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Wherever our footsteps rove ; Her bounteous . hand O'er all the land, • Has spread the things we love ; Like the glimpse so bright, To our mortal sight, Of the " better land above." tbi tin r.,:;,'SV.NTIMINTS OF Pancruan.—At the print er:4' festival recently held at Manchester, N. the following sentiments were offered : Womnx=The fairest work of nature, the edition being large, let no man be without a copy. llAutus —Miniature editions, issued periodi cally, and displayed in SHALL CAPS. Tttu Panictrai. Powsus—Printing Presses, _Pulpits and Petticoats. I[lll T e have a friend, a six-footer, who was •promenading on a public occasion, with a mag nificent woman. "We arc the observed of all • ohseivers," said the gentleman. 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With whom I lived without, quarrel or strife ; Thirty long.years in marriage she spent, Without calling on me for a single cent." ll:7•The Boston Post says : Of all the terrible pictures, That hang upon memory's wall, That of a darned old valentine Is 'the darnest of them all. o' 4 ' If I'm nottome from the party to-night at ten o'clock," said a husband to his better half, "don't wait for me." " That I won't," said the lady, significantly,---" I won't wait, but I'll come for you." He returind a ten precisely. (They have got to growing chickens so large in Massachusetts, that farmers have to sell them by the quarter, like pork. These aro chickens to crow over. 117V° man knows what torpid snakes may lie coiled in some secret corner of his heart, waiting for a summer of fostering circurastan .. 117'" Muss ono, I lova thee•still," as the old bachelor said to his dickey, and the old maid ,to her wig. pedagogo .• threatened to punish a .pupil who had called him a fool behind his back. . 117• Men. often 'blush to bear what they were .pet &Owned tenet. :* Ernie stepping-stone' to *Anne is . not to be fOund in a jeweller's shop. . , . • . . • . _ . . . . a , .. • .. ,- . , ',. : fl ‘,.., k , , ~' A A .. 4 1 ' 1 , e' 43 '6 . ~.'8 ,••••?si•-•P''fl,f. :tl:5 ~ v• L ., , •, - ? .. 5.1.• sle . N: - ..• . • A V , , - T. ' - • .L I. •,li ~ . 5.- . 0 , :,.. , t A '7 ....'" !Zll : .- i' "; C4l,_;` •1 0 "t 7 ' ' y o § v : . •,... t , 1 t ii ,-. 4 ..e . ?.... : . *l / 4 4 ''' 4' l' . 4: .. X' . ~ i , *ft f; l "- ;,I' - i.. :.e- t15tt.,...-li . „ tt tu 4 a ?... t r , '1:41 - • Iv 0 4•5, - leuat6 Inral -(3mtrat 515,085, ggrirtiltur?; eburation, 311orafifq, imuannt, Taaritttli, fir., iSz't VOLUME IX. 3iscrilanintio. A CIIEIFTAIN LOVER. At that time, when the Crescent, overthrown under the walls of Vienna, began to grow pale in Hungary; the chief of the Erlau guerillas was Leikem, a young and fiery patriot. He con stantly harassed the garrisons of Erlau, Ma yan, Szolnok, and other places, by capturing their convoys and defeating their troops. On one occasion he accomplishcu a very successful expedition by unexpectedly falling upon a treasure convoy in Cyongyos, on its way from .E.lau to Buda, and cutting down the whole es tort. While his men were engaged in a combat with the Turks in the streets of the town, Leikem heard a ey for help from a neighboring houe. He leaped off his horse, rushed in, and found a Turkish soldier ill-treating an Hunga rian girl.' 'With a stroke of his flashing sword he split the infidel's head, and liberated her from his grasp. Exhausted and subdued by terror, the girl lay senseless on the ground.— Leikem, with the aid of some women, soon re stored her to consciousness. The girl was tl:e very type of Bugariaii beauty, with black eyes and hair, the charming expression of her face heightened by a gleam of gratitude towards her delivererd. To the young man she seemed the fairest of all the maidens he had ever beheld.— The girl, too, on recovering thought the chi( f just what she in her lively fancy had imagined a true Magyar hero to be—tall, stately, with spal-hling eyes, the terror of the enemy and the friend and willing protector of the helpless and unhappy. In our country love soon takes root, end in creases with a rapid and marvellous growth.--L The young man remained but a short time with the maiden ; still it sufficed to fill their hearts with a sentiment not easily to be elliteed.— Leikett left the girl, whose name- was Irma, with a promise of soon returning, but that promise was more easily made than fulfilled : for scarcely had the news of the loss of the costly convoy reached Erlan, than the infuria ted Pasha sent a strong garrison to Gyongyns, and ordered a hot pursuit after the bold guerilla chief; so that Leikem, fur a time, was an un willing prisoner in his inaccessible' lurking place in the Matra. As a punishment for the loss of the money, a contribution was levied on the town of Gy ongyos ; and, at the same time, to insult the inhabitants in their most sacred feelings, the Pasha commanded the delivery of twelve of the most beautiful daughters for the harem of the Pasha of Buda. The consternation and the wrath of the poor tpwnspcople at this two-fold outrage knew no bonds ; but, conscious of their weakness, they submitted to the sentence, and as neither entreaties nor promises could soften the inflexible Turkish commander, presented their girls for selection to the officer sent for that purpose from Erlau. Arming the number chosen was the unhappy Irma. ..Leikem speedily received this dreadful intel ligence. His instant determination was to pre- Vent the maidens from being carried off ; but, for the moment, he was quite at a loss to devise a plan likely., to prove successful against the numerous garrison of GYougyos. In the midst of this dilemma lie was interrupted by the arrival of a messenger froni his uncle, the prior of a monastery of Carmelites in. this neighbor hood, summoning the, chief to an immediate conference, which Leikem diditot delay'attend ing. to, knewing his uncle"; Who :had already often assisted himWititzood advice during his expeditions, to be a wise amid patriotic man. He found the prior in.great excitement as to the fate of the unfortunate town. The monk conjured Leikem, by his Christian faith and his love for his country, now to show what enthu siasm the Hungarian wris capable of in the de fence of his rights and his. countrymen. Ile then proposed to him to.go to the town dressed as a monk, and there to agree upon .a scheme with the inhabitants. The first part of this propoSal was easily effected, ns a few hours previously, Dulo, the father of Irma had sent to the monastery for a priest to pray for his daughter, who was then dangerously Leikem was for a moment unmanned- by this sad information, but by a violent effort lie choked hislelings, and declared his readines,s to comply A'ith the wish of his uncle. He hast ily put on a cowl and left the monastery mounted upon a mule. Ile had the good for tune to pass the Turkish outposts unremarked, and arrived at the dusk of the evening accom panied by Dulo's messenger, in Gyorigyos. With tho capuchin drawn over his head . Leikem entered Irma's room. She was much changed during the few weeks that had elapsed since he saw her, and was so exhausted that the pretended •monk had to bend over her to catch her whispered words. He could not long carry on his disguise, and was forced to ex ; - claim, with all the fervor of his noble heart. " I:am not a' monk, Irma, but thy warrior; and am come to cure and to save thee ; for as a 51:i1luiturab.tinix1---lu.a.2m.alaiil• IP.t11.11.11144.) ALLENTOWN, P long as T. live thou shaft not fall into the power of the infidels." At the sound of that voice, the tone of which she had never forgotten, the girl thought she dreamt ; but again looking into his truthful. manly face, she saw that all was a happy re ality, and she seemed to live anew. The guerilla chief liliewise disclosed his secret and his intention to her father, who. cheered by his presence, instantly stole away to 'fliers of his tried and brave neighbors, in viting them to meet at his house. The men came. As it was supposed that the escort, with the tribute of the town. on proceeding to Buda, would halt for the night at the fortress of Hatvan, half wny between Gyongyos and Buda, at the proposal of Leikem a darling plan was projected and resolved upon. Two days later an order came to give up the tribute of money and women. The mayor . by presehts obtained the permission of the corn• wander that the maide,l!s * should ha allowed to remain veiled during, their journey, until they were introduc'ed into the presence of the Pasha' of Buda. All happened as they wished. At the moment of their departure they were taken in closed litters from their dwellings, and left Gyongyos under a strong escort, accompanied by the fervent prayerS of the inhabitant's fur their safety. As they proceeded very slowly, they did not reach Hatvan till late in the even ing. whereupon the Aga reeolvcd•not to go any further that night. While preparations were mahing for the accommodation of the unusual guests, the commander of the fortress attempt ed once or twice to pay a visit of ceremony to the maidens ; but the matron under whose care they were, nn energetic llimgat inn woman, re mained inflexible, and after a short contest rescued them from the presence of a very un welcome visitor. At milnight, when all was hush( d around, the sentinel at the door of the house where the maiden rested, had he been more vigilant, must have heard the opening of a window above his head, and seen a human form cautiously de scending. The sentinel, ly.wever, dreaming. perhaps of Mohannned's paradise, remarked. neither the slight noise, nor the figure in whom the chief was easily recognized, which by de grees glided down the high wall, till it stood like a menacing shadow behind him. Here a heavy fall was heard, followed by a dull groan ; then all becaMe quiet as before. The sentinel being nolonger in the way, eleven other forms let themselves down from the window, one and aril bearing greater resemblance to stalwart warriors than to gentle - maidens. Leikern hastily gave his commands in a suppressed voice ; and after leaving two men at the door of the dwelling, they vanished into the dark and deserted street which led to the cast gate.— There they surprised the small guard and with equal ability, and cut the men down be fore they could even think of resistance. But in spite of their quick and cautious proceedings, they were detected by a Turlkh sentinel who fired his gun, which - aroused the ()thug at their posts en the walls, and the alarm e.r,nn aeon re-echoed from every qUarter of 119 place. No time was now to be lost. The gate was forced open with all speed, and the drawhridgC let down. Leikem gave a shrill whistle, and on its being repeated at a distance from the for tress, in a short time a band of 150 brave men rushed in through the open gate. Leikem placing himself at their head, led them - io.a de cisive attack on the barracks, where the Turks already began to rally in overwhelming num bers.' The battle ensued in the market-place, where the dwelling of the commander and the barracks stood, and where [the mass of the garrison• :Was arrayed. Leikem's irresistible charge ; , and the death of the Pasha, who fell at the beginning of the engagement, soon discour aged the Turks ; darkness and confusion did the •rest ; and after a short and sanguinary massacre they surrendered to the mercy of the victorious Hungarians. The garrison still num bered six hundred men, who were greatly sur prised to find that they were conquered by so small a band. You will have already guessed that, instead of the supposed maidens, Leikem and eleven of his men, disguised in female at tire, formed the party so carefully escorted to the fortress, which enabled them to accomplish their bnzardous undertaking. At the news of the fall of Hatvan the greater part of the inhabitants of Gyongyos fled to that stronghold, to seek shelter against the yen. gennce of the Turks, and they were determined, in case of a serious attack, to dio under the ruins of its walls. Among the arrivals were Irma and her father. Leiitem, nor' commander of a fortress, the fruit of his bold enterprise, celebrated his marriage with his beloved Irma, who was accompanied to the altar by her eleven beautiful companions so gallantly rescued by the bridegroom. WASIILICGTON CAE.E.—One Cu p olbutte