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LOVE AND LUCRE.
BY JOHN C. SLX.E.
Love and Lucre met one day.
In chin November weather,
And so, to while the time 'away,
73 They held discourse together: 4
.:—.- Love at first . .sti rather shy,
...; As thinking there was danger •
. 0
In venturing so very nigh ' ,
The haughty looking swagger;
~
But Lucre managed to employ
Behaviorso prniiential.
That in a trice the bashful boy
Grew bold and confidential.
I hear," (tooth Lucre, bowing low,
With all your 'heart and honey,
You soinetimea suffer—is it so?—
For lack of mortal money."
Love own'e'd that he was poor in aught
. Except in Golden fancies,
A n d s e • er , at; yet, had given a thought
To mending his finances.
“11, , r , 1e5, I've heard"—thus Lore went on,
Hie ,iher's hint improving=
' , That Gold, tihwever sought a3r won,
Is not a friend to loving.'
"An :Imo I,e—‘ , as you shall see—
Fall 10,e ^ invented,
(Iv knavr• know not yeti or me!)
To tici,;e 11,t; Jemented."
And Lucr.n wAired his wand—and lo!
By mameal expansion.
4ot- hi , little hovel grow
Into a statel mansion!
And oh , rril 3 .efl.re he used to sop
untended in his condge.
And grumble o'er the earthen 'cap,
That held his meagre pottage.
New, smoking viandA crowned his board,
-/ And many a Liming, chalice;
Hi., larder was frith plenty stored,.
' And Beatify tilled the palace!
A n.l Luce, though rather jean at .first,
9nd tinged with thelsonholy
On generous wine.; and puddlngs . norst,
Grew very stout'and juliy
mindful of 11;s truest. &tend.
He nerev orn• detroctor.
Bat prays 'Mat blesso.gs may attend
w.•rtl)27 benefactor;
Ana when hi. fr:cri are oily above
Their evvn:n::; w1.;.1 or eucre.
And drink a brimming " healib•lo Lore,"
-- He dritilrs " ‘nrcess to lucre !"
Nivtliantous:
coL. BENToN'S HISTORY
NG 1820 -JAME' , MONROE, PRESIDENT j
idmission of the State of
was the evening and agitating question of
of 1320-'2l The question of restriction,
. et . prescribing the abolition of slavery will
-I.r l mrs. had been ' compromised' the sestoon
by agreeiog to admit the state without re•
•, and ,tholiAin.; it in all the remainder of
•ii‘ it ce of Louisiana, north and west of ine
nf lUssouri, and north of the parallel of 36
minute's. This " conipromtse - was the'
!wt.: of tae South, sustained by the united voice ot,
”1r0e . :4 cabinet, the voice of the gnu' b
and a majnrity,of ?he southern repre,
errors The unanimity Of the.cabitiet hasbeen
impliedly. by a letter of Mr Monroe, and
by the diary of Mr John Quincy Adams
ribititniq ot the slave states in the Senate,
I . :ve ILe measure originated, is shown by itsjour•
on the mo.ino to insert the seciton constitu ,
compromise, (for on that - motion the yeas
n.ys were not taken,) but on the motion to
i• ,ut when they were taken, and showed 313-
c for the eompromise, and 15 against il_every
, i;rf:to- tutor from nothslavetio:ding states—the
it.impret ending every slave state vote pre.
' 1 , a I,>•.v from the North As theiconstitu•
y of lilts compromise, and its bottling (owe,
in tio-se latter limes, begun 40 r be disputed,
't' well to give the li-t of the senators's namesTo
lsr r that it may be seen that they were men
it l, l2rritla and weight, al,le to know what the
weal W4l, ant not rpt to violate it. They
were f;:tremor 13iirbotar and Governor Pleasant,. of
, Jlr James Brown and-Governor Henry
of Louisiana ; Governor iEdwards and
••• ;4" Jesse B. Thomas, of Illinois; Mr Elliott and
Walker, of Ge,orgia : Mr Gaillard, Pie.idere.
of the Senate, and Judge IV ahem Smith,
'am „South Carolina Messrs. Horsey and Van
of Delaware ; Colonel Richard M. Johnson
'rJ Judge Logan. from KentiAty ; Mr. William R
'4.4. since Vice President of the United States, and
i,ige John W. Walker, from Alabama; Mrois,
and Thomas H. Williams, of Mississippi;
iiirethor FAiward Lloyd, and the great jurist and
tor, Witham Pirilmey, from Maryland ; Mr. Ma
:l and Governor Stokes, from North Carolina;
I .ss;rs Walter towrio and Jonathan Roberts, from
„eansyitania; Mr. Noble and Judge Taylor, from
;.liana; Mr Palmer, from Vermont ; Mr 'Parrott,
'in New Hampshire. This was the vote of the
- -7.a:e for the compromise. In the House t there
it 'ramie division among southern members; but
' , . , trt)l e vote in favor of it was 134, to 42 in the
latter 'comprising some no - ribern
t 'Albers, as ihe former did e majority of the south.:
, "--among ihem one whose opinion had a weight
°fir exceeded by that of any other American
. ' 4o taan. Lowndes, of South Carolina.
* l "ry of names shows the Missouri compro•
":'"I."C ticen a southern measure, and the
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event put-the seal upon that character by abowmg
it to be acceptable to the South. - But it had, not al
layed the northern feeling against an inoteiraff of
slave states, then openly avowed to be a question
of political power ,between the two sections of the
Union. The side of Missouri made her constitu
tion; sanctioning - slavery, and forbidding the'legis•
galore to interfere with it. This prohibition, not
usual in tame constitutions, was the eflect of the
Missouri controversy and of foreign interlerence,
and was adopted for the sake of peace—for thesake
of internal tranquility—and to prevent the agitation
of the slave question, which could only be accom
plished by excluding it wholly from the forum of
elections ant . legislation. I was myself the insti
gator of that prohibition, ; and the cause of its being
put into the constitution—though not a member of
the convention..-being equally opposed to slavery
• agitation and to slavery'extensiori. Theremas also
a clause in it, authorizing the legislature to 'prohibit
the emigration of tree people of color into the state;
and this clause was laid hold of in Congresit to re,'
Fist the admission of the state. •It was treated as a
breach of that clause in the federal constitution,
which guarantees equal privileges in all the states
to the citizens of every state, of which privileges
the right of emigration odes one; and free people
of color being admitted citizenship in some iat l
the states, this prohibition t
of emigration was held
, to be a viola'ten•of that p ivilege in their persons
But the real point of objection was the slavery
clanse. and the existence of slavery in the state,
! vr hich it sanetioned, and seemed to perpetuate—
The consti:oticn of the state, and her application for
admission, was presented by her late delegate and
representative elect, My. John ticett ; and on his
' motion, was referred to a select committee. Mr.
Lowndes, ot South Carolina, Mr. John Sergeant, of
Pennsylvania, and General Samuel Smith, of Mary.
land, were appointed the coMmitte; and 'the ma.
jority being from slave states, a resolution was
quick . ly repotted in favor of the admission of the,
state. But the majority of the House being the other
way, the resolution was rejected, 79 to 83—and by
a clear slavery and anti-slavery vote, the exceptions
being but . three, and they on the site of admission,
and contrary to the sentiment of their own state.—
They were Mr. Shaw, of Massachusetts, and Gen•
eral BlOornfield and Mr Bernard Smith, of New.
Jersey. In the Senate, the application of the state i
shared a similar fate The consitution was refer . ? i
reJ M a committee of three, !Messrs. Judge William
Smith, of Sou , h Carnlina„James Bonin, of Rhode'
Island, and Macon, of North Carolina, a majority
(it whom being from slave states, a resolution ot
a d m is..ion was reporte.l. and knotted. the Senate—
! Messrs. Cinndler arid Holmes, of Maine, voting
with the blends 'of admission: but was rejected in
the House of Represiativeo. A second resolinion
ti the came effect pa sett the Senate, and was again
. rcjeeteil in the House. - A motion was, then made
to the House by Mr Clay to raise a committee to
Sc' l jointly, with any tiomminee which Might be ap.
i pinted to) the'Seaare, i• to consider and report to
I
1 the Senate and the House respectively, whether it
be expedient or nm. to make provision for the ad•
m i ssion o f Missouri into the Union on the Same
`footing as the original stales, and for the due exe
cution of the laws of the United States within Mis
souri, and it not, whether any other, and what pro
! vision adapted to her actual condition ought to be
made by law." This motion was adopted by a
majority of nearly two in one-101 to 55—which
s t ,o ws a large vote in i's tivor from the non-slave
holding states Tw,etity• three, being.a number equal
to the number of the slates, were thqt appointed on
the House, arid were: Messrs. Clay, Thomas W.
Cobb, of Georgia : Mark Langdon H.11.-of Massa
chusetts: i'lrilip P Barbour, of Virginia! Henry R
Storrs, of New-York : John Crate. of Tennessee
Christopher Rankin, of Mississippi; William S
Archer, of Virginia; William Blown, of Kentucky:
Samuel Erltlty. - of,Rhode Island ; William D. Ford,
of New-York,: M'illiam Culbreth, Aaron Hackley.
„t New York ; Samuel Moore, of Pennsylvania;
Jam- s Stevens, of Conopetienr; Thomas..l Roger)
of Pennsylvania; Henry Southard, of New-Jersey;
John Randolph, Jarre..e S Smith, ot North Carolina;
William iTiriiii_gurn, of Pennsylvania; Na haniel
Pitcher. of New-York ; John Sloan, of Ghia; and
Henry Baldwin, of Pennsylvlinia. The Sena's., by
a vote almost unarnmous-29 to 7—agreed to the
*joiry committee proposed I y the House cif Repro
SErVativrf , ; wilt Messrs. John Mimes, of Maine;
James Barbour. of Virginia: Joliathan Mt:tens, of
Peninvivania : David C. NiorriTht of New Hamp
shire; Sumner L Southanl, of New-Jersey ;tColon
et Richard M 'Johnson, of Kontticky; and Rntus
King, of Nev York, to he a c o mmitt e e on its p ut :
The joint committee acted, and soon reported a
resolution in favor of ;he admission of the state, iip
on the vomit iun .hat her fegislanne-should first de-
Clare l'lat the clause in her ronstitwirm relative to
the he s colored emigration into the stare, should
novel ca , taais , rueci to authorize the passage of any
act by Whitth any citizen of either of the states of
:he Luton shou d..lre excloilei from the enjoyment
o r a n y privilege to whieli he-May be criii.led under
the coriteentioti of the To 'tett States; and, the pre.
sidput of the L'i,ce,l Stkres, lteme, furnished with g
copy of said act. should, be proclamation, declare
tne state to be admitted This resolution was pals
ed in the Housio.by a close vote-86 to 82—several
members from non slaveholdmg states toting for
it. In the Seriatelt was - passed two to one—ZB to
14 ;..and the requiredoleclaration having been soon
made by the General Assembly of Missouri, and
communicated to the President, hie umelaniation
was issued accordingly, and the state admitted=
And thus ended the " Mi ssouri
, controveisy," o/hat -
form of the slavery que stion which undetiooit to re
strict a slate from she privilege of having sl a ves if
she chose. The question itself, under other forms,
has survived, andititreurgivekbill not under the
fo'rmidabfe aspect which- it wore during that cuff
reitty, when it divided Congress geographically dna
upon the slave line. .
issouri.
The real 'straggle was political, s'ntl.fcr the bal.
ance of power as frankly' &Hared. by Mr. Rotas
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in 'that;
Struggle 'the n nerf-atitiefidding.'‘iatisrilibugh de
feated, in the state ot MissoalOtire,suicettlel in'
producing - the ncetiipiorniae," conceived end pass
ed as a southern measure. Tie resistance made
to the adm l ission of %estate on Omen t ofthe . clanie
in relMitm to free' eciple of color, was onl3ll' mask
to the real CatiSl3 of oppositiOn, and has since shown
lo be PO by the "facility with which many statel l
'then veiling irrie bialy against the admission of
MissoMi on that account, now exclude the whole
class of the free coloredemigrant population from
'heir borders, and without question,' by statute, or
by constitutional amendment. For a while'this
formidable Missouri question threatened the /total
overthrow of all political parties upon principle, and
the substitution of geographical parties, diserimina•
ted, by the slave line, and of course destroying the
just and proper action of the federal government,
and leading eventually to a separation of the state..,
It was a federal movement, accruing to the benefit
of that party, and at first was oveiwhelming, sweep
ing all the northern democracy into its current, and
giving the supremaCy to, their adversaries.- When
this effect was perceived, !he northern democracy
became alarmed, and only wanted a turn or abate
ment in the papular feeling at home, to take the
first opportunity io get tier of the question, by ad
' mining the state, and reestablishing party lines Up
on the basis of political principle. This was the
decided feeling when I arrived, at Washington, and
many of the old northern democracy took early ep•
portunities to declare themselves to me to that effect,
and showed that they were ready to vole the ad
mission of the state in any form which would an
swer the purpose, and save themselves from going
so far as to lose their own states, and giie the as
cendant to their political adversaries. In ;he Sen
ate, Messrs. Lowrie aid Roberts, from Pennsylva
nia; Messrs. Morrill and Parrott, from t New Hamp
shire ; Messrs. Chandler and Holmes, from Maine ;
Mr. W. Hunter, from Rhode Island; and Mr.South
ard, trom New Jersey, were or that class; and !can
not refrain from classing with them Messrs. Horsey
and Vandyke, from Delaware, which, though coun
ted as a slave slate, yet, from its isolated and sali
ent position, and small number of slaves, seemed
more justly to belong ,to the other side, In the
House the vote of nearly two to one in faVer of Mr,
Clay's resolution for a jnim committee, and his be
ing allowed to makeout his own list of the House
committees, (for it was well known that he drew
up the/list of names himself, and distributed it throt
the House to be voted.) isatfijiently attest the tem
per of that body, and showed the detertuination of
the great majority to have the question settled
Mr. Clay has been often complimented ais the au
thor of the "compromise" of 1820, in spire of his
repeated declaration to the contrary, that measure
coming trom the Senate; but he is the undisputed
author of the final settlement of the Missouri con
troversy, in the actual admission blthe state. Ile
had many valuable coadjutors from the-North—
Baldwin, of Peteisylvanik; Sirens and Meigs, of
New-York; Shaw, of Maisachrisetts ; and he had
also some opponents nom 'the South—members re
fusing to vole for die "conditional" adinission of
the state, holding her to be en , tiled to absolute ad•
mission—ainong, them Mr. Randolph 1 have been
minute in stating this controversy and its Settlement,
deeming it advantageous to the public interest that
history and posterity should see it in the proper ,
point of view; and that it was a political movervent
for the balance of power, balked by the northern
democracy', who saw their own overthrow, and the
eventual separation of the states, in the establish
ment of geographical parties divided by a slavery
and anti slavery line.
A Cuazous Scaucrvac.—The nest of a tarantula .
(spider) has been toond in California of a most
singular cons . ruction. It is about, three inches in
length by two in diameter, built of adobes,the wall
being nearly half an inch thick. Inside is a pro.
jection, which neatly divides into two apartments,
about an inch in diameter. The inside is lined
iih a white downy substance,-not unlike .velsei t
and presents one of the cleanest and neatest tidy
little households imaginable. But the mosteurions
part of it is a door, which fits into an aperture and
closes it hermetically. Tfie door is secured by,a
hinge, formed of the same fibrous substance as d e
malice as- the lining of the house, and upon- which
it swings with freedom. The nest is occupied by
a iinzen. f a / a nte:or, which seem to sub/fist up-
on a yellow secreted substanci that appease upon
the walk of the front apartment. The arrangement
of the door for the protoution of the little inmates
indicates great instinctive.arclutectrual knowledge.
It is the intention of thei finder to forward ibis curi r
cagily to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington.!'
• Mrs rA RTINGTON Cu :rti IC TURpett WAR -,•gt Dear
me !" paid Mrs Partington, and so she 'is a dear,
not that she meant so; because under that black
bonnet is Ittrn tiny,. and self-praise forms no part* of
her reftectton. it was a simple ejaculation, that
was all; our word for it. •
" Dear me! hear they are goirg to ,have war
again over the sea, and only for a Turkey, and it
don't say how omen it weighed either,nor whether
I was tender; and Prinee — Krinckemstiti has gone
off in a miff; and the nostril bears and 'Austriches,
are to be let loose to detour the people;, and
heaven knows where the em] of it will leave offs— •
War is a tire dial thing, so demi:tying to temper
and good clot etr; and men-shoot at each other just
as Though the Were gutter purchase and cheap 4 _
that."
How sorrow ul the 'cover. of the snuff box shot,
as she ceased- peaking, and the spectacles looked
dewy, liken - to blew, in summer beat, filled with
lee -water, us iih looked at the profile of the cor
poral with the s rig of sifret fern above it, and the
At sworn behlha'the door s ':
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41;:r /I requrreeincich grea t er ; talent to Fate a
shell newspaper article tban it doe*: long Magi
and ten peisons wilt-read Ole former patiently ante
we'; ,-',r' n: e will the latter. . - '
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e ttowice -
• Some time ago I had occasion to go fo Doctor's
Commons te look at thers*ill of a dead man. The
hand 'that signed" it was in the grave-long before--
dual : perhaps; but the record oldie will - which an.
'Heated that handwarethere among those dusty fe--
- lies, engrossed in an almOst iandeeipherable hand,
wh:eh tell !Nivea!l the real property in the eterritry
has been disposed ol over andetver• again. I had
no difficulty in finding it, for I had a note ol the
precisAday the deceaseddied on: ft is unnecessa
ry to say-anythieg about ihe contents of that will,'
however, for they had no • relation to what .I am
writing. It is only the date Which I have any bolsi
nese With. Thowill was defecithe day before the
Man died. 1, of course, had often heard of men.
making their Wills when they Were joist at death's
door,"withoat any particular thought being excited;
but this time I was surprised, as a single tact very
often does surprise us, when we have passed by n
host of similar obeli unnoticed. I knee!' the man
who had made that will. He was a shrewd, pro•
dent, sharp lawyer, who tacl ripen from nothing to
be a Man °lmmense. wealth. If ho was ,distin•
guistied tor any qualities in particular, it was for
punctuality ' anti prdmptitode. None of the clerks
of his office were,A , eiiive minutes too late. That
was an offence‘at to be forgiven.
,No one ever
knew him to be tehind at an appointment, er to let
'business go undo: Hie housekeeper, who mar •
aged his bachelor ome for many years, only kept
rt
her place by being exact to time. Yet this man
had not made his will till a low hours before his
death ; and, therefore, the possession of hi.' pro
perty formed•the stibjecttof a very flourishing law.
sat,. '
When I went ont of that dark„dismal, catacomb
of dead men's wills, I went on thinking of all the
similar cases of procrastination which I knew pr
had heard of—and they were not a few—for thiais
a piece of experience of one who was a clerk be•
fore he qnarreled with red tape. . What a curious
1 catalogue they were.; There was an old • lady, a
1 toothless old dowac:er, who had itt reprobate and
discarded son, and a pretty, gentle' niece, who liv-
I ved with her. We used to manage all her affairs,
and it was pretty well known in the office that dui
‘frnite girl with the long curls" was to be the old
lady's heir. Our head - clerk, a red whiskered clan- i
dy, who had no mean
,opinion of himself, boil!, I ~
could see, certain speculati'ons on that basis. The
old lady never came without Eliza; and when a
visit was expected, Mr. Catcbpole bruihed hie fiery
hair into the most killing curia, and changed the
ote-at-the-elbow coal for the smart one he wore out
`of doors„ and beautified himself as far as that was
practicable. Well, a mes , age came one day that
the old h.dy was ill—was very ill—with an urgent
request that some pne should go at once and make
tier will. Off went our Adonis as tastes a promise
of something liberal ovephe fare could urge the
cabman.
When lie arrived, Ifie old lady was alive—just
alive enough to tell him that all her proper) , was
to be left to Eliza. She told him that in her hissing
whisper which supplied the place of the cracked
voice; but when she came to the word or all," so
full was the poor old creature of love for the niece,
or, perhaps, of determinations=-let us hope not hate .
against her son—that she half rose up in her bed
and clenched her withered hand, and shrieked out
that word again. It must have been a terrible sight
—that of life strnggling with death for a will! 11
,was a short matter to write tliUt all down ; and
Catchpole's pen flew over the paper, and the old
eves that were glazing so fast stared anxiously the
while, apt] the thin lin gers actually held the pen
she had asked for beforehand ready to sign the pa
per. In a few Minutes all was ready; but what a
Wflerence that few minutes made! The clerk had
risen from his seat and approached the condh, when
the sorgeon, who stood on the other side, said, with
that coolness which medical practice brings;, " Ii is
too late ;" and it was too late. The dead finger.
clenched the unused pen so tightly that they had to
be unclasped 'from it. The son was left heir to all,
and
,Eliza a beggar! Death had translated that
scream of II none. The s e
cjpel is soon
told. The preperty was wasted by the reprobate
sol, and has long since passed into other hands, and
Eliza, instead of possessing some thousands a year
and being wooed by 51r.Ca - ichpole,ip a faded daily
governess.
Every lawyer's office has plenty of such stories
as this. One i remember of a miser e - lio had rn
Merl more then one family, arid in his fast motrient ,
wished tcritialce such reparation eibequea.hed gold
could eamproP. Poor wretch; when the will wa.
brought, Chealepsyhad eteize(fh!m, anal he lay there
a living corpse—Dead in all 'but mind. Ile could
not move his hand ; his tongui.Vefuried its office
only his eyes v - ere free to move ; and of Thome eyee
I have been told a"terrible tarp. Ile was, as mi.
sere Often are, a man of strong Mindimilirtm nerve
Paßitive as he was in every other part, the eyes told
all that was passin; within.' You'could have seen
in them intelligerfee wheirthe will was read tr,
him the powerful volition brought to hear, end
persevered in, when the written word which was
to make it a testament was required, the terror and
horror which came over him when he found the
right hand which hand's° often aided him for evil,
would . Mit help him for good, the despair which
burst the unseen bonds around him, end, with a
convulsive motion, let our Me feet ofdife. It most
have' • biters a spectacle ofhorrot, when ronir,hinent
came in the shape of a prohibition ni the one act
of Mercy, which might have Made alpine atneriilK
for a liletirn'e of Wrong.
Thew theie wait'ariothel fegead of a man whose
daughter married against his will. Ht' lived acme;
where to a retireireountrffi - ouse, far oll,pom any
until. This Min iabjeet to tiliseisse of the
heiit, and olio night, feilikthe symPtons - of an ap
proaching attack, , die( stirange' presentiment
which go iiitericiirriei hefOtideath, he inesicl his
,houielierd and thni'ott a M , iseepgef on horseback,
not tor a seirgithrt, hoi roe a lawyer.' He whited
his will made - itistatilly. The messenger coull n&
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f{ f, i
be-.expected back for at least -two- hours, and bug
before the spasmodnrettack had-come•on, hot o,w.
in ate)ntervais of ins piroxyanis, that determinett
Mat) Wrote - 11;11104i againsfAime. tlw law
yer didiarriver, MI that was leit — of the living w, l l
't which bad been's° active and energetic a few hours
before ~ was- t hat liittiaieo of
,writ'ing . 'lt expressed
the deceased's intention, the strongest terms, to
terly,to disinherit his rebeliions and to give
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his property to some oharitable institutinn. It was
corriplele, even to the signature; only the flourish
'nsuiltlly added to the name was wanting, as though
there the hand had railed. flnt'th4 writi,ig was not
e will . ; it was not in viper form, nor attested. In
the eye of the law it wall bat an invalid piece.of pa
per;lind the daughter took that which her birthright
entitled her to.
Wills generally afford a frig,l»ful temptation to
the worst part of our nature. I really believe that
more canning, more tfalsehood, more worldly anx
idly, and more moral wrong are blended_ with the
subject of" Will" than with the whole ,mass of law
parchment extant. A will should riot only be pro
perly made, but properly placecl,. and more than one
should be crignlzard of ,tits whereabouts. I have
{mown many cases ("tress turpitude in , the shape
of destroying and can record one; rather ca•
/inns anecdote, affprding a vivid illustration of urr
principted greed Meiling itself. Two gen , lemen
inthec ' t•itheirl•
c ose friendsfrom K . 100 -tl s.
were in the decline of life. Mr Edmonds had; a
large family, with comparatively smart means.
while Mr. Raymond was worth - two hundred thous
and pounds, with no living relative but a nepheiw
of the Most profligate aril hopeless character. This
nephew had been exi.ensiiely elecated, and had
spent unlimited money for the worst purposes, arid
the uncle at length became weary and disgusted
with Ine young man's depravity. t‘ Edmonds,'
said Raymond's, one day to his friend, as he hand
ed hitt"; a roll of paper, here is my will. I have
left my nephew ten thousand patiOrt,, and the -rest
of my property to you, who f I know, will make
good use 01 it." Edmonds remonatrated, and im•
plored, but was eventually compelled to take- die
will, and lock it up in in his private desk. Within
a few months, however, by dint of constant entreaty
Mr. Edmonds prevailed upon his blend to make'
another will, and just reveramthe bequests, leaving
the nephew the bulk of the 14pert'Y, and Edmonds
the ten thousand pounds. Thts will Edmonds read
and saw stately-deposited in Raymond's iron chest
at his private residence. Within the tollowidlfyear
Raymond died. The nephew found the will, and,
as it afterwards appeared, each was his basenesit,
that, to secure, in addition to the rest, the ten thong
and pounds left to Edmonds, he immediately bum:
ed the document, knowing that if his uncle died
Intestate, he himself was heir-at-law. On this vd•
lantana transaction, Edmonds, sinking, his conscien
tious sciuples, produced the first will made by Raj.
mond, and claimed the chief of the property; and
the unprincipled nephew, airr making lull eontes
sten during alit of delirium tremens, killed him•
sell.
‘VASNT SHE SPCNE '—A couple who hail lived
together for some years in seeming contentment,
one day went a fishinu, and tied their boat to a post
in the water. All of a sudden the boat went float
ing tr.vo the stream, and aeon:est of winds imme
arose as to the real cause of the parting of
the rope The wife said it Most have been fu'
with a scissors, but the husband, sn witeeling. tdd
fncy, stoutly maintained that it was ' kliire
did the business. Scissors! said the wife. Knife!
said - the husband. Scissor,!—Knife !—Scissors!
Knife ! said both ; butt at last the husband losing his
all his tecnper, criel our—
" If you say scissors again I wil l duck you:.
" Scissors!" said the wife, determined to hold
out to the last.
Away weni the old'woman into the water and
as she came up the first time, she bellowed scissor
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r
to the top of her voice The old man pushed • r
down again. Scissors ! sputtered she, in nter
!ones, as she arose au.iin ; but the old tell had
by the head, an d p!erry she went down for the thud
time Now she arose more slowly, and sc her wa
ter-farmed form neared the surface, having lost the
power of articulation yet determined In never give
in, she thruSt her hand our of the water, arid imi•
lazed widi the Gist and cecond fingers, the opening
and shutting, of the scicsors!
The old man was then convinced that'. was
nearly ni4eles.. to try :o ferei a worrian's speech.
IVOSIF:N AND LADIES—At the (14s of our f at he r s
:here were such to be met with as men and women ;
.trt now they are all go..e, and in their place a race
nl geptlemen and ladtes-.-nr, to be more retirie k t
a race of a ladies and gentlemen" has sprung. up
Women and gills are mitring the thin is that wt re—
bu ladies are found everywhere _ 'Mar ineae
widimg to see the woman wards, in a pri=ori
Tettrwssee,was answered by the wardeni" we hav•
no ladies here at present, madam, so far as
the lathes we-e concerned it was Teri 'well 'hit
none of them were in prison ;‘l , ct then it sou, ids a.
hole od d ,—ladies in prison. It Would set ITI hail!
einotitih for .'women" to be in such a p'. ee )t lee
inier discoursing upon the characteti O csol women.
• illustrated thus : Wild were dig last at be ern-R?—
Ladies. Who were thb fir.‘t at dirk-, sepulchre ?
Ladies. Oa the ritodrhn improvement we have
heard huh one that beats the above. It vt ae Ihp fin
'telling touch to a inertias . "' ceremony. mlctrmell by.
an exquisite divine, up to all modern
.refinements
When he had thrown the chain of Hymen around
the fiappy . couple;he enneluded by saying : " 1 now .
pronounce you husband arid latly." The audience .
stuffed their handlerchlefs into their. mouths, and
got out of the room as goiOrly.aapossjbleoo . lake
breath..
Kr Let some of our "ypting tnin oecaAion
airy indolgO in a urpleci," Arid 4ttimecirmaire night
hideboa r rememher tbit thiise rue bit'Ati 'boor
ninge of a course of likinFhtefi makes' a . wreit' of
the future.
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t'i I~i ~ S
Among lie many novelties in the vegetable kind.
dam which p,onthern and Central America have, of
late years revealed, the snake nut is certainly the
o-t extrarrdinary. This is a production not unlike
the EngliA walnut externally, but ertit er and
snuTther, although of nearly the -- eaffie ekier• the opening it, we rind however,. note kemeh— in the
usual sense of the term, but a Small eetlent, et it
least in the specimen now before its, an "object so
identically resembling one, the closest examination
(tits to present any direct salinity „between it and
the-vegetable kingdom : unless• the skin or husk
\which seurnonds it ,
, Itke the ketnet Drag' o th er - but,
may be teemed such. The serpent is not, that we
are awarevf, lound actually alive in the shell, but
exists iti a hardened state: It is Of a dark brown
color, smooth and bound op in a distinctly reacei
ble c il , t•aving throughout jn every respeat, lb
exact dimensions and proportions of an ordinary
soaks even the head- being actually fotmed,c,From
the gentlemen from whom this not was otrained t
and who hak many more in This possession, all of
which on hew, opened, Ltiv4invanably been found
to contain snakes. We leatti that it grows on trees
found two or three hundred mites from Bogota, and
that he was informed by ihilndians that atee:lain
seasons of the year these saitikes t issuing from the
shell, increased in size, and wereseen to be bang.
ing alive arid in numbers from the breaches. We
pretend to offer no solution of this extraordinarX
enigma. It is well known that many insects de.
posit their larvte in fruits and nets, but we hardly
see how the explanation is sprit - I - Cable to a serpent
which fills the entire interici of asbell, and ii at the
same time so curiously identified with with the in-,
ner tlAtir or,coatintr as to ttvor the impsition that
it has grown with it growth and streng the ned 'ititit
its strength. Bhuold this kernel prove t: be Pim.
ply a vegetable product like the well known snake
rucumber, which on a 1a4,,e, scale, an:" much, re.
minds us of it, we can only regard ii as a most ex
traordinary addition In that class.of vegetable won
ders. We are happy to learn that the contents of
this snake nut will shost:y be submitted to closer
analysis by an eminent physician nf this city, th
result of which, we Irnct, ere long to lay before our,
readers —N. c[lllustrated News
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COURAGE AIAIACFRAR.-11 had been often observer,'
that a man wdi readily face danger and death n
one, form, ant i be afraid of it in apolher,; and ibia
renlark was extimplifie'd in Jrinot, ontrot
Boriaparte's Generals, who r_sjsed himserby cool.
neia when Borraitte was besiegihg Tirtilon. lie
was wrhing gnmeqhing by, order el the lasier, whop
a liombstiell lanai near him ; he promptly übservel
that he wanted sand, and it had come in doe Cline.
But I remerobi , r to have heard Sir 'Sidney Smith,'
speaking of Junot in_ the captain's room at the ail
miraliy, say, that when he was ping on board the
Tiger, Sir Sidney's ship, he was so.friehtened in
inonnting the high ladder that it 'was necessary-10 4
take him on board through one of ihe port holes.
Erman Arrarsici—The Syrian peasants, miys
Professor Johnsen), eat arsenic as the Chinese eat-,
opium They eat it foe rn-o Opecift purposes—to
acquire plumPness and freshness of complexion
and to - ralprove their " wind," so as it:tenable them
to-climb tong and steep mountains *Mimi (Maul.'
tv of breathing. And, strange to hear, these specl•'
fin porposes are attained. The young poison eautta;
are remarkable for blooming complexions, and full,
rounded, healthy appearances.
. ,
STREET Compary.—" Good morning,3lr . s6o,!
on the sick fist to-day 1"
•
" Yen, sir,:grit ihkague.”
yon ever shaker
"Yes, shake ,like thunder."
" When do Ind shake again 1"
" Can't nay when; shake every day. Why dos
•
Yon ask r,
"Oh, nothing in ; only I thee* il you,
Fhook bed, I'd like ,to stand by and see if you , ,
wouldn't shalfo the fifteen dollars oat ofyour pout -
et which you have owed me so Ion." ' •
4 FAMILIAR ANSWER.--Ecitly Ffas
tion one afternhort, and was being catechised beiure
hi. ad mi r inglft iends : "Who wasimt itna the 'fiery
fuma . ev r'asked his father. "Shadtach,: MeSfilmft
and Abednego," was die answer, alter sornetataittt-
RIMEL "Who pot diem in r Eddy - siacebri g htembi 4
Shill time, and with alt the boldness if one who.
was Fare that he wits - right, he cried one=" Little '
Giecn! ' „
•( "lam rich enou2h." says Pope to Such;
"and can afordtn,,give away t hundred pounder ti
I ear. 1 won'd not criwt upon the earth' w,oout
doir.a. a li.tle good I w enjoy lie pleasure of
‘yltat 4 give by giving it alive, arid Fee I n 4; an9qle.
Evil it, %1 tree I die," Ito added. " 1 011 0 014,141
.t4harted in leave enough for a mcvnumenti.itthets
%cam u wanting friend above gToend." '
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Lori —Wha' is sou nuttily, so beuriful, a• Ilse
first birth of a women's Inver? The•sir of bravest -
A not i nner in i'e vcirnilPrinls—its stinstiineCo6l
arra hrly in its warmth. Oti! ichy should it de."
rioL.te In its na.nre, earn whits, it increases in its
Why should the step which prints, sully
also the 'now
Q4y" ",Jemmy, my boy, did you see the flight or
bats the other evening!"
" Niver thecae my honey ; what kind of bar.
were they ri
t . ‘ Brick.bats,
One friend asked another, why be married
so liltle a wife.
gtWhy."'saitt he, tg t ihnught that yen knewthit
of all evils we should (+nose the leago
Ozto 4 The 42enius alto delivered hirnerlf of a fine
des, has turned hi. attention to 'obsiefrieri:
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