gathering the first Presbyterian church in that place which was organized in November, 1817, with Mr. Hempstead for its senior elder; it was in a great measure through his exertions that the church was kept together, and the first house of worship erected in 1821. His death took place at St. Louis in October, 1831, in the 78th year of his age. He united with the church in New London, Aug. 5, 1787, and was therefore a professor of the christian faith for forty-four years.

When Lafayette in his tour through the United States, visited St. Louis, Mr. Hempstead was one of the committee that received him, and accompanied him in the carriage at his public entry.

Edward, son of Stephen Hempstead,

born at New London, June 3d, 1780, was

the first delegate to Congress from the western side of the Mississippi river. He represented Missouri Territory in Congress from 1811 to 1814.

God."

lation and of hope. To the humble chris-She immediately burst into tears, and wept
tian it ever has and ever will develope aloud in all the bitterness of anguish.—
comforts and joys, that all the highest and What,' said she, 'shall I never see the
deepest philosophy of earth could never light of day, or hear a human voice?
fathom. To him who views all earthly Must I remain shut up in darkness and
comforts and all earthly pleasures, how-silence as long as I live?"
ever agreeable and desirable, but uncertain
And had she again been able to see, she
and transitory, the Bible offers permanent might might have been pointed to the
joys and unending felicity. To the poor promises of the Bible; if to hear, they
heart broken penitent groaning under a might have been cited for her comfort.
deep sense of his unworthiness and guilt, At length a friend who was present took
it holds up the sweet promise, "Come un-up the Bible, and pressed it to her breast,
to me all ye who are weary and heavy la- It was a touching and beautiful act. 'Is
den, and I will give you rest." The man this the Bible?' Her hand was squeezed
of cares and anxieties, who lives according in reply. She immediately clasped the
to its divine precepts, is invited to "cast Bible in her hands, and held it up to her
his cares" on the arm of Omnipotence. To bosom, and exclaimed, 'This is the only
the deeply afflicted and tried sufferer, who comfort I have left; I shall never more
can see nothing but pain and wretched- be able to look upon its blessed pages, but
ness in prospect before him here, it whis- I can think of the blessed promises I have
pers "There is a rest for the people of learned from it'—and then began to repeat
To every doubting, trembling some of its promises; Cast thy burden
soul, harassed with fears and troubles, its upon the Lord, and he will sustain thee.'
language is, "Fear not, for I am with
Call upon me in the day of trouble, and
thee."
In languishing sickness and wast- I will deliver thee.' My grace is suffi-
ing disease, it revals the comforting prom-cient for thee,' &c She dried her tears,
ise, "I will make all thy bed in thy sick- became submissive to the will of God, and
ness." And when just on the borders of
was happy."
the spirit-land, sinking beneath the cold
waters of the river of death, it enables
the departing soul to say, "Yea, though I
walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art
with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they
comfort me." In jov or sorrow, prosperi-
ty or adversity, health or sickness, wealth 22nd, by the Rev. F. D. Huntington, D.
the Word of God to the eye of faith presents
or poverty, pleasure or pain, life or death;
all that the heart of humanity could desire.
It warns us to escape the snares of death,
and points out to us the way of life. It
teaches our own dependence, and holds out
to our extended grasp the omnipotence of

REV. DR. HUNTINGTON'S

LECTURE.

The sixth lecture of the Citizens' Course, was delivered on Tuesday evening, Jan.

D., of Boston. Subject-"Independence of Character, True and False "

The first notion of a boy is to be a man, then his own man, not dreaming what kind of a man. The common definition of independence is that a person does as he pleases, but if we test this notion of in

them, have no force, its solemn warnings God. And when every earthly comfort dependence by the common sense rule, we

fails us, is capable of supplying peace and
comfort to the soul.

no terror, and its heavenly invitations no
attractions. And yet, it cannot for a mo-
ment be doubted that there is inspiration,
The value of the Bible in a single case
wisdom, and truth in the word of God.- may be illustrated by the following scene
It cannot be doubted that there is some of deep and thrilling interest, as related
thing terrible in its threatenings, and at- by a minister, an eye-witness. A young
tractive in its precious promises. Since woman, completely blind and deaf, was
the time of Moses, the Lawgiver to Israel, brought before a number of eminent sur-
to Christ the Divine Teacher, and down geons, to determine whether anything could
through the lapse of nearly two thousand be done for her.
years to the present time, the Bible-the "Her sad condition had been produced
Word of Eternal Truth, has been recog- by a violent pain in the head. The only
nized and cherished as a revelation from method of communicating with her was
above-a message from or. high, declaring by tapping her hand, which signified no-
the will and the purpose of God, and and by squeezing it, which signified yes.
teaching the dependence and duty of man. The surgeons concluded that her case was
incurable, and in reply to her earnest in
quiries, she received the unwelcome tap.

To the established believer in its sacred truths, it has ever been a source of conso

shall find it false. The truth lies much deeper and is larger. We make a great mistake when we suppose that man exists as a unit, and forget that he has relations.

The system of relations is five-fold.— First, man is related to himself, and is truly independent when his organization is complete. Outside of himself there are

four classes of relations. First, that of the family. Home is a divine institution. Here the lecturer took up the system of boarding out, and gave it and the old bachelors it fosters and encourages, a severe drubbing. Second relation, that of the State. Government is not a human institution, but a divine appointment.— True revolution is but substituting a better government for a worse, and justice

for injustice. Third relation, that of society. And here, to test a man's indopendence, exists fashion and usage, and public opinion. The fourth relation of man outside of himself is his relation to his Creator,

constitutes the first dilution. Dr. Field buffalo robes, dry goods, needles, pins, was instantly struck with the idea that be thread yarn, mining hatchets, heavy clothhad experienced the effects of what, in a ing, and blankets. In the pockets of on e much weaker dose, must be a useful seda- of the dead sailors she found a metal box tive of the nervous system, while the ho- of friction matches, which lasted her durmeopath was overjoyed at having discov-ing her long solitude. Secure in her means True independence often requires a neg-ered what he conceived to be a powerful of livelihood, and hopeless of escape, she ligence and sacrifice of self. It connects itself with invisible realities.

Men should not stand still and wait for great agents of reform to come round, but strike down where they are, and patiently combat with whatever may oppose them. The lecturer was favored with a large and attentive audience. All seemed to be highly pleased with the evening's entertainment. The next lecture will be deliv❘ ered on Thursday evening, Jan. 31st, by Wendell Phillips, Esq., of Bos ton. Subject, Street Life in Europe.

A NEW SEDATIVE.

A remarkable account of the discovery of a powerful sedative in cases of neuralgia, &c, by Dr. Field, is described in the French journals. From the Journal de Chimie Medicale we copy the account as related by the editor, and which has elicited much interest in medical circles. It is given as follows:-

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remedy for the apoplexy. After various
trials upon arimals, Dr. Field resolved to
test the new remedy upon patients. He
did so first upon a lady sixty-eight years
of age, who had been long suffering from
neuralgia, which returned at intervals of
three hours, and had resisted every rome-
dy known, such as ammonia, assafoetida,
chloroform, &c. The fourth part of a
drop of the above solution being adminis-
tered, she was at once relieved, but some
of the symptoms experienced by Dr. Field
being felt by her also, she discontinued the
remedy; but her sufferings returning ob-
liged her to have recourse to it again, and
she was completely cured. It has since
been tried in cases of headache and dental
neuralgia, with equal suceess."

knowledge, is related in one of our ex-
changes, as follows:

A FEMALE ROBINSON CRUSOE.-How often the remark that "truth is stranger than fiction" is corroborated in facts that transpire around us. One of the most reSome time ago Doct. Field was induc-markable cases that recently came to our ed by a homeopath to put two drops of a solution supposed to be diluted to the first degree, on his tongue in order to try its effect. "Three years ago Sophia Richardson, a After a lapse of about three minutes, he felt young lady of eighteen years, and daugha sense of constriction at the base of the ter of respectable parents in Cleveland, neck, then violent singing in the ear, while started for Green Bay by one of the lake his forehead was covered with perspira- boats, to meet her betrothed husband, to tion. He was then seized with uncon- whom she was to be married on her arritrollable fits of yawning, and remained val. On the passage the captain and senseless for several minutes; his head fell crew became intoxicated, a heavy storm back, his lower jaw sank down powerless, arose, the bark was dashed to pieces upon a he became extremely pale, and for two min desolate island, and all on board perished utes his pulse was silent. The homeopath, except this unfortunate girl. After many perceiving these symptoms, was terrified, hours of untold agony of mind and body thinking he had unconsciously committed she found a life preserver on a fragment a murder. Stimulants, however, brought of the wreck, fastened it to her person, and Dr. Field to consciousness again, and he was borne upon the waves safely to the continued to feel a headache for half an shore, There nothing but death and deshour after, with a sensation of pressure olation stared her in the face. In utter upon the epigastrium, and general weak-wretchedness and terror she walked up and ness. These symptoms disappeared in the down the island; but there was not a shadcourse of that time.

ow of hope for relief or escape. Fortu"It was evident that the substance em- nately, the high waves had washed much ployed was a powerful poison, and that it of the cargo of the ill-fated bark upon the had not been sufficiently diluted; and it shore, Gathering courage from her desturned out to be nitrate of oxyde of gly-pair, she comenced gathering up her treascyle, a substance obtained by treating glyures, and found that they consisted of cerine, by a slow temperature, with sul- eight barrels of pork, twelve barrels of phuric or nitric acid. One drop, mixed flour, two of sugar, several boxes of candy, with ninety-nine drops of spirits of wine, candles, raisins, and herrings, sardines,

prepared like a brave and sensible woman to make her island empire as comfortable as possible. On the 25th of February las', after the lapse of three years, during which no human face had gladdened her sight, a party of Indians visited the island in canoes and learning her misfortunes, by means of signs, conducted her by a two days' journey to a French trading post on the British coast, from whence she was returned to her friends, who had long mourned for her as dead. Her experiences upon the island were as wild and romantic as any immortalized by DeFoe.

CITY ITEMS.

REAL ESTATE SALES.-The property on the corner of Bank and Pearl Streets was sold at public auction by Messrs. Philips & Smith, on Thursday, the 17th inst., to J. A. Smith, Esq., for $4,765. This property was divided into three lots. The house and land measuring 54 feet on Bank Street. by 134 deep, brought $2,550. The store occupied by Geo. Goos, with land measuring 21 by 134 feet, sold for $760. The store now occupied by N. J. Beebe, with land measuring 25 feet on Bank Street, by 134 feet on Pearl Street, sold for $1,455, altogether $4,765 as before stated.

LADIES' DEPARTMENT.

SELECTED POETRY.

THE WITHERED DAISIES.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "OVER THE RIVER."
"Because she loved them"

You ask me why I love them so.
Those little simple flowers,
That over every pasture blow,
In April's sunny showers:
And why a daisy wreath I twine,
Instead of dewy roses,

To hang about the holy shrine
Where our lost child reposes.
'Twas in the Spring-time that she came,
And all the first mazes

Were bright with flowers without a name,
The fields were white with daisies.,
You know how beautiful she grow,
How fair and sweet and holy,
But the violet, wet with morning dew,
Is not more pure and lowly.

She flitted like a sunbeam bright
Around our cottage-door:

Her footsteps, as a fairy's light,
Made music on the floor,

On every flower of wood or glade,

She lavished childish praises;
She loved all things the Lord has made,
But most she loved the daisies.

How many thoughts beyond her years,
That then were all unheeded,

We think of now with blinding tears-
Sweet teachings that we needed.
Three happy years we led her feet
Along life's stormy mazes;

The fourth, we laid her down to sleep
Beneath the April daisies.

'Tis well and we are reconciled,
For He who gave the blossom,
Who lent to us our angel child,

Recalled her to His bosom. And waiting till He calls for me, To sing with her His praises, I'll keep her blessed memory Embalmed in April daisies.

BOOKS.

BY ANNA CORA RITCHIE.

"My library

Was Dukedom large enough."

by their dark impress, what spectral forms O, how often have the pure lips of maid-
start from the magic pages! The solitary enhood quaffed from the Circe-cup of an
room is peopled with shapes that came evil book until the entrancing poison
not in at the doors. The great man, whose coursed through her young veins beyond
bones lie mouldering in yonder church- the power of antidote, and the health of the
yard, stands beside us, a dear, familiar spirit was hopelessly destroyed! Give us
friend. The buried beauty floods the cham- then, fearless and honest critics, who will
with the golden radiance of her smile. distinguish the fair-seeming nightshade
Electric flashes of wit play around us from from the innocent flowers of fiction. Let
mouths that have long been fleshless. The the Censor's broad fan winnow away the
silence is made musical with tones of pa- light and profitless chaff of literature, and
thos-of mirth-of counsel-of approval disclose the wholesome wheaten treasure
-a issuing from those living leaves. beneath, which yields fit nourishment for
The poet says, "aspire!" the sage, "be the expanding intellect. He who per-
wise!" the martyr, "be heroic!" the di❘ forms this sacred duty, achieves a double
vine," be humble !" Bare walls are sud- good, for he surely increases our reverence
denly hung with glowing pictures of hu- for books; and can we revere them too
man life. Time and space are annihilat much, when our very religion embalmed
ed. A gentle companion softly takes our in the holy pages of an inspired volume!
hand in his, and leads us over mountains
and across seas-up dizzy heights-down
cavernous abysses-through labyrinthine
gardens-into loathsome dungeons;-nay,
he even soars with us to the pearly gates,
beyond the blue expanse, and reveals a
momentary glimpse of the celestial realms

they enclose.

because we have witnessed victories and
talked with conquerors.

NEEDLE WORK.

There is something pleasant, and even touching at least, of very sweet, soft and winning effect-in the peculiarity of needle work, distinguishing women from men. Our own sex is incapable of any such by-play, aside from the main business of life; but women-be they of what carthly rank they may, however gifted with intellect or genius, or endowed with queenly beauty-have always some little handiwork ready to fill the tiny gap of ev

It may be that we opened the volume, whence all this enchantment comes forth, weary and disheartened, and seeing only the dark and tangled threads in the web of life; but we close it, after that strange wandering, that mysterious commmuning, refreshed and strengthened. Some of the ends of the knotted skein have been found, ery vacant moment. A needle is familiar to the fingers of them all. A queen, no and the shapes they were designed to broiddoubt, plies it on occasion; the woman er upon Fate's tapestry are discovered.poet can use it as adroitly as her pen; the We have assumed a new armor of cour-woman's eye that has discovered a new age, while consorting with courageous spir- star, turns from its glory to send the polits. We grow valiant for life's battle, ished little instrument gleaming along the hem of her kerchief, or to darn a casual fray in her dress. And they have greatly the advantage of. us in this respect. The slender thread of silk or cotton keeps them united with the small, familiar, gentle interests of life, the continually operating influences of which do so much for the health of the character, and carry off what would otherwise be a dangerous accumulation of morbid sensibility. A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the elec tric line, stretching from the throne to the wicker-chair of the humblest seamstress,' and keeping high and low in a species of communion with their kindred beings.Methinks it is a token of healthy and gen tle characteristics, when women of high, thoughts and accomplishments love to sew, especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.

Benjamin Franklin, when he was a boy, met with a book entitled "Essays to do Good;" of which he says, It gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the Said the majestic Prospero; and to a true character of a doer of good than any othlover of books a choice library is a king- er kind of reputation; and if I have been dom of countless opulence and measureless a useful citizen, the public owes the adextent. At the feet of its sovereign a vantage of it to that book." There can Golconda opens, and from its teeming be no doubt that the lives of thousands are mines he may gather gems of knowledge influenced by the books they peruse at a to circle his own brow with a diadem period when the mind is like an unwritten more lustrous than the crowns of princes. page, and of wax-like impressibility. A No wizard's wand in olden days ever breath from some chance volume may fill wrought such marvels as the mighty con- the sails of the human ship, just launched juring of quaint John Guttemburg's un- en the broad ocean of existence, and give sightly types! As we gaze upon the tran- the first impetus towards a harbor of safescript of master minds, spread before usty or the engulfing mælstrom.

FOR

REGISTER OF

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, AT EAST NEW LONDON,

THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1861. REPORTED BY H. E. CHITTY.

HORTICULTURAL.

PLANTS AND PLANT HOUSES.

tual charity was not his object, he did not Epacris, Correas, and delicate New Hol-. care to profit by the labor of the poor; land plants, must be continually examined but kept a pile of stones on the wharf, and to ascertain whether their roots are in a applicants were set to remove them first healthy state of growth. Hyacinths in No one can fail to admire the innumera- from one side of the wharf to the other, glasses should have the water changed ble beauties in the way of handsome flow- and then back again, till the allotted time about once a week-rain water or thawed ers, that uncultivated nature everywhere had expired. It is related that but a small snow is the best-and a few pieces of guaBeau- moiety of those asking for and willing to no about the size of a pea, helps considerascatters so abundantly around us. ty is the same wherever it exists,—in the work, would labor at this objectless and bly. Correas and Coronillas are among parlor or drawing-room; in the green-profitless task, preferring rather to take the easiest of delicate ornamental plants to grow. Amaryllis and cape bulbs when house or conservatory; in the hut of poverty; in the "Barcan desert," or the most grown well are among the handsomest of unfrequented and wildest spot. No one, plants. They are now about to grow, we think can admire wild flowers more and consequently it is the time to repot than the writer; he traverses many a mile them. Amongst the new flowers do not in search of them, and if but one new feaforget the merits of old ones, and particuture in the fair face of Flora is discovered larly stock gillies and the wall flower. in each trip he feels well rewarded. But Old Fuchsias cut down make very strong with all his faith in the immutable prinand noble specimen plants when they ciples of beauty, and all the love amountshoot up again. ing to a species of veneration he holds for beauty, and all the love amounting to a species of veneration he holds for beautiful wild flowers, he cannot agree with a very common view that they are equally deserving of cultivation with the collected treasures of foreign lands, or the improved

beauties of our own.

their chances for less certain, harder, or
more laborious employment. It is pre-
cisely thus with the cultivation of wild
flowers. It seems so profitless to dig up,
remove a few hundred yards from the
woods to our flower border, and weed, tie
up, cultivate, and labor to effect what na-
ture does for us just as well. That idea
will never become popular. Greenhouses,
and choice flowers, and foreign luxuries
in the floral line, will ever be the object
of the Horticultural importunate, and we
shall never regret our share in ministering
to this feeling.

At this season particularly, can we "sing" of the charms of this branch of art. He who has no greenhouse or plant cabinet of some kind, is as we we said in To view a well filled conservatory, well our last issue, a species of the human genus cultivated stock of plants in a tastful green to be pitied. Australia, the Cape of Good house, excites at this season different sen- Hope, China, the East Indies, South Amersations than even the most lovely prairie, ica, and tropics of both hemispheres, are or beautiful Alpine Flora ever does. We now in their glory, and for the next two feel that choiceness is there, and the hand months at least will afford us all the variand power of man overcoming the obsta-ety and interest we want. cles and adverse circumstances of nature, The Cinneraria, or Star flower, as it is is a never failing source of pleasure and delight. It is part of the nature of man to revolt against useless labor. Even the sternness of hunger, will scarcely compel a man to work unless some object is accomplished. The late Stephen Girard, with all his eccentricities, was a very charNo one's necessities went unrelieved. But he had his own way of doing good. He held that no able-bodied man should eat, till he had first earned his meal, and so he seldom gave money but he would always give work. However, that it might not be supposed that ac

itable man.

being popularly called, is about to flower
now. Those kinds that grow naturally
tall and lean are going out of fashion, and
kinds with good semi-circular heads, and
dwarf habit of growth are the favorites.

For propagation old plants should now be forced a little, and Begonthe sprouts taken off and struck. ias, many of them are commencing growth and may be repotted. They do not do well in large pots.-Gardener's Monthly.

ENGLISH FRUIT.-I attended one of

the largest fruit exhibitions in the country at the Crystal Palace, in London.— The apples were not worth looking at.-Pears about middling. Plums and nectarines very fine. Hothouse grapes were remarkably good, and a few fair looking peaches grown under glase, also some things they call melons, which would do very well to feed the pigs with in America. The fruits in England this year are not high-flavored, but poor and insipid. The sun does not shine hot enough there to grow good-flavored fruit, but they are not troubled with worms in the fruit as we are.-D. C. Richmond, in Ohio Cultivator.

In saving seed select such plants as come nearest to those points for that purpose.Some very dwarf ones have recently apLARGE FRUIT.-The California Farpeared in England that scarcely exceed mer says that, J. H. Ellsworth, of San one foot in height under very favorable Jose Mission, California, grew a pear the conditions of growth. Calceolarias should past season which weighed three pounds be particularly kept near the glass, Auri-six ounces; and Judge Hester, of the culas, Polyanthus, and primrose and vio- same place raised an apple weighing two lets like a cool, moist atmosphere. Heaths, pounds six ounces.

Bank of Hallowel..
Canton Bank, China.
Central Bank, Grey.
Ellsworth Bank, Ellsworth....
.$0 50 Exchange Bank, Bangor.
Grocer's Bank, Bangor.
Hancock Bank, Ellsworth.
Maratime Bank, Bangor..
Mousum River Bank, Sanford..
Shipbuilders' Bank...

$3.00 Cochichuate Bank, Boston......worthless
$2.75
Grocer's Bank, Boston..
$1.25
$1.25 Western Bank, Springfield..
.$1.75

Homestead,...
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$2.25 Bank of the Republic, Providence..