snee, Business ano @rneral Intelligence.

Rev. J. I. WARD, Assistant Editor.

PRICE ONE CENT.
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dren--go to your cherries and desols,e


home-look upon its bare walls and car


petless foors--your empty closets and fuel
less cellars-at your own hsggsrd and
bloated countenance--and then reflect
ask yourself how much of the rum-vendcr's
luxurious furniture you have paid for -
enjoy the contrast-pleasant, is'nt 1.-THE
idea OF robbing your own family 10 heap
riches upon your enemy. o, If you are
not lost to every sense Of shame--if you
have not for ever banished from your breast
the chidngs of the still small voice, listen
to its promptings noD. Crush, at once,
the appetite for an unnatural Stimulus
which renovates but to destroy, which ex-
cites, to madden. Call to mind that you
have within you principles spirit,
which but begins to live when you cease
to exist-an immortal principle, which,
throughout the countless ages Of eternity
DiN live. Remember that to you is en-
trusted this jewel, and Of you will it be
required. But to return from this digres-
sion


Grandson coveted money only TO spend
it. He was, in the broadest Je of the
term, spendthrif--a gentleman of pleas
Urea gambler-one Of that gentry who
live, few people now how-to which quail
iications he added that of libertine-he
was good shot at--ten paces--had killed
his man, and had performed various other
chivalrous and honorable deeds which stig-
Matte the gentleman Of the fashionable
world. His heart was callous, and his soul
was dead-dead to every noble impulse
He had the faculty Of concealing these
qualities from observation-disclosures upon
the unsuspecting, and pass for the free
hearted, neighborly fellow which he as
sumed to be. 1t was upon one Of the
occasions when, influenced by wine and
wassail, he was playing the agreeable, that
Benson, upon whom he had completely
imposed, had, in the confidence inspired
by his professions of friendship, mentioned
his fear of being distressed for the want of
A few hundred dollars. Grandson knew
that he would be perfectly safe, and offer
ed to procure for him the loan of the sum
he needed, for nsideration-stating that
he could get it of friend, providing Ben
son would give him mortgage OH the
cottage. lie consented--and thus became
his debtor.


(Tb be continued.)