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POETRY.
A Simile.
On the breast of the billow,
Ihe silver moon lay,
U.eflied the mirror,
Unbroken the ray ;
'Till the sephyr's light pinion,
Swept over the stream,
And broke the repose
Of the wave and the beam.
Like the beam on the billow,
Love's spirit will rest,
Pure, peaceful and holy,
In fond woman's breast ;
'Till passion's wild breathings
Have fann'd into flame,
To illumine her pathway,
Or perish in shame.
I said I loved her, and a blush
Stole softly down her cheek ;
I said I loved her, and that flush
Spat more than words could speak.
I sai. • ved her, and a glow
• her face so fair,
It • d went like meteor flash,
simmer air. ,
I said Iloved her,—and a tear
Vf feeling filled her eye ;
It was a harbinger of soul—
An eloquent reply.
I said I loved—and could no more
The deep affection smother;
The gipsy smiled, as she replied,
" Oh! dear, I LOVE ANOTHER !"
IZIEICMLIaIITEOtTe.
From the Ladies' World of Fashion
THE XUX'S Oe"Filrt•
.i. 31. SYMMES.
Near the town of Aspeitia, in the ro
mantic land of Spain, stands a large,
square, dark-looking house, with nothing
to relieve the barrenness of the high walls
but a few holes with gratings, and which
bear the appearance rather of loopholes
than of windows. It is scarce strong
enough to be a prison, nor does it resem•
ble a convent, from the absence of a
steeple. The superstructure, which is in
reality; however, a nunnery, crowns an
eminence at the entrance of the town.—
There is something so gloomy about the
tower—something so full of vague and
awful mystery, that I shuddered involun
tarily when I beheld it; and when, some
time afterward, I came to learn one of the.
deeds which those gloomy walls had wit
nessed, I was almost tempted to believe
in supernatural influences, so vague and
chill had been the emotion of horror which
I felt on beholding that antique building
for the first time.
The story was related to me by an old
lady,-who, in her youth, had been an in
mate of this convent for many years.—
Never shall I forget the tone and gesture
with which she spoke as follows:
"There was a lady in our convent, who,
duringthe two years that had elapsed since
her arrival, had scarcely exchanged a
word with any of the other nuns. She
remained constantly secluded in her cell,
• excepting when summoned by the tolling'
of the bell to join in the devotions of the
community in the choir. She was shun
ned and avoided by most of the nuns, who
generally supposed that some terrible
crime oppressed her conscience ; for a
calm and gloomy despair sat upon her pale
brow, and gave a wild yet melancholy ex
pression to her beautiful and dignified
features. Her fi gure was lofty and noble,
but emaciated with suffering. Her pray
ers and religious duties were repeated and
performed with usual fervor.
" Often had I remarked, with feelings of
commiseration, her wasted form thrown
into an attitude of humble and earnest sup
plication ; her pale though beautiful feat
ures formed into an expression of the most
poignant grief; her eyes raised to Heaven:
THE.. jOURN .-'"'. '' .
and dimmed by burning tears. Thus she
would long remain with her arms crossed
upon her breast, and motionless as a statue,
with the exception of a convulsive quiver
ing of her lips. Suddenly she would
throw herself upon the ground in a parox
ysm of despair, and sob aloud, pronouncing
some inarticulate words, as if complaining
of her total incapability to quell the fear
ful tempest raised within her breast, by
the conflict of opposed and unconquerable
feelings. Again would she strive to raise
her heart to God ; but in vain. She found
no relief in prayer; and, in her utter
hopelessness, finding that even Religion'
could not mitigate her torments, she would
fall exhausted, and lie extended on the
round, deep sighs rending het' bosom, and
invoking death to put an end to her mis
eraLle and wretched existence.
" Compassionating her sufferings, I es
sayed to oiler her some consolation. She
wild moved by the sincere expression of
my *pity, and perceived that I also was un
fortunate. The similarity of our feelings
and misfortunes instinctively drew us to
ward each other, and I soon gained her
friendship, and learnt the cause of her
grief.
. " Her name was Amelia ; she was the
- flaughter of the Coterie of B-------. Her
crime had been the forming of a strong
attachment toward a young officer in the
army—a man of strict honor and princi
ple, bat whose family and prospects were
unfortunately beneath the notice of the
proud Count of B---, who would have
thought himself disgraced by sficli an alli
ance. He forbid his daughter to speak to
her lover, or even to think of him. She
entreated; he sternly repeated his com
mands, and left her; he was disobeyed;
the enraged Count brought her to the con
vent, and forced her to take the veil,
threatening, if she refused, to cause the
officer to be assassinated. This had de
tertnined her, and she saved her lover's
life at the.samfice of her liberty and her
happiness. For two long years she had
struggled ineffectelly to forget, and to
offer to the God, to wltom she had conse
crated her existence, a heart pure and
free from all worldly , affections and re
gret. But alas! neveecould she succeed
in erasing from her heart the fonermemory
of her lover ; which, notwithstanding all
her eftbrts to the contrary, continued to
hold entire possession of hg soul.. His
image haunted and pursueti her every
where.. It was in varri,, , foi;stier to seek
consolation in prayer; he%areghts would
still wander away fro e, Got, and
II kali upon !ter lover. •Arl4l this constant
conflict between love and religion—the
fond recollections of the past lost to her,
forever, and the torments to
.I) , ,hiy i l e f u . I
imagined herself to he (War d , wore and
ture—was th.
h tit and withered herstrength,
. w .. a !t t si li the burning fever within her breast
raged on unabated.
" Months flew, and time but increased
her sufferings; all hope had long deserted
her. One day, she had remained alone in
the choir after the termination of the eve
ning prayers ; she was, as usual, imploring
for mercy and relief. Her meditation
was interrupted by her hearing her name
pronounced distinctly, though in a whis
per. She listened, and heard it again ;
she started, rose, looked down into the
church, and remained thrilled with emo
tion, supported by a pillar, to which she
clung, for she recognised, by the last
gleam of twilight--yes—she could not be
mistaken —she recognised leer lover.—
Fearful of detection, he threw a letter into
the choir, over the lattice-work, and dis
appeared. She was weak enough . to read '
it. It said, that b y her father'o influence
he had been sent on board of a vessel,
which took him to the Havannas, where
he wits appointed to a regiment. He had
petitioned in vain for leave to return to
Spain, and even for his discharge from the
service. Both had been refused. Unable
to live without her, he had, at last, sacri
ficed everything, even his honor, to see
her again. He lead deserted, to find leer
on his arrival in Spain buried in a convent.
He told her that it was impossible that
God would accept of vows which force
and tear alone had extorted from her—
they could not be considered as binding.
He conjured her, if she still loved him, to
fly with him to a foreign land ; to repay
the sacrifice he had made for her with a
similar one ; and then they would pass the
rest of their days in retirement, peace and
happiness.
" He promised happiness, when nothing
could exceed the wretchedness of her ex
istence—when The felt that even death it
' self would be unable to erase him from her
heart. Was it pos;ible that she could
refuse 1
" I assisted them in their flight, which
was effected with the greater facility, as
not the slightest suspicion-was entertainq
of such an attempt being in contemplatioh.
The anxiety of avoiding pursuit, made
them take to the mountains. Being un
provided with a guide, they lost their way,
and wandered until the horse that bpie
, them fell exhausted. They proceedetrffn
"ONE' COUNTRY, ONE CONSTFUTION, ONE DESTINY."
HUNTINGDQN, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1842.
foot, annaving.at last net with a shep
lierd,ithey persuaded him to guide them.
"'ley pursued their weary journey, and
after walking all day and night, their eyes
were gladdened by the sight of the French
frontier. A few minutes more, and they
would be safe! At this moment, they
perceived with horror a detachment of
troops, that had been despatched in their
pursuit upon the discovery of Amelia's
escape being made known at the convent.
They still strove to go on, straining veryc,
nerve; but their wearied limbs 00'64
beneath them. The troops came up, over
took and surrounded them. Amelia's
lover, driven to madness by this disap
pointment, began to use his weapons fu
riously in her defence, but a bullet laid
him dead at her feet. She then lost all
recollection. Upon recovering her sen
ses, Amelia found herself again in the
convent. Before she could collect her
thoughts, and awaken from the confusion
of what she imagined but a horrid and in
distinct dream, she was summoned before
the tribunal, assembled in conformity with
the rules of the Order, to try and condemn
her on a charge of sacrilegiously breaking
her vows, and profaning the sanctity of
the convent."
Fatigued by the exertion she had under
gone, my narrator tell back upon her
chair, and it was in a voice almost indis
tinct from its weakness, that she added,
"You guess her doom 7"
" Perhaps," I suggested, " the poor girl
was confined to a comfortless cell.'!
A ghastly smile came over the features
of the old lady; a smile in which there
was something horrible and painful to see.
She again sat erect in her chair, placed
her head on my shoulder, and approaching
her face to my ear, she said, in a low,
hissing whisper, which thrilled me to the
heart, and made me shudder, "she was
built up in the cavity of a wall, and left
there—to diet"
Female Society.
Of all the refiners of man's nature, fe ,
male society is the most effective. There
is a respect for the softer sex implanted
us Denature, that makes us desire to ap
pear well in the presence of delicate and
intelligent females, and bils a tendency
to elevitte our feelings, and make us assume
a gentleness and propriety of deportment
totally at variance with all coarseness and
vulgarity. Such is the influence of the
intercourse of which we speak, in formit ,
character, that we do not recopy to the
to have seen a younmown age, that he
[society of hoiat well and prosper in life,
I dillSC'on the other hand, we have obser
ved many who, by confining themselves to
associations with the members of their
own sex, have acquired a roftghness and
uncouthness of manner that entirely un
fitted them for the intercourse of life.—
We are perfectly aware that a foolish
thnidy is at the bottom of this, as we es
teem it, great defect of character, and that
many a man of sterling worth would as
soon be caught in committing a crime a
gainst morals as in playing the lady's man.
This is all clearly wrong, and may gener
ally be referred to some unlucky occur
rence in which youthful awkwardness has
given rise to ridicule. If the ladies were
only aware of the power they rightfully
possess in forming the habits and man-,
ners of men, they would take pains to al
lay the sensitiveness which produceswant
of case in their presence, and, by becom
ing affability and kindness, cherish confi
dence and self-possession. The members
of the two sexes were intended by their
Maker to be companions for each other,
and the more easy and tree their inter
course can be, due regard being had to
strict propriety, the more Delicate and re
fined will be the sentiments of all cancer
ned.—Madisonian.
A FAIR OFFER.—Make a full estimate
of all you owe, and of all that is owinn• b to
you. Reduce the same to note. As fast
las you collect, pay over to those you owe ;
if you can't collect renew your notes every
year, and get the best security you can.—
Go to business diligently, and be indus
trious ; lose no time ;_ waste no idle mi.
ments—be very prudent and economical
in all things—discard all pride but the
pride of acting justly and well--be faith,
ful in your duty to God, by regular and
hearty prayer, morning and 'night—attend
church aria meeting regularly every Sun,
day, and " do unto all men as you would
they should do unto you." If you are
too needy in your circumstances, to give
to the poor, do whatever else you have in
your power to do for them cheerfully—
but it you can, always help the worthy
poor and unfortunate. Pursue this course
diligently and sincerely for seven years,
and, if you are not happy, comfortable, and
• independent in your circumstances, come
to me and 1 will pay your debts.—Dr.
Franklin.
rho stumbles twice over one stone
g. der if he breaks his neck. •
The Ribre.
An interesting anniversary meeting of
the Liverpool Bible Society, was recently
held, when many facts of a deeply inter.
eating nature to the Christian World,
were made known. One of the speakers
said that during the existence of the As.
sociation, not fewer than 14,000,000 of
copies of the Bible had been issued,
amounting on an average to 1000 copies
.per day. Last year 100,000 copies were
issued. Another speaker stated that there
;were at present 137 translations of the
and 7000 kindred institutions had
eminated from the principal Society.
Thomas J. Bgfike, Esq.,said - it was
believed that IsTion, whie an exile in
St. Helena,
and during the last six months
of his earthly career, bad been very often
employed .in reading a New Testament
which was presented to him by a gentle
man of the committee of the 'British and
Foreign Bible Society, and that, from his
having often spoken of Jesus Christas the
Saviour, was confidently hoped, that
that book might have raised his affections
above earthly thoughts and desires to
heaven and heavenly objects.
The present Society last year, issued
584,544 copies from the depository at
home, and 231,000 from abroad. In
France, 156,00 n copies of the Scriptures
had been oven during the last year by the
agent there ; and it was a remarkable fact,
that while a Bible could not be found in
any of the book shops of Paris in the year
1817, it was to be had in all the present
time. The issue to Belgium had decrea
sed within the last year, but 98,000 copies
of the scriptures were distributed in that
country within the last ten years.
In Prussia, great success had attended
the labors of the society, and the King of
Prussia, when lately in London, had said,
that of ail the great achievements he wit
nessed, that which struck him most was
the stupendous success of the British and
Foreign ,Bible Society. In Gummy,
27,000 copies had been circulated during
gie year, :nd in Hungary the society had
tria agent who worked gratuitously, and who
distributed 54,000 copies during the last
three years.
In India, not only had the operations of
the society during the year exceeded the
preceding, but they had exceeded the en
tire labors of the Calcutta maxi , ' " e
the thirty years of it. •—eover, stated
copies
Bishop
w:
,• lo w were
v p:r
a h b i o n r g v y d e e a ni r a b n y .
b t o l t ge
f ik : h l l : t4:e Nl fewer than 100.000
had been sent to Antigua of what
people there called the emancipa
tion book." From Madagascar the society
had received an application for inore
Bibles, saying that the old ones were
worn out, and 500 copies of the Chinese
New Testament had been put into the
hands of the followers of the camp, who
had gone thither with the British army, in
the hope that they would be able to scat
ter the seeds of Christianity in that vast
and mighty empire.
Another speaker, the Rev. Baptist Noel,
said that in Russia, the Parent Society
had circulated no less that 900,000 co
pies, and in Poland 54,000 copies. In
Spain, 204,500 copies of Bibles and Tes
taments had been purchased as well as
received gratuitously. In France 161,000
copies had been circulated by the agency
of the society. He next alluded to Asia
and,to the operations of the society in the
Turkish empire, and said, that 300,000 co
pies of the Arabic Scriptures had been
given to the Mahomedans in 'Smyrna.
He stated that the Scriptures hail been
translated into various languages, so that
the whole British India might be supplied ,
with the Word of God. He alluded elo-1
quently to the sacred volume, said that
the first great gift was the gift of the Sa
viour; the second was the gilt of the Holy
Spirit ; and the third was the gift of the
sacred Scriptures. The truths therein
enshrined and the great facts there re
corded are from God himself, and it was
the duty of Christians to circulate the
word to the ends of the earth.—Phila-
Mph/a Enquirer.
"I shall be home next Sunday.night,"
the young lady said when she followed
her beau to the door, who seemed to be
somewhat waverini in his ittlachinent.—
" So shall I," was his reply.
COQUETTE.-A young !ady of beauty
more than sense—more accomplishment
than learning—more charms of person
than graces of mind—more admirers than
friends—more fools than wise men for
attendants.
ACCOMMODATING.-.AD editor down south
says that he is willing to squeeze the la
dies at any time, ithey will leave off
tight lacing.
Why has President Tyler trampled
under fool the rights of Congress? Be
cause he has put his %%toes on so many
them'
She's a Sewing Girl.
We have frequently heard the above
remark, when it excited in our mind a
sentiment of ineffable contempt fur the
worthless piece of humanity that uttered
it. It is a source of deep regret to us
that it should ever be our duty to deal
harshly with any portion of the fair sex
who maintain a reputable standing in so•
ciety ; but there are some and not a few
either, who although their fame may be
unspotted are so deeply imbued with envy,
jealously and hatred towards those of their
sex, who happen to be less favored of for.-
tune,'but more perfectly moulded and fin
ished by nature than themselves, that their
hearts are gall, their souls are wormwood,
their breath is pestilence, whenever they
can make it convenient to speak of them.
These are they, who, with a sarcastic leer,
and a scornful turn of nose, stigmatise as
"nothing but sewing girls," such young
females as have the moral courage and
the virtue to work with their hands for an
honest livelihood, rather than to be depen
dant, destitute or disreputable.
It is sometimes applied opprobiously to
married ladies, after the followjng manner:
" Did you ever see the like how M rs.
dresses herself and children of late?"—
" La, yes, I've seen many like her—l
knew her when she was a sewing girl, and
her husband a poor carpenter, and when
he worked for my father. Now they have
got a little something in the world, and
they stick themselves up fur mighty Borneo
bodies." "It is just so almost always
with such creatures. As soon as they get
a little start in the world they forget the
poverty they sprang from, and begin to
put on airs of gentility. I can't bear them
for my part."
Reader, it you are a young man and
should hear anything like the above sen
timents uttered by a young lady to whom
you are paying your addresses, let that be
your last visit. Even if you are under
promises of marriage, it would be better to
break oil and incur the penalty of breach
of promise, than to be united for life to
one so utterly devoid of that kind hearted
sympathy for those of her own sexlity
virtuously struggling with
..1 1 Trienqls, to
who holds it di!
I. ..9fin i " l fier own physical
who is w- -
e.e an honest and useful vocation.
' - 'We cannot conceive of any evidence
more conclusive, that a young female pos
sesses, in an eminent degree, that innate
principle of virtue which would set at
defiance every seductive wile of libertin
ism, than to see her adorned with all the
native graces of her sex heroically braving
the sneers of the proud and scornful, and
steadily plying her needle as a means of
independence. 'Such an one rarely it e
, ver '
fails to possess an amiable disposition,
and will seldom if ever, fail to make a vir
tuous, affectionate, prudent wife, and a
good mother.
We never disignedly lis*d to the
conversation of ladies in the streets, but
we will confess that the above remarks
were prompted by hearing the words which
we have placed at the head of this article
contemptuously uttered by one of the la
dies who filled a narrow side walk so full,
that we were compelled to walk slowly
after them for some rods. We did not
know them but hope they may chance to
light upon this article for their own sakes.
It will perhaps teach them to give their
voices less volume when they utter such
uncharitable sentiments in the street.
WHAT A LAWYEIt SHOULD DE,-.Wit
are indebted to Mr. Hamilton. of Concord,
N. H., for a copy of a .• Charge to the
Grand Jury upon the uncertainty of the
Law, and the duties of those concerned in
the administration of it, by Chief Justice
Parker —Chief Justice, we presume, of
New Hampshire, though it is not so writ
ten down. Among the many good things
it contains, there is nothing better than the
following, which we find in a note page 11:
In the "Character of an Honest Law
yer," printed in 1776, it is said, among
other things, that he is "ono that practises
the law so as not to forget . the gospel, but
always wears a concrence as well as a
gown. He weighs the cause more than
gold ; and if that will not bear the touch,
his generous scorn puts back the tee.
Though he knows all the criticisms of his
faculty, and the nice snapperadoes of prac-
tice, yet he never uses them, unless in a
defensive way, to countermine the plots
of knavery ; for he effects not the devilish
skill of out-baffling riF s ht, nor aims at the
shameful glory of making &bad cause good;
hut with equal contempt hates the wolf's
study and the dog's eloquence; and dis.
dams to grow great by crimes, or build
himself a fortune on the spoil of the oppres
sed, or the ruin of the widow and orphan.
• He has more reverence for his profession
r than to debauch it for unrighteous pur
poses, and had rather be dumb than suf•
fer Iris tongue to pimp for injustice, or
club his parts to bolster up a cheat with
the legerdemain of lawcraft.
of
The best lipialve is a sweet kiss
[WHoLE No. 246.
WANTS.— The following wants, though
cslculated for the meridian of New Or
!leans, will answer also for some other pia.
ces:
Bill-holders want collections made, and
debtors want duns to go to the d—l.
Rents want razeeing, and landlords had
better whittle them down if they want to
keep of get good tenants.
I Shopkeepers want customers, and cus
tomers want the wherewithal for shopping.
Young ladies want lovers, and lovers
seem to want to get married in these times,
for no other reason in the world than be
cause they have nothing else to do.
Rogues want hanging.
Honest men want bread.
Morals want mending.
Doctors want patients, and people are
quite content to be patient without the
doctor.
The hotels want boarders about this
date, and not a few boardets want any
reasonable amount of dunning for their
board
Every body wants to have every thing
right, while hardly any thing works straight
—and nobody can have all things as they
want.
We all want. more than we deserve,
and none of us have more virtue than we
want.
The world wants reforming, and shows
every disposition to go on wanting.
AN EXPRIMENT.-I once knew a boy
who was employed by his father to remove
all the loose, small stones which, from the
peculiar situation of the ground, had tie
cumulated in the road before the house.
He was to take theM up and throw then
over into the pasture across the way. He
soon got tired of picking them up one by
one and sat clown on the bank to try to
devise some better means of accomplishing
his work - he at length conceived and a
dopted the following plan : lie setititt
pasture a narrow board foraerghborhood,
boys would eall.it u an amusement, which
s ready fur—firing at mark.
Need not say that the stores of ammuni
tion ware soon exhausted, the boys work
ing for their leader when they' supposed
they were only finding . amusement for Amp
themselves. Here now is eiperimenting
on the mind ; the production of useful ef
fort with rapidity and ease, by the inter
vention of proper instrumentality; the
conversation, by means of a little knowl
edge of human nature, of what would
otherwise have been dull and fatiguing la
bor, into mere animating sport, giving
pleasure to twenty instead of tedious lo
bar to one.
A CHANCE.—An editor of a paper in
Pennsylvania says he wants a wife, and
he thus enumerates the necessary qualifi
cations of the lady :
She must be a gal whose eyes beams
with love, tenderness and pity; twinkle
[with fun, frolic and mischief; and lighten
up the flash with the immortal part of its
frait tenement; whose countenance is illu
minated with vir gin innocence and purity,
chastened by humility, and happy front
the practice of every homely virtue, with
a heart to feel, a hand to relieve and a
bosom to sympathize with misfortune;
one who can mend breeches, make shirts.
scrub floors, peel taters and cook dinner."
had lie been a Yankee he would proba
bly have appended to the list of qualifica
tions something like the following: one
that can ride horse to plough, attend to the
garden, feed the pigs, drive home the
cows, and occasionally lick the school
master.
PRINTiNo.—When a Jew, who was a
famous Dutch Printer, brought into Con
stantinople printing presses, &c. to intro.
duce the art of printing into that city, the
vizier caused him to be hanged, declaring
that it would be a great cruelty that one
man should enrich himself by taking the
bread of eleven thousand scribes, who
gained their living by the pen.
CONPAIL -- " Papa, what does the Editor
lick his Price Current with'!" Whip itt
lie don't whip it my child." Then he
lies Pa." Hush! Tom, that's a very
naughty word." Well, by George! this
cre paper says Price Current carefully
corrected`—and I guess when I gets cor
rected 1 gets licked--•hey---don't I. ' "Nuf
ced—my son.--• Richmond Star.
Women are like stare—not to be seen
in the morning. They get "fixed" at
night, ar,d then don't they blaze away
beautiful !
A POETICAL DUN.—The following has
been used "down East," as a very plea
sant substitute for a printers' dun : it is to
be set to music to the jingling of dollars—
We'll gaily chase dull care away
And banish every sorrow,—
Subscribers pay your debts to-day
And we'll pay ours to morrow!"