‘V.- .fo 1 Bt lflflS 8.8R4/TTOS VOL.'BA. THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEER; : rigidlyatlhorcdiip;< ■ could not: lake - thB*sbwow;offr’ Ana thougnlne mother’s aye sparkled sometimes nt one joy left, the light could not put out the glimmering of a tear, which trembled on the lashes, dropping- often and heavily upon the cheek. Although the sister shone a gem of beauty beneath the brilliant ray, it could . __ not pierce the inner temple; where lay the ruins of rates or adv*rt»«*®« 0 strong affection, and gild them joyfully'. One square, one insertion, . • • • •®, A son, un only son—a brother nn only brother- 4 - One sq iftro, two Insertions; •* • - • • * *i qq with a warm heart, uml an intellect refined by a ; * * *, ■* s 25 student's lilb had given idolizing friends a taste of • a Uhetnl illscoiint will be mode to thoso who advertise by sorrow more bitter than that the death cull brings, the year* or f‘ ,r three or si* months. For many years, young'Karl Vun Schcnekjiad loved omc-Tha nffle. of the £*k& I. Wtiwm» tlfi wine cop belief then the penceOT heefla;_4nd «ij ond story of James H. Graham's new stone Imildins. in Hoath (his annual festival had ever returned 7 nl-fc late hour, Hanover struct. a few doors from Burkholder!*.hotel, nnrl rtl and with a polluted brow, to his aristocratic homo, rcriiy opposite the>Post-office,.where those havingl'lio anxious tmr of father, mother, sister, had ever will please rail. • .. caught the well known sound of his uneven step, ns It opproached their door und listened os it slowly, slutnblingly, passed over the stairs which led to the ” erring one's room. The New Year’s night was sure to bring the trembling form, the wnndcrlng oyc; for many calls during the exciting day brought many a draught of poison to Karl’s lips. ’’ TBRMBOf 80B8CRIPTW** ' ifi 6® Foronct yoar.madnance,. . t .., •, •>.* . »*ioO ' For six months, in adtanee, •' . • • montha.and «Jfo subscription taken Tor a le is term ■** . oj( j t itißconlinuancepetmlUed until nil arrear g ® - l n ,T«r»nly.Bv. par rant adamairalpn IJa price of«iin»cr P Will bo required ofall thote whodo not pay in advance. jjortUnt. Jiv FIRST GREY HAIR. BY J, rKRaOtON. • tlmu art hero imleetl * Wall, I declare, I dlil not think of seeing then bo sunn; Thtin'rt early, art tlmu not, my first grey hair? - 'l’n give me warning, ’tit H(Vb afternoon I L lia<l no thought#, at least as yet, •'That 1 was quite #o ticip in old Time's debt. Well, well, ho never makes mistakes, though I ’ Would fain persuade myselftliot the fowyears Spent Ui small purpose, would nut figure high In hlecrey ledger; b.it.alnsl my fra**, . Tell me lie’ll not be done by mirth nr care; Behold his check to me—my first grey hair! But. since thou'rt come, what host thou brought with thee? Hast thou brought mu wit 7 I’m much inclined to doubt it, Or wisdom, that experience teaches free? , Or wnalth-n thing by poets alu-as scouted? ,' Aht*. poor devils I tln*y do well to scoff U A tilttry head's tho largest share they've of it) . Yet I have done some things in my short time That have been good, ami some to bo regretted— Lost friends, gain'd foes, made lovo-nml, whul's worse, rhyme. , For which the world's hot much lo'be Indebted,' v ’ ’ Nor I iq her, although “creation's heir"’— I've got her legacy— my first grey halrl Well, t’il not pluck thee out. thou first grey thread That Time has woven in Ufa’s checker'd woofl Thou silvery badge, that glistens on my head— Thou type ofsoirow, and nfaue thd proof* • , Thoul't be my. monitor; so I'll prepare To take advice from thee, .my first grey halrl jßfoceUnnmty. From the Union Magazine BEAUTY ANIfeGENIUS IS OBSCURITY. A TALE FOR THE NEW YEAR. It was Now Ycsr'a Day in gny New York.— Thor©., was no rich table spread in the close room culled Coniine's: homo, No toilette received Aer thought—no gift coma-with Its voice o 1 love, or Iriemlly .intercut. She listened to no footstep, for there was none but would pass by,.. .She waited for no fund bias, lor the lips of brother.and sister In (ho wide world's family w*jro us.if'they hod been of icc, they were deadly cold.to th? stranger in,lho low dwelling I • Alone upon the.sea of Ufa! .wifti no star in the heaven of hope—no voice on, tho.droafy waste of girlPoverty., in gold, was very light tu bear, computed by the dreud poverty the sou) was crushed by! . Her duly was the one subject of her life. She Irccly gave her youth.and strength toil! but it made her eye dim sometimes. A few. monilis ago, and they hud lived in a satiny land, u laud ol poulry; had looked upon u landscape of vineyard, stream, and wood, which they cupld cull their own. And now they wdre thu lunaniaul u.low, inouti dwelling, across tfto waters, over which they 'h id fled in ptidu and poverty. The mother sickened with the change, mid became as helpless as a child; but the old ui.ui’u nature lurnud lu hole, lor the beau tiful Corinnu had been • ruin of hU house. t A young Iluliiin count, Wanting io ail things ho* noruble, hud uUVrcd tlio young girl indignities', which she resented so proudly, with such g>ltmg contempt, that his evil nature wus excited almost to frenzy, und ho determined to bring herduwn to poverty* j| not to sliumo. It was an tinpurUut-crisis lu thu slop-fath* cr’s affairs, when this bad puipotm was resolved upon; and its accomplishment broughTbUlce (pin Mo the virtuous Oorinno. Thu old man cursed her often us thu destroyer of his fortunes—thu dark shadow upoo Jiia file. She a shadow of evil’ Old man, look upon the hearth! Doforo the noon of that New Year's day, a clearer paleness stub over the mother's, face—a stronger brightness tilled the wandering eye. M VVhul can it mean'r’ whispered Corinno’s heart. It moans.poor orphan child, dial the. Author of tlio. lilb to you so burdensome, is nearer her rcw-ifd—thal thu old mull-brooding selfishly prill soon bo lull a griefless widower, the solitary-sharer of your uuhap py. destiny—lhal while yon giizu thu spirit of one Hut has been murlul is filling with immortality— with visions all 100 wonderful for speech ! And gently, peacefully, the spirit passed from the earthly to thu heavenly. Corinnu stood by thu bed of death, moved by.its sanctity, but inotu envying than grieving, as she saw the calmness settling, on those features, so lately troubled with tlio expression of a fading mind’s unquiet. Corinnu hud finished the duties which are called sod—she had shrouded the still waving lines at beau ty Ju the iaat robe—when a knock startled her. It was u strange sound in lhu( dull place, and Coripno hastened to answer it, as speedily as if it hud been the voice of un ungel visitant, whispering, “Let hope in I" There was no angel visitor upon the threshold as ska opened ihc door; but Hope did comp hi. A gift was handed her—her, thu lonely,.the Uiicarcd fprl— A New Year's gift! of a Valuable Italian vvnrk,cle. ganlly bound, u A Irilmiorrom u friund/flid resp» cl. cd talent and grout liduliiy.” And the nolo that ac companied it—lmw kind, how Voting ; full of warm interest In l«or history, hinting al lhu present ncces sily of tlio writer’s remaining unknown to her ; but breathing throughout a lialf veiled passion, yory like a lover’s, TUc old nun had raised his head anxiously nt the flight of the unexpected, package; but hud bent it again, with something lika a groan, a« a richly or mummied hook alone repaid him for the effort. Ho thought it might bo gold. Out it tout gold to one poor heart there! It was a voice from a human soul—a bright link thrown to her from tho.aooiai chain, binding her unuw to the •outer world. It was a gleam of light dancing through all the dark chambers of her soul, giving her now iifo oven In that viaUlng, plbco of death. U was true, that eho had on that Now Year’s day, lost all sympathy of blood with the race hot mother sprang from; but tho long chilled current of her heart had 'bean wormed, and began tq flow us the youthful lido ever should. -The ley crust at the fmintulmhoad of joy gave way at the warm loqoh of friendliness.— Even her eye was moistened with the sweet waters, so refreshing to her thirsty soul. “My poor, poor Karl! What gladness can nil •this wealth apd brfghlnussgivo to mo, when my only son, my darling hoy, is losing nil his nobleness In 'the love of wine ?" Whs there any cause of sorrow on this Now Year's an the ncli‘dwclllng of Peter Van Sohonck ? Was (ho iioarlof a millionaire troubled as one crush, hy poverty ? ' . • Brilliant ware the rooms, and gay the mooting of jkWhff friends, |n this manslun of a father grieving for Ms first born. Tho Now Year’s, tables ware loaded with .dolioate confections, thoTiinoiful Chinese anUtme etanda were burdened, with costly, gifis; flusllnglight m Ml Ground., Iflamlnatlng eurlaliwl • • Bulwhnt light stronger thun the brightness oflhal artiticiul duy—what joy greater than youlhful hope upon the faces of (hat guy company—has cast sud* denly T awny Hie shadow from the flither's brow-lias quenched the (cor in (ho mother's eye—lnis gilded the ruins in the sinter's heart? Nothing more bright than the presence of a young man who, presenting a beautiful bouquet to Kale run Schenck, kissed her cheek lovingly. It. was the son—the brother! His.eye was clear, his fine forni 'crect, |iia hand firm and Warm, as ho grasped his- slater's, with an emphasis' that had n world of meaning in it. He met his molllcr’n eye with the .consciousness of its joyful wonder flowing in his facej and ddught her side, niter duo utierilion to his sister's gticsts, with the fervor ofju prodigal. He had a gilt for both his parents; but what were gills compared to his dear preso.icg, ns ha stood them 1 in manly : benitjly,'with reason unwavering— with intellect, unquenchrd by wine? And ohl how merrily now passed the hours. All was slmdowlcss, now (hut the tight of Karl’s dear eye fell upon tho scene. A gleam of joy had come, to while the bcuutilul watcher by the untroubled couch dreamed of new life. That night, a strong man bent his knee for the first lime before the ihroncjAnd naked for strength Co overcome u foe. It wusTCarl Van Sdicock, sun* lilying by earnest prayer his view of reformation. 'Twae New Year's evening again. Twelve months had passed since Hope had sent her angels to the |ionr dwelling of Corrinne, and the young Karl's lux* urant home. Tho lowly room was.desolate now; but again tho rich mansion of Pqler Van Schenck was dazzling with light—ngamaigny company was assembled in rooms were crowded now and more with the rare embroidery of flowers—jcwela-fltfshcd, Toothers kiss ed snow^.necks, rich dresses added grnce forms. All was life, all gnyoty, all anidWomv U Was a bridal! Whose 7 • VVluj was the bride 7- Tho “very whoso romantic story was on all lips 7 . Who il, that bore herself so gracefully* so nobly. liofotp -iiitie dfe’yesT 'WMat'lTiarfo“anT(l»arls w oolcnowKagc there was worth'enough under that'gifted'brow to equal rank ; and wondered not, that Ijio"passionate love of such n creature hud won a victim from fast strengthening chains 7 - It was Corinnc !—Corinnc* tho lonely orphati girl! —who stood 'now by the side of 'Kilrl Van Schopfck, tho wife, tho idol of his smil ! II Was OoHqpol rntPrd from the darkness of her lone hpmc to 3nis brillian cy of fashion and of vvcnUh. bnrinnejHho dream ing wntelier—tho laborer for bread—ijjjjHgoltcrt liy a happy liimilv—now llio object of snclmqVe as she had longed for In heavily burdened linurkK, And never,, was there a happier was thfcVn n lovelier bride known lu the prmul circle in which (ho Van Schcnckr* moved. Even the old man, whose. shadow had. been upon (he hearth so long-, caught ihn.ndmiratinn'bf* (he crowd ; and made film-* self useful now in lolling |mw wealthy he had .been, J and ennobling his step daughter’s puiiiy by giving it ns the cause oflhcir changed fortunes. The old man’* heart was softened; wonderfully by’the liornago'Cof rinne was now Iho.object of. Hilt bow came all this about. Ono little year ago, and the unknown friend sent hl« fir«l token nflnlerest—and Zoos—ln llm (bridgiicr. One little year ago, that affection was first acknowl t‘d^ , r v d, which had the power to lalsclho lover from the downward way tn the llin glorious height of loin ncranen and prayer. It had proved « more persuasive guldp than filial or fraternal love; nnd led him In his home n liberated man. AH.xioconsciously Beauty and (*cnlns in Obscurity had brought light and joy to high places crowded by grief. FCnrl had first seon in t.ho cilice of the pub lisher, wlm, aocepted hpr nrfieles to his pwn profit more lh*»n hors. Struck hy h e r peculiar beauty, ho had sought nil moans to know.her history, watching Iqr secretly hi hop regular visits to tho puhl)sbcr, (the only visit r|k« seemed tn make,) and strengtheningat every sight of her the Interest which had been awa kened in Ids heart, lie read her eloquent appeals to the wayward, tho slnlng, the unclmr..table of IhC earth, with wondering admiration and delight. But Just bcfnro’tliut memo riihlo Now Year’s day', he had been touched lo his very sou) by one of hur womanly defences of the weak and erring, In which ho she had declared she would sooner trust the being' whosoi leading passion was the love of wine, than otic whoso spirit had un truth . lor Its found.ilhnir-wltq.stooped his words In sweat deceit, and smoothed bin brow, with lalsolmod. There was no hope whore beautiful Truth , was not permitted to bo n guest, hut the strong draught did not always or speedily drown tho noble sentiments of the soul. Karl fell that alio was right—that notwithstanding his years ul weakness, the heavenly whispers vvere nut all hushed—Dial the refmtmqnt of his mind Wiis not yet made gross by the compiin’onship of those who spurned all moralities. There was hope for him; and im the morning of the first Now Year, ho earn ostly rosnlved to keep tils lip from touching thegltss which might bu offered to him during his miiqy calls. When evening came, his lips were pure of tlio red stain; and with a hopeful heart lib sent his first of. foring to the gentle girl whose imago had strength* ened him. Corinno was tqo holy in her loneliness and trials for him to bring shame and,sorrow to her; nhd Karl determined to make her his own wedded wife, if ho could win her, after a (rial of his vow of temperance for half li.yoar. . * He still remained unknown, but tho solitary Italian constantly received some earnest toko'n lhal one heart in tho outer world still bout warmly for her—soon would pray for a gift coveted beyond all things else. Hu must have intercourse with her thus to keep.his spirit strong. Tho six months passed away,and tho,“unknown,'* treasured so faithfully .in fancy, has nothing to wait for tho devoted girl's declaration that she was indeed, in her loneliness, “nil his own." Her own proud spirit could not brook, however, thu contempt op con.* dofioonlion she might reasonably expool from, the, wealthy family she must enter, if she wedded Karl { and U was not until the lovely Kate warmly claimed her as a sister, ond the parents of'hor lover blessed her far tho joy she had hmughl their nohing hearts, '.that she was .convinced hlWowor of purity was more costly, in their eyes than lands or gold, Corinno would wall .until the anniversary of the day so memorable! in libr, before she gave lieP Hand to. Karl, nnd .sn on New Year's night she became a bride. Hop husbapd always blessed her, and Jqrned not, back from the upward,and onward way She hop pointed out. , ' I Oh! let not 4bo lowly and tho, gifted sorrow that “OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS DK RIORT —BUT RIGHT OR WRONG ,OUR COUNTRY.” CARLISLE; PA, THURSDAY; JANUARY 11, 1849. (hey act no part lii (he world's history! Some pity* in#; softening-word, dropped on man's beset,'may melt it to good deeds, giving new music to the spirit of some loving one, end a new song to angels* «.*• • I ' -1* ».*,< LIVES THEM DOWN* Brother, art thou poor and lowly. Tolling, rolling, day hy day; Jourt.eylng pain fully and slowly On thyoa/ftanddeserfijWayt , Pause not—ihough the proud one* frown 1 Shrink not, fear not—flee thmdcwnl . Though to Vice thou shall nut pander, Though to,Virtue thou shill kneel, Yet thou shall escnpApot slander— ■ Jibe ami lie thy sommusl feel—., i. Jest of wltllng-curse of clown I Heed nutolther!— HvttAem down/ • Hate may wmld her scourges horrid, .... Alailce may thy .wotftderldaj Scorn may bind with thorns thy forehead I Envy's spear may pierce (hy side I Lo 1 through Cross shall cuioe the Crown I Feor not fpcinnn /ice tkttn down! 4 TUB MIDNIGHT ASSASSIN. A TRUE STORY, I jrtn on my way to P——,-in (ho fall of 18—, It wfi towards the cold evenings in tho,,-,first fall month, when my horse stopped a respectable house, about.four miles from^N^^--'' l . There was something strange and remarkable In this action of my horse, nor would lie move u step.in spite of all my uxeytion to move him on. I determined to gratify him, and at the same time a strange presentiment which came over rhe, a hind of supernatural indescribable, scented, to urge mo lo enter; 'Having knocked, and requested ly be conducted to the lady or gentleman of the housc, 1 was ushered into a neat sitting room, where sat a beautiful girl of about twenty years of age. She rose a( my entrance, and seemed ti little surprised at disappearance of u period stranger. In a few words ! related to her the strange conduct of my horse, and his stubborn opposition to my mind. “I am not,” .1 observed, “superstitious,nor inclined on the side of tho metaphysical doctrines of those who support them ; but the strange, unaccountable feeling that crept over mo in attempting to puss your house induced me to solicit lodgings for the night." “ Wp are not,*? she replied, "well guarded, ’tin trne; But in (his part of the country wo have little to' fear from robbers, for wc have never heard of any being near os; we are surrounded by good neigh bors, and I flatter myself wo are at peace with .them.. Bui this evening, in consequence of my father’s ab*. seocc, I feel unusually lonesome, and if it wero not bordering on the superstitious, I might reason as you have, and say I consent to your 'laying; for similar feelings have been mine crc you arrived; from what cause I cannot imagine.’* Tho evening pissed delightfully nw»y; my young hostess was intelligent and lovely; the hours flcw.so quick, llini on looking at my watch I was surprised to find that it Was eleven o’clock. This was the signal for rctiUng; and by twelve every inmate of ; the house asleep, save myself. 1 coold not sleep—strungo visions floated across my bruin i and I lay Iwlsljing and turning on the hed, in allthc i agony suspense. The claok struck- i fMb i, its last vibrMmif'sound had scarcely dled : rtwoy, wnep • tho opemhg Of a'shutlcr, and the jrnislng of o sash in one of the lower apartments, crinvlh cc d me some . one was cntci ihg the house. A noise followed as of a person jumping from tho window slli 'to lhc floor , and then followed the light and almost noiseless step t of one ascending the stuirwiry. 1,.- adjoining tho one ocpuplml *-y -thVlaS y; irTifflrWaV next'to the staircase; the step came along tho • gallery slow and cautious. I had seized a pistol, and slipped on part of my clothes, determined to Watbh or listen to thb piovonmiiU of. applying iJio car to the movements seemingly myslc. riouu or suspicious; (he sound of the steps slopped >it my door—then as of applying (he cur ,lo the key-hole, and n low breathing convinced me .Ihp*;.villain’ was listening. 1 stood motionless, the pfsihl ;finnly,grasped INol a muscle moved, nor a nocyii vVtis slackened } for I fell as If heaven had se lected mu out as the instrument to effect its purpose The person now slowly passed on, and I ns cauli onsly approached tho door o( my hcd-clnimbor. I now went hy instinct, or rather by the convey, aneu ofkmiud; for as soon as I hoard his hand grasp tho latch of one door, mine seized on tho other—a deep silence followed this movement; it seemed ss if he hoard the sound and awaited the repetition; It came not—all was still; ho might lidve considered it tho echo of his own noiso. 1 hoard the door open softly—l also opened mine, and (ho very moment I slopped into the entry* I caught (ho glimpse of a tall man entering the lighted chamber of the young lady. I sofHy stepped along the entry, and approached (he chamber; through the halfoncned door ! glanced my eyes Into tho room; No object was visible save the cbrlained victim to h midnight assassin, and he,' gracious heaven ! a negro Mor at that moment a tall, fierce looking bhick approached (ho bed, and never wero Othello and Dcsdcmnnn more naturally repee. sentcri—-at least that particular scene of the immor tal bird’s conception, I was now nit suspense; myhoarlswelled into my throat almost to suffocation, my eyes to cracking; ns I made n bound into (ho room. - ’ Thu black vill.tin had ruthlessly drugged part of tfio covering off tlio bed, when the sound of my foot caused him in turn. Ho started, and, thus confront ■ed, wo stood gazing on each other a few seconds} his byes shot fire—fury was depicted in his countenance. Ho made a spring towards mo, and the next'moment lay n corpse on tho floor. The noise of tho pistol aroused tho fair sleeper} she started in tho bed, and seemed an angel of tho while clouds emerging from her downy bed to soar up In tho skies. Tho first thing that presented Itself to her view was myself standing near her, with n pistol in my hand. •‘Oh, do not murder me I—lako all—you cannot, will not. kill mo, sir 7’* -) ■ ' Tho servants no# 1 rushed in—all was explained. Tho wretch turned out to ke n runaway slave from Virginia. I had tho providential opportunity of res* cuing one Irom lho worst of fu'es, who In after years, culled mo husband, and related lq our children her miraculous escape fram the bold attack of a midnight assassin. Anecdotes of Dnelllng* In Japan, In-tuml of fighting diipis,'(ho parties cn> ilCiivpr Ip'show llii'ir valof I y committing Suicide. Il ir related Unit two officer* of tlio Emperor's liomto* liold, meeting on llio stairs, their sabres happened to langlc*, words arose, one imputed It (o accident, ndd* lug, that the quarrel was between two sword*, nnd that one was as good, as llio other. "We shall see about lliul," replied llio other, and instantly plunged his weapon in his own heart. Thu other, impatient to show his oourdffo, rnp bp, and waited upon the Emperor, returned, saving ho Was entry to lei, 4K9 other get-the atari of.him.npd threw himself on his own award; thus proving inai one sword was as good as the other. • •. A Gold M*rov.—The following Incident of gold digging In the Sacramento i* related by n correspondent cf iho W. Courier raid Enquirer at Munloroy: “ Provision* ore very scarce, nnd to obtain them umny murders have been conirnlttod, or Iho purchase oi thorn, til exorbitant prices, has Indirectly, but eventually, led to murder. One story, relating to oil oflfitlr of this kind, may deserve a place here; A ninn who ,hnd what .la called n good hole, had been dig* gfug Incessantly for two days, when ho won ncoosled by one carrying a .bucket containing food of nemo kind.. The whole of this the digger purchased for about one hundred dollar* in virgin gold j and while devouring it, tho man who bod sbld iho provision*, look possession pf the Hole. After flplemng hi* ro'! past the gold hunter ordered thp follow oat. j pul on hi* positively refitting to oomo; knocked hi* brain* out with a plokoxo, look from the pobkctq.the virgin gold that hnd puVoha«btl a meal, and then drngg off Iho body mil of th, hole, l|lm«cir onnlhuedlhodlg ..lni? Thlr, I bollovo I. reallir Iroo.joal •• I ho*o lo|iT It. A HICIHT BEFORE TUB WEDDING. 'M.'. * Y MRS. B. P. ECXET. :|Weali|ll be very. happy together;’* said Louisa toper Adnt,lhe evening befure the wedding~iind her bb|ek fcaa tinted with a rich color and her eyes rpar* kleU.with foul felt happiness. ■ . JjVhen a young bride says « wo,” It may easily bo Inwgined whom she is talking of. . pi doubt it nut, dearest Louisa,” answered her Aant, “lake heed only, that you remain as hap* py?’ -• Oh Jno fear of that my prudent Aunt. I know mMfandmyVault.; but my love for him'will cor* re«*JHom. So long as we luvo each other, we can unhappy, uhd our affections cannot change.” said her Aunt, “.you talk like.a girl of; otftfetcen on the eve of* marroge, in the heyday ofi hbsband bright anticipations. Dear child—believe* cveftthe heart-grows old. The day must come when j iM&rapture of passion will decay—-when the elusion is OTcr, and wetland revealed in our real characters. J Aftei' custom has robbed beauty ofita dazzling charms' —after youth has departed or shadows,mingled with (height of home, then, Louisa-, the wife may talk oflhe excellencies .of her-husband, or husband of the, admiral)le-;qon)itics of iiis wife. but Iho day encomiums go for nothing with me.*,* "Z*(m3cr«(and , you dear Aunt. You moon to say (he virtues only ofcuch can give losting pleasurcstoi the other.' Now for myself I soy nothing—lor 1 cun boas{£only will; out you cannot deny (hat my be trothed isthc best and most deserving of all (he young men'of this town 7 Are not all virtues that lead to happiness blooming in him 7" "1 will do yon both justice," answered her rela tive “and acknowledge that virtues bloom in both;'! can nay that to you without flattery, Lnulsla, my love,’ (hey only bloom, and need n lifetime of rain and Sunshine to ripen (hem. No blossoms'aro more dectllfnl nt first "ripening. Wo cannot know in what soil they are rooted. Who knows the hidden heart? - Nay; my dear children, oven could you always bo, ns,you are, youth and beauty would lose the power to chataS, with habit and their constant presence. Men grow tfbon-weary of tho loveliest face. Besides, your husband must grow old himself; and then youthful manners will cease to please him. Your habUs|ybur tastes* would nut bo congenial." LnuiSii sipliud. ’, i'. • •» I could store yoof memory," resumed her Aunt, “with precepts to gn >rd your happiness.*. It wou!4 tell Vou to beware of the first quarrel; never to con-, tend, oven in jest; to have no soerols from each other, least tho springs of confidence be insensibly snapped;, to beware of dm interfermed of relations. But thesb nio mnxiniß which your prudence will.sufficiently impress upon you, and their observance at least will htivn but a negative effect. '• , .Wbuldyoo hnvo the secret of perpetual loveliness? t( it* a treasure—not feature 01 complexion, bill in Oie find). Men worship bounty Tor the inWurd graces of which it in the pledge. Would you know how to keep the soul fair ?—religion is the only true secret for thati ! . --..Thus you see, my love, haw Httla wc can depend Upon persopnl. perfection ; how little on mental ex ccllencies or amiable trails of character. But the virtues born' of, and nourished by rellgiotii are im mortal—seek them from him who in thcaiithoroT re ligion'} and Wok .them daily from tiiin. Bo assured thu»; that ybu will ever remain fair and amiable in th«if ye^nf^our r b\iBbQnd,and:fag;.bieMpd-m.&yaou:Q-. rntrnjt*m life." ’ • ,‘Louisa flung her arms around her Aunt’abcck und thanked her with (parful eyes lor her lesson* tocfsfl APOLEON. '. The New York Tribune Ims arranged a brief sketch oftho President elect of France, as follows: - A Sketch gr v Louis Napoleon.— -Tho news of the election of Louis Napoleon to the Presidency of tho French Republic will naturally excite some curiosity in regard to his history and public character. Hith erto ho hojLPoly been known through tho fbolish af fairs ul ‘wasbotirg and Boulogne, his published works, notwithstanding tho merra claimed for them adherents, has, nevertheless been somewhat flveutful, and ho docs not tack thofflwanlagc of fortune and severe experience. ho has pro*’ filed by it, rjomains to be soon,, such busty materials as wo could procure, wi have arranged for tho 7Vt6ttne the following brief notice of his his tory I ■ Charles Louis Napoleon, son of Louis, Ex-King of Holland, was born m Paris on the 20tl\ of April, ltioB. His god-parents were tho Emperor and Ma ria Louise, and during his childhood ho was an cape cial favorite of tho forrrtcr, On tho return of Napo leon from Eibaj ho stood beside him on the Champ de M*irs, and when embraced by film for the last time, the Malmuison, the young Lou|s,\lli6o a boy of sovpn yeiiraj wished to fallow him at anliazards.— When (ho family was banished from Franco, his mother removed lo Augsburg, whefo ho received a good (ionnnn education. - He was afterward lakou to Switzerland, where ho obtained the right of citi zenship and comihenecd b course of military studies. After tho July Revolution, by which he was n second lime proscribed from Franco, ho visited Italy in I company with his brother, and In JB3l look.part In 1 n popular insurrection agnlual ilio Pope. This ■ movement failed, hut ho succeeded in making his 1 escape, and, his brother dying at Forli tho same * year, ho visited England, and afterward returned lor Switzerland, where, for two or three yoara, he con tented himself with writing political and military works, which do not appear to have been extensively, rood, Tho death of the Duke ofßclchsladl In 1832, gave a new Impulse to his ambitious hopes. His first revolutionary attempt,at Strasbourg,lnOclcbcr, 1836, completely failed, but after n short imprison ment In Paris, hp wes sent to this country. Tho ill ness pf his mother occasioned tils return tho follow ing year, and after 0 visit to Switzerland ho took up his residence in England until Ids second attempt at Boulogne, In' 1840. In this affair several of his followers wore killed, 1 npd he was himself taken and sentenced to impri sonment fur life in the Oasllo of Ham/ Tho particu lars of his ln May, ] 846, after an Inoiircera lion nf six years', are well known,. From that limp until tho end of September last, when ho was return ed ns a Deputy In tho National Assembly from the Department of the Seine, ho has resided in England. , A late Loudon Journal," In describing his mode of I life, gives the following not very flattering account: “He waa unsotupulous In contracting obligation* I which were wholly beyond his moans of repayment,] , and hjs moslseiioua pursuit was (ho study of alchemy, I by which lie expected to arrive at the discovery of . philosopher’s stone. So vigorously did he prosecute | this exploded science, at a noose which ho hnd filled j up ns a laboratory nt Camberwell, and so Tirm wot , his faith in the charlatan empiric whom he employed I to aid him In transmitting the baser metals into gold,that he ls said to have actually Appropriated Ms revenues In anticipation, nnd to have devoted tho 1 first rmliurd of his gains tn the payment of tho nn : ilnnnl debt of Franco, In order to acquire thus an ; Imperial throne by purchase I” , , , The largo majority by syhleh ho was elected a representative .astonishes every -one, nnd gave Ms 1 followers (ho first encouragement to bring forth his name ns n candidate for the Presidency,’ .”9 defoall iho acknowledged Republican party, ho received olso the support of tho Legitimists end Orlsnnlsts, and those combined Influences jinvo elected him by an Immense majority. Tho rest must bo loft.toliino audible. _ rrTU la a reflection of Taoltna that banofilanro mrrS.ble only en Inn* >• wo bollaro wo nan ropey lliomt hat that when limy .bopome too groa , hotrod Ulta. place of gratitude. Seneca aoya, in relation to iTiooaino .object; (bat n omallanm ofhorrwod money makea a debtor, but a largo tmo, an enemy. I wonder,” aeld Satnbo, "why do aun no ahino d|a dark night, an* not o)woya,kopp ahinln’ inde day lime, when dat’a no need ob blip 1” : TheßUnd Slave of .the Billies* ST REV. ■PRESIDENT. HtTOHOOCR. ; Allow me here (o refer to.Uie.caso'that lately,fell bfCellfpcnia: under my observation, which illustrates more forcibly'. •* VVe .yesterday bad .the, pleasure of meotliJf Mr. than I bad over conceived, the priceless value of the. Joseph f£'Cutting, who comet directly front the gold Christian's hope to the most unfortunate and degrad* mines in California, and, has in his possession a ed, I had descended one thousand feel.beneath tho quantity of the “precious metal,”, just «s he.duff it earth's surface, in. tho epul pits of'tho Mid Lothian fromthe bowels of the eorth[in its hstiVeJslate.. Mr. Mines in Virginia, and was wandering through their Cutting left San Francisco on thd lllh pEQclober.~ dark, subterranean passages, when {be sound of mu- Ho took the route home sia. Mexico, and^ffrlved bffs sic,broke upon my our. It ceased upon'ottr approach, yesterday in the brig Tili, Capu Badovicli, from Vs* and I caught only the concluding sentiment of the ra Cruz. He very we think, disposed of hymn,. ‘in considerable portion ofhisore irvM«xatlsn,fcarlbg “I shall be In tfcaven In the morning.” | too much the cupidity of Iho Mexican robber* to treat On advancing with our tamps, we found the pas* it on his poison. Everything sva® quiet ioCafifpr* sngo closed byndodr, in order to give n different di*-‘ nia when Mr. C. left. Nothing wa» thought of» or reqlipnlo the current of air, for the purpose of ventir talked of*, but the gold region; and almost allolhsr Uli'on, yet this door must bo opened occasionally to business than the lucrative one of gold digglng,WM to let the rail cars, pass loaded with coal. And to' suspended.. The consequence ot this stale of thing* accomplish this, wo‘found sitting by that door an is, that the prices of ail the necessaries of life era aged bljnd slave, Whose eyes had been entirely de- enormously.-high. Flour for instance, which sfaS slroycd by a blast of gunpowder many years before principally brought from Oregon, was seUing%tsso in (hat (nine. There he sal, on a seat cut in the a barrel; bad brandy, from 86 to $8 a bottle; and coal, from snnrUo to sunset day after day; his ‘ sole for ordinary board, front BJ2 to 816 a week was paid, business being to open and shut when he Sq.far .as explorations have been made, U has been heard the roil cars approaching. We requested him ascertained that gold, exists on both slt|e*.oflhe Siefr to sing bgaln the hymn whose last line we hod heard, ra Neveda, from latitude 41° north, lb so |ar south as It was indeed iarno in nijd In the poetic Iho head waters of the Sin Joaquin.river,.a distance measure very*deft?ctjve, .being, in fact, one of those of four hundred miles in length^and .ane,. hundred productions which, we found the pious slaves.were in j miles ,1a breadth. The gold region alrcidy 1 (he habit of.singing,'in part, nt least, impromptu—lercd,jt»s estimated,„is sufficiently extensive to gids But each stanzas closed with the sentiment, I profitable employment to 100,000 persons fprgene j . ‘'lshaljbe In Heaven in Hie imirnlng.” (rations to come. The orb.is in in a virgin stale. It was imng drith a clear and pleasant voice, and disseminated In small particles, and is found In thfc* I-could see the shrivelled, sightless eye balls of the distinct deposits—sand end gravel beds, on deepm* old man.roll in their sockets, ar if his soul foil the P<«ed Kanile, und intermixed with a.kind.of slalei s/nliment a; and really the exhibition was. I.‘ I* generally fousd from immediately beneath toe one pflhe poost affecting that I have ever witnessed, ; aurficc to a distance of four feet, and Us position, oqd There Tie'' stood, an old man, whose earthly hopes ‘bo pure state in which it is found, is behoved lobe even ot the best, must be very faint; ami h 6 waa a i the result of a general volcanic eruption. The gold slave—and lio was blind—what could he hope for .on 1 region lies within about one hundred or two hundred earth? . He was burled, too, a thousand feel beneath [and forty ( milcs. of San. Francisco; it is about'tho the solid rook. In the expressive language of Jonqh, ? ttn, 0 distance from Monterey; and the great major- VsHe has gone down to the bottom of the mountain, ‘ty ol * ‘be population of these two places, merchants, the earth with her bars was about him forever.”— 1 doctors, lawyers, mechanics, laborers, soldiers, sc» r There, from month to mohlh, he sal in darkness— men, deserters. Americans,. Spaniards, Mexicans* Oh, how utterly cheerless his condition And yet; Indians—all have cleared out, and are ns busy as that one pleasant hope of a resurrection morning avarice and nmbilion.can make them, engaged in tho was enough to infuse peace and Joy In his soul. pleasant labor of gold finding. From NovombeMlll I had often listened to touching music—lliad hoard March,embracing the Interval ofthe rainy season,but gigantic intellects pour forth enchanting eloquence, litlio progress can be made in “ digging,” so that but nover did,music or elnqiioncooxcrl sochovcrpow- ony enterprizing young man, who wmild start now* ering influence.over mr feelings ns did this scene.— would be all In gnod’lime fur tho commencement of Never before did vvd witness so grand an exhibition of next year’s operations.- Mr, Cutting is rather an old*' sublimity. O, how comparatively insignificant did nnd not a very strong man. He workpd nt the gold, earth’s mightiest warriors and Statesmenjicr princes finding for forty days.. Being regardful of health, bp and emperort;, even her philosophers without piety np* c hose the “dry diggings” to operate liu In thtj pour! would olllheir pomp and pa- Hnip ho got over, fifteen hundred dolju.r® worth pfors. gonlryondjvjsdom, bo to sustain them, If called.,to 1* found easier and in- larger quantities .in. tbs change pieces #ith this poor slave! Ho had a print! “ wet diggings;” but working in iho. Utter is,mors pie Within'him superior to them all; and when that, unhealthy. His implements were, a pick-axe, aspade, morning; which ho looks for shall come, how infinite* a butcher’s- kni-e, and, a tin pan,. One Individual ly belter ihanthotrs will his lot appear to an admiring ftand n solid piece of ore weighing thirteen pounds, pniversc., And that morning shut) erelong break Surely ibis n literally the “golden age. * The ell upon thy darknean, benighted old man The light male of California Mr. Cutting describes a< remark* of tho natural sun, and the face oftliis fair world R bly salubrious and healthy, except on the Sacra, will never; indeed,* revtst the remnant of mc P l< | river, where fever ana ague to your days must be spent, in your monotonous task, prevail. ’ . by the side of the wicker gate, deep in the caverns nf tho corili. .But that bright'and blessed hope of a | resurrection morning shall hot deceive you. The Sa vour in whom'you lruBt*ahaUmanifcßt himsclftpynu even in deep darkness, thenppointed hour,the nnd IfiedoaiWe night. tvKlch envelopes you shall vanish'into t7>o light and the liberty and (he glory of heaven. And In just pro portions to thb depths degratjons how shall bo the brightness and tho joy of thot everlasting day, ONSNBEZINO. If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger; Bnrezn on a Tuesday, Kiss a stranger; Sneeze on a Wednesday, sneeze for a letter; Sneeze on a Thursday, something belter;. v . Sneeze on a Friday, sneeze fur sorrow; - Sneeze on a Saturday t *ee yoiiriwneihcnrtjp*mnrrow; Sneeze on a Sunday, and tlie devil will hawlfloinlnlon over . you all.tbs wcekl KISSING THE BABY. I Wo are never a spectator of- this popular perfor- I mnneo without calling to mind ilio happy expedient .* of a friend of ours, who goes by 1 the eahriequet of , “ Bashful Bob,” upon a certain occasion when U was I attempted by a'“ fair young mother” to make him the victim of tho above named torrihlo operation.— Bob was nh awkward; difflidont, bashful and r never was suspected of bcifig’cquul to a delicate or a desperate emergency, but os events proved, for h|l ' that, ho had jho heart of d hero in him.- Bob's ex ploits were performed in a mixed company, at (he , house of a young lawyer, whoso wife—a lady ofex , cceding beauty—and baby of ago too insignificant lo mention—were the chief nltroction oftho day, Thp ■ party separated in tho evening, when, of course the baty was to be kissed by every body. By general con sent! Bob was allowed to bo the “ last man.’* To ul! appearances (hero was no escape for oiir poor friend. Tho mischievous mother, with the dreadful i object In her arms, led on (he attack; there was no 1 retreat, nnd our hero was about to submit to his fate, < njuid the laughter oftho whole party, when his gcqd 1 genius came (0 his rescue, nnd with tho quickness of < thought—(fie mother received the enlulr of .Bashful 1 Bob, Tho great qualities of individuals are never fully acknowledged until-they are called forth by extraordinary emergencies. Dob was voletl “every UncH a true hero.”— IVue Democrat. <3«b>« of Advice*, Pittaeus being asked whal was Ibe best? ho an* swered, to do the present thing well. . Ho would say, what thou dost take ill In thy, neighbor, do not thy* self. Reproach not .the unhappy; for ilia hand of God U upon thorn. Be true, to thy trust. Boor with thy neighbor; love thy neighbor. Reproach not thy friend though he recede from theca little. He would say, that commonwealth is best ordered, where, the j wicked 1 1 live no command; and that family, which I have neither ornament or necessity. To conclude; bo advised to acquire honesty; love discipline; observe; temperance; gain prudence; mind diligence; and keep truth,Tail!) and piety. Ho had a brother who dying wlthflut Issue, left him Ms estate; so that when Crasu* offered Ms wealth, ho answered, I I\ave more by half than I desire. Ho also affirmed that family the belt, who got not unjustly, kept not unfaithfully,spent not with repentance t and, that hnpplnrjsk consists In' a virtuous and honest life, with being content with a competency of outward things, and Jn using them 4ompcrnte|y, Andtoconcliide.he earnestly enjoined all to, flee corporeal pleasure; ho, it certainly brings sorrow: but to observe an honest lift* more strictly than an oath; and meditate on serious tilings, —JVb Cress no Croian. PXd'dy not to be Dorm.—A newly imported Irlih man wa» ooa cl.iy alondinir, wllh lII* under hia aim, at a almp window not thirty mile. from Glue now. The ahnp,keeper ob.or*inj Min from Iboduor aocoated him llin.i “Wall P-l, wliat do you want In my lino to day I" “Wlial you have not in glva mo, rejoined llio fri.hrnap. “I'll wager a pound I have wlial ouUa you,'’ relumed llio former. The lotlor pulling a. pound from Ilia rage, replied, "It’o done table your dual. I went oahoulh (or my hook" To I poor PulV astonishment and mortification, thqshcalh (vqb produced. Away he wont (o (ho harvest, how* over, leaving (he pound with (ho shop keeper; but not to bo beat, (jo culled on his way homo, and ini the presence ofn witnoss,lhua addressed him:''Well, 1 Mr. ——, what will you lake (pr ns much tobacco as will roaoh from, my oao oar.tfi'tho other T*’. “A pen ny,** was the reply, Tl})s.bolngagreed In, tho grocer but oiT about a foot of lohadooi'Tjihd was about apply* Ing its extremities to Pal’a iho latter, pointing his finger, excitingly exclaimed, “there is onb our, but tho otheyla nailed to tho back of llio goal door at Dublin.” spftu duped grocer was obligoulu giye hinihgenius infitngonjat. forty pounds of tobacco, before lio could v' <tpit ofhlm. H won’t covflt-yonr heels,'lMrW darned IT I tin, «■ the atoolung Raid to thfl novel reading lady, AT|2 00 PPBISNDi/ r I : -Th« Gold UIIUB Of OclifOVßllb, ~ ' i Prom a late number of the Now Orleans clip the following article rotative to the tioldmindl* Husbands and Wltsi* • * When people .understand that ,tiipy muai IItMo? gather, they learn to soften, by mutual, accommoda tion, the yoke which they know they cannot shake off. They becojno good husbands andgopd wives, of hsmuiiiing husbands nrjcfc {i o powerful master in leaching (hp duty, which it Imposes. If it were once understood that upon mutual disgust married persona bo legally separated, many couples who now poss.llirough the world with mutual comfort, with attention l to their common offspring, and to. the moral order . civil s cicty, might have been at this mopiwit living''*' in a elate of in e trangement from thelt.common offspring, ahdsrfr* stale of unreserved immortality, To be sure, jf peo ple como together in marriage with the extravagant expectation that all arc to be halcyon days; the nus bund conceiving that all Is to bo oulJforliy with hint, and the wife that all is to bo accommodation to hpr: everybody sees how that, must end; but if they come together with a prospect of happiness, they most come with the reflection that, not bringing perfection in themselves, they Uavc.no fight to expect Uon thq • other side: that, having respectively many infirmities ot\their own th lie, overlooked, they mutt overlook iho infirmities of each other. ~ . He»d Work* ITead work Is the hardest work, in flic worlds The artisan feels this if at. any time he has to spend A whole day In calculation. All. men of learning teili- . (y to the eamq truth, and their, meagre'frame* eallow completions- tell n plainer tale than Joe^r* word.s Sir Edward Coke, the great English Iswypr,' . speaks thus onnccrning.his.grcnt workt “While we were in hand with these four parts of the Institutes} wo often, having occasion .logo info thecounJrytdld, in somo sort, envy the state of the honest ploughman and other mechanics. For oho, when he was at work would morily sing, and.the jilnugliman whistle somo self plopping tunc, and yet their work both pro ceeded and succeeded 1 , but he thnttakes upon himself - to write, doth captivate all the faculties and powers both of Ilia mind and body, and must lie only.atten tive to tliqt which ho collectelh, without any .expres sion of joy or cheerfulness while he Is at work.” Thk Poor Bov’s Collm**—'“The printing etece*” fays the New York GU)be,“liae Indeed proved a bet tor college to many a poor,ony,T—has graduated more useful and conspicuous members of. sociclj—Jins brought mnro Intellect, «ind iprued into useful awakened more mind, generated, iporoncllvq and.elevated thought,than anyof Jha- Ultrury colleges of the country, flow many a drone, has passed through these colleges with no tangible fjrool’or his fitness other than his Inanimate niece of parchment, hlmeolCmpro inanimate than lils Jeajhcrfl, diploma? Thera Is something In the very nlrnds phore of a printing office calculated to nwokcn v lhe, mind and inspire a thirst of knowledge. A boy whp, commences in such a school will have, his talents brought out} if ha Inis no m)nd-lo be drawn out, ibo - boy himself wili be driven out.” Great Bullock.— Mr. IJonryS. Hunter, of Mnrblq fliill, Montgomery county, has o bullock, log, of the following extraordinary dimension*;— Lenfflb of bodv. J 0 /tel 7 Indies; girth 11 feel; holgtl* 5 f eflt y Indies; weight upwards oflweniy*ntne hun-. died pounds J Hie ago is five years and six mpnihs.. Ho was purohased, when quite young,out of r dtpVit, but soon gave evidence of the mammoth dimensions,', which ha has since acquired. He willbok*pl’Tt n short time longer* with a view,to increase his Mte,‘ when he will be disposed of nr slaughtered. HelsA.j beautiful animal, snd Vs worth a.tnpof *.do»enmVlqqi to see. .Chester county Used to havp some liule clulm, to showing up big animals, hut we think Old Mont,' gomery. In this instance, anyhow, must have .a wori to sny In disposing of these honors, So talk* in# Germantown Telegraph. Slavery in the Colonies, 177C.~The first slaves Introduced into this country, were twenty in numbef, brought by a Dutoh shlp-of-wnr from the coast of- Guinea. They were landed, for eslo, nn'Jsmes Riff, 1 er in the Colony of Virginia* August, 1020w»I|Va. [hundred and twenty-eight years ago. Negroes t thenceforth, soon constituted n species of trs/Ro more,’ lor loss in all tho Colonies. At (ho time of the oisMtion of Independence, In 177$,the whole number I of them was estimated at 500,000. » Modest-Very.—** son," sold a dost lug. father, who was taking his sun Into business,“whkt slmii he the stylo of.Hjo/iejv firm 1". > . ,;Vl^ V Well, governor,” said the ono and twenty youth,- looking into tho.houvens lev find sn answer, v i.dqplt.) know—but suppose wp have it John H. Sampling; Father'.” ’ 't . • .. li~^ V ‘-'-A Tho did gentleman was struck st the orfginsilMftp the Idea,-bulflould not ddopl jV v , . JI .11 41/I*B » w K .iU W&ual. i .j'-'-'y. bo:?3U
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