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 IUll, General Ag. 

 Lira or Col. David Cbol-kett, Written b T lilm if 

 Comprising hit Early Life, Hunnne a,k l .|,V, 

 Service* under Gen. Jackion In Ule Creek War 1 i ' '' 

 >j>..-ecbe«, Career in Coner,^., 'I -',.,,,,.'! ' 

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,",/' ™» n ." "Dow lobe a Lady." " Tl, 



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A Slight Misconception. 



There's where the boys lit for College," said 

 the Professor to Mrs. Partington, pointing to the 

 High-School House. "Did they!*" said the old 

 lady, with animation; "and, if they fit for College 

 they went there, didn't they fight after- 

 wards*" "Yes," said he, smiling, and favoring 



jnceit; "res, but the fight was with the 

 head, and not with the bands." "Butted, di 

 they?" said the old lady, persistently. " I mean, 



ued he, "that they wrestled with thei 



s, and went out of College to he our mini; 



nd doctors." "Ah!" said she, "I neve 

 knew that people bad to raatle to he ministers am 

 doctors before." They moved on, Sirs. Partiogtoi 

 pondering the new idea, and Ike and I, ion striv 

 irjg for the possession of the old lady's umbrella.— 

 "Knitting Wort," by Rem Pahtixqton. 

 Congressional Candidates. 



Candidates for Congress, — self-trumpetei 

 In addressing the electors it is amusing to observe 

 how invariably, and how very impartially, each 

 candidate, when describing the sort ol 

 live whom the worthy and enlightened 

 ought to cbnose, drawn a portrait <•/ himself, bin, 

 zoning the little nothings that he bad achieved 

 and, sometimes, like tho Pharisee, introducing a 

 fling at his opponent by thanking heaven that he 

 is not like yonder Publican. For the benefit of 

 such portrait painter*, I will record an apposite 

 anecdote of Mirabeau, premising that his face was 

 deeply indented with the small-pox. Anxious to 

 be put in nomination for tho National Assembly, 

 be made a long srfeech to the Toters, minutely 

 pointing out the precise requisites that a proper 

 and efficient member ought to possess, and, of 

 course, drawing as accurate a likeness as possible 

 of himself. He was answered by Talleyrand, who 

 cootented himself with the following short speech 

 "It appears to me, gentlemen, that M. do Miru- 

 beau has omitted to state the most important of all 

 the legislative qualifications, nnd I will supply his 

 deficiency by impressing upon your attention, that 

 a perfectly unobjectionable member of the Assem- 

 bly ought, above ull things, to be very much 

 marked with tbe small-pox." Talleyrand got the 

 laugh, which in France always carried the election. 

 -" TKt Tin Trumpet," by Paul Cbatpiild, M. D. 

 Adversity a Blessing. 



Advehsitt is very often a blessing in disguise, 

 which by detaching us from earth and drawing us 

 towards heaven, gives us, in the assurance of last- 

 ing joys, an abundant recompense for the loss of 

 transient ones. " Whom the Lord loveth be chas- 

 teneth." Muny a mou in losing his fortune has 

 found himself, and been ruined is, to salvation ; for 

 though God demands the whole heart, which we 

 could not give him when we shared it with the 

 world, he will never reject the broken one, which 

 we offer him in out hour of sadness and reverse. 

 Misfortunes arc moral bitters, which frequently 

 restore the healthy tone of the mind, after it has 

 been cloyed and sickened by the sweets of pros- 

 perity, The spoilt children of the world, like 

 their juvenile namesakes, nre generally a source of 

 unhappiness to others, without being happy in 

 themselves.— Ibid. 

 Education in China. 

 The boys 



dollars a year from each pupil, and perhaps i 

 addition an occasional gift of fruits or food. 



The schools are opened at early dawn, and th 

 boys study till nine or ten o'clock, when they g 

 to breakfast, and after an hour or so return an 

 study till four or five o'clock in the afternoon, an 

 then retire for tbe day. 



•Ihej 



niug, but every boy, n 



ink and s 



training. The school room is a low shed or a 



shop where each boy is supplied with a table and 

 a stool, and the teacher has a more elevated seat 

 and a larger table. In the corner of the room is a 

 tablet or picture of Confucius, before which each 

 pupil prostrates himself on entering the room, and 



brings his book to the teacher, who repeats over a 

 sentence or more to the pupil, and he goes to bis 

 place repeating the same at the top of his voice till 

 he oati repeat it from memory, when ho returns to 

 his teacher, and laytug his book on the teacher's 

 table, turns his back upon both book and teacher 

 and repeats bis lesson. This is called backing his 

 lesson. In this way he goes through the volume 

 till he can back the whole book; then another, 

 then another, till he can back a list of the clas- 

 sics. The boys in the school, to the number of ten 

 to twenty, each go through the same process, com- 

 <ng up in turn to back their lesson, and he that 

 bos a defective recitation receives a blow on the 

 head from the master's femle of bamboo, and 

 returns to his seat to perfect bis lesson. The 

 ^h..olie J ch l ^areu.M„|]v u rj SUC cessf u lcnndidates 

 preferment and othce. who, not having habits 



lot 1, 



» disr.os 





gogues. They 



given Bum proportioned 



parents, and rarying from 





The first book is called the Trimetrical Classic, 

 which all Chinese boys begin with, and which 

 some of their commentators have called a passport 

 into the regions oT classical and historical litera- 

 ture. We should as soon think of putting a copy 

 of Young's Night Thoughts into the bands of a 

 beginner with the expectation of seeing him mas- 

 ter it. These young Celestials are not expected, 

 however, to understand what they read, but simply 

 to memorise, and occasionally write out some 

 more simple character, and perhaps after two or 

 three years' reading and memorising, they begin 

 to study the sentiments of the author. The sons 

 of tradesmen and mechanics seldom study long 

 enough to master the classics, but gain a smatter- 

 ing of books, and learn to read and write the lan- 

 guage sufficient to keep accounts, and gain a little 

 knowledge of mathematics, when their education 

 is ended. Such boys, and they constitute no small 

 portion of school boy3 in China, as they grow up, 

 retain the sound of many characters, but are 

 unable to explain the meaning of a page in any 

 ur years of schooling 



sthes 



Three c 

 )f their 



;ient to give any one a practical knowledge of 

 ieir written language. — " T)i<. Cliina Mixtion," 

 ' William Dean, D. D. 



reared, will be read with thrilling interest by every 



Under General Washington's administration the 

 following new States were admitted:— Vermont, 

 in 1791; Kentucky, in 171*2; Tennessee, in lTOfi, 



Under Thomas Jefferson's administration, the 

 following new State and Territory were added 

 the Union:— Ohio, in 1802; Louisiana, purchased 

 in 1304. Each contained space enough for fifteen 

 States. This purchase gave to the United States 

 the entire control of tbe Mississippi, tbe south of 

 which had hitherto been in the hands of a foreign 

 power. Territorial governments wero organized 

 in Mississippi, Indiana and Louisiana. 



Under James Madison's administration, tbe fol- 

 lowing addition was made to the confederacy:— 

 Indiana, in 1316. 



During the Presidency of James Monroe, the 

 following new States were admitted into the Union : 

 Mississippi, in 1817; Illinois, in 1813; Missouri, 

 in 1320; Maine, in 1820; Florida, purchased in 

 1821. 



Under the Presidency of General Andrew Jack- 

 son, the following States were admitted :— Michi- 

 gan, in 1830 ; Arkansas, in 183S. 



During the Presidency of James K. Polk, the 

 following new States were admitted :— Texas, in 

 1845; Iowa, in 1845; Florida, 1*45; Wisconsin, 

 iu 1846 ; California was bought ; New Mexico and 

 Utah bought. 



Under the administration of Taylor and Fill- 

 more, the following State was admitted :— Califor- 

 nia, in 1850. The following Territories were or- 

 ganized i— New Mexico, Utah, and Washington. 



Under Gen. Pierce's administration tho follow- 

 ing Territories wore organised i— Nobraaka and 

 Kansas; Arizona purchased. 



Under James Buchanan's administration, the 

 following States were admitted :— Minnesota, in 

 185a ; Oregon, in \8b'J.—ScuntiJk American. 



Sao. 



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THE BANK OF ENGLAND. 



"The buildings cover about three acres of ground, 

 Many of its rooms are copied from the classk 

 models of Greece and Rome. The employees num- 

 ber about one thousand. Several of the officers 

 reside in the bank. The notes redeemed each day 

 are checked, canceled and put away in boxes 

 After keeping them ten years they are burned. 

 Tbe accumulations of the last ten years, now in the 

 vaults of the bank, amount to three thousand 

 lions of pounds ; and yet any one of these i. 

 can be referred to in a minute, and the hiBtoi 

 its issue and its return given. The hank does all 

 its own printing, and several presses are 

 busy. Everythingis done by machinery— the note 

 is not touched by the pen before it goes out. 

 held in my hand, yesterday, one note for a mill 

 of sovereigns! 



In the bullion-room ingots of gold were piled 

 like cords of wood, and silver bars in vast moi 

 tains. The machines for detecting light coin, a 

 for cutting them, are exceedingly curious and yet 

 simple. Every banker's deposit is weighed 

 all the light pieces cut nearly in two and reti 

 next day. The system of the bank is as perfect 

 and exact as clock-work. And yet in spite of all 

 precaution, some small forgery is almost daily de- 

 tected. But since the great forgery committed by 

 Axtell.for £360,000, the baDk has not lost any very 

 heavy sums ; although in 1822 capital punishment 

 for the crime was abolished, when the 'old fogies' 

 predicted that everybody 'hard up' would turn 

 forger. 



he specie department of the bank there are 

 ind boxes of sovereigns and half sovereigns 

 :h to make a miser mad ; there are mountains 

 it drops, for which millions are sighing, BD d 

 lying, and perpetrating all conceivable crimes ! I 

 sked to lift a big bag of sovereigns, and for 

 I roust confess, I felt a sovereign disgust for 

 money."— Col. FulUr. 



OUB COTJNTrlY-NOW AND THEN. 



icmT-TnuEE years ogo, when the fifty-two 

 lers of the Declaration of Independence, "ap- 

 pealing to tbe Supreme Judge of the world for tho 

 )de of their intentions," declared "that 

 these United Colonies ore, and of right ought to 

 free and independent States," but few of tbe 

 it sanguine of that day dreamed of the extent 

 greatness which their country would attain 

 be comparatively brief space of three-fourtha 

 i century. Then there were thirteen sparsely 

 populated colonies; now we have thirty-three 

 powerful States, and several large Territories on 

 the threshold of membership. The following 

 statistics, showing the means and degrees by 

 tbe great Empire of the West has been 



-A very curious, though 

 not uncommon, instance of sagacity in that ani- 

 mal, came under observation lately, in the crowded 

 neighborhood of Long Lane, Bermoniey. The 

 London Review says;— "A cart horse in harness, 

 whilst us by no means careful keeper was solacing 

 himself in a low public house, started off at a 

 pretty brisk trot down the lane. Happening to 

 come to a group of children, one of whom, a baby 

 not more than three years old, stunfbled and fell, 

 tbe animal deliberately stopped, placed the child 

 out of tho way with his teeth, and continued bis 

 course as if nothing bad occurred. But his phi- 

 lanthropic propensities did not stop here — for, 

 meeting with a similar group, he repeated the 

 action, after which, as if fearful of committing 

 some mischief, he quietly suffered himself to be 

 caught and led back." 



"I CAN'T DO IT." 



Try,- 



harj. 



you will accomplish it. Yield to every discour- 

 aging circumstance and you will do nothing noble 

 or great. Try, and you will do wonders. Yon 

 will be astonished at yourself, and your advance- 

 ment in whatever you undertake. " I can't" baa 

 ruined many a man ; bas been the tomb of bright 

 expectations and ardent hopes. Let " I iriV try" 

 be your motto in whatever you undertake, and if 

 onward steadily, you will accomplish 



your object, and c 



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AUTUMN. 



The rosy hours of Summer are past, the clouds 

 look heavy, the rain begins to fall. Solemnly tbe 

 rough and uneven wind passes through the boughs 

 that overhang the old cottage, with its mournful 

 sound. It brings back to recollection the absence 

 of loved friends that we have greeted under the 

 same roof, especially those loved ones that are 

 sleeping beneath the faded (lowers and the with- 

 ered grass of Summer. They are gone like the 



Experience pro 



opts 



us to begi 



to provide for 









of delay. Tho 





blessing— a 



time for t 



e improvement 



of our m 



ids— a 







hould view the 



past year* 



labors, 



Ihs 



we may k 



owbow to it*- 



>rovc the 



next. I 





hurrying 





ust begun 



let us 







farewell to tho 



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ful Sum 



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S. It. C. 



A 



SKETCH. 







I tho 



lilies blooming there could not compare with 

 her in beauty— her song so sweet that even angels 

 bring their harps and bend to listen te her music; 

 and her heart was tender as her song. One day 

 as she strayed amidst the beauty of her loved 

 vale, there came to her an angel of pale counte- 

 nance and stern look, and said to her, "Maiden, 

 leave thy fair borne ; come to tbe valley of Death ; 

 thither go I." And she followed him, weeping. 



The valley was cold, and dark, and drear — no 

 flower bloomed in beauty there — all were pale, 

 faded ones. And the beautiful maiden wept. The 

 pole angel pitied her, for she wept. So, he drew 

 before her eyes a silver band, and she did not see 

 be darkness. Still she did weep — 

 nd. The angel pitied her, and ho 

 ,cy lingers over her heart-strings, bind- 



lorsoually glorifying tendency. 



MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA 

 u composed of 23 letter*. 



}',:>, \\ ^. ; .'i, 1). 14. Xe, 8, 19 la a bird. 



r article of far 



i Europe. 



whola was a distinguished historian, 

 tertown, N. Y., 1839. Miav E. B 



- Answer In two weeks. 



PROBLEM. 



ANBWEBS TO ENIGMAS, *c, IN No. 605. 

 Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma .-A cat in glovei 



Answer lot) '">£r. ['Hi'- jl Lnlenia : -Constantinople. 

 An.WL-rloArUiiui.'i.-aH^Mrm -IMaW-lW. 

 Answer to Algebraical Problem: -164. 



. fast; 



< fast that she i 



feel 



a she lay so still— 





ngel pitied 



gate, high and broad, and of pure pearl. Respon- 

 sive to the angel's call it opened wide. Then 

 spake he to tbe fair maid, "Maiden owake; lol 

 hero's thy home ; a Temple more beoutiful than 

 Tukssaly's fair vale. Tbe maiden awoke, caught 

 up the song that angel's sing, passed through the 

 gate of pearl, and ever more in a land of glorious 

 beauty blessed the angel Death, Bbssib Dat. 



Night has its song. Have you ever stood by the 

 ea at night, and heard the pebbles sing and the 

 raves chant """- "'-"-r^v Or hn™ »«,. «„,.,. 



Or bavt 

 ind thrown up the window 

 tened? Listened to what? 



fancied that you heard the harp ofGod playing ii 

 heaven P Did you not conceive that yon s'»" 

 that those eyes of God looking down on you, 



if its Almighty Maker, as it 

 reil-deserved praise which 

 bough they be silent to tbe 



ery star was singing 

 shone, and his lawful, 

 are loud to the heart, 



veb or LvTEaniTT.— Reproaches have no pow- 

 ifflict the man of unblemished integrity, or 

 baodoned profligate. It is tbe middle com- 

 pound character which is alone miserable; the 

 man who without firmness enough to avoid a dis- 

 honorable action, has feeliDg enough to be ashamed 



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