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SACRAMENT Up by the old roan on the hill, Now with the creeping grass o'ergrown, Near where the faintly springing rill Is oozing o'er the mossy Cone— Bard by the grouse's deep retreat, Are' all this sof., autumnal haze, Wait for me at the old•tiWW9 &sat, Dear Lore of by.-gone days; world is flushed With ceaseless charge, Its brimming joy-sop running o'er; Put weary of the 1/111H and strange, I long for our old haunts once more. long to tread each dear old hill, Beneath its woods of red and gold, m i uj 'n;:d their riches grand and still, Bo seul•baptized within th• 014. Cease shivering, trembling Aspen tree—. I would not have thy rustling heard! /iint2mur not now, thou Pine-wood seas Sigh not , soil wind! chant not, sweet bird! Lay thy dear hand in mine, my own, That I rosy fent thy heart throbs near, And take from God, with me alone, The Sacrament of Silence here. LINES 10 ► TAIL!(1) WHO WILL UND&RSTVID TIMM Pain would I render unto thee, Onerous young friend, the heart's Pure gratitude. As to the eye pj the loon traveler in some dreary waste, Is the sweet, fragrant flower, 80, in this selfish world, (where ofontime 'fhe orer-burdened look it. wide expanse, vain, fed rest and sympathy) ,Are acts like thine, bidding the soul gajoire and hope, made glad to find Fitch ndure that despite the hindrances That ever come, as tempters strong, to . usioify 'The love of self, hash power nobly to rise High o'er them all. In after years, When the fruition of thy hope is gained, And thou, perchance, in council chamber And in halls of state, host won A noble name—thou 'mid the anxious cares That manhood's years will bring. This simple act of kindly charity will ho To thee as a forgotten thing. But lle • Who keeps, with just and careful balance, The great book of credit and of debt, lath surely set it down io thy account, t to when thine own dark days shall come, And thou shalt feel affliction's chastening rod, recd measure such as thou host given, Will he give thee, pressed down And running o'er. In that great day When as a scroll the Heavens are rolled, Thy noble attributes of heart and mind, Perverted not to base and narrow ends, Put trained aright to action good and true, Will meet with God's approving smile, Their just reward. Coudersport, Nov. 1855. BEN BOLT, & SWEET ALICE 'The following is an attempt, by an unknown writer, to embody, in a brief story, the sentiment of that exquisite song of Thomas Dunn English, " Ben Dolt." It is very fine for such an at r.empt, as such things generally fall yory short of being worthy of their in ppiration. This does not.j f b, don't you remeniber millet Alice, Betz Bolt 1 §weet Alice whose hair was so brown; Who blushed with delight when you love her a smile, Andirembled with fear at your frown in'the old church-yard in the valley, Ben Ina flolt, corner, secluded and lone, They have fitted a slab of granite so gray, And Alice lies under th• stone. ffDon'L you remember I" Are those three magic words—a key wherewith we may unlock the flood gatel ofthe heart; and Bond the sweet waters of the past over the plains and down the hills of that fairy land, knows in.our heart experience as by-gone Even so. Thero rise before us visions of times when the bright, deep oyes of the young spring gazed slyly at us • - . • ' -.- • - - . -'' " ' '-'-' • ' -4- ' " ' ‘.".."'"-''' '''''' '- ' l. 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' .......' i ' ' ' ' . l '' " ' .. 4 .... '' ' ' . '''R ' ' • from beneath the 'ermined Mantle of winter—when the bltie violets. their first tintfrom the blue sky abeie ;, when the cowslips of sunny May, aid the golden-headed buttercups first jewelled the tender blades of , grass, and the 'hawthorn grew white :with its blossoms ; when, we roamed the woods the whole of that long, warm, lovable July holiday, weaving garlands, and listening to the concert of birds in that dark, mistletoe-wreathed, oaken forest. There was one, in years agone that prayed, l 3 Lord, keep my memory ever green ;" and the clinging tendrils of our hearts ge ever back yearningly to this prayer. But green and fresh as the poet's prayer, had the heart of Ben Bolt been kept. From his early boyhood to the hour he sat by his old friend, and lis tened to the song of bygone days. Not " through a glass, darkly," did he review those scenes of the past, but it was the going back of the boy-heart to scenes of childhood. $l.OO L 25 There was a little, old, red school house, with its dusty windows, and desks that had been nicked many a time, trying pen knives; its tall, stern looking teacher, whose heavy voice caused the yolinger ones to tremble ; its rows of boys and girls with th - eir -heads bent attentively downward to their books and slates. The wild winter wind sang and whistled with out., and some few childish hearts tried to find words for its mournful notes, they were too young and happy ' to know that it carried desolation and heart-ache in its wail; yet did they not learn it in after years I - Then, there came a few light, round snowballs, so tiny that it must have been the sport of the snow spirits, in . their.eldrich revels, changing by and by, to feathery flakes that danced about ever so gaily. How - the -child ren's eyes grew: bright, as they looked at. one another, and thought of the merry rides down the bill, and the snowballing that would make the play ground ring again. The last lesson had been said, books and slates were put aside, and, in place of the silence, reigned gay, glad voices. Kato Ash ley shook back her pretty ringlets, and laughed through her laughing oyes, as she gave Jamie Marvin that bit of curl he had teased so long for, because she knew that Jamie-had the prettiest sled in the whole school. Ah, a bit of a coquette was the same gleeful, romp ing Kate. And there was Sophie Dale, looking as demure as a kitten walking. from a pan of new milk ; and as playful as a kitten; too, was she, in spite of her quiet looks. And the stately Elizaboth,—Queen Bess they called her—and I question if England's queen had a haughtier carriage. But . apart from those' who were looking for friends to take them home stood Alice May—sweet Alice. -Very beautiful and lovable was she, with her win some, childish face, blue eyes, and soft, brown curls. She was so deli cate and fragile that you might almost fancy her a snow child, or a lost fairy babe. Nearly all the children had depar ted, amid the joyful shouts and jing ling of bells; but yet the sweet little ghild stood all alone, until a rich, boy ish voice startled her by saying " No one goes your way Alice, do they" " No, I guess not, Ben," sh• replied in her fine, bird-like tones. " Let me carry you home." " Oh, no, I am too heavy to be car tied safer," and then she laughed low and sweetly. " Heavy ! no, you're just like a this tle down, or a snowflake, Ally;" I. Could carry you to England and back again, without being at all fatigued ;" and be tossed her in his arms. English " No, no, let me. go ; the boys will laugh at you lien," and she struggled, in his %rms. " What do I care 1 They may laugh at Ben Belt as much as they like ;" and the brave hoy drew him self up proudly, and pushed the chest nut curls from his broad, fair forehead • DEVOTED TO THE PRINCAPLES OF DEMOCRACY J AND:THEi-DISREBIEVATION OF MOAALITY , 'L!TERATIME;:Aip IrT WS. COUDERSPORT POTTER COUNTY 4 ; NOVEMBER . 22, If*. "butl'di4not'ineaU tofriktiteti yOu,'!: he;Corititioed as lie euivbow the `little girt trembled !:: .. .. . So she put on her bonnet and cloak and Ben took her in his arms as if she had been a bird, while the tiny little thing' nestled down on big, el:milder, as he:went stumbling through the snow,* saying gay; pleasant things, that made the shy little girl . laugh; and when, lit length, -- he opened , her motbees - ccit tage door, he stood her on the floor, saying . • " There, Mrs. May, I brought Alice home lest she should get buried in a snow bank; she's sueh a weeny thing," and before Mrs. May could thank hiin, he was out of sight. . . What a brave, glorious snow storm it was, though. The boys built airent snow hut, dipping the chunks of snow into water to harden them. so they might last longer, and they rolled large snow balls fer a pyramid, until it; was bigger than the schoolhbuse. They worked . biavely, but the brightest and pleasantest : face among them was Ben Bolt's. Such rides as they , had down the hill. And though the lar ger boys and girls said Alice May was too small and timid to join them, be cause she felt-fearful sometiines;:.iet, Ben Bolt held her in his.. antis; and_ away they went, merrily as any of the rest. But the winter -began to wane, and now and then a soft day would come, and lessen the pyramid and snow house materially. Such a pity," they said, and wished winter would last always, but there was one little wren like voice that prayed for violets and blue birds. The pyramid tumbled down, the snow house grew thinner and thinner, and the boys jested about its being in a decline, till one - day it disappeared . —faded away, like so many of their childish hopes. The glad spring came with its larks and daisies, and one beautiful day the children w ant a Maying. Kate Ash ley was queen, and a brilliant queen she was, too. Bat Ben Bolt gathered white violets and braided them in the soft curls of Alice, and told her that she was sweeter, dearer than a thou sand May queens like Kate. Child as she was, his words made the sunshine brighter, and lent enchantment to the atmosphere of her existence. Then the,long Juno days came, en circling:the green earth s‘ith a coro nal of roses, and making it redolent with perfume; and in the warm noon tide hour, the Children strolled to the foot of the hill, and clustering together told over thor childish hopes of the future. Some were lured by ambi tion ; some dreamed of quiet country repose ; some of gay city life; but there WEIS on whose eye kindled and whose face flushed with enthusiam, as he . spoke of the sparkling blue waters, and the brave ships that, breasted them so gallantly. Ben Bolt was going to sea. Captain Sbisley, generous, whole souled being as ever trod the deck,- was to take him under his protection for 'the next five 'Years. There were exclamations of surprise from the children, old haunts were visited and revisited ; they sat down iu the shade ofthe old sycamore tree, and listened to the musical mur mur of the brook, and the dreamy hum of old. "Appleton's mill ;" they ex- . changed keepsakes, and promised al-- ways to 'remember the merry, brave hearted:bey; whose home; would be' on the wild, blue ocean. ' Alice:May did dot join them. She was so delicate and timid, and the thought of Ben's departure filled her eyes with tears ; so she would steal away alone, fearful Of the ridicule of her herder cortp' anions, But 'one night Ben came to Mrs. May's cottage to bid them: good by. Alice stoner by the,lWindow; 'waiching the stars.,--wonclering what made them so dim--'—never thinking' of the tears that dimmed her - eyes, as told over'his hopes'se . joyfullY: She c o uld not part with him there,. so she, walk ed through the little door yard, and °tot* beside the gate, aookittelikera golden.cro%vued angel in the yellow moonlight, and When he teld.her oF, er again how,large she ,would: . he on his return ; that he would pot frare.,td call her his little. Alice, then ; as he looked back, liegoringly,eho laid a soft, brown curl . in his. hand, saying "I have kept it, for you this lop& long time,. Ben; ever .since t.be day you,•brought me home . through the snow—do you, remember 3" . , Ho did remember, .and with one passionate burst of grief, ho pressed the little gitt to : his bosom ; and then the brave hearted boy sobbed the fare well he could find no. words for. • But five years are net always , a life time. True,-it was such to din-quiet, thoughtful Charlie Allen, Whose large, dark eyes had stolen 'brilliancy from his books; and the laughing little Bell Archer—botli were laid to Sleep id the old churchyard, 'Where the night stale 'shone over their graves. Others went out to seek a fortune in the gay world, and some grew into miniature uterianci women by their own sweet fireside's, bat Alice May.'was still - a child. Yes she was taller and her slight forrn more; gracefully developed, but there was the same angel looking through • her *es, as had watched . there in olden 'times. She stayed at home now, .-to assist her mother in sewing, their chief , support ; but she was the same , shy, sweet Alice; that Ben Bolt had carried through the snow.• • . Ben Bolt had -come back.' how strange that five years should pass away so quickly, and stranger still that this tall,' handsome sailor ~ should be Ben Bolt. Kate Ashley was not think= ing of the sweet Sabbath day reat, c as the chime of the church bell floated 'through the village, there she stood before the mirror arranging her shin ing :curls, and fastening her dainty bonnet, with its white ribbons land dtooping blue bells; thinking if she could not fascinate Ben with her spark ling eyes; It would be delightful to have his chief attention during his stay at his home. He thought she did look very beau- . tiful as he sat, befOre service, looking on the older faces ; but there was:a fairer one than hers, he fancied, as he saw the sweet face of Alice May, with the half closed eyes, and long, golden edged lashes, shadowing tho pale cheek: Ho carried in his bosom .a curl, like the one nestling so softly by her temple, and-it was a talisman, keeping.' him from the enchantment of other eyes. , When the service was closed, Ben was thronged about by old, familiar faces—they had so much to say, so many things to speak of,. so much joy to express at his safe return, that it well nigh' bewildered him. It was very pleasant old be so warmly we_l-. cowed by old friends—delightful to chat of by-gones, and indeed it was a Sabbath of joy to Ben Bolt. Sweet Alice I Ah, how long and weary the time had been to her; Some bates her heart died within her as shO bought of the broad ocean. But when she looked at Bon so shyly that morning, and saw how hanFlso . me he had grown, a heart sickness came over her,, and the sunshine fell but dimly at her feet. She knew she had hidden awayin the depths of her pure .heart, a wild early love, s.iid . she strove to put it from ker.; would ..he think oilier now? So it was no .. wonder that she should slip her slender hand iu her mother's and steal away from the. joy ous throng. : It was Sabbath' ere—one of these balmy mooi fight evenings ofthe young summer.. Mrs. May had gone to, ria'it a sick neighbor; and' Alice sat by the window with' the:Bible open, and-her slenAer white fingers - pointing tothe word's' falling so musically from' 'her ‘And then; shall be" ne'rright there; and they need . no candle; neither light of the'aulfr.fer - tlie Levi 'God give* th'ent end; they 'shall 'reign' for ever and ever." .. : -She, lookedii-vg,trentialingi In. the, moonlight for , closi+ behind. hdk knelt the manly form of Ben Bolt. There MEM NAA ,43/41 sWebt su*yorlovcsaiidilope; not - ,thelesi sweet for beiitgl the . gunge' of every human tieait, slid the tiny' hands ofAlice were folded initis.as she said very ,low. and sweetly • ! , If I live, Bowan& five yearg more have passed,. and you -return' ter the uremia did Was never: finished.:.._ " ' • , • So 'they. :plighted , their troth, that calm; holy Sabbath •&ening ; and the „buOyant heart of Bed,. in :its gushing sunniness, pictured. r adiant hopes of the future. He was so 'young and full of vitality—every pulse' of his heart was beating gladly; W and the coming . five years wore more precious to him than all thashad passed. "If we both live,Ben, 'God will have. us in hid holy keeping," she said in • 'answer to his partial - Swotdi ; but as he pressedliei convulsively tn hiabeat ing heart,. he ' "God will•be• Very merciful to' those .who.leve so dearly as oarsalvea, Alice, darling." . • She .knew it: but shokneili also, that God. did not always hear the prayer Sallingfronahopeful lips.: Sweet Alice ! Adown the future Ben looked "tram-' hlingly,•and as he saw her fragile forni and.. spiritual face, with- white lilies braided in the' soft, brown hair, his' eyes .grew dim • with tears, for he knew not if it• was it- bridal or for close beside the altar was tha grave yard. They were not wanting who wonder ed at Ben Bolt's choice, and thought it was'strange he should take Alice in preference to the 'fairest and wealthi est. Some held •their• heads when theT.passed her, but her 'heart waton.the blue waters and she heed ed it not. • , How. she watched the days in their passing.. She noticed how the summer waned—how the fields of waving grain grew yellow in the sunlight—she heard the glad voices of the reapers ; and when the leaves 'viere..falling, the" children went nut-gathering in 'the woods ; when-the noiseless snow fell, and lay on the. hill-side as in olden days, until the genial spring-tide melt ed it away, and the violets and hare: bolls dotted the fields. So passed the year. She was growing fairer- and more beautiful—too brilliant for any thing earthly. Once she knelt' at the altar in the little church . and listened to the words uniting her with the Savior's redeemed on earth; but it was only an outward form, for her heart had long been in thei keeping of the angels.' Again she watched the waning of the summer days, and when the soft wind swept over the silvery rye-fields, she thought of the ocean afar, with its broad waves. All through the winter day she grew more spiritu al in her beauty, and the slender white hands wore often folded on her breast, and'ihe prayed fer those 'who would soon he left desolate, for she knew she was dying. It did not startle her, for she felt long ago 'that - the fair green earth would hold her pulikdess heart, ere it had left the cloister of girlhood. Life ' was sweet and beautiful, yet in her sinlessness death had no agony, save her sorrow for those left in loneliness. It was only a Very little way : to the land of rest, and her feet had never . grown weary ; yet she longed to look once more upon - the flowers; and have them braided in -heir hair; and so she lingered' till -the voice of spring waSbeatd the hill tops. One morning,:, hen 'Abp. - viewises hands were gathering baCk' the misty curtains of the night, and the stars: grew dim in the glory of , early . morn, sweet Alice stood on the threshold of P'aitiliSe,"and,the:golden gates Wilsre opened to gm fair, ,meekiirl. There trend:lle& on her lips It . prayer :and a. blessing.for Ben Belt anil , her mother,.-- givitikradianC.e to.the fair. deed 'fain, a liidigil!ndae 4 ff.ll;*a hair. . .• I The-church bell chimed.' softly. , to the feik Yeas earth had'''claimeethe. starnleis'aiiuf of Alice May, as they ‘,r ;7, iVi.v'.;l,a'Ciltv"..) ME ENE bronght• tke .Coffid ht thoptittleifelli • chnhch., .4.eiarbsaitiftd !shoo loctiste; kilter white burial , robe.too aWeet far death* --feci hely, bad &jar: not, hese sternum - Win beyond: • (Lisp:, behiwdher' ; stood the friends .orkese girlhood,. gazing oathat yeitugtfaellasi. if they would. fain call tuir back 'to Ear: and its swealova. _So thaylaid Melt Alice to sleep in the. old, .clinrckyardo and those who looked coldly onhar teek 'to their • sorrowing hearts sweet% memory of the early dead. , • . There was agony-too deep.for utter -4 • ance, when the strong; ardent-hearted i! man whose guiding atm. had been the - lore fo that sweat girlJearne back find the cottage hotan desolate, .and . Alice sleeping beneath a 'gray- stets :in the churchyard: - . - But .Grtia., and time are? merciful and as/ears passed away, he came t.) ,- think. of her as garlanded in the golden fruitagb of Edenlanol. This was the memory that his fritud sang of as they satin the summer twit light, years afterward; and- uakio. of the faces that had" linunered and fsdod in their early patliway. Now, of . till chi) ;glad'hearts .childheed. had clustcr ea together, Only . they two Some Slept, in the' jungle . depths; cult.., era in the forest shade, and beneitti' the waving prairie giAss: . . S'one ther4 ti were who slept peacefully in the greisis old church yard; and ainong these ch.,' fairest and the best Was "sweet Al I he could never have £orgntis a: that. Ho had heard from the lips -of that.: desolate mother, ere she Went to steei: beside her darling, how patient 114.1" holy Alice had grown ; bow she Itire. ) . passed calinly away in her' saint : lll:a' . beauty, leaving messages that a fen;..: yearning heart could only dictate: Down in his heart, .deeper than . any , other earthly being, he had lain thotu. cherishing titer beauty and greenne.,,.. - Many a time had. the 'spirit feral sweat Alice risembefore his eyes in ...a the beauty of that far off land he u re , but too dimly; and ho kne 'ff; 114 that thing called life had.morged.ier:a immortality, he should meet her ag.un Years atterward r they laid Beni; . to sleep by the side of sweet Alice. Newark, N. J. 1855. The Methodists have been waren by a public meeting in .Plattsbur:. Mu., not • to :hold a camp meeting .4 Clinton county. • The slavoCracythii,.s are ." down on religion," and dna's seem to agree with Rev. Shannon, an.o - a few others who disgrace their fession of Christianity, that the sanctions the curse of American slave. ry.—Pittsburg Dispatch. To triumph . over our painions,ii of, all conquests ;tho moat glorious.. THE TABLES Ttomen.—There a time.= when we were- indebied - Europe for a portion of our fi machinery, and foreigners regard.;./ American ingenuity as at its clim in the production of wooden: nutria ~.;14 and clothes 'pins. Latterly we astonished them with our patent ru ern add six-shooters ; and at last they' have come . to` acknowledge that un:i , mechanics ae. entitled 'to rank wit a, the best of their own. further lustration may now be given. Yei r ! . terday a sloop arrived fit thie hail% bringing from Jorge . ); Shore forty tofrVe of iron machinery, constructed fort in Scotland ; and 'the! Rom ie now being 'shipped direct , to :Waage:er r is designed for, the. manufacture . 4 India-rubber goods, aprocessin.whis4, Amer ice is - Ahead of the world.-7--.Tuer,. 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