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SELECT POETliY.
THE SI'RIXO TIME.
tit MISS V. S. tl. RXOI.
How time wears on ! The Sprinj is here,
With gcntlo winds an J rainbow s'.iowcrj.
The pcniui of the early ye.u
Mdvca fjaily tlirouili cjrtli's fadcj bowers,
And where sho breathes or treads, appear
Unfolding leaves and budJin j flowers.
The vine puta forth the tender leaf,
The hyacinth its fragrant bclh,
And flowers whose life is bright as brief,
Look up from sunny banks anl dells;
The wild flower's fr.ijilc buds unfold,
The violet from the moss peeps up,
While 'morgRt tl:c p,rnr s, like drops of gold,
Gleams out the shining butter-cup.
How beautiful the spring-time is !
No shadow on earth's beauty lies
But nh ! how few the hearts which miss '
No smiling lips, no loving eyes,
Whose presence was a source of bliss,
When last spring sunshine lit the skies I
We do not mbs n single bird,
That gladdened us with music then,
Their gladsome carolling is heard
In orchard, woodland, grovo and glen, .
But voices breathing gentle words,
We miss, and may not hear again.
Young buds may burst, and wild birds sing,
The world look beautiful and gay,
Cut some who gladly hailed the spriuj
A year ago, have pascd away ;
Pome in the roy siiminer-tldo,
And some when au'uinn leaves wcro bright
No matter hnv or when they died,
We inis3 them now when fa'.l.i the light
And glory of the opening year
Upon our way they arc not here!
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Fr ,n II .Men's Migizinc
THE IRISH REBEL OlItL.
"A very original nlfhir!" said I, laying
down the Trilium ol' that day.
'Wliat is that?" aked my companion.
"T r.-frr to that scorn in tin- trial of
S.t:iih C'Riion, vvln-n Do'ihyp, the Irish
Di-tfctivf, is privi'd a p i jnnT hy tilt? nn
pxpiTted t.-stiiiio'iy of Mr. D'Alton. All
thf fircumstanct's conni'tti'd iih tin afT.iir
thf xisit of IVAlton at th Fr.n man Cf
fice; tin' hasty an. I sticci'ssrul tTn osur g in
stantly taki-n to brin"; him into court; ami
' the rrusliino; p-iwi r of IV Mtoti'j ti's'imony,
and th.' coinpl.'U' unniaskm'r ol LJobby ii
u'oiild fern to hiark tlu who!e ns an inttr
feri'ticp by Pravidftict', if all tln-si" thiiics
had not so unaccountably failed, in the
gp'at rfsult.
The rjentleman, to whoni I said this, was
a gMV-lii'adfd r.-fujee from Ireland, since
the jr'reat rehellion in "Nin.-ty Eiglil." He
paused a few moments aid then replied i'i
a voice tremulous with age and strong feel
in?. "I dare not trust mvs df to speak of the
trial of S.nith O'llrien, for it reminds mi of
ihe davs ol Fitzgerald anil Emmet, nut
there i one inridenl ol thos times, which
I can miition with more ralmness. Your
remarks su t'jr sted it. I will tell you of a
providenti tl interference, this time success
ful, in a trial of gun. what similar charac
ter. The actors w. re obscure and are now
for-rotten bv all except the few who then
stood in the court room and saw the hero
ism ol a p:or servant jrirl, trampling upon
her own love for the sake ol truth and jus
tice in the cause of Ireland. They never
ran forzet it. All that I did not at that
lime understand in the afiair, I afterwards
learned by inquiry ot o'lu rs so strong was
the interest that humble heroine made with-
n me.
Late on Hollowmas Eve, a young man
and girl were sitting together in the ser
vant's room of an Irish country seat. 1 he
latter was a fair and buxom lass, known far
and near as "pretty Mary Donovan." She
had an honest lace too, where the very
heart seemed looking forth, and one (or
whose real nobility a man might pledge his
life. At this moment it was clouded with
anxiety and timid love.
Verv near her ut a young man with
one of"those filse, handsome (aces that we
occasionally meet, and always look upon a
second time. J I is jjlossv hair was eiano-
ralely curled, and his eye hard and bruht,
like jet, was marked with insincerity. His
whole appearance was, as I have just said,
handsome and false. Had the young girl
whom he was so earnestly addressing, been
a physiognomist, she would never have
listened to his words, vid as it was, her
whole manner was wavering, distrustful,
yet tender.
Phelim, you know that I love you, and
oh! that I could trust ye too If I could
shut my i ye while ye talk to me, I'd wail
no longer but ?ive y the word at once,
but whenever I look in your eye, you seem
to be talking only with your lips, and so I
turn away from the face I should Jove to
look upon." i :
I understand ye, Mary Donovan," said
Phelim, bitterly, "And because the face I
was born with don't suit ye, you think I
am trying to cheat. Il' no use to fool
around you any - lonjer. I'll go to the
mountain! and join ,ht fighting Boyi to
morrow. ..... .
"Not because I tend you there!" ex
claimed Mary hastily. "Dear, Phelim,
forgive me, and I'll never vex ye again."
A glow, not of shame,' passed over his
face, a he aw the effect of his words in
this the firit giin of triumph, and he perse
vered 10 cleverly thai in a fuw moment!
they were betrothed, and he had wot the
first ripe kia from her dainty lip. Then
followed the interchange of love token,
usual among the Irish peasantry. They
could only exchange locks ol hair for they
had nothing else to give.
"Write on the paper around it the date
of the blessed night, Phelim, and it will be
twice as precious to me."
So he did, and Mary placed it carefully
next to her heart.
Then they began to talk of more serious
matters. Both were poor, but hopeful, and
ready to wait for some sudden turn of good
fortune, which they fondly drtamed might
come at any time. This discussion of ways
and means, and all impracticable projects,
carried them far into the night, so far in
deed, that Phelim, lover though he really
was, yawned sleepily as he took his candle,
saying:
"Good night, Mary dear, and don't for
get Hallowmas Eve."
"Ah Phelim," she replied, "I'll remem
ber it long enough lor us both."
So she did.
The next day brought tidings to the in
mates of hall that a large body of pea-
seants had risen during the past night, and
committed excesses, too common in those
times of apprehension and resistance. Nor
did they end with that ni jht's work. What
is known in history as the "Rebellion of
Ninety-Eight" speedily broke out, and for
months kept the land in most fearful agita
tion. At last, the rebellion was crushed,
and then commenced the trials of those
leaders who had been captured. All
crowded to the court to see their first men
brought to trial and condemned, almost in
variably, to death. One of these leaden
was of srreat notoriety in the vicinity of
Hall, and when his cite was called
from the docket, every man, woman, and
child, flocked lo the place of trial some to
sympathise with the aged patriot, some
to exult over his fall, and vry many to see
the man whose name had been held up as a
word of equal terror to refractory children
and full grown rren.
"Mary," said her lover, as he saw hrr
arrayed in rustic finery, "surely ye're not
going to the court to-day."
"Indeed I am," she replied, "I will go
and give the poor prisoner, a blessing with
my eye since I can do nothing else for him.
Why should I stay away, when a man is to
be tried for his lile, because he loved us too
well ? Surely we must go and say to him
l y our presence, that we are with him in
our Irish hearts."
It's no p'ace for women, I tell ye," ex
clui.r.ed Phelim, wilh sudden iolence, and
taen roaxinglv. "Indeed you must not
go. Slay at hotre and think of what I'm
telling ye, that I've get fifty golden !ruin
i as, anil we can be married next wei k, or
as soori a you'll only say the word."
"Fifty guineas in real go!d! Who gave
them to ye was it the master or "
"Hush. Hi-r.r the master's own voice,
cal ing me now, so I must go! Stay at
home Mary or 1'il not forgive ye."
"I don't understand ye, Phelim, and I
will go to the court," said Mary to her
self. "Fifty guineas of bright and heavy
gold blessings on the giver!"
In opening the case the prosecuting at
torney was observed to look anxiously
around the court, as if in search of some
particular face. Each lime lie was disap
pointed, and at last was obliged to announce,
that in the absence of i!s principal witness,
the Crown would first resort to other evi
dence. And meagr enough was that evi
dence to all in the crowded court. Every
Ihing manifested! y depended upon the prin
ciple witnesss, the Informer, and without
his speedy appearance, the prisoner would
doubtless be entitled to an acquittal. At
last, the Crown officer finished his other
evidence, and again peered anxiously about
the court. This time his face lighted with
satisraction.
"Phe'im Reeney."
"Phelim I" cried a faint, imothered
voice upon the opposite side of the room.
"Silencp there in the court!" shouted
the Sheriff angrily.
But there was no silence in Mary Dono.
van's heart.
"I see it now those fifty golden guineas!
Ah, they have made Phelim Reeneyan In
former, but they shall never make me his
wife."
The informer felt the moist,' yet flashing
eye of Mary Donovan, burning into his
brain, and he shivered with terror, but the
voice of the prosecuting attorney soon re
stored self possession, and he testified as
follows:
He had disguised himself, and joined the
rebels in their great meeting on the night
ol their first rising. He had especially
marked the prisoner at the bar, as the seem
ing leader, and the one under whose direc
tion Ihe whole body acted ! He heard this
prisoner utter words, and saw him do acts
of treason on that night. This was the sub
stance of his testimony, and so clear, full,
and direct was it through, that every one
av that the prisoner's life was hanging on
the words from this informer of every
thins, and found that he had done full jus
tice to his training.
The first question on the cross examina.
tion was in regard to the time of this affair.'
Phelim appeared to be. somewhat uneasy,
and replied in a very low tone.
"Louder!" cried one of tne judges.
"It was the night before the rising
Hallowmas Eve!"
"No ! it was not Hallowmas Eve !" ex
claimed Mary Donovan, rising with an un
controllable impulse. "Phelim! you are
not even an Informer you are perjured !"
There was dead silence for one instant,
and then the prisoner's counsel spoke up
sharply., . .'.
"What's this! Let that girl come to the
witness stand."
"Pale, but not trembling, she took the
place where Phelim had just s'ood.
"You v it wa npt on Ildl'owmas Eve
le all von know." "
i She fixed her eyes on her lover, ant! kept
them taere steadily until ant bad finished,
No one questioned or interruLted her in
the course of her broken testimony.
"Never would I be standing in this place,
your Honors, if the false oath and black
word had'nt come from the lips of Phelim
Reeney. Never Would I open my mouth
to condemn the man I love best, it he him
self had not compelled me to do it.
"This man wasotice my lover, l efore he
sold his country, and me too with it. And
the very night that he first spoke his false
words to me without check, was this same
Hallowma? Eve, when he swears he was up
the mountains disguised as one of the band
of that prisoner at the bar.
"We talked till two in the night do ye
deny it 1 Look then at this, which I take
from my bosom for the last time this lock
of your" hair, wrapped in a paper and
you've written on that paper, these words
with yer own hand: rhelim Reney to
Mary Donovan, 11 o'clock, Hallowmas
Eve
Take the paper and the hair, Sir 'twill
never come into my hand ajrain.
"Isn't the shaking of that guilty man a
good proof of my oath ? Ah, Phelim, I see
now where the 50 guineas came from, but
did ye think at the time what ye gave in ex
change for that bribe i
"This is all that I know, and oh! it is
too much for me to say! for it strikes down
the man I love, Phelim, why did you do
all this? An hour ago, and worlds wouldn't
have tempted ye to exchange places with
that man at the bar, but now there's noth
ing ye would not give to be this prisoner
yourself. Ye'il be despised and cut off
from among men, but never can evi n you
feel more misery than I shall find in all my
weary life, f r I loved yon, Phelim, and
yon have broken my roir heart."
The o!d gentleman Mopped here, but his
eyes were eloquent as he mused.
"Well?" said I, inquiringly.
"In the course of a Ions life," he con
tinued, "I have olteii heard the outpouring
of true genius, but never did I see such elo
quence, as there was in the eye of that ser
vant girl, when she faced her lover and
made him a criminal. Even the hard
hearted Judges were softened by the sight."
"What became of her?"
"Ah! this is a true incident, and vou
must not expect the ending of a novel. The
prisoner was acquitted of crime. Reenry
s.. flired the penalty of his crime, while
Mary Donovan rtir. d apain to her service,
forjotteti and uiiknown. Had Ireland then
attained her independence, you would have
long since seen h r t ame written in the
annals of that c!csp rate strife, and not have
heard of li r now, only Ihrourh a thance
story bv an a?ed wantii rcr from his own
unhappy land."
Krm tlieX. C. Delta.
the si in tr. n am: a i-assaci: to i ii.v-
riLTEI'EC
by a.x orncr.n of oir abmy.
Our division minsled with Clark's bri
gade, and the storming party had, a few
moments belore, entered the works, pell
mell, over the western wall of the castle,
when a camp follower came running up,
out of breath, from the direction of main
building, which had just beer, taken posses
sion of by our troops. He called out be.
fore reaching the sK)t where at the mo
ment my attention had been drawn to some
wounded prisoners "for God's sake, Mr.
officer, send to the cave under the castle;
for I heard the Mexicans say that it leads
to a mine under the magazine, and we'll all
be blown up!" The recollection of bav
ins heard, during the armistice, Irom an
old English resident, that there was a sin
gular underground passage under Chapulte-
pec, now (lashed upon my mind, with the
strong probability of its being used to ex
plode the magazine ol the castle, il not ar
ranged as a mine itself. I started forward
instantly, calling on a sergeant of the 15th
inlanlry lo lollow, and, making my way
as rapidly as possible through the mass of
our soldiers, now filling up the lower terre-
plrin, descended the northern on an in
clined beam which lay against it, and made
towards that part of the foot of Ihe hill at
which T had before heard the entrance to
the ravp was to be found.
This side of the elevation was exceed
ingly steep, and broken up into masses of
loose rock, among which w re strewed
muskets, swords, cartridges, and military
accutrementSjCast away by the panic strick
en Mexicans, several hundreds of whom
had saved themselves by rushing down this
precipitous descent on the storming of the
entrenchments. T stumbled over more
than one writhing in the agonies of death,
now in possession of the desperately de
fended castle.
In a few moments I found myself sorely
bruised ami begrimed with smoke and lust,
at the entrance of the very passage I was
in search of being apparently pne of the
caves uncommon in the porphyrite rocks of
the valley, and nearly on a level with the
surrounding p'ain. At the moment of my
arrival, a Mexican soldier emerged from it,
holding in his hand a piece of candle,
whose light had just been extinguished.
On seeing me he tell on his knees; atid in
the most abject manner supplicated for
quarter, my uncouth appearance probably
adding to his alarm, though, indeed, he had
some cause for anxiety, for our indignation
had been excited to the highest point by
the cruel massacre of our wounded com
rades on the bloody field on Molino del
Rey; and the glaring eyes and compressed
lips ot the men told too plainly to be mis
understood what would likely be the fate
of those who should meet them in the heat
of battle.
I auppwed this Mexican had probably ust
li rhtej the match, which might destroy a
vital portion of our army, and strongly felt
inc'ined to make him keep company with
those he hat thus doomed to destruction j
on second thought, however, I ordered bin
to guide me into the cave, to which he most
piteously objected. Having no time to
parley, I seized the candle which he had
dropped, and the sergeant coming up at the
moment with some matches, it was lighted,
when pricking my prisoner forward, lo his
extreme terror, we entered the gloomy
opening before us. The cave soon con
tracted to a narrow passage, leading appa
rently in nearly a horizontal direction, be
low and towards the east t-nd of the fortifi
cations. There the Mexican appeared to
be overcome with fear, and sunk in a state
of helplessness to the ground, where, leav
ing him with the sergeant, I again sought
to make my way, through clouds of dust,
over the lragmetits of rocks which nearly
blockea up the opening, & Were passed with
considerable difficulty. The smoke of burn
ing gunpowder now became so thick that
the light of the candle almost expired in
the vitiated atmosphere; and stumbling at
each step over the loose stones, I expected
momentarily the explosion of the mine
would send us all to "that bourne from
whence no traveller returns.".
My anxiety now overcame the excite
ment of, the battle, and I shuddered to
think of the fate which in an instant might
involve so large a portion of the American
army. Increasing my efforts to get for
ward, in a few moments I heard the clank
ing of a sabre in front, and the well known
challenge, "quien five," uttered by a voice
but a few paces in advance. Springing
over an intervening obstacle, I found my
self face to face, in a vaulted chamber, with
a grim-looking Mexican sergeant in full
uniform. He immediately pave himself as
a prisoner; and to my eager inquiritsabout
Ihe existence of a mine, replied in some
words I did not understand, and pointed
significantly from the candle to. the floor,
which I then saw was thickly strewed wi.h
cartridges.
The noise and shouts of the troops alove
could now be distinctly heard : and I
found, on scrutiny, sounding with the han
dle of my sword," that we were at the ter
mination of the passage in a chamber re
sembling a dome, through which a verti
cal opening, less than three feet in diame
ter, extended above to the surface of the
rrround. down which columns ol smoke
r ...
nrnv nnd then found their way. liut no
attempt, evidently, had been made to use it,
either as a mine or a channel to fire the
main magazine, which I afterwards found
was nearly over this chamber, and the ver
tical opening terminated just in front of its
floor on Hie upper lerrepieiu. im vuii
ridges I accounted for by supposing that
one or more boxes of them had tiillen
through the opening during the melee.
It appears strange, on first itw, that
the Mexicans had not used this chamber as
a mine ; for it bore the appearance of hav
ing been excavated for that purpose.and its
explosion would r.ot only have destroyed !
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that part of the castle at;ove it, cut wouia
necessarily have fired the reat magazine
then crammed with powder to its roof
which would have involved in ruin, proba
bly, the entire fortification, wilh more than
half the American army producing a dis
aster similar to, though far exceeding in
importance, the explosion of Fort George
in 1813. The art of mining was evidently
well understood by them, since, on the as
cent of our troops up the hill, during the
battle, four of their mines were passed over,
the trains of which, enclosed in a narrow
black canvass bag, (saucissens) looking like
huge black snakes, reached to Ihe ditch of
the main work whence it had been de
signed to have fired them at the proper
time; but the headlong rush of our soldiers
at the heels of the retreating enemy pre
vented a cat? rophe, the result of which
on the morale of our army, at that critical
moment, might have been followed by the
most deplorable consequences.
In the battle, the Mexicans had undoubt
edly expected to have repelled our assault
on the works by defending them to the last
extremity, and hence seemed not to have
entertained any plan which contemplated a
pos.-il)le retreat ; in which, as that the bat
tle of Contreras, they committed a funda
mental error in the science of war, which
resulted in both cases in great slaughter,
an 1 the entire dispersion or capitulation of
their battalions engaged. It certainly may
be said that the neglecting of this impor
tant military principle was more frequent
with the American than the Mexican army.
But then there was this important difference
in the two cases, that whilst its violation
by the latter was produced by a blind con
fidence of success, with the former it was
the result of stern necessity ; for our army,
like an unsupported forlorn hope, found it
self far in the interior of an enemy's coun
try, cut off from its natural resources, and
opposed by a force greatly superior in in
fantry, artillery, and cavalry, long inured
to the practical operations of war aided
by the deadly hostility of thedense popula
tion, whose active co-operation was only
restrained by the appalling boldness, ener
gy, and skill of the invader joined lo a
wonderful combination of fortunate circum
stances through the war, too conspicuous to
be the result of chance, and which could
only have happened by the favor of Hea
ven.
For what purpose the subterranean pas
gage was made, I was never able to find out.
With the exception of the shallow cave at
the- entrance, the whole had been cut out
of hard porphyrite rock, evidently at great
expense and labor. It posaiuiy may nave
been designed as a secret way of communi
cation with the castle. The opening is
near what is called Montezuma's garden,
once doubtless the delightful shady retreat
ol the villa of the Altec emperors, adorned
in one direction by those magnificent cy
press trees, the large trunks of which stand,
like giants, to guard the entrance to this
conw-crated ground j rhiU their foliage,
hoary with the accumulated moss of ages,
involuntarily excite! the veneration of the
b bolder, aa he tbua traces back their on.
gin Icyond even the shadowy traditions of
the primeval racrs. How different the
scene which al this lime presented itself to
that of former days! Tlnse kings of the
forest were now scarred and torn in a
hundred places by artillery, end the shat
tered limbs and broken Lranches drooped
over their roots, steeped in blood; lor even
at one spot between their, and the cove,
and but a short distance from itsmouth,one
hundred and forty dead bodies, horribly
mangled l y our shot and shells, had been
pitched down from the upper walls of the
fortification, which at this side overlook the
precipitous rocky declivity ; and long will
it be before the remembrar.ee will pass
away from my mind of this sickening sight,
in connexion with the gloomy subterranean
passage of the castle of Chapultepec.
A CHILD'S FAITH.
A beloved minister of the gospel was one
day speaking of that active living faith, which
should ut all times cheer the heart of the
sincere follower of Jesus, and related too a
beautiful illestraiion, th.tt bad just occurred
in his own family.
He had gone in a cellar which in Winter
was quiet dark, and entered by a trap door.
A little daughter, only three years old, was
trying to find him, and carne to the trr.p door
but on looking down all was dark, and she
called :
"Ate you down cellar, pnpa?"
"Yes, would you like to rome, Mary V
"It is dark, I can't come down papa."
'Wei!, my daughter, I am right below you,
and I can ee yon, ihouli you cannol see me,
nnd if you will diop yourself, wjil catch
yor."
'Oh. I shall fall; I can't si?e yon, papa?"
'I know it," h? nnswered, ' but I i.m real
ly here, And you shall not fall or hint your
self. If you will jump, 1 wiil catch vou safe
ly." Little Mary strained her eyes to the ut
most, but coulJ catch no glirr.pse of her fath
er. She hesitated, then advanced a little
further, then summoning nil her resolution
she threw herself forwaid, and was received
safely in her father's arms. A few days af
ter, she again discovered the ueliardoor open
and supposing her father lo be there, she cal
led :
'Shall 1 come again, pipi V
"ies, tny dear, in a minute' he replied,
and had j'ist time to reach his arms towards
her, when, in her childish glee, she fell shout
into his arms, and clasping his neck,
said
' I knew, dear pnpa, I should not fall."
WOlXItN'T MAURY A MECHANIC.
A young man commenced visiting a yourj
woman, uud appeared to be well pleased
One evening be called when it was quite
late which led the gill lo vuquiie where he
had been.
'1 had to work to night.'
'Da you work for a living?" inquired the
astonished girl.
Certainly,' replied the voting man, 'I am
a mechanic.
My brother dosn't work and I dislike the
name of a mechanic,' and she turned up h'.-r
pretty liitle nose.
That wus the last time the young mechanic
visiied iha young wuman. He is now a
wealthy man and has one of the best women
for his wife. The young lady who disliked
Ihe name of a mechanic, is now the wife of
a miserable, miserable fool a tegular va
grant about grogshops and s-iie puor misera
ble girl ii obliged to take in washing, in order
to suppo't herself and children.
You dislike the name of mechanic, whose
brothers do nothing but loaf and dress be
ware how you treat young men who work
for a living. Fat better discard the well fed
pauper, with all his rings, jewelry, binenets
nnd pomposity, nnd take to your affections
the callous handed, intelligent and industrious
mechanic. Thousands have bitterly regreiled
their folly, who have turned their backs to
honesty. A few years of bitter experience
have taught them a severe lesson. In this
country, no man or woman should be respec
ted in our way of thinking, who will not
woik bodily or mentally, and who curl their
lips wilh scorn, when introduced to a hard
working man.
HEAD WORK.
Head woik i the hardest work in the
woild. The artizna feels this if at any time
he has to spend a whole day in calculation.
All men of learning testify lo the same truth
nnd their meagre frames and shallow com
plexions tell a plainer tale than their words,
Sir E I ward Coke, the great Knglish lawyer
speaks ihua concerning his great woik-
While we were in band with tbec four
pari of the lualiiuies, we often having occa
sion to go into Ihe country, did in some aort
envy ihe slate of the houcsl ploughman and
other mechanic. Foi one, when he was at
work, would merily einp, ''d the ploughman
whwlle me self-pleasing lime, and yel their
woik boih proceeded and succeeded ; but he
lhat lake up"" himself lo wiite, doih capii
vate all the faculties und powers both of his
rpind and body, and roust be only attentive
to that which he eollecteth, without any ex.
presaion of joy or cheerfulness while he is at
his work " "
- A racT An evangelical old lady, hearing
her eon aUp out an oath ou Sunday, exclaim
ed. r "My dear, what are you about I What do
you think of the law and the prophet 1"
Vhat dol think of them 1" said be, 'hjr
I thiuk fAe law fotltts thi profits most infer,
nally."
HIIMAXIIT OF A BEAR. '
The bear is capable or general attachment.
Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, had a bear called
Marco, of the sagacity of which we hate the
following remarkable instance: During the
winter of 1709, a Savoyard boy, ready to p.
rish with cold in a burn, in which he had
been put by a good woman, with some more
more ol his companions, thought proper to
enter Marco's hut, without reflecting on the
danger which he ran by exposing himself to
the mercy of the animal which occupied it.
Marco, however, instead of doing any Injury
to the child took him between his paws, and
warmed him by pressing him to his breast
until next morning, when he suffered him to
depart to ramble about the city. The young
Savoyard in the evening returned to the hut,
and was received with the same affection.
For several days he had no other retreat, and
it added not a little to his joy, to observe that
the bear regularly reserved part of his food
for him. A number of days passed in this
manner without the servants kndwing any
thing of the circumstance. At length, when
one of them came one day, to bring the bear
his supper, rather later than ordinary, he was
astonished to see the animal roll its eyes in
a furious mnnner, and seeming as if he wish
ed to make as little noise as possible, for fear
of waking the child, whom hn had clasped
in his arms. The bear, though ravenous, did
not appear the least moved with the food
which was placed before him. The report
of this extraordinary circumstance was soon
spread at court, and reached the ears of Leo
pold, who, with part of his courtiers, was de
sirous of being satisfied wilh the truth of Mar
co's generosity. Several of them passed the
nilit near his hut, and beheld, villi aston
ishment, that the bear never stirred as long
as his guest showed an inclination to sleep.
At break of day the child awoke, and much
ashamed to find himself discovered, and
fearing that he would bo punished for his
temerity, befrged pardon. The bear, how
ever, caressed him, and endeavored to pre
vail on him to eat what hud been brought the
evening before, which he did at the request
of the spectators, and afterwards conducted
him to the Prince. Having learned the whole
history of this singular alliance, aid the time
which it had continued, Leopold ordered care
to be taken of the little Savoyard. '
THE WIFE'S COMMANDMENTS.
A Sundsy paper published in Ciiiclnnattij
gives the following as a correct version, for
the use of doubting husbands. Listen .
1. Thou shall have no other wife but me.
2. Thou siialt not take into thv house any
j beautiful brazen image of a servant girl, to
bow iio--vn to her, tor I atn a jealous wife,
visiting, &c.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of thy
wife in vain.
4. Remember thy wife, to keep her res'
pectably.
5. Honor thy wife's father and mother.
C. Th'iu shalt not fiet.
7. Thou shalt not find fault w ith thy din
ner 9. Thou shall not be behind thy neighbor.
10. Thou shall not visit the rum tavern;
thou shalt not cdvet the tavern keeper's rum,
nor his bntmi , nor his gin, nor his whiskey,
nor his wine, nor anything lhat is behind the
bar of the rum-seller.
11. Thou shalt r.ot visit billiard saloons,
neither for worshipping the dance, nor the
heaps of money that lie on the table.
And the twelfth commandment is, thou
shalt net stay out later than nine o'clock at
t.ifcht.
one or uonvs.
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The man Horn has perpetrated several ter
rible jokes lately. A sick man npproarbed
the poll to vote, and Horn challenged his
vote. The sick man turned angrily upon him
and said :
"You've known me, Jem Horn, fur twenty
years you know 1 was born in this city
have always voted here. What do you mean
by challenging my vote 1"
"Because," replied the sinner, wilh a smile
"1 consider you nn tMegal voter!"
The individual went home aud discharged
his doctor.
A person named Owen Moore onee left his'
Uadesmen somewhat unceremoniously, oa
which occasion a wag wrote :
Owen Moore has nm away,
Owiu' more than be can pay.
SniTTtNc nit DirrratNca . -The author of
ihe following atrocious libel on the sex, has
escaped. A sharp look-out should be kept
for him : A nice youni man, not a thousand
miles from this, after a long and assiduous
courtship, found himself one bright evening, '
the bettothed of a very pretty girl, the very
pink of modesty. One night he was" about
to take his departure, and after lingering a
bout the door for some time, in a fidget of
anxiety, declared and protested to Mia Nau
cy, thai he could not and would not leave
until ahe kisned him. Of course, Miss Nan-
cy blushed beautifully red, and rotested, in
turn, lhat she could not aud woolduotdo lhat
She never had dona such a thing, and never
would, until she Wei married. so new hst
had it. The altercation became deep and v!
exciting, until the beiroihed buffed oulrjfM,
aud declared ifbeootildn'ikiasherhe eouldnV f
have her and was nrarcaing off. She waiclK
ed him at the gate, and saw "the fa wia irf
ibe fite" unless something was don. . . rf
.; Wk,'thn '. sakl .she," iwf1jr
'I'll split the difTetfuee iih youJf
$fuem my hand .'"
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