1 jeffersomm EPUBLICAN. if h THE -WHOLE ART OF GOVERNMENT CONSISTS IN THE ART OF BEING HONEST. JEFFERSO? VOL. 11, STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY S, 1S51. No. 33. Published Iy Theodore Schooli. TERMS Two dollars per annnum in :nirancc Two dollars and a quarter, half yearlv-:.- if i10,1,!,!.! bf .,,... il.., .n.inf ii....... n..... ,i.,i'..r:ini .1 half. 1I105C who receive their papers bv a carrier or stage ric.rs employed by the proprietor, ill he charged 3. 1-- , coins, per year, cxtia No papers ditcontinucd until all arrearages arc paid, crept at the option of the Editor. .,.,,.,.., ID Advertisements not exceeding one square (six- on linnci tiiii inserted three weeks for one dollar, except and twciitv-firc cents fi vcry .subsequent insertion. ThrCh:.rKc for one and three insertions ; tl.c same. - teen lines) will ho inserted i.-i. i fi.. m:ni( to vnarlv advertisers. lp All letters addioscd to the Editor must be po.,t paid. JOB PR I ft TING. Ifcmnff a general assortment of large, elegant, plain ! blessings of the people he had been foremost and ornamental Typo, we are prcpaied I jn rescuing, first from tyranny, then from ail to execute cverv description of ' " . archy; and our country, having just escaped I?ia21Ty?aSJCY3 j the imminent peril of a war with Fraiicc, af- Cards, ("ii-culns, Rill Heads. Notes, Illank Receipts, ... ., i... !. lv. rv.. t, joMic.es, Legal and othe.s mnks. l'hamphiets, Ac, ter securing by the 1 cdcral Constitution the printed u ah neatness and despatch, on reasonable power of protecting and promoting her own "' ' 1 . 1 . 1 AT TIIE OFFICE OF THE Tcf fcrsoniaii Kepnhlieaii. Prom the Louisville Journal. The Spring of Life is;tst. The spring of life is past, With all its hopes and fears, And the Autumn time is coming, With its weight of weary years; Our joyousness is fading, Our hearts are dimmed with care, And youth's fresh dreams of gladness, All perish darkly there. While bliss was blooming near us, In the heart's first burst of-spring, While many hopes could cheei us, Life seemed a glorious thing ; t Like a foam upon the river, When the breeze goes rippling o'erj These hopes have fled forever, To come to us no more. 'Tis sad, yet sweet, to listen ; To the soft, wind's gentle swell. And think we hear the music Our childhood loved so well; To gaze out on the even, And the boundless fields of air, And we feel again our boyhood's wish, To roam, like angel's there. There are many dreams of gladness, The cling around the past, And from that tomb of feeling, Old thoughts come thronging fast;- The forms we loved so dcarlv, J i In the happy days now gone, The beautiful and lovely, , . So fair to look upon. Those bright and gentle maidens, Who seemed so formed for bliss, Too glorious and too heavenly, For such a world as this; . ?? Whose soft dark eyes seemed swimming, In a sea of liquid light, And whose locks of gold were streaming. O'er brows so suuny bright. "Whose smiles were like the sunshine, In the spring time of the year, Like the changeful gleams of April, They followed ever' tear; They have passed, like hope, away, , All their loveliness has fled, : Oh ! many a heart is mourning, ' That the' are with the dead. -Like the brightest buds of summer, 1 ' They have fallen from the stem, . Yet, oh, it is a lovely death, ..v-. To fade from earth like them. And vet, the thought is saddening, To muse on such as they, And feel that all the beautiful Are passing fast away; ;W That the fair ones whom we love, " Like the tendrils of a vine, Grow closely to each loving heart, ,ui " Then perish on their shrine. ",t;, .. And we can but think of these, In the soft and gentle spring, f . When the trees are waving o'er us, ' And the flowers are blossoming. For we know that winter's coming, With his cold and stormy sky, And the glorious beauty round us, Is budding but to DIE ! ' " ' t j Napoleon single-handed, and was utterly sub IIorsidle DnEAX.-We once heard a very ducd m a smgl(J bricf campaign commencing laughable joke which a hen pecked husband ( with tlle doublc rout(J of Jeiina Auerg. got upon his Mrs. Caudle. He had borne her berffj and closin wiUl the French armies-ic. railing for many a long year, till one morning torious on her frontien Tlis com. while she was blustering away about the pleted the virtual conquest of all Germany by wood, short potatoes, flour, &c. he remarked Napoleon, Austria bavins been fully crushed very pathetically : j by him in tkc battle of Austerlitz, December " Jerush, I had a dream last night, a very 2, 1805. queer one, and it gives me some uneasiness.! -i,, nrrn n TT, , ! . ifi . r . . . , j Ffty years ago, George IltT was in the 1 dreamed that I was taken sick and died.5 , , P. . . . . tv i x 1 -i midst ot his reign over the British Emniro " ell if it was no more than that, said' fe empire,. Jerush, "I wish it had been more than a with Pitt and I ox, the leaders of the Tory dream. ; and Whig parties at tiie height of their life- " But that is not all,1 said the husband. ' l0nr strugo-le. They both died suddenly six redofTneof afterward. Trafalgar was yet un- rea oi one ot the imps for the old devil him- , , . T , , , . . , , fielf, and was shown into presence. The old 0USbt, but Nelson was already idolized for V.H.i. .rrrr : 1 . . ... .! . 17!.. L 1 1- . fien, anu was shown into presence. The old fellow 'recognized me at once, and said he, ' ' have you come here to to stay!' I told him ; Iliad 'Weill can't have you here,' said 1 come, and then hell will be in an uproar all 1 tlie time !' Soon after the completion of the narrative of the dream, there came a shower of culina ry utensils about the poor fellow's headwhich obliged him to seek quarters els,wher,c ; till his Jezabel's wrath had subsided. A Rctros- pect. The following- article, which we copy from the New York Tribune, is of exceeding in- ; terest at the present time, when we are just cntcring upon a I1CW ' , . A. changes, mutations, ail half century. The and progress of the last Halt century mav Serve US to surmise, tOSOlllC , vrtwut u nut liio iiu.xi .aua.il u i iuui Li J, Fifty years ago, George Washington had j just gone to his grave amid the tears and industry, was beginning to realize the bles sings of Independence and Freedom. Tliom- as Jefferson had just been designated for next President by a majority of the American peo- ' pie, but had not yet boon actually elected, j there being an equal number of votes for him ! and his associate (Burr) on the Republican I ticket, as it was then called, requiring an e- 1 lection by the House, which took place in February following. The population of our Jcatntry was over 5,300,000, or considera- I bly less than one-fourth the present number. . The Union then consisted of Sixteen States ! Vermont, Tennessee and Kentucky having 1 been added to the original Thirteen. Ohio i ... . had begun to be settled at Marietta, Cincin- j natti, Warren, and perhaps one or two other points, but had not yet population enough for a tate. Jiere were small settlements at ' Detroit, and perhaps at one points west of Ohio : but Louisi Spanish province, including St 1 as New Orleans, and the Mississippi a Span- ish river, through which our people then set- .i:.. :.. ...,ii.. c rvi.: uiu; in int.: vaiirv ui im wiiiu u:u uuiiit'u egress for their products. Florida was of course all Spanish, and what are now Ala rbama and Mississippi partly Spanish and I wholly a wilderness. Our own State had scarcely a -white inhabitant west of the sour ces of the Mohawk and Susquehanna; Buftlt- lo and Rochester were forests travesed only j by savages. The Erie canal had hardly been 'dreamed of by the wildest castle-builder, and Tltc Half Century the. western limit of this State (which a few unquestioned possession of the savage tribes ' months more will bring within 24 hours of i who had thinly peopled them from time im us) was practically farther off than Paris or memorial, and whose barbarous occupations Galena now is. This city had a population of war and the chase forbid the hope of their , of 00,000 (less than an eighth its present 1 number) mainly living below Chambers st., while Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City, j and its other suburbs, did not contain a fif ; tieth part as many inhabitants as now. Phil adelphia was a sixth larger than New York; now one-fifth smaller, with a far greater dis parity of suburban population. Boston had j 25,000 inhabitants, Baltimore 2G,500; Wash j ington City (wither the Federal Government 1 had just been removed,) had 3,200. A few daring spirits were just beginning to migrate from the older portions of New England to j Western New York (" Holland Purchase") I and North-Eastern Ohio an enterprise quite as arduous and perilous as emigration hence ' to California and Oregon now is. In Europe, Napoleon had just reached the topmost round of the ladder by overthrowing i the Directory and causing himself to be pro--t claimed First Consul, though he was not crowned Emperor till 180-1. He had return ed from his abortive invasion of Egypt in '1799, but the battle of Marengo, which made ' Italy a French province for twelve years ! thereafter, was not fought till June, 1800. j The Austrian monarch was still known as "Emperor of Germany." Poland, after a melancholy, fitful struggle of twenty-five years against internal anarchy and the con spiracy of Kings for her destruction, had just ceased to exist Alexander had not yet as cended The throne of Rusia, his father Paul I. ! not being assassinated till March, 1801. Prussia had preserved peace since the defeat of the Allied invasion of France in 1792, her councils inclining for or against Revolutiona ry France as fortune smiled or frowned, and . so remained until 180G, when she engaged louIU uul his victories of Cap &c. His attack o inn,fl t ; AnrI, 1ftr )e oi. inceni, yiuouiur, on Copenhagen was not All this Continent, south and west as well as north of the one million square miles be longing to the United States, (since increas ed to 3,280.,000,) was claimed by various Eu ropean powers as, ttheir respective colonial possessions all north pf us (as now) except' a vaguely defined and inhospitable portion of i Since Napoleon's death, Spain, Poland, Ita thc Northwest Coast, belonging to Great : ly and Germany have by turns been the the Britian, while all south and west of us was atre of revolutionary commotions looking to ruled by Spain and Portugal, except a small . republican freedom, but these ebullitions luyre portion of the eastern coast of South Amcfi- j all been quenched in blood, and monarchy, ca lying between the mouths of Orinoco and more or less absolute in form, but generally the Amazon, which was shared by England, despotic in substance, is now the common law France and Holland, and known as British, J of the most enlightened quarter of the earth French and Dutch Guiana. This small por- j save in France and Switzerland. France is tion is still European; with most of the islands , now nominally a Republic, but, practically, known as West Indies, but no Spanish or ruled the twin aristocrats of musketry and Portuguese flag now waves over any portion J money, to-day enjoys far less real freedom of the Continent. Portuguese America, than the smaller kingdoms, Sardinia, Sweden peaceably separated from the mother coun try, now constitutes the Empire of Era - zil, and is governed by a branch of the Por- tuguese royal house of Braganza; while the vast region formerly constituting Spanish A - merica is now divided as follows : Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New-Mexico and Upper Cal - ifomia have been acquired by the United . and unlawful robbery from nearly half their States : while the residue of Mexico, Central number of the right of suffrage ; her aristoc Amcrica, Venezuela, New-Grenada, Quito, ' ratic predominance is undermined by intestine Peru, Chili, Buenos Ayrcs and their append- ages, have become independent, and are striv- inSi generally with indifferent success, to maintain Republican institutions, though with a constant tendency, created by ignorance, indolence and superstition, to degenerate in- to military despotisms. Such Buenos Ayres appears now to be, while Venezuela and Mex- ico have been frequently distracted by the arts and arms of military chieftains. Cen- . tral America has been torn to pieces by the general causes above recited, and now lies prostrate anu poweness. iUcxico exhibits via. The Spanish Presidency of Quito is now the Republic of Equador. Paragua and ' TT-., ... t..... r. t i ; vjiuyua jm c ai-jjuiaivii nuiii jjut'iiua jwret, and each is now independent, the latter known as " the Oriental Republic," though its people are more commonly known as " Monte Videans," from their capital. The extreme southern portion of the Continent, known to Europeans as '"Patagonia," with a ! great portion of the interior of South Ameri- ca, and the north part of North America re main as they were in 1S00. in the undisturbed. bed self-improvement. The imnronerlv termed West Indian Isles remain in good part as in 4 W 1S00, save that Hayti, then in revolt against France has achieved hef independence of both France and Spain, while slavery has been a bolishcd throughout the islands ruled by Great Britian. The continental possessions of Great Britian have improved considerably m population and wealth; Upper Canada of late quite ranidlv Nortliwar, of i-.tit.wlo rapidly, in ortn ward ot latitude oO ; dg. the scv verity of the climate on this side ' and the remoteness from civilized and pco-' or two other unequivocal symptoms or uecrcpituue anu ap- nc emancipation m ireianu, anu rariimenta- UL ,l 'y irunopumieni, oi nunc m ' apparent ., I ' l . i t i" ? t i , ,i , . ii Iiiiai.i ana was a prouumii"-uissouiuou. upper l'eru nas uc- ry nuiurm in aruat uriuan, are two or its " -"u, cumu tun vems u, ;wav ami i .: i: tt v t i Tf i -ri . . tiio cirr nr sn.'tnn cmim Ml. . . Loins ns u-pll i cornea senarate Renublic. now known .is Rnli-1 neaeeful tronies. Such nm t ho nrlitirnl nc, the history of whieh will commend itself . mn- nincr a pled countries on thc other, have prevented ', p' fcucil dISSnicetul proceedings on the frequently to think it is their nature to ' Dear, brave boy 1' exclaimed the be any considerable settlement. Successive at-1 part ofa man' vcr' "aturally rufllcd thc tern- be. Of sill natural things, a reproach al- reaved father, 'and this was the explana tempts to discover a Northwest passage a-' per t,lc Drutn but as there was no other most to childish frankness and innocence, 1 tion which I refused to hear !' And hot round this Continent from Europe to the ' alternative, he was obliged to submit. - save me from a 'boy man !" But to the and bitter tears rolled down his cheeks. nrtli Rnnifin l,nvn lo,l tn nr nmt;nl M.lf Great Britian, already bereft of her most; valuable colonies by the American Revolu-! tion, has built up twqnew Empires within the' present century the first by successive con-, quests and annexations in Ilindoostan, where her possessions now cover a territory as larn-e as Europe south of the Rhine and thc Dan-' ube,and poepled by hardly less than one hun-' drcd millions of human beings. From the In- j dus on the west to the Irawadi on the east. ! from the ocean on the south to thc Himalayas on the north, almost the entire continent is , now under British rule A 1 vaster anu more prosperous. populous, British Empire ing, from what were in erncsses, scantily inhabited by the lowest' grade of savage beings, and infected along ! the coasts by a few cargoes of expatriated j rascality. The growth of British Australia is now proceeding with a rapidity scarcely paralleled, and apparantly with'entire solidi ty and health. The culmination, decline and overthrow of Napoleon's colossal power belongs to thc first "ustcr quarter of the present century. In 1800 First, " Why, Charley 7" , Consul; in 1804 "Emperor of the French ;" : "Because the grammcr says, positive buss, in 1811 master of nearly all Continental .'comparative buster; audi dids.e.him gin rope except Russia, with Italy, Germany, y such a I)0sitivo buss'" Lirzic Stt'00,,ed- Austria, Spain at his feet, and even Rusia, ! Turkey, and the United States virtually his allies, and only England stubbornly resisting his strides to universal dominion. 1814 saw him defeated and exiled; 1815 a discrowned prisoner ' for life, and 1821 witnessed his "death on a lone barren Isle," almost equi distant from the eastern and western hemis- pheres. On his complete discomfiture, Eu-'a rope reverted very nearly into the condition cij ncaiiv uitu uic LuimiLiun which it exhibited prior to the outbreak of A-xunciitevoiution, t rance Demg restored to monarchy and reduced to her modern lim-1 its; Germany reconstituted a despotic an- archy; Italy surrendered to Austria and ah soluteism ; Poland left a wreck and a divided ruin; Turkey still further crippled and hast ening to decay; while only jussia manifested external growth combined with eternal vigor. ' and Denmark. Switzerland still retains her j ' ancient liberties, though convulsed by faction within, and menaced by banded despotisms without. So all on the Continent seems fixed 'as Royalty would have it, but it is only seeming, ' France is a volcano ready for eruption : her ' millions will never acquiesce in the arbirtary j feuds, which will yet divorce the sword, the , money-chest and the mitre from their present j j alliance, and restore the rule of the masses ; ; and the day which sees a democratic asccn-! dency restored in Paris will arouse there-' publicans of Germany, Italy, Hungary and perhaps of Poland, to make vehement strug-' gle for the liberties of mankind. Despotism has now the bayonets and the arsenals on its . sides as of yore ; but in popular intelligence, in comprehension of the rights of man the necessary iniquties of kingcraft, the world has made vast progress since 1800. Catho- -pects on which opens the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Aucctdete of a Io. A friend who hasbeen spending the win tor in Halifax, N. S., tells the following anecdote of a dog, which. is about the best story of canine sagacity that we have ever heard. Tige is a splendid Newfoundland, and pos- scsses good sense as well as good looks.. I IIe LS in tlie lmbit ot' oin with a penny in his mouth, to the same butcher's shop and death occurred under circumstances, which fish line and hook that hung over where purchasing his own breakfast, like a gen- wcre peculiarly painful to his parents. A ! the water was deep, and the first thing temanly dog as he is. But it so happened )oullSer brother, a delicate, sickly child . we saw he had slipped off, and wasstrug upon one cold morning during the past win- J'1'0!11! birth, the next in age to him, i ling in the water ! .Henry threw off his ter, the shop was closed, and the necessity h been down for nearly a fortnight with . c ' r ' J nil am dOllUC toVOl". Ill nnnconnnnnn nf if tlin -U7?ltrr onrl fiffni o ninnf ,lonl P 1 t i .... ! sccmeu 10 uc lmPosea "t)on AlS cither to ,.tiuiut tuu uuluuui luturu ui iuuk lur nib breakfast elsewhere. Hunger probably con- strained him to take the latter alternative, and oft' he started for another butcher's shop, near his favorite resort. Arriving there, he deposited his money upon the blgck, and smacked his chops for breakfast, as usual ; bul the butcher instcad of meetiiiff the dc- ' u""u ;ib a uuoman ougni, m used tne com mt0 thc lilb and drove the dog out of the . HCXt 111001111?, JlOWCVCr. W 1C11 US master furnished him with the coin for the' Purcbase of breakfast, as usual, the dog, in- stca(1 ot S0UlS to the shop where he had bccn accustomed to trade, went immediately 10 llie sll0P lrom whence ne was so unceremo- lll0Usly ejected thc day before, laid his peny uPn t,in block, and with a growl, as much as t0 say "'ou dou,t I),ay any morc tricks P travellers," placed his paw on the pen- ny. The butcher, not liking to risk, under such a demonstration, the perpetration of another fraud, immediately rendered him the away with the me.it at one swallow, and sei- zinff the penny again in his mouth, made off to the shoP of bis more honest acquaintance, and by thc purchase of a double breakfast, made UP tor Jus previous last. OF" " Lizzie," said a little curly-headed boy of some five years, 'isn't Sam Slade a CrJLv An " Tiiflirriijint Southerner. sneak- 1 ; e- !r: , fut nnn.hne nf thn mi: ui ltiuuii;, ouyo uun. wn- ....... . - fiirms are so barren, that you might mow .. . I .1 .!. them with a razor, and ruKe mem w an a tooth comb, and yet not get enough to fodder a grasshopper for a month. "I wish October virus only here,' remarked married gentleman of our acquaintance 1 ll5s betterlmlf, a few days since, as he , ,. . " tin nf-r. sn;rifinn h-ittaod ;,, kr-re beads upon his brow, "Why make such a ivish, dear your days, that much shortened,' yu know W0V1'.1 be was the moralizing reply of the wife Yes, that's very true, dear, said tne. iius- b,:S wnnld belei In Australia, a still (Ilud Pro I110' 1,1 thc s,iaPc ot a slice oi meat, JIe wag afrai(j to come herCj lvhcu thc Every tlljng tuat i now sce t,at cvcr , tiiougli tar less U11U xyua 4UUU1-LU nin'l'11 gin told mm you nad come Home.' neiongeu 10 nun, remiuus me oi niyjost , is now rapidly form-' nc nad t'"ne tIlc day previous, to Ins own cot-, Tell Jane to tell him to come here . bo', lesterday 1 touml some pencil 1800 immense wild- fers5 but the dog, quicker than he was, made instantly,' was the brief reply to this in-' sketches which it was his delight to make her sewiivhtf- eyes- of that forgiving mother, even as'-it painVutof '.$mg yef,:grieyGiL. or. out ' a,?toi:or ij'tood in the eyes ofMercy, fin the house ' raged nature. The wife rcsumetl W's Beacon. My Love. . nY V. II. RUDDIMAX. I love the gentle, budding Spring, Oh, dearly well ! When earth and air their tribute bring, Our joys to swell : When azure skies" with warblings ring, And earthward bright reflections fling, Of hope to tell. Sweet Summer's bloomingopening, too, I love to hail; Its balmy, kissing breath to woo Each spicy gale ; And happily life's way pursue : On flowery waves, all capped with dew, My bark to sail. Calm Autumn's peaceful!, sad return, I love to see ; Though from each falling leaf, I learn My destiny, And for an endless summer yearn, As to each drooping flower 1 turn, So anxiously. And e'n cold Winter's bitter reign, I almost love ; For joys oft follow in its train : And as they move, They whisper, " Spring will come again, And banish every chill and pain From Nature's grove !" So thus I love them every one ; They all possess Some pleasures, specially their own, Our lives to bless: For in the many seasons flown, How very much, lias each one known Of happiness. Touching Narrative. Jjul 1 desire to narrate to sire to narrate to you a cir - which happened m the family cunistance to the heart of every father and mother ; who has any sympathy with, or affection . for, their children. 1 was convinced of, thi his when I opened the letter from L. n. which announced it, and in the detail of the event which was subsequent ly furnished me. A few weeks before he wrote, he had -- ' buried ins eldest son, a fine, manly little fellow, of some eight or ten years of age, v Jltvi uu cam, kiiuwu ;i uay s illness until that which finally removed him hence to be here no more. His - -w . VVUUViVIUUUVVy V the nature of the disease, every precau I; w - . vviiuovi uuuv J a. tlon Jiatl bcen adopted that prudence sug- gested to guard the other members of the family against it. But of this one, the fath- er's eldest, he said he had little fear, so riled was he, and so generally healthy, StiI1 bowever, he kept a vigilant eye u- l)0n !lim' a!ld GSPccbilly forbade his go- ,uf '. t1 T i " school, which it was his custom some- tj t visifc f j was but a boy, and 'boys will be boys,' and Ave outfit more --'J" One evening this unhappy father came home wcarietU with a long day's labor and vexed, at some little disappointment, i - , , , d j. n..f,irnlIv k:Iu ri;s. position, and rendered him peculiarly ' susceptible to thc smallest annoyance. While he was sitting by the fire in this ' unhappy mood of mind, his wife entered ! the nppartment and said: h f J come in, and he is a hhti Iie covered with dock mud, and he is as wet as a drowned rat. 'Where is he?' asked the father, sternly, I TT il 1 1 f ' He is shivering over the kitchen fire formation. Presently the boy entered, half perish cd with friirht and cold. His father clan ced at ins sad pugnc, reproacneu nun bitterly with his disobedience, spoke of the punishment which awaited him in the 1 1 1 ! 1 1 1 1 - mornins, as the penalty of his offence, and in a harsn yoice concluded with ' Now sir, go to your bed !' ' But, father,' said the little fellow, want to tell you ' ? ' I ' Not a word, sir; go to bed !' 'L only wanted to say, father that ' J With a peremptory stamp, and imper- ativc wave of his hand towards the door, and a frown upon his brow, did that fath- .... .i i i er. without another speech, again close , . - ,i. i tlin nnr OI UXIUalliltlUlI Ui U-VllunulllilLlUll. When his boy had gone supperlcss and i x . beJj tho fatuer sat rcckles8 and unca?y wllile SUpper WJls being prepared; and at tea table ate, but little. His wife saw the real cause or the additional cause i cause or tne aauiiionai cause now uuuiiuua mai, ucjiuci luiuiisiufi tion, and interposed the re- ate or cruel word or loot, we unjustly I srieve their generous feeliitg tu action . 1 . '- ll 1? 1 . i ? . . . J i of his emoti mark: - 1 fliJnl.- iii loni' itmi nnrvlif. nf lon5t. to have heard to what Henryhad to say. , - - , , j O . I . 1 1. My heart ached fty him when he turned away, with his eyes full of tears. Hen- ' rv js a o-ood boy after all, if he does some- times do wron-. ne is a tender hearted, ff ti ate h i of the Interpreter as rcterded by Euu yan. After tea, the evening paper was taken up ; hut there was no news and nothing of interest for that father in the journal of that evening. ITe sat for some time in an apparently painful revery, and then rose and repaired to his bed chamber. As he passed the bedroom where the little boy slept, he thought he would look in upon him before retiring to rest. A big tear had stolen down the boy's cheek, and rested upon it ; but he was sleeping calmly and sweetly. The father deeply regretted his harshness as he gazed up on his son ; he left also his 'sense of du ty;' yet in the night, talking the matter over with the lad's mother, he resolved and promised, instead of punishing as he threatened, to make amends to the boy's aggrieved spirit in the morning, for the manner in which he repelled all explana tion of his offence. But that morning never came to the poor child in health. He awoke the next morning with a raging fever in his brain, and wild with delirium. In forty- eight hours he was in his shroud. He knew neither his father nor his mothor when they were called to his bedside, nor at any meinent afterwards. Waiting, watching for one token of recognition, hour after hour, in speechless agony did that unhap py father bend over the couch of his dy ing son. Once, indeed, he thought he saw a smile of recognition light up his dying eye, and he leaned eagerly forward for he would have given worlds to have , whispered one kind word in his ear, and uave been answered: but that gleam of intelligence passed quickly a- was succeeded by the old un- 'lfrr nnrl flirn-Ill fnco rP V, fn. Yered limbs, which lasted until death Camc to his relief. Two davs after the iinrWf.nl-nr nnm,-;n, the little coffin, and his son, a playmate of the deceased boy, bringing the low stools on which it was to stand in the en try hall. I was with Henry,' said the lad, when . Af ' he got into the water. We were playing down on Long Wharf, Henry, Charles iuuuuoru, ana . ana inc tiac was very low : and there was a beam ran out from ' the wharf, and Charles got on it to get a v titv ii ubij uiiui iiitui C il.C4U VlUill J L hard work, got Charles out : and they waded up threw the mud to where the wharf was not so wet and slippery, and then I helped them to climb up the side. Charles told Henry not to say anything about it, for if he did his father would never let him go near the water again. Henry was very sorry ; and all the way going home he kept saying 1 What will father say when he sees me to-night : I wish we had not iroue ! so near the wharf ! xw, uiul uu uimw nvn icuiiuu, auu , for the first time, that what he had treat- I cd with unwonted severity as a fault, was ' but the impulse of a generous nature, ' which fonretful of self, had hazarded life for another. It was but the quick prompt- mg ol that manly spirit which he himself had always endeavored to graft upon his susceptible mind, and which, young as he was, had always manifested itself on more than one occasion. Let me close this story in the yery words of the father, and let the lesson sink deep in thc hearts of every parent 1 ..1 ..11 il 1J...I. who snail peruse iuis bh.uu.-u. for thc amusement of his younger broth er. To-day, in rumaging an old closet, I came across his boots, still covered with .1 1 1 1 . 1. Ini l -rwsi-r. l.n... uock. ihuu as wuuu c wu uium. (You may think it strange, but that which is usually so unsightly an object is now 'most precious to me.) And every morn intr and evening I pass the ground where my son's yoice rang the merriest among his playmates. i ' All these things speak to me vividly of his life ; but I cannot though I have often tried I cannot recall any other ex- pression of my dear boy's face than that mournful one with which he turned from me on the night I so harshly repulsed i nil l x i.i i - him. Then my heart bleeds afresh ! si i iiiii ill U. Iiuil uaiuiui aiivjuiu n , . .. .. our daily conduct towards those little be- ings sent us by a king Providence, that we are not laying up for ourselves the sources of a many future bitter tear ! now cautious that, neither by inconsider- 'i mi nst its motive lest in a moment ol t t . k. 1. I 1 L. L I. I.. I . excitement, we be led to the venial error s of the heart, the punishment due only to wilful crime ! Alas ! perhaps few parents suspect how often the fierce rebuke, the sudden blow is answered in their children bv the tears, Pon nor physical mental r. i 1 t ? 4 i
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