DEVOTED TO ANTI-SLAVERY, .TEM D) bl SAMUEL B. WARD, Editor. _ ALEX. M'ARTHUR, Cor. Editor. «s Del€-Meliance ig the True Road to Lndependence," TORONTO, CANADA WEST, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBE R 23, 1854. trectinie ic SRPROSPECTUS ) Setrn. Thorwaldsen found himself alone, with the hundred, and adyance you. a sum to begin | selves generally agreeable to the other sex, | in attendance asked the sufferer at what MGA 66) U6 358 oy-vie pigs RAR nnn | Verse of Scripture that was to furnish his | with.". The name of the visitor, which, like | and particularly conform to the taste of time the accident occurred. " Two o-clock, |4 = "ae Bettie fi ee The Beleaguered Cit subject before him, he was so terrified by that of Luman Reed of our own cily, should |-each individual of it. yer honor," was the reply. On being asked From the local column nd 5 ROVINCIAL FREEMAN ; ae y: the fear of failing, that he tried to made his | be writtenin letters of gold, was Thomas It is this that. has so long been demanded | how he came to fix the hour so accurately, | Anzeegex the following item : ee ae oe BY HUNG Y Wolo wGieE LOW) escape by a back staircase. Fortunately | Hope, the author of 4 Anastasius," of woman. It is not enough that she please | he answered, " Because I saw the people at} " Suca 1s Lire !?--¢ oo) > REV. 8 R. WARD, EDITOR. oie for art, one of the Professors met him on it is not our intention to follow Thorwald- | her own husband, fathers or brothers, but REY. ALEX. M'ARTHUR, COR. EDITOR. C . --_-- Pio The Provincial Freeman will be devoted to - Anti-Slavery, Temperance and General Litera- 'ture. The organ of no particular Political Party, ~-3t will open its columns to the views of men ot _ different political opinions, reserving the right, as an independent Journal, of full expression on all questions or projects.affecting the people in a po- _ litical way; and reserving, also, the right to ex- -._ press' emphatic condemnation of all projects, hav- ing for their object ina great or remote degree, ' the subversion of the principles of the British -- Constitution, or of British rule in the Provinces. a5 Not committed to the views of any religious sect exclusively, it will carefully observe the - rights of every sect, at the same time that a reser- vation shall be made in favor of an existing dif- ~ ference of opinion, as to the views or actions of the sects respectively. Se e formation on Agriculture,--and as an enemy to vice in any and every conceivable form and a promoter of good morals, it shall be made __ worthy of the patronage of the public: ee _M. A. SHADD, Publishing Agent. Office, 5, City Buildings, King Street. East, '. "Foronto. Business Directory. CHARLES MARCH OUSE Sign and Ornamental Painter, Grainer, Glazier =~ and Paper Hanger, Carver, Gilder and Glass Stainer. Mixed Paints, Putty, Enamelled and Plain Window Glass : and Looking Glass, for Sale at the lowest Cash prices. PPE 5 No. 29, King Street West, Toronto, 10th April, 1854. 4 is WR. S. S. MACDONELL, Barrister, At- ~iVi torney at Law, Notary Public, &c., &c., - . Windsor, C. W. ; - /PESSRS. R. P. & ADAM CROOKS, Bar- . x risters at Law, Attorneys and Solicitors, x _ Wellington Street, Toronto. "CAYLEY '& CAMERON, Barristers, &c., &c., Office _~ Church Street, next door to the Court House. "eae . .Wititam Cayiey, - Seer Marruew Crooks Cameron. eB J CONES, aos «.... . DEALER IN GROCERIES AND CROCKERY WARE, No. 814 DUNDAS STREET, LONDON, C. W. A NDREW HENDERSON, Auctioneer and : . Commission Merchant, No. 32, Yonge St., 'Toronto __ References,--Thomas. Clarkson,.Esq., Presi- dent of the Board of Trade; John Robertson, . __Esq.. Messrs. A. Ogilvie & Co.; Messrs. How- ______-ard Fiteh.; Messrs. D. Crawford & Co. | D. FARRAR, & CO., i IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN. oe. ae 'GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, &c. &c. -. NO. 15, DUNDAS STREET, LONDON, C.W. : aaa Seer VANKOUGHNET & BROTHER zee - ' BARRISTERS. Atntoreys, &c. &c.--Office in Church _ ++** Street, over*' The City Bank"' Agency, two doors south ee ef St. Andrew's Church. 3 CHARLES FLETCHER, BOOKSELLER anvo STATIONER, - » No. 54, Yonce Srrerr, > 4) = PORONTO, __ British and American Works imported and for _ 'sale at the smallest possible advance upon the ee : _ wholesale prices. BROWN «&. FLAMER, Ceo ee Late of Philadelphia. Se "PASHONABLE BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS, No 383 Saks King Street West. All work warranted to be done jna Superior Style. Repairing done with neatness and dis- _ patch. Feet measured on anatouzical principles. Toronto, March 18th, 1854. 2 - -=G HARCOURTS CLOTHING STORE, So ING, STRELA: CAST. Ls Bice aaa thas just received a very su- i perior assortment of West of England - Broad Cloths, Cassimeres, Doeskins, T weeds, - Vesting of the newest pattern and material. : 'Every article belonging to a gentleman's com- _ plete outfit kept constantly on hand.. pee ok GEO. HARCOURT, 11, King Street East. NOTICE. + ma, 13--Im. pa a ae | * that he is prepared to furnish the following articles at vholesale and retail : 'th ae Se AXE HANDLES... PICK. HANDLES, : 2 'ADZE HANDLES, BUCK-SAW FRAMES, "a __ SAW-HORSES, &c., made in the best manner. » Also by the Retail, New BUCK-SAWS, of the best - quality, in complete order for service. Also forShaw's _ Axes ready handled and also handles put into axes and other tools. : Ge ee ne T. SMALLWOOD'S Saw Factory, eee é York Street, No. 35. WATCHES, JEW (LRY, SILVER es t -AROONS, "SMPORTER and general dealer, at his old a ' stand, St. Paul's Street, St. Catharines; C. W.., 'offers at Wholesale and Retail, every description of Gold and Silver Watches, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, Pocket Cutlery, Razors, Spec- - tacles, Clocks, Mirrors, and a great variety of fancy goods. -- = ease ~~ An experienced workman will devote his whole 'attention to repairing Fine Watches and other job-work, which will be warranted. --- Seis je ecko 5 oF 95s ( a PARSONG, ££ a a E FINE € Me' 7 es oe Jeweller,j&ec. 16. St. Catharines, Canada. West. . Fashionable Hair Cutting ! F\HE SUBSCRIBER grateful to his old i ee trons, and the public 'generally, for their ; Otay ors, "would respectfully invite them. to 'visit him 'at the CITY BATHS, Front Street, Zast of Church Street, to which place he has 'Yately removed, where he will take great pleasure n waiting on all who may favor him with their an - patronage*in the 'line of HAIR CUTTING, BHAVING, HAIR CURLING, or SHAM- >OOING. | -- sawand Corp BATHS at all hours..29 © ae to dks Fo GARY. «| As an advertising medium, as a vehicle of in- =F ance which inspired the well- APVHE undersigned begs"to inform the public generally, | I have heard in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, ; That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldan's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There stood as in an awful dream; The army of: the dead. ; White as a.sea-fog, landward bound; The spectral camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, The River flowed between. No other voice or sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace: : The mist-like banners clasped the air, As clouds with clouds embraced. But when the cathedral bell Proclaimed the morning prayer, The white pavillions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Down the broad valley fast and tar _ The troubled army fled; : Up rose the glorious morning-star, The ghastly host was dead. I have read in the marvellous heart of man, That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of phantoms vast and wan Beleaguer the human soul. Encamped beside Life's rushing stream, In faney's misty light, Gigantic shapes and shadows gleam Portentious through the night. - Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen; And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, - Flows the river of life between. No other voice or sound is there, ___In the army of the grave; No other challenge breaks the air, But the rushing of Life's wave. And when the solemn and deep church bell -. Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell, The shadows sweep away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled, Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears are dead. Biographical Sketch of Thorwaldsen. Seventeen hundred and seventy was not a remarkable year in the general annals of Europe. Whitfield died; Lord North was made Prime Minister; Marie Antoinette first displayed at Versailles the grace and brilli nown rhapsody of Burke. Of the great events that were preparing on both sides of the Atlantic, poli- ticians saw little or nothing; but in the history of genius it stands recorded as the birth-year of Thorwaldsen; and the lovers of art, in ages yet remote, will look back to it with veneration and love. 'Thorwaldsen's father was a wood-carver; his mother, the daughter of a country vicar. In the records of early Scandinavian voy- ages, his father's name has been traced to one of those hardy mariners whose claims to the original discovery of America, after having been forgotten for centuries, have been. so successfully revived in our own day; and Thorwaldsen was a decendant of the first American that was ever born of European parents on the western shores of the Atlantic, His childhood was a rough one, of which he never loved to speak. His father worked in the navy-yard, spent his little earnings as fast as he got them; was good-hearted, kind, and indulgent; and this is about all that is known of him. His mother had been very beautiful, but poverty and its hard struggles had deprived her early of her personal charms. Neither of them lived to see their son's triumph. Two or three anecdotes of his early days have been preserved. One day he went out -with another boy to steal apples, and had clambered, with the help of his companion, to the top of the fence, when they were dis- troubling himself about Thorwaldsen, who fell and struck his chin against the fence, inflicting a wound that left its traces there to the day of his death. ; _ Another time he had got on the top of the sentry-box near the equestrian statue in the great square of Copenhagen. Here, too, his companions got off safely, while he was carried to the guard-house, and his 'parents publicly reprimanded for their son's trangression. _ In art, he got his: first lessons from his father, who quickly taught him all he knew. Ateleven he began to attend the evening -drawing-school at the Academy of Art. His father and mother taught him to read, and this was all the direct instruction that he ever received. At seventeen he won his first prize at the Academy, a smalf¥ilver medal; and his parents, who had scarcely forgotten the public reprimand he had drawn down upon them, now had the satisfaction of seeing his name honorably mentioned jo the newspapers. Two years afterwards, he gained a second prize, and warmly encouraged to devote himself exclusively to art. | Abildgaard, an historial painter, and one of the Professors at the Academy, took particular pains to give a right direction to his studies ; and some young artists, whose acquaintance he formed, set him. upon a course of reading, which laid the first sure foundations of a more general culture. Every year the Academy gave a gold medal to the successful competitor in the de- partment of sculpture. Thorwaldsen was persuaded by his friends to try for it. : The candidates on these occasions are shut up, each by himself, in a room, where they re- ceive their subject and prepare their designs, | without any chance of assistance. When | low, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The sub- | the time for starting came, his heart failed -was actually going, he put a small box of -- "There was already a celebrated Dane at covered. His companion ran away, without | | dred sequins," said he. his way, and succeeded in persuading him to return. He went back, won the prize, and with it a new protector, Count Revent- ject was, " Heliodorus driven from the temple." His next prize, which he gained after an- other interval of two years. brought with it the right to travel three years on a pension. Instead, however, of going at once, he re- mained four years longer in Copenhagen, on an annual stipend, studying the languages and science, and preparing himself to per- form his part worthily. Both his patrons found him abundant employment. When him; and here again we have to thank his friends for urging him to the second great and decisive step in his career. War was ra- ging on land and sea, and it was no easy mat- ter to get to Italy. The frioate Thetis, how- ever, was bound to the Mediterranean; and Reventlow secured him a passage in her. He bade his father and friends adieu, but did not dare to say good-bye to his mother, who could not bring herself to look upon a separation which her heart told her must be final. So, without telling her that he ducats into her hands, and stole away. It was the 13th of Aucust, 1796. Fraught with gales and the daily danger of falling in with enemies, the passage was a long and adventurous one, giving him a glimpse of Spanish life at, Malaga, and of Moorish at Tripoli. All the officers took a great liking to him; and the captain and chaplain tried hard, but vainly, to get him to take advantage of his leisure and learn ltalian. But this he would not do; and when the hour of separation came, he was so unwilling to separate himself from his countrymen that he would fain have given up his travelling pension and returned with them to Copenhagen. But his friends were too true to listen to him; and embarking, with many tears, in a small coaster that was going from Malta to Palermo, he went first to Sicily, thence to Naples, where he staid a month, and at last to Rome, which he reach- ed on the 8th of March, 1797; a day to which he used to look back, when his fame was at its height, as the true day of his birth. Rome, the antiquarian Zoega, of which Heeren makes pleasant mention in his auto- biography. "Thorwaidsen brought him let- ters, and was received kindly. |The advice and criticisms of the old man were of oreat service _to him; but Zoega did not fully comprehend the character of his youne countryman, and soon wearied him with his rigorous style of criticism, which genius will never submit to unless it feels its real merit is appreciated. As for Thorwaldsen, he felt, to borrow his own expression, that the snow had melted away from his eyes. For the first time, he knew himself and_ bis own powers, and resolutely set himself to cultivate them. He studied hard, not draw- ing and modelling only, but pursuing the other studies to which Zoega had directed his attention, and which he now felt he must master before he could be perfectly at home in his art. Three years he toiled day and night resolutely. Many were the statues he set up and finished, and when he had done all he could to them, either des- troyed or mutilated. as yet unworthy to be seen. [lis compositions on paper were still more numerous, some of them finished drawings, but the greater part sketches of subjects and studies from the life. His ideal rose with his power of execution ; and these years were a kind of struggle to re- veal himself, which. still ended in the con- sciousness of something more to be revealed, Meanwhile, time had been gliding by him, and the term of his pension was almost expired. He now resolved to do something which should prove to his country that her bounty had not been injudiciously bestowed. His mind was already richly stored with mythology, and from this treasure-house of sculpture he chose the Hero of the Golden Fleece on his triumphant return. It was finished in April, 1801. But when it was all done, he became dissatisfied and destroy- edit. He was nct discouraged. The sub- ject had taken a strong hold of his imagina- tion, and after a short interval he came back to it again. This time, however, instead of confining himself to the size of life, he chose the heroic size, the natural proportions of heroes and demi-gods.. It was completed in January, 1803, and immediately attracted that atten- tién which, in Rome, is given only to works of unquestionable merit. And now, he was to go home. His pen- sion had expired, his means were exhausted, he had neither hopes nor commissions. He packed up his small stock, leaving his statue to be sent to Denmark by the first opportu- nity, and was only waiting for his travelling companion, a German artist, to enter the carriage, when his companion came to teil him he must wait another day. The trunk was carried up stairs again, and Thorwaldsen went to take another look at his Jason. While he was standing before it, a cicerone came in, with a rich English traveller who had heard it spoken of, and wished to see it. " How much would it cost to put it in marble ?" asked the visitor, whose intelligent eye was instantly struck by its merit. It was the first time Thorwaldsen had ever heard this welcome question. 'Six hun- "Six hundred sen minutely through the rest of his career --still a struggle for many years, not for existence, but for supremacy, and then a triumph, such as no artist ever had before. The strugele for supremacy was long, and not free from bitterness. Canova was at the height of his fams, and in the full pos- session of his cinizepé powers. 'A firm band ie, around him, many of whom were bound to him, also, by the ties of gratitude. N aturally large-minded, and of noble instincts, he used generously the immense fortune and influ- ence which he had won by tie successful cultivation of his arts. But his love of glory had grown with possession, and he could ill brook a rival*in the field which he had been accustomed to look upon as his own. It was long before his partisans would acknowledge the claims of the young compe- litor, equally unwelcome as a Protestant and a foreigner. But statue after statue came from his hands, with arapidity and growing perfection which compelled them to treat him with respect. At first they contented themselves with dividng the field; and as Thorwaldsen had aligady manifested his predilection for bas-relef, they spoke of that as his peculiar and unquestionable province --Thorwaldsen f.r bas-relief, Canova for statues. But at last they were constrained to acknowledge that he could make statues too. In 1811, he was appointed Professor in the Academy of St. Luke, and shortly afterwards made his yreat bas-relief of the Triumph of Alexander, which spread his fame over Europe. Commissions, honors, and titles poured in upon him from every quarter. Kings and Emperors came to visit him in his private stulio; and if the visits which he made to Gemnany, Austria, and Poland, he was treated with the attention reserved for the highest rank. He made three visits to Denmask On the first, he was received with every mark of respect, and apartments prepared for him in the Academy of Art, where he was constantly surrounded by all the eminent men of the country. On the second, a frigate was put under his orders, and was sent for him to Leghorn. . And when she arrived the whole city poured forth to meet him. Cannons were fired, bells rung, banners displayed, and his carriage dragged in triumph by the arms of men who contended for the honor of getting near hisperson. He had resolved to give his native city the original cast of all his works, and the building that was to ceive them, under the name of the Thor- waldsen Museum, was begun during this visit. His return to.Rome was a Series of triumphal receptions; and at Rome, all the artists and a laree band of friends met him with a solemn welcome at the Mulvian bridge, race Yet, he was still the same plain, simple man, in the midst of all these honors, walk- ing about as he had always done, and living in the same apartments chat he had-occupied at the first dawn of his fortunes. In these last years he had sought his subjects chiefly in the Scriptures, and modelled, among many other thing-, a series of bas-reliefs from scenes in the life of Christ. Though still strong and without any symptoms of intellectual decay, he knew that the end was approach- ing, and looked calmly from the height of an ambition more than gratified, towards the mysteries of the future, The morning after his final return to Copenhagen, in 1842, he. went to visit the Museum, which had been progressing' raj idly during his absence, and as he passed through the court, was seen to fix a calm anggthoughtful look upon the elevated spot in the centre, which he had chosen for his burial-place. And there his ashes rest, with all the records of his great- ness around him. Happy man, who, living for a great and noble end, consecrated the fruits of his labors to the glory of his country! Happy country, which fostered so kindly the genius of her son, and freely bestowed in life those honors which are so often coldly réserved for the grave! Mliscellaneous. Man's Sphere. BY? MRS. 8 Wel S38 ee Me We are glad to see that woman are re- paying the immense debt of gratitude our sex owes to mankind, for the very great pains which have been taken to. define woman's sphere. "One @@ the strone- minded" addressed the editor of Putnam, in the September number, and in return for a late article in that magazine on " women and the woman's movement," defines the proper sphere of man. The male geogra- pher assumes that man is the best judge of what is proper in women, and vice versa, she improves upon the suggestions by mark- ing some outlines of a man's sphere. It Is so very common for each man, in defining woman's sphere, to say what he should like his wife to do,and what to leave undone, that she retaliates by saying what she should like her husband to do, and what to refrain from doing. She knows a man who works in worsted, and as she would not like to have her husband so employed, concludes that worsted work is out of man's sphere, and expects that all men will avoid contact with Berlin wool, in order to make themselves worthy of this distinction. It is no matter that the wife of the worsted worker may fully approve his employment; his, sex is to be elevated to the dignity ours has already a sequins is not enough; I will give you eight -- of disciples and adwiirers was gathered of I know not what generalizations' deduct- "colored buttons. too high for him, let him chop wood, become every scribbler and stump orator in the community demands that the entire sex conform their actions to his taste. - This lady writer complains, with the same show of reason, that many men engage in occupations which she should disapprove, and requires them all to consult her wishes about what is proper to be done, for the gentler offices of the world's work, men insist that no woman shall 'do anything else--except menial drudgery, and she re- plies by saying: _ "Itrequires buta glance at the masculine man to perceive, that though he does not combine in himself all human excellences, he is strong and brave and far-seeing. It is evident, therefore, that all men of all times, whatever be their individual characteristics or tendencies, whatever the measure of their capacities, ought to be engaged in such labors either bodily or mental, as are suited to the Herculean powers of their sex. There must be no doffing the lion's skin to spin with Omphale. 'Nature pardons no mistakes' She has formed-the male man to do the hard work and the hard thinking of the world, and whenever he forsakes his proper business, the interests of society must suffer in consequence. "Tt is undeniable that there are multi- tudes of men (weak-minded men) who con- descend to light and easy pursuits, far more suitable to the delicate perceptions, the in- stinctive tact, and aptness for retail which characterise woman. 'This is a growing evil and needs to be checked. Instead of ¢ ful- filling their mission,' by performing the onerous tasks that are too heayy and ex- hausting for the delicate constitution of woman, and unsuited to her higher nature, men have undertaken a. great variety of manufactures requiring neither strength of muscle nor vigor of intellect. They have condescended to petty shop-keeping, to. the vending of laces, and ribbons, and dolls? heads. Fancy the sinewy arm, and strong hand of aman deploying webbs of gauzy texture before the eyes of lady customers, --and worse yet, with 'large brain,' capable ing the cent a yard, ' because it is you!" " An hour ago, I dismissed from my door life, with a small tin trunk full of various > Hoosac yet to be tunnelled--the North Pole to be reached--the Pacific railroad and Atlantic telegraph yet to be constructed-- perpetual motion and the quadrature of the circle to be arrived at? If these things are the 'chambermaid of cattle,' or vindicate his growing beard in some way.' ' We feel it to be our duty' to warn the public against the dangcrous example of these pedestrian sellers of buttons and sowing silk. To be sure it is avery harmless thing when only now and then an unsexed masculine takes a fancy to so small a 'business, but suppose any considerable number of men should forsake their ' proper sphere' to engage in such pursuits; in short, (for our reason and rhetoric may as well jump at once to the customary climax,) we should not like to have 'our husband' peddle buttons, and therefore it is unbecoming for any man to do' so. : Men have invaded the province of woman, by assuming the exclusive management of public schools for children, wherever those schools exist. Now, if there is a man, in one of our fair States, that does not know that the peculiar, especial business of all women, at all ages, and under all circum- stances, is the care of children, 'to mould the rising generation,' to train up the future men of our Republic in the way they should go, that man must be extremely ignorant. Of course, he does not ' take the papers.' But women, even the mothers of the child- ren, are shut out from all legitimate influ- ence over the public schools. We ought not to submit to this. The next thing, we shall find the nursery itselfinvaded, and men will take the very pap-spoon and bib "from our hands. If the ' men' are really siacere when they say that our especial mission is to mould the characters and form the minds and manners of the young, we may hope to live to see the dawn of the day when their oxpaced 'judgment' shall slowly bring them to the conclusion, that, if woman is to train and educate the future men of the Republic, itis necessary for her to have the legal and pecuniary means of doing so. But our feminine impulsiveness is such that we can hardly refrain from goading on the delibe- rate sex a little, on this subject. ce «¢We are willing that a man should dab- ble in ink and write books so long as his doing so does not involve the wie's com- fort,' but let his. books always be of the masculine order--vigorous--original--hu- morous--profound. Dreams, and fancies, and reveries, though beautiful as the fringes of the morning cloud, and sparkling as the early dew, are not for him. Shallowness of thought, and inconsequential arguments are unpardonable in the strong-minded sex. We cannot forgive the man that is so un- wise as to offer to the reading public, weak and worthless trash. He had better follow the plough, stand at the anvil, or even sit and 'lean his ' large brain' against the wall, like poor Mr. Jellyby." Kerrpine A Goop Loox-our.--An Irish brick-layer was one day brought to the Edinburgh infirmary severely injured from obtained, of being required to make them- | As Nature has especially ordained woman | a stalwart youth. equipped for the battleof |... Hy -ON rds Oy ie er down." ABO Be PE From the Philadelphia Merchant, Aug. 19th. The Merchant. is made up of "Tare and tret, Box and net," quite so long as the sun ; and that it has con- ditions and claims relating to a higher spher of action and a nobler state of bemg 3; con- ditions and.claims that cannot be avoided nor tance of much of its loveliness, and the beauty and grandeur of its proportions. . It is not quite enough that the books in the cownting-room of business life are balan- ced. 'The sharp, shrewd, hard-dealing mon- ey-maker may set himself down in the splen- did parlor of his princely mansion, and say, "Thank God, I am even with the world and owe itnothing!" There may be some One Lilse whose books don't show quite as fair as bis, having been kept on different principles and different views of the érwe and the might. 'The ledger book on High may not balanee with the ledger book below, showing that "there is more in heaven," if not on earth, "than is dreamed of in bis philosophy." But ponder well the lesson conveyed in the following lines :-- Tare and tret, Box and net, Box and hogshead, dry and wet, Ready made, -- Of every grade, W holesaie, retail, will yov trade ? Goods for sale, Roll or bale, Ell or quarter; yard or nail, Every dye, Will you buy ? None ¢an sell as cheap as I. 'Thus each day Wears away, 3 And his hair is turning grey! ¢ UWver Ais pb He nightly looks, Bye and bye He will die-- ~ : But the ledger book on high Shall unfold How he sold, How he got and used his gold! Is the Human Stature Diminishing? It isa very common opinion, thatin early ages of the world, men in general possessed superior physicel properties, and were of greater size than they are at present ; and this notion of diminished stature and strength seems to have been just as preva- lent In ancient times fas at present. Pliny observes of the human heicht, that "the whole race of mankind is daily becoming smaller ;" an alarming prospect if it had been true. Homer more than once makes a very disparaging comparison between his own degenerate contemporaries and the heroes of the Trojan war. But all the facts and circumstances which can be brought forward on this subject, tend to convince us, that the human form has not degenerated and that men of the present age are of the same stature as in the beginning of the world. In the first place, thoug we read both in sacred and profane history of giants, yet they were at the time when they lived, es- 'teemed as wonders ahd far above the ordinary proportions of mankind. All the remains of the human body (as bones, and particularly the teeth) which have been found unchanged in the most ancient urns and burial places, demonstrate this point clearly. The oldest coffin in the world is that found in the great pyramid of Egypt; and Mr. Greaves observes that this sarco- phagus hardly exceeds the size of our or- dinary cotfins, being scarcely six feet and a-halflong. From louking also at the height of mummies which have been brought to this country, we must conclude that those who inhabited Egypt two or three thousand years ago were not superior in size to the present inhabitants of that country. Lastly, all the facts, which can be collected from ancient works of art, from armor, as helmets and brestplates, or from buildings designed for the abode and accomodation of men, concur in strengthening the proofs against any de- cay innature. 'That man has uot degenera- ted in stature in consequence of the effects of civilization is clear; because the inhabi- tants of savage countries, as the natives of America, Africa, Australia, or South Sea Islands, do not exceed us in size.--Scoltish Guardian. sh -S 2 Oo Tue Masor's Last.--Major M c, of perpetrated one the other night, by which several were victimized, but it was good, notwithstanding: "Speaking of the vora- city of sharks," said the Major, " when the some too years since, the steward lost over- board a silver ladle of considerable value. Nearly a year subsequent a shark was cap- tured near the mouth of the Potomac, and on being opened, what do you think was found in him?" | " The «silver ladle, course," we replied, quite unsuspectingly. a fall frdm a house-top. 'The medical man " No," said the Major, " his maw." dinner, through a window, as I was coming The following little morcaeu, which we came across accidentally the other day, is | | perfect in its way. It contains the whole of the life history of thousands in a nutshell ; and it is as good as a whole volume of moral- ity. How many may be found all over the land whose entire existence from the age of twenty till dusky death snatches them away, through toil and sweat, forgetting, or rather never thinking that life's lease seems not neglected without robbing our present exis- | | Of the sons, the eldest one, an XC | with his mother, Counts his gain and-bultshietievkom----f Washington, who is very fond of a good joke, - steamer /alizc was lying near Alexandria, of. early in the morning, tha: ance, which takes the poor fri the City Cemetry, at the Ci ted in front of a house i over the deserted streets tery ee Sa " Not one followed the wag ry look--not one stood at feeling heart, when the earth coffin; and yet, this coffin cor corpse of a lady, who once was a hundreds--who once was hono and envied in society--who riches, and who, but a few he trod the shores of this conti expect_a happy and contented old This lady was Rosa Nesche ter of an immensely wealth man. In early youth she w: Imperial Court of Austria, w year, she was married to a Fre man, who was also very rich.. R chemi lived many long and happy partly upon the possessions of her h partly travelling through Ger ftaly, and England, and gave i sons, who received the best educa upon whom the eyes of the parent with great pride. OP ee ae "' But then, the July Revoluti came, JXosa's husband took a co and active part in it, and on the from the effect of three shots ¥ i ceived. His name is still honored place on the column in the Plac Bastille, 42% Basa gifted young man, was surpassing) ful in Spain, and was, at tk € secretary to King Ferdinand. Af King's death, he removed to a Ha neighborhood of Valencia, where it is ed, he fell a prey to the dagger "The second son, who had to the ministers of the chu cial favourite of Pope Gregory, ; also soon after that event. oe " The third son, yet very young, r Switzerland, w eor-ruined farinne Tp i he left his mother and came tc New Orleans he soon found employy earned much money. Bad associatio: his own inclination to dissipation, led deviate from the proper path, and some years ago, he grasped at the last and contemptible means to save his credi persuaded his old mother to cross the She could not refuse the prayer of her 'son, and arrived. pay She succeeded in bringing with he 000, which sum was spent by her sor very short time. Abouta year ago he ed his career in New Orleans, being er ed as a deputy sheriff, he killed a stabbing him. He escaped to Cal and his old mother to whom New O naturally became a place of extreme h turned her steps toward St. Louis, One day last week, early in the mor the miserable city hearse conveyed the mains of Aosa Neschemi to the last un for resting place? Such is life! ~ Sineunar Facrin Deatu St --It appears that the total number of de in the cholera year (1849) for all Ex and Wales, was 440,839 ; but in 189! number of deaths fell to 368,995, « not only 71,844 less than in the ¢ year, but even less than the number o of the year preceding that of the cholora as many as 30,832. * * Tf we take deaths of the two years together which | ceded the cholera, and strikes the treat the year of the cholera, and pensating year that follows, in the ner, we shall find that the four years ; nearly the same average. * * So reality, it is found, when the ag rega four years is taken, either fo : England, or for the metropolis ouly, greater number of people died in those because of the cholera intervening, the cholera had not visited us.--[ Dr. | ville, in the Medical 'Times and Gaze 3S Be Inpustrious.--We do n here the industry of the hands alo the perseverance in whatever we un that is the sure precursor of ultimate 'Never allow the mind or the body t nate; activity is necessary to the bh both. Always have somé view, in whatever you undertake ; re ing that to fail with good intention honorable than success in a a A Dream IntTEerprerep.--A Yokel was paying his addresses to: of the country, who had long despaire bringing things to a crisis. Yokel one day, when she alone was. at ho After setiling the merits of the wee Miss said, looking slyly into his face dreamed of you last mght!? "Did you! why now!" : "Yes, I dreamed you kissed me!? «Why now! What did you dr mother said ?"" ison Are " Oh I dreamed she wasn't at _A light now dawned on Yokel's int and directly something was heard to er perhaps Yokel's whip, and perhaps about a month more, and they ere