I WIRITTIIN roll TINS WATOIMAIIO A LOVER'S PRAYER. DT N. X' IDI Oh, when we prpy for thole we love, -fr. What' form oNostis van tail Tha adobes We would waft above' Fur those we lore eo well? . tier love upon my life hafshone, _ - And now, though far spirt, The mem'ey of her smile alone Brings sunshine to my heart. The glory of her eye divine, The rapture of its ray, Ilan mode my life anew' to shine, And thus to !leaven I pray. Oh, crown her life with eirry joy That mpioy can bestow; - Let hsppiness without tiliny - Inrivers round her flow, Bleu ov'ry hair of her dear head ; • Her smile, 111 'oft and warm; The very ground preened by IM. tread The shadow of her form. Keep her from ev'ry anxious rare, From ev'ry sorrow froe,— Forgive the rashness of my prayet She is so dear to me. The flow're that in.the wildwood grow By Thee are kept from harm, And rourui afi , virtuo Thou dont throw The shadow of Thine Arm. Thou let Thy merry never fail -- Her ea foty to secure. There In no Hower in nll the vele 4 n beautiful eirwf pure. of ev'ry lovelinene and grace, Oh give her, heaven, a part She line love a mere in her face, Oh, plant them in her heart. 4 Anil let the mun.hine round her pour, Anil glorify her hours, And where eho roam.; let earth's green floor Be carpeted with flowers. And may the glory ,und her head, The beauty round her feet, Upon her inner life ho rho& And make her jury• complete MosnaPINUN, I'a, Jan '27, CCM If Juno is the goddein Of all orbs of vision— (the ..o.x-eyed" .inno,)—and if Ate has a star, I am very sure I must) have been born under it I, have but two hobbies that I am aware of: one is it handsome dog or borne, and the other a hintlsome pair of eyes, and between the two, I have . came to grief 'renew" in my time Indeed, from the moment when I attained to 'ears of iltscrrtion, (pi they are most ridiculously called, lily troubles from the latter have been enough to move a heart of stone—nor dn seermuch prospect of their ceasing— at leapt till I get a gray hair or two in my brown locks to sober me There is a world of meaning in an eye I do not, by any mean!, aisert that thin is an original reniark, only that it lathe itlinteseent cream of my large experi ence during the last eight years, reduced into one pithy maxim The very Rev. Father leaber nays in one of hie hooks, that. "there is something in every eye that warns ,you not to trust it infinitely/ and agreeing wish him hero. I also add that there is always 'something which warns you not to treat it at all Un consciously, it may be, but still most plainly, and we should escape many an aching heart, if we attended to the roes sage a little more Fait blearnenn, then, inherent, though often unkown, is the great characteristic of the human eye— it is only In the mild, loirrnriels of the dog or the berme that we find that pecu liar look absent, and why shoubi the port ho guarded, when no treaehety is there I There are five kinds of eyes worth no ticing— the blue, the black, the brown, the gray, and the green And first, by right and by beauty—the blue' It is a dangerous topin for me The eyes whi t 2 borrow their tint front the summer sk —what eye s . they are! flow titey-da r, e and bewilder—how they me lt end soften--boa they flash in scorn And swim in team till one's heart in scarcely worth a moment's purchase, even for a housewife's sieve' The large. light blue eye. with the golden eyelash and the faintly-traced brovr--the typo of heavenly purity And peace—a nun should have such eyes, and I am Rare St. Agnes and tit. Lucy had; the smaller orb of darkest, deepest blue, With its arch, sidelong glance. And such were Annie Laurie's, and another Annle'e thli. I know—the calm, sad blue eye that thiilll one's heart with 'a single glauoe, and the well-opened one that flashes upon you with a glorious light— with a,emile that makes your head whirl., and a' meaning that you never 'forget oh, blue eyes blue eyes! that have looked upon me here and there, that have etirred my heart and haunted my dreamy for ten long years—that have shone upon me in the summer pky at noon, and the winter sky at night—that have looked up from every page I have read—your witchery will nehrbe for gotten till I lie low, with the green sod for my pillow and my shroud! And blaok. There are four kinds of these also: the email, brilliant, hard eye like a bead, that one might crack like a ohetry-stone between librieeth.:— the glOomy with a tire sinoldir• tog 1q its firtbest depths— the sot VOL. 13 swimming, sleepy orb, and another, large. well-shaped and firmly set— solemn as the hush of michlight,still_as a mountain lako, yet full of passion, full of-thought, and intellect, and feeling, that rise in a storm till the quiet surface glows again—an eye that has no need of words—that never smiles, but knows the warmth of tears—an oyo that goes straight to the 'heart with a single glance and never loaves it more—an eye that does not intoxicate like the blue, but draws you steadily and surely on, and touches chords in your heart which have been untouched before, and can never woke for a lesser power again -The first may lie the eye of a vain beauty and belle. Eugene Aram, I fancy, had the second, and many an iu ,M to of Bedlam huff it now. The third languishes in the harem of the Turk : and the fourth-Lit is well that it is net a common one, or wo Rhohl all be worse off than we are now It is the most heauti`ul, and nine the most. dangerous of all. For the blue eye launches a score of arrows, whose wounds may ono day heal ; but this has only one, and if it bit the ,nark—heaven help you! the poison ed shaft will linger in your heart for ever. But once I have seen those eyes. or met that glance, and then they took my breath away. But a cowl fell over them the next moment—they were Wit to moon earth ; but I shall know them again—oh, I am sure of that, if they ever beam on me in !leaven ! Brown eyes are often err.ngly called hinile, for lick of • bider name Aod some hazle eyes, every one knows, all most uncomfortable things Dickens gave them to his Urfa!, Deeps when be wanted to finish the picture. They have a deep red flicker; tbtt 'peace miechief ; and they ere: shallow, withal. Once I maw a handsome pair,with a red glow,yet with a softness that made them look like velvet, as they glanced shyly out from under their longlashes. but these are a elase by t leenuselvee, and abould, not, Lir confounded with the brown, which have softnevoxand a beauty peculiarly their own Nome are eager, quick and merry --they generally go with light hair, and fair, fresh complexions, and their laugh ing brightnevi, their frank glances,'are as different from the trritable look of he hazel as light from -dark nese. 'Oth era, strangely enough, have a redivh glow, or rather an auburn lig4tt , that gives them n peculiar charm especialy if, as I have often seen, the hair match es, shade for shade. Others, of a more decided brown, go with black hair and a dark complexion, pale or brilliant, as the case may he; and were I "Co•lette 111 search of a wife," I should take care she had such eyes as these And others still are large and soft, with a starry f light within—a w[light radiance, rather —that only need the curling hair, and the pale, gentle face—the dainty form and the Wider, womanly heart—to com plete the charm ' , declare, when I look into such eyes, I think only of moon light, and woodland brooks, and “vio lets by a mossy hank,"- • —the yearn drop from me like a cloak, and I sit once more on the floor In the old parlor at Lempster :Atm—moon shines through the painted curtine, and your eyes are upon me, Helen, and your hand in mine, as we talk in the lowest of voices,—lisile Lucia walks with her tnotber, Peed and Jip, in the flower gerden • outside, and Morrill plays the conga we liked to bear Alt, many o pleasent memo•y Lave I by land or sea, in connection with your dear brown eyes; “Place nos , 1)11111E8 ” For the gray lye is peculiarly the eye of women. And here we meet with a variety enough to puzzle Solomon himself We will pass over in silence the sharp, the shrew ish, the spiteful, the cold, and the wild gray eye: every one has seen them-- too often, perhaps--1 ant sure I hove There are some that belong only to the gallows; there are others of which any honest brute would be thoroughly ashamed. Itut then, again, there are some beautiful enough to drive one wild and it is only them which I mean. There is the dark sleepy, almond-shaped dray eye, with long black lasties—it goes with the rarest. 'face on earth— that dilltana-like bdauty of jet black hair, and a complexion ihgt is neither dark nor fair—almost - a cream color, if the truth must be told—and soft and rich ►s the leaf of the calla Ethiopia itself. Perhaps it iv the Creole face and form. I don't know ;• but I do know that I al ways think.of Magnolia trees and lotus flowers when I recall it. The only two beautiful women I ever saw had such r "STATE WORTS AND FEDERAL UNION BELLEFONTE, PA., - FRIDAY JAN. 31, 1868: faces and,Aurch' eyes; they wexg,..Atneri ow , and I doubt if it wee possible for them to have been anything else. Eu rope. 1 am sure, could never produce anything of the kind. And it is worthy of remark also, that - this style is strictly confined to my own eel. 11Iother Nature shows a little good tense in ibis respect, and does not waste such glorious work manship where it would stand a fair ohande of being degraded, not to say utterly ruined and lost. Directly opposed to this is the este), clear gray eye—the eye that reasona, when this only feels, It looks you quiet ly in the face; it views you kindly, but, alas, dispassionately ; passion rarly lights it, and love takes the steady blaze of friendship, when it tries to hide wtth in.., The owner of that eye is upright,con ecientious and (lod-fearing, pitying his fellow men, even while at a loos to un derstand the vagaries. I have often wondered if the gaol' Samaritan was not such a man• It is the eye for u kind and considerate physician, for a con scientious lawyer,(if such a man there he.) for s worthy village pastor, for a friend, ae f..ithful as any poor human being can tw.; - but I should rather meet some otheadn a lover or a husband, If I had my ohoioe. It is the eye for a Joan of Arc, a Florence Night ingale ‘ a Grace Darling, but the. fairy of It household hearth would wear another guise Last of the gray eyes, comes the most mischievous ; a soft eye, with a large pupil, that contracts and dilates with e word, a thought, or a flash of feeling; an eye that "Adele, that sighs almost,if 1 1 may nee such a term, that has its sun shine, ite twilight, its moonbeams, and its storms: a wonderTul eye, that wins you whether you will or not, and holds you even after it has mist you off. No matter whether the face be fair er not —no matter if features ate irregular and complexion varying, the eye holds you captive, and theta' laughs at your Very chain's. It is easy enough to ac count for the witchery of Mary, Queen of Scots. I have heard that her eyes were gray, and you may be sure they were like these. So, I have no doubt, were Lucretia Borgia's ; so were those of Ninon de L'Euolos. Many auotber we wan has such orbs ; p s erhape she uses them more innocently and legitimately —but the effect is very much the same ; and if people choose to face the danger they must take theiconsequences. 'leav en knows, I bay,e no very high opinion of the lords of creation ; and young men I confess, I hate worse than anything else on earth, 'except young women.) yet one piece of advice will I give them in all sincerity ; Never marry a women :who has these eyes, they were never made, be sure, to servo only as lamps for a domestic hearth. Verbttin sap And green eye what can be said of them. Much, tuir for ibis last short page, warns ny to be brief. I have seen some like cat's eyes, yet the majority are very handsome, I assure you. I have met with some floating Ina lambert. light—large,dreamy, pensive, and yet really green—though they were such as the soul of k.atti, and especially of Coleridge might have looked out of. They are not bewildering like the blue, nor dangerous like the black, neither offectrunate as the brown, nor passion ate as the gray ; but they are the eyes for a visionary poet, whose soul has ht• tle to do with earth, and 'loves' the land of memory and imagination better, they would do, in the present day, for Mrs Browsing, and I oau fancy them, to go very far back, in Psyche's lace. -• So touch for what we ace with, Idc not know how it my be with othere,but if I wanted to ,fleet, I altould choose some one with the glorious eye of flash ing blue ; my friend's eye (male or female) eould be the twi ight brown; my hue band's blue also, but cdm and sad, and unapt to wonder ; nut docior'a,ta:clear and steady gray ;* but if•to 'Alm joys of domestio life, I preferred a lonely des tiny and the ating of a love, deep, fer vent and passionate, yet forever shad• owed, and forever in wain, why then I would dare the glance of suoh dark eyes u looked upon me once—looked upon me —passed away, yet will never either forget or be forgotten. —The first number of a newspaper has been-issued . in Paris, called "The Atheist, a Journal of Ideas." The main idea is by no means new, for we rs,d../p sacred record of two thoumsed years ago that, •'The fool bath said in his ,bears, there is no, God." • The Latest Enormity The Black Republicans, in the miser able, cabal that calls itself Congress, have agreed on trjing a new infamy.— They have heard that the Supreme Court of the United States.Dt /bout to pronounce ail their "Military Districts,'• unconSlllutional. To off-set this, the Black Republican Rumpof a Congress propose to abolish all the work of theirs, anff,in place of five Military Districts,:— to make it all one despotism; and to make (len. Grant the Despot over the whole. Whether this is a bribe for (len Grant, and done with his knowledge and consent to accept it, we do not know, and we do not mire. If Gen, Grant has not known of it, and secretly consented to usurp power, the Black Republican Congress has fooled itself. If den Grant is in the conspiracy, it only re mains to see whether it is possible to tench President Johnson his powers and his duties, to put both Congress and Gen, Grant, up n very dry spout. This miserable Rump of a Congress assumes to set aside the Constitution of the Cali lied States, as it is written and semi by men. It now, also, assumes to disregard the trill of the people, declared in the late electiolts. The Executive, vested in the one per son of the President, is. by the theory of the Constitution, the co-ordinate and full equal of the entire legislative-Congress But the provisions made in the Constitu tion, Modified this co-ordinate and sup posed equal power. No educated mind trained to such studies, can help seeing Oat the United States Constitution. .without meaning to do it, perhaps ; gave a preponderance to the Executive over the other. Department - a of the govern went. The Black Republican Rump now pro poses to curtail the Towers vented in the Executive—the President—and in the Judieisry. This bastard Congress pre ppies to pass an act saying that the President shall not fulfill hie sworn obli gations ; and that the Supreme 'Court ehall not declare the law, as againe what this wretched Rump will do. Such an assumption is past any argu ment. This vile, and -repudiated Rump of a Congress of the Unite d , Slaw, as sumes to be omnipotent. It assumes to give law, binding on both the co-ordi nate departments of the Federal Govern ment. li they intend to press thin as eumption, now in the time ' We depre cafe civil war—but, if the alternative in alavcry and subjugation of our people . or a war for liberty, we must go to war We have feeble confklenoe in any act of courage on the part of President John eon But if he calls on ,{he people, to protect him against Congress, on such an itnue as this the complete prostration of the Executive. and of the Judiciary, at the feet of a rcpuduited Rump Parloa. ment, the people will respond! It may prove a raAlter bloody war. Posnibly it may prove thararnern appliances, an exhibited in newspapers, may make it not as it need to be, for the yit.ifo ono to escape There is enough of danger of a new civil war to, make it timely for um to urge Denr.mrate, everywhere. to get ready Remember, in the caliva” of 1860, we said that a bloody war wo f yid follow Lim:Olt:Ca election ' Easy gores people langhed at 1.19. We say now, that. we are theatenec with equal distinct nest, with another desolating war. this time, here at the North. If the danger be appreciated, in time, jitney ho averted If not, it will come as a whirlwind! But, President alive, or President dead, to his duties—the propositions of this -bogus Rump Con greet, if carried out, mean anothes civil war --Preernate; Journal, N. -- Hare hi another neho9lboy'm coot po.ii ion Winter in the coldest seamen of the year, because it comes in the winter mostly. In esme countries Wintercomee in the sumper,and then it Is very pleas ant. wish winter came in summer in this country, which in the beet govern ment the sun ever shone upon Then we oduld go skating barefoot, and slide down hill. in linen troweers. We could snow-ball without getting our fingers cold—and men who go eldlgh iidfwg wouldn't have to stbp at every tavern to warm, as they do now. It snows more in 'the winter than it does at any other season of the year. —The Radicals of La Droste caV Anna Diekinson the moral prostittitc. It's shame- NI, if It is tine. • 0 Remarkable Escapee During the horrors of the French rev- elution, a tradesman of Lyons, of the name of Grivet; a man of mild and sim ple manners, was brOught in ono even ing, sentenced, among a number of oth ers, to perish the float morning. Thor who were already in the cave pressed rot A I the new comer to sympathize with film, to console him, and to fortify him for the stroke be was about to encoun ter; hut 61rivet had no need of sense's lion, he was as calm and composed atilt he hed been in his own house. "Come and PUp with us," said they, ..this is the Nat ion in the journey of life ; to tuor ow we libel' arrive at our long home " GrilvaLaceepted the invitation, and sup ped heartily. Desirous to sleep as well. he retired to the remotest corner of the cave, and, burying himself in hie straw. seemed not to bestow a thought on his approaching fate The morning arrived : the prisoners -were tied together and led away without Ortve:is perceiving any thing, or being perceited.:l Fast asleep, enveloped in his straw, h' neither sew nor was seen. The door of the cave Was looked . ; and when ho awoke awhile of ter,..ite was in the utmost astonishment to find himself in perfect solitude.. The day passed, and 'no new prisoners were brought into the care. The. nest day was the docade,wben the judges did not sit, nor did they, for some othhr rea son, int the following day.' Grivet re mained all the time in his solitude, sub- eiiting on some scattered provisions whit% he found ab l out the cave, and Bleeping every night with the same tran quility as the first. On the evening of the fourth day the turnkey brought in a nevi ptisoner, and became as one thunder 'truck on seeing a man, or, as he almost believed it,a spirit in the cave lie called the sentinels, who instantly ci peered. "Who art thou?" said kie'to °rivet, "and how commit thou here?" Orivet answered that be bad been there for four days "Doubtless," 1e added, "when my companions in misforiun. were led away to death, I slept and clean] nothing, and no one thought to awaken me. It was my tulsfortune, since all would have been past, whereas I nave lived with the prospect of death always before me; but the misfortune will now undoubtedly be repaired since I see you " The tt:r..key hastened to lie tribunal to excuse himself for what had happened Grivei was summoned before it , he was interrogated anew.— It was a moment of lenity with the mdges, and ho was set at liberty. • instance once occurred ofAscape after condemnation which deeerveplo be mentioned, becau•te the fact ie both re markable and well. atteeled. A number of persons were returning back to pri .on after sentence had been passed up on them that they were to bi 2 guillotined the next morning. They were accord ing to cuetont, tied by the heads, two and two. with a cord, and were escorted by a guard. In their way they were met by a woman, who, with loud cries. reclaimed her husband, asserting that be was a good patriot, and had been un justly condemned , and she could bring proof of hie patriotism, known to all the world. It so happened, that the judge whu had condetuceil the prim- on•ra paaged k by at that moment and, heating the clamant of the women, intigired what could 0001U11011 them Thia bring explained, and Cite judge Tory happily being in a more mer ciful humor than usual, Raid that a good patriot must not ho executed, and if the woman's assert tart. were trite, it was very right that her husband ohlul.l be re lease I Ile liecordingly ordere-1 the man Co be unbound and brought to hint, When hn diked several questions respec ting Lis patriotism, and what he had done for the good of the republic, to all which he recived answers so satisfacto ry, that he declared him to be a good sans-ciktotte,ubjustly condemned, and or (lured to be set at liberty on the the spot Thie.affalr, aa may easily be imagined, soon drew it:number or people together, so that the prisoners wet* mingled pronalecously with the multi tude. The companion, pit h , whom the man had been yoked finding himself single and observed, the eyes and attention of all present being now otherwlie engaged thought that a raprable opportunity of esoape Was presented t thrusting, there. fore, the hand whisk bad the oord round it into his waistoont, that the_nerd might not be seen, which' would have betrayed him, be with great 000lneot made his way - through the "mud oil if be hid been a l.pectattir only, draws among them by curiosity. When he found himself at liberty, he hastened to the 'pere", - 10101, was not,far off' .d . junpliittz into a boat, ordered tb Oat man to row in all haste to api . which ho named at the other en. the port. The boatman obeyed; ut here a difficulty arose which Ad not immediately occurred to the 'fugitive, that be had not so much as a sot IS hie pocket to pay his fare: for when afty one was arreited."Whativer money he might base about him, or anything else of vial floors, immediately taken Tway as eon- Mutated property. What was to be thine in a 'hum ion so embarrassing ? lie did not lose his presence of mind ; but, feel ing in him pocket. said, with rt - welVaf tented eurprile, Mit it wairvirilucki, but ho lied forgotten his puree, and ba‘l, not any money with him. The boatmad begin to swear and make a great out cry. saying that this was all a mere . Dude, that he was a chant, and wantel to make him work without being paid. The fugitive then. as if a sudden recol lection bad struck him, put hie hand in his pocket, and drew opt the cord frdm which during the passorge, he had son• trived to disengage it: "Here, my friend," said „tie, "like this• I by no means wish to cheat you; I cannot tell bow it has happened that I base dome out without money but this cord, it' you will accept it, is worth more than your fare." -Oh, yea, yes—take it, take it," said a number of other boat- NO. 5 men who were etanding by, "the citizen is right, the cord ix a good cord, and worth triple your fare; I don't believe be meant to cheat, be looks like an bon est citizen." The boaiman took the ad vice, and accepted the cord: and the liberated •ictim walked off to the house of a friend in the neighborhood, where he remained concealed the Aid of the day. When night mime, he mado his recape from the town, his friend furnishing Lim with money and other necessaries for his journey; nor had many days elapsed before be was safe out of the republic. flow many pounds doss the baby weigh} 'Baby who came but a month ago ; How many p .ands frOin the crowning curl To the rosy tip of the restless toe? Grand father ties the %amblers knot, Tenderly guides the 'winging weight; And carefully o'er his glans' peers, To reed the reeord—•'only eight !" deftly the echo goes around, The rather laughs at the tiny girl, The rair young mother sings the words, While grandmother smooths the golden curl. Aed Neephie abeve-41Depreekito - - Nestleirativirwithitrwirrayar: Murtonring eoftlY . "Little one! Grandfather did not weigh yon Nobody weighed the babrrinuile, Or the love that cornea with the helpless one, Nobody weighed the thread. of care From which is woman'. life is .pun. No Index tells the mighty worth Ora little baby's gni t btesth— A soft, unceasing metronome, Patient and faithful unto death Nobody weighed the baby's soul, For here on earth no weight there be Chat could avail; God only knows [Uvulae in eternity. Only eight pounds to hold a soul That seeks no angers silver wing, But shnues it in this guise, Within so frail and small a thing. Oh! mother laugh your merry note, Be gay and kind,. bat don't forget From baby's eyes looks out a soul That claims a home In Eden yet ! THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER. —Au erangetio weapon—The Acta of the A pollen .—Tho end of Seward's real estate pur ehase—A drop of the crater. --What do youtalways do Defure you to Bleep? Shut your eye,. —The oldest busim o• in the norld—the pursery --The real ettampious or the ring mothers with daughters to marry, --Why is a kiss like a scandal? M- C/MA(I'U goes from mouth to month, ---The tete kings of Society—Gammon and Mammon --Nonoenne ie dermal 14 , sense winch differs from ones own —Beer fills many a bottle and the bottle ninny n bier - —Why i. dancing like milk ? Because it rtrengtheng the eulvee. --What ie thelargeet room in the World? The room fur improvement. —Patrick told his sweetheart he "coal e.,t Map,' for drptimin* of-ber." —Why are lovers' sighs like long stook. -ingsl Demise° they are high hose (heigh ho's.) —Petroleum h ,rex are defined by Pope aa "the parts ol vto etupendoos bole." —Whatever may be the °MAW seal of Utah, Brigham .Young is the Mobil sealer. —I f “beauty'draws us by a single hair" who c ould withetaud a modern waterfall? __The most direct tuelbod to determine hville power is to stand behind hisi; and tickle his lege with a briar. --A mild young lady in Chicago made- , an affectionate but unsuceessfal attlinipt to °bop her husband's head off. --L-The Union League of New Ode unanimously endorse Clisse for Preside and repudiate Grant. , HOW MUCH 1 Mi