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,few words, as the confession has to ;: of forty-three, a period at which I ; cannot demand tlte reverence of lllt‘l . .men, nor yetâ€"what is of more con- ‘â€"give, but especially hard to f llow. ' particularly if you have anything to "tell not exactly to your credit, or likely to enhance yourtmportance in step I shall have to take to make it build}. I‘IIE SPIRITUAL RAILWAY. > The line to Heaven by Christ was-made, .With Heavenly ‘I‘ruths the rails use laid: From Earth to Heaven the line extendsâ€" To his eternal, where it ends. Repentance is the station, then, “fliers passengers are taken in a No fee for them is‘fhere to pay, for Jesus is himself the way. TheBible is the Engineer, 'It points the way to Heaven so clear: ‘ Through trumpets dink, and dreary here, It does the way to Glory steer. God’s love the Tire. His Truth the steam. ' \‘Vhich drives the Engine and the Train; All you who would to (ilory ride Must'couie to Uhrist, iii him abide. In first and second. and third class. Repentance, Fall'l and llolineu; You must the way to glory gain, Or you with Christ can never reign, Come then. poor sinner, now’sthe time. At any station on the line; If you repent and ttttn frqu sin, The Train will stop and take you in. 101s. [For the York Herald. ROBBIE BURNS. Ah I Robbie Burns, thou silly bufl‘, Thy muse did never soar aloft, Or dwell on sublime tli rigs. Had thy vain songs of sensual joys Deer! hymns of praise: to the skies. Mow bright a star might then have been To spread the glories of thy King, With lustre all abroad. Tbv countryman do thee adore, And sound thy praise from shore to shore, O'er many a smoking bowl. Thy name is spi‘e- d with great renown- In rinks of state and front that down, To dwellers iii the cot. lt’u true there’s none that will explore, And cull your labors careful ore, But must conclude when they ate done Tint thou were Scotin’s brightest son-â€" A bttrd with powers sublime. Joint McConstL Hesdford. Jan. 29, 1851. _....4. ..._.. __ _, illilttuttirt. â€" .____; .Mw" :;:: :2 22;: "fl. .-.. _W___EE‘“ MY ittrEii tum. BY' J. W. \VA TSON. Tucson it requires a tolerable stretch of memory ; yet I do remem~ her that my father oftcti Used to say to me :â€" ‘ Christopher, my boy, wlicneVer you have a story to tell, come direct- ly to the point, and never give way to circumlucution,’ This is ccrtainlv easy advice to the eyes of the world. ' The proposition is somewhat analâ€" Ogns to my own case, as I find that in telling my story the very first clear, is a declaration of my age We read that gray hairs nrc honor able. and various other little items to make us hear our years patiently, but all this renders no comfort to myself from the simple fact tliatl can neither boast gray hairs, nor yet I sufficient number of years of Clitltll veneration on their account. In a come, I am at the uncomfortable age sequenceâ€"the admiration of the soft- or sex. :And yet, in the face of these ac- cumulated facts, I have been Weak enough to cherish for several years a love for one possessing all the charms so requisite to a heroine. I. with neither beauty our wealth, ac- vpmp'ishment nor talents. ‘ But keeping in mind my father’s good advice, I uill go on with my btory without digression. It will perhaps he admitted, that it is no te'i‘iblc stretch of memory, “for a man of forty-three to go back Veighteen or twcnt v years. " so long as the retroSpcct is a pleasant Granted, fone, but when some great grief lies ‘with its torpid body prone iii one ol the most important passages, then it becomes a matter of nerve to stride well over the past. Let me see, I believe it is just nine- teen vears‘ or will be next January. , sinccl ‘stood up’ with my friend "Browne, and saw him snatch, right from under my very nose, one of the .‘most charming women in the world, ,Sophy 'I‘inklc-patigli ; though truth compels me to admit that my admi- - .ration, which afterward ripened into i love, did not commence until Browne ,had already been engaged to her about a year. I have, however, had l l AURORA mJHAr ALEX; SCOTT, Proprietor. AND . RicoND HILL AD v‘ M 'I'eofy. I'lsq Jâ€" V‘ e- V- “, Let Sound Reason weigh morczwith us than Popular Opinion.” any child of her age in New York,l and in due course become as all oth- er Sophys become. a victim in turn to chicken-pox, tncascls, rush, mumps , and stt.)tii:icli--tclie, all of which, as: her mother said, by the blessing of I’rov.detit:c, she recovered, and ad- vanced, with rapid strides, to the age of dolls, baby-houses, and molas- ses candy. I Scarce think, looking back from this period, that my udmi~ ration for Supby Was very intense at this especial time, nor yet was fairly launched upon my stream of life ttiilil her eighth birthday, when I first saw her in a superb dress of blue something, with boots to match and her golden hair in l‘inglets, over her snow-white neck. It Was upon IIII: evening, when Sophy was doing the honors of a tea-ai‘id-turn-out par- ty, to a select circle of ladies and gentlemen, none of whom had more' that. ten years weighing upon their heads, that I first awakened to the charms of Sophy Browne, though save to her father, at that time Idid not breathe my newborn passton and may say, not even to him in any other words than :â€" ‘ Sophy leuks right pretty this one- aing. iii 1th new dress.’ To be surel did see some things about Miss SOphy not calculated in awake the pleasant emotions ; such, for izistance,asa surreptitious appro- priation of more than her share of ice-cream, when her mamma's back was turned, or a fUI‘llVC putting out of her touguc, ‘makiiig snoots,’ as the youthful .limmy Hooks, a memâ€" ber of the said party. expressed it.' It may be a weakness on my part to recur :u thvsc tritlcs, but I reniem~ her that With my newly :ivakencd admiration, they sat unpleasantly harsh. To go on with time as it rolls ;l three weeks after this birthday party it was that I had my first opportuni tv of making a real impression oti Sophy, for though we had always been friends, with shame almost I confes: it, we had not always been lovers. It Was on a momentous oc~ casiou, when life was trembling in the balance, that I had my first. chance ol making my mark on the rather unimpressmle heart ofSopliy; not when her own life was trembling,l but that of a favorite Wltttt? kitten, which had. for almost a year, cast a shadow ovt:r dolls and babyâ€"houses, and motmpolizcd the undivided affec- tion of its mistress. Ont: «lay, as I entered the house, hitter we..ping and wailing reached my ear, accompanied by loud words of remonstrancc from a voice which I knew in an instant to be that of the maid to whose guardianship Sopliv was consigned. Need I say that I flew upon the wings of love in soccer my damsel, whom I found pcrfidious monster if I admit that, in the moment of this outburst of love and grutitude,l probed deeply the heart of Sopliyl Nu! Then it was I said to licl‘ :â€" ' Do you really love me so much, Soplty 'l’ ‘ A course I do. didn’t you make ’cr life come to kitty !’ Yes, it Was love founded on gra- titude, and yet, it was idle to argue that the saved Was superior iii her heart to the saver. ‘ I'Iow tnucli do you love me, now, Stiplly .9, ‘ 'I‘wo bushelsâ€"ever so much I’ says SOphy, spreading her hands wide. ‘It was satisfactory, and I had witnesses, for there iii the door stood both father and mother. ‘ And will you marry me, So- phy 'I’ ‘ A course I will l' was Sopby’s in- stantaneous acceptance. ‘ VVitltout asking mamma"s consent? was that good lady’s query. ‘A course, didn’t he make life come to Kitty i’ The argument was unanswerable, and the young lady positive in the bestowal of her affections. For a certainty, there could be no retreat on my part, and so I informed Miss Sophy that she Would be pleased to remember that from that moment We were engaged, and that she must cease flirting with anybody but my- Sclf, and as a token of our engage- tnent, I promiScd to give her, that very day, a bran new doll and a quarter of a pound of sugar plums. She made the pledge without a «no ment's hesitation. To be sure there was a slight disparity iii our agesâ€"â€" a quarter of a century about; but that was a more trifle, or, at all events, Sophy seemed to think so. From that moment Sopliy and I goton’ charmingly. I never had cause for the slightest twingcs of jealousy, in trutli,I ant rather in- clined to think that the small at- tempts iit flirtation made by my aili- anced were merely to show me how much superior she heIJ me to the youthful butterflies that chr sought her smiles. Icnuld not complain any more of the want of warmth in her attentions, they were warm. even to the heat iii summer, taking the form of innumerabie embraces and den'ionstrative kisses, to say nothing of agcnernl romp. I have, farther, no reason to doubt Sopliy’s cordiality on the subject, and atn constrained to say that llCl‘ itientm'y eSpccially at such moments as she might see me talking. with any dc- ‘scx. on the back stoop, in violent and Browne, whom I had now learned to RICHNIUND HILL, FERIBAY, l held good upon the cntzilgiit”ICHl alidtllll of all her little love matters -times and under all circumstances,‘ and secrets, 'tlie very grcc 0f earnestness, 10 0110 0f “8" birthday-party, that she came to me, If m “"y "We. WlllCll was “0‘ and coded herself up iti that delight- Unl‘l'thllelll. I Slalll Will" my lrlelld,ful way she oltentimes did, bestdc upon the stage. 1 how can I write his name'l ted rinil! It was once more upon a birthnight. and at a party given in honor of Sophy‘s attainment of the discreet age of fourteenâ€"exactly six years after she first birth of my love wthat I saw his form in the very act of kissing Sophyâ€"e‘my Sophyâ€"on the sly, behind the curtains of the back parlor. There was madnessin the very idea, and. I am Confident, it brought on an instantaneous fever so consuming, that I was obliged to retire at once to the shpper room for a cool punch to allay it. M y lia- \Vhon calmness came again, I pon- dered over this first dereliction of Sopliy. What should I do? Should I slay my hated rival 'l _ No! that wouldn't do. It was actionable in law, and expensive, to make no ac, count of the fact that he was quite a handsome young fellow, and Well dressed too, and it might spoil his lOokS, or at least his clothes. No! I would wait; and so I returned to the parlors just in time to see my hated rival lead forth Suphy to dance IIe Certainly danced very well, and was as graceful a lad of his age (eighteen) asI had overseen. Alto- gether, I was obliged to admit to my- self that had he not been my rival, I should have felt as though he was just the style of young fellow I shouid like to have owned as a son. It will be asked to recapitulate the many stabs the cruel Sophy sent to my bosom within the next fortnight through her terrible conduct with my rival. She fort-ed t'l'ieâ€"â€"â€"I, who had for ten years given tip balls in toto â€"â€"-â€"to go with her to the fifteenth an- nual ball of smoothing or another, that she might meet there my hated rival. And did she not, on the way home in the carriage, kiss me, and say that I was ‘ the dearest old grandfather that ever was in all the world,’ in reward foamy general good conduct all the evening, to say nothing of her repeating the same thing to papa and mamma next eve- tlltlg to my face. Did she not, fur- ther, cause me to carry a missive to this said Walter Anderson, asking him to accompany us on a pic-tile, and wasl not weak enough, when this youth hesitated about accepting the invitation because he was afraid of intruding, to press him and insist upon his going 'I Yes, I was! All this Went on for a year. My alliance-d even going so far as to make the, her betrothed, the confi- Fui a year it continu~ ed, until Sopliy was fifteen. It was night after the fifteenth me on the sofa. \Vhen Sopliy did tearful altercation with Bridget, the look on asiriy engaged fathctuin-‘law, this, 1 pub-w mm, “numbing was maid. on some potnt comiected with to dine or sup, Sophy always claimed ! coming, and SO n pmwd [ms “me. the kitten, which hung lifeless and ,wet in Sophy’s hand. ‘ \Vnat is it all aboutl question. ' Sure,tlie nasty little cat is drown- ed, and Miss Sophy don’t want to give it up and have it thrown away.’ was Bridget's angry t'PSpOtlSC. ‘ POUI‘ kittic l pour kittie l’ subbed Sophy, unable to say anything more. . ‘ And how did it drown 'l' was my next question. I ‘It just slipped into the water-butt. and was drowned before it could be got out,’ says Bridget. I looked at the defunct, and after promistiig faithfully not to entrust it was my to the ruthless Bridget, was p’e‘rmit- 31mm)“, came acrossnurpath,tliough rious t:iis time. I tell yuul'nienga-ldirected, Many of the war. and ted to ttt.;e itinto my hands. Ihcre [um “bling to admit that, before ged to Walter Anderson, and I’ve conquests sitting next tome. of course, on these occasions, I could do no less than lavish upon but those little attctitioi‘is which are so requi- site. Those, with various other lit- tle solid trifics that passed hetheii us, suclt as sundry purchases of cake, candy, or an occasional walk with jelly and ice-cream accompaniments, made the engagmcnt between Suphy and myself rather a pleasant thing, certainly for her, if I am to believe her frequent assertions of the fact, it nice to be engaged 'I’ And so the years flew away, until Sophy was fourteen, and never a all‘l “'35 “Celll‘dc‘l lllc l’l‘lVClUge Olll could feel her little heart beating ASIICl'alfittUCqunp against my heart that evening riglithard, and her tiny white hands tremble as she held mine. At last it came, ‘ Grmdpap,’-â€"-tliat’s a name that she would persist in calling incâ€"â€" ‘ I'm going to tcil you a secret.’ By way of encouragement to fetch it out, I gave her a kiss. ‘ I’m engaged I’ ‘ Woll,’ I answered, as cool as a cucun’iber, ‘I know that.’ She stared iii wild surprise, and by say ing, in so many words : ‘ Ain't siammcred out, :â€" ‘ \Vlio to P’ ‘ Why to me, to be sure I’ ‘ 0h, nonsense, gi‘nndpapl be se- \VilS Still WHI’IUIII II) ‘IIIC-IIIIIC feline, “lis Period, \thu I “.OUId sap so”,e_ Just con“: to ask you about it firt. and, the thought struck me, as I look‘ thing to Sepiiv about our longwumd. and get you to tell papa and mum- cd down upon the tearful and wret- ing 1-,en~(,1lm3_ and beg of harm hurry that about it for me. Won't you I cited Sopliy, it might bercstored. I and set the weddingday, Sim \voultillxiun'lu, now, that‘s a dear old grand- SiIILI iIlIIIUSI. as III‘IUCh 10 her, and clap her hand “Vel- lny "you‘ll and P31)! i watched, nearly iii terror, the wild ample revenge Since, by shoWering my atltiiiratiori. upon her all the delicate attentions It is hardly worth while to dclate order me not to talk nonscnce, or was a nasty, ugly, old bachelor. was not, however, to be shaken, or “ml mylmdlelm male can“ devise; l “PO” the ex""‘°rdln“fl’ remc‘lles nonsensed or blushed out of mv en- - . 230’ and that before the very foot: «tried on puss, but I am firm in the gagcment, and so I would tell this Of Browne, “ltd, I may “3 We“ add. belle llml Slime Of them l'l’ougl” Schliv. and insist upon it that. as my With his heavy consent, for nobody her back to existence through asto Wm, {hat was m be, she Should kiss can denv that Browne is a noble nishmcnt, for, convinced I am, be-land enmmce me just as plentiful“. ‘ fellow front the very beginning. yond all chance, that none of her I‘lneleen-yem's ll Will be. next race ever before experienced the , . \zanuary. as] have said, smce Ille I'IWeremarricd, and I his groonisman. One year after, exactly, I smod up from the ignominious death of being same. . In two words, I saved the kitten , again as god-father to the youthful ‘drowuded.’ as Bridget had it, in u ' Sophy Browne, at that time she be- water-butt, and Won ,nig. only at the immature age of thir- exuberant pitfessions of love, which] the wild and ty days, entirely unconsctous of the for three Weeks, I so ardenlly cove fact. ‘Sophy grew finely ; so the mother kitte 'and nurse both declared, to say nothâ€" Without wiping her mouth, and open- .. .ing of the assertion of Browne, that 1y denim-ed me i the mac's, chm, she -‘ «t Ibo weighed more, by apound, than ever did see,’ ' ted. as of old. To this,I am sorry, to say, she dcmurred, though, once in awt.ile, I think through forgetfulness she would throw licrarms round my net It, and, with a sound kiss, declare me the nicest, darlinglist old fellow in creation. I think I said that all this was the i case when Sophy Was funiteen, and SUPhy hugged mys‘v‘ll‘ml‘l lhe las sweet, plump and pretty :1 little n by lumsi kissed “5 bolhvlcreaturc as ever was, albeit some- .what Wild, when all of a sudden a . . change comes etcr the spirit of the Wlucb my betrothed will be seven- Can I be Called a dream, and a new ch31Ԥ9l§F appearsfloon, and my hated rival twenty- ‘ Well, certainly, that was a cool parents and reveal her engagement to another, and do mybest to mullify them and secure the happy terminat- tiuii of her new affair. I saw at a glance, by the little blue eyes that were looking so pleadineg up in my face, it was no time to urge my claim and SUâ€"‘Wlll it be believed iâ€"â€"I Went upon the mission. Yes, I plead for Suphy and my hated rival, even against the floods of parental prejudice, which declared the whole affair only a case of putty 10%. and were for breaking it oll'at once by sending my betrothed away to boat'dingâ€"schoulâ€"but finally con- sented to allow the engagement to sl‘dl‘tl for two years, at the end of FEBnUAuY 1. 1861. ‘the matter by an agreement to flirt Walter Anderson! One. a A large portion of this time ofprof bation has alreadv passed, and-the two remain firm, and, I may add, much improved. They are to be married in two months, thoughl have not yet surrendered my claim. I II'IVC wondered much whether an action will lie for breach of promise, or whether I had best compromise with the bride and his: her whenever I pleas . lam compelled to say that the case, as it stands, is of a most com- plicated nature, and will require very nice discrimination. PS â€"I stop the press to announce that my hated rival and my betroth- ed have just been with me, andâ€"â€" would you believe 1â€"insist, in spite positively of every exrz'use, even that of my having a bone in my leg, that [shall and must ‘stand up’ with V’Valterâ€"I mean my hated rival. What. an extraordinary request! ‘ But, I’ll do it I Yes, I‘ll do itâ€" I don’t care how ridiculous it looks. One more P.S.-â€"'-I'Ve got a little surprise prepared for my. betrothed on the day of her wedding. In your ear, my dear publi(:l A little sur- prise, in the shape of a check. for five thousand dollars, which, Imake no doubt, will be a useful thing to have in the house for a ‘ starter.’ A third P.S.â€"â€"~I ltave’so made my will, this day, that the first daughter of my betrothed is to have half my worldly effects, and the first son of rival the other half. Don’t mention it! [For the York Herald. AMBI'I‘ION. AMBITION is one of the leading vir- tues of man, that which causes him to press onward to glorious ends and achieve noble needs. It causes us to move onward through earth’s living glories With high hopes and aspirations, and on it materially depends our general happiness and success. It opens to us a better and more cheering World. It causes us to delve into things mira~ culous and stupendous, and it has often been the means of piercing the veil of mysteries which has shrouded with impenetrable dark- ness many mighty and important truths. Take a man destitute of ambition, and you will find that man partially blind to all that is beautiful and majestic in art. You will not find him looking onward or upward, butfion the contrary, in a great measure remiss to human progress, like a machine without motion which becomes rusty, like a still pool which becomes stagnant. Ambition was the impellantpovver of many of the great orators, poets, and historians, whose corus- cations now dazzle the earthâ€"â€" What was it that caused Demos- thenes to rise to such an attitude of glory as an orator? II.Was principally through ambition. He once obtained permission from his master to hear the pleadings of the orators, and in hearing them he was instantly’fired with emulation, and immediately gave adieu to his other studies, and applied himself with great assiduity to oratory ; and he s’oon began to be looked upon as the standard of true eloquence. The same can be said ofThucydidcs, vviio, when hearing Herodotus re- cite his history at the Olympic games, was affected to tears. Al- though ambition does good, it some times does infinite evil when mis- with which history groans were caused by ambitionâ€"a Nations felt its ruinous afflicts, and sank into the dust. Monarchs learned in and trembled on their thrones. This was what caused Alexander the Great to convulse JOY “'3‘ I’Mke 0‘“ {mm llle Obie“ 0f shake me soundly and tell me that l propositioi‘iâ€"tliat I= her alhiiticed of! me world as with an earthquake“... It six years’ standing, should go to her This was what caused Napoleon to level his fury at so many nations."~ He pointed the thunder of this ar~ tillery at Italy, and she fell before him. V Spain, and she trembled. He sounded the knell of vengeauance on the plains of Austcrlitz, and all Europe was at his feet. When Cwsar subjugated Parthia anl Germany, and carried the Roman eagle from the summit of Caucasus to the hills' of Caledoniaâ€"when he passed from Gaul to Italy, from Home to Macedon, from the plains of Pharsalia to the shores of Africa, from the ruins of Carthage to the banks of. the Nile and Euxines; when he traversed the Bosphorus and the Rhine, the Taurus and the Alps, the Atlas and the Pyreneesaieâ€"v . 3 He levelled his lightning at, 2.1% a .s‘c. v.t~»-'-'- OCATE AND ADVERTISER. /\./‘ TERMS: $1 50 In Advance. Whole vi... 114. in all these triumplial courses be I was impelled by the love of glory- BETA. Maple, Jan. 27, 1881. m DELIGHTS 0F ? BEING NEWSPAPER COLLECTOR. "'" f Some fellowâ€"5a collector for a South Carolina paper, and other pe- riodicalsâ€"lately threw up his com- mission, and sent back the unpaid ac- counts with ‘ notes ’ which the spi- rit happened to lay hold of, and they were presented in a tangible shape to the world. M A As they are living pictures, met with here or else- where, we make extracts. The collector says : Editor of the Herald of Truth-â€" says :--You furnished me,as you re- collect,with a list ofone hundred and seventeen owing subscribers. I have called upon one hundred and over,l.o your order three dollars and tWere and one~half cents,being the amount to which you are entitled. I return you the list numbered from one to one hundred and sixteen, and now give reply to each : No. l.â€"-â€"Is 2; minister. He says in thefitst place he never got one half of the numbers (a lie according to the account of the postâ€"master) in the next place your jokers column was too sc‘urrillous. Besides, he knows by the tone of your editorials, that you drink. He wants nothing more to do with you again. No. 2â€"Is in jail for debt. He has not seen half a dollar for a ycai'.â€"* Says he would pty with the utmost cheerfulness, if he had the money, but had to borrow a shirt to put on last Sunday. Admircs your paper wonderfully, and hopes you will continue sending it to him. He wishes you to take a bold stand in favor of the abolition of imprison- ment for debt. as he thinks it would be a very popular: move with gentlemen in his situation. Sends his best respects. No. 3«â€"-ls a young doctor. Says your paper is beneath the notice of a gentleman. VVuuldn't give a d-n lor a cart load. Says you inserted an article reflecting on the profes- sion. Is going to persuade every person that takes your paper to stop it. Cursed your bill, and says you may get it the best way you can. No. 4â€"IS an old maid. Says you are always making a fling at single ladies ofan uncertain age. Wouldn’t pay you if she Was rolling with wealth, and you hadn’t cash enough to buy a lost of bread. Sent all the papers she had back a month ago, and says now that she has sent, she don’t on“: you anything. Says she iseven with you, and intends to keep so until the day of judgment. No. 5â€"43 a gambler. Says he get completely cleaned out last weekat the races. Couldn’t acco. modate his grand-mother with a half-dime if she was starving.“- I.ikcs your paper tolci‘ablyâ€"would like it better if you published more races, and would occasionally give an account of a cock fight. IIOpeS you won't think hard of him for not paying you new, but has a prospect of soon having some loose change, as he is after a rich young green- horn, who arrived last week. Wil' pay your bill ottt of the pluckings. No. 6â€"15 an old (Il'ttliltal‘d.â€"'-‘â€" Hasn’t got any honey, and never expects to have. Gathered tip all the papers he had and sold them for 'half a pint of rum to the grocery keeper, to wrap groceries in. No. 7â€"Is a magistrate. Swore he never owed me at cent, and told me I was a low rascal for trying to swindle him in such a barefztced manner. Advised me to make tracks in a little less than no time, or he would get out a Warrant. against me, as a common cheat and have .me sent to prison. Is by all odds the meanest man I have seen yet. Never will go near him again. - No. 8â€"15 a policeman. Says that although you profess to publish a neutral paper, It is not so. Thinks he hasvseen considerable squinting towards the side he is opposite to. The collector concludes with ‘ac- rcpt my resignation, and strike me from the list of agents. I have been called a Swindler, rascal, villian, blood-sucker.- Thcse are some of the names they think proper to be- stow upon me. I tried fighting awhile, and thrashed some of your patrons like blazes, cecasionally got licked like thunder mySclt‘.’ A scientific youth has discovered the cause ,of the potatoo blight. . He describes it to the Mâ€"tatqry move meat on the guilt. x, n,/\./ rue .. . tots}... ~ ... sea.) .0 Han...“ w 0,... ,,~'. .1 .93.“:- _.-, . CLEANLY CATTLEâ€"~â€"If there is one thing in which the Argovian takes particular pride, and in‘which be particularly excels, it is in the care of his cattle. They are elephants in size, and ill‘lt‘ glossv hides betnkcn‘ some'peculiztr art on the part of their masters. Not a particle of dust or straw is allowed to cling to them, and they are combed and washed as only horses are elsewhere... not with a curry-comb, but with old‘ cards, which, beingz liner and softer, are more agreeable to the animal, and improve the finess of the hair, This receives an additional lustre by being rubbed with old flannel. They actually shine; and the gentle creatures have an evident consciI-n ousness of their beauty, for they are careful not to soil their ashy gray land chesnut robes by lying in the mud when allowed to take a walk, Am'mals can acquire, ll they have not by nature. a fine sensibility, and ’wher; they have once experienced [1,9 pleasant sensation of cleanliness, team 1.1:. take care of themselves.â€" Not only do the," exercise this care: for the person of the fmlmal, hill “’6‘ at the pains of removing every fea- ther and other unpalatablesubstance from their food ; and the waiter- troughsl where they diink are kept ag clcaii as if human beings resorted to» them. If anybody dotith the efli- cacv of these ,n'ieans, let him come andysec not only how large but how intelligent these dumb creatures look {how tlcy watch every motion of those who talk to them,and listen: to all they say. W'bat an affection- ate moan they will utter to welcome the milkers, who are always memes they say, ‘ Women tickle the cow, and never take all the milk from the odders, so that she gives less and less.’ It is said of them that an Ar- govian will send for the doctor for his cow :1 great deal quicker than for' his wife; but we did not see any evidence that llt': was not sufficiently attentive to bothâ€""fie Cottages of‘ the flips. How TO ‘ Hop FROM Ocsccnt'rv.’ â€"-TllC first Duke of Leeds delighted in boasting of his lucky progenitor,- Jack Oscorn, the. shop-lad, who res-' cued his master’s daughter from a watery grave in the Thames, and. won her hand away from a host of noble suitors,who wantedâ€"literally, the young lady’s pinnnouey. She was the only child of a Healthy pins maker, carrying on his business on London Bridge, and the jolly old fellow, instead of disdaining to be- stow his heiress on a ’prcntice, ex- claimed. ‘Jack won her, and he" shall Wear her I’ Dr. Monscy, in the heyday of his social fame, told his friends that the first of his an- cestors of any note was a bakei',and a retail dealer iii hops. As a critir cal point of this wortliv man’s ca- t‘ccr, when hops were ‘ down ’ and feathers were ‘tip,’ to raise a small sum of money for immediate use. he‘ ripped open his bed, sold the fea- ther , anl stuffed the tick with nit-- saleable hops. Soon a change in the market occurred, and once more operating on the couches used by himself and children, he Sold the hops at a profit, and bought back the feathers. "That‘s the way, sir, by. which my l1.lll'lllyll()[)l’)-'Jt.l from ob-' scurity l’ the doctor would conclude. â€"â€"J. C. Jqlfcrson. CHINESSE Musniar I)RAC'[‘ICE.-â€"-‘ A Chinese battle (writes the author' of ‘ l‘wclve years in China') is as- good as a farce. Some of the little fights at Shanghai were very amusr inc. One day, when a great. many soldiers were out, I saw more of the” combat than was pleasant. Having‘ got into the line of fire, I was forced to take shelter behind a grave, the bullets striking the grave from each' side every second, Why they came: my way it was iii’licult to discovei',. for they ought to have passed on', the other side of a creek, aboutt twenty yards distant, to the people they were intended for ; but to see the dodging of the soldiers, then of the rebels, each trying to evade the other, Was almost amusing. One fellow, ready primed and loaded, would rush up the side of a grave". hillock, drop his match-lock over the top, and, without taking aim, blaze. away. There is no l‘;ttlll‘0tl requii‘eds for the shot they use; the bullet, or bar’ of iron is dropped loose upon the powder. There was a fine scene on an occasiont’ when the Shanghai rebels made a sortie; one of the men was cutoff by an Imperial skirmislier, who had his piece loaded. The‘ rebel had no time to charge his, so he ran round and round a grave, which was hiin enough to keep his enemy from shooting him when on the opposite side. IIare‘ hunting is nothing to it. Red-cap deg; cribed hosts of circles, and the Royalisl; was fast gettingr blown, when the gods toolé pity on his wind, for, by some unlucky chance, the rebel tripped and fell. The soldier was at ltim in a moment, and, to. make sure of his prize, put the muzzle of his match-lock to Red-caps head, fired; took to his heels as fast as he could go! It is difficult. to say who wss the most def tonisbed when Mr. Red-cap did the same! The bullet that dropped down readily on“ the powder, fell out, as easily when” flie‘ barrel was depressed. The rebel gO'f off with a good singeing of his long hair. , VVH’AT Hours 'ruu Ilonsn.â€"â€""’ It is not the ’unting that ’urts the ’orse,” said a philosophic hestler; “it’s the ’ard ’ighway: it’s the ’ani-t ineritigfammoring,’ammoririg, over a hard ’igli‘ way; it ’nrt’s its ’eoves. \Vhen you’re not going to ’ui'it,”’ii‘c a ’ack and ’amntor along with ‘ ' I.” ‘8 2