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' ' • HOUSES & LOTS
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• JAMES B. CAMPBELL,
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• • Pcirremus, Pa.
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EDIT - oRIAI , .
In the world of literature 7 -amid the mass of
written lore,whichicrowds the intellectual arena. I
bow seldom do we find aught to prove old age
otherwise than cold and comfortless, or its asso
ciation* anything but dull and deadening. We
know of nothing that would afford so wide and
free a scope for the pen as the enjoyments and
delights of declining life, or the greater purity and
strength of those' enjoyments, when compared
with others which light and thoughtless youth
carelessly revil in. ;lasses ! it is a joyous
laughing state of existence—all sunshine and
gladness; bouncing along on its butterfly wings,
it sees naught blit.flowers in its glittering path-,
way, and such are its enjoyments. Towns !bud- -
ding strength ;and growing intellect, with an eye
and
.milid to see and feel, 'and a soul to swell
with rapture—part of infancy and , part . of man
hood-7this is indeed a happy period. Mi►roas-
Tr! when the animal and intellectual - towers
have both attained their climax; and man moves
about in conscious strength—relying upon him
self—trusting in his own powers—equal to any
emergency that may arise, and conscious of his
attributes. Oh ! there is a high and stem enjoy
ment in this feeling that joyous infancy cannot
be compared with.
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Turn welrom these to gaze upon the quiet pic
ture of senescence ; unlike the tinkling rill of in
fancy, the mountain torrent of youth,. or the riv
er of maturity, it is the calm and peaceful lake of
existence; untroubled; serene, and quiet; with
the consciousness of a well spent, virtuous life
to look back upon, and - the promise of,a happy
eternity of rest which is almost within the grasp;
who would exchange its quiet security for either
of the uncertain stages which precede it? who
would give happy, peaceful reflections for bright
"and gilded anticipations? who would yield the
certainty of eternal happiness, although coupled
with silver hairs, for the vague hope of it accom
panied by liight and vigorous youth Surely
nut the wise? There, is nothing dreary in the
anticipation of age. on the contrary,if men thought
properly they would greet im approach with pleas
ure.
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This is it quality which deserves a far better
comprehension among mankind than the crude
and hasty opinion of the mass has attached to it . ;
'to he curious is, with the world, to be imbecile,
whilst at the same time an enquiring mind is laud
ed as a high and valuable attribute. A feeling of,
curiosity, properly understood, is as necessary to
greatness as drink is to the maintenance: of hilt
in fact man cannot be intelligent without it. He,
who condemns the habit as vicious 'and forbids
the further exercise of it. to those under his control,
shuts out from his subjects the light 'of other
minds and forevei debars him from benefitting by
the experience of those who have preceded him.
That man only will learn who is continually'
questioning, atrvals enquiring, who never rests
satisfied until he understands sufficiently and ful
ly every thing that before was obscure, and to
such only can belong those powers which create
greatness. This quality is universally the asso
ciate of name and viglitnus intellects, and is as
unseperable from genius as the sim from heat.
There is, however, a c.ontemptible, mean habit
dunces frequently mistake for curiosity, butwhich
we designate as inquisitiveness, and it bears — its
much resemblance to the former as a lizard to a
crocodile; words are entirely too dignified to ex-
press our sovereign disdain for the petty things
who indulge in it; it is a trifling. miserable vice,
and one that imbeciles, only, wouldi find any
pleasure in. Let every man remember the old
French proverb, "11 p a encore de quoi glower,"
there is something yet to be learned—and as long
as that proverb has truth in its application to him,
let him spare no pains not cease ,enquiring, no
matter how:great the labor or how slow the re
turn., for in this manner only will he become
wise.
This is a dangerous faculty for many to pos.
seas—dangerous to the happiness of the owner as
well as the comfortpand ease of those who sur
round him. It is a faculty which increases with
success until it becomes a habit, and like punning,
frequently merges into an actual disease or man
ia. When arrived at this point it may well be
compared to a sharp sword in the hands of an
ineiperienced swordsman,who flourishes it around
him in a crowded room, manages, to slice his 'best
friends as well as those who aro indifferent to
him. We never knew
, a man habitually sarces
tic who could not numbCr his scores of Micelles,
and it is eery reasonable that such a result should
follow : no man'can forgive another for humbling
him either in his own estimation or that of oth
ers, and as men of MO intellects are not•unfre
quently destitute of the talent of repartee, a perti
nent sarcastic remark from some trifling popin-1
jay, may sometimes throw them into very unenvi
able situations ; the offender' might then Suffer a
life time under the hate of one whose friendship
would be of value to him, all of which a hasty
thoughtless word has been the cause of We
look upon this desire to say bitter things as &ve
ry unhappy. propensity, and one, which if indulged
in, would prole as uncomfortable to the actor as
to his surrounding friends—a little Attic salt is
excellent at times; the habitual and lavish use of
it is a great
Office, Lyrkes;No.
I send thee back that silken curl,
That ringletof dark hair;
Would that upoin thy brow again,
It still zooid clustre, there.:
I give thee back thy „wayward faith
Thou cunldst as coldly sever ; -
lint like the. Jong once cherished tress,
• , "Tii parted and forever,
I send thee the bright lineaments
Orono' I fondly cherished ;
Would that its dazzling hues could radii,
As. my wait, love bath perished;'
But legit still smile on to mock • •
The cheek Shat time bath shaded;
Thine eye willread a moral there; •
When all its fire bath, faded.: •
I give thee back thy recreant vows,
Thy - notes, thy perjured letters; '
And with these paltrygifts I fling
_Aside my, worthless fetters;,
There is no grief within air - heart.
No shadow, on my spirit; '
Like Heaven's bird I now may claim
The freedom'l inherit.
Gov,. Cass, our Minister to Paris, expects to
leafe, on the 17thiCor Liverpool, to_ enable, hira;to
p ike passage in the steainer 57144 Pwres,thai
the 19th ;1134. for NOV?
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w 3 * BENJAMIN I:IANNAN I :POTIVILL.E, BCIWYKILL:COVNTY, PA.
CM
Ca.rloslty.
MI
Woman* ';
er wii.ua °snow)
:\fethieks there is no lovelier eight on Garth
Than gentle Woman, in. her early years;
!Before one cloud bath gathered o'er herinirtb; '
lare her bright eyo gmws.dtm with secret tears!
IV ben' life the semblance of a dream sloth wear,
'And earth is basking in a joyous
I When rich delight breathes in the golden air, •
,And boundless fancies may the heart beguile!'
•
have bowed to Words— , not as one
Who idly worships at a careless shiinq
I ant as the heathen bends into the sun.
Whose rays gleam round him—elquent, dtvino!
liktilOngerer in Fashion's:train, ,
Who suilleeend flatters a believing few;
False in his heart, perchance; and cold and vain;
Whose words are fables—thoughtless and Untrue.
But I am - 1144 v when around my way,
I Those flowers of being ever chance to spring;
!Till like an hour of Dieame, whsn fairtei play,
And gentler wild.birds dance on glittering wing:
Card is a shadow then; and in my heart;
The•well Springesif deep ecstacy arise.;
I feel each sense of loneliness depart,
Like storm-clouds melting from the April skies!
Oh, if my prayer might unto Heaven ascend,
' Twould be that Wousx might be ever blest;
That flowers and eon light in her path might
blend.
And tranquil visions lull her peaceful resq—.
I wuuld that Time might hear upon hie wing,
Untroubled brightness for each. fleeting day;
And every scene, which Hope is picturing,
Grow clearer as existence wears away.
And, as a *gift from heaver, to cheer us here,
I would'tbat'Wousit when lire's hour is done,
Might pass, like starlight, when the atmosphere
Is colored faintly with the approaching sun;—
Passing from aulll, to a mere cloudlessacene,
Where brighter gems in purer , skies ace set;
Where crystal fountains .play inpaidurds green,
Bending, in fancy's spell,with jos in moniory yet.
Philadelphia, August 10, 1829.
TILE LOST Slit-P.
BY IiANFOUTU.
Bark !' said a young man toe group, df which
he formed a part, sitting Around a cheering fire.of
en lon, end momenierily drowning, ip gay sallies
and tioiSterons mirth, the noise of the gale with
outk hark! was not that 4 gun.'
Every voice in the company ceased at once,
'and every ear wee turned in eager enquiry tow-
ards the window. The roar of the neighboring
surf, and the wild tumult of the tempest as it
whistled without, broke distinctly on , the ear, but
fer t more than a minute, during which ell listened
intently, nothing else was bead.
It was but fancy, Jack,' said one of the group,
'you --.'
The speaker stopped
,short, fox et that instant
the deep boom of a cannon out et sea sounded,
distinctly and fearfully across the night, so that
the hearers started and gazed into each other's fa
ces, as men gaze whoa they listen to a voice from
:the' dead, Neither pen 'of the novelist riot the
pencil of the painter could do justice to that look
of horror. The silence listed for a full minute;
and was then broken by the first speaker.
There is a ship pq the coast—but hark ! a
third gun, and it sounds nearer than the last !'
And the wind is right on shore, and ie blow
ing a most terrible hurricane,' said another.
God help them !—but let us bony to the
coast, and see if we can do anything for them,' e
jaculated the first speaker,
With one consent the party moved toward the
docii, first, however, calling to the landlord to
bring lanterns and ropes in cue the, latter might
be needed. As the door was opened, a gust of
wind eddied into the room Caring the candles in
their sockets and whistling keenly around the cor
ners of the apartment. When the adventurers
stepped outside they were almost borne down, fur
moment, by the- intensity of the gale, which
sweeping unchecked across the plain that lay be
tween the Inn and beach, bufst on the house with.
almost incredible fury. It was snowing, violent
ly, and the snow came hissing and spinning in
the hurricane, almost blinding the eyes of the ad
venturers; but dressing theit'shaggy coats around
them, the compassionate travellers bent their heads
against the storm, and hurried to the deist, their
paces increasing momentarily as the solemn boom
jof that signal gun rose more and more clear And
distinctly on the night.
The shore to which they turned theirsteps was
a bold, high-rocky coast, against which the surf
was beating with a violence that shook the cliffs
to their very centre, and flung the spray in show•
era over their edge a hundred a feet above then.
ging deep below. • . °
The party bad stood some.timi, however, on
the summit of the rocks before the anxious look
ers out could distinguish ,tiny thing through the
storm, although they strained their eyes to the ut-,
most iri the direction from which the eounds df
the cannon proceeded. A length a light was dis
cernable through the gloom, and directly a dim
shadowy object, gradually assuming the outlines
of a ship flying before the tempest, started out 'of
the- misty distance. For a moment she was dri
ving up towards the spectatore. That moment,
seeming to them an_age, was spent a breastless
horror that did not edmitiof words. Each one in
voluntarily clenchedubis bands tighter together,
and gazed With straining eyes on, the powerless
craft that was sweeping on with such velocity to
the cliffs at his feet. On, on, she cline, driving
Midst the white foam and tb whiter tempest. .A
moment more and there wee a crash, followed by
a shriek that rose even above the storm, end froze
the very hrarta of the listeners. It ceased, and the
hurricane Moue .vu heard.
It is ail over,' said one of the listeners. , God
have mere on the souls who have wine 43 limit
last account.'
•Arnenr ;aid another.
,Agein , the breathless . silence followed, .wring
which ea c h spectatocliatened to bear if theta Might
he anuentoivors. lantli'one 'poke. ,
T ere Was a cry.'
,
It 'iodide like" she wail of a child. . •
From, what direction does it ;cpe
• , Juit baneetit the cliffa-but now J. lose
Hark' -there it wee . '
•
Ay i e! and It is
-a woman's yoke. _
Therelres no doubt any longer in their,hdeds
that a living being was crying for, succor frotwthe
foot of the cliffs, and a dozen lanterns were pomp.
distely lowered over the edge. The yiolence of
the saledeshed theniegainst the
,vocb and !Wake
several, hut the moritentiry light theY Stied eershe
steps below, revealed to the speetstores - whhe fig.
- ore. Which.ther knew at once tabs that:of a fti !
male, clinging to the nicks; find drenched with
cry For; en in - thint, and an instant only.
by tho light of a Intern lawsied tardier down the
PeCißiell4 but altweet immedistell deltoid to pia
iAtti*tiAy i i, .:m . 91 . :!5Y1):9 1 ;'
,1 00111.8 g-4:::::0: . ; . : . 1,. ~*Ol '.
ces, the face of a female bad ben seen cut op-
W l lrif . iP earnest aePPlicatieN,: 0 01 . 8 . Who bad
a
momentary_ st i mrto o r it acid it wee that of _ a
young and beentiful','gill._ . -11 'what could be
done forliii l ,The Phietrqe!li A
gale ferbade
t
any attempt , to rescue her by . ; , deeitill,ing the Cliff ;
and it was certain thalshe , i co.t4 out live until
morning expelled le" the Oleg listw, tbe intense
cold. the yeshing of 'the s* . 4 the fierce ed.
:dies of the gale around the kedge; • The spec.
store lookeclet each other ihdiWed when;
in a 101 l of the htirricape, dirt gony came
to -their '' cant, a obi `shiver ; rough their
trainee. .,
-
Meantime the cliff's were beeiiiiig -crowded
with'people, who, apprized of3tereck by the
eignal'gine she had fired, peere th d 41 h from their
bowies to render what assistance •itti possibl e to
the sufferers. A fire was soon., ladled on • 'the
very, edge of the precipice. fat althtgh the snow
flakes ilmoat. extinguished the . 644, the e ff irts
of the warm , hearted adventure,rs_thingth fanned
into existenm the lurid volutee stinted upsti a .,
dily into the storm, or flared to 4 fro in the
stronger, pulls of the tempest s ,. ,
Ale the fire flung its light tiereaste countenan
ees 'of the group whieh had'gathid around it,
there might be traced i n every facn expr e ssion
of the meet anxious ,concern,whi:'each specie
toegazed out totverd, the oce an, eying tocatch, ,
•through the fieeecy 'storm. a eight I l itie wrerlt, or
' peered down cautiously over; the Ige of the cliff
to discover 'the exact positi# of 4 sufferer be
low, and see whether or'nokany#eqr could be
afforded her. - 1 all itili_thipgreons bad
beerk arritting at the scene if dialer,' brinticg
ropes, tackles, and other apptenc-47 which aid
might be rendered to the • crio the dismantled
ship. ij 'I
t ._.,
At length the fire, fed bytrented fee!, blazed
-.high up in the air, end fli lingi , ruddy blaze,
v i
far and wide around , iinatil spatters to catch -{
momentary gleams of the clt l llfte appeared
to be a ship of heavy tonnep. d !bad ran to
high upon the rocks that shestucliere as if im
paled, her stern falling offee'avarWhile her bow
overhung the boiling vorteti on . land side of
thikeharp rock on which she lay. 4 racking of
the sea bad by this time baler' : ; bull in two,
end the forward part, crow d n living
ibe
ings, fell away in the gulf b t w, via the rud
dy blaze of the flames embed titpectatore to
catch their first glimpse of Oe we:: It was a
heart rending eight. At thi very went when
the beacon fire informed thieuffet.that succor
wits'at hand, jot when hopeibegantin to brigh- i
ten in their dirkenedAiosonts, theytn? swept in
the teeing wirtei, peaierleaii and bleep, before
the agonised-eyes of 'thosewho i;pewerless'
linas the victims! Onewild 'ek rover all the
uproar of the. gale—and_th a Bile, if silence
there should be; fell, on qi. T no. -.• ,
.
, God Almighty,' said, th pastel the neigh
boring,,village, 'have mercylen thenils—sure
ly he is the Lord, for the dep ownbis power.' •
The deep bush, unbroke by thjeculation, .
1 1
continued for several minutes, durishich eve-
ry eye was strained to,detect, if poinoi . single
'struggling form in the wild' vortexow. But
whether faintness of the tali forbadei wheth
er the sufferers were confoeaded v the foam
below, not a solitary living being veven seen
of all those who had stood outhe fettle of the
wreck. , Minute after minute elap'end still
the . 'spectators gazed curiously into ilarknese,
butow moments slipped away, bowl fainter,
until at length it ceased allogetheat length
one' spoke ; '
!There is not a soul left alive. I3oes there
appear to be any one in the!stern °teem:el—
f feet that , the sufTerer below . is the•survivor.
Can nothing be done to rescue her? .
For several minutes theie was eily
.; but
.each person gazed into his. neighbolie with a
sad. hopeless loot, that told too plaittbat was
thought. Many shook their beadid several
turped away, as if longer :delay at spot was
useless. But, when the silence heigned for
acutte time, the young than Who Gann, had
beep first. to hevr the signal gun, et ( opt and
said :
The only shop! is the deseenclinpittr
I ill try it with a rope—so help i '
~ Thst were madness; saki one.
you mill net live to get half witrip 9 said
another.
4 I
cannot die in a holier } c ruse, shivered.
Nobly spoken, my son,' said tailor,# and
may God be with you in the atten)le who'
guided the children of /arid throobe desert,
and maintained the holy mar rs gait d t res of
persicittion, will not desert its in tbtrerii i ity.'
The words of thsveneeamarlin invig
orating effect ott the listen ni, a sed new
tiSi !
hope into bosoms. T e tack i flied iIY
t i
rigged, and the fire replenis ;d i eon the ad
venturer stood on the edge the et siting a
lull of the gale.. t r ' 3
The atteropt now to be glade rise of the
4:post perilous nature, and ceetain I tould bili
sure, to overtake the adventurer, if Ilia ehould
fail him, or his path' become imikin dark 4
flees dining his descent. The skate Mei.
pica was nearly porpendicolir, biliedved in
perhaps . few yards in, its dteeniiti its sur
face was broken. with fissures sating cuffs.
ogainst the latter of which° riersocinding Its
side with a rope n Iwnsteril of be.
Ing flung by the violence of the oscillating
the rope to and fro. 'The. only patnear.
which the foot'of the precipice ens rea ched
would be by, the aid of* pole, oath a gait,
eye and steady nerve; to fend Of Own:doter
from the side of she. cliff: - Even i j ;day time
and during Al calm, the descent have been
a& exploit that few persona wood" coveted,
tnit in the night with a .violent vittiatior a
gainst the facelof the cliff; and %Olt' eddies
around the broken surface, the iiijikas .pro-
duelist . ° almast'tertainly of death,lo.9 to be
justified hy.the extreme neeenit3terpresent 1
ocixision. .- Added to, all this peei*ver, Was
that of 'darkness, for although' the 'the ctiff
wee vigorously m a intained, the ii 4 e flames
abut opt - h o rizontally or at least II down-'
wird, so that the faro of the precif4 offlY'd•
ltitninated liy . fitful' gleimi, 'Add' dillb, elli tre
aded trot& shadow. ijoti could iii deisien
ding the tees of the cliff in
,the' ' ve detk•
ticsi guard himself withany air insA the
col i
neOirous juttiaklregments ' of '-or
bets could 'he, siert if he thew his own
dessepi,'iscettd again to the edge 4ddr.witb
etiOtheiieliott 1 '*
. ' '
At length it' . wai Strength; Oat
*sputter should descend - 'at °Opel
- 'his' la
rope, girt'irtnind body 'a ,
!bile elgt.this ropeiiioabi viituol
OEM=
AD. 8
To,oint. uotig-Aig saluErr issecußa TO Qua INIE AND
_ix ,
Then,- ULM „reached, tgp i yi, the precipice, in
safety.' cloaks and blen.lsitst Wapiti. be, !metre!! to
him in Order that the .sufferer mien Ott. protected.
as much ail pitssibbsotOtiast - 4104 10 4 g n!!k l l4,
W heti Snoring ilsWfte4. eitlier: if 1 4 1 1 1 5 4 P -a!
bated, inettempt mak to, he: made to raise the a.of:
ferer to the, opOlthe,cliff,-hs Mans tfre. chair
and whip. . r„
- Eve 4 thing having been irratird.. the daring
adventinei seized e,favorable:.opport9l:oty during
a lull of the gale. and'comatetred. hie tiescePt-,--
The light of fire,' as, it shivered: on the dari
fate of the precipice, and t he , wild _ whirlpoul of
foam below., gevean.oinin CMS cheractes to all a
round himt; but hie heart was. a, stringer. to tear,
acid, skilfully avoiding the, union' angles of the
rock,.hereached at length'ite.foot of the cud,
and
withti'light bound springing over en intermediate
chasm, 'stood by the side of the fugitive from the
Wreck. , We.shaU not attempt to describe her e;
motions during the dizzy descent of tbs bold young
man,nor the glad cry of joy with which she saw him
landed on the. rock. to
.whicts she-clung. She
would have thrown herself at his feet, but - he would
not permit it. Raising her up he void—
. To God alone our thanks is
~ du.e ; let us prey
to him that we may. escape the peril that yet sup
rounds us,"for I cannot conceal from you that the
dinner is - still . imtnineet,'end It:Brett , knew bow
we can. reach the top of the cliff.. Bat,droop not,
for I have come to save you or die with you!'
'The
.fugitive raised her ;grateful - eyes to the
iybitng man, and. he then saw, for the first time,
that she was n . young girl about seienteen, and of
imusuallovlinese, Even now, with her dress all
drenchSd with spray, and the silk foam intennim
glcd with the tresses of her dishivelied hair, her
beauty vas so startling that the young adventu
rer could scarcely repress iniexclamaticin of rap
-broils admiration, and he felt that he could dare
- •
thedanger a thousand times. t o tooth
etm o win
such grateful glance from the dark eyes of the
ktiely stranger, 'Butthe - exposed situation of the.
rock on which they stood—for every wave dished
the - Old spray over them, soon recalled him to the
necessity of providing a place of shelter for his
Companion, until means should be found to raise
her to the summit of the ChM With great diffi,
culty, end aided by the' rope from at!ove, he sue
ceaded in elevating her to a narrow shelf of the
rock some ten feet higher up the face of the cliff,
whets, however, exposed to the driving sleet and ,
the impetuosity of the wind, she wooldat least be
safe froni the shower► of foam that ilelaged tho
rocks below..
'Oh! can I ever sufficiently thank yon said
the grateful girl, • four kindness may be in vain;
but God will bless yon r •
Her companion made no reply, but as he look
ed at her shivering form, ha seer that her expo.
sure had almost exhausted her, and that it was an
effort that she had spoken.
Droop not, dear la he slid,. I see that they
are lowering down clog; 4..ja which to wrap your
self, and keep not this pit:less storm. If we can
only sustain ourselves here for an hour longer we
can reach the summit. The gale must lull by that
• She made no answer except by • a 'desponding
shake of her head. The bundle was by this time
swinging overhead. ind,t watching a chance, her
coMpauion succeeded in catching and disentang
ling it from the rope.. He now busied himself
id *rapping up the form of the chilled and er
tiiiiited girl. and fora While, she revived ; but tt
soon became evident that her fragile constitution
was giving way under her sufferings. Tbje the
young man saw wittiogony. Obi bow he wish.
ed, that the ledge on **filch they stood could have
afforded them a fire. bow he preyed that the storm
would abate in Order that she might be raised to
the summit of the bill. Happily, he' had provided
himself ere he began hisapatent, with restoratives,
and othet necessaries, and these be now applied
freely to ilaitsinking girl in his arms. He clasp
ed her small fair hand. and made her drink of the
life-giving liquid, and besought her to ,tittempt t r o
walk to end fro, supported by him, on the narrow
ledge of rock on which they etood. By these ef
• forts be succeeded in partially reviving her, and at
the end of ball an hour, SW, with e joy unspeak
able, that the tempest begun to lull, and in a few
minutes, ea if miraculously, the snow ceased, and
the wind died almost wholly sway. The youth
now gave the spud to those and soon saw
the chair descending. How he trembled with ea
gerness during the time that elapsed ere it reached
the rock, teat the gale should burst forth with re.
newed fury. Atiength the chair swung on the
ledge where they stood. Not . a moment wattle
be lost. Exhorting his cOmpanion to rally her en-
ergies for this fist effort. her lashed her firmly in
her east, end seizing.the rope by which the ascent
of the chair was to be guided, gave the signal.—
With tearful eyes his companion 400 k leave of
him, hut he, assuming -e cheerfulness he scarcely
felt', bid herretain'hcr presence of mud. and all
would go
Oh lit is Only for you I fear now: How can
you reach the summit when there will be no one
below to guide your ascent?'
4 The God who . preserved me once, will preserve
me, it hi sees fit, nide. ~., Ere ton rizinutes I shall
be safely by your side.' .':''. s-"
With a beating heart the young Milli gazed at .
the dizzy course oithe chair, and once or twice he
c i ,
trembled violently as he,• saw .It, . espiterill he
could 40, swinging in dangerous pr 'ruity to the
jutting rock. At length be beheld it react the
level of the' ciiff-he sew It grasped by two or three
Strong arms—it was drawn, inward—and then he
knew that hislate companion , , was safe. - Welwill
not attempt to analyse hie feelings et that moment,
brit they were certainly as deeitts ithe.had known
that,lovely,cuptjurtt . :during a long life.time.Lso
true
. tit is thifiri brinepifearful . peril breaks down
the barrier betwixt taro
. hcarts which otherwise .it
.
might take years to remove: -
,
Ina few minutes the 'rope again descended, and
the young iedirenturer,' by incredible exertions,
retched the summit of the cliff without injury.
The moment his feet reached the cliff, a 'dozen
hands grasped hie own. end,a long shout of erithu• .
elastic applause pealed, to the sky. But the, first
thing hit eyes sought was the, resigned. girl,,eihz,
deaf to all entreaty. had watctiiil from lhet,4o:
the ciiff ontilsheiraw her preserver iafe. .Then
she TA beak eXhaiisted 'into
_the rime of - i kind
hesiteri„drime, 46 iiiirteft her hone Bud &tested
iiiiite idiots - the instant the tuid bsiid that theint- .
Ines wee a woma
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i f
..,
•', -
nijt ! ,
o soh'
, ibili
..] dow n
..
_
.... . .
Vhe-teseued• ight froied ta be ayounghily.
the daughter of ma.-opulent tnefebeat in a neigh._
tungbi city, returning frota hdr ed!ictdion .
in Europe. OtlMM( l4 : l *!.lei
pietiereir wee altseatefficet,e)iiitteese( in *bate.'
venue etittii;whicli, Vat tlekte;thiel4iai
,
_ ••
- dr^ - - '-.' •
,
. .
ESSER
MISMI
into, the :iroadateild._ mi l e
- 'or IW9-(vtip, ate
scene ofthe.wreck. ; ettOlV,a7otrPiin
tbstencbonip that the, ill ! fated,iihip bed come g
abore,.when, of all , her freight, only tbiat' i lair girl
434.*
n saved. -
Need wis recount the gratitude of .the father
wbeis his only Child was placed l ip his
_stand Need
we say bow ofteo that child thought of her pre
server,,cr hew the young lieutenant found. her gi
length necessary to his happinessi The grateful
lather deputed-it the.huippinit day of his life whet,
he placid hiedatighter's - hand in that of he! pre
serveresnd gave her away at the altar'to one who.
by nsking his life for her when she wee a stranger
to him, had proved, that he would bee protector
to bet in after life Whit:kalifs was knob arid lov.
ed.
"Frain 'The Indicatk!
Counsels to the Young.
• lIT VIOIIACE GREELIT.
• ' V t .P.
Three millions of Youth, between ibe ages of
six and of twenty-one, are now rapidly coming
forward, to take rank .as the future husbands and
fathers, legislators and divines, insirociori and go
vernors; politicians and voters, capitaliais Sod lab
orers. artisans Ind cultivator*, of this vast coon=
try; whoie destinies' are even yet so faintly imag.
ined, much less developed. Not one is frt:humble
tint he will not certainly exert an iiifluence— . ,it
may be an immense and imperishable influence.-
on'the happiness an& elevation of his country and
his race. The humblest cottage maiden, now toil
ing thankfully as the household servant of some
proud family by whom she is regarded as nobody,
may yet be the mother of a future President—or,
nobler still, of some umpiring but' God-directed
man, who as a teacher of rightermsness,.anameli
orator of human suffering, a successful rekrier of
wrong,' sensuality or selfishness, may leave hi s
impress on the arm* of the world as a lover end
server of his race. Nearly all our now eminent
men, politically—Jackson, Clay. Van Beiren,'‘ect.,
Were not merely of poor and humble prirentage,
but left orphans in early life, and 'thus deprived of
the support and counsel which seems most emin
ently necessary to success in the world's rugged
ways. • •
In the higher walks Qf genuine usefolneas; the
proportions of those enjoying no advantagor o
family, influence or hereditary wealth, who attain
the loftiest eminence, Is very' great Call to mind
the first twenty names that occur to you of men
distinguished for ability, energy, philanthropy, or
lofty achievement, and generally three-foartbs of
them will be those of men born in obscurity and
dependence.
All literature is full of anecdotes illustrative of
these encouraging truths; a single fact now oc
curs to me which I have never seen recorded :
have often_worshipped in a baptist meeting-house,
in Vermont. whereon of its construction some
thirty yeirs since a studitius anti exemplary young
men was for some time employed as a carpenter,
Who afterward qualified himself and entered upOn
the responsibilities. of the Christian ginistrv.—
That young man was Jared Sparks, since Editor
of the North Amerkwn Review, of Washington's
voluminous Writings, &C. and now recognised as
ono of the foremost scholar's,- historians and critics
in America.
I propose here to set forth a few important max
ims fur the guidance and encouragement of these
youth who will heathen to me—masime baitiii on
my own immature experience and otiservation, but
which have doubtless.in pubetence been, propoun
ded and enforced by elder and wiser men long a
go and often, Still, as they do pot yet app.* to
have exerted their full and proper:prat on the ri
pening intellect of the country—as thousands on
thousands are toilsomely, painfully struggling for
ward in the race for position , and knowledge, in
palpable defiance of their scope and spirit—l will
hope that their ptesentation at this time cannot be
without some effect on at least a few expanding
minds. They are as follows; •
I. Avoid the common error of esteeming a col
lege education necessary to usefulness or eminence
in life. Such an education may be desirable end: -
beneficial—to many it doubtlets is eh.) But Greek
and Latin are not real knowledge; they are only
means of acquiring such knowledget there have
been great and wise, and surpassingly useful men
who. knew no language but their mother tongue.
Beside, in our day the tressures of ancient and
cotemporery foreign Literature are brought borne
to every man's door by translations, which embo
dy. the 'Substance, if they do not exhibit all the
beauties of the originate. If your circumstances
in life, enable you to enjoy the advantages of a
college education, do not- neglect them—above
all, do not misimprove them. But if your lot be
different, wastsi - tio time in idle 'repining, in hum
filming beggary. ' The stern, self-respeethig jade
penitence ofyour own soil! is North whole shelves
Of e - lassica. All men cannot and need not;be'cof
lege-ured—not'evea those %bit are born to instiuct
and improve their kind. You nen never be deem
ed justly ignorant, nor your seqpirements con-,
temptible, if you embrace and fully improve the
opportunities which are fairly offered yon.
11. Avoid likewise.the kindred and equally per
nieions error than must have a profession—
must be a Clergyman. Lawyer. Doctor or some
thing of the sort— r in order to be influential, useful,
respected— . -or, tri'atate the - esse, in „its best aspect,
that you May lead an intellectual life. Nothiog
of the kind is necessary—very far from it. If your
tendencies are intellectual-1f yen love Knowl
edge. Wisdom, Virtue for theinselves--you.will
grow in - them; whether you earn your bread by a
profession, a trifle. or by tilling the ground.- 7 ..
Nay; it may be doubted whether the Farmer or
Mechanic who devotes his leisure boom to intel
lectual pureuitifrom 1-tore love of ;hemline riot
some advantages therein over the profesanonel man.
He comes to hishook at. evening with his bead
clear and his mental appetite abarpened by the
manual Mora, teeing liehtlythesPirit of th.
While the lawyer, who has been Tanning over dry
books for Precedents, the doctor, orMi has-been;
tacking his wits for a .remedy aderited to - loam
nav Modification of disease, or the divine Who; jm.
enured: in hie closet. hal been' busy preparing his
`Mixt sermon. may well approach the "evening vol
lime with faculties laded end palled.- ,•There are,
few men, and perhaps fewer women; whO 'do not
spend uselectlyirr fritroloutern.
stloyments. mote-time Ann would he required to
render - dotal at thirty well veered an Hietoricei,
PhilociPhiCal, Ethical; as well , as Physical Bele&
"III: iteittier ori odoorhigoinko irierdiort!esson-'
-tool tattle prosecution otenobiingitadiee, or .14 an,
lieel!ectqt4. hie, Oh rtiir
vi.tert"preisreotand-rety. pirpicions.
OA ion nimbi 1 141 yettlepritittigii
.
El
where hooks ere kw ehAl add enti the ce—
e
iota:lector! ettiture applienty tawny, kris , rithip
arquiWand to •iiiityrpfritions for an inlet:
leans, condition above' the dent fere! around him.
Xtotice be jorapittithei tottchisienthel *`change
ofjilace is' necessary io satlifseliiin of his de:
eirhat mast; teCkiftti Otlivereii9
"seminary, htost lathe MY or- the Vil'
- Ifs 'fancies he moat alter hie *bole mant*r
of life 7 -:that persimence in manual blior is =4
wined to, it not absolutely ittennsisiiii.vtith this
• sailiretiona serAened * within Win—that ha Inuit
become; no/ : ati eethor, s proleiwor,eiliwyer;el.,
few • inetehlnt or loth:Kier of goats mattes ma •
like tint of Kitt (ethers,
• Wriiiiped in ittletfebuilon; tie hetahes bireeell
the ways. where sooner or fitter Oki
nature and extent of his.:Mistalte Meals oponhimi
II he filuis setiefee.tori . 'emiiloYment; and in mei
pored_ it the the ways of lite Piefew, thir
cares suit domande of business s almon eoustridri
hint to relinquish those far which be eh. '
andonea hie more quiet end rielorai life. If he is
less fortuttate,enxiet - ies for the morrow. a e6DitaA
' *.'
NO. 47.
end -difficult struggle for the -meta &Creditable
subsisisucie, and to wield 'bectordule ti Whet or
adetrimeet to'imhers.er tea haie trotted tit Weise
wed tiisusta‘n Wm, th'cr;iitviriitit Of beteg the
thought at itie hope of mentalculture'sii sidtertflV
went. NAY, w e re, and worse--in the ttntlftti. -
- ous, strife of busineri and , money-aetti whittrei
successful or minimise, the very, desire of ink+
lectual elevation is tun often stifled or greatly en.
trebled, and that death of theioul etleuee in which
satisfaction of the physical appetites becomes the
aim lift-the.ofman sunk in the capitalist or
,
tra end the-gathering Of shining dust made the
greet end of hiabeing.
But what shall 'the youth do who finds hit
means of intellectual culture: inadequate tO
wantill I hesitate not In say that he shouldgne.
) 471 more arid better just where he is.- Not that r.
.wOuld have him reject any - real opportunity or
proffer of increased facilities which may open be.
tore him. •I will not say that he should not's°.
eel.t a university education, the means of study!
ing for a profession, if such should come fairly in
his way, end he seconded by his own inclination.
But du insist that nothing of lbw sort is ESSEN ,
WAG to the great end hb has or should have its
view...namely, &K .-Culture, To this end it is
only needful that he should put forth; fully the
powers within him and rightly mould ; the elreluine
stances by which he is surrounded. Are the
bdoks within teach few and faulty f i.ithimpur. •
chase'a few of the very best, and stay them in.
male and thoroughly. He who is' truly as
quainted with the writings of a very few of the
world's ninsterspirits can never after he deemed -
ignorant or undeveloped. To • know intimately
the Bible and elhakspeare, with the elements of
History end the Physicsl sciences, is to have he.
biped the substance of all human knowledge.- 7 .
That knowledge may be presented in a thousand
varied, graceful and attractive forms, slid the'vari4
adonis may be tighly agreeable and useful—nay,
they ere so. But, though they may improve, rei;i•
fine audlertiliz.e, (so to speak,) they do not zbwe
the MAN. If he has the elements within 'no
future hour of solitude can be fonely, or tiresome; .
or profitless.. The mild Moon end the calm high
stars are co mpanionship and instruction, eloquent,
of deep significance. and mote impressive than the
profoundest volumes.
But grant that greater or more varied mega of
culture than -the individuate narrow Whin Calk
supply are desirable, has he not still modes of tire: '
curing them ? .Is he a solnaty, and our goodly -
lend his Isle of Juan Fernandes? Are there not
others all around him, if loot already
. of 'kindled .
tastes 'ard aspirations, at-least in whom kindred
espiraijOit, may be awakened? May he net gas •
they around him in therudest township or vicinage
some dozen or more of young men in Whom thei
celestial spark, if not already glowing, may be kin=
died to warmth and radiance? And 'by the iuni.
on of these, may-not all their mutual meetsl wants
be abundantly. supplied 1 •
'And herein is found one of the prevailing Id.
vantages of the , course I would commend. 'The
awakened youttr Who has withdrawn to the semi.
nary. qr the city may have . secured hie own ad
vancement; but he who hue remained constant to
his childhood's home, its duties and , associates,
will probably have ettiected others to enter with '
him on the true pithily of life. The good thus _
accomplished, Time may nut measure. Doubtless
many a Village Lyceum, Cloy / a,, Township Lib.
rary, owes ity esistenge to theunswilse glaen by
some poor and humble rut inspired by thtblove
of Knowledge and of Wisdom.
• IV. The great centilid truth ;sleek IWould ire- i
press on the minds of my readeittis this—promis. -
ing a-genuine energy and singreWeigt of purpose—
the circumstances are nothing, the ?dart is all.
We may be the slaves , or toys of circumstances if
we will; most men Perhaps are so; and to thesi
all circumstances ere alike evil—that is,. rendered
so, if not by rugged Dlficulty, then by soft TeMpe
lotion. But that man who bid' , releth his own
spirit.—and such there is, even among Us—reach: .
ly defies all material influences or bends them to
his will. Be hi - metal, he cohfident, then, nfjieritll
if thou host arldesed this great concoleik'ind
lieve that-all else shall follow in due season.-
EMI
PXTMONAT. APPEAILLECE OV ' JEFFERION.- , -.The -
ton. WILLIAM ticriArvax, Of Doston, yes»
since published an interesting volume of"
iar Lenora on Public Characters." The work was
prepared viith great care, sod the sketches were
faithful as thay were beatnifid. In remarking on'
the Declaration ofindependence, and the author of
that memorable ducutnent, he thus,describes it.
author: '
When Mr. Jefferson came to Philadelphia it,
March, 1797, be was shoot filtv-four years loge:
His persoriaLiiiiitardive as now reollected waft
this: ;He was aihin, tall man, over six feet int tat
ofe, neither fUll' - nor thin - in body; his linibe were
long and loosely j,lnted,,his hair was of a reddish
tinge, combed loosely over the forehead and at the
aides, and tied behind; his complexion vise light
or sandy; hie forehead - rather high end tumid; his
eye brows long an strait; bis eyes blue, his cheek
h on es bigh,.his face broad ; beneath his; eyes, Lge
chin long and his tmuth large; his dress wild a
black curt and • light under clothet He bad "0
polish of mariners, but a simplicity and 'sobriety of
deportment, ho WAS -.quiet end -unobtrusive, Intl
yet a 'stranger would'perceive that he was ig the
presence of one w h o was not II common man, His
manlier of conversing, was.calm and deliberate, and
frie front ell gesticulation: but he spike like ; ono
tabu considered himself entitled to deference, and
as thougl he mossuretrwhat Lo said by some wan:.
dard of selfcoMplecemz.y. The expression of his
face was that of tholightfolness and observation,,
arid eirtainly riot that.of openness and frenkgess.,
When speaking be did not look at his auditap,but
cut his eye towards the ceiling, mt. anywere but
- to the eye of his auditor. fie had alieady become
- a persons - go of some dt - stinetaon, and is eqect of
ennatty,to a .very young
.
- Timm lel' heel:nod morel conveyed ilithef o 6
lowing paragraph, well worthy' to 'be mitetised
well se remembered by every individual.•
krThe two riniit'Preilabe on this aide the
gm!" ,are reputation's:id life. Bistlt ii to he
mewed Abet the Meat centemptila whisper may
deprive us' of the one and the weakest Weaport,4 .
the •mber. A. wise coan, therefera, will be .reort
anxious to deserye a (air name, then to ponces iR
- eta tide *ill tacit biro se to Ur., as sot to bit tip -
•
(raid to die." - -
. ,
Tao bumps raised Am a luau s twat bp a •
ere no",_ called fraf notagica/issatortunt* 11'
MEE