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BY JOIIN Cl. wfirrnea.
11land as the morning breath of June,
The Fouthiresthreezes play;
And through lie haze the Whiter noon
Seems warm as klunimer's day. '
The snow-plumed angel of the North
Has dropped his icy Spear;
'Again the motley earth looks forth,
.‘gain the streams gush clear.
The fox his hill-ride cell forsakes,
The musk-rnt leaves . his'nook,
The blue-bird in the meadow-brakes
Is singing, with the brook.
"Bear up, 0 mother nature' cry
Bird, streamlet free,
"Our Winter voices prophesy
Of Summer days to thee:" •
• SO in the Winters of the soul,
By hitter Masts and drear
O'erswept from Memory's frozen pole,
Will sunny days appear.
Reviving Hope and Faith, they show
The soot its living powers,
And how beneath the Winters snow
Jac gems of tiummer dowers!
The Night is mother of the Day,
The 'Miner of the Spring,
And e%er upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling:
Rebind the cloud the starlight lurks,
Through ;timers the sunbeams fall;
Fur Cod, who loveth all Ills works,
Bath left his hope with all!
LILIAN LOUIS,
lIIC MISS MARTHA nussELV.
I"Sixty-one—tw.)—three. ft roust be old Aunt
Saunders," I ob,erved, as the tolling of the South
Church bell fell upon my ear. Fur the first time in
my life I lisieued to its mournful tones with a feel
ing of relief, if nut pleasure. Nut that I have so
fir outgrown humanity as to be able to look Death in
the face without fear—fur I have still a childish dread
efAndotes—but I knew that a lamp, %%hose flame
lud been long
been
by the unwholsome vapors of
omit, had been re-lit in Heaven—that a harp, whose
c'ords hao been too tensely drawn while here, "to
;ow forth sweet nm.de, had •rigain caught up the
ht in:: of life in that blessed land where all beautiful
MEI
Hrrp the high prorni-o of their earlier day,"
I put on my bonnet, and inn few moments stood
in the chamber of death. I have ever had a pro
elk ity to antiquarianism, reader; but lily researches
Lire heen rather in the soul-world than in the world
‘fold ruins, or Roman antiquities. I love to take
mne old car;-worn, world-worn face, and re-cast it
in the mould of youth—to strip from' it, one by one
those mummy like envehMes which time, education
and custom have wrapped around it, until, Galatea
like, it stands before me, glowing• with youth hope
and beauty. But Aunt Saunders' fa'ce . (she was the
'village aunt,' readerrol ever been to me most
tantalizing.. Occasionally I fancied that I could de
tect a -gleam of light in her sunken eyes, that UN
tukened something like human interest—but, like n
'pot of untarnished gilding on some old, illumined
manuscript, it only seemed to show more plainly the.
ilapidatedWndition of the rest.
How could I dream she had ever been young arid
fairl—that those faded, sunken eyes had ever flashed
bark the Sunlight, or mirrored in their depths an
linage of love and hope?—those shrivelled lids had
everdrooped, in very - bashfulness, beneath the gaze
of lining eyes which were earnestly striving to rend
that tale }vhich no man readsunmoved? By what 1
magic could I smooth out the unnumbered wrinkles
thatcircled round her mouth, and mate it once more
tt;e gate of Lore and Mirth—of song and ringing
laughter!
Death revealed to me far more thanlife. He did
not enter that solitary chamber alone. The angel
of Mercy had stood by the pillow of the dying 'one,
and re-touched those fading lineaments with some
thing like the freshness of early life.
Then I learnel—and could well credit the tale—
how, in early girlhood, she had been, for three bless- ,
ed years, the cherished flower of young Henry
tiresham's heart—his Lily, as he fondly called her,
filling his pathway with fragrance and beauty.—
Those sunken eyes had returned light for light—
those sli'eivel!ed lips, love for love,—and the young
man forgot his proud mother and worldly-wise fath
er, while he sat by her site and received both at her
hands. Lilian Loris had nothing to recommend
her to the wealthy Gresharns, i but her sweet face
and guileless heart. These were priceless in the
eyes of young Harry, but, unfortunately, the old pue
pie Oat differently. ;They saw no beauty, save Om;
the yellow atmosphere of gold—no worth, save such
as could he found between the leaves of mouldly
family records. Their children had been trained to
implicit obedience, and they did not fail to repre
sent to Harry their disapproval of his taste in such
a way as to leave him no choice between love and
c%hat they called—and, alas? he thought—duty.
They succeeded in convincing his intellect, but
not his heart, for there the fragrance of his Lily lin
gered long after the dangliter of rich Jacob Greene
called him husband. And once or twice during the
first years of his marriage, (we say it in a whisper
reader,) he was so row foolish as to entertain some
thing like the I thought that Manning Farm and
Long Acres was a poor exchange for the pure soul
and lowing tones of Lilian Levis. But he was pru
dent as well as dutiful, and, in a few years, in bury
ing the image of his youth, together with his unick
'eyed Lily tinder a load of speculations that finally
made him one of the richest men in the country.
For sometime after Harry Gresham's marriage,
Lilian,Lnvi# eyes had a dreamy look, and, not tin.:
frequently, a bright drop gathered on the long lash
eP, and fell silently down her cheek. Still. she did
hot tepine. She had been too deeply schooled in
the 'meek lessors of humanity' to do that. Itar
ry had 'keyed his parents--fulfilled the command
ment—nod, with her New England education, she
coithl noLblatno him. With an ,earnest effort to
gather the sunshine into her 'heart once more, she
lifted her head, and'soug!tt strength and comfort in
the strict performance 'of such dutiei as fell to her
lot, • '
Liit l was still young when her mother died, but
'she had a high character for faithfulness and lion
e,ty, and this drew upon her the attention of old,
rich, rheumatic bun Batinders* He wanted a Wife,
or, rather, a nurse and hotise•keePer undo' that
winie, and - his choice fell upon }Any.
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She hesitated' but friends whispered, nay shout
ed, modals of prti l Jenne and e.orldlv Wisdom in her
ears, mingled with hints of dependence, until bewil
dered, confused, with a shodd i e r which she prayed
Heaven to forgive as the movement of a rebellious
heart, she laid her hand in the bony one that reach
ed out to grasp hers, and gave . I hisn the name of hus
band.
Tor many long months her new home seemed
dark and empty,—but 'something the heart must
have to cherish,' and, as her husband grew more and
lore feeble, pity tooli - the place of love, and led her
to think of him wich a feeling nearly akin to that
which a mother feel towards a peevish. suffering
child. Irritable and impatient, he could not bear to
tiust her from his sight; and the freshness and fiii
grance of Lily soon faded in the close atmosphere of
that sick chamber, while the flower dust of the heart
was daily brushed away by some new exaction on
the part of the querulous invalid. Yet he loved her
as well as he was capable, of loving anything aside
from himself, and thought he made' ample compen
sation for all her care patience by leaving her a
c , mpetence in hi,s will. So thought tier friends'
when, after a lingering struggle of many years, he
at length yielded to death. They spoke much of his
generosity, and, Lilian assented to their remarks,
without comprehending them,.
After so many years of seclusion, their voices an
noyed her. - She had not loved 'old John Saunders
as a wife—,.he could not: but his pale; wrinkled
face, peering over the back of his atm chair, Vetch
ing her every moment—his sharp, querulout; tunes,
calling her name until tie obtained a reply, 'were it
a thousand times, had, by the mere force of habit,
become a part of her daily life—of herself—al - 1d now,
in her utter isolation, she often turned from the con
dolence that sounded so much like congratulation,
towards the old nrm chair, almost expecting, and
half wishing, to hear again his sharp-tred—,‘Lili
an.7 Her long confinement had unfitted her fur
the rush and stir of filet, but she gradually grew to
be an oracle at births and deaths—t rare compound
er of embrocations and syrups, and nurse to the
whole town. To these she united , anotheruccupa
tiom-L•that of shroud-maker, and many a time have
I watched tier attenuated fingers pre'.si , g the lung
needle - Orough the starched_muslin, and thMight, if
the white folds were only gathered around her, the
illusion would be complete. Life and deathHa
fu
neral or a birth seemed alike to her, and. tone, she
was a being without human sympathies. But t was
mistaken. tine chord in the harp of life still vibra
ted to the music of earth.' On thesday before her
death, the rich Judge Gresham, while presiding at a
meeting of the directors of the— H ruilroad,tvas ta
ken with a - ifit of apopleiy. He lived but a few
houre—bur,during that time, succeeded in
One
a few orders and requests understood. One was,
that Lilian Saunders should make his shroud. The
person who conveyed the order to aunt Saunders did
not note the trembling of her hands, or the sudden
gleam of her eye, as he mentioned the death of her
early lover, and his request. For tmme seconds af
ter the door closed upon the messenger, she stood
gazing at the snowy folds of cambric in her hand,
as in a dre,am. ".'Tis more than forty yearSsince,"
she murmured, as she mechanically laid the cambric'
on her pillow, and pressed her, cheek against the
white folds. For a few moments, perchance hours,
she was again his Lily, and then—Death and Mercy'
took her !Marta.
A Bs:xtri trim Tiloonwr.—Life is beautifully com
pared to a fountain fed by a thJustind streams, that
perish if obe be dried. It is a silver cord twisted
with a thousand strings that part essunder if one be
broken. frail thoughtless mortals are surrounded
by innumerable dangers, whir.h make it much more,
strange that they escape so long, than that they all
perish suddenly at last. We are encompassed with
accidents every, day, to crush the mouldering tene
ments that we inhabit. The seeds of disease ore
planted in out constitution by not ire. The earth
and the atmosphere, whence we draw the breath of
life, is pregnant with death—health s made to.Oper
are its own destruction! The food that nourishes.
contains elements of decay; the soul that animates it
by vivifying fire; tends to wear it out by its own
action; death lurks in titnlitish along our paths.- . --
Notwithstanding this is the truth, so palpably cod
firmed by the daily examples before our eyes, how
little do we lay it to heart! NVe see our friends and
neighbors perishing among us, but how seldom does
it occur to our thoughts that. our knell. shall, per
haps, give the next fruitless warn to the world!
Twit.tourr.—What a beautiful aspect does all na
ture wear, when the sun has just entered the gatei
of the east, or is sinking below the horizon in 'the
'west! The heathen. personified the merning twi
light as a goodness, and assigned to her the office of
opening the gates of the eastocrintroduce the char
iot of Apollo . Phcebus. In the evening, after sunset,
the rays of the sun continued t' illuminate the
atmosphere, 'till he . sinks below the horizon; when
the twilight becomes deeper, till it is lost in 'dark.
night. Ourrhearts expand in rove to that great Be
ing, who is the "author of every good rind perfect
gift," and from whom alt our blessings Bow, when
we look upon - the great canopy, spangled with bill=
Bunt stars, which ate placed there, not only forhiir
admiration and delight, but supposed to be inhabited
by immortal beings; whose 'organs are adapted to
their peculiar circumstances. And while receiving
so many bounties from the hand of our Heavenly
Father, we Would love and never cease to thank him,
feral( his kindness towards n*.
A Totron STOtti.—A natile down east, descri
bing the reparkable properties of'guanoas a promo
ter of vegetation, Said that, soon after planting cu
cumber seeds, the din began to fly, and the vines
came up like a stream, and although he, started_ off
at the - top of his speed, the, vines nvertodk and cover"-
ed him,nnd in taking out his knife to cut 40 the darned
things," he found a large cucumber going to seed in
his pocket •
('Once upon a timtc'an aged Nethndist.min
ister in Indiana, in a rickety old meetinghouse, was
exhorting his fellow sinners in vain to mite up and
be prayed-for,. and thus escape 4 . 1 111 i and damnation."
In the midst '`cif his exhortation a bench just before
him broke with the weight of its occupants,, and the
rotten and overburdened floor givini , way, some half
dozen sinnersm
iule miracelous disappearance into
cellar ben ath: "And that's the way, my dear
friends," continued the old man in Ms loudest tones
and with scarcely a
,pause "you'll all go down to
hell together, if you don't come right out that ole
and be prayed- h for"'
SATURDAY MOR
A eamriz
The war had broken out bet Ween England and
France:. Bonaparte had broken the treaty of Amiens:
all was consternation amongst our countrymen in
India, particularly those who had valuable cargoes
at sea, and those who were about to return to their
native land. I was one ofihe latter class; so I joy
aCcepted a passage home on board a Dune—
Dent:l . :irk, as-yet, remaining neuter in our quarrel.
So far as luxury went, I certainly found her l•ery
inferior to our regular Indiamen; but as a sailor, she
was far superior, and in point of discipline, her
crew was as well regulated, and ait strictly command
ed, as the crew of a British man-of-war- fact,
such order, regularity, and implicit obedience, I could
never have believed to exist on board • a merchant-
EMI
The Chief Mate
• waione of the finest young men
I ever saw. He-had just been - promoted to his pres
ent post—not from the mere fact of his being the
owner's son, but really, from sterling merit. He
was beloved by the crew, amongst whom he ha!,
served, as is usual in the Danish service, five yes,
and was equally populai with his brother offij• re,
and the passengers returning to Europe.
The only baiichanacter we had on board wail the
cook, a swarthy, ill-looking Portuguese, who man
aged, somehow or other, daily to cause some dis
turbance amongst the, seamen.' For • this he had
often been reprimanded; and the evening when this
sketch opens, he had just been released - from irons,
into which ho inid been ordered for four-and-twenty
hours by the chief mate, for having attempted ty
poison a sailor, who had offended him. In return
for having pimished him thus severely, the irritated
Portuguese swore to revenge himself on the first of.
riffn
The mate. who was called Charles, was walking
in the waist with a . beautiful young English girl, to
whom he was engaged to be married, stopping oc
casionally to admire the flying fish, as they skim
med over the surface ofithe water, pursued by their
cruel destroyer, to king over the anticipated bliss
their unite would conft4, their hopes and, fears, the
approval of their parents, their bright prospects, in
dulging in future scenes of life, as Steady as the
trade-wind before' which they were quietly running
—when suddenly,• ere a sou/ could interpose, or even
suspect his design,_ the cook rushed forwakl am;
buried his knife, with one plunge, into the heart of
the unfortunate young man, who fell Millman cry,
as the exulting Portuguese burst forth into a denten-
iac laugh of triumph.
Unconscious of the full extent of her bereave
ment, the pour girl hung over him and as a friend,
who, rushed forward to support him, drew the knife
from his bosom. hei whole drss, which was white,
was Stained with blood. ‘Vith an effort, Charles
turned toward her, gave her one last look of fervent
affection, a?d as the blade left the wound, fell a
corpse into the arms•uf him who held him.
By this time_the cantain .had. come on dsck.
shed tears like a child, for he loved poor Charles as
his own son. The exasperated crew would instadt
have fallen on the assassin, and taken summary ven
geance—so- truly aitached lied they been to the
chief mute—and were only kept within bounds by
their commander's presence. The conk, who ap
peared to glory in his deed, was instantly seized
and confined. The corpse was taken below, while
the wretched betrothed was carried in a state of in
sensibility, to her cabin.
E ght hells had struck the following evening when
I received a_summons to attend on deck. I there
fore instantly ascended, and found the Cvhole of the
crew, dressed in their Sunday clothes, together with
all the officers of the ship, and the male passengers,
assembled. The men of duty were lining either
side of the deck: the captain, surrounded by his of
ficers was standing immediately in front of the ppop;
and the body of the unfortunate victim lay stretch
ed on a grating, over which the national flog of
Denmark liacl been thrown, immediately in the cen
tre: In 'an instant I saw that I had been summon
et he present nt the funeral of the ,chief mate, and
my heart bAt high with grief as I uncovered my
head, and stepped on the quarter-deck.
It was nearly a dead cairn:, we had passed the
trades, and were fast approaching the Line: the sun
had begun to decline, bin still burnt with a fervent
heat: the sails hung listlessly against the masts, and
the mainsail was brailed'up, in order to all'ow the
breeze, should any rise, to go forward. I had ob
served all the morning a still more sure indication o
our approach to the torrid zone. Through the clear
blue water, - I had remarked a couple of sharks fol
lowing the veSseloiccompanied by their usual com
panions, the pilot-fish, This the sailors had expect
'ed' as a niatter of cntirse---as , they superstitious')
believe that these monster's of the deep always at
tech themselves to a ship in which i'dead body lies
anxiously . anticipating their dreadful meal, In thei
appearanci., however,l only saw the usual announce
Merit of our vicinity to the Line. '
in such weather, placed in a ship which seems t
represent the whole world—shut out from all sav :
the little baud which,encircles us, with the wide an
fathOmless elemetwaround us—the ethereal tbron.
from which God seems to lookdown upon 1.191 at on:
moment our voice rising in solemn prayer for on.
we have loved, and the next, the plash of the divide.
waters, as they receive in their bosom the creel! , :
He has tuade—all these, at such a moment; mak,
the heart thrill with a deeper akve—a closer fellow
ship with its Creator—than any resident oti shor
can linov..a consciousness of the grandeurof Go.
and the, feebleness of man, which , 'those s.liine ca
feel Who "go don in ships , and see the wonderic
the deep.'! .
I Inuit my place with the other patisengers.. • No
;
a word 'WM6 spOken, forwent! believed wewereabou ~
Fo witness the last, rites perforMed over our: let.
riend, and, consequently, stood in anxious silence
when sittlenly a .heady tramp was heard, titi4 the hab
board watch, with 'drawn cutlass, 81°10) marches
(loam the waist, escorting the murderer, whom the
conducted to the, aide of the. corpse, then withdrew
few paCes, and formed ri line, which completed the
,
' hollow square. ,
We now !Twilit' to exchange glances. Surely th :
assassin fitilitot been brought here to witness th:
burial of hie viciim - :-.-erid yet what _else could*.
I for? - Had It' beeii for trial, (as we had heard that t
: Danes often proceeded to instant investigation an.
.
summary ptudshnient)- we, should - probably, hay
-.' seen the mile prepared for hingipolie culprit a
Ithe yard-arm. This, was not the cue; and' iie al
IWO ?I VT
• -
ttniefure t - felt
scte.
- 1 ,
Vfe were not
mat readlrom . 1
the 11l povyrs.,.,{
mar nit an4,Car
law An similar l , l
prisc4er to kno
tried In the. Dan
ly asarnted, and
The, flag n/a
curpsei and.eVe.
blow &Juddered
aphic, 'nog Of hi
The trial now
ner. Evidence
r-
deed cle arly brm,
fess that
prduced, ,w 1
the murder,*
es as he beheh
clone win) in
to all present,'
declared guilt,
The officer:
ceoded to pi
(not undensti
said) to see if
and begin to,:
obdurate man
such an appeS
evident he did;
had committed,
thus bend his)
ject tire. ;
Four men no
A aimilar 'nurn.
twelve orther
moment, lunder' l
Ider.at the itriti.
lashed back tri
power to mov e
His cries were
ing as he was,
grating, .and
mounted on the
few prayers froi
read by the chap
living, the murdt
into etefnityi bo I
As the dreadfi
a sadden flash
and a general siJ
it was till: exp.
hi; I I
is prey. . can .
ati he was i l failint,,
—there was mive than agimy in it!
We paused only for a few minutes, and imagined
we saw simile blood-stains rising tc. the surfsce.—
Notonettmongs, us could remain to see more. We
...ortrereftyvalt uptr .,, tinistrr.;‘, ihc pie r n and
owe-inspiring punishment we had seen! inicted.
Of course, stringe sights were related as having
appeared to the ;latches thut night. Fur myself, I
can only Say, that,l was glad when a' sudden breeze
drove us far
THE TICS
About five ye,l
one of the back
house of Major
those parts, he
up, and for this'
of guests to lwi
three-blooming,
footed daughter
served the face
country o f the'l
the butt of his
tined to Oct 11 c
orable occasion
He woe
unique in shape
sembled iess H
He was six fet
meeting a long
of compassess
agine,—Add:to
and reeking wit]
have his i dagu
performed, the
eLltu be eiljnyii'
•-'I had .xhttitsl
and was lookin
I pereeiyed Bil
alone, With a f
shalt never for
()Idled the can I
assiitance.
"Give ]
me yo
let me find a rt
He grasped
along, we wen
had assigned it
soon disetiverec i
was a small pa:
with the vie
, I
those members
his feet; and as
mice of a serve
self, when he 4
We succeeded'
•1
other resisted
I
his foot l wastie
the boot. At 1
zy rolling," a
p,ronnuncing
all gathering's
particular, he
save that
,one I
adjoining 'Chan
gush in mine. ,
TIP. gueSts
I could hear el
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fiddler., App
a,donrwbich :
°limit e.', - zm — men
recovered Ore
his boot. ' In
titude. At In;
his object by j
foot aga:nst a'
ince.. Ae . 'ph
and I caught
, i yielding arid
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,uzzled es -to th
long_ kept in: do ubt. The se cond
übt..
; paper, which he held in his hand,
',elegated to the capiain to hold court
' their sentences into, edict, the
steel, &c., Sr.c.; and called on the
r whether he would
,connsent to be
ah language . Toj this he willing
the court was divlnred open:
withdranin ''from ! till' lace or the
'the monster whobad struck the
a he betieid the'calm, almost 'sin:::
when) he had stricken:
proceeded in the most solemn man-,
liC the crime was adduced, and the
ght home to the accused. I con
turned cold when i ksaw the knife
had been used as the instrument of
he demon-like smile of the prison
t, stained as it was with the blood
been forced by hie duty to punish
MEM
investigation, the captain appealed
en the prisoner was unanimously
p t on their hats, and the captain pro
-1: , ektence. 'Great was my surprise
di g one word which `the commander
• ulpret throw !dins if on his knees,
ne for mercy. After he unfeeling and
e in which he had cnducted himself,
4:
s as unaccountable; for it was quite
'n t fear death, or repent the deed he
What threatened torture could
doled apirit, I was at a loss con-
lapproached and lifted up the corpse.
r ; r seized the prisoner, white ten or
I:lionclied with strong cords. In a
litho() the whole, and could not won
les of the murderer, as 1 saw him
I back, neting film a ly n , , d t i i i g p h t t l h y e , 8
II r o withou t
s. the
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to the dead body of his victim.—
opped by a sort of gag, and, writh
e, with the body, was laid on the
vied to the gangway. The crew
i the Danish burial-service were
) aitt on board, and the dead and the
itrer and his victim, were launched
ncl• toget he r .
1 burden separated the clear waters;
i l idarted through their transparency,
{udder went round, as each one felt
!ant shark that rth.hcd forward for
.11 , ndanco --P '
it a glance of the living 1111111 v 8 eye
it haunts me even to•this moment
ra ago I happened at a wedding in
wood" countries' •of Georgia, at the
Being the wealthiest plan In
as desirous of giving a great Hare
purpose had invited a lurge number
nese; the nuptials c of the eldeSt - of
cherry-I i pped,,it rotig-litnbed i clenn
s. Among the iut,:ited guests I ob
of Bill P., a representative of the
'University," whom I had,known i as
lass while there; but who was des-
I nscrious part on the present mem
ill was an original—sui generis.
J r,
rly ettache,d to : his head, which was
i, a d clothed with curls which re
p rion's than the setting sun in hue.
1
A two in his stockings, with, legs
way up, and more resembling a pair
ha i anything I can at. present im
th s, he was twenty years of age,
: 11,verdaticy and bashfulness and you
'otype. The Ceremony had been
r was waxing late, and all 'seem
!he flow of soul.
• I
the fun from the various groups,
out fora subject of interest; when
fling like Napol'don, solitary end
! the agony of Whose expression I
Appeoachinghim, I kindly in
his distress, and proffered him
l 'rm," said he; "I am deathly. sicit;
'and go to bed." 1
.r
• arm convulsively, and limping
o a private room which MajOr S.
s my quarters for the night. 1f
,e cause of Bilha malady, which
f :boots on his Marge feet, worn
curtailing the fair proportions of
le endeavored vain to release
was impossible 'to get the assist
-1 volunteered t tug at 'them my
onli)letely exlia
o'nee In pulling
every Orort.
i
dl and, yet lie did not cut
•
ast he arose, his eyes in a "fine fren
, II dripping with perspiratiun, and
• natnenms, not lend but deep, upon
I in general, and country weddings in
dieeete.l himself - 6f every garment
• I
erriblo boot. The merriment in the
her contrasted Mtn gely with the an-
a• now all gone
er note of prep,.
I na hitig nearer tho
ed into the roots
in! the dance, D.,
h, and re-comm.
be eesayed eve
lie,thought he
hie hie back to
.1 my feet, and
himself firmly
leg ',Lind began
ing him make "•
lining of the
1,
pull, and a pull altogether," the boot unexpectedly
gave why and with it the door, and Bill went tum
bling into tho ball room!
Sochi screams from the females, and such conster
nation among the beaux was never before seen. In
the midst of my mirth orproariMis I heard the clatter
of horse's hoot, and loOking out of the window I be
held a solitary hor4,eman flying with the speed of a
locomotive, his long hair streaming in the wind, - arl
clothed in full Georgia costume, to wit—a shirt col
lar and a pairofstmrs. It NitlS poor Bill.
A MOREMONt.OODTVZINVIOLZI.
Passing up Merrimack street the other day, my
,attention was arrested by a loud. earnest voice, ap
parently engaged in preaching, or father "holding
forth," in the second story of the building opposite.
I was in the mood to welcome any thing of a novel
character, and following the sound, 1 passed up a
flight of stairs leading to a long, narrow, and some
what shabby room, dignified by the appellation of
classic ha i l.
Bennet , myself, I looked abon
from ifty to ote hundred persons
which dearly. all classes of this h!
munity seemed pretty fairly reprel
with more or less attention to 0
He was a young man, with a
complexion, black eyes and ha
thrown back, and his coat cuffs t l
ing a somewhat unique quanti,
bending over his coarse board pu i
ting with the vehemence of HLI I
ing his passion to rags." A
crape, guttering with a epasnied
arm, and an allusion to "our
Joseph Smith," sufficiently iodic
speaker. He was a alersnon—a
days. I
His theme was the powerof f
idently unlearned, and innocent
in such "abominable matters as
which no christian ear can endu
Jack Cade hitnaelf,Jhere
.was
vehemence and intenie earnest!
which aionce disarmed My_criti
Adam in‘paradise, as the lord a
"For," said lie, water conldn
gouldn't burn •him, cold Coill4
ing could harm him, for he bad
der his feet, And what, my hea
of this power? His I . ttit i hTn God:
the devil wanted this power ;
mean, ungentlemanly way, and
lied to her, he did. And so Ada l
And, all this power over the elenil l
the devil got, and has it now.
the power of the air, consequent
otthe elements and lord of this
ed it with unbelief, and robbed n
and 'will do so until' he hour of
••••••:•••* niaait
withthe chains in his hand to
.
and dragon."
I
Another speaker, a stout, bl. ck-browed "son of
thunder," gave an interesting account of his
e. lie had been one of the pestles of the Mor
mon°spe-
l trienc
Evangel, and had t isited E rope. Ile had but
"three cents in his pocket" when - he reached Eng
land. Ile went to the high professors of all sects,
and they would not receive him;, they pronounced
him "damned already." Ile - was' reduced to great
poverty and hunger—alone in a strange land, with
none to bid him welcome. Ile was on the very
verge • of starvation. "i hen," said he, "I knelt
down and prayed in earnest faith, "Lord give me
this day my daily bread." 0, I tell ye, I prayed
wills a good appetite; and I rose up and moved to
go to a house at band. I knocked at the door, and
when the owner came I Said to him, "I am a minis
ter of the Lord Jesus Christ, from America.. I am
starving, will you give me some food!" "Why,
bless you, yes," said the man, "sit down and eat as
much as you please." And I did sit down at his ta
ble. blessed be Gud; hut, my dear hearers, he was
not a professor, he was not a Christian, but 'one of
Robert Owen's infidels. The Lord reward him for
his kindness.",
In listening to these modern prophets, I discover
ed, as I think, the great secret of their success in
making converts. They speak to a common feel
ing; they minister to a universal want. They con
trast strongly the miraculous power of the gospel in
the apostolic time with the present state of our nom
inal christianity. They a-k for the signs of divine
power: the faith, overcoming 'all things, w hich open
ed the prison doors of the apost es, gave power 'over
the elements, which rebuked isease and death it
self, and made visible to all the ' resenee of a living
God. They ask for any declar lion in the Scriptur
es, that this miraculous power o faith was to be con
fined to the firstz - refessors of christianity. They
speak a language of hope and promise to weak,
weary hearts, tossed and troubled, who have wan
dered from sect to sect, seeking in vain for the pri
mal Manifestations of the divine power. ,
In speaking of Mormonkm as a delusion, I refer
more particularly to • the apocryphal book of Mor:
mon. That the great majority of the "Latter Day
Slts" are honest and sincere faliatics, I have no
rea on td doubt. They have made great sacrifices
and endured severe and protracted persecution for
their I'uit h. . The reports circulated against them by
their unprincipled enemies in the west, are, in the
main, destitute 'of foundation.- I- place no depen
dence upon the charges against them by the riiflian
mortar the Mississippi valley, and the reek lose ila tie
driters, who, at the point of the bayonet and bowie
knife, expelled them (rem Missouri, and eignalized
thelrChristrian crusade against unbelievers by mur
-dering old men, and violating their innocent wives
and daughters. It is natural that the wrung-doers
Should hate those they, have so foully injured.
The Prophekliirnself, the master-spirit of thisex
traOrdinary religious movement, is no more. He
died by thetand ,of wicked' and barbarous men, a
martyr--univilling, doubtless, but still a martyr 'to
his faith. Per, after all, Joe S m ith, could dot have
been wholly incincere; or, if so at the outset, it is
more than probable that his extraordinary success,
his wonderful power over the minds of men, caused
him to seem a miracle and a marvel to liimees., and
like Mehommed end Napoleon, to consider himself
the chosen inatrutnent of the eternal Power.
In the "Narrative Wan eye-witness of the Mormon
Massacre," published in a western paper, I was a
iNG MAN
M.
sted his strength.
i nir•one: but the
ill was in agony:
oto the ball-room.
ation ciade by the
wall'l discovered
where they were
l y this time Dill had
?need the tug with
r j y position and at
might accomplish
the wall, his right
I '
obtain ,my
against the door,
to pull,. gradually
long pull, a strong
BY JOHN 0. WHITTIER.
me. There were
in the audience, in
terogeneons corn
ented, all listening
speaker.
dark, enthusiastic
r, with hi's collar
rued over, reveal
y of "fine linen,"
!pit, and• gesticula
let's player. "tear
lband of mourning
c action of his left
:te beloved brother
:ted the sect of the
saint of the latter
ith. Although ec
enough of dealing
a verb or a nown,
ie," to have satisfied
a straight forivard
ess in his manner,
ism. He spolte,cof
the lower world—
t drown him, fire
freeze him—noth-
I 1 the elements fill
ers, ‘rt3 the secret
fiat was it. Well,
He behaved in a
deceived Eve, and
lost his faith.—
its that Adam had,
io is the prince of
y, he is the master
orid. lie has fill
-11 of his birthright,
the power of dark
,
good deal impressed by the writer's account of the
departure of the prophet from the "holy city," to de
liver himself up to the state authorities at Warsaw.
It was well understood, that in so,doing he waaabout
to subject himself to extreme hazard. The
.whole
country round about was swarming with .irated men
eager to embrue their hands in his blood. The City
was in a fearful state of elarm and excitement. The
great Nauvoci legion, with its two thousend'strong
of armed fanatics, was drawn up in the principle
aquatic. A word from the prophet would have con
verted that dark silent mass into; desperate and un
spari ngdefenders of their leader, and the holy places
of their laith. Mounted on his favorite black horse,
he rode through the glittering files, and with words
of cheer and encouragement, exhorted them to obey
the laws of state, and giro their enemies no excuse
for persecution and outrage. "Well," said he, as he
left them, "they are good boys if I never see them
again." Taking leave of his familyand'more
inti
mate friends, he turned his horse, and rode up in
front of the great temple, as if to take a final look at
the proudest trophy of his power. After contem
plating it fora while in silence, heput spurs to his
horse, in company with his brother, who, it will be
recollected, shared his fate in the prison, dashed
away towards Warsaw, and the prarie horizon shut
down beneath him and the city of saints for the lait
time.
Once in the world's history we were to have ts,
yankee prophet, and we have had him in-Joe smith.
For good or for evil, he has left his track on the great
pathway of life; or, to' use the words of Horne,
"knocked out a window in the wall of the nineteeth "
century," whence his rude, bold, good-humored facet
will peep out for generations to come. But the
prophet has not trusted his fame merely to the keep-
ingof the spiritual. lie has incorporated himself with
the• enduring stone of thereat Nauvoo temple,
which, when completed' will be the, most splendid
architectural monument in the new world. With
itsittuge walls of hewn alone—its thirty gigantic
pillars, loftier than those of Baalbec---their massive
caps carved into the likeness of enormous human
faces, themselves resting upon crescent moons,
with a gigantic profile of the most beautiful eity
site of the west, overlooking the "Father of Waters;"
—a temple unique and wonderful as the faith of its
builder, embodyingin its singular and mysterious
architecture, the Titan idea of the Pyramids, and
the solemn and awe-inspiring thopght which speaks
from the Gothic piles of the middle ages.—Hoivitt's
Joarnul. ;/ ;
Obitorial, Ncws 3tCnta, .Vc.
Hearten ron CASs.—The Cleveland Plain Dealer says
that when the news . of Cass' nomination reached there.,
a boat from the west full of passengers, happenedat that \
time to arrive at the piers. Ono of our citizens stepped s
on board, and was immediately - acosteil by some half
dozen enquirers if anythinghad been heard from Balti
more. The citizen replied that Gen. Cass had been nom
ipattd by:liver a twothirdsyote„,Themwas a pause for
wore strangers,' imfC r- 1 tot like to give vent to feelings
that might be unpltasant to some. •At length one man
spoke out, " well," says he, " that iatkgoad nomination."
"Never a better olio:" says another. " That's just what
I think," says a third, and the same sentiment passed
round, till finally they got up a regular shout. There
proved to be but one Whig in the crowd, and he went off
BLOODY MILITLy FIGFIT.—A militia regimental parade
at Tuscarora, in this State, lately, was more than usually
spirited. A sentinel having knocked down one of two
or three who attempted to pass the lines, almost instantly
some 20 or 30 Germans against Irish, were engaged as if
in deadly conflict. Muskets, swords, clubs and stones,
were used as if with the full intention of taking life; and
before peace could be restored, the ground was qfprerer
with victims, bloody, bruised and cut, some of th'em soy
severely i»jured that it was thought Choy would not recov- •
cr. Several prosecutions have been instituted.
ftr.solArrioss.—Our whig great mon (and there are no
oilier, let whig newspapers tell the story) are good at
making resolutions—they are also good at - breaking them
—somehow of other they can't keep them. Take Mr.
Clay for instance: he went to Washington some . tioie
since resolred to declare himself nog a candidate for the
Presidency; but sbortlx afterwards he comes out in a letter
and says he is a candidate.
Take Gen. Scott for a second instance. He wont -to
Elizabethtown resolved not to accept of public civilitieti;
a day afterwards ho accepts the invitation of the the New
York Common Council. and leaves his place of retire-
Inernt„ "laboring" as he was, under the "ban of Exam.
live displeasure;" or as a correspondent of the Boston
Chronotypo says, ho overcame his "maiden timidity" and
consented to a public pageant In his honor.
Resolutions. are "first rate things"--if you don't break
them.
foreign Items by the Niagara.
Ono account froni Paris says that
still at liberty, and another that ho had
still another that ho had fled.
The strongest means have been adopted to prevent the ,
recurrence of physical display, by the numbers of the se•
crot clubs, . .
Advices as late as the evening of the 18th state that the
cite had been perfectly tranquil during the day.
Citizen Sobrior. in the interim, repaired to the Mini&
try of the interior with his monta guards. He demanded
admittance and the transfer of the ministry to him, and
of the military posts to his faithful followers. .
Ho was admitted, but only to ho arrested. His hun
dred partisans wore disarmed. stripped even of theirscar
let cravats. and turned adrift. - 1 '
After the Chamber of Doputiert and the Hotel de Ville
had been pfirged of their new occupants, and after the ar
rest of several parties connected with the attempted revo
lution, who bud in the first instance - escaped, all Paris
presented masses of national guards, moving in columns
of thousands to the great points of the city. the people of
all classes, with here and there a solitary exception, cheer
ing them on. During the night, several regiment!! of the
line, marched to the capital., l' The republican guards, a
corps formed at the revolution, and only subject to the
orders of the Prefect of Police; was ordered by the execu
tive etimm4tee to be disbanded, but this troop bad refused
to quit the prefecture. or to allow the national guard to en-.
ter it. They declined even to obey any verbal order..
from their chief. Causcidiere, who was then at the As- .
eombly. This contest continued for several hours
during which a great military force collected around the
prefecture, At 4 o'clock, 1000 men surrounded It.
They admitted some detachments of national'
within the building. During the eight, however, th
gal
neighborhood continued as before to 'be occupied by tit
troops, who bivouacked in the street. - i'. . . .
The number of prisoners at Vincennes is 67. and 33 ai‘
under arrest at the Hotel de Vine., . . ,
assume
the
of the 17th state that things begin to
the nepeet of civil order. The - walls hove been placarded
with an apologetic manifesto from ht. Causidere, ,in
which ho endeavors to defend himself.' • .._• 1
Ledzu-Itollin win arrested, Misname having been in the-,
list of th 4 pretended government; but.listnartlne beton.;
ing responsible foe him; he was released.= -.- -- • ,• -.
On many persons were found pistols, daggers. and on'
80;110 letters from the chief of the plot. -One of the per•
sons arrested had a paper in his hand. which he thrust in
his mouth and tried to swallow, bit - being seised by the:
throat, he was obliged to give' MIN and it hinted oat yr
be allot of the chief reaspiratess. .
NUMB R 4.
outs Blanewas
on arrested. and