HENRY SIMS' VOYAGE TO AMERICA. and on Sunday morning we began to be removed on to her in small boats. This was before breakfast; but I stayed until the last boat, and had time to get a good breakfast. The others were without food all day, as the Illinois was all in confusion. There were any quantity of blankets, sheets, pillows, and bed ticks, also a quantity of straw to fill them with, but this article had grown scarce by the time I got there, and by gaining breakfast I lost my straw. But with the people being so long without food, many fell sick, which cost some their lives. When we did get some food, I was appointed passengers' steward; but the people became so furious I was glad to give up the post, and leave them to wait upon themselves. I went down to my bunk until the confusion should be over; and a few of us found a cask of coarse sugar, and for want of something better we ate heartily of sea biscuits and sugar. The sickness was still raging, but the victims were removed to the hospital as they were attacked. I was appointed officers' steward, and began to be pretty comfortable. We had fresh provisions daily from the city, and some had friends who sent them a few extras. We had music, singing, and dancing, and some got gambling, and lost all their money. In about fourteen days the cabin passengers went ashore, and by this time the Virginia was thoroughly cleaned; and for the purpose of getting some of the passengers on her again, they told them that they would sooner go on shore than the passengers on the Illinois, but when they got them there, there were no beds or any comforts whatever. We now had orders to stay twenty-one days after the last case of sickness. About fourteen days after the removal of the passengers back to the Virginia, the vessel was ordered to port, but not to take any of her passengers; and they brought another vessel to put them on 'to, which so provoked the passengers that they refused to go. They detained the vessel a few days, and had to bring two steam-boats with a force of water police, all armed, and force them off. We all went in together on Wednesday the 30th May, with the exception of the convalescent passengers, who stayed on board the Saratoga for a few days. It was with very great pleasure and thankfulness to God I found myself on land once more. In my next I will send word how I found things on shore. POETRY. Poetry. CHRIST'S CONDESCENSION. "A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench." -Isaiah xlii. 3. WHEN evening choirs their praises hymned In Zion's courts of old, The high priest walked his rounds and trimmed And if perchance one flame burned low, With fresh oil vainly drenched, He cleansed it from the socket,-so But Thou who walkest, Priest Most High, What things are weak and near to die Thou breathest on the trembling spark, And straight it shoots up through the dark, The shepherd, resting in the shade, On reedy pipe sweet music made, In many a pastoral tune; But if perchance the reed were crushed, Its mellow music marred and hushed,— But Thou, Good Shepherd, who dost feed Thou dost not break the bruised reed More sweet than angels know. Lord, once my love was all ablaze, My life was praise, but now my days Yet ne'er by Thee am I forgot, But helped in sorest need; The smoking flax Thou quenchest not, ANECDOTES AND SELECTIONS. Anecdotes and Selections. HAPPY EVERY DAY.-When you rise in the morning, form the resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow creature. It is easily done. A left-off garment to the man who needs it, a kind word to the sorrowful, an encouraging expression to the striving, will do it. And if you are young, it will tell when you are old; and if you are old, it will send you gently and happily down the stream of time to eternity. Look at the result. You send one person, only one, happily through the day; that is, three hundred and sixty-five in the course of the year. And supposing you live forty years after you commence that course of medicine, you have made 14,600 beings happy, at all events, for a time. MORE FAITH, HOPE, AND GRACE.-There is one thing with which we ought never to be content. That thing is a little religion, a little faith, a little hope, and a little grace. Let us never sit down satisfied with a little of these things. On the contrary, let us seek them more and more. When Alexander the Great visited the Greek philosopher, Diogenes, he asked him if there was anything that he could give him. He got this short answer, "I want nothing but that you should stand from between me and the sun." Let the spirit of that answer run through our religion. One thing there is which should never satisfy and content us, and that is, "anything that stands between our souls and Christ.-Rev. J. C. Ryle. THE DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT. The blessed doctrine of the Atonement of Christ runs like a golden thread through the whole of our religion. It unites the several parts of it in a sweet harmony, and casts a lustre over them all. It is a solid foundation on which the greatest sinners may thus hope for acceptance with God when they return to Him. It is a sufficient ground for their firm trust in Christ as a Saviour, and a reviving cordial against sinking in despair. THE HAPPY COMBINATION.-There is nothing purer than truth, nothing sweeter than charity, nothing warmer than love, nothing brighter than virtue, and nothing more steadfast than faith. These united in one mind form the purest, sweetest, richest, brightest, holiest, and most enduring happiness. A study of Paul's advice to the Philippian Christians (Phil. iv. 8) will serve to beget and strengthen these graces in the soul. "I'D GO TO HIM WITHOUT PUSHING."-A Christian mother was once showing her little girl, about five years old, a picture representing Jesus holding an infant in His arms, while the mothers were pushing their children toward him. "There, Carrie," said her mother, "this is what I would have done for you if I had been there." "I would'nt be pushed to Jesus," said little Carrie, with a beautiful and touching earnestness; "I'd go to Him without pushing." THE FIRESIDE. ECCENTRIC PRAYER.—In a work entitled "English Eccentricities," recently published in London, may be found the following extempore prayer, attributed by the author to a certain Mr. Ward :-"Lord, thou knowest that I possess nine houses in the city of London, and that I have recently bought an estate in the county of Essex. Preserve, therefore, I pray thee, the two counties of Middlesex and Essex from fires and earthquakes, and as I have an hypothecated estate in Hertfordshire, look also in compassion upon that county; as to the other portions of the country, do as Thou wilt. Lord, consolidate the Royal Bank that it may honour its notes. Let all my debtors be or become honest men. Give a prosperous and speedy passage to the sloop Mermaid, for the insurance of which I am responsible. Preserve me from robbers and brigands. Make all my servants faithful and devoted, that they may watch over my interests and relax not their diligence by day or by night," " The Fireside. HOW TO SLEEP SOUND. SQUIRE Jenkinson had a fine house, fine pleasure grounds, and a handsome carriage drawn by beautiful horses. His table was supplied with every luxury, but still Squire Jenkinson could get no rest. Sometimes he went to bed early, and sometimes he went to bed late; but whether early or late it was just the same. There was no rest for Squire Jenkinson. He applied to his friends, who told him to take exercise, and to drink an extra glass of grog before he went to bed. He applied to his doctor, and he gave him laudanum and opium; but in spite of exercise, and laudanum, and opium, no sound rest could he obtain. At last he consulted Thomas Perrins, his gardener. Now Thomas Perrins was a humble Christian, and well knew that his master feared not God; that he was unjust, and cruel, and oppressed the widow and the fatherless, and that his conscience troubled him; so Thomas told him that old Gilbert Powel, who lived hard by on the waste land, always slept famously, but that perhaps he wore a different kind of night-cap. Mistaking the meaning of Thomas, away went Squire Jenkinson, who was, as I have said, a weak-minded man, with one of his best night-caps in his pocket, to exchange it for that of Gilbert Powel. He soon got his cap, and had it washed and well, aired; and when night came he went to bed in good spirits, hoping to have a comfortable night's sleep: but no! though he put it on in all shapes, and placed himself in all postures, Squire Jenkinson could get no rest. As soon as the sun rose, he hastened to the cottage on the waste land, to know how Gilbert Powel had rested; when Gilbert told THE PENNY POST BOX. him that he had never had a better night's rest in all his life, and was quite delighted with his new night-cap. Perplexed and cast down, Squire Jenkinson then went once more to his gardener, to tell him of the ill-success which had attended his plan of borrowing the night-cap of. Gilbert Powel. 66 It cannot be Gilbert's cap," said he, which makes him sleep so soundly, for he wore one of mine, and he tells me he never had a more comfortable cap in his life." "Ay, master," said Thomas Perrins, shaking his head significantly, as he leaned on his spade; "but to my knowledge he wears another cap besides the one you gave him-the cap of a good conscience—and he who wears that is sure to sleep well.". The Penny Post Box. ADVICE TO PREVENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES AMONGST THE POOR. LET your doors and windows be kept open in the day; if you have not a window in the back part of your house, make one; have them so hung as to be easily opened; have a chimney with a good draught, so as to encourage a free current of air through your house. Remove dung and putrid matter from before and behind your houses, as the vapour and smell proceeding from them (called "Malaria") has been found by physicians to generate infectious fever. Do not by any means indulge in the use of spirituous or other fermented liquors, as intemperance in their use will, to a certainty, render you more susceptible of contagion. Attention should be paid to have the bowels kept daily open, but not too free, and if necessary, some gentle aperient medicine should be occasionally made use of for this purpose. Whitewash your walls inside and outside with lime slacked in the house, and while it continues hot and bubbling; let this be done once a month while fever is prevalent. If fever attacks your family, as soon as the calamity is removed by recovery, or by death, employ the above means as soon as possible; burn the straw of the beds; put all the clothes of the house into cold water, or into a strong solution of chloride of lime-one ounce to a quart of water-wring them out and wash them in hot water, soap, and pot-ashes; let every box, drawer, chest, or cupboard, be emptied and washed, and let the floor under the patient's bed be strewed with lime fresh slacked and hot. Let no person upon recovery go into a neighbour's house, nor into any public place of worship for fourteen days. A strict adherence to this plan constitutes the sole means of removing the chief cause which generates Typhus Fever, viz., the foetid |