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.A m m ta n Uoluutccr ‘l BY JOHN Bi BRATTQN. VOL. 38. TUB FOREST TREES* ar buzz cook. Up with your heads, ye sylvan lord*. Ware proudly in the breeze, For our cradle band* and cofltn boards Mdit come from the ftrest Irdcs, We bless ye for your summer shade, When our weak limbs Call and tire; Our thanks are due for your winter aid, When we pile tbo bright log Are. Oh! where would be our rule on the sea, And the fame ofthe sailor band, ' Wore it not for the oak and eloud’trown'd pine That sprung on the quid land? .When the ribs and mists of the good ship Hvd, And weather the gala with sate, . Take Ais alas* from the tar who will not give A kullh 19 tba (bteil trad.' Ye fond to life Us earliest Jojr, And wail ou its latest page; - In the circling hoop for the rosy boy, And the easy chair for ago. The old map totters on his way With footsteps short and slow. But without tho stick for hie help and stay Not a yard's length could he go. The hazel twig in the stripling's hand Ifath magic power to please; And the trusty atafTand slender wand Are plucked from the forest trees. X LOVE A SMILE. Move a smile, a gentle smile. . That wreathes the lip in joy,’ That Indidates a merry heart, - Exempt from base alloy., I loss a smile, a Careless smile, ' To bear that burden, grief; To penetrate the gloomy heart, , i And yield it quick relief.. i love m smile, a Joyous smile. Importing love is there; Excluding thus,the gloomy light 4 Ofsorrow and despair, <. I love a smite, m merry smite, . . . An emblem from above, ~ That plays around the nectared tips, - The light and 111% of love. I love a smite, a pleasing smile,- . Unclouded.free from care, - To light a'gay and happy heart, • That joy may nbstie there. 1 jm-jccllnncou/j. MARIE' LOUISE DEFENDED. From )Lamar(lne’s History of the Consulate and Empire* Maime Looks was liltlo known to the Parisians, and but little beloved in France. Borno away from Vienna as a trophy of victory, conquered more than courted, .succeeding, in the hero’s couch, the still living Empress Josephine, whoso Creole graces, np parent,goodness, and light-hearted disposition, made her, even with these defects, moro popular.with so light and superficial a people; a stranger , in the midst efFrahco, speaking its language with timidity, study, iog its fanners with embarrassment, Marie Loniao lived in seclusion, like a captive amidst Iho official circle with which the Emperor surrounded h«r. That court of beautiful women, newly, titled, anxious to repress every attraction except that of their own rank and high favor, allowed nothing to bo known of the new Empress, except thd simplicity and awkward, ness natural to one who was almost a child, and which was calculated to render her unpopular in her own court* That court was tho haughty slanderer of the young Empress. Mario Louise took refuge in court ceremony—in solitude and in silence against the malevolence that acted as a spy on her every word and action. . Intimidated by the fame, by the grandeur, and by the impetuous tenderness of tho ravisber, whom the dared not to contemplate as her husband, it is unknown whether her timidity per milted ber (o love him with unrestrained affection. Napoleon loved her with reelings of superiority and pride. Sho w*« the blazon of his affiliation with great dynasties; she was the mother nf his son, and the establishment of bis ambition. But though ho exalted no favorites, less from virtue, than conslilu. tionsl disdain, he waa known to have patting prcdl lections for some of the beautiful women with whom Ae was surrounded. Jealousy, therefore, though she dsrc not accuse her rivets, might have chilled the heart of Mario Louise. The public were unjust enough to require from her (ho most passionate and devoted love, when her nature could only inspire her with duty and respect for a soldier who had merely recognised in her a hostage for Germany and s pledge of posterity. This constraint obscured , her natural charms, ' clouded her features, intimidated her mind, and do> pressed her Heart. She was only regarded as a for. sign ornament attached to tho columns oflhe throne. Even history, written in ignorance of the tralh.and influenced by the resentment of Napoleon’s courtiers, has slandered this princess. Those who have known ber will award her, not the stoical and theatrical glory which peoplo required of her, but her natural qualities. She was a charming daughter of the Ty ro), with bluu eyes and fair hair. Her complexion varied with Iho whiteness of its snows and tho roses of its valleys; bor figure, light and graceful, its atii. tude yielding and languid, like those German maU dens who seem to look for the support of some manly heart. Her dreamy glance, full of internal visions, was veiled by tho silken fringes of her eyes. Ilor Hps wore somewhat pouting,—her bosom full ofslghs and fruitful affection; her arms wore of duo length, fair and admirably moulded, and foil with graceful langour on her robe, as If woory ol the burden of her destiny. Her neck habitually inclined towards her shoulder. Bhe appeared of northern melancholy transplanted Into tho tumult of & Gallio camp. The pretended insipidity of silence concealed thoughts delicately feminine, and the mysteries of sentiment, which wafted her in imagination far from that court to her magnificent but rudo place of exile. Tho moment sbe returned to her private apart* menu, or to tho aolitudo of her gardens, she again became essentially German. She cultivated tho arte of poetry, painting, and music. In those aooom mania, education had rendered her perfect, ae if to console her when, far- from her native land, for the absence and Iho aorrows to which sho would one day be exposed. Ih these acquirements sho excelled; but they were confined to herself alone. Sho road and repeated from memory the poetry of her native bards. By nature sho was simple, but pleasing, and absorbed within herself; oxteinally B 'knt but full of internal feelings; formed for doofesliolove in an obscure des tiny; tut, daxxled on a throne, sho felt herself expos, ed to the gaxo oflhe world as iho conquest of pride, not the love of a herb. She could dissomblo nothing, either during her grandeur, or after Iho reverses of ber lord; end this was her crime. The theatrical world, into which she had been thrown, looked for the picture of conjugal passion In a captive of vic tory* Sho wee too unsophisticated to affect love, when ehe only fell obedience, timidity, add resigns. Hon. Nature will pity, though history may accuse her. This is a truo portraiture of Maria Louise. I wroto U in her presence ten years afterwards. Sho bed developed at that period, during her liberty and hsr widowhood, nil Iho hidden graces of her youth. They, wished her lb play a part; tho actress was wanting, but tho Woman remained. History should Award her—what a partial verdict of Napoleon's courtiers refused—pity, tenderness and grace, • • * She had been condemned for not having been tho theatrical heroine, of an affection eho never felt,— Overlooking tho feelings of a woman, her accusers forgot that the heart will make itself heard even in Jbe drama of such ah unparalleled destiny; and if the bout is not always a justification, it io at least au .'excuse. Justice should. Weigh Such oven when the condemns. Marie Louise never loved Napoleon. How could , she love 'him ? He had grown old in camps, and amidst (he toils of ambition: abo -was only nineteen. His soldier’* heart was cold and inflexible.as the spirit of calculation which accomplished his great, ness. That of (he fair Gorman princess was gentle, timid, and pensive as the poetic dreams of her native land. .Shohad fallen from the steps of an ancient throne-ha had mounted upon his by (ho force of arms, and by trampling hereditary rights underfoot. Her early prejudices and education had taught her 1 to consider Napoleon as the scourge of God, the At lilla of modern kingdoms, (ho oppressor ofGorraany, the murderer of princes, the rayngcr of nations, the incendiary of capitals; in a word, the enemy against whom her prayers had been raised to Heaven from her cradle in (ha palace of her ancestors. She re garded herself as a hostage conceded through fear to tbe-conqueror, after tho ungrateful and tolerated repudiation of H wife who had been the very instru ment of hi* fortunes. She felt (hat she liad been sold, not" given.’ She lookcd upon herself as the cruel ransom of her father and her country. Sho had re. signed to her fate as an immolation. Cast clone and without a friend, Into a court composed of parvenu soldiers’, revolutionary courtiers, and bantering wo men, whoso names, manners sad language were un* known to her, her youth was consumed In silent 'etiquette. • Even her husband’s first addrosabs wore not calcu lated to inspire confidence. There Was something disrespectful and.violent in Ms affection; ho woun ded even.whon ho sought to please. ; His very love was rough and imperious; terror interposed between him and the heart of his young wife, end oven the birth of an ardently desired son could not unite such opposite natures. Marie Louise felt that to Napoleon ■he sue only a medium of posterity—not a wife and a mother, b,ut merely the root of an hereditary dy. This master of the world .could not boast oven the inherent virtues oflovc—faith and constancy to one-woman ; Ms attachments wero transient and numerous,'. He respected not the jealousies natural to .(he bosom of a wife; and though he did not openly procloim hisamours like Louis XIV., nolthcr’did ho possess that monarch’s courtesy and refinement.— Tt}£,moat nqted beauties qf his own and of foreign courts were not to him objects of passionate love, but of irresistible, transient desire; thus oven mingling his contempt with his love. ' Napoleon’s long ami frequent absences; his severe and minute orders so strictly observed by a household er spies, instead, of friends, chosen rather to control than to execute. the will of the. Empress; his poltishncss of temper on his frequent abrupt returns; morose ond.melancholy after experiencing reverses; (her only recreations being ostentatious, tiresome, and frivolous ceremonies;) nothing of such a life, of such a character, of such a man, was calculated to ipepiro Marie Louise with love. Her heart and .her imagination expatriated in France, and remained beyond (heßhine. The splen dors of (he Empire might have consoled another; but Mario Louiso wsa bettor formed for the tender at tachmcnt of private life, and the simple pleasures of a Gorman homo. THE EDITOR—By ono. Tito editor is the dupo of destiny. His lot was knocked-down to him a bargain, and it tdrns out to be a take in. His land of promise is a mountain stuffed will) thorns. Ills laurel wreath is a garland of nettles. His honors rosolvo themselves into a capital hoax; his pleasures are heavy penalties, his pride is tho snuff of a Candle, tits irawei bultulum** ofemoke. Tho editor is iho moil ill-starred man alive. He, and Jio alone, a thousand pretenders about (own notwithstanding, is indeed tho identical martyr, commonly talked of os Iho most ill used Individual. Ho seems to govern opinion, and is, in reality, a victim to (heopinion ofolhcrs. Ho incurs moro (ban nino-tonths oflhe risk and responsibility, and reaps less than ono tenth of tho reward and rep* ululion. The defects of his work ore liberally as signed to him, tho merits aro magnanimously im* puted to his correspondents. Ifa bad arlicia appears, Iho editor is unsparingly condemned ; if a brilliant article bo inserted, anonymous carries off*the culo gium. Tho editorial function is supposed to consist in substitutions of 11 if it bo," for it is, and tho inser tion of Iho word however, bore and to impede tho march of fine style. Commas and colons are the only marks ho is reputed to make, his niche of fame is merely a parenthesis; he is but a nolo of admira. lion to genius; his'life is spent In ushering clever people into deserved celebrity; ho sits as a chariot eer, outside the vehicle in which prodigious talents are driven to Immortality. It is hie fortune.to in sert si) his contributions in tho temple of glory, and to exclude himself for wsnl of space. He always hopes to go in, but expires unblessed at last. He bestows present popularity on thousands without securing posthumous renown as his own share.— His career in this life Is a talc of mystery “tobe continued in ohr next." Ho is only thought of when things go wrong in the Journal. Curiosity • then looks out,iho corner of his eyes, and with brows and lips pursed up, queriously ejaculates “who is ho 7" If by-chance, praise instead of censure should bo meditated, the wrong man ia immediately mention, od. People are only certain of their editor when they are going to cowhldo him. Is thcro a bright passage or two in an indifferent article, you may bo sure that they are not indebted for the polish to the editorial pom Is (hero a dull phroso or harsh period in some favorite contribution? Oh! the editor has altered it, or neglected to revise the proof! 'But if (ho editor is abused for what ho inserts, he is twice abused for what he neglects. It is a curious feature in his destiny that If he strikes out but a single line of an article, whether In poptry or prose, that very lino Is infilllbly the crowning beauty of the produo. tion. It is not a little odd that when lie declines a 1 paper, that paper is sure to bo far tho best thing the author ever .wrote, Accepted articles may be bad '; > rejected ones are invariably good. It is admitted i that judgment is exactly tho quality which the editor has not. An author is praised m a review, ho ls grateful to an individual writer, whose name ho has industriously inquired for; an author ia condemned . In a review, ho ie unspeakably disgusted with (ho ; editor. Week after week, month after month, the | said editor succors tho oppressed, raises up tho weak, , applauds virtue, exalts talent; he nens or promulgates the praise of friends, of their books, pictures, acting, | safety lamps snd steam paddles, but from the cata logue of golden names hie own is an olornal ab. sonlco. ■ The Man of Honor. Tho man of true honor ever forgets an intuit; or, ifremomberedt it ia only with the kindness of a su perior mind looking above (ho shafts of envy. True honor gains nothing by feeding tho spirit of oonlon. (ion; for if once that evil is harbored, it is sustained by the sacrifice of every just and manly principle. Tho gentle rivulet becomes a torrent when tho elo< monte contend; but when tho tempest has pasaod,‘the waters contract to tboir.former limits, flowing, with moro freshness and adding now beauty to (heir pro* gross. So tho elevated mind, if ever disturbed by the malice of ignorance and.envy, *iko that iiU)e|slream, soon regains its wonted gentleness, and fools tho hap. pleat for tho tost. True honor acknowledges itself in rags as well as in costly raiment—U'needs no cow* erlng—most beautiful when undisguised. It exalts itself in all conations, for it Is ol Us own creating. The world would bo its arbiter, and false distinctions of society would restrict it to high station ; but tho world would have boon made to worship it clothed in the garb oflhe lowly. Detraction has no blemish for it—it abides all Worldly tests.—Henry. Didn’t “^akb."— At a recent moellrtg of a palish, a solemn, straight.bodicd, and exemplary deacon, submitted a rojporl, in writing, of the destitute wid ows and olhors standing in need of,assistance In tho parish. 41 Are you sure, deacon, 1 * asked 'another solemn htolher, "that you embraced ail thowidows?! 1 Ho said he believed he had done so; but. if any had been omitted, tho bmlulou could be easily corroded. ‘ OUR COUNTRY —MAY ITAZ.WAYB DXRIQHT— 80. RIGHTOR WRONG ,OUR COUNTRY ” CARLISLE, BA-, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1851; HQW LONGFELLOW GOT A WIFE. It has boon so often paid that in Hyperion arc to bo found tha leading Incident? of (he author’s life,' that it will not bo ont : of place if wo Insert here the genoral belicf of hie readers. 'Thcro is something romantic in it. . Tho Dublin University Magazine , in review of Mr. Longfellow’s .works, says; ; ' ** With Hyperion t (he public hafro been for some lime familiar; but it is not generally known that in this exquisite little story nro shadowed forth tho loading incidents of the pool’s life; and that ho him solfia tho hero of his own romance. We shall give tho facts as they have coma to our .knowledge?, end, we aro assured they will not fail to interest our roadors. ** Abont tho year 1837, Longfellow, boingongaged in making the lout of Europe, selected Heidelberg for a permanent winter residence. There his wife was attacked with an illness which ultimately proved fatal. It so happened, however, (hat some time afterward (hero oamolo tho 'same romantic place a young lody of-considerable personal attrac tions. Tho poet’s heart was touched—ho booamo attached to her; but (ho beauty of sixteen did not sympathize with tho poet of six and thirty; and Longfellow returned to America, having lust his heart, ns well qs his wife. .Tho young lady, also an American, returned home shortly afterward. Their residences, it turned outj wore contiguous, and tho poet availed 'himself of (he opportunity bfproßoca. ling his addresses, which ho did for a considerable timo with no bolter'success than at first. Thus foiled, ho sot himself down, and instead, lilco Pe trarch, of laying stage. : to’tho heart of his mistress through tho medium of sonnets, he resolved to write a whole book—a book which-would achicvo tho double object of gaining her affections, aiid of estab lishing, his own fame. Hyperion was (he result.— His labor and his constancy ;wero not thrown away —(hey met their due reward. The lady gavo him her hand as well as her heart; and they now reside together at Cambridge, in (ho eamo house which Washington- mqdo‘ hiehoad quarters when ho'was appointed to tho command of.lho Ainoricon armics, Thcso interesting facts wero communicated lo op hy a vofry intelligent American gentleman Whom wo had tho pleasure of mooting In tho aamd place which was the scone of tho poet’s early disappoint ment and sorrows.” Philosophy of a Carpet-Bag, ' Among the moat common street sights is that ofa gentleman hurrying along towards railway or river, bearing with-him a little carpet-bag. So common is it, that it fails to attract the’slightest attention, A lilllo carpol.bag is no more noticed than an umbrella ora walking stick In a man V hand ;andyot, when rightly viewed, it it, to our thinking,' an object or no ordinary.interest. We Teel no envy for the man on whom has devolved the, charge ofahoapofloggogo. The anxiety attending such properly outweighs tbo pleasure of ila possession, But a man with a Jlltlo oarpcl-bag is one in ten thousand,- Ho< is perhaps tho moat perfect typo of independence extant, lie can snap his fingers in the face of Highland porter extortionate.' No trolling urchin is idle enough to solicit, tho carrying of. so light a burden.' While other passengers, by coach or railway, are looking after trunks or trappings, ho enters and has (ho beet aoai. Ho and his “ little all,” neVcr- pari-company. On arriving at their destinationjtlieyard off with the jaunty swagger of unencumbered bachelorhood, la contemplating a gentleman, with a, farpot bag, wo are struck, to a certain cxlcnl. wTlh' an idca of dij thero is enough : (o indicate jUarits attended to and c omCorlt supplied. No man witk-n lidfa oarpal.bag in his hand has Ms last shirt <?q his back. Neither is ilprobablo lhathlS board can suffer from slovenly overgrowth. • • When ho retires at night,'the presumption is that it will bo io the midst of.comfortable and cosy night gear. A little oarpcUbag la almost always indicative of a abort and pleasurable excursion. No painful ideal of stormy soas or dreadful accidents on far off railway linos are suggested by it. Distance is some times poetically measured by a "small birds' flutter," or “ two smokes of a pipe," or some such shadowy, though not altogether indefinite phrase. Why may not lime, in like.manner,bo measured by two shirts? A gentleman with a little carpol'bag may bo said to contemplate about a couple of shirts'absence from home. A Prlson Soene la Mantels* Judging dv Appearances. —The number of fa male prisoners is very small in comparison with the men. At one particular washing-tub stood foot women. Our Conductor spoke to one of them, this facing a sign, to us to notice them. Two look ed mp, and, fairly beamed with smiles; one a-tall, and rery'handsome young girl, continued to wash away with downcast eyes. I felt a sorl.of delica cy In stkHrtg at her, her looks wore so conscious and modo'al.: A' fourth, a fat, ill-looking old wo man, also never looked at the visitors. The two who smiled had remarkably agreeable faces; one, wlili good features, and a very mild expression; the other, a small woman, and though with blooms on her cheeks, a pertain, Sad, anxious expression about her eyes and mouth. Of which of these four women yvero we to hoar a fearful history rela ted 1 The only one who looked evil was the fat old woman. , . As soon as wo were in the court, our conductor said, *‘Now, what do you say aboutthoso womcnl” “Three out of the four,” we remarked, “are the only agreeable faces we have seen- in the prison; and, judging from’this momentary glance at their oountenanceq, we should say could not be guilty of much crime;'perhaps the fat old womon may bo so; that tall young girl; however, Is not only hand eomo but gentle-looking.” “That tall young girl,” replied our guide, “ was iho ono who, a yoar or two ago, murdered her follow-servant, and,oulting the body, buried it in the garden; the little woman next to her, some two years since, murdered her husband; and, the handsome, kind, motherly-look ing woman who stood next,.destroyed her ohild of seven years old. The fat woman is in only for a slight ofibneo! So much for our Judgment of phy siognomy .—//owsMoW Words* J lIOw TO CURB A COLD. Of all other moans of curing colds Tabling is (he most efioqlual. Lot. whoever has a 1 cold eat nothing whatever for two days, and his cold will be gone, provided ,ho la not confined in bed, because by ta king nd cirboh into the system by food, but consu ming the surplus which caused his disoaso by roma. ving the causa. This will bo found more effectual if ho adds copious water drinking to protracted lasting; By iho timoa person has fasted one,day and night bo will, experience afreodom from pain and a clear ness of blind, in delightful contt&at with that mdnta) stupor and physical bain-caused by colds; And how infinitely better is Una method of bteokidg up colds than medicinoal 1, , NATIONAL CIIARACTttIUgTXCI. Tho Now York Times translate! thefollowing portion of a political ohatoolhm from " It FischitUoJ* an Italian pnpor published at Tiiriri: ' " '' '' Questions—Who lb the lightest man in tho world? Answer.—The Frenchman.. . ' ■ Who la tho heaviest?—Tho Gorman. Who la the moat serious 7—Tho Englishman. f Who ia tho moat vivacious 7—Tho Swiss. . Who lq tho moat humble?— I Tho Russian. Who ia tho most Polo. Who Mho proUdcsl?—The fiHHniard. • Who la tho lazleat?—Tho Turki ‘ Who ia tlio widoat awake?—Tho American. . Who ia the sleepiest?—Thq.lloUqntal. ..v Who ,Ims all thoao virtues and vices mixed 10-1 1 golhor t—Tho Italian, Tho Sword and the Press, -The following beautiful extract) illustrating in a poweiful; manner the advantages of printing to mankind, is from an essay by Thomas Carlyle, ift the. “British Review,” published nearly twenty years-ago, when that somewhat noted writer cloth ed his ideas in plain English and hisworks could bo read without the aid of a Glossary, and under* stood without an insight into the mysteries of Trancondentalism; “When Tamerlane had finished building his pyramid of seventy thousand human skulls, and was seen standing at the gate of Damascus, gilt* taring in his steel, with his battle axe on his shoulder, till the fierce hosts filed out to new vic tories and now carnage, the pale .looker oh. might have fancied that nature was in her death thrones; for havoe-nnd despair had taken possession of the earlh-Mhe toon of manhood seemed setting in seas of blood. Yet it might bo on that very gala day of Tamerlane, that a little boy was playing niner pines on the streets of Mediz whoso history was more important than that-of twenty Tamerlanes. The Kham, With his shaggy demons of the wilder ness, 'passed away like a whirlwind,’ to be forgot ten forever; and that Gorman artisan has wrought a benefit which is yet immeasurably expanding it self, aud will continue to expand itself, through all countries and through all times. What are the conquests and expeditions of the whole corpora tions of captains, from Walter the Pennyless to Nopoloon .Bonaparte, compared with those mov able types of Fatisll Truly, it is a mortifying thing for your conqueror to reflect how perishable is; tho metal with which ho. hammers with such violence; how the kind earth will soon shroud up his bloody foot prints; and all (hat ho achieved and skilfully piled together, will be but like his own canvass city of aeatnp—this evening loud with life, to-raorrow all sttuck and vanished—*a few earth pits and heaps of straw.’ For here, as aU ways, U continues true that the deepest force is the stiUest; thfttf as Ih.tbe fable, ; iHq mild shining; of the sqn x shall silently accomplish what the fierce blustering,lfslho tempest in vain essayed. Above all, it Is ever to keep in mind that, riotby material, but by moral power are men and their actions gov erned* How noiseless is thought? No rolling of drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable tumult of baggage wagons attend [ls movements. In what obspure and sequestered places, may the; head be meditating which is one day to be crown ed with more than imperial authority I for kings and emperors will bo among its ministering serv ants; it will rule hot over but in all head—and with these solitary combinations of ideas, and with magic formulas bend tho world to its will! The time may come .when Napoleon himself will be bolter known-for his Jaws than his battles, andihe victory of prove loss momentous than I the opopingjof ifle .first Mechanics’ Institute,*’, GERMAN WATERING PLACES. , A European correspondent of the St. LoutiflZe* publiearif speaking of tho German watering-, places; says: —■ YOuare.dwaro that the fashionable occupation* (t cannot oall it amusement,) of all IhoiwalAiioor Baden, Carlsrhuo, and other fi - aj r *iwwtof*w*i4i positively-Mgbte* mmtiy of your grure *lay al homo readers. Of coarse, a . groat number-of what tha French call misfortunes, but which wo should calf crimes, arc the consequence of this high ploying.— Only last week ol Carlosrhue, Tissard, a man who has. repeatedly won a hundred thousand dollars in a night, blew out his braios because ho had a run of ill luck, which if .il did not ruin him ho thought would dishonor him. Ills adversary was a lady, a German Countess. Thoy hod played lhirty*ono hours without stopping, except onco to toko a cup ofeof fee. Tissard lost every time; at last, when (ho lady won from him nearly four hundred thousand francs, ho oroso .from the tabic, and In tbo calmest possible manner risked her to excuse him a-tnoment. The lady bowed, sod Tissard loft the room. His com panion am] adversary waited in vain for him to como baoV, and finally sent a servant to seo what was the antler, . Tbo door of the gambler's room was locked, and after repeatedly knocking,lho oor. vanl bccajne alarmed and called tbo landlord, and the door was broken open. There lay Tissard on the floor, with a buifol hole through! hia heart and a pistol by his aide. On (bo (able nd*r him was a letter envelope addressed (o the. Countess, and containing, in bank bills, the money slid had won from him. It ii said, but I don’t vouch for tho (ruth of it, that (ho remark of tho Countess, when she heard of this suicide' of Um noted gambler, wds, “ Well; at least, ho might have told mo ho was never coming back, and not have kept mo wailing hero so long!” Such is tho fash* ionoblo world, All the finer emotions of iho heart become absorbed in tbo selfishness and Indifference which pervade high society.' Just so Modamo do Sovigna tolls us with .regard.to Duke of Orleans' unfortunate cook. Tho royal dinner passed off that day,as if nothing hod happened, and tho guests spoke of Valel as (hoy sipped their wine and laughed and jokod about his sad end, The frequenters of (ho gambling table of Baden I Duden, had (heir annual incident last week also. A I Russian, Princo Bouhcghir, broke (ho bank two days in succession, a thing which has not occurred for lovers! years. The Princo began by slaking a Louis D'Or, and in ton passes broke tho bank, gain, ing from 130 to 195,000 francs. Tho saloon was immediately evacuated; half an hour afterwards the doors woro again opened. Tho noxt day tho. Prince again broko tho bank, winning about 127,000 francs. One of Ids adversaries lost 50,000 francs. Tho next day (ho Prince gavo a dinner to his friends, winch oosl him about 2,000 francs, and the next left for Wiesbaden, declaring bis intention of breaking the bank tlioro also. Marriage in High Life. The Now Orleans Picayune contains a humorous aocounti in a letter fromNiodrigus, ortho marriage of tho Prineoas Adelaide Clotilda Louise Sqiissboe, ililor of tho so-called Mosquito Ring, to * sable geo. Ueman, familiarly called" Jim.” " The royal palaoo was tastefully deobrated with highly scented hides., Every preparation being made for tho celebration tho,Princess entered the palace hall unattended, except by her pet goat. Ilor boaii tiful black hair, greased With pdsstim fdt, hung in profusion over her shoulders, and contracted.finely with her splendid dress, which was made of coflbo sack. On tho middle Anger of hot right hand sho wore a rich and costly tin ring, made from a‘ear* dine box. Tho gucite Wcro all assembled, butthe happy lover had not arrived. Tho princess be. bamo, Impatient and wont to seek him. She found him playing marblbs. She accosted him thus: "Jim, weddon all ready on you no cum I” Jim replied that Vhe had ourh to thb elusion not to marry, cos if ho did Victory wouldn't givo her no more pen* shun.” Tiro princqss woa terrified; but a lucky thotiglff struck her. "Jim,” said sho, " bimoby my buther-die, then you'll bo king.” Tho words had their,effect. Jim threw his arms around tho nock of tllo princess; their lips met; the sound that fob lowed ■ was like that hoard pulling a bdll out of tho rairo." i A llint to Buoksmiths.—Tho cutting.of bars of iron br pipes with the chisel is a laborious and tardy process. By tho' following modo tho same end is attained, morn speedily,\eaaily and neatly. Bring llio Iron 10, a wlillo hoati .anil then*. fixing it in a viob, apply tfyoooipmbnsaw, which, without being turned on the edge, or injured in any respect, will divide as easily as if H were a carrot I The Shop Girla of Paris* The following is aqexliact from “French Glean ings,”bylke Marvel, arid is a fair specimen, of the sprightly slyle..which pervades the whole work: “But if.it be good philosophy to bear meekly with the cheatenea of the shopmen—lt Is doubly so with the shop-girls. : “The high-heeled.shoes, and high head-gear, (hat turned the soul of poor Lawrence Sterne, nave indeed gone by, but- the Grisette presides over gloves yet and-whatever she may do with the heart-strings, she makes tho pursestrings yield.— You will find her in every shop of Pans, (except those of the exchange brokers, where are fat, mid dle-aged ladies who would adorn tho circles of Wall street,) there she stands, with her hair laid smooth as her chcok, over her forehead—in the prettiest blue muslin dress you can possibly Jma gine—a bit of narrow white lace running around the nock, and each little hand set off with the same —and a very witch at a bargain. Hewho makes (he shop-girls of Paris bate one jot of price, must needs have French'at his tongue’s end. . “There may be two at a time, there may bo six, she is not abashed; she has the same pleasant smile, the same gentle court’ey for each, and her eye glances like thought from one to (he other.— you may laugh, she will laugh back; you may chat, she will chat back; you may scold, she will scold back. She guesses your wants—here they are, (he prettiest gloves (she says) in Paris.. You cannot utter a half sentence but she understands the whole; you cannot pronounce so badly but what she has your meaning in a moment. She takes down package’upon package; she measures your hand, her light fingers running over yours— Quelle joliepeliiimain /—she assils you In putting a pair fairly on; and, *How ,many pair does Mon ster wish H . * “ ‘But on<y ah, Monsieur is surely joking. See what pretty colors!’ and she gathers a cluster in her fingers; ‘and so nice a fil l’ and she takes hold of tho glove upon your hand. “‘Only two I ah, U is Indeed too few; and so cheap! only.fifteen franca for tho six pair, which is too little for Monsieur;’ and she rolls them in a paper, looking yon all the time fixedly in the eye. And there is no refusal; you slip the three pieces of money on the counter, she drops them into a little drawer, and thanks yon in a way thatenakes you think, as you go oiit, that yon Kavo-been pay ing for the. smiles and nothing for tho gloves.” A Itard Law fpr.plonoy .Changers, Ac* Odo of thqlaws whlcb'Solon incorporated into his system was obtained directly from Greece—that which compelled every man, at certain' times, to give to • (he mogislrqta an account of-himself and lbe mode by which he gained his livelihood. This law mast have .answered a good purpose among (he pa* ticnl and obedient Egyptians, or (he Athenian legis lator would not lmvo ventured it.with his more mer curial country men. Wo are not particularly advised how they submitted to it; and (hoinformation is the lose important ,to us, as the sagacity of modern Slates |ias. prudently omitted this in their codes is it to bo apprehended that our legislatures, State 'dr National, will revive a statue so Inconveni ent •tkdvmbhrrasaing. We may, however, imagine, that if, the assembled wisdom of our republic? or its oompPOsni ti Ibeir duly to look slier ronowal of lßat o/d law, whftt a flattering there would be, as various professions should hear the blind scptc-holdor calling them (o the conrossionsl. What anxious gloorp, would spread over the counte nances of those whoso meads of livelihood are too profound a problem for solution, even by themselves. From, (he .old lounger, who has grown grey while frittering away his life in small talk, to tho compla cent youth just entering on tlio samo dawdling course, his father's Industry having absolved him from Tooling tho necessity of any culture, save (bat of the . most inconsiderable moustache, (hero would bo one-universal remonstrance at the indignity of being supposed capable of earning their own broad. And like the panic among tho money changers, when they wore scourged from tho temple, would bo the consternation of 1 their successors, as Wall street and State street should.bo summoned to judgement. In those arenas oflrregular things, do men from all pursuits assemble, to struggle with (ho chances of fortune, and,' impatient of (bo slow, legitimate melh ods oftheir usual vocations, endeavor to consummate an act of justice, l>y-anticipating tho reward due to merit, tho merchant comes up from the wharf, to sco what osoi bo.dono in the fancy lino, to compen sate for tho ill success of tho last voyage. 'The lawyer slips down from his office, to hold consulta tion with the broker. ■ Tho doctor lots the patient wait awhilq, to sco how fees can best bo invested. And ovoni (ho demure clergyman may bo soon, look ing Warily about him, his purpose, doubtless, being to obtain materials for the next sermon on the (ransitorinoss of human affairs, and (ho vanity of laying up treasures on.cartb. Before tho first dread reckoning day, IhcVo. Would bo an impulse given to navigation) in (ho attoriiptta to escape the direful in. vosligatlon. There would bo back-water in (ho usu al current of emigration,, and (ho old world would bo flooded by pons of the Puritans flying from per secution. ‘Dill our, rulers, in'enacting, such .a law, could not well exempt themselves from its operation; and, in this comfortable conviction, thoro is abun. donl security that it will remain among the things which have been,—//uni’s Merchant *s Magazine, Iron and Steel* Stool is iron passed through a process Which is called cementation, (ho object of which is to impreg nalo it with carbon. Carbon exists more abundantly in charcoal than in any other fusible substance, and the smoko that goea up from a charcoal forgo Is car bon Ih a fluid stale. Now, If you can manage to confine that smoko, and pul a piece of iron into it for several days, and heal the iron at the same time, it will become steel. Hosting iho iron opens its poros, so lhal lho smoko, or carbon, can enter into it. , The furnace for Ihli purppso Is a conical building of brisk, in Iho 'mlddlo of w-Mph ore (wo (roughs of 1 brick'or stone, which holds about four tons of bar iron. At Iho bottom is a largo grate for (he flro. A I layer ofoharooal-dast is put upon the bottom of the (roughs, then's Uyor of,bar iron; and so on alter, nalcly, until (be (roughs are full. They are then covered over with clay, to keep out (ho air, wh)oh< ifddrhitted, would prevent the cementation. Fire is then communicated (b the wood and cool with which (lib furnace is flllod, and continued until (he confer slon of the Iran into steel Is completed, which gene rally happens in about ojght or (on days. ; This is | known by blisters on the bars, which the Workmen ! occasionally draw obt In order to dotorminb. ‘iVhep 1 the conversion is completed! (he fire is (hen left to erf I out, and the bars remain in (he furnace about eight days more, to cool, ;; The bars of steel aro then .taken out, and either i sold SB blistered steel, or drawn to a convenient sire, | when it is bailed (filed steal. German steel is made i out of this blistered stbe), by breaking the bars into • short pieces,. and. welding them together, drawing I them down to a proper .size for use. A Witty Explanation.— iVo have hoard tho fql. lowing ozcellent and very pretty anecdote'of a lady in Burlington, Vermont, At a meeting of two or three neighbors, a few days since, tho conversation happened to turn upon iho unpleasant pro'plhquity of a slaughter house to a certain' quarter of tho toWn, whereupon ono of the.ladies present remarked that tho trade of a butcher was Certainly a very dirty bno, and that it Seemed strange to hor that men could pursue a calling, that muat bo so offensive to thbolfaQloriea. 1 "Oh,” said: the willy Mt«:O., "I supposo they care more for the dclUra lhan they d» for the scxNTo I”— Bottoh Pott. 1 ' AT S2OO PEEAMDJL = KQ/SS. ; ©DTBfI aitiy isun** Health] is .getting to bo vulgar, and it confined', principally to servant girls. No “lady 1 * nan possibly plead guilty to *< being well/* without losing catte. Spinal complaints are jittt now hi tho atoendant—" no femalo being considered “good society** who pos-r. 808808 sufficient strength to raiso a smoothing iron. . Evert body likes modesty and haloa brass, yet everybody encourages tho latter and loaves (he former to lake care of itself. Modest merit! wha( is it worth? The moro n man has of it, the 'poorer he is, in this age of rivalry and' hurabuggery. Ho\ would slarvo to death on such fodder, as that capital, procures. It is said that, tho lady who causes a gentleman, to loose his eye sight, is bound to marry him. The ladies knowing this, arc determined to furnish (hem*, solves, with husbands, for they make divers feiforis'bft pul out the oyes of the males with the. l!ps r of thei.r parasols. Wo shall all bo blind pups before long, if. the ladles don't “hold up year sou ihades.ffp.* ; A Democracy is when the sovereign power is in' Iho hands of the whole people. The term Democracy is derived directly from Iho Greek word I)etnCs,«!g-'i nlfying the people. Life and Death. —Some men make a womanish, complaint, (hat It is a great misfortune to die before' our time.. 1. would ask, what time? Is it that of nature?. But she, indeed, has lent os life, aswodo, a sum of.money, only no certain day is fixed for psy*f ment. What reason, then, to complain, if she do- . mands U al pleasure! since U was on (his condition* yon received it.—Cicero.' , What’he Wanted.-— A fellow was doubting whe ther or not he should volunteer to fight (he Mekt cans. One of tho flags waving before his ejres beari i ing the inscription, “ Victory or. Death,’* somewhat: troubled and discomposed him. “Victory is a very, good thing,” said ho; “but why put it victory,or death 7 Just pat it,”aaya he, “victory or cripple/ and l’j| go tbell” • ‘ • ’ - *Mr deah, what shall we name bob?* ‘Why,ho*l : band, I’ve settled on (he name of Peter.’*.. K>h,don% : t he replied; *1 never Hked Peter, for ho denied (it* master.’ *Well, then,* replied the wife, ‘what naan do you like?’. *1 should like the dame.of Joseph/ *Oh not that,’said his better half, *1 can't bear Jo-, soph, for he.denied his mistress!’ ‘ . <£yto know how bad you arc, you must become, poor; to know how bad other people are, you must become rich. Many a man thinks, it is .virtue' that keeps him from turning rascal, when it Is only a filjl. stomach. Bo careful and not mistake principles forj V , ~ Some folks think the biggest newspaper is.always the best* Wise people ihoao—about as sensible MK (he fellow who turned uphfs.nose at your sized woman, and bragged that he meant to have,a biggerwife than any other man within two hundred miles. , .I.;.:/- - .fl3*A lady, recently, in speaking of bar husband* who had failed ip the poultry business, said that h«> had beep heavily engaged Inmercantile speculations, in Tuikoy, and had been unfortunate. , (T/’lt ia the bubliog spring which flows; gently,, (belittle rivulet which runs along, day and nighty, by tho farm house, that Is useful, rather than lb*, swollen flood, or tho warring cataract. * Tnc object of all ambition should bo to be happy. at home. If we are not happy there,, we happy elsewhere. It is thtf best proof of the virllfta" ©fa nmnycTToJe *«yp.r To take Ink oirr or Linzh. —Takeapiece ottkjf&f melt it, and dip the spotted part of Uik IlnMk intolho 1 (allow; llto linen may be washed, and (he itpota wilT disappear, without injuring the liaen^~Jßa.jwpfr. Two country attorneys otortaklng a wagoner off* the road, and thinking to crack a joke on bim.aataii why his forchorso was so fat and tho rest so leant The wagoner, knowing them to be limbs of the law, answorod--“lhat bis forehorab was a tfaer rest wore bis clients." "Winr, Doctor," said a sick lady, “you art giving' mo the same medicine that you are giving to my* husband. Why is that 7" ** Ail right," replied IkW/ doctor, "what Is sauce for the gooae Is sauce for Ibar gander." The Hackensack Bridge Is completed, and the ears between Philadelphia and now York now run tests* larly over it.' The completion of the w6rk was t* l* l ebrtlcd by an onterlsinment for the workmen, firing of cannon, Ac. ’ • ; . Tiis Brussels carpets woven by power looms New England, excited a groat deal of attention at the WorldVFair. None have .ovok beep, woven by power looms in England, T OCpTho Now Orleans Correspondent of the Na tional Intelligencer, states (bai Judge Csrfr, of Naf-‘ ohitochoz, has been offered tho appointment of Cbtt*' •ul to Havana. . A Monk, nam'od Riralto, mentions In : uksHuon preached in Florence In 1905, (bat spectacles fold, then boon known abopt twenty years. Thlr wouldi place tho invention in the year 1285. , 7 ,y In Iceland, ifa minor.commita in offence, the pa* rents are arrowed, end unices (hey cin satisfactorily prove that (hoy have afforded (he child all necessary opportunities for instruction, (he penalty of theoflmb. falls upon (hem, and the child is placed un'det lh* slfublion. 1 ■ * 1 ' ; Dr. Johnson compared plaintiff and defbhdant In ; enaction of law, to (wo men docking their heads In ' a bucket, and daring cadi other to remklntho longest? underwater*. A Soldier was sentenced to hatro his e'afU ctll off; After undergoing Uto brutal ordeal, he wee escorted * out of the courtyard to lira luno of the Rogue’s. March, lib Ihbn turned, and in mock dignity thus] addressed tho musicians: “Gentlemen, IbankyoUl bull haio ho Amber- need of your service*, for I ■ have no ear for music I" A Monkey Hunter.'— A French paper speaisofa * gentleman who has gone largely Into' the bioalifty* trade. He has just returned to Medsah after * loH^y, > hunt, in which he has taken by.an ingenious, pro-, ceoding, of bis own invention from 95010 300 moo-*' keys o?nil ages.and sexes, with which he is about embarking for Franco. Tub “ Lone Star Order."— This,pi thVtiile df*r newOrdtr recently.formed iri the couth, Rr (hp‘pur pose of extending the area of liberty, Gy' Which' wd prbaumo is' mbant tbd engaging in conquests miUr in character to that .of the Lopes expedition., , Theiik is nothing, pofrr than 1 hondsly—nothing aweeter than charily—nothing warmer than,lore--/ nothing richer than wisdom—nothing more steadfast than. uith. These united in one roifld.Torm the purest, the sweetest, the warmest, the richest, the, brightest and (ho 'most steadfast Aapjrineos, . , ’ A writer in the Boston Daily Advertiser satiifdolPty evidence that tho Greek. mapuooript# pretended to hare been recently discpvkred by monides, are a humbug. On ooP of thbrit’ owM 4 ' dispovered th?.Parisian watermark, although cUhn-’ Ing to have been os ancient as the days ofHpmuv i Tue bio guns which worn oast for South Carolina, at tho Tredegar Iron Works, pear Richmond, wptf * tiled a few adys ago, under the inspection of one Major Gardner.’ The firing was kepi up all daWthG guns made h great deal of noisd, but, aoobWlrig (ft' 1 the Richmond Whig , did hot produce a very grokth impression upon. Hie Virginians.' broker without mopoyi is a fcood deal like a men with a good set of teeth, and nothing lu.eaL— Ho Is willing to bite, but whtfe is ths goods to do it on? ••• .* •* «•" Jttylf you oap get a man’s thdughtd fodftlsfjalai what is right, you may trust do wnal.tt WfW> U ho have a right principle. ri T 4 } -r-li-.U A**'**' •i .'if ■ ' t,ll. 11l •4 :l -