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List of Discredited Banks in New England and New York.

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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...
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"My motto through life has been-Work and Ad. vertise. In business. Advertising is the true Philosopher's Stone, that turns whatever it touches into gold. I have advertised much, both in the weekly as well as the daily papers; nor have I found that those of the largest circulation, of either class, benefitted me the most--JOHN JACOB ASTOR. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS! THE REPOSITORY GRATIS. THE REPOSITORY, together with either of the TH following publications for one year, will be supi plied to every subscriber, at the prices annexed, viz: Authur's Ladies Home Magazine,.. $2.50 Godey's Lady's Book,.....

The Home Monthly,....

Atlantic Monthly,..

Harper's Monthly,.....................

Genesee Farmer,..

Albany Cultivator....

American Agriculturist,.

PROSPECTUS!

Tknown and able authors and editors, proposes HE undersigned, with the aid of many wellto publish, in the city of Madison, a large, first class weekly paper, to be called

THE HIGHER LAW,

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ted picture of the "Horse Fair,". Mount Vernon, a beautiful print, 17 by 20 inches in size, in 15 oil colors,... Edward Everett, a splendid portrait of this distinguished man, in oil colors,.. $1,50 From the above it will be seen that a subscription to the Repository in connection with many of the above publications, will absolutely cost nothing, and with the others only from twenty-five to fifty cents, while every volume of our paper actually costs the publisher more than a dollar. It is only through the libera arrangements of cotemporaries, therefore that we can afford to be liberal. Specimens of the Magazines and Engravings may be seen at the BookStore of Messrs. Starr & Co., No. 4. Main Street, who will receive subscriptions for the same in connection with the Repository.

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LITERATURE AND NEWS.

It will be printed on a superior quality of book paper, with book ink, and with new type, and will be illustrated with engravings furnished expressly for the paper.

THE RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT will be under the charge of two clergymen of unquestioned piety and ability, who have engaged to devote all the time necessary to make it, especially the missionary intelligence, truly valuable to Christians of all denominations. It will contain, among other matters of interest, frequent original communications from missionaries in various parts of the world.

THE TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT will contain original communications from Hon. C, DELAVAN, Dr. CHAS. JEWETT, and other well known friends of Temperance; interesting Temperance stories, anecdotes and statistics; will advocate the adoption of a prohibitory liquor law, and labor zealously to advance the interests of the Good Templars and other temperance organizations.

THE POLITICAL DEPARTMENT will be independent of all cliques; free to uphold and defend the right, free to oppose and attack the wrong; will zealously labor for that freedom of ac tion and opinion which is in harmony with the Divine injunction to "love our neighbor as ourselves;" and firmly oppose that Law or that License which maintains or recognizes the right of any man or any government to interfere with the natural rights of any person or people, or to deprive any human being of his God-given birthright. It will also ad2 vocate the doctrines of protection to Home Industry, freedom of the public domain, a judicious system of Internal Improvements, and will not be bought or 5 intimidated into silence regarding political or social corruptions of any kind or nature whatsoever. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Embracing stock raising, darying and farming gen erally, together with the kindred arts of Horticulture, Fruit Raising and Flowers, Bee Raising, Rural Architecture, and Household Affairs, will contain more matter of interest to the farmer and gardener than any Agricultural monthly in the West, and will be worth, exclusive of the large amount of reading matter in other departmenis, twice the amount of subscription. This department will be under the 15 charge of one who has for over twenty years, in Wis consin, made the subject of Agriculture, Horticul ture, and Fruit Raising a constant study, and who by 5 constant observation of the peculiarities of our climate and soil, combined with a practical experience in many matters apper aining to this department, is able to make it of practical value to the farmer, gardener and fruit grower, and will endeavor to secure the aid of practical men, from all parts of the State, whose experience in our hyperborean climate will prove of more value than that of individuals In more favored positions, upon the lacustrine shores of our great lakes, or the more genial climate of the Middle States. It will be illustrated with engravings taken from life, of most of the blooded stock that receive the premiums of our State and County Fairs, and also with architectural designs, views of prize farms, agricultural implements, plants, flowers, &c. THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT

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Pahquioque Bank, Danbury..
Pequonnock Bank, Bridgeport.
Woodbury Bank, Woodbury..
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Agricultural Bank, Herkimer....
Bank of Central New York, Utica....
Bank of Orleans, Albion....

Chemung County Bank, Horseheads.
Dairyman's Bank, Newport.....

Goshen Bank-refuse all notes printed on

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Ontario Bank, Utica, Safety Fund; Ontario Bank, Utica, secured notes. Ontario County Bank, Phelps.. Pratt Bank, Buffalo... Reciprocity Bank, Buffalo.. Sackett's Harbor Bank, Buffalo.. Western Bank, Lockport...... Yates County Bank, Penn. Yann. All the rest of the State.

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DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF TRUTH, VIRTUE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY.

Vol. III.

BE TRUE TO YOURSELF.

Be true to yourself-though the struggle is hard,
And the conquest is doubtful at best,

Let no labor fatigue, no exertion retard,
Nor failure one effort arrest.
Though poverty shackles each project to rise,
Though adversity frown for a term,
Misfortune is only success in disguise
To the heart that is steadfast and firm.

RIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

NUMBER TWENTY.

FOSDICK.

BY P. M, O.

BY W. H. STARR NEW-LONDON, CT.

Thursday, February 7, 1861.

ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
No. 51.

Thomas Updike Fosdick was a friend Hopkins. In the expedition of that offiof Capt. Nathan Hale, and an ensign in cer against New Providence, he had comhis company, in the regiment of Col. Wil-mand of the Continental brig Cabot.lis. His comrades were accustomed to While subsequently cruising in this vessel, extol his bravery, and especially praised he captured several valuable prizes, and the gallantry with which he performed his among them a Jamaica vessel of sixteen part, as commander of one of the fire ves- guns. sels that attempted to burn the British frigate Phoenix in the Hudson. He never married, but died at the house of his sister, Mrs. Deering, of Shelter Island.

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Bichard Douglas was born in the year 1750. He was a son of William Douglas, In our endeavors to preserve from ob- the last of the three good old deacons of livion the names of a few of the most dis- that name, connected with the 1st Congretinguished of our New London men, who gational Church. His mother was Sarah, fought in the Revolutionary war, we are daughter of Geo. Denison, Esq., Clerk of embarrassed by the paucity of materials. the County Court. He was in the service The deeds of these brave men have not during the greater part of the Revolutionbeen recorded, and the traditions that re-ary war, and at its close held a Captain's main in regard to them, though often commission. His personal adventures and strikingly interesting, are without date special services, like those of many others, and indistinct. Very few memorials are cannot now be recovered. now left of which to form the wreaths that we would willingly lay upon their graves. This is particularly the case in regard to the two brave brothers Fosdick, Nicoll and Thomas Updike, sons of Dr. Thomas Fosdick, one of the ancient physicians of New London.

Nicoll Fosdick was born April 18th, 1750, and like most other boys of our port at that period, took to the seas as soon as he could climb a mast. He entered the army in 1775 and served during the seige of Boston, but afterwards returned to naval affairs and commanded a privateer for a considerable period. On the conclusion of peace and the revival of commerce, he went immediately into the merchant service, and for nearly thirty years was a shipmaster sailing from this port.

His death was the result of accident.While on business at North Stonington, he was thrown from a horse and so severely injured, that after languishing a few weeks, he died at that place, Jan. 1, 1821; aged 71. He was brought home for interment, and his remains are now deposited in Cedar Grove Cemetery.

The next year he was transferred by Congress to the command of the Alfred, one of the finest vessels in the Continental navy. She ranked as a twenty-four gun ship, but carried thirty guns, and had been the first ship in the fleet of Commodore Hopkins. The Alfred and tho Raleigh sailed for France in August, 1777, took several prizes on the high seas, and having obtained a quantity of military stores for the government, the two ships left the port of L'Orient, on the return voyage in February, 1778, Unfortunately on the 9th of March they encountered two British ships, the Ariadne and the Ceres, of far superior force to their own, and the Alfred was obliged to surrender.

Capt. Hinman was carried a prisoner to England, but after a short confinement After the peace and the establishment escaped to France, from whence he soon of a new postal system, he was for a long returned home in safety. He now engaged course of years Postmaster at New Lon-in private adventures against the enemy, don. He died March 1, 1816, aged 66.

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Shaw's privateer sloop Hancock, and in 1780 cruised in the Deane, a privateer ship of twenty-nine guns, fitted out at New London.

a mode of warfare which at that time was far more exciting, hazardous and profitable than the public service, and considered equally honorable and heroic. During Capt. Elisha Hinınan was born at Wood-one season he had the command of Mr. bury, Ct., March 9, 1734. He was one of three brothers, (sons of Capt. Titus Hinman,) who settled in New London about the year 1760, allured thither probably by the advantages the place offered to those who had chosen the sea for their field of enterprize. Capt. Nathan Hinman, the oldest of the brothers, married Elizabeth Christophers, of New London, in 1760, but fell a victim to the seas, at the age of thirty-two. The other brothers were both commanders of trading vessels before the New London, but kept guard over FishRevolutionary war. In that heroic con-er's Island Sound and the adjacent coasts. fiict, Capt. Noble Hinman espoused the royalist side, but died before the conclusion of the war.

Capt. Elisha Hinman ranged himself on the side of liberty, and enlisted in Janua ry, 1776, in the squadron of Commodore

After the conclusion of peace Capt. Hinman made but few voyages. He owned a pleasant farm on the old Colchester road, and was fond of agriculture. In 1798, on the death of Capt. Maltbie, of the revenue cutter Argus, he was appointed his successor. This vessel was stationed at

It was an office exactly suited to a son of the ocean who had passed the meridian of life, and Capt. Hinman discharged its duties with ease to himself and satisfaction to others until his death, which took place Aug. 27, 1807.

The remains of Capt. Hinman have been removed from the city Burial Ground to Cedar Grove Cemetery, where a marble monument with naval emblems, perpetuates his memory, erected by his grandsons, Ingersoll and Thomas Day.

It is believed that no male representative of either of the three brothers Hinman, of New London, is now living.

THE REPOSITORY:

NEW-LONDON, CONN.

BY W. H. STARR. Thursday, February 7, 1861. BRIEF TRACTS ON INTEMPERANCE.

NUMBER THREE,

ITS ALARMING PROGRESS.

large party is steeped in champagne. Next off while John Bull keeps his on. We have a California party is all rum; and the on- much national swagger, and but little perly supplies sent to a starving village, by a sonal independence. The people on the long-expected train, are rum, gin, and bit-continent of Europe are much more free ters. Wine is in all our feasts. A quiet and public in demonstrations of joy and party will do with sherry and champagne; love than we are. There, too, you may a little larger number must have punch; guess a person's employment by his attire, and young men and maidens keep up their while in Broadway it would not be so easy strength and excite their jaded faculties a matter. There, there is a great lack of by frequent draughts of the deceitful poi-enterprise manifested in the want of application of thought to labor. Here, al

son.

A man speaks against slavery, and you most every kind of work is done by ma call him an abolitionist; or against drink-chinery, and the inventive spirit begins at ing and you call him a temperance man. six months, and never dies out. Here Add the sneer and you have finished him, there is a great deal to do, and but few Say we not truly, that the flood is rolling hands to do it, and consequenlty brain has over us? Just now we have new cause to to work, In Europe there are too many dread this flood. If we could come at the hands to do the work. The effect in some root of the matter we should find that half | parts of the continent is remarkable, and (or more) of the trouble in our country and is noticed in the rough attire of the has sprung from strong drink. Men drink people, and their rude implements of laand are mad; they take leave of their bor. All this is not owing so much to senses; they say and do things in their lack of thought, as lack of application extravagance which sober men would nev- of thought. Europeans set a high value er say or do, and once committed beyond upon beautiful things, and seem to be derecall, they drink again to keep their cour-void of the spirit to mar and deface them. In the education of the heart, they are age up and plunge deeper. decidedly our superiors. They do not posses the Yankee rudeness of laughing at the accidents and misfortunes of others, ludicrous though they may be.

In our last briet remarks on this subject we alluded to the fearful magnitude of the evil. There was a time when the minds of men became alarmed-when they felt the necessity of energetic effort to roll back the mighty flood of intemperance, which was making such fearful progress through-rience in public life? out the land. Noble hearts were engaged in it. Powerful energies were put forth to stay the tide of desolating woe. And it was, in a measure, stayed-a barrier was erected against its fiery flood, which for a while resisted its power. But it avails no longer. Its burning depths, like the lava of some pent up volcano, have accumulated, until, overwhelming the barrier, it flows onward with greater force, and in a more resistless torrent!

What said Jefferson after years of exper"The habit of using ardent spirits, by men in public office has occasioned more injury to the public service and more trouble to me, than any other circunstance which has occurred in the internal concerns of the country during my administration."

What would he say now when our numbers are increased by millions, and when stimulants flow like a flood? Shall they swallow us up or shall we resist the tide ?"

WENDELL PHILLIPS' LECTURE.

Another place in addition to the streets, where we see the people is in the stages These usually start late in the afternoon and travel all night, saving time, beds and meals. Delays on the road do not induce the passengers to seek the cause or make complaints, (Yankee travellers excepted.) Corporations are too closely connected with the government for that. The sacred right to grumble is only enjoyed in Amerthe streets disappears in the stage, and a The usual politeness and courtesy of seat is seldom vacated, even to accommodate an invalid or a lady.

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The Catholic Church also affords fine

A writer in a recent number of one of our religious journals* remarks:-"To one who sits quietly by his own fireside or devotes himself solely to his own business, may not appear the progress of this des olating flood; but go out in our cities and towns, visit the side streets and lanes, see the multitude of dram shops under various names that swarm everywhere; look at our imports and duties; look at the census ence to the traits of men and nations, and royal kneels side by side with the beggar,

The seventh Lecture of the Citizens' Course was delivered on Thurday evening, Jan. 31st, by Wendell Phillips, Esq., of Boston. Subject-"Street Life in Eu rope." In commencing, the lecturer re-opportunities for seeing the people. The marked, that he came as the gatherer of unconsidered trifles, generally thought becathedrals are always open, where we find neath the dignity of printing, with referno hateful aristocracy of pews. The blood

returns; and compute if you can, in-dollars and cents and souls of men, the cost of al

cohol.

Our very literature is steeped in it. Take up that magazine at your elbow, (and it is called one of the best.) In the first article the writer sings the praises of punch; in the second a whole family have a good time over egg-nog; in the third a

*The Independent.

and the servant upon one end of a cushwould endeavor to present them, so that they would make the same impression up- There is no turning to see who comes in ion, and the mistress upon the other.on his audience that they made upon himself. Several differences between the peo-absorbed in their worship. The people and passes. All are attentive and deeply ple of Europe and the United States were noticed. The former possess a greater are exceedingly charitable in proportion to their means. We are too rich to put amount of individuality than the latter. We are apt to consider ourselves the freest charity to the test. Two-thirds of the hard work on the contin ent is done by the kind of people on account of our free gov. women. Yet this does not hinder the delernment. Yet we are slaves to public opinion, and to suit it our corners are taken icacy or lower the moral standard of wo

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This healthful and invigorating exercise is specially adapted to females, as many of experience. A correspondent of one of our exchanges,* regards with pleasure the new impetus which this graceful and animating sport is receiving from its adapt ness by so many fair devotees. Already the effect is already becoming apparent, for grown men, who lately thought themselves far above such child's play, as they termed it, are often seen conducting their

our lady readers can attest from their own

accountable to glide so swiftly almost with-
out exertion, that we can hardly realize
we are not inspired by some wierd influ-
ence, or like Mercury, have wings to our
feet.

Americans, and especially American la-
dies, are justly censured by foreigners for
not taking sufficient out door exercise, and
their pale faces and fragile forms show the
accusation to be only too well founded.
We hope there is a good time coming,
when the youthful maiden will discard
the pale lily and take up the blushing rose
as the emblem of true nobility. And,
fair ladies, let me add, when you seek to
paint your cheeks with that ruddy bue,
don't wend your way to the apothecaries,
but with a trusty pair of skates betake
yourselves to the ice, and be assured that
from those who seek Nature's favors in
the right way, she will not withhold the
boon."

APPLES AS FOOD.-The healthfulness of ripe fruit as an article of food has frefair companions to the ice, and teaching quently been highly spoken of by cminent them to perform evolutions they had themmedical authority. Dr. Hall, in a recent selves almost forgotten. The ladies, how-number of the Journal of Health, remarks: ever frequently evince such an aptitude in There is scarcely an article of vegeta learning, that their instructors are speed-ble food more widely useful and more uniily left behind, and then they can smile at versally loved than the apple. Why evthe awkwardness of their less graceful teachers, and exult in their own stability,ery farmer in the nation has not an apple orchard where the trees will grow at all, is though but a short time before they never one of the mysteries. Let every famly lay ventured on the ice but to find themselves in from two to ten or more barrels, and it sådly removed from the perpendicular. A will be to them the most economical ingood skatress (pardon the new word) is a vestment in the whole range of culinaries. most graceful object, whether, like the A raw, mellow apple is digested in an virgin huntress, Harpalyce she vies with hour and a half; while boiled cabbage the wind in swiftness, or without apparent

effort like the circling bird of prey, sails in gentle curves. Her dress added to an inborn ease of carriage gives her when at full speed an airy lightness which man with his stiff clothing can never perfectly acquire.

"The peculiar aspect of things at this season lends a kind of charm to the sport.

The delicate frost-work with which the trees are fringed, glitters in the sunbeams like the flash of myriads of gems, and contrasts so strongly to the deep green hues of Summer. The beautiful nights, too, seem to possess additional brightness, and skating has almost the fascination of a scene of enchantment in the soft radiance of moonlight. Besides these attractions, the rapid motion which a few skillful strokes gives the practiced skater, produces sensations of delight which can scarcely over wear away. It seems apparently un

"Moore's Rural New Yorker,

requires five hours.
dessert which can be

most perfect specimen of the Hebrews.It is alike picturesque in the delineation of individual phenomena, and artistically skillful in the didactic arrangement of the whole work. In all the modern languag es into which the Book of Job has been translated, its images, drawn from the natural scenery of the East, leave a deep impression on the mind. Thus; "The Lord walketh on the heights of the heights of the waters, on the ridges of the waves towering high beneath the force of the wind." The morning red has colored the margins of the earth, and variously formed the covering of the clouds, as the hand of man moulds the yielding clay." The habits of animals are described, as for instance, these of the wild ass, the horse, buffalo, the rhinoceros, and the crocodile, the ea gle and the ostrich. We see "the pure ether spread during the scorching heat of the south wind, as a melted mirror over the parched desert." The poetic literature of the Hebrews is not deficient in variety of form; for while the Hebrew poetry breathes a tone of warlike enthusiasm from Joshua to Samuel, the little book of the gleaner Ruth presents us with a charming and exquisite picture of nature. Goethe, at theperiod of his enthusiasm for the East, spoke of it "as the loveliest specimen of epic and idyl poetry which we possess.'

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some oversight of the printers, the edition NOTICE TO OUR READERS.-Through of the Repository of last week was partly worked off with the pages transposed.— Those who have received imperfect copies, and wish their volumes bound, can have The most healthful the numbers exchanged at the book-store placed on the table, of Messrs. Starr & Co., No. 4 Main Street. LITERARY NOTICES.

fast, with coarse bread and butter, with-
is a baked apple. If taken freely at break-
out meat or flesh of any kind, it has and
admirable effect on the general system,
of often removing constipation, correcting
acidities and cooling off febrile conditions
more effectually than the most approved
medicines.

If families could be induced to substi-
tute the apple, sound, ripe, and luscious for
the pies, cakes, candies, and other sweet-
meats with which their children are too
often indiscreetly stuffed, there would be a
diminution in the sum total of doctor's
bills in a single year, sufficient to lay in a
stock of this delicious fruit for a whole
season's use.

THE BOOK OF JOB.-Humboldt, in his
Cosmos, regards the book of Job as the

GENESEE FARMER "PRIZE ESSAYS." -The February number of the Genesee Farmer is received. It contains twentysix "Prize Essays." The publisher of the Genesee Farmer offered a prize for the best essay on each of a given number of subjects. The essays received were submitted to a competent committee, and those deemed best were awarded the prize, This Prize Essay number of the Farmer is well worth the cost of the paper for a year.— Those wishing a good agricultural and horticultural journal cannot find a better work than the Genesee Farmer. It costs only fifty cents a year. Now is the time to subscribe. Send the money in stamps, to Joseph Harris, Rochester, N. Y.

LADIES' DEPARTMENT.

SELECTED POETRY.

TO MY WIFE,

Pillow thy head upon this heart,
My own, my cherished wife;
And let us for one hour forget
Our dreary path of life.
Then let me kiss thy tears away,
And bid remembrance flee
Back to the days of halcyon youth,
When all was hope and glee.

Fair was the early promise, love,
Of our joy-freighted barque;
Sunlit and lustrous to the skies
Now all so dim and dark;
Over a stormy sea, dear wife,

We drive with shattered sail,
But love sits smiling at the helm,

And mocks the threatening gale,

Come let me part those clustering curls,
And gaze upon thy brow-
How many, many memories
Sweep o'er my spirit now?

How much of happiness and grief—
How much of hope and fear-
Breathe from each dear-loved lineament,
Most eloquently here.

Thou gentle one, Tew joys rematn

To cheer our lonely lot;

The storm has left our paradise

With but one sunny spot; Hallowed fore'er will be that place To hearts like thine and mine'Tis where our childish hands uproared Affection's earliest shrine.

Then nestle closer to this breast,

My fond and faithful dove;
Where, if not here should be the ark

Of refuge for thy love?

The poor man's blessing and his curse
Pertain alike to me;

For, shorn of worldly wealth, dear wife,
Am I not rich in thee?

DEATH IN INFANCY.

Is it sad for the joyous and sportive child,
To pass from earth to Heaven.
As fades the dew from Summer flowers,

Or the twilight rays at even?
For them to dwell so happy and pure.
Where the waters of joy flow free.

Ere the sorrows of life have cast one shade
To cloud the heart's light glee ?"

a child-a little innocent, less than two child that dies on its mother's breast, wings years of age?" Say you :its way to Heaven, unconscious of the joys it might share here, as well as of the many miseries of which it might be partaker; that "it is but the removal of a fair creature, too pure for earthly stay, to make one of that bright band of cherubim which encompasses in joy and in glory the throne of the living God." It is, also, a soul cheering thought, (delusion, it may be harmless) to reflect that these little ones, on their admission into heaven, are taken by angel mothers, whom they love as their own mother, and are by them instructed in wisdom and successively introduced into an angelic state.-Rural New Yorker.

"Is it possible," you inquire, "for attachments so strong, for love so ardent and devoted to spring up in the space of a few short months?"

Yes, it is possible. Ask that afflicted father-he will tell you, as one whose experience enables him to assure you, that "there is a vacancy in his home and a vacancy in his heart;" that "there is a chain of associations that at set times comes round with its broken link; there are memories of endearment, a keen sense of loss, a weeping over crushed hopes, and a pain

of wounded affection."

Ask the weeping mother; will she not answer-has she not already told you—“It is hard to part thus early with her fair haired innocent-to break off all the delightful ties of prattling tenderness that had bound her, even in a few months, to that gentle form forever"-that

"Tis hard to lay her darling
Deep in the cold, damp earth-
His empty crib, to see,
His silent nursery,

Once gladsome in his mirth,
To meet again in slumber
His small mouth's rosy kiss;
Then, awakened with a start
By her own throblng heart,

His twining arms to miss. These are a father's-these are a moth er's feelings-who mourn the loss of a dear child. Wonder not then, that joy and mirth, and gladness seem no longer to find a dwelling place in the house of your friend, and when you point to the slow moving Gathered around the little coffin behold procession, and the response is heard, "It the weeping mother-the father, his heart is only a child," do not turn unfeelingly swollen with grief-the sister, the brother away. Be assured there is mourning in in tears, each taking a last look at the dear that company-feelings of sadness there object so soon to be consigned to the tomb. that many, many days will not suffice to Verily, it is a sight well calculated to call remove. "To-morrow," writes a parent, forth sympathy from the coldest heart to distinguished as a historian and statesman, elicit a tear from the most unconcerned ob- having just lost a sweet child—“to-morserver! Slowly and mournfully the fune- row we entrust her to her resting place, ral train now moves towards the burial and the next day we must take up our solground-the last sad ceremony of commit-itary journey on the paths of life." ting "dust to dust" are performed-the afflicted and their friends return to their homes, and the scene closes.

Go to that house of mourning and ask, "Why such sadness, such feelings of loneiiness and desolation, simply for the loss of

Yes, with those who mourn the death of children, their progress through the world is indeed a "solitary journey." the main support in which is derived from the consoling reflection, that, in the language of another, "the sinless soul of the cherub

LAMARTINE'S OPINION OF

WOMEN.

is superior to him in soul. The Gauls atWoman, with weaker passions than man tributed to her additional sense—the divine sense. They were right. Nature has given women two painful heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human- nature,---compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion they devote themselves. What more does heroism require? They have more heart and more imagination than men. Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women, are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. Al nations have in their annals some of those miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God. When all is desperate in a national cause, we need not despair while there remains a spark of resistance in a woman's heart, whether she is called Judith, Clelia, Joan of Arc, Victoria Colonna in Italy, or Charlotte Corday, in ourown day. God forbid that I compare those that I cite! Judith and Charotte Corday sacrificed themselves, but their sacrifice did not recoil at crime. Their inspiration was heroic, but their heroism mistook its aim; it took the poignard of the as sassin instead of the sword of the hero. Jo. an of Arc used only the sword of defence, she was not merely inspired by heroism, she was inspired by God.

RELIGION.-Religion is mainly and chiefly the giorifying of God amid the duties and trials of the world; the guiding of our course amid the adverse winds and currents of temtation, by the starlight of duty and the compass of divine truth; the bearing manfully, wisely, courageously, for the honor of Christ our great Leader in the conflict of life.-Caird.

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