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"Young s iid he, Slid his voice was husky "I el; dice a lesson of wisdord: How 311 r' My thoughts hurried back over !H o w old was I I Should I count > or 'my virtuous actions ! :otthe days that have idly flown, rears that were vainly spent, • eik of the hours thou must bhuiti to own, thy spirits stands befiire the throne, ecount for the talents lent-- ar the hours redeemed froth sin, meets employ'd for heaven id evil thy dayt3 have been, toilsome but. worthless scr'ne, ,bler purpose given= - hade go back on thy dial plate' sun stand still on his way I on—and thy spirit's fate point of life's little date . : vhile 't calp to-day— hours, like the Sybil's page, essen, in value rise; and live, nor deem that man's age length of his pilgrimage, lys that are truly ,vvise. '..PIIIA, Nov. 1843. minter Pictaresi I 2 BUS. SAIIAH J. HALL Iles shed their !eaves, summer days are fair, wry show climes floating down, lossoms through the air; rthe earth, like angel's wing, axing, white and pure, . shield of power divine, faith may read it sure, • whe rules the year can bring 'le Ince kiness -of Spring:. the bleak and storm-rob'd day 210 with cares and fears, eh his prises -beast of cloud, tting sun appears, . • e peusive watcher's gaze, .. Di of glory bears, the noontide summer's prime crr, never wears; pe, Oat pours her light most clear, 'el . 's dark clouds are gath'ring near, minds, like baravering host, rk night fill with dread— : may trimthe genial fire, in4'snch banquet spread, ife, VIATM3 of sorrow draw tents more kindly near, tre's stern frowns will make lone nor? deeply dear. ' 11 . '8 sad Hope, and Love are given er Pictures, finned by Heaven. [From the New Mirror.): Fatcr 'neat!' the /biers. tag her garland gaily laid, in seeming play.: ice whispered daily, • le chain while yet you may:' ied she, "'tis but a joy, many a fragrant flower: ' its bloom enjoy, ill it any hour." Med freely, lightly, soft and glowing chain, lasPe my hearilio tightly, teak the toy in twain?' reLthe tiee that bound her, 'heath her straggling ;toms fell around her, lingered still, Mother's Request. ' l B SARAH C. iDGAIITOS. ieet,mothet. that rgo--'- when years are past, 'resent shame and ;aro; , trell'repaid.at last. a crowns of tarns more thy faithful heart, iliapstinow'my shame, " 1 7 then have part." r ieller fixed than ,fame thy molar bring; t4titiona name, .4 may mend thee cling; . leek a sin* heart, L one guilty shade, :- Poor and seemed thou ad s than well repaid. The Bear Hunter vf Mt. Defiance. BY F. BUCKINGHAM GRAHAM. I am not a Roinancer—my duties are' of a more humble, and less exciting character; but my readers will bear with me, trust, if from time to time, I attempt to narrate, in my own way, such little incidents as in a romantic, roving,, and eccentric course of life, may have come - to my knowledge.— The novelist, or the elder sketcher may think them of but little consequence to a literary public ; but in the hope that they may interest those whose dispo sitions are similar to my own, I have been . induced to give some of them pub licity. Years have flown by Since that beau tiful morning in summer, ' when the ba sis- of my Sketch was indelibly impies aed upon my memory. Horicon pre sented an ruffled surface, and the forest trees by .which the sides and summit of 'Mt. Defiance were clad rustled softly in the zephyr breathing . atmosphere. The sun had not yet tinge d b the green foliage of the tamarack and hemlock with his golden hues, and the lark had just com menced his matin and his voice echoed through the wilderness and fell sweetly upon the ear of the sturdy farmer and plain lumberman as they w i nded their way to the respective ' scenes of their ' day's toli On the very summit of that Mountain, and near the place where thebrave Al len-,marshalled his - forces on the night on which, "in the name of The conti nental Congress and -the Great 'Jeho vah," he _took possession of the fort at Ticonderoga, at the time of which I am speaking, there stood a " log cabin"— the happy home of a poor but respect able family. I say happy home and I soy so truly ; although in this age and climate, some would seem to suppose that a splendid mansion, luxurious en tertainments; and extravagant furniture, constitute the only .110113 q, sweet home,' known on earth. , 1 But I have digressed. It was at this early hour in the morning that the in mates of the above described dwelling, saw a tall, strongly built man,-approacri ing. ' The cabin stood nearly in the centre of a cleared space of ground, and when the individual above alluded to came near he paused suddenly, as' if aroused froin a deep reverie. - As he looked .up, he was recognised 'as the old Indian Bear-hunter, the crack of whose rifle oft echoed through the dense forests of Mount Defiance. Be ing the only remaining representative of a long extinct tribe, and being also generously and peaceably. disposed, he had for years been the favorite of the white inhabitants of that region, - All knew him, and children would' listen for hours to his ories of wild-woodadven ture. .As as his usual custom he stop ped at th little cabin, ' partook of a fru gal brew fast and related some little in cidents, one of which I . shall new for the first time take the liberty to repeat : "Many moons have come and gone," said he, " since I first crossed in my ca noe , the waters of Horicon. I was young and happy "then—for my squaw and fair. pappoos were with me, and it was on just such' a' morning as. this.— When we landed, we heard 3 nothingbut the merry song of birds, and saw no thing but wild-flowers,. trees, and rocks. The Great Spirit then breathed. pace and love. in- our ears, as he does this morning, and our hearts went upon the windio him. 'But we were alone, and kneiv no filen& here, and so we built our little, hut of brush as well as we coUld,.aod live lived and loved in that same spot for many days.' Every mop ing I went out to hunt, or fish, and be fore night =I-would come back; 'and oh! 'how happy were my little family to, see me. ,At last, one day when near my, home, I, heard a loud scream, and 'I ran, but was too late. A large bear stood aver.the body of my poor squaw. One' ball from this same , rice that r now carry passed Ihrmigh the head of the bear,-and he fell by her side. This to me, friends, was no- revenge,' but I hoped to reicue'my wife, if still alive. Alas, alas, that could 'not be, her flesh _still trembled, but her soul had gone, , and her breath was mingled with the gentle 'Winds. I looked around foi my boy; but he, too, was gone, and I wai indeed alone. I buried poor Urunko in the shade, beside the tall oak, where the sun cannot wither the wild-flow ers.l plant on tier bosom, and where the whip-po-will the bird she loved to heir, ean come and sing to, her all night 1 long.". , . , • Here the t . ndian paused and wiped a tear from his swarthy cheeks. The Red-man of the wilderness," he again continued," can cry. I,am old, now Regardless - of 'Denunciation from an J POIITEII. iI'OVESMA9 DLIEDIFOMD OICNIZIPVO . IPiI s :o9 2Agii3MMIBIT Se 9 asiirdc; --verfold ; but I have never .thought of that dreadful day without weeping. Day after day," said:he, " have - I sat; upon the little mound which contains the first and last object my heart claim ed as its own, and there can I again be Ilappy-sorrowfully happy." • Here ended his story—and he took up his gun; and Ooceeded on his . way down towards the Lake, again to take. his station upon the grave of his wife, and hymn the requiem taught , him in youth. :We watched him until he en tered the 'woods and in alew moments we heard the report of his rifle . ,-and then he passed for a time from ouramemor les,' and we commenced Sour daily youthful sports. a I was very young then ; but the size and personal appear ance of (he old man, are now present with me : and I remember even the effect which his sad story had upon my mind, as well as if it were told to me but yesterday. That day he p a ined With us for the last time, and that day we heard for the last time the sound 'of his gun. ,He was found a short time afterwards in the woods, a lifeless corpse-:and two mounds non appeaf beneath the [{ranches of the oak against whose trunk he oft had leaned. The bear still growls near that spiit—the 'deer bounds lightly and quickly by, unfrightened,—the whip-po-will night ly sings there unlistened to. The re mantic traveller walks up and down the margin of Horicon a'nd gazes with won der upon its pure waters, and its beaute ous isles: the aged who dwelt in the neighborhood, have nearly all died—the youth have grown up and forgotten the old Indian; and to me, a wanderer far from those wild, romantic scenes,is left the privilege of writing the story, and perpetuating the memory of the " Old Bear Hunter" of Mt. Defiance. A SAD MISTAKE.—In the practice of politely bowing strangers out of a pew, where there is still room to • spare, is there not a lack of even worldly courte sy ? " Have you not mistaken the pew, sir." blandly said one of these Sunday Chesterfields, as with empha tic gracefulness he opened. the dour.— .. I beg pardon," replied the- stranger, rising to go out, I fear I have; I tool it for a Christian's." SORROW.—Earthly sorrows are spir itual rain-drbps, falliuE continually through the whole day from the cheer fulness and chilly north-eastern clouds of adversity, without any prospect of a single straying ray of comfort at hand ; but PENITENTIAL ,SORROW'a 811171,171,er shower, which on its cessation, produ ces an inexpressible the aspect in the atmosphere of the heart, , Hors.—Worldly hopes' are jacks-O'- lantern, which beguile us to the treach erous shoals of disappointment; but the. eternal hope, a beacon kindled upon the celestial highland,. for the souls to find the anxiously-looked for, 'and, sure landing place. KxowiNo •ONE. —4 , Is Jonathan Dumpy here ?" asked a rather country looking fellow, bolting into -a printing offie.. ” . 1 don't ,know such a man," replied' the foreman. Don't know hiro,"'said he, why he's courting our Sally." DESPAIR.—A mental tornado, which. blasts every flower of peace in the mind, and uproots every germ of affection in the heart, rendering the whole, like a miserable suicide in the midst of his unhappy family, an awful, desolate', and affecting scene to contemplate. SCENE IN A LONDON PRINTING OF nvE.—" What are you engaged . in ?" said the head' printer in a newspaper establishment to one of his composi tors. "hp an elopement." "Stop?'" said his interrogator, "1 ,want you to take a'share in a murder!" - YANKEE GRIT.-" Marm, may I go and play horse?" 4 , No youmust . stay: home. ~ Now, look here, Marm, if you' don't let me, I'll go and'eatch the measels-4..know a big boy that's got . . ." 'em firstrate." . .:' LOVE Lrrrna.—Ronsseau L ile 'us that to write a 'good love lette you plight' to begin; without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish w" . thotit knowing what you have said. v -•-? SNORT SERMON.--If you catillo fa vor for a neighbor; don't hesitate. Man best secures his own happiness by con tributing to that.of others; DESPONDVIWY.---A south-western timid,' overcasting suddenly the sunny sky of life, threatens,us at: every nto tient with a atom of affliction. The OM Cabbage Patch. - We recollect an excellent story illus. trative of the "attachment of our good'old Dutch "ancestry to their cabbage patch es, which, in the hands of „Dietiich Knickerbocker, that worthy andd vera cious histdrian, would swell into a de- lightful rorn'autique burlesque. But, since Irving is not one of the editors•of the Aurora, and we hate,, for our-rea ders' sake, to lose the story, we shall e'en tell it in our own way._ Derrick Von Schaussen then was one of the most staid and respectable Mitch -men that ever settled on the banks •of the Croton; and his ..goedi , fratt"'was as tidy a matron as evert knit striped mittens, or taught her daughters the mysteries of , 0 treading kraut"—in oth er words, preparing cabbage for a cer tain process, by, some called fermea 7 tation and by others rottitig—by tread ing it down in a barrel with their nak ed feet. For many years every thing went well with this worthy couple.— Their children grew and prospered— promising to turn out as botineing a set of Dutch boys and gals" as an y 'firm in the settlement—and their cab bage patch, the delight of their goad old hearts, and the comfort of their age, each year increased the number and the size of its vegetable stores. About this time, a company of specu- lators had formed' the idea of " laying out a town" on a 'plat including the very spbt occupied by'Von Schaussen's cabbage patch. They accordingly wait , ed upon him and, determined to carry the siege by a coup de main, Offered the old gentleman at once,S2o,ooo for the premises. At this magnificent of fer, the worthy Derrick rubbed his eyes in astonishment, and actually began capering around the room for joy. The deeds of transfer, were , made out and signed—the money was-produced, and nothing wanting to complete the bar gan but the signature of Frau Katreen. The-worthy old lady' was called in— the money bags shown her, and the deeds pointed out, awaiting but her magic mark—the cross of St. Nicholas —before she and her -husband should be absolutely possessed of the chink.' She hesitated a moment; and then, throwing the paper froth her, she ex claimed, with tears inl her eves, "I know tish a great' heap of money—but, Derrick, what will we do when we've sholt out ?' Where-is another. cabbage patch as that to be got ?" The appeal was irresistable, and went home to Det- rick'ssiomach. He tore his name from the deed; and the speculators tte parted with a, ilea in their ears. The g ood old Derrick and his k Frau,' now lieburried in 'one corner of their. beloved cabbage patch "—which still remains ; the speculators' fever having died away; kind the proprietors' of the new town having just come out from the whitewashin e ,cr'process of bankrupt law—a striking illustration of the pow er of cabbage and natural HINT TO TUE FAIR SE.X.AII Eng nib paper received by the recent arri val, says,i that the unmarried gentlemen of Northumberland. have resolved to form themselves into an Association to be . detiominated ,the , ‘Shirt and Pie ,Chib," the principleobject of which is to insure suitable wives. To- affect this each member is bound -under the penalty of £5O, not to marry any lady who cannot by two Witnesses be prov ed to be able to cut out and sew a shirt, Make a pie, and darn a . pair of .stock ings ; and must within six months after his marriage, he able to establish that his lady •his made at least a dozen of /shirts, baked a dozen olpies, and'ilarn. cd- a pair of- stockings. The idea, it is said, has been borrowed from: ,a club at the South, where, the scheme has been eminently successful, as the yOung ladies. seeing that what in mod ern parlance, are usually denontinateil accomplishments were at a discouht, turned their attention to whatwas really of use. . , . AWFUL StribtrioN.A notorious ti'l)- ler, says the Boston' Courier, 'in town not lofty miles from Boston, Ire turned, home last washing day, with' a l jug of rum, and : staggering into his' wife's domain. mistook a tub of , well warmed Water for a settee, and sudden! ly settled himself into it, so that !its' surging side's leaped merrily about him —he being' a fast: iiriso'ner. In this .. predicament he .called lustily for i Xan cy. , His •• guide wife" ' seeing - hi *deep' interest in her affairs, seizedth jug, danced around the philosopher pouring its contests over 'his head ' disregarding his. prayerful look, On stretched arms, and, beseeching spite I of . Nabliy, tare it! Sate- it NAV l' to which she repiied,“ ; Go, , it, lee-hLlotig* long life to yottehonor,",,,kc. •• • • • Finished. A ward in 'general 'use and; of very sinificant import.. - • . A young girl who has passed three years in a boarding school, gathered a . superficial knowledge of her ciwn•lan guage and the 'French ; acquired a pro found knowledge,of music, is said to be finished-=thatis ready for _'a hus ,band. A student who has passed faur years in a college, jearned to rob hen roosts, drink arum, smoke cigars, play at games of chance and spend the liberal allow ance of a kind parent in every species ofunworthy excese-Makes a Common place speech, receives his diplinna and is 4 finished. That is, ready for the devil. :The prodi g al , .who wastes at gam ing and in the hauntsof debauchery, a splendid patrimony, and then blows out his brains in a fit of despair, is said, by those who tempted him to his ruin, to be finished. It is finished, exclaims the man of fashion, as he survives at the comple tion of all the essentials of i splendid 'entertainment, which he is about to give hundred men and women, who,so far from indulging a 'friendly feeling for their . host, will laugh at him in their sleeves, s they sip his costly wines, and imOudently Criticise his person and air, 'while they are wasting antidevour in,g his subsistence. ' It is finished, the poor widkw whis pers, while hersuniten eyes 'dilate and light up with a mournful joys as she folds the, garment the nitlting of which will give to herself and father less ones, the coarse, and scanty loaf ,for another day's subsistence. It is finished, the seedy, pale, and emaciated author murmurs, as, with trembling fingers, he gathers up page after.page of the work, which he hopes will give food, fame he Ipoks not for, to the young, fi:ond wife 4t his side, and the little babes that cluster around his knee. It is finished, with despairing vio- fence, shouts the homeless wanderer, as the sleet descends on his unprtifected head, and the icy blast congeals the cur rents of life. and he lays him down, uncared for by his brother man. It is finished, gasps out the man of blood and violence; as he lays.his head on the scaffold, and pays to the society he has warred,upon, the forfeit of his crimes. Finished ! is ,the life-jonrney ; what 'oys are 'expressed by this one word, what doubts made certain, what hopes realized, what forebodings confirmed ! Finished, says the fond parents, as the realization of all their prayers sleeps sweetly in the cradle .they are bending (aver. FinishCd! ejaculates the weeping woman, drooping over the tomb. THE BIBLE.—Book of books ! deep, wonderful mine. whose shafts ages have ussaulted, ages have traversed, and *ill yet traverse Holy lineage-roll,Ais plaYing the record of the internal un folding of the race of man from the hour, ol his birth—gigantic drama of life's be,ginning and end! Drama with dark episodes and bloody scenes„ but whese mornings are in light; which commen ces with mun's infancy ; and' ends where.begins ,a new life after death and the grave. History of histories! how often • have I not descended into its depth with an ardent and inquiring heart. Long—long'was it to me dark, mys r terions, and :incomprehensible, and I could not seprate the precious metals from the drosi and earth which adhei ed to it, the great Pulse of reconcilia tion steadily beating beneath the vary ing weal and we of ,earthly life, amid the selemn blessings - and - curses of the wailing mind; was colicealed from me ; long have strayed and dpubted,' often despairing of ;the way and tie trutti. 7 -% 'Yet, the. eye became, by degrees, used to see twilight: and even for. the least of his inquiring children, does God,let his:light shine! . , Now I will walk se curely on the, worid4ful course ; and, to my last hour, will I journey. on, searching and praying. To effect mans reconciliation with the true life;and with God., the developement of his na tdre and his farther pr9gress, he must, in the present age,-especially, become reconciled with the scriptures.---Fred ericka,Bretizer. - WIIAT 9 9:IN ' A NAME ?-4 • chap in lowa, by the namelif New, recentiy dot married , and being somewhat.of a facetious tarp; of, mind; named his firs , t born " , something," which Of course was Something New., His sem(' W:fig' christened Nothing; being\Noth . - int New. I - DV' llto ©o wacceztoul elcata Ellll National Ideas of Piritdise.). Alinost all nations have united to .make the future abode of good •spirits a garden; a name among the Assyrians synonymous, with . Paradise, The Ma hoJnetans call the Paradise to which the i faithfully will be called, Jannat le Nain the Garden - of Pleasure ; ' Jannat wlden, , the Garden-of Perpetual Abode, and not unfriquently by the -.simple name of others. Thelaplander believes Par." adise to he situated in the centre ditto snows of Sweden The Muscogulees imagine itarnona the island of.the vast Pacific. The Mexicans conceived that those who died ,of •wounds, or we're drowned, went to a cool and 'de lighted place, there to enjoy all manner of pleasures; those who died . in battle or in captivity, were wafted to the pal ace of the ,suit, and led a life of endless delight. After an abode of (*Our years in this splendid habitation, the anima ted clouds. - : and birds of beautiful fea ther,. and of.sweet song; having at the same time, liberty to ascend to Heavetr or descend to earth. to suck sweet flow ers and warble enchanting songs. The Tompinese imagine the forests._ and mountains to be peopled with a pecu. liar kind of geni, who exercise an influ ence over the affairs of mankind; and in their ideas, 'relative to aetate of fu ture happiness, they regard a delightful climate, an atmosphere surcharged with odors, with a throne profusely covered with garlands of flowers, as the summit of celestial_ felicity. A tnimg the Arabs, a fine country, with abundance of shade form the principal object oftheir *prom ised bliss. There is a tribe in Ameri ca who believe that the souls of good men are conveyed to :a pleasant valley, abounding in delicious fruit. The hea ven of the Celts was called Fluth-innia, the island of the good and the brave,;" their hell, Ifurin, the island of cola climate." The Druids, as we are in formed by .4t mmiaitus Marcellinus, be lieved trat the soul of good men were, wafted, in progressive course, from planet to planet, enjoying at every suc cessive change a more sublime felicity than in the last. . . • -..- lobbies. If you want to be happy,. mount.. a hobby. This world is a dreary place to a-man who has not a hobby. He knows not what to do with his 'time, if he has got any to spare, and if he has got none to spare, he knows not °how Ao•season. his labor so as to make it palatable. A man will_ learn more in a week niminted on a hobby,. than in , twelve months walking on h is leather soles. Boys should by no means, cease to ride hobbies when they become men; they ought merely to procure more manly hobbies, and ride on. In , fact, the Most valuable portion of the life of man is that, which he spends on his, hobby. He himself is happy inliding and most probably . be invents or dis covers soinething which promotes the happiness, of others. All great im-' provemerits in art, all great discoveries in 'science,: have been made by men when riding, on their hobbies. in fine, the, greatest luminaries of mind which the world has produced., have Been hobby riders; • men who apparently sacrified themselves for the good of ntankind,but who alter all, were Mere ly consulting their own private happi ness in-riding their hobbies. The silk -0 worm _that spins its cocoon o silk con amore, is happier than, the t rmagant .who decorates. h r 'person with the'labor of that insect. It is an' enthusiast, and wherever, there is any happiness. We have no occasion to' .pity pity the' enthusiast; he is happier than we are, if we are not enthusiasts. We are yawning for want of excitement and for want of. excitement, we take to smoking. an d drinking, and gam bling, and roaming. He, on the 'con trary has found ainusnt, ,and time flies sweetly over bia Weld as he feeds da:the-hixuries of thop \ ght. , . . POSING ' A PEDAGCIOIIE.--" Sally Jones, kive you done the sum I set _ • you ?" No thir, I can't do it." , "Can't do it? I'm ashamed of you: Why, at your 'age. I could do any sum that was set me. I hate that word can't ! for there.is no sum that can't be done, can tell vou." . . . . I think, thin, that: I ktiowth a. thttiti• you can't thiferout:" ' ? well, Well. Sally let's -hear • It ith thith. thir c. If (me apple:: candied the ruin the ratbe;:licier many thud) will it tale'4 Mike a' barrel of !ItUrea thider, • 4 , Miss• Sally Jones, You may Unlit() your parsthglesson.' l • . • Yeth, thir," • =I MI II II lacc-No