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w BENJAMIN P.POOBE. For Twins, dee,see last page.- ?iurGI,Eit’SADVEN.TO9E. i.' “ Tn bw * (star slulct.” Io the beginning of this story the t thing lobe done isto introduce the ’ pwwjras” wbiibU dono iotbo ' I em eo angler .aud, ao U the one who will play a conspicuous tin the scenes which l am about to F before tira reader. In regard to the • so I experienced, the tinglipg ■ lattendaoton the fins “ glori- j nibble” which it was tbe fortune of itoreceive.Ihave nodistinct re- . It musthareheen before I was |rJo9ipdftopi tbo "apronstrings,” ..somehow happened to me I ranch against my Inclination, to frequent |the neighbortiood of what is called tech- 1 an old field school.” Some ■ io regard to Ibis said odi- B spot may not be unacceptable to the “WHERE POWERS ARR ABSDttSD WB1&H HAVE NOT BEEN DELEGATED, A NUILlFICATlON OF THE ACT 18 THE RIGHTFUL REMEDY.’ VOL. IX. attended Although it seemed hateful in those I days of half bojr half childhood S the sober voice of some dozen or » Tears a* they have flitted % me 1 been merged in the past has tended change that dislike into a kind of feeling; which; is the more to roau since be takes a sad and |moern(ul pleasure in recslmigthe mem r of those hours, and like the oases T the desert those spots which bis boy 1 gambols have rendered sacred ii r years, present themselves in vivid »to bis mind and recalls to his r now that t^ey have gone, that i was once free from care. A travel- i the desert of the .world, be de- llights in the remembrance of time when I bright and sunny paths spread before [him inviting him to revel in unbounded I delight., Alas 1 where they did notlead r'a cheerless waste, bogs and quick- »have made their appearance, and i he hap fallen in these the laugh I of some false friend, worse, than the yell lof a fiend has come to. add one more 1 bitter drop to the already overflowing leap of his misery. t remember the “old log school- I house” well. With its homely chimney with clay and sticks, and when the retrospection is with such naournfii^ pleasure. Poes the rcadec know anything of a spot on the Oconee called an account of hs romantic beauty, by the title with which, wo designate the abodes of the blest in another world t If he does not let him seek it out and taken ftfcnd with biro, when the day declines, and then lethim say that it does not merit the name of Paradise which has been given to it by some enthusiastic lover of nature, and which i^has borne until the prepent time. If ho can go there and utter no exclamation of delight, but stand unmoved then must bis heart be edld indeed, and be utterly, insensible to all that is calculated to aWaken feelings of admiration. Jo attempt 4 descrip tion of it were folly end in the trial jne should go no farther than to say *f it ia an interesting spot,” and leave it with these few words as something which defies description to do it justice. A walk of half a mile, on the river, above our town, will bring you to a slight bend in the Oconee, where the banks are high aud do wn one of these at an angle of thirty degrees is a place cover ed with moss and which affords sufficient space and in sufficiently level to accom modate twp or. three ladies and as ma ny gentlemen. It is just the place for a social chat; there; ia no edging off here for if you attempt it you will as suredly encroach on Neptune’s domin ions, andbe a laughing stock for a month to come. So that if any lady has a bashful lover she has but to take him to this place and he will either run entirely away or behave like a man of sense and “fellow where she would dire to lead.” This is the spot to which I propose to introduce the reader, as the place where ray happiest hours have been passed, and where happened the “ angler’s ad- title, of M odd” would be-destroyed.— But our pprty have arrived at the scene of the evening's sport, while the beaux arp .adjusting the tackle ; the belles are perplexing them with questions the in tention pf which ia to try the patience of those whom they have in view as future Iprdp.”^^ , .. j. . Mr. —-i— was untangling some tackle when Miss directed his attention X/o that shrub with such zkarmvsg faw ns on the opposite bank; when Mr. as a matter of coarse mpst look, and forgetting himself he still continued to pick at the tangled line, which he hadin baud, until recovering from the ATHENS, (GEORGIA,) FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1841 N O. & effects of a look at the flowers and *t I with the forms a rural objdct to Which | Any mind even at this .late date looks entrance mi ■'Fagging lraDqoi , 8 v.»ingm«be .ran- quil month of May when a party was Eil Tl r made up whose ostensible object was b«k with mournful feeling.. So clow- ” L. Wthair "note, V NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE; Every Sabbath morning, inthe sum mer time, 1 thrust back the curtain, to watch the sunrise stealing down a steeple, which stands opposite ray chamber window.' First,the weather cock begins to flash; when a fainter lustre gives the spire an airy aspect; next it encroaches op the tower, and causes the index of the dial to glisten like gold, as it points to the gilded figure of the hour. Now, the loftiest window gleams,—and now }he lower. The carved Triune-work of the portal is marked strongly out. At length, the morning glory, in its descent from Heaven; comes do wnthe stone steps, fishing excursion ; but their real inten tion a flirting expedition was like many others of a similar character, cloaked by tbe laudable purpose of hooking some of the fltiny tribe. * So you may be sure that whenever a walk is proposed the true name for it is a “ flirting expedi- I ly round our heart does even the most I insignificant object of schoolboy hours I throw a thousand'nameless ties. : Wo |hadia those days a kind schoolmaster I whose greatest delight seemed to he in I seeing bis boys happy, and all that the I poor old mf n could do, was dohetoef-: , • ... ,. . I fimt thin end so gratifying to bis feelings, i tton - snd,.f a6.hmg j party; their true I leer inn enu so gramying m nisreenogs. j. tp bool, „ bean which they gene- terfnd’* iT Hl accomplish* by displaying their I wroth, and grow merely »vere the fc , rf of “ romant ; cs “ in sundry It^TviITf “°° n 7T r T exclamations of enchanting scene.” I wrinkled face would relax from its se-‘ . . „ ‘ » ! was* point beyond which^te would not ich “ ei S<> “ gmandtamyoTo.from mere thought- ° E “. ".’Sf? were, a tablet, leu at the spot Paradise, soon incurred' the 'good old I man’s displeasure, and with it came the I pliant birch which made hard thoughts sin our minds, though tbe dispense* I of apeh correctives to mirth always as- 1 us {bat it was for our good, and s that time we ban? seen that; be fthalf right in his -judgment on: this I tedder subject. '} '• I -‘Well do Icall to nfiodthe slow and IsnailUke pace with which we used to I creuptojichool.But how different was I the light arid bounding step with-which I mut I—IV tlinaA tv.11. nn ilrMF 1 'Arid linnr .we left tbose walla so drear. 1 And how tumultuous wax the shout that was feerit up from a score of tiny voices at their dismissal, front that purgatory of learn ing. It eras at rite ag? of simple eight that! first imbibed a liking for angling, and this liking has stuck to me through Aackaild thin, and stem* to he willing to keep me company io my grave. Each “ ' morning that came found tbe, hand, wandering on lh« banks Oconee—mow,.reclining under Ob;-foliage Of. -a spreading oak, and watehibg. with netiriog ! patience'the BRjtfoUeabf^t, UtbSwi to theeopccnl- ed hook,'which gave me‘ notice when “iglpooim nibble” scan taJMng place l caroling aome careless bang to my thoughts from - wandering; which the soft whisperings oi love, the sly glances of coquett’e, answered by the wreathed; and practised smiles of their malo attendant could all be noted down by au iuvipblu hand as soon ns uttored; what a mass of nonsense would be presented. to the eye of any tauibU man,wandering thitherwards. But ss I before said a party was for med and wore wending their way . to the placo where they iutemiod to. enjoy the anticipated pleasure of enticing some unwary, thoughtless 6sh to allow himsolf to be dragged irom. his ntuive element and landed on “ terra firm,” fur the mere gratification of the mo ment, and failing in this; the alterna- tive came into play, and, I speak plain ly,,many a Ricked beau rued the hoar; pay the very moment, when he so far forgot himsolf as to allow-his heart to be captnred by a -smile from one, who dclighted in alluring poor simple fish.to bite, and he Jell “ high and diy” and langhed atfor their credulity. - So much fin-tbe season ; -«o mack for the object in pursuit; and you must sea their arrivaT, which of course could not happen without sundry exhibitions of “ro man tics” which displayed themselves c above and around me issued the I notes of sumtner bird, who eame ; tp .ao- ■' with os tor awhile and glad os s their eoegsof harmony ia fit unison ; Mm, liiiiWtriedt ■“d,ge hss somewhat wrinkled ,, to eall-hack.and enjoy in'the ■ nos here and it is1a'nm^a«t I M them-: they home^pnly to the f aad leave them Wlmn youth no ■mg then j 3- j tnay held andwputal sway, may think that I am dispot andritlf ehjde me for wear- qld recollectiwts -into Ihe of in j atoqr, bat let that reader and «sk himself if it ia u<* *relt days they msy wffietepeof'; the fair one who directed his attention to tilem, he turned .his eyes to. his task when lol he discovered that he had niadfibad worse. A slight frown gath ered on bis brow» a half muttered ex clamation was. on his lips when he caught the searching eye of Miss fixed on his own, and immediately the frown was changed to a look of resigna tion to the task before hbn r and the half nttered thought was moulded into a dif ferent form, and ho observed “well Miss 1 must request that yon do not call my attention to any thing more un til I have finished the wotk I have in band. r . t • Having done tiiis and finding that suc cess was not tp be bad with the tenants of the -deep : one and all concluded to take a stroll on the banks and gather aome of tbe flowers which the month of May wo* scattering with such a liberal hand. And now comes the. adventure. I and Miss - — were left alone, at that romantic spot; Paradise. -1 had loug been acquainted with Miss ' ind found her a lively sensible girl. I bad thought of her as a companion and had even gone so far as to look at her with a meaning look in which knowing ones would read love and admiration. But I never had ventured to propose. Eith er through fear or bashfulness this im portant step never had been taken* And I thought that no time was so suitable as the present. So making up my mind I proceeded to ask MiSs"——="With a fal tering voice some common • place ques tion ; to which she returned an auswer Which is not remembered by me, nor is it important that the reader should know. I then spoke of the delights of marriage, life, and compared that state with the lonely time, which the bachelor passes, and finally with downcast eyes asked Miss-——-if she would take com- on one, who loved he*; to distrac tion, and grant me a favorable answer* Seeming to bo very little affected hy what I had said, she hesitated awhile, and observed that it was really pected I‘must give her a little time to consider on it—that she had ever en tertained tbe best feelings of friendship for me and would not venture to deny off request until she had consulted her friends. This then reader is the An gler’s adventure. Athqns, Geo- one by onB;.and; there stands the ten, while looking at the arched portal, I have been gladdened by the sighfof a score of these little girls ancf boy9,, in pink, bine, yellow, stnd crimson frocks, bursting suddenly forth into the sunshine, like a swarm of gay but terflies that had been shut - up in the solemn gloom. Or I might compare them to cherubs, haunting that holy place. , About k quarter of an hour before the second ringing of the bell, individ uals of the congregation begin to ap pear. Tbe earliest is invariably an old woman in black, whose bent frame and rounded shoulders are evidently laden with some heavy affliction, which she is eager to rest upon the altar. Would that the Sabbath came A VALUABLE SERVANT. most part after tbe tnauner of the exant- ples mentioned a riiort time since. All Describing the Astor House, N. Y M the Express says: There is a mighty lug fellow, kept in the eart h there, who ,do^8\a ivast A deal of work at ayery low rate of wages, and on-veiy.hard fare. Jte.coofo and be washes; he grinds knives, and he scours; he turns cranks, and - he boils kettlet; he fries and he boils-too ; be ironsaqd he rolls also; ibde^l.he is a Jack at fill tildes, and there !* hardly any thing bp can’t Tbougft a Vulcan-Iookiag workie, he is|a very Briareus in the tilings he has tp do. If yon want an egg boiled ina twinkling, be is the td»y,fellow to do. it. If,, it* the satpe twinkling, you want: a bucket of water carried from the cistern in his ncighboriiood to the top of tbe Hoose, speak, audit is done* in thirty minutes, if necessary, he cau wash, dryland iron vomrshirt, and the laundry 1 is not only bis, but be keepsnice Bathing:rootris besides— He has ‘ not: got much manners, to be voices of the young: gentlemen coinci ding or'assenting to'the opinions: of | * ght tbemselves the bpst 1 mattore,” ^or whp shall W- toVyotnig men^yif . ». of their own when in thepre- sonco of their “ flames.” I nerer beard Modifier from a female in his opinion a an/subject, but that be was pt either mentally or orally as ISWrtknushas abode in which of which conclusion they, would have step towards obviating their right to be called by such a title, would bsVe titem propose and be accepted ; when there ^ Would no longer be the slightest doabt m-regard *to such y point as being “ odd” since they would be matched aud body in the world. Tie can’t bow Jikie tbp Graces,, bpt is’a stiff straight- line moving creature; andthe •thumps ‘thump* ofthemusiche makeswould scare Ekiterpe arid her sisters out of their very wits; nor is he good for much, unless fire enough be given him to eat, fora fire eater he is, and unless whole posse' bf common -People stand by to help him; bat there he is, as e'great statesman said of Concord, Lexington -arid : Blinker : Hill—-and tbere is this Steam Engine, the-nbam- stay of the Astor House, that does the work of a hundred servants or more, and asks fbrxxariamtjj bread and meats, but only f^r gapd^intiirecite coal as kuftRsl b ‘He’s doing-the leading business,’ by this means''theif cTaim'fo the odious ■the eircus hurscs into the ring* st&eple,—glowing with freshradiance, while the shades of twilight still hide themselves ^apng the nooks of the ad jacent' buildings;- Methinks, though thei same Suri brightens it, every fair morning, yet the steeple has a peculiar robe of brightness for the Sabbath. By /dwelling near a church, a per son soon contracts an attachment for the edifice. We naturally personify itj and conceive its massive walls, and its dim emptiness, to be instinct with a calm, meditative, and somewhat, melancholy spirit. But the steeple stands foremost in our thoughts, as well as locality. It impresses us as a giant, with a mind comprehensive and discriminating enough to care for the S eat and small concerns of the town. ourly, while it speaks a moral to the few that think, it reminds thousands of individuals ot their separate and most secret affairs. It is the steeple, too, that flings abroad,the hurried & ireg- ular accents - of general alarm; neither have gladness and festivity found a better utterance, than by its tongue; and w^ien the dead are slowly passing to their home, the steeple has a melan choly voice to bid them welcome.— Yet, in spite of this connexion with human interests, what a moral loneli ness, on weekdays, broods about its stately height! It has kindred with .the houses above which it towers; it looksdown into the narrow thorough fare; the lonelier, because the crowd are elbowing their passage at its base. A glance at the body of the church deepens their Impression. Within, by the ligiit of distant windows, amid refracted shadows, we discern the vacant pews anckempty galleries, the silent organ, the voiceless pulpit, and the clock, which tells tosoiitude how time is passing. Time—where man lives not-r-what is it but Eternity ?—> And in the church, we might suppose, are garnered up, throughout the week, all thoughts and feelings that have reference to elerriity, until the holy day comes round again to let them forth. Might not, then, its m6re ap propriate site be in the outskirts of the town, with space for old trees to wave around it, and throw their solemn shadows over a quiet green? We will say more bf this hereafter. But, or the Sabbath, I watch the earliest sunshine, and fancy that a holier brightness marks the day when there shall be ho buzz^of voiceson the Exchange, nor traffic in the shops, nor crowd, nor business, anywhere but at church. Many have fancied so. For my own part, whether I see it scat tered down among tangled woods, or beaming across the fields, or hemmed in between brick buildings, or tracing out the figure of the casement on my chamber floor, still 1 recognize the Sabbath sunshine. And ever let me recognize .it? Some illusions; and this among them,‘ are the shadows of great truths. ' Doubts may flit around me, or seem to close their evil wings, and settle jdown; but. so long as I imagine that the earth is hallowed, and the light of. Jleavcn retains its sanctity on the Sabbath—-while that blessed sunshinepives within me-— never can my sou! have lost the in stinct of itsr faith. If it have gone astray, it Will return again. : I love to spend each pleasant Sab baths, from morning till’night, behind the curtain of my often Window. Are they. spent amiss? Every spot, so near -the ;cburch as to -be visited by the circling shadoyr of the steeple, should be deemed cdnsecrated ground to-day. Witiv v stronger. truth be it said, that a.devout heart may conse crate a den r rif thieves* as on evil one may converf a temple to the same.— My heart perhaps, has not such My, nor t; l wpu!d fain trust, such impious potency. ,Il niust sdffice, that,though my form be absent, my inner mangoes constantly to church; white many, whose bodily presence fills the accus tomed seat*; have left their souls-at borne. But I am there,-etfen before my friend, the;sexlon. At length, he comes—a man of kindly, but. sombre aspect, in dark gray clothes >nd -hair of the same mixtore—he comes, and applies his Key toi the wide portal.—' Now, r my thoughts may go in among thfcdosty pews. or ascend the pulpit without sacrilege, but soon come forth, again to enjoy the music oftM bali room. - .Hoyr glad, yet sptemn tpo !—. All the steeples in town /are talking together. aToft in the sunny air; and rejoicing among themselves, while their spires point heavenward. Mean time, here are f he children assembling to tlfe Sabbath-school, which is kepi somewhere within the chorch. Of- twice as often, /for the sake of that sorrowful old soul 1 1 “There is an elderly man, also; who arrives in good season, ’’ and leads against the corner of the lower, just witnin tbe line ofy&s shadow, looking downward witn a darksome brow. I sometimes fancy that the old woman is the happiest of the two. After these, others drop in singly, and by twos and threes, either disappearing through the doorway, or taking their stand in its vicinity. At last, and always with an unexpected trajn. of thought,/and leads roe on ward, step hy step, quiet out of hear ing of the good man’s voice, unless he be indeed a son of thunder. At mv open Window, catching now and then a sentence of the ‘parson's saw,’l am as well.situated as at the foot of the pulpit stairs.. The broken and scatter ed fragments of this discourse will be texts of many sermons, preached by those colleague pastors—colleagues, but often disputants—mv Mind and Heart. ; .The former pretends to be a scholar,.and perplexes me with.doc- trial points :.Iho latter takes me on the score of feeling i and botli, like Sete- ral other preachers spend their strength EMMETTTS LAST MOME One day,^previous to tho iri the* Governor was goirig his ft he entered . Emmett's. room -. rath) abruptly; and otriferving a remarkable I expression. in his countenance,; *■ apologised for the interruption, had a fork affixed to his liftte deal It and appended to*it there was. .a *t\ of hair. . ‘Ton see,* said-: be to 1 keeper, ‘how innocently 1 am empk ed. This little tress has long be dear to me; and I em plaiting it I wear on the : day of ray execution ‘ On the day of that fatal event.ti , was found, sketefied by his own hand | with a pen and ink. upon that table, aivadmirable likeness of tun —the head severed frora the bodyt which lay near it, surrounded ; by the J scaffold, the jtxe, and all the frightftd I paraphernalia of a high treason exequ-1 t ion. What n strange union of ;ten« i derness, enthusiasm and fortitude did I not the above traits exhibit !.; His] fortitude, indeed, never forsook him.— I O11 the night previous to bis death, he I slept soundly as^ever; arid when the I fatal morni|.g dawned, he arose; hneltl down nod prayed,ordered some tnilk.1 auditor, cannot always 'understand^' one to his brother in America, and, Suppose t&afa- fe>y hours have pas sed, and behold mo still .behiud my, curtain, just before the cjp^pf the aflernoou service. The hpur-habd on the dial has passed beyond four o’clock. The declining sun is hidden behind the steeple, and throws its shadow straight across the street, so that my chamber is darkened, as with a cloud. A round the church door, all is solitude and an unpenetrable obspuyity, be- "ond the threshold. A • cotnmotion to very little purpose. I‘ their sole , which ho tirarik, wrote two letters—I sensation, the bell turns in the steeple is heard. The seats are slammed overhead, and tnrows out an irregular | down, and the pew doors thrown clangor, jarring the tower to its found- i hack—a multitude of feet are tramp- ation. As if there were magic in the j ling along the unseen aisles—tnd the sound, the sidewalks of the street, both > congregation burst* suddenly through up and down along, are immediately thronged with two long linesof people, all converging hitherward,aud stream ing into the church. Perhaps the far- off roar of a coach draws nearer—a deeper thunder by its contrast with the surrounding stillness—until it sets down the wealthy worshipers at the portal, among their humblest breth ren. Beyond that entrance, in theory at least, thpre are no distinctions of earthly rank ; though, by the goodly apparel which is flaunting in the sun, there would seem to be such on the hither side. Those pretty girls! Why will theyd isturb my pious meditations! Of all days in the wee^, they should strive to look least fascinating on the Sabbath, instead of heightening their mortal lotliness, as if to rival the bles sed angels, and keepour thoughts from He.aven. Werrii the minister himself, I must needs look. One girl is white muslin from the waist upwards, and black the portal. Foremost, scampcrs~a rabble of boys, behind whom moves a dense anddark phalanx of grown men, and lastly, a crowd of females, with young children, and a few scattered husbands. The instantaneous out* break of life into loneliness is one of the pleasantest scenes of the dav.— Some of the good people are rubbing their eyes, thereby mtimatingthat they have been wrapt, as it were, in a sort of holy trance, by the fervor of their devotion. There is a young man, a third-rate coxcomb, whose. rst care is always to flourish a white handker chief, and brush the seat of a tight pair cf pantaloons, which shine as if varn ished. They must have been made of the stuff called ‘everlasting,’ or per haps of the same piece as Cnristiau’s garments, in the Pitgrim’s Progress,- for he put them on two summer’s ago, and has not yet worn the gloss off.— I have taKen a great liking to those .. other to the Secretary qf,Slate,$n-J ' jsipgil—and then dcsiredthe ther "* 1 be informed that he waa ready. When they c&tqe into Jiia room v ll _ ■said that lie had two .request* to make I —one that his. arms might be left as ] loosely as possible, which was hu-1 inanely and instantly acceded to. ‘I f mqkfi ^the other,* said he,.‘not undei*l any idea that it can be granted, but! that it * may be held in rentembranceJ that 1 have make itit ia that I may V be permitted to die in my uniform.’* I This of could not bn granted; arid the] request seemed to have no other ob-J ject than to show that he gloried in] the cause in which he was to suffer.T A remarkable example of his power! over hunself and others, occurred a^| this melancholy motpent. He wasl passing out, attended bv the sheriff, I and preceded by the executioner—in I one of the passages stood the turnkey V who was personally assigned to him I during his confinement; this poor fel-1 low loved him in. Ins heart, and theJ tears were streaming from his eyes in I torrents. Emmett paused for a ino.J meet, his hands were not at liberty -J! he kissed his cheek—and the man who I had been an inmate of a dungeon, : l habituated to the scenes of horror, and f hardened; against. Uteir operation, fell I senseless at his feet. Before his eyes! had opened again upon the, world.I those of the youthful sufferer had! closed forever. . silk downwards to her slippers. second blushes from.top.knot to. shoe- tie, one universal scarlet; another of a pervading yellow, as if she had made a garment of ihe sunshine. The grea ter part, however, have adopted a milder cheerfulness of hue. Their „ veils, especially when the wind raise* congregation is dispersed, them, give a lightness to the general ' black silk pantaloons. But, now, with nods and greetings among friends, each matjwn t&kes her husband’s arm and paces gravely homewairi. white the girls also flutter away, after ar ranging sunset walks with their favor ed bachelors. The Sabbath the eve of love. At length the whole • The color of (be rebel uniform was green. effect, and. make them appear like: airy phantoms, as they flit up the steps and vanish into the sombre door-way. Nearly all—though it is very strange that 1 should know it—wear white itockings, white as snow, and neat slippers, laced crosswise with black ribbon, pretty high above the ankles. A white stocking is infinitely more ef fective than a black one. Here comes the clergyman, slow and 8olemn,in severe simplicity, need ing no black silk gowri to denote his office. IIis aspect claiiris my. rever ence, but cannot win my love. Were I to picture Saint PetCr, keeping fast the gate of Heaveri, and frowning, more stern than pitiful, on the wretch ed applicants, that face should be my study. By middle age, or sooner, the creed has generally wrought upon the heart or been attempered by it. As the minister passes into the church. solitude again. But, hark! —a broken warbling rif voices, and now, attuning its grandeur to their sweetness, a stalely peal of the organ. Who are the choristers? Let me dream, that the angels, who came down from Heaven, this blessed morn, to blend themsches with the worship of the truly good, are playing and singing their farewell to the earth.— On the wings of Ijiat rich melody, they were borne upward. This.gentle reader, is merely a flight oj^poetry. A.feiw of the kinging men and singing women had lingered be hind their fellows, and raised theii voices fitfully, arid blew a careless note upon tiie organ. Yet it lifted my soul higher than all theirformer strains. They are gone—the sons arid daugh ters of! ratisiC—^and the gray sexton is just closing tiie^portal, For six days more, there will be no face of man in ...» v *.»« uro ,v.^ the pews,<ai>d qisles. and galleries, not the bell holds its iron tongue, and all 1 a voice m,the pulpit, nor music in the the low murmur of the congregation ~ * r *” ,w ~ dies away. The gray sexton looks up and down the street, and then at my window curtain, where, through the small peep-hole,.! half fancy that he has caught my eye. Now, every loiterer has gone in, and the streeft lies asleep in the quiet sun; white A feeling bf loneliness comes over trie apd brings also an uneasy of neglected privileges and duties. Oh, I ought to have gone to qhtirch! The biwtle-of the rising congregation reaches' my ears, /^fhey are standing up 'to pray. Could I bring iriy heart into unison with those who are pfaying in yonder church, and lift it heavenward;, with a fervor of supplication, but no distinct request, would not that be the safest kind of prayer ? ‘Lord, look down upon me in. mercy f , With that sentiment choir. Was it wofth while to rear this massive edifice, to be a desert in the heart bf the town, and populous only for a few; hours of each seventh dav ? Oh! but the church is the sym bol of religion. MaV its site, which was consecrated on the day when'the first tree was felled.be kept holy for ever, a spot of sofitode and peace, la- mid the trouble and variity or our weekday world! There is a moral, and a religion f00. even in the silent walls. Aqd may tiiesteeple.stiit point heavenward, and be decked with the hallowed sunsliine of the Sabbath moral PISTOL SHOOTING EXTRA. No little noise and alarm waicrea-l ted in one of our princibaf hotels ear-1 ly yesterday morning, by the loud rej-’| port of-n- pisitd m-one~of\lhe 'pa*saj ways of the third story. Some thong that a suicide had been committed, I while others did not km>w what to! think ot an occurence so unusual, but; I their doubts was soon removed, as tre V shall show. ['■■> - r • J It seems that one of tho Irish wat-'i ters attached to the hotel, had taken a I gentleman’s overcoat from bis room ] in order to brush it. Finding a plttcr) I in one ot the pockets, he drew it forth ] and began to examine itl At this] juncture a darkey came into the room,] when the Irishmaq, having no idea the 1 pistol was loaded, took “sight-at tbe l sable fellow ana exclaimed— I *1 say, me rowl -of blacking, jusil straighten yourself like a man, stand] still, and Pit plug ye as any as IMA my hand.’ . lUi* * •. ; -n /?• b rt Wy, wy, look heah, massa’said the! darkey, rolling his eyes and turning a I pate blue from fright- ‘Look hcah.l massa eon’t you doatt-^-don*t awn dat I pistol d’ra wav. Wha—wha—wbatI for yon shoot me?’; | ‘Jist for a bit of devarshun, that's all 1 Be aisy, 1 say, and l’ll let a streak of I blissed day-light through that dark! body ot yours.* • ' I No sooner said than done. Pall took deliberate aim,pulled the trigger,! and off went the pistol with a tremeri-1 dous report. The balbforjt had Af •blue pilf fa, it of a large size- grazed the darkexSa side and smack throughtlwjpkrr.but fortunate-1 ly it did not happenfo come iri .con-l tact with any ‘sure enough* flesh', and I blood. It is needtessto say that the I Irishman was worse frightened ,tnf“ any man in the party, And has sin dectared that he % will v never rich 91 .,C.U n fklrasr. .rtrtlr, P*V WELL DONE. A good many capital things are told of the late. William Gray f~-a distin- _i.- iu ^1 — 1 l. r guished merchant of.Boston. He was gushing from my soul, might I not f ami i, ar | y known hy the nao.cof-Billy leave allthe rest to Him! a . -W ur. his H „. h „ . Hark, the hymn ! t This at least, is a portion of flic service whirh I can enjoy better than if I sat within the walte, wliere the foil choir, and the massive melody of.tbhioigan, would fall with a weight qpon. me. At this distance,it thrills thro* my frame, and plays Upon my heart 'strings, with a pleasure both ot the sense arid spirit Heaven be praised, I know nothing of music, as : a; science; arid the most elaborate harmonies,if they, please me please as simply as a. nurse’s lullaby.: The strain has ceased but prploqgs it;, self in uiy 'rnirid, witli ianciful echoes, till 1 start from my reverie, aud find that the sermon haircommenced. It is ray misfortune 'seldom tp frartHy. in a’regolar way, by any but'printed sermons. The first strongiaea, which the Gray.* He left at his death a large estate, and used to say that-thc chief source of Jiis worldly success, was his molto,*What is worth doing at all, is worth doing well/ ; On one occasion, he had reason to find fanlt with a mechanic for some slovenly job. The mechanic recollected Mr. Gray when lie. was in .a very humble-condition, so be bore the rebuke with imp^ience. .-FI tplt. yoli .whjit.’. said ,he, -Billy •Gray. \ phan’l stand sijch jaw jrpm yon. Why I recollect when yoMjos nothin- hutadrymnierin areginrent.’ 'so 1 was a drummer—but didn't I drum uxll—eh 1 didn’t l dram vxlli lovely wife. He brooghtaforttioo --lS—: A..- - ■' her, and she knew how to aavc o ■ftiiadMir iwMnl A. man's appearance falls withih tbe censure ofevery.one who sfees him ; ■ .... . •irions. The’first strongidea, which his talent and learning, vely few arc wirtnich.and each enrictad th* : preacher utters, gives birth to a judges of. ; : «• • ' fthe decatefol .things again.*' yuw. , ’ . - HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFlj*: fj, | ■The Patriarch,* a JVfagaxine just I published, offers the following receipt | for the seluctioh of a wife t: ‘A place for every thin- and « thing ia it* place,’ said the pair to his daughter.. ‘Select a wife, ftiy.l son, who will never stepovera broom-1 stick.* The bod. was obedient to. thel lesson.. Now, said he,-pleasantly,opl a gay May day, to one of hi. c ■ ions,' lippoint'lhis-broq chooseMie a wife. < Tlie j who will not'step over if the ,offer of my band, si from the splendid saloon.ti some stumbled oyer .the; b others jumped ip.'pAt leng ladjr stooped, ahdpgt'it;ip, > i ,The promise w«s fulfilled... came the wife of an educated t wealthv young man.' and be iha, h " ' of a prodent. indiwlTO^ « . be-1