VOLUME XXVI.I
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[From the Nal - tonal Era,
Light and Darkness.
Ton years ago, dear Bess), 'Bell
Stood with me by this,mossy well.
The suu was pet. I scarce could trace
'The beauties of her changeful face,
- While clumsy r her pitcher filled,
And twice or thrice the water spilled,
She , stood a moment, and no more.
A smile, a glance, and all was o'er.
;Her pitcher full, she would not stay,
But sprang with fawnlike foot away,
And loft within my heart a light,
That guilded all that summer night,
A darkling wild before me lay ;
.Bat, boldly thence I groped mcway,
llpit falls or if snakes were there,
I did hot know ; 1 did not care.
Well knew 1, by their rich perfume,
That clover nestled in the gloom,
And from each little censer.eup
Wild roses swung their sweetness up,
And elders spread their flowery arms
To ward me orfrom watery harms ;
And where the girgliug brooklet streamed,
The cricket's ringing chiming seemed
The very shadow of a poise,
tr dreaming I.Vneb's talking voice,
And filled me with 'it tender joy,
I was ogled and fearless boy.
Yes, in my bliss, I chafed to wait
This slow uplighting of my fate,
The shades of night I scarcely chid—.
Rebelled at those the future Ind.
Thick toy the breathing flowers, unseen,
fair prizes—mirco a blank between—
My feet micompassed, I was se:e,
For me and for my love in store ;
Was sure—for as the scents from those,
The springing hopes front these, arose ;
lint how I longed to see each prize
1/Atice mirrored in her love-proud eyes I
For honors,
wealth, and fame should be
Won mere for Bessie than for me.
HuiVidon my fortaueo dtuiru was red I
How soon the hated shades were fled
How quickly, on MA
,chequered ground,
Wealth, fame, and honors, have I found
irsorpint6 strung. I hid toy pain,
.In , l Hung them, strangled, off again
Awl if their flings were in my soul,
1 4ill strode t;irward to the goal.
flow soon Fre wrung from crooked Fate,
The slave of those that strive and wait,
For boyhood's gay obscurity,
A glare of void prosperity,
And for that balmy night of June,
Bright horror of a winter's noon.
Once more in manhood's flush and pride,
I stand the grey old well huitdc.
The shades are fled ; and white and still
1 out tile meadow and the rill.
Hach leaf that, by the north-wind tossed,
Nods sparkling with iti gems of frost,
And shjuith: snow, that sighihg sifts
Through withered stalks that fringe the drifts
No more I Med to ~ r ope my way—
t before the plain Hi day,
across a wild and wintry world.
Where all is brilliant, clear and cold—
Yet pause to view, with watery eyes
The dazzling mound where Bossy lies.
La darkness lurk i hope ; btat light
Oft. !wires usd,4o black aright..
,0 0 in empty mockery,
, a , M O and ROM
As, when his griefs hare touched his brain,
The doting exile sues in vain
'lb tread tho pale :tad bubbly wuko
'l•luu through the wave the ship &tit make
White ghost of a returning road,
'1 lead him to his last abode—
We seek to walk o'er Memory's track.
Time a ill Tit give his bargains hack,
Tint for the dross we craved of old.
fixtorts and keeps life's brightest gold.
Ilow many years or note I'd give,
'One little week of then to live •
mandood's powers matured and skilled,
it youth's vague promise ne'er
And all the bays mv brows that twine,
For Bessv's little l;nil In mina—,
Nay, all my lands, a nook to have
Beside her, in her lowly grave
Yet lie is weak and short of sight,
Who cannot bear the wholesom'il
Nor by its aid, unblenehing brook
In Fate's unveiled stern face to look,
Beholding in its circuit fair
Nu revelation but despair.
Unto the far-eyed sailor's view,
The wreck it gives—the haven, too.
I raise my eyes. From heat'er's blue 'dome
It shines—from I3essy's waiting home—
A heneon sure to guide my way
Up to no Nita nor dreary day.
The winter nineties not the sky ;
But in its sunny purity
The tender gaze I.see once more,
tethinkr, that warmed my heart of yore,
The laurels, that for thee I won,
My reckless grief cloth trainple ()Ey
But lure Inn with thine image fair,
Until with thee the palm I bear—
Until
~
another night shall close
Upon my triumphs and iny woes,
And lay me by thy quiet side,
Thy buried joy, my hope's young bride,
Until again the shadows flee,
Eeloved, and I gaze on thee. E. FOXTON.
44enves fend Men.
Drop, drop into the grave; Old Leaf,
Drop, drop into the grave ;
Thy acorns grown, thy acorns sown—
Drop, drop into the grave.
December's tempests rave Old Leaf ;
Above the forest grave, Old Leaf;
Drop, drop into the grave,
The birds in spring will sweetly sing,
That death alone is sad;
The grass will grow, the primrose show
That death alonels sad ;
Lament above the grave, Old Leaf;
For what has Life to do with grief?
'Tis death alone that's sad,
What titan ? We both have lived through
The sunshine and the rain ;
And bless'd be Ho, to me and thee,
Who sent His sun and rain t
We've had our sun and rain, Old Leaf;
,And 444 will send again Old Leaf,
The enushiue and the rain.
Race after race of leaves and men
];loom, .wither mid, are. gone ;
As winds and waters rise and fall, .
So life and death roll .on ;
And long as odeakhemies, Old Leaf,
And bud and fade the leaves, Old Leaf,
Will life and death roll on,
How like am I to thee, Old Leaf 1.
'We'll drop together down`
jlow like art thou to me, Old Leaf,
We'll drop together down';
lind thou art brown, Old' Leaf,
e' 'drop together down, Old Leaf,
4:9p together down, •
ibrop, drop into the'grave, Old Leaf,
Prop, drop. into the grave ; -
Ihy acorns grown, thy acorns aown.—.
• I.IPirOP, dropsinto , the grave.
Peeve:a:teed tempests rave r Old leaf, :.•
Apsre the ta - forest,
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NIOW TO mAnitie. . ' miles; every hand was extended to the
A lew years ago I made one of the rev. lucky, venturesome fellow ; and every I
only-nine passongere 'on board the fast lady in that crowd pressed the lip of his ; lowiug story
Steamer Billy Barton, hound up the Ten. handsome wife, (for a moment I wished French - -7 .W
k
n all over,
nessee. A pleasant, Intelligent, go ahead . I were her, bnt I instantly recovered my
captain, ii good Steward, and social, refl. j self-possession, and thrust- the weakness r u nny t
mad company, made the trip a trip ;of , from me ; women kissing each other al- While Mona.
pleasure. One lovely summer afternoon ways seems a weakness to me, but they mouse balloon i
it was whispered that we were to have : know best,) and laughing, shouting, ha p• amused the epee
a wedding before the boat reached her i py. we all returned on board, small figure.of a
destination ; said whisper starting first) Our generous captain set a splendid ( blance of M. lilt
and low near the lady's cabin, and speedily i supper ; the clerk made out two marriage cues. 'rile little
making its way to the hall, the boiler deck, , certificates ; they were signed by the par- rose majestically
and even the main ; like the snow balls son pnd seventy-four witnesses, (five more soon lost to view
i dowa the mountain, gathering size, form) made the nine • you know,) men women adventures, whie
' and momentum, as it rolled 'forward, until I urd children, all told, every body signed. inext day, were
the principals in the interesting scene j Then we danced, • we laughed, we made l strong and favori
were not only pointed out, with some / children of of ourselves—yes, I urn him all his course afraid we i
scraps HI the history of each, fiction, fact I made fools of out-selves. Be that as it may, / arrived the seine /
and surmise, all bashed up ingeniously,' when the watch changed at the noon of a fine country lion
leaving you in a half pleasant, half pain- i night, the bluffs on the shores of the river of Blevro. It wa
ful suspense and doubt. l returned only the echo of the hoarse cough. nor, and. the lady
We landed to wood at a ma mificentj ing of the Billy Barton's engines, for we :naturally thought
bench bottom, the tall, heavy leafed trees, I slept, and our dreams vainly tried to vie i was occupied in di
with their silver gray trunks, making a , with the lovely reality of the evening. !let. lt was n war
deep, cool shade, while they with their -
I paned one of the t
grassy green bank that bore them, were in -Prom the Crayon, April tiii ;mil upon the park
.. l evers prying eyes
the glassy river, so clear, so true that in- Are Wives Good Judges of mei
version only pointed the false from the;. illeodolvidn , 11114corrOlefil • gaged, by the ;mil
real. Cutting this charming spot in. LETTER FROM HIRAM POWERS, .in reducing her w
came cae a murmuring crystal brook, that tvou:o reflect r
scarce four spans wide, to lose itself in I
FLORENCE, Jan., 1855. taste, she was at
the mass of Tennessee water, they in turn I My dear sir:-.-In your kind and very ht „ I blast of wind, )olio
to be alike lost in the boundless sea.
; wresting letter from Turin you quote a i and immediate() th.
/
No sooner was- the stinging out than' question put and aus wered as a fact, by open, and our little
there emerged front the ladies' cabin a . some professor, (I forget who)
fine, manly looking fellow, dressed in fault- ; 0 W hy;is it that a wife is n name l y : I her chamber anal
judge of her i utters a cry of teat
. less tast e , intellect. beaming in every fetea-, husband's portrait?" A rid you ask me 10 over her shoulders.
tore, whil e till / /vet his face p er f ect i,". ; give yail in Writiiig, my reasons for decla. by the wind. throw
1 pines.n shone like phosphorous on the sea ; 1 ring that it is a tact that a wile is almost , happy woo tr't W I
leaning on his; arta was the Moat lOreable, always the very best judge of ber husband's titan ever, pushes Ii
; woman it has ever been my lot to behold, : portrait ?" The reasons are as follows : j (sealed h 1 " 1 "If mock
i her flue hazel eyes speaking deep emotion. n A wife who loves her husband sees mu- 1 J'l't "s the wire , i
iii bier expressive lip quivering with sup. stands the slightest change in his expres- I says to this novel a
pressed excitement, PAM- , her step, dress simi. She knows by his looks if lie is i sifter, go away, or yi
W
land -grace .18 that of a gm:en. ' , There well or ill s good natured or angry. s he ; the husband furious
itiny are l" "That's her !" ‘4O, h ow , perceives almost his every thought, and "A h ! the wretch, I It)
handsome !" burst from many a lip as , ni:l this by the changes of his countenance. (goes ill search at his
we instantly made way to let them pass to His manner, to he sure, assists his expres. i through the body.
the altar, and where flint was we had about: sluili whatever it imiY be, but the face for i The wile, mare de
us clear au idea as a tranacendeetalist gen.! the Most part reveals to her the action of ; ate'', in the mid" iit
orally has of what he is talking about.-._ his mind and 'lie state of his bodily feel.; Monsieur, save me th
But one thing we all seemed toltuow, that ! lugs. Now if the wife can discern with ! tragedy."
there was fun ahead, and that t o f a il i n - such nicely, by the changes fr om the h a bi t . 'rho husband arrive ti armed to the teeth,
their wake was Co, way to see it. As the' nal expression of her husband's features ; . followed by the who household, who
ladies passed, a gallant arm was offered to ' how he feels and Minks, surely she of all : seeks to mollify his auker.
ouch, and thus we marched out of the cab- i others ought to be the best judge of the I While two ofhia friifids hold ;the' h us
in, down the stairs, across the staging, and Idleness of those features. If the-likeness hand, a third, stoopin g dove. preemves
up the sloping bank. Sin° fifty . yards ' is perfect, she sees him igi it; if impe r fe ct , I our little friend, who, fair good cause, ut •
i up the brook the pair stopped, mid joining 1 alie does not see him in it ; she never saw ! tore not a word, and c4telling him by the
idols, i
: t hey stood, with the clear w a t er b e .; him so ;it is not familiar to he r ;i t i, I leg, draws tine forth from hisconcealMent.
tween then) , .-bridged as it was with th e ! net in the mirror of her soul and he r live i when, In ! Monaienr Balloon, im longer
twining fingers and crossed by a stream' rejects it as foreign and unknown. This i iit'bi "wit by the h"dsteati•rill es ' hiinelf ,
01 . 16Ve as pure as itself. All was silent— iis my argument, and my experience proves : erect, swells out, and rises majestically to
still—until broken by the minister, read- its truth. I the cAliag, to the immense amusement of,
ling in an impressive manner: i I have made many busts of hushanda, i the apectainrs, while the poor jealous hos:.
"Arid the rib which tile Lord God had ) and their wives too, rind have always I hent4 alinks away, swot- and all. heartily
taken from man made he a woman an d , found them the last to be satisfied 1.,4,0 1 .*ted of his causete . Wrath.: , .. , :.
11111PIQ'bklY by ftlY ; ,. Mixt, uthrileslll' "or tit i '`' ; ' il "'''''""" ; - "'" i "'''-` --- - ''' ' ..r--. -- ;M'OT[is ; Iri;irt -- a - iiTiirri pit J;' ; 74[l - '- gitifil;[:
flesh ; she shall be called woman, because/ progress of my work to th e end, while i
man
of
forty-five, in the twelfth year of
cithers have been satisfied long before..— '
she was taken out of man. Therefore: his widowerhood, complained to the pal.
,
Shull a man leave hie father and his. inoth-: :tequainiances and friends have said, "you i. e of an assault committed on his person
eau do no more to it. it i 9 as like as it eau !
or mid „cleave unto his wife, and they shall [ Mrs. Hannah Sullivan, and snowed
h(." Ate.; but husbands and wives have ;
several .004,.
be one flesh."
i purple stripes on his visage.
*no it is net right yet, it is not
Ile closed the book and offered a most, said, • • the ; whim he declared to he the impressions
right expression.' 'l'lley might ni t have
touching and beautiful prayer; nut a heart . of Mrs. Sullivait's lieges nails. It turned
iTI,I where it is wrong. but they felt th at
hut scented to feel that earnest appeal to :oft in evidence that Mr. Nl'Claikey had
something was not familiar to them. .
the throne of grace. Then asking the usu- , advertised for a wife, in one of the city
al qUestionS, lie pronounced them hus•! A picture of a bust should report, like a !
papers, notifying iipidicanig for the
,otoo..;
band and wife. 'the bride slowly sinking
"mittor, the very
image of its original ' and i abort is to call at No. —. locust street, th e
!
, ire .
on her knees, raised tier beautiful face., if it does that th' husband or the w
residence-of the advertiser. Mr.s. Seth-
I sure to be satisfied ; if it dries not, others
all covered with tears, and her clasped
,„, : v an called early in the morning, half an
sweet. may he, but li:ey never can he. 11l ,
bands, and in a mist touching,[lour after the advertisement was first pub
viiiee, tremulous with deep emotion, ( W alla " then is, wh y do others discover
4 lisped, and sent word up to Mr. M., dim
I likeness that th e Cie cannot perceive 1 i lady
said: I I•* •thisquestion by asking
wallanswer , a wished to see him a notice
"And now, 0 merciful Father, grant; ; in the paper.' 111'Claakey was all in a
her
that our two lives, thus united, may peace- sander question. How is it that parent "i flutter, supposing that some blooming
rarely discover rho resemblance which howl i y
fully flow in one, even as this rivulet, um. was about to fall into his arms.—
their children bear to themselves, and to
til we reach the river of death, and undi- He spruced himself tip and came down
one another 1 Every body else may per. ;
sided in faith and conduct, be permitted ; stairs, where Mrs. Sullivan was wait-,
strong the resemblance, but the ;in .
to enjoy Thine et vrtial smiles in the land eel" ve ry ro say that lie was disappointed,'
parents cannot. Why l—because of the pure and blest.", ' Fie would be saying too little ;he was hotel-'
„ k b. parents are lamiliar with ail the minute 1 fied.
~.
Every pills , " seeincil still, hoping,
_ peculiarities and differences ; strangers 1
ing fur more of this beautiful drarna. t "Might it he you that was wanting a
generals ; to a stranger,
'a a word, not a moveinerit from all that i only see the 8 ; wife. Mr. What-d'ye-eall- em ?" inquired
i flock of sheep are all alike—to the sliep- / the lady.
tbrong—all, all was happiness. 0, love
herd no two are alike ; to a stranger, the i
ly panorama, how deeply thou art graven'
would , 1 Mn, M. eyed her with a look of disaat
on die heart 1 The happy man was in the / "cue" o f a " ii!divitlual shee p " e ' isfaction, and uttered a growling [Anna
ilitosi the likeness of every one in the flock, got' tire.
aet of imprinting a kiss upon the sm
the shepherd would select the sh eep repre• I
lips of his magni fi cent wife, when the clear " Then I'm thinking its myself tint
i t h e likeness was g aud, but ii 01
times of a manly voice startled all nom I fie n ied • 1 ,
their pleasing reverie; universal gaze rest- I otherwise ; and so it is with " Wild " ; i van.
there is a family resemblance perceived
ed an u tall 'Tennessean, whose eagle eye I "Devi! a bit of it," remarked Mr.
s p o k e th e ma n ...... 0, fit representat j„ he was by strangers, but not perceived by the 3l'Claskey. "I'm suspicions that you did
family. Let the father be represented of the State where sleeps a Jackson. , did not look at the inlvertisement attentive
,l can't stand this any longer, I can't
faithfully, and the wife and children will' Ft ...,
by------I, pardon, ladies, pardon; I haven
..
see him only in it ; but die stranger will' "
proposition to make in the good faith of a perceive, perhaps, something of the whole
family in his likeness. The stranger, as
man who never lies or trifles: I must make
it were, stands at a distance, where he
it or die—so hero it goes. Now I will
l a d y i n t h e crow d perceives the general outlines, the relative
marry on this spot any
stands too near lorilliS—he sees only the
who has the nerve to face such music ; look ,
,
at me. and if you can love me as she loves, details, comparatively. '
(pointing to the hrele,) I'll promise to bel It is [Men said, that seinei l il Tic portraits {
it
hearted man will make to the woman who are
i
a husband to von, such a husband as it true , easy
to paint, and some
is presumed that very 'nuke'. le-mires
are Me easiest, but I have found all alike
conies trembling under his wing. I fur
ther say that no spot of shame attaches to ' thillealt
-4 res emblance may soon
tny, mane, nor ever shall :and this arm It is true t hat
ior marked
.
be prude i I 'ii a ease . f e atures ; ;
will support and protect the one who can
but a resemblance is not always 4 likeness.
trust it Who'll take me 7"
And his eye ran slowly and steadily over A (that! may draw a resemblance to a
horse, a eat, an elephant, but can he pin
the crowd Of handsome women around hint,
his earnest manner and novel speech had i tray the likeness of two individual dogs,
cats, or elephants ? Now, there are men
prise and deep sympathy with the fearless,
aroused an intense feeling ; all was sup-
so distinguished by; very marked leatures
excited orator,
Iron' all other men, that they seem to be.
and delight of wh e n to the astonishment
every one, a fawn-like, blue. long to almost distinct races, and such
eyed girl, frotn the flowery banks : of the Al-
men offer opportunities for easy portraits.
abama stepped to his side, and looking The most inferior artists c`an produce bor re,
confidently up to his eyes, with her hands resemblances of such men ; every
on his arm, said--(' I am thine !" will say at once, this is meant Inc Gen.
Jackson Gen. Washington, or perhaps,
By this - time his arm was around her - ,
and yet the same degree bf
Dr. Franklin, _
waist, and 'porting her curls, (black as the
resemblance to some one whose features.
raven's wing at midnight, ) looked stead•
lastly in her face fora moment and "sign-
are not very peculiar would not be recog
ed the contract" with a kiss that all the nized by any one,
married ladies afterwards pronounced of
genuine sort—perfeet, satisfactory. Rais
ing his flashing nits with a triumphant px
p.reasion from the pleasant job just men
tioned, he said :
"Where is that parson ? send him right
here—on this spot we'll be made one ;I
never let suoh luck as this passlue by
waiting a minute ; so go ahead, all'eready,
And the parson, did .'ego ahead,'.' and
on,that spot where they flrstAtiet were
they,soletunly united.foraver. When ihe
livordkriMal, God both joined together'
jet .
nuui A put . mug*, diad .:Itway, a.
.14104 t. *44 tat woke tip °oho for
GETTYSBURG, PA., FRID
To conclude 1. will add; that no wife
who loves her , husband, will ever fail tti
perceive a faithful likeness of him, how.
over old and ugly it may appear ; and
that the artist who can ftithfully represent
an easy: likeness;. can always, with as.
good an opportunity, represent equally
well;' - to a wife, a husband, or anybody,
else, a difficult one. •
Yours, most truly, .
1-1111.ast. Powarts„
•
Durinto period of 138 years, the first
. Itoro,9l.the A.ostrien,royal fpmily hie
-1 ".91z 1) , 11 4 1 •11-kr-lt ,-•
AND FREE."
"FRAR
EVENING, JUNE!, 1866.
An Ain s /Eronaut•
A lase Prime .inal relates the rel
it will be seen, is
las being immensely,
and was filling an im•
Chimp de Mars. he
•
is by sending up the
n; the perfect ROM
, without the specta
/ Was filled with
the air, and was
ifig the dotal. His
*awe known the
ous, Thanks O.
ale, which unrifled
e hale balloon-man
noon in the sight of
ty the neighborhood
ift - the hour of
Ishe ;mansion, who
trlf perfectly sale,
Isteries of her !M
-ay, nutlike had o
lintio *kith looked
safe from
!While tranquilly en
"tee of eer,et-lacing,
to a size and shape
it on her husband's
enly startled by a
!by a strange noise
witonent was thrown'
alloon-man entered
Ilinced. Thu ladt,
and throws a shawl
the little-man driven
imself upon the un—
ewe:tint og louder
elf, and he oon
rue lied.
t suplicati ng voice,
Juan : " ! Mon- I
u will ruin me
Ivrushes in, crying :
e hint now !" and
,aword to run hint
"Sure I've got it here at tho very tips
of my fingers," said Mrs. S. ;---"Waut
ed, a nate, tidy woman, of thirty or up
wards"--..kt's me; I'm thirty or up
wards."
upwards," replied Mr. M., with
sarcastic bitterness.
"Well qualified for a wife, and gond
looking," continues Mrs. Sullivan, reading
Ilse advertisement.
"Humph ! `gaud looking ;' that's you,
ion, I suppose madam 1" growled Nl'Olas
key.
"Sure I can look well enough to see a
rogue at a yard's distance, Mr. What's
yourmame ; and is it qualified I am ! troth
I've had four husbands already, and its
me that ought to know something about
the justices of a wife."
'Four husbands, madam !"
“Yes, faith, I can show you the graves
of all of them, mighty plisant ground they
are laid in too, midi hope you may never
have no worse if iver it should be your
good luck to be berried among Chris-
"You won't do madam," roared .4'.
Chiskey, "What the thunder shall I do
with a wife with a head like a blazing
chimney, and nose and chin like a pair of
giniblets
This seems to haveclosed the confer.
ence, (or M'Claskey, when relating his
story to the Mayor, on coming to this peri.
od, - expressively pointed to his;haltskiuned
countenance. Mrs. S. was hold - to bail
for the assault. ' -.- "
ARTLESS CANDOR"-A gentleman inqui.
red of a carpenter's boy,—"My lad, when
will
,this joh your so aster hoe 011'111011 be
completed ?"
. „
. .
can't tell, sit.," eaid the tioneat boy,
artleadly ; day job;.and' it will , de
pend upon. hoer soon Ihroldlnati bee:a
pother order," - -
Judge, lialiburton tolls a very laughable
story about tho Brat piano ovor hoard lull-
"A Baltimore physician having removed,
with his family, to settle near the Illittoi a
River, during the earlier period of emigra
tion thither, With his goods` andchattels
stowed away in seven large wagons, excit
ed no little wonder and conversation a
mong the back-woodsmen. on their appear
ance in those far•off regions, whose inhabi
tants had 'never seen the like before.'
"Glass—this side up with care ! Why,
I thought this ere feller, was
. a doctor.—
What on parch is he going to do. with
that box full of windows ?" "This side up,
With cam"- exclaimed ati)ther: s
got his paragorio and iba of spike flieni in
that. Won't ho physic them a gur fellers
down on the river I"
In the last wagon there was but one
largo box. and on it were painted the
words, "Piano-forte, keep dry, and handle
carefully." It required all the assiStenda
of bystanders to unload the box; and
great was the curiosity excited. "Pine
forte I" said a tell, yellow.haired, fever
and-ague-looking youth. "Wonder if he's
ateered of the injuns t llu eim't scare
them with a- pine fort." "Ice-c,p
spelt by a large, rawborted,loolciug man,
who was evidently a liberal patron of "old
bald face." lie broke off at the letter y
with your temperance eareacturs ;
you needn't emne around here with tracts.
ILe was interrupted at this point by a
stout-built personage, who cried out,"lles
get Lis skeleton in Oar. and he's afeered
to give them licker for they'll break it if
he does." "di:ladle carefUlly," said a
man with a red bunting-shirt, and the
size of whose fist was twice that of nit ordi
nary man. - "There's some live critter in
that; don't you hear him greart?" This
was said as the box struck the ground, and
the concussion (loused a vibration of tke
strings.
than alive, railer
*.
so
bt ; "Fly ! fly !
sight of a dreadful
No soonerhad all hands let go, than the
doctor was besieged by his neighbors to
knew what was the moaning of the word
"piano-forte." Ou his telling them it was
a musical instrument, some "cuckooed it
would tatto a tarsal sight of wind to blow
it ;" other','that "•it would take a lot of
men to make it go.'' The doctor explain
ed it as wallas hu could, but ho could on
ly get rid of his inquisitivo neighbors
by prutaisiug them' a sight at an early
day.
Three days elapsed, . . . . was
ready for tha reeoptioii of the •.vizitors,"
and Miss E. was to net us first performer.
Thedoetor hal but to qua : the door, and
half a snore of nieri wore ready ,ti enter,
. • Seine went Arcady
, utiito the in
who had never seen a carpet, were
observed walking round on the stripe of
bare floor, lest by treading on "the hand
some kuliker," they might "spile" it.—
The first tune seemed to pot the whole
company into ecstasies. The rawboned
man, who was so much opposed to tem
perance tracts, pulled out a flask of
kov, and insisted that "the gal," as
_he
coiled Miss E., should drink. Another
laid down a dime, and wanted "that's
mirth" out of the "forty pains." as the '
name hail come to hint after travelling
through live or six pronunciations. Anoth
er, with a broad grin on his face, declared
he would give .elainre and all the 'truck'
on it, if his 'darter' could have such a'cup
board.'
The •pine-fort' man suggested that if
that sort of music had been in tho Black
Hawk war, "They would have skecrod
the injena all holler."
"The result may ho easily anticipated ;
the ladies were hug tired of playing ere
their .visiters' were tired of hearing.—
The whole country, for twenty miles a
round, rang with the prakes of Dr. A's
'consarn.' the 'musical cupboard.' Pa
tients came in crowds for ad.viee, or , a few
agar pills,' all daterinined to appear in per
son, but none who would leave without
hearing the 'forty paines ;' and the phys
ician, thanks to the first piaumfort in Illi
nois,' became one of the first man in the
State."
A WHITE WOMAN SUMO YOE PRER
DOM.—The New Orleans Delia publishes
an account of a suit which has been cons
inenced in that city on behalf of Jean
, phine Smith, %vita alleges that, she is
wrongfully an .1 illegally claimed as a
' slave by Lionel O. Levy, id New Orleans,
and Joseph Cohen, of Oharlestown, under
an alleged purchase made at the succoss•
ion sale of the late Judah Barrette. lit
' her pettinit she declares that when she
lived in Barrett's house, She resided there
as a free white inembersif his family, and
was known to the world and acknowledg
ed by Barrette as his daughter. She
has always associated with white persons . ;
was educated at sehoids where colored
children are not admitted, and has often sal
in the dress circles of the public theatres,
where none but white persons are , allow
ed to he seated. She has enjoyed liberty,
and passed for a free white person for
mose than ten years, which gives a legal
right to freedom. . • ,
! Several years previous to Barrett's
death, she ceased to reside in Barrett's,
house, bought and sold property in her
own name, and was stied in the various
courts of the State, and did thank other
acts inconsistent with a state of ala Very,
all of which were done with the knowl
edge of said Barrette. • She says that
Levy, her pretended maater,- knew-= all
these facts at the time..of ! his , pretended
purchase, and that
. pohen„whoylaitns,.a,
part interest in her, was also conversant
with them. By their persecutions they
have injured. her:feelings and reputation,
and have subjected her to much troubW
and expense, and site prays themourt not
only`to deeree her to be a free person, but
to renders verdict against Levy and Cohen
for damages : in the sum ol .$2,000. • The
plaintiff in this suit is now in Canada, and
brititi the suit in order to .otinito Atermie
sun* to mein' to -dn.. err r
• her 'N 0"
.
+lane,' • . • .
The First Piano in Illinois.
Alurdera Iq the-Royoll family of
Russia.
'rho'. first surmise,: on,,the announce
r meet of ifie deathef: the Czar,'. was shit%
he had, (oleo a victim to sante conspiracy,
There would seem, howeYer, .to: be no
grounds .for this suspicion. !Yet the 'al,
moot universal suspicion, of. Alder , was
not extriordinary. when it .is considered
bow many of the royal line of Russia have
died
forcible deaths. , What with the dis
sensions among the imperial.. family, and
what with the conspiracies on the 'part
of the nobility to. remove an obnoxious
Czar, no dynasty .of civilized:princes has
ever suffered so much from steel and card
since the days of the .Remati! Ctestirs.r,-
Talleyrantrs famous definitiun of the char
acter of the :Russian. government., 'that it
was "a despotism. tempered by asissaina.
lion,". was as tree,as it is - witty, because
.of it, truth, During the :earlier part of
'lzarittin,' nearly every, emperor destroyed '
some riVal, or was himself', destroyed.—
EVen in the last 'eentury:,the murder of a
Russian prince almost universillyattended
ur, preceded the aecession of tieevir!mon.
arch to the thrupe.. The bkindy drama
' was opened by , a father. killing 'hio..iown
son.,nnd closed by it son consenting to
the murder of his. father. , ,
The incident to whit.h - we.. first allude
was the secret execution of 'Alexis,•unly
son of Peter the , great, by order 'of his
father. A. D. 11 I 9,, . The
. prince, was
hostile to the
,tiett measures, introduced
by the Czar , fa voring the old Illoyar'party,
which,adhered to the :andient Osage( and
customs of hie
.country. • For' this Peter
resolved to disinherit him., Alexis.
kunwing what this theant,fled abroad, but
being discovered, Was dragged 'back ie
RUSSIA, ifompelled to renonnee die seeces
sion tried by secret judges. - .and .loubar,
ously put to 'death.. . The next great trig.
edy which occurred in the Reinanoff
fly was the murder of Peter the Third, by
direction. of-his wife, who immediately
ascended the throe, as Catherine. the Sec
ond. This woman, no less , eelebrited fo r
.
her profligate dile than for her political
genius,_ was, the .granthnothei of Nicho
las. Her instrument in the abomination
of her husband was PrinceAkixii - Orloff,
one 1)1 her parrmoure.a 'man of !gigantie
stature, .who subsequently unblushinglY
paraded himsellittrongh gurope,end•was
.
viewed .with terror and ourinsity. every
where as the. person, who, when the Atn
;wirer resisted, had.. throttle() the unhappy
Prince with his 'own., liond, 'A•brother
of this monster went to Fitly, 'Where a
Princess ofe the , Romanoll-line,'reiiided,
whom. Catharine feared, in • consequence
el a better title titt .thethrone,- and having.
inveigled, the. poor girl into . e meek mat.
rialto, trapped listokbOard.i4ltetliiiittik;.•
gate. ,and iFItI
•
subsequently by.an inundation o 'the 'a-
The parrioide to which we allude was
the murder of Paul. the first, lather of
Nicholas, with the. knowledge. if not the!
connivanee.of Alexander, the predecessor;
of the late O;ar. Paul %Oa a set upon at
night, jn his chamber, and assassinated
after a protracted struggle. in which he ,
fought with desperate resolution, though;
toweled and , in his--shirt. At' he
of this bloody tragedy, Nicholas WAS in''
infant, But his elder brother,
was a youpg man, and was, it is generally
thought, aware of what ryes about lo ort-i
cur. Remorse for the act is said lo have'
f the closing days of Alexander.i
It is asserted by some historians.that even -
Mit( Prince fell a victim to a'violent death.
It is certain that he died' suddenly.' when
on a'iour in the . Crimea t and ce:lte had
become guile unpopular Within large. patty :
in his dominions. it, is .not impossible
that he was poisoned. Ft nil these cues
'of assassination it was at first given out
that the Czar died of apoplexy, nor did
the truth appear until Mu lapse of IV yon
bed rendered harmless the publication' of,
the facts. lit a despotism like liloosis;
when a prince is, to be deposed, there is
generally no course left but 'to• take his
life. He cannot safely be asked to -abdi
cate , for, lio.would be a bold.'man ' who
conld thus "hell the cat I" and While' he
lives, even after ..abdiaatinn, there is al
ways danger of a revolution in' hie fayor..
Herce Tullityrand's remark.
.
Er.ocuxtoN PaiLyxrt,;---Otie clay a lit
tle girl, übout five - yeap olr4 heard a preach,
' er of a certain denonainafinnal orderpray
mg most lustily, till the roof rani with the
strength of his supplication. 'Turning to .
her mother, and beckoning: - die maternal
ear down to a speaking distance, she wills-
pored,-"Mother, don't you think !hal. if
ho lived nearer to God he wouldn't have
to talk so loud 1" Such a. questie'n is
worth a volume on .'Elocution in prayer,"
A
Lsacia loausao.—.l3aptain 'Difortowof
the ship Northern Light wide!) arrived at
Fairhaven this morning, reports' having
passed, January 31, in lat. 43 south, long,
105 30 west, a large icebefg, about VO
feet high and six miles long 1 Paptain ?Tar
ton pronounces it the largest iceberg ever
seen in thoee latitudes. It nitist have'heon
a fearful and sublime specteole':—.,—Need
Redford Standard. • • ' .
'f ug STAtts.—The oonatelletions•follow
in mob other's train like the different
years of mou's departing life, The even
ing star is the ; herald' or youth and, joy,
the moon e mature age, bright and quiet
but cold, and followed b 3 ti brief darkuess
soon to he succeeded by the splendot of gie
rising sun of immortality.
Forgiveness id the most refined , end
generous, point of virtue thut. , human nu
lure can attain to. „ Onwards luive dello
good and kind nations • but rico - ward nev
er forgave—it in net his nature,
• . .
t • , ... •
, A lump of silver from Lege 4tuPertor, 96
pounds in - weight, and warranted tobe 74
per ot. pure
.inetal has been received at
Detroit. _ •
Julius—,Sam, you're a drunkard, you're
oilers drunk and your habits is louse,
nigga, your habits is, Lome. f.Els%—well,
azale debble sot oof
h4Ol l l l 1 08 Ft when it is' tif„hi t all 4" WWI
TWO .DOLIARS PER ANNUM, -...1.,
I NUMBER it:,
Extraordinary Effects of Lightning. ,
The Portland Advertiser has a long account,
of the damage done by lightning, a fee' event,
ings ago. to the house. anold frame one, own-.
pied by Mr. and Itirs. Upton and four children,,
on Great Chebengue Island. A ball of fire, :
apparently a foot in diameter, with a Wad some.
thirty yards in length, was seen to'deseend
on the chimney, and immediately after a vol
nme of smoke began to ascend. as if the house,
was on tire. A neighbor. hastening , to the
house, it was found a wreck. but not, on fire P
The family were at supper at the time. Old
Mr. Upton was eating a howl of bread ai4
milk, with one hand upon the bowl. the ether,
holding the 'spoon. The bowl was broken its
hie hand. and the spoon has not yet been found.
Old Mrs. Upton bad a cup of tea in her hand,
and when she came to herself she was partly
under the table, with a piece of the cup in her
hand and herself covered with the wreck of the
chimney, among which was a piece of timber
from the front or the fire-place. 8 feet long.
with a flat bar of iron of the same length at
tached. She wee severely injured. • t •
The grand-daughter was thrown from her
seat at the table to near the lire-place, end lir.
erally covered with bricks and mercer, OW
wait also badly injured. Nearly every artiql4
of tirockery in the house, two clocks, three
looking-glasses and two old fashioned oak 'ta
bles in the kitchen : were smashed. The chair
in which old Mrs. Upton tires sitting, was bro.
ken into twenty-eight pieces—at any rate that
ninny pieces belonging to it, were found7ever3r
chair in the kitchen'was broken. Every par
tition in the house was retuoved from its posi
tion. and More or :ceu shattered, and every
window demolished hut one,- A large trunk
filled, with fine clothing. &o.,.was found locked
and apparently uninjured outwera, yet, on be
ing opened, the soot, from the chimney lay halt
en bleb' thick over the contents, and sifted
thrtinikh in every direction. Tin pans of milk
on , a shelf in the cellar were unharmed, yet
some empty pans. one within the other, on the
grime shelf, were broken up. The fluid passed
Out through eight different Planes in the lied/
of the, house, besides those already ,deserieed.
It is truly wonderful that not a life Was lost.
COMM:MOP OP 140..5t AT Si PABTOPOL.—If
the Russian war shall have the effect to difnin
ish the manufacture of railway iron in Eng.
land. it seems, likely to, create a demand fir
iron in the shape ; of cannon balls and shell*
quite equal to, if not exceeding. the diminution
in the amount
. required for Ritilreutds. By
the last ateatner news we learn that the At. ,
lies have five hundred guns playing op Sebas
topol, firing one hundred and twenty round*
daily. Me calculate that of these shot
in/Isbell - will weigh ono ton. At every round
fired there will be course ten tons, end each
day twelve hundred tons weight of cannon
balls and shells thrown into Sobastepol. The
bombardment at the latest dates lefited twelve
days. and of course there had been thrown
into the town in that tipm fourion Unwind
four htmdred ions of iron. ft is probehle that
the Russians may have hurled back at the
Allies nearly the same weight of metal, and it
is safe to compote the total consumption ofiron
in.the siege of Sebastopol for these twelvedays
at ,twenty
,five thousand tons.. The iron,thua
tvtirit Ask and ; „,waas, - -- 4 1:0, 6 ,...„"
' ' ,ectistruat about -24300 ;11,3„usf,'Or
t/IR. MASTER SPIRIT AT SIPASTOPOL-,The
head engineer at Sebastopol is a young map e
named Todleben, who nt the commencement of
the siege was a captain almost unknown.
When the siege commenced, Prince Menichi
koir, it is said, asked the then head engineer
how long it would take to. put the place in a
state of defence: He answered t Two months."
Todleben stepcd forward and said he would
undertake to do it. if he had as many, men as
he, required. in two weeks. De did it in
,twelye days, and was made colonel. Since .
that time he has had the direction of everything.
in the way of building batteries, defences, &cr.
The other day the Grand Puke called upon his
wife s Oa is residing in St. potprsbur g . to Con
gratulate her upon her husband's promotions
tor he is
. now General and 4tide-de-Gainp. ta
the Pinperor. The Hussiens adopt the;coin
3toir-sense practice of taking the mail who will
do the pork best and they get it the best done.
This is the practise in well conducted priests
business ; iq is still more. necessary injiublio
imrsice. where the consequences of mistakes
throughincotoPecenq And igllgrance may it-
Nit a w hole nation.
Dansvton w Cnotton.--The • New Tor*
' , Churchmen" (Episcopal) contains a long
manual of church behavior. from.tvhicb we ex.
tract Om following. addressed no doubt to the
ladies : , . •
,void the use of the fan in church, at all
times During the heat of the'stanmer, it
no douht,.a great baury. but we are not.; lit
God's llNy Temple.:to think ofluxuries—rath:
er of endurance and sacrifice. The practice is
a, most irreverent one.• When we go to pent
forte, our solemn devotions to God, we are,llo4,
to give way to seir-indolgence. It is a.profane
familiarity in the presence of Him who iti
greatly tp be feared in the assembly of Dim
saints."
Just think of it, An over-crowded Chirch:
the thertnometer up among the nineties, and
not a,lady enjoying.the "luxury" of a fan.. It
would ha a .sacrifice" indeed., the bare am
templatiop of which w,ould almoat cause many
A lady to faint.
lAMB INT.-/It this• day of brag chickens,
eggs. babies, and big things in general. it may
not be amiss for us to ,stato that a gentleman
near Williamsburg, Blair county, in this state
t
nevi ,OWnti a eat which weighs one hundred am(
fieentpdbur pounds, Our informant. a gentle?
man from that place - of unquestionable veraci
ty, represents the animal (having often seen it)
as being as largess I sheep, and a terror tail
the doge in the neighborhood. Ile states that
within the last year the owner has been offere4
large sums of money for it, but refuses to liar;
with the animal for any amount, It if atil
growin,A.-,Waynesbdru' Record.
071 he King of Belgium is a Protestank
though his subjects are mostly Catholics. Thc
King of Saxony is a Oath°lie, though the greats
er part of his subjects are Protestants. The
King of Greece is p Catholic. Slone' ,moat
his subjects are of the Greek Church% Of the
15,500,000 European subjects of the Sultan
of Turkey, 11,370,000 are of the Greek Church,
and 260.000 are Catholics. while only 3,800,,
000 are Ilahornedans.
fOrWork Fenn your own pork. -aq4
see how sweet it will be. Work, end epe,boy,
'well you will be. Work, and see how happy
your family will be. for, before you know
where you are. instead of .repining to Pivel•
deuce. you will hod you reel f offering u Rhanka
fur all the numerous blessings you enjoy.'
A Ft.ountsertin Szer.--About fiwty y 414,
ago. a few members of the Church of gnglan4
seceded from that establishment. in AustriillW
calling themselves "Bible Chriatlans."
now number in that colony . 17.000 m ote
r.:l
and possess 800 chapels, capable o ~
1.50,000 worshippers.
A Comx Brra—Luoinda 0. NertfilvW4lS
moss., recovered 11544 Q i 4 otiF/W
its)tl Boothfor injuries sqOlllK4 ti
t t 24 .
of defendant's dos, 41 pnmot
the Sopretp, c llr t Eft ekrlo g gfiad, unit