I have iworn upon tlie Alter of Cod, eternal hostility to every form of Tyranny ever the Mini of Man." .Thomas JaiTorgon
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From tho Boston Traveller.
THE YOUTHFUL LOVE OF CANO
VA. In the year 1780, a youth, a native
of Possagno, in Venice, arrived inRome
designing io learn .the Brl of drawing
and engraving, w;th one who was at
that time among the most distinguished
of living artists. As a protrge of the
powerful family of Falieri, this youth
brought letters of recommendation to
the most influential men of tho holy cil
y. He resolved to present first that
which might soonest lead him to his
destined aim. He went to the house of
Signor Volpato.
Giovanni Volpato, long known under
the assumed name of Jean Renard, stood
at t tie neau 01 mat guttering scnoui ui
art, from which so' many reuipwned
men have proceeded. The clear ami
well defined outline, the finished skill
in execution, the vigor and extraordin'
ry re'ief, which have been so often ad
rr.ired in the engravings of RaphaelMor
Hhen, he owes to the instructions of
his Master Volpato.
When the youth entered the atelier
of Volpato, the latter was drawing from
a model, and requested him to tarry a
few moments, and allow him to finish
his sketch. The Youth would have re
tired, but Volpato made a sign to him
to remain, and said: 'No,no, meinllerr,
if you've not lime to wail,I will lay aside
my work.' The youth assured him he
found here amusement, not for hours,
hut for year?, and gazed around the ate
lier, with a glance full of reverenco; but
one object more than all others arrested
his attention.
The model of Volpato was a young
maiden of scarce seventeen years I
would be impossible to imagine a coun
lenance more expressive and animated.
a figure moie graceful and happy. Th
Grecian tunic and the mack in hei
hand showed that she wished (o person
ate Thalia; and the arch smile, the gen
tla irony, which played upon her lips
miht Blmost render it credible that In
one of those metamorphoses, once so
common beneath the sky of Uome, the
comic muse herself had descended from
heaven, to sit for her portait to a be
loved disciple. The youth at least
could scarcely 6c convinced that a mere
in,t.il rnnlil realizi in cverv look and
motion, such an ideal. Ha stood im
movable a few steps from tho easel, and
thought he was in a dream.
I:i the meantime Volpato grew unpa
tier.!, his model was so resiles?; and in
lerrup'ed his labor with the words
'Follish Dominic;.! I see well that you
are tired to day. Well, we will leav
ii now, my daughter.'
'His daughter his daughter!' though
the youth to himself. 'Happy lather.
Forgive me, sir,' said Volpato, turn
ir g lo him, I have kept you waiting
with the freudom of an artist, but now
1 am wholly at your service.'.
The Veiiitin drew Faleri's letter
from his pocket, and handed it toVolpa
He read it silently, while the
youth continued to observe Dominica.
who went hither and thither, putting in
order cartoons, pencils and colors, but
! as quietly n possible, not to disturb
her father' The letter ran thus:
The bearer, of this' my dear Volpa
to is a young protege of mine, whom
commend to your best care and friend
up. l err very mucn, n jou uo noi
sometimes owe me thanks for such a
scholar. Anto.iio Canova; his father,
ietro Canova, a lithographer in out
little village of Possagno, died when hi
was but three years old; his mothei
married a second lime, and left hei
hild to the care of his randfather,Pas-
lino, who would gladly have educated
him to his own trade of masonary, but
he child was not hardy enough, and us
d the trowel of his grandfather, only
to mou'd from the clay, figures of a'l
kinds, at the will of his fancy. Ont
day, when I wag about giving a great
feist, my steward observed that an or
nament of pastry was wanted for a dish
n the middle of the table; he went to
d Passino for assistance, and the iuttei
ound himself embairassed with it; so
!iis 13 years old grandson look the
dough, in a few minutes kneaded a Inn
which so excited the admiration of the
guests, thai they wished to see and
praise the artist. I, my dear volpato,
peceived gieat genius in the young An-
i t .it . i
tonio. i ineretore iook mm wun m
to Venice, where I placed him undei
ie instruction of the best masters; b u'
depend especially on you lor the per-
lection and finish of his art. Es to bin
)Oth a teacher and a father.'
Young man,' said Volpato, when In
had read this epistle, 'I owe so much to
Monsignor Falieii, that 1 fulfil every
wish of his with pleasure. From this
hour, consider yourself my pupil-Leave
our hole', I have a liitlo chamber and
vacant bed for you. Dominica, call
iphael."
While Antonio thanked his master,
and considered himself the most fortu
nate of men, a youth with hir curling
hair, beaming eyes, and a light step, cn
ered the atelier.
Raphael,' said Volpato, ;I give you
here a companion, and wish that you
be friendt lio'licis. Go with him to
ills hotel for his baggage, and lake cart
you are back to supper, if ihe desirt
eize you to traverse the streets of Rome
ogelher
1 lie two youths were soon livals i
talent and industry, and Volpato often
aid, 'he was at loss to which of I he two
o eive Hie prelerence. inn by no
means interrupted their concord; hu'
they soon discovered that between them
existed yet another rivalship than that
of talent and renown. Riphai l andAn
lonio both loved Ihe fail Dominica. Tin
maiden was the muse of both 7Ait
lid she look on the two pupils wuh ih
ime impartiality ns her father!'
Ont d;iy Antonio Canova aouuhl hi
teacher, unlolded his love fcr his daugh
ter and requested her hand. 'Mow? ot
also, my Antonio' said Ihe ohi V'.lpato
'Ah I did well noi to promise her t'
jphael, who prccccded you in his sui
for my daughter. My dear Antonio,
continued he, 'if Dominica bad show
inv preference lor either of ) uii,Lliouli
not Le no rmbai rased lo answer you
You and Raphael are e-qiully dear lo mt
.ind I only regret thai Heaven had not
tiven to ma two daughters. I'ji.'ihougl
I as a father cannot decide between you
yet as an artist I can propose to you
mcani to obtain Ihe hand of Dominica
promise her to him who shall paint hei
portrait Its'.,
This condition was accepted by boll
and Dominica made no opposition. I
ihre vveeki the two portraits were to be
... I
exhibited to a committee whose judg
ment should be considered decisive.
Eirlyon the ensuing morning, Anto
nio wished Dominica to sit. He asked
her if there was any costume she pre
ferred, and ii she would like tobe paint
ed in a mythological one. Dominic
replied, 'Dear Antonio, a few days ago
I read ihe story of Met, ErysichtonV
daughler. This unfortunate prince ol
Thessaly, after he had incurred the
.vrath of Ceres, becuse he had profaned
her altar, was tormented wih a hunger
which nothing could appease. All his
possessions were consumed one after a
nother. Having become the terror ol
his Fubjects and his family, he was com
pelled lo fly, and at length there remain
ed to him no other resource than to sell
his daughter. Metra had received from
ihe gods the power to transform herself
into a limited number ofanimals. Erys
ichlon sold her as a bird, and she came
ack to him as a horse. He sold her
again & again, until at last the prescribed
number of her metophoses was comple
ied. and she again appeared in her own
form, and offered herself a sacrifice to
his hunger.'
While Dominica was speaking, Ca
nova seated himself at his easel, and be
gan lo copy the beloved features, but
the mischiev ions itniden changed her
possition and the expresion of her face
eveiy moment, which not a little dis
heartened the artist lover. Many sit
tings pass'd thus, and he had accom
plished nothing.
The annointed dav drew ever nearer.
aphael Morghun wore a triumphant
mien. Antonio complained not, but
without asking another sitting of Do
uiinica, sal down, and in twuity four
hours completed the portiait entirely
from memory.
On the day appointed, Volpato assem
bled Ihe renowned art ist3 and connssis
seus of Rome. When they were all
present, a cut tain was drawn, and the
two pictures revealed. In ihe first pic-
ure? they saw a young maiden with s
nmiling countenance and a look of per
fect trust ; as if she said to her beloved.
I believe you so willinlgy.' This was
he Picture of Raphael. In Ihe other
hey perceived Metra at that last hour
when she sacrificed herself for her fath
er. Ihe Ircmolmc neau drooped anus
ear moistened ihe eyelid, a tear whicl
spiang alike from shame and sorrow
I'he figure was splendid, and whether
he picture was really superior lo tin
oilier, or from the sympathy which ev
er inclines more to tho sorrowful than
to the happy, the whole assambly cried
unanimously: 'Antonio Canova hasgain
ed the victory over Raphael Morghen.'
Volpato extented his arms lo press Ihe
neloved scholar to his paternal heart
but the latter poinied to Dominica, who
4iood in one corner of the atelier, and
whose face wore the very expression of
i lie poitiait.
'My judges will forgive me,' said An
omo, in a voice which showed tho con-
rj?t ho put upon his hoart, 'If I piotesi
tgtinst a j'l .'gmcnt which would have
made the happiest of men. I withdraw
ii y suit and leave lo Raphael tho hurrel
ind Ihe inertle. Look, inater,'he con
liiiutd.' how my words already havi
aken from ihe original a portion of her
reseinbljnce to my copy, see how Do
miniea raises her fair curling head, how
her eye brigliiens anew she love9 Ra
phael. 'Yes,' pursued A nlonio, as i!
lo answer the astonishment of his judges
'every one has a consciousness of his
strength and his talents. I feel myself
o far below Raphael, that from thi
moment I renounce both the pencil and
the graver. If there be for me any re
nown in art, then may I perhaps, some
day, find it in the chisel.'
i Dominica became the wife ofiaphael
I f . I A . - - O -T. iL .
morgnen. nnionio uanovi leu me
house and the studio of Volpato, taking
with him Ihe portrait of his beloved. His
gratitude and friendship for his teacher!
continued ever the same, An evidence.'1008' wa8 a mosl dissipated man. Idleness
of this m.v be found in the Dasilic ofllnal Curse 01 tne r,cn' nad M h.m in
J 1
the holy aponile at Rome, where a mar
ble monument was erected lo the mem
ory of Volpato by Canova.
THE YOUNG WIFE;
'So Ellen Osgood has refused Mr. Ziv
ingston?' said a pieity girl of sixteen to one
of her acquaintance, during a morning call.
'What can be the reason?'
'I do not know, unless it is his well
known imperiousoees of temper.'
'7ui whit is that to a fortune such as
liia? I am sure 1 should overlook a great
many failings in a husband, who could give
me ihe finest house and most splendid car
nage in town.'
'Bui my dear,' said her elder friend, 'you
forget that happiness cannot be purchased
with gold. There are sad hearts in fine
houses as well as in humble cottages. If
there is no mutual love and esteem in the
mtrried state, no gay equipage can bring
felicity or even afford content.'
La! you are so old fashioned in your no
tions, my dear Miss Thornton, bul then
sure you are oder, and ought to know more
than I do. Yet I am certain I should be
liappier if I was rich'
'You think so now, my dear, because
laving loving parents 6i affectionate friends
your heart has nothing further to ask for in
that way; but let your friends be take n from
you, let you be alone in the world, with no
one to cling to. and you will long for some
oi:
:e to love, more than you now long for
lake care, my dear child, how you fling it
away.
Well, I am sure I never thought of these
ihiiig befote: bul you must be right. They
say Ellen is going to marry young Hury
Monckton.'
'I am glad to hear it. Harry is in com
fortable business, and can give his wife
neat, thcugh it be a comparatively humbl-
home. Then his character is every thiiu
hat a wife could wi9h, his principles an
excellent, and his heart in the right place
Altogether Ellen has made a hnppy choice.'
'Yet still I should think she will some
times regret her choice, when she sees the
rich carriege of Mr Livingston dash by her
humble home.'
She will never think of ii, my dear,'
Well, I suppose Caroline Willing,' said
the youthful speaker, after a pause, 'wil
now be Mrs. Livingston, She has been
trying to gel him thcee two years, they
say.'
'Caroline is a different girl from Een,
die has less hoart, and places her happiness
hififl v in external show Yet bIio never
seems happy
How she will triumph over Ellen!'
But with little cause, my love. Wait
for Iwo yeais and see tho result.'
l'wo years had passed away since this
conversation, fallen, meantime, married,
and removed lo a neat cottage which hei
husband had rented on the outskirts of the
viljie The house was noi large, but wat-
convenient, and every thing wiihiu and a-
rotind was in excellent taste. A pretty gar
den was attached lo the collage. This wat
a source of great pleasure (o Ellen, for bIi
was passionately fend of flowers and oven
morning, while her husband was absent ni
at his business, she might ba teen watering
tier plants, singing with a caiol as light as
that of the birds who warbled from lh
neighboring boughs.
Cuioline Willing had become Mrs. Liv
ingston, and thus obtained (he prize for
which she had schemed and labored. Her
house wss the fine old mansion of the
Liv-
ingsions. which had been remodeled and
newly furnished on her marrioge. Her e -
qnipage was the most showy in the place,;
for Ihe first lime since the revolution, liver
ies had been seen in ihn villege. Her rah
inet ware, her diawing-roum curtnins, and
her magnificent scl of silver, were the talk
of ihe town. Bul was she happy? If these
things could have bestowed felicity on any
one, Caroline would have been happy, but
l. . ... L. - I I II
hw ner iauea iooks, or heant
her querulous complainings, shook thei
beads.
Mr- 'neton, it had now become noto
1 n a Mil - -.. I I II
v cm iuiiimiy, buu is ne nau married
without love, he now lived without restrain
To the tears of his wife he was indifferent,
from her complaints he turned sarcastically
away. It was said that he was not only
ruining hie own health and destroying bis
wife comfort, but sqnandcring his fortune
It was just two years afiei iho convsrsa
lion with which our story begins, when thr
iwo persons who participated in that con
versalion called together on a morning visit
at the mansion of the Livingstons Every
thing was in confusion there. Servant
we;e running to and fro, the caniages of
two physicians were at ihe door, and from
ihe upper chambers came loud and succes
sive shrieks, as of some person in mortal
gony. The ladies saw that their visit was
mat a propos. They soon learned the
cause of ihe confusion. Mr, Livingston
the night before, bad lost the remnant oi
his fortune in a gambling house, where a
large portion of it bad already vanished; he
had returned home, locked himsjlf in his
room, and blown out his brains with a pistol
His wife was in violent hysterics.
With sad hearts the two friends turned
away. Passing up the shaded street, they
came lo the outskirts of the village, and saw
before them the neat little cottage of Ellen.
The garden gate was open, and partially
visible from the street was an arbor, in
which they caught i glimpse of Mrs.Monck-
ton. Her work-basket was on the ground
at her feet, and a favorite liitlo dog was
. t ...
was calm content and happiness. How
I liferent the contrast between the happy
voung wife and her rival, Mrs. Livinfston1
Phis reflection aiosc in the heart of each n1
he two frisnds at ihe same time, their eye
net, and the younger one said.
'You were right v hen you told rr.e t(
wait for Iwo years. 1 see now that virttn
nd affection afford more lasting happines:
than wealth ar.d fashion.'
Cure for the Eitc of a Mad Dog.k
writer in Die National Inleligcncer says,
that spirit of hartshorn is a certain remedy
for the bite of a mad dog. The wounds
he adds, should be constantly bathed will
it, and three or four doses, diluted, tuken
inwardly during ihe day, The hartshorn
lecomposes chemically the viius insinuated
into the wound, and immediately alters and
destroys its deleterionsness, The writer
whorosided in lirazil for some lime, firs1
tried it for the bite of a scorpion, and found
hat it removed pain and inflamalion almost
instantly. Subsequently he tried it for ill
bile of a rattlesnake with similar success,
At ihe suggestion of the writer an old friend
and physician tried it in cases of hydropho
bia, and always with success.
THE MAKUIAOE VOW,
A'rhaps there is scarcely an nidinnry
oath administered in any of the transactions
or life so little regarded so little even re
membered by all classes, as lhal taken in
ihe most sol "tun manner, and in the pre
sence of I he Almighty, by the husband anu
wile. 'Loie, honor and obey.' How ma
ny wives 'love honor and obey' llieir lords?
How in it n y even think of doing so.' And
yet there is an oath recorded agaiusi them
every simple violation of whieh is a distinc
neriurv. -No Woman should an v with'
out first knowing her husband's charaeler
so well thai she may obey him with discre
lion and safely. She yields herself at I In
altar lo a deposition, from whieli even an
alteinpl to fly is a crime. A wile who con-
tradjets her husband is foreswurn. No
matter what manner ef man he may be, she
'muft 'obey,' if she keeps her oath. She
has made no reserve or condi ion in her
marriage ceremony, bhe has not saiu 'I
will honor and obey if he shall deserve it.'
Her contract is unconditional. It would be
belter for young ladies before they yield
the fatal 'yes,' to take this view of the sub
jed
Demise of a Venerable .aey. The
leaih of aMissMareareiGredie is announc
ad in the New York pspers of the 27ih uli.
She arrived in that cily, from Germany,
boot 70 years ago, with her fattier, the
brother of the venerable George Arculari
oui, Esq., and at theagt of 15 married Mr
John J. Riell, also a German, who was a
baker lo the Revolutionary continental nr.
ny. bhe was distinguished for her devr...
ed attention and kindness lo the prisoner
and sick, confined in the memorable 'Old
Sugar House,' and at a perilous crisis j
the affairs of the revolutionary party at HiHt
period, she proceeded to Philadelphia, bv
die direction of her liusbar.d, (who died in
uvs) anu presented Generel Washington
wifh 1500 guineas, as a donation in aid of
he great national independence L'tder
the sanction of her husband, she
supplied the American army with bread.for
the period of four months without any com
pensation. bhe was highly es'.eemed, ihio'
tier long life, by all who knew her.as a de-
vout Christian, and exemplified lhat high
character in her whole deportment, she has
left a large number of descendants proba.
bly two bundled-
Newspapers. A Newspaper taken in a
family seems lo shed a gleam of intelligence
around. It gives ihe children a taste for
leading, it communicates all the important
events in the busy world, ii is a never fail-
ing source of amusement, aud furnishes a
fund of instruction whieh will never be ex
hausted. Every family, however poor, if
they wish lo hold a place in the rank ol in
telligent beings, slionld take al least one
newspaper. And tho .nan w'io possessed
of properly euflicieni to make himself easy
for life, surrounded by children eager for
i. vj nib ma ejniit
if cupidity and neylecis lo subscribe lo h
newspaper is deficient in the duties of a
parent or a good citizen, and is deserving of
the censure of his intelligent neighbors'
A GOOD TEST.
We heard a good elory tho oilier day
which is too good to be lost. Farniei J)ick-
ins, for so we will call h.m. one of iha
neighboring York county fanners, alike no
ted for his shrewdness and piety girls, was
visiled by Jo Jenkins, under pretence tf
rading oxen, while his real ol jVci was to
lecuro one of farmer Dh ken's daughters.
Finding no way lo accomplish ihe real oh.
eet without a direct appeal lo the old nn,
ie ventuied lo pop the question and re-ceiv-ed
in return a most decided negaiive. Jo
was not shrewd enough to manage for the
ijirUi Jo, nothing daunted, pushed ihe
trade in oxe.n, and in spile of the farmer's
shrewdness, succeeded in a bargain bv
which the old man found himself essential.
ly 'shaved, Auhe ncxl appearance of Jo
al Faimei Dicken s ill was changed, and
the old man al once declared lhal he might
go ahead, for if he was sluewd enough lo
cheat hint, he could risk him mil: ihe
jials. Jo went alieaJ; look possession of
Ins desired object, and thus far has shown
that the old man was not in error as lo Ins
nonclusioii. Eajle-
J curious Item in a Travelling bill,
A Yankee pedlar put up al the house of a
tavern keeper in one ol the towns of this
county a few days since, and afiei staying a
Hay or Iwo called for his bill, On looking
over the items he fDiuid the lolloping run
ons charges; To fiightiiing chambermaid,
1,':3, yestcrdsy's lodging in Uai-rooiu, 2.)
ceuts.
When a young woman, while in the act
of sweeping, approaihrs you, with ku d
wcuds and gracious looks, and politely it
quests you lo iliuvtt, for she w-i is lo sweep
where yuu are sitting, depend dpi n it si t' is
lite girl you want, so far, certainly, ns tem
per is concerned, for neer is a woman s,
petultnt, so doaiinerring, as when she haH
broom in her hand.
Some men uro like cats. Yon n : v
stroke ihe I'nr the right way lor years r: !
hear nothing but purring, but accidi i.p v
tread on a tail and all memory of fcwi.ir
acts of kindness is obliterated.