BY D. A. it O. 11. BUEHLER VOLUME XXVII The following poem by.litcoteato llssw.tan contains a now idea—a rare thing now a days. —Kaiekerbeker. . I lent my love kbook one day, She brought it back, 1 laid it by ; • 'Twas little either had to say— She was so strange, and 1 so shy. But yet we loved in different things— rho sprouting buds, the birds in tmie • And time stood still and wreathed his wings With rosy links from Juue to June. For her what task to dare or do ? What peril tempt, what hardship bear? But with her, alt she never knew My heart, and what was hidden there! And she with tne, so cold and coy, Seemed like a maid bereft Of8011:513 But in a crowd, all life and joy, And full'of blushful impudence. . . im . She married! Well a wnan needs 'A mute her life and hive to share— And little cares sprang nit like w6als, And played lkrUll nil her elbow chair Anil years rolled by, and I ) content, • Trimmed my own lantliand kola it bright, 'Till age's touch toy hair bus teat, With rays and gleams of silver ligltb .And thou it chanced I took tint book ‘Vhich she had mid in days gone by, Anil 3.1.1 mail, such intslion shook: . My 46111, I needs lutist curse or cry. For here stud there her ley(' Wah writ I u old, hair faded pencil signs, As if 'she yielded bit by hit Iter heart' in dots and under lines 1i0,11.c00 lattS you,lool. 1- I know it. Let inn di c es retain' This i n , maid a /h,ok, LideJs you raut it (t.ffrit6ti.)' A Story for Children %Thera was once a farina. who had a bag° field of corn ; he ploughed it and planted the corn, and harrowed and weed. „I it with great care, and. on his field he Alopeuded for the chief support of his fam ily. But alter he had worked hard, ho saw the corn begin to wither and droop for ram, cud he began to have fears for I:is .ettsp. lie telt very Nall, and 'wont over e very day to look at hie corn, and au& if .there was any hope of Ooh nay us he wood looking at the i,ky, and Minus' in despair, two link rani &Os alp in tho'clouds over his. head saw him, and one said to the other : "Look at the poor tanner ; I feel sorry for Ititu ; lie has taken so much pains with Ins field of corn, and now it is all drying up ; l wish I could do hills some good." "Ye 3," said the other, "but you are on ly a little rain drop, what can you do f Yon can't even wet otib said the first, ••to be sure I can't du inucli, but -I can Omer the farmer a lit 'llo.llot/VY4laTtlitAntit:i'liai'ltitiO?&ls4ello,. lily try. I'll go to this field to .sliow my good will, ill can do no mote and so towel go." And down went the ruin drop—one mine pat on the farmer's nose, and one fell on a stalk of corn. "Deur me," said the Winer, witting his Allier wins nose, '•what's that f A rain drop ! Where did that come from I I do believe we shall liay.3 a !tower." The first rain drop had no sooner sun- ed fur the field, than the second one said : "Well, if you are going, I believe I will 4 r, • • ton ; here I crone." And down drop. pod the rain drop on untidier stalk. By this time a great many rain drops had come together to hear what their'eum• rodeos' were talking about, and when they saw then► going to rheer dm farmer, and water the corn, one said--"If you are go. lug on such a good errand, I'll go too ;" and doWll he rave, ••And I," s;iid rr, "and I," •"aad I," and to on, till the whole shower came, and the corn was wa• coed, and it grew and ripened, all because the first link ram drop determined to do wiwL U could. Never be discouraged, children, because you can't do much. Do what you can— angels can du no more. The Inviable Bridge. No man ever dreamed so instructively, and to so good a purpose,. perhaps, as Bunyan. There is something in the no hue of dreams, though few profess to be lieve in then' that so relates them to the spiritdand, that they excite interest and at tract attention. The dreams of Bunyan have led thousands to reflection and to Beek their filial home in Heaven. What. ever is illustrative of our duty, and inspires confidence in' God, and faith in the sure promises of His word, is of abiding inter est. If the following one shall lead any body to start upon a new life by entering the narrow way, and crossing the invisable bridge, the dream will not haVe been told in vain. It is related .by 'the Rev. Mr. Ba ker, in a volume just published : "A man dreamed once that he was go ing along. in the broad road, and Satan was druggiug hint down to hell. Alarmed ho cried he cried for help, and suddenly one appeared in lovelier form saying, "Fol low intl."- Immediately Satan vanished. and in his dream the man thought he fol lowed the heaveniy one in a wait . and nar row_ way; until he came to a river. Where he-saw no bridge.. Pointing in a certain 'direction, the angel said; *Teas overthat bridge." - :611 see no bridge," said the Matt. 'iYes,thtire is a bridge, and yon must PaSS over it,-for there is no other, 'and . heaven is beyond." Looking mere narrowly, the dreamer elm whit appeared-to be .a hair extending from one bank to the other bank. "Pass over' that," 'said the angel. .0, how can 1 .1" *lid the matt, "It' is too slender and cannutstistain•rne." “It will sustain you. • Inim• above--1 cannot lie,-and I give you toy Word it will - snot:du you:" And now, 'while -the': man 'was trembling and afraid to venture, he thought Satan again siezed upon him to drag him down to - hell.. 'Urged by necessity; he put hie foot upon the bridge,.slender as it - mppeared,'''andlound - ir - tr - plankT-'-"Qaraitti;• --stantiakbridge--.and fie_ went. ovqr: safely,. and entered shouting into the heavenly Tenni, one of - the brightest.of the plan, ots, is now visible whit um naked eye in the day time,• and for two or threu tuonths to eoin it will be• increasing in brillimuoy, and may be 50011 every altortunt. . THE SOUTH CAROLINA BELLE, 011 1 WRO LOST THE WAGER. My uncle Nod lad set his heart upon marrying me to my cousin Rosalie ; hut the thing savored of compulsion to me, and I made up my mind to be just as otr stinate us the nature of the case, might demand. ' - ' I confess to being a little septimental.— I have read heaps of novels in my day, from the Children of the Abbey down to Bleak :I-louse, and the thought of hav ing my uncle . pick out my wife for me was intolerably repugnant to my ideas of propriety and to the: rights of man. . - 41: Uncle Ned was a jolly' old' fellow, and laughed iti my face when I ,told him - I could not 'think of-such a thing as permitting him to select my with for me. I looked dignified and felt fligui., fled ; and WAS not a little mortified when the old fellow haw hawed right in my face. "But, my boy, she is as rieb as mull-- with an income of eight thousand dollars a year," said he. "Think of that." "My dear uncle, I beg you will deem me above mercenary motives In so im portant a matter as this,'' I replied, with a seriousness in keeping with the soleutraity of the topic discussed. "Perhaps you don't 111000 to take a wife —die an old bachelor—eh i'". continued ' he, -punching me nailer the short ribs, as h e pe ere d out another of his abominable "guffaws." "Not so : nn tbn contrary, I mean to take a wife just as soon as I can find one exactly suited to my min d -." "And pat don ' t mean to marry a girl that has got any money r , , "That is perfectly immatt4ial, sir, as you are aware that my fortune is amply sufficient without the addition of a wife's i dowry." "Bet the money wouldn't do any harm, would it I" i'''''' . "No, I should not object to a lover who possessed the requisite qualifications, be cause she happened to have a fortune at her disposal, though in lay esti motion it would add nothing to her fitness ,to be come my wife..' "Indeed 1" drawled nrielo'Ned, looting at me with such a fetiny oxpiassion that I could not tell.whether he was going to laugh or get. toad. I didn't care much ; fur I detailed it beneath his dignity to at tempt an iuterfereuce ia such a delicate "But, Bob, Rosalie is the most beautiful girl in South Carolina. There aro thou ;;ands or y9ung gentlemen of the first fain " riora'oloattivi lf idittriiiiis:atilio, civino to'step iflto rut. shoes:" .'They Con do so, sir ; I tell you plain ly she can never ho my wife, if she were, a pearl and had all South Carolina for her dowry," said I, with dignified ear testness. ~ Whew !" "Your slicers will be as useless as your per:fungous ; they bloat not move "But, Bob. you know her father ear nestly dOsired that you should be married, before he died," added the uncle, more se riously. "It matters not, sir; I must be entirely unembarrassed in the choice of a wife.— Lot me tell you plainly, that, even if I had no other objection, the mere fact that you have attempted to draw me into this marriage wore a sufficient reason for we to decline it." ! you young puppy, what do you mean by that ?" “Just exactly what I say, viz : that I will neither be led or driven into mar riage with Rosalie. I think we have said enough about it." I had begun to talk a little coolly. Ile was, in my opinion, treading upuu the pre rogative of a free born citizen. What did the old fogy mean ? Did he think I hadn't sense enough to choose my own wife ? Rosalie was entirely out of the question—l' could not, ou principle, be driven into a matrimonial cohneetiou, even though the other party was an angel and had a dowry of eight thousaud Year. "Mr. Bob, listen to reason. Rosalie is handsome, and graceful, and all that sort of thing ; sings like a nightingale, plays the piano and, harp, and can talk From;11 like a Paristeune." "it manors not, sir; I object to the principle of the thing, and I rep Oat, I eau not anti will not marry her." ".1301),, you aro a fool !" "Am I ?" ~ ' Pon my word you are ; you don't know on which side your bread is but tered:" "Enough. sir I" "But, Bob, you will pay us . that ,visit, won't you "Certainly ; but do not flatter yourself that 1 shall wake love tO llosulie. "shall go prepared to shun her ; yes, to be oven uncivil to her. If I sin, blame yourself for your ittipudent interference in aly concerns." "Sauey poppy !" anti toy uncle laughea We were on tho most futnilhir Wimp. "You aro a metllor ;'you make me sin. ay. I trust I shall always be prompt in k resenting any invasion of my natural rights." "Elope you will, mw boy; but I; will bet ono thousand dollars you marry "Lu satia." "Dona V" • ; "But on ono condition." "What P' "Tktt.you come to my ostaio in South Carolina with a susceptible heart—that you aro not t engaged to another." ' "I accept the condition," said 1, grasp: ing'histantr : 'int:mini - you hale - lost—the bot." "Not yet, Bob-:-wait obit." - It was rather foolish in tho old fellow to make snob a silly bbi ; but T.was sure could resist Cho attractions ef mp• eeuala oven though alto should prove to boa Ye , nus, that I conaidered,the trieneY already wine; and what was far betler, that I s lad wen the victory GETTYSBURG, PA., Ft.IDAY EVENING; AUGUST-3,,18:55.' That night uncle Ned started for his plantation in South Carolina. CliArTEIt 11. MY father died three years beforo this conversation, leaving me an ample fortune. Ills tivo brothers had been in South Car olina. for thirty years, where thu father of Rosalie died, leaving my uncle Ned her guardian. 1 bad often been told that Rosalie was very pretty girl; but File had been to the North only once, and then I was trav eling in Europe, so I bad never seen her. I had written uncle Ned prowising to spend a month with Mut in the autumn. Business had called aim to Boston, where our interview occurred. Ile bad more than once expressed a de s i re th a t his brother's property might remain in the family, and pressed mo to Unite thy aid to that of his beautiful niece. This was out of the question. A "made up match" was my abomination. Cer tainly I had no other unisons fur my vio lent prejudice against the marriage. I considered it a sacred obligation to fall in love before I took a wife, and the idea of being pledged to Rosalie b,:fore I had seen her myself was so absurd that I had no patience to think of it. And then I bird a:principle for my guid ance in affairs of tlw heart, which tiliso lutely forbade me to think of su , ;lt a thing as a "marriage for convenience." The autumn came :Intl I pai.l my prepo• sett visit to uncle Ned's plantation in South Carolina. was disappointed in my cousin Rosa lie. She whs a tolerably good looking damsel, but in my opinion 'very far from being liko the beautiful creature she had been pictured to toe. "Isn't sho handsome, Bob 7" said my uncle. 'l)iil you ever see such lips, such a head of hair, such eyes; such a graceful form ? Isn't she handsome, oh, you dog'" And the old fellow punched me in the ribs, and roared with laughter till he near ly split his sides. •I couldn't for the Fie of me see what he was laughing at. "• "Isn't she beautiful, you rogue ?" he continued. "Passable," I replied very coldl!y. “Pussablo ! You puppy What, do you menu to say Rosalie is not hand sortie ?" "Tolerably," I answered, twisting off the leaf of a palmetto, which grow by the side of the bench on widen we were seated, just to show him how indifferent I was. "Ilob," said he, looking more soberly-, "I had :in idea yuu were a man of taste, but I sue you arc Su likely to lull .in love ilrotiii - Of 4eik 'ate prettiest girl in South Carolina." 1 "Who's that, undo Ned r This remark was called forth by the sudden appearance, upon she gravel walk, 01 the loveliest creature I ever beheld, and that, considering 1 have flirted with the belles of Paris, Naples and florae, is say ing a great deal. I was confounded by the sudden apparition, and springing from my scat us if an electric shock had roused the slumbering blood in my veins, I stood bolt upright be fore her. Shades of Venus ! did any one ever sec such loveliness ! such a graceful move ment ! such a divine expression ! I could neither speak nor move, so com pletely was I paralyzed by the glorious beauty of the nymph. "I didn't know there was any one here," stammered she, with such a delectable blush on her cheek, that -Linearly went mad with enthusiasm. Before I could recall my scattered senses the beauty bounded away as lightly us a fawn. "What the devil ails you, Bob? What are you starting at said uncle Ned. "Who is she ?" asked, I. clasping my hands in the rapturous excitement of the moment. •That ? Why that's little Sylphie H oward, one of llosalid's -friends, who is spending a fc4 weeks with her," he re jibed indifferently. • "Beautiful !" said I. • ''She ! Passable 1" "She is divine !" "Tolerably good looking, but she is nothing to be compared with my Ro salie.' I was about to say something saucy ; but I thought since uncle Ned really be liti'ved what he said, 1 would not hurt his feelings by denying it. At dinner 1 met both ladies, and was formally introduced to "little gylphie Howard ) ." I was pro voked with uncle when he assigned me scat next to Rosalie. I could hardly be civil to her, with such a pair of beatiful eyes before me,and I hardly ceased to gaze upon Sylphio during the hour we spent at the table. After dinner we went out to ride horse back. Uncle Ned annoyed me again by Contrivino ° so that I could help 110- Italie mount her horse, and ride by her, side, and he, "the provoking ora foe), did those offices of gallantry for Syl phie. • - "No use, old chap, you. shall lose your. bet," thought I, and I tried to be civil to my cousin. • • • „ I don't think I succeeded very I ant very sure I did but fall in love 'with' her. My eyes 'itsted ell the time upon the fair and. graceful hurts-woman who retie before me. And thus it was for a week. Uncle Ned managed . to kcep,me.by the aide' or Regalia nearly all'lf we played whist she was my partner; if we rode in the carriage she sat by toy side ; if. we 'walked, he monopolized. Sylphie and left Rosalie to tue;---and more than once the alone - together - as though, he thought, I was all ready to pop the. question, and ,liand .Itini over the thou sand.' • was discreet. I gnva her a wide berth, and sighed for the love of the - twat. tiful Bylphto HoWard. I alas head over. ,w Imola in love--oultt have eloped with herd iti a'titomm. it,' if she would • have .tuni .anta "FEARLESS, AND In split of my unelo's vigilttmk hew. over, I found opportunities to Milt Huh ) with Sylphio, and one day I luroOter into a grove of palmettos in tho Oar of the mansion house. Time was precious. I was tlitgeoro of a .novel. Cruel uncles in boyisil wigs i sought to crush out the a &eggs tuy heart. In short, ',throw tuytklff at her , feet ' and with all the elOquence'ihat Har. i yard College had been abli to crowd into my composition, I declared * 1.we. 1 usual classic terms, I quoted MiltOn, Byron and Shakspearo, and. called 40; all the hods iu the calendar' ` of krieco and I Rome. • Did she accept me ?- 'Of con 'she did ; slie.eetildn't help accepting tirt4lam - tot an ill-looking fellow, let rue stk,*,in .exten uat ion of her weakness; and PPI"1 the question in a deeidcuili orrAttial nor. To he sure shcaboopted'qn, I printed twentrfour ' nn each of her pretty cheeks, and fire' ' ' till I thought her eye lashes would Juke Are and cheat me of my pr,ixe. • We kept our counsel for tWO or three weeks, and one morning, whill'etWo were riding out, we got away from*elo • Ned and Rosalie and clipped-it awuritbout ten unites to a clergy Man, who wasip.ohliging as to supply me with a marriage certiti• • n. caw. We rode back more leistitily. • I waa in my daunt. Au chapeau* was just the kind or excitement, tenuione. We got hock to uncle NeiN:about din ner-time. "WLerc have you been ?" iiiked uncle Ned. • - • •. "Over to Rev. Mr. Allow me to preient toy wife," said I with perfect nom-led:wee —The devil." nit so ; end uncle Ned you hevo lost the wager. Ono thoussed, if s oo please," said i. holding out my hued. • 'No you don't, you puppyir "Fairly Won." "Is it, Rosalie ?" said he,:turnieg 10 my wife. "Eh, what do you menti,.S.ylphin "Lk, 1111, ha," rnatdtil uttplei\ id. . 1 didn't know wit:it to utakti of the affair Mall. "You have lost, Bob," etie4 the Idly old fellow as soon as he could speak... "Fact, Doh," said he,'pointing to her I had hitherto known as nly editin, 'this is tioward." u You havo cheated rile, then." "L have cheated you into the hamisom ! est wife, and the biggest fortune in South Carolina. The filet b?, Is9b• you were prejudiced agniiMttottitliti4 . Yoti c teed "Ede termined to give her a fair chance, though I liad to tease the jade Tutu compliance.— , You ate caught." -Not quite, uncle Ned, this is not a Ic. gal marriage ; 'itosalie was united to we under a fictitious name." "I don't etre a straw for that. You married the lady You held by the hand.—.- But, Bob, we will have it over again. Do you say so, you dog 7" Of course 1 did say so. I would not have lost my divinity for all the treasure in South Carolina. I paid over the mon uy, and uncle Nod gave it to the free behools of Vt 6 State. A few weeks after we wore re-married —and I:returned to, the 'North with my Rosalie, tint most beautiful and the most loving wife that ever lighted the destiny of a wayward fellow like myself. StrtrmNo A DISPUTE.—In Dr. Clark's I life and times of Bishop Heckling the fol lowing anecdote is related : "Mr. Hedding sat between the two men, and the wife of each nut beside her hem hand. They began to talk over the sub ject of dispute, (relating to the division of some property.) when one of them sudden ly warmed up and called the other a liar, Instantly both started to their feet and rush ed at each other, the females screamed - and a general alarm ensued. . Mr. Hedding proved himself equal to the awkward em ergency. lle rushed between them; seiz tteach by the collar of his coat; and with his herculean frame and strengththeld them ut arms' length, face to face, but unable to reach each other. They -.struggled for a moment, but found themitclves as though clutched in the jaws of a vice. Holding them at arms' length liecouttnenced tc lecture them in round termS. * ' 4 Froni the, beat log of this entire lecture there was no escape, atitl_they writhed under its wither- iag power. .:"When they were ,somewhat I calmed, Mr. Hedding suddenly exclaimed. "Let us pray," ant! kneeled down string leg the two men with him to their knees upon the floor. Still roiling hie grasp he prayed lot them in a most fervent and powerful manner.. When Ite.had closed, he shook the one he held in his right hand, m saying "Pray, brother,. pray." Soon .he commenced praying ' and weeping, eon- i fessing his sins Hifi: . beseeching Goil and 1 hiS brother to forgive' him. ' Wheo the first had concluded. Mr: Hedding 'shook ,the other and called upon hitu•to pray.— He was the most pugnacious ,of the two,. and it was bard work for. him to elem. his .throat ao as to give ` Utterance to words. 4A - thousand friigs scented Clegg:llg his speech," but he at length broke through his difficulty, and prayed God and -brother to t forgive Lima When he said"Amen,"..Blr i Pudding relinquished his grasp, anil then: all rose to their feet: Now shake heads.. brethren," Said he; "and live as hietbren, and love each (ler as long as 'you .live;" They. immediately -embraced :eac h other and almost as quicklysettled' their die. `pute. ~* " * ' . 4 . ..I'lie Awo . men' ever after live f on time best terms of Ira ternal lid Christian' felloivsbii) [.• ; ' . ' • - Ws, ri, .TIIIi OUTCAST.-4 correspon . dent-of thi-New '- York --Observer, -tithing' from New Orleans, sap. or Alsrr.. Want), i the murderer of Prof BIITLIKII, that at the . St Charlet) Hoieh.limai winter; al.,the. halls, every lady who knew who ht) was,reffis s ed . his' hand - in-dancing i Mid ,no, father Or. brother would introduce hint - to their relar-' lives. He is Considered a murderer and en' eutesst, with 41so -wark.of littiq' on his brow.: . .. • ' •- .• '•-. , ...; —-, i . . . . A Clergyinan turned Soldier: • ` , Some, twenty years ago, p young, mum whom,' shall nettle "Jentie;" was 'a pastor, of a large congregation of. the ,established church of SC - Oland:: ,At school 7 and at I colleito lid was distingitished.for his . love lof learning,and as a minister' was unrival: led for his eloquence:and - mental attain ments: „ He bad been settledttbout a year, and was tip the eve,of.beigg married .to a fine young woMati, Whoin Ito hid loice, from childhood, when the bothers and. givers! English gentlemen, Who were then 1 ou a visit to the" riorth,.attended• Cork 'to t hear the famous preacher.. lie tnoVe titan veritied:hiatfame; he enraptured his au.... dience. Ms.theine was the story .of the