, .. 1. ... - . . . . , . . . ~ .. . . . . .i. .. . ~, • . , * • . . . . . . 1 •. • ...7• / 40 •••• .•. . . . . . . .• . . . • 1 , . . . .. . ''''. r .r • an 4. ~._. . . . , , , . ... ...., ~„ .... . ~ • .._ covio., 4: _. • . 1 0 : t . • -. t .. , . . . [ D. A. t. E :)1 r 1) PRO PRIE FOR VOL., ik V 11,—.:,c;. P 0 EJ 11 Gratitode to God. I sometimes feel as I could blot All traces of mankind from earth— Asif 'twere wrong to blast them not, They no degrade, NO shame their birth: To think that earth should be so fair, So beautiful and bright a thing, That nature should come forth and wear Such gloriute; apparelling; That sky, sea, air, should live and glow With light,. and lose, and holiness, And yet Men never fc.q or know !low much a God of love can blers— llow deep their debt of thankfulness. I've seen the sun go down in light, Like floods of light pouryd on the sky— 'When every tree and flower was hright, • And every pulse was beating high, And the lull soul was gushing love, And longing for its home above— And then. when men would ever, if To the high ionic of thought and soul -I.\‘' hen life', degrading ties should sever, And the free spirit spurn control— Then have I seen, oh, how my h heck Is burning with the •home I foil, That truth is in the winds I speak, I've seen my fellow creatures rtral Away to their unhallowed mirth ; As if the revelries of earth And glorious heaven were scarcely worth Their passing notice or their care. I've said I was a worshipper At wonum's shrine.—Vet even there I've found unworthiness of thought, And when I deemed I just had caught The radiance of that holy light 'Which makes earth beautiful and bright— When eyes of fire their flashes sent, • And ruse lips look'd eloquent— Oh, I have turn'd and Wert Dt f.nd Beneath it all, a trilling mind. I was in one of those high halls. NVhere genius breathes in sculptured stone, Al'here shaded light in softness falls • Uu pencil'd beauty. 'I hey were gone 'IV hose hearts of tire and hands of skill Ilad Ivrought over ; but they spoke uVery feature still, • And fresh lips breathed and dark eyes -woke, And crimson checks thislool glowingly To life and motion. I hail Licit And—filept with Mary at the tree • Where Jesus sutlered—l had felt The warn blood rushing to toy brow Al the'steen lithret of the Jew— • !fad seen the :Son Of Glory bow And bleed for sins he never knew, And I had wept. I tht) t1•411t that all .:Au.it feel like me—and when there Caine -A stranger bria" ith step of grace and eye of flame, - And tone and look most :meetly Meet To make her rest - stet. eloquent, Oh. then I loak'd for teirs. e lietiwe the presence of Calvary : I yew the piercing N1.1 . 11;--ILP 14410,1 T:ie gall—tho „writhe of agony— I•saw Ifis quiverhig lips in prayer, ••Father, forgive them,"—all was there ! I turned in bitterness of soul, spoke of Jesus. I 111,1 thought llcr feelings would refuse control; For uumatt 7 s heat I knew wa q fraught 11 itlt ghsking svmpethiis. he ,azll 1 moment u,t it carcl s,ly. chilly curled tier lip and prais - ed The high priest's garment ! Could it he '1 hat look was meant, dear Lord, for thee ! Oh.' %Nit t is woman—what lwr Bmi:e— -ller lip of love—her eyes Of light— What is she, if her lips revile The lowly Jesus Love may Write Illy Dame upon her marble brow, . And linger in her curls of jet— The light spring flower may scarcely low Beneath her stop—aml yet—and yet, Without that meeker grace, she'll be A lighter thing than vanity. lIIISCELL A NY. -Well, if she does hear the birds sing, she cannot see the wreath of flowers." 13nt she knows I put it there ; I told her before they took her away from our house, The touching incident in scriptural liktoty I would come and :ea her every morning." Which has furnished the theme for so mud, pnetry, "You must," I continued, "have loved is very beautifully forth in the following lines that sister very much, but ou will never ullielt we ling in a New 11:tven newspaper: y talk with her any more—never see her Forth from the gates of Nain a funeral train in mournful sileneetunne. The sun- "Yes, sir," she replied, with a bright.; set flush was lingering still upon t he hi l ls coed look, "I shall see her in heaven." around ; the last departing ray of day vet "But she has gone there already; I trust.". staved , tinging the ll""lintr chords "h°" "No ; she stops under this tree until with hues of crimson and burnished gold; they bring me here, and then we are going while heaven's pure azure scented more to heaven towether." soft and sweet amid those gorgeous tints ; for naught within the wide world's bounds could entrance the soul like that sweet The Widow of I.lliti, '•77,r only son rf his sno!hry, and she' °sir a widow: sunset scene among Judah's hills and J. H. Ca Aso LEA, editor of the U. S. Gazette, plains. - describes the following exquisite scene. It is more beautiful, inure touchingly pure than the purest .Yet death was there, and even now dream. lie was walking in the late watches of s wept on his silent train. And he who the night, when *the stars were yet bright in the lay the stricken viethn there, had died all heavens, the earth fresh and fragrant with the night glorious i n hi s mn i„. pride ;—the no bl e dew, and the great ocean on whose shores he wan dered, pealing its Solemn hynm through the star limn, hut half concealed beneath the sable star lit darkness, when he saw this holy scene. 'Phere rube which wrapped it round, was cold t was no star in the heavens brighter than the fervent and motion Ira a, Yet . " 11 , 110 w heatifful in aspirations of the simple-hearted sailor ; and his death i The pale and n.shy lips, on which prayer was, in God's car, louder and more sublime -the parting word scented still In tremble than the roaring of the great ocean: low, were chiselled like Apollo's—prehnl At length the repeated remark drew my but soft—and wore the stamp of energy attention towards the bank ; looking over and strength ; the radient eyes were glitz-: the verge of which I saw an elderly . man ed in death, in %dile' once shone ambin a rough ,dress, with a small boy by his bolt's fires, and gleamed youth's bright ant sisle. joyous hopes in days :wont'. and yet the y'' .. "Why not ?" inquired the sailor. til . I seemed as closed in genlle sleep; and, 'in Id "Because you called me so earnestly, I.".'s rich anti clustering hair, ivhichlay, as and bade me ,mee't yon on the beach, as if in life's warm glow, upon the pall,so salt i soon as I could get dressed." and fair it was, the low wind moved, stir- i "It should not have been neglected," ring the curls and ‘vildly flowing locks, as' said the old man. when in health they had beeit frecly.flting I “I should think," said the boy, with an to won its balmy breath. A thing of light,! appearance of great defference, "that you 1 00 heautind he seemed to die, yet as he I could not have been up so long." was pa ng ssi to his last long hflme, so "\o,l had just risen when I called you." i. ( „ ing n o-d ertir_bis widowed mother's nit- There was a pause of a few lilt:tine - WS: iv stay—niel j sbe now felt alone to men which the old man broke by saying: the World's cold frowns; and cheerless ; "We are quite early, and perhaps the live. . , duty omitted by both of us its the house 1 . 11 , hitid thtNiipr. wi!h form howed down may be'illseharLied here. We will scarce nl he:lrt she entmi alid i as she ly Ivork the worse for it to-day." tli)(111 111'r 11 , ; 1 )It' boIN di•v. - e :1- 'Pr' spc'llar 'pm!, MI a glazed hat, awl mid the flush of youth's bright dreams-1 displayed a head slightly bald ; the long I. Battle of Holtenlinden. and saw the arm on which it was her wont nultled hair upon its sides trembled in the I I \ to lean, all still and palsied now in death— slight breeze that set in from the ocean.— ' at.d looked in vain into those dull, glazed I The younger also laid aside his hat, and j ny J. T. ny.nty.y. orbs, for the fond glance which there was both knelt upon the sand. In a solemn I "The Iser and the Inn, as they flow from used to beam—her bursting heart gave I tone the father commenced his morning's I the Alps towards the Danube, move nearly A brace of lugs, thrust considerably too way; she bowed her head upon the silent 'devotion. I could not catch all the words, jin parallel lines and nearly forty miles a- far through a priir of mottled pant , : and at corse, and wildly wept in speechless agony but here and there, when special earnest- : part. As they approach the river, the tached to a couple of the largest sized feet, and woe. ness marked the request, I could distinctly . space between them becomes one eleva- which were encased in twin cowhide bro- But, lo! as on ward swept the mournful hear each syllable. The language was : red plane covered chiefly with a sombre galls , formed the underpining to a long, train, a band of humble pilgrims met the I simple, but expressive : and, as much of it dark, pine forest—crossed by two roads slab-sidetl body, of otherwise generous pro weeping throng; and one among them ryas scripture, it occasionally rose to sob- , only—while the mere country paths that portions, the whole being surmounted by came and touched the bier. "!'was lle, ; Minty. The daily wants and cares and ; wind t hrough it here and there give no a bead, which was' covered with a gray the lowly outcast Nazarene. His nutld I dangers of the petitioner went up to Hun ,no space to marching cottons. Moreau "five year old" (at least) seal skin cap.— blue eye looked sadly on the group, and I who has taught us to ask "day by day ; had advanced across this forest to the Inn, This sum total—legs, pants, feet, shoes, gushed from out his heart, all that pure for our daily bread ;" and when the faini- , where, on the Ist Or December he was at- body, and chapeau—was the property, love he brought from Heaven, towards her ly and friends had been commended to i tacked and forced to retrace his steps, and by possession, of Mr. ZENAS I [LOISPUN. whose hope was gone— was buried 'heath Him who eareth for all, the humble Ivor- take up his position on the farther side at ZENAS had been on "a bat" during the that silent pall. The sad procession stop- ,shippers arose from their knees, and pro- the village of Hohenlinden ; Here, where night previous, and had squandered ° full pea, and they that bore the corse, stood ceeded to the boat which was to convey ; one of the great roads debonehed from the half a dollar on himself, in white-eye and still. Jesus a moo - lent gazed upon that no- I them to some craft anchored at some dis- woods, lie placed Ney and Grouchy., sweetning. But his returning senses inade ble form, as in her wo the frantic mother tance from the shore. Other ears than I "The Austrians in four massiveeolumns, him feel quite philosophical , and on the had thrown back the pall from off her mine heard the morning prayer of the old . plunged into this gloomy wilderness, de- morning we speak of hint, he stood, at an lm ,—a moment looked on her, who, pilot ; and whatever fate may be his, I can- I signing to meet in thefopen plain of Holten- early hour, in _ street gazing meehani weeping, hung upon the bier—then touch- I not doubt he will be prepared to meet it I linden—the central colionn marching along call). at the telegraphic wires—soliloqui ed the stiffened hand, and calmly said, ~, I- t% ith the most perfect resignation. I the high road, while those either side sin,* thus wise is , risr." At that life-giving word, the hue ___ ma de their way through amid -the trees '.—'ic !—That's the iriergra,fi—W of health began to steal upon the dead ; The Deatli.bed of an Infidel, 'as they best could. _ —'c—well, I don't poorseive nutlike per and, like die first faint flash of dawn, the . . . . "lt was a stormy December morning —'ic—culier 'bout them strings,on'y one's ,-onir , years ago an min nlual, well known am, 1 i w lieu these seventy thousand men were bigger 'en Cother—'ic." warill hi OA mantled to the cheek and highly reTeeted, in the religious world. narraud ' brow, and light began to beam from out in my hearing (says Ford's •Damascus;) the fol• swallowed from sight in the dark defiles of - "That's the lightnite line, big 'int," said the eyes ; the lips, just parted, caught a lowing incident. I Hohenlinden. The day before it had rain- an urchin in the doorway near by. sunny smile; and, like the leaping. wave In early life, while with a colltge coe- ed heavily, and the roads were almost im- ~ When does she—'ic start ?" 4 ,, his bosom heaved beneath the dark habil- panion, he was making a tour on the con- I passable ; but now a furious snow storm "You'd better ax in that. smears of death, which lay upon his quick- tinent, at Paris, his friend was seized with darkenedi the heavens, and covered the oll'h ar ? ,, cited form. an alarming illness. A physician of great , ground with one white unbroken surface. "In the office, tip thar." With piercing ery. ,, Hc lives—he lives!" j celebrity was speedily summoned, who I The bye-paths were blotted out, and the The loafer was shown to the door of burst (ruin the mourner's lips, and on the stated that the case was a critical one, andsighing pines overhead drooped with their the building, and "by hook or crook" found the Saviours breast she fell and wept. i much w I ouln depend upon a minute atten- snowy burden above the ranks or shook his way up three flights of stairs, into the Lion to his direction. As there was' no ; them down upon the heads of' the soldiers, iTelegraphie °thee. The attendants inqui one at hand upon whom they could place as the artillery wheels smote ag a inst their I red, "what die gentleantiu had to forward ?" nitwit reliance, Cie was requested to recom- trunks. It was a strange spectacle, those f "I.7ar'ud t--'le—who's she y ,, mend some confidential and • experienced , long dark colums, out of sight of each oth- "What will you send ?" nurse. lie mentioned one, but added, ; er g stretching through the dreary forest by "Send what ?" "You may think yourself happy indeed themselves ; while the fallin,g snow sifting "This is the Telegraph office, sir." Tom Snoops. should you be able to secure her services ; ' over the ranks, made the unmarked way "Well--'ic---who'n thunder said it “I never undertook but once," said Tom, but she is so much in request among the still more solitary. The soft and yielding wusn't ?" I i't set t na ught the authority of my wife: o a higher circles here, that there is litile chance • mass broke the tread of the advaneipg hosts, “I supposed you had business, sir." You know her way—cool, quiet, but de of finding her disengaged." I while the rumbling of the artillery, and "Nuthite o' the sort—.u., quite the re— termined as ever grew. Just after we The narrator at once ordered his car- ammunition and baggage wago ns , gave forth 'ic—verse o' the- con-hairy." were married and all was nice and cosy, asound,that scented rro Aetna of "Whatwillyou(raver, Tinge, went to her residence, and much to I muffled 1 1 , his satisfaction found her at home. He , some mournful catastrophe. The centre "I want to make some 'ic—quiries'." churning. She never asked me to' do it, laiefly stated his errand, and requested column :done had a hundred cannon in its The houriieing early, and little doing, you know, but then she—why, it was her immediate attendance. train, whilebehind these were live hundred the clerks very charitably determined up done just this way. She finished break "Buton before I consent to accompany 1 wagons—die whole closed up by the slow- some (tin with the fellow, with a view to 1 fast rather before me o a pp morning, and you, permit are, sir," said she, "to ask you ,ly moving cavalry. Thus marching, it sobering him. TI he opportunity for any slipping away frorrithelliffe i she filled the a single question : Is your friend a Chris- , came ! about nine o'clock, upon Iloheplin- thing gratuitous escaped them, however— ' churn and sat it just where I could not than 1" to debauch inn, the for as theycommenceda consultation u pon , Hen, and attempted . • "Yes," he replied, "indeed he is—a , plain, when Grouchy fell uponit w ith such I the best means to benefit the intruder he hold regularly enough, and churned till the Christian in the best and highest sense of fury that it was forced back into the woods. stepped up to one of the batteries, which ; butter came. She didn't thank me but the term : a man who lives in the fear of In a moment the old forest was alive with happened, fortunately, to be but lightly ; look e d so nice and sweet about it that. I God. But I should like to know your rea- 1 echoes, and its gloomily recesses illumina- I c h arge d, and, concluding that the nobs . felt well paid. Well then the next churn son for such an inquiry 1" led with the blaze of artillery. Grouche, I were portable, he pulled his cap over his , ing day came along, she had done the same "Sir," she answered, "I was the nurse Granienu and Ney, put forth incredible ef- forehead and attempted to - remove one of : thi ng -, and I followed suit and fetched 'the that attended Voltaire in his last illness, Iforts to keep this immense force from de- the balls ; the next moment Zenas lay ! b u tt er . A g ai n and again it was done just and for all the wealth of Europe, I would ploying in ate open field. The two former stretched upon the floor ! i so, and I - was regularly in for it: every' never see another in fi del die." struggled with the energy of desperation He arose as best he could, and turned time. Not a word was said, you know. --- - to keep their ground, and although the sol- to the clerk, with lof course. Well by and bye this began to Tim Biwa: Boy.—Two boys of my die:s could not see the enemy's lines, the "Look yere, Mister—'ic—wot's your be rather irksome. I wanted she could ' acquaintance were one day on their way storm was so thick, yet they took aim at name ? 1 kin lick as many sich like skunks just ask me, but she never did, and I could'nt from school, and as they were passing a the flashes that issued from the wood, and ;.Is you as could be druv into a forty aiker say any thing abont it it, to save my life: corn-field in which there were some plum thus the two armies fought. The pine lot !- Wot in—didyer—iie—nock an So on we went. At last I made a resolve trees, lull of ripe fruit, Henry said to trees were cut in two by the artillery, innersent man down that way fen I—eh ?" I th a t I wouldn't churn ,another time unless , Thomas— and fell with a crash on the Austrian col- "Nobody touched you," said the clerk. I she asked me. Churning day came, and "Let us jump over and get some plums ; tuna, while the fresh fallen snow turned wri le ____,th e y_. , , e _didw i !" I when my breakfast—she always made nobody will see us, amid we can scud along red with the flowing blood. In the mean "No sir. You took the" • I nice breakfasts—when that was swallowed through " the corn and come out on the oth- time Riehenoanse, who had been sent by "Tok wot ? Here's yure corntemptible 1 there stood the churn. I got up, standing• er side: a circuitous rout with a single division to copper"—and proceeding to dash a loose i a few minutes just to give her a chance, Thomas said, "It. is wrong. Ido not attack the enemy's rear, had accomplish- penny towards the attendant, which lay put on my hat and walked out of ddors ! I like to try it. I would rather not have the his mission. Though his division had I upon the machine—his fingers came in con - 'stopped in the yard, to give her time'to: plums than steal 'them, and I I , guess I will been cut in two and irretrievably separated I tact with the battery, and away Ise went call me but never a word said she, and so' run along home." i'by the Austrian left wing, the brave Gen- again , I ain, heels over head, across the floor! with a pang heart I moved on. I "You are a coward," said Henry, "I al- eral continued to advance, and with only "Look yere !" continued the sufferer went dozy u p town, town, and up town and all o ways knew you were a coward, and if three thousand men fell boldly on forty who, by this time, was well nigh sobered, I ver town, and my foot was restless as'that you dou't want any plums you may go thousand Austrians. As soon as Moreau " 'od blast your infernal pictur, wot in Of Noah's dove. I felt as if I had done' without them, but I shall have some very heard the sound of his cannon through the thunder are , you 'bout ?" wrong—l didn't exactly feel how — b ut - quick. I forest, and saw the alarm it spread through "You musts% handle the tools," observ- ' there was an indescribable sensation of, 1 ! Just as Henry was climbing the fence, 1 the enemy's ranks, he ordered Ney and ed the clerk, nearly bursting with laughter. j guilt resting on me all forenoon. It seem= the owner of the field rose up from the Grouchy- to charge full upon the Austrian "Look you! Mr. Wot's-your-name— ed as if dinner time would never come, and other side of the wall, and Henry jumped centre. Checked, then overthrown, that ain't to be fooled this yer way ler nuthin'—! as for going home one minute before din back and run off as fast as his legs would , broken column was rolled back in disorder, I arn' t. By thunder ! I'm a inderpendent 1 ver. •1 would as soon have cut my qars, . carry him. l and utterly routed. Campbell, the poet, individooal, I am—and this yere nockin' i off. So I went fretting and moping a _ Thomas had no reason to be afraid. So stood in a tower and gazed on this terrible I people down, without notice of no kind, ' round town till dinner hour came. Home he stood still, and the owner of the field, 'svelte, and, in the midst of the, fight, corn- arn't the thing no how. El* you'll open ' I went, feeling very much as .a criminal who had heard the coversation between posed, in part, that stirring.ode which is that )'ere door, I'll go out o' this, and no': must when the jury is out, having in their the boys, told him he was very glad to see known as far as the English language is questions axed—" I hands his destiny—life or death. I could'nt that he :vas not willing to be a thief ; and spoken. ' ";!'gal's the floor, sir." I make up my mind exactly how she tumid then ha asked T I 'Thomas to step over into the "The depths of the dark forest swallow- "That brass handle f" meet me—but some kind of a storm lex field and help himself to as many plums as ed the struggling- hosts from sight ; but “y es , ,, _ !peered. Will you believe it —she never he wished. The boy was pleased with still there issued forth from its bosom "I'm Wowed ef you do, though ! This I i greeted me with a sweeter smile—never the invitation, and was not slow in filling shouts and yells, mingled with the thun- child don't meddle with no more hard I I am, a better dinner for me than on that his pockets with the ripe fruit. I der of canon, and all the confused noise of ware in this trap, no how !" I day; but there stood the churn just where . Which of these boys was brave, the battle. The Austrians were utterly rout- The door was opened by the clerk, and ' I left it ! Not a word was said, I felt • one who called the other a coward, but I ed, and the frightened cavalry went the fellow sidled out. A suppressedlaugh ; 1 confoundedly out, and every mouthful of ran himself; or the one.who said he would ' plunging through the crowds of fugitives pervaded the countenance of the attendant,' that dinner seemed as if it would choke . not steel, but stood his ground I I into the woad—the artillery-men cut their as Zenas deptwed, Which, as th 6 door clo- me. She didn't pay any regard to it, how . ,-- ----, -- I traces, and leaving their guns behind, sed, vented niilllf in a broad haw-haw. ever, but went on just as if nothing hap DR %MING A TOOTII.---.A. countr - • • rn." l mounted their horses and galloped away— I y • ipencil. Before dinner was over I had a " " y ou ' re re a smar t young gentleman—you , learning - that in London the dentists were , and the maffnilivent column, as sent l • '-} are !" bawled the loafer. through the key- gain resolved, and shoving back my chair so skillful that they could extract teeth , rs i some violent explosion, was hurled in shat- I le as he held the door fast with both 11 marched to the churn and went at it just' in the wink of an eye, without pain, and tered Iran. •d 1 , , as moots on every st e. or miles , • ishands—"you're a very smart young man, lin the old way ! Splash, drip, rattle, being afflicted with an obdurate tooth, , the while ground was sprinkled with dead may be. You'd like to nit out of that, and I splash, drip, rattle-1 kept it up. As Win' which for reasons best known to itself, had , bodies, "" d when the battle left th e forest, go may ver breakfast, binieby, may be I An' 1 spite, butter never was so long coming !--- apparently made a solemn resolution to and the pine trees again stood calm and r -s ~' 1 gitrub afore noon, jes ret Isu d the cream, standing so long, had, 3 ei. t o any g, , 1 ppose q..-.. embitter the poor fellow's existence, he s u m in the • . •1 t • . te win ty mg 1 , pmetem b ,- a cries a feller 'bout my size know it—will yer ? I got warns, and so I redoubled my efforts., sat one day in solemn dilgeon, after has.- I and groans issued out of the gloom in e - I ' 'll teachtoknock people down scrim ver • I- Obstinate matter—the afternoon wore'; which, i ing tested all the nostrums of the village, cry direction su ff erer answering suffe er ' taneously for nothin ; I will"—and, from way while I was churning. I paused, which, strange to say, though they had as i h Ise ay and writhed on the cold snow. the preparations making on the outside, last from real exhaustion, when 09 spoke : helped every body, would not alleviate him Twenty thousand men were scattered the prospect was thatthe in t - "• s'ders" IVere for the first lilac: “C Tom,.dear - ome my ~, in the least degree. Slapping one hand there amid the trees, while broken car -1 you have rattled that butter-milk 414i1e.A to be made prisoners. on his thigh, he exclaimed : riages and wagons and deserted guns, A thought struck the attendant. Ile dis- , lung enough, if its only for fun you,,are ~I 'll go to Lunnun, an' I'll hey it out !" • 1 a spleam. perfect wreck around. connected the wire, and placing it in eon- I doing it !" . bob 1 I knew , how it was in a. . And sure enough, he did go to “Lunntm." • i tact with the nob of the door upon the out- ! She hail brought the butterirk the fosenoque. The man what draws teeth applied his in- c , Ma," said an _exquisite little girl, "will, 1 strument, and out flew the tormenter as if rich and poor people live together when let thebattery.and left the churn standing with the butter-. 0 side, his companion . on I . . _ • . w ithi to • by magic. they go up to heaven I" ()mute Tito door flew open instantaneously and I milk in, for me to ex , “What is the dam - titre ?" I "Yes, my dear, they will all be alikeskin ca i I never sot u for myself in house Id our valiant stranger, with the seal 1, , P 1 is was discovered m the act of ad anti-angu- ; matters after that.''—Barrie tiarare. "Five shillings t" 1. there." "Pi - ye shilling s !" roared the petri fi ed "Then, ma, why don't rich and poor I lar descent downstairs, the side of his head I b scraping the pa i nt from the edges of the bumpkin ; "Why the blacksmith of our 1 Christians! associate together here ?" , _ his , . steps, and legs, meantime, performing village dragged one all around the room,and , The mother did not answer. an involuntary piroette, which would have only asked sixpence for all his trouble!" I -- done infinite credit to a French dancing master. It so chanced that Zenas had purchased 3% . buach of lucifer ut.itelm4 the night be • / The Child at the Dab, 'Fite Brooklyn Eagle 'blind the follow ing eloquent anecdote in the journal of a traveller in the East : A little child - That lightly diaws its breath, And feels it, in every Unit:— What should it hnow 0'6;010 A t Smyrna, the bjirial ground of the Ar-, ntenian, like that of the Moslem, ;is rcmo ved a short distance front the town,, is sprinkled with green trees, and is a favor ite resort, not only with the bereaved, but With those whose feelings arc not thus darkly overcast. l'inet there one morning a little girl, with a halt' playful counters ••,..,.+, 1„.„, y moo o,y-0., and uu rtny lockg r ! hearing in one hand a small cup of china, in the other a wreath of fresh tlowers.H Feeling a very natural curiosity to know, what she could do with these bright.thinas in a place that seemed to partake so intu7h • of sadness, 1 watched her light motions. Reaching a retired grave, covered -with a: plain marble slab, she emptied the seed. whieh it appeared the cup contained—into the slight cavities which had been scoped out in the corners of the level tablet, and laid the wreath upon its pure face. "And why," I inquired, "my sweet girl, do you put seeds in those little bowls there ?" "It is to bring the binds here,'' she re plied, with a hall wondering look, "they will light on this tree," pointing to the cy , press above, "when they have eaten the sced,-and sing." i "to whom do they sing ?" I asked, "to you, qr to each other !" "Oh, nol" she quickly replied, "to my sister—she sleeps here." "lint your sister is dead." "Oh, yes, sir! but she hears all the birds Beautiful Scene, GETTYSBURG, PA. •FRIDAY EVENING, _NOVEIIriIE The path.of duty leads to the heni•en of 11l qualiOs are catching,. as Well as dis- peace and light, let the way be ever so thorny. eases, and the mind is as mueh.if not wore Go only steadfastly on, weary pilgrim, go, iittble hu inft'etion than . the body.. gv, and thou' slailt reach-the promised land. /, • . • "FEARI.r.ss AND 1 . 44 z. E 20, 181 6. [From the New York Spirit of the Times.] !lppl►ing the Principle. BT THE YOUNG ' UN. 0 TERMS-.TwO DOLLARS PER . ANN 1',11.] IV 110 L E iV0.598. fore, which had been deposited in his coat pocket. In his progress down, the match= es had become ignited, and by thelimehe had reached the first flight he•had partially recovered from the first effects of . "the ; shock"—but the fluid tingled through hilt veins, his coat tails were on fire, and he was not "set forward" in his imagination any, by this last effort of his tormentor's: He discovered the are, and presumhigit was part and parcel of the "cussidinveinr ion," he sprang to his feet, and with: both hands briskly at- work behind him for-the purpose of smothering- the ilan3e, which was roasting the seat of his ine.Npressibles* he "put" for the street door at full gallop ! "Fire ! fire ! help ! Jere! o-oh! murd. lire ! help !" shouted the victim as-he dare ed into the street. Away lie dashed towards Baltimore at a speed which the "lightnin' line" itself might have been proud of. Luckily, a square off, he discovered a servant with.a hose attached to one of the hydrants, busi ly engaged in washing off the pavement. lie rushed to the spot, and turning 'short before hint—a posteriori—he begged him, at the top of his voice, "for God's sake, to put him out !" Perhaps .his sable friend's eye did'nt glisten, and may-be his "ivory" did'nt shine, as he charitably turned "the current of that stream" upon the unmentionable portion of' the poor devil's netherments ! "The fire was extinguished' without seri ous damage," as the papers say—the loaf er was thoroughly saturated—and . havini exchanged his "heavy inside wet" for skin-drenching, he departed, perfectly so ber, amidst the jeers of theerowd who had witnessed the finale—most vocifdrotisly cursing all improvements in magnetism and combustibles ! A pedlar overtook another of histlvitte:. on the road, and thus accosted-him,: 'Hal, 10, friend what do you carry r' tvhiskey.' was the prompt repiY;'- do d said tipo other, 'you may go , ts head; • 10116 4 1 ry grae-stories r • Above,all dulls never deip, r?' )
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