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SELECT POETRY. '
THE FARMER'S LIFE. .
Cnmp, .hh him al hi h;iivcl home, ,
! When uanleK, tieM, ami tree,
Ci'M-pne, v. rih flowing aiitres to fill
Hit Itxrn MitO sranery,
Hi- hi'Hilhlul t'hililren nily 'port
Amid the new irmwii hy.
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Ilia lucka u iieM llie) my.
Tho tins pHrtnkes hi. muster' joy,
Anil uuttuU lite luHiletl whin, -.
Ths Iciuhery penpl clnp ibeir wingt
Ami lead lb. ir youngling Ham. .
IVn liaiu'a I no huury giandaira'a eya
The tliiwinu . rue unrvejs v
And breaihra a tie-sing un hia race,
' Oi guide their evenimf praise,
Tli hatveftt Giver is their fieiud,
The maker of the uil, ,
And eanh. the Mother gives them bread.
And cheers llieii pal iH:tt (nil.
Conio, jiiin ihem round their wintry hearth,
Their tmart full pleasuies see,
And you mny betler judge how blest
The funner't life mny be.
Lydia H. SinnuRNtY.
V (Hljrillmg Skctcl).
THE INTREPID MOTHER.
A THrtlLLINQ SKETCH.
The dilligencr from Paris to Chalons
slopped one evening, just alter dark, some
miles beyond the little town of Rouvray,
to set an English lady and her child at a
lonely roadside Auberve. Mrs Martin ex
pected to find a carriage ready to take her
la Chateau d Senart, a distance of some
leagues, whither she was repairing on a
visit; hut was told it had not arrived.
The landlady, a tall, coarse lookin; woman,
who showed her into the vast hall that
served at once as a silling room ai:d kitch
en, observed that the roads were so muddy
and diflicnlt at night, there was little chance
of her friend arriving before mot ning.
"Ton had belter, therefore," said she,
"mnke up your mind to sleep here. We
have a good room to off.-r you, and you
will be much more comfortable between a
pair of clean warm sheets, than knocking
about in our rotijh country, especially as
your dear child seems sickly."
Mrs. Marlin, though much fatigued by
her journey, hesitated. A good night's
rest was certainly a tempting prospect, but
she felt so rtmlident that her friends would
not neglect her, that alter a moment she
replied : "thank you, madame, I will sit
up for an hour or so, it is not late, and the
carriage may come, after all. Shnuld it
not, 1 shall be glad of your room, which
you may prepare lor me at any rate."
The liostes., who seemed nminns her
guest should not remain in the great room,
suggested that a fire tni;;ht he made above;
but Mrs. M. toiind herself sn roiiifortabl y
where she was - a pile of loirgels wm hla
ziiii: nn the he.irth that -he declined at
at first to move. Her dauo lit . r, nlmtjl five
vars til aj-, soon went tnsVep in her lap;
and khe herself found that while hr ear
were atixioin.1 v listening for the r.dl t f c ar
riasje wheels, her ry-s ofrainallv closed
ami slumber began to make its insidious a -proai
h'-s. ' ' '
In order to prevent hers-lf from giinr
awav, she endeavored to direct her atten
tion to the o'lj.'ils around hT. The apart
ment was tasl and lighted more by the
glare ol the fire than by the dirty candle
stick stuck into a filthy tin randlertick,
that stood on one ol the long tables. Two
or three htijie beams s'relrheil across half
way up the walls, leaving a space filled
with flitrhtiiiii shadows above. Frointtu'se
depended a Mty gun or two, a sword, sev
eral bags, hanks ol onion., conking uten
sils, &c. There were very few sians that
the house was much visited, though a pile
of old wine bottles law in one. corner.
The landlady sat at sjme distance from the
fire-place with her two sons, who laid
their heads together and talked in whis
pers. Mrs. Martin hpgan to feel uneasy. The
idea entered her mind that she had fallen
in'o a resort of robbers; and the word
'Cesie tile," (it is she.) which was all she
heard of the wnispered conversation, con
tributed to her alarm. The door leading
into the road was lelt ajar; and for a mo
ment she felt an inclination to start up and
escape on foot. But she was far from any
other hahilation, and if the people of the
house entertained any evil designs her at
tempt would only precipitate the catastro
phe. So she resolved on patience, but lis
tened attentively for the approach of her
friends. All she heard was the whistling
of the wind, and the dashing of the rain
which had begun to fall just after her ar
rival.
About two hours passed in this uncom
fortable way. At length the door was
thrown open and a man dripping wet came
in. She breathed more freely; lor this
new comer might frustrate the evil designs
of her hostess, if she entertained any. He
was a red haired, jovial fared looking man,
and inspired her with confidence by the
frankness and ease of his manners.
'A fine night for walking !" cried he,
shaking himself like a dog who has scram
bled ont nf a pond. . "What bare yon to
give met Salute, measieure, et snesHamos,
I am wet to the skin. Hope I disturb no
body. Give me a bottle of wine V
The hostess, in a surly, sleepy tone, (old
her elder son to a-rve the gentleman ; and
then addressing Mrs. Martin, said :
"You see vour friendi will not came,
and yon are keeping us up to no purpose
You had better 50 to bed."
'I will wait little' longer," w the
reply ; which elicited t kind of a shruj of
contempt.
The red haired man finished hia bottle
of wlae, and thea said:
3ow ma tnm,go(ij wjirmnl !ull
a'eep ht-re to-mihl."
: Mrs. Martin thought ai he pronounced
these words, he cast a pxitecim vlanc
tnwardi her, anil she felt fS ipnt, afire
at the idea of passing the niht in that
house,' When, Hi. re. ore, the red haired
man, aPer a polite bow, went up siairs, she
aid, that ai her friends ' had not arrived,
they might as Well show her to her bed
room. ?
"I thought it would come to lhat at last,"
said the landlady, "Pierre, take the lady's
trunk up staiis." ?
In a lew minutes, Mrs. Marlin found
herself alone in a spacious room, with a
large fiie burning on the hearth. Her first
care, afler putting the child to bed, was to
examine the door. It closed only bv a
latch. There was no bolt inside. She
looked around for something to barricade
it with, and perceived a heavy chest of
drawers. Fear gave strength. She half
lifted, half pushed it against the door. Not
content wilh this, she seized a table to in
crease the slrengih of her defence. The
leg was broken, and when she touched it,
it fell wilh a crash to the floor. A long
echo went sounding through the house, and
she felt her heart sink within her. But
the echo died away and no one came; so
she piled the Iragments of the table upon
the chest of drawers. Tolerably satisfied
in this direction, she proceeded to examine
the walls. They were all papered, and
after examination, seemed to contain no
secret door.
Mis. Martin now sank down into a chair
to think on her position. As was natural
alter having all these precautions, the idea
suggested itself lhat it might be superfluous,
and she smiled at the thought of what her
friends would say when se related to them
the terrors al the night. Her chi d was
sleeping tranquilly, its rosy cheeks half
buried in the pillow. The firp had blazed
up into a bright flame while the unsnufled
candle burned dimly. The room was full
of pale, trembling shadows, but she had no
superstitious fears. Somelhing positive
could alone raise alarm. She listened at
tentively, but could hear nothing but the
howling ofthe wind over the roof, and the
pattering of the rain against the w indow
panes. As her excitement diminished, the
fatigue which had been forgotten began
again to make itself felt, and she rts ilved
to undress and go to bed.
Her heart leaped into her throat. For
a moment she seemed perfectly paralyzed.
She had undressed and put out the candle,
when she accident ly dropped her watch.
Stooping to pick it up, her eves voluntarily
glanced towaid the bed. A great mass tit
red hair, a hand and a gleaming kuile were
revealed by the li-rht of the fire. After
the first moment of terrible alarm, Ii. f
presence ol mind returned. She lelt that
she had herself cut off all means of escape
by the door, and was entirely left to In 1
own resources. Without uttering' a i rv,
but trembling in every limb, the poor wo
man got into lied by the side of her child.
An idea a plan lud augested iu-lf. It
had Hashed ihrouji her brain like lijit
uiug. It was the only chance Lit.
The bed was so ilipued that the 10!. her
could g. I from benralb it by a narrow Hp. 1
ture at the hea l will. out it aking a mus. ;
and it was probaiile that he would C lift1 ise.
Irnin prudence, ibis means ef . xit. Tin re
was no curtain in the way, o Mis. Mai 1 in.
wuh terrible decision and noiseless energv,
inade a running noose wilh her mIU scan,
and held it p iisei over the api-rliir bv
whiih her enemy was to make bis ap
pearance. She bad resolved 10 strangle
him in dt fence of her own life and that ol
her c hild.
The position , was an awful one; and
probably had she been able to direct her
attention to the surrounding ciriiin. stances,
she might have given way to her fears, and
attempted to raise the house be her screams.
The fire nn the health, unattended to, had
fallen around, and now gave only a dull,
sullen light, with an occasional bright
gleam. Every object in the vast 8pari
ment glowed with a restless motion. Now
and then a mouse advanced stealthily along
the floor, but, startled by some noise under
the bed, went scouring bark in terror to
its hole. The child breathed steadily in its
unconscious repose ; the mother endeavored
also to imitate slumber; but the man under
the bed, uneasy in his position, could not
help occasionnlly making a slight naise.
. Mrs. Martin wasoccupied with enly two
ideas. . First she reflected 011 Ihe extraor
dinary delusion by which she had been led
to see enemies in the people of the house
and a friend in the red haired man ; and
socondly, it struck her that as he would
fear no resistance from a woman he might
push away the chairs that were in his way,
regardless of tne noise, and thus avoid the
snare that Was laid for him. Once she
thought that whilst her attention was
strongly directed to one spot, he had made
hia exit, and was leaning over her; but
she was deceived by a flickering shaduw
on the opposite wall. In reality there was
no danger that he would compromise the
success ol his sanguinary enterprise; the
shrieks of a i iclim put on its guard might
alarm the house. ...
Have yen ever stood, hour after hour
wilh your fishing rod in hand, waiting
wilh fereciotis patience of an angler, lor a
nibble t If you hare, you have some faint
idea of the state of mind u which Mrs.
Marlin with far other interest at stake
passed the time, until an old clock on the
chimney-piece told one afer midnight.
A eot her source of anxiety now presented
itself the fire had nearly burned 0 it, ILt
dizzy eyes could scarcely ere the floor, as
she, bent with fearful attention over the
head ofthe bed the terrible noose hang
ingj like the sword ol Damocles, above the
gloomy aperture. 4'What,,, thought she,
"il he delay his appearance until the livht
hat completely died away ! Will it n t
then be impossible for rae to adjust the
cnfio ilo I c .l-i-il to. kill tV$ a in
-to save inveell and 111 V ihiltil, O, (J aI !
(I -liver liim into iiiy humls!",
A camions movement V-loWthe drag
ging ol bauds and knet-g along the lloor a
lieaiy . suppressed hrei toing amioi nred
that the supreme moment was near at hand.
IL r white arms were bared tu Ih shoul
ders; her hair fell wildly around her lace,
like the mane ot lioness about to leap
upon ils prey , the distended orbits ol her
eyes glared down upon the spot where the
question of life and death was soon to bv
decided.
Time seemed immeasureably lenglhened
out, every second assumed the proportions
of an hour. But at last, just as all line
and forms began to float before her sight
through an indistinct medium of blending
lijjht and darkness, a black mass interposed
between her eyes and the floor. Suspense
being over, the time ol action having arri
ved, everything seemed to pas with magi
cal rapidity. The robber thrust his head
carelnlly foreward, Mrs. Martin bent down.
There was a half-choked cry the sound
ol a knife falling to the floor a convulsive
struggle. Pull ! pull ! ! pull ! ! ! Mrs. Mar
tin heard nothing saw nothing, but the
scarf passing between her two naked feet.
She had hall thrown herself back and hold
ing her scarf with both hands pulled with
a desperate energy lor her life. The con
flict had begun ; and one or the other must
perish. The robber was a powerful man,
and made furious efforts to get loose ; not a
sitind escaped his lips not a sound from
hers. The drradful tragedy was enacted
in silence.
.
"Well, Mother Gnerard," cried a young
man, leaping out of a carriage that slopped
before the door of the Atiburge next morn
ing, "what news have you got for me 1
Has rny mother arrived ?"
"Is it your mother? asked the landlady,
who seemed quite gond humored niter her
night's rest. . "Theie's a lady up stairs
waiting for some friends, but she does net
speak French easily and seemed unwillino
to talk. We could scarcely persuade her
to go to bed."
"Show me the room?", cried Arthur,
running into the house.
They soon arrived hefore the door.
"Mother! Mother:" cried he, but he
received no answer.
"The door is only latched for we have
no robbers in this part ol the country," said
the landlady.
But a formidable obstacle opposed their
entrance. They became alarmeit, espe
cially when ihey heard the shriek of the
lilt leg irl, rnd burst open th" dorr.
The first object that presented itself was
the fjee of Ihe robber, tioletillv upturned
rom beneath the bnl, and with protruding
tongue and eyeballs; Ihen.xt was the
lortti'rd M ir. Martin, in lh position in
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'"s on iiiiii, hi int miii 1, aroi ui,i-
nog wihi y lowutils the Ii. a I nt lh h.-.l...
rii" l i'd bail threw 11 ils arms mound lo r
"( k, and vas( ling Inn she paid no a'
tei.iinn The t. rn. r ol that dreadlul uibt
bad driven h r mail.
p 0 c t v n '.
SORROWS. OF W E R T H E R .
. AS IMPROMPTU BV TtlACKCruY.
Wenher had H love lor Chailolte,
Such ns ntiU eool.l n,.vi'i ntlei;
Wiiolit oii ken bow lii! he m-i her,
Shu was eiillii.u biead arol bolter.
Ch iilotle was a married .ly, '
And a iiiiuhI iiihii na. Weitber,
And for all ihf ehb u4 loill-o,
Would do iiolhli.u that mi-lit burl her.
So he iohd, and pined, and naled.
Aod hi. pis-loo hurled and tmt'uled,
Till be tdew hia silly biuui nul,'- ' 1
Ami no mote was by them tioubled.
Charlotte having seen hia ho ly '
Home beloie her 1111 a slintler, . 1
Like a well cnndiicled penon,
Went on cutling bread and bulter.
A DEATH BKD REVELATION. 1.
A large Wiiih D 'uler residing ill London
recently, oil hi deulb-beJ, . being in great
distress of mind, acknowledged to bis fi lends
thai bis agony was occasioned by iheualore
of the business he had followed for years,
lid stated that it had been hi. habit lo pur
chase all ihe sour wines lie could, and. by
making use uf sugttr of lead, and other dele
teiious substances, restore ihe wine to a pal
atable lasie. He said he did uol doubt he
had beeti the means of . destroying hundreds
of lives, a he had from lime to lime Bntieed
the injurious effects of hia mixture 011 those
who drank them. He bad seen inatanoet of
this kind where tho unconscious viniim of
his cupidity, after wasting and declitiioji Ur
years, despite Hie beat ineJijal advice, venl
tu iheir y raves, jhiiorud si the AdulUraltd
Wines he had soul theni, ,
This man died iich, but alas, what legacy
did he leave lor hi children 1 Weal.b (Jill. 11
by deceit, and lhat not of' a harm Us, but
latal nature.
Present dealer in intoxicating poisons'
you have got lo die loo. Do jou not see
how Ihe Wine Fabricator, wlio.e confession
ia recoided above, oil his deali-bed fell tho
il, epesl reuioise for what he had done? Fly,
ben from a Iraflig sn horrible !. Yuu all
know your drink are shamefully adulterated
b) ihe most fatal drug. Yuu know Ihey
a e pniomng and deinornliiiug ' lo all who
dunk ihein. Law-makers, is it uol time syou
should pul your at rung seal of co.idemmtlbm
oia liatfie so wicked ! If you do un', tut
permit this crying sin lo go oil, are you mil
parlies in ihe terrible guilt incurred. Jr.
Prohibitionist. - -
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number Iu n eub-rtihei, who wants il at that
hour. At II u't'liH-k number gets it, and '
0.1, until 12 or 0110 o'vloek, and even as lale
2 P. M. Yuu ran bxve it furnished iht.S by
the week, munlh, rpnrier, ur year, tt is left
prumpily nt t tits hour bugaiued fur, and you
nn, st expect lo give il up at "siabt rail."
Perhaps jtm aie in ihe middle of Ihe Pari
correspondent or the debates, or lute foreiuu
intelligence, ll makes 110 difference. Yuu
must slop, or buy an extra copy.
Afler 'he city readers are lhoti(!h wilh the
sheet, it is mailed off to the country. Yon
nre foi bidden to cut ihe paper, and if it be'
comes defaced, must pay for it. In Liverpool,
well-to-do people w ill club for one copy tf the
Daily Times, and a pblematic John Bull will
read ihe paper tho day afler his neighbor, fur
yenr, perfectly satisfied to exist one day be
hind llto times. The poor rarely onjoy the
pririleuH of readine first class paper. The
chop houses and drinking shops generally I
lake one paper only, and it is part ofthe in
ducemeuts set forth iu signs "I wo morning
papers taken here."
In America every man has bis own paper.
It must come to him fresh and untouched.
Jonathan reads, and is fastidious w ithal, ll
he cannot afford a first class journal, he likes
his penny sheet fie feuds it ihorouithly, and
it becomes a part of his exis:eur.e. He talks
about it spreads ils news, and js proud nf
ils surcess Tims a fair field of competition
is dented. A pap-r of merit and enlerprise
i sure success, for every subscriber is a liv
tntr, titlkinrr, walking ail rerlisxnietit and spe
cial auent.
A man never values a pnper which he ce!s
for nothing. There is somelhing iu lh fuel
of having paid for it which gives parlinubir
nllnirtian in his eyes. H-t reuards il as tn
pioperiy, and looks upon the editor as mereh
a person mitnacinu hi, the subscriber's bu
siness. There is a reat deal in ihe well
known fare nf 11 paper. A man whn i de
voted lo n journal whirh he ha. reail daily
for jear, censes to piiae ir, if ihe proprietor
chances its general appearain-e.
The edilor lum-elf, may die, or change
Ihe original piopi ielors pass a way, but ihe
paper. i t 1 11 laken, its sent intents teeeived.
its oids listened In, and ils lieu s relied nn.
A paper wilh nnfy a llionxnnl subscriber, hue
mine power th.m leu thousand men. The
I.oinbiii 7"i,)l'S can renilirioxi.e Europe.
! Th- Thmne ol F. inland i at ihe meicy nf iis
! power. 1 0 the United Stales, eo one p.pei
j has -m-h ',.. bi any p.per, however . b.
i seine, if in the ,vh
I
seme, il in Ike iiht can nosh aov ii, fin
1 hoc.', ll iw-ver p iAeilul, ll SNiL'.-.lmfn.
1 ii
tan Times. '
A I.oa I or L: v k Fa r.n.n r. A family o
nine peioo p i-e I 1 loon j l D 1 1 Imi. ( 'bio,
l.it et k, 11,1 Ih-ir way to foia. una freittl
tiniiiaulas fn-ijlit Al llelleloniiiio, it i-
fi'ul. Ihey were put up he i'es 11 ml
weiblei! like il-sul sho.ils. 111 d a legul.n
bill id 1. 1, In g was made not I'm th -in al 16
cents a bundled, afler whi- li tbev were
s'nwed awa 111 a f eiuht C.ir and locked lip,
like so many hale of meichaiidise, or so
many ti,b uf jreusn. . (
' I.r.AD. I 4 rstimated by the Galena (III.)
J ffeisnnian, i, 1 Calling aiMuli m to the ml
uial weal h id that reyioo, that five bundled
trillion polio. Is ol lead ore has been bioujh'
to the surface fioili ihe mine wilhin the
past twelve mouihs. Vast lorlune. have
been made in I hose "diju-iiiji'' and tbeie are
'a few moie lell."
A VsLrsBLR tit MYsTr.ntous SitirtT
A tbiniit-l fhin, containing a pocket book
and 48 Oni) in bonds, was found week in
the mill race of Mr. Shetman, iu Aujusia
inuiity Va. The bunds were executed to
rianci Jordau being the name of a man
living in Lynchburg, to the Vindicator says-
The mjstery is how Ibe deuce cume the shirt
in the mill rai e.
A Ghost Amono ths MiMRs.-Thn Marys
ville (California) Herald, contains the follow
ing: A merchant doing business at Industry
Bar, relates a mailer in gond failh, w hich is
most certainly strange, In sy the least. A
figure, having the similitude uf a man, dressed
iu a cloak as an hillside tfaiinenl, has been
seen iu the vicinity of jha bar, by a 11 pin be
of 01 eel il.. blc) w itnesses , It hat been ques
tioned by many, shot a) by fifteen individuals
ai mice, ami slid persists in it vi-it and sa
nothing but ''DeH'h tu I he murderer J'J- Gieal
exciiemeul prevail, al Ibe Uir concerning it,
and some of our citizens purpose going up to
salisly themselves with legaid In ibe mailer
Ghost or no, it is a siiiLular Hppariiioti; One
person saw it and eti-ehargnl his pistol, run
(ideally expecting to see il drop, but finding
il piialiiird 110 tiled, be became teintinl
and lied, but the ghor l, duvil, or u halevei il
in) be, kepi close beido him, seenjinj to
glide rather than run.
Ir you don't want 10 full in love with a
girl, tlou'i commence Hilling with her. Thi
conning for fun is like boxing bit fun, You
put on the glove in (verleet good humor
w ilh the moil friendly intentions of exehaiig.
iuj a tew amicable blown; j(,u tjo, )oumrlf
i a n ib y waiw w th ibe euti.iam ' the
O'lirfliei; unlil seme unlucky punch iu ibe
'veskil' il.onles ihe imf. , aodilie w liole
affair emit in a downright lijbl.' Don't you
tea ibe timilarity ! Exchange. "''
A BAILOR IllkRtl.
Alilioutte i institi ces of heroism and self,
su rilii e re not rare among sirlors, few van
le adduced uio.e r.kiug lln.l one Ihst bus
recently come tn our knowledge. The Brit,
sh brig Veniba, Copt. D'En remcMt, leH
Si. Eu-tatirt. West Indies, October 30, for
Clare, N. S. Soon alter sailinp, the oflicets
anil ciow, seven in number, wer laken
down wilh fever, except a young seaman,
named dilation Therian, Fniling that upon
him atone rested tho responsibility of man
ajiiiig the vessel, anil of providing lor the
safety of the lives Slid properly I litis luiex-peeled!)-
thrown iipon his rlmrjjr, be put the
biig under a reefed lop sail onN, 10 be pro
pared for severe weather. When eight days
out, Cpt. D'Eiitremenl died j five days af
terward Ihe Hi st officer breathed his list
Therian alone, for 40 days, steered the ves
sel J hove her to the cuof-, to attend lo Ihe
sick, to bury Ihe ' dead, and 10 lake a few
hours rest in the day lime; and did his best
to ge hi vessel home, allhouxh unacquaint
ed wilh navilation. He had Ihe salinfaclion
to deliver her to the owners in' Clarr., wilh
the proceeds of the outward cargo, ii Atne
rican gold. The rest of ihe crew, four in
number, reached home alive, but very much
dibilelated. Mr. Thetiaii is a mere skeleton
from overexertion, anxiety and want of sleep.
The proceeds of the cmgo were insured iu
Boston, and it is believed some suitable ac.
know lodgement w ill made of the young
man's faithfulness, energy and perseverance.
Boston AJv
CLRIistlTIkS OF TRADE.
Among the importations into this country,
is a certain class nt Hilicles, embracing an
almo-l endless variety, which nre called
non-enumerated." Son of them cost a
mere Irille,' and nre little ued ; o'.hers,
equally cheap, are of such peneial Use that
iheir ii(igregale value is considerable. Few
persons know that these articles enter into
commeicial transaction. A friend, some-
what curious iu such matters give us the
following: items relative tu those impotlalions
into New Ymk :
During the year ending June 30: h, 1853,
the value of slate pensils inported whs J3.
733; ol sausage skins, S824 : little nighl tu
pers. S267 ; tonth-pieks, f 341 ; bladdeis. $ I,
257 ; orange p.-el, 5"4 ; peach kernels, S-R;
oimse skins, ?9R6 ; rose leave.. 5773 ; ..keif.
Ions, 833 1 ; mushroom, SI 000; and, $3
gone.liver pie, $131 ; spunk, $14.
This list (if irirruigriinn ar icle could be
enlarged lo n great cx'rnt.
A Rit or Wasiiini!t.n (Jos-tp It is s'ir
ted Mis. Miller, a drtojhier ol ;..t S.ui'li.
( h" niillioii.ue F.ee Si i At'o!i:rom-t. nod 1,
member ol Cone res bom lb W'elern pari 11"
N'e- York ) .-xcilrsa yient deal of i-iiri is I -in
Washing!,,,,, by app-aiiog in full Bl.iouiei
coslunie.
Mis. .Miller i fjtiire liait.lsorne and innni'
and bei dreFs cooit i,f a Scotch p'ai l liiiek
w hn b conies doit 11 In her n-s, and pint-
I'll, more, co bonti'i-s. and j uuty block hu'
and leu. her, Mo b as ihe l.,iir tiimlly weBi
on huseii k. I 1 ad'HIfn In her loooniei
lies, she hoi nver 11, when I saw hern
black velvi 1 sack, ncii'y trimmed wilh bo
ifles mid mber lastetiil ornainents, just such
as on might find upon many 11 f.istmim.hlc
lady, but it appeared in (ni l contrast with
Bloomeri-m. Mi M h i. an intelligent, ex
pressive face, i'h fine eyes. G.-iiil Sriiilh
is a burly, good-lookiiig oM gentleman, and
hi coslnrne is like any other plain dressed
ci'ueii. The eccenlicities of both make
hem object to be fared ai, which, pcihaps,
.hey do not object lo.
PlIF.rP AMONG TUB CROCKtHT .V VCty
.iiniip-lng incident occurred a few day since
111 ( inciiiati, illustrative of lh.' naluial iiiniincl
ol ouo sheep lo follow anolher. A ma
diove was coming up ihe street,' and when
ihey anived opposite the G,bou House, Ihe
foieuuist one made niush lo go into an alley,
but a ma a sudJeily coming out, tomwhal
liighleiied ihe sheep, and it deviated slightly
fioui the Irue coins, darling inlo a lamp
!oie followed by ihe whole lluck. Theciowd,
anxious 10 willies Ihe sport, instantly block
aded I tie dour, to lhat ilium was no mode of
eg 1 ess or Ihe unceremonious visitors, and as
said lamp sloro was loo contracted lo ti.il
Ibeir peculiar notions, and w ishuig la regain
iheir liberty as speedily a possible, Ihey saw
no tuber means of vape but through the
wit.dow, One uf Ilium ma le a break, and
ii aped thioiiah the show window, upon the
pavement, demolishing in the pmgi, glass
ware, china, tec , w iih an aUcruy liuly praise
worthy. The crowd imme.li iiely fell back
liom the door, ami allowed a liee passage,
but every sheep jumped ihruuh thai hole in
the window. . , .
A New Rwuliniou jn airanged be.
I ween ihe legitimist umllhe lepi.blican
Iu) Palis coiiespoiideul of tho Tribune say!
Such li.iogs are easily ruouih arranged ; the
diiiiculty is iu their execution. , Loin Nape,
lion seem tu have got a tolerable firm hold
upon power in F'ai re.
Tit e Remains of Pulaski have just been
ditvoveied nt Savannah, after a lyn .aeaivh,
and carefully gathered iip. , , . ,
,". 1 r "
Miss Amanda L. Cirler, cuuvicled of ' for.
gery in Kentucky, bat been pardoned by the
Governor of lhat Siale.
"llliis'raleil m ith entt," said a young ur.
chin, as he drew his pocket knife across the
leave of hi gramwer; 1 IKuiuated with
eut ," ieiieralcf 'ibe rhoolmasier, a be
dtew his cane eorose the young lyr-Lir!. ' '
ariitiiiiALiasi. s -'i r'
There it a tpiiittialir.ed, msgnelic. spr'nj
in the uuigbborbood of Jarnetletnn, in Ilia
couuiy of I hautnque, the w onderful proper
'ies of wbieh have aliracted lo Itsviciri'y
nutnbert of Ihe votaries of spirrttml rnppinC
im. The proprietors of the spring Are of
course reaping a rich harvest out of the be
nighted creatures whom Ihey maniign to
diaw lo tha spot. Lntletly they have ex
tended iheir operations, and advertise the
properties ol the spring to cure all d.scssee
of tr.iud and body u follows:
"Lascs w ill be described by sen ling a
lock of hair, or tho b.ind-w riling of th in
valid; lor which, with the prescription, two
dollars will be chaiged." " "
We know not helher lo amik or sigh at
such nn exhibition of. gro:s superstition ami
shallow humbug in the niue'eenth eeiitnrv.
A gentleman in Ibis vicinity informs ut ibst
sometime since he foi warded, as per request,
a lock of bis hair" tu ihe address of the
adverlisert, and received bu k a fulldrtcrip
Hon of his own diseases. He wa suffering,
said Ihe oracle of ihe spring, under a de
pression of spirits, in consequence of Ihe Inst
of ttie partner of hi life; but she Sent bin
word through Ihi medium not to phis for
her los, a the was happy in the spirit
world. The oracle also described minutely
the poor sufferers feelings and svnnninm
and a phial of the water and a sma'l powder
were Ihe "value received-' far Ihe fee which
he had inclosed in Ihe communication. As
our friend is n burly, reit-faced, beer-drink
ing bachelor, and as the lock of hair wascnt,
not from his own head, but from an old wbr
in a barber's shop in ibis city, be declares
his conviction that the sptiug, spirits, and
all, are eire"ious hnmlnina. Ami m l.
lieve h is moie than half correct. Buffalo
Com. Adv. ' ,
Tu PR R ia a lessen and a eood one. in tha
following lines. Wo could wish that our
readers might hear them sung iu the admira
ble vuiee and manner of ibe friend from
whom we derive litem:
'Let us speak of a man as we find him,
And censure alone what we see;
And should a no. 11 blame, let remind him
That Iroui (alls we are none ol us free.
If the veil 1, on, i,K ,HHU ,.oll, i, ,,. ,
And the mind could be lead 011 the brow,
I'nere ate many we'd pass by wirh scorn,
Whom we're loading with high honors
now.
Let us sppsk nf a mnn ns we find him,
A id bend not whal others may say ;
Ir he's trail. 1 hen a kind viord would bind
him,
Where coldness e,., lurn !, Bway .
F r 'Ic h-ait mtiS' be barren. n..ee I.
Wh-re no b 11 1 of lep.-ulai c- cm blnnm :
Hiori pause, np. yon ren-nre wi lt ped.
O i a Iruwn or a smile bangs h- doom."
Spirit of the Timet
NOAH'S ARK AD THE CI.II'PErt SHIP
fill . AT ni.l'Ull.K .
Til- East B islou clipper ship Gr jat Repub-
ie, which wasdeiiinied by b,e in our har-
'or nn Tiu-sday morning, w as ai, lo have
een-the largest vessel (-.instiiii led since Ihe
lays ol Noah' Ark. She wasibtee hiiniLed
ul twenty-five feel long, ami was uppoi
11 lie capable of carrying six lliousind tout
arar, llioimh only taled a li'tlu over four
ihousai.d loos buithen. It may be iuleiest
ng at ibis time, since the two ves. . have
"eeu alluded to iu ibis connectinn, to learn
he ili-nensiniis of Noah's Ark There were
-hip built by the ancients it appear, far sn.
lienor in propoi linns, tu the modem ehin of
Mr. D.tiald McKay.
A ship was constructed for Tiolemy Tbi!.
pater, which wat 420 feel bu g. 56 h-M
b oad, a.-.J 72 feel deep, and of 6 44S tons
burthen. Archimr.Ui 1 on-lructed a slupfor
Hiero, King of Syracuse, nf such largedimet .
-ions that none of the harbors iu Sicily or
Greece cntild receive it.
Noah't Ark, by those who are curious in
such Ihinus, has been calculated to have cm,,
tained. 1,500,000 11 bic feet, and was of Jl .
905 Ions burden. A remarkable ddfere...
between mordern and ancient time, in -u .,
and condition, is exemplified j ,h .(;...,;
Repntilic." She was the prop-,1,- f , ,
vate American cilizeu ; whil- ib- w h . 1
resources of all Sicily w as callnd mm
sition to cunttruct Hieio' vt-psel .V ' '
Post
; A Scotchman who lately put l Q ,Hbee
was asked the next morning how he .),
" T.oib, man," repbed D.mald, j
weel either, but il wa mnckle belter ti,
tho bug., for de'll sue c' Ihem tlgd an t
the hale nicht."
The following j, , ,.01,y , biI, p(JMo on
wall in a village down east :
"A lecture on total absiiiienot will be 1I9.
livered In the o?n ,V, and a eollecliou tuk. n
at therJoor, to defray expends."
An Exchange says that When David slew
Goli.h with a slug, the Utter fell t:ont dtai
ad of course rpriie astonished, as sUl 4 ,hin.
had ntvrr i'srd A14 kead bfrt
Tmc New York City Ai.tho.i.i,, Ure r,.
solved lo keep the stree! f th.l ci.y i-ht.
ej all nigh', fiom sundown to daylight. '
Parson Biewntow, 0f ,h. Rnoxville yhJ
).'d." Jul fumed. , ""'"''S
h and have Vee.j ma,U t kn.
'ges during the jgjl -.u tt"