DY D. A. & C. H. BUEHLER
VOLUME XXIII
From Eliza Cook's Journal
THE HAPPY MIND.
Out upon the calf, I say,
Who turns his grumbling bead away,
And quarrela with his feed of hay
Because it is not clover.
Give to me the happy mind,
That will ever seek and find
Something fair and something kind
All the wide world over.
'Tie passing good to have an eye
That always managed to spy
Some star to bear it company.
Though planets may be hidden.
And Sirs. Eve was foolish, very.
Not to be well content and merry,
With peach, plum, melon. grape and cherry,
When apples were forbidden.
We 101/0 111110 flowers, but suppose
We're ler from Italy's rich rose—
Mat we then turn tip oar nose
At lilies of the valley 1
Can't we snuff at something sweet,
in the -bough•pots" that we meet,
Cried and sold in city street,
By •'dally in our alley V'
Give me the heart that spreads its wings,
Like the free bird that anal{ and ■ivas,
And sees the bright side of all things,
From Shoring Straits to Dover..
ft fs a hank thnt never breaks,
It is a store thief never takes,
It is a rock that never shakes.
All the wido "world over.
We like tellive old Care , he stip,
And listen to the 'mrank and quip"
At social tmard from fluent lip—
No fellowship is better ;
hint he retie; lark the gentle grace
not nialtNe the best of human race,
Who cannot see a friendly face
In mastiff, hound or setter.
Our hungry oyes may fondly wish
To_teval amid flesh and fiat'.
And gloat upon the silver dash
'Most holden golden plover ;
Yet if our fable he but spread
With sits ore cheese and oaken bread,
Be thankful. if wire always led
As well the wide world ever.
We malt prefer Italian notes,
Or choose the melody that floats
A te , ut the 4.c Frontal biota,
Half ,N till writ our ektolling ;
not solely music may Im hound,
When some rough native heart unbound.
13trikes up, like cherries •round and sotto],"
With Eii,olitib fat de. rulling.
We may he poor—but then I gurno,
Our trouble and our pomp i.
they who wear a ruseet dress
May never fear the rumpling
And though champaigne froth never hums
Between ow ringers and our thumb*,
lied apoplexy tardy comes
Cu aline with plain stone dumpling
Then out upon the calf. I pay.
Whit tunes hie grumbling' heed away,
And quarrels with his hied of hay
141 . 1 . 11t1M . It Is 11.4 CIO% rr
Give In, the !nippy num!
That will In eter seek and find •
t:ometltior good with something kind,
All the aide tenth! ciier !
"This ➢l:lnd fCScr mtrivelt Me."
recently' heard the following most
touching incidert : A little boy had died.
Ills body was laid out in a darkened, re
tird room, waiting to be laid away in the
lonc, cold grave.
Ills afflicted mother and bereaved little
sister went in to look at the sweet face of
the precious sleeper, for his face was beau
tiful even in death. As they stood gazing
upon the little form of one so cherished
and beloved, the little girl asked to take
his baud. The mother at first did not
think it best, but her child repeated the
request, and seemed very anxious about it ;
she took the cold, bloodless hand of her
sleeping boy, and placed it iu the baud of
his weeping sister.
The dear child looked at it a moment,
caressed it loudly, and then looked up to
her mother, through the teura of affection
and love, and said, "Mother, this little
hand never struck me :"
IVhat could be more touching and love
ly ?
Young readers, have you always been
so gentle to your brothers and sisters, that
were you to die, such a tribute us this
could be paid to your memory ? Could a
brothor or sister take your hand, and say,
• This hared never struck me ?"
What au alleviation to our grief when we
are called to part with friends, to be able
to remember only words and actions of
mutual kindness and love. How bitter
must bo the sorrow, and how scalding the
tears of retuorsesf an unkind child, us he
looks upon the cold form, or stands at the
grave of a brother or sister, a father or
mother, towards whom he bad manifested
unkindness. Let us all remember what
ever we sow in this respect, that shall we
also reap.—Wen Spring.
Herschel and Newton wore men of in
tellectual substance ; Fenelou and Wesley,
of spiritual substance; Luther was a man
of moral substance; Howard of benevolent
substance. Some men are weighty in sub
stance because of their riches; some, be
cause they are fat; but the weightiest of
all is the high, noble-minded man, influ
enced largely by spiritual force; for all
men weigh in the moral world according
to their energy, morality, goodness of heart,
goodness of soul, and ehristion humanity.
All man's selfishness, assumption, proton
ohms, oppression, &c., detract from the
true substance of the man, and deduct
from hie weight accordingly. Wellington,
when he was born, perhaps d not weigh
snore than ten pounds, but wEetv he died
he weighed down all England and more
than half of Europe. The same thought
Might be applied to our own Thos. Jeffer
son ;.and so otNewton, Who hung lightly
on the•eteellard when he went on his tour
investigation among •the planets—but
before bellied be weighed the planets up
on the ateel•yard of his logic.
A WIFE'S DEVOTION ;
OR, THE CHIVALRY OF LOVE
BY GEOROS 8. RAYMOND
For several years, during the early part
of my life-campaign, I had always argued
stoutly that woman's proper sphere was
the kitchen, nursery, or drawing-room; and
that she had no business whatever inethe
out-door world, unless it was to look after
clothes-lines, young chickens and flower
pots. Like a world full of other fools. in
pantaloons, I had considered woman only
as a sort of pretty toy created for the espe
cial amusement of us "lords of creation ;"
to bo petted and carressed while the gloss
and gilding remained, but flung coldly a
side when care, old age, and our own heart
less neglect should have dimmed their
pristine lustre.
I am wise now—indeed I could not well
be otherwise with my experience—and
henceforth whila I live, I will stoutly
maintain against all comers, that woman
is capable of being all that man can be ;
aye ; and more too—for a woman may be
an angel; man—never, at least in this
world.
I have told you months since, in the
Courier, how I became convicted, and now,
if you will listen only a few moments, I
will tell you how I becazne fully converted
to the doctrine that the'sphere of woman's
usefulness is not, nor ever can be, circum
seribed within the narrow limits of any Pu
ritanical, or modern conventional bounds.
The long and desperate struggle which
had for years been curried on between the
Imperial Government of Brazil, and the
revolted southern provinces, was drawing
to a dose; and who for nearly five years
h a d been almost constantly on the wing, or
what amounted to about the same thing, on
horse-back, in the patriot service, was on
my way to join 'my little Brazilian wife, to
whom I had been united some live months
previously, and from whose side I had been
summoned within three hours after our
marriage, to lend my command against a
body of Don Pedro Segundo's /anceirns,
who were committing depredations in the
neighborhood.
I had been severely wounded in the side
and shoulder, and what with the exposure
in our wild, uncomfortable camp, tho en
tire lack of proper medical and surgical
skill, and the slow fever which had for
three weeks been consuming me—my iron
constitution had given way at last, and I
was as near dead as a man could well he,
and maintain his seat in the saddle.
My home, or rather that of my wife,
was on the banks of the beautiful Uru
guay, on the extreme western limits of the
Brazillian Empire, and my way thither led
across the serried peaks, and through the
wild pusses of the Southern Brazillian An
d2s, a region swarming with every species
of wild beats, fierce savages, murderous
banditti, who killed for were pastime, and
bands of Imperial troops wore savage than
brutes, Indians, or robbers.
Pleasant, very—don't you think it was,
fur au invalid scarce able to keep his seat
in the saddle, and accompanied by only two
negro slaves possessing but little more sense
or reason than the horses they guided?
But I heeded not these things. I had
but one thought, one hope or wish. I be
lieved I must die, and all I wished for was
to gain the home of my angel wife, she
who had once snatched me from the very
jaws of death. I would look into her dark
soulful eyes, listen to the low, flute-like
tone of her loved voice, feel her soft, balmy
breath upon my revered cheek, press her
ebe-like form once more to my throbbing
heart, and I should die content.
Seven long, tedious days went by, and
I had struggled ou thus far without coining
iu contact with wild beasts, savages, rob
bers, or Imperial soldiers, to within fifteen
leagues of my journey's end; then my
overtasked energies could bear me up no
longer, and despatching the most intelli
gent of my servants to apprise my wife and
her family of my situation, I lay down un
der the shelter of a shelving rock in one
of the most rugged, desolate mountain
passes I had ever seen, With but slight
hopes of surviving till aid should arrive
from my friends on the Uruguay.
It was near noon whim the negro de
parted on his mission, and as I had pro
mised hint freedom and ton ounces in gold
if he reached my wife's house that night.
I knew he would not lose a moment, and
that I might expect relief before night next
day, provided I lived till that time—which
did not seem very probable, as within two
hours I was half delirious—the hot blood
driven to the extremities by the raging fe
ver, seemed like leaping liquid currents of
fire; while my very vitals appeared to
scorch and crisp with the subtle beat, and
my whole frame win racked with the most
exquisite torture.
Twenty times during the afternoon I
bad sent the remaining slave to ;ho stream
which wound along the bottom of the ra
vine; for water to quonsh my burning
thirst.
The sun was perhaps an - hour above the
boil:67,lmm I was suddenly surrounded,
by a band of some twenty feiciaotislikok
jog brigands, who were ' treversiog Abe
GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1853.
mountain pass to the westward, in pursuit
of a train of mules loaded with merchan
dise, that had preceded them but the day
previous.
I had nothing about me to tempt the
robbers' cupidity, and as they were rather
partial to the revolutionary party, whose
uniform I wore, they offered me no vio
-1
lence, and ona of them even brought me a
' gourd of water—for my slave had fled at
the approach of the bribands, and I never
saw him afterwards.
But all my entreaties, prayers, and pro
mises of reward were unheeded. I could'
not prevail upon them to assist me forward,
nor upon any one of them to remain with
me till my friends should arrive. They
were intent only upon the capture and
plunder of the mules, and so they depart
ed, leaving me there alone, sick and dying,
in that wild, desolate mountain pass.
Neither tongue nor pen can picture a
thousandth part of the dreadful agony I
suffered that long—to me almost interini
naille night. My scanty supply of water
was soon exhausted, and I was raving mad
with intolerable thirst. lu my frenzy, I
tore the bandages from my half-closed
wounds, beat my bead against the rocky
fragment that formed my bed, and 0 ! how
I prayed for death
All throughout the night, I heard the
hoarse roar of the huge pumas; the fierce
growl of the tiger; the quick, sharp yelp
of prowling wolves all around me; and a
thousand times I cursed them, yelled and
screamed at them in maniac waduess, and
dared them to come and eat we. But they
did not heed me, and there I lay all that
long, horrid night, till it was daylight again
—and then I sunk iuto a death-like torper,
Prow which I wasuroused by a heavy weight
pressing on my breast, and my first glance
as I opened my eyes, fell upon the well
remembered features of the most deadly
enemy I had on earth—Col Martians Ar
cola, of the Imperial army of Brazil.
"By the Cross ! we are well met, Senor
Ray niondo," spokF the brutal ruffian, with
his booted heel emsuing into my throat till
my eyes seemed bursting frow their sock
ets, and my black, swollen tongue protru
ded from my mouth, and the wretch laugh
ed iu derision of toy terrible agony as he
continued—
"We are well met, I say, Senor Ray
mond°, and I doubt not your beautiful
bride—the lady Inez of whom you robbed
me—will be very grateful when I tell her
how faithfully 1 watched over you in your
last moments. Come, my men ! this gal
lant officer must needs be somewhat chilly ;
gather a good supply of dry brush-wood,
and we will try what effect fire will have
on the disease that seems to be wastiug
him."
j Fifty bronze-faced ruffians set about o
beying their commander's orders, and then
after five minutes had elapsed, and I was
placed, helpless as I was, on a huge pile
of dry brunches—l understood it all. The
infernal fiend was about to burn me there
alive !
I would not ask my life of the demon ;
for well I knew it would be unavailing.—
But 0, God 1 may I never again suffer such
mental torture as I did while lying there
surrounded by those devils in human shape,
as I thought of all the heart agony that
wy wife must suffer when the revolting de
tails of my dreadful death should become
known to her.
Once I turned my bead towards the
west to catch a glimpse of the setting sun,
and the next moment I was insensible.
It was not lung that I remained thus;
for I was again moused by the quick rattle
of pistol shots, the clash of steel, the wild
battle-shouts, and dying screams of strong
men in their last horrid death agony.
All around me I beheld a visors of gal
lant men, led on by a slight girlish figure
in the light blue frock, gold embroidered
vest, and plumed cap of the Southern
Gauchos. who, mounted upon a superb
horse, black as night, sped here and there,
shooting our battle-cry of "Alureon lea Int•
periolistos." iu which she was joined by
her hundred followers, who burled them
selves upon the doomed ruffians in a whirl
wind of gleaming steel.
The lust wretch was slain, and the love
ly woman knelt beside me ; her arms were
about my neck, her warm kiss was upon
as she breathed in a gentle tone
the w , "My HUSBAND!"
It was my wife—my own angel Ines.—
She had ridden on in advance of more than
four hundred men, with only a hundred
who could keep pace with her—and 1 was
saved.—American Courier.
Whilst engaged in watching the sea,
neither the eye uor the mind ever becomes
weary. Each successive wave, uit ourvea
its silver foam and dashes on the shore,
has some novelty in it. There is no mo
notony in the motion of the waves, and the
mind speculates momentarily on each vari
ety of motion and form, finding in all an
inexhaustible fund tor amusement, plea
sure and wonder. It is no less true than
remarkable,
that the meanie tbeonly sub.
stance Whitth, in itricoventents, has not a
wearying effeettpon the . gemar. Another
forms, anima., or inunatate, say ammo
for a Foment, a minute, or an boa ; bit
their charm l quickly :roe. -
"FEARLEBB AND FREE."
A THRILLING SKETCH.
BY MRS 1.. M. CHILD.
One of my father's brothers, residing in
Boston at the timtelwhen the yellow fever
prevailed to such a frightful extent, became 1
a victim to the pestience. When the first I
symptoms appeared his wife sent the chil
dren into the counts}', and herself remain
ed to wait upon hint Her friends warned
her against tuch raiihness. They told her
it would be death ,her, and no benefit to
him ; for he would soon be too ill to know
who attended hi ii. These arguments
made no impressio on her affectionate
heart ; and she tecordingly stayed and
watched with uttemitting care. This,
however. did not avail to save him. He
grew worse, and, finally died. Those
who went round with the dead cart la
visited the chamber, and seen that the end
was near. They now came to take the
body. His wife refused to let it go. She
told me that she netver knew how to account
for it ; though he was cold and rigid and
to every appearance quite - dead, there was
a powerful impression on her mind that
life was not extinct. The men were o
verborne by thestrength of the conviction,
though their reason was opposed to it.
The half hour tpune round, and again
was heard the st4enin words, •thring out
your dead." Thrfe again resisted their
importunities—be this tone the men were
more resolute. • hey said the duty as
signed to them *WI a painful one, the
health of the tows requited punctual obe
dienceli to the ord they received ;if they
expected the pesti nee to abate it must be
by a prompt rem ill of the dead, and jai
mediate fumigati . -i:of the infected apart
ments. She ph. , /.41, and pleaded, and
even knelt to the ~ jn an agony of tears,
continually sayin *.••lr ant sure he is not
dead." The men
.. presented the utter ab
surdity of smell air Una ; but finally, over
come by her tears,again departed. With
trembling haste she :snowed her efforir
to restore him. She raised his head, rolled
his limbs in hot flannel, and placed hot
onions on his feet. The dreaded hall hour
again come round and limed loin as cold
as ever. She renewed her entreaties
so desperately, that the messengers began
to think a 'title gentle force would be ne
cessary. They:iltriliNly attempted to
remove the body inst her will, b u t elle
threw herself uppon it with such !ramie
1 strength that they could not easdy loosen
tier grasp. liiiprei*ed by the remarkable
energy of her will, they reliixed their ei•
torts. To all their remonstrances she an
swered, • if you bury hint you shall bury
me with loin." At last, by dint of reasoti.
ing on the neves -ity of the case, they 01 tam
ed front her a lint/110e that if he s h e w ,id
no signs of the W 4 le, a a they again 0 . 11111:1
round, she would make no further orp i.o
non to the removal.
Haying gained this respite she hung the
watch upon toe bedpost and renewed her
efforts with redoubled zeal. She kepi
kegs of hot water /Mout him. forced hot
brandy between his teeth, 31111 i breathed
into his nostrils, and held hartshorn to his
nose ; hut still the body lay motionlest
and cold. She looked axiously at the
watch, and in ti •e minutes the promised
half hour would expire, and those dread
voices would be heard posting through the
street. Hopelessness carne over her—
she dropped the head she had been sus.
taining—her hand trembled violently—
and the hartsl.•orn she had been holding
was. spilled on the pallid face. Acciden tal
ly the head had become slightly tipped
backward, and the powerful liquid flowed
into his nostrils. Instantly there was a
short, quick gasp —a struggle—his eyes
opened, and when the men came again
they lound him silting up in the bed. He
is still alive, and has enjoyed unusually
good health.
Christmas Cutotonlia In Norwal•
At Christiana, and other Norwegian
towns, there is a delicate Christmas way
of offering to a lady a brooch, or a pair of
ear-rings, in a truss of hay. The house
door of the person complimented is pushed
°pet., and there is thrown into the house a
truss of hay or straw, a sheaf of itorii.or a
bag of chaff. In some part of this bundle
of hay envelope, there is a "needle" of a
present to he hunted for. A friend of the
writer received from her betrothed, actor.
ding to this r rrr nas custom, an exceed
ingly large brown papas parcel, which, on
being opened, revealed a second parcel
with a loving motto on the cover. And so
on, parcel alter parcel, motto after mo
till the kernel of this paper bank—which
was at length discovered to be a delicate
piece of minute jewelry—was arrived at.
One of the prettiest Christmas etiotoins
is the Norwegian practice agiving, on that
d iy, a dinner to the birds. On Christ.
toes morning, every gable. gate-way, or
barn-dood, is decorated with a sheaf of
corn fixed on the top of a tall pole, where
f it is intended that the birds shall
wake their Christmas dinner. Even the
peasant will contrive to have a handful set
by fur this purpose, and what the birds do
not eat on Christmas day, remains for
them to finish at their leisure through the
winter. The carolling of birds about
these poles make a Norwegian Christmas
in the fields quite holy to me.
On New . , Years tiny, in Norway, friends
and acquaintances exchange calls and good
wishes. hi the corner of each receptions
room there stands a little table, furnished
all through the day, with wine and cakes,
and due refreshments, and they flirt, and
sip wine, and nibble cake from house to
house, with great perseverance.
Whence *rim the misery of this pres
ent world 1 lt is not owing to the debili
ties of our bodies, or the unequal distribu
tion of property. Amidst all the disad
vantages of this kind, a pure. a steadfast,
and in enlightened mind. possessed of
strorqj virture, could enjoy itself in peace.
and smile at the impotent assaults of for
tune and the elements. It is within
ourselves that miser L has fixed its sent.—
Our disordered' heat t our guilty passions.
oar violent prsjudines. and miegleeed
Ores are the lettereetente.,ol the troubles
we seders. Thepit &Wolin Oro dprul whtok
adoersiiy would ntilitiwistk iwrild point *.
IrIOSI us.
[From the New York Journal of Commerce.
The Rog-plckerm and Bone-gath-
erers of New 'York,
The deeper one ascends into the grada
tions of social position in this city, the
more apparent does it become that "one
half of the world don't know how t h e oth
er half live." The bone and rag-gatherers
—answering to the "chiffoniers' of Paris
—are almost exclusively Germans, and
are mostly congregated on the eastern side
of the city. and from their clanish disposi
tion, peculiarity of language and habits,
form communities or "colonies" as distinct
RP though no others surrounded them.—
Withdrawn from intercourse with their
fellowmen, they only emerge with their
pokers to add to their filthy accumulations.
Under the escort of Captain Squires, of
the eleventh police district, we were favor
ed rim!' a glimpse of real life" among these
degraded creatures.
For dwellings they generally select such
as are constructed for the accommodation
of numerous families under a single roof.
These are put up very slightly, at a coin
paraiively amalk expense, and the revenues
accruing to theliwner, from rents, form a
large per centage mi the capital invested.
One structure on Third street, owned by a
late State Senator, is calculated to yield a
monthly income of $1613, equal to $2.018
per annum. It is acparaied in the rear by a
court from another building of the same
description, yielding nearly the same a
mount of revenue. Every floor forms
twelve apartments, filled by as many fam
ilies, each of which pays 83.50, $4. $4,50,
or $5 per month, according to location.
There is no pecuniary motive for putting
lip buildings of any oilier description in this
locality. Though they are often filthy in
the extreme, new buildings of a better qual
ity would be filled by,the seine occupants,
with the same habits.
There are many other houses of much
the same character.
On Sheriff street is a large rear building
confaining about lemilies. The bah
nations of the rag-pickers may generally
lie recognized by the long rows of rags
',winging from line.; to dry• ; and looking
something like the brown wetted leave'. to a
tobacco shed.
About da)light the colonies are in 1110-
lion. and the able-bodied. equipped with
l.a diets and pokers • f 'rib, each mull
ions 10 a111i1 . 111310 the rest in reaelting the
field of gate. S./111tIllilletl the city is peti
tioned off into districts, fled it is as much
a trespass to overstep the boundaries as.
signed as for a fire engine to run out of
.11 its distriet. A few, more favored than
the rest, having carts with which 10 col
lect the refuse and offal of kitchens and
butcher-shops ; and the wife and a good
dog, well harnessed, exert themselves iu
concert in urging it forward. At the close,
of the day, when the circuit has been com
pleted, the baskets, bags. and carts are
emptied, and a pile formed of their roll
tents, the latter are then carefully sorted.
and generally afford, aside from the rage
and boiLoi, both food and fuel. 'rlte rags
are sold to shops adjaeent for two emits a
pound for cotton and linen, and something
Zees for wollen, suitable for carpets. 'Clue
bones are cold for thirty emits a bushel.
after having been well sera ped and boiled,
to secure the nutritious portious for food.
The hones from the gutter, after being
washer!. suffice to provide for the necessi
ties of the family proper, including the
canine dependencies. The food and fuel
thus secured are the emoluments received,
over and above the income from bones and
rags. and ant ineidental Li Pte main pur
pose. The processes rendered iteeessery
by the traosactions of hasiliets so various
—all conducted in the apartment used as
kitchen, lied-room. sitting sod store room—
imparts a peculiar odor to the atmosphere,
discernabiu at some business. It can easi
ly bit imagined that the uncleanly mode
of thus deacribed, with unsuitable
food, and contracted and ill•ventilated A
partments. are not promotive of health.—
'not (+okra, accordingly, in past years,
made fearful havoc among these people.
Notwithstanding the extreme degrada
tion of the German rag-pickers. they ap
pear happy. and exhibit no signs of dis
content. With many the Waaieris Slates
is the promised land, and every effort is
made to au:cumulate sufficient funds to en
able them to emigrate. A colony of three
hundred persons ie mentioned, which oc
cupied a single basement last year. living
promiscously together, with a common
bone-heap, to which all contributed, and
from which was derived a portion of their
sustenance. Though seeming to be in et.
ter destitution, they all started for the
West last spring to settle on farms.
Snow whims are among the worst ca
lamities that can' befall the raupicker, as
his means of livelihood are placed beyond
his reach. In such emergencies, the girls
turn out en masse to sweep the street
crossings, caking each passenger fur "a
penny," and three or four shillings per
day are often thus realized per head. A
mild winter like the present is a blessing
they can easily appreciate.
The youth. both males and 'females, are
marked by an unnatural precocity, result
ing partly from the early site at which they
are compelled to assist in gaining a liveli
hood, arid partly from their addicteditess to
vice Though young in years. many of
them are adepts in vice. Destitution
gives temptation an unwonted power, and
they early learn to yield to it.
The Jews of *Jerusalem have sent to me
Emperor of Austria, a handsome vase.
formed of a Kind of stone found in the Red
Sea, as a mark of their gratitude to his
majesty for the protection he has accord
ed them.
It is only Principles and Truth that the
true and wise Progressive . will never give
up or compromise. These are God's.—
The life of mankind is in, Principles.—
Tru the are the arteries in which the world's
blood circulates. Re who yield. the truth
betray* his age.
ionathan Edwards supposed that Sod
sustained sad upiwkl mouse in a *tiler
manner to that of a regliooo9 ills num*
-"..tbst tbe Universe mega ti*Afisetion of
the *mei preseuue of God. • -
'VARIETIES.
Punch ends a fertile geld for hie lovelorn?*
in a recent "Sam up" between the "Momen7apf
Stafford House, and their ..dear atom" on ans
aide or the Atlantic—growing out of tbe Uncle
Tum. or Slavery agitation. Thus, in his last Dum
ber, he puts into the mouth of the Duchess of
Sutherland, a poetic remonstrance, of which this
verse is a medium iratipplo :
BY Till LADIES BULL
Sisters. daughters, wives, and mothers,
Ah I our feeling" how it rooks,
That your sons Ginn, husbands, Welber'',
Should so badly use their blacks!
Oh ! we speak with hearts eineerest,
All with love and pity rent;
But why don't vou, sisters deans*.
Make your relatives rspeot ;
Then comes a transatlantic rejoinder :
BY THE LADIEI JONATHAN.
You have slaves far worse than Diggers,
That in ignorance anksuniti
Who no 'attars know, u figures, -
Vicious destitute, and drunk:
Have them taught to read their bibles,
And repeat their A B 0,
Better this than ritinglibles
Oa the Nation of t h e Free.
The Happy wire.
Behold, how lair of eye and mild of mien.
Walks forth of marriage yonder gentle queen;
What chaste sobriety wbenrCetshe speaks .
What glad content sits andlinlin bet cheeks ;
What plans of goodness in that huiom glow;
What prudent can is throned upon bar brow;
What Wittier truth iu all she does or says;
What pleasantness and pesos in all her ways I
For ever knowning on that cheerful fare,
homes best afflictions grow divine in grace;
Her eyes are tay'd with love, serene - end bright;
rity wreaths her lips with ermine of light;
Her kindly voice bath mune in its notes;
And Heaven', own atmosphere around her Awns!
[From Dodge's Liierury M 11110UOL
Iy Grandmother '$ Gibiubt.
str runtertiv
"I got married when I was twenty." said
Bill Gull, one day. "1 got !carried to
Phebu Chalk, and all these young Gulls
that von see running around here caws
from . nty lump of Chalk—by Gull!"
Bill .Gull always swore by Gull. It No Pawn tx Hittverre=—The Dutalmite
WAS his wily oath. She was a lump of ;of Buckingham. naiad for her inordinant_
chalk —as large WO way us the other.—: pr id e . Was much troubled - daring-hair last
Bill Gull was always a bashful. backward sickness. for she would be obliged to ntioglei
youth—and some surprise was expressed io the ano i r ty oplhoiljo heaven Whom aim
that he ever got married at all. t tauntingly termed uthircomninu L psuiple."
"By Gull said he,"ltlY grandmother's ; She at length sent fur a clergyman to whom
gliont_clitl the job." she propose the gnestiiitt;'•onhether -in
"Glitiet--lob—fitnes that 1" ' heaven some respect would nut be bail fur
"ill tell you all about it. You see, I a woman of aticithirth and breeding as her;
was about as green as a spring gosling, and "Aft" wh en t h e R ev .. s eod eento
I thought Pilch() was, too. By Gull I she ; f orme d b ar vw," ib G o d t h ere was no k ip :
wasn't though—but she knew 1 was..,—; p ent or penmen , that he Was equally me
Well, we had a sneaking Cotton of each Father of the rich and the poor. for they
other lor about two years, but it would j were all the work ,of his hands. site, said
never have come to anything it it hadn't w i t h, a heavy sigh. If It bo sti, inns
been for the ghost. I was ion bashful.— i Heaven must be, after all, a strange sort-of
In the way of Making love. I couldn't say I a p l ace Th e good woman wor ld nut
as much as boo ! to a goose. And Phebe ; understand bow she could have any atiloy.
was just us bashful—diet is. I thought so meet in Heaven, unless she was olevatsd
—but she waanii though—not by a long above the "muumuu herd of mankind I"
chalk. One night, about Italian hour alter The same opinion is now prevalent among
I had gone to bed, i_m it
as I lay. thinking of o ri o go tt rpopotor ehor r he e . Via ours
Phebe—for I had been'sitting up with her; heard the wife of a distinguished Imp r
until rather a late hour, as usual, without remark that. "if every body went to lies
broigung ally tiling to pass—the door of van. she hoped there would be a kitehell for
My room opened slowly sail softly. and ! t h e poor p eo pl e r —F am ily j oun ia
in walked a ghostly spectre. The mono'
was shining lull into my windows. and I
could not be mistaken. L was all in white.
I rose up in my bed, white my teeth chat.
tered, and the perspiration run od me in
streams. It came abuoat to my bedside,
and pointed a lung. bony finger at me, that
went through ins like a hut iron. 1 tried
to speak, but it 't was no go. At teat a husky
voice said—
ISill Gull, you must marry Plebe
Chalk right away. Yuu have fooled a•
way your time Wog enough.' Pup the
quuslion before to•tsturrow night. or 1
altall appear to you aiga. it, Hilt
Gull:"
'•Then the old lady disappeared so quick
that I couldn't tell where she we'll
to. 1 didn't sleep a wink that night.—
The sensations lutist kept crawling Inver me
were awful. I thought 101 l my pair turn
ing grey—my teeth falling out—my legs
and my anus dropping of—and all kinds
oh queer feelings. It was the longest night
ever I experienced. Morning came at
last. 1 not Piiebe in the dining room,
while preparing for breaVsst.—
She had been, our housekeeper ever Dunce
grandmother died—three }ears. Mother
died the year before.
"Bill, what's the matter with you V' raid
Pliebe.
"I feel pale," said
"You look pale,' raid she
"Such a night," said 1.
"What war the matter, Bill !"
"My grandmother's ghost."
"You don't say !•'
"Yes sad sha raid that
"What Ball 1"
"That 1 atust marry you."
"W hat else, Bill
"That I must pop the question to-day.
or she would come again to-night."
"Bill. take my advice— pop the "'nation,
and let the old lady rest in peace.
••1 do." raid I.
Well Bill, NI have you just to keep
the old lady quiet. provided. Bill. that You
won't wok toe Au—to—sleup with you.
Bill."
••I promised for my grandmother's rake.
Alter breakfast Phebe spoke to the , old
geitfleman about it. He said it was all
right, go ahead. We went ahead. At least
Priebe did. In three week. Phebe Chalk
became Mrs. Gull."
"81teglilled you, completely."
••Yes,.l found that oat, and I'll tell you,
how. , On the night of our Routings she
want off to liar room. and 1 went 'to mine.
was aaeordiug to agreement. but some
h w other 1 couldn't help attain( it
Weill% just right and , the more 1 thought
of it the Enure it mined not just the
chalk.
••t reflected upon it for hours, and indeed
more than once I provoked my grand.
mother's, ghost in hopes that she would
appear to Phabs and soften her heart to•
ward me. Fleshy. as the old lady's
ghost seemed M . take en further interest
in our stairs, I coacduded to be ghost my
self. I crawled out of bed, antitenvolopod
toyedf frets head to foot in a shies. Not
Wtthont a great deal Of trepidation. ho w
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got,
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ear. I have Oben sati &mi l ts my lamer'
ity, for then w a loud lack of ereemi
I walketlinto Tffebe's room and stood'
her bed•side.
»Oh' merely !" ar.
..Phebe Chalk 1.
•'I ain't Phebelrfielk"igeaid elie-4
am married, and my name is Jabe Gult -
Who adorns V'
am - the ghost of your grandmotherb:
law, and I hare come* tall i eott tliW6
ain't good for Man to be slots especially
if he has got a wife."
"Well, gnsinfruoitirr, that is what I haver
been thinking aim& ever since I came to
bed. It is very cold. too—won't you get
into bed and warm youraelf." -
By ull ! I had a great mind to, but 1
was sired.
..No," said I, 41 must got ak to tlta
graveyard. Remember yo.
hus
baud, is shivering with cold, all gist* by
"Well. grandmother, hadn't you beaer
go and keep Bill warm r
..No, do it yourself, or I shall appear to
you again—remember I" lit
ul growled out die remember ! with a
fearful emphasis. but do you think eke was
frightened 1 Not a bit of it. She burst
out laughing with all her_might. slid kept
it up. too, ever oolong, while I stood there
shivering and shaking within/14,1We a pau
per in en agumfit.
"Now, Bill," said she, mg soon as she
stopped laughing. unill. don't you think L
know you 1' ~,„..
4,,w do you knnwme 1" NEVI.
"Well enough ;besides. there ain't no
such things as glittpr."
u 0 yes there Isi, though. Didn't Aiy_
grandiuotheefithoid teases to merillittl,"
"Rif thtit was me 1" . •
uNcruf by Gull I"
. • oYes. Bill—it was me, Ifild!".z
u Well. 1.44*r
1 uHow strePid you sr.. to *teed their*
shaking, hair *men." Bill stopped.
I "Well, Bill. go on with tticsitory:"
..By Guilt.' have nothing more to say.
A Sendble Rapper.
The editor of the Palmer Journal hut
been mixing with a circle of rappers ! and
made a dollar and a half out of the opera-
tion. as follow,:
••Wit accepted en inritetion to attend
aioing of a circle ol apiritualiAs the other
evening. and were not r little surprised
when the following menage war quilled
out to one of the eonspahr—'Pay the
Printerl' It was aulurequendy explained
through a .tnetlium.' that the message writ
from the spirit of a delinquent aubseriher
who owed $1 50. The friends of she de
parted paid ua the money 'bout hulls,.
lion. and the joy of a reliered.apirie was
manifested by rape, sipping she !Ale.
&e."
That was a sensible "Rapper," and one
who would obtain uiway "puffs" from the
editors. would he rev some ul the many
dollars due into the editors' pankeht.—
There is a wide, field for him to rap in
And a first rate per cent on the %%pitat in
verted is warranted. .
OIL Al CAL A StIBMTOTIS 10111.
A New York farmer says. there is no ate
torsany of selling cattle as winter approach
es. if the farmers would only get info the
way of inning oil meal which un account
of its tetra fattening qualities. makes . it
cheaper and hatter fur farmers at all nines
I buy this -feed for their cattle than to heed
the produce of their farms. Vine lies town
thoroughly and vueetnisfully -tried hs Mu ex
tensive diary inert in Orange enmity. The
Eiglish and German fanners glee it the
preference over all other kind. of fodder
even a higher cost. In Pennsylvania. the
German* feed it largely during a Very good
pasturage. What is expended on oil meal
is returned in the increased value of tbe
cattle.
PlDELm.—Neoei forsakea friend when
enemies gather think around hint—when
sickness tells hens) upon lout—when the
world is dark end
,oheerloso, this is the
tiros to try thy friendship. They who
from the scene of distress ortAer ressons
why they should be excused from emend
ing. their sympathy and and. betray their
hypuormy, and prove - that *elfish motives
only prompt and movethem. II you have
a friend, who loves you—who has studied
your, interest and happiness—defended
you' when persecuted and troubled. be sure
mountain him in adversity. Let 11110 Irul
that his kindness is appreciated. and that
his friendship was not bestowed upon you
in, vain.
A Cu*Lir:trim Idt BLACK.—Ia
ton, N. C., there is now liamg. at the age
of eighty-three years, a utilise of Afars,
who has been in slavery lin forty.tivo
yoars. Some cad him **Uncle Moore,"
others .•Prince." from di weal belief
that he is a son opus the - Aran* pill .
He road* and writes the Arabic lattwore
with fluency and sieganco. H. ill treaft4
We, and wee of the potitseinieti - of the 4ey.