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Short transient advertisements will he ad- Milted into our editorial columns at treble the ttsunl rates. On longer ntivertisements, whether yearly or transient, a reasonable deduction will be made for prompt payment. - 4 , ljjz, v iL . 2L, BEAUTIFUL LEGEND, N. P. Willis writcs front Idlewild—When Copra ay. our Ojibbeway friend, was here, a day or two ago, he told the children nn Indian le gend of the water•lily—how it came to earth— heavenly flower that it is. One of our thir neighbors who chanced to be a listener thus rendered the beautiful story into verse : A star looked down from its glowing throne In the azure-vaulted sky, And said—'l am weary here, all alone, Doing naught but throb and sigh. Far down in the rallies of earth I see The red men's children at play; The innocent sound of their careless glee ltises faint on the air all day. I will speak to the braves at their council lire, And ask them to let me dwell Where earthly lore may warm my heart With its human, holy spell.' So they told the star she might come at night, When the wood and the wigwam were still, And sit on the mountain, and throw her light Through the vale and along the hill. She came all trembling, bat when tie morn Woke the birds and the children again, The star sat grieving and All forlorn, For she knew that her hope was vain. 'Not near enough yet I T can hear and see 'the rc d men's children at play, But they waste neither wish nor thought on me From morn till the close of day!' 'Then they bade her alight on the treetop That Tailed them to sleep with its song; And she rocked, and wailed, and shivered with cold, Impatient, the whole night long. At length the children awoke once more, And , they heard the pine tree sigh, Butt took no heed or the watching star Between them and the sky. She saw them skimming, in light canoe, O'er the lovely lake below; glut tine longing, that hourly tenderer grew, Flow could she make them know? oliopondered another night away, And at length, when morning brake, She 4impped ,trans her Imight, with a hopeless plunge, And sank in dee Aker lake. The star was shivered! Dot every ray Was caught by a faithful wave! Each seintillaut beam grew a snowy flower, e Mere she thought to find a grave ! Ana when the red maiden, in birch canoe, Seeks lilies for bosom and brow, The star is content, for she softly says— hare conquered 1 They love me nom " M. E. M. The Old Woman- at the Corner. What! an old woman for a mystery ? Yes ! my occasional glimpses at her had made her so. In fact, she had become a matter of great interest to me. There is nothing uncommon either about old women, or apple-stalls gener ally; but upon a particular ttro of these things had my imagination become fixed, and my brain truly puzzled. She sat at the corner of a new line of buildings which were in all the freshness of their first quarter and first tenants, standing rather aloof from the ohler part of the town, as if in pride of their new coats of paint, and threading with their heels upon the grass of the desecrated fields. Under the shelter of a new ly-raised gable of a wall appertaining to one of these, she raised her ricketty temple to Porno- DO. It was a cold bleak corner; but she had ensconced herself in a patched contrivance, looking like a hull-porter's chair which had seen better days, still good enough to keep off the windy gusts that reveled around her; her *eet were protected by being propped out of the damp into a half-sieve basket. Her stall wits a wonder of ingenuity. It con sisted of a much worn tea-tray, balanced upon 'very dubious-looking legs, tied in the most puzzling manner by wonderful diagrams of string. The stock, which seemed to stick by her most 'provokingly, consisted of a very few ill-used tipples, bruised to a most uninviting look, flanked by some neglected looking figs, evidently robbed long ago of "all their sweet !less" by some brigand flies. A few sauces of liquid something, bad enough to the eye,—what they would have been to the mouth no one ever seemed to have the comage to try,—t vese were held 'sentry' over by a dispensary threeLOunce bottle, containing some dirty-white lollipops and a solitary bull's eye. This being her small "stock," her customers were, of course, scarce, and you never discovered Tilly satchel backed school-boy loitering over hor delicacies, There .always did site eft, apparently without hope oh ‘otgoot, her dark, .wrinkled face, covered with it cobweb of a thousand lines, was as immovable us partite; her cold, grey eyes stared without Vit . '. • Untingbn ;Itantal, " I SEE NO STAR ABOVE THE ROBISON PROMISING LIMIT TO GUIDE US, BUT THE INTELLIGENT, PATRIOTIC, UNITED WHIG PARTY OF TILE UNITED STATES."• speculation from beneath the deep borders of het clean mob-cap, which was surmounted by a crushed little black-silk bonnet, worn out of all its original semblance. So perfectly vacant was her look, that for some time I imagined she was blind, and the paltry stock merely a ruse to extort charity; but, who brought her there?—who took her and her stall away? No husband or child was ever seen with her. Not withstanding which, however early in the morn ing I might look from my window, there sat that everlasting old woman, as if she were a fungus sprung from the early mists of the morning, and her curious piece of architecture the work of some familiar. There was a mys tery in that old woman ! Often have I, when pondering on her at my windows, from whence I could see her on the foggy winter morning, looking through its me dium like a faint ombre chinois. Often have I allowed the lather to dry on my chin, and my shaving water to get cold, during my imagin ings, for my mind is of that intently inquiring nature,—like that which led the young gentle man to cut open the bellows to find out where the wind came from that when any mind, or phrenological bump gets into action, and works into one focus, nothing can satisfy its longings but a "full, true, and particular account," or discovery of the object of speculation. "Time discovereth all things;" and in time, by slow and sure degrees, did I unwind the complicated reel, and clear it to the end, to the full discov ery that my old apple woman was indeed a great mystery I Wending my way towards my house in the twilight, after a ramble of discovery amidst the brooks and the hedges, in which I take a great delight, as it informs my mind as to what the little pyriads are doing in their depths, or oth ers business' with the bright flowers on their margins, all which are safety-valves to my bump of inquiry, I approached almost unconsciously through the fields to the back of my old woman and her stall, and my thoughts soon took their provoking usual train; and as any eye became fixed on the object, getting indistinct in the fast-falling evening, I thought I perceived a figure stooping over the stall, in evident con versation with my mysterious old woman. I softly approached over the grass that margined the road until Mutest close upon them, when my foot striking the gravel, startled the strait. ger, who immediately turned away, and walked on. I soon overtook him,—for there was some thing odd in his manner which prompted me to follow him, and I was astonished to find an elegantly-dressed man, with mustachios and imperial, not of the neighborhood. His awk- ward assumption of ease betrayed some embar rassment and mystery. I turned upon my heel, and repassed the fruit-stall. I looked piercing ly at the old woman. She did not return it.— There she sat, stolid and immovable. She looked at nothing! Lturned over in my mind all the possible or probable young ladies in the neighborhood who would be romantic enough to commit such an net of imprudence as to indulge in a clandes tine correspondence with such a dubious-look ing gentleman, through such a very questiona ble medium; but all my revolvings were unsat isfactory; yet I was determined to find it out, for I knew the danger to the young and inex perienced which has accrued from the romance wrapt round these pituresque mysteries of Po lish nobles—too often assumed lippiekpockets. Sonic few mornings after, I anise at an earlier hour than usual to pack my 'carpet-bag fur a railwaptrip, when, throwing up my window to give admittance to the sweet morning air, I beheld, (though so very early,) the old woman and her stall. "Curious," thought I. 'Rather early for customers, and for such wares! She must sleep there," thought I, "and I have nev er discovered it before?" My reverie was soon broken by the appear ance of a servant girl, who, gliding cautiously from the door of a neighboringhouse, ran across the road to the old woman's staa. Her apron, which was rolled - partly round her arm, soon yielded some small articles to the old woman's outstretched bands, who in return handed a let. ter to the giggling girl! Oh oh I—Love's mes senger, by all the powers of ugliness ! A fruit ful post-office, truly! She laureled back; but in a few minutes I saw another nymph of the dusting•hrush tripping over to the mysterious matron, and yielding her oflering there. No letter appeared, but much violent gesticulation from the maid, ns if from some disappointment; after a long parley she returned sulkily to her work, and bestowed many savage blows upon the door-mom, much to their benefit in the ex- puision of the dust. She was quickly succeed. ed by ether early-rising maids, who hung their little bits of carpet and door-mats ou the rails, whilst they indulged in a short chat with the apparently general agent, popping across and across front street doors and areas, like so many, rabbits from their burrows. "There is danger in that cold-eyed old woman," thought I, "or lam very much mistaken!" A casual glance from one of the laughing girls betrayed my gaze, and they all vanished like the afore said rabbits do at the approach of a poacher's lurcher. The morning after my return from my trip, when I had nearly forgotten my old woman and my suspicions, the neighborhood was alarmed by the account of the house at the corner of the field having been robbed of plate and money to a large amount. Upon inquiry, 1 found that the servant girl had been discov ered by the inmates bound and gagged in the kitchen. The niacin was given; the officers ar rived, and after a minute's search found that no forcible entry had been made from without by the burglars, which led to a suspicion that the girl was an accomplice; but the terrified creature fell on her knees, almost paralysed with horror at the situation into which her im prudence had placed her, and confessed that the truth was, that a lover was in the case who had written to her, through the old apple-wo• Man at the cornier, many lends of love annul admiration; and being flattered by which, she had ofteit met hint when not on errands or HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1854. messages. The evening before he had told her that he was about to leave town for some time, and begged her to admit him after the family had retired, that he might have a better oppor tunity of laying his plans before her for their future marriage, which must be clandestine on account of his family. Site consulted the old woman, who strongly urged her compliance, as it would be folly in her to throw away, through a little squammishness, so good an op portunity of settling herself, and she was sure he meant honorably, for "she never saw a young gentleman go on so about a girl in her life." Urged by these motives, and the further elo quence of the old woman, site consented, and admitted her lover after the family retired; he had hardly entered her kitchen when he threw a shawl over her head; and boned her to the dresser, then admitted an accomplice, who as sisted in gagging her effectually. ,Every one's suspicion immediately turned to the old woman. I looked out of the window, and discovered that the bird was flown. The officers, howev er, soon traced, through the information and fears of some of the neighboring servants, her abode. Hero some important lights were thrown upon the old woman's general useful. ness and cunning ways in entrapping the fool ish girls to her purpose. Parasols, boas, and flaunty dresses for them to wear on "their days oat;" which they dared not pat on under the eyes of their mistresses, were stowed away in abundance in the o-retehed•garret which scent ed to have been made the 'tiring room of nil the area beauties of the neighborhood; but no trace of the old woman! The hearth was cold and di; people of the house kndtv nothing of her, except that she had a gr4itt many visitors of all sorts, and that they supposed she was a fortuneteller; but it was no business of theirs; she paid her rent, which, in such a neighbor. hood, was the highest guarantee of respectabil ity. A few weeks passed, when an Irish row of the usual kind, made up of serious blows and funny speeches, a bent poker ortwo, and heads I tied up in pocket-handkerchiefs, brought some parties before the magistrates with their alarm ingly long tales of witnesses to prove that both complainant and defendant were "kilt entirely." The defendant in the case attracted the atten tion of one of the officers, from bearing so strong a resemblance to the description of the old ap ple-woman. He despatched a messenger for the girl, who upon her arrival soon recognized her. The officer quietly awaited the conclu sion of the case then on, which was decided by the magistrate in the only way such cases can be decided, by warning both parties to keep the pence, and a delicate hint nt the treadmill to 1 1 be administered all round if he saw any of their faces again in a like cause. As the old woman turned to leave the bar, the officer arrested her progress, and stating to the magistrate the ensue of her detention, pro (limed the witness. Upon her appearance, the old woman hitched her shawl tightly round.her i shoulders; and pulled her scrap of a bonnet down over her forehead; the witness swore posi tively to her, and stating her case, which was confirmed, as far as the identity of the party went, by the arrival of the master, and a host of friends, to whom she had been known for months. Though the ease appeared strongly against her she kept en unmoved countenance, • bobbing curtseys to the magistrates with the most innocent look in the world, and when called upon to say what site had to answer to the charge, she burst out into a torrent of lau• guage, saying that "the whole fiction of 'mu would swear an mild woman's life away with as much aise as they'd pull a daisy; a stall she never had from her born day to the present writing. Look at my rags," said she: do I look like a collogurer with burglars, and the like? or do they look as if they had had the gentleman's spoons in the pockets of 'inn? Oh! it is not so miserable and,,poor I'd be if I wasn't as virtuous as the babe unborn ! But know what's putting the swearing on thela• dies and gentleman,—lt's the twin of me. Ohl when I walked into this world of trouble, I came arm-in-arm with another young lady who's gone astray, and bin the death of me all my life, for wore alike as my two eyes, and its transported or hung be for not having a face I can call my own." "06, Biddy!" exclaimed a little round headed Irishman, with half his head in a hand kerchief, and the other covered, like Munchau sen, with plasters,—"Och, Biddy!" said he, "its the kay ill turn upon you this precious mornin' and it's my broken nose that'll be re venged of your faction. Please your worship, continued he, pushing himself to the fore ground, "It's myself knows the young gentle man, that put the comet/ter on the young lady, wid his whiskers under the nose of him. Just send to the Red Lion, not a hat's throw round the corner, and you'll find my jentleman be hind a newspaper taking his drops. Och ! be quick, or he'll get the Vice. Yow it's out of me I" Two or three of the officers left instantly, and a dead pause ensued, during which the old wo man threw up her eyes, and seizing with both hands the bar-rail, kept up a continual rocking motion while her breathing could be distinctly heard through the court. A few minutes only elapsed when a slight bustle announced the return of the officers who bad the accused in custody. The moment my eyes fell upon him I recognized, as I bad all along suspected, the person 1 had seen conver sing with her in the twilight. He was a fine handsome young man, elegantly dressed, and of very prepossessing exterior. The girl turned pale as she instantly recognised and swore to him. The old woman hardly noticed him; but her anxiety was apparent, for in endeavoring to shield him, she lost herself, for, turning with a fierce look upon the witness, she said, "My pretty miss, its anything you'd swear to; the man who courted you was shorter by a head, and as swarthy as a blackamoor." She here suddenly stopped ! She saw she bud committed herself. Her observation was put down, and she relapsed into silence. I here felt bound to come forward, and state all I knew of the case and both prisoners, which was final. A few weeks brought the sessions and the trial. The prisoners were placed at the bar together. The old woman was much altered; a sickly hue overspread her countenance, which was shadowed by a scrupulously clean cap, and her eyes appeared more . colorless than ever, which gave her a curious vacan t look, which is seen only in the blind. Her young compan ion stepped up boldly to her side, and bowed elegantly to the court. He was shorn of his mustaches, which altered his appearance very much, but not sufficiently so to leave a doubt' as to his identity. As lie took his place beside her, a' nervous feeling ap peered to shake lice frame, and her hand trembled over the herbs ' that laid strewed on the dock before them. The facts of the case were so plain and simple that there appeared not the slightest doubt from the first of the verdict; and notwithstand ing the ingenuity of their counsel, the verdict "Guilty" against both prisoners was given.— As the judge delivered his sentence her gaze was painfully acute, and her hand became claSped in that of her accomplice. As the sen tence was uttered'of "transportation for life" on both, she uttered it wail that vibrated through every person present, and seizing her fellow prisoner round the neck, covered him with kisses, amidst e. storm of the most endear ing epithets. She clutched him with the fierce ness of a tigress in her embrace, which no force could separate and they were dragged from the court together. You could hear her. cries as she was borne through the subterane sus passage of the jail. Her piercing shrieks echoed mournfully along the walls that would soon part her and her only child for ever, for such ho was stated to be by the governor of the jail. I never pass the corner where the old woman used to be stationed without expecting to ace her and her stall at their wonted place, and it will be a long while ere I forget the old woman and her child. Why Napoleon Invaded Russia. A work has een quite recently published in France, by 31. Villeman, an ex-professor and ex-minister of State, which throws a strong. , light on the ulterior objects of the elder Napo leon in his invasion of Russia in the year 1812. I As a war between England and Russia is flint by many to greatly endanger the possessions of England in the East, the views of Napoleon, who aimed nt this object, present more than usual interest, and will not be deemed out of • place at this time to notice, as every idea con nected with the present issue or relating to Eu ropean affairs, as existing on the continent, will be read by the general reader. Among the Statesmen in his confidence to whom he unbosomed himself, on that occasion, was N. Talleyrand, the Duke de Bassano, and the Count do Narbonne, all of whom counselled against the invasion of Russia. M. Villeman narrates the conversations held by the latter with Bonaparte, who contended that after all, lie long Russian road is the route to India. Count de Narbonne frankly reasoned against the invasion of Russia. He urged that it would be wiser and safer to command with the French armies the entire course of the Vistula and Ni eman than to organize a Polish nation behind that rampart—a Poland able to furnish two hundred thousand soldiers, Russia would not he conquered at Moscow, though Austria and Prussia had been at Vienna and Berlin. A ,onflict with civilized nations at your door was lifferent from sem i•harbarism at a vast distance. The Russians may have been overcome in Iti aly, Prussia aud Germany; but who knew that they could be in the depths or their own coun try, armed with their climate, the rugged na ture, and fbnntical desperation. Napoleon listened at'entively and calmly; he . . replied, in substance: "You think me wild,bnt my rashness is calculation; I must strike far off in order to control matters at home. Where should I find a king for Poland? No member of my family is fit; it would be dangerous to take one out of that circle. Barbarous nations are nnperotitious; a terrible blow once struck at at Moscow the great, the holy—the heart of the empire—will deliver into my hands, that blind, unelastic mass. I know Alexander; I have possessed an ascendency over bins that ran be regained; a grand stroke of daring and power will subdue his imagination; he will then yield. That Russian barbarism of which you are afraid, is an inferiority before our tactics and organization. As fur the vast dimensions of Russia, tiiey will afford so many stages the more, to be marked by victories. With such forces as I propose to assemble, and such arrangements as I have in view, I shall not dread her deserts. After all the long Russian road is the route to India. Alexander reached the Ganges from point as distant us Moscow. If I had not kik baffled at St. Jean Acre I should have achieved the conquest of Europe. I have explored my line of march, I can get to the British posses. sions of Erivan and Tifflis. You have heard of the missions of Gardanne and Jaubert in Persia. Suppose Moscow captured—Russia beaten down—Alexander won over, or a victim to some court conspiracy, and Turkey enlisted on my side, as she naturally and necessarily would be—and then tell me whether for a grand army of French ad auxiliaries, access to the Ganges would not be possible. The scaffold ing of mercantile greatness when touched by a French sword would fall to the ground over all India. The expedition is gigantic, I admit; but it is feasible in the nineteenth century; thus at one dash France would have conquered the independence of the West and the liberty of the seas." _ SEA.If there is anything an American likes better than a 'morning paper,' it is haste.— Whatever be wants done, ho wants it done in haste. Should the country ever issue propo sals for taking down the Rocky Mountains, the country would become impatient if it were not done 'inside of ninety days: Aggassiz on the Races of Nan, We give the following from the Boston Tra veller's.report of Aggassies lectures, delivered at Lowell, Mass: We next come to the geographical I sionally 'saw n ship,' and but once 'shipped a tion of the races of man; and here we must sea,' of which latter occurrence I will give you leave out of consideration all question as to the a brief sketch. The weather was rei7/ hot on unity of the race. Professor Aggassiz is con- the Gulf, our state rooms rather close and con scion that his views, on seine points, are not fined, and for fear of shipping water through generally received, end he fully respects the i our port windows, they were ordered to be clo motives which make the views of others almost sed during the night, rendering our situation sacred to them. lie liopes that his views will very disagreeable. About sunrise our pas be received in the same spirit ns he reprbsents stingers on the windward side, most ex them, viz: in the effort to arrive at truth. posed to the sea, could not or would not stand We will first study the limits of the range of it any longer, and began opening the window each race on the different continents, and , lights, and commenced washing, dressing, sha must consequently eliminate every element de- ! Ving, &r., refreshed by the cool trade-wind. pending upon migration, ns the present Ameri- ; .In a few moments a terrible outcry was eon races. We are to consider the primitive heard ibom many of the state rooms. First Mrs. location of the races, that is, the distribution of , 1)., a lady from Texas, dashed open her room man as recognized by the earliest traditions.— door, her hair dripping with brine and exclaim- The question is, where the races were originly ing, "Oh, Lord, have mercy, a whale has spout placed, rather thou what are the modern then- ed an ocean of water into my roqm, I tun as ges in their distribution. wet as a drowned rat, and we shall all be lost! The first race to be considered is one peen. Oh, dear, what shall we do?" liar to the Arctic regions, a race differing dutch Next, a young lady from Poston, very deli- , 1 from any inhabiting the temperate zone, and 1 rate and fastidious, who fancied the fanning of.l still more from those of the tropics. This race a mosquito's wing would give her cold, made comprises the Esquimaux of this continent. the a hop from her berth for the door, and actually Laplanders of Europe, and the Samoydes or , exposed to public gaze, two eery bequlTul Lira- Asia. They are all characterized by a broad ekes opoes! exclaiming, "Stewardess, steward- face, short in its vertical diameter, a low fore. ! ess, why am I treated in this shameful insurer. head, and great length of body, compared with ! it is really too bad !" Next made his appcar the. shortness' of the legs. For inure minute ante, Mr. -, a very jolly, good nature-1, descriptions the works of Pickering and Prick- ! smooth faced, middle aged gentleman, who hr awl must be consulted. The distribution of ! been sitting on the side berth directly uno , -, these races correspond very nearly to the zoo. 1 the port hole when the sea popped in upon logical regions of the north. I him, divesting one side of his face of the frothy The races of temperate zones are three: The ! lather, and completely saturating hint from mongolians in Asia, the, whites in Europe. and head to foot; he appeared scantily clad at his the aborigines in America; and it is remark- ! room door, blowing "very like a whale," with able, also, that these races occupy the same Isis raze: in one hand, and Isis boots in territories as the faunas previously described. I the other, wbich he Thrust oust to a gentleman In Asia has been described the terrestrial Jup. in a similar predicament, telling lLjs s to dry anese fauna, the insular Jananese fauna, the ; and black them. A more ludicrous object Chinese fauna, and the famm of the Caspian could scarcely he imagined. regions, intermediate to that of Europe and ' Mrs. F., next made her appearance in wet Asia. Inhabiting precisely the same coon. robegdc-chambre, with her little boy in her tries, are the Japanese, Chinese and Turks. I arms crying out, "Ma, ma, aro we drowning The Indians of North America are a distinct I now?" "Oh, yes, nay dear child, we shall all rare, (on this point Prof. Aggassiz disagrees be lost, the ship is sinking, why (71,1 I come?" with Dr. Pickering,) ,iiiTering from the races or Your humble servant escaped a personal wet. the Old World, as the inferior animals of North ling, being for the moment in his berth, but America difforin species from thoie of the his hat, boots and sundry small items were Old World. It is only within- a few years that ; completely drenched. After the alarm had in the animals of North America have been con- a measure subsided and the ladies had become sidered not to be identical with those of Europe. The aboriginal Indian race is identical, from the Arctic regions to Terra del Fuego, the on ly difference being one of tribes, not of races. These tribes are divided into an infinite num ber of small tribes, n fact perfectly in accor dance with the distribution of the inferior ani mals upon this continent. We have seen that a greet mountain chain, extending from the Canadas to Patagonia, con nects North and South America, and produces a certain uniformity in their faunas; that their faunas arc subdivided into those of the Pam pas, the Antilles, the Andes, the Southern States, the Middle States, the Canticles, the ta ble lands west of the States, and those of Ore gon and California. In the same manner the aborigines are sub-divided inch a large number of smell tribes, which are circumscribed within narrow limits. They form no great nations, as do the Chinese, Tartars and Japanese of the east. The Caucasian race is widely distributed and I divided into many nations. Those inhabiting the eastern part of Africa, the northern part o£ Arabia, Mesapotamia, Asia, Minor, the., all constitute different nations, with ditlerent lan guages. The Teutonic branch, including the German, Dutch, English, Danish, &c.; - the Se lavonian branch, including the Russians, Poles, &c., each have a nationality and language pe culiar to themselves. But they all have a fea ture in common, viz: a noble expression of the face, above that of all other laces, a mirror of the innermost movements of . the soul, and it is their branch,also, which is capable of the high.- est degree of civilization. Africa has one characteristic race—the ue gro. But the interior of the great desert, Nu bin mad Abyssinia have races different from the negro. The Ifottentot lives at the south, and the western shores have their peculiar tribes. It was possible, even during his recent visit to the Southern States, to recognise among the negroes those belonging to these several Afri can tribes. In the East Indies are three distinct species: the Malay, Telingan and Negrillo, (like the ne gro only dwarfish.) The Australian is a tribe peculiar to that country. The features are those of the negro, but the hair is straight and flowing. The inhabitants of Madagascar arc a peculiar tribe, but our information concern ing them is scanty. They aro not negmes, but resemble more the inhabitants of the Sand wich Islands. With these facts before us we can assert that there is a law of distribution of the human race, as well as of the inferior races, and that these laws are in accordance with each other. MAKING INITIALS.—i tows correspondent says he "feels it his duly" to send us the sub joined: "Ar. old woman, living near Long Island, has a school master for son. When his occupation called him away from home, he found it necessary to have all his clothes marked. "Now," the old lady said, 'it took her two daughters all their time to mark her son's clothes; so she procured a bot tle of "durable ink;" and said she, "less than halfan-hour them gets had my sou's entrails on all his clothes l"—liniekerbocker. sar A Yankee and Southerner were play ing poke on a steamboat. 'I haven't seen an ace for some time,' re• marked the Souther. "Wall, I guess you haint,' said the Yankee, 'but I can tell you where they are, ono of them is up your coat ricevo there, and the other three aro in the top of my boots.' [WEBSTER, Crossing the Gulf of Mexico, A citizen of :ewark gives his experience on board the steamship Crescent City, while cross ing the CI itlf of Mexico. He says :—"We occa- somewhat aware of their ludicrous appearance, a general retreat to their rooms took place, and amid a floating mass of shoes, stockings, 'hats, caps, Sze., crept into their berths, to await the arrival of waiters, who soon got their state rooms in some order, amid grumbling and growling, about having port holes open. The ship soon appeared strung up with wet clothes, like ft man-of-war on washing day. The third evening we made "Pas L'Outre," and came to anchor in the muddy Mississippi, amid a fog as dense almost as the raw article prepared for the beloved buckwheat cake. So ends our voy age across the Gulf of Mekieo." The Slack-Twisted Girl. I wish that you could see our 'Seidl' just for one week—you would see a first-rate manager, I assure you. In the first place, she is always late to breakfast; she never combs and ties up her hair, but only gives it a smooth and a twirl, sets in her comb awry, and so much is comple ted. Her dress generally has two or three green , spots on the front breadths, her shoes are down at the heel, and she scuffs about ra ther than walks. She is too lazy to open her window to air her chamber; too indolent to take her night dress out of bed; too inefficient to throw back the bed clothes. She yawns overher breakfus;; laughs with her brothers about some young 'gent,' hopes 'somebody can take hints,' looks over the morning papers and reads the marriages,tho Museum,and what is going ou at the Athenaeum, and then sits over the parlor register, with a yellow-covered book of the last trash of literature, till her motbersays, 'Sophia, dear, do you know how lute it is? Do, child, make your toilet. Mr. W. may call and what would he think ?' for this pretty piece of clay is to be married to PUT Tom. Well, she goes into her nicely arranged bed, chamber, which the maid has so carefully put in order. Heavens I how pretty it looks in a few moments! Stockings thrown heifer skelter, a pair of boots, both stringless, and worn thread bare; the morning dress left just as she dropped out of it, and her two old faded skirts all tatter ed about the bottom. Her brush is full of hair, her comb looks black as ink, her toilet cover is bedaubed with Macasar, bears' oil, and rose mary. But she is now dressed for the parlor, ready to receive Mr. Woodman. Her hair is combed over her ears as smoothly as if a polish ed iron had flattened every stray lock; her dress neatly hooked up, and what a trim little form she assumes. Her boots are hemmed close, and she holds the identical piece of ruffling in her hand, to hens, which she began a month ago. 111:r mother speaks of Sophia's industry —she is afraid she will sew her life out of her. She was thankful Mr. W. called to invite her to the evening concert. And previously to go ing them, another dressing takes place, and her coons again looks as if bedlam had broke loose, which only makes three times a day that her maid is called to put things its order. And the worst of all is, 'Sople is expected to marry Tom, whose father is a rich man, and put Isis sots to a clerkship at the rate of $5OO per annum. Tom, do take another look before you leap—just ono more, my good fellow.— Take off the finger rings, take out the watch, and look at the mended hose; lift up the dress and see the holes under the arms; take off the ribbon around the neck, and see how greasy it is inside; and, as I live, the hankerehief isn't hemmed. What a wife you are getting! Think of her management-405 your shirts and dick , ies would bo folded, your stockings darned, , your pants* mended, your rips sewed, and your • pockets fleeced. to pay for a few gewgaws, and dressing Maids, and cooks, and chamber girl:. VOL. 19. NO. 14. With your salary of live hundred all 'spent in three months' housekeeping, and you with you finger - in your mouth, asking your father to lend you a thousand or so and then to comfort you, the slack•twisted girl is your wife, cad is yours, entirely yours. Now, don't talk about hang ing, or drowning, or being swallowed up! Only let your wife do her work her own war, and , my word for it, something akin to the cholera will take yon otF for malignant diseases did their smart marks when , dirt and vegetable de composition goes uninterrupted.—Christian Repository. singing School in Snckerdom. An Illinois gentleman furnishes his friend in Union County with a sketch of a singing ex ercise, worthy:of chronicling, as folluws: "A few nights ago, I atteridentled a singing school, a few miles from this place. It was a_ foe simile, in its way, of a western - deltatitig so• ciety. I took a back seat in the synagogue, (front seats reserved fir the ladies and singers.) As a mark by which to be - distinguished from common folks, the teacher kept his hat on un til the services had fairly commenced; and - by way of "livenin' the exercises," ho interrupted. the "execution" with numorons.bursts of orato ry, the "product of his own toaster applica- tion 1 ." It was the second time the class had met, and he was putting them through on the •',end'_:,,,cnc,"•with variations, in the following "Feller citizens of the community, and mem. I;ers of lily class! Iu lambi' to sing the sci. .•no• of music, it is permanently - necessary to .• • discover the music of sounds; and, t•-. become perfect in thC melodi oi. of the many harmonious voices whic:i will blend the music of their melody in the sacred *rah, that sdiall emancipate from the consecrated fro-teed (I) walls of this school house institution. Yee, feller citizens, to con tain all this vast amount of constitutional lat.' ilia', it is ne:eszary, yea, so' are hound by the respect we have the people of the column city, whose hearts we ace now making glad by our voeubular sprains, and for the love we feel, yea, verily enjoy I for these fair, rosy-checked, blooming, buxom larisea! I repeat, it is ne cessary, we are bound to practice—as—a-hem! —lwa ire pieces, sons to contain all this afore mentioned constitutional knowledge of lambs' to sing the science of music—and fee the above aforementioned object we will sing and prac tyze from that very knowiu' hint,: which coine mences mu the following language: "Oh that will be joyful!" Now, feller citizens, I want you, I desire you to sing this soul-expiring song with true phee links of devotion and pyty, -.Thiel:, when once done, you will have lamed the inexcusable sci ence of lerMn' to sing the science of music.— Take the note—all together—do, aol, sing I "Oh, that 7l be choyful, choyful, thoyfull To meet to part no more, Ott Cal-nuns happy shore!" Good ! (Claps his hands.) Now, 'in the len gunge of the conspired book-keeper; the ice is broke ! You can turn to the him recorded on page, named Boylton (Boylston.) Sing with the understandin• sol, do!" ! This is a ,:erbaliat sketch of his harangue, as near as I can recollect: The Honse mit a big Chimney. A few years ago the pruce2dings of the Wash ington Monument Society, received a sudden impetus. Among other measures adopted to procure sufficient funds fur the completion of the edifice, was that of appointing an agent is each congressional district throughout the Uni ted States, who were furnished with lithographs of the future monument, which wore presented to such gentlemen as chose to subscribe. One of these gentlemen called oue day at the house of a very wealthy fanner, in the up per end of Dauphin county, Pa. The wholo family were soon assembled to look at the beau. tifnh pictures. In the meantime the agent used all his eloquence to induce the old German to 'plank the tin.' He portrayed the service of Washington to his country; he dwelt in glowing terms upon the gratitude we should feel for them. Suddenly the farmer broke silence! 'What is all this for?' The agent began again 'You know who Washington was V 'Yes; he was the first President; he !Wiwi the British, didn't he?' 'Yes; that's the man; and this monument is to he erected as a fitting testinidnie of the eter• nal gratitude of his countrymen, Se. 'Well,' said he, 'I won't pay anything towards it: I don't see no use to build a house mit such a big chimney.' The agent immediately vamose•l. YANKEE GALLANTRY .—A 'llO6OE' seller Nan offering Yankee clocks, finely varnished and colored, and with a locking ;Mass in front, to a certain lady not remarkable for personal beauty. 'Why, its beautiful,' said tie yeuder. 'Beautiful, indeed f.—a look at it almost frightens me l' said the lady. 'When, marm,' replied Jonathan, 'I guess you'd better buy one that hain't got no lookin'• glass.' 16/- Tastes are not alike. In Siberia, tho greatest luxuries are raw cats served up in bear's oil; while in Japan, a stewed crocodile, flanked with monkey's feet, is the height of "fat things." We should prefer a plato of neith er, with a dozen buckwheat cakes between 'em. * The people who send money to the newspaper office, with a request to usetid the paper as long as the money lasts," are respect• felly informed that, generally speaking, the money does'nt "last" long. SM. The training institution is "some" down east. We notice that a company has a captain, one private, and two guns, minus the barrels. The countty is safe. Let down the Lars.
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