reason had been applied the torch of eternal truth: under the guidance of Jehovah, Washington led forth to victory our armies. God's favour, manifested in the day of our struggle, abides with us still. Though when our people have grown infatuated in their enterprises, and dissipated in their prosperity so as to forget their benefactor, He has suddenly scourged them with the pestilence that walketh at noon day, and smitten them with the element that reddens the midnight sky; yet his protecting arm is still extended to us; he yet waits to be gracious, and on every hand are his blessings multiplied. Temporary excitements, ever and anon, triumph through the land, and vice at times, with uplifted crest, seems to tread down opposi. tion to its sway; but Christianity must live. A republican soil is genial to its growth. The tree is becoming more and more deeply rooted-its branches are even now shooting out with vigour, and twining themselves around our political institutions. Our people are becoming more and more enlightened, the claims of God are acknowledged and met, the victories of the cross are numerous and glorious. Roll on then, thou car of reform! Trample beneath thee thine enemies, O Thou who hast trodden the wine press alone! Thou fountain of light! may thy rays which now fall here and there soon be "swallowed up in one glad effulgence, blessing all upon whom they fall, even as the common light of heaven."

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INDUSTRY AND TEMPERANCE.

A GENTLEMAN who keeps bees, and who is an attentive observer of these curious creatures, informed me the other day of a fact concerning them which I do not remember having before met with, which will serve as a beautiful illustration of the disconnection of industry and strong drink.

The fact is this: that the fumes of ardent spirits are exceedingly offensive to these busy artisans, and their presence will irritate them very much. The gentleman assures me that he has several times had visiters whose breath smelt of ardent spirits, who came to see his bees, and that the bees would always come around such with great spite, and sting them, and drive them from the yard, while they were perfectly peaceful to the other persons. He has found by experiments that their abhorrence of ardent spririts is inveterate.

That the bee, by its habits, has in all ages, and in every nation, become the emblem of industry, is universally known, and universal experience has taught us that ardent spirits is the sworn foe of industry. But that these industrious little creatures were, either by observation or instinct, such mortal enemies of strong drink, and that the presence of the rum drinker was considered by them such an intrusion on their industrious community, is a fact probably little known; it is at least a new discovery to me. Such a fact, if known to the rum drinker, would, we should think, be a stinging reproof of his degrading habits, and lead him to see how much above him in wisdom and usefulness are these little insects, and how contemptible does that rational being make himself whom they despise and abhor.-Hartford Observer.

COLONY AT LIBERIA.

LIBERIA has a population of 4,500 American colonists and 30,000 natives. It has nine settlements or towns--the two most distant being 300 miles apart on the sea coastthe others at various distances, intermediate. Its territory, procured by purchase, contains nearly 500,000 acres of land, and other large tracts can be easily obtained of the native owners in the same way. The government is mo

deled after our own, and is purely republican-administered almost wholly by colored people. Agriculture is thriv ing and greatly extending. Four printing presses are in operation. Twenty-one churches are organized-some of them composed of native converts. More than thirty ordained ministers are engaged in religious teaching. Many sabbath schools are regularly attended. And on the whole, the colony never appeared better than now, nor so entirely attractive to its friends on the ground of its great usefulness.-Presbyterian.

A FACT FOR GEOLOGISTS.

A FEW months since, the workmen engaged in blasting at the dock of the Dutchess Whaling Company, in this village, discovered, imbedded in the solid rock, a large sized stone pot, evidently the work of human hands. It was found about twelve feet below the surface, and at a distance of two hundred feet from the river's edge. The lid, which is said to be exactly fitted to the pot, is now in the possession of Captain Sherman. The body was thrown out with masses of rock and broken to pieces.

A fair subject for the speculation of geologists! Has this vessel been covered by those gradual changes which are peculiar to the operations of nature, or has it been deposited beneath a superincumbent mass of twelve feet in thickness, by the force of some violent convulsion ?— Poughkeepsie Journal.

PEARLS, says Cowper, are not procured but from the bottom of the water; and gold is digged, not from the surface, but from the deep places of the earth. So the joy of God is not to be found but in the inward recesses of a broken and contrite spirit.

MISERABLE as life appears to be in Russia, it is the peculiar praise of the Russian, that he is always contented with his situation-supporting it not only with resignation, but with cheerfulness; indeed, in one respect he has no reason to repine-his earnings, though he be one of the lowest day labourers, are more than sufficient for the sup ply of his wants-he is warmly if not comfortably clad, and even in the coldest weather is never seen shivering with cold like the inhabitants of other European countries, where the weather is less severe. They possess also a kind of habitual gayety, which they manifest by songs of a lively description. Indeed, the propensity is common to all ranks in Russia-the postillions sing from the beginning to the end of a stage-the soldiers sing upon their march-the countrymen and labourers in the cities sing during their most laborious occupations, while in the stillness of the evening, when the fatigues of the day are over, the air resounds with the songs of the peasantry seated before the doors of their houses.

"I have heard a great deal of the severity of the cold in

Russia," said James Leech to Mr. Gorodek one day, after dinner, "but I can scarcely believe it when I feel the warmth of your summer." "Our summers are hotter," replied Mr. Gorodek, "than yours in England, and I think when winter comes you will not hesitate to confess that cold is in the same degree more intense than yours; but have you never heard of the palace which Catharine built in the year 1740, on occasion of the marriage of her minister, Prince Galitzin that shows how severe our winter frosts are." "Yes, sir," answered he, "all our books of travels mention it as a well-known fact; but I have never seen a description of it." "When you are better acquainted with our language, you may read a particular account which was published at the time by Mr. Kraft; in the mean time take the following brief detail, which is given by a countryman of yours, who resided a long time with us. I should mention that seven years previous to the erection of the palace an ice castle and garrison had been built upon the river Neva; the ice, however, bent under their weight and that of the soldiers who were stationed in them, which determined Catharine to have the other built upon the land, half way between the admiralty and the winter palace. I agree fully in the remark which is made by your countryman, that it is difficult to determine whether the expense of erecting this palace, or the purpose for which it was intended, as the temporary residence of the prince and his bride, showed the greatest folly.

"The ice palace was constructed of blocks of ice cut out of the winter covering of the Neva, which were from two to three feet in thickness, according to necessity, being properly squared and formed, and laid on in regular courses like masonry; water was poured between them, which, being soon frozen, acted like a cement; so that the whole building may be said to have consisted of one immense mass of ice.