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THE GARLAND.
•wcctc•t flowervenrich%
From various garden• cull'd with care."
roa TUB OETTVSBURCI ATAft AND BA NNEII
SUMTOEDS.
By 5189. LYDIA JANE PEIRSO:f
Is this the rich, the proud, the beautiful,
The eloquent in council? He who stood
To day with the assembled senators
And statesmen of his country? He whose voice
()bared every Car, whose presence rord all eyes,
Whose eloquence subdued and won all hearts,
Except his enemies; and even from them
Took half the rancour, or bow'd down the brow
With ire nod shame, while loud and long applause
Greeted the man whose namb they had mulign'd
And rung in deer ',ling peals, proclaiming him
The wisest and most patriotic son
Of his lov'd country. Can this be the men
Whose nod confers an honor, and whose smile
Makes many a bosom beat tumultuously?
Whose car is greeted oft Icy the quick sigh
Of smitten beauty. as unconsciously
She watches the tine figure that enshrines
'The richest gems of manly excellence]
If so, "thy sits he here so desolate
In this lone brilliant chamber? Wherefore lies
His head upon his hand so pensively,
While from his bosom steal the long sad sighs
In slow succession? What does his soul lack
Of all that makes life joyous? He has health,
And friends, and riches, honor, and applause?
His soul is joyless, for its early buds
Of hope and love were blighted, while his hears
Was young and ardent, and alive to all
The fervor of young hope's idolatry.
Pate tore his treasure from his bleeding breast,
Yet still in its deep sanctuary lives
The bright remembrance of that young fair girl
Who lov'd him such fond confiding love,
And sniil'd so sadly on his last farewell;
While the big tears lay trembling in the lids
Of those meek nzuro eyes, which wine to him
The founts of consolation and delight.
He knew not then how faithfully he lov'd,
Or ho had not so tamely let her go.
Ho knew not that the sinking of his soul
As that light figure with the golden curls
Pasa'd from his sight in its meek loveliness,
Was but the prelude to eternal gloom,
And loneliness of spirit. Yet 'tis so!
'rho world is bright and smiling, but no beam
Of all its joyous things can reach the cold
Benighted vacuum in his yearning heart;
And ell glorious thins arc inarkeries.
For there's no gentle heart to echo back
The plaudits of his fame, and in its joy
Bound with a higher love against his breast.
And he is lonely 'midst applauding crowds,
And poor, surrounded with life's luxuries.
And where is she, the object of the love
Whose wither'd flow'rs so nestle in his breast—
Rustling at every touch, and chafing still
At every motion, the sore things of life?
! saw in a lone forest, far away [lov'd
'rom all the scenes, and friends her young heart
Within an humble cottage, rudely built,
And meanly finisled, where it seemed to me
That happiness could find no resting place,
A meekly drooping woman, toiling still
As if with mind intent upon her work ; •
Her check was faded, and her high brow mark'cl
With long deep lines of care; and sun, and wind,
Had tarnish'd the young lilly's that once bloom'd
'Jpon her fair complexion. Even her eye,
Her light blu e
, speaking eye, droop'd pensively,
As if its long dark lashes sought to hide
A tear that should, but could not be represt.
seern'd her soul was busy with secret thoughts
Of fur olrscenes, and friends, and joys, and days,
That come not to her exile; and she sighed
With that expression of deep hopelessness
Which no untutored heart can comprehend.
[tot when her litho ono with its glad smile,
And voice of rapture, call'd the thrilling name
Of mother in her ear, she rais'd at once
Her drooping brow; and the sweet loving smile
That lighted up her features, and beam'd forth
From the soul's fountains in those clear soft eyes
Revealed what treasures of delight, and love,
Sorrow had frozen up within its depth!
That smile, could he now meet it, might reveal
To the lone statesman, in the splendid room,
The identity of this sad faded wife,
And the bright joyous girl of seventeen years
With whom ho parted, and on whom his eye
Has never rested since. Oh! it would give
A pang to his strong heart, to meet her now
Faded, and sad, and blighted as she is.
The slave of an imperious, iron man, .
struggling with grief, and care, and poverty,
Which press so heavily on her bruis'd heart
That but for heaven's help, the holy balm
Of meek religion, she had long since sunk,
And died beneath her burden!
Heaven forbid
That he should ever look upon her more!
Her memory is bright within his breast,
So let it rest. And she has learn'd to bear
Her burden of affliction patiently;
And will not muter her poor heart to dwell
Regretfully with him, whose friends look'd down
With scorn upon her humble parentage!
LIBERTY. Tioga County, Pa.
A PSALM OP LIFE.
'Life that shall send
A challenge to its end, -
And when it comes, say 'Welcome friend.'
WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN
SAID - TO - THE PSALMIST.
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream l
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real—life is earnest--
And the grave is not its goal:
Dust thou art, to dust returuest,
Was not spoken to tho soul.
Not enjoyment. and not sorrow.
Is our destin'd end or way;
Bet to act. that each to-morrow
rind 1:* farther thin to-dac.
terzazwortzt atuBJP3O)6O aPwcwattarda aatta4
Art is long, and time is fleeting,
And our hearts, tho' stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the World's broad field of battle,
In the bironse Of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Bo a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ,
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act—act in the glorious Preseut !
Heart within, and God o'er head!
Lives of rat men all remind us
Wu can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footsteps on the sands of titne.
Footsteps, that, perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwreek'd brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
VLEt
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Prom an excellent work entitled , •Fireside Ed
TO A MOTHER.
You have a child on your knee. Listen a=-
neut. DJ you know what that child is I It is
an immortal being; destined to live forever. It
is destined to be happy or miserable ! and who is
to make it happy or miserable? You—the moth
er ! You, who gave it birth, the mother of its
being, are also the mother of its soul for good or
ill. Its character is yet undecided, its destiny is
platted in your hands. What shall it be. The
child may be a liar. You can prevent it. It
may be a drunkard. You can prevent it. It
may ho a murderer. You can prevent it. It
may be an atheist. You can prevent it. It
may live a life of misery to itself and mischief to
others. You can prevent it. It may descend in
to the gravo with an evil memory behind and
dread b. fore. You can prevent it. Yes, you the
mother can prevent all these things. Will you,
or will you not? Look at the innocent! Tell
me again, will you save it! Will you watch over
it, will you teach it, warn it, discipline it, subdue
it, pray for it t Or will you, in the vain search of
pleasure, or in gaiety, or fashion or folly, or in
the chase of any other bauble, or even in house..
hold cares, neglect the soul of your child, and
leave the little immortal to take wing alone, ex
posed to evil, to temptation, to ruin 1 Look a
gain at the infant! Place your hind on its little
heart ! Shall that heart be deserted by its mother,
to beat perchance in sorrow, disappointment,
wretchedness and despair 1 Place your ear on its.
aide and hear that heart beat How rapid and
vigorous the strokes! How the blood is thrown
through the little veins ! Think of it ; that heart
eh,. 4 " , mo
work with ceaseless pulsation, for Borrow or joy,
for over.
MAZE EDUCATION.
There are two mistakes current in society, both
of which have been incidentally touched upon,but
which deserve to be placed more directly before
the render. The first is, that the whole duty of a
parent. so for as respects education, is discharged
by sending children' regularly to school; the sec
ond, that although parents must attend to the
physical and moral culture of their offspring, that
their minas, at ledst, may be left wholly to the
schoolmaster. The reader may feel that the for
mer of these propositions has been sufficiently no
ticed, and I therefore remark only that school in
struction never can supercede the necessity of
vigilant parental teaching at the fireside. If a
comparison were to be made between the two, I
should not hesitate to attribute greeter importance
to home education than to school education ; for
it is beneath the parental roof, when the heart is
young and melted by the warmth of fireside af
fection, that the deepest impressions are made; it
is at home, beneath parental influences and exam
pie, that the foundations of physical, moral and
mental habits are laid; it is at home where abiding
tastes are engendered; it is at home where lasting
opinions are formed.
CORRECTING CHILDREN IN ANGER
There is another common error,which may need
to be noticed—that of correcting a child hastily
and harshly, and then, feeling that injustice hus
been done, to compensate them by some soothing
sugar plum or honied apology. It is not easy to
conceive of anything more likely to degrade the
parent in the eyes of his offspring than such in
considerate folly; nothing more sure to destroy his
influence over the mind, to harden the young heart
in rebellion,and make it grow bold in sin. lii pro
portion as the parent sinks in his esteem, self con
ceit grows up in the mind of the undutiful child.
Young people as well as old, pay great respect to
consistency, and on the contrary, despise those
whose conduct is masked with caprice. The sacred
relation of parent is no protection against this con
tempt. Those,therefore,who would preserve their
influence over their children, who would keep bold
of the reins that they may guide them in periods
of danger, and save them from probiale ruin, must
take care not to exhibit themselves as governed by
passion or whim, rather than fixed principles of
justice and duty.
PARENTAL PARTIALITY.
There is another fatal danger in family govern.
merit, from which I would warn every parent,and
that is partiality. It is too often the case that
fathers and mothers have their favorite child. From
this too evils result. In the first place, the pet
usually becomes a spoiled child; nod the "flower
of the family" seldom yields any other than bitter
fruit. In the second place, the neglected part of
the household feel envy towards the parent that
makes the odious. distinction. Disunion is thus
sowed in what ought to he the Eden of life; a
sense of wrong is planted by the parent's hand in
the hearts of a part of his family; an example of
injustice is written on the soul of the offspring, by
him who should instil into it, by every word and
deed / the holy priimipica of equity. This is a sub
ject of great importance, and I commend It to the
particular notice of all parents.
By putting a piece of lump-sugar the size of a
walnut into the tee,-pot, you will make the tea tar
fuse in onp•half the time(
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■ROM TUE SOUTHEIIN LITERARY MESSENGER.
DESULTORY SPECULATOR.
I look upon life as a sickly and feeverish
dream. Its highest enjoyments nre tran•
steal and fluctuating, nod its realities pain•
tut and vapid. The poet of nature has with
great truth exclaimed, "flow dull, stale, flat,
and unprofitable, are all the uses of this
life." To him who has passed its meridian,
9md descended into the vale of years, its
uses will indeed appear "dull and unprofita•
kiln." Hu looks back upon the irregular
rind devious path he has trodden, and per•
•haps remembers with regret, the few flow
era he has culled and left to perish, and
looks forward to the barren waste that lies
before him. Ile may recall the joyous feel
ings of his youth, when fancy dipped hor
pinions in the rainbow hues of hope—when
all the breathing scenes, and gorgeous and
living pictures of this world, were "beauty
to his eye and music to his ear;" but, while
he remembers them, he sickens at the
thought. that they were but the "baseless
fabrics of a vision"—the glittering and
evanescent baubles of fleeting enjoyment—
which have
Gone glimmering through the dreamy of things that
were."
And what is life?
"A summer's dap !
That dawns bedewed with icy tears
Yonth glitters like the orient ray,
Till busy, toilsome noon appears:
Then as the sultry sun descends,
The dim horizon shadowy grows,
While nought but gloom and care remain,
To veil the scent at evei.ing's dos.."
But what is life To the great majority
ut mankind it is, after all, but a mere strug
gle for existence—a constant effort to pro.
cure a modicum of food and raiment. To
this end, man labors through life—passes off,
and is succeeded by others, who pursue the
same dull and beaten path. In civilized, as
well as savage life, man is propelled by the
same impulses, and struggles after the same
object. They, indeed, who are born to opu•
lance, are not governed by the same neces
sity ; but are stimulated to action by anoth
,or motive—the love of pleasure, power, of
fame. But action of some sort is essential.
To all, the great Creator has issued his
mandate, that virtuous action is indispensa•
ble to human happiness. The motionless
and unagilated lake, may please the eye by
its apparent placidity and repose, while its
waters are putrid and its particles pregnant
.with the seeds of pestilence andsdeath• Ile
who labors for mere subsistance, gives
strength and activity to his body, and con•
Sequent energy to his mind; and he who
ralral, rnts nr.„wraith ,nctivttr mtiri...l
intellectually, it not physicaily. empioyeT.
He feels the stimulus which gives him plea
sure, and he bounds forward horn cliff to
cliff, in his ascent, till death closes all his
exertions, toils, and hopes. Disappoint•
ment does not always arrest his career, but
sometimes adds new ardor to his pursuit and
fresh vigor to his efforts.
"Man never is, hut always to be blessed.”
Ile lives and acts in the anticipation of fu
ture good ; and when all the sickly realities
of human life have been enjoyed, and have
passed away, he still looks forward to more
substantial and enduring happiness beyond
the grave. All human pursuit and human
exertion terminate in this common boundary.
"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
And when, at the close of life, and he is a
bout to plunge into the fathomless ocean of
eternity, he casts back his eye upon the va.
ried scenes through which he has passed—
the toilsome and painful march ho has ac
complished—tho unsubstantial pageants he
1 ,48 sighed for, and the melancholly ruins of
blasted hope or of wild ambition, he must
exclaim, to the language of Pindar, "We
are shadows, and the dreams of shadows are
all our fancies conceive!" Abdulraman,
the third Caliph of Cardova, had full expe
rience of the vanity of the world, when he
pronounced the memorable summary of the
days of happiness he had enjoyed; "I have
now reigned above fitly years in victory or
peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by
my enemies, and respected by my allies—
riches and honors, power and pleasure have
waited on my call—nor does any earthly
blessing appear to have been wanting to my
felicity. In this situation I have dligently
numbered the days of pure and genuine hap
piness which have fallen to my lot: they
amount to - rouaTEEN I—Oh, man place
not thy confidence in this present world."
flow very few can say even this. Fourteen
days of happiness out of fifty years of exis
tence, are more than fall to the share of the
great mass of mankind. What is life after
all? A fitful dream or a painful reality.
Misfortunes embitter, miseries sour, and
guilt poisons its enjoyment. Who would
wish to live over the years he has number
ed? To pass along the same path—to feel
the same emotions—to witness the same
sickly pageants, and to experience the same
ingratitude, contumely, oppression, and
wrong 1 It is made up of momenta that are
wasted—of days that are misspent—and of
years that only fill up the e brief span of life,
and leave but the memory of the past be
hind.
"To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays hare lighted fools
The way to dusty death "
Let man then regard this world merely as a
preparatory stage to a future and eternal
state of existence. Let him consider his
misfortunes, sufferings, and miseries, as in
tended to prepare him the better for a world
of undying glory and happiness, and let him
persevere in a course of virtue and useful
ness, in contempt of the malignity of his
enemies, and the storms of adversity that
beat around him, and he will infallibly at
tain to that perfection and happiness here
after, which shoula constitute the only trite
end and
. aim of all human exertion and
pursuit.
"Lire's little stage is a small eminence,
Inch high the grave above, •that home of tnan,
Where dwells the multitude;' we gaze around,
We read their monuments; we sigh; and while
We sigh, we sink ; and arc what we deplored
Lamenting, or lamented, all our lot."
Washington City,
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fortunately, knows nothing of any pro ff ered boon.
Igain, if prompt payments were made when hills
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crative. But the evasions anti subterfuges dome
times practised for the non payment of paltry
items, of subscriptions, are enough sometimes
to make a philosopher indignant or a dog laugh.
Omit injures are done the press in this country.
Editors are expected to fight political battles, get
up concusses and distribute votes; advocate schools.
churches and good order—plead for the farmer
and mechanic, and denounce iniquity in high
places—instruct tho young and old—describe ev.
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—publish the death of friends and the marriage of
enemiesexpose vice at the hazard of the malig.
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any body, strangers abroad as well as at home, is
a bad system. It is confiding too implicitly to the
honor and integrity of unknown persorin, some of
whom, every newspaper publisher has learned by
bitter experience, possesses no such features of
character. Many individuals neglect these duties
for sureessive years, not from an intention to do
fraud, but from fararifides.• ~.
sip persons ore in instatnt parts,
or remote from each other, the publisher has no
other stall' to loan upon than their honor. How
often this proves n shadow of things hoped for
and a substance of things unseen!
FROM. THE NATIOZIAL CIAZETTIC.
Editorial Convention.
A proposition is on foot to hold an Editorial
Convention in this State, and wo even perceive it
mentioned that delegates have been appointed to
attend it. A chief reason assigned for the meas
ure is contained in the assertion that such a con
gregstion would tend materially to dignify the
one, purify tho language, and elevate the charac
tor of the press; inasmuch as editors would sever
ally make ono another's acquaintance, and mutu
ally learn the personal excellences of the profes
sion, and thereby would not fail to consult in
their controversial displays, which form so large a
part of the matter of their writing, a more judi
cious, kind and gentlemanly tone. This all sounds
so well that the press, most generally, has caught
up the notion, and now it is paraded as ari ap
proved design, worthy of standard adoption. It
appears to us, however, a preposterous, not to say
degrading idea, that it is commendable and exigent
for the members of n profession, holding to be
capable of instructing the public mind with genial
force in the various points of social ethics and po•
lite personal bearing, to meet together to learn the
color of their respective hair or wigs, the length of
their noses, the intonations of their voices, and
their modes of conducting themselves when put on
their good behaviour during a solemn session of
the duration of a day or two! One woad really
suppose that the argument in favor of the propo
sition was directed to the wants and understanl.
ings of the veriest nin-compoops and boors—men
who require to know a name and face to secure
their possessor from the attacks of ingenious false
hood and elaborate blackguardism, not the result
of the hasty indignation attending an oral debate,
but the matured offspring of the pen and the soli.
tary calmness of the study!
We have no quarrel with those who acknowl. '
edge that they need such a souvenir and spur to
professional sense and decency: as are said to be
conferred by this precious proposition of an Edi
torial Convention! If a man presuming to direct
a daily paper has insufficient intelligence, humani.
ty, civilization, and polish, to secure him from the
commission of professional improprieties, a Con
vention must prove to him an entirely adequate
school of reform. He is not thus to be redeemed
from a half century of shame and prostitution, of a
headlong pursuit of self-interest and the baser ends
of partizanship. The Convention cannot prove
a Lethe oughtright, where oblivion of accumulat
ed sins and wrongs can be imbibed—unless the
old score being thus conveniently wiped out, the
newly made saint can have full liberty to run up
a fresh account of folly and iniquity!
If those Editors who yearn after the temporal
salvation of purse and person 'to be derived from
a Convention, will singly resolve to deal and write
like gentleinon, some good may be elicited both to
themselves and the public. But for them to meet
together, and like little children promise to behave
pretty and not be naughty again, is a paltry and
unworthy business, calculated to extenuate the
dignity and influence of their vocation!
REQUISITES FOR Tit AVELLIN6.— An Ital
ma proverb has 'what to travel safely through
the world, a man must have a falcon's eye,
an" ass's ears, an ape's face, a merzhant's
words, a camel's back, a hoes mouth, and
a hart's 1%4.
BY ROBERT WHITE MIDDLETON
[WHOLE NO: 418.
BA Li . 1 Ai 0 Oct. 3t►.
THE TRIAL FOR MURDER.- ' llO Jury
in the case of IVilliam Stewart, charged
with the murder of his father, Benjamin
Stewart, did not agredupon a verdict until
near nine o'clock on Sunday night. Infor
mation having been given to that effect, tho
Court promptly assembled and received the
Jury, whose verdict was,"Gtaltst for Mei
dcr in the Second Degree." 'Chia case cc.
cupied the close attention of the Court for
ten days. The verdict rendered by the Ju
ry, after a deliberation at 20 hours on the
case, is said to be one of compromise. The
punishment under it is col.finement in the
Penitentiary for a term not exceeding 18
years.
Tho wife of the prisoner was in attendance
at Court throughout every stage of its pro
ceedings, occupying a aunt nest to the bar
in which her busbnhd sat, and watching
with an intenseness of interest which may
ho well imagined, - the progress of tho case
to its final issue.—Americon.
In a country like .ours particular cara,
should be used in educating and furnishing
with proper moral instruction the producing
classes, both in country and towe. The
mass of every community is composed of
what are termed working people, and in
merica - especially on their judicious bring
ing up depend the comfort and permanent
prosperity of the whole community. inas
much as the exercise of the political power
with which they are invested must be the
source of much good or ill. In countries
where monarchical institutions oxisi - the
small weight which the producing clesses
possess, in time administration of the affairs
of the government, make it a matter .of but
secondary Importance how enlightened or
ignorant they may bo ; but, with us, the
peculiar character of our political Institu
lions is such as to make their intelligence
and good conduct objeCts of the greatest
concern. Among the first things to be at•
tended to, is the inctilcation of proper no.
lions in reguard to subordination. Those
whn do not know how to, be governed will
never be able to govern, and as every Amer.
man citizen is in tact a governor, it becomes
the more indispensable to impress upon the
mind correct ideas of the mutual responsi
bilities and dependence 7 f the various clas
ses of citizens upon each other. One of the
greatest evils to be apprehended in all re
publics is the improper use of power by the
ignorant.—Ball. ✓lmericun.
The National Intelligencer well remarks
r pirwhimitiormilloißo_to the deto
AiTll5lll
which the latter will withdraw its forces
from the shores of the former country; and
publishes the following article from The
Courrier des Etats Unis, as explanatory of
the reason or the withdrawal by Texas of
the application made for annexation to the
Union.
"Decidedly, Texas no longer wishes to be
incorporated with the United States, who on
their side, have never seriously cared about
it. This annexation may well for a time
have entered into the views of certain Texinn
statesmen, while the Mexican pretensions
were yet alarming; but now the chance has
turned. Mexico is no longer to - be feared.
In the interior it is falling into dissolution.
before the intrigues of its rulers, the Me.
chiavelism of itr clergy, and the brutality of
its population. Over its exterior the thunder
growls, and will before loriti burst forth.--, •
France'desires and will fiave Asatisfaction
from the assassins and robbers of her ehil
dren. It will readily be conceived that, un
der such circumstances, Texas has nothing
more forcer for her independence,and thinks
no more of the proposed incorporation. Who
knows even whether her Government will
not be called upon to cooperate in the just
chastisement of Mexico by some useful diver
sion on the frontier? The amicable recep
tion which the French and English Minis
tries have given to the Texian agent; the
treaties which they have made and probably
will make with him,open the widest possible
field to conjecture and forethought, with re
gard to the future destinies of Texas as an
independent political State. Mexico alone
plays a hazardous game. Texas profits by
This matter only lende additional force
to the opinion current respecting the ambi.
tious spirit of Louis Philippe, particularly
in regard to the purchase of the Island of
Cuba, which it is said he will make at once.
The Leg islature of Vermont has chos en
Mr. S. S. Phelps a Senator of the United
States, for six years from the third of March
next..-A-ne succeeds Mr.-Swift.
A resident of Bedford, in this State, nam
ed John Reynoldq, while engaged at his
business a few days sinceouddenly fell down
and died.
The Municipalities of Now Orleans have
now under consideration an ordinance to
prevent the introduction of free persons or
color into that city. We infer from an ar
ticle in the Bee, that the ordinance, which
will be very strict in its provisions, will be
come a law.
Tho Galena Advertiser states that 0,-
000 of the $15,00Q recently stolen frotn
Fort Crawford in epecie; have been ie•
covered.
A TAtr.on.—A tailor following the arroy o
was wounded in the head by an arrow.-.go
When the surgeon saw the wound s hg told
bis patient that ae the weapon had not touch•
ed his brain there was ngsintibt o t hi e men .
Nary. The Mike - said—if I had possessed
any brains I should not have been here. fla
we.; only the "ninth ?are' ern mat