Vol.. VIII, No. 16.] PUBLISHED BY THEODORE H, CREM ER, Tom?? I`/jp. The "ionimst." will be published every Wednesday morning., at two dollars a year, If paid IN ADVANCE, and if not paid wittitu six months, two dollars and a half. No subscription 'received for a shorter pe• riod than six months, nor any paper discon tinued till all arrearages are paid. Advertisements not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar, and fur every subsequent insertion twenty five cents.. If no definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to be continu ed, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged accordingly. POSTP.T. The Mother's Bible Gift. BY MRS. BARON CORNWALL WILSON, When in future distant years Thou shalt look upon this pace, Through the crystal vale of tears, That dim our eyes ;n after age, Think it was a mother's hand, Though her smile no more thou'lt see, rointipg towards that better land," Gales sacred gift to thee! Lightly thou esteem'st it now, For thy heart is young and wild And upcn thy girlhood's brow, Nought but sunny hope bath smiled! But when disappointments come, And the world begins to steal Ail thy spirits early bloom, 'l' hem its value thou wilt feel! To thy chamber still and lone, Fly,—and search this sacred page, NVhen earth's blandishments are gone, Every grief it will assuage! Close thy door against the din Of worldly fully—worldly fear— Only let the radiance in Of each heav,nly promise there! When the bruised spirit bends 'Neath the weight of sorrows chain When of all life's summer friends, Not one fLtterer shall remain, Lay this unction to the wound Of thy smitten, bleeding breast, Here the only balm is found That can yield the weary rest! Nut alone in hours of wo "Search the Scriptures." but wltil e joy Doth life's blissful cup oierilow, Be it oft thy sweet employ ; So remembering in thy youth, . Him whose Spirit lights each page, Thou shalt have abundant proof, He will not forget thine age. From the New Mirror. The Sword and the Staff. The following song, suggested by the el oquent remarks of Mr. Summers, on the .presentation of the sword of GENERAL WASHINGTON and the cane of DOCTOR FRANKLIN, to the Congress of the United States, was sung by Mr. Russell at his re cent concerts in this city. The sword of the hero! The staff of the sage! Whose valour and wisdom Are stamp'd on the age! 'lime hallow'd mementos Of thtse who have riven •• 'lie sceptre from tyrants, The lightning from heaven!" This weapon, oh Freedom! Was drawn by thy son, And it never was sheath'd 'Till the battle was won! No stain of dishonor Upon it we see! 'Tway never surrender'd— Except to the free! 111. While Fame claims the hero And patriot sage, Their names to emblazon On History's page, No hailer relics Will Liberty hoard, Than FRANKLIN% staff, guarded By WASIIINGIVN% sword _ CURE FOR "WARTS IN HORSES AND CAT ins.--A valuable friend, of great exper ience in horses and cattle, and who has imported and bred many of the best in the United ? States, says that strong wash made ol pearlash and water, applied thrice a ,day, will remove tumors and wurte. THE JOIJIINAL. ~:ta~~:~:~A~r~o ~ a. From the London Keepsake. The Painter's Daughter. BY N. MITCHELL, ESQ. .liothor of the " Traduced" ac. Among the most interesting struggles fur national freedom that modern history records may be named the revolts in the low countries again:, ant .14 Coin olic bigot, 'hill, I. ~t ; :uul witch the form • I 1.1 h. • league of Utrecht, earner lit tie let:opined 'ride pendence of the United Provinces. The persecution of the Protestants in the Ne• therlands had commenced, and the atro cities committed by the bloody minded Alva, Philip's favorite general, had skew. dy driven many towns to open rebellion ; some of these Jelled the utmost exertions of the Spanish arms; but others were sacked, and every cruelty that religious fanaticism, as well as secular vengeance, could devise, was committed upon the in habitants. Harlem had been invested for nearly a ' year, and the patriotism of the stout burg hers gas only equalled by the sufferings they endured, arising from famine and dis ease. Within this city lived a painter, whose fate, with that of his devoted daughter, forms the subject of this sketch. Hu!beck fur some years had been unable to prosecute his art, for close attention had induced a complaint of the eye, and at last he was stricken with blindness.—' The protracted seine was drawing to a close, fur the town was unable to hold out longer when Ho!beck feeble and in sick ness, lay stretched upon his pallet. He was in extreme poverty, and in a state of things when the gold of the wealthy failed to procure the necessaries of life, it may be presumed that it fared but ill with the needy. In truth, the painter was starv ing; everything that could be made avail able to satisfy the cravings of nature had been devoured, and now he had only to curse the enemies of his country and die. By his bed-side, watching his worn and withered features, a young girl was seat ed ; her age might hate been sixteen. She was one of those beauties whose character istics are gentleness and delicacy; her locks, glossy and golden, streamed over her shoulders like a waterfall seen in the sunset; and her eyes had that peculiarly soft and melting light ‘Thich bespeaks a heart all love and tenderness. The exquisite beauty of chat girl seemed but ill suited to the squalor, and the air of wretchedness which pervaded the place ; yet them she watched tile debil:tated and stricken old man--fur the blind painter of Ilarlein was her father. Ah: how fondly did Ho'beck dote on the only being who had not deserted him in the dim and desolate winter of his years: The enthusiasm and the love which once burned in his heart fur the creations of his fancy, were now transfer red to that child. She was inure worship ped than saint or virgin—the' bright bow spanning the cloud of his despair. He could not behol,l her loveliness, now de veloping itself in womanhood, but he could hear her voice ; and that voice murmured to him sweet as if it came froin paradise, sumnionim , up thoughts of all pure, bright and beautiful things. " Pauline" said the Painter faintly, "is it indeed true that the Governor has cap• itulated—that the enemy has entered the city 1" "Yes, father can you not hear their shouts 1" The sick man raised his head in the at titude of listening; his sightless orbs were directed to the spot where he knew his daughter was stated ; the muscles of his face were convulsed, and the dew of ler ant stood upon his forehead. "They come:" he cried ; can hear flying steps, the shouts ut savage soldiery, and the shrieks of women:" Father, do not fear, our habitation has too mean an appearance to tempt the cupidity of soldiers." " 1 know not that ; there arc other trea sures here inure valuable—at least to me —than silver or gold. Haste thee, Pan lina, and secure the door !" The girl obeyed her parents' command, and passed a bar of iron across the low oaken door. yet this very precaution, and the appearance of stength which the dingy house exhibited, proved its worse safe guard, and was the means of bringing ruin upon ite occupants. Thank thee,Paulina! and now I will pray to God fur thy safety. It :ratters little what happens unto me ; the sands of my life are nearly run, and if they kill me, I shall but go to my long home a little ear. tier than age and disease might have car ried me, and the old man clasped his hands and seemed in fervent prayer. The shouts of the Spanish soldiers soun ded more near. Exasperated by the long defence which the city had made, they were determined on taking signal veng eauce on the inhabitants. Men and wo men were now rushing up the obscure street in which Holbeek roided, with au G. P. M. "ONE COUNTRY, OhR CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY." HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, ISA intention apparently, of sheltering, them selves in their houses. Evi,n alarm was visible now on the countenance of the fair girl, and she drew mechanicly more close. ly to the bed of her sick parent. Cod protect thee, Paulma, but the Spaniards are in our Meet !" The words had scarcely dropped from the painter's lips, when a heavy blow, as from a ham mer, oi• bludgeon, fell upon the door, and hoarse v,ices called fur admittanceolr- Holbeck started up in his bed, and the girl, with a shudder, turned her eyes to the entrance, at the same time cowering as if by instinct, toward her blind and fee. ble protector. .03 comrades, to the next house! Lopez land myself claim this. Aha ! there is something good here, or we should not have all these bolts and bars— a miser, 1 warrant with his money-bag. Myneei ! mynheer ! open your smoky - hatch, or we shall knock in your harricado:" The blows were repeated, but the trembling inmates returned no answer.— They trusted that the iron-bound door would resist the efforts of the assailants yet the stregth of the defence served only to excite the ardor and curiosity of the soldiers in fact, they imagined that no one but a wealthy person would take such pains to fortify his private dwelling con st.quently they hoped, despite exteral up ' pearances, to find within a hoard of gold. ' Thou sneaking mule ! thou crafty old fox! may St. Peter lock us forever in pur gatory, if we do not unearth thee !" A crash followed ; the lower panels of the door were burst through and the soldiers with iron pikes in their hantk sprang into the house. The spatnards were ferocious looking fellows with inflamed eyes and huge muss taches. They gazed for a minute stead; lastly on the shrinking girl ; and then at the emaciated invalid, " Lopez:" exclaimed the elder of the troopers, it is as I suspected. I thought he must he a rich old grub who would earth himself up in such a strong den we don't find a right round sum of gold florins here I'm no soldier of king Phil ip's. I opine the like friend ; miser is written in every line of that brown parchment lace. Now then mynheer: lew words and speedy husine,s. Inform us without dehy where you keep your inunry.hag.s— d'ye hear I" - "Men:" exclaimed the venerable pain• ter, "you mistake my circumstances, 1 am in great poverty." "No doubt of it ; but do not hope to de ceive us; misers, like thee, forever bewail their lack of this world's good. Come, thou hadst best deliver us the florins, or the lawyers to mm•row will be accommo dated with thy skin to engross deeds upon. " No trifling, old MUD: thy money I' roared the elder trooper. Paulina, on bended knees, and with lifted hands beseeched the soldiers to be lieve the assertion of her destitute and blind father. "Pity Mtn," she cried ; "he is ill, and by this cruel treatment ye will hasten his end. Have ye fathers? or arc ye yourselves fathers ? then compassion ate, have mercy op un mine 1" "Talk away, my pretty wench, fir thou dolt look charming in that posture. B. the Virgin Juan, I don't know hat f oil resign the florins to thee, unit take for my share of the booty this plump a Ld luscious littlelame— ha 1 ha 1" "Do, my. friend, and allow me to pui.ket the money. Now, my 'alter, nu more sul• I kiness, but discover thy hoard. Thou won't then I perceive I must teach thee 'I thy duty. How dust thou like that? The sick man groaned with pain for the trooper had thrust b.e sharp pike into his arty. Oh ! the anguish of the daughter,. as she saw the blood gush from the wound: he whom it had been her care to l l screen [ruin the vely breath of heaven, whom she had teraled acd nursed su long, so anxiously—to behold him thus wanton.' ly put to torture--it awoke all the agony which her nature was capable of enduring. She sprang to his side, she hung with a bursting heart over the the bleeding limb; yet, and anon, would she glance up at the savage soldiers with the Bashing eyes of the tigress deprived of her young. Paulinal" whispered the old man, " regard not the wound, stay thou by me child, for I consider my life as nothing compared with injury, with pollution to thee," and he thrust his hand beneath his pillow, its if to clutch at something there. " Well comrade, I shall carry off my prize, and thou mayest remain here as long as thou dolt choose, worming from the old heretic the secret of his looney.— Hark'ee, sweatlteart, come with ine. By the mass! but thou art the prettiest maid in the Provinces." 'lhe trooper advanced to seize Paulina, and by the shrinking imp/meta of his child the painter became aware of his pur pose. frinlbeck held her in his bleeding arms ith the tenacity of love and des pair, crying in piercing accents, "'fake her not away from me ; take her not from incl all —my aim:. than lite ; kill me, but spare my innocent child." The soldier rou,ghly drew her along; but the lather would but loose his hold.— The blind man sought fur his dagger, but could not find it, for it had dropped on the floor; at length, tainting through exer tion and loss of blood, he bank down in a state of insensibility. The shrieks of the girl; availed her nothing in a district which was given over of pillage and rapine.-- But Paulina suddenly grew calm ; some stern resolve had taken possession of her breast, or she had indeed resigned herself to her fate. " Soldier!" she exclaimed, " permit me to say one parting word to my father; let me bind up his word, and I will accom pany thee in peace." The man, who did not relish a continu ance of her cries and wild struggles, was induced to comply with her request. "Then speak to the obstinate old rebel, an' thou wilt, but let thy conk:tepee be brief. Pauline knelt by her father; but the aged man, already broken down by . sick ness and famine, was evidently dying. "Paulina my child, where art thou he faintly cried. • Father, am wtth you still I" "'Thank heaven:" my beloved one: let me pass my hand over thy face ; thou art nut weeping, Paulina ; then our trier, ciless foes have left us. Clod preserve thee, and bless! My heart seems to freeze; one kiss. Farewell:" The blind painter of Harlem ceased to breathe. No tears, indeed, gushed from the mai den's eyes, fur the lire in her brain had dried up the source whence flow these milder tokens of sorrow, The agony in that gentle bosom had reached the point where reason ceases her wonted influence, and frenzy begins. She threw back the masses of golden hair from her hut fore head ; she crept along the fluor, and se cured the dagger. The soldiers surveyed her in silent cu riosity, and they smiled on each other, imagining that she designed to defend her self. " The saints protect us! my sweet amazon, and thou dust mead to iiu battle against two soldiers 'Allis majesty's guard? ait lib: but enough! and the blacker vil lain of the two drew nearer to her. Wretched man:" cried Pauline, with a burst of indignation, her eyes flashed, and the purple vains swelling on her beau• filial forehead, approach ice nut! ye leave this house to the sorrows of a child over her dead father, ur ye bear me away a corpse." then dead or alive thou shalt be mine!" exclaimed the soldier, springing toward the girl. He paused for one in stant ere he grasped her she looked up into his face with a stern resolve of heroic virtue, even the villian beneath the flash. jug of that bright and majestic eye, seemed fur a moment to quail. lle advanced—he hesitated; again he stretched forward his , arms ; no, lie did not seize her, for ere his defiling touch was on 'her, she hadsheath., ed the danger in her own heart The young girl's bright blued, welling from a bosom where hlial affection and virtue had triumphed over the fear de, tli, bubbled forth upon the body of her' lather ; and there resting on his brea,t, sue lay beyond the 'lower of human ti,nds who scowled near her, her white lids veiling her dimming eyes, her rich cheek gradually turning to the alabaster, and her last sigh of purity breathing from lips that soon would be still for ever. The Spaniards gazed fur a few moments on the wreck they had made, and then, with a low laugh, turned away in search of new victims. From the Portland Tribune, The Wife of a Shoemaker. "1 can always smell a shoemaker it there be one in the route," said the proud and fashionable Eliza----, whose wealthy parents had brought her up in the foolish principle that labor was degrading.) Iler ideas had been cast in such a mould that when chance threw a mechanic or far tner in her way, she endeavored by her Acts or her conversation, to convince him that she was his superior. Indulged with all that wealth could bestow, the haughty girl had no wish ungratified. A desire was simply expressed, and her request was granted. Others attended to her wants, so that she grew up wholly unac quainted with domestic affairs, but shy could not do common sewing. When in company, the proud girl took particular pains to show her contempt for the worthy mechanic, - by making some impropur re. marks, or nut deigning to cast upon him is single gracious luok. It was at a public house, where a journeyman shoemaker happened to b.: present, that Eliza made the remark, "I can always smell a shoe maker." The words were addressed to a young woman who expected to become the wife of the very mechanic; but she being more wise and less fashionasle, did not deign to reply, but turned the convcr 13ation to turns mv: - c tivir, How unstable is property ! The man who to•day rides in his carriage, the pos sessor of millions tu•worrow may ba a bankrupt. • . Events which the most prudent cannot foresee, nor the closest calculators guuid against, have unexpectedly dashed the fondest hopes and sunk the largest pro perty. It was so in the case of the Ether of Eliza. When in the lull tide of pros perity, adding riches to riches, and never dreaming that life would be any thing but sunshine, a dark cloud suddenly uver spread his sky. His extensive wealth was swept almost instantaneously from his grasp, and he became a pour man.— His house, his carriage, his splendid fur. niture was taken from him, and the pos sessor of a fortune became a beggar. The gorgeous palace was exchanged for a hovel, servants were dismissed, and the delicate, the proud Eliza was the daughter of as poor a father as the humblest me chanic of her acquaintance. Poor girl! it was an awful stroke for her. She had lived as it riches had nu wings, but were as permanent as her family name. With her erroneous ideas, totally unprepared fur such a sad reverse of fortune, it cause with tenfold more poignancy. The shoe maker married the girl of his choice, the woman who considered it an honor to be the daughter ol a hard working mechanic, and the wife of a journeyman. He prospered, commenced business for himstll, was steady, industrious and eco• numical, and as a matter of course, suc ceeded well and lived comfortably and contentedly. In a lew years he purchas ed a smal l . but convenient dwelling and by the prudence of his wife, and his in dustrious habits, became an independent man, and lives as happy as mortal could wish. It was a bitter cold day in the depth of winter, when a female, pour and destitute, called at the dwelling of the mechanic, begging fur a little assistance. She was the once haughty Eliza -. The benev ulent wife uf the mechanic took pity on her, and being in want of help, took her into the family. Nothing hard was put upon her to do, while she in tears expres sed her gratitude fur the kindness ieceiv, ed, and regretted Iron, her heart the fully , l of her early days. "if I had my life to live over again," she would often say, I would accustom myself to labor, and do all in my power to elevate the um chanic."• _ Eliza lived in this pleasant family fur some time, during which she became ac quainted •with a juurneymaii shoemaker in the employ of her friend, and finally be came his bride. Having learnt a useful ' lesson by her misfortune, Eliza made a prudent and industrious wife, arid now lives conifurtably arid happily. When ever she hears a young and thoughtless girl speak in terms of contempt of au ins dustrious mechanic, or sees him shunned on account of his freckled suubrowned face and calloused barrels, she administers a gentle rept out* and relates her own ex perience. From this story many a pampered deco• tee of fashion may learn a profitable lee' son. If you are borne along by the tide of successful prosperity, are indulged by in judicious parents in all the luxuries and ex travagances and follies of life, havean eye. we pray you, to the future. Trust rt.), to uncertain riches, bat prepare yourself for every-emergency in life. Learn to work; and not to depend upon servants to make your bread, sweep your floor and darn your stockings. Above all, do mat esteem lightly those worthy arid honorable young men who sustain themselves and help to support their aged parents by the work a their own hands, while you caress and receive to- your houses, those lazy, idle popinjays, who never lift their lingers to, help themselves as long as they can keep, soul and body together, and get funds to live in the fashion. If you are wise you will look at this subject in the light that we do, arid when you are old enough to become wives, you will prefer the lamest mechanic with not a cent to commence life, to the fashionable loafer with a capi tal of ten thousand dollars. Whenever we hear the remark, "such a young lady has married a fortune," we always trem ble for het future prosperity. Nine ea ses out often, property left to children by wealthy parents, turns out to be a curse instead of a blessing. Young women, re member this ; and instead of sounding the purses of your lovers and examining the cut of their coats, look into their habits and hearts. Mark it they have trades rind can depend upon themselves, with minds that will lead them to look above a butter fly existence, and if so, always give pre fereace to them. Talk not about the beautiful white skin and the soft delicate hands, and the fine appearance of the young gentlemen, let not these foe& ah con siderations engross your thou;hts. On the contrary, let a healthy constitutiou, it stout fist, and a brown skin, accompanied with a virtuous department, induce you to make that choice w . .iidt will result ii. e our tultio; hapj,;nc.;;. [WuoLE No. 2EO. I . 1'146 La IV OF KINDNESS. speak so cross," said one little boy yes terday in the street to another. " Don,t speak Cu cross—there's nu use init."— We happened to be passing at the time, and hearing the injunction, or rather the exhortation—l 4 it was made in a hot tato ry tone and manner—we set the juvenild speaker down as an embryo Philosopher. In south, touching the point involved in the boyish tliffieulty which made occasion fur the remark, he might properly be colt; sidered as at maturity. What more cold Solomon have said on the occasion] Ti uc, he has put it on record, that " a soft An swer turueth away wrath," and this hd. ing taken as true—and every body know% it to be so—it is evidence in laver of tint superiority of the law tit kindness over that of wrath. But our young street phi losopher said pretty much the same thing substantially, when he said, I. don't speak so cross--there's no use Wt." No in deed—there is certainly no use in it. Ott the contrary, it invariably dues tinkle harm. Is a matt angry ? it inflames his ire still more f and coutirms in his emit: , him who by a kind word, and a gentle forbearing demeanor, might be converted into a friend. It is in tact an addition of fuel to a flame already kindled. And what do you gain by it I Nothing desira ble certainly, unless discord, strife, con tention, " hatred, malice and all unchari tableness," be desirable. Let the boy philosopher be heard, then. lie speaks •' the words of truth and soberness."— " Don't speak no cross—there's nu use het. Mr. politician, you are engaged in an argument with your neighbor, your person. al friend. Can you not conduct the con troversy witholt getting angry] Most as suredly you can, if you but permit your judgment to rule, and exclude passion as a prompter. There is no good reason why you should quarrel with your friend, be cause you and he do not ag ree in opinion upon some given point, but thereis "every reason in the world" why you and he, lur the sake of yourselves shit of society, should remain in a state of mutual amity. peace, and good will. In Congress, and in the several state and municipal legisla tures, quarrels frequently arise. DI blood is stirred up, and bile engendered, simply because the parties disputant forgot to re duce the law of kintluQss to practice; amid we apprehend that the history of the polls. • on election days, would show the same cause for all the riots and disorders, the • personal quarrels and individual violence. which have disgraced our elections, and gi levet! the sincere friends tit free tepid)- , bean institutions, to the great jov of all everywhere, who are unfriendly to them. To teachers of schools, of every grade, ' . the law of kindness in all important.— . Time was when the tescher toys net only himself a despot, but a tyrant, and upheld. in the exercise of his arbitrary will, to al most any extent agreeable to himself, by !parental authority, and even by authority of law. But those timeg have, measurably at least, passed away ; and the instructors of youth are beginning to learn, aud to practice oh their acquired knowledge, that the law of kindness. rather than that of force, is nut only immure potent to the ac.. comphshment of the purposes had in view in the institution of schools, but far more in accordance with the spirit of the age. Parents, too, begin to open their eyes to the fact, that the day of their ty ranny is gone by. 'We shall, however, say but little on this point now, because we intend to take it up on some other more convenient occasion. It may be well enough, however, to remark in pass ing, that much of the evil which constitutes ' the. burthen of parental complaint, as ex isting in the. rising generation," is main ly attributable to a neglect on the part of parents, to reduce to practice the law of kindness, of rove, in the training up of their children. This law we hold to to perfectly consistent in both theory and practice, with all time strictness of discip line which the must rigid parental discip linarian could reasonably contend for; and they who do not observe it, must be content to submit to the imputation of having a domestic charge which they are unfit to manage, and of beink the real source of touch of the social evil, of which they complain. A BEAUTIVeL I(ol:TU.—What is more beautiful to the mind's eye than a youth in the vigor of his days, with cheeks radiant as the morning, and a brow brilliant as the sun, with a long nine in his mouth ; and great a chew of tobacco hi his cheek. "Oh, ma ! do you know I'm next to the head in my class at school!" "Hoar girt! your pa will be an delighted! fly deur husband do you hear that Henrietta is next to the head of her class!" "Indeed, my love, I am very glad to hear it j pray. Henrietta, how many are there in your class?" "Two, papa !" 0!1 ! f, "ur i I n, to fiq ~.u!utrtl