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SELECT POETRY.
TRUE POETRY.
To those wearied with wandering over
tho arid waste of political discussions, and
the trivialities that make up (ho news nf
the day, it is refreshing both to mind and
heart to meet with such well spiings of true
poetry as this which we subjoin. "The
strain is of a higher mood" but whence it
comes, or fiom whoso full soul, wo know
not.
Sneer, as many wise ones do, at the poet's
corner of country newspapers, it yet often
versifies the truth of Giay's beautiful, though
not hackneyed lines, when from it can be
taken such gems as this : Southern Press.
"si je te per us, jr sins perdu."
The idea is taken from the device on a
seal. A mariner, with his hand on the
helm, (and a stormy sea,) and his eyes fixed
ott a single star. The motto "Si Jc Tk
Pkrdj, Je Sets Perdu :" If 1 lose thee,
I'm lost.
Shine on, thou bright beacon,
Unclouded nnd Iree,
From thy hijh place of calmness,
O'er life's doubled sea !
Its morning of piomise,
lis smooth seas are gone,
And the billows rave wild
Then, bright onii, shine on.
The winrjs of the tempest
May rise o'er thy ray,
But tranquil lliou sm ileal,
Uiuliuiu'd by its sway.
Hiiih, high o'er the worlds
Where storms lire unknown,
Thou dwellcsl, all beauteous,
And glorious, alone.
From the deep womb of darkness
The lightning; flash leaps,
O'er the bark of my fortune
Each mad billows sweeps ;
From the port of her safety
By warring winds driven,
And no light o'er her course
But yon lone one of heaven.
Yrt feur not thou frail one,
The hour may be near,
When our own sunny headlands
Far off shall appear ;
When the voice of the storm
Shall be silent nnd past,
In some icland of heaveti
We may anchor at last.
But, bark of Eternity,
YVhere art thou now 1
The tempest-wave shrieks
O'er each plunge of thy prow,
On the world's dreary ocean
Thus shattered and lost
Then, lone one, shine on,
If 1 lose thee, I'm lost.
Select (Tale.
THE FIRST CROSS WORD.
"You seem happy, Annette, always. I
have never been in a family where Ihe
husband and wile seemed more so."
"Well done Kate," said Mrs. Huntington' !
laughing, you have used the word seem oi
ly twice in that short sentence. And now
you have a begging way about you, as if
you were really in earnest to hear some
thing about married lile, before taking the
fatal step. It is well Harry is not here to
see the look of sadness in the eye of his
bride-elect. He might fancy her heart
was full of misgivings instead of wedding
finery."
"Don't laugh at me, Annette ; talk with
me as you used to do. I love Henry, you
know, and yet I have many misgivings
about married life. I see so few who are
really happy in this relation. I mean hap
py as I should wish to be. You seem to
come nearer to it than any one else. Do
you ever 1"
"Quarrel ? no, not often now. t e had
our breaking in. I believe it must come to
all sooner or later."
"Do tell me about it, will you Annette V
"Yes, il you are very desirous of it. You
may learn some thing from it.
"I was a romantic girl, as you well know,
Kate. Some few friends I had whom I lov
ed dearly ; but these friendships did not
quite satisfy my heart. Something more it
craved, I hardly knew what, until I loved
my husband. When we were first married, I
used some times to ask myself -. now, do 1
find in this all which I expected to find?
Am 1 as happy as I thought I should be 1
My heart always responded, yes, and more
so. With us the romance ot married lite,
if I may call it so, held on a long time. For
my part, I was conscious of a pleasurable
excitement of feeling when we were -to
gether. I enjoyed walking and riding
alone with him. The brightest hours of
the day were those in which we sat down
alone together, to talk or read. For a long
time I felt a gentle restraint in his presence.
I liked to be becomingly dressed and to
feel in tune. W hen dull, I made an tllort
to be social and cheerful if he was present.
I had a great fear of getting into the way
of sitting down stupidly with my husband,
or of having nothing to talk about but the
children and the butcher's bill. I made a
business of remembering every pleasant
thing which I read or heard or thought, to
ten Dim, ana when all these subjects were
exnaustea, we naa each or us a hobby we
could ride, to that we were never silent
for want of something to say. Thus we
lived for a year or two. I was very hap
py. 1 think people were often surprised
to tee us continue to enjoy each other's so
ciety with so much zest.
But there was this about it. As yet I
had notmoz to try me. We were board
ing, I had no care, and his tenderness and
interest were a sovereign panacea for the
little ails and roughness which must fall to
us in our best estate. This could not last,
however, forever. He became more and
more occupied in his business, and 1 at
length bad a house and a baby to look af-
tec Then, lor the first lime, our mutual
forbearance was put to the test. Hitherto
we had been devoted to each other ; now
the real cares ol life pressed upon us so as
often really to absorb our energies. 1 was
the first to feel the change. It seemed to
me as if something was overshadowing us.
Sometimes I would get sentimental, and
think he did not love me as he once did.
As I look back now, I am convinced that
here was my first wrong step. Indulgence
in these moods weakened my resolution.
It was an injustice to him, of which I
ought not to have been guilty. It left me,
too, with a wounded feeling, as if 1 had
been wronged, which began to eflect my
spirits.
Once, I had for some time carried about
this little sore spot in my heart. I kept
the matter all to myself, tor I was in part
ashamed and in part too proud to speak of
it. Heie was another wrong step. Ihere
is no security ol happiness in married lile
but in the moit perlect confidence.
' There came a season ol damp, chilly
weather. One morning; I got tip feeling
very irritable. I had taken cold ; my head
ached ; and my baby had been worrisome
during the night. In my kitchen I had a
cross ignorant servant sirl : and on this
particular morning she had done her very
worst for breakfast. The beefsteak was
burned to a cinder ; the egjs were like
bullets: the bread was half baked ; and
the cofl'ee, which was our main stay, was
execrable. My hiisliamj was very patient
with all this, until it came to the codee,
and this upset him. Fie put his cup down
and said in a hall vexed tone, "I do wish
we could ever have any good coffee. An
nette, why cannot you have it made as
my mother does ?"
This was a drop too much for me, and I
boiled over. c,You never think anything;
on our table fit to he eaten," said I, and I
almost started at the sound ol my own
voice "you had better live at home, if
you are not satisfied, or else provide me
with decent servants. I cannot do every
thingtake care of my baby all night,
anil gel the breakfast too."
"I did not know belore that I was so
very unreasonable," said he in a tone ol
injured feeling. lie sat a few minutes,
then rose, left his untasted breakfast, put
on his hat and went off.
When I heard the door shut behind him
all my temper left me. 1 went into my
room, locked mysell in, sat down and cried
like a child. This was. the first cross
word I had ever spoken to my husband.
It seemed to me as if some sudden calami
ty had befallen us. I worked myself up
to such a pitch ol feeling, that I walked
the room wringing my hands.
"O, it is all over with us," thought I;
"we shall never be happy together again
in this world." This thought made me
unspeakably miserable. I felt as il a black
pall had fallen around me, and in the fu
ture there was only blank darkness. In
my misery I sought to comlort myself by
blaming him. "He need not have spoken
so to me, at any rate," said I, out loud ;
he might have seen how I felt it ; it wa
too much lor nnv one to bear. It really
was not one bit kind in him. It is plain
enough that he does not care for my com
fort as he once did. Then to be always
telling me what nice things his mother
cooks, when he knows I am trying to do
my very best to learn to please him ! It
is really too bad."
Don't look so dreadfully sober, Kate.
My baby cried just here, and I had to run
before I was through with my catalogue ol
grievances, yet I had gone far enough to
get well on the wrong track again. I be
gan to calm myself with the reflection,
that if there had been a great wrong done,
I was nol the only one to blame for it. I
was dreadfully sorry that I had spoken
cross to him, but I tho't he ought to be sor
ry too. Before my baby had finished cry
ing, 1 came to the conclusion that I would
not exhibit signs of penitence until 1 saw
some in him.
Sj I bathed my face, that no traces of
tear might remain, dressed myself with
unusual care, and went down to old Brid
get, to give some very particular directions
about the dinner. I did this with a martyr-like
spirit. J meant to try my best to
make him sorry for his injustice. 1 resol
ved to reproach him with a first rate din
ner, good as his mother could cook. To
whet the edge of my delicate reproof, 1
made, with my own hands, a most excel
lent cup ol collee.
One o'clock camp, at last, though I
tho't it never would ; the door opened,
and I heard his quick step in the hall. Of
all things in this world, he was whistling !
He came to the table with a bright face.
Irom which every trace of the morning's
cloud had disappeared, and as he sat down
and looked around with a pleasant expres
sion :
"Why, Annette," said he, "what a-nice
dinner."
"I am glad you are pleased," said I, in a
subdued tone.
"Capital," said he, "the best roast we
have had this season."
He was so much taken up with my deli
cate reproofs as not to notice that I was not
out of spirits. I was half pleased and hall
provoked; but 1 kept rather still, making
little conversation excepting in reply to
him.
AAer dessert, I handed him his cup of
coffee. He was quite astonished. "Why,
Annette," said he, "I do believe you went
to work to-day to see what you could do."
He had hit the truth, though without
the least suspicion of the cause. My first
impulse was, to be honest and out with it
by replying Is it as good as your mother
makes! This would have given the key
to the whole story, he would have ferret
ed it ail out, and we should have settled it
there ; but I felt ashamed to. I sipped my
coffee in silence. The eolden moment
passed, and my good angel took his flight.
Pride had the day. I even began to be
vexed at his enjoying a good dinner so
much and so easily forgetting what had
caused me so much suffering. He was ve-1
ry busy on that day, and did not stay as long
as usual to chat, but went olT whistling
even more cheerily than when he came.
I went up into the nursery and sat down
to think it over. Baby was asleep; the
rain was pattering against the windows;
the wind was rising, and to me the world
looked dreary enough. I had tired myself
all out at getting up such a dinner, and now
the excitement was over and I felt the re
action. I began to ask myself what I had
got for it. Just nothing at all. My hus
band either did not or would not see that
there was any thing to be reconciled about.
I blamed him for his insensibility. "Once,"
thought I, "he would have noticed any
change in my voice or any shadow which
came over my spirits ; now I can really be
cross to him and he does not mind it at all."
1 had a doleful afternoon of it, I was rest
less enough ; trying first one employment
and then another, but finding nothing
which would suit. I went down to tea,
farther, if anything, from the right point
than I had been at noon. I sat dejected
and silent. Jiy hus!iand tried once or
twice to engage me in conversation, with
out success.
"Annette," said he at length, in a kind
lone, "do you not feel well to-day V
"Not very," said I, with a sigh.
"What is'the matter?"
"My head aches; tho baby kept me
awake almost all night." This was the
truth, but only in part, and I felt guilty as
I said it. 1 hen he bi'gged me to go and
lie down on tho sofa inThe parlor, and said
he would read o me any thing which 1
would like to hear.
1 felt ttrs was kind in him. It was like
old times, you see, had been but a day, but
to me it seemed very long; yet it was not i
. r i - i i ...: i i ,A i 1 1, - ,
what I wanted. 1 wished to have the trou
ble cleared away, not bridged over : and I
determined to hold out until it should come
to this, and he should see and feel that I
could not be made happy after a cross word,
without a scene of mutual contrition and
forgiveness : so I would not stay and be
read to, but toid him I must go to bed. I
left him in his easy chair, with his study
lamp and book and bright fire, in regular
old bachelor style, and went off into my
nursery, and then to bed, and cried myself
to sleep. You laugh, Kate, as if you thought
I was a fool. I think so myself now.
"How did it all enj, Annette !"
"I held out a week, becoming every day
more and more sad, and sulky, I may as
well call it. When I was left alone, I used
to lake my baby up and cry over him as if
S-n tf lini-1.ni) tunn ilnnil nnrl 4 It a s-liilil tlfia !
ii fsii r i i t tV i i,
d i i du iv l r it, urai inc. uutv
, . , . a a . ,
nnnTnnir nro ni.H ui'ueir dill nrlnoH In if
I would find something in his conduct to
pain me every time we met. Either he
was too attentive or not attentive enough ;
tarneu too mucn or too nine.
He bore my moody ill-humor most im
patiently, thinking I was ill. One day he
came home, and told ine he had obtained a
week's leave of absence, and had onsraged
a carriole, and I must pack up myself and
baby and be ready to start off in an hour.
He was going to take me home to my mo-
liter's. "We may as well have a journey
as pay doctor's bills, Annette," said he,
"and as to having you drooping about in this
sty le any longer I am not going to. We
, ., n '
run away from ail care, and have some
fun."
He looked up so kindly I could have fal
len upon his neck and wept my heart out,
to think how ugly 1 had been; hut there
was no time then to talk it over. 1 hurried
away to pack, but before I was half through
with the packing, I resolved that I would
tell him the whole story from beginning to
end. The moment 1 came to this determi
nation, the load was gone; my heart seemed
light as a feather; the expression of my
countenance, lhe tones of my voice chang
ed. I was conciousof it, and he noticed it
as soon as I joined him, at the appointed,
.
nour
"Why Annette," said he, "getting ready
has cured you. We may as well stay at
home now."
"That will do Kate. The rest of the
story will sound sentimental to a third
party."
"No, no, Annette, that would be leaving
out the very cream ol it. Tell me how:
yon settled it."
Well, we rode on enjoying tho change
until towards dark. Baby then fell asleep.
It was a very quiet hour everything about
,,n ,., k.,o,,r.l.,l -..) r.,-.,l,lt 1 lull ,1.111.
uarvaauraijiiiuiuiii4i'. av.iMi. -...vw.i..
ly, and I longed to have all in my heart pure :
and peaceful. Tears of real penitence
peacelul. I ears ol real p
came into my eyes, and before I knew it,
they were dropping down upon the baby.
My husband turned and saw them.
"Why, Annette," said he with the ut
most surprise, "what is the matter?"
"O, I am so sorry," said I.
"Sorry for what, love," said he, "are you
not happy ? Does any thing trouble you ?"
"I am so sorrv," said I, "that I have been
so usly this week.'
"What do you mean?" said he, looking
more and more puzzled.
"How can vou heln knowing?" said I.
Then I began at the beginning and told lhe
whole story. How I rose irritable, ana
was provoked to speak the first cross word ;
how he told me my things were not as
nice as his mother's, and went off vexed ;
then how he got over it, and forgot all
about it, and would not help me to feel
good natured by saying be was sorry. How
1 had brooded over it all the week bow
it had festered away in my heart and poi
soned all enjoyment. What torrents of
tears 1 had shed when alone, as 1 thought it
was all over with us, and we never should
love a?ain as we had once loved.
He heard me through without making a
single remark, and thro ha burst into a loud
laugh. "I want to know Annette," sai l
he. "if this is what h.'S ailed VOU this
Week'"
"Yes"savst. Upon this he chi cked
our Dobbin, and began to turn round.
"What are you going to dot said 1
"Going back," said he, "if this is all
which is the matter with you."
I laughed heartily as he did, for now my
sin was confessed, I felt very happy ; but I
pulled the other rein anil drew the whip
lash over Dobbin's ear?, and away we went
like a bird towards my mother' home.
But we made a resolution then, Kate,
that if either had aught against the other.it
should be settled before the sun went down ;
that we might go to sleep, if not "at peace
with all the world," at least at peace with
each other, forgiving and forgiven.
This resolution we faithfully kept, and 1
have never seen another week of such mis.
ery as 1 have been telling you about, and I
trust I never shall. I hope you will find in
your new relation!-, Kate, all the enjoy
ments we now do. This is the best wish I
can offer you and that your first cross
word may also be your lust,
IIAILROAU At'CIDOT A X D M F.LANt HOLY
LOSS OF LIFE.
The New York Time of Tuesday says:
We are this morning called upon to record
another sail accident on tho Hudson River
Railroad. Il appears that "bout thirty-three
laborers employed on the road, anil closing
their work soon after 6 o'clock last evening,
slarted on their raturn to the city on a gravel
train. On npproaehiua Spuyten Tit) vil Creek,
the Station Aent hoisted n signal of danger.
'ho (,raw of lho MS bL'in? ,hf,n but
the engineer not observing ihe warning sig
nal, continued his course, and the whole
train, locomotive, tender, and seven gravel
cars, with upwards of thirty men, went
through into water, causing a melancholy
i -. r i : .. i , , l
loss of life, and severe injuries to those who
escaped death. The fireman, a young man
by the name of Casey, was killed ; the engi
neer, Mr. Kelley, had both of his legs bro.
ken, and was otherwiso injured. On remov
ing him from hissiiuution, the arm of another
man was felt under the water, but it was
found impossible to extricate him. John
Russell, of No. 528 Greenwich street, was
rescued in a critical state and brought to
this city about midnight, with seveial others
more or less injured. The overseer of the
gang of laborers, a Mr. Smith, of this city,
was reported to be missing, as aUo quite a
number of his men, but it ia impossible to
state at present the extent of the calamity.
The locomotive in going at full speed, leap
ed as it were, over the passage, and knock-
i eii lhe B0U,n t"""16111 of lhe budge away,
1 , . . ,
remleiing it impossible to close Ihe draw.
'
' C(mse(luen,,y temporary platform, across
! Uin Pem"S "au ' De ,aM uo" n 10 ennu,e
r!e"Ser ,0 cros
THE TABLE MOVING EXPERIMENT.
Since the advent of 'Spiiitual Rapper
i.ni" in Il.irri.-burg, the e.vpiriment ol mov
ing a table without the application of any
vi.-ible force, has been tried repeatedly with
' entire success. Th
' and mav easily be
experiment is simple
tried. Let a party of
.; s;x 0r eight persons sit around a common
' pill0 xMti fl,r ,Wenty minutes or half an
hl)Ur xviIn lhe pil,n of ,ie hands held flat
on ,h(J ,op of the ,.lbl) prt,SlM,y , lable
becomes so charged with nervous fluid, am-
mal magnetism, or something else, that it
' begins to move, and rife from its feet, and
in some instances turn entirely round, with
out any visible agency. We believe the
fiiM experiment in ihis place was mudo by
John Wyeth, and our citizens generally
j were disposed to regard if as a "hoax."
Since then numerous experiments have been
made with aMonjshing success. The exper-
irtient has been made foi some time a com
' mon amusement "out West," and its intro
1 dnction in the east is quite recent. The
Yark Tribune notice. ii introduction
Inly. ,kn oilV nOlinlpfl Willi tllH tlAl "llndnA1
- " -- -
' that after the tablo begins to move it is not
essential that the hand should touch it,
j though they must be held near and move
with table. Who can give us Ihe rai'onaf
0f this new "spiritual manifestation !"
i CAig Staff Journal.
i
The Maine papers complain that it is very
difficult to procuiu witnesses to testify in Ii
qucir cases in that Slate. Some of those who
do appear have very poor memories, its they
find it impossible lo stale what kind of liquor
.n t e
'hey .bank. A B.ingnr paper has the follow
ing amusing paragraph :
Mr. Phillip, an ollicer of ih.i court, met a
man near the head of Kcb inje street, fur
whom ho had a subpirna, nod pulled it from
his pocket and proceeded as far as "in ihd
name of lho Slalo of M.iimt you are com.
manded," when the persri.i look to his heels
dawn the street, the officer following in full
chase, reading the summons to the back part
of his head, to the great divoiMun of lhe peo
ple on lhe street. The "hereof fail rut lo
appear at your peril" found thu racing parties
near the toll bridge.
Not Veut Bad. The Detroit T.ribune
tells of a gentleman who was sitting at the
table of a very excellent lady who had
stewed pears on the table. He look up one
of them, and clapping it in his mouth pull
ed at the stem to get il out and leave the
pear iti his mouth, but it was no go. After
twitching at it two or thtee limes, be gave
it op in despair, and dropping it upon bis
plate, remarked lhat lhe stem was put in
light. On examination, however, be found
the patr to be nothing more nor lest than a
mouse, which had unfortunately got drowned
ia th preserve jar '.
IIOISK ft RE OF CONMMP-TIO.
"'l0 healthiness of n sugar house during
the lolling season (remntks the editor of the
Cotton Plant,) it is well known in all cane
growing comiliies. It is a common thing
for planters to take up their bed and board
at Ihe commencement and not leave the su
gar house until Ihe season is over. We
have taken sundry good dinners while the
cauldrons of syrup were bubbling, and send
ing up clouds of steam around us, the steam
engine and ponderous cane crushing mill
furnishing the music of our repast. During
Ihe sugar making, notwithstanding the hard
labor of eighteen hours a day, the people
are almost univeisally healthy. This fact
has become so noted, that the attention of
physicians has been diawn towards it as a
means of cure for several diseases
Dr. Cartwright, a physiaian of note in
New Orleans, says there is nothing like the
sugar house cure for bronchial, dyspeptic
and consumptive complaints. He states
that a residence in a sugar house, dining tho
rolling aeasons far surp.ises any other known
of restoring llesh, strength and health lost
by chronic ailments of the chest, throat and
s oniach. The tolling season is the baives!,
when tho canes ure cut, the juice expressed
and converted into Sugar. In Louisiana il
commences about the midJIo of Outubei,
and generally end at Christmas, but il is
sometimes protracted into Junuaiy. Dr. C.
says :
Last December having a severe and dis
tressing cough, which for' some weeks had
resisted the usual remedies, I went into a
sugar house, drank a glass of hot cane juice
and stood over the kettles, called vlarifiers,
for somo hours, inhaling the vigor arising
therefrom. The vapor was most agreeable
and soothing to the lungs. The fragrant,
saccharine aura seemed to penetrate into
the inmost recesses of the obstructed lobules)
opening its way into the intercellular passa
ges and air cells, without exciting cough,
but removing the obstructions, the cause of
the cough. There 1 stood over the clari Tiers
enveloped for five hours in a dense cloud of
vapor of an agreeable temperature and an
aromatic oiler, after which 1 retired to rest
and had a refreshing sleep. In the morning
the inhalation of the vapor was again re
sumed, when I returned home through a
raw, cold windy asmosphere, some ten
miles to the city, almost well, without ex
periencing any inconvenience from the ex
posure to the cold lhe cough and disagreea
ble sensation of childness, smothering, and
febrile irritation having disappeared almost
entirely. A tenuous vapor, of an agreeable
aromatic odor, hovers constantly over the
heated juice of the clarifiers. It is demul
cent, saccharine, and grateful to the respira
tory organs, causing no oppression or feeling
of constriction as other vapors, and smokes
so oflun do. but thu lunirs seem lo expand
ami drink it in wilh avidity, as ihe mots of
plants require the moisture of Ihe earth im
pregnant with axotied bodies after a show
er. What humus is to vegetable substances
the elements contained in this vapor would
seem to bo lo man.
The heallhfulness of sugar making has
been ascribeJ to the-use nf sugar ut tho
lime, as food ; but from Dr. Cart Wright's
statement it would appear that inhaling the
steam has a soothing and beneficial effect
upon the lungs of those suffering fiom pul
monary diseases.
Five CuiLmiRM in Eleven Months ! A
subscriber informs us that a lady residing
near him presented her husband w ith three
children at one birth, a year ago; and as her
landlord was a whole-souled gentleman, he
gave the lady fifty dollars as an acknowledg
ment of her superior skill in household af
fairs, telling her at the same time that if
she would perform that feat again he would
give her a farm. With an eye probably on
the farm, in just eleven months from the
day that the three were born she produced a
pair of twins. The landlord said she failed
lo win the farm ; but Ihe intention no doubt
being fair, the attempt was worth paying
for, and he therefore presented her with one
hundred dollars. Thai's uh.it we call a val
uabla wife, bring her husband in live chil-
ill on und one bundled and fiity dollais in
eleven months. Who can beul the above.
Literary Museum.
Hold l. ? Mrs. Swisshelin, i.i tho Satur
day Visitor, says that
"Nothing ih'-y ('hey lhe 'iiisnl. nt South')
tho arrogant southerner') have ever dune
did ever lile our temper like a paiagraph
we find in ona of our cxrhanoes statu g
that Mrs. Piewelt, of the '1'nioo Cihj fVn'ir,'
has offered lo compaie babies wilh lie;-to
iruilalo her belief that her mosquito-eaten,
flea-bitten, lick-Iormenlod, pixmire-persecu-ted,
alligator-menaced, miasma-poisoned,
yellow-fever-chased, uiisehoicbed Mii
aippi baby will compare wilh our .Veitie.
The woman must be 'clean daft ;' but in our
opinion there is so much method in her
madness, that she look care nol lo send a
number o! the Whig to our office.
She never imagined a baby like ours, or
dreamed of any thing so perfect. Just
think of it Mrs. Prewett, twenty-three in
eight months! So white, and soft, and
round, with such violet eyes and such a
tooth . Then if you could see thai little fat
foot held up for mother to kiss, and the look
of wise wonder thai follows my refusal of
the expected caress I Pot Mrs. Prewett,
how we Ho pity you lhat you hav'ut seeo
, lho baby '."
WF-NERAL I'lLlttl..
He is a man of matk, n man of edncaCo
a nnin of accomplishments in the wuys
the world ; a shrewd politician, nnd of broa
ou compreinMnHve vjow, a ....,..,.,
His face is expressive, and genial, and ii
He is alTablo and pleasing j
manners, modest and unpresumina. yet c
nnd self-possessed in a remarkable 'ti.-r,
Mo evidently feci, that he ha. not yet be,
tried to Ihe measure of his capacitie s ; t
what is better, he has the power involun.
ily of convincing yon of the fact. H ;
an agreeable voice, speaks readily, fr
fluently, and correctly ; but he !, ,..
own counsels in all matters requirin- the .
ereise of a saving discretion.
In person he is about five feet nin : .
high, straight, nnd slenderly built, f
not that breadth of shoulders, nor in- .
of chest, indicating the most vioi
stitutinn. Hi complexion, loo, is p., In
bis face thin, exceptina the cxtraonli
expansion of bis lower jaw ; but bo h
of that wiry, active class of men, rl
cle and nerve, and capable of all so,:
hardships and endurance. Fremont
has sustained the most incrmliublo tii'
starvation, and cold, and snow, in the d
of winter, among the inhospitable p
and dreary defiles of the Hncky mount:
and Sieira Nevada,' is one of the same .
spare and delicate, but elastic, and r
cular, and tough, and hardy as Kit Car
J.imes K. Polk, who could ride on b
back sixty miles a day, in tho middK
July, and make threo or four stump sp-'c
in a quarter of an hour each, was i '.
amo spare construction, bo was Man
so was Napoleon in his prime ; so was V.
lincton ; so was Horatio Nelson ; so
Jefferson ; so was Old Hickory, Lnd so
Harry Clay. (Jen. Pierce has prec?d
the greatest abundance lo make a n.
being neither a Falslaff nor a llerct
Cor. Herald.
The Mihvaukie News is responsible
the followins. It has Ihe air of truth
is funny enough to ;ast a fortnight :
"A friend of ours, who possesses a
vein of humor, was recent on a visit to
ryland, and relates an amusing aoc.
of a "colored chorus" witnessed by the
lator" at one of the African churches.
masculine darkies were arranged "like t
and-twenly black birds all in a row,'
one side, and the females on Ihe othi
The latter commenced the chorus wilh 1
for a man oh ! for a man oh ! for a i
sion in the skies," to which tho forme
sponded : "send down sal send dow
send down salvation to mv soul."
A Washington despatch says :
During Ihe balloting to fill the vac:
in tho Committees, Mrs. Senator H.i
the gallery, accidentally dropped her p
which felt point downward upon the
of Senator Peaice, of Maryland, c:
llto blood lo flow very capiouslv.
Pearco immediately left the Chamhe1
after an hour returned and resumed hi-
The .Shaw! Coat of Thibit, from
fleece of which the finest Cashmere si.
are manufactured, has been successful!)
turalized in Chili. Tho Peruvian Covi
merit has recently concluded a contra,
the introduction of about eighty oui
the pure kind, w ith the object of pi
ling the stock in the mountainous dislri
Peru, where it is believed they will t;
as we!! as in the high labia lauds of L.
and Thibet, tho regions of their oriir
In 1852, there were produced in tr"1
ted Slates 100,000,000 bushels of whim.
140,000.000 bushels of Indian corn ; v. I
at SI per bushel for the former, r.kI 'Jo i
for the latter, were worth 35,500,000.
teen per cent clear of the interest of th-
ital invested in lands, implements hi I
personal labor, is a liberal estimu'..
profit accruing to the w heat and coi u ,
Then the prolit of this amount of giai' .
be $20,325,000. The appropiialjou t.
Army and Navy, during the same year,
$20,150,501. In other words, the Aim
Navy ate up thu whole harvest of h
corn throughout the Union! Will n.
harJ-uoiUng farmers think of this l..c
Co.mplsitios or the Moox Eve.
ji'ct on its tnrf.it e of tho height of on
died feet is dislinf.ly seen through
floss's telescope. On ils surface are ci
of dii-tii'.ct volcanoes, KcK, ami mas
stone almost innumeiuble. lint their a.
si:;us of habitations such as oi.rs, no ve
of arcliilecliual remains lo show II1...
tniX'ii is or ever was inhabited by a 'a
mortal imilar lo omselves. No wai
visible, no ea, no river all seems iletu..
Ui.r.Lirso rito.M the Nose. To prrv
lho above '.here are several methods, ',.
applying ulcohul steeped in lint, whic'
most energetic styptic, or by iner;ii
ded cotlou wool rolled up, which '
put into the nostril until it ia ed fi
must not, however, be loo litfh.il lulir
the blood cannot penetrants lhe infrs'
nor too loosely, or it will do so loo ea
aud the hemorrhage will continue,
Methodist Collbces There are
colleges under ihe supervMon d the "
dial Church, wilh pioperly and funds
amount of S4H6C3. The oldest or l!
MiddlelowH, was founded in 1830.
are 16 academies and seminaries. I :
them there are 4,936 students, an avcr.i
171 each.