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An April . Day.
When the warm sun, that brings
Reerktinue_ansl harvest, has returned al
"Ds sweet to visit the still wood, wh.
The first flower of the plain.
.I lime the season well,
When forest-glades are teeming with bright forms,
1 , 1o:or dark and many clouds foretell
The coming-on of storms.
From the earth's loesen'd mould
The. sapling draws its sustenance, and thrives;
Though stricken to the heart with winter's cold,
The drooping tree revives.
The softly warbled song
Comes from the pleasant woods, and colored wings
Glance quick in the bright sun that moves along
The forest opening.
When the bright sunset Ms
The silver woods with light, the green slope throws
its Bliadowt; in the hollows of the
ce,,_ And wide the upland grows.
And,.when the eve is born,
In the blue lake the sky o'er reaching far
Is holtow'd out, and the moon dips her horn,
And twinkles many a star.
Inverted- in the tide
stand the gray rocks, and trembling shadows throw,
Aud the fair trees look over. side by side, -
And see themselves tOlow.
Sweet April—many a-thought
Is' wedded unto thee as hearts are wed,,
Nor shall they fail till, to its autumn brought,
Life's golden fruit is shed.
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MARRYING A CLERK;
_ OR, THE MERCANTILE ANGEL.
BY SCARB.EN T. AStITON*.
CHAPTER I.
,"The Contemptible - little jackanapes !he had
the audacity to ask me to play whist- with
him !" exclaimed Sophia Danvers to her sister.
"And why should he not, sister ?" answered
Mary Danvers calmly. -
"Why should he'not, indeed ! Did he think
I would demean Myself by playing whist with
a new clerk—one of father's servants!" and
Sophia tossed her head in disdain. .
- "I can see no impropriety in your associating
• with him, Sophia. He is certainly a hand
some, intelligent, and well behaved young
man."
"Behaves well enough, for aught T 'knew ;
but odly think of it, 'a clerk in our .drawing
room ! for my part, I wonder how father could
ever think of such a thing as admitting him in
to the family."
"I suppose it was because he liked the looks
of him."
"What will. 111/. Augustus-Fitzherbert say
When -he finds us associating with poor clerks
—the trash bf_ counting-rooms !"
A , -"It matters little to me what he thinks ; he
is a conceited puppy, and I wonder that you
• can endure his presence," replied Mary,
smartly. ,
"But he is the leader of the ton, Mary," said
Sophia, astonished at the plebian notions of
her sister.
"He is a perfect flirt for all that, and infi
nitely inferior in hll that constitutes a man, to
Mr. Harlowe, whom you affect to despise."
The conversation was interrupted' by the en
trance of Mr. Danvers
"How could you bring that horrible clerk
into the house, papa ?" said Sophia, as the mer
chant prince seated himself by the blazing
grate.
"Horrible clerk ! pray what is the matter
with him ?" asked Mr. Danvers. evincing some
surprise at the plain speech of his daughter.
"Why he is a clerk."
"But a respectable young man."
"Respectable enough, - - but- not fashionable,
papa."
"I was a clerk once, Sophia ; I commenced
by sweeping out a store and carrying bundles
about the city." -
"How absurd you talk, papa."
"But Mr. Harlowe is a very estimable
young maws - 1.-ata-w'—find_hirn
very agreeable company."
"I shall, have nothing to say to him," replied .
.shrug of the
"Beware,' Sophia t'there is an old proverb,
you know, about entertaining angels un
awares."
Sophia laughell heartily at the idea of a poor
,clerk being, an angel.
' e-t — ..ButWhat says Mary?" asked the merchant,
fining to his gentle-hearted daughter.
/i.Oh, I - like him very much ; we are already
- fast friends," replied Mary, and a slight blush
seemed to emphasize the remark.
"Just like her, papa; I should not wonder if
she got bead over heels in love with your mer
cantile angel."
"She must do as she pleases about that,"
returned Mr. Danvers, smiling.
"Pooh,- Sophy !, who said a word about fall
ing in love ? Can't a body be civil to a young
gentleman without falling in love with him ?"
The pretty Mary blushed as she spoke in
good earnest—so palpably blushed that her
fitifiiiThegan to thipiCtlfe - tiffa r - Vi - • a s":Statialiing
more than a mete jest.
• "But, pray, papa, when does your new
partner arrive ?" asked Sophia. "I fall the ac
counts I have heard of his wit. gallantry. and.
personal attractions are true, I shall certainly
set my cap for him."
appear~ne of these da}-s," replied
Mr. Danvers. -
"I hope you, will not keep this stupid clerk
in the house after he comes."
"I certainly shall:"-
- "But papa, we - shall - lose caste-if ; it
is really abominable."
"Small loss, my child : if we are dependent
upon-the apes and puppies of fashionable life
fur our position in -society. the sooner we lose
it, the better for our own self respect," said
Ir. Danvers,_ _ood-humoredly.
ou are ahNurkl. papa.
Sophy, you have given me a lesson,
,fantilti Atitisimpr----Druntrit in Vulitirs, 3griruttar, Tittrninrr, Ras nrii ,friturs, (Tl)r narkrts, arntral nniratir and b ilarign 3masuntut,
HT LONGFELLOW.
e s t7r
let me give you one. The idol you worship is
ure - sensciess - than'tho.serott - heTeegee - Islands;
Fashionable society is as hollow as a brass
pan.; . place no reliance npon.it. The fops and
fools who follow il - your train, are as soulless
as they are brainless.
'•I wish Mr. Augustus Fitzherbert could
hear you so," added-Sophia.
-Mr. Augustus Fitzherbeit was a journey
man barber in New Orleans less than a year
ago. I had the honor of being shaved by him
last winter, when I was there."
. .
4.0. horrid; papa ! why have you not ex
posed him ?"
"Why should I, my child? Ile is as good
a fellow, as sensible a person, and according to
your statement, as fatThionable a . ..man as Mr.
Finstoek, whose great grandfather was the
governor of the State." -
"Is it possible that Mr. Fitzherbert *as a
barber !" exelaitned Sophia, horrified at the ap
palling truth."
"Nothing else, in.
"An imposter r added NY y:
"Just so ; - probably he is trying to obtain a
rich wife."
"It is abominable, I declate ! One hardly
knows, now-a-days, who is respectable and
who is not," said Sophia.*
"Therefore, my child, we ought not to speak
so disparagingly of persons in humble life,- as
you have dondito night." '
•Pooh ! a clerk !"
At thiS moment, Mr. Harlowe, the new . clerk.
entered the room, and. as Sophia would have
expressed, had the. impudence to seat himself
by the side of Mary Danvers, who appeared not
at all averse to this close proximity with him.
Frederick Harlowe was, as Mary had said, a
handsome,' intelligent and agreeable young
man. And Sophia, if she could have forgiven
him for being a clerk, would have appreciated
his society quite as highly as did her sister. ,
With her father's permission, Mary accept
ed an invitation from Frederick to attend Al
boni's last concert.
They had scarcely left the house before Mr.
Augustus was ushered into the sitting-room.
This gentleman was an exquisite of the .'first
water." In his personal appearance, ho cer
tainly was sufficiently 'well' endowed to chal
lenge the admiration of the fair' sex : but un
fortunately, he was sadly lacking in that ne
cessary element in a man of sense—brain. -
Sophia could scarcely refrain from express
ing the contempt she felt for the journeyman
barber in "mufti." • The leader of the “ton"
in her estimation, was a ruined man.
The dandy, as a matter of courtesy, inquired
for Mary, and was informed that she had gone
to the concert with Mr. liarlowe. •
"With Mr. Harlowe—a clerk—aw "t" said
the ex-journeyinan barber, with a sneer, as he
twirled tip the long •rat tail" of his moustache.
"A very worthy young man," replied Mr.
Danvers.
"No doubt of it, saw : hut a clerk —avr."
"Pray . were you never a clerk, Mr. Fitz
herbert ? I was."
"A clerk, no saw ; nevaw."
"Did I . not meet you in New Orleans last
winter ?"
The dandy started up like a parched pea
from a hot pan. .
"I have a faint recollectzon of having met
you in a barber's shop there." continued the
merchant, tortnentingly.
"Aw, very likely, saw. I patronize the
barbaws."
"And now, I think"of it, you , wore a little
white apron, and, if I Mistake not, I had the
pleasure ofbeing shaved by you in person."
"Quite a mistake, saw, I assuaw you."
Suddenly Mr. Augustus Fitzherbert, whose
real name was John Smike, remembered an
imperative engagement, and hastened to take
his leave.
He was seen to enter the cars for New York
on the following day, and nothing has- been
heard of him since.
CHAPTER
Of course the reader, understands that Pred
erick Harlow? and Mary, are deeply, irretriev
ably in love with each other by this time. The
poor clerk has won his way to the heart of the
fair girl, and she, poor thing, has been capti
vated by the manly attractions, the noble soul
of him who offered incense before her shrine.
As The world goes it would be deemed a very
wicked thing for a poor clerk to fall in love
NV lib the daughter of his aristocratic employer.
Some people would say it was ungrateful in
him thus to spirit away the affections of a con
fiding girl, when his position and prospects did
not warrant his assuming to be her husband.
These questions are still open to the casuist.
He may debate them to his entire satisfaction ;
but Mr. Danvers, either because he was more
sensible than the majority of the aristocratic
merchants of the day, or for some other equal
ryliolar-rmon, neater to maw
about the matter, and suffered the clerk to woo
and win his daughter, without even remonstra
--ring-against the -rase wickedness -of-the act..
But Sophia was deeply grieved by her sis
ter's folly, as she deemed it, and used all the
argument in the range of her shallow sophistry
to dissuade her from the folly and madness of
wedding a-clerk.
Mary was obstinate. The only excuse she
offered in palliation of the flagrant misdemean
or, was that she loved him, and if she bivid
a scavenger, she_would cling to him with the
last breath she was permitted to draw.
"A ring !" exclaimed Sophia, one day. when
matters appeared to have taken a very decided
turn. "Well, well, I suppose you are en
gaged."
"We are. Sophia," replied Mary with a face
radiant with happiness.
"And you intend to be married ?"
"Certainly we do—that is the end of an en
gagement."
onscttsl~CC t 0
ter of a merchant prince should become the
wife of a poor, insignificant clerk !"
"Nothing i'ery alarming about it. Sophy : it
wouldn't be half so ridiculous as another dringh
ter of a merchant-prince becoming the wife of
an ex -journeyman barber! f believe
A ugustus-F-i-tzherbe :a of
what a fashionable husband ought to be."
-The imposter !"
"1 am at last sure that Frederick is not, an
imposter—a humbug, one would not be likely
_to.assame the eharaetet of a - cli:r1: - ." _
"Perhaps not. But. pray. sister, when du . ,b - ficklayer to his laborer,
yonintend to become the wife of this counting- "if you meet Patrick tell him to make haste,
room cherub ?" as we are waiting for him." "Sure and I
"The day has not been fired y - et—in the , replied Mike: "but what will 1 tell him
spring. probably." if I don't meet huh?" ,
"And luay I ask what you intend to do with
tr ,0.E.3 il d___,d e fillaii_v_e_s_o_f__Bad en a about to corm
lars -\ 4, year." - ; menGe the e r,rive culture in New linmpshire.
child."
GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1855.
•'We can get along very,irell on that sum."
---- ``Yes7 - 1: -- suppose - so -- : -- anti — liire - in -- sot I . .
footer in -a dark: alley !" -
"We intend to live out: of town, in a nice
little cottage." •
"Y-e-s !. a nice little cottage !" drawled So
phia. in derision. "0, sis. I will show you
how to lire when T am married.—None of
your nice little cottages for me. But - I won
der when-the new partner is coming ?"
"Piippa told me 'this morning ,that he had
deferred the arrangement till, next spring, and
that the ,aentlethan would attend to his busi
ness at the south. as heretoforeJ"
"How provoking ! I have been reserving
my affections on purpose for him ; I mean to
make 'a conquest of hitn-iu just one month."
"How foolish you talk, Sophy ; one would,
think you had,entirely forgotten your maiden
delicacy."
"Pooh ! I'm jesting; it's between us,"—
and Sophia relapsed
. into a revery., Which, we
are almost sure. related to the aforesaid new
partner, who was not only:a nice young man,
but was to put fifty thousand dollars into the
concern when he became as partner.
The winter passed away and spring came.
Frederick and Mary were to be married in a
few days. Mr. Danvers, to the infinite cha
grin of Sophia, had readily consented to the
niatch. - The proud sister, though in the nat
ural goodness of-her heart, she would not have
had Mary's affections blasted, would fain have
had a little opposition to save appearances.
The bridal day came, and after the ceremo
ny 'had been performed, the happy party start
ed for their new residence in the suburbs.
Sophia, who acted as bridesmaid, was to ac
company them. •
The carriage wound through an elm-shaded
road and suddenly .brought to view a splendid
country residence. • - -i
"That is the cottage." exclaimed the bride.
"That—a cottage ! why, Mary, it is a pal
ace !" replied Sophia, in utter astonishment,
for she never had interest enough in her sister's
affairs to visit her proposed residence.
• The carriage stopped before the door, which
wac half hidden beh,ind a vine laced portico,
and the party alighted.
The place was a perfect paradise. and many
were, the encomiums' lavished upon it by the
bewildered Sophia.
"You cannot think how surprised I was
when I first beheld it," said Mary, when she
and Sophia were alone. ‘4t seemed more like
a dream of fairy land than reality. But -Fred
erick is so very odd about these things."
"I should think that he was ! Why. sis, it
will certainly ruin him, a poor clerk ou a thou
sand dollar salary."
"Well, he knows best ; he says the rent is
nothing."
"Nothing, indeed but it will eat up his
poor pittance." "
“Well. I gave him a lesson on extravagance:
but he only laughed in my face, and said he
knew what he was about."
"But here are Frederick and father ; I am
sure pappa•has been scolding him fur his reck
lessness.
‘‘lie does not look as though the scolding
had produced a very powerful effect," said
Mary, as she saw Ittr husband 's soli Ii ng coun
tenance.
What a beautiful house !" exclaimed So
phia. ns Frederick ilarlowe joined the group.
"A fit nest for my pretty bird," replied the
husband, gaily, as he chucked his blushing
wife under the chin.
"I should think your thousand doll :
year would have to suffer some,"' said Sophia,
bluntly.
''O, your father has been so very good as to
elevate we a peg, so that I can well afford to
incur the expense."
- "Yes, my child," interposed Mr. Danvers,
"you know I said something about entertain
ing angels unawares. Sophy, Mr: Frederick
Harbiwe is the new partner
"What an abominable cheat, papal Ulf
warrant you told Mary of it in the beginning,
and she has been busy until the deed is done,"
said Sophia, with abundant good humor. •
"Nay, she knew nothing of it till a - few days
before his - marriage. This was all Mr. Har
lowe's whim. He must explitin it for himself:"
Mr. Marlowe did attempt to explain his mo
tive in entering the family incog., but it was a
lame explanation. Probably the reader Who
readily penetrates •the secret thoughts of -the
hero of our story, has already divined his mo
tive. He wanted a wife, and had the sense to
seek for genuine goodness in preference to
name and position in society. Ile won the
daughter- of a merchant-prince as a simple
clerk ; there was no doubt that she loved him.
Mary was very much surprised, and perhaps
not a little chagrined, to find the romance of
marrying a clerk so suddenly disappear ; but
e_wealth of mutual love, they were richer
than in the smiles of fickle fortune, which had
blessed, them with abundance of I,l,w.gPoil things
of this life.
A FUNNY EXPLOSION —A STE.utlioAT CAP
TAIN BLOWN UP, —A few weeks ago the cap
tain of the little iron steamer Mohawk, in the
St. Clair river. near Detroit,.attetnpted to'blow
up the
the frozen-in vessel. lie filled a bottle with
powder, sunk the charge under the ice, with a
piece of fuse attached, - which he touched
with his cigar. The explosion not following
immediately, he became anxious, stepped for-'
ward. and applied his nose to the hole in the
ice. There was a rumblind. explosion ; ice.
' water, captain. spray ascended into a halo of
glory towards the zenith. The captain. having
- ,, one - up like a rocket," followed out the met
aphor, and "came down like the stick," fortu
nately floatinc , ' like it, and struck out for shore.
'.When it was discovered that he was not injur
ed, the crowd who had witnebsed his pyrotech
petard, which the former gracefully acknow
ledged."' _ _
The venerable old fogy, Peter Punhy,
said to his hopeful son Jabez —•Rend your Bi
ble-;-study the laws of Moses, and don't repeal
and• of them. Mimi the 'ken Commandments,
e
ME
the hirthrlght of a Yankee nation fora fots.;.s a of
I) ,,;ash ; and the - day may kurn when you'll be
fpnuster of the penitentiary-, or a secretary of
utwgation,."
"TRL - 111 Iy MIGUTT, AS') WILL PREVAIL."
Oil t -e
- Ili
— T - he - editor - of - the — Albany—Regi - ster7 - having]
been-disturbed by_en_assemblage of eats under
his window, thus gives vent to his indignation: I
But those cats, in our opinion, arc in danger,
and we warn all who have any interest, in
them, either present. o expectant, to look to
them. We have been constrained to watch for
hours, when we ought to have been asleep.
We have heard the clock strike twelve,ope. two,
at intervals in their performances, and have
'Nen tempted to the use of terms nOt to be
found in 'any religious work, or any of the
standard sermons of the day. We have drop
ped many brickbats among them, wasted more
wood upon them than we are able to spare,
have taken cold by exposure to the night air,
become hoarse by hollowing•••‘'Seat." We
have exhausted our loose pieces of brick, the,
smaller sticks of our wood pile, and our pa
tience. In view of all these facts we submit
that there is nothing left for us but to , Move
ourself, or move those eats, and we shall not
We hr ,bar-
move. have prepared a dontiLelF:bier..
gun, a, full supply of .powder and percussion
caps, and iri our opinion somebody',; cats will
go home some moonlight night complaining of
114:ling unwell. if they do, we must be held
harmless.
A Formidable Undertaking.
A cotemporary pots the tobacco (Ines
Lion into the following shape : "Suppose a to
bacco•chewer is addicted to the habit of chew•
ing tobacco fifty years of his life, and that each
day of that tin►e he consumes two inches o
solid plug, it amounts to 'six thousand four
hundred and seyeuty•five feet, making nearly
one mile and a quarter in length of solid to
bacco, half an inch thick and two inches broad.
Now, what would the young beginner think if
he had the whole amount stretched out before
him, and were told that to. chew it would be
one of the exercises of his
_life, and also that it
would tax his income to the amount of two
housand and ninety-four dollars ?—Life
ustratert.
Suppose a man eat a loaf of bread ,eight
inches long per day. If he live a hundred
years he will eat 2 ( .42,000 inchesi -2.1,333 feet.
or 8,111 yards : or some five miles of bread—
from hem, to Spring 11111 ! What man would
not be paralyzed if he were asked to . eat his
way through six miles-ot bread—to say noth
ing of the potatoes, and .the corn cakes, and the
buckwheat cakes, and the beef ar►d bacon, and
all that ? The idea is terrible !—Mobile
Tribune. •
11F.11.4115M- REIA ; ARI/Ell. -A. little tirligiouter 130
in the British army. who was in,the thickest
of the fight at Inkermann. combatting the foe,
and, as a relaxation, carrying Water ,to the
wounded, has been presented by Prince Albert
with ,£5. Napoleon would-have, taken such a
lad and cultivated his soldier-like qualities,
till he made a Marshal of him. France has
skillful and daring Generals. Englund has on
ly brave soldiers.
A CHECK TO EMlGWATlON.—TC — iiiipears. from
official reports. that at the chief .places for the
debarkation of emigrants, the number 'that
arrived in this country during the first quarter
of 1855 is less than half the nvel-age of several
preceding years. The war in Europe is taking
off the surplus population, and employment
and high wages for those who remain, keep at
home those who usually emigrate because o
want of work. Whether this stoppage to im
migration, with the lands of the great West
open and ready for agricultural , cultivation.
will be a public advantage or riot, remains for
time . to determine.
'EXTRAORDINARY AND CURIOUS EFFECTS OF
HEAT.—Clietnical laws are so suspended at
very high temperatures, that however pear the
relation of two elements, they will not coal
esce. A 'wirer match dropped on a red-hot
crucible will not ignite. although the phosphor
us malts. and the - naked hand may be plunged
into molten steel without injury. or even the
fine hairs being singed. The experiment might
safely be made' with a kid glove—the leather
would be found uninjured. It is a well ascer
tained fact that matter can *be heated to an in
tensity that will not bur)).
07Tistrossing times prevail in Emanuel
county , 'Ga., according to it letter writer , who
states that no rain of moment has fallen there
since the Bt6 of October last. It is said that
the judge of the county court had been notified
by the landlady of the principal hotel, that he
would have to adjourn court, or proceed without
anything to Oat, as a sufficiency. of water to
cook food was not to be had.
Novni, REAsos Pon, DEctonso A CHAT,-
1,V,NG.F.1. —The New York Times states that 'on
Tuesday a Col. Jack, a lawyer, challenged a
professional brother. named Sehoonmaler, and
that the latter declined accepting, the invita
tion, "unless the Colonel would fat himself up
:sufficiently to be a work to Bloot al." Col J.
has not yet indicated his intention to accede to
the re, nest. •
A SEA lkloNsTElt.—A corregpondent of the
Tampa (Fla.) Peninsula describes the capture
.-of.a.:sea Joao aster _called...Ll f• • Dec 'lbis
singular aquatic animal had a mouth 2i feet
long, and wide enough to swallow a canoe.
The space between its eyes measures 4 feet 4
inches, its length of body 19 feet, And weigh•
big three thousand-pounds.
(I" ,, Why," said a gentleman, in the course
of an argument on the price of putty, it is as
plain as that two and two make four
also I deny," retorted his antagonist, "for 2
and 2.ma . ke 22." The gentleman settled sever
al inches in his boots, and politely offered his
opponent his hat
r7Widow Drizzle's husband lately died of
chtplcra. tr-t-he-ti /y
-pain. after the hand of death had touched him,
and while writhing in agony, his gentle wife
said to him, "Well, Mr. Di izzle. you needn't
kick round so awl wear the sheets all out, if
you are dying !"
office-holding chap hero
a:lied how
he contrived to hold offee under successive ad=
ministrations, replied. "that administrations
must be darned smart4hat could 'change often
er than he could."
___l, - ,A.dovetroling machine has limn invented
is in_ use in 80 -, tiiti,.WhiCh. - it-is said, ena
ble.. a single workman to dovetail with ease
from ei%ht hundred to a thousand bureau draw
er!.; a day.
ri — Tnere is too niuch truth in the follo5v
• I • ..W_Lieiie_rrioney is thereis_the devil,and
where none is, there he is twice over."
Amusing.
Why Does the Oak Attract the Lightuingi
ef-lightnink-upon;-eak:
has excited
,the attention 'of the philosophic
mind. After nientioning'several : examples of,
the manner in which the oak has been singled
out, from other trees immediately, adjoining,
and of equal height: to: iiriter upon the subject
says: is well known by chemists thnt
oak contains a considerable - porthin .of iron iu„
its cotuposition. This metal, •it may be pre
sumed, is held -in solution by the sap, and
equolly distributed throughout the whole tree,
:---Mny - it net be owing to this circiimsrance
that the oak is so frequently's victim to that
power,-which in fact it solicits with extended
arms, to its-own destructions—This is a faCt
worthy of notice, and ought to be generally
known; in order to - prevent -persons 'taking
shelter in situations. attended with such im
minent danger:" Nor is the oak the only vic-,
tim of its own attractions. Among mankind,
do we nut see the attractive-drawing down de
struction upon, themselves ? Beauty in - wo 7
man is as dangerous to her happiness iii well
being, as iron is to the integrity of the oak.
A Cheap Barometer.
. A correspondent of the Country' Gentleman
writes as follows : ~F or some years I have
been in the habit of watching the gum in my
wife's camphor-bottle, which stands in our
bedroom. - And when not disturbed it makes
a capital weather-glass. It answers my pur
pose as well as a barometer that would cost
tue•fronz 25 t!) $5O. When ther6 is to be a
change of weather, from fair to windy or wet,
the thin flakes of the gum will.rise up, and
sometimes when therecva a to be a greatsterm,
have seen them at the top. When they, set
tle doWnclearly at the'bottom, then we are
sure of grand weather. Any farmer who will
watch his wife's comphor bottle for a..season,
will never have occasion to watch the birds or
locusts for an indication of a change in the
weather."
Ir:7 - The Empress Eugenic. of France, begins
to win the hearts of the French people, even as
JoSephine.of yore. She is more beatiful then
Josephine but perhaps not so graceful or in
teresting--yet like her, she )earns for a child.
The Paris correspondent of the French Journal
in New York says: •
"The Empress Eugenio has herself given sap
all hope, and they say that net long since she
frankly spoke ef that delicate subject to her
husband. She told him that she comprehend
ed the importance of andieir "to the throne; - and
that she was willing to accept the hard law of
divotte for the safety of the State and the sat
isfaction of her husband. The Emperor would
not listen to it ; but there are those who think
that it will conic sooner or later, as he wisheS
-so much to copy with his uncle. In spite of
the affection whielti,duis Napoleon evinces for
the sweet, and grauious Eugenie, she is always
sad. , She is of a tender and loving nature. with
a great love of independence And horror of eti
quette. She has more than once, while wearing '
her imperial crown, regretted losing her simple ,
title ofeountess ; the sacrifice which she offered
in renouncing the _throne would not basic been
so great es one would suppose."
It would be marvellous, if in the measure of
a divorce, he should imitate his uncle, in -set
ting aside the wife he loved for an Austrian
Princess—perhaps a sister of the present Em
peror. The marvels enacted in French history
during the past fifty years. altogether surpass
the strangest stories in .‘the Arabian Night's
Entertai 'intent."
Horrible, if „True,
A most definite mark of weather was,
present at Cape Elizabeth, bear Portland (Me.,)
recently, as we learn from one who knows the
fact. On one of the awfully cold nights, &per
son hav;ng a bag of meal more that he could
conveniently manage, threw it over a high iron
railing to rest until the next morning. There
appears to. have been another apprised of the
fact, and in the course of the night, when all
was quiet, the thief heedlessly touched his
tongue to the frigid iron bar over which the
hag was hung.. That was a contact from which
there was no release. Ilia tongue was at once
frozen to the iron bar; no effort could extricate
it. ills whole body was swung and.by its
weight dangled back and forth, starting the
tongue at its roots, but the frost was inexora
ble, and would not relinquish its hold. In this
horrible manner the thief hung until life
was extinct. Many the next morningmi tness
cd the sad catastrophe of a thief brought to the
iron bar of justice, and hung, not by Jack Cade,
but by the veritable JackFrosthtmselfl This
is probably the first mouse which ever thus
came to his end.
THE POYSICIAN OF TIM LATE EMPEROR NICII
oLAS.-A letter from St. Petersburg says Pr.
Maul, homeopathic phisician to the late Em
peror, has left , Rorsia in great haste and
se
crecy.—lle is reproached with having too long
concealed lioni the august deceased that his
lung was attacked ; also with having himself
prepared the medicines destined for the Emper
or, instead of having them prepared by a drug
gist. Great irritation was manifested against
him at St. Petersburg. and the Emperor Alex
ander himself advised him, it is said, to leave
Russia.
A LADY ()IP MErrt.E.—The Boston Times
publishes a letter purporting to conic from Mrs.
Patterson, threatening to cowhide any one who
says anything calumnious of either herself or
Mr. Hiss, the member of the nunnery investi
gating committee, who, it is alleged, took lodg
ings for himself and the lady, and charged it
in the bill against the State, as due fir the la
bors of the committee. The letter has rather a
fishy air about it. But if it be genniiw, ISlrs.
Patterson must herself be the identical •brick"
with which _the famous Billy Paterson was
a 'rink so !owe's-go:—
o:7 , 'There is no use in talking that worth
makes the man. A poor acquaintance says
that be put on a borrowed suit of broadcloth
to accompany his family to the show, and was
surprised to notice how sable his acquaint
-Lances all_were—Th_e nest day he entered
town in his overalls, and was not know ;, nor
could he obtain credit for a mackerel.
is well to leave something for those
who conic after us," as the gentleman said
whn_threw a barrel in the way of a constable
n ho was chasing
r:7At the imperial circus in Paris there is
a most wonderful horse, who gees up stairs
bac/run/rd. , . and stands untnoved amid a perfect
volcano of ti eworks ; al6o a ricw india-rubber
man, or =aster.
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR.
Federalisirk About.- -
' fere_can-nerrer-b - a-but-to:ir-great-paTtle“s.
this country, the Democratic or -Repuhfioetl:
I party, and the Frderal party. The Fedbrel
party has often changed ita name, assuming
the cognomen of' Federalist, Republican. Na;'
tierrrl Republican. Whig, Derdearatic
Union Whig and American or Knuw Nothing;
the latter' corresponding fully, in its intole
tance;with the Federalists of Alien. and'Sedi..:
tion law memory. •
-Mr. Jefferson, ill a letter to Gideon Granger.
dated' A prillOth, 1804, describes the shifting'.`
,
trims o f the party oppoied to the Demociacy..;
' Says: ; • • , - •
"lit'Our last conversation you ntentionert-tvt
federal scheme ;afloat,' of forming :11 , quondam,
between the Federalists and Republicans of ,
What. they called the seven Eaitern States.-:;-P'
-The-itlea-Was-new- - -te-me„-anti-atter-tirmefor_re , __
tleetion, I had no opportunity., of conversing 7
" - With you again. The Federalists tarok that, '
eo routine, they ate gone fOrever. Their obz - ;
jf'ct, therefore, is, how to. return, into, power
tinder some other form. Undoubtedly they
hav_eJitit' ono means; which is, to divide' tire '
Republicans,• join the iminorityi—and - _narterii,'
with them for thwcloak of ,their name..- The;
minority, having no Other, means of rulipdthe,
majority, will give ti - price for antr"
that price must be principie,”„&c. •
• Again, in November 4th, 1804. Mr. Jaffer l _,
son thus writes to Geri. Lafayette:
"The Hartford Conieniion,
..the victery,pf
Orleans, and the peace of Ghent,' proritranid
Federalism. its votaries abandoned - 'it thro l ,
shame and mortification, and now solves, Republicans. ut the name alone is:,
elianged—rthe.principles areqhe same." -
Since the days of Jefferson, the opponents'`
.of-DemOcracy have regularly : asautned , differ."
ent names, as occasion seemed to retlakri! , 4;.'
They have at- •itresent adopted the-name, of t'
"Americans," , commonly:callekKupw,-Nottioki
ings.—!-With this specious name, the Federal-t.
leaders hope to move on their cohorts to
tort'. . 'Bet, in the languageof the Louisville
Times, "thetriek has become too common Aix/
The people have get to understand per.*,!.•'.4;;
fectly : well 'that names may end,do,clisnge;
While the principles, as Mr. Jefferson, itaytri' •
.'are the same.'" * *
There can • but two. - . great- partiee
this country-u-. Democrats and Pedeetliati.this,
latter changing jts name, as often es.. the' ;hi
mellon does its color. It has dropped the',
name of Whig, and _will henceforth k.e i fcnetiii" . ;
as the Know- Nethinior Aqter,ican
Bukthereere many good - and true men, here
tofore kriovin as: Whigs, who.-eanriat gulp
down thO intolerant dogmas of this - ie* party;?
and they Will be found for - the 'futOre acting'
with the Dertiocratic perty.l_
:7 iteligious.denciminations that participate
7.
and sympathise
,with , the *.KnOW-NOthing'
crasado against - , Catholics may' yet
that the story of Acteon and • hia..ll ounas wO
more than Is fable! „ .
'rhe .%Trenton' True A Meriesin;rli
_Matt on - .
journal,- endorses a Pamphlut published,under,
the sanction ot the"Kituw-Noticing
which makes-war upon the Methodiatein the
• •
following style :
"The very organization of the- Methodist
Episcopal Church is dangerous to the
ties. of a free people. Supposing,a ,crisis , to•
arise in political ;union, vwhich te hierarchy'
of the Methodist ChUrch is'interested.'' rreut
the dependence of all die-parts on"orte-great
central power, it 'is easy- to perceive how the:
suffrages of most ot the members.may,bet.
trolletk by the Bishops. Let the Bishops' teig- a
gest to the presiding elders-that 'theintereste
of their 'ecclesiatical despotism will. be.suis—
served by the eel:Adm of a certain set ortneri c:
to office---the, presiding . elders use.thetr We
ence over the preachers, the preachers over the
class members, and thus the Wanes - Of power
in a political contest may reetin. the lands.of , ,
41even Methodist Episcopal Bishops. -There is
as much danger of this, as there is oPitaintin
ittui accomplishing a similar resuiti, psoEidect ,
the occasion requires it. ,
I have thee, briedy shoWn that. Epiicoßit,
Methodism Isenti:Ainericati in' its 'spirit:and'
tendency; and flint it is a ritingercius -The ;to'
Republicanism. I have sworn that it had„its,
origin in usurpation—that its'very organization
provides (or the support and extension of as
sumed power, and •that this power may be ex- ,
preasly exercised without restriction. I have- .
shown that Methodist Episcopacy contains in
itself the very elements of an absolute despot
ism, and therefore must ultimately, unless.
checked, subvert and dt.stroy, our republican /
institutions.
TERRIBLE ANNIHILATION OF A REGIMENT. --
The dashing 93d llig,hlanders, the pride of the,.
English army, left Constantinople 800 strong.
and after their arrival in the Crimea received
an addition of 150 men. The regiment recent;
ly returned to Constantinople reduced tofour.
teen men and five officers, though still bearing
with them their torn and blood-stained btu- "
ncr.
,ee it stated in several of oar' city'
e x c hanges, that the President has resolved- to
take very decided measures for the preveotion,
of further outrages upon our vessels on , the part,
o tie instlerwSptintsliolfratils inetita7. — 'llll
is right. Our flag has already borne too many
insults almost within cannon-shot of our own
shores. -
CAISTADIAN WHEAT.—The Toronto Globe.- of
the 17th ult. sa s it is estirnated tbat one bun.
ared thousand bushels qr - rheat are stored iri
`that city for the United States ivarbet. Burry
it along.
Oa - A, man emigrating from Pentisylvpuitto
tlie - West was - robbed of $1,500-on_bijiid:'•,....
sitamboat at Wheeling on Thursday.
. --- There are at the preselit time six per
sons confined iu Boston jail on charge of 'fuer-
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