J - ME • • V:RF 4 A:D FRAZIER, EDITOR.S , . . • - . .. " THE IJA,S. T' MAN." . - — 7" • ' -. ' - ' 1 .... . *or uy MOUS CAIIPIIELL. . i The Erskine CollTiate Rerprd promulgates the folio • tg lines:2 I rg ..113. PETTICOAT CAUSTROPIII. . • t 1d , met' a dream the-other night,;_. ', When everything washushed and still, -; $ -- t. Which made each hair stand straight with fright, , ' Siff as the porcupine'alvt quill. I, ifectought that pettidoats Had grown T such a vast and monstrous sae, -Tha there *as room An them alone— Aid, ..' none for man—beneath the skies, . . The beasts and every creeping•thing • .i . d died. The flowers bloomed no more; . r . The gniss and tender herbs of Spring . . -..!, -,- ere withered on the desert shore; .. -, Ten million leagues of krinoline - I 1 S retched over all like funeral pill; l i a And on the cold' and cheerless scene, , itc sun's warm rays could never fall. • 'On The cloud-eurtained nvtk, . The last manirtood with pallid face, • Sic, trembling, weary, worn. and weak--L" Sad remnankof a smothering race. • . 'ln iain—alis! poor - Mani . in vain— . Itta 'footsteps sought thatrest °fold' rForlclouds - of skirts soon filled the plain - Sind hid the mountain in their folds, ' 1 -. 'l..- . Still jogger grew those spheres bf white, , ' thrtil they reached the summit high, - 1 An streamed above the wretched wight, L t ke snowy banners in the sky. - Ihe man looked o'er the precipice ; ake way for petticoats! he cried; 1 In plunging down the dark abyss, I - ade way tor petticoats — and died, lilt. RNINQ THEE WILL. 2 A TALE OF Min LIFE 1 - 11' cgs% dusk, es -Algernon Sloper opened the door of a sumptuous apartment, in Which ''Nat nue, now murmuring a prayer and i6w h i e bed was lin-ibae4l4 soa f asrraliengledi,n a lt e n y r a o r n m e Z. 1 i air , . and enter '.hite room•could perceive the Mid face of t 'the old - many whh, a few loirrs heforp had breathed his last. The noise made by, Al gernon awoke the nurse from her 'slumbers. She . Oook her head andsaid : , • ' ood morning, sir; you come to look `once.more at your- poor uncle i See! one woul think he slept ; a smile Won his cOun- tent' . ce. 'Alas! theskeyes are closed - foriv• erm re T.' .• . k, • 'A es, Margaret,' answered. Algernon ; 4 bu t !pon ad better,go and rest yourself. I s will ti'tea over-the corpse.' , • `•But, sire—' l - . . -•-• 'qo to the dining -redm, nurse ; your breakfast is ready—go.' i ' C " - And under this benevolent clatise he-gent- • . ]y Oushetl her out of the room, and sat don on he chair she bad occupied; after which, Cal ing a glance7at his dead urt t el, be opened ha..,e hed got shall be rich nouP•. pronounced. these words th e o d soo cu n r e ta r i ha ns :d an T ~ eis dead at last! I w!" 't - he withdrew a bunch of keys from un *lier the pillow, ran to'the desk in which the wil . was contained, opened -it, and began rea. ing- . - - 1 constitute my nephew, Algernon Sloper, solexecutor,' . ' - . 1 2 • t was time • - --•• exclaimed the heir. 'I am i t * enti led to ii-hat the lawlind society acknowl. -edgH niy right.' •._ _ And Algernon,, who for more than two • years.. 14d flared that his uncle would forger _ him}, cut tinned thus :• 4 1 ..:ph ,ilie ' will, &e., to Margaret I netietototed on .sa• of X2OOO each, for Ileum': - • •me by them durin p d=r - unds each to these peo. • ' Tiro Itg' ll §9; enough with_what they have .P 1 ' ll '. ll ° What ;folly I Come, this is but an . 2 .T. inan's madness. However. I will pay • the' as_it is impossible to du otherwise. ' bequeath to Pierrot, rn3r valet,,thc sum Of ' , PO: ': , . '," t ' t! to that Pierrot, who should have . 1: • -expelled .lung; before- now- 1 Que le I I• . e emporte2 - f .:, _ • * Mr. • Martin, , my notary,;.£2soo. I • :.=is - this sum to be added to the fortune of /if' • 'antis, his 'daughter, and my god daugh ter. i • IT - WO-thousand five hundred pouh'ds to t i t. fellow Martin ! aik 'old 'notary retired from business, who has got .a handsome house at Kensington ! • What can be thealeaning of this! It'is lost at cards, prliaps tcagar- Mil which my Miele has been ashamed to 1 • name. Oh, uncle!' the story was:true.— , • Thip I will certainty not : pay. I will see ' Makin; arid: Make _hint - iniderstand= the dis grs`p that would infallibly -befall him were he'po accept such Segacy, and if, he persists ke y will go to law. :More still 1' .exclaimed the heir turning the leaf over: • !bequeath £5OOO to Miss Chesterfield d ughter of a-brave officer, killed on the field battle, whoixi_l - del not' wish 0 know want.' `To her 1 Why the erAs•grained flirt rejected me 1 She shall not touch .a ny of it. - Ah 1 .• her,os another. ' protege.' 'There is.iisivr living in London a young barrister, whom my nephew Algernon knows -pairf•' ectly well. He is . poor; but virtuous and talented: I bequeath to the said Edward I' - estrie the sum of ..{:5000.' ' Five" a ve - -thoiisfu3d' pounds!' exclaimed A.l- i',„,moil; throwing _the- will 'on the floor.= *Tire thousand pounds to Ingeitrie my sue sful &al—in the affections of IsabelC.llc•; . • field. Never V • . ' - - AlgeFeonlot up, approached / the window, tied it ; notwithstanding ' the cold, and 1 erfooked alandscape of beautiful meadows. which innumerable flocks were resting.— i 'e ' e tiames rolled • the waters through - the estate,. and farther oh' were' forests forming part f the succession he was entitled to. ' All these, ire - mine now ; the wool of these • flooks,- these _forests, the, produce of - these fields,pll -belopg, to me .by right.: lan the-heir andf almest, sole relation to the last. possessor. • Shall I defraud Myself bylpaying vulous legacies . 1 -- • Suppose, now,' said be, r he had - shut the window and -resumed ii e ' - _seat ...liea_r the file, "suppose my uncle 148 not made" a - iill at, all; to whom would • all these riches - cornel To me only ;.'to me the• y lawfully belong ; , and :all abstracted ' -therefrom is.theft at my expense!' • - I Anti the evil sprit of avarice, cupidity, end selfishness, took possession of this um , naeful nephe4. . He forgot that he had - .-4, t ;ever been loying and dutiful -to his uncle,- ut the reverse. • -His disgraceful, - conduct had, indeed; feequently irritates his iielvi - el. Stave. r lnterested views alone' had caused him to *approach for two years past; and row,-without any moral consider,ation what wer—just listening - .to ascertain: whether here was. Any" one coming—he threw the ill into the fire.• - . • - I ' ' .. .* -- * MC _ o 1 O ISMIM . . . . . - ..•,. • , . . . 7"-- , . ••• ~. . . . . _ . ..... . . -.: ....--...... ------ . • . . ... . . r I • . • . . . . . . . . . . T !' - ' 1 • . . . •• -. , . • . . i * • ..' ." •- - --7 • •••..04ire.- - .. ''. . , . . . , • • , • • ". . - , . _ -• . . . • r - -..,... - -,., •N ~ . . . . . . . -,. • . . 1 ' . . .•• . . : 7 • . • • ..:. _ ' ~.. " . .-N, . . . . .. . _ . . . . . .. . . . . . • lit , . ~#. ~ ..,.. 4 . . . , dis . . . ...... . . • . . . . • , . I _ • .., . . , .. . .. . , . • , ' .. . . ~ , . • . . • .• . • . . • : . . ' • .-... ------- - .......:---.-- =I In the meantime I must introduce the_ reader to the yoying barrister, who,.by the nefarious act just described, is lett in a state closely allied to destitution. Edward In gestrie was denizen of an apartment .on the second floor, in a- street not yet removed from the locality of Scotlandhard. There, in the agony of defeated hopes, heightened by the impulse titan erection ever.increasing, -he paced to and fro, glancing . ever and anon at the last tlnfits of ..his beloved--his own Isabel. , IMMI At - leng th ,' 'he 'OjaCulated, my , soul is made up for'the worst ;=we bannot besunit q will 'write to that e ff ect. "The.sweet dream of years 'is annihilated'? All is now a blatikl—a ciirseL 7 darimess I. This night will I quit England forever-P * • • * • TO return to the chamber of death. There was a knock. Algernon hastily shut up -the desk, replaced the keys under hits uncle's pillow, and opened the door. It was Mr. Martin, who came to look at his deceased 'friend; and give some instructions to the young heir. am very sorry to see you • here !done, Mr. Algernon, but to be sure, you are one of the parties most interested.' one of the parties!' said Algtrnon, ea- gerly.- `;Yes! one, one of the parties.' ansv4ered the 'notary, with a piercing look. 'You will find .a will. Quite p`ossible,' answered Algernon. 'Tis very certain, for Mi. Sloper told . me so lastnight, a few hours before his death.' 'Then it will be found,' added the heir. It is in that desk,' said the notary, point ing, 'and year duty, , Mr. Algetpon, is to en force its beinLY looked for directly. 'All the servants must be present' 'Do what you think proper,' rejoinefk the nephew. - The, peqple in the house were called, the keys were withdrawn from under the pillow, the d e sk was opened, and the search, of course was of no avail whatever. The old notary, ordering every body out, remained alone with Algernon. 'lt is impossible,' said he, that there s t io ui ( l be BO will, for your uncle engaged before met° maize one, and he assured me, yosterday; that 4 , l;ad kept his wvd.' Do you sunseet my honor, S': . ! It is very stran g e that you lzve been found here alone; b ut Ido not suspect any body's honor,' said the notary, nevertheless •liqeu tonic: Your youth has been dissipa ted; your untie deemed it vicious: Many .a time you have de .seved 'the wrath o(one, to whom, - though you expected a fortune, your conduct was such, two years ago, that you were expelled from his house. He Would have disinherited you, but I remonstrated that You: were the only sou. of a brofher whom he loved, and bf a sister-in-law to whom he had promised to i think of your prosperity. I was but •tbo happy - to restore you to his esteem. , Since . that time you have behaved better, or, at least, you hr . vf appeared to do' so. God kncnv e y . . - y our your conversion has been uncle doubted it rn,..., 10 -etr s ijust? exclaimed Al ' Was. my ' ge rn qUve had the greatest trouble to insti. ‘ute you his heir,' 'The old fox has riot forgotten - hin‘self,' thought Algernon. The notary continued : • Another person wars also mainly influen tial in promtlting ybur favor with your uncle, your friend. Edwardlfngestrie.' Umph !' observed the heir I thank him not!' Now let us suppose. that this testament is not:found, 'what will you do P What 'shall I do r answefed the young man ; `I will enjoy uncle's fortune.' Of couise ; but, you cannot think your uncle Would- forget such persons as his ser vants; for whom he alwayi said that he would provide.' • . If he had wished that,' said Algernon, he would, „have made the, necessaryprovision." I must now tell you a secret, which, most likely is new to you. Your uncle has a Child I .'• • • Co - trie, njOindd Algernon, jokingly, 'you calumniate my uncle, your friend. How's this I am in !earnest sir,' replied Mr. Martin angrily. By a private and untortunate mar riage ,he became the Caber of Edward Inges. trie, as he' has been -named ' • he is an excel lent. young man; though, by his mother'i fault, banished the-paternal roof until of late. Do yo . n mean to fulfil *at least this portion tif,your uncle's intention I' 'Let that alone—my node would never hate committed himself so far---1 have too much veneratioN for his' memory to believe . 'lt is a fact; and I can assure you that many a - time he has thought-of instituting this, son his absolute heir.' , Nonsensel I will hear no mdre, sir 1 4 , - 'The notary insisted upon the will being produced. 1 The-will !' said he, the will! where is the will t--.Perbaps, sir, you were expecting a legacy The notary coolly replied : _ No; you are well aware that I am satis fled with what I have, and do not covet more; bt't for the sake of your uncle's old servants, of kilwl - rd„ conduct yourself honorably : separite some fragments of your rich legacy. lie just, my ifriend, and—approaching the death-bedon't ,make me repent of what I promised your uncle. His intentiong.were to leave others a fortune, - which he was at liberty to dispose of a he liked. I have-re stored to you the favor you had lost. Now, if the will be not found, do for otßers what they would have done for you, or else I will be obliged to exact justice.' Affecting to 'obey the notary, Algernon opened all the drawers of the desk in which Mr. Martin suggested that the will ought to be found. 'You see, sir,' said Algernon. you must -hate mistaken, the meaning of my uncle's words, or he could not have been conscious, at the time. ' "You are then certain,,sir, that these is no will 4' So, it seems : 3nd - you must be cif - the •same opinion. • 'We shall se-e s .,' said Mr. Martin ' opening the - door to the persons in the adjoining room. sTwo - years ago Mr. Sloper made la- Will, which be deposited , in my hands ; there: in he disinherits his nephew, and acknowledg ss a young man'.hy the 1311020 of F l dviard In-! "KaRDION AHD 211ON'T aatmoalli @Lawauv m4rrftosE; TORSD7O, FEBRUARY:IB, 185 gestrie as his.heir ; I have directions to en force-the execution of this will; unless one of a latter date be four kl. • I d By a mere aecide t, the Anrxe opened the window through w h ich Algernon hail just viewed his flocks, a Mrf Martin perceived near it a small bit,jof - paper, half btot, on whidh le diitingulbed Mr. Sloperrs hand writing. - - I ' Ah l' At the rems plain enough. Let to town, and jippri his good fortune. - , . i s Tis well - you are' 'you I will also. o Here is my charge and bring with you • t the same time a young lady, named Isabel ;Chesterfield. Edward,. if .1 conjecture aright, would have no objection to her r}s a cotnii , nion on a much longer I journey than this." PICTURES OF THE RAIN. Ne.ll4T every oo 6 has read and enjoyed the capital picture if rainy weather --drawn by Dickens in `pl i tak House," and' ail' will enjoy at+atempt'a the same 'deseription of painting,, in `lhe j il,azy . Tour of Two Idle Apprentices," in Household Words, which shows the same inifmitable hand. The great novelist has never Itoticlpd a scene more nat urally. Ilt makes I)noifeel damp and drippy in the reading : The d'ag curt, With Mr. ThOmas Idle and , his ankle on the !landing seat behind, Mr. Francis Goodehilj and - the innkeeper in front, and the, rainit spouts and splashes whet,ev ery made Eh. best of its way hack -to the littl Inn s ; the roken moor country look ing like iles upon tiles of Pre-Adamite sop, or the r ins of so e enormous jortnn of an tediluvi iktaast an .. water. The trees drip ped ; th Ayes of he scattered cottages - drip -1 pedi th barren s no-walls - dividing tbefand In dripped ; the ye inedor , e' s dripped ; oaks and wagons undo iltroofed penthouses, drip ped ;. melancholy ,eks and hens perched on their sbafts, or s i eking shelter underneath them,dr''pped ; M.Goodchild dripped ; Fran cis Idle dripped; the Innkeeper dripped ; the ; i mare d ipped; the...vast curtains of mist and Cloud- - that past-before him the shadomq forms of the hills streamed . -water as they we dawn ecru s the landscape. Down s...ch Riiieppitchea that the mare seemed to 'od trot l hmg on he head, and up- such steep pitches fli.lf she s emed to have a supplemen tary !elm her .Iti , the dog cart jolted and tilted 14tek to the village. It was too wet for the yromen to look out, it was too wet even fOr the child en to look' out; all the doors - and windomfs' were closed, and the'only sign of life or mo ion was in the rain-punct ured puddles. . • • I * - • . * * . Greatly•ashamel of his splendid appear anee,tti* ivu l t i v Ati l iarntnehrd,,it.as. much a : 3 P° ss * l nd i . a - corner of the little coy 'digit-ill:Cie.go that started with them from 1 Wigtorj—a most ' estrable carriage for any I country, except fo - its having a flat roof' and no hides, which ea sec the plumps of rain ac ,cumulating on t e -roof to play vigorous games of bagatell into the interior all the way, and to - score immensely. It was 'COM fortable to see ho the public coming' back in open carts. trot Wigton market made no mire of the rain ' an if its were sunshine • 7 how the Wigton policeman taking a country walk of tali' a "dozen miles (apparently for i pleasure,) in resp endent uniform, accepted saturation as Iris ormal state ; how clerks and sehoolniaste in black, , lloitered• along the road without mbrellas, getting varnish ed at every step _l. how the Cumberland girls come out to look fter the Cumberland cows, shook the ruin fro* their eyelids and laugh. ed it away ; and low the rain continued to (fall upon all, as k only doer fall in hill countries. r Wighton_mark4 was over, and its bare 'booths were smolOg With rain all down the street,. Mr. Thouras Idle Inelo-dramatically carried to the Inn' f i first flon, r, and laid upon thres-chairs-(ha should haVe had the sofa, if there had been cis,) -Mr. Ooodchnd went to the window to talie an observation of Wig ton, and report what he saw to his disabled companion: . i " I see," said Brother Francis, " what I hope and believe lo be one of the most dis mal places evereen - by eyes, I see the houses with their oofs of dull black, their t stained fronts, anfl their - dark-ri ed win dows,-looking as if they.were all► mourn ing. ,As every little puff of wi ; comes down the street, I see ti-perfect train of rain let off along the ciden stalls in the market i :, place and explode against me. I see a very big gas-lamp in te centre, which I know, by secret instinct, will not be lighted to-night. I see a pump, miih, a trivgt underneath its spout whereon toistand the vessels that are brought to be fillvi with water. I see a man come to pump, 4d he punips - yery hard, but no Water follovrs,land he strolls empty away." gar " Beauti the approach to . its threshold in& The tide of p. skin and the glow of ambi- ' tion,.went down •ith Saturday's sun ; and life's fever was Mowed by a sleep. The blacksmith's bell ,wst.grew breathless, and his-hammer lay ilent upon the anvil ;- the fitful tinkling of li`bell denoted the, last wan derer of the lk;dlc . safely in • the fold ; the mill's "big whe4" stood still, and lower sec tiorp of its battened door were closed ;, the ".Anina" of the, old fashioned mother was aired and folded .away ; thb last loaf was a t withdrawn from. he glowing cavern of the old brick` oven ; tile ' boys had 'come back from the creek, heir brown feet twinkling whiter in the gr s, and their damp hair a :I shade darker th it was; a light .glimmers dimly through he great, windows of the. church ; young ' en and maidens go by in pairs, and prettylsoon, through the shadowy air, there float tht , voices that we used to love, in Windham, Me e, and Silver Street, " Dun- dee's . wild, war, lin e measures rise," and sweet old Lorin falls , upon the. ear ; the moon•surmoun the woods, and rides a rao ment like a ship upon the leafivaves, then bears away for ' the blue water" of God's .ftean, and ove all that scene' and night, it rules. The de grows radiant and restless in the grass ben th it, as. if Earth were her mother and she really ditreathed ; the ' mists of gray that ith •• the willows fringe the stream are silve , and the memory of that hour is gold, Pood notaqi. `'Lis g'~ some one instantbeipost ;e Edward Ingestrie of re you .going, Aephion ti honest fellow; and to nfide another charge— call at—and present it, rl exceedingly . ," used to - be .unday in old times, with e of a Saturday night. MMM Rpm the Nistieingl Ere.. THE LOVE . KNOT-. Ilt 11011 AC Titan her bonnet under her chin, She tied her raven rinflets in; • But not alone in the silken snare, Did she catch her lovely floating hair, • For, tying her bonnet under her chin, She tied a young man's heart Within. They were strolling together up theltill, • Where the wind comes blowing merry and Chill ; And it blew the curls affichielosome race, All over the happy, peach-cOlored'hice,.. Till, scolding and laughing, she tied them b, Under her beautiful, dleassled chin. And it'blew a color, bright sathe bloom • Of the pinkest fuchrialsrlossing AU over the cheeks of the;,,prettiest girt That Our imprisoned a roroping.turl, Or, in trying her bonnet under ber chin, Tied a young man's hersit'svithin. Steeper and ifeetteilpeir ;Sethi-, ' Madder,' merrier, chillier, still, The western Wind blew down and played The wildest tricks with the little meld, As, tying her-bonnet under her chin, She tied h young man'a.beart within.. 'Oh, western wind, do you think it was fair To play such tricks With her floating hair? To gladly, gleefully, do your best, To blow her against the young man's breast, Where he as gladly Bilged her in, And kissed her mouth and her dimpled chin? 01r, Eilery Vane, you little-thought, An hour ago, when yobesonght This country less to walk with you, After the sun had driedthe dew,. What perilous danger you'd be in, As rbe tied her bonnet' nider her chin. SELF-TAUGHT, HEN. • Wendell Phillips said in his address st Proxidence the other day, there 'here many. 'lands of education: • - There was the education of Harvard and Brown', and there was the education of the N.'. Tribune, and the latter kind was quite as valuable as the former. Doubtless in the general dissemination of the treasures of lit ; erature and the elaborate powerh of journal ism, which 'our age and land enjoy and-recog nize, tin ambitious, youth may by lonely studies cultivate himself almost up to the university level, and be as worthy of the. ' master's degree' as any full-fledged collegi an, In this way the graduate of th'e Tribune and Post, dm, although he may not actnally win the spurs of an intellectual knighthood, may be as worthy of, them as any petted student of classic , cloisters whose graduate ship is rounded by the magical diploma. Edward Everett, in hip recent brilliant ad dress before the Harvard Alumni, in depre cating the argument drawn from the success of men whurhave never seen a college,'took the ground that such men now often had the best instructors in the printed pages to which they had cheap and ready. access. Tully, he said, and Demostheir, and Cicero and Vb.- aiLlarsauxut,ebeir-JawfaAuteasiand ,„ Prefereel , . emulate. This is al true, and it is a grati fying sign of the times, and of the country where it, is possible. It announces and her alds the elevation of all humanity. It is the best oroclaniation, of philanthropy, better than incendiary addresses, better than inces sant agitation. • But While this fact is a sort Of signal gun of the commencing elevation of the masses, it is no less true that, to avail himself of it, a young man must have qualities within him of an order superior to those of the class for whom schooling comes ready made. It is one thing to float through a college _curri culum, in the fair winds of classic association and prescribed studies and ample explana tions, and quite another thing to tug away all alone,plawing the wave unaided. The knowl edge gained may be nominally the same, but the self-taught man has more real power in his knowledge, a thousand times more than the regular academician who Was rocked and dandled into what learting-he has. On a larger theatre in statesmanship, we see the same thing exemplified. Your self:, taught man of empire will bdat your routine or diplomatic statesmen all hollow. Lori Palmerston is a red tape statesman of regu lar diplomatic growth and .preeedefict.— Louis .Napoleon is a self rriAde man: He has consulted no teacher tilt his ovrn said and the star of the great, unck ; and accordingly before the parapets of-the Malakoff - the star of England's prowess paled its ineffectual fires,' eclipsed by the Gallic meteor. The earlier ,age of American statesmen was distinguished by, men of full 'culture, and sometimeSof elaborate accomplishinent ; but the latter tittle has been prolific of a crop of political commanders-in-chief. No man can now hold or rise to power who has not. sympathy with the lowly million. If he has risen by the force of his own mental muscle and indomitable will from them, then he is their child, and they know him through their hearts. If he has not done this, but has been trained in the upper air of professions I aristocracy; then „he must educate himself again to the popular level, If he would rise upon the popular shoulders: It is in the adaiiration felt for the order of self accomplished men, that the philosophy of some' sudden rise to great , povier in Anierica rs to be looked for. The lute Speak er hf the National House of Representatives is an example, bOili Of.the real power gained by an independent battle, with studies, and of the vast popular homage such an intellectual conquerer arouses. His career is a little -miniature within itself of American life and- American glory. The, National Intelligen eer, whose editors have personally watched 'the most famous leaders of Congress for for ty years, declared that N. P. Banks made firmer presiding officer of the-House of Rep resentatives than any other Speaker, save Henry Clay, since the union wait formed.— Hera y Clay, - was another self made 'man.—. Ho took his diploma in the dashes of Vir-, glide. N. P. Banks took his In- the machine shop at Waltham.' Tile people of America called Henry Clay not "Master of Arts," but master of hearts, and the people of Mass achusetts are about to admit N. P. Banks ad eundem gradem, to the same degree. rgy . "Call that a kind man !" said an'actoti speaking-of an absent acquaintance—" a man Who Is ;may from` his family,and never sends them a farthing! call that kindness 1" " Un. remitting kindness," Douglas Jerrold chuck. led. Mr Some genius has conceived the brill iant idea to press - all the lawyers into military service, in case of war—bees se their charges are so great that no one could stand them. ~. • _._: :~.._.... __:..:=:i:~ We have seen, again and terly pet verted by self-love, red by fanaticism, wit poisol lence, health shattered, exis vanity pampered, confidence - the erratic, unprincipled; w Ilectual gifts. This tragic re of literary biography, so tha have blessed the fate which to harmless mediocrity. Tb exceptions to so general a r full of satisfaction and redol the case of Sydney Smith w i lightfnl, spectacle of a mind ..I ulates thefife . which it e ee Humor was the effioreseence the play that gave him stren cordial held by a kindly ha, er's the sunshine of ho human intercourse, the mu: marched in duty's rugged of this magic quality, he re' meal from -heaviness, the from fatigue, narrow circu pression, and prosperity fri He illustrated simultaneous) content and the beauty Portland' stone, instead of hearth? -Innocent mirth a made those around it obliv Must a paper border take nicd? taughinglechoes htm more than arabesque orna walls deilitute of preeio knew how to glotify them Did he lack costly furnituo roses atoned for the want pelled to entertain his goes, He found compensation in I 'urnished for a comic eked! nine race interfere with banished them by a mock ages. Was his steed ugly to throw his rider 7 119 na ity" or " Peter the 'Cruel," from their joint til*lps. lumbering and ancient? ll ever suggestiVe of quaint herd of deer beyond his m 4 antlers on•donkeys, and di ter from aristocratic eye! greens look dim at Christi images on their boughs and ical landscapes. Was als Wcovered a " porcelain as a friend too voluble "flashes of science." W 1 ceti beyond his means? L house with mutton lamps tion. "A Fat woman, a hotl heavy sermonizer, a dandy shire peasant',—people others would only excit turned instinctively to the His hous . ehold at Foston i. of Dickens. Bunch, A iina =Malik 9.14-Pict" and bits of Flemish still-li: up a novelist. He turtle , to a hive Of bright though walk into a chapter of ph mestic animals, humble 'employes, to the oppresse sick, the market-woman, extended as ready and int thy as to the nobleman a was more thankful for: o:lod.cornpaniaship than preferment. He reveren not less than the triunipl teemed potir Richard's Macaulay's rhetoric ; tho the greatest evil, and °cc moral necessity of existee in talking nonsense, while most vigorous powers of - Tuckerman. 7 Recent Discovekies nh as to abit . is I It has long been known that the moon re solves units axis in the ame time which it revolves round the earth, hilq the opposite side is• never seen from o r globe. No bod ies of Water or clouds ca be seen on, the moon by the aid of the Trost powerful teles cope, nor is the apparen direction of the stars close to its edge chi god by refraction, as woUld'be the-ease if an atmosphere envel oped the moon. Hence i has been inferred by Whewell, the reputed author of a late work, entitled, "Of Plu ality of Worlds," that the moon has no at osphere or water, and consequently - no inh bitaats. This in- Arence is shown to be in tonclusive ,by a re cent discovery or the , •tronomer Ire!, whose study of the moon' motion, co ued for many`yeeis, has estab ished the fact that the centre of gravity oft e moon, instead of being like that of the ear, h, at the center of figure, is beyond - that c nter, and further from the side next to t e earth- than it is from the other side, by aventy:four, miles. The nearer side of the tititi, therefore, is a vast expanded pis:Aube dace of mountain, seventy-tour milers high ;.• lid the of, tflieth er air or water, would fl. .ownwarcis tidal the nearer), ie further side of the moon, where, for aught that e know, intelligent living beings may exist. The nearer side of the moon cannot be inh.bi,ted, at, least by beings to whose existent.• air, and water are essential, as is the case with all terrestial animals.' The late celebr.ted mathematician, Gauss, proposed, as a 6 sm -ails of settling the question, whether the in. on was- inhabited, that a huge monument s.ould be erected on the steppessof Siberia, a ' a sional to the in habitants of the moon, in ope that they might be induced toyetect a site lar signal to apprise us of their existence. discovery of Han sel shows that such ati ex riment could be at tended' with no success, nasmuch as the .in habitants of-the moon, if here are any, tieing on the further side, coal never see a mon ument on the earth. It' ay _not be uninter esting to add, that it h been discovered, within a few years, by m ans Of .long-contin ued • hourly observations , with a barorileter, that the moon limas an pFeciable influence on the pressure of the atmosphere; and, also, by means 'of long- ontinued magnetic observations, that it-ex is an influence on the declination of the m netic needle.—hos ton Courier. figr Virtue is no sec What can be more uprig and editors Yet both bop ed. " I am not afrai , der, tie "I presume n rel olvider would run at WRORIO," SYDNEY SNU `gain, genius mit sefulness mar ed by mtileyo ,t enee abridged, ' destrlyed 7 by • And tit, intel ik . ult. is the staple prudent souls nsigned theT rare and swept' le are there I, l Jn if !IA of . in witn the de. .hat rarely reg and adorns.— of his in telledt, th fur labor,the to etreiy 'broth. ne, the flavor of le to which he iflath. By virtue eetned the-daily needful journey, stances ifilith'ile. m 'materialism.y the power of holiness. .11Qad arble, frame Tis d a •Clear blaze ous of the defect. he place of a cor- I, the room with ent. Were the s limning? He with sunshine.— ? Children and Was he corn- . with ruspc fare ? he cantdials thus h. Did the m a comfiirt? He eport of law-dam slow, and prone t ed titn" Caitlin ' and dreW a farce Was his coach , • repairs were for •fa'ncies. Was a pans? He fastened' aw'tears of .. Did. the,ever las 1 lie tied or dreamed of trop dy too fine? He underbtanding;" - - He enjoyed his re - oil and sperma e illuminated the .f his own Mven , day, it radical, a , a stupid York= d things that in. . nnn Oy MI co, —he account a picture worthy , nie Kay tligtly „. 41.oantu tut cnaracters is e, which might set a bay-window in i s, and a random losophy. TO do • arishioners, rustic the erring, the nd.the poacher, he Iligent a sympa the scholar. - He nimal spirits and or reputation and •d material laws : of 'intellect ; ea aiinis as well as ght self-reproach pation the chief ce. 'He believed he exercised the -easoning.—H. T. ' hether the Noon d. . frity in this world. t thliQ pump logs, are destined to be. of a barrel of cf t; I.ry3se, tke bar your approach." PUBLISHER---NO! t 4.„.2kfc;. For the Independent Republican. COURAGE AND PATIENCE„ - • • Do lire's clouds look dark and threaening7 !Is thy path with thorns hoof— ' Courage! for through Persevering '• • Thou shalt reach the haven fet. 'Mid the thorns, are ropes blooming ; Do not crush iheinVithstiinipesd ; Rest beside life's crystal fountains - - 'Gather itrengih'for'tittitrof need. Clouds will come, and storms will gather—' Thunders mutter through the blast— - 4'atience-I for the sun doth affrays Shine the brighter, when they 4 ve passed. Dintoek, Pa. Ina Arrow ANECDOTE OP DANIEL WEBSTER. 1 A travelling coireip.oliffent, of the New diticim, relates the following : It reminds 'one rather strongly of the story that is told abot -Billy 'Grav e as hp was.popularky ealltd, carI LI ying home from the market a joint of lifet which a briefless attorney had purchas ed, and 'wits too proud to be Seen berrying it 6'1.60 the street. 'But true Or ; false, the story is a good one. 1 " As we passed throught s tbe tOiep,of 14 ars'- field, near the country residence of Mr. Web ster, 'Where he usually .spends She slimmer months in gheriing and fishing, 4 1 was remind,. ed of an anecdote of him, told, me a yea- or' two since. The narrator was a highly re-, spectable member of the Society of Friends, and has ffequently been in 'the Massachusets Legislature. Being a neighbor'of Mr. Web ster, be related it as having transpired with- in his personal knowledge. A. young blood from the South who was sojourning in the vi cinity of Boston, went down to Marshfield to avail himself of the rare treat it affords to sportsmen by-its abundant sea-fowl. Having had fair luck, as ho was wending his-fatigued way across the marshy grounds of a well Cul: tivated farm to the road, he clone . upon a lit tle arm of the sea bp end - down Which the. tide ebbs and flows. Its banks were filled to the brim. He ivandered along the nntrgin to find a bridiribet-WitbOat success. _lie was. I doubting as-to die heat mode - of extricating hiniself from the dilemma, when be spied a farmer, some fifty rods distant, with aslouch hat and his coat off. He went to hirb, and asked him to carry him across the creek—of faring him half a dollar to do it. The dark browed sturdy-built Yankee, dike his . kin dred; , 9yer readi to turn an honest i i3enny, of bantering awhile about the prite,actept- ed the Moposal. lie came to the banic , ,and bowing his broad shoulders to the ground, told the sprig of chivalry to hop on. And on he hopped, and' in the sturdy.. yeoman planged, the water being about up to his arm pits, and safely landed-the dandy sportsman high and dry, on the other' side. The half dollar iVas instantly proteredond as-instant ly refused. Infe.-ring that the firmer thought it too small a slim, the genteel cit offered him ed. As the young gentleman eyed the Soak ed clothing and 'muddy shoes 'of his ferry man; he thought it a pretty hard •bargain at best, and offered hiin a dollar. -With a wave of the hand, _and a' No— you're welcome,' a tnde.slid over the dark countenance of the Mari;hfielder, as. - .bidding the city buck a good afternoon, he plunged itito the creek and regaining the opposite bank, moved 9ff towards the distant firm house. The surprised sportsman laid his course for a company of men who were mak ing hay some half a mile off; and accosted them—` Who is that man z going through yonder field?' What—the/one with his coat off'l' Yes.' '-Daniel . Webster.' . ' Daniel Webstc -tick south erner ; Boston.'" up 4. The Boston Ledger, of a recent - date, pub tshes the following: . In 1787, a youth, then residing in Maine, owned a jack-knife, which he, being of a somewhat trading andpmcniey-making dispo- - sition, sold for a gallon , of West India rum. ' This he retailed, and with 'the proceeds pur chased two gallons, and eventually a barrel, which was followed in due time with a large stock. In a word, he got, rich, sad became , the 'Squire of the district• through the 'poi session and sale of thejack-knife, and an in-• domitable trading industry. He died 'totth property, in real estate and money, valued at $BO,OOO. - This was divided, by testament; among four children—three boys and a girl: Luctjohich seemed to have been the guard ian agel of the father, "deserted the children; for every folly and extravagance they could engage in seemed to occupy their exclusive attention and' cultivation. The daughter married unfortunately t and her patrimony was soon thrown away by her 'spendthrift of husband. The sons were no mote fortun ate; and two of them died- of 'dtssipation,• and in almost poverty. • The daughter also died. The last •of the Tardily, for many years past, has lived on the kindness of those who knew him in his days el; prUsper.lty, as pride would nay' alltw him to gti Lb the . pohr far/ ft. A few days ago he died, Suddenly and 7 unthtended, in a barn where he had laid himself dowh, to take a drunken sleep. On his pockets being exam ined, all that was found; ti them w ' a's a small . piece of string and a jack-knife ! SO, the for tune that began with an impleinetit of .that kind, left but its, simple duplicate: ' We leave the moral to be ''drawn, in ,whatever fashion it may suggest itself to the Telater simply stating that the story is a :true one, and all the facts well known Co Many wtiom this relation will doubtless reach., A GOOD JOIEZ.-A Prussian journal of the Lower Rhine tells a very good juke of a re ligious community thereon, who,., appreciat. tr:g the long and able services of 'their faith: ful minister, unanimously resolved,ws a slight testimonial of the same, .to prese It him this jrcat of aliountifill vintage, each•with a bot tle of white - wise. The minister, of course, duly sensitive to this delicate tribute of love and affection, as well na%prett,y proud of it, as an evidence that his miniit4 gid not been altogether vain, at oanstderable' expense prepared, in his cellar, a huge ornamented cask, into which on the - appointed day ari• peered every member of 'his flock and emp tied his bottle. 'But what was the- surprise of the minister s - as well as of ; the generous donors, on - tasting from the nows,OireilTOwing cask, to find - that it was not win es but water ! A strange thingdeltainly, and rwhich , we • have no other explanation than this, that ev erimetnber of the society Was bf the esme Oes, t h at one bottle of water wciuld-not,b4k noticed is a. whole ask, . . • MI WEARING. The follow trig waif, which we find-unercd ited in an exchange, would seem to •be-from &female ri'en. It is'a shame that the beat things said by the best writers are thus sto len and hawked about- by everytxxiy, - wlth out a scruß of conscience: • Don natoNAL Tiyou.Acs.,— is 'itiero any country besides ou 'own, - where : the AI- - .mighty.is so often called upon to send perdition the souls of those who Offebd each other? Everykhere, that horrid imprecittion, so familiar that - it, is unnecessary Co shock you by writing it, meets the pained ear. I say pained, because I, for one, cannot abhor it-less on account, of its frequency, or con sider itleislisgusting because , it filters thro' aristocratic lips. 'Everywhere it pursuei me . ; 'in 4ro;wded streets, in omnibuses, and, T. 'ern sorry to say, in retirements which should af ford a refuge from thedisgusting habit. From, old men, whose toothlesaliPs mUtii ble it almost inarticulately, from those who; _ would resent to the death any .question of their claim to the title ofzeptlenml,c.r9Eit . young Men, gloriCiis else , in-the strength and' vigor of youtbN and, • der still,. fro th little' children, Who - h i live•caught the trick, and-ban dy Curses 'ht their iports. An oath from At child's lips! One would 'as. soon expect. thunder-bolt from out the heart of nose.;--- Anityet there iv .. .3' those who deliberately" teach little children to 'swear, and ,think" it Fport, when the rosy lips, with Childiskgrace, lisp the deinoniac lesson. . An oath from tr woman% lips - ! With shud dering lavror we'shrink away, and ask Wfhat bitter cup of wrong, suffering, and despair, Man has doomed her to drink .to' the dregs, ere she could so - belle.her womanhood. One lovely moonlight-night, I Was . retatti, ing late from the opera, with a"gintlexhat. friend, the delicious tones I had heard stil.; flOatingthrough my charmed bruin. Sudden ly, from out a dark angle in a-, building wo passed, issued a Woman, old not :in yews, but in misery, foit her long brown' hair cur rained a face whose beauty had been, its , dir. est onkse. To my dying day, I shall never forget the Ibirrid paths of that wretched! wo : gum, as 41113 faced rhemoonlight and me;-- Pethitim I had.evoked some vision of-happi e'r "days, when she, t.,0, had a protecting art; to lean •u n; sufe I am, could e inivr; read 'ffty heart; she would not have camel me. Oh, the dreadful reckoning to\ be re quired at the hanct3 ot fan vrho defaced thi, .ample of the living God, and l 4 its shape. [esti; blackened ruin ! • , THE F. E. MaNza.‘=" We really cannot comprehend," says an - exchange, ," wby that respectable English letter Y should 'be dis ). carded. from the termination of Christian names and the wo letters 1 and E substituted! It does •not , sa e. time, and it is positive 'i s, - . as as aii ending is not a bit more refined t _pr ele- - ;Van ' -ct ii o ‘ntiler -41:asiiiihgniPiiit-4 8 -41 i .i - ng o t ~ have before ni a catelogui of the Yquitig ladies • of a `Female College, )9Caled less than a • thouiand miles distant, , aii'd And ttie gocd oh! y knocked 'out of Aht2s , , At present;,it L. Bettie and Pollie, r and Sallie an,tl Mollie Fannie and Mattie, and Peggie r and i'aiti* : Marie and Kittie, and Addie and - Mittia ', Jennie - and Nettie,. and Josle and Hattie, and many others. too numerous to mention.- But. the grand finale of this . I E. veriueY . mania is that the other. sex, are adoptinOt • —Substantial Billy Mbody hiving reeehtly, efferminized himself into RilVe Moodie, Esq. \\. A FATAL CASE.—OId Polly Snaith Was terribly plain woman. - She .would harc borne off the jackknife from all competitors; and given them the odds of fifty Ilart in tlfe race. She was endlessly' complaining:of her . aihnenta.ot various kinds, was Mrs..Stiaith; to the no small annoyance of such listeners as she claimed to hold, as „did the ancient mariner the wedding guest s , by the spell: .ot her glittering eye,' and nq one ,was more - ..ann4ed than old Dr. Bolus,, a Cynical old fellow of her neighborhood: Meeting Mrs. Snaith one one morning, he ventured to salute her with the usual compliment , of the morn ing; with the accustomed " - How do r' Fatal mistake ! " Why;4cioctor, feql putty thank'e. My old complaints .. Is troubling, 'There never wake poor crea ture that suffered more than I do, Pains and aches, and pains all the - time!" I ' 41 But," interruted the. doctor,. growing,, impatient,. "you don't look very 'sick." ."No•" replied she, it I ktlow I don't; but I feel a icmid deal worse than I look." •" bood helv4n !'' cried the doctor, throwik, pp . "the yo u had better make futile .yOti I can't. live en hour!" .Mrs: Snaith had the . good sense to know what he meant., and nay ' er made anymore complaints tO•hilti. Tus SATIN BIRD. 111 " ThieNlcotouie,s or. Australia, Mr. Samuel Sidney days; "In • the Murray Shrub—a beautiful but barren belt Of shrubs and. plants from .15 to 20 miles in breadth, which runs parallell to the ;fiver for many milei between Lake Alexan. dria and the greet Bend in latitude 34 deg. , S.—a great number of the rare birds and an finals of Australia are to be seen; 'amongst. others, the- lepioa, or mould•buildiiii bird, improperly named by the doloniate the ,wild turkey, is found in greet thirribera j..iind the satin or bower bird, yillich builds a bower for . its mate so curiously arched'and adorned,„ with shall and shining stories that when Mr:- Gould first discovered ons, he took it for playground of some aboriginal ch[ld," GOT IT OFF Mrso.--=Chltdren are', fools, says an old adage, always tell the truth. "Mother sent me," said a little girl to.i: neighbor, "to come and ask you to take to:. with her this evening." Did' she Say at , what time my dear 1" " No ma'am . ; s4Cnr c ly said she would ask Siou„and then the thi n would he off her mind ; that all she 610.1. ar Here's a' gem from Dombey thn' wirinever grow dim : " She dieiirsaid Pol ly," and was never seen agaik for' she', wa.. buried in the, ground where; the trees ittovi'Z l " In the cold, - ground I" said thts "No; the warm ground;' repliea "where the iseedirare - tutued into beauttiui flowers, and where - good people-t Urn int‘osan. gels, and fly away , to heaven." - _ A SENBIIIII Jution. udge Closson, ot Windsor (Vt.) Probate District has decided' that, a good-family newspaper _,ltOne the necessary:articles fin. the support.ote fiiiiiy during' the settlente,nt of en Witte, ad! a • such,-.the adminiitrator,- in, an initolv'ent est ok: is justifiable in plying. : tot oner-thi wideW to make 'her own selectioni.. \'. ;;, p,oi .
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