| | | | Song for Thinkers. Take the spade of Perseverance, Dig the field of Progress wide ; Every rotten root of faction Hurry out, and cast aside ; Every stubborn weed of error, _ Eyery seed that hurts the soil, ares, whose very growth is terror-- Dig them out what're the toil! Give the stream of Education, Broader channel, bolder force ; Hurl the stones of persecution Out, where'or they block its course ; 'or Strength in self-exertion, Work and still have faith to wait ; Close the crooked gate to fortune, Make the road to honor straight ! en are agents for the future, As they work so ages win Hither harvest of advancement Or the product of their sin! Follow our true cultivation, Widen Education's ree ' From the majesty of Nature Teach the majesty of man ! Tako the spade of Perseverance, Dig the field of progress wide; Every bar to true instruction, Carry out and castaside; Feed the plant whose fruit is wisdom. Cleanse from crime the common sod, So that from tho throne of heayen, It may bear the glance of God. TIMES GO BY TURNS. BY ROBERT SOUTHWELL 1562--1595. The lopped treo in time may grow again, Most naked plants renew both fruit and T5 The sorriest wight may find release of pain, The driest soil suck in some moistening shower: Time goes by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse. Tho sea of fortune doth not ever flow, She draws hor favors to the lowest ebb : Her tides haye equal time to come and go ; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web : No joy so great but runneth to an end, No hap so hard but may in fine amend. Not always fall of leaf, nor ever spring ; Not endless night, yet not eternal day : The saddest birds a season find to sing, The roughest storm a calm may soon allay. Thus with succeeding turns, God tempereth That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall. A chance may win that by mischance was ee that holds no great takes little ane In some things all, in all things none are cross'd ; Few all they need, but none have all they wish. Unmingled joys here to no man befall Who least, hath some, who most, hath never all. See ee No. 1. Report of E. P. Benham. Br. Brss, Permit me, through the " Voice," to ac- knowledge the following sums paid, and pledges given for the Refugee Home Society, in addition to those already published. James Converse, Medina, Lenawee Co., Michigan - - - - ®@5 0 James Dawes - - - - 5 0 Caius Canda, Silvina, Lucas Co., Ohio, pd @5 - = - - 10 0 J. C. White - - - - ee on 0) 8.R. Hathaway - - - - 10 0 Andrew Printup - - - - 5 0 A. C. Winslow, Maumee City,O.- 6 0 Wm. Merritt - - - - 5 0 - Wm. E. Parmellac Emery, Fulton County - iG - a a =e 10) 0 eorge Donaldson, | Ridge, . * San. Co, - - - - - 5 0 Oliver C. Tillingboet, Berlin, Erie Gauniye =e ee te ee Or. 0 John W. Godfrey, Sandusky City - a0 Thomas Hogg, paid + + = Tr 0 John Ervin - - > fe ae 3 0 Edward Niel ee el el Lt SA 10 Dr. Cochrane . - . - S. Seimson - - - - - 20 E. Smith, pid - + «* - 10 H. P. Radcliffe, paid - . - 2 0 H.U. Barber,pad - - + 5 0 D. Booth = - - - + + 3 0 G. J. Reinolds - - - - 5 0 Thomas Neale, paid, Pittsfield, Lor- raine County - - - = 10° 0 Nathan Taylor, paid - - = 5 0 Jas., Wm. and John Probate, 50c ea. 1 50 Erastus Bradley - - - + 1 0 J. C. Rogers, paid 2 . is 5 0 H. W. McConoughy, paid - = 5 0 J. Barnard and Wite, paid - € 20 Washington West, paid -~ s 5 0 D. Davis, 50¢., D. Lucas, 50c. - 0 'Stern & Shornlee, 50c. each . 10 Hunter and Bailey, 50¢ each a i. 0 R. Gunn, White Lake, Michigan, additional - - - 5 0 John Gunn - - - - - 10 0 Thomas James' ~- - - - 10 0 J. 8. Carpenter, Summit Co., Ohio 5 0 Joseph Cole ee SRI Ba ESF SABBEO N. W. Goodhue - - - - 20 Hensel Miller, paid - - - 30 Jonathan Myers - - - - 20 Henry Howe, paid mb reste 8 ERO) John Hale - - - - - 2 0 H. M. King igen: See O H. Sawyer, paid - - - - e0 C. P. Walcott = - - - - 3 0 L. Swift. - - = - - 5 0 L. V. Bierce - - - - 10 0 "Daniel McNaughton, Middlebury - 50 0 Royalton, Cuyahaga Co., Ohio Wm. Townsley, paid - - - 20 0 % & Frances Norton - - Daniel Harris - - T. B. Coates, paid . Joseph Teachout, paid - Aaron Greanger paid - I. Bark, paid | )-.. =. T. A. Miner 5 = John Tompkins, paid - Francis P, Howe, paid Thomas Aken, paid Lewis Prindle, paid A. Morison - - George Guest - Edwin Wilcox, paid Joseph Smith, paid Helen Tyler, paid John Ferris - T. Meacher, paid - J. B. Stewart - James Towsley, pai Lewis Howe - H. Teachant, jun., paid Dr. Lanphear, paid O. H. Greays - Cory Oakes, Bricksville Jabies Hansmoon, paid W. F. Storrs, paid W. S. Kennedy, paid B.S. Avery paid - Isaac Oakes - 8. Birge - - E. Wyatt. - - John Walling, paid John Dunbar - Charles H. Dunbar Daniel H. Morgan, paid Charles Reynolds - Sarah H. Morgan - E. W. Clark - Jarard Clark - K. Dwight, paid - Edmund Bentlett - ----- Bontlett, paid Stephen Tylon - ©. Colson B. Colson Abner L. Boydon Edward Rust Wm. Brown Cheeseman Miller, paid Moses Hunt, paid - J. W. Weld, Richfield, pai Samuel J. Brown, ae Heman Oavitt, pai F. E. Ellsworth, paid Nathaniel Oviatt, paid Orval Bange, paid Langdon Barker, paid Uri Oviat, paid = - Chauncy Gilbert, paid W. B. Munson, paid Wm. S. Wadhous, paid or ooococcecoo Ud Lae Vie eae beak Ml ocak Wis Jaa fen Sah OR) Sa | CA Vf ae MN TEAR vay tie CA a oS Ja | Ke | ac Tati / Ea LIT) rs Oy A eS OR Re SU ag ~I ac Dewey ed) Lb beh ebeed) ne pre Re Or Bae eae we Oe ee eceooocoococoecoocococococ$cae wo eocowmpnoocoococoscoooocooooocoocooccococoecocoen or DROP Oss Bik Sci Mh "hm WMO heg Otek belay BO Oy BO Bahn Bia Dye Fi eB Oe B88 eb ee Yo aa 8 te 09 Se) er ee ee 8 aly 8) a8 ee os es P. Voris, Bath, Summit Co., paid - H. Mack - - Allen Smith - B. B. Rogers, paid John Roads, paid A. F. Tayler, paid Henry White - Porter Miller, paid Wm. Mc Neil - Samuel P. Wilson R. Downer, paid = James S. Lennond Wm. Hale, paid = Andrew Hale, paid Jonathan Hale - Cuyahaga Falls, Ohio E.N. Sill, paid = + T. M. Smith - Wm. H. Hanford - J. B. Harrison ° James Rattle, paid Adams and Gayland A. G. Bill - Jabin Hamlin - J.T. Halleway = - Charles Chamberlin One day's work. Rayana, Portage County, Ohio, Jaraed Swift, paid - William M. Folgar R. H. Gillett, paid William P. Harjen, paid W. Williamson, paid From the last two places we expect con- siderably more, as friends were not at home. Charlestown, Portage Co. C. B. Curtis, paid Collected in Church {Smith Hall, paid . E. Wetmore, paid R. Loomis, paid. W. H. Curtis . C, L. Coe and P. Cook. Franklin. John Perkins Almon Russell Wm. Clure Joseph Mack J. Neye, paid John Read Seneca Green Meee OR eS HE DE EE DHE Ee eee bE Oe OR EE EO ee BS BOR BOR EE WOR DDE EDR EOE Ee Dee DE OHH OOO OR GH OF eee pe _ 1; SRE aie a Whe. t cee Ae Dae 8. PCE Oars? Oe tt (28 €58 Bre 4 cooocooocooc$jeao. E26 Ry Waa ey ee. or ee tefee Or Or & or cooooo oO 6 OH © erve Tide tee ares ae a oooseéoweo ee re * - . . . . won © 6 fw 8 Isaac Russell ' . Anson J. Horton . » ' Olem Moore, paid , é At most of the places I have left subscrip- tion papers with good men, and also in places that I have not heard from. Some haye taken papers to circulate in their neighborhood, and some when they preach, for there are some that are not afraid to preach the truth notwithstanding the ac- cursed enactment of those that would put out the light of manhood in men much better than themselves ; and let me tell you, that men professing to be Whigs.and Democrats, hate the odious thing, and will give money to assist the fleeing to obtain a home in the land of the brave--the land where men think more of principle than of dollars and cents. me ee te ooo oooooce Yours for justice and right, E. P. Benwam. Nothing more easy than to do_mischiof ; nothing more difficult than to suffer without complaining. He who lives only to benefit himself, gives the world a benefit when he dies. Persecution in Portugal. The Arno, a screw steamship plying be- tween the Mediterranean and Liverpool, has brought home a youth of sixteen, whose name it would not be prudent to mention, a fugitive from political persecution in Leg- horn. Half an hour before the Arno left Leghorn, he was brought on board, conceal- ed in a sack, and placed for safety among the provisions in the lazaret. The person in charge of the parcel, paid its passage money to England, and thus far was all Captain Haram knew about the matter at the time. On getting clear of the port however, it turned out that the sack, like many of those occasionally dropped in the Bosphorus, con- tained a living freight; and a dark-eyed boy made his appearance to claim the protection of the commander of the vessel. His only credentials were an appeal to the feelings of humanity to assist a fellow creature in dis- tress and a letter of introduction to Messrs. McKean, McLarty, & Co. of this town. It appeared that this young gentleman and a number of other precocious spirits had form- ed themselves into a secret society or club, for the printing and circulation of religious and political works, among which the distri- bution of the Bible and pamphlets on "the freedom of Italy," formed a prominent part. The authorities haying got wind of their pro- ceedings, several of the number were arrest- ed and summarily shot: and to escape a similar fate, our hero was embarked on board the Arno. His parents knew nothing of his connection with the affair, until start- led by the appearance of the soldiers to de- mand the person of their son; and for a couple of days previous to the Arno's arrival at Leghorn, he had been removed from house to house in the suburbs ofthe city, to escape detention.--Liverpool Standard. OBSTINACY. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him : for when ho is once pos- sessed of an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty. Whatsoover he lays hold on, like a drunken man, he never loses, though it do but help to sink him sooner. His ignorance is abrupt and in- accessible, impregnable both by art and na- ture, and will hold out to the last, though it has nothing but rubbish to defend. It is as dark as pitch, and sticks as fast to anything it lays hold on. The man's skull is so thick that it is proof against reason, and never cracks but on the wrong side, just opposite to where the impression was made, which surgeons say does happen very frequently. The slighter and more fnooutetent his opi- nions are, the faster he holds them, other- wise they would fall asunder of themselves ; for opinions that are false ought to be held with more strictness and assurance than those that are true, otherwise they will be apt to betray their owners before they are aware. He delights most of all to differ in things indifferent, no matter how frivolous they are, they are weighty enough in his weak judgment; and he will rather suffer self-martyrdom, than part with one scruple of his freehold, for it is impossible to dye his dark ignorance into any lighter color. He is resolved to understand no man's reason but his own, because he finds no man can understand his but himself. His wits are like a sack, which the French proverb says is tied faster before it is full, than when it is; and his opinions are like plants that grow upon rocks, that stick fast though they have no footing. The man's understanding is hardened like Pharoah's heart, and is proof against all sorts of judgments whatsoever. A Curtous Reric We saw a man yes- terday, who had in his possession a pocket knife upwards of eighty years old. The blade was about four inches long, and an inch wide, rounding at the point. It was manufactured by an Indian in the Mackinaw country, the blade being a part of a sword taken from a Frenchman in the celebrated French and In- dian war, the bone of one side was from the thigh of an Indian, and. that on the other from the thigh bone of an English soldier, killed at the heights of Abraham, inCanada, where Gen. Wolfe lost his life. From the associations connected with it, it has become a great curiosity. It is really a relic of the past.-- Cincinnati Inquirer. Wuat MAY BE DONE with Oxp Rags. --There is a church actually existing, near Bergin, which can contain nearly one thou- sand persons, It is circular within, octagonal without. The relievos outside, and the statues within, the roof, the ceiling, the Co- rinthian capitals, are all of papier-mache, rendered waterproof by a saturation in vit- riol, lime-water, whey, and white of egg. We haye not yet reached this pitch of auda- city, in our use of paper; but it should hardly surprise us, inasmuch as we employ the same material in private houses, in steam-boats, and in some public buildings, instead of carved decorations and plastered cornices. When Frederick the Second of Prussia set up a limited papier-mache manu- factory at Berlin, in 1765, he little thought that paper cathedrals might, within a cen- tury, spring out of his snufl-boxes, by the sleight of hand of advancing art. At pre- sent, we old-fashioned English, who haunt cathedrals, and build churches, like stone better. But there is no saying what we may come to, It isnot very long since at seemed as impossible to cover eighteen acres of ground with glass, as to erect a pagoda of soap bubbles; yet the thing is done. When we think of a psalm sung by one thousand | voices pealing through an edifice made of old rags, and the universal element bound down to carry our messages with the speed of light, it would 'be presumptuous to say what can, and what can not, be achieved by science and art, under the training of steady old Time.-- Dicken's Household Words. Physical Facts. The following physilogical facts were translated from a French scientific journal: "The ayerage height of man and woman, at birth is generally 19 inches. In each at twelve years after birth, one-twelfth is added to the stature each year. Between the ages of twelve and twenty, the growth of the body is slower; and it is still further dimi- nished after this up to twenty-five the period of maximum growth. In old age the height of the body diminishes on an ayerage of about 3 inches. The height of woman varies less than that of man in the different coun- tries, The average weight, of male, infants is about 7 pounds; of a female about 6} pounds The weight of an infant decreases for a few days after its birth, and does not sensibly commence growing until it is a week old. At the end of the first year, three times as heavy as when it was born. At the age of seven years, it is twice as heavy as when one year old. The average weight of both sexes at twelve is nearly the same; after that pe- riod, females will be found to weigh less than males. The average weight of men is about 130 pounds,-and of women 112 pounds. In the case of individuals of both sexes, under 4 feet 4 inches, females are somewhat hea- vier than men, and vice versa. Men attain their maximum weight at forty, and women at or near fifty. By sixty, both sexes usually commence losing weight so that the average weight of old persons, men or women, 1s nearly the same as at nineteen. No More Corns. There is no doubt some quackery in the corn-doctor's trade, but there is more igno- rance. For the benefit of both him and his patients, we will now disclose a secret which will relieve humanity from a load of misery, not the less difticult to bear that it is unpitied or ridiculous. The cause of corns, and likewise of the torture they occasion, is sim- ply friction; and to lessen friction you have only to use your toe as you do in like cir- cumstances a coach-wheel--lubricate it with some oily substance. The best and cleanest thing to use is a little sweet oil, rubbed on the affected part (after the corn is carefully pared) with the finger, which should be done on getting up in the morning, and just be- fore stepping into bed at night. Ina few days the pain will diminish, and in a, few days more it will cease, when the nightly application may be discontinued. The writer of this paragraph suffered from these horrible excrescences for years. He tried all sorts of infallible things, and submitted to the manipulations of the corn-doctor; but allin vain; the more he tried to banish them the more they wouldn't go; (which happened once or twice under the strong prevailment 'of caustics) they were always sure to return with tenfold venom. Since he tried the oil, some months ago, he has had no pain, and is able to take as much ex- ercise as he chooses. 'Through the influence of this mild persuasive, one of the most in- | iquitous of his corns has already taken itself off entirely; the others he still pares at rare intervals; but suffering no inconvenience whatever from them, he has not thought it necessary to have recourse to caustice-- which sometimes, if not carefully used, and vinegar and water applied at once to the toe, causes almost as much smart as the actual cautery.-- Chamber's Journal. Fattening Animals. The following hints should be obseryed in the treatment of fattening animals :-- 1, They should be kept comfortable and quiet, and suffered to take no more exercise than is necessary for their health. All exer- cise, more than this, calls for an expenditure of food, which does not avail anything in the process of fattening. Everything which serves to make an animal uneasy and discontented should be avoided, for under such cireumsta- nees they thrive but poorly. 2. Where seyeral articles of food are to be used, the least palatable and nutritious should be fed first, and the most nutritious reserved to complete the process. : 3. They should be fed regularly, and their food should be given in the proper quantity, so that none is wasted, and that the animal shall be in no danger of suffering from sur- feit on the one hand, or hunger onthe other. Their food should be given by a careful and observing hand, and they should be closely watched, so that all their wants may be sea- sonably met. 4, Their food should be suitable, and it should be suitably prepared. Nearly all domestic animals thrive better on a variety of food, and they become cloyed with a sin- gle article, when fed exclusively on it for a great length of time. Most farmers may very easily secure for all their fattening ani- mals the requisite variety of food. Potatoes and apples, or potatoes and pumpkins, boil- ed and mashed together, with the addition of a little meal, may be used with advan- tages for fattening swine.-- Maine Farmer. Prriopicars.--Literature is making its way mto Asia, A literary monthly has made its appearance at 'Tiflis, in the Georgian language. It will discuss Georgian literature, furnish translations from foreign tongues, and treat of the-arts and agriculture. What oriental students will find most interest- ing in this magazine, will be its specimens of the popular literature. A new Armenian periodical has been also commenced in the Trans-Oaucastan country. eee Passing Through an Iceberg. Extraet from a journal kept by a Seaman who served in the Arctic Expedition of 1850-51, Sunpay, June 80, 1850 Moored to an iceberg; weather calm; sky cloudless, and " beautifully blue," surrounded by a vast number of stupendous bergs, glitter- ing and glistening beneath the refulgent rays of a mid-day sun. © A great portion'of the crew had gone on shore to gather the eggs of the wild sea birds that frequent the lonely icebound precipices of Baffin's Bay, while those on board had retired to rest, wearied with the harassing toils of the preceding day. To me, walking the deck and alone, all nature seemed hushed in universal repose, While thus contemplating the stillness of the monotonous scene around me, I observed in the offing a large iceberg, completely per- forated, exhibiting in the distanee an arch, or tunnel, apparently so uniform in its for- mation that I was induced to eall two of the seaman to look at it, at the same time tel- ling them that I had never read or heard of any of our arctic voyagers passing through one of those arches so frequently seen through large bergs, and that there would be a noyelty in doing so, and if they chose to accompany me I would get permission to take the dingy (asmall boat,) and endeayor to accomplish the unprecedented feat. They readily agreed and away we weut. ' On nearing the arch, ascertaining that there was a sufficiency of water for the boat to pass through, we road slowly and silent- ly under, when there burst upon our view one of the most magnificent specimens of nature's handi-work ever exhibited to mortal eyes; the sublimity and grandeur of which no language can, describe--no, imagination. conceive. Fancy an immense arch of 80 feet span, 50 feet high, and upwards of 100 feet breadth--as correct in its conformation as: if it had been constructed by the most seien= tific artist\--formed of solid ice of a beauti- ful emerald green, its whole expanse of sur- face smoother than the most polished alabas- ter, and you may form some slight concep- tion of the architectural beauties of this icy temple, the wonderful workmanship of time and the elements. When we had got half way through the: mighty structure, on looking upward I ob= served that the berg was rent the whole breadth of the arch, and in a perpendicular direction to its summit, showing two vertical sections of wregular surfaces, "darkly, deep- ly, beautifully blue," here and there illumin- ated by an arctic sun which darted its golden rays between, presenting to the eye a picture of ethereal grandeur which no poet could describe, no painter portray. I was so en- raptured with it that for a moment I fanci- ed the "blue vault of heaven" had opened and that I actually gazed on the celestial splendor of a world beyond this. But, alas! in an instant the scene changed, and I awoke as it were from a delightful dream to exyse- rience all the horrors of a terrible reality. I observed the fracture rapidly close, and then again slowly open. 'The stupendous mass of ice, millions of tons in weight, was afloxtt, consequently in motion, and apparently about to lose its equilibrium, capsize, or burst into fragments. Our position was truly awful, my feelings at the moment may he conceived, but cannot be described. I Jook- ed downwards and around me, the sight was equally appalling; the very sea seemed agi- tated. TI at last shut my eyes from a scene so terrible, the men at the oars as if by in- stinct " gave way," and our little craft swiftly glided from beneath the gigantic mass. Thus ended an excursion, the bare recol- lection of which at this moment awakens in meashudder; nevertheless, I would not have lost the opportunity of beholding a scene so awfully sublime, tragically grand, for any money, but I would not again run such risk for the world. At ten o'clock the same night it burst,. agitating the sea for miles around. I may also observe that the two men who' were with me in the boat did not observe that the bere was rent until I told them after we were out of danger, we all having agreed previously to entering the arch, not to speak a word to each other, lest echo- itself should disturb the fragile mass. A Mr. Potter, in New York, swallowed a large quantity of corrosiye sublimate in mis- take for wine. He instantly beeame awaro of his mistake, and recollecting of hearing the taking of a large dose of sweet oil, recom- mended as an antidote, swallowed the entire contents of a bottle. The effect was instant- aneous, and the action of the mereury arrest- ed. Mr. P. has now nearly recovered. A Horst wirnour Harr,.--An extraor- dinary phenomenon, in the way of 'horse. . flesh," was brought to town yesterday after- noon, by the steamer Gordon. It is. a mare captured on the plains of Venezuela by a party of American hunters, headed by the well known trayeller, Juan Perey, and Cap- tain Hall. She is fifteen anda half hands Ingh, of great beauty and symmetry, and without one particle of hair on any part of her body. Theskin resembles Indian Rub- ber, and is as soft almost as velvet. The owner of this singular animal is now on his way to Macon, where he intends to exhibit at the approaching Fair.--Savan- nah Repwhlican.