#.4ol3trritson, yabli4tr. He is Coming.. He's coming! the brlashirig . rose . Whispers it low to me.. ' ,, And the starlight hastens / with it, Oyer the twilight , sea. All tialbling the - zephyrs tell . me, On the light winds hurrying'past, That my true hearted is *ppm:l.loog, - Coming, coming,at'lastl • • The soft-lipped-wWre of the oterin, Gathering at my feet ~ • Breeze-borne from the coral island, Murmur the, seenitsweet- - •••Thiire's not a deatee . ped blossom, Or glistening oniege tree, . - - But furnishes its leaves,,gleeAndem To breathe this joy to 114. Lisp that is - the sound of Coining, Stealing alonithe air, t Mdst gather round my temples, This weight of braided hiir, , • And thus togrowing gbirkness, , And evening shadows•dim, To hide With-their wings the traces ; Of tears I've shed for him.. KILLED AND WOUNDED. _p= - I Iff 68^OflO ARICIAD "Only let nre know my position, Miss La tnotte, and I -will act necordingly." "Miss Lamottel how very dignified we are, all'of a sudden , I .i "I feel that I have been injured, and that, until I know Son real sentiments towards me, it is. proper that we shoidd be a little less familial-than lieretofore." - "Poor Uttle fellow," laughed Miss Lamotte, corning up to her . angry lover, .and patting him on the check, "was it abased, then ! Did the naughty girl tease it 4" _ and she laughed in his face, in the , most bewitchingly itnpu,- ' dent manner possible. . • • -Bel be was thoroughly vlaxed., and not lit all in the humor to take a joke. • • "Your levity,' said - he, "is in a very bad taste. I .wish you to be in earnest now, for • iis'e minute.s,if you never were beforeor [Tres are again. • Miss Lamotte began , to get a little vexed also. "Don't be a tool, Charlie,' said she, pouting, and- reddening, but only ,looking the atom beautiful. "Remeinber l we're not married ret. l • "I cannot help remembering 'that,' cried Charlie, somewhat bitterly, "since you seem to. delight in accepting the attentions of \ alt the young spciarties in town--- 7 -"take carer said the ' young lady, now getting dowright angry, -"jealousy isa very small sort of malice, and as a friend 1 advise voinut to make yourself ridiculous ip my eyes, saying spiteful. things about young men 1 Tike !" The lover now saw that: he was going a little too far. "Come:Bessie," sa' id" he, as good naturedly. Ss he could,9 . don't want to be strict or fool ish; but I love yonmuCh that i cannot help feeling vexed, when I see others sharing your smiles and favors. lorgive me this once, and I'll trv . to aceept. you as you chaise to be, hereafterf ; • - •‘• .If the young:man had said • this once, 'he had. said it hundred times before, and Bessie was quite tired of hearing it.- - • ' "I don't want promises, sir, I want•reforma- Lion' . You told -me _that, last Thursday, when we'quarrelled aboutgoing to Mrs.Pennydime's• party, yet,here you are again, scolding and fretting, and wanting. 'to :know your Isuppose`you Woulddlike me to go into a .convent, , tintil yqii, see fit, to be so con descending-as to make meMr-s,Charles - Hard• Inge I" - - A little stamp on the door, from a little brown-gaitered foot, attended the velemence with which these sentiments were uttered. Poor Hardinge stood aghast:He had com menced the quarrel, as - he always - did,.in fact, but bad, also as got dC-cided iy the worst of IL Now rltat.he wished: to make peace, Bessie was not willing,'and he did not.exactly know .what th say. At this_junetare, a voice was heard in the entry,approaching the parlor Where this scene had taken place,loucfly and musically 'declaim ,-ing that 'ale days were gone wirer'. beauty bright, its heart's spell' wove,' and si Moment after, the owner of the voice entered, lin, pro •pria perarnia=a comely looking- soung fel low, with i- , sortietvli - at fierce . beard . and to - ustache and a- somewhat.:melting brown ere 'T.Tood, morning, •cousin ; " said the new • corner. in- a stentorian tote;- "whet are you looking so ruelanciholy about !"and approach ing the -still 111-humored copple he slid one arm'about Bessie's 'waist, 'and whirled her off Intti an in impromptu waltz, upsetting chairs and chess-tab!es Most undignified man- her. - When, Jac) 'circles _shout the . room had been compited, the young man,stopped, and turning to Iptrdinge, i o:ided very-coolly tow . , .and him. • • . • "How d'ye, Charlie 4 I -\ clidn't see you were here .1" 'Hardlnge hit hi, lip, ,, but kept down his -.and 'assumed gay- exterior. He amid have felt great •pleastrre just then, in ivirtßitging the slow torture of the waltzer indeed, I am not sure that be would not have _ liked to perform- the 'kind office of hatiging hini. - To see the fellow's cool -impudence, was most examining. There be stood, his arm till around Bessie's waist,_ her head almbst - lying on his skottlder,, and. her Attie' rosebud mouth half open,"panting with the exertion of the brief, but ..stormy -waltz, looking so Confoundedly pretty ; that tiatdinge couldn't for the life °llan, feel angry with her. "Oh; cousin `Hal l" cried Bessie, releasing berself.,"you good.for-nothinm fellow r' • "What's ihe)natter i pis.% r- • tYou've been.d linking already Look here, it..un't eleven o'clock, yet, and jot--. 41, for -shame, sir I" , , "I know it ; I f ve had 'a lade teeny glass of 'brandy—and I'm going .to have another., if Hardinge 'will go with me. Conte. Charlie, it is time to wet , your whistle' doge was glad to do.something .to tape from Bessie's presence, .aithough.ke had - Much tether lowa -.seen sfnottsin Hal" drink hemlock stoup, Socrates, thiati brandy, - Cocktails, akmodan philosophers..: "Ilardinge,” , said: hie fivety tormentpr, as Vow at • they got pot Ole, ~ . 001 f d inky dot„ to lie engaged to s') charm* a girl:as; Miss Bessie I I swear, if I *ere a marrying man; I believe I'd envy you l" Comfofting suggestion I "A—hem, yes," said Hardirigc, 'she is a nice girl," 'and be eyed his companion side ' ways, with a very unpleasantly malignant look. The. otherrattled' away, in his usual gfr hand style,talking about martiage,and Bessie, I and his own admiration of women in general, every now and thert.touching nnwitting-ly on some bare , nerve, in Hardinzes heart. The first cocktail was succeeded by two, more, with cigars to match, and the two young men grew quite friendly and confidential, but Hardinge kept his eyes and ears open, for some chant° to overthrow the familiarity existing between "cousin Hal," and Bessie. _ The truth is, that Hal was no more Bessie's I cousin,. than. I am. They bore the same family name,' but it was a -common one in that- region, and no tie of consanguinity existed between them. Bat was exceedingly pleased with Bessie when he bad first seen her, nod on finding that her name wos Lemma, had 'at once in sisted npon claiming relationship, in order to enjoy , hey society freely, without offending her betrothed. . • - • Unfortunately,'llardinge made Bessie con few. that Hal was not related to her, and as she still persisted in behaving in kvery cons inly manner toward him, the result was, tkat the betrothed couple had a great many inter views like the one with which 1 have chosen to cowsmenee my story. For managing a woman is like managing a donkey. You can lead- her anywhere, but if you undertake to drive her don't' - you wish you might I—that's all ! Now Charley Hardinge wag a good fellow, brit one of those •maludroits, who always makes a muddle of everything. lie was slow to appreciate, slow to perceive, and slow to act. Loving Bessie as much as he could anybods (however much that might- be,) he hari a slow, cold blooded waiiith him, that looked very like apathy, yet, on the slightest provocation, he got terribly jealous and as sumed a parental severity toward her, which, of itself was almost enough to kill any love she might have for him. take warning by him, young men. Don't attempt to play the part of . master—till you are married ! Itlal Lamotte, on tie contrary, was all im pulse and fire—what you might call a regu ler devil of a fellow. He was always getting into scrapes, always- good natured, always making love to sorgebody girla, and al ways being sorry for everything he did.— His passions were strong, and his expressions of them unpremeditated—in shoil, he was just Hardinge's opposite. Pot some time past, Bessie had 'eoetemplri ted visiting some relation:, who lived a few 'hundreds of miles away, but since she had become acquainted with "cousin Hal," ,she had found her - home too agreeable to think of leaving. Naturally enough, Hsrdinge was more anxious than ever, to have her go, but all his suggefeions•were in vain. Now . if he could contrive to get Hal away from B—, for a brief period, Bessie would \un-• doubtedly he sufficiently ennuyee, to be will , ing to goon her visit, at the termination 'of which, it was proposed that her wedding with Hardinge should take place. • SO, as he and sant sat together, in the ho el bar room that morning, lie was mentally plotting; in his cool, slow manner, how he Should get rid of his rival. The conversation turned upon earlydays, and the jolly times•that boys geirerally have, before the labors and tiOnbles of money-mak ing intelfete with their careless happiness, Hal, with his, usual elusion, expatiated with delight upon those days, and upon the love he bore his patents, now living in his native town of, some distance southward from B—. His old 'father—" Gods bless him?' he said with his tine eves almost suf fused at the thought—believed him to be the best son in the wo . qtl,ln he would do any thing under heaven, to keep him in that be lief, till the day of his death ! . To -an ordinary observer, -like you, or I. dear reader, this would be merely a natural expression of a warm heart and open mind. Tu Ilardinge,,however, it was a.suggestion— ansopenitig=for a very'wicked plot, whereby llhrs Ithence ?TOM I 3—, Might he secured for a-short while at least, until Bessie could be persuaded to leave town. s Vet he hiinSelf revolted a little from the dishonesty of the thing. It would be very necessary to deceive Hal very sadlYand to shock him very vio;ently, so llardinge turned the idea over in his mind,-,and resolved- to think about'it, fora day or so. The next afternoon he called upon his be trothed to ask her to join him in a sailing ex cursion upon the - beautiful_ lake of. 13 but . she was not at home. WI to discenealate, he wandered off from the village, and uncon scionsly strolled far Op the shore of the lake, to a lofty bluff; which overhung the water.— As he approached the summit, he heard a (leer, manly voice, which he. recognized as Hal Lamottes, mingled with , the tinkling 'of a guitar. Ile crept noiselessly into a dense thicket whence lie could see. without being seen, and peered cautiously forth .upon a -scene that gave 'him any thing hut vpleasure. Bessie sat at the root of an old oak tree, weaving a 'chaplet of leates and flowers, and occmionally casting glances of undisguised affection, towtad "cousin Hal," who grace-. fully seated at her feet, sang a passionate and melodious. Love song, accompanying himself with the guitar. This was the last feather which broke the camel's back. liardinge could not sing— indeed, be posiessed no accAmplishments of any kind, and his heart rankled with all the small eery which such men feel towmrd those - who , excef them in 'power of.fascinating and attracting. His resolve was taken. • lie retired to his home—to his chamber—and with much care, *rote a letter which be sent to lY to to be mailed.' Ti Was directed to -Lint In. - n3otte, "in haste." Hal win -having a quiet • little patty at his lodgings 'alien. he received it, a nd the room *as promiscilotisiy occupied lkylinttoke, songs, jolly fellows i edibles and potables: Hal him self was exi , nnting a brilliant fantasia on mu sic in-general, stompbsed and arranged for the piano-forte hibitaself, as be ; seat The servant hitaded himthe.-Letter ; and Hal, seeing the potitmiirk, atOmrpliying— ...Exceed ,clic pc moment, gentlemen," laid lie, "1 have , a leiter' fniti bode, and nitist u WE ARE ALL EQUAL IiEt'ORE GOD AND THE CONSTiTlLlTlON.ames,einchaniiii. _ Montrose, c%;usqueanna Coluttg,, gcnit'a, pranian ''Scorning, Bag 20', 185 S read it,".with which he retired info his bed ! • roqm, adjoining. It was well la 3 did, poor fellow, fur it would haVe .teen a bitter talak to have reati it,and kept up a good face before that compativ.— The letter told him that his father had been taken suddenly ill, and was bbyond all hopes of recovery. When Hal again appealed among his guests, he was as pale as a winding-sheet. I Gentlemen.," said he in an unsteady voice, "I; have received bad news from home—my father—my father is ill. Once more I beg yon will excuse me; I d .aust stmt. for Q—, to-bight" The company—good-hearted young ras cals, most of them—withdrew, in respect to their host's 'sorrow, and in a half hour's time, ho threw himself into the mail train -for ll— , -----, praying heaven that his dear old father might be still among the living, when lie; arrived. The night was clear and fine. 'The moon shone brilliantly on field and water, as the train went 'whirling along, but to Hal La moue, everything seemed dark and dreary. The lights of the switchmen, stretched along the track, where it passed through vil lages, seemed like flaring funeral torches.— Ilisliriek of the engine -whistle was to him a 'cry of mortal agony, while the floating ciciud of dark smoke which was left behind, was a sable pall, coveriog dead joys and mew or :es. l i !n his poignant grief, his heart turned, as stitcken hearts always de, toward some re membrance of love or sympathy; and the im age of Bessie presented itself involuntarily to I:114 vision. The way seemed long, and - he 1 . grew weary, so that at a station, where the p4sengers for D - ' , changed cars, be tween his anxiety for his parent aid J know "not what new-born feeling of love for Charles Hardinge's . betrothed, he fell into_ a doze— half sleep, half reverie , in the- passengers' ro+m of the depot. • rikti hour fled, ere he awoke, and.the mail train for D , had gone. ' Hal cursed himself. mentally, for being so stupid as to fall asleep, and mourned sorrowfully goer the de lit thus occasioned,. ~ i11:93 ten o'clock train came along,'however, in a few moments, and Hal hastened to take a 'eat in one of its cars. Here he resigned !Itself to his doze again, wisely thinking th t he might need all the strength and en du-once that repose could give him. The stopping of the cars awoke him again, and he started up, belie%ing that he bad ar • rivo at 11--. Be bad not, however.- for ie [recognized the wide . meadows and sweep ing mill-stream "which'were visible from the cat window, just lit up by the morning sun. It.as a plum some two miles frotn his old hi n th e, where he had often gene fishing and betrying, when a boy, -but' why the train sliOld stop there, was more than be could gliss. ..li commotion now arose in the car, and sk c( :uctor, hurrying through, announced that tht mail-train had met with an accident. It i ha rut over a height car, near D--, and seleral persons had been killed and wounded. A messenger bad been sent back, to delay the ten o'clock train, until )he track could be c'elred, and meanwhile the locomotive would skiwly proceed through, to the scene of the' 1 disaster, to render assistance, if desired., • Hal intantly stated his mission to the con ductor, and was permitted to ride on the , en gie—a; boon for which he was inexpres-iblv i gr teful, and in fin hourmore, be was walking up the avenue of poplars, to his father'q hose. . . ... 7. Possibly, my dear reader, you may be.riblet . : to judge of his surprise, when he found his. worthy governor' silting at the hie... Vast talk, in excellent health, beating up an egg. in a ghlss of cherry prepatory to commencing j hi& morning meal !s: ;11 -, The scene that ensued would require ri l, l - .. d üble-actioned,, self adjusting, forty-horse- p wer romance- biter to desliibe. As I am 1 . itcahing of the kind, I shall not attempt it. lOn examining the !ever, and remembering vthious thing= Hardinge had told him. 9.4,= acute enough to see through the plot, wiich, it must btioufeed, was rather a slim 'one. should ho be revenged ,In ids anxiety to reach D—, he had quite ometdooked the fact of having had an almost Miraculous escape. Had he not fallen asleep i-a the depot, he would have come through in the mail-train, .4tnd perhaps been knocked in ta(• an unpleasant cocked hat—a spe c ies of anatomical chaos, far from agreeable. • i Here then was his cue. Ile repaired at oitlesto the'oldice of Dr. Tom Grig, an old frlciid and an inveterate wag,and after a little chat told him the whole affair. "Grin," said he, "I want yon to help me write Ilardinge a profes?.ionar letter, toying that my right eye is knocked out, twelve of my , ribs broken, and my backbone diiven up into my fkull, by the railroad smash. Tell him I'm dying. (not lying), and t'iat I. want him to come and hear my last words, in. sfanter.' • -- 1 .,N0 sooner said than, done. The doctor entered into the joke at once, and agreed to Tait the letter, as soon.as Hal should have time to reach 11-- 1 , again. With the very next train, Hal was . once,more en route, and arrived at B—, during the night. • His first care in the- morning was to see Bessie privately, and to accomplish :a great deal in a short time. • First; he toid her that she must not be a larnied to hear that he was dying. Second, he told her of the plot and its failure, which disgusted \ her with Hardinge, that she had no feminine expletives strong enough for him. Third, be told her that he loved her better than anything else-on earth, that he would die for her, (she was kind enough not to re quire him to), and that. be wanted her to' marry him that -very day, if they had to elope s • Site, little fool, turned Very pale at first, _Oben she heard about the dying ;- then she turned very red-with anger at Harding - a', and finally; a little redder still, with some other passion, when she heard the declaration. The end- of it all was; that she fell into his arms (only - "cousins" you know f)` and said something that made him very happy. "He bad just come in time,* she had been _ sp lonesome; all the day befot#, and Charlie -had pestered her so mach, that she Was abotit th doom:knee' packing up, for her journey, !ben !Hal (dear Hat; now,) came and put a very- different face on the' matter; - Ten minutes after Hal left the..hoirea, Hard loge enteral with a letter—we all know what 4 tlralr- - • • •. "Poor, devil," said Harding°, secretli , glad that his rival was out of the way, yet shocked to have been even indirectly the cause of his depth, "poor devil, I suppose I ought to go. hike the noon train, and as you leave td' night, I p)esume I shan't see youstgain, so good bye, dear, keep steady, and remember, don't flirt too much." With which highly affectionate speech, de livered in a slow, methodical manner, he gave his fiancee an abortive kiss, and departed. That night, just as the' noon train bore Charles Hardinge-into the town of D—, the eight o'clock train-entered 13-4 7 —, corning the other way. As it storiped, "a gentleman about Hal's size, and a) lady-aboutHessie's size, entered the cars—a Couple of trunks were thrust into the baggage car—the train rum bled'off, and Cherie> llardinge's matrimonial prospects were blighted forever! At the next. villiagerthe twain were speedi ly Made one, and when Hardingo returned from D—, with a flea of the most porten tous size in Ids ear,-he found that his affec tions were the most seriously injured,pf all the Billed and Wounded. A CONVERSATION,, AND WHAT CAME OF IT. - "Why, in the name of all that's curious, -May Benton, havo you not got married?" This question was - asked by a gentleman some thirty-five years. of age, %beim] been for nearly twenty ,minutes closely watching the motions of a lady who-sat near him at the work table. The gentleman wax a fine, noble-looking man, with Klink well•formed features and pleasant expression. Ho was handsomely dressed, and, to judge by-the looks of his hair, vou might have said he -had a wife, had he ioOked in other respects jike a married man —which be did not. , The room in which the two were sitting, betoken wealth and: taste. Its occupants were evidently in thelipper ranks of life. The lady addressed was a person of fair, interesting face, and graceful forM. She cer tainly did look remarkable well, as she bent her head with its abundant and shining hair, and plied her white bands in the task which employed her sight and apparently her whole thoughts. Probably a conviction of her attractiveness and worth bad caused the question which her companion put in such ' a henry, abrupt tone, and May started and dropped - the red worsted work tipori which she had' been in, teut. . • "What a question," she cried with a light laugh, "just as if I cared about being mat tied!" "Ni'lly should you not care, Mac? Surely it 'is the best and happiest - state l'oi>man or • woman." t "Granted, with a proviso," . said May; "but, Rossiter, if you think so, why have you never, married?" • “You are a true Yankee, May, and answer a question by askinganotheP, but tell me:! now, why you are, at thirty years of age slid single?" v er "How dare you say that I am thirty years old? Upon my word, if you were not brother to my sitter-in-law, I'd not speak to You again for -a week." May pretended to pout, and the pout was quite becoming to her full arched lips. - "Didn't you yourself tell me your 4e, and 'nly day before yesterday? Your memory :seems very short, Miss Beuton." "Well, I didn't, expect you was going to throw it.; up to me that I was an old maid, to pay me for my confidence in you." • "Oh s May—did I sa; that?—and if I did, you can break my 'glass house' by flinging hack my very taunt. But,Cotne now, do an swer my question." "I never could get any one to have me," -said May, irhoitly. "are you satisfied?" "No.. Yon need not tell me that a person so interesting and attractive as you -are has rever yet sad ardent lovers. I know better, May— so tell me truly why you are not Mrs. Some body, noWl" May suclden:v sobered down-and said, ner vously—"lt's because no man vs hose _love 1 could return ever loved me." And she resurhed her work. • How her face had altered. There had come over it a stern, hard expression, as if she were' saying, inly: - "It matters not - I can wrestle down these yearnings for somethug worthy and noble, and true, and strong, against which to lean: fur something winning, and tender, and:lev ing, which to love. If there is no heart On earth whose best love-is the, love of want, 11 1 can do without it. I can walk to the end of life its I have walked thus far." Rossiter regarded her in long silence. 'He had known her for many years, and had of ten wondered at i:er great indifference to thel attention of gentlemen. He had even; on more than one occasion, taken her to task for her 'mance toward therti. "Yon won't allow them to becoma an qtrainferi with you at all,". he said. When you, are introduced to a man, that's' the last of it. All the young men admire, but they are afaid of you. You Chill therti to utath. I heard one man say that_ he thougbt you a beautiful and interesting creature; but then lie would as soon undertake to warm in.o love an iceberg as yourself—even if lie bad • courage enough to make the attempt." Askeptical smile had been the only answer to such questions. How could May believe that she was ca pable of in:zpitifig affection in others: When thos e who knew her - best were so lightly touched by it. - Rossiter had been for three or four years absent, and had newly returned when the above conversation took. place., Ile was a comfortable old bachelor, happy in disposi- • tion; happy in postWeing an' independent for tune, andliappytin hit sister's home—not to say happy in the companionship of May,whom he honestly believed to be the-bestquid most lovelygirl in'the'svorld:. 116 had once dear ly loved and suddenly lost a fair, promised bride; and nevi* since had he allosied him self to think .Of loving. And; besides, he didn't know as lie wished to marry. Ile was well satisfied with, his "state and condition," -when be was - at home. to be sure-he did/feel uneasy and dissatisfied all-the while, he was abroad,- nobody's company seemed to fill the void in his . heart; Ile did Mis t s his sister so— und lluy—ohl how glad he was to sea them when eseturned--and how strange be thought it was that May. didn't 'ruSh at - him in the hall std bug and kiss him, just, as his sister I . did; blit'he tick MI satisfaction of the con- trary creature when she did come to welcome him. "And so May isn't mailed yet, 4 " be said; it'A rather too bad; hut I'm glad of it." May came very near sighing; but she didn't —at least, not audibly: How many still born sighs Clete are in the world. It is, well it•is no crime to smother them at their birth. Rossiier sat studying that still, stern face before him; and ho thought-new thoughts —new as to their present relations. "May," ho said at length, "May, was ever there a man that you could hayk loved had ho asked it?" , Like a crimson dye, up roso the hot blood to that beloved face, and the hard look was burnt out in an instant—she only said; not lifting her head or eyes: "That you have no right to ask." "I have no need to ask, dear May. Forgive me, if I mistake; but I feel as if I had been favored by a revelatien Of—of—that I have been n'blind and stupid fellow as ever lived. May, if a man whom you regarded as you do the plain old fellow before you, were to ask for your love, what would you Eayr "Yes," said May, dropping her head till her face was hid among the worsted. "Will you haveiner cried Possiter, spring ing up and oversettiug his - chair. "Yes," said a voice.from amid the worsted. Rossi ter was on his knees, and most fervent ly embracing chair, woman, worsted and all. "Marry me! .Will you.marry mei" said he. "Yes," said a voice from the worsted depth. "Then hold up ydur head and let me look upon the face of my wife. St. George, May, I believe I've loved you for yeals." "And I know' I've loved you almost ever since I .k•new you," said May, yieLlitig to the gentle force which drew her from her low seat and led her to one where there was room for two. "And that's why you never eared about f.ny other men's company and attention, my M a yr -• "Yeq," said May, "you begin to understand it now." `oh, May! my beauty, my dent good girl! Why didn't you think of \this before? Why didn't you tell me, Mayr "Tell yciu! I should hitvelooked well, should I not?" - • "Indeed you would have looked well=- charming in my eyes. What a pity you did not have confidence enough in me to have allowed me to guess aithe truth before. Whr.May,l would have married you years ago, and been the happiest and most grateful fel low alive. How stupid men can be!—but entlk., May, we must go and tell my sister. She will be delighted, indeed:" And le led the embarrassed and blushing May into the presence of his sister, and ad mitted her into the great rejoicing; and in a few weeks from that day, Itoqsiter ._and May were no more twain but one flesh. Nobody knows what a month may bting forth—nor to what the simplest quesiion may lead • THE RANTS OF FISH. REMARKS NtADE Bti RbB..L. PELL, PRESIDENT OF TILE INSTITUTE, AT THE FARM ' ERS' CLUB. The Trout—The Corp—The Goldfish—The Sunfish—The Pike—The Yellow Pereit The Striped Bas—The Shad Fishes are vertebrae oviparous creatures,• having a heart consisting of one ventricle and one amble. They are capable of breath ing water, their air-bladders peiforming the duties of lungs, and the gills of respiration. The water, taken in at the mouth, instead of entering the stomach, passes through the gill apertures and escapes, leasing behind the air eontained in it, to apt upon the blood., Fish are of about the same specific gravity as the element in which they tic. , but by meatis of their bladders, which they can dilate or con tract at will, they vaiy their gravity._ and descern or rise with the same ease that a bird does by expanding or contracting ita wings, and are able to pass through the water with' g.eat rapidity,usiog the propellers members called' pectoral, ventral, dorsal,anal and cabd al fins., The bodies of a large proportion of li-h are covered with scales, and theii teeth are the organs of prehension. I have eight`ponds on my farm, all artifi cial, and fed by springs ; they are, with two exceptions, fourteen feet deep, and contain -forty•tive varieties of fresh and salt water fi , h; a portion of which,`toge•h?r with their bedts, intend to describeosind will commence with diet most highly prized by sportsmen, the Trout (Sulmo Furio). The Trout is the only fiTh that comes. in and goes cut of reason with the deer; he grows rapidly ; and die:: early after reaching tiffs fullrowili. The female spawns in Oc tober—at a different time from nearly all oiler fish; after w hich,male and feinale,becorne lean, weak, and unWholsome eating, and, if examined che , ely will be found covered with a species of clove-shaped insects, whict pear to suck their substance from them ; and they continue sick until - Warai weather, when they rub the insects off on the gravel, and immediately grow strong. The female is the I best for the table. She may be known by I her small head and deep body. Fish are al rays in season, when their heads are . sn small its to be disproPortioned to the size of their ba.l3. The trout is leas oily awl rich than the salmon ; the female is mach blighter and Nmore beautiful than • the male; they swim rapidly,-and often leap, like.the salmon. to a great height, when ascending streams.. When I first stocked my trout-ponl, I placed:Meen hundrerrin it, and was - accustomed to teed them With angle-wortna, rose bugs, ofickets, grasshoppers dtc., whichsthey• attacked with gteat voracity to the aniaiement of those looking on. They grow much more rapidly in - ponds than in their native streams, froiri ,the fact that they me better fed and not com pelled to exercise. Trout are the only fish known to me that possess a ioidq, which is perceived by pressing them, wh.ertithey emit a murmuring sound, aridtremble all over. The Carp (CyptiTus• Carpio).—Of this delicious fish I have a great abundance; hav- li • ing obtained my original stock. from Captain Robinson, of Newburgh, fourteen years singe.' They breed twice each year, producing about forty thousand each time.. and grdsv• to the length of fifteeninch'es.—l have - seen Abed on the banks of Lake Como, in Italy, weighing one bundred and seventy-five pcpn'ds. I feed them with bread„ rn and soetite Indian meal. They come up lagreat numb e at the ringing of the bell, and will eat out"of my hand; and permit me to stir them around without show ing the least fear. They ale very tenacious of life, and live a long time out of the water. I have crossed them with the gold-fish, or Chinese carp, and produced a great variety of color. As soon as the ice forms in the fall, they disappear in the mud, and as they are not afterwards seen, probably remain dormant in par cold.climate all winter. . a In Prussia, Germany and Saxony, carp are cultivated with great attention,and contsitute a part of the revenue of the nobility. There is no reason why they might not -be made profitable here. Fish are like `hens, in one respect, that is, they never deposit all, their spawn at one time, but at several periods, weeks - often intervening, according to its maturity. - The Gold Fish, (Cyprin43 Auratus), or Golden Carp, are -the most beautiful and in teresting fish in my waters;,: where they are "only kept as ornaments, as they are not cele brated for their qualities nl, food. The ex: treme elegance of their form.and scaly dress, and the agility and grace With which they meve through their native element, cause them to lie ranked among my most charming ' pets. They are always the first. on band at the ringing orthe bell, and ate even more gentle anti confiding than the carp. I hae . noticed that by a proper diet I can increase the intensity of their . color, Change their,ex . ternal characteristics, improve the rotundity of their form and add =chat their size ; and what is more surprising than all, those characters become hereditary in their off 'spring.. . The-sun fish are known as the American Carp, though they will , not intermingle with either of the other varieties, European or Chinese, which they much resemble in habits, with one exception, and that is, they build nests in the gravel to deposit their ova, over which they watch with unceasing vigilance, and cannot be induced to leave even for food; when the other fish are eating bread, in their, immediate vicinity, they appear to be uncoil csiou.s of the fact,and chase them if they hap pen to come too near their sacred charge,show )ing every indication of extreme anger,'" by . distending their gill covers, and ekvating their fins, ike. The Pike (Esoz Lucius).—l have a large pond devo:ed to this fish, in which they abound to so great an extent, that I, might supply .half-a-dozen , families the year round from it. They are the most notoriously vora cious\ fi in our fresh watei•londs, and will dolour yo ng dunks, gee...a, rats, serpents and frogs; they race an.atnazing number of teeth, which they use.in a scientific manner. Those ferocious fish have become with me as docile as dogs, and will . wsemble in number', when the small fry are fed,to seize upon them,which they accomplish in a masterly style. Some naturalists declare that this ,fish is of a spon taneoos generation, deriving its origin from a weed known as 'the pickerel- weed. and that 'pickerel are only found where this weed is known to exist. The fact probably is, that the weed, as well as the pickerel spawn at tached to it, are carrieTfrom pond to pond by a heron, or some fish hawk, attached acci, deptally to their legs, or eaten as food and ejected. . I have qudiel their habits nith great inter est,`antl find they retire in _pairs, about the first of April,. and after swimming to ether, without touching each other, for roles or so, the female deposits her spaah in shallow pla!es, upon aquatic, grass; and the male fol lowing, fecundates them with milt, which be deposits over them ; after having completed this interesting operation,. they pass on and give themselves no solicitude as to the future. restdAf their labors, but, when the small fry mike their appearance, - the parents devour them with great !pus and apparent Satisfac tion. .1 have known a pickerel to swallow partially a fish too large for his throat, and to vary it thus inshis mouth, until the por tion swallowed was digested ; be will like wise eat poisonous substances Withvit, injury to hint-elf, -_having. within him some antidote with which to counteract its evil effects. They never swim in schools,as Many other fish do, but keep aloof from each other and like to be solitary and alone ; they are not easily alarmed., anti will never run from a shadow, as most fish invariably will; they . often stand unmoved until I put my hand, in the water, and will then dirt at it boldly, if in want c:f food; Their bite is almost as venomous as that of a serpent, and Very difficult to cute. Pickerel are particuliiily fond of. frogs as food, but the frog always makes 'battle when the pickerel approach, and Will-sometimes mount upon his bead,where they become very trouble some custdmers,piacing their foreclaws in the corner of each eye, and' clinging with their hind legs. If this position is well - taken, it is utterly impossible fur the pickerel. to dis encumber himseif, until the frog is willing to depart, which he usually consents to do when the fish-approaches near enough to the shore to permit him to leap upon it.' Picke grow fastei• than other fish in my ponds, making eight inches the that year, ten the second, fourteen the' third, and twenty the fourth. 1-am convinced that an acre pond, well straed with pickerel, tvould yield more profit than a ten acre Icit under ordinary cul tivation. They are remarkably tenacious of life and live a long time after being taken Gone the water, and will snap at any object presented. It attains a great age and im menso size if unmolested and well fed. - The Yellow Perch (Perca Flareseens) is a bold fkh of prey, and liken. pickerel, has a large moutli, well filled with teeth,.:i hog back, armed with two strong, sharp fins; which makes 'him a formidable prey for other fish. His outer covering consists of hard thick scales. Like a pickerel he will eat his own progeny. As 'food he is considered more wholesome than any other fish. Th growth is slow, and he. breeds but once a year. I . have noticed one remarkable peculiarity-con nected with this fish, and that is. that if a dozen ate found in a hole, they will all bite, one after the other; and allow themselves to be caught, being - like most meal, unwilling to receive the experience of their companions.— They rere gregarious during nearly the whole year, and grow under favorable anspieles to a large'size,and elegant proportions., This fish is universally known throughout Europe and this country; and the remarkable manner in Which its eggs have been distributed has led to Orions hypotheses. Some suppose them to be of-spontanCous birth. Some years since I constructed a