El
ISo ttrq.
A QUAINT OLD BALLAD.
[lilts - L. : it says lot trod, the following in Ow "CI
cnllorted Gig the Phibblelphia ltitiktln, by •l - llivistor
Karl," wh.. says of it: "The billow:lnge:et:nil:iv ballad is
sonnewlint ineilernized front one given in the anti
printed from a MS. in the Sloane Collection.' It
Vas Written about the 'ear 1.1:;0:-I
I have n young
Fur beyond the gen.
I‘lnny are the presort?
That She genes in(
She !Wilt ins a rl u •rry
Without ally sbfile,
FIR , sent me a pigeon
NVltlinnt any bona;
Without any thornek
She seat me R
She bade Inc love my lover
And that withuut desire
liow ran a cherry
Be without a stone?
'How can a pigeon
lie without a bone?
ilow can a briar
' Do without a thorne?
And who e'er loud without desire
Sinee true 10%0 nnn Mist burn?
When the cherry was R blossom,
hen it bad no stone;
when ale dovo was in tho egg,
Then it hnd no bone
When find the brim->pl onted,
Serer a thorn it lure;
And whezi'n maiden has her love
Oh then she lungs no 1111,re
/ (i~figlllQl. . Itti if.
shed nt the request 01 the si udeuts of
College.
"PROIIIETHEUS BOtfih."
An ancient fable gives an account of the
penalty inflicted by N.rittliful Jupiter upon one
Prometheus who had laid ragneish hands on
the fire of heaven. Don't get alarmed at our
'classical opening and go to rummaging your
brain for all the disjointed scraps of classical
literature' that some freak of fortune has
thrown there. We are a little shy of the
neighborhood ourselves and will tarry here as
briefly as possible. We go back to the olden
litne merely al the parson to his upturned
barrel—to procure a text. And having got it
we will levy on modern things fur the material
of the discussion. Close application to Butler
has imparted a keen relish for analogies, else
no would never perhaps have detected re
semblances through the vita of a score or
two of centuries. But I dare say that any
one of you, though he may not hove, enjoyed
this wholesome discipline can lay Lis linger
upon modern doings the exact countupart of
this high-httndo I plunder of the god. Ah! many
. 11 gifted soul plays Jupiter, and many an ass
plays Prumi theus now-a-days. Under twa
aspects•we see tnis farce-constautly t•uactiiig
Thu first and more sorrowful case ie when
genius forgetful of high commission stoops
to prop the vanity or itrthicilltty of tools with
it's heaven-born resources,: when it's mighty
energies start into action at th.e clank of gold
instead of the whispering of lofty send men ti.
Witness the Milford Bard. Daily were his
resunrce C
s taxed by such applications as this;
"Dr Sir, I hey to inform you that I am quoart
ing Silly Graham and how Unit I want to rite
her a love-letter and cant. Will you be so
obleiging as to send me a rail afeeting one by
next mail?" Many a time doubtless did
Sallie's heart flutter over the impassion /A
page. For had not genius touched it-and left
a spell that must linger there foreverl—genius
putting it's God-given dowry under the ham
mer—genius feeding on the husks, and trash
of earth while angel voices vainly importuned
it to return and seize it's birth-right in the
skies.
11l starred son ofDou g ! with melancholy
haste he ran the too frequent erelNic career
of totegifted. In the hey-day of life he stiiiide
on Pisgah and feels his ravished eye on the
Canaan Unit fancy has mapped out before him
—it's towering domes—it's magnificent piles
rising to greet the morning sky—it's
and honey"—but looming stately and grand
above them all Fame's temple stands, glitter
ing in the sun light.
With bemnding foot he starts upon the high
way of glecy, intent to realize the gorgeous
visions of his young.:' ambition. Soon the
,sparkle of the wine'-'cup flashed across his
path— he should have known it was the deadly
glance of the "evil eye' and sped with hot
halte on. fre stayed his foot—thinking to
tad nepenthe in the voluptuous wave—did he
not IcboW it was the smirk of the arch• fiend
ikud'uot an angel's smile that trembled on it's
rosy. crest? Enough, that in that hour, the
toosin rang into the startled ear of the world,
the knell of another murdered hope.
.But not always does genius thus oast aside
the insignia of it's royalty, and play the beg
garly panderer to the pockets of fools, Nor
do thit latter class always ask for what they
want, but take it, Prometheus like, per-force;
And what is accomplished? It is as if a broad
sheet of lightning should play around some
unsightly object which otherwise would lc, t ve
reurtine I hid len ill the bosom of night. fhb
subdued gibruner of the giyes
ME
grandeur to objects whose imperfections stand
vividly forth in'the glare of mid•noon.. So the
inferior mind is graceful and dignified when
moving in•it's own sphere and clothed iu it's
Own weaknesses:. The world has au observant
eye and rarely 'fails justly to measure a mall's
dimensions. Auld the world is reasonably too
in the main. It asks but one talent at the
hand of him who has but one and will not
connive at roguery by receiving more. Literary
pirates might reap instruction from the sad
hate of the monkey who attempted to use his
master's razor, and in the ill jud:;ed effort cut
his throat; for. literary suicide is the inevitable
dOom of literary Monkies. In the words of
"the Preacher," it is all "vanity and vexation
of spirit." The decree has been spoken.—
The world is pushing on in pompous and mag•
nificent procession towards it's destined per
fection. The giant mass must move right on
—no dive'rsion—no loitering. But Heaven
bath spoken it, giant minds must lead. Every
grade of intellect has its own commission in
it's hand and it's own duties on it's conscience
Therewith it should be content. From age to
age the bustling crowd moves on and age after
age supplies the master minds that shall direct
it's march. And when aoeast the stupendous
task is done, and the world's great destiny is
achieved—when that hour dawns upon hu
MilUity upon which the rapt seen of prophecy
has feasted--when "the lamb and the lion lie
down together and a young child leads them"
—and when . itngels 'chant the harvest home of
redeemed humanity, and garner up the trophies
of ages—reward bhall crown the humblest
deserts, but the diadem glitters alone for the
brow of Genius
Women of Different Nations
That the women of different nations are
different in their mental and affectionate con
stitution is uppnrent to the non , t casual oh
server. They are as variou
as are the climates and phy
tics of the several countries of their nativity
All human beings arc indeed the creatures of
circumstances surrounding and developing
them. The following on the English, French,
Italian and 'American women is ingenious, and
we have no doubt many of our readers will
cons Mer it discriminating and just: The
English woman is respectful 4 and proud; the
French woinati is gay and agreeable; the Ital
ian is passionate; the American is sincere and
affectionate. With an English woman, love is
prinCiple; 'With a French 'Womau• it is - caprice;
.With au Italian it is a paiiislon;
lean it is a sentiment. A.Man is married to
an English woman; is united to a French; co.
'habits with an Italian, and is wedded to an
American. An English woman is anxious to
secure a lord; a French woman a c.ompanion;
an Italian a lover; an American a husbumi.—
The Englishman respects his lady; ttie French
man esteems his companion; thu Italian
adores his mistress; the American loves his
wife:. The Englishman zit., night returns to
his house, while the Frenchman goes to his
establishment, the Italian to his retreat, and
the American to his home. When the En
glishman is sick his lady visits him; when a
Frenchman is sick his comminion pities him:
when an Itidian is sick his mistress sighs
over hini; lAhen an American is sick his wife
nurses 1. ; 'II The English woman instructs
her •i French woman teethes her
. ~tin rears her young, while au
A , • . les her child."
I. VIINCAPE IN Ilt - ssIA —Nothing
, • • sting 'itself, we traveled on
li
," , , ~, , vas and villages, and over
r o.,.cQ;rentir'ed many times more
so lay the season. All around; was . a vast
wintery flat; anal frequently not a vestage of
man or cultivation vas seen, not even a soli
tary tree, to , break the boundless expanse x of
snow. Indeed, no idea can be formed of the
immense plains - 1.;;e - traversed; unless you im
agine yourself at sea, far, far from the sight
of land. The Arabian deserts cannot be more
awful to the eye than the appearance of this
scene. SuCh is the general aspect of the
country. during the rigors of a winter, with
now and theff_anyittp_ption of a large forest
skirting the horizon for a considerable length
of way. At intervals as you shoot along, you
see openings among its lofty trees, from which
emerge picturesque groups of 'natives and
their one horse sledges, whereon aro placed
the diflerent articles of commerce, going to
various parts of the empire. They travel in
vast numiters and from all quarters, seldom
fewer than one hundred and fifty in a string
having a driver to every seventh horse. The
effect of this cavalcade at a distance is very
curious; and in a morning, as they advance
toward you, the scone is as beautiful as strik
ing. The 'sun then rising, throws his rays
across . ' the snow, transforming it to the sight
into a surface of diamonds. Froth the cold of
the night every man and horse is encrusted
with these fr4o.ty ,particles; and the beams
falling on them ? too, seem to CONOr their rude
faces and rugged habits with a tissr of the
most dazzling Lrilliants. The maims of the
l;rses, alnl the long be'ards of thti"nivn, from
the quantity of congealed breath, have a par•
/
ticuiarikgl ittering effect.
I began life by running away from home.--
Boileau, we are told, was driven into his ca
reer by the hand of fate and tire ( peek of a
turkey. 4tila started in life with no other
cause and capital than an old sword, which he
was adroit enough to palm off fur the divine
weapon of Mars, and Robespierre owed his po
litical career to wetting his stockings aforesaid
and there heard the words which burn,' which
fired his soul, and determined his course in
life. My running away from Ironic arose from
a minor mortification caused by carrying a
pretty girl over a brook.
Donald Lean and myself were good friends
at fourteen years of age, and we both regard
ed with a little more than friendship, pretty
Helen Graham, 'ool* eldest girl' at school.—
rumpetdand rlanced together, and this las
ted for such a length of time, that it is with
a feeling of be vilderment thatl Iterk. -back on
the mySterfof two lovers continuing friends.
But a tinie carne Its cone it must, when jeal
ousy lit her spark in my boyish bosom, and
blew it into a consuming flame.
Well do I remember how and when the
'green-eyed' perpetrated this incendiary deed.
feWas on a cold October evening, when Helen
Donald, and myself were returning with our
parents from a visit to a neighboring hamlet
As we approached a ford where the water ran
somewhat higher than ankle-deep, we prepar-
c;usly, ne1,211 IN'erk!
1 , , do s‘ith hands interw.ven •cluur fashion,'
ee t.ok uur Frutty linsn:nglirlll.tuttgli_ the.
Just us vie u-cre in the the
water—whioh aas cold enough at the time to
have frozen ,w) thing like feeling out of a 1w)
Tess Ilan:y than ni)self—a taint pang ul jexl.
uiy nipped illy Heart . IVIly it wils‘l knew
not, for we had cariied Helen fifty times
across the brook ere now, without eut lion, but
this evening 1 thought, or fancied, that Helen
gave Donald an undue preference by casting
I;ee pretty 'inns around his neck, while she
steadied herself% my sid e by siw p i y holding
the •scuff' of my jacket.
No flows can burn so quickly or with so
little fuel us jealousy. Before uchail reuched
the opposite bunk, I was wishing Duliald at
the b o ttom •o' the sea.' Being naturally im
petuous, I burst out with—:-
l'ou peel) no baud sae gingerly, Helen, ns
if ye feared n in: can nye cure yo lighter
thins Donald tend half of ye! .
Surprised at the vehemence of my tone,
our queen interposed w:th an admission that
we were both strong, and that she had no idea
of sparing my powers. But Donald's ire was
kindled, and he utterly denied that I was at all
qualified to compete with himself in any feats
of carriage. On such topics boys are natural
ly emulous and by the time we had reached
the opp,site batik, it was settled that the point
should be determined by our singly beating
Ilelen again across the lord, in our arms.
lielen was to determine who had eat tied her
most easily, and I settled with myself private
ly in advance, that the one who obtained the
preference would really be the person who
stood the highest in her affections! The re
flection stimulated tue to resolve to exert every
effort,.and 1 verily believe to this day, that 1
could have carried Donald and Ilelen on either
arm like feathers. But I anticipate.
We suffered all the rest of the party to pass
quietly along, and then returned to the ford
I lifted Helen with - the utmost ease ;tin' ear
n ied like an infant to the middle of the
water. Jealousy had also inspired a warmer
love, and it was with feelings unknown before,
that Ic - ' , 'embraced her beautiful form and I felt
the pressure of her cheeks against mine. All
went swimmingly., or rather wadmgly for a
minute. But then—plus! in the very deepest
part of thelord—l trod on a treacherous bit of
wood, which rested I suppose on the smooth
stone. Over I rolled, bearing Helen with me,
nor did we rise until fairly soaked front head
to foot.
I need not, describe the taunts of Donald, or
the more accusing silence•of Helen. Both be
lieved I had fallen from mere weakness, anil
my rival illustrated his superior ability, bear
ing her in his arms for a long distance on our
homeward path. As we approached the house,
Helen, feeling drier end better humored, at
tempted to conciliate me. But I preservefi a
moody silence—l was mortified beimnd re
dress.
That night I packed up a few things, and
ran away. My boyish mind, sensitive andir
ritated, exaggerated the vexation it had re
ceived, and prompted me to a course which
fortunately led me to better results than usual
ly attend such irregularities. I went to Edin
burg, where I found a maternal Uncle—a
kindhearted, childless =li r -who gladly gave
me a place in his home, and employed me in
his business. Wealth 'flowed upon him. 1
become his partner—went abroad—resided for
years on the Continent, and" finally returned
to Scotland, rich, educated—in t‘hcrt every
thing but married.
•One evening while at a ball in Glespw, 1
boill'4',A6l Qt):slriii 01,
31).i.grrittineou.6 . .
From Appleton's Gums ofßrltlsh Art. I
CROSSING THE FORD.
was struck bye young.fdily of quite unpre
tending appearance; but whose remarkable
beauty and high toned akpro . 9Bion indicatecia
mind of more than ordinary_ power. I was
introduced, hint the Seottich ' names bad long
been unfamiliar to my e and I could not
catch berth It was Helen something, and
there was something in the face, too, that
seemed famiiar—something .uggestive of mix-
ed pleasure and pain.
But we became well acquainted UM', even
ing. I learned without difficulty her history.
She was from the country, had been well edu
cated, her parents had lost their property,
and she was now goverlim 8 in a family in the
city.
I was fascinated with her conversation, and
was continually reminded by her grace and
refinement of manner, that she was capable
moving with' distinguished succets far
higher sphere than that which fortune seemed•
to have allotted her. I am naturally
neither talkative nor prone to confidence; but
there was that in this youns lady which in
spired both, and I conversed with her as I had
never conversed with any. Iler questions of
the various countries with which I was famil
iar, indicated a renuu•k,abfe knowledge of liter
ature, and an incredible store of general Infor
mation,
We progressed in intimacy, and as our con
versation turned on the causes which induced,
no many to leave their native land, I laughingj
ly remarked that I owed my own travels to
falling with a I retty girl in a ford.
I had scarcely spoken the words ere the
hued [vomited to her face, and was succeeded
by quite as remarkable paleness. I attributed
the, to the heat of the roemi—laughe.l—and at
her 1i inert proceeded to give the. details of my
lord u,k4toiewilli Helen Graham—which
li 1, pniuung in glowing colors the beauty and
amiability of my young love.
Iler mirth du . ring the recital become almost
irrepressible. At its conclusion she remark
ed :
Mr. Roberts is it possibie that you have
forgotten me?'
I gazed an instant—remembered—and was
dumb-founded: The lady with whom I had
become su int:mate, was Helen Graham her
seli !
I hate—and so do you render—to needless
ly prolong a st,ry. We were soon married—
Helen and I made our bridal tour to 'the old
place.' As we approached it in our carriage,
I greeted a stout fellow working in the geld,
and who seemed to be a better sort of laborer,
or perhnps,a small farmer, by inquiring some
trifling particular relating to the neighbor-
hood. lle answered promptly enough, and I
was about to give him a sixpence, vfl.en Hel
en stayed my hand, ittri cried in the old style:
'Hey, Donald moo, dinno ye ken ye'r auld
fren's
The man looked up - in astonishment.—lt
was Donald Lean. His amazement nt our ap
pearance was heightened by its style; and it
was witlPthe greatest difficulty that we can
induce him to en.er our carriage, and answer
our ninner,ms queries as to old friends.
Different men •start life,' in different ways.
1 believe, however, that mine is the only in
stance on record of a gentlemen who owes
wealth and happiness to rolling over with a
pretty girl in a stream of water.
A Jocri,mt CANDIDATE FOR SPEAKER.—Mr.
Pennington, of New Jersey, replied in the
House of Representatives, on Monday, to tI
inquiry of Mr. Kennett, whether each of the
candidates believed in a future state, and if so
whether he believed it •would be a free or a
slave State. Mr. Pennington raid he was
somewhat •ersed in the Westminster Cate-
Chism, and ho had learned from that that
there is a fnture state in which he believed.
He also understood that there were two states
in that future state—one the beautified- and
the other the damned—the free and the slave,
[lauglser.] The free state was on one side
and the slave state en the other side; he be-,
lieved it was not exactly a compruthiso
[renewed laughter;] but had always under
stood that the damned side was the hottest,
and therefore that must be the southern side•
[Great laughter.]'
It was held by some that there is n third
state—the state of purgatory. Now, be bad
no acquaintance with this state, except such
as he had learned from the course of 'purga2
tion going on in this House. lleknew'of -cer
tain gentlemen who ,had been in a state of
purgatory here, [laughter,] and (placing his
hand on his heart) ho knew ono gentleman
past praying for. [Bhouts:of laughter
Fduit Goon Iliturrs.—There were four hab
its a wise and good man earnestly recommen
ded in his counsels and also by his own exam
ple, and which he considered essentially ne
cessary for the management of temporal con
cerns. Theeo aro punctuality, accuracy,
steadiness, and despatch. Without the first
of those time is wasted; without tho second
mistakes the most hu tlul to our own credit
and interest and that of others may be (TM •
witted; without the fourth opportunities 'of
great tulvitutitge are lost which it 16 i 111 1)000 1,1 e
to reach.
In , how Cold'Wetither can Animal Life
While we nro waiting for Dr. Kane's offi
cial report of his last expedition to th'tk Arctic
ocean, there are some scientific results, the
publication of which we may be permitted to
anticipate. The firs( of these is the conditions
of animal and vegetable life in a high north
ern latitude.
Dr. Kane's party succeeded in reaching
latitude 80 degrees, a higher northern point
upon I. ' )e coast of Greenlarna than bad yet
been attained by any previous navigator. dle
found inhabiting this'inhospitable region the
Esquirnaux Indian, the reindeer, and many
varieties of the floral world, principally of
the Alpine species. The latter were numer
ous, diminutive. How far north the human
race and animals exist, is not known; but Dr.
Kane's observations clearly establish the fact,
that the extreme cold of latitude 80 degrees
is not the limit to their• northern migration.
The habits•of the Esquimaux aro peculiar.
They are essentially a migratory people, and
with sledges drawn by dogs, undertake jour
ney's of hundreds of miles in extent, depend
ing fur their subsistence upon such nourish
ment us chance throws in their way. This
the little party under Dr. Kane found to be
sufficiently abundant to meet their own
wants.
During the whole cruiso they were never
seriously hi want food hut - on one occasion
nearing Melville ,bay. Here, fortunately, a
lino fat seal presented itself stretched at
leaf ih en the ice. A boat was manned to go
iu pursuit of it, and Dr. Kane describes the
excitement of the chase as so intense, that
one most experienced gunners of the pal
ty emild hardly emuniand himself autlicietitly
to lire tit it until the boat had neared within
a few yards, and •it was in the very net of
esenpng
The temperature at which the explorations
were cohducted, was butwteeu 70 and 80 de
grees h'elow zero So intense was the co'd,
that lite alcoholic thermometer failed to indi-
cite accurately the temperature,' and even
chloroform, and the essential oils, which resist
low temperatures, became thick and tut bid.
It was only by a careful observation and com
parison of many instruments, that they were
enabled to attain to any accuracy in regard
to the extent of the cold.'
An opportunity had thus been given of
testing the ability of the •human body to re
sist a temperature of seventy degrees below
zero, for several manths together. The Doc
tor and his party were enabled to to this by
an immense consumption of anicnal food, the
ordinary daily allowance to each man being
six or eight ducks, or nu equivalent in several
p unds of fat seal•
Shortly fter 't
he discovery 'ttf the compound
nature of the atmosphere by Priestly,. Craw
ford the theory that the animal her t
f the l u is maintained at an uniform tem-
perature of 118 degrees, by means of a liberal
consumption of food containing carbon in
excess, as animal food, where the cold is se
vere. The most beautiful and brilliant series
of experiments prosecuted by Liehir, w, re
those intended to establish this theory, which
they do most successfully.
In this connection, the experiment of Dr,
Kane and his party, in showing the amount
o f f,,od requireil to enable the human Midy to
r.Bist the depressing influence of„a o contintud
low temperature, for a period of time long , r
than any other recorded, is of the highest
practical value.
C. G. L
We have in physical geography, ns the re-
sults of this cruise, a new'y discovered land,
flanked by lofty mountain ranges, a wide uud
iceless open sea, clearly pointing to an un
discovered region of large extent towards the
North Pole, and immense glaciers, -before
which those of Cyr and Chamouni dwindle
into insignificanct.—N. 1, Evening Posh ,
Is THERE ANY FOUGEMSG.-1)1'. lit/d] tells
us that when called upon to attend those on
their death beds, who for forty, fifty, f or sixty
years, had lost the use of their native tongue,
the long suspended faculty will be recalled in
approaching death, and they would talk, pray
and sing in Swedish. Dr. Johnson also, when
it came his turn to die, spoke not in the march
of his own majestic rhetoric—passed by even
the cadence of those Latin hymns on which he
sa much loihd to dwell—but was heard 'with
Nis sinking voice, muttering a child's prayer
which he had learned on his mother's knee
Strange, indeed, is the providence, enityet er
wisely illustrative of the evidence of time; a.
an element in the divine economy, which thu
brings together in mystical association, th
two extreme points of human history—birt
ald death.
13.(ir`Do you know the pisoner, Mr. Jones
'Yes, to the hone,' What N is his ohnracter
'Didn't know ho bad any.' Woes he live not
you ?"So near that he has only spent (iv
shillings for fire wood in eight yours.' I)
Le ever come into collision with you in' at
mattir ?"Only once, and that was when I
was drunk and mistook me for a lamp pos
`From what you know of him would you I)
tieve Wm under oath ? .That depends np
eiroon statu2es. If he tins much intoiie
led that he did not know. %flint. be wits
I would. It' not, I wouldn't.'
be Sustained ?
MS