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?TIJE SLAVE'S DKEAX,
BT THOFESSORH. V, I.OXGFF.LTW. ' ,
Beside the ungathercd rice ho lay,
Ilia sickle in his hand; i
JIU breast was baro. his matted hair
Was buried in the sand r
-Again, in the mist ami shadow of sleep
He saw. his i native land,.
While through the landscape of hts dream, ;
Tho lordly Niger flowed;
Beneath the palm trees on the plain, 'i--
Once more a king be strode;
And heard the tinkling caravans
l)cscend the mountain road.
lie saw once more his dark eyed queen
Among her children stand;
They chvped his neck, they ki??crl his chock?,
They held him by the hand ::; ' " ' "
A tear burst from the sleeper's lids.
And fell npon the sand.
And then at furious speed he rode .
Along the .Niger's bank; ; .
JI is bridle-reins were golden chain,
And with a martial clank.
At each leap, hceould feel hisscaLbard ofsteel
Smiting his stallion's flank. . r.
Before him, like a blood-red flag, ' -
' The bright flamingoes flew.
Prom morn till night he followed their flight.
O'er the plains where the tamarind grew,
Till he saw the roof of tte Caffre huts, ,
And tho ocean rose to view.
At night he heard the lion roar, . '
And the hyena scream; . ' 1
And the river horse, as he crushed the reeds,
Beside 1uc hidden stream. '
And it passed, like a glorious roll of drums,'
Through the trinnphs of his d ream.
The forest with their myriad tongues,
Shouted of liberty; .
And the blast of the lcsert cried aloud,
With a voice so leud and free. .
Still he started in his sleep and smtlod
At their tempestuous glee.
He did not feci the driver's whip, :
Nor the burning heat of day;
Icath had illumed the land of sleep, .
And his lifeless body lay
A worn-out fetter, that the soul
JIad broken and thrown away. .;
KXOW-'OTIIIXt;S.
Hark to that silvery trump ! It hath broken
The perilous sleep of a nation beguiled;
To reason to feeling to honor hath spoken,
'" It calls thee to action, O Liberty's child !
)fow noiseless their laarcb, the .invincible host! -Mild
and benignant their mission of light;
No tumult, no pageant; nor impotent boast 1
The Savior of Freedom, their cause is their might-
'Know-Xothings!" true men! noble sorts of brave
., ; rires! ' ' .
1 Know nothing but country, and duty, nn'd Cod;
The spirit of party and section expires,
Vhile patriot zeal revives whero you've trod. ':
Know nothing of doubt be strangers to fear ;;
ilurk not the vile libel of minion and priest;
The bought demagogue lie the taunt, and the
sneer.
Accomplished their work-the rabble have ceased.
They beckon you onward, the glorious band
The Maeeabees, Tells. Miltiade?, ;ee..
From high peaks of tiiuo, from far distant lands.
Your kindred thy claim, worthy sons of the free;!
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SOME PASSAGES IX TJ1E LIFE .
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BV tnACKKKAT.
. xt On the night of the. 1st of November; In
the year 1804, I had invited Mrs. Major-General
Bulchcr and her daughters, Mrs. Vande
gobbleschroy, . andy .indeed, all the: ladies in
the cantonment, to a' little festival in honor of
the recovery of my health, of the commence
ment of the shooting-season, and indeed ns a
farewell visit, for it is my intention to take
dawk the very next morning and return to my
regiment. The three amateur missionaries
whom I have, mentioned, and. some ladies in
the cantonment of very rigid religions princi
ples, refused to appear at my little party.
They had . better never have been born than
have done as thev did, as yon shall hear.
; u Wo had been dancing merrily,all night,
nnd the supper (chiefly of the delicate condor,
the luscious adjutant, and other birds of a
similar kind, which I had shot in the course of
the day) had been duly feted by every lady
and gentleman present ; when I took, an op
portunity to retire on the ramparts, with the
interesting and lovely . Belinda Bulchcr. I
was occupied, as the French say, in conter-ing
Jlevretles to tbisr sweet young creature, when,
' all fif a sudden, a rocket was seen whizzing
through the air, and a strong light was risible
In the valley below the little fort. : . .:
- - TTThat, '. lire-works I Captain Gahagan,'
said Belinda, . this is too gallant.' , ' , '
" Indeed, my dear Miss Bulcher,' said I,
they are fire-works of which I havo no idea :
'.periiapa our friends the missionaries'
f ' Look., . look !' said Belinda, trembling,
, nnd clntching tightly hold of my arm ; what
l'o I see? yes no yes! it ja-owr bn-ngalme
' ,i in flames . - . - -:
was true the spacious bungalow,' occu
pied by 'JffS." 3fajor-Gencral wa at that mor
nacnt seen a prey to the devouring element
-another and another succeeded it seven fcnn
., galows, before I could almost ejaculate the
-name of Jack Robinson, were seen blazing
:;brightly in the black midnight air!
, 'I seized my night-glass, and looking to
.wards the spot where the conflagration raged,
what tny astonishment to. see thousands
of black form dancing round the fires ; whilst
by their: "ightjrf conid obeervo columns sftcr
.columns of Indiaa horse, arriving and taking
.up their ground in thti very middle of the
.open spiare or tank, roTiO'Tt n'hich the bunga- I
lpw(s w;e buiitt 7 T ,""'"": ' . . '
Ho, warder .'' shouted I (while the friglit-
ened and trembling Belinda clung closer to
tny side, and pressed the stalwart arm that en
circled her waist), down with the drawbridge !
see that your masolgecs (small tnmbrils which
are used in place of large artillery) be well
loaded j you sepoys, haiten and man the rave
lin 1 you choprasecs, put out the lights in the
embrasures! wc' shall have warm work, of it
to-night, or my name is not Goliah Gaharan.'
: The ladies, the guests (to the numhef of
eighty-three), the sepoys, choprasees," masol-
gees, and so on, had nil crowded on the plat
form at Ihe sound of ni y shouting, and dread
ful was the consternation, shrill the scream
ing, occasioned by my words. The men stood
irresolute and '-unite1 with terror; the women
trembling, knew scarcely whither to fly for
refuge. ' JVho are yonder ruilians said I ; a
hnndred voices yelped in reply -some said the
Pindarees, some said the Maharattas, some
vowed it was Scindiah, and others declared it
wasllolkar no one knew. ,
" Is there any one here,' said I, 'who will
venture to reconnoitre yonder troops ?' There
was a dead pause ,
" ' A thousand tomauns to the man who will
bring me news of yonder army!' again I re
peated. Still a dead silence. The fact was
that Scindiah and Ilolkar both were so jtoto
rious for their cruelty, that no one dared ven
ture to face the danger.' Oh for fifty of my
brave Ahmednuggarics!' thonght I.
; ' Gentlemen,' aid I, ' I see it you arc
cowards none of you dare encounter the
chance even of death. It is an encouraging
prospect know you not that the rnflian Ilol
kar, if it be he, will with the morrow's dawn
beleaguer out little fort, aud throw thousands
of men against our walls ? know yon not that,
if we are taken, there is no quarter, iio hope;
death for us and worse than death for these
lovely ones assembled here?'. Here the la
dies shrieked and raised a howl as I havo
heard the jackalls on a summer's evening. Be
linda, my dear Belinda ! Sung both her arms
round me, and sobbed on my shoulder, (or in
my waist coat-pocket rather, for the little witch
cpuld reach no higher.)
; ,'" ' Captain Gahagan,' sobbed she, ' Go Go
Goggle-iah !' - ':
" My soul's adored!' replied I.
., " ' Swear to me one thing.'
: " I swear.'
, That if that if the nasty, horrid, odi
ous black Mah-ra-a-a-altahs take the fort, you
will put me out of their power.'
I clasped the dear girl to my heart, and
swore upon, my sword that, rather than she
should incur the. risk ,.of. dishonor, she should
perish by my own hand. This comforted her;
and her motherTrs.. Major-General Bulchcr,
and her elder isterj who had not until now
known a word of our attachment "(Indeed, bnt
for 'these extraordinary circumstances it is
probable that we; ourselves should never have
discovered -it),'wcn under these painful, cir
chTHsl;l!icc's made aware of my le1oved Belin
da's partiality for me. . Haviri cominnnicated
thus her wish of self-destruction, I thought
her example a touching and excellent one, and
proposed to all the ladies that they should fol
low it, anl that at the entry of the enemy into
the lort, and at a signal given by me, they
should one and all make away with themselves.
Fancy may disgust when, after making this
proposition, not one of the ladies chose to ac
cede to it, and received it with the same chil
ling denial that my former proposal to the
garrison had met with. "
"In the midst of this hurry and confusion,
as if purposely to add to it, a trumpet was
heard at the gate of the fort, and one of the
sentinels cairie running to me, saying that a
Mahratta soldier was before the gate with a
flag of truce ! '. .. .. , . ,
- "I went down, rightly conjecturing, as it
turned out, that the party, whoever they might
be, had no artillery ; and received at the point
of my sword a scroll, of which the following is
a translation :
c xb OOLIAn CAHAOAS GCJPt'TI.
" Lord of Elephants, Sir, I have the honor
to inform you that I arrived before this place
at eight o'clock r. m., with ten thousand cav
alry under tny orders. I. have burned since
ray arrival, seventeen bungalows in Furrncka
bad and Futtyghur, and have likewise been
under the painful necessity of putting to death
three clergymen (mollahs), and seven English
officers whom I found in the village; the wo
men have been transferred to safe keeping in
the harems of my officers and myself. ;
""As I know your courage and talents, !
shall be very happy if you will surrender the
fortress,-and take service as a Major-Gcneral
(liookabador) in my army. ; Should my pro
posal not meet with your assent, I beg leave
to state that to-morrow I shall storm the fort,
and on taking it, shall put to death every
mala "in the garrison, and every female above
twenty years of age. . For yourself I shall re
serve a punishment,' which for novelty and ex
nnisitc torture, has, I flatter myself, hardly
ever been exceeded. Awaiting the favor of a
reply, I am, Sir, - ------ - --
' ' it i Your very obedient servant,
' ' ' . . jASWrST IlOW IIOLKAR.
" Camp before Futtyghur, Srpt. 1, 1804.
V, v s. y. P'" .' ''
" The officer' who had' UcnzU thin precious
ned
mous Pitan soldier, with a shirt of mail, and a
steel cap and cape round with his turban
wound, was leaning against the gate on his
matchlock, and whistling a national melody. I
read the letter, and saw at once there was no
time to be lost. That man, thought I, must
never go back to Ilolkar. AVere he to attack
ns now before ,we were prepared, tho fort
would be his in half an hour. -.
" Tying my white poctcct-handkerchief to a
.stick, I fluiig open the gate and advanced to
the olficcr; he was standing, I ssid, on the
little bridge across the moat. I mado him a
slow salaam, after the fashion of the country,
and, as he went forward to return the compli
ment, I am sorry to say, I plunged forward,
gave him a violent blow on the head which
deprived him of all sensation, and then drag
ged him within tho wall, raising the draw
bridge after me. ,
" I bore the body into my own'apnrtmcnt ;
there, swift as thought, I stripped him of his
turbun, camnierlmud, pciiarnmahs, and na-
pooshes, and' putting them on myself, deter
mined to go fortli and reconnoitre the enemy .'-
t i : t : :
Here I waa obliged to stopj for Cabrera,!
Ilos d'Eroles, and tho rest of the staff, were
sound asleep ! "What I did in my reconnais
sance, and how I defended the fort of Futtyg
hur, I shall have the honor of telling on ano
ther occasion. Conclitdel.
HAHRY SAMP30N OBTAINS SE7ENGE.
Mr. Snarl resides in Forsyth stroet. Mr
Snarl is an old bachelor, with au Irish girl for
a housekeeper. Snarl lives in good style, but
has some queer notions. He dislikes dogs
above all things, organ-grinders and beggars
not excepted.
Snarl's next door neighbor is Harry Samp
son. Xow, Harry is the very opposite of old
Mr. Snarl. He sets a high value on a dog, and
thinks there is only one article equal to a New
foundlander, and that's a woman. ' Hairy ha3
several specimens of the cannine race! Tho
other evening they got up a howling match be
cause the moon became eclipsed. They com
menced about ten o'clock, and kept it up till
the sud got an inch and a half above "Williams
burg. . '
This so annoyed, Mr. Snarl that he had
Harry jerked up for a nuisance' and fined
$10. Harry paid the money, but resolved on
revenge. The next morning the following ad
vertisement appeared in the Herald :
Wanted. At Forsvth street, two l!ull Doars and
four spaniel Pups. For full-blooded Uogs the
holiest price will be paid. Call between 4 and C
p.m..-. . James fvAiu,.
We need not say that the advertisement
was inserted by Harry. His reasons for ma
king the calls between four and six p. m., was
because Mr. Snarl was always out at that hour
taking an airing around the Battery.
; At the hour specified,- dogs and pups might
have been seen going up the Bowry to Grand,
to Forsyth, and up Forsyth to the mansion
occupied bv Mr. Snarl.
The first person that pulled tho door-bell
was a butcher-boy from Centre Market, with a
pair of bull-dogs that would 'tear h 1 out of
a tiger.' Maggie answer , the bell, when the
following colloquy took place :
Does Mr. Snarl live here ?'
.' He does. "Why do you ax!' . "
' I've got some dogs for him.' , .
Dogs for Mr. Snarl mother of Moses, did
you ever ; you've mistook the door.' ,. 1
Devil a bit of it read that.' j
Here Syksie took out the Morning Herald,
and showed Maggie the advertisement. Mag
gie was thunderstruck, still there was no de
nying the advertisement.' She accordingly
told Syksie to go into the backyard wid the
dogs,' and await the return of Mr. Snarl. Syk
sie did so. In about two minutes Maggie was
again summoned by the door-bell. ' v
What do you want ?' .' '; j
Mr. Snarl : I've got them dogj he wanted.'
Tou have well, then go into the yard wid I
the other blackguard.'
No. 2 followed No. 1 ; No. 2 Ayas soon fol
lowed by No. 3, who was succeeded by lots 5,
G and 7. By half-past five the back yard con
tained twenty-one bull-dogs and fourteen span- j
icls. The former got up a misunderstanding,
and by the time Mr. Snarl arrived, seven span-'
iels had been placed kors du combat, while a
brindle bull-dog from Fulton Market was go
ing tthe third fight with a yaller tarrier.'
from Mott street.
Mr. Snarl reached home a few minutes be
fore six. Maggie opened the door, and burst
out as follows : ' , ' ' ' ': t
For the love of the Lord go back and stop
'em.'- They are ateing one another up, and it
not choked olf will devour the cestern. Since
the days of Crummell, I've not seen such hull
abalo entirely.'. : ';
Snarl 'went back' Snail looked into the
yard and would have sworn, out he could not
find oaths sufficiently powerful to do justice to
his feelings... When we left, Mr. Snarl was
emptying the back yard' with an ax helve.
The next morning Harry Sampson complain
ed of him for having a dog fight on his pre
mises. Snarl was fined twenty-five dollars -fifteen
dollars for having such a fight,' and
ten dollars for being an old hypocrite. It is
not necessary for us to say that narry Samp
son slept better that night than any night
since tho war with Mexico. '
' From Chambers Journal.
THE HAK-KOUfKEY OF BRAZIL.
The captain of the French schooner Adrion
no, who last summer was stationed at rernam-
buco, Brazil, gives tha following sketcl of a
tame monkey :
"A short time ago,. I dined at a Brazilian
merchant's. The conversation turned upon
tho well tutored chimpanzee of Mr. Vanneck,
a Creole gentleman, whose slave had brought
him tho monkey, which ho had canght in the
wood. Every one praised the accomplished
animal, giving accounts of its talents so won
derful, that I could not help expressing some
incredulity. My host smiled, saying that I
was net the first who would not believe in these
results of animal education until he had seen
it with his own eyes. He therefore proposed
to me to call with him on Mr. Vanneck.
"I gladly consented, and the following mor
ning wc set out. The house of the creole lies
on the road to Olinda, about an hours' ride
from town. We proceed along splendid hedg
es of cactus, shaded by bananas and palm
trees,' and at length observed his charming
villa. A negro received us at the entrance, and
took us to the parlor, hastening to tell his mas
ter of our visit. The first object which caught
onr attention was the Monkey, seated on a
stool, and sewing with great industry. Much
struck, I watched him attentively, while he,
not paying any attention to us; proceeded with
his work. The door opened; Mr. "Vanneck,
reclining on easy chair", was wheeled in. Tho'
his legs are paralyzed, ho seemed bright and
cheerful; he welcomed us most kindly. The
monkey went oh sewing with great zeal. I
could not refrain from exclaiming: "How won
derful !" for the manner and process of the ani
mal were those of a practised tailor. He was
sewing a pair of 6triped pantaloons, the nar
row shape of which Bhowcd that they were in
tended for himself.
"A negro now appeared, announcing Mad
ame Jasmin, whom Mr. .Vanneck introduced
as his neighbor. Madame Jasmin was accom
panied by her little daughter, a girl of twelve
years ; who immediately ran to the monkey,
greeting him as an,old friend, and beginning
to prattle with him. Jack furtively peeped at
his master ; but as Mr. Vanncck's glance was
stern, the tailor went on sewing. Suddenly
his thread broke; and he put the end to his
mouth, smoothed it with his lips, twisted it
with its paw, and threaded the needle again.
3Ir. Vannock then turned to him, and speak
ing in the same calm tone in which ho had
conversed with us: 'Jack, put your work
aside, and sweep the floor.'
"Jack hurried to the adjoining room, and
came back without delay, a broom in his paw,
and swept and dusted like a clean housemaid.
I could not perfectly make oht his size, as he
always walked upright, not on his four hands.
lie was about three feet in height, but stooped
a little. He was clad iu linnen pantaloons, a
colored shirt, a jacket, and a red neckerchef.
At another hint from his master, Jack went
and bro't several glasses of lemonado onatray.
He first presented the tray to Madame Jasmin
and her daughter, then to us, precisely like a
footman. When I had emptied iny glass, he
hastened to relieve me from it, putting it back
on the tray. Mr. Vannock took out his watch
and showed it to the monkey; it was just three.
Jack went and brought a cup of broth to his
master, who remarked that the monkey did
not know the movements of tho watch, but
that he knew exactly the position of the hands i
when they pointed to three, and kept it in
mind that it was then his master required lun
cheon. If the watch was shown to him at any
other hour, he did not go to fetch the broth ;"
while if three o'clock was past without tho
luncheon being. called for, he got fidgety, and
at last run and brought it; in this case, he. was
always rewarded with some sugar-plums.
" 'l'ou have no notion,' said Mr. Vanneck,
'how much time ; and trouble, and especially
how much patience, I have bestowed on the
training of this animal. Confined to my chair,
however, I continued my task methodically.
Nothing was more difficult than to accustom
Jack to his clothes; ho used to take oil his
pantaloons again and again, until at last I had
them sewed to his shirt. When he walks out
with me he wears a straw hat, but never with
out making fearful grimaces. He takes a bath
every day, and is, on tho whole, very cleanly.
', " 'Jactc,' exclaimed Mr. Vanneck, pointing
to me, 'this gentleman wants his handker
chief.' The monkey drew it from my. pocket,
and handed it to me.
" 'Now show your room to my guest,", con
tinned his master; and Jack opened a door, at
which he stopped to let us pass, and then fol
lowed himself. Everything was extremely ti
dy in the small room. There was a bed with a
matrass; a table, some chairs drawers, and va
rious toys; a gun hung on the wall.- The bell
was rung; Jack went and re-appeared with his
master, wheeling in the chair. Meanwhile I
had taken the gun from the wall; Mr. Vanneck
handed it to the monkey, who fetched the
powder flask and the shot bag, and in tho
whole process of loading ; acquitted hfmself
like a rifleman. I had already seen so much
that was astonishing, that I hardly felt surpri
set at this feat.' Jack now placed himself at
the open window, and took aim, discharging
the gun without being in the least startled by
the report. He then went through the sword
exercises with the same skill.
"It would be too long to jot down all Mr.
Vanneck told us about his method of educa
tion and training; the above fact witnessed by
myself, bear sufficient evidence of the abili
ties of the animal, and its master's talents for
tuition. We stayed to supper, to which there
came more ladies and gentlemen. Jack again
exhibited .his cleverness in waiting, at which
ho acquitted himself as well as any man-servant.
Going home, my companion missed a
small box of sweets, out of which he had re
galed the monkey with almonds. Jack had
managed to steal is from his pocket ; and on
being afterwards found convicted of the theft,
he was severely punished by his master.
THE AMERICAS ALADDIJT.
Wc take the following extract from a recent
lecture delivered by G. W. Ccbtis, at Boston.
The reader will find it a familiar and liie-likc
picture : .. .
When wo go out on Sunday afternoon to
moralize, and 6ce the new houses, we usually
take tho yonng ones by the Aladdin's palace
Aladdin was a Yankee. Xau'rhter.l He
started in life by swapping jack knives, then
putting the halves of broken marbles together,
and passing them offns whole ones. When he
had gatheied some brass ho went to school all
the summer to loarn the golden rule of arith
metic Addition for himself and Subtraction
for his neighbor. Laughter.
At an early ago Aladdin was considered to
be good at a bargain, which meant that he
could always succeed in changing a worse for
a better, always keeping the blind eye of a
horse to the wall when he had to sell it, and
looking right at it when he wanted to buy it ;
and the village said that certainly AUddin
would succeed. When ho left, " he will be
rich," said the village, with moro approval
than it would say, " ho will be generous and
true." To Aladdin, the whole world was but
a market in which to buy cheap and sell dear
For him thcro was no beauty, no history, no
piety, no heroism. Vainly the stars shone
over him vainly the South wind blew. In
the wako of the great ship Argo, in which
Jason and his companions sailed for the Golden
Fleece, over the Mediterranean, where the
ships of Tyre, Rome, and of tho Crusades, had
boen before him through the pillars of Her
cules, through which sailed Columbus to find
fame in the New World now sailed Aladdin
to find fortune. To him all lands are alike.
2so Homer sung for him in the JEgcnn ; ho
only curses the wind that will not Mow him to
Odessa.- No syrens sing for him, but he loves
the huge oath of the lively boatswain. With
a Bible in his hand, and a quid of tobacco in
his mouth, he goes about tho holy places of
Jerusalem, and " calculates" their exact site..
nc sees the land of Ramesis and thePtolemys,
and the reverend record of the Lybian desert,
whose echoes have slumbered sinco the- were:
trampled over by Alexander's array, are now
awakened by the shrill whistle of Old Dan
Tucker. Laughter. ne insults the Grand
Lama, hobnobs with the Great Mogul, turns
his back upon emperors, and takes a pinch out
of the Pope's snuff box. Ho chews with the
Arabs, smokes opium with the Turks, and
rides lor a bridle with the Calmuck Tartars.
Aladdin comes homo again, and the admir
ing village point3 him ont to the rising gene
ration as a successful man. " My son, look at
him; he began with nothing, and now sec !"
"My son" does see, and beholds him owning
a million of dollars of all societies of which
he is not president, a director. His name is
good as gold ; he has bought pictures and
statues he has also bought a Mrs. Aladdin,
Laughter, and housed her in luxury ; but i
he pricks his mouth with a silver fork. He
has a home for.a poet, and he makes it his j
boast that ho reads nothing but the newspa
per. ' He goes to church twice on Sundays,
and only wakes up when the preacher denoun
cos tho sinners of Sodom and Gomorrah, and
those " tough old Jews" of Jerusalem. :nis
head is bald and shiny with all the 6ermons
which have hit it,. and glanced off. .'Loud
laughter and applause. He; clasps his hands
in prayer, but forgets to open them wheu the
poor-box is passed round, and he goes home
like a successful man, thanking God that he
was not as other men are, and after dinner he
sits before the fire in his easy chair, lights a
large cigar, and looks languidly at Mrs.' Alad
din through tho thick black smoke. . Laugh
ter and applause. i
By-and-bye, old Aladdin dies. The conven
tional virtues are told" over, as the mourning
carriages are called out. . Tho papers regret
they are called upon to deplore the loss of a
revered parent, generous friend,' public-spirited
citizen, and pious man; and then the pre
cocious swapper of jack-knives and model set
up to the young generation, is laid in the dust.
Above the grave, the stars he never saw, now
burn with a soft lustre, which no lamps about
a king's tomb can emulate; his" hot brow was
never grateful, strews his bed with, anemonics
and violets that his heel crushed in living: and
we, who are to be formed upon that model,
carelessly remark, as we stir our tod.dies, "So
Aladdin is gone at last, and . by-tho-bye, how
much did he leave?" Loud Laughter. t
' ESP'Byron's partiality toward Amer.a' j3 well
known, but perhaps never more8tr'"jngyexpresged
than in a letter to Tom Moor fwhors bo observes:
-I would rather have n()d , . . Amcrlcan
than a enuff t?x fron, an EfWi,7.
r UODIIATH A VOICE. "" i:
. . BT ELIZA COOK. "
God hath a voice that ever in beard t
In the poalof the thunder, the chirp of the bird;'
It conies in the torrent.-all rapid And strong. ' ' i
In the Ftrcanilet'a soft gush as it ripples along. . .
Tt breathes in the lephyr just kissing the Llooin;
It lives in the ru?h of the sweeping simoon;
Let the hurricane whistle or warblers rejoice--- "
Whntdo they tellthee hut God hath a voice? : i
God hath apre.ence, and that ye may Fee , ' ' '
In the fold of the flower, the leaf of the tree;
In tho sun of the noon-day, the star of the night;' .
lu the storm -cloud of darkness, the rainbow of lijht1
In the waves of the ocean, the furrow's of land; -
In the mountains of pranite. the atom of Faml;'."!.:
Turn where ye may. from theky to the .od,
Where can ye gaie that ye see not 4 God ?
HOW tAVL ATJTO PETER LOOKED: -
It is allowable to mention that general' no---tion
of the forms and features ol the two aj-
tics which has been handed down in tradition,'
and was represented by the early ertists.; St.
Paul is set before us ashaving the ntrongly mar
ked and prominent features of a Jew, yet not
without some of their finer lines indicative of
Greek thoughts. His stature was diminutive,'
and his body disfigured by some lameness or
distortion, which may have provoked the con?
temptuous expressions of his enemies. His
beard, was long and thin. His head was bald.
The chracteristics of his face were a transparent
complexion, which visibly betrayed the quick
changes of his feelings; a bright greyeyethick-ly-ovorhanging,
united eye brows; a cheerful
and winning expression ofcountenence, which
invited the approach and inspired the confi
dence of strangers. It would be natural to in
fer from his continual journeys and manual
labor, that he was possessed of great strength
of constitution. But men of delicate health
have often gone through the greatest exertions;
and his own words, on more than one occasion,
showed that ho suffered much from bodily
health. -' ;
St. Peter is represented to us as a man , lar
ger, and -stronger form as his character was
and more abrupt. The quick impulses of his
soul revealed themselves in the flashes of
dark eye. The complexion of his face was
full and sallow; and the short hair, which Is
described as entirely gray at tho time of his
death, curled black and thick round .his tern-.
pies aud his chin, when the apostles stood to
gether at Antioch, twenty years before their
martyrdom. Believing, as we do, that these
traditionary pictures havo probably some foun
dation in truth, we gladly take them as helps
to the imagination. Life and Epistlca of St.
Paul by ir. J. Conybeare and J. S. llomon.
THE PLEASUBES OF SIN. ;: r.
' There are those who affect to believe that
the wicked have great, comfort (in-their, evil
courses; and that the way of tho transgressor
is not hard. .All. human experience contra
dicts tho statement,- and accords, with Bible
truth that men are happy in this world puly4n
proportion as they are good. ; Wo have .been
reminded of this great truth again, on seeing
the account of Col. Gardiner, an officer in the
British army, who for ycnrs.devoted himself to
seeking sensual .pleasures; and in the degra
ding pursuit was so far successful, as Dr. Dod- .
dridge, his biographer, remarks, that multi
tudes envied him, and called him, by a dread
ful kind of compliment, "tho happy rake."
Yet the Doctor says: "I particularly remem
ber, he told me, that when some of his disso
lute ' companions were once congratulating
him on his distinguished felicity, a dog hap
pened at that time to come into the room,; he
could not forbear groaning inwardly, and say
ing to himself, 'O that I wero a 'dog!' Such
was then his happiness; and such perhaps Is
that of hundreds more, who bear themselves
highest in the contempt of religion aod glory
in that servitude which they. affect to call lib-
ertv." ' - . :. ' ... ,.-
C7" What art thou to the .U-Directing and
Omniscient? Canst , thou vet imagine that
thy presence on earth can give to the hearts
thou lovest the shelter which the humblest take
from the wings of tho Presence that live ii
Heaven 7 . Fear, not thou for tho future?
Whether thou live or die, their future is the
care of the Most High! In the dungeon and
on the scaffold looks everlastingly "the cycTof
Him, tenderer than thou to love, wiser than,
thou to guide, mightier than thou to save
EThe love of truth is the stimafua of. all
noble" conversation. ' This is - the toote of Tall
the charities. The tree which springs from it
may have a thousand branches- but they will,
all bear a golden and generoua fruitage. : It Is
tho loftiest impulse to inmire willing rto
communicate, and moro willing to receive
contemptuous of petty curiosity, but passion
ate for glorious knowledge.. ; - - "
E7- Thtf child of God, if in the war, anl; itv
the place whrch the-Lord' providences has al
lotted him, is well employed, though he should
have no higher, services than to sweep Uo
streets; provided he does it humbly, thankful
ly, heartily, as to the Lord. An angel bo placed
could bo no more, r . - ; ..... T -
D"7 A man should never be ashamed to own
that he has been in the wrong.-1 It Is only "but
saying, in other words, that fw is wiser toiay
than he was yesterday.
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