loo, though llo wont* were lev, Tel they lived, CBocch Ball to* ittereJ ; Aaii it. voire oiiil .limit, Welti rd old nnd yodSp, ' When Hie voice of IritnCati'p (ollcinl. "IVk, Mcfc" U hU, "telrk, quick to bed— | Tor often I've given warnln* ; LV, ®P> oad go, or cl«n|rv« know, f You'll never rive woo io M» morulas--* , A frlrodlf coke woe that old. < U Hock, A. It .lood In Ihc comer utility ; And bfiwil tho Ua>*. with emrrrj rli'icie The vvir.try boura beguiling . A. it coiled nt illfVluk bnlitl) ; When the dewo look* r»»J . " Vi the inl.tr way, And the ably etr U" eohflj ■ ••Tiek-.tieit." it aeM, "quick out of bed. For ot live I've given want's* ; You'll ne'er kore heoltb. yen'H ne'er have wealth ; Onlcas rnui'c up Hem in the morning." twin buurtr the «iuod goee round »nd round, With o tone that eriur. never ; While tcora an «hrd TO the bright Oaj* fl*J, * And the old trielfil* lev t forever. It. heart bent, on, though heart, are gude, That warmer Lent, and j ranger ; Its head* vflll aurvr, thougn haod^we love j Are .topped on eerth no longer. "Tick, tick,'1 it .old, "to the churrl)} art! tied, Tbegm.c ha. ,-ivco wnrtungA. ' Ip. up. At"l rloe, ami look to the aklr.. And prepare for a heavenlj morning."

gutrrcstiwi ?tovli. Till; FEMALE PILOT, wieh yon -would twIT mo o slory, Mon•fnor Scarlet," Mid 'J to an old whileI; ended ji||ot of ibe St. Lawrence, aa be «»t in tl.e housekeeper's room at my onCl*'*, una cold, bitter night in December, while _ the .torn we. hocb aa Mont.eal alone can b>m«l or. Tba boksskesper ru hit niece, and the old man would oftea enma hither and e«joy a aocial cbat, rather than remaia alone io bU cabin, wbteb waa midway between Montreal and Lachine ; while a room over ike kitchen waa rtsertcd for Lit nae. He waa en especial friend of qjy uncle, ami none were mote welcome than be. Age had crowned hi. bead wiib bnaiy baira, and many a nhble ee.tel had he guided over the deep watera of tho belle river of Ibe Canada*. • "And what .hall, I. tell y.oo, lore?" queried tba old man. 'a. I aeaied myself by hi? - aide, and placad a brimming givldnt of ale near by him, t> belp hit memory in review, jag tba pan. "Tall ma a atory of tba St. Lawrence," 1 aniwarad. "Something real and true." For a moment be wai liiant ; then alp- j ping hi. ale, be commenced : Many Jtear. ago. when 1 war to email a boy aa hardly to recollect it cow, my brother and 1 were placed on board one of the rirar steamboat*, at cabin boy* und waitara, Willi a view t« begume pilot* when we ware older. That waa neatly fifty year* ' ago, and boata ware mil fitted ep ia "the atyla lliay are nuw. nor were good pilota a . thing to' be found eeery day. We had ran up and down fevern! tune., alien, out morning, about ten o'clock, we Mopped at Brockrille, to take cm board, aa u.ual, a j Government pilot. It wua late to tha teaaon, aad we bad bad a itrong wind tb» night before, leaving the liver rough, and our utu.l pilal had bard work to keep tba beat in iga proper couree while it brungbt tu into Brockrille two | bonra later tb.n tba naqal time The ctond? overhead atill looked cold, and tba wind tdw» freat and itrong, when, makin# nil possible liaate, we again put not of the harbor, and' Were none bounding on onr way. Throughout tba niurunig 1 noticed an angioM look on the captain', face, which heap ■ike bia ttttea.ineita about tbe final ter- ' ■inalion af onr joura.y . We bad a good many paaiangrra on board, and although wa n.nally reached Moat real by font o'clock in tha afternoon, wa abould be delayed until ais, if ool later. About ten milat tbia aide of lachine, u .jprm of rain commenced, which rendered It almost jmpotaible to guide the boat a: all; while tba rapida of that name, the mo.l UrriCc in tie whole river, were yet to be paired. Tba piliU wa* one of the beat on the roata, bat a man of peationele tamper, with • peculiar dogged look. Between liim aad tba ordiaary boat pilot tber^ existed an old 'A. grudge, which had nnca or\twice led to .blown, when iliej came in contact with each other. Thai morning, while pairing one or the Ijigher Haiti, they Mood together efc tba wheel, when, owing to the strong ourrwu pf the water and tha alotosl exhassled .irrogth of bim Who l ad guided u. all night, oat apoka of the wheel Hipped ffOB bia handa, aad neatly coved an nc. cideut of a pretty earioca natnre. Tbia annoyed bit companion, and -hard wqrds pureed between tht-m. .it.ee which time a retlwn aileocw bat! been praaarved. Whea ubuut two milat above the Lachine Rapid a, tafee of lit- rigging aloft gaee . ry, •»d tba »ight pilot mounted the upper deck with a ladder, and attempted io make h fat. Therfvind blew fiercely, end while eiertlog all hi. alreagth to euy the mischief. ha Wet hi* bold and fall, tba ladder

| coming doe-a Jiree'ly npooThe head of onr i gorerbment hid, wounding him pretty severely. Sot pausing to look at. the mi«j chief, he seized the unfortunate man, and, j with fcltnoM superhuman , strength, lifted j bimtbove the host railing. Tha other, i <|0ickly gu**tin(r hi? meaning, and winding • hi* arm* around tbe neck of hi. c -mpauian, | tbey M| together into the boiling Mood be. In*. IV. lowered the lite-boat aa qnicljy aa possible, rope* were thrown wot and j .very effort par f->rtb to *av» them— bu( in : j vain. They rose to the rurfae- of tbe •>. | j ier,"".(ill locked in each other1* armr, and t j !h,-n .auk from our right forever. ' 'Tho boat now rapidly ruthv.l on, coming J ' near-T the frightful rapid, while terror- j -j .truck face* were around u«, at tbe thought j that bo in water hand wa* cuar Co gaide u. through the dark pawwge below. Tbe i tcene which we lnd just been called to wit(j ue<* only tiiado our tiluution wore terrific, I while wild and fearful eye* amvuid u*. b«- ' vpoka 'ho agonizing apprehension of the ; T pa'.enget. and erew, at we went plunging j madly to destruction, scarcely half a mile : fiom tho gulf, wl.o.-e dashing wave* we j could dUtiudily hear. J The captain Imd Iron My tol l n* of his; I inability to guide u» through tha .perilous ; p.s.age ahile deck, g.ucwsy and "cabin . were tilled with men, womru and cbildrvn, ; soma of whom were praying, tone weeping, others ir.tcu»ely crazed with «n agony too r lulenso for utteiauce. . Women eagerly' clutched tbhfr children, and husband, prt-f. 1 ed Ibeir wives to their bo>otn* wilji.ouly I the hopu of dying together. , _ ! ■ The captain stood at the wheel, .><i«|.-d . by one of tl.e pasecHger*, vainly end-am* 1 1 ing to holdout to the last, and guide her , ! until every effort should prnra fruitle.s, . while, with straining eye* and look* of dev , .Doir, they gazed through the almost blind- . iitg atoriri upon the craggy rocks lifting , high tiieil gray bare head* out of tbe wat*r, . uud u]ion which they expected every mo- , merit to be dashed. Jutt a* frenzy liiid began to calm down 1 r into «ober, earnyat preparation ' for the . doom thai awaited them, there came out ot j the Mate room, a fair, young creature, over , whose head scare* sixtrru^ summer, bad j psa.rd. She wa. of tnodium height, and , fair as the lily of her northern clioie. She . dofined a drew of plain bt.ck stuff, while a coat of one of the deceased pilots Was bul- . toned tigbily around her slight form. Her , faco war uahy pale aa sb# mounted tKeMuit. . way. and with her hair di.beieli.ii by the . wind, she exclaimed, in a voice which raog pur* as 'bugle notes above tho storm : "1 know something of this Lauutna rapij, tud will use my best endesvor* to gmde . : you, altbengli we havo everything of wind ; and weather against us. Lot two of yon. 2 who are the strongest and moat Salf-pot- . sered, atand by me at the wheal, whiha the rest iuvoka II is aid who ever stilletb lbs . i turn pest, to guida our Itfv-lsdeu bark fu r 1 safety tbrcugb the troubled waters." * i As if in derision of her matchless coor- » , "age. tha mad Waves dashed higher, while > . the thuuder pealed a loud defiance to her 1 words. With pallid face and Itps com- : * j pressed, she took ker station at the wheel, t | while two puwsrrful tneu stood by to aid * , bar aa far a? possible. With a firm bund . she raised the glass and swept tbe scene 1 ; before her, then bidding tbem to havecour- j * | m'', fhe boat entered noon her f arful , I j course, bounding onward, as if conscious . I of the hand that jrni. ed its destioj. II. -r » order, wure given in clear, loud tunes, ■ while .be stood proudly erect, bar- eye ; J brightened into a 'darker hloe until one I would have f»ncird heirrtflml1nj!r?pirit of: » the storih. The V»ter dashed against the ! r sides of tha boat, crowning her fair 'bead I I with glittering drop'*; yat atill .ha Mood j i unheeding, while t'dt an eyn in all that ■ - croup bat gszed in miogled awe and cou- ! fideora open thai delicate form. Once | 5 ageiu the spoke of the wheel slipped from I ' tba grasp of l.im who held, it, hut a fair i . jewelled hand arrested it* progresi, and : '• ■verted' the destruction which olberwi.r a would bare followed it* awerva from duty. \ d Onward »pad tba noble bark, and when t ilarknes* (hut the last rock from our tight, e one deafealng shout rote high above the t storm, far ker who to bravely guided a* through oar danger, r She would receive eo thank* for herself, b but bidding u* "give thacka to iiim whose d voice ruletn the storm," the retired to ber d state-room. o Around lb* cabin table that bight, about b an boor before we rnterad the harbor of | Monties), we Irartfet] her history, r 8be was the daughter of the merchant g who owned the line of boeta, one of which l- she bad just saved from rain. Her mother d died when eke was a child, and bar father d bad yialdad to het wishes, aad allowed' bar s to aecoutpway bim io tha boat of whirh be i* was tba captain. By degrans, tbe became i* accustomed to every bead is tba beautifpl tirer. wbtla tha calm and * to rot alike brought aeensa of beauty tn her ayes. Bbw le was now on her way to visit some friends r, io Quebec, where bsr father was to Join ■r . bar, to spend the winter, ih j A gentleman artist .hatched ber likeness le 'to a leaf of hi. portfolio, a* sbe stood si •- J tha wheel, wrapped ia Use pilot's coat with tr ' tba glass ia bar head ; end b at fuil-ltogth

' portrait still graces tbe callerr of fine nrw ' . in Montreal. Many a rough band pr«s]>*t! i, • the^snowy fingers n! parting, and utaoy a blessing .crowned t hit noble head. I A magnificent diamond bracelet, bearing ! upnn an inside plate the name of the ve.jel , i ' and date of the occnrreneo, was pr.'aenled tu In-r about a week aftnr her arrival in . Quebec, by the passenger* wli" were on board at tbe timo ; while loud and trium- ' pli mi l aer^the praise* born to the car of i I tbe fund parent, of the noble conduct of j i | that frail bat fearless one, who' had braved j tba danger brtVre which -Mont heart* auu i strong torms Lad qusiled with deadly fear. 1 : | "And what hetame of her afterward. ?" ; i ; 1 intjofrvd. * w [ "She married an officer In Quebec, und i ' : her children .till lire there. One i* a no- ; 1 J Ida liny, or rather inau now, and plows the j ) , ocean iu one of the noble batllv-rkipi of j ' f liugluud." . [From the Newark twanarl of I'lrnlca.) Tlie <tutiitiwn of t(cion>irii('Uon. ' ■— — i The ijuestion of Itecon.tructiou. in view | , . of the rapid occupation of insurgent terri- ! ( ! t»ry by our artniev. i* becoming immediate- j ■ Pj ly important, and itireedy attrncts the at- i ten tlno of Congrrse and pu\dic met: through- , , out the country. A* yt, however, there ] f ; i* rreat divet.ily of 'opinion a. l,i the vne- ' , Tliod and tcims of reconstruction ; and un- -y , - lets the cotifiicting view* regatdiog the • political thilut of the rebel State* in iLeir r present ■relation to the Fed;rul trorern- j meot, can Jiu reconciled, there i« Ittlle hope i that eny definite policy will lie actually ini- v I I Muted, eipecluHy a* entire unity of | arpo.e , unit of rlfiirt' among the frieiidt of the , ' I UuicO nrc iadiitpetiinbla to success in any i ■ attempt to ' re.iuro the authority of the . i ■ j tiovcrnmeut over lln^Mcntled Slate*. t The two opluians upon which the country , ; it divided in reference to tlyiw ipiesliuo, ate , ; substantially a* fallows: One class of per- ' , : *ou» matr.taiu that lh« State* in rebellion ] bovii hqen formally uild definitely carried | out of Hid Union by (onvrniiun««r legiolj- , tufe? representing Ibe people; that their in. ; habitants havo become, to all intent'' and r purpose*, alien enemies, und that, whether t .(■ they are comjielled to lay down i|Mr«rni*or i return of their own mntioo to tllrj allegi- ; | anew, tbe'y must be denit with ns cont;uotwd v I pravihevs, und duly admitted into the Union upon such condition «* (.'i.ngie * , »nd the c I PreHUettt shall see fit to iotpn«r. The other i cluis of .persons, regarding tbo nation as t ■ ind.'tlruelibli', bold thai the Stales, ns , ■ States, have never seceded or rebelled, hut ' t | only a portion of their pcopla ; that a* . t ritafes, tbey still exint, their functions be- ' c ing merely suspended by the presence of a j j hostile usurpation ; that ctoseqneotly, tho | . St-ite*( being in the Union, legislation i* i needed only in reference to tho conditions < i i upon which those person* who hove been i ' actually iu urine against the authority ol i , | the Huvernmani, shall bo re«lorej| to the , , right* wfctcfi have been declared forfeited under the prrtaure of military ooccts.iy. , ■ It is obvious tllat whilHthese radical differ- | , ; euces of opiniou pontioues to exi-i among j ( the luyal people, the work of composing1, tun strife which now convulse, tho. Union, j , I j and ru establishing the national authority j < j | i« »>< integrity over all lli« .Stales, must he , , J one of girnl diflitulty, if cot of absolute i j iinpooaibilily, aud hence the tlece*»ily of ! ! effecting a rrconciliutioo of view*, a* pre- , i liininary to the adoption of a fixwl policy, , : beeonius only secondary in ' importance to i the overthrow of the rebel isrmies. Tbe lucent letter of Geo. Hhrrntan, sdr , ; ure.ved to Certain citizens of lleorgia abo f: bs-J vntpuirvu of hint al to the probahftr-, ( j policy of the F«4sxal Governmeut in dealI ing with thai Slate, presents some view* ■ I I on this subject a bich are attracting wide , , | attention for their practical good sense , aud clearness of statement. Mm. Sher- ! , j man says : , j Uaorgia is not out of the Union, "ncd ' 1 tlierefuro the talk of "reconstruction" a;1- ' |H-ar* to me inappropriate. Jrouie of the 1 I people have been *uU a ill are in a stale of ■ . ! revolt'; and aa bmg n? thejr remain armed , mud otg -r.ixed, the Untied, sitalv* mn*t r.ur ' i *uw I hem with armies, and drnl with them ' j according tu military law. Hut a. snpn as ibey break up th«ir arniml organization and [ i retnrn to their homer, 1 luka it they Wi'l j , hs dealt with l>y the civil court*. Sumeol ), tbe rebel* in L'eotgi*, in my judgement i j deserve death, *>craiue they nuV* commit- . • toil murder, and other crimes, which art: ' ■ punishable with death by all civil'sed gov- . t rrnment. on earth,' bu>. thv greil units, , probably, will never b« noticed. I think , this wa. ibe course indicated ■ by Grn.ral 1 Washington in reforeuce to ibe whiskey f insarr.ction, and a like principle seemed ' to bo recognized at the tini^ ol the Burr : i ( conspiracy. * * * * • , My opinion is that no negotiations are nu- ' -ceniiary, nor. commi'.ioners, nor conven- | r~ ttous, nor anything of the kin i. When- i 1 r ever the people of Georgia quit rebelling j | r against ibeir government, and eluet. mem- , ber* to Congrea* and Henatoni, and that* go and iakn their teals, then the Mate ol : 1 1 Georgia will have resumed bar functions io > 1 the Union. t Gen. Sherman her* pi at himself on tbe ' ' • side of tboee who hold l-at tbe .insurgent ' » Slates are still within the Union, and that a only those people who or* in nclivo revolt 1 ■re to be dealt with by the Government, s This in pfucttenlly the view enunciated by t President Lincoln in hit recent me tssgr, b when ht said that If, after the Mthmi«si'>u ' b of tho insurgent*, "question* should re-'

■ "msin, we w..olJ adjs.l them by Ibe pesrr. i i "fol mrsns of legislation, conference, court* | "and vote." Usrtkiu question* would, j I ouqceMivonhly. arise, but they would re- | late, not, it leenl* to n«, to the Stale. | in their 'organized rapacity, hul to th- it j j people a* rebel, ueainu XatiousI taw and | JlMorbria of the dowysticn It j faem*. therefere, that our ultimate nfely j 1 no less than jretcnt policy drmahd? that I no such revolniionary meUturv* of recti sy j MrucHou n» .onto have proposed, should lie , j adopted, hat that, on the other hand.— - bttltiioif the ■ Uuieii to let .till in 'at:t, each . I State atill a complete orgaixttinn, however ■ j it* funetion* may l e tcmporttijy interrupt- 1 ' 'd or prrv.gsi ly directed.— we should Serk the pacification and re-union of the e.oun- i j Hi rough m.a.urea which* *ha|l hold the I liable le Hie punitive jurisdiction ' j and action of Federal law. j It is certain ('ml such a policy a* this have arisen had a fixvd poiicy fi>::> l.,i on I this tiew (-1 the qui .-liutl hevit evtabh>lied. JThe military ftntherity would have bet n ! com'-iliud of war. to tc.-ume thulr ?«trr- " j eigul), and set in activs motion the insi-ln. that gavernmenl coofiraiiog to lf.v new pru'iueeii, tb» subsequent rr-ef.llinp-tioiUtt«'ongre»s, and its other r..n.titntion-, would have been a j.mc*s ueilher difieult 1 unOaturnl ; would have been merely j had been suspended l.J the acts of a j portion «r the i-oplr. Bat. there being . no ancb fixed policy. Lonisumf has belli o miHtary ncd a cieil governor: has n»n.:nai'.v ' a legislature, aud yet j rtolirnllv tin. hot ; has conn., hui court* Which anil, mi t..nrucivil, und . j o.itl.m .0 anoineloe? thai . With AleSma." c.!.. ' Virginia j nod other riuie* ..ccupyirg »uhstat»liallv I the «jn|» position ss Louisiana. »n<i with ULc I .-. speel opi ning before It? tlml Mill | complication* which now surround this sub-' ject: and Congress will, vesreely meet j to thai cui-dilion of unity uttil p-urr » hieh ! all human- and patriotic men lung low f again isutdi'hed. ' Many Fads in 11 Srlfull i'otupaus. L The number of languages spoken i* 094. The number ol men ia equal to ihc j nouiber of women. The average of hon.ua I life is ubont lliirty.three years, line qnarler : die before the ace of seven. To every one ! thonx^Sd persons one rarely rmtihe. ih» ng» j of qd>< hundred years, and put me rn than one In five hundred will reach the ag* of ciahty. There are on earl li l,(tmt.O".l.' op I inhabitants. Of the*, abunt 3?.a!EL333Hie ; every year, 91, «4 die every day. 7.T -is j ever^&inr, and sixty every niioule. These losses afe balanced by an equal ttonilirr of J birihs. The marrikd ore longer li«o l than :*Uie Hngle. Tall man. dite lou.tt thar. . 1 short one*. Women hare more chance, of life previous to the ago of fifty years ho1 ■ fewer nfi^r than men. The number ol tuerj riages is in proportion of seventy to one j hundred. Marriages are more frequent ! after the rqwinoxer; than L, during the ; month* of June and December. Tho-« born -in the spritignr.- motw roburt than the others. Birth* and deslbt are more frequent by tiifW than Ly day. Comc. If there is a word tlial fills the heert with i joy, it is "borne." Home is an old word, I yet it he* Invincible power that can never lessen orwoar oot. There is no other word ! in langnsge thaV cluMcrs so many pleating affection^ snd that *0 powerfully excite* our fading*. We are bound to it by tie# , of early affections, by year# or childhood, j by % father's and brother's friendship, by a i j mother's and/sister's lore. Hume ; mur- ! I hut its name, and what bnppy recollec- i i lion* shoot through the heart, aud our brain i j Is wild with emotion. Our spirits, huwover | depressed by sorrow op affiiction— however j j pinch ■% have been stnnned by tbe rough j I'hunge of life, sometfmeslorns to thejuem^ | i orise of "borne, sweeuhktne." ITacisus.—' Borrowed gartnent: seldom { fit well." IlaMqoflen trips up its own heels, i ; Men often blush to bear what they ere not [ , a.bamed to act. i'ntle ia tbo Bower that ! growa in the devil'e garden. Mere are drowned in the wiuecsp tbaa in Ibe ocaaa. 1 He who bay* too many inperflnilie*, may be ; obliged to sell hi. necessaries. j — To-morrow has no overflow to alone ! for the loat yeeterday.

stories for tiie children. .. XLtiTYiubit. I ''Oh. mother. I nin tired to tftath «ni.l Jano Mills, a* she threw herself into a ( •j chair, on hrr return from school, j ."Tired to death !" repeatrd hvr mother, ^ . "Yes, mother, 1 am; almost, 1 n:e«n." she added. "No. my daughter, cot even nlruraV [ said Mrs. Mill*. i "W«l>. al any rate," coMiooed Jsne. "I . wooid j:*h ualk lioui Lefc to .chvul ugaiti t U)-do y lor anything in tho world !" ( ' |v». Jon would, my dear," said her ■ : mother. .ge*>t!y. • !t I "No. 13 other, I am sore I would not ; 1 • , ' Tln^ll nm ren.iu j-u rould t» induced ! i "Weil, molh.r, try p,r. aud »ee if any- ] ih'pf Could make me willing tu go." „ " Suppose." said Mr*. Mill*. "I shoni.l , nlng ? I expi vi to vieit'rt." gre»t animation ' Mty I got Yen pn.ii..- * ist'd t« lake Hie to it »h-« von went." , , "I intend* d tA Lavs don* so. hot the ^pUre vAiere i, "i» t*. I- exb.ldtto it a very : , Lng way beyond y..ui school." * : ( _--T am quite re. 'ed now, dear mother," ! t said J aiie. "1 uiyild not fad of goinc for „ nil Ihe a. .lid ! Why do you .mile, mether1" ; , . daughter lliave." "What do yuu mean by "iucon.wivnt," « mother , | .•■Why. ul.eoa little girl says one tnian'.e 1 thai tl.e would not walk a particular dis- , ' t*r,ce for anything iqjhe world, and in Ibe 1 next lumute say. she would JIM fail of, walking still fori bar-!** ail tho world, shell. : avert, bad babit to Lv snch ^xpies- . ] kit-n*. 'Yesterday, when yon cstno home , • r.ou, s.U'.'d, you. said you were almoef fng'.leyed ."It „r yonr We, uod-wheu J on--qnired a- to the coM^' of ;,..ur alarm, you « ■replied I hui J on bad met «# many at a thou- 1 *■ I'd cr.jp* .l,.g« on your way from school. . 1 Now. my daughter. I j.iah to hre.k y.m of J 5 hungry, or frightened, use tho simple words . y.-ii may lie lirr". 01 axveediagly tired ; oi , : r.fied. From ih.s moment, let your lip. Speak the thing yon mean. The Bible say-: ] . "Let yonr yen i-« yea. and your nay nayV . ' enntefh or rut." Will y.m try to rcroem- ' uir nhil I have beet, ■ ay inc. and strive-to correct this fauit, n,y dear < hdd ?" | "Ye., dear-mother." replied Juno ; "for ' I know 11 iv^rong. snd 1 fa-el ashamed and ' "Will, my dear./ ndded lirr mother, "improve ! Aud now yon mny get icady and go *ltb m - pennmina." The I. ark and Her I.itttc Ones.— 1 A Fable. Thero wa* a l.ru~ of yonng l.rk* in a . field ol corn which wus ju-l. ripe, and the , mother, looking evcty day fur the reapers, , "left word every day when she went OOt ill j f. Xearctrof fo<.«l, ihut the young one* should ■ f ivport to her all the news they hoard. One i , day while. »lie wa? absent, the master came | , to look al tl.e Mate of tbe crop*. "It ia , loll time," |,e raid, "to call iu all my ' f n--igbburs Mid get my corn reaped." When , tbe old l*ik came home, the young one* i . told.tlieii mother what Iheyliad heard, and j r begged her In reunite them forthwith. \ i "l ime enough-" said »h,' j "il lie traits to j . hi* neighbors, be will have to wait awliiie j . jet Tor his harvest.:- ' 1 Next day, however, the owner came >, . again, und linding the suu still hotter, and "There is not a luononl to be lost," «sid r lie ; "we cannot depend *0)1011 *oar' neighbors, wa must call In , pur relations," aud i ' turning to his #00. said : "Go call your j I uncles and rontins, und tee that they begin j 1 ff-aiorruw." In »ti!l greater fuar, the | young oues told their mother the farmer's - words. "Do not he frightened," said sbe. | I ! "for the relatives have got harvest work of I : tneir own ; but lake particular notice what ! > yon bear next time, aDd he sore and let mo I j kcow," Sbe went abroad the 'next day, and lb* i 1 owner coining aq before, and finding tbe | . ' grain falling to tho ground from over-ripe- j . i ne as, and still no one at work, called to his j 1 I son, "We most wait for onr friend* and j ■ | neighbor* no lungrr; go and hire some ; • ; reapers to-night, and wo- will act to woik 1 I ourselves to-morrow," VThoo tba young ' ['one* told their mother this, "Then," salll 1 j »he, •'it is time to be off indeed ; for .when J j a msu lake* np bis .business himself Inslesd 1 j of leaving it to otbers, you may be sure ! that be means to set to work in earnest." 1 — — 1 ! — Only our cradle-song*, only those old | 1 j cradle-song*, sounding back on the meib- , , ' ory, soothe tbe sorrowful soul to Hnmbar when it has wept itself bot aad feverish. ^ j . — What is that which a man may have i 1 never possessed aad y«t leave bahinil him T t ^ "HI, , '

The Ruling rutslon. It is related of lluwIauR Hill, eelehrated ' as an eccentrie London preacher, that in a Sermon once prracbed by him. he attempted iUoMrate the superficial and unavailing - cnaracter of all gnpdnss* whirh dnet not proceed from a 'pore heart. ''My brathh i'," «u thq, preacher is iwporte'4 io hern discoursed, "yon can imagine a ca', which of ruur«e susceptible of noinfliieuce from 1 the grace of God, to lake it i*»t« ljer head • that she will set up fur a 'f.ie-i.idr. So puss goes i« the mstjiua maker's, und the linen-i'r.>|'.-i'., end tba mercer's, end purchase* a , and by the u?sulance of her maid end her : mirror, she is arrungrd to the ririight vfher . anil th» saiisfartiou ol het self com- ' f'irvsct. Vv iih a neat rap ri her head, hrr feline ladysh.p is seated at the tea table* and with a binning limprr, place* ber little velvet hand oi! the silver I.-. nm, when, all ol a -uJdtP. o mocse pops, i..|iv tbe mom ini.: ullract* |l,,r eyes of h. •• lady-hip. Like '• ■ I'-' F gonpowdwr whea a »pw<k fells into 11. her blood ia tn*: .ai.* ly un tir>-— she hap? > ver tl.e cbiaa. wh:i h rattlws nn the Hour, the veivel kinout hares of tlirxe pretty paw* provff to he only a vlii'lil to sharp insltn. hretbrru, with tin: external goodness of au uureaewcid sinner. Let temptation appear, ami Sup t^d Adam immediately shoe's his army, when hoiyiiig the dead, to , pl?ce in the grave with thIPhody, a sealed ile, ci.nta'ning a paper on which is writ, the name and other particulars respecting tho deceased. * - Uarlyfn it rryorled to have said, "Let America succeed und England goes to demliy express train." Hence the ho?til. Hy of t'a.ljic and every English lord aud — During the pa?l year the enormous stun of twenty. right million* five hundred and feniy-JW'i thousand dollars was lost hy lire* (a the loyal .Slate. ■ — 'r " 1 ' ^ (Corarv. . 1: ad itrwri|itiuaa, fatVoiled far this I)c tartmri l. musr Jw mn.r.', nr,,.u< or they wUI I— Tri-I.cftfrt'd JlKigiuu.— Xo. UO. | < / cm computtd nf 17 letters. My I, 13. 3, in destructive to afl nations, iy ID. 2. I. I* a part of tbe face. My 14. 15. 17. iv a mVtol. My 6, 1C, fi. j? a tilleol nobility. My 7, K U, it the great rrgulatui of heat, j My 9. 4. 12, i* used by a groicr. j My 12. 11, 17, is an iualrument ef warfare. . 1 My 14. Iff 17. is'a weight. My al.ole are tho only terms held out to tbe Southern people by many ol onr Iladi. : ca! pol'.tician*. LiTTht; Mac. Double Rebut. A country in Avis. A leriltory. * A !. A l iter in the United sutss. A cooi.try in Europe. 'j A capo on a penin*o!a in Ecaope. ■ , J A lake in Si.uih America. | A river in Englund. " ~ ~ - ™ " 1 j A ci"V in Spain. My initial! form one nf the battles of j the present wer, and niy Gnat* the Slate in ' pwhicb it was foughi. Mar. "I;:t h< inaii< al Problem.— No. I. I fluwr many five inch cubes can be cot out nf a twenty-inch cube ? ■ .V. Pot the Occaa Wave. Mental Question.— No. 3. If the half ef bj be ij, whit part of 15 i will 10} be T V. Answers to Enigiuaa in our Last. No. 18.— ^'General William Tarumnrh Sherman." j No. 19.— "Bunker mil." — Botbhniw'd ,j by "May" and "Julia," of Cap* Island. | iltnnui. — "Almanac." 0r The following additional answer* to Enigma No. 17, bate beAi received :— • George 11. Reeves, John M. Rots, and i "H- M„" of Fhiladelphia; George W. Miller, and Hannah M. Selover, or Greoo Creek; Gormen Smith of Dtnnisville; Jo- y' . cub E. Price, Jr., and Alouxo Browec, of Townsend Inlet; H. L. Creese, of Cold . Spring. * "P. S.»" of Millville, tends us a correct solution of Mental Qoestior, No. 1, tot made a alight mistake in the.fignrea; instead »r 20 2-8, the QoenUon was 20 2-3. Jfif No credits will to given fer matbe. matical lolutions of mental queMiopt ; and in all cases the sololtons must acoompauy ' the answers ; otherwise tbey will net to noticed.