TO ~ . A LITTLE CHILD. •BV. F. T. PALGRA • Golden head that bears the sun heresoe'er• the feet may run : Little feet, that know not yet Where the next step will be set: Sapphire gleam of eyes, that go Straight to the pure soul below, Fix'd in their ingenuous pitt,ass • Of confiding helplessness : Ah I what wild rose sweet as this is, Flower of love and many kisses? Vet if thii.were nll in all,— Warm soft limbS and features small Dimpled darling of the knee, Song would scarce be due to thee! Did already in the eye Glances offthe soul we spy; Mille broken language hear Notes clearly remon clear; On thy stainless forehead trace Lines of the immortal race. True, too true! these flower-like oharms 'All must vanish from our ants ; True, too true !—and thou must share Buffets of life's ruder air : But the eternal child within, As this fair veil_waxes thin, As the faint feet downward go, Brighter lineaments will show,— Crystal dear at last to shine, 'ritting home f%r the Divine. —Transatlantic. lIHE CREAM. OF THE NEW BoOliS Emerson's .New Essays. From " Society and Solitude," by Ralph Waldo. Emerson, published this day by Fields, Osgood & Co., and consisting of twelve chap- Ws or essays on the arts of life, we extract as • iMENSON AND EX-PIIESIDENT JOHN ADAMS. • I•have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to • the Presidency. It is but a sketch, and notii- bug important passed in the conversation ; but it• reiiorts a moment in' the life of a heroic per son, who, in extreme old age, appeared still' erect and worthy of his fame. Feb., 18.25.. 2 -To-day, at Quincy, with my brother, by _invitation of Mr. Adams's family. . The old President sat in a large stuffed arm-chair, dressed in a blue. coat, black small clothes, white stockings; a cotton cap covered his bald head. We made our compli ment, told him be must let us join our con gratulations to those of the nation on the hap piness of his house. • He thanked us, and said: "I am rejoiced, because the nation is happy. The time of gratulation and congratulations is nearly over with me : I am astonished that I. have lived to see and know of this event... I have ' lived now nearly a century [he was ninety hi the following October :]=a long, a harassed, and distracted life."—l said, " The world thinks a'good deal of joy has been mixed with it."—" The world does not know," he replied, "how much toil, anxiety and sorrow I have 'suffered." I asked if 'Mr: Adams's letter of acceptance had been read to him.—" Yes," be said, and 'added, " My son has more political prudence than any man that I know who has existed in my time; he never was put off his guard,: and I hope he will 'continue such ; but what effect age may work in. diminishing the poWer of his mind, I do not, know ; it has been very much on the stretch ever since he 'was . born., He has always been laborious, child and man, from infancy.".—When - Mr. J. Q. Adams's age was mentioned, 'he said, " Ile is now fifty-eight,or will be in July" ; and remarked that " all the Presidents were of the sanantre ; General Washington was about fifty-eight, and I was about. fifty-eight, and Mr. - Jefferson, and Mr. Madison, and Mr. Monroe." —We inquired when he expected to see Mr. Adains.'—He said : " Never ; Mr. Adams will not come to Quincy but to my funeral. It would be a great satisfaction to me to see Win, but I don't wish him to come on my account." —He spoke of Mr. Lechniere, whom he " well remembered to have seen come down daily, at a great age,. to, walk in the old town-house,"— adding, "And I wish I could walk as well as he did. "He was Collector of the Customs for many years under the Royal Govern ment."—E. said : "I suppose, sir, you would not haVe taken his place, even to walk as well as he."—" No," he repljed, " that was not what I wanted."—He talked of Whitefield, and ." remembered,',when he was a Freshman in College, to have come into town to the Old South church [I think], to hear him, but could not get into the house ;—I, however, saw him," he said, "through a window, and distinctly • heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it oat so that you might hear him at the meeting-house (pointing towards the Quincy meeting-house], .And •he had the grace of a dancing : master, of an actor of plays. His voice and manner helped him more than his sermons. I - Went With jonathan Sewall."---" And you were pleased with him, slr ( . 1 "---"1"= .1 ) :.! A was de lighted beyond measure."L-We asked. it' at Whitefield's return the same popularity con tinued.—" Not the same fury," he said, " not -• •- • the - same -wild- - enthusiasm as before, but- a • greateresteem, as be became more khown. He did not terrify, but was admired." We spent about an hour in his room. He speaks_very distinctly for so old a man, enters , bravely:into:long sentences, which are inter rupted by want of breath, but carries them invariably to a conclusion, without correcting a word. EMEIZSON AND 301 IN BROWN Captain John Brown, the hero of Kansas, said to me in conversation, that " for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thou sand men without character; and that • the right men will give a permanent direction to the fortunes of a State. As for the bullyinr , drunkards, of which armies are usually made up, he thought cholera, small-pox, and con sumption as valuable recruits." Ile held the belief that courage and chastity are silent con cerning themsflves. He said, "As soon as I bear one of my men say, Alm, only let me get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down,'l don't expect much aid in the tight from iat talker. 'Tis the gaiet, peaceable men, the men of principle, that make the best soldiers." " 'Tia still observed those men most valiant are Who are most modest ere, they came to war." True courage is not ostentatious; men who wish to inspire terror seem - thereby to confess themselves cowards. Why do they rely on it, but because they know how potent it iS with themselves? • ' The true temper has genial influences. It makes a bond of union between enemies. Governor Wise,of Virginia, in the record of his first interviews with his prisoner, appeared to great advantage. If Governor Wise is a su perior Mau, or inasmuch as he is a superior man, he distinguishes John „Brown. As they confer, they understand each other swiftly; each respects the other. if opportunity al lowed, they would prefer each other's society and desert their former companions. Enemies would become affectionate. Hector and Achilles. Richard and Saladin, Wellington and :Souk, General Dumas and Abdel Bader, be .come aware that they are nearer and more :dike than any other two, and, if their nation and circumstances did not keep them apart, mould run into each other's arms. MALTIWSIAN FALLACY. There , h t is been a nightmare Med in England .of indigestion and spleen among landlords and icioMlords, namely, the dogma that men breed too falt for the powers of the soil ; that men Multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst Corn