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'AT FIRST BUT MIOHTY AT LAST.
i'ril '■
ST CtIARLRB KACSST.
'. i *> f A traveller through a dusty road
V*“ ‘ Strewed acoruaoti Hie Ira, -
ti-V-i .< ' (And one took toot'aitil rerouted up,
. ■ Amt grew into a tree.
■ • - 1 *Lrtva sought Us «lia<>e at evening time,
•To breath it* early vows,
> 'Anrtaee was ideated, tn heat# of noon,
■ ; To I»aA beneath IMbough*?
, , •■Jic-ir-ii;-!: Thnilormouve l.ivml ludangllngtwigs,.
. >-•-jv&'.hVThe bird* sweet movie bar©. ..
- tftjhoml'a glory in ita (itaqe,
*' A bleeding evermore. .
llitle spring had loiTita wave,
' Amid the grass ami fern;
y.i'f ‘A passing stranger sconc'd a well, .
''■"‘iiwtihL ■ l Where Wary nren might turn;
' *H« wall'd It in, ami hung with care
'v , A ladleht the brink—.
-Bethought not »r the deed he did, .
-•- hut Judg'd that toil might drink,
V : He paea'd aaafn-and lofthe well,
Uy aummere never dried,
' ’’ liai cooled ten thouaaml patching tongmi
i And saved a life beside t’
i'lU-S A dreamer dropp'd* random thought;
'4**' ’ ’Twm old. and yet wai new—
;■• A *lllllllB fancy o( (ha brain, •
rj, r Dni strung in hoina true;
- It shone upon a genial mind,
. And 10l Its light became
' A lamp nfllrt. a beacon ray,.
A monitory flame.* -
- The (hnuibt-waaamtll- It* issue great;
A watrh-flr« on tin* hill,
Itahed Its radiance far adown;
' ' And cheers the valley glilM-
A nameless man amid a crowd .
' -That thronged Iha deity mart,*
- Let tail a word nr Hope amt hove,
UnslmlnM from the In-art; , • •
A whisper on the tumult thrown—
SggK’-- ’ A transitory breath-
It raised a brother fnfih the dust,’
;• It saved a son?f>oro death.
O germ I O fount I O word nf.love,
sI&V-'v' - O thought at random east I*.
vjK' Ye wiere bit little atlheflrsl, , •
‘ But mighty at the last I *
HKlftt’eUaneoitft.
Wife’s First Grief.
BV JOSEPH R. CHANDLER.
i*t has sal dawn in measureless content,
id the pleasures which full gratification
ms not at limes fell.rising in the mind
j inquiry, “How Ion]; will this laail—
i occur (o disturb the happiness which
uchsafedV I never had an animal to
ras particularly-attached—and. I never
rom a cal to a horse to which' I was not
utached—that I did not occasionally
>y use or caresses of it, and ask, “What
to deprive me of it—accident, escape
~jidsl of social enjoyment, when the duty
the HmuneuiHiit or the conversation
ha* devolved upon another, how often will live in-
Vjpkry ari-e. ••How longwill (Ids last! 1 * No sign
: <h,fru|»turn la presented, no token of dissolution is
but there must be a rupture, there
he a.dissolution. How will U come, and
jHIKu ‘confess that knob anticipations arenolei ways
evidence of a- well-balanced mind i tod often
~r from a'morbid'state ol feelings, that
produce the very evils they suggest—-I
of evil is not so much the result j
v'V'’sM*l*nliappy experience, as the consequence of a
vi of self-sustaining power. |
ago it was my chance to be near a young j
at the moment on which she was taking ,
ff} : q eaT e of a lover. She stood a.moment and watch*|
ied his departure, until by turning a corner he was;
K l< tißonceal«d from her sight; i
v ; ®Oan It last)” said she to herself. “And
r kwhy rv-ll if ha loves me now, when my station
i consequently my manners are less desirable
in his, surely he must love, me more when 11
ve had the. advantage of his association, and I
ve constantly I uproved by that inferenuraei”—|
e passed onward. . I hoard no other words, but
r steps indicated a heart at ease, or if disturbed,
teas the commotion of inexpressible pleasure.
H last) and if not, when will it foili—
'lflpw will its diminution manifest itself). These
queries which arose in my mind often, as I
of the approaching nuptials. And once,
V ;« few days after the marriage, 1 saw her leaning
-against the trunk of a tree which was then in full
ftiossom, She was evidently connecting her own
■ ww estate Avith tho lovely hopefulness of the
above her, and as she raised her eyes
*sfoln, it was evident that she was thinking of the
which waa radiant with hope. For one
.foment a cloud seemed to pass over her-face; it
•'■...nrjis raOier doubt than pain.
. f jftl.lie looked again at the tree and its munificence
V m; the cloud passed from her farce', and aho
'j&fne away in evident delight.
: was a spring ol disappointment, as I re-
R ,ruß l destroyed the early vegetation,
- ’ entirely ruined the blossoma on thu tree at
she had been looking. No fruit waa borne.
was. 1 apprehend, my own infirmity that led
ih'mif more of changes which might come
-matfst the path of the newly married person than
daliything in her condition; for though .I subse-
l'quenily saw where the danger lurked, yet then it
with me only the foreshadowing of a some-
HKfewhat morbid sensibility, contrived to anticipate
HHpanough to make the present gloomy with theap*
jgwqf’prehenvlons of the future, So I watched. Bless
be tho. race of croakers, whose stomachs are
' V conjuring up a cloud to darken their
gjmjnds, and who are too unselfish to let any orte
- fW.M without this benefit pf their overshadowing
>. l watched this case, fur the first
Jfltclamalion which I have recorded nf this young
■ iComan had.touched a chord of melancholy In my
disposition, and so I war anxious to see
«*>iow long H would laal;’’howMong the pepce,
joy; atod domestic felicity would continue. It did
tool seem to qto )hat the disturbance could origl
' Dale with her,, ,
Ttio husband was food of amusements; and he
, nn j uB ed a good gun and some well-trained
But though these drew him occasionally
his home, yet the fine disposition of the wife
I In the dumb but sagacious conmanions of
msband, objects of regard She learned to
ihem, and as hoomno their gentle nature, they
I her, joyed in'hor caresses, and seemed to
a sober resolve to watch over her safely, and
jcure it even at the cost of their lives. I con
that I wps disappointed at this, having anti
led that tho I jttur of dogs would have disturbed
k qiisnimiiy of. the, wife, and thus have 1 pro
id reprisals from the husband,
was not long before tome event—l think it
the ordinary teenlt*pf .“security,** the mlse
pride of trying to make one's self considers
m jeopardizing the peace qnd comfort .of a
. ,nlly ny gnidff t‘securlty M ‘fer a qian, 1 In Whom
could not have hjtd. confidence,, dr they
/ not have miked swept front
& Ihe husband a considerable portion of, the property
v which had made his.condition better lhan the
■* Wife’s before marriage.
“ And here.'* said I,»* it will.oease at last.*.* 1
hope that, my foeljipgs '.wore of 'tho right kind; I
think now ih.it they were only those of curiosity.
Some people seem to desire on evil that they havp
foretold—l think l onljf desired to know how the
legs of proparly'Waa to affect the wlfoi' -
Her husband waa the first la tell her of the
misfortune. . ; ' . ‘
: • •• I am sorry, my dear,’’* said the quiet wife*
»»sorry- indeed* It will compel you to oo much of
the work which, you have hitherto hiredbthers to
perform. , Do;not lei.the loss pfyour properly!
mortify .yon, nor suffer yourself, to dwell on the
error*.it it was an error, ql ‘ the act by, which the’
lose occurred.** . . '* I
d Uutyou—you, fnydparwifp--' 11
_ “U;will.nut.” said she, essentially affect me;
It will noiadd to my -.labors or.my anxiety, i
must look after the household affairs whether we
haveone farm or twe. T *
• The wife-shed ,«o tears. 1 She was sorry that
hj»r husband. should. lose the. social distinction
consequent upon some' property more than Others
possessed; but it was a pardonable feeling in her,
that the loss.of property placed Her more upnn his
level, and removed something of the *appearance
of difference between them,
Tbid then was not much of agrief. ‘
••It lasted,yet.” .
The sodden death of Jlie first-born child, a beau
tiful boy, Was the next disturbing cause. 1 was
not in the liouse during the short sickness of tire
child, but I attended the funeral, and followed the
body from the antique house of mourning .to the
church-yard. When theciods fell upon the coffin
I’ thought the heart of the mother would have
burst. She leaned-oyer to look down. into.the
resitng-plaoe of her child, and the arm of a friend
teemed necessary to'prevent he> from “going onto
hltii ** ’ ’
And-i said, lasts no longer.” :
. The friend and, neighbor led her- back to ( her
hnabaml. - The gentle took of affectionate sympa-
thy which he gave her as ho placed her ami with
in his, and drew her towards him, that she might
lean.on his manly strength, showed fus niy mis*
take. 1 -. :
The mother had. suffered, but Ute affection, nay,
the happiness ofthe wife was complete,
Oouid a mother be happy returning from jta
yet onsodded grave of,her only.child 1
Death had softened her heart, and fitted It fur
theminieira'i-ma of new. Btfimi-m, The fattier
had suffered in the death of the boy as welt and
as much aashe, and yet'al the moment of deepest
anguish he had.hushed hjaown grief that he might
her in her sorrow. The mother mourned; but the
wife. rejoiced. H*»w beautiful a< d beautifying
fur llie moment had sorrow become. It seemed to
me as if affection had never.before,possessed such
charms; it needed affliction to make it apparent,
as the sunlight pouring through crevices info a
darkened'chamber becomes visible only by .the
floating panicles that reflect ihe-languishing rays.
Tim affairs nf the couple were not so prosperous
ns the virtues, the industry, the economy; and the
womanly excellence of the wife seemed to de
serve, yet she never repined. I think one or'lwo
instances of excess onihoparl of the husband
dfew largely upon the forbearance of the wife, but
as even the excess was accompanied with expres
sions of affction they, though maudlin, .seemed
to compensate. The feeling then was rather a
slight apprehension,fur the future than grief for
tlm present—-sorrow and deep mortification might
have been fell. But these few instances; joined
with so ite .unaccountable decay of-means did*not
disturb the. happiness of. a happiness
which seemed to inea perpetual joy, ~ ,!.
Was the wodiin'spametie f - Had sHe nosensli
liveness t Whs slip made to go through lift* with
a Senile laugh, and drop Into, the. grave, with a
smile? Her anguish at the death of hersoh pioy*
ud the contrary. „
'('he loss of property, to one who had been poor
before, seemed to produce no grief; a it'd let the
reader remember, or if Ke has not known , the fact
let him now. learn it, that the loss of properly is
more bitterly felt by those who have from poverty
risen to possessions, than it is by those who from
infancy to the disasier had always been rich*.
The loss of property produced no grief. ‘
The death of her child led to a new affection
for and an enlarged Joy in her husband,,
His unfrequent but still obvious departure from
sobriety, long unaiiended with rudeness or neg
lect, did not offend the pride of the wife* .
It will last always,” said I.
•* I must mourn as n mother,” thought she, “ I
must abate a portion of my social state, and 1
may, once in a tong time, be mortified by some
low indulgence In my husband, but fixed, deep,
permanent grief as a wife it is probable J am to be
spared, as a comparison of my own constitution
with that of my husband styiws that In the course
of nature ! shall be spared the misery of mourn*
ing for his death, and be saved from the solitary
woes of widowhood.”
Thu loss of pioperty rendered necessary more
labor on the part of the husband, sod that labor
kept him more from his home.than formerly; but
the gentle welcome of the wife cheered the loti*
worn husband and her delicate caress changed, the
gloom hPliling on his brow into smiles ofsaMsfac
lion. There was perhaps more pleasure in (he
efforts which she was making to produce tlieevi.
Hence of gratification In her husband, than there
was in the mere exchange of smiles of welcome
and thanks. The wife grew proud of her influ
ence to bring him back to enjoyment, she fell a
new consequence when she found that she could
not,only reciprocate smiles but dispel frowns, not
only abate in the pleasure of home, but dismiss
the pains. How holy is the office of a good wife,
am) how pure must bo her sentiments, to derive
the highest gratification producing the happiness
of another.
It was la'p in a summer afternoon, and by ap*
r ointment . the husband ought to. have returned
wdor'lhree 'hours before.’ Thentdee of’revelry
had for a lung lime disturbed the outer edge of the
tillage Iq which the dwelling.wasaUunlrd—Aonm
vulgar frolic hitherto kept In d distant part of, the
country, hud beep adjourned to hriglthnrhnod
—•hut the .way of the husband on' hip return did
not lie in that course. Tho.wife had giineout fre
quently to watch for his approach, and to meet
him with a smile of welcome—that smile which
mattes home delightful, which attracts and ratain<
She looked anxiously to thp left, and sirelched her
eyes along the road In hopo (hot some token of hia
approach would'be presented, there was none.—
hven the dogs (hat had followed her out failed to
give notice of his coming. Shis leaned over the
roiling with dletrustless would come
soon,'and would repay her for all her anxiety bv
extraordinary - evidence of nOVcilon. She sum
moned up (nr-her consolation tho thousand hind
nesses of her husband, hla constant, changeless
love, hla resistance of those errors that marred the
domestic bonniness of so many families { and
like a true wile, she suffered the lustre of her. own
purity, excellence, and affection, to gild tbs char
acter and conduct of her husband. ,
She was startled from her rnvery of deljght and
charily by an unusual outbreak nr noisy'debauch
ery from tho wretched drafting house
She leaned forward, and stood fixed Ip horror a(
the sight. . . i .
Her hushnnd was In the midst of the rlotoud
host, In sickening, disgusting familiarity wlth an
abandoned, one of her own sex, . !
Sits stepped hack until an angle of her own
hoqso concealed from her the painful scene.* .A.
thousand previous, matters that had scarcely ex
o|M«d a thought'bpoamo then of Importance,.ln the!
explanation which was given In v#hsl shd'had j
seen* Sho raised her apron to her eyes, but there.
*wiiib nbittorsiUartda o» thrfcmfc
before her; a feeling came over her heart such as
she had not before experienced.
" She had fell as a‘woman regrets for the toss of
property—llie mother had mourned the death of
her; child—and anxiety had been .felt for some
'slighterrors in her husband; but property could
be regained by labor, dr relinquised without effort
: every, dream of the mother gave back to her
heart her beloved child and refreshed with a spirit*
j ual intercourse; and every waking thought that
. turned toward the dead one, was lustrous with the
sense of Ins heavenly intercourse, and consoling
in the promise of a future union*—the errors of .a
[husband, that do not imply dishonor, nor exhibit
| themselves as evidences of waning affection, may
| be amended or endured; but when tha heart is
J suddenly overwhelmed with the evidence of shame,
i insult, dishonor, when nil the purity of .woman's
’ thoughts is outraged With the proofs of guilt, and
all ihit years of her chari;y and enduring-love are
dishonored by the unerring tokens of ingratitude
and infamy, and the confidihg, the consoling,'the
truthful wife becomes tho'witness of the-desihic*
llonofiher domestic peace, despair sweeps, over
the heart, like the blastings of the simoon; and ,
then, al! the "onmentloned sufferings of the wo*,
man, all the cherished sorrows of the daughter, [
all the poignant anguish of the mother are lout, in |
the overwhelming torrent of— 1 14 The Wife's First
Grief.”,
ADVICGV .
Neither a borrower or s lender be
For loan ■>(( litoses ladh itcelf sod friend;
And borrow Jug dulls (he edge of-husbandry.
- . . £AoJbpMf«. !
-Whateuuld t morel
I warn'd tbee, I admonished thee, furtnld .
The danter. and the liitknly ewsniy
That tty to wait; beyond tills ba.i been force.
And force upuu ftee will hath hers uu place.
ADIEU-
Then comes the parting hour, and whal arts#
When luvet* ptrt-expretrive looks, and ryes ‘
' Tentter sini tearlul- many a find a.’.ieu, ‘
And many a call the sorrow to renew...
- - CTsMs.
• • AFFECTION.
Alt! could you look into my heart,- -
And watch yuorimage tm-rei
•• Von would own the sdnny lowliness
' AOVcllua makes it wear.
Mr*. 01/Serf. t
AOBi • ‘ * . .
Though I look old. yet 1 am strong sod lusty.
For in tny youth I never did apply
Hut and rebellious liqnora to my blond.' - - j
I know then not old'man; fell tn'thy prayers, .
lluw ill w hits hairs become a fool and Jyater.. ;
The last scene of all.
. That a ids this strange eventful history,'
.lesaeood childhood and mere ohlivlnu.
• SAoJUyssrs.
- Thonth old, be still maintained
Die manly sense, and energy'of mind.
Virtuous aftt) wise he was, b it hot sever*;
Its situ remembered he once was young.;
Mis easy pre*eiic«clieck*d nod-cerit joy j.fhrha
A graceful l<-ofenrss. w lien he pleas'd, put on.
And lauglmig could Instruct. itnutepng.
TUB AnC(IANGELAS THUMP,
Tho last good story In Paris in told .at the ex
panse of a wry handsome and rich Widow <f
most exemplary rlmraoier, who hits, a'smalt and 1
elegant retreat at Versailles. In addition to her
town rnpidenco. At this pretty rurally Rhe tvan
passing a auimoloeo eft'he-Autumh, : hnying
for Iter gtteaivo. Isd’in bis leen». who. whs VdlsJ
taut rhlairnrrr, and. who, was thus passing his. varp
lion, from’school.. Madame’s liouse-kepprr- nn*t
cook was a respectable fenialp; who*, however,
had an admirer, a tiumpeiHr, suiioned’in the bar;
rack*‘near hvvnnd the s>plen pleasure of whom
was to in ami dine stealthily on the remain-*
iug dishes'of the mistress* luxuriant table.
Madame and her boy relative having starred
after dinner for a walk, the trumpter to k advan
tage of ihe absence,hul unluokily prolonged.bis
meal a few minutes 100 tong. In bis burry to
conceal himself, when’taken by surprise, he* be
came ensconced under.the, bed of the lady of the
house thinking to escape while site passed the
evening In her drawing-room as usual, Madame
was tired with her walk, however, and proceeded
to retire for the night immediately on her return.
The. trumpeter, in full uniform, wiilt his brazen
instrument beside him, was of course In a position
of considerable dismay,. As he lay racking his
brain, the door suddenly opened, and in walked
the school-boy, who to the astonishment of the
lady, fell on his knees, and made a tumultuous
declaration of love ! .
“ In the name of heaven,** cried the astonished
object of his passion, *» rise, and leave the room
immediately! What would bethought of mo if
you were seen in this .indisicreet situation and
posture! Itise, this moment, and retire!”
‘•NoP* firmly persisted the academical, “I
live but to love you ! No power on earth shall
tear mu from this spot—no—not even If the trump
of the last day—V ...
At this moment, the trumpeter, whose lip was
At the tdge of hia instrument, blew a blast,.into
which whs poured the overwhelming torrent of
his previous mlpHtlenee. ••Trrrrr—lh ih ta la **—
a thunder-blast, to which ihe wnlla of the little
• otiHgu trembled to their foundations.
Thu room was vacated by dame and. lover In a
trice, and the trumpeter made his escape—hut the
story got wind, and, without name or place, was
told all over Purls.
It was being narrated one evening by n gay
man,in n small circle, w*>en ihe narrator remarked,
•* 1 would have given anything in the world to
have seen the face of the lady at the moment of
that (rumpel*s sounding.**
“The face of the boy oh his knees was much
better worth seeing, I assure you!” exclaimed,in
a fame of pique, a lady among the listeners—nn
gavdedly revealing, by thishnsty comment, that
she was, herself, the heroine of the story I -
•* ' v* f ■ ■- , « //upt«.ji)urnq/.
Time.—Like an inundation of ifie'lndh* Is the
course of Tlme, ’We l«hk* fofMhe homes of mUr
childho,n<j,,(hny nre gone ;.for Jbe/tlondainf child*
hood, they are gone. Tile loves npa Hniinosllies
of youth, where ere (hey 7, Swept away like'ihe
camps that had ditched in’the aandy bed uf tlie
river. '■ - ' • • ■'
Formerly, It was a maxim Hint; a young
woman should never lie married till she had spun
herself a full sot of linen. Hence all unmarried
women have henn called spinalers. an appellation
they still retain (n certain deeds and law proceed
ings, though many aro not entitled to it.
It'was 1 a pertinent and forcible saying of-ilm
Emperor Napoleon; that **a honds«mio woman
pleases'i|m oypi but a good woman plensea the
heart. I’he one is a'jewol and the other a irvas
uVo.t* *’
An Irishman sneaking of Canada! says .Hls
the only country that a poor man should think ol
for a You. have not only a ple.nfy of
work and ; p)eniy>of uidte, hui.n climate, so oold
jhat you thyd nothing to do for indro nor half the
year. 1 • "
a young Irridcumon in Hoi.
land'or Germany goes a courting; the'tirsl question
the young k w<?in*nMieks of him Is, •* able to
p«y Jho charges V* Tljsl if to .euy, in English, »ro
y«0 able to keep a wife when .you have got her?—
Wham world ot'miMVy'itwould prevent IT(lioyoungr
< women of alt would,sliok lo the wbdopjof
that qoeallonT •• Marriage is not made of mush*
j room*, but of good round cakee," it one or tho pithy
•eying* hy oqr enocelors conwy«4 Ut*':«wo
rule orpiodoDdf.
WETHERILL DIVORCE CASE.
.ELOftUENT.AND FEELING MEMORIAL
OP
MR«. ISABELLA WETHEIULL,
IN ANIWtR TO TUB CHARGES AND ALLEGATIONS OP lICR
HUSBAND, DR. WETHERILL,
To the Senate and Home of Repreienlatitet of the
. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: .
v The humble and respectful memorial of Isabella [
Wctlrcnll respectfully represents—That Iliuvo learn,
ed willi feelings of deep regret and.sorrow, that my
Inftmo hae been again presented to your honorable
bodies, and that my husband Use agaiuseen lit to lay
beforeyou a petition praying for * divorcf,based, upon
allegations of my negligence, misconduct and want
of fidelity to him. Ol this petition I received no
tjollce, nor can 1 leans that it was ever made public
jib. the ordinary reports of the proceedings ol your
{honorable bodies, prepared for the public iiresf, and
*1 was only Indebted to the disinterested kindness of
’'lHefids, who advised me that certain proceedings
1 were taking which required inofTron* self-respect,
from the love I bore my children, and Ifoin iriy'con.
1 btttbusneM of inimcvncej lu give (heni iminedi-tle a!»
Umilon. My eldest sun (who, wHi all toy children,
H«jve been, and 1 thunk.my Gud with all Chrialian
sincerity fur it, still are fuitlilut,lrue and devoted to
me in my sadness and affliction,) visited Harrisburg
I to. learii the truth, and on his reinrn yesterday 1 re* '
I Calved Ibr lho first time detinile information of what
doing,and how near I was to condemnation and '
j n;y children to disgrace, without notice or hearing,
j IjCannolsuppose u pnssible tliul your Inmorable bo- (
jdtea will judge and decide ol me, my rights, my cliil ,
dren’s Interests, and their mother's cim r»eter, withoul
giving her and them a full .opportunity of meeting *
every accusation and disproving every charge. -If,
by. law, 1 have rack, a right, t Claim it-if I Imvo *
not I appeal to your sense of sabred justice to give
it.to me. .Indeed 1 am not guilty In act wr thought
o(ohybf (he 'things of Whicit I am accused.'(n the 1
prinietfi memorial of liiy misguided husband, and
Which I have now before nie. • They cannot, believe
tub, bv proved—no witness cm maintain them; and ■
.Ifimy prptest stria do, I desire and claim the right
lo.be present, when such evidence is heard—that my
trends Ijbd dooostl may be liicie to aid me—that
secret . tf’sljimmy (nay not harm me—tlialniy own
WiliHSftamuy be cxsminid and heard—(hot my the
•l£ my.CpnducL us a .woman, a wife, a mother,
thay,he.proved and made known to you, but until
lh|s ts done, 1 pray,you do.not cundemu mo and give
to the short rtpi)nam of my life more unhappiness <nd
sormw lliaftpssl years «l sadness have canmd.'* The
evWpnce taken lor tbo lasi session of the legislature
doM not apply to |he new and diflcteitt elate of I acts
hjtesbnlt d by the new memorial; and ) claim the right,
ifTltaVe H, tinit What should be given In support of
tli«*ne'now before you, shall bp only taken'after no
licedun**, • , ' . • • ■ .
11, is not. my intention to trouble you with a reply
In detail to (lio .muoiori.il which my. decvlycd and
unhappy husband has presented, f shall‘nut go
■lliVoufch the history nl iny early ill*; tmf show to you
huw uiuch or liow (title,nor what spicieaul kiudmss
war in fatly life tendered to the nienihors u» my
faiip/y— nor. what piotiis my hunbtnd realised by
; piubltislng their ptoptrly; nur shull 1 I*y bvtoruyuu.l
lliebiU rendfred my sinter's liustfeud; alter her nmr«
her board dhnng ti>« pi tlod sho liud bvon j
iny huabaiHl'a. Ikiuiw, r 1 dudealro Vy say
of unreal portion of o*y sister's cd»,
pud ‘from Um lioiTUd means ol niy
mother/ ShesUbmquohityiiiarrjedDr. Welberlll's i
nephew,- and' when u bill wee Miii liftiim ibr JaT
hoard during her stay in my house, I thought, and
still think it was not just ‘to (D ignity her residence
with me itito a deep mid lusting üblig lljon, lij>r which
she or mysclfhavu broil properly grateful.
If my husband means to charge me with extrava
ponce and disregard oftiis pecuniary interests, 1 beg
most solemnly to deny it. Had I desired to paitici
puteever* in tin* gaieties pl lhuse who wets Ida friends
and my own—w liicli I did nut—my own feeble liedtli
would not for many years have permitted it; and it
is surely not JUst to reproach.ipo with having unjoyed
tlioiQ comforts which it was within his moans read
ily to give, and which,before hie heart was turned
against me, were enjoyod by us In common. Never
until the beuurrenee of these isd details wuS it sug.
gnlod to me that my mode of- life wse oilier than
camiiftent with his desire* and wishes, l.liavo been
the mother of fifteen children to this my husband,
who now seeks to disown and disgrace me; twelve
oftbom are now alive—in them my hope, my pride,
my consolation la placid. ‘ I dosirediho extravagant
expenditure* for town or country hoapp—my hope on
earth vvus a peaceful and happy life/lo educate my
children In virtue and Christianity, end to make them
industrious and useful.
Indeed, there Is no leas faiircss of what it said of
my temper and deportment to my husband* Il ls
easy, very, very easy, for one who should defend, to
moke charges against hit wife, but I ptomiso you if
you will but give mo time to defend myself, that I
will show by all ihe.inembers t f iny husband's own
family, by friends, by all who have known me, or
lived will) me, ur seen irio ut home or abroad, |hal
these charges are without foundation. In the lesll.
nmny that whs taken lust winter, I refer with pride
' to the < vidcnCe givcii by the brother and si»tcr of my
husband. Mr. Jm*n Pi 100 WeihcrlU said, from my
marriage until- my removal to- the country, during
which lime he wap a constant visiter ut our house,
ho had never known or seen anything which induced
him to believe that I wae faithless tit thy duties Id
.my husband or my .children, and Mrs. Guoibes, my
husband's slater, saya 111 it so far us she could judge,
I “was a faithful and iilTeclionslo mother and wife."
.These'stiricinciils cutno from those who were cullod
ss witnesses against mo—judge mo'even by them.
The dying wordsoliny mother's husband were those
ofkindneseand commendation to me for my conduct
as.a wife.- Delieye.me, I have not forgotten llicm,
nr neglected since to deserve them. Nor have 1 ever
refus'd tu' rxeciilo nny or'overy deud which over re
, qnired iny ncknowledumeol. 1 wonderilmt such a
chirgc slnmld lie repotted. Mr. John Pnco.Welli.
orill, in Ins w inter, riinpr- ved it.
It will he loOpd that* ha said cxpirskly that | |i.<d
nevof re(hsed, but wtm wilting to cii’cnto the duoiU
i but my'unfortunate husbuid tisd his henrJ an turned
‘ ine. |hu| lip,li.was; |hai refh - fd*'n,o<iipj»li'le tbt‘
, p.’ipi'ri heeHiJie iny name irns in if at hi* wife I vtjunli
: llio evidfiicu on the llles.ol itno .of yi»qr.ln. , m»r.iblt , J
bridles lot the troth of what I siiV.’ Need I do pmre
to show lho Whir wMcli I am iraaii-d. nor
wind most have been dm stale of my hiisbdild'e mind
towards ine. wheft io socli a nniimer he rcfuveii to
HMMsiaio his name with mine.
Never have t, by word, act or detfd, dashed nr at.
templed to alienate ihu sffin iioos ol Ins children—
never lihvoJ sllemplfd to Infliienee hl« servants to
leave him. No. no—it was my hope mid wish to 1
lerluim my hu band— to m»ko his home h glad one,
and his children n blhsolng to him, in happiness, as .
they li tvo been lo me io irtietdrfone. J
| nm nconsod In this memorial nfleaving his house. *
/, the woman who is represented to you at exlravt- 1
gsnt—loving show nndsptehdo —am ugiin charged J
I w’iih flying, wllhhut cause, from nil lids—•with nbm.
doning, without reason, tho splendid mansion In
i Montgomery county—giving up all the luxuries and
extravagancies to wldi'h'll ia protended l aiii so much <
devoted. Do'yon think, gentlemen, I would have 1
led snail a home nnd-mdeAl/elren, wlllinul preid and -
Imminent Ovtessliy 7 I am not here to reorimlnnle |
; upon my husband, hot In defend tnvselC I'll should i
i coipo to pasß lhst nothing can dissuade h|m from his '•
present cousre, and you shall give me 'loin to 1 »y bb I
fore you Ihe triitli. you shall know, os he in Ale heart |
hhoioOk why it wne rwasdrlvni from Ids house. Mu I
docs not say where I’wonl; hut lib knows it was to I
his own ooiish»,'Mf. Lippinenil. that 1 'fled, and that
my refogtf WHi known to Mrs. Pries WeiheHtl. I 1
enntohed with mv friends—with my hnahtmd's re)a.
live#. - I submitted In my oounaol, Mi. Horace Rlnney,
the truth. 1 wna advised not to return—in
solemn ntnnobr l was cautioned agafoat him; but I
hoped itill fdr bsppjertirort.wlhh cnyb^kbtftoW>MM
no,longer so act; end <1 could, noljive. without-my
children,' I wenl buck. Against 'their advice and
wishes, 1 odlefihined to try once more. I did »o in
tain. I egsjn.wat compelled to leato my
my pretence.gave no pleasure, bat a realTuitit; and
to my huabond'ißnophew.l went for protection. For
my husband** take, and for my children** sake, I do
not desire to enter into the details of the clrcum>lan»
cea which drove mo from my homo. My husband
knows them, and-liia family know them. Nothing
but the «fernr«< necessity, you will believe, I trust,
compelled me to go. If 1 om driven to give the
evidence on tide subject for tltfc protection of my
character and conduct, the disgrace end contumely
which shall full on my children, has not been pro
duced by me.
A reference la made in.lhta memorial to a settle
ment, made upon me and my children, during the
pendency of the application,durlnglaal winter.. The
circumstances attending it were then fully made
known to ihe Legislature in a letter from my coun
sel,of which I send a copy.
• I truthfully state what occurred, t hod morp tes
timony in reference to »ny treatment by my husband
—it was communicated frankly to who acted
as his enunsui last winter; and that communication
resulted In securing to me, for myself and my chil
dren, #S,OOO per year; .and from that suin they arc
main!lined. Aftneoflliem are alifl-to.be educated
from It; and In all, the charges made against me by
my husband,thsrik God, there is but one which hints
cVen that I am'not now ns I ever h ive been—pa
tiently add faithfully Imf humbly discharging my
doty towards them. If ho had considered (hi* rum
too large fpr their .maintenance, support and educt.
Hon,in the manner he desired, (which all aqqu Jilted
with the expenses of (Ms large city wHI «»V It is n* I)
it wus hplinhsl with him to give If. l could not,and
did not compel, nor seek to compel It. It was vol
untary on his p«rt. It met the v approb«llnn of his
Counsel ithd'his’family—his 'brdthet l« (helms
lee.. To me the most iil\pbt(auJ v ilkhl, secured fay
that ngreement, was ihe alwoluis and uncontrolled
possession ofmy children—to have them under my
nwii roof— in my own exclusive pare—and so to sie
(hat neilite* in mind or morals should (hey be in
jured by conlfCt with those, whom 1 consider unfit
associates and companions* • My (nrttds and counsel
advised me, tinder the circumstance* t lien presented,
(for (hen there was no attack upon toy character and
fidelity even insinuated) to be silent, and to spare my
li'istMiid .anil my children the consequences which
must ensue front my producing. the evidence in my
favor; and even now perhaps,‘l might have been
content to have been judged by-the evidence a.
gainst' mo, had my husband «becn satisfied with
resting bis cliim to your inlorlereneo, upon Ihe
grounds that were presented to the Legislature. But
when it is asserted iu the memorial (hat /fare «»•
itntid, difi ectly or indirectly, fa thrpnwgtaf thia bill.
—When'll'ts assetlrd iltal this setllemeiit was mads
im un agreemVot on my part not to oppose a-dlvnroe,
1 can but meet it with a solemn end truthful dcnhl.
I Said then, through my cminscf,«s I «ay now trt you,
ill'll 1 never would assent to-(he pisaagg of (lie bill,
and that my rights and Interests, and feelings, must
be judged by those to whom .the law had confided
(hum. - ■
If such was my K*h<it been
strengthened by .whai Una* since occurred. . 1 find in
tide memorial, for |liofirst lime, an insinuation a*
I gainst my conduct as a f.itliml wife—th-tt I went to
[Cape May. ••gainst my husbatid'a wish, and that my
conduct ijiote wai th«sut>]ccl of general obssrvatwm
im'd rviunVk*,’.' My dwW sou went wiiii'me and sr.
mxrvtl my •apartment—my feeble health; i»«d the ad*
vice ofriny physlclan.ixal me there,—l wse.in.tbe
••me hoes# there with my husband** sister, .Mn>
Uumber; to Whom t h ire referred, end with other of
hit relatives,—tiny husband* relitsed to accompany
me; nay, he expressed. in ttie presence of my eMI.
dren,a hope tint I never .would return. Such is I he
truth—bui I cannot shut niy cyet to the lad llial
ntore la meuhl than ie expressed by I he Insinuation. ,
Nay, more, I have heard llial •caret affidavits have i
been obtained hy my hnsba ml, which, in bolder term*,
accuse mo of impropriety, and I am told that iheac
are confidentially exhibited to you, gentlemen, under '
[the pretence of e desire to keep my dishonor from
the world, .Whulcvi r hcrclnlore may have been my
withei to bo silent and quiescent under all tny end.
nett and sufferings. they freoe'm'e now—you tnrely
will not sorter me to be that tecrelly tried and con*
deihned. I know not when, nor where, nor how,
nor whit whom, t am charged wlilt faithlessness to
my husband ; but be It when, and where it may, to
you, and before niy God. I deny lit truth. Hear me
in my defence—my youth hat long tlneu pitied t.
way—of this world, Unit remains to me—my twelve
children love end cling to me, end I beiecch yon to
suffer mo to hove the opportunity to provo to you
and to them, that I nm worthy to be soluvcd at their
mother—gnlllleea of want of virtue.
What madness! what spirit of evil can have Inall*
gated my husband thua to charge me, and secretly
to ptepare the means to destroy (he character of hit
• cliildicn’s mother, and his wife for twenty tlx years.
1 cannot toll—no such idea Was suggested by a liu.
man being, on his former application to your prerir*
! censors; and in my soul I acquit him from sincerely
believing it.
In February last, when the arrangement to which
I referred was made, he signed an agreement with
his brother. Mr. J. P. VVultiurill, and. myself, tint I
should “ (orever after take and keep In her” [my] I
“custody and care all the children tV ®nd tint “their |
persons, odao ilion and m‘iinloim nee should be under
(he exclusive mmngemcnl and abso'utu control of
llielr,mother,” [myself.[ Can it bo that these things
arc true? If 1 am the extravagant and bold and bad
woman my wretched husband would h»ve you be*
liove, omit bo lit it he would thus surrender to my
oa re the mortis and education of his little children?
his daughters 71! Do yon think he can have sup.
pnecd me guilty, (as hy his memorl it he attempts in
insinuate, and hy llieaa. ttCrrl of/*, 1 nm told,
maintains,) yet so trust mu? It thora lie a feeling
deep in any parent** heart, above all price, it is that
hia children should bu fir away fi'oiit vice and Im.
morality; and had 1 been even tutpttltil, it cannot
ho that' my hnstmid would so hive oonfided to mo,,
absolutely and without control, hi* and my young I
and Innocent children. Call upon my friends—l
have many who have disinterestedly stood hy me In
my affliction; call upon my htiah-md’s own family
von have scon wlh|t they h«vo o'ild nfmo; mill mv
'children—oiTl any human being whn'wm djro to
s*y that f liavo been lilihless in word or deed to my
hiMliaiul; hut lot r mo mod them face to face, arid
humble woman 4* J am* «»y consciousness of inniu
cencunnd of oppression ahull make mo triumph—lor
it Is, indeed It is, false In all tilings. r
I know not how to address yon nosneh a subject, j,
I «•! ihii to hr heard—to ane my accusers—to disprove
their iillegotiuiu, ifahy he bolt! enough lomoke thorn.
For my own «.ko—fdr my children's iake, t obim
thi«. Will you raftiso It to mo and tn them 7
To pitas this hill is lo say to mo and to them, that
you believe |h«se things—to stigmatize an humble,
but, thunk God* virtuous woman—to disgrace her
children. From my he.«rl I prny you In puu*e, and
not to odd one more drop nfsorrqwloa cup of misery i
fikidvinw nearly to overflowing, Whalla It that my (
husband wimls 7 Wo afe separated by agreement. |
Neither my sad ominlennnee nor his children (roilhle ,
him—he has no care tor me or them. Why la it (hut
ho peeks hy the Immolation of my character logaln
• freedom he .ilready enjoys?
. Since 1847 X have lived in the hope (do not do.
priee me of it.) that llieevU spell that now entanglaW
and crushes my unfortunate husband; nlay be broken
• ili'ii In mind, and na of old| lie may be restored to
his home nnd libfmndv—lhat lin may still look with
pride nnd aflVctlon upon his children—and that if it
be so,after my few rsmairtiug-yeerttshsll have passed,
that he wlUyot odtllvohln present staioof mind.—
At least t Imp* that yon'wt'l tin! hastily dbgraco mb
before my children, and4ny family friends; nor so
judge mo as that, when I srri gnhe; my children •hall,
as they grow up, think that thdlr mnther •#■■ not
dssbftrtdg of ihlnV tsars upon her grave.
!>egm£*ip« oSSdaeatioQ*.. ;;: i
Mr. GRirrwhaa brought forward,
<jf. Representatives, ft bill to. establish aDejfcrti
merit of Education* The fbllowiog.it in abstract
of its jwbvitons: ■ ~ :■ ’ ;•/
the bill gives the Legislature power lo etetfH
on thp fitst .Mopday of March* 1861,; and every
third year thereafter, a Superintendent of Common
Schools. In case of hit removal, resignation or
death, the Governor is to have power to appoint
for the remainder of (ho term. The Superintend#
ent ft to discharge the duties of State Librarian,
and may appoint an assistant.. The Superintend*
ent shall, at least once during his term, visit each
county of the State, and Shall ineetat each county
seat the several boards of school directors and
teachers, and shall present them a uniform end
Well digested system of clasaifccation and losiruot
lion for the schools of such county—the, superfrfc
lendent also to have prepared a regular and uniforms
system of Pennsylvania School Books, and "to
publish a monthly journal, devoted, to the stalls
lics and cause of Education, at a cost not exceed
ini; fifty cents per annum—fivecnpies of the paper
to be furnished lo each Board of School Directors,
the cost to be deducted from the proportion-of the
public funds to Which the district is entitled. All
the profits are to be applied to the expenses of this
Department of Education. No sectarian or pdlit*
leal matter, or reports of legislative proceeding!
to hare a place in the paper. The bill appfnpri*
ales $1,600 to keep up the Department. and gives
the' Cmperintendent sl4oo—.Assistant s9oo—»lhf
Secretary of Common Schools 8700. and the Su
perintendent $6OO as travellingexpense*.
Dcato Has lUl»ahxd Him.— A letter from
Xlteppo, Turkey, of l9, lBso. asys-«
A higher power has Interposed, General UsM* the
Hungarian Exile, la no more. He died after d
few week* sickness, at the age of 66 yeartf'lih
slept with but few and short imermlstd'ns during
hi* illness, and was hurled according to the lilt*
of (he people of that country. Keriur.Faiha, tb.f
Commtndartt, and the French and' English.Con*
sals attended hU funeral. During the march 6r
the procession to the place of Interment, rite wrf.
ter says, some twenty nr thirty Mollohs-Ml yp a
monotonous laiUaka-illakai after they arrived jtl ~
the grave, the body was token out of ihV coffin
and deposited In a grave tome five or lix feetdwji
with the head toward Merest * ■
A Sroav or Java.— \ young Dutch officer srr
rived at Java, fresh from the rp o, her Country,, and
hastened to pay. hid respects id the Governor.—*
Before the door lay a black ball, which he thought
rroper 10 wipe his feet on. but no sooner had hit
mot* touched It than an angry hiss escaped frrofi
the mass and,* mighty boa rose up agatnsltheiio
truder. ell ceremony he.rushed inlq
the house, but there a new terror awaited litm k in
the shape of a tiger, which leaped growling
toward him. -Ifls only Weapon waadsllght dreil
sword, which he wa» about lb draw lb aejfds*
fence* when the Governor stopped him.by saying*
‘•.Don't he frightened, my young friend ; this caj
w ill alt quietly by yon, If you will honor mo wiih
your company to dinner. He U only disturbed
seeing yjhj rurtnlhg So from .his old friend the.bos*
Tne- boa never hurts anybody, and baa lived
peaceably with us fjrje*r«,elnngv)v/ib lhe!.t/e*&~.
which hits never UStH ‘blood, ’twKheft :
been ibtr playmate of the children. Yoo-wJU
learn he;a to smile.at many things which, tatd/g
people in Europe*'* < g • j
who befriend gcnluit, when'll ll llfofrl
ding for distinction, befriend the World r and the!*
names should be held in remembrance, *•
ls eeid (a be bn I one guide -board In thft
whole Slate of-Rhode Island, end that ’points ifid
wrong way—and if a man neks directions* ib*£ *•!
the dnga on him, ......
Sarah (Abraham’s Sarah) Is the only woman, ItU
said, whose age, at the lime of her death, la men*
tinned in the Holy Scripture. Kow.a.dnys, the free!
difficulty ii, to find out s woman’s ego In her.lilvt
time.
Avaricious men «re always punctual, because they
are es.icting to others, and do not wish to afford s
pretext toaak any Indulgence from them.
. (£J*Gyld ia a poor legacy in comparison wilh lmi
mortal thought. The ono is human,iworUtletfj ike
other divine, invaluable.
Tnc prelent Emperor of Russia has disproved thd
old superstition (hat no person uould all 9a the throne
ofthnt empire fora longer period than (wenty>five
years. The Iwenty.fiAh anniversary oflily accessiort
to the government expired on (ho let ult.,*arid heyet
holds the reins of power.
03*Tho word ** Philnpana" signifies, In Its com*
m»»n use, •* friendship's forfeit." It is a Greek end
Latin compound, end. literally interpreted, signified
—“1 love the penalty." . . 4
ICTAn old Coquette le like a rose.burii In winter |
the flowers and leaves having fallen off, the bdsbtj
and fragrance gone, nothing la left but the thorns. •'
Cj Mr. Mioready line actually made hla ftrawtU
bow, and is about to tellre to Sherborne, in Dorset*
shire, where, in a house of hit own, ha will spend
the remainder jof lilt allottcd*ltme, and seek lb*
peaceful enjoyment of a classic retirement*
A Ju»T Man.— Edmund,second eon bfllinry 111,
■tl liia death, diwted llitl his body should not be
buried until his dobls wore paid. An example War*
thy ofgencrsl Imitation, , r
- An Bucosnr CdwfMWsNr,—(jtihm.belngflslrodbj
a lady why there were morn women Ju: the wnrra
Ihan men. he rvp’ied, the ftri, ..wndwin, (1
is In cmifbnnlty wlih tho itrrangemrnls •*!* nature*
Wu always see mdre uf fn nVeti IJimi fardu"
K Cg«i'»»>iTT —U»rniiiii, tt U Said* bn a (filial)
7 inn'll/ «n»r, Pi»pjA»-ed to b-iVobtcn left where Jill
pnieliles pf/cA<d (htotV uni#. ;-w-j>l
Hton.—The folona couHncd In the Huntsville
PeiihoiiiiaryVli vn bold mi iudljfiMliun iu<ef ob
account of u nefro having btfeik
nji-nt I lari-, which they regard •• a groaa*lnatllt-ift
tho whits convicts. .. «*' -wcii
Thu last bent fruit which cornea to laift'pe\(tfc!»
tioiuevm in the kindliest soul, is jeodaniSs* to
the hard* forbearance toward the unforebeaflpg,
warmth of tieari toward the cold, phll'anltypplj
luwarda tho iiil*unlhropic. . * '"
; Milton was one day askfd by afriand pf. few
mala education, if ha did not intend to Ipatruol bla
daughters in the different Invguw'st
replied Milton, ‘‘nn« tOnyuo.U suffloicnifor a ws»
man.” . . ... ...
The pitying tears and qroiief pi woman are lilt?
the showers and the sunshine of spring} alaa I tbit
unlike ihem.sho should .often Milm lief meriiddi
reward—.the sweet flowers of affection. ' 1
The exaltation of talent, as It is called, above
virtue and religion, is the cursn of the Sgej If di«
ivoroed from rectitude, talent will prove, uj ora of -a
demon than a god 1 .
The Providence Trahsdripi aaya /*i JJfjj
in‘that eityeo ariaiooraild, tfta»ahb>ffbsM»ort»
a newspaper becauaa the papVrla made orrajpr
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