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VOLUME 21.
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B. P. SLOAN, EDITOR.
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OLIVER. EPAFFORD.
El:10011er. rind Manufacturer of Blank Books and
corner of the Diamond and Sixth st•ect.
ttook-elVer nu
IVriting In
J. W. DOUGLASS.
Itrronmrs COUNSEL/IA Office on State Street, three
doors north of Brown's floret, Erie, l'a.
OMP'ION & HAVEltEi'lek.
Prtuns in I)
enzn and I),
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l y Goods, Hardware. Crocker}, Groceries. and For-.
tne..tic Liquors, Distillers, and Manufaenuers of
o. 8. Reed Home, and cornerof French and Per
W. H. CUTLER,
Annrney & Cnunseller et 10.17. ((Rice No. 2, Erie 11n11, corner
of Vain & 1.10) rl ctreets, Ituilrila, N. V. '
Collecting :in, commercial liiisite.s will reeciVe prompt nklenion.
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.1. 11. NICKLIN.
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OPECIAT..nnYI
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Nail., Anvil., Ilxr , Ir .,n luvl Nee; No. : ltdad
Pa.
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- W. J. F. .1.11)01,g & Co:
, Carriage and Wa.on Builders, State Street.
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Corner of French and Fil Ot:trcetF,
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JOHN McCANN.
Ad Retail Dealer in EninilS• GroeerieC, Crockery
Iron. Salk. &c., ;No. Fleming ,Iltuck, Erie. Ea
Price ;pawl for Country Produce. ,r:r.
SVIIOISALF n:
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,J. WILDING.
Ilabit 31ahrr.—Sto e.Nn,5 Reed's flock
tomgell Meek) tßair Strrvi, Erie.
J. W. WETNIOItE.
i 4 7' 7' 0 11 E r I. A II"
rred.er't Office, on r:e% entli t'ireet. Erie. Pa
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and P.r l.ttl Dealer in lii) CerS',. Cr cries,
;lar•u are, Carl tte,!, 11.rde,str.lreti, St, el. N
Finuiri , Stores State Streei, four doors, .belute
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addle and Carrwr Tr:in:temp%
S. 'MERVIN SIFI'll.
LAW and 4u , tice of, the Peace. and Agent f)t
e ltulval Life In -trance Company—Office 3 doors
it inure. Eric, ya. ,
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V. it. KNukvuro:4 & SON ,
airligii, Clock+, looking Waste,. riucA Fort
tnnin Ware, Jen viry: and n variety olcitticr Fancy
141011 e litrillitvg•, ftha door., below Itrown'• Hotel,
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ATTOANIV • J.‘w—fillice over C. 11. I,l*tighi's Stare, with :11 , a
ray 11 lIJII n, 01,Keite the Court .11012,.c.
Collyci.4 an tlot her proft.q..i ortal loAlbuess attended tow I thprompt
11.,0 and diapateh.
BROWN'S HOTEL,
FORSIRIIIT r. T.Aoi.L.Tertier Stnie gtreet nod tlie Putt!..: wquare
Erie, . Elst rn Western and :. , ...nittlierictittige orrice.
13. A. 'CRAIN. •
Witor.roAt.e mid dealer to Crwerieg, Provisions.•Wineq.
Liquors, Citlnn., 'Salk, Detroit Ara, Itii.cuit, Cracker., &e. &e.
Ceeappole. Erie, Po.
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rotericA. 'Provisfintm, %Vines, I.VVisn7•=,Cnr.tlies, Fruit,
Poor People's Row, Stau,treet, Erie.
J()SIAll KELLOGG.,
&r. Couttis,ron 3lert Rant, on the Public Dade, cast of
fl ALFR inn
•At., No 6,
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Infer and White Fb.h, con.tahtly for ante
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FAO:lnge hroker. Deal 0. in 11l of Exchange,
tilicatecuf Deponoe, Gold nod eilver cult', Ace., Ace.
, rot below Itrot% Iry Pa.
IBENJAMIN F. DENNISON,
T Law, ClOVCianti ' .. 1 : /lTiCr-I.);IiCT on Superior area.
'll Block. Refer to Chief .firdice Parker, Catial,rnige
Hon. Richard Fletcher, In4tatest.,llo,,tott; Iron.
Pcrkins,lll4 Walnut gt.,l'hilftile.lphia: Richard
mq.,,13 Wall sucet, New rokk. For teAttitcraal4, re
thee. •
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Mails, cc
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in Atwater
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Erie.
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drocerieg.Ctoekery. Hardware. dze“
No.II I. (Jitjaprt de. Erre,
JOHN ZINIMERLY.
11EALre ar.flaaceries and Provt,ions of all kinds. SlaU: street, three
doom north of the Di amoud. Eric.
S 7 MITICJA - ,• - ON,
De a Lys( in Dry Goods, Groceries. liardwa Queens IVare,Llnac
!arm: Nails, Sao.. 01. Cheapsade, Erie. Pa.
• WILLIAM Itl lit, ET.
Caartsre Siervit Upholeter, and Uri , raker. coiner of State and
Set cntk etreete, I:rae. •
KE LSO Oi.bllS,
GENERA:I. Forwarding, Produce and Corn inigon Nferchnnts: dealers
en coarse and fine nail. Coal, Plater, Shingles, Ake. Public dock,
west side of the bridge, Eric.
Cowin J. Kf1.2.11,
WALKER. C0()K,
(iENT.I,47. 174.14 warding,- Cou.aligmen and Prtslace Atereltantstqce
and %Vare-house east otAlte
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.11ritannia Ware Cutlery, Nlslitirs and Fancy Good,. :Ran: , allyet,
nearly 01.mA tc Lagle Ilutel,Trie.
huumia. • -- •
ci7trier E a de' 13 ROT II Eft
IVIIOLCSALE and Retnil flealern in Inn+, Medic a itns, Paints,
Djr•etnl}'ti Se 0, It Eree.
JOEL JOHNONs,
I *Aram in Theological, Alistellancous, Sunday and Classical
school nooks, Stationary. ese. l'nrk Row, Eric,
JAMES I, YTI. E - ,
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FANntoviorot Merchant Tailor, on the publie rpm, n feti• &kite
oeo of State street,'Erle,
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L. fS. CLARK,
WHOLIESAI,IS ♦ND RETAIL Dealer in Groceries, Prifilsions. Ship
Chandlery•, Slone-ware. &c. No. .5,,110nne11 Mock, Erie.
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0. 1). STAFFORD.
rii..aSer in Law, Medical, szbh.."ll'3l;stellanrous Books stationary.
Ink, ke. State tour doors below the Public equate.
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Resident Deh { ikt; Olhee and d n ell ihg indite Beebe Nock, on the
}Luc side of the Public Square, Erie. Teeth inSCried on Cold
Plate, from QIIC to an entire wit. CarioMi teeth tilted with pure
Gold, and re.gborcd to health and tpefulnem Teeth cleaned
it MI in.truturnta and Dentilice so as to leave them of a pellucid
elearum,u. All work warranted.
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upporiir lhu Mrtliodi - t Church, Erie.
,1 11N IL IIUitTON,
‘Vtiot,reAun AND RnrAir. dealer in Ilrng., bletheineg, Dye sturni,
6 rocerilT, &a. No. 0, Reed Ifou4e, Eric.
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Dro.s.ii in INV, Caps and Furs of aZI descriptions. NJ. 10, Park
Row •Erie.. Pa.
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in exchange for Caph or Goods , . .1. 11. Pui.l.Elrrox.
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June I J. 11 FI7I.I.ERTON
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DEMME
Vottrg 311i5rt•Elattl.
OCTOBER.
Olt Ylf• AL/l• CARET.
Not the light of the long, blue Summer,
Nor the ilombry huntress. Spring,
Nor the chilly and moaning W later,
Roth peace to in y bosom bring, NN,,
Like the hazy and red October.
When the. woods stand bare and brown,
And into the lap of the south land, -
The flowers are blowing down. 4,
IV/tenni! night tong, in the Moonlight.
The boughp'of the roof tree chafe. - •
And the wind, like the wandering poet.
Is singing a mournful wall;
Xtf.. all day through the cloud-armies.
The sunbeams coquettishly rove— ,
For then in my path first unfolded
The sweet passion -flower orlon..
With bosom as pate ;stile sea-shell, ', AL
And soft as the flax unspun,•
And locks like the nut-brown shadows
.40 the light of the sunken sun,
Came the inkieen whose wonderflit beauty:
Ene.hanted ray rout from pato,
And gladdened my heart. that can never,
No, never be happy again.
For away from tire's pain and passion,
And our Eden °Clove. she *eat.
Like a pale star fading softly
' From the inorning's golden tent.
Rut oft, when the bosom of Autumn
IN warm with the Summer beams.
We MCI in the pallid shadows
That border the land of dreams.
For, seeing my woe tlirough the splendor
" That hovers nhout her h ove, •
Rho puts from her torch the glory,
And listens again to my love.
A ROMANTIC TALE
From Eke illetiopotillsit
- "r 1 year agos...a year ago; hoti, , will I make you
confess," said Blanche; "can yoU remember•a year
'agor • ,
"Perfectly," replied 't'ite student:
"This very night?"
"This very night. I remember it more perfectly
because it was iffy birthday."
"What were yottidoing? What 'were yon sayihgl.
What were you thinking?"
"D ring nothing.. Saying nothing." •
"Thinking?"
"Yes, I was thinking. Nothing, dear Blanch,
could be more unlike my last birth-day than my pres
ent. For ".moment I had gone buck to that joyless
existence, when your voice recalled me to my yes:.
exit happiness. I wit/alone in mysolitary dwelling
—alone in my .quiet chamber. Yod do not know
what it is to have a home which yon enter without
welcome, and leave without regret. The Charities
of life warmed nut for me. My chamber looks into
a burial ground. The very grass feet's on themor
tal part of the immortal. Nay, do not shedder."
"I, have never seen death," said Blanche.
"And to me the dying and .the dead aro fami
liar and daily things," said the student: "Yet since
I know you, I confess that I cannot approach them
with the same calm and undisturbed spirit that I
was wont to carry." . .
"Do not mention them," exclaimed she; "they ate
but shadows over our happiness." •
• "Picture me there in my dismal chamber." My
lam burning-thy books around me: Dust
accumulating over tny manutcripte r and my
'manuscripts accumulating too, for, he who
does not speak his thoughts most write, them. I
was 'always more lonely in
, the summer than in the
winter, because my fire is in some sense acompan
ion, not for its comfort, but for its inscrutable
its mysterious existence, and its mighty power.—
Well, clearest;there,eat 1 until well nigh overcome
by a sense of oppression, of suffocation, by the tor
ment of a parched tottgue, and heated brain.• 0,
Blanche? beleave the that rejoice fosse that smooth
brow.unrutted and unwrinkled by the toil of thought.
"Nay," said Blanche, "is not that so doubtful a
ktottipliment that I am almost bounden to let you see
'it ruffled by a frown." .
"Indeed no. Alen arrive at tight conch's; ma
'throng!' a long train of wee ryingargutnentz—women
by an instantatMous and just conviction. And in
•dear Illanthe,,the,toil of the slave beneath the
torrldizone, titltithe lash at his back, is es nothing
to the stretchlof mental laitor which, through .the
whole of thatfiriet birthday, had I been tatting this
poor intellect to the tittermost.. I had starcely tent
ed food, nor exchanged wordowith any human being,
when the clock of the Cathedral 'warned the of the
solemn - and witching hour of night."
"And then you went to yoitr pillow 'to drearrif'
"I did not."
"Then whither?"
"D" not ask me."
"I must answeted, with petty way
wardness.
"Askplp some other questloni' l
"Yes, but, first answer this. On : your allegiance."
"I went to my 'dissecting room'," he said gravely
end sadly.
Blanche hartl4,4natChed away the hand that he
was holding; and with an exclamation of horror turn
ed away,
"1 knew," he said, "that I should shock and offend
you; but now, dear 13Ianche, exercise your reason.
Throughout the day i had been pursuing a laborious
inveztig,ation, and went to illustrate and prove the
truth of its results. Believe me 'that I could not
lightly invade the sancity of the dead, or approach it
with an irreverent haul. It was because I felt the
`inveteracy of death, that I strove to grapple with ha
strong 1191 g—because I saw the tears of,the orphan
and the wife that I had labored through many days
and had made it my contpa Mon through maw nights
.—for so I hoped to repel it in one of its boldest forms
of approach. And now will my touch pollute your
hand'!"
Seeming'y Blanche did not think sd, for she suTer,
ed him to retain it.
. "And the result?" asked she.,
"The result," answered he. "011, the result was
that I became acrwainted With yolliVand all other re
suits were swallowed up in that."
"Shall I thank or chide you for that complimentl'
"Do not ask me. To a certain eitent I ceased to
think when I began to fee/. The intellect and pas
sions can never, rile conjointly. The of e.muat tri7
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1850. t
tithph et the expense of the other. • Man might be
wholly intelleetual were it nat.for woman, but Ehe
makeekbains of our passions o binl us down t.)
earth."
"Another doubtful complime t."
It Wanted but a weak of the students nekt birth
day—that next birthday was' th be his wedding day.
Blanche hud deferred it until then. Women have a
better tact at compliment than men after all.
They were standinggit au open window, a little
withdrawn from the festive group which were assem
',ling, taking no share in the pastime ,of the hour,
and occasionally silent even to each other. There
is a deep quietness which belongs not to, joy.
"You are silent!" said Blanche.
"Only because I feel the utter emptinessOf words. o
"Fill them with your thoughts."
"They may convey thoughts, but not feelings."
"They have done for Eve end all her descendants,'
said Blanche. with a smile.
"Shill I infer," said he "that *wonien feel lese s than
men—that your feelingi are less intense than miner
4, ltecause I any too happy both in the present and
future to be sad, and you are not so."
“Sad, dear Blanche!"
"Ay, you cannot deny it. And indeed when yob
are in these silent mood., and I look on you, and yotir
eye sees me not, and I watch the gathering though t
upon your brow , and ttre gradual gloom tliat tweet
shadows your countence , I say to mys If that yeti
were never made for the happiness of this fair world."
"You make me sad jn reality, because I have the
fullest trust that your happiness is implicated in
mine."
"Indeed I was not selfikeapogh to remember
that."
"And I wris selfish to have forgot it 'even for this
little snatch of time.. Perhaps it may :be my own
indvidual fault; an! yet is it'not a la w 'of our com
mon nature always to be anticipating the future than
enjoying the present? Come, dear 13Ianchr, we will
forget the future, (is it slot curious to forget what
etas never been?) and be happy in the present."
will not be happynow," said Blanche.
"And why nut?"
"Because yon are leaving, me for a week."
"To return forever,r'
The student had returned—all things had gone
proiperously with him. lie had made the final ar
rangements for his expected bride—his relations had
concurred in his views—every thing was hopeful
and happy.
Never to the Student's eve , lied the sun shone so
briahtly, nor the earth locked's° gaily, nor the world
appeared to be arrayed so invitingly, as on the last
day of his return. Never had he felt such buoyancy
of spirit, as alien he entered the house where Blan
che resided.
But l ucicietily n chill Came over him—what and'
why wa's all this? The house was darkened, the
domestic moved stealthily a spoke not ;above,
their breaths, a dreary stillness, a mysterious awe
hung 'heavily over all. The student staggered,
gasped for breath, asked why these things were so,
and was told that....11/uacks was dead!
They tell hire to Iter chamber, and he saw her
agaidx—saw her wan, white, motionless. wrapt in
the icerements. of the grace—ho raw the coffin and
the shroud—he was among the tomptiny of Mourn
ers, and heard the most av,ful of earthly sounds, the
retain*, of the little handful of mean 'earth on the
last !euenent of the earthly frame!
It was night when the Student entered his lonely
chartiber. The soil of dust was over his mourning
garments, but the quiet,' self-collected mein betrayed
neither haste nor agitation; yet, notwithstanding
this externnl placidness, there was an orpression in
the depth's of his eye and the compression of his
T.billed the heart of his solitary domestic,
(i
Who aft \
ei,long watching and an enforced silence,
would Iri'dly have, heard the sound of any human
voice. it words of t oUlfort and offers of service
seems mike intrusions on the Student. "My !any,
and-lea e me," in deep sepulchral tones of the mas
ter's voile, sent hie man in sadness to his bed.
The student was alone—atone in the true sense
and meaning of the word—and that is net when we
are solitary in bur dwellings, bat when the world
holds not an object of whom our thoughts tan make
a companion.' It was the saddest and deepest hour
of night, yet that ; hour so mournful and solitary to
'him, elsewhere rang with the tatousals of protracted
revelry. Idis mind glanced for a moment over the
mirthful meeting—the board crowned with plenty...
the wine flowing—the charm of cheerful voices—
the ringing of merry Inughteri but what were +hese,
to him, except to force on him the contrast atween
the festal apartmdnt and his own dark chamber—
between the hearts o%erflowin,g with gladness in all
its varied channels tit jest and joy, and the deep des
pairing hopelessness of his own soul!
"If lit overt", said the Student, "this dream of
earthly happiness, this deluaion of humin passions
it is well that it should be so, for is not hap
pine s another name for selfishness? Witness, my
selfThave I not been loving, doting?—and gr (Ide
ally has all creation narrowed around me, until the
gient purposes of existence were lost or nearly so—
until the world, to my blind perception, held but my
treasure, and myself! Ay, this is time happiness of
the world—the pleasure of the pAssions—given to
all men—the crowd, the Ilea—they love and nre
loved. It is the happiness of the earth, earthly.
The passions Chain us down lo this towel: world,
but, as the, links loosen, the intellect connects us
with the loftier spheres.
"And yet 1 Toyed her! loved, her as a miser does
his gold, as a spendthrift his Pleasure—ay, even as
the pious love their God! Science seems a soulless
drudgery while 1 listened to her voice, its gravest
speculations, its noblest discoveries, were dull and
stale in ono cheerful word, to one glance of her
laughing eye. One snatch of wild melody from her
lip, one echo of her light footstep, was enough' to
win me from that - noble phi osophy which mounts
the skies„ and marks the br aciliue of demarcation
between tho sensual and the sage.
will be calm hoWever; re not the faculties of
the mind of higher lineage than the passions of the
heart, and shalt they he slaves to its wild throb ,
b.ngsee
Ti, Student laid his watch before him—melan
choly thing whereby we measure life!—be laid it
before Is m in the din likht of the lai p, his eye tis,
ed upon,its movements, and hiri band pressed upon
his Om heart.
If the ravings of despair are sublime,. Purely for
titude is true nobleness. There stood the Student
calin ii . his utter hopelessness, the dim light reflect
ed on his features, with his eye fixed on the silen
memento of time; the noble outline.of his figure gild
the intellectual . cast of his head partly revealed.—
Who can tell, ih the five ollnutes that ensued, wha
thoughts passed through the chambers of his mind
—by what discipline the body ems brought into sub
jection to the mental monarchy.
"I am calm," said the Student, "calm enough to
t'ount the pulse of dying infancy. Ism not yet be
yond the pale of my own subjection. The tumults
of the body belong solely :o the tyranny of the pas
passions, and I who have 'nothing to hope, can have
little to fear.
"And now to my tisk."
The student took the dim tamp, and passed from
the dark and gloomy chamber 'into one More dark
and gloomy. Reader, follow, not if death affrights
three, for it was the chamber of death.
The Student had surrendered all Tolman pensions,
had immolated all human feelings—a stern pleasure
took their plnce+-he was diving into the deepest
mysteries of God's creation—the mysteries of the
human frame—that frame so "fearfully and wonder-
fully mode."
Ay, thou my body, part and parcel of myself, poor,
and weak, bnd vain, and impotent, I am dizzy when
I think of what thou art; and those powers of the%
which are inhabiting within thee wonder at the
strange partnership! "When shall I know even as
I am known!"
heatnifolly does light approximate with joy and
happiness, and frilly is Starkness the sign anal sym
bol of woe. How undeceiving is !lel instinct of
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the child, who trembles to be alone in ttle,gloom or
the night-might, the season of evil spiri 9, Tar sad"-
nees, - for sighing, for sorrow! The Stud nt entered
the deep melancholy gloom of that lowly chaniber
with a noiseless step—the presence 141, 1 death a
greater mystery than that of living kings, 'though it
be but in a peasants dust, for the imprets of the
Maker's image lies legibly engraven titer
\. oThe
Student entered calm, composed, subdued, and with
the most perfect and cigar possession of all his fsc•
ulties—but we—Oh! we shudder to think tht , re lay
a fair young girl, in the cerements of the' grave,
anti that the student stood With the long, sharp
poi ntetlinstrumentof glittering steel, exempt from
all human•symathies, all human passions, and aspi
ring to explore those mysteries which Occupied the
mind of the Deity in the creation, with a lofty pleas
ure that seemed superior to all the happiness of this
.Vs)r i ld's-giadness.
ut stay;—what means this emotion of the hu
man sympathies,lhis softening of the heart, which
passes over the featuros'of the stern antagonist, as
"be stands with the glittering steel suspended over
the form of that young girl? Does he thinlok the
'iriolated sanctity of death? does he think of the sac:
riligious touch of thellespoiler of the grave of the
sister, the mother : the wife? does compunction and
the touch of human sympathies press around his
heart? No. He thinks of tlt dear one he has just
consigned to the grave—juit such a fair hand had
Blanche placed within his own ivben last they par
ted? the vigor o'f his mind was gone, the shining
blade fell from his hand and shivered into fragments,
a mist gathered before his eyes--the strong man
shoed like the veriest infant'.
But now—is it the weakness of his vision, or is it
the fiction of his distempered brain?—did the white
11102 move?—diti the rainiest echo of a sigh strike
upon his cart—did Stune low. breeze undulate those_
vestments of the grave?—or was it—could it be the
veriest, faintest breath of mortal life?
A moment and all the noble energies tat the Stu.
dent's mind returned. lie lifted the covering from
the facS, raised the drooping form, drew around her
his own dark mantle to hide the dismal eere-c lothes,
and then, with long and patient care, and with more
than a mother's trembling tenderness over the couch
Or her dying infant, sought to win back the trem
bling, the uncertain pulses -of life. Who can tell
the anguish of that hour, when, but for the brief
breathing -times of hope, detpoir must have para
lyzed his exertions. But at length—oh joy!—the
blue eyes slowly opened, and, as they rested on him,
the pale lips relaxed into a faint smile, and Blanche
lived!
llr
joke
sort.
kept ted on his shooting polvers,
had several very tine dogs, of which he was panic
nlarly 'fond, and allowed the largest liberty: Seated
one day in one or the lenels his dogs wandek
ed around, and at length begun to' make very f.
miller with a portly old gentleman, who was busily
engaged reading. A moment passed, and the cane
of the corpulent one was applied with no light hand
to the back of the canine: A tremendous yell called
s.—to his feet, with words the entire reverse of
soft upon his tongue.
"Who the d-1 struck my dog?"
"I did,
"You did?"
"Yea, sir—l did:"
"What the h-11 did you strike him fur?"
"Because he's mad!"
"Mad? lie's no more mad than I am?"
".lin't mad? Well, by the Lord I would be if
any body tens to striate me so!"
The explosion that followed this icy rep?) , cannot
well be described; and S—, dog 'lnitial!, soon
vamosed; but which was the maddest of the two it
would not be easy to describe.
83ctionalisnt,
The Charleston Mercury Publishes n card heeded
by Senator Barnwell, and several of the most infltren4
tial citizens of Beaufort, in that State, in which they
solemnly pledge themselves "never to employ any
coaster owned by a citizen of the North, or manned
by a Northern crew, to take any part of (their) pro-
ducts to the city of Charleston or elsewhere."
07*A swindler put up at a bite, in Baltimore
end had an accomplice in Philadelphia to telegraph
him that his wife Was ill. lie made arrangement.
,
to return, but must get his goode packed up. On
returning to supper, another dispatch came that hie
wife was dead! He took it badly, the lam:Hold' pit
led him, loaned:him a considerable sum of money on
&box of goode, and was—dtddied!
Ts reminds me of acopital
and one too of the coolest
ton n sporting man, bne who
thiip i?atat A iiiLCIA'S LOG.
From Chambers' Edinburg Journal.
IT was a dead calm—not a breath of air—the sails '
' flapped against the masts; the'helm had lost its pow
er, the ship turned her head nif t 4.ivl ere she liked.—
The heat was intense, so mucit'ao that the chief
mate bad told the bratswain to keepthe watch below
foundlt too warm to sleep. and.were tormented with
thirsti`which they could not gratify till the water
was served out. They had drank ill the previous
day's allowance, and now that their scuttles were
dry, there was nothing left but 'endurance. Some
of the icemen had congregated on the tip-gallant
forecriiite, wher'e they4aXed on the clear blue water
with tinging eyes. .
"Hew cool and clear it look" said a tali, power
ful young seamen. "I don't think there are many
aliarke!about; what do you soy for a bath, lads?"
"That for the sharks!" burst almost simultaneous
ly froth 'the parched lips of the grottp; "we'll have a
jolly good bath when the second mate goes to din.
nee." 'ln about half an hour the bell rang. The
boatiivain took 4 6 - harge of the dett; some \ twenty
sailors were now stripped, except a pair of light duck
trousers; among tho rest was a tall, powerful, coast
of-Africa nigger, of the name of Leigh; they used
to joke him and call him Sambo.
"You no swim to-day, Ned," Said he—addressing
me. s "Fearett 'of ShiA hey! Shark nebber bite
me. Suppose I meet shark in water, I swim after
him—him rutilikedlebbel." I
I was tempted, and like tl4 rest, was soon ready..
In quick succeartion we jumped aftthe apiritaail yard
the black leading. We had scearcely been 'in the
Water five minutee ) when some voice in-board cried
ant, "a shalt! a shark?" In on instant every one
of the savimmeris came tumbling up the ship's sides,
half mad With fright—the gallant black amongst the
rest.: It was a false alarm. We felt angry with
those who had laughed at us. In another moment
we were all again in the water, the black and myself
swimming some distance from the ship. For two
successive voyages .It'ert hail been a sort of rivalry
between us; each fancied that he was the best-swim
mer, and we were now testing our speed.
1
"Well done, Ned!" cried some of the sailors from
the forecastle. "Go it, Sambo!" cried some others.
We were both straining our utmost, excited by the
cheers of. our respective partisans. Suddenly
,the
voice of the coatswain Was herd shouting.
"A shark'? a shark( Come back..forGad'a sake!"
"hay eft, and lower the cutter down," then came
faintly on our ear. The race instantly ceased. As
yet, we only half believed what we heard, our.recent
fright being still fresh in our memories.
"Swim, fur Gud's sake!" cried the captain, wito I
was rthw on deck; "he has not yet seen you. The
boat if possible, Will get between yea and him.-.:-
Strike our, lads, for God's Faker?
My heart steed milli I felt Weaker than a Child
as I gazed with botrur at the dorsal fin of a large
shink on the tettirbakid 'quarter: Though lathe wa
ter, the perspiration dropped froth the like rain:
Its black was striking nut like mad fur the ship.
"Swim, Ned- - -swim!" cried several voices, "they
never take black when they can get white." '1
I did swim, and that deeparatelyi the water roam
ed p at me. I soon breasted the hlack„,btit I could
not e nd hith. We both strained every nerve to be
first, fur we each fancied that the last than Would
he to -en. Yet we art ardeb? teethed to move the
ship appeared as far as ever, from us:-=We were
both powerful swimmers, and both swam the French
way, called la brash., or hand over hand in English.
There was something the matter With the boat's
fella, and they could not lolVer it: '
-.
"lie sees you now," was shoatert; "he is after
you." Oh, the agony of abut motnent!LA 4 thought
of every thing at the same instant, at least so it
seemed to me then. Scenes long forgotten rushed
through my mind with the rapidity of lightning,
yet all this time I was striking out madly for the
ship.' Each moment I fancied I could 'feel the pt
lot-fish touching me, and I almost screamed with
agony. We were now ten yards Om the ship; fif
ty ropes were thrown to us, but as if by mutual in
stiller, we swam for the same.
"Mures! they are saved!- .they are aloh,gsidel.''
was shouted by the eager crew, We both grasped
the rope at the same itittadt a slight straggle ensu
ed; I had the highest hold. Regardless of every
thing but my own safety, I placed my feet on the
black t s t shotilders, scrambled up the side, and-fell
exhausted on the deck. The negro followed, roar
ing with pain, for the shark had taken lay, Part of
his heel. Since then. I have never - bathed 'at sea;
nor, I believe, has Samba been ever again heard to
assert that, he would swim after a shark, if he Met
one in the teeter:
Viatta Street
A Prone!Mutt titoppeda lid in the street Co Mike
some inquiries of his wherebbouts.
,kMon Gen, wet is seiutme of zis .treat!"
-
, Well, who said 'twan'tl" .
i
4What you call zis street?"
" f course we do'..'
" ardonnez: t have not Se nettle you eat him."
'Yes, Watts you call it." •
4 7.iz streetl"
~W atts street; old teller, acid don' t you gd to make
g me o' me."
"Satre! i ask you one, two, tree several tkmes
oftin, vill yJu tell io me ze name of ze street-Ihr
"Watts street, I told yer. Yer drunk, aim y rl'
, 11.Zin little (ren t zero you lif, eki"
gr. The Tom-fooleries enacted in Boston in hon
or of Jenny Lind, aro dm "taken off .; by the An
ton NA:
"1 4 118 TI MG . rifircuf—We flare heard' that a mu
sical amateur, being present in a room where - Jenny
Lind was the "mark of all observer's," saw a lly
alight upon her cheek. Jenny brushed it off; the
gentlemen's eve followed the tly till he saw it alight
on a u indow;• there he ceptrrred 7 it; and pouring from
his snuiT-box its content., he put the fry therein.rais
ed the box to hie lips,and then reverently place it
in his ins - Im. Tie buzz of that fly was * eneeter
than a ilageolet2v
Goon Aovies.—Resolve to edge in a little read
ing every day, if it is but te single sentence. lfyou
gain fifteetrminutea a day, it will make itself felt
at the end of a year. Regulate your thoughts
when, not at study. A , man is thinking even while
at work.. Why may he notilits- thinking of some
thing that is useful!
NUMBER 22.
RISE OF SENATOR MIS/
The tragedy of Nacogdoches, and the romantic
inplents which led to the "reatt war of independ
et.ce, find their parallel only \in the Roman history
of Lucretia and the elder Brutus. Juan Costa was
a person of great influence and braiery io the wild
forests, but he full under the (displeasure of gaunt
Anna, and his minion redrast, the commandant of
Nacogdoches, was sent to arrest him. lie arrested
the father at his supper table, ( JJ attended by his only
daughter—a young girl of so prising beauty and
intelligence.- lie loaded him With chianti and east
him into prison, notwithstandin her tears and ien
treaties. Finally he proposed o free the rather ) if
the daughter would consent to isatrafice her inno
cence and honor. She rejnted the infamous propo
sition with a Wow in the fa e, when the armed
ruffian swore a horrible oath to execete his still on
tht`M 6 1 111, and then • . • • • •
With tfarl eyes, tearless, grassy, fixed as those of
a corpse, 3et flashing a double portion of luminona
fire, she mounted a horse and hurried away wildly
around the country. She halted at every house, no
matter Whether lifekican or Arrtertcan, and reheat,;
ed in tones of thrilling horror, her father's wrong*
and her own. All timid modest ail weakness Sad
vanished from her tongue, utterly tonsumed , by the
scorching thirst for ret'ange. She painted in pas
sion's fiery language, and with awful minuteness,
the facts of the damning deed; she bared her virgin
bosom, and showed the livid marks of the ravishei's
fingers among the mazes of those azure veins-, along
the surface of that expanse Of snow, now so polluted
and soiled, but before pure as the gleam of an an
gel's wing.
And still, Wlterever, the beautiful maid wanderedi
a deafening yell of wrath and vengeance rose np
against the tyrants. The people of both races and
all classes flew to tiring, appointing a general ren
dezvous for the 24th of June, at the residence of the
"absent and BOW imprierined Juan Costa:
It was there debated- by the people, he to ttie
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mode of attack, and who should be their leader; but
nothing being agreed on, the whole assemblage bid
fair to break spin confusion, when a tall and pow.
erfully built stranger, who hid just entered Texas
from the States, came forward and addressedAhe
moltited° as follows:
I 'l am a stranger, but I am also a man; and 1 - owe
my life, soul, body, Leah!), happiness—all—all to a
women—my mother? • And if i turn a deaf ear to
the prayers of
,an innocent woman, asking my aid
against a villain, may both my mother and my God
curse me! I go•for one, and—should yon all stay
behind—Biotic to tight Cal. Pedras and his armed
ravishers oT yn,lr wives and daughters!"
The speech was received with three tremendous
'cheers, and then it general shout, that seemed to
shake the solid earth, tittered the first peal of the
revolution. "We will go! Death tit the tyrants!
Freedom for Texas, and the giant shall be our
leader!"
And thet; for the first time, was heard in the land
of the wild . oak, a name destined to become an echo
lo the'puleation of all /ions—the nanie of Thomas
J. Rostt.
The next day he led his rain troops to the attack
of Nacogdoches, and stormed every position against
immense odds, after an Atsaauit of four hours, the
carnage being dreadful on both sides; and fortu
nately, among the slain, was the dead body of the
attrocious Ferdinand ,Fedras.
Such %?al3 this debut of Rusk in Texas; and front
that day his popularity has gone on steadily in
cressing„without even a transitory eclipse, or so
much as a.cloud to dim its splendor. in vain, for
three years,
,4Elen. Cos demanded his arrest. Mexico
had not soldiers enough to take him, and in 105 Q
he assisted to abase the last of these out of the
country. Afterwards he amassed a fortune at the
Texan bar, and was chosen ona of the filst Senators
of the New State annexed—a place which he may
hold for life, if he wills it.
Rusk is Of' only public man in Texas that has
never engage in a duel; and for thislibgle reason,
tn honorable to hiniself—he never had a personal
enemy in the World. To C6nalude,- he is a Titan In
phyticai force, with the loving soul of a happy child.
lle is not distinguished by eloquence of speed), but
his hugh is sometimes divine—the clear ring of a
heart, sound in the very centre.
Girdling the Globe.
A writer in the London .lierchant ; lie,
,
ef or magnetic telegraph around the world ai
among tuft probabilities. His remarks are Ortiims
of the attempt to thread the Channel between Dover
and Calaiby a submerged tripe of wire. ilelPays
that an el tric l'elegiaph be Calais isi not?:t.,thing
which willittop there. It is a telegraph to yiediut,
to Moscow, to Constantinople, to Ispalikto Delhi ,
to Calcutta—tb tho remotest bounds, in Him% of
Europe and Asia. A few 'years ego, people laugh
ed when Lord Palmerton predictei at the South
ampton meeting of the - British • Associatioii; that a
lime might come When the Effie' titer of the day, be
ing asked in Parliament whether it was true that a
war had broken out in India, would reply, "Wait an
instant till I telegraph the Governor-General, and I
will tell you." What was thought but a good joke
iQ 1413, Is dote, in 1e:50, In the course of being ac
tually accomplished, and ere a few years more, is
likely to tyke its pladd amongst the Bober realities
of the age. Nor td the old world alone need our
vie*s of the itliirinite progre:s of &ectra-telegrolting
be confined; for, since the Englit•behinnel has been
crossed, the creasing of the Irish must Follett; as but
a matter of coarse; and Ireland once reached, there
ties hut a couple of thousand miles of water or so
between the old world and thO new. The old and
new world being thus united, We should then see
the dream cf the poet even more than realized; the
earth "girdled round about"—not in ,"forty min.
utes," but in a thousandth part of the tlme—a-sin- ,
gle beat of the Clock. What would all other tri
umphs of himan genius be to this.
Time end distance utterly annihilated throughout
the boundi of the planet which we inhabit! A tri
tuniph only to' be transcended when the planets shat
themselves begin to telegraph one another—which
is one of the very few things which, in this age of
, art-rniraeles, ono would venture without hesitation
to say•will never hsppbn.
TAKING ONE'S PART.-.—A gentleman of some no.
toriety of the West of the town, .was the other day
met by a friend who told. him ,he had just left us
person who spoke very contemptuously of dlta.
• opt me?—what did he say r
0 1•Viiv lie said you were over head and ears in
dept, fliat you paid nobpdy, and as for your word, it
teesn't trorth, a button."
"And what," replied the other, "did you say to
fhirrit
"Why," rejoined the friend, warmly, Igi mad it
tear."