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COME TOME IN DREAMS .
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Como to me In beautiful dreams, love,
Ilh come to nu. oft,
When the light wings of sleep.
On my bosom lies soft, '
Oh come 8011, •
lu the moon's gentle light,
Beats low on the ear,
Like the pulse of the night—
When the sky find the waive,
Wear their loi . ellest blue,
When the dew's on the flower
And the star's on the dew.
Come In beantiful dreatni, love.
Ohl come and we'll tarty,
Where the whole year Is crowned
With the blessmns of May—
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'Whet: Each sound is as sweet
As e'erwi of a dove,
Alai 1 t
oros are as sea
As t e bNathing pf love;
Where the beams kiss the waves
And Ilse waves kiss the beach,
And our warm lips may catch
The WOOL lesson they teach.
Come in beautiful dreams, love,
Oh! come and we'll tly,
Like two winged spirits
Of love through the sky!
With hand clasped in hand
1)11 our dream wings we'll go.
Where the starlight and moonlight
Are blending their glow;
And on bright (grinds we'll linger
Through long dreary hours,
i,, ve 's angels envy
The heaven of hours.--
- Aoiniinvi of f6hitarti.
From the Home Ju rural.
THE MARRIAGE OF POOAHONTA§.
LIT BENSON .1. LOSSING
During the lovely Indian summer time, in
the nniumn of 1608, there was a marriage on
the banks of the Powhatan, where the English
had laid the corner-stone of the great fabric 01
Anglo-Saxon Empire in the New World, It
was celebrated in the second church which the
settlers had erected there. Like their first,
which fire had devoured the previous winter.
it was a rude structure, whose roof rested ups,
on rough pine columns, fresh from the virgin
forest, and whose adornings were little indeb
ted to the hand of art. The officiating priest
was 'good Master iluntei,' who had
. lost al
his books by the conflagration. History, poet
ry, and song, have kept a dutiful silence res
pecting that first English marriage in Ameri
ca, because John Laydon and Anne BurrOwi
were common people. The bridegroom was
carpenter, among the first adventurers who
ascended the Powhatan, then named James in
honor of a bad king; and the bride was wai
ting-maid the 'Mistress Forrest,' wife of Thom•
as Forrest, gentleman. These wore . the first
white woman ever seen at the Jamestown set
dement.
Almost five years later, there was another
marriage at Old Jamestown, in honor of which
history, poetry, and song htyre been employed.
The bridegroom was 'Maser John itelfe, 'an
honest gentleman, and of good behavior,' fiom
the realm of England ; and the bride was a
princess royal, named Milton, or Pocahontas
the WeII-beloyed daughter of the Emperor of
the great Powhatan confederacy, on the Vir
ginia peninsula. The officiating priest was
Master Alexander Whitaker, a noble apostle
of Christianity, who went to Virginia for the
cure of souls. Sir Thomas Dale, then Gover
nor of the colony, thus briefly tolls his mss
ters of the Company in London, the story or
Pocahontas Towliatan's daughter I caused
to be carefully instructed in the Christian re
ligion, who, after she had made a good prog•
resit therein, renounced publicly her country's
idolatry, openly confessed her ChristiOn faith.
was, as she desired baptised, and Is since mar
ried to an English gentleman of good under
standing (as by hie letter unto me, containing
the reason of his marriage of her, you may per
eeive), another knot to bind his peace the
stronger. Her father and friends gave appro
bation to it, and her uncle gave her to him in
the church. She lives oivilly and lovingly with
him, and I trust will increttee•in goodness, us
the knowledge of God inerenseth in her. She
will go to England with me, and, were it but
the gaining of this one soul, I will think my
time, toil, and present stay, well spent.'
So discoursed Sir Thomati,Dale. Curiosity
would know meregbf the Princess and her mor
tgage, and curiosity may hero be gratified to
the extent of the revelations of recorded his
tory. • .1
The finger of a special Providence, pointing
down the vista of ages, is seen in ° the charac
ter and note of Pocahontas. She was the (laugh
ter of a pagan king who had never hoard of
Jesus of Nazareth, yet her heart was oveiflow•
lag with the cardinal virtues of a Christian
life. •
"She was a landscape of mill earth,
Whore all was harmony, and a calm quiet
Luxuriant, buddluit."—llrima.
When Captalit Smith, the boldest and the
best of the early adventurers in Virginia, pen
etrated the dense forest, ho was made a pris
oner, wee oonductea in triumph from villuge
to village, until he stood in the presence of
Powhatan, the supremo ruler, and was then
condemned to die.
Upon the barren , tantl q
A singloi - ipt h'e 4lund ;
Around hint t• into, with how and brand,
The rod..nen of chi, win.d.
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Like him of old his doom ho heirs,,
Itockboutid on ocean's thic :
The cheftaitt's daughter knelt In tears,
4n4Ccatticd a prayer for him.
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Above tearin air
The savage war-club swung
The franfie girl . in wild despair.
Her arms around him flung,
Then shook the wairiors of the shade,
hike leaves on aspen-limb—
Subdued by that heroic maid '
Who breathed a prayer for him.
"Unbind him!" gasped the chief—
•"Ohey. your King's decree!" •
Ho kissed away her terirs.of grief,
And set the captive free.
'Tie over thus, when Nit
star t' man grows diet,
An angel kneels iu woman's for,
And breathes a prayer,fur him.
Groans P. Monntu.
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!low could that stern old king deny
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The angel pleading In her eye?
How 4nock the sweet, imploring grace
That breathed in beauty from her face,
And to her kneeling action gave
• A power to soothe and still subdue,
though humble as a slave,
To more than queenly sway She grew,
G. SIMMS
The Emperor yielded to the maid, and the
captive was set free.
Two years after that event, Pocahontas
alfain became an angel of deliverance. She
hastened to Jamestown during a dark and
sttsrmy night, informed the English of a p.on
spiracy to dltermillate them and was back to
her couch before dawn. Smith was grateful,
aml the whole English Colony regarded her as
their deliverer. But gratitude is often it plank
of feeble root, and the canker of selfishness
will destroy it altogether Smith went to En
gland ; the morals of the colonists became d
prayed ; and Argall, a, rough, half piratical
navigator, unmindful of her character, bribed
a savage by the promise of a copper kettle, to
betray Pocahontas into his hands, to be kept
as a hostage while compelling Powhatan to
Make restitution for injuries inflicted The
Emperor loved his daughter tenderly, agreed
to the terms of ransom gladly, and promised
unbroken friendship for the Engtish.
Pocahontas was now free to return to her
forest home. But other bonds, more holy
than those of Argall, detained her, While in
the custody of the rude buccaneer, a mutual
attachment had budded and blossomed be
tween her and John Rolfe, and the fruit was
a happy marriage—'another knot to • biud the
peace' with Pewhattan much stronger.
April, in thev Virginia penipaula,•wbero the
English settlers first built a city, ie one of the
loviiest mouths in the year. Then winter has
bid a final adieu to the middle regions of
America; the trees are robed in gay and fra•
grant blossoms; the robin, the blue bird, ail
the oriole, are just giving the first opening
preludes to the summer concerts in the woods
and wild flowers are laughing merrily in every
hedge, and upon the green banks of every
et ten tn.
It was a day in charming April, in 1613,
when Rolfe and Pocahontas stood at the mai'•
riage altar in the new and pretty chappel at
Jamestown, whore, not long before, the bride
had received Christian baptilm, and was nam
ed the Lady Rebecca. The sun had marched
,halfway up ' toward the meridian, when a
any had assembled bemeath the
Pile pleasant odor of • the 'pews
,• , 44,4,441ng1ed with the fragrance of
s 411 w.:, which decked the festoOns of
t.,et ; zJet ~I sprays that hung over the
.1r ..r• 1,1 lows,' and the commandment
c:11- - ‘,- ,;.t• chancel. 'Over the pulpit of
Long garlands of white flowers,
witti the waxen leaves and scarlet berries of
the holly. The communion-table wan covered
with fair white linen, and bore bread from
the white fields of Jamestown, and wine from
its luscious grapes. The font, hewn hollow
between, like a canoe,' sparkled with water,
as on the morning when the gentle princess
uttered her baptismal vows.
Of all that company assembled in the broad
space between the chancel and the pews, the
bride and groom were the central figures in
fact and significance. Pocahontas was dress
ed in a simple tunic of white muslin, from
the looms of her Dacca., Iler arms were bare
even to the shoulders; and, hanging loosely
towards her. feet, was II robe of rich stuff
presented by Sir Thomas Dale, and fancifully
mbroidered by herself and her maidens. A
gaudy fillet encircled her head, and held the
plumage of birds and w•veil of gauze, while
her limbs were adorned with the simple jewelry
of the native workshops. Rolfe was attired
in the gay clothing 'of an English cavalier of
that period, and upon his thigh he wore the
short sword of a gentleman of distinction in
society, lle was tho personification of manly
betiuttin forn and carriage; she of womanly
modesty and lovely simplicity; and as they
came and stood before the man of God, his
tory dipped her pen in the indestructable
fountain of truth and recorded a pr,lphecy of
mighty empires in the New World, Upon the
chancel steps, wheeci no railing interfered, the
good Withtaker stood in his sacerdotal robes,
and with impressive voice, pronounced the
marriage ritual of the Anglican Olturitir, then
first planted on the IVesteru Continent. On
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his rigliOta richly carvctchair .0f
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brought:front:England, sat t 1303 Governor, Stith
Ills. ever'-atteritlaut halberdiers, witV. brazen
helmets, at his back. • '
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There were yet but few women in this
col
ony, and those, aeon after this memorable
event, returned to native England —The
'ninety young women, pure and Uncorrupted,',
eliom the wise SandYe caused to be sent to
Virginia, ne wives for the planters, did not
arrive until ten years later: All then at
Jamestown were at the marriage. The letters
of the times have transmitted the names of
seine of them. Mistress John Rolfe, with her
child, (doubtless of the family of the bride
groom;) Mistress Easton and child, and Mis
tress Horton and grandchild, with her maid
servant, Elizabeth Parsons, who, on a Ohylst
mas eve before, had married Thos. Powell, were
yet in Virginia. Among the noted men then
present, Sir Thomas Gates, a bravo soldier in
many wars, and es brave an adventurer among
the Atlantic perils as any who ever trusted to
the ribs of oak of the ships of Old England.
And Master Sparks who had been co ambas
sador with Rolfe to the court of Powhatan,
stood near the old soldier, with young Henry
Spilman at his side. There ; too, was the
young George Percy, brother of the powerful
Duke o .. . Northumberland, whose conductcwas
always as noble as his blood; and near him,
an earnest spectator of the scene, was the
elder brother of Pocahontas; but not the des
tined successor to the throne of his father.—
There, too, was a younger brother of the
bride, and many youths and maidens Crain the
forest shades; but one noble figure—the pride
of the Powhatan confederacy, the father of
the bride was absent lie had consented to
the marriage - with willing voice, but would
not trust himself within the power of the En
glish at Jamestown. He remained In his
habitation at Weroworoinoetk, while the ROSE
and the 'forum were being wedded, but cheer
fully commissioned his brother, Opachisco, to
give away his daughter. That prince per
formed his duty well, and then, in careless
gravity, he sat t nd listened to the .voice of
the Apostle, and the sweet chanting of the
little choristers. The music ceased, the ben
edietion fell, the steam 'Amen' echoed from
the rude vaulted r of, and the joyous company
left the chapel for termite' hall of the Gov
ernor. Titus 'the peace' weft made stronger,
and the ROSE of England lay undisturbed
upon the HAreitEr of the Powhatans while
the father of Pocahontas lived.
Months glided away. The bride and groom
'lived civilly. and lovingly - together,' until Sir
Thomas Dale departed for England, in It lti,
when they with many settlers, accompanied
hint. Tomocotno, one of the shrewdest of
l'owhatan's councillors, wont also, that he
might report 101 the wonders of England to
his master. The Lady Rebecca received
great attention from the Court and all „below
it. 'She accustomed herself to civility, and
curried herself as the daughter of a king.'
Dr. King, the Lord Bishop of London, enter
tained her 'with festival state and pomp,' be
yond what he had ever given to other ladies; and
at court bbe was received with courtesy due
to her rank as a princess. But the silly bigot
on the throne was highly incensed, because
one of his subjects has dared to marry a lady.
of royal blood, and in the midst of his dreams
of perogatives, he absurdly apprehended that
Rolfe might lay claim 'to the crown of Virgin
ia 1' Afraid of the royal displeasure, Ctiptain
Smith, who was then in England, would net
allow her to call him father, as she desired to
do. She could not comprehend the cause;
and her tender, simple heart was sorely grieii
ed by what seemed to be his want of tender
affection for her. She remained iu England
about a year; and, when ready to embark for
America with her husband, she sickened and
died at Gravesend, in the flowery month of
June, - Hill, when not quite twenty two years
of age. She left one son, Thomas Rolfe, who
afterwards became quite a distinguished man
in Virginia. lie had but one child, a.daugh
ter. From her, sonic of the leading families
in Virginia trace their lineage. Among these
are . the Bollings,- Murrnys, Guys, Eldridges,
and RandolPhs. But Pocahontas needed no
prosperity taiperpetuate her name—it is im
perishably preserved in the amber, of history.
CLERICAL &tom - pmts.—A physician, writes
H. communication to one of the religious
journals, in which he attributes this disease to
ta > noir- use of the vocal organs on week days
and their double , use on Sundays, to Mental
anxiety as to` support, and to the use of to
bacco, tie recommends to the preacher to
read aloud at least half an hour each day, to
quit smoking and chewing; and on theniem
bership he enjoins a more liberal support of
the ministry as the only,sensible way of curing
the disease,
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M.Dr. Charles Kidd, of England, nn} stn—
that chloroform is a perfect cure forAy,dre
phobia. A teaspoonful of either chlortNipi
or ether iq to'be sprinkled, on a loindkeYVq
and placed on the patient's face to sm - ell,a'aidot
red hot poker is then, within half an hour '.to.
be apvlied to the bite. - If these two things be
dune, hydrophobia need not be apprehended.
MilititiliS'olo THE AIR.
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Let a man rolls littltiialrin his mouth,
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what is that? Let Napeleoti . tivistiit betiveen
his lips, and' all the•wi!rild is i at wei7 girls it to
Fenelon, and he shall so manage it with his'
tongue that there shall be everywhere peace.
it is but a little agitated air that sets man
kind in Motion. If we could live without air,
We could not talk, sing. or hear any sounds
without it. There would , be a blazing sun in
a black sky—stfiishine mingled with thick
darkness; rind there would lie everywhere an
awful silence.' - `iiere ib less air it the upper
than in the lower regions of the atmosphere;
the bottom crust of air is, of course, densest.
Saussure fired a pistol on the summit of Mount
Blanc, and tire report was like the snapping of
a stick. There is a well at Fulda three bun
ed palms deep; throw a stone down it, and
1,11 noise it makes in its descent will be like
the firing of a park of cannon. It goes down
among dense air, and also It reverberates.—
When a man speaks, he strikes air with his
throat and mouth as a stone strikes water,
and from his tongue ns from the stone spread
undulating circles with immense rapidity.—
Those circles may be checked and beaten back
in their course, as it is with the waves of
sound made by the stone tumbling down a well,
beaten back and furiously multiplied. At the
castle of Simonetti, near Milan, one IoW note
of music will beget a concert; for the note is
echoed to and fro by the great wings of the
building that reflect and multiply a sound just
as two mirrors reflect and multiply a lighted
candle. Sound is, in fact, reflected just
light is, and may be brought quite in the same
way to a focus.
A word spoken in the focus of one ellipse
will be heard in the focus of an opposite
ellipse hundreds of yards away. Such a prin
ciple was illustrated oddly in the great church
of Agrig;entum, in Sicily. The architect—
perhaps intentionally—built several confession•
ale ellipses. in which, whoever stood, heard all
the secrets whispered to the priest. A horri•
ble amount of scandal sprang up in town; no
body's sins were safe from getting into unac
countable publicitj. The church soon became
such a temple of truth that nothing was left
to be hidden in it; tat at last, by chance, a
discovery was made of the character„of the
tale-telling stones, and: the, walls had their
ears stopped.
How hI.IOIIINEItY INCREASES BENEFICIAL
LABOR.—About five years ago, .when eewing
machines were beginning to be introduced
into this city, some furious attacks were Made
upon them by ignorant and mock philanthro
piste, who pretended to - be anxiously concern
ed for poor seamstresses. Thhy pictured the
sad fate which awaited those persons; told
how the hard-earned bread was to be taken
out of their mouths by such capitalists as
could purchase and use such machines, there
by dispensing with the labor of needlewomen,
and thus bring them to want for lack of em
ployment. Have such predictions been ful
filled We who have for years carefully
watched the effects of labor-saving machinery
of every kind upon society, knew that such
ideas, when uttered, were no better than the
emanations of an idiot's dream, trusted to a
few years' experience to prove the benefits of
such machines to every class in the commun
ity. Thoulsands of such machines are now in
operation in our country, and if we nre
rightly informed, more than a thousand of
them are in operation in New York city alone;
but instead of' these having thrown any" in.
duistrious females out of employment, they
have rather increased the quantity of work
for, them to do. We were to'd a few days
since, by one engaged somewhat extensively
in providing needle-work, that twenty stitches
are now made on sonic garments, for one that
was made five years ago—in short that sew
ing Machines had greatly increased the de
(nand for sewed work. Thus coat linings,
which used to be made plain, are now mostly
elaborately worked, and fliiely stitched, and
it is the same with almost every kilml of sewed
work. The amount of such work, he stated,
hal increased even in a grater ratio than the
machines to execute it. A higher taste is
now being gratified, and hundreds of women
who used to ply the needle early and late
with their fingers, for a mere" pittance, are
now better remunerated for their labor In at•
tending sewing machinesovhile, at the sanie
time, their hours of toil have been measur
ably reduced. It is our opinion :that the
very class—needle women—respecting whom
so much was at one tinie said about being
injured by sewing Machines . , will be most
benefitted. In many, if not almost every in
stance, this has been felt to be the case al
ready. • Sewing machines, therefore, which
aro but a recent invention,' afford abundant
examples 'how machinery increase's beneficial
labor.'—Scientific American.
Z..i-r'S.lttny a man talks with loud comply
I t oeuey_nhont_the _charms of his fiTC'sitle, tuu
yet let temptatidn give but the smallest tap t,
t he . (l o or, and he evinces the most wctiderfu
alacritYln.leaving it.
rE.9:," 11Uri; is w'ovslii.r," . iEritii old iivlxity.
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Sad Termination of a Bridal Tour:
, The'New York papers contain various de
tails of the late terrible accident on the Hud
son River railroad. We coPy . the following:
"Iti the ball of the Exchange House we met
a gentleman laboring under great mental af.
fiction. • Engaging in conversation with him,
we learned that his name was Rufiis Blanchard,
publisher tine/ bookseller, Chicago, 111., and
brother of Mr. Blanchard who was married on
the 17th of this month to Miss Farr, a
most accomplished lady, at her residence in
De Kalb, St. Lawrence county, in this State.
The happy couple were on their wedding tour
when this accident overtook them It appears
that owing to the crowded state of the sleighs
at Albany, Mr. Blanchard and his bride were
separated from Miss Powell, a lady friend who
was traveling with them, and in the society of
big wife Mr. Blanchard forgot all about her
until they arrived at Poughkeepsie, When Mrs.
Blanchard suggested that he should go thrilugh
the cars and see if he could find her. After
the train had left the Poughkeepsie depot he
set out on hiss 'errand, and it was during this
brief absence' that the calamity occurred.—
Mr. Blanchard sprang out of the door of the
car, and escaped unhurt by leaping into the
EIME:iI
"As soon as the crash was over, be rushed
wildly through the cars in ienrcli of his wife,
shrieking for help,.and calling on her name.
But his words were only echoed by others
equally distracted, whose relatives and friends
were involVed in the common ruin ; or replied
to by the cries and groans of the sufferers.
Fur fifteen minutes, which seemed as many
11;in* he sought her everywhere without sue
eeril. At length some one nsked'if his name
was Rufus Blanchard, and then the blend
took him tc the place where his wife lay.—
And what a sad spectacle met his view! She
who a few minutes before was radiant with
beauty and overflowing with her young joy,
now lay before him erai'bed and maimed and
blackened so that he had not recognized her
as his wife, although 'lie had passed her a
score"of times during his search, supposing
from her face ilplt she was a poor colored wo
man, Half crazed with sorrow, he would
have thrown himself upon '•her seemingly life
less body in his great grief, and have bewailed
her as dead, had not the bystanders held him
back. Then his noble wife manifestel her
gladness at his safety, and bade him hope that
all things would work together for good; that
she would yet live to make glad his heart and
share his love. This was only one of many
such scenes at the meeting of friends and
relatives after the accident:'
' "The unfortunate lady was taken .to theEZ
changeHouse and placed under medical skill.
Her left leg is fractured in two places, near
the ankle. One of her hands is badly cat,
and her face and bosom are scorched or scald
ed- nearly black ; and her eyes are somewhat
injured. The above facts we learned from
yarious parties who witnessed them. Mr.
Blanchard took us into the room *here his
wife lay; and after showing us her sad condi
tion, he took the miniature of a beautiful
woman from his bosom, and said, 'There is
what she was this time 'yesterday. Mrs.
Blanchard ha, manifested throughout her suf
feringq the most heroic fortitude, cheering her
husbalid, and eihibitiiig a spirit at once hope
ful and resigned. her Rhysiciansti are doing
all that human skill can du, and strong hopes
are entertained that she will recover."
Ater A man who would systematically and
willfully set about cheating a printer, would
commit highway robbery on a crying baby
and rob it of its ginger-bread—rob a church
of its counterfeit pennies—lick the butter off
a blind nigger's Inst 'flitter'—pawn his grand•
mother's specks fur a drink of whiskey—steal
acorns from a blind sow, and take crothes
from a scare crow, to make a respectable ap
pearance in society.—Er.
A man who would cheat a printer would
steel the coppers from a dead nigger's eyes—,
e'ttCal the hay from a blind ram, and sue his
widowed mother for his father's funeral ex
pen 3es. —Devil.
CONVENFENT An lANOEMENT.—The ingenius
French milliners lave invented a hoop of In
ubber, a then tube in point of fact, which
call be blown up or colapsed with great facility,
to suit.the convenience of the wearer. When?
a lady wishes to pass through a door or enter'
A carriage or any other narrow place, she
touches a spring, which opens the valve and
allows the air to escape. When the lady
enters a place roomy enough for the fashion,
she has only to put a delicate little pipe to her
mouth, and blow herself into ths• required
s'mpe. Could anything be more clfarmine
Tut
MUIWEIt OF JusTus ',MATTunws‘.---At
New Haven, on the
. 17th inst., the Grand Jury
indicted Samuel Sly as principal, and Rhoda
Wakeman (the prophetess), and Thankful S.
Hersey, as neat sseries.to the mt,:rler of.ll cue
Niattlliws.' Thelr trial Will soon take place.
Abigel Sables and Josiah Jackson have been
discharged from prison. file prophetess wept
ke an infant on being told that site must re
main. iMrs. Horsey said, pointing to, the prp.
phetess, "they little know what they'rir, ,
about
in shutting up that persok ltt re,',
mom