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Those of greater length In . prdpdrtion. • tiplltnorrroi,sueti' - Blanke,%s Ae.; , ,te4eireduted with acourary and •on "AtieeflattOreiotl • ' etr)3 , ••• • ••• , - '•• • L4SPO — THkiCIBIS'O - F LOVE: • .0 7 , BY .I.LBUBB.Y tureair.. ••••TheruditoiseaVen , bat lave ; - All things that live and move Are upbed:by - its breath, .. • Au ttit le master of the;bands of death. It makes tile wsaibeirt,stroug,', eopglps song • ,- • And egrepd, ,the ear .w owers, • And llutlds ettellmu . la - pal.ticeS and hewers. It claiMetbilor its own Each lovely tint and tone, And makoth beauty seem The semblance of its own delighted dream. And vocal to its ear, Dumb stars and solar sphere; Their muffled music comes 'ln grandeur, rushing like the roll of drums _lt hears the angels sing, :Arid-their glad voices ring Through all the azure aisles And domes of heaven's illuminated piles. It sees a mystic sense— A language deep, intense In the grass blades and weeds, And floods of glory o'er the silent meads. It maketh women's eyes . Star-blossoms, mysteries! And in celestial sheen Arrays their loveliness of form and mien. ,It desks the virgin bride, Paining her balmy side 'With odorous pangs, which start To'blissful mime all her throbbing heart. The infant on the breast Doth like a cherub rest, And heavenly halos spread, Like God's protecting breath, around its head. All things full well it knows ; And whereso'er it goes, Music and flowers attend; And dark brute forms rejoioe and call it friend It makes the darkness light, And light more grand and bright ; The wilderness doth bloom, And atlits call the dead come from the tomb All the great works of man Are built upon its plan ; It paints, and carves the stone, And the high realms of phantasy doth own. The poet in his dreams, Transfigured by love's beams, Sings his golden song Upborne on fiery wings the heavens along It breathes through every prayer, And makes the sufferer bear, The noble martyr die, And conquers, like a god, their agony. Religion, holy-eyed ; God's vestal, glorified ! Looking through faith to Him, In solemn temples and oathedrals dim ; Or, in the secret heart Worshipping apart, Is love's divinest child By the deep mysteries of Heaven beguiled And war, and wrong, and strife, And every evil life, Through all the march of time Are subtle helpers of its plan sublime. And love one day shall reign O'er hill, and vale, and plain ; And all the land and sea Shall own the triumph of its sovereignty Home Journal TO MY COAT FROM THE FRENCH OF BERANGER. Though hardly worth one paltry groat, Thou art dear to me, my poor old coat; For full ten years my friend thou'st been, For full ten years I've brushed thee clean ; And now, like me, thou'rt old and wan, With both, the glow of youth is gone : But worn and shabby as thou art, Thou and the poet shall not part, Poor coat. I've not forgot the birthday eve When first I donned thy glossy sleeve, When jovial friends, in mantling wine, Drank joy and health to me and mine. Our indigence let some despise, We're dear as ever in their eyes; And for their sakes, old as thou art, Thou and the poet shall not part, Poor coat. One evening, I remember yet, 1, romping, feigned to fly Lisette; She strove her lover to retain, And thy frail skirt was rent in twain Dear girl, she did her best endeavor, And patched thee up as well as ever ; For her sweet sake, old as thou art, Thou and the poet shall not part, Poor coat. Never, my coat, hest thou been found Bending thy shoulders to the ground From any upstart "Lord" or "Grace," To beg a pension or a place. Wild forest flowers—no monarch's dole— Adorn thy modest button-hole ; If but for that, old as thou art, Thou and the poet should not part, Poor coat. Poor though we be, my good old friend, No gold shall bribe our backs to bend ; Honest amid temptations past, We will be honest to the last ; Far more I prize thy virtuous rags Than all the lace a courtier brags ; And, while I live and have a heart, Thou and the poet shall not part, Poor coat. DOW PROPOSE IN THE DARK. BY MISS MITFORD. The pretty square farm house, standing at the corner ne tr Babes lane, (for the first phrase, although giving by far.the closest 'picture of the place, does, It must be con fessed, look rather Irish,) and where 'the aforesaid brook winds away by another lane, until it spreads into river-like dignity, as it • - • meanders through the sunny plain of Hartly common, and finally disappears amidst the - "''.green receses of Porn wood—that pretty square farm-house, half-hidden c by the tall elms in the flower court before it, which with . the spacious garden and orchard behind, • and the extensive barn, yards and out-build ' ings, so completely occupies one of the angles formed by the crossing of the lane and the stream—that pretty farm-house contains one of the happiest and most pros perous families in Aberleigh—the large and thriving family of Farmer Evans. Whether from skill or from good fortune —or, as is most probable, from a very lucky mixture of both—everything goes right on his great farm. His crops are the best in the parish ; his hay is never spoiled; his cattle never die ; his servants never thieve ; his children are never ill. He buys cheap and sells dear ; money gathers upon him like a snow-ball—and yet, in spite of all this provoking and intolerable prosperity, everybody loves Farmer Evans. He Is so hospitable, so good-natured, so generous, and so homely ! There, after all, lies the charm. Riches have not only not spoiled the man, but they have not altered him. He is just the same " in look and word, and way, that he was thirty years ago, when he and his wife, with two sorry horses, a cow and three pigs; began the world at Dean Gate, a little bar .' gain of twenty miles off. Ay, and his wife • is the same woman !—the same frugal, tidy, industrious, good-natured Mrs. Evans..—sp noted for her activity in tongue and limb,: good looks and - her plain dressing ; air Xrttgal, as good-natured, as active, as plain , dressing is Mrs. Evans at fotty 7 five as she. • was at nineteen,. and, in a different wag &Wiest, as gondmloooking. • ' The ohildren—six • boys;'--as • Emlia& . . . . _ , Evan., proiniaearmily calls . , - them, Whose ages - vary from eight to twenty; and three girla t .twai grown up, and one the yeangest •of thefitmilyare just what we might- ex- Peet from. parenta who are ao-Bireple and good, The young men, intelligent an& well zondnoted ;.the'tOiSj . docile al?.' 1 1 041116 icligl and the little.girl,saprettY curlY hesded, rosy-oheeked poppet- as ever was the ,Pet and u,large ; •fajnoily. It is; -however, -with the f : eliest. daughters We_haire , • to do. ratty eltvanamerezas much bath ever befallen any ;two _ slaters not born at one toUte ;40i., - it the matter ef twin , ehildren, there has beelfa aeries of Rides • ever since the;days' of the'brOmioi. Nearly -of age, (I believe at thismoment . Volk - are 'turnelt . nin e teen,' tuad teithor-has reached twenty ,)ersetly of a statere,, (SO Ugh : that Frederick''t!le - Ok*.'w o 9 l4 hive .coveted- them. for his tall, regiment;) hazel eyes, large mouths,. fall lips, white teeth, brown hair, -CleirOmilthr, coMplet ion, and that sort of nose.whick 18.1u:tither Greek nor Roman, nor - aquiline, tor capetft nez r.ec4mtsse, that some , pertiona prefer to them' all, ' but a nose which; • moderately pieininent r ,and, stiffieiiint4, well shipa4, yet; as far as I 'know; anonymous, although it be perhape, as coalition and ab - Welllook ing :a-feature esti& to be seen on an:Eng as face. Altogether they werali'pair of-tall and comelymiaideris, and being constantly attired in garments of the - same color and fashion, looked..at times - so Much alike, that no stranger ever 'dreamed ef knowing Item apart, and even'their' 'acquaintances were rather accustomed to speak and think of them'-generally.as 'the Brauer's,' than as the separate individuals Jane and Patty. Even those who' did pretend to.distinguish tbe one from the other, were not exempt from mistakes,. which the , sisters-r-Patty, especially, who delighted in the'fan so often produced by the .minsual zesemblance— were, apt to favor by changing places in a walk; or slipping from one side to the other at a country tea-party, or playing a , hun , Aired innocent tricks, to occasion at once a grave blunder ancl.a merry , laugh. Old Dinah Goodwin, for instance—who, being rather purblind, was jealo.us of being suspected of seeing less clearly than her neighbors, and had defied even the Evanses to puzzle her discernment—seekingin vain on Patty's band the cut finger which she bad dressed on Jane's, ascribed the incredi ble cure to her own incomparable salve ; and could be hardly undeceived, even by the pulling oft of Jane's glove and the ex hibition of the lacerated digital sewed round by her own bandage. Young George Kelley, too, the greatest beau in the parish, having bet at a Christmas party that he would dance with every pretty girl in the room, lost his wager, which Patty had We must not blame him too severely. overheard, by that saucy damsel's slipping Perhaps my vanity made me think his at into her sister's place, and persuading her tentious meant more than they really did, to join her own unconscious partner ; so and you had all taken up the notion. But that George danced twice with Patty, and you must not speak of him so unkindly. not at all, with Jane. A bantering piece He has done nothing but what is natural. of malice, which proved, as the young', You are so much better and wiser than I gentleman (a rustic exquisite of the first am, my own dear Jane. He laughed and water) was pleased to assert, that Miss talked with me—but he felt your good- Patty was not displeased with her partner. ness ; and he was right. I was never How little does a vain man know of woman- worthy of him, and you are ; and, if it were kind. If she had liked him, she would not ', not for Archibald, I should rejoice from have played the trick for the mines of the bottom of my heart,' continued Patty, Golconda. In short, from their school- sobbing, if you would accept—' days, when Jane was chidden for Patty's But unable to speak her generous wish, bad work, and Patty slapped for Jane's she burst into a fresh flow of tears ; and bad spinning, down to this, their prime of the sisters, mutually and strongly affected, womanhood, there had been no end to the' wept in each other's arms, and were com confusion produced by this remarkable in- forted. stance of family liieness. That night Patty cried herself to sleep, ' And yet nature—who sets some mark of , but such sleep is not of long duration. By individuality upon even her meanest pro- , dawn she was up, and peeing, with restless daction, making some unnoted difference ' irritability, the dewey grass walks of the between the lambs dropped from one ewe, ' garden and orchard. In less than half an the robins bred in one nest, the flowers hour, a light, elastic step—she knew the growing on 'one stook ; • and the leaves. hang- , sound well—came rapidly behind her; a ing on one tree not left these maidens hand—oh, how often had she thrilled at without one.-greet and.permanent distinc- the touch of that hand—tried to draw hers tion—a natural and striking dissimilarity under his own, whilst a well-known voice of temper. Equally indnsttious, affection- addressed her in the softest and tenderest ate, happy and kind, each was kind, happy, I accents : affectionate and industridus, in a different Patty—my own sweet Patty ! have you way. Jane•was grace ; Patty was gay. If , thought of what I said to you last night 7' you heard a laugh,or a song, be sure it was Said to me ?'replied Patty, with bitter- Patty -; she-whojamped :the stile, when her ness. sister opened the gate, was-Patty ; she who Ay, to be sure—to your own dear self ! chased the pigs froin the garden, as merrily Do you not remember the question 1 asked as if she was runnings race, so that the you, when your good father—for the first pigs did not mind her, was Patty. On the , time unwelcome—joined us so suddenly otherhancl, she thatsocarefally was making i that you had not time to say yes !' and with its own ravelled threads, an invisible / will you not say yes' now darnin her mother's handkerchief, and was / Mr. Foster,' said Patty, with some hearing hersister read the while ; she that / spirit, you are under a mistake here ! It so patiently was 'feeding, one by' one,. two / was to Jane that you made the proposal broods of young turkeys ; .she, too, that so . last evening, and you are taking mo for her pensively was watering her own bed of ' this very moment.' delicate and somewhat rare flowers—the Mistake you for your sister? Propose pale hues of the Alpine pink, •or the ala- to Jane ! Incredible ! Impossible ' You are baster bloat:toms of the White evening prim-' jesting !' rose, whose modest flowers, dying off into 4 Then he mistook Jane for me last night, a blush, resembled her own oharacter- -was and he is no deceiver !' thought Patty to -Jane. Some of the •gossips of. Aberleigh herself, as with smiles beaming brightly used to assert' hat Jane's' sighing over the through her tears, she turned round at his flowers,. asmell• as the, early,:steadiness of reiterated prayers, and yielded the hand he -her character, arose from an engagement to sought to his pressure. my lord'shead-gardener ' an intelligent, He mistook her for me !He that defied sedate and sober young Scotohman. Of us to perplex him !' this I know "nothing. Certain it is that i And so it was ;an unconscious and unob the prettiestand newest plants were always . served change of place, as either sister re ,to be found in Jane's flower-garden ; and sumed her station besides little Betty, who if. Mr. Archibald Maoism did sometimes , had scampered away after a glowworm, come to look after them, I did not see that added to the deepening twilight and the it was,anybody's btisiness. lover's embarrassments, had produced the In the meantime, a visitor of another de- / confusion which gave poor Patty a night scriptios arrived at the farm. A cousin of of misery, to be followed by a lifetime Mrs. Evans.hatlleen tis.auccessful in-trade of happiness. Jane was almost as glad to as her husband bad been- in . -agrioulture, lose a lover as her sister was to regain one. and now, he sent his only son to bedome tic- Charles has gone home to his father's, to quainted with - her relations, and to spend make preparations for his bride. Archibald some weeks iii.. their family. , has taken a great nursery garden, and there Charles Foster was a fine young man, is some talk in Aberleigh that the marriage , whose father was neither more nor less gum ' of two sisters is to be celebrated on the a linen.draper, in - a great town ; but whose I same day. manners, education, mind and character might :have done honor to a far. ,higher I lam' Bishop Burnet, at one of his visite ; station. He was, in a word, one of nature% I tions, when the name of a very old gentle ientkimen,apd in nothing did he more thor- man was called over, of whom -a private oughly show his own taste and good-breed- I complaint had been made that the parish ' ing, than by entering entirely into the i could not endure him, he gave such bad homely ways and old-fashioned habits of sermons,) gravely chided the poor parson. , his country codsipa. He was delighted / lam told, Mr.—, that your parish is 1 with the simplioity, frugality and industry, very well satisfied with yon in, many which blended well with the sterling,good- , respects, but they are much discontented nesa,and genuine prudence of , the - great with your sermons. Now, there is no excuse English. farm-house. =The women, cape- for this ; for, instead of preaching extern , ()tally, plitised'him much. They forthed a pore, as lam told you sometimes do, or strong contrast..with any he had met, with giving them your own compositions, you before. , No finery no coquetry—no have only to preach good printed sermons, ,Prenclrr-noliiane I It is impossiblato Aes- and they will have no cause for complaint.' oribe.!the'sensaticm. of relief and 'comfort' 4 -May it please your lordship,' replied the with Whielt,Charles Foster; sink of musical clergyman, you have been wholly misin raisins, ascertained that the whole. &el- formed. I have long been in the habit of did ; n ut a single musical i rk - preaching printed- sermons, and those I iiitunine i Lliaxasptake bassoon.: on which ' have Orefeired are your lordihip's.' ~d, ,, ,,y,Sabbath, at skAtanitiCt,b.si t*rit p ktUaloie Wirif is iher idndral effect' of-heat ' onvottga , tiolit bsll4;likedtribothiosistsra—• t upon' - sUbittatotte enlaigeir their•dimen- JtiliVii 91131 1 titihislaill 4 ttilinift*titteilefili t en- sionajby42Plinitien.' n ; Z.c.7( 7 , JMUJ u. THAT COUNTRY MCI= MOOT OIMMOTWIM WHIZZ L6l ‘ lol- OONNANDSI TIEN OILIATIIBT 1111WA14).,111101:114TAN. LANCASTER CITY. - PA., TUESDAY= MORNING, DECEMBER :17, 1861. gaged his full esteem; Patty's innocent playfalness - -suited beet with hi& own high spirits and animated oonversation. He bad known them apart from the first ; and, indeed, denied that the likeness was at all puzzling, or more than is usual among sisters ; and secretly thought Patty as much prettier than her sister as she was avowedly merrier. In doors and out, he was constantly at her side ' and before he had been a month h in thehouae all the inmates had given 'Charles Foster as a lover' of his :young cousin ; and she, when rallied on the subject, cried fie ! and pish ! and pshaw ! and wondered how people - could talk such nonsense;-and liked to have <such nonsense talked to her better than anything in the world ! Affairs were in this state, when one night Jane appeared even graver and more thoughtful than usual, and far, far sadder. She sighed deeply ; and Patty—for the two 'Sisters occupied the same room—inquired, 4 What ailed her 1' She burst into tears, whilst Patty hang - over her and soothed her. At length, she roused herself by testrong effort, and turn ing away from her affectionate comforter, said in a low tone 1 ' I have had a great vexation to-night, Patty ; Charles Foster has asked me to marry him.' Charles Foster I—did yon say Charles Foster asked poor Patty, trembling, even to turn her own senses against the evidence of her heart ; Charles Foster?' Yes ; our cousin, Charles Foster.' And you have accepted him V inquired Patty, in a hoarse voice. Oh, no—no—no ! Did you think I had forgotten poor Archibald ? Besides, I'am not the person whom he ought to have asked to marry him, false as ho is ; I Would' not be his, wife, cruel, unfeeling, unmanly as his conduct has been ! No ! not if he would make me Queen of England !' You refused him, then No ; my father met us suddenly, just as I was recovering from the surprise and in dignation that at first struck me dumb. But I shall refuse him most certainly—the false, deceitful, ungrateful villain !' Poor father, he will be disappointed. So will mother.' They will be disappointed, and both angry ; but not at my refusal. Oh, how they will despise him ' ' added Jane. Poor Patty, melted by her sister's sym pathy, and touched by an indignation most unusual in that mild and gentle girl, could no longer command her feelings, but threw herself on the bed in that agony of passion and grief which the first great sorrow seldom fails to excite in the young heart. After a while she again resumed the con versation. rao • 7'..:7":',1" Matebnonial Infelicities. BY-:l3 , AltEr GRAY. After a long absence, my estimable wife has returned home. I almost despaired of ever seeing heragain, when one gusty No vember night, just as a party'of my ancient "friends were filling, for thelhird time their - gender goblets with sparkling Golden Wedding wine, around my hospital mahog -any, an ominous ring at •the door-bell startled us •into sobriety and propriety. The colonel, being a married man, was the first to detect the Connubial tone of the bell, and rising hastily, said he believed he hid an engagement which , he' must hasten to fulfil, and. therefore begged me to excuse _him. He had just finished singing a song, In which he had repeatedly declared that she had no intentions of going home until morning, and his sudden desire to , be going now, rather surprised us. The major, who imitates 3.4 e colonel in his movements, im mediately declared that ho, too, had an engagement ;, but the captain; with a,disre -gard of rank which was pleasing to observe, ordered his two superiors to sit doWn; and not run away while such enemies—pointing to the tall flask before him—were in the field. Perhaps it will be as well here to state that quite a number of my acquaintances have recently become distinguished mili tary characters--at least, not a few of them are celebrated for the inordinate amount of gold braid which ornaments their clothes, and the costly swords they carry. I have riot yet heard that any of their swords have been baptized in rebel blood, or their gold lace tarnished through exposure to oamp life. But I presume all this will come by and by ; in the seanwhile, they add to the brilliant appearance of Broadway, and are much employed as escorts at military funerals, and take an active part in the re ception of New England troops, passing through the city on their way to-the seat of war. I don't wish to be understood as saying that my three friends above-men tioned won't march down to Dixie as soon as their regiment obtains its complement of men, but I will simply declare that their ranks are a most unaccountable time in filling up. One day the colonel will tell me that he wants less than two hundred men to fill his regiment, but when I see him, perhaps a week or two afterward, he has five or six hundred to obtain. When I question him as to where his men have gone,, he says government has taken them away from him, and drafted them into other regiments. Of course this must be so, and the slander which the newspapers have cast upon some of the colonels, that they sell their men at so much per head to other regiments, cannot apply to my friend the colonel. It has just occurred to me that this is an unnecessary hiatus in my narrative, and while I am dotting it down my wife is standing outside the front door, shivering with cold, and anxious to be ad mitted within. At the moment the bell was rung the third time, my friends all apparently un derstood who was coming, for they seized their coats and caps, declaring that it was getting late, and they thought they had better be going. They encountered my wife in the hall, who glared at them sig nificantly, and said she trusted her unex pected return had not frightened them away. The colonel, who is a very polite man, expressed his regrets at being obliged to depart at the moment, he said, bowing, when so charming an addition was about to be made to their society. He trusted, though, that before he left for the seat of war, he should have the pleasure of pay ing his respects to her, and senew the ac quaintance he so happily formed with her last winter at one of the artists' recep tions. Whether it was this flattering speech of the oolonel's, or the sight of the gold lace and gilt buttons which covered his manly form, which soothed my wife's feeling's, I cannot positively declare ; but, at all events, when, with me, she entered the room where the table still stood, she did not denounce my visitors, as 1 had expec ted she would. She did ask, though, why 1 had selected the parlor for the scene of my festivities, and said that the tobacco smoke which filled the room would impreg nate her satin window-curtains all winter. She wondered, too, how I could permit my friends to spill their wino on the carpet, and thought it singular that I should allow them to throw their cigar stumps into the corners of the room. Then again she wished to know why I had selected my companions from the military ; formerly, she continued, artists and literary men wore your friends, and she thought them much more refined than soldiers. Oh, my dear,' I replied, 4 I have not changed my friends, they have only changed their occupation ; painters and authors can't live by their calling now-a days, so they have been obliged to gird on their swords and shoulder their muskets, to enable them to sustain existence.' Oh !' exclaimed my wife, doubtingly. s Yes,' I answered ; didn't yon recog nize the gentlemen whom you passed in the hall No !' she replied , they were as strange to me as if they had been In dians.' 4 Well, the colonel,' I said, 4 you have only met once before ; but the major is our old friend Potter, the author of 4 Chiv alry and Beauty,' and, as you are aware, a poet of some merit. The captain—the one in the red, baggy trousers—is the celebrated artist Mr. Splinter, who painted the great historical picture, The Murder of the Noisy Children, by command of Herod' Splinter, you know, is a bachelor, and dislikes children with all his soul.— He joined the Zottave regiment on account of the picturesqueness of the uniform.' Pray, who,' asked my wife, is the grey-bearded man, with the long cane, surmounted with a silver knob as large as his own head Ha! Ha!' I shouted, didn't you re cognize him l Why, he is our musical friend, the composer, who used to play the organ occasionally at St. Jerome's Church. He is a drum,major now, and that was his , baton of office, which you presumed to be a cane.' Well, I must say,' said my wife, that your friends are strangely metamorphosed since h saw them last; and to think that these changes have all been occasioned by the war, is very, sad.' ',Now, my dear,' I said, tell me some thing abottt ,yotirsolf and the children. How have the tittle ones been r tind - ;sicy on"ilitljcot king itl6ll'l44a: v4tii' - j , OO , 1 Because,' my wife 'adder- 43.77 T.l" 7! al l',Da tra.T.. , :i j. f.T. Ai . i 1;1j ;/.1' stood that you had a new claimant for your affections, in the person ors babe - left here some monthaego,tindervsteriortir eirentll - and concerning which you have never written me a word. I don'tirnow'-- and here my.wife drew her handkerchief —' what t. have done to warrant snob treatment from you. If I had 414 been a loving, obedient, faithful wife, I might have, expected you_ would introduce a strange baby into the ,lionse ;.. but,,, under the circumstances, must " say' that - the bringing or that child here was , a' iiiieftY which was nnwariantible,' and my wife leaned back in her - chair, and coveied 'her face with her handkerehief. s But, my dear;' I said, apologitically, sI didn't introduce the child hen; it was left by a woman whom I do not know, and whom, I assure you, I never saw exoept on that occasion.' - - , 4 Oh, yes, that is. just what you men always say,' she replied ; but why didn't you write to me about it, and not leave it for gossiping neighbors to inform me ';Well, the truth is,' I 'replied, 'I really forgot all about it. I believe the child is still in the house ; but I am not certain. I took charge of it, as well as I knew: him, the first night of its arrival, but since then 'the cook, who ooneeived a fancy to it, has had the entire control of it. I believe she has discovered who its parents. are, and doubtless, will be able to give you all the information on that point which you desire.' If this be so, my dear husband,' she s&ld, It is a load taken off my heart, for I received a terrible shook when I heard from the ancient ladies next door, who wrote me that they were kept awake nights by a crying babe in our house, and that they had seen it, and it looked exactly like—' Like who ?' I interrupted. Well, they didn't name. any one, my dear,' my wife answered ; they simply ptit a dash instead.' Leaving you to imagine,' I added, that they meant me.' Exaotly,' said my wife. Well,' I said, it is rather late to test the . matter to-night ;• bat to-morrow you can see and judge for yourself. Do you know, my deir; I added, that you have been away from me , nearly five mouths, and, you must not•. be surprised if I have, unintentionally, adopted some, of my former bachelor habits. I go to the play, I attend little suppers, I indulge in a pipe, I keep a dog and a night-key.' Give yourself no uneasiness about them,' my wife kindly said it will not take me long to eradicate such habits in you, and, as there is no time like the present in which to begin a reformation, suppose you hand to me your pipe and night-key.' Certainly,' I replied, and without hesi tation, I gave into her keeping my meer schaum and key. Now,' she said, as it is quite late, and I am weary from my day's journey, sup pose you turn out the gas, and we will go to our room. To-morrow we will see the baby, and decide as to what we shall do with it.' And we went. Everybody will laugh at the following. It is one of the good things that Mr. Chan dler, of the Adams county (Wis.) Inde— pendent, occasionally gets off." Our Shanghi editor is a married man— e very married man, keeps two cows, a calf, hens, hens' husbands, Faust horse, a dog, gay sleigh, and such like quadru— peds. He believes in having milk in the family ; and verily 'twould please thee to witness the fair-matrimonial airs he put on, and the editorial airs he puts off, as he goes forth like a fowler, and runneth among the hens and milketh ye bovines. Belike his dignity went rapidly down t'other night. New mulch cow takoth to herself a certain pleasant habit of extending hinder hoof with a yank. Editor sat beside_ lacteal glands, pail clasped 'twixt his knees, and thus engaged in.teat squeezing he was heard to utter, in a very solemn tone : Kick not that ye be not kicked ; for with what violence ye kick, ye shall be kicked ; and with what measure ye eat from, it shall be swatted over your countenance. Anon the bossy kicked like forked light ning, laying out Shanghi Chandler flat on his back, completely painting him with foamy cowjnice, flipping his hat far to the leeward, jamming up the new tin milk-pail like a stepped-on stovepipe, and causing a white editor, to spout milk from his nose like a porpoise. And then the wail tha heard was this : She bath laid my con deuce waste and barked my shin ; she hath made the milk-pail Olean hasty and cast the milk away ; the front of Shanghi is made white. Howl, all ye little families ! Bellow, calf, crack your cheeks I Had I your tongue and voice, I'd use them so that heaven's vault should crack ! 'Tis gone forever, 'twill come no more : never, never ! Break, heart, I pray thee break ! I'm very much disgusted. I'm a body—,a demnition cold, wet, kicked, unclean, unpleasant body." So saying he smote the cow with a ter— rible curse, saying, 4 darn your skin Then kicked her just one kick, with such force that he said he had driven his toe-. nail close back to his heel, and went in and asked Mrs. Editor to wash him off. Selak! UNINTENTIONAL JOKE. —Otte day, at the table of the late Dr. Pearce, just as the cloth was being removed, the subjeot of discourse happened to be that of an extra- ordinary mortality amongst the lawyers. We have lost,' said one gentleman, s not less than six eminent:barristers in as many months. At this moment the Doctor (who was quite deaf) rose and gave the company grace, For this and every other mercy, the Lord's name be praised.' This ludi crous combination was not intended by the Doctor, and was the more ludicrous on that account, because the objects to be connec ted were all the farther removed. We have many such freaks of nature. We see her. occasionally 'blowing Off the hat of some solemn man, as he turns a corder, and send ing him a zigzag chase along the road after it. or we see her makes modest man give an I' involuntary sneeze during an impressive pause in a choral song ; or making a don key bray outside the window just as some country minister has opened his mouth to speak. _Amusing. -tales, farces and bur lesque, result from the conception, of such things in the author 's mind,--Fr aser , . U Yon 741 not be 'agreeable to com ;_pauii.ir,yOti strive to bring in or keep rip' , - arstibjeot - ftlauitable'bi" their 'capacities a humor. A lioniestic Editor. r. , 77,1y.5 6.7,•f!?..ze.! . A Welland - Legend. • °nee upon ADM, iu,.Big-r coon, on 'a wild winter night ? aAriiie; and his fami ly "and servants were comfortably" - around a peat fire; when the 'Wind' was howling terribly around:the houtie, and the drifting snow was clogging , - np -the door_ `ways The farmer knew that his , sow and 'servant maid were-much attached to each other, but he would not. conseut to. their marriage. While they were - a11: 8 41 4 4g -around. the:**feu that winter- night, .ke thought aLP4 I 4 by.vh44:o l e ,servant paid might be got rid of 80 he, said, that if, before the next day, she would bring ,him skull that was in Saddell Churckshe should have his son for a huabirid. The zirl's love was so stron& for "the 'young man that she joyfully agreed to the prepo sition, although it was quite seven miles to Siddell, and the road thercbtility over the Bierman Tuire. She knew the road well, and all its dangers and difficulties even. :by daylight, which would: now. be immensely increased by the darkness of the -night / ,the, fl.erlP wind and the driving snow, and the slip pery rooks and swollen torrents. lint she did not shrink from the danger, and at once made ready and, went on her way. The farmer took good care that. she went alone, and that his son did not follow her. The brave-girl went over the hill and glen, battling with the snow storm, and tracking her,path with the, greatest diffi unity. She passed safely over to the south aide of Biennau Tuire, and at midnight reached . Saddell Church. Its doors were open, burst open perhaps, by the violtme of the wind. She knew the place where the skull was kept, ink she groped toward it in' the dark. 'Att'she did so, she' heard a 'great and peculiar noise, made - up as It seemed of loud moans. There: was a tramping of light feet over the pavement, and she heard forms rush past her ;- then a moment's silence, suc ceeded by more mysterious moans and sounds. Terrified, but not disheartened, the brave girl kept her purpose steadily in view; and , groping towards the skull, seized it and.made for the church door. The tramping of feet and moans con tinued, and the forms pursued her. Grasp-' ing the skull' she gained the door and Shut it. As she did so she heard a rush againsti it; but she turned and fled. By daylight she had regained her loier's home, and, half dead with fatigue and excitement, placed the skull in the farmer's hands, and claimed the fulfilment of his promise. The farmer was taken aback by seeing the girl, having hoped that she would perish amid the snow and wilds. He would not believe that she had really been to Saddell, and taken the skull from the church on such a night ; so he at once set out for Saddell with some of his men, expecting to be able to disprove the girl's tale, by finding the skull in its place in the chureh. When he got there, and had opened the church door, they found within the build ing—not the skull, but a number of wild deer, who having found the door open, had sought shelter from the violence of the storm. The girl had told him the sounds she had heard within the church. Here was the cause ; and much as he wished it otherwise, yet it was impossibls for him to disbelieve her tale. There was nothing for him to do but to yield with the best grace he might. He gave his consent to the match, and to make assurance doubly sure, the lover took his brave girl to Saddell Church the very next day, where she replaced the Anil in its position, and they were married off hand. And as some of the deer that had frightened her had been killed and cooked, they had a hearty wedding and plenty of good venison at the feast that followed.—Cuthbert Bede. DIDN'T WANT TO STAND ON HER HEAD. —Jane Eliza---, a very pretty and interesting young lady of eighteen sum mers and seventeen winters— from the country—stepped into Brady's gallery a few days since to get a dozen album cards. She was accompanied by a male cousin, who , knows the ropes.' After being gracefully posted,the urbane operator took a look at her through the instrument, when Jane Eliza blushed, patted her dress deist so as to make it touch the floor all round, and hurriedly beckoned her cousin to ap proach. He came near, when she whis pered anxiously, , Don't let that horrid man look at me through that thing, please make him stop.' , Why not V whispered he. , 1 don't like to tell you,' she blush ingly answered. , Oh, I must insist on knowing,' said he, Well,' answered she, , if I mnst tell you, (lowering her voice awfully) it will turn me upside down'— Our city friend, the cousin, smiled—he couldn't help. it—and told her he thought she must be mistaken. ,0, no,' said she, , Mr. E. is an engineer, and when he was surveying the rail-road in the mountains last summer, he stopped at pa's ever so long, and he told us that if you looked through one of those glasses, the object (that's what he said) was turned upside down. Hel/311 very scientific man, and he ought to know.' Our friend assured her he would not have her upset, if he could help it, and told Mr. Brady's representa 7 tive, who had been watching the mysteri ous conference with some interest, that the young lady thought he might now proceed to take her without further preparation, and she was accordingly , took.' The,joki leaked out somehow, and Jane Eliza's lady friends often quiz her about her fear of a reverse.'—Washingfon Star. VERY CONSIDERATE.-q. say, Phil, who is the. pretty girl I saw you walking With; on last Sunday evening :P--; - 11Iiss Hoggea.' -' Hogges well, she is to be pitied. for having such a name.'— , So I think, Joe,' rejoined Phil ; ; I pitied her so much that. I offered her mine, and she's going to take it soon.' Ir.g — An (Word student joined, without invitation, a party dining at an inn; after which he boasted so , much of hie abilities, that one of the party said You-`liana told us enough of what you can do ; tell us something you,cannot do.'--cFaith,' - said he, C I cannot pay my share in- the reckon-, ing.' D u, a..K 1111.31 lIOMCEOPATMO PHYSICIAN, OP L/.2lo.AstitA 012 P, ~ may be consulted professionally, at We °aloe,: a 'Henry Bear's Hotel, In the Boroughof- Shashi:lf& on.Tharsday of each week, from 10 o'clock in, the uterniKto three In An opportunity le thus yfforded.ta reactants Offißtlbuth' and viointty to avallthemailvesOfHtanompathler - Ofttment; and lezoaleesofferinglremobrout. WdligeoWalihreoh3 r 't4ho 4 PeChanY• adylee one who Age., made Ws des kot (111 .g411: etoge a. 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