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Jlrlect ocfrg. !
A PSALM OF LIFE.
BV II. LOXOFELLOW.
Tell me not in mournful nnmbcw,
Life is but an empty dream j
For the bouI is dead that slumbers,
And things ore not w hat they seem.
I life is real, life is earnest,
And the gTave it not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returneBt,
Was not spoken of tho soul.
Not enjoyment and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way,
But to act that each to-morrow
Finds us further thin to-day.
Art is long and time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to tho grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
I?e not like dumb, driven cattle,
Bo a hero in the strife.
Trust no future, however pleasant,
Let the dead past bury its deud ;
Act, act in the living present,
Heart within, and God o'crbeud.
Lives of great men all remind us
e can mnKO our lives suuuine,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on tho sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another,
nailing o er nies solemn mum,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again. .
Let us then bo up and doing,
With a heart lor any lato ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Ctmliiiin liciclj.
WONDEEFUL NAERATIVE.
TUB rMGATK PUESIDKNT ; COM. ROUEIW.
The facts hereinafter narrated, says the
I'ennsghmniu mnrer, occurred in the year
1813, and were fully ctmflrmcd to JohnF.
W atson, onr Annalist ot ritiladelpliia. uy
the Commodore bimself. in through tho
medium of Joseph Nourse, F.sq., Register of
the Treasury. After the occurrence, such
was tho impressiveuess of tho facts on the
mind ot tlie Commodore, tnai no uaeamo a
elieicus professor. Jle stated to Mr. ut-
son'. that the Surgeon of the ship would some
day thereafter give a published account of
tho whole transaction. " This seems to have
been fullilled iu the Itinerant, ubout tho year
1824. At ull events, the following, as repub
lished in tho Xorrittntrn Ikratd of 8th July,
1820, gave tho 6auio us from the Itinerant.
Althotiirh the nanio of the Surgeon is uot
given it is ascertained that li. L. Thorn, was
Surgeon, and Win. Turk, Slate, for the year
1813.
The Itinerant had prefaced the relation by
saving : "It has como to us wan evidence
sii'lCcient to warrant confidence, ns much as
any fact in history j and to doubt it, would
argue an affected scrupulosity foreign from
our convictions, to wit j
"And he that mi dead Kit up, and bfgnu to .peak."
MIRACLE OF MERCY.
Although the events now for the first time
recorded, occurred, ten years ago, they are
still fresh in my recollection, mid they have
so strong an impression upon my mind, that
time can never obliterate lliein. iiiey par
take so much of tho marvellous, that 1 would
not dare to commit them to paper, were
there not so many living witnesses to tho
truth of the (acts narrated ; some of them of
the greatest respectability, and even sanc
tioned by Commodore 1 sogers, ine story is
considered by all who have heard it, too in
teresting to be lost, 1 therefore proceed to
the task, while those are iu existence who
can confirm it.
Living in an cnlichtened age and country.
where bigotry and superstition have nearly
lost their influence over the minds of men.
particularly among the citizens of this repub
ic, where knowledge is so uuiversally diffu
sed, 1 have often been deterred from relating
a circumstunco, so wouderml as to stagger
thn belief of the most credulous ; but facts
are stubborn things, uud the woight of testi
mony in this case cannot bo resisted. Una
ble, for the want of time or room to euter
into any particulars as I could wish, I will
give to the best of my recollection, the most
prominent aud striking occurrences, iu the
order iu which they took place, without com
ment or enibellibhincnt.
Some time iu the latter part of December,
1813, a man by the namo of William Keiuble,
aged about twenty-three, a seaman on board
of the United States Frigate l'resident, com
manded by Comniodoro Rogers, ou a cruise,
then near the Western Islands was brought
to me from one of the tops, iu which he had
been statioued, having Uursted a vessel iu
his lungs. Being at t hat timo in great dan
ger of instant death, the blood gushing with
great violence from his mouth aud nostrils,
it was with much difficulty that I succeeded
iu stopping the discharge. He was immedi
ately put on the use of remedies suited to his
cose. I visited him often, aud had the best
opportunity of becoming acquainted with his
temper, aud intellectual attainments, and un
der all circumstances during his illness, found
his language and behavior such as stamped
him the rough profane and illiterate sailor.
It is my belief, though I cannot positively
assert it, that ho could neither read nor write.
It U certain that his conversation uever dif
fered iu the least from that of the most igno
rant and abandoned of his associates con
stantly routed with Oaths and the lowest
vulgarity. Had ha possessed talents or
learuiug, he roust have betrayed it to me
during nis long confinement.
In the early part of Januury, a vessel bore
down upou us. with every appearance of being
a irigute. All nanus were cauca to nuariers,
and after a short aud auimated address by
the Commodore to the crew, all prepared to
do their duty. BAure 1 descended to the
cock-pit, well kuowiug Kemble's spirit, and
how anxious ho would be to partake in the
elorv of the victory, (defeat uever entered
our thoughts,) 1 thought it better to visit
h m. After stating to mm the peculiar situ
at ion he was in, uud the great danger he
would be exposed to. by the least motion, I
entreated him aud ordered him not til stir
during the action, which he promised to ob
serve. v e were soon aiierouugcu 10 nro.
At the oui)d pf the first gnu he could re
strain himself no longer regardless of my
admonition, and of his own danger, he rushed
upon deck and flew to his gun, laying hold to
help to run her out. A fresh and tremen
duous discharge from his lungs was the con
sequence, and he was brought down to me
ngain, in a most deplorable state. I appre
hended immediate death, bnt by the appli
cation of the proper remedies, I succeeded,
once more, in stopping the hemorrhage, by
which ho was reduced to a state of extreme
debility. Being near the equator, and suffer
ing much from neat, his hammock was hung
upon the gnn deck, between the ports, as af
fording tho best circulation of air. lie con
tinued some timo free from hemorrhage, bnt
was under tho constant use of medicines, and
was confined to a particular diet. This mado
him fretful, and he would frequently charge
my mutes with starving him, and at tho same
time damning them in the truo sailor Btyle.
After some time, being again called to quar
ters, ho was necessarily called below to the
sick berth, (commonly called bay, ;) this was
followed by another discharge of blood from
the lungs, which was reuewed, at iutcrvala,
until his death.
On tho 17th or January, in the afternoon,
Dr. , (my first mate,) cumo to mo on
ilerk. and reported Kemble to bo dead. I
directed him to see that his messmates did
what was usual on such occasions preparatory
to committing his remains to the deep.
About two hours after this Dr. attain
called upon me, and said that Kcmblo had
como to life, and was holding forth to tho
sailors in a strange way. 1 directly went
down, where I witnessed one of the most re-
iiuH'kablo and unaccountable transactions,
that perhaps has ever fallen to the lot of man
to behold. Keuiblo had awakened, as it
were, from sleep, raised himself np, called for
his messmates in particular, and those men
who were not on dutv, to attend to his words.
lie told them he had experienced death, but
was allowed a short space of time to return,
and give them, as well as tho officers, somo
directions for their future conduct in life. In
this situation I found him surrounded by the
crew, all mute with astonishment, and paying
the most serious attention lo every woril tuat
escaped from his lips. The oldest men were
in tears not a dry eye was to be seen, or a
whisper to be heard all was as solemn as
tho grave. 11 is whole body was ns cold as
death could make it. There was no pulsa
tion in tho wrists, the temples, or tho chest,
perceptible. Ilis voico wits clear mid power
ful ; his eyes uncommonly brilliant and ani
mated. After a short and pertinent address
to the medical gentlemen, lie told me in a
peremptory manner to bring Commodore
Rogers to liiiu, as he had something to say to
him before ho finally left us. The Comnio
doro consented to go with me, when a scene
was presented truly novel and indescribable,
and calculated to fill with awe the stoutest
heart. The sick bay (or berth) in which he
lay is entirely set apart to tho use of those
who aro confined to their beds by illness.
Supported by the surgeons, surrounded by
his weeping and astonished comrades, a crowd
of spectators looking through the lattice work
which enclosed the room, a common japanned
lamp, throwing out a sickly light, and a can
dle held opposite his face by his attendant,
was the situation of things, when our worthy
Commodore made his nppeurnncc. And weft
does ho remember the effect produced by so
uncommon a spectacle, especially when fol
lowed by tho utterance of these words from
the mouth of one long supposed to be dead !
"Commodore Rogers, I huvo sent for you,
sir, being commissioned by a higher power,
to address yon for a short time, and to deliver
tho message entrusted to mo, when I was
permitted to revisit the earth. Once I trem
bled in your presence, and was eager to obey
your commands ; but now I am your supe
rior, being no longer an inhabitant of earth.
I have seen the glories of the world of spirits.
I am not permitted to mako known what I
beheld. Indeed, were I not forbidden, lan
guage would bo inadequate to tho task. 'Tis
enough for you and tho crew to know that 1
have been sent back to earth to reanimate,
for a few hours, my lifulesR body, commission
ed by Ood, to perform the work I am uow
engaged in.
lie then, in language ns chaste and appro
priate as would not have disgrucud the litis or
pen of a divine, took a hasty view or ull the
moral and religious duties incumbent upon
tho commander of a ship of war ; he reviewed
the vices prevalent on board of a ship ; poin
ted out tho rel.it i vo duties ot olucers ana
men, and concluded by urging thu necessity
of reformation and repentance, lie did uot,
as was feared by our brave Comniodoro, at
tempt to prove the sinfulness of fighting and
wars; but, on the contrary, warmly recom
mended to tho men the performance of their
duty to their couutry with courage uud fideli
ty. Ilis speeches occupied about three-quarters
of an hour : and if the whole, could have
been taken down at the time, they would
have mado a considerable pamphlet, which
would, no doubt, have been in great demand.
Doctor , now at Hoston. heard all the
addresses, I only tho hist. When he finished
with the Commodore, his head dropped upon
his breast, his eyes closed, and ho uppcared
to pass through a second death ; no pulsa
tion, nor the least degree of warmth, could
be perceived during tho timo he was speak
ing. I ordered him to be laid aside, and loft
him.
1 was soou culled into tho cabin, where the
Commodore required from me an explanation
of the case ou rational uud philosuphicul
principles. This 1 euduuvored to give I
but in part succeeded. It would swell this
narrative too much to repeat ull I said in
endeavoring to elucidute thu subject ; at least
it proved a lame attempt. For, when asked
bow this mun, without education or reading,
or mixing iu other society thau that of com
mon sailors, should acquire the command of
the purest luuguage, properly arranged, and
delivered clearly, distinctly, with much ani
mation and great effect, 1 gavo no reply ; and
it was, and ever will remain, inexplicable,
without admitting supernatural agency, 'the
days of miracles are passed, and 1 know 1
shall be laughed at by many for dwelling up
on or repeating this tory. But never since I
arrived at the yeurs of discretion, has any.
thing taken a stronger hold upon myuiiuu:
and that mau must liuva beeu mude of strauge
materials, who could have been an iuditforeut
spectator. Was he inspired ? was he divine
ly illuminated ? or was thu whole the effect of
natural causes T these are questions which
have arisen iu the minds of many, and must
be left for thu learned of two professions to
answer. I returned to bed deeply reflecting
upou the past, unable to sleep, when about
nine o'clock, 1 . M., many hours after Kemble
bad been laid by, I was called out of bud to
visit & man taken suddenly ill, in bis Lam
mock, banging near Keiulle's apartmeut. It
wa's an hour when all, but the watch upon
deck, had turned in ; general silence reigned,
and all the lights below were put out, with
the exception of sincle lamp in the sick
man's apartment, where lay the remains of
I.. l.l-T , L. I 1.1 ,J 1 l.
n,euuiie, i nuu vieu wi ie muu anu uu
waa relieved. I entered the tick room before
I retired, to replace something; and was
turning round to leave il, being alone, when
I was almost petrified upon beholding Kem
ble sitting up in his berth with his eyes,
(which had regained their former brilliancy
and intelligence,) fixed intently upon mine.
1 became, for a moment speechless and mo
tionless. Thinks I to myseir, what havo I
done, or left undone, in this man's case, that
should cause him thus to staro at me at this
late hour ; and alone I waited a long time in
painful suspense, dreading some horrible dis
closure, when 1 was relieved by his command
ing me to fetch him somo watcr. With what
alacrity I obeyed, can easily be imagined. I
ffave him a tin mng containing water, which
le put to his mouth, drank the contents, and
returned to mo ; then laid himself quietly
down for the last time. His situatiou was
precisely the same, in every respect, as be
fore described.
The time had now expired which he hail
said was given him to remain In the body.
The next day by noon, ull hands attended,
as usual, to hear the funeral service read, mid
soo his remains consigned to a watery grave.
It was an unusually solemn period. Seamen
are naturally superstitious, uud on this occa
sion their minds bad been wrought upon iu a
singular manner. Decorum is always obser
ved by sailors at such times ; but now they
wero all affected to tears. And when thu
body was slid from the plank into tho sen.
every ono rushed instinctively to the ship's
side to take a.las-tlook. The usual weights
had been attached to the feet ; yet as if in
compliment to tlieir anxiety to sco more of
him, the body rose, perpendicularly from the
water, breast high, to tho astonishment alrea
dy created in the minds of men. I beg leave
to remark that it was not thought proper to
keep the body longer in tho warm latitude wo
wero in. I have now given a short and very
imperfect sketch of tho important events at
tending the last illness and death of William
Kemble.
The chango produced upon the crew, was
for a timo very remarkable. It appeared ns
if they would novor smile or swear again ; but
tho eifect woro off by degrees, except when
tho subject was renewed.
(Signed,)
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From the Portland Transcript nrul Kclrt'tic.
COLUMBIA. REMEMBER THY
HEROES.
I)Y JAMKS G. CI.AKK.
Columbia, remember thy heroes of yore
The pride of the world's brightest story;
Forget not tho time they defended thy shore,
lu tho wild-crimson morn of its glory.
Ah ! then, iu his grandeur, thy Washington
rose,
Wheu the last hope of Freedom seemed fa
ded, And tho legions of Liberty gave to their
foes
A tomb in the soil they invaded.
And millions that slumbered in darkness and
crime
Awoke with a wondering devotion.
To see thee burst forth from the shadows of
time,
Like tho sun from the mist of tho ocean.
Tho desert rejoiced in the beams of thy
worth,
And Peace like a diadem crowned thee,
When discord and ruiu wero rocking the
earth.
And kingdoms were reeling around thee.
And now in thy power of beauty and youth
A beacon to nations benifrhted.
Shall Tyranny witness a stain on thy truth,
Ur scoll at tuy purity bliirlited I
How long must tho creed of thu bigot and
knave
Pollute what thv fathers defended
How long on thy plaius must tho wail of the
slave
With the curse of tho freeman bo bleuded?
Columbia, remember the heroes of yore
The pride of the world s brightest story.
Forget not the time wheu they fell ou thy
shore,
In the w ild-crimson mom of thy glory.
Though cold iu thy valleys their bodies re
pose,
Let their trust thy children be civen
As the Day-stur, when lost in tho dark bil
lows, throws,
Its light o'er tho millions of Even.
Affectiox. We sometimes meet with men
who seem to think that onv indulgence in on
aB'ectiouato fueling is weakness. They will
return from a journey and greet tlieir families
with a distant dignity, and move among tneir
children with the cold and lofty splendor of
au icebcr?. surrounded by its broken trug.
ments. Thero is hardly a more umiaturul
sight on earth than one of these!' amities with
out a heart. A father had better extinguish
his boys' eyes than take away his heart.
Who that Thus experienced the joys of friend'
ship, and values sympathy aud affection,
would not rather loso ull that is beautiful in
nature's sceuerv, than be robbed of thu hid
den treasure of his heart! Who would not
rather bury his wife than bury his love for
. - .... - . 11 1- 1M1
ner ho would not, ramer ioiiow ins ciuiu
to the grave, than entomb his afiuctioii 7 Cher
ish, then, vour heart's best affections, lu-
dulge in the warm and gushing emotions of
filial, parental, aud fraternul love. Think it
not a weakness. Cod is love. Love God,
love everybody, and everything that is lovely.
Teach your children to love ; to love the rose,
the robiu ; to love their parents ; to love their
Cod. Let it bo the studied object of their
domestic culture to give them warm hearts,
ardent affections- Bind your whole family
together by these strong cords. You can
not make them too strong. Religion is love ;
love to Uod j love to man. Chumlen Jour-
Rstauatokt Laws. The Now Orleans
Bulletin suggeU that as Massachusetts has
by its legislative action attempted to nullify
the Constitution, the only remedy luft Loui
siana is to establish nou-ititurcourse, by which
a trade profitable to Boston, can be eusily di
verted to some other point, without any pre
judice to Louisiana. As the esseuce of trade
is mutual profit, we do not see how Boston
can be injured in its trade withou Louisiaua
suffering.
Quutiok and Akswer. "Why, my dear
brother, will you put a thief into your head
to steal away your brains V said a temper
ance disciple to a person with a glass of brau
dy aud water at bis lips. "Because I have
pleuty to snare-but if a thief were too enter
your skull for brain he wouldu't find booty
enough to pay his travelling expi uaej," was
the rude response, ,
A STRANGE SECRET OF NATURE.
The American Medical Gazette for May,
has the following curious uccouut of thu
petrifaction of human bodies :
In the Old Cathedral Church of the Bre
men is u vault, the atmosphere of which pos
sesses tho peculiar property of preserving
from decay all bodies that may bo placed
therein.
Visitors are shown eight human bodies,
beside a number of cats dogs, monkeys, birds,
etc., ull of which, by mere exposure to this
atmosphere, have become dried and free
from all offensive eflluvia; resembling in ap
pearance, coarse parchment.
Tho body nearest the door is that of an
English major, said to huvo laid here oue
hundred anil eighteen years.
The second that of a German student, who
lost his life In a duel. The hard, dry flesh
still shows the sombre wounds on his throat
and arm. His body has beeu hero one hull
d(ud and seventeen yeurs.
The third, that of a Swedish Countess,
whoso body has remained free from the lot of
common mortals for one hundred and forty
years.
The fourth, that of a Swedish General, who
was killed in the "Thirty Years' War," and
whose throat still exhibits the mark of the
wound of which he died. .
The fifth is that of his nid-dc-camp. who
lost his life nt the same time, bv a cannon
ball striking him in f e side, 'f bo destruc
tion of tho parts is plainly visible.
The sixth body is that of a workman, who
fell from the steeple of the church when near
its completion four hundred vears asro
mid broko his neck. Owing to this accident,
the peculiar properties of the vault became
known ; for the body of tho deceased work
man was laid in the vault for a few days, and,
having evidence of no signs of decomposition,
the singularity of the fact induced the au
thors to permit it to remain aud here it lius
remained during all that time.
Tho seventh is tho body of an English
lady, who died 130 years since of a cancer on
the lower jaw ; tho ra'viigcs of the disease aro
still perceptible fri the ulcerated flesh.
The eighth is the body of a working man,
who has lain here for sixty years.
In a marble sarcophagus, standing in the
middle of tho vault, ore said to repose tho
mortal remains ot the fjweuish Chuncellor,
Van F.nglebeehten ; but they are not permit
ted to be exposed to public view, on account
of some still surviving relatives of the family.
I'.ach of these bodies retains to a great
degree the appearance peculiar to itself in
life. Thus the Swedish General was a short
round faced man inclined to corpulency ; his
nid-de-camp was a slender, well-proportioned
man, in the prime of life. As in general nr
pearance so also in facial expression do theso
bodies differ: the parchment-like Ekin. though
drawn tightly over tho bones, still shows
something of the manner in which the mus
cles beneath onco worked.
The only reasonable solution of tho pecu
liarity of this result (for no other part of the
church possesses il) that 1 have heard, is,
that here all the plumber's work of tho build
ing was executed, in melting und otherwise
preparing tho materials for thn roof. Wo
can only suppose, then, that the entire cham
ber oceanic so surcharged with lead, that it
has continued every since to give forth vapors,
which, forming an antiseptic chemical com
pound ol lead, have operated upon the cada
vera exposed to ils influence.
SOKING.
An anecdote was told, somo years ago, of
a polito Southerner, nu accomplished and
kind hearted gentleman.
On one occasion he hud been driving hard,
from morning till uight, over the rough roads
in the neighborhood of Columbia, S. C, and
alighted at the only comfortable-looking tav
ern in the place, very hungry and very tired.
Sticking his eye-glass to his eye his con
stant companion, ho being very near sighted
ho demanded a roast fowl, some good wine,
and a comfortanle room fur the night.
The landlord was "exceedingly sorrow,"
but he "couldn't give him a comfortable room,
the only place ho could have to sleep in wus
a double-bedded room with another gentle
man." "Very well. Sir; let us have tho best
vnu've got. No man can do more thau that,
Sir."
After discussing his supper ho sought his
room, turned in, and went to sleep. His
slumbers were destined to bo of very short
duration. Before long he was nwakeucd by
a call from the other bed. Sir ! Sir !"
"Bless my soul !" cried I) , thrusting
his glass up to his eye, and endeavoring to
peer throngh tho dark, "what's tho matter,
my dear Sir? 1 the house lu fire, or aro
there bugs in your lied r
"Neither, Sir; but, my dear Sir. yon snore
so terribly thut I cauiiot sleep, Sir. It is
terriflic, Sir !''
"Bless ine, my dear sir ; 1 am shocked that
I should have been so rude us to snore in a
gentleman's presence, mid he u stranger to
mo. 1 really ask your pardon, Sir, and beg
you'll overlook it. It wasn't intentiunul, 1
assure you."
"The apology was accepted, a "Good-night
was exchanged, and both parties weut to
sleep again.
It was not long, howpver.beforo a rumbling
sound was heard from the polite gentleman's
bed, every moment growing louder, until at
last it ended in a thunderous diapasou. The
other lodger, driven almost to madness, btar
ted up aud exclaimed :
Good gracious! this is too much ! I can't
stan.? it I 1 say, Sir ! Sir ! I Sia 1 ! ! wuke up,
Sir!"
"Bless my soul ! well, what's tho matter
now I cried out the offender, starting up iu
bed ; "you seem to bo very retle. Sir."
"Restle a I I believe you !" said the dis
turbed gentleman ; you've beeu snoring, Sir,
worse than over, and 1 cannot get to sleep.".
"You donl say sol Have I been repeating
my rudeness too stranger? I am really ex
tremely sorry, my dear Sir, but 1 was reully
asleep. Good uig'uWuight -uight ; very
sor sor sor ry."
And off he drowsed ugain, ond iu five
minutes began snoring as loudly as ever, until
he was aguiu awakened by his ruom-uiate's
complaints.
"hooriug again, have I. Sir ?" said the
unconscious offender. "Well the fact is, I
have had a hard day's journey and eaten a
hearty supper and if 1 snore, Sir, I cau't
help it. 1 have apologized twice, aud that U
sufficient. 1 am ubout to go to sleep again;
but allow me to inform you, Sir, that if you
wake up spain, snoring or not snoring, Sir, I
shall at ouce proceed to get up and give you
the soundest thrashing you ever had in the
whole course of your life ! Good-night, Sir V
His simmers were undisturbed fur the rest
of that r ight. '
A Glasgow Taper, describing Mr. Cough's
loeture to the fair sex of that city, exclaim
with enthusiasm, "Three thousand ladies !
hanging on the lips of oue uuu 1'
THE WIJtTEIt OF THE IIKAUT.
Let it never como upon you. Live so that
good angels may protect you from this terri
ble evil the winter of the heart.
Let no chilling influence freeze tp tho
fountains of sympathy nnd happiness in its
dopths; no cold burthen settlo over its with
ered hopes, like snow on the faded flowers, no
mil a blast or discontented moan shrieks
through its desolate thnnibcrs.
Your life-time may lend yon through trials,
which for a time seemed tittered to impede
your progress and shut out the every light of
heaven from your anxious gusce.
I'ennry may take tho placo of ease and
plenty: your luxurious rooms may be ex
changed for a single lowly room the soft
couch for a straw pallet the rich viands for
thu coarse food of tho poor. Hummer friends
may forsake you, and the nnpitying world
puss you, with scarcely a look or word of com
pulsion. You may be forced lo toil weurily, steadily
on, to earn a livelihood ; you may encounter
fraud and tho base avarieu that would extort
the last fiii'thing, til) yon well, nigh turn in
disgust from your fellow beings.
Death may sever tho dear ties that bind
you to earth, nnd leave you in tearful dark
ness. lliat noble, m.iiily boy, the olo hope
of your declining vears, inny" bo taken from
you whilo your spirit clings to him with a
wild lonucity, which even tho shadow ol the
tomb cannot wholly subdue.
But umid all these sorrows, do not como to
tho conclusion that nobody was ever so deep
ly afflicted as you are, und abandon every an
ticipation of "better days" in tho unknown
future.
Do not lose your fuith in human excellence,
becnusc your conlideuce has sometimes been
betrayed, nor believe that friendship is only a
delusion, nnd love a bright phantom which
glides away from your grasp.
Do not think you nro fated to be miserable
because you nro disappointed in your expec
tations, und baffled in vour pursuits. Do not
declare that Ood lias forsaken you when your
way is hedged about with thorns, or repine
sinfulley when he calls your dear ones to the
land beyond the grave.
Keep a holy trust in heaven through every
trial ; bear adversity with fortune, and look
upward in hours of temptation and suffering.
When your locks are white, your eyes dim,
and jour limbs weary ; when your steps falter
on the steps of death's gloomy vale, still re
tain the freshness nnd buoyancy of spirit
which will shield you from tho winter of the
heurt.
A RICH MA.VS DEATH.
A correspondent in Talis, w riting under
datecf May 8th, savs :
"A rich man diet! in Tan's week before last.
Thti funeral was a gorgeous pageant. Silver,
and velvet, cyphers, ninghogny wero lavished.
1 1.3 left his heir ubout two millions of dollars,
and his mistress a good many jewels and
$100,001) in ready monev. The hotel ho oc
cupied exceeds in splendor tiny of the Minis
tries, and there is doubt if any of the privato
mansions of the bloated wealthy, equal iu ex
tent or decoration, its saloons, capable of re
ceiving with ease 3,000 guests, adorned each
wi'.h twenty candelabra of gilt bronze, cost
ing not less than 3,000 u piece, und thecost
liest Japan vases, and gilding mirrors, and
carving, or its wuitiug-roonis and smoking
room hung in old and valuable golden-flowered
leather; or its staircase, not unworthy the
Tuileries or tho Louvre: or its buffet adorned
with a gold and blue grundfeu Sevres des
sert service, which cost $12,01)0 ; or its bed
chambers and garden uud two conservatories.
Tho garden with its vistas of lindens, and its
numberless statutes, fountains and cascades,
must go to Versailles before it can find any
thing worthy to bo compared with it. This
I ru-sus died at tho early ago oi ol years.
What, reader, do you suppose was tho oc
cupation of this powerful man fur the lord
of $120,000 a year, is indeed a powerful man
how think vou he passed away his timo ?
Ho had no other delight to pass away lus
time murk this Cranu or Schuyler yet I. om
bling on the border of tho locus pa-nitentia;
between teinjitatiou and crime but couteu
ding against the vicissitudes of chance, but
following tho fortunes of cards. His nearest
"friend" was a veteran gamester, wonderfully,
not to say suspiciously, adroit in ull games of
chance, und well adapted to represent the
tenacity of fortune. If rumor may bo cred
ited, his favors wero costly ; it is said ho won
$75,000 of this millionaire, who left, too, un
annual deposit ou the gaming table of Ham
burg of never less than $10,000. This weal
thy person foiiud so littlo pleasure from his
possessions, lie hud not viaited tne splendid
salonus abovu lr.s bed-uamber tiieso seven
yuan; he lived on the ground floor of his
mansion, waited on by thirty menials, uever
receiving company, neither u glutton nor a
wine-bibber poring over cards with the
patience of a Benedictine. His namo was
William W. Hope; he was tho sou of
"Anuslasius" Hope, and grandson of the
great Amsterdam baker, uud brother of the
gentleman with tho same iiamu who figured
as plaintiff in tho criui. con. suit of Hope vs.
Aguado. At the sale of his stable the other
day, it contained sixteen blooded horses ; tho
auctioneer announced with the usual turgid
ityof his profession, tho horse up a lino
blooded uag fur which Mr. Hope gave $300
was the especial favorite of the deceased, his
constant riding horse, und ono of the stirvst
footed, gentlest animals in tho world. There
were a good inuuy elderly millionaries present,
who ure enamored of life. They bid uguiust
each other uutil thu ua fetched $l,j00.
AVhen the summer of youth is slowly wast
ing awuy into the nightfall of age, and tho
shade of past year grow deeper and deeper
as life wear to it close, it is pluasuut to look
through tho vista of time upon thu sorrow
and felicities of our earliest yeurs. If we
have a home to shelter und hearts lo rejoice
with ' , and friend have gathered together
around our firesides, then the rough places of
our wtyyfuring will have beeu wuru and
smoothed away iu tho twilight of li'o, and the
few sunny spots will grow more and more
beautiful. Happy iudeed are thev w hose in
tercourse with the world has not changed the
toue of their holier feelings, or broken those
musical chords of tho heart whose vibrations
are go melodious, so tender and touching iu
the eveulng air.
MooasTv is tuk Right Oc autek.. Since
the death of the late Bishop of Sierra la uiie,
Dr. Vidal, tho British Government have of
fered the vacant place to the Rev, S. W.
Weeks of est. Thomas' Church, Lambeth.
He iutimated his williogites to accept the
uppoiuttnent upon oue vendition, vis j That
his letter should not confer upon' him any
right or claim to be culled t "My Lord," a is
the case with ull the other colonial prelates.
It is somewhat remarkable request. The
new Bishop, therefore, is not te be addressed
in any manner or form which implies hi
"lording it over thcrs." :
THE IIAIIlTATIOJIt OF CRIFLTY.
The present state of Feejee is deplorably
in the extreme, notwithstanding tho numer
ous triunphs of the Gospel there. A few in
cidents given in Wesleyan Missionary Noti
ces by an eye-witness, illustrate the actual
condition of the islanders : .
Strainling of u idou s has engaged our fre
quent attention, and culled forth our utmost
energies. Six or eiht women have been di
rectly saved from this inhuman practice by
our interposition, and several others indirect-'
ly nnd principally by tho influence of what wo
have done. Some of these havo subsequent
ly lutucd. These scenes require no ordinary
promitiido and sacrifice Wo have to adopt
tho Feejeean national custom of presenting
property when requesting a favor ; and hith
erto each lifo has involved tho expense of
about 1.
But sometimes our interference is preven
ted, and sometimes it is spurned and iueffee
tuul. A few months agon man died in a
heathen town within a milo of ours. Mr.
Malvern and I at once hastened to the abodo
of death ; but tho pcoplo fearing our arrival,,
nnd having hoard of our success in other
quarters, had already strangled the widow.
Wo entered the house ; thero were the hus
band and wife both sleeping in death. Wo
entered tho house ; but the last spark of lifo.
wa extinguished. A h I und there stood tho
son of those now dead, who with fiendish ex
pression lifted up his hands, and told iis that
by those hands that mother died ! ,
"Ah 1" was onr language, "this is seen in
heaven ; this will not be forgotten iu heaven;
its punishments will follow."
A few weeks afterwards I stood by an open
grave in that town. I hud gone in pursuit
of the widow of a young man brought homo a
corpso from war. " Her friends had consigned
her to onr care, and she had escaped from us.
I stood by the open grave, that I might wit
ness the ceremony of a heathen burial ; the
corpse was brought out shrouded in mats ; a
bullet had pierced tho bruin. I looked upon
tho dead, 1 recognise the features, it was thu
matricide!
'Ah 1" I exclaimed, as tho corpse was laid
in its lust resting place, "did we not speak
the truth when we said, 'His sin was seen ill
heaven ; it was written in heaven; its punish
ment would lollowf
Several women have, in Fpile of our efforts,.
beeu strangled ; and wherever there is a son,
ho is chosen to bo tho principal agent in tho
murder of his mother. Within my own
knowledge, a father has. with his own hands.
suffocated (by choking or gagging) his own
daughter who was sick. Uue day, standing
by the corpse of a warrior painted and black
ened as if for war, tho club lying by his side,
I turned round to his brother and inquired
tho cause of his death. The reply from that
brother was, "He was very ill and I sulloeu
ted him." '
Infanticide is written on another page of
Feejeean life. 1 wish to confine my illustru
(ions as much as possible lo cases that bear
directly upon the point, nnd that have passed,
under the immediate notice of myself or other
missionaries, or credible iuroriuuiits. Noth
ing do 1 state on niero rumor. A woman,
brought mo u child who, from want of proper
treatment, was nearly dead. I undertook to,
prescribe for it, if the mother would reside
for a time in the house of one of my servants,
so that 1 might see it met with prper. at-,
tentiuii. My treatment was successltil ; tho
disease was subdued, tho child could ngaiu
run ubout, talk und eat ; iu a day or two
tho mother could have returned to her
friends, but maternal patience was exhausted,
and one night she suffocated it. A man was
informed that his wife had given birth to a
daughter. Hearing of its sex, he nt once di
rected it to be strangled. Again, a fenialu
child was spared for several months ; its death
was then resolved upon by the parents.
Thev dug u deep holo in the centra of tho
cartlieu Hour of their house tho father flung
into the grave his hopeless.aiid innocent babe.
Ho then cast some heavy stones with violence
upon it, und filled up the gravo with earth.
These inhuman parents still occupy that
house. They daily tread over tho decaying
remains of tlieir murdered child. Such is
Feejeo in tho present day.
Ax Estray. A codfish weighingsixty-five
pounds was teceutiy caught offGroten, Long
Toint Connecticut, in whose stomach wero
found six bony fish and six squids, besides a
complete cod fishing gear except tho line.
The hook of this gear is largi , attached to
tho lower end of the lead, of a singular shape,
with an eye at each end, and we'ehs two and
a quarter pounds. All the old fishermen who
havo inspected it say that this gear is unlike
any other which they have ever seen, and
the question, therefore', 1s, wheia did the fish
come from ?
Tk.vxsvi.xa.ma Rki.if.f Notes. The report
that these notes would not bo received here
nl'ter for taxes in Tcnusylvaiiia is incorrect.
Ou tho coiitiary, a State' law went into effect
on the 1st inst., requiring them to bo received
for taxes, or redeemed ill pur funds by tho
State Treasurer, and then destroyed, whilo
banks, county treasurers, toll collectors, &c,
are expressly prohibited from paying theni
out. This is nil excellent law, and should bo
strictly observed, as gold and silver ore abun
dant throughout the country.
Pixofi.AR. A lady who died the 'week
before last, ut Tort Tenn, informed hcrfriends
a few days previous to her decease, that her
son, wlui resided in the West, was dead, ond
that he died while sitting in his chair. Ho
had beed written to in regard to the illness of
his mother wh was anxious to see hint, but
he came uot. Two or three days after" her
death a letter was received stating that he
was dead, and tho circumstances as related
in the letter coincided with the . statement
made by his mother in every particular. Vel. '
Urn.
Tasteless Infisios ok StxxA. rDr. Bran
dies recommend a cold infusion cf senua fur
twelve hour in a covered vessel, a especial
ly useful iu infantile therapeutics. By this
modification of the process usually employed,
the water contains only the cathartic and tho
coloring mutter, leaving the essculial oil, thu
fatty Biutter aud the irritating .resin, which
are only soluble in hot water. Senna water
thus prepared cold, is almost insipid, and it
taste completely disappear when mixed with
an infusion of coffee or tea. Archki e Cn.
eralei dc Mtdicin for April.
"Better Lath tha Ever." lu the Com
mune of St. II ilalrede la Nonille, France, m
muu, named Jean Lapierre, 107 yean of age,
was recently married to a woman uauivtl
Tetron Neu'ville, at the tender ago of feo. , .
Every secoud'of time throughout the bot
hoar tI the day, and during the silence Jf
uight, an immortal gu,l u pmsiug Um tmm
into eteruity. ...