.y l l5l --ii-73.723.-37.1`201 - Peace in Believing. ET 21A55LE1 F. GOULD - - "pike heed, brethren, feet there be in any of an evil heart of unbelief."—HEßßEWS ;it, tll ; e tree that yields our care and grief, ..;f :I to a root of unbelief: pricking thorns, the arrows fierce:. spirit and our flesh to pierce— e gi:sfts that spoilTourvineyard's fruit, `;ifrom that bitter evil root. e branch that hangs with clustering woes -11-:e flag-staff of the prince of foes— tares that mar our goldenMaf, . 311 spring up from unbela: Hark, the victim rittDespair, dying, to the poison theme. Belief we're joy and peace, 1:1!nitli and power a sweet increase; am burnipg skies a cool retreat, ibelter,safe from tempests beat— : reili balm of Gilead for our grief— .;r every wound a healing leaf. . le(smooths dorm our thorny cares, .;;th shooting grain uproots the tares, cr harp from off the willow takes, .11 every chord to music wakes, it Hope, !aid icy in th‘o tomb, ;.-ings:up with life and beauty's bloom hen night comes'murky, &esti and , damp elief will feed and screen our lamp, ,pan her feet her sandals bind, hont her waist her girdle wind, hen, lend a staff, and lead the way, I'dl we walk forth to beaming day. lien all the fountains - of the deep pm broken & up o'er earth to sweep ; billm t vy mountains toss our bark, ,',lef's the doi , e, from out the ark, ,cross the flood to stretch her wing, :11 - home-the branch of olive bring. .1 • !ielhath eyes so heavenly bright, 1; on the cloud to cast their light. • fair and glorious hues shall forth %in drops and shades that rcbed the storm, -...e . eyour world in peace, to show rosenant sign, his unstrung bow. l'hrn through n dry and thirsty land pi• lerim treadi the tlesert sand . 7 .ief bring distant prospects near, kuit. antrbowcrs, and fountains clear, ; full., when he.strikes his tent, he'll he . 1 .: heir of immortality. ale unbelief would ever bring 'about our spirits ring, ff w;11 plume it o'er the.grave— .'e the swell of Jordan's wave— tly r nor . droop, 'till gently furled .:tlut•sweef home, the spirit world ! The Evening skies. it skies! alid your balls to-night • How brightly beams each starry sphere! : ath year softly mellowed'light The loveliest scenes grave lovelier'l. LT higlo, how great the glorious power iitu bade the silvery dew drops fall; ':;t touched with bloom the folded flower, And bent the blue sky over all! ::re to glide in those still hours With heart and thought, and fancy, ;91 nought but 'stars, and waves, and flowers ; by give me their sweet company ! :en far below the wares outspread 'fide softly on with liquid hue ; en winds are low—and skies o'er head beaming bluely beautiful. hat a heavenly hour is this! green earth seems an Eden-home,— yet I pine amid my ' piner blisses yet to come! can m,y spirit gaze aloft on you f r deep delicious blue,' bat to those far realms so oft, never sigh to flutter through !. yet this spot, so still, so lone. is formed to suit my mournful mood,— far blue heavens seem all my own, - :d all this loCely solitude ! ice seems whispering on the hill, ft a s my own—and on the sea log spirit seems to thrill throb with mine deliciouily ! ibough - my thoughts from ease seem freed, ' a soft joy pervades my breast, lakes me almost feel indeed it hearts on earth are sometimes blest! is a spell in those hushed - skies-- - iniethir;g. felt in this lone spot, ekes my very' soul arise longings for—it-knows not what . such skies I sometimes doubt heart can ever hive dreamed of sin 3rld seems all so calm without, all my thoughts so pure within ! reams play o'er my-folded lid ! heavenly visions greet nif view to glide amid 4- angel-bands, au angel too! • r opp,11.111:4, 0 • ~, . . • . ' • 6 . - . . • • 0 • or c:J " •, • k. c 'l4 z.r 0 '• • • • [From the Weekly Mirror.] Cousin Nelly and Cousin Sally. " We still have slept together, Rose et an instant, learn'd, played, eat together And whereso'er we went like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable," Although cousin Nelly and Sally are linked with my earliest remeMbrances, I do not recollect ever hearing that they had father or mother. Mirthful, yet sad, is their appearance, as reflected on my mind's mirror, as side by side they entered the church door, or at long in- tervals, made part of the semicircle sur rounding the sparkling and cheerful fire in my aunt's comfortable parlor. They seemed always to be indepen dent of the rest of world, and this ac counts for the irksoMeness of Nelly's feelings, while acting as house-keeper for my aunt; in vain she tried by assi duity and cheerfulness to give satisfac tion, aunty would sometimes scold, servants despising delegated authority (poor white folks, as southern servants all hate those unfortunate interlopers,) were intolerably impertinent ; and more trying than all the rest, we boys and girls tormented every moment of her existence. Was she seated in the nur sery, after a wearisome day's attention to her multifarious duties,and perchance knitting- ordarning our stocAtigs, her ball of yarn would be sure to make its Way out of her own pocket into Jint's, encased in a kid covering, cut niost pro bably from one of her gloves, which had lain quietly beside it, in the same deep receptacle. Bunches of keys, buttons, ends of tape, a heart shaped pincushion,' scissors, thimble, an old fashioned house wife, (itself a rolled up collection of similar odds and ends,) and not to be forgotten a snuff-box and tooth-brush, ~might - be found in the depths of the balancing pocket. Start not fair reader ! these last named arti cles were indeed put in frequent requi sition, and were the source of infinite mischief to ourselves, and annoyance to poor cousin Nelly: • Aker moments of atistraction, fur she too had her reveries, and heartbreak ing .were they no, doubt, (Nelly had once been very handsome, and still pos sessed a kindly and noble heart, which we, miscreants that we were, hesitated not to lacerate with jokes and inuen does,) she would slowly insert her hand into her pocket, in search of the ancient snuff box, and upon drawing it forth and attempting to open it, an elf at her elbow would inadvertently stum ble, and jostle the contents into the air, whereupon an uproar of sneezing and coughing commenced. " Indeed did n't do it a purpose, cousin Nelly; Jim tripped me, and see now what he is doing !" A simultaneous glance discovered this prince of mischief occupied in clipping from his head the clustering brown ringlets, of which aunty was so proud, with the scissors he had pur loined during Nelly's visit to the land of dreams. This was gain to three of us, however; the decimated curls were transferred from Jim's apron to our doll-baskets ; and in process of time lent additional C'harms‘to the divinities we manufactured: Cousin Nelly had a way of giving her orders by contraries ; for example, if she wished the ligfit to burn steadily; she would say, Be sure you blow out the candle, children ;" or, on a cold winter's night, when one of us left the room, mind you leave the door open now !" Upon one occasion, during a meeting of the " General Assembly," a number of clergymen were expected to dine at our house, and, among other things, cousin Nelly had prepared a floating island so.perfectly that it sur passed the Me of being so well whip ped as to adhere to the dish when turned bottom upwards. Nelly con sidered it the triumph of art, and boast ingly shook the dish, as she glanced. 4 us, her four continual and persevering adjuncts. How our mouths watered ! arukthis Was all the enjoyment we anticipated front these airy nothings, when, oddly enough, cousin Nelly turned to us as she was..leaying the , room to procure the richly-cut glass bowl; into which we had previously seen her pour a boil ed •custard, so delicately-flavorSd that out appetites were near, overpowering us, when left gaZing upon it alone fur a few minutes, and upon which she in tended placing detached portiens s of the delicious compound the werdwatching. Raising the spoon she held in her hand in order to be the more emphatic, 1' Now,. children," said she, "mind you eat every. bit of this floating island oir before I come back !"..--and we did .—one held a spoon, (the only one left) and filled the hands of the. others,,fot. Regardless or Denunciation tom any Quaricr.—Gov. POII4ER TglowL:.-zma 9 M.k.DUC)2.-M OLTRUU D IP.LoE) ,T2DMTS.ZaV, as6tc, we had no time to run for plates, so that by the time Nelly returned, the dish needed no wiping, and we were invisible. We had no other dessert that day. As I said before, sadness as well 'as mirth mingle in my recollections of cousin Nelly. She was the elder sis ter—Sally, a year or two younger, was her direct opposite—tall, slender, well formed, with a fine complexion, the natural accompaniment of red hair.— Nelly 'still retained much of her former beauty ; and, red though it was, her hair clustered in natural ringlets on either temple, veiling the rather-too keen expression of a pair of hazel eyes, as she bent her well shaped head in attention to her many household duties. Active, energetic, strong-minded, she preferred the exercise of her own willp and a state of single blessedness, in order that she might retain the society of her invalid sister, to yielding up her independence through fear of being call ed an "Old Maid." Sally was-rather below the middle height, of stooping figure, owing to de licate health, an extremely sallow com plexion, large; brilliant, dark eyes, shadowed by natural ringlets that might shame the raven's plumage, so glossy and silken was their texture. Unfor tunately, Sally was very deaf; this.m gether with uniform ill-health, preclud ed her from enjoyment of every kind, other than that of the domestic circle. Sally's image does not rise in my early visions, she must have been with their relations in Delaware ; for while cous in Ney - reigned queen of the• -nursery and household, Sally never made her • appearance. Judging from 'numerous circumstan CCE, they must hare been left orphans early in life. I never heard their pa rents named, and yet, lonely and strug gling as was their pilgrimage, tender hearts had cared for them, and fatherly anticipation of the blighted hopes of his children, must !rive induced their pa rents to secure to them the old-fashion ed, comfortable homestead, in I spent a delightful day, when on a visit to that embodiment of coquetry and dignity, Margaret Obitant. It was af ter cousine 1 y hada' left my aunt's house, worn out, no doubt,.bv endless vexations, and yearning to tread the pathway of life, hand in hand a g ain with her, whom Providence had left as her nearest and dearest-friend. "Ryas on a bright Sabbath morning, and we intended continuing on our way to the country church, embosomed in the primeval forest, but the sisters would not hear of it. " Girls, tou have dropped from the clouds to visit us, and go you shall not until evening, or rather go, go al mice, and leave our poor old hearts the hea vier fdr having seen you but for a few minutes, and our eyes the dimmer with weeping that two gay and giddy girls prefer- showing themselves off before the country beaux, - tc gladdening a few hours for two poor old maids." tt Indeed. cousin Nelly, you are mis taken ; we intend staying all the after noon with you. Liz-only wanted to gaze upon the ruined roof-tree of our old meeting house, and listen to the harmony of Nature, as birds and breezes unite in filling the woods with melo dy." You always rant in that style, Margaret; but I am perfectly convinced in my own mind, (a favorite expres sion of cousin. Nelly's,) that your ob ject is to show off Liz, and to attract attention by your Skilful driving.— Where in the world is Pompey, that you are obliged to take the reins your self." I'm following your good example, cousin Nelly-:" laughed Margaret. Whereupon Sally, in a sweet, low voice resumed : Cease sister, and let us enjoy their visit_ while it lasts;— pleasure come seldom enough' to. us." The maid of all • work... Maria, was now called to lead our horse into the enclosure. where stood" ruminating the solitary cow of the spinsters. Browney gazed inquiringly at this intrusion into her clover patch, but soon relapsed into her solemn avocation, chewing the cud of sweet and bitter clover-topc, The windows of the little parlor, into wlich we were ushered, ,were now raised, and though their - closed shutters the fragrance of roses,, jessamines and ho 7 neysuckles entered froth the carefully tended garden: • • .. / pr hat patterns of neatness, you - are; dear cousins, and of.. economy, too.: see, Margaret, here is the round table have . rmany ,a time 'hidden behind it. the .nursery,'—it was scratched and tle, faced then, but nowit is bright as a mir:; ror, ,. ..Can: you ever' forgive. me, cousin for the .trouble , I. have caused you," said 1 sorrowfully, yet smiling as the nursery and its inmates. " Yes, if you had been ten times as mischievous,l forgive you all, since you take the trouble to visit me in this lonely spot." "Indeed, lam half inclined to fol low your example-and you_are any thing but lonely : a'pet of a cottage, a pretty garden, with plenty of my favor ite roses and chrysanthemums ; old Mooley yonder, and a little village of bee-hires under that old apple-tree Really, cousin Nelly,l think youought to be perfectly happy." "So I am, child, and thankful too, hat Sally is spared to cheer me on my way, with her patient, quiet spirit. 1 ought not to complain, when she, poor thing, is deprived of one sense that I enjoy in perfection, that of hearing the birds sing, and my bees humming their satisfaction that God is good even unto them, in providing them so bountifully with flowers. I cultivate my flowers more for their sake. nitich'as I love them, than I do for my own ; but they repay me—my honey-pots are filled to overflowing. God is good to me, chil dren, in all things !" • How I revered cousin Nelly, as she stood beside the little beaufet, wiping with a snowy napkin the old-fashioned cups and saucers, which she sadly transferred to the equally old fashioned waiter placed on my old companion, the large, round,highly polished stand. Its glossy surface was covered with a damask cloth, the gift of my aunt, and at intervals placed around were four diminutive plates. I knew what was coming, (or in times past, the reward of a quiet day was a friocktea-party around this identical old tablel; delica- cies reserved for our elders 11;,rere then rricted out to us. Verily, these were pleasant days, when the, height of our ambition was to preside at these enter tainments. Where are ye now, companions of my childhood ! Ding, long ago the grave claimed the loveliest of our little hand. In the spring-time of life, ere sorrow or care had tarnished the gloss of her dark, waving hair, or dimmed the lustre of those wondrously beautiful and dreamy eyes, Mary, the darling -of all hearts, was called suddenly away. Fanny, too, the personification of youthful dignity is gone, and Jim and I are left alone to think of the past ; talk together ”may not, for estrangement, bitterer' - "than death, has long.sinee separated us. Return we to the tea-table—cousin Nelly had not forgotten her art ; sweet meats, perfect in shape and saver— biscuits of her own makingehipped beef, that Titania might have nibbled— a mould of Molly's butter, and coffee that the Grand Seignor himself might have relished, „albeit she had forgotten to stir it•with a stick of cinnamon, now made their appearance. Th 9 antique service of plate: so tiny in dimensions, so richly chased and so highly polished, that poison would have been palatable if proffered from the glittering array adorning that side of the table, where -sat cousin Nelly. - Smiles and tears alternately enliven ed or depressed. us, as we lingered round the dear old table—where might we four meet again ? The storms of life had beaten down all the landmarks of hope for two poor cousins ; they were going down the hill, and years and friends slide imperceptibly-away ; but we, Margaret and I—l, who was known by no other name than the thoughtless," what visions of hap piness did not fancy and joyous hope display to us. Have thedreams round that tea-tablq been realized Marga ret, from her dairy-farm in Delaware, her triumphal journey as bride to a gallant general, her invaliding at her villa in Algiers, and her present. where abouts—l will not say where—can an swer for herself. As for me,_the pack and white in my skein of destiny has been rather utieqUally twisted. But to the sisters ; we bade them 'farewell.; oUr hearts were tranquil in anticipation 'of the future, since behold ing these specimens of the world's for getfulness. What arrangernents induced lour cousins . to leave their rural home,- and revisit the city, I, know , not. Their income was was so limited, that, with all Nelly's economy. and Sally's Indus. try With her needle; it heeame requiStte to adopt meire:enerletic - raeans for their support.- :No .deu e bt, memories of the nursery induced .the. selection t, our mad pranks were forgotten.,, and the joyousness Of, our bright faees . only re- Membered.: benches were nCeOfilingik placed: parallet-with -. each - other in the little.back room, and co.utin Nellv coin, menced inducting the minds of ten or twelve nurslings into the mysteries •of ABC. This confinement proved injurious to both sisters. Sally became a con- i firmed, invalid, and at length kept her bed entirely, poor Nelly struggled against despair and disappointment, until she too was compelled to summon to her assistance the relatives upon whom she was too proud to be depen— dent. , Heretofore the sisters had re posed 'side by side, it now became ne cessary to remove one into an adjoining room. " Let me be the' one to -go," said Nelly, "my sister is less able to en dure fatigue than I am ; God knows if we shall see each other again—if I should die, what will become of you, Sally ? I promised our mother to watch over you long years ago, and I ought not to leave you now. God grant we may die together." Bathed in in tears of self-reproach at this involuntary separation, poor Nelly allowed us to make her comfortable. Then we, three of her early tormen tors, endeavored by every, attention, that love for her many virtues, grati tude for her former care, and profound respect for her rare independence, could suggest, to restore again to health and happiness these members of our despised, enduring, but really estimable portion of the -human family, called " Old Maids." With God's blessing we succeeded Punch's Charge to Juries. Gentlemen of the Jura—You are sworn in all cases to decide according to the evidence ; at the same time. it you have any doubt, you are bound to give the prisoner the benefit of it.— Suppose you have to pronounce on the guilt or innocence of a gentleman ac cused •of felony. You will naturally doubt whether any untleman would commit such offences; accordingly, however strong may be the testimony against him, you will, perhaps acquit him. The evidence of your own sen ses is. at least, as credible as that of the witnesses ; if, therefore, your eye sight convinces you that the prisoner is a well dressed person, you have a right. to presume his respectability ; and it is for you to say whether a re spectable person would be likely to be guilty of the crimes imputed to him.— In like manner, when you see a shabby looking felloW •in the dock, charged with . sheep' stealing, the decision rests with you ; first whether or not that in dividual is a ragamuffin, and secondly, how far it is probable that a man of that description would steal sheep.— Of course, as has been before said, you will always be guided by the evidence ; but then, whether the evidence is trust worthy or not is a matter for your pri• rate consideration. You may believe it if you choose, or you may disbe- I lieve it ; and whether, gentlemen of the jury, you will believe it or disbelieve it, will depend on the constitution of your nurfds. If your minds are so constituted that you wish to find the prisoner guilty, perhaps you will be lieve it ; if they happen to be so con stituted that you desire to find him not guilty ; why then, very likely, you will disbelieve it. You are to free your minds from all passion and prejudice, if you can,,and, in that case, yourjudg ment will .be unbiassed ; but if you cannot,you will return a verdict accord ly. It is not, strictly speaking, for you to consider what will he the effect of your,verdict ; btit if such a considera tion-should occur to - you, and you.can not help attending to it, that verdict will be'influenced by it to a certain extent. You may arrive at unanimity by (air discussion, or by some of you starving out the others, or by tossing up; and your conclusion, by whichever of these processes arrived at, will be more or less in accordance with your oaths.— Your verdict may be right; it ,is hoped it will ; it may be wrong; it is hoped it will not. At all events, gentlemen of the jury, you will come to some con clusion or other; unless it should hap pen that you separate; without coming to any. A A roLF_ ec. n day ,or two before the election in this criunty, , says the Mississippi Guatd," two negroes were discussing politic ,and from words they. came to ,bhAtis. one of the, negroes, he pus, thraihed both of Clay . negro ten lashes gro fifteen. The hate, about -a hundred yari gkruldb6.'atict *shouter. tunas:'" Ifitrrati!.for . yet ."' [ aZi cacoovattota taco. - Giants in Olden Times. A correspondent of the Brooklyn Ad vertiser, in referring to a lecture by: Pro fessor Silliman Jr., who mentioned the iliscovery:of an enormous animal of the lizard tribe, measuring 80 feet Jn length, from which he naturally inferred, as no living specimen had been found, that all animals had greatly degenerated in size, confirms the supposition by referring to the history of giants in the olden time, of which he furnishes a list. L'rom that it seems that we, of the present day, arc comparatively dwarfs, when placed by the side of the thirty feat gentlemen of antiquity ! The shin bone of ‘, Mr. Keutolocus Rex," described below, mea sured four feet, and he, according to the Abbe la Chape, was just the height of a race of people called NVotiacks ! Verily there were 6 giants in those days !" The giant exhibited in Rouen in 1735, measured over 8 "feet. Corapius saw a girl who was ten feet high The body of Grestes was 11 k feet high ! The giant Galbra-, brought from Ara bia to Home under Claudius Cwser, was near 10 feet. Funman, who lived in the time of Eu gene 2d., measured feet. The Chevalier Seorg, in ,his voyage to the Peak of Tenni'le, found in one of the caverns of that mcuntain, the head of Guanch, which had 80 teeth, and that his body was not less than 15 feet long! The Giant Ferragus, slain by Orlan do, nephew to Charlemagne, was eight een feet high! In 1590, near Rouen, they found a skeleton whose skull kid a bushel of corn, and whose body must have been .18 feet long. Platerus, saw at Lucerne, the human bones of a subject 19 feet long. _ The Giant Ilueart was 22:', feet high ; his bones were found in 1705, near the banks of the river Morderi. In 1613, near a castle in Dauphine, a tomb was found 30 feet long ! 12 wide, and 8 high, on which was cut on a griv stone the- words, " Keutolochs Rex.' The skeleton was found entire 25.1 feet long, 10 feet gross the shoulde=rs. and 5 feet deep from the breast bone to the hack. Near Mazarinp in Sicily, in 1510, was found a giant 30 feet high ! His head was the size of a hogshead 'and each of his teeth weighed five ounces. (Won der if the dentists filled in with gold in His day ?) Near Pahrrno la Sicily, in 15.18, was found the'okeleton-of 4 giant 30 feet long, 'and another 33 feet high, in 1550. Que ry'. How much did his tailors charge for his pants ? Mr. Morse says in his Geography that there is upon the Rocky Ridge in the Island of Ceylon. a tomb of '• im mense length "—but does not say how many feet. Oa, King of Bashan's bedstead; was 9 cubits 10n , r, - which, aceoeoing M Doc tor Adam Clarke. was 15 feet. how lone' did it take him to get asleep all over? Goliath of Gath, was six,cubits and a span-11 feet 3 inches. When the spies went to explore the country of the Cannamtes, they reported the _children of Anal: as ginnts• in whose presence they felt themselves to be but grasshop pers, and " just put foot for home," for fear that they should all be devoured by the giants, :for the spies had said that they eat up the inhabitants of the land. MRS. DOOZENDERRY." A h me !" said old Mrs. Doozenherry, school ing is a great thing—l've often felt the want of it. Why. Mr. Sutiele. would you helicre.it, I'm now sixty-five years old. and I don't know the harms of but three months in the year—and them's spring, fall, and autumn. I larnt 'em when I was a little bit of a gal. Here, Betty, light' my pipe." PUTTING ''OUR FOOT INTO IT. —Ac. cording to • Asiastic Researches,' a - very curious mode of trying the title to land is practised in Hindostan. Two holes are dug in the . disputed spot, into one of which the lawyers on either side put one of their feet, And remain there till one of them is tired, or complains . of being stung-by the insects, in which case his client is defeated. In this country, it:is - the client init not the law yer who !.puts his foot into it.' .; CURE con . RTIEIT:ITATISM.--Old Mrs. .Staup . says that she's often.heard tell, When she was a girl, old, grandma Donner, the oiiliest critter' lo _cure die rheumntty painS. never used no doetor'S means, but only .garden yerbs..- .She steamed ',em witheumirey,,eletarepane. and coriander:seed. Some tiipes she would thrbid in a little red precipity', but Mighty.scidom—only, Whemit was pbtv,e fut The on•ner,.of ring of the rum-. hem, giving the: and the Polkne= after walking shrutrged , his at the top of his .ahead' Go Ella Mt