of all. That alone is the key, which unlocks all the treasures of the universe. That alone is the power that reigns over space, time, eternity. That, under God, is the sovereign dispenser to man, of all the blessings and glories that lie within the compass of possession, or within the range of possibility. Virtue, piety, heaven, immortality exist not, and never will exist for us, but as they exist, and will exist, in the perception, feeling, thought-of the glorious mind.

spect from others, in proportion as they grow | ry being; what is there that man can form-what more rich, and live more splendidly, not more sceptre or throne-what structure of ages-what wisely, and fare more sumptuously every day! empire of wide-spread dominion-can compare Surely it is not strange, while all this is true, that with the wonders and the grandeurs of a single men should be more attracted by objects of sense thought? It is that alone of all things are made, and appetite, than by miracles of wisdom and it is that alone, that comprehends the Maker love. And it is not strange that the spiritual riches which man is exhorted to seek, are represented in scripture as "hid treasures," for they are indeed hidden in the depths of the soul-hidden, covered up with worldly gains, and pomps, and vanities. It is not strange that the kingdom of heaven, that kingdom which is within, is represented as a treasure buried in a field; the flowers bloom, and the long grass waves there, and men pass by and say it is beautiful; but this very beauty, this very luxuriance, conceals the treasure. And so it is in this life, that luxury and show, fashion and outward beauty, worldly pursuits and possessions, attract the eyes of men, and they know not the treasure that is hidden in every human soul.

SLEEPING WITH THE HEAD COVERED.

Before the danger of sleeping with the head covered can be rendered sufficiently plain, it will be necessary to state one fact in physiology to which we have not yet adverted.

The same change of blood from bad to goodfrom pure to impure-which is effected in the lungs, is effected also, in some degree, on the whole surface of the body. Some insects or worms may be said to breathe entirely on the surface of the body. They have no lungs whatever. As we rise in the scale of existences, to snakes, &c. we begin to find lungs, or gills, in which a part of the change of blood to which we allude is effected. Rising still farther in the scale of being, we find the lungs larger, and the skin less and less concerned in the change, till we come to man, and some few other animals, in whom the change is almost wholly accomplished by the lungs. Still, we repeat it, the skin, even in man, has some share of the work of renovating the blood to perform, as may be shown by a very simple experiment, like the following:

Yes, the treasure-and the treasure that is in every soul. The difference that exists among men is not so much in their nature, not so much in their intrinsic power, as in the power of communication. To some it is given to embosom and imbody their thoughts; but all men, more or less, feel those thoughts. The very glory of genius, the very rapture of piety, when rightly revealed, are diffused and spread abroad, and shared among unnumbered minds. When eloquence and poetry speak-when the glorious arts, statuary, painting, and music-when patriotism, charity, virtue-speak to us, with all their thrilling power, do not the hearts of thousands glow with a kindred joy and ecstacy? Who's here so humble, who so poor in thought or in affection, as not to feel this? Who's here so low, so degraded, I had almost said, as not sometimes to be touched with the beauty of goodness? Who's here with a heart made of such base materials, as not sometimes to respond, through When a person has lain several hours in bed, every chord of it, to the call of honor, patriotism, closely covered to the neck with thick covering, generosity, virtue? What a glorious capacity is say with the modern article called a comfortable, this! A power to commune with God and an- let a candle or lamp be introduced under the clothgels! A reflection of the brightness of heaven-ing, and it will soon be extinguished. The oxya mirror that collects and concentrates within it-gen is so much diminished, and the carbonic acid self all the moral splendors of the universe a gas so much increased, as to be incapable of suplight kindled from heaven, that is to shine bright-porting combustion; and by the same rule unfit er and brighter for ever! For what then, my for respiration. Let it be also distinctly underfriends, shall we care as we ought to care for this? What can man bear about with him, what office, what array, what apparel, that shall beget such reverence as the soul he bears with him? This fact, that we breathe, as it were, that is to What circumstances of outward splendor can lend say, purify the blood and poison the air with the such imposing dignity to any being, as the throne whole surface of our body, as well as by means of inward light and power, where the spirit reigns of the lungs, is of the utmost practical importance. for ever? What work of man shall be brought It is of importance to be understood by those on into comparison with this work of God? I will whom we urge the duty of keeping the skin clean; speak of it in its simplest character-I say a for how can a foul skin-a skin varnished over thought, a bare thought,-and yet I say, what is with dust-perform its delicate and important it-and what is its power and mystery? Breathed functions? It is of importance to be understood from the inspiration of the Almighty: partaking in order to know how to clothe ourselves; for all of infinite attributes; comprehending, analyzing, and with its own beauty clothing all things; and bringing all things, and all themes-earth, heaven, eternity, within the possession of its momenta

stood that this change is wholly effected without the agency of the breath; though, when the head is covered, it is, of course, accomplished much faster.

those forms and circumstances of our clothing which tend to embarrass or interrupt the action of the skin, in its work of assisting the lungs to purify the blood, are, of course objectionable. It

is, however, of still higher importance that it | New York, with the determination to raise himshould be well understood by mothers in the man- self to respectability and usefulness by his own agement of their infants, not only in regard to exertions. To accomplish this object, instead of cleanliness and dress, but particularly in regard to sleep.

visiting the places of fashionable resort, of forcing himself upon the notice of the great, or For, in the first place, the bed clothing ought lounging at the haunts of amusement, he devoted to be as loose and porous as it can be, and yet, all his leisure hours to study. Every moment he at the same time, retain a sufficient amount of could spare from his patients was improved in beat, in order that the carbonic acid gas may getting knowledge, and in dispensing it to others. have opportunity to escape, and the purer air find His first literary effort was to revise a Dictionary its way through it. Secondly. The clothes ought of Chymistry, which was published in 1831. He to be often thrown open and the air under them next translated from the French the great anathus exchanged for better. Thirdly. The child tomical work of Meckel, in three volumes, 8vo, ought never to be allowed to sleep with its head which has been republished in London, the first under the clothing. Immense is the mischief American translation of a foreign medical book done in this way as we have already said, by ig- which has been honoured with a reprint. While norant parents, and even by those whose fault is this was in the press, the cholera broke out in more that of carelessness than of ignorance. New York, and for the benefit of his suffering Fourthly. He should sleep alone as much as pos- fellow-citizens, he translated and published a valsible, either in a bed or a crib, rather than with uable French work on the Cholera, together with parents, brothers, sisters, &c. Fifthly. He should the Report of the French Academy upon that never be permitted to have domestic animals, as subject. Nor was this all. One of the newsfavorite dogs or cats, sleep in the bed with him- papers of the day remarks, "During the prevaa practice quite too common in our country-es-lence of the cholera in New York, his exertions pecially that of having a puppy in the bed. The to alleviate the general distress, were beyond the child's body poisons the imprisoned air quite fast enough without any aid from dogs and cats, or from other human bodies; and above all without being aided by his own breath.

reach of commendation." It was not alone in the chamber of the wealthy that he was found: but the hovel of the poverty-stricken and the wretched was not only blessed with his visits and What has been said in relation to the manage- advice, but frequently with the means of prement of infants will be generally applicable-the serving the very existence of its inmates: and principles which it involves will at least be so-in this has Dr. Doane to our certain knowledge frethe management of childhood and youth, and man- quently done without a hope, not to say an exhood and old age. Fires without flues lamps, pectation of reward. We mention these humane candles, breathing, and the action of the skin (if actions not as a personal panegyric, but merely not prevented by dirt, improper clothing, &c.) and to show his voluntary intrepidity in the midst of many more causes, will continue to operate to death and desolation. He next translated Dudeteriorate the atmosphere at every period of ex-puytren's Clinical Lectures on Surgery, deliveristence. There will be no moment of our lives ed at the Hotel Dieu. He then translated Mawhen we shall not need the whole active force of grier's Midwifery, a large and valuable work with a free, vigorous pair of lungs and a healthy skin, eighty plates, which has been extensively circuto form and reform the blood, and to cast off the lated in the United States. He next translated poisonous carbonic acid gas which is formed in Blandin's Topographical Anatomy, in two volthese important processes. There will be no umes, with plates. Then came his translation of waking moment of our lives when we shall not Chaussier's Table of the Arteries. He next edneed to be constantly on the watch at least as ited a new edition of Good's Study of Medicine, much as our circumstances and employment will which contains more than sixty pages of Ameradmit-against an agent which will threaten our ican notes, a most valuable work. He next pubdestruction, and which, after we have done our lished a work of his own on Surgery. This was best, will probably gain, more or less the domin-followed by Bayles' Manual of Anatomy. He is now translating an extensive work on the Theory Hence the importance which philosophers, in and Practice of Physic and Surgery, which will all periods of the world's history, have attached soon be ready for the press. Besides these lato pure air, and the concessions which have been bours, he has translated five works, not connectmade-proud as mankind have been, and asham-ed with medicine, and at the same time has eded of, and averse to labor-in favor of agricultu-ited the Family Magazine for one or two years, a ral enjoyments.

ion over us.

WE copy with much pleasure the following testimonial to the merits of one with whom we and our readers were a long time associated, and we hope that on their part the acquaintance is still remembered with pleasure.

"In 1828, a young physician, distant from friends and destitute of fortune, settled in the city of

work of which twenty thousand copies are annually circulated in the United States, and is to this country what the Penny Magazine is to England. All this has been accomplished in eight short years. This gentleman was recently ap pointed Professor of Physiology in the New York city Medical University, and now finds himself in an excellent practice, universally respected by the members of his profession, and enjoying a reputation in Europe and this country, which few have attained even after a long life."

Christian Statesman.

WASHINGTON'S HEAD-QUARTERS.

MORRISTOWN, N. J.

for thirty-six hours, found rest. After a halt of a day or two, he marched to Morristown, where he took up his winter quarters. But here he was not idle, for he sent out detachments in all directions to harass the enemy and in a short time not a British or Hessian regiment was left in New Jersey, except at Brunswick and Amboy. "The glory of these achievements" says Sparks, "was rendered doubly conspicuous by their immediate effects. The despondency which had weighed heavily upon the minds of the people, was dispelled as by a charm, the martial spirit was revived, and a new animation was infused into the public council."

OUR frontispiece is a representation of the mansion of the Hon. Judge Ford of Morristown, New Jersey, which was occupied by General Washington during the winter of 1777, as his head-quarters, whither he had retired after the memorable battle of Princeton. The events which had transpired immediately preceding the period when Washington chose Morristown for his winter quarters were as extraordinary as they were vitally important to the cause of American liberty. By great exertions and imminent peril, he had succeeded in crossing the Washington's first care after putting his troops Delaware just at the commencement of a severe into winter quarters, was to complete the army winter, with an army poorly clad, greatly inferior for the spring campaign. To do this he addressin numbers and discipline to the enemy, and ed circular letters to the governors of the norththeir term of service just expired. The hard-ern and middle states, requesting them to be ships of war, the despondency of hope deferred active in the enlistment of men. But his necesand other depressing causes wrought in a great sary policy of publicly magnifying his numbers, majority of them a determination to quit the army to deceive the enemy, made the states less enerand retire to their homes. The commander-in-getic in their action, and spring came and found chief saw that the fate of the country depended his army almost as meager as it was in autumn. on them, and with persuasions and largesses he Yet he did not despair, and as soon as the enemy prevailed on them to remain in service six weeks began to move in the spring, the Americans were longer. prepared to meet them. This was the most gloomy period of the Revolution, but the capture of Burgoyne, the arrival of La Fayette with twenty-four thousand muskets, and other munitions of war, and the important victories soon after achieved shed an inspiring ray over the colonies that illuminated every heart and rallied hundreds of doubters around the standard of Liberty.

Sir William Howe, observing this bold movement of the little army of Americans, resolved to punish them for their audacity, and sent Cornwallis, who was about embarking for England, to drive them from New Jersey. Washington made immediate preparations for his reception, for he well knew that this struggle would be a decisive one that would terminate in freedom or slavery to the colonies. He knew that fearful odds were against him, but he trusted to the superior strength of that principle which actuates men when fighting for their families and firesides. He was then stationed at Trenton, and learning, that the enemy's battalions were marching toward that place, he prepared for an attack. Detachments harassed them on the road, and they did not arrive till four o'clock in the afternoon, when a conflict ensued which lasted till dusk. Cornwallis determined to renew the attack in the morning, but when day dawned, the Americans had disappeared. By a circuitous route Washington had marched to Princeton where three regiments were stationed, with orders to reinforce Cornwallis, and before sunrise on the morning of the third of January 1777 he commenced an attack upon them, which led to a decisive victory. The British had more than one hundred killed and three hundred taken prisoners. The American loss was small in numbers, but great in the death of the brave General Mercer and Colonels Haslett and Potter.

After this battle, Washington marched to Pluckemin, where his troops, who had not slept

The following sketch of the death of General Mercer, which occurred but a few days previous to Washington's going into winter quarters at Morristown, may not inappropriately be inserted here. It is taken from the Custis Recollections and Private Memoirs of the Life and Character of Washington.

"The historical records of the War of the American Revolution are all in error as respects the death of General Mercer, who fell at the battle of Princeton, the third of January 1777. We offer the homage of our veneration for this martyr's memory, by giving to his adopted country and the world, authentic particulars of the heroism and devotion that attended his fall.

the fence, between the advance guard of the "It was immediately after the sharp conflict at American army, led by General Mercer, and the British seventeenth regiment, and the retreat of the Americans through the orchard near to Clark's house and barn, that General Mercer, while exerting himself to rally his broken troops, was brought to the ground by a blow from the butt of a musket. He was on foot at this time-the having been disabled by a ball in the fore leg. gray horse he rode at the beginning of the action the British soldiers were not at first aware of