ONE DOLLAR. A YEAR IN ADVANCE.] YEW SERIES, VOL. 1, NO. 42.1 CHARRICK. IVESTBROOK7 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Office—Front Street, three doors above Locust Taints. —The Cohustata Sry is published every Saturday morning at the low price of ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE, or one dollar a•nd fifty 0011113, If not paid within one month of the time of subscribing. Single copies, THREE CENTS. TERMS ar AD VEILTISI so—Advertisements 1101 exceed ing a square three nines for SI. and 25 cents for each additional insertion. hose of a greater length in pro portion. librral discount made to yearly :Myer risers. JOB PRISTIVO Sochi no Hand-bills, Posting-bills, Cards. Labels, Pamphlets, Blanks of every description Circulars, etc.etc. r e xecut ed with n eatness and despatch and on reasonableterms. HERB. DRIESALLCII, THE Great Lion Tamer, upon being asked the other day, in what manner ae was enabled to have such wonderful influence with Wunimals," replied wnh great truth: "De firm to purpose and keep your e” steady upon what you undertake and you must be sae cessful!" This Men explains the extraordinary success at the " BEI: vi here it is crowded with the lovers of Corner: 13mtrilkiNs here heavy Unbleached rl uslin worth 10 cents, is now telling for 11l etc. per yard. Fine bleached 4-1 inus. Fast col. Nlrine Good Pocket llundkfs., Linen Cambric •, worth 10 cts. selling for 11 •• 12 " " 121 12k " lii 25 t‘ " 121 15 " " 10 " 10 " i.Ol, Calicoes, A lot of lloisery very cheap. Ladies' open worked \Mtn Cotton Hose, eta ; they arc s cry desirable and worth 50 cents per pair. A lot of heavy Irish LIIICII4, a great bargain, they were bought subject to a few water saints and n ill be %old off very cheap. Sias. de Laines for the Spring worth 25 cents. now selling for 12:. Mode col. Lustre.. Satin striped Quakernmes—n beautiful article for dresses. The above goods, together with n large lot of desirable bargains. have just been received and will be sold im mediately at a small ads once tor rash CHAS. wEyrz & 13110. AT TIM BEE 111 VD. North queen street. 10 doors north of the l'u,t °thee. Lancaster, February 2t3, 191i.—tf DOCTOR PULLEN'S INDIAN Yegelable Panacea.---Messrs. liowand Ze 0 alma lietalemem—llaving expo rienced the extraordinary ellicitey of your Dr. Calico's Indian Vegetable Panacea upon my own person, it feels mg of gratitude for 3 oar W onderful discovery, and 11 Aettre that your Medicine should be known anal appreci• uteri by the piddle. hie-induced me thus solinitatrlc to give yon 1111 Ileeollll2 or tily ea,. Impair, that others nho may be so unfortunate it, I law e been, may be induced to throw prep/alter aside and give !. our Panacea IL fair trial. In February. 1.411, a lump or Toinor first appeared up tin the spine of Illy right leg. and another on :he lower part of my breast near the macticia of the ritoi.; they M ere:l,4lA gradually until the earl) part of .1110, aboat which lime the) became very mund. In J My. the 'l'm inor on the leg ulcerated and bee:item a Tantalus , sore, extei,ding until it was half the i-ize of n 10011 s hand, and had eaten into the hone, and one or two ‘ttailler ul eters appeared below. near the uncle. :My phy,ician and others pronounced it Scrofula lip to this mac every remedy u , eil gave no relief; the leg continued to get Worse ; 111.1rIng the early part of August my ~tifferings Were intense: I neither went to bed nor slept regularly for ttearls two weeks, being compelled to set lip, with my leg supported on a ch.,. About this tune. my son biouglit home with him toad Cincinnati minket one of )our Circular.. m 111011 find been thrown 1100 the I rend n, and know Mg •01114• of the signers to the Certifi t ate of the elite of : I .lr. 11 100110, and belie% lag from my knowledge of their chart...lets, that they Would mot lead their 11:111100 for the 11111 111 w of pattrung an imposition upon the pahlic, I entlelittled to try svliat riled II W ould have upon me. On the 21111, of AneaA. I procured 1110 tirSl bottle, I.olllllleoeeli 1:114.1110 a acctoriling to direction, and w four hums the pant WU, , 0 1111-Wil relieved that I tell twleep, and t nun> ed that greatest of blessings, n fine hour, rerOse, I I 011 , 111111.'d 1141111: it Until the 2 , tii 01 el gum. xvileu 1 fotaid ..elf sr, 11111011 1 witer, that I went to a *lneinuati to )our ,)gent, Mr..l W. 1 111114`1111114, 1 1 . , Willi WllOlll I made arrangements to take .20 Imult•,, provided he would guarantee at Ito cure me. Ile agreed to 110 an, nail gal, 1110 inn liege 01 stoptung shot t of the 00 bottle , , whenever I ronnuirred ni3 Nvell I isms' felt encoanageal, and columned to use it under llr 111- F.truenon,. until I had taken 12 guiles, (wing on other 11104111.1111: W 111110,4,0 %ellen I 1 : 011111i on self entirely Well. the TIIIIIOI . 011 Illy breast la, mg softened, opened. came mit. and 11 h4•11111/3 1111 Will.11111:111 taken 11 or 7 Lodes. Will lucre ol,ert r. 111:11 for 111:411y y ears I had I/Vell bled W Ith a 1,11111 01 dry „loch greatly aim") ell Inc.particularly when heated or warm In brit: I litwe felt nothing of Mi. ,iinte taking )otlr 111141 110 11011111 111111 111, , !. ..101111,110Wetillrely tree wool disease, ow-general health - Iles er has mg been better. On the ;Al rot - December.' agam called i(poll lir Daiwa hower. I then pronounced 111)..clf nen, and mimed to gisc hat a Certificate to the elloct. , Melt 1 pi ouit,tl to send him mIL re,. du, S. A short time after this, w hilat killing my hogs.) hurt the same leg badly : in cons•Nuenee 01 „1114'11 1 140,11 1 1011e1i 121,111 g tile pronts.ed wishing thoroughly to test the permanency lit the L itre, 1 110,V 111011 11011111Ig 11111 the 11,11111 511m1110 rented., for irrsh minds• and mutat my flesh perfectly lwalthy. and alt the usual time tor such cures my leg healed. I , iillicient time 11011.011 to ronvinee me that I 11111 110 W II .001111 11141, and that I have been cured li) ),4111. Pant:el, ainuo 111 short, 1 have every confidence In it, virtues. Per-na, desirous or 0bl:1111111g nuther partienlitr, ran be gratified by calling at to re-nlinice DAVID Alialy count Ohio. Ctrl or Cr~rzssarl. s,.—Pereonnlh appearoil ins. the ,ffiserther. :\ la) or of the sad city. 1)11510 liirgaii. who living sworn. deposes mid say , that the met, -et forth in the fortgontg ,ateinent are true. Lm testllllolly Whereof, I base het:011110 set Illy unite. nail 01u , 11 the Commute Seal of the stud etty to he allittail, Iles, the Ith day of Alureli, 1 11. E. SPI , NCER, Mayor. Whole.ale and Retail. by 110 \\*AND A. Proprietor, :1711 Market st.. Philadelphia. WA!. A. LEA DER, Catawba, : .1. T. A:\ 1.14,12n•0N : Marietta. l'n 2 and GE011131: ROSE, Elizabeth Pa. March 4, 1,17.—.2111. NEW GOODS. Ilie AVM , . & tI, S. e .l'ATT Ol. tn,cus of c. . , Aft i er , rct i urning y thpi l li , s e ...cry liberal share of patronage loe-itowed upon them du ring the past spring and ..111111111.1 M-ould adam Cali their attention to their new stock 01 PALI, AND WIN GOODS. consisting of Cloaking , . French. English and German do—Coburg', l'arainott,, , ,11141 I'lr.id Dees, Good,. Plant. Plaid nod ()tory colored Ca-litileres Ca/1- loran, and Lanni Fluid Bonnumnes Alp:terns Mexienn. Buena Vista and Cerro Gordo Phials Woolen do. Supc rtor quality Loudon Gln , -y Alpio•eas, Lustre Plaid :tad ,taped do SI I. \WI Ca-bumre. Terkerra. Ennormder &e. Plain Thlt.et. : , 11k aria Wool Frincse,. Plum and Plaid Cloth do New t) le Belgian CLOTHS non hug, :assortment ofCluths. West of England and Freneli Cloths and Ca...linen-, ve ry line, nod extra width-131w, tiro, n. Drab. Olive. In vvsible (:risen. mixed and Black. British and American Cloths—l'hun and Fancy Cli , simeres Sonnets, Kentucky ]canes. both plain and striped. Ben ',teen., Vol vet 33,3..1; coarse Cloths and cry low. Complete assortment of Boys' Wear, woolen and wors ted, velvet and satin N'estings plain and ficitred. Ticking find Drillings. Flannels. Welsh Online and shrouding Mon itch, assorted colors. domestic and canton Flaunt 1 , . as sorted. Gloves and llo , iery. kid, silk. buck and 5, °ohm Gloves and Mitts. silk. lamb's wool mid cotton Hose. French Linen Cambric Handkerchief , . very low. Fur nishing Goods, Blankets. 'Wool and Rag Carpets of the best quality. floor and table Oil Cloths. Fenthers.Loohing Classes, Umbrellas, China and Queensware. Fresh Gro ceries. superior Teas Just imported. Campliene and Immo Oils, Mackerel by tile barrel. Salt by the sack. new crop Sugars. strained Ifoney. Jr.e. Our Goods have been selected with greet care for cash. besides are all new and free from moth eat or damage We therefore feel ourselves able and willing to sell low for cash. and give every satisfaction to those who may call to examine our goods at the. New Cheup Cash Store. corner of Front mid Locust street Columbia, Nov. 6. 1 , 347.-tf W. tc. S. I'A'rTON. STOVES T" Subscribers have constantly on hand a full :th,ortnent of mood, coal, and cooking Stoves of every size and deserfption. cannon stoves. Also, tread enburg's patent Air-Tight Parlor stoves, which has given full satisfaction to all etotes • I'hc public ore invited to call and exurtuna for theinsel,,, nt thr Hardware 'lo re of Octal---tf HU:NIMES. IIESS. VO7I.XG-72'T'S TRW VEGETABLE PILLS, or Indian Purgative, and Indlan 'Vegetable S rup, warranted grnolika. For sale by Lau:2ll7-lf. IL IVII.LIANIS. ANTI-AGI7III MIXTURE.—A Warranted cure for Fever and Ague. For sale by. R. WILMA:3IS. N. 13. There is none Fenuine but that sold by me. THE COLUMBIA SPY Zelect Ztorics. MRS. PR,ING_LE. Cleanliness next to Godline,- Nothing could exceed the prettiness of the sub urban cottage to which Murk Pringle took home his ilea ly married wile, except (and such a compar ison is indeed odious) the prettiness ut the lady her self. What a picture she was! with her dark sparkling eyes, sharp, clear, and regular features, and " we bit mote," fresh as u rosebud, but thin as its leaf, and her skin so al:Len in texture, and lucid in complexion. Oh ! those English women ! What a debt of amiability they owe nature for her favor itism. Then her neatness was exquisite—such hair. breadth nicety—such unrumpled placitude in cuffs arid collars,—always looking, as the vulgar say, (the term is a very apt one) us if she was in print. How she mannaged I know not, for site was by no means one of those persons who sit in a room, like waxen ladies in a glass case, merely lb be looked at; on the contrary she was a very active, bustling little person, even in her lather's house; but ex ert herself us she would, no soil was ever contract ed—no crease incurred—she was still perfect— still in in ; every fold falling just as it should do, every plait precise, as if laid so, with the fixture, that kept unmoved the glossy bands of her hair. Everybody has seen Mark Pringle's place, or its ditto, so great a likeness exists in all subarban cottages—the stuccoed front, Swiss roof, Elizabeth an chimneys and Gothic windows; the always. green, triady-kept gruss-plot.; with its pretty flower. beds, whereof the mould looks rich-colored and smooth as the dust in our grand-mother's agate snuffbox, the park-wirefence, the polished door, the shining knocker, the glittering windows, with their emeriorjalounies, and muslin relief curtains; the scrupulously pipe-clayed path, with the locked gate at the end of it ; these things arc as familiar to my readers us the figure of Achilles, to the keep ers of Hyde Park. Alai now fancy Mrs. Pringle "at home," the newness of wi'elmod a little worn off, and a natu ral disposition for setting to rights beginning to develope itself. Pour Murk ! how happy he was watching her move hither and thither, like a very incarnation of order, putting in form the chaos of a month's bachelor's housekeeping ; how good-na turedly he stood by to sec odd gloves, song-Books, bits of string, cigars, old letters—the rogue had ta ken good care nut a single line in a feminine hand should be amongst them—thrown out from the well-filled drawers, to make room for the snowy linen and delicately scented sachets of Mrs. Prin gle's regime; and what world of importance was in the arched eyebrows and compressed lips of the new wife—the queen despotic in her little empire of housewifery. Order certainly looks very pretty in a week-old bridal cap and with peignoir, and so Mark Pringle fancied ; by-and-bye, however, he began to think a little rest would he as well—she was always setting to rights ! There are some women (and Mrs. Pringln was one of them) who start in life with the idea that the golden rule of domestic comfort is comprised in two words—cleanliness and economy. Instead of considering them as mere appliances, they put them in the place of the principal, and believe themselves exceedingly ill-used when their practice is found unproductive of the expected effect. If one be neat and thrifty, they say, what excuse can a man have for leaving his home and neglecting his wife 1 Alas! will these cold characteristics, wanting the sweet and simple influence of a loving and intelli gent nature, satisfy the heart, or make a man's home happy? lam certain nut; but let Mrs.Prin gle's story tell far itself. It wes a love match on Mark's side—one of in terest un the lady's; her pretty face and neat per. son, joined to her character for notableness, had ar rayed her in is eyes with all the attributes one wishes in the being he loves; and blinded by her preference (for Rose Cottage and the adjuncts) into a belief oh her affection for hint, he conceived him. sell, en the day of his marriage, fairly started on the high-road to domestic happiness," fireside en joyments." &c., &e. . On the other hand, Mrs Pringle labored under no such poetical hallucina tions. She entered upon her duties as if they were such only; determined, however, to be faultless in the fulfilment of them—to be the most correct, most economical, roost cleanly—in fact the model wife of the neighborhood ! To the working out of these principles, she brought out a most extensive know ledge of abstereents—no end of receipts for furni ture polish, and the concoctions of family dishes upon a system of frugality that might make Mrs. Child's young houses ife blush for her extravagance. Thus, with cleanliness on one side, and economy on the other, she took the scat of limier at her husband's tearth. And from such supporters much might be expected ; but she overworked them to opposite ends from those they were intended to produce. The wedding visits received and paid, Mrs.Prin gle felt herself at liberty to commence her altera tions, and emendations ad libitum. 'rite drawing room (as of most importance) was attacked first; with the physical aid of her one servant, a rapid revolution was effected. Talk of rule and compass regularity, here it was developed to its utimpit practicableness. Mirrors were moved, pictures transposed from an arnstical light to the very worst, because they wanted an azimuth of her nice per ception of uniformity; the cozy fire-side conches decorously drawn back to the walls ; the scattered choirs called to order, and tirade to fill in side by ' side, with regimental precision, while the ottoman force was dispee.ed of altogether, as being too irre guitar ; and lastly having lavished no end of drug,- get on the carpet, and brown holland on the chairs and sofas: the curtains were bagged, the blinds drawn down, and Mrs. Pringle, taking one blond view of the subdued twilight interior, turned the key in the door, and withdrew it to be placed in one of those undiscovcrable depositories that some how mistresses of families contrive, unknown to every one else. Then, her out-door touches were upon the same equable principles. Plants were tied up, and bran elms pruned into patterns of floral propriety, and not even a struggling pollees (things that arc so hard to be restrained) could be found peeping its iris eye over the boundary of the harebell border ing. Morning aftt.r morning, with a little basket on liar arm, and scissors in her carefully gloved hand, might Mrs. Pringle be seen threading t h e little knots of flowers, decolating the drooping blossoms before they had time to die, and cutting off decayed leaves as if there was no bleeding sap to follow. 1 have strange fancies with reg.rd to vegetable life. They have sexes and sympathies; arc childless when separated; instincts, too, np. preaching almost to intelligence, they sleep. Who shall say they me not sentient? By my wad, in these days of discovery, 'iis worthy the stircntion of scientific societies, and the magnifier at the Po lytechnic! Let gardeners look to it—there may be more in cutting off the head of a cabbage than has hitherto come between " heaven and their phi. losophy." "Sally," raid Mr. Pringle (he had just returned by omnibus from his office in the city) to the maid who ran down to unlock his own gate to him, "Sally, is • nt your mistress well 7" "Law, yes, sir," answered the girl, perfectly as tonished at the question. AND LITERARY REGISTER. COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1848. " I thought," said Mr. Pringle, " from seeing the drawing-room blinds down she might have had a head-ache, and laid down." " Oh! no, sir, only tnissus was afraid of the sun's taking the damask curtains." "Oh !" said Mark, walking on, pondering, in likelihood; the capabilities of the sun for petty larceny, and not altogether sceptical on the point. himself—though he added, in an undertone, "It has a cold, uncomfortable look from the road; but a wife cannot be too careful." It happened that mark Pringle had left his home on this morning at an earlier hour than he had ever done since their marriage. Business required his presence sonic distance from town, and the hours of absence had appeared really long to him; and, as he crossed the threshold of his home, his heart seemed bounding in to meet his wife; but %its. Pringle had not yet finished the adjustment of a supernumerary cover fur the sitting room sofa, and instead of going forward to meet and welcome Dint as she had hitherto dune, she continued to pin rind unpin the difficult affair, in a vain endeavor to make it sit like upholsterers; but Pringle was neither an exacting, nor very sensitive man, and seeing her so busy, he was going to take the kiss she was too engaged to give him, when she sudden ly exclaimed, wholly unheeding his affectionate intention, and with a look and tone of absolute disdress: "Oh ! Pringle, do look at your feet-marks; you arc so careless in walking, and have actually come in without wiping your hoots!" Mark very quietly slipped into the hall, and re lieved liis soles of the power of making any im pressions; but he made no effort to carry off the in. tended caress—though this circumstance proved no bar to his lady's intensity of application in finish ing before dinner her task of covering the sofa squads. That day, for the first time, Mark Pringle non lyzed the dishes; and highly creditable as the in vestigation must have turned out for the invention and economy of the contriver, it said but little fur the state of the larder, and less for the skill of the cook ; and Pringle, who was rather curious in his cuisine in the days of his hachelorship, ventured to hint that the sum allowed for house-keeping ought to nfford better dinners. Mrs. Pringle laid down her knife and fork, look them up again, looked ear nestly at her husband, and burst into tears. "She was sure she did the best sho could with the money ; she had laid none out that he did not know of; nothing for herself; it was all in the house, and intended for his comfort." And the lady pushed away her plate, sat back in her chair, her bosom heaving, her brow gatheied up with every evidence of marital affliction, and her little foot beating the floor, with a rapidity an lid ward Turner might have envied. Mr. Pringle, in Ins turn, was greatly moved ; he rose from his seat, assured her that for a moment he never doubted that, but that such a continuation of stews did not do for him; lie thought a soup and joint, with variation of fish and poultry could be afforded; and he seconded the amendment by wiping away these first tears from the smooth check of his young wile with his own cambric, and pressing her, very re•assuringly, to his breast. • It was but a word—he meant not to find fault with her management—it was really wonderful in. one so new to all that sort of thing. but his ride had made bins hungry, and there was little or no. ling to cat." N'importe, Mrs. Pringle felt that she had con quered—she played with her pocket handkerchief, —looked down at her little fingers, and up ut her husband's face, and finally finished liar dinner, and took wine with him. And, though for a day or two, the bill of fare was altered, it soon returned to its primal two joints a week, with certain dish es of the genus "botch•potch," but what particular species Mark Pringle never satisfactorily asccr• mined. Time wore on, and the Mistress of Rose Cottage fully established her reputation as the most notable person in the neighborhood. "As particular as Mrs Pringle," became a sort of domestic by-word; and "Look how beautiful Mrss. Pr ingle's windows are kept," or, "Just see the way in which the Pringle's path is cleaned," the daily charge of mistresses to their maids. But, in the meantime, poor Pringle began to grow sceptical as to the reality of " cleanliness be ing next to godliness," an axiom on•which Mrs. Pringle worked in the most literal way imaginable. It filled the place of every other virtue, and pu• rifled, in her selfloving eyes, many an actual vice. Old friends (who serve, by association, to keep a wake old affection and human sympathies) were soon banished front their hearth. Who would visit where the drawing of a chair from its accustomed place, or putting down your hat or parasol on one forbidden, so dascomposed• the hostess that she scarcely restrained herself from removing them in your presence, and looked unhappy till your depar ture gave her an opportunity of putting things straight again? OF course, hospitality was out of the question ; and, as fur twice Messed charity in keeping the entrance gate locked, she boasted of having shut out the annoyance of beggars, and Itad at the SLUM time, closed her cars to the a ppcalings of want, and her eyes front the sweet exercise of beneeolence. Her husband's comfort was as nothing to the ri diculous exact inns ol her white-washed and polished Penates ; every appliance of enjoyment was turned into a source of discontent, and that quality that can make rugs decent, and the meanest cot res pectable, heed:lie (by being carried to the extreme) the bane of a (mine replete with 'every means for domestic h.ippiness. Upon the principle of a " place fur mcry thing. and everything in its place," china and plate, &c., were locked up for show, and common article substituted fur their own use. Willow-pattern dell did duty for u double service of china, and the worst specimens of potte ry-ware fur the elegant equipage of Mark's bathe. for tea-table; the house stag sheeted from the attics to the ball, for fear of soiling or wearing the carpets; the mahogany polished to such a specimen of per. fection that it became too fine for use, and poor Mark dined on water-zeuntchy, served on a deal ta ble ; if he threw himself on a sofa, a look, lilac a pangof uneasiness, spread over Mrs. Pringle's face, lest lie should put the cushions out of shape, or disarrange the false cover; he scarcely dared approach farther than the scraper in his boots, and had only the privilege of one peg in his own hall where lie might unobstructedly hang up his hat. As for books, it was a treason to disturb them. There they stood like the artificial volumes in the hiatus of a library; to all appearance books; but no ono ever saw a gap in their closely marshalled array. It distured Mrs. Pringle for the day to see a chasm between them, and whenever Mark did inwardly read," no sooner was the book out of his hand, than the regulating fingers of Mrs. Prin gle were upon it, and, in an instant, it was restored to its place. " A wife cannot be too careful," M ould whisper to himself, as the only solace under this "iron rule ;" but even this comforting belief by de grees wore itself out, and he felt that the extreme of carefulness for a man's property frequently in volves carelessness for himself. Poor Mn.s Pringle if ever the elements of housewifery were embodied in !Inman form, it was in thine Nothing else seemed to have any inter est for her—she went to bed tired of the doings of to-day, to dream of the doings of tomorrow; and yet, you would fancy, that like the Belides, her task was a hopeless and a never-ending one; for I need not tell my readers, that a disposition for setting to rights is not contented with one great radical change, and an after continuation of its principles. No, no ! every morrow brought its al terations and improvements . ; there was a genius of ambition even in the Imusetnaid's pail; and having set the example, Mrs. Pringle knew it required con- Untie! exertion to keep in advance ; but, as unre mitting attention (whatever be its object) is always rewarded with success, Mrs. Pringle soon des- I lanced all competitors, and was left without a sin gle rival ; but something inore than notableness is necessary in woman to give her an intelligent man's estimation, that shall make her, in every sense of the term a help meet for him. And Mark, no longer under the thraldom of passion, began to wonder at his own want of discernment in the , choice he had made. Your martinets in ultra cleanliness have seldom much of the dove in their disposition, and have much the same idea in seold• ing their maids that sea-captains entertain in swearing at their seamen, viz., "duty is not to be be done without it ;" and, therefore, Mark had frequently to listen to the rehearsal of the lady's grievances—Sally's pert answers and provoking wags; how she was found rubbing the table the wrong way of the grain, and had used the plate leather for the fire irons. Poor man ! AVlint could he do in such business? His common-places were soon worn thread-bare by frequent using, and his wife pronounced him the most apathetic and indif ferent person, because, in the midst of these diurnal details, he frequently fell asleep. They had children, specimens of needle work ' and neatness, looking forever like the wax-models in u baby-linen ware-house, the wonder and admi ration of all the mothers in the vicinity. I'oor Mark ! he fancied that in them he should have something on which to lavish the fondness of his nature, unchecked by the fear of disarranging the elicvcaux, or coming into collision with clear-starch ed collars, "but Ire was such a bear !" he hugged the little things so close that their lace borders were crumpled, and their long robes, or short frocks (as the case might be) rendered altogether unfit to be seen ; besides, he made them so wild and noisy, she really wished he would not give her more trou ble than was necessary with them." So Mark grew later in coming home of an even ing ; his quiet, good temper became irrascible and peevish, and frequent altercations widening via a matter of course) the breach in their domestic comfort ; the lady upbraiding her husband with change, anti he retaliating that he had but herself to blame, having by her extravagant notions of cleanliness made hiscomfortable home a purgatory to him, and every thing in it a source of fault finding, And when sire, upon this grew pathetic and hysterical, assuring him of her never ending exertions to make his house the "observed of all observers," the envy of husbands with untidy wives, and compared her selflimposed continuousness of action to the unrest of a galley-slave, a horse in a wheel, a toad under a harrow, and several other touching assimilations of enduring exertions, Mark Pringle put on his hat, consigning cleanliness to dark places, and her ideas of eninfort to the—we may not write it, and then sought, in the parlor of an inn, the enjoyment denied him in his own. Years passed away. Mrs. Pringle's eyes were bright as ever, but her checks were thinned, tend tire lines upon tier brow repeated till they had become indelible. She had tasted real vexations, had grown intimate with many bitter cares; and these things always exercise one of two effects—they either humanize or harden the heart. She thought of Mark's abounding love for her—a tithe of which she had not deserved—in the early days of their marriage, of his long endurance of her wilfulness, and even iolence ; she looked around, to do justice to her system, at the well-preserved comforts, nye, even luxuries, with which her rooms were filled; she thought of her husband's respectability, of his naturally kind dispositions his irreproachable cha racter, slowly falling away into negligence, morpse• ness, and, alas! it was to he feared, dissipation, and she felt how utterly worthless of such a sacrifice hod been the imbecile vanity that had induced it. Selflreprouch, in reviewing the blessings we have lost, wears magnifying-glasses; and poor Mrs. Pringle at once saw that she had trifled away hop piness Sir a profitless pre-eminence, a comfortless distinction, affecting rather her qualifications for an upper housemaid than her duties as a wife and mother; and here a pang, if possible, more sharp than those occasioned by her husband's frequent absences, piereca her heart as she recalled to herself lions in the midst of their pleasant play, the sound of' her coming footsteps fell like the foreshadow. ITT of sonic dreaded thing, nulling the laughing voices of her children into timid whispers, and throwing an invisible chain over their free steps and graceful motions! Poor children ! in their mother's presence they moved with fear and trem bling, and escaped from it, with rejoicing, to seek, in the indulgence of servants, and the privilege of their apartments, that freedom that the young, of of all created things, delight in. Something must he wrong ! Mark was scarcely an evening at borne. She hind no friends to comfort her, not even her children's affection to fall Mick upon, and the neut. tress of their dress, the order of lier flower garden, the unapproachable precision of her household ar rangements, those three feathers, " per eseellener," wherewith she had hitherto plumed her cap of self approval, began to have a weight and weariness in them, and the vacuum in her woman's heart to yearn for something more than the fame of nota bleness—in fact, to want the approbation of her own family, and affection, where now she awaken , ed fear; and, hard as was the task, where tire sub duing was all on her own side, Mrs. Pringle nt length achieved it. The desolation of a heart, in its own ironic, is a fearful thing, and has but one real resource—a resource that involuntarily it turns to—the secret tears of affliction have in them the aspirations of a wounded spirit, and when were these unheard! she began to ace clearly her path of duty—to feel that with her it rested to make home the nucleus of her family's happiness or dis. comfort; and silent her work of reform began ; her system of cleanliness was unaltered, but it began to sit like the frill of cheerfhlness, instead of the stiff collar of particularity ; she insensibly drew close to her the hearts of her children, and unob trusively recalled her husband's affection ; her pretty face, worn bypetly annoyances, and latterly, as wo have seen, by some real cares, once more re gained its loveliness, with the improvement of atniable expression; and there is not now a happier couple than Mark Pringle and his wife—lief only regret, the years lost in pattern house-keeping. Some may probably fancy Mrs. Pringle a pen and ink caricature; but the character is a real one, and not even drawn at full length. I knew her in both phases of it, as the " particular Mrs. Pringle ;" and—after the abjuration oilier false creed," clean liness next to godliness,"—as one of the most a greeable, kind 'hailed persons imaginable; and from herself did I have these confessions. If i remember, the immediate cause of her self awakening, was a conversation she accidentally overheard between her children—those simple rea- Boners, whose arguments, though deep rooted as truth or the water lily, must be as pure and appa rent as its floating petals. [51,50, PAYABLE AT SIX lIIONTES. From Chamber,' Journal HISTORY OF A DESERTED SAILOR On the morning of Saturday, the sth of May, upwards of a century ago, a ship belonging to the Dutch squadron came in sight of Ascension Island. Anchoring at some distance off shore, she put off a boat, which, under the efforts of an active crew made rapidly for the island. The boat contained, beside the crew, an individual heavily manacled and a guard. The prisoner, seated at the stern be tween the two soldiers who guarded him, sat with his head buried in his hands; hut gave no further sign of emotion until he was disturbed from his position by the sound of the boat grinding on the white shore of Asscnsion ; when, with an agonized look at his comrades, and at the vessel, he silently rose, and in company with his guard, left the boat, and stepped on to the beach of his prison. A sail or's chest, some bedding, and sundry oilier articles were taken from the boat! the prisoner's chains were removed in silence, and the crew and guard re-embarked, leaving him alone on the beach ; and nothing moved by his frantic entreaties to them to return and take with them, they pulled hard to the ship, apparently anxious to take leave of a scene so painful. Arriving on board, the an. chor was presently heaved, all sail set, sad the ves sel stood out to see, leaving the unhappy man sunk on the sand in the most abject despair. Before noon she was out of sight; and in every direction nothing was visible but the blue and desolate wa. ters tossing up their heads to the sky. The na ture of the crime which was visited by this dread ful punishment we arc not permitted to divulge; but that it was of great heinousness, may be g,atli. crcd from his confessions. Some mercy mingled with the sentence as was manifest in the numerous little articles which were left for him on the shore. Among these twos a limited supply of provisions, consisting of a little rice, onions, peas and meal. Ile had also a cask of water, two buckets, an old frying pan, and a fowling piece, but no aminunitioi.- Some paper, a Bible, a few clothes, and some mi -1 important sundries, completed the list of his pos -1 sessions. The island itself was of a nature so savage and repulsive, as was well calculated to impress with horror and despair the stoutest heart condemned to so vast a dungeon. Being of volcanic origin, its surface was strewn with broken rocks, ashes and pumice; here and there a little red soil, scorched and sterile, peeped from between masses of rock upon which the traces of fire yet existed. Its shores on one side were frightful to approach ; hor rid precipices of black lava seemed to fringe the island with mourning, and threaten intrusion with death, and while at their base were deep chasms, eaten out by the insatiable wave. Further on, the wildest confusion of rocks, whose jagged summits added to tho desolation of the spot, was occasion. ally relieved by small patches of a glittering, naked beach, white like snow, composed of fragile coral, and (railer shells ground to dust against the iron bulwarks of the island. The other side of the island was mere hospitable, possessing a lessfrown ing coast, and a tamer seashore. Inland, a few acres of plain stretched away between the gloomy looking hills ; but even these were either wholly barren, or scantily covered with a weak growth of innutraious plants, such as grass, ferns, purslain, a hew thistles, and a convolvulus. Not a shrub was there on the whole island ; and the only spot re. fleshing to the cyc, wearied with so long a glance at desolation, was a tall mountain called the t_4reen Mountain, whose verdant sides gaves the promise, which they did not fulfil in reality, of supplying something that might support the outcast during his stay there. The spat was, on the whole, some thing like a vast cinder, spotted here and there indeed with green, but otherwise as dry and burnt as if it had just been vomited from the depths of some vast volcano. Yet the place was the habita tion of a legion of wild goats, and popuous nations of rats and mice over-scampered it ; and ono or two tribes of melancholy insects awoke with its morning sun, and went to sleep et an early hour in the afternoon. Its shores, fierce-looking though they were, were more lively : flocks of " boobies," strutted along its glittering sands, in all the im. pertinent independence consequent upon un ic. quaintance with mankind; a vast turtle or two, six or seven hundred pounders, now and then, crawled, from the blue waters, and after taking a short walk for the benefit of their health, crawled in again, walking over possibly hundreds ofenragcd crabs on their way back ; and the waters them. selves were livelier still, for they abounded in eels, old wives, and rock-cod. The extreme length of the island was a little more than seven miles, its extreme breadth about six, and its general form was oval. Such were the miserable and most uncompro mising circumstances under which this unhappy man was left to take his chance of perishing utter ly, or the remote one of being discovered and res cued by some passing vessel. As his journal, which lie regularly kept, from the first day of his landing, has been preserved, we are able to proceed with the rest of his history. After recovering in some mea sure front the shock of being left alone, and after watching with an aching heart the ships snowy topsail sink beneath the wares of the horizon, he addressed himself to his first labur, %vide,' was the construction of a tent. The spot he selected fur its site was sufficiently gloomy, for it was beneath one of the dismal overhanging black roelisuf which men. lion lias been made; but it assisted to corer his tent from the weather, and it was close to the beach up. on which he, and all he possessed, had been left, By the close of the first long and weary day, a temporary tent was raised into which he brought his chest, bedding, and all his other chattels; and here, heavy and sick of heart, lie spent the first night. Rising early the following morning, after partaking of Ins lonely meal, lie set forth to explore the Island. It was the Sabbath and around was more than the stillness of that sacred day—it was the silence of the grave. No " church-going bell," no faint notes of a village hymn, no quiet tumult of a departing congregation, came to the outcast's car—the wind was asleep, the waters were at peace ; but in his heart there was no peace, and lie himself was alone unquiet amid surrounding quie tude. lie searched in vain for some green thing which might promise him food ; he then retured to his tent, and to beguile the dull hours, set about some alterations in its arrangements; he also co vered it with a tarpaulin, which lie fastened down with stones, thus securing himself from rain. 're wards evening the solitude was broken by bustling flocks of boobies; on approaching them, lie (band them so tame as to permit him easily to seize sev eral, which he afterwards killed, skinned and salted, laying them in the sun to dry. Ilis eyes were ceaselessly directed to the horizon; but, viewed from whatever eminence, it revealed nothing but the same hopeless, unbroken blue line. !loping it might catch the notice of some distant vessel which might escape his eyes whole searching for food, he made a n late flag with a portion of lass linen; and flistening it to his almost useless fowling.piece, lie planted it in the most conspicuous position he could descry. Sauntering afterwards along the beach, he bad the good fortune to overtake a fine turtle, whice lie killed by beating it on the head; end this supplied him with provision for a little [WHOLE NUMBER, 933. time. As the terrors of his lonely situation grew upon him, he began to fear lest the threatening, overhanging rock, under which he had placed his tent, should suddenly fall and overwhelm him: he therefore removed Ins dwelling to a less alarming position. He was by this time in a very miserable and disconsulete state of mind: often, after a long day's fruitless search for water and food, returning home with torn feet and an aching heart, he would pray, with one of old, that lie might the. But he would by no means be accessory to his own death, as, in the constancy of hope, lie still looked to his signal being seen, and himself delivered out of "that terrible place." Conceiving it singular that he had met as yet with no beasts upon the island, he searched carefully for footmarks on the beach and inland, but without success ; the unbroken sun , face declared to him, again and again, that he was alone. The contents of his water-cask also daily reminded him that, unless he shortly succeeded in finding water,the most terrible fate awaited him. On one of his excursions he met with a little purslain, which lie boiled with the boobies, and thus made a tolerably palatable dish for one in his condition. The tew other herbs which that niggard desert af forded lie was afraid to cat., nor were they suffi ciently inviting to induce him to make the attempt. Every day saw him now anxious and car-worn, leave his tent, bucket in hand, seeking for water; and every day saw him return in the cloning almost fainting, and with en empty vessel.— His supplies of food also grew short; boobies be came scarce—turtle were not seen. lie then used to boil a little rice in a little water, of which he made most of his meals. Many, many times, and with a gaze made intense by the struggle in his mind between hope and despair, were his eyes bent upon the lonely waters, but no ship ap peared. It was fortunate that, as yet, his bodily health continued good. Titus were his days :Tent at this time : in the morning, the spring of hope poured its assuaging waters over his soul, and lie set forth, fully expecting success of sonic sort; in the evening those waters were cut off, and he beguiled some of the tedium of the night by reading until his eves were weary, and then, as a diversion, lie would set to unending his clothes. Finding no promise of native esculents, be thought to increase his stock by planting a few of those he had with him. lie therefore set so rne onions m.d peas in a patch of soil near his tent. Finding no promise of native esculents, lie thought to in crease h is stock by planting a few of these he had with Jilin. Ile therefore set some onions and peas in a patch of soil near his tent. Finding a number of nests of sea-fowl, many 'containing eggs, he plundered them, end made his principal food of their contents. He was for sonic time much at a loss for a light at night ; at length lie bit upon the expedient of melting down some of the turtles' fat; and thus, with a saucer for his lamp, and a bit oC rag for the wick, lie had a tolerable light, which he used to keep burning all night. Thus passed a fortnight of his life in this great prison. All his search fur water had proved unavailing, and he was under the pain fill necessity of daily di. minishing, stock, without the means or the pros- . peel of being able to replenish it. He explored the island in a new direction, looking nar. rowly, into every cranny of the ruck, and search. ing, every sprit covered with a little fresher looking herbage than the rest ; but no bubbling waters ap peared. Bethinking him, then, of hisafiihing-tackle, lie repaired to to the rocks to try his fortune in a fresh direction; lie spent several hours in this, em ployment in vain, which was somewhat remarka ble, as the waters were unusually prolific of fish. Meanwhile a sad accident had occurred. Turning homewards, what was his surprise to behold u dense volume of smoke rising up to the skies in the di tion of his tent! Deeply alarmed and dreading the worst, he flew with the utmost speed to tho top: he found the presage too true; his tent was on fire! Hastily snatching up his buckets, lie ran to the sea ; and thus, by considerable efforts, lie was enabled to quench the consuming clement. It appears that the origin or the fire was attributable to his having carelessly left his tinder box, with some lighted tinder in it, upon his quilt. By this calamity lie lost a shirt, a handkerchief, and a pan of his quilt; and his Bible was much singed. Yet he felt thankful to God for what tic had saved. Ile then knelt down, and earnestly intreated God to" give him the patience of holy Job" under his I accumulating sufferings. The spirit of his journal at this timer one which betokens a degree of hum ble a creptance, of his punishment, severe as it sesta, ! and of patient submission to the Supreme Will. Thus the month of May passed away—his provi. sions diminishing, his barrel of water failing, his hopes growing fainter, and the future full of the gloomiest anticipations, in consequence of the ra pidly-increasing heat of the weather. On the Ist of June, there is this touching entry in the journal It would be needless to write bow often my eyes are cast upon the sea to look for shipping ; and every little atom in the sky I take fore sail ; then I look till my eyes dazzle, and im• mediately the object disappears. When I was put on shore, the captain told me it was the time of year for shipping to pass this way, which makes me look out the more diligently." At the end of the first week in this month, he had but two quarts of water left in his cask, and this was so muddy, as only to be drinkable after straining through a handkerchief lie then thought of digging for water. After digging to the depth of scten feet, lie found not so MUM as n trace of moisture, and lie desisted from his 1 ibor with feelings easier con ceived than described. At this time deep eonsi. deratinns of his apparently approaching death filled his mind, and lie spent many hours in prayer and in solemn meditations upon a future state. On the morning of the 10th [Whine, faint and sick with thirst, he drank Ids last portion of water to the very dregs, and in the strength of it he went out on a fresh search for some of this precious fluid.— After four hours' tedious walking under a burning sun, he at length became so weary and faint, as to be unable to proceed any further, and lie lay down wishing lie might die. His situation was that of the fainting Hugar in the wilderness, and his de liverance was to prove as signal. Rising at length from the earth, lie walked slowly over the rocks towards his tent, as lie thought to - die. But not so: his eye was led to a hollow place in a rock, toward which he eagerly sprang. %Who can paint his joy, or describe his gratitude on finding that it contain ed a. little silver rill of water, pure, cool, and fresh! The poor fehluw cast himself on the earth, and drank most iii.moderately of the delicious fluid. In the intoxication of his joy he sat down by its bide, and drank again and again of its life-giving draught. 'The treasures of the whole earth were poor and mean in comparison with that tiny steamlet. Evening was closing, and taking care to merit well its position, he returned, his step more elastic than lie bad yet known, and a heart brimful of gratitude and joy. 'Finis one source of his deepest anxiety was, for the time, at least, di. minislied. Ile was now able to use the water free ly; but whether from previous excessiveover•fatigue or as the consequence of a long disappointed hope. cannot be said,but it is evident that now symptoms of delirium began to appear, and of these he was him self conscious. Strange fancies filled his mind at times, which disappeared at other times. At this period there occurs the following remark in his journal• •—" it snakes me very melancholy to think that I have no hopes of getting oil thiss unhappy CI El
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