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A GEM 1T20I TATeTT YOSIlTSIt.
V extract from the projf-rhjot of 'A! derbrook."
now in pross. by T-5-krir h. Co.. th? folln.rinjr
tcMflitne 8t?n!s by Mrs. Ju s-)n to her mother,
prsvion3 ta har voyr.jo irom this port a fcv.' years
. go. li-jUo:i A'lis. r
Giv ras my old seat, mother,
Wbh my Levi npor. kece ;
IVe through many a chnngin;; siene
.. biuja thus I sal by thee.
Oh ! let in? J'K-k !nt: thire eyea
Their iiif.k, ):;, lrrin liht
Falis lifcs n ir??a:a of holinos:),
I pon r.y Lor-.rr to-nigh.
. . I've not Loci i'ji;;; .way. mithor ;
Fssw suns Lave ia? an ! ut
sSinee !rtt a t?"r 'Iron c:i tliy ?btt
Mv l'r.s in k:s.os mf.
'Tis'bnti !.::; I'm. I know,
lint vory Icp it rcoia.-).
Though cv )ry i-lbr I oo:no to tho,
l)f.t mother, ia my dreams.
Tins wor!d has kindly dealt, wither
By tho child thnlov'st so well;
Thy prayer hure circled rnuuJ her path,
Ani "ltt t'lv'i' Tony spell
Which mad iLcIr pritii sj .(early br!,;h;
"WliL-l: -..v- th
On rry Ir:
ind w. hi h-Im
I brar a hnpj y b:?.rt, inothr,
A hap;;ci ljvw be:1!:
AcJ. ?vti i:ok. n;., b'l-!:; c: hon
Am bursting uy f':e?.
Oh cicther. Iif.1 may b; a droata,
liut ii .'-uih Jr.itns ar givou.
While ;:t ibo T"rt-ii:- thus ve t.iri'l,
IV Lit nrt tbo tnifas of Hearer, ?
I br.r a Lst fy Le.'iri. nivthcr ;
Ve(, vthn iov.i ryes ;.?,
At'i henr vt't toiu bii'I wim.!."; ivcr!j,
I over think of the?.
And th'j.i th-j t?-r aiy spirit weops,
I -bi'i-ic.i CIls my eye ;
And like a homl.siu vo. I locg
l"u!o thy hrS'. I i 2v.
Tbn I fin re; fvt. :'.2?hor,
I'm verf paj ! ior.e ;
Oh' '.htro'a bo h!;jri nbcj inutoitfolJ
Opes 1j a; l;k thine own!
Though sunny .sru'.I.J wrcathn blooming lips,
Wblio iove tonrs moet my -ir.
2Ir nictLcr. one fo.i i jj!inoc cf thino
Were a thousand t;.i9 Uiora lear.
JterrllfinfoiLs.
PASSAGES I.N THE LIFE
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41
I.V TillCKCitAT.
Whin I f rst wont tw India in IZ')2, I w.is a
rw cornet of sevjrsUn, witli l!az;tig red hair,
eix fsct aoven hi height, cthlctic at all kind."
of excriis.-.s, i-ing-r.i'onsy t my tailor nna
cvoryho-.iy vly? v. h-j tu! i t-i?!t m. possrssisp
a Iris!i broi;";, iu.l mv f.'li pay of 120 a
ycar. I nee ' ::' t 3'.y th:;t v.itii all these a.h
tigoi I did tin'. ':)ich a niim'r.'i of clovrr fo 1 -I-jw
have lzr.s !i;-:bre rn-." I foil in love, r.:u
jr:po3j-.l to Unrry h:;iiici!iaic'.y.
Hut hiw to ofcrcjta: the dilTiculty It i
truo that I loved Jnl'.o. Jowlor loved l.cr to
madness; ' t her lather iziternlod her for a
member of council .it least, and nol fur a lujr
C.nrly Irish I'tisign. It was, however, s.;y fate
to make the passive to India (on bo.'.rd of the
Simttol Snob K;;st Indir.rnrvii, Captain UufTev)
with this lovely cruati:re, aid ny misfortune
instantaneously to fail i-j love 'Aith her. We
were- not out of the Channel before I adored
lier, worshipped thi dock which slie tiod up
on, ki3sed a thcus.uid timca the cr.ddy-cliair on
which shd used to sit. The same madness fell
on every i.ian ia ths f.hip. The mates
ibtJilit 'about her at the Cii-e the stir-eon, a
sober, pious Scotchman, Aora ch-uppointed
affection, tooic so tircadl'ully to drinking rs to
threaten spontaneous combustion and ol !
Colonel Lilywhit", carrying his wife and sev
en daughters to Ucrjal, vaoic that hi would
hare a divorce from JIr. L.. and mad an at
tempt ct sut-ide the himself told
ra?, with , t.ars in his eyes, that he hated his
hitherto-adored Mrs. Pulley, although he hid
hi nineteen chilcrea ly her.
1Yc i:sed tocal! her the witch-there WR3 magic
la her he.i:ty ?.ud her oic I v.u spjll-boaud
when 1 lkd ut iu-r, nd stark, stiring i.ial
when ihe locked at me! Oh, lu?tro!3 black
eyes! OU, f'osr.- niehf-lUck rinslots ! On.
lips !Oh, d:a? y frocks ci white ,njudia!
Oh, tiny kid iiiprs! tiif.!gii old and gouty,
Gakagan sees ye a sti?l! I recdlect c'f As
evniion, shs looked :Vt m ?ct in brr particular
wy ono day h! dinner, just ns I hrppened to
b blowing on a piece of scalding ht green
fat. I was stupt ned sit ones I thrust th en
tire xnor?l (ahoi't h.lf a poarid) into my
mouth.' I :nalj to att-mpt to swallow or to
tsasticate it, but left it there f.-r i.:any ciisu
tes burniDC', br.r:iir.:i I had no skin to my
palate for rorvr. rs.-'ks a'?r, ai.d lived on rice
water dari;r the of te v.y.ijr;
Thc.c-
ecdot is trivial, but it shows the power cf
Julia Jowl ;r over rao.
The writers cf maiin novel i have so ex
hausted tho subject of storms, sbip-wu-cks,
mutinies, cngagcuients, sca-si;kness, aud so
forth, thnt (although I have experienced c?ch
of these In many varieties') I think it i'j'.te u
&ccaaiy ij xooant scch tfiS'tcf advectur
sufilco it to s.;y, that Jnrinx ov.r live months
irajef, my mad passion for Julia daily increas
ed; so did the captain's and the surgeon's; so
did Colonel Lilywhitc's; so did the doctor's,
the mite's that of moat part of the passen
gers, and a considerable number of tut crew.
For myself, I swore ensign as I was I would
win her for my wife; I vowed that I would
mike h;r glorious with my sword that as I
had made a favorable impression on my com
mmding officer, (which 1 did not doubt to
create,) I' would lay open to him the state of
my affections, and demand bis div.ghtcr's
hand, 7ith such sentimental outpourings
did our voyage continue and conclude.
We landed at the Sundcrbunds on a grilling
hct diy in December. 1802, and theu for the
moment Julia and I separated. She was car
ried oil to her papa's arms in a palank een, sur
rounded by at least forty Hookabbaders; whilst
tho poor cornet, attended but by two dandies
aridasoJilary beasty,(by which uunatural name
these blackamoors are called,) made his way
to humbly jdn the regiment at hcad-ouarters.
The th regiment of Bengal Cavalry, then
und.ir the commr.nd f f Lieut.-Colonel Julius
Jowler, C. B., was known throughout Asia
and Europe by th? proud title of Bundelcund
Invincible so great was its chaactcr for bra
very, so remarkable were its services in that
l-.dighr.Vi district of India. Major Sir George
Gutch v.us next in command, and Tom Thrupp,
r.3 kind a fellow as ever rui a Mahratta through
the body, was r."?cn 1 M:ijor. We were on the
eve of that remarkable war which was sj)ccdi
ly in spread throughout the whole of India, to
call f-jrth t?e valor of a Wellesly, and the in
domitable gallantry of a Gahagan ; which was
illustrated by our victories at Ahmednuggar,
(where I was first over the barricade at the
storming of the Fettah:) at Argaum, where I
slew with my own sword twenty-three match-lock-ra?n,
and cut a dromedary in two; and by
that terrible d.y of Aaaaye, where Weliesley
ould have been beaten but for mo me alone;
I headed nineteen charges of cavalry, took
(aided by only fo::r men of my own troop)
a3vente?n field-pieces, killing the scoundrelly
French ?.rtii!ery-mcn ; on that day I had elev
en elophant.s shot under me, and carried away
ScinJi:'s nose-ring with a pistol ball. j Wclles
ley is a .duke and a marshal, I but a simple
nnjir of Irr?gul trs ; such is fortune und war!
But my feelings carry me away from my nar
rative, which had better proceed with more
i c.-Ucr.
On arriving, I say, at our barracks at Dum
Dum, I for the first time put on the beautiful
un;fo;m of the Invinciblcs; a light blue swal-low-t-tiWI
j.ickft with silver battons, rhubarb
co'ored Ij.-.tner inexpressibles, (tights,) and
red morocco boots v. ith silvtr .spurs anil tas-i-'!s,
set off to tiie r.diniration the handsome
persons of the ofiicers of our corps. Wc wore
powder in those days, and a regulation pig
tail of s.'venten niches, a brass helmet sur
rounded by leopard skin, with a baar ikin to),
and a horse-tail feather, gave the head i fierce
and c!::va;roiis a pearancc, whicli is f.'.r more
easily ini.ined than described.
Attired in this rr agniticent costume, I first
presented myself before Colonel Jowler. He
was habited in a ii.aiu.er precisely similar, but
uot being more than five feet in height, and
weihin nt least fifteen stone, the dress he
wore did not become him q?!ite so much as
Hiimnior and tailor men. Flanked by his tall
ra'jors, Thrupp and (iutcl), he looked like a
stumpy skittle-ball between two attenuated
skittles. The plump little Colonel received
me with vast cmdiality, and I speedily became
a prime favorite with himself and the other of
ficers of the corps. Jowler was the most hos
pitable of men, and gr.it! ifying my appetiteand
oy love together, I continually partook of his
dinners, and foa.stod on the sweet presence of
Julia.
I can see row, what I would not and could
oot perceive in those early days, that
this Miss Jowler, on whom I had lavished my
first and warmest love, whom I had endowed
with cl! perfection and purity, was no better
than a little impudent flirt, who played with
my feelings, because during the monotony of
a sea voyage she had no other toy to play with;
and who deserted others for me, and mo for
others, just as her whim or her Interest might
guile her. She had not been three weeks at
head-quarters when half the regiment was in
love with her. Each and all of the candidates
h sd some favor to bast of, or some encourag
ing hopes on which to .build. It was the scene
of the Samuel Snob over again, only heighten
ed in intcresi by a number of duels.
The following list will give the reader a no
tion of some of them:
l; Corcct Gnhagan. Ensign Hicks, of the Sap
pers and Mir.irs. Jliuks received a ball in his jaw
and was half choked by a quantity of carrotty
wbitiker forced dowrn his throat with the ball.
2. Capt. Macgillieuddy, B. N. I. Comet Oaha-
fe.ltJ. I tti3 run thrausa the body, but the sword
pjc''d between the ril-Sj and injured me slightly.
2. Ca Macsillisuddy. B. X. I. Mr. Mulliga-Uv.-rey
,B. C. S- Deputy-Assistant, Vice Sub-Con-trullcr.
of tbo Boiywollah Indigo grounds,
Kairgoby brahch.
Macgillicnddy should have stuck to the
sword's p'ay,- and he might have come off in
his second duel as well as in his first; as is was
the civilian placed a ball and a part of Mac's
gold repeater in his stomach. A remarkable
circumstance attended this shot, an accountof
which I sent home to the Philosophical Trsns
actloiisi ta- arg'eon bad extracted the ball.
and was going off, thinking that all was well,
when the gold repeater struck thirteen in poor
Maegillicuddy'a abdomen. I suppose that the
works must have been disarranged in some
way by the bullet, for the repeater was one of
Barraud's, never known to fail belore, and the
circumstance occurred at seven o'clock. .
I could continue, almost ad infinitum, an ac
count of the wars which this flelcn occasioned,
but the above three specimens will, I should
think, satisfy the the peaceful reader. I de
light not in the scenes of blood, Heaven
knowj, but I was compelled in the course of a
few weeks, and for tho sikc of this ons wo
man, to fight nine duels myself, and I know
that four times as many took place concerning
her.
I forgot to say that Jowler's wife was a half
caste woman, who had been born and bred en
tirely in India, and whom the Colonel had
married from the house of her mother, a na
tlvc. There were some singular rumors
abroad regarding the latter lady's history it
"was reported that she was the daughter of a
native Rajah, and had been carried off by a
poor English subaltern in Lord Clive's time
The young man tvas killed very soon after, and
left his child with its mother.' The black
Prince forgave his daughter and bequeathed
to her a handsome sum of money. I suppose
that it was on this account that Jowler marri
cd Mrs. J., a creature who had not, I do be
Have, a Lhnstian name, or a single Christian
quality she was a hideous, bloated, yellow
creature, .with a leard, black teeth, and red
eyes: she was fat, lying, ugly, and stingy she
hated and was hated by all the world, and by
her jolly husband as devoutly as by any other.
She did not pass a month in the year with
him, but spent most of her time with her na
tive friends. I wonder how she could have
given birth to so lovely a crcatere as her
daughter. This woman was of course with the
Colonel when Julia arrived, and the spice of
the devil in her daughter's composition was
most carefully nourished and fed bv her. If
Julia had been a flirt before, she was a down
right jilt now; she set the whole cantonment
by the ears; she made wives jealous and hus
bands miserable; she caused all those duels of
which I have discoruscd already, and yet such
was the facination of the witch that I still
thought her an anel. I made court to the
nasty mother in order to be near the daughter;
and I listened untiringly to Jowler's intermin
able dull stories, because I was occupied all
the time in watching the graceful movements
of Mir.s Julia.
But the trumpet of war was soon ringing in
our cars; and on the battle-Geld Gahagan is n
man! The Bundelcund Invinciblcs received
orJcrs to march, and Jowler, Hector-like,
donned his helmet, and prepared to part from
his Andromanche. And now arose his per
plexity: what must be done with his daughter,
his Julia He knew his wife's peculiaritiesof
living, and did not much care to trust his
daughter to her keeping ; but in vain he tried
to find her an assylum among the respectable
ladies of his regiment. Lady Gutch offered to
receive her, but would have nothing to do with
Mrs. Jow ler; the surgeon's w ife, Mrs. Sawbone,
would have, neither mother and daughter;
there was no help for it, Julia and her mother
must have a bouse together, and Jowler knew
that his wife would fill it with her odious
blackamoor friends.
I could not, however, go forth satisfied to
the campaign until I learned from Julia my
fate. I watched twenty opportunities to see her
alone, and wandered about the Colonel's bun
galow as an inferior docs about a public-house
marking the incomings and the ougoings of
the family, and longing to seize the moment
when Miss Jowler, unbiassed by her mother or
her papa, might listen, perhaps, to my elo
quence, and melt at the tale of my love.
But it would not do old Jowler seemed to
have taken all of a sudden to such a fit of do
mesticity, that there wa no finding him out
of doors, and his rhubarb-colored wife (I be
lieve that her skin gave the first idea of our
regimental breeches), who before had been
gadding ceaselessly abroad, and poking her
broad nose into every wenage in the canton
ment, stopped faithfully at home with her spouse
My orly chance was to beard the old couple in
their den, and ask them at once for their cub.
So I called one day at tiffin: old Jowler
was always happy to have my company at this
inc.tl; it amused him, he said, to see me drink
Hodgson's pale ale (I drank two hundred and
thirty-four dozen the first year I was in Bengal)
and it was no small piece of fun, certainly, to
see old Mrs. Jowler attack the currie-bhaut;
she was exactly the color of it, as I hare had
already the honor to remark, and she swallow
ed the mixture with a gusto which was never
equaled, except by my poor friend Dando, a
propos d hml res. She consumed the first three
platefuls with a fork and spoon, like a Chris
tian ; but as she warmed to her work, the old
hag would throw away the silver implements,
and, dragging the dishes towards her, go to
work with her hands, flip the rice into her
mouth with her fingers, and stow away aquan-
So admirably are the performances of these
watches, which will stand in any climate, thatl re
peatedly heard poor Macgillicuddy relat tho fol
lowing fact. The hours, as it ii known, count, in
Italy, from one to twenty-four: the Jay Mar., land
ed at An'o Af'.t reyy'rr rurtr th J'jUan ltor.t.
from cue. to ttrany-fpur t? soon 0." h trofaed the
Alps it only eomueJ &. owm it. t
tity of eatables sufficient for a sepoy company
But why do I diverge from the main point of
my story T
Julia, then, Jowler, and Mrs. J., were at
luncheon: the dear girl was in the act to sailer
a glass of Hodgsoii as I entered. "How do you
do, Mr. Gagin ?" said the old hag, lceringly ;
"eat a bit o currie-bhaut?" and she thrust
the dish towards me, securing a heap as it
passed. "What, Gapy, my boy, how do, how
do?" said the fat eld Colonel; "what, run
through tho body? got well again have
some Hodgson run through yenr body too!"
and at this, I may say, coarse joke (alluding
to tho fact that in these hot climates the ale
oozes out as it were from the pores of the skin,)
old Jowler laughed : a host ofswarthy chobd
ars, kitmatgars, sices, consomers, and bobby,
chies laughed too, as they provided me, un
asked, with the grateful fluid. Swallowing
six tumblera of it, I paused nervously for a
moment, and then said
"Bobbachy, consomah, ballybaloo hoga."
The black ruffians took the bint and retired.
"Colonel and Mrs. Jowler," siid I, solemn
ly, "we aro alone; and you, Miss Jowler, you
are alone too; that is I mean I take this op
portunity to (another glass of ale if you
please,) to express, once for all, before de
parting on a dangerous campaign (Julia turn
ed pale) before entering, I say, npon a war
which may stretch in the dust my high-raised
hopes and me, to express my hopes while life
still remains to me, 'and to declare in the face
of heaven, earth, and Colonel Jowler, that I
love you, Julia!" The Colonel, astonished,
let fall a steel fork, which stuck quivering for
some minutes in the calf of my leg; but I heed
ed not the paltry interruption. "Yes, by yon
bright heaven," confined I, "I love you, Ju
lia! I respect my commander, I esteem your
excellent and beauteous mother ; tell me, be
fore I leave you, if I may hope lor a return of
my affection. Say that you love me, and I will
do such deeds in the corning war, as shall make
you proud of the name of your Gahagan?"
The old woman, as I delivered these touch
ing words, stared, snapped, and ground her
teeth, like an enraged monkey. Julia was now
red, now white; this colonel stretched forward,
took the fork out of the calf of my leg, wiped
it, and then seized a bundle of letters, wheh
1 had remarked by his side.
"A cornet!" said he, in a voice choking
with emotion; "a pitiful, beggarly, Irish cor
net, aspire to hand of Julia Jowler ! Gag
Gahagan, arc you mad, or laughing at us ?
Look at these letters, young man, at these let
ters, I say one hundred and twenty-four epis
tles from every part of India (not including
one from the governor-general and six from his
brother, Colonel Wellesly,) one hundred and
twenty four proposals for the hand of Miss
Jow ler. Cornet Gahagan," continued he, "I
wish to think well of you : you are the bravest,
the most modest, and perhaps, the handsomest
man in the corps, but you have not got a single
rupee. You ask me for Juiia, and you do not
possess even an anna! (Here the old rogue
grinned, as if he had a capita pun.) No,
no," said he, waxing cood-natured: Gazr. my
boy, it is nonsense ! Julia, love, retire with
your mamma ; this silly young gentleman will
remain and smoke a pine with me."
I took one ; it was the bitterest chlllum I
ever smoked in my life. To be Continued.
THE DETJKKAKD.
Drunkard, stand forward that we may have
a look at you, and draw your picture. There
he stands! the mouth of a drunkard, you may
observe, contracts a singularly sensitive ap
perance, seemingly red and rawish, and he is
perpetually licking and smacking his lips, as
if his palate . were dry and dusty. Ilis is a
thirst that water will not quench. He might
as well drink air. His whole being burns for
a dram. The world is contracted into a caulk
er. He would sell his soul in such extremity,
were the black bottle denied him, for a gulp.
Not to save his soul from eternal fire would
he refrain from pulling out the plug, and
sucking away at destitution. What a snout
he turns up to the morning ait ! inflamed,
pimpled, snubby and snorty, and with a nob
at the end on"t, like one carved ont of the end
of a stick by the knife of a school-boy rough
and hot to the very eye a nose which, rather
than pull, you would submit to be in some de
gree insulted. . A perpetual cold harasses and
exhausts him, and a perpetual expectoration.
How his hand trembles! it is an effort to sign
his name; one of his sides is certainly not by
any means as sound as the other; there has
been a touch of palsy there, and the next dint
will draw down his chin to the collar-bone, and
convert him, a month before dissolution, into
a slavering idiot. There is no occupation,
small or great, insignificant or important, to
which he can turn for any length of time his
hand his heart, or his head. Prof. Wilson.
. CIT" An old gentleman named Raddlcburn,
in New York, becoming apprehensive that he
had not a single relation in the world, publish
ed and advertisement, desiring all who could
claim kindred with the Raddleburn family to
come forward, as there was a fortune of over
$150,000 to be divided among them; in less
than twenty-four hours he was Tisited by no
less than six aunts, nineteen uncles, twenty
rtne nephews, ninety-fonr nieces and one lion-'
dred and scve&ty-flrt). cotis?ns. . - . ,,
THE COUNTESS VS. THE THAGEDIAN.
During Lola Montes' first engagemct at the
Metropolitan Theatre, at San Francisco, Mr.
J. B. Booth, Jr., the acting manager, while
behind the scenes one morning at rehearsal,
espied the fair Countess smoking a cigarrettc.
Civily accosting her, he observed:
"Excuse me, Madam la Comlesse, but smo
king is positively against Mrs. Sinclair's reg
ulations." "fTV.'n tst rUn ! I shall smoke."
"Pardon me, Madam, it is absolutely pro
hibited in the theatre."
"What is that to me? Go away you arc a
Jesuit."
"I dont profess, Madam, to belong to any
established church, but I do profess to dis
charge my duty as acting manager for Mrs.
Sinclair, and I must politely, but positively,
ask you to desist from smoking."
With great reluctance Lola threw away the
cigar, and the tragedion passed on; tut re
turning soon after, what was his surprise to
observe her again iadulging in smoking a Ha
vana. "This is unworthy of you, M'Uo Lola," he
observed, "and I must again ask of you to
extinguish that cigar."
"Caquin que tons eles .'" shouted tho indig
nant belle, "I am Marie de- Laudsfelt Heald.
You have insulted me. If the good king Louis
were living you .should repent this."
Seeing her not disposed in comply with the
rules of the theatre, Mr. Booth approached
with. tho intention of. removing the cigar,
when she exclaimed:
"One step nearer and I'll alap your face."
Booth knowing the woman he had to deal
with, replied,
" And if you do, senora, I shall most assu
redly knock you down."
. Lola looked at him, and saw that he was
more than a match for her. Leaving the thea
tre in a towering rage, she rushed to the abode
of her cavalier servantt, whom we will call
Worgon.
I have been insulted ! I must have blood !
A cataract of blood !"
"Yon shall hare a sanguinary Niagara if you
like; but what's the matter?"
Lola detailed the occurrance, and Worgon
went to seek Booth. He was a firm friend of
the young tragedian, pnd the two quickly con
cocted a plot. Worgon wrote as follaws:
"M'Amie There is a secluded spot near
the broad waters of the Sacramento. I meet
him there to-morrow. Piatcis ten paces. If
I fall, 'tis for thee. Pary to the Virgin for
mc ddois, carrissima, mia. Thine.
. Wohgox.
P. S. Enclosed is a lock of my hair.
The letter dispatched, the twain left for
Sacramento, and prepared for a "good time,"
for a day or two. Lola was in agony repen
ting of her folly until . her friend appeared
before her. . ..
"He is dead!"
"Dead!"
"I must leave you now and conceal myself
for a day or. two. -Idiotl" And ho mada a
frantic rush from the room.
The next day news was sent her that Booth
was not dead but dangerously ill. The next
day he was improving the next convalescent
and ot the end of a fortnight, the two par
ties returned, having had very pleasant fort
night's frolic.
Lola's honor was avenged she forgave and
forgot and to this day she does not know the
trick played upon her. Eos'on Gazelle.
A Temperance Stout. One evening lasf
week we took our place at the supper table of
a Cincinnatti and Louisville packet. Supper
and conversation had progressed some before
we were seated. An animated discourse was
goinj on between an old gentleman and an ex
ceedingly sober-faced lady, not less than thir
ty years old, on the subject ol temperance.
"Oh!" exclaimed she, with horror depicted
on her thin lips, "I do despise the whiskey
drinker."
The gentleman dropped his knifo and fork,
seized her hand and gave it a hearty shake;
we thought tears were going to drop from his
twinkling eyes. -
"Madam" said he, "I respect your senti
ments and the heart that dictated' them. I
permit no person to go beyond me in despi
sing the whiskey drinker. I have been disgus
ted on this very boat and I say it now before
our worthy captain's face. What, I ask j-ou,
can be more disgusting than to see a well
dressed, respectable, aye, virtuous looking
young man, whose mother is probably even
now praying that the tender instruction by
which his youth was illumined may bring forth
precious Irnit in his maturity. I say, to see
a young man step up to the bar of this boat,
and without the tear of observing eyes, or the
condemnation of enlightened opinion, brazen
ly ask for old Bourbon, or Rye, or Mononga
hela whiskey, when in that bar he knew there
is the very best old Coynae Brandy."
fXT" Vermont must have a remarkable mor
al and law obeying population, for it seems
that the jails of that State only average three
occupants eachi Three are entirely empty,
two have but one prisoner each, two others
have four each, one has six, and another aev-
' liiubnij) SltnMng.
.NO GOD!
The fool hath aaH in his heart there is no God
-Pilll rnt.
"Xo Gndl Xo Cud The simplest Sowar,
Thst on the wild is found.
Shrinks, as it drinks its ccp of dew,
AnJ tremble at the pound:
'No God" astonished Echo cries
From ont her cavern" hoar.
And every wandering bird that flie
ileprovcs the Atheist-lore.
The solemn forest lifts its head,
TLo Almighty to proclaim.
Th brooklet, on lis crystal urt,
Doth leap to grave hia name.
How swells the deep and vengeful iu,
Alor.jj bis billowy track.
The red Vesuvius opes his month
, To tui-ltho falsehood back.
The palra-trcc. with its pciueoly creV
Tbe-eorrm's leafy Fbad:,
The lrcal fruit bending to its lord, ,
In yon for island glade;
TLe'winged semi, that, borne by wla-Ii. '
The roving tpsrrow feed, " s
Tho melon, on the doi?ert sands.
Corfeto the corner's creed.
"No God '"' Wiih indignation high.
The fervent Sua is stirred,
And tho p:ile .Moon turns paler still, s
At such tn impious word ; ,
Arv.1 from their burning throi.es. the Start
Look down with angry eye. -
That thu a worm of dust should mock . .
Eternal m.ijesty. ,
TH 1! CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
The Historical sketch of Latiti Christianity,
in the London Quarterly licriew closes with
the following hopeful paragraph: -
"But the course of the Christian religion,
in spite of the darkness which has from titno
to time clouded the fate of Christendom, has
always moved onwards, and from that onward
movement derived its main strength. Chris
tianity has not drooped it has lived, it has
flourished, it has expanded, it ha9 grown,
not in proportion as it has remained w ilh tho
influences of its first home, but (so far at tho
least as European history is concerned) in pro
portion as it has reccd -further and further
from them. Westward the Star of Empire
has held its cpnrse ; and Westward has tho
Sun of Christendom moved also shedding its
lights not only on Arabian deserts and Indian
palms, but on the endless variety of western
life and scenery, on the cities and homes, on
the empires and the families, of the Grecian,
the Roman, and the Teutonic world; the ome
ga no less than the alpha; the end no less than
the beginning, of the history of civilized
man."
VIRTUE IN MAN.
We love to believe there is mora moral
goodness than depravity in human nature.
When we sec one tear of pity drop lrom tho
eye, it gives ns more pleasure than would tho
finding of a diamond. There is goodness
real and unselfish in the heart, and we havo
often seen it manifest itself, to the making of
a scene of sorrow the vestibule of heaven.
For him who is always picking out flaws in his
neighbor's character, we have no sympathy.
He reminds us of those birds which resort to
dead and delayed limbs of trees to feast on
the worms. Iu the character of most men we
shall find more good than evil, more kindness
than hatred and why should we seek to pick
out the'fliws and pass over the sterling traits
cf character? We hold this to be the true
doctrine ; to portray real goodness and hold
it up to the gaze and admiration of all, wLilo
we suffer the evil to remain in the shado and
die. If every picture of human nature were
only pure and beautiful, we arc inclined to
believe that we should have thousands of such
characters living and loving around vs.
A CHILD'S INFLUENCE.
An English lady of respectability resided
for a few years, after becoming a widow, with
her little son, in one of the chief cities in Can
ada. : The child had been faithfully instructed
in the elements of the Christian faith. .. He
wa3 about four years of age, very lovely, and
promising, and greatly caressed by the fellow
boarders. An elderly gentleman iu the fami
ly, Mr. B., w as exceedingly fond of him, and
invited him one day, upon the removal of the
cloth after dinner, to remain upon his knees.
The ladies had retired, and freo conversation
ensued. Tho gentleman alluded to was given
to expressions which ever shock a pious mind.
;Well, Tommy,"- said-one at the table, in
high glee, "what do you think' of .Mr. B ?"
The child hesitated for a moment and then feT
plied, "I think he did not have a good mother;
for,' if he lisfd,'he would not uso anch naughty
words." The gontleman was a Scotchman;
home and a pious mother rose in all their
freshness, to his mind. - The effect upon him
was overpowering ; he rose from the table
without speaking, retired, and was never after
ward known to make uso of similar expres
sions. - .
. i FX?" The path of duty is the only path o
happiness.- All the "goodness which the Lord
hath laid up for them that foar him,' is strown
along the path ; as the flowers which He hat
given to gladden our way, grow deside it, and
wells of living water spring np all along it j
while the way of selfishness leads through the
wilderness ; it is as barren as the desert; owls
hoot by it,- and tho wild beast has bis' UU
there. , .-. -
' nsrit Is oafy while ; we 'put onT-rellanee o
God tte-itfrn-a '
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