BY D,A. dr. C. H. BUEHLER%
VOLUME XXV.
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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*