sr, • ..„ 4 Es' 11023MIVI" WZTTE 7Z=LMTOII.I VUIEB aI6I3aZSIDo -"With sweetest Stowers enrich'd. From various gardens cull'd Ivith care." FROM THE LYCOMINO FREE PRESS. The Walermanii4 Song. HY LYDIA JANE PEIRSON. BROTHERS! the Jong cold winter's past The snow-drifts melt once more; AWay! the streams are rising fast, Bring your lumber to the shore. Look up! our pine clad hills aro gay, Their swelling breasts are bare; We toil'd there ninny a winter-day, And now our works appear. The Pine's tall trunk, tho Oak's rich spoil, Lie on the mountain's side; Away! 't is a hard, but a jocund toil, To launch them to the tide. See how they thunder down the height, With the mighty tempest's sway; Oh! 't is a proud "and a fearful sight, To see them spring away. Away! with your teams, for the timber, boys We want it on the shore; For hear—to swell our boisterous joys The increasing waters roar. Now, brothers, we plunge in the cold, mad stream, And it beats against our sides— We count it as vain a frightful dream, We're able to stein its tides. A moment now to the quiet home, Where our fond affections cling; Where the joys & hopes of our bosoms blooin - And love broods with dove-like wing. Ah! kiss the babe as it smiling lies On its mother's faithful breast; And wake a smile in her swimming eyes, Where her soul is all exprest. Ah, brothers! our hearts are harden'd steel When danger or death are near, But,nh! they most strongly,nnd tenderly feel The ties of affection dear. Say to the dear ones—.Do not mourn, Love will abridge our stay; And if God be with us we 'll glad return.' Then, brothers—away! away! reausi zart2c.lau(i).g3ao THE EMPEROR'S PAGE, OR, A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE IN PARIS It was past midnight, as en individual, closely muffled in a dark military cloak, was rapidly pass_ ing through one of the most unfrequented streets of Paris. It was a black night, not a star being visible in the clouded heavens, a circumstance which seemed suited to the purpose of the prcdcs- Ulan, whose concealed person and hasty movemen pretty plainly indicated his wish to gain his des , tination unobserved. Suddenly, however, his progress was arrested by the hand of a youth, who emerged from the obs'curity, of a portal, and held a pistol to the pedestrian's• head and demand ed his money. . 44Paha," said tho podesttsn, endeavoring to abako off his new acquaintance, “away and do not detain me. oil must have gold," cried the phrenzied youth ,---amy misfortunes have maddened me! 'Refuse me, and this pistaloteuuls a bullet through your bead." The other perceiving his danger, suddenly dia. encumbered his right arm of his cloak, and with the velocitypr lightning laid the assailant pros trate. He then passed on—but suddenly retracing his steps towards the prostrate robber, ho raised him from the ground, and dragging him for some pacesitids a lamp which cast a ' , dim religious light,"ciier a brief part of - the scene, he exclaimed, uAilit! Louis . If clamour!" I.Anr I discovered?" exclaimed the youth, and falling at the feet ot . the other, who again drew his cloak over the lower part of his face, he ejaculated, udo not, do not betriti me!" ""Sir," replied the other, "my duty to the Emperor will compel me to disclose this atrocity." "You will ruin me by ho doing forever!—Hear me, sir, my melancholy - tale, and then say, if I am not deserving your pity. Since I have had •the honor of being in the service of the Emperor, the whole of my ary has beers' dedicated to the support of my poor . and'age'd mother. For three yearit I have been theiele prog:of her weary life, she haii no other hope.htithriOn Heaven. I have brought comfort anti j 11p t in into her humble dwelling; she wee reilußittenury and wretch ednessi,my faiher had 'dieit-.Winsolvent circurn htanceic and My dear rnothit':,iitah too old to work for her subsistence: .IZitgtilired to gain work but in vain. Day after ; day I trod the streets of Paris, and' with all the earnestness of ruin, be sotight- employment; but there with no drop in my cup of misery, and at length I sat down in the garden of the Tuilleries, hopeless and despairing. I contemplated suicide—the thought of leaving my dear'parent desolate, chained me to life—but oven that thought was becoming overwhelmed by my despair, when our, good emperor pas,ed me. Ho was struck with my haggard looks—h, questioned me—inquired into "the truth of my story, and then in the bdnoyolence of his good heart took me Into his suite. Ile saved mo from despair, and brought smiling joyr, again into the widow's hunthle home." ..No, no," hurriedly .exclaimed the youth, am no common robber. Heaven is my witness, until this night--but hear my story out. Among the trudeamen who supplied the palace, there is one having a daughter, whose charms make an impression upon my heart, which reason could not dispel. Long did I strive to master love— but in vain. I struggled against the rising pas sions of my heart, for the more I strove to master the bewilderingpassion, the fiercer did it burn.— We met—l told my love—l found it was return.. ed—arid disdaining any concealment, I 'op en ly avowed to the maiden's father my attachment to his daughter, but he, mall the pride and inso lence of wealth, spurned my humble suit, and told nip that till the Emperor made me worth baying, hie daughter should not think of me! :Seeing that his child's inclinations turned to- Wards me, he introduced a wealthy •suitor, aid insisted upon her wedding him. I cannot vie. with my rival—he lavishes g Id and gems upon the lovely Adaline. I've only a humble heart to offer. B4ihat she deemed preferable to all the wealth of the grosa man of her fatber's choice; end till this night dreamed that I was still he loved. But this night I have seen her at his ableher hand in his—her ear turned to his whispering lips—and the love tributes of gold and gems dazzling before her! I was maddened at the sight. I had clung to the hope that Ada line was constant; that hope was my solace by day, and gave inspiration to my dreams at night. I fancied that the Emperor might one day pro mote me, when I could demand the hand of Adeline in marriage, in the confidence of my being able to support her without detriment to the comfort and enjoyment of my aged mother.— This hope is destroyed—my dreams are all va • inslied,. and I rinly see the despairing certainty of Adeline's affections turning to my rich rival! Oh, sir, if you have over loved—if you have ever known the agony of a situation like mine, your heart may form sonic excuse for me, when I tell you that in my desperation I purchased this pis tol, and determined upon laying contributions up on the public, that I too, might throw jewels into Adeline's lap, and rival the favored one even in his splendor. I saw no other way of recovering Adeline's lost afliction—l could not desert my poor mother—the result is as you ace. you betray me?" The pedestrian was silent. The youth with passionate emotion caught his arm, and exclaim ed convulsively, "Will you, will you betray me?" and again sunk at his feet. will think upon it," said the pedestrian cold ly. "Give me that pistol" "No, cold-hearted roan!" exclaimed the youth, suddenly starting upon his feet, "no, nor shall it be yours till life is out of this wretched body," and he put the muzzle to his forehead: "For heaven's sake hold,", cried" 'the" stranger.— The trigger however was pulled, the priming flashed in the pan. The predestrain then seized upon the weapon, and after a short struggle, wrested it from the youth's grasp. "Mon Dieu!" cried the pedestrian, "your blood •"Go," rejoined the youth: liselose ail you know. I am ready to go out upon the scaffold, I am tired of life, death will be welcome." "Then come with me." Thus saying the stranger took him fast by the arm, and hurried him through the dark and narrow thorough fare, They proceeded along various obscure streets until they suddenly stopped before a doorway in a high and extended wall, and the stranger touching a secret spring, the door flew open, and they entered, the stranger closing up the door after them. In a few moments they were in a neat, and comfortable apartment, wherein two servants were sitting, who arose on the parties entering, and the stranger taking one of them aside, addressed a few words to him and abruptly left the room. It was soon evident to the youth that the ser vants had been commanded to preserve strict silence; he was not in the mood for conversation, and this was, therefore, to him; a matter of more pleasure than grief—his spirit was broken, and he looked upon death as the only refuge he could fly to for relief Soon after, the servants intimated to him that he was to sleep there, and that the bed was ready. He followed them, and as he passed out of the room, ho perceived that two gendarmes had been stationed outside of the door. They followed him up stairs, and when he was ushered into the small narrow bed-chamber, and the door was fas- tencd upon him, he heard the heavy tread of the gendarmes pacing to and fro on the outside. Here, in his loneliness, the thought of self-destruction again occurred to him. ..0 that I could die at once," he inwardly exclaimed. "'Tie horrible to be brought out upon a scaffold, to public execu tion, before a gazing million. My mo•her! moth er!" ho inwardly exclaimed, "to the protection of Heaven I leave you! The world is done with me. Oh, Adeline, this is thy work!" He searched the apartment with insane curiosi ty to discover some instrument of death—but the room was bare of furniture save the bed and its clothes. With the latter he busied himself, and tearing some of the sheets into strips, he was rap idly fastening them together, when a man sudden ly entered the room, and sat down upon the bed- sit'e. Louis as suddenly leaped into the bed, and the man remaining in the position he had taken up, the youth insensibly fell into a deep slumber, wherein he remained during the night. It was mid-day when he awoke. The man was still in the chamber. Louis was calm and refresh- ed, and when the man asked him if he would arise and accompany him to the gentleman with whom ho had become acquainted on the previous night, Louie cheerfully assented. Soon afterwards the youth stood again in the presence of the cloaked man, whose life he had threatened. It was a dark antique chamber, and the gentleman had taken his place in a recess, in the depth of which his person was dimly visible. Louis entered, pale and tremb ling, and with downcast tearful eyes, he approach ed the man whom he had, in his moment of frenzy assailed. A chair was pointed to him, into which ho fell and buried his face in his hands. "Young man," said the stranger, "you show a becoming sorrow—hut what avails it! Suppose you had sent a bullet through my head last night —would your penitence awaken me to life again! Yours is the old story. Every- villain is a peni tent when the guillotine stares him in the face." "Oh, sir, spare me, I implore!" cried the youth. 4.Why should IT why shotjd I spare you, You should have thought of the consequences of the crimes you meditated. But you were hcad.strong —a fool—and you must suffer for your folly. “Sir, lam ready to meet my punishment. Do not aggravate it by reproOf."