1 0 s ~,1.,(D,n,,,- , t,, ~ 1 4 . 1/4,/bO/4 ~, ,„.„.,..,„ ~, ~. , : ._,:4,,, , . 4 II ~,, -. u , . c., _ .,, - -....---,,.: : -?1 Vi, (...---,, .- ."k"-..---..4,,,-- Y JAS, CLARK. • THE FARYIER'S DAUGHTER.. " She may not in the mazy oance, With Jewcied maidens vie ; LA She may not smile on earthly swain With soft bewitching eye ; She may not boast a form and mien That lavish wealth has bnu4ht her; But ah, she has much fairer charms— The farmer's peerless daughter ! The rose and lilly on her cheek Together love to dwell ; Her laughing blue eyes wreath around The heart a witching aril ; Her smile is bright as morning's glow Upon a dewy plain, And listening to her voice we dream That spring has come again. The timid fawn is not more wild, Nor yet more gay arid free ; The lilly's cup is not more pure In all its purity ; Of all the wild flowers in the wood, Or by the chrystal water, There's none more pure or fair than she,— The farmer's peerless daughter ! The haughty belle, whom all adore, On downy pillow lies; While forth upon the dewy lawn The merry maiden hies; And with the lark's uprising song, Her own clear voice is heard; We may not tell which sweetest sings, The maiden or the bird. Then tell me not of jewelled fair— The brightest jewel yet, Is the pure heart where virtue dwells And innocence is set: The glow of health upon her cheek, The grace no rule hath taught her ; The fairest wreath that beauty twines Is for the farmer's daughter. THE OPEN HAND. DY 3. A. WILITTAUER, wondo'ful the common street, Its tumult and its throng, The hurrying or the thousand feet That bear life's cares along." "For the love of Heaven, good friend, a penny," said a feeble beggar one night to a wealthy merchant in Chesnut street. Eita the proud man, wrapping his rich mantle around him, turned scornfully away ; and the beggar passed on. You would scarcely have noticed the scene, yet there was in it a whole hi, tory of life; the calm, unfeeling cold ness of an inhuman apathy, and the agony of a breakinc , b heart. Vie one w'nt to his lordly home, where music and gladness, and the bright faces of his happy children were around the hearth stone; the other tottered along with trembling steps to the wretched hovel, where his pale-faced wife awaited his return. The light flashed forth from the rich man's mansion ; but the beg gar's home was desolate. _ . Follow now and tell me which of the two was above the other; the one in his wealth or the other in his rags! Through the whole of that weary night, did the beggar and his wife sit musing over the past, and looking for some light in the future. Above, itruAnd them, on all sides they beheld nothing but the gloom which no ray might pene trate ; nothing but the impenetrable ob scurity which is ever resting upon the wretched and the outcast. Fur God knows, God knows, if we do nor, tact at all times, even at this moment, in marry a desolate home, by many a cheer less hearth, there are strong men bowed beneath the weight of an overwhelming despair; trembling women, pitting away in great despondency and bright-eyed little children growing pale and ghastly from want of bread. God knows, God knows, that even upon our neighbors and our friend,, possibly upon the next door, there resting the cold, relentless hand of paver- ' ty, that poverty of which we can form no true conception, until we shall find ourselves like them over the last dead • ember, and famishing like them for loud. God knows that in the crowded city, thousands die and are buried without an epitaph, whose path through life was one of sorrow, who struggled on bravely perhaps and cheerfully, and never came up from the darkness about them, but died of a weary heart. Gould we enter into the homes so near us; go like the angels into every haunt of wo and grief, and touch the lips of the wretched one there, what tales of agony should we hear. One would tell ue of sweet dreams of his sinless boy hood ; tell us how he started in life, all gladly sad gaily and with no fear of the unknown future; how, for a time, the breeze was fair, and the sky blue, and the ocean calm, and with his flag thrown out upon the gale, he spEd along bravely nil rapidly, until his voya : e was nearly over, when. just as he caught sight of the desired port; saw its temples and si:iret glittering in the sunlight ; heard the music of the harp, and the voices of dm singers wafted from its streets; just as the last billow was bearing him upon it, maim to his destined anchorage; j,it then, just then, alas ! alas! the storm came down and the billow dashed him back, and the rudder give way, and his gallant vessel was carried out again, ill crushed and broken, a thousand il~ leagues into the sea. He would tell us, perhaps, how that storm passed by, and the son shone out as brightly as before, and the sea became calm again, and that once more with One sky above him, he sped along toward the haven. But again the storm came down, and again, and again, until at Itngth his brave and gal lant barque was thrown high upon the rocky reef, and left, a solitary hulk, to moulder in the sun. Another would tell his tale of love. flow the sweet being whom he worship ped, the idol to which his yearning heart gave homage, loved hint and bless ed him for many a long and pleasant year; but that before long her cheek grew pale, and her eye dim; and that now his only solace in life is to go at the twilight hour, and bending over the grave where site lies sleeping in death, hold communion with her spirit, and pray to meet again in the silent land. Still another, an old and feeble man, leaning upon his staff, would tell perhaps the saddest tale of all—that of a boy hood unblessed, of a manhood wasted, of nn old age comfortless and wretched.— ; He would tell that from his youth up, as the days and weeks and months passed slowly on, the gloom had deepened, anti the guiding star gone out, and that now he was only waiting God's good time that he might part and be nt rest. Such suffering ones are all around us. Such tales of tvo have conic so often to our ears that—God forgive us—we pass them by unheeded and leave the start , . ing to their untold agony, even as the rich man did. Through the whole of that long and dreary night, as we have said, the beg• gar and his wife sat musing though.t , fully, sometimes cheering each other with words of hope, then again giving away to tears; at, one time lured Into forgetfulness of the sorrow, at another, utterly desolate, as the full sense of their situation burst upon them. A vision of the past came over them, and in its light they looked again upon the pleasant memories of old, and heard again the love-legends of their native valley. Once more the woodbine wreathed the cottage window, and through its leaves the che quered light stole gently in upon their home of joy. Once more the rose was shedding around its rich fragrance, and the meek lily bowed in the summer breeze; and as the lily bowed without, and the light stole calmly in, thry heard the prattle of their child and were blessed. But suddenly, amid their dreams, there came a ghastly phantom form— the speetre of their present and most woful poverty. How it followed and haunted and cursed them, peering into their very faces, driving the warm blood back again to their hearts, reminded them that the cottage was deserted, and the window broken in, and the woodbine blasted, and the rose withered, and the lily trodden down, and their sweet babe lying cold and lonely in its little grave. Thus passed the solitary vigil—and ns the grey light came stealing through the easement, the beggar started 1 4 p, imprinted n kiss upon the pale brow of his wife, and went forth into the silent street with the spirit of a stern resolve upon him. . . . . Come now with me to the home of the man who had so scornfully refused him I a pittance in the hour of his extreme necessity. Come, sit by the fireside and see the red light flash back from the polished furniture ; look upon all the gorgeous appliances of wealth and ease ; li , ten to the sweet music; breathe the perfume finite. from the unseen censors, • behold all that unbounded wealth can purchase—then judge whether with all his wealth, God's b lessing . rested upon that proud and heartless man. The next morning his magnificent conch bore him away to his counting room. As he passed down the busy streat, he caught sight for a moment of man clothed in raps, yet knew not it was the very one he had spurned front him the night before. Again, as he stood at his desk. that form went by the win dow; and again, and again, until at length it became a familiar sight to see that same forsaken, sorrowful roan go past t,, his humble daily toil. Before long the merchant could perceive that his rags had given puttee to better clothing, and his lank of sorrow changed to one of joy and thankfulness—yet all the while he knew not the friendless beggar. Meantime a change had taken place in his own fortunes. Silently, but snre ly, day after day his wealth was leaving him. His ships were lost at sen—the banks had failed—his speeulations were unfortunate and ruin looked him in the face. The curse hail come! Years had passed away, when one winter night, but a few weeks since, a beggar stood egain at the door of that proud dwelling, and was admitted, and clothed, and fed, and rendered comfort able. By Foote strange magic a most HUNTINGDON, PA., TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1849. wonderful chattge had been wrought.— The door which fur so long a time had been closed to every form of human want ; which had a thousand times de nied admittance to the wretched and the outcast, was now thrown open to wel come and assist them. They were greeted warmly and,cheerfully, and the hest robes were put upon them, and every dispondiug man and sad woman, and forsaken little child, as they crossed the threshhoid, prayed for a benison upon that house and its ore ipant. '['he miserable man who now stood there asking alms had stood there be fore, but not AS u suppliant ; had looked around upon the lofty walls a thousand times, but not with his present tearful gaze. He was once the owner of that stately mansion, within which he now so !imbly bent for bread ; and the ;non to whom his urgent appeal was nude, was the very man from whom, in the days of his prosperity, he had turned so carelessly away. Their circum stances had changed. God's blessing had gone forth with h;nd whom men would not assist : God's curse attended him who left his fellow man to die. And thus it is forever. Say what we will, deny it as we please, the blessing of God does rest upon the' chadtable; the curse of God doe:" fallow the unfeel , intr. The bond of brotherhood may not be broken'. So Heaven helli xis, not , : and ever, to bear the burdens of the poor—and do it joyfully. Fur so shall thousands look op from their Wretchedness, and thank Clod for the angels he has sent—the cheerful heart—Tua Ore Ham). DAVID DA SII WOOD'S ADVEN. TUBE , EY MRS. JULIET ii. CAMPBELL. Mrs. Smith we, a superb woman!— So declared the doting Job Smith, and so said at score of lovers, as they anath ematized Job's success. How she hap pened to throw herself awa'y upon sech n plodding, dull looking fellow, was very surprising, but these beauties take un accountable freaks. As we have nlways been in Airs. Smith's confidence, and happen to pos sess the key to her unaccountable choice, we will, as an act of friendship, divulge along with some other little matters, for the satisfaction of her traducers. Mrs. Smith did not fall m love with such a common place sort of fellow as Job Smith, that's certain. No young lady ever did such a thing! His neck cloth was too fur behind the times ; he wore neither moustache or imperial, and was shockingly inattentive in the matter of fans and packet handkerchiefs, there fore tt could not be expected. But such a magnificent creature as Miss Amelia Wilton was not without a lover of the most approved pattern.— There was a certain David Dashwood, who found favor in the lady's eyeq, and amused himself for a whole season, swearing almost bible oaths, about de voted attachment, eternal con.laney and a gmat many more such staple commo dities, in which young men are prover bial dealers. But when the firm of Baywater Sz Co. failed , the dis interested David dit-appeared, the evil spirit who connselled him only knows where, giving Miss Wilton an opportu nity of discovering that her "gallant, gay Lothario" was not to be relied upon. The lady, after a fortnight's weeping, steeled herself into indignation, and de rived much more comfort from the har dened than the "theltine, mood " In her own mind denouncing him as a worth less poppy, she resolved to steer clear of all such sweet youths, in future, and consoled herself with humble, unpre tending Job Smith, who was the very antipodes of Davy Dashwood. It . will be seen ilia% Miss Smith was a woman of sense, and she never repented of her choice ; not even when her cido vent !over returned, after an absence of four or five years, disposed to be as ar dently attentive as ever. The lady felt that she knew her man, and maniged hint with much discretion and sense. "The days are growing intolerably 'mtp;!" she politely remarked, after hav ing endured him fur above an hour. "All days are alike to the miserable," insinuated David. I am sorry to hear you nre so mis• ernble; pray tell me your complaint, and I probably can suggest a remedy." "Can you not dismal" . . .1 sho - uld judee from your complexion that you were bill-ious, harmonized Mrs. Smith." 'the baffled Dovid bit his lip, but re• newed the charze. " Yon have changed, Amelia, or you world know the cause of my suffering.s. You behold s victim of unrequitted love." Pardon my obtuseness," said the lady, sump/Inning all her tact and cour age for the purpose of defining her po- sition. "Marriage does nut change one, ;1 posvess nu relish whatever for love af•• David looked uncertain whether to renew the charge, and Airs. Smith inti mated that household aliitirs required her attention elsewhere. "till !" ,ighed the stupid inemornm, " you were made fur better things!— uch beauty should be sees, admired, ad -red P' "I trust I urn adored by my h • , sliand and -children," Ainel:a replied, hoping those talismanic words would protect her from further insults. "And a wife desires no matter lot than to he allowed to minister to the comfort of those she loves." " Can it be possible," exclaimed Dash wood, incredulously, "that such u being can content het self with such a life ! Have you no regrets fur all you have relinquished 1" I . have relinquished nothing, sir," said Airs. Smith, with dignity. If you mean tire society of girlhood, it is as distasteful and unmeaning as the socie ty of my childhood. If you allude to I lovers, they are silly, uninteresting and intoierable ; and I rejoice that the name I bear has power to protect me from their impertinence. Arid now sir, good morning," and the indignant swept Iron) the apartment. Like the Irishmen), who was uncere moniously ejected Irtnn the stairs, Dash wood understood that he was expected to depart ; but lie could not conceive it possiule that Amelia was really indiffer ent to his attractions. Ite remembered the days when she leaned on his arm in all the conadence of early love; and he would not believe that all her youthful tenderness had laded from her heart.— Her conduct was the result of pique, ne reasoned, of duty—anything but hid if leaence—tind then to pretend to be did of such an old here as !" One day when the hi it s were at disnier, a note was brought to the which she ,•cacti lauded to her Ito.- ; band. "1 do not deserve to be tormented thus," said she, a•hiie tears of indigua tion suflused her beautiful eves. Smith regarded her with surprise, and read as foli,,ws: 1 will call this evening at twilight— if you are faithful to your early love, receive toe by that soft, uncertain lizht. DAsit WOOD." "Nonsense, Amelia, the fellow's a fool," stud Smith. " 111 gi•re necessary orders to the servants, and take care that you shall nu longer be annoyed by his impertinence." Many a fiery husband would have horsewhipped the etlender, and thus given a ruinous publicity to the affair. Not so with Mr. !•ipitli. The lover ruin: at the appointed time and was ::bon's into the parlor, ~ .here the twilight was deepened and darkened by the window drapery. Airs. Smith was abroad, but her husband demurely summoned her handmaid. • Dinah your mistress is suffering from headache and sore throat carry her velvet ribbon and broach, and fasten them about her neck. Stay—do not carry a light, and tread softly. You will find her en the sofa in the parlor." The colored girl went in search of the ribbon, and her toaster stole noiselessly into the back parlor, to note the result of the directions. Presently Dinah en tered, and paused a moment at the door, then perceiving a figure in reclining at: titude oa one of the sofns, she lightly advanced and stooped over her supposed mistress, for the purpose or adjusting the ribbon. Mr. Dashwood recognized the shadowy outline of u female figure, he fe't the soft touch of an arm about his neck, and the measure of his joy was full. lie ardently returned the supposed embrace, whet' Mr. Smith quickly drew a match along the wall, and applied it to the gas-burner, beside which he had statioued himself. 'l•he apartment was illuminated with a flood of light, and revealed the affrighted negress strug gling in the arms of her per thmeious lover. Mr. Dashwond released his pris oner as Mr. Smith advanced. 1 beg you will not allow me to dis. turb you,' , salt Smith blandly, Dashwoud stood fur a moment con founded, and then rushed into the street, where lie was received with uprorious merriment by half a dozen of the P club, who had surrounded the window for the purpose of witnessing his inter view with Mrs. Smith. The discomfitted heti) departed in the niOit boat. ~ n d was never heard of af terward; while Mr. Job Smith preserved to this day, as mementoes of his prev pitate flight, the hat, gloves and cane, as well as "The oint. he left behind him." TnE Pcow.—lts one shnre in the bank of earth is worth ten in the bank of paper 0n:r144: Sporting with Female Affection. Alrin cannot act a more perfidious port, Than use his utmost efforts to obtain, A confidence in order to deceive. Honor and integrity ought to be the leading principle of every transaction in life. These are virtues highly requi site, notwithstanding they are too fre quently disregarded. Whatever pur suits individuals are in quest of, sinceri ty in proiession,steadfasthess in pursuit, ;aid punctuality in discharging engage ments, are indispensibly inetimbetit. A man of honest integrity, an l upright in his dealings with his fellow creatures, is sure to gain the confidence and ap plause of all good men ; while he who ets from dishonest and designing prin ciples, obtains deserved contempt. Dis , honest proceedings, in word or deed, are very offensive to, and unjustifiable in the sight of God and man, even in trivi in but much more so in consequential The MOM perfect uprightness is requisite between man and man, tho' it is ton often disregarded, and is much more between the sexes. Every pro fession of regard should be without dis suielding, every promise inviolate, and every engagement faithfully discharged. No one ought to make any ofliirs or pre. tensions to a lady before he is in a great measure certain that her person, her temper and qmililications suit his cir cumstances, and agree perfectly with his own temper and way of thinliing.— Far a similarity of mind and manners is very necessary to render the bands of luv, permanent, and these of marriage happy. 6, Afarriatte the happiest state of life would be, it bunds were only joined where hearts agee.' The man of uprightness and integrity of heart will not only observe the beau ties of the mind, the goodness of the heart, the dignity of sentiment, and the delicacy of wit, butt will strive to fix his alfCetions on such permanent endow. meats, before he pledges faith to any Indy. Fie looks upon marriage as a business of the greatest importance in life, and a change of condition that cannot be un dertaken wills too much reverence and deliberation. Therefore he will not undertake it at random, lest be should precipitately involve himself in the greatest difficul ties. He wi,lies to act a conscientious part, and consequestly cannot think (not with ytaud ing it is too much countenanc ed by ciisto,n) of sporting with the af fections of the fair sex, nor even of pay ing his addresses to an y on e till he i 3 perfectly convinced his own are fixed on just principles. All imaginable caution is certainly necessary before hand ; but after a man's profession of regard, and kind services and solicitations have made an impres sion on a female heart, it is no longer a matter whether he perseveres i.t , or breaks ofFltie engagement. For he is then particularly dear to her, and reason, honor, justice, all unite to oblige him to make good his engngetnent. When the twitter is brought to such a crisis, there is no retreating without manifestly dis turbing her quiet and tranquility of mind; nor ran anything but her loss of virtue ji.stily her desertion. Whether mar rive has been expressly promised or not, it is of little signification. For if he has solicited and obtained her affec tions, on supposition that he intended to tnarry her, the contract is, in the sight of heaven, sufficiently binding. In snort, the man who basely imposes on the hon est heart of an unsuspecting girl, and, after winning her liffections by the pre vailing rhetoric of courtship, ungener ously leaves her to a bitter sorrow nail complaining, acts a very dishonorable port, and is more to be detested than a common robber. For private treachery is much more heinous than open force ; and money must not be put in competi tion with happiness. PitorEssioN:AL.—'My dear boy,' said a kindhearted school mistress to an unusu ally promising scholar, whose quarter was about up—My dear boy, does your lather design that you should tread the intricate and thorny path of the profes sions—the straight and narrow way of the ministry, or revel amid the flowery field of literature 1' mann,' replied the juvenile prodigy,tdad says he's go ing to set me to work in the tatur patch.' Mont REMOVALS NEEDED.—A Wash ington correpondent of the New York Tribune states that of the 50,000 office holders in the Union there are yet prob ably 15 Loco Teens to every ‘Vhig,a nm jority of whom have nut only grown rich and corrupt upon the spoils but have become bald in the service. If the Administration should spend twelve months in nticing. removals it is not probable that the patronage of the Gov ernment would at the end of that time be more than equalized. VOL. XT V, NO, 28 FATITER MATHEW AND AMMUCA.- The eminent Irish divine has written a letter . to. the Mayor of New York, returning thanks to the a thorities and people of that city for their generous reception of him. The following extract is worthy of attention "I have seen your majestic rivers dot ted with richly freighted vessels, hear• ing the tevning produce ot year luxuri ant soil to fur ditant nations ; and oh, sir, I could not look on these winged messengers of peace and plenty, without associating with them the magnanimous bounty of a brave people to an afflicted nation. .•1 have visited your busy warehouses ; your thronged streets and bustling tho roughfares, ind have been forcible struck with those external evidences of mercan tile greatness and prosperity which sha dow forth the high commercial destiny that yet await your already glorious re , public. I have seen in the cumfort and abundance enjoyed by all, in the total absence of squalid poverty, and in the liberal remuneration which awaits est toil, proofs of prosperity, which con , tract strikingly with scenes that have often harrowed my soul in that poor old country, which, trodden doit•n and op , pressed es she is, is still the land of my birth and of my affections. I have via , itA your god-like institutions, upheld with a munificence worthy of your migh , ty republic, in which you imitate at an humble distance the mercy of the Re deemer, making .`the blind to see, the dumb to speak." I have minutely in spected their internal arrangment, and witnessed, with intense satisfaction, the philanthropic system, and the absence of all religious exclusion on which those asylums, sacred to humanty, are bused land conducted. I fervently pray, that he "who holds in his hands the destinies of nations" may make yours wort! y of the favors Ila has bestowed; and with pure hearts, pure hands, and sleepless vigilance, that you may guard end de -1 fu•nd to the end of time, the great charge he has committed to your keeping." A Wm; inn country bar-room, where each man was relating the wonderful tricks they had seen performed by Sig• nor ltiitz, and the rest of the conjuring family, expressed his contempt for the whole tribe, declaring that he could per form any of their tricks, especially that of beating a watch in pieces and canto , ring it whole. It being doubted, he demands a trial. Several watches were at once procured for the eNperitneut. "There," said, he, 'there are the pie ces.' "Yes," all exclaimed, " now let's see the watch." Re used Vet-ions mysterious words, shook up the fraaments, and nt length put down the mortar and pestle, obser• vinfy.: I thoup-Itt I could do it, but by George, I can't." FATTENTNa HOGS.—Farmers otight to know that pigs of any of the late int , proved breeds, if well fed all the time, con be made heavy enough by December and January, (say from 190 to L3O lbs average net weight) to bring the best price the packers give for any ; and that, too, at less cost to the farmer than in any other way that includes an extra wintering.. The most dr , i-•',; • to the gen erality of 1..nr!0•. iu c the English market has h• . ; frened to us, are those weighing from I to '250, fat and small boned.—Ohio Cultivato . To-morrow those that are now gay may be sad ; those now walking, the av- Imes of pleasure may be the subjects of sorrow; those on the mountain summit may be in the valley ; the rosy cheek may have the lilly's hue ; the strong may falter ; death may have come. WIsCONSIN ORATOR, who was lately delighting his audience with il lustrations of our country's progress, used the following amphatm remarks: "Fellow-citizens—the to l of civiliza tion is now exactly where the front ears iv is no more') sixty years ago." The rein irk was received with boisterous cheers. BACKSUDING.—The Pittsburg Mer cury, recording the marriage of a Miss IIoLMEs, President of the Martha IVash ington Total Abstinence Society, to Mr. ANDREW Hoax, appends the following : Fair Julia lived a Temperance maid, Aud preached its beauties night anti morn; But still her wicked neighbors said She broke her pledge and tom(• a Horn. [?By stx qualities may a fool be known anger without cause, speech without pro fi t, change without motive, inquiry without nn odject, putting true in a stranger, 1 1' foe.—arab Prorerd.