tetas ; 30at Vile i fad FS Ly, Ep BITS rE SETS ITSTS Rid ic; ince te wi, song charms tl . TIT ILTIILSL ES TIES os y © ~ La > . FONTE DBecr 1822, SELECTED. a ddd INFANCY AND MATURE AGE. AN APALOGUE, ( Men ere but Children of larger growth. ) | Ties eight o'clock, and near the fire 2 My ruddy little boy was seated, And with the title ot a Sire My cars expected 10 be greeted. "Pat vii the thought! By sleep oppress’d ; No Father there the child descrd = lis bead reclin’d upon bis beast, SO nodding roli’d irom side to side. 0 Let this young Rogue be sent to bed’ Adore 1 had not time tos ty CW hen the poor urchin ras:d his head To beg might {suger stay. etused ; towards rest bis steps he pept “AVith tearlul eye and aching heart Bat claim’d his playthings, ete be went, . And 1e0k up stairs Lis horse and cart. that he Q x rew delay, though of deny’d, ; ‘He ple: ded j—wildly crav’d the boon 3 oy hf his usual hour, he cried Beha bf £3 50 es im, his grief I shar’d (TE amovd who go ears his © fispring weep 1) nol sonthing ¥ af despan”’ d > + When all big cares aie lost in sleep. > jrast hd ery v6 be 5 8 away £0011. him ~ «Alas! per Tif ¢ 1 iy Fa yer Tne!l which ve The folli The vain reo Which the Portrays of When doem’d 3p V1 exclaimed, Ushes now to SCAN, lately bis m’d, d the fears of man; et brief, u hast known, sent up to bed, the idle frie f, f to slumber with the dead’ - SC LS ret, the Man Add more 1 thought, when up the stairs With ¢ loneing ling’ring looks’ he crept 3 Lo mark of \. any t childish cares, His p aytiings caretolly he kept. ius morials on hfs later st age, When pature claims thie ir forfeit breath, Sail grasp at wealth, in Sain and oge, Aud cling to golden toys in death. he 3 3 | *Tis morn ! and sce my smiling Boy Awukes.to bail returning light ; To feariess uglier ! boundless joy Forget the tears of yester night ! Thus shall not Man forget his we? Survive of age and death the gloom 7 Smile at the cares be knew below ? And renovated burst the tomb ? | 0, my Creator | when thy will Shall stretch tis frame Let that blest hop2 sustain me still, "Tul thought, sease, mem’ry—all And graicful for what thou may’st give, No tear shall dim my fading eye ; That ’twas thy pleasure I should Lye That tis thy mandate bids me die, 1 L ——itite © SGD RD Fr rom the Literary Cazctle. I.OVERS’ WHEN ! should Invers hreathe their vows? should ladies hear them? w 3 on the boughs, are near thems When Wh 10 the d When none else When ines cold and pale, When the biids are sleeping 3 When no voice is on the gale, When the ros- is weepin 23 When the stars are bright on high, Iike hope in voune Lov:’s dreaming, And elancine round the licht clouds fiy, Tike soft te 12 to ¢hade their beaming. The fairest smiles are those that live On the brow starlight wreathing ; nd their lips the riches: incense give ; When the sighs are at midnight breathing, : ‘Oh, sofiest is the cheelk’s love-ray When seen by moon'ight’s hours 3 DO iBer roses scek the day E But blushes are night flowers. Ob, when the moon and stars are When the dew-drops glisten, A'hen their vows uld lovers pii Theo should 1 dies listen. [> NN Wi Nn si io) the mo by mn br ight, she shi, mn & XE As TD —— Irom the American Star. tage Ceme: try. The sun was just setting in the west, still autumnal even; secking their nests ; the dog, trudging along to his bome ; and Spokes, the waggoner, and Sall Mayflower the. gg ’ y dairy maid, might be seen behind the demeanor snd looks, were those of a arent leman, fewer, pid the man of education, entered the village: s always before him, and he arden bementry to inquire of the sexton, (whom he caw there busily enzaged in digging a grave) purposes, is yet spared him. he risidence of some person ; he had Ppa (prety near him for that purpose; when, th as 4 ]$ on earth’s cold bed, are fled ; ;. the feathered tribe were labourer, merrily whist \der-hearted sexton WwW i unable to bear hedge, se ‘ealing an interview--when a strancar, whose ¢ man stopped [rom his employment, and rest+ ing on his spade, exclaimed,“ Well wi iy shouldit 'f take on thus, who have du ug ail the graves tor this forty years past in this village ; why tear might should I be thus moved !”-——a if asham-| | i gi - seen trembling in his eye, and he, as | cd of his feelings, set himsell busily to work, re-| peating, ¢ On! it was cruel, very cruel and | in spite of himself the tears rolled from ofF his] furrowed cheeks, ¢ What is so cruel, my friend] can | relieve you 2” said the stranger, approach: | ing nearer, and discovering himsecll to the sex: | ron, I’ll tell you what is cruel,’ said the old| man, who appeared above sixty years old—bc c| was certainly sixty, he might be sixty hve, let | ting fall his spade, and elevating himself at the, same timo quite animated—:¢ I'll ell you what is’ cruel, and sce if you do not say with me, il there is one crime deserves more punishment than another, it is this, listen ; two old prople had a daughter, in whom their life and happiness were centered ; by her industry they were sup- norted— Oh | she was a lovely creaturc~—~my old dame is dead, sir, and she sweet creature, when [ was taken ill in the winter, comforted, consoled, and administered unto me—but she will balgpwerded TERE, said the old man, 1€v- erently pointing to Heaven, she will be reward- ed THERE ! but mark me, sir; A young feliow came to this place, he saw her and marked hei for his prey; she saw bim and alse loved him, while he took advantage of her misplaced affec but ‘he curse of two broken hearted old parents wiil tion, and roined her; heaven’s. wrath an ¢ Tt willy it will, ¢ Aye (will it,” continued the sexton ; he was a seducer ; follow him wherever be goes.’ exclaimed the stranger, convulsively, | what was the end on’t 2 why the end oft was Lt a sweet creature died of a broken heartabut by! she’s proceeded the s gone, she’s gone, I trast, old man, quite affected, ¢ where sin and sorrow never enter, and this is her grave, pointing to an opening : yes, soon will the corpse of her, who when in Ite was so lovely, be interred i the receptacle for the dead ; yes she who was once all joy and honor, the comfort and support of lier parents, the rich and the aged’s consola- ”» tion ¢ Her name, her name,’ cried the stran gery convelsively, and seizing hold of the ol ma >s arm. '—Her rame was Emily Leslie !’ What,’ exclaimed the stranger, with a hasty |death-like hue, his frame violently agitated, and bis eyes ne + Emily the sexton. arly starting from their sockets— Leslie '—¢ Bat you look unwell,’ sai In fact so he did; - - ( \ - with ap universal trembling, his features wer he was seized distorted, the blood forsook his faces bis teeth chattered, a cold sweat starting from his fore. head, his livid countenance expressing the dis. o der ef his mind, and before the old man ceuld offer his assistance, a hoarse unnatural screams and with hysterica’ The sexton hastened to raise him, ard on attentively escaped from bis breast, laugh he fell prostrate on the ground. behalding his countenance, he saw before him the SEDUCER of Emily Leslie. pulse was to rush from him ; we His first im but the sexton was a christian ; the man he most despised was now before him, but he recollected he was a fellow being and in distress, Tle had him conveyed to his friends, where he was scized with a burn would not do. The imare of Emily Leslie, the pride of the village, was still before him ; he turned and turned in his bed, but it would appear before him. His fever became mor violent, and in a few Loars he became delirious ; but ne was suffered tolive. Afier two weeks [Formica Saccharivera, jated by a hurricane, rom.all his ing fever, he endeavored to shake it off, but it{ & hint aii tal of the above, which is founded on a fac bat occuired not long since. «Te A late number ol the Edinburg Review cob ains am article ow the natural history of in sects, from which the following curious ex tact is taken = « The account of the ant of Bairbadoes, the is almost terrific ; and \we refer to it, because we know the authority te be good. The ant in question appeared about Fry AJ yeats ago in such Infinite kosts on the isl id of Grenada as te put a stop to the cultiva non of sugar cane. A reward of 20.000/ was loffered to any one who should discover an effac- ‘tual mode of destroying them. Their numbers 'ware incredible ; they descended from the hills like (orreats, and the plantations, as well as cy. ery path aad road, for miles were filled with them. Rats, mice, ome ¢f the domestic quadrupeds, were kilicd hy them | Streams of water opposed only a tem- porary obsacie to their progress; the foremost rushing blindly on to certain death, and fresh] ° armies continually following, till a baok was formed of the ca‘cases of those that were diown- «d, sufficient to dam up walers, ard allow the They “ven rushed into the fires that were lighted to main body to pass over in safety below, stop them. This post was at length extermin- The Mahomedans say there are five things which 2 wise man will ground no hopes on— | the color of a cloud. because imag: vary ; the friendship of the covetons, because meicenary ; Jcauty, besause frail ; praise because airy ; and lie praise of this wo = because deceitful, —t pr RD FER A writer says, + (ihacco exhausts those juices “0 essentially necessar iry irestion ; i y sary to further digestion ; it creates thirst and nassen j it destroys anpetites the complexion becomes cadaverous ; finally: the chewer and smoker becemes a poor missra le, cxtenuated atrophic, walking skeleton. smoking away his fo remaining ideas, and spitting up his langs, until death releases hin: suff The truth, we baligye, is, that to many constitutions tobacco is hurif —~10 oth ers Innocent ; ‘tines? 2 1138, 3 and that the true course 5 for those who find it i:jurious, to ahstain from That it is pernicious to young peo ole geaerally, is past doub! sand therefore its use Joy them ought ts be forbidden or discouraged TEDL ——— Missionaries. The following is an extract from an address lelivered by the Rev, T. Gallaudet, at Hartford, onhecticut. ¢« Ab we sometimes hear the propiiety of its use. - .e —— ¢ Female such adventures, as they are termed, called question. Tor it is easy and pleasant for those tus who sit quietly by our own fice side, #11 rounded with comiotis and luxury, to wonder a the rashness of those who embark in such haz ardous enterprises ; and while we shrink from self denial, and do so little for the cause of Christ, we hope in some measure to palliate ou: neglect by finding fault with those who do more And, strange as it may seem, woman--sent by Heaven, as a help mate for man ; designed tc share and soothe his sorrows ; Lo participate in, and lighten his cares; to excite by her gen ler influence, and inv gorate by her kind re monstrances his languishing effort in the path of duty ;—~Wom courage, an—who may bave less active but more unbending fortitude thai nar; whose instinctive good sense extricates from difficuliies which his boasted sagacity| of severe sufliring the disease yielded to the: or , lave ariel 3 aetmedics employed, and in afew weeks he was [restored to bealth. Daring his illaess the ten pined, drooped, her the loss of whom he Lad ever cons'dered and loved as his daughter. T ge educer yet ives, a living monument of mise: ry, (his Ji fe a burthen to him ; the lovely form of that whom bis pestiferous breath has blasted. tly calls on death to terminate bis existence, which, for wise Numerous are such seducers in the world s and dred |i ] [man may be tbe adinired “a yt ; . { zannot surmount—_Woman—who, like the ves-! I virgin of old, keeps bright the lamp of do- tmestic piety in the quiet ‘of her retirement, while man suffers its fiame to be extinguished i. { "th OVP rin % n the tumultuous bustle of the world ;--Wo heroine of a novel ; orl follow her busband throu gh the fatig ues of al military campaign, and attend bim amid all the wrrors of war ; or t: averse with him the mi; ;b- | ty deep, and spend y earsin some sultry clime, 13 c i while he is toiling to make his foriupemshel may do all this and receive the loudest plau- dite £3 vr ly 3 3 1rd: adits of approbatien {ur her intrepidity and cop-! jstancy ; but let her become the partner of some @ ejiet them learn an admonitoiy lesson from Ls if (IAS 'tles of the cross, and y y 1 ? reptiles, birds, and cven Let Pers | A I cheose of lo win crown, and to lay up treasure she no longer has any claim (0 and for itude of soul ; she must cous uu. he reproach of weakness or rashness. “ Take up this Zion, and patiently endure it : followers of her,* reproach, ye daughters of Yew iA bay ad : iis whose dust reposes in India, but whose Bpitit 10W rejoices in Heaven over her past sufivrines im the cause of Christ ; and m: iy the same arm which shielded Rebekah, who, at the call of Piovidonce left her kis died and home, even the Almighty arm of the God of Abrabam, of Isaac wd of Jacob — » Ever Sustain and protect you,” *tHarriet Newell. ——l 2B Drs From the Presh: tcvian Magazine, HENRY MARTYN. Mr. Editor—The following it Robert K. Porter’s sia and extracts from travels in Georgir, Per respecting Henry Martyn, sugested the stanzas which accompany Armenia, them, As the extracts have never appeared in any res ligious publication in this counts Vy they will {doubtless be acc ep:able to your readers. “ At Shiraz,” says Sir Robert, « Martyn dwelt nearly a year; and on leaving its walls, the apostle cf Christianity found no cause for ¢ shaking off the dust of his feel? arainst the Mahomed n city. The inhabitants had receis ed, cherished and lis: and bie de - ctied to him ; parted thence amidst the blessings and teats of many a Persian friend. Through his means, the gospel had then found its way into Persia? e and as it appears to have been sown in kind! ly y bali hearts, the gradual effect herzal like Her ma the harvest of the seeding.” “ The attentions of my Lost were so unwea. ried that I never could fcrget 1 was mthe house of ihe near kinsman of the two noble Persizns, Jaffier Ali Khon, and Mirza Seid Ally who hid sworn the warmest personal friends’, p 0 our mat of God,” for so they designit.d Henry Martyn ! When the weather became (oo intense for his enfeebled frame to bear the exe treme heat of the city, Jaffier Ali Khan pliched hitful vond the walls, where he pursued his! translae a tent for bim ina most delig garden be” tion of the scrptures ; or sometimes m the cool of the even ng, he sat under the shade of an range tree, by the side ofa clear stream, hold ing that style of conversation w th the two admi- rable brothers, which caused their pious guest ¢ ‘Uhat the bed of roses on which he re ch {0 say, clined, ard the notes of the nightingales whi so sweet as such 12) war. ld above him were not discourse from Persiun lips. [n orange groves on Shiraz’s plains, A Ghristian pilgrim taught : ; Fwo Persian princes heard those siraing, With sacr.d science fiaught, With anxious eagerness they heard I'he heavenly truths he told, Recorded in th t Horny Worp Revealed to sai Uheir heir diffi And win Th i’hen, as Jpon their mental night, Cher tongues with holy rapture And hail the rising light. Sweet were the banks of roses sp Around his cool retreat, And sweet the orange ¢’er Lis he Which sheltered from the O sweet the mellow 4 aintive Of lonely nighiingal And sweet the pe frie By every spicy gale. Far sweeter to that pilgrim’s car, Than sensual pleasuies all, 1s ol old. 1 i i i gr ton {8100 (1183 cared, culties ceased, he caim d each trembling fear, le hopes increased, bre; pp > b Sr num the dawn bepan to k speak, read pe 2s lie: at sweplalodg ¥ ‘|Sweeter from Persian lips to hear Such heavenly accents fa'l. And w ovldst rhou know that pig jerim’s name? ia's clime declare ; here tis embalmed- i bighest fame In pious tears and prayer. Thy memory, Mart1yY¥, long be dear To every Christian he j.ong _— thy bt igh’ 5 but love fitke thine unpart, On cred mantle fall, | And, with ii, double grace On isstonay herocs all, ‘Who run thy Christian jace! (0), thea, not Persii’s sons alot (Would know und feel the Word : ot the wile world is truth shou! d own, | bow Lelore the Lord. oe 15S ae Sf J S14» ve ar short carcer jer icf 1} y 84 —— 1s He who loses the sun in kus spots—g beantis ful face ina few freckies—and 4 prand char- jacter in a few Darinless singularivies——mav WO appclaiions, Gie—wrenohead of
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