Oil OJLLAFt PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: Satttrhan fUorninn, .febniarn 23, ISSG. jsflnttb BLINDNESS. Strike I Ljrd, but grant me thin. Thy trembling'siippliant's plea ; The hand that holds the rod to kiss— In tilial love to thee. Thank". Father, for thy care. Thy child would be resigned ; I murmur thus my feeble prayer, Hut oh. I'm blind, I'm blind ! Ilit-li! hush, my srml, be still! Let not my thoughts rebel. It i> thy Heavenly Father'* will— He doeth all things well. There i- no darkness where The at tr of Jacob reigns ; Though midnight rests in silence there, A glory gilds the plains. When earthly visions bright Are cl >sod to mortal eye, The soul rests in the peaceful light of Heaveu's unclouded sky. And yet I feel the spell Tint binds to earthly things ; Sweet iat are's jovs ! I know them well V t'n their te thousand springs. Ikn • eartLV '• *of green, Aw rank til genial raiu ; 1 k o. n' ;!it' s g>Jdeu sheen K-it, ■ n its isce again. I Imar the * eof birds, I. it rI in their bowers ; 1 i. A the - urn! of fountains stirred, And scent the opening llowers. i ferl the balmy air, L- from an ang-l's pltunc, pi ty 'r mad tny cheek and forehead bare, Steeped in its rich perfume. And my own pr .tiling boy ; 1 hc.r his footsteps fall ; V • . m rv 'orup and shout of joy He trips along the hall. lis :.rsis are 'round me thrown— ll,s ki>s is on my cheek ; • I. father, see your darling own— Aii sue! I feel I'tn weak." Then for a in uiieat I My sightless orbs I strain— Git'. uiy Father! give, 1 cry— Uiv:; HICK VY StllllT AO AIX 1 |tt isr 11 Ui nlO as. Ten Years Among the Mail Bags. Ti.i- W .k. i-y J. 1! ibiwk, Esq., Sjtcrial Agent of the i' Ot'i.'c ( artmoiit. ;ll soon bo announced as ready . lit--.tV. We make a Sew extracts from advance sheets. CHEATING THE CLERGY. Our collection of "outside" delinquencies would >c incomplete, were we to omit the fol lowing ease, which was investigated by the uu 'iior not long ago, and in which not a little iu cimity, of the baser sort was displayed. It will •rve as a specimen of a numerous class of eases, .ir.ictenzed by attempts to defraud some eor r llail.-.on river, about midway between ■Vsv \ ,>rk a-d Albany. This person owed a .v. . living in New Haven, Onn., the •nm of Mob undone day he called at tle ifof another clergyman of his acquaintance •i the town first mentioned, and requested to U allowed the privilege of writing a letter Acre to his clerical creditor, in which the sum ue that gentleman was to be enclosed. Wri -* ma'crials were furnished, and ho prepared h'tti-r in the study of his obliging friend, wi in jus presence. Alter in- had finished writing it he said to '■i-vgyir aa. " Now, as the mails are not al '• m! 1 wish to be able to prove that I •"Oe actually- scut the money. I shall there consider it a great favor if you will ac ,v y m • to the hank, w here 1 wish to ob i a iiundr d dollar note for some small trash 1 ' • i bear witness that I enclose •ay t;,d deposit the letter in the post -1 r \ rnd gentleman readily acceded to • r-ou—t. and went with hi in to the bank, r " a bill of the required denomination was • • id placed in the letter, which was ■'d with a wafer, the clergyman all the '"\f looking on. 1 y tin aw cut to the post office, (whicli was y < j.jio-itc the bank,) ami after calling ! '' aitttiitiiiu of his companion to the letter and :: ;i'lr-ss, the writer thereof dropped it into '* l ox, and the two persons went their K 'raUar- T; i r arrived at New Haven by due ai and it so happened that the - 1 - to witoin it was addressed was at the .other for the assorting of the mails, a iciter thrown into his box, and call ' ' a- -(.on as the delivery window was •ptOftl. ' : ■ I breaking the seal and reading the let ''iiiid himself requested to " Please find bed dollars, with which request ■ 'oi.ai ••!.< crfuJjy have complied, but for one 1 ' 1 "instance, namely, the absence of the note. *"| v ••; wa S apparently accounted for by , 1 ' ' Hp! written in a heavy, rude hand, eq 'h r' tit from that of the body of the band reading as follows : (| _ ,s I have taken the liberty to borrow a..," 101 !?'' ' ,l,t ' sen d the letter, so that you Aone the man that wrote it." filmed / " post Boy." • . t: dociiineut was immediately shown and in his opinion, as well "i ""■ bie clergyman a daring robbery had , ! ""i. I'lic latter gentleman was THE BRADFORD REPORTER. advised by the post-master to proceed at oiled to New York, and confer with the Special Agent, and at the same time lay all the facts before the Post Master General. He did so, and it was not long before the A gent had com menced the investigation of the supposed rob bery. In addition to the posteript appended, the letter bore indications of having been tampered with, which at first sight would seem almost conclusive on this point. Upon the envelope were two wafers, differing in color, one partly overlapping the other, as if they had been put on at different times. Notwithstanding these appearances, there wefe circumstances strongly conflicting with the supposition that the letter had been robbed. ; — The posteript was not a natural affair, for no one guilty of owning a letter for the purpose of ajAfiropriuting its eouteuts, would stop to write an explanatory note, especially as such a course would increase the chances of his own detection. And in the present instance, there had been no delay of the letter to allow of such an additson. ■ By a visit to the office where the letter was mailed, the Agent ascertained that'it must have left immediately after having been deposited, and the advanced age aud excellent character of the post-master who made up the mail on the occasion, entirely cut off suspicion in that quarter. An interview was then held with the clergy man who witnessed the mailing of the letter and from him were obtained the facts already stated. Concerning the writing of the docu ment, and its deposit in the letter box in a per fect state, after the money bad been enclosed, lie was ready and willing to make oath, and had lie been called upon he would have done so in all sincerity and honesty. In reply to an iuquiry whether he used more than one sort of letter paper, he informed me he had but one kind in his study for several months, and at my request brought in a few sheets of it. A comparison of this with the sheet upon which the rifted, epistle had been written, showed that the latter was a totally different article from the first ; the shape and design of the stamp, the size of the sheet, and the shade of the paper, were all unlike. More over, the wafers used at the bank, where the hundred-dollar note was obtained and the let ter containing it, scaled, were very dissimilar to either of those which appeared upon the "post boy" letter. From the consideration of all these facts, I was satisfied that a gross and contemptible fraud had been perpetrated by the writer of the let ter. I called upon the post-master and made . some inquiries relative to the character and pe cuniary circumstances of the person in question. From the replies made, it appeared, as I have already stated, that his reputation iu communi ty was good. I thought it might be possible that in so small a place, I could ascertain whether he bad lately passed a hundred dollar note, as he would have been likely to have done, if it was true lie had not enclosed it in the New Haven let ter. Calling at the store which received most of his custom, I introduced myself to the proprie tor, made a confident of him to some extent, and learned that the very next day after that on which the aforesaid letter was mailed, its author offered him in payment for a barrel oj flour, a hundred dollar note on the bank from which a bill of the like denomination had been obtained, as before mentioned, iu exchange for " small trash." The merchant could not then change it, but sent the flour and changed a bill which lie supposed to be the same, a few days afterward. Armed with these irresistible facts, I pro ceeded to call on the adventurous deceiver of the clergy, who had attempted to make one member of that body second his intention to cheat another. " Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice V' " Mr. T ," said I, after some prelimina ry conversation, " it's of no use to mince mat ters. The fact is, you did not send the money in that New Haven letter. You offered it the day after you pretended to mail it, at Mr. (J.'s store. You see T've fonnd out all about it, so I hope you will not deny the truth in the mat ter." I then gave him his choice, to send the §IOO promptly to his New Haven correspondent, or allow me to prove in a public manner the facts in my possession. Being thus hard pressed and fin-ling himself cornered, lie confessed that he had prepared the letter which was received in New Haven, —-postrript, double wafers and all—before he left his home, and that white crossing the street from the bank to the post-office, he sub stituted this for the one he wrote iu the cler gyman's study ! He promised to send the 1110- money, and pretended to have suffered severe ly in his feelings, on account of this dishonest act. There is no T T nited States law providing for the punishment of such an offence, but public opinion and private conscience make nicer dis tinctions than the law can do, and often mete out a deserved penalty to those who elude the less subtle ministers of justice. 111 the present instance, the foregoing story was made public by direction of the Post Mas ter General ; and the author of the trick una ble to sustain the indignation and contempt of the community in which he lived, was compell ed to make a hasty retreat from that part of the countrv. CHICAGO DKSCKIBED - A correspondent of the Wisconsin Democrat pays Chicago the fol lowing compliment : " Men are getting rich Caster, and living higher, and doing more business, and drinking more, and going to the devil generally by a shorter road, in Chicago, than any place I have seen out West." " The fire is going out, Miss Fiikins." " I know it Mr. Green, and if yon would act wisely, you wonld follow its example." It is unnecessary to odd that Green never asked to sit up with that girl again. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." The Battle of Trenton. The following interesting account of the bat tle of Trention is believed to be the most par ticular and authentic yet given to the world. It is from No. 13 of the series of historical ar ticles published iu tho State Gazette at Treutou March IT, 1843. On Wednesday, the 25th of December, ITT6, General Washington, with his army, was on the west bank of the Delaware/encamped near Taylorsville, theu M'Koukey's ferry, 8 miles above Trenton. The troops under Gen. Dick inson Were at Ynrdleville ; and detachments were encamped still farther up the river. The boats on the river had all been secured when Gen. Washington had crossed with his army on the first of this month. The Pennsylvania troops were in two bodies ; one at Bristol un der General CadwaUnder, and the other at Morrisville, opposite Trenton, under General Ewiug. At this time the British under Gen. Howe were stationed in detachments at Mount Hol ly, Black Horse, Burlington, and Bordentown; and at Trenton there were three regiments of Hessians, amounting to about 1500 men, and a troop of British light-horse. Divisious of the army were also at Princeton aud New Bruns wick. One part of the plan of Washington was to rccrogs the Delaware with his army at M'Kon key's fcrrv, in the night of the 25th of Decem ber, and for Gen. Kwing, with the part of the army under his command, to cross at or below Trenton—thus both might fall upon the ene my at the same time ; Kwing at the south,and General Washington at the north end of the town. At dusk, the Continental troops, command by General Washington in person amounting to 2400 men, with 20piecesof artillerv, began to cross at M'Koukey's ferry. The tioops at Ynrdleville and the stations above, had that day assembled at this ferry. Among the pro minent and active men who were employed iu ferrying over the troops Uriah Slack, William Green and David Lauding. It was between 3 and 4 o'clock iu the morning before all the artillery and troops were over and ready to march. Many of the men were very destitute as regarded clothing. The present Mr. Geo. Muirheid, of Hopewell, informed the writer that he noticed one mau whose pantaloons were ragged, and who had on neither stockings nor shoes. The ground was covered withsleetand snow, which was falling ; although before that day there was no snow, or only a little sprink ling on the ground. Gen. Washington, (who had sat iu silence on a beehive, wrapped in his cloak, while his troops were crossing,) as they were about to march, enjoined upon all pro found silence during their march to Trenton, and said to them, " / hope t/uit you ici/latl fight like men." Gen Washington wished to get 12 men who should be mouuted on horseback, without arms or uniform, in plain farmers' habit, to ride be fore the army, to reconnoitre and get what in formation they could with respect to the Bri tish army, their outguards, Ac. There were but three who would volunteer for this service; these were David Laning, of Trenton, and John Muirheid aud John Guild, of Hopewell. The following persons were abo guides, and march ed with the army, viz : Col. Joseph Phillips, Captain Philip Phillips, aud Adjutant Elias Phillips, of Maidenhead ; Joseph Inslee, Edon Burrroughs, Epliraim Woolsey and Henry Simmonds, of Hopewell ; and Captain John Mott, Amos Scuder and William Green, of Trenton. The army marched with a quick step in a body from the river up the cross-road to the Bear Tavern, about a mile from the river. The whole army marched down this road to the village of Birmingham, distant about 3 1-2 miles. There they halted, examined their pri ming and found it all wet. ('apt. Mott, who had taken the precaution to wrap his handker chief around the lock of his gnu, found not withstanding, the priming was wet. " Well," says General Sullivan, " we must then fight them with the bayonet." From Birmingham to Trenton, the distance by the River road the Scotch road is nearly equal, being about 4 1-2 miles. The troops were formed in two divisions. — One of theiu, commanded by General Sullivan, marched down by the river road. The other, commanded by General Washington, accompa nied by Generals Lord Stirling, Green, Mercer and Stevens, (with David Laning and others for their guides,) tiled otf to the left, crossed over to the Scotch road, and went down this road till it enters the Pennington road, about a mile above Trenton. Scarcely a word was spoken from the time the troops left the ferry (except what passed between the officers and the guides) till they reached Treuton ; and with such stillness did the army move, that they were not discovered until they came upon the out-guard of the enemy, which was posted in the outskirts of the town, at or near the house of the Rev. Mr. Frazier, when one of the sen tries called to Laning, who was a little iu ad vance of the troops, and asked, " Who is there?" Laning replied, "A friend." "A friend to whom?" "A friend of Washington's." At this tiie gnard fired and retreated. The Ameri can troops immediately returned their fire, and rushed upon them, and drove them into town. At the head of King street, Capt. T. Forrest opened a six gun buttery, the immediate or ders of General Washington and Lieut. James Monroe, (afterwards President of the I. nited States,) perceiving that the enemy were en endeavoring to form a battery in King street, near where the feeder crosses the street, rush ed forward with the advance guard drove the artillerists from their guns, and took from them two pieces, which they were in the act of fir ing. These officers were both wounded in this successful enterprise. A part of this division marched down Queen street, ami extended to the left, so as to cut off the retreat of the ene my towards Princetou. The division of the army which came down the river road under General Sullivan fell up on the advanced guard of the British at Ruth erford's place, adjoining Col. Dickinson's, near the southwest part of the town, about the same time that Washington entered it at the uorth. Both divisions pushed forward, keeping up a running fire with light arms, meeting with but little opposition, until the enemy were driven eastward in Second street, near the Presbyterian Chnrch, where there was some fighting, the enemy having made a momentary stand ; but finding themselves hemmed in and overpowered, they laid down their arms on the field, between the Presbyterian Clinrch and Park place, then called the old Iron Works. Gen. Raid, who commanded the Hessians, and had his head-quarters at the house of Sta cy Potts, opposite Perry street, on the west side of Warren, (occupied for many years as a tavern,) was mortally wounded early in the engagement, being shot from his horse, while exerting himself to fonu his dismayed aud dis ordered troops, but where or by whom is not at present known by the writer. He has heard several statements on these subjects, but 110 two of them agree. When, supported by a file of sergeants, he presented his sword to Geu. Washington, (whose countenance beam ed with complacency at the success of the day,) he was pale, bleeding, and covered with blood, and, in broken accents, he seemed to implore those attentions which the victor was well dis posed to bestow upon him. He was taken to his head-quarters, (Stacy Potts's,) where he died of his wouud. "The number of prisoners was 23 officers and 886 privates ; 4 stand of colors, 12 drums, 6 brass field pieces, and 1000 stand of arms and accoutrements, were the troplies of victo ry. The British lighthorse, aud 400 or SUO Hessians escaped at the beginning of the but tle, over the bridge across the Assunpiuk, at Trent's Mills, aud fled to Bordentown. If Gen. Kwing, whose divisions of the army wore opposite Trenton, had been able to cross the Delaware, as contemplated, aud take posses sion of the britlge on the Assunpink, all the enemy that were in Trenton would have been captured; but there was so much icc on the shores of the river, that it was impossible to get the artillery over." The ilessiaus lost 1 officers, and 2U or 30 men killed ; 24 of these were buried in one pit, in the Presbyterian burying-ground, by the American troops. Immediately after the victory, which great ly revived the drooping spirits of the army, Gen. Washington commenced marching his prisoners up to the eight mile (or M'Koukey's) ferry. and before night all were safely landed on the western shore of the Delaware. But Mr. Mnirhead (before mentioned) said that General W. would not suffer a man to cross, more than was necessary, until all the prison ers were over. The Americans lost two pri vates killed, and two were frozen to death.— The late Mr. Richard Scudder iuformed the writer, that the night after the taking of the Hessians, several of the American soldiers, worn down and poorly clad, and having suffer ed much front the cold, stayed at his father's house, which is about two miles below the fer ry ; that several of them were very sick in the night, aud that two or three died. Might not these have been Wlie persons referred to in his tory as having frozen to deatli ? The next dav, the British that were at Princeton, marched on to Trenton in pursuit of the American army, and went up the Scotch road as far as Mr. Benjamin Clark's, now Ed ward S. M'llvan's, and inquired which route General Washington had taken ; and be ing informed that he had gone with Ids prison ers up the river road, they compelled their son, John Clark, a lad of 12 years, to guide them across to Birmingham : (some of the Ameri can soldiers were at this time in Clark's house.) His mother, with 'rue Spartan courage, unwil ling to trust her son with the enemy, pursued the British and got him released. Soon after, the British, finding Washington had crossed the Delaware, returned to Princeton. LONDON' THE GKKATKST CITV. —London is now the greatest city in the world, and farsur passes all the great cities of antiquity. Ac cording to Gibbon, the population of aucicnt Route in the height of its magnificence, was 1,200,000 ; Nineveh is estimated to have had GOO,OOO ; and I>r. Medhurst supposes that the population of Pckiu is about 2,000,000. The population of London, according to recent sta tistics, amounts to ,",500,000 —444 722 having been added to it during the last ten years.— The census shows that it contains 007,722 in habited, and 10,389 uninhabited houses. TIIF. WRONO SERMON. —Parson Green is in the habit sometimes of drawing upon a barrel of sermons bequeathed him by his father, who was also a minister. Upon one occasion he got hold of a sermon, by mistake, which the old gentleman preached to the State prison convicts, it opened well, and the congregation were becoming deeply interested, when all at once the pifrson surprised them with the infor mation that had it not been for the clemency of the Governor, many of them would have been linng long ago. A rvr< rrrF.Ti says she emptied her hopeful son's pockets the other day, aud the following articles were brought to light ; Sixteen mar bels, one toj), an oyster shell, two pieces of bricks, one dough-nut, a piece of a curry-comb, one paint-brush, two broken knives, a skate strap, three buckles, one ball, two primers, five hen's eggs aud a bird's nest. It is often difficult to determine whe ther an apparently open, sincere and virtuous action is the result os probity or artfulness.— The actor is probably to day what lie was yes terday, or a year since ; the quality of a pre sent act is to be very much determined by the quality of its antecedent acts. -** " Honest industry lias brought that man to the scaffold," said a wag, as he saw a carpenter upon the staging. A VKKV BAT> —A now counterfeit bank note is described as liaviog for a vignette .1 •' female with a rake by her side." An Original Horse Trade. Mr. Samuel Havens resides iu Brooklyn, and is a great admirer of horse-flesh. On Monday last, he went up the river to Albany, for the purpose of buying a grey mare belonging to his friend M'Call. The grey marc is a very fine looking animal, and also very fast. She can go a mile in 2.25, with two in a wagon.— Havens heard of her merits last week, and re solved on a purchase. On his arrival at Alba ny he took.breakfast at Stauwix Hall. Short ly after which he buttoned up his coat and started to find M'Call. He met him iu Broad way near the City Hotel. With "Mac/' he had the following conversation : " I understand, Mr. M'Call, that you wish to sell that grey mare of yours." " I did want to sell her, but I imagine she is now disposed of." " Disposed of I—to whom ?" " To your friend Skerrett, of Brooklyn." " What did he agree to give you ?" " Five hundred aud thirty dollars." " If you will let me have her, I will give you five hundred and fifty dollars cash down." " But I've promised her to Skerrett." " When ?" " Last week." " Never niiud that. If he should call, say she's dead—that I broke her leg on the Troy Road, in consequence of which we had to blow her brains out." " Will you back me up in the story ?" " Of course I will." " It's a bargain, then. Give me the five hun dred and fifty, aud I'll send the mare down to morrow night. But hadn't we better crop the inaine and bob her tail, so that Skerrett cau not sue me for lying to him "Just as you please—there's your monev. Be sure to send her dowu on Tuesday night, on the Knickerbocker." " Mr. M'Call promised to do so. Soou af ter which he folded up his five hundred and fifty dollars and walked round to Captaiu Knight's for the purpose of putting the party through." This was Monday morning. On Monday af ternoon Mr. Serrett made his appearance in town, ne met M'Call in State-st. " Well Mac, I've called to pay you for that mare." " What marc ?" " The grey mare, the oue you wrote to me about last week.*' " Haven't you heard about that ?" " About what 14 About that grey mare—she # is dead and buried." 41 Dead—nonsense. Yon are fooling me." " Not at all. If you doubt it ask your neigh bor Havens, who broke her leg on the Trov ' Itoad." 44 Is Havens here ?" 41 Yes—you will find him at Stanwix Ilall." j It is not necessary for ns to say that Mr. Skerrett went to Stanwix Hall and saw Ha vens. Neither is it necessary for us to say that Mr. Havens swore that the grey mare was dead, and that ho killed her. He could nut do otherwise, without losing ' one of the best bar gains he ever made.' Mr. Skerrett regretted the catastrophe, but concluded there was no use in crying over spilt milk. He shook hands with Havens and left, saying that he would try and find a piece of speed in some other part of the city. Ha vens having quitted Skerrett, took the 4.45 train for New-York, aud arrived at Brook lyn a little after ten o'clock on Monday even ing. M'Call promised to send the mare down on Tuesday evening. He did not do anything- of the kind. In consequence of this, Havens went up again on Wednesday to see " what the d—l it all meant." He found M'Call at the uew {steamboat landing. 44 Why didn't you send that mare down hist night 44 What mare ?" 44 Why, that grey mare I bought of you on Monday." 44 On Monday V " Yes, on Monday." 44 You're mistaken. I sold you no marc on Monday, and for the best reason in the world she was dead a week before." 44 Dead ! What do you mean ?" 44 What do I mean ? and have you forgot that you broke her leg on the Troy Road, and that so badly that wc had to blow her brains out ?" • 44 You don't meau to swindle me by any such game do you ?" 44 Swindle ! d—l a bit of it. You killed the mare, and I can prove it." 44 Who by ?" 44 Y our own neighbor.Skerrett, of Brooklyn." " And what does he know about it " Jnst what you told him, aud that is, that you killed the mare while trying her sjiced on the Troy Road." Havens could hear no more, but rushed for the Police Office, where he swore out a war rant against M'Call for swindling. It was is sued by Justice Parsons. But as 4 Mac'proved by Skerret that the complainant admitted that he killed the mare on the sth of December, of course he could not have purchased her on Monday the 10th. Verdict for the defendant. Mr. Havens left for New-Y'ork, on Wednesday niglit in the Manhattan. He was accompa nied by Skerrett. On going forward after tea, he saw a grey mare, that led to the following dialogue : 44 Who's bob-tailed mare is that Skerrett ?" 44 Mine." 44 Possible—where did you get her ?" 41 Bought her from M'Call. She is not quite as good looking as the one I wanted, but 1 think she is full as speedy." 44 What did you give ?" 44 Four hundred dollars." 44 Say no more—let's drink." Skerrett obeyed orders and went in arid took a little something warm. Havens paid for it. As he did so a bystander thought he uttered an imprecation abont a certain d—d scoundrel in Albany. MON AT Never hire a man to tell a lie, un lc.-> yon w i>h to get cheated yourself. VOIU. XVI. —XO. 37. Boy Love. One of the qneevest, and funniest things to think of in after life, is, " Boy love.' No sooner does a lx>y acquire a tolerable statue, than he begins to imagine himself a man ; and to ape manish ways He casts sideling glan- I ces at tall girls he may meet, becomes a regu ar attendant at church, or meeting ; sports I a cane, carries his heat! erect, ?tnd struts a | little in his walk. Presently, and how very | soon, he falls in love : yos, falls in the proper word ; because it best indicates his happv, delirious! self-abasement. He lives now in H fairy region, somewhere collateral to the world, and yet, somehow, blanded inextricably with it. He perfumes his hair with fragrant oils scatters essences over his handkerchief, and desperately shaves, and anoints for a beard.-r- He quotes poetry, in which " lore," and " dove'' and " heart," and "dart," peculiarly predomi nate ; and as he plunges deeper into the deli cious labyrinth, fancies himself iiiled with the divine ofilatns, and suddenly breaks into a scarlet rash—of rhyme. He feeds upon the looks of his beloved ; is raised to the seventh heaven if she speaks a pleasant word ; is be trayed into the most astonishing ecstacies by a smile ; is plunged iu the gloomiest regions of misanthropy by a frown. He believes himself to lie the most devoted lover in the world. There never was such an other. There never will be. He is the great idolater ! He is the great favorite ! He is the very typo of magnanimity, and self-abne gation. Wealth ! he despises the groveling thought. Poverty, with the lorablc beloved, he rapturously apostrophizes as the first of all earthly blessings : and, *Love in a Cottage" with water and a crust, is the beau ideal pura dise of dainty delights. He declares to himself, with the most so lemn emphasis, that he would go through fire and water, undertake a pilgrimage to China or Kamscatka ; swim the storm—tossed ocean ; .scale impassable mountains ; and face legions of bayonets ; but for one sweet smile from her dear lips. He doats upon a llower she has east away. He cherishes her glove—a little worm in the fingers— next his heart. He sighs like n locomotive letting off steam. He scrawls her clear name over foolscap—fitting medium for his insanity. He scornfully depreciates the attention of other bova of his age ; cuts Peter Tibbcts dead, because lie said the ador able Angelina hail carettv hair ; and passes Harry lleli con tern piously, for daring to com pare that gawky Mury Jane, with his iiicotn paralde Angelina. Happy ! happy ! foolish lloy-love : with its hopes and its fears ; its joys ami its sor rows, its jealousies, its delights ; static fervors, and its terrible heart burning ; its solemn lu clierousuess, and its intensely prosaic termina tion. Swiss Courting. When a girl is arrived at a marriageable age, the young men of the village assemble by consent on a given night at the gallery of the chalet in which the fair one resides. This cre ates no manner of surprise in the miud of her parents, who not only wink at the practice, but arc never better pleased than wheu the charms of their daughter attract the greatest number of admirers. Their arrival is soon announced by sundry taps at the different windows. Af ter the family in the house has been roused and dressed (for the scene usually takes place at midnight, when they have all retired to rest,) the window of the room prepared for the occa sion, in which the girl is at first alone, is open ed. Then a parley commences, of a rather boisterous description ; each young man in turn urges his suit with all the eloquence and art of which lie is possessed. The hesitates, doubts, a.-k.s questions, but comes to no decis ion. She then invites the party to partake of a repast of cakes and kirschwasser which, is prepared for them yn the balcony. Indeed this entertainment with the strong water of the cherry forms a prominent feature in the pro ceedings of the night. After having regaled themselves for some time, during wliich and through tlie window she has made use of all the witchery of woman's art she feigns a desire to get rid of them all. and will sometimes call her parents to accom plish this object. ' The youths, however, are not to be put off ; f'r according the custom of the country, they have come there for the ex press purpose of compelling her, on that night, there and then to make up her mind and to de clare the object of her choice. At length after a further parley, her heart is touched, or at least she pretends it is, by the favored swain. After certain prelimina ries between the girl and her parents, her lover is admitted through the window, where the alliance is signed and sealed, but jiot delivered, in the presence of both father and mother. By the consent of all parties, the ceremony is not to extend beyond a couple of hours, when, af ter a second jollification with the kirschwasser, they all retire —the happy man to bless the stars, but the rejected to console themselves with hope that at the next tournament of love making they may succeed better. In general, the girl's decision is taken in good part by all, and is regarded a decisive. A young American lady being asked hy a boring politician which party she was most in favor of, replied that she preferred a wedding party. £*#*• A celebrated portrait painter says tho reason that tom-cats are ><> musical, is because they are all fiddle strings ius.de. ftcg- A won! of kindness ! Tt is h '•eed which even when dropped by chance, springs up a flower. tsr Wh v does the cook make more noise Ihau the ball 9 Because the one maka .1 din. but the other a dinner.