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c seittt V)ottrg,
From the Soothoro Literary !demister.
WOMAN.
,411., LADY OF VIRGINIA.,
'Not thine! not thine! ig.the glittering cleat
An d the glance of the treow white ph:time--
Nor the badge , that .gleams from the worrier's
breast , ,
Like a star 'mid the battle'a gloom! -.
Nor is thy pie 'mid thy 'country's host,
Wh e re the war steeds Chimp the rode—
Where wav ing, plumes are like sea foam tart,
• And the toil wears a gcry stain.
Not these! not these are thy glorious dower!
But a holier gift, is thine, - •
'When the proud hare fallen triumph's hem,
And the red blood, flowed like wine,
To wipe the dew front the clammy brow—
To raise the drooping head—
To cool the parched lips' feveredglow—
And to smooth down tho lowly bed!
Not thine! not thine! is the towering height,
Where ambition makes his throne—
The timid dove wines not herilight
Where the eagle soars alone—
Bat in the hall,,and in the tower,
And by the humblest hearth,
Man feels thy charm, and owns the power
That binds him still to earth.
Yes, theses?* thine! and who can say
His is a blighter dooli;
Who wins Fames's gory wreath of bay,
Round an aching brow to bloom
Oh! to watch death's livid hues depart— .
To soothe' etch pang of woe—
And to whisper hope to the fainting heart—
h the proudest mead below!
TILE WINTERS.
We did not fear them once—the dull gray morn
Rigs •
No cheerless burden on oar spirits laid ;
The long might watches did not bring us warn
ings
That we were tenants of a ;house decayed•
The early snows like dreams , to Ws descended,
The frost did Miry work on paise and bough
Beauty, and power,aud aronderharenot ended
How is it that we fear the Winters now?
Their house fires fail as bright on hearth and
chamber
Their northern starlight shines as coldly clear ;
,The woods still keep their holly for December;
The world a welcome yet for the new year. .
And far away in old yetneMbered places
The snow-drop rises and robin sings; ,
The sun and moon look out with loving faceir—
Why have our days forgot such good ly' things l•
is that now the north-wind Inds - us shaken
By tempest fiercer than its bit er blast
Ate' fair beliefs and friendships- have forsaken,
Like Summer's beauty,as that tempest passed ;
And life grows leafless in - its pleasant valleys,.
The light of promise wsnix from its day,
Till mists meet even in its inwerd palace,—
Not, like the outer mists, to melt away , ?
It is 'not ihus - • when dreams of love and laurels
Gave sunshine to the Winters of our youth,
Before 'its hopes had fallen in fortune's quarrels.
Or time had bowed them with his heavy truth—
Ere vet the twilightfouttd us strange and qonely.
Withishatiows coining when the fire burns low,
'To tell - of distal:it graves and losses only—
The pat that cannot change end will not go.
-Alasi3ear frUnds, the Winter is within 'us; •
Hod is the let that gathers Mudd The heart,
of pretty fares and - Ivain tegrets•ean win as
Erotn Life'struelieritage and 'better pot.'
lessons and skiesisjoi4,yei, 4 sorship rither ;
+But nations toil and trenibtoleren'as We"; -
Hoping for harvests they !rill never gather.
And dreading Winteri they may fever see.
ji istillatttats
HENRIETTA.CIAL
BY J. st.:
CEIAPTER , L
there is something lovely in the 'came of
sister, and its ntterinee rarely faits tb call up '
the warm afFections of the gentleheirt. The
thenghts thavoircle round it' are' all (inlet,
teatitifbl and pure. Passion has no place
- with its assotiations. The hopes and fears
of love; those strong ertietion4, povrerfnl
enough to shatter and, e.itiegiiisti life •itself,
Slid no home there.. The hritie is ilia star,
the talisman of the heart, the . dikiiion above
*ll price, bright and; hiaziegie theWoottciat•
stint a sister; the gets' Ortailder light, - calm
as the Oaellowinoon, arid ietiti a coronet of
t: ear la ,
It was late in the itifilin or 18—, when a
Pan! of yoting gentlefolks were asseiribled
at the mansion of Doctor Gray, in one of the
principal streets of the city of Boston. The
house-was large, and -w-4: ;furnished; and all
the arrangements fOr.the little - fete, and the
rete - itself were conducted with that simplici
ty and propriety, which are tier' evidences of
taste and deliCaey. - At a Ifitxliratiliotr; the
happy guests -departed, pie:steed :With - their
hostess, the entertainment; and with-thern-:
selves. One onirlingered - behind, a very
:youthful gentl' an; who iri h
ho stood withsind
.3.1
*pan the dm "tog-looro thaor;:in . cutworm
tion with Mrs. 'ray -and her - yousg; Aaron- .
4rig daughter. Mrs. Grav- - .rensarked , ths,t . 'it
vatstill . caAy; 'and theinearietai end taw
self. would sit up- for .theDactor; and his
own wishes thus seconded, the young.-man'
again reamed hiachair. - ';•
ienrietus Gray, et ,tbia period, was thir
teens half girl and half-woman; eat age-when
the maiden slops - it : her ekildistrairierte % eird
Wonders why they harielliaayainterestedher
so deeply ; and i -awsise inuselysees is 'the dia
_ ism*, fairy palitiosomd green andlioinery
looks, and smooth, tirae&cftt tivers- r the
Ilona end the tough warm rof , the ft*** aiti
the:tally hirkkm from:herr?' Mk Us fart
handsome t her features' wme :itoffrigular )
taw tate was too Pale, taw ifwrat-tooaligitt.
)3itt then the ,totthilled 'expire/obit ist Alie
*bole was ?termini. /ler lealeate A iiitild
!!!!!!I=ll=:==N=
blue, her countenance intelligent; and, above
all, kindness beamed in every. feature; and
when she spoke, her voice was like the sooth
ing ripple of - a gentle stream. .
Arthur Diane, the youth who had secured
a few additional minutes for the enjoyment.
of ilenrietta's society, was about two sears
her senior; a lair haired, rosy lad, df modest
manners; who, as be finally bade her good
night, looked into her e)ea and trembled ;
and his voice sunk to a cadence almost as
mellow as her own; so true it is, that gentle
ness begets gentleness, and tends to subdue
all things to itself.
And Arthur Filene's footsteps had hardly
died away on' the stairs, when they were
heard again in rapid asemt; and rushing
into the s presence of Henrietta and her mother.
psie and affrighted, in a few broken words,
but tenderly as possible, he. informed them
that - as, accident bad befallen the Doctor.
'the, brief announcement, was hardly ended,
when the ghastiv person of Doctor Gray,
senseless and . bleeding, was borne into the
house. The explanation of the causally was,
that in retutning from a professional visit,
in a dark and narrow street, his carriage had
been overturndd by striking against a post.
The sodden transformation - of Doctor
Gray's elegant and happy mansion to a house
of. mourning ; , the wild grief of Mts. Ginty;
the heart.broken signs of Henrietta; and tivp
attempts of Arthur 131aue, and other friends
hastily sunimoned at midnight,- with con
sternation pictured in - their faces, to adminis
ter hope and consolation ; the Doctor's grad
ual return. to cOn,ciuusness; and the doubts
and apprehensions of his medical attendants
as to the anal ,result; ate of a nature too
painful to dwell on. Suffice it, that - with
the - morning the family were permitted to
hOpe; and the ,DoCtor entered on a period of
slow and painful convalescence.
Dr. Gray- was, or had been, one of the.
most skillful atid popular physicians of the
sits. lie was now fifty years old; and, un
fortunately, having remained a bachelor
'until thirty-five, during the period of his sin
gle life he had acquired habits of convivality
and late hours, which he had never found
the resolution to abandon. He was in the
main a kind husband, and an affectionate
parent; but as evil habits, if not vanquish
ed, in the end are uhnost certain to vanquish,
so the Doctor's relish fur his boon companions
and the bottle had grown upon him, until-it
had nearly made its last demand, in a claim
for liis lire•
Another evil still bad followed in the wake
of the Doctor's 'course of life. It lost him
the confidence of his friend's; and for several•
years, while the expenses of his- family had
been increasing, his business had been di- -
minishing. His accident and the confine
tnent-of several months which followed, turn
ed the attention of his creditors to his affairs;
and he recovered only to find himself a bank
rupt. and his wife and Children reduced to
beggary. •
At this distre4ing period in the history of
the Gray family,. ithe Doctor and his three
younger childretb:Suddenly disappeared; and
no trace of them could be discovered. After
a time of wonder; of grief and dispair, Mrs.
Gray and Henrietta, the sole remaining metn
'tiers of the household, retired to cheap and
narrow quarters in the suburbs of the ton n,
where the mother, oretcorne by the succes
sive shocks of 'her seyere destiny, sunk ;ntu
a condition of imbecility,. - •
Net so with Henrietta. rf-Though a shadow
rested on her pale face. and the. sorrows of
her young' life had sunk deeply into - , her
heart, a kind Providence had not suffered her
to be - hroken by their unusual weight. She
was still gentle as ever, 'but misfortune is
rapid in the development of .character; and
to gentleness were now added an ithilooked-•
for fortitude and- energy. Het mother, en
tirely incapable of effort., and herself, were to
he fed. She laid her case at the foot of
Omnipotence; and received strength. Friends,
it is true,' were kind and some. relations
there were, who' did not utterly' forget the
bereaved ones in their - Erfiliction:;' but in the
main, the wants of
,both mother and daugh
ter were to be supplied, and for a period of
weary Months and years, were supplied; by
the labors of Henrietta. 'When not occupied
with the care of her sick parent, her needle
was fin active requisition; and early and late
she toiled, and toiled cheerftilly, for bread;
and thanked God thatit was daily given her.
Among her kind friends, none were more
constant cr . thoughful, than Mr. and Mrs.
Diane. Neither.did Arthur forget her; and,
to the great scandal of the prying ones, he
the leisure of his College vacation
pretty equaly between his father's and . the
homely tenentwn: of the Glays; and .as he
was an only son, of large expectations, to the,
fatale! 'scandal of the gossip his parents
seemed to, view his singular conduct with a
total unconCertt. Indeed, in these visits, his
mother was almost ,his constant companion..
When not diversified with the society of these
friends, life, with Henrietta, presented little
else than one , unvarying toilsome round.
Her. household duties, her struggle for suste
nance, and her care of her half idiotic and
often. captious parent, occupied her hands,
her tlictighte, and
_her heart; and yet she bad
roma fur other sorrows; and withal, was not
unhappy._ The inscrutable and mysterious fate
of her fatber and,. her little brothers, was of
itself a burthen hard to ; be• borne ; and yet,
with all these causes of depression bearing
upon her, the.cOnsciousness. of a' daily effort
to perform her
_duty, and, above all, a humble:
end sincere reliance on. the goodness and care
'of Heaven, lightened 'her heart 'and ftxttstops,
and clothed, her brow. with serenity.. While
the.ills of life are scattered with great appa
rent :irregularity, its happiness is dispensed
irithii far more - eqtial balance than ie gener
..
allv imisoined.
.N e a t ly four ~years thus wore away, when
the...thread of life, sr !dolt fur sethe months :had
been growing wealer and weaken . with Mrs.
Gray, parted; and fieurietta *Jose, of ail the
family, war left. Me Blanes were with .her
in' her affliction, and drowbed - their generous
kadttem , by sdre,ring her 'a 'home. The !Ins
patittoja :of her own relatiet, too, were so far
awakened by this Nit even:; and the desolate
itionditisn of theateicken orphaa k , that bet' *wit
Touga i tuade hers like offer, which, for ob.
lricaSmwtotta, ilAmtietts preferred Ateept.
tier twins. m•te aceordingly given stp,.. the
henthle:.hrtlittireilliSpfed ofj and alsr:he,.
can* donipAtittated at her mines.; • ,
.About Sionill'iafter this event, Mrs,-Tot
ton'a isremorning tell 'n , tottide, - ci
levier* mitift.- Mane:. One add reused :to lam
Blsiteow4 419 0* 19 Arthur; and they
" WE .L9E ALL EQUAL BEFORE GOD t,
Sontrost, ttsqulartua gratea, Clittrsiti: ji 18-57.
proved to be from Henrietta. The one to
Arthur was unsealed, and as follows;
**Dear Autbur i —At a moment like this
when I am to be separated - from you for is
time, and possibly forever, no feeling of deli
cacy must prevent my treating you with the.
frankness due to your noble and generous
nature. That I love you, you will not doubt;
and I am ready, so far as my heart is con
cerned, to become your wife. But I have
first another and imperative duty to discharge.
My inquiries after my lost father and brothers,
have at length, as I have reason to believe,
been crowned with success. I must go to
them. Do not seek to follow me, or to trace
me out; and if Heaven preserve me, the de
votion of my life shall repay you. But if
thi, be too hard, dear Arthur, take back
your plighted troth, and be only my brother
again.
When these letters arrived, Arthur Blanc
was atisent from the, city; and on his, re
turn, he hastened 'to Mrs. Totten's. From
that discretelady he obtained little additional
intelligence. Henrietta was gone; but where,
if she was in possellsion of the secret, Mrs.
Talton was-too guarded to disclose. His en
quiries at the several stage-offices and else
where, with the view to ascertain the direc
tion she had taken were . equally unsuccess
ful ; and as his hope faded, gradually Arthur
Blanes handsome and happy face assumed a
'lengthened and woe-begone 'expression. His
only relief was iu travel ; and what excited
a much greater *aniount of
. remark was the
circu.nstance that his parents, in their old
are, was also seized. _with a monia to see the
World. During these peregrinations, the three,
often in company, visited most of the towns
in New England, explored a large part of
Nevi•York,•and penetrated. at several points,
the interminable West beyond.
CIIA.PTER, IL
The %cent) of our little history Dowclioi,g
-es to the atnall viliage of in the lute
riot of the atate of Neiv the period,
about two years after the tudien disappear-
:thee of Dr. Gray and hia children from Boa-
ton. The village was Of no great preteusiou.
h lay in a wide valley, encouipased by mas
sive, but not abrupt hills ;- and to tlie north
aud.east doted small meandering, iivers.--
It was of sufficient age to be freefroni stumps
and the immediate encroachments orthe for-
gists ; 'possessed an.nir of thrift and comfort,
several respectable tenements, and a goodly
number of neat, white cottages, surrounded
with ample grounds, and en bosomed in
shrubbery. but it .was laid out absolutely
without plan. Its principal streets were
thrice the width u;ualiy granted to avenues
of the kind ; and from in northern extremi
ty, iu wild irregularity, diverged other streets
towards every conceivable point of the nom-
pass. ItsTrincipal ornaments, in.the way of
buildings, were its churches and halls of
learning. Two respectable structures, one. of
Atme and the other of brick, we'e devoted to
the purliofts of an academy ; while several
nisssive collegiate etlific= crowned a hill at
the south. - The" Brick Aeaderav," the germ
of the two noble institutions of learning, in
the poverty of a new settlement, had been
built and sustained as' a classic sehool and
its infancy, by a voluntary mottgage on the
property of the principal inhabit:tuts. of the
place. These; it is hardly necessary to add,
were staid. New-Englanders.
it was spring -time, and the buds and foli
age of village and -country were just bursting
into a rejoicing g.teen—wben, one morning.
the inhabitants of li became aware of
an accession to tneir numbers. A little di
lapidated hotel, standing on a 'common, and
fur a long period untenanted, had during the
night btien accommodated occupants.
A rti.or broken-down horse,bitched to a•brok
en weather-beaten cart, stood by the shatter
ed door-way ; and as elderly, - square-built
man
. was endeavoring , with refuse -boards
and paper, tti patch pp the open windowa.—
In . the appearance of this indivitlual there
was something peculiar. He wore a faded
lion-skin coat., of large dimensions, and emir:
mous pockets ; and an old slouch hat to
[Patch. He was of middle height, but thick
set. and muscular, with a must massive chest
and head. His face was pale and wrinkled.
surmounted with a heaVy Romani . nose, and
shaded by an aboralance of short grizzly hair.
His eyebrows were heavy and projecting, and
beneath them were a pair of cold, keen gray .
eves. His head he - carried a little on one
Fide, as thong!' his neck was stiff; and all
his movements were made with great delib
eration, and an obtruhive. self-possession.—
His companions—fur he 10}S not alone - -were
three lads of; perhaps, twelve, tea, and eight
years of age,- ragged and filthy, without .shoes
or hat ; their long,- tangled locks sticking
oat in every direction, and bleached almost
white by exposure.to the weather; and with
scarcely clothes enough, suck as then were,
to cover their nakedness. Ti-e eldest was
robust in appearance; the next in size less
m; and the third painfully frail. .
It is, perhaps, needless to, say,. that these
individuals were Dr. Gray and his children.
'He had consented to the - loss of of his stand
ing-.in life, and to the disruption
. and degra
dation of his family, as be flattered himself,
tram a feelitigOf excusable pride;' an inabil
ity to brave the reverses' of fortune amid the
scenes of-his prosperity, and to bear up under
the sneer of rivals and the pity of sunshine
friends; But bad be probed his heart deep
er, lie would bae discovered there a conscious
ness, that in order to ; regain his lost ground
and retrieve his fortunes, it was necessary to
relinquish the bottle . ; and that for a axed
fice so great as this, he was not 'qnite ready—
not yet.- -.lt isunnecessary to trace him tine
the two years of intervening
_time,. Buffnee
it, that he changed his place of abode more
-than once, each - time sinking lower in
,the
scale of respectability; until the little rem
nant of available! be-had managed to smug
gle from the city having become , exhituated,
he tad his children were reduced to the Con
ditioa in which they -hare been :described.
The inhabitants kieked on him
With some wonder and curiosity, but nobody
molested-him A end wain he. became. known,
-on whirl authority nb ;me. wetly. knew..we
br. Glegg. Ere long the but 'he , occupied
Weenie a charmed precinct to. all the chil
dren ; for.the door witSkept . ,citelidlyseloied
against - itaiudeist 'and - hi to windows. lbw*
-writ hot:8041W vf"glasts 'in my ate or theta;
or other •cautri mice for Abe' adashisimi of
Arm a (ear "toggling , -patches di oiled
Impels ardeolgiilntaies s - : it isAree,.hadlbeem
caught:by the morecuriouswf .41a urchins,
through the door way, 'of a box, or large
===
chest; and it was cantionslY 'whispered
around, and at length among "the grown-up
and gray-headed children of the, place,. that
Doctor Glegg was a miser; .and that the
chest in question contained his gold.
' But the Doctor wat poor enough ; so poor
that his miserable and cheerless tenement
was rarely out of the reachof bsolute want.
Indeed, it is surprising bow he and his
wretched children managed to live,at all.—
Unfitted by the habiti of hie life for manual
labor; and neintaining, even in his most
alject degradation, a sort of personal respect,
which forbade a tesort to menial offices; his
sphere of exertion was limited. Instead,
thereof, of resorting to day's works, he plant
ed corn and potatoei, on shares; and se
'cured a little hay in the same manner, :for
the benefit of his famished horse; And in
µlace, of the carriage to which he had been
accustomed, he rode to and from the field
in his cart; while his • elfin •boys scoured
the commons for refuse wood, and, bare
headed and bare ;egged, waded and fished in
the streams.
As time passed on, Dr..Gligg became more
and morelan. object of curiosity . It was ev
ident to all, that he was intemperate ; but be
was never seen drunk, and was never vulgar
or profane, It was pereeivell that he was a
man of learning and parts; and that'his con
versation was a singular mist and wisdom, of
bombast and simplicity, According to thn
circumstances under which he was accosted,
With men of wite 'he tAeil sense with
scholars he was scholaStic t' with fools; bom-
biotic; and to those twhp pressed him with
impertinent curiosity, bel l wa.4 utterly unintel-
To the last clads his replies were
somewhat after this sort
" Mon Dieu ! man is a curious tiped,made
up of the most beteiogeneons and incompre
hensible parts. Proof!! procul! scat ?
Neither him nor his concomitants have I any
derire tc know ; but consign them all, in one
contclomerated mass to the erortt: acclicatu3
;?,f the common cent."
Others, however, who fell into casual con-
Versation with him, and did nos attempt to
pry :into his circumstances, or the :events of
his life, found his mind well stored with a va
riety of information, ,•whiCh he was capable
of imparting - in forcible 'and appropriate lan;
guage. A student of the Academy haring
politely accosted him; Dr. Gray - said:
" You are in pursuit of knowledge, .my
young sir: and among all the attainments
4fier which the scholar should strive, nothing
.3:s more limportrint than a just appreciation
cif his mother tongue. Allow me to inquire
of you, what is the chief element of a good
Composition r
" redlied the student
"The question is well answered i " contin
ued the doctor, -" Dewitt ,Clinton him-elf
could not have replieritnore justly. To know
what we wish to. communicate, nod then to
make the communication in just those exact
words necessary to convey the whole idea,
constitutes the chief excellence of style."
A ron.Th person having taken it upon him
to abuse7Dr. Gray, ring to heap on hint a
volume of oaths and profane epithets, the old
man listened for some time in adeace.. At
length he quietly remarked : •
• "Sir, you cannot swizar."
"Swear, old curmudgeon?—what do you
mean r•
" It requires sense, sir," continued the doc
tor, ," to sweat. You rutty use the wo!ds,but
you cannot swear."
Thus lived, or rather, existed Dr. Gray and
his Children, in the village of K--, for a
period of two years; when an event occur
red which wrought a gradual change in their
condition. There arrived in the stage froth)
the East, a pale, and delicate, but sweet-eyed
young woman dressed in deep black ; who ,
having attendedto the safe disposition of
her baggage at the hotel, inquired for the
residence of the Rev. Mr. Trimble. It .
snown to her, and she at once bent her step.
in that direction.
The strange lady-approached the dwelling
of the clergyman, not without trepidation.
Brushing an unbidden tear from her eve, she
raised the knocker with a shaking hand, but
her .heart and her determination were con-,
staut, for it was none other .than Henrietta
Gray. She found Mr. Trimble at home ; and
mere than that, a kind hearted and feeling
man. She told him her little story ; anti ex
hibitied to him her certificate of member
ship in one of the-churches in Boston, as a
voucher for her honesty, if, indeed, anything
else were wanting than ler 'sweet .counte
mince and modest deportment. •
The good , man, entered heartily into,.the
object of her mission; infot riled her that Dr.
Glegg and the three children were still in'
'K---; andirom his aecount of them, she
becatne more fully confirmed in the supposi
tion that they were no other -then her lost
father and brothers.. To change probability
into certainty, however, with a.small daugh
tet of Mr. Trimble as her cicerone, she strolled
into the quarter of the village where stood Dr:
Glegg's but,and saw and recognized her parent,
She passed quit near one or two of the boys;
but in their changed condition, she faile.i to
discover anything which bore:resemblance
to the well-fed and well-clothed and happy'
ehiltiten she bad known.
,In greatawitation
of feeling,. she returned to Mr. T7inible's
house; and accepted a
,cordial
(tom him and his kind lady, to pass the night
with them. :
On the following mottling Henrietta found
herself refreshed from the fatigue of berjouro7
cy j andin a condion of „mind and body "to
proceed in the accomplishment of her pu'r
poses. Her Dew friend, Mr. Trimble, intro- -
duced he into a highly - respectable family,
where she took a room and board; and him
self arranged an interview between her and
her brothers. Her baggage - was Insidly trans
ported from the hotel to her- new. 'griatterir,
before they strived t and ragged_ and dirty
as . they were, were l_elesped over . alai OVe'r
again to ber beart, and bathed in het rears..
Sbi found them as wild as the. _Untamed
- colts the deiert.' Dick; the" eldest, - after
some tittle conversation; ?membered • her;
and she perceive:l, on studying has sauna
buses, that aome ofhis former- features '-:re
maitiet.lk, Dalt with .the others, „William and
aeiry, them was _nO . recogattion on either
side; and - the twOlittie . Mitoti? antlered - her
Carerwes in - Pullen tilinee;fts though lolotit:
of tile•sholo, : pinoaelling., : , ; •
An hour was derotad to thejoy and sor.
row of the U3SOIDC. lied then Henrietta as
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CHAPTER 111.
aimed - her brothers to 'cleanse themselves,
hathieg-thorn thorough from head to foot,
and cutting and -smoothing their ziataai hair:
This done, she put on her bonnet and ahead,.
and taking them by the hied *allied out
into the business street .orthe village. From
her slender means she furnished theist with
bats and shoes, and - purchased cloth - fer , gars
merits, all of a cheap but sabstantial quality,
appropriate .to their condition :.And telling
them to come again on Abe - morrow; with
.
good advice and soothing words of encour
agement and tenderness, she sent them home.'
For a large portion of the succeeditig night
Henrietta, happy and even joyous, plied her
busy needle ; and on the follewiag day, sev
eral of. the garments came from her - hand;
finished ; . but , the children did not appear.—
Restless, in consequence, as night approach
ed, she walked into the street, and naturally
turned her footsteps toward the .quarters in
which they resided. From the first she
would have seen her father,` have iuclud
ed him in her mission of love and mercy.—
Bin this she feared to do. He had never
been familiar . with his children; she well
understood the pride and selfish stubborness
of his character; and in studying her plans,
she had determined it safest for their a Uccess.
not to intrude upon him, but to' leave him to
make the first a:advances, or chance, to bring
them together. She suspected that he had
fordidden the. children to see her, but for
this she , was prepared. Passing the but, she
discovered Dick in the-road beyond, and no
cOstieg him, learned that her suspicions were
correot. Her father, on hearing of her pres
ence in • K , and interview with het
brothers, had manifested considerable unea
sinesßad peremptorily , forbidden them to
see her again. Placing the garments she
bad brought in her brother's hands, she ex
pressed an Ardent hope that her father would
recall the prohibition, and even that he wo'd
, soon allow her to see him •, and retired.
BLit the next day brought no change; and
on the following morning, having completed
the rest of the garments, she again walked
toward the hut. This time she found her fa
ther in the road, harnessing his poor old
horse, and was - obliged either to turn back
or passtitn. She chose the latter altirua
tive ; and as she came 'near, he turned sus
piciously upon her, and regarded her coldly
and sternly, but without speaking. Greatly
agitated, Henrietta extended her arms to
ward him, and uttered the word " father."
Dr. Gray serried away, add walked toward
his door. I
" Niv dear father !" said she, in the most
beseeching tone, " will you not own me f"
Dr. Gray leaned against the gate, with his
back toward her, apparently as Entree affect
ed as herself. He shook as though with an
ague fit: and with a strong effort at last
managed to say, in a broken, hollow voice:
"Go awa it . ! I know not, and will not
know you."
-..,.
Poor Henrietta hung bee gifts for he out- 1
east brothers upon the broken fence, near
her wretched father, and departed with a sad
heart. But her constancy was rewarded.—
That afternoon her little brothers were per
mitted to visit bar azain ; and from that
tim e forward their intercourse was uninter
upted. She bad all her plans, for their bene
fit in successful operation.. Her industry
and skill ulth her needle, aided, perhaps,by
ay mpathyiand the little air of romance which
surrounded her, gave her an abundance of
etuPloyment : her three brothers spent much
of each day with her ; anti as she worked,
she heard their lessons, conversed with them,
I and gave - them instruction, so far as she
was able, in every department of - knowledge
which she deemed necessary to their suc
cess in life. Her little workshop became a
school of the most practical and valuable .
I kind:: . •
Neither did Henrietta forget her father, or
ceaseher efforts to ameliorrte his condition.
Though shelield no intercourse with him,
through her prudently exerted influence he
was inouced to remove tolnore comfortable
quarters, where she managed to surround
him with most of the necessaries, and, even
tually, to supply him with' many of the com
forts of life, to which, lately be hadbeen a
stranger. She - even • visited -his rooms in his
absence, attended to their eleauliness, and
conferred upon them those little .graces and,
finishing, touches which women alone can
bestow. She als3 attended to his wardrobe,
kept it in repair, and added to it, from: lma
time, as her own means. 'permitted, and his
wants required. He, meanwhile, though he
stilt refuse to see her, regarded her, not in
his superficial mind so clearly' but in his in
nermost soul, as a Ministering' angel, and
, blessed her.
Thus nearly three yenis passed away.
During this period _Henrietta had heard
several times from her aunt Totton,, and
through her,-of the uneasiness of her good
Mends, the Blanes. This she deeply regretted,
and would gladly have relieved, had her own
strong sense of propriety and duty permitted.
Bat to have informed them of her ,plans,
would have been to defeat them. It is not to
be supposed that Arthur .I.3lane would have
consented to remain in quiet expectance of a
wire, while she sbofild devote two or three
yeara of her life to the care of ber dissolute 111
and thankless father, and to the. uncertain
task of rescuing and reclaiming her vagbond
brothers. Yet to the mind of Henrietta,
when she had once succeeded in discovering
. where they were, this was her first duty; in
comparison with Which, all else, her own
hop" afrd prospects in life, nod even the
temporary happiness ef him she loved-most
faithfully and deeply, sun!.- into irisignificance.
In the rescuing and training of those helpless
_children, there was a great work to be done;
and to her it was clear, that it/belonged to
herself, their sister, and the eldeit, to do it.;
and further, that it she shrunk ,froto • the
undertaking, it never would beaccomplisbed.
SO Strong in the consciouSiteas of the recti
tude of her heart rind her actions, she . looked ..
back without regret, if not always Without
'sorrow, as she theughtof bar almost dissipated
dreams ef,,life and • loye with &riot, Matte;
and with that_cheatiope , which
the just hnd trustful have Heaven.
At thill,period Dr. prosiru tbd
a indde ,stroke of paralysis, aid
hest longer:, She Hastened' to his
. bed*e, sod pft him the watchful Gartland ,
:tender solicitude-of a danghter.„-.)34 never
reoirteied "stifliolentlyito iMtt be linew.
tar stnikixim heart, viasat last
isofienecl. Efe afpressid ,
signs; and -pressing heir band in hisi'axpired.
Thivevent released' Henrietta from a: tte.-
cmary confinement to the 'tillage of
lieti brotheri were now 'greatly improved;
and; .under :her Akilful tniinhig, had -made ?
resoeotable adva_nees in mannem, morale, and
education. They bad proved: apt,,
with kind and affectionate natures; and theif,
sister's unwonted love and purity had askinii•
lated them much and readily o'h
terself. 134
in case of her own return, she did - not pro:
pose to take 7 , them to the.city: . A country
life she : ‘;milidered most conducive to,their
- haPpiness, virtue, and ; and accord
inglyest tibout providing them with . suitable
homes. Dick chose to be . a farmer; and
Williani and Henry now grown to 'be robust
ladctelected mechanical occupations.. Aided
y the kind rico, ;tad interest of the most reaper-
' able citizens_ of X- 7 —, good places were
soon found, and the boys were properly be
stowed. •
The death of her-father was announced by
'Henrietta to her aunt Tottnn very soon after
its occurrence; and that hitherto, discreet
lady at once " took the responsibilite of con
sulting the Blanes as to the future movements
Of her niece. The consequence -- of:this un
authorized nrocmaling was the arrival in the
village of X—, in a very few anys, of a
broache, containing the whole Blane
Arthur's handsome face, so his Mother 'de
dared, within a week, had shed. a moat sol
emn bevy of incipient wrinkles, - and shorten
eci half an inch ; and the - crimson Which
'mantled on . the cheek a Henrietta,ns they
met,.ilid not, by any means; detract from the
grace Of ber meek, but nowblooming and
mature beauty.
.•
-A day or two later; through the agency of
the Blanes, who all at once became active io
affairs a the little village of E--r--701, coun
cil was held at the Rev. Mr. Tritrible's, at
which it was decided, that, under the peculiar
circumstances of the present case, it wt ,s meet
and proper that Henrietta Gray. should le
tura to ,Boston in no other capacity than as
Mrs. Arthur Wane. - On .the morning of
their departure, accordingly,- the .. marriage _
ceremony was solernaiied.
The principal iiersonages'in this little his
tory, we believe, are still living. Henrietta is
a happy wife, surrounded with as interesting
family ; and her . three brothers, who have
learned so.well to know the depth and purity
of a sister's love, are respelitable citizens of
one of the western States.
From the &stem Traveller. .
REV. DR. MATTHEW KYLES ON . PREACHING
POLITICS.
The eccentric, witty Dr. Byles, the first pas
tor of the Ilolli-street Church, Bosten - , among
other rich things from his pen, has reft on
record, in his own sharp Words, his opinion
on the propriety of- ministers 'of . the gospel
preaching politics. In this day, when so.ma
nyi clergymen 'of different denominatiqns ate
coming down from the great workornificnow
ing and making known so nisny other atitigs
besides "Jesus Christ and him crucified," it
may be well for them respectfully to consider
the wisdom of Dr.Byles' words en this sub-
ject. • - •
In that incomparable work of .Rev. Dr.
Cp - risgmtc, just pu " A salna.l. tf.a MEV.
jean Pulpit," it is said in the -.biographical
notice of Dr. Boles, that. on being asked, why
be did not preach politics, he replied : " I have
thrown up four breast Works, behind which I
have entrenched myself, neither of which eau
be forced. In the first place Ido not under
stand politics; in the second place, 'you an
do, every man and mother's son . of you; in
the third place ; you have politics all the
week—pray let one day out of seven be de
voted to religion; and in the fourth . place, I
am engaged in a work of infinitely greater
importance. Give me any subject le. preach
upon of, more consequence tban the truths I
bring to you, and I will preach it on the next
Sabbath." '
I am a clergyman, and the pastor of a
church in Massachusetts, and during all the
excitement of the Presidential campaign just
pa.sed, as well as during It pastorate of •-niore
than ten rears, I have follower! the course
pointed out by Dr. 13cles. I have, with anx
iety and grief, seen my brethren in the minis
try, whom I honor and love, coming doin
from the pulpit to the political caucus--be
corning political wire-pullers behind the.cui
tain—taking party politics,. into :that sacred
place, the pulpit--preachhig about men
and civil government, rather than of - Jesus
Christ and Lis kingdom which is not of this ;
world. I have Seen them 'excited, 'and com
promising their dignity' as ,ministers on the
political stump, at the elections, in ecclesias
tical meetings, at political rallies, • and even
in player meetings. • •
I have ioterproted my instructions from
Christ differently. Taking Ilia words, exam
ining my commission from him to preach the
gospel; noting the' Way in which :Jesiei'hitni
self preached his gospel _in the, midst of terri
ble social evils, wicked national customs and
oppressive governments, noting the way In
which the apostle dealt with' -slavery, gladia
tonal. sports, polygamy, writs and other vice..,
I have felt that many brethren are departing
from the principles of the gospel, and the pre
cedents furnished by the (heat Teacher
,and
Ms Apostles, as to the way preachers are to
promote social reforms, and apply'the gespel
to the evils in society. I look at the example
of the Apostle Paul in this matter, 7 (presum
ing that he understoorl , the 'Attire of the gos
pel, aunt how to preach it,) mad *ea him -as
a, reformer, as a' preacher et' that religion
which has been,givett te.' regenerate society
and bring peace on'earth, , migaged in his work
at Corinth—that corrupt city of ancient
Grasse, where the government. wits' despotic,
where slavery exfsted In . forms far more true'
and India than . it has ever Liea.seen io this
conntry—Wbere - nil cluseti Were ficentioas
and torrtipk'Whiite' the tick Were -proud' and .
-cruel to the poorituid the Ivor , abject and
vicious, ;and OAS the women; had .no
righta"---but I ;to not sec nt in his preach
ing there, notin Ilia atibeetitient /lades to,the
chu reit. he planted'there, denoiinct ng'ibe
eminent; nailing the'slaveholdere pirateivnut
throats, vipers ;, I da.not find. bin,-attacking
:the tich c infiaming,olo4oftianaien nf,dtepoori:
urging woman to Iwamoto' thn r!gitta„of
(end 'Ana render herself acorn . .
- seekinclor iiil9itetice itict*air 'the
sphere-that , ' Gtailiattittidnined her,)" ittir
'preaching.to dui sisici *boat': their political
rights.:
Bii he Arlipie,?..lo7o w Ah a kch r t s .
tinnity Was - nvielieioitsr , a4 gunknWer to
bliiintecOttiing :tit' Pik*
*ll7 and aneWy ttinatandelliAiffeltiliaitinf
ancietivith its putifiriminfhancog ;Iletunit
that the gospel was van inicsarilv to
folumil4;._....P4kio_ll;
eueiftharibier; to ,ravtutrate.ancl airSkAnti-,
as individuals. lie . kiwa that just so far, aid, -
only so far, ealudi.nitr , ..l member* •of nor
c0n: 1 91414y were brought under
_titt - ,Lre .rattidn
ing and
. power -Of - Christianity,
would tlie - derrupt, practi c es ittel evil euSteMs
of that community .be, feint-mod, li e kw*
that the 'would riicitiVe see isintetilsaid.
remodW soctety., -- But 24 knesr. Jt
must de ilds i n directly
- securing
'the - repentance and regeneration of - •
viticahi. Accordingly we find UM, Corinth
preaching to individuals at *int'
personal /ins, urging them,-eanhfor'hinisel - f i r •
to forsake., ,
the api'rit:„.noi,- of . ,de
nuncistion, but of love, he preached directly ; •
to men the great truth; of redetriptiocie_'- - ;,`
lu..lntitatioe of. St. Paul and in adep7.,
tion of his principles, his' theoiryof-preaching-;'
has been from the beginning the theorY
the New England clergy. Bat of late, it _
would seem.. thili Was become with inanymin. • -
isters nothing but ,o thcory—an abandened r . ,
superauuated theory, But It-am paictidly 4
convinced that the departure,
..even for a
little time from this theory, is working local
culhble evil. I fear' the -great hods- of - the_.
clergy of New England have, for the last tea;
years, under the load ot -rash, - ambitious, ir-'
reverent men, - gone.astray from the , prinei.
plow( the fathers.' The , evil influence &GC
the reaction in coining upon us like:a flood
in disrespect for the elergy_aut tint
in the prevalence of a spirit of relf-nghteotirti: , : , -1,
denunciation—in :dis c ords in churches and;:
societies;—in contempt for the great names to -
our nation's history, and in the crippled'
power of the pulpit for the spiritual good 'of- -
the people—and in the mistaken •fellowabip- . _
of ministers-with-those ammorlieltal wbo,by
that , fellowship, have gained new power-to
oppose the Bible, the church and the minis._
B h etter will it be ft;r the Clew tl etriselves;',.
and for the gospel they love; acid ihe
of human freedotiv .they advocate, for then
to.come back to the wisdom of Dr.i - Byles, •
and let pulities,alone. Better for all tbat.we
all come back to the preaohing t oot ou
the Sabbath, but atio on thailktgivints ands
Fasts, the pure, suntile'linihs that relm,e..o
, ilitslingdow of 'Christ, ' and to the' pentonil
and ever:asting, salvation of individual
, • ..For tie Democrat..
Plata Talk: •
"I do not wish
. to soil my hands in diSh-
water, until they become a gazing stock,foe,
the whole town," was the language ofa young_
Miss (who no doubt really thought herself a .
'',-.
young, lady) to„her Mother, which we. aces.
;lentallY ovefbeard, whilst dealing out a-prill,
scription in an adjOining r00m.. . Poor thine, -
we involuntarly exclaimed to _ourselves; psi --
do not wish to "soil
,yourhands in - dishwater,",_
but your mother ..can do it, can -she;_yourL
poor old - mother, who even now is hegira:dug.
to •bend tinder the weight of " years, ethos& -
brow is wrinkled With sorrow, • and.-oare for,
you, whose days bevebeen toil and drudget7 2 .---"
and nights watchful care for.you--to whim
you - owe 7 ... as .7-r..akirs - tetice, and all yea are:`
You do not wish to soil your. hands, but you:
can sit in the 'pallor, as a "conspaitiott fire.
the !nit norel," witl& your whimpering face,
„.
pale, sickly - white hands; and fingers ctiverek :
with a maps of clumsy gold rings; which:are ..
only fit for Hottentots, and squWws to wear, - •-
or, trying - to -diplay that awkward gold:
chain, which .things; waiters, liostlete, 2 and
"even, . boot blacks at '? medium Ulase bititet
are nokslow,to imitatef—sittirig theta Its 3-Orte,
silk dress, and satin slippers, that tea ointrams
to one, are yet unpaid for, whilst your inotheri
a half invalid, is toiling indirt rind gressit'to
keep you in sinful idleness.:- Conic., soil yoiti
hands in dislzouter - 1 Poor, silly' enratuVel
You have yet to learn - the merits , of - a seta-`.
burnt coustenance, and" blistered bands,
brought on -by honest industry. You hive
yet to learn that your sex, who frown one
Calloused Londe and blistered , fingers, ire,
Some bow, awfully deficient, and that }in - ,"
who goes into the parlor instead of theiritolt:
en to get a wife, lacks ‘s
much in tbe uppet..
story." ' - ' Dit: W. -
~. , .
Great Bend, Feb. 241101357:
The G•Xlou of Pleasuie.”
' The "Nan of - Pleasure.r--The" following
graphic portrait of dui "Man of Pleastre"Ja
taken from a sermon on "Chriitisit Man:
hood,!' delivered list 'Sunday. week, - itilgave
York, byltev. Mr. Cuyler. .
"I trust that no young man here will need
to be warned against rthat .wretchedly :false '
idea of 'manhood' which is so rife in certain,
eirelei- of this million-peopled ; city. The
'manhood' of an oath antra cigar
—a bottle of brindy and a peek of cards—a
box - ler the theatre, and a,- bet on'the .tace
course. 'Hundreds of young -men are con-. -
steady aspiring to such badges of social no- a
bility its these ! You may sea thesaimbi
thins youths ordering, with -a consetitteaial "
swaggettheir wine-supperaat the faxboriable
%ells: You may detect them at the midnight,-
hour pullingthe door-bells of haunts.pf
my, and whispering falft names ;through the
iron latiee; you. may - discover an Adel
book in the') trunk', locked up:with -.in .
scene picture, a revolver, a sportingealender.
directory to bro th els, a few. French novels,'
and—no Bible. Young woman besti4,44
-
such ser p ents the Si. They OWill en
lei your houses att..their "fathers entered,
Eden, 'only to . .nedUCO and':_ destroy. - ilew
York has here full share of there cherantete; ,
they pass for 'men of gallautri:_ , Dien G u st o,—
it.,!ateu of pleasure." _ _
•
Erer,y noir.and then there is a,trenteeditus
explosion in our conunitnity; which:blows:off__
the covering , and lets uo all took injuptin
rotten heart of certain 'style er-itity
During the last Week we have 4111 been_ kbok t .
jog In with loathing and 'With); cerniteriatiettio
,Wkhave stood- in the obantiPtir- whoatt , Wak.
were hotpot:tend With hloOtis and
the bittet end` ofinereer,::irlttelt out *OW
sweet restrains* of domestic punti
lotingearras ‘rif - - , the %tillage weettia., - -r.AIW
horn
, s iteen-.:111 - '1exesykablti Apittigixt
aceend. !hat aerrltykusid.-114 1 0,0441 , t51.01104,
ill - tinted uOr:itoto, Web,
couriastin testifying
'than of plovers' • 1,14 . tt had fling)* Ow* 014 1
ether_ stoll I the offte.er of juitieemggiriii
Ism