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VOLUME VIII.
BBBSSBBBO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1852.
NUMBER 5.
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From the Daily Union.
3IAKV.
If there is any one in the wide world to
whom I might desire to inscribe these simple
lines, it would be to a confiding and affectionate
sister.
BY WILLIAM W. EEDICK.
"She, supposing him to be the gardener, said
unto him, Sir, if thou have born him hence, tell
me where thou hast laid him, and I will take
him away. Jesus said unto her Mary ! She
turned herself, and saith unto him, Itabboni!"
St. John.
Maby ! 'tis a name as sweet
As mortal ear might ever greet ;
Rising from the dead, the Lord
Yielded first to breathe that word.
A name thus honored, known to fame,
Dear sister, you with pride may claim ;
It oft appears on history's page,
In light and shade, and is a name
That brightly glows in every age.
The fair and beauteous of the earth,
The reigning belle of city and town,
The gay coquette, of haughty mien,
The lovelier girl, of modest worth,
The sprightly maid, the glittering queen,
All, oft have owned that name, I ween.
In Scripture, Mary is the same
As virtue, truth, and lasting fame.
The virgin mother of our Lord
Is known and honored by that word ;
And Martha's sister, who would sit
In humble mood at Jesus' feet,
To learn of him, and in whose heart .
The' choice was made of that good part
Which none could take away.
She, too,
"Who anointed him with costly care,
"Whilst at the feast of envious Jew,
And washed his feet with tears, and there
E'en wiped them with her flowing hair;
Who, pitying, and in sorrowing mood,
In sight his cross the latest stood, .
And earliest at his tomb was seen,
To seek the place her Lord had been,
"Was Mary Mary Magdalene.
Pitts bcrg, August, 1852.
From the Louisville Times.
Who would not kneel in Prayer 1 ; .
When happiness with lavish hand
Is casting flowers before us
When Life seems void of care or pain;
And sunny 6kies are o'er us ;
While Love nd Hope are hovering near
Like angels bright and fair
Who would not then in thankfullness,
Who would not kneel in prayer?
When sorrow broods with darksome wing
And shadows every joy
When friendship's smile all hollow seems
And Love proves but alloy ;
When o'er the tomb of buried hopes
Our hearts lie bleeding there
Who would not in an hour like this,
Who would not kneel in prayer ? .
When Death's cold icy hand is laid
In terror on each form,
Who would not seek a shelter then
From every coming storm ?
Who would not cast one look to heaven, .
And plead for mercy there .
Who would not then imploringly,
Who would not kneel in prayer ? : - -Maysville,
July 23th. . ( MAEY
Tli Issue Fairly Made.'
Gen. Pierce was in the Senate in 1841, during
the celebrated extra session, and on recurring
to the journals, we find the . following facts :
On the 25th July, 1841, the bankrupt bill pas
Bed the Senate ayes 26, nays.Srierce's
name is in the negative.' " Three tlays after, the
United States Bank "bill was passed by . the same
Nvote Gen. Tierce voting' against it. On the
ECth of August, the distribution bill was passed
ayes 2S, nays 23. Gen. Tierce voting in the
fcegatWe. Thus, it will be seen that Gen. Tierce
Toted against the bankrupt bill against the in
corporation of a UnitedStates bank and against
the distribution of the proceeds of the public
lands. Now what is General Scott's position on
these questions ? In his great platform letter
tegays :. .- V .'" '.-
; "If I had had the honor to vote on the occa
sion, it would have bees given is favou of
tne land distribution bill, the bankrupt bill, and
the second bill for creating a fiscal corporation."
There is the record,- clear and undisputed ;
and there is the issue fairly -made and presen
ted. Gen. Pierce stands committed and voted
against the Bankrupt bill and the Bank bill
General Scott says he would have voted for all
them, and stands committed in their favor.
Again, we say to people, "ChooSe ye between
A Strange Story.
A remarkable clrcumstauce is related by Mrs.
Catharino Crowe, in the 'Ought side of Nature,"
as having occurred at Odessa, iu 1S42. An old
blind man named Michel, had for many years
been accustomed to get his living by seating
himself every morning on a beam, in one of the
timber yards, -with a- wooden bowl, at his feet,
into which the passengers cast their alms. This
long contiued practice had made him well known
to the inhabitants, and as he had been a
soldier his blindness wa3 attributed to the wounds
he had received in battle. For his own part he
spoke little, and never contradicted this opinion.
One night, Michel by some accident fell in with
a little girl named Tawleska, who was friend
less and on the verge of perishing with cold and
hunger. The old man took her home andadopted
her, and from that time instead of sitting in the
timber yard, he went about the streets in her
company, asking alms at tho doors of houses.
The child called him father, and they were ex
tremely happy together.
But when they had pursued this mode of life
for five years, a theft having been committed in
a house which they visited in the morning, Taw
leska was suspected and arrested, and the blind
man was left once more alone. But, instead of
resuming his former habits, he now disappeared
altogether ; and this circumstance causing the
suspicion to extend to him, the girl was brought
before the magistrate to be interrogated with
regard to his probable place of concealment.
"Do you know where Michel is !" enquired
the magistrate.
"lie is dead !" replied she shedding a torrent
of tears.
As the girl had been shut up for three days
without any . means of obtaining information
from without, this answer, together with her un
feigned distress, naturally excited considerable
surprise.
"Who told you that he was dead ?" they en
quired. "Nobody."
"Then how can you know it ?"
"I saw him killed."
"But you have never been out of the prison
"But I saw it nevertheless !"
"But how was that possible ? Explain what
you mean."
"I cannot. All I can say is, I saw him kil
led." "When was he killed, and how ?
"It was the night I was arrested."
"That cannot be ; he was alive when you were
seized."
"Yes, he was ; he was killed one hour after
that ; they stabbed him with a knife."
"I can't tell, but I saw it."
The confidence with which the girl asserted
what seemed to her hearers impossible and ab
surd, disposed them to imagine that she was
really either insane, of pretending to be so ; so,
leaving Michel aside, they proceeded to interro
gate her about the robberry, asking her if she
was guilty ?
"0, no !" she answered.
"Then how came the property to be found
about you ?"
"I don't know ; I saw nothing but the mur
der." "But there is no grounds for supposing Mi
chel is dead, his body has not, as yet been
found."
"It is in the aqueduct."
"And do you know who slew him ?"
Yes, it was a woman. Michel was walking very
slowly after I was taken from him. A woman
up came behind with a large kitchen knife; but
he heard her and turned round ; and then the
woman flung a piece of gray stuff over his
head, and struck him repeatedly with the knife.
The gray stuff wa3 much stained with the blood.
Michel fell at the eighth blow, and the woman
dragged the body to the aqueduct, and let it fall
in without ever lifting tho stuff that stuck to
his face."
As it was easy to verify theso latter asser
tions, they despatched people to the spot ; and
there the body was ; found, with the piece of
stuff over his head, exactly as she described.
But when they asked her how she knew all this,
she could only answer : "I don't know."
"But ycu know who killed him V . ...
"Not exactly ; it is the same woman that put
out his eyes ; but perhaps he will tell me her
name, to-night, and if he docs, I will tell you."
"Wlrb do you mean by he 9".
"Why Michel to be sure J" . .
During the whole of the following night, with
out allowing her to suspect their intentionthey
watched her ; and itr was observed that she ne
ver lay down, but sat upon her bod in a sort of
cthargic slumber.' Iler body was quite motion
less, except at intervals when this repose was
interrupted by violent nervous shocks,' which
pervaded her whole frame. '
On the ensuing day, the' moment she was
brought "before the judge, 6he declared that sho
was now able to tell the name of the assassin.-'
. : : ; -. -:.!-'
- "But stay," said the magistrate, "did Michel
never tell you, when ho was alive how' he lost
hissight?" - ,:- : '"'' '
"No ; but the morning before: I was arrested
he promised me to do eo ; anJ that v as-"tho
cause of his death." -
"How could that be ?"
"Last night Michel came to me, and he point
ed to the man hidden behind the scaffold on
which he and I had been sitting. He showed
me the man listening to us, when he said, 'I'll
tell you all about that to-Light ;' and then the
man " . .
-"Do you know the name-of this man ?"
"It is Luck ; he went afterwards to a broad
street that leads down to the harbor, and he
entered the third house on tho right."
"What is the name of the street ?"
"I don't know, but the house is one story low
er than tho adjoining ones. Luck told Catha
rine Avhat he had heard, and she proposed to
him to assassinate Michel, but he refused ; say
ing, 'that it was enough to have burnt out his
eyes fifteen years ago, whilst he was asleep at
your door, and to have kidnapped him into the
country.' Then I went to ask charity, and
Catharine put a piece of plate into my pocket
that I might be arrested ; then she hid herself
i behind the aqueduct to wait for Michel, and sho
killed him."
"But since you say all this, why did you keep
the plate ? Why didn't you give information ?"
"But I did not see it then. Michel showed it
to me last night."
"But what should induce Catharine to do
this ?"
"Michel was her husband, and she had forsa
ken him to come to Odessa to marry agaia.
One night fifteen years ago, she saw Michel who
had come to see her. She slipped hastily into
the house and Michel, who thought she had not
seen him, lay down at the door to watch, but
he fell asleep, and then Luck burnt out his eyes
and carried him to a distance."
"And is it Michel who has told you this ?"
"Yes ; he came very pale and covered with
blood, and he took me by the hand and showed
me all with his fingers."
Upon this Luck and Catharine were arrested,
und it was ascertained that she had actually
been married to Michel in tho year 1819, at
Kherson. They at first denied the accusation.
v.. t -i-i i ,i t.
confessed the crime. When they communica
ted the circumstances of the confession to Taw
leska, she said, "I wa3 told it last night." The
affair naturally excited great interest, and peo
ple all around the neighborhood hastened into
the city to learn the sentence.
A Scatliing Speech.
The enthusiasm on the election of Charles
Gavan Duffy, was tremendous. At tho hus
tings, where it is customary for the candidates
to show themselves, together with their most
influential friends, during the progress of elec
tion. Mr. Duffy made a magnificent speech,
and in a portion of it devoted to Sir Thomas
Tueddington, (his opponent) uttered the follow
ing powerful scathing sentiments :
"I am now done with Sir Thomas Kcddington
and his friends. If there were an Irish parlia
ment, he would' be answering an impeachment
for the massacre of the people instead of stand
ing here. He might be mounting a scaffold in
stead of a hustings. (Cheers.) His claims are
fairly before you; dispose of thenvas you think
fit. Let me recapitulate them for you as he
must speak were he to utter the naked truth.
The poor were starved ; I, as commissioner,
presided at their execution, in the name of
Christaia charity, give inc your vctes. (laugh
ter.) The right of Catholics to be tried by ju
ries, on which Catholics had their fair places,
was scandalously outrage!, and I aided and a
betted tho outrage ; in tho name of equal justice
give mo your votes. . Some of the best men iu
the country risked their lives to save the people,
and I helped to slander and betray them ; in tho
name of friendship and honor give me your
votes. . -The sacred ark of religion was assailed,
and I clutched my wages and did tho work of
God's enemies, .without compunction; in tho
name of God and your country send' me back to
betray it again. (Cheers.)
I leave Sir Thomas Rcddington in your hands,
and you will teach him a lesson he will never
forget that Clarendon, his master will never
forget. A lesson which his . master's, Iloyal
mistress may study with advantage that a ren
egade Irishmen is not worth picking out of the
gutter. (Cheers.) There stands the late Under-Secretary
for Ireland, a landed proprietor,
a Knight of the Bath, without one solitary sup
porter on the platform or in the crowd, which
he has not bought and paid for. -II ere stand I,
a man without as much land as my hand '..would
cover, without a title, or a ribbon or a guinea
but what I have earned by my own industry, I
have troops of friends, (cheers,) my election will
not cost me one farthing, and I believe there
are not twenty men, women or children, in that
vast multitude who .would not go fifty miles, if
necessary, to ensure its success. Let the young
men of Ireland take note of this fact, and learn
that to desert the country is as ..weak as. it 13
dishonest. (Hear, hear.) Ask
"You trembling coward, who forsook his mas
ter," , - ...
whether he would not give his rtd ribbon to be
reconciled to the people, and his 'fort pieces' for
one hearty reception such as any of the men a
round us are sure of ? - . . "...-
Iulcsitlc-it Marriage or liOtils Knjiolcon.
The Niagra's nc.s revive the rumors of on
intended marriage between Louis Napoleon and
a Triaeess of Baden. His recent visit to the
Grand Duc?iy, rnd the reception there, give co
lor to the report. The Lady is the Trinccss of
Wnsa.'-xind an alliance with her would be a miu-S?Stlft-i;4.-!otd
-cf - Napwleon with that .of -the,
famous Charles XIV of Sweden.
Wchave somewhere seen th following account
of the family :
Ou the 20th of November, 17D2, Gustavus the
Third, King of Sweden, was murdered at a ball,
by an officer named Ankerstrom, from which
event followed many important circumstances,
among others, the most magnificent spectacle
ever exhihited in the Paris theatres, which ma
ny persons here have no doubt seen and admired
under the title of "Gustave on lo Masque Gus- i
tavus, or tho Masked Ball." The murdered
kin j was succeeded by his son Gustavus Adol
phus, the Fourth, then fonrteen years old, who
joined.thc famous coalition against France, and
was in conseqnence forced in 1809, to abdicate
his throne,which was in 1814, adjudged by the
voice of the people, to the French Marshall Ber.
nadottc. The abdicated King had married a
Frincess of Baden, by whom he had a son and a
daughter. After his abdication he separated
from his wife, and spent the remainder of his
days in poverty and obscurity, in one or anoth"
er small town in Germany, under the name of
Colonel Gustafson. He died in 1827, when his
son, then an officer in the Austrian army,; assu
med the title of Prince Vasa, as it is more com
monly written ; his daughter married her cousin
the Duke of Baden, and is now Duchess of Baden
The Trince of Vasa married, in 1830, the
daughter of another Duke of Baden, whose wife
a Mademoiselle Beauharnais, niece to Josephine,
the Emperor Napoleon's first wife ; and by this
marriage the Trince of Vasa had one daughter,
the Trincess Caroline Frederica Francisca Ste
phania Amalia- Cecilia, born tho 5th of August,
1833, the lady to whom the Tresident of Trance
s reported to have tendered his hand
Tics lady, in consequence, has in her
m her veins
inc E loou. oi me oia Kings oi ismeucn, uaeiaTus
Vasa, Gustavus Adolphus, Charles XII, &c
mingled with that of the dukes of Baden, (none
of whom have made any figure in history,) and
with that of the Beauharnais, of which the
French Tresident is himself a scion, being the
son of Ilortense Beauharnais, the daughter of
the Empress Josephine.
This Beauharnais family has been more for
tunate than any other of modern times, except
that of Bonaparte. Of the two children of the
Empress Jescphine, the daughter, Ilortense,
married Louis Bonaparte, King 01 Holland ; ana
the history of her descendants is now begin
ning where it will end, who can say ? Her son
Eugene, became King of Italy, and married a
daughter of the King of Bavaria, by whom he
left two sons and two daughters. The eldest son
married Dona Mariar the present Queen of Por
tugal, but unfortunately died a month after'
ward. The other son, the Trince of Leuchtcn-
borg, married a daughter of the Emperor Nicho.
1r r,f Unssia. who is determined to make
him a Kin" as soon as a kingdom can be carved
for him. Of the two daughters of Eugene Beau
harnais, the eldest i3 the Queen of Sweden ; the
other is the cx-mpress of Brazil, widow of the
once famous Don Tedro. She, though no longer
an Empress, yet lives very comfortably at Lisbon
with her daughter, now twenty-ono years old
who will probably, some day or other, likewise
uinrry a King.
So much for some of tho characters in the
great drama to be performed in Europe, of which
the first act is now in progress.
Excellent Ulaxims.
The following is a copy of the' printed slip
found ia tho pocket of tho venerable Stephen
Allen, drowned in the recent steamboat disas
ter on the Hudson river :
"Keep good company or none. Never bo idle
If your hands cannot be usefully employed, at
tend to the cultivation of your mind. Always
speak the truth. Make few promises. Live up
to your engagements. Keep your own secrets,
if you have any. When you speak to a person
look hhn ia the face. Good company and good
conversation are the very sinews of virtue.
Good character is above all things else. Your
character cannot be essentially injured except
by your own acts. If any one speaks evil of
you, let your life bo so that nono will believe
him. Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors.
Ever live (misfortunes excepted) within your in.
come. When you retire to bed, think over what
you have been doing during the day.. Make no
haste to be rich, if you would prosper. . Small
and steady gains give competency with tranquil
ity of mind. Never play at any kind of game
of chance. Avoid temptation, through fear you
may not withstand it. Earn money before you
spend it. Never run into debt, unless you see j
a way to get out again. Never borrow, if you !
can possibly avoid it. Do not marry until you are j
able to support a wife. Never 6peak evil of any
one. : Be just before you are generous. Keep !
yourself innocent, if you. would be happy. ;
Save when you are young, to spend , when you
are old. P.sad over the above maxams at loast j
once a week. .... . i
A ICiiot of TCcl-smtii!.
The Oswego Biver isn't navigable far up ; for
it is cut off by a bridge about half a mile from
the lake, and a mile further up it is cut off
again by a dam.
Between this bridge and the dam there is a
rift, which is a famous piioc fur catching fish in
?ezrst Jbuilt out into the middle of the river, in
form like a Y, with the forks up stream, and
down to the lower end there is a crib into which
the water aud fish run, pitching down a little
fall of about three feet, and then as the crib is
built cf slats, the water runs out, leaving the
fish to be picked out by the proprietors of the
wears.
They used to catch lots of eels there, end a
rousing fellow as big as a boy's leg and as long
as a stick of wood was thought dear in Oswego
at fourpencc. But somehow, buying eels, even
if we got them for nothing, didn't suit me, and
I determined to steal a few out of them wears
up there.
I told Mrs. Werts, the young widow that I
boarded with, what I was going at; and I reck
on she was up to them games, for Ehe furnished
me with a pillow-case to bag my game, and two
pairs of woolen mittens to aid me in nabbing the
slippery customers ; and thus armed and equip
ped I set out on my midnight ecling expedition.
When I came abreast of the wear, I discover
ed that the skiff I had seen there at sundown
was gone ; but as I knew the water wasn't
more'n up to my arms, I didn't care much, and
so I waded off to the wear, where I found and
bagged about twenty real swingers.
My pillow-case was nearly full, and I was just
about to get under weigh for home, when the
great grand-daddy of all eel3 came walloping
down into the water. I pitched into him, but
my mittens had got so slippery with the slime
of captured eels that I couldn't hold him a sec
a. There we had it for about ten minutes
up and down, over and under, slip slop till at
last I got mad, and making a desperate dive Xor
the old fellow, I got his head into my mouth,
i and Wah ! faugh ! what a taste, as my teeth
crunched through and through his head till they
met, and the big eel dropped quietly down, lea
ving part of his cutwater, bit off somewhere
about the eyes, in my mouth. 1 spit it out
quicker, and about all my inside "xhis" with
it.
"O, Lord ! wasn't I sick 1 For about twenty
minutes I tried to turn myself wrong side out
like a stocking ; and then I pillow-cased the old
eel, waded ashore, and mizzled for home, feel
ing as if I had swallowed a land-crab, and been
ridden for months by a double and twisted at
tack for Maumee fever.
Iext morning, before I turned out, I heard
the little "widder" singing out in the back en
try, where I'd slung my bag of eels,
"Oh, Charley! Charley! come here quick!"
Well, I did ; and, a3 I'm a live sinner, there
on the floor, among the eels, and the biptrcst of
them all, was a thundering great black Watch
Snake, vith his nose hit off Just about the eyes !
Those two pigs in the back yard had an ecl
breakfast that morning, and Clewline swore an
oath never to go wading about m the night after
ether people's eels again. Carpet Lag.
Hamlet.
The European correspondent of the Spring.
field Republican, writing from Elsinore, Den
mark, says :
"Here is shown Hamlet's grave, evidently of
rather modern date. Of this a German writer
says : 'A more striking homnge has probably
never been paid to tho geniu3 of a poet than
when particular burial places are assigned even
to the creations cf Lis imagination :' while an
English writer who regards the matter from a
more historical point of view, says. Any head
of stones with Runic inscriptions upon them,
and said to denote Ilamjet's grave, will in vain
be searched for here, even if they ever existed
In fact, Hamlet's identification with thcenchan"
ting spot, is at best, but a Shakespearian fiction.
Hamlet's country wa3 not Zealand but Jutland.
Here the name was pronounced Amlct, signify
ing madman. According to the Danish history
of old Saxo-Gramatticus, (lie wroto about the
commencement of tho loth ccnttirv',) Hamlet
was not the son of a Danish king, but of a fa
mous pirate Chief, who was Governor of Jut
land iu conjunction with his brothor. Hamlet's
athcr married the daughter of the Danish
king, and the issue of that marriage was Ham
let. . -
Hamlet's father was subsequently murdered
by his brother, who married tho widow and suc
ceeded to the government of the whole of Jut
land. As a Pagan, it was Hamlet's first duty
to avenge his father. Tho better to conceal his
purpose ho feigucd madness. His uncle Euspec
tiug it to be feigned sent him to England, with
a request to the king that he would put Hamlet
to death. Ho was accompanied by two crea"
tures of his uncle, whose letter to the English
king was carved upon wood, according to the
customs of that period. This, Hamlet, during
the voyage, contrived to get possession of, and
so altered the characters as to make ii a request
hat his two companions should be slain, which
was accordingly done on their arrival in Eng
land. He afterwards married the daughter of
the English king, tut subsequently returned to ,
Jutland, und still feigning madness, contrived
to surprise and iday his uncle, after upbraiding
him with his various crimes. Hamlet then be
came Governor of Jutland, was married a "sec
ond time to a Queen ofScollund, and was even.
tualJy killed in battle. The whole history t,f
Hamlet ia carefully and minutely, detailed, bu
these are leaJing historical features upon which
Shakespeare founded his beautiful tragedy ; aud
rude and disgusting as many of the incidents in
Hamlet's life were, the mode which Shakepearc
has treated IhcnTis one of the greatest proofs
of his splendid genius. According to Scxo,
Hamlet lived about four centurh-s before
Christ.
Mlutite Ilccliantviu.
There is a cherry stone at the Salem (Miss.)
Museum, which contains one dozen silver spoons.
The stone, itself, is of tho ordinary size, but the
spoons are so small that their shape and finish
can only be well distinguished by the micros
cope. Here is the result of immense labor, for
no decidedly useful purpose; and there are thou
sands of other objects in the world, fashioned
by ingenuity, tho value of which, in a utilitari
an sense, may be quite as indifferent. Dr. Oli
ver gives an account in his Philosophical Trans
actions, by the way, of a cherry stone, on which
were carved one huudrcd and twenty four heads,
so distinctly that tho naked eye could distin
guish those belonging to popes aud kings, by
their mitres and crowns. It was bought in
Prussia for 51500, and thence conveyed to Eng
land, where it was considered an object of ho
much value, that its possession was disputed,
and became the oljcct of a suit in chancery.
This stone Dr. O. saw iu 1CS7. In more remote
times still, an account is given of an Ivory char
iot, constructed by Mcrmccidcs, which was so
small that a fly could cover it with his wing ;
also a ship of the same material, which could
be hidden with tho wing of a bee ! Tliny, too,
tells us that Homer's Iliad, which is fifteeu
thousand verses, was written in so small a space
as -to be contained in a nut-shell; while Elia
mentions an artist wroto a distich in letters of
gold and enclosed it in tho rind of a kernel of
corn. But the Han-en MS. mentions a greater
curiosity than any of the above; it being noth
ing more nor less than tho Bible, written by one
Petrc Bales a chancery clerk in so small a
book that it could bo enclosed within the shell
of an English walnut. D'Isracli gave an ac
count of many other similar exploits to that of
Bales. There is a drawing of tho head of
Charles II. in the Library of St. John's College,
Oxford, wholly composed of minute written
characters, which, at a small distance, resemble
the lines of an engraving. The head and the
ruff arc said to contain the book of realms, the
Creed and the Lord's Trayer. Again, in the
British Museum, is a portrait of Queen Anne,
not much bigger than tho hand.' On this draw
ing arc a number of lines and scratches, which,
it is asserted, include the outire contents of
thin folio.
Home Oppression.
The following illustration of homo oppres
sion, from the Philadelphia Ledger, will, we
think, find its counterpart in every section of
the country :
"How apt, in looking forthe mote in our
neighbor's eye, aro we to miss the beam in our
own. A case in point came under our observa
tion a day or two ago at one of our steamboat
landings. The wife and servant-girl of a well
known minister, under a noonday sun, camo
down to the hotel in front of the landing, tho
servant staggering under a large market basket
filled with groceries, &c, and tho wife loaded
with a heavy carpet bag and a huge band box.
A few minutes after, the husband, a hale and
hearty man, of some 170 pounds, made his ap
pearance, carrying over his Lead an umbrella'
and uuder his arm a copy of the last new novel,
"Uncle Tom's Cabin." When the boat arrived,
tho females gathered up tho respective loads
and went on board, and the person leisurely
trod his wvy in the same direction, his sacred
person, as before, carefully protected from tho
sun. TJus reverend declaimer at pride, laziness
and sin, we have no doubt, is a great hutci of
slavery, and the hardships so glowiagly set.
forth iu tho fiction of tho author of "Undo
Tom's Cabin," and, probably, iu his holy horror
of black slavery at tho South, has never onco
seen or thought of the life of servitude to his
own person, of as accomplished a lady as ever
graced a household. W'c thiuk wo sco more of
selfishness more of that spirit of oppression
that draws distinction by arbitrary power be
tween members of the human family, in such
an act as hero described, and one from which a
more wholesorao moral might bo drawn, tliau
any that the imagination of the author of the
popular novel 6poken of has given us', through
her ebony heroes and sable heroines.
. t.,A young gentleman recoutly found him
self in company with thrco young ladies, aud
generously divided an orange between them.
"You will rob yourself," exclaimed oneof the
damsels. -:
"Not at all' replied the innocent,' "I have
three or four j&dre in my pocket." - .
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