Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1856-04-01

              rn-.'.tfl"'''''.'' 1 1 4plof Mm "1 III VOL.JI, MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1856. NO. 20.; H' If.' M M W' rfl 11 .11 M i ' MOUNT VEKNON KEPUULICAN '" IriUILl.illO ITr TUKHDAY WOBNINU, V, Ui' WM. H. 000HBAN. -kbiemun iiloc'k, up.htairs. .,' "' ". " ' ' : teems: " $2,00 Per Annum, if in Advance. AVEHT.SIN' The Bepublioam has tlio largest circulation In th. county nd is, therefore, tho best medium through which business men can advertise. A d yertisements will be inserted at tho following RATES. m 2 b as S m m "3 $ 3 "3 a 1 a s a a r s e m to lthive$ o. $ e. I e, $ e. $ 1 00,1 251 75,3 25 3 $ e. $, e'f , etc 00.3,50 4,50 6 00 3 iqr'sJl 753 25 3 254 25 5 25 6,00 0,75 8 00 ,3 sqr's;!3 503 504 50jS 006 00j7,OO8,o6l0 4 qr'8.,l350 4 00 5 00 6 00 7 (10 8,00 100013 1 square changeable monthly, $10;weekly,$15 V column changeable quarterly, 15 J? column changeable quarterly, 18 l column changeable quarterly, 25 1 column changeable quarterly 40 ETTwelve line in this type,aro counted (it a square. XTEditorial notices of advertisements, or calling attention to any enterprise intended to benefit individuals or corporations, will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents per line. EF Special notices, before marriages, or taking precedence of regular advertisements, double usual rates. ETNotices for meetings, charitable societies, fire companies, Ac, half price. O Advertisements displayed inlarge type to fie charged one-hull morotlian regular raits. ITT All transient advertisements to he paid in advance, and none will be inserted unless for a definite time montioncd AGENTS. The following persons are authorized to re eeive money on subscriptions for The ItiPinu va, nu receipt tnureiur; Dr. J. B. Ceoolt, Homer, Ohio. Geo. Moors, BatmonIi Buna, i)r S. D. Jonk-, David Res,' Henbt L. Osdobn, Thomas Han-ce, W. G. Strong-. Rev. T. M.FisxiiT, Jso. Sapp, Utica, Delaware, Granville Chestervillo, Behnington, Marengo, Fredericktown, Martinsburgli, Dnnville, tW Mr DiroANNBTs hold upon the hear of 'the masses is through his Lyiics, pat) i-olic and of sentiment. Many of tin so nre of singular beBiity and energy. "The ,Gospel of Labor" und "Iron Harp" are pqmposed of a series of lyrics of vniious yet dignified cbnracter, appealing to the 'great heart of the living in the strains of "prophecy and warning. It is with a grateful sene that we turn from them and i heir nighty thought to the love ballads and lyrical utterances which give the volume variety and season it will) sweets from which all can sip. From these we fain would quote but must forego that pleasure to b great degree. The following Old English madrigal we cannot resist the temptation to copy: Sundutky Register. 1 know a little liniule; 'Tis ye softest yn ye lanrte And I feeleyts pressure blande Whyle I synge: Lylie-whyte, and restynge nowe, Lyke a rose-lea Co on my browe, Wythe yts winge. Welle I pryie, (alle handes above) Why'e deare IlaDtle of Herre I love .' I know a littel foole Very connyngelye 'tis putt In a dayntie little boole, Where yt hydes; . lyke a shuttelyt ever flyos Backe and forthe before myne eyes, Weavynge musyque furre myne eyes. As yt glydes, Welle I pryie (alle feet above) Tliye deare footo of Herre I love S I knowe a little harte; Yt ys free from courtlie arte, And I owne yt (everie parte) Forre alle tyme: Ever yt beates wythe mnsque tone-Eve an echoe of myne owne, Ever kecpyngo with myne owne Ilolie chyme. Welle I pryze, (all liartes above) Thye deare harte of Herre I love I MY DARLING. The following exquisite little poem we clip from Putnam's Monthly: Her soul is as white as the lily, And her heart as warm as the rose; The breath of the morning is with her, Wherever my darling goes. The children are glad at her coming When the children are old and gray, There will be more light in their spirits, That they danced in her smile to-day. When she shall be hinging in heaven On the ways that she walked below, Like Jane in the wealth of October, Her spirit will breathe in the glow I Fairlt Sold. Cook, of the Niles Re. publican, hat been sold out by a lady correspondent tremendously.' She asked the insertion of a very neat peace of poetry, which he granted, and put the same into his editorial columns. It is signed "Cit-orca," Reverse the. signature and you nave Acrostic; take the hint and read down the poem, and you have "D. B. Cook is the Prince of Asses." And that in his own paperl The whole community are grinning, and oar country brethren generally are "pitching inio;' the poor fellow after he bas been so badly tnlen down. That was pretty fair of Its kind. A Fast Womak. "I'm a woman with A woman's weakness, and having a good constitution, can bear a great deal of happiness! ' If I was asked my idea of perfect bliss, I should say, "a fast horse, a duck of a cutter, plenty of Buffalo tubes, a neat fitting' over-coat with a handsome man in it, and and one of Madame Walih's little French bonnets, If thai wouldn't be happiness for One life time, I'm open to con-vistion as to what wouldl" DEEAM OF THE WIDOW'S SON. Tho widow had a son. Oh how she loved hlrat His gentleness of heart and beauty of person were enough to causa any mother to do proud nnd glad of her son. This poor widow hardly lived except in the frc8enee of her child. From his blue eyes ooked out the spirit of his father; on the soft curls of his hair she saw again the rich hues which so bcantifiud the locks which were now damp and heavy in tho grave. The tones of his voice awakened many a quick, glowing memory of that other voice whoso deep rich music had forever passed from earth. Ho was his father over again; so said his mother, so said others who had known his father twenly years before. Cut there was yet ono great wish of the widow's heart unsatisfied. Often as she gazed upon the noble features of her darling, tears would fill her eyes, and a sigh, long and heavy heavo her bosom. Have I given life to one who is not also a child of God? was the thought which gave tho mother's fond heart pain; and, "O, that my Ishmael might livo befure Thee!" was the burden of importunate prayer. Henry had always been what tho world calls good, but he had never publicly and decidedly choeen tlio "belter part," and his mother was often in great heaviness of spirit on his account. One moixing the young man seemed sad and absent. His mother tried vainly to cheer him and draw him into conversation. At length she became alarmed lest he should be ill. But he assured her that such was not the case, and at last.with some hesitation, nnd a soit of apology for being so foolish as lo be affected by it, he told his mother that he had been visited by a most remarkable dream. "I thought, motlrer," he EaiJ, "that I was standing at the bottom of a .deep pit, from which there seemed no possible way of escape. Two hideous looking creatures, half man, half demon, stood n, few feet before me, working furiously at forges. The fire Hashed from the iron in their hands, and smoke nnd lurid flames encircled ihim on every side. Smoke poured from their widely distended nostrils nnd cavernous mouths, and hre flashed Irom their blazing eyes. Thiyiyedme wr.h malicious joy, aud appealed preparing for a spring at me as I stood cowtrini; helplessly before them, almost within reach of their talon-like hands. O, mother, I shall never forge the fear rnd scony with which I looked about him ajnin and ntjain, for some way of escape. J he monstirs grinned upon me horribly as I did so, and cast fearful planets at o: e anotl er. "lie is ou.'S, they seemed to say, "ours wniiout Help or hope." suddenly i saw something moving close to my lace. It was a small silken cord. I looked up, nnd over the mouth of (lie pit I saw the face of the Siviour. I knew l.im in a moment; 1 cannot tell how, but it seemed revealed to me. Ho was looking down upon me, and holding the other end of a silken sliing. When he s twthat 1 looked up at him, he said in tones which I shall remember until I hear ihem in Heaven, on the last day, "Take hold!" " 'What, not this little thread,' I cried, 'it will never hold mo.' " 'Tale hold,' was the only answer. "'O, I canno', I dire not! It would break in my hands' I periled in terrible agitation, for my fierce companions had dropped their work and were in the very act of leaping upon me. "'Take Hold!' commanded once more the voice above me, and with a desperate effort I grasped the stiing, and was instantly drawn above nil danger, while the Gtnds wire howling in disappointed malice below me. The size of the line which bore me increased continually, and in a few moments I was safe at the top of the pit. As I threw myself in a transport of joy and gratitude at my deliverer's feet, I awoke, but I have not been able to shake off the effects of my singular dream." "Nor should you try to do so my son," said the widow solemnly. "God speaks to the soul in dreams at bight, and he has cow spoken in a voice of warning to the widow's only son." Neglect not the vising. Henry did not neglect it, nnd in less than a week from that day his mother had the great joy of knowing that her child had chosen the service of the Saviour who had rescued him, and thus, in life's strength and glory, had given himself awny an ac ceptable sacrifice. A Soft Pillow. WhiteGeld and a pious companion were much annoyed one night, at a public bouse, by a set of gamblers in the room adjoining where they slept. Their noisy clamor and horrid blasphemy so excited Wbitefield's abhorrence and pious sympathy, that be could not rest, "I will go into them and reprove their wickedness," he said. His companion remonstrated in vain. He went. His words of reproof fell apparently powerless upon them. Returning, he laid down lo sleep, ilis companion asked Iiim rather abruptly, "What did you gain by it?" "A soft pillow," he said patiently, and he soon fell asleep. . Yes, a "soft pillow" is the reward of fidelity the companion of a clear conscience. It is a sufficient remuneration for doing right, in the absence of a'l other reward. And noni know more truly the value of a soft pillow than those parents, whose anx-ie y for waywatd children is enhanced by a consciousness of riegltct. Those who faithfully rebuke, and properly restroin them by their ohristian deportment nnd religious counsels, can sleep quietly in the day of trials. ' Parents,' do your duty now in the fear of God, in obedience to His law, at every sacrifice, and when old age comes on', you may lay down 6n a soft pillow, assured of His favor who has snid,- ''train up a child id the way he ' should goand when he is old he will not depart from it."' The Metropolis of the New World. Such, without exajreeration, in popula tion, wealth, enterprise and intelligence, it. il. r:i f v.. v.i. n : i mo unji ui iict ium, vyuiioiuuring ner ago, she has no equal in tho world. London and Paris, the only cities of Europe that surpass New York in population, have been cities and. capitals for ten centuries. Yet tho greatest of these, London the long boasted arbiter of tho moneyed exchanges and commerce of the world will, ere the close of tho present century, bo outstripped by New York if her growth continues in the ratio of tho past ten years. Tho magnitude and rapidity of the growth of New York are realized by few, even of those born and living life long in our midst. The last census (1G55) surprised some, in giving New York a population of only C2D.01O souls though this was nearly uouDiing our population in ten years; the census of 1045 gives us but 251,221 souls. Those who were thus surprised did not reflect that our suburbs, rising as by magic into cities on every side, nre reallv and justly, in a large measure, if not altogeth er, to be counted in tho population of New iorK. uut lor her existence, her vast commerce, capital, trade and industrial en terprise, these suburbs would not have been withont her, ther would perish in a day. They nre & portion of the breath of tier Hie and activity, nnd scores of thousands of their denizens have their employment at her hands. Even Newark, the chief city of New Jersey, though not strictly a suburb of New York, is one of our city's great work shops. Multitudes of her peoplo consumate their business, nnd catch the inspiration to it, from New York. But nearer, the great suburbs of Brooklyn and her tributaries, Flushing, Jamaica, Hoirisania, Yonkers, Staten Island, Jersey City, Hoboken, Hudson City, ifec, are as verily a part and parcel of New York as is Harlem. They are the fruitful issue of New York. Counting the population of these suburbs, New York numbered, hv 1C65, 1,104,493 souls against 507,040 in 1045, being an aggregate increase of 83 per cent, in ten ven:s. Everything war. rants the belief that this ratio of increase will hold good for half a century to come, which wou!d give New York an 1 her suburbs, in 1005, a population of over 2.00O,-000 in 1075 nearly 4 000,000, and so on toward a population in 1900 that will put to shame the fabulous numerical greatness of all the boasted cities of present or past time. As New York is now the moneyed,! commercial and business metropolis of the t New World as she is in population there is no reason for doubting that she! will thus continue. There is nothing in the prospect of the future of our country to th.ike the proud portion of New York. JNaltire as well as human enterprise hn9 anointed her Queen of cities, crowning her with advantages which can only be des troyed, or taken from her by a change of the Ueogrophy of the harth. bitting on her island throne, with old Ocean mur muring through the most magnificent of bays, in homage at her feet girt round by keels freighted wkh the commerce of the world with broad rivers, and iron steeds brinnrinrr thu nonllh nf a nnntinftnt. inltinrt to her doors, and peopled by men who! comprehend her giant destiny, she holds n rorc,Sn nftl,ons. antl acuities to internal sceptre of power which no rival can grnsp!and txternil1 commerce by the improve-from her hand. New York will soon stand j ment .of Rlv"S ftnd H'ubors' and 1,10 con-the first city on the globe most populous 1 struollon ol Jlljn' Koads connecting the nnd most wealthy the moneyed and com-' A" an" Ul 1 llcltl oceans, and uni-mercial capital of the civilized world. I t,u?? the various sections of the Union. If our ghosts are permitted to stalk forth 1 inspectivelv a generation hence, thev will behold Manhattan Island a mass ol marble, brick nnd granite magnificence a place of palaces of merchant princes and lords of trade, swarming with proud, gnv, luxuri ous life nl far beyond on either side, her pendant suburbs teeming wkh busy, nnd we trust frc9 and happy millions. Then tho splendor of Persop ilis nnd Babylon, with their towers and hanging gardens, and Thebes, with its hundred bra zen gates, and Alexandria, with its s'reets a thousand feet bro;d, which the Macedo nian planned, fancying he was building a commercial centre for the globe, will be eclipsed by a city of a century. Such is the destiny of rew xork. X J . mirror. The Creature Called a Boy. A very uncertain, mysterious, inexpli cable creation is a boy who can define him?" I will try. A Bor is the spirit of mischief embodied. A perfect teclorem spinning head. He invariable goes through the pro cess of leaping over every chair in his reach; makes drum heads of the doors; turns the tin pan into cymbals, takes the I best knives out to dig worms for bait, nnd loses them; hunts up the molasses cask and leaves the molasses running; is boon companion to the sugar barrel; searches for all the pies and preserves left from sup per, and eats them; goes to the apples ev ery ten minutes; hides his old cap in order to wear his new one; cuts his old boots if he wants a new pair; tears his clothes for fun, and for ditto tracks the cirpet, marks your furniture, pinches the "baby, worries the nurse tics tiro crackers to the kitten's tail, drops his books in the gutter while be fishes with a pin. pockets his school masters specs, and finally turns a sober household upside down if he cuts his Male finger. Osb. One hour lost in the morning by laying in bed, will put back all the business of ihe day. . One hour gained by rising early is woith a month in ihe year. One hole in a f nee will cost ten times as much as it ill to fix it at once. One unruly animal will teach all others in company bad tricks. One drunkard will keep a family poor, and make tlura miserable. One good newspaper is a good thing in every lwmily. A pindle-shauked man, having put on a new pair of boots, asked a friend whai he thought of thtm, who shrewdly le-plied, "Sir, jour boots . appear very well, but your legs appear in them much like a rope ia a well.., .., minority Beport. The following is the Report adopted by the American Convention which assembled at Columbus on the 20th ull. It will be seen tho State Council (the majority we mean) are sound on the blavo question, in substance declaring: "No more Slave States, no Slavo territory." Wbeea, the American Organization in Ohio had its oiigin in, and has been maintained for purposes of reform: And where as, a true regard for the honor of the A-merican name, tho security of American rights, and the prosperity of the American peoplo, require a steadfast maintenance of the great principle of freedom upon which American institutions are based; We, therefore, the Delegates of the Councils of the Americnn Order in Ohio, in State Council assembled, fully npprove of the action ot those Delegates from Ohio .1 XT . . i a . . in ine iNavionai American Uouncil and Convention recently assembled at Philadelphia, in refusing to accept tho platform or support the nominations then nnd there made, and WK hereby repudiate those nominations, and embrace this occasion to reaffirm substantially the platform adop'.ed by the State Council at its session in Cleveland in June last, as follows: We proclaim to the world the following principles of the American party of Ohio. 1st. The unlimited Freedom of Religion, disconnected with politics Hostility to Ecclesiastical influences upon tho affairs of Government Equality of rights to nil Naturalized Emigrants who are thoroughly Americanized, and own no temporal allegiance, by reason of their leligion, higher than that to the Constitution. 2J. We propose no proscription of birth but welcome exiles and immigrants from other lands to free participation in the ben efits of American ins ilutiuns, nnd the priv ileges ot American citizenship, with such restrictions as pre needful to make sure that those who avail thamselves of this lib cr.'ility, understand nnd will defend these nsiitutions ngainst all aggressun, civil or i ecclesiastical, to which end the laws regu- latin;' natur:il;z.ition should bo properly nmcnaea. 3.1 Opposition lo all political organizations composed exclusively of foreigners, nnd lo fortign military companies, and to all attempts to exclude the Bible from schools supported by the Gjvernment. 4 h. Slavery is local not national. We oppose its x ension into any of our territories and the increase of its political power, by tho admission, into the Union, of nny Slave States or otherwise; and we demand of the General Government an immediate redress of the great wrongs which have been inflated upon the cause of Freedom-nnd the American character by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the introduction of Slavery into K vnsas in violation of law, by the force -f arms, and the destruction of the elective franchise. 5ih. In humble imitation of the wisdom of Washington, we oppose nil inter vention in the nff,iir3 of Foreign States; yet on all proper occasions, wo will not withhold our sympathy from nny people aspiring to be liee. G:h. We support American industry nnd Senius .aSllinst f'1! adverse policy of 't" v"1 "J be tnaUe perpetual by a jmliijul allegiance to the Constitution. J. II. Baker, David IIkaton, David Houirook, C. T. S.mised, Tiieo. S. Bunker, D. W. Swioaut, Geo. H. Fkkv. Cummmitlee. Meeting with a Wife. The following interesting incident we copy from a California paper: The arrival of an ocean steamer is always the scene of a large crowd of spectators at the wharf. One afternoon when the Panama came in, a tall individual from the mountnius, who unfortunately hud no ticket to sccuro him admittance on the dock, stood outside of the gate, watching thiough the opening pannels with great anxiety, as if he expected the arrival of some dear friend. After a full hour thus occupied, his heart was gladdened by the approach of a small lurmture wagon con taining several women, among whou he recognized the features of one that made him utter an involuntary i iculation. The gate wa3 swung back nnd the wagon'pass d out. He worked himself up to it amid tbe dense throng of people, and exclaimed "Sarah!" attracting the attention of a young woman seated alongside of the driver. As soon as she beheld him, she answered "John!" and losing all control over herself, fell forwaid on tho haunches of the horses, from which she rolled sideways into the nrms of her husband. Despito the general merriment of the crowd, Sii nh and John held each other for a moment in a close-locked embrace, after which their lips met, nnd they indulged in a perfect transport of kisses. "Who cares?" said the honest spouse, ns she resumed her seat on the wagon. "Who cares if they do lau.-h. He's my dear husband, nnd 1'il kiss him if hit the world blood by." Noble hearted woman.' That was a proud sentiment, and did her heart great honor in its utterance. X3T Coh Fremont's M.iriposas estate contains upwards of seventy tquard miles skualed about two hundred and filly miles easterly from San Francisco. l'Hlmer, Cook dc Co. the California bankers own one undivided half of the tract, and the colonel the other, which many persons believe makes him the richest man in the world.. He bought that immense gold region in 1846 for $3U00, nnd was laughed at for ihe recklessness of his investment. It has already yielded fome thirty 'five millions of dollars, and its resources, both mineral and agricultural, are said to be inexhaustible. . ' Give them Something Beautiful to Remember."Good night!" A loud elenr voice from the top of tho slnirs said that; it was Tommy's "Dood night," murmured a littlo something from n trundle-bed a little something we call Jenny, thnt filU a largo placo in the centre of two prclly largo hearts. "Good night," lisps a littlo fellow in a plaid rillo dress who, was christened Willio about six years ago, "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I w-a-k-o " and the small trundle-bed has dropped off to sleep, but an angel will finish the bro ken prayer for her, and it will go up sooner than many long-winded petitions that set out a long while, before it. And so it was "good night' all around the old homestead, nnd very sweet music it made, too, in tho twilight, nnd very plensant melody it muke3 now as we think of it, for it was not yesterday, nor tho day before, but a long timo ago so long that Tommy is Thomas Somebody, Esq., and has forgotton that he was a boy, and woro what the bravest and richest of us can but once wear if we try the first pair of boots. ; a- 1 .1... iirti!. . . i oo ioii ngo, inai vviine must sioop wnen he crosses the threshold, so long ago. that Jenny has gone the way of the old prayer sue was saying, lor, saying another, she did as before, fell asleep as she said it, and never waked mora. Good night to tuee, jenny, good ntglit. And so it was good night nil around the house,. and tho children had gono through the ivory gate always left j ir for them through into the land ot Dreams, or through the golden one they call "Beautiful," into the land of angels. So they are nil scattered nnd gone, and the old house is tennntlcss, nnd there is nobody there to say good night, and nothing but the rain lo come, and tho birds that have built Ihem a nest nmong the broken stones of the hearth, and tho sheep that take shelter from the pitiless storm under tho one wall that is whole; nnd yet, now wo think of it, there is a wonderful dignity about tho old place. Its rooms were not very spacious, precious little tap estry adorned the walls, the eaves were low, mossy and gray; but did not we begin to live and love und hopo there? Did not the old homestead have very much to do with the fashioning of our thoughts ? Was it not as if an humble mould for the shaping of our fancies? Did wo not bear away with us when we went a cabinet of. pleasures that were painted there? Have you forgotton that shapeless thing it was , that used to lurk in the dark at the top of no stairs, always in wait to catch you on your way to bed, but never doing it? And what long sighs used to como moaning down the garret, and what trailing garments rustled nlong the garret ttoar. Wo fancied It was fi lady in a castle, a lady inir anu young ana we, so many ciiam pions to sound the bugle at the gate, nnd bear her safe away. For then we had rend tho "Scottish Chiefs," "Tlnddeujof War saw, nnu tno uako ot uiouccslcr saw fewer Itichmonds in the del J than there were Wallaces of us then each one with a Marion or Helen to bless him. Then the tales that Dolly told us round the kitchen fire, when she had done up her hair and swept up the hearth, and sat down to her sewing. Then it was wo gathered round and besought her for a story of ghosts or witches, or little wonderful children, that lived a long time ago, that become very beautiful, or very something that we longed to be. How we would nave delighted to ba Robin Hood, nnd live in the wouds, and wear an array of green. How we wished we had been Jack the G.ant Killer, or Richard Whilington, or Cinderella, or some one she told us of. But when she told us of the ghosts in white thnt made no foot fall when they walked, or of their hands, how cold they were; of their laugh, how hollow and ghostly it was, have you forgotten how we drew a little nearer as the story went on, and how we thought the light "burned dim and blue, nnd we begged her to stir the sleeping fire, nnd dare not look behind us where the shadows were, and fancied something sighed orjspoke, and sjllnbled our nnmes. Each voice subsided to a whisper all but Dolly's, and she went on with castles dim, nnd spectres grim, and dungeons deep, nnd ladies fair, while her glittering needle darted in and out nlong the lengthened hem. At last one of us throned upon her lap, another begged to lay her hand therein, and still the tale goes on. The clock is on the stroke of nine, nnd how we dreaded the last shrill chime! It came, we went reluctantly to bed, dark the hall was, nnd tho door must be left op'.-n a little; and "Dolly, arc you there?" and "Dolly, good night," and Dolly this, and Dolly that, just to hear her speak, came from under the quilts we had drawn over our heads, and wo woundered what rattled tl.o window, aud what shook the bed, nnd didn't you feel something eld, or hear somebody step, nnd how we nil wished wo were asleep, or it was morning, or the sun shone all night. How we suffered then, nnd nobody knew it, and nobody bid us be brave. Well, years hnve passed, but we build castles as we did then, and feci just tuch great cold shadows as used to lurk in the hall, and people them with forms no eye has seen. Tno memory should not be a tomb, a place for guests to revisit the glimpse of the moon in, but a plce full of r collections of sun-dune nnd loveliness. There khould be something beautiful about a homestead a bountiful picture, a beautiful tree. A yard with glorious ma- p.es in it, and a roof wi h a vine on it, nnd nves with biids in them, nnd a pa-ture full of daises what a lovely place it must be, indeed, to think thnt in January we cm aiwa)s hnve a June; iu an Arabia Petres, an "Araby of the Blest." Mothers always look beautiful to chil dren; they make a picture for memory's eahii.et, that ' t lie "old masters" never equaled. But tin y should be in beautiful selling. Lei lit re be a broad hearth nnd ample fire place in the iron boxes, or look at it thiough a grate. Get a cord of old maple, and b handful or two of old beach for a fue de jole, and a bnsket or two of old fashioned chins; and keep them all over for winter birth-days, and Christmas eves nnd New Years night, und get an old fashioned hie, and blow out the cimlLs or turn out tho gas, and gather within the circle of hearth light, and tell plensant tales, or smile pleasant smiles. Ho you will give tlio children something beuulilul to remem ber, for believe us, such a picture in such a light will never fade out Irom the Uou woven canvas that hangs in the heart. STORY OF THE WRONG BABY Tho Sunday Courier, whoso editor is tnmous for finding out naughty place- where married women of New Ycrk resort to get fun nnd excitement, relates the following incident connected with a "check-apron soiree" in East Broadway: Tho meetings are txclu ively private, so that even the police can t und out a whisper about them. Oysters nnd game suppers, champngno and whisky toddies, fill up the rosy hours to the brim. One of tho female members of these check-npron assemblages, was most siugu-laily the agent in bringing this den of revelry to light. It seems that she is a married woman, tho wil'o of an honest mechanic, and the mother of a young child. She had a comfortable home; and appa rently, nil that a moJest woman could desire; but, sad to say, she was a regular attendant on nnd participant in check-npron sociable's." The nnturo of her husband's vocation made it necessary for him to work until twelve o'clock every night, which gavo her nn easy opportunity to gratify her desires unexposed, blio was always at home before her husband arrived, and thus for months carried on her clandestine amusement without the least danger of exposure. But "murder will out," and did. A few nights sines the socialists met in full conclave. Tho supper was rich, the wine sparkling, tho women wcro enchanting, the men gallant to a degree. Timo How like a frightened pigeon, and the excitement was at its height, when hark! one I no three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve ! struck like a death knell upon the ears of tho twelve o'clock lady. "My God!" she exclaimed, "I shall be too late! My husband will ba homo before me!" hastily throwing on her shawl and bonnet, and catching her sleeping babe from the bed in an ndjoining room, she left tho house without even bestowing a part ing kiss upon the reeking lips of her moral paramour, bho gained her own door, almost breathless her hand trembled as she grasped the nob she opened it care fully. "Thank God he is not here. I am safe!" was her ejaculation, as she placed her infant on the bed, and sat down to compose herself. Tho husband soon arrived,' took his sup per, and they retired. Tho next morning n3 tho wife was busy getting breakfast.she was suddenly called to by her husband "I eny, wife, look here I thought our ctild was n girl," said ho. "Well, so it is," replied the wife. "Indeed! Well come and look at this one." Tho investigation did not last a great while. The woman had laid her child beside another ono at the party, and in her hurry had caught up the wrong one. How to explain the suddan metamorphose, she knew not. blio was too much agitated to coin a lie. But her husband relieved her, for on taking a goad look at tho littlo fellow, he exclaimed: "Why, this is Mrs. 's child. Tho terrified wife at once confessed all, and named the people who were in the habit ot metting her at Mrs. s. Praying to the Point. A certain lawyer who, whilom, dwelt in one of our New England towns, noted for hisover-renchings and short-coming, dur- ring a revival came under conviction, nnd requestod prayers for the furtherance of his conversion. His appeal was responded to by one of the saints, an eccentric but very pious old man honest, plain, blunt, square-toed and flat-footed, who thus went at it: "We do most earnestly entreat thee, U, Lord, to sanctity our penitent brother, here; fill his heart with goodness and grace, so that he shall hereafter forsake his evil ways and follow in the right path. We do know, however, that it is required of him who fans appropriated worldly goods to him self unlawfully nnd dishonestly, that he shall make restitution four-fold; but we do beseech the to have mercy on this our erring brother, as it would bo impossible for him to do that, and let him off for the best he can do without beggaring himself entirely, by his paying twenty-live cents on the dollar. The next supplicant at the same meeting was nn elderly maiden who got her living by going into different families and spin ing for them. She, also, had been famous for her short-comings never giving full counts on her yarn; the forty threads U a knot was a point to which she never reach ed. The blunt old man thus briefly dis posed of her case: "Reform, O, Lord, the heart of thy handmaid here before thee, we beseech thee; and wilt thou enable her to count forty!" 5" A clergyman in Boston, meeting with one of Ins congregation who recently come into possession of quite a handsome property by the death of liis brother, inquired now he was getting nhn-g i ( the settlement of the es Rie. "Oil," said lie, "I r.m having a dreadful lime; what, wi h setting out letters of administration, and attending probate court, and sealing cUims, I sometimes almost wish he hadn't died." The Farhkh. A beautiful Uiouiht,thii which we find in one of our exchanges: "If there is a man who onn eat his bread in peace with G.d and man, it is Ibe miin who has brought Ihxt bread out of the onrth. It is cankered by no fraud, it is wet by no tears, it is stninod by Be) blood." , i ' JTTliere are thirty-two parish-s in Soo land without a public house for the sale of strong drink, and, as a natural consequence,' without a pauper. ' -t letter from Hon. John Sherman, ' ' Washington Citt, March 19, I860. ' Dear Siks: The House, to-day, resolved that it would send A Committee of three of its members to examine fully Into the affairs in Kansas. I regard this as, by far,' tho most important act of this session, not. even excepting tho election of a .Speaker. Compared with .it, every other proposed measuro was partial In its effect, Nothing but thorough investigation, conducted under the order of the Houso, can present, to the people the extent of the wrongs that have been inOicted upon the citizens of that 1 infant Territory, Overrun by invaders ' foreign to their residence, their interest and their rights, with the whole Executive , power of the Government ngainst them,' they were compelled to choose between' submission to tho worst of tyranny or (o ' arm for resistance. When they appealed i for protection against nn organized force in n neighboring powerful State, thev wera entirely neglected by the President. Twice overrun, dtiven from their ballot-boxes ' with a Legislature chosen by their self-eon ' stitutcd rulers usurping all the forms of Government over them, they were driven . to organize for their own protection. A . second time they wero invaded, and noticing but their determined defence at Law rence saved them from complete and abso- ' lute subjection to thu Stato of Missouri.- - When they had thus evinced their power : to defend themselves, the President, for ' the first time, c tiled into requisition the uuncu oiaies iruups, out ouiy lor me pur poso of compelling submission to a worse ' than Draconian Code made by their invaders. ' ' Under these circumstances, they appeal-' ' ed to the Houso of Representatives for an : examination and redress of their grievan- ' ce.i. It is surprising that any objection should have been made to this investigation. Ono would think that no party and no section would dare tmother, without inquiry, so gross a wrong upon a people entirely under the protection of Congress.. And yet, for days and weeks this inquiry was resisted with tho sheerest technical! ties; nnd above all, the friends of the Administration struggled, in every way, to ; defeat it. On the final vote, to-day, every member from a Slave State, and tbe very ' few friends of tho President from the Free States, voted against an examina-lion; and they exhibited nn interest in it equal to that shown on the election of Speaker. Fortunately, the North was not so divided as it had been; and all those gen- tlemen who held us so long in suspense on the Speakership voted iu a body with the-Republicans. Dunn, Scott ' Harrison,'' : Moore, Millward, Haven, and others, as . heartily favored the proposition as any one; -' so thnt the recolution passed by, I think, $ (; mnjodty. '. This is about a fair test of our strength nnd I trust it will be sufficient to secure tho rejection of Whitfield and the admis sion ot Kansas as a Free State at least 89 far as the House is concerned. It has been asked; "Why don't yoi press a direct vote on the rejection of Whitfield and the admission of Reeder?" The answer is easy: although the facts upon which the contest is founded are historical nnd known to every one, they are not stated and proven in that legal form required by the election law. It might be said that this is a question outside of an election law that it is one ot usurpation and invasion, ' not a mere inequality or fraud. TliaJ is true, and for ono, I would bo willing to act upon that view; but others, wiser and more cautious, think we not only ou "hi to ' prove the right on our side, but also all - the legal forms. 1 his position is strenirth. : ened by the further facts, that, so far as , the contest for delegate is concerned, both Rcedcr and Whitfield now, in substance, stand upon a footing of equality. Neither can vote both haveseatsupoa the floor . both will draw pay and both will be heard on the merits of the contest. The only difference is that one is recognize as ' tho 6itting delegate and the other as the contesting Delegate. But, for all practical purposes, they have the same rights now. Therefore it was that no objection was made to Whitfield's being sworn, and that we now wait until the Report of the Committee shall give us all the facts in haal form. Upon this report will depend, to some extent, our action in admitting Kansas and in passing laws for tho protection of its citizens. The bill for the improvement of your harbor, and also thoso at Vermillion and Huron, will pass the Senate soon, and also, the House during this session. I hope" they nre in such form as to escape the Veto.,. Truly Yours, Jons Shsbjian. ', He has Taken Me Off. One evening in London, Madan was sit-' 1- ' ting in a coffee house with some of his gay . ; . .; companions. At a loss for amusement, they proposed to him to go and hear Tftr. , ", Wesley, who was preaching in the neigh- ; borhcod, and to return and "take him off," . As ho entered the place, Mr. Wesley, was announcing with great solemnity his text, "prepare to meet thy God." The young , , barrister was arrested. As Wesley pre- coeded to exhort his hearers to immediate v-repentance, a strange awe came over Man- "j, ti dan's heart. Wheu the service was oyer, ,,. M he returned to the coffee house. , ! '.; "Well," exclaimed his boon compan- ' ions, who by this time had beoome impa- "? tienl fi r his return, "Lave you taken off ihe old Motho-.iisl?" "No," replied Mandan. "no gentleman; ,' . but lie lias taken me (iff." From th it hour he was another man. He devo ed himself to the Lord's work; and many souls were given Lira for, his hire. XyNubody giving , nitt-rjtion to Diogenes, while he discoursed of virtue and, philosophy, he fell to singinir funnv annus ' and every one eroded lo lipnr him "Great gods!" said he, "how much mora is folly lidmircd than wisdom!''- What buriesque upon poor nnture. tn y ,-t ,. , . 6 -. JtT Wendell Phillips sys nc Yankee is, satisfied will) tiutb, unless .yon can prove ( to him that it is worth eight 91; ten ptr . T i !f It M'.. I u -:cl I aid) .a-: if