April 7th 1860, of consumption. Her last words PEAN CHURCHES: The Roman Advertis

were "Can this be death! Beautiful, Beautiful !
Death's Angel approaches ! No terror he brings,
For a halo of glory encircles his wings!
Oh, sweet as a seraph's the smile on his brow,
As his touch breaks the fetters that bind me be low.

Oh, beautiful, beautiful! Beaming wit love,
Sweet faces angelic look down from above,
While borne on swift pin ions surpassingly bright,
Descend lovely spirits to gladden my sight.

Oh, beautiful, beautiful! Glorious day
Now bursts on my vision as earth fades away!
My spirit entranced with ecstatic delight,
Is soaring, in triumph in rapturous light!

the very small proportion of good penmen there are in the community, inasmuch as it leaves the acquisition of an easy and elegant chirography to the fortuitous outworkings of each individual's personal in· stincts or talents at imitation. The Man

er, in an article compiled to show the im-ual whose title is given above, aims at a
possibility of Saint Peter's, at Rome, be- thorough remedy of this defective mode of
ing ever crowded, gives some curious sta- teaching, by offering in its stead a metho-
dized series of rules, which together lift
tistics as to the comparative capacity of
the most celebrated churches in Europe.
the art of penmanship out of the sphere of
We add a column, exhibiting the number mere empiricism, and place it on the basis
of a fixed science, which all may acquire
of square yards :-"Those who attended
by a little study and practice. The author
at St. Peter's during the august ceremo-
nies of Christmas Day might perhaps,
has thoroughly analyized the subject, and
has shown among other things, that all
have imagined that temple-in all parts
opened to the public during the function the letters, both af the upper and lower
case alphabets, spring from five elements
-as much crowded as possible. To show
or movements, which elements or move-
the impossibility of St. Peter's ever being
ments, become the first copies for the pu-
crowded, we annex the following statistics
pil to practice from. The pupil simply
of its capabilities, as compared with other
by reading and understanding the "Pen-
man's Manual," becomes a good judge and
able critic of writing. This fact alone is
one of the strongest and most conclusive
proofs of the superiority of the system
over all others, and we believe that we
can give no better advice to those who
wish to become good penmen, then to pur-
chase this "Manual," and carefully study
it. We should be glad to see it introduc-
ed in all of our public schools, and respect-
fully beg leave to call the attention of the
officers thereto.

Oh, beautiful, beautiful! Heaven draws near!
Its ravishing music now breaks on my ear!
How it thrills my rapt soul with the glorious theme-great churches, allowing four persons to
The song of redemption the praise of the Lamb.

INTERESTING ASTRONOMICAL ITEMS.

every quadrate meter (square yard :)

St. Peter's.......

Milan Cathedral....

Persons. Sq.yds.
.54,000 13,500
.37,000 9,250
St. Paul's at Rome.
..32,000 8,000
St. Paul's at London..... .......
...25,600 6,400
St. Petronio, at Bologna..........24.400 6,100
Florence Cathedral...............

Antwerp Cathedral...

.24,300 .24,000

6,000

6,075

5,725
5,250
3,260
proper
3.100

.13,000

.12,400

...i.... 12,000 3,000
.11.000 2,750
7,000 1,850

Notre Dame, at Paris......................... .21,000
Pisa Cathedral..
St. Stephen's, at Vienna..
St. Dominic's, at Bologna.
Cathedral of Sienna.
St. Mark's, Venice
The piazza of St. Peter's, in its widest

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The year 1861, which is fast approach-limits, allowing 12 persons to the quadrate York, and presents many attractions to

ing, will be the first of the 660th Olymp iad. On the 10th of January there will be an annular eclipse, that is one in which the apparent diameter of the moon being less than that of the sun, the border of

metre, (square yard,) holds 624,000; al-
lowing four to the same, drawn up in mil-
itary array, 202,000. In its narrower
limits, not comprising the porticoes or the
Piazza Rusticucci 474,000, crowded, and

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In nine tenths of our schools penmanship is taught as mere mechanical process of imitating certain marks that are set in the copy, and without regard to any fixed or rational principles. This fact alone, perhaps, sufficiently accounts for

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LADIES DEPARTMENT.

THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE When very young, she was rickety and weak in the ankles, but was recovered by healthy training. She was brought up at the sea side, at Ramsgate, her ankles puinped on, and sea bathing resorted to. She was very benevolent; when she rode abroad, which was on horseback, and of ten her purse returned home empty. She had and still has a good appetite. Her mother carefully inculcated in her, a love for the Protestant religion. She learned German, French and Italian perfectly, a little Spanish, and was an accomplished musician and vocalist. At the age of eighteen, on June 29, 1837, she became queen, in consequence of the death of her uncle, William IV. Lord Melborne and the Duke of Wellington proved excellent advisers to the young queen. They dined with her every day, and being old gentlemen would sometimes drop asleep over their wine, when she would tickle their noses. Very soon Lord Melbourne thought she should soon be married, and on stating it in a diplomatic language, she did not understand him. Explanations being offered, she objected to her cousins of Cumberland and Cambridge, and suggested "poor Albert." It proved a happy choice, as the young prince makes an excllent husband. It was said that the queen liked Lord Ephinstone, but he was sent to Madras, to get him out of the way. The young couple started in life with a mutual income of $950,000. It was not too much; they brught up their family on it, without calling for a separate allowance for any of them.

The queen rises at half past six in summer and seven in winter, and always walks abroad, returning to morning prayers and breakfast, at which she eats heartily, and subsequently spends half an hour in the nursery. She next receives the master of the household, and decides what invitations should be accorded for the day, and then visits her apiary, menagrie, aquarium, or stables. She is passionately

At

ettiqute is dismissed, in the drawing room of the sepulcher, to see it no more? Man
the queen plays on the piano, and indul- has cares and toils that draw away his
ges in German games. At eleven she re- thoughts and employ them; she sits in
tires. The queen appears fond of Ameri- loneliness, and all these memories, all
can ladies. The Prince of Wales is neith these suggestions crowd upon her. How
er dull nor stupid; but a youth of noblest can she bear all this? She could not, were
disposition, and splendidly educated.it not that her faith is like her affection;
Like his mother, he appeared rickety and and if the one is more deep and tonder
delicate in youth. He carries his head a than in man, the other is simple and spon
little on one side now. He speaks French taneous, and takes confidently hold of the
German, Italian, and Spanish with fluen-hand of God.
cy, being a good Greek and Latin scholar.
He is well acquainted with law and fine
arts, a good soldier, theoretically, and a
good horseman. He dances enormously,
like most of the English youths of the day,
and always chooses the partner he likes

best.

CHILDREN'S DEATH-THE

MOTHER.

The following eloquent words are from the pen of the Rev E. C. Chapin. They came from the heart, they will reach the heart:

MARRIAGE.—"Marriage," says a recent writer, "is to a woman at once the happiest and saddest event of her life, it is the promise of future bliss, raised on the death of present enjoyment. She quits her home, her parents, her companions, her amusements-everything on which she has hitherto depended for comfort, for affection, for kindness and for pleasure.

The parents by whose advice she has
been guided-the sister to whom she has
dared to impart the very embryo thought
and feeling---the brother who has played
with her, by turns the counsellor and the
"No one feels the death of a child as a counselled, and the younger children to
mother feels it. Even the father cannot whom she has hitherto been the mother
realize it thus. There is a vacancy in his and playmate-all are to be forsaken at
house, and a heaviness at his heart; there one fell stroke-every former tie is loosen-
is a chain of association that at times ed-the spring of every action is changed;
comes round with its broken link; there and she flies with joy in the untrodden
are memories of endearment, a keen sense paths before her, buoyed up by the confi
of loss, a weeping over crushed hopes, and dence of requited love, she bids a fond
a pain of wounded affliction. But the and grateful adieu to the life that is past,
mother feels that one has been taken and turns with excited hopes and joyous
away who was still closer to her heart.-anticipations to the happiness to come.
Hers has been the office of a constant Then woe to the man who can blight such
ministration. Every gradation of feature fair hopes-who can treacherously lure
has developed before her eyes. She has
detected every new gleam of intelligence.
She has beard the first utterance of every
new word. She has been the refuge of
bis fears; the supply of his wants. And
when he dies, a portion of her own life, as
Woe to him who has too early with
it were, dies. How can she give him up, drawn the tender plant from the props
with all these memories, these associa- stays of moral discipline, in which she has
lions? The timid hands that have so ta- been nurtured, and yet makes no effort
ken hers in trust and love, how can she to supply their places; for on him is the
fold them on his breast, and give them responsibility of her errors-on him who
whose wandering she has watched so nar- careless of her duty, and then exposed her
up to the cold clasp of death? The feet first taught her, by his example, to grow
rowly, how can she see them straightened with a weakened spirit and unsatisfied
to go down into the dark valley? The heart, to the wild storms and the wily
bead that she has watched in burning temptations of a sinful word."
sickness, and peaceful slumber, a bair of
which she would not see harmed, O, how

fond of horses, and is a good rider.
eleven, she receives the secretary of war,
home and foreign secrataries; at twelve
general visitors, lunches at one, and
drinks Alsop's pale ale. At three she
rides in her carriage or on horseback,
either visiting or on some errand of chari-can she consign it to the chamber of the
ty. Returning, her majesty dines in state, been beyond her vision or her knowledge,
grave? The form that not one night has
which is rather a dreary affair, no conver- how can she put it away for the long night
sation being allowed. But that over,

such a heart from its peaceful enjoyments, and watchful protection of home-who can, coward-like, break the illusions which have won her, and destroy the confidence which love had inspired.

and

When you see a female rise early, get breakfast, and do up her mother's work in depend upon it she will make a good season, and then sit down to sew or knit, wife,

REGISTER OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, AT EAST NEW LONDON, FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1860. REPORTED BY H. E. CHITTY.

HORTICULTURAL.

PARLOR CULTURE OF THE
CAMELLIA.

:

A correspondent of the London Florticultural Cabinet writes as follows:"I had three tables made, about five feet long, and three feet three inches wide, with strips around the edges, so as to be about a third of an inch above the margins all round, and then common (sawed) laths cut into short pieces, and placed about two inches apart on the top surface of the tables, so that the water which ran from the flower-pots could pass from one part of tables to another, crossways or length ways

from them.

and pass out at a notch in the edging spo ken of above; by which means the pots would not stand in the water which runs These tables I placed far enough from the windows and walls to allow a person to pass all round them, and to water and syringe the plants, which made a space of about one and a half or two feet in front and at the ends. The tables should be of a height in proportion to the windows, which windows should be made to let down at the top, by which means the plants can have let in upon them, without a strong current passing through them. This I consider a very important matter, as a strong draught or current is very injurious.

er.

for a short time, though it may be cool. Devoniensis, General Jacqueminot, Gloire
Camelias require a great quantity of air; de Dijon, Vicomtesse de Cases. Twelve
they will bloom in a room where the heat | Dahlias.—Beauty of Bath, Lord Palmers-
varies from 35° to 50°; but will bear a ton, Sidney Herbert, Lady Franklin, An-
much greater heat and bloom well, and
on some occasions they will flower, even
though the earth on the top of the pot has
been slightly frozen; but extremes, either
of heat or cold, do not suit them.

1 have had camellias bloom finely on tables as above, where the sun did not shine on them; but, in such cases they should have a great quantity of light.

I generally use soft water for my plants, both winter and summer, and it is better if warmed to the same temperature of the room, in winter. As to general watering, I think it best, whenever the top soil begins to get dry, water well and freely, so that the water may pass to the bottom roots, and to repeat the watering wher. the surface begins to get dry again; when camellias are blooming or growing, they require more watering thań at any other time."'

nie Salter, Duke of Devonshire, Lady Bathurst, Queen of Whites, Royal Scarlet, Henrietta, Jenny Lind, Sir John Franklin. Eighteen Fuchsias.-British Sailor, Catharine Hayes, Crown Jewel, Chancellor, Eclat, Estelle, Glory of Stoke, La Crinoline, Little Dorrit, Magic Flute, Marquis of Bath, Lord Clyde, Princess of Prussia, Premier, Queen of the Sea, Rose of Castile, Sir Colin Campbell, Wiltshire

Lass. Eighteen Pelargoniums.—Large :
Admirable, Belle of the Season, Blink
Borny (Foster's), Bride, Pride of the
West, Criterion, Duchess of Marlborough,
Empress Eugenie, Fairest of the Fair,
Fire Queen, Governor General, Hyperion,
King of Scarlets, Belle. Spotted: Con-
spicuum, Edward Henderson, William
Bull, Virginie Miellez. Six Fancy Pelar-
goniums.—Clara Navello, Decision, Crim-
son Pet, Madame Rougier, Princess Roy-

To this the Gardener's Monthly adds:
"The writer concludes by rules for sum-al, Sir Joseph Paxton.
mer management, which are not adapted
to our climate. We therefore add, that in
May, after all danger of frost is over,
they should be removed to the open air,
and placed in a situation where they will
be shaded all through the summer from
the hot mid-day sun. They will about
finish their growth at that season, and
will not require so much water."

HOUGHTON'S SEEDLING GOOSEBERRY, Mr. Rawson says, in the Country Gentleman, was grown from seed by Mr. Abel Houghton, twenty-seven years since, while a resident of Lynn, Mass.

Mr. Houghton produced this berry in the following manner:-Having selected from eighty of the best English varieties four which he considered the finest, viz.: Red Champagne, Crown Bob, Whitesmith, White and Rock, he planted them out in the form of a square, in the centre of which was planted one of the best natives found in the woods.

Plants in rooms should be watered more frequently than in greenhouses, and they should be syringed over the tops every evening about sunset, in dry weather, LIST OF A FEW SUPERIOR FLORISTS' and twice or thrice a week in wet weath- FLOWERS.-The Gardener's Chronicle copThe syringing will not injure a car-ies from the London Cottage Gardener the pet upon the floor, if the water is wiped following list of superior flowers, selected off immediately after the dripceases to fall for their good qualities, not because they from the leaves. are new or expensive, but such as will, One plant only, produced good fruit and Those that I would recommend as the when well grown, please any cultivator. free from mildew; that one being the best to flower in parlors are the semi- Six Azaleas.-Alba magna, Criterion, Tv-present "Houghton's Seedling." double, and those that have a green calyx; eryana, Perryana, Gem, Rosy Circle. Six also, all the single varieties. The plants Camellias.Alba plena, Bruceana, Count-reaped handsome fortunes, Mr. Rawson, should have air, by letting down the top ess of Orkney, Examia, Imbricata, Mar- though one of our greatest pomological sash whenever the weather is mild, or chioness of Exeter. Six Roses for pot benefactors. derived comparatively nothwhen there is no frost in the atmosphere, culture.-General Allard, Coup d'Hebe, ing from his Gooseberry.

While the raisers of inferior fruits have

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Vol. III.

HOPE AND PRAY,

Hope on, though dark and wild the night,
And not a star appear,
Thine eye shall grow more large and bright,
Thy sight become more clear,

So e'en the dark shall yield a light,
To guide thee on thy way;
For as man's day, so is his night-
Then hope on, hope and pray.

And though the night be dark and wild,
Patience that waits may see
The stars shine forth once more, with mild
And calm effulgency.

And though the strife be stern and long,
The hounds may miss their prey,
For naught than patience is more strong-
Then hope on, hope and pray.

THE REUNION.

A THRILLING SCENE.

urgent solicitation, to address this assem-
bly to-night, yet I have felt so strong a
reluctance to doing so, that it has been
with the utmost difficulty I could drag
inyself forward. But I had passed my
word, I could not violate it. As to relat-
ing my experience, that I do not think I
can venture upon. The past I dare not
recall. Would to Heaven that the mem-
ory of just ten years of my life were blot-
ted out."

The speaker paused a moment, already
much affected. He, resuming in a firmer

voice, said:

"Something must be said of my own case, or I shall fail to make that impression on your minds that I wish to produce.Pictures of real life touch the heart with great power, while abstract represescntations of truth glitter coldly in the intellectual regions of the mind, and then fade from the perception like dissolving figures in the diorama.

"Your speaker once stood among the first members of the bar, in a neighboring State. Nay, more than that-he represented his county in the assembly of the Commonwealth. And more than that still-occupied a seat in Congress for two Congressional periods.

In the evening of the day on which Alice arrived at S —, a great experience meeting was to be held in one of the churches. Her friend, who had become enthusiastic in the cause, urged her to go to this meeting, which Alice did, although with a feeling of reluctance. The house was crowded above and below. The preliminaries usually appertaining to such meetings having been arranged, a brief opening address was made by one of the ministers; a reformed man then related his exling tone-" he once had a tenderly lo red perience with great effect. After he had finished there was a pause of nearly a minute; at length a man who had been seated far back, with his face partly turned from the audience, arose slowly and moved to the front of the stage.

A half suppressed exclamation escaped Alice, as her eyes caught the well known features of him who had been her husband while a quick thrill ran through her. Then her whole frame trembled in accord with her heart. The face of Mr. Delancy was greatly changed since she last looked upon it. Its calm, dignified elevation had been restored, but with what difference what before was cheerful, was sad, very

sad.

"Mr. President," he began in a subdued voice, "although I had consented at your

"And yet more than all that," he continued, his voice sinking into a low, thril

ONE DOLLAR A YEAR

No. 41.

into the beastial. But for this, and I were an honorable and useful representa. tive in Congress, pursuing after my country's good, and blessed in the home circle with my wife and children. But I have not told you all. After my wife separated from me, I sank rapidly. A state of sobriety brought too many terrible thoughts. I therefore drank more freely, and was rarely, if ever, from under the bewildering effects of partial intoxication. I remained in the same village for seven years, but never once saw her during the time; nor a glimpse of my children. At last I became so abandoned in life, that my wife, urged on by ber friends, no doubt, filled an application for a divorce, and as cause could be readily shown why it should be granted, a separation was legally declared. To complete my disgrace, at the next congressional canvass, I was left off the ticket, as unfit to represent the district. I then left the county and State where I had lived from my boyhood up.

"Three years has passed since then.For two years of that period I abandoned myself to the fearful impulse of the appetite I had acquired. Then I heard of this new movement; the great temperance cause. At first I sneered, then wondered, listened at last, and finally threw myself upon the great wave that was sweeping onward, in hope of being carried by it far wife, and two sweet children. But all out of the reach of danger. I did not do it these hor.ors, all these blessings have de- with a vain hope. It did all for me and parted from him," he continued, his voice more than I could have desired. It set growing louder and deeper in his effort to me once more upon my feet; once more control himself. "He was unworthy to made a man of me. A year of sobriety, retain them! His constituents threw him earnest devotion to my profession, a fervent off because he had debased himself, and prayer to Him who alone gives strength in disgraced them. And worse than all, every good resolution, has restored me to she who had loved him devoutly-she who much that I haye lost; but not all, not had borne him two babes, was forced to the richest treasure that I have proved abandon him, and seek an asylum in her myself unworthy to retain; not my wife father's house. And why? Could I be- and children. Ah! between myself and come so changed in a few short years?these the law has laid its stern impassable What power was there so to abase me that interdiction. I have no longer a wife, no my fellow beings spurned, and even the longer children; though my heart goes wife of my bosom turned away, heart out towards these dearly beloved ones with stricken from me? Alas! my friends the tenderest yearnings. Pictures of our it was a mad indulgence in mockery! A early days of wedded love are ever lingervery demon-a Circe, changing the human ing in my imagination. I dream of the