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POETRY.
THE STAR AND THE LILY.
The sun stepped down from his golden throne
And lay in the silent sea,
And the lily had folded her satin leaves,
For a sleep}' thing was she;
What was the lily dreaming about 5
O, what is that to you?
And why did she open her drooping lids,
And look at the sky so blue?
The rose is cooling her burning cheek,
In the lap of the breathless tide—
Thou hast many a sister fresh and fair,
That would lie by the rose's side;
He xvould love these better than all the rest,
And he would be fond and true—
And the lily unfolded her weary lids,
And looked at the sky so blue.
Now think thee, think thee, thou silly one,
How fast will the summer glide,
And wilt thou wither a virgin pale,
Or flourish a blooming bride?
O, the rose is old, and thorny, and cold,
And he lives on earth, said she,
But the star is fair, and he lives in the air,
And he shall my bridegroom be.
But what if the stormy clouds should come,
And ruffle the silvery sea?
Would he turn hiseye from the distant sky
To smile on a thing like thee?
O no, fair lily, he will not send,
One ray from his far off throne,
The winds shall blow,and the waves shall flow
And thou wilt be left alone.
There is not a leaf on the mountain top,
Nor a drop of evening dew,
Not a golden sand on the sparkling shore,
Nor a pearl in the waters blue,
That he has not cheered with his fickle smile,
And warmed with his faithless beam—
And will he be true to a pallid flower
That floats on the quiet stream?
Alas, for the lily! she would not heed,
But turned to the skies afar,
And bared her breast to the trembling ray,
That shot from the rising -star;
The cloud came over the darkened sky,
And over the waters wide;
She looked in vain through the beating rain,
And sank in the stormy tide.
Ji ist: a: ts a, a A it .
Cut’RAUE. The courage that can go
forth, once and away to Chalk Farm, and
have itself shot and snuffed with a decen
cy, is, in our estimation, an exceeding
small matter, capable of co-existing with
a lile full of falsehoods, feebleness, pol
troonery, and clespicaliility. Nay, often
er, it is cowardice rather that produces!
the result; for consider, is the Chalk j
Farm pistoieer inspired with any reason
able behalf and determination ? or is he
hounded on by a haggard indefinable fear
—how he will he cut at public places, and
“plucking geese of the neighborhood”
will wag their tongues at him as a pluck
ed goose ? If he go then and be shot at
without shrinking, or audible uproar, it is
well for him; nevertheless, there is noth
ing amazing in it. Courage to manage
this, has not, perhaps, been denied to any
man or woman. Thus, do not recruit
ing sergeants drum through the streets of
manufacturing towns, and collect ragged
losels enough, every one of whom, if once:
dressed in red, and trained a little, will
receive fire cheerfully for the small sum
of one shilling per diem, and have the
soul blown out ot him at Igast with per
fect propriety! The courage that only
dares to die, is on the whole, no sublime
affair; necessary, indeed, yet universal,
pitiful when it begins to parade itself.
On tli is globe of ours there are some j
thirty-six persons that manifest it, seldom
with the smallest ’failure, during every
second of time. Nay, look at Newgate.
Do not the offscourings of creation, when
condemned to the gallows, as if they were
not men, but vermin, walk thither with
decency, and even to the whole universe
give their stern good night in silence ?
What is to be undergone once, we may
j undergo what must he, comes almost of
I its own accord. Considered as a duellist,
| what a poor figure does the finest Irish
| whiskerando make, compared with an
j English gamecock such as you buy (or
fifteen pence! The courage we desire
: and prize, is not the courage to die de
icently, but to live manfully/ This, when
|by Cod’s grace it is given, lies deep in
I the soul; like genial heat fosters all vir
j lues and gifts; without it, they could not
; live. In spite of our innumerable Wa
! terloos and Petcrloos, and such enm
' paigning as there has been, this courage
jwe allude to, and call the only true one,
is perhaps rarer in these last ages, than it
has been in any other time since the Sax
on invasion under Hengist. Altogether
extinct it can never lie among men; other
| wise, the species man were no longer for
1 this world; here and there, in all times
I under various guises, men are sent hither,
not only to demonstrate, but exhibit it
I and testify as from heart to heart, that it
is still possible, still practicable.—[Thom
as Carlyle.
An Invitation to Dinner. It was
observed that a certain covetous rich man
| never invited any one to dine with him.
j‘l'll lay a wager,’ said a wag, ‘I get an
I invitation from him.’ The wager being
J accepted, he goes the next day to the rich
| man’s house, about the time he was to
dine, and tells the servant he must speak
with his master immediately, for he can
save him a thousand pounds.
‘Sir,’ said the servant to his master,
‘here is a man in a great hurry to speak
with you, who says lie can save you a
thousand pounds. (Out came the mas
ter.)
‘What is that you say, sir—that you
can save me a thousand pounds?’
‘Yes, sir, I can—but I see that you are
at dinner ; I will go myself and dine and
call again.’
‘O, pray, sir, come in and take dinner
with me.’
‘Sir, I shall he troublesome.’
‘Not at all.’
The invitation was accepted. As soon
as dinner was over, and the family retir
ed, ‘well, sir,’ said the man of tlie house,
‘now, sir, to our business. Pray, let me
know how I am to save a thousand
pounds.’
‘Why, sir,’said the other, I heard you
have a daughter to dispose of in marriage.’
‘I have.’
‘And that you intend to portion her
with ten thousand pounds.’
‘I do so.’
‘Why, then, sir let me have her, and I
will take her for nine thousand.’
The master of the house rose in a pas
sion and turned him out of doors.
In my school-hoy days,when I loved bet
ter to rob birds nests and plunder orchards,
than acquire knowledge, I have often de
serted the school-room, and pursued the
above mentioned avocations in the forest,
in my usual quiet manner. I recollect
once, when, having been lost in the intri
cacies of the wood, of stumbling upon a
little hut. Rightly concluding that a
spring would be found in its vicinity, and
being exceedingly thirsty, I wended my
way thither. 1 found it occupied by an
old woman, of whom I requested a draught
of water. I was soon furnished, and
when I had despatched it, I was over
whelmed witli questions.
“Arn’t you one of the ’Cademy boys?”
inquired she.
“Yes inarm,” was the reply.
“Well, I declare,” ejaculated the old
woman, “they say you learn queer things
down there. Why they say the world is
round.”
“The world, inarm,” said I, anxious to
display my acquired knowledge, “is not
exactly round, hut resembles in shape a
flattened orange, and it turns on its axis
once in twenty-four hours.”
“Well, I don’t know any tiling about
its fixes,” replied she, “hut 1 know it don’t
turn round, for if it did we’d be all tum
bled off, and as to its being round, any
one can see its a square piece of ground,
standing on a rock.”
“Standing on a rock, but upon what
does that stand?”
“Why on another to he sure.”
“But what supports the last?”
“Lank, child, how stupid you arc, there’s
rocks oil the troy down.” [Alexander’s
M essenger. "
William IV. sometimes had the happy
art of saying the most eccentric tilings
with the most amusing simplicity. On
Talleyrand’s first coming over as ambassa
dor he was one day dining at St. James’s
"with most of the foreign ambassadors,
when the King, after conversing on some
indifferent topics, suddenly turned, and
asked what was the last news of Casimir
Pcrier, the Prime Minister of France, who
j had been siezed with the cholera. “He
\ is either dead or dying,” said the ambassa
dor, in his sepulchral tone. “Ha!” said
the King in one of his fits of abstraction,
“very unfortunate: a great man and an
honest one; the only honest statesman in
France dead! the only man capable of rul
ing such a pack of sanguinary rogues; is it
not so?” turning to a foreign diplomatist
at his side. The diplomatist, much em
barrassed, looked unutterable thirds,
land muttered unintelligible ones. All tin:
1 ambassadors, not knowing where else to
look, looked into their plates, and could
scarcely restrain their laughter. Talley
rand alone applied himself vigorously to
his soup. He had been in the habit of
swallowing Royal compliments, and the
) practice was useful to him on lliis’occa
sion—he never moved a muscle.
It was said of this imperturbable Minis
ter, that if a man were kicking him behind
as he was speaking to you, you would nev
er know it by a change of his visage.
Sir \Y alter Scott once described the
Duke of Wellington’s style of debating as
slicing the argument into two or three
i parts, and helping himself to the best.”
As an illustration of the rapid advance of
our country in greatness and prosperity, a
correspondent of the New York Express
cites the case of the city of Rochester,
the site of which was a wilderness only
twenty eight years ago.
Twelve years from the time of her first
settlement gave Rochester more than 5,-
000 inhabitants, and twelve more increas
ed her population to more than 14,000,
and at this moment the population prob-j
ably exceeds 18,000. A busier or happier (
multitude of men never walked the earthJ
The State improvements here are many |
and stupendous. A single Aqueduct here
cost more than SBO,OOO, —another, built
of limestone, $500,000! The Canal wn-;
ters here arc raised five hundred feet above
the level of the Hudson. About 20 costly '
and beautiful Churches have been erected, |
where the worshippers of God of all de-(
nominations, may sit under their own vine I
and fig tree. Banks, Hotels, Museums,
Seminaries, Public Buildings, all are nu
merous!
You may judge something of tlie public
business, when told that the capital in
vested in Mills alone, is $350,000, and
the amount paid for wheat here not less
than 1,5(10,000 a year. The canal busi
ness here amounts to a million a year
The Manufacturing business to another
million. The Mercantile business to
$300,000. More than a million of barrels
of flour are manufactured here each venr,
and Rochester alone lias paid one sixth of
all the tolls of tlie Erie Canal. 1 read
these statistics, which 1 have taken some
pains to have correct, with wonder and
astonishment, especially when I am told
in addition that the water power of the
Falls in Rochester, in almost con
stant operation, are equal to 1920 steam
engines of 20 horse power each, and
which, according to the cost of steam
horse power in England, would amount to
more than $10,000,000 as annual value
or annual cost. The w heat manufactured
and sold here, amounts to near ten mil
lions a year! These facts to the unacquain
ted seems ns they actually are astounding,
and no man, therefore, will wonder at any
thing he sees around him after reading
tliis simplu rpe.nrfl of the history, enterprise
j and industry of this city.
Black Hawk.— At Fort Madison, lowa,
the 4th of July was celebrated by the citi
zens, with the Indian Chief Black Hawk,
jas their guest —the same who gave us so
■ much trouble on the frontier four years
| since.
j He was toasted, and made this speech,
i “It has pleased the Great Spirit that 1
am here today—l have eaten with my
! white friends. The earth is our mother—
!we are now on it—with the Great Spirit
| above ns—it is good. I hope we are all
' friends here. A few winters ago I was
fighting against you —I did wrong,perhaps,
hut that is past —it is buried—hut let it he
forgotten.
Rock river was a beautiful country —I
liked my towns, my cornfields and the
home of my people. I fought for it. It
is now your’s—keep it as we did—it will
(produce you good crops.
“1 thank the Great Spirit that I am now
j friendly with my white brethren—we are
; here together—we have eaten together —
|we are friends—it is his wish and mine.
I For your friendship I thank you.
“I was once a great warrior—l am now
: poor—Kekorkuk has been the cause of
I my present situation—hut I do not attacii
j blame to him. I am now old. I have
looked upon the Mississippi since I have
been a child. I love > tlie Great River.
I have dwelt upon its hanks from the time
1 was an infant. 1 look up it now; I shake
hands with you; and it is my wish I hope
' you are iny friends.
Dear Son: Your mother and I talk of
calling at the school next Summer, when
we shall he glad to meet our darling boy
; once more. In the mean time, we are
glad to learn that you are getting better of
the impediment in your speecii.
Your loving father, n. m.
Dear Parents: I was infinitely rejoic
ed to get father’s letter, and to learn that
you would call and devote some of your
tune to me next Summer. My stammer
ing is manifestly better, yet not wholly
; conquered.
Your affectionate son. j. m.
Dear Son: Was glad to get aline;
from you; hut recollect, my hoy, that in
writing letters to your parents, you should
use your most familiar style. Avoid
high sounding words, and write exactly
as you would talk, in their presence.
Your loving father, n. m.
Bt-uc-dt-ar Pa-a-rents: I r-r-received
your le-le-letter, and woo-woo-will t-t-try
' to obey its d-d-directions; and wri-wri-wri-j
w rite just as I t-t-talk in your pr-pr-pres
cnce.
Your af-af-aflectionate S-s-son, j. m.
[Evening News.
_
System. —Curran said to Grattan, “You (
would be the greatest man of your age, if;
you would buy a few yards of red tape, and j
tie up your bills and papers ”
An amusing anecdote is told of John
Law, the celebrated financial projector,
which exemplifies in some degree the ac
umen and boldness for which he after
wards became conspicuous, and which,
we are inclined to*believe has never been
in print. In his youth he had an ap
pointment in the service of the East In
dia Company, and by one of those acci
dents not utinsal in that part of the world
—the death of several of his superiors
in rank—he found himself sole governor j
of a province, ruling the destines of,
thousands with despotic sway. The na-‘
live lawyers were noted for the ingenuity j
with which they mystified every case J
brought before him; a decision on the 1
merits of the question being impossible, j
so completely did they weave the web of
sophistry and chicane. Perplexed almost!
to despair, he bethought himself of an !
expedient, shocking to professional cars,!
and announced his intention of tying up !
and flogging the lawyers, whenever he (
could not understand a case. The per-1
spicacity of the pleadings was now won
derful; truth was brought forward in Iter
naked simplicity, dripping from the well,
and his decisions were thenceforward as
remarkable for their correctness, as the
arguments for brevity. A future Con
vention for the amendment of the Con
stitution may make use of this.—[N. Y.
Am.
Imi’ortation or Ready Made Houses.
—The Yankees “heat all natur.” They
arc now exporting ready-made houses to
the tar-west. We shall have anew item
on our custom house tariff Memorandum:
per steam ship Down East arrived at Kas
krskia, twenty-four houses with frame
works, marble matitieh, cliiuinics, &.c.
complete, per invoice $24,000.
'Plte following, in practical illustration
of the anticipated commerce, is from the
Pekin (Illinois) Telegraph July 21st. Wts
too good to be lost;—[N. Y. Star.
Novel Importation. —The being fur
nished with a comfortable and con
venient dwelling, is among the first and
prominent wants of the Emigrant.
But 11 1 is object is not easily attained.
A ri-«i.lout in the country, with all the ad
vantage of acquaintance, encounters great
difficulty and delay in building, from the
i scarcity of materials and labor; a stranger,
■ of course, is subjected to far greater incon
• veniencies. It would, seent, however,
that some of our eastern friends whom we
welcome most heartily to this land of prom
ise) determined not to submit to this slow,
vexatious process and have hit upon an ex
pedient, of the practicability of which,
; we will not venture to predict.
We swa last week in the warehouse of
J. W. Casey, the various parts of a house,
packed iu distinct parcels, and shipped
from tlie East, via New Orleans to this
place*, owned by one of the members of
the enterprising colony of Delev an in this
comity. All the materials were prepared
! for being put together, which would finish i
and complete the house. The floors,&c. !
were already painted; and nothing was'
wanting hut the shingling of the roof, and
the lathing and plastering.
To what extent the importing of houses
; may he found advantages we know not, hut
; but the experiment is well enough.
Cigar Race. This variety of sport
ing may ho. new to some of our readers,
hut not uncommon on the other side of
the Atlantic. The conditions are, that
the rider starts with a lighted cigar in
his mouth, continues to smoke it during
the race, and comes in with it lighted ;
much, of course, depends on the goodness
of the cigar, but still more to the tact of
the smoker. If he does not ride fast
enough lie looses the race that way; if he
rides too fast the air may either blow it
out, or cause it to burn so fiercely that it
will be entirely consumed before lie reach
es the winning post. The fastest cigar
race on record was ran in December last,
in Kingston, Jamaica: mile heats. Time
the first heat, two minutes ten seconds;
the second heat, two minutes twelve sec
onds. Climate and other circumstances
considered, it must in every sense of the
expression, have been a smoking race.
[English paper.
The East India method of rendering
Snakes harmless. The secret, so much
wondered at .by which East Indian jugglers
safely handle venomous snakes, is said in
the Oriental Herald, quoting the authori
ty of Lieut. Hutton, to be this. They ;
are drugged with opium, which renders
them quiet and harmless. ’The effects ot
the drug will not wear off for fortnight
or three weeks. This fact Lieut. Hutton
ascertained by personal experience; a drug
ged snake which he had purchased hav
ing, at the lapse of three weeks, flown at
him unexpectedly and nearly strangled
him.
The sick are all taken Goelic’s Match
less Sanative.—[Boston M., Her.
And dying pretty considerable quick
afterwards.—[ Age.
[TER»MU..*3 IN ADVANCE.
WMBBR 13.
Imitation Wines. —lt i9 not perhaps,
(generally known that very large establish
ments exist at Cette and Marseilles, in the
j south of France, for the manufacture of
every description of wines, the natural
'products not only of France, but of all
other wine-growing and wine-exporting
(countries. .Some of these establishments
( are on so large a scale as to give em
ployment to an equal, if not greater, num
ber of persons than our large breweries.
It is no uncommon occurrence with spec
ulators engaged in this sort of illicit traf
fic to purchase and ship imitation wines,
fabricated in the place named, to Madeira,
where by collusion with persons in the
custom-house department of the island,
the wines are landed in the entrepot, and
thence, after being branded with the usu
al marks of the genuine Madeira vintage,
resltipped, principally, it is believed, for
the United States. Tlie scale of gratuity
for this sort of work to the officials inter
ested may be estimated by the fact, that,
on otic occasion, 70 pipes were thus sur
reptitiously passed at a charge of 1,000
dollars. It is a circumstance no less sin
gular, that tiic same is said to
he commonly carried on witfi counter
feit wine made up in Cette and Marseilles,
and thence despatched to Oporto, where
the same process of landing, branding,
and reshipment ns genuine port is gone
through, the destination of this spurious
article being most generally the United
States. Such is the extent of this nefari
ous commerce that one individual alone
has been pointed out in the habit of des
patching four times in the year 25,000
bottles of champagne each shipment, of
wines not the produce of champagne dis
tricts, hut fabricated in these wine facto
ries. It is known, that the imposition of
these counterfeit wines has arrived at'such
a pitch as to have become quite notorious,
and the subject of loud complaint in the
United States at least.—[London Times.
Danitm; Extraordinary. — ln ‘Sketch
es of Paris,’ by an American gentle
man published not long since by Carey
and Hart, we find the following graphic de
scription of the performance of M. Essler,
a colfhrAted dancer at the Paris Opera:
“She will courtsy to her middle, and
then rise in a jtirouettc two yards high!
This is her preliminary step. She will
then set off, and skip over the whole area
of the stage, lighting on it only occasion
ally, trying her limbs as it were, provoking
the dance from afar; and will present her
self to the spectators in all the variety
of human shapes and appearances. One
while you will see her many “twiqkling
feet” suspended in the air, then twirling
herself round, until her face and hips will
seem on the same side of her; at last, (and
this is the very epic strain of the peforntance
and therefore the last,) she will poise her
self upon the extremity of her left toe,
and bring the right gradually up to the
level of the eye, (the house will hold its
breath,) and then she will give herself
a rotary movement continuing it in cres
rtndo till she becomes invisible. You
can no more count her legs than the
spokes of a rail wagon carrying the Pres
ident’s Message.—This is Fanny Essler.”
M. Tocqueville in his work on America,
gives the following prophetic paragraph:
“It is my opinion that nations, like men,
indicate almost always from their early
age the principal traits of their destiny.
When I see with what spirit the Anglo-
Americans carry on commerce,* the fa
cilities they find, and the success which
they obtain, I cannot withhold the belief
that they will one day become the first
maritime power upon the Globe. They
are pressed onward to possess the seas,
as were the Romans to conquer the
world.”
*lle says elsewhere. “I cannot better
I express my thoughts than by saying that
I the Americans incorporate a certain he
j roisin into their manner es conducting
! commerce.”
Considerate. —Pat Hogan once rid
ing to market with a sack of potatoes be
fore him, discovered that the horse was
getting tired, whereupon he dismounted,
put the potatoes on his shoulders, and
again mounted, saying— “it was better he
should carry the prattles, as he was fresh
er than the poor beast.”
Uncommonly accommodating. One
of our exchange papers -lately presented
a curious mistake of the printer. The
caption line ‘Through by Daylight,’
which belonged to a steamboat advertise
ment, was placed over that of Brandreth’s
Pills!—[N. Y. Sun.
At a Steam Ship meeting in Bristol,
Eng., one of the speakers said—' “ wc
j have laid a railroad of 3000 miles across
the sea.” Not bad.
The newspapers published in the Uni
ted States, are comjputed at 1,5200 —from,
which 100,000,000 arq annually issued.