endowed with, their thoughts, their knowledge, | And like the warrior rushing on, to where his fame their strength, into gold. [To be continued.] THE OLD HOMESTEAD. From out the waving branches of those thick embowering trees, Whose long boughs sweep the broad peaked roof, swayed by the summer breeze: Amid those green and leafy shades, our "old homestead" rears its walls, With its green lawn, its vine-wreathed porch, its old familiar halls. The rose peeps at the window pane, the honeysuckles twine, Where the neatly latticed bower supports the clinging vine; The tall trees rise to shelter it, the sweet flowers bloom around, The air is loaded with perfume, the rich leaves strew the ground; The ivy and clematis, to the very house-top climb, And along the casement eaves, where oft in the still I yet am young, the weight of years rests light upon my brow, But the memory of my childhood's days comes stealing o'er me now, When hope undimmed, her beacon light around my pathway shed, And strewed bright garlands, o'er my way, those garlands now are dead. Ah yes! those bright and bounding hopes that thrilled my childish heart, Have passed away, and left me now as all things bright depart; How oft my young heart danced with joy, at thoughts of coming bliss, As if such dreams were realized in such a world as this. In after years, I've seen those hopes fade like the morning ray, Visions full as fair and bright, and as transient in their stay The fond wild dreams of other days, how fleeting and how vain; Yet even now my heart would gladly dream them o'er again. But happiness dwells with me still, I'm in youth's opening prime, Yet oft my yearning heart turns back, to my childhood's joyous time: is found, Looks back with "longing, lingering" gaze, homestead's peaceful bound; on his And amid the clash, the din of war, amid his proud career, His yearning heart turns fondly back, to the scenes that were so dear : 'Tis thus as year rolls after year, and childhood's joys recede; Though peace be with us, still we turn to the happy hours fled. And should the heart grow stern or cold, 'mid the hard warfare of life, Or lose its heavenly purity 'mid the cold and heartless strife; Then let the thoughts of other years, the remembered days of yore, Come to the sad and lonely heart, with their soothing spell once more; And ever if in foreign lands, should our wearied footsteps roam, Let those memories be with us still, our childhood, and our home. E. T. M. From the Daily Register. "LOVE ONE ANOTHER." BY MRS. R. S. NICHOLS. Nay, frown not on thy brother's creed, The SOURCE from whence our beings flow- The universe of sight and sound! Makes beauty everywhere abound. Even in leaves, and buds, and flowers, We see each differing from its kindHow tame, then, were this world of ours, If there were but one mould for mind! If, then, thy brother sees the truth, To his, thy loving words and deeds? Whatever things are true and just- Learn to forbear and suffer long! Whose beauty hallows bond and free ? Open your heart to sympathy, but close it to despondency. The flower which opens to receive the dew, shuts against the storm. GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES. The following compact and interesting sketch of the growth of the United States during the past year, we take from the Washington Globe of the 10th inst: Russia. Farming and industrial production has kept pace with other departments. Its approximate value, as estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury, from the returns of the census of 1840 and that of 1850, was, during the year 1856, about 2,600,000,000 dollars, or triple that of The Secretary estimates the value of the entire property of the United States, taxed and not taxed, at 11,317,000,000 dollars, exclusive of the public domain. He estimates the population at 26,964,312. At the close of 1855, there were 21,069 miles of railroad. There are now more than 24,000 miles. The telegraph, which does so much to diminish the loss of interest on capital, and to quicken business, by annihilating, as it were, the magnificent distances" of our territory, now extends in almost every direction throughout the States. It is estimated that the aggregate length of our electric telegraph is from forty to fifty thousand miles. 66 During the past year the prosperity of the United States has received an unexampled develop-1830. ment. The various sources of true national wealth, the cultivation of new lands, the increase of the crops, the extension of manufactures, the working of mines, the import and export trade, foreign and home commerce, the construction and working of railroads, the growth and embellishment of cities, have all wonderfully increased, and, by adding largely to the capital of the country, have given such impulse and activity to business of all kinds, that it has far surpassed the best results of any preceding year. This growth of prosperity is but partially shown by the published statements of the Secretary of the Treasury, inasmuch as the fiscal year of the Government closes with the 30th of June, and, while the result of those statements embrace and are largely affected by the business of the latter half of 1855, they do not include that of the latter half of 1856. An approximate idea of the business of the year can be formed by examining tables of the commerce and finances of New York in 1856. The transactions of the New York Clearing-house for 1856, show an increase of $1,700,000,000, or thirty per cent. on those of 1855, making the total for the year amount to the enormous sum of $7,300,000,000. The transactions of the London Clearing-house in 1839, amounted to $1,772,000,000. They amount now probably to triple that sum. If so, the business of New York is equal to half that of London. In the imports and exports of New York, there has been an increase of thirty-three per cent. on those of 1855. The increase in railroad traffic has been from twenty to thirty per cent. Our merchant marine has made great progress during the year. There have been constructed two hundred and twenty-one steamers, and seventeen hundred and three sail vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 469,394 tons. Notwithstanding this large addition, the official lists show a decrease in the tonnage of the merchant marine on that of 1855, caused by a more careful examination of the old lists, the effect of which has been to drop from the account a large number of vessels sold abroad, lost, or long since condemned. During the year, the Federal Government has reduced its debt to twenty-five per cent. It now amounts to 30,000,000 dollars, with a residue in the treasury of 22,000,000 dollars, after the payment of all demands. The President states that this debt can be entirely extinguished for the second time, (it having been entire liquidated in 1835-6,) by the beginning of 1858, and he recommends that Congress take measures to prevent the injurious effects that would necessarily be produced by too great an accumulation of specie in the Treasury. The statements of the financial affairs of the various States show everywhere a high degree of prosperity. The differ The increase in the cultivation of new lands, one of the chief elements of our prosperity, is shown by the large sales of those lands, and by the grants of the public domain, amounting to seventeen million six hundred thousand acres, nearly four times the extent of Massachusetts, or more than Belgium and Holland united. Be-ent cities, counties, and railroads throughout the sides these large appropriations, Congress has Union, are in a like flourishing condition. The granted, during the year, to railroads, or to banks, except a few in the Eastern States, are also States that will, sooner or later, partially make a generally properous, in consequence of the prusimilar disposition of them, about twenty-one dent restrictions put upon their transactions by million seven hundred thousand acres; making the several Legislatures, and by their own pria total of sales and grants in a single year of vate directors. The Clearing Houses of New thirty-nine million three hundred thousand acres, York and Boston, the former established in 1853, equal in extent to Virginia, or to almost a third of the latter in 1855, have a wide influence. They France. Notwithstanding the great decrease may be considered as the indispensable complefor so many years in the Federal domain, the ment of the free banking system. To the salupublic lands yet remaining unsold in the Terri- tary influence exercised by these institutions, may tories are equal in extent to the present thirty-be added that of the guarantee, first demanded one States, or more than all Europe, except of the banks by a law of the New York Legis lature, and since exacted by the Legislature of other States, of a deposit with the State to secure the redemption of bank notes. This latter regulation must prevent the risks of paper money, and the possibility of such excessive issues as preceded the crisis of 1837. The increasing proportion of gold as a circulating medium, since the acquisition of California, the system of specie payments adopted by the Government since 1840, and the safe rule for some time pursued by it, of making no loans whatever, for any purpose, to associations, cities, counties, or States are additional securities for the permanence of our moneyed and commercial prosperity. THE OSTRICH. The cry of the ostrich so greatly resembles that of a lion as occasionally to deceive even the natives. It is usually heard early in the morning, and at times, also, at night. The strength of the ostrich is enormous. A single blow from its gigantic foot (it always strikes forward) is sufficient to prostrate, nay, to kill, many beasts of prey, such as the hyena, the panther, the wild dog, the jackal, and others. The ostrich is exceedingly swift of foot, under ordinary circumstances outrunning a fleet horse. "What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider." On special occasions, and for a short distance, its speed is truly marvellous-perhaps not much less than a mile in a half a minute. Its feet appear hardly to touch the ground and the length between each stride is not unfrequently twelve to fourteen feet. Indeed, if we are to credit the testimony of Mr. Adamson, who says he witnessed the fact in Senegal, such is the rapidity and muscular power of the ostrich, that, even with two men mounted on his back, he will outstrip an English horse in speed! The ostrich, moreover is longwinded, if we may use the expression; so that it is a work of time to exhaust the bird. The food of the ostrich, in its wild state, consists of seeds, tops, and buds of various shrubs and other plants; but it is difficult to conceive how it can manage to live at all, for one not unfrequently meets with it in regions apparently destitute of vegetation of any kind. Anderson's Africa. COLD. For every mile that we leave the surface of our earth, the temperature falls 5 degrees. At forty-five miles' distance from the globe we get beyond the atmosphere, and enter, strictly speaking, into the regions of space, whose temperature is 225 degrees below zero, and here cold reigns in all its power. Some idea of this intense cold may be formed by stating that the greatest cold observed from the Arctic Circle is from 40 to 60 degrees below zero, and here many surprising effects are produced. In the chemical laboratory, the greatest cold that we can produce is about 150 degrees below zero. At this temperature, carbonic gas becomes a solid substance like snow. If touched, it produces just the same effect on the skin as a red-hot cinder; it blisters the finger like a burn. Quicksilver or mercury freezes at 40 degrees below zero; that is, 72 degrees below the temperature at which water freezes. The solid mercury may then be treated as other metals, hammered into sheets, or made into spoons; such spoons would, however, melt in water as warm as ice. It is pretty certain that every liquid and gas that we are acquainted with would become solid if exposed to the cold of the regions of space. The gas we light our streets with as hard as a rock;" pure spirit, which we have would appear like wax; oil would be in reality transparent crystal, hydrogen gas would become never yet solidified, would appear like a block of quite solid, and resemble a metal; we should be able to turn butter in a lathe like a piece of ivory; and the fragrant odor of flowers would have to be made hot before they would yield perfume. These are a few of the astonishing effects of cold.-Septimus Piesse. PHILADELPHIA MARKETS. dull. We quote good at $6 37 a 6 50. Sales of better brands for home consumption at $6 37 a 6 62, and extra and fancy brands at $7 50 a 8 00. There is very liitle export demand. Rye Flour is worth $3 75 per barrel. Corn Meal is dull, at $3 00 per bbi. GRAIN.-Wheat is dull, but prices are steady. Sales of prime new Pennsylvania red are making at $1 49, and $1 50 a 1 62 for white. Rye is very scarce; sales of Penna. at 82c. Corn is more in demand; sales of old yellow at 68c and new yellow at 65; new white 63c. Oats are steady at 47c per FLOUR AND MEAL.-The market for Flour is still bushel. ENESEE VALLEY BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS-The Spring Term of this School will commence on the 2d of 3d mo. next, and continue fourteen weeks. ing, fuel, pens and inks, for particulars address the TERMS. $42 per term for tuition, board and washPrincipal for a circular. STEPHEN COX, Principal. Scottsville P. O., Monroe Co., N. Y. OARDING SCHOOL-A Friend desirous of open BOARDING SCHE OLol convenient to Priepes Meeting, Fallsington, may hear of a desirable situation by applying previous to the 15th of next month. For further particulars address either WM. SATTERTHWAITE, Jr., or MARK PALMER, Fallsington P. O., Bucks Co., Pa. JUST 1st mo. 10, 1857. UST PUBLISHED. A New Edition of the DisPrice cipline of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Fifty cents. T. E. CHAPMAN, EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS. PUBLISHED BY WM. W. MOORE, Every Seventh day at Two Dollars per annum, Five Dollars. No. 49. think that young men are exposed to many more temptations and difficulties than women; and if they are enabled, by Divine assistance, to stand against them with courage and humble dependence, that they may do much more by example pay-than women can do. My first and earnest desire for all my dear brothers is, that you may become candles under a bushel; that you may not be as shining lights in the world, not hiding your afraid of showing to the world that you have espoused the cause of religion, and prefer it before all things, and that you are willing to suffer shame for the sake of it. How very far had I rather this should be the case with you, than to see you in possession of all the honors and riches that this world can afford? Communications must be addressed to the Publisher, free of expense, to whom all payments are to be made. EXTRACT FROM MEMOIR OF PRISCILLA GURNEY. [Continued from page 755.] About four weeks later than the above date, she penned the following to an intimate friend :— Seventh Month, 1811. Priscilla Gurney had, from religious conviction, declined the amusements and pursuits of fashionable life, and had adopted, in her external appearance and deportment, the sober habits of Friends: and knowing by experience how greatly such a course of conduct tended to preserve from the evils of the world and from the power I have such a belief that if the heart be willing, of temptation, she was anxious that her beloved and our desires sincere, though we know them to brothers and near connexions might be induced be weak and faint, that a way is mercifully made to resist all those allurements to pleasure and vanity which are inconsistent with the Christian life; and she felt assured, from the peace which she found in this path of self-denial, that the smile of Heaven rested upon it. She addressed, at this time, the following excellent letter to her youngest brother, Daniel Gurney, then twentyone years of age : Sixth Month 6th, 1811. for us, and hard things are rendered comparatively easy, beyond what we could look for or expect. I can sometimes long that we may every one of us more and more commit our way unto the Lord, casting all our care upon Him who careth for us, and then I believe indeed we should find Him to be an all-sufficient helper in time of need, and an all-wise director in the midst of darkness and difficulties. We are too fearful (at least I I believe there is so much that is positively am sure I am,) of thus committing ourselves to wrong and contrary to a Christian spirit in pub- Him, and of casting ourselves without reserve on lic places, that they have such a pernicious his mercy, forgetting that He will impose no tendency to lead so many into dangerous temp-burthen upon us which we are unable, through tations and even sins, that I rejoice when any his assistance, to bear; and though He may one I love is brought to the conclusion of giving them up. And if thy mind be brought to this conclusion from the dictates of conscience, I wish to encourage thee to stand firm, and not be afraid to avow thy sentiments on the subject to others; for I believe a degree of boldness in such things may be strengthening to ourselves, and may be helpful and encouraging to our companions. It is well for us in all our occupations and engagements to walk cautiously, to examine the motives by which we are actuated, and to attend to the voice of conscience, which surely is no less than the Light of Christ manifested in our hearts. We are too apt to engage in things that are wrong, because we will not consider and will not open our eyes to this light. I often even call upon us, as it were, to forsake father, mother, houses, lands, &c., for his sake, or at least to prefer Him before all, yet are not his strength and his love sufficient for us? And is not the reward sure, and greatly beyond all we may have to suffer here? Do read in Isaiah xl. 27, to the end, xli. 10-17, xliii. 1-3. They are deeply instructive passages, containing striking encouragement to the Christian traveller. In such cases (as that of pursuing a more decided path), we must all agree in thinking that it is most desirable not to be precipitate or hasty; but, on the other hand, it requires care, if the time be clearly manifested to us, not to let it pass by us, as there is, no doubt, danger of our imaginations being at work, and too active; we had need more continually have our hearts fixed we should go, that it reproves us for every evil In such a shifting scene as this, we want more than natural affection to keep us together; we must cultivate that love which is still more precious, which may be lasting among all the changes and chances of this life, and which, it is delightful to hope, may be perfected in another world. The very imperfection of all our enjoyments here has sometimes a confirming effect on my mind, it is so like the seed being sown of the fruit which we expect to reap hereafter. I have no doubt there is nothing to be compared to the enjoyment of walking in the paths of the Lord, and we experience this truth as much from the painful experience of wandering from them, as from the blessedness of ever being enabled in some measure to walk in them. . . . Oh! that we may become increasingly fixed on that rock which remains firm, however the winds and the waves may beat against it; but the attainment of this is no light, no short work, and we have deeply and painfully to experience our own weakness and infirmities before we learn where our true strength is to be found. I think I may say, that I am increasingly convinced that in ourselves we are and have nothing. Fifth Month 14th, 1812. Most fully do I unite with thee in the blessedness of obedience to the Divine will. In the Christian life we see there is such a variety of means for the attainment of the same great end, that it has always appeared to me, that we are not sufficient of ourselves to choose those means which are best for us, and that the more we commit our way unto the Lord, the more we are likely to prosper in that spiritual life which is light and peace; and I think that the Scriptures authorize us to believe that the Light or Holy Spirit which is given to every man to profit withal, is all-sufficient to lead us in the way in which In the Seventh Month, 1812, Priscilla Gur I do indeed feel the necessity of cleaving to the Divine principle within us; for how little are we fitted to choose a way for ourselves, or to be our own directors! Those words of our Saviour have lately been an encouragement to me; when Peter saith to Him, "And what shall this man do?" Jesus saith to him, "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me." This appears to be our individual concern, and I do at times long to do this with more faith and simplictity, and with a more devoted heart. I have felt much encouraged about dear Joseph; his conduct is truly exemplary, he seems to be more established, and we have all felt him to be a strength and comfort to us. It has been very satisfactory to have dear John taking his place amongst us; yet it has brought home, rather forcibly, that our sentiments and views do not accord with his, and this, now that we have each to act for ourselves, calls for the exercise of mutual forbearance, patience, and the subjection of our own wills. The beloved brother to whom reference is made in the last portion of this extract, was now becoming an object of tender and anxious solicitude to his sister Priscilla, who observed a visible, though very gradual, decay of his physical strength. He had never surmounted the shock which his nerves had sustained from the death of his lovely wife; and, for many months, his affectionate family watched his declining health with serious apprehension of the probable result. Priscilla's attentions to him were seldom remitted. She, however, left home for a short time in 1813, for the purpose of visiting her beloved cousins at Darlington, taking the opportunity of spending a little time at Ackworth, where her constant interest in the welfare of youth, led her to feel a peculiar pleasure in witnessing the education of the children, and an earnest desire that they might receive solid and scriptural instruction in the great truths of revealed religion. About this time she first spoke in the religious meetings of Friends. She was greatly abased under a conviction of the solemnity of this most weighty engagement. a letter to a serious person of her acquaintance, she says, (in referring to a judicious In |