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To the Susquehanna.
AY STANK DOUGEF,RTY.
No more upon thy verdant shores,
The Indian maid her sorra a pours,
Or sings to listless sycamores, -
_ My native Susquehanna!
Nor does "the warrior hunter roam,
In - search of deer so frolicsome—
Enticing him far from his home,
Upon, the Susquehanna,
No more lidown thy rippling tide,
The Indian warrior woos his bride,
Or chants o'er him who battling died,
Along the Susquehanna.
The startled deer now lightly bounds,
And deea her from the baying bounds,
Along thy ancient hunting grounds,
Melodious Susquehanna!
The milk-maid on the rine-rolie swing*,
Ere home her - well-filled pail she brings,
And bird-like notes she sweetly flings
Across the Susquelumna.,
•
The truant.boy with ruddy cheek, -
Now romping playa ut hide-and-seek,
Or laces his form with manY alreak,
In crystal•Susquelanna.
The villa fait with well rherti green,
Reflecting in thy mir3i, sheen,L
Lends double beauty to the scene.
' And gems the Susquehanna.
Thy shores no more by red men trod,
Bursts forth in fruitful praise to God,
And with its ripeness smiles the.sod,
Of blooming Susquehanna.
Again, and once again" 1 hail
Each craggy peak, each flow'ry vale;
And though all oiler memories NI,.
greet Mee, Susquehanna!
The Magellanic Clouds.
BY J. W E TT
Our lone Aip points her arms of white
Up to the worlds ofstarry light,
Which sparkle on the brow of Night,
To Heaven's broad dome t tarn my eye,
The Smat,hern Cross suspended high,
B:azes in glory on the sky!
•
In that grand Star-set Cross we trace,
inwrought upon the debths of space,
An emblem of redeeming graze. .
Where the deep ocean-skies expand,
St . tetehes the galaxy's bright band,
A silver reef on unknown strand.
The 3fagelanie Clouds arise, .
Mi4t.islands on the Southern skies,
White elottd.wreaths to the gszing eyes.
And one dark cloud seems like a door,
An opening through the beaten's bright floor
Upon the boundless chaos-shore.
The stars that round its portals stand,
Are watch.towers of that unknown land,
Where circling ants in space expand. •
`.c . Half would the fettered spirit die, .
And to you distant opening fly,
To gaze on heaven with undimmed eye
Leaving its prison -house of clay,
ft fain would rend the veil away,
To bask in one eternal day
Serenading a Young \ Lady , .
In my young days, says the editor of an
exchange paper, I was extravigantly fond of
attending parties, and was somewhat celebra
ted for playing the flute; hence, it was -gen
erally expected, when an invitation was ex
tended, that my flute would accompany me.
.1 visited a splendid party one evening, and
•was called upon to favor the company with a
tune on thetute. I, of course, immediately
complied with the request. The company ap
peared to be delighted,but more particularly
so, was a young lady, who raised her hands,
and exclaimed that it was beautiful, etc.-
1, of coarse, was highly flattered, and imme
diately formed a resolution to serenade the
voting lady the following night: Previous to
leaving they, I made inquiry respecting
her residence. I started the next night, in
company with several young friends and ar
rived at the lady's rmidence, but made a most
glorious mistake by getting under the window
of an old, Quaker.. I
" Noir boys," said I," behold the sentiment
ality of, this_young lady tlie Jnoment I strike .
up the last rose of surnmer: "
I struck up, but the window remained
dosed. The boys smiled. '
"Ohl" said I, " that's nothing; it would
not be good taste to open the window on the
first air."
I next struck up on "old Robin Gray."—
Still the window remained closed. The boys
snickered and I felt somewhat flat. '
‘oAtee more, boys," said I, "and she must
mine
I struck up again - 4 , 4 My love is like the
mi, red, rose." Still there was no detrionstra
tios.
"Boys," said I, she's a humbug. Let ns
ring Home, sweet Home," and ; if that don't
bring her, we will give her up."
We struck up, and SE we finished the last
line the window was raised.
`That's the ticket, boys," said I, "I knew
we would fetch her."
"But instead of the beautiful young . lady,
it turned out to be the old :Quaker, m his
Eight-cap and dressing-gown; _ .
,"Friend," said he, "thee was sing ing 4)1
thy sweet home—if I 'recollect rig ht, thee
said tbere wia no placelke home:—why
don't thee go to thy. home Y Thee is not
wanted here—thee not any of thy party.--
Farewell 1" _
We and our bats went homel -
Sketch of Luther.
BY CARLYLE.
A course, rugged, plebeian ; face it was, with
great cragnaf cheek-bones--a wild amount
passionate energy and appetite 1 But in his
(lark eyes were floodsof sorrow ; and the dfitep
,fs:t melancholy,sweetnonoincl !mystery, were;
all them Often•did there I*m to meet in Lur
Ilia the poles inpaasiszliaracter.. He, for ex
ample, o f whirria Riteher had said that his
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words Were balf-battles, be, when he first be
"gan to preach, Sneered unheard of agony.—
'• 0, Dr. Staupitz, Dr. Stnupitz,' said lie to the
vicarLgeneral of hiS'order,.' I cannot, I cannot
I sludidie in three months.. Indeed, I cannot
do it.'Dr. Stannitz,, a wise and con - siderate
man, said upontlis; ' Well, sir Martin, if you
must die, you must; but remember', they need
good beads up yonder too. So preach, man
preach, and then bye or die as it happens.
So I.,uther preached and lived, and he be-,
camel indeed, one great whirlwind . of energy,
to .work without Istitig in this world ; and
also before he died: e wntiernAny, very many
books;,—booloi in which the ctue,tnan was—
for in the midst of all they ? ; lilenounced and
cursed, what touches of teiiderna lay. Look
at the iTable Talk, for example.
' WO, see in ha little bird, having alighted
at sun`se ton the bough of-a , fa tree that grew
in Luther's gArden. Luther Iked — up• at .it
and said : . ' That liti le -bird, / tv - it cowers
down its wings,and i w'll sleep there , so still
and fearless; thOugh •er i,t - arethe infinite
(
s t arry spaces, and th , great blue, depths of
inimen.ity. Yet it fears not—it is at . hbme.
The God that mjde it tools there.' Thssame
gentle spirit . orioal admiration is in the
other passages - of his books. Coining home
from Leipsicl, in the autumn season, he breaks
forth into living ;wonder at the fields of corn
--‘ flow it stands there,' be says, • 4 erect on
its beautiful taper stem, and bending its beau
tiful golden bead'iwith bread in it—the bread
of man sent! to hint another year' Such"
thoughts As'lliese are as- little windows,
through which Wegaze into the serene:depths
of Martin Luther' sbul and see visibly across
its tempests an l 4 41onds, the whole - heaven of
light and loye; Be might haVe painted
lie might bas. l .4 sutig--could: have bee beau
tiful like Rafilinel; great like Mattel Vogel°.
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Speech of Hou. Joseph Howe. Or e -
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In e , Nor a Scotia' House of Assembly, on
the 21st of iebteary, 1855, in opposition
. to the-'„Pro4bitory Liquor pm.
,
After much reflection upon the subject, he
bad not been able to bring his mind up to
assume the responsibility of voting for the
this bill.' HeUapproved.of the Worts made
by. the Tempol i ance Societ'es, and wished them
success, so long as they sought to reform by
persuasion, by argument and example. When
they attempted; impossibilitics,, when they
sought to coerce the pen le into' temperance,
he consciencionsly believed they would fail—
he believed thai all ;the good they bad done,
,would be perilled by a resort to harshness
and coercion. i . -
The Deity had • not, prohibite‘; the use of
wine. On the contrary he had given the
grape to man, with immeasurable other boun
ties. - Our Saviour bad not prohibited the
use of wine. He bad sat. with those who
drank it, and had, by a miracle, replenished
their cups at, the Marriage Feast. The apos,
ties iad not forbidden, the use of wine. Its
use ,was denounced in the Foran, by the
pagan Mabumet, but was not, 'so far as he
per?eh'ed, in the Bible. What, then, the' l
Almighty bad not done or attempted—what
He could have done with so much ease, yet
bad refrained from doing—hetheught it no
wise•for man to attempt. ;.
The evils flowing from the excessive use o
wine be deeply deplored, as lie did the evil
flowing from the Overindulgeance of an
other passion or. propensi'ty.j 'But who could'
argue from excess of any kind that the ra
tional enjovnient - e)f God?e gifts was therefore
sinful? -Who could venture to argue that
because mischief iwas done by many ofGod's
gifts that.they.shOuld, on that account, be
oircumsCribed or prohibited by human laws?
The atrriospliere that fans the i l cheek of beau
tv—that: invigorates the frame—that flutters
the leaf upon the itree—that dimples the sur
face of tlake--that gives variety and majes
ty to the when accumulatedin masses,
lashes it. If into the teruntest arid`strews the
ocean. l 7 e
shore with the 'rreek of human life and 'pro
perty. The learned member, standing amidst
the wreck of nark* and the whitening bones
of the human victims, might eloquently de
scribe the scene; hut would he,'if be could,
attempt to restrain the eccentricities of na
ture, or to forbid to man,,
by human laws,
the benefit of navigation II How beautiful is
water! (the Temperance man's own element,)
yet how dangerous. The rain which fertilizes
the fieldssieeps away withlt.s excess, bridges,
mills and Libman habitations. If not drain
ed off it sours the land, and breeds the pesti
lence i cities; The ffre that warms our
hearth+that clears our weoilands----and
smelts Our metals—that drives our steamers
and loComotives, is not lesi dangerous.—
Would be deny to man the tale of these ele
meats because the causalities by fire are
most disastrous! Would he forbid their use
because people are lamed in cities; droilied
in therivers; because a boiler butits at sea,
or an engine sometithes runs off- the track, or
kills hundredi by violence of colision! Wil
liata the Con n oerr, ii, is true, once denied to
the; people orgngland fire and light after the
curfew tolled,:but tb '' abhorrence in' which
, the act is hr t eld would encourageno any body
to follow liie example. •
Wemati , is'' , God's best gift 'to man. Ilhe
i,
fascination; which she spreads around her
how.d 1 ffiCl4 t to resist—the passions she inspires
how intimately juterwoven, with all that
arouses to exertion„ and rewards - us for our
toils. Yet , when even lore is indulged -in to
excess—itlien reason is overpowered—when
passion barries'on to folly, how numerous the
victims ;1 how blasting the effects. Yet who
would, i.easoning from ' the perils of indul
gence, and the dangers of society, deny to
man the Companionship which alone makes
existence tolerable! The leartied member of
Annapolis:l - eight draw from the sinks of vice,
or even .from the agony of a single victim,
- some hairowing pictures; but would - he on
that account imitate the Turks, and lock up
all the women" (Roam of laughter.) The
victims of indulgence in opium I have never
seen, but even spirituous lieuorSd4 not produce:
the extent of physical suffering and moral
dislocation that results frcirrilthoi use of this
drug. 'But would the learned Member deny
to society the use of that which allays the de
liruni of - fever—which wall the infant up
on the mother 's bowl; and ves more lives
titani
it ever destroyq T e gunpowder,
which blasts our, rocks, looseis our 'plaster,
defends our country, acid kills our game;---
Mark the miser and mischief it produces
when its mysterious pewit is abused. But
who would argue that, beotuse boys blow
themselves up,' and tyrans lusei g . unpowder.for
unworthy purpmee,it use eboubi be forbidden!
Would thlY learned gentletui, even . with the
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battlefields of Balaklavannd Inkerman before
him, attempt to restain, by human laws; the
manufacture and sale of - gunpOwder f.. Who
denies that_ law is the safe-guard ~of our lives
and properties:; that courts are indispensable
institutions; that lawyers are the fearless ad
vocates of.the innocent and oppressed I But
has not even law been abused 4 How many
pettifoggers defile the courts; ensnare the ig
norant; waste. nien's estates, and embitter
their lives? Walter Seott's Peebles 'and
: Planestanes„ :and Dicken's . picture of the
Court Chancery, are familiar to us all. . These
are but sketches illustrative .of the evils in
separable from the dispensation of Equity aild
Law by the most-perfect tribunals of civilized
countries.
How are these evils to be mitigated or re
moved; .1 wmild say, by. discumion, by ex
posure, by. exatisple, by bOnest and successful
atternps to seperate the securities and legiti
mate practice of • law from • its abuse. The
learned advocate of this bill, to be consistent,
should close ihe courts, imprison the lawyers,
and forbid th 6 manufacture of law, or its im
portation from foreign countries. Woman,
from her first appearance on .the stage of life,
bad brought sorrow and suffering with her.
In her train came rivalries, and jealousies,
and war and strife., Let the learned member
go into his own country,' where the pretty fa
ces, peeping through the apple-blossoms, are
lovely to •behold. Even there—are.there no
broken hearts, no pale faces, no blighted lives,
no damaged reputations No girls with
Burn's pretty excuse upon their lips—
".A dear, loved lad, occasion sung
. A treacherous inclination I" .
No youths pleading,.in the intonation of pas
sionate repentance, that even—
- "The light that led astray
•
Was light from heaven!'
Yet would the learned gentleman, in view of
all thew evils, point to the pretty girls, and
Say—" Touch not, taste not,
,handle
Would he, for fear of migcbief, coop them all
up like cows in a Belgian barn.- ' -
The world has come down to the present
period from the most remote antiquity' with
the winecup •in •its ,hand. David, the man
after God's own heart, drank wine. Solomon,
the wisest of monarchs and of huin aribeings,
drank wine. Our Savior not . - only drank it,
but commanded Christians to drink it "in
remetitheranee of him." In strong contrast
. with our Divine Redeemer's life and practice,
we hear of the SCtibes and Pharisees, who
drank it not—who reviled out Saviour as a
"winebibber," and the "companion of pub
lieuns End sinners;" who would have '.voted
for the! Maine. Liquor Law as unanimously
as thei cried, "Crucify him."
Such people have existed in all ages of the
world. The desire of human beings to dictate
to each other what they shall eat, and drink,.
and - wjar,.has been evinced in different coun
tries atidifferent - perieds. The zealots in the
State of Maine are mere plagiarists after all.
Sumtuary Laws, tried in many countries, at
different periods Of the world's history,- ,are
now universally c4nderiiii6l by the goo" sense
of mankind. 'La'ws restraining drunkennes4
are nearly as old. as drinking. It is curioul
to see what strange experiments have- been'
tried at times. Zaleucus - of Locics, 150., yeari
before the Christian Era, ordained " that nd
woman should go attended by in-ore than 013(2(
maid unless she was drzini. and that. she
should not wear gold or embroidered apparel:
unhs she intended to act unchastelv." This.
sage Law giver punished adultry with the
loss of both eyes: llis own son broke the'
law, and the old gentleman, unwilling to de-,
price his son of both eyes, compromised the,
matter by putting outone of his own.
' As early as 747, laws. were passed in Eng
bind restraining drunkenness in the Clergy.
And •. Constantine, king of the Scow., (who
was - a sort of Neal,Dow in-his day) punished
it roi,th, death. - -
His law passed away as this laW will pass,
'and a good deal of whiskey has been drunk
in Scotland since. In England, in '995 an
'effort was made to restrain drinking by jaw,
.but it failed. Taverns were only. introduced
:in the 13th century. In'the'reign of Edward
the 111, there were only three allowed in Lon
'don. Now there are thousands, Edward the
IV, tried to restrain them in 1542; 40, were
then allowed in London, 8 in York,,4 in Ox
ford. They were not licensll till 1752. The
history of wine is curio ue . Its invention is
attributed to Noah, who certainly had seen
enough of the evils of water. The Chinese
made wine from rice two thousand years be
-before the birth Of Christ, and although- it
must be allowed that they" have tea enough,
they make and drink it. yet. Wine was but
little known in England till the Roman con
'tlues.t. I We' are told that it impaires our
,strength,• yet the people who drank it con
quored (those who did not. It was only sold
by the apothecaries (as is now proppsed again)
iu the 13th century. .In 1127, Henry the VI,
a sensible king, tried to' restrain its adultera
tion, and 14e. read
,"that 150 butt and pipes
were condemned and.ernptied into:the gutters
in London, for being adulterated."l
'Montrose, ,:insqutanna Count, renn'a,, trlttrsbay, Doming, Fula TO, 1855.
The Stoics denied themselves !the -use of
wine,.but their.sect soon died out.i The Pu•
ritans tned the experiment of com ing people
into temperance and virtue, but 64 signally
failed. I invite the honorable and leairned mem
ber from Annapolis to review this period of
English history.- I refer to the !time when
the Puritan cause was most triumphant, when
Charles bad been slain, his followeni dispersed,-
when Cromwell reigned 'in Whitehall, when
his . naajor Generals held military cOmmand - of
all the Counties, when the May poles were
struck down—the theatres closed—the tow
ers shut up; when mirth was restrained and
temperance enforced 'by the sword. Now,
what *as the effect of ail this l No sooner
was tbb Protector in his 'coffin, than the peo
ple of England by a dommoa impulse, threw
off a system which they regarded as opressivn.
So distksteful had their restraint become, that
the pedple restored the Stuarts, forgot their
civil wits and sacrifices—reopened their thea
tres ap l taverns, and so disgusted were they
with E l uritan domination that liberty was
forgot* in the general joy which the restora
tion oft personal . freedom occasioned. The
wine cup went round and from that day to
this no attempt has been made to re-establish
Cromwell's Systeni. ,Now, what I fear is this,
that the friends of temperance are about to
sacrifice all the good they. have done, as the
Purkans sacrificed all the reforms they bad
established by eafrying restraints too fan—
This law may be : partially enforced for two or
three years—but: it will coerce people into
resistance and oc'pasion a revulsion of feeling
to befollowed by universal license. .
•
: So far as my reading extends, I may assert
that
.every King and Statesman, every--War 7
rion who has illustrated the pages of History,
darnk wine. Th© apostles who were the com
panions of ourqSavionr, drank it. The pro
plias whose flight 6f inspiration still astonish.
us, we have evety'reasokto believe, drank it.
Cicero and Demostlien,)ttid all the orators
of antiquity and of modern times indulged in
juice of grape. Who- can say how much of
the inspiration whieli gave the such power
-of language was drawn from its inspiration..'
Have these-men been eclipsed bithe Dows,
and Kelloggs of the Platform. What orators
have the State of Maine sent us forth compara
_hie with the Pius end Burke% and Gratfans,
and Foxes, and Sheridans of the British, \ Is
lands, every one Of whom drank wine?
Let the learned' gentlernan glance at the no.
ble structures—the architectural wonders that
embellish Europe.' Who reared them ? Men
of gigantic intellect, whose common beverage
was wine. Let his eves
.range. through the
noble galleries where the Sculptors have left
their statues—where:the - painters have hung
in rich profusion' the noblest works of Art.
Wine, we are fol I, clouds the facultieS and
deadens the . imaginatien. Yet it was drunk
by= those benefitetors of their race, and we
cannot,. with their master pieces before us,
believe the assertion till their works have
- been eclipsed by artists trained under this
rigorous legislation, Has Maine turned us
out yet a statute that any body would' look
at, a picture that any body would buy ? Look
- at the deliverers of mankind—the heroic de
fenders of Nations. Was, Washington. a
member of the Temperance Society Did
not Wallace drink the red wine through
the helmet barrel ?" Who will undertake to
say, thatßruce,,on the" morning on which
he won the battle of Bannockburn—tbat Tell
on that day when he shot tlis apple off- his
son's head, had not tasted a glass of 'whiskey
or a stoup of, wine ?
if then, Sir, all that is valuable in the past,
if heroism, and architecture, and: oratory,
sculpture and painting,-11‘ , .a1l that. bits:bul
warked freedom - .and embellished life, has
come down to us with the juice of the grape;
if no age or nation has been long without it,
I think it behooves the advocates of this bill
to show us sOine country' where their system
has been tried—sothe race of men who drank
nothing but cold .water.
turn to the learned member's -oivn pro
fession. I ask him' to show me two such
lawyers—two judges so eminent as Lords
Eldon and Stowell, the one the wonder of
the Adiniralty as the other was of the Equity
Court. Yet it is on record that, at the very
time when these men were oppressed with
Herculean labors—when daY•after day they
were delivering judgments so , masterly and
profound that - they defy all criticistn,'eaeli
of the Se. great jurists drank his five bottles"Of
Part ,a day. (Laughter.) certainly would
not advise the leanied member from Annapolis
to ;ry in this'eoutary.an'experiment so haz
ardous. In the must climate of England it
might be done, but not in the dry atmosphere
of Nova Scotia: I have sometimes seen hinii
however, when a few glasses would have done
- him good. Indeed, I sometimes fancy that,
.both in the-Senate and at the Bar, his. wit is
not as poignant or his logic so acute-as in
the olden time vhcn he used to take his glass
of wine.
My bonorab e colleague and friend from
Cumberland, whose sincerity in this cause I
entirely . respect, quoted to us last winter the
passage from Scripture;..--" If .eating meat
causest me brother).o offend, then I will eat
no more."' But would my honorable friend
shut tip all the butcher'sishops, and forbid by
law the sale of meat, for fear somebody would
eat too much ? Again—he told us, "we have
tried moral suasion, and have faild." If so,
who is to blame ?' It a speaker here fails to
convince his audience, dO wepermit him_ to
coerce them into belief by force of law ? . I
resist this bill because it is a violation of the
voluntary principle: l3eCause it_ is defended
by the oldargumentsby jwhich fanatics and
persecutors in all'ages have sought to propa
gate ,religions opinions. Hoping to save
men's souls, (more precious than their bodies)
Catholics have burnt Protestants, and Pro
testants Catholics. The right of private
judgment was denied. The. right of one hu
man being to' coerce ethers into belief, as is
now sought to coerce them into temperance,
has been - tried - thousand times, and has
failed, tis this attempt will fail.
• .
ISchiller, the .great German. Poet ; alifays
composed with' two bottles of wine before
him, and his feetl immersed in a tub Of cold
water. •
ifiIITHEL"
Delivered at Harford University tee Term
ending July 3d, 185 S, by GEO. A. CIIASE.
Polities of the Old World.
Ten years ago Atstria presented an unbro
ken front to the world. Her . voice was lis
tened to with respect at the council-beard of
nations,—her armies were invincible,—her
subject provinces obeyed her imperiouS will.
—her commerce extended in all directiOns,—
the arts were flourishing throughout her do
minions,----prosperity was written on her past
history, and there was no visible sign of de
cay in the future. Common observers saw
no indication of an approaching dissolution,
and the oldest ststesmeu regarded the House
of Hapsburg as the bulwark of thrones. But,
how'changed het position I—from being one
of the greatest powers of the Old Woild, she
became the slave of Russia. - By violating her
faith with Hungary, she quenched the loyal
ty of that brave nation, and lost- forever her
hold on the noblest kingdom in her empire.
She could not Subdue Hungary,- for victory
seemed chained to the wheels of Kossutb's
cadnon. She was forced to*sue- for Russian
aid, for she nit that without "it she could
neiet save he4elf, much less, crush the Hutt
gariians. An irrmy of Cossacks came at her
sigital, but. sW was not to reap the fruits of
their victories The Hungarian rebellion was
smhthered f the moment,—and - Hungary
pieirod on sides, bled till she fainted end
fel4 She's red, to be conquered, but jthe
whOe worl -news she was not. subdued...
Att stria made herself an enernyl
err house i Hungary, Not a fire-side in
that heroic kingdom, around which lamenta
tionshave not been heard for the dead. Her
plains have been wet with blood shed by
AuStrian hands,—and there is not a child in
Hungary b.ut will, among ftg earliest lispin,r,
utter eurse - on the Austrian name. Russia
is now master of Hungary,—she, not Austria
conquered her,—and she, not Austria, claims
the prey.
Great empires can furnish no surer indica
tion of an approaching dissolution than the
rebellion and loss of ancient provinces. When ;
the name of Rome no longer inspired terror
among mankind, the hour of her downfall
was sounded. Every, petty . tyrant . insulted
the name of Napoleon, after he had lost the
`restage of invincibility., And, if .Hungary
fr'ere told to-day, that the Cossacks would
trout -no more, and that she might cope
with is alone, her heroic peasantry
woul more darken the shores of the
Darr_ aer victorious banners would aglin
be unfurled, \ and the dust-clouds be rising
over her cavalry, on the road to Vienna.
Whatever Lo is Napoleon or his traitonao
comilices may su*ed in doing for the mo
ment, is no indication of the future fate of
France. Ile has risked all in his Quixotic
dream of empire, and. the ,nation will never
allow him to make any 'nttircs eiperitnents.,H-
A. league with Austria silo will never consent
to, much less with Russia; and if the Czar
had persisted in his demands on the Porte
for the surrender of Kossuth, the gleam
of *two hundred thousand' bayonets would
have been seen on the Danube. Rtissia has
made one
.Poland, Europe will never allow
her to make another. The memory of the
Moscow expedition is still fresh in the minds,
of the Frenchmen ; they 'still hear the hung
ry howls of the Russian wolves on the retreat
ing track of the_ grandest army since the
time of Xerxes ;—in their dreams still sweep
by the Cossack riders, on the rear columns
'of Napoleon, staggering back to France
through the storms of a Polish winter.
Standing between Russia and Austria the
Prussian power must resist their encroach
ments or be crushed. There is not' in Eu
rope a nation better prepared fer wat,4nOt
one illuminated by brighter intelligence or'
fired with warmer patriotism. She, foo l must
,battle for liberty Or be crushed lty the 'Cos
sacks. - Greece and Turkey are ' natural 'enc.:
mies of Russia,—they have fought her from
the beginning, and they will oppose her still.
But there is Italy,—crushed _by despots at
home,—;-intimidated from abrowl,—betrayed,
outraged, trampled in the dust, she is Italy
still; and this means that she the mother
of republics,-- 7 ,that history for twenty-five
hundred years is filled with her 'glery c ---and
the love of liberty still burns a living, eter
nal flame in her breast. Italy, all Italy is.
but Rome in example and spirit,---she may
`looi calm, but her bosom is heaving,—she
is biding her time,—she is not crushed, but
like Ilungaty, she has yielded and recoiled.
But bow _with Kossuth! England, and
perhaps Atherica, too, will be forced to thaw
,down the gauntlet to' the Czar and fight with
Kossuth to save Constitutional Liberty:—
Ilungary is the martyr, Liberty the foot-bal)
of nations. Who knows, then; if Civilization
may not have to battle for Kosstith,—one
man against the million,--humanity,-nations,
the world drawing -its sword, for a single
hero I
From PetersOn's Magazine.
MY GOUSIki HAREM
BY CARRY STAXLEY,
Author of "Ada Lester's Season. in New
York."
CHAPTER- 111.
It was nearly three years after my first in
troduction to my cousin. The snow had been
falling softly and silently all day, and as night
came on we drew the curtains in the little
parlor and prepared to pass a cozy evening
together. The tea-table was already 'arrang
ed, and aunt Patty bad the silver " caddy"
in her hand, measuring out, witn scrupulous
exactness the silver shell fsill of tea, which
constituted her "drawing," when the hall
bell rung violently.
-" What a dreadful stormy night. for anY
one to be out," said aunt Patty, as she peer
ed into - the tea-urn,where she had just thrown
the bohea. A stamping 'in the hall, as if
some person was knocking snow from heavy
hoots, aroused all our attention ; and before
We had time to speak, the parlor door opened
and Harry Anstruther entered. . There was
the same open, boyish ensile as of old on his
face. Aunt atty dionped the lid of the leis
ure, and sprang forward 'to meet hint with a
cry of glad surprise. Aunt Margaret also,
on the Impulse of the momont, bad risen with
unusual activity; but before her sister's greet
ing was over she bad' resumed her chair, and ,
awaited her _nephew's' salutatiOn with frigid
dignity. . . 1 I--
His aunt's manner ,very perceptibly affect
ed Harry. His greeting was. constrained,
and. I, who had been Standing aside, now no
ticed-that his fade bad a care-worn, sorrowful
look, not natural to
Presently his eye rested -on me. I enjoy
ed the'look of astonishment with which he
regarded me, and I said with a low courtesy,
and in a tone which mimicked the one ho
had.fre-eted me with three years before,
hrm your cousin Isabel, dear."
"Goodness gracious l is it possible I_ -Why
you are not such .a dreadful/right after all; '
and his old manner returned as he spoke.
" No, I'm 'filled up,' tea and muffins, you
know," I replied, nodding my head.
We took our seats at the table, and Harry's
quick glance soon detected the vacant space
over the mantel.. A grave look stole ever
his face, then he said with an !attempt at
gayety, • , • ,
" No . longer worthy, eh, aunt Patty I" But
he sighed as he pointed to where' the portrait
had-hong.
Aunt Patty was very rqueb embarrassed as
she replied,- • I
"We had it carried up to our; chamber,
Harry—". ' • 4
" And from there to the lumber I ream," in
terposed Marraret, sternly.
The look, which overshadowed the hari
some face of my cousin, made myt-heartache
forlirn ;. and I refired to .myown. remit as
soon as tea was over, that I might be no re
straint upon him and, his aunts. '
The; nest day aunt Patty told me there Was
something about • Harry, she could not find
out.; Only that he' had acknowledged ho had
lost nearly all his money; that he was going
to Europe for awhile"; but that ',she believed.
he .w 4 still engaged to Nelly Hale. -
My cousin was nett° sail till, the
Ie the'theantime- we were constantly togeth
er, and I began to. Wonder about Nelly Hale.
But he never mentioned her name. ,
Aunt Margaret's manner toWarda her neph - - - ,
ew softened in - spite of herself, and had it not
been 'for shame, I verily believe that the . por
trait Would have'been restored to its' original
place:
The last week of his stay with us had. ar
rived. Our aunts were entertaining a circle
of friends in the draWing-room, and we . were
alone together in the little parlor. I - was
crotcheting a • purse • for my cousin; talking
busily the while of his anticipated tour. -
" How I envy You, Harry ;I. wish I . Was
going too," I said,enthusiastically. • • • .
." Will you go, dear. Bell?" he
. said, sud
denly.. " Could you love such a . worthless
b nOod-for-not hi nrr_ scamp as I amt 1"
Nelly Hale, and the gambling, and the du
el, all crowded upon my mind. . I rose indig
nantly. • ,; • ,
What•de- you mean, sir, by offering me
the remnants of a heart, and reptuatacm„ and
fortune ? Me And I confrOnted I him as.
.1 spoke. • •
.
t Alas ! had I been more indifferent,l proba
ably' I should not hav'el,een so angry •
think. he, was paler, though his laugh was
light, as he asked in his old, mocking .way.
"Mercy, Bell I What :would you have said .
if I had been in earnests"
I was so astonished, that fora monieni my
quick=
1y
to cease beating-, but I quick-
.
ly answered, I -
"Thos I should have informed yon,r aunts
who would have speedily rid me of the
noyance,' and I picked up the' purse and
went on with my croteheting,..
_I know not what demon prempted:that
ungenerous reply. 14. cousin looked at me
so reproachfully, that I could scarcely restrain
my tears. arose,, walked up 'and down
the .roont once or twice, as if conquering
some: emotion, said, •
" Forgive . me i lsabel. You were justly an
gry
at my supposed trilling ; .. .ltt do not 'rob.
me of my aunts' love. It is all I have left
.
,My tears were . gath Bering. fast. Vdare . d.not
trust my voice to answer. I would not Idolr,
; up lest I should betray. mysalf. Id a sliortt
time Harry left the room.
That evening',nt the tea-table. he tad ni''
that be should leaveearly .the next morning'
as he bad some 'business to settle in„ New
York before -he sailed.. flis aunts expreised
their astonish men, scanned his- thee - narrowly
and no. doubt wondered - what "new scrap
Harry had get in ; but I swallowed my . , te aj
with a great gulp that neatly choked me.- 1
I sat -up half the night to 'finish the 'purse.
I had, foolishly wrought bluti ..forget4ne-not
on the crimson ground. When I handed
to him the next morning, I tried hard - to
steady my voice and lip, as I said with adver-I
ted eyes, . 1
. . .
"Do.not,think too unkindly of me, cousin
Harry." , ;
. Aunt Margaret's .spectacles were blurred
by the , tears which she would not let fait,
when she - bid Harry good dye, but poor aunt
Pattrcried . as if it were the one great-sorrow
of her life-time. As for myself,.my eyes burn
ed, but! there was ho tears, even of symPathy
in theta
. noiv; but my trembling limbs al
most refused to-support me; and the hand
wliidir . he took at parting, must-have sent vu
icy chill through his vetuzi: I saw the carn-.
age drive from the dodr, then I went to my`
room, and'the desation I felt ; and the tears
and moans which caped ine , . told me plain
ly how. indifferent was to. Harry AnStrather.
f
CHAPTER IV:
A •year after my cousin's departure, I was
invited to a. bridal party at Mr. Welsh's.—
George and myself were on , good terms, al
though he 4 bad ceased visiting me long before
In truth he was a fortune or position hunter,
both of which he had found in the graceful
Alice Brant, whom Harry bad eulogised on
the first 'evening of our meeting.
I bad been in the room but a short tine
when a beautiful young girl, with a face as'
fresh as a rose-bud, and as bright as a ,sun
beam, left the circle - surrounding the bride,
and coming up to ma with the confidence of
one who was nevsr repulsed, said,
"Are yOu not Miss Hadley, Harry An
struther's cousin i" ,
I bowed, and as I glaneed at the-beautiful
creature before me, a sickeuing realization of
who shi3 was stole over me."
"lam Nelly , she; went on, "but I
suppose lam not as well nowil to you as
you are to me."
Alas ! too well known. But I did not say
so. I only buried my face in, my, koquet as
I replied that I had often heard my cousin
speak of her..
"If he were my brOther I..could sot love
him More," she - said. •
I suppose not, but asked somewhat iron
ically if "she! kneci what a brother's love
wasll..
"No . ' never had a brother ; and:when Har
ry first went to years 'ago, we had
such juvenile flirtations. We.vowed regular
ly twice n week to die , for each other, and
were very much disappointed that
. : tbere wjm
no occasion for it, I believe."' ,
She must have thought me dumb at gist.
The meeting was so Unexpected,- that it was
sometime before I could recover nay faculties
to speak of him to her. And I felt Most bit
terly, for , whatever her reelkugs. might
_have
been, I be li eved that , he-had loved liar sin
cerely.
She was-chatting on inlet light4ay way,
when a gentleman came to claim her
.band
fora waltz. Her face brightened still- inore
as she exclei,med, _ , •• ,
" Oh! Willie, this is Misilladley,'Harree
cousin you know. Mr. Graham,' Mims Hadley,
,
At. the mention of ',Ham; the4entlentan,
whose back was partially toatiartl me, as: he
wm about to lod Miss Hale sway, turned'
.(
.. ~;
'~;~ .
< ~ '.
equint 12,
saddnly,.With his fine. face SP,TrliDg-W1
emotion, as he took my hand, saying: :; ; .:
" You do rot know how glad r am to meet
you ; to see any relative of Hirry'e
The wal4s seemed now-to .be forgoitgn,.and .
harry, and; Harry's present doings,. were ui~
discussed. _ _
"-I wish he would come,home, said &fly,
_,E
gaily; "in his lad letter he promised. me ix . et
of pinkreor4l from Naples."
I fett sonie comfort in thinking that I %ins
a kind of Woman to whinn be could not piow l .
iso a -set of ',pink cern]. ,
. "Do. you know, Miss Hadley," . , said 'Mr;
Grahala,. sdddenly, "Abet I am indebted Itxt
yotir cousiu for all the happiness of my lifer
I looked linquiringly at Nelly, whesi
bhie eyes the tears was standing. '
"Not only her," said he, with happy.
laugh. t
I took Mr: Graham's, ann- almost uncon
sciously; fty I felt that much of what we had
never known of Harry was "to be revealed;
and we left ihe crowded room for the halt..
" .Anstrether is such a generous, nobl
hearted fellow, that I don't believe he _Op .•
ever done himself justice „to .his friends * . :tit
home," said my companion. "His
chief-loving disposition was always getting .
Min into trouble. He was atilie head of,all.
the harmless praoks that drove the profess : .
ors nearly mild. Zit, unfortunately, his love
of excitement took a quieter but more dart-.
(*emus tiirn. He became very-fond or card
-He lost his money like-a prince,
hut that did not seriously impair: his large
fortune." . •
,
There was a mement's panne - in the narts--.'
.five, and Nally, who leaned od the other arm,
looked up encouragingly in! Mr. - Grahaeir
face. -r, , •
The fellows at collegesaid Harry
and-I, hunted in couples,continued he. In
truth', I did make him my model .but' but I soon
surpasied him'in my fondness tor gambling
and the:extent of my losses. One night, ob,
God I that . eight irstny madnesx lost - . all,
-mere than all I bad, and I knew if - ins' 'Utid=
owed mother survived the knowledg,e of my_
shanie, had made her a beggar. lielly,too,
to whom I had been engaged for more than
a year, I felt would never be allocVed to akar-
Ty a penniless gambler. In my frenzy I was
ready- to commit suicide; bit Harry An
st ruther, who had witnessed, all,. saved me."
Nelly's tears were flovving, fast, and . the':
speaker's voice quiveaed with emotion: ~
Ile declared that -it was his example;
I. which had first tempted me---but heaven
knows that was not true—and he never lef t
Ine ran that,horrible night, till front his *in.
fortune he bad made arrangemets to pay, my
debts. I sometimes-think now I must have.
I been insane to have allowed it r -but fold -
I I mother and Nelly t As, for Harry, 7 he said:lt
was a cause of thanksgiving. • It seemed ai
our eyes were opened for the first time_ -to,
the horrible precipice on.
I believe no ear t hly power could, tempt. Her
'Anstruther now. to touch a card. And
with God's belpmither will I," and he bow
ed his head solemnly as he.spoke..
"And to think that papa so unjust . to Har
ry as to refuse to let him come'to the house,
till. Willie heard of it,'and told lam the whole -
truth. . I was dreadfully frightened, for fear
papa would make me break . m . y ' engagement
with Willie; but De ieid, that after " such a
lesson, and with such nfriendas Harry, there
-was not much danger,r 'and, as:Nelly, spoke,
the smiles had alread dried aU'r'nyithe tears;
• " But the duel'," I asked. . •
" Ali! did you hear lof that tooli." said .Mr.
.Graham. "We thought it was kept . pretty
for Fuller hardly got - a scratch, though
he 4.4ervetj something mofe: He unpardon
ably insulted a pretty little millinerig6rl, and
boaSte'd of it, in his cuts;' when Harry
remonstrated with himlabout it,'" high_ words
ensued; he called you cousin a - liar. and .a
Coward, - and it all ended in the dual."
' A little. more talk ofIcollege• life, and we
entered the parlor. Harry's entire': Viodica-
Lion did not give .the aiddloyed yleasu it
'should have done ;, it wait: . all mug - led' , ith
regrets - for niy own hasty pride, bitter reg
tar the love I had thrown away. I' ler ed
home from the party and"rttshed ; into y
aunts' chamber.- It was some time before `I
could make them comprehend the, weleomu
news.
~
The next day Harry's portrajt again 'hung
over the mantel in'the little parlor.
:My acquaintance with Nelly !Isle riPened
into friendship (luring her visit At A---,and
I have promised to act as-bridesmaid-for her
the next winter. Gutham had received an
unexpected fortune sometime .Wore from a
god-father; and had already refunded the
-money which my cousin f -had -so generously
given him. • -
CHAPTEp?V.
We -had fora long time eagerly. toenail
Henry's - letter for some intimation of his re
turn home, when one day we read
"I shall not probably, be with:You in .two
months. Graham is going to be married to
my little friend which prodigious -
feat, Ye thinks, i cannot..beLaccomplished with
out my assistance. Deti*4ikunii - PaitY,-hoir
often hate I ;mystified you with - regard to
that same Nelly. - I believel tilut passionately
in love, with her for one Whole year , the firs t '.
of my college life, though , got the violent
emotion.exhausted itself, bdtfor"all that, I
think she is the darlitinvit little cietitUre.lir-
I am twenty-six, sober twenty-six, dearest
aunt, but your kind letter about the restore,.
tiow of my property, nearly, mind I say:needy,
brought the tears to my eyes. I had enough,.
to live upon_ economically withoitt I
feel somehow as if Iliad no - right to
than r--
Zdv example was so near causing a suicide- -
4nd tiro broken hearts at least. 1 44411
my fault. It seetns. astir the sufferings - Of s
century were crowded intWthat night. Ihttro,
are two things, %waver, Ant Coniolit'ine;r
now thatso, genefouSly taken all -
the blame on , hintself4-..lotat , ;Margaret . and";
yonnieltiova me as. of old,, and if. I ever ofer,
, my hand to st' stomin,lt *ituQt.bit with"' on.
ty the reumatitaitit a limit, and' ' reputation ; ,
and fortitnii.'" . "' ' '
, . _
..
.
I was not. forgiven,- : . ''' ''' '.
',
Be came, and - We- met;, not as et' old 7 w i tt i-:
gibe acid _ jest, for-theta was-in!gc).ll o ot t:
the.senhanit km*, !Ind • more diguit7llribe,
suhdueii demeanor' of my_ cbtigni , l ll 4 ,o 4 ,
:pride"hid grown - thto Ate piride:or:A4Poud,
"roman and was no longer that :,,of
.Ipeetiisik
Sahoot `it-or a petted keirit* - 1 1 , -"",' '
~
Wel
~ We tWO stoop beside Willis fiesbair:.
.3 1
and N ally when they were: Inasti4d.' ,, ,Thenr.,
Naas many a silly 'joke about'"one -wedding
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