VOLUME 19.
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eAssz.zi' suzzniNa.
NY Ur( It. e.t.sernir
hi boyhood built I castles tall,
Yet none ti•ith minted wall—
Ali gay, fantastic, ge9rgeous, were
b il'hebe reales bf thin upper air—
No battlements were frowning stern, '
For Milt I cared not then to learn,
And fenced not •round my hopes or heart—
Oh, architect of simplest art!
In Youth, still built I castles tall.
Yet not with moaled wall—
' Hope guided then each air-drawn plan,
'ller shining star my talllsman.
And festive halls, and terraced groves,
And rosy bowers, n here dwelt the Loves,
Were imaged forth Fatir)'s power—
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The frail creations of Youth's hour!
In 3lanhood, still those castle. , tall.
Yet, ah rah ttioated wall,
I built with altered, sterner plan—
!lope's star no more my talisman—
Per Lite's harsh strife my heart had taught,
That vainly gentle Peace is soiteltt,
In earth-born scenes, end - strong must be
The 'Soul that wins the victory!
And Wilt I, then those castles tall,
With grim and 'floated wall,
With barriers huge, and strong, and high—
All formed of that same azure sky—
For sadly had the rough World taught
My Childhood's simple, guileless thought;
That clad In mail each brerot mull he,
That wins in life the victory!
Yet now I built no castle. tall,
But homes with !only gall,
And people them with beings kind—
Ideal nit Its SO shapes of mind—
s Nor do I seek for ramparts, edrong,
'Po hedge toy heart from human n rung,
Por Love is mightier far Malt dil—
l/Toth down thOse tmvi•rs n ilh mated wail!
'he Old Love, and the Nk;
(Pr, the Eielttel to a Bachelor's bow
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there'd some wonder in this hand kerehieL"
IA S>t•u bachelor's domicile was the neat two story
ding, No—, Hudson St., and theme, in all enjoyment
single blessedness, dwelt Jonathan Everleigh; Esq.,
iale,.hearly bachelor, on the shady side of forty. I.Vith
n lived his nephew Walter Lincoln, a faithful old
man rejoicing in the nama of Tunis, as black and
ming as Day and Martin's best, and who in his own
lividual capacity COUstitotod the factoruni Of the es
dishinent—nainely cook scullion, chambermaid and
iter—for Ali. Everleigh never employed any ef the
oman-kind" about his strong hold of Bachelor-dm;
en his clothes were regularly forwarded to his wash-
Man by the milk man, as ho passed her door every
1 onday morning, and as regularly returned on Saturday,
the same conveyanco. Indeed tho "oldest inhabi
t" could not remember of ever seeing a fetn•tle either
end the nicely swept elms to the front door, or de
ad into the basement bolow. There was, to b • sure,
a old dee'ripit woman, who for a time spread her mi
ddy garments upon the flagging in froal; but even
~ soon deputized a dirty little urchin in all ••tattered
u I torn," to reciove her daily dole from the well spread
I Is of the bachelor.
et, notwithstowliogo.L.-- o.t,To
tt atria softer sex, 111 r. Everlsia!l WAS by no lIICIIIII
the genius morose nailer:Jibed—attributes supposed to
long to tho bachelor class of
,bired.—but on t h e con
rv, was of a ehoarful, generous multi-.); rejoicing in
prosperity of others, which ho was ever ready to
mote as far as be was able. Ito was not, however a
althy man in the worldly acceptation of the term, but
d enough for all his wants; and to spars, if required,
tho wants of a friend.
F 0 his nephew; ho was fondly attached, deeming no
l iens* too groat for his education. Young Lincoln
dusted with honor front Columbia'Gdlege. nn.l Mr.
l urleigh, averse to his studying a profession. had then
niurd hun as a paituer in the house of Everleigh &
‘Valler," ho ‘vatild often say, "when we have
de a littlo more money, wo will wind up liii4inesoi and
op ourselves—yes, " yes, my boy, we. will Bee a little
Ire of tho world, and not spond all our days cramped
bin the walls of this modern Babel! I am rich enough
both of no; and thank God Walter, when we travel
11, we shall neither of us bo encumbered with a
MISII
ow our bachelor reclumod a little too court lently up
this latter point; for daring all these conversations
oh his uncle, Walter had very pleasing vi.ions of a pair
! oft blue eyes, which somehow or other, whenever
journey was spoken of, soomod to br livid upon him
`lt such a sweet Confiding look—nay, he almost felt as
g, ere, the presure of a dear little head upOn his shoul
imd saw, or fancied ho saw, long ringlet: of the
i st beautiful golden hair floating around him.
ut ho took very good caro not to roved-04,es° visions
lis uncle!
After business hours, Mr. E erleigh and Walter reg.
ly walked home together, •here the skill of Tunis
meanwhile prepared the .nly meal in which Mr
• neigh indulged save brea fast—for at etich a we
fol-do-rol drink as tea, tl o bachelor turned np his
c, although ho greatly relis icd the cup of excellent
eo which Tunis was wont yo bring him after dinner,
en throwing off his Imola and Assuming his dressing
itand slippers, ho yielded I imself to the indulgence
TM of baek-gammon, or a yame of all-fours with
suming the privilege of a old servant, Tunis nsu
stood by upon these occasions. marking tho progress
e game with much apparent interest, and displaying
slitting rows of ivory to great advantage. Sometimes
would break out with—
I•lli—Massa Evorleigh take care—young Massa Ito
obery ting!" or, "Golly Massa Walter, you not got
di time—hi—dare go do Jack!"
omstimes Walter would venture to express his sur-
Ao; that one so fond of domestic lito as his uncle op
red to be, should have omitted that choicest blessing
wife; but"such a remark never failed to draw down,
only a shower of invectives upon the sex, but also to
Mr. Everloigh into such an exceeding had humor,
't Walter was always,glad to withdraw from the scene.
nd of reading, the contra-table was always well sup•
led with the now publications, and files of daily papers
Ithey 060 dipped a little into polities, always however
oilsing different sides for the salvo of tho argument.
Thus it will be seen, that for a season our two friends
od very Cosy and comfortable—but it will also be soon
at such happy titnes could'not last. Pity they should.
. r we should like to know, in the name of woman-kind,
om ho so much affected to despise—what a bachelor
e Mr. Everleigh has to do with comfort!
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Walter began gradually to estrange himself horn these
mar fete id es , and after allowing himself to be hand
:nely beaten by his uncle at his favorite games, would
ead come trifling errand, or engagement, to absent
"Iself, leaving his respected relative to wile oil' the
ura alone. Those absences grew more and more fre
ent, still litr. Everloigh contented himself with rt.',
ekin g: "You were out lato last night. Walter;" or, "1
ited until ten for you. boy!" to which Walter would
iwer horridly and in much confusion, that he was very
r), b.it had a particular engagement, or was uuavoid-
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ably detained—while Tunis, chuckling and grinning as
be descended into the - obscure regions of the kitchen,
would remark for his' own especial edification,
souog Massa Walter give old Massa de slip one of these
days—see if he don't!"
Noting, at length, the more growing .abstraction of
his nephew, that ho was given to the perusal of poetry,
that ho sighed often, and moreover carried about him
very suspicious missives, in the shape of delicately-fold
ed notee,—Mr. Everleigh grow uneasy, and resolved to
que.ttion Walter upon the subject, a resolution which
Was perhaps the more speedily carried into effect, by ob
serving ono evening upon, the little finger of the delin
quent—a small gold ring!' This was enough.
••Poppy!" ho muttered, "it is just n! I thought—yes,
yes, I'll wager he is playing the fool!"
Then working himself up to tho degree of wrath re
quired for the purpose, he began:
"Pat down your light, sir—you are not going
this way—pat down your light, I say, young mm—we
must have a little talk together before we separate!"
And blushlg like a girl, Walter placed the lamp up
°trifle table. Ito east the hour had come, and that-the
storm ho 1W.102 Ion; dreaded, was about to burst upon
Itis hbad:
"Now tell mo, sir," continued Mr. Ever:sigh, "whore
you have been, and where you spend your evenings—
hey, Walter, tell me that? You shan't run , blindfolded
into ruin if I can stop you; speak', sir!—t asked you
where you had been!" •
"I have been visiting at Mrs. Nesmeth's this evenitrg,
uncle," answered Walter dutifully.
."And who the devil is MN. Ne,suneth?" asked the
bachelor seizing the pokee, and thrusting it into the
grate.
"A—a particular friend of mine, whoin t often call up
on," said %Walter.
"The deuce you do! key—what--affir'why have Hut
you told tile this before, yOu scanip--hotv • old is she, I
'say?" exclaiffied Mr. Everleigh.
' I shoffid judge her to be nearly forty, uncle, although
it Is difficult to decide upon a l lady's • age," answered
Walter.
Ilieult to decide upon, a
,fiddlestick! Forty is elle
—w-h-e : w! the his a daughter then, l suppose, also a
pariicular friend of ours!"
"Yes, sir. A most chart:dui,
seventeen," Rplied Walter.
%Vitt: a vigorous poke bowel
Mr. Everleigh now fixed his gas
of hi s implies% : . {
"Well."
"1 say, why donut you speak, you—you young jack-
anapest"
What Slid' say:" said
"Say—wlly that you aru -in
you' mean to make a fool of
_cot
inure her!"
"Well my dear uncle." repli
L do say, that I love Miss Nesii
our faith stands plighted to ono
God.l shall marry her."
"I'Llasc Gud pl shall marr9 her!" re tested Mr.
Everleigh, in a tone of cutting ciiitempt—" say, please
God you shall do no such thiug: a pretty fui..l you'd
make of yourself, eh! What business had v It to fall in
faith stands plighted, does 4 . 7-0 you puppy: well i'll
hal a way to unplight it, that's !all'. don't speak—gO to
lied, sir,—in trriel—wh e-w !" And seizing a lamp, the
e \cited bachelor bounced out oil the room.
Who. ho iodelien ills tninpiiier, Mr. Eveneigil ier
some moments paced the floor %•itli rapid strides, giving
fall voUt to the pavion which agitated him—now bestow
ing all sorts of epithets upon his nephew, now upon the
arts of woman At length throwing himself into
a chair, ho gradually suffered his anger to abate—his
features relaxed—a shade of melancholy stole Over them,
and finally burying his face in his hands,' ho remained
for a long time in deep, and as
l it would appear, painful
thought. Thenllowly rising, he opened a small escri
toire which stoadlimon a tablr, rit the head 'of his bed,
and drew forth 'he miniature, of a young girl, upon
l ag and sorrowfully. A hot toar rolled
and full upon his hind. This aroused
ngry for allowing, himself to he thus
ust the picture back into its case, turn
dosk, and horiiedly brushing his h and
ixclaimed:
which he trAzA I
down his cheek.
and a; if n
overcome, ha thll
ad the key of the
across his eyes,
'at I am! Nell Gad Brant that poor
e made t -e dupe 1 was!"
asset], and lo f a rthciallusion was made
near the hoartslof both uncle and ne
t is true, would gladly have introduced
epic, and essayed at various times to do
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l' i erleigh, perfectly - comprehending his
rsg to punish hil - tr, invariably walked off,
• ;o his own not very pleasant reflet
ouffht of his uncle's displeasure, who
him us a father, even the love of his
could not entirely over-balanco.
"Fool, fool ti
iValter mac not
Several dlys p;
to tho Mtihinet NO
phew. Waller it
this intcrestinz ti
so—but Mr. 1.7.•
objet, mid wilt
leaving the lever
W311.4-11)r the
had even been to
i
charming Erni lyl
Nuw the truth must ho owned, that Mr. Everleigh was
quite as unhappy at the state of affairs aft Walter; and
when ho noticed the pale cheek, 'and sunken eye, betoken
ing a gsleoplesa night,lancl the dejected; almost penitent:air
of his nephew, hu could hold out no longer—pity took the
place of resentment, and much Ito the astonishment of
Walter, he was the first to introduce the forbidden sub
ject: and expressed his readinetis to hear what the !"silly
boy," as ho termed him had to say for himself.
Thus encouraged; Walter opened hie heart freelr .
Mr. Everleigh listening quietly and silently—thsti as
Walter proceedeLl, he gradfilly grew more wratby—id
getted upon his iieat—kicked the ,fonder—muttered like
Squire Burchell," Fudge:" and "Palmy l"and. finally
in the, s'i:ry midst of the most glowing description of his
fair inamorata, Which Walter was pouring forth. ho bade
they pun lover hold his longue, and not bo such a fool.
. .
"But uncle," persisted Walter, "1 am suro if you•oncis
saw Emily, you would no longer rail at my love. but 'Ac
knowledge how very infotior to her real chards are all
the descriptions I would fain gitio you."
"Pshaw—beauty_ is hut skin doop you silly follow, and
for tho rest, she is just like all her sex, fable and fickle
as the wind!" said Mr., Evorleigh. "Sho;ikill jilt you
depend upon it."
would stake my life upon her truth!" replied Wal
ter, wurmly—"if you know her, you would - be , ashamed
of such injustico to, an angel!"
"Wh-o-w! we are ilia yassion, are we—eli Mr. Fire
brand—now Walter take my•advice and don't get mar
ried. Whiit the—do you want of a ;Wife, I- should
liko to know—have not you got a pleasant home, you
dog, and an old uncle that hurnors you like a pet mon
key! and what on earth do.you want to bring, a woman
into the concern for!"
"Uncle," replied Walter, "so liing as I was in no
condition to support .. a wife. marrialge of course would
bo highly injudicious; but as thanks to your kindness,
my dearest I nclo, I am now established la a good bu
siness, with all reasonable prospect of 'mecum why
should 1 longer delay my happiness: No, my dear
sir. do not ask it—motbing but your °Gwent is wanting
to make me the happiest einem"
••The silliest of fools, you ,niean!"intervuptad Mr,
Evorleigh. Impatiently. "Now depend upon it, Wal
ter, the moment you put yourself in the power cilia wo
man, you are ruined, body and soul—l would notgive—
no, I would not give a straw for yeu—st mere puppet
, i
, amiable girl, sir, only
n the bars of the grate,
, e upon the countenance
!ter smiling,
Ike n•ith the girl—that
rei3lf—that vou•mean to
JWalter fir l inly, "then
netts ,most tenderly—that
, alfOilter, and that please
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l ushod hither and there, at • the will -of an artful little
ussy. Just look at ma, %Valter—'.core I stand six feet
my shoes—a happy hearty bach i elor of five and forty—
ok at my head—not a gray' hair in it—my teeth—sonnd
• a roach—think you I should be what I am, had 1 sad
led mysolf with a wifo, and a brood of equaling fat be•
dee?—no, not"
"But uncle," said Walter, rathor mischievously, "if
:port says true, you were once in a fair way fur suc h
Aisfortune, for I have heard you were at one time eu
'aged to be married." .
"Hey—what? nonsense—nobrise." ainiwered the
bachelor, stooping suddenly to piciup something from thi
ctrpet—"to he sure I was a, fool o~tce, a duced fool—hut
waS never caught again, ha-alia—never again—and
Walter, it is precisely becausel know the deceitful sox,
,
that lam so urgent to warn a g ai nstyou g Wein."
"Then, you do admit that you
8 id Waher,—"then how can v
Tosien, which a lovely and annul
Mr. Everleigh arose and %ventra l ,
Idly around the room, then Lail
regarded him, seriously and said;
••Walter. you shall now h+ir From my lips that .of 1
Which no othor,petson has hi mo slitrtilt - To _you J .
Will confess my folly. Yes. Winner," he continued,'
sating himself and nerviously playing with his watch-:
g ard—"when I was of your age I was silly enough to 1
t i
fall in love with as arrant a pieco of coquetry and mis
chief, as ever Natutro turned out.l She was a school) .
mato and intimate friend of ye l ar poor mother, Walter, , '
and came home with her to pass the holidays at the
Grange. This was our first fleeting. , She was thou
only fifteen—as gay and wild us 9 young deer, and the
most beautiful ereaturo I had ove i r behold—nay that I
1 I I
have ever yet seen. It was my fate to be spending the
hClidays at the Grange also, and a most fortunate cir-
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cumstance I then felicitated my. elf that it was—but it
proved otherwise, as you will see. Those six happy
weeks flew as moments—the remembrance of them
oven now causes the blood to course more rapidly—and
tqen we parted, with mutual 'regret, and with mutual
sites that we might SOOll meet 14-iiiil And I was such
, ass, Walter, as to think end dream of nothing else
I t—but—ah ! I cannot speak li l r name boy!" said Mr.
, erloigh,_ his voice tromblii4 l with agitation, "Nu
latter—she was• my star—niy dol. All I did—all I
pod was in reference to her, and I penned more son-
Its to her praise than would till a folio. At length we
•t again. She was again at the Grange:. My love
Caine idolatry, Walter, nor had I any roasod to com
in of her coldness. She read with mo, sang with me,
Iked with mc, and rode with me—indeed, we• were
ircely for a moment separated. Thus encouarged, I
length declared my passion, and she—false and per
ions as she proved—she, Walter, fell on my bosom
wept her love!" Mr. Evorleigh paused. and wrong
- haute(' Walter: Boy, boy, may you never have beat
ieved as I have been! My happiness was , "brief as
. mans's love," A few Weeks, after our engagement
nessed tho arrival of a gay das!ting lieutenant—her
sin, she said—and from that moment my bliss do
ed. Her attentions were no longer given to Ille•
smiles were for another—walking or riding—at home
labroad, the puppy never left her side. If I renion
, ed, she laughed in my face, or turned angrily away
an 1000 day—yes, boy, one day OVIII , Il er in Ills
arihe—her head resting dove-like upon his glittering
epaulette—her little soft hand clasped in his. I saw—ye:,
I who had never yet dared to press tow lips upon her
snowy brow—l saw it and survived! I could have shot
the fellow dead upon the spot, but to save my soul flout the
sin of another's blood, there + providentially no wea
pon at hand. That evening I sought an interview with
the false one. I accused her of her perfidy, and bade her
explain, if she could, her conuct. This she positively
refused to do—angry and hide words ensued beta eon us,
until with consummate holdmjss she bade ate mind my
own concerns, and not trout,' .3 myself any further about
her movements! I then asked her if slie loved )(mug
Marchment. Never shall I ft rget the look she cast upon
ma. “Love him!" she extlanned—"love bite!—yes.
with-my whole heart do I love him!" It Is enough,"
I answered—and although m:• brain was on tire, and
every veih swollen with jealous rage, coldly bowed and
turning on my heel walked I.isurely away humming the
air of a fashottable song. I the n unoutited my horse, and
rode over to the house of a edative, some six or eight
ed for near a week, racked
meats of the damned.—
r ' 1
e she had gone—} es. gone
taw her father! 'Now 14al-
miles distant, where I rentail
it geomod to me be all the t(
%Viten I returned to the Gran!
with the lie utournt. I never
ter I ask you, have I not reaao
the faithless sex!"
: "No. uncle," answered VC
enee to you, and with ull the .
pardon me for Rayinl, that if ,
all you hlvo to allege °gains'
poor 'one."
"Iley—what?—why, wha l
more?" exclaimed 111 r. Eyed ,
would have calm ne!ss nn
turned Walter. "Allow me I
your oWn words, 1 Consider
(killing the younz'holy. TI
—stiong palliative reasons u
"Pshaw, Walter! stall'—it ifr" interrupted the hache
lor—"reasons--there were no reasons but those to be
traced to the fickle nature otoman. And of this I will
convince you—for my folly, 1 1 / a lter, did not cud here.—
Time cooled my resentment anti caused me to doubt
my proceedings, and the moo Preasoned upon the sub. ,
Sleet. the More I blamed my rashness. At last I resolved
to write to her—to acknoWlelge my error—entreat her
forgiveness, and once more offer her my love—yes, fool.
dolt that I was—l penned mile of our puling, sighing,
hirk a daisical love-letters, tind sent it to her address.—
iyell—the answer came—and i r was such a , my egre
gious folly deserved—saucy, spirited, insulting, and tin
felling!. A few : days proviot g I had been offered a sit
uation in a 'West India hens , and I now glad andwith
oat the least hesitation accep od it. I embarked for Porte
Rico—vies, Walter, that had heartlesi girl drove me an
exile front my friends mid c. untrv! I way absent twelve
years. When I returned I c sually learned she was mar
ried but I never made any further inquiries about her.
Your poor mother, too, deal alter, had paid the debt of
nature, leaving you a mere child: and soon after my re
turn your father died also. I swore to be father and
mother both to the child of my only treasured sister—
and although but t e rough nurse, boy, I kept my vow!"
"Derest uncle," interrupted Walter seizing Mr. Ever
leigh's hand and kissing if, While grateful tears filled
ins eyes-..-"dearest Uncle, I owe you everything—how
can Lover repay such kindness and love?"
"Eli/ very grateful You ;re, to be sure you dog—going
to bring a woman heie to break up our happiness:" ex
claimod,Mr. Everleigh• •
"Not so, uncle." said Walter: "believe me, it will on
ly render it inure secure. Ah, when you once knew
Emily. for her sake ybu will renonoce all your prejudices
against women." • . • I
"Nansens - eV , " returned Mr. Everlltigh: ithowevot, if
yott will be such fool as to get married; why I _can't
help it. I believe I ehonld doing yoti a much great
er kindness to givo •-ou a [taller to hang yourself with,
than to consent to such folly as you propose. But you
never will se* your ittiatalto until ills to late; so there's no
WONWARD.4 I .E3
were once in love?"
u blame hie for the
le girl has inspired!"
d several tittles hurri
'reaching Walter, bo
n to heap maledictions upon
alter, "with all due defer
-liynipatliy I feel for you,
Chat you have told me, i d
I them, your arguinem is . u
t tho deuco would you hove
eigh. ,
deliberation, uncle," ro
ta eat• that judging from
. on woro too baste m con
ore may have been reasons
use wasting any more breath upon you—got married,
then heaven's name:—poor fellow:"
"Thank you, thank you. my d.9ar uncle!" 'cried Wal
ter, his counteuanco evincing all the joy he felt.
"And, Walter," continued Mr. Evarlaigh, speaking
slowly, and as if half ashamed at the eoneossion he was
making, in favor of a woman, "I can't spare you alto
gether; though I suppose, at the best, I shall have but
little of your company; therefore briug your wife home.
My house shall ho yours—there is room enough for all
of us, and for your sake puppy, I will try to like your
--71effe—pshaw
IYolter smiled and shook his uncle warmly by tho
band: "And now, outdo, you will give mo the happiness
of introducing my beloved Emily to my morQ than father.
You will go with me and sae her, uncle!"
"Eh! what—l go to see her—no, no, that is asking
too much," roplied Mr. Evorleigh. "I will do' no such
thing! I will neither go to see her, nor will Igo to your
wedding; so don't ask me. I will never sanction by my
presence, the sacrifice of a fine, handsomo young fellow
like yourself to a woman—not 1! Draw as much money
as you please—go and come as, you please—and leav'e
me to do as I please
.Thus saying. Mt: Eveifeigb , was abofit to leave 'the
ioom—already his hand wits tfpoti the ktiob of the door,
*hen, suddenly turning, he walked up to Walter, seized
his hand, and pressing it fervently, ',cried. •
••God bless you, my dear, dear Walter, and make you
a happy man!"
ICONCLUDED !MET WEEK.]
Random Gems from History.
DV TIIMMAS ➢AUTAOTON MACAULA
FATHER OF FREDERIC THE. GREAT. •
Fiederic, surnanaod tho !Great. son a Frederick
William was born in January, 170.' It nnv safely be
pronounced that he had received fret 1 , tintureVa strong
and shnrp undert.tatting, rind a rare rimless of temper
and intensity of will. As to the othe pull of his cha-
rester, it is diffieult to say Whether th .y are to be ascrib
ed to nature, or to n tho strange (tallith' e which - he under
went. The history of his boyhood is painfully interes
ting. Oliver Twist In the parish wo khouse; Smike at
Dotheboys Hall, were petted chilere t when compared
with this wretched heir-apparent of a crown The
na
lure of Frederick William was hard and bad, and the
habit of exorcising arbitrary power had made him fright
fully savage. his rage constantly ivented itself to right
and -left in curses and blows. Whoa his majesty took a
walk, every human being fled before him, as lea tiger
had broken from a menagerie. If ho met a lady in the
street; ho gave her a kick, and told her to go home and
mind her brats. If he saw a clergyman staring at .tho
soldiers, he idmonished tho reverend gentlerhon to be
take himself to study and prayer, and enforced this pi
ous advic'e by a sound caning, administered on the
spot. But it was in his own 11011E0 that ho was most
unreasonable and ferocious. His palace was hell, and
he the most execrable of fiends — al cross between Moloch
and Puck. His son Frederic and his daughter Wilhel
mina, afterwards Margravine of Bareuth, k wero in an
especial manner objects of his aversion: gis own mind
was uncultivated. Ho hated infidels, papists, and meta
i.detPcif ul it
g o s rti7;:s .
ac
cording to him, was to drill and to bo drilled. The re
creations suited to a prince, were to sit in a cloud of
tobacco-smukc, to sip Swedish beer between the puffs
of the pipe, and play backgammon' for three-halfpence a•
rubber, to It.ll wild hogs, and to shoot partridges by the
thousand.
FREDERIC -THE GREAT
Ho had from
,file, commencement of his reign applied
himself to public business, after a fashion unknoivn
among kings. Louis XIV., indeed, hail been his own
prime minister, and had exercised a general superinten
dence over all the departments of the govdnment; but
this was not sufficient for Fri (Idle. He was not con
tent with being 'his own prime mihister—ho would be his
own sole minister. Under him there was no room, not
ineiely for a Richelieu or a Mizarlit. but for a Colbert,
a Lonvins, or a Torcy. ,A love of labor for his own
sake, a restless and insatiable longing to dictde, to in ,
termeddle, to make his power felt, a profound rn and
distinct of his fellow creatures, indisposed him to ask
counsel, to confide importaut secrets, to delegate ample
'muds. The highest functionaries under his govern
ment wore mere clerks, and were not so much truster('
by him a, Tninable clerks are ofter trusted by , the hedis
of departments. 110 was his own treasurer. his own
commander-in-chief, his own intendant of Public works;
Ills own minister for trade and justice, for home affairs
and foreign affairs, his own master for the horse, steward
and chamberlain. Matters of which no chief of an ofqo
in any other government would ever hear, were in this
singular monarchy, decided by the King in person. If a
traveler wished for a good place to soo aToview, ho had
to write to Frederic, and received next day, from a roy
al messenger, Freddie's answer signed by- Frederic's
own halt. This was an extravagant, a morbid activity.
The public business would assuredly jhavo been bdter
done if each departinent had been put tinder a anal
. of
talents and integrity, and if the King had, conteilted
himself with a general control. In ',this manner the
addautiges which belong to unity of design, and
I the
advantages which belong to the division of labor. would
have been to n great extent combined. But such a lyit
tem would not have suited the peculiar temper of Frtide
ric. He could tolerate no will, no reason in, the state,
save his own. Ile wished for no abler 'assissance than
that of penmen who had just understanding enough to
translate, to transcribe, to make out scrawls, to putt his
concise Yes or No into an official form. Of the higher
intellectual faculties, there is as much in a copying ma
chine, or a lithographic press, as he required from a se
cretary of the cabinet.
His own exertions were such as
expected from a human body or a W
Potsdam, his ordinary residence, hol
summer and four in winter. A pag
with a largo basketful of all.the letters
for the King by the last courier—des
bassadors, reports from officers of
buildings, proposals for 'draining inn
of persons who m thought themselves .
cations from persons who wanted tit
missions, and civil situations. Ho ex
with a keen eye;,. fur ho was never fo
from suspicion that some fraud nigh
him. Then her rend the letter, divid
vend packets, and signified his plea
a mark, often by two or throe words
some _cutting epigram. By eight I
finished this part of his task. The
was then in attendance. and received i
day as to all the- military arrangement'
Then the King went to review his gm
minute attention and severity of an old
the mean , time the, four cabinet sec I
employed in answering letters on whi
on that morning signified his wail •T
were-forced to work all the year 'round
in the time of the sugar-crop. They ne,
They never knew whet it was to dins.,
thit; before they stirred, they should fit
The King. always bir guard against
front a heap a handful at ra
to see' whether his instructi,
ad. 'fills was no bad smut
part ofithe secretaries; for i
n a trick, ho might think hit
iwith five }•ears of intprisoun
ric then siguenlie replies,
evening. ' -
The general principles on ( which this a
ment was-conducted, deserve - attention.
Frederic was essentially the saute as hi
Frederic, while ho carried that policy
which his father never thought of carr:ti
at the samo time from the ,abs'urditie's
father had encumbered it.l The King's
to have a great, efficient, and well-train
had a kingdom which in extent and popul,
ly in the second rank of European pow,
aspired to a place not infeyiot to that 'of
of England, France, and Austria. For. fl
necessary that :Prussia should be all sae ,
with fire times as many subjects as Frode
titan five times as large a revenue, lied I
midabla army. The proportion which t
Prussia hem to the pet AL
The maks in'the vigor of life,
Leidy under arms; and ! t his gt,
by reviewing, and by the i
scourge t been taught to pori
rapidity and a preseision .ivht
Vinare. or Eugene. The eh
necessary to the best •kind of
the Prussian service. In the:
religious and political onthusiai
men of Cromwell=the putrio
ry, the devotion to a great I
Old Guard of Napole 0., Du, .
of the , military calling, the P r ussians were
the English and French trool s of that da)
lisp and French troops to a ru tic militia.
-Though the pay of the P ussion soldi
though every rixdollar of extr tordinary eh,
noised by Frederic with a v il,ilanco
.and s 1
as Mr. Joseph Ennio never brought to on
-of an artAyektimate, * the expense, of such
meet wac;:lli ale means of the country e
order thaat:inig,ht not be utterly ruinous,
earyit4iery other expense i should be cu
lowest AI - slide point. Accordingly Freder
dominions bordered on the sa, had no na
titer had nor wished to havo .colonies. Ili
fiscal officers, were meanly paid. His twit
eign courts walked on foot, pr drove shah
gee till the axlotroes gave wii . . Even to li
plometic agents, who resided at London .1
lowed limss than a thousand pmiunds sterling
royal household was managed with a fru ,
in the establishments of opulemt subjects—
any other palace, and during' great part o
. pteasure in seeing his tabl's surrounded h
the whole charge of his kitchen was b 1
the sum of. two thousand pounds sterling
oxamt,Cmd every extraordinary item with
mighif be thought to suit the mistress of
house better than a groat princ. When 1
rixdollars were asked of him for a hundr ,
1 ..,...."“,.• ...L..: had heard that ono of his
sold a •
fortress to the Empress-Queen. N
cliamp:tgno was uncorked without exPres
gamo of the recur pa'rks and tores:s, a se
expenditure in most kingdoms. , was to •Imi
profit. The whole was farino i d out; and ti
t--
users were almost ruined bOheir conti
would grant them no remission. Ilia war
ed of one fine gala dress, which lasted hi
of two or three old coats fit for Monmot
yellow waigtcommts soiled with snuff, and
embrtiwned by \lino. One taste alone som
him beyond the limits of parsimony, nay,
tho limits of prudence—the taste] fur Lai
other timings his economy waSsuch as we m
harsher name, if we did not reflect that h
drawn from a heavily taxed people, and th
possible for him, 'without excessive rann u
at once a formidable arm v amU i l a, splendid
. 1
We would speak first of die Puritans
markahle body of men perhaps, Which the
er produced. Tito odious and ridicuions
character he on. the surface. He that r
them; nor have there been wanting ;men
cious observers to point the' out, For_ n
ter the Restoration, they were the theme
"ed invective and derision. They were e l
utmost licentiousness of the press and of
the time when the press and the stage we l t
lions. They were hot men of letters; tb
body unpopular; they could not defend th i t
the public would not take them under its
They were -therefore abandon ' ed, without r
tender mercies of the satirists and drainati
tentations simplicity of their dress, thei
their nasal twang, their stiff posture, Rich
their Hebrew names. the Scriptural plira4
introduced on every occasion, their come
learning, their destination 'of polite tunas
indeed fair game fur the laughers. " But .
1 the laughed-salon° that the 'philosophy of h
learnt. liiild he who appro l aciies this subje l c
fully guard against the iniluej,co of that pi
w hi c h has already misled ao runny excellv
• - “Eceo it futile (.I(lrioo.ed ePi, i! I i
Clm martali pritli In op Pontine:
U m qui teut.r a to itlo.lcti al i doal,
i;
El c., , oer cacti it . 1 .,(0 1 al ttoi e us it (
Those who roused the 'people to resistal
rested their , anetisures throngl a long serf
years—who formed out of the most nuproni
ale, the finest ornv that Europe had cvo
trampled down Kiiig, Church, and Aristoecy—who, in
ii
the short intervals of domesti l o sedition aid rebellion,
Made the name of England terrible to every nation on
the face of the earth, were nolvillg;U. fanatics. Mesi of
their absurdities were mere external badges, like the
signs of free-masonry, or the dresses of friars. W i e re
gret that these badges were net more mu activo. We re
gret that a body, to whose courage and tahints mankind
has owed inestimable obligations, , had not the lolly' de
g-anco which distinguishedozne of tho adherents of
Charles 1., or the easy good-b eeding for wi
of Charles 11. was celebrate .. Rut, if we
our choke, we shall, like Bas anio in the pl
i .
the specious caskets, which contain only
head and the Fool's head, and fix our clinic ,
leaden chest which condo* tie treasure.
Tho Puritans were men w wee minds I
peculiar character from the daily contemi
perior beings and eternal interests. ' Not col
knowledging, in general terms', en 017017111 in
they habitually ascribed evert- event to ti
Groat Being, for whose pow
To know him, to serve him
them the groat, end of . exist'
contempt the ceremonious her,
stituted for' the pure worshi
catching occasional gliMpse
obscuring veil, they aspired t'
We brightness, and to,corumu
• • Gentrarennee Liberete. xv. az
ere hardly to bo
maw' mind. At
rose ,at throe in
soon appeared,
vhich bad arrived
etches from am
venue, plans of
hes, complaints
agrieved, appli
es, military cam
mined the seals
a _moment free
be practised on
d them into se
:tiro, generally by
now and then by
o had generally
adjatant-geneTal
instructions for the
of the kingdom.
rds, but with the
diill-seigeant. Itt
etaries had been
h the Kingdusd
, ao unhappy men
like negro-slaves
• er had a holiday.
It was necessary
finish their work,
treachery. look
darn, I.
1117
age bn nest bee
ono o tire
litelf fur mat
ent in a dui
,nd all were e,
ems, herd)
seventh
eat force It
unsparing us
f orm all or
ich would Ir
crated foelli
limy %Imre th,
:e ranks wert
;m which ins,
e ardor, th
!radar, whirl
in all the in,
CHARACTER OF'THE PURI
•r nothing
to enjoy hi
puae:. They
rage which or
of the Bout
.of the Deity
gaze full one
tut with him fa
'eked int, them
exactly follow
.ul pl ay on- the
f t was detected
o•if lie escaped
itgeon„ Freile•
tit utlthe same
rango goverin -
The policYlof
father's; but
to lengths Ito
g
it, cleared it
- hit which his
irst object Was
d
lieu was hard .
rs, and yet he
lio soveleigns
at end it was
Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial ilist'n !-
bone. The differen• a between the greatest-and ;mean
! est of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with
the boundless interval which - separated the whole race
from hint'on whom their awn eyes were constantly fixed.
They recognised no title to superiority but his favor; and
Confident of that favor, theedespised all the accomplish
inept" and all the dignities of the world. If they, were
tineetantinted with the works of philosophers and poets.
they were deepl),read in the oracles of God; If their
Names were not found in the registers, of heralds, they -
felt assured that they wire recorded in the Book, of Life.
If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train
of menials, legions of ministering 4gels had charge
over them. Their NANO,' were hbuses not made with
hands: their diadems crowits,ief glory which should nev
er fade away! On the rich rind the , elopient, on nobles
and priests, they looked ;down with p contempt: for they '
esteetned'themselves rich in a more precious 'treasure,
and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the
right of an earlier creation; and priests by the impeSition
of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a
being to whose fate a mysterious a n d terrible importance
belonged—on whose slightest actin' the Spirits of light
and darkness .looked .with anxious interest—who, had
beeniteittined, before heaven and okirth were created, to
enjoy a felicity which should contittue when hettven . and,
- earth shbuld have passed away. I Events which' short-
Bighted politicians ascribed to earthly, causes had been
ordained on his account. For his oak° empires had zia- '
en, and , flourinlied, and decayed. For his sake the Al
mighty had proclaimed his will by,the pen Of Au even t ,
gelist, and the heart of the prophet. He bad beep res
cued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no com
mon fee t - He had been ransomed by' the sweat of no
vulgar agony,,by the blood of no earthly sacrifice. It
was for him that the sun had been darkened, that the
rocks had been rent, that the dead had, arisen, that all
nature bad shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring
God! Such we believe to have been the character of the
Puritans. We perceilve the absurdity of their mannorr.
We,disl.ke fie sullen gloom of thiiir domestic habits.—
We ailtneWledge that the tone oftheir minds was often
injured by straining after things !toe high for mortal
reach. And - we know that, in spite of their hatred of I
Popery, they to -often fell into the ;Worst vice of that
bad system, ,intelerance and extravagant austerity—that
they hail their anchorites and the - crusade, their Dun
stens argil their DeMentforti, their Daminiceand their
Escobars. :Vet when all circumstances are taken into
considkration, we do not hesitate c o pronounce them a I
brave, a wise, an honest, and a use ul body.
Louis XV..
ic, and more
of a more for
fio in
II erodible. Of
art were -
by drilling,
of cane and
lotions with' a
vo astonished
l gs which arc
n wanting to
not found the
)ired die pike=
thirst of giO•
inflamed tho
•thanical parts
.9 superior to
, as the Eng-
r was small,
rgu was sem
sspicion such
examination
an establish
sormous. In
t was neces
down to the
c, though Isis
I ey. lle nei
is judges, his
, dsters at for
,y old earriA
is highest di.
i r Paris, hold
' a year. The
alit unusual
',exampled in
1 his life took
• guests, yet
ought within
a year. Ile
•
care which
'a boarding
lore than four
, d oysters, he
generals had
•t a bottle of
order. The
ions had of
a source of
ough the far,
. ct, the king
• robe consist
n all his life:
th Street,. of
. it a - • • , . • •
Morals and manners were subje.o to a code resem
bling that of the synagogue when t ib.synagogue was in'
its worst state._ The dress, the dep.rtmeot. the language. ,
the studies, the ainthements of the rigid aectwere root-
toted on principles resembling those of the Pharisees. 1
who, proud of their washed hands Mid broad phylacteries.
taunted the Redeemer as a Sabbati-breaker ands wine-
bibher. It wen a sin to hang garla ds on a Maypole, to
drink a friend's health, to fly a hawk, to hunt a stag, to
play tit:chess, to wear love-locks, to put starch into L aruff;
to toucb4he* virginals, to road the Fairy Queen. Bailee,
such us these—rules which would have appeared insup.:-
portable to the free and joyous spirit of Luther, and con
temptible to the serene and philosophical intellect of
zwiegte, threw over all life a worse than monastic gloom
The learning and eloquence by which tho' great refor
mers mid been eminently distinguished, and to which
they liOd been, iu no small measure, indebted for thei
success, were regarded by the new school of Protestanter
with suspicion, if not with aversion. Some: precisions
had scruples about teaching the Latin grammar, because
the names of Mars, Bacchus and Apollo, occurred in it.
The fine arts were all but prescribe'd. The solemn peal
of the organ was superstitions. The light music of Bon
Johnson's masques was essolute.' llalf of therms paint
ingsin England were idolatrous, and the other half in
ikeent. The extreme Puritan ii•as!ut once known from
Miler men by Ills gait, his garb. , his link hair, the sour
solemnity of his face, the Upturned white of his eyes, the
nasal twang with which ho spoke, rind above all, his pe
culiar dialect. lie employed, on every occasion, the
imagery Mid style of Scripture. liebraisms violently it
troduced into the English language, and metaphors bor
rowed from the boldest lyric poetry of a remote age and
coUntry, and' applied to the common concerns of English
life, were the most strafing peculiarities of this cant;
which moved, not without cause, the derision both re
prelatists and libertines. They interdicted, under heavy
ponalt es, the Book of Ccimmon Prayer, not only in
churches, but even in private houses. It was crime in
a child to read by the bedside of a parent, one .of those
beautiful Cellects which had soothed the. griefs of forty
generations d Christians. Severe punishments wore
denounced against such as should presume to blame the
Calvinist:c 'node of worship. Clergymen of respectablo
character wera. not only ejected from their benefices by
thousands, ha 'were frequently exposed to the outrages of
a fanatical rable. Churches and sepulchres, flue works
dart, nail cur ens 'remains of ant:quity, were brutally
'defaced. Th pediment resolved tha t all pictures in the
i.
royal cellectioe, which contained representations of Jesus.
or of the Virgin 'Mother, should be burned. Sculpture
fared as ill as painting. Nymphs and Graces, the work
of loniati chiselS. Wore 'delivered ov r to the Puritan stone
-111480118 to b4rrindeedeeent.
e, • . • • ' • • • • • •
..,..
i
Perhaps noisngle circumstance nrlore strongly illustrates
the temper of' the 'precisions than their "conduct respec
ting Cheistina l s dhy. Christmas bud boon, from time
immemorial, Oho deasan of joy and domestic affection, the
season when !families meietnbled, Iwhon children eamo
hotne from school' whenquerrels tore made up, when
,corols were heard in every street,tivhen every house was'
decimated with evergreens, and every table was loaded
with good cheer. At that season, kill hearts not utterly
deititute of kiudness, wore enlargtid rind softened. At
tharecason the poor were admitted to partake largely of
the over flowings date wealth of the rich. whose bounty
was peculiarlyacceptitble on account of tho shortness of
the days, aitd of tho severity of the weather. At .that
season the interval between landlord and tenant, master
and servant, Was less Marked than 'through thereat of the
year. Where there is much enjoyment there will bo
some excess'; Yet. ou the whole, the spirit in which the
hul)4Uy was kept was not unworthy of a Christian (esti
- val. - The Long Parliament gave orders, in 166-1, thalthn
twenty-fifth of Decontbershould be strlctly,ohscrved as a
fast, end that all men should pass it in huMbly bemean
ing tho.great national sin whieb, 4hey and, their fathers
had so often committed on that day, by romping under
the misletoe, 44ting boar's head, and drinkintale flavor
ed with roasted apples. No public act of that time seems
to have irritated the comnran people moroi On the next
anniversary of the festival, formidable riot broke out in
many places. The constables were resisted, the magis
trates instated, tho houses of noted zealots attacked, and
the" prescribed service of the day openly read in the
chinches., - I i
f huge boom
times allured
even beyond
all
light cakl h a
's funds were
t it Will ilia
. to ,keep tip
ann.
ANg.
the most re
world liae ev
parts ott their
es ma!l.read
ire norlimuli
anv Nears af-
utimeastir
posed.to the
the stake, at
l o most lice&
I CV Hera
35 II
I •
inselves and
protection.=
serve, to the
-ts. The os
sour aspect,
long greces,
s irhich they
tpt of !minor'
me its, n'ere
not front
v is to be
stor
411.,
uIJ enre
ritliculo,
UM
Ico—w•ho 41i-
a of eventful
sing mated
-
seen—who
ich tho court
must make
V. turn from
tho Duath's
on Ma plain
C ad derived a
'lotion of sti 7
rr tent with an
!: ProVidonce,
o will of the
too minute.
. was with
A young man in Cincinnati. who Was in the rash . act
of stealing a kiss from a girl. got his lips severely bitten
for his pains. Can't be too careful in such things.
:jeotod with
ersocissub
luetead of
ICJ' "Can" you tell me. sir, what , time the railroad
comes in?" inquired an old lady with a bandbox in het
arms of a lounger about Qr
"About ten minute. after the ik.pot goes out, ma'aut,".
privily responded ths wag.
through an
the intolera
ea to face.—
NUMBER 4e.
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