OLIJME 20.
iVETRY AND MISCELLANY.
- iirroomrsoit aio .
nr QL&CI OItritNTTOOD
Oh Earth: thy thee hath not the grace
That smiling Heaven did bless.
When thou wen "good" and blushing stood
In thy young loveliness
And Mother, dear, the smile and tear,
In thee are strangely anet—
The joy and woe together flow—
But ah.tve love thee yet.
Tiloll faif.'When 111011'; fresh air
Thrills with the lark's an .et song
When Nature seems to wake from dreams.
And laugh and dance along—
Thou'rt fair at day. v% hen clouds all grey
Fade Into glorious bine—
When sunny hour's fly t.'er the lion ers.
And kh , s away ibe dew.
Thou'rt fair at ere, when skies receive
The last smiles of the sun—
When through the shades that to 'light spreads,
The stars peep, one by one— ~
Thou'rt fair at night, when full starlight
Strcasns don n upon the sod—
Wlten moonlight pale, on hill and dale
Vests Mr the smile of God.
And thou art grand where lakes expand,
And mighty rivers roll—
Where Ocean proud, with threatning, loud,
Moeketh at man's control—
And ;rand thou art, when lightnin,vtla it,
And gleam sithwarth thy sly—
When thunders peel, and fure.sts reel,
Aml storms go sweeping by.
We bless tlire now, for gifts that thou
flast freely to us Nbed—
/ For dew stud showers, nod beauteous flowers,
And blue silks overhead—
For toorii's perfume, nod mid-da)'s bloom,
And evening's hours of mirth:
For glorious bight, for all things bright.
%Ve blc,s thee 3lother Carib.
%lien lung y ears ofeare and tears
- Hare come and piviseil an ay,
7 4 6 e time may he, when
Shall tarn to thee and say:—
%Ve are worn n mum life, tvi toil.. and :drift.,
%Ve long Ise pine for reid
%Vccome, ne Collie, all wearied
rte, Mctlicr, in 013,
Born to Love Pigs and thickens.
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The guests at the Astor House were' looking mourn
fully out at the drawing-room windows, on a ceittiin rainy
da) of in a:Lobar passed over to history. No shopping
—.to visiting! Tbo morning must bo p used in d00r...
And tt was SUMO consolation to thous who were in town
for a few days to see (Ito world, that their time was not
quite lost, for the assemblage in the large drawing room
was namorous and gay. A cry dressy ailifir is the
drawing room of the Astor, and as full of eves as a pea
eeeh's tail—:which, by the way, iv also a very dressy
affair.) Strangers who wish to zoo and ha seen (and
especially "he seen") on rains Jays, as well as on sunny
ciss, in their visits to Now York, should, as the phrase
goes. "patronize" tho Astor. * As if there were any pal
rotov in getting the worth of your money!
IVell—the people in the drawing-roan looked a little
on; of the windows, and a great deal at etch other. lin -
fertunatel , it is only among angels and Underbred per
sons that introductions can be dispensed with, and as tho
guests of that day at the Astor Howse were mostly stran
gers to each other, conversation was very fitful and ;;uar,..
ded, an I any movement whatever extremely conspicu
ous. - There were four very Nitwit radios on the sofa, two
very silent ladies iii each of the windows., silent ladies on
the ottom Ins, silent !adios in rho chairs at the corners.
and one silent lady, very highly dressed, sitting on the
music-stool, with her back to thripiano. !Pero W.IPS hero
and there a gentleman in the room, weather-bound and
silent; but we have only to do with ono orthese, and with
the test mentioned much einbollished young lad.
"Well. I can't sit on this soft chair all day, Cousin
Meg!" said the gentleman.
" 'Sh—cell me Margaret, if you must speak so loud,"
said rho lady. "And what Would ion do _out of doors
this rainy day? I'm sure it's very pleasant hero."
"Not for ma. I'd rather ho thrashing in the barn.—
But there most bo some "rainy-weather work" in the
city as well a s the country. -There's 501110 fun, I know
kept for a wet day, as we keep corn-shelling and grind
ing dm tools."
..Dear :no!"
"tVell—what now?" ?
'ell! nothing!—but I do wish you wouldn't bring the
stahle with you to the Astor House."
The gentleman slightly elevetTd tits eye-brows, and
took a leaf of music from die piano.'and commenced dil
igentle reed.og the mystic dots and linos. We have ten stairs,
minutes to spare before the entrance of another person The young ladies met with a kiss, in ...which (to th
upon the scone, and we will make use of the silence to. surprise of those who had previously observed Mimi Pi
couture up for you, in our majic mirror, the semblance ! flit) there was no smack of (ho latest fashion.
of the two whose familiar dialogue we have just jotted I "Mv dear Julia!"
down. "Mv dear Margerine!" - (this was a romantic varied' n
Miss Margaret Piffit was a young lady who had a large of,Meg's, which also had forced - upon her intima a
'.hare of what the French call fa beards du !liable—youth friend at the point of this bayonet.)
sail freshness.. (Though why the devil should have the Eph. twitched, remindingly, the jupon of his consi ,
credit of What belonged to him, it takes a Frenchman, and she introduced him with the formula which she Iv d
perhaps, to explain.) To look at, oho was certainly -a found in one of Miss Auston's novels,
human being in very high perfection. lier cheeks woro "Oh, but there was a mock respectfulness in that de
like two sound apples; her waist was Os round as a stove curteey," though Eph.; (and as there was—for Mi
pipe: her shoulders had two dimples just at the back, that Hampson took an irresistablo cue from the inflated d er
looked as if they defied punching to make thorn any deep- moniousnese of the introduction.)
er; her eyes looked as if they wer e just made, they Eph. made a bow as cold and still' as a frozen hors
were so bright) .and now; her voice sounded like blanket. And if he could have commanded the blo•
"C sharp" lot a now piano; and her teeth were in his face, it would have been as dignified and.resent u
like a fresh break in a cocoa nut. She was inexorably, as the eloquence of Red Jacket—but that rustic blush, 4
unabktedly, desperately healthy. This fact, and the dif- to his hair, was like a mask dropped over his features,
faculty of un king all the fashions of all.tho magazines i" "A bashful country-boy," thought Miss Ilumpson, s
one dress, were her two principal afflictions in this world" she looked compassionately upon his red-hot forehe il,
of care. She had an ideal model, to which she aspired and forthwith dismissed him entirely from her thuugh s.
with constant longings—a model resembling in figure the With n consciousness that lie had better leave the rocl l m
high born creature whose never varied face is seen in all and walk - cdf his mortficrition under an umbrella, El n. •
the plates of the fashions, yet, if pose,:ible, paler and more . took his seat, and silently listened to, tho conversationf
disdainful. If Miss PM could but have bent her short the young Indies . Miss Ilampliolautd come to pass e
wrist with the curve invariably given to the Ivoll gloved morn i ng with her friend, and she took MT her boon •t.
extremities of that mysterious and nameless beauty, and and glowered down upon her dazzling neck a profus on
thrown her head languishingly over her shoulder with- of the, most adorable brown ringlets. Spite of his tie. ry
out dislocatineer neck; if she could'have protruded from i huniilattion, the young farmer felt a' thrill run thee gh
the flounce of her dream a foot more like a mincing little I his veins as the heavy curls fell indolently about , er
!nude shell, and less like a jolly fat clam; in brief. if I shoulders.—ale had never before looked upon a wo an
she Could have drawn out her figure like the enviable I with emotion. He hated her-e-oh, yes! fur she had •v-
Joints of a spy glass, whittled oil more taperly her fourl en him such a look that never could be forgotten— ut.
extremities, sold all her uproarious and indothinitable for somebody, she must be an angel of the world. E It,
roles for a pot of carmine, and compelled the publishers woelil have given all his sheep and horses, cows, mere
01 the magazines to refrain from distracting multiplicity and hay stacks, to see the man she would fancy to be
of their monthly fashions—with those little changes in her equal. Its could not give even a guess at the lief in
her allotment, Mien •Piflirwould halo realized all her of that superiority 'from which she individally 100 et
maiden tuipiretions up to (ho present hour. - ' down upon ' him; 'but it would have satisfied ath re
A glimpse will give you an idea of the gentleman in which alinostquade him scream, 'to measure hirnsel he
i question. !le was not much mare tlmu:m lie looked to be a man with whom she could b e familiar. Where ai
—3 .ceinpuct, athletic young man about twenty-one, With his inferiority? What was it? Why had he been b int
clear. holiest blue eyes, brown face where it wastnet .4 0 it till new? . Was thorn no !surgeons knife. no cau tic
shaded by the rim of his hat..curling brown hair, and an I that could carve out, or cut away, burn or so ot ily. th/
espressiou of fearless qualities, dashed just now by a tinge
of rustic bashfulness!. His dress was a little more osieti
s4e and gayer than was necessary., and ho wore his
clothes in a way whitth betrayed that he would be more
at home in his shirt sloree. Ilia hands were rough s end
his attitude that of a loan who was accustomed to 'ling;
THE E IE I SERVER
And now, perhaps, the roaster is ready to be told whose
carriage is at the Vesey street door, and who sends up a
dripping servant to inquire fur Miss Mit.- ~
It is allotted to the destiny of every country girl to have
one fashionable female friend in the City—somebody to
correspond with. somebody to quote, somebody to write;
her the, particulars of the last elopement, somesotly to send
her patterns of collars, and the rise and fall of tournires
mid such other things os are :not entered into iw the
monthly magazines. Now these , oppearc:nity unlikely
acquaintances are formed, in as much a mystery as the
eternal youth of posts iloys, and the eternal durations of
',donke!ys. Far be it from me to pry irreverently into the
pokerkh corners of tho machinery of tine world. Igo no
than fhe feet that Miss Julia Hampson was an further
ntaphsintonee of Miss Pint's.
Every body knows t'llompson & Co."
Mks Ilampson wad n good deal what the Fetes had
tried to nhike her. If she had not been -admirably well
dressed, it would Ini've been violent opposition to the
muted zeal and talent of dreestunkers. These important
viceregents of the Hand that reserves to itself the dressing
of the butterfly and make distinctions in the exer
cise of their vocation. Wo ho to an unloveable woman,
if she be not endowed with taste supreme. She may
' hey all t h e sin% of France, and all the colors of the
rainbow, hot she will never get fromthose keen judges
of fatness the loving hint, the admireing and selective
persuosion. with which they delight to influence the etn
,
hellishment of sweetness an e ffloreliness. ' They who talk
I of •'any thing's looking well on a pretty woman." hay.
not reflected on the lesser providence of dressmakers and
milliners. NVoman is nevc:r mercenary but in monstrou
exceptions, and no trades-woman of,the fashions wil
sell taste or counsel; and, in the superior style of al
chorusing woman you see, not the influence of mantle
upon dress, trim the affectionate tribute of these dispense
!of elegance to the finalities they admire. Let him wh.
1-doubts, go shopping with his dressing old aunt to-day
and to-morrow with his dear little cousin.
himself down on the nearest bends, or - owing his legs
from the top rail of a fence, or the box of a wagon. We
ipeak with caution of his rusticity, however, for he had a
printed card. "Mr. Ephraim Braceiy." and he was a sub
scriber to the "Spirit of the Times." We shall find time
to say a thing or two about him as wo got on.
"Eph." Bracely and "Meg" Pillit were‘.engaged."—.
With the young lady it was Bathe French say Aide de
micaz for her beau Idea/ (or in plain English hor ideal
beau,) was a tall pale young gentleman, with white
gloves, in a rapid consumption. She and Eph. mere
second cousins,, however,
.and sho was an orphan, and
had lived since childhood with his father, and moreover
had inherited the Piffit farm, which adjoined that of the
Bracels, and, more-over, had been 'told to "kiss her
littlt husband, and love him always" by the dying breath
of hir mother, and (moreover third) had boon "lot be"
his sweetheart by the unanimous consent of the neigh
borhood; why, it seemed one of those matches made in
heaven, and not intonded to bo travestied on earth.
It was understood that they were to be married as soon
as the young man's savings should enable him to pull
down the old Pifilit house and build a cottage, and, with
a fair season, that might ho done in anothor year. Mean-.
time, Eph. was a loyal'keeper of his troth, though never
having had tho troubje to win tho- young lady, he was
not fully aware of tho necessity of courtship, whether or
„,
no; and was, besides, somewhat unsusceptible of the
charms of moonlight. after a hard day'S' work at haying
or harvesting. Tho aeighbons thought it proof of his love
that ho never "wont sparking" elsewhere. and as he
would rather talk of his gun or his fishing rod, his horse
or his crops, pigs, politics, or anything else, than of love
and matriutouv. his companions took his engagement
with his cousin to be a subject upon wliich he felt too
deeply to baider, and they ne i ther invaded his domain
by attentions to his sweetheart, nor suggested. a thought
by tillnsion to her. It was in the progress of this even
tenor of ongagomont, that some law business had called
old farmer Bracely to Now York, and the, young people
had managed to accompany him.—And of course. noth
ing would do for Miss Pifilit but "the Astor."
Miss ffampson, to whom tho supplies of •clogane ,
came as naturally as bread and butter, and occasions.
as little speculation as to whence or how, was an uncoil
sciously elegant, of course, as well us a well dressed Lilly
She wes abstractly a very beautiful girl, though in a ve
ry delicate and unconspieuons style; and by dint of ab
solute fitness in dressing. the teerit of her beauty. b •
common observers at least, would be half gifen to he
fashionable air and unexceptionable toilette. Tho dam
eel and her choice array, indeed, seemed the harmoni
ons work of the same maker. How much was nature
gift. and outignt in 'Broadway. was ir e-
lbably never duly understood by oven tier most -thsertnid
.
hinting admirer.
But wo have kept Miss llampson too Icing upon 11),
vulgarities oho looked upon co contemptuously' • Be
devil take her superciliousness, nevertheless:
It was a bitter lamming to Eph. Brandy, but a
wont like a dream. The hotel parlor was no . lon
stupid place. His cousin Meg had gained a coriseq • - •
in his eyes, for she was the ohro tof cam* from atilt II
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 26, 1849.
or creatnre—she was the link which kept her within
is observation. He was too foil of other feelings just
ow to do more than acknowledge the superiority of this
IA to his cousin—, He felt it in his after thoughts. and
is destiny then. for the first time, seemed crossed and
nadoquate to his, wishes.;
• • • •
( Wo hereby draw upoiiy
arione reader. Please al
. o middle of the followi
Bracely farm, ten o'clo
ng—Miss Pifflit extended
et us go back a little.
A week before, a letter{ had been received from Miss
ampson, who, to the delight and surprise of our friend
targerine, Wad taken the whim to pass a month with
et. She was at Rocks Way and was sick and tired of
• altzing and the sea. H i ad farmer Bracely a spars eer
ier for a poor girl?
But Miss Pifflit's"sobc4 second thought" was utter
unsternation. How tol , odge fitly the elegant Julia .
Hampson? No French ed in the house, no boudoir.
no ottomans, no baths, a l e Psycho to dress by. What
vulgar wretches they would seem to her. What insup
portable horror she would feel at the dreadful inelegance ,
of the farm. Meg was pale with torrer and dimity as
sho went into the detail of anticipation.
Something must b.; dode, howover. A oleopless night
of reflect's:its and contrivance suffered to give some shape
to the capabilities of the 'Case, and by daylight the next
morning the whole honed was in coinniaion. Mog hod
fortunately a large buimi constructiveness, very much
enlarged by her habitual dilemmas of foillotta. A bou
doir must be constructed. Farmer Bracely slept in a
dried-apple room, on the lower floor, and ho Was no
sooner out of his bed than his baggage were tumbled up
etairs r his gun and Sunday whip taken down from their
nails. and the floor scoured, and the ceiling whitewash
ed. Eph. was by this him° returned from the villag.l
with . all the chink that c r oak d be bought, and a paper
tacks, and some new straw carpeting; and by ten o'clock
that night the four walls of the apartment were covered
with gaily flowered materials, the carpet was nailed
down, and old squire Braceley thought it a mighty cool
loCiking place. Eph. was a bit of a carpenter and he
soon knocked 'together some boxes, which when covered
with chintz. 4d:stuffed With wool, looked very like otto
mans; and with a hantme cloth •on the round table,
geraniums in the -Mode l •kt and a chintz curtain to sub.!
due the light. it was null far from a charming boudoir,
and Meg begun to breath more freely.
But Eph. had heard this 'lowa With the blood hot in
his temples. Wits that proud- woinaivicoming to look
again upon him, with ton tempt, Mid ilerm too, where
the metieity, which ho keettrited to be the object of tar'
scorn; would be n lhousnnd times more (l. gratitnod visi•
hle? And vet, with the entreaty on his lip that his cou
sin would refuse to receive her, his heart hadichecked its
utterance—for an .irresfrtible desire sprung suddenly
within him to see her, even, though at the bittericost of
tenfold his former mortification.
Yet, as the preparatio r ns for receiving Miss Hempen
went on. other thonghts took possession of his mind.—
Eph. was not a man, indeed, to come oft' second best in
the lonr, pfelt ofrwrestling with a weakness. His pride,
began to show its colors,i He remembered his indepen
dence as a farmer, depo 'dent on no man, and a little
comparison between hiS pursuits and life, such as he
knew it to ho in a city, ',soon put him, in Isis own con
sciousness at least, on e par with Miss liampson's.con.
sections. This point Once attained, Eph. cleared his
brow, and went whistling about the farm as usual—re
ceiving without reply, however, a suggestion of his cou
sin Meg's that behest bettor burn his GU straw hat, for
in a fit of absence, he might possibly put it ou while
Miss Hempen was there.V
Well it was ton o'clock on the morning after Min Ws
arrival at Braeoly's faun, and as we said before. Miss
Pifflit was in despair. ' Presuming that her friend would
be fatigued with her journey, she had determined not to
wake her, but to order Breakfast in the boudoir at eleven.
Farmer Smoky and Elt, must have their breakfast at
seven, however, and what was the dismay of Meg, who
was pouring out their cafFee as usual, to see the elegant
Julia rush into the first kitchen, curtest' very sweetly to
the old man, pull up a chair to the table, apolOgise for
being late. and end this extraordinry scene by producing
two newly Watched chickens from her bosom! She hod
been up sit+ sunrise, end out at the barn, and down by
the ?NTT. and up in the hey 's t ow, and was perfectly en.
chanted with every thing. especially the dear little pigs
end chickens!
very uta! mrmer
Brae°lv.
"Vary woll—hut hang your condescension:" thong
Eph,,, distrustfully.
•
"Mercy on me!—to like pigs and cliickens!" menta
Is ejaculatrid the disturbed and bewildered Miss rifllit
But with her two chickens pressed to her breast with
ono hand,l Miss Ilainpson managed her coin° and
.road and butter with the other, and chatted away like a
child let out of school. The air was so delicious; and
the uoy Smolt so sweet, and the trees in the meadows
were so beautiful, and there wits me stiff sidewalks, and
no brick houses, and tie iron railings, and so many dear
speckled hens, and funny little chickens, and kind look-
log old cows, and colts and calves, and ducks, and tur
keys—ft was delicious—it was enchanting—it was worth
a thousand Sarutogas and Rockaways.—How any body
could prefer the city to the cauntry, was to Mist Ilatnp
i
son matter of incredulousivondcr.
"'Will you come into the baudoir?" askod Miss Mitt,
with a languishing air, as her friend Julia rose from the
table.
"Boudoir exclaimed the city damsel, to the infinite
delight of old ilracely. t , "no dear! I'd rather go out to
tho barn! 'aro you going any nrhoro with tho oven to-day
sir?" she added, going up 'to the gray - . headed farmer.
caressingly, "I should so like a ride in that great cart!"
Eph.• tens still a little suspicious of all this unexpected
agreeableness, but he, was naturally too courteous not to
give way to a lady's whims, Ile put on his old straw
hat nud tied his handkerchief over his shoulder, (not to
imitate the broad ribbon of a royal order, but to wipe the
sweat -off handily while mowing) and ' offe ring Miss
Hampson a rake wine') stood outside tho door, he begged
her to be reedy when be came by with the team. Ile
and his father wcro bound to the for meadow, where they
were cutting hay, and 'would like her assistance iii raking.
It wus a "specimen" 'running, as the magazines say,
for the air was temperate, and the whole country was
laden with tho,aritell of the new , hay, which somehow or
other, as everybody knows, never hinders or overpowers
the perfunto of flowers. Oh, that winding green lane
t between the bushes was like an nvermo to paradise.—
d The old cart jolted along through the ruts, and Miss
t "Lampoon. standing up . and holding on to old farmer
y timely. watched WO great oxen crowding their tides
s i together , and looke d over the fi elds , nod exclaimed as
d • alto saw a glimpse of the river through the trees, and
scorned veritably and unaffectedly enchanted. The old
o farmer, at least, had; no doubt of her oitmerity; , and he
el watched hbr. and lieteued to her..with it lived honest
smile of admiration on his weather-browned cOnntenanco.
it •The'exen were - turned tip to the fence while the dew
, dried witse bay; and EP,. and - hie tither turned to,
e' mowing leaving Miliffaitipien to ramble over the 'mita.
• - dow end gather &Were bilhe river idde. In the counts
. ~
riro te Tr a.* D af.l
MEM
- our imagination for six months
low• the teller to show on into
g July.)
PTER 11.
a or a glorious summer morn
upon a seta in despair. But
of au ho d they began to rake up. and she came to offer
her prom! ed assistance, and stoutly followed Eph, up
and down several of the long swarths, till her face glow.
ed under her sunbonnet as it never:glowed with waltz.
in. Heated and tired at last she made herself a seat i
with the new hay, Under a large elm, and, with her
back to the tree, watched the labors of her companions.
Eph. was a well built nod manly figure. and all ho did
in the way of his vocation, he did with a fine display of
muscular power. and (a sculptor would' have thought)
no little grace. Julia watched dim as he stepped along
after his rake on the elastic award. and she thougkt, for
the first time what a very handsome men was young
BraCely. and bow mucl'nore finely a man looked when
raking hay, than a dandy ,when waltzing. - And for an
hellish° sat watching his notions. admiring the strength
with which he pitched nisi: the hay. and the . grace and
ease of all his movements and postures; and after a while
she began to feel drowsy with fatigue. and pulling up the
hey into a fragrant pillow, able lay,• down and fell fast
asleep, -
It was now° the middle of the forenoon, and the old
farmer, who, for years, had fallen into the habit of taking
a short nap before dinner. canto to the big elm to pick
up his waistcoat and go home. As he approached the
tree he stopped, and beckoned to his son. 1
Ephcattio , up and stood at a little distance. looking at
the lovely picture before 1 ' . With one delicate hand
under hericheek, and. a *nine of angelic content and
enjoyment on her finely cut Neu. Julia Ifainpson slept
soundly in the shade. Ono small foot escaed from her '
dress, and one shoulder of faultless polish a id whiteness
showed between her handkerchief and her sleeve. Her
slight waist bent to the swell of the hay, throwing her
delicate and well moulded burst into high relief; and all
over her neck, and in large clusters on the tumbled hay.
lay those glossy brown ringlets, admirably beautiful and
Juxurint.
And'as Eph looked on that dangers picturo of lovliness
the passion. already lying ',slim in its bosom. sprung to
the throne of heart and reason.
(We have not room to do more than hint at the con
sequences of this visit of Miss Hampton of the country.
It would require the third volutnn of a novel to describe
all the emotions of that month at Bracely's farm, and bring
the reader, point by point, gingerly and softly to the close.
We` must touch hero and there a point only, giving the
reader's imigination some gleaming to do after we have
been over the ground.)
Eph. Sracely's awakened pride served I the good
turn of •making him appusr simply to his natural charac
ter during the whole of Miss ilonipson'S visit. By the
o ld mo w s o dwiee, however, he devoted himself to the
'rt . /liniment of the ladies after the bay;ng was ow ri. and
what with fi,lung, and riding, and scenery hunting in
the neighborhood, the young people were together from
mourning till night. 2lliss Pifllii came down unwillingly
to Meg, in her . attendance on her friend is her rustic oc
cupations, and 'Mks Dawson saw as little as possible
of the inside of the buudouir. The barn, and the troops
of chickins, and the out-doors belongings of the farm,
interested her daily, and with no diminution of her 'soul.
She seemed, indeed, to have found her natural sphere
in the simple and atTectionate life which her friend
Margerine held in such superfine contempt; and Eph.,
who was the natural mate to such a spirit, and himself.
in his own home, most unconsciously worth . / of love and
admiration, gave himself up irresistibly to his new pas-
atom.
And.tliis new pls4ion,beeanio onparrent, at last, to the
itscrodulous eyes of his Cousin. - And that it was timid!)
as fondly returned bysh6r elegant and high bred friend,
was also very apparent to Miss PfHit. And after a few
jettlou's struggles. and a night Or two of weeping, also gar o
up to it tranquility—for a city husband, truth to say. had
long tan her secret hope, and she never had fairly
looked in the face a burial in tho country with the ..pigs
and chickens."
She is not married yet, Meg Piffiit—but the rich mer
chant. Mr. Ilempson, wrecked completely with'the dis
asterous times,' has found a kindly and pleasant asylum
for his old ago' with his daughter, Mrs. Brat*. And a
better or lovelier farmer's wife than Julia, or a happier
farmer than Eph, cattO scarce be found iu the valley of
the Susquehannah: ,
IT WON'T is curious how many thousand things_
there aro which it won't do to upon this coley planet
of ours. whereon we eat. Weep and get our dinners.—
For instance:—
it don't do to plunge into a law-suit, relying wholly
upon the justice of you - I:Calif.. and not equipped before
hand with a brimming puree.
It won't do fora man, when a hone kicks him, to kick
bark it! return. -
"It Won't do to crack jokes on old maids in the presence
of unmarried ladies who have passed the ago of forty.
It won't do to imagine a legislature fed at the public
crib will eat but six weeks, when one-halfof the members
have not the capacity to earn a decent living at home.
It won't Jo, when a musquito bites your face in the
night, to beat your own cranium its pieces with your fist,
under au impression that you are killing the musquito.,
It won't do fur a man to fancy a lady Is in love with
him because she treats him civilly, or that she has vir•
tuallyengaged herself to him because she has always
endured his company.
At won't do to be desperately enamored of a pretty fuco
until you have seen it at the breakfast-table.
It won't* for a politician to imagine himself elected
to the gubernatorial chair, while "the back counties re
main to be board from." •
Tux 'Pawn,. or Moszy.—Money. with more than
tutelary . power, protects its votaries from insults and op
pression. It silences the enraged accuser, and snatches
the sword from the hands of justice. Towns and cities,
like Jence, without any miracle; have fallen flat before
it. It has stopped the mouths of cannon, and more sur•
prising 'still of faction' and murder. It has drawn a sort
inercenery magistrates; it has impaired a dread and
reverence; and strange. passing strange, to say. it has
'n i mbi youth and beauty fly to the AMA of age end impo
tence. It gives aunts : to deformity and detestation;
•
transforms Hymen into Mammon. and the god 'of love
into, a-stityr. It has built bridges without foundationa,
funned libraries without books, hospitals without endow
ments, and churches without benefices. It has turned
conscience into, an atheist, honor into a pimp.,courage
into t a modern officer, and honesty into a stock-jobber.—
There is nothing wonderful it has not effected—excep
making men wise, virtuous and happy. ,
„. M
SAM amen 05 LAILRIAGe..—Pee been a feered to yen-
lure on matrimony myself. and I don't altogether think
that I shall speculate in that line for ono while; it don't
jist suit a rosin' man like met. It's a considerable of a
tie; and then it ain't like a horse deal, where if you
don't like this boast. you can ,put ft oft in a raffle or a
trade, or swop and suit yourielf better. but you must
make the best of .a bargain. and put up wills it. It ain't
often you meet a critter of the right mettle, spirited, yet
gentle; easy on the bit. sure footed and spry; no bitite,
no kickin.' no stilkin,'. or racia' off. or refuel:l' to go, or
1 ruitnin' back, and then clean limbed, andgood carriage.
We about the diftcultesd piece of burins* I know on.
When Gea-Tayier said he *halide's 'good himself to
patty schemes." be didn't Say - that be should unfit Monett
for such prirpoees. After 01, the getters! probably used
the pbrs■elet a 4 4 1 1clitrieltIsa sena? and only: meant
that be shouldn't have wild's* to do with** getting up
of fashionable Miran and party schemes of that sort. ,
Mr. "Spirit"—Shortly after tho comj,lction of the
"Great National Road" agog' Ohio, the tacideot I am
abont to relate occurred.
There was in a quiet little village through which the
"Head" passed, a Hotel where the stages always thong.
ed, and the passengers expected to get.breakfast. The
landlord of the.said Hotel was noted for his "tricks upon
travelers," who wore allowed to got fairly seated at the
table when the driver would blow his born. (after taking
his horn) end sing out "Stage ready gentlemen!" where.
upon the passengers were obliged to hurry out and take
their seats, leaving a' scarcely tasted breakfast behind
them, for which they had to fork over Fifty cents. Time
and place you have, and naw for the how our hero suc
ceeded in
Doing a La:olmi: or Getting the Value o:'t
if / wore to commence thus: "At sunrise, one love
ly morning in the mon'th of, Juno. in the year—. a sol
itary horseman might be seen," &A.., you might think
G. P. 11,. James was your correspondent. But to our
subject.
The hero I spook of was ono of nine male nassongers
in a stage coach which was slowly approaching the vil
lage abovo mentioned, ono cold mornding in ' Februi
ry. 183—.
"Gentlemen." said one of the nine. "I have often
traveled this road baftiro, and out of good feeling to all.
I will caution you against "hugging the delusive phan
thorn of I hope." as regards getting breakfast at the hotel
we are approaching."
"What?—how? No breakfast!" exclaimed the rest.
"Exactly so gents, and you may as well keep seats
and tin." "
•'Don't they expect passengers to breakfast?"-
"Oh yes: they expect you to it, but not to tat it. I tun
under the impressian, that there is an underetunding be
tween the landlord and the driver, that, fur sundry and
various drinks, etc., the latter starts before you can com
mit-nee 'eating."
_ •Why. trot on airth yew talkin"bout? Ef you cal•
kerlate I'm coin' to pay •four ninpences' fur my break
fees and not get the ranee on't, you air mistakiti'l said a
voice from the back seat, the owner of wide!' was ono
fiezehimit Spaulding—though "tew hum" they called
him one:" for short. •'l'm goin' tewlit my bronlauns
here, and not pay "nary red" till I dew."
'•Then you'll be left."
'Not as yew knows on I won't:"
"Well, we'll see," said the other, as the stage drove
up to the door, and the landlord, ready to "do the hos
pitablr," says—
"Breakfast just ready. gents! Take a wash, gents?
Here's water, basin. towels and soap."
After performing their ablutions. they all proceeded to
the dining room, and commenced a fierce ocslangfit upon
tho edibles, though "Hez" took his time. Scarcely had
they.tusted their coffee, when they heard the; unwelcome
sound of the horn, and the driver exclitim "Stage rea
dy!" lip rose eight•grutlbling passengers, pay their so
cents. and take their seam. ,-
"All aboard, gents?" inquires the host.
"Oneni-eing,." said they.
Proceeding to the dining room, the host. finds Hes
very coolly helping himself to an immense piece of Mimi.
the "size of n horses lip."
Ilex
••Can't wait sir, better take your seat."
"Dew woe"
"I'll be gaul darned of 1 dew nuttier, 'till I've got my
breakfnas! I paid for it, Pm goin'to get the rale on't,
and of yew calkerlate I ain't, you are mistaken."
So the stage did start, and left: Ilea, who continued
his attack of the edibles. Biscuit., coffee; s teaks, &e.,
&c., disappeared rapidly before the eyes of the Astonis
hed landlord.
"Say Squire. them there cakes is 'bout East! fetch us
another grist on 'em." ••Youl" (to the waiter;) "nuth
s Aup ov that air coffee. Pass thorn eggs."
yew're own pork. Squire?—this is mazin' nice ham.—
Lind 'bout yere tole 4 ble chep;-"Squire? Ilain't got
much maple timber 1u- these-Oats, hey ye? Dewitt'
right smart trade. Squire. I collate. Don't lay yew're
own. pigs, dew ye?" and thus Hex kept quitting the
landlord, until ho had made a hearty meal.
..Say Squire, now I'm 'bout tow conclude pay:n' my
desotrirs tow this ore table; but of yew'd jus' gis' us a
howl ok broad and milk tow sorter tow off with, I'd be
obleeged tew ye."
So out goes landlord and waiter for the bowl. inilk and
bread, and sot thorn _before Hee.
But no spoon could be found. Landlord was sure he
had plenty of silver once laying on the tublo when the
Wage Stepped.
"Say yew! dew you think any of the passengers took
them?"
"I don't know. , Do you think they did?"
"Dew I thinh? No; I don't think, but lem ttarton.—
Ef they air all u green as yew 'bout here. I'm going tew
locate immediately and tow wonst."
*The landlord rushed out to the stable. and starts a man
after the stage, which had gone about three miles.—
The man overtakes tho stage and says something to the
driver in a low lone. He immediately turns back, and
on arriving at the hotel, Hex comes out to take hie seat,
and says—
"Heow sir your gents? Pm rotten glad Sew see yew."
Landlord :says to Ilex, "Can you point out tho man
you think has the spoons?"
"Pint him rout? Saninly. 1 ken. Say. Scinire; 1
I paid yew four ni na' ponces fur abroakfuse, and I cadet°
1 got the cake Galt Yowl! find mai srooes In TIM
COTiIM_TOTt" • •
"Go ahead. all aboard. driver."
3:M=M
` A "4i
Love neveestimpstThe mother's eye,
Bends o'er her dying Infants kali
And as she marks the moments fly. -
When death keeps on with noiseless tread,
Faint and distressed ehe sits and weeps,
With beating heart. Love never sleeps.
Yet e'en that sad and fragile form,
Forgets the tumults of her breasts
Despite the horrors of the storm,
O'er burdened nature sinks to rest; t
But del them both another keeps
His midnight watch. Love never shows.
Around—above—the angel hands
Stoop o'er the careworn ions of men;
With pitying eyes and eager hands -
They raise the soul to hope again.
Free as the air their piny sweeps
The storm of Time! Lorrnever sleeps
Around—beneath—and above all,
O'er men and ascii, con di and heaven,
A higher bends: the slightest call
Is answered, and relief Is
. given,
In hours of Noe , when sorrow steeps
The heart In pain. liv never sleeps.
DOING A LANDLORD: OR, GETTING TIME:
VALUE ON'T.•
From the Spirit of the Times.
"You'll be !eft, sir! Stars is Eoinff,to Juan"'
--tray; irnatur gut notbiie tow ■sy = agiu it," drawls out
"Got in, sir."
"Sp - e . c' a. kw. you please?"
Stotim - perion irikof.eltatles.laines Foi what was the
meaning of that pas In the Psalass.....ilio clothed
himself with nursing. like as , with a garment." 4 .The
Meaning:" said he. "Ithisk is plain, enough—the than
" had a 'hail of swearing."
Wo know a woman, who for several years past, has
maintained herself, family and drunken husband, keep•
ing a boarding Immo, and actually doing the greater part
of the work herself. He, poor loafer, would get up in
morning, beg, borrow. or steal a dime from his wifo or
some of the boarders, and go to the dram shop for his
morning draught. flora ho would remain all day. with
no other care on his mind than to get whiskey to drown
his souses and stnpify his brains. When evening eanie,
he would come home staggering drunk. The virtues of
his wife, the caresses of his children, were lost upon
him; their charm hid ceased—whiskey was the all•ab
sorbing passion of bill Imam In former days, he had
bsen a hotter man; and the wifo, mindful of her 'early
!ore, determined to miko 'an effort to restore
Some of th e billoys round the Canal Market. bettor kabwn
ai tho"ltaging Tads," were appealed to. They prom•
iced. to use the phrase of the speaker, to put hint "gent
ly through." The next time he got drank, the boys
blacked his face, tied fine silk around his fingers. arms
and ankles, to give a fooling of pain and cramp to those •
parts. They tickled his nose to wake him up. When
he opened his eyes, he looked upon a set: of long-drawn; ,
sole countenances, with anxiety depicted thereon.—
One of those, whose garb betoken ed tho medical man,
pronounced it a real case of Asiatic Spasmodic Cholera.
The poor devil, whom sense. wore none of the.clearest,
just at this moment opened his oyes Wido at the announce
mint.
"You don't ntean.mo. 'do you?" ho gasped with fear.
"Yee. you; and nothing but the most energetic moans
can save you. Don't you feel cramped in keor extreme
tice?" said the Doctor. y
"Lord sUve me! I do feel cramps all over. Doctor.
cure me, and I'll do any thins in the world for you,"
whispered the loafer.
•'lt's a hard case, but I'll try. If you were not a drink
ing min. the cure would De easy." replied the other.
, damn the whiskey! I'll never drink any more.
if von will cur. me this time."
••Look bore." said the Doctor, thrusting a glass before
"you are already purple in the Paco."'.
"I see it. I see it? 0, Doctor. Prit cramped all over.
I feel it all over in my lingers. my arms. and legs, now
it's imny belly. Doctor, cure ma for Goditt sake."
And the poor devil rolled over the flooor in excrucia-,
ting agony. The Doctor, with' the assistance of the boy' ,
now commenced administering the remedies. Th v
rubbed him down, rolling him over, gave him some at -
Cal doses not known in the Pharmacoperia. If he It d
not been sick they soon made him so
Ile was taken home, weak and feeble, ,l,
groaning with
the kicks and cuffs and rubbing down. The wife saw
and could scarcely refrain from tears; but she had stack
ed all on the result, and determined not to interfe4.
He was put to bed. 1 1 lie physician remained, not dar
ingis to leave finch a critical case. Ho assured his patient
that all immediate danger was p t. but still needed care
and attention. He regalled his 'ars with horrid stories
of burnt funs, ruined stomachs, from drinking. TFe
poor devil mentally vowed if he could got through this
serape, he'd never touch another drop again. In the slit
litude of the night, his thoughts reverted to his wi ~
1 her patient endurance, her undying attachment to hi
self, and his fair little children, and resolved hereafter
be a father and a husband. In a short time, he recor •
ed.—His wife willingly consented to a removal to a d
tent part of the country. far (rota the scones of his f•
mer dissipation; and the last we heard of him, he h
become a temperate; q wiser, and a better man.—Ci
cinnati Mercury.
A:action: or, out DATIMOTII.—In the clas of whi h
Daniel % \lobster was a member, there was an individual
noted for his waggery. One day the Professor of Logic,
who by the wily was not the most nice and discrimina
ting in his distinctions, was endeavoring to substantiate
~
"that a thing remainethe ammo notwithstanding & subs i
intim' in some of its parts." Our wag, who hairbe a
exercising the Yankee art of whittling, at length held . p
his jackknife, inquiring: "Suppose - I 91101114 lose tto
blade of my knife, and get another one made and insert
ed in its place, would it bo tbeliame knife it was before"
"To be sure," replied the professor. "Well, then," the
wag continued, "suppose I should then lose the handle,
and get another, would it be the saute knife still?" "Of
course!" the processor again replied. "But if somebody
should find the old blade and the old handle. and shotild
put them together, what knife would that be?" %Ye
never learned the professor's reply.
Brtsys Ginr..—While 01/ the Colorado,' Wai told ~y
"mine host" of in incidout ilhistratrivo of the heroi m
of Texan females, which occured near this' place .ot
many yoars ago. A party - of one hundred Indians h d
m
killed two en working in a fi eld and put a third to flip t.
;.
In these 'circumstances, a young woman, scarcely sizttion
years of ago, undertook to protect her family. Putting
on the captain's uniform, with a coc)ted hat, she courage
ously walked out of her house and beckoned to the In , li-
QUI to come on, nt the same time making signs to th so
within the the house (only some women and childrm
and one old man) to suppros their:ardor and keep sti I!
t: 1
The Indians supposing that the bravo captain's contort y
were within, eager to charge, thought it best to withdraw
from so dangerous a post. and they accordingly fled!H
Certainly the Taxan Congress should have granted liter
a - Captain's commission and pay, for it.-110. Dauer!
Baker. ,
EXTRA{ AGANCE,-A full grown Buckeye; in rather i on
oblivious and "balmy" state. tumbled in a stage coach
one bright morning, beside 7s traveler who was in "per,
T
Suit of knowledge," certaiitlY at that limo "under di -
citifies." After the ribbons bad been picked up and ho
“hosses" received notice to start. the traveler remtirksd
to the new corner that "Ohio was a fine countq."'
"Ta-- 7 1tic—aint nothing else!" hiccoughed the Bucik.
"What is the staplo production, sir?"
"Co•or-on?"
"Yon must raise a large geantity. What is done w 4 th
it. sit?" '
"Whor-Isie—why,i groat do-o-al is useti up for he
—hie—isky. and some they waste in tnakinfloreadi"
A scw ilscr.—A hitherto unknown race of pe.ple
has been discovered, it is said, in the interior of Africa.
The men era tall and powerfully built, standing seven to
seven-and-a-half. English feet in height, and black its
color, although destitute of the usual character of ue
groes in features. Mehemet Ali sent an expedition up
the White-Nile in search of gold, and there found this
race of people—fifteen hundred of whom; armed to the
teeth, came 'down to the shore of the river where the
vessel lay. The name of the kingdoni-smiuPled by this
people is Bari, and its capital Patenjn.
.They raise wheat,
tobacco, etc.. and manufacture their own 'Weapons.
A ;lours Part.s.—There is a manly sense of wrong
and Mjury, added to high degree of mognanlmity, in, the
following reply of a Florida Indian chief, to overtures of
friendship made him, which we look in vain for among
the majority of civilised men:—"The memory of my in
juries forbids my sending a t kind ansiver, a►d abash one,
your courtesy will not allow me to return." •
”LaTue'Ult."
TheHillowc# Gazette, iu corn • eating on I the
pmetice of "sitting' at church in prayer thee." say—
••Wo remember- a good otd3 mielater who *nee prayed
•
Wendy for those of the congregation who were "too
pioutto kneed and toe levy to stand,"
.
NUMBER 2.
A CASE OF CHOLERA
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