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- , • spontanenua groivth:- We are all deseti-'
Jaited. -
•• . ,- • . : '.We copythdfollowinif beautiful eitracts , •of men whoie!bones were hardened'-
.•.
e.siriet: ' ''" ' • ' .sinews were knit in a : -forchm cli
• from Professer-Allen'sleetuie on The Amer - • • , • ' • - • • -*.
.••
I not the postenty of these vet
infiint:..sink i ng dowu,ki loan Race,"- delivered . id:Trinity 111. E.' Chitieh i rootv , firmg r c e - e l op - I: ,' r o as t ° ,
the grave-"the strong titan i Phil., on - The,fith Met . --!- •r-- - •'. 1": : -. , , promised lancl:of libert ,
g
out his soul Ott the field- oft : •th,'
Isetable . cenviet - stinditig up'on Premptingsef the DivitiLiqi;: . • -!' 411 P "4 ag e ,
'- '
'l'.• Ifwelurn:frinft•tiatitiriti to' individualie .....;,,„,.,,,„.,: .1111.- aan
ate
, with a: deep course ituivering• on : '
shall
„fi n d th a t ever y t ai nt w ho h n ,,, s . labia matk
1
1
. lIIIVO vweid death ikon its • forms Itnpou his,age . ,aud ; country r i has.felt.- an •assu, -.- : :.gi 4 "
'ranee. that he Was called,. as be the_ audible'
,-,....
,ess and venge'ance.wlthlt tearless. eye
.01 1 -.wctuan, ' young 1 veite . of God, le b. ,Werk, and, that lie Was - en -,l' '
dowed with nbility , to 'perftirin' it. ' ' You 'ay.
tov i, e ' l ll v e t ' s e •o r ra c a b l u 4 li f i ad lo ing k away from theearth
withberettututfiefietili.rragadth
eull.teCQl)ll.ll?-fOhelii/111421agnSlinbefillinfeCht°121'.rn 11 !
htielecenxtftehssei.Gcluolardfiatlinilttlni.oltiltlvinit-Aillehsisandsevr,•w'
Idarkit ale in the 'Roman .cenque - '
~I.to tears and dust. Death is, always terrible--1
ail but, when a form of angel beauty. is passing , h e says t o the pet h i • ft -t ot e pe • s ,
thql/e4 ll 1 you carry: (Acme! • :"Ilear .it
I . It ,was about ten 0'.. 1 ----•• - ' • •
to_the•boatm .
‘inishea toe my 5 Dream— has' 'off to 11w silent lan i d or o e ( 4 : ; S i l n ee t p h e e nt, uturerse
is
reply
of
Toi
~. . y
I
beceetest perfume— As' ive 1 feels that Something
be corn- ceasing -from eiistence,. and broods with" a i tempest, declared that
late - .• , : We • sense of utter-desolation, Oyer the lonely tiles, cross the lake :—.‘, r
a league:ln 1 that come up like spectres,. from the grave cal
-I , ed" In Maii.'' possible, bat 1 k
.1 of sueke . ..ri- haunt our tot night =Sings,
.tiog Our course 1 TWo years ago, I took up my residence for . ' warn i ngs
,es . frcim . it, we de-la few weeks in a country village in thoeastern ! ', ra j,.
a ,broad terrace, and.; parker New England. Soon after my,arrival 1 N i ,,,
.tother terrace. These [1 became-acquainted with a lovely girl, appa. I -
extend circularly around i rently about seventeen yeain Of age. She hod
tike the seats of a vast am- • lost the idol of her heart's purest love, am'
- - '' - " shadows -ordeep:and holy memories wr
to this tolutim; our•steps are ing like the wings of death -upon I ,
..tie margin of a•Vastgulf; fifteen I first met her in the presence e•
A deep, and-from eight to ten miles She was indeed a creature. t
,erence, whose battom is tke seat of ••het brow was garlanded
Abst remarkable Volcano on the globe, childhood—her yaw
..reanitauluca., Wait here till night (do- cautifullyandlov
around us,aad, we a seene'of moved throne) "
.wful Sublimity. laver •the itnnienSo'•are.a -- or I ing and une
-1 tliatgulf - will the volcanic ageney beneath bo 'gazer air
4i:extended. Ever and anon, and .mingled in air, lit
1$ strange .discord„, will,hiSsings, and groanings,. Sl .
. SU lroutteriugs and thanderings, - be 'heard rollinft
4 :P un r from
.Side te.sidei, and making the earthly
ett'si an We aroma Thee front One and :math'
t eante eone-.-perhaps from fifty—reill
~,otafteri t
su : intt lave bOrst, •forth • • red hot s'
the ladder the r • '
driven ftuaously upward ' ; yr
4. hre a • i li a l l i d p ;. 4) 7 lth ieh e and dames. will: be •pourd •
In t . • - and jagged macs of that
• Iwith unearthly. sple , "
eared as if heaven and .%
ill J ukes of h . r'
nether;". a tyke iterate t l n - ii . ,,..,• ~,..e : t e, , I°
Aiigined.
.13tfore I geese -- in , d,,,,i. 1 7,,*:. i. ;-
.tjusted themsehes,lhe blood "',
, ... , ts not
.1 the- decks- as freely as: if a t o te •
had beee turned over, and ,ia-
dead,. wooraded and dying were
ran-as apidly 'as • men . could o -
,ii the cockpit was filled, with
for the the surgeons:to work., IP
.e handed down with one leg.
ne arm, and others wounded'
• shape f andeontirion.. • An --
Ithe table having .his r
, sing oat to ar.oeni-5.,3
cal. j" Welt, shipmate
1 Anothec.wouP
make the t*
• 1 frei we
-led'r
ocy, i 9
are!
g room,
,se for hours,
Attie maid er-'
As aiudow f'
.0 her vice '
4 desk it
sod the"
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,&t, B. ettAsp. PROPRIETORS
01.1 Po OcktracT.
Written for the Democrat.
STANZAS
In Memory or F. E. D.
Withered the tily,bud.
Broken the steal ;
The eye will it gladden
Teter again,
Faded the petals lie
Mingled with mould;
O'er them sweep winter-winds.
Cheerless and cold.
Vanished the lily's breath—
btreetest perfume—
Whither?—Makes it fragrant
The finwert's tomb?
Not there may you seek it—
Not there' is it found;
Look ntzerfar incense
Under Ike groan&
To (Users it rises—
Home birth—
When broken, the censer
Falls to the earth.
],cart thou the fragments there,
Grit.re not their lois;
They *l4ll unite again
fl,ft of their druss
A Household Dirge.
A sis costs" loss to Paradise,—
. .
And LIeCT an Earth the child grew older."
Rama
rye loal toy Ellie May at lust:
She perisheJ is the Spring,
When earliest flowers began to _bud,
AIM enrliebt birds to sing ;
I laid bee in a country grace,
A green and :{treat,,
'jumble tablet o'er bet bead.
And rio:ets other Met.
I weed that she were back again,
In all her childish Woom ;
My joy sad hope bare followed her,
My heist is in her tomb!
I burr that slut is tow etemay.,
taw that sag as.fled,
I mist her everywhere. tod yet
I cannot think her dead
I rake the children up at dawn.
Aid sa F a simpleprayer,
Anddrex them round the morning meal.
Bat us is Imo ti=rg there!.
lee a little chair apart,
A little piunatoro,
Li Aleatory fills the cacancp,
As time triII—DEVELOIO:4;
1 is withut my quiet room,
Alone, and nite for hours,
And miss the little maid again
Among the window towers,
AM MISS her with her tins beside
tly desk in silent plity;
And then I tarn and look for her.
Bat aim has florws away
dam my idle pen, and hark.
And catch the faintest snood;
She anal In playing 4id e•aud•seeir
• h shady UNktiarEalu•S;
&ell tame and climb my chair. again.
And peep my shoulders o'er;
I tint t stiffed laagh,--bat on,
Sbecemeth stereemuare.:
I waited only zectr-night,
"The eventing terrier read,
Ana letgarei (et lay iLel's kis&
Deforeshe cent to bed;
Forgetting de tad gore before.
La *lsbell soft and sweet,
A enactment above her head,
And violets at her feel
Incredible Punishment
4A great book is a great etil.," says ma 121
lot uriter—aa axiom which an unfortunate
itionn author felt to his cost.
%ill. t was at Moscow," says a traveller,
own° volume, was published in farm; of
fie nitrites of the people ; a singular subjects
cht oausiddr the place where the book
tupfuned. In this work, the iniquitous re
thy of the public functionaries, and even:
'i:redact - of the , sovereign, was scrutinized
tat ceasured with great freedom. Such, a
tolksad in such a country, rtaranall ettcnet",
t 4 r-betA entice and the offender was tasen
ititattody. After being tried in a summary
titid
itytis , production was detertnined to be a
,rad he true condemned to eat his own
luck The siuguiarity of the sentence, in
duct ate to see it put into execution- Jk
Sate was erected in one of the• most pub-,
,L ti gnats in the city ; the imperial Provo" ,
nia t t444 l9, the physicians stud the sur-1
Mot of the CU: attended.; the book was
every
• frost the binclina, the margin cut off
7en
buPtoled up rake a lottery ticket,
taken out of the wheel: The author
T l 5 then eared with them leaf by leaf; the
oat who put them into his month, to the
divertio u sf th e -s t sedatort s and be'
g
! l obliged to swallow the unpalatable food, j lof the knout, in Russia more feared
"'' 4311 1- As soon as the medical gentler
l te of the opinion that he .had . received ,
nuttotnath w
as much at a time as as con-'
no , t trint Ids safety, the transgessor was
'5 1 44 tri prisoa,,and Th e business was re
rpf two following day's; after three
4 nt 3' but unpleasant mealu, 1 •Imi
ufkular proof, that every leaf "of the
-”u Intuit!), swallosied." •
•
_
1,.T710;
„or, AirEcTiox.--Cherisit 'your .
4aLetions. Indulge in the warm
greZ e l elt mtiwiaT hink et' filial. parental, and
tr, Root weakness. Grid
/4147718 God, ev ery -60 dY) and OM
hi e; t 0 i: 4 4 ,,,° 1 „,,T 1 Y• Teach your children to.
' ne - - mie--•to lore the robin-40
glee r en ts-40 lotOtheir.God. 14t, it
4,,„teulemedwobjeet of their climes - fie colt9te
beet
hearts, ardent
„Strectionii•
tre t eordi rot 11 anily .together by, these
, /et!' cannot tnitioi , thettc too
14 1 „ 1100 is love--loce - to God, and
r• tart,
- i - iEj
agatuttitfuom'o.
Worn the NOw 179rk. ZreningPßzt.
• ... -
The Captur e - of the eterrier. by
. •. the Ocaistitaticin •.-. , 1
• : .
•
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Amer
Mnssns. EDITORS:—Having been tin"
lean prisoner onboard the Gaerrier during the
famous battle- between that frigate . and: - the
United States, frigate' Constitation f l: prOpose I
giving yen an account ef, that„impor4nt ac.'
lion, whi;:hlook place in June-0.812.. , ; 1
_ Abont two weeks privions'.t6 the engage-
ment, - I left Beaton in an Ainerican Ship, Which
was etpturett la - y - the Guerrier five days before
she fell in with the Constitution... --' ' 3
It was about ten Co'clocrk ;in the morning,
when the Constitution was discovered. - The
,Gnerrier . hove to, to enable her to come, np.--
l As the ConstitutiOn neared. ns,CaPtain Dawes
handed me his glass and asked me What Itzek
her to, be! My reply- was; "She lonks.like a I
frigate." . Very soon she came Within reach of
the long guns of the Guerrier; whiChAverel.l
:red, but with nb effect, as the - sea ran liigh.-- 1
The Con . stitution.made no reply, but, - as I tiaiii; I
I was manderring for a position—daring which I
'time Captain Dacres said to me, ."Do DM '
think she is going to strike without fitiogr
treplied,-" I think not,, sir.". ... t i - .
•At this moment; seeing a severecenteSt
was about commeneing,'M which Ucould take
-no part, being only a prisoner, I raised my hat
to Capt. Dacres, and said to him- , -" With your 1
l permission, sir, I will go below, as I can tal. ,
no -pare"- ; "0, certainty," said he, "and yob. i
had better go to the cockpit, and should-an • 1
of. our men get wonnded, I• shall feel oblige.
r if trio will assist the surgeons in dressin ir,
I them." "Certainly, sir," said I, and then dftl
I seended into the cockpit. There were the stir". i
Igoons and surg,eone•attendants; sitting around
`
t a long taint., covered with instroineuts; and
;neeesszwieska dressing the . woure'ed, as Istill
ias a funeral. Within one moment.afterl my
f oo t left the lower'round of the ladder; the 1
Constitution gave that double broadside, which
.
I threw all in the cockpit aver in a heap - on the
i•Opposite side of the ship. ' - I
For a moment it appeared as if hearen and
I earth . had struck tog,ether; a room Iterrifie
I shock cannot beimiZgined.
.13tfore those -in
fthe .e. ockpit had adjusted themseh es, the blood.;
; rant down fruni the decks- as freely as: if a I
l washtub full had been turned over, and ,in-;
!Mantic the dead, wonrided and dying were I
I handed doom as rapidly - 'as 'men could pass .
them, till the cockpit was filled, with hardly
Iroom for the surgeons to work. Midshipmen
were handed down with one leg, some -.with
1 one arm, and, others wounded in almnost every-
shape' f and conition. An officer , who was on
1 the table having ibis arta'amputated,: wenld
sino out to aceininde coining dOwn V.:minded,'
t " Well, shipmate, how goes the battle r
-1
1 Another would utter a, Joke . that,wev.id even
I make the dying smile; and so cenrstani and I
i free were the playful remarks froirrthe nihim
led, and even dsin,„, , r that I atnaogt doubtediny •
j senses. Indeed, all this was crowded into a
I space nut.caceeding, fifteen ritienty isimstes,
j 'before the firing ceased. 1., then went Upon
{deck, and what I scene "wr.Spresented, and
how changed in'so short a time! --
1 The Constitation looked.perfoetly flesh ; i mad
I even at this time, those en beard the G, twirler
-
diid act know what_ slip fougta them. : On. the
}-other band the Geerries was a mere nal/Mgt
log.-almost egfirely at tke mercy of 'the:sea.,
Her colors were att shot away, and her main- I'
i
1 mast and mizzen mast \ both gone by the tboard,l
I and her foremast st.anding liy the Rime honey-
Isoomb the"shat tad Made- Carte Daeri,sit stood, .
I with his otneers,. surveying the seenc4- - -411, all
iin the most perfect astonishment. -'At, this
-moment a boat was seen paten:l,4a from the
[
hostile = ship for the Gutrrier. • As Soon .as
' within speaking di.t.t , oPe, a yoriagr geritienlau
filidehipmanlleed,. new CoMnotore, Heid,)
haul and said, -" I wish to see the 'officer Tin
command of: the ship.* - At thin; Captain Da-
Icres stepped forward ,and answered- , :UMW/ 4
, m ."
an Reed thee caid,,Coumendore Hull'scona-
I pfinzests,. and wishes lat keow "if
_pig flame
struck • - pans fla me,,:At c a pt.i s :a cres
appeared amaze; but, recovering himself, and
' looking, np and down, - he -deliberately-replied,
" Well, I don't know—.one mini' mad. in gone,
our mizzenmast is, gone—and, upon the the
whole, yesi.may say we Have struck our flag"
Commodore fluit'a compliments,and Wish
les to know if you need the assistance of a
Isurgeon or - .1. surgeonse Mate." Captain D-a
ores replied," WOll,l should sappose yes had 1
' on board your own' ship business enough 'for }
lel' I your medical officers?". Midshipimm Bled ;
~ replied, 4 0, no, we have only.seven wounded, f
I and they were dressed half en hour.ago." , - ',I
I, Captain Decree then turned. to- ineotleepls
jai:reeled, ant twiq, - How, hare our, sitnations
been suddenly revel-Seidl-4 On arc now. free, •
! and I a prisoner?" ' - - , : .r .
t, • All the boats of - both ships were notirput
lin requisition toiremoVe the Farmers On board
{ , the Conrititution: So dreedful - was file'condi
l thin of many :of 4bnin4 th.it two. days owe
i
nearly e.rnsuntod is the retunvol,after which
'.the Gueriier,.wits burned ,, with all her stores,
', ariniment,lte. _'The Constitution Laving re•
• eently claw Out of 'Port, lied aoroom to take
scarcely nn article. -.- .- ---- - _ , . •
Who tan imagine the', joy,[ expe rienced in
finding myself once more umferAmetiein eel
''ors; or, the pride; Ffelt at finding; from Com
i modore Hill :dorms: to thernristlnimble :man
Inn board, an entire• absence of anything like a
boastful,. or:even a triumphant took, at -
their
. wonderful victory. _Captain Daerea kept Ms
Istateroom tail si;earried in, pert . ; About twos
hundied of Ks 'Men avers necessarily - ironed, I
'au; the ship svgs . so crowded: 'CharletillfOrris,l
i• (now Dornin) the funtaficer of the Con-I
.stitution„ hada Inilltlinatigh his bodyi'iuid for
several days his recovery_ .wita' doubtfai—do
ring
,which he .sent for- me. .to . come.. to, his
Own; and I well rimember his Perfeetoneon
cern"Of himself, although' th surgeon Odd ap.
'prized hint Of" his 'danger: '--- Every - e4tiitesv.
-and Milanese was - by Captain EMI atitihie. ibt ,
' &erg entended to their -',•-• • '.-• 2:
On Stuidity'i about - noon, the f",enstitution sr- -
iived in :Boston harbor, =I was seht owebore
in the boat._ ~ The harbor. .betwetn the_thip
Ma Mums .Was Covered: with hogs - to learn
the news. To the Ares heat: that:wenea.rod,
'we hailed, 4 - The CeniititUtiOn his tap . tured,
the Gairrier?' .Instantly : the twe'inei: In the
boat - Wok off .- their bats - and' violently- Atrilek
them *the oide of tbehoat, - andi titatig,Vacd
:Cheer. xipos.theer: They hailed-. other--1
And thus , the Mt was rent with Cheers, and he
victory P ll3B edA°Og till it reaehed,the w 144,
and then spread -like Wildfire tilloyer.thtiAr
-tind'eoentrvi' .. :7 - - -: -: - _
''''lt is new inestrikft - irty . ivitaiiitie':oo , l26;
gaiOn - tit that day " proked: -to - the '4.ode:train*
3itirtatildeblngsteswereiofinvineible.l -WO
tau rernettibet that, &twit' batitifeeliwirlikoe
- -
gr:t4ttiAr © zOcou,eigniss, gi**l4l'4l o g,OOT4It.S -1 179 aT.6l?tlTes>ataibi. , _. ilmezeztiltsp.
. - 'BeatitifeliEstrActs• - --
; ,We copythe:followingf beautiful eitracts,
, .• -
.;-•• '
_- . • from Professor-Allen's lecture on* The :Mier-
I . hAye : seen the infent:..sinking dowu,ki
, -•- • - ---"- loan Race," delivereditaiihitylll.E Xhitiehi
stricken flower: to the orave e the strong man i Phil., on t, 1 " . O just;
'— '...„-,,,- 1-: : !:-.._•.:: ~
.
tin.:
fiercely breathing out his soul on the field- oft I: .Premp gsef the Divitiity
Uwe' turn:frOuttiatititii tea . ; individualit;*We"
battle-=the' Miserable' convict standingupon 1. 1 ,_,
the seaffold,i with a: deep course quivering on :'shall f in d t h at ovar y temi wad " me lame meek I
his lips-,-I have viewed death in, all its. forms upou his age,and ; ,cottatry,,i has, felt-an 'Assn-.lof darkness and veng
Franco. that he Vclts gelled,. as by the_ audible I
eance.witit'a tearless, eye
iiiia never "could look
'on 'on -woman,' 'Young cake of God, le a ,Weatk', and that lie Was - en-, 1
-
' and lovely woruah, fading away from - the earth dotted with 'ability , to 'perferin - - it ' ' You' see
the expression mf this fhithin•Alexender,whin in beautiful end uncomplaining melencholy.l
witheutleeling the sexy fond:dna Of life turn !he cuts, the.Gordian..knet with-:his 5w0rd,.....
Ito tows, end dust. Death is always terrible - -jlllarklt alio in the 'Roman • conquetor. when
out, when a f orm o f angel beauty • is passing ' he says to the pilot in 'a:tempest; "Pear n0t,. 1
'off to the 'silent land of I sleepers, the heart I y ou carry: Ccesar!! . "11ehi• 'it iii the sublime
' feels that Something lovely in the universe is , reply of Tell to_thelloatmen who, in . a similar
ceasing -from eeist e n e e,„ And broads with" n , tempest, declared that it - was'impossible to
'sense (Otter - desolation, ever the lonely thot's, cross the lake :—" I know not whether it -be!
' that come up like spectres . from the grave to,I poss ibl e , b e t I k ea - „;. , t h at , i t - m a st b e „ tt em pt .i
,
' haunt our midnight maim: -led." In Martin-Luthet, 'when he'silenced the?
Two years 'ago, I took up My residence for
•i warnings of his friends with that resolute dec.
la few weeks in a country v ill age i e theeastern • laratian which, hay passed into aprovetb-L e in
!Napoleon, when hp called himself the child of
parkof New England. Soon after my,arrival
I destiny, and on, the" thorn of Many a Weedy ;
I .heeaMe-acquanated With n to my girl, app.
rently about seventeen years Of age. She had
ids bailed the sun Of Austerlitz as the lutrbin.
' lost the idol of her heart's purest love, and the i ger bi another.: triumph :—in - Gen. Taylor, I
shadoWs of deep:and holy memories were rest-I .w b en l ie w as a b,„ 040 let.d his l ittle b and from i
ing like the wings of death upon her brow.:.- . Point Isabel, lie
_,Wrote to , the Secretary of
. I first met her in the presence of the mirtlifel. War, I"'if the enemy "oppose_ my march, in 1
She was indeed a creature to. be worshipped -whatever'. force, 1 shall fight him ;" and last 1
- .-,het brew was garlanded With the flowers. of though not:least, in Paul, the - ApOstle; when,.
,childhood—her yellow leeks were hanging.' in• let! view of pereeentiOns and 1 bonds, he ex.
_beautifully and , low upon het bosom--=and she c l a imed—. But-none of these thingsmove um,
I moved through the. crowd with such a,ificqt. neither count I my , life dear unto myself, so i
ing and totem tidy grace that the bewildered I that [ might finial) my course with joy, and
'gazer almost looked to see her fade -into the I th e ministry:which I have received of the Lord 1
I air, like the Creation of smile pleasant - dream. I y„ es , to testify
.the -gospel, of the. grace •of
She seemed cheerful, nnd' even gay; yet I saw: G o a! ,
that her gayety was but the mockery of her : Just so every nation,which as taken a lead
' feelings. She smiled, but there was some- : ing part in the ivorld's, history and has 'sus.
thing in her smile which told that itS mourn-' mined for any length 'of time, as cherished
I ful beauty was but the bright reflection of a i aninvincible • belief that ithad a destiny to
I tear, and her eye-lids, at times, closed heavily fulfil, and strength equal to its day. And this
down, as if . struggling to repress the _tide of . faith has alWays 'manifested itself, on trying
a"ony, that was burstihg from her heart's se- i occasions; in resolution, courage, and fortitude. i
Cret urn. • She looked - Find examplesim the three,hundred !Spar- I
left the scene of festivity; and gone out be.; tans at '.,Phemiopylm, and in. the Athenians ;
neath the quiet stars,. and luid her forehead
t
down upon the fresh green, earth, and poured when they a&indoned - their city, which they
could not - defend, slid placedliving Atlieni.on
1 out her stricken soul, gush„after i gush, till -it ; board their ships which `they :could , defend.---.
mingled with the eternal inuntaiti- of life and I And in Rome, too after the slaughter at p
Can
purity.- ~ , , I.nm, see proof of " the unconquerable trill, and 1
Days and weeks passed on, and that sweet: courage nerer to submit or yield" in the sale'''
girl gave me her confidence, and : 1 became to at a high price in the foram', of the lands' on i
her as a brother. She :was wasting away by , which the Carthaginian army was then en- i
'disease: The smile epee: h er lip was fainter, I camped. What else austained- the American 1
`the purple veins upon herrheek grew visible,-! army at the crossing of the Delaware, and. at 1
and the -cadences of 'her voice became daily I Valley Forge,and at Rama. yista ? WhatelSo
mere week. and tremulous_ On a quiet even-! prompted'the words *of Nelson, which he sip-
lag in the depth of June_ I wandered out with I naledtO his fleet at Trafalgar; and which was ,
heta little distance in the open. air. It wes , answered from every deck with shouts, that
then that the first told - nie the tale of her pas- rent_ the • welkin,—",-Englerud expo& '. every
Edon, and of the blight that 'had come down i man to do hii duiy." -And what else gave pe
like mildew - Upon her life... Love, was• a per- f tency to the wortia'ot - .WCilingtecin, ' to - . Make.
doe. of lier„existence, Its tendrils" had been: firm the humareivalisid his - diminishingsquarcs
.brined around her in its earliest years; and, 'at Watt ricao whirr ssiie.,sate them shake be
whin they Were'renkaway,tt l
heeft a w lound neath. r alion . Lail; and. *charging. squadrons, he
which flowed till all the .'tangs of het soul aard,:e.iostand iiren, , R Will- not do to.he beaten;
were bleu& „ "Tana passing away," said .ille, 1 what would they,Sayin England?" - ''
"and it should be so.- : The'ivintis have gone 1 This prophetic . aspiration, or national con-,
o'er my life,-and the bright buds of hope and 1 se i ousness o f 1 2 41 1 .4;i11ing, was never stronger
the sweet blossoms of passion are scattered in any peoPle.than in ours-;. and without As-
down, and lie withering in the dust, or rotting I signing to it n - icir Significance than it is justly
away-upon the chillmaters of meinory. ' And i entitled to, we - Maysafely say, that ikwill as
yet I cannot go down among . the tombs with 1 sist ui, to 'attain ; the- position among nations
a tear. It is hard to bid farewell to those i towards which it, , points, just as a presenti-
scenes, with which I have held Communion ; ment of victorygivffko.a.eoldier the courage
from childhood, and which from - day to day, :- Which will achieve it—and as any man's eon-
have-caught the color of my life and' symPa- I fideneein hie ability' to aceoMplish a work;',
thised with its joys and sorrows. That little; renders his success Its - reliable.; - ' - -
grove,where I have so often strayed with my 1 • - , - .- e iy a :a w ait. • • '.
now buried' love, and where et times, even
" - IYesticard the.-starrf enzpire tab's its iraY,".
now, the sweet tones of his voice seems to
is something more than , a poeticfancy ;=•-:•itis 1
conletitealing around me till the ,whole air be
histori feet., .Ad in s olmn .march of j
comes . ' one intense and mournful melody—th th
its at
fuer ousa cal
nd Years, n Oar p thi ost s is e now 'in _the I
pensivestar, which we used to watch in j
~,,e ! front, .We are - rlsin,„„o• upon the tide.Wave'Of
early rising, and on. which my fl ner
i Ic , il . l . l 624 izati i o u l . r vil p iic e i r ch it ts , ...at ap eadlY" advanced ihro'
picture his form looking down 4-on;..ealitne,-*-aiid
beekcining me to his own bright home. Every • '''rn ,e; 4: - Gr6ece,Rom
I and Western Europe; and we.- know - that. a s
s;
11°Wei ' an"lt;e ' 6" rivulet -°" which the F" chl: t there is a tide in the affairs of tnen,sos there i
ory of our early love has set its undying seal,
!a tide in thentlisirs'ef nations; Which, taken at I
have becomenear to me, and I cannot without
1 ,
e s
a sigh, my-eyes upon them forever." . [the ficatellends , bia to fortune, —' - -
'- I have lately heard that the beadtful girl of I _ . , . ,.. .
• • Main, Whileour position is forenioet in the'
whoml have spoken is dead. Tim; close o i -
' e flu i d 1841140 C`fDdlentlY ; navantageons- in lo.!
usOur _territory . stretches:lmin : &mean ta ;
her life was calm as the filling of a • quietl
ocean,, and hieledei the most desirable third !
I stream—gentle as the sinking of the breeze I ,
she esntin .. ...
ent It IS Min an article of
wi l l I
1 that lingers for a time around the bed of with- "'
'
erect roses, and then die as it were from very ! ,
faith that if weabide oar time . teliOle trill!
. .ue ours,. Cuba and all. :• :We are -also midway
nweetnes'r ''"- - . . - - ' - between the,old world of Europe in our-rear, I
Iteannot tie that earth 'saran's only abiding
and theolder world Of Alia in our front. The 1
Plage. - It cannot be that our life iscas a bob i
tide cased up bythe Ocean of Eternity, to float kmeriean 00hir viiopening.to uithe Coannieree i
ia moment upon its waves, and sink into dark- lof the east,' and even the-gates of wailed hiict 1
nessAnd .nothingness.. . .Else. why is it that barred China will ba,onlocked by the:golden I
the high and, gloriens aspiration's, which leap; i site,.Ys.Pf California. The thaesands of Chinese I
, sil o ' a re now ori our Peeitic emnit have come
'like angels from the temple of our hearts are •
forever Wandering aboukunsatished ? , , wi .iy le there: to'Slialte - tannde - and wake our acquaint- I
itthat'the rainbow and cloud come .over - es . I
,: - attee. The * Y.' will soon tt.;yr t - O'UP t ° yeti tate net '
'-with-a beauty that is not of earth and then pass ;:t„;_h,e,,°.utsl" barbariantywci took , youSiar;.-.. - We i
tau with, you, work with yoe,,arid_trade i
off, and leave us to muse upon the faded love- i' w "!!'. l ,
• Rem? Why is_it that the stare. - which hold ;_,, i _ ti sei l e u d .
l - 'We will shuffle with
our wooden 1
pi•rinithift*Uatimen'to - Weal. fret; i
itheirfestivals around the tnidniglat Plirine,,are t"""`
we•Will'ent off opr; long naile;"and ' our' fang;
[set opera, thegrasp of limited fatalities forever I
__ es.
We .wilt leant. your sciences, practice
mocking uswith their Unapproachable glory ? ' 5, "
I -- And finally, why is it, that bright - formi of :your
i . "41 . ith idees - that
, will return o oaia oe_, an. ~ w ,
...
human beauty, - are presented to , our view mind
then . taken from , use--leaving the; thousand
Alt this they will Ao, arid more.l.. They' will
stream of pet, affectians to flow back in ,
I will esti - rajah thentaindarins." - '" ' • -
Alpine torrent upon our hearts? We are born
for a higher destiny then that of earth. • That r o it millions of people have.been so !origin
r b . r r e e rtk: the Ailed ofegtatistri . hi,Whieli three hun
they Will infuse vigor and activity in
-411. realm Where : - the .rainbow
_,sever, lades, Masted; •
Where the stars will be,spread out . before.. us i . t() ,, t _ hz 'A e li s ii , 6"ditieCi°"'' to which' ilkilmbliir
likeislandsthat shrinber'On the Oceari,Ahdthe_l°._.'eurneeen givenperibtinetiee. With friee'ieui
will go A fretrgoepel,,then free initith
beautiful:beings 'which here pais before a •as il es,
sre..esiessey:m . 4 prtee4s, till,eke.men.
tvisjons,_will stay in , out - presence forever.i---
litrittlit creature , of tuy dreams in that realm. I 'nfancy, and the cycle of hie
i he . ed . idesviiiiatiOn'efiall revisal, the land of its
onion andt , ,, r ,
r, great .
shah) eee the L or a in. Even,DOW thy lost image c'e..ee„ shall h e ttiranew..
- • • • lit sometimes I;itli . Me: 'ln the mysterious e 1... i J
Another indieation that the tieePleof Amer.
1 - . •-•
. " ""'rakish hence Tna !Thririnexec, , -When a :youth l of midnight, when the streams are glow.. !,...'
ray a star part, in history; is Tottn.
goes estrayi'triends;tathet'aroupd'hice!to ie.-11'11in the light of the stars, that. image 1 tea '
;ID thO:fact mentitined,et, the outsetitheir corn,
stare . him .to the pat 'of virtue. '- Gentleness comes floating'' apon', - the..beani 'that lingers „.., s
lb) ation'ef diastinilar rakes. ' At: firityie.a,V . this
and_ kindciese -.are . lavished upon him -•AA; win around . MY pilloWvandetands beforeme in its i would seem :to , he a' ause;. of .i,v6knees ;. and
him. -,back -to innocence :and -peace. , L W- one ,pale,-dinelovelinessi-till 'its own epirit-fiinki
are to p:
i ire 'are eiemteld that Oar intititaititiuS'vill AFO
weal d iusPect that he had ever sinned:: • Put -like :a spot} from Heaven , . uptin my:
thougute,,. weeethe,awn by 004,0vvrty; ignorance Oa vice
when, ti . poor.confiding girl is. betrayed, she: re- And the grief of years is turned to blessedness 1
I Which Europ.e is sendiog.to oar „shores... , And
CeiVes the - tir:trid of society; .and is lieneefortli 'and peace,. , ;,„,„; ~_:-_.,.-_,- ,„'„, ~__. i : ~; •,-, . •
does EriropeSindfiii ti es hat_poyerty, ilk
driven-froin the path of Virtue. .Time betrayer I: -
-' • ` ''' ' - I ' nOrtince end iiici d"'Oki it'fiot'send - uS• what
1 khohored[reepected, esteemed,;" but his ruin. i '' W.!. An: old' sea,captain used. to, ! say he we itbsticeed tctdeielets!'nut:reiontaie
I , ed, , heart-broken victim - khoWs-theria , is Imo Ididn't'eare hoWlei dressed When 'abr:Md, '*- b one , en d s ia et yp i offaher,ouea/yind,nrotaleu,
- f 'her thislaideof the cold and Solitary' I cause
; peace or •nobody• knew ,him:' - Anclhe'diffn't care y ob
.. h u m s , ready to-,work; ; aye, ..and, With
'grave.; Socioty.haa : ntrhelpiog band- for: her ;1 hi:turf /Le`dresret .r4 . o_ at" home, .i beemise ,ev . -
l'hearbi; too, that heat in litinittan,witli., : olM,,,
no smile - .of peace, no - voice of- forgiveness...-. ,crybody knetv'huo.! - --, - . ' • ' •
fieedansislioliest ithpitisesl' !Who . are the
%entire Cartldy - lnei001; 00,1.41!` unknown 1.;, men that grade rind Pave:our streets, that Woe
, ..
Ai - Haien; therOii r dpep :wro . ng.,lp i #lT ! -,a
an d ondiron,.thar vine:not .our.rallways,
fearful :varithe . eteisequenceS... • and excavate our canals?,-- „Who- are.there.
„. . .. , .„ . „ .
eraltithit fill OP' the' rank Mid file''of ,'otir:ar
video? What if they: did 1k:1w - their firiattetiitti
in alorelga;:airT ;What, if 'theY , 4o2o . lfoor . P. ,
I Who then were the inert an,d:Wetuee Met d(B•L'embarKed-fteralke..ll4l_loWer,.nnd.,sung . the
,song of freedom on the rock of plymoetiti.
I-Were they , riiit''ithirs - :fereigneti:aild perat
Surely. thMAtnerietin people= ate', nOVAtidrigi- I
'nes. They did npt, opting otwor, the .iteit by
of4pride, that so early in the war, in a tnanner
so unpretending; "n vietory soe r fe t 'should.
have been - dehieved I , write this statement
without notes; but believe it tube, in the 'main,
accurate: . • ' .•
-. ;Injustice' to. Captain Dieres, I -add, 'that
thi;re was none of -that boasting 'on 'his part,
befoie . :the: antion; which htis to him been at
tributed, ni he did not know the ship till Mid
shipmaa.g.eed •announced, her name and torn..
mauder, . • .; . • 0. W.
Remarkable Volcanic Ernptioris.
IW £ll - OF. BITCH/OCE
With .me to the Sandwich Islands, and,
We shall - get 'ea
. imPressiv'e glimpse of the prin.
ciitalSageilex by which ' the earth's crust
been: ridged, furrowed, and diSloCated.• • As' ive
land upon Hawaii, we peretiive it to - be min
.posed ollava of ho Verr antient date - .. , : We
ascend a lofty .platean,;and many a le.igue:ln
advance of us we see a column of swoke..,ri
sing frolp a vast plain,_ Directing our • course
thither, while yet some miles frcim.it, we de
.secuded a deep Plop° to a broad terrace, and.
they another slope , to another terrace. These
slopes. and terraces extend circularly „around
the pillar of Smoke like the seats of a vast am
pithcatre.• - • •
Comingnear to this tolntim; our-steps are
arrested. on•the margin of a.Vast...gulf, fifteen
hundred feet deep, and-from eight to ten miles
in circumference, whose bcittom is the seat of
of ..he.inost remarkable
,volcano on . the .globe
-h
tiicanltauluea., ait here till night clo
ses around us, and, we a scene of_ .
awful Sublintity. Over -the imnienSe• , area - or
tHat: g or- will the voleatne agency beneath bo
extended. ?;ter and anon, and .mingled in
strange .discord, hissings, and groanings„..
mutterings andthanderings, - be heard rolling
from Side and making the earth:trem-.
We arourid, Tutu front one and another Vol
leanie C:l3 He . p
from fifty—teill the glow.
I inglavu barst forth ; • red hot stones will be
,driven ferioisly upward'; vapor and smoke,
;and flames, will. be petard out, and the: dark
and jagged sides of that vast furnace will gldw
with unearthly. splendor ; and hero and there
will fakes of liquid lava appear, one,or two
miler:in extent, heaving up-their billows, and
dashing their Eery spray into the air. 0, there
is riot on Eartha-livelier-picture of the world
of despair; -and yet we know itis not the lake
which hanneth with fire and brimstone; nor the
abode: f lost spirits.. We , know it to be only
.one of the safety-valves-,of- the, globe, and on
exhihition of .that mighty agency within the
globe, WhiciA,has heaved, and [dislocated its
crust; and therefore, as -Vre gize uppn- . the
serge and forget otw fatigue nnd, sleep, we ex
perliktee only the ebiotions of itwfuligublimi
ty, which can-hardly fail to riseintO adoration
of that Idnite-Being who can say; even to this
agency, ".Thus: far shalt thou go, and no. far
ther. •
,• * ; .* * • • ..:*
"The most-remarkable,. eruption:on record,
was in Sumbawa, one of the slolucza Islands,
in /BES, - ft began On - the sth day of April,
and did not: cease till July. 'The' exPlosionn,
were keardin one direction nine hundred and I
seventy miles; ail/ in another seven hundred
and twenty miles. So heavy was the fall of
ashes at the distance of forty miles, that Wits;
es si - ere crushed and destroyed. The floatim,v,
cinders is the oeean,hundreds of miles' di*
tint, were two Teet thick, and vessels were
forced through them with: difficulty. The
I.darkeess of Java, thieilruridred miles distant,
' was deeper than the blackest night; and final.
Iyout of the twelve 'hundred inhabitants :of
the island, only . twcrity'six•survived the taus.
,V; 11 0-Y PamgraPlL
. .
TIN following beaatirul passage, by Wash.
ington Irving, in the,. t4.)-19m0,800k of the,Pic
uresque,ninaht almost mike iNoveruber day
eheerrul: . ' ' •
. .64nd hers let me. Say a Word in lam of
those - adiissitudes et bur climate 'which arc too
ofteri made 'Abe subject of ixelusive repining. I
If they;annoy us oreasionally hy_changes from
• .
bot - lircoikfrom wet to flry, they give Us one
l 'of the most beautiful climates in the wbild.—
They.fleat Mit summer skieS with elbuds Of
gorgeotts tints , or fleecy whiteness, and send
down eoolingshowers to *fresh the panting
earth and keep it green. Our seasons are all
poetical; the phenornend of our heavens are !
full of sublimity: - and heanty. _
1' ' 6- Winter With - us has none,of its proierbial
gloom. -- It -bey have its bawling "winds, and
[chilling•frests, and whirling snow storms; hut;
lit has also its long intervals of:- cloudless sue
-I.shine,when_ the snow-clad earth -gives iamb
led brightness to the day ; , wlMn at.itight ;. the
stars. beam With ifitensest lustre, or, the moon
floods the whole landscape with her, mostlinr I
radiance; - rpid and then the Joyous outbreak of I
k our - sprin,6;, ursting - at 'Once into leaf and
son], redundant with vegetation! antrvoCife'rous ;
;With liful--;and the splendors of our onion:Mr—
its- morning voluptdonsness mid eiening g10.r.y.1-its
.r . y. 1 -its airy palaces of sun-lit 41ouds' piled up
in a deep azure, sky; and its gusts Of.terdpests
of almobt tropical g.randeur,,When thefJrked
fightniig and the. hellciwing - thunder
from the bittlexiientifof heaven and shatte'tbe
sultry atmospheiia =and the sublime 'Melan
choly of - our autumn,,masnificent ha its decay,
Withering - down the pomp.and pride of a wood
!And country, yet reflecting'baek Ikon its yel
low forests. the - goldettisereniti;of the-slty.•;i--•
-Surely we:may_ say that in our climate •the
heavens- declare.the gloor of.,Godonathefirm
imeni showeth forth his handiwork; -day...unto
4:v-,uttereth • speech. and —night unto night
'showethltnewledoe.”! • ;
GirlE l / 2 neva run away frgm your parepta till
yen
are else - the young man - you . elejie .. - ;ivith
don't" away 'flew . you. ativ.ten
wbith tiyetol subscription'; bat Iveln.ll give
. .
' Ope4Yoilr t4i3p4asky. iipt,rjoeflt
t't!'desrnderso.' , 4 114030wfigi*Col*RoM:t 1 1**
cefve dew, arastll4,
1 ."
MONTROSE, PA.! THURSDAY, rEBRUARY 'l9, 185 V
The Broken Hearted,
`• • iy p. D. FEE'titICE.
far The editor.of one of the Milne i)hpen3
sa ys that he, but had-a-pair of bgots--* Q o him
whicliveriVeio tightthat they curio very nepr
waking biro Univerielist; bec4usiVho receiv.
o,hiCE o 42o4hment went •
He aid; in •-flopi) , . of
lfvey,iet too - pvpro9 friendly in hit other
coJieo, I 104 13Ron.bpdri,t44a,to '!e no potter
than Itia47oo,tho isotopes-t mia4..pheOp
lo4cieli itfif
spohtaneouS greivth:- Wire - Are all desedMiants.
.of men whose' bones were hordened,And whose
sinews were knit in a-foreign clime
not il4yestcrity of these very Men, Who. Are
now flying ("rem optiressimtand'despair; to our
promised Jam:V.:of libeity'nnd hope,be the shale,
in -tin? next age, that ;we. are Ameri
cAns nll 1 ...AMericAns All. ~.
- R4zei, egiati.4'amolitt.
__
..
. .
litsanitylnyrisons.
1 iifig-tadress.-of gOod commoreSeasi; who- Map.
~ - -
.:The mbrid - and phyldeal condition .. or eon ., tied, East - a'banker and then 'a Ltukti..., - --Sheliad
.vjets, has •Oce a i
eied. recently, Much. of the at ' seen poverty .in the most trying as u•oll as•tber
tcdt i on.ol p h y, b o - oi n th i s „ nntzy and most tolerable of its,sittpes i nna teni.wellipre•
irtEtircipe.. Philanthrephy ,has suggested ai-i-Pored to judge of high I:fa by comparison.—
terations,St - varions thnes;in thiimede of cer-i!She thus speaks of it.in ter . menviirs:
1 - . - .sfew: person's - have neon so much _Of the?
reefing criminal offenders;Witlt it-vieW not on
ly; to soften undue severity' Of punisl l msst, i venous LsPeuta-f. ), upt,t.say;;elreines.• of dile,. _
but - also to - carry put mote efft.s:tually
-.the' as laYaelr; "'ld re'vs , therk4 .4 ,P , '.' t:aniltebittetr
grand idea of refi.rmation in the crimina.-;. 'judges oft_hpdifferene:t hi , tweeu- great po*. ty
,41114 . great wealth s.bat, afuteulls this • ,does not
The iritem Of separation and non-intetiourSe
Means constitute the•cliief and_ most. -
.of the Prisoneri Was introduced into the .. penal l any
of Pennsylvania from inotiveS of the p . a ., .1 important diithictiou between' the high and.
rest phil.mthrophy. It has
_been in 'operation 4 the /OW states., No; the. sign:d i -the etrilting;
. to contrast, is not- in the:external eireurnstsinces,,
about -twenty-two sufficiently long
hut in the, totallY opposite..
establish by its results the prat:tie:ll ruts oft minds of the two
,the'system. It is - contended that separate eon- i el"S 3 a aii to-their respective enjoyme.nt of
finement for long periods of time, in close and i lstenec;- - -Thin ' 4°i ' t Y ill,r4idtt / f°r 't nec kY -
Moved-was aicheerlitilM.!se 7 -411 high spiritss---
confiped celis, tends -to induca lan unusti i
.emount of mort city and invanity :;among the i a t t fa:4-4 ' 4ld ''' ild '- t ly 'a 4t Y 'rh 6 Y- e4d4--tur
; nothing, thought' of nothing, beyond,the pleas.
prisoners. And those who have' examintd
carefully the efilicts of the 'syStein ucon their' urns '' f. the ' P r "l' !.nt /l o ar ;' and to -these. they
L -r
-l•physical and 'mei-t II tmadi ion, iiIT er come to . E o lvd tlien ' 46l " 's a? with the
-thircouclusion that somesmeditication in the i ok rd. the Circles u NINA keenest relislit
[now mofe..-,-
be Mere
,', we wy, stale,:ftat or;
length of the:sentence is necessary. to relieve i e ' na s a - 3 1 1 '` In '
_u_n i p . routauleithan their whole course of .. lif f.
the sep'arate plan of objections which 'appear '
to be so Well founded. ' . t. I t; , hi, one might as well -he in.the tread= , 4
the . . stupid,. monotonous round'. vt,
In the'2s2l prisoners received into the East- ! t° , llln ,i 4 :, - in
ern Penitentiary at "the - close • of 1843, the i ll --,..."" e ' ll h e t. , " es i s i
o P o ! d e T ic a l r ) ;;l l ' ,vr ut r . ic s :lO! p t- i i :r io tt o t r ' e f :T o t ;..
deaths have been -214, or
.nearli, 00 in' then; v '
-'Y
1000, or about 0 per cent, of the y -whole num. 'deed'-_n all In "*"" d " Ld ' idi ' lrit h gal if -
Our natural ,emotions, if they loe.
be!. . The- Sentences ran,ge from one to .21 1- 4°Cle.nce of
Of a ) (lons rilture,arodeelared 'to be yulgrut.:
years, the average being 3 years.. The fetiture
There.cau be, ite.cordhility svhere' those
which most areestssittention iithe very mark
ed desparity in tho number of, deaths atnom; imuch'ex-e l J*l.ilki 3 aricTrimne 4 s - --' No-; . 01l i%
lid universal ennui, even.
the white. and black prisoners ; . In 7,20 blact i cblancis ' re ' er7d '
. t.a.r.chrie,s4 of Mati ri:unticeemp
conviata. the dUallis reached 141, nearly 18 per 1 w l h'ut., tt,l:
4 sn i t very Strict rigoiiin matters of ion
' cent:Of the rnnter, while the annual mortali= t e .P
ty of the colored population of Philadelphia is ,"li e t- Locili, now, at; those, opadrille ',dance - rte.
in the ather room: they bat: -been. ittippitijg;
3b.eeteeny•of.the total Mortality. -- The Mot.- t
MIDI , among the white prisoners W,3s about 4i 1 t.,,,,he,ll,',,tl°A;tei bean d , ri n s l C i f r," .. t ns much i :chara P a g i "2.,
' per (Tot., while- the. average mortality in.-the i"' --- Y "e"; the "aasi,a..esilita.;, the ley , .
`' white population of the city is 2.37. In- the 1
, t , A ° Y ° n n g , a n't th ' s - - g l . rti- i*P -P rtt y ; n na. Ye:ti
County prison the " - deatlia athong .the White l''"' Y an -° i ' et " ' it: ticitn g' ni t' Suncati4.
of - per oori i-I,sueltsoleinit 'leeks- . --es if they. werti all diet,
prisonera -- were: at -the , rate
g,ing theniseives- through . the Most- irksome ,
`those of the colored Bi.- The average deaths '
1 task, in the world I - ..Ohlivbat a +Present - thing.
of both colors in the County Prises • fall be
' low the PenitOritiary, where the sentences are W aS a c ' ta l' 4* .F..C ll . lri PP. 111 .*IY,;y9u.nger . 4anr '
-for fongerperiods. Iwo period of six years, 1
with an average .population of 300, 55 cases
of insmity have occurred in the Eastern Peni
tentiary, and a large portion of them was ' de
.
, veloped in prisoners under long sentences.—
'Thirty-six were prisoners sentenced for More
than-2 years,; -12 for 2 years - ; 6 for 'between
lstind 2 years, and one for 6 months. - In the
County Prison,, where the sentences are for
shorter 'periods, the same striking difference is
exhibited in the number of insane, - compared
With the Eastern Penitentiary, as is shown in
the rate of mortality in the respective prisons.
Philadelphia Ledger.: •
A Mother's influence.
,
Who can measure the influence of "a mother
on the young and immortal minds of her chil
l:
dren! Herlooks, her aetionit,- her= smites or
1 her frowns on her children, stamp impressions:
1 on . their'ininds...which will last forever.- :She
sires a moulding influence - to their .eharac.
ters ; their course of life; their' temporal and '
eternal "well being. , They rise•to 'the glories
and happiness of heaven, or. "sink down to the'.
shades of death through the ,faithfulness or
neglect of their mother. The. mother's influ
i Cram is often, miteh"grenter- thiut the father's.'
Her post - is more i e.sponsible, and she engraves '
[
deeper and moreindellible lines on the minds 1
of her children... ,Sho stands at the head of the
race. All the most important springs of soei
t ety are held and Controlled by the feeble hand
1- of woman.; Every "cord vibratei on her tonch,
as with niag,ie sensibility; and every harmony 1
tin the social system waits onler impulies.--- I
I How pure,and tender,then, should best moth-!
`yr.'s heart ! HoW careful of tier' looks ;*lter i
1-smiles; lter'eondtiet ; her every salon, Which
i imprints such indelible: lines, and' exerts 'suck
I:imperishable influence on the".young.mind.- - ;
During a lerturp cm..popular Education;re-
reently deli : jot:of, gov. Briggs related
,an im-.1
rpreisive incident.: ' ' , " ' , I
= : 'Twelve or fift6aymirs: ago,"' lie - -"said,l' , I
;
I f left Washington three or four weeks during;
the spring. While. nt home, I possessed my-I
I Self of the letters of Mr. Adam's mother, and
kread them - with - exceeding., interest. trement- I
I, her an expreision in one of the letters'address.
I ,ed to her, son, while yet a. boy twelve years oil
' age; in Ennme. ,Says, , she, ' I would lather. 1
I ' - a • ace! '
• see you lin in your grav ;you should
Igrow up'n prefami and gks bloy:' , 1
r ' After ' returning to Witehington; I .went!
' c oreeta.BEr.-Adaras seat one'day; and eald to
him—' Mr. Adeutej hare found °et who tirade
' ' What do Yon"inerini' said he,;, . ,
- ' I replied, I have heed reading the letters of I
your mother!" - : ... i:. -.: - .:- , - . - . : •
- .` If I Oadspoken; that dear. . Mane - to 401130
little. boy who had-been for weeks away front
his-deormiother, ithi,eye could, not have dull
talhore'brightlyirtor his' flee' glowed more 1
sinickly, than:did the eye:rind the face of that.
Venerable . old
.. man, when. I pronounced the;
twine of Ms mother. J-le. started op hi his pe
:culiar Manner and'emphatically said:r
". Yes!' Mr. 13triggo, all thatrS:goettiri. me I
VtiVes to mk inotheW , ' -' -, - - . -
. ; !011.. what a testimony was' that frem .this
venerable, man to his mother, who, had-in rhis
remembrance all the scenes of .his.manhood!
All that is"giiod bilis° I owe, to,my . ,mother:
Mothers! think of this Whan'yont - brtght.:6l;ed
little boy is about Yotil : - Mitthers - malio" the
firsfitnuessions upon, their etuldren,and aerie
iirmiessions will bathe last to be effaced,-,..::
Usetat:Saapiortos:s X'ousta
the cootie of my'trardi; T hi/via efeeli ninny A
promising and fineiratingt man led
totlissiontioni gambling 'and,ruin •therely by
the Walkac l inennetniunko.n'-eolitruT eveni ,
lag p pleasantly, advise
youth - who - Oita that abode of Orgy, peace
oud itelighf l 'his'fateinar horrie,'to Acquire I '
taste.for reading . and writing, at every , Plaeo
,
s"e"4` he owdr.resldojong,whother lathe city
or in 'thia country, !Or, hip} etody to make
siphrtmenhi hi attractive And comfortable ne
"Pannibla for he 'firid•ii liftlelsittnordinai.
rY ediPanaei . en bestowed arthe'beennt°C; to
be 49Pd , economytit the:end vJea-bias =read
tne•nest,boolis thebkri ggsaaAt,theLpisOpip
4rhictiu tives; - 43.14b0ve IDI lot him Two;
retire rest wittiotit *table it fittaris page
,— vOLV3tl,tc;',,NumtEt2,
PERIM
,
of originaltiinnments on 111,104- fit , Suutieen,
read and heard , in - the - .45v.
tMich tn_nbaerva_ Mid 43inerimlnate; . for a
man ceases to reed wiihn.denriltosy.
Bering tnind 7
,osviiich. i4-nittr, waste of Aime e
when thatabliceonnt pf tht. In
foimatiint-isiM:l4 Jur liT,1,011M;03 ',unity,.
lie, 9rsit
ten.et Oglit.:-=-Vaytiln Sii.etcherin
- - • • -
Ai. •
shionableltappineetk.
Thp.Dutelless of St. Albans.ws-,a
Be;autiful Extract. • ,
~ • . .
I saw the temple reared by the bands .4 - ;
men, standing with its high Flannel° in thi.• --
i distant plain. The streams boat upon it—tits
1 God of nature hurled her, tbunderbolth against
it--and yet it stood es - firm as adamant. Rel:-
, elry was in Hi halls—the gap the - happy, : the,
i young and the-beautifal,
,were. there. I - re.
• turned ana the temple was no more,,4ts- high
walls lay iil seattered ruins, moss MR irild
1 arais grew wildly there,And at midnight' hoer
the cirri's cry added to, the young and gay who
reveled there atid.had passed away.' ;_,• -.' -
I saw. a ,ehild rejoicing In his yoUthr,the •
idol of his Either; , I returned, end the child.'
i had become old, Tremblizi,g with: Weight AA",
!years, he stood the last of his -geneMtionr.l4,
stranger amid the Aesolation around him.- ..:-
I saw the.old oak stand M. all its pride or,.
the mountain r -the birds were caroling on. its
boughs. I returned. :.,The oak IVAS leafless
and sapleAs—the wiads, u-gre playing at its -
pastime through its bran - obese ~ 1 _.-
. "Who is the destroyer?" said Ito my par
,dinn tassel. . .-- . , ', :- . ,
"It is Time," said he,- I ,—" when the.morning .
. stars .2:111g together with jiiy, over ; the new
Made 'world' fro, commenced his course, - nlid
,when he , shall have destroyed all that is•berrm.
601 Oil c'artli—eucked- the Ann from its sphere :-4-voiled the . moon. in. biood--yea, when •Ito
'shall'. have- relied the: heavens.,lmd the: earth
Away as A ierolt, then shall-an angel from-the
throne ot.God come forth, and-with rine.foot
lea the sea-and one., on the land, 1111,-,np Iris
•
hand toward Heaven and Heaven's -etertud:,-.-,
" Time is, -time was, but time : shall'be no 10r.
ger.7- 7 Paulding. .., :,.. - ,• -, ~ , •,. . ;
.
The Razof.:Strop ,
Smith, the', RazoiStrcip l ,3llin," occasionally
broke elf from the subject Qt.-the very super!.
or quality of his strops, and gave his audieneo
a short lecture upon temperance in his own
peculiar way... Here is an ogtract,: - '
Caz—When 'drank grog lofted
a eat, poor, lean - , I;:ntern jawed thing;•that,
was always getting - into a serapp... /' bad
pothing for her to oat, she vvas..compelled to
take to, tha,highwab and, the -neighbors were
continually crying opt !Cuss that Smith's cat,
she's _stolen my meat, and CUSS' that- ISMitleit
,cat, she's drunk all my milk:, Poor thing,sho
had rosteal. or dic.Jbr she coold.'find no pick
ings atimme r for even the, few mice that wets
left wore so, poor and scraggy that it gook
seven of them to in.tko a bhadiAti and a desert
cat!
m ,l' Y' . 4 : l w an 41,1 .Btarra, to death is three-weeks on
an ioeeof cighteen a put -when
I reformed, things. took- a different:turn. . The
kitchen being Well Provided,: tho crumbs
were : Plenty, nmt ttskoltrcaqtew fit and tiOn
est. together. Even, tho mico -gtew faS Aral
t oily, aluLahl tabl),Y,Would make &hearty sup
per, on two-of, them,,and -then. +lowa to
snooze,plcasing - consulation ofkriow
ling, that when she; - awokti thero . .wOvild' be ,s,
t Jew move. of tholianio sort
And - 41 i
n..
was., . ,
_s e.—Whe I a i betT . guzzler.
mother tried, fattier:tried;'l . ll.‘ cried, John cri.
ed, Bill - tried, 31,ollferlini; tied the es.t. cried.-• .
But - when' l i .eigngkthe, pledge, fathrr eUng',
mother Sung, wife sang, 'John sunizahll aunt,.
Moll', sung, Boi sena, the, old eat sung * the Ow
e lti e 'stillif , 04" I lniughti a new f!yinginka
end' put a aloe ploao of beur-stenk , hi it. out
plated It'mfthe fire:And that - sung , aftd,tkat)t
, tho kind of - 8 1n,-41 1 4 fur i.worklnglusn, . „., .
40 athird.LThe difference bete/earl Suiith
sober and Spith drunk, thii: ,„ Biilith drunk)
. elai'duTurnYtrtged. a rt a get:Me-410k so-
her;' U jOrtal, Joyful' 101,cheerful: . Smith
di un k, w ag itntNrifik,- siefdd,•, staggerilig—,
Smith so ber, le taid; clear-headed, nud_., en4, l
tra m . , Smith drank, traii'..tkk, aore. - prid ibr:
ry--Binithfiober;l4 he arty, healthy; and • • hap:
I'Vb lithithdranKvtasill-read_oll.ted—Smith
sober. is 'WO Pawed; 'wellVelety-41040f.,v,ed-
tkeing, eumorod...
YRuPir ion, urging hits suit, swayed - I/6
1h44, lin loved her. As be,dia
binstits own sicp4
bins trao to the /ast-t7
'ffecl'eafaith aldlady t S a r k
4 1 11 4
- kit I* #olllb. I•4 World.: I
enjoy- fituch ;double, uor luuur
more comfort'
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