'OLltse Pau, fropritters.
Stitt
Frnm the Shekinah.
A Swint 'of Sleep. •
BY THOMAS L. HARRIS
Er' Mr. Harris while stopping temporarily in
" St. Louis, was one evening - watching by the
sick-bed of his wife, when after a neastin of rest
/issue**, the patient slept, Mr- Harris, while - be.
'ling suddenly entranced by a.spirit, wrote with.
' gnat any conscious effort the following very beau
tiful lines: • -
Her sufferings end; she sleeps, shy sleeps;
Along.the floor the moonlight creeps ;
That sillier sea that laves the shoe% •
Of outer slumber evermore;
That silent sea that ebbs and flows
- Round the Cim islands of repose ;
• And wags from out ethereal di•eps,
• `Their tranquil rest. She sleeps, she sleeps..
•
•
Her pals beats calm and low. She sleeps:
• From ten / - soul the - Aiream-light creeps
That'ailier lot thut laves the shore 1 .
Of inner WIC-ing evermnte; •
That silent sea that .ebbs and flows -
• Round the veiled Edens . of Repose,
And wafts from pure, immortal de,;ps.
Their visioned for Ms. She sleeps,:slie sleeps
Her faee grows beautiful. She sleeps.
From angel worlds the love-liiht creepy;
That silver sea that laces the shore
Of inner life for evermore;
That silent sea that ebbs and flows
Round hearts that in God's love repose,
And wafts from Heaven's untroubled deeps,
Their endless joy. She sleeps, she sleeps.
LET 17/E IN.
When the summer evening's shadows,
Veiled the varth's calm bosom o'er,
'Came* young child' faint and weary,
Tapping at a cottage door: •
Et Wandering thro' the winding wood paths,
My worn feet too long have been.
Let me in, oh! gentle mother,
Years passed on-zhis eager Spirit
Gladly watched the dying hours, .
"I will be a•child no longer,
Finding bliss m birds and flowers ;
I will seek the builds of . pleasure,
I will join their merry din ;
Let me in to joy and gladnesi;
'Let me in'"
Years'sped .on--:.yet vainly yearning,
Murinuring still the restless heart;
"I am tired,of heartless folly,
Let the glitterinz cheat depart;
I have found in worldly pieasure
• • Naught to happiness akin,
Let mein to Loves warm presence,.
Let me in.' ". •
YOAM flew on—a youth no longer,
Still he owned a rca.tless• heart,
"I am tired of love's soft durance; .
Sweet-voieed.byrtn, we must part;
I will pin 10-I.antel chaplet, -
- And a world's applause will win
Let me in to fame and glory,
'Let me in.'"
Years Sod on—the restless spirit
Never found the bliss it sought;
Answered hopes and granted blessings,
Only new nspirings briMglit
"I am tired of earth's vain glory,
'1 am tired of grief and sin,
Lot me in to rest eternal,
Let me in.'"
Thus the unquiet, yearning Spirit,
•
Taunted by a vague unrest,
Ewan and calls at every gateway;,
In a vain and frUitit;ss quest ;
Ever striving some new blessing,
Some new happiness to win—
At some portal ever saying :
•
• Let the in.'" .
isccilantous.
:EXCEBI3I I 7ELY LITERARY.--lIOW a young la
dy.endeavored to adaist her style' of conver
sation to the character of her guests,. is nar
, rated. in 'an Ohio_ paper. Tom, Cora in and
Torn Ewing, heing , on - a political tour thro'
the state, stopped it the house' of a promi
/neat politician at" night, but, fotind no one At
home hut.a young- neice; Who pm.ide,l at the
'supper table. 'She bad never seen great men
and supposed them. elephantine altogether,
and, that they talked great language.
`Mr. Ewing, will you : take condiments in
youitea; r. inquiiedihe young lady.
Yes, -Miss, if you please,' replied the pion
dam-soap-bailer.
Corwin:4k -eye twinkled: Here was fun for
him. Gratified at they apparent success of
her first trial 4talki - ng with big men, the
young lady addi:essed Mr. CorWin in the same
imatmer: .
. ' you lake condiments in your ten
sir?'
'Pepper and salt,-bat no:mustard,' was . the
prompt reply, of the facetious Tum. -
Of course nature must rest, and Ewing and
^the fair entertainer roared in spite of them
`Corwin essayed to mend the matter,
and 'was voluble in anecdote, and wit, and
compliment: But the wound
s ires immedica
ble. To this day. the 3zoung 'lady declares
that Torn Corwin is a conrse, vulgar disagree-
Ile man.
sar TheArtarbasr .cfronata.-4-Wincbester,
who akended in a balloon from Norfolk,
Ohio, on the 2d inst., had not been - heard of
op to the 17th i nt ,that place. - The Cliailand
(Ohio) Itensid says : ' May be he. landed in
Canada, so far from railroads and telegraph
ar topremetit'tiditigsyet reaching Lis home.'
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MM=3I=IMI
I" A BAD SPECULATION,
_ OR,
Tan Dark Stranger.
Ah.Angely,lant ruined—utterly ruin
ed P.:exclaiined ißobert Wilson to his young
and devoted wire.
' Reined ! why, Robert, what can have hap
pened 4 I thought you were doing so well
in your busineio,' returned the wife, with.the
deepest anxiety depicted upon her fair fea
tures. • I
And. so I am, my love; but in ari'nnlue . ky
monient, I embarked in a speculation
froved tin6rtunate, and every -dollar I
Tows% is gone,,'
Why havo von not told tno of this before
Rohett 1'
' I wished not to pain you, lore:
.I.= ' I fear; you have been imprudent; nay - I.
Iwill not reprOa(di you:'
' I hare hoped that untilnow I should be
able to redeem myself. By risking a few hun
.lldre<l dolhirs More, I - feel (confident that I
ould tptrieve i my losses, and come out bright
again; bUt alasi I hare not another" dollar
in the world. .
/ilia', the young husband lool'ed' anxiously
at his-
-, -
' What kind o l: f speculation was it, Rob
ert ?' itsked Iris +:ife, as a sliilit. misgiving
ro.seil her confiding heart.. -
- 4 o;it was a strictly business transaction,
4,- •
rather complicatH in its detail's, and 'I don't
- think you Won].) understand it if I (ixplained
it,' said Robert. -' • . . .
' I am not so + x +3oll of comprehension, that I
eantiot-nnderstadd an ordinary.business trans-
,
action' '
'No, my den I know you would under
,
stand it Nitter Ilan ladies' generally would,
but-tit is viryi ititrienfe—yery.'
wlll.not insist, Robert, 'upon knowing
anYthing you desire to conceal, said Mrs.
Wilson; with a gentle reproach in her tone,
methinks a' wife Ought to know the oc
casion bf her husband's sorrow.'.
. ' Forgi v e me: Augely,' replied the husband
imptinting A tender iss upon her lips ; - •for
give me *.i I will tall you_ all.' ' .
.' Nay,' lOr I ,:ask s it not ; I am satisfied
'now. And is th I .re no , hope ?'
1 'lf I 6d:t i w, 'o liundrd dollar:N . l feel' ' i' - ,
per
fectly confident that I shquld, redeem myself.'
, - ' Is thei.eibq risk Robert I' .
'1 will bd candid, AU, , ,,Tely ; there is some
risk.' :
•
gei you the money,. Robert.'
! Nlyown true wife!'
This 'conversation occurred it I the: house of
a yoting New York' shopkeep4r. : Ile bad
'been married:to a sour g, gentle4learted girl
only a year before, during which period -they
had. lited in
, 4nititerrupted happiness. I
The voiiiig fife had no suspicion that - the
clouds of idver•;•ity were lowering over their
joyous home
. itutil her husband had corninu
nictited the.fact. FOr some weeks, however,
she had noticed that ' ilobekt was more than
usually &nil:- Once or tivii.e a week he had
+eotedlliiinself from her side • in the evening,
alleging ;that he had business demanding his
• . •
attentiori.
•
• Angeline Wilson,jat the of her mar . -
tinge, was the posse.lOr of i a small sum of:
npey, bequeathedo her by- her fatlier.
It had been sett:i.td upon heir so that her hug=
bind could. - not control if, and . could •not
spend no portion ofit. without. her sanction.
The. young, lhopk. eperis; business had pros
pered beyond !his m ist. sitiguine ex[a:Ctations
so itliat his devoted '•i 'e, who would have wil
lingipplaced her- lit 'le fortune in his' : hands,
saw n o oeension to ithdraw it from her un
cle,in Whose hands it was riot only deemed
to be safely tuvested , but was producitr a
handsoine interest,
. .
Robert Wilsou } was a whole-Sobled
,young
man, siiiltotit a setfi-lt thought in }his compo
married Angeli it*" for herself
alone. and (had }hardly bestoWed } a thought'
upon } her por tion.
} •
• .
,But, the i• bad sm.itlation' had Worried him
exceedingly. All the ready money he could,
command had her eibaubted, and iii his ex- .
tremity,.t t he thought • bad occurred to him
that his wife could supply his warts. The
idea of . m , iting her for relief, was, to a man of
his' high-struivz temperament„iso ti•-
Otgriatit, that le i only had the courage to
hint at the service site might render
CHAPTER IL
With the'money in his poeket;which Ang
efy had , procured for him, Robert Wilson
hastened .dos — n Rrimdway. At the, corner of
Park Pace he pau4l, :. and cast a fa rail Ve
gl4neround, him, evidently Much agitated.
lie thought 4.ltis loving wifeat home:-
.
He had keeived her, and -this. conscience
smote bitty:- She w 4, all love and gentleness,
and sincaity, and ',confidence, and he bad
i
basely deceived her. - .
ftould . he not return, k,ltrow himself at. her
feet. and be . g' her l'orgiveness ! Such a l eourse ,
was certainly the west
. 'graternl .to his erring,
poniteni sold ; hut he hnd made a' bad RIKV.:-
ulßtion.ll an, while tmere l was hope of retriev
ing himself, he demon of .imuntoon within
i t
pr 'l pied. hun to sinagsin. -
' .
rung down Park Pleee, , he entered one i T
of i hose' garublini hells, which
.ire the curse
of4nlighteue4 AMerica, Aiimin
~ he poulked,
-on the , steps i of .tbe :toNtiofieeot establish-
me
1 1
--ta
t", to silenee: the phrskiding of his ' ' coo=
t a
• opi t nee.. The•6‘,4 util i ol, loi!iog:exiiret9tion of
,hisq tfe. 7 laoguish!pg away
.t ', ed'Ku - 1p
ols,.
of 'idiot/I . lw. ' hi: - . slieStf traiNNAjlik
blif• — l l - ' ~1 •
A WEEKLY JOURNAL-DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LTIMATUII7), AGRICULTURE, SCIENCE, 11,M) MOBALITY.
I . But the iitial consolation. the oft-repeated t ;
resolution of the erring soul : ' Only - this . time !
and then I will tlirever abandon the • way- of
.
the transgressor,' came to urge him on
I : By the gas-light:in the street, he observed -i
Ia dark form, closely muffled. in the ample
Ifolds of a Spanish -cloak, 'approaching the
spot where he stood. ' The stranger paused
.1 by his side-, "glanCed intently at him, and
ithen 'entered the saloon.
lie followed ' him ; the -ball flashed with
brilliant lights, and tie gay and fashionable
of the metropolis thronged the scene. Men
I smiled as though the phice.was not the gate
lof hell it.elf. The 'b I d and respectableof the
1 bar and forum, and the exchange , were there
.1 •
countenancing, by their presence and exam
ple, the iniquity practised within . thos . gild
ed walls; - -.
Robert .Wilson shuddered as •he entered
the scene, in Willett the respectable men of
the community hesitated not to mingle. •
Poor, titnole, I). oung man ! his soul had _
not yet come to believe than wealth, station
and the honors of the World can sanctify sin
Mid 'hultaw iniquity.
In an unguarded - hour he had been lure 1
into a 4 den•of thiems,' by a. man of good
standing in society—the importer from whom
he purchased 'many of his goods, and Who
Held his notes in paythent of them. • - i
Ile - bad hazarded li l feW dollars, though his
- conscience smote him all the time. lie .eon;
he was in the hands of those who were expe
rienced in the - management of un.uspecting
i dupes.' i lle went away with his pockets well
lined with the fruits Of his unhallowed gains.
Inflated by ambition and Viciousness to be.-
I
come suddenly rich, he went again and again
he won.l.
The Jevil itirea hith on. With a firm res
olution to abandon these visits when he Should
I have added the gains of one more, tight to
his previous accumulation, he went • a third
tithe. If he succeeded on this occasion as he
had ,on the two preyions nights, be should be
I able. to pay the - only note he owed. The / pri.is
lick (if freeing himself entirely from debt;
: •
suddenly, and without labor; tempted him
/ to engag,e once more in the exciting game.
But the 'gamblers bad permitted him to
I run. the whole length of his rope., On the
third,night he lost—lost all he had before
{won t
All his fine fancies were thus smashed to
the gronnd.- But the hope of freeing,himself
1 from debt, bad taken strong hold of his iro
aginstion, and be could so easily resign it.
I Again - he went, trusting to the chances of
the game would again favor him—again mid
again be went, till all his Available Means
/ were sacrificed. • The ggi Oilers. adroitly per
-1 witted: him to-win a few dollars occasionally,
iand thus his hopes were -ept buoyant.
1 All was gone, but the passions 'for gam-
Ibring had :gained intensely as his worldly
i goods luid melted away.
1 • Uneasily he strolled among, the gambling
tables, now pausing to'glance an instant at
the game, and then Itu rry ing • net vously ' on. -
i again. . _
I - He had two hundred dollars in ,his pocket
;""and—humiliating reflections—it 61 been
I given by his wife. He must be careful of it ;
1 he could .Lope for no more.
As be paced the gaily thronged hall - Ire
discovered the dark-Joking stranger,who had
confronted him at the entrance of the saloon, I
alone, at one of thi marble tables. .
Thieve of the dark looking stranger rested
sharply upon him. The glancehe knew not
why, riveted him to the spot, and Le stood
tremulously gazing at the stranger. . - •
The complexion of the tnysterious - person
agl e was decidedly white. His heard,cov
efred...entirely the sides and lower part of his
face, even to the coition - 1 1 of the mouth. It
was very long and curled gracefu:ly 'down
,cier the chin. Over his bead he wore a cap,
from beneath which, long, blick,tlossy curls /
ffpated down .......br L;. .......t. ,oilar, In stature 1
Ith was below the medium size. I
. , CHAPTER HI.
`Play !'• said the stranger, in a low, gpttn
•
ral voice, not unmingled with softness.
Robert Wilson involuntarily 'seated 'himself
4posite the dark being.,.
• With his gloved band the !stranger pliced
a!fifty dollar bill on. the table:
'llighest wins,' said he laconically, as lie
p i iished the dice-box over to Rollert..
1 Thitcwas certainly an irregular gitine, and
antiriegular, method
.of proceeding—but it
was simple, land in this respect was prefera
ble to him, jso he placed a corresponding
amount by the side of it. •
flo',ert shook the dice and cast them upon
the table.
Twelve,' said the stranger, as be shoo: up
the box and made his throw. • .
:` Eighteen,' continued lie, isVreeping y.takes
•
from the table. -
The next throw Robert .won. • The stake
waq doubled ; he won again: •
.hiaddened by
excitement'he placed all.the . rooney he .lead
on the' table : •. /The .dark-visaged stranger,
without moving a muhple of liii.brow, cover
edit.
At one fell• swoop 'Robert: wns ,penniless
•
Itisixig from the table, in ft patOX,yftra of
diisppoiutineut, he wsfizibout -to rush frcm
the Beebe,
f Stay r aaylihe.straager.
thaveAiot a dollar,' replipd Robert, bit.
l A rvi3r trate b .
'
*0: ,peytiid Robert 'it u . v33'
Aentrose, nsquefranna fAuntl, Venn'a, ZilursZtall Primiter 11, 18,55.
• Your lurk will changeagain.'
The young - man hesittol.
Sure to. - cipitv.;.contintleti the. stranger.
With 841esperate.effort, RObert drew - the
watch from his pocket.
.--
‘Serefity-five dollars,' said he tremuluus 7
Iy. . .
.The stranger :placed . the. amount on the
The dice desc * ended—Robert won !
For several successive throws he won, but
staking all, again he was once tnore penal
!
less.
The watch was put
. down again—it iras
lust.! Aobertwas.in despair.
. 4
You have a wife riaid .the strangei.
41 have—God forgi ve ape r rep'ied the ru
ite(l'huSband, in a burst of bitterness. •
Of course, you love her not,or you would
not be here,' continued the stranger careless
ly.
Ido love her—as I love my own -soul I'
exclaimed Robert, perplexed by.the, singular
turn the conversation had taken.
[ The character of.the professional gaipbler
ivas too well known to him, not- to inspect.
that the dark stranger had some oljeet in
iew in these inquiries.. These feartess tales
of gamblers who have snaked tnghey against
the honor.Of a wife, flashed across his mind,
and he shuddered to think.hotwnear,he stood
to the fatal precipice, whielCmiL;lit luirl him
in - hi s smadness. into deeper dishonor.
' You wourd have .her know what you
hae done r said the stranger calmly.
±I.Not for the world. •
' Then play again ; yourehance•is good.'
I hare not :t shilling:.
I will lend you.'
.'
`On what security r asked Robert, tretn-
bling for the answer.
-• Mortgage me your stock of goods.' .
You know me, then r
No; you are a shop-Veiiper.' ,
' mill: .
The stranger threw him three bunked dol
lars.
-
In ten minutes it was all lost.
Mortgage,' .said the dark being.
`Can we make it here said Robert, over
whelmed with anguish.
'\o•; I will go to house.'
Inapossili!e ! not for the world,'
`But I will I' said the stranger sternly
'By Heaven, yOu shall not r
'Hist ! you shall be. exposed.'
Robert was obliged to consent, and borne
dowd by the terrible agony that prayed up
on him, lie conducted his mysterious com
panion to his once happy- home. The clock
struck eleven as they entered:
Your wife is not at home,' said the strangor.
Robert was surprised to find that Aug , ly
was not, in. her accustomed seat by the fire.
Full of painful misgiving% why, he -knew
not, he hastened to her
: apartment to see if
she lottl retired; there was no trace of her-to
he d .zebv e red •
' iZett4nitres, to the siltin'g, romn, he found
the stra*re gatnhler seated br the fire, in
tently Poring over the pages of a book -he
had taken from the centre-table.
Lefriyou, t should say ; women are so
tame,' rtiplied the Stranger, sternly..
1 I Left! me .e no exclaimed 'token, casting
himself ,into a chair, and venting deep groans,
I .
the'angtush of his soul.
`Thel39w to ' continued the stra.er,
• 1 will write' it in my room; replied the
ytaing man, leaving the apartment., •
Wiping away the tears that coursed in
- great drops down his haggard .cheeks, he
pieketiont a
,blank mortgage froM his papers,
and proceeded to lid it out. The task cOm
pleted; he turned to the sitting-room.
As be opened the door, he started back
with astOuishment at belitilding Angelo seat
ed by the grate, reading the lust, number of
Harper'.
Why,.Rolwr,t. 1 did not know yOU .had
gi,t, !Mine: said she, rising rind vaeing a
ehair before the fire Where his slippers lay;
ready for him to put his feet into. .
The dirk stranger was not-there.
What was the matter with you, Robert,
how strangely you appear,' coutiaued his
wife.
iDo -IT and Robert staged and . looked
round him in .wild amazement. ' Where Was
the stranger
did not know you were here, Angeley,'
stammered be.
1 .
, been 'I have out awhile, thi. evening; but
I came in just as the clock struck eleven.'
v ,
'So did' I,' answered he, more c0ufm4..,1
,
than before. ' Where' is Mi.-----,
~the gen
tleman-who came home with me,?'' .-
`l. have not seen : any . gent lefirtn.'
I carve in at eleven witli—r--"
What ; time is it tam.. .Walt
z.
The
_watch— hi, wife's watch—it_was gone!
Your. irate
'1 have-k; it is half-past eleven,' said. An-.
gely,,mliing the Watch &Om her poeket.
.-""What 3s the matter with yuu, gubert-l—
you are crazy _.I should say. '
That watch'--Robert paused.
• • Well,' iaitt Angely, beginning to wear a
mysterious, mischievous link,' bow goes
, •
your speculation I'
Badly, my dear, replied Robert, with a
look of wonder. ' '
'What paper have comic year baipl r
• . 4...
Nothing—mat is--1 .w ill put i t, tu any
Secretary," and be left the room tta , get the
ogly'document out of the Irak.
He Was not abNent more titan fiste tointiteS,
but elien be returned 4, dark 6111kihk 4.4
ale gage" Utt ad it 4141 W
Robert b%an to think be wasdealing Kith
the devil.
. .
' The tflortgage, said the stranger, in, his
loW,dee'p tope , • . •
''Rho are you, sir, man or devil—who are
you I' exclaimed the bewildered - young man;
rushing, toward the dark form, •
But before he'could reach' s- it:the fortishook
off the cloak-,whiskers and Wig,ind his WIVE
Stoo4l before him !
Misspell was dissolved. lie understood it
all.
Are you cured, Robert; said she, smiling
mischievously. 'And then • using. the' deep
tones of the stranger,. she continued : You
. liave a wife ; of course, you love her not, or
you - went,' not be • here. Ah, Robert, that
alone Raved you; -you confessed; , your love
even in'your gatnbling hell. In 'making haste
to . be rich, you-have been led . astray. But I
forgive You, Robert,' and the gentle-hearted
wife twined her arms around his neil, sndr
kissed his cheek. -
Alwnys forgiving' is the spirit of rufley
I do not deserve your forgiveness, Afigley'
TOE; BLACKSMITH.
BY CHAS. G. LELAND. ,
I dreamed I stood by a roaring fire,
Near the Blacksmith •rimy anti grim;
And watched the blaze rise higher and" higher,
As lOU up each brawny i lirnb.-
Bang, bang, the hammer rang,
And drove out many a spark ;
They seemed the devil's own fire-flies,
• As they darted throuili the dark.
The smith struck high—the smith strnek low
As over his work he bent; •
And if every blow had been on a foe;
A battle had soon been spent. ; •
cling, the steel Both ring,
In flaming crimson dressed; I
Of all the callinp that I -snow,
I love• the blacksmith's best
King Siegfried of old was a blacksmith bold,
And well on the iron could pound:
With his very first blow, he drove, I'm told,
Thu anvil into the g,round,
- •
Round. ronnp into the ground,
And beat his hammer tit; •
No man alive but a blacksmith stout
Could strike you a blow like that.
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And Siegfried lx , came a monarch of might,
And s`ri you'rnayl clearly see,
If a pun would rise in power and height, -
A; blacksmith h., well may be. .1
Smack, smack, with many a crack,
As 11.• hammers the spade and plough.;
For sodid - Tuha.t7ano of old,
And he must do s i now.
Jonathan and John.
Under this caption, the 'Boston Post ticli
cute the blister and bravado of the Britisl
Ministry and Press,. in their efforts to 'fright
en the Yankees. Speaking of the efforts be
ing made by the English Government, to re
cruit men in foreign countries to fill up their
army in the Russian war, the - Post Sys:
"C;)tisin John's efforts to • maintain his
ground are worthy of all praise, surely ; but
as he assumes airs, Jonathan must ask him in
!elation to his business of getting men to
fi , rht,if he will not, for his own erediyike an
observation and draw an inference.
" It so happened that, a year or two ago.
Jonathan needed this same article MEY to en-
able him to maintain his cause in a"foreign
land.• He wanted to conquer Meiicointo: a
peace. He s made a call for fifty thousand.
Did he have to go from -home to get them I
Did he send ' recruiting agents' into. Den
mark and all over Germany, to sneak- into
pe , ty duchies, and besides violating kw,
there eng,irge cut throats ; the offsconring of
Mankind, vile mercenaries, to come under his
banner, and help him defend his cause ?-:--
Say ; did - Jonathan think of prowling about
John's purlieus, - like a thief_ in the night,.
.snatching away,,from here and. there, from
mines and,factories, and farms, wretches in a
state of semi-barbaristn I Why,the very Rug-.
g....,ti0n.....141 Lava mos. stirroa Jountlkan'a
_bile, than would now the whole SeLetsio'pol
force on his soil arouse his fear ! r. No ; - Jonas
than quietly raised the stars and stripes in
different plaCes on his farm, and' not merely
fifty thouoa' nil, . but". FIVE - HUNDRED.
THOUSAND FREEMEN voluntarily Bath=;
eked round this glorions and unsullied. &in=
ner, and:what mist troubled Jonithau c was,.
to kn'o r w hoir.to pick .Out of so many gallant
men the few he really neeck44 - . . ,
Now 'Cousin John Bull, you had, better stop
being grutf,n4 surly,-and „impertinent; and
'arrogant; &c., "towards
.Jonathan, and ' put
this fact dOwni . ingnr note book.: It's some
thing Worth considering, Johni! Roll it un- .
der yotir . tongue, John.. Stop grumbling
long enough" to think up to full, meaning
and significance, Jelin.' There is a good deal,
to 11e, inferred froth - this triosestriking revela
tion of national power which: this . age' has
seen, John.. You•might }make forty such ex
hibitions-of yourskilfas you have last ,year in
the Crimea—we-,say' nothing "
about : the
French feats --a nd loo credit before the world
each time; ,whilethefa t et ? that HALT, A 1if1.1.7,
lON 01 : artantErzactly, such men,.Johnota :
paid their rspectir to : ,tou at Bunker Eiii4nd
Saratoga,'aud Yo4ttiiwn, and New : Orleans
--volunteered to get out, of their, ,cQuatry to
fight, teHs how Young Americawould J9ok_
with ants iu her hands! ,Think of afiatiotr
of 130VERPO)Pi.: :with.:Arti*ins their. hands,.
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But this ii not 411 . 7 -oot half' , -, ll, bittl°! :
.1411 do very well. to think 04 John. ,T9F 61 ",
il
.rending a few - of your ships . oyer_ : _here,.. are
.7 4 )-uti: Ne4 l 4 o PAt*Pz,f§rra;l 6 .,t
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,!,.!,:,..4 01 0
*tVtitikl littil 40044: it 1414 .. AltS
not fenced in at all I And . you'inight 'put
five or.fifty thousand Of your "foreign legion"
•
on it in many plaml----sarirt order to piotect
Irelanct! Now, there is a new problem. ! in .
4 , -
political arithme tic which you may think a.
It, would not hurt you a bit to.'Work Wont.
if half a million of freemen volunteered, ,in
1849, to leave their pursuits, and gn l ionh to
defend the rights of their country in a-for
eign land, how many, John, would flock
around the stars and stripes,Trom every walk
in life, to chastise an invader of their native
soil ? How long would it be before these
thousands of invaders would, thaw away '—
Again, we say, thinkup,tolhe eminent grav
ity of this question; to the half a million of
men fast we, have named, and , let Jonathan
alone.
The best:thing Lord Palmerston cab. 4o is
I to Order his fleet right back :again.. /ere it
1/(4ok:s sauj. The tirades ,of the London
Times rind of its echoes are really of no ac
court. • They .are mere .gasconade. Who
! cares for them ? T r omuch consequence - has
always been attached to such. things. This
government gun business is another affair.
But Jonathan's course is onward tolhis mani
fest destiny; and John should strive for gtace
to acknOwledge, that no country-in the world_
has derived so much profit from Jonathan's
"progreSs as has Great Britain.; , -and no coun
try will continue to derive one-half the bene
fit from the sure marsh to : greatness theie
United States.: John, don't grumble with
yourbread andj butter.
A Ittotnoutic Story.
The following is a Curious bit of :romance
from the Paris correspondent. The 'natio of
the young princess referred to is' not ase er-.
tained, - IMt the monarch- alluded, to is the .
King ofSardinia: ; •
Gloomy enough are our prospects, you
will say, and amid it all We have . s Ph de
consolation in the misfortune of our neigh
hors. C ,urts have their treacluirous friends
as well as causes, and one of these treacher
ous friends has betrayed the secret of the de
lay in the journey of a crowned head whose
intention was
.to . have paid us' an auturn:Mal
visit in order to enjoy . the pleasures o j i the
chase in the Imperial fOreSts with the. impe
rial hosts. Thus delay, falsely attributed to
ill health by the innocent, is sseribed by re
port to domestic perplexity .occasioned by
the vagaries - of a member of his family •to
whom he isktlunh attached, and 'for whose
condimt he considers himself in some, degree
responsible. The young lady
. in question,
perhaps the only one in Europe bold enough
to,claim tier independence ? has given her
relations much 'disquietude by, het' decision
to remain unmarried, to travel where shelists
and with 'whom she lists, taking the care of
her own reputation upon herself, and. tak
ing for no inottetion or patronage from Any
member of the other sex beloagiug to, her
Iler affection for the=ast Sovereign
of the country was unbonnded, and the first
symptom of friskines which manifested 'itself
in the young lady's behaviour was upon the
occasion of his Majesty's death in a foieign
She immediately repaired to the spot
where he had died, purchased the hotel
4here the sad event . had taken place, had the
entire edifice pulled down, built a magnifi
cent chapel on the spot, in the midst of
Which the death-bed of the king, exactly in
he same state 'to which it was at the last
momentof Via dissolution, rises in gay and
gaudr l colors, with its trumpery hangings
awl tawdry fringes, striking the stranger who
beholds it for the first
, time with astonish-.
meat, to behold such an object in such
I;lace. Last year the young lady repared in
grand ceremony to the chapel; and there up:
on the bed, deposited, first the royal robe she
is entitled to_by her birth to wear
,on all
state occasions; lien the broad.riband , with
the jeWelled star"she more upon her breast.;
And finally kneeling 'down by the bedside,
'While the tears "streamed in a torrent"down '
her cheeks, she lifted the crown frem her
brow and placed it on the pillar, publicly
declaring'her vow to live and- die. maid,
And never to omit, on every anniversary of.
The death of her royal relatire, paying a vis
it to the chapel in order to "offer up a fervent
mass for the repose of his soul.
The bystanderi; were moved to tears by
the "scene, when presently the young laly
arose from her knees, and standing erect be
fore th e multitude assembled iw the chapel,'
and deliberately drew from her pocket a pair
of scissors, loossening her magnificent treises
tram the bands of velvet which confined . theln
she cut them off to the very root,' arid laid
them beside the crown she had just lie f de-"
posited upon the pillow which had A; las(
breath of the king. To describe the isston-,
ishineut produced bY the event would im
,
possible—n mixture of the
,sublime a re
„
dicUloUslu thescene.prevented : any rther
demtonstrationOrsentithent theparit the
Th t e prinCesil i sma ll ' n 4,
and - ,elie tripped” down` the, chiperto Step- foto
her; 4ifriage divetited bf this '164 acar
whicti she bad eitered; herlilur crop and
4e.s flashing right and left with .
,a singular eiresai`en: of, satisfaction 'at-.. the
trick she had he rb Oayint - Wei impossible
not to enjoy the mystification to.itn very ' tom
Ever since ' that day she had-adopted tali
attire` and travels as the 'Prima,-
aying'beifprotnised'visit:tosit:tolhodaad aroma
hundredi of tapirs are burning :nigh(
and dad: readily be believed. that;
Votunte *olllllllr 40:-
and hate equally strong. She has taken
Queen CliriAina en pripye, and that
her relatives shall 'not 4 visit France' without
her so long as that talented ladyrezitaint.7at
Malinaison. There is one daughter mutat.' ,
ried yet, ware princass;Ch
muts as
diadlf au corps: If I 'ant not-there to protect
. -.ny relative lie will fall A Prey to that
youting intripanle; therefore I desert iint
not ;' he is. the sacred legacy of my branied.a
'sovereign and master, and I will defend
at any risk and peril.' It is_ said thattha
king is so alarmed at_the threat, of aid and
protection, that.. he 'dates- not 'move ! forward
until his fair relative can be brought to tea-
The Boy Who: Conquered."
- 'Some few years ago, a lad'
_who was left
without father or mother, of goOd-nattital
abilities, went to New _York alone, anil friend- -
fess, to get resituatien in a stomas eriand:boy-'
hr otherwise,-itill he could command a higher
position ; but this boy had go t
. it bad 'com
pany, and had got in the habit of calling for
his'" bitters" occasion:illy, because be tbougl4 t
it looked 'manly; Ile smoked cheap cigars.
He had a pretty good education, and: on
looking over the pnpers, he noticed that a
merchant in Pearl street‘wanted a lad of
age, and he called there, and wadi his hula
. into the office, my lad," said, tha
merchant. "fit- attend to Son Rion."
When-he had waited upon - hia 'customer,
le took a seat near the lad, and he espied a
cigar in his-- hat. 'This was enough. ”lify
boy," said he," "II want a sinart, hones% faith
ful lad.; but I see You:smoke cigara and in
my experienc'e of my yeais, I have ever found
_ . . ...,
cigar-smoknig in lads to he cora:meted _with
,various other evil habiti, .and, if. I am 'bet
mistaken, your Meath is as evidence that you
are notiat, exception. You can leave=; Jon
Will not suitMe
,- . , .. -
_ J o hn-for this Was' his_nailie-4eid ,doiwn
'his head, sad left the store; and is he walked
. along the street, a stranger ;and friendless;
the council of his poor mother came forcibly
to his mind, - who, upondier-deathbed, called_
him to her side, rind placing' her emaciated
hand upon his head; said, "Johnny, my dear
boy, I'M going to leave you'. You well , knOw
whakdisgrace and misery your father briought . .
on us hero/ ' his death,'and
. I._ want you to
promise me before I die that you .wilt never
taste' ono d pof the -fteellr,eil - poison that
I
killed your tiler. Promise me this : pb
d.
a good boy, Johnny, and li.illir.ii
,diet in
The scalding tears trickled downlotnny's
cheeks,;and he.'proinised ever to remember
the_dying words of his mother, and never to.
drink any spirit - pus liquors; but he soon fot
-got his promise, and . when he recieved the
rebuke from the merchatit„ he remembered
what his mother said, and what h e had prom
ised
her, and .he cried aloud, and - people
ga;ed at him a.t he pissed' - along, and - boys
railed at him. ,Ile went to his lodgings, and,
throwing 'himself upon the'bed, - gave renew
his feelings in sobs that were heard all ' over
the house. ' ~ ': . . ..,.
But John had moral, courage, He \ had
energy and determiniOn, and ere as hour had
passed, be - made up.his mind never to .testa
another drop of liquor, nor 'scookeimiether- ci
gar as long he lived. He went straight back to
the merchant:
, _,Said " Sir, you' yery , prop
erly sent me away - this morning- for habit&
that I have been guilty of; buts, air I havineitt
er father nor mother, and though I have 'Ocea-.
• aim:tally done what I ought' not to do, and not
"followed the good advice of my poor inotiter
on her !Llath bed, nor done as I promisedlier
I would do, yet I have now , ia"ade = a Edema
vow 'never to drink another drop of liquor,
nor smoke-/another cigar; and if yoi, sir, will
only
.try me, it is all raslr."
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The merchant was struck with the decision
ond.energy 'of the bOy, and, at; once empleyea -
him. .At,' thiii•expiration of five yiarit, this fild.
"as a partner in the balsam, and is !uitr.
worth ten thou - sand &Atari. Mr haiffSitil•
fully kept hie . gedge; to which he' owes , hia
elevation. 1-
Boys, think of this circumstance, esi you
enter npoi the , duties of life, , and -remember
upon what points of character your ,destiny
for good or for evil depends,—N'ertheri Fdr
nser. _
Or The " locsr of the Beffalo
who is ovidently e! , plaio_Spoken
courses As follows of the revived fashioe of
Hoops
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der, certain ciroutestancefor !instati* , :czt
barreli, boghseads puncheons;: - Vostlika:t? _
seetheni in a perpendicular pesitioe,. ioI
.ving rai)idly ae enfreitented'atteetVlkith
little girl 6 abu s ing
tion with short aticlos—Vre
horizontally_ enciteling3he person
lady, i on A till day ttbel give a iligratilinsi
grace to her step, and ;majesty to her finaq
.
_but
,wado object to seeing thenfvouttll stiv34,-
_lady on a win • dy ',We' .
give a dagnemotfile,littiti*
accouiereit;.
inoderi i tie breeze.. :AA the 44.111141VP's
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dirideck float the Itt*Meliktei
die foci front, , 2 • 7 7 .7 y
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