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The Stranger's Grave.
Behold ! amid this solitude,
With moss and wild Bowers crown d,
Yon heap of earth, unshapely rude—
The stranger's funeral mound.
Near by he died—far trom the place
His youthful days' were reared,
Where not a single human face
His dying moni4nts cheeed !
No man of God to rouse him up,'
"fo exercise his faith—
No Heaven-sped prayer to strengthen hope,
And fit his soul for death! '
No pious lather to prepare
His soul to take its flight— .
No mother to bestow her care,
And cheer death's gloomy night
No brother to attend his bed
And heave affection's sigh—
INio sister to support his head
i With tearful, anxious eye.
No tender "wife to kneel and weep
In iiorrow by his side—
To, close his eyes for their last sleep,
And mourn for him that died!
Ah ! no, there was not e'en a friend
To shed one kindly tear—
No drops from pity's eyes. descend
4 To his unhonor'd bier!
- And here no consecrated ground
Receit , es the humble dead—
No moctwries of art surround
The stranger's lowly bed !
No marble slab preserves a name
To read in after time'•
His worth and virtues to proclaim,
But to conceal his crimes !
HIS fellow worms, where here they stray, i
May thoughtless view the spot,
And wild,beasts roam above his clay—
But he regards them not !
He sleeps amid the forest's gloom,
And peaceful be his rest—
May sweetest wild flowers deck the tomb
Ab ove the Stianger's breast !
Irish _Machine Poetry
km Dodgo'married ould Jti'dy Rouse--
Och, she was a charming young bride ;
With turf he then built a brick houre,
And ths front door was on the back side
The roof it was tiled with oatrstraw,
The cellar was on the first floor,
\mi the chimney in order to draw,
Was built just outside of the door.
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beggar was Teddy Melone, •
His sister was his only .brother;
Ile had nothing at all of hie own,
Except what belonged to his mother.
tirie night Teddy says to the Squire,
I'm so cold give me somethm' to eat,
I'm so dhry let me sit by the fire,
And so hungry I must warm my feet.
'Oh! honey," one day - says Patt Tigg,
For he was a scandalous glutton,
To-morrow PH kill a fat pig,
For I'm sure hell make illegant mutton ;"
he then goes into the hovel,
And he hangs the pig up by the heel,
Cut his throat al: so nate with_ the shovel,
Saying, this is the way to dress veal!
One day Paddy Mulligan swore
He had scalt his mouth to a blister,
While at dinner the morning before--
"And wat was it wid !" asked the sister,.
Says Paddy "just day- for to guess"—
" 06, I !can't"—"the'n I'll tell you my
ewate, 0.
"'Twos nothin' at all more or leis,
Than a raw-roasted frozen potatoe."
STICKS.
The Poor Man.
God grant the poor man constant health,
To toil for daily bread,
He has no earthly wealth,
And must be clothed and fed ;11
The proud of place will grind his face,'
The hard withhold his hire—
Great Parent heed his piteous case
And guard his cottage fire.
Thou carest for the little birds
That own no earthly lord—
Thou carest for the flocks sniblierds
That crop the flowery sward—
Heed'st the young ravens when they cry,
Heed'st the young lion's when thy roar,
And wilt regard the poor man's sigh
And meek petition more,
rho
en grain the poor man constant health,
And strength for daily. toil,
rith sweet content, the dearest wealth
Of weary mortal - moil.
ad grant biro power to rale h is
To owa affections sway,
'ad nurse the charities designed
Ta smooth his pilgrim nay.
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Journey to Siberia.
The following ihrilting extract we
take from ‘. A passage in the life of a
Maitre-D'Armes," published in Black
wood's Magazine for June, 1843... A
lady, with the consent of the Emperor,
has determined to join her affianced lo
ver, who is an exile to Siberia. The
winter coming on, her friends endeavor
ed to persuade her to delay her journey
to spring,'without effect. She deter
mines to bear all the dangers of the
way at so late a season; and the Em
peror sends a corporal named Ivan, to
conduct her, the Maitre-D'Armes, who
relates the adventure, accompanies her
as her companion. We commence our
extract just as they are setting out from
Moscow :
Adieu ! Adieu !" . The whip crack
ed; the wheels rattled over the pave
meat. We were off to Siberia. On
we went, day and night. Pokrow,
Vladimir, Nijni-Nov,ogorod, Casan.-
1 Puscare! Paseare r Quicker ! Quick
er! was IvarCs cry to each new postil
lion. The :wow had not yet begun to
fall, and he was anxious, if possible, to
cross the Ural mountains before it set
in. The immense plains between Mos
cow and Perm were traversed with tre
mendous rapidity. On reaching the
latter place, Louise was so much ex
hausted that I told Ivan we must halt
one night. He hesitated a moment,
tnen. looking at the sky, which was
dark and lowering. •' It will be as
well," said he ; we must soon have
snow, and it is better it should fall be
fore than during our journey." The
next morning his prediction was veri
fied. There were .two feet of snow in
the streets of Perm.
Ivan now wished to remain till the
cold increased, so that the snow might
become hard, and the rivers frozen.—
141. it all his arguments could only in
duce Louise to - wait two days. On the
third morning we set off, leaving our
carriage, and packed into a sort of
small vehicle 'without springs, called a
I elegue.
On reaching the foot, of the Ural
mountains, the - cold had so nitichin
creased that it became advisable to sub
stitute a sledge for our wheels. We
stopped at a miserable village, compost!,
of a score of hovels, in order to effect
this exchange, and entered a wretched
hut, which did duty both as posting
house, and as the only inn in the place.
Eight or nine men, carriers by trade,
were crowded round a large fire, lighted
in centre of the room, and the smoke
of which , found a vent through a hole in
the roof. They paid no attention to
our entrance;. but when I had taken off
my cloak, 4 uniform at once obtain
ed for us the best place at the hearth.—
The landlord of this wretched hostelry
met my.inquiries about supper`with a
stare of astonishment, and offered a
huge loaf of hard black bread as the
whole contents of his larder. Ivan,
however, presently appeared, having
managed to forage out a couple of
fowls, which, in an inconceivably short
space of time were plucked, and one
of them simmering in an iron pot over
the fire, while the other hung suspen
ded by a string in front of the blaze.—
Supper over, we wrapped ourselves in
our furs, and lay down upcin theqloor,
beds in such a place being of course out
of the question.
Before daybreak; I awoke, and found
Ivan and the carriers already afoot, and
in consultation as to the practicability
of continuing our journey. The ques
tion was at last decided in favor of the
march ; the wagoners hastened to har
ness their horses, and I went to inspect
our carriage, which the village black
smith had taken off its wheels and
mounted upon a sledge. Ivan mean
time was foraging for provisions, and
shortly returned with a ham, some
tolerable bread, and a half-a-dozen
bottles of a. sort of reddish brandy.
'made. I believe, out of the bark of the
birch-tree.
At length all was ready, and off we
set, our sledge going first, followed by
1 the carrier's wagons. Our new com
panions, according to the custom among
them, had chosen one of their number
as •a chief, whose experience and judg
ment were to 'direct the movements of
the party, and whose orders were to be
obeyed in all things. Their choice
had fallen Olt a man named George,
whose 'acre I should have guessed to he
fifty. but who, I learned with astonish
ment, was upwards of seventy years
old.. He was a powerful and muscular
man, with black piercing eyes, over
hung by thick sfiaggy eyebrows, which,
aa - well as his long beard, were of an
iron grey. His dress consisted of a
woollen shirt and trousers, a fur cap,
and a sheepskin ‘rith the ,wool turned
Regardless of Denunciation from any Quarter.—Gov Powvzo.
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inside. To the leathern belt around his
waist were suspended two or three
horse shoes, a metal fork and spoon, a
long-bladed knife, a small hatchet, and
a sort of Wallet, in which he carried
pipe, tobacco, flint, steel, nails, money
and a variety of-other things, useful or
necessary in this mode of life. The
garb and equipthent of the other car
riers were, with some small difference,
the same.
The first day's journey passed with
out incident. Our march was slow
and even dangerous, all traces of the
road beilng obliterated, and we were
obliged to feel our way, as it were, by
sending men forward with long pikes
to sound the depth of snow before us.
At nightfall, however, we found. our
selves in safety on a sort of platform,
surmounted by a few pine trees. Here
we established our bivouc. Branches
were cut, and a sort of hut built; and,
with the aid of enormous fires, the
night passed in greater comfort than
might have been expected on a moun
tain side, and with snow many feet deep
around us.
. At daybreak we were again in move
ment. Our difficulties increased as we
ascended the m,ountain ; the snow lay
in prodigious masses, and more than
once we were delayed by haVing to
rescue one or another of our advanced
guard Irom some hole or ravine into
which he had fallen. No serious ac
cident, however, occurred, and we had
at length the satisfaction of finding our
selves descending. We had passed the
highest point of the road.
We had been going down hill for
some three hours. the way zig-zagging
among the rocks and precipices, when
suddenly we were start ed by a loud
cracking, followed by a noise that re
sembled a clap of thunder, repeated by
many echoes. At the same moment a
sort of whirlwind swept by us, and the
air was darkened by a cloud of snow
oust. An avalanche !" cried George,
stopping his wagon. Everybody halted.
In another instant the noise ceased, and
the air became clear, and the avalanche
continued its downward course, break
ing as it passed, a couple of gigantic
pines that grew upon a rock, some five
hundred feet below us. The carriers
g ve a hurra of joy at their escape, nor
was it without reason. Had we only
been half a verst further on our road our
journey had been at an end.
'lle avalanche had not passed, how
ever, without doing us some harm, for
on reaching the part of the road Over
which it had swept, we found it blocked
up by a wall of snow thirty feet thick
and of great height. There were se
veral hour's work for all of us to clear
it away ; but unfortunately it was al
ready nightfall, and - we were obliged to
make up our minds to remain where we
were till morning.
No wood was to be had either for
hut or fire. The want of the latter was
most unfortunate; for independently of,
the cold rendering it very necessary, it
was our chief protection against the
wolves, Doing the best we could un
tier such unfavorable circumstances, we
drew up the carts in the form of a half
circle, of which the two extremities
rested against the wall of slim in our
rear, and within the sort of fortification
thus formed we placed the horses and
our sledge. Our arrangements were
scarcely completed when it became per
fectly dark.
In the absence of fire, Louise's sup
per and Mine consisted of dry bread.—
'rite carriers. however, made a hearty
meal on the flesh of a bear they had
killed that 'morning, and hick they
seemed to consider as gosld raw as
cooked.
r
I was regretting the want of any de
scription of light, in case of an attack
froM the wblves, when Louise sudden
' ly recollected that Ivan put the lanterns
belonging to the traveling carriage into
our telegue, when'we changed horses.
On searching I found them under the
seat, each furnished with a thick wax
taper.
This was, indeed, a treasure. We
could not hope to scare away the wolves
by the light of our two candles ; but it
would enable us to see them coming.
and to give them a proper reception.—
We tied the lanterns to the top of two
poles fixed firm in the snow, and saw
with pleasure that they cast their clear
pale light near fifty yards around our
encampment.
We were ten men inall. Twostood
sentry on the carts, while the remainder
set to work to pierce through the obsta
cle left by the avalanche. The snow
had already become slightly frozen, so
that they were able to cut a passage
through it. I joined the working party
as being a warmer occupation than
standing sentry. For three or four
hours we toiled incessantly, and the
birch-tree brandy, with which I had
provided myself, and which we had
carefully economized, wa; now found
most useful in giving strength and cour
age to the laborers.
It was about eleven o'clock at night
when a howl was heard, which sound
ed so close and startling that we im
mediately suspended our work. At the
same moment old George, who was on
sentry, called to us. We ran to the
wagons and jumped upon them.. A
..dozen enormous wolves were prowling
about the outsid edge of the bright
circle thrown by our lanterns. Fear
of the light kept them Goff; but each
moment they were growing bolder, and
it was easy to see that they would not
be long without attacking us.
I looked at the priming of my carbine
and pistols, Ivan was similarly armed ;
but the carriers had only their pikes,
hatchets, and knives. W ith these
weapons, however, they boldly awaited
the attack.
Half an hour passed in this state of
suspense, the wolves occasionally ad
vancing a pace or two into the circle of
light, but always retreating again. At
length one of Chem approached so near
that I asked George if it would not be
advisable to reward his temerity with a
bullet.
" Yes," was the answer, " if you are
certain of hitting him."
" Why must I be certain ?"
" Because if you kill him his com
panions will amuse themselves with
eating him ; to be sure," added he to
himself, " if once they taste blood they
will he mad for more."
"'['he mark is so good," said I, "I
can hardly miss him."
" Fire, then, In God's name !" re
turned George ; all this must have an
end ore way or other."
Before the words were out of his
mouth I fired, and the wolf writhed in
agony on the snow. In an instant!half
a•dozen wolves darted forward, and,
seizing their comrade, carried hint off
into the darkness.
The howlings now increased, and it
was evident more wolves were arriv
ing. Al length there was a moment's
silence.
•• Do you hear the horses," said
Cl - eorge, • how they neigh and paw ?
It is a signal fur us to be prepared."
• I thought the wolves were gone."
replied I ; they have left off howl
ing."
• No they have finished their repast,
and are preparing for an attack. here
they conie."
And that moment eig,ht or ten wolves,
that in the imperfect flickering light
looked as big as jackasses, rushed for
ward, and i instead of endeavoring to
pass ended the wagons, bounded boldly
upon them. By some chance, however,
none of them attacked the wagon on
which 1 was posted.
The cart on my right, defended by
George, was escalded by three wolves,
one of which was immediately disabled
by a thrust of the vigorous old man's
pike. A hall from my carbine settled
another, and seeing George's ha clot t
raised over the head of the third I i.nt w
he wanted no further aid, and looked to
see what was going on to my left.—
Two wolves had attacked the wagon
which was defended by one of George's
sons, who received the first of his foes
with a lance thrust. But apparently no
vital part was touched, and the wolf
had broke(' the pike with his teeth ; so
that for e moment the man opposed to
him had nothing but a pole wherewith
to defend himself. The second wolf
was scrambling along the cart, and ou
the point of attacking him, when 1
sprang from one wagon to another, and
fired one of may pistols into the animal's
ear. He fell dead beside his compan
ion, who was rolling in the snow, and
making violent efforts to tear the broken
lance from his wound.
Meantime Ivan was hard at work,
and I heard a carbine or two pistol
shots, which told me that our adversa
ries were - as warmly received on the
left as on the right of the line. An in
stant later four wolves again crossed the
circle of light; but this time in full re
treat, and at the same moment, to our
no small astonishment, three others.
that we had thought dead or mortally
wounded, raised themselves up and
followed their Companions, leaving
large tracks of blood behind them.—
Three carcasses remained upon the field
of battle.
Load again, and -quickly." cried
George, 6' I know their ways ; they
will be back directly." And the old
man pointed with his finger into the
darkness. I listened, and heard distant
howling replying to the nearer ones.—
What we have as vet had were a
mere skirmish. The general was to
come.
Look behind you !" cried a voice.
I turned ; and saw two fiery eyes gleam
ing on the top of the snow wall in our
rear. Before I could draw a trigger,
the wolf made a leap, and falling upon
one of the horses, struck 11;3 fangs in
to his throat. Three men left their
wagons.
...There is but one wolf," cried
Geor g e, .. and one man is enough. Let
the o thers remain at their posts."
Two of the men resumed their pla
ces. The third crept upon his hands
and knees among the horses, who in
their terror were kicking and plunging
violently, and throwing themselves
against the carts by which they were
surrounded. I saw the gleaming of a
knife-blade, and the wolf let go the
horse, which reared up on his hind legs,
the blood 'streaming from its throat. A
dark mass was rolling and struggling
on the ground. It was the man and the.
wolf.
At the end of a few seconds the man
stood up. David," said he to one of
his comrades, .• come and help me to
carry away this carrion. The horses
wont be quiet while it lies here.
They dragged the wolf towards
George's wagon, and then raising it up
from the ground, the old man took it
by the hind legs: as though it had been
a hare, and threw it outside the line of
carts.
Well, Nicholas," said George to
the successful combatant, don't you
take your place again ?"
No," replied the other ; I have
enough as it is."
" Are you wounded ?",cried Louise,
opening,the door of the telegu' e.
•• I believe I have billed my last
wolf," answered the poor fellow in a
faint voice.
I gave George my carbine, and has
tened to the wounded man. A part of
his jaw was torn away, and the blood
flowed abundantly from a large wound
in the neck. I for a moment feared that
the carotid artery was opened, and
scarcely knowing whether I did right
or wrong, I seized a handful of snow,
and applied it to the wound. The
sufferer uttered a shriek and fainted
away.
0 God !" cried Louse, ‘. have mer
cy upon him."
To your p0 , 1F." showed George
in a stentorian 'voice ; the wolves are
upon us."
I left the wounded man in Louise's
care, and jumped upon the cart.
I can give no details of the combat
that followed. I had too much occu
pation myself to attend to what my
companions were doing. We were
intacked by at least twenty wolves at
once. Alter discharging my two pis
tols, I armed myself with an axe that
George gave me. The light lasted
nearly a quarter of an hour, and certain-
Iv the scene was one of the most terri
ble it is possible to imagine. At length,
and just as 1 was splitting the skull of
a wolf that hung On to one of the wheels
of my wagon, a shout of victory re
sounded along our line, and again our
enemies fled, but this time it was for
gocd.
- Three of our men were wounded,
beside Nicholas, who was still alive,
but in a desperate state. We were
obliged to shoot the horse that had been
torn by the wolf.
By day-brake a door was opened
through the wall of snow, and we re
sumed our journey. The evenimr" of
thit same day we reached a smallVil
lave, where we found an inn, that, un
der any other circumstances would
have been pronounced abominable, but
which appeared a palace alter three
such days as we had passed. The fol
loviing morning we parted from our
friends the carriers, leaving George 500
rub les to divide among them.
JUL now went well. Thanks to the
imperial order with which we were
pro vided, the best horses were, always
for us, and when necessary, escorts - of
ten or twelve men galloped on either
side of our sledge. The country was
flat and the pace good. and exactly a
wee k after leaving, the Ural mountains
we entered Tobolsk.
IV !ARMED FORA JOKE. A bill has
past ed the Senate of Missouri declaring
the marriage of Congr#e Warner and
Elizabeth Crockett null and void. The
part ies were at a wedding, and upon a
chanter given, probably by the gentle
man, they mounted, th..ir horses and
rude to a justice's, where the ceremony
was performee. Upon their return.
and sever afterwards, the lady insisted
that it was all a joke, and refused to
consider it otherwise. The gentleman
desired to stand up to the joke, but the
lady would t.ot.
[l2a 11la fag (s%4:Qua:a a 1 QUID
Fannie Enterprise and Misfortune.
A young woman left Philadelphia for
the South some years ago, and by her
industry and business tact soon amass
ed a fortune. It Seems that, very late
ly, she became embarrassed in business
and failed. A correspondent of the
N. York Herald writing from that city
thus speaks of her faiure. The fail
ure of Miss , of Mississippi. falls
heavy on the merchants here. to whom
she owes $60,000. Several houses are
in for large amounts from $4,000 to
15,000. The commercial enterprise
and career of this mot»an has been most
extraordinary. Her Credit was un
bounded for years. She has made her
regular visits to this market, and taken
off large amounts of every description
of merchandise, and always paid up
punctually. She was estimated to be
very rich. She is a woman of mascu
line proportions, and when she used to
attend the auction sales to make her
purchases, would crack and enjoy a
joke with any. man, and was always
the occasion of great mirth and jolitV:
She was famous, every time she left
this city, for taking off with her half a
dozen pretty girls, as clerks in ht
great Western Bazaar, whom she could
not keep in her employ much longer
than a, season, as they were certain to
get married off to rich Southerners ; tio
that if a girl wanted to get well settled
in the South, she had only to enter the
service of Lydia-. But, with :,11
ker tact in marrying utherfrshe could
not succeed in getting off herself. Ma
ny rich jokes are told of her. The fol
lowing has had wide circulation: That
she took a fancy to one of her neigh
bors, and inviting him into her place of
business, put in his hands a roll of
bank notes, and told him to count them.
He did so; the resust Was $lOO,OOO in
bills of one thousand dollars each.-
- She told Min they were his providing
he would take her with them ; but the
bait did not answer. In fact Lydia was
rather a hard subject. Her total lia
bilities are $15,000, and what dividends
the creditors ire likely to receive, you
can imagine as well as I can, when I
inform you that she has made an as
signment to a young lawyer in Missis
sippi."
A Bator Cuing out of Jurisdiction.
By our law, says the Boston: Post, if
a creditor has reason to believe that his
debtor is about to f: , ave the state, he
may make oath that he intends to do - so
for the purpose of avoiding payment,
and have him held to bail to abide judg
ment. This law,•we • are informed by
a lawyer, was most curiously taken ad
vantage of some days since. A creditor
made the usual oath, and got out his
writ of arrest ; but when the officer
went to serve it on the debtor, he found
him on his bed dying, being in the last
stage of consumption. The, constable
immediately left the dying man, and
went to see the plaintiff, to whom he
said : " The mall you have sued is
actually dying. How could you make
oath that you had reasonable cause for
believing that he was going out of the
city ?" The plaintiff replied—" Lord
love you, my dear man, when I saw
him last night, I thought he.would have
left before this time. and 1 didn't sup
pose it made any difference in law how
he left."
Woman's Temper,
No trait of character is more valuable
in a female, than the possession of a
sweet temper. Home can never be
made happy without it. It is like the
the flowers that spring up in our path
way, reviving and cneering us. Let a
man go home at night, wearied and
worn by the toils of the day, and how
soothing is a word dictated by a good
disposition ! It is sunshine falling up
his heart. lie is happy, and the cares
of life are forgotten. A sweet temper
has a soothing influence over the minds
of a whole family. Where it is found
in the wife and mother, you may ob
serve kindness and love natural in her
heart..• Smiles, kind words and looks
characterize ,the children, and peace
and love have their dwelling there. L
- to acquire and retain a sweet
temper. It is more valuable than gold,
it captivates more than beauty, and to
the eluee of fife retains all its freshness
and power. •
SIIONT AND SWEET.—Lhver., plans of
courtship are laid down in books ; but
none takes our fancy like the following
adopted by a couple, recently:
Miss - Lydia will you marry me ?"
Well, I s'pose I.must, Jerre !"
I'll be much obliged to you if you
will."
Then he kissed her and she kissed
him, and the business was settled right
off.
Zeo 'Oho