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The warm breath of summer, speeding on her way the lingering footsteps of the gentle spring, came quietly through the open casement, lifted lov ingly the golden curls from the white forth ntd of the sleeping babe, as it lay folded to its', mother's bosom. Soothingly fell the zephyr's holy kiss upon the pale brow—the cluck, whence the rose-leaf hue had long since faded —eyes, once brilliant, laughter-loving, now I sealed by • the linger of him who •• doeth all things well." A smile plays around the beau tifully chiseled mouth. Why should the; wretched smile ? The young, the gay, the hap pY, as they bask in the bright sunshine of prosperity--a smile becomes t/o in Well. But this is the drunkard's homc ! Oh. how ! that sacred word knots is desecrated ! Look around upon the bare walls and lloor—the mis• crable, broken furniture—then count, ;I . you can, the brutal blows—the fiendlike curses which have been showered down upon her du; fenceless head, and you will indeed wonder that she should smile. Yet, upon the sweet breath of that summer wind, her mind has been borne far away from the gloomy present ; and a gain , in childish glee, she bounds out upon the verdant lawn, swinging her little sun-bonnet, and shouting to -- her merry companions, who, as though that Crying again . said a rough unfeeling ! voice. " I should like to know what you have ringing voice were a trumpet's call, trip gaily to cry? If you had a blind wife and squalling forth to obey the welceme summons. Now, a ! brat to soonest, ns I have, you'd have some scene all radiant with love's first dream, floats a•ron to cry, then. But it's for that infernal up, tinging the pale check with the rose's deli boydover of yours, and not for me, your tears cafe blush—faint echo of that which, years be fore, heightened its full, rich bloom, as Rudolph 1 I. ' ll !" " Indeed, dear William," said Marion, im• Manners breathed his burning passion into her ! the whispering ploringly. it was of you I was thinking—of willing ear. Yes, even now, winds as softly hiss the drooping lids, and, in your kindness when we were married--when' y her soul, the same beautiful Heaven, jeweled you made me the happy mistress of the pretty cottage on the hill--of our pleasant walks be with glittering stars, bends softly down to clasp the sleeping earth in its holy embrace. neath its shady elms and embowering vines. Then I thought of those bad men, who lured What a lovely glow the thought of long buri you from our pleasant home—of the unhappy ed joys will sometimes call up to the care-worn blindness which shut out your loving smile, features of misery's hapless children ! And it and the sweet beauty of our prattling boy.—= is well. Were it otherwise, the lava-title of I could not restrain the tears which would gush woe would soon crush out front the heart even up to my aching eyes. .But sit down, beside the faint star-light of hope, which cheers many me, William, as you used to do in days long a noble soul through the dark midnight of ad- I gone by. Let the soft cheek of your child, our versify and sort-ow, then merges into the warm I Willie, lay upon your heart, 'and we sun-light of Mal happiness to which it has quid- darling will again he happy." ed the weary wanderer. A sorrowful, pleading smile played around ! Why, on this night, should the sad heart of I her beautiful lips : and those closed eye-lids. Marion Lee be echoing to the sunny Memories! how eloquent their mute appeal ! But a fluid of the past ? Alt, true it is, that the soul, like called brandy, drugged with deadly poison. nu I ! . the Alolian harp, vibrates to the touch of un livid with the fires of hell. coursed madly seen minstrelsy ! Now, the pleasing vision is I through his burning veins and that sad, sveet rudely swept away by the remembrance or f sunilc, which would have won an tinsel from the first deep grief which swelled her bosom. I his throne, only aroused the slumbering demon Again, those dreadful words, " Ile loves ! munitis in !in his soul. And twining his fingers amid the cr, and is only trifling with you," to long tresses of her dark hair, with curses deep her ear. Then the obstinate resolve never and loud, dragged her, shrieking with pain and sec him more, rises up before her. Stung ht, terror, toward the door, which was at that her cruel injustice. he haul taken passage in a moment opened from' without with an impetu• vessel bound for a foreign port. hie haul rev' was he now ? hand. The wretched man was immediate er heard of him more. Where ly seized and placed in the hands of the proper and what a wretched life hail since been hers authorities. • With her hand she haul wedded, another—he; heart never resounded to those solemn vows— and all too soon, too bitter, came the punish ment for her rash thoughtlessness. tier hus band, lured by evil companions, soon became an inebriate quarielsome, unfeeling, cruel. The little innocent being, whose advent she had fondly hoped would win the erring father back to a life of sobriety and virtues she was not per . 'witted to behold.. Blindness came and settled up those beautiful Orbs, leaving her in dark ness and gloom. The father, instead of sympa• thizing in her deep afflictionS, caressing his pretty babe, shunned more and more his home ; and when he cattle, he was no longer a man, but a Ottte. She pressed her infant to her aching bosom, and tears—which had long lain with crushing weight upon her buruing . beart—streamed from those sightless eyes, and fell like a summer shover upon the brow of the innocent sleeper. "I say, Joe, where's Bill Leo ? He.promised to treat to-night." " Ho has gone home to treat with brutal cru elty his suffering, unfortunate wife, as he ever does, after he has beau here," said a manly looking youth who, in passing, had heard the question. " I didn't ask you. Mr. Jackanapes ; and I want hone of your high-flown, teetotal temper ance sermons, neither. I'm a good deal older than you are, Sir Oracle, and need nono of your instructions." " Then you are old enough to bo more of a man than you are." retorted the yoUth. With the bound of an angry lion, the irate devotee of Bacchus sprang toward the high- PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY HAINES sz, DIEFENDERFER AT ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM. souled boy, who, perceiving his design, stepped lightly aside.' His adversary, striking his head against a rude bench, fell heavily back, and though bleeding profusely from the wound, the crowd collected around said, " It would do him no harm—it was poisoned blood at best ; the less ho has of it the better for him." A stranger had been stayed a moment in the hall by the mention of the name, Bill Lee.— Drawing the young man aside, he inquired, " Can you tell me aught of William Lee ? Did he marry Marion--?" '• He did," replied his companion.--" She is an angel, too. For the first year after their marriage he was a sober, upright, honorable man—kind and of towards his wife. Then he was enticed by evil companions to this house, and now he never goes homo sober.- His property is nearly all gone. They have a lovely babe; but, since its birth, Marion has been nearly blind. Not one pang of pity or remorse ever enters his bosom. He only cur ses and beats her the more. Some evil mind whispered to him that she had loved another crc she had wedded him, and this he basely makes a plea for his fiendish conduct." The stranger seemed violently agitated ; but, controlling his voice, he said- -•' Can you con. duct me immediately to his residence ?" " I can, and will. I was intending to go there, for lie has just left here in a towering Fission, and I fear she will sometime fall a vic tim to his brutal violence. But for the kind ness and interference of neighbors, who almost adore her fin• her sweet gentleness, she would doubtless long since have shinibered peacefully in yonder lone church-yard." Marion Leo was borne bock to the home of her childhood, which she had left a few years before, the world thought, a happy bride, and accompanied her husband to the West. That husband, who, after her departure made sere• ral ineffectual attempts to obtain a reconcilia tion, soon died--died that most horrible, most loathsome of all diseases—dehrittni tremens ! How fastidiouS, how merciful our rumsellers are becoming ! Poo• pitying souls ! thry.cannos endure the s'e:cening, wretched tableaux • (Ind who, possessing the least moiety of heart or feeling, can ?) presented by the bloated. miser ' able victims, thro, long long years of lingering death ; and so, Eis their number increases, they perforce increase the quantity of poisonous drOgs in their delectable beverages, and a few months will now do the work of years.—Pro gressive age, this ! - • Strains of low, sweet music floated on the balmy air, and were echoed by " earth's my riad music-voices,"`as the holy hush of evening fell like a sacred veil around the little village church. Again Marion Lee bowed before the aged minister, to repeat those solemn vows which had once bound her to a life of misery. But it was uow no " lip service." Her full loving heart spoke in every trembling word The noble form of Rudolph Manners knelt by her side, clasping her hand tenderly in his, and as the words uniting in one those hearts so long and so painfully separated by misery and un happiness, she raised her dark eyes, blind now no more, lovingly to his; then Their glancefell upon the high brow of n noble boy of five tilers, and again sought her husband's faci3.— Allentown, Pa., *ember 19, 1855. He understood the deep yehrning love which spoke with such silent, yet powerful eloquence, in that mute appeal ; and as ho led . her back to the carriage, he whispered fervently—" As 'heaven is my witness, I will be a father to your lovely boy." The carriage drew up be fore the almost princely residence of Rudolph Manners ; and in this beautiful hoine, as the circling years of blissful happiness till swiftly by, gloom and darkness of the past are remem bered only as a wretched dream. William Lee, the idol of his parents, gradua ted with the highest collegiate honors, and then gladly entered the field an uncompromising 'champion of Temperance. Few knew the se cret, of his glowing, enthusiastic eloquence.— Few knew that ever before him floated the vi sion of that pale, blind mother, as patiently she receives, and falls beneath the blows of an in furiate demon—and of that father, who fight ing with a whole pandemonium of evil spirits, at length breathed out his wretched life in bit ter, terrible, fiendish curses! From the Louisville Journal To P. W. A. I am thinking of you now, my love, I am bringing up the past, Our meetings and our partings, The early and the Inst. O'er the magic glass of memory The phantoms brightly glide, And visions of the past come up Of love, and joy, and pride. I run thinking of that day, my love, When first I told to thee, But with faint and palsied utterance, 11. w Hera• thou wart to me ; And of those timid accents, And blessed v.ords of cheer, Which, like the rain on thirsting earth, Fell on my ravished elm. I ant thinking of that walk, toy love. Then our solemn troth was spoken, When vows were registered in Heaven, Which never may be broken; Of the calm and happy joyousness IVbich took the place of sadness, And banished every gloomy cloud, Filling my soul with gladness. I am thinking sadly now, my love, Though fondly, of our parting ; 'When sighs could hardly be repressed, Nor tears be stayed from starting; Of the night when last together, God witnessing above, We parted, sad and sorrowful, Bat strong in hope and love. I think of thee, my own dear love, When my soul is overcast With shadows, and I think of then When the evil cloud is past; And do I err, my guiding star! In deeming that to thee The poet comes up in . Amid you sometinies think of me? Philadelphia Water Works. The first water works' of the city were erect ed in 1790, the basin was on the Schnykill, on the upper side of Chestnut street, the motive power was steam, the cost $657,308,01. The income during the thirteen years these works Were in use was slos,3sl,73—deficit over half a million. The old central engine house shown in the engraving stood in the square now traversed and divided by Broad and Market streets. In 1815, the Fair Mount works were put into operation ; the motive power steam, cost 8520,-1 058,84. The supply proved small and expen- ' site. In 1818, the authotitics determintd upon the plan now in operation. The Schuyl kill 000 feet wide. and.3o feet greatest depth, with an average rise and fall of six feet, end subjezt to violent freshets is traversed by an angular. dam of 1600 feet, affording an overfall for the stream of full 11:00 feet. The back•wa ter reaches six miles. The pumps are wort ed by the water power thus secured, and the sup ply is at once ample and chetip. There arc fine• reservoirs, which togtther a cover a space of more than six acres, and ar • capable of containing twenty-two millions of gallons. They •are 102 feet above the level of the tide in the Schuylkill, 06 feet above the dam, and 56 feet above the highest ground in the city. Previous to the year 1821, the water was distributed through the city by menus of wooden pipes. they measured about 52 miles There is now more than 150 miles of iron pipes in use. • The expense of supplying the pity by steam power with the quantity of .water now used would be $200.00 per day, while the cost by water power is $7,00 per day. • The income pays the interest on the loans for the construc tion and leaves a surplus for the use of the city. In the city the cost to each family supplied with water by a private hydrant is $5,00 per year. Hotels pay from S5O to $lOO : manufac turers, according to quantity used from SIO to $750. Horses $l,OO per head. Bath in dwel ling $3,00. Tho average doily supply of water is about 175 gallons to each tenant in the city and liber ties. The demand during the summer months is neari one third more than in the winter months. The capacity of the present works is thought sufficient for a population of half a million.— The elevation of the ground at the Girard Col lege is eighteen feet above the reservoirs at Fair Mount. The Eastern Penitentiary is also above their level. Fair Mount, with its fine grounds and fine views, the perfection of its machinery, and ample capability of watering the city at a tax so low, yet more than repaying the cost of con struction and repairs. is such a success that it is unmatched by any similar enterprise in the world. Modern Dictionary. Author—A dealer in words who gets paid in his own coin. Bargain—A very ludicrous transaction, in which each party thinks ho has cheated the other Belle—A beautiful but useless insect with outt wings, whose colors fade on being re moved from the sunshine. CritiO—A large dog that goes unchained, and barks at everything he does not compre- land Distant Relation—Popple who imagine they have a claim to rob you if you arc rich and insult you if you are poor. Doctor—A man who kills you - to day to save you from dying to-morrow. Editor—A poor fellow, who every day is emptying, his brain in order that he lnay fill his stomach. Fear—The shadow of hope. Friend—N person who will not aszist you because he knows that your love will excuse him. Grave—An ugly hole in the ground, which lovers and poets wish they were in, but take uncommon pains to keep out of. llousewifery—An ancient art said to have been fashionable among- gills and wives ; now entirely out of use or practiced only by the lower orders Lawyer— A learned gentleman. who rescues your estate from your enemy and keeps it him -elf. Modesty—A beautiful flower that flourishes only ill secret placeii. My ElJar—an expression said to be used by man and wife at the commencement of a quar rel. Policemen — . Men 'employed by the corp.) ration to sleep in the engine house at three dol lars per night. Political honesty—Previous lexicographers do not nothe this word, treating it, we pre sume, altogether as fabulous—for definition see SELP•INTEIIEST. Public Abuse The mud with which every traveller is bespattered on his road to distiuc• tion. Rural Felicity—Potatoes, turnips and cab ages. Sensibility—A qnality by which is posses sor, in attempting to promote the happiness of other people, loses his Own. ' State's Evidence—A wretch who is pardoned for being baser than his comrades. Tongue—A little horse that is continually running away. Wealth—The most respectable quality of 10111 Grandeur of God abroad Upen the paths of nature, and, when all Its VOires whiEper, and it: silent things Are breathing the deep beauty of tho world, Kneel at its simple altar, and the God Who haith the living waters shall be there. (.V. P. Win's. • Of: when ploughing the mighty (loop, I've beheld lint l;randeurin lie placid Tliflling of the waves—in the gentle breeze of heaven that : and a half in seven minutes ; an antelope a mile • . wafted me-to a far off clim of the in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartary has a e—in the fury PpIPRIN TARTS --Prepare the pumpkin by tempest—in loud sounding bursts of thund e r , speed even greater than that ; an eagle can fly paring oil' the rind and reducing it to a pulp, as amid vivid flashes of lightning—ay ! t timedirected for soup. To each quart - of pulp, add a a ' eighteen leagues in an hour ; and a Canary fal when fancy pictured to my imagination a quart of milk and six eggs well beaten, with the ! con can evtn reach two hundred and !Inv ewelry of the ocean as my tomb. and my dir ge sutlieicnt sugar to sweeten : grate off the yellow j : leagues in the short space of sixteen hours. the eternal music of its roar. Then again I've! • - rind of a lemon, and add, with a nutmeg grated. viewed it in the abatement of the storm--in Magnitude of London. Mix and pour in a dish with a rim of paste on the ceasing of Ilis anger—in the renovated I London extends over an area of 78,020 acres the edge, and in a moderately quick oven. It splendor of the sky--in the returning brilliancy !or 122 square miles ; and the number of its in- ; may be Made with a pint of milk and three eggs o!' the stars—in the nnpdralleled beauty of the', habitants (rapidly increasing) was two millions , CO the : quart of pulp, but it will require an oven: Imidnary of night—and in the tranquility of ' three hundred and sixty-two thousand nt last ! of less heat to bake it in. ..._ the winds. Icensus. A conception of this vast mass of people : Ccmurr.-This delicious vegetable is not gen- Reader ! Post think that man can adequate- ; may be formed, by the fact that, if the metropo- , or illy n appreciated as a cooking vegetable.— ,ly portray the grandeur of his Maker ? Dost ; lis was surrounded by a wall, having a north ; Wash the stein clean in salt and water. After thou suppose that he can dilate on that which ; gate, a south gate, an east gate, and a west : boiling twenty minutes, take up and drain, is beyond the ken of mortality ? The stndent, ; gate, and each of the four gates was of suffl I place :gone toasted bread in the bottom of a dish, 'in the solitude of his little chamber, may trim' cient width to allow a column of persons to' lay the celery over and season with melted end replenish his midnight lamp and outwatch pass out freely four abreast ; and a peremptory ;butter, pepper, salt, and such other condiments the slow-paced eve ; the poet may call in requi- necessity required the immediate evacuation of as the taste may dictate. ; -- sition his breathing thoughts, and array them the city, it could not be accomplished under _ • !in the all powerful garb of burning eloquence ; four and twenty hours—by the expiration of Srswso PAnsxtrs.Wash, pare and cut i the orator may summon to his aid the force of which time the head of the four columns would them in slices : boil until soft, in just water that mighty mind with which" lle endowed have advanced sixty miles from the gates . ; or I enough to keep them from burning ; then stir him:. the. learned divine, in the hallowed loin-' in other words, the population: of London 'in sweet milk ; dr, (Igo in a little flour, and lot plc, may extend his hands, uplift his eyes, and would form a Solid column four abreast and them simmer fifteen mantes. This is a favour bend his knees in the sore= attitude of prayer, 240 miles long. . ito dish wit many persons. and in accents oflhanksgiving and praise. But 'tis all in vain to correctly discuss a theme, which is ad infinitum, sublime and magnifi cient. Grandeur of God ! Ye can witness it in the glorious gift of intellect to man—read it in the purer language of his brow—in the splendor of thought—in that victory of mind which cau ses the mighty of earth to recognize the magni flcient brightness of his name, and the beauti ful to hail the brilliancy of his talents as a tal isman of love. Contemplate it in the mechanism of the hu man heart— in the construction of the casket by which it is inclosed—in that immortality therein which flourish an eternal youth long, long after the encircling dust bath crumbled to that from which it emanated. Behold it in the pleasing melody of the birds as they tune to 'Heaven their songs—in the lovely flowers as they throw around their rich est perfume—in the rivulets as they leap on their courses--in the glowing loveliness and unmasked beauty of naturo "In every stream hi 3 bounty flows, Diffusing joy and wealth ; In every 1, fecze his spirit blows— The breath of lifo and health." From the Louisville Journal Twilight Musings. =I Now twilight draws her mantle round, And trims her silvery lamps on high, While to- the car the streandet's sound Is softly borne ai Love's low sigh; As sweetly pass the pure away, . Front this into a world of rest, is sweetly g6es the dying day From out the bright unclouded west. How calm and lovely is the hour Now lightly swims the balmy breeze, As some pure spirit iu that bower Where sweetest sound 'Heavens's harmonies ! The little birds have ceased their notes, Within their nests they're mute and still. While through the dreamy quiet floats The sad ~enz of the whippour-will ! :%lemory holds her smoothing. stray, And brings tiro past, a fairy train, While, gilded hy her mellow ray, We live mil loved acme o'er again ; And if, e'er from the world of bliss, Departed spirits hover nigh, Methinks 'lts in an hour like this, When Nature's charms in stillness lie. Father ahove ! at thy command, All lovely things sprung into birth!' Yon :.hies are paintings of thy hand, You silvery lamps that light the earth Are thy ereatioh ! Let this hour With holy reverence fill my heart ; Oh ! make me feel Thy boundless power, YU feel how good and hind Thou art ! SALISFT OM VEGETABLE OYSTER.—Wash the Statistics of Muscular Power. roots perfectly clean and drop them into boiling Man has the power of imitating every motion ; wat e r ; when done, take up and mash ; add sweet milk and flour sufficient to make a batter. but that of flight. To effect these he has, maturity and health, sixty bones.in his head, Season with salt and pepper and such other two i n h i s condiments as the oyster requires, and fry in sixty in his thighs and legs, sixty arms and hands, and sixty-seven in his trunk. butter. Another way in which they are very delicious i 3, to grate the root on as fine a grater 112 has also four hundred and thirty-four mus d es as it will pass through ; add sweet milk, just Ms heart makes sixty four pulsations inn enough to cover it, and boil, when done, add flour enough to make batter ; three eggs in minute : and therefore three thousand eight hundred and forty in an hour, ninety-two thou- and stir the whole together ; fry in butter or sand one hundred and sixty in a day. nova very sweet lard, and the resemblance to oys• arc also throe complete circulations of his blood tees is complete. :„ • in the short space of an hour. In respect to EVEEION Turn.—Take one potind "and - a the comparative speed of animated brings and .half c.f.i.)] own sugar, three ounces of butter, a of impelled bodies, it may be remar ked that size teacupful and a half of water, and one lemon. and construction seem to have little influence. Boil the sugar, butter, water, and half the rind nor has comparative strength. IEOIOI one body of the lemon together, and when sufficiently giving any quantity of .motion to another is done—which will be done by dropping into said to lose so much of its own. The sloth is cold water, when it should be quite crisp—let by no means a small animal, and yet can tear- it stand aside until the boiling has ceased, and el only fifty paces in a day : a worm crawls then stir in the juice, of the lemon. Butter a only five incites itr fifty st cods ; I R A a lady- dish, and pour it in, about a quarter of an inch bird can fly twenty million times its own length i n thickness. The fire must be quick, and , the in less than an hour: An elk can run a mile toffy stirred all the time. NUMBER 12. Sally Angolina Slater AteNr Jennina had a gal Loved by all who did not hate her, And the boys all called her Sall, Sally Angelina Slater. She had rosy cheeks and lips, Aud an eye that was surprising, Like the sun just as it dips Iu the soa, or as 'tis rising. Flaxen hair she Lad, and curls Which were slightly tinged with yellow, Envied was by all the girls, And beloved by ov'ry fellow. Fairies' sylph-lilte form had she, And a VOICO So soft and gentle, 131 ending with its muludy Something that was zentimontaL Dimpled cheeks, and Roman noeo, Foot and ankle both wore splondid ; Not admired by lady ibee, Though 'tbssaid tI think,) tho . mon did So much grace and beauty could Not be left to fade and languish, In that cheerless maidenhood Which has filled the heart with anguish. So a beau of course sho had, Something that the girls all wish for, Quite a tall and stately lad, Such as maidens all wish for. Loving words were said at night, While the dews were gently falling, And the stars were shining bright, And the owl her mats was calling. ;Nothing intervened to change Sally's love and John's devotion, Till by mishap, dark and strange, John NV .13 lost upon the ocean. And said, at night is seen, 'Neath the old tree in the valley, Still the ferns of Johnny Green With the faithful loving Sally. For upon n dismal day;— So the maidens say who hato her,— Dead beneath the waters lay Sally Angelina Slater. BEANS rou Sour.—The use of beans a 8 an article of food, is not so considerable •as it should be. Beans are the most nutrious of all kinds of food used by man. Chemical analysis, ! and the experience of those who make eaten ! sire use of them. demonstrate this. To make good bean soup, take one quart of white beans and a shank beef bone, and boil all together for ; two hours, then add salt and pepper for sea scling. The use of bones is not so much es teemed as they should be in food. By boiling them in soup, some of the phospale of lime, ; which goes to form our bones is taken up, and we thus get a supply of a necessary element for our bodies which cannot be obtained so fel from foisted or fried meat. 0