Varff= Zo TOW ANNA: o atur bap filantittp;• `S oil V, 1850. (For the Bradford Reporter.) THE UNION.' ST E. MASON Colombians, thy country saw freedom unfold, od not galiN by purchase with silver or gold got blood of brave freemen was shed on the plaint Defending that Union we now should maintain; Then cease this vile discord, our councils to mar, N upward ascending with with freedom's bright Let ensigns of lirion be ever nnfurrd, [star, tl,re peace to our nation and peace to the *odd. Q ncemonarvhs of Europe, their forces combine, To pot down Republics as treason and crime, 0 'et not Colombians forget their fair fame, oar Vision in twain ; end talk of dividing Icturb not the ashes of Banker's hill lseight, Where row sleep in union, the good and the great, Tske heed to tbeir warning.take heed to their call— .Vn.ted you stand, but divided you fall." northward or southward to freedom grow cold, kr:l not warm'd by friendship, like patriots of old, Snaa ipirti of discord usurp reason's place, and b rin g nn our nation both shame and disgrace. told n ye freemen, forbid tl ye brave, each lend a hand. his loud country to save, • ;:lin our f}thers, that fourth of July, r: t rainta!nt our r nioA, or_fight 'till we die. O'cease now this wrangling, this jargon and strife Our Union is dearer to freemen than life, D et not chose millions be now hath'd in tears l a menting, the sadness that liberty waers; 3ulac: like our fatherr who freedom unforril, Not merely for sell; but the good of the world. them he thy councils like councils above raa: cometh.to freemen with purest of love. !:e Un.-‘111..^ cacred as freedom's first birth, !.•f-eedlin slavery sent down upon earth, , •t biess:tigs that heavenly plan [man. '1 1 :e of.each state, and the ereat nghts of ?•eserv^ it ye freemen by pledging your lives. p:edzing your fortunes, your honor likewise, P . -t.err• it unsullied from shore unto hore, Thatii,h monarchs may tremble, let freemen adore. Experiences of a Mc ical- Eludent OR THE VWTE4. Some years ago, myself and fellow.student wen 11aaLsii for the summer months. An accident ttt,cli we need not 'ielale, and which was follow. -lty a severe attack oft he pelarinyi chained ri a 7 ,,,, 0 Pr to my room fur several weeks. :fly corn a. 0. , n, whose name was St. Clare, was a young :natio` :ugh spirits and lively temper ; and though nsiuraiiy kind and affectionate, escaped, as often Its be could, from the restrain'. of a sick loom. In -ine of hrs walk%. he chanced to encounter a young whom he Jell in love with as the phrase. is, a: ties: sight. and whose Seauty he dwelt upcia with a wanwh of g.:lMisiasm not a little tantalming to are. like my. , ;elf, who could not . 3 eholi it. The 'ids!, however, quitted Dawlish very suddenly; and my friend in ignorance of every other particu lar concerning her than that her name was Smith, and her residence is Londcr. So vague a direc lon he, however, resolved to follow up. We re. :timed to town sooner than we otherwise would rare done, in order that the loier might commence ha inquiries. My friend', Was worthy of the ro- she bore—Melville G. Clare—a name ..,a; was the delight of all his boarding-school court aiiir toe jest of all his r.cqu tintances in the sc't , )ols. . Ile was the gcle son of Thomas St. Clare, of -e Hail• an..l banker N0.,--Lombard street. An rcreatric man did the world account him. "Very remarked the heads of the houses for whole ist;e brideg, " that the old man should insist upon his son studying medicine and surgery, when every "Ile knows that he -wit) inherit at least ten thousand a year." , t Nothing to do with it," Was the argu ment of the father; " who can tell what is to hap pen to funded, or even landed property in Eng- And The empiric disease takes in the world ; and in all its quarters, medical knowledge :Dar be made the key to competence and-wealth." Wade quietly discussing in my own mind the ranous relative merits between two modes of ope• ra'•on for political aneurism, at my lodging in town, some three weeks after my return from the country hills and rains, (some ungallantly add, of thick klee also,) my studies Were broken in , upon ,a :lesserrger, who deman.led upon my immediate :ampliance with the arms of a note he held in hid • =and. It ran. thus; Let me pray you to set of! instantly with the bearer in my carriage to your distressed friend. M. ST. CLARE." Oa reaching the house, tile blinds were down nd tt:e etniters'elosed ; while the muffled knocker Sespoke a note of ominous preparation. " How are you," I inquired, somewhat relieved by seeing frrend up, and though wan looking, bearing no :talks of severe illness. " I hope nett ingrhas hap ?vied 1" "" Yes," the deadliest arrow in fortune's quiver hi been shot, and found its mark. Al three this Illtuirtg, my father's valet called on me to Pay :is master was in convulsions Suspecting it . to be aretum of apoplexy, I despatched him oil for 4 beroombie, and on reaching his room f found my tear!. verified. Abercombie arrived. He opened 1 he temporal artery, and his senses returned, when I y unfortunate parent insiated on informing me eon arrangements he had made in my favor, re !Petting the property; and on my suggesting that :At books might previously require to be looked • over, he interrupted me by saying it was useless You are the sop ,ot a ruined man." I : stared, " Yes, such have I been for the last twenty years! shave secured to you a thousand pounds to finish Your education, and that is all that calamity has left 410 my power to bestow." For some moments I vas led to doubt his sandy. - "What then can be contained within those two massive chests, so carefully secured I" - " Old parchment copies of my mortgages. Your fortune Las only changed in aspect; before you zero in existence, the atihor of your being was a bettgar! My credit alone has supported me I THE :' BRAIN I RD .'''' REPORTER have with diffiCulty been able to invest in the fonds for your wants the paltit sum i thenticned. May you Prosper benpr than your father, and the bright ness of your day make by for the dearness of his closing scene. God's blessing—." Ills head sank on the pillow, and falling into a comatose state, he slept ibt four or fire• bona, when his tnutsition irdtiz time to eternity wy.s as as gentle as it was _unnoticed. "For my part, I merely remain :here Ulf the last offices are perfOrmed. All his Whin* .will be committed to the solicitors, then the fortune and residence which I looked forward to enjoying as my own mast be left to others." " Courage, my dear fellow," said I , "there is no .space too great not to allow of the tun's rays en livening it—neither is that heart in eiistence which hope may not inherit." The funeral was over, the mansions of lath er relinquished, and St. Clare himself duly forgot ten by his [fiends. The profession, which be be fore looked upon as optional in its pursuit, was now to become his means of existence; and in order to pursue it with greater comfort to arselves, we took spacious rooms, which enabled us to live to gether, in—street, Borough, in the neighborhood of our hospital. One morning it so happened that I had something to detain me at home ; and St. Clare proceeded by himself 'to his studies. - From the brilliant complexion and handsome countenance of a former day, his appearance had degenerated into the pale and consumptive look of one about to fol- low the fiend for whom his sable livery of wo was worn. Give me joy, Dudley !--joy, 1 say; for life i% bright once more !" exclaimed Si. Clare ; returning late in the evening, while his face was beaming with gl-dness. • "1 rejoief to hear it," sa id I " What has hap. pened :" St Clare explained. Ho had met his unforgot ten mittress of Dawlish. She hadintroduzed him toiler father, with whom she was walking, and whom he recognized as a Mr. Smith, an eccentric and wealthy acquaintance of hiideceased'paren's Mr. Smith .0 vited him to dinner the next city , . To cut short my story. St. Clare-soon received permis. sion lo pay his i t ddresses to the lady; 4 1 - i ; WO so long secretly loved; and Mr.Sm kb, si:ho tiad orig inally been in unde, and was at once swing and generous, promised sixteen thousand porkdb to the young couple, on the condidtion that St:Cl:ire would follow up his professor'. The marriage was to be concluded immediately after'St. Clare bad passed the College of Surgeons; which he expected to do in six mouths Dudley, I have an engagement to-day, and shall not he at home-until evening.," said St. Clare. returning frdm the hospital one morning; " but as we mdfit dissect the arteries of cbe neck somewhat more minutely before we go op for examination. 1 wish you would get a subject. lam told you cm have one Within two days by applying to this man," giving me the card of an exhumer in the'Borough. " Very well," I returned, setting oft. " Which will you have, sir?" asked a traff:Oer in human clay, whose lineaments bespoke the to tal abience of human feeling from his heart—" a lady nr a jemman ?" " Whichever you can procure with least trouble," I replied. " When can you bring it to my' lodg- Ins r' "The ,lay an?r to-morrow, sir." " GooJ ! What is your price I" ig Why, sir, the market's very high• just ricisv,.as there'd a terrible rout about these things so I mcst have twelve guirma.i." " Well, then, at.eleven the evening after tomor row, I ehall expect you." 1 The n?glit passel on, no CI there appeared—the next, sfill he came net—and eleven on the lollow ing evening found him yet absent. Surrounded with books, bones, skulls and other requisites for surgical stddy, midnight surprised me, when a gen tle tap at the dOor put my reveries to flight." " Two men in the street, sir, wish to see you there.' " Very well," said I, and recollecting the ap pointment, I descended, _and found the exhumer and another. 1 , We called you down, sir, to get:the woman out of the way : because, you know, these thiligs don't do to gossip about. Shall we take it up stairs?''; '• Yes, and I will follow behind. Make as - Little noise as possib:e." "No, sir, trust its for that—vre're pretty well used to this sort of work. fern, give the signal ;" when the party addressed, stepping into the street, gave. a low whistle on hii fingers, and something ad vanced with a dull rnstling . noise, which proved to be a wheelbarrow containing a sack. They Lad filled the guttbr with straw, and over this driven the barrow. In' an instant two of them seized the sack, and without I:nuking any more dis:urbance than if they had beef walking up stairs, they ear ned it into my apartment; and the vehicle it seas brought in was rapidly wheeled off. ft is moat for stddents to carry on their dissec tions solely in the thektre td which they belong— but as there are many annoyances from the low and coarse set too often mixed up in these places, SC Clare and myself • had determihed to Ohooite a lodging where we could pursue this necessary, but revolting, part of the profession, in private. With -I,in my bed-room was a dressing 'closet, which, as it w as well lighted, we devoted to thil pUrpose.— Having'carried in their burden and laid it down, they returned to 'the sining-room, through which was the ot_ly communication with the other. Could'nt get yea jemrnen, sowe brought yea lady this time," skid the man. "Very well. 1 hope the subject is a recent one, bee - ease I may not be able to makii use of the body for two or three days. - . "As to th e time, she bad been li cried, sir, that's none to speak of!". while a grui of ark ex presaion gathered around his mouth; and tough ignorant of ita meaning it made me recoil, from the air of . horror it fluut. over features- already so ..t.t s' • PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA; BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " asaLsoixso or Disiirounos 'Juni LIT traarzo." • , revolting in expression. I went into the armlet to take a glance at the subject, fearing that they might attempt to deceive me. They had had it on the table, and a linen cloth swarthid road 'sirik the only covering. I drew aside the corner which con. cealed the face, and staribd, for never till that in. stunt, had I seen aught that came so near to my ideal pictureof female loveliness, eventhirrigh the Nit touches had been painted by the hand'of death. As the :light of the :candle fell in the shrouded figure before me, it composed the very scene that Rembrandt wonld have loved to paint, and you, my reader, to hale looked on. Her hair was loose and motionlais, while it whole length, which had strayed over the neck and shoulders, nestled in a bosom white as snow whose pure, warm tides were now at rest forever! One Thing struck me as singular—her rich; dirk tresses* till held within them a thin, Might comb. An oath of impatience from the men 1' had left in the next room drew me from my survey. "Where did you get the subject; my men?" inquired, as I put the money into the mad's hand "Oh, we hadn't it from a town church-yard, sir. It carne , up from the country; did'nt it, Jena I" "Yen," replied the mid addressed, and both moved quickly td depart, while I returned to gaze on the beauteous object I had left, and which af forded me a pleasure, so mixed op with all that was horrid, thatj sincerely hope it will never fall to my lot to have a second experience of the same feel- To me she was nothing, less than nothing; and though, from long habit, I had almost brought my- Benito meet with indifference the objects which:are found on he dissecting table, I could not gaze on one so young, so very fair, with feeling the springs of pity dissolve within me; and tears, fast and many, fell on . lips I refrained not from ku.sing, notwithstanding mortality had set its seal upon theni; as yet— Before decay's efracing fingers Had swept the lams w here beauty !Inger*. Her eyes were closed beneath the long lashes.— I lifted one lid ; the nrb beneath was large and blue, but "soul wag wanting there." So great was the impression het beauty made upon me, that, step ping into the next room, I took my materials, and made a drawing of the ;placid and unconscious form so hushed and still. Hooked upon it at this moment, and fancy recalls the deep and unaccoun table emotions that shook tiro as I made it. It must have been an instinctive--; But to pro ceed : I saw but one finger to my, sleep—the love ly that felt so moist and cold against my face?— where was 1? what light was glimmenng through the Windows? It was the ~break of day. Worn with fatigue, I had falliri asleep over my drawing. while the candle had burned out in the socket, and my head was resting on the inanimate breast which had been deprived too soon of existence to know the pure joy of pirlowing a fellow-heart it loved.— I arose, and retired to a sleepless couch. In the evening, while over my modicum of coffee, in came St. Clare ,He appeared haggard and wild. whilst ever now and then his eye would gaze on vacancy, and closing, seemed to shut out some un pleasant tbou_ l hts that haunted him in ideal reality. " Well, St. Clare. ,what has detaine t d you r' " Death !" said ire, solemnly. "The sole ie. maining relative to whom Nature has given any claim on my affections, is r o more. A mother's simer, and not a soul is left me ncii on earth to love, save Emily and my friend. I feel most un accountably oppressed—a dread sense of ill per vades me ; but let me hope that ill is past." " Well, think of it no more,',; I replied, and changed the conversation. "I have procured a female subject, beautiful and young; but I feel more inclined to let it rest and rot amidst its fellow clods ofclay, than bare so fair a bosom to the knife. It is well that the living held a pre-occupancy of my heart, or such a beauteous form of death—" "This note has just been left for you, sir, from Mr. Smith ; who requests an immediate answer," said my servant, entering. I read aloud its con tents: "Though unknown in you, save by name and the mention of another, I call upon you as the friend of one who was my friend, to assist me in unravelling this horrid mystery On Tuesday at two, my dearest Emily went out with the intention of returning et fo Since that hour, I hare been nnable to obtain the slightest information respect ing her. 1 have called in your absence for St. Clare twice; he was unexpectedly out. Surely I have not mistaken him I Ne caanot have nett up the meas ure of mankind's deceit, and abused the trust re posed in him ! Let me pray you, for the love of IleaVen ! to give me the least clue that you are possessed of that may lead to her discovery. I know not what r have wijnen, but you can un derstand' i 6 meaning. Yours, d • .> 'San? ortirrli.' Starting from hie seat with an 'air of a maniac, St. Clare abstractedly gazed on empty air, as if to wait confliction. Too soon it came, and seizing a light h^ dashed towards the closet where he knew the body was to be. For the first time a dark sus picion flashed upon me, and taking the other can dle I followed. The face had been again covered, and St Clare, setting the light upon the table, stood transfixed— just as we feel the pressitre of some night-mare dream—without the rower of drawing his eyes away, or by dashing aside the veil, toend this suspense of agony, in the cittrtgigity of desrair. Every muscle of his body shook, while his pale lips could only mutter—" It must be so? it must be so!" end his finger, pointed . 16 the shrouded corpse, silently bale me to disclose the truth. Mute, motionless horror prevaded me Throughout: thfu, springing from his trance, he tore . away the lin,en from the features it concealed. One glance suffic• ed. True, the last twenty-four hou had fobbed them of much that was lovely , but t hey were cast in a mould of such sweet expression tbuirmce seen was to be remembered forever. Cut nod wildness he dung himself upon the body, and embracing The pallid clay, seemed vainly trying - to kiss it back to life. I watched .his countenance till became so pale, here was:only one shade of difference between the two. In an instant; froth the strained glare, of his fited glance, his eyes relaxed, and a lifeless inani mate expression of nonentity succeeded their for mer tension, while with his hand will retaining the hair of the deceased in his pasts he sunk upon the grOund. Assistance was called, and from a state of insen. sibifilitt he gaseed into one of depreision. IiII our efforts to disentangle the locks he had so wanly loved, from his fingers were in vain—the locks were, therefore, cut off from the head.— Through all the anvils - It of his soul he never spoke. The last words to which his lips gave utterance were these—" It mast be so, it must be so." For bouts he would stare at one object, and his look was to me so full of horror and reproach t could not meet it.. Suddenly he would turn to the hair, and fastening his lips upon it, murmur some inarticulate sounds, and weep with all the biuemess of infan tine sorrow. The reader will remember it so chanced thot f never was introduced to the heroine of my tale ; bat all doubt was uow removed as to the identy of the subject for dissection with the unfortunate Emily Smith. Ar lie , : she camp by her death was a mystery that nothing seemed likely to unravel. Not the slightest marks of violence could be found about her person. The arms were certainly in an unnatural position, being bent with the palmt upward, as if to support a weight ; and . seemed to have been somewhat pressed, but this might be ac counted for by the packing the body. All besides were the appearance of quiescent death. She was opened, and not the slighest trace of poison presented itself. Immediate search bad been made for the men. They had absconded and all apparent nneans - ol inquiry seemed hushed with the victim of science in it its grave. Some years passed : SL Clare was dead ; the father of the unfortunate Emly was no more. Foitone had thriven with me, and being independent of practice, 1 had settled in the west end of London, and mar ried the object of my choice. I was soon occupied with the employments of my profession, and amongest the rest that of surgeon to the —Dis pensary. Seven years tiller my first commencement 1 had to attend to a poor man who was attacked with inflammation of the brain. The violence of the disease bad been subdued, but some strange/wan derings of delirium still haunted him. In a paroxysm of this sort he one day exclaimed to me, as I was feeling his pulse; " Cut it off: Cut it off! it says so; off with it r , Paying no attention to this, I replac ed his arm within the covertid, but dashing it out he seized mine, and demanded—" Does it not say if the right hand oflend,thee, cut it off !" " Yes my man, but fotrit: is a useful member— take my advice and keep it on ?" " I will not; it has offended me; aye, damned me to eternity. It is a murderous right hand !" But,l will not drag the reader through the incbher ent ravings of guilty delirium ; it suffices to say, that after some considerable pains Z elicited the following story from him. " It's just ten years to-morrow since waA dis charged from four months' imprisonment. in the house of correction. I was then just twenty. In the same place I met a gang of resurrection men; and they said what a jolly life they led, plenty of money and all that, when one of 'em told me the rest what they did,and if so be ishow they could'nt split he'd tell 'em. Well after making me take an oath (I tremble now to think of it) that I wouldn't tell, they let me into it. This was to kidnap all the greenhorn; that didn't know their way about town, and carry them to a house the gang had in alley, near Blackfriars, where they Were to be suffocated, and &XI to you doctors for euttir.g up. Well, it took a long time" to bring my mind to such a thing, but they persuaded me we Were all des tined to go to heaven or hell, before we were born, and that our actions had nothing to do with it. So I agreed, when the time came round, to enter the gang. On the day we were :et loose there were four of us loitering near the coach Stan 3 in street. A gentleman was walking up and down before an inn, rooting af his watch every now and then, and casting his eyes round to see if a cowl was com ing which he seemed to expect. Presently ho Met florin one who knowed him, and I saw him take a letter and read it, and then say to the other, I can't come this instant, because 1 expect a fnend in half an hour, and must wait for her; but stay; Icon write a note, and pct her off, when he step ped inside the inn, and came out in ten minutes, with a note in his hand. One of na bad been a servant in a cutting-up house in the borough, and Gnawed him afore ; stepping up, he askjd if he "could carry the note for him 7 The other was in a hurry, and said, yes, giving' him half a crown to take it into the borough', and thingot into the coach and drove off. Instead of going with it, he had teani't to read and breaking the note open, found some one was coming to meet the gentleman by half-past two. "I'll tell ye what, my boys," says he, "here's a fish come to our net without looking for it, so well have her first." Shortly after, np comes the coach with a lady in it. meanwhile, One of our gang had got another coach belonging ' to us for the purpose, which was in waiting; so the villain tells her the gentleman had been obliged to go somewhere else, but he was an oldservant, and if she would get into his coach, he would drive het' ro the house where the gentleman was waiting to receive her. She, never suspecting, got in , and was driven off to the slaughter-house, as we called . it. She entered by a back yard, and frightened by the dark, ditty way and lonely 'poking rooms, and Trot seeing him she expected, site attempted to run off, but that was of no aim ; and taking her to a moat for the purpose, in the middle of the house, Viberomo one could hear her scretainiitg, she was locked up for the night. Well, I was uncommon struck with her beautiful looks, and begged very hard to let her go—they said it would not do, be cause as how they would all be found oat. So die she Must the next order- they bad for a corpse..r. That very night came an order, and thy swore I should: have the killing of her, for being spooney. enough to beg her like. I swore I would dot do it; but they said if I didn't they would send me in stead, and frightened at their threats, I agreed. In the room where she slept was a beJ, with a sliding top to let down and smother the person who was lying beneath, while the chain which letdown was fastened in the room above. They had given her a small lamp in order to look at her through a hole, that they might see what she was about After locking the aim inside (for they left the key there to keep her easy, while it was bolted on the out) and looking to see there was no one: in the room, nor any other door she knelt by the bed-side, etid her prayers and then laid down in her clothes. was at ten—they watched her till twelve.— She was sleeping soundly but crying too, they said, When they took me up into the room above, and with a drawn knife at my throat insisted on my letting go the chain which was to smother her be. neath, I did it ! Oh, I did it—hark I starting up, don't you hear the rustling of the clothes? a sti fled cry I No, all is quiet! She is done for; take her and sell her !' " and from that he fell into his old raving manner once more. The next day he was again lucid, and pulling from his bosom an old purse, he said—" I man aged td get these things without their knowledge." It contained a ring with a locked engraved 7.-E. S." and the silver plate of a dog ' s-collar with the name of " Emily on it. "That," he remarked : "came from a little Spaniel which we sold." _ I had made a finished miniature from the rough drawing taken on the srst evening of my seeing Emily Smith. This had set in the lid of a snuff box, and anxious to see if he would recognise it. I silently placed the snuff-box in his ban!. flit mind but barely took time to comprehend and know the face, when flinging it from him with a loud cry, his spirit took its flight to final judgment ; and I vowed from that day a renunciation of the scalpel forever. [ From the Louisville Jowl:sal) SPRING BY J. R. BARRICIC The winter winds and storms are past. The sully blasts are blown, The coke of spring is heard at L=l, In blithe and joyous tone; The tittle streams, from frost set free, With gladdening music sing; The south wind comes with songs of glee To welcome in the Spring. The heart of, earth its foliage wide Unfolds likesummer's rose; Through wood and stream a'quickening tide Of life and beauty flows ; The light of May is on the sky, Its sunshine on the wing, While winter's shades and shadows fly To welcome id the . Spiing. Th.e flowers arc gently springing up On hillside and on lawn, The daisy and the buttercup ~. Breathe in the balm of morn; 'he rills and brooks soft-answer make To birds on soaring wing, The mingling strains of nature wake • To welcome in the Spring. I list me to the cheering song ATV robin and the wren, The mocking bird and jocund throng Of warblers in the glen; The winds and zephrys too rejoice. While every living thing On earth notpoars a grateful voice To We!Come in the Spring. 4 Meta* Story; One winter evening a country storekeeper in the Green Mountain State was about closing his door for the night, and while standing in the snow out side, putting up the window shutters, saw through the glass a lounging, worthless fellow within. grab a pound of fresh butter Iron the s' elf, and con sealed it in his hz.t. The act was no sooner detected than the revenge was hit upon, and a very few minutes found . Cie Green Mountain storekeeper at once indulging his appetite- for fun to the fullest extent, and paying off the thief with a facetious sort of torture, for vrhich he would have gained a premium from the old inquisition. " I say, Seth !" said the-storekeeper, coming in and closing the door alter him, slapping his hand over his shoulders, and stamping the snow off his Seth had his hand on The door, and liis . hat upon his head, and the roll of butter In his hat, anxious to make his exit as soon as possible. " I say. Seth, sit clown; I reckon now on stall an eternal night as this, a little somethin' warm wouldn't hurt a fellow." Seth felt very uncertain, he had the butler and was exceedingly elisions to be off, but the tempta• lion of something warm sadly interfered with- his resolution to go. This hesitation hOwever, was soon settled by the right owner of The butter taking Seth by the shoulders and planting him in a seat close to the store, where he *as in such a manner cornered in by the boxes and barrels, that while the grocer stood before him there was no possibili ty of getting out, and right in this vcry place sure enough, the More keeper sat down. " Seth, we'll have a little warm Santa Cruz," said the grocer, as he opened the stove door, and stuffed in as many sticks as the place would admit; "without it you'd freeze going borne such a night as this." Seth already felt the butter settling down closer to his hair ; and he jumped .up declaring he must go 'u Not till you hare had something warm, Seth: come, Fre got a story to tell you too ; sit down, now,-and Seth was again pushed into his seat by his tuning' tormentor. i• Oh! it's to darned hot here," said. the petty( thief, attempting ,to rise. "Sit down—don't be in such a plaguy hurry,'l retorted, the grocer, pushing him back in his ohai4 But got the cows to fodder, and the wood td split, I must be going," said the persecuted chap. But you mustn't tear yourself away, Seth, in this manner. Sit down, let the cows take care of themselves, and keep yourself cool; you appear to tie a little fiagety," said the roguish grocer, with a wicked leer. The next thing was the production of two amok- . ing glasses of hot rum toddy, the very sight of which, in Serb's present situation, would have made the hair stand erect upon his heed, had it not heed well oiled and kept down by the butter. Seth, I'll give you a trait, now, 'and youu - cari butter it yourself," said the grocer, with an .air of . such consumnlate simplgity, that poor Seth be lieved himself unsuspected. Seth, here's—here's a Christmas goose, well roasted, eh I tell you, it's the greatest eating in creation. And Seth don't you never use hog's fat, or common cooking butter . to bairns it with—come, take your batter-4 mean Seth, take your toddy." - Poor Seth now began to, smoke as well as met', and. his mouth was heremetnealiy sealed up, as though he had been born dumb. Streak after streak of the butter came pouring from under his hat, and bis handkerchie was already soaked with the greasy overflow. Talking away, as if nothing wa›. the matter, the grocer kept stuffing the wood into the stove, while poor Seth sat bolt upright, with his back against the counter, , and his knees almost touching the red furnace befoie.i . 0 -; " Plagney cold night, said the grocer.— "Why, Seih,•you seem to perspire as if you were warm! Why don't you take your teat a! Here, let mo put your Lai away ?" "No exclaimed poor Seth at wiqi a spas modic cffi.irt so get his tongue lose, clapping both hands upon his hat. " Na, I must go; let me out; I ain't well; let me go:' A greasy cataract was new pouring down the poor mane face and neck and soaking into - his very boots; .so that he was literally in a bath of oil. " Well good night, Seth," said the hurnerous Ternionter, "if you will•go?' arid adding, as he arted out of the door, " I say, Seth, I reckon - the. fun I've had out of you is worth a ninepence, so I . ehan't charge you fur that pound of butter in your. hat." • Young Men. What are you . doing fer the improvement of your minds? Are you aware that you are on the great tallway of time, rushing and_ whirling past. the station of youth ? The world is all before yt.o —it is . yours—God gives you a lease ofit !—You . see the philosophers, the statesman, and the 'teach ers of the present time—are there places to be fill ed! What mean those telegrapfipostslavd wires? those cars and boats? . those fast printing presses !s. They are monuments of genius—the genius of Men now paSsing away. Up—bestir yourselves, a ala a fi-na purpose andg stern resolve to penetrate still. farther into the, arena of nature, and open to human grze mysteries unrevealed from the foundation of the world. Prove the nobility of your nature, by deeper (livings into scientific research, by a higher flight of genius, and by a wider range of thought. iShall the mind of the succeeding age be charged with effeminacy or imbecility? These gcestione I Iwe cannot answer. Young men—their answer de-_ ! pends upm you. We see what has been done in • fifty year:: we are staggered by the sight, and ex claims-how slight a prospect - of such a vision in the 'lnure ! Who are to be the men of eminence in the age before us? Not you who are lounging there on. the sidewalks, or in the streets—not you who are spending your time with boisterous com panions, repeating unmeaning gibes and senseless Ijokes—not you who are wasting the midnight MI ovet Eugene Sue and Paul deSock —not you who frequent the bowling saloons and bar-rooms. No - 7 . you must pass through a -different discipline; you must bend down the undivided energies of your ar dent souls'to tke persevering, unremitting and la- . , la borious. study. You must acquire an intimate and, ; thorough acquaintance with the world, discover the hidden intricacies of-human character, and acquaint yourselves'N the operation of natural laws. Yoe must bring truth from chaos to the golden sunlight of order and system.., This has been the work of the mighty minds fif' the last century. Say you that ymi have no time for this? that your hears arc theke cf toil? that the workshop, the counter, and the miil demand your time? .So they do—but that toil will indurate mind as well as body. It is the anion of manual and mental toil, that makes the iron men who grasp th mighty thiggs of the universe. You indulge, thean idle 1 , whim. The mind can be revolving' orerght • things, white the hands are in "motion. In your leisure, even if it be in the silent hours of night, . eed the immortal mind with food worthy of it, and. the hours of toil v. ill be cheered by the light of. intel lect. The mighty mind of Franklin gave birth to t sublime imaginings, even while at the compositor's case, and thipmssman's lever. Learn to think— think deeply that you may act-wisely. .- " L ' I say Cully," cried two di.lintiug darkeys, ap pealing for a decision to a sable =pito, " which word is right, 4 ly-zactly or de-zactly 7" The tabie umpire refected • a t•.ioment ; and then ® with a look of deep wisdom ; Raid - 4 ' I can't ;tell pre-ractly." . Experimental Philosnpliy is said to be asking a young lady to marry you. Looking indiflerent and saying you were only in fun when she refuses you is natural philosophy. Committing suicide under like circumstances, is moral philosophy. recently heard a gait] awry of two' persons' engaged to fight a duel. After the first fire; one of the seconds proposed that they should' shake hands and make up. The other second said that he saw no necessity for that, for their hands had r ,been, shaking k ever sinze they began. They are as tondo' titles in the East as we are in the great West. Among hitt other high-sounding titles, the Wine of An bas that of "I"rd of Then four Umbrellas." This looks as if be - had repare,l, himself for a long reiri. Vaitinti4 'V.
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