VOLUME 20.
POETRY AND NISCELLAN V.
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. 'Telt t.. n. stootattray. .
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"lie hcapcth up relics, and knowetb no t
who shall gather
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them. Cy David.
• "Tnt!,ll,o 11..f0r heirs, they know not who,
And straight are seen no more." Walls,
ii,kbrOW tray worn with tare.. Too deep a thought
Tad settled them for lingering sleep to shed
i.lite poppy dew "Obtained. Ile sa id of:mirth,
r l'" And every social Joy.—" They profit not."
1 For lie had sold his life to gather gain,
And rear a palace for his only son. --,
That crowds might envy.' To his wearied heart
Amid its slavery, still lie said. "Plod on!
•Tis for toy son."—nut lo..—an icy grasp
CremMetered him atonce, and down be lay
IltduAant awl UtunoTned.
The heir roamed wide
in distant lands, with light and lavish haste
Scattering his spoils.
In the ancestral halls,
Are guests, and banquet•bo ad, and music-struin,
Rut not for him.. 'limy bear his mune no more,
And on his bloated features arc a F tam p,
Of libertine and exile. In the wards
Of foreign hospitals with parching lip,
Ile feels the fever thir.t. and none are near
Of all the maziysereauht of his sire,
To give him water, that his tongue there lurks
The drunkard's mutter,' curse, mixed with no word
Of grateful memory for that_father's core,
Who toiled so late and rose eie don n of day
To toil for him the waster, and enrich
Bens, all unknown.
A mother, strange to Say,
Represses the claims of pity, and t‘ ithhcld
The surplus of her stewardship from God.
The poor, pale seintress, with lwr trembling tirrtels,
And timid voice, ',creel% ed llie scant) dole
Narrowed and drugged and sat lily bestowe
And wept despairing our her:lonely crust.
The beggar came not twice to 'ha proud door,
Rem.•mhring the refusal, couched in words
' Scornful and sharp. The mission tcs,rl spread
I Cd in°trY Wili=: 4 and sought a heftier] dune
Without her aid.
At! s)the )early-ohl
Swell%l in ile hoard; met to heneifshe 0:1141,
”Tiafor dereqhter's ass, wheh / are got. 1;"
('Renting her noted %01.11 with min) , 1141111%
Of fond nintrtual duty,—teil too thin
To hide tier nature from the eye of beaven.
Oh lady! In the damp and mouldering tomb,
is there no o hence a lett:C.:l. gt t
Might bean thy loft• Illatl/10111
see! IMeild!
IVIao siateth on thy Ilaughtves ride
And an her coa,tly mirrors tally lookfi!
Who !granted the hon Pri (113( dUCk'd her gay parterre
And revel ,in her truti%! -• •
A wtranger bride
Calls it her home, Thy ihnighter is not there,
Iler is in the day—mid In her tide
The hibe, tvikne tleeti tu. , 7, life is id. hers %vat litioilit;
%Vitale he, %silo hrielly 011 Ins fititter %sure
he circled of her love, forgetictli her.
Yet thr that ,lanellter dtd•t iti , th grind the Lour,
Suit seal thine ear again'l the l'ng.alen uaaui
Cathug it prthtence, and n j itg reg•tra
To thine on n otrtpring.
'Tivris swie kris Lire!
04, masher, Ji LAlLit t'ily emit from lieavvii
HOW FORTUNATE!
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"'What luck!" exclaimed one.
'•glow fortunate:" re.pondt d another
And "flow fortnnnie!" wt echoed In evenhody
Without acknowledging any faith in the 111111111 that
"what every body says must be true," we nee oblig:d to
confess that it did appear fortunate—most fortunate.—
Harry llinehinan had drawn a prize in the lottery'.—
aye, and that, too, at a time when money was most need
ed to save him from impending ruin. The exact amount
of the' prize was unknown even to his most intimate
friends; lie was wise enough not to trust them with the
secret; but it must be considerable, fur it proved suffi
cient to froo him from all his embarrassments,, bud give
him a fresh start in life.
Bow fortunmcl
And who was Harry Hinelnnen? asks some inquisi
tive reader. Alas! ho was nobody. At least society said
he was nobody. Mrs. Tompkins, whoso eldest daughter
read all the fashionable novels, and t Kik music lessons
from a professor with busby whiskers and imperial, to fit
her for matrimony, MrsiTompkins said ho was n obodye
and so did Mrs. Nokins, who never used her front doo:
when she had ought to be out of town: while Mr. Jones;
the cobbler's son, who kept a finding store in Pearl,
'street, and did not owe morethin twice his capital, turn
ed up his nose at him—metaphorically speaking—for the
nose of said Jones naturally ] i turned upwards, as if it
preferred the breath I d Heaven to the perfume beneath it.
Aye s ,Caleb Jones. Esquire, as he styled himself, turn
ed up his nose at him; and if that is not authority
enough for saying that Harry was nobody, I should-like
know what is. thirty Hinchman was nobody therefore
—except on rent and training days, and then he passed
muster as somebody till the laudlord and the millitia offi
cer were done with him, and then he sank back again
into a nonenity. It is true, he was honest, frugal, and
industrious, but ho was poor. It was a terrible crime on
his part, and the world made him feel that it was so; but
he could not help it. He married early in life—what
business had ho to do so!—and the necessary expenses of
a rapidly increasing family had bound hint to his pover
ty. It is singular what a number of mouths gather
around your poor man's board. While the wealthy are
miserable for want of an heir i _the poor have ta heir for
esery sixpence. Harry had more heirs-than sixpences.
fly a system of rigid economy, however by avoiding debt
in every shape, ho had4ccceded in maintain: respect
able appearance for years; but sickness came at length,
bringing other misfortunes in its train, and in a few
months afterwards he was a ruined man.
Ile struggled nobly to retrieve his affairs, but his efforts
wore unavailing. Every day found him becoming more
and more involved. Debts, unavaidably contracted,
pressed heavily upon him, crushing hisspirit and numb
ing his energies with the pretty stingt that accompany
poverty; the unjust suspicions of impatient creditors, and
the slighting coldness of summer friends. Ile hadbeen
ejected from the 1101130 which he had inhabited (or yearn.
in consequence of his inability to meet the last quarter's
rent, and he was rapidly sinking into actual want. when
the prize in the lottery came, and raised him at once to
comparative affluence.
how fortunate:
'"We.shall ho happy at last, dear Mary," he exclaim,
ed, as ho hastened home to his wife with the joy
ful intelligefice. "We shall be happy at last. Tho tide
hos turned, and fortune is before m"
And they were happy; fora time. et inst. Comfort
,returned to the lately wretched home, and the bitter hu
miliations of poverty wore replaced by the obsequious
attentions so flattering to the vanity of all human bipeds.
The diseerning public were beginning to perceive that
there was something in the'nobodies after all. Society
was puling on its spectacles to look at the gold.
Mary Hinchman was no heroine of romahee; there
was none of the poetry of nature about her. She no*
tuod ablvering ou the back atoop—lpirra we werui—Jook-
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ing unutterable nothings at the moon, and sighing after
imagin•try worlds; but she was atf.apital housewife, and
provided excellent dinners. Do you suppose it took the
world long to make the discovery?
It is wonderful hew numerous soon became the friends
of Hinchman; or. rather, it would appear wonderful,
were it not an established fact that summer friends and
toadstools have an equally rapid growth. Yet too clothe
poor toadstaol a wrong by the conopitrison, for it will
spring to life in the •damp, dark cellar, While the other
only exists in the full blaze of the golden day. While
the storm was raging around him, Harry had sought for
them in vain—not the toadstools, but the friends—but iu
the sunshine that followed they flourished lit abundance.
They were most profuse in their offers of service; too;
aye, and they wore sincere in their-offers—some of them,
at least—for, through their interest, Harry obtained a
lucrative situation in a moneyed institution. Where,
matters not.
How fortunate. . _
Was it not? Waa not (ho world righiewhen it ex
claimed ''How fortunate?" We shall see presently.
A year passed away, and the prosperity of the Hinch
mans still appeared to he on the increase. The nobodies
became fashionable, and removed to en elegant mansion
up town, with bath rooms and gas fixtures, folding doors
and marble mentlepieces. Mrs. Tompkins began to visit
her dear Mrs: Hindman, while Mr. Jones's nose turned
less heavenward at the sight of our hero. lie even had
thfecondeseensions to ask Harry' to endorse a note for
him; not that he required it, oh no! It was.his way of
showing his tatted - 1 for his friends, and ho was begin
ning to look on Hurry as his friend. Assuredly the
Ilinchmans were becoming somebodies.
As Harry had said, the tide had chonged. Ile began
to be ttoted as a rising man. Hie aftentiou to business
cud untiring industry. won for hint the confidenCe of les
employers. His charader for strict integrity was Onlin e
peachable, and ho soon rose from a subordinate situation
to one of the highest trust and responsMility.
The postman discovered that he wits the bearer of des
eatelfee to—Henry Hindman, Eeq..!
Actlyet the happiness of our hero did not appear to •
Evir. SPEAKlsa.—Many a man deepistes another, increase will, his prosperity.Toehe world, it is true, all
seemed bright and fair; but at home, in the privacy of whom ho never had dealings, or to whom he scarcely
ever spoke. Some person has whispered a slander in his
domestic life, there was bitter change. In the midst of
all his troubles ho had been an attentive husband and an
ear. lie belives the ill , report and thus Aims and des=
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pises his neighbor. A blander slops not here. We man
affectionate tether. He had borne up against misfortune
with a calm spirit and nn unruffled temper; but now he has
intimate friends to whom he opens his heart. and
had become restless and irritable. Surrounded hv all who catch his feelings and also become prejudiced
against one, who perhaps may be one of the best men in
the luxuries that wealth could procure, he was captious
the community. "Behold how great a fire n little Spark
about trifles. Au over-dune leg of mutton put hint a
fever. kindleth." Kies the Aposle. A man who breathes a Wor 1
against another. is little aware of the great injury he
Let it not ho iiderstood that ll:Wives the immediate
p.-oduces. Ho cannot rec all a %wed if he would. It hue
result of ICS good fortune. Far from it. For the first
gone forth and is reported and believed seeree. Men
eighteen months after drawing the prize he enjoyed life
are nut careful when they spawn, and the slender is ad
to the utmost,- The change was gradual; so gradual as
tied to, until the character of of comparatively pure; is
to he barely perceptible for a long, long time. His wife
made black and offensive in flu extreme. Stop' mane
felt that he sas becoming an altered titan; vet even sh
Do not speak at random. Utte no falsehood. tie matter
rather felt that knew it. • She found that ho was broom ° .
wlvt may be your feelings tower s another. Evil speak
lag sebject to tits of gloomily abetractilm, which upon be
in is a sin of which hundreds are guilty, who are not
ing remarked, etiddenly gave place tb an •equalle minute g !!
oral exuberance of spirits. But this she attributed to the
sensible of the injury they are producing. The imae
gine that language dies, when it fills from their, lips.
harraesing nature of his new tetsiuess. Such was his
Not taw, it lbws' art is ever active for jived or for evil.
own explanation of the Cullei`, and she, like a dutiful
Ile careful then when you speak and how: eon
spouse, implicit') believed hint, althouge she could nut
epee's. Misrepresent nobody. It is a good rulear.oh.
help wondering how; one who bled endured real mister
seryee-if you camet speak well of another. net to sneak
• tune so well, could thus succumb to petty enneeemmeee..•
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t i e r .,inde eame dral-df trouble and prevent
She was in hopes that their continue:l pruspertv would these - aniemosities and Mitred.; Celt embraner the sweets
restore him to his former dispeeition; but ns lime ad- •
of hem, and lire never healed at this side _ of the pave.
vanerd the gloom upon his spirit Increased, and to it was
Will you Speak evil of another? Will you stealer'
added n degree of iraseibility, and' even moroseness,
t lie? If so we never desire your acquaintance IVe
which she' found difficult to endure. Ile slept no longer ;en ! , „ ,„ • „ • „
e r re
. 15 , 111111 teem is aum will present me. contest ! .
as he was wont to sleep.filis rest was broken by
raw tothose who and defame, and labof
strange and fevetish smuts. mind was evidently ill
to cover with infamy t is libel reproach.—
, at case.
(Aire Branch.
Ills children began to fear him, and Vary, n -
hitherto_only been accustomed to the honey of r YOCTIIFUL , PinSEVERANC.E.—A lad about thirteen years
life, began to complein fflat the vinegar was too so f ago arrived in this' city by the cars night before last.
finding that it was not in her power ta i effect any change, His story, though brief, is an interesting one, and exhib
' she prudently consoled herself for her domestic unliappi- i its 0 strength of cloSe-clinging affection, which it is a
neSs by purchasing a newer Oct of French chairs, in the pleasure to record. Hisenother and sister left Ireland
hope that her new friend. Mrs Tompkins, might die of I about a year i)mgo for America, and the boy being then
envy, Why she selected Mrs. Tompkins fur her victim bound apprentice, was rrot permitted to accompany them
is o mystery we tie not pretend to filth o mi but her char- i although ho desired to do so. Some eight months after
'table desire was nearly gratified.' G r een - 4 00 d would j their departure, the I ttlo fellow, without a penny in his
have been graced with an additional monument if Mrs. pocket, ran away from - his master, walked to Dublin
T. lied not accidently discovered that she could obtain a city, told his story to the Captain of an American ship,
set that would cost fifty dollars more than these which end tearfully solicited his aid in' taking him to his mother.
her dear friend, Mrs. Ilinchman had bought. !( The Captain told him that thel United States was a very
From that moment a race of rivalry began between large country. and should he get there he might not find
the two ladies, resulting in great.bcnefits to fordiionable the object of his search; but the little .raJanbet" war due
teettesmen, and greater injury' t , i—son.ehody's pocket.. termined to ry," and finally ho got the Captain's con-
We were incontiberately about to write their husbands!, sent to take h m across this ocean in the capacity of a
but a moment's reflection will show our readers that we second cook. The vessel arrived at New Yetk, and the
speak wiser in saying somebody's. The husbands of little fellow, 11 nlono, searched the great Metropolis
fashionable wives are occasienally only disbursers for throughout—enquiring of the Irish families of the where
their creditors, abouts of his mother; but to no purpose—no one know
Hinchman chafed considerable at his wife's extrava
gance; butte he had acquired a habit of chafing at eve
rything, eh - is . ' paid little attention to it, especially us she
feund that her bills were paid, or promised to be paid
something or other. She did not inquire too curiously
which of the two it was; that was Hinchmau's affair, or,
rather, his creditors'. If they were satisfied with promi
see, why it was laudable in her to gratify them with as
many as they chuld digest. _ If th it.i . became sufferers in
the end, who Would sympathize h them for their los
ses. All the pity the world-eau spare is for the wealthy
speculator, whose bankruptcy ruina hundred of the in
iff
dustrious poor, What are the ser ngs of starving me
chanics in comparison with these endured by the man
who has to give up hischampaigne suppers—for n time?
Time rolled on, and everybody began to exclaim, "How
high the Much:flans live!" while some of the reflecting
began to wonder how long it would lust.
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They were not kept long in suspense on the subject.
One day Hinchman disappeared.
"lie has absconded!" exclaimed some.
The eyes of Mrs. Tomkins actually grew brilliant when
she heard them.
"He's gone to Texas!" responded others. -
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Mrs. Tomkine was in a state of excitement for rt - week:
she could only sit down on tho edge of her chair for five
minutes at a time. ..I knew how it would end," she
exclaimed to her coterie of confidential sotniedies.—
"Such nobodies to put themselves up as equa to us.—
'Pugh! I warrant me Ilinchman has left plenty of cred
itors to suffer by his roguery. It is shameful to defraud
poor people so!"
Mrs. Tomkins had a right to be virtuously indig
nant. Mr. Tompkins had only once taken the benefit of
the act.
"I shouldn't wonder if lie had robbed his employers,
and gone to enjoy the fruits of his villeny in Europe,"
alio added.
- Sho was wrong in the latter part of herlconjectnre
Harry had taken a longer journey. Ha had committed
suicide! A vague Suspicion that his employers intended
en investigation of his accounts. had terrified him Into
the corritu - ssion of the fatal deed. Among the papers
was found a confession, acknowledging omberclements to
the amount of naarly seventy thousand dollen.. They
wore found to exceed that sum. But how bad the mon.
cy been spent.
His confession stated that the drawing of his first prize
bad awakened in him a spirit forlottery gambling. over
which, at last. he bad _no control. Belied kept for*
lung time within his income. but the inducements '
"splendid scheme" had at length tetnpted him to appro
priate a small sum of his employers in his possession, for
the purchase of tickets. He fully intended io replace it
immediately, but home expenses swallowed up 111 whole
of his salary, and his tickets proved blanks. It is need
less to follow him from one peculation to soother. Once
he nearly retrieved himself by drawing half of a capital
prize, bu . ti he was still a few thousands short i Shall we
go ou?
Th'e end was despair and death.
How fortunnte!
Is our sketch's fiction? No
HOME AFFECTIONS
The heart has memories - that cannot die. The rough
rubs of the world cannot obliterate them. They are
memories of home, early home. There is magic iii every
sound. There t i the old tree under which the light hear t
ed boy swung in any a summer day, yonder the river
in 'which he learned to swim, there the house in which
ha . knew a parent's love, and knew a parent's protection
—moni there is - a room in which ho romped with brotho
or sister. long siticelalas: laid in tho yard in which he
must soon bo gathered overshadowed by yen old church,
whither, with a joyous troop like himself, he followed his
parents to worship with and hear tho good old man who
gave him to God in baptism. Why, even the school
house, associated in youthful days with thoughts of ferule
airtasks, now comes - back to bring pleasant remem
brances of an attachment there formed, many an occa-.
(den that called faqir some generous exhibition of the
traits of haman Nature. There he learned to feel - sumo
of his best emotions. There perchance, he first met the
being who by her love and tenderness in after lir... has
made n home for himself happier even than that which
his childhood PICW. 'Thom are certain feelings of Ml
manity, and those among the best, that can find iippro
priat,placo for their exercise only by one's own fireside.
There is sacredness in tho privacy of that spot which it
were a speCies of desecration to violate! He who seeks
wantonly to invade it, is neither inure dor less than a
her. During hie search, which continued more than a
.:t
week, the little fel ow met his current expenses by doing
chores in the stree , such as holding horses. ,Sec.—for a
a lad of-that kind could not be dishonest. Failing' in
New York, ho wor ed his passage oil a steamer to Alba
ny—reached that ii and worked his way to Dudek,
thence to Sandusky, and on to Cincinnati—making a
journey, in all, of about four thousand miles, in starch
i i
of his mother! "Upon his arrival here, he immediatel y .
sought out the risk residents, and, fur the fi rst time,
heard o f the ob ject of his lOng and singular pilgrimage.
He learned thut his mother and sister had lived at Cin
cinnati, but about a month einco ) bad moved to Vance
burgh, Ky. The little “Japhet." in the fulness r his
joy,• was determined that en hour should aid be los . and
went to Captain Grace, of the Brilliant, yesierda, and
told hie story. The Captain took hint on board, g.eve
him some irioneY and provided for him comfortably for
the paisage, and doubtless ore this. the little fellow is in
the arms of his search. It is a fact not unworthy of re
cord, presenting as it does, a pleasnnt incident in the
train of the story, that while on board the Brilliant, the
boy was recognized by a gentleman, who was a passen
ger on the mime vessel upon which ho crossed the ocean
-who fully corroborated his story!—Cincinnati commer
cial, A ril 23d. [,
QT The Knickerbroker. for March, in its "table."
contains a very readable melange from which we take
this:
"During the exhibition of a menagerie in a country
village in Maine. a real live Yankee was on the ground,
with a terrible itching to "see the elephant," but he
hadn't the desiderated "quarter." Having made up
hie mind to go in_ "any heow," he stationed himself
near the entrance, and waited until :the rush was over.
Then, asenming a patient, nlmost exhausted tone, and
with the forefinger of his right hand placed on the right
corner of his mouth, he exclaimed, "For God's sake ?
*lister. Ora you goin' to give me my change?"—"Your,
change!" said tho door-keeper. "Ya!ess! my siiange/
I gin yeadollar es much as an hour ago, and lian't gat
change yet, The door-keeper handed over threequar
ters in change end in,walked the Yankee "in funda.",
Navin. Stautrum.--Nobodi is satisfied in this wprkl.
If a legacy is left a man he regrets it is not !argon If
he finds a stun of money. he Bombes the spot for Moro - .
If he is elected to some high office. he wishes ,n btitter
one. If he is rickand wants for nothing. ho strives trot.'
more rikdowor is a, single man he_is looking °nicer' .
a - ‘-'4lllilif mirrled. Nell is nevet sightfivd:
rya Borodia; , —
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NENE
V•ONWARD.,
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1849.
BELT-UZILLIANOZ Or TUB POOR.
BY JULIA ♦. FLETCUER. I
"What cau you do for a living?" I asked a group of
children, not one of whom had reached the age of eight.
Instantly a dozen little hands were raised, anti as many
eager voices were repl 'in.
"/ can get shavings aid sell them:"
"/ ran shovel snow from the sido.walks!"
"/ ) can run of errands for people :"
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"/ sweep Mr. L.'s store every morning"
"/ carry in the {wood my father saws!" with a variety
of like ezclamAtions, each revealing some triode of juve
nile labor.
One tone wee plainly perceptible iii these replies, !a
tone of self-confidence, uot boastful, but triumphant, with
Itho power to be useful. Yet while these children were
thus revealing their home, life and occupation, there
were others who stood with them, silent, and evidently
bewildered with new thoughts.
ft was recess-time in a public school, and in this group
was the usual iningling of every condition of life. To
the children of povorty, the idea of working for a subsist
ence was as u household friend; the petted children of
luxury knew not what was ta l eaut. They know that some
people worked, that mantina's 'help' worked in the hitch
len, and perhaps some that papa's clerks work.2cl in the
store; the girls knew that their dress-maker and milliner
worked, sometimes very late, to finish their dresses,
when their parents took them to the theatre or to a fancy
ball; but 413 idea of working, !hems:etas, and that, too,
as a means of support, had never entered the mind, of
the little darlings.
I looked on these young beings, so closely associated, f
yet, soadrangely contrasted, and for pothups this thou-
width time, tile thought arose, "Thank God, I am a I
poor idines child!" It was followed by a less selfish
thanksgiving, that in our public schools at least, "the
rich and the poor motif togethor." We will not pause
now to confider the malty advantages to each resulting
from this managefocit, fur we wish now to speak of
self4olience which is so 'Peculiarly a characteristic of
the poor. We do not Mean those who are crushed down
by the harden of abject want, whose hovel homes are
darkened by ignorance, and too often by vice; we mean
the honest laboring poori who drink gladly at the foun
tains of knowledge opened to them in our public insti
tutions, and porffAl cheerfully the t asks that give them
true 'indepeisdonee.
Same may think wo ought to say the American poor,
hut this distinction is fast pagsing away, as the crowd of ,
want-crushed and ignorant foroigneri who form so
perfect a represeatitioe of their own lands, becam e pa
pds in the great public school —our owp. We fear not
that they will injure The evil is - ever transient, but
the good endoloth. The streams of foreign want and
ignorance may roll llarkley in ni/on us; other laiids may
mingle whir the pure streams of ours, the very wasto
and filth of their own; but the turbid tido shall turn our
mill-wheels, nod bear our steamboats even now, sod ere
long, the waters which had grown stagnant from still
ness, and dark from the d irkness around them, shall be
come ptirified in their onward course, and flash brightly
back the sontight wh:ch is over them.
We speak of self-reliance in the poor, because it is to
them'the strength of their existence. It is the power
whirl sustains them in , their weary toil; which teaches
WOW when .1/oriels 1111:1 be wrought by tho strong right
hand and the stronger sous, Wilco nerved by human love
and heavenly trust. It is manly in the mom it is Wa-t
manly in the woman. It is fitting to this nobly horn,
but in the poor, it is nobility itself.
If this blessing were only bought by adversity, we
Might wish tube poor or sorrowing for this, so usually is
it the result of sueeesstul struggling against obstacles.—
We see it seldom in the rich mates child, neverl if he
has been always tendeily cared for at butte; but the rag
ged urchin who has spent huff his young life without
cure, and tho other ponies under the rude teachings of
necessity, has acquired a confidence in his own powers,
and a facility in their exercise, which man) nice might
envy.
The dang:iter o(wcalthy-parents, with her cultivated
mind and many accomplishments is far less capable of
earning her daily bread. should necessity compel her to
the elrart, than the daughter of their milkman or wash
woman: yet she may have been endowed by nature with
stronger powers and greater energy. -I
Is it then necessary tope poor in order to acquire a
habit of self-reliance? e think not. Educe lion should
be to the wealthy, what Inecessity is to the poor. Parents
should early Coach their children to depend upon their
resources oven in trifles; never allowing them i to receive
aid from others in performing any task to which they are
themselves adequate. 'TheyWill thus bestow upon them
a bettor sVettlth than all the geld they can mos., a truer
,independence thnn wealth can ever confer. Nor need
they fear that this will make them either selfish or wil
ful. Who are more selfish, than the indolent? Who
more wilful than the spoiled children of a weak indul
gence? Yet who Ito little self-r ‘ i.liant,tts they?
Many a parent han,toiled thro wh long years to "leave
his children independent," yet raring them:the while
with mistaken fondness, has left them at last, amid stores
of worldly wealth the most dependent creature in the
universe. Had ho given to each of them some means
of "earning au hottest livelihood," and the willingnos
to use such means, it need should be, he had then left
them in a noble independence. All human beings of
ordinary health and good capacity; should liar tho'pow
or to supply themselves with a home and home comforts
ItY their own unaided exertions. The constiousnes of
this power, united to a "conscience vole of offence."
and a mind rich in its own wealth, is the reality of the
independence, so much boasted, so seldom attained. It
is moral and mental as well us physical independence.—
Such a being can never be swayed from the right by the
love of gain, the fear of mortification, or the charnis of
society.
This consciousness of self-anincioney will give grace
and dignity to any station, the loftiest or the most meni
al. Wo arc too apt to mistake self-sufficiency for self
conceit. Misused as the word has hoed. misapprehend
ed as it still is, in its true meaniiig it is one of the noblest
attributes of humanity, the one in which we draw near.
est unto God. He alone is entirely self-sulEcient,ho
alone can, therefore, bo entirely self-reliant.
Let us try, under Gbd, to be sufficient unto ourselves,
and wo shall not love our fellow-mortals less, that we
can, if need be, live without them.
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AMEBIC 4N CONSULS Annoan.—The New YPil.
Tribune contains a statesman of the official income'
of our consuls aboard; by which it appears that n(ii
Consulate-is at present worth $lO,OOO. The largest'.
amount 'received is by the, COMA at Liverpool, Mitt
in 1845 received ) s9,o63 65. The consulates atitid'
'de Janeiro and at London are also worth $9,000.
The next best are the consulates of Havana and
Glasgow, both of which yield annually upwards of
$5,000. St. Thomas and the Sandwich Islands deft
yield $4,000; six other posts yield $2.000 per annum,
eighteen are worth sl,ool:4 l and the remaining nearly'
' consiiliates range from $6.000 to's4,ooo per annum
much the largest propnration of them being worth
less than $5OO. The consul at Alexandria, inj
"Egypt, reCeives a eatery of 04,000. Three commie
on the coasts of Barbary each receivel'• a Airy :oi l
112,00 1 :4 and five 'in China receive a aalaiy ' i f
$l,OOB
a year each. One at &tyrant facets • a glary .4
$5000.' Seyeral of,thelaino,r collildi 4162 made n 1
return of fetis,, . , „.. . , ~.
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fr7This beautiful effusion was written by a young wan who
hailed for ettlifbrnia, In the clipper Empire, of 87 tons.-.=fast.
0 if CI or nareaTunz.
One snore sigh—this hour of parting
Front the life we live and lord
One wore tear of:manly weakness
For the home whence we shall rove.'
Here is quiet—there are perils—
And the bravest well nay fear:
One :bore sight for Cite departed,
Forour ft lends another tear.
But the land we leave behind us
Is debased with slavish menl
. Thoughts. opinions. nil tire copied..
And a tired hand holds the pen. I
Still we act n► others acted.
pall we think as others thought.
And we shun the daring freeman
From whose lips nen words are taught
Let me burst dim rupty fetter.,
They corrode my inner Foul;
Let t :nr: wander where no °Hier.
C n my Words or deeda control;
Where the free wealth.df the Fit ers
la-no richer or mure free
Titan the fresh air yet, unpoitoned. 1
Sweet and wild with Libert %
, I , will urge with hardy hunt to
On thilAr hoary mountains iold;
They ate rough, but richly Inland, ,
I.ii,e their rocks, with' heart of gold,
Or, if slates are still around me,
I will hide myseli awaYo
In aortic rece.m. and 111111 Ci feed.
Vil..tch my night till comes the day.
a ii
.k, o Inure sighs then—ndinore weak:iv:a
In this parting front old home;
Here is bondage—there it freedom—
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4 , ;- There tha soul may wid.dy roam,
_ Dash that tear from oft' the eyelid— -
Twat.; t;le 4liarync , a of the gale.
Cast Oaf maorings: the+ are tether=_— .
' Now my !wort su ells with the sail!
l'int.. Beekot.r
NOT ALL RUINED
WE 1121/0 ClIttrlIli:MI and expressed fears, says the
`ornmertied Airerliscr, that the vehinteer:4, generally,
vho might return front the war in Mexico, would be de.
norali7ed by their participation in those scones of *laugh-
er. That our fears have to a sad extent been realized,
o scarcely need say: Occasionally, however. the bi..s . -
ory of an exception, all the brighter and more pleasing
ruin the contraat,•tneet: our eye in reading, among the
nest interesting of which is the following. Tim subject
.fit was a pupil of the farm school of the Huston Asylum,
utl tho account iv written by Mrs. Ass 1.. Monmses,
he matron. After re Wing it. one cannot help Haying,
with the editor of the 111.efoli Journal, long in.iy • a sherd
which thus trrins its pupils, remain as a monument of
the bon n: of the Bostdnian..:—
"The Iretorn of the velnateers from Mexico was look-
d forward to with painful intnest by 'us; as four of our
arm School bays were with them, having enlisted after
caving the school. ''Many were our doubts Ind feats, ns
/ vet thought of - their temptations and assechtee3. It was
i very happily shown to us by a visit frame one of them,
t thox next day Mier ho las discharged, how - far tho 'feel
ings, of bouts and gond Principles can be 'instilled into
the minds of the young and motherless. lie met us with
trite affeclion, and fir from the vices pf the camp: his'
ealth pert. ct, itis eppdarance maul, tstaLliti, nttla t-s. g ots
tient :My; his intellgence far be)und anything, wa antis
Icipated.- Clad in a handsome suit, his heart ovei flowing
with joy that ho had with-stood the dangers'of his sittia
iiun.. and thoroughly cured of till desire to enNtogaimito
'was au interosting , speeimen of the soldier to look upon.
"Ho observed:!--"Mother. wham I laid my head on
my Mexicali pillow—.t stone with die sat side n)a—i used
lta think how you would feCI to see mo thus, at d of my
oinfortable bed nt the farm school. When fors my hours ,
I had no food, how sweet would hafe been tou l r bread:"
" •Ilow did you speed your leisure hours, George?" I
sited hint. "; I sometime. used to rosin tlWhills and
I I
xvoods 6 gather flowers, Make a bouquet, and put it in
le
he top of my gam think of you and home. Ciao day, in
lone hour, I found fort• different kinds of tinwers."—
I lere we see - the beautiful missiou of flowers—l littlo
bought, when I was teaching him botany, it would bo a
olace for ft soldier in 31exico." . )
...What other aniusetne at did you hay.•"'
.• thought my Elmo must not be last, - and' 1 learned
o opon'the bugle; and 1 now intend to join a musi
,
al baud."
...What did yon do with your scrip',"
" *I havo it undur lock and key; they did not get my
and for tliirty llt an uncle out west, I shall
mploy him to locato it fur and when I !anvi(' finished
my carpenter'i tratdo, I menu to build the 411011,e oO it."
.Ilow did y'M escape the - omit° and ',tiler sick
ness?" ' I I
...I drank no spirit, as littlo of the water as possible,
kopt myself clean, and had not a , i4ment's - sickness?"
did you like tho inhaltants?" -
• •Tho lower class are ignoran , and ati7ge and the
wealthy make slaves of them.. I should not wish to
there. I consider the knowledge. 1 have' acquired of
men and the camp as a compensation for my lime; and
then 1 have my land. I had no rause for enlisting; I
Issas well situated, learning a good trade, and shall ever
look upon this as a great lesson for my life. I boarded
with a widow lady, who had thrice sone. We all paid
our board, and were all trouted alike; the eldest, in a
moment i!f excitement, enlisted, he urged mo to go with
in
him; oei from sympathy than a desire, I enlisted.' It
has perfectly cured us."
"Did you see our other boys, L. W. and B.?"
"1 saw them all. L. has
,ehlisted for five years; W.
returned with me.
.They all havo behaved well, and
have not acquired bad habits."
"How thankful :we were to hoar this! It gave wings
to anxious thoughts. For two days we chatted on in
this way; and while ho was imparting much useful
information, interspersed4lith judicious remarks, the!
boy seemed lost in the man."
Envy is the only vice which can be practiced' at all
times and in all places, the, oily passion which On nev
er lie quiet for want of excitement.. It is impossible to
ment'on a man whom any advantageous distinction has
mado eminent butsomo secret malice will burst out.—
The frequency of envy makes it so familiar 'that it escapes
our notice, nor do we reflect on its terpitude. or maligui-
ty until wo happen to feel its effects. When'he that has
given no provocation to malice but by attempting to ex
cel in seine useful end. is paraded by multitudes whom
he never saw with the least personal resentment; .iviteu
he sees clamor let loose upon him as a public enemy end
incited by every stratagem of ealumny; when he hears
of the misfortune of his family Or the follies of his youth
'exposed tJ the world end every failure of conduct aggra
vated or ridiculed. he then learns to abhor and despise
those artifices at which he oni ~ • before laughed.-and dis
covers how much this happiness of life Is increased by
its eradication from thalmmuo.hcart.
Mszi Toon oWs Bustrums.—Here is much truth
itritemalfspece,.. An excellent rule for living happy
iq enclory, is-never to concern ones self with the
i ntake nt inhere untetertheY &Verve, - It. Under pre.
tance.nf,being uecfirlo tople often show more Cud- .
Olty:thenlibidninsi; .L' •
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3 4 *- 6 tre4
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ENVY
_ NUMBER 1.
CONEICIENCE.
It has bees remarked that the forobodinge of a guilty
conscience sre rarely, if ever, fully realized in this life.
Threatenings of a guilty mind pursue it to the last me.
went of earthly existence. and still promise a fearful ret
ribution to be realised beyond the grave. "The wicked
traveleth%with pain all his days. A dreadful sounds i,►
his ears. He knoweth that the day of derkness is rea
dy at hand. Trotible Mid anguish shaft make him
afraid."
The life and deatit 'of many a renowned skeptic, prove
that this is no exageration of the trutlk ,_ The dread word
Raton's. Indicates the. fearful reprisals which conscience
is sure to levy upon; guilt. The most successful course
of crime is not BO from the'terrific visitations of this
inward tnoniMr.-.Consaience may, sleep during a long
course G . :crime. but she 'never dies. She will gnaw again.
The hour of calamity, the moment of death, arms her
with tenfold terrors. •-• "I
If there be not, therefore, a future state of retribution,
the last pang of human guilt is a for which the
creator is responsible. We abiiest tremble at the lan
guage we have used, though it be but hypothetical; and
we fly to the alternative in which alone the mind can
rest, that God is true—that man lives beyond the:gratie,
and thtit the soul that perseveres in sin is halting to ruin,
which it must meet at some point of its future existence.
duct i s the teiGhing of human nature — such tho
teachi of the Author of human nature. All the ef
forts of a perverse ingenuity haVe never been able to in
validate this testimony, as it is written upon the very
frame-work of the of . man. However, unbelief may
continue to blunt the sensibilities of thetconscience, and
for a time to spread a delusive calm over the mind, by the
inflitence of twi n 's Noon and temporal, yet it can never
change the essential nature of the soul. It may preyed
its powers and bear it ott to ruin, but it can never entire
ly tratiquili2e its instinctive presentment of the doom that
awaits it. \
Ons.ricsr.tt. 7 4 Ucts —NatuM in her dispensations
seems tvicorn the I[ll,l4=o'of wealth. She offers light
water t iind air, all indispensible to our , comfort and hap
piness, and even our ex!ista free alike to the high
and lotl„to the rich and p . obedience to the same
I' system, she thikaeach of the hum
_
among us the! ud o UM a taste for the
.-ist beautiful and ele ( isskof hestishments.—The tree
thtit casts 11s grateful-114471b the door yard of the hum
blecottiper, waves fully in the free air of heaven,
bloom4s greenly 50:40ittaudly spreads its branches as
that which throweibritektußs against the stately man+
sions of ease and oputilkNiture sometimes, indeed.
seems to rebuke tho emailirififflents of Art, or to recent
petite the poor for-the paucity of their enjoyments, by
roaring in the presence of the lowest tenements the most
beautiful of these elegant evidence of her handiwork.
All this we can say to the country bec:suse God suede
that, but as man made the city,we cannel say the same
thing about it. How much better would it be for all if
in our cities every house by law was bound to have a
space around it for flowers, &e. But because our coun
try is so small we are obliged to build and live in houses
liere neither the sun smiles, nor the winds waft their
sweets to cheer the heart and light up the °hock with
the bloom of health.—Scientific Anztrican..
As Du:RAN CovNclr..—/ deputation of Caman.
cl;es who lately come in t see and ask the advice
of their "red brethren" the Seminoles, had a friend
ly "talk" otth the Seminole Agent, Mr. Du Val, on . 4
the 6.h of Iti3rolt. Wild Cat told the Comanches
'ail at the NVhites were it greifind - powerful people,
and it would be better for the Camanches if they
wou'd be friendly with "Uncle Sam," as he had once
been of war with them. You had better go home
and raise corn and stock, as the Setninotes do, and
b? friendly with all nations." He, Wild Cat, hoped
that peace would soon be established over the Wur/os
rroild," (the PrOiries.) •
The Camonche said whatever his friends told him
to d.•, - he would do. The Comanches were sorry for
what they had done and 'would be friendly with the
whites, and thoSe who were going across the Prai
ries to the big Waters should be safe from the dep
redations of the Comanches: Good news this for
the California emigrants. But if the Camancliv
keep their "talk"-no better than the United Stater[
have their treaties with the Cherokees, this proles- •
stun of friendship will be all . falk.—Cherekee Advo
cate.
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INIFYIDED ViilT ex THE Ex-Xlso •Or „Sannistx. TO
/ 1 / 4 31Elitei.—The unfortunate Charles filbert, who has
reached Madrid on his way to Oporto, does not intend,
as some of the papers have given out. to reside in the
latter city. Persons who are acquainted intimately with
his movements, hare stated his intentions to be. to leave
Europe entirely and take refuge in the United States of
America—a course which en many accounts presents
very desirable Idvantsgee. We believe that the ox-King.
after a short eoptirn et Oporto. will sail direct . for New
Yolk. and intends to spend some time in traveling through
the States. No place,We believe, his been fi xed upon
for his permanent resi dence. • ,•
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PROM TOR FAR Weer.—St. Louis, Mn., May 3.
—Mr. Andrews, one of the survivors of CoI. Fre
mont's unfortunate party, arrived here to-day, from
the Plains, by - the way. of Bent's_ Fort. His a&i,
who accompanied him and Col. F. on the expedition
to California, was °moor these who perished In Ithe
motintains.
Messrs. Bent Sc Hatcher, with a train and abut
6.000 buffalo robes, are on their way in. Mr. An•
drews prirted company with, and traveled in advahce
of them. They had lost. some of their animals, the
weather west being extremely cold for the season.
Col. Benton and lady arrived in this city last
night. He is going to the frontier, for the purPossi
of advising with the California emigrants, 1 -
The stores of Vorman Cutter-was entere byd bur
glars lest night. but the police pro:vented the rogue*
from committing any robbery. The cholera is en
the increase, mostly among emigrants. • : • !-`
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,
(CT I A short time trace there was seated in a car o f fing;_ T
railroad which leadarom Portland "down east." a yount-IY :1
man who scandtaized his fellow passengers by a con• •.,-..' i''
stant use of profane language. At last an old deaden, att.'
the "Free-will persuasion," who had been ligroin 4 441';' •
silent horror, up ranched, and commenced lecturing Itlati:
for his wicked') se; remarking. among other thin •
that he was "on the straight track to perdition." ')Tier :; , • ,
young man drew a ticket from his pocket, are carefullr . :... 4 4
scrutinizing it said with a look that "mendicants descripwi.:4 l
tion," "Just my d—d luck: I bought it ticket foe 1
Brunswick:
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A 11Ixrutwovixr. ADMITURC—An old maid (37) mixot4., 44
once called upon by a widower..whopoppod the tpiistiviiWii:,
in due form, but could not receive her answer until hts.l'.
had shown her the home prepared for her. Shocotesait- - ..1
quently went to his house. The inspection disclosed • i
.:
wall furnished dwelling, everything in the greatest pro.: ,
fusion. The larder was liberally supplied. containing :
half.dozen barrels of pork and flour.. "Well." exclaimed,;,; tY
the suitor, when the examination was concluded. "what ci t
do you say?" "I say," she replied tartly. "that I decline -1 . 't
your offer. , I ain't going to cook all thar.pork and malto , -1. , ,
so i much bread—true as I live ."—, Boston Rambler. ti ;
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DRLIBERATR MURDER .....4boUt lhalfpast 9 &Clock ' :•;'
on Thursday evening, a genteel looking man rode '
up to the store, of Mr. McCendlees, corner of ,
Twelfth and Marion streets, Spring Garden, Phila. 'i
delphin.• and entered into convenattion relatiee to the'-; '.ll
perchase of a farm at Grey's Ferry. Mr. McC. de; ..:; il
clined, (as we understand) to negotiate with tho ill
stranger, w erettpon the latter ,- drew -a dirk - knife. -';'l
and stabbed Mr. McC . . - sOieritt 4hrte* about the bead ;
and neck. in icting mortektirottistle. , Jletbenjump=. 1 ,
ed into hi s, abide and mide,ldeeettipe. Theaters .7
veriouti n or Ise* as to rat Morrie of the nturdeei, - . 5,,,:
one attack, utneohintoutiihr;,ii-'yet lin° 4 l4.thlti:
11 11 Mito . kei g.n.l447:fitwtert:sii ,, ,, , 4 , tw , ;ta . 9:
• a - A , ..,:r. -, ,,,A• m„.. - 41- , el-,,,--:-.. _ ..1.,-.1;.- - ali;:i2a-k,-. , , -, a 1
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