BY D,A. dr. C. H. BUEHLER% VOLUME XXV. . . The following touching stanzacare from the power Wolfo;wuthor of the burial of Sir John Moore. They were written soon offer the death of a beloved wife ' If 1 bad thought thou contact have died, I might not weep for.thee ; . . But 'I forgot' when by thy -side, ' That thou could'st Mortal be hevar through my mind had past The tints would e'er be o'er That I on thee should look my And thoti shoultrat smile no; more I And still upon thy hie I look. And think 'twill smile again,; And still the thought I cannot brook That I must look ha vain But when' I 'speak thdu duet not say What 'thou ne'er lerst unsaid ; And then I feel, as well I may, Dear Mary I then art dead. if thou cOurd'it Wed art; All meld and ell serene, I still might press thy silent heart, And where thy smiles have been : 1 While e'en thy chill , bleakcorpse I have Thou veetrest still m y own ; But oaf lay in thee grave, - I feel I OM alone ! I do not think, - whereer thou art, Than luau forgotten me ; - - - • And ; perhaps may soothe this heart In thinking, too, of thee ; Yet there was round thee such a dawn Of light ne'er seen before, As fancy never could have drawn, And never can restore ! 4, 111 y Mother's., Dead. I'm sc.• very, very lonely, Alas ! I esnnot play ; I am so sad. I sit and weep. Throughout thelivelong day. I miss dear mother's welcome, Her light hand on my head, - Her look or love, her tender word ; Alas! my mother's dead. r have no heart to play alone; To-day I thought l i d try, And got my , little hoop to roll, But th ! it made nao cry ; For who wilearnile to see me come, MAw mother dear has gone, And look so kind!, in 'my Arid kids her little son CII get my blessed Bible, And sit me down and read ; My mothersaid that precious book Would be a friend in need. - I seem to see dear mother now, To hear her voice of love; She may be looking down on me, From her bright home above. She said that I must come to her ; .ho cannot come to rno ; Oar Father, teach a little one How he may Como to thee. For I am very lonely 110 W ; Our father, may I come, And join my mother in the skies I And heaven shall he our home. -04 ) .e in the naafi - 1014 wife. the mother, religious shines 'with a ,holy benignant beauty of her own, Which nothing of earthean mar. Never yet' as the female character perfect without the steady faith of piety. Beauty, intellect, wealth ! they are like pit falls in the brightesi day, unless the divine light, ',M icas religion throw her soft beams around them, to purify and exalt, makiiig twice glorious that which seemed all loveliness • before. Re!igloo is .very beautiful—in health or eickness, in wealth or poverty. We nev er enter the sick chamber of the good, but soft music seems to float on the air. and the burden of their song is, ‘.lLio ! peace is here." Could we look into thousands of fami lies,to•day, when discontent tights sullenly with life, we should find the chief • cause of unhappiness, want of religion in wo• man. A nd in felons' cells--1n places of crime ; misery, destitution, ignorance- 7 —we should belwld in all its moat horrible deformity, the fruit of irreligion in woman. • Oh, religion 1 benignant majesty, high on thy throne thou siuest, glorious and exalted.' Not above the clouds, for earth eland's come never between thee and truly pious - souls—not • beneath the clouds, for above thee in heaven, opening through abroad vista of exceeding beauty. Its•gates are the splendor of jasper and precious stones, white with dewy light that neither flashes 'nor blitzes, but steadily pro ceedeth trim the throne of God. Its tow ers,bathed in,refulgent glory ten times the brightest of ten thousand suns, yet soft, undatzling to the eye. And' Mere religion' goints.' Art thou weary 1 ..rest=up there-4- ihere--forever.' Art thou sorrowing? joy." An that weighed down with un merited ignorniayl "kings mid priests IR Ills' brag home s " Art .thou ;poor ;1 the very street, before thy, 'Mansion' shall , be g01d.7 Art 'boo friendless! ‘ithe angels eintll be thy' Ocimpaitioni, and God thy Friend and Father," • ,Is religion beautiful t We • newer, all is 'desolaiioninddiformity where reli gion is not. ' ' • ' • PERSONAL CLEANLINESS. -4( Some parts mf the surface of the body'. be kept per. (eddy elenni,w bele other parte are compare •tivety •tmeleansed. the sitrn of the former has bstri work to do, and it compensates by indreased activity for the • forced mono. ;-• tion of other portions, - It cannot do this ~:without: more , •or lees derangement. and consequently we see pimple eruptions on the eiposed parts of the skin, which are simply. the result of over work, and which disappear whert otherparti of the skin arei made-to resumetheir functions. • . THE SeigRIMUL TREIL—At Goa, near Bombay There is a. singular vegetable— , tiiiscirrpwful tree—so called because it Oely tioniish'es in the night. At sunset flowers are to be seen; and yet, half an hour after it is full of them. They „yield. a sweet smelk; .but no sooner does •, the sup begin to shine on them, than some .of them tall oft and others close up, and thus it continues floiering in the night all the year. • • BosWell complained tolohnson that the noistfof the company the day before bad made huiht4d ache. "No, sir, it was not thitnolie that made your head ache ; it was the sense we put into it." "Has sense • that effect on the head?" "Yes, ow, on• heads not used' to it." • Story.of- the Back own/Window; BY BARRY CORNWALL. . • , We live In a World of busy passions.— Love and hate, sorrew.aud joy,,in ar then- I sand shapes, are forever near us:-. peat I t is at our threshhold. Life sPrings. up tils most at.our feet. . Our neighbors- are "ex l ultations, agonies !" And yet we seem to live on, ignorant of all. ' Could 'we but unroof (Asmoduti-like) the heu4es which, day after day,: 'present towards us so insensible. an aspect, what marvels might we not disclose! W.hat ful thoughts:what radiant visions, 'would throng into Our brain I The 'mystery of human conduct would lie unveiled. :Wo should see and know all men truly: We ithould.see the miser, the spendthrify, the adheler,.. the toilirtg ; artisan; the:: Ilappy bride; and the girl deserted (like the peo ple in the palace of Truth,} all tiontribu= ting.their ahamto theUuknOwn 'romance,. which time is forever weaving around us. As it is, 'each Of theiri spiny net, his little 'thread, and 'dies; almost unknown, and aeon forgotten ; unless some curious acid. dent should arise, to extend his .influence into region, or to hold his lama' in suspension, twenty years after his coffin has been lowered in the dust. It was some such chance as Pima just adverted to, that threw into oar knowl edge certain facts regarding a neighboring family, wiich else had prc k hably Slipped very a . ukifly into oblivion. You will ob serve,.that what I ton about to relate is al. most literally a Lot 'Some years ago, we lived, m you know, in Square. The room in which we usually dwelt was at the back of the' house. It was spacious and not without some pretensions to be graceful, the marble chimney placd' being distinguished by a painting of Cipriana, whilst on the ceiling lay scattered some of the conventional el egances of the Augelica Kauffman. From the windows that occupied the northern extremity of the room we looked • (to thh. It:flats large erica talplane) upon the back: of a eteseent'bf houses—the points of the arc receding from, us. CI mention these things merely to recall to your mind 'our precise position.] "In rho centre of this crescent was' a house which Tied for a long time been un tenanted. :Whilst its neighbor dwellings were all busy with life and motion, this only was, for some reason, deserted. We were beginning to speculate on the (Anse s of,this accident, and to pity the unhappy landlord, whose pockets were lamenting the lack of rent, when suddenly--it was on an April mottling—we perceived,' fur the first time, it: ! kis of Amigo. The min im .wor men we net ng 'au its different rooms. 1. here was an air of pre paration, evidently, which announced an' incoming tenant. I" said A , "at last that unhappy man has discovered some one bold. enough to take his haunted house; or perhaps, after all, he is merely endaav cring to decoy the unwary pusseuger We shall see." "A few weeks determined the question; for after the house bad been duly cleansed and beautified, and the odor. ef •the paint sufired to fade away, 'various articles 'of furniture wore brought into the roonls... These were of moderate price, and explain ed to us that the new tenant WAS a person of respectable station, but not rich. IVe . began to fitel a wish to know "what man-' nor of . man" he was. Our interest in the once empty house had receivbd. a now im pulse ; and we looked out, day after day, for the stranger's arrival. "At last a young man of lively and a. greeable presence, was one morning been giving direetions . toa female servant, about the dispositien of the furniture. ThiS was evidently master of the mansion. He stayed for half an hour, and then departed; and ho repeated his short visit daily. •Ho was probably a clerk iu some publio office, a merchant, or professional man, whose time was required elsewhere. But, wily did ho not reside there 1" - ' That was a pro blem that we strove to solve' in' vain. -' In the end, ho went away altogether. "Each morn we mined trim iu ae accustomed maid, "And now ne one, except the solitary seen throwing open the win. Bows in the morning to let in the vernal May; closing them at night; rubbing with a delicate hand the new furniture ; gazing at the unknown neighborhood ; or sitting listlessly in the afternoon, "impaia• dised" in rustic dreamp; slit appeared to be the solo spirit of the spot, It was not the genius loci which *o had reckoned upon. Our imaginations were not satisfied; and we looked forward confidently to another • comer. • "We were not disappointed. After the lapse of's fortnight from the young man's departure, our inquisitive eyes disoovered him again. He was sitting at breilkfast with a lady by his side. Pretty, young, neat, and attired from _head to foot In white ; she was evidently • a bride. ' We rushed at once upon this conjecture; and certain tender manifestations, on the hus band's leave-taking, confirmed us in our opinion. He•went away; and she, left to hertielf, explored, as far as we could ob serve, all the rooms in the house. Every. thing was surveyed with a patient admira tion • every drawer opened; the little. book-ease , contemplated, and its slender rows of books all, one by one, examined.— Finally, the maid was called up, some : in quiries made, and the survey recommenced. The lady had now some one to, encourage her open expressions of delight. --We could almost fancy that wo heard her words : "How beautiful it is I What a comforta ble sofa I What a charming screen I How kind, how good, how considerate of ----- I" It was altogether a pretty scene.. "Let us pass over a portion of the au tuMn and winter months. During a por tion of this time, we ourselves were absent in•the country ; and when at home, were=member but little of what. happoned,:, There was little or no variety to remark upon, or, positaibly, our curiosity' had be come abated. "At WI, spring came, ant with it came frk'iT YSB URG,..TA:,..F.RLD AT-:.:E I Y . ! - .1N.:G, - , :.:..0:01..Q . ,8iE Rl3?-1.8.54. .b' thntisand signs if cheerfulness and life.— a be . plain put forth its tender leaves; the sky grew blue ovor head (even' in Lon4on) and , the Aindowe of the' one melancholy Souse shelllit 'blushing with 'many, flowers. So May patted ; , and Juno' came, on, with its air, all rich with roses. But tile lady ' —Ali'l her 'cheek, now waxed pale, and her stop grew weak and faltering. Some. times she ventura into her small garden, when the sun was full upon it. All other times she might be, seen wearied with needle-work, or sitting langnidly doge ; or, when - her husband was at home (befao and after' his hours of business) she walk ed a little to and fro, loaning on him for support. His devotion increased with her infirmity. It was curious to observe how love hail tamed the high and froliCsome ' spirit of the mao. A Joyous and perhaps! 6 - e - c common manner am o serious and re fined. Tho weight of thought perhaps lay on htm—theresponsibility of lova.— It is thus that, in some natures, love is I wanting in Abair full developments MI raises, tutlrefities, and magnifies the - Intel. lect, which would else remain dull, trivial, and prostrate. From a seeming barren ncas, the - human heart tipingsinto - fertility —from vagueness into character—from' dullness into vigor and beauty, under the "charming wand" of love. But let us proceed. "On a glittering night in August, we saw light flashing about the house, and people hiirrying up and down, as on some urgent occasion, By degrees the tumult subsided; ' the passings backyards and forwards became less frequent i and at lag tranquility warrestored; A single light burnin g in an upper window, alone told that some ono kept watch through. out the night. The next morning the knocker of the house Was (we were told) shreuded in white leather; and the lady had brought her .busband a child I We drank to its health in wine. "For a few days quiet hung upon the house. But it wasdoomed speedily to de part. Hurry and alarm came again.— Lights were seen once more flickering to and fro. The physician's carriage was heard. It eamo' and departed. The maid now , held- her alumn'to her eyes. The bus ' band, burying his face in hie hands, strove (how vainly I) to hide a world of grief.— Bre long the bedroom window was thrown open; the shutters of the house were clos ed, and in a week a hearse was at the door. The mystery was at an end ; .she was dead. °She died I No poet ever wove around r her the gaudy tissue of his verse. The I grave she sleeps in is probably nothing more than the common mould. Her name , even.is unknown. But what of - this It- SttellYed antrdied;"atid hurionted. 'The proudest can boast of bat little more. She made the light and happiness of one mortal creature, fond and fragile as herself —and for a name, a tomb'? Alas I for all !the purposes of 1070, nothing is wanted save a little earth—nothing but to keep I the spot where the beloved one rests forever. We fear, indeed, to give the creature whom we have 'maraud in our hearts to the deep and ever-shifting waters—to the oblivion of the ssai ! We desire to know where it is we have laid nor fading treasure. Oth erwke, the pilgrimage is as easy and us I painful to the simple church-yard hillock, las to the vault in which a king.reposes. I The gloomy arches 'of stately tombs, what 1 are they to the grandeur of the over-hang. ing heavens ! and the cold and ghastly marble, how poor •and hideous it is, in coin parisz with the turf whereon many a dai sy grows t "The child survived. The cares lately exhausted on another, were now concen trated on a little child. The solemn doc tors came, and preseribed for it, and took their golden fees., •The nurse transferred to it her ready smiles. The services which had been purchased for the mother, were now-the property of another claimant.— Even the father turned towards 'it, all hi , . heart,whieh WWI not in the grave. It, was part, of her who.hal strewn sunshine in his path, and lie, valued it, accordingly. "But all would not do. A month, 'a little month,' and the shutters were again closed. Another funeral followed awiftly Upon the, last. The mother and her child' were again together. "From this period a marked. change a: rose in the Man's character. The grief which had bowed him down at his wife's death, (relieved a little; by the care which he bestowed upon her child) now changed to a sullen, or reckless. indifference. In the morning he' was clouded hod oppressed; but at night a midnestiand:dissonant jolity, (the madnees,of wine,) usurped the place of early sorrow. • His orgies were ,often carried, into, , Sometimes he drank with wild companions; sometimes ,he was seen alone, staggering towards the wintrow, stupid and' bloated, ere the last light of the autumn Sunset concealed bini from °insight, There were *.steadier in tervals indeed when reflection would come upon him—perhaps remorse; when ho would gse with a grave (or oftener ti" sad) look . upon the few withered flowers 'that once flourished in his gay window. What wash Olen thinking: oft Of vanished hopes and happy hours ! Of her patience, her gentleness, her deep, untiring love / Why did ho not 81191111.011 up More cheer ful visions ? Where was his old vivacity ? his young and happy spirit ? The world offered thc.same alurements as before; with tho exception of one' ingle joy. Oh ✓ but that was all. That was the ono hope, the one thought, that had grown vast and "ab sorbed all 9thers. That was the mirror which had reflected - happiness a- thousand ways. • Under that influence the present, the past, and the bright to come—all had seemed to cast back upon him ,the pictures of innumerable blessings. lie had trod, even in dreams, upon a sunny shore.— And now— "But why prolong the pain and disgrace of the story,? He fell, step, by sop.— Sickness was on his body . ; despair was ,in his mind. He shrank and wasted away, 'old before his time,' and might hare sub. sided into a paryalized cripple, or a moody idiot, bad not a death (for once. a friend) . acme .suddenly to him. aud rescued from further misery. "FEARLESS 'AND FREE." "Hs died, as his' lite and ekild had died I before him. The same' signs were thertt.- the unnatural 4uiet 7 the Oiled shutters— and the funeral , tra i n. But all in their time disappeared; and 'in: a few weeks • workmen came ihronging;again to', the . empty house; the.rooms were again scour i ed—the walls beautiful. The same board Iwhich two years before had been nailed to' the 'wall, with the significant *bids, 'P6 i • was again . I LET' upon. it, fixed . there.. It I seemed - almost as though the old time had returned again, and that tiw interval was nothing but a dream. , - • , And is this all ? Yes, that is all: ` I wish that I eculd have crowned my 14te tale with a hrighter ending. But it Ives not to be. I wish ,even that I could. have Inadelit more herdic, or have , develop!d some grand'Moral for your like. . Ai itM, if . ecatiiiitilittle hojond - t tri - ioniniiitilbli,ad bare'etory of human life.-first hope, 'add then'enjoyment,'end thep sotrbw- 2 -all end ing quietly in the grave. rt , is au ancient tale.' The vein runs throttliman's many histories. - Borne of them, may ^present seeming vaßetiett—a life without hope'er ,joyor a career. beginning gaily, and' rim ninginerrily to its close, But this is be cause we do not read the inner seerets of the soul--the thousand, .thousand small pulsations, which yield pain or• pleasure to the human mind. Be turatind that there is no more of equality, or , iu the, heart, than in the OVettmoving ocean. You will ask me, porhaps, to point out something from wltich \ yen may derive a profitable lesson.' Aro'yet; to learn bow to regulate your pallpions ? to arm your heart with iron preCepts ?Leo let iri-rteither too much love nor sorrow, and to shut • out all, despair Y. Some wise friends will tell you that, you may learn, by precepts, never to lean too muck on others; for that I thereby you loose your independent mind. To be the toy of a worn rest your happiness on the axis ittkof &fragile girl, whom the breath oft ' i ivied may blow t s into dest-,-it . is any ~ g let the act of a wise and _prudent third <And to grieve for her after. she ii'dead4le sigh for what is irrecoverable I : What be more sense less 1 All this can Ite. ved •by every i Z to rule of logic: . '. 4 -' , -•1' , ' - For my part, .I can astre nothing for ti you from my story,: ei: perhaps that it may teach you, like e toe of human suffering, to symputhise your -kind. •Aud Mei, methinks, is titter, and possibly quite as necessary, as any high-wrought or stern example, which& shuts; the heart up s instead of persuading it lii expand ; which' teaches prudence instead Adore ; and re duces the slut of a good Weir life to ti low and sordid mark, which allure able, and most of us too 1_,,.. velltinitegti4 to roach. We shoiarnlßttetattlit'artelves truths, fields and inhale the fresh breath of the apriug, merely • to gain strength to resume our dry caleuiations, or to inflict hard names upon simple flowers. We should not read tae sadness of domestic history, merely to extract some prudent lesson for ourselves. We should open our hearts beneath ,these great influences, and• endeavor to learn that we possess the right, the power, nay, the wish (though it way sleep) of doing good to. others; to a degree that we little dream of. So persuaded atu. I of this , truth, that I have invented a sentence wherein to en shrine it, and I hope that you will not en tirely contemn this until you , have given it the consideration of a triend. It is this— " Let but the bead be opened. awl a thou sand, virtues: will rush.w." She dwelt among the untroddeu ways, - Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. -- A violet by a mossy stone -Half hidden irom the eye : Fair ilia. star when only one; - .is shirliing in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know Wheii Lucy ceased to be; But she - is in her grave, and oh, The difference to-mil The Old ltitin , s , Alas life has cem.ed to haVe aetiarM have.survived all my coteMporaries, in the days of my youth, when ,the warm heart tielighy in its friendships., They in whom I found:pleasure are gone. They have, left Me desolate. I have Survived the lime:allotted to man. lhave seen ava- rice and arubipon extirpate the inhabitants of the forests ; ,and where these, were they have raised. their cities, ha:which the fiirnpliciw, of, natura l and the sweetness of innneence,d,a no dwelling. Generations have pissed away; before my, eyes, but have.haen condemned to survive. .:41,y Children I,where are they.? , Incor pirated with the ifust, whilh wafteti by the will of,the Wind. Those they have left feel little tenderness for me, Those whom my wealth bribes to'hold .my swimming head, and .support my tremb ; ling steps, tell , me by_ their lookslinetnis arable:, They tell me in expressions more powerful than language— being; the continuance of . your life is but a protraction of woe. You are as awful monitmeut.of, the wretchedness which human nature may endure." Who feels a sympathy for my sighs Whose heart do my groans melt to com passion 1 1 have but one wish—to for get I live ; - one hope—to bide sae in the earth. • TOUCHING GRATITUDN. - A poor Irish woman applied, a few days since, for relief to our well-known citizen. Mr,.Longworth, who in compliance with her urgent ap. peals, finally handed her a dime. -• Sinking on heir knees, she devotitedly thanked God, and then turning to Mr. Long worth. con tinued : "And when-in another world I see you in torment, I will remember your kindest'', and give you a cup of cold water for this that you have done to me." Mr. Lnngworth felt more obliged for her good intentions than complimented by her anticipations of his state in futurity —Cincinnati Columbian. The dintingulalied individual. known among the ancients u as Cupid, his recently changed his name to Cupidity. and Will ihntelbre devote hisitteintioneto Money as well as malti•mony . How, au town can Dle. A touching, inetance of this character istic trait occurred at the late engagement between &smell War party of the Chippe was and a greatly superior party of Sioux, , near Cedar Island Lake. The Chippe was, who were en route for a scalping foray upon the Sioux villages on the Min nesota, here fell into an ambuscade, and the first notice of danger that saluted their ears was a discharge of fire arms from a thicket. Four of the number fell dead in their, tracks. Another, named the %% and Cloud, a leading, brave, had a leg broken by a bullet. fits comrades were loth to leave hini, end while his assailants were re-loading their guns. attempted to carry hie) along with them to where they could get the *leiter : of ,a thicket, .a short die tance in 'the rear. But he commanded - them - toleavi "Wein that he would show his enemies r how a Chippewa could die. At his request they seated bin! ,on . :a log, with hie back leaning a. gainst a tree. He then commenced paint ing-his taco and singing his death song. As his enemies approached him he only sang a lotider `and' a livelier 'strain; and wheit several had. gathered. around .him, flourishing, their scalpunr knives, and screeching forth their demoniacal yeills of exultation, not a look or'a gesinre manifest ed that he was even award of their pres ence. . At•length they seized him and tore the scalp from his head. Still: Seated withback against - a large tree,' commencedthey shooting their arrows into the trunk around — his head, grazing his eare, heck; &c., until they. literally pinned: Mai --fast.- without—having—once .touched a vital part. Yet our herd re mained the some imperturable atoic, con tinuing to chaunt his defianfrorain, end al though one of the number flourished hie 'reeking scalp before his eyes, still not a single expression of his countenance could be observed to change. At lastoneof them approached hint . with a tomahaw k , Which after a few Unheeded flourishes be buried in the capilies skull, who sank in deaih with the song upon .hiii.lips. Ha had in deed succeeding, well in teaching bia ene mies -bow a Chippewa could die." A few days afterwards they,were taught how a ChippeWa could 'avenged.--St: Paul (Min.) Democrat Anecdote orTotu Corivln. -. Some' yeara ago, Whet . ] "Corviin .and Tom Ewing were . on'll polrtical 'pil grimage to the northern part of the State, , they were invited in tarry over night With a distinguished local politician. -The guests arrived rather late, and the lady of the mansion being absent,. a niece under. took to 'preside on the occasion;_ She had never seeit.great Men, dntf suppesed they filephattfinellqlgetheri'inthill talked in great language. "Mr. Ewing, will you take condiMents in your tea,air 1" inquired the yoting lady. "Yes,' ill yen please," replied the quondam salt bailee: Corwin's eye twinkled. Here was fun, for him. • • Gratified with-the. appatent success of her first trial at talking. with big men, the young lady addreieaed Mt% Corwin.in the same manner: "Will you take condiment's in :miff teit,iir V' "Peri pei-and sell, but no intistiiid,"' *tut the prompt reply. of die 'facetiotis- Tom:- 01 course, nature .must out, and Ewing and the entea r tainer roared_ in spite of them satires. Corwin ,essayett to amend the the "mailet ; and was vOltible in ceniPll - anecdote and Wit. But the wound was .inintedicable. The young lady to this day ,declares that. Tom Corwin is. a course, vulgarldwagreeable 1111111. n- Toledo Blade, , . . ; , Burcusa.—,When, old ,Btacher was, in England ho was invited to Oxford to have a doctor's degree conferred upon The fierce dragoon watt as !Midi :nudged air'delighted at the idea .of the honor; ant) introducing another. Prussian general, who had been his, right hand man . in• all hie campaigns, observed, in broken, English, to the ,vicechatteellor, “Sir,,if 1 am a doc tor, this is my apothecary." But the vet eran made afietter hit than' that before the day was over. At adevening party given on the occasion, among others present was, a leds, of whom it was sometimes whispered that she did not belong to a temperance society. We dare say, this 'was malice,•bot on this evening it did un fortunately happen that she was in very high spirits. ~ "Who is that lady 1" said Blucher, fixing his.eye upon her. "Thai is Miss Sparkle, the daughter of one of our cannons," was the 'answer ; at which the shockinj old Field-Marshal thunder ed forth with a roaring laugh, ~ a cannon's daughter • ,By Jove,. I thought not ahe locks so eery , well charged with grape r'• lines. My heart leapi up when I behold rainbow the sky : • Bo was it when My life, began ; Bo is it noesl am`a man ; Bo be It when I shall grow old. Or let ate die 1 The child is fathri df th 6 ci lia: And:l.eould 'wish try . aye to be Bound each to each by natural piety A Fashion lilt. The fashion editor of the New York Mirror,'in concluding his article•of makea•the ; following legitimrte hit, whirh wilt altllWer for our latitude, Norwell 1111 that •of 'New York : . , • . "It would be a noticeable and charming reform in our ladies in costuming, were they to imitate the Parisianen., • and wear fewer lurbelows and flonnces in the streets. Also, if they would more trimly stocking and gaiter their feet. Our belles shciuld futhermore leave street-sweeping to our proper authorities Skirts trailed in to bacco-juice. &c., are not tidy nor attractive. To remedy thisot trifle , might , he, taken from the bottom of fashionable street dress es, and added to the top." A Cat, belonging to a widow lady , in Ohio, had lately set upou half a dozen duck's eggs, and continued her attentions until the eggs were hatched ; and there is now a fine brood of six young ones, half duelcand , half cat, having dunk heads and cat tails; but wbakia more wonderful, they mew and quack altetqately. Echtieg. , . , The follawing very ,piett,y lines will find en ticlio - in every heart Hark ! through Narure's rapt eatherind, Blended .cheat es er riot, , • swelling in it mighty anthem , To ever arching skies. Every bird the .ions ifs nom roar, Every boney.laderre.l bee. Every squirrid hi ilia florist, Every cricket on the tree, Every music dropping fountain, Every 'only murmuring rill. Every dark and foaming torrent, Every water-guided 10111 ; Every rain-drop on the houne-top, Every beetle's noisy drone, E4ry footfall on the pavemeot, - Wakes an echo of its own Bobs of woe and songs of gladness, Each malionsive echoes and, Words of love and words of anger, Leave their echoes far behind. Everrgreet and noble action' fa re-echoed o'er and o'er ? Life itself is but an echo Witte lives that were before 'Strange Life of a Homicide. • A writer 'in . the'TOmaston Watchman. gives the following singular biography of James Hightower. recently convicted of manslangliterin . that county. Three years in a dungeon. it seems, is nothing to what endered. About , twenty-one years ago a young: - lady of.thii - election of 'country, belonging .to.a,respectakkfamily become the victim of wile nedt; the fruit was a boy, who' is the subject of our narrative. His moth-I ..er: ea toile case.useafty with those. of her - sek . ;tvho aro tinfortimate, married a man of low.breeding mid in adverse circumstan ces ; consegnently her son woo destined to,reneive but a limited share of education 'cir moral training. At a tender age his charicter was peculiar and in some re spects. very . extraordinary. When only seven years old he was attending a sugar cane mill by. some means his left arm andliand, were gru2she'd, by which acci dent he foreveilest the use of his•hand. At'. the age of len he was bitten by a rat tlesnake ; being nearly alone in the place, he hed.to call to his aid all the presence of mind of which he was master. Fortu •natelY' he' nsed . the proper antidote and thereby saved his life. In theshort space of a few months he was again ;bitten by! one of the same species of reptiles ; by pursuing the same course as heretofore, he was• again rescued from the, jaws of d death. Between the age of twe:ve and fourteen, jhe'made several attempts to take the life 1. of his step-father which shows that he would not be imposed on. About that age he 'also 'napped, severit rites' , a loaded tiudthrriVlikak ilow . (years old, he , was knocked down by light ning, and did not recover for some time. At the age of sixteen he was attacked, while hunting in the woods by a very large panther. The panther soon Kira I him down—he exhibited great presence of mind, by feigning ,death. The panther then covered him with sticks and grass, 'after vi icli he'took his leave in search of more•prey: t 011 r hero, after the, panther's departure, arose and made his escape home—, Her was badly turn—two of his jaw teeth, were bitten out,. and many wounds were inflicted, . . But he was not thus to die, for he soon .recovered, and very soon-alter his recov ery, gave his - Step•fatber a severe whip ping and left. him. Excepting another slight shock by lightning, hitt path was smopth'until nineteen, when he became enamored-of a yoUng lady . ; though 'fig. tiring in a higher sphere, his superior in intellect and family, yet she was , smitten by the boy of misfortune i and resolved to marry" him notwithstanding the opposi tion of ' her relatives; who , made. severe threats against our hero. But what cared , he, who had, successfully • battled against rattlesnakes, panthers, and even, the high powers of Heaven, for tbe threats of mait? Nothing daunted, he continued to urge his claims ; after finding all bis eflorui for tho' compromise unavailing., he began a determined course. Re procured his li cense,.plaued a magistrate at , a contipicu ous.point in the woods, and proceeded himself on foitt to the house "that sheltered her whom he loved—secretly 'forced the door of her chamber.' and conducted her about five miles through the woods to the place of rendezvous.. • , • Before arriving at the place where the hymenial altar had been temporarily erect illuminated by the ` blaze of liglitwood Uwe, and the pale rays of the moon a lone, otirhero fell into his former path of . bad luck, for he, was bitten by a moccasiti 'snake : but he was too well used to bites to suffer that occurrence to retard his progress at such a momentous crisis, and like , a brave and nntluunted buy, .pur. ailed his course, and. in accordance with "hit athieipatioini was lawfully married a bout 12 or / o'clock at night.- His trine. casein bite did nut long keep hits m bed, for he 'possessed inure of Unreal- Ing attention. _After his final recovery, he carried his wile tlYthe home which-he had provided (or her. hoping that his cup of inisforione was then lull, anii pat he would cliquy the bliea attending e ut:irried • But he WilP not destined lung to enjoy that repose whieh he an.intteli sought.— lie anon became entangled ith a quarrel with one Mr. Wheeler; the result was, Wlieelei was killed, anti ourlieiti„ alit•r a regular trial in a court of juatice, was eon tripled of manslaughter, and now,. at the age nl• twenty, has gone, leaving his wife, his anticipated baby, and his sweet !wine, Jo the penitentiary, there to lie ioearcera etl within its (Hamel Walla hir the apace of three yeart.,' which to t!iti'" seem . , . long. long. Who • can cfottlettiplsta ids . past lite and tiny, surely he„ig the child of tnisfm:ttatte intent.; tunes ended ? Alas I who can ..1011 That fact, is yet concealed . by 'the, dark curtain of futurity. The 'concourse of pious pilgrim at the shrine of Juggernaut was so great this year that a local famine,initted. arid Un dreditof Hindoos were toi be seen lying in the roads dyingof staristioin, • •A TWO DOLLARS PEIVANNUL limn= st •Pezattosortow.—We w ere 'bows perfect and moat curious * petimen of thi clays of natural phenomeno n. some day ago-being no less than a petrftlecl ham lt'wei dug!aboar four feet from the sue , face. by some men at work near the Cos Run Reamed, about one and a half mile* out or the line, in'Northumberland coun ty, a few miles distant from Mt. Carmel.— .Hciw tong it bad lain there it is impossible to tell, bnt &had evidently' been in the hands of some one who understood curing ham,. It had been prepared in superior style, in every respect, and in ha present character of stone every mark of the knife, and every natural feature of the original pork, were most clearly preserved. It WAS of middling size, and from appear ance would be taken at once by any one ter a choice quarter of a genuine : porker ; but it would have taken a good many eggs to make a fry of it palatable.--lyiner's Journal. The Washington Globe, in a long re view of Judge Edmonds' work on Spiritus abut:, holds the following language "The New York Evening Ezintu has been down very hard Upon the Spinout istsraenouncing the whole matter _as bee , and impostures. That there are kapott- I tors among them, and always have been, there can be no doubt; and there always will be; but we suppose the griltt body of believers to be as honest and , smeere.as those who profess to believe in tutything else. We thought of Spiritualism at the beginning; "four or five years ago, about se the Express does now ; but eircumatanees have materially changed. There are now now some two or three hundred thousand believers, Judge Edmonds 'says, and among them• are many moral, estimable, and in telligent people. To denounce the whole matter as a villianous imposture would be uncharitable and unjust. • , A singular trial is now in progress *ln one of the Providence (H. I.) courts. Some time since a young lawyer, of Providence was detected at- the Marlboro Hotel in, women's clothes. His female wardrobe —a very valuable one, valued at some hun dreds of dollara—was taken from him sad given into the hands of a Providence ire. !iceman, who was to give it to the tai -1 yer's wife. She being away from the place, it was not•done, and the owner has had the officer arrested for theft, in keep ing the clothes, from him. An emoting list of this clothing was published in one of the Providence papers a few days ago, which showed a very extensive female outfit. The case is exciting much inter • - est, as the gentleman, besides being a mar ried man, is a church member, Sandal school inciter, &e. • ASHLAND.—A , writer in the einem nati Gazette thus speaks of a visit to what was once the residence of the great Clay : "I was not prepared to find the dwelling totally demolished ; but all that remained of it was a part of a stone wall, which had once served to divide the parlor from the library, and upon this some haifdozen men were at work with crowbar and pickaxe, levelling it to the ground, All, therefore, that remains of the old homestead .of the statesman is a pile of bricks and rubbish.-- 'VriNvire told that the present proprietor of the estateHa eon of Henry Clay--is bout to erect on the site of the old .dwel• ling a new edifice of its exact form and charloter." Jon A PRINTER.-At a Printers' Feed. val in Minnesota, Judge Goodrich made a speech in whiCh he referred the invention of Printing,to a higher antiquity ihan is usually ascribed to it. He undertook to rove that job knew all about it, by, quo- ting from him, the following passage 4 011, that "my words were now written 1— %, that they were printed in a book, that they were graven with an iron , pen, with lead in the rock forever !" Here we have undoubted evidence that Job under stood the arts of Writing, Printing, En graving, Stereotyping and Lithograph ing ;—he mentions them in ,their , regular order, as they have been re-discovered. CUNNING OF A Fox.—While an old man was wandermg by the side of one of the largest tributaries of the Almond, he 'observed a badger moving leisurely along the ledge of a rock on the oppollte'bank. Ina little time a fox came up, and after walking • some distance close in the rear of the poor badger; he leaped into the wet• er. Immediately afterward came a pack of hounds, at full speed is puraui t of the fox, who by this time, was far • enough off, floating down the stream ; but the luck• less badger was instantly torn to pieces by the dogs. MORE DISCOVERIES OF GOLD...-. The Reading (Pa.) Gazette mates that fur. ther discoveries of gold hare been made tn. that vicinity by Mr. G. J. Philips, the English Geologist, who is now on a tour of mineralogical research in Berke county. The Gazette has been shown several specimens of the precious metals, which were found in a body of quartz rook on. the farm of Mr.. E. Jonathan Deininger, a mile or two north Rest of the The gold; it says. appears • to he remarka bly pure, and upon an essay would doubt. less yield a large per eentum, 'To Cons• Fousonn.- 7 The Ohio oil& vator gives the following reettipe for eating the founder—more' correctly' 904447 the water-founder : "Bleed the horse from the neek as he can stand up; then make film swat. low one pint of salt ; anoint well armind the edges of his hoofs with spirit. of ktot. peutine; keep him ficim drinking (00 much wster, and he wake well in • Mr home." • Praiesm Vquitrrarartantr.—A danghtor of Ilia Hon. - Oalatt B. Smith, lam United Stites Senator from Itidiana, at a raminli Imply fair at Conned/swills. in that Shah, received We high's! priza—a 1114400 'worth SlOOLkro being the hat lady 00' of all who planted thensumliansa twat*
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