. „ ... . . . . _ . _ . . . . . .._ . ..... •• , , . . , ~., • . - - .. . . ~ . , . hie idlor-, • V . .- , . .. . _ a Ahmt • # 0G ... . .• . . /N o o , . - .. - i - 1,.. 'l....oertit.sitt, ; VabliMiti.- Female Curiosity.. A. wo 4hy Squire, of sober life, • " nod a coma:dad boasting wife; Of ritia.,„ n tshe daily made complaitt— • - thasEtif she thought a very saint:-. She loud to load mankind with blame, And on their errors build her fam. Iler fiwiirite subject ul dispute • WaS.Eyeand the _forbidden fruit. • "Had I been Eve," she often cried; "Man had not lAN nor - woman died; I still had kept the orders given.. Nor for en apple lust my Heaven; • To gratify my curious mind, I ne'er h.d runwil all mankind; , • Nor from a vein desire to know, • Entaird-on all my nee such woe." The Squire replied, "I' fear %is trtfe, • • The same ill spirit tires in y Ou; Tempted alike, I dare believe ' You would have disubey'd iike,Eve." Tht. lady storried,sed still deny`d Hnth.cnriosity and pride. The Squire some tetura day at's:Huber, Resoled to try his boastful • He gi tumid such vanity poi:vessel* her. And thus in seri sus terms arddresseci her: "Madam, the usual splendid feast ' With which our wedding day is graced, With you I must not.ahare to-day,. For bus'nest summons me away: -Of all the • dainties I've .prepar'd, tin not-any may be-apar'd; Indulge in every costly dish; Enjoy, 'tis what I really wish; . Only observe one prohibition, • • „ Nor think it » severe-condition; Oa one small dish .which eciveed stands, You must not dare to lay your hands. Go—disobey not for your life, Or, henceforth you're no more my wife." The threat Was it•rv`cithetiouire was gone; 'The murmuring lady dited - elone; She'saw a hateer could greet a feast; • Or eharrit,the eye or please the taste; But while she rearlid from this to that, From venison haunch to tertle fat. On one sakit dish she charred to light, By a deep cover William sight: "Oh! here if is—yet not kir no? I must not tsar , nay. dare not are;, Why place it there! or why forbid - That I so much as lilt the lid! Pr • ahibited of thi. to e at, I care not for the sumptuous treat; - I wonder if-ttis fowl or fish -- T4'l know a hat7s there I merely wish. look—O no, I 'bise forever, Ii tm betrayed, my hieilianti's fakor, I own I think it's vastly hard, -• Nay. tyranny to be debarr'd."'. you• m)y DI the wine's decrilited, I'll no! , or hen.you're wanted:" N•oiiis left alono.she waits no longer. Tem`piation pre sses more and stronger.... "I'll peep—the harm ne'er can be much, ` For though I peep. I will not touch; Why. I'm forbid to lift this rov..r, Oue.ffhpco will tell rind then 'as over.- liusimod's absent. an is'iohn, My seeping nev.'r can be know n." Trillibling she yielded to her arb•h, Audi-aged the,eovet from the dist.;• learn candor to 'anotherht fault; . • know, like Eve, from thi s - sad dinner, You're both a vain and curious sinner. Wiitteti fir the Mentzefe !kr:metal VICISSITUDES OF FORTUNE: EZEIME " Wrto- is that beau4ol young _lady you I.ed to the piano *aryl moments ay . ') I" This iniptiry I made of my former chum and cass-mate, Frain Somers, a fine speci-, men of maturing niauhood,--to whose eourte gy I was indebted, while a temporary sKjourn er in the bustling village of for an in vitation to 'Madam Delwin's grand soiree giv- en in honor of her only daughter's eighteenth birth day. "Elsie O'Neil," was the laconic response of my .friend. ." A maiden of foreign liirth.w extraction, judging from the' name," I remarked careless- "True," rejoined Frank, "Hibernian blood flows in her veins; but. a lady may be no less a lady for that, you know." "Ceittnnly;",_•said 1; " but what an • inte• resting pensive4ss pervades her countenance. Her-every glajke *not movement, ihough so prilatively bewitching and. graceful, lies-peak her ft being that has been tried in the fur nace of-affliction. If you know anything of her history, I pray you unfold it to meat once, for my cariosity is, completely areu-ed." . . . Drawing my aim within ids - own, he led rneto a little alcovc, and related, in sub stance the following, narrative : "The father of the ,young lady; in question iS,a native tt" the • Emerald Isle: His pa iews being in Affluent circumstances, lie was furnished with. requisite facilities for aequir ing a thorough classical eductrion. The op portunities thus afforded were not rnisim proved ; and William O'Neil, Wore he was twenty years of age, graduated,' -with high honors, at a_untversuF,in Dublin. lie chose the p•ofession of Law 'and his brillan,i tal ents gave promiserof future eminence and usefulness. But scarcely had he commenced his le‘ral course, when an unlocked for event dispelled'his bright visions of gldry, and shrou ,cled the future in gloom.- Frutri boyhood he had been n patriot. lie had read with sorrow and indignation of the grievotts wrongs his country had endured At the hands . of her retureless :oPPressots. With every recorded event in the bowery of 'lreland he was fintriliar. Tle . regarded with .profouud veneration' the names of - the many martyrs who voluntarily in4nolated them selves upon the etar of fredent; in futile yet . heroic endeavors It!' sunder . the' manacle, of _tyranny and achieve their country's iudepen dence. The celehirated address of Robert Em• tnett pronounced at the cloSe of his mock ar raignment and.trial for rreaso i od u r e Lord -Norbury,wfter the memorable. Irish kebellitin of 1798; he bat/learned in slily youth.;—had (led:owed it again and again, until its sloe ,{ quent and patriotic sentituen-t. like coals - of living fire = burned deep into his soul, and frnmed as, it were, a part of his intellectual Lc ing, influencing every thought and act of liis life., andwmtnoug in his to mind that supreme abhortence of arbitrary-40MM talon and kitiely rule which 'was destined ul timately to prove the over:brim .of his fairest hope.e and disconcert his well laid plans. ' • .When quite voting_, be freqvenly declar ed his detetutinatton to exert hia inffuence, when he *hould became • man, fur the .res toration of his &theft - and to .421er ancient na tionality. This resultitiohary aentituenr, N although apparently disregarded when utter ed, was, nevertliefess, treasured up and re mtuibered by their:aloes officials at the Brit istiorown, who Ohinivid narrowly Oil_ dna duct" be 0404 4 1-* *. r iOdctm AEA 1 1 86. "tht. l l 6 - 1 0M. Ai* lliminPO ?Wept" ike s ike!?*44 it , llitAlg toopitacy spinet the kiveroinevt - and cited to Appear beksithe proper tribunal, and answer the charge of high treason. Emboldened by the conscious netit, of innocence, he unhesitatingly obeyed thh-sumtnons; and during his trial, defended hint Self with 6ucliAbititranfl skill assecured the applauseand admiration of the large as stinhly that crowded the inquisitorial balk He stictieeded in persuading the jury that the charge prefered against him was totally un grounded, and was honorably acquitted. But - tke 'extotorditratv capiriiy, eloquence., and acumen he matitiested thioughout the whole iniquitous _prosecution, dcmonstlated to the eonaidly minions of 'royalty that he wits, in deed, too dangerier a character to allow in the midst if such an inflammatory populace as were the liberty-loving citizens ~ .of _Dublin. and lot Accordingly received a peremptory niarrda tit to leave the inland on. pain of death, or grate-portation.. This command, so unex peved, so unjustifiable, so arbitrary. was le coved by the young student, with emotions of contempt, consternation, and . anguish. „nome, ftietrds, the cherished assOittioils of youth, his aspisjitions for renown; must all be surrendered appease an insatiable des that unsatisfied . with grinding in the dirt seven ; millions of unfortunate people, whose oilly 'clime was .a love of f eedorn ; tinatisfied with tilisifing the best blood of for new_ victims gaped wide its reeking jaws! 0 how this cruel ptirelimation of the • tipples' sor hwerated the boson of Grief more exquisite than 6, he ev'er before ex perienced tormented his soul. The mars that gli t teted. above the - Emerald.' to hea . eye,never, then, appeared so gloriously resplendent. the music 'of illy sea caught, his ear with a melody be had previously fdiled to admire. Eli. native hills, valleys, lakes, livers, and woodlaniht, comp,..se.l a land cape of seeming ly uhwnined grandeur and levelittess. The cools of affection that, bound him to his kindred and friend-• tighteued every inoment. His soul was agonized but the fint.had gone I forth, and there was ea alternative. Nothing rum - tithed for him but humediate acquiescence'. to the dictum .4 an ittrilous oligarchy. Ac - cordinglv, with irale.eribable anguish, he fir lanced his straits as speedily a. poe—ihle; re pal red .onee more to the grave of Emmet, and kneeling alazo e the ashes of the illustrious lie ro, r t.rayed trYthe Lord of saliamh to rempm per the woes of Ireland, and vi-it upon her opre,:stits a. just Megtallie Of ,etrbutive yen. ~enrri tore hitp , elf from the aims of his friend'. ami bidding_ a sad farewell to the 'Tear' of the ocean.' and the home of his youth. ettiba9ced on board a Vet.hri hound for the New' World, and warn was-far out upon Atlxutic s lie ruing bosom. The voyage was lo opt LOU.: i and he ardved safely at New Fork, in the autumn of 18—. " Efe was no; among atiitngers, and in a strange laud, ignorant-of our liabits,cnstorn. , „ and "manner:i in con4rtience of which: lie experienced nano difficulty and .embkrrass. ment. He brutigllt .with him a con,dtleratde sum of money, which soon after his nvivio, he invested in nterclotnoi.e, and twin suc-: i•ealized handsome, profit. 'Encour aged by this smile of fortune, he resolved to abandon the legal piofession, and devote himself to mercantile - putsuits. Gifted by nature with a cool, sagacious mind, and, when young, having been Initiated Into the arts and mysteries of the'counting room—his father - being a succwrful merchant—be pros pered beyond his most sanguine expectations. Wealth tilled big coffers to overflowing. With a mysterious pottncy akin to that,. ascribed to the fabled _alcbitnist, Whatever he touched seemed corn.;cious of .otne transmuting influ ence, and changed to gold. Influential friends flocked around him. He moved in the most rashionable and refiner! circles, wherein hi opulence, generosity. ?..ntelligcnce, and no brad ty cutvpired to render him a we l c om e g ,• e . t . His presence was especially solicited by sCheming mammas, and ambitiorts. maidens. -Continuing to prosper, he, at length, led to the altar alosy bride, who eventually pressed to her bosom the now bloc ming Elcie, arid exptieritred the rapturous emotions that fill the Stall of her, wjor. for the first time is called by That holy apri"..iiiition—miditer. Elriespent her girlhood in luxury anffiasc. —surrounded by every irdlnence that could recce to enlarge her mind. and cultivate her manners. tier parents spared- no pains 10 give her a sotind and finished education. Possessed of a comprehensive and retentive mind, she made vapid proficiency in whatever branch of stedy she Alrhonah a mete child of fourteen summers, she excelled in nin-ic, and drawing, bride nod:. trig advanveinent in the graver sciences. Her goodness of heart was stnkingly manifest ; and very, many of the root within her reach, leoksd upon her as an angel of mercy. . -"The charms of her person were equal to those of her mind. Her girlish form. syrn• metrical, and faultless in its contour, waS one upon which Iltrphael,- end Michael Angelo would have gazed with ecstacy . Her corn -1,4-xloll,v:es - pure as alabaster. Her forehead, rin.ind and high, white a- Paring) marble, was shaded by a prrrfusion of jetty ringlets that fell in rriacs,fful curls upon her snowy shoul ders. e About her exqui.itely chiseled mouth lingereda -stni - e sweet` as ever angel wore. Her. voice . clear and mtisical , fell upon the tympanum like the enrapturing. cadences of a seraph's harp. But it was in the eyps.dark. liquid, and dreamy, tltai was 'mirrored her pure andartless spirit, For a child, she was unusually thoughtful and ,ohedient and no Wunder she, was idolized by her fond parents, who imagined they saw in this bud of prom ise the germ of a . glutiour , maturity. "Meutntithe our riterchant-etile by assidii. ons.devotion to business, untiring industry-, rigid emmontv, and scrupulous integrity, bad amassed a splendid competency, and sailed an acknowledged miliinhaire upon the Sea of fortune. To him. rb6. present was senshine.' he fu•nre tul. of proinise. But, alas! how often are out brightest hopds, our 'serenest joys, dispelled by some rude blast of a-lyersi ty ! how often, through life are we dmitned to bitter disaq..ointment ! flow . often, while we fondly Strain we are thridding this-path o f • safety, our feet are berrying us forward to- . ward the brink of destruction! flow often are we wounded by_ thorns hid beneath the blushing petals of Zile rose! In pro-perky, v ie sire prone to forget' that roomed may hap pen; and when they come. - if come they du. the • mind .frequently ,reeeives a ) Moek f r om .which it seldom, or never completely re covers. But this is,digretning; a When tick/ was savedtato, that iaterilav lag period - 4'oe 'algae:Me - art fetnala, when life appears -.in its moat -*lllicit:lf iii ,iir drodriaeurairtin ooiop ifi itts ; • ho:r. hi *e tho ghWastirt aliiied,ity rdlttY: - Cliiiei eti 4 g WE ARE ALL EQUAL BEFORE GOD AND THE CONSTITIITION. I9, -3ames Buchanan. gontrost, S'asOte#anua Countg, (turs4av `Morning. Bag 13, 1858 While a violent snow-storm was :prevaiting, his large mercantile• emporium was discover- ed to be on fire.; and owing to the rapidly ar;c•timulating heaps of snow, which in some lootlitieA rendered the greetA next to imp's silrle,"the•firemeo were prevented from remelt • ing thearcetre of conflagration until too late to render much ass4tance; and the entire ra jo i t. e of buildings. was consumed with their vat ride conrenis. This event was -a severe LI to O'Neil; Lut cheered by the encour a , ntS and assistance t.f friends, he dilli genii: set about to repair his sharte'red for tune. Ilis well directed efforts were in',' de gtee tiuee - egsful but. you know, it in said mi-fotiutte never comes single.' About ibis time The parinertif bis bosom .was seized by a prevailing ettidetnie, and in a few days non- • signed to the grave. This solemn dislienua tiint, so suddi4) and heart-rending, seemed altnte.t. to parulyze the energieu of° the unfor tttnate twin ;-e and nothing- but the conuola Lions of religion and the cheerful and heroic helping of his idolized daughter prevented him frodr fidapsing into a etate of gloomy abstractioif& As it was, he neglected his bu- sine's, and 'weft consPqu.•nce hta :itrain4 be came'embarrasseil. CrKiitors. miff of whom thiongh outpa•dlly professing sympathy for him and. his misfoannes, yet in reality; se- cretly rejoicing over his adversity, because in 11;m tl ey hitherto hail been forced to ac fi knowledge a-fortnitlabl e rival in trade, began to be.eige ti with their clamotings. Some, whom he utterly regarded es ftiends, passed him with' ,vitreely a token of recognition ; tut trite is it -that. when• an individual gives signs of failute,tpersons that In the hey day , of his prosperity r iseemed indifferem to his success, take an i erest in his humiliation and down fall, if thq ao not aid directly to hririg about t:Rr•h a r.!4114. Customer 4, to", seeing the in- Atahility of our frend's affa4K, either volun tartly crithtli - Pw Porn him their pntronatre, or wete persuadM to do an. Ewell stmeeedinp dtv SAW tOsbilsilleSs , A...sliming a more d obit - tot. !tappet ; off tfttl. like the atrtt£•_lptt of a uirOwninZ man. beemtne feebler and feebler; he tebored beneath a burden it waf. 14 long to ophold ‘sTlte crisis so long , expected, came at IR•'. Tl 6 lixhilities 'reach• exceeded his assets,: end his warehoitses, his mansion with all its gcr teon. furnish' ngq—even Eieie's favorite Tr ann. were sold, at a sacrifice. ..under the auctioneer's hstronor. appease a swarm of hungry credi tors, who, instead of sympathising with the luckless merchant, and aiding him in I. honest endeavors to prosecute his e,dli t e like greedy vultures, stripped him of hitt all, and turned him and his daughter into th e street, Thus twire was he exiled; from the land of 11;s hirth, and the societv; of .w [rich. while affluence smiled upon him, he was deemed a chotised matnber. What a de- plorehle-stata of sneiety is that, which esti % mates a man by the amount of paltry gold he chances to possess. and not according, to a jut , standard of intellectual and moral worth I "Our now bankrapt and penniless merchant, by this cruel s`roke of fortune was thrown out of employment, and deprived of the means of procuring subsistence for himself and child. Of manual labor he ktiew compara tively nothing; to beg. he was ashamed. He saw himself burled from the pinaele of opu lence to the depths of poverty and wretched ness.. Tuffs thought, alone, was deeply hu miliating; but the reflection that,- guilty of no crime; he should be thus ostracized and shunned by his former associates, goaded his sensitive spirit well nigh to madness. [lei poirdency gnawed like canker at his heart. Life be felt indeed to be a burrhen. In his moments of deepest dejection, notwithstand mg the admonitions of conscience, he fre quently meditated suicide, "and .probably would have pot his deign into execution, but for the of leaving his beloved daughter witliout a protector in a world of temptation and sin. • Diving this time, he and brie were re siding with a gentbrinan, who, amid all out hero's vicissitudes, had proved the genuine ness of his professed manifestations of regard. Elide taught their patron's daughter music. and painting; while her father assisted him in tris`couroing room. TI ta 4 tressed the win ter quite pleasantly to the motherless who was rannirellisl„ by the firer: of eirc.um• stances. to instruct for it mere pittance those whom but a short vitae previtnisly- she had met in society as equals. She v o-yr naturally felt her present position a humiliating one; she realized keenly the dependent relation she sii:tained, and her pride was humbled ; .but s h e heroically resolved to hear her tnia fortunes wiilfnnt a tourtnur, anti'do all in her lower to alleviate the sorrows of her af flicted parent. In this she was successful be and her most ardent hopes,. and soon had the pleasure of witnessing list former buoy ancy of spirit gradually return. " About this period. operations were corn- tnenced upon one of those thoroughfares' cilia connect the great west with ,he At lantic sea-board. Liberal inducements being ()tiered efni:ient engineers and surveyors, our friend, who in Youth, was esteemed the best mathematician in his c lass, resolved t o proffer his services. He did so immediately ; and on the recommendation of his fiend, they were accepted, and was allowed a generous salary. ,Entering, at once, upon the duties of hi s of fice in tire romantic village yf B--, situated upon the Hudson, he rented a suit of rooms., 'and II -emoted, thither his daughter, who, for wane months past, had given evidence of de•. dining 'milli. No sooner was she released from the depressing cares that preyed Iliad ) her spirits, Huff transported to that rural abode, where she could inhale the invig orating country breezes, aerl . be freed from the pestiferous city atmosphere, than the recuperative energies of her system began their cork ; Abu ere the enifitner has rite, to the j 4 of her father, her cheeks assumed their former rosiness; tier e}es sparkled bsilliniply . as ever ; her voice regained its wonted melu dy; from her lips once more gushed forth the,songs she had .hug in by gone days. when the beautiful andlofted, in the halls of fash• ion, hung etimptiired upon !ter accents. In fine, her health, strength, an..l loveliness hxd retarded ; siye, she was more interesting then everifor, sortpw h ad given to herionatenance that etpressicin , I ria•Attiesa and resignation which is afire to enlist the sympathy; and rivet the'attention of the behOltter. ''Surrounded fri ends, that she rim* . to,herlit an artless int,.. 4 p9903- tieei of Witmer; leinniog earee4r, !ere ,acccp sl4hitiefitsi tad' briflii* . 6. 1 . 1 040 11 . .I.lwers, she AntNned it—: 7 : 7",stvici - Vfsrii . when her fetheiietactititlid or Or And the pto ititsiftstfir sedertitritif ititightitirbood, - par- Owed a ta'ty and cnmmnoious resideno., in town, find installed her therein as its mistress. in this interesting. vocation, she experienced more happiness than she lad known since the gtilden tour% of childhood; and blest with much that conttibutes to our earthly enjoy ment, she allowed herself to look forward with plea-ing anticipations to the future. "non a second matrimonial' alliance her parent keeps aloof . , declaring, with- his lost companion he biaiied his heart. Again, be is in easy circumstances, smiounded by every thing cuducive to the desires and tastes of an intelTgent, high-minded g - entlemsn. lie lives in elegant .yet unostentatious style, de voting a considerable portion of his time to literary pleasures and pursuits. Years and sorrow have worth thread of silver am.•ng his raversi locks; but his step is firm and proud; eye p'ereing, and intellect in clouded,ilis when, in dais ag,ne, he con fronted! his aceuserr•, and awed them to silenre by hii majesty of mein, and scathing denuncindon. Like a majority of his coun- Laymen, he is t xceedinEly conimanicarive, and as he recounts the striking events of his life, his soul kindles with enthusiasm, his eyes light up with a patriot's die, while expatiatinz upon the multifarious wrongs his father land has, fnun time to time endtoed, her present t•ondition and probable destiny ; also the cruelty that prot•uted his expatriation, and drove him out into the wide world, a lonely ''.Elsie is sedulously devoted to her father, and, hitherto, has delicately repelled all ef forts to Feeure her affections. She has es pressed, repeatedly, her purpose to remain with her dear father, and cotnforl, hint in his declining tears, a profuse solemnly made her ding mother." My friend paused. Just then i observed Miss O'Neil glance toward us, and I detected re-pensive smile'npOn the handsome face of my friend. A slight blush suffused fair one's cheek, as she Inured wacefully to another part or the room, and, with several other ladies,-commenced turning some beau tiful dtstwings. • " lla ! ha! 'Frank," said I , " your secret out. Come, now, my dear fellow, rnr.ke a clean breast '4 it confess you are in lore with Ede ! I accuse you of this; and you gnat• as 411 plead guilty to the •soft ian., peachenent' now, for doubtless, you will do so, ere long„ at the bar of Llctiven." Flank looked a little confu.ed, blushed, awl finally iitallairwri.”l dint. tie Qld n't care ari thing particular; about the lady.— I was satisfied of the contrary, however, al ihouali, on any ether subject, I would not have called mylriend's veracity in question, even for a moment. . After n minute or two of awkward Alaimo, Frknk ,ern..tked t- " Well, sir, you say I am in loee with El eie O'Neil / Pet mit me, with that Irtrl's con sent, to intrThice. her to you that you •mar hare an oppoitunity of judging whether r•he is a being- wiirthy the adoration of any ad- I signified to my friend the great pleasure it would afford me to have an interview with one in Whom I had become deeply interested. Ile left my side, and, when, after a few nacments, he returned, led me to the lady, to whom I was formally presented, and with syhorn. I'was soon.enoinged in cheerful con versation. I found alai my friend had not exaggerated in his ennineratiot of her various charms and accomplishments. ller arld , ess was exceedingly commanding, yet graceful. alike void of hauteur or affectation ; her con verse btilliant and fascinating. We dis coursed of books. rancid, painting. and kin dred topics, till Frank—provoking f e llow_ interrupted our pleasant tete a-tete, by otaim• iii nay fair entertainer's hand for the next cotillion-. She arose gracefully, tendering - a .suitable apology fur absenting hers e lf from my company. The next Moment, I beheld her graceful form whirling in the mazes of the dance. " Lucky wiglit,•are you, Frank" thought as I watched, for a few moments, the—to me—incomptetiensible .eYoltrions of the Terpsichorean baud, "fur I am persuaded your enamoi-ati is no ordinary prize." The evening , passed as such evenings usu ally do ; I had little ctinvrsaiiim with Miss O'Neil ..r Friink,.after the interview already !elated ; and long-before the party rliverseil, retired to toy lodgings. The fullowin;g morning found me-snugly ensconced on board -a railway train, thinaier emfwArd et the rate of thirty miles an hoar ; al d ere the king of day had disappear ed behind the blue Alleghenies, Was at my own oniet home in the- - Kitystone &ate." Something like a month after my ieturn, I received a number of the E— GUzeite; in whose col Inns, among oilier iteln• of inter est, I noticed the marrilge of my fiend Frank to Elcie ; and the announce men!, in flaming capitals, of a new cospart nership in the ilieremntile business under the firm of Wm. O'Neil And Flank Somers. "So," I Kolibtouised, laying down the pa per, and •inking hack into my easy arm chair, `• Frank and Elcie .are united in the silken bonds of Hymen. Fortunate, indeed is Flank I hut he has a large-heart s a noble tatu . l, and is every way dese,rying of abundant success Dm accomplished bride, as he sr ge ly intimated, will doubtless retnain with her father; and when his mortal coil is shufll.-d off, his.children, that 'is, Elcie and Frank, will c om e in possession of his ample fortnne. A lucky, lucky fellow is my old churn; Frank &uueis i" Here I fell into it doze, and areampt among other things, how-cheerless a life that marl, ridiculed class of bipeds, yelept old Duelielor:, must lend ; and when the yelping of some , uninnerless rue, beneath niy window, roused me from a stale of semi unconsciousness, and I looked about me, saw my books, wipers, and thing- generally. in ciao-ion, I alron , t wished,—well, nu matter fin what; lear read- Taking my hat, I was about leaving mv room for a ramble, When the pattering of tinny feet, in the halt, caught my ear, and pre.entle in hounded, little Ella, her sweet fare radiant with qnilea, and half hidden by a shower of annoy etude. See, outdo . I've g. t a letter for you." eiclaimed the thisChievout Fjoile, laughing, as: she firtniliarly approached and climbed upon my knee. Imprinting a kiss on-the cheek of the merry creature, that, In n inti. ment, was netitling her head on my. bosom, looking, fOr all the vrorl4in her peerless in nocenca and lovelines', like- a Cherub jnst from Paradise, I proceeded to donor the contents of the missive she had placed in thy -bawd. Ti woe f r o= Frank, and spoke, frt glowing terms, of his happiness and prospect.; eulogized, with a profu-ion of language, the matrimonial state, and—provoking ninny— closed his -epistle, by exhorting me, in a grand.lognent strain, to do as lie has done"; tee the gloomy haunt of celibacy ; woo and win solve lovely daughter of Eve; and with hand joined in hand, with heart beating re sponsive to heart, step on board the barque of connubial Felicity, resolved to.glide harmo niously over the billows of time, and land to gether in peace - upon a happier, mote conge nial shore. where sorrows are unknown, and where friends ate never parted. - Suriny Glen. The Nettle in the Garden Jane Stephens came from the garden into the house, otO Morning. crying bitterly. Site had not learned to bear pain very heroically, and she bad - been badly nettled. 'What is the matter, Jane 1' said bar mother. 'Tye got nottbd." ••tiettied I How ir "I was picking currants, and time was a glow, ugly nettle by the.curraut bush, aud so I got stung with it." You bhould have been more careful." "Well, I did'nt ree it; besides it had no bugine-s to be there. It was nu place fur a nettle." "Nat is very tree," replied • her mother, smiling.. "It no place for it, and Tom should have se - en that it WWI removed.* But come here„and I will' put sometbit.g on your hand which will make it feel beiter.' • Jane's band was soon relieved, and she thought no more about the• matter that mor ning. In the afteinoon her cousin Lucy came to see her. - "i've come to spend the.afternoon; mother halt given me Wye," said Lucy. - "Oh. I am so glad I" raid Jane; and away the two girls kipped to their play. / • In an hour, however; Jane came into.the ho , .se, lookiug.quite ont of sort's, and Lucy was not with her. “Where is Lucy I” asked Jane's mother. • "She has gone home." - • • ' Gone home 1 What does that mean I I thought she had come to peccl- the after noon." • "She did'nt want to stay any longer," said Jane, hurrying away frutu her mother, as if site wished to avoid being asked • any zoo questions. Her mother raw that something was wrong; but title saw, also, that Jane did not wish to gee:4444d ; and, as Lucy wart aliesdy gone, she thought she wouhl say no more ,to her at this time. • Jane went straight to her own room, and theie she retualueu until she was called doa u to tea. When she came to the tea-table her mother saw that she had been crying. Af.er tea she ca led her to her own room, and said goulv. bu; firmly : "Now, Jane, you must tell me what hap veiled between tou and Lucy, this afternoon. ; I heard her say whoa she came; that her mother had given her perinissionk to spend the' afternoon. It is not often that little girls de cline to avail themselves of such a perthission. Now I wish you to tell me frankly, just as it is, why your cousin Lucy went home." "I will tell yen," said Jane ; "for I have been very unhappy ever since. While we were playing in the garden, I asked Lacy to go with me' into the meadowt and gat4r some wild flowers. But she did not wish to go, because she wante I to come into the house and play with my great doll. She _said she had asked her mother to let her come on pur pose to play with it. I wan vexed with her, because she would not go into the meadow, and declared that I would not bring out the doll this atertmon. Theo she got angrv,and said if 1 was going to be ugly she would not stay with me—she would go homes 'You don't mean to go home, I guess you will be glad enough to stay. "No, I shan't sfay,' she said ; 'I shall go home,' and she turned to go out of the garden,- 1 thought she was only trying to frighten me, and make me bring out my do!I ; but the Gist thingsi know she ivas out of.the garden and the and run nitiir toward Notre sa 61.4 as she &dd. When I ts%s , that she was really gone, I was sorry for us hat I had diMe." "Anil what have you been about all the time sine . t..Lucy went asfsty I" "I lave-been up in the-room, mother, cry ing." 'I should think so, by the looks of your eye , . I think you and Lue.y both have been Teeny badly nettled this af:ernoott, and I think it is tittle the great ugly nettle was pulled up. Yon have not forgotten how you way nettled this morning, have you r N ., mother." "And don't you remember that yon said t;e gaiden was no placo for if. It should not have been suffered to grow there. Go out, my dear, and see if you can find it there now." Jane went to the spot where the nettle was gaming in the morning, but it s'as not there, and :le wane in and told her mother that it was gone: "So . Lex.peeleti, my deer, Tor I ordered Thomas to-day, to pull it up. Now the spirit of unkindness in your heart, my child. isjike the . ugly stinging nettle. Do you think it should he suffered to grow there Think of the mischief it hiss dune, and tee pain it caused to-day.:-..Lucy-oltue here this afternoon, hurag to have a very pleasant visit, and a grand time with -your which, having •een but onne,i4 quite an attraction to her. When she came, you both skipped out • in o the garden, as happy as lambs; hut your uuktndue.s spoiled it all. She was your guest, arid ybrt know that von shonld have 'done all you conk' to m..ke her visit pleasant. But instead of this, you were disobliging% and positively unkind, and your unkindness, doubtless, sent her home feeling very unhap py. Don't you think it 'cros s ed her more pain than the nettle did you this morning t Don't •you think it worse to have the heart stung than the hand i And this same ugly nettle' has stung you as well as Luny. Is it not so 1 Had von nut rather bear the pain of being nettled this morning, than the self teproach 'which you have felt' fur Whiting her as you did 1" , "Yes, mother. I am aura I had ; for I have been very unhappy this afternoon." ' "The nettle iy the garden hti4 peen - pulled up and thrown away. What shall be deue with that 'ugly weed of unkinduesa and sel fi•hne+w sthi;•ll hue sprung, up in your heart Would it not be'rt fine plan if it could be palloil up hSC6 1 So tong 69 it remsherit lent he stinging softie one, as is did ihis afteitt;on. Who do you suppose planted the nettle in the garden I" • "rlanted the nettle in the garden,,mother I never heard of such a thing as planting a nettle. They come up of - themaelyes quite fast enough." "Did you ever hear of corn and potatoes coming up of themselves f" 4 •Yo, mother; I gue,•s Thomas would like it if they would." "So it is - with our hearts, mrdiughter.. They may be compared to, a garden. The weeds of unkindne-s, sel6shnee and' pride come up of themselves. They need no culti vation. If we take no 'care of our hearts, they will be sure to grow rank enough. But the beautiful plants of love, gentleness, kind• nese, and eelf denial will not grow without culture. Again, let me ark you- what shall be done with the weed of unkindnem in your beatt P Shallsit be sufferrd to-grow there, or will you try and pull it up t" Jane looked at her mother,and replied, ear nestly and teriou-ly : "I will try and get ridgy of it, mother. I know it has done a great deal ini,chief al eady; I don't want it to grow in my heart any longer." CI am glad to hear- you say so, but •ycn must remember that one effort will not stf fice. Do you suppose that Thomas vrill ever have to pull another nettle in the garden 1" "I know he will have to pull up many net tles. I know they keep growin g all the time." Let this teach you a lesson, dear. You must watch your beartvall . the time, if you keep down :he weeds. When unkind thoughts arise you must try to overcome them,-.while you .carefully cultivate every kind and gentle emotion. if you do this faithfully, the nettles of your heart will not grow rank.enough to sting your friends as they-did this afternoon; but the beautiful plants which you carefully cultivate-will rejoice the hearts of all who love you. You must, however, remember, that it is only by constant watchfulness that you can subdue the ever-springing weeds of evil in - your heart. You must- watch that you may be able to uproot them. as soon as tliets, appear, before-tley obtain a &river' hold; and you mast pray, because you need help to do I , :s. It is too west a work for you to do in our - own strength ;: but -there is one whci will • you if you will a-k Him:" . , Romance of Real Life. Thera was a fine old General once, who, having spent most of his life in the field of - Mars, knew very little about the camp of Cupid. Ile was ore of ,thoße rough and bon est spirits often met with in his gallant pro fession ; innocent as-an infant of almost every thing Pall" high iniegiiiy ritut bravery. He was nearly fifty years old, -and his toils were over 'when master Dan btought him acquainted with a widow VI/adman, in whoge eyes he began Co detect something that made him feel uneasy. Here was the. result of leisure. At length, however, the blunt honesty of his disposition rose uppermost among his coullicttn? plans, and his course was chosen. At school he had once studied "Othello's De fence" to recite at an exhibition; but made a failure ;' he, noW , recollected that there WO something iu this defence to recite,very much like that what he wanted to say.—lie got the bOok immediately, found the passage, clapped on his hat,. with a determined air, and posted off to the widow Wadman's with Shaltespeate under his aim. 'Madame; said Vacle General Tobey, open ing his book a t the marked place, wilt the Folemnity of a special pleader at the bar— Madame---_ "Rude am! in my speech, And little hlnss'd with thb set ihrase of pence ; For since those arms of mine bad seven years pith Till now some nine months wasted, they have used Theik dearest action in Pie tented field ,• And little of this great yiorld can I pe414 . , More than pertains to feats of broil-anc battle ; And therefore—" Here the General (dossed the book, wiped his forehead, looked up at the ceiling, and said, whit a spasmodic gasp, '1 want to get rna , ried I' • • The widow laughed for ten minntes by the watch before she could utter a syllahly, and then ehe said, tvith precious tears of humor down•her good natured cheeks: 'Who is it von want to marry. General r 'You; said Uncle 'Tobey, flourishinz bra sword arm in the ,air,antl. assuming a military attitude of defiance, as if he expected an sault from the widow, immediately/4 'Will yott kill melf-I marry you. General,' said the widow, with a mere twinkle in her eye. •Nro, madame !' replied Uncle Tobey, in most setious and depredeating tone, HY if 'to a'.sure her that such an idea had never enter ed Id. , head. . • • •Well, then,. I guess I'll marry you,' said the widow. 'Thank you ma'am,' said Uncle Tobey; but one thing 1 am bound to tell . you—..wear a wig l' The widow started, remained silent a mo ment, and went into a longer, louder, And merrier laugh than ale had indulged in be fore, at the end of which she drew - her scat nearer the General, gravely I'tid, her hand on his head,lently lifted his wig off and place.' it an the table. General - Uncle Tobey bad never known fear in hot battle, but he felt a decisive incli nation to rut away. The widow laughed rr4 gain, as though she never would stop, And the General was about to lay his hat upon him denuded hat and holt, wiled the facetious la dy placed her hand - upom his arm and detained him. She then deliberately raised her other hand to her own head ; with a militsry preci sion, executed a rapid mnnenvre with her five fing,ers.pulled off her Whole head of flue glos. sy hair, and placing. it upon the table by the aide of the General's, remained seated .with In dicrousgravity in front of her aetepted • lover, quite bald . , As may_he etpected, UnA Tobey laughed along with the widow, and they soon grew a' merry over the affair that the maid servant peeped threnglithe key=hole at. the noise, and saw the old couple dancing a jig and bobbing their bald pates at eaeh other bite a pair of Chinese mandarins. - SI the two very Atortiv laid theirleads together upon . the pillovi of matrittionY. • - • tar A Yanketi, -. l4iataing of a ci~it which he phil to the Q.teen. clew" by declaring 'I 51100,1 vittld to stay to dineerebut it ilotaint 15, littm ttr STRUCK liKaTUCir...—lt id well Known - in , most of our readers ax i at the enterprise of the Tenneseeans has constructed turnpikes in all dirccions from this place to :the Kentucky under the prom* flora our Kenttlekt. neighbors, that they would continue them in to their - 'State. All .these pikes still end at the State line, )vith nq prnspeot of being 'ex tended. The consequenceis, that in a season like like the present, when ithe roads are soft, and there are frequent mina and avows, and heavy crops to haul over the roads, they 'get into the most horrible conditicM, and it is no exagger ation to say that the .traveler from Tennessee absolutely drop: into Kentneky,and if he does not drop in so deep that horses can't haul him out, be is - lucky,leyond the average - of his class. A few, days since a traveler frOnt foreign parts took pasisage on the two wheel maiheart, for the interior of the State, and was enjoying.a good nap. „ From this nap, Ithwever, ho a sutsuddenly aroused by ,a trerrrendomi cbitcusion. which' threw him, violently against- tire side of the box, skinning his nasetatid otherwise bruising. his body.—,lipon looking about he found the velii , de in the midst of :limitless sea 'of muc,. about the consistency of thin cream, and the hottoM of the box below the water line ;• the horses' beads and necks were the only, por, tions of the animals in sight,- and tile delver . wa4 laying his whip oh to them. The traveler recovering hitnselt with. a vehement execra tion, inquired : is the Matter. V--!' 'N o thing,' responded- the driver, busily . plying • his whip the while, 'Only veva strtick gen tuckyt —Our traveler, in relating Lis experi ence, said that he had in the course of his fife, been in a good many tight plaues-tbat, he had been , blown up and . sunk on steam boats—thrown off of railroads, and upset. in stages, but that-was - the first time helmet ever 'run against a state," and, he believed tlia,t Kentucky was the oriq Staid on the face of the earth, where the thing could be done.— . Tennesse paper: , . . WHERE: TiIF: PLASTER WAIL—A - certain doctor(rather a modest young .man by the. way) was recently called in to see it lady whO had been taken suddenly. ill. The docor found the applicatiod of a Mustard ‘ plaster necessary,• and accordingly went to work and madevne, and laid it carefully by to prepare, the lady for its appliCation. 'Everything was • ready, and theutoranunilt the plaster; bat k strange to say, t had'disappeatred. The doc tor and the ne6ro nurse searched high and low, in every prppatile place, for the missing plaster, buu in vain: - it was gone and no one could tell •Where.—The nurse had not seen it since the doctor laid 14 on the chair. There was no other alteruative btit to go to work and make another, Which Ins_ alccordinelv_. done. cut still the clueetion v"toul4 present itself to all, what bad becoine of the plaster i ro s e tureurostaneea of, its hating been spirited away began to te'l nufavorable on the sick lady's nervous sensibility; but the doctoo. could .not help it.; be could not explain the mystery. The doctor'. in a deep brown study prepared to leave, and stood up before the fire to warm hinwelf befotTe encountering the Coki. without. Through :the force of a vulgar" habit, he parted litS,cont tails be - bind, when nurse, ditpla3in,g abdut Tour inches of:ivory 6Rld foun de plasf.er masse doctor' `Where V eagerly asked the doctor; 'where is it I' , •[ . 'You got it ahinesaid the nurse Still grin ning., . . . . . The doctor clapped his hand ts4iind and there it, was sticking fast to the Peat a his breeches,. where he at down on it when it was drying on the chair. \This - was too much for. the modest doctoi. lie seized his hat 'and bolfed ;• nor could he be prevailed on to visit that lady again during her sickness. , _ Ohio Editors6tre not very deeply rend in the " Scriptures,'{ if the.following, from correspondent of Harper's Magatine;is to taken " for gospel " Governor Chase is;tred proclamatiori Appointing a thankiigiving day. To - make . sore of being right' on the subject in thand, the Governor composed hia . .proclatilarion al most exclusively of passages ;from the Bible, which he did not designate as quotations, presuming that every ore woulviewcogniss them and i ptlmlre the fitness Of the viorcii‘at well as hig`taste in their selection, A 'learned'. editor of a Democrhtic paper (the Governor_ is on the other side) pounced upon the rocs lamation 7 -deolared that he had read it before --couldn't exactly say where--but take his oath that it.wns,* downright plagia rism from beginnidg to end ! That would' have te:en joke enough for a while at least, 'and ,perhaps longer; but the next day the Republican paper camo out valiantly • in defence of the Governor,' pronounced' the charge false and libellous, and .chat= leogerl any - man living to PrOduce onn sins gle line of the proClanration that hat, ever been in print before!" . . . .. tic .SUSC;i6EHAN i N.4. TO BE BET ms Ms. —We wereteanervitOt startled the other da „ on reading in a •cetemporary, a stateme 1 Oa had been' ctincluded to fire the Sus; queh on in a feW weeks. Cir'nlarto was, howe'er, brit brief, for on looking down the column a few lines, we found it wail the ship Sumreltannn, -nnd not the noble 'old stream we all take so mech. pride in. In theseAnys of progress we eatinot . tell what "'nay be done. . . , . 'Mr. JOT ' Smith,you said you once ofsnia led in a puipit—dO you Mead to say, that, yeu preached r •No, sir ; I held the light for the man who did preac.h.' the-clourt nntlentood you differently. Theysuppesed,that. the disecuirSe came direct ly from you.' 'No, sir, I only throsed a Mile light; ad tir ',gumbo, vhai..yer up to, / I)oif,..daysl i u'enrpenter and • , ‘11() I I guexs vet' is. Wink). epsrtinent does vet ptufortn, _ depertmept.doei z l je6rfoim I I does the circubir work,' - : , Whet's /• , 'Why, tipiAnilstone.' ~, • I "gir.'%crkidstn iron:Hite man. Clottedhv ft „. . thcoloitri'a at rgulil.fit, 10 his Oppogi t 0 T3I; ; TY? hqr / L . •'w h. ho at differed from bite—" Sir. I IteilitV6 10/Fti - 0 iiher a deist or ? an tobeict.." 7 -=-- rWion7,leir," wad the rejt s Andei t .. 14. 1 dendst.',! 1 . . •
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