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POETRY.
The Loved and Lost.
Time bath not power to bear away
Thine image from the heart;
No scenes that mark life's onward way
Can bid it hence depart. _ - _
Yet, while our souls with anguish riven,
Mourn, loved and lost, for thee;
We raise our tearful eyes to heaven,
And joy that thou art free.
We miss thee from the band so dear
That gathers round our hearth,
We listen still thy voice to hear
Amid our household mirth—
We gaze upon thy vacant chair,
Thy form we seem to see,
We start to find thou art not there,
Yet joy that thou art free.
A thousand old familiar things,
Within our childhood's home,
Speak of the cherished, absent one,
Who never more shall come.
They wake with mingled bliss and pain,
Fond memories of thee;
But would we call thee back again?
We joy that thou art free!
Amid earth's conflict, woe, and care,
When dark our path appears,
'Tis sweet to know thou canst not share
Our anguish and our tears—
That on thy head no more shall fall
The storms we may not flee:
Yes, safely sheltered from them all,
We joy that thou art free!
For thou hast gained a brighter land,
And death's cold stream is past—
Thine are the joys, at God's right hand,
That shall forever last;
A brown is on thine angel brow,
Thine eyes the King doth see,
Thy home is with the seraphs now—
We joy that thou art free!
The Angel and the Chihli
An Angel form, with brow of light,
~ NVatched o'er a sleeping infant's dream,
And gazed, as tho' his vissage bright
He there beheld as in a stream.
Fair child, whose face is like to mine,
Oh come," he said, " and fly with me,
Come forth to happiness divine,
For earth is all unworthy thee.
4 . Here perfect bliss thou cast not know;
The soul amid its pleasures sighs,
All sounds of joy are full of woe,
Enjoyments are but miseries.
4, Fear stalks amidst the gorgeous shows;
And tho' serene the day may rise,
It lasts not brilliant to its close,
And tempests sleep in calmest skies.
14 Alas! shall sorrow, doubts and fears
Deform a brow so pure as this!—
And shall the bitterness of tears
Dim those blue eyes that speak of bliss!
.. No, no! along the realms of space,
Far from all care, let us begone:
Kind l'rovidence shall give thee grace
For these few years thou mightst live on.
. 4 No mourning weeds, no sound of wail
Thy chainless spirit shall annoy;
Thy kindred shell thy absence hail,
Even as thy coming gave them joy.
.6 No cloud on any brow shall rest,
Nought speak of tombs or sadness there
Of beings like thee, pure and bleat,
The latest hour should be moat fair."
The angel shook his snowy wings
And thro' the fields of ether sped,
Where Heav'n's eternal music rings
--Mother—alas!—thy son is dead!
Says Tom Tim, " I love your spouse,
Egad she seems a rare rib."
!"Yes, yes," quoth Tim, and iub'd his brows,
4! But mark—sh•:'s not a spare-rib:"
THE JOURNAL.
AIICOMLLANEOZ7O4
The Panther's Leap.
A WESTERN SCENE.
.oh, how a mother loves the child she nurs'd.'
le was a fine morning in August, when
little Samuel Eaton was about seven years
old, that he was making a dam in the
brook that ran before his father's door.--
He was an only and beautiful child, his
mother almost idolizing him. There he
was, with his trousers tucked up about his
knees, working like a beaver, his mother's
bold eye gleaming out from beneath his
sun-burnt hair, with some of Isis lather's
strength tugging at a large stone in the bed
of the stream. " Sammy, you'd better
come in, had'nt you 1" said Hannah, in a
tone half mother and half mate. " Na•o-o,
I guess not yet," said Samuel
An acorn came floating down the water
The boy took it up—looked at it—was
pleased, and " reckoned" in his mind there
were more up the " galley," and when his
mothet's back was turned, off he started
for the acorns. The gorge of the moun
tain, into which he was about to enter, had
been formed (the work of centuries) by
the attrition of the stream he had just been
playing in— and walking on a level that
bordered each side of the water, he boldly
entered the ravine. An almost perpendic
ular wall or bank ascended on each side,
to the height of a hundred feet, composed
of crags and rocks fritted by decay and
storm into fantastic shape and position.—
A few scattered bushes and trees sought
nourishment from the earth thathad fallen
from the level above, and excepting their
assistance and the unseen surface of the
rock, this natural parapet seemed inacces
sible, but to bird and beast. About an
eighth of a mile from the entrance, a cata
ract closed the gorge, throwing up its
white veil of mist, seeming guardianship
of the spirit waters. The verdant boughs
hanging over the bank cast a deep gloom
upon the bed below, while so lofty was the
distance, they seemed to grow out of the
sky, blue patches of which were to be seen
peeping between them.
Hannah Eaton soon missed her boy, but
as he had often wandered to the fields
where Isis father was at work, she conclu
ded he must be there, and checked coming
fears with the hope that he would return
at the hour of dinner, When he came,
Josiah, nor any of his men, knew where
he was. Then the agitated mother ex
claimed, "He's lost! he's lost! and my
poor boy will starve and die in the woods!"
Gathering courage, she hastily summoned
her family around her, and despatched
them all but her husband to search in dif
ferent direction in the neighboring. forest.
To him she said, "Scour every field you
can call your own, and if you can't find
him, join me in the gorge."
" He would'nt go to the gorge, Han•
nah."
"He would go any where." She knew
'not why, but a presentiment that the boy
had followed the course of the stream,
dwelt strcngly on her mind.
" I can't find him, Hannah," said the
'husband, as he rejoined her not far from
the mouth of the gorge.
An eagle flew past the mother as she
entered the ravine. She thought to her
self the dreadful birds are tearing my child
to pieces ; and, frantic, she hastened on,
making the walls of the cavern echo back
with the screams for her offspring. Her
only answer was the eternal thunders of
the cataract, as if in mockery of woe, and
flinging its cold spray upon her hot and
throbbing temples. " Fool that I am, how
Can he hear me." She strained her eyes
along the dizzy height that peered through
the mist, till she could see no longer, and
her eyes filled with tears.
ho but a mother can tell the feelings
of a mother's heart? Fear came thick and
fast upon the reeling brain et Hannah.—
"Oh, my boy—my brave boy will the,"
and wringing her hands in agony, she sank
to her husband's feet.
The pain of " hope deferred " had
strained her heart strings to the severest
tension, and it seemed as if the rude hand
of despair had broken them all.
The terrified husband threw water Upon
her pale face, and strove by all the arts he
knew to win her back to life. At last she
opened her languid eyes, stared wildly
around and rose trembling to her feet.--
As she stood, like a heart broken Niobe,
" all tears," a fragme►+t of rock came tum
bling down the opposite bank. She look.
ed up. She was herself once more, for
half up the ascent stood her own dear boy.
But even while the glad cry was issuing
from her lips, it turned into a note of hor
ror—. 0, mercy—mercy !"
The crag on which he stood protected
from the solid rock in such a way as to
hang about twelve feet over the bank.--
Right below one of the edges of this crag,
partly concealed among some bushes,
crouched a panther.
The bold youth was aware of the prox
imity of his parents, and the presence of
his dangerous enemy, at about the same
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1842.
time. He had rolled down the stone in
exultation, to convince his parents of the
high statibn he had attained, and he now
stood with another in his hand, d rawing it
back and looking at them, as if to ask
' whether he should throw it at the terrible
animal before him. Till then, the mother
seemed immovable in her suspense, but
conscious of the danger of her son, if he
irritated the beast, she rushed some dis
tance up the rock, and motioned with her
head and hand that he should not throw.
Yet, with the feeling mind of childhood,
and a temper little used to control, he
fearlessly threw the fragment with all his
might at the ferocious savage. It struck
on one of his feet. He gave a sudden
growl, lashed his tail with fury, and seem
ed about to spring.
" Get your rifle, Josiah!" The poor
man stirred not. His glazed eye was fix
ed with a look of death upon the panther,
and lie appeared paralyzed with fear.—
, His wife leaped from her stand, and pla
cing her hands on her husband's shoulders,
looked into his face and cried, " Are you
a man, Josiah Eaton 1 Do you love your
child 1 He started as if from sleep, and
ran with furious haste from the ravine.
Again the mother looked towards her
son. Ile had fallen upon his knees, and
was whispering the little prayers she had
taught him, not in coward fear, but an in.
definate thought came across his mind that
he must die. The panther was upon his
feet. He stooped to spring. The dis
tracted mother could keep still no longer.
She rushed up the steep ascent with the
energy of despair, reckless of the danger,
thinking only of her son. The rocks
crumbled and slipped beneath her leet, yet
she fell not. The sharp rocks cut her
flesh, but she heeded it not. On, on she
struggled in her agony.
The ferocious creature paused for a
moment, when he heard the wretched mo
ther's approach. True to his nature, he
sprang at the boy. He barely touched the
crag, and fell backward as Hannah ascen
ded the opposite side.
"Ali!" said she, laughing deliriously,
"the panther must try it again before he
parts us, my boy; but we won't part;"
and sinkingg on her knees before him, she
fondly folded him to her breast, bathing
his_young forehead with her tears.
Unalterable in his ferocity, and the
manner of gratifying it, the panther again
sprang from his situation. This time he
was more successful. His fore foot struck
the edge of the crag. "He will kill us,
mother, he will kill us!" and the boy nes
tled closer to his mother's bosom. The
animal struggled to bring his body on the
crag—his savage features but a step from
the mother's face, "Go away, go away!"
shrieked the mother, hoarse with horror,
"you shan't have my child!" Closer—
still closer he came—his red eyes flashing
tury, and the thick panting of his breath
coming in her face. At this awful mo
ment she hears the faint report of fire-arms
from the gulph below—the panther's foot
hold fails, his sharp claws loosen from the I
rock, and the baffled beast rolled down
the precipice, at the feet of Josiah Eaton.
The sun's last rays gleamed brightly on
a little group at the mouth of the gorge.
They were on their knees--the mother's
bleeding hands over the head of her son,
and the voice of prayer going to their
Guardian for his mercy in thwarting the
PANT/IEO3 LEAP.
Fops and Husbands.
We a day or two ago copied a para
graph from a contemporary, in relation to
the practice of some young ladies of en
couraging the attentions of boys to the ex
clusion of those of men; that is to say,
of occupying their time and attention with
the frivolity of fops and dandies, to the
neglect of the industrious men of business,
who are every way qualified to make good
husbands, but who cannot afford sufficient
leisure for the trilling movements of life.
This is a subject which is in an especial
manner worthy the attention of mothers.
Society to their daughters is every thing.
If they desire to see them well married in
the world, they should be careful to have
them avoid situations and companions in
which the affections are likely to be enga
ged improperly, and there whole lives
thus embittered. First love is a very de
lightful thing in poetry, and when formed
with sufficient maturity of judgment, and
based on virtue and character, it is indeed
a bright and glorious emanation. But
there is such a thing as false or mistaken
affection. Young people, who know little
of the world and of their own hearts, are
too apt to be won by the glitter on the
surface, and to discover, when too late,
that what they mistook for purr gold was
only its counterfeit. We ripest, that
parents cannot be too careful insuch mat
ters. If they really desire to see their
daughters happy, they should endeavour
to seek for them in social life aid gen
eral society, male companions of proper
mental, moral and business habit, and
of whom they would not be ashamel, in
r the event of a mutual passion, as
law.-I'a. Inquirer.
From the Presbyterian,
Backbiters and Slanderers.
Slander is petty murder; and that man
who wantonly assails the good name of
his neighbour, lacks only the opportunity,
not the disposition, to spill his heart's
warm blood. How revolting is it, that a
living man, soon to (lie, and stand before
Christ's judgment-seat, should with mock
solemnity whisper in another's ear tales
concerning a third person, which he knows
or has every reason to suspect to be false.
Wretched mortal! If Satan's image is
especially to be bound on earth, where
should we find it but in such a onel The
rattlesnake were as trusty a bosom•friend
as he!
He dares not put his hand in his neigh
bor's pocket, because the bolts, and bars,
and chains of a prison would reward his
presumption ; but he secretly sets in mo
tion a report, which, like the rolling ball
of snow, small at first, gathers weight and
velocity in its progress, until it is suffi
cient to overwhelm the guiltless sufferer
upon whom it is directed.
Innocence is no protection—virtue is
no sate-guard. The injured man, uncon
scious of the gathering shades which threa
ten to bedim the brightness of his heart's
best jewel, meets a friend with lightsome
spirit; but all! the wonted friendly pres
sure replies not to his hearty grasp. No
words are needed to tell him there is
something wrong—she has a keenness of
apprehension which is not always depen
dent on Sounds and phrases ; a silent lan
guage is her's. Distress and anxiety
come upon him ; but his endeavors to dis
cover wherein he has offended are only so
many convincing proofsof his guilt. u And
is it true?" one of his acquaintance in
quires of another who is equally a stran
ger to the truth of the report. "They
Say so," is the reply; and thus their belief
in its verity is mutually strengthened ;
and they separate to scatter with new zeal
the seeds of defamation. ,
Poor slandered :Victim! God help him
Man will not. Ruined, not by himself
Wasted, by a foreign wind; degraded, nol
by his own vices ; his name cast out as
evil; undeservedly ; is he not to be pitied?
Can the slanderer find a balm of healing
virtue aUfficient to cure and mend the
heart he has rent and wounded? That
heart, bound up by the Good Physician,
shall find peace and rest in a land' where
no slanderer can approach to defile it!
Can he be a child of God who delights
in whisperings about the faults of his bro
ther? Is a sanctimonious backbiter fit
company for saints and angels in heaven?
Cou IJ lie prosecute his employment there,
how long before heaven would be filled with
wrangling? Would any heaven be left?
Is not the propagator equally guilty
with the originator of slander? Is it said,
that he does not know the report to be
false? Neither does he know it to be true.
And where is the necessity for circulating
a dubious aspersion? Does he wish to de
grade a fellow worm? Wherefore? The
poor brother has already his share of sor
rows and of sins. Why crush him with
a burden not his own;
But suppose the charge were mainly
true. Who authorized the slander-lover
to sit in judgment on his fellows? Has he
no private sins which he would shrink
Iron lying bare to the public eye? Let
him look within—his heart has a dark cat
alogue, hidden indeed, but of deep enough
a dye to cover him with shame. Perhaps
he has never felt this ; he has never learn
ed " the plague of his own heart." May
God enlighten his eyes. It may be that
his offences are tenfold grater than those
of the victim whom he holds up to the
scorn of the world!
I, myself, know that I am an unworthy
sinner; but still I pray, the Lord defend
me from the tooth of the backbiter, and
the fang of the slanderer.
SIMPLE SPEECH.
CoriNuniAL.—"My dear, did John black
them boots?"
How should I know--I !taint noth'n to
do with your boots. It's washing day."
"But, my love, you needn't speak so
cross."
Speak so cross! I didn't speak cross."
id o—yes you did."
I didn't•"
I say you did."
" I say I didn't."
"By gracious ! I wont stand this. It's
too bad to be treated in this way. I'll
leave you, madam, I'll have a separation."
"Oh ! Mr. Slob--was ever woman so
abused. Here I've been working and wa
shing and scrubbing all day long, as hard
as ever I could, and then you come home
and act so to me--jest kos I don't know
noth'n about your boots. 0! it is too bad,
it is--boohoo l—boo-hoo!"
Hem: Welt Nancy, I didn't mean
to make you cry. Never mind--I reckon
John has blacked my boots. Is them sas.
singers to be fried for supper ?”
Ye•c-e•es—mv dear—f got urn for you
particklearle."—ltichmond Stu•.
Declaration oflndepentience.
IN CONGRESS, July, 4,177 G
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thir.
teen United States of America.
lIEN, in the course of humdn events,
it becomes necessary fur one people to
dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another, and to as
sume, among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station. to which the
laws of nature and nature's God entitled
them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should de
clare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
We hold these truths to he self evident;
—that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights ; that among
these are life, liberty, arid the pursuit of
happiness. That to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among men,
deriving. their just powers from the cons
sent of the governed ; that whenever
any form of government becomes destruc
tive of these ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or abolish it, and to insti
tute a new government, laying its founda
tion on such principles, and organi•
zing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed,
will dictate, that governments long estab
lished should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all ex
perience bath shown, that mankind are
more disposed to suffer while evils are
sufferable than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invaria
bly the same object, evinces a design tr,
reduce them under absolute despotism, it
is their right, it is their duty to throw off
such government, and to provide new
guards for their future security. Such
has been the patient sufferance of these
I colonies ; and such is now the necessity
which constrains them to alter their for
mer systems of government. The history
i of the present king of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpa
tions, all having in direct object the es
tablishment of an absolute tyranny over
these states. To prove *this let facts be
submitted to a candid world.
He has refused to assent to laws the
most wholesoine and necessary for the
public good.
Ile has forbidden his government to
pass laws of immediate and pressing im
portance, unless suspended in their opera
tidn, till his assent should be obtained ;
and when so suspended he has utterly
neglected to attend to them. He has
refused to pass other laws for the accom
modation of large districts of people, un
less those people would relinquish the
right of representation in the legislature—
s right inestimable to them, and formida.
ble to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bo
dies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and
distant from the repository of their public
records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing
them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firm
ness, his invasions on the rights of the
people.
He has refused, for a long time after
such dissolution, to cause others to be
elected ; whereby the legislative powers,
incapable of annihilation, have returned
to the people at large, for their exercises;
the state remaining, in the mean time,
exposed to all danger of invasion from
without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the pop
ulation of these states ; for that purpose
obstructing the laws for naturalization of
foreigners ; refusing . to pass others to en
courage their migration hither, and raising
the conditions of new appropriations of
lands.
He has obstructed the administration of
justice, by refusing his assent to laws for
establishing judiciary powers.
Ile has made judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure of their offices,
and the amount and payment of their'
salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offi
ces, and sent hither swarms of officers, to
harrass our people, and eat out their
substance.
He has kept among us, in tunes of peace,
standing armies without the consent of
our legislatures.
lie has affected to render the military
independent Of, and superior to the civil
power.
He has combined with others to subject
us to a jurisdiction foreign to our consti
tution, and unacknowledged by our laws;
giving his assent to these acts of preten
ded legislation :
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us :
For protecting them, by mock trial,
from punishment - for any murders which
they should commit on time inhabitants of
these s!.atos ;
noLE No. 338.
FOr cutting oft' our trade with all parts
of the world
For imposing taxes on us without our
,consent:
urepriving us, in many cases, of the
benefits of trial byjury :
For transporting us beyond the seas, to
be tried for pretended ollences
For abolishing the free system of En
glish laws in a neighboring province, es.:
tablishing therein an arbitrary government,
and enlarging its boundaries, so as to ren.;
der it at once an example and fit instru
ment for introducing the same absolute
rule into these Colonies :
For taking away our charters, abolishing
our most valuable laws, and altering fun ,
damentally, the forms of ourgovernments :
For suspending our legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with powers
to legislate in all cases whatsoever.
Ile has abdicated government here, by
declaring us out of his protection, and
waging war against u§.
lle has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the
lives of our people.
Ile is at this time transporting large
armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete
the work of death, desolation, and tyranny,
already begun with cireumstantes of cru
elty and ;perfidy, scarcely paralleled in
the most barbarous ages, and totally un
wortkv the head bf a civilized nation.
Ile has constrained our fellow-citiiens,
taken captive on the high seas, to bear
arms against their country, to become the
executioners of their friends and brethren,
or to fall themselves by their hands.
Ile has excited domestic insurrections
amongst us, and has endeavored to bring
on the inhabitants of oar frontiers, the
merciless 'lndian saiagea, whose known
rule of warfare is an undistinguished dd.-
truction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage Of these oppressions, we
have petitioned for redress in the most
humble terms: our repeated petitions have
been answered only by repeated injury.—
A prince, whose character is thus marked
by every act which may define a tyrant, is
unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
t Nor have we been wanting in attentions
,to our British brethren. W. hays warned
them, from time to time, of attempts by
their leFislature to extend an unwarranta
ble jurisdiction over us. We have re;
minded them of the circumstances of our
migration and settlement here. We ap;
pealed to their native justice and magnan
imity, and we halite conjured them by the
ties of our common kindred to disavoW ,
these usurpations, which would inevitably
interrupt, our connexions and correspon
dence. hey too have been deaf to die
voice of justice and consanguinity. We
must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity
which denounces our separation, and hold
them, as we hold the rest of mankind—
enemies in war, in peace friends.
WE, therefore, the representativesof the
United States of America, in general eon =
gress assembled, appealing to the SUpreine
Judge of the world, for the rectitude of our
intentions, dp, in the name and by the
authority of the good people of these cold
nies, solemnly publish and declare, that
these united colonies are, and of right
ought to be, free and independent states ;
that they are absolved from all allegiance
'to the British crown, and that all political
connexion between them and the state
of Great Britain is, and ought to be,
totally dissolved; and that, as free and
independent states, they have full pbw;
er to levy war, conclude peace, contract
alliances, establish commerce, and do all
other things which independent states may
l of right do. Arid for the support of this
' declaration, N , ith a firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence, we mufti
ally pledge to each other our lives, bur
fortunes, and our sacred honor.
YE TitsT HAVE TEARS TO stiEn.---Ilard
is the late of that man who has outgroWn
his pantaloons and has not sufficient mo
ney to procure a nevi pair. Ever y morn
ing he forces himselfinto the torturing
garment, a prey to unnatural e,ompressi
bility. Iltaily as he walks the streets, he
dreads every moment that the Strained
seams will part and exhibit his propor•
tions in " Nature's first bloom." Sit he
cannot, and to stand is to suffer. Ile is
in the stocks continually.
HOUSEHOLD SERVICE OF It Doo.--"
say stranger," said ft cottage urchin to a
Yankee pedlar, " don't that ere
dog away:"
" Why, he aint no use no how, he's so
u g ly."
" 0. but he saves heaps of work."
" Why, he always licks the plates and
dishes clean, so that they never want wa
shin., and mammy says she wouldn't part
with him no how, for our new dug !mint
got used to mustard yet."
GOOD ADVICE. TO TILE LAnTr.s.—Never
encourage the gallantry of bor, if you
wi,h the ;ultircl! , ..'s of a(..lttlemen,