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August 30 , 1851 . THE NORTHERN ST A ft .
Our Fathers Are Prating For Pauper Pa?. ...
OUR FATHERS ARE PRATING FOR PAUPER PA ? . ( From the Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love . ) v By Gerald Massst . ) Smitten stones , will talk with fiery tongues , . And tbe worm , when trodden will turn , Bat- Cowards , ye cringe to the cruellest wrongs , And answer with nerera spurn ; 2 hei . torture 0 , Tyrants , the spiritless drove , Old England ' s Iielo : s , will bear , Ibeie's no hell in thrir hatred , no God in their love 3 « r ( shame in their dearth ' s despair , Jor our Fathers are praying for pauper-pay , Our Mothers with Death ' s kiss , are white J Our Sons are the rich man ' s serfs by day , And our Daughters his slaves by night . The Tearless , aro drunk wi th our tears ; have they driven
The God Of the poor man mad ? Tor , we weary of waiting the help of heaven , And the battle goes still with the bad ; 01 but-death for death , and life for life , It were better to take and give , TFitb hand to throat , and with knife to knife , Than die out as thousands live ! For our Fathers are praying for pauper-pay , Our Mothers with death ' s kiss are white I Oar Sons are the rich man ' s serfs by day , And onr Daughters his slaves by night . Fearless and few , were the Heroes of old , " Who played , the peerless part ; " We are filty-fold , but the gangrene Gold , Hal beaten out Hampden ' s heart . With their faces to danger , like freemen they fought , With their daring , all heart and hand ; And the thunder-deed ' follofted the lightning 'bought I
W > en they stood for their own good land . Ctr Pathersare praying for pauper-pay , O-ir Mothers with Death ' s kiss are white ! Our Sons are the rich man ' s serfs by day , And oar Daughters his slaves by night . When the heart of one-half the world , doth beat , Akin to the brave and tbe teae , And the tramp of Democracy ' s earthquake-feet , ' Goes crashing the wide world through , We should aot be living in darkness and dnst , And dving like slaves in the night—But hig " with the might of the inward *« must " We should battle for Freedom and Right ! For our Fathers are praying for pauper-pay , Our ifoiners with Death ' s kiss are white ; Oar Sons are the rich man ' s serfs by day , And our Daughters his slaves by night .
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Transatlantic Rambles ; or , a Record of Twelve Months' 1 ravel in the United States , Cuba , end the Brazils . By a Bcgb . ean . London
Dell . . This is a lively series of sketches of men and manners as tbey appeared to an intelligent young" Englishman on the two great continents of America . The writer makes no pretensions to authorcraft , bat presents the results of his daily observations in an agreeable and unconstrained style , which carries the reader pleasantl y along , "We have lately , however , given our readers extracts from works on tbe United States , and shall therefore , on tbe present occasion , confine our quotations to those portions of the 'Bugbifian' which refer io Cuba and Brazil . Here is a glance at the ways of life in Havanna : —
After the traveller has examined the elegance and variety of the volantes , laughed at the intense coafuaiou of the mule-vrawgons , whose wheels their drivers seem , to make an especial point of locking together for tho sake of producing every possible stoppage , and has sympathised with the gronps of heavily chained criminals who are employed in mending their ownwaysand thosoof thetown , overlooked by soldiers with bayonets and task masters witb whips , he has seen every strange sight which the streets can afford by day . At night it is quite different . The mule drivers have gone to their homes , the criminals to their cells , the dust has subsided , a mild pale-eyed moon has superseded a sun that is not content without diffusing a temperature of 95 ° ,
and the streets are really pleasant . Then fashion stalks abroad , volantes dash about here and there , bearing there duos of beau tie .--, veiled , indeed , but what can one thin layer of gauze avail against the flashings of their dark eyes . Other ladies , also , in all the pride of beauty and georgeous evening drci- ^ i , have come to their iron-barred windows ( which hare all the appearance of the cages in Wombweirs menagerie , and hold beings as dangerous though not so deadly ) , and are to be seen engaged in conversation with knots of lounging youiig cavaliers , returning from the music of the Phza < ies Ayiner , and oil their way for their accustomed ice and cup of coffee at Domenicho ' s , the great cafe of the town . A passing peep through
tbe > c bars gives one a great insight into the domestic economy of families . The father may be seen recumbent and snoring after the burden and heat of the day ; the children , dark-eyed and malicious locking , playing on the floor ; the gloomy figures of negroes ' flitting m the back ground , in connexion with cofl'ce cups and cigars , and the old dii « t : > a of the party , wrinkled and strikingly plain , wicMhi-a huge fan with her fat dusky arms , swaying- her person in a rockiog chair , easting contemptuous glances at the groups in the windows as they whisper their soft nothings , and thinking no doubt of the olden time when she was a window attraction , and such delightful nothings were whispered to her . I was told that , owing to the
prevalence of fasting during lent , I should not see the opera , but this happily proved untrue . It seems that Lent does generally bring with it a cessation from these sort of amusements , but the manager ha \ i ; t !» i « ot Meyerbeer ' s Huguenots rebeased and reedy , thought It an excellent time to show conjointly his love of music , religion , and full houses , and accordingly applied to the Captain-General or Governor , wbo ' is the great potentate of the island , nr . d much more absolute in bis authority that even Qii 3 Mi Isabella , to grant him the licence requisite for its performance . This gentleman ' s iurisdiction em traces every person , from the police force to the onera corps . In opera affairs he is really of tho gronest service to the public . If , for instance , a
sullen basso , ' a captious tenor , or a spoilt prima donna , « ets np an indisposition , a sore throat , & c , at five " minutes' notice , to suit some particular wiioi , or under the influence of the same feelings s . ; i ; rs out of tune , though he or she be backed by the certificates of all tbe Brodies or Lococlis of Cuba , nothing can . prevent this proEipt benefactor from arresting the offender , and signing an order for a week ' s meditation in gaol . However , though ho i . e the rulivg man in the pkee , he is by no means the ruling power , as report will have it that he is quite subject to his wife , who is a very ss .-ious woman , and a close observer of the most ri ; : i ! ute requirements of her creed . As a matter of coarse she sets her face against the opera , and , of c :-ur * e , so did her lord . " Bat suppose , " urged the
p < -r =- ?« vring manager , * ' that we call it' El triompho d- ? fe' ( the triumph of faith ) ! " " Ah ! that ' s agood iie i , " said the lady ; ditto said the husband . This i- ' ea seemed to effect a happy combination of anvaseffit-nt ,-iud religion . " But , " urged the lady , " the leading singer has to sing ' Morto al Papa' ( death tr the Popej ; that will never do I" " But we can a : or that , " said the manager , " and he shall ting 1 Viva al Papa" ( long live tho Pope ) J" This alteration made no matter , it did net interfere with the score , and the opera , with nuaierous excisions , was 'luly performed , to tbe intense delight of both avdienc-e nnd . manager , People went to see it last Sunday after they had spent the morning at mass , the afternoon at a bull fight , and when they were looking f r « ard to a masked hall as a grand finale to their Sabbath revelry .
Our nestextraets will give an idea of the slate of negro slavery in Brazil : — The thing which firet struck me in Rio was the immense number of blacks , who are to be seen in everv corner of the streets . Though many are to b- met with in the States , they do not give one the l-ka of being in such a degraded stale as they are in this countrv . Slavery is slavery everywhere ; b ? i here it stalks ahmad , branded , diseased , and naked . It is sometimes difficult to iam-y the black of the Southern States as a slave , when on Sundays he turns out in the gayest clothes and tho gayest spirits of anvbodv . or whin hisuever-tiring foot or
£ ddle is dented to the service of FOrne dark Dinah Or Susannah , at a ball . But here slavery has none of tiieee disguises ; it flourishes in all its dreadful loathsomeness and misery . Amongst that squalid group in the corner of yonder sticet , with baskets i' ? .-i < ie them , waiting to be hired , all is subdued and s t . They don't seem to feel their situation , for t ' -ey hare long grown callous to it ; but you never h- ' r , as you would among a similar group in the Suites , the merry' just , tne aniisated discussion a ^ ut iiOth : ! i £ r , of the " noisy laugh that convulses a - « -ry part cf the body at once . They bow their l y . As w .-pou-ni'gly in the sun , seemingly conscious T - ' nothiri '' . . Tie " finest race of blacks in the
5 a » :: j-r is tJ . -c Minns ; they are easily distinguiaheii i : * .-: u the rest by thcr fine stature , jet-black colour , T - < a -isik branded on their nose . They are some-: - » -ssix fee-tin height , and the woiaen tall in prov ' " :: «« . When they first come from the const they ' - '¦ ' -a lof ty appearance and a sort of noble bearing , ' ' - '' . ' . eh a month in a slave-ship could not sufcdu ? , ' -t a year ' s vt ^ ggi-ring under ho ivy burdens make * iiic-a quite different creatures , -ihi women have
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a peculiar soft eye and 3 long eye-lash . The other tribes are not easily distinguishable , being all of the woolly-headed and flat nosed Mongolian family . uJiere is a capital way here of punishing a negro who has been guilty of intoxication ; lie is not locked up , as in that case he would be of no nso to his master ; but they only put his , head in gaol , while his limbs and body have free exercise ; and a most effectual kind of incarceration it is , too . A grim sort of iron head-piece , half mask and half helmet , is put on , and Chubb-locked behind . Two holes are made in it for the eyes , and two for the nostrils . It is perfectly impossible for him to drink anything through this " helmetbarrcd , " and he goes about an object of derision amongst his fellow-workmen , and a striking example of the
effects of the "bottle . " * * At about a day's journey from the city , in a forest gorge , which a iorer of the beautiful might have Chosen above all others as a lingering place , I met a gang of newlyarrived blacks , just set free from the horrors of a slave-hold . I could scarcely have thought it possible for such an amount of human misery to have been compressed into so small a number . At the head of the party , a devilish contrast , well-ordered , well-mounted , and well-armed , was the conductor of the gang , a blunderbuss over his arm and a cruel thong at his side . He saluted me courteously on meeting , but , accustomed as I was to many forms of slavery , I could scarcely return his greeting ; for struggling after him , bending under the weight of two heavy burdens , came the
shambling crowd . It was a ghastly sight . It seemed as if the jaws of some mighty sepulchre had yawned , and given again to earth its wasted tenants , endowed witb a feeble emanation of their old life . The glazed eye , as it was just raised in its suffering , and then heavily dropped , the white teeth that grinned from without their shrunken habitation , as you passed , told Of another 6 X 18 " tenefi J and When you glanced " at the figures—the bended bone-pierced knee , the thigh that one hand might have clasped , and the ribs of terrible distinctness—tho idea of the crowd belonging to the same order of humanity as ourselves , having the same hopes , appetites , and passions , instantly vanised . You looked upon them as such a throng of mariners as navigated the phantom bark to
Heligo ' s Isle , or appalled the great Florentine on his entrance into Malebolge . The males had only a strip of calico round their middle , while the women had but a coarse petticoat hanging scant and loose about their shrunken forms . Their movement was very slow , but it seemed to suit their conductors , both in front and rear , who , with their mules , were basking under the silken shade of their umbrellas most unconcernedly . The day was hot , and on passing a stream the party was allowed to drink , which they did , long and deep ; but to see them , with their contorted and scarred forms , drooping over the water , bending themselves into every grisly shape , made one start , iWPl ask Oneself Involuntarily , " Are these God's creatures ?"
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Marian Withers . By ii . E . Jewsbt / by Three vols . London : Colburn , The story of these three volumes may be succinctly summed np as follows : — In the year 1794 a wealthy elderly lady , night Miss Fenwick , sitting at a window in St . James ' s-square , Manchester , intheliatlessneas and ennui induced by too great worldly means , has her attention attracted to two little barefoot urchins singing , throug h a drizzling rain and a disorganised fog , a dismal melody , " Give us some food for our mother in charity , Give us some food , and we will begone !"
The haH-drowneaTitfle wretches were locked ' with arms round each other , and the lady , much to the disgust of the servants , had them called into the house , and led to the kitchen fire . There they told a pitiful tale , of course , how their father was killed by a fall from a ladder , and their mother , who worked at a factory , was lying ill of a fever ; how the parish couldn't relieve them , and , finally , how a wicked man had stolen the last money from the mantleshelf of the ' cellar ' where ' mother ' lived . The story was 'pat ; ' but on further questioning they disclosed their home—Back
Garden-streetj a filthy and miserable den of the low Irish of Manchester , perhaps as bad a sample of the lower order of the sister country as can be discovered in any of the wretched and savage colonies in the kingdom . Miss Fenwick sent them home better clad , warmed , and fed than they had yet been in their little lives , and next day despatches a servant to relieve the miserable mother . An excellent description of the pariahs of society ,
their dwellings , and habits follows . Their mother' is a tramper , and lives with a maimed impostor , who carries on street begging as a sham sailor . She is helplessly intoxicated with the proceeds of the poor little creatures' clothes , so unthinkingly presented to them by Miss Fenwick , and poor Mary is glad to escape from the den whither she had been sent on her mission of mistaken mercy , leaving behind the basket , in compliance with a half muttered threat of the savage '
father ' : — " To think of the deceit of these young things , " said Mary , "I wonder the earth doesn't open under them ; but they'll be sure to come to be hanged at last , that ' s one mercy . " " Poor things ! " said Miss Fenwick , in a voice of deep pity ; " born to an inheritance of crime , how can they escape ? and what chance have they to do better ? . If we would save them—" Mary , of course , exclaims against this , and hopes * she shan ' t be sent to look after beggars again , & c . ; ' she was tired , had been terribl y frightened , and was out of patience with the pity expressed by her mistress for such little impostors .
Not so her mistress—she had never before realised the horrible condition of these outcast children , lying in the depths of misery aud breathing a very atmosphere of crime and every minor wickedness : now it came home to her with terrible distinctness and force . A whole * Satan ' s invisible world * was opened up , and the benevolent lady could not rest . Two days after , while out walking , the wellremembered
whine" Give us some food , and let us begone . ' met her ear in the street . It was her two little impostors . The little urch' lQS try to evade her ; but , strong in her purpose , she takes them each by a hand , and , after reassuring them , takes them home . Mary has her commentary about ' little thieves lets in great ones ; ' the poor children are fearfully bruised , the result of a brutal beating to make them remember on no account in future to give a ri « ht direction to their home . Further inquiry shows them not to belong to the infamous nair . who trade upon their mendicancy ,
nor even are they brother and sister . The boy knows not his father , the girl ' s mother died in that cellar . The result is Miss Fenwick calms their fears , and resolves to take charge of these two little heathens in a Christian land . The benevolent lady p laces them in tlie workhouse school , with a promise ol putting them out at a proper age into the world . 'Lost Molly , ' and' Little Jack , ' receive the names of Alice and John Withers . Alice is put out to service , and John apprenticed to a millowner at App leby , in Staffordshire .
Alice , at a later period in life , becomes the housekeeper of ! John , ' left a widower with an only daughter , ' Marian Withers , ' the heroint of the tale . The story of John Withers ig" carefully drawn . Endowed by nature with a mechanical genius , steady habits , and a thoughtful turn , he devotes himself to improvements in mechanism . For a long time he meets the fate of other projectors ; he loses his present employment , and is on the brink of starvation . Hard toil and scant living- do their work , and he lies long in a hospital from a street accident , incurred through his mental abstraction
and bodily weakness . He recovers , his plan is adopted by a millowner , who , through a lawyer , purchases John Withers ' s invention ,-John " proposes by industry , his master dies ; John marries his orphan daughter , establishes a mill , and becomes * well to do . ' Alice too has saved ironey , as companion to an inraiid ladrofrank in Scotland , who ( lies , as does John ' s wife , and Alice returns to her ' brother' to superintend his jhome . The cottonmill , its hands , the millowners , masters , and work people , . are . almost daguerreotyped . in Miss Jewlburv ' s l > ages ¥ rom tns l'eriod we have now arrived at , the character of the tale isdevebped . ..
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, 1 3 ?? . . Mited o « fch » to ^ e wortf <* pn > racial fashion . She falls in love with a WOtuC " nephew of Mrs . Ari , of Carrisford Hall , where she is on a visit . The sacrifice of the beautiful Hilda Bia r ) Mrs > Ar a y 0 Qnger Big . ter , to the wealth y roue Glynton , with its resuits , are well worked oat . Mrs . Arl herself has married a very wealthy and worthy foreign merchant , with no hi gher motive than to get * an establishment , ' and truly she makes the most of the position wealth has given her . The male coquetry of Albert , who deserts Marian for the aristocratic Lady Wollaston , so soon as she appears upon the scene as a
visitor to Mrs . Arl , together with that lady ' s revealment of her weakness to her husband , Sir Frederick Wollaston , though startling is not unnatural . A worthy philanthropist , of high mental powers and varied acquirements , is on a tour , for the purpose of acquiring knowledge , among the seats of our staple manufacture . He is introduced to the plain but ingemoiw and honest John Withers . Ho admires his character , and resides awhile at his house . Elsewhere , in the circle of fashion , he meets at the house of Mr . Arl , his relative Lady Wollaston , and their viBitor Marian Withers . He admires the humble and retiring girl , and still more from his admiration of the
good qualities of the father , which he finds reflected in the child . We shall not trace the chain of eY 6 Ht 8 by which John Withers , in a season of commercial crisis , becomes embarrassed for apresent supply of money . Bankers , cotton-brokers , and great mercantile houses are failing in a time of panic . Mr . Cunningham steps in , and offers his unemployed capital' to facilitate operations . John Withers is perplexed . Mr . Cunningham invests a sum as partner , and finally marries Marian , who looks back with shame on her love for the handsome profligate , Albert , whose career of
dissipation ends in the New World , by a shot from an injured husband , which disfigures him for the rest of his days . As a Specimen Of the strong , healthy , and reasoning style of Miss Jewsbury ' s writing , we prefer quoting irom a conversation between a group of millowners , on the merits of individual enterprise , commercial economy , and joint-stock schemes , to making an extract from a scene of passion or feeling—though on these points Miss Jewsbury ' s volumes aro equal to many that have no other or higher qualities to recommend them : —
"I have no faith in them , " said John Withers , 1 they are all just schemes for making everybody Mcfa | without working ; they have taken the place of the lotteries , where everybody hoped , by putting a bit of paper into the wheel , to see it come out the ten thousand pound prize at least . It is a bad look out for a country when tho people take the notion of getting rich in a hurry ; it is trying to cheat nature into working miracles , and getting things without paying the price for them . It may seem to answer for a while , but pay day will come at lust , and find them out , like the day of judgment , when they least look for it . T here is nothing but hard work that does not deceive a man ; if he sticks to that , he finds the good of it in the end , though his back may be half broken before it comes . "
This is further illustrated by the speeches o Hi ggiubottom ana Sykes , the other two millowners of the party . Sykes loquitur •"Whenever there has been a spell of good trade there , always comes out a crop of new schemes for making everybody rich in no time . One while it's one thing , another while it ' s another thing . Why now , when I was a lad , there were those canals , and what were they not to do ? The whole country was to be cut up , like the Dutchman ' s , from end to side ; instead of coaches , we were to go about in flat-bottomed boats , and the women to skate to market in winter . Well , and what did it all come to ? Why , after ruining all those who trusted to them , a bad harvest and a bad trade brought things
to pretty much what they were before ; for when there ' s a bad harvest , a bad trade and low wages are sure to follow , and vice versa . I remember the time that followed the canal mania ; the master my father worked with failed along with his canal shares .- he had p ut it out further than he could draw it back again . The mill stopped , and two hundred hands were thrown out of employ in a minute . It was a sore time for us little ' uns . Mother had always been proud of her house , and kept nice . furniture . We had an ei ght-day clock , I remember , ! that SCt her up more than anything else ; but when the children got up in the morning , and there was nothing on the loaf to givo them , it was easier parting with the things than to hear them cry . "
He then describes witb painful minuteness tbe bad and dear bread of his childhood , the break-up of his home , and of his mother's heart and spirits , who became a pauper , and never held her head up , after . Listen , then , to the 'simple annals of the poor , ' as narrated with a truthfulness that stamps its actuality : — " I was sent along with some others to Burtonupon-Trent tolearn thecottoa spinning , under old Sir Robert Peel . I was there a long wbiie : what
became of my father I never could rightly tell . The parish sent him to sea , and I suppose he was drowned in foreign parts , for the ship he sailed in was never heard of . 1 got into Work ill Oldham , and I resolved to raise up the family like . I recollect thinking what a proud dav it would be for me if I could get back mother ' s eight-day clock . So I scraped and saved , and worked early and late . I lived—and lived as well as I could—on three shillings a week , and saved the rest . It ' s wonderful what may be got together by saving . Trade was brisk , and wages were good , & c . "
But we have not space to follow Mr . Sykes ' s detail of how he lent a small sum to his emp loyer in a moment of pressure , or how he became his partner , and eventually his successor . ' I never tried to get rich on a sudden , ' says he in conclusion , ' and I never will try . Them schemes take all the work out of a man , aud make him coward-like . I have been in shifts since I was a master , and when I was a man , and its the work that has kept my heart up , and I mind what my old father used to say in his troubles—he had seen it on a tombstone— " Good times , and bad times , all times pass by . " '
The object of this conversation , the moral educed from it by the enlightened , philosophic , and educated Mr . Cunningham , is admirabl y conclusive . " Undoubtedly , " said Mr . Cunningham , who had been listening with much interest , although h « had not yet spoken , " a spirit of self-help does lie at the bottom of all success . Self-reliance is the backbone of all heroism of cha'acter , Tlie spirit to work thoroughly at whatever has to be done , to grapple hand to hand with difficulties , and to strangle them instead cf seeking to evade them , is the primeval siuff out of which men : i : > d demigods are made . Bud we must beware how we al low onr views to centre in ourselves . We are none of us alone in tho world , it is not for ourselves ( done that we work and strive . Man does much
hy himself , but all great objects have beun achieved when he has joined himself with others , and worked in concert with them . Various as the working and the effects of some of these joint stock companies may be , still they contain a principle that will gradually reorganise the whole machinery of society . Co-operation will gradually take the place of competition . A great social question is opening up . Tho enormous development of our matt-rial a «« industrial interests has created a new order of men in this country , and indeed throughout Europe . The practical republicanism of trade has induced an entirely new range of thoughts and interests of which our fathers never dreamed . The resources of trade , have , however , hitherio , been like a rich and newlv discovered land , where any » ew comer has
been at liberty to work for his own advantage m any way he chose . Complicated questions of conflicting ' interests are arising . Masters and men , capital aud labour , arehcgitiiing to sum i in antagonism to each other . Id is an iiiiicemsG question fthich is lying before us . There will be a struggle , the end of which none of us may live to see , but I believe firmlv , that the true Jaws of commerce vviJJ be laid down , " that labour will be organised , and its forces disciplined , so that their powerful exploits will be more extended and bri ) li : mt than those achieved by warand destruction . Side by side with this growing antagonism vf interests , there is arisiug the idea of association , which will mature and develope ibelf gi-adn .-illy , till , i : i the fulness ol fii ' ne it wiii have ' strength to gather ' together the coiiflicdiig interests into oi-. e .-.
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Mr . Barnum , —It is said that Barnum is in full chase after a few hairs taken from a brush between a party of Americans and Indians . Strbkt Paving—Exp- riments lately made prove that the North of England whinstone is the most durable of stones for street paving . Rothschilds' Fortune . —It is said that the fortune of the Rothschilds is not less than twentynine millions , four hundred thousand pounds sterling . A New Fibe Company . «» A fire company is about to be organised ia Tinicum , to be manned entirely by women . Won ' t the b'hoys be apt to run after that machine ! Another Q , urry . —When a boy passes through a grave yard ia the nigUt , does he whistle to keep his own spirits . UPiOt tO kee £ the spirits of other people doun ?
Roses of Nbw Hues . —The New York Herald notices the production of a blue rose in Paris , by artificial crossings , and also of a green rose ia North Carolina . Ksbf' OUT OP Drbt . —If aman would keep both integrity and independence free from temptation , let him keep out of debt . Dr . Franklin says , "It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright . " The Lock Costboverby . —If a traveller in an Indian temple despoils the idol of some of its hah , to keep as a souvenir , can he be said to have succeeded in picking Bramah's locks ?—M . J . 0 ' C , Marriage Portion . —The best dowry to advance the marriage of a young lady is . to have in her countenance mildness , in her speech wisdom , in her behaviour modesty , and in her life virtue .
Reason why the " Goon Time " xs so Long " Uomino . "—It started , very foolishly , by an Ex press Train on the South-Western ; so it would be premature to expect it for a long time yet . —Punch , Wfi are IlOt to suppose that the oak wants stability because hs light and changeable leaves dance to the music of the breezes ; nor are we to conclude that a man wants solidity and strength of mind , because he may exhibit an occasional playfulness and levity . Mousin g Rkfi . rctioss . —Magistrate * . " What has brought you here , sir ? " Prisoner : " Two policemen , please your honour . " —Magistrate : " Then I suppose liquor had nothing to do with it ? " " Yes , sir , they were both drunk . "
Civilisation . —All degrees of nations begin with living in pigsties ; The king or the priest first gets out of them ; then the noble , then the pauper , in proportion as each class becomes more and _ more opulent . Better tastes arise from better circumstances ; and the luxury of one period is the wretchedness and poverty of another . —Sidnby Smith . Women . —Longmore says that women always want something to lean upon . Like a grape vine , they are nothing without a support . For this reason , he says , a husband should be placed by the side of a young lady the very moment she comes out . What a stick is to sweet peas , so is the masculine gender to the female human . _
A . Nkw gunpowder has been invented by a Mr . Callow . Neither salt water nor fresh has any injurious effect upon it , it merely requiring to be dried to regain its explosive character . It possesses eight times the force ef ordinary powder . One of its advantages , especially to the underground miner , is the very trifling amount of smoke emitted on explosion . Very Apologetic . —A gentleman residing in Birmingham has received the following apologetic and promissory epistle from a person who owed him monty—thegrammatical sequence is rather obscure : — " Sir , —In consequence ot not sending to you yesterday I have had a siuk house of scarlet lever which I hope I shall be able to send to you on Saturday next . Yours , & c , G—— 11 , " Doubtless the gentleman wrote to decline the intended kindness .
London Shoe-blacks . —The brigade of shoeblacks who do duty in our streets , are stated to varn £ 26 a weelt ; one third of which is devoted to liquidate expenses , onerthird is placed in the savingsbank , and the remaining third is given to the boys themselves . One of them has saved so much money in this manner , since the month of May , that he is enabled to determine upon emigrating to Australia . Mu-ton ' s Daughtebs . —The Chetham Society has published documents , showing that Milton ^ s eldest daughter , Anne , could not write ; that his second daughter , Mary , could not spell ; and that his third daughter , Deborah , was much in the same condition , though it has been so often said that she was her father ' s amanuensis , and that she read to him in Hebrew , Greek , Latin , and Italian , without understanding a word of any one of the languages .
An Austrian Locomotive . —The first ascent of a locomotive up a gradient of one in forty has been made by the engine . Save , on the new Austrian railway , which passes over the . Semmering Mountain . The engine was of the eight-wheeled description used on the South Austrian Railway . It drew up an eightwheeled loaded truck at the rate of fourteen English miles an hour , and was stopped several times , resuming its journey at the will of the driver . Climate . —Medicines act differently on the same individual in summer and ia winter , and in ciffweni climates . Narcotics act mon- powerfully in hot than in cold climates ; hence . smaller doses are required in the former ; but the reverse is the case Willi respect to Calomel .
A Scrupulous Sehvaat , —A gentleman tells a story of one of his domestics . Having employed a new female servant , he sat down in the parlour in the evening to a '" civil game at whist" with his wife and a couple of neighbours . The next morning my lady , the help , observed that " the card playing must be put a stop to , or she should be obliged to leave ; she did not approve of the practice , and never allowed it in families where she lived . " Choice in Mabbiaob— -Lord Byron used to say that a man ought to marry by all means , although he owned that the greater part of marriages are unhappy . A man cannot be happy without a wife
i ' etit is strange what lutle real liberty ol Choice can be exercised on most occasions . Many a man , too , ancieshe marries by choice , whereas he marries only by compulsion . An Excellent Critic . —An old woman was praising ; in rather enthusiastic terms , the sermons or ' aScQtclimiutSkr , ffho had acquired a great name for depth and sublimity . The suspicions of her auditor were a little roused , and she ventured to propose a question to her— " Well , Jenny , do you understand him ? " , l Understand him ! " ejaculated Jenny , holding up her hands in astonUhment at the question , " me understand him ! Wad I hae the presumption ? "
Rain . —The largest drops of rain , which are about one-fifth of an inch in diameter , will fall 2 , 040 feat in a minute ; but the ordinary drops in this climate will seldom fall half as fas v . Hailstones in the south of Europe , having sometimes the enormous diameter of two inches , will fall with a velocity of USi feet in a second , or more than a mile and a quarter in a minute ; a rapidity of stroke which destroys cornfields and ravages vineyards . ' ' ItkcuuREKCE to Inoculation . —A French medical journal says , " We believe the power of vaccination i < expiring . We are certain that , before another hail century has elapsed , recourse will have been again had to inocu ' . iuiou . Day by day , the period dining which vaccination affords immunity is diroinUhiiii ! ; so that in a few years , it is highly probable that to act as a preservative , it will be required to be renewed every year , and , when this point is reached ,: inoculation will be revived .
Height of Impudence . —The following from the San Francisco Public Balance , shows us the height of impudence in Calfornia . "A you »« spark , whn boarded at one of our principal hotels , had managed for a long lime , by one artifice of another , to postpone the payment of his bill ., At last tho landlord bccartie qui'e imp .-ctiei . t , a « d stepping up to his juvenile boarder , slappud him gently on the shoulder , and naked him for some money . ' I have not a red cent about me at present , ' was the' laconic reply . ' Hut , my dear sir , ' said the landlord , ' I cannot afford to keep a boarding house without being paid . ' ' Well . ' exclaimed the young philsophtr , ' if you cannot afford it , sell out to some one that can , "
' Kixd Wobos . —liii . d words do not cost much . They never bli-ter the tongue . pr lips . And we have never heard of any meut : il ts-ouble arising from this quancr . Though they do out cost much , yet thov accomplish much . First , they help one ' s good na " - turc and gcod will . S ^ ft words soften our sail . Angry words are fuel to the flame of wrath , and make it bl .-ize more fiercely , Secondly , kind words make other people good-natured . Cold words freeze people , and hot words scorch tlvm , and bitter words maKe them bitter , and wrathful words make them
wrathful . There is such a rush of all other kind of words in our days , that u seems deniable to give hind words a chanca among them . There are vain words , ami idle words , and hasty words , and spiteful words , ami silly words , and emptv words , and profane ^;; rds , and boisterous words , ' " and warlike words . ^ Kind words also produce their own image on men s souls , and a beautiful-image it is . They sin- oth . and quiet , and c rnifort the " hearer . They shame him out of his sour , and . morose , and unkind feelings . We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as ihey ought ^ o be used . —Jascal .
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RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS ! READ the following TESTIMONIALS , selected from many hundreds in the possession of Dr . BAltKEU ;—' I am happy to inform you that my rupture is quite cured . '—Iter . II . Uerbice , May 17 , 1 S 51 , ' My rupture has never appeared since . I consider it » miracle to be cured , after suffering twenty years . '—J . Edc . Esq .. June 2 d , 1851 . 'I have much pleasure in adding my testimony to tho success of your remedy . '—Mrs . Sutton , June 1 st , 1851 , ' A respected correspondent desires to call the attention of auch of our readers * s a . ve Ma fcnuw-sunerers to an > announcement in our advertising columns , emanating from Dr . Barker . ' ' of this gentleman ' s ability in treating raptures , our correspondent speaksiu the highest terms , haying availed himself of the same , and thereby tested the superiority of his method of treatment over any other extant , all of which he has tried to no purpose , lie feels assured that whoever is so afflicted will find a cure by paying Dr . Barker a visit , his method being , as our Correspondent ! belie ves , beyond improvement . '
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ItUPTUltBS EFFECTUALLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS . DR . GUTHEB Y still continues , to supply the afliicted with his celebrated remedy to thia alarming complaint , which has never failed in effecting a pet-feet cure . It is applicable to every variety of -Single ) and Double llupturc , in male or female of any age , however bad or long standing : is easy and painless in application , causing no inconvenience or confinement , ' etc . ; and wilt be sent free by l ' . nst tp any part of the kingdom , witH fall \ ns » i > vietions , rendci-ii-g failure impossible , on receipt of seven shillings in postage stamps , or by Post ( Jffieeovdi-r , payable at tbe Cray ' s- nn-rtad Office . Address—Henry Guthrey , JI . D .. <> , Ampton-st-. ect , Gray's-inn-road , London . At home for consultation daily , from 11 till 1 mornings , and 0 till 7 evenings ; Sundays excepted . A gre- 't number of old trusses ax . d testimonials hava been left behind by persons cured , as trophies of the success oFhis remedy , which may be seen by uny sufferer .
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llEDEMPnos SocfErr . — The communists in Waleanre now busy with their corn harvest , tho t : r ; tln . crO | i 3 aro good , potatoes rather effected with the , UU » ht , other green crops -so far excellent . ^ Monies received for the-week -Leeds £ 1 10 . « . h ; o . , London , . yvv . M . Kiagrijury , 2 » . » J-i ; W ' rJ ; *"» per Mr . lilminntto , h W » . < W . ; Bu . *«* - *«« £ , 9 i .- "' 6 d . ; Pi-opaeandwt Pond , Is . ¦ . lM .- * « - dcrson , Secretary , 103 , Biiggate , Lced * .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 30, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30081851/page/3/
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