B. 1 1 . 1tZ.04L14,
VOLUME 20.
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DREAM Or T 2113 TOMBSTONE.
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Listen. love of mine. 0 listen,
While thy dewy eyelids glisten,
Lot tne press thy snowy forehead
With a lover's holy kiss.
'T wni a dream, 0 gentle maiden,
When thy hentt with grief was laden,.
Yet I pray that God may newer
Send n nisio like to this;
:Sever plunge thy dreaming spirit
In so &irksome an abyss.
0! tnelloaght lu thi. my dreaming,
That the icy moonlight gle,tining
y On my tiosum, white anti nakel,
Did itr oi:lsU:itch,' Mimic;
Th.tt it') heart no more was heating,
And the tide of bre, retreating.'
Lettsne like a sculptui`J tablet.
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Like a column white anJ solemn,
Jn the ghostly gray eyartro gloom
Love of mine, 0 press me nearer—
Let mine eyes thy love-like wit rqr
Lei me feel ihy heart's low beating.
Fondly e^hoing, mine own;
Give my heart the blest apauta nee
That. my dreaming %aura endurance
Was a phantom of the midnight,
Pteti the holy taortatiz flown,
Let, thy murmured hlcusing tell me
Thou art mine, and mine
CAM ystrrmmed the moonbeam o'er me,
Aso] a now-made grave berute me
1,0 loachni-, nail hilci cc,
\V alt it: 1% itb-re 'll,m•rmsrmleml,
Atua nn!.r.A , •, brai.:e,l
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na .• Ili' 111%
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la (11.1.J1t Coat. 11.111" 4hoj tWithihij
Thou gale hl rad' ut beeining
Front 1;:e shadowy group. litcyprers,
'Thdt around the churchyard grew;
nut another arm was round thee.
And another's lovo had hound thee,
And to him tt ed thee only•
Wri4 tby tool nu longer true.
Thmt S felt my heart wan brealking
As to me ye nearer thew. •
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_Claspane closer. lured and dearest,
'Tis a dream that non• thou hearest,
Yet it heart A% nh fear is trembling
,45 It 4 memory I recall.
isiut , ! .rA are on toe shining
-11201101 thine arms thy week ar tin ming,
And thy ntursoured words of ble,sing
Ou tuy heart like music full.
Yet the tnetnaty of that t'l6iun
Shrojd me like an ley pall.
Ju and he 39C ann. 141110 f thee, '
Thou and ho hon. love. had rpellt•d thee
I lOD•ther iu the to ,r 1 ihrbt
Th..t rereakd t , uutrblc ired+t—
Aud n•ith lip , . ilea Ella red never,
Thou' an ear to lit% e toner Cr.
ho stood in pride he' le thee,
NV!tilllls arno of Oiltt I II , rt,t
Low•atli. nll culd awl SilcaL
lAy &I oue 1010 )(ALA Le=t.
iAAC of mine tbi. &caul of terror,
nod IK lit inked, is iriuglit but error;
rct its 'armory olt frith darkeui , d
111102 a cloud my sum* heart;
its phantom t I etolien
10w that heart all eruslic , l
1,1,',1 clic 'liar do tomb~t•:ac
5h.,u1.1 thy gentle love depart,
And for ey press rounA any myrtle
Erotti the yral r of Jape woultl -4111.—.)!tunae Bird
g nice 3itelhun.
HEART STORIES►
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(From Godey's ( Jatly's Boa
say, Grace," said my friend Kato Richmond,
like your cousin Nully right well; alto conies wonderfully
near angel-hood; but then she wants something-1
scarcely know what—but soma/stag. Does she not lack
feeling?"
"You're out there, Kate," I replied, "for our Nell - is
all feeling."
"Ali, that is just what I mount; it is too evidont, too
much on the outface, too lawny and flothy—thero is no
unfathomable deop. Or she has no rich • hum& t.f
passionate feeling—it is all io small change."
"Why, Kate," said I. half piqued by her want of pen
etration, •sNeily is yet a mere child. You surely would
not ask for strong, concentrated passion in a•girl of say-
The woman ip tier nature is yet a sealed foun
tain; but she will develop gloriously by and by, mark
me words. Iler character will yet raven! itself in mar
vellous strength and beauty, anil our clewohall behold
it." .
If over thero was ono I know thoroughly, heart, mind
Mod soul, it was any meet cousin, Ellen Nl,ontgoinory.
She came to us a fairy child oft on summers, au orphan.
her father had died while aho was a more infant, and
when his widow liter a few darkened years was about to
fellow him, she tenderly bequeathed her solo earthly
treasure to a fond and devoted - sister, my own mother,.
well belayed.
At the time Kate Richmond made the remarks I have
noted down, 411eit—wip-oho )acknowledged belle and
beauty of our village. Gencrous, amiable and light
hearted. she rapidly won the,e j arnest regard of them all.
And she was a nwrundefnugable hoarder up of MD:ellen;
she fle w front ilt,lll, it, heart, weighing II ersplf
down with iho i,tycoin of tenderness and kindly feeling.
Yet those who knew her well, believed her, to possess a
rich inner ;imn', unrevoaled even to herself, and . that
the heart of which seemed to open fully to ell. was vet
but &half-unclosed flower, capriciously delaying its' un
folding, and waiting to have its most ghJwing loaves
kissed apart by the lips of Love.
It was Soon after Ellen was seventeen that the heir of
the Grahame property, Mr. James Stuart Giqttame, (I
give the name in full, as he alWays wrote it,) burst upon
us in a sudden glory. He had left our town when a lad,
and after graduating nt Yale and visiting the land of his
fathers, old Scotia, with his mather pnd sister!, had naw
come down to make the grand old mansion inhabitable,
a , a summer residence. Young, rich, handsome and
haughty, his advent naturally stirred up our village into
4 state of delightful excitement. It was at a May party
that he first met with us. Ho HMI certainly what roman
tic young ladies call “interesting" in appearance. be
sides being
• - 1 S he was buts meek. loving , constant. child-woman.
"Perfect in form and feature. 1 All thiough the winter our beloved Elton drooped daily.
And so divinely tall." ' ' , I and spring fannd her bat the pale shadow of her former
lint thclt lie had a cold. condescending way with hip, -1 Mr: Then came a new era in her enirdence. An no
a manner A always feel myself especially called umn to do of her 00 1 1.1 4 a Bostonian of wean and family, WI
resent—and win mild sect at a glance that ho was proud lug married °Whir/ last danghter, wrote to his "little mt
s the fallen "son of the morning." I afterwards found known One," entreating her to accept 4 home with
that like a true Scot, this pride was his distinguishing him. and thus "make illnd the heart and house of 4 lone
trait and ruling passiou; it was.within, around him. and ly old man," - . • 1
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emanated from him in all directions..
' 1 She went, and two . yeers passed beferei we we her
t ene'd 'it m
Nell was our queen, and shall I forget the startling ' dear facet agttitt. tihe tiiO4 0 4 i lta -°'-.- -° • liu Iner
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gayety and bloodifiur beauty. made upon Grahame.—
He gazed a while with eyes dilated and lips apart, and
thin pressed eagerly forward fora presentation. It did
m y h ea rt good to see the imptfirions, travelled aristocrat
kneeling humbly, blushing like n very school boy, and
timidly kissing the rose-tipped fingers of our laughing
Nell. But my triumph gave place to a alight fettling of
apprehension. as I remarked the eyes of Her Majesty
prokm , fixed with evident interest on the glowing fare
oilier courtier-like admirer. I saw it was all over with
him—that ho could do nothing,less than haul down his
colors andeurronder to Commedoro Cupid; but• I did
not wish the hear; of our bravo Nelly to prove so easy
comply's!. Dirt what availed my wishes! All through
budding May and leafy Jul i e wsio, Grei• WOOL! cottage
honored by the ft...mum' presence of Grahame the admi
rer, Grahame the friend. Grahame the lover. Grahame
the affianced of our darling Consin Ellen!
Thu bridegroom elect was boyishly proud of his be
trothed, and seemed to exult in bovine won tho beauty
of :11—. 'l'o ethers he nits as teperions and, fat
tidintis as ever, but defferential nod fcrully attentive to
Ellen:
,And site—how gloriously the woman woke with.
in her! !low she trusted in him—how she doted ott and
treasured up his Ugliest words! How alto poured her
very soul out in grateful worship! Yet she loved him
familiars, alto sang, and danced, and laughed, and jested
with him till her omen beautiful existence seemed so in
tertwined with his that thoy could not be separated.
At last, with much "pomp and Circumstance." the
female part of the family of Grahame came to M.
Ellen and I were among the first to call. We found the
mother a stilt formal Scotch woman, and the two dough:.
tern exceedingly plain nod exceedingly disagreeable.—
What was pride and haughtiness in the I rather was su
perciliousness and insolent arrogance in 0 em. As they
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knew of the engagement, I W'il.l illaigna t at the airs
they ns-umed towards Ellen. bear girl! t was the first
tune i had se. n her painhill:t embarrassed. Yet she
rattled ou, and :hid many eh:immix things end some, it
must he eoutessed, more distinguished for ttaicate than
wisdom. Site even, when J imea 'was mentioned, be
gan warniley pink:lll hen out of the fullness of her lit
tie innocent heart. Ent ilh old mother looked solemn.
Miss Etaphemia modi s h, and Miss Margaret giggled.
On our way home I hinted to Airily that it were best
for her not tcr seek' to win the regard of the lofty Scotch
dames, but to give them a sufficiency of coldnesa and
formality, and queen it in her turn. But no—she had
midi a hot) faith in love—she would subdue them with
kindness. she would wind herself into their hearts, and
they must love her yet. • I then suggested that she sl.otiltr
endeavor to conceal her pratinlity for Grahame in the
presence of his tnothoe'and sisters. I might as well have
counseled the wild rose to hide her blushes. It ' would
out. It revealed itself iii a ihousand ways, :it'd on no
occasion did the sisters Of Grahame foil to puttee it and
call the attention ofothers, till James was evidently an
noyed by those veryiTi'mioustration4 of preference which
once thrilled his heart with proud pleat urn.
Fin illy Ellen was honored with an invitation to spend
awech at "Grahaines Place." She returned berate the
tisit was Completed sad and ill. I questioned her, and
she said that she never so felt thatshe was an igborant
Poll htry: that she found she could nut sing Italian like
.Mivs Euphernia, not speak Fiench and paint in oils like
M:•. M tr, , noTt.
'And theii,"said she, while her face grew crimson,
"/ was ilt,:siel so plainly."
"lint surely." I remarked, !'their manner did not
make too feel titu's? Were they nut kind and affable!"
"No; cold.and neglectful."
"Sin Jnines—how was he?" • •
She threw lierelf on my breast with a gush of tears,
and ;mime' ed—“lle was like the others."
At last she told Me of many things ho had said and
done, which had cruelly grieved her heart One eireum
:Alnico ['now recollect. On the morning of tho day of
her return, nn excur.oon on horseback was ,plattned, rind
fifahanie collected a een..iderable party. While show
in off the - paces of his horse, a fine bin nuitnnl, the
viiotis creature staid. My threw him. G :titanic was but
slig lily hurt, hut deer f i thu. laughter o his friends, lay
for a moMent us though insensible; Ell th. frenzied,
sprang from her p.ilfry, t ifaised his head on her knee,
chafed his temples, and coiled on him wildly and ten
derly.. lie ouene'd his eyes. pour i d upon her a look- of
angry pride. flung her hands rudely front hint. exchtiMed
in a harsh wider tole—" Good lu;'avons! Nli,s Mont
goinery. do not rand •r y.oirielf and no reideulous."
In ilia arternooti, Eikti plo.tdod illneva and caina
MEE
Three daps of terrible gttAioro-to pa.,god b e f o re 8110 Quw
the flee of her heitathed husbind, At la<d he valor, and
all In c a tremor of fearfaloe-s aid love, Nilo reeeiv , d
In a short tittle 1 duA•n the IiVe . IUC, hul for
more thud all hour Elleti N . 111111:11.1 uluur tvl.tto Ito had
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left her. '
When s ho gave me leave to cuter, I found her exten
ded on OM sofa, her face bid with her hands and her
long, goldMiturls. whirl' had fallen over it. her breast
heaving and her neck quivering with quick. CCIIIVU6IIO
sobs. Sho could use nothing; her anguish was too
intense formai ds; —all night she wept and moaned with
in my arms and her not teals Fectried burning into my
heart. Just at dawn she fell asleep, and ientpintid iu
trainquil slumber for scum hours. When '13% awoke
and found me watching beside . lier. she turned her sor
rOwful oyes upon said meekly—"flow good of
you to show such kindness to u poor, humiliated forsak.
en girl."
••Forsoken!" I exclaimed, "Hue James Grahame
dared to forsake mai"
"Ile said we had better part—that ho was convinced
that we were not suited to ono another, and he has loft
mo forever."
"And thank heaven fur it." I cried, "my love, my
lamb, my roso•bud, my everything ilia), is good and
gentle and loveable! Gr. Maine way never worthy of
you—he never truly loved you. You never reigned over
his little narrow soul. Pride only. "like a monntnin
devil,", ruled there. Ulm thought less of you for your
bring portionless, lot him now see with how rich a scorn
"you can look down on one poor in honor. Learn to dis
pise and detest him as the embodiment of faithlessness
and'refined cruelty. Let him shrivel beneath the scorch
ing contempt of a proud 'and injured woman "
She looked up mournfully for a moment, and repled—.
I lore him!"
Such brit f and childlike answers were nil she ever re
turned to my appeals to her pride, apdiattempts to rouse
her resentful feeling. She said her, heart was so sore.
BO crushed and trodden to the earth, pat shef never
'could ho proud again. For the sake of the blissful past.
o mourned her faithless lover as one dead, tenderly
,and forgivingly.
1 despair of having my horone admired by young
ladies of spirit. She was..indeaci, an tragedy queen.—i
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1849,
Ah, she was a magnificent creature in het full ripen
ed loveliness, with the pacician carriage orher exquisite
ly moulded head, the Barone dignity which slept On her
brow, the womanly purity which looked from her eye.
and the winning softness which waited on every curl
and crirve of her delicate lips! She had none of her
former thoughtlessness; the very spirit of repose seemed
pervading her entire character. 'Every movement watt
tranquilligracecul. She said little, and her Voice was
low and deliciously 'moulted. Sho laughed in a quiet,
musical, lady=liko manner, and it even 'seemed that she
smiled leisurely and with thought.
In her ab•anco alto had boon the idol 'of her city rela
tives. aitd tho followed and worshiped of n largo circfo ed .
intellect and fashion, and now the 'accomplished, self
possessed - woman, met the lover of her earl• girlhood.
Since his heartless desertion of Ellett. he Irtfd buried
his mother. and married his sister, and now dwelt in
solitary grandeur in the old homestead. I I,OOIC/stied the
meeting. fie happened in at an eveningrArty, evident
ly not dreaming of such no encounter, till the hostess
electrified hiw by en introduction to his ci-decant lady
love. Ho turned deathly pale, and actually shook with
agit.ttiou; but Ellen never lost her queentiitess, fora ma
mem, her eye never quelled. end the hand she extended
while reintuking carelessly that they wer s o old fiionds
Bever trembled.
All present must have seen that ho was deeply struck,
and instantly subdued by the rare combinations which
she presented. 110 hovered around, and gazed upon
her in a silent stupor of admiration. She was dressed
superbly that night. A prolusion of rich lace and pearls,
harmonizing charmingly with her style. contributed not
n little to her dazzlibeauty.
I could cover pagts in telling - how from that time,
gradually and illy, like u schout-buy who has played
truant, tho haughty Grahame stale bac, to hie allegiance;
how Ellen, though stiodid not positively encourage, did
nut frown on him, till it was evident that ho loved her
with all his soul, and for once, with all his pride. Ile
had teamed our little Nell as a pretty Plaything, but he
now adored the elegant, perfectly-developed woman as.a
goddess—lie was her must devoted, her knight. her
slave, here, there and everywhere at her bidding, till I
grew indignant at her not rejecting his liomdge;nt her
permitting his prcrienceL-for I would sooner have seen
her wedded to a wild Seminale, than the calmly Wife of
the master of thousands. At last with the freedem of
other days. I entreated her at least to relieve my suspense-
She answered by placing in my hand a letter to which
she had just replied. It was from Grahame. I began!
reading it with a sneer, hut as I read on I was thrilled,
amazed and spell-bound by an eloquent out( wiring of
strung and iiitonse feeling. It clearly revealed that un
der the influence of a real passion, the writer had found
his better nature—had expanded into ain in. Ile scent •
ed to have hist his pride in his love, and while daring to
offer the fervent devotion of his future life, to be filled
with humiliation and contrition for die past / Ili threw
himself on her mercy, dwelt on the remorse, which had
pursued hint since their parting, alluded to the interfer
ence of his family, acknowledged that he had first loved
her beauty merely, not knowing her worth, yet culled
heaven to witness that he had since known no other
love, and.clos.ed with nu appeal to her womanly sympa
thies, so - tender, wild and passionate, that I dared not
dream it hail been in vain.
"Howdy! you answer?" 1 mred.
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"1 rrictled him." 1 1
"Thank heaven: But why?"
She quietly placed in my hand a niiniaturc,' saying—
•• This is the only Mall I ever will wed." _
I gaud from the picture to her in amazement. The
Imo was new to me, and by no means a bandit - Imo one.
And yet, as I . looked with earnest attention, I grew to
liking it exceedingly, It was cutout' those faces which
one might fancy possessed an inner set of features, of
surpassing beauty shining through. A something fas
cinating and endearing appeared to emanate from it; tho
brow born the stamp of nobility, and the eye was alive
with intellect.
"Why. Nell:" 1 exclaimed. "who can alit be?"
*.Mr. Fronerick Aytnes. of Boston, a poor artist and
protege of my unelo and soon to bo my Ofianced bus-
band."
"Ah. why is ho not nolo?" 1 asked
“13ecauso I wished to remain free till 1 had consulted
my early friends, as I told him—until I had again met
James Gruhrune, my first love, us 1 told myseff.”
••Oh! the mystery is Out: You were' weighing
love against love. mind rho first was found wanting, oh 7"
••Yes," she replied, with nn .emphasis so hearty es to
leave me no room fur donht, = .oiind 1 sti.dl write to Fred
morrow and send hint the face Ito loves, on ivory; Ito
painted it a whole leer ego:"
When I awoke thu next morning, a delightful ono in
Jane, Nay had risen, and was writing by the
One week front this time Ellen Montgomery received
two loiters; one Wa4 from James Stuart Grahame, bear
lug ineradiens—ho was about revisiting Europe—and the
other Iron' Frederick Amos, announcing his speedy cum-
"Did you not'say. Don," I asked, when she had read
the letter frorti Frederick, "that Mr. Aymes was poor?"
"Yea," she replied, "ho has only his profession."
• Will your finely fnvor his suit?"
"No 7. —atll can expect nothing from him."
"Then, Nell, you will harm to resign fashionable so-
eiety."
"No tnaher. I shall see the snore of Fred."
"You must give up expensive dress."
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"Oh, Fred admires simplicity."
"You cannot keep tie:adage."
"But we eon have delightful walks."
"Yon newt take a small house and furnish it plainly."
"Yes: but eoz, elegant furiituro would be out of place
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in a cottogo,"
"Yuu will have to cover 7 . , 3 0ur floors with cheap, thin
carpels "
"Ah, thee I shall her his step the sooner:"
I caught her h uid, kialed it toverently, and pressed it
to my heart
ANGLO-Saxes Sroca.—Cicero relates,' that the ug
liest and most stupid slaves of Rome Canto from Frigland.
Moreover, he advises his friend /Wens' "not to buy•
slaves from Britaiti on account of tit it stupidity, and
their inaptitude to learn in sic an other accomplish
mints." With emsars s opi of our ancestors,- wo
are, perhaps, same of us, not sufficiently acquainted.—
Ile describes the Britons, generally, as a nation of very
barbarous manners. "Most of the people of the inferi
or," he says. "never saw corn, but eat milk and flesh•
~and are clothed with skins." In another place he re
marks: "In their domestic and social habits; Britons
are as degraded as the most savage viaticm" •
' This, says the Philadelphia Courier, is rio oiler-drawn
picture. 'Our 'ancestors dwelt in eaves like. wild' beasts,
or in huts of no better construction than the Miserable
tons of tho most savage Indian:
isF say, Jill, whet eteekonicat vrodi did yottdo arse
ingorre4 a knoWlogeofored gendemeit °Moodier. "Why
cut teeth, ob course,"• replied the 'other: ' -
1" , One of tho s tarmers 'of Berke ihittoty; Pennsyliania:
gives spa reason of Ws oppositiori to the formation of the
flew county' of Madision. that i• he had hireidl far
enough' to go to Philadelphia marlpt, without leittg
i(hfo'ves 4741th4r cosnols,
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This heart o ithln me burns."
During a delightful excursion in the vicinity of the
Green Mountains, a few yours since. I had the good for
tune to meet With a singular character, known'ln many
north of Vermont as the Rattlesnako Hunter. It was a
warm, clear day of sunshine, in the middle of Ju n e.. I
saw him for the first time while engaged in a mineralo
gical ramble among the hills. His head was bald, and
his forehead ryas deeply marked with the strong lines of
care and ago.l His form wits waited and meagre; bat for
the ficrr vigor of hie oye„ ho might have boon supposed
incapacitated b yago and infirmities for even a slight ex
ertion. Yet ho hurried over the lingo ledges of rock
with a quick and almost youthful tread, and seemed oar
111081IF searcisii l ig among the crevisos and loose crags, and
stinted bushes around him. All at'onco ho started sud
denly, drew himself back with a sort of shuddering re
coil, and thon Smote fiercely with his staff upon the rock
before him. Another and another blow, and he lifted
the hitless form of 'a
largo rattlesnake upon the end of
his rod.
The old mint's eyes glistened, but his lip trembled as 1
ho looked steadfastly upon his yet writhing victim. "An-
other of the ac !ursed race!" he muttered between his
clenched teeth, apparently unconscious of my presence.
1 was now s tisfied that the person before mo was
none other Man . the famous Rattlesnake Hunter. He
was known thr4iighout the neighborhood as an outcast
and a wanderer, obtaining a miserable subsistence • from
the casual charities of the people aroJett him His time
was mostly spet i ;t among the rocks and rude hills. whore
his only object s emod to be the hunting out and destroy
ing of the Ctlin.9 haTilltlS, or rattlesnake. • I immedi
ately determine to satisfy my curiosity. which had been
strangely excite by the- remarkable appearance of th e
stranger; and 11.1 1 1 this purpose I approached him.
"Are there many of these reptiles in this'vicittity?"l
enquired pointing to the crushed serpent.
"They nro gitting to be 'scarce." said the old man,
lifting his slouch d hat and wiping his bald brow: •.1 have
known the time when yon could hardly stir ten rods
from your door it this part of tho State without hearing
their low, qui - A. l '4lld r'
e nt your or seeing their may
n
colored bodies Co lidg up in your path. But as 1 said be
fore, they aro ge ling to bo scarce, the infernal race will
be extinct in a f w years, and. thank God! I have my
self been a considerable cease of their extermination."
"You must, ofrinse, know the nature of those crea
tures perfectly w II," said 1. "Do you believe In their
power of faseinat on or charming!"
The old man's countonMice . fell. There was a visible
struggle of feeling within hint; and his lip quivered, and
he dashed his brown hand suddenly seeress his eyes as
1 if_ to,conceal a tear; but quickly recovered himself,, he
answered in a loaf , deep voice of ono that was about to
reveal some horri to secret.
"I believe in th. rittlespanko's power of fascination as
firmly as I believ my ownexistence."
"Surely," said , "you do not beliovo that they have
power over hum beings?"
"I do, I know it to bo so!" and the old trian trembled
as Ito spoke. "Ycin nro a stranger to me," ho said slow
ly. after scrutinizing my features for a moment, "but if
you will go down with tneto the foot of this rock, in the
shade there," and to pointed to a group of le:minim&
that hung over a declivity, "I will tell you a sad story of
my ownexperienc.i. "
r*
ft mac be supposed that I readily assented to this
i t.
pro
posal. Bestowing supposed
more blow upon the rattlesnake.
as if to ho certain f, its death, the old man descended
the rocks with a ra idity that would have endangered
the neck of a less practiced bunter. After reselling the
place which he poitted out, the Rattlesnake Hunter com
menced his story in it manner which:confirmed what I had
provionsly hoardt his education and intellectual
strength. I
"I was among the earliest settlers in this part of the
county. I had just i finished my education at Ilayard.
when 1 was induced, by the flattering representation of
some of the earliest pioneers into the wild lands beyond
the-Connecticut, to seek my fortune in the new settle
ment.—"My wife"—:the old'inan's eve glistened in en
instant, and thou a tear crosssed his brown cheek—"my
wife accompanied me. young and delicate and beautiful
as Olio was, to this wild and rude country.-1 never shall
forgive myself for bringing her hither, Decor. Young
man" continued hc,l"you look like, one who could pity.
You shall see the imago of the girl who followed me to
the new country." And ho unb and as ho spoke, a rib
bon from his,nock, With a s all miniature utts „ cked to
male, hut them was au
her•countonance. a soft
etness of smile, which I have
rent - Oros of those who huveNtasted
ter waters of existence. The old
jntenance intently, as I surveyed the
It was that of a beautiful
almost childish expression i
aces, a delicacy, 'and la sly/
seldom seen in the
even slightly the b
moo wotchod my col
imit!o of WO early lo
"She mart balm b
turned the picture.
"Beautiful:" he re
this avails nothinz.
to Got! I had not anci
heart has too often he
ry to sufrer any new
"We had resided-i
Our settlement had
and delicacies "of tiro
weary privations and
jected. The red mon were few and feeble. and did not
Molest us. The beast of the forest and mountain were
ferocious, but we suff red little from them. Tho only .
innitediate danger to vhich we wore exposed resulted
from the rattlesnakes Which infested our neighborhood.
Three or four of our Solders were bitten by them, and
died. in terrible agonies. The Indiana often told us
frightful stories of thisl,snulte. and its powers of fascina
tion, and although they were generally believed, yet for
myself, I confess I was rather amused than convinced
by their marvelous legends. .
.
"In ono of my hunt excursions abreld,•on a fine
morning, it ' was get at this Limo of the year, I was ac
companied by my wifc. 'Twas a beautiful morning.- 7
The sunshine wee warm, but the attnesphere was per
fectly clear; and a fine breozo from tho north-west shook
the bright green leaved which clothed to profusion the
wreathing brattottes abevo us. I had left my companion
fora short time in purtiurt of game; and climbing a rug
ged f edgo of rocks, interspersed with shrubs and dwarfish
trees, I was startled byl a quick grating rattle. I looked
forward. ;On the edge of a loosened rock lay a largo
rattlesnake, coiling hltn'self as if for the deadly spring.
He :was within a few feet of . mo, and I paused tbr an in.
atone to. survey him. I know not why, but I stood still,,
and looked at the - dyed! • teerpent with a strange feeling
of curiosey, , filucitrenty he Unwound his coil, as if re.
hinting from his purp 0 of hostility, and raising his
head. he fixed hhe brlgh , fiery eye Atrocity on my own:
A chilling 1 and e indescribablo aensaticio. totally different
from any Ood, ever before eiperienced, followed
this movement or( the sorpeat; but I stood• still. and p
sod steadily and earnestly, for at that Moment there was
a *bald. - cluing; in the - reptile.: His form seemed to
grow larger and his cal rs_ brighter. - His. body moved
with -1 1 Aosv. almost- tat • rooptible motioti _towards me,
and 4 law bIAM 4 itillitic sale ftelit him % or 'slime it
TT Z/ZIONASE'UtrNTER.
=
"Until my ghastly ate Is told,
en very beautiful," I said as 1 re-
calm!. “yon may well say so. Bot
havo a foarful story to toll—would
mood it; but 1 will go • On. My
on stretched on tho rack at nterno-
t. the now country nearly a year.—
'creased rapidly, and the comforts
`were beginning to be felt, after the
over@ trials to which wo had sub-
sounded in my ear a strange awoet melody. faiht as that
which melts from the throat of a bumming bird. Then
the tints of his bodyAeepend, and changed and glowed,
like the changes of a beautiful kaleidoscope; green, par•
pie, and gold, until I lost sight of the serpent entirely,
and saw only wild and curiously woven circle of strange
colors, quivering around me. like en atmosphere of rain
bows. I seemed in the dentro of a greet prison, a world
of mysteriout colors. end tints Varied and darkened and
lighted up.again around me; and the low music went on
without ceasing until my brain reeled; and fear. for the
fihd time came over me. The new Sensation gained Up
on me rapidly. and I could feel the cold eweat i gnshing
from my brow. I had no certainty of dauget. , ..in my
mind, no definite ideas of peril, all was vague aydylourt
ed. like the unaccountable terrors of a dream, and yet
my limbs shook, and I fanciedi could feel Olio blood
etilrening with cold at tt passed along my veins. I would
have given worlds to have-been able to tear mYeelf from
the spot—l even attempted to do so, bat the body obeyed,
not the impulse of the mind, not a muscle stirred; audri
stood still as if my feet hatryown to the solid rack; with
the infernal music of the tempter in any ear, and the bile
ful colorings of his enchantment before me.
"Suddenly a new sound came on my ear. It we
human voice, but it seemed strange and awful. Aga (1 „
again, but 1 stirred not; and then a white form plung
before me, and , gresped my arm. ThOorrible spell wiOt
at once broken. The strange colors Passed from before
Imy vision. The rattlesnake was coiling at my very feet,
with glowing eyes and uplifted fangs; end my wife was
clinging in terror upon me. The next intstant the ser
pent threw himself upon ns. My wife was the victim!
The fangs pierced deeply into her hands; end her scream
of agony, as she staggered backward from me. told me
the dreadful truth.
- - - .
"Then it was that a feeling of madness came upon
me; and when I saw the fuul serpent stealing away from
his work, reckless of danger, I sprang ferward . and crush
ed him under my feet, grinding hitnupon the ragged
rock. The groand of my wife now recalled me to her
side. and to the horrible reality of hor 'situation. There
was a dark, livid spot upon her hand; land it deepened
into blackness, as I led her away. We were at. a con
siderable distance from any dwelling; end after wander
ing
for a short time, the paitrof the wound became in
supportable to my wife, and she swou4ed away in my
arms. Weak and exhausted as I was, Iyet had strength
enough left to carry her to 'the nearest rivulet, and bathe
her brow in the cool water. She partially recovered, and
eat down upon the bank, while I supported her head up
on my bosom. Ile ur after hour passed!away; and none
came near us, and there, alone in the groat wilderness,
I watched over her, and prayed with her; and she died!"
Tho old man groaned audibly as lie uttered th-se
wor6, and as he closed his long bony hands over his oyes,
1 could see the tears falling thickly through his gaunt
fingers. After a momentary straggle with his feelings,
ho lifted his head, once inure, and the're was a fierce
light in his eyes as lie Spoke:
"But Ihave had my revenge. From that in a.
metal have found myself tilted and set apart, 1),) the ter
rible orderer of ufbction, to rid the place of my abode of, ha
foulest curie., And I have well nigh succeeded, The
fac;nating demons are already few said- powerless. po
not imagine," said he, earnestly regarding the sonic
what equivocal eipression of iny counfename, "that I
consider these creatures as serpents of the fallen angel—
the ininiediate ministers of the infernal gulf!"
• • «
Years have passed since any intervsow with the Rat
tlesnake Hunter; the place of his abode was ehanied.—
a beautiful village rises near the spot of conference, and
the grain' of the churchyard is green over lite grave of the
old hunter. But his story is fixed my mind, and Ti/110,
like enamel, only burns deeper the first impression. It
comes up before me like a vividly remeMbered dream,
whose features are too'horriblei for realdvi--//te Rarer
TII E. OCEA N
The groat Pacific Ocean hos a larger area than all the
dry laud on the globe. ' It covers - 50.000,000 of square
miles, and 70,000,000 including the Indian ocean. ,From
Peru to Africa it is 17,000 miles wide. It is generally
unfathomable between the tropics, where its depth is so
great that a line five miles long has in ninny places not
reached the buttem. The Atlantic •oeetiti,
.ni patently
stretching from pole to pole, is 5,000 miles wide, and
covers 25,000,000 squaic miles.
Too German ocean, now rapidly filling up by the de t
rims from the land, has m a great part edits bed a depth
of only 9:1 feet, and even near the precipitous coast of
Norway the dept 6 is only 5400 feet. At the depth of a
mile and a quarti l ir the pressure of the sea equal , to
9809 lbi. on every inch of surface. lit the Arctic ocean
shells ore seen , at the depth of 1180 f. et, Mid among lie
West Incha reloads at :174 fedt, so that the light wit ch
fell upon these shells would have been visible to an eye
at least 960 feet deep in the ono case, and 260 in the
other. The color of all water when pure a bright blue,
becoming meet) when mixed with certain vegetable
matters, and brownish yellow when derivdd from mos
ses. The seltnrs of the sea is greatest .at tlalt paralel Of
21, degrees North lot., and 17 South diminishing
tOwsrds the equator and the poles, where 1 , 03. least, ow
ing to the melting of the ice. At thestraiglits G.bral
tar the water is !Mit: times as salt at a depth of 617 - fa
thoms, as - it is at the surface.
The central area of the Pacific and the At!male is oc
cupied with the great oce - eanic tale-wave, witich is raised
by the joint action of the sun and moon. Fiiolll this can
buyally oscillating wuyes, partial waves diverge' in al
directions, finding their way into seas and estuaries, with
various felocities, depending on the form of the coast .
ant the depth of the channel. and the" nattd.e of its bed
In some parts of the coast of Britain the did reaches 50
or 60 feet. In the Bristol channel and the gulf of Suitt
Maio they rise .17 feet, according to Capt. IBecht', ur
the Day of Fundy 63 feet. while at St. Bolen they ne ,
exceed 3 feet, are scarcely visible among t any of/
tropical islands in the Pacific
The tide at the equator frillows the moon :at t
of I,OJO utiles an hoar. In the Turury chattel
cone. the sea rams CI feet in five minutes, au
deny - ebbe.' The highest waves which occ
•1
A
•r 30
turbedl
wing tat
t current.
, and deflect
l •
. 13 a rotary mil
one great cawi
clarity of woo
;essay. Sruntr.4,,A
once told an tr good ato •
side a frog pond—w
large• garter snake it r
frog. Tho snake t
and the frog to b • on par with his enake_nhip
by the tail, and .Ilt
or. and coati r
thing was to It
i 'Tatf r
Snicker
on the r
thick
cone
110
of Good Hope, do not exceed 40 feet, troll
to the highest point. Under the heaviest ,
is probably tranquil at the depth of'2oo ;
The tranquility of the ocean ' is dig
varying in their extent and velocity,/
permanent and variable. The gre
from tho two poles to the equato
tunal motion of tho earth. Dego
advance, till they combine iw
from east to west, with the
hour in some places.
. old Deacon in
110 was Ptanding,ol
have his word for itHi
aka an attack upon au oun
sizod upon one of iho frog '
Jill conintopeed ettrolleving
.ied this emit/Drew operation
of either of 'them!
LIORT or Imriotaca—The Editor i
rker has ra 'diary of a man who had a
.
front of !neap - if:dive. and pitched head
. with no hide left except the place where
soled, and afterwards had a bill present;
*Woad company for jekvile(f.
$lBO A TEAM, in. Advance.
Across the ocean came a pilgrim bark, Waring the
feeds of life and death. The former were sown for you
the latter sprang up in the path of the simple native.—
noll back the tide of time: how powerfully applies to um the
promise—"l will give the heathen for an inho4trince."
Not many generations ago. where you now alt. circled
with all that exalts and embelishes civilized life, the rank
thistle nodded in the wind. and the wild Ali dug Ids hole
unseated. Hero lived and loied another race of beings.
Beneath the :mine sun that rolls over your heade.the'ln
diem hunter pursued the panting deer; gazing on - thesame
moon that smiles on you tho Indian lover wooed his dirt
ily mate. Here the wigwam blaze beamed on the tender
tMd the helpless, the council glanced on the wisp and the
daring. Nov they dipped their noble limbs in the ledgy
lakes, and now they paddled the light canoe along your
"reeky shores. Here they warred; the echoing whoop,
the bloody grapple, and the defying death-song all were .
here: and when the tiger strife was o'er. here ended the
smoke of peace. Here, too, they worshipped; and for
many a dark bosom went up a pure prayer to tho Great
Spirits -leo had not written his laws for them on tablets
of stone, but He had traced ft on &3 - ttliilet of their hearts.
T o poor child of nature knOw not die Girl of 'revelation
hot the God of the universe lie acknowledge in every
thingaround. He beheld hiin in the star that sank in
beaut3behind his lowly dwelling. in the sacred orb that
flamed, on him from'his mid-day throne;—in the flower.
that : Mapped in the jnotaing -- breele; in the lofty pine
that IMd defied a thiausand whirkvinds;—in the timid
warbler, that never' left its native p.ve, in (the fearles s
eagle whose untired pinion was wet in the douche—in
tho wenn that crawled at his fcer. aa.l in his own Match
less form. glorrin with a spark of that light to whose
mysterious source lie bent, in humble though blind odor
alien. Slowly and sadly ti.ey climbed the dialent moue.
tainir, and red their deem in the setting sun, they are
shrieking before the mighty tide which is pressing them
away: and must soon hear the roar of the wave. which
will settle over them forever. Ages hence, the ingnisi
-10/5 Wii lie man, as ho stands by'sorne growing city, will
ponder on the structure of their disturbed remains, and
to whet rummer of person they belonged. They will live
only in the songs and chronicles of their exterminators.—
Let these he faithful to their rude virtues as men, and
pay due tribute to their unhappy fate as a people. -
The English have recently made a Settlernent at Aden
near the Red Sea. Having once obtained a foothold,
they, English-like, began to push about them, and one
of their first discoveries was a river where none was a
marked upon any chart, and upon this they steamed 300
miles without finding the least obstruction. Having now
passed round their continent let us look up-in the inter
ior. Fur half a century the English girvernment have
been expending lives and treasures in a partial explora
tion. They have found that this whole tract of country
is one of amazing fertility and beauty% abounding in gold
and all sort of tropical vegotunon. Tilero are hundtods
of Woods, invaluable for dying and architectural purposes,
nut tumid in other portions of the world. Through it for
thotNands of miles sweeps a river, from three to six miles
broad, with dear water and unsurpassed depth, on rit the
rate of three miles an hour. without rock, shoal, or snag,
to interrupt its navigation. Other rivers pour into this.
their tributary waters, of such volume as must have re •
geared hundreds of miles to ho collected, yet they seem
scarcely to enlarge it. This raver pours its waters into
ilia Atlantic through the most magnificent delta in the
world, consisting perhaps of a hundred mouths, extend
ding probably five hundred miles along the coast, and
mostly broad, deep, and navigable for'steanthouts. Upon
this river era scattered cities. some of which estimated to
contain a million of inhabitonts, and the,wholo country
teems with a donso population.
But in the interior, in the very heart atilt) continent,
a nation in an advanced state of civilization. The
deure and beauty of portions of the country through
the Niger makes its sweeping circuit aro indescro."
In many places its banks rise boldly a thousand
aro thickly covered with the richest vegitation ,
climes. But all this vast and sublime county
ofrikth fertility and romantic beauty, is apr
out forever from the world. It is the Ilf
SOSSiOI). lie need not fear the incursir
man there, for over this whole lovely r
dren4 malaria, and to the white man
sandtv of death. Of expedition af''
out from the English ports on the,
not one in ten has returned elite.
be penetrated at the risk of life,
think that thOse who havo gt
formation that we have, de.
Ve3.—Scicntifie American.
At has bean supposed until
regon, south of the Columbia
.itioti or harbors. Explorations
ante South of the Columbia have
,producing en entire change in pu
tt only bays are found, but botintiful
Jr, soma rivers. and water power.
situate about 5O or sq miles south of
Alumbia river is several miles int extent. re
.vers, some of which are good streamit. Two
of this bay a prarie commences. varying from
a half t q three miles in width, and eight miles
Below tho Talmauke boy two others have, b e en
red which aro worthy of being, noticed; the first
Melt isknown to the natives by the name of Celeste.
DISCOUNT IN OR1:01
Lady, that the shores
river, was without
for a considerable
been made, whi'
blic opinion. ay
'prarics, fino '
Tilmauke
the mo ith
coking fi
miles I
d tho second by name of Yaccittina,
The bay is from a fourthof a mile to a mile in width
.
three mites long, and r,:cetves the waters of two rivers.--.
A bed ofexcelent staneconl il3s been discovered on the
bond of the Celesta river, ten miles from its entrance into
the Celeste bay. There are several small rich level pra
'rios on the Celeste', river. The Yaequina bay it three
fourths of a mile wido at its mouth, from a mile to two
and . a half mites, wide, extends parole{ - with the coast
froMilx to seven miles in length. and it perfectly shelter
ed from the ocean winds. Thera is aeinsidersble prarie
in the immediate vicinity of the Yacquina bay. All the
rivers emptying into these hays abound with, salmon and
other fish, and the bays all afford clams, cribs. Zitc.. in
abundant!. , Within the Yacquina bey 'the water is deep
and the waves roll into the mouth from, tho ocean without
any appearent obstruction.—N. Y. Express.
_+' tho
'a rate
at Cav-
as sud-
Al the collo
Heir lowest
leg the sea
feet.
'by currents
` pauses both
which floW
.t by 'tha
di
ition as they
{ oat flowing
miles per
Non Styr turst—We con' me nd tho following beau
tiful sentiment of Patrick Henry. to the attention of the
admirers of that pure patriot and unrivaled orator. It is
indeed a'noble sentiment, and well worthy its illustrious
author. It is taken from Wirt's life of Patrick Henry.
and seems to have been called forth by some remark of
Judge Tyler upon the propriety of Commercial restric.
lions:
pkee land,
ne day be
land eaw a
I Tumuli bull
a hind lege.
aught him
nue numb
until no-
selVhr, lo said Patrick Henry, "should wo fetter Com.
•
meree? If a man is in chydrii, he droops and bows to the
earth, for his spirits are broken—lootting sownwfall
his feet; but let him twist the fetters (pins him limbs, and
he will stand erect—stretehing.hl and,assnmlisg tha
look of proud defiance. _ Fwrrirs Nor Costwauct. Htn2
ld her Ulric. as air-.she rOHI range as whole creation, wad
return on the wings of the four winds qf Heaven, and
Mess the (sill IDA etaty."
'abta of the
W caught
tong into a
re she was
him by
NUAIBER 18,
THE INDIAN
AN UNKNOWN LAND
lry moves QllO
AS 1110 tralloy of
expendtion sent
,n 0 of -Ascension,.
tis countryman only
it is melancholy to
49 even the monger in•
the sacrifice of their
JpicPt
s scope
utly shut
sole pos-
f tho white