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A. J- RUt. 1 . THE WIDOWED INEBBIATE'S LAMENT. KY ALOISTINE J. U. DfSASSE. Tm thinking on thy smile, Mary Thy bright and trusting smile; li the morning of our youth and love, Ere Borrow came or guile ; tthen thine arms were twined about my neck, And mine eyes looked into thine, -And the heart that throbbed for me. aloue Was nestled close to inine! I eee full many a smile, Mary. On young lip? beaming bright: And many an eye of light and love Ii flaliiiiS in my sight; Fut the smile is not for my poor heart. And the eye is strange to me. And loneliness steals o'er my soul When its memory turns to thee ! I'm thinking of the night, Mary, The nirht of grief and shame, uhcn with drunken ravings on my lij.s. To thee I homeward came. O, the tear was in thy enmcst eye, Aud thy bosom wildly heaved. Vet a smile of love was on tby cheek. Though thy heart was sorely grieved! But the smile som left thy lipa, Mary, Ah! thine eye grew dim and sad; Fvr the tempter lured my steps from thee. And the wine-cur) drove me rnad. Frcm thy cheeks the ris-iS tjuirkjy lied, . And thy ringing lsu;rh was goue, fit thy heart still fondly clung to me, And still kept trusting on. 0'. my wcrds were harsh to thee, Mary, Fit t!i( wine-ctin drove me wild: And I chid thee when thine eyes were sad. And cursed thee when they smiled. Gl knows I loved thee even then, But the fire was in my braiu. And the curse of drink was in my herrt To make my love a bane. Trfis a pleasant home of ours. Mary, In the spring-time of our life.' tthcn I looked upon thy sunny face, And proudly called thee wife And 'twas pleasant when ourchildrcn played. Before our cottage door; But the children sleep with thee, Mary, I shall never see them more! Thcu'rt resting in the church-yard now, And no stone is at thy head ! But the sexton knows a drunkard's wife, Sleeps in that lowly bed ; And he says the hand of God, Mary, Will fall with 'crushing weight. On the wretch who brought thy gentle life, To its untimely fate ! But he knows not of the broken heart I bear within my breast. Or the henry load of vain remorse That will not let mo rest; H knows not of the sleepless night, When thinking of thy love, I seem to hear thy gentle roice, Speak sadly from above. ; . 1 live raised the wine-cup Mi my hand, And the wildest strains I've enntr ith the laugh of drunken mirth The echo! no ;? ima r, .. . EuU pale and sorrowing face" looked put f rom the glittering cup on nie. Ana a trembling whisper I have heard, h ca I fancied breathed by thee. . Thou an slumbering in'the peaceful grave, Eur i 7 ?kep is drenless now. B the seal of Rn llB(vi kf J? mourner's brow? And my hrt is chill as thine, Mary, : "ta the cold and silent dead! Not W fClote ol rra"ll"- i;tine Cr 'i3111'" Frnnklin ctmmenced b!e freed Dews,'aPcr' Le noticed, with considera fflpnf iJ'n' PWic conduct of one or two rtanSrr,ftn9fn "'Iclphia.. This circura tiitixZl ?r'h'l h? some of h! Perrons with ey to f' ?a T' "n'1 ind,lccl ne of them to con Sard to iV"1 Tia lle Pinion f his friends in re the rprirn;f fIoctr listened with patience to tomr im ,Vflnd hePSeJ the favor of his friend's n.me,i nt t) " an veninS "hich he otWjenfL s'fe t'me requesting that the rmTU CTe uts8,,tied with him C01"l:Ir l ' 1 Doctor received his guests lnflsorae'nH 9- rial conduct was canvassed, aounced glvea' ' SPPcr was at last an ror"n. Th. v, 8116813 touted to an adjoining Paldinr, " , e wa8 only supplied with two erVh!v ? sUne :Vr filled with water. IJ Purt, ? crmld at t Uie Docur. fri'K) rC!J, f tl' pudding, and urged his tr hoVt y Vlste1 H,ld tasteJ in n- When fce arose J , dlfflcuity was nnconquerable, " ho d,VeMeJ tbem : ; "M frinI, any wer 1 ,7 8uLt on sawdust pudding and S,It- Cour- CaD' Ueeds 110 naan's Patronage." t ishj. than the sword." OLI) it 1 I. I. SIMO.VS. BY JOHN OF YOBK. ' TLere are many now living upon the banks of the Susquehanna, who have seeu rafting ia all its pride, in the good old times when u short run to -" tide," aud hq almost equally short waik back te th head waters cf the crooked river," with "bald-face" and hain-and-cces accompani meius, were the glory of the then backwoods denizens all along shore from Liulimton to Columbia. Rafting has by no means fallen into disrepute yet; but the rough edges of the pro fession have been smoothed off by the wearings of Time for the forests have given place to sprightly villages and thrifty farms, and the " innocent depredations" of the I'ipe Cieek and i Apalacou men are among the things that were. I Even the broad stream does not seem to run so swiftly as it did of yore ; the schutes, that were once the terror of the hardy navigators, have been so much improved as to bo passed with comparatively little danger, aud tho grand t wrestling matches in-d foot races, once so widely j famous, are seldom indulged. Once in a while j u match lor whiskey all round is got up, but a ; bet to the amount of a is a stranger eveu to Coxeitown. In old times it was the commonest thing in ! the world for a party of a dozen to travel on ( fuot all night, and ride on freight boats the j broad-homs of the Susquehanna during the : d-iy, when the time was passed in sleeping and curd playing, These nocturnal marches were ! often funny affaire, and wLtn the raiting season commenced, tue owners of poultry and small j Instable aaima!s generally moved their stock j ito th ii.terior, to keep it out of the hands of i 1 the rufiuieii. These, whose cupidity led them j to keep their saleables on the river roads, to ; realixe double prices, watched them all night, with loaded fowling guns. j The lumbermen had a way of catching turkeys i that was quite original, as well as successful. I A light reed pole was secured, and on the top I end a brimstone match affixed. When they : came near a f irm house, one of the party w ould ! remain behiaJ, while the others went up to iU' quire for drink, or food, or, perhaps, their route J j of travel. While the inmates wire thus engaged, ! the solitary raftmsiu- would creep silently under . the trees where the turkevs roosted, and, liuht s nig hisTrimstone mat.-h, poke it under the m se ; of fowl after fowl, until as many of them tuiu : b!-d off t'ue trees us Le could' carry. The next ' day the turkeys were s.,l. the towns, the ! story always told by the r..:;:yen being that ! they ha.l won them raffling, and, .-.s they were ! an incumbrance, they would part with them j cheap. . Sansuinary battles were often fought by these j men, and the rough-uud-tuuible system, with j its horrid gougiDg and biting, was iu high vogue. I Men were frequently terribly maimed, and even , deaths from these encounters were not rare ; j but the law seldom took coguisauce of either i the fights or their results. j Among the celebrated ruffians whose names : were sworn by among the raftmen, Old BUI Si ; mons was one of the worst fellows that ever ; handled an oar-stem, or gouged out the eye, or curtained the nose or ear of an antagonL-t" lie ; was, when the writer of this saw liim, fifteen ; years ago, fifty years of age, still erect and full j of strength, lie had lost the sight of an eye, his nose was'c'aved in from the effects of a blow i from a handspike, and Ids entire face was rough j with bruises, and covered by a grizzly beard of f flVu.Ilt tvf. ltlf.l.4..i in I......!. 1 . , ....j ui unigiu nn'i great tnieKness. He was still a formidable antagonist, old as he was, and as horrid as lie looked. ' It was at. a place called .Skinner's, Eddy that I first set eyes upon Old Bill. There "were a ) large number of rafts and arks tied up' for the night in the eddy, uuul their crews were in the tavern on shore, carousing, as usual." The old villain was soaking his clay pretty deeply, A-fining a half-pint cup of "bald-face" at the close of every song a stammering fellow was singing. As the night wore away, the raftmen, one by one, dropped off to their rafts, or laid themselves out upon tLe benches, until there were not more than a dozen left to keep up the debauch. Old Bill would hear of nobody's leaving till morning, and, about two o'clock, had drunk enough to be come quarrelsome.' There was a young .man present, who went by tlie name of Jabe Snow a quiet, temperate man, so far as regards the I use of ardent epiritsy though he chewed tobacco excessively, always swallowing the juice, and was celebrated for his- strength and endurance he being not above five feet five, and very light weight. Jabe was about leaving the tavern for bis raft, when old Bill, then perfectly unreasona ble from the drink he had swallowed, sprang to the door Hi.-: held it fast. - : "You. don't go from here to-night, unless you're kerrltd out!" shouted the buliy. : Jabe looked at him steadiiv for half a dozen seconds, and then said, calinly-r - "It is necessary for me to see to my men. We shall start at the first streak of day, and I must have some skep." I'. , Sleep, ghouted Old Bill, his face red- deuing with anger and rum, until he looked like a demon. " Who's goiu' to talk about sleep in this cr:'J, r- -7.y ? Here, I'll wake you up," aud, accompanying the .words with a euddeu movement,, he d ached the cup and its contents directly into the face of the young rafrman. : . For a minute, Jabe's eyes were blinded with the whiskey, but after he had wiped the liquid ""' "ia tJVV uy "i"ay me least, time , on oenina witn a front of nearlv a mile. I could tion. At 1-iigth Lc pi.iw.l.ed.-thq old ..bufljprfnot have cleared It had the bull stopped and left and demanded that Le should let him pass. . He me on the prairie, withstanding the peril I "j ' irom me wii of Old Bill, which felled him to the floor, stunned uuu uieeuuiir. ieiorc lie COUIU rccovtr. tlie heavy frame of the giant was thrown upon hiui, and, in less time than I am writiu; this, poor imiejaoc was a lump ol jelly, bleeduig profuse-!,y ly, and aWt . irrecognisable. His face was iiieraiiy -cnawea up, ana nis lei t elbow dislo cated, while his huge antagonist had not received a scratch. ' . . A few days after this, a fleet a hundred rafta were lying at the big dam below Nauticoke. The river had risen to a fearful he,ght, and it was dangerous to venture through 'Jie narrow, boiling schute, which was renderci still more ,.j a. iuuv. uum, Ul iu, ma, tweive , h 3 luc Li,, oniy to rise again still more furiously, whiriing lumber or heavy timbers around with equal ease, and j dashing them into fragments against its idamant I aides, or upon the rocks below. There was a ball that night on the ' HUl," 7 , l present- . among them Old Lill. Jabc was there, Uo, but J so disguised that but two or three persoml j friemls recognised him. Bill, as usual, draik ! deeply, and about twelve o'clock went aboard his raft. As he went out of the ball-room, I saw --be aa wafunt. Jlis keen eyes glared upon V.s enemy like balls of fire, aud contrasted wonderfully with hU usual quiet demeanor. The devil himself could not have displayed more malice in his ieatures when he dragged Lewis' j Monk down to the infernal regions. As soon as Old Bill was beyond the light of the open door, Jabe stole sliiy out after him. I fancied that his cbject was assassination, but, hearing no outcry, turned my attention to the dancers, and soon tliuJit no iaore,yf Utlur them It two o'clock when myself and companions luruea into our cabin. The wind was blo-aing herce.y, the waters . roared upon the falls still '1 .oudcr for ii, and a cold.xnin came down with its November;- n.lt.i'uu tjc si-'pery; planks. rreitnt!y, I lelt ajar, wi.icii seemed to indicate that some of the flotilla had broken away, and run into us, and soon after a loud crtsh uud a wild yell broke upon the car, hicii above the ' howling of the storm, and tlie roaring of . the water. Then again ail became as before, aud I dropped asleep, amid the music of the elements and tlie labored snoring of my weary comrades. At daylight next day, it was discovered that one raft uo mUshiff. It was Old Bill's! Jabe was looked for, and found sleeping, as quietly as a child, in his cabin. 1 don't think anybody asked Jabe Lis opinion as to the coxae of Old Bill's going off without saying good-bye, nor was anything publicly said about it; but Here was a pretty lij thinking around Nauticoke dam about that time. X. '. Sunday Courier. An Impromptu Ilufialo Ride. I sprang to my feet, flinging aside my blanket. A fearful spectacle was before me. Away to the West, as far as the eye could reach, the prairie seemed in motion. Black waves rolled oyer its undulating outlines, as though some burning mountain was pouring down its lava upon the plains. A thou&and bright epots flashed and flitted along the moving surface Jike jets of fire. The ground shook, men shouted, horses reared upon their ropes, neighing wildly. My' dog barked aud howled, running around me. For a moment I thought I was dreaming; but, no, the scene was too real to be mistaken for a vision. I saw the border of the black wave within ten paces of me, and still ' approaching. Then, and not till , then, did I recognize the shaggy crests and glaring eye-balls of the. buffa lo. "God of heaven! I am in thoir track! I vill be trampled to death!" It was too late to attempt an escape by running. I seized my rifle, and fired at the foremost of the band. The ef fect of my shot was not perceptible. The water ofthearroyo was dashed in my face. A huge bull, ahead of the rest, furious and snorting, plunged through the stream and up the slope. T i:r .... ..... 1 mm iosscu high into the-air. I was thrown rearwards and fell upon a moving I did not feel hurt nor stunned. 1 felt 1 mass. myself carried onward upon the backs of several animals, mai in tne dense drove ran close together. These, frightened at their strange burden, bel lowed loudly, and dashed on to the front. A sudden thought struck me, and, fixing on that which was most under me, I dropped my legs astride of him, embracing his hump, and clutch, ing the long,, woolly hair that grew upon his neck. The animal "routed" with extreme ter ror, and I lunging forward soon headed the band. This was exactly what 1 wanted;, and on we went, over the prairie, the bull running at top speed, beleiving, no doubt, that he had a panther or a catamount between his shoulders. 1 had no desire to disabuse Lim of hia belief; and, lest he should deem me altogether harmless and come to a halt, I slipped out my fcowie, which IB I Ml happened to be "handy," and pricked him ur whenever he showed symptoms of lagging. At every fresh touch of the "spur" he roared out, nud ran forward at a redoubled pace. 'My dan ger was still extreme. The drove was Pmt,,, was in, I could not resist laughin" at mv ludi- crous situation. 1 felt as one does when looking at a o-on.T rmnwlr .W c 1. n 1 - . -.. r. - oiiun ii;ruugii a vmage , of " prairie dogs." Here I fancied, the animal (was about to turn and run back. This brought mirt-: to a sudden pause; but the buffalo J usually runs in a "bee line," and fortunately tely mine nif..i wci:t. sr '. from t : wltii r- direct this fr.; them I w. . o exception to the law. On he to the knees, kicking the dust .'il. hills, snorting and bellowing -d terror. The "plum buttes " were Ve line of our course. I had seen start, and knew if I could reach ' ' " safe. They were nearly three t:.o bluff where we had bivouacked ; miles j;-oi.. but in KT i-; le I had fancied them ten 1 small one ross r ,or tlie r(ra:r;c. SCTt.ral hull(,rp,i vnr(U lBW tj,..n the raa5n Le;ght-. Towanls this I pr;ckcd the foaming bull in a last stretch; and Le lrou?ht nie clevcr1y witLrn a Lmdred varJs of hs h&;iC u WM nQW t-me to take of my dusky companion. I could have slaughtered hln &3 j leaneJ over hU back M kuife upon tLc mo8t nerzUe part of his huge body, j would not have slain that buffalo for Koh-i- Noor. Untwisting my fingers from his thick fleece, I slipped down over his tail, and, without as much as saying " Good night," ran with all j my speed towards the knolL I climbed up, aud. sitting down upon a lcose rockr looked out over the prairie. The moon was still shining brigbt- ( ly. My late companion had halted not far from wlere haJ kft Lim stooj glaring back with a look of extreme bewilderment. There was something so comical in the sight that I yelled ith laughter as I sat securely on my perch. The Scafj'-IIunlert ; or Jiomaatic Adven ture! In 'orlAem Mexiro. Tlie Progress or our Kepubllc. . The census of the United States, for 18-jO, is enough to astonish all the world but ourselves whom nothing can astonish in the way of do ing thicks up si.ick. The increase of our wealth t,- r.Oj 1' :t':ou me. ei i-.'es of our great pros jcrity. Tor the p;st eight years, especially, we Juve reason to be deeply thankful fur the steady ::i 1 prosperous advancement of our commerce, d internal resources. There have been no tudden fluctuations, and nothing but general progress. Some interests have suffered, but the Republic as a whole ha3 not felt them. . How striking tlie contrast between our coun ty and the civilized countries of Europe. Our siperiority, in every respect, has been striking It manifested. Wc have beheld Europe con vulsed from centre to circumference. France aas spouted out her r;ice of monarchs, and her titizens have made the streets of Fari3 reek rith human gore. Rome cast out her spiritual ruler, who was only reinstated by the cannon of the Gaul, who, more than once, in the days of ld, has become master of the Eternal City, jerhaps yet to pay the debt to a more than Cicsar's vengeance. The fields of Italy have been stained with blood, and the eannon of Aus tria have battered the walls of Venice. Bloody fc.ive beeu the struggles on the plains of Hunga ry, and Vienna has , smoked - with the ashes of the slain. Every nation in Europe but llussia and England have had. the knife of civil war barred in the savage contest of father against Bon aud brother against brother; Ireland has lost tw o millions by the famine aud pestilence nd what country in the old werld has escaped some scourge or reverse of fortune ? Not one. -.We have been engaged in war, and wc glory not in that, because wc are the friends of peace. We have also had the pestilence; but it would seem as if those things which injured and re tarded the progress of other natiods tended al ways to advance. and prosper ours. Strong are we now iu population, and strouger than all other nations in enterprise, and never-tiring onward pushing. Iu the year J800, the popula tion of the United States was 5,300,000; it is now 23,500,000. The number of States then comprising the Union was sixteen ; it is now thirty-one. Our territory was then 1,000,000 square miles; it is novr " "00,000. All our present domain west .' of the V'.-3,ssippi then belonged to France and Spain, da w ' on!. ." Yor . Ttnr feci-' vag. of 01 .-gr-u-tor t 1 -fuctuv s an unbroken wilderness, r lori ;. by Spain, aud Georgia was the it-.e Gulf of Mexico. Wct,t of New v- were no States but Kentucky and :-.nd tiese had spest most of their -'.s in the bloody strifes with a a i.is, Indiana, Michigan, and half " . ;i States, were yet but hunting j re Indians roamed unmolested. At the total value of all kinds of raanu products of industry iu the United States hardly exceeded a hundred millions of dollars; the total value now of our products or industry will be about six hundred millions: The exportation of cotton ; alone has" increased from $5,000,000 annually,1 to 61,000,000 and 71,000,000. Our inland lake trcde Las increased frtn an amount too insignificant to be estimated, to the enormous value of 200,000,000 annually. Our foreign marine is now hardly inferior in ex tent or value to that of Great Britain, and we arc now'gaining faster than ever on our gigan tic rival, rifty years ago, scarcely oue of our present four thousand miles of canal existed, aud not one of our present eight or ten thousand miles of railway, or our present sixteeu thousand miles of telegraph were either known or dreamed of. Iu thort, under the influence of free insti tutions, we have grown great and strong, with a rapidity wLich is enough to astonish and con found even the gigantic ambition of the Czar of all the Russians. The Emperor of Russia is called the Colossus of the north ; his empire is about three times the area of the United States' possessions, with about three times the amount in population. It i about one-fifth greater in area than the empire of Great Britain. On the other hand, the British sceptre exercises do minion over one hundred and eighty millions, three times more than Russia. It is the great est empire at present in the world, and its in dustrial products are in proportion to its popu lation. Next to England, in productive indus try and commercial enterprise, stands the United States; but in rapidity of advancement, in giant strides to be the first empire in the world.it requires no " mystical lore " to predict that in thirty years hence, the result will be accom-2 plished. Fright ftil Outrage. The district of Plainehaute, in the Department of Cotes de Nord, has been the theatre of a crime, the details of which have caused horror and con sternation throughout France. In tlie month of July lat, Pierre Barthelemy Lecoc, a man of dissipated habits and desparate disposition, was convicted before the Criminal Courts of Saiat Briene, of a violent assault upon his wife, and sentenced to one months imprisonment. During his incarceration, his wife sought for a limited divorce, and while awaiting the action of the" Court, she lived with her mother, Mrs. Gauvain, at Mauvais. Lecoc, on beiog informed of th:B nnx-porliiif bimmfi verv much irritat-id. and on 1 f. ,. , - , his discharge from prison, vowed vcrgeanco . , . .r , ., . , .. , against his wife and mother-in-law. On Sunday, . , , , ... , - . , , . tee 31st of August, towards four o clock in the , , - ,r . -i, afternoon, Lecoc presented hiaiself, armed with . .. . , , . . a fow;inx piece, at the house of his niotbtr-in- .e . 1 -j v law. Calling upon his wife to stand aside, he , , . f . , , leveled the piece at Mrs. Gauvain and pulled the , , , , . , , , .. , ., , triccer. but although the cap exploded, it failed . eo . , ,. f , . j in causing the discharge of the gun. roiled in ... . , . . , , , this. the murderer threw himself upon the old lady, and sought to strangle her, but a woman named Boudet, living in the next house, had heard the cries of distress, and quickly entered the : room, prevented the catastrophe. Lecoc then drew his child towards him, embraced it, ... and departed But a few minutes had elapsed, ere the door . was again thrown open, and Lecoc appeared once more, a diabolical smile lighting up his dark features. Again the fatal weapon was I raised, the trigger pulled, and au expposion fal lowed. Mrs. Gavain, w ho had been reclin"ng on an arm chair, and whose previous ten or scarcely ; allowed her to observe the presence of the man, i I -m.Jl.lli.- ur rvrsHpd lirr Imnds tn lirr ; Bil ll-'J t. ..in.. . 1 - - - . breast, and sank lifeless to the floor. The wife . , , .. , , ,. , 1 , 1 - 1 1 : exhausted the supply before night, of Lecoc, holding her child in her arms, sank 1 . 1 . . on her knees before the murderer, imploring h!s , Fatal Consequences or Folly. mercy, but the wretch spurned her from him j An occurrence, which happened at a young with his foot, and was in the act of leaving, ; ladies' seminary iu New York, is uientioaed iu when he once more turned around, seized his the Times of that city, which presents another gun by the muzzle, and let the butt-end falL with proof of the folly of indulging in the thought stunning force on the unprotected head of his JCss practice of attempting to frighten others, wife. She fell; her blood mingled with that of ; Two cf the young ladies in the initiation wero her mother, but the inhuman wretch was not j engaged in their own room, convening uj-ou tho satisfied yet, aud blow after blow descended on science oi" anatomy, in the course cf which one the head of the victim until it became one mass of them proceeded to relate some experience sbo of gore. The w oman Boudet who had witnessed ; b.aa formerly acquired in a dissecti-.ig riOJi. the terrific scone, had ucauwhile sought shelter under the bed, and the murderer left without perceiving her. Lecoc took the high road to riainchcaie, and met several workmen, to whom he recited the dreadful event, and to prove his words, showed his blood-stained handi aud clothes. He spoke calmly, as though it was an every day occur rence, aud instead of exhibiting contrition, showed satisfaction with what he had done. Tho men were too much frightened by his ap pearance to venture any attempt for his arrest. He made for the woods, and has not since beu heard from, but every chance of escape has been cut off, and unless he commits suicide, he must eventually fall into the hands of the au thorities. . "Wall, thar's a row over at our house." "What on arth's-the matter, you little sar pint?" . " Why dad's' got drunk, mothers' deal, the old cow's got a calf, Sid's got married and run away with the spoons, Pete swollered a pin, and Lui's looking at the Aurora Borax until he's got the delirious triangles. That ain't all neither." " What else upon arth!" "Rose spilt the batter-pot and broke the pan cakes, and one of the Maltese kittens has got her head into the molasses cup and can't get it out, tn eh. how hungry I tm!" M1E B-KIEE 4 Tlie Cliiucse In California. The Chinese are destined to exert au impor tant influence in this country. For the last six mouths they have supplied a larger number of immigrants than any other country not excep ting the Atluutic section of the Union. I mean to say, the excess of immigration over emigra tion has. been more in their favor. Scarcely a week elapses without the r.rrha! of 150 to 250 Celestials. Very few of them' alanden th country. They appear to shape their course for permanent residence. The greater number equip themselves for mining and set off in search of gold. But many have settled down in trade or business in this city.- The various grades of society are well represented. . They all hail from Canton. It would net he credita ablo to come from any other place. It is a curious fact that although there are from ten to twenty thousand of these people ia California, very few of them are fvinalcs! Th women do not come. 1 know of only two or three Chinese women in this cityr. Oae of tham is the noted Miss Atoy, whose reputation is n.t in the least degree doubtful. This d.stinguished character has no pretensions to beauty, though she is not homely. She lives in a very publio place, and shows herself at the loor, a' ways ia regular national costume, with Chinese panta loons of pure white, or lrghly wrought satin. Her visitors are Americans, and tlie names of some emiuent politicians are sometimes coupled with hers. The Chinese do not enter her dwel ling. It is said that some of them waited on the Committee of Vigilance, when that sover eign tribunal was making oo.nici'ary visits t suspected persons, and g'ning them notice to quit,- with a request that Atoy should . be stct home, as they considered her a disgia e to their j country and a pest to society. Lut S3ine o" tba t :.. . 1 t ... - . LuiuumictucairiBg 10 oecome ucuer acquainted with her ladyshiji before proceeding to that ex tremity, she was not moleste L You can scarcely look inu the street but yoa see troops of Chinese. Here are a dozen marcL iBg in a single file, irregularly, anl making a tour of observation, notiug with curiosity eery thin": arouad them. Here is aLo:her trosD. ' twenty or more, laden with tia pans, boots and . . 1 various preparations for the mines. Still larger . ,. . . , , bodies may be seen with sacks of sugar and . . , . , . . - rice on their backs, carrying them to their store houses after the manner cf ants. O.- if tie (load be too heavy for c no, two of them tug it . . . . , , f on a pole. Thera is a chap with a huge basket . , , . ,. ' of c:othmg, at the heels of ai edd looking . , , , - , . genius who wears odd look.ng spectacles, and - . , .- . , . . who reads his book as he goes, to find the rro- ' , . v. n M . . 1 . . - .. I t... n! .....II.. .... L.I.. 1.1 on'i''iu jjwicco. otcasiuuaii you Deuoii fifty or 4 hundred in one gang, just arrived, and staring with amazement at every thing, getting along about as fast as children going to schcel , . J" The Chinese are slow in assatninc the Amrr- ican costume. Their cloray shoes first come otF, and are replaced by boots, ofteii much too large. They are fond of big boots, aud will s.-ldom suboiil to a good fit if t'.iey can get a pair of boots of greater capacity for the samo money. Their feet tre generally small. A fric: d of mine had a stock of small boots which he did not know what to do with; a Chinaman, at tracted by their cheapness, bought a pair, anl . . . . . . . Just as the conversation reached this point, tho door of the room oaed and auothcr of th inmates of the seminary eu.ercJ with slow aud solemn tread, Laving a white s iect wrapped 1 about her form, and her face powdered to per fect whiteness, htr jet-black hair, eyes aud brows presenting a contrast which gave a start ling lividuess to h r ghi st-lil;o coi n ina.c:. Ti e la ly who was rehitlug her experience, as already stated, is said to be menially superior to any of her classmates, aud noted for her strength cf mind aud freedom from ucrvousuess and absurd sensibility. So sudden, however, was the ap proach of the figure, just at a moment when her mind was leait prepared for anything associated with thoughU of tho de-id, that upon bjholdiug tho apparition she fell senseless to the floor, aud awoke to tho scenes around her oa'y to stiow her anxious attendants that reason had fled and left ead tokens of the mental wreck. At last accounts.no change wasdh-csvcndle in the dis tressing symptoms of the uufirtanate girl, and there is little encouragement to hope that lca 50 a will ever resume its scat. This occurrence, of course, has produced much distress, both in the seminary aud in the families of the respect ive parties. The mind, in its own place, and ia itsalf. Can wal? a hesven cf tc.1, a LVJ of heaven. 1 f f f 1 m- ir
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