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Or any per.son becoming responsible for four copies will' peive a nun gratis AlxJbilMiJSiS- are invuea 'r distant places. - ' ' oy law, remittances may be made free,?through "'e Postmaster. AH communication's to be addressed, .post paid, '"'lie Editor. G. II. Colton ; Office 118 Nassau iliect, .New York. Ode to the Moots. nr SYLVESTER GRAHAM. Fair, lonely Moon! thou speakest not, Yet thou art eloquent to me ! Oh ! that the scenes could be forgot, Which have been witnessed oft by thee! But, no ! remembrance will not part, With what it once too clearly prized ; The bosom cannot cease to smart, Whose feelings have been sacrificed ! Years Jiave gone past, since thou didst see My bosom's too expectant ilame ; Changes and grief have after'd me, But thou art smiling still the same". A little longer I must brave Life's gloomy cares, and deep repining; Then thou wilt shine upon my grave. As placid as thou now art shining ! O ! lovely Moon ! since, young and bright, Thou first didst start thy lonely way, Millions have gazed upon thy light, But they are gone ! and where are they ? O ! where are they, who oft of yore, Lifted the astronomic eye, Thy hidden mysteries to explore, And trace the trackless Deity ! 0 ! where are they, who from the height Of Babel's heaven-aspiring tower, Perused thy soft, and pensive light, Through many a contemplative hourt Or they, of astrologic lore, Who wandered oft beneath thy beams, . By Tygris' or Euphrates' shore, Jn speculation's misty dreams. 0 ! where are they, and who are they, (For thou didst light their splendid halls!) Who revelled life's bright hour away In Balbec's or in Tadmor's walls ? Or they, who in ambition's might, Piled the huge Pyramids, to stand For ages mouldering 'neath thy light Yet wrote their names on Lethean sand 1 0 ! where are they, whose armour's gleam, All sullen as they lay at night, , Flash'd back thy melancholy beam, On Uion's bloody field of fight? Or they of Rome the stern the bold ho saw her glor, or her wane, And deemed not Time should e'er unfold Such glory and such power again 1 Where are the myriads of bright eyes, And glowing lips, which gave and took Pledges of love, neath gentle skies 'Neath thy serene and placid look ! And bade ihee witness to their truth ! And gazed on thee, because it seemed Thou wert an orb of love and youth, Thy pensive light so mildly beamed ! Where are the myriads who have crept From the rude day's offensive glare, And poured their grief to thee, and wept And wished that life were ended there! They are .not, and no more shall be ! But thou, fair Moon undimmed by time ! Still fioatest on thine azure sea, And sheddest thy light on every clime. Thou gleamest on the Arab's "eye, Cheerest the Hindoo with thy ray, Lightest the Indian's western sky, And rude Siberia's lonely way ! On Volga's and on Gambia's shore, By Plata's broad majestic stream, And where Niagara's waters roar, Thou pour'st thy soft, nocturnal beam ! Mild, pensive Moon ! thou art to me, Even as Religion's holy light, Dim gleaming from -Eternity, Through nature's dark and dreary night! And as thou oft art lost in clouds, While journeying thro' heaven's vaulted scope, E'en thus, the gloom of doubt enshrouds The trembling light of faith and hope ! 0 ! 1 have gaed through many an hour, Through many a long long night on thee ! And I have felt thy soothing power Come kindly o'er my misery ! m O ! I have gazed ; and 1 have thought . How many a heart-loved scene had fled, How many a hope was turned to nought, How many a joy and comfort dr ad ! Oft I have gazed with tearful eyes, And thought the time would come, when I Should lay my lonely head, where lies ' The dust of those of years gone by! And there in silence be forgot, When some swift years had onward swept; And thou shouldest smile upon the spot, Where I, and all my sorrows slept; And far, far future years should coniCj . r , And many generations spring, And call this dreary world their home, And feel, as I have felt, the stmg Of sorrow, and the withering blight Of hopes and expectations, wrung From life and gaze upon thy light, And sadly sing as I have sung! The Time to Iic. TJY MISS MAUTHA A. W1SVVALL, OF AI.BAX!?. It was winter. Before a cheerful fire sat an aged man in lonely meditation. The curtains fell in heavy folds to the floor, casting an air of com fort over the room, and excluding the piercing cold. Yet a tremor passed over the frame of the old man, as the storm without fell upon his ear. "I am thankful I have a shelter on such a night as this," said he, drawing his easy chair nearer to the fire. " Wo to the wretch that roams abroad in such a storm ;" then musing for some time, he began pacing the room, and ever and anon pausing in deep thought, which at length found expression: ': Death is a fearful thing to contemplate, at any time, but in such a season as this, methinks I would struggle hard for life. To be placed deep in the cold and frozen earth, no! she herself seems to strive to prevent the act, and winds her robe of snow over her strong breast to preventadmittance within her breast. When I die, may it be in the bright and joyous spring time, when all nature is fresh and gay. But, hark! surely I did not hear a knock, for who would venture out on- such a night?" and opening the door, he saw before him a younj: girl, who begged for shelter in accents to excite pity in the hardest heart. The appeal was enough for the kind-heaited old man, and drawing her within, the room, he gave her a seat near the lire, and tried to revive her drooping frafne. Af ter she had so far recovered as to answer his in quiries, she told him she was a lonely creature with no friend in the world ; she had roamed about from place to place, living on charity ; she had never known father or mother, or relative. The old man, still dwelling upon the subject which had for some rime occupied him, asked her : if death would not be a welcome messenger to; her, as she had nothing for which to live, and no one cared for her, would she not be willing to ! die and be at rest ? " Oh! ask me not to give up my life it is some times bright and joyous. In the lovely summer, the flowers are my friends, the birds"speak to me from the trees ; and the bee winds his tiny horn for me, and then I wander forth to the green woods, and life is all sweetness. Oh, no ! ' youth is no time to die!' " Years rolled on; the spring appeared gradually bright, the birds rejoiced on every bough, and all nature smiled to welcome the blithe Goddess of Spring. But the old man had found new ties to bind him to the earth ; the houseless wanderer was now as a daughter to him ; his interest in her was too strong a bond to be easily broken. It was as hard to leave the world now, as in the cold and dreary winter; age seemed but to strengthen the love of life, although youth was withered, and na ture dying, yet " life ! life only was his desire." Spring passed, and summer with its mild and balmy air, visited the earth the maiden smiled in gladness of heart, arid the old man rejoiced in her happiness, for she threw joy and bliss around her happy laugh rung upon his ear, in wild and merry peals as she watched the flight of the gay butterfly, and her sweet song arose upon the air as she tend ed her birds and watched the opening of each bud to the light. Time flew swiftly by, yet the old man and maiden were as fondly attached to the earth as in its spring time. Death gained new horrors as the seasons advanced ; their summer paths were strewn with flowers. " It was no time toihe." Autumn, with its purple grape and downy peach, and pleasant nutting-time, took the place of sum mer, and brought with it the lightness and joyous ness of cool air and freedom of the oppressive heat, the little maiden tripped through the dry leaves, and chased the squirrel with almost its own swift ness ; then throwing back her sunny curls, she bounded to the side of the old man as he sat under the vines of his door, making glad his eyes with her bright and happy face, and his heart grew young again in her lightsome, joyous mirth; both little thought of Death. The earth had clothed herself in a robe of brown and dry leaves, and hid herself from the eye of' man she seemed not to wish for human company in this her time of change. Winter again returned again we see the old man sitting in his easy chair before the bright and glowing fire; but lie is not the solitary being he was before, for beside him is one in the first blush of youth and grace ; she is no longer the gay and noisy child ; she" is no less lovely, no less happy ; but a deeper thought steals over her face, and a heavenly radiance-sits upon her features, as she bends over the book from 'which, "in accents of deep reverence, she reads thtfword of God to the old man. What think they now of death? The faces of both look more restrained, the lloly Spirit sheds its light upon the way which leadelh to the gravo ; it no longer seems dark and lonely. The old man received the heavenly guest into a heart which had always been the residence of kindness and charity. The maiden now drooped daily, but she no longer thought it hard to give up life ; and when the cold blast swept over the earth, and the robe of snow enveloped it, with robes no less white, she was received into its bosom. Then I asked the old man " When is the time to die !" " A holy calm was on his brow, And peaceful was his breath ; And sweetly o'er his features stole A smile, a look divine ; He spoke the language of his soul ' My Master's time is mine !' " Something for the Doctors. A journal of Richmond, (Eng.) records the fol lowing case of death under extraordinary circum stances. We copy it as a hint to medical men of some interest and importance : " A policeman died in the Richmond hospital, a few days since, from the effects of a terrible disease, after five days illness. Tt is supposed the disease was com municated to him by drinking water from a buck et which a carman had been supplying to a horse. After some hours, the disease began to manifest itself, and the unfortunate man was conveyed to Richmond hospital in a state of great pain. The medical men did not, for some time, understand the nature of his complaint, but as the symptoms became more decided, on rigid inquiry they came to the conclusion that the patient had " horse far cy," and in order to prove theic opinions, a horse was inoculated with some of the matter taken from a pustule, and in a short time he died. There was a post mortem examination held on the man by an eminent surgeon of this city, who was so appre hensive of disease, that he performed the operation with gloves on. Frightful as the external appear ance of the unfortunate man's body was, the inter nal was "still more -shocking ; the stomach, heart and liver being covered with ulcers, and all in a high state of inflammation. This is amongst the very few authenticated facts, which prove that the disease is communicable to man The Iron District. The iron district, which spreads through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Western Vir ginia, traverses regions exuberant with coal, and abounding in water-power; and, travelling further west, we find in Ohio,Kentucky and particularly irt Missouri, immense stores of metaliferious wealth, adjacent to the most fertile agricultural districts. It is to Pennsylvania, however, we must chiefly- direct our attention, where two fifths of all the iron in the United States is made. The United States contain 80,000 square miles of coal, which is about sixteen times as great as the coal meas ures of Europe. A single one of these gigantic masses runs from Pennsylvania to Alabama, and must embrace itself, 50,000 square smiles. Out of fifty counties of E'cnnsylvania, no less than thir ty have coal and iron in them ; and out of the 46, 000 square miles of Pennsylvania, which form su perficies, there are 10,000 miles of coal and iron ; while all Great Britain and Ireland have only 2,- 000-rso that Pennsylvania -alone has an area of coal and iron five time as great as that of Great Britain. The quality of the coal or iron is as . rich a3 that of Great Britain, and they have the advan tage of lying near the water-level ; while those of the latter country are sometimes more than one thousand feet below the surface, and are excava ted through subterranean passages. HunCs Merchants' Magazine. Yankee Girls and Bears. The Portland Advertiser tells a story of two girls, out chopping wood, who discovered a bear in a tree. While one of the girls went for assist ance, the other kept watch, but soon the curiosity of the sex being greater than its usual timidity, the sister on guard being desirous to see something more of Bruin in his winter quarters, began to pry up the wood that covered him. This was easily done, the tree being much decayed but the bear thinking (if bears do think) that spring had come rather suddenly, we suppose, waked up, and push ed out of his broken house to take an observation Nothing daunted, our heroine gave him blow after blow with the butt of her axe, and at length de spatched him. Hardly was this done, when a se cond bear began to hack out of the log cabin and having killed one, she felt emboldened to make way with another, which being-done, a third making his appearance, also met the fate of his companions. When the other sister returned, she found during her absence, three good sized bears had been killed with an axea feat unparalleled, we think, in the annals of female heroism. Missouri Districted. The bill which had pre viously passed the Senate of this State, dividing it into single districts for the election of members of Congress, has been cqneurred in by-lhe-lower House; only three members voting in the negative. New Hampshire is the only State which how elects oif iht general ticket system. Causes of Defalcation. The examination of M'Nulty's accounts very clearly confirms the impression that he was a whole-souled fellow," for he poured out the peo ples money as if it was water. His particular friends, Secor & Co., shine out in broad relief, and instead of that house holding 314,000 of pub lic money as M'Nulty alleged, it turns out that Secor & Co., furnished supplies -to that amount. The question will be asked at what cost did hu furnish the supplies ? A few items will exhibit the fair business transaction; 3000 quills at $10 per thousand, the fair selling price would be about $20 for the very best quality; 36 reams letter pa per 84,75, the fair price would be S3; 150 reams flat cap paper at $3, worth $1; wafers, at 60 1--J cents per pound, worth 45; 238 gallons oil at $1, 15, worth 90 cents; 1638 patent sperm candles at 48 cents per pound, worth 33 ; for parchment $2, 000, at 42 1-2 cents per sheet, worth 15, and so nn through the invoice. It may be asked why is tho United States to be charged higher for supplies than the fair market price why if there is fraud contemplated should the people be selected to prac tice it upon ? It is time for these political con tractors to understand that these depredations upon the government are not to be sanctioned or ap proved that they are criminal and should subject those who practice them, to punishment. ' N. Y. Sun Industry Wanted. The author of a series of essays at the South, is sounding an alarm among the people of that re gion upon the state of public feeling in that sec tion of the country on the subject of industry. In the course of one of his essays he says: " My recent visit ur the Northern States, has fully satisfied me that the true secret of our diffi culties lies in the want of energy on the part of our capitalists, and ignorance and laziness on the part of those who ought to labor. We need never look for thrift while we permit our immense timber forests, granite quarries- and mines, to lie idle, and supply ourselves with hewn granite, pine boards, laths, and shingles, &c , furnished by the lazy dogs at the North ah, worse than this, we see our back country farmers, many of whom are too lazy to mend a broken gate, or repair the fences, to protect their crops from the neighboring stock, actually supplied with their axe, hoe, and broom handles, pitchforks, &c. by the indolent mountain eers of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The time was when every old woman in the country had her ground, from which the country gardens were supplied with seeds. We now find it more convenient to permit this duty to devolvo on our careful friends, the Yankees. Even our boat-oars and handspikes for rolling logs, are furnished, ready made, to our hand, and what jimcrack can possibly be invented of which we are not the pur chasers ? These are the drains which arc impov erishing the South these are the true sources of all our difficulties. Need I add, to further exem plify our excessive indolence, that the Charleston market is supplied with fish and wild game by Northern men, who come out here as regularly, as the winter comes for this purpose, and, from our own waters and forests, often realize, in thexpursa of one winter, a sufficiency to purchase a small farm in New England. The Wheat Insect. We find a. letter in the New York Mirror, from Mr. R. S. Pell, dated March 7th, which gives the following facts as having occurred on his farm noar the city. It is, no doubt, a matter of much interest to the agriculturists. " In the spring of '44, 1. placed a bag containing half a bushel of white flint wheat, in a seed draw or, under glass, and near the furnace of my green house. On the 6th of March, 1845, 1 opened the bag, and to my surprise found thousands of living insects, such as are now presented you some were on the point of leaving the kernol, others were just commencing to eat through, and many were perfectly formed, and running about in all directions. " Six years ago I was in the habit of soaking my early grains in salt brine, fa? the purpose of destroying the egg of the insect, which 1 assured my neighbours, much to their amusement and un belief, was ensconced in the kernel. Now, by ac cident, the fact is made manifest. This insect would not have appeared until; June, perhaps, had tho wheat been. sown. Tho warm situation it oc cupied in the green house brought it thus early to, maturity." The Test. An old lady of Aries, terrified at the idea of being burjed alive, left by her will 600 francs to the person who should continue to tickle her feet for forty-eight hours after hor apparent d eath. A female domestic commenced the task, but was obliged to take a partner. Yankee Enteupbise'. Two thousand Broom handles were lately shipped from down east to. London. I III I
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