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)h, if thefeis one taw above the rest,
Writteh in Wisdom--if there is tl word
That I would trace as with a pen of Ire
Upon the unsaiedstemper of•a child—.
Jf there is anything that keeps the mind
Open tog, angel visits, and repels
The mutistry of human lone !
god lids lila& nothing ttorthx or contempt,
The smallest p'hnble in the well of truth
,bias its pectiliar ; meaning and will stand
When man's Ishst.trionument wear first away
The law of heairen is /one, and thoiigh its name
Has been usurPed by passion!and profaned
Crafts unholy Uses thotigh all the time,
Still, the eternal prittiVe is pure;
And inese deep ad'ections that we. feel
Omnipotent within us, can we see
*The,airish measure in which life-its giv'n
And 'the yearning tenderne'ss of a child,
For every bird that sings above its head
And every creature, feeding on the hills,
And every tree, flower, antganniurbrook,
We see how everything was made tcrlove,
And howthey err in a world like this,
Find atscything to hate but human pride.
" the Holy Land," by Harriet Maruneital
'Jacob WeU and ilkke'Saaaarltims.
Our last view of Jerusalem was very fide. We
(diked back. trona n ridge on the northern road; and
saw it lying, bright and stately, on its everhosting,
hilt • bet it looked lower than from Other points of
;view, from the iijoab Mountains forming its lofty
backgiound. We descended the slope before us,
and 19st eight of the-Holy City for ever.
Again we were struck with the vivid coloring of
the sceuery. All this 'day, the hills were dressed
in brilliant portions of the brightest greed ; and the
shadows purple or lilac. - All the hills shim traces
of having been once terraced; and they were still
completely so in till= neighborhood of our encamp
ment this everng--the •t;_', , l•fleas following the strata
of the stone, which i all Isy slanting. This gives a
singular air of wildness to the most cultivated spots.
Here and there were basins among the hills, the
red soil dropped all over with fig and olive trees,
or full of corn; and the upland. tracks winding
among stoke all strewn with cistus, iris, cyclamen,
and anemones, and bristling will tall floiveringhol
.!yhocks. On we went, past deep old wells yawn
digin the hollows, or stone cisterns where the eat
' :le were crowding to drink :;past a few camels here
and-there, browgiug in the' dells; past groups of
Arabs with their asses, . carrying corn to the city ;
ost.stone villages crowning the steeps, till, at six
P. M., we encamped beside a beautiful old pool.—
We Were under the shelter of a rock whose moist
vresices were •fringed with delicate ferns.. While
.dinner was preparing, I went back on our road—
the narrow stony road which wound round the ver
dant promontory opposite to our rock--to tied , aha
neouekle which I had seed climbing and blossotri
hg to a great height and I brought back a tharm r
tag handful of flowers.
While we were at dinner irethe tent, a sound of
scuffling was heard outside ; and when our drago
man next entene'd, be was out of breath. We af
terwards heard the whole story, and_were amtised
to find bow zealous our Mohammedan servants
could be in the tense of Christians. Some Arabs,
with their loaded mules, bad - come with the inters
. lion of encamping beside the pool: and, on finding
;he ground partly occupied, thought here was Alen
!). of room left, they became abusive, and -wonder
ed aloud what business these cursed Christians had
In their country. Our fragoman resented this, and
' threw the speaker down over the tent-ropes. There
was then a stout scuffle, ate our cciok. Coming to
help, and the Arabs failing one upon "mother over
the tent-pegs in' the dark, they had the worst of it,
and went :off vowing vengeance. We beard nd
more of them, however.
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The next morning,-we saw the blediteirtmean,
like a basin of deep blue water between two
%ids. We were not going towards it t however, but
to Nablons, , the ancient Sychar ; where lies that Ja•
t•olis Well, at which the women of Samaria was
wont to dralrater•
Our road lay through• a - most 'fertile *Tilley now
Palled HaWurrah, where the crops were splendid
for miles, and the villages were thickly planted on
':a hills. The ground rose in a series of table
aud, of which there • was a. succession. of three;
When we were lett!ing the nch Hawar•rah
The roads in this part of the Holy Land were mere
apes trill of stones between walls; or tracks through
Aire grounds and meadows, or paths running along
shelves of the rocks, with a bit of rocky staircase At
c-ach end, about ascending or descending Which onr
4rioil horses made no difficulty. '
Before entering the valley where old Sychar lay
between the mountains,Ebal and Gerizitn, we came
'0 the fine fertile parcel . of grottnd which Jacob
bought. The valley opens out into this wide ba
sis; aralmear_the junction Ithe valley and is the
basin is the old welt s,vhicKiii th4' supposed scene
of the conversation of Jesus with the. Samaritan wo
man. Some of our party wound whirl the base of
the hill to the well; and some (and' T for one) rode
by the upper path, over the shoulder ot the . bill,
and came down on the other side. I had thus a
fine view of the whole locality ; ot the valley where
the city lies—a. narrow valley, rich with fig and
olive -groves; and overhung by the rocky' bases of
Lila and Gerizim, where the 'square black entran
ces of tombs dotted the strata of the rocks. From
thistheightiJacob's land looked a beautiful expanse.
The well is a mere rough heap of stones, with a
hole in the middle, nearly - closed up, What there
'below-ground, I cannot say; blhis is all that is
hbe seen on the 'augace. It is n a well likely
-1 4 ‘ 6e in use now, fur there are niiiny springs and
%allow cisterns (though no well) between this and
me lawn, which lies about a mile and a bail off,
Every body knows that the Jews Lai no friendly
isttlingt with. the Samaritans in the time of Jeingg.
tae quatiel bad then tasted above 510 years. Row
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many sins had gone liwn upon their wrath'', The
Samaritans had'wished tonssistthe Jetra in rebuild
ing the teniplai of Jerusalem : but the s ews hated
them as a wiled race, and , wodid "not, admit that
they had any right to share in the temple worship,
or any other Jewish privileges. It'"really was a
most setionis election to the Samarittiee, that they
veSre of a mixed race; not only because the Jews
believed that they held the promises on the very
ground of the pdrity of their race ; but becadse the
intermarriages of the former Samaritan Israelites
with Assyrians and otflers disposed them td idola
try, or at least to a worship as mixed as their raze.
&Net Samaritans Aliefft excludedfrom the rebuild
ing of the temple, above 500 years -a..e. And not
being permitted to help, they did all they could to
hinder. - About 100 years alter, they obtained leave
from the Persian court (to which both the Jews and
they were subject,) to build a second temple tole-.
hovah ; and they built it on -Mount Gerizim. This
was-a shocking impiety in the sight of the Jews ;
and it +as the occasion.of a number of lax-minded
Jews, who had broke]; the law, by marrying heath
en wives, or otherise, and who yet wished to .
„worship-Jehovah in his temple, resorting to Sychar,
to foie the Samaritans, and render their race yet,
more mixed. This was the quarrel which the wo
man of Samaria referred to when she spoke of the
question, whether " men ought to worship in this ,
mountain or in Jerusalem !" and thus is explained
her wonder that Jesus, being a Jew, should ask wa- 1
ter of her who was a Samaritan. There was also
a miarrel about their scriptures; the Jews insisting
to this day, that the Samaritans had altered two or
threErtexts, relating to these two mountains. Ebla
and Gerizim, in their own sacred copy of the books
of Moses ; the Samaritans insisting, of course, that
theirs was the true copy.
From my early youth, I had always taken a
strong interest in this old quarrel, feeling sympathy
with both [Jetties, and a k4n deligliii in the wise
and soothing Words at Jesus concerning it. What
a truth it was for both parties to hear, that God was
now to be worshipped: everywhere Land theta pla
ces were heficel'orth to be as sacred as the "Jerusa
lem temple, or the mountain at Sychar ! And what
a lesson in liberality it was to the Jews ' when he
gave honor to the Samaritan in the parable, on sc•
courft of his good Works, above the sacred priest
and theservant of the temple at Jerusalem. Both
parties were, of course, wrong in their.fierce anger:
bet each had much to plead on his own side. The
Jews were bound to keep their race and worship
pure; and heid, as an essential matter of faith, that
Jehovah would have but one dwellingqilace ; which
wts their view of the temple. And the samaritans.
were surely right in pflrsisting, in their endeavor to
worship Jehovah, in accordance with the laws of
Mtises, as they did not believe iri strange gods;
and, if the Jews could not admit them to worship
in the temple at Jerusalem, they could not be blam
ed
for building one for, themselves.
Such was always my view of -the matter : and
such being my view, it was with indescribable in
tereat that I looked this day upon Mount Gerizim,
and remembered that somewhefe in the city we
were approaching, was treasured that sacred copy
of the 'Samaritan Pentateuch, . (Books of Moses)
which the possessors believe to be the true one,
and to be 3,500 years old. The most learned men
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g the Christians do not believe it to be nearly
so o as that ; but they have a high" opinion of its
vale , and would follow it sooner‘than any o th er,
I be ieve, excepting instances where the disputed
tex about t.bal and Gerizim are concerned.
e present inhabitants of the city bate the Chiis.s
tian , as heartily as the old inhabitants usedto hate
the Jews, The present inhabitanni are Moham
medans, of a most bigoued character; and they
would admit neither Jew not; Christians within
their gates. till within a few years; when the go:
vemment of the country (then Egyptian) compel.
led them to better manners. They dared not refuse
us admission; but they behaved With great inbo
lence. . We had to ride from end to end of the city,
our tent being pitched on a green on the other side:
Oar' horses -had to goats slOwly as possible through
the narrow street, which would not :hold two
abreast, and was paved with latge slippery stones.
As we rode along, one behind tutqther, at this fu
neral pace, all the people came 'out to stare, and
many to mock. Three' times things were thrown
in my face; men and women laughed and sneer
ed, and children thirst out their tongues. I felt
what a lesson this was to intolerance about marteng
of opinion. These people hold a faith which is
very noble and beautiful. Few of us know how
noble and beautiful is the Mohammedan faith.--;
'And there is no need to say what their visitors
, thought of the Christian faith al they hold it; and
yet, what a scene of hatred and misunderstanding
was here ! And thus it is, but too often, in the
streets of other tides, where men ought to , know
better than to despise each other for Worshipping
the same God in a different manner. In thestreets
of other cities, men take upon themselves to pity
and - despise one another, with no better knowledge
in reality of one another's Views and feelings, than
those !Mohammedans had of oars, or we of theirs.
At last, we were through ! and glad I was to issue_
from the gate at the flintier end. But a sad sight
awaited us-there. 'A Company of lepers were un
der the trees, trying out to us for, clarity, and
stretching out their maimed hands. It is a terrible
sight, which we see too often in that country. It
saddened us at Jerusalem, almost, every day.
Our tents.were pitched on a weedy plot of ground,
among gardens; orchards, and rippling streams, and
loOking up to Ebal on the one side, and Gerizim
on the other. Ebal is still the sterner-looking
mountain of the two ; but Gerizim has lost much of
itslertility. Both have tombs and votive builduigs
on them, which show them to have been places. of
pilgrimage. •
After dinner, we ascendeda height, past the MO:
haznatedan cemetery, tvhence we had a tine vilfw,
in the last sunlight; of t r:thismost beautiful city , it
was once the capital of Sa maria; and it is still, and
mast ever be, .frptn its situolion, a very striking
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place.' It cwrnpletely•Bttd the , hint side to;
sidei`and sicendtrs thus way rp . the skins of Ger ,
burn: Its Imuses;4l4lk their Ihd White 'mois t . ate
hedged in by the groves which surround the town:
vines spread front• roan* roof; and from emir( to
court; two Of three palms spring op in the midst,
and higher aloft still, a graceful minaret bore 'and
them,.
Thee, to my delight, We deticended to seek the
Samaritan synagog*. We were guided to it, and
saw nearly all the Samaritans of the place;
geed
looking people, the men wearingthe hi,gtr, , helmet
like tarban'which we are in the portraits oftlose
phtts, andk other old Jews. Theysaid theirntunber
was slxt' in this place, and about forty more else
*here: only a hundred in the whole world. They
declared their chief priest and the feet of their sect
to be at Genoa. They keep three great feasts in
the year, going im Gdrizim as the Jews used to go
up to the Temple.
The synagogue etas a smart, ordinary-lookirg
chapel, within a curtained recess of which is kept
the only copy of the Pentatepch. It was shown to
us, after some entreaty on car part but I found it
was impossible that 3 couhtbe allowed to touch it,
I felt it a great event tohave -seen it, •It is writ
ten on a sort of vellum, in the Samarinui text, clear,
small, and even. The vellum is tattered; blit it is
well mounted on parchment. The priest himself
dates not touch thellti S. without carefill
tion; and be holds it by the ends of the rollers on
which iris fixed as a scroll, like the copies of the
Jewish law in synai:togues.
We •were lighted through the archways of the
streets on our way. home, and down the hill, by
a single candle which burned steadily in the still
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air.
Our employment this evening wts reading aloud
the history of the Jewish and Samaritan controver.
ay, and the toroth chapter of the gospel of John.—
While we were thus reading in oar tent the jackal
was in full cry on the slopes of Gerizini.
A TRUE haver, —Before marriage, the contli.
tion of women is frequently so depressed, that
marriage with any man of respectability, howeier„
unsuited to their taste, or faulty in temper, is the
least of two evils. Destitute as they already are of
any heart filling affection, they gain at least some
station in society, and some pursuit' in the avoca
tions of a home. In their fathers -house, it too of
ten happens that, without any intentional unkind
ness, nothing is th4irs. In childhood this is no evil.
The mind of youth is so elastic, the spirits so vola
tile, that malting checks- happiness except present
and positive harshness. Theirs is "the tear forget
as soon 'as shed." They live in the present; amuse
ment' is their highest degree of happiness, and they
find' l tamusement in everything that is variety. But
soon a great change takes place ; the heart and the
hand demand fuller and more earnest occupation.
The present is no longer enough. Hope and pur
suit became necessary to the full-grown creature;
but a meagre education has left her nearly incapa
ble of the latter, and dull restraint has compelled
the "tenacious vitality of the former to ma wild
among deceitful and dangerous niorut Even it
disposed to self-improvement, a disposition which
very slender opportunities sometimes arouse very
stroney, what, under such circumstances, can we.
men do who remain many years unmarried! The
fast and best portion of life, while health and fwnh
ties are in their highest vi i 4or, perlaps till the age
of five-and-thirty or more, is spent without the
command of money, or of their own time, or the
choice of their own mode of life, whether retired
Or social; unable to pass a short time from home,
kxcepts by . permission, and almogt without the
power, ,of cultivating a friendship. Surely, there
sel#om has been a system more calculated to pte
the formation of judgment and experiencepuid
to bligh years that are flying past forever.
Toascco.—Tobacco p . • a more important part
in this country as to the halm r• the peopl e .—
However used—Whether smoked, the •• or used
as snuff—its action on the system is but little •
ferent. It is essentially a_ narcotic ; and as such, it
is detrimental to the power and bmilthiness of , the
nervous system—as such, it stimulates at the et
pense of subsequent depression and eventual lost
of tone—as Such, it interferes with the functions of
assimilation and expenditure--and as such, is in
jurious to the health of the system. Tobacco exerts
more marked and injurious effects when chewed,
less of these when smoked, and is leastdeleterioris
when used in the form of snuff. This is only,
however, a question of degree ; and in the temperate
climates, the use of ibbacco in any way can only
be justifiable when; from poverty of diet, and con
sequent vital decression, the effects of a habitnatiy
used narcotic may not be indesirable.
In benevolent natures, the inspulsve pity is so
sodden, that, like instruments of music stildeh obtty
the touch, the , dieing which are fitted . to excite
such imprecisions, work so instantaneous an effect
that would think the will was scarce concerned,
and that the mind ;was altogether passive in'the
*Yu pretty which her earn goodness has excited/4ra
The truth is, the soul is, generally, in such cases
so busily taken up, and wholly engrossed by the
object of pity, that she does not attend to tier own
operations, %%die lattice to examine the panef
pies upon which she sots:
Oa sin.—" Fellow sojers--This is a -eorious
day, the first day of January, Fgliteenhendredand
Folly-seven- 7 i mean eight. The cloud clapped
hills of Chimborazo have now become the homes
of -the American eagle. [Applause.) From the
stricken field of Pali Alto and llessacker to the
dread heigli:a of Sarah tea wdy and Cow Temnts—
from fte , l4lll. of th 4 Montezuma, wars has been
one ottweritterch. tGreat applauael Fcdks talk
of pew* wi L Mit sl .)here is no peace. Live or die t
survive or perish !---three cheers kir "old
Zechariah !"
To 'think rightk is of knowledge; to speak #tt
ently is of moans.
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)iPaaskosimy heart L. •
At the Arend iniind of thy, dooming,
' Why itYsedihiliimi
Oft didst ffioi yormw and aiguish, • -
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Wear* V!.5411t--ilantenting.
Heavy with'wo;
Now is the thitinf thy calling,
Why lost thou shriek,
Wity,dost Mon turn withsuch loathing
From We iriee's 'brink 1
Soft tithe depth of
See Molting mark ;.
Pes6eful the hed now preparing
In the chin dark,.
Here the wild siCOT lif e's tumult
Ceaset'h tots:tar ;
Here the vain fete? of lore
te=eth do more
Here, shall no siiand of reproaches;
Bitteriyat
Filling the heart ith hot aching;
Trouble th 6 dead !,
Here are no partings—no leaving
Friends dearly joined :
Here is tio sobbittkund moaning
Borne on the wind ;
Here shall no hope., fondly cherished,
Crumble;ratty ;
Calm in its white shrunk and painless,
Lies &wenn clay; ,
Though all the schemes it was planning
On the high earth.
Wrecked, ere the hoar of fitlfilment,
• Died in dada bine 1
Come! with what atoned dost thou linger 1 •
Nast thou not tried
All the world's proixiiiing pleasuresl
Which doth abide'
Which df them blest thy attainment I
Water en Bandl
Wild Bowers, whose stalks hare been broltin
By a child's hand?
Which of them failed thee not always
When most desired;
Mocking with unsought frutition,
When the heart tried ?
Bath not a friend of thy bossom,
Broken his trust I
Were not the loved of the kindred
Laid in tht dust? -
Did not thy foes and oppressors
'Rise and grow proud 1
While the beads sank of thy kind ones. .
Bumble and bowed I
Whrwouldst thou tnouruftilly linger
In a bad world!
Bark, which the storm blast bath beaten,
Get thy sail furled !
Come thou shalt know the deep quiet
Yearned for in vain,
When thou wert maddened with striving,
Weary of. pain,
Come ! thou shalt meet all thy dear ones,
Lost-long ago.
In the old days, when their dying
Wrtmg tbee with wo I
Earth—for thy burial, lorn one—
Opens her breast ;
Deeply tby bed bath been hollowed,
Come to thy rest!
ADVICE ro Wrvcs —A wife must learn how to
form her husband's happiness ; in what direct;oa
the secret of his comfort lies; she must not cherish
his weakness by working upon them; she must
not run counter to his prejudices. Her motto must
be, never to irritate. She must study never to draw
largely upon the small stock of patience in frian's
nature, nor to increase his obstinacy by trying to
drive him; nev e r, if possible, to have meats. I
doubt much if areal quarrel, even if made up, does
not looien the bond between man an wife, and
cometimes,nniess the affection of both be veil sin
cere; lastingly. if irritation should occur, a wo
man must expect to bear *en most men strength
and vehemence of language far more than the oc
casion requires. Mild as, as stem men are
prone to this evaggpration of language; let not
a woman be tempted ever to say anything settees
tic or violent in retaliation. The bitterest repent•
arm mast needs follow such an indulgence, if Ad
do. Men,frequently . forget what they have them
selves said, but seldom what is uttered by their
wives. They were gratefolooo, for forbeartuiiie in
such cases; Mt, whilst asserting most loudly dug
they are right, they are often conscious that they
are wrong. Give a little time, as the greatest boon
you tan bestow, to the irritated feelings of your
busiebsd.
Coan.—The Corn crop of the U. Stales for 1947
is estimated at.6C0,000,000 bushels; in 1845 it was
417,899,000 bushels. Thb yearly exports limn
1701 to 1819, several times arose above a million
bushels, sometimes over , two millions, but hunt
1819 to 1845, they did not in any one year amount
to a million.. 111 . 1846, the exports 1,826,086 Wish.
eLs corn, and 299,788 .. bb15. corn meal. In .1847,
the exports have arisen to the enormous quantity
17,272,818 bushels earn, and 945,040 blobs. meal.
RICXES Aso Povaam—The palace of the En
glish Mike of Newcastle, cost the *enormous sum
of $300,000; the chimney pieces alone cost $72,000
How many poor wretches hire starved in their
frightful destitution, that this one man may live in
luxury and magnificence ! He hey an estate of twen
ty miles in length, While thousands do not own
laud enough to furnish them with a grave.
' Pima Ent X.,crint-.4 Obeli bbd *Seriph offteer
war narrating the tutfortonate history of an early
friend-who had been jilted by wfinkto beauty in fa.
vor Of the Duke of A—, and hit noinclnded his
410 10 3 a1h inn tope of ulna etztoderk--" Poor fel.'
lowt. be /Mgt got crter it. No girl it,wan the
deit)t.nf him." And then- i after, a .perrowtof mach
pate; he added with I 'fldtering Ile did
not lire above fifteen years after IL"
A Pont? Or Oance.—ln the New Ych* Leeds:
tare, a merribefpabsed in the midst of a very win
dy speech to take &drink of water. Anther mem
ber, nanied•Blossi rose to a point of.order. Every
body stared, wondettog what the pain of order
was.
" What is it!" said the spesker. •
44 I think air," continued Bb3as, 4 qt is MI of or
der for a wind-mill to go by witsr. o • •
DICEY UM him just elk Traci' Sanity is be *ants
esdenstarag; . *
Mier. firm) emn so crooked; bat it bath ..in. it
of truth; 1 4 1Ofiii ontpt:o.itoi iso deadly
that it ierretlinotiiiiiiiiSvglist mine use. • '
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I I'M SLIM a TIMIS ill IMIEDIIItteiI roasts'
,been famed for, her lautkinger-
The Flory et i lter financial, greatness, in the menu
404nTe q . pkiper itteettiosee, has been the the* of
story eßfisirfickg. ` Her final scietring isnotnuknown,
and never yid be, as,loag, as the lhandon and oth
er banks glie a Dying illustration of the truth of
Sam Patch's remarks,• that "soma can be
done as well as others " With the swiftness of the
enchanter's wand, paper has turned into bank notes,
and every one kuchwe that a little generous confi
dence makes tttalt, notes money. Mississippi bank
ing has been said and sung—recited .and re-re.
cited, until it has beetehe an ohl and thrice .told
tale.
While thus the Secitherm financiers--" ardent as
a Mississippi fain could make them"—have bad
their poets and letter-watdri and newspaper palm,
gr, aphists to soda their praises, Michigan, her great
financial rival, has not had one. Had her hanks
continued a Ii tde longer, she could have beat Mis
sissippi " all hollow,nbut there came a frost, ivhich
nipped her ritirig greatness.
The time of which we spdak was about the close
of the speculating which commenced in 1836.
Every body had grown rich, and eve.ry body want
ed to grow richer. Men calculated their fortunes
by millions and halt ttfillidds. The State Legisla
ture had enacted a general banking law, wisely
and safely guarded, as all new banks are, and banks
innumerable had gone into operation, 'anti their
notes," thick as leaves in Valambrosa," were in the
pockets of bank tdficers, theii favorites and depend
ents.
'Among those appointed to watch these institu
tions was Alpheus Teich, the late Governor, and
one of the present United States Senators from All
bhigan. When the general banking law was enact
ed be stood almost solitary and alone in opposition
to it, and after it went into operat►on be viewed
them with suspicion. • As onb of the four Bank
Commissioners, he had one quarter of the banks
to attend to, and was bound to examine theni•in
person. He mantled one day into one of the banks
in Detroit, and demanded to see their specie. The
bank otneers, who had expected.his coming, were
all smiles and affability, and cracked their jokes,
add smoked their regalias, and aim* their cham
pagne, with an air that but few, except baak6rs, can
assume.
The Commissioner found the entire specie capi
tal of the bank in geld. Among the coin were
some pieces of old date, ind these, from' antiquity,
excited considerable attention. At bank No. 1, ail
things were foimd rht--the coin was there, and
the books showed that the issues of nixes was but
three dollars to one.
At. bank No. 2, as at No. 1, the iftecie cafnal
was also in gold, and;straage as it may appear, the
amount lacked but a few dollars of being the saute;
and what was strange still, a number of gold piecmt,
of similar antiquity, were there fmind. The Com
missioner, anxious to see if the curkittscoincidenciN
would hold out quietly took a memorandum of the
number of pieces, and of their date.. At bank Nts.
3, the gold pieces were there, and zio where else,
and number and dates corresponded. The Corn.
misaltmer drew down his speetacleruckled
little to think how the benkets bad entrapped them.
relves t in attempting to out-wit him ; bitt he kept
bis own counsel and Went e't his way. At the
other banks, making in all some twenty or thirty,
the same quantity of gold—the iatne number
cient coins, with dates correspondine with the rue.
marandrun, were found, and of codrse the Com
missioner had to pass on. InqUiries were always
made aa to the next bank to be examined, and Mir.
Coreinissionbr Fetch, proverbial for politeness;
could ,not raise to answer.
The Commissioner was about 'closing his inspect'
tion of a bank in a remote county, and there to..
mained but one more to visit. It was tate at nigfit i
and he was aniious to get home, but the last hank
being distant, add the roads hail, he concluded to
wait till morning. The cashier thought this much
the best plan, and volunteered to take him over hi
his buggy. In the morning about tbe that, the bug.
gy was bought out, the Commissioner stepped in=
to the bank ,and told the cashier, then behind the
counter, that he wonld like to have a peep at " that
gold" again. The cashier colored red, :aid the tel
ler and the directors present looked Wet, while the
pitisidera of the bank looked as though he expect
ed ttutdaf to come more than one Katy. They
tried to laugh it off as a good . kke: Thd "princi:
peal' and the " matins" were again produced and
a new ehantpagne honk fiats uncorked. Th e Com=
missioner ;said that tie had smoked their prdceedings,
and he would not smoke anything else; and as for
champagne, he didn't use the article, and if he did,
he Felt too math real pain at the exhibition of ras
cality he had witnessed to make himvrant any ottt:
er kind.
The bankers grew indignaittL-outtegbeasly so.
Did Tgir. Felch come there le insult them They
would not put up With +inch belie insintkatitms—
that they wouldo—zand the president Waled out
his cheeks and looked fierce—the cashier cocked
his hat on one side, and looked fiercer than the
president) the &fedora and the-telleriand depend
entsi looked like little dogs when two big ones are
goingto have a fight, ten times fiercer than the
coMbatints. U
ThaCommitsiimar was resolute. He had seen
beaker/ mad before, and he knew that they were
a kinds of dog that never injured a body, unless a
body got into thdir clutches. He had a strange fiui
oy to see that gold 'again, and look at it he would,
or else he would stop the etiachine from grinding
out more proteieevk Tha r gold bad gone oft the
pretious night and was then in another bank, and
it Poultlttot it* shown ; sea OtkePite the .threats of
the president and cashier audthe big looks of the
lesser fry of bankers, the concern was then closed,inxt i the shieSta r id,. as nth*, nothing', on the
dol
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The veal with which the wanfitivimh Vitas
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!MIMI
fleck's holighsitsa trarenzedehurAlpilek Irv*
eireturstassis to tbespeed of
,the Befik
sioneri, as he torrent& rhymed backspin
of the II:4 gold. He went. smell the !mks I
previously esti:railed; but like the flea
Irishmen !him* be bad-gat, when hid ham I
mpon it, it vriesnaft, there: The vaults of the
were filled with *raises; and ", nothing
The gold- was thew la' 'the last bank, Iraiting
counted,. foY, the twentieth or thirtieth•tinie, .1
Bank Comndeeitmeti while lila funetinste
hunting for k in the 'faults of banks thanever
eti a Tenni of it: • ,• • i.
ileatlent, (if Of tikr twenlizte gentler,).you
offew when bays,nedasssi yorinoiltlesby - '
backs on dtte end, mine inches spirt, 4,
kicking down the tb Which fano against
coed, and Upsets its .gravity, and in - like, m.
it keels over a third, &c. In just the mine mower,
you might hays seen' the Michigan banks ippplek
and WI while, the otntnissiener wtis in peteit of
that gold. Every one he entered, bletvivp in short
order, and in the course two.or duee.slays,triary
bok iu that bank district was numbered among
the things that "wed to was." The gold, howev
er, was fcitind at last. In the first bank exatutued,
there it was, safe and sound. Word was conveyed
to the last bank, of the trick played off' by thlßault
Commissioner? and an express. scut off wi h , the
gold, which seised .at the Bank in Detroit some .
fifteen thinduis belorfi the Commissiona l and that
bank saved its life a few days longer.
Fierce and bitter were the threats let off . against
Mr. Bank Conimissioner Fetch, for paying b4ukeni.
so scurvy and ungentlemanly a trick, and eni is
no doubt but that the bankers Would have redeem
ed their promises, hams the bject of their, wrath
been soon after transferred to the Supreme !bench
of the State, where he aided in prouounciug the
whole law, an infringeinent. While yEi On the
beitch, he was nominated for governor, and before
his time was out, was elected by unovenvhalming
majority to the U. States Senate. - •
It was the race after that gold, and the docisien
of the Supreme Court against the law, whichgase
the finishind.tonch to Michigan baniling, Mid pre
venting herimanciers from placing the whOle tribe
of Mississippi bankers in the shlitld. 'She entered
the race for iminortal fame in banking, ant lostit
by accident. .
Tan Frasi Wsondro,-=Major Noah, of the N.
Y. Stinday Reneger, says egret many ire good
things. Hit last iu this way is the folleiiin pleas.
ing and philosophicaidiscourse on the first ir riding. ,
He saysi-,We like short courtships; and in his,
Adam acted like a sensible man -- he fell eep a
bachelor and awoke to find himself a anted
man. He must have popped the questio almost
imniedlately after Meeting Miss Eve, and s . e with
out flirtation or shyness gave him akin and herself,
Of that first kiss in the world, me have had, owes
er our own thoughts, and sometimes, In a
mood wished we were the man that did it: Ent
the deed itas done—the thence ;vas Atlara'r# and
he improved it. We Mie the notion Of getting
married in a garden. Adam's was privet' No
envious. beans were there :nb eroating 61 maids:
no chattering aunts and :grumbling utheir.
The birds of heaven were the 14nstrels, and this
glad sky flung Sts light Upon the adiinie. Ow thing.
about the lust weddinglbringt to ns queer thingain
spite of ibs seriptaral Ina: Adam and hie wits
were rather young to marry ; some two 'or three
days oldecaccording to the sagest elder;l witho&.o
a house, a pot or kettle ; nothing butlove aid Eden.
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TUE Yourio Wasiss,if young worn -a waste.
time in trivial amusements, in the prime Season for
v c`
Improvement, which is between the ages sixteen
and twenty, they will thereafter regret b tterly the,
loss, when they come to feel thenutelves fedi:gin
knowledge to almost every one they con ' rseimith
and, above all, if they should ever be mothers,
when they (bet their inability to direct . tussiist.the
pursuits of their children they will find "- , otance a
severe mortification, and a real evil:
rum% VAscridr.—Hating
kinds of science we discover the fblly of
those things which concern human life,
ing =selves in difficulties abort questi.
bat mere ;ndtions ; . we should confine o
nature and reason: Fancies beyond the
understanding, and which have made th
all the dill:rifles, errors, and superstition
prevailed in the world--each natidnal
cannot be Made snteervient td the, rtht
Farestornfi.-1 lay it down as a het;
knew what they bay cam cd. another,
not be km friends in the world. This
the quarrels which are strtnetirnes • -
crete reports.
Mns PARTiNOTQN AG/DT.-- 14 tither, is anything
under the canister of the heavens that in utter
excressence," said Mrs. Pratington; 41 ,t is avian:
derer, gping alarm Tilts a vile boa-conStructor, cir 7
oniating his calomel shout honest fidka"
tr
Tna• MOM elevated a sentiment es; the
more Partakes of =kat and tallness it fears less
ince:instancy ; it remove* from perisha e matter by
its own essence, and approaches God, e principle
of all siability.
Col:moat. ASITCTION.—",Are you iFot afraid that
your eft% will get married again, when you die!"
"I hope she many, as them will then l be one man
in the world who will know how to .'ty me."
DITIICULTIIIS 021 LT 102.1111DABIA Ai MITICNIPTIM
—lleforeany thing to effected, we thiekit impetsi
blel but when it is done, we stare, and wonder
thatitiwao nos attoornplished before. I
titic is a wail weapon, whe
m i n d.' But coalman men are
aa artfigY laugh.
The rise matt knows that be kho
iniiifikisth tto Maws ail,
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