cipse. &. , Paat Vrogriitors. stiut Petrg. From Waverly Magazine. The Stream of •Life. was sitting very weary,. • . Hero within_My little room, 1 . Shadows dimly crept alma me 'With thin arms.Oey seemed to flout me Peering thlimgh thegatherin`g gloom While I sat so sad and dreary _ In this quietlittle room. Vrith.the dappled pastwandered; All its leaves were faded now; ,;• -And of yguth's fresh garland 'flowefi; Gathereererst in loveiii rare bowers I'd.not one to wreath my brow Will the future (thus I pondered) • • Be as darlvand•drear as now I Steep obliiious crept o'er me. And a fairy, in my dream, From my little chamber bore me, - Where a plain stretched out before me Near a pebbled mountain stream; Where the sunlight glinted o'er me With a soft and kindly beam. Singing birds and fragrant flowers Graced this seeming Paradise? , I would Up ha - ve roamed for hours liong;those rare empyrean bowers, And my wonder.lovinif, eyn , • Feasted on the gems that sparkled Whore this ricer took its rise. Then the fairy gently brought me • To the shining river's side— All its magic power - she taught me, And with earnestness besought me. Ga.te into its dimpled tide; 'Twas the "Stream of Life" she taught me, Down which weary Mortals glide. First its wave was clear and shining, With bright jewels dotted o'er; Wreaths of love and beauty twining, While rare shells with silver lining. Ley about the pebbled shore ; All their rays and hues, combining To enchant me more and afore Pratling dawn this sparkling river • • • Played a mersy hearted child; . She each little gem kept graying Closely-with her'ngers clasping, • . While she onward placed and arbiled— Floating onward—reaching ever . • - With some farther gem beguiled. Bat each so" glittering rested But an empty bubble proi , ed; Smiles upon her yonng cheek - rested , As another gem she • tested, While along the waves she moved; But an envious billow wrested :Fm her hand the gem she loved. IVith a startled anxious feeling ' Gazed I on Ibis nate elf, While the sun's soft rays' were stealing Down.amdne the waves revealing, That the wee one was 'myself ; There amid Life's billows striving, Like some miser seeking pelf. •Darkkr, rougher grew the river-- : • • Pincer, colder Vew the wind, • Down its Ivaters rushing ever, Tossed from wave to wave, and never Leaving park or track behind, - • • With pale lips that seemed to qUiver— Where the Heaven shall I.fin.d, . . .Then the fairy whispered to the Whispered sad and low! - "MI the past has gone before thee And there's nothing can restore. thee Love and trust of lone ago Shall the I"ntu•re glide before thee • z But I quickly answered No- • - Tell me nothing of the morrow, • „. Of its hopes, its clouds and fears; Let each day abide its sorrow • ,From the future ill not borrow Joy&for smiles, .or griefs for tears; Tell me nothing of the morrow, Forit brings the' weight of years. Then the fairy srniled, approving— " Mortal, chosen well host thou ; Down this rapid ricer Tossed by waves and nothing .yielding In its course the veering prow: tvery day brings less the sunshine Than the present yields you now. "Then where'er the sin ik shining, Or the dark and moonless-' night, While o'er joys bright wavelets Or on griefs dark billows riding Strive to steer thy bark aright," • With these words the fairy vanighed, And the river, from my sight. • 444 arch Rero,Vt. Utiattliantous. SWEDISH LAWS WITH RESIITT TO ISTOXIOA roa.—The laws against intoxication are en- ' forced - with great ricrorip S wed eta • Whoever is seen drunk, is fined, for the first offence, it 3 ; for the second ; for the third and fourth, a still further sum ; and is Also deprived .of the right of voting at elections, and of. being ap pointed a representative. He is, besides, pub licly exposed in the parish church on the . fel loting Stuiday. The New York Sun says: If the same individual is found committing the same offence a fifth time, he is shut up in the house of correction, and condemned to six month's hard labor; if he is again guilty, to a twelve months punisment of a similar discrip tion. If the offenoe has been committed in public' such as at a fair, an auction, eilc. the fine is doubled ; and if the offender has. made 116 appearance in church, the , puuishnient is still more severe. Whoever is convicted of having induced another to intoxicate himself lisffned t 3, wlii.)ll sum is doubled if the person is a minor. An 'ecclesiastic' who falls into this offence loseshis benefice; if he is a lay man who occupies any considerable post, his functions are suspended, and perhaps he is dis missed. Drunkennms is never admitted as an.excuse for any crime; and whoever 'dies when drunk is buried irmotninionsly,_ and de prived of the praye,raotth e ehttrelC;lt is for biddep togive,and more explieitly to sell;atiV spirituous li4uors to student-a, work-men, ser vants, apprentices, or private soldiers. .Who ever js obserTed drunk in the streets, or mak: ing a noise in a tavern, is' sure to be taken topriaon and detained until sober . ; without, however, being on that account exempted from the fines. Otte-half of these fines go to. the informers,(who are generally pollee officers) the other half to the poor. If the delinquent has liCk money, he is kept - until some one pays for him, or until he has worked out his en largement. • Twice a year these ordinances are mad aloud from the pulpit by the clergy; and every 'tamp keeper is bound under a -penalty of a imary - fme, to ha.r a tiopy of them bung up in the principal rooms of his Us* ••• ' . . ~ . • - , ._ • . . . . " . . . . ' [ .- i • ' • .1 J ' ' - • ' *' • . . . . . . . . . • 0/I,o•V*oo.>"rfiT44 .' . 1 .•-' • . ' ' • .. • . '*L'1rf'. ;: • ...? : ; , 7 „,, * ;•./'''' ' i' ''' '-'' 1 . I.' '. * " '. . . 4, ' , .r. 0., . • ,: ' ' O , . le r • -' ' - • ' ' " .. . • . , ... . , ~ ;• , • . • , . .. y "'•. - . . " ".• ',. =' •••', r.•-1 • • 1 ...- -••••••'<•-•:•"' .z.•,i.q . .. it '.".'. , 3' i.: "!•••1:"t...._. , •.: - . 1 9 . -• - 4 , f ,,, i ,- ~ . z . 4, 11. ...,:.„, ... ~,, , i . ~.:, .., L. ,, .„. t , ~.., A ...- f,,, , li/ ~ , ... " •; r: il . , ...„..,., .. 0 .-: , . . • .. -, 4 - 5.: , -;;• , ... ,e r • " l's . ) ? 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The ,rints tell might fl'lg.me till Ifainteo ; but they Could . noi.. subdue Me. - My constancy was greater than their tOtures, and my firmness suPerisir to their will; Yes they !Were forced td ite kunwiedge it—lconquered them ; the !;devil wojld..not 4 seo u rgesi out of me at their bid •dikey, but remained with me at.mitie . ytilier. rpok,back to this time of rny boy- I seent-to look over a wide expanse of. 'de.ioit, land qwept through with fierythorns.— PAssions of every kind convulsed mY mind— ! • unrest and metal , -turmoil, strife and tumult, and sufferin* never ceasing,—this is thel pic ture of my youth, whenever I turn it. from the dark walls 1::,f the past. But it is foolirili recall this now'. 'Even at my age, chastened and sOberedias I am, it Makes my-heart bound with.the-old passionate throb again, when I remember the torture and the fervor of my boyhood: • I had a few. school friends. The bOystwero afniid . of tne,.: very naturally ; and st?tank ,from any - intimacy with °R . e tinder such rr po tent ban as I. I represented tins, and fought m. • y way:savagely against ,them. One only, _Herbert Ferrass, Was kited to me; he alone 'loved me, and bcalone was loved in return.— Lo - ed--as you May well believe a boy of warm a4tious, such as I was, in spite 'of all mw; ntentperakeeof passion, isolated' from all tn,l Shunned bV.allh—would love anyonesueb a. 4 he wins the Royal boy, o,f. the clever, like a vouno• Apolld among . ' the herdsnien; supreme in the grace and fig ure of-his dawning manhood. never knew One so unselfish—SO gifted and so striving, so to and so just, so gentle-and so strong. - • t is WEEKLY JOURN4--DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, L'iIp,UTURE4GRICULTGR'E, SCIEI\!'CE, ANp Ell My Confession. I had . al Way' s been n passionate boy. They 'said' I was almost a fiend at times. At oth era I was Mild and . loving. My father could twit manage me', at home; so I was Sent to schaol: I was more flogged, both at home and at ',school, than any one that I ever knew or heard of. It was incessant flogging. .It .W'as. the best way they knew of to educate anti cor reet me remetnber . to this day 'how .my father and my nmster used to say •R.hey would flog the devil out of the." This phrase. was buiat at laSt into my .very being. if,bere it alvtays conscientiously about me. I 4 hetird it so . pflen• that a dim kind of notion cane into my mind that I really Was .pcisseskd by a devil, and, that they : were right to try, and scciurgeit out of me. This was a very, Vague feeling at first. i Aftil events made I it :more definite.. . ! , We were friends--fist; firm friends. .The other 'boys and the ushers, and the-' masters, too. warned Herbert against me. • They told him continually' that r should do him no good and might harm in many ways. But be was faithful, and suffered no .one lo come between • ; us. I never had been angry with Herbert, A word,or look,' joining on IllOmmor of the mo ment,would rouse melt nto a perfect fiend against anyone else. .But Herbert's voice and man ner soothed me unlei'every kind of excitement. In any . paroxy4m of rage—the' very worst—l was gentle to him ; and -I had never yet the fitof fury which had not yielded . to his rethon . strance.' I had grown altult to look on him as my 'good angel against that devil whom the-Tod „could not Scourge out of me. , • We Were walking on ._ the cliffs one day, Herbert and I, for we lived by . the -sea side. .And indeed I think,that wild sea makes me f.r.eer than I should else have Leeth. Thel cliffs where we were that day were • high and rugged . ; in some places going down sheer and smooth into the sea, l -in •others jagged, and rough; but - always dangerous. Even the campbire gatherers dreaded • them. They were of a crumbling sand stoney that I broke away under the hands and _feet, for vv'e had. climbed the practicable parts,•and-kneW that greatiniasses' would crumble andbreaki under. our gTitSp, -like there gravel heaps. Herbert and I. stood for a' short time close to the edge of the highest cliff; . 11.1tglin's Crag it was called t looking down at the sea which was at its highs tide, and. foaming wildly ,about the rocks. The wind was very strong.thOugh the skv. was almOst cloudless ; it 'roared round the cliffs, apd lashed the wawa into . a sur ging foam, that beat' furiou.ly .wrainst the base, and brought down showers4earth and sand with each glow as it struck. -The sight. of all this life. arid fury of nature fevered my I blood and excited my imagination to the high est. A strange desire Seized me: I wanted to clamber down the face of the cliffs—go the I very . base-h-aild dip myself in the tvhitelWaves loathing, arotind:them:; It was a wild fancy, but I could not Conquer it; though I tried to do ;so.; and I felt equal • to its accomplish ; meet. - Herbert, I ain going down the' . cliff;" I -.r said, throwing rry cap on the ground. t Nonsense, Pail," said Herbert, laughing. Ile: did not believe me ; and thought I was only in jest. - - • ' When, however, be saw that I was serious, and that I did positivelylntend zo.attemPt this clanger, he 'opposed m 6 in his old manner of gentleness and love; the manner with which. he ',had hit+ierto subdued me' like, a magic spell: He told me that it .was 'inv. certain death that. I was'rushi' cg into, and he asked tnoaffeetionately to d sist, was annoyed at hi opposition\ For the first time his voice h no power over me ;• forithe.first time his eAtreaties fell dead on tny i ears. rSoarcelz heating Herbert, scarce ly sieeing him, I leant over the clias ; the waves siniring to me as with ti human voice ti when I w r as suddenly pulled ; hack, • Herbert saying to lie , , angrily . • - *..• Panl,'are you_ in4,l t. Do you Allink stand by .and see .t,ou'kill yourself ?" Ile tore tne.froM flak:llff. It was a strain like physical anguish when I (4614 lon ger. See the .waters, I .turnect•l against .him savagely,'and tried to shake oft his baud.— B4ihe threw his:arms around me and held me firmly,.and the feeling of constiai at of imprisonment, overcame 'my love. could not bear personal rOtraint. even. - from His young Slight :arms 'seemed lik e le a den chains abotit me; he changed to the ° hide-. ousnesa of a jailor ; his opposing love to the insolence ota tyiant.. I callfirk hoarsely .tol hint Ito free; btil, 111,411 clung around MIL Again I Calledi'lgain Its Irithstoo& , • . • ,• gont remett •frk rose, „Sitsqueilaitta , • Nltti 24, -1055; me; and then it struggled with him. My teeth wetestit fast—my bands clenched, the strength °fa strong man was in Inc.. I seiz. eel bun'hy-thelwaist as I, would .lift a young child, annurled lath - from .me. God help me! I did not see in What direction. - " It was as if * shade)* had fielen -between t me and the sub, i=o that I could see nothing in its natural light. There was no light and there was no Odor. The sun was as bright . , over head as bbfore; the grass lay at my feet as gleaming ai before; the waves flung up their sparkling showers, the wind tossed-"the branches full of leaves, like boughs - of glitter ing gems, as it- had tossed them ten ' minutes ago; hut I saw them- all- indistinctly now, through the vdil, the mist 'of this darkness.— The shadow wns upon me that. has never left me since. Diiy and tightit has followed me ; day and .night; its chill -lay on my heart. ' A voice sounded (unceasingly - within me;"flue-, der and a lost soul, for ever and ever." I turned front the cliff resolutely, and went towards home.j Not a limb failed me, not a moment's Weakness. vas on me. ' I went hothe with -the intention of denouncing myself as the murderer of my friend; and I was• calm because I felt '!hat his death would' then be avenged._ I lipped for the most potent deg radation possitde to -humanity. -2kly only de sire was to avenge the murder of my friend on myself his Murderer; and I walked along quickly that Bmight oVertake. the slow hours and gain the moment of expiation. • . ' I . ' I went straiht to the master's room. He spoke to me harshly, and ordered me out of his sight, as q, did whenever I came before him. ' I told him authoritively to listen to me: I had' seinethiter to say to him, and my than - uer, I supposelstruck lith y ,for he turned a round to me ain and told me to speak. What hadd td , say ? .. . . I began by (eating briefly that Herbert had fallen down 1-c,liri s Crag, and then I was althut to add that it was I who had. flung him down, though it niuten tional y, • when,--ewheth er it was meal faintness, to this day I- do not know-1 fell 4..nseless to- the earth. And fur weeks I remaiiied . senseless with brain fever, .front it was hello-eel the terrildesho.ek my sys= tent had undetone at seeing , my dearest friend , P .. -. 4 N . :it'll so miserably before my eves. This be lief helped mach to soften men ; s hearts—and to give tn.e a _pace in their sympathy,. never given me before. . When I reeiov&fed, that daik shadow stili clung to me; land.whenever I attempted to I speak the truth—and the secret always hung cloging on myl tpngue—the same scene was gone - through ids before:: I was struck down by an invisible blunt, arid red - need, perforce., to silence. I knkw Olen that I was shut out froth expiation—asjl had shut out from reparation in my terrible t deed. Day and night, day and n•iiht ! always hattntel With a fierce thotiglA of sia, and striving helplessly to ex t . press it. 1 . I bad met; now to that time in my life* , when I must tithose a profession.l I xesol red toihecome a iihysician, .from the feeling of making-sued/la reparation to humanity as I was_ able, fo! , the life I had destroyed. 'I thought if I . o i ould save life, if I could allevi ate suffering and bring .blessing instead of affliction, 014 I might somewhat atone. for my guilt. m , not, to the individual, yet. to humanity at large. No one ever clung to' a prOfession- with, more ardor than I undertook the study of thediciele ; for it !seemed-to' Inc my only Way of salvntion, if, indeed, that I were yet itaiss ble—asalvatioa to be worked omit not only by chastisement and control of my passions, lettt by active "gooelaniong felloW men. • I .. ' 1 shall never' forget the first patient Lat- I tended. It Was a painful case, where there wagli t imuch . stlffering, and: to the relations -1 to the poor 4other above all—hitter anguish. I The child leal teen given over by the doctors, and I was called in - as the last untried, from despair, not - from. hope, . I ordered a new remedy, one ;that 'few would have the eour inge to prescribe. . The effect .was almost' mi nraculous, and as - the little one breathed . freer; and that' sweet soft sleep of healifig'crept over it, the thick darkness hanging armed me lightened perceptibly. Had I solved the mystery of my future! By work and chari ty had I com i eont into the light again ?.:aid coal] deeds lof reparation dispel ;lira dark ness which a mere objetionliiss punMiment —a mental rfpentanee—could not touch ? This experience ga4 me renewed courage. I -devoted - nlyself more ardently to -my pro fesSion, eheig among; the poor. aimd Witlrout reenuneratithz. Had I ever accepted money I believe, tlia4 all my prier would have gone. And as LsaVell more and more lives, and light encl:' more. /did . ..more the heavy burthen of human suffering, the dreadful shadow grew hinter. 4 • • , - I was'call4/1 suddenly to a dying lady.— No name wati given ine - t, neither was her sta-. tion in -life ncir her condition told use. I hur ried 011 . wit (Rita caring to :ask questions; care ful only to htial,- When I readied the house I was taken into a room where' she lay _in a fainting fit"oU.the bed. Even before 'I ascer tained her tn4latly—with . _that almost second sight.of a praeticit,physician--ber wonderful beauty struck me: Not; merely beeause. it :was beauty, bet because it was a• face strange-. ay familiar t me, though :new; •strangely '- peaking of a former love-although in all my practice - I1 had never loved man or woman individually. 1 . i . I roused- the lady from her faintness; but. not without much trouble.' It was more like, death than wooning, 'and yielded. to my treatment stupbornly. I remained with her (of-. many hci,urs;• Cait•when 'I -left her she w"es . b e tle f . I was obliged to leavq.; her, to attend a poorl workhouse ebild. i .. _I had not l}een gone long—carrying with me that fairt face lying; in its death like trance,. with tall its golden hair scattered wide "overt thei pillow, and the bltie lids weigh ing down theleyei, as one carries the remem brance of a *tweet song lately sungft-carry int, it, too, asj a talistnan against the dread iilfdow whist i somehow hung .closer on me i to:nc , ht, the Darkness, too, deepening into-its ~." original beadiness. an:l the chill lyingheavi ly on my heetrt - again—when , a messenger hurries' after' it, tie, telling me the lady was' dy ing - and I- wits .to go. back immediately. I wanted no second 'bidding. In a moment, as it ieemed- 6 me . ; t was in her :ioorn again. It was dark. - -: '. The lady as 'dying now, paralized from her feet upwards . . I saw the death-ring mount higheriand- higher; that faint, bluish ring, with wl lei death. marries some of his. brides; I bent every energy, -every thought to thew . to i bl I ordered remedies so strange et suthe eidi, r:. lei of tnedioins, , that 4 was with difficulty that the chemist wont() Pm pare them. ghfi k opened • her eyes full upon me, and the whole room wa's filled with-the cry of "Murderer!" ; They thought the lady had:spoken feveriAly in tier death-trance.— alone knew from !whence that -cry had . . . - But I would not yield, and . I neFer nor feared for the result. I knoi the poWer J bad to battle with, anti - knew, too, the powers I wielded. • They . saved her. r-The himid circulated again•through her. veins., the faintness gradually diTersed, - the smitten side dung off its paralysis,.and the blue ring-faded wholly from her limbs. • . . The lady 'recovered .under my care. 'And card, such as mothers 'lavish on their etild ren I poured like lifeblood on her. I knew that her pulse s , beat at my hidding I knew that I had given her back her life, which else, had; been forfeit, and that I was her prs.trrver. I almost worshipped her., It was the wor ship of - mywhole . being—the tide into which the; pent-up sentiments of my long years of unloving philanthropy poured like ti bound les.si flood. It was my life that I gage her— mytdefiverer from the .cure of Fin, as I had bee, hers - from the power of death. I asked. no more than . to be near her, to see her. to hear her voice, to. breathe the same air with her, to guard .and protect her. ',I never asked inyielf whether I loved as other men,. or . .noi I talVer.dreanied of her loving me ngain... - I 'did':. not even: know her name nor her condi tiori: she was simply the lady to me--Hthe one' and only' woman of my world. -. 1 never dared to analyze more than this.: My love was part of my 'innermost being, and I could as sotm have itnarrined the earth without it sun as my life Whi r- lout the lady. • Was this love such as other men feel .1 knew not.— I only know there was no hoperi- such as oth er mew have: , .1 did. not question my own heart of the future: I only knew of love—l did not ask for happiness. - One tlay I 'went to sae her as usual. She was well -410 W ; -but I still. kept -up: my old habit of visiting her for her health. I sat by her for a long time this day, wondering, as I often wondered, who it'. was that star resembled, and Where Iliad met her before, and how, for I was certain that I hart seen her some time in the . past. S,be was lying back iii an easy chair—how well . 1 remember- it - all I enveloped in' a cloud of white drapery. A sofa-table - waS drawn along the: side of her 911 r' • • withe Ipartly open: With t rawer out - any intention of looking, I saw that it was filled with letters in two different hand ; writia4s 7 and`. two miniature cases were lvin • • ! among them.', Ai:repel) letter, in which lay a tresy of sun-bright hair, was on her knee. It. was written in a hand thatrmade - Me - start and quiver. ' I, kretv the writing, though :'at the moment I could not, recognize the writer. Strongly agitated, I took the letter in'tny . band. The hair fell hero:.s my fingers. The darkness gathered close and heavy, and there burst from me the self-act:wing ery of "Mur der:" - . "No, not murdered," said. the lady sorrow fully. "He was killed by accident. This lettet is from.him—my dear twin--Herbert— written on the •very day of his death. But what'ean -outweigh the - bles.seduess: of death while we are ilinoeent of sin . ? - As she spoke, for some strange - fancy slie drew the gauty drapery round her head. It fell about soft - and white as . foam. I knew not where I had seen her before, lying as now with her sweet face turned upward to the f• ky ; looking,as now,. so full of purity and love ; calling me then to innocence as now to reconeilhition., Her-angel in lier like hnd once spoken to me through the waves; as Herbert's spirit non; spoke to me in her. . "This is his portrait;' she continue 1, _open - - ing one of the. eases.: • • The darkfiess - &,'mtliered — closer and. closer. But 11 fought it off bravely, and kneeling humbly, for the first time I . was able to make my -confession.- I told her all. My love for Herbert; but my fierce fury of temper; - -my sin, but also bow unintentional; -my'atone 'pent ; and then in the, depth of, my agony, I turned to implore her forgiveness.. -" I do," she said; weeping. It Was a grievous crime—grievous, deadly—lint you have expiated it. Tow have repented iu deed by self subjuption, and by unwearied labors of mercy and good among your fellow men. I do forgive you, my,friend, as Herbert's spir- it would forgive you. And," in agayer tone, itiv beloved husband, who will return to me to-Say, will' bled you for preserving me to him. . • The darkness fell from me as she kissed - my hand.. Yet it still shades my life; but as a warning not as. a curse ;.a mournful: past, not a destroying present. ' Charity and active good among cur fellow men can destroy the power of sin within us; and repentance in deeds—not in tears, but in the life-long ef forts of - a resolute - man—tan lighten the l'bitckness.of a crigie and remove the curse of punishment - from to. Work and love; by these malt we win our pardon, and by these stand out - againin -the light./ 'KNOW NOPIING REFORM.—The Legislature h as v o t e d its members $5OO. each for the late ses..4en, with the usual extras, and mileage, and made the office a salaried one hereafter.— Under the former law at $3 per diem, each member would have received $378, with $25 extra-for stationery, &c., and mileage at the rate of 15 cents. The increase is $122 for each member amounting to $16,226 in the Aggregate. If we add the salaries of the extra otliee's appointed nt this session, the sum will be swelled to about twenty thousand dollars. This ts . the extra cost, to the . people, of a Know' Nothing legislature., ; !Whether. the benefits it has conferdd upon the Common•.. wealth are worth : this extra- alloivance over for Mer legislators is a matter •of opinion.— Each person may form his own. • - .Our own opinion has been• frequently ex pressed.. But on the whole we think the t420,- 000 will be well expended,if_ it will save the state from the mflietion of such another leg lature during the present . generation. SUNBURY AN6 DUE RAIUMPAX.--The Con tractQrs on the line of road between Northum berland and Milton, arOnt work with a strong force, graditigandpreparing the road for the rails. Work upon the heavy sections between Williamsport and Lock Unveil is also Pro gressing. ArrangeMents are. being mada to go on. with the two bridges across the Sus- Oehanna, so ris to have them completed and the road finished to the eastern terminus, Sun bury, hefts tbe close of the yter.--rk.ptess. From tho Flag of our Union. Evening thoughts. BY *M. A. ATEWARY The vied days ofehildhombrin hippy and bright, flow memory lingers around those fond scenes, When each passing moment is l erosenea With de. • " light, . . • . • And the future. aemed happier still in. our dreama, . . The season of youth too, forever is past, , And with it the hopes fondly cherished, and fears , , That at. times o'er my heart a dee p . sadness had cast, 1 .. - ' - • How vivid each scene to my memory appears., AI% thrice liapPy-d;iys, I Can revel -no • more ' ..- - In your joys and your pastimes,-those dreams are now past; Those .beautiful fairy-like visions .are o'er--- The future with different scenes is- o'ereast, ' . , As the - years swiftly roll, and I heedlesiy rove, Tlitongli the pathway of life wilt my beart of , ten burn; .. , • • When I dwell on thu beautiful maid whom I love, • Days °nil:is were renewed, if but toted in re-, .. turn. • . . ' ~ 0, that wino were the fend one on'Whoin every charm Kind Nature in ail her profusion bestows; , Whose bean with'the holiest affection is warm, On whose'cheek is the innocent blush of the TOdP, Ah, whb is the fair one, so pure, so diyine, So lovely and cheerful—so getrtlC and fret: In whom all the virtues and graces combine—gi Would you know dearest maid! Ah, perhaps . 4 1 . it is thee ! .. :A Sterling . Old Peens. • ". Who shall judge a man from manners!. Who shall know him, by his dress PaUperS may be fit for princes, - • Princes fit for something' less. • Crumpled shirt - and dirty jacket- May beelothe, the . golden ore Of the deepest thomtlitis and feelings— . Satin vests - could do no More. There ar).springs of crystal nectar . Ever wellin;pout of stone ;. There are purple buds and- golden, . Bidden; crushed, and. overgrown. God, who counts by souls, not dresses, Lo‘ es and Prospers you and me. While he values throne the high cst: But as pebbles in the sea. • • ~ . -Man. npraNed above his fellows. Oft forgets .his fellows . then ;- • , • Ma‘ters---rtifers—lords, remetn)er That your meanest !rinds are men! Mlin by labor and, men by feeling, . . . Men by thought and men by frame, Claiming equal rights to sunshine . : In a inan's'ennobling name. . . There are fonin.embroidered oceans, There are little weed-clad rills i There are feeble inch-high saplins, • • . ! • There are cedars on the bills; god, who counts by aunts; not stations,. .Loves and prospers von and me ; i For to Him all vain dikinctioni !Are as pebbles> in 'the •sea... . 4. • , 1 Toiling hands alone are builders . . Ora nation's wealth and .fami ; Titled lazyness -is pensiotied, . . Fed and fattened on thC same, - . . i • .By the sweat of ether's foreheads, . . _ Living only to rejoice, . - I :r. While the poor man's outraged freedom Vainly lifteth up. its voice.: '-' Truth and justice are - eternal, - torn with loveliness and . b , • Secretwronp shall never prosper . .', %Virile there is a sunny right' ` . - God, whose world voice twinging Boundlesi love to you and me, ; Sinks 'oppression with its titles, , . , .As pebbles in the sea. Itlental Enjoyment. "My mind to me a kingdom is." • True enjoyment proceeds . from , the- mind. Oitr tbouerlas make us .happy or unhappy.— Vhatever may be our outward eireamstan- Os, the Crosses we meet with through life, or the priVations we are-called upon to endure, still if the mind-is right we are happy. It is frequently said In individuals, " What does )te care /"• You "look at therperscin spoken of, face wears a genial smile, and a warn light is in his eyes. Trouble, whether do nestic or worldly, have had :no effect upon • The world says, "he does not care," we.sav the man is a philosopher—his mind is his kin loin, and . be laughs at Kings might envy him, but.he- does not - as pirel to a kingdom. Your truly contented man-is the one who ,hai.the largest outward jooswsions. • - i The winter fireside is a book to such a man, Iwberein he reads,'as the wood crackles, and idle sparks dance before him. Now the'page is opened at affliction. The dying embers are emblematical of dying . friends; but the bright sparks,' mounting tipwards, draw his thoughts• to a higher sphere Where all that was beautiful of those'friends has gore. The' next is joy, and the blazing wood is - emblematical of the bright and joyous :hopes within him. The next is a history; and eVeryloglias , RS legend; and seems an emblero-of the different nations of the earth. So lie muses, and for gets in a general thought .his own peculiar thinkings. %A walk through The town is sug gestive. , He sees property around, and, tho' lie covets no man's wealth, the whole seems I. Why should he not - think - se.? He li es in it,.and his is the inind to enjoy it.--: \' hat if a beautiful house.is building which, d.... not belong to him, it beautifies the place in 'which he dwells.. Lovely flowers are bloc= seining in the garden of another, but be can stand and look at them, . and their - odor is wafted towards him by some friendly iNind its he gazes., i Others gnu travel ,in foreign countries,'htit.lie can read about _them; and ,his ;iln clothes them with . tweety times their real grandeur and beauty. - There is a land which none who have ever visited have returned. to give an account: of.. May not the training which ho undergoes fit - him for a better conception of that far off yet near countryolian all the -experience of act ual-travelers. Certain it is, the more a man sees the More he is. likely to, speculate, and ther-come his doubts. Art may produce pic tures,' but nature ..is..a glorious painting. Sculptors can carve statues; but the, living .models of their work . sit by the door steps,—.— Bothpaintings and"-statuary can only lie, af forded by the rich in money, but . tha rich in mind can enjoy the samb pleasure free' of cost. Health and a vigorous tuindis all any one wants for perfeet enjoyment. • The giddy may dance, the grave will. think. . .The one tires, the other is - never exhausted. One is a vied= to the bilektheetbih. is atwits 'his's. i• Irlaoriataglaly. Drlesl-_ratatier4 twin Always iproducea crop F ree r Trona not. A 'professor in, the Ressian Agricultural In.; stitute, Itollman• by name, has: publisited - a very interesting pamphlet on the potato'rot,'• and be announces to the world - - that mere drying,_if condnee,d at a - sufficiently high temperature, and, continued long enough, is it complete antidote ie• the disease. In; the 'sliring of 1850, the . professor says he 'placed a .loon a -very hot rooro,-and at -the-end of three Weeks they were dry enough to! plant. Thepotatoes came up. W(.41 and produced , as gopd a erop as that. of -the neighboring farm ers, With ads difference only, , that they had, no' diseaQe; and the crop - theiefore 'upon the whole more abundant. 'Professor Boffin:tn_ says: that lid• regarded. this as - a mere , accident ;lie. heivever. again, dried:lns seed: potatoes . .in 1851, and., again his crop' Wag 'abundant and free froni disease,. While every Where; on the Surrounding land they were much affected. This Was too re markable a circumstance not; to excite atten tion, and itt.lBs2‘a thirdtrial took, place.H. All Bollman's stock of potatoes being exhaus ted,, lie -was obliged to purelntse his' Seed which bore unmistakably' marks - of- haying formed a:part : Of a crop that had been severe:, ly diseased;.seme.; in . _fact were. quite rottom..;- , 'From the Flag of,Otir - Union. Joe iLattEt'i4. III( 'WILLIAM P. FROST. . „ While the . old frigate Brandywine lay rittiV raliar, the AmeriCan Consitl, ' Mr.' Sprague, catneon board with a man who. wiihed to join the ship,. and :.after. some .consuluttiott said man, was received by the 'Captain as a sort of steward, be 'having • agreed to work 'for Lis passage and board, and some slight consider arliesides. His \ wile was Joe Lattit, and he was . a- regulai.specimen of the strolling Yankee; but he dressed well, and. was: re markably good IVking, though..there was in hiS ince apecuilariook whielt Indicated thltt he' preferred 'fan to sound sense; - allowing,. hoWever, that the fun .had some sense , to it: The moment I..p)aced ra• eYes•upentheman, I knew Iliad .weti him bet e, and when I: had . an 'opportunity to speak with Aim," I fetind that had been a perform' r of legerde- Main and ventriloquiiiin in the Vaited States;,' and 'Aber°. i had' seen lint. H . had - travelled ,1 through England, Franee,:. a d a Tart or Spain with his implements.pf deception, and. had just brought up at ,Gibral r whew. our ship come in. lle- brough t his a tole kit on board inca large chest„.which he ~, t permiss ion to stow in.the bread room, wile it would p he ,kept erfead y dry. - ne . had quite a "pile" of mot y, which he i placed in. - the purser's hands for safe keepink, but be would tell none of us low much: But he was liberal and open-hearted,- and it' Was not lung before the crew blessed the hour that brought him on board, for he!was. the: very soul ,of wit and buinor, C • • . At length our ship went ' - to Port Mahon, and . hire our Yankee Wei were at home. One pleasant morning a party of us Went on shore and Lattit was . atlOng . our number.' Joe was dresSed in a perfedt shore-going rig, and appeared a gentletnaniof Consequence..l year the Middle of the forenoon a few of ns enter ed a.cafe, and the onbr occupant, besides the keeper - ,' was a .Spanish officer, evidently_ an infantry captain ' from] his dress.: .We called fur wine, and had it served upon a.table !text to the one at which the officer sat, Joe seat ing himself so that hiFlback came against the back of the Spaniard a but he did not notice, when,he sat down, holy close he would be.: Our laugh . and jest Iran . high ; and just as Joe said something mbre,lhan usnally funny, he . threw himself.backl..and . thereby bit the Spaniard with such farce as to Canso' him to spill a glass of . wine Upon his . bosom.. The fellow leaped to his fesA, but lodine Joe could bag pardon for . theuninteutioual inisbapi• he Commenced a torrent ",of oaths and. invective, partly in broken EngliSh.. His language was so abusive that Sees terriner was up to a' - mo 7 went; and instead Of risking pardon as-he liad. intended; he sarreyedi the. raving-man. from head to foot, and then said : "Go on, sir. Youti language . is beautiful' —yeti be i atitiful for st gentleman?' • ! yeti call me a gentleman, eh?" ut tered theotlieer, in a lowering passion. • "If I were going id call you; I s4ould . call you a jackass and .coniemptueusly. , . . uttered Joe. • • . - - ".Alla-a 7 a-ah" half growled the Spaniard, - rolling his black eyest wildly and furiously. "Now, by Santa Marie,, you ,shall . answer.6r -- that, '. I am a genteeltuan 1' _tut you— . -you —one leotle cursed puppy ! Ab-a-a-ah !--- ;Now you shall fight l'l ' ~ Joe . would have laughed . - the matter off, but he .found. that the i captain was determined te tight, and at len z , - e.th he resolvc.4.l . to accont tnedate'.hirn. The keeper of the cafe called Me one side: 'and inforrned-tne .that the Offieei - Vilg Captain . ..;l..ntoniol liizar, one 'of the most notorious duelists in. the ,Place,--that he-was always .4uarrelsozn Wheu'under the influence of licpior, and that . los companions _alwaye . left him alone, rather !than have a fuss - With him. 1 • ..- ' --: -: 44 'Not five in mutes hetore you came in," ad ded The keeper, ." fuer q; :his fellow officers left him; I;ceause•thei saw. he was . ripe for a fuss. So you. - had 6etter. get; .frierrd, awiri-."' ' • • i _ .. • trilled .Toe away,land told - him all that had jusebeen told trie, but he only smiled, -tuna assured . me - thati there was.nothing to fear. I felt sure at once., from his very- man ner; that ho . had some safe futi in his head, and I. let him go. 1 .- . . ' • - •.. - ". My . name Is Joseol - Lattit, l sir i a - citizen .of the United StateN and - ' general .of ,the or der. ofSublime Darknese"aaid Joe, pompous ly,_. turning .to : the Spainard. - . "Your name str 5 1".• .4 ... Antonio Bizet., elptain - in her Ifoste.at , h- . - Olii . .Majsty's seventh] - regiment of infantry.. But.your office sir; "C), you wouldn't now if I should - tell yoU, lam simply general - f . . a body .of. men, who have sohl themielres to the gentlemanwho a hdrns - sinners and he tics , down 'here." And Joe - pointed Most - mys eriously down : towards the, fl oor AS: be spoke. '- :, _.... .„V .. , 1 • The Spaniard smiled a very : bitter , anrcas tie smile , and thereupon Joe .took up P.y.o , . .large kniyes lirl . liciii lay' upon'• • the ' bar, ands tweed them, one after the; vtlier,doWn. hia,. throat, making several vim fe l nen in theytook, their passage, derinlyard... !, The fellow had eir;.. idently never seen - anything of the kind detail Isoftsrk Or he vitas. Wiptitided. l -• :-..-- -• : I . '. • - - ENDESI a Now, eigr,nnict Joe,:makings...titter more grimatespos though he ,8 0 11 felt 0 14).J knives somewhere:. in the region ,l.of titudtit-(• pinagm; " hero,nittitalo ittul , l bring my pistoli i ., anti- yoir ehall haleAikt*T faction.":. Will yowsraitt7 PI can procure pistols." said- the 411004-i forgetting Ilia astoniShme.nt,and comingbaole ~ to his anger..',. , _ • . .. , ';' ,- 1 i.' N:',-; t;.. -,-,-, La .A.I 1 . 1-9.1 shall fight with my: 0111 /I: it 404 414i a g, 3 ntleataccy' " an- will .wait , baret .-..,1" , , t.*. '_•_,-!. - Joe then , turned to. Als" and bade us: i ~.- . 1 , , _,: :,.. `. 4 Here r here! ',O f criezr.oried -, .. the kevJ r, .t‘ Wbore,be mine knivekr, :, .i... ~,,„ "YU - Pay: you for-!em When I ,cooke iiiicic,"„ ; id 'Joe, and then ,he beckoned - for. rigA ta:: r , ....,9itt....„.,L.,41.4.,843,.,,a...14...:„.4%,t4 t ..54,9. nixes --ono from .bis bosc•rn, end ' t : 011. 14- ' r from his/Alava .-r and told metro keep the * . ntil be - retnnied. - --- -..--• -' -' ,'..,..; -it' e '-'--. it seems that Joe found,a boat ready , take him IA to the ship at :once, .for he 4wl,3';' not gone '4:K6r-three quarters - of an hour, ani. when 'he canto= - hack , he had two- superb]? . : mounted pistols with him: He loaded them. with ivwdei in the pie-sin - oil of ;Eitiaolar I. and then handing him a ball, he asked hill!• if he 'i'vould mark it,. so he Would know 3f, :loin. The fellow hesitated-at-first; but nt length -he took , it, oiritli i• mad *attire, ani bit it between hie teeth.i . :; = sha . .ll4.pow'Out,7: ia;•, hat!eied,,again§t ; yoUr,SOites. l ':, - "NOiv se.leCt your pilskolMsitid 1 The -rain took thern botk but—her:: was satisfiedir that4thef. - iireid both tilde, aiiii liot4g9l4,stU4,,lii'tc . 4ol Joe LA had no choice. 'So our - steward put thp,1?0,14, in, and rammed tlkem careftilly .3 t - =lll The who,likparty now odj virneo 0 ,a ; iTids klo court ; bacf the cafe, tvli 're .t#elie Vines were I - narked 'off, and i the - the' comb ataiiti took their st.;t,tions.l trem, ledlOrfikfrlio for I saw not 'yet how be *field Angle - lila:(i.: this. • -, " : . 1 , 1 1. .'l. . v ' ,,,, -, " Count 1" cried 'the pa lard impattenib.. . _ • " One--twtbree 1" The captain fired first, and with a most de liberate aim. Joe firedintop• ~ the hit., Theo the latter s‘falked deliberately:: tp. to bis tagonist, rind tabing a - bullet betweer. his teeth, he Innded it to bitty. _ • "You can. use it ne*t:tin)e. said , The officer looked at JOe t S teeth,- and.then at the ball. h was surely 'i the "same onelio _bad seen put into the pistol, and now he lupi: seenhisfoeman take itfront his mouth ! , 115, was unmistakably astounded. s • " Come," cried Joe let's load.again r a San Peblo!" texclainred-Bizar," you- - ass: .- some—what yoir call him--some trick eb '+ By San Jago, I shall load the pistol- myself'.' po so," said .toe, - earbly, and as he spot: helfanded-over hiS powder flask. 1- ', • The Spaniard poured out an extra quanti ty: of powder, and.having poured itinto ,the pistol, he called fer ' khe rammer. He theF put in the_same ball Which he had used be fore. Meanwhile, Joe had- been.-loading.hii' own piAol. .- '-, •-• .1 . 't "One moment," tittered Joe, reachinvout his hand. " The caps are' in the _butt of your pistol.' Let me get them ; -,T . :- The fellow passed over is pistol, brit he kept his eyes upon it. Joe opened a :little - silver spring at the end'ofi the butt, and ,true there, were some percussion caps there. H s _ took out two and having apped,liii, own pi. - - tol, lie gaveit a toss in the, air, catching it.. I adroitly as.it came doWri,land • then banded back the other to the Spaniard: I had. watch= ed Joe most : carefully, bull! saw., nothing:, out . of the wity,--ond yet he h#chwed pistols; with his foe I. 'I . " Now said he, I'll put h bull into my` pis tol, and then we'll bereftly." , 4 -: - ,- , ..• He slipped something in , Which kioked i to • me like a cartridge, hut no_ene else aa* `• it. month:' ' . ' Now," cried the_Spae aid, !'.let's se .;yo u hold this-in rout nth." ' - Again they took their atatious,and main then-were ready. : " One—two 'three !" ' -' - '''.''. r. ..., • ,`, .. .:And the Spaniard fl. first hy trite, :Joe, firing , ..Ari into the air as hero . d again lee . stepped forward and= too - the self-same bul let from; his mouth and h nded it to"-his at tagonist! The fellow was completely dtuu founded.; and so Were the rest, ' . - " You 1714 fire at rne V', gasped the oil:- tail'. i --" 1 „ . " 11l - fire ut you - the meld time le' said .Tez..., in a tou'e. of thunder: - "hus far I bait: 'only l shown -5 1 i 0A1 , that powder a i d ball eau:have of • effect on me. 'Twice have you fired at me, withas true a pistol -as ev er Was• Made, anti th bo times have I caught ,your ball between it my teeth, while L have fi red in the air 1 meant-that you should l ive long -enough lc. know that for once in your life you seen, if not the old fellow himself (pointing_ mean infdli dOwnward.) at-least one who is in his . employ 11. The old . gentleman will like - Abe eon-Tal of a Spanish captain pf infantryoind I'll sen dy ou along! Come, loader, again!" But tar o astonished Spaniard did not- seem inclined; ro do so. A tuun who swallowed _ ciarvin,,,miknives as he would sardines,ranci who catight pistol-balls between' his, teeth, was - nottekactl the man.' for : him -to deal with, - While he was pondering...upon what lie had Seen, Joe took a handful of bullets from. hiil pockets, and beganto toss-them rap idly doWn his throat, and When these - were gone, hi picked up balf.a dozen good-sized stones, sand _ sent thena after, the bullets-1 " Holly Santa Marie 1" ejaculated the Spaniard, *hilt)* his eyes seemed strained frern their sijacts. " what a maul By My soul, 'Eta the devil r' ' - • , --• 1 Arid. is he:thus apokehe turned on Mabee! and hinfried away froth the place. , 404 r he was gole, Joe beckoned to me, to gni) him the kmves. I did so, and then saw him slip ! , them up his Coat sleevs. When lie returned --, to the cafe, he approaChecl the keetref:: ' 7' ' " You want roue tnivest" he'esiiii: .::-, 'But the` poor fellow dare not 'epOtk.. 4106_ put hia. hand* to his right ear,atid. pulled one of•the hing kniveaout. Then ffMn the left - he drawl the other one! .., The keep e " r crossed hip:weltn terrokatid shrink trembling:away. But wefi nished our wine, and ' having ',paid, ; for it, we turned to go. , - - - • , "Hers, said "I . havn't paid for the use of the yard yet;' and as -he spoke "lte threw down ii pieta of silver :- upon -,thn Conn '''"-.1441 no! nor - shrieked the:poet fellow, 4-,6 4 po s t don't leave lour,mettay- bere t -- 5 1 0th., ri- 7 - ' - , . ... ...aoe Pioloidnt upAnd Neat ili,ey-Taugaltw° I When we . were alone,hii*Plediedln 'tied* 1 secret Ot hie-pistots. They - iwert:stltmd` r an t had used , in I lia ; hignythansin,- tinliknoweitini: ;C i =ME ' ; , .t . • 'Ff-1 --;-,1,1i1 Eimazi MEMO EIRE EIREI WERE :.-.:.1 l',.::( ;-,-.i.r.-;,,,,_:?!;.! EZIVI