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BT MIa. M. E. HEWITT.
Oh! not llio bppgnf who speks your door,
In his tatters, unshameil, bctlight; "
But tientilily's sensiiirp, Buffering poor
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flow, ; .
Of Poverty's pen and ink.
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From tho worldly whose sneer wo dread
For the pride? like ' the ancient criminal,
chained
Tho living unto the dead. 1
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Untutored in work a day thrift,
Whose portion is poverty, striving and care,
And to live by making a shut.
Select (Talc.
THE FIRST KISS.
BY AS AMATEUR.
When I speak of kissing, I don't include
kissing mother, or sister, aunt, or grandma',
or the little people : that's all in the family,
and a matter of course. I mean one's wife,
sweet heart, and other feminines, that are
not kin or blood connection. "That's the
sort to call kissing," and that is the sort 1
am going to describe.
There is a beautiful village about twenty
four miles north of New Haven, ealled in
the Indian tongue, Pomperany. What it
means in Indian I don't know. It was not
taught us in the district school up there,
where we learned our a b c's and after
wards progressed as far as n-A, ba; kk-p.,
vim; Baker, when I was allowed to grad
uate and enter the "Youth's Seminary,"
under the charge of the Reverend Mr. Ful
ler. One of my schoolmates in the latter
place was a bright, intelligent boy, of the
name of Walter Marshall. I loved him, so
did every body else in the old village love
him. He grew up to manhood, but not
there, Noj New England boys don't grow
up at home before they reach manhood
they are transplanted, And are flourishing
in all parts and ports of the known world,
wherever a Yankee craft has been, or the
stars and stripes.
Walter Marshall when he reached the
aje of fourteen, arrived in New York from
his native village in the destitute situation
that is frequent among the New England
boys ; that is to say, he had only the usual
accompaniments of these unfledged chips,
who alterwardx make the merchants and
great men of this country, and not unfre-
quently oi other hums. He hud a little
Wooden trunk, pretty well stocked with
"hum madis," a sixty-eight cent bilile his
mother packed in for linn, h-arful that he
might forget it, a three dollar New Haven
city bank bill, and any quantity of energy,
patience, perse vcrauce and ambition. He
entered the counting room ot o large mer
cantile house in South street. His honesty,
activity and industry won nun many
friends. Among them was an English
merchant who had a large commercial house
in Calcutta, and a branch at Bombay. . He
was in this country on business connected
ith His commercial firm at Calcutta, and
did ms business with the firm Walter clerk
ed it with ; and here the latter attracted his
notice. He was sixteen years of age only,
'yet the Bombay gentleman fancied him,
made him a liberal otter to go to India with
him; which, after very little palaver
among his friends, Walter accented. New
England boys don't often start oil on their
unusually lonjr, wandering excursions, with
out first getting leave ol absence lor a lew
days prepartorj exercise, which they spend
in going wiiere tney originally came irom,
and then, having a few good looks at the
weather-beaten old village church, the high
old steeple, which has wonderfully, redu'
ced in sue and elevation since they first
saw it, to notice it. ta school-boy .days
then they must hear the old bell ring once
more, even if they have to take spell at
the rope ; then take a turn among the white
grave stones see it there are any very green
mounds, fresh made, and if so, to ask who
among old friends has gone to his last rest
ing place ; then to kiss mother and sisters
shake hands with father and the stage is
at the door of the tavern, and they are
ready for a start to go "any where."
Walter went up to do aud did do, all
this ; but he did not get into the stage at
the tavern. He walked down the road
ahead of the coach toward the old bridge.
and told the stage-driver to stop and let him
get in It the minister's house at Farson
Fuller. Mary Fuller lived there too, lor
alio Happened to be the parson's only daugh
ten She was the merriest, loveliest little
witch that ever wore long loose tresses of
auburn hair, and bad brae eyes. ' She was
only twelve yean old, ana Walter was
nearly seventeen. Sbe did love him
though ; he was almost all ia all to her ; he
had fought her battlei all through her child-
isn campaign; ana sne naa no Drotner.
one was waiters cousin too, a son oi nan
first cousin, for her mother had been the
half sister of Walter's mother. They were
not too near related, for purposes hereafter
to bo named.
Poor Molly ! she would have cried her
eyes otit on this occasion, had it not been
that Walter's solemn phie get her ideas of
the ridiculous in motion ; and she made a
merry ten minutes as a vindnp to their
parting scene. Three daj4 afterwards
Walter was in New York, and just four
months and twenty days farther -oh in
Time's almanac he was making out invoi
ces and acting a? corresponding clerk to
tne hrm" in isoinimy. .. i
I shall not stop long enough to relate
how many times he went to the exhibition
of venomous-looking cobra de capcllos bit
n nf p ... .
ng epoys just lor lun, ana to snow now
nnocent the beauties were, and how easy
their bite was cured ; how often he visited
the far famed Elephant caves ; how many
times he-dined with good Sir Robert Grant,
the Governor of Bombay, and how he was
with him, and what he said the very morn-
ng ot the day the old scourge, the cholera.
made the excellent Sir Robert his victim
II these things I shall leave to another
time, and a more apprepriate heading. I
skip over all these, and six years ot lime
beside, and land Master Walter at Staten
Island, bring him up to the city in a steam
boat, and leave him at a respectable hotel,
nd there let him sleep all night, and take
good "shore rest," after a tedious voyage
of four months and more.
The next morning we awaken him;
make him get up, pay his bill, take a hack,
and ride down to the New Haven steam
boat, and go on board. It is seven o'clock,
M. At one, r. AL, the boat has reach"-
il the landing; his trunk and "trips" are
on board the Litchfield singe '. he has taken
seat inside; bis destination is an interme-
iute village. He is alone in the stage ; no,
not alone ; there is an old woman on the
front seat, and a Presbyterian clergyman
on the middle seat. The stage is up in the
ily, and slowly meandering about New
Haven town, picking up passengers, who
have sent their names to the stage oflice, as
is still customary in that staid and sober
city of mineralogy, theology, and other
ologies in general. I he stage Jehu pulls
at the door of a neat little cottage in
Chapel street to tako up a passenger, a
young lady of sweet seventeen or therea
bout. Before she has fairly got inside,
Walter has noticed her, and she has noticed
un too. He gazes in astonishment at the
perfect vision of loveliness before him; he
hasn't seen anything of the kind for some
ears. J here is not a particle of copper
about her. She, on her part, half laughing,
has regarded him very attentively ; pushes
back the golden ringlets that almost shut in
er face, and takes another look, as if to
be certain that she has made no mistake.
"Here is a seat, miss, beside me," says
the gospel preacher.
"lhank you, sir, but I prefer sitting on
the back seat with that gentleman, if he
will let me," said the most electrical voice
that Walter bad listened to in some time.
'Certainly, miss," said the delighted
Bombay ite; and when she seated herself
by linn, she gazed into his face With such a
queer kind of mixed up delight and aston
ishment, that Walter actually took a look
doVu upon himself, to ascertain what there
was about his person that appeared to be
so pleasing to the fair maiden ; but he dis
covered nothing unusual. 7 he stage rolled
on toward Derby, at its usual rapid rate of
five . miles an hour, and Walter and the
merry maid seemed as chattey and cosey
together ns though they had known each
other fur vears instead of minutes. The
minister tried to engage the ringlets in con-
ersution, but lie soon found himself "no
where." She had neither eves nor ears
for anybody else but Walter ; and he had
told her more about his travels, and Bombay
scenery, than he ever 4old anybody else be
fore or since.
At last they came to Derby. ' Their hor
ses had to be changed, and four fresh skele
tons were harnessed and tackled on to the
old stage. ' Walter handed the gentle girl
back to her old seat as gracefully as he
could have done had he never lived in
Bombay, but always stopped in New ot. '.
They were alone now : the minister and
the old woman had got out at Derby.
"Well we are off once more ; how far
are. you going!" raid Walter, as the stagb
went oil. . f . , . i
"Not quite as far as Litchfield. You say
that your friends reside at Pomperany.
now glad they Will be to see you."
"Very probably, unless they have forgot
ten me which is likely, for I suppose I have
altered some' in six years." 1
"Not a particle, I .;
fVt 1 a a
me pretty maid lorgot what Khe w as
going to say, but at last remembered and
continued n . 1 -
"I should suppose you had not altered.
for you said you were seventeen when you
was last at your home, and now you are
only twenty-three. You must have been
grown nearly as large as yon are now.'
, "1 ernapg so ; but still, Jam somewhat
tanned by exposure in an East India cli
mate."
"Y' t I think you will be recognized by
every body in the little village. , Do you
know a young lady in Pomperany of the
name of Mary Fuller Y' I
.Whatl little Mary? my little wife,'
as I used to call her! Wny, Lord love
you, do you know her! Bless her heart!
My trunk ia filled with knick-knacks for
her especial use. ' Do I know herf Why,
I have thought of her ever since I was
away. , Young lady t why, she is a little
bit of a girl ; uie is only ten years old.
No ; she must be older than that now, I
suppose I shall find her grown considera
bly. By the way, are you not cold ? It's
getting chilly."
The ilelio,hled yo'Jng lady was trying to
conceal tier lace, Which had called
forth
waiter's exclamation
"Yes, it is. getting colder: it is nearlv
dark ;" and so it was. Walter had a boat
cloak, and after a very little trouble he was
permitted to wrap tt around her lovely
form ; and Somehow or other his arm went
with it, and in the confusion he was very
close to her, and his arm was around her
waist, outside the tloak though ; then he
had to put his face down to hear what she
said, and somehow those long ringlets of
soft, silky hear, was playing across his
cheek. Human nature could not and Would
not stand it any longer; and Walter, the
modest Walter, drew his arm closer than
ever, and pressed upon the warm rosy lips
of his beautiful fellow-traveller, a glowing,
burning, regular East India, Bombay kiss,
and then blushed himself at the mischief
he had done, and waited fof tile 6tage to
upset or something else to happen ; but no,
she had not made any resistance; on the
contrary, he felt very distinctly, that she
had returned the kiss ; the very first kiss
too he had ever pressed upon a woman's
lips since he gave a parting kiss to little
Mary Fuller, and he would have sworn he
heard her saying something, (about the very
moment he had given that first long kiss of
youth and love,) that sounded like "Dear,
dear Waller." He tried the experiment
again, and before the stage had fairly reach
ed the village, he had kissed and re-kissed
her, and she had paid them back kiss for
kiss at least a hundred times. I
The elttge was now entering the village.
In a few moments he would be at Maty
Fuller's house. He thought of hefy and he
felt ashamed and downright guilty,. What
would Mary, his 'little wife' lbat'wasto be,
say, if she knew he had been acting so ?
As these things passed rapidly through his
mind, he began to study how to get out of
the affair quietly and decently.
"You go in the stage, I suppose, to the
next town, or perhaps still farther!
"Oh, no! not me."
What could sic mean ! But he had no
time to indulge in conjecture ; the stage
drove up slap in front of Parson Fuller's
door, and there was the venerable parson
and his good lady in the door way ; he
with a lamp in his hand, all ready to re
ceive Waller, as he supposed.
"Where will yob stop in the village 1
I will come and see you ? "I shall stop
where yor stopi I won't leave, you.
Here you have been kissing me this last
half hour, and now you wont to run away
and leave me. I am determined to expose
you to that old clergyman and his wile in
the doorway yonder. More than that,
your "darling little wife" that is to he, as
you called her in the stage, shall know all
about it."
What a situation for a modest, moral
man ! It was awful. To be laughed at
exposed : and who was she ! Could it be
possible! He had heard of such charac
ters ! It must be ; but she was very pretty;
and he to be the means of bringing such a
creature in the very house of the good and
pious old clergyman and his sweet old pet
and playmate his Mary Fuller! He saw
it all. It was a judgment sent upon him.
What business had he to be kissing a strange
girl if she was pretty ! His uncle and aunt
had come clear down the stone-walk to the
door-yard gate, almost to the stage door,
which the driver had opened. Walter felt
that he was doomed ; but he had to get out.
"Don't, for God's sake, expose me, young
woman ! I will get out."
"Ob," thought Walter, "it's all over with
me ;" and now he shakes hands with the
clergyman, and flings his arms around the
aunt.
"Mary!" exclaims the mother; "our
Siary in the siage, as I live! bo, so; you
would come up with your cousin, eh!"
; ''Yes, mother; and what do you think
the impudent East Indian has been doing?
He has kissed me at least a hundred times,
and that isn't all; he tried to persuade me
to keep on in the stage, aud not get out at
all."
"Ah, no wonder he kissed you ; he hasn't
seen you for some years. How glad you
must have been when you met! But what
is the matter with you, Walter 1 Let the
driver stop and leave your trunk at your
father's, as he goes by, and do you come
into the house. Why, what is the matter!
A re j'ou dumb 1"
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself, Wal
ter, not to speak to my mother, when she
is talking to you!" chimed in Miss Molly.
Walter now found his voice, and before
he got fairly inside, Miss Mary was his
debtor for a round dozen of kisaea which
she took very kindly. But as for Walter,
his mind was made Up. He had turned
over the subject during the la-it three min
utes. He would marry that strange girl. .
He was grateful;' she had saved him from
depredation,' lost of character, and every
thing else; but would she forgive hun for
being so free with a stiaugc girl in a stage
coach! Doubtful; hut she w ould have the
chance at any rate.
The wanderer received a glad Welcome
from his family and friends in his old native
village; and Mary Fuller was his travel
ling companion about : the place ; and to
gether they crossed the door-sill ol every
old sarin nouse wmun a circle oi nve nine
round. , Walter had seen enough ol the
outside of the great world.. He had made
some money, too, enough for his modest
wants) he was old eneugh to marry and
to was Mary Fuller,1 and before three
months more had rolled over their heads,
the venerable old father made them one, in
the front parlor of the old glebe. When
the vows had been spoken, the last prayer
made, and the blessing pronounced, Wat
ter clasped Mary to his breast, and imprint
ed on her lips another first kiss ; but nqw
it was the first thrilling kisj of married lOve
and as he held her moment in his ardent
embrace, she whispered gently into his ear
-"Walter, dear, it is understood in tVio
vow, no more kissing strange girls in a
stare-coch ! '
Years have flown by since then, and
now Walter Alarshall and his gentle w ife,
and the little people they call their "stock
In trade," are living pleasantly and happily
somewhere on the other side of the Alle-
ghanics) near a place called Pittsburgh,
where he owns large tracts ot mines not
umbug, wishy-washy, shining gold, but
real, hard, substantial coal mines, produc
tive to himself and to the country he lives
nt
Written for the American.
tnr. vriNoEh tvttnsiurr'Eil.
Athhcsscd to a bird that fete in St. James1
Church, Muncy) during divine service.
Bv Louis Le'Roy.
Bright, shilling one)
What seek ye from the fields of air!
No evil thou hast done,
Thou hast no sins, no need of prayer.
Or didst thou think
To join with ns, ihy sinless praise,
And thus thy chirping link.
That with our songs to Him) 'twould raise !
'
Then list ye now
To hear our chant ascend on high,
List, if ye would learn hoxv
We, praise the God of earth and sky.
Nay, hnppy bird,
Bo frightened nut our songs of praise,
As, yet lliou hast nut heard ;
Hark,, list, and with ouii, let thitio raise.
Stny j et, oh slay
A little longer, guiltless one,
Oh, be not thus ntvaj-j
Our-sacrod task will soon bo done.
Yet if thou will
Begone, bear these bur prayers nbnve,
Then hasle thy task liillil,
And bo the messenger of love.
WildHmspurt, Nov. 11, 1849.
LATIIERISd AS ENGLISHMAN.
It ihay appear strange at first, but never-
less it is true) that in Vermont there is occa
sionally Che of tho b'hoys; aud practical jo-
era aie brought up in every house. I be
lieve it is necessary for a man to have consi
derable of the Yankee about him in order to
sell a green 'un completely. The slight in
cident I wish to relato was nothing premedi
tated; it was forced upon the perpetrator,
and if you do not consider It cool enough for
warm spring daysj I shall be inclined to think
you are more accustomed to sedatives than 1
supposed. '
Dan, one of the greatest specimens of the
bean-pole' family now extent, was loafing in
in the Exchange Hotel, Burlinclon, Vermont,
a few days since, With nothing particular to
burthen his mind, and seeing tho morning
paper upon tho table in the barber's room, ho
stepped in and set down to lead. He had
not been engaged but a few moments, when
a portly Englishman, just from the province,
came puffing in at the door. Ho looked a
roUnd for a moment in some doubt as to tho
probability of his being in the right shop, and
finally growled out rather than said
'Is the barber in ?'
'I am the person that shaves,1 said Dan,
slowly erecting his long, lank figure. 'Can 1
do anything for you in my line: V
John Bull eyeing his proportions a moment
and taking oif his hat sat down with tho air
of one perfectly lesigncd to the ignominious
fate of being shaved by a Yankee.
Carefully tucking the clean, wliito napkin
about his customer's double chin, Dan pro
ceeded to nlako some lather. With a liltlo
troublo he found a small shaving cup contain
ing a bit of 'Wiiidtsor' somewhat larger than
a big pea, into which ho turned a gill of
warm, not hot water, and pioeeedod to beat
up the soap in the most approved manner,
until tho lutber, if so it may bo tailed, was
ubout the color and consistency of milk. Then
motioning his already somewhat impatient
customer to lay back, he Commenced cover
ing hi. face with tho liquid, beginning at the
the tip top of his nose aud working back to
wards hi ears.
'What! what! what's I hut furl1 blub
bered out Bull.
'Keep your mouth shut,' said Dan, aa the
brush slipped from the end of the nose into
the cavity below. '1 Cannot work when you
are talking '
Dan continued the operation of lathering
until there was scarce anything uncovered
but the forehead aud eyes, aud it was pretty
curtain that the soap and. water was under-
iiiing the very fouudaliona of the English
man's enormous standing collar, when sud
deuly he required a clean towel, and stepped
oul to procure one.
The kiiglistinirtn Waited u while but no
cloan towl appeared. His neck wus begin
ning to feel uncomfortable, uud tim liquid,
devoid of anything in tho ehapo of froih, was
klowly trickling down his back aiidsliouldon
when ull at oiice the idea flashed across his
mind that ho was sold.
'The dam' Yankee'.' was his first iustiuc
live exclamatiou, then catching his hat he
rushed for the door, but was loo lute ; he just
caught a glimpse of Du'u'a fkirt aa he turned
into Maiu street and waa out of sight. .
The di&ooiniilted Englishman turned back,
and begau to pace the floor, squaring about
the cursed Yankees. After taking (wo or
three turns he stopped, thought a moment
and then burst into a loud laugh.
'Here, landlord, does that fellow board
here!'
'He does,' answered the grinning host
'Well, give him that tobacco box. and tell
him if he ever comes to Montreal, I want
hirt to come mud See me, and t will eater
tain him like a prince.'
Here the bell tang fot the boat.
REMARKABLE AtCIOKjtTi
. At Whitehaven, England recently, a little
girl was crushed to death by a locomotive
which dashed into her fathei'a h)usc. Tho
circumstances are thus re'ateJ in the report
of the inquest :
Shortly after leaving St. Bee's the train
had to descend an incline of something like
twelve feet into the town, and there being a
hoar frost upon the rails, whico rendered
ibem very slippery and caused tho train to go
much faster than usual, the engine-driver at
tempted to reverse tho engine, which is dono
by fixing a particular handlo in a catch. Tho
bundle, however, slipped back several times
out of its place, until on Hearing the station
at Whitehaven, seeing that an accident was
(most inevitable, the brakes were put on,
and the driver once more attempted to reverse
the engine but in doing so the engine got
four strokes forward, and passing tho station
ran through the outer wall of the house of
Mr. Pennington, and through another Wall
nto his back parlor. Tho liltlo girl, Jano
Pennington, was at the time silting singing
n the kitchen, when tho engine passed over
her, much mutilating her, and Causing imme-
iato death. The engine, on dashing into
the parlor, knocked the lire-grato out of its
place, throwing the burning contents over tho
forehead and breast ofalitllo boy, John Pen-
ingtnn, eight years old, the occupier's son,
who, however, is likely to recover, though
e will in all probability bear tho marks for
fe.
Tilii Planetary System, as it is now Un-
EnsToon Sir J. UnnsciiKi. has lately ex
pressed his opinion that it is impossible any
onger to attempt the explanation of the move
ments of all tho heavenly bodies by simple
theory, these comets, with their trains per
versely turned from tho sun, deranging eailly
our systematic views. Nor are these (writes
Humboldt) any constant relations between
the the distances of the planets from the cen
tral body round which they revolve and their
bsolute magnitudes densities, times of ro
tation, eccentricities, and inclinations of or
bit or axis. VVo find Mars, though moro dis
tant from tho sun than either the Earth or
Venus, inferior to them hi magnitude ; Sa
turn is less than Jupiter, and yet much larger
than Uranus. The zone of the telescope pla
nets, which are so inconsiderable in point of
volume viewed in the scries of distances
commencing from the sun, comes next before
Jupiter, the greatest in size of all the plane
tary bodies. Remarkable as is the smull den
sity of all the colossal planets which are fur
thest from the sun, yet neither in this respect
can we recognise any regular succession.
Uranus appears to bo denser than Saturn, and
(though the inner group of planets differ but
little from each other in this particular) we
find both Venus and Mars less dense than
tho Earthj which is situated between them.
The time of rotation increases, on the whole,
with increasing solar distance ; but yet it is
greater in Mars than in the Earth, and in Sa
turn that in Jupiter. Afte rotlier remarks of
the same character, he adds : "Tho planetary
system, in Its relation of absolute magnitude
relative position of the axis, density, time of
rotation, and dillercnt degrees of eccentricity
of the orbits, has, to our apprehension, nothing
more of natural necessity than the relative
lislributioii of land and wator on the surface
of tho glube) tho couflration of continents, or
tho elevation of mountain cluius. No gene
ral law, in these respects, is discoverable ci
ther in tba regions of space or in tho irregu
larities of the crust of tho earth." English
paper.
How Holland was Gathered Togxthkr.
No description can convey tho slightest no
tion of Iho way in whiialt Holland ' has been
gathered, particle by particle, out of the
waste of waters, of tho sliaugo aspect of tho
country, aud the incessant vigilance anil
wondrous precautions by which it is preser
ved. Holland is, in the fullest sense, an al
luvion of the sen. It consists of sand and
mud rescued from the ocean and banked up
on all sides. Produced by tho must dexte
rous and indefatigable exertions, it can be
maintained only artificial means, tf tho ef
forts by which it was redeemed from the
waters were to be relaxed, the ocean would
reassert its right?, ami the uhulo kingdom
would be submerged. The slightest accident
miyhl sweep Holland into tho deep. It was
once nearly unuermincu uy an insect. In
deed, tho neoessity of destroying insects is
so urgent that the stork, a grent feedor upon
them, is actually held in veneration, and al
most every species of bird is religiously pro
tected from injury. Bird-nefetiog is strictly
prohibited by luw, The drift of all this is
palpatio enough. But it is curious thut iho
very exutenco of a great country should de
peud upon such guarantees hcntlef$ Mis-
all(iny. . , ,
Pivoacr.s in Connecticut. A. clerical
gentleman of Hartford attended tho House of
Representative laat Spring Id read prayer,
aud being polituly roquoalod to romaiii sealed
near the Speaker during tho debute, uolouud
himself the spectator of an unmarrying pro
cess, so alien to his own vocatio.i, and so
characteristic of tho Legislature of Connecti
cut, that the result was tho following:
! impromptu; ' ' ' '
Addrtsstity a Min;sttr to the Ltgishiture of
'Connecticut
' For cu(-ing all corttic'rt-Uiiia famed,
CoiiiKYf-i-cul ia fairly named !
1 twain conni-cf in one. but you '
Cut those whorn 1 connect in I wo.
Each Legislature seems to say,
Wh' you Connie It tt ay "
COMMUNICATION. '-!
For the American.
VARIETY-HARMdSV; ' ' - .
So harm6nious is the mind of God, that all
his works bear the same impress; so essen
tial is variety to harmony, that we behold
in all of thorn, no matter whether our eye
be directed beneath, around, or above nl.
Tho tiny insect that crawls at our ftiet'-tnA
majestic caglo that basks his gaudy plumage
in the sun beams tho delicate flower that
scents the air tho giant oak that stands disi
tingtiishqd amongst the other trees of the
forest, together with the many twinkling start
that bespangle the canopy above us, and thd
Bun that rises in the east and journeys thro'
tho heavens, and finally sinks into the western
main; ull aio different and harmonious in
themselves, and in the relations which Ihey
sustain to tho other parts of creatidm ; :,
Tho wild rose with its many beautiful col:
ored petals and systematically arranged
stamina the flower-bed with its varigated
aspect the chirping of the merry songster blf
the air the far winding river the story teU
ling glen the broad and diveisified laruU
scape tho ripplingof the rivulet, the roaring
of tho cataract, tho howling of tile tempest
the pealing of tho thunder, are not only har
monious in themselves, but have a corresi
ponding harmony in man. His mind is comi
posed oT faculties through which all naturt
speaks variously and harmoniously, llehbe;
ns tho celebrated Rauch well remarks in his
psychology, "man is the ccntro c)f nature,
the echo of tho universe." The painter
gazes upon tho beautifiTl landscape and gives
it expression upon hi canvas; the poet ob
serves the same ami expresses it in his song;
tin: naturalist classifies t lie dilfercnt objects
which constitute it ; and the philosphcr search
es out thn life, tho principle, which binds
them together in one harmonious wholei
Nature, however, does not simply find com
sciousness in the personality of man, and di'
closo tho fact, thai, as its diversified cliarafc:
ter is harmonious in itself eo, also, it has &
corresponding harmony In tho human mind)
and stop there) but it even leads us up to God
himself. (
How beautiful and perfect Is crcatidn as
presented to us under this view. From the
Smallest plant up to the banian tree) which
offers repose to more than seven thousand
persons under its shade, from the little infu
sorium, of which five thousand millions may
live in one drop of water) Up It) the luminous
planets, which icvolve above us, nay) front
tho minutest atom up to God, all) all, is har
mcny.
How elevated how majestic how- goti
like, is the station which man thus comei
to occupy in tho universe, the connecting
link between uatureaud iho Deity. . .
Thus wc perceive, however various nature
may appear to us, that it is still harmOnions,
and not a combination of divers parti; which-,
have no connexion with each other at all)
like a mass of inorganic matter, Where the"
part is as perfect as the whole; C. At .
Sunbury, Nov. 10, 1849. .
A DOG THAT CHEWS TOBACCO.
A friend has just related to us a curidui
fact in natural history, respecting a dog.. In
Noilh A tile bo ro, Mass., there is kept in a
manufacturing establishment, a large mastiff)
who takes as much comfort with a quid of
tobacco, as docs the most inveterate lover pf
tho weed. So habituated has he became to
its use, that he must have it, and will ait all
day In tile centre cf tho woikshop chewing
away with a great appetite and a good rolish.
Ho became thus much like a man, by play
ing when young, with ''old sogers," as the
ends ir scgars are professionally termed. In
such play ho would occasionally find a "so
ger" in bis mouth, until a taste was formed
for tho tobacco, which has since continued M
increase, and now ho is what ho is. We be
lieve this to bo the only institute on recotd
of any animal but man, and one specie of
worm, using tho weed from pure love of It.
Boston Cabiiut.
Two police otiioers attempted to arrest
drunken American sailor al Valparaiso.-"-.
Jack told tbein he would go with them qui
etly, but they must not touch him; but they,
not understanding him, undertook to hvy hold
of him, when Jack caught each Of them by
the back of tho neck aud knocked their head
together sevoml times with great force, and
then suddenly tumbled both into the gutter
and walked oil, very much to tfc6tntKement
of the lookers on.- ' ' "i
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Original of Washington's FabwklL. '
The executors of Mr. Claypoole, of PhiladeU
phia, oiler for fcdo tho original manuscript of
Wushiiifjiou's Farewell Address, tt ihoaldv.
bo purchased by tho gcfietal Jfyerumeaf.
Tho Uuo veuerablo Wm. Rawlo luug joacribaa,
" Mr. Claypoole podacd to mo i;,
and I Mw with revewuce ttna Uc,nUwffflrt
quarto book, cltailii1g oW xU
all ... tho 1 ,1 lhu
bears IDYoughuut tho, ioa,U U wigiual axrni
pi'ou. There, aw many erasures and fa.
torlmeationsi a ititii4imaiiL.ik ..r l
... ,-.... . t-aiagnpas,
and oihor indication of it coming imroedi
alely from tho Land of an uuaasialed iudi
viduul. I countod th number of Untwin
the woik, which amounted to t,086, and of
lines tirused thero Vete 1T4. i .
"Mother," said Jemima Spry to her venev
table maternal rohuive, "Sam Flint want, to
come courting rhb to-iiight."
Well, yon jade, what did you (ell hi.a V
"Oh, I told him he might come; I uUd
lo e how rir foot uonW act ,'''