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POETRY.
The Wife.
I could have stemmed misfortunes tide,
And borne the rich one's sneer,
Have braved the haughty glance of pride,
Nor shed a single tear;
I could have smiled on every blow
From life's full quiver thrtfwn,
While I might gaze on thee, and know
I should not be "alone."
t
I could I think I could, have looked,.
E'en for a time, that thou . t
Upon my fading face hadst looked. .
With less of love than now:
For then I should at least have felt .
The sweet hope still my own,
To win thee back, and while I dwelt"'
On earth, not be "alone."
But thus to see, from day to da)-,
Thy brightening eye and cheek,
And watch thy lifes sands waste away,
Unnumbered, slow and meek,
To meet thy smile of tenderness.
And catch the feeble tone
Of kindness, ever breathed to bless
V
And feel, I'll be "alone."
To mark thy strength each hour decay
And yet thy hopes grow stronger,
As, filled with heaven-ward trust, they say,
"Death may not claim the longer;"
Nay dearest, 'tis too much this heart
Must break, when thou are gone;
It must not be we may not part
I cannot live "alone!"
JBndymion.
BV HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
The rising moon has hid the stars
Her lovely rays, like golden bars,
Lie on the landscape green,
With shadows brown between.
.if.
And silver white the river gleams.
As if Diana, in her dreams,
Had dropt her silver bow
Upon the meadows low.
On such a tranquil night as this.
She woke Endymion with a kiss, - '
When sleeping in the grove, '
He dreamed not of her love. '4' "
Like Dian's kiss, unask'd, unsought,;,.
Love gives itself, but is not bought; '
Nor voice, nor sound betrays
Its deep, impassion'd gaze. ' .
It comes the beautiful, the free, . ;
The crown of all humanity - . .
In silence and alone .' s .
To seek the elected on.
It lifts the" bougns, Whose shadows deep,
Are Life's oblivion, the soul's slecp
And kisses the clos'd eyes
Of him, who, slumbering, lies, "i '
0, veary hearts! oh, slumbering eyes'!' ".
O, drooping souls, whose destinies ' ' -Are
fraught with fear arid pain,'
Ye shall be loved again,! . ;i ,
No one Is so accurs'd by fate, '' 1
No one so -wholly desolate, ' '?
But some heart, though .tthknowni
Responds unto his own. "T -
Responds as if with unseen" wj'ngs. ' '
An angel swept its quivering. strings;
And whispers, in its song, , , ; ,
4 Where hast thou staid so longl'
A Secret for a:Farmkr's 'WiFrJ.-Vhil'e
the milking of your cows is going'otr, let your
pans bo placed in a k"eitl of boiling water.
.Strain the milk into imr of jha pans taken hot
from the kelth', aiid cover th; same with ano
ther of the hot p.tnV, and procerd in like tnati-
nnr w iih the w-hoie niess of niilk,' arid? you will
iind lhat you will jiave double itlift' quantity, of
good, rich creatrt.ahat win -gire you uouuiu me
quantity of sweet and deliciutis.btitier. Try it.
Uoxbv, when mixed Willi a Ijttlewaier,
fofjns JM' excellent wash for the skin, when
chapped -and-excoriated by cold.
The citizens of Woodford county, (Ky.) have
purchased ihe farm on which the Hon. J. J.
Crittenden was born, and presented it to (hat
distinguished son of "Kentucky, The ijrfcc
was severw5M.i
Jefferson and Bnrr.
The following interesting anecdote of the first
meeting of Jefferson and Burr was communica
ted to tTie Democratic Review by D. P. Thomp
son, Esq., of Montpelier, Vt., who was for many
years a neighbor and friend of Mr. Jefferson.
The following anecdote was related by Mr.
Jefferson to the writer, while on a visit to Mon
ticello, in the year 1822. It was told in illus
tration of an opinion advanced by the former in
relation to physiognomy, that although it was
but folly to attempt a system of judging charac
ter from any particular conformation of features,
yet the eye was an unerring index of the soul,
and no training on the part of its possessor
could prevent it from disclosing his true moral
nature to a skilful observer. I will endeavor
to repeat the anecdote in the exact words of
the illustrious narrator.
During my attendance on some one of the
earliest sessions of the Continental Congress at
Philadelphia, said Mr. J., I chanced to dine
one day at a public house where several distin
guished gentlemen from abroad, all entire
strangers to me, had just arrived in the city.
Among these was a gentleman who became
seated directly opposite to me at thcjable. and
who , soon attracted my observation by his pe
culiar and remarkable countenance, and espe
cially by his singularly restless and subtly quiv
ering eye, which to me threw off an expression
extremely sinister; for I had cvei noted, that
an eye of this character indicated moral obli
quity of heart, and this kind of eye he possess
ed in a more eminent degree than any 1 had ev
er seen. So strong, jndeed, were my impres
sions in the case, that I felt no hesitation in
making up for myself a decided opinion of the
truecharacier.of ihe riian before me, though, as
before mentioned, then unknown to me, even
by name.
After retiring to the private room of the friend
at whose invitation I had dined there, he asked
me, with an air of curiosity, if 1 noticed the
gentleman who sat opposite to me at the table
we had just left; and if so, what was rnv opin
ion of him?
1 replied, lhat I had not only noticed the
man, but formed a decided opinion of him, and
that was, that his true character might be ex
pressed in three words. coldness cunning, and
psrfidt.
" Whv, sir, said mv friend, in surprise,
"you cannot know the. man of whom you are
speaking it is Mr. JJurr, the .greatest lawyer
in New-York."
" I will not alter m' opinion for all that,"
remarked. f "I have never known such an eye
as his in an honest man's head; and whatever
may- be his present eminence, and fair reputa
tion, Itwill venture the prediction, that he will
yet be known as a villain."'
In after jimes, continued Mr. J. to me, I had
frequent reason to recall my first impressions
of the true character of Aaron Burr.
15 e Something.
It is the duty of every one to take somd part
tis an actor on the stage of life. Soinc seem
to think they can vegetate, as it were, without
being any thing in particular. Man was not
made to rust out his life. It is expected he
should "act well his part." He must be some
thing.. He has a. work to perform, which it is
his duty to attend to. We arc not placed here
to grow up, pass through the various stages of
life, and then die, without having done any
thing for the benefit of the human race. It is a
principle in the creed of the Mahometans that
every one should have a trade. No christian
doctrine could be betler than that. Is a man to
be brought up in idleness? Is he to live upon
the wealth which his ancestors have acquired
by hard labor and frugal industry? Is ho placed
here to pass through life like an automaton?
Has he nothing to' perform as a citizen of the
world? Does he owe nothing to his country
as an inhabitant? A man who does nothing is
a mere cipher. He docs nof fulfil the obliga,
tion for which he was sent into t ho world,' a'nd
when he dies, he has not finished the work
which was given him. to do. Ho is a- mere
blank in creaiion. Some are born with riches
and .honors upon their heads. But does it fol
low ihat they have nothing to dd m their ca
reer through life? There are ccrtain'tluiics for
every one to perform. Be something!- Don't
live like a hermit, and die unregretted.
See that young man; no matior what arc his :
circumstances, if he has no particular business :
to pursue, he will never accomplish milch'. j
JPerhaps he has a father abundantly able US sup
port; him. Perhaps that father has labored
hard to obtain a competence which is silflicient
for his sons, to live in idleness; Can 'they go
abroad ao the world' with any degree of -self-complacency,
squandering away the money
which their fathers have carried by hard labor!
No! No one Avho has the proper feelings of
a citizen, who wishes to be ranked among the
useful members of society, would live such a
life. Be something don't be a drone. You
may rely upon your present possessions, or on
your future, prospects, but those riches may fly
away or other-hopes-may be blighted, and if
vou have no place of. your own, in such a case,
;ien -,lo. one you find your'paih beset whinhoriis.;
want may come upon you ere you are aware
of it, and having no profession, you find your
self in any thing but an enviable situation. It is
therefore important that you should be some
thing. Don't depend upon fortune, for she ia a
fickle support which often fails when you lean
upon her with the greatest confidence. Trust
to your own exertions.
Be something. Pursue that vocation for which
you are fitted by nature, pursue it faithfully and
diligently. You have a part to act, and the
honor in performing that part depends upon
yourself. It is sickening to one to see a par
cel of idle boys hanging round a father, spend
ing the money which he has earned by his in
dustry, without attempting to do any thing for
themselves. Be something, should be their
motto. Every one is capable of learning some
"art, trade, or mystery," and can earn a compe
tence for himself. Me should he something,
and not bring down the gray hairs of his father
with sorrow to the grave. He should learn to
depend upon himself. Idle boys living upon a
parent without any profession or without any
employment, are ill qualified for good members
of society. And we regret to say it is too often
the case that it is the parent's fault that they
are thus brought up. They should be taught
to be something; to know how to provide for
themselves in case of necessity, to act well
their part, and they will reap the honor which
therein lies.
Taae ay off se ea&. -One
of the most remarkable of Catholic fes
tivals called the Day of the Dead occurred
on the loveliest day of my brief sojourn in Bo
logna. Nature breathed any language rather
than that of mortality and decay. The road
leading to the celebrated Gampo Santo was
thronged with people walking beneath the gl "1
sky, in holiday attire: and there would have
been one universal semblance of gaiety, but for
the moaning tones and wretched appearance of
the beggars that lined the way. The numer
ous arcades of the extensive burying place re
sounded with the hum, bustle, and exclamations
of a careless crowd, who moved about like the
muliitude'at a fair. But for the countless busts
of departed worthies, the numberless inscrip-.
lions, and the echoes of the mass floating from
one of the Open chapels, it would have been im
possible to believe, lhat this concourse had as
sembled ostensibly to remember or honor the
dead. To the view of a stranger nothing could
be more incongruous or strange than the scene.
The cypresses and cenotaphs assured him he
was in a burial place; while every moment he
was jostled by a hurrying group, and his ears
saluted with peals of discordant laughter, the
leering whisper of the Gourtozan, and the stern
reproof of the soldier. And yet in, his answer
to the inquiries which curiosity prompts, he is
told that this day is consecrated to the departed,
that this throng is assembled to think of, and
pray for them, and that these, tapers are placed
by surviving friends, around the tombs of the
loved and lost. There.. was something jarring
.to every nerve, something that mocked every
hallowed association, in this rude contrast be
tween the solemn emblems of death, and the
eager recklessness of Jife. I suggested the
idea of inexorable and immitigable destiny, ra
ther than consolinff faith. It was redolent of
bitterness and despair. It was as if men. would
confront the dark doom of mortality with hol
low laughter and raillery.- So at least the
scene impressed one spectator to whom it was
new; yet, habit, prt.heir peculiar creed, had ap
paromly associated it in the minds of the multi
tude with no such shocking suggestions. It
was affecting to notice, here and there, a mon
ument unilluminated perhaps that of a stran
ger, who died nnhonored and uhso'athed, or the
ancient mausoleum' of such who could claim
kindred with ic place and. the people, but
."it
whose memories inexorable time nau consign
ed to the dark abyss of forgetfulncss. Ram
bles and Reveries.
SiibassjarisflC Armor.
The Boston Daily Advertiser contains' a no
tice of a public experiment mdde at that city
by Capt. Taylor, the inventor of a now kind of
Submarine Armor, which promises to be ot tne
highest utility in explo'rihg ihe wonders and in
securing the treasures of the deep. The armor
consists of a dress of India rubber cloth, sup
ported by ribs and hoops of copper, arranged
ho as to resist the immense pressure of the wa-
ter. A helmet, of head-piece of metal, covers
the head and shotilders, and to this the other
Rafts' of th'aruTor are carefully screwed, inis
helmet-is large 'e'ridngh to; contain a considera
ble supply of air: which'is constantly renewed
hvtmeanrf'nf'a forcin'nu'mt) at (he surface of
ihe waieiv A lantern forms a pari of the appa
ratus, the light in which' is supplied with the
air which passes out from the helmet to make
way
or Hie constant iro.sn suppiy. i or m:i-
met is provided with a glass window, so thai
the diver can make accurate observations of any
thing at whatever depth, provided he has a
light in his luuiern. ' Should any difficulty oc
cur, in thc'inHiiagemont-of-tho ropes or breaih
ing apparatus, by throwing dff balJaal 'the 'whole
will, instantly rise to the surface." The experi
mcntT was highly 'succc&ful and satis'facidr'y.
A Caarious lory.
The Bay Stats Democrat tells the following
story, for the truth of which it vouches.
" Many years ago, as appears from an old
magazine from which we gather these facts, a
young wife.j of many amiabilities, as the sequel
of this sketch will show, was suddenly taken
ill, and was reduced so extremely low that she
felt, convinced she could not long survive. She
called her husband to her side, to whom she
made known ihe solemn truth that they soon
must part for ever; said she did not wish to
conceal from him her conviction of this fact,
nor did she wish to conceal from him her ap
prehension lhat he probably would soon desire
another of "heaven's last, best gifts to man,"
and fearing that he might no- exercise that judg
ment and wisdom in the selection of a second
wife that he did in the selection of the first,
desired that he should immediately marry Ro
s.ina, their faithful and rosy-cheeked servant
girl. The husband regarded this singular re
quest as the effect of a weak or distempered
mind, until the wife, distrustful of her husband's
sincerity for he had promised all she desired
called both her husband and Rosina together
at her side, and told the latter that she was
about to marry her to her husband, conjuring the
blushing girl at the same time to be trite to him,
to love and obey him, and especially to take
good care of her "little ones," for whose wel
fare she felt the greatest anxiety. All this, the
little innocent Rosina, laughing and weeping
at the same lime, promised faithfully to do.
The wife then joined their hands, made them
take the matrimonial vow, and sign the neces
sary contracts in her presence, fearing, no
doubt, that her husband might possibly "dodge
the question" after she was gone.
"In the lapse of time the new wife found
great favour in her husband's eyes, whose eve
ry wish she sought to gratify; and the sick wife
in the meantime was fast gaining strength, and
in all probabiliiy would soon be jn possession
of her health again. Here was likely to be "a
fix." The husband finally tells his wife num
ber one, that inasmuch as she had compelled
him to marry wife number two, that he would
never leave her as long as he lived. Wife
number one, so far from being displeased with
this resolution of her husband's, assured him of
her entire approbation of his course,- and the
noble resolution he had taken, by an affection
ate caress. This matrimonial trio lived long
and happily together, as it appears, and no mis
understanding was ever known to have taken
place between the two wivea, who showed
equal love and regard for the husband, and
equal care and affection for each other's chilt
dren; andno.one, as .it .appears, ever took of
fence at this very singular union indeed they
could not, for "she teas, a very charming woman?
Might v Men. Dr. Samuel E. D. Clark
said,, that, "the old proverb about having too ma
ny irons in the fire, was an abominable old lie.
tlave all in it, sliovel, tongs and poker. It is
not so much the multiplicity of employments,
as the want of system in them, that distracts
and injures both the -work and workmen. .Wes
ley said "I am always in haste, but never in
a hurr', leisure and I have long taken leave
of each other." He travelled about five thous
and miles in a year; preached about three times
a. day, commencing at five o'clock in' the morn
ing; and his published 'works amounted to about
two hundred volumes! Asbury travelled six
thousand miles a year, and preached incessant
ly. Coke crossed the Atlantic eighteen times,
preached, wrote, travelled, established missionSj
begged from door to door for them, and labored,
in all respects, as if, like the apostles, he would
"tuTn the world upside down." At near soven:
ty years of age, ho started to christianize India!
Jt is said that Luther preached, almost daily: he
lectured constantly as a professor; he was bur
dened with the care of all the churches; his cor
respondence, eren as now extant, fills many
volumes; he was perpetually harassed with con
troversies, and was one'of the most voluminous
writers ohis day. .The same, or even more,
might be. sajd of Calvin. While in Sjrasburg,
he preached or lectured every day. In a letter
to Farel, dated from that city; )e sa3's that on
one day ho had revised twenty sheets of one
of his works, lectured, preached,, written four
letters, reconpiled several parties who wero at
variance, and answered more than ten persons
who came to him for adrice. In Geneva he
was pastor, professor, and almost magistrate.
He lectured every other day: on alternate weeks
he preached daily: he was overwhelmed wjth
letters from .all parts .of -Europe.;, and was the
author of vyorks amounting tonintt, volumes fo
lio, which any man of o.urvge negation would
think more than enough to. occupy his -whole1
time. And this amid perpetual infirmity, head
ache, catarrh, stranguary, grayc-j, siouq, gout.
Baxter says ol , lumsefl,, lhat, before the wars,
he preached twice overy Sabbath, and, once in
ihe week, besidesoccasioiial sermons, and scr-
eral regula?bvenlng're1fgiousSncetings. Two
days in 'the week ho catechized the peoplo from
house to house, .spending an hour with each
family.' ' Besfdes' all this, he was forced, by the
necessity of the peo'plo, to pYactic,'e physic: and,
as he never took a penny from "auy"bne l7ew:fs
wunucu wjui paiieniM. ju uiu initial ni an
these duties, though afilicted with almost all ihe
diseases which man is heir to, he wrote more
books than most of us can find time in, read.
All these men were poor. We find Luther beg
ging the elector for a new coat, and thanking
him for a piece of meat; Cahin selling his books
to pay his rent; and Baxter was a curate with
sixty pounds a year. Zion's Herald.
Grogasa givesa csp.
His Excellency Sir Richard Jackson, Ad
ministrator of the Canadian Government, has
given up the person called Colonel Grogan, an
account of whose abduction was given in our
last paper, on application of the United States
authorities. The Montreal papers indulge in
many bitter animadversions on the procedure,
and are quite savage at having their pray wrest
ed from their clutch. In good truth, the3e Ca
nadians are awful fellows to threaten, and swag
ger, and blackguard the vile yankees,- at least
while mother Britain affords thorn the. protec
tion of some fifteen thousand of her bayonets.
Were they to attempt a war with us on 'their
own hook, the little state of Vermont alone
would be able to flog them into quietness in less
than a month. We are pleased, however, to
see this new cause of difficulty between the
two countries removed. Bclvidcre Apollo';
XTpjEa wards, alias Caldwell, accused of
being th perpetrator of the recent extensive
forgeries in different parts of the country has
been apprehended, and is now in prison in New
York.
Driving Nails into Hard Wood. We
have lately seen another experiment of driving
nails into hard seasoned timber fairly tried.
The first two nails, after passing through a pine
board, entered about one inch, and then doubled
down under tha hammer; but, on dipping the
points of the other six or eight nails into lard,
every one was driven home without the least
difficulty.
Carpenters who are engaged in repairing old
buildings sometimes carry a small lump of lard
or tallow for this purpose on one of their boots
or shoes. New Gennesee Farmer.
Guir Arabic, when held in the mouth, and
allowed to dissolve slowly, will allay the-seh-sation
of tickling, which occasions cougfrin ca
tarrh and inflammation of the lungs.
Dodgixg the Question. A fellow down
town, who joined the Temperance Society, but
has omitted to eschew everything in the shape
of alcohol jets over his "conscientious scruples"
by now calling for a "life-preserver," instead of
a brandy toddy; though it is said, that if both
were analyzed by a skilful chemist, their com
ponent parts would be found equal.
We would ask the friends of temperance, if
"a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,"
does not a brandy toddy, by any other itarne;
taste as strong?
A weslcrn'Editor wishes to',know whether
the laws recently enacted against car'rying coh
cealed weapons, apply to Doctors who'carry
their pills in their pockets. ."" -
The Iffoosier attd Ihe " Yaialcec;
' Wal now, stranger,' said the Yankee, 'sup
pose you tell us about your own country; ybhlto
the only man I ever seen from west' lhat didn't
die of fever n'agur.'
'Well old Yankee, I'll just tell 'yon all about
it. If a farmer in our country plants his ground,
with corn, and take first rate care on it, h.
get a hundred bushels to the acre;. .and if he
takes middlin' care of it, he'll get sventy.five
bushels to the acre; and if he "don't plant at all
he'll get fifty.' 1
'J he beets grow so large .'nat it takes three
yoke of oxen lo'pull afu .sized one; and then
it leaves a -hole so lare, that I once knew a
family of five children, who all tumbled' in 'a
beet hole once bvfore jL gol upf nij n
earth 'caved'iu upon them, and they all perislied.
The trees, grow soiarge lhat 1 once knew a
man, who. commenced cutting one . down, and
when he had' cfit away oh one stde for about
ten days, he thought he'd just lake a look round
the' tree; and when ho gat roundon t'other side,
he found a man there who had been cutting '.Kt
it for three weeks and they never heard ono
another's axes. " - '
1 h.rtVo heard, tell, "yoi somewhat;' doubt ''that
story, that Ohio parsnip's have sometimes grown
ciean inrougn-ine eann, and have been pulled
through by ihe pcople on t'other sido."
VVal no;J says the Yankee, I rather guess
as how you've told enough, stranger, for' the
present. How do you like to trade for sorno
clocks jo seI out west?'
'Never use 'em we keep time altogether
with pumpkin .vines. You know thay grow
just five feel an hour; and that's an Inch a min
ute. Don't use clocks at all. Ii's no use old
Yankee,, wo can't. trae, no how.?
,' - The. Yankee' gave. 4 up, beat, and suddenly
cleared oi l, , ,
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