knows nothing of eternal life, anticipates ultimate 
annihilation, is ignorant of the doctrine of for¬ 
giveness of sins through an atonement, and of 
the gift of righteousness through faith. Antece¬ 
dently to annihilation he anticipates a prolonged 
existence in various conditions and degrees of 
happiness, but hia creed has practically little in¬ 
fluence upon his moral conduct.—“ 77i-> Gospel in. 
Burmah," by Mrs. Macxsop Wti is. 
The Aboriginal City 01 Paris, 
Tukse intervals of genial labor Julian passed 
<at a pleasant place on a little island of the Seine, 
belonging to a Gallic tribe named the Parisii, and 
which he distinguished as his “dear Luketia," 
just as more modern visitors denominate it their 
“dear and delightful Paris.’’ la the days of 
C.rsar, when its few inhabitants valoronsly resist¬ 
ed the legions of his lieutenant, hibienus, it was 
a small village of mud-covered huts, connected 
with the main land by two rude bridges of wood. 
A range of hills inclosed the marshes by which it 
was surrounded ia a spacious amphitheatre, 
which forms the site of the splended metropolis 
of France. Commanding the fruitful valleys of 
the Seine, the Marne, and the Oise, the lirst occu¬ 
pants were merchants and boatmen, who con¬ 
ducted the trade of the rivers, and as early as the 
reign of Tiberius had formed a powerful corpora¬ 
tion. During the revolts of the Bagands, in the 
third century, it acquired an unhappy celebrity 
as the stronghold from which they hurrassed the 
peace of the surrounding region. Subsequently, 
when the advances of the Germans drove the gov¬ 
ernment from Treves, the emperors selected the 
town of the Parisii as a more secure position.— 
They built a palace there, and an intrenched camp 
for the soldiers; and very soon afterward, several 
of those aqueducts and amphitheatres, which 
were insoperable accompaniments of lioraan life. 
It was iu that palace, which the traveler still re¬ 
gards with curiosity, in the mouldering remains 
known as the Palais des Thermes, that Julian found 
his favorite residence—there that he conversed 
with bis friend Sallust and physician Oribasins, of 
hia aspirations for future eminence—there that ho 
discussed the nature of dreams and the deep 
oriental mysteries—and there that ho sung the 
praises of the sun-god. the regulator of the world, 
the archetype of ideas, ihe brilliant emanation of 
an eternal and absolute deity.— Godwin's “ His¬ 
tory of France." 
A Heroic Woman* 
Babinus (a Gaul who revolted against Y’espa- 
sian, and failed,) was supposed to have burned 
himself in his house, but he had taken refuge with 
his wife, Epinona, in a cave. Nor has history 
failed to record the touching devotion of this 
woman, who, nobly sharing hia confinement for 
nine long years, supplied his wants, reared his 
children, and, finally, succeeded in getting him to 
Rome to uolicit his pardon from Vespasian,— 
Kneeling before the Emperor, and pointing to her 
children, who had been horn in the cave,she said, 
"I have nourished them that there might be moro 
suppliant.* for their lather at thy knees,” But 
neither her words, her sorrow, her beauty, nor her 
heroism could move the too inflexible magistrate. 
Bahians wa.i condemned to death, and then she 
prayed to be allowed to be executed with him.— 
“ Grant me this last grace, 0, Vespasian,” she said, 
“for continued life tinder laws such as thine, 
would be more intolerable than the old dreary 
twilight of the cave.” Her wish was granted, and 
in death as in I ife, their destinies were not divided. 
(Tac. Hist., 1. iv.. c. t»7; Dio., 1. lxvi'.; Pint., Ama- 
tor., p. 770.)— lb. 
Wbut Insures Success in l,ife. 
Accident does very little toward the prodncSfoa 1 
of any great result in life. Though sometiineir 
what is called “a happy hit” may he made hy a 
bold venture, the old and common highway of 
steady industry and application is the only safe 
road to travel. It is said of the landscape painter 
Wilson, that when he had finished a picture in a 
tame, correct manner, he would step back to some 
distance, with his pencil fixed at the end of a long 
stick, and, after gazing earnestly on his work, 
would suddenly dash up, and by a few bold 
touches give a brilliant finish to his painting.— 
But it will not do for every one who would pro¬ 
duce an effect to throw his brush at the canvass 
iu the hope of producing a picture. The capa¬ 
bility of putting in these lust vital touches ia 
acquired only by the labor of a life; and the 
probability is, that the urtist who has not carefully 
trained himself beforehand, in attempting to pro¬ 
duce a brilliant effect at a dash will only produce 
a blotch. Sedulous attention and painstaking 
industry always mark the true worker. The 
greatest men are not those, who “ despise the day 
of small things,” but those who improve them the 
most carefully.—“ Self-llelp ,” bj Samuel Bmii.es. 
Andrew Jackson's Marriage. 
It was a happy marriage—a very happy mar¬ 
riage— one of the very happiest ever contracted. 
They loved one another in the highest respect— 
They loved one another dearly. • They testified the 
love and respect they entertained for one another 
by those polite attentions which lovers cannot but 
exchange before marriage and alter marriage.— 
Their love grew as their years increased, and be¬ 
came warmer as their blood became colder. No 
one ever heard either address to the other a dis¬ 
respectful, or irritating, or unsympathizing word. 
They were not as familiar as is now the fashion. 
He remained “ Mr. Jackson” to her always—never 
"General,” still less “Andrew.” And he never 
called her “Rachel,” but “Mrs. Jackson,” or 
" wife.” The reader will become better acquaint¬ 
ed with their domestic life by-and-by. Meanwhile, 
let it be understood, that onr hero has now a 
home, where lives a friend, true and fond, to wel¬ 
come his return from “wilderness courts,” to 
cheer his stay, to lament his departure, yet give 
him a motive for going forth; a home wherein — 
whatever manner of man he might be elsewhere 
— he was always gentle, kind, and patient.— 1 '•Life 
of Andrew Jackson,” by James Pakton. 
Ths Diseases o.* Cattle— with Description* aoJ Illua- 
tTn'ions of varions Organs aafi Fnnetinn.i of the Animal 
Economy Containing, also. Useful an*l Practical Infor¬ 
mation no Breeding, Ventilation aud Diet. By Otto. 11. 
DaDo, Veterinary Burgeon, author of •• Anatomy and 
Physiology of the Horse,” Modern Horae Doctor, 
etc’.. Lecturer on Veterinary Science at the Boston 
Vetorican School, [pp. 395,] Boston: JohnP. Jewett 
& Co.—lSdO 
During the past, few years the stock-breeders of 
America have expended vast sums of money in the 
improvement of neat cattle, and some of the finest speci¬ 
mens to be found fn the world are the property of our 
citizens. The stock-growing interest)* dow immense,—it 
is constantly increasing. — and the publication of any 
work calculated to render this branch of rural industry 
more safe and certain, should be hailed with gratification. 
Such a TOlume U this last emanation from the pen of 
Dr. BEO. II. Dat>P, as it will aid, not only in imparting 
each information as will enable the owner to protect bis 
property against the ravages of disease, but also iu solving 
the more important query:—“ How shall disease bo pre¬ 
vented:" Most of the works of this nature now obtain¬ 
able, stem to h ive been written for the benefit of the 
practiced Veterinarian, rather than the edification of the 
mass needing such knowledge, but iu the present volume 
the uuthor has endeavored to render everything so plain 
as to be readily understood. Dr. Dado says:—“This 
work is intended for men who are not expected to under¬ 
stand Latin; therefore, 1 have deviated from the accus¬ 
tomed mode of using the same, in all cases where it could 
be dispensed with; and knowing that most, if not all of 
my readers, will consult these pages more for practical 
tlir.T. theoretical information, I have endenvored to be as 
practical ac passible, and have given the reader the bene¬ 
fits of mv past experience in as brief a manner as the 
THE ADVANTAGES OF WEALTH. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— I have never 
wielded a critic’s pen, but an article in the 
Rural of .January 21st, over the signature of 
Arthur Walton, offers such an insult to my 
pride (for 1 am a poor man’s sou,) that for once 
I am tempted to do so. 
In hia second paragraph are these words:— 
“The popular editor of a commercial people, has 
imbibed, I think, the spirit of the class, and in 
his article upon the blessings of poverty, has 
given that view of life an honorable and clear- 
minded man might be expected to present.” 
In tho first place the sentence is an ungram¬ 
matical one; in the second, the idea is exceed¬ 
ingly indefinite. If he moans to say, that a 
certain nameless “popular editor” writes only for 
“ commercial people,” then I remark that he is 
very exclusive. If he intends to say that “Tim¬ 
othy Titoomu writes only for commercial 
people,” why does ho not so word it? If he 
intends to have us believe that those for whom 
Timothy Tit comb does actually write, aro a 
“commercial people,” 1 will inform him that we 
shall do no such thing. 
Further on lie says:—“There are disadvantages 
attending poverty in early life, tha t no after exer¬ 
tion, not even genius, can overcome.” 
There aro disadvantages attending wealth “ in 
early life,” also, which the drift of this article 
may point at. Tho quotation from Locke does 
not bear upon the subject. I can see no particu¬ 
lar “disadvantages” attaching to the “middle- 
aged plowman,” except the discomforts he might 
experience in an attempt to bring him “to the 
carriage and language of a gentleman and 
even then his hearers might have the worst of it. 
In tho following sentence lie says again:— 
“The English nobles are acknowledged to be the 
best educated class iu the world, and not inferior 
in morals.” If tho education and morals of 
English noblemen, as a class, are necessarily 
concomitants of wealth, and if corresponding 
wealth gives corresponding results in all coun¬ 
tries, then l not only “thank God for poverty," 
but earnestly pray that 1 may always remain 
poor. “It should not he forgotten that they are 
likewise physically superior; the hone and muscle 
of tho patrician is better than that of the com¬ 
moner.” I t is also a matter of history, that to he 
a dwarf, in some countries, is almost conclusive 
evidence of noble (?) origin. 
Again he says: — “Many must recollect the 
election of 181K,” Ac. Is he not a little mistaken 
about the date? “ Twenty years having passed, 
wo may be” foolish “enough to ask, was the 
sturdy General any” worse “for living in a log 
cabin?” “The Democratic element ” answered 
the question to general satisfaction, in his 
election. 
I will leave unnoticed much that follows, and 
comment briefly upon what Arthur calls “the 
real blessing of wealth.” He says:—“It enables 
its possessor to attain a thoroughly cultivated 
mind,” Not if the capacity and disposition are 
lacking. “To gratify the more generous impulses 
of our nature.” It enables "English nobles” to 
practice what Macaulay terms the “generous 
vices of Courts and Kings,” such as gaming, 
horse-racing, fox-cliasing, &c.; “and to avoid 
the sordidneas which early poverty often engen¬ 
ders, concealing meanness under the specious 
name of economy, and carrying oven 1 to tho 
verge of the church-yard mould’ the insatiable 
love of acquisition.” 
Wealth "enables its possessor” to do much 
toward oppressing the poor, and “to avoid” 
doing much that might aid in their “progress 
and improvement.'’ 
Wealth does not make the man; but struggles 
with, and victories over those influences from 
without and within, which tend to make him 
otherwise than manlike. 
The charge of “meanness" and "insatiable 
love of acquisition,” when applied to tho heirs 
of poverty in general, is both untrue and unjust. 
The poor man has a moral right to the last penny 
of his earnings, arid if he does not choose to 
spend it in driving fast horses, drinking, and 
smoking cigars, (which wraith, enables “fast 
Young America to do,) ho is none the less “a 
man for a’ that.” The millionaire may have a 
soul prostrated as low before a shilling, as the 
meanest beggar’s at our gate. 
“And it came to pass, that the beggar died, 
and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s 
bosom. The rich mati also died, and was buried; 
and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in tor¬ 
ments, and seeth Abraham afar off. and Lazarus 
in his bosom.” 
I quote these passages, not to apply them to 
all beggars, nor to all rich men, but to impress 
upon the minds of my young Rural friends this 
truth, that nothing dishonorable pertains to una¬ 
voidable poverty, nor aught worthy of praise to 
the mere possession of wealth which we have not 
acquired. 
This is the partial “ summing up of my thoughts 
after reading” Arthur Walton’s essay. 
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The Religion of Burinah. 
The prevalent religion of Burmah, and the 
established religion of the court of Ava, is Buddh¬ 
ism, the faith alike of China, Siam, Ceylon, 
Thibet, and Tartary. Buddh is a general term for 
divinity, and not the name for any particular god. 
In this world, it is said, there have been four 
Buddha or incarnations, the last of whom was 
Gaudama. One is yet to come, Arumaday.— 
Gaudama was horn about B. C’. 020, having pre¬ 
viously lived in four hundred millions of worlds, 
and passed through innumerable conditions in 
each. The narratives of liis adventures in former 
states are preserved, and form a considerable part 
of the sacred books. He became a Buddb in the 
thirty-fifth year of liis age, and rem ained so forty- 
five years, at the end of which time, having per¬ 
formed all kinds of meritorious deeds, and pro¬ 
mulgated excellent laws, he obtained “nigban,” 
that is, entered into annihilation. 
No laws or sayings of the first three Buddbsare 
extant, but those of Guadaraa were orally trans¬ 
mitted until about A. D. 94, when they were re¬ 
duced to writing in Ceylon. These are the only 
sacred books of the Burmans, and are all in the 
Pali language. The whole are called the Betagat. 
The sins which are to be avoided are described 
in a moral code consisting of five principal and 
positive laws:—1. Thou shalt not kill. 2. Thou 
shalt not steal. 3. Thou shalt not commit adul¬ 
tery. 4. Thou shalt not lie. 5. Thou shalt not 
drink intoxicating drink. 
Of any Supreme God, or any eternal self-exist¬ 
ent being, Buddhism affords no intimation, nor of 
any creation or providence. Merit consists in 
avoiding sins, and cultivating virtues, and the re¬ 
ward of it is the sole hope of the Buddhist. He 
Men are made of different executive forces, of 
different acquiring powers. And in the fact that 
men are made relatively weak or strong, that they 
are in ranks or gradations of inferiority or superi¬ 
ority with respeetto natural endowments, there is 
the most unequivocal evidence that human society 
was not meant to be one long, flat, prairie level, 
but that it was meant to bo full of hills, and 
valleys, and gradations of every kind. 
YAtitnt 
A0l/3i 
KipJjira 
<% t/e JLonourabte 
RIP VAN DAM.E 
He who can express a great meaning by silence, 
when a common man would have been prolix, will 
speak like an oracle. 
It is better to be born with a disposition to see 
things on the favorable side, than to an estate of 
ten thousand a year. 
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