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CAPE ISLAND. CAPE MAT COUNTY, NEW JERSEY. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1868. t ! selects* toe UW Oczas Wot

NO. 701. I In iKr Hnnrl 1 A Man riercsfi to the Heart

e$mx. TUJar.mlilliiuiihtKMUlnr, P-p-pfmX tfcmxfc to. crtalnc"! WWW IktlruLTkM iktotw I— ra" 'j Sou r. IkMlMlkWltHMImn. Tl^r. u. fiWi^tLi llUtaMm u >n»lil *M pan u U> iUii la IM Mill o( iliM. kit ahart an to. rafaata sad tor u* to. laaia *-* — — y -f'-'anlatilrii'i Than an QUlst sad paaa^ sad domatta leva. Asd jsft aalalaat laa taltfe aad truth, Asd a Irato taa afccr. ^ Ana tka panafa bllaa »Uah an ton^n aaa i apaak. Tkan aaa lora4 oaaa Ml Tkat* an llttla , Aad Ika^raaaaa away to tka staking bvaaaa i | aallpa?* " "** d*rt**- " J Aad Un% aa tka |taar of tka dayUgkt dlaa, Aad tka algkt'a Oral laok to tka aartk la anal, on, aOOj ad j ak t | J *Tm' .■ jf, ii . t Wit Mil Wisdom. Kailbby la the lightning of cal- ' tunny. 1 Attention" to small thing? ia the ' economy of virtue. The true way of enriching ouraelvea , ia by cutting off our wants. ( Ladies of fluhlon atarve tbeir hap- , plums to feed their vanity. , The pieaanre of doing good ia the i only one that nevej^rrar* out t A rtltE ooat frequently covers intol- < enable ignorance, bat never conceals 1L I Industry and economy will get ! rich, while aagadty and intrigue arc ] htjing their plana lr you wish to get into trouble, al- , wnya keep a sharp- lookout after your , neighbors concerns. I

Wow a* bafora marriage want notii- A Ing but husbands, and whan they get C them, they want everything. t When doea a noise in the kitchen b remind you of Uw mouth of May?-- u When it's the cook who (cuckoo) sings, b What dow a telegraph operator do * when he rtc -ives the head* of Important news? Waits for de tails, ot J! WHAT is the difference between tire- J, wood and our remote ancestor* V W'e n sow the former bat we never saw the latter. ^ t Why are achoohnaster and school- „ boy like dog aad eat? Because one Is t the oanin' species and the other ia the 0 foelin.' u A CUtcvs actor who can touch Ids ' bead and feet together It a frugal per- ii son, ae ha never hQ* to "make both ends meet.'- h What la the diflfcrmoe between 0 twice twenty-two end twice two and >' twenty? One ia %ty-fou? and the * A M DM-HEABTED railway cngi"eer says he never runs over a man when he can help It, because " it mus- > aea up the track so. " ^ Why ia a vain yoong lady like a continued drunkard! Because neilh- v er of them Is satisfied with a moderate , use of the ghtsa. , Whee may a gambler Iw railed the ,. powar behind the throne? When be v playe the dence, and throws an old „ king -no the floor. d Matthew Arnold makes hU t Prussian scOder call the cable "that o Go TO alraagera. for charity, to aoquahriaaem fee advico, aad to relations ■ for nothing, and you win always hare a MI supply. of a Utf^ukJ Bob" pointing to one * of hi. tKXher Umba. "No," replied « Pat, " t ahouid say it was the leg of a > A poet intended to say: "Seethe ' pale martyr in a shrat of (re," instead , "Bra the pale martyr with his sbi'rt ' cuflra." QTEEY—An axdranga says that , the Graetanbeod l« achieved by throw- , teg the cheat forward and the trunk aawsr—"It ta so ntoamtaiuous in the "bill . country '• of Oofawado, that many per- i ran have to look up through Iheir i chimneys to see who me knocking at ,

gJisttUanwns. ' THE BABES IHTHE 0L0UD8. a A* AMERICAN TRITE STOBY. Just ten years ago. there suddenly " with all his traveling glories on." It was the great comet of 1858 on the griod lour oT the universe. Ugfcsmd strange that petty human life eoald go on as usual, with its rating and -drinking, toiling, trafficking and pleasuring, while that "flaming . minister," in his billion leagued cir- * cult, was preaching flu> wonders of , Infinite immehiity ami power, and the nothingness of earth. The comet no longer runs his kindling race, like Vich Alpine's bench mam, with his fiery cross announcing war and disaster, llama of bottle, tola ss4 fasr. Iiols on his own business, not ours. Under the tail of this particular ' comet doubtless many a tale of love I was told— in the light of his swift spleu- 1 1 dots many a -tender look Exchanged. 1 , The astronomer coolly swept the starry 1 field with his gloss, unowed by the lr- ' . regular night-guard patrolling the ' Heavens, and the robber and murderer I disdain the awfhl witness, no left us ' as he found u>— Joined to our mortal ' i wise in our conceit, weak and < worldly and. wirked, but no castaways ' 1 of the universe nller all. 1 We remember that comet-summer, i not so much fbr its great' astronomical j event a* fur two singular incidents that ( ' more nearly Unfiled our human sjrmi patblcs, which will grovel in poor earthly affairs, even within sight of tU* j most august celestial phenomena. , Our pleasant Bnturdny afternoon, during the comet's appearance, an j icrunnut, after a prosperous voyage, | descended upon ahrinln ths nelgbhor- | hood of a large market town in <4ic of the, Wester Stales, ne was soon sur- | rouhded by a curious group of the , farmer's family and laborers, nil asking ( eager questions about the voyage and , the manage meut of the balloon. That ( secured by an anchor and n rope in the hand Af the wronaut, its car but a foot y or two above the ground, was swaying laxity backward and forward in the , evening air. It was n good deal out , of wind, and was a sleepy and innocent , monster in the eyes of the farmer, who, , with the owner's permission led it up , to his house, where, as he said, he ( could hitch it to his fence. But before , thus secured it, his three children, ( aged respectively ten, eight and three, ' )>egged him to.Ufl tbein " into that big , basket," that they might "sltonthoae ] pretty red cushions." While ths at- ( tendon of the leronaut was diverted by , curious questioners from a neigh- ( boring (Arm, this rash father lifted his y raw hr one Into the rar— ,

little Johnny proved tlie "ounce , much" for the irrial rame), and , liim to the ground; and then, y unluckily, not the baby, but the eldest y hop# of the fiunll^was lifted out. The , relief was too grvflt for the monster. , The volatile creatitrels spirits rose at , he Jerked lila holler out of the , former's hand, and with a wild bound mounted into the air! Vain was the | icronaut's anchor. It ought for a moment in a fence, Imt it tore away and waa off, dangling uselessly after ( the runaway balloon, which no swiftly y and steadily rose that In a few minutes those two little white feces peering | the edge of the car grew indistinct, f and those piteous cries of "papa!" f nnmmn!" grew faint and fainter np . the air. j When distance and twilight mists hod swallowed up voices and feces, and | nothing eouki be seen but the. dark, ( cruel shape, sailing triumptently away l with ita precious booty, like an wrial , privateer, the poor father sank down . helpleas and speechless; but the mother, frantic with grief, still stretched out ' yearning arms towards the inexbora- , ble Heavens, and railed wildly np into the unanswering void. The eronaut strove to console the \ wretched parents with the assurance that the balloon would descend within thirty miles of the town, and that all might be well with the -children, provided It did not rame down in the water in deep woods In the evml of its ( in a favorable spot, it was ' thought that the older child might step out, having ths younger one in the balloon. Then it might again arise and continue Its voyage. "Ah, no," replied the mother, "Jennie would never stir from the car with- | out Johnny in her arms" The balloon passed directly over the market tower, end the rUUrw eeetag ' many people in the streets, stretched autlber hands and called loudly for help. But the villagers, though they raw fee bright Utile heads, brard no rail. Amazed at the strange apparatlon, they might have thought the translated creatures small angel navigators, on some voyaged di.cor.ry, rame little cherubic venture ofrhelr own, as 1 towards the rosy cJoudlanda and purplrllfeuids of sunset splendor, ; they sailed deeper aad deeper into the ' west, and faded away. Some company they had,>«r Utile I aky-walft. Something comfort^ them - aad allayed thcir-wild terrors— sumo. : thing whispered them that Wlowtbe t night and clouds was heme; that above waa God; that wherever they might t drift m edrah, living or d-d, they , wonld diU be in His domain and under , Hi. rare-fera -though borne away among the stars, they ooold not be ' irat, for HU lore would follow them. ! ^ ""'a^h enriv. -ttefe. j the comet might enmc too near their j tote T i

Then Jennie took off her apron and wrapped it about the child, raying - tenderly, "This Is all sister has to • make you warm, dorUng, but sbel! hug you close in her arms, and wo will say our prayers and you shall go to sleep.'' r " Why bow con I ray my prayers - before I have my sapper," asked Utile , Johnny. t " Sister hasn't any supper for you, t or for herself, but we must pray all the holder,'.' solemnly responded Jennie. 1 So the two baby-wanderers, alone In - the wide heavens, una wed by darkness, ! of the great comet and the millions of f 1 tands, and sobbed out their sorrowful > " Our Father," and then that quaint > little supplementary prayer: I prmjrlOl Lot. wj Mai 10 lake " "There! God heard that easy; for we are close to Him up here," said in- . nooont Utile Johnny. . Doubtless Divine Love stooped to . the Uttle ones, and folded them in perfect peace — for soon the younger, slt- . ting on the bottom of the car, with hit . leaning against his sister's knee, , slept as soundly as though lie were . In his own little bed at home, , wliUe the elder watched quietly through I the long, long hours, and the car floatI cd gently on in the still night air, till ! it began to sway and rock on the fresh morning wind. Who can imagine tliat simple little | child's thoughts, speculations and wild imaginings, while watching through ' those hours? She may have feared coming in collision with a meteor— for H were abroad tliat night, scouts ff?H jcralds of the great comet— or pcrhiip. Wtegxast away on some desolate star Uiand^ohMmHctiry slUh fiuat1 on, night and day, tiU they should die of cold and hungvr. Poor At length, a lu£py change, or ProvIdenee— wo wlU say providence— guided the little girl's wandering lund to a cord connected with the valve; something told her to paU it. At once the began to sink, slowly and 1 gently, as though let down by tender ' hands; or as though some celestial pilot guided it through the wUd currents of 1 air, not letting it drop into iako or river, lofty wood or Impenetrable ' swamp, where this strange, unchildlike experience might hare been clewed by 1 death of unspeakable horror; but ! causing it to descend as softly as a bird 1 alights, on a spot where htumtti care and pity awaited it. The sun had not yet risen, but the ; morning twilight had come, when the 1 girl, looking ovef the edge of the car, saw the dear old earth coming nearer— " rising towards ilium.'' tlie said. But when the car stopped, to 1 great diasppointmont, it was not tlie ground, but caught last in the

1 branches of a tree. Yet she ,, 1 they were near a house whence B might soon come, so she awakened ] ' brother and told him the good d ' and together they watched and ' waited for dellvarance, hugging each ' other for Joy and warmth, for they '' | cold. o | Farmer Burton, who Uved in a lonely 11 bouse on the edge of his own private | prairie, was a famous skepbr in gene- c [ nl, hut on this particular occasion lie c ; awoke before the dawn, and, though v turned and turned again, he could r ' sleep no more. So at but lw said to I [ good wife, wTumi Ik had kindly • \ awakened to inform her of his muic- r coantable insomnohmce, " It's no use; '■ ' Just get np and dress myself; and " hare a look at the cornet'' ® ' The next that worthy woman beard ' from her wakeftil spouse was a hasty * I summons to the door. It seems that I ! sodner did he step forth from his r house than his eyes fell on a strange, ( ' portentiona shape hanging te a large 11 ' pear tree about twenty yards distant. 1 He could see-no likeness in U to any- ' thing earthly, and be luM-feBcied It ' ' might be the comet, who having put ' out Its Hgbt, had come down there to I ' perch. In his fright and perplexity he J " did what every wire man would do in ' [ a like extremity; he railed upon his 1 1 valiant wife. Bateforeed by her he 1 drew near the tree, cautiously recoil- 1 r noitcring. Surely never prar tree bore 1 such fruit 1 Suddenly there descended from the ! J thing a plaintive, trembling little voice: , - " Please take ns down; we are very ( Then a second little voice said: | "Aad hungry, too; please take us , down?" j "Why, who are you? And where . are you?" The first Uttle voice, rakl: "We are , Mr. Harwood's little boy and girl, and ' we are teat fa a balloon." ' ' The second little voire said: "It ia ' ' us and we nnmed away with a balloon. Please take us down." J Dimly comprehending the situation, ! the fereuer, getting hold of a dangling ' rope, succeeded to puUing down the baUoon. ' He first lifted oot little Johnny, whe ! ran rapidly a few yards towards the house, then turned round and stood | the balloon. The faithfUMittlo JiiUtr I ~ radiUled «.d exhausted that she ^ tretobflng and sobbing. siTtold th^ I ififore sanriM a mounted messenger was dispatched to fee HarwoodlKwK, » with glad tidings of gnat Joy, He "■ rived, fa state. With ban ncrs and* orud ^°^«(rrjed in a covered %. ^ «« n^g in the neighbor- \ y;~y- ; .

id ' A Ward to BfatHers. * ig Each mother is a historian. Slic 10 writes not the history of empires or f>r ig nations on paper, but the writes her y own history on the imperishable mind j " of her child. That tablet and that hisrs tory will remain indelible when time le shall be no more. That history each mother shall meet again, and read with i, eternal joy or unutterable grief in the ic coming ages" of eternity. Tlie thought •T should weigli on tlic niltid of every n mother and render her deeply circumi, spect, prayerful, and faithful in her « solemn work of training up her child>f rcn for heaven apd Immortality. The d minds of children are very susceptible 11 and easily impressed. A word, a look, it a frown may engrave an impression on the mind of a child which no hqinc of walk along the seashore when the tide is out, and you form characters or r write words or names in smooth white sand, which is spread out so beautiful u at your feet, according as your fanrv shall in n few hours wash out and " efface oil that you have written. Not so the lines and characters of truth and ' error which your conduct imprints on B the mind oT your child. There you 7 write impressions for everlasting good ' or 1U of your children, which neither jl Ok floods nor stonns of earth can wash . out, nor dentil's finger erase, nor the slow-moving ages of eternity olilitr- ' mother be in lier treatment of iter ' child ! How prayerful and how serious , and how comes; to write the eternal truths which shall hr his snide nnil 6 tenclier when her voice shall be silcut In dentil, and her lips no longer move e in prayer in his behalf, in commending her dear child ,lo her covenant God. 1 Do Everything Well. usual) i nettles the question of Ids slic- - ass. "if he has brains and plilek, b 1 content to wail, does well whatever Ik s does, is not ofraitl of earning his money, ' makes himself useful, so tliat he cune not be dispensed with, he will succeed. I He may block boots, pick rags, shovel r coal, ho a low porter in a store; if hr t has integrity, talent, he will make his f fortune. Ooc of the richest men in r New Y'ork began as a porter, nud his c former master in now a hook-keeper in e his establishnn-nt. One of the most 1" eminent bonk presidents fa New York 1 to-day, came to tliat city a "penniless i boy. " Do you wniit n boy, sir?" he * said to n gentleman who stood in, his store door. " Wli»t con you do? " " Anything, sir, to get mi lionest livc ing." " Take those boots down stairs, v where you'll find some Mucking, and ? block tliein." Tho lad soon returned 0 with tlie bouts in a high State of polish." o "Y'ou'vedone those well." said the merchant. "My mother told me to

do everything well, sir. that I under- ! took to do," was the reply. That mi- c swer touched the merchant's heart.— He has done everything since ns Ik " blacked the boots. ' Valve ox Readino.— The follow- r should receive the careful attention i of every parent, as well as every young in the country: , " A child, beginning to read, be- t comes delighted with newspapers, lie- i he reads of names and things n which are very familiar, and lie will make progress accordingly. A newsIn one year, is worth a quarter's " schooling to a child, and every father 1 must consider that a substantial information is connected with this oilvonre- ' meat. The mother of o-Gunily, being ' one of its brads, and hating a more ' immediate charge of chtldreu, should, ' herself, he Interested. A mind, occa- ' pied, becomes fortified against the ills ' nfl'ife, ami Is braced for any emergency . ' amused by rending or study 1 are, of course, considerate and more easily governed. How many thought- 1 less young rifen have spent their earn- ' Ings in tavern or grog-shop, who ought have been ' reading? UoW' manyparents, who ifevec spent twenty dol ' fays for their families, would-giftdly 1 given thousands ofilollara toriS claim a son or daugtiter; who had igno- 1 rantly and thoughtlessly fallen into temptation." 1 The Barnacles Family The i exposed ledges of the sea-side are often i found swarming with yellow barnacles that turn white at low tide, by expoto the sun. These Httie sentient i animals, though displaying to the eye i at first no sign of life, closely locked in I their booses of shell, know well enough i how to moke their living, and where 1 ' paddel their own canoe." In the Adjoining pools of clear water we be1 hold theiri with their mouths thrown i open, and their feelers out to catch the particles of nourishment that float by i ' them continually. This tiny little Insect of the seas does not belong to the order of shellfish, as : ; is commonly supposed; the young har- [ nocle has no shell, but a jointed or ar1 ti cnlated body, and swims freely fa all directions. Bat a time arrives in the ' life of every barnacle when it secures ! a bold upon something or other, becomes cemented, bead downward, to | that object, loses forever the power of ' locomotion and of sight, accretes a hard shell around it, aad becomes, for the ' rest of its inglorious life, dependent upon the drifting sustenance brought to it by the flow of the tide, , A Hon antic pair, not more than a ! thousand utiles from Ftttaburg .were r blessed with > number of daughter*. - The eldest was railed Caroline, the - second M*loW, the third Eveh'r.e, the - fourth Mgedioe, when lo! the fifth mode its appearance, and no name - could be found with the desired teri minatiocL At length mamma, who - had been reading of the fashions at Saratoga, pounced upon a name very I fo^h"i* ■*» hobr ] Why oant the capitate of a nwl

arhet flefhfer. k . The official Army Register for 1M8 if' has Just been published. It contains :r the names of «U officers io the regular d j army on the first day of January last, •- together with their rank and pay and ie date of commission; also all changes li during the year. Thirty-one pfficen. b resigned, three commissions were vae rated by appointments, twrnlyit nine declined, fifty-seven were cauccly led, and sixty^glit died. General Grifi- fin being of the highest rank In this I list, embracing many killed in the InI- dian wet; two eoiumissious wcrerec voiced, eight ofliccrs were retired, six e were dismissed, and eight were eash- , iered. The casualty list in tho voluuI leer force embraces one resigucd, one f discharged, and Uiirty-seren honorably a mustered out. In the latter list apc |»nr the names of Wager Hwayno, r August2J, 1887; General E. A. Hitclie cock, October 1, 18tI7, and General D. J E. Sidcles, JfiBUarv L l«a. r Tlie Register shows — One a— '...ml e one lieutenant genera], live major genj erals, ten brigadier generals, t Adjutant General's Department — ^ One brigadier general, two colonels, j J Inspector. General's Department— I 0 Bureau of Military Ju.iiis- I hie j ~ brigadier general, one colonel, nine II majors. r (JuartcriuasUT's Diqsirtnieut One j 9 brigadier general, six colonels, tni lien- j 1 two captains. I Military Storekivpfr's Hepartiuent B y' tab" "'"dT " adier geueral. two colonels, two lieutenant colonels, right imijors. sixteen I " ' Medical De|mrtuient— One brigadier 3 .general, one eolouol, flvo lieutenant co- j ' louels,*slxty majors, one hundreil and j I and five chains ns iiusiieal store- j i keeper*. j I'oy Department— Our brigadier j e R8"1'™'- '« colonels, two lieutenant # colonels, sixty majors, B Corps of Euginrers— Oik brigadier k and seven second lieutenants. 8 Ordnance IXqeirtment— One lirign- 1 , tenant colonels, ten minora, twenty j . storekeepers, and thirty post captains. I the regular army ten colonels, thirty ' ,, majors, one hundred nnd twenty rnp- ,, tains. 0 Artillery- — Fivo utiauois. fire lien- ,. captains.

Infantry— Forty-one nilourl*, forty- B one lieutenant colonels, forty-four majors,- four hundred and ten captains. Veteran Reserve Corps — Four colo- ; nels, three lieutenant colonels, four t mivjors, and forty enptaius. ; Disluctlng the twohundred and fortynine included in the lis! of casualties, there ore two thousand nine hundred „ nnd ninety-seven officers in the lililitnry service or the United State*. ^ amusing story is tqld of Judge B , occupying n high pdbtjn our State Government. Traveling, sham years since, by mil to Ilarrisburg, miAjilaz- , ing hot day, with spine friends, tV. ( iron horse had .stof|*Hl to water, when suddenly he drew his white liandkcr- , cliiof from his pocket, and began wav- ■ ing It vigorously hi thc alr, at the same t time bobbing his head bat of the window in a very energetic manner. ( "What are you about. Judge?" , asked Mr, Q-, without rising from his ( Why, don't you "see yonder?— | There's a lady waving a white hand- , I kerchief, and I'm returning the sa- , " Who is idle, lodge?" naked Mr. | . "Qs^ns he louiiged in one cornef. , ""Well, the &i"t is, I don't exactly I'm quite near sighted, aud I can't recognize her; but she is dressed i gray silk, and standa yonder, glider i a big maple tree, near my friend John ! B's house." Mr. Q. hobbled over to tho Judge's ! ted, but saw only that the Judge had i exchanging salutes for tea mini ate* with an Iron gray mare, whose : long white tail, as it dapped away tho ■ files, had been token by him for a - while handkerchief, waved by a lady i in a gray silk dnfeN The buttons that : were subsequently -picked up ta that r car are said to have been exceedingly numerous. The Judge didn't swear, i but he changed the subject to sawi mills, the only Intelligible portion of - which being the frequent repetition of - the word " dun." B What to Start. — All notes nnd , evidences of debt, five on each (100; If . under (100, fire cents; if over (100, 9 five cenla on each additional (100 or f part thereof. All receipts for any j amount without limit over (20, two c cento; If 130 or under, nothing. All t deed* and deeds of trust, fifty cento on t each (500 si value of the property conveyed of the amount secured; when a deed of trust is fully stamped, the note a secured must not be; but they mast be u Mortgage bonds need not lie staru|>ed c U" stamps sir adixsd to the mortgage, e All appraisements, estates or es trays, h fire cento on each sheet or piece of pae per. Affidavits af* every description ■- are exempt from stamp duties. Acy fire amta, Czcept for reuufwben for J. WHY ism tartiser's flstBkea boil?

The Maxims and Morals of A Washington. *. COLLECTED FROM HIS LETTKKA AND j r .WRITINGS. | j The moral and religious maxims and ! B principles which guided nnd governed this great and good man, cannot; fitil to be interesting and instructive tb all who may read them. They should be particularly enshrined in every- AnwriWhcti, in the decline of life, I gratify _ tlie fond wish, of my heart in retiring t from public labors, and find the lnn- . gunge qf approbation and ferven prav- _ crs for future happiness following tliat ! ' B event, my heart expands with grati- 1 , tudo, nnd-my fis lings become unutter- ; . able. x | ph* who may taste the sweets of an equal and good government. We look I with an noxious eye to the time when ; luippiness nnd tranquility slutll pn- " ! The gnat Scardier of human hearts j j is my witness that I have no wish I " I happy lot of living nnd dying a private I I citizen on my own farm. ' | I ran truly my. I hiiil rather Ik nl ^ j Mount Vernon, with n friend or two r j sal of gpremment hy tlie nfllcere of ' j dull, and tlie upprohuiloii of mycouiiy Wliilevrr services I have rendered >- to my country, in its general approbation 1 have received an ample reward.

1 believe that mini was not designed ■ by the All-wise Creator to lire fur him- i self alone. ^ than that black aud Jelestnblc oik of , sense of honor. i 1 feel everything that hurts the ~-n- , Nihility of n gentleman. i iningi nation hi'roucemed. i Did the render jwer usk for must at ] n hotel? If so, fie probably was served , with a piece of fresh bread !-• irnod be■•fere the fire, the" charcoal mostly , of toast. Now there is a little science involved in making toast. It should always be made of stale bread; the heat drives off whatever acids may have formed in tlie loaf; hut more thou that, the starch of the flour is more or less 1 converted by tho heat into a more digestible substance, dextrine. By nicely toasting n slice of bread we save the digestive organs a certain amount of labor; hence toast is usually acceptable to invalids and those of impaired digestion. So much for tlie philosophy 'of the thing; now for the practice.—- ' Moke tho toast from a stale home-made luaf. Bakers' bread will make an imi- ' fatten of toast, but not the thing Itself. Slice moderately thin, and place on the 1 toasting fork, or in some of the wiretoasters, and hold it near the fire nntll 1 ii is well warmed through. Tiicn— ' here comes tfif' rab— bring it near the ' fire where it will quickly become of ' light brown, or rather of deep golden yellow, turn and treat the other side > the some, and serve. If buttered toast 1 If desired, apply butter in a moderate f quantity while hot. Toast should not 1 be piled upon a plate, as in that case ' the crispness is lest. If thsre is no ' toast-rack, lay the slice* lapping, over • one another, shingle fashion, so that ■ the moisture of the lower slices may ^ escape, and not be absorbed by the f others.— Asteriean Africultmri*. The Divine Mercy. — However 1 old, plain, humble, desolate, afflicted f wo may be, so long ma our hearts pre- , serve the feeblest sparks of life, they r preserve also, shivering near that pale f ember, a starved, ghostly longing for 3 appreciation and affection. To this 1 attenuated spectre, perhaps, 5 crumb t is not thrown once n year; bat when - ahungcred and athlrst to fiunine — i when all humanity has forgot the dye log tenant of a decaying house— divine c mercy remembers the mourner, and a - shower of manna falla for lips that d earthly nutriment to to pass no more. - Biblical promises, beard first in health, i, but then unheeded, come whimpering i- to the couch of sickness ; It is felt that n a pity fng God watches what all mankind liars forsaken ; tho fading eye, 0 gazing beyond time, zees a home, a i, refng* in eternity.— CkarlMt Brtmlc. 1 when yon see a man oa a moonlight * and striving to convince liis shadow that it to utterly improper to follow a gentleman, you may by assured it is , ? high time for him to job} the temparonce society. '

Argument I In behalf of Hastie, the school-master, 0 i prosecuted fur undue severity.* _ '• The charge is. that Ik bos us«l 1 ! immoderate zniL crocL oafreftiDn.— > 1 Correction in itself fa not cruel; chiidJ rrn, hciug not reasonable, can be gov1 orned ouly by fiar. To impress tills e fear is, therefore, one of tho first duties - of those who haw the care of childrcu. never Urn thought inconsistent with parental(tendcrncs*. It is the duty at J n master, who is in Ids highest cxalta- " Ydt, as good1 things become evil by . correction iinninderate? lVnen it is . I reformation and instruction. No sc:1 1 verity is cruel which olistinacy makes D | and too much hardened for reproof. I j " laK-ke, fa his treatise or islucntion. s fore* she subdued it ; for. hod sin II Stopped at the sevrqth act of correc 1 tfon. lier daughter, says he. would e I have l«s n mtasd. The ilcgrevs of obit of persevering severity. A stubborn - j schobir ninety Is- com* tni till Ik is !' tiireniuMh.'' wliX^d ; and e.taj|il „ lis Iks regularity by exeinplarj justjA. r T'k ' l.-ti.ri"U. utalluoey of ajfabk I imdferiual. Obstiltorj'- tlwrefonoimsl n never Ik virturiuus. ' Yet, it is well isresious. 1 lie llexlble will Ik remethods. The ilegrves of m holustie. d one of 'tlKP easiest things 'ill the world. I- takes ill 'bookstand' ncwsjuiKre. A

writer ill the Ga lax, give* some inter- u .-sting instances of typographical ergives the following example of tin- dif- ' cfH-1 book. which should Ik ii nuclei of typ.igrapliemployed, anil nftrr it wns thought to nl Ik perfect, the sliccts were pasted up 1,1 the hail of the University, nnd n reward of two hundred nnd fifty dollars tiie first chapter. . ' The only books that are believed to a 1 fonl cditiou of tho Bible, a Loudon and J" Leipsic Horace, and an American re- | print of Daute. An Irishnuin was employed to cut - sonic wood for n school nt Auburn, s Me., the other day, and, desiring to ® f know the exact lcngtli to cut it, picked 9 up a Int-stick, and, without knocking, * " marched into the scliool-rooni while j' I the school was in session, for the pur- - pose of measuring tile stove. The " school-mistress gave one frightened _ • look at the intruder, and then shout- ■ ing to the scholars, "Run for your ' 0 lives ! " led the way into the street, * " screaming at every leap, "Murder! v ' murder ! " On being interrogated by , - a gentleman, who rushed in to asccre tote the cause for such a hubbub, the ^ fetodfshed and frightened Hibernian t 0 burst forth—" nowly mother ! I was , c only goto' to measure the stove, and c ' the little divils ran like partridges. I , e couldn't stop Tm, sir; lndade I , 1 couldtrt." " ' i o Modesty.— Beauty is never so love- ' x ly and attractive as when it is hidden 1 ; beneath the veil of retiring modesty.— ' y The most faeoutiftti flower of the gar- ' 0 den that most attracts and charms the senses, never appears so lovely as when It is beheld sweetly peeping from the ' T midst of ita curtain of green leaves, 1 ^ which serves to partially protect it " from the sun nnd elements, and reny den its charms doubly interesting slid - * beautiful. ' is Advice. — Xn eminent divine once < b remarked tea lecture: "In selecting 1 n your partners for life, choose persons 1 - of naturally good disposition— those 1 r- who ore by nature cheerful and gentle. 1 <t It may surprise some to hear me place ' these piety; but I am of Baxter's optoit Ion, who said that the grace of God 1 e. could live With persona that he could 1 »» not-" j ■ ' ' ® The Martens JE-puVfeastHto of a | good kind of a' man, who, when asked ; for a subscription to boy u chandelier , for 0k clrarch, replied: "What's the | use of that? after you get It you cant ; get anybody to play on it." , i7 — ^Ttraveler stopped at on inn in a w neighboring village, and finding the | landlord and landlady fighting, cried i Is out, " Halloo, who keeps this bouse?" i r- The wife replied, ■" Thnfa Jqet what i ' we are trying to find out" ■

IIovv Candidate* are Soizetlntes Made '. The recent deccascyf Peter Cogger, of AUafajvtTOh-wfth tb* lite Bean ' 1 Richmond controlled f.r many years I " nominations of ths Democratic i ' party of New Y'ork, will remind those • ' who have hail much to do with State I 1 Conventions bow those cwoaatutc ntiul- ' 9 agent combined to bring forward the t • the "slnK" for nomination." The 7 ' writer recalls an incident that occurred ' Held st Syrwuse in 18o7, which nmui- 1 anted the ticket that was eleetwi in < 1 Xovciulier of that year. Mr. Rich- ' ' ation at tlie Synwsc House on tlie ' .-veiling before the assembling of the 1 1 Convention ns to who vpiutil be likely 1 " State— what do you say?" ' I -The newspaper men," replinl Mr. I 1 C.. "Mm to .hawtofenupUM Tuck- ] . the 'boys. Best go hiiu?" 1 " I reckon so.". 1 tin- name of Mr. Tucker. ' ' '- " \Y liuj about CotflroHer?" : "Oh! Chureh. of enurse: there isn't 1 a "^Fac'l!"' j i- ' IVIm for Treasurer?" 1 "Don't know." snys^Mr. Cogger; J > Down went the mime nf tfa- stalwart > "Anybody want to ^b»5 Auorucvvl - W hat" stomt Stale Engineer?' ' >• " Well, on iIk whole," repUnl Mr. worth are strong for Charley Graham, (General C. K. Graham;) but Rerun ndo aud Jolin Kelly lire against It. If A "Oh. no no splits! Give them r[ Richmond; they'll swallow It they

"Well. Mr. Richmond, about Canal ov stealing there, nn.l it ought to Ik stop- hji "Jaycox Is pusledby Johh A.Gi^s th and IIk Onondaga fellows; lie's smart |>e and sound: think it's best?" fri "Put hiiil down." .m ship- wliat shall we do with it?' Fifty wi are after it from all over the State, nnd h» every man lluit don't get it. will be cv been buttim-holedfour hundred times about it in the last two hours. I'll tell d< whaL l-etir, siipimse^you an, 1^1 as Chap?" ti And they did. The " slate," oa is agreed upon by these two astute old to heads, was regularly put through; but oi when it came to State Prisou Inspec- |, tor, Dean and Peter quietly left the hall, went over to the Syracuse House, entered a private apartment, proceeded j] to place themselves outside of cooling tl fluids, and chuckled just a little. Tlie h Congestion nominated William C. t< Rhodes, and that Is about all the Con- « vention .did do. a H hat Breaks Down Young , Men. It is a commonly received notion B tliat liard study is the unhealthy clc- r meut of college life. But from tables F of the mortality of Harvard Unlversl- B collected by Professor Pierce, from . the lost triennial catalogue, it is cleardemonstrated that tlie exeeas of ' deaths for Uw last ten years after graduation, is found in thai portion of oach ' class inferior In scholarship. Every ' one who has seen tho curriculum, v knows that where jEschylus and po- f li Ileal economy injures one, late hours ' and rum-punches use up a dozen ; and that the two little fingers ore heavier " than the loins of Euclid. Dissipation " Is a swift and sure destroyer, and every ® I young man who follows it to, as the early flower, exposed to an timely frost. 1 Those who have been inveigled in ' i the path of vice, are named "Legion," ; , Uwy ore many— enough to convince , novitiate that he has no security ■ , that he shall racapc a similar fete. A ' few hoars of ilkop each night, high llv- ' , Ing, and plenty of "smashes," make ' . war upon every ftmction of the human I The brains, the heart, the lungs, , I the liver, the spine, the limbs, the ( Uw flesh, every part aad faculty ; arc overtasked, worn and weakened by , 1 the terrifflc energy af passion loosed , 1 from restraint, untll^ lite a "'i- pi-1-'*^ , ' mansion, the " earthly bouse af tin* j tabernacle" fulls Into ruinous decay. t 1 Fast young men, right about I— Mtdi- p oof Reporter. . t i " My deariyoung ladj," exclaimed * • gentleman, " X am astonished at your ' I sentiments. . Yon actually make me ' ' start — on my word you do." " WeU, " t sir," replied the damael, "I've been { wanting to start yon for some ttma.1' '

*7 n Heal Hot Iran Bad. A few days age. white Thomas, j "heater" in the Cincinnati Railway Works, was' eating, his dinner, be attacked Ity John Kimbky, a fcl- ' The men had oiwaysfriends, nnd Thomas had done uothiDg thaftio was aware of to rupthe. good feeling existing between ! them. He tried to moke Kimbky unIt urunkrn man^Jronte Dritlier inud'uct, kept up the attackf^if reonly prevented from severely bc*tiup Tliomas by- the londiadL, who forced between thenvsnd piade film the house. At 1 o'clock, when Thomas went r down to the mill to resume work Kimbky went at him again, with a flat piece of iron and a handfbl 'of stone . coal. When this second attack wns made, ThEtoa* was standing in front of his furnace, lighting his pipo with the red hot end of a small rod of iron, used hy many of the workmen for the unto pur; io"*. He saw that kimbky was intent upon forcing him to a fight. , ami knew that if ho waa drawn into a \ difficulty- ho would be the suScrer. for ; Kimbky was a larger and much stremgy roan. He sought to make peace 1 with his assailant , but, that failing, hy j tried to get away. Ktotoky followed j . him up, liowcver, and struck hint acv- .. end limes with the bar of iron— oncy 4 on tlie forehead and twice or thrice on . the nrms ami body. Tlie blows roused I all the sleeping passions of Thomas; Ik . turned upon Kimbky, clinched with ; liim, and plunged the rod of iron still ! nil hot and spitting fire, into his breast. . He threw the man from him, olid then, scarcely knowing what he had done, , but anxious to avoid aud fhrther difficulty with his persecutor, started to , run iute the street J He need not luvc, feared pursuit, for , J I Kimbky, pierced to the heart by the red hot iron, never rose front the (pound. t except to convulsively gather himself t up aud hurl u heavy- piece of iron a' the retreating form of Thomas. The t missile fell short of the mark, and be , fell back in a dying condition. The 8 men in the mill too# him up and bore wl/re he expired almost as soon as ! allocking Death— A Man Lit* "" • erall) Torn In Pieces. tin last Friday- night there happened i, on the railroad, near Y eniiillion Stai- tion, Hi., ono of the most shocking f dentils ever chronicled. Mr. J. Moke, , a well-known citizen, wns found near -• tho above named phu-c literally cut in ii pieces hy passing trains. It is suppteccs ny passing trams. It Is

; Mined that time trains ;ass.d over his . body. He was probably killed by the first traiu, which passes tlwre about twelve o'clock, the other trains passing him and still frirthrr mangling I lr w as so shockingly cut up as lo to- ' recognized only by his hand, which lost souk of its fingers before.— Ilto remains were found scattered along track for u distance of fifty yards, (tortious of his skull, braiua, limbs torn his body, and his head completely crushed out of every semblance of htlhis llttla- boy, and- that was ail that left to mark the identity of what bad been a stout nnd hearty man the evening before. There are various surmlses-ns to how this mournful and shocking occurrence happened. It is thought by some tliat he laid down oiUIk track and went to sleep, he wns known to be intoxicated late that night. Others have considerabk suspicion of foul play, as it is claimed that he hod some money about him which was not found afterward, and it not improbabk that he might have been killed by some persons and placed the track. Remarkable Case of Petrilactton. About Bijt^ysoo) ago Mr. >iuos rough ton died In Wayne county, Tn State, and was buried there. After death bis widow and childmtmovrd Buskirk's Bridge, in this county, w-herf they now rcaldc.- A few days ago the family of tho deceased resolved to bring the remains of the father from Wayne ofiunty and have them depogited in a cemetery near their present residence. In furtherance of this pur- ( the grave was opened and the < coffin exposed, but all ordinary efforts to lift it from ita position proved tecf- . factual. The coffin lid was therefore j removed when it was found that the body was ta the most perfect state of 1 petrifaction. It was covered , vith a dry mould, which, when removed, revealed a surface almost' as white and [ ss marble. The body showed not ; the least particle of decay. Every feaI lure and lineament w*s perfectly pre- . served, and when stood upright it preted the appearance of a finely chlseled statue. When Mr. Breugfaton j died he weighed about 900" pounds, while the remains hod Increased in j weight by petrifaction to 800 pounds. , Before the body wa» interred at Bus- , kirk it was seen by tho family, friends, f and many others there. It is the most L wonderful instance of petrifaction of . human remains that has ever come to „ knowledge.— 7Wy Prat, Aire. 1. • J. B. was"* stilly old creature. . for money, but woe a asalous « member of ■ church, aad ostentatious ' his religious exercises. "John, " t sold Catherine to bar- toother, "what . 1 could hare made that stingy oU wretch ' Christian? " "I can tall yoa, " said • " he haz read that tife streets of • the New. Jcrusaken Hn pared with - gold, and he is dsWmihkd to get t A cmzHK down Keel was dubbed r Utile rascal!" A feted once c volunteered to ukUa why he was i, caned " tik Utttorascah" "Toffl^ten guishraefrom my neighbors, "jold he, - " "who are oil great rascals.''