forms of salutation, whatever contempt and reproaches they may meet with from opposers; and the deductions from this principle may be almost infinitely extended. Where good objects are zealously pursued, if any difficulties arise, the nature of the objects in question will afford the best ostensible explanations; and any other remedies which may be proper and useful will require the exercise of corresponding skill, to prevent the delicacy of that arrangement which virtue and intelligence comprise from being so far disturbed as to impair its value, and expose it to more serious and prolonged negligence and injury.

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eligible way, and affect bearings and relations beyond the scope of our present knowledge, perception or sensibilities; for in this way only can we wait for the openings of Providence, and be diligent and enterprising where our own consciousness calls us to act with the light by which the Divinity speaks within us in the abundant and controlling intimations, to guide for the present, and control for the future. One of the best characteristics of a judicial officer is, to decide no more than the case in hand requires, and to make that decision, after bestowing competent and sufficient consideration, at the earliest convenient period, so that business may not suffer from not being accomplished with all convenient speed.

In order to apply most conveniently some interesting and important principles, which As law is said to be the perfection of reahave been sufficiently considered to be made son, so it is a maxim of all law, that when the instrument of attaining the most salutary the reason why a law was made ceases to and desirable results, such as those above exist, the law becomes obsolete. Very able mentioned, qui facit per alium facit per se, and intelligent discrimination is therefore he who does any thing by another, is held to necessary in applying this principle to the have done it himself, (Acts 7, 52,) ignorantia exigencies and interests of human society, juris non excusat, etc., I shall endeavor to so as most effectually to promote justice, adopt a style so familiar and practical as to honor, education and industry by carrying render much information extensively useful out the spirit of the preceding observations and available which has not hitherto assumed in the most desirable and satisfactory mana very exclusively technical or scientifical ner. It is observed by Mr. Justice Blackcharacter, but which still involves that cer- stone, that we should learn from the examtainty of knowledge which is capable of being ple of Caligula to avoid indistinctness in the reduced, in present and in future to valuable publication of those legal sanctions which account. Is it not one useful purpose of are intended to be obligatory, in order that legal philosophy, and a happy and distin- the cause of intelligence and morality may guished attainment by any honorable means, not suffer by the reflections and feelings of to avoid the holding of any opinion with un- those who may experience inconvenience graceful and injurious tenacity, to form no from negligence in this important particular; opinions prematurely, to refine so far as pos- and although there are graceful congruities sible those which we entertain, and to be and combinations of genius, they often very diligent in those assiduities and attentions by much result from and depend upon the happy which our judgements and practices on all observance of those considerations that we subjects may be rendered more proficient, now suggest; and it is important and necesand so as to be most happily influential in sary to have these things contemporaneously the sphere to which we peculiarly belong? written with sufficiently competent accuracy, Some considerate attention to those things in order that labor and intelligence may not which we have already sufficiently known be wasted by the talk of the lips. The able for past obligations, will tend to secure pro-and influential members of the legal profesportion of character and action with respect sion will see and feel this; and the ornato our future susceptibilities and destiny.ments of judicial fame will lend their aid to This attention may be somewhat difficult, secure the best advantages of diligent and but it will be more glorious: it will help us intelligent judgement, in a manner consistto discharge our necessary duties in the most ent with that enlightened and peacable dis

position which is abundantly thorough and because in the multitude of counsellors there well ordered, and at the same time guarded is safety, and honorable diligence requires with the best means of preventing strife and and is justly entitled to corresponding relief. litigation. Our suggestions may not be the Non cnostat, but these limits may be essenmost important that have ever illuminated tially acceptable, for God and the law favor the word, and yet they may be essentially the diligent, and they are written with diliuseful, if reasonably founded in wisdom and gence enough: Diligentia et perseverentia integrity of sentiment and discrimination; omnes difficultates vincit.

Whene'er the robin, cheerful bird,
Sings from the maple tree,

MY WIFE.

And early through my window pours
His soothing melody;

I recollect thy plaintive voice
Sounding so sweet to me,
Telling thy fond affection, when
I bid good bye to thee.

And I'll remember thee, my wife,
And every look of thine,

Shall daily bring sweet comfort to
This lonely heart of mine;
Thy smile too I can ne'er forget,
And recollection brings
Thy cherished form before mine eyes
Öft as the robin sings.

So, when afar from native town,
The traveller journeying on,
Hears the wild red-bird's mellow note,
Or robin's cheerful song;

He sorrowing waits, with downcast look,
And lingering step, to dwell

With pensive thought, on wife, and child,
He loved at home, so well.

And sighing, lifts his eyes to heaven,
And breathes a fervent prayer,
That he may meet his wife, aud babe,
In joy together there ;
So pray I, that undying love
May in my bosom burn,
So, sweeter far than robin's note.

Thy voice shall wellcome my return.

THE NORTH WIND.

A piercing wind came from the north
Casting its morsels round:
Impatient Sol had ventured forth
To cheer the frozen ground.

A snow-drop peeped above the mould
Unwilling there to stay;

And shivering with wet and cold
Has sought the genial ray.

The violet next in birth

With buds of purple hue, Revealed her charms to earth Then modestly withdrew.

Then flaunting tulips came,
And were in turn admired
By many a high-born dame
As gaudily attired.

The rose wished to abide

While nature seemed so fair:
But when her offspring died
She would not linger there.

The summer passed away

And snow was on the ground;
The skies were clothed in gray
And not a flower was found.

THE JUNK BOTTLE.

Before our Doctors would give me a junk | Mrs. Newell says I may get it at her store, bottle full of spirits of turpentine they asked me to give all my reasons for this request of the bottle, my supposed belief in its efficacy, the scripture reasons why it is a virtue, or all I know or have an idea upon the subject.

and you can send for a junk bottle of spirits of turpentine with a nice cork by Mr. Chatfield. It will not be much trouble to you or any one. You can seal it if you prefer; I have no intention of putting it to any use, except merely to hold it as a stand by, and According to knowledge, I will call it, an to bring me to my right mind. If ye had epitome of mercy with its transcendent exknown what this was, I will have mercy cellencies. My school books taught me and not sacrifice, ye would not have conthat mercy is the darling attribute of Deity. demned the guiltless. I am determined to Reduce this term of mercy in rhetoric to a know it, and if you will help me to it I will tangible substence, and it becomes spirit of thank you a thousand times. I believe it turpentine. It is an old proberb, that it is will prevent the tongue from becoming not a good rule that will not work all ways; ferred, and that I can sing with much greathence,—Q. E. D.-quod est demonstratum-er ease to myself than I do. Come ye to which was to be demonstrated,―turpentine the waters; may be I will be helped if I do must be transcendently good; therefore, the Doctors will see the propriety, or rather, the non-impropriety of my request.

If Deity is thus excellent, I would be like him, and see him as he is. I can not do this without possession. Moses says that all creation is made after a patern. The merciful shall obtain mercy; thorefore, I pray for it on this plea. I would have a perfect pattern. It prevents precious life from being destroyed by fire: it is the tongue, as I understand it: it is the proper blessing of divine presence when applied to the palate. Hence, I understand to be the efficacy of redemption in our Saviour's suffering upon the tree: it is the illene mene tekel repharius, as exemplified to the capacity of the learned which is pointed out to us in the golden chain of Daniel. I understand it also to be, to all intents and purposes, the yoke of Christ: the ladder of Jacob: the river of waters, by which the holy man shall be like a tree planted, whose leaf, (on palate which is here meant,) when touched by it, reviving influence shall not wither. And look at the palate and the tongue, whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

really come. Among my own experiments and by my own experience, I have found that to pour spirits of turpentine upon soapsuds it makes complete milk, or a substance that appears like milk. Daniel says, put my tears into thy bottle. If the foundations fail what shall the righteous do. May be, by supporting the tears in this way, we may assist the poor suffering sinner in his last meeting with his Creator.

It is a cure for the neurolagy in the chest, or rheumatism in the chest, caused by bad and defective teeth. It is the lamb of the Scriptures; and it is written, take the sucking lamb for sacrifice. If it makes milk I guess it will be good. Please don't disappoint me. I will sing like a nightengale over it. I want a junk dottle full, with a nice cork; the bottle clean and nice, with a nice cork, and sealed if it will keep the better; but don't cheat me Doctors, and give me water instead of spirit.

And now since I am writing upon mercy let us look to the poor prisoner expecting his existence to be terminated at an appointed time by the hand of his fellow men. He that cometh unto Me I will in no wise

A quart will cost but eighteen pence, and cast out. Give the sinner life; for immor

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tality is the end and aim of all being. Sup-mankind. Are we told to punish the offenpose I am killed by a persou,-my death is der? Hardly, the ten commandments are without warning to me; it is like an accident holy laws, it does not tell us to chain our compared to a premeditated and arranged fellow-men, or confine them. destruction of the like value; the horror With respect to selvedges, after Robert of looking upon death in its force, is no retali- died I wanted to live forever for his sake. ation. Suppose we build a house on pur- On investigating the causes of death, I pose for the murderer, and let it be a monu- feared my dress would bring me into trou-, ment of warning, subject to visitors, where ble, either the texture or the fashion. How we could have the evidence of the criminal could I hear the work of the loom, and the himself, let him lead a new life and find ac-steam engine; and was it not fool hardy to ceptance and pardon; his labor is of value, make up a garment without reducing it to and like a scare-crow in the field there will our own subjection. We plain boards, peal but few come near him for the same purpose. and wash vegetables; but the growth of We punish to work righteousness. Now the looms we fearlessly put on at all hazanother comes and does the same. Why is ards. Deliver me from their teeth, I found this? I believe it is the utter imbecility written. How could I do this without recaused by the hanging that makes the man moving the selvedge. The rough places forget himself in the crime. I believe if we shall be made plain, and the crooked places could ask the murderer, he would tell us it straight. You will always find them danwas the easiest job he ever did in his life.-gerous, vulgar, crooked and rough. My Now I would work righteously too. Let the way is even, but your way is uneven, saith criminal put clean, fresh salt the Lord. himself as The selvedge is uneven; you long as he lives, and have this supplied to can not sew it as neatly as a seam without him so that he can use it. I believe it, to all this foreign edge. Gather with me and not intents and purposes, would do away entirely abroad. Cut off the edge of the loom and the necessity of capital punishment. We make your own. Go thou and do likewise. would thus work righteousness. You may We have an example in Christ: garment depend, it would work an entire reformation, without a seam in Joseph's coat of many prevent the drunkard from getting drunk, colors. Colors all absorbed or all reflected, and man from crime in every way. Is the give either white or black. This must comend of punishment to cause suffering or re- pare essentially with one without a reason. pentance? prevention or cure? It has been Suppose we take a growth of the loom, retried long enough. We still have it repeated move as much as possible all foreign landagain and again. Are they not afraid? is marks, put in our own seams under our own there no one to tell them to beware? There hand, bring it home as much as we can.is no work or device in the grave. Is mercy Does it not compare as much as possible clean gone forever? why then is it repeated? with a garment without a seam. Is it not and why is not the heart of the daughter of actually such in relation to all other dependmy people healed? if it does not prevent it, ences. It thus becomes woven from top to why continue the same process. If we will toe by ourselves. The turning of the shuttake the small pox just the same, is it not tle is under no government; hence erupfolly to inoculate for the kine. The man tions, accidents to children without them, condemned to death would be glad to use torn and dirty garments keep cleaner withsalt instead, thus he would work righteous-out them, look more genteel, are much ness, for all shall be given to salt; and we could thus compel individuals for the sake of life, to faithfully work out the directions of Scripture for the good of themselves and all

pleasanter and neater to make, and more agreeable in the sewing. It is the selvedge that flitters, selvedge that makes children fretful and spiteful.

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Fogeyism.-Expression is the form by and its credit to regard is determined by which human beings communicate their ide-its conformity to the established usages of as, and it is as varied as the tastes of people, and the combinations of language will permit, generally conventional in its nature, and adapted by education to the especial use for which it is intended in the interchanges of thought. Taste has a controlling influence in its application, and it is the criterion by which its character is determined-criteria are established, and a conformity to them is absolute to insure the respect scholars seek, and to which good scholarship is always entitled, and they are based on the standards of Science and Literature: departures from them, subject the innovator to the castigation of will, and to an expulsion from the circle of perfection and authority. Mutual conveniences, by which knowledge may be transmitted, and reciprocal changes instituted form to enquiring minds, one of the greatest comforts to intellectualities; and when obliquity is allowed to innovate, and mysticism thrown around the expressions under which ideas are presented, like a Nostrum among medical gentlemen, the whole profession is assailed, and no rest is allowed, until the cause of discrepancy is expelled from the ranks of consistency and order. We know the standard by example,

mind, by which its qualities are known, and its claims to consideration conferred. The long established rules of propriety in the use of language has been assailed by the use of a term in the Pulpit by an acknowledged scholar, the Rev. Mr. H. Ward Beecher, formerly a Hoosier, and by a Senator, of a long residence in the polite circles of Paris-Mr. Lewis Cass; and when there are such respectable authorities, we would not question their right to be above the Dictionary, even though they may have swallowed the whole of it. We attribute the use of the word Fogey, by so accomplished a scholar as Mr. Beecher, to the influence of Hoosierism, acquired during a long residence in Indiana-and as used by him, applied to human beings, "old Fogeys" in a serious discourse, meaning by inference, a class of independent old gentlemen, who understand matters and things-are peculiarly prejudiced in their own forms and uses; and who adhere to the old paths of conformity to established customs. Habits of their own by which they may be konwn as a class, and which correspond with similar predelections in all parts of the world; a comfortable fatsided well-developed corporation of old man