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PO KTRY
The Southern Literary Messenger for
October contains two short poems from the
pen of the venerable AdamS, written for
wiling ladies, published by permission, and
both bearing date the same day. We copy
the first, which is the best
TO MISS E-B-.
Oh ! wherefore, Lady, was my lot
Cast, from thy own, so far,
Why, by kind Fortune, live we not
Beneath one blessed star ?
For, had thy thread of life, and mine
But side by side been spun
My heart had panted to entwine
The tissue into ONE.
And why should Time conspire
To sever us in twain ?
And wherefore have I run my race,
And cannot start again?
The thread, how long ! how short is mine
Mine spent--thine scarce begun
...las? we never can entwine
The tissue into one.
But, take my blessings on tky name :
The blessings of a sire,
3.10 t from a Lour's furnace flame—
'Tis from a holier-fire ;
A thread unseen beside of thine
By fairy forms is spun,
knd holy hands shall soon entwine
The tissue into ONE'
JOHN Quincy ADAMS .
Washington, p. C. August 7, 1841.
From the York Republican,
FHE BLIND BOY'S LAMENTATION,
Ah! how unhappy is my tate!
In dreary solitude I stray,
While o'er the plain, with joy elate,
My sprightly young compnlons play.
They say that pretty flow'rets bloom,
Where brooks along the valley wind;
But all to me is one dark tomb,
Alas! they tell me I am blind.
They say the glorious sun is bright,
And cheers Creation with its rays,
And talk about the colored light,
That round the circling rainbow plays
Tell, too, of fields and woodlands green,
Of forests waving to the wind;
Bat none of these my eyes have seen,
Alas! they tell me I am blind.
The moon in silver white arrayed,
I hear them speak of, and the stars
That twinkle through the evening shade.
But nought before mine eye appears;
I cannot on one beauty gaze,
One color picture in my mind,
In sorrow I must spend my days,
For this sad reason—l am blind.
lawn I rove,
Sometimes o'er hi.. anti
And listen to the warbij 2 !ay,
Those gay melodious notes I
In numbers sweet they s eem to sai';
"No longer o'er thy fate repine,
But to it be at once resigned ;
Thy soul may be as free as. mine,
And happy though thou still art
luvzNII.I BATA.
gnrai Hills, Nov. 6, 1841.
THE JOE 'L.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE PROMISSORY NOTE.
A German Baron, Von at press
ent residing at Paris, was same few years
since living in baronial ease at his Castle
of F—, situated in a somewhat roman
tic district of his native land. On the
score of worldly possessions, fortune had
smiled most fitvorabli on the hero of our
narrative; but, by way of amends, nature
hail been proportionably, inauspicious _ as
regarded his personal appara nee, and the
adornments of the outward man. In sob
er truth, the Baron Von D— was about
the ugliest man that Germany has pro
duced fur the last century and a half at
the least ; so ungainly indeed, was his ap
pearance, that, with a full consciousness,
of his inferiority in this respect, he lived
in a manner secluded from society, to mixl
in which his rank and station otherwise
l
fully entitled him.—Like his storied pro.
totype, however, Prince Requiet with-the
Tuft, our baron's rude exterior was but
the husk that covered a tender heart,-sen-1
sitively alive to the bewitching influence
of the Niter sex. In plain English, the
Baron Von D— fell over head and ears .
in love•—a predicantent from which, even •
the potentates of this our nether world, l
to say nothing of Teutonic barons, are
occasionally not exempt. A young and
beautiful girl, the daughter of a gentleman
of goodly pedigree, but of slender fortune,
• living in his immediate neighborhood, was
tie object of his adoration—the cynosure
of his reveries—Thenceforth his mind, his
every thought, became fixed, absoi bed—
as it were, equally divided, between het
sylph-like image and his beloved meersch
aum: nor is this, by the way, by any means
a disparaging conipliment to the lady,
when speaking ola German - lover. !lav
ing by a mighty effort of resolution, such
as the tenth r passion can alone inspire,
surmounted the bashful diffidence to which
we have before alluded, the baron made
his proposals in form, which, on the part
of the parents of the young lady, were
most favorably and gladly received.
With - the lady herself, however, matters
fell out far less.prosperously ; a cold re
ception
to his proposal, and a chilling de
meanor, afforded but too certain an indi
catkin that his suit was disagreeable and
his attentions irksome. Still haunted by
the painful consciousness of his personal
defect , , the baron was very naturally led
to attribute his failure to that cause. A
far different motive, however, lei ked at
the bottom of the young lady's conduct.
A cousin (oh ! these cOus'ns 'I) had long
been, in secret, the favored suitor; but
the narrowness of whose prospects in life
had • hitherto precluded all hope of his
wishes meeting with the parental sanc
tion.
The Baron Von B— was one even
ing seated, as was his wont in his anti
que chair, in the spacious hall of his an
cestral dwelling, in one of the wide re
cesses of the huge gothic chimney, before
the dull embers of a wood fire, smoulder
ing, like his own ill-starred love, in a
shapeless heap, in sole companionship with
his beloved and inseparable meerschaum,
his second passion—musing in sad and
melancholy revery on the unstable coin.
position and thoughtless vanity of the fe
male heart, when halt mentally and half
audibly he ejaculated his willingness to
sacrifice the better portion of his fortune ]
in exchange, if that were possible, for they
boon of personal attraction and exterior
endowment--Suddenly, in the dim twi
light, and through the dense volumes of
smoke, curling in rapid succession from
the volcano of his pipe -bowl, he perceived
a tall and singularly accoutred figure
standing erect beside him, as though it had
issued from one of the huge gothic mould
ings.—Soinewhat startled at the appear
ance of the unexpected visiter, lie was
about to call for his attendants, when
the stranger, with a polite bow, and in a
voice which, although of peculiar tone,
yet betokened no hostile purpose, thus
addressed him:
"My visit, Herr Baron, is perhaps
somewhat unceremonious; but I come
with a friendly intent. lam well aware
of the subject of your present thoughts !
are you willing to abide by them?"
My present thoughts ! why ! who in
the devil's name—"
"-Hush !" mildly interrupted the visit
or; "the least said on that head perhaps
the better. But I have no time for et
planation. If you are sincere in your
purpose, I. have the power of gratifying
your wishes. Of that you may rest per- I
fectly assured. Only it is requisite that
you should sign this little document,"
(producing a slip Of paper.)
"A document ! and what sort of docu
ment ?" cried the bewildered baroh.
" A more trifle," respended his interlo •
cutor ; "merely a little memorandum of
our ialte transaction. lam a man of few
words. So,.tf you are in earnest,,kt us
proceed to business. 'fo every Person but.
yourself you will heneeforth appear at per-
"ONE COUNTRY, ODE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W.
BENEDICT PITIMISFIFIR AND PROPRIETOR.
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1841.
redly altered man. Your suit will be
accepted, you know in what quarter.
Are you content ? Answer, on the in
stant, or the opportunity will be lost to
you for ever P
The baron, as we may well imagine, felt
some little misgiving. But the tone, the
manner, the whole demeanor of the stran
ger was imposing. That he possessed
the power of diving into the most hidden
thoughts of the human mind was clear
from the short colloquy that had just taken
place. Why should he not possess the
power he mentioned Beside, the op-
portunity might never occur again. In a
word, what, between surprise and bewil
derment at the strange and sudden oc
currence—the brightness of the prospect
thus unexpectedly opened before him,
and last, certainly not least, a no incon•
siderable bias toward superstitious cred
ulity, he affixed his name to the proffered
document. Whereupon the stranger, with
another polite bow, disappeared in one of
the dark recesses of the hall.
The baron, recovering in some degree
from his dream, for such he at first ima
gined it to be, albeit he, on the other
hand, felt perfecly satisfied of his being
broad awake, after musing for a few me.
ments on his late adventure, resolved to
put the fact of his metamorphosis to an
immediate test. He rang•for his attend
ants. The summons was obeyed,.and the
servants made their appearance. In the
evident surprise depicted on their coun
tenance, he read an assurance of some
remarkable change having really taken
place in his outward form. lie consulted
his looking glass, but to his own eye no
alteration whatever seemed to have super.
vened. This, he iecollected, was in
strict accordance with the stranger's un
dertaking.
The following day the baron lost no
time in still further assurino. himself of
the reality of the auspicious change in his
appearance; on sonic trifling pretext, he
summoned together his whole household,
and presented himself among them. This
time there was no room left for doubt on
the matter. From whisperings and oth..
er indications of surprise, one or two of
the more cenfidentially employed among
them ventured on a respectful congratu
lation to their master on the manifest and
surprising improvement that had so sud
denly taken place in his person. Full of
the most pleasing anticipations, and elated
with hope, he ordered his equipage, and
paid a morning visit at the house of his
hitherto obdurate love. Here, too, as
though by magic, he Ibund that a most
propitious change hail taken place. His
reception by the fair one was as favorable
as it had previously been discouraging.
In short, the happy day of union was sr.
ranged, and nothing now seemed wanting
to his felicity. •
The evening preceding his wedding
. dayThund the Baron Yon D- seated
as before in his antique chair, in the self
' same corner of the huge gothic chimney
piece, and whiffing the perfume of his
faithful meerschaum. But how different
the tone of his thoughts and the subject of
his meditations. All was now alluring
hope and bland anticipation. Imagine,
however, his surprise, when, feeling a has ,
ty tap on his shoulder, he turned round
and beheld his quondum mysterious visit
er at his elbow.
"There was one !this circumstance I
forgot to mention at our last interview,"
said the stranger : "your wish as to a fa
vorable change in appearance has, you
know, been gratified, and your suit has
been successful. Should you, however,
persist in espousing the object of your at
tention, you will fall a lifeless corpse on
the very steps of the altar. Be careful,
therefore. The young lady is secretly
espoused to her cousin F--- 'Take my
advice : renounce in public all claim to
the hand of the lady, and recommend her
parents to sanction her union with her
cousin. Mark me !it is the only course
you have left !"
The poor baron would fain have remon-
strated with his miter; but he had dis
appeared as before. At first he was tempt
ed to hazard the issue; but reflecting that
as one part of' the drama had already
Come to pass, the document might possi,
bly follow with equal certainty, he wise
ly resolved on following the fitrangers
a i dvice, however unpalatable;and this
resolution he carried into effect the next
day.
Digested with the scene of his disap
pointinent, Baron Von D- having ar
ranged his affairs in Germany, shortly af
terward retired to Paris, and in the gaie
ties of the capital had nearly lost sight of
his adventure, when lately, to his surprise
he received a legal summons to pay 100,-
000 francs and three years' interest, on a
promfsory note. In vain the baron pro
tested that in the whole coarse of his life
he had never affixed his name to any se
curity of the kind. The note was pro.
duced with his genuine signature attach.,
ea.• It was then only that his former ad
venture recurred to 'his recollection, and
that the whole mystery began gradually
to unfold itself. A trick, as the reader
may by this time well imag;ne, had been
dexterously played off on the baron's
credulity, by bribing the household, and
by preconzerted arrangements with the
young lady. The main incidents of the
plot were easily contrived, credulity and
a predisposition for the marvellous did the
rest.
The foregoing narrative, however ro.
mantic and improbable it may appear, is
nevertheless but the succinct outline of an
actual occurrence, the particulars of which
are shortly about to engage the attention
of the legal tribunals in France. The
circumstances recal to mind some of the
most picturesque legends of necromancy
aed diablerie of the middle ages.
From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
A TALE OF REAL LIFE.
About three weeks since, a pretty and
interesting young woman, with two fine
children, of the age of one and three years
called at the office of our city clerk, in
quiring for the Mayor. That officer was
absent: but the sorrowful demeanor spoke
so affectingly in her behalf, and although
evidently in humble life, she seemed so
intelligent and unassuming in her distress
that Mr Lacy, the clerk was , led to ask
the cause of her troubles, when she told
him her brief story.
Site said her husband.—whose name was
Evans, left their native place, Brecknock
in Wales, a year ago, to seek a new home
for them in America, leaving them to tot.
low when•he should have lound the de
sired spot, and earned the means to ena
ble them to make the journey. Ile final
ly seatled at Oak Hill Jackson county, in
the Southern part of the State of Ohio,
where he worked industriously at his trade
that of a tailor, until he had laid by eigh
ty dollars, for the passage money of his
family. This amount he enclosed to his
wife, with directions as to the best route
to reach her destination, which would be
via Liverpool and New York. She ac
cordingly bade adieu to her birth place
and started an her lone and distant voy
age, cheered with the prospect of soon re
joining her husband in their new H• estern
home.
On arriving at the nearest seaport on
the coast, she was pursuaded by the mer.
cinary captain of a trading vessel that it
would be much cheaper for her to go by
way of Quebec, where she was bound,
and she therefore took passage with him.
It was two long months after they set sail
before the tardy cralt reached port, du
ring which time her stock of provisions
had been quite exhausted, and she was
compelled to purchase from the captain,
at his own rates, to supply the wants of
herself and children. The extortions to
which her inexperience made her and ea
sy prey, and the increased expenses of the
inconvenient route she had ignorantly ta
ken, left her without a shilling on her
ar
rival at Buffalo. She was still five hun
dred miles from her journey's end, with
out a friend or acquaintance, truly a help
less “stranger in a strange land," with
her little children dependant on her for
bread.
The energies of a woman's nature, so
strikingly developed by necessity, did
not leave her to despair. She obtained
shelter for herself and children in a cel
lar room in the Tuwbridge block, for
which she had to pay five shilling a week,
and succeeded in procuring a little sew
ing from a clothing shop, which barely
sufficed to purchase their coarse and scan
ty fare. She sent a letter to her hus
band, informing him of her arrival and
destitute situation, and patiently awaited
his expected relief. Daily did she ask,
with trembling heart, at the post office,
for the wished for answer, and daily did
she turn away, with a heavy heart, as the
same cold disappointing "No" responded
unvaryingly to her anxious inquiry.
She wrote again and again. Weeks
wore away in this cruel suspense, and the
thousand fears that agitate the female
breast rn such a crisis, may be supposed 1
to have swayed her mind. The fearful
apprehensions that sickness, or death, or
even his possible desertion of the wife of
his bosom and their little ones, might have
left her to the sharp miseries which arc
the common lot of woman in such utter
destitution, were more poignant than the
pangs of hunger. At length her employ
er had no more work for her, and she was
obliged to pledge articles of her clothing
to procure necessary food. Several weeks
rent for her pour accommodations was
due, which she was unable to pay, and in
her extremity she thought of applying to
the lktayor for advice and relief.
Mr L. became interested in the poor
woman's behalf, at the recital. He insti
tuted the necessary inquiries as to the
sum needful to take her and her children
to their sought for home, and drew up a
subscription paper, which heplaced in
the hands of Mr. W--, one of her cowl
tryinen, who is a worthy mechanic resi
ding here, and who with prompt philan-,
throphy, took the sufferiq family to his
• own house. Here he found, on talking
over matters pertaining to their father
, land, that his guest was born within half
a mile of his old home, which he had left
twenty years before- . ---and the long chat
which'followed about the familiar scenes
and incidents of their birth place—the
family histories of the entire neighborhood
far hack as her earliest recollections,
which had to be told—may well be im
agined to have paid the kind Welshman
for his hospitality.
Mrs. Evans remained with her new
found friend, for three days, during which
time he raised money [Bls] for her pas
sage, one of well known and oldest mer.
chants, Mr. who was a native
of the same country, generously giving $5
and the balance made up of smaller con•
tributions. Her passage was according
ly engaged by her friend Mr W
who accompanied her to the boat. fl hile
waiting its departure, she mentioned that
her shawl, which had been pawned for a
small sum, yet remained pledged, and
she was urged by her companion to re
turn for it, being furnished by him with
the amount necessary for its redemption.
While absent on - the errand, the boat
'cast off' and on her return was under
way. Lamenting this disappointment of
her renewed hopes, she turned away, and
—and her husband stood before her !
He had been in the city for ten days, in
search of her; had boarded at the United
States Hotel, just over the low and squal
id apartment in which his little family
were staying: he, comfortably lodged and
living upon the luxuries of a well served
table, while they were famishing but a few
feet distant! HI had started immediate
ly on the receipt of her letter, and since
his arrival had been assiduously seeking
to find her
Happening that same day to be at the
wharf, gazino• ' with the crowd at the de
parting boat, his attention was excited,
with that of others, to the little group
who were bewailing the loss of their pas
sage, and thus he found the objects of his
search.
It was a joyful meeting: and after re
turning to the charitable donors the nion •
ey which had been contributed, the re-uni•
ted and happy family took boat the next
day for their Western home.
Lt4I2MWo
EVENING PRAYER FOR A CHILD. ---The
Editor of the British Critic says, that the
following prayer was written by one of
the most distinguished authors now living,
fur the use of his own httle daughter. Its
beautiful simplicity will recommend it at
once to every parent.
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
God grant me grace, my prayers to say!
0 God preserve my mother dear
In health and strength, for many a year;
And, 0 preserve my fuller too,
And may I pay him reverence due!
And may I my best thoughts employ
To be my parents' hope and joy !
0 likewise keep my brothers both
From evil doings and from sloth;
And may we always love each other
Our friends. our father, and our mother
And still, 0 Lord to me impart
An innocent and grateful heart,
Till atter my last sleep 1 may
Awake to thy eternal day!
THE DRUNKARD'S Ff ILL.-I leave to
society a ruined character, a wretched,
example and a memory that will soon rot.
I leave to my parents during the rest of
their lives, as much sorrow as humanity
in a feeble and decripit state can sustain.
I leave to my brothers and sisters as
much mortification and injury as I could
well bring on them.
I leave my wife a broken heart, a life
of wretchedness, a shame to weep over
me, and a premature death.
I give and bequeath to each of my chit,
dren, poverty, ignorance and a low char
acter, and the remembrance that their
father was a monster.
MYSTERIOUS.—On Monday night week
says the Hagerstown (Md.) Democrat,
while the Western stage was approaching
that place, a passenger who seemed to be
laboring under mental derangement, made
several attempts to jump from it; which
when near the town he accomplished; and
repairing to the house of an old woman,
he entered and left his purse containing
$530 in gold. While the stage was in
town, he came up with it again and pro
ceeded on his journey. His name is un.,
derstood to be Hagerman. Nothing else
seems to be known of him. The money
was deposited in the bank by the old lady
and still remains there.
VERY NIGH Getting a BoNtr.—Mar.
ried, in Buffalo, N. York, on the 6th inst
by the Rev Mr Granger, Mr David Pump
of Jackson, Michigan, to Mica Vera Aye,
of the city of Buffalo.
[WHOLE No. 307.
ISHIPWRECK AND L 099 OP LIFE.--•SChOO
ner Crusader, from Boston, of and for
Portsmouth, in attempting to make a har
bor at Squam, in the blow of Monday
week, struck on the bar and sunk. The
mate's wife, a man and a boy perished.
I The Capt, mate and one man were taken
from the rigging on Tuesday moruing. by
the life boat.—Messenger.
REFORMED.-A few weeks ago Ad
dams, the tragedian, was hissed from the
stage of the Front Street Theatre, Ba lti.
more, he having appeared in a state of
beastly intoxication. On Thursday last
he appeared as Virginius, at the close of
which he appeared, and told the audience
he would never again offend. The Clip
per says, he has signed the total absti
nence pledge,
A WEDDING.—The London Herald of
the 3rd. ult. makes the following an%
nounceinent:—Capt Canfield, of die U.
S. Army, was married yesterday at the
Trinity church, Portland Place, to Miss
Mary Cass, daughter of his excellency
Gen Cass, Minister of the U. S. at Paris.
Amongst the company present, were his
Excellency Mr Stevenson, Mrs. Steven
son, Col Todd, U. S. minister to Peters.
burg.
Muxrco.—The New Orleans Bee has
later accounts from Mexico, by an arrival
there from Matamoras. A fatal epidemic
prevailed at Matamoras. The British
consul had fallen a victim to it.
After a prolonged struggle, Santa An
na has succeeded in overturning the gov
ernment. Bustamente, it is said, is im
prisoned and at the mercy of the conquer
or, around whom have rallied the troops
and ether commanders.
WIG I Wao.—.."'Why don't you re•
turn him hie wig?" said the Recorder to
a fellow who had a set-to with another.
and held his opponent's wig as a trophy
of victory.
"Because as how," said the man whom
he addressed, "to the Wig-tors belong
the spoils."
A Bousczn.—A child 7 years old, and
weighing 170 pounds, is now being exhi
bited in Pittsburg.
A Love LETTER.—The following pre"
doss billetdoux was picked up in Cana'
street last evening. It is without address
and lest its contents should be lost to the
backward swain, for whom it was inten
ded, we take liberty to publish it.--IV. 0.
Crescent City. _ _ _
Illy dcerir'sweetia ducky: I am happy
to hear from you so often—it affords me
sich grate plesher. You always was so
deer to me and 1 hope will soon be deer-
You know I never hinted nothing about
marriage, and never mean to—take your
own time for that. I shall alway s remern
her the old sayin'—procrastination is the
theef of time, but mother sez nothing
should be done in a hurry but ketching
flees.
The fondest wish of heart is that we
may rune become one. Do you ever read
Franklin's Extracts; his remarks concer
ning marriages is delightful. Our hearts
he sex ought to assemble one another in
every expect--they ought to be beterge
nius so that our union my be misin as
well as unitin—not like oil and water but'
like tea and sugar.
Truly I can feel for the mortal Watts,
when lie sez:
The rose is red, the yilets blew,
Sugar is sweet and so are you.
Mother sez matrimony is better to
think on than the reality—in the belief
that it is not,
I remain till death or marriage,
Your own sweet shugar candy.
MARY ANN
N. B. I had a kuesin married last
month who sez there aint no true enjoy..
ment but in the married state.
Your sweetis dove,
MAHY
P. S. I hope you will let me knovr
what you mean to do, as there is some—
body else wants to marry every day, an&
I shall be quite uneasy till I here.
Your loving swet!,
MART Alan.
./1 Lawycr's Spectacles.--A French.
countryman employed a lawyer to con--
duct a cause, but did not seem in a hurry
to give him his fee. "Friend," said this
attorney, "your business is so confused
that I cannot see my way into it." The
countryman, who was aware of has meow
ing, drew two pieces of gold out of his
pocket, and giving them to the limb.of the
law, said, "well then, sir, here is an ex.
ecellent pair of spectacles for you."
Webster, in the last edition of his dic
tionary, says that the verb 0n431, is s,ldw
word expressing a low practice,