[Corsciadoi frhs Pine Awe.] years ago, when her life wzi cask% into the bloom of its eireaseentli strainer. For four years I was her fathers clerk; for two I was her aimed husband. Ido not wonder your blue eyes turn to me with that startled expression, and I can hardly understand now how I ever loved her, ever thought L..) make her the woman crowned and oonsecrated of my lift. And yet she was beautiful, she certainly is that now, and I made the mistake that many a area older and wiser than I, has done before me. I thought this outward loveliness was a type of the burr. "The earth beauty took captive my imagina tion, my intellect, my affeetione; and when under the old poplar trees in her fnther'v suburban home, with the winds rocking the green branches above es, I mid to her, 'Will you go with me to • the end, Jana?' and she nose d her white arms about my neck and laid the so,''t peach bloom of her cheek to mine, and echoed in her lute like voice, 'To the end, Moot* it is not strange that I thought her the woman elect of my soul —the beautiful poet embobiment of my ideal. " How eould I see, io . niy mod worship of my idol, that there was uo stamina, no persistence, no strength in her ohanicter ? Impulsively generous and warmhearted, there was yes a great undereurent of selfishness in her nature; and W ough 1 doubt not she thought she loved me, and did, and does, better than she ever will any other man, her selfishness has rendered her in. capable of woman's life devotion. " As I said, J was a clerk in her father's s hup, aad I was poor Julia was awn re of all this, and she elected me above many wealthy silicon, knowing (for I told her) it must be years be: fore I could shelter hor under my own vine and fig tree. " Well, at last, my artist aspirations triumph. ed over every obstacle. I abjured th- merean• tile carer, which nature never destined fur me, and which only stern neeessity compelled me to seek, and, with the assistantx) of several friends, I went abroad, and remained in Some three years. Ah me! what promises of eonsiancy have those red lips rained int. my thirsty heart! what sweet tears from those MI, blue eyes have detv: ad my forehead ! ~ 1" But we parted. The neat year her father faired. Julia was an only child and a sloolied one. Admiration, mend exeitemesty and ele i.vant surroundings, were vecessities h) her. "She had not idner riches to meet our po tent v, and not moral eourage to brave the change I n he. circumstances. "Th ere was little apology for her, though. A remount , of her father's fortune, sufficient t, secure his small family from wept, was secured to i t. But just before the failure, Mt. Stowell, the million: re, had seen and greatly admired her Now be offer ed himself, and his elegant house and fine _horses were weighed ►n, the balance wait the love of the poor artist., and after a struggle —so I have since learned from one who knew her intimately—the selfisheeee of the lady triumph ed over the heart of the woman One month they were betrothed, the next they were marri , ed. " For two mouth I bad not heard of my be. frothed, and her silence perplexed and alarmed me.' I did not doubt her constancy—l would sooner have distrusted the love cf the mother that bore me, bat I feared that, sickness or some other evil &id overtaken my idol. " Pee dfiy I sat in my studio at Rome, when a package was brought me. How eagerly I un• rolled it! But I searched in vain for the fair, delicate chirography whose very sight thnled the pulses of my being. It was not there, and in my disappointment I dropped the letters and papers to the floor. At last I half unconsciously lifted one of the letters; opened it, and the first lines my eyes rented on were those that,. an nounced the marriage of Mr. Stowelt, the 'foil. lionaire, with Julia Ellie. Oh, black, .blesting hour! that lifted up a waste of desolation from all the others in my life, your memory bar not power to stir me now! " Of course I suffered—any man of my nature mast, to find his idol, clay. Hat it was brief The mists passed away from my eyes; the wows* went cut from the bridal chamber where I had sanctified and consecrated her in my heart; and as she went, I looked for a moment on her true soul. How stark and shrivelled it was ! " ' Go,' go out of my heart!' I said at last very calmly and without any bitterness of spirit, for I pitied her; pitied her, that she had bartered, for the husks of this life, the great jewels of my affection !" Alcott Mills paused. I could not answer him for the tears that were dripping from my eyes, I think he saw them At all events, his bead learned down tome as be said, low audsoletnnly: * 4 Bhe went out of my heart, and I shut its door, and all was quiet there—quiet, but so empty.— But within the last month, an angel has come to me. She stands now on the threshold of my heart. I have seen the radiant crown she wears, and in it are set great jewels of love, and sym pathy, and self-sacrifice. Oh, how dark, and miserable, and meagre seems Julia, the earth man, the earth love, beside her! ' The angel stands on the threshold. I have opened the door. Do you think she will walk la, Mary?" I looked up in bewildered surprise, but the ant glance into those deep set, shining eyes, re: vealed big meaning. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the great solemn rArftth, dawned and dazzled over my being. Tbilisi, and I was beloved! It was no time for the display of maiden art or affectation, net even for rightful maiden timidity. Solemnly as the question had been asked, my soul answered it : " I will go in, Alcott." A month later I went home. I had not ap• prised my family of my engagement; I bad only written them to expect me on a certain day, and a dear hived with me. But the letter never Ached them. It was late in the afternoon when Aloott sad I left the depot in a private carriage that conveyed us over the three miles whichintervened between us and dgme. As we drew near our cottage I observed sWeral persons raking hay in the fields on oar right The youngest of these suddenly lifted his , head and looked at us. This rake dropped film his hands,, he brushed hisetraw hat from hisfore. heed, and thee with one bound and a loud shriek, "Goodness alive! if that ain't my sister Maryr he was over the bars, and I was out of the esr,ri. age and in bis arms, sobbing only, "Fred! oh, my brother!" He needn't have blushed, though, if his east was off, and his handsome fusee so esa•browned whoa I turned and preseeted him to the elegant Wenger in the earsisge, whose eye& were shialig through a mist of tears, and whose vdice was home as he eloped Fred's hand and rtactruOd his greeting. In a few minutes we were at hqme; my arms • were about my mother', neck, my sister's kisses were on my cheek. That is all I can tell you of that meeting. I new returned to my toil in the city. My sister Annie took charged the school which was, to have been mine, and Fred obtsiaed a situation in an leadesy. He is at oelkwe now, and win, sing laurels there. The neat. October, ;Limit and I were married. Six years I have been his wife--his wife. Those two mososyllahles em body all of happiness the earth holds for me. We live in the eaaatry, reader, in a potteg_ t &stied down among the trees and every lay. time the nee vines write their crimson raminime, on the pillars of the portico. My booboo(' is not a rick moo—l doubt - whether be ever will be. I oertaialy do not are, for have I not the unfothoudbie unspeakable riches of his love, sad' de you lick I inuird ,barter these for Mrs. &owell's palata l and moods, sad 'mime? God has rewarded one in this litieloy Mow two yam ofalma sidEssinig,* but Xs doss oat el ways de this bass, Nader. the lamasiker may held lite lideesiits sad the bemedialoa, bat God keeps & amiaot fi rkaaer the lib burdens may bo may boat, sad the beast sad the bah fall boas& dos, bu t N.,. •••• 3" , ' • ass ear day is, so shall oat strength bi." The light in which I walk now would Dot be so bright if the darkness bad not gone before: the soup. twin heights would not look so far, if I had not trodden - hs valleys. We amnia tell what discipline would be best for ns• ' but we him if our appointed tasks are "wellune," out Father will some for us, and taking our heads gently is Hie own, lead us at last to the nteinieg. V. F. T. We find s lively passage on tobacco in the pleasant new book by Alphonse Karr. It must be borne in mind that, in Prance, tobsocn is a monopoly--cod a very productive one—in the hinds of government. There is a family of poisonous plants, among which we may notice the henbane, the datura stramonium, and the tobacco pleat. The tobacco plant is pherhaps a little less poisonous than the datura, but it is more it 9 than the henbane, which is a violent poison. Here is a tobacco° plant- - as fine a plant as yon can wish to see. It grows to the height of six feet; and from the center of a tuft of loaves, of a beautiful green, shoot out - elegant and graceful clusters of pink flowers " For a long while the tobacco plant grew un known and solitary in the wilds of America.— The savages to whom we had given brandy, gave us in exchange tobaoeo, with the smoke of which they used to intoxicate themselves on grand occasions The intercourse between the two worlds began with this amiable interchange o pOlSons. • t• These who first thought of putting tobacco dust up their nqp.os were first laughed at, and then persecuted - more or lees James 1., of Eng land, wrote against snuff takers a book entitled tlisocapoos ' Some years later, Pope. Urban VIII exceni tuunicated all persons who took snuff in churches. The Empress Elisabeth thought it umessary to add something to the penalty of exoonimunication pronounced against those who need the black dust during divine service, and authorize d the beadles to confiscate the snuff - boxes to their own use. Amunith IV. forbade the use of snuff, sender pain of having the nose cut off No' u.eful plant could Lave withstood such attacks It before this invention a man had been found to say, 'Let us seek the means of tilling the coffers of the state by a voluntar•, tax; let us set about selling something which every body will like to do without. In America there is a plant essentially poisonous; if from its leaves you extract an erupyreumatic oil, a single drop of it will cause an animal to die in horrible con vulsions. Supp Ase we offer this plant for sale, choppet up or reduced to a powder. We wib sell it very deer, and tell the people to stuff the powder up their noses " " , 'That is to say, I suppose, you will force them to do so by law ?" 'Not a bit of it. I spoke of a voluntary tax. As to the portion we chop up, we will t e ll them to inhale it, and to sw.ellow a little smoke from it besides." t "• But it will kill them." Nu; they will become rather pale, perkier feel giddy, spit blood, and suffer from cholic, or have pains in the chesty—that's all. Besides, you know, although it has often been said that habit is second nature, people are not yet aware how completely man resembles the knife, of which the blade first and then the handle had been changed two or three times: In man there is no nature left—nothing bat habit remains. People will become like MithridAtes, who have learned to live on poisons." ' The first time that a man will smoke, he will feel sickness, nausea, giddiness, aid colics; but that will go off by degrees, and in time be will get so accustomed to it, that be will only feel such symptoms now and then—when he sm , ,kes tobacco that is bad or too strong—or when he is not well, and in five or six other cases Those wh., take it in powder will sneeze, have a disagreeable smell, lose the sense of smelling, add establish in their nose a sort:of perpetual blister. "'Then, I suppose, it smells very nice." ‘" Qaite the reverse It has a very unpleasant smell; but, as I avid, we'll sell it very dear, and reserve to ourselves the monopoly. of it. 4 " My good friend,' one would have said to any one lammed enough to hold similar language, 'nobody will envy you the privilege of selling a weed that no one will care to buy. Yon might as well open a shop and write on it: Kicks sold here; or. Such a-one sells blows, wholesale and retail. You will find as many customers as for your poisnous weed." " Well'. who would have beikved that the first speaker was right, and that totem) specula. two would answer goerfeetly ? The Kings of France have written no satires against snuff, have had no noses cut off, no snuff boxes wells caetd. Far from it. They have sold tdbacoo, laid an impost on noses, and given snuffboxes to poets with their portraits no the lid, and diamonds, all round. This little trade has brought them in I don't know how many millions a year. The potato was far more difficult to popularise, and has still some adversaries." Whalen* sad Morel Glsocora, Ns. Bete, IRE reecletse the harped and meet imeepirte stock of Grocer tee to be bawl to say beam la tits city, which they will WI se cheapen. We have all tithed shout Ten, Tee, reA, bet without Ain, Sterrett t Bre, la the Oho to dot the worth Of yens nosey is Tee of any WA or Saver. We respecting; finite emery body In city and country, to seg sad maths* way stook be here pan:bastes ehewbera sod we hal snidest that we so sell than all goods is our line at prices to wieldy theme that Sterrett It Bro's are tee Boys that mall good Goods sad at low 'atom N. —All rode delivered hes of dray te _dty attatawahs. April BRO. ALL who are indebted to due late Ores of Monett I Gray, ere requested to all and settle their amounts istasedlated By so doing they will save costa. JAY CS B. ll* Jane T, 1446. 4 TAI ES S. PTER.RETT (nearanor t Steloort k (Rao,) now rr opirtor lardy. aamartatrat ad all kl. of GROCER/KS Uhst we.e ►ought for net nail hotrod id Az months tine. Aar roman that muds In get Cheap Groorrias would do nod to all at Juba 7, labt J. 8. STICRRILITIL AGOOD amortamootof all kis& of good TEA, sad at almost say A pried from 2a to Se per Its., in 6 Di. charts and Jilts re at Jose t, 11146. 4 J. 8. 6. ArOLasSES arop tea mad kolas... is Non awl toe male very low at dSBNKE77 dr. 111101 1 1. CtikiCiDiNA7 Hanes Dried Boa aad Park for sakr April 114 STURM' k 118011. MkIRD willo w w - Wagons sod I penal somarboast of Wood Ell sad W Warm kr mak cheap at April, lk 1560. ISTERWMT k sacra. LOlLlG—Hariag mock arraarsoasto with Killen to s e ll roar r oge*OW paepanotl to Ml yellers at tloo lvwt d! r prima. Sprit & BYO. lc April la. ii oi rViiig - ikat, Load sad Oaps, Oar rale ateamala and retail. April la. .111.1tBiTlr k BRO. 310 i Leaman., Raisins, Canyata, Pim Lemon and CU- O rob Neal, walla and LIMO& gitlllidigl& rr aad bra at April In. k Bur& rpIOSACCO.—AII Aisle. tem %li gni evnta Pet lb, from the I pag tail np to the gowsloo Massa& Loot April IL as PIIRITT 4 Birn. rn- Selland in Gum 6Sr nick with • • gra, and a/no, ()m e. Poor! on reta l it ic ht. 16 IMERIUM'S —Mave joy.aay war of it e ri Jam. Mo. Latium Mocha, roamed, burst sad gTomid at Jaya T. J. s. gralkarer. 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IMAM ALL et the sieve _ wed army mime% eeneeptemilee beam& eeseh - e. - - 4 ile ad ; , g am= Os nab that our Week at an V 16.4 . 114 ammiaaada OrfArte t eaS Jew UM. L & • f I I MEM A row of Tolson. STERRETT & BRO., !Luther Boat In 1 The plan to W= at. k RAO'S at the very beet Syrsp Uri as J.B. " plod - sfriks# sir '1 VII at Mir o4oialis wad tioir Nods of Trott. meat of thetwis rellWat ea vilialigirie woolens& 44... 4 1 14 .6. rb501l au fhat .r the n ""r i e M a rdi el ratilkilaos bilatee, Wised, aidiaithe we ealemei twill Ow esaidifig patiost Mam madam theft bed* theyinelitieuer will WU yew that the OM= a " Vk eesett Oa= coati eat bear tneetameat, when the Dela ewer DOMINIONS.* Mama Siete balm ewes law Is per feet hatate. Hew re. ateirlearre impact woe ja laspetihet health? Areas, wheal of peselltllaawie wail tell yew that "she shoes will we the aleaviatate at WAS. soli meth* adasiataars barbs, roe% mad as ea to the wet Weenie t e r. Thy dilbreat seimeeie Waft ha imseseswe as their & Pliewittla, by the simple sews et= Wooed the eteeftilik haw the Ilhawaa the world what ewe he await* halo af ft. WNW did be do ? He, the One thhah as Ito Imwellartew of iheaktai, applied It la the swing of Imam ttb trim itaetrwetieer y that aside told •leetdeAty. And he this then Ix • waselatat imuYetty Whew tie expedients wad wealth of the Guest Timer of L4aasiag sad those of Piwt. Maws Dv Clawit, the dieewwww sail makerof the t ELM? ?WC OIL Prot, De Gmtils's axpeetrests with dm* imam paw age aril haw peas at weal with ware toll she winadthed =wean be W prodased, et Philadelphia, the eerie if lenakila'a ewer" a wad, wierad way to that et it. Twat Oars Tern this satostahing Amedhilakie of the ills and pains of Mao, there U.S. rest mist a more mantoeisse niediolas. 'or owe which has drawn inch seisms& and undivided testimonials in Its favor from all who have glom it a shespie trial as Physicians, Bate" Coagreeentes, Mayors of cans, Be4T praprtetnes and grit-ciaas Meninges, 1.11 the care of each dimmers and allections the followingeonlnt Wirliryildakrealim From and Ague, Deahmea, tiosik Memmigla,Leinabego, Moieties, dpiest mod Beregehl at compiolaba Tie DOIIIMUL. fiestlinee,Crainps, Crump, Pi/ea, Felons, *intim end Bruise& Cale and Woands, *embed teloadr•Mdf J obits, Bershala, Bent Nipples, Bersiled Brent, WINO. Me ordars, dolt . h o rs Me mouth and stomach, Kmptioaa, Caked BMA. Quinsy, Sore Theist, Palsy, Pheurigy, Ckers, Lock Jaw, Heart Baum, Tooth aid Zar-sects, operettas's, Costisemem, &wink More Gums of frothiest Wawa, hr_ As an .sample of the estimation is which it la bold by or of the ablest jurists and writers on law, kr-, In this twants, we will gee a letter imegest try hot. Deillitarlitiloo Uriallettek Lod, Editor of Us well known Monthly Law Magalins, ti, Broadway, New Tog ; • word of such testimony is uf more weight mop; the beet classes of the eoantry, than volumes' front unksown sources Guests Horsy, Philawielplila. May 7th, 1854. Prof. Charts IleCinith-1 freely give It as my opinion titai l your w Electric OW* Is among the most wonderful remedies of modern times. At the earnest segued of a Idy who alleged she bad beat relieved of a mold *Mal affection by Its ose,l was induced to to a bottle, though at the time of purchasing, I hilly believed It to ur a quack medicine and a ditch penny humbug. Hu t • trial onnviteie we that it does prowess magic power, alai its as sill prose bleillaLlg to sulkertne borlsoltY I re...malty took a cold from alseping In damp sheets, and my n,ll. became so math rwolimi and painful, that I