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POETRY.
From the• New Orleans Picay:une:•
SNEEZING.
Like a dog and &tin kettle;
Like a bill a man can't settle,•
Like a hat without a crown,.
Like a bottle upside down,•
Like a coat that doesn't fit,
Like a piece of would e
Like a pot of ale that's dead,
Or like pastboard gingerbread,
Like the queerest thing you please..
Is the checking of a sneeze !.
Like a squinting lady's leer,
Or a cross eyed auctioneer,•
Like a hat blown off a head,
When the head is very red,- •
And the hat along the street
Runs a race 'tis.hard to beat,
With the owner running after,
Amid roaring peals of laughter i•
Half a sneeze is just like that—
Like the man without the hat.
Like a stale and broken charm•
le a sneezing false alarm;
Like a snapping &idle string,
Or a more vexatious thing.
But like water when you thirst,.
Or a hope to crooning nurst,
Like a friend's returning smile
Atter wrath and storm awhile,
Or like ought bestowing ease
Is a good and hearty sneeze.
Some poetast,r wrote the following for
the Hartford Review,,but it killed him:
Long is the morn
That brings no eve ;
Tall is the corn
That no c .bs leave;
Blue is the sky
That never looks yeller;
Hard is the apple
That never grows mellerp
But longer, and bluer, and harder, and tall,
Is my own lady-love—my adorable Pull."
Epigram
Fwo jolly topers, St u n and Hugh;
By tippling lost their breath,
And having drank to sll they knew,
At last they drank to DEATH."
ItEsonst.—We clip the following capital
hit from one of our exchange papers :
How well it is the sun and moon
Are placed so very high
That no presuming ass can reach
To pluck them from the sky.
If 'twere not so, I do believe
That sume reforming ass
Vle ould soon attempt to take them down
To light the world. with Gas !
"Where are my stays ?" asked a lady
of her husband. "Here they are," bail
he, throwing his arms around her.
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THE FUGITIVE
OF
MOSCO W
A RUSSIAN TALE.
,!(:) welcome pure-eyed • faith, white-han
ded hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings
And thou unblemish's. form of chastity!
I see the visibly, and now believe
That he, the Supreme God, to whom all
things
Are hut as lavish officers of vengeance,
Would send a glistning guardic.n, if need
were,_
To keep my life and honor unassail'd.".
During the reign of Czar Peter, there
resided in the city - of Moscow a gentle
man of birth and education named Prieur,
a native of France, who left his country
in disgust with the political and religious
exciremt nts which agitated it, and which
had been the means of deprivin him of a
large portion of his lortune. He had but
one child, a daughter, named Elnisa,
whose !nether died in child-Led. In ad
dition to the natural cords of affection
which binds the parent to the offspring,
this child was endeared to Prieur by a
thousand adventitious associations, and
he lavished upon her all that wealth could
procure.
Prieur was received with every mark
of respect by the Czar, and his daughter
immediately became the idol of the Rus
sian Couit, with descriptions of her ac•
complishments, her greatness, her s y m•
metry of form, and particularly of the
.pleasing expression of her eyes, the Rus•
sian legendary ballads are filled.
"Downcast, or shooting glances far
How beautiful her eyt S.
That hi nt the nature of the star
With that of summer skies!"
To charms such as Elnisa possessed,
the Czar was not insensible; and neglec
ting his estimable wife, thb lady Catha•
rine, the noblest woman, if history may
be believed, that ever shared the recal hot - ,
ors of the Russian throne, he snur...,ht to win
the love of the fair Gallic maiden by un-,
•velcome importunities, and even by un—
manly threatnings.
Alarmed beyond measure at his threats
and her meditated degradation; aware al
so of his despotic power and ability to ac
complish, by the aid of his ready slaves,
almost whatever he might desire, Elosia
fled in terror secretly from the metropo..
lis, without informing even her lather of
her intended destination.
Three leag,ues beyond the walls of Mos
cow, lay a marsh of many miles in extent,
ettvered with wild briars and brambles;.
in the middle - of that swamp was a mound
or island, as it were, on w hich was a ru
ined hut, once, it was said, inhabited by
an anehorate, concerning whom many
fearful legends were told by nurses to
frighten and subdue wayward children;
hut whether the legends are true or false,
it matters not to our tale; there was the
swamp.
"A midway in the unsafe morass,
A single island rose
Of firm dry grrund, with healthful grass -
Adorned, and shady booths."
A knowledge of that island, and of the
tales connected with it, Eloise had gath—
ered from a vassal who lived upon the bur
dens of the morass, and who for several
years had supplied her father with game.
'Disguised, she Fought his solitary hut, and
!besought him with ready rewards of gold,
land promises of whatever he might ask,
to lead her through the swamp to that se.
eluded and desolate retreat. The honest
fowler, on hearing of her distress, refu•
he d her gold, and cheerfully conducted
her to the little island, promising to sup•
ply her daily with such food as he could
; procure. Eloisa took possession of her
new habitation with a sense of devout
thankfulness, and there she lived for two
years, a saintly anchoress, alike conten
ded amid the snows of winter and the
flowers and fruits of summer.
PHAZMA.
During this time; no one in Moscow
knew anything of her fate;. alt supposed
her lost, and many believed through the
Czar. Her father mourned her as dead,
and the lady Catherine (who was not
norant et her husband's passion) shared
with him his' grief.
Upon the rude walls of her cabin, the
fair fogative had hut g a picture, in accor
dance with Russian name, of the Maier
Dolorosa, with which she communed ev
ery morn and eve. Even there, in deep
est solitude, she dreamed away her tunic
in plea.ant fancies and ge.itle occupa
tions; she cultivated wild flowers, and
made companions of them and the birds
that lived around the forest home; and
when the early winter came, and she saw
the white swans passing southward, she
followed them in fancy on their flight to
the vine clad fields of her native France,
and memory dwelt for hours, in delight,
on the recollections of childhood; the
Kremlin and Czar were forgotten, the
"ONE COUNTRY, OIIE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BENEDICT PUBEASIFIER AND PROPRIETOR.
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1841
past became the present, and the future
was disregarded.
As Eloisa was indulging in a reverie,
such as is here poorly shadowed forth to
the reader, a wounded deer catno houn
ding through the forest; and sunk down
exhausted at her feet: he was followed
by a Russian nobleman named Inrak,
who, lead on by excitement of the chase,
hail pursued his noble game through the
morass, encountering dangers, of which
to think of made him tremble.- Led by
his dogs, he came boldly up to the stag,
and blew a "du:lib-proclaiming blast."
Elosia, relying upon the strength
which ever accompanies a virtuous mind,
now came from a thicket, where, on In
rak's approach she had taken shelter.
Inrak, starting back with astonishment
could only, with difficulty, find words to
ask whether she was the divinity of the
place, or a mortal mind, suffering cruel
confinement there under the power of
sunlit demon master, or wizard's charm.
"Noble stranger, as your address and
appearance 6-speak you," said Eloisa,'
calmly. "you behold in me, as in this ob.
ject of your pursuit, a stricken deer. I.
might have lain in my covert unohserved,
bu t from yolr deportment, sir, I judged
that a suffering woman would find in you
a friend. I on not terrified--I shed no,
tears—but I beseech you., when you re
turn to Moscow, not to explain the toys
•tery which has thus accidentally been re
vealed to you tomlay. I ask no more;
for the honor of manhood do not deny a
maiden in distress this reasonable boon."
"Is it possible," said Inrak, in amaze
ment, "that you are the maiden whose
,ourden disappearance from Moscow, two
years since, was the theme of every
tongue—whose virtue withstood the Em
peror'S assail tr. ents—whose mysterious
titte has drawn unnumbered'lears from the
eyes of all those who were too happy in
the enjoyment of your acquaintance."
"Mv name is Eloisa Priem.," replied
the lair fugative—"do you know if my
father lives? I have never h&c-me(' him
of try concealment, for fear, 0 wicked
heart of mine! that he would resign me to
the Czar." . .
lires" . answerrd Torah, "in incon
solable grief for your loss."
In a moment was kindled in the breast
of !oral: a passion strong as if it hail
been of years duration. He already look •
ed upon the gentle Eloisa as his own, and
. besought her to trust in him her deliver
ance. "The Czar," said he , has repen
ted in deepest grief his violent suit, as 1
have learned from his own lips, and frism
the lips of the fady Catharine, he has also
so fight in a thousand ways, to make repa
ration to your lather. Therefore, gentle
maiden: if you will give sanction to my
enterprise, I will make haste to Moscow,
and return to you with the strongest pledg
es a sovereign can give, that you may re
-turn to your father and live inviolate."
! Eloisa smiled a taint consent, and
hope grew bold in the breast of Inrak,
who taking a respectful leave,- proceeded
in all haste to Moscow, and returned on
the third day after his departure, to the
lonely island in the morass, and bore away
hits prize to her father's arms. The old
man clasped Elmsa to his heart, and the
tear , of joy which fell from his eves,
"tiid make the meeting seem meat like a
dear farewell."
Love succeeded gratitude in the breast
of Eloise; the bridal day was appointed,
the bridal day arrived, and the deliverer
and delivered were united.
"Meek Catharine had her own reward;
The Czar he,towed a dower,
And universal Mnscniv shared
The triumph of that hour.'.
ILIFE.
BY BISHOP REBER
Life bears us on like the stream of a
mighty river. Our boat at first glides
down the narrow channel, through the
playful murmurings of the little brook,
and the windings of its grassy border.
The trees shed their blossoms over our
young heads; the flowers on the brink
seem to offer themselves to our 2 . oung
'hands; we are happy in hope, and we
grasp eagerly at the beauties around lisp
but the stream hurries on and still our
hands are empty.
Our course in manhood and youth is a
long a widecanrt deeper flood, and amid
objects more striking nod magnificent.
We are animated by the moving picture
1)I enjoyment and industry which passes
before us; we are excited hy some short
livid success, or depressed and made mis.
.erable by SOW equally short-lived disap•
pointment. But our energy and our de•
pendencies are both vain. The stream
bears us on, and our joys and our griefs
are alike lett behind us; we may be ship.
wrecked, but we cannot anchor, our voy•
age may be hastened, but it cannot be de•
toyed; whether rough or smooth, the riv•
er hastens towards its home, till the rra
ring of the ocean is in our ears, and the
tossing of the waves is beneath our keel,
and the lands lessen from our eyes, and
floods are lifted around us, and the earth
loses sight of us, rind we take the last
leave of earth and its inhabitants, and of
our further voyage there is 00 witness,
but the Infinite and the Ranal.
And do we still take so much anxious
thought for future days, when the days
which have gone by have so strangely and
liniformerly deceived as? Can we so set
our hearts MI the creatures of God, when
we find by sad experience that that the
Creator is only permanent? or shall we
not rather lay aside every weight and eve
ry sin which loth most easily beset us,
and think of ourselves henceforth as way
faring persons only, who have no abiding
• inheritance hut in the hope of a better
worW; and to whom even that worid
would be worse than hopeless, if it were
not for our Lord Jesus Christ, and the in •
terest we have obtained in his mercies.
THE MISER WHO HAD A HEART.
Arming all the of tiers and classes of
men that inhabit this little planet of ours,
and make such a bustle upon it, there is
none more miserable and degraded. and
really contemptible, than the lifiser..
—a wretched hermit in his plonmy den,
wrapped up in the solitude of his heart.
with-ring, soul-destroying avarice. Such
l i
beings .are. among the human family,. what
toads and lizards, and adders are among
the reptile race. Superior mind a cannot
look upon them otherwise than with loath-.
ing and disgust..
- We never could exactly understand
the propriety of giving.these old curmud
geons a decent funeral when they die,.
much less of extending to their memories
the immortality of a newspaper puff, mi•
Tess; like the quack doctors, they pay
liberally in advance. There probably
never existed one of this numerous tribe
who did not secretly exult in anticipation
of what the papers would say of his wealth
and possessions after his decease. Now
the newspaper world should nut these olds
fellows altogether—they never take a pa
per—they never patronise except bv bor
rowing—anti their deaths whether fair or
fool, whether they die inn den or a pal
ace, should never hi. heralded. A course
of this sort, by giving them less prospec
tive notoriety, would tend to make them
better meta. _
The papers give an account of an loth
vidual in Massachusetts, who lived to a
good old age, and shut himself up fir the
last ten yew's from his neighbors and re.
latives, under the deusion that they were
seeking to fleece him of his property. His
charities never the hearts of the
poor. A retail-. who yet survives, and
is in destitute circumstanzes, once went
to him when pressed by want fur a few
quarts of meal ; but he turned her from.
him
He
handed.
He mild not tined to Marry. He
made a will, but before his death destroy
ed it by strikin7 out the names of the de.
visees, whom he could not bear to think
were to have his property. He several
times within a few years Said that it was
his intention to have his money put into
his coffin and buried with him. He loved
money—he worshipped it—and his great
est grief was that he most part with it at
death. Yet he would have been indig.
nant had he been called while living a
Feeding on the coarsest fare he
called economy—sitting without fire,
while his wood was rotting in piled, was
with him frngality— and using a shingle
foe the double purpose of a fire shovel and
bellows, was, in his view, a saving-nt ex
pense.
The name of !his confirmed old miser
was Halle, and he lived and died at Yar
mouth. And his was certainly the most
extraordinary case of avarice which we
can now call to mind, with the exception
of that of Old Sillerton . , the founder of the
hospital that hears his name in the city of
Aberdeen. lie was one of the greatest
misers and most wretched men, that ever
He was very fond of reading, but
would never go to the exnense of a light :
and instead of fuel for his fire, lie used to
keep himself warm by lugging a hag of
stones about his room upon his back. Tie
at last denied himself the necessary food
if procured' at his own expense, and final.
ly died of a surfeit at the house of a friend !
--But enimeh of these sombre mus
ine.s. Let us turn over a new leaf—and
if 'here is any thing like sunshine in the
life of a tassel., let us have it. The best
thing we can say of one of these beings, is
to tell a story we recently five' heal (I, in
ofie of our nimbler( about Town, of THE
MISER THAT IIAD A HEART.
* * *
"Uncle,"' said a sweet looking liltle
girl the other day to a bluff old skinflint,
up town, who owns something like a
square (Anuses, and has a cool hundred
thousand in the funds—"pray tell me:
what is a miser?"
"A miser, eh?—why, what put such a
silly question as that into your head,
child ?" . _
.;;05 .- , nothing in particular, uncle--only
I heard Mr. Goodyear say, as he wen
out the other day, when you refused to
I help build the new church, that he was
afraid you were getting to be a miser
that's all, uncle."
"Pub, pnli—go along to your lesscns,
It osa."
The old man was torched--he loved
the blooming little niece, and notwith•
standing her pertness, the thought of her
dependence upon him, and of the poverty
of her widowed mother, struck a chord
that for once vibrated to his heart. He
was confused, and his countenance ex
hibited tokens of the scarlet fever. He
bustled about after his hat and cane, and .
hurried off down town an hour earlier than
.
hy Ro9a, my chill, what have you
been saying to your uncle ?-1 - le'R (Mend
ed with something or other you have said
or done."
"No, no, mother—l only asked him what
a Miser was—and he told me to go along
to my lessons; that's all."
The timid and heart•stricken mother
sobbed outright, at what she thought the
the fat.•l imprudence of her child. She
well knew his sordid passion, and had ob
served with anxiety how rapidly it was
absorbing his better feelings as age crept
silently upon him.
"Oh my child—you are thoughtless,
and you have, I fear, greatly off tided
your uncle. lie may turn us out of doors
—and what would then becotne of us?"
.Never fray," said the lively little girl
- at him ; hug, nod kiss him,
until be forgives me, and tells toe what a
miser 19. He'll never t u rn us nut, mother
—never—he can't be so naughty an un
cle as that."
Some time before the usual dinner hour,
the old gentleman came stepping along
into the parlor, lugging a huge bundle un
der his arm. Little Rose flew to his side,
anxiously watching, her node's counter,.
ance, which she instantly perceived to be
lighted up with a smile of benevolence,
but she said not a word',
.Rosy, my dear," said the old man, af
ter he had carefully opened his bun d le,
and displayed its rich contents upon the
table—" Rosy, where's your mother ?"
"There," 'continued the old man, when
the lady and little Rose appeared, "there
is a present for you, sister ; and you, yon
little hussy, there's one for you; but. re.
member, Rose, nerer to bilieve any one
who says rar uncle is a miser."
Rose sprons; into his arms, and the old
man wept in the overflowing of his emo
tions. From that hour he has been a hap
pier man. The innocent prattle of the
little Rosa hail kindled the spark of benev•
olence in his bosom. He found out that
,HE Him A HEART.
From the National Intelligencer—gictra.
WASIIINGTON, June 1,1841.
This day the PRESIDENT or THE UNI
TED STATES transmitted to both houses
of Congress the following
MESSAGE:
To the Senate and Home of Rrpresenta•
lives of the United Stales:
FELLow•CITI ZENS:
l'ou have assembled in your aespective
halls of p legislation under a proclamation
bearing the signature of the illustrious
citizen who was so lately called by the
direct suffrages of the people to the dim-,
charge of the important functions of their
chief executive office. Upon the expire•
Lion of a single month from the day of his
installation, he has paid the great debt of
nature, leaving behind him a name asso
ciated with the recollection of numerous
benefits conferred upon the country du•
ring a long life of patriotic devotion,—
ith this public bereavement arc connec
ted other considerations which will not
escape the attenfon of Congress. The,
preparations necessary for his removal to
the seat of Government in view of a resi
dence of four years must have devolved
upon the fate President heavy expend'.
tures. which, if permitted to Lurden the
limited resources of hie private fortune,'
mar tend seriously to the embarrassment
of his surviving family; and it is there.
fore respectfully subMitted to Congress
whether the ordinary principles of justice
would not dictate the propriety of its le
gislative interposition. By the provisions
nt the fundamental law, the piwers and
I duties of the high station to which he was
elected have devolved upon me, and in the
dispositions of the representatives of the
States and of the people will be found to
-a great extent a solution of the problem to
which our institutions are for the first time
subjected.
in entering upon the duties of this of
fire, I did not feel that it would be beet).
ruing in me to disturb what had been or
dered by my lamented predecessor.
Whatever, therefore, may have been we
opinion,.originally, as to the propriety of
convening Congress at so early a day from
that of its late arlimirnment, I found a new
and controling intlucemett not to inter.
‘.
fere with the patriotic desk*. the late
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President, in the novelty of the situation
in which 1 was so unexpectedly placed.
My first wish under such circumstances
would necessarily have been to have call
ed- ta my aid, in the administration of
public affairi, the combined wisdom (lithe
two !looses of Congress, in order to take
their counsel and advice as to the Lest
mode of extricating the Government and
the country ft om the embarrassment weigh
ing heavily on both. lam then most hap
py in finding myself, so soon alter my ac
cession to the Presidency r siarrounded by
the immediate representatives of the States
and the people.
No important changes have to en place
in our foreign relations since the last
session of Congress, and it is not deemed
necessary on this occasion to go into a de ,
tailed statement in regard to them. I
am happy to say that I see nothing to rle•
stroy the hope of being able to preserve
peace.
The ratification of the treaty with Por
tugal has been duly exchanged between
the two Governments. This Government
has not been inattentive to the interests of
those of our citizens who have claims on
the Government of Spain founded on ex•
press treaty stipulations, and a hope is in
dulged that the representations which
have been made to that Government on
this subject may lead ere long to benefici
al results. .
A correspondence has taken place be
tween the Secrefary of State and the
Minister of her Britannic Majesty accre
dited to this Government, on the subject
of Alexander McLeod's indictment and
imprisonment r copies of r.lncli are here
wltli communicated to Congress.
In addition to what appetirs from these
papers, it may be proper to state that Al
exander McLeod has been heard by the
Supreme Court of the State of New York
on his motion to he dis•Tharged from im
prisonment, and that the decision of that
Court has not yet been pronounced.
The Secretary of State has addressed
to me a paper upon two subjects, interest
ing to the commerce of the country, n•hic'►
will receive my consideration, anti which
I have the honor to communicate to Cun•
gress:
So far as it depends on the course of
this Government, nor relations of good
w;11 and friendship will be sedulously
cultivate) with all nations. The true
I American policy will he found to consist
in the exercise of a spirit of justice to be
I manifested in the discharge of all our in
ternational obligations, to the weakest of
the family of nations as well as to the
most powerful. Occasional conflicts of
opinion may arise, but when the discus
sions incident to them are conducted in
the Jan.-nage of truth and with a strict re•
Bard to justice, the scourge of war will for
the most part be avoided. The time
might to be regarded as having gone by
when a resort to arms is to be esteemed
as the only proper arbiter of national dif
ferences.
The census recently taken shows a reg
gularly progressive increase in our popu
lation. Upon the breaking out of the war
of the Revolution our numbers scarcely
equalled three millions of souls; they al
ready exceed seventeen millions and will
continue to progress in ratio which dupli
cates in a period of about twenty three
years. The old Slates contain a terri
tory sufficient in itself to maintain n pop
ulation of additional millions, and the
most populous of the new States may
even yet be regarded as but partially
settled, while of the new lands on this
side of the Rocky Mountains, to say noth
ing of the immense region which stretch
es from the base of those mountains to
tlie mouth of the Columbia river, about
770,000,000 of acres, ceded and Unceded,
still remain to be brought into market.
We hold nut to the people of other coun
cries an invitation to come and settle a
mong us as members of our rapidly grow
ing funny; and for the blessings which
we offer them, we require of them to look
upon our country as their cwn country,
and to unite with us in the great task of
preserving our institutions, and thereby
p-rpetnatinv, our iibertics. No motive
exists for foreign conquest. We desire
but to reclaim our almost illimitable
wd
derness, and to introduce into their depths
the lights of civilization. While we shall
lat all times be prepared to vindicate the
nntinnal honor, our most earnest desire
will be to maintain nn unbroken peace.
. - -
In presenting the foregoing views, 1
cannot' withhold the expression of the o
pinion that there exists nothing in the ex
teFsien of our empire over our acknowl.
edged possessions to excite the alarm of
the patriot for the safety of our institu
tions. The federative system, leaving to
each state the care of its domestic con
cerns, and devolving on the Federal Gov
ernment those of general import, admits
in safety of the greatest expansion, but,
at the same time, I deem it proper tomtit
that there will be found to exist at all
times an imperious necessity for restrain
ing all the functions of this government
within the range of their respective pow.