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WELCOME TO GEN. MIIIELDS.
Where the noisy cannon's rattle
Echoes o'er the tented &Ids:
From a IJt, atoll and danger;
Give thee speed, vi c torious etranger, '
iVelconic, welcome, 'gallant Shields:
Snutlic,in hearts are worm to met thee,i
Southern hands outstretched to greet thee
Welcome. warrior: deeds of glory
Pavan' nre heralded t tory;
Deeds to Oder+ a hero's life.
Wh• n thro' ranks al. rent asunder '
Pealed the cannon's deadly thunder,
God preserved then through three strife
Wheal our flag, Wool stained nud drooping,
Suriyed where thou wort faintly otonping
With u h.d hecined thy falling breath.
Thou u ah't heard 'mid,' fearful cra•hmg,
Urging through tho cantina's flaphing,
'On to victory or death."
'From the death-stretr'il flat of battle,
Where the cannon's rattle
Echoes o'er the tented tick's;
From a life of toil and danger,
One the 91000, vlettkioes Wenger,
Welcome here, brute Ciimernl.Bliictils!
1 1. 1 11E -.ll{lSll. DAUGHTER,
"And so you won't go with as. Jamie?"
"Hush, darling—you know I cannot leave
my mother, lone widow that she is, even for
love and you, Mary; but if youll not 6)1-get
me, in the fair country you're going to, %%hen
God wills, I'll Wow you?"
"Oh, Jamie, hullo, this parting is quite
breaking my heart—but don't ask me to stay
again—God bless you, and keep yo, ft throe."
James Burke was the only child of a poor
tti idow, living in the northern part of Ireland.
Mary' Conway was the youngest daughter of
an intelligent and respectable family, neigh
bors of the Butkes. James and Allay had
beeMlovers from childhood, and at the time
when they are introduced to our reader, till
who knew them were smiling approvingly
upon their fitting betrothal.
James was just one's ideal of a warm-heart
ed; high-sPirityd, frank, and handsomeirish
man. Mary was a fair, blue-eyed girl of
eighteen, with much more of 'delicate fragili
ty of figure than often belongs to tier coun
try Women.
Some four years Orevious to the period of
the parting scene, w ith which we commenced
this sketch, Mary's only brother, Willie Con
lc ay, went out to Americp to "seek his forl
tune,'! where he succeeded so well' in busi
ness, that he became anxious to be joined by
his family. This consisted only of his pa
rents, Mary, and the orphan-boy of an eider
sister, a fine little fellow of eight or nine
years. The noble younl, - ,r mar, sent borne
nearly all his earnings to defray the expenses
of the voyage, and promised his friends a
snug and happy home, on their arrival in the
strangernd. Prom tlteir age and many
infirmities ' his parents were long averse to
going, but finally yielded to his earnest soli
citations.
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Poor Mary! the same sense of filial duty
which bade her go with her parents, forbade
her urging her lover to accompany her, for
old Mrs. Burke could not risk the voyage,
luiving been an invalid for many years; and
so they parted, and the emigrants took ship
for Quebec. " -
For the first week of the voyage all was
fair above and calm below; but then came on
lowa* and tempestuous weather, and the
mad waves tossed about the stout ship like a
toy, and the fierce winds drove-her wild'y on
ter way. Our prior emigrants had (much to
endure; Mary, ill herself, was yet unceasing
in her attendance on her aged parents, who
became so wasted and enfeebled by sea-sick
ness as at laSt to be hardly able to rise front
•their berths. One night, when th6ir had
been about four weeks ai sea, after watching
till her dear ones slept,she laid her aching head
on,its uneasyillow, for a brief rest. The
tempest whit had raged throughout the day
had somewhat abated, but a heavy fog say on
the deep, !Ikea white robe on the stormy bo
som of a mad n . The ship still rolled, and
plunged, andSreaned e `like some huge mon
ster in the death-agony, and for once, in her
life of simple piety, sweet Mary knelt not in
her orisons. But, to use the expression of
her countrywomen, she f'went on the knees
of her heart," and from the berth where she
lay, fervently arose the, prayer of a subdued
and trusting spirit, She fell asleep with a
tear on her "cheek, and heart with 'Joie and
old Ireland. -
She was awakened by, a rush of feet on
deck, and the cry of "Let go the anchors!"
lucceeded by the rattle of chains—.a heavy
plunge—another—a silence as of death, and
then a joyful shout, "She holds!"—then a
wild cry of "She drifts!" and then the ship
seemed lifted out of Vatter, with a fearful
crash, and a shock like that of an earthquake!
She had struck! Then folloWed shoutings,
,
and hurr ing, to and fro, the cries of tprror,
the clear, quick tones of command, and the
sharp cta
,k of breaking timbers.
The Itessel had been driven upon a large
rock, and was parting in the middle, thestern
being highest out of the water. Word was
given for all to seek that part of the ship, as
the only hope of safety; but before this object
Could be accomplished, many poor creatures
perished, limn missing their way in the dark
ness, or from that sudden insanity which dan
ger often tiinienders., But Mary - Conway,
with matchless coolness and courage, con
ducted her parents and nephew, bewildered
DT DIM DAIIRIRT MARION WARD
From thetlenth strewn seem, of battle,
With tt welcome kind end (re , —
lAgitt and gentle hearts grow lighter,
Starry eyes beam all the brigeter,
As they list to tales of thee.
Brilliant (Inners Fame's entwin'Og,
'Round thy brow arc brightly shining,
norehipprreto thee
I% Ith them mingle earth's glad I'OFC.S,
For their petnisaut lif a ili.closes,
God's unwritten poetry.
A TRUE STORY.
BY GRACE. GREENWOOD
age and - terrified childhood, si
crowded stein and saw them
down by ropes to the rock bet
was just breaking as she It
and she lifted her blue eyes
an involuntai
Alas! she ha
row. It wal
her feeble pa l l
their thin gap
the weather
winds yet bl,
with cold," s l
shrinking nni
longhis whit
Mary turned suddenly tow
ty ejaculation of
seen but the
intensely cold,
ents shivering
r i ments Morni.
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grew no '
mild
ew bitter chill
I'
aid the poor old
I bendiu g under
to lecke satuate
CM
ecyou going?" s id the mether,f
“.Where a
faintly
get some covering for rather anti
"Thick, to
you."
"Young t4oman," said a seaman, standing
by, "it may be death to do that—the
may part a n minute."
But she gave no heed to remonstrance's,
timugh they came fast and clamorous; she
seized on the rope, which still hung from the
ship, and by a superhuman eMirt, climbed I to
the deck, add went forward to the•steeraie.
In a few mo l ments she reappeared, threw over
on to the rok a bundle of clothing, and again
slid swiftly down the rope. She had brought
I I her father's i clotik, from the berth where he
had left it, a nd a blanket, which she wrapped mother, 1 1 around her saying:
"You seek have come safely back, for God
was with me, motherdear."
Before a half hour had passed, a loud crash
wasilearl, and a mountain wave swept away
the whole of the forward part of the vessel.
As the day wore on, and the fog drifted, the
ship-wrecked beheld despairingly, the hope
lessness of their situation. They were oaTt
upon a perfectly barren-rock, Separated from
the lhnd by many rods of foaming surf, it
which no boat could live an instant; at sei f
no sail was in sight, and oi the shore no
signs of human life. TllCv l ere on the coalt
of Newfoundltind.
But the mother and daughte
ed in a fearfid affliction, wide
fast upon them.
on that desolate spot, the hn
er.w•ns dying. lie bade them!
a failing voice—he gazed on
thrilling ,tenderness of the last
breath ceased on his lip's—l
grew - rigid, and his spirit dwe
is no more aea,'' nor hunger,
MEI
Wbon the first wild burst o
M;try left the lifeless form wi
and searched around until she
fissure in the.rock, s'unetvhat .heltered ny ar
over-hanginging ledge. She then gentl),
took the bmiy from her mother's convolsivC
embraces, ant with the assistance of a kind
sailor, bore it and laid it there: She kissed
once again her father's lips;chilled more with
the tetnpestthun the recent touch of death]
snfoothed the thin hair upon his brow, and
wrapped his cloak more closely around hirr4
turned and left him forever. She herself wtt
trembling with cold, but she thought not'
once of robbing her poor dead father of hia
winding-sheet.
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Rest thou, old saint, t&rith thy cross upon
thy breast! TlMugh thou liest not deep irf
the dear bosom or thy native land, but where
billows dash aromul, arid the wet sand drift,
over thee—though thy loved ones may noti
come to weep above thee, though no living
thingbe near thee but the wild isea-bird,
ping her white wing in the surfl—God's angeh
has marked the spot,{and when earth's graves;
are diipuing, and the sea gives up its derid,
thou shalt arise frontrilly cold, hard couch, unt
the wave-lashed'rock.
Soon after Mary returned to ar mother,
shout from their cinnpanions told them that',
the despaired of help was at han,d., On look
ing to the shore, she beheld four or live inen,l
pointing threes huge 'Newfoundland dogs to
the rock. As anon as the noble creatures
caught sight of the sutli , rers, they sprang
eagerly into the surf. how sturdily they
breasted the waves—how gloriously they
leaped forward to the re'cue!
One after another, the shipwrecked were
lashed to theLe gallant deliverers and carried
safely to the shore. To the kind inquiries of
an aged sailor, who, at each return of the no
ble dogs, had said, "Now daughter," Mary
simply answered, "Not yet," and remained
holding on her lap the almost inanimate form
of her mpiher. At length the mother seem
ed to arouse herself, and opening her faded
blue eves, those eyes which Mary bud sooften
looked for hope and encouragement, she slid;
i
11 will thry my darling—for my child's a he,
the good God may,giye nil strength to lass
through the trotiblatia*Fs."
Mary assisted folash her, to one of tit l ose
mute' deliverers, and with her dons' clasped
)
about and partly supporting her„sbe accom
panied
her far out into the surf, and4WO:innit- 1
ted her to the angry deep. And there stood'
Mary Conway—around her the wild sea—her
black hair on the wind, her lips parted, and
her clasped hands outstretched before lier—
yet,all unheeding sea and wind, for her heart
was with her eye, and her eye was with her
mother. She saw these aged limbs float nut
on the wave, and tha, grLy hair tossing like
sea:weed in - the surf. She saw- the' cruel
wave pass over her-=she saw fora moment
her white, calm face, as she was borne on on
the succeqing billow, turn full upon her—
she saw rer dimmed eyes open, and, oh, God!
amid t o 'sea and the storm, a daughter
catight the last look of affectionate recogri
lion from a dying mother! , But Mary kneW
it not: still sitood'she, statue-like; watching
With wild intensity the recedingform of her
last parent; the only change bf attitude and
expression was the .swelling and falling of
the chest, and the' gleaming and fading of
"THE W'ORLID,I GOVERNED TO4) MUCH."
SATLcitr!Ay, TiIARCH 4, 1848.
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the eye, tis her mothe r's form' appeared and
disappeared in the trembling waters. Near
er, still nearer the firm earth—the white surf
covers he r—a rush of stalwart men—they are
bearing her up tho beach! "She is ' safe!—
she is safe!" and with eyes thrown heaven
ward, Na ry falls, fainting. But the old sail
or was bj,her side-.-She felt not the itiAting„
of the waters as she too was oorne to the
shore, and when she next woke to.conscious=
ness, shelwas stretched beneath a ' sheltering
cliff, and beside, oh, joy, her mother—oh, des
pair, her 'lecttl mother!: '
Not a V ail, not a tear, not a sigh, betraYed
the agony of that broken-hearted girl, as
vainly and still hopelessly she sltrillve to re
call that departed spirit. They came around
her, the kind-hearted strangers, yet, 'she ,saw
them noti' l and-the mute saviors, yet she heeded
not their caresiings; but
,witit her mother's
head against her breast, she sat amid the
1 sands buried in her deep, deep we.
i At length, w hen,* with tears streaming
down their weather-beaten cheeks, those
friendly strangers would take her from her
lifeless mother, Mary seemed to arouse.—
'They told her that she must go with , them
1 many miles, to find a shelter—that night and
a fiercer tempest were coming on, and- that
she must, leave her deiUl mother unbitried.-:--
She pressed herlhands around her throbbing
brow,' and while her sad blueseYes rested for
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a moment in gi, tittide.upon them, she gent
ly waved thern , t ) depart, spying, camly, ."1
I will follow." 4nd they left her—a kind'
! fisherman .bearing her little nephew in his
arras—and sit - was alone, alone with her
dead.
afely up to the
, one by one; let
leatf. Morning
• rself descended,
to heaven, with
thankfulness.—
eginning of sor
and she fou l nd
and trembling t n
. g advanced, but
in and the sea
"I am dying
father, as he at
the keen gusts,
with spray.—l
rd the rocking:,
Impressing ne long kis• upon •that icy
brow, Mary C nway rose u quietly, and go
ing yet fertile from the sea, dug, with her
own hands, a grave for he'r mother in the
sand. She then bore her thither, in her arms,
as though it were a sleeping infant, the ema
ciated form, and laid it down to its last slum
ber—took the kerchief, from ber‘own breast,
spread it over tho beloved face, and then
carefully replacel the sand. She knelt above
that shallow graVe, and with her crucifix
presod to her lips, murinered a brief prayer
fur the soul of the departed L--there, on the
will desert shore, with oceans voice for a
dirge, and the tempest for a . requiem. Then
in that utter dessolation of spirit which has
no outward manifestation—:that great.ngony,
fearful in its tearful stillness—she turned,
and meekly followed .16.)t-prihts in the
sand, which told where he i rlitilmireeked com
panions had gone before,:her. •
r were olbsorl-
i was coining
Shand and 6,1.11'-
1 good-by, wittr
them With a
lust Inok—the
its ‘vbite fac‘
it. where "there )
nor cold, I no
Oh, pale young mourner, sitting in thy
darkened chamber, giving Way;to, thy sor
row with passionate abandchimetit, listen--
The u els have called hence 'thy mothe'r,
and thou host indeed known the grief of
griefs; but if still unreconciled to Him who
grief was (i'e
h her mothe,j
r --
tv i le
found a
willeA thy bereavement, bethink thee of one
wase Own hands la'id to rest i her best belov
ed ones, shroudless and cofrinless—one who
literally buried father and Mother and hail no
time for weeping.
The unfortunates met sympathy and kind
ness in the fisherman's house, which they
reached at last, and the next day Mary COll
way and her nephew, proceeded to the near
est town, %%here she sought and found em
ployment for them, l both,, intending to seek
her brother,-as soon as she' had earned suffi-1
cieut to defray her traveling expenses. All
her money and papers had been lost at the
time of the wreck, and Most unfortunately,
the shock of that disaster, and ber succeed
ing afflictions, had driven from her mind all
recollection of her brrither's place Of resi
dence. But she remembered that it •was
somewhere in the .state of New i York, and
she finality resolved to go at once to the city
of New-York, where she hoped to hear of
the place she wished to find. At last she
reached that great metropolis, still accompa
nied by her young nephew , fur her widowed
sister when dying, had given him to her, and
she was ever faithful to the IMly trust. SII
soon procured 'a si Antilop for herself. and Hy
the charge; in a bearding house, where she
remained about a month, still unable to re
call the name of the village to which her
brother had directed her. But one day, a
stranger arrived, and on his trunk being
brought into the hall, upon the corn affixed to,
it, she recogni z ed with a cry of deLight, that
lost. that blessed word!
The next morning saw her and her little
Allick on the deck of one the Hudson steam
ers, waving adieu to the few friends who .had
followed them the wharf. At
Mary took passage on a canal-boat, and tray
eled many huudred miles westward; and al
ways and every where, though attractive `in
appearance and so unskilled l in the ways of
the world, and 'utterly defenceless, she met
but kindness and friendlines4 I There was
about her the sacredness of sorrow—the im
press of sullbring on her brow, and, the tear
fulness of her down east iwere 'eloquent
Though mute-appeals to - the generous Ameri
can heart.,
She reached ay last, and was
clasped, half-fainting, in her brother's arms,
who could measure his joy! He had
heard of the wreck of the vessel, and suppos
ed that all he held dear on earth had gone
down with her. • I
Mary found a neat and comfortable Item
awaiting , her, and soon life seemed knot se
e.cild around her—a few sunbeams fell u pon
her path, and the crushed flower, happiness,
Obit root in her heart again.
She wrote to, and heard from her lover in
Ireland; his mother was still living, but very
feeble, requiring his constant bare.
."rwas on her second summer in Ainerita,'
that sorrow came once again to poor Mary
Conway; came at the season when -mOurning
and sadness seem' most unnatural—in, gor
geous June, the festal,mohth of all, the year,
came before the'first flush of rose time' was
past! "Her pride, her dependance, her noble;
devoted brother, came horne, one noon, from
111
his work, with a heavy eye, l aed the fevered
blood rushing , through his veins live lava,
flung himself upon his bed,- and never rose
again. .
Ono evening as Mary sat by his side,
watching him earnestly, for , she knew that
"the lidur was at hand," ho said,. faintly,
"Pray my sister:" and' the stricken girl knelt
and lifting up her voice clearly and calmly,
in a prayer all faith and fervency and submis
sion, commended the. p.issing spirit to its
Creator. When she rose up, she looked up
on the face of the dead.
On the day of the burial, little Allied( was
taken ill, with a milder form of the same
disease, and there was none of kindred, save']
his t broken-hearted siLler, to follow IVillie
Conway to the grave,,- She saw him laid to
his rest, with an intense yearning to lay 1,
down deside him, and share his cold pillow;
and she tuned toward her ,desolate home,!
with a depth of anguish in her soul, which
only God could sound.
But the strength which had been hers at ,
the death-bed seene,l and at that awfultno-'
meet when the first earth fell upon the cof
fin, now that all was over, forsook her utter
ly.— She View faint, reeled painfully, and
would have fallen; , but that one, who, at that ,
moment entered the grave-yard, - sprang for
ward and supported her. "Mary, dear Mary!"
said' alfamiliar voice, "oh, don't you know
fine? and is it so we meet at last!"
She lookeJ up—it waA her Jamie, her,. Ja
'nip froth over the sea. • * • •
My dear reader, I hue not been playing
upon piny sympathies by fables- I have riot
bten beguiling you with a fiction. I myself
have heard the simple story which I have re
lated, from the lips of Mary Burke. And
would to heaven a life so exalted by the
grandeur of woman's love-prompted heroism,
and made an serenely beautiful by filial piety
and Cnristinn resignation, might have some
better,chrouicler, some more enduring memo
rial!—Odd Know' .1 Offering for 18-18.
',wt.:.—We have often been
impressed by the deep significance of the
phrase which Dickens's has given as a title to
one of his Christmas stories, "The Battle . of
Life:" It is full of solemn meanings. r
our hours, from the cradleto the grave, are
but a series of antagonisms. Hunger, fa
tigue, sicknes.4, temptation, sin, - reinorse aril]
sorrow—those are 'the ,strong. powers
which we must wage continual war. Fees'
beget us from without and from within, and
make life one long and earnest Inittle. But,
there are victories to be won on the field,
more glouriousAhan thriSe which crimsoned
Marathon and Waterloo. Evil habits may
be subdued—fiery passions brotfght under the
control of principie—temptations resisted—
self-denial cheerfully sustained, and life itself
conrecrated to high and holy purposes. To
triemph over the infirmities of a perverted.na
tuiA and render life,,nnce defortal by pas
sion and stained by sin, beautiful with love,
made manifest in deeds of benificence, is
worthier our ambition than all the blood
wrought Iteroisms that ever linked a name to
world's remembrance. Every day witnesseth
triumphs such as these—yet Paine proclaims
thetvinot. What matters'itf In the serene
depths of these all-congneri'ng spirits, God's
, peace abides. and harmonies are heard, such
as the angels make when they welcome
,the
victorious soul froM the conflicts of this, to
the raptures of the heavenly world.
BEAUTIFUL USE OF CHLOROFORM.---A cor
respondent says he met a hen-pecked friend
late the other.night. and on asking him how
he expected to escz :lure when
he gut home, the 1 7 ra sparkled
luminously as" he I nes. ..1%. a little
speck of sponge and a small phial!
hol Chloroform, eh y% "Yes sir-ee!" replied
the chuckling Ituslia tl,, become l insemiible
in five minutes after lying down.—.2/Gany
Express.
AT A Loss FOR Socurr, i-t-" Would you
believe it, aunt," exclaimed a p le-faced young
lady of the l oupper ten," - "would you 'believe
it! Uncle Solomon, here, tells me that the
ladies 'nut West actually speak to the trades
men and retail store-keepers! .They must be
s dly - ittAvantof society, musn't they?"
"Humph; yes," interrupted Uncle Solomon:
"They are as badly off for society, my dear,
as your father was when he pulled radishes
and asparagus for a living, and your mother
sold them in the old ily market—ha, ha—so - -
ciety, humph!"
Miss Polly Dolly Adeline fainted, end her
aunt was visible in the next room.
a IT . B BOUND TO COMli On'."--The edi tor of
the Pittsburgh Sunday Mercury was dropped
down upon a few days since by Dan Marble,
who of course reeled off a few of those old
yarns he is always picking up in the course
of his travels. This is one orthem:
Somewhere in the west, a sable knight of,
the! lather and brush was prforming the op
erat'ion of shaving a hoosier - with a very dull
razor.
liStop," said the hoosier, "that wont do."
"What's de matter, boss)"
"That razor
alVell; go matte for da4sah. If clehandle
ob de razor dotit break, de beard's bound to
come off."
Cowen or A Prtoic F.:”iox.—A New York
pape'r relates no anecdote of a young man
who came to establish hitnSelf" in'the city of
Gothum, and as ho.did not know exactly what
"line" would be the most desirable, spent a
good deal of time and.much shrewd sagacity,
in looking about and guessing into the sever
al ways of getting rich. He had considered,
pretty keen, he said, all kinds trades that
we re carried adhere, and he had pretty Much
Made up his mind to aet tip the Peat office' bu
siness. Them that carried it on took - a heap
of money every day, andAllete was only one
to the•plao - e.- ' • '
tStIiIIMIIING, A SCiENGT.
BY J. at. map.
The persecution of the Mesmerists will one
day make a curious volume, for they will be
written, of course. The disciples of Calilecie
Harvey, .tenner, &c., have been exalted'\ in •
their struggles and suffering, and those of
Itlestner civil more brightly will shine irimar- ,
'rology.' Seriously, the trials to which trav
eling
' Mesinerists are put to, are, at times,
hurbiliati ig and painful enough, albeit
,they,
afford inn bite sport to the unbelietrots. These
traveling i'Professors," or many of them, are .
charlatan thus, far, that they pretend to treat'
sci4ntifict ily, phenomena, the renllnatufe of
which th y are entirely ignorant of; and the
study oft hich they are, neither by education,
habit, or im, at all fitted for: , They are char.
ltitaits.,' it that their superheat knowledge of
'mere rife Ls is simply made available in the
shape of i..rhibition; and.the success of the
shore beine• their.first object, they may be sus)
. I
petted, pi iltaps, in some cases 'Of a . lititle man
a ge;{Ctent. At the same time; the vulgar idea •
itaf getter 1 collusion, which, prevails' among
, ,
leave ‘ve .
would be
will not, thernseivet:, 'experiment
retliculons if it were not
iteville had been electrifying. De
is more than galvanic effects upon
sof scores of inipriwildes, when
ous sized Wolverine '•trying the
self, found that he was quite equal
dfessor, in setting folks to sleep an•d
eni' cut up" afterwards', and ac
in the furor of his discovery, MY
Ito the country to lecture and diffuse,
.ight which: had been ,dispensed to
- success was termendous; town and
.aid there "was sohiething in
eputaititin, as in other cases, begat
lies. 1 The 'l l 7blt,terine Mesmerizer,
Da Bui
trait by I
the MSC
nnilenor
thing" hi
to the pr
"makin
cor4 ingl)
he went i
the new
villago
untEl his
MEM
aft.M. asto
,at some
`returned
bar-iroom
had ! then
the'homb
wishing a "Hall" full, one evening,
I , ry "promising town' or other, and
o fair, shortly, to be quite "it place,"
o the tavern, to be arrested in the
iy a score of "first citizen,, - Who
nd there congregated ''jest to teat
ig„" any how!
evening,2 Perfesser," said one.—
if.. little of thefinidr silk;
nd this being 'Ail exiderit bit in the
"Good
,i6l%rotef y
another:
iway,of n j ikr, the I 'atiti-humbugs - proCeeded
1 ,
to i More serious t usiness.
flOerfesser, 4 ..aid the priticipal 1
spe, her,' a
1 i
iapt Of u fellow,t-hefore whoso l prttit . rtions
k Yen' the Itt ;,elNlagnetispr looked s all .1•- •
1 I 1
''tl'e'rfesSer," said rts, biting off , the nd of a
"pltg," at d turning it over in jawshis very\
I leisurly, " -few on us, here, hey jest' condo_
d " l •
ed to hey you try an experiment i tupplistin'
. '
ourselves reglar constituted committee to
I ( . 1 . i o
rep
,rt . ,
The pro.e.ssor begged to appoint a sore pro
per place nd hottr,",&.., or, necordiCg, to the
ti
npprehysi Ms of "the crowd," evillee e_xpect_
et' tle..dfie 14 make "a ck•an back out - . 1 ''
resumed thc.'•big dog,' "efwe
ig it, you call your Mesmer ism a
gent,' which means, I s'tinse, that
14r:31" ,
o science referred to divers
town in which he had hec n sue-
"Perfess
ondt l istani
it cores titi
The disc
case's abou
eessful, to iay not Lind of the pulling of teeth' .
operation - which ink had just concluded his lee
,
ture with.
"Ves," sai..( the c ' lntllenger, "you're kleath ou
ieetit, we know, but ken Mesmerism come th e
re-nice-jil over rhenrnatizr
"iullunnnatory or chronic?" dennuil the
1 1 '-rtifo.::-.:or.
j•"I'l'all, stranger, we ain't much given to
doctor's' bottle names, but we recoil L's about
be wutkind."
.{
The ilesnierist was abant to define the dil
-1
t'i:n ..lco imtwet m inliaMm ) ator • attacks and to-
en/ .
atfections, when he was interrupted by the
1 • .
inquisitor, who mike,- allowed that as far a 5
Ole location .of the disorder went, it had a pre
tinption right to the hull critter; aud that, fur
thernore, it was just expected of him that he
should forthwith visit the case, and bid him
ti l itte +2p his bed and walk, or he himself
be escorted out of town, astride of a T 7
the accompanying ceremonies. `rhi
dilemma, either horn of which promise,
to his reputation, but the crowd were
ty in earnest; already triumphant in his detec
tion, they began to took wolfish at him and
wise at each other, s that the Wolverine had
nothing left for it but to, demand, boldly, to
.'seethe patient!" ,We had better give the rest
of the story as it was'relitted to a humorous
friend of ours, by the disciple of 11et3mer, him
self.
stairs I went with 'era, mad as thun
der,l tell you, CI
arta next, that
first at being thoughta lionibug,
my individoual share of the
le should be compelle4 into a
under! I'd a•gin 'en, a fight,
Ifor the science, which would a
v, so ,I jest said to myself, let
eir,_ rltettmatiz! I felt us if I
zettii horse, and I dctermiii'd
ass might he, I'd snake i t
Cr! "'here he is; said they t_ !
I
ndied iito a room, gatherax--1
h me shut in aMong 'em,atid 1
tenlightetted heathen that did
ing out an almighty bowie
e time. 'That's your man! ,
here lay a miserable-ltioking
eyes sot, and his month open,
~, . .ot. %wider and wider, as he
d the' bowie knife, ii tell you!
said old . llig login.
tat bed !' said said I, and I tell you 1
oked at hint dreadful, for up I
d, as if he'd jest got a streak 1
American eaal
measure, by tb
it' it hadn't ben
suffered any ho
hem hrml,r on ti
could a suestuer
whatever the !
squeal, by thun
and in we all lit
round a bed, wi ,
the cussed big o i
the talking, dra
knife at the sa
said lie. Well,
Critter, with his
—and hid jaws
saw the erula
+That's the ) ea
" 'Rise up in t
what, must a 1
he jumped on ee
of galvanic!
is floor; said'l, with a wiles
may he shot if out tie didn't
I tell'yei
'''Git out on
look, and 1 wish
come, lookiu wil
`"Nom_ cu. at .
and Jehu Gioeral
straight shut-t ,
'wake `another fan
yoursereained T,
Jackson!—if i he didn't make
la for ;the do ~ May I never
1: After hi ,t I 'ilent, and
N!J111131di 42.
. 1
e they earn, an prehaps tnere wasn't
ullest r.tamper.le down three pairs of
tat ever occurred in Nic'iigan! Down (
rheumatis; through the bar-room;~
;pt after him—over wentl,the stove In
I b- after both on use i l ehaFed him
wo agnate—in the snot at that—then 4
him I oft; and chasld him 'back to the' •
I. I I
rig, where he 1., landed in fi ne sweat,
for his life, and said-11 1 '(1 give 4 the
y. Well I with I may 1' e shot if ,ha
feller that they were o ring a re,
) in Buffalo! I made film dress him-
red of his rheumatiz,-rtm it right milli-%
delivered him wi t po'N l eted the re'
t d estaldished the science, by thunder!"
1::‘v TO LEAD .111A1
1
1113171
the or
UM
BZ
air
thp ro)
round
heatle
hvel
begged
proper.
wsp't
fu !
self
of him
ward,
If masters fully understood [ 1
whiclitcen the slightest porsort
pro l ducks on the mitids of thei
the( wouldbe more lavish than tl
simple icot of justice which car ,
•litoe, aid would profit them s i l
the i l isev rest:itial an acute mind
. _ ' 11 •
to he compelled to hear title opt',
revilingk, of his fellow-men, w i lt '
ileg,e to answer--Vi hear the s: , :nt
not to rejily—to submit to theJ i
1 11
presumi tion of perhaps, a Me i
and be MMied the opportunitY p t
into his nothinguess—,to see bet' i
his blood is boiling with a vol
i ass i stat superior in his. ha l ugl
rind to I par from his 'superciliou
fair or11:;e deductions of rime
ii,
1
Ibis coo , '
I t
i speeca,
Idling, b
upon Ili
vet, and vet to hallo
tut
• only - I
ty stand like a , lu i
!cause his •childrdn'l VI
Filence. This is, inde 1
the progressing intellee
% often it is inflicted Itec
ids the most! Yet,livr
• rs, low as he falls in his
eitn as he hecetnes in the
II i
ows, therd is k lower yin
t he—the mail who alit
'jury on It t
a'nd von o i
rue, on
- d
I
than your
your 51E1
. 1
e?sily led
through t 1
nit) the %v.:
i f The. -;
inds'ileb t
;
ng i
er n' .
th
'dont' estic
ll their ()v.
ittite inn
y the affet
Tie.t. to use
tik; henefit
ally prevail
atetie. of
•1 r •
0 pi SOCllst
4titi it is fil
est trial
and
and Ail
su tTerei•
Lion,
hie fell
ing th
it
frienl,
like ;1
greate
to justi
men so
comes
uffectpl l
fthp st
truly cl
who arl
ly led
will De
the mu
MEM
stage
progre
is that p,
r the interest
idiot's with e;
tthe kindly
he bosom, i
estic tir4side.
MEM
their rcl
carry u
much a
has bee
by the
in
PnbTl
"Otte o
day re.
the sec.
23,1 of
o•
far it GI.
CM
ZEE
ed, tha
n: coming
1 111 1 ch, ISIS
wou
ku • tpl;tt
NG UP TIIF
BE2
1 WRON Li PAS
r rgreen 'Ion" entered
Lowell. to the infinite de
toll buck;. They L•ocri
' •
ei [ • !victim rind opened th
rid rarcasro kith a rakin
-lan bore it liken phi)°,
.e ripproaching, Lowell, w
o 4 who fiat., been inus
I
fun," and vho, by the
' beneath his chin, and v I
!Id; “Why I know you,
rents before you; I ca
d Were born as well as th
y; 3 , our another had twin
ihe l other was a' 4 , 04A— , 1
1 10
tottlivedf' ,
particul
cars for
oral 11
round t
MIMI
country!
they wer
ed to tI7
tipokingi
"goatee'
exclaitne,
your pa
when yo
y este rda
boy and 1
but the
221 EC lIAN WIVE
' Speaking 'orthe middle ranks of
writer obserYes.; ~T here we beliall
ber glOry; iii).. a doll to carry still
els; not 'a puppet to be flatteredi
adoration- 7 reverenced to-day, dis
morrow; aliYays jostled ow of the p
attire and st.citly world assign,ht
s lity 'or by contemp t ; admired, li
spe, ed; des red, but not esteemed;
passio ; not' affection; imparting
ness, of her constanc y , ;o the set
exalt; the soiree and mirror avail
her a wife, partaking hp cares. a
the anxiety oftni Intsban dividing'l
bervlotnestici iligence, slit ading ci
around IT omestio !diligence„
siotind hell f i r his sake Atariq
cent refit ements .of I the world
it, s .in ff - fifi the.ri- ^ l ' -- --.
them, leinir tni
- •
in the man s ei l nes.
I her the dreCtitinate and
of the children whom shi
their itifane, training"
_wart wit
happiness
er we, fini
structress
ded from
benevniedee; addressl
being's: preparing them
intitn in their turn. N
lakif the be3t wives in th,
thought ti!
as rational
men and t%
tiunglitors
The Providence iou
of 14 good old Connectio
A SECDOII
an anecdote
who mis I
cluing a ver
Irgeand Ileav
•ked him how
ad to market
actin l replied
Prtividence.
laid I not be Da'
we l ly, and k
c oad, ,
to n very la
neighbor a •
ao largo all
The good d 1
from Divind
itirn if it w
the oxen e
draw 2.4
. IND.
ho influence
al attention,
workrnme
hey are of s
poet them se
'Jab. It is
can-undergo,
raiding% and
lout the vriv
lr,
er, yet dare
rrogance and
ner intellect
wither hin;
re him, while
it swell, the
'lciest cnoo4,
s lip.the un
ramie as tn
no power of
ilty creeping
Tread depends
tl, the cruel-
can suffer;
use it hurt
tatted as the y
own estima-
estimation or
meaner be-
'alit cause jn,
wan liko a
m. Treat al
ill niake
liislionesty nl
wisdom, if he
I;k:ions. Ire
often, it is to
c; ttTat. hinw
Ft bo much
do not seen)
no way 461
so blindly
Every mon
by objectg pf
•
ie affectionsl,
rld surround i r
liadand par7l
la poor alike;
poor, beeat4i,
Ible.Ssing
in. I hence it
cz.4siblo to reh
itions; and
, especially 4
of all, this
I ng inst rument
parent and 4
al tie is one
and is often•
.; it is almost
h they:_ca4
9, Iliat met;
'son arn calrf4
o m(l9•hen it.is for
owerful and
. The next
the
toaster and
Of both to
h other tts.
'eling which
childhopziv
The'Albany
d:st clergy,'
'fall the. w
'vas to take
et 3 o'clocl
delay all
utriot,says:
Cu i Jag Sun
rlJ
Mace on the
P. M., two
I reparations
'~
I. I{,SGEII.A
the Nassau
ight of sevz
gathered a-
it batteha
fire. - The
lober, Until
lieti;lie turn-
' ay, ware II
.ry seriously
land I.lttieW
I remember
ughlt. were
'; ,une was a
1 0 ba; died,
i fe, a good
1 woman in
. s and jew
by profane
i carded to-
Ive which
er, by sea-*
J ut not re-
ruling by
her wcnk
she could
21CMCM
d cheering
is toils by
eertulness
spreading
the de
without
jeve and
. 1 3 a Moth.
'ardent in.
',. has ten•
hem to
) g them
o become
echanica'
!: world,"
nal tolls
t deacon,
feeble pa
of oxen
, • A
• load of wl
ho expecte.]
with so poo
di/it he exp l
Nis neigh I ,
ell to (lisp:
Divine P
1 to get
1a team.
-eted aid
or asked
i pso with,
:toideace