II I • 2 poetry.. IRTY.FIVE. " The years of a n'in'e Mb aro tt rba sear° and ten." • , Oh, weary hen. t l thou art half way hthnol • Wu siandno life's meeldian bettyt—,s • '2l As far froth ehildhood's morning dawn 'As to the grave's forgetful night. \Giro Youth and Hope a parting teat— ' 1140 promised but to bring us' here, And Beason takes the guidance lIONV.-•-• 0110 backivarut look—the last—the last! • Ono silont tear--for youth ts pasta goes with Hope and passion bath 1 Who comes with 1)10'li n d memory our. • Oh, lonely ions the downward track—. ' • Joy's Musie roes gone! To pletisnro ail,' her giddy i.qmp F:Metre'l, withtet;a Op or tear! ' • But heart g'reS way and snirits droop, 1 - To think that Love may lee ,•1! Ale hero! t l k , have we no charm when youth is flown— , • ' 'Midway tthdeath 16ft sad alone ~ Yet stay I—tni 'twee'llhrbt star TM! t 'srMds its thread aimei.s the Wave; 'il• I seo a I”l:_bLening 13731 t tr io fin', ti oil down a path beyond the pyarel • And now—bless Cod!—:ils golden line Coons r. and 11 , ,fhts coy rlmdowy way. Aml shows the heir band ritsp'd to Intl.!! . Ltd 11,1! o hat those sweat rupees say: 'The be:ler lami's in siOlt, Al by ;Is ri n :alt'uin_ All lose is driven. hot. stir!•c ]and . 1' Itinq 'lhee Oil 3I i Lit ciiuilruULi. SCENES ABOUT SEBASTOPOL. LIFE IN THE TRENCHES J 31.—The surf'ace of the ground in the the neighborhood of the Malakoff works and the Itedau is presenting every day a more checkered appearance. -- It is one mass of •reaches, traverses, rifle pits, and batteries a perfect maze; so that it, requires a strongly developed organ of locality or else many days of trench duties to find one's way.' The rail- way is perhaps - the best test of the gigantic activity which is prevailing ; numbers of mor tars and largeouantities of ammunition come up daily by it and vanislragain silently, to lie replaced next day by Others. It is as if the enches were an unfathomable abyss, such an ' , credible mass cf mortol•s, guns, shells and shot do they seem to swallow up. IV hen they satiaied and when the, word "enough" NC' be said seems as uncertain as Crimet.n Weather. I heard, a few; dayS ago, from a French officer of artillery that Pelissier, being asked when offensive siege operations would be again' resumed, said, " Well, I don't know ; the Russians are losing every day three or 'Our hundred men by sickness. If we wait a week they will have lost a brigade ; if we wait a month they will have lost a carps d armee." But if the RuSsians Ipse many men by sick ness they. seem to be.eareful to replace them again TIIE FLIES. One of the greatest curses of the camp at ,'pc present moment is, the multitude of (lies. It is really an Egyptian plague. In every tent arid hut they swarm in myriads. From 6osquii.oes and flees we are pretty free; there are no bugs; at least I have neither seen nor heard 7 of any. Probably bedsteads are not euffielently numerous here' to encourage , . . . the presence of those flat and foetid' insects. We are duly grateful for the absence of. such irritating vermin, and w•e try to be resigned; but we•certuinly cannot be thankful .under fly inUietion. The Crimean:fly is the most daring and aggressive animal of its size that it has ever been my lot to encounter. It befouls everything, in your quarters, bites . you, and will not, be rebuffed. Its courage and activity Ocitotitute it the ZoMace of the fly faunlly. ii 'dashes into the cup you raise to your lips and defiles the morsel at the end of your fork.— War with it is not to be thought of. Kill a thousand and you shall have a million in their stead. Whatever food is exposed upon the table, sugar, meat, bread, 'is in an instant ••black with flies. The camp resounds with maledictions on the genus. A cargo of "ketch ,'em-alive" papers arriving just now at Balak lain would find an instant 'sale at exhorbitant prices. We should paper our huts and tents with them, and still despair of exterminating our tormentors. THE UNDERGROUND HUTS These singular dwellings are as may be sup. posed, damp and gloomy. They aro entered by three , or four ste,pa cut in. the earth, and usually, soiter'Sd 'with atones or plafiks. Hero -is one of which the entrance is So low that a man of average height must bend double to etin: It -is-oonsidered_rather a good hut, and its owners speak with, gratitude, almost with enthusiasm, of the excellent shelter it afforded them in the trying times of last win ter. , • It is eight or 13itio feet broad and about 12 in length. 'A.t one end $ sort of embrasure admits light through the thigh wall, composed of mud and shapeless mains of stone. below this embrasure is the bed, barely raised from the grouttd;,-6i(one aide is altmall,..niche in,the wall used ArvidCo; the 'Wails ttie tappstri ed 'with sail-cloth, horsoblankets; and with manta : that have comp alt thaiWay fiom Cat's- lonia:-and"Valoncia; • whii.o:'•thO:.SPaitish mules and muleteer's, are adorned with pictures cut from illustrated periodicals, and with numer ous pipes, Lien culotices, well blackened; that is to, sly, by the tobacco oil that hassoaked through the porous clay. actuidly chimney-piece—a thick board wrenched froM some.packing case, the rusty nails-Still stick ing iu its edges—which supports a biscuit box, tobaldco; bottles in various stages of c:onsuMp tion; and 611Mr' small comforts: Here' is"a rough tubused for the inmates' ablutions until scarcity of water caused the prohibition of such luxuries. "Suspended from the homely tapestry. are a sword, a pouch-belt, water proof' and leather leggings. A pair of tall boot are in one corner, and hard by the door, the lightest place, is a crai'y table, with writing, material's and sundries. A shelf has been contrived, and holds a few well-thumbed volumes. The heavy rain has flowed into the hut through the doorway up to'the edge of the bed, the consequence being that the floor re sembles a muddy -road, in which you Slip about and almost stick. A trifle this to Cri• mean campaigners, The roof does not leak, which is more than can be said of many buts. The one I have described may be taken as a lair specimen of this class of edifice. Trans ported to England and et.hibited as the dwell ing of an Esquimaux or American Italian it would doubtless excite surprise and cont;tas slot', and people would wonder that even savages could ett_ist in such dens—here cheer fully tenanted by very civilized pc , su ns.— Huts and hovels are few in number compared to 111-e ten's, which, when carefully pitched, with a good gutter round them, male endura ble habitations for tilts t;ate of year, although liable to be over-thrown by vcOty winds. lint against the cold, what the canva s crackles with the frost and the icy breath of winter enters at every chink, they afford poor protection indeed. SELL' SG COI LIMEN FOR DEF..% u.—The Rev. Dr. Wnytivontu, a Methodist Missionary in China, writes to the Rev. Dr. DcuniN from IToug song, under the date of June ti, and ME "We anchored safely in this harbor on the morning of the 24th' ultimo, fif:eeti days 'rem Singapore and one hundred and thirty-three from New York--a good run, taking out the eighteen days we lay at Singapore, for this season of the year. After twelve days of loitering upon the China sea„With 'calms and variables,' a severe gale,. 'tiro corner, of a typhoon' the eaptaiii„called us, and compelled us to •qie ta' four bour4,ou Sunday, the 2'oth, renewing all the delights of sea sickness to the uninitiated. it was providential that do wei no further north. One ship, perhaps a hundred miles,from us and nearer the centre of, the,tempest, was 'thrown on her beam ends,' and came into port. a few days after us dismasted. Our barque was heavily laden with rice for the Cantdu market, as were nosily or qiiite all the vessels front India to China at this season of starvation, scarcity, and general stagnation of business resuhing from the war. Such was the distress a month ago among the poorer , classes in the vicinity • of Canton that girls twelve yeari of age were, offered for sale by their own parents for a Couple of picots of rice, valued at twelve or fourteen dollars." A Btu STORY.—Au old gentleman who had a neighbor rather addicted to tolling large stories, after listening one day to several which quite taxed his credulity, boasted that ho himself could toll a bigger ono still; and proceeded to relate the following:— , Said he, one -day I was qUite at the farther end of my farm, more than half a mile from my house- -when all at once, I saw a heavy, dark cloud rising in the west. Soon I saw torrents of rain descending at a distance, and rapidly approaching the place where I stood with my wagon and horses. Determined—if possible—to escape the storm, I instantly leaped into my wagon, started "any team to wards home. By constant application of the whip to my horses, I barely escaped being overtaken by the rapidly npprottehing torrent. But so tremendous did it pour down, that my little dog, who was oloso behind me, actually had to swim all the way! A dry old fellow called ono day on a member of Congress elect; tho family were at breakfast; there was a vacant seat, but the old man was hardly in a plight to by invited to the table. The following conversation took place : " What is the news ?" The old man said, " Nothing much, but one of my neigh bore _gave his child _a . queer name." " What was it 7" ""Como : and cat." The name sound ed so peculiar that it was repeated--n What, come and pat " Yes, plank you, said the old !Tian, "I don't carp if I do," and drew up to the table. °'what tree most resembles the remains of a flue Havana cigar? The white ash. gMa-Uh (WAr.,B,\ 5) , THE PLAGUE. 'H Tha ,Most , terrible scourge of ;the Middle Ages was the "Black Death." It is computed that this mighty reaper gathered in his l' her vest home" twenty-five millions of people, one-fourth of the then population' of Europe. The disease first appeared in the kingdom of Cathay to the. North of China in the year 1383. Ih )c0 it vtsited France and' England, and subsequently. - Scotland; Norway, Russia and ,Poland....R.dashed in among tbe.roles with,a wolfish appetite and seemed ; to anticipate the EnrssianS in Making a Morsel of its nationality. Three-fourths . of the entire'' population' were devoured by the hungry monster. .Of Itus• sians and Norwegians two-thirds were de stroyed. The disease is described by Hecker as a species of, Oriental plague, exhibiting it self in inflammatory boils and tumors of the glands, accompanied with burning thirst; some times, also, with inflammation of the lungs and expect : oration of blood ; in other eases with vomitings of blood . and fluxes of the bowels, tenninating •like malignant cholera; with it discoloration of the skin, and hlack spots indicating putrid decomPo'sition, from which it was called in the north of Europe, the "'Black Death." The attacks were usual ly fatal within two or three days of the first symptoms appearing, but in many cases were even more sudden, some falling as if struck by lightning. In some countries dogs, cats, fowls. and other animals were affected by the disease and died in great onmbers. In England it was followed by a fatal murettiß,auAng cattle, occasioning a great advance in ire price of Upon the heels of this black night of Mor tality, there came ',Diking into Europe the Dancing Maria or Tarantism, as it was called in Italy where it was ntt , ibuted to the bite of the ground spider:--the tarantula. The dis ease, it is sail, showing itself in violent invol untary movements in the muscles of the legs, the physicians of the times conceived the idea that if the patients were encmr•aged to dance until the fell eshausted, a reaction would com mence and a cure result. This singular pre scription was so much relied on, that music was every where provided, and airs composed to harmonii:e with the peculiarities of the dance: but these public exhibitions seem to have hatl the effect of propagating the epi demic. In a short time—naturally enough, to be sure-,all Germany was in motion. The no lion 'en masc. took to dancing until the father• land became a vast ball room, and the anti ebarnlMr to the " valley of . death." Their circles were . lnrmcd' in the Churches, public buildings - and in the streets. .Joined han d in hand and , appearing. to have lost control over Ihernselves, they continued dancing re gardless of the bystanders, for hours together in wild delirium until they fell to the ground exhausted. The dancing mania, however, ap peared to' run its course more rapidly in Ger many than in other places. prevailed in Italy as late as the seventeenth century. We have historical accounts of two other singular epidemics, the 'biting .mania and the mewing mania: The forther began, it is sail, with a'.iuu, in a German mlnucty, who showed a great propensity to Idle het companions, which spre . ad to many other nunneries. The mewing mania was also a nunnery disease— Ole victims of this disease would spend several hours in the day in imitating the mewing of a cat, Both of these epidemics occurred in the fifteenth century, when nervous diseases up pear to have been unusually prevalent in Eu rope Tho " sweating sickness," another terrible epidemic, made its appearance in England in 1544 ; it produced a fatality nearly as great as that of the Black ) Death. The disease de vastated England five times within six years, amt then entirely disappeared. The disease was a violent inflamatory fever, that suffused the whole body with a Read perspiration. Its attack was followed immediately by complete prostration, and arriving at a crisis in a few hours, it seldom spared its victims—scarcely One in a hundred escaped with life. It was remarkable, that robust and vigorous Men were generally singled out as the favorite tar gets for the arrows of this deadly archer, whilst children and the aged almost universally escaped. Plagues have existed in nearly all ages, and can hardly be said to be extinot—even at this day. The great plague of London in 1665, carried off nearly 70,000 inhabitants of that city. It commenced with shivering, nausea, and headache, followed by total prostration or delirimn, and sometimes paroxisms of frenzy. If the patient survived those, till the third day, buboes commonly appeared, and when these could be made to suppurate, there was hope of recovery. ' The ",plague of the guts," which is mentioned in a table of London cas ualitios of 1659 and 1660, and which proved awfully fatal in - 11370 - ond 1699; is supposed - to have been . the i cholore. in its malignant form. The minute descriptions given of this disease by Dr; Hecker, indontify it with the epidemic cholera of this period, and seem to explode the theory that before the year 1817, the 64: era was altogether unknown either in India or Europe. • • . p . uc CESp. IN L1F.E;;1.,:: It is the peculiar vice of our ago and coun, try to plit a ftilSe estimate on the mere ac. 19 ,1- sition of riches: I - do .net, a$ till undervalue wealth or the diligence and enterfiriSe so often exercised in its attainment. I would not say a word to thrown - doubt on the importance of acquiyip,g such `a measure of this world's gdods as to render ono independent, and able to assist others. The young man who thinks he may amuse himself as-he. sees fit, at - the same time throwing the burden of his ; sppport on others, or leading a precarious 'fie on the verge of debt and bankruptcy, is a dishonor to his species. But I assert that the too com mon mistake which makes men look upon the acquisition of a fortune, - or the having a fine and fashionable hduse, ns cehatituting BUO• cess,in lite, is. extremely pernicious SuCcess in life consists in the proper and harmonious develapement or, those faculties- which God has given us. Now we have fact tips more 7 important to our welfare than 9 of m. Ong money—faculties mote condn gie to ctAl• happiness, and to our health efliody and soul. There are 141ter and better modes of activity than those which ere exhibited in multiplying dollars. Men can leave to their children a better patrimony than money ; they can leave them the worth of a good example, good hab its, a teligious faith, a true estimate of the de sirable thiugs of this life ; resources of mind and heart which will shed sunshine on adver sity, and give a grnee to prosperous fortune. " I t is not wealth which is deserving of hom age, but the virtues which a man exercises in the idow pursuit of wealth—the abilitics so called forlit. the self denials so imposed." I have heard o wo brothers, whose father died ;e: • 1 , rem five hundred dollars apiece. "I will take this money and make myself a r l ch man," said Peary the younger brother., -I will take this tnetie,y, and make myself a goad man. - said (loorge the elder. Ilen , e, who knew but little beyond the multiplication table, abandaned a'l thoughts of going to school, and bean by peddling g'dods, in a small way, over the country. Ile wk's shrewd aid quick to leniat what he gave his attention to; and he gave all his attention to making money. Ile succeeded. In one year his five hundred dollars had become a thousand. In five years it had grown to be twenty thou sand ; and at the age of fifty he was - worth a million. Geotge ,remembered the words of the wise man:—"With all thy getting get en ders; anding. He spent two thirds of his money in going to school and acquiring a taste for solid knoWl edge. He then: spent the rpminder of his patrimony in porchasings feic' acres of land in the neighborhood of a thriving city. He re§elved on . heing a favnir: After a lapse of thirty-five years- the two brothers inetiqt was at George's house. A bright, vigOrens, alert man was George, though upwards of fifty-llye ye4 4 flold. Hen ry, though several years you was very infirm. lie had kept his couti,t, - rtorn' long after the doctors he'd warned I.oMiiko,.giVe Up business, and now be found him4leStricken in health beyond re4r. But that was not the worst lie was out of his element. when nut making money. George took him into the library and showed him a fine collection of books. Poor Henry had never cultivated a taste frt. reading. Ile looked on the books with no more interest then he would have looked at so many bricks. George took Lim into his earden, but Henry began to cough, and said he was afraid of the east_wind.— When George pointed out to him a beautiful elm tree, he only cried out "Pshaw !" George took him into his greenhouse, and talked with enthusiasm of some rare flowers, the beauty of which seemed to give the farmer great pleasure. Henry shrugged his shoulders and yawned, saying, 'Ali! 1 do not care for these things.' George asked him if he was fond Of painting§ and engravings. 'No, no ! Don't trouble yourself,' said Henry. 'I can't tell one daub from another.' 'Well, you tthall hear my daughter Edith play on tbo piano; she is no ordinary performer.'. 'Now, don't brother—don't if you love me?' said Henry beseechingly; never could endure music." 'But what can Ido to amuse you? Will you take a ride?' I am afraid of a horse ; but if you will drive me carefully down to your loge bank, I will stop and have a ghat with the president.' Poor Henry ! Money was the one thing uppermost in his mind; to it ho had sacrificed every other good thing. When a few days afterwards he parted from his far mer brother, he laid his hand o* his shoulter and said, 'George you can - justEinpport, yofr• self comfortably on the ititereit of your mon- . td I hr eno-Itlo, buy up ;the ey, any Java got enougtt,,,- whole of your town, bank and all—aud et, your, life has been it apneas, and mine a ead failure.' Sad but 'true words, Yte. A traveler in England,: observing a peatientat work, and seeing that he wail taking it retanrkably,easy; said to "Itly friend :you. do not appear to swant anyl" ,e 'iThy, no, master; rePlied be, six shillings a week ain't sweating wages?" , • 'COLtRIDO , - ~-.,.:,:....'-,-}• As an 'eloquent talker,'' it May be doubted whether his Superior ever lived. ' The State ments made on this head,- would certainly bo judged most- extravagant and incredible, if theyverenot froM minds of widely differing t asso • tions and tastes, and some of them from sources which forbid' the .thoUght of undue. Partiality for the man. Thus DeAnineey, whose ungehe'reue impuititiont , tir- plagiarism, and unfeeling allusion . to, personal. tiailtieS. and domestic embarasaments, arouse , one's highest indignation, -says: "He spun daily from the loom, of his own magical brain, the ories more glOrious by far, and supported by a poMp and luxury of images, such as no Ger man that ever breathed could have in/hit-ea in his dreams." Thus,-too,:lltizlitt;''WhO'al lowed•differences of -political opinion 'to con vertearly friendship into blind hospitality, writes':—"lle talked on forever, ' and you ~ . wished him to talk, on'foreve?; hiS thoughts did not seem to come With labor and, effort,. but as if borne on by the gllsis'of genius, and as if the ',wings of imagination lifted him from off his feet. His voice rolled on the ear like the pealing orkan, and its sound alone was the music of thought; 'ids •mind was clothed with Wings, and raised on them he lifted philosophy to. heaven. In -his -de scriptiims you then saw the progress of human happiness and liberty in' bright and never- -. ending succession, like the rsteps of. Jacob's ladder, iv;th airy shapes ascending, and de scending, and with the voice of God at the top of the ladder." Thus also the conscien tious and gifted John Foster. det.crtbing a talk in Bristol, says :—"lt was,perfcetly won derful, in looking back on a few hours of Vs conversation,' to think what a quantity of perfectly original speculation he had tittered in language .incomparably - rich in ornament nud now combinations." And thus, once again, henry Nelson Coleridge, his son-in law and editor of most of his works, writes:— '-Throughout a long-drawn summer's day would this man talk to you in low, equable, but clear and musical tones, concerning things human and divine, marshalling all history, harmonizing all experiment, probing the depth of your concionsneEs, and revealing visions of glory and of terror to the imagination; but pouring withal such floods of light upon the mind that ,_ou might; I' --a season, like Paul, become blind in the very act of conversion." Further quotations would.be needless, but we shall be pardoned for adding the testimony of the inimitable litia:—"Come back into" my memory, like as ;bon West in the dayspriug of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column, before thee, the dark pillar not yet;;turned— Samuel Taylor Coleridge 7 -Logician, Metaphy sician, Bard ! How have I seen the casual passer through the cloister stand still, entran ced with admiration t wilit° be weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Murendula,) to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of 1-mblichus or Ploilnus, (for. even in those y •:.:s thou naxedst not pale 1.. t such pliiosophie draughts,) or 7 c 6.- ing Toner in l,:s CI eel,: or l'•!..(1::••—wFe. the wa!ls• of tile oio .il•ey I'mtri re echoed to the aecents,of the lusp:red charity boy. 1U Tuaetjiciiti. 10.31(L't WA.l'll IC. 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