BY D. , A2 & 0. H. BUEHLER VOLUME XXVI. Amid the massof stuff which crowds our newspapers and magazines under the name of "Poetry" there ie sq little' which is even respectable versification, that it is really gratifying. occasionally, to find something whose merit will support its pretensions to. the name. But we think the following verses are replete with del {este fancy, be sides being eiceeCiagly musieal. We do not know who is the author : • The Runatapped down from his golden throne And lay in the silent we, And the Lilly had folded her satin leaves, For a sleepy thing wee she. What is the Lilly dreaming of Why crier; the waters blue 1 Seth see'. she le lifting her varnished lid, Her white leaves are glistening through. The Rose is cooling hie burning cheek In the lap of the breathleu tide ; The Lilly filth cigars both fresh and fair, That, would lie by the rose's side ; He would leave her better than all the rest, And he would be fond and true, But the Lilly unfolded her weary lid., And looked at the sky so blue. .4/member, remember then, silly one, How fast will thy Summer glide ; And wilt thou winter a virgin pale, Or flourish a blooming bride 1" the rose is old, and thorny, and cold, And lives on the earth," said she, "Hot the Star is fair. and he lives in the air, And he shall my bridegroom be." •'Hut whnt if the stormy cloud should come, And ruffle the silver sea Would ho send his eye from the distant sky smile on a thing like thee I no. fair Lilly, he will not send One ray from his far-off throne ; The winds shall blow and the waves shall flow. Acid thou wtit be left alone. 'Where is not • leaf on the mountain top, Nor • drop of evening dew, „IVor a golden sand on the sparkling shore, Nora pearl in the waters blue, That he has not cheered with his fickle smile', And warmed with his faithless beam ; And will he be true Us the pallid llower That [hats on the quiet stream 1" Alas for the Lilly ! ishe would nut heed, Hut turned to the skies afar, And bared her breast to the trembling ray That shot frotn'the rising star. The cloud ante over the darkened sky Amid over the waters wido. !Me looked in vain through the besting rain, Antraank au the stormy tide. The Victorious lAltle Boy 1 hal the following auto:data (tutu n geu- ticuiau of rcncity "A little bo g y in Connecticut, of remark ably serious amid and habits, was ordina •rily employed about a merchant's shop, where nearly alt the bands were addicted to the io n luau use of intoxicating liquors. The- lad had imbibed temperance princi ples, awl though often invited, could never be induced to partake with any of the shop's crew., Three or four of the hard idrinicers iu the shop determined to force a draw of rum down his throat by some lucent. Seising an opportunity when he was left alone in the shop with themselves, they invited him to drink. fie refused.— They told hint they would compel him.— lie remained calm and unmoved. They threatened him with violence. Still lie neither scented angry nor attempted to escape, nor evinced the slightest disposi tion to yield, but insisted that it was wick ed, and he could not do it. They then laid 111411 of him, a man at each arm, 'while the other held a bottle ready to force it into his mouth. Still their victim re- snained calm and firm, declaring he had never injured them, and never should, but that God would be his friend and protee tar, however they might abuse him. Th 3 man who held the bottle, up to that am .rnent reiolute in his evil purpose, was so struck with the non-resisting dignity and •iunooeuce of the Ind, that, as he afterwards confessed, almost with tears. ho actually felt unable to raise his hand. Twice be essayed to lift the bottle, as he placed the nose of a in the child's mouth, but bis arm refused to servo him. Not the least re sistance was made in this stage of the pro ceedicgs, otherwise than by a meek, pro testing look; yet the ringleader himself was overeotue by his feelings, and gave over the attempt, declaring ho could not and would not injure such an innocent, conscientious, good-hearted boy. Such is moral power. Such is the strength by which evil may, sometimes, at least, be overcome, with good. . What makes Death.lleautlful Leslie, in the hand-book for young Fainters, observes that the beauty of death ti not easily explicable. "How far," con tinuos he, "its strange fascination may a rise from the idea suggested of a repose, compared with which that of the most trail dquil Sleep is agitation, I do not pretend to determine. I knew a man of the highest ~ order, of mind, a man of fine feelings, but of great simplicity, and far abovVall affec tation, who. standing by the corpse of his wife, said, "it gives me very pleasurable sensations." And yet he had truly loved her. , The exquisite lines in the Glaonr, in which 'the present aspect of Greece is compared to a beautiful corpse, are &mil , ikE flrell reader. Lord Byron, in a , seta to the, passage, remarks that "this po • chlie'r bvduty reinains , but a few hours at 'ter death."' but I have been told by those in the habit of waking caste, that on the second thy the expression is generally im "iireited, and even on the third day it is often still finer. I have in several instan fbeert asked to. make drawings from the dead ; and though in every ease 'I have somewhat reluctantly entered the room , where the body lay,yet I have invariably felt reluctant, to quit it." 0::rA little boy of six years when un. alms: dug for bed one night, with his night drew= the beck of neck, was hoard mu sing aloud as follows "I can beat'Tom Tucker ; I can write anyasme inwritiug ; I can spell Nebu -414414eigi, and r can tie a, double ,bow 'kuot." Another little fellow, of four, wading =lnto mud puddle, after a shower, came moms ms angle-worm, aud ous delivered himself, iu audible reverie : "Miran are the snakes, babies; little Mbar ate ilk' tits,- babies; awl the 'stars ism the/Awes &Ng • ; The Chief of the Pollee The National Police Gazelle gives a graphio description of Matsel, the Chief of police in New' York. We copy tho fol lowing incidents Many curious anecdotes are told of this gentleman ; not a few of which are highly amusing. Fancy a short, thick set matt about five feet nine, nearly as broad as he is long, Dutch built, of powerful frame, neck rather short,• broad, nand face, and a body which, if it were stretched out to the proper point of gentility, would dou ble his length, and you have the Chief of police. Such a man, you would say, it was impossible for him to disguise him. self so as not to bo known by his most in titnato friends. Yet such is the ease.— He has sat beside his wife, and talked to her many times, wondering when, the Chief would come in, and she did not re• cognize hint. But it is not so difficult to disguise otte'e self after all, if the physiognomy and voice era altered. A. tube under the tongue will alter the latter, and the former can be transformed by an imitation goat-eo, moustaqhe or.„tvhiskers. Matsel can do what very few men can on or off the stage. He can give the brogue of an Irishman with its richness, the broken English of a Dutchman, and the long drawl and broad dialect of a Seoteliman, so perfect that a native of either of these countries could not bat be deceived. He can give the "top o' morning" to Pat, "arrah, beware ye ?" and to Sawney, "Hue aro ye, mon 1" "eh, mon, glad tae see ye," nod to . Dudley, "yaw, yaw," icons to come natu rally. He is also an adept at imitating , the Frenchman and Italian. If the Chief could not ()itemise himself, there would be little use for blue on the Police Depart ment of New York. There are men in every sphere of life whose solo study is how to shirk work and duty. Did you ever see en old Dutchman roughly clad, early on a summer's morn ing, just before the break of day. going la zily along in his milk cart, looking from side to side, as if he were not quite certain of the numbers and his customers i lie pulls up suddenly, and alights just beside a policeman who is taking a oomfortuble nap on a door-step. Ho goes up to him and gives him a shake. Policeinau---Who the are you, you Dutchman! What do you want? ! I catch you asleep,' tell the chief. Help mine can off." Policeman—'•No ; go along and don' trouble Me." The milkman goes along, but the po liceman finds out before night that he had bean talking that morning to the Chief of Police. Sometimes, rather than face the music, the poboeman resign •and- nobody knows why. Another illustration. It is it cold bit. ter night, and a drizzily sleet gives evi dence of un approaching snow storm. The pavements are slippery, and the streets are rather slushy. It is an hour when streets are generally deserted. A stranger is seen staggering through Broad street, he is very respectably dressed, but his tongue betokens his country : ho stops and looks at a corner, but the darkness and sleet render it impossible to discover tvThere ho is. No lamp posts indicate the locality.•— "Thunder an' 01111 H, New York is an fornal place ! I wonder where the Police are." On he goes, and at last he finds "Can ye toll me where the Zouth Ferry is, sir ?" Policemnn—..Yes, Zir, follow your nose and you'll come to it." "Ooh, but you're funny." On ho goes till be meets with another, and the same question is asked and a civil answer given, and he is directed how t o go. "Now, sir , I'm a ralo Irish gintleman, and I think I have mot for once with an American gintleman. Arrah now won't you come .and take a glass o' Whis key ?" "No, sir. I don't need it, and you have enough. Come along, I willl show you the South Perry." On a) two go until they reach Pearl street, where a groggery stands. By hook or crook the Irish gentleman would not pass until they had a drink. He was even so accommodating that he would go in and drink himself and would . bring a glass to the policeman. The pa 'iceman was proof. The stranger per ' sista in having a drink, and puts his hand in his pocket for the purpose of pulling money out, and while so doing, a number of five dollar pieoes fall on the pavement. Tho policeman curses his stupidity, lifts the money up, puts it in his friend's pock et, takea a pin and fastens it so that it may not fall out again. The policeman, while gathering up the money, is blunt enough to tell him that there were men on iho po lice who were more deserving of such mo ney than a fool like him I but at the same time refuses anything to drink or, money for his trouble. The Irishman is conduo to the ferry, and hero ends this mat ter. Next day two policemen are sent for to the Chief s office, and they discover for the first time that they had been talking to the Chief the night previous. Tho one is reprimanded, and the other, it is needless to say, is duly promoted at the proper time. A. curious sect of religionists has arisen in Rngland, called the Disciples. They believe that Christ will appear in 1864 ; that the Russians will triumph over 'the Turks,, and the Jews over the'Russians ; the latter event to happen in just ten years tima, when the Jews will hew= a nation in the Holy Land. Abraham,'lsaac, Ja. cob, and the rest of the righteons Jews of old, with a few elect among Christians, will arise from the dead and live in, Palestine ; but the heathen and the wicked Jews and Ohtiatiana will sleep eternally. The first ocep towatds virtue is to 'ab• stain from v 139. No man has true; sound sense, who is immoral. Envy is she sin that commonly earries lie own discovery andpna t neul. GETTYSBURG, PA., SNPPort the 8 1 11 1111 0 4 7. • Bishop Whitehouse, of 1110104, in, a late address to the Coevention of his diocese, spoke in terms of just and manly indigna tion of the poor pittances often paid to ministers of the Gospel : "My next word is an echo—l thank God it is so—echo to a theme which is stirring interest throng , h the Christianity of our land—the inadequate support' of the Gospel Ministry. - The whole is, only an echo to another voice from the far. off time in Palestine...o%lle laborer is worthy of his higy". 1. ‘liiiiroan be no doubt that the sale ries of the'ministry ate not merely 'below their- services, but inadequate 'to~ their ac tual wants, measured by a social standard far lower than ought , to be. The relative expense of living is so much 'advanced, that the same sum must be regarded 'as a painful reduction from the pMt • I know I not what we can do but' cast the subject before the honor and conecietioeuf the hi ity. Ours is entirely the "voluntary aye tern," sometimes regarded such to the de- 1 gree which permits promises for ministe rial support to be broken, and pledges of subscriptions to be unpaid. So far, we have rejoiced that religion is free from all r dependence upon the State, and the min istry dependent only on the religious sense of the country. It will be a sad hour if that dependence bo found misplaced or in sufficieut. I have no permanent appro. hension that it will. lam too hoptiftil in God and my country. Society is rousing to the lamentable fact, that the clergy as a body, are ill-requited. They have no rea sonable maintenance eqvivalent to their claims as educated, working men, resolute ly closing against themselves all avenues of worldly wealth, dedicating to the hum talents often which would make theni high in the lucrative professions, renount; sing choice in place of laborg---williug live reduced to a moderate ,maintenance-e -in faith for the morrow—faith for sickness and old age—faith, then most sorely tried, for helpless family orphaned and wife a widow. "These men, God's own ministers, call ed by Him, and sent as the best gift Christ bestows in love to Ilia:Church ; the semen—l hush my voice to a whisper— beloved of the laity, almost starving; they are ground down to the verriest pittance, and life's heartiness, dignity, affection and power, are shrunk and withered by the shifts of poverty. My tongue would blis ter, however, if in this I spoke of charity. No, their maintenance is a . right-;- God imparted, God-defended right. In view of it, the Apostle almost takes the tone of irony it a great thing?" "If we having sown to you bpiritual, things, ,is it' a great.thing that We should reap your carnal things ?" - "But I forget my exa,Ot position. My •theme betrays me. Brethren of the laity, in this matter we are poweiless. -It is for you to devise, for you to act, to relieie the worn heart of the ministry, to nerve the missionary, and call out, by the bles sings of the harvest, laborers adequate to the work. BRITISH BOVERRIONS.—Those who care to remember the order of British Sov ereigns may be assisted by the annexed rhymes : Fite William, the Norman, 'then William, hie son ; Henry, Stephen and Henry; Then Richard and John. Next Henry the third ; Edwards, one, two and three ; And again after Richard, Three Henry's we see ; Two Edwards, three Richards, 111 rightly guess ; Two Henry., aixth Edward, . • Queen Mary, Queen Bess, Then Jamie, the Scotching's. Then Charles whom they slew, Yet received after Cromwell, Another Charles, too ; Next James, the second, Ascended the throne. Then good William and Mary Together came on. Till Anna, four Georges, And fourth William all past, God sent Victoria. May she buss be the last. MORMON Boox CONCERN IN CALIPOR. NlA.—The Mormons have taken the lease of a lot of land in Broadway, California, for the purpose of erecting a building to be used as a church, book depot, and printing office. A press, belonging to the sect, is on its way from the Sandwich Islands, and a very large invoice of Mormon books-and tracts aro expected at an early day from England. A newspaper will be started as soon as the arrangements are completed. DounLE.CAurrou.---The late Rowland Hill understood human nature well. His chapel having been infested with piak.pook. eta, he took occasion to remind the congre. gation, that there was an all-beeing Provi dence to whom all hearts are open, and from whom no secrets are hid ; l‘but lest;" he added, there may be any present who are insensible to such reflections, I beg leave to state that there are also two Bow. street officers on the look-out. "Salamander Safe I" said. Mrs. Parting. ton as her eyes fell upon an adiertisement. "Do toll me, Isaac, who this Sally Mender is, and what she's been doing, that they've got her safe." I don't know what she's been doing," said lks, "but Iguesis she's a sister to Jerry:" "Jerry whO, "Why, Jerry Mender." If,there is a,heaven on earth, it is on a soft conch by your own fireside, with .your wife on one side, , a smiling baliy' tie other,.aclear, conscience, a doyen cigars, a kdowledge that yon are out of debt, and don't , fear , the _printer, sheriff, or the' deril. - An old lady, entirely out of the hearing °title preacher's, voice, at camp_ in'eetitig, beinglound sobbing, was asked 'she 'Wept; sinthi she could not hear the' wird& of the minister.