MERK A JAN. II. B. MASSER, EDITOll AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE, MARKET STREET, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE. a jFiimlla ilctospnpci'-Drtiotclr to DolWcs, aftrrnturr, ili.oinlft",. jfctffflit an) Domestic ltos, scfcnrc nnU the arts, Slurfculturr, markets, amusements,.. NEW SE1UKS A OL 'I, NO. ltt. SUM1U11Y, NOUTIIUMI1KKI.AM) COUNTY. VA.f SATUISDAY, JUNK S, IS,?!.. OLD SERIES VOL. 11, NO. 39.. TERMS OF THE AMERICAN. TTIK AMKWCAN 1. rnMinlfil every ftituntny nt TWO DOLLARS ..-r n mi to be .mil half ywirly in ilv.nc. No paper discontinued until AM. nrreurnges are paid . All communications or letters on Wines relating to we office, tu insure attention, iniiHt tic I'liss 1 r.il. TO fU'lif. Three conies to "tie nddrcss, P.100 Seven- li Do in lit) Kiftemi J) 1) a in) Five dollars in mlvnnee will pny for thtec yeur's sul acriplion to the American. On. Ronnie of 10 lines, tl tunes, Every subsequent insertion, One Square, U months, Si inonllis, One venr, ItiiMines Curtis of Five linos, per nitniim, Merchants rind other, iidvcrtisinir hy Hie year, with the privilege of iuterting dift'Tent nilveilisi'iin'iils weekly. flF Larger Advertisements, us per agreement. (I 0U 5.i nun 4..U nun :iihj 10 uo A T T O li N H V A T L A W EUNBUHY, PA. B iniinrgs attended In in the Counties of IVor thumhciluiiil, Union, I . v coin i n and Columbia. Kelts- to i V. & A. Ivovoudt, Lower t Darren, Koiners & KnoiUrrass. rhilait. Mevnolds, McKiirlaml A. Co., pcring, (iond tV Co., IIEW STORE AT HOLLOWING RUN. At the Crofs 11 ui'fj. near .. D. Conrtvh, J.nirrr Azvrla. .1. li. KA1.WMAX RESPECTFI.'l.I.Y informs his fiicnds and the public generally, that lit' lias just receiv ed and opened n new stock of poods, which ho ww otters lor s ilo on the most icimduuMc terms. I is stock consists in part of im woods. SfCIl AS Cloth, Cussiinrres, Sultau-ltf, Merinos, frc. Hummer wear of nil Kinds Muslins, Calicoes, (inr,lninis. Chocks, cV.e. A I. SO : An assortment nf Hardware of all kinds, most generally in use. ALSO: (Irocor'u's of nil Kinds, At Sugar, Cojfe'. Ten, Mibwct, Spirits. lee. ALSO: Quocnswarc and Crockery ware, a full assortment. Also Silk Hals, Cliiji Hals. olid S'.rcw Hals. ALSO : An assortment of Ia. piers, viz : Brandy. Wink, Wiiiskkv, c. Hesides a variety nf other articles, most poncr nlly used and in w mt hy farmers and other per lipiui, all of which ho will sell la (.mchascrs at u caving of ten ier cent, hy calling on him. All kinds of produce taken in exchange for goods at the highest market price. Hollowing Kun, Ap.il "-(!, 1S31. if. MNOTANDliUMMES CLOlIilNG. EVKKYliOUV klioi.ld t n. !i:aeo this opportu nity to huy Cl.O TlilNCi for Men, Youth and Hovs, at such prices as havL- never yet hcen known in tliis Citv. nt (ilHUHJl'. CCI.LN'S ('LC)THIN(i KSTAUU -iilM l'.NT, South-Knst ('orner of Market and Secoini S. reels, I'hilailel phin, rnihracing n ehijce of the host, most der.ira ele, and fashionahle DRESS AND FROCK C0AT3, Iabit Cloth do., Linen Drilling do,, Tweeds, &c, 6ic, together with a great variety of Boys' Clothing. Consisling of Sai'k Coats. To'ka Jackets. Mon key Jackets, Yesls nnd Koiind Jackets made of' Tweed, Linen Hri'ling, Cloth, Alpacca, Kersa Inier, l)tcskiu, S:c., iNc. rurlicular eare has hcen taken to procure the ijew styles lor Men and l!os' Summer Coats, Pantaloons, ests, Vc, to w hich he would imile special attention. Furnisliin UooUs, Consisting of Shirts. Stocks. Handkerchiefs. iVc: all of whicll, are ollcrcd at the oirr.tl I'ot-nlift . Prires, and as cheap as any other Cklhing Store In the L'nion. Parents who desire Hoys' Ci.hthi5o arc ear neatly invited to examine the Stock. Country Sloreketpcts can he aeeonunciiiitej at very low rateu. trEtl!(rI'. Cl'LIX. S. E: Comer of Sccnntl tV MurUt Sta. l'kila. April 1Q, 1831. !!'. TO ADVERTISERS. You ore respectfully informed, thrj C. FISilCE, General Adveiti".i!jj Newspaper Agant I1A1 Tim a:kncv For all papers iienrnllij in ihe V. St'ilcs. A bYKKTlSI'US ean alwavs see their aiUer- y tiseinents when published, as he wishes to keep a regular fil.i of all papers he advertises in. From bis experience with ;ewspaieis in adver tising in rily and ronnlry, uJrrlier would lind iX to vlivir interest to consult with him upon the .abject. C. PIKKCK, Gen. Aili-e.-tisins Aft., h'dlchn Untitling. Philadelphia, April ltt, 1851. ly. " NATIONAI7 HOTEL, SHAMOKIK, Northiuiiberland County, Pa. riHE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public generally, Unit Inj uas open ed a new Hotel in the town of Shair.okin, iSor thuniberluuu couulv, on thu corner of Shainokin nsd Commerce streets, nearly opposite to the House lie formerly kept. He ia well prepared to accommodate his guests, and ia also proviuwl with good stabling. He trusts his eeiience, and atriet attention to business, will induce per sons visiting the coal r. gion to continue the lili cral natronage lie bus lKjvlcforc received. 1 WILLIAM WEAVER. Shanioldn, April l'J, 1H50. tf. TAMES II. MA(iEK Afj removed from hi old Maud, INo. lis Vine street, to A'o. 53 Dillwijn St., hcCn CuVhill If Willow,) hqrc he lias constantly on hand, BROWN STOUT, PORTER, Ale and Cider, , voa uofcF. coKsi;rTio.N oa BiurriNC. N. B. Coloring, Bottling, Wir and Dottles, Vinegar, Ac. For sale as ubove. Philudelphiu, April 1?, 1851 ly. Lycoming Mutual Insurance Company. DR. J. B. MAUSER is the loral agent for the above Insurance Company, in Northumlsr lani county, and ia at all tiinei ready to affect Insurances" against fire on real or personal pro perty, or rcnewi3 policies for the same. Sunbury, April 20, 185L tf. J Llsf ltf-S' FiiiJ BII,is. "ale by II. B. MA WISER. Hunkury, April 26, 1851. SELECT POETRY. A Merry Heart. ?Tis well to ltnvfi n mcny honrt, However short wn stay, There's wisdom in n merry heart, WltutpVr ihn win Id may say ! . riiilosnphy may lift ils head, ' And iiiul out iiiiiny o flaw, Dnl irivp tm that ihilosipliy 'J'hat' happy Willi a struw ! If life but lirinps lis haipiness It Inins lis, we me told, What's hard to lutv, though rich one lry-e Willi till their heaps of col.l i Then liiuili nw.iy Id inheis say Whaled ihe.y w ill of tnirlli ; Who liitiL'hs ihe most may linly tay Hi:' got the wcallli of earth. There's beauty in a tiiotry hiugh, A mural beauly loo II shows lhe heart nn hniifst heart-, That's paid each man his tine; ; Ami lent a sharp of what's lo spate, IVspiie oi wisdom's (eats, And made lhe eheek less sorrow speak ; The; eve weep ieflcr tears. The snn may shrond ilsnlf in cloud, The tempest wrath beoin ; It finds a spark In cheer the litirk, I:s sunlight is within b Then laimh away, .I nlliprs say Whatp'er they w ili if mirth ; Whn lauohs thn most may truly boaut ! He's hdI llm weallli ii: tutU ; ZX 5 kctc I). THE USURER'S GIFT. A few months n;o, iti London, nn old man s;it in a I.irprt panelled room in one ol (he streets near SjIio Square. Everything: in the apartment was brown with as;e and neglect. iN'othiiio; more superlatively din gy could well be imagined. The leathern covers of (he cllaiis were white and glossy at (he elites; the carpet was almost of a uniform tint, notwithstanding ils original fraud v contrasts. There were absurd old eiiirravinos upon the walls relics ol the infancy of the art ; and curtains to the windows, which the smoke cf years had darkened Irorn a delicate fawn, to a rasty chocolate color. I.i the centre of the room, and, as it were, the sun of this dusty system, stood an office table of more mod ern matitilactiire, nt which was seated the old man alluded to, sole lord and muster of the dismal domicile, lie was by profes sion a money-lender. His aj;e miht be from sixty to sixty-lite years. His face was lotir, and bis features seemed carved out of box-wood or v. How sandstone, so destitute were they ol mobility, his eyes were ol a cold, pale, steel color, but his brows were black and tufted like a frrini old owl's; a Ion.' aquiline nose a thin and compressed month, ami a vast doub. chin, buried in a voluminous white neckcloth of more than one day's wear, completed the portrait. Nor did the expression of his I countenance undergo anv perceptible change as, after a timid knock, the door opened, and a young; man of singularly in teresiing appearance entered. The new coiner was well dressed, though bis clothes were none ol the newest, and had the air of a mat; hccusiomed to society. His pale brow was marked with those long; horizontal lines of which time is rarely the artist. His dark, deep-set gray eyes flash ed with a painful biiirhtness ; his Ion"; chestnut hair, damp with perspiration, cluno; in narrow strips to his forehead ; his whole manner implied the man who had made up his mind to some extraordi nary course, from which no wavering or weakness on Ids part was likely to turn hi in aside, whatever the opposition of oth ers might compel him to abandon or deter, mine. Rending his tall figure slightly, he addressed, the money-lender in a tone of coiislrameu calmness "Yon lend money, 1 believe?" 'Sometimes on good security," replied the usurer indifferently, forming a critical summary of his visitor's costume at a glance. The str.niLier hesitated ; there was a dis couraging sort of coldness in the mode of j delivering this answer that seemed to pre judge" his proposition. Nevertheless, he resumed with an t (lort "I saw your advertisement in the paper." The usurer did i.ot even nod in answer to this prelude, lie sat bolt upright in his chair, awaiting further, information. "I am, as you will see by thee papers, entitled to some property in reversion." The usurer stretched out his hand for the papers, which he looked over carefully with the same implacable tranquility, whilst his visitor entered into explanations as to their substance. Once only the money Jender peered over the top of a document he was scan ning, and said gruflly : "Your name is liernard West?" "It is," replied the stranger, mechani crjly talking up a newspaper, in which the first thing which caught his eye was the advertisement aiiuded to, which ran thus: 'Monky to any Bnmint advanced immediate',' or. rfry iiew riplion r.r seeinily, real or persiiitil. Apply between the li'.nrs of tea ami live, U Mt. Julia lluce, street, t liU Stuiire." Afler a brief interval of silence, the usu rer methodically re-arranged the papers, and returned them to the stranger. 'They are of no use," he said "no use whatever ; the reversion is merely contin gent. You have no available security to oer." "Could you not advance something upon these expectations not even a small sum ?" "Not a farthing," said the money lender. Is there no way of raising fifty thirty even twenty pounds?" said the stran per, anxiously, and with the tenacity of a drowning man grasping at a straw. "There ia a way," said the usurer, care lessly. West, ia his turn, was silent, awaiting the explanation of his compan ion. "On personal security," continued the latter, with a sinister impatience, be ginning to arrange his. writing materials lor a letter. "I will give any discount," said the young man, eagerly. "My prospects are good ; I can - " "Gel a friend to be security for the pay ment of the interest ?" "Of the interest and principal, you mean ?u "Of the interest only and the life in surance," added the usurer, with a slight peculiarity of intonation that might have escaped the nolicp of one whose nerves were less exalted in their sensitive power than those of his visitor. "jtnd what sum can I borrow on these terms?" said West, gloomily. 'A hundred pounds more if you re quire it. in fad any amount, if your se curity be good." "The interest will doubtless be high ?" "Not at all lour or five per cent. As much is often given for money on mortgage of land." "And the life insurance?" "You will insure your life for five hun dred pounds, and you will pay the pre miums with the interest." "For i re hundred ?" said West, hesita ting. " That is, if I borrow " 'One hundred," replied the usurer, sharply. "Men who lend money do not run risks. You may die, and four out of five insurance oflices may fail; but the chances are that the filth would pay." "Hut it is not likely," began liernard West, amazed at this outrageous display of caution. "I do not say it is likely," snarled the usurer, with a contemptuous sort of pity fur his visitor's dullness of apprehension; "I say it is possible and I like to be on the safe side." "Well,, und how is the affair to be ar ranged ?" "Your security, who of course must be a person known to have property, will give a bond guiratiteing the regular payment ol interest and premiums that is all." West reflected for some minutes in si lence. The faint expression ol hope that had. for an instant lighted up his counte nance vanished. He understood the mon ey lender and his proposition. A sulli cier.tly clear remetnhrar.ee of the tables of life insurance which he had seen enabled him to perceive that the interest and pre miums together would amount to nearly twenty per cent., ami that the bond enga ged his security to pny an annuity for his (West's) lile of that amount. It is true that lull of energy and hope, he felt no doubt ol his capacity to meet the payments regularly ; it is true that, monstrous as were the terms, he would have accepted eagerly still harder ones, had it simply de pend, don his own decision. I'ut where find, or how ask, a friend to become his bondsman? He ran over in despair the scanty list of acquaintances whom his pov erty had not already caused to forget him. He fell that the thing was impossible. There was not one he could think of who would have even dreamed of entering into such a compact. He turned desperately to the money lender. 'I have no friend," he said, "of whom 1 could or would ask such a service. If I had, I should not he here. Are there no terms, however high on which you cao lend me even the most trifling sum, for which I myself alone need be responsi ble f" "None," replied the usurer, already com mencing his letter. 'I will give thirty per cent." 'Impossible." "l iltv f The usurer shook his head impatiently. "A hundred cent, per cent.?'' "No!" The strange seeker of loans at length rose to depart. He reached the door. Suddenly he turned back, his eyes blazing with the sombre radiance of despair. He strode up to the table, and planted himself, with folded arm;-, immediately in front of the usurer. "Mark me !" said West, in a tone tf deep, suppressed passion, like the hollow murmur of the sea before a storm ; "it is a question of life or death with me to get money before sunset. Lend me only twenty pounds, and within twelve months I will repay you one hundred. I will give you every power which the law can g'.ve one man over another; and 1 will pledge my honor, which never yet was questioned, to the bargain I" The usurer almost smiled, so strangely sarcastic was the contraction ol Ins fea tures, as lie listened to these words. "I do not question your honor," he said, icily, 'but honor has nothing to do with the business. As for the law, there is an old axiom which says, 'Out of nothing, nothing comes."' Bernard West regarded the cold rocky face and the passionless mouth from which these words proceeded with that slinging wraih a man feels who has liumiliated him self in vain. Nevertheless he clung to the old flinty usurer as to. the last rock in a deluge, and a sense of savage recklessness came over him when he advanced yet clo ser to the living cash box before him, whilst the latter shrank half tei rifled be fore the burning gaze ol his visitor's dilated pupils. . Laying his hand upon the money len der's shoulder, by a gesture of terrible fa miliarity that insisted upon and command ed attention to his words, West spoke with a sudden clearness and even musical dis tinctness of utterance that made his words yet more appalling in their solemn despair : "Old man, I am desperate; I am ruined. It is but a few months since my father died, leaving me not only penniless, but encircled by petty obligations which have cramped every movement I would have made. I have had no time, no quiet, to make an eflort such as my position requires. This day I have spent my last shilling. 1 am too proud to beg, anil to borrow is to beg when a man is known to be in rat' distress. Within one hour from this time I shall be beyond all the tortures of a life which for my own sake I care little to preserve. And yet I have spent my youth in accumulating treasures, which but a brief space might have rendered produc tive of benefit to man, and of profit lo my self. My father's little means and my own have vanished in the pursuit of sci ence, and in the gulf of suffering more im mediate than our own. If I die also, with me perish the results of his experiments, his studies, and bis sacrifices. There are moments when all ordinary calculations and prudence are empty baubles. Life is the only real possession we have, and death is the only certainty. Lisb n ! I will make one last proposal to you. Lend me but iuii pounds that is but ci weeks ol life and 1 swear, to yuu that if 1 live, 1 will repay you (or each pound lent not ten or twenty, but one hundred in p.ll t lie thousand pounds! Grant that it be but a chance upon the one hand, yet upon the other, how small is the risk : and then, to save a human life is not that something in the scale !" And the stranger laughed at these last words with a bitter gaiety, which caused a strange thrill lo creep along the nerves of the usurer. However, the lender of gold shrugged lis shoulders without relaxing his habitual impassabilily of manner, lie did not speak. Possibly the idea occurred to him that his strange client meditated some act of violence upon himself or his strong box. I!ut this idea sneedilv vanished as the stran ger, relapsing suddenly into silence and conventional behavior, removed his hand from the usurer's shoulder, and strode rap idly but calmly from the apartment. The door closed behind the ruined man, and the Usurer drew along breath, whilst his biiahy brows were contracted in a sort of agony of doubt and irresolute purpose. Meanwhile liernard. West paused lor an instant on the threshold of the (niter door, as if undecided which road to take. In truth id! roads were much alike to him at that moment. Some cause toj subtle to be seized bv the mental analyst, determined biscour.se. lie turned to the. right, anil strode rapidly onward. He felt already like one of the dead, to join whom he was hunting headlong. He looked neither to the riht nor to the left ; and before l.iui was a mUt, in which the phantoms of bis imagination disported themselves, to the exclusion of all other visible o! jects. Nothing earthly had any further interest for him. He did nut even hear the steps ol some one running behind bun, nor hear the voice w hich called alter him to stoji ; but his course was soon more ell'-ctu.iily arrested by the firm jriasp if a man's hand, which seized him by tie' arm with the lorce and the tenacity ol a vice. lie turned fiercely round, lie was in no humor lor the converse of casual ac quaintances. Nor was it any gay coiivi vialist of happier days wlu::;e lace now greeted him ; it was the old money lender, who, in a voice husky with loss of breath, or possibly emotion, said, thrusting a cou ple of twenty pound bank notes int Wci-t's hand Here! take tlies1 notes. Take them, I say !" he repeated, as the young man, diz.v with amazement, stammered out : "You accept, then, my terms!" "No!" growled the usurer, '-1 jrec Ihein ti you. Do you understand me? 1 say 1 oi'i'e them to you. 1 am an old man ;. I never gave aw ay a shilling before in my lile: Jiepay me u you win, wnen aim how it pleases you. I have no security I ask no acknowledgment; I want none. I do not count upon it. it is oomo.'" and the f.hiirer pronounced the last words with an t llort which was heroic, l.oni ttie evi dent self mastery it cost him. "There! go go!" he resumed, '-and take an old man's advice Make money at all hazards, and never lend except upon gooil security. Remember that !" The obi man gently pushed West r.wav, and all hutless and slippered as he was, ran bock muttering to his den, leaving the object of his mysteri ous generosity fixed like a statue of amaze ment in the centre ol the pavement. About three months had elapsed, when lieinar.l West once more knocked at the door ol the money lender. "Is Mr. Liace at home !" he inquired cheerfully. "Oh, if you please, sir, they buried him yesterday," replied lhe servant, with, a look of curiously affected solemnity. "Jjuried him!" cried the visitor, with sincere disappointment and grief in his tone. 'Yes, sir ; perhaps you would like to see Miss lirace, if it's anything very par ticular ?" "I should, indeed," said West; "and when she knows the cause ol my visit, I think she will excuse the intrusion."- The servant uave an o.ld look, whose significance West was unable to ditine, as die led lhe way lo her young unstress's drawing room. West entered timidly, for he doubted the delicacy of such a proceeding, though bis heart was almost bursting with a desire of expansion under the shock just received. A beautiful and proud looking girl of nine-, teen or twenty years rose to meet him. Her large blue eyes which bore traces of many and recent tears, worked strangely upon his feelings, already sufliciently ex cited. "I came," he said, in his deep musical voice, "to repay a noble service. Will you permit me to share a grief for the loss of oiip to whom I owe my life!" West paused, and strove vainly to master the emotion which checked his utterance. "My father rendered you a service!" said the young lady, eagerly, regarding with involuntary interest the noble coun- tenance of fiernard, which, though it sti" bore traces of treat suflering, was no Ion ger wild and haggard, as at his interview with the money lender. "A most unexpected and generous ser vice," replied West, who, softening down the first portion of the scene we have de scribed, proceeded to recount lo the fair orphan the narrative of the great crisis in his destiny. "I knew it was so !" cried the young la dy, almost hysterically allected ; "I knew he was not so grasping, so hard-hearted, as they said ai he himself pretended. I knew he had a generous heart beneath all his seeming avarice ! Oh, you are not the only one, doubtless, whom he has thus served !" West did not discourage the illusion. Nay, the enthusiasm of the charming wo man before him was contagious. "Thanks to your father's disinterested liberality," he resumed, "I am now in comparatively prosperous circumstances. I came not merely to discharge a debt ; believe trie, it. ia no, common, gratitude I feel! Doubtless you inherit all your, la ther's wealth ; doubtless it is but little ser vice I can ever hope to render you ; yet 1 venture to entreat you never to forget that you possess one friend of absolute devotion, ready at all times to sacrif.ee himself in every way to your wishes and to your hap piness." West paused abruptly, for the singular expression of the young lady's features fill ed him with astonishment. "You do not know, then " she began. 'Know what ?" "That 1 am a natural child !" she completed with a crimson blush, turning away her head as she spoke, and covering her lace with her hands "that 1 am with out fortune or relations; that my father died intestate; that the heir-at law, who lives abroad, and without whose permis sion nothing can be done moreover, who is said to be a heartless spendthrift will take all my father h aves; that I have but one more week given me to vacate this otise bv the landlord ; in short, tnat 1 must work if I would not starve; that, in a word, I am a beggar!" And the poor rr.irl sobbed convulsively ; whilst liernard West, on whom this speech acted as some terrible hurricane upon the trees of a tropical forest, tearing up, as it were, by the roots, all the terrible stoicism of his nature, and rousing hopes and dreams which he had long banished to tne deepest and most hopeless abysses of his soul ; whilst hernard, we repeat, ventured to take her hand in his own. and calm her painful agitation by such suggestion; as im mediately occurred to his mind. "In Ihe first place." he said, "my dear Miss fJiace, I come to repay to you your father's 'generous irift." "It belongs to his legal heirs. 1 cannot receive it with honor," said the money lender's daughter, firmly. "Not so," replied West, gravely ; it was a free gilt to me. I repay it by a natural, not a legal obligation ;" anil he laid the two twenty pound notes upon the (able. "Next," he resumed, "I have to pay a debt of gratitude. 1 owe inv life to your father. Thus, in a manner, I have to be come his adoptetl son. Thus," he conlin tied, impetuously, "I have a right to say to you, regard me as a brother ; share the pro duce ol my labor;, render me happy in the thought that I am serving the child of my benefactor. To disdain my gratitude would be a cruel insult." "I cannot clistiuin it !" exclaimed the daughter of the usurer, w ith a sudden im pulse of that sublime confidence which a noble and generous soul can alone inspire. "Yes 1 accept your. a.i.stauce !" The face of Bernard brightenuJ up, as if by an electric agent. f!i;t how wi re the two children of sorrow confounded bv the discovery that tiiey were no longer alone, Mil that their conversation had been over heard by an utter stranger, who, leaning against the wall ut the farther end of the room, near the door, appeared to survey them with an utter indillerence to the nro priely of such behavior. lie was a man of between forty and fifty years; a great beard and moustache concealed the lower part of a swarthy but handsome countenance of rare dignity and seventy of outline. His dress was utterly un-Laiglish.. Avast mantle with a hood, fell nearly to the ground, and he wore huge courier's boots, which were still spbuhed, as if from a journey. His Teat dark eyes rested with an expression of loyal benevolence upon the two young people, towanls whom he advanced with a, courteous inclination, that as if magueti- ca.lly, repressed Eernaid's first i.ndnant impulse. "1 am the heir-al-lw," lie said, in a mild voice, as if he had been announcing a most agreeable, piece of intelligence. "Then, sir," said LVrnard, "I trust " "Trust absolutely !" interrupted quickly the foreign looking heir. "My children, do you know w:ho I am? No? I vvill tell you. 1 am a monster, who, in his youth, preferred beauty to ambition, and glory lo gold. For ten years after attaining man hood I struggled on, an outcast from my family, in poverty and humiliation, with out friends, and often without bread. At the end of five more years I was a great man, and those who had neglected, and starved and tcorned me, came to bow down and worship. But the beauty I had adored was dust, and the fire of youthful hope quenched in the bitter waters of science. For ten years since I have wandered over the earth. I am rich ; I may say my wealth is boundless ; for I have but to shake a few fancies from this brain, to trace a few ciphers with this hand, and they become gold at my command. Yet jnaik my wordi, my children ! One look of love is, in my esteem, worth more than all the applause of an age, or all the wealth ol an empire !" The dark strcjiger paused for an instant, as it in meditalion,lhen abruptly continu ed : ' lake your inheritance, fair child ! roh the orphan and the fatherless !" and the smije of disdainful pride which followed these wolds said more than whole piles of parchment renunciations as to his intention. Involuntarily the orphan and Bernard seized each a. hand of the mysterious man beside Ihem, who, silently drawing the two bands together, and uniting them in his own, said gently "Love one another as you will, my young friends, yet spare at times a kind thought for the old wandering poet ! Not a word ! 1 understand you, though you do not understand yourselves. It is as easy to tell a fortune as to give U." And wits the prophecy realized ? asks a curious reader. But no answer is needed ; for if the prophecy were false, why record it? And, pray, who was the stranger, al ter all? Too curious reader! it is' one thing to tell stories, and another to commit breaches of confidence. A SLAVIC fAS.E l.N CLEVELAND. The Cleveland Herald of May 31st, hag the follow ing account of a tdave's lufusul lo leave her mistress : Yesterday Miss Minor, a lady from Lpui- sianna, who in company with her uncle was Mopping at the New England,, was cited lo appear before Jiulyo Atkins to show cause why idie, restrained Ihe liberty of Mary Bryant, a slave woman who was with her. Miss Minor did not appear but said Mary was at liberty to po were she pleased. The Jadye dudatul Miry free, but she insisted cm going back to her mist rem whom she had attended from infancy. The colored peo ple who bad been active in the matter were exceedingly chagrined at this result. We were not present, but are informed that the Judge wasted much breath in ex patiating to the setvatil on the blessings of that freedom which she did not seem to de sire, and in persuading her to profit by his decison. At eveunig tbo New England Omnibus conveyed Miss Miner's family and Mary Bryant, to tho Empire Slate. A crowd of negroes, some of w hom had been heard to say that the slave should not leave the city, lathered about the gangway, and, as she anempted lo pasa on board, one of them caught her by the diess. Mr. Clark Warren Deputy Marshall, ordered him to desist, and, fearing the "cane" ho did so, and she went on board. A stout negro then stepped for ward and said, "you are nil ollieer of the law, this is the law of the land, but there is a law of God." "Yes," replied Clark, "and if you ilon t leave this spot, you'll feel thu giace of (JoJ over your head from my cane." The advocate of "higher law," moved bis boots speedily. Mr. Minor ten dered Mt. Warren an eagle lor the service rendered, which, as he had only done w hat Cleveland officers always will do protected si tankers from aunoyunee and insult, w as very properly declined. The Empire Stale ptoreeiled on tier w ay with tho woman w no had the pood sense lo prefer the guardian ship of those who had been always kind, to lhe cold charities of tbosu whose piolessions would furnish but scanty raiment, food or comfort Tin-: Tiii'i: M.tv. I l -ve t!;e ni'tn lliat will dine lo lift Hi v'ire for ttie uriiLli'ifr o..r ; Ttie II: Ml tiuil will open his heart, nor cleaa 'i;.nnt the lieiu'.ir at tlie door. O give me a heart that will firmly slau.t When the .tonn begins to lower A hiuiit tliat will never ultriiik if gr;icrt, la iniM'orltinc'f darkest lKur. ki:ki'ix the teeth t lean. At a meeting of lhe Ameiican Academy, December 18-1'J, a paper was read by Dr. II. J. Bow-ditch, on the annuel and vegetable puiasjies infesting lhe teeth, wi;h the eifec'.s of different agents in causiiir; their removal and des',rnc.lii,:i. Microscopical eamiuation have been made of th.i mailer deposited on the teeth and gums of mure than forty indir viduals, selected from all clases of society, in every variety cf bodily condition ; and in nearly every case aniin and- vegetable par asites in great numbers lujd been discover-, ed. Oi tite animal parasites theia were three or four species, and of Ihe vegetable one or two. In fact the i.::)y persons whose month were found lo be completely free from them, cleansed their teeth, fun r times daily, using soap once. One of these indi viduals also passed a thread betwpeti the teeih lo cleanse them more etlectnallv. In all caii's tin; lumber of the parasites was greater in proporlion to the neglect of clean liness. The effect of the application of vac uus agent was. also noticed. Tobacco juice and smoke tlid not impair their vitality in tho least The same was also true of the chlorine tooth wash, of pulverised bark, of siula, ammonia ; and various other popular detergents. The application of soap, how- ever, appeared to destroy ihem instantly. We may hence infer that it is the best and most proper specific for cleansjng llip teeth. In all cases where it has been tried, it re ceives unqualified commendation. It may also be proper lo add, that none but the pur est white soap, free from all discoloration, shoulJ be used. Tut disease which baa so seiiously allect ed the orange proves of Florida, for several year past, is passing away, and orange growers are again lurniiij their attention lo this profitable cultivation. IIEATHE TRADITIONS OF THE AFTER Tho traditions and opinions of mankind, concerning ihe . nflor (lealh haV9 part from written reflation, so great a uniformi ty, that tho candid enquirer must of necessi ty atl.ibiito them to one fountain-head. Ha may, if he pleases, call this the voice of na ture ; but the voice of nature either meant the voice of God, or it means nothing. The Egyptians represented the soul as brought, after death, into the pretence of its. judge, attended by accusing, and approving spirits. The Greek mythology, which was. likewise adopted by their imitators in eve rythinrr, the Homans, carried Ihe soul across the river Styx, in the boat of Charon, to the bar of threo righteous judges, under whose award it passed lo an appropriate abode, according to its works on earth, those "Who .ufTercn wound.. In fighting for their country', muse ; and print. Who kept their ula uin-potted whilst their lives. Endured ; and pioni bard, who warbled (trains Did li. i to Apollo : those who polinhei Life hy invented arts ; and tueh an mod. Tli.ir memories dear ta others by the deeds I' 8'ilnens," wero admitted to "The roahnii of j jy, Delightful Imuiits of never.i'udiiig green, The blessed Mats in proves of lm.piuem, Whero eiher more diffusive robes the fiulda In purple (rl ry." Here they gave themselves up to the mote. rational pleasures of our nature, following, at the same time, such paths to happiness, and, such occupations, aa had been dear to them, in life. Hut the wicked were cast down into, hell, a place inhabited by care, sorrow, dis ease, want, fear, hunger, toil, &c, and in, which "An hundred totifu'S, An hundred miulh. mid Hpeech y iron luiia Inspired, could not eiiuiuer.te the mimes CM'ull their punishments." The Scandinavian taught, that the brave were to revel forever in the halls of Valhalla and drink mead, o(Te:ed them by maidens. from the skulls of their enemies, c'oma ot the Pagan Arabs said, that of the blood near the b: uiii a bird was formed, which once in. a century visited the sepulchre ; and others. believed a resurrection, 'ihe first uativeri of ibis continent seen by the Spaniards taught, that tho souls of good men went lo a pleas ant valley, where nil kinds of fruits were, abundant ; and that the dead walked, abmad in the night, and feasted with the living. Chailevoi.v. says, that the Indiana, pai.l gieiit regard to dreams, as embracing an intercourse with spirits. 1 hey imagined a paradise in the West, a laud where nature slowed with an eternal sunset. The Mexi-. cans supposed three places for the departed : the House of the Sun, for such as fell in bat tle, or died captives, and women who perish, in child-bed ; the place of the God of Water, for the drowned, for children, and for tboso who died of dropsy, tumors, and similar diseases, or of accidental wounds ; and the place of darkness, in the centre of the earia. The Patagoiu'ans in mentioning the dead, call them those who are with Cod, and out cf tho world. Tho Tongo people suppose the souls of their dead chiefs, to be in deljohlfui island of shadows. The Yucatanese represent the aboda of ths good as a pleasant land of plenty, under tho shade of a mighty tree. The Chickasawa believed that the souls of red men walked up and down near the place were they died, or wers laid ; and said that they had, often heaid ciies and noises where prisoners, bad been burned Tho Ijulians of Cuniana. supposed echo lo be the voica of the depart ed, li was a common belief of lhe Indians, of America, that the spirits of the slain. tiaun'.od. their tribe till Ihey were avenged. BATHING IX THE DEAD SE.t,. Heated and fatigued, we prepared for a general bathe as a private party; for tho pilgrims determined to reserve their ener- fjiea for the sacred Jordan, the lake of Sodom being held ly thein in horror and abomina-. lion. The bad odor in which the lake was. Ueld, did not, however deter us, and having called a halt, we plunged liko young ducks, into the liquid element, Paulo chuckling like, an old hen on the banks. We plunged ! . Disastrous was the plunge rapidly enougli, head ufier head pupped up from the execra ble waters hair matted, eyes smarting, ami tongues burning from the iutense sulphurous hitter s. illness of the detestable liquid ia which wo wero immersed ; water it waa, not, nor bitumen, nor salt, nor sulpher, but t disgusting compound of all four. A hogshead of it wojdd serve as anemetio for all Asia Minor, and leave some gallons, lo spare against the next epidemic : you could neiiher sink nor swim in it. Talk of a fly in molasses, or a wasp in a barrel of tar I can find no parallel for a bath in the Dead Sea. But tho sufferings, of my com, patiiona were a trifle to. what I felt ; cut and maimed in consequence of my superior horsemanship, I jumped into the water as raw as a beef-stuke, and jumped out of it as if I were flayed alive. However, let me be just to this abominable mixture: if I smarted for it, my wounds were effectually cauterized, completely skinned over the cure wa perfect to a miraoie. We dressed, with the comfortable aensation of men who had been well coaled with mutton suet, stiff gieasy and extremely out- of sorts, with a tingling creepiiurjeeling ovei tUe skin ; and remouiiiing, turned our aJpps lo the fords of the. .Vrdami. Dublin Univtrsity Afaga-, fUt. Tm'c is a plant growing in the springs of Iceland, which not only flowers, but. bears seeds in water hot unough. to boil aa eji'S-.
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