him, still he perceived that the counsels of his uncle were not without their worth, and that, if truly followed, they would insure his welfare. He therefore resolved to obey them strictly; and how he kept his resolution, and with what results, we learn not only from private sources, but from the history of his country. Abbot Lawrence rose gradually by the force of his own character from the condition of a poor youth to that of a rich and honored man. From a laborer and farmer in Virginia he became a wealthy manufacturer, an owner of plantations and railroads, of mines and of gold diggings. He was chosen to the House of Representatives. Later he was called to the Senate. From 1849 to 1852 he was ambassador of the American Union in

England, and he would undoubtedly have become President of the United States, if he

had not beforehand declined the honor. He died in the beginning of this year (1856) at New York, a man of ten millions of dollars, which, like his uncle, he bequeathed to charitable institutions, thus preserving his memory through time and eternity.

We received the following manuscript from a friendly hand. It contains the legacy of his uncle, which was found among his papers, and we think we are doing our fellow men a service by bringing it to light. As it has never been printed in any language, we have at once translated it into German, and wish our readers to observe that the reckonings are made in German currency.

THE EDITOR..

The manuscript, which follows, fills about twenty-one pages, and consist of very good moral advice, sensible but rather commonplace, arranged under forty-four heads. Its motto is "Pray and Work," and the following is a fair specimen of the pithy mode in which it announces its different subjects:

"Be devout and fear God without superstition.

"Be kind to the poor.

"Be tolerant.

"Keep a clear conscience.

Simplify your wants.

'Keep your word.
"Be punctual.
"Be frugal.

will be safe, and keep working.
"Put your savings at interest where they
will be safe, and keep working.

"Never run in debt.
"Get knowledge

they are to be had.

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and experience wherever

Try to be first in your calling.
"Respect all ranks.
"Never love to spend.

"Never lose confidence in yourself.
"Persevere."

Each of the forty-four heads is followed by a short exposition and enforcement of its doctrine, and the whole ends with an exhortation. No part of it is unworthy the character of Mr. Lawrence, but undoubtedly no part of it was ever seen by him, or before it was published, by any person who can have known much about him.

"THE ROMANCE OF LIFE GONE WITH | the present is not so much wiser and grander than MARRIAGE." The romance of life gone! when with the humblest and most sordid cares of life are intimately associated the calm delights, the settled bliss of home; when upon duties, in themselves perhaps often wearisome and uninteresting, hang the prosperity and the happiness of wife and children; when there is no mean hope, because there is no hope in which regard for others does not largely mingle-no base fear, because suffering and distress cannot affect self alone; when the selfishness which turns honest industry to greed, and noble ambition to egotistical lust of power, is exercised; when life becomes a perpetual exercise of duties which are delights, and delights which are duties. Once romance meant chivalry; and the hero of romance was one who did his knightly devoirs, and was true and loyal to God and his lady love. If with us it has come to mean the sensual fancies of nerveless boys, and the sickly reveries of girls for whose higher faculties society can find no employment, it is only another instance in which

the past, as its flatterers are fond of imagining. To us it appears that where the capacity for generous devotion, for manly courage, for steadfast faith and love, exists, there exists the main element of romance, and that where the circumstances of life are most favorable for the development of the qualities in action, they are romantic circumstances whether the person displaying them be, like Alton Locke, a tailor, or like King Arthur, a man of slalwart arm and lordly presence. Nor do we see that the giants, dragons, and other monsters of the old romance, are in themselves one whit more interesting than the obstacles that beset the modern true knight in his struggles to perform manfully the duties of his life, and to carry out the noble spirit of that vow which he has solemnly taken at the altar to love, comfort, honor, and keep in sickness and in health the woman who has put her youth, her beauty, her life, and happiness into his handsGeorge Brinsley's Essays.

From Appleton's Dictionary of Mechanics.

SEWING MACHINES.

and the Machine is adapted to the Finest Work.

THE want of accurate information upon the "Its mechanism is the fruit of the highest subject of Sewing Machines, is now supplied inventive genius, combined with practical talby a new edition of Appleton's Dictionary of ent of the first order. Its principles have Mechanics, in which the subject is discussed been elaborated with great care, and it inand illustrated. Several Machines of various volves all the essentials required in a Family merit are mentioned therein; and prominence Sewing Machine. It is simple and thorough is given them, according to their respective in construction, elegant in model and finish, merits. The single thread "Hand Stitch," facile in management, easy, quiet, and rapid Running Stitch," and the single and double in operation. and reflects additional credit threaded "Tambour Stitches," are severally upon American Mechanical Skill. treated. Machines making the "Running "The Machine is mounted upon a neat and the "Hand Stitches" are not before the work table, and driven by sandal treadles public. The Single," and the "Double and band. The operator seats herself before Threaded Tambour Stiches," do not make the table, on which the Machine is placed, seams of desirable firmness and beauty. The with her feet upon the sandals. The Threads latter involves a great expenditure of thread; being adjusted, the Machine is touched into and the former, made by the low-priced motion by a gentle pressure of the foot, upon Machines, is particularly defective for the the sandals, and the cloth, as sewed, is moved general purposes of Sewing, on account of forward from left to right. the facility with which it may be raveled.

The "Lock Stitch," is the one best suited for Sewing. It is formed with two Threads, one above and the other below the Fabric Sewed, interlocked with each each other in the center of it. Each surface of the

"There is no limit to the number of Stitches that may be made in any given time. The driving-wheel is graduated ordinarily so as to make five stitches at each tread, so that from Six Hundred to One Thousand Stitches seam, per minute are readily made. The amount of sewing that an operator may ac00000000000 complish, depends much upon the kind of presents the same appearance; a single line sewing, and her experience. Fifty dozen of Shirt Collars, or six dozen of Shirt Bosoms, of thread extending from stitch to stitch. are a day's work. Upon straight seams, an It cannot be ripped nor raveled, and forms a seam sufficiently substantial for all ordinary work of twenty by hand. On an average, operator with one machine, will perform the purposes. About two and one half yards of thread are required for each yard of seamstresses. The bearings and friction surfaces one probably performs the work of ten seammade with this Stitch. The single thread "Tambour Stitch," requires about four and one half yards, and the "Double Threaded Tambour Stitch," six and one half yards of thread, for a yard of seam.

are so slight, that the propelling power is merely nominal. The parts at all subject to wear are made of finely-tempered steel; the other parts of the Machine, are tastefully ornamented, or heavily silver plated.

ly well

The inventor of the "Lock Stitch," used a "It is applicable to every variety of Sewreciprocating Shuttle in making it. This required heavy machinery, involved a waste of ing for Family wear, from the lightest muspower, and was inadaptible to Fine Work. lins, to the heaviest clothes. It works equalNo attempt was made to introduce it into Goods; Seaming, Quilting, Hemming, Gathupon Silk, Linen, Woolen, and Cotton Families. "In 1851," Mr. A. B. Wilson patented his celebrated "Lock Stitch" Ma-ering, and Felling, performing every species chine, which with the co-operation of Mr. N. of Sewing, except making Button Holes, Wheeler, was soon introduced successfully, Stitching on Buttons, and the like. Various and is now known as the Wheeler and Wil appliances are furnished for regulating the

son Machine. The merit of Mr. Wilson's

width of hems. The "Hemmer

it

is an ap

Invention, consists in his " Rough Surface pendage by which the edge of the fabric as Feed," by which the Cloth is moved forward, passes through, is turned down and handand the length of the Stitch regulated; and somely stitched.

Thousands of these Ma

the "Rotating Hook," by which the two chines are used by Housekeepers, Seamthreads are interlocked, and the points of in-stresses, Dressmakers, Tailors, Manufacturers terlocking drawn into the fabric. The superi- Caps, Corsets, Ladies' Gaiters, Umbrellas, of Skirts, Cloaks, Mantillas, Clothing, Hats, ority of this Machine over the Shuttle MaParasols, Silk and Linen Goods, with comchine, arises from substituting the Rotary plete success; sometimes from one hundred movement of the Hook, for the reciprocating to two hundred are used in a single manumotion of the Shuttle. Power is thus economized, noisy and cumbersome gearing avoided, factory."

No. 743.-21 August 1858.-Enlarged Series, No. 21.

Death of Mr. Moxon, 577.

SHORT ARTICLES.-Dust and Hot Winds of India, 577. Tomb of Goldsmith, 601. Dr. John Snow, 601. New Optical Instrument, 601. Mr. Spurgeon, 628. Lyra Germanica, 628. Beautiful Inscription, 640. Fair Barbarian, 640.

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