Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1863-03-05

              Hi If alii mnm "cd y MOUNT VERNON, OIIIO THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1863. NO. 18. VOL. IX. THE MOUNT YERNOX REPUBLICAN. T E It M S : For one year (invariably in advance)$2,00 For six uonths, TKOMS OF ADVERTISING One square, 3 weeks, Oue square. 3 monthi, One square, 0 months, One square, 1 year, ')ue square (changeable monthly) Changeable weekly, Two squares, weeks, Two squares, G weeks, Two squares, 3 months, Two squares, (5 months, Two squares, 1 year, Three squares, 3 weeks, Three squares, 6 weeks, Three squares, 3 months, Thrco squares, 0 months, Tlinrt enntiruu 1 VCiir. 1,00 1,00 8,00 4.50 C,00 10,00 15,00 1,75 3,25 5,25 0,75 8,00 2,50 4,50 6,00 8,00 10,00 One-fourth column, chan. quarterly, 15,00 Ono-third " " Onc-hulf " " 28'00 One column, changeable quarterly, 50,00 All local notices of advertisements, or calling attention to any enterprise intended lo benefit individuals or corporations, will fee charged at the rate often cents per line. Select poctqi. KISS IN A THUNDER STORM- I rambled out on a summer day, With Sofie loved most dearly, Who needed but an angels wings To bo an angel really. A Ftorm came rip, the rain came down, And we a tree went under : And most terrific grew tho storm, and loudly roared the thunder. At k-ngth there came a stunning peal, And then a flash of lightning, With terror to a maiden's heart, My fair companion fright'ning. Her eyes she closed, her lips Ildsscd; She did not seem to wonder, Because, no doubt, the smack was not So noisy as the thunder. The storm rolled by, the years rolled on, And Sofie dear I married, And we oft speak of that wild storm When 'ncath a tree wo tarried. And of the storms of life, which ne'er Shall rend our hearts asunder, Nor drown the mcm'ry of that kiss, When Sofie feared the thunder. From iho N.Y. Bvening Post, Jan. A Cud for the Croakers. 28. The Fainthearts and Pliables who groan over the successes of the rebels, and are ready to give up everything whenever our troops suffer a repulse or fail of the most complete success against the enemy, should read an article from the Richmond Examiner of the 20th instant. The writer, who has hitherto becu the most hopeful and buoyant of prophets, is to tell sonic plain truths to his deluded readers at last. He tells them that "the Yankees do really hold a large part of the Southern Confederacy," namely, Maryland. Kentucky and Tennessee; that Mr. Lin-co'n'a promise to recapture all the forts in tho southern states, is so nearly fufillcd that only two, Forts Caswell and Sumter, remain in rebel hands; that in the interior as well, Grant, Curtis, Rosecrans and Banks arc moving forward; and thtt "the Yankees are in great force in tnf very heart of the Confederacy, swarm on al' our borders and threaten every important city 'belonging to us." He adds that tho rebels have yet Indian troubles to fear; that Tennessee and Mississippi are dissatisfied, .although Jeff. Davis, it seems, made his western tour on purpose to quhit this "disaffection"; and thac New Mexbi and Arizona an lost to their power. At tho same lime ho adds that the Yankees hold uu rthat they have held since the beginning of rtlio war, and that ''another year or two of such progress as tkey havo already made, will find them masters of the Southern Confederacy."; Now all this, and more, is true to the letter. The Examiner docs not exagger ate our successes, whfie it does not under etato the desperation of the rebel cause, Dy not referring to its foreign disappointments. When it cries for more men at once, when it declares that "if within the next two months wo do not add seventy-five or n hundred thousand men to our forces in the Southwest, we shall come to jrrief," there is no doubt that it means to say that at this very moment its cause is lot. Why, then, tho croaking on our side? Our soldiers are not shirtless or barefooted; we have not been driven out of threo or four states each as greHt oh a European kingdom; we aro not sufferiug from the lack of war material; we have just got a new army in the field; we have just gained a great victoiy at Murlecsboro'; Porter and MoClernand aro sweeping Arkansas of rebels, preparatory to a grand future move mout not yet to bo disclosed; we have at last discovered in ltosecrans a capable general silent, active, ardently patriotic, determined to put down the rebellion, and going about it with au air that presages success. Moreover, wo are upon the eve of important operations, both by sea and land, for which preparations have been making in silence for several months"past. In a few days it will once more begin to "thunder all around." We recommond these facts to all the Mr. Despondcnts, with their daughters, the Mistrusts, in tho hope that they will look at them impartially not as Americans, who naturally expect to havo everything "put through by lightning express," but as scoaiblo readers of history, who know that even the rapid movements and combinations of Napoleon, in a field of war no larger than Massachusetts, required weckB and months for their development. They will then see that wo have to-day almost to a certainty of success; aud they will see, too, why it is that every rebel agent, spy and sympathiser in the free states is working desperately to produce I political disturbances at the North, as the only means of saving Ins southern mends. The llichmond papers which doubtless reflect the sentiment ot tho rebel government, confess as much, and the Dcyatch says openly; "Tho ouly means of securing our own independence is the sure one of increasing the discord among our enemies, j ;md rendering certain tno ureauug up oi : the federal Union.'' This essential difference between thf northern and southern civilization and aims must soon be discovered by the masses of the whole nation, and then the conflict will assume its proper hearings. Men will range themselves on tho one side or the other, as their sympathies incline them, either to a free, or to a partial and class government; a genuine democratic party whoso creed, no longer a bigoted regard for the rights of a class, will be tho rights of men will arise; and the question as to our modes of prosecuting this war, and its proper issue, will take a more definite shape. We shall see, as clearly as tho light of noon, that there can be no deliveraucc from this war whether the states keep together or scperate until the great fundimental social antagonism is extinguished. If we should be brought tosether again by some kind of political Spaulding's glue compromise, conciliation fusion, whatnot tho old cause operating we shall break up just as' we have done after a vain effort of thirty years to prevent it. If, on the other hand, we separate into two distinct nationalities the one free and the other slave we shall go on fighting our old battles, as the Huns and Romans of the legend fought their battles in the air after all the original combatants had boon killed; but we shall then fight with aggravated animosities and new and additional causes of contention. A chronic state of war will succeed to an intermittent state; end nothing short of a decision, once for all, of the questions of supremacy between tho two elements 4will terminate tho struggle. Now, that decision ought to be made as soon as possible; war; is an evil too dread ful and ruinous to be protracted; and it can bo made, as we think, it the heartily patriotic men of tho North will unite in a strenuous effort to assault the rebellion in itssourcc. While the semi-secession demo, crats are meditating schemes of violence at the North, and while weak-headed Republicans are squinting at foreign meditation or like Judge Conway, of Kansas, at former separation let the earnest friends of the country declare, with more vehemence than ever, that disunion is utterly impossible, and if it were not it should never take place; that liberty is indispensable to Union; and that the war shall be prosecuted with the most energy until states enough are converted into free states to render Liberty and Union the predominant principles of the government for all future timo. Never affect to be other than what yon are. Learn to say, "I do aot know," and "I can't afford it," with most sonorous distinctness and emphasis. Men then will believe you when you say "I do not know," and "I can'tafford it." Never beashamed to pass for just what you truly are, and wh you are, and you are on solid ground. A man is already of consequence in the world, when it is known that we can im-plicity rely upon him that when he says hs knows a thing, it is so. Such a reputation will give a man more real enjoyment, and is of far greater value to him than all the results which display and pretension can compass. We once heard a Vermonter express his opinion of a person in tho following style of classics: I could take, said he, the little point of nothing, whittle it down to a point, punch out the pith of a horse hair, and put in it forty thousand such souls as hi?, haka thom op and they'd rattle. Will the Blacks Fight! The following article, which originally appeared in the New Bedford Mercury, we print by request, as a confirmation of the conclusious to which Colonel Higgin-sou has been led by his recent trial uf a battalion of black troops under fire: The following is the testimony of an unwilling witness a French soldier: Lieutcnant-Geueral Baron Camphilo do la Croix, was a distinguished officer of tho French Republican army, a part of which was detached by Bonaparte, under General Le Clorc, (the husband of Paulino B.) to bring St. Domingo under French rule again. His "Mcmoires" are considered valuable, especially for their details of military operations. IIo states that the blacks fought well, even in tho early days of their insurrection, when they were a mere revolted crowd. At tho first symptoms of hesitation on the part of the soldiers scut out to put them down, they would throw themselves with audacity upon the cannon, stuff their arms into them, aud at any expense take them. They never appeared as a crowd of excited people engaged in a Yevolt, but dispersed themselves in different bodies, each one of which had instructions to converge in such a wy as to envelope the forces sent against them. When they were dis- perso,j they still had constancy enough to remiljn umicr arms. The unorganized mulattoes in the south of St. Domingo also know how to gain advantages. On tho 1st and 2d of September, 1791, a body of a hundred Flibustiers and 230 French troops of the line, with sevoral pieces of cannon, was routed at daybreak, at the end of a successful march, by a sustained fire of tho mulattoes, of musL ts alone, leaving 100 dead and wounded. In a subsequent action, when a mulatto General was on tho point of being overthrown by the fire of twenty pieces of artillery, he was saved by a flank movement of another division of mulattoes, who threw themselves upon the pieces with perfect abandonment, extinguishing tho fire, and carried off one piece. By turns victorious and defeated, the mulattoes never ceased to keep an armed corps in the field, in tho interest of their cause. The defile, caiiid the Tlatona, was attacked by three columns of French troops, numbering more than 15,000 men, Aug. C, 1792. The first column, uot being supported at the expected moment, wavered. It wascomposcd of mulattoes under Rigaud (the mulattoes fighting against the blacks oftener than with them). It was annihilated, though supported by regular troops. The second column was a little later; it was also supported by the veteran troops from the Army of the Rhine. It was received as the French and Bavarians were received by the Swiss and Tyrolesc: a lively musketry fire so decimated it. that it was forced to live. Then it was vigorously pursued, and lost 100 men, a lieutenant- colonel and four officers. The third column, with one piece of artillery, which was probably an incumbrance hearing of these checks, attempted to re treat in order It was too late. Tho chief d'artillcrte was killed on his gun, and all tho men who tried to prevent its capture. The rout wa3 complete. Two cannou and ten wagon loads of provisions wero aban doned. The blacks pressed on, exploded the caissons, killed many, and tho troops did not rally till they were beneath the cannon of Aux Caycs. Rochambcau afterwards forced this defile, and took an intrenched camp of the negroes. In intrenching themselves they had recourse to the knowledge of whites, either French or Spanish, who favored them. Under Toussaint Ouverturo the blacks began to be disciplined. "It was remark able to see the Africans, half naked, with musket and sabre, giving an example of tho severest discipline. They went out for a campaign with nothing to cat but maize, cstablised themselves in tho towns, without touching anything exposed for sale in the shops, nor pillaging the farmers who brought things to market. Supplo and trembling before their officers, respectful to citizens," they seemed only to wish to obey the instinct for liberty which was inspired in them by Toussaint. This was at the period when they began to sco clearly that nothing but the destruction of the French could sccoro their freedom.Toussiant's army was brigaded and organized after tho French fashion, but was composed of only 23,650 men, all of whom but 1500, chiefly muktU.es, were blacks. His principal place of defence, whero he had restored great quantities of arms and munitions, was Cretc-a-Pierrot. The French thought they could take it by a coup de main, but were repulsed, 'and it had to be regularly invested, and approached by slow and painful effort. It was bombarded from three jyr-rterLf for two whulo days; the garrison of 1200 wade sorties with various successes. Tho French lost 1500 men by these aud by the fire from the entrenchments. The blacks knew how to throw up new redoubts to menace the Freueh approaches. A second attempt to carry the plucc cost Rochatu beau 300 mcu. At length the garrison retreated, losing less than half its number. La Croix says: "The retreat which tho commaudant dared to conceive and execute was a remarkable feat of arms : We surrounded his post to the number of more than 12,000 men. IIo saved himself, did not loso half his garrison, and left us nothing but his deud and woundad. This man was a quartereon, named Lamartin-iero, chief de brigade, to whom nature had eiven a mind of the strongest stamp, lie was tho same man who headed the resistance of Tort au Prince against the divisions of Boudet, and who in full council of war broke the head of Lacombc, a commandant of artillery. Toussaint himself made one or two attacks upon tho investing force, and when the place was entered, he had fallen back to cut the communication between the attacking troops and the army in the North. He was so far successful ihat Hardy's division, in forcing its way through, became ouly a crowd of fugitivo, having lost 500 men. La Croix devotes a good many pages to the afl'airof Crete-a-Picrrot, and uurescrv-cdly expresses his admiration of the blacks; adding, however, that in general the know how to defend better than to attack. This is true of a great many other peo ple the Turks, even under Oinar Pacha, along the Danube, in the opening scenes of the Crimean war, could defend their en trenchments against every effort of the Russians, and they had ouly common open earthworks, with a shallow ditch. It is plain that the negroes must be in spired with some sentiment or passion be fore they cau fight. In this rasped they I arc like the colder people of the North. And they must have some expectation or idea stroug enough to hold them together and create an e.-i rit de corps. It will nut rn3(Ml.1n a cul.inrt tn'nm fn Riistained u mvcoiw.v w j - dkcinlino and to all the various fortuues of , r ,,, i r war unless thev can feel tncy are lighting for their own personal safety they are fighting, for their race to be better off in the future to enjoy some emolument or advantages iu fiue, to be the owners of the blood and muscle which they are induced to expend for govcrnmf pt. And when that is clearly understood by them, the government will wield its most potent arm in the Southern States. There wiil bo no lack of laborers and soldiers on tho strength of a proclamation, conceived j in good faith, and not disavowed by the Executive. The history of Ilayti shows that the Blacks will go with enthusiasm wherever they are led, by whites or by men of their own color, provido their steps never point again in the direction of slavery. Their stolid indifference vanishes when they have once got rid of the restraint of tyran ny: they willingly incur tho restraints of freedom to preserve their new position towards mankind. Fashion kills moro women than toil or sorrow. Obedience to fashion is a greater trangrcssion of the law of woman's nature greater injury to her physical mental con stitution, than the hardship of poverty aud neglect. The slave woman at her task will live and grow old and sco two or three generations of her mistresses fade and pass away. Tho wash-woman, with scarce a ray of hope to cheer her will live to sec her fashionable sisters all die round her. Tho kitchen maid is hearty and stronger when her lady has to bo nursed like a sick baby. It is a sad truth that fashion pampered women are almost worthless for all the great ends of human life. They have but little force of character; they have still less power of moral will, and quite as little physical energy. They live for no great purpose in life; they accomplish no worthy ends. They are only doll forms in the hands of milliners and servants to be dressed and fed to ordr. They dross nobody; they feed nobody, they set no examples of virtue and womanly life. IF they rear children, servants, and nurses do all, save, conceive and give them birth. And when reared what arc thay? What do they ever amount to, but weaker scions of the old stock? Who ever heard of a fashionable woman's child exhibiting any virtue or power of mind for which it became emi- j nent. Read the biographies of our great and good men and women. Not one of thom had a fashionable mother. They nearly all sprung from strong minded wo men, who had about as little to do with fashion as with the changing clouds. "You want nothing do you?" said Pat, "Bedad, an' if it's nothing you want, you'll find it in th jnp whsr' dv -r;: try -v: ' From tbi N. Y. Evooiuu l t, .Inn. 3.) The Tarty and Politics for the Day. The vharactcr of tho opposition to the government is showing itself, in consequence of our freedom of opinion, in its true aspects, as tho real ally andiriend of tho rebol slaveholders; and tha disclosure must, we are quite sure, lead to tho formation of parties on higher, broader aud juster grounds than any heretofore attained. It must come to bo seen, in the course of our injuries and discussions, that the coulroversy in which we arc engaged is only by accident a sectional ouc, ami that the vital point is the struggle of a slaveholding oligarchy and of free labor democracy for tha possession oi'iiic continent The South has taken up arms in the spirit of the old mail-clad knights; who pounced from their rocky fortresses upon the caravans of commerce or the cities of industry, in furtherance of their privileges of class aud their exclusive or arbitrary interests. The North meets it as the thrifty burghers" met the barons, feebly at first, with a respect even for the lordly class long accustomed to rule, but gradually with defiance, and in the end with a resolute, hard-handed, indomitable energy and a fiery zeal of freedom, which toppled their huge castles, their feudal privileges, down upon their heads iu awful ruin. The discerning southern leaders have so clearly seen the nature of this contest, that it is wonderful it has not more generally made its way into the minds of northern statesmen. Mr. Spratt, of South Carolina, in his famous letter to Perkins, of Louisiana, ridiculed the idea that secessionist!! had grown out "of any aggression of the North upon the rights of the South; it was "still less of any act of oppression on the part of the United States government;" and the ouly reason to be assigned for it was "the difference in the organization of society North aud South," the one being democratic and tho other aristocratic. "Democracy," said Mr. Garnott in his letter to Trescott, "and slavery ere incompatible." "Those pestilent and pernicious dogmas the greatest good of tho greatest number, and the majority shall rule,' in , . p n n . r . view. j r - - the organ of the slaveholuing class. . . . . ... Nor let it be supposed that these opin ions are confined to a few; they are common in Southern society; and what General Hamilton of Texas told us is confirmed by other authorities. "The leaders in this ! rebellion are actuated," he said, by a distinct purpose, to supplant popular government.ind establish a monarchy.with slavery us its corner stone" adding that "if you could, as I have done, hear, in the hotels and iu tho streets, and in parlors, echoes of that sentiment from men who, two years 2go, were regarded as loyal, saying, 'Republicanism is a failure we are astonished that we ever thought it could succeed we now realize tho fact that we must have a stronger government' you would feel, fellow-citizens, that thero was something more involved in this revolution than a simple desire to get rid of the 'hated YaR-kce.'" Dr. Russell, as he tells us in his Diary just published, was surprised by nothing so much iu the South as the frequency, the seriousness and the zeal with which the gentleman he encountered declared their monarchical tendencies, which they carried so far, indeed, a3 to prefer a pro- vinci :! existence under Queen Victoria to an independent cxistcuce with free institutions. Spurgeon for the Union, Tho Itev. C. II. Spurgeon, tho eloquent Baptist divinu, of London, preached on the 18th of January to crowded audiences. In tho eveniug the huge tabernaclo was crowded to excess; thc-e could not have been less than 7,000 persons present. In the morning Mr Spurgeon, in the course of his prayer, said: "O, God, we pray for tho nation across the ocean; and this time we make use of a supplication which we have not used these three months. We were afraid that our Northern brethren were not sincere in their throwing off the bonds of Slavery, but now they have come j jQ who eurryUt)tl as j,roth. r-J a iiw,v..iM"i0 3 ' . . . . . out honestly, we pi-ay God speed the North Throughout the vast assemblage there was one hearty, loud response of" A men!" which was the more thrilling, becauso in tho Metropolitan Tabernaclo tho worshippers do not generally make any audible responses. By any means, continued Mr. spurjoon, "by any means set the slaves free, but lot this cruel war be also stopped. A strictly orthodox old gentleman in Massachusets returned home one Sunday after noon from church, and began to j extol to his fon the merits of tho Fcrinon "I heard Frank," he said, oo of tho most! delightful sermons ever delivered before a'ously scratching himself, interrogated him christian society. It carried mo to the ! thus: What's tho matter, my man flVas? "ates of heaven. Weill think, nplied Frank, you had better dodgod in. fc- 1'iitfi- Unman. TUl tfi ....... A pretty woman hone of the institutions of every country. Sue nukes suushiua, blue sky, and happiness wherever she goes. Her puih is delicious ruses, perfume, aud beauty. She is a swcH poem, written in rare curls, and choice taste, aud good principles. Men stand up before her as so many admiration points, f.nd melt iuto creaiu and then butter. Her words float around the earth like music, birds of paradise sings, or chime? of Sabbath bells. Without her society would lose its truest attractions, aud young nien the very best of comforts aud company. Her influence and generosity restrain the vicious, strengh-teu the weak, raise the lowly, CatnicKkirt tho needy, and strengthen the fainthearted. And wherever you find the virtuous woman, you will find fireside briquets, clean cloths, order, light, pood living, gontle hearts, music, and model institutions Generally. She is the flower of humanity, a Venus in dimity, and her inspiration is the breath of heaven. Steulou-itk L'lion. Will the editor, Mr. Sherridcn, just tell us how much "blue milk" is left after a man turns into cream and then iuto butter? The words wust be indeed musical that "float around the earth." Our opinion is that poor Sherrideu's spirits hadjust been refreshed by a good thrashing from his wiiV, and duplicated by several stroke-from a stout broom handle tho hour before he wrote the above. We have known men to write wonderful sweet things just after somebody had been "iu their wool!" O. S. Journal. Women at Auction. An auction of ladies used to take place annually at Babylon. "In every district," sys the historian, "they assembled on a certain day of every year, all the women of marriageable age;" tho most beautiful was put up, and he who bid the most gained possession of her. The sacoud in appearance followed, and the biddersgruti-fi-:d themselves with handsome wives according to the length of their purses. But. alai! it ncems that there were some ladies for whom no money was to be offered, yet these were the Babylonians. "When all these beautiful virgins," says the historian, were sold, the crier ordered the most deformed to stand up, and after he had openly demanded who would marry her with a small sum, she was at length ad judged to the man who would be satisfied with the least .' In this manner the money arising from the handsome served as a portion for those who were either of disa greeable looks or who had other imperfec tions. This custom prevailed about oue hundred years before Christ. Mother. O, word of undying beauty! Thine echoes sound along tho walls oftimc until they crumble at the breath of the Eternal. In all the wide world there is not a habitable spot where the music of that holiest word is not sounded. Aye. by the golden flow er of the river, by the crystal margin of the rock, under the leafy shade of the forest tree, in the hut built of bamboo cane in the mud and thatched cottage, by the peaks of the kissing mountains, in the widespread valley, on the biue ocean, in the changeless desert where the angel came down to give tho parched lips the sweet waters of the wilderness; under the white tent of tho Arab, and in the dark covered wigwam of the Indian hunter, wherever the pulses of the human heart beat quick and waim, or float feebly along the current of failing life, there is that sweet word spoken, like a universal prayer "Mother." We havo read somewhere, that "Language was given to us that we might speak pleasant things to each other," but alas ! how often is it ud for other and baser purposes. A kind word, even an affec tionatc look, is balm to the wounded, fluttering heart, when it turns towards you for consolation in the hour of misery. Were wo to moderate our voice to a silvery tone and thought onlv of the irood we sea strut; ers and sisters in humanity, how much like Paradise would this world become A barih, ily-advifed expietsion or adju ration has crushed many an aopirin; spirit, wounded to the death many a noble soul and the nttercrs have pawed on their way unconscious perhaps, of the ovil they hive done. Let ua aim, then at pleasant thought, and above all, pleasant speech; for it is tho language of the angels, and : has more virtue than wine of Cyprus or balm of (dead. An offieer observing a soldie belonging to a regiment, encamped naarby, industri Fleas! said he in a tone of unutterable v-m'ssora, do yo- VVV I tn i s- ci uuun jsj vuuwun. Forth Child's Pyr. little Henry's Faith. Little Henry's father was a pious sea-captain. Horning and evening the little boy bent the kneo with bia dear parents at tho fauily altar; and morning, noon, and night he joined in his father's thanksgivings as they gathered around tho family board. But the timo at length enmo vrhea tho captain must leave, his family aud embark once more upon tho ocean. After he was gone, aj the family again gathered around tlie table, little Henry looked up and inquired, "May I aak a blessing, mother', Consent was given, and tho little boy began: '0 Lord, we thank thee l'or this nice bread and butter. O Lord, we thank thee fur this nicebcefateuk," mentioning other articles on the table, and reverently closed with "Amen" When night came ho was not ttiil-ing that the family altar should bo forsaken, and with hia mother's consent ho mado his little prayer, a mong other requests which ho oflered with all apparent earnestness and sincerity wero these: "0 Lord, don't let a grca't wind come aud break my father's ship to pieces. O Lord, let ray father get his shin full uf oil, so he can come home quick." After this rvoning little Henry continued to pr-vv, but his mother no- :iced that he did not pray so earnestly for his absent father. On being re minded of this, Henry with much feeling replied, "Mother, I have asked the good Lord to take care of my father; ho has hi ard my prayer, and ht is going to do it." What a lesion to th cold and for mal Christian, who for years mar have repeated the same petition morning and evening, scarcely feeling that it its heard on high, much less that the good Lord "is going to do it." Well does our Savior say to such, "Excep' ye be converted, and become as little-children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." r. D. h. Forth8. a. YiiiUr. Charlie's Anger. "Mother," said Charlie, as he rushed into the room wheiehis mother was sitting busily engaged in sewing, 'may I go a skating on the river?'' "No," my son, answered his mother, "the water is so deep there that if you were to full in you would certainly be drowned. Tat you may Bkate on the shallow pond back of tho houBC." Charlie, muttering something to himself, left the room very angry and went clown stairs to inform some comrades, who wore waiting for him below, of his ill success. All that afternoon Charlie was very pvtllen. lie seldom spoko to nnyivuly, and even ihe i it was to siieak crossly. After supper his mother drew him to her and gently remonstrated with iiim about his evil tempei, but after n ittlo while he ran down stairs and out of tho house feeling moro angry than he was at first. IIo soon became calm, however, and began to reflect on his bad conduct. He thought how ungrateful he was to entertain such angry feelings against his mother, who was always so kind to him, and how wickedly he had behaved in the sight of God. He also remembered that he would havo to give an account of all his evil deeds at the last day, and that unless he found a Saviour in Jesus ChriBt he w uld certainly go to perdition. He also reflected how it must grieve his mother to see him behave so badly. Truly reptnting of his anger he kueltdown and asked his boa v. only Father to pardon him. After rising from hi9 knees ho sought hia mother, and earnestly asked her forgiveness, which wa6 readily granted. I am happy to say that Charlie kept a stricter watch on his titrpcr afterwards, and has by the help n" Gel very peliom permitted hiinMf to become so angry again. LUdi Trias, who in Jsurli !Piertstd i stories of wild an Una), letnj: told that tha lion always pauses More (ringing upon his prey, remarked: "1 like she lion bH of all the mitmals, because h ftivea you time to pray before he eats yui '." If 7? VtSr. 7 Vi X " N