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v by J. H. CHRISTY & T. M. LAMPKIN,) EDITORS AND MODRIETORS. j 0cootci> to Xcros, politics, Citeratarc, ©cncrcil intelligence, Agriculture, fcc. [TERMS:—TWO DOLLARS A YEAR ' INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. NEW SERIES—VOL. I., NO. 30. ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1848. ww" OF GL0KG1A L VOLUME XV. NUMBER 48. Poctrn. * use CASA BIANCA. BY MS*. HKMAM. lh« mm of the Admiral of the bo perished when that ship blew up in of the Nile.] boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all bat him had fled ; ' ' that lit the battle's wieck. Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beaatifs! sad bright be stood, Aa born to rale the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form, the flames roll'd on—be would not go Without his father’s word: That father, faint in death below, 'Chat voice ao longer heard, lie called aloud“ Say, father, say, If yet my task is done f’ He knew not that the chieftain lay of bis son. M Speak, father!” once again be cried, • r lfl may yet be gone! And”—but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in bis waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death, In Mil.-, but brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, M My father! must 1 stay !*• While o er him fast, through sail and shroud, The e reathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in sj Isndor wild, They cangbt the flag on high. And streamed above the gallant child, Like banners in the sky. There came a burst of thunder sound— The boy—oh! where was he ! Ask of the winds, that far around With fragments strewed the sea. With mast, agd helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part— But the noblest thing which perished there, Was that young faithful heart. Miscellaneous. r SIACI SKtMWOOD. • And so you uont go will) us, Jmnie V *, darling— 1 Hush, darling—you know I cannot to my ould mother, lone widow that i is, even for love and you, Mary ; hut you'll not forget me, in the far country "^you're going to, when God wills, I’ll fol low you !* w • Oh, Jamie, Jamie,this patting isquite moments she breaking my heart—but don't ask me to j stay again—-God bless you, and keep heavy plunge—another—a silence j who, at each return of the nohlc dogs, as of death, and then a joyful shout, had said, • N«»vj daughter,' Mary simply She holds!—She holds !*—then a wild answered, ‘Not yet,* and remained holding on her lap the almost inanimate form of her mother. At length the mo ther seemed to rouse herself, and open- ing her faded blue eyes, those eyes into which Mary had so often looked for hope and encouragement,she said: 4 1 will thry, darling—for mv child’s sake, the good God may give me strength to pass through the troubled waters.* Mary assisted to lash her carefully to one of those mute deliverers, and with linns clasjicd about and partly support- place she wished to find.^At last she reached that great metropolis, still ac companied by her young nephew, for her widowed sister, when dying, had him to her, and she faithful to the holy trust. She soon pro cured a situation for herself and little charge, in a boarding-house, whyro she remained about a month, still unable * cry of • She drifttP and then the ship seemed lifted out of the water, with a fearful crash, and a shock like that of nn earthquake! She had struck ! Then followed shoutings, and huiryingto and fro, the cries of terror, the clear, quick tones of command, and the sharp crack ing of timl>crs. The vessel had been driven upon a large rock, and was parting in the mid dle, the stern being highest out of the water. Word was given for all to seek that part of the ship, a^ the .only hope j ing her, she accopipnnicd her far out! w_ of safety; hut before this object could 1 into the surf, aiu^rommittcd her to the | The next morning saw her and little be accomplished, many poor creatures angry deep. And there stood Mary j Alick on the deck of one ol the Hudson perished, from missing their way in the 1 Conway—around her the wild sea—her ! steamers, waving adieu to the few" darkness, or from that sudden insanity i black hair on the wind, her lips parted, j friends who Imd followed them to the which danger often engenders. But 1 and her clasped hands outstretched be-1 wharf. At Albany, Marjftook passage Mary Conway, with matchless coolness fore her—yet all unheeding sea and'on a canal-boat, and travelled many and courage, conducted her parents and wind, for her heart was with her eye,! hundred miles westward ; and always nephew, bewildered age and terrified j and her eye was with her mother. She | and everywhere, though attractive in childhood, safely up to the crowded i saw those aged limbs float out on the i appearance and so unskilled in the stern, and saw them, one by one, let wave, and that gray hair tossing like' wavs of the world, and utterly de down hy ropes to the rock beneath.—: seaweed in the surf. She saw the cruel j fenceless, she met but kindness and Morning was just breaking as she her-! wave pass over her—she saw for a mo- j friendliness. There was about her the self descended, and she lifted her blue ment her white, calm face, ns she was j saeredness of sorrow—the impress of eves to heaven, with an involuntary borne up on the succeeding billow,. suffering on her brow, and the tearful- ejaculation of thankfulness. Alas! she'turned full upon her—she saw her ness oilier down-cast eye, were eio- hnd seen hut the beginning of sorrow, j dimmed eyes open, and, oh, God ! amid quent, though mute’appeals to the gon- It was intensely cold, nnd she found her , the sea and the storm, a daughter caught erous American heart. feeble parents shivering and trembling the last look of affectionate recognition j She reached S at last, and was in their thin garments. Morning ad- from a dying mother! But Mary knew clasped, hall-fainting, in her brother's vnneed, but the weather grew no mild- | it not; still stood she, statue-1 ike,'watch- i arms. Oh, who could measure his joy! He er, nnd the sea winds yet blow hitler ing with wild intensity the receding form had heard of the wreck* H)f foe vessel, chill. • I am dying with cold,* said the j of her last parent; the only change of iland supposed that all he held dear on poor old father, as he sat, shrinking and attitude and expression was the swell--earth had gone down willi' her. (lending under the keen gusts, his long ing and falling of the chest, and the' Mary found a neat and comfortable while locks saturated with spray. Mu- l gleaming nnd fading of the eye, as her j home awaiting her, and soon life seem- ry turned suddenly toward the rocking • mother's form appeared and disappeared i ed not so cold around her—a few sun- •bip. • jin the trembling watets. Near, still; beams fell upon her path, and the crush- Driftwood Jobmoia. meat will close forever, in this city, my| leave her to toil on alone, unchcercd A very strange occurence took place j professional existence. Other pursuits, I and unhappy ! How often it hap|iens some years since in the flourishing city ! entirely unconnected with public life,! that her kindest offices pass unobserved of Cincinnati, nnd is yet fresh in the j invite me from tho stage ; and to devote | and unrewarded even bv a smile, and minds of many residents there, not by ! myself to those, I must gradually dimiu-} her lu st effhrts arc condemned by the any means as old as “the oldest inhab-jish the sphere and limit the 'number j lault-liuding husband t How ofleu it' itnnt,” who knows all things. It is still j of my theatrical engagements. I come | happens, even when the evening is spent told of a cold winter’s night around a to you, therefore, with my humble offer- at home, that it is employed in silent cheeful fire side to many a wondering ! ing*, tor the last time ; ami permit me ! reading, or some other way that docs recall the name of the village to which ! youngster, and the moral instilled into i to hope, that as you looked with a friend- I not recognize' the wife’s rights to share her brother bad directed her. But one I their young minds with greater force j lv interest upon theearly blossom of the in the enjoyments even of the fireside \ day, a stranger arrived, and on his trunk i from the circumstances of its 44 being tree, its fruit, now ripened by the mellow-1 We repeat it, very few women make being brought into the hall, upon the j as true as gospel.” The hero of the ing hours of time, may not lie to you un-1 indifferent wives, whose feelings have card affixed to it, she recognized, with [ tale was an old man named Johnson, 1 acceptable ” ' j not met with some out ward shock, by of delight, that lost, that blessed who had lived from a hoy in the place, and J | the indifference or thougtlessness of “ followed a curious trmlo for a livelihood. Terrible Deatla—A Man Killed by a . their husbamls. It is our candid npin- Karly and lute he was seen down bv lleor! j ion that in the Iqrge majority of the in- the river’s side collecting driftwood,; The Yu zoo, Miss., Whig, gives the stances of domestic misery the man is •J toiled at it so incessantly, day after: following account of the shocking death , the n«»grcssor. day, ntid year after year, that it at Iasi of Dr. Ilamherlin, an old and respectn- 1 Where nrc you going?’ said the! ,,carer *!ic firm earth—the white surf | ed flower, happiness, took root mother, faintly. leavers her—a rush ol stalwart men—I heart again. * Back, to get some covering for father *hcy arc hearing her up the beach ! J She wrote to, nnd heard from her lor- and you.’ ‘She is safe!——she is safe!* and with; cr in Ireland ; his mother was still liv- • Young woman,* snid a seamen, stand- e J es ,hrown heavenward, Mary falls, j mg, but very feeble, requiring his con ing hy, 4 it may be death to do that— fa,ol,,, S* But the old sailor was by her | slant care. the ship may part any minute.* J 8 *‘fe—she felt not the rushing of the wa-j ’Twns on her second summer ir But she gave no heed to remnnstran- ,er J “ ,llc wa * '’"T ,he s ! ,or ‘ - -; America, that sorrow came once agn : - ccs, though they came fast and clamo- ; n,Kl runs; she seized on the rope, which* - ' 1 *** heentne whispered about that old Drift- i bio citizen of that county : j Wore Pointed than Polite wood Johnson was making money: One day last week, Dr. Ilatnbcrliti We find the following racy corresport- tliat he had invested his little earnings together with two other gentlemen, left deuce in the New York Tribute, which well, and had realized large sums by Sulartin, for the purpose of inking a bear j \* e re-publish, ** for the beuefit ofallcon- fertunate speculations: hut still he hunt, nnd proceeded to Lake. George, cerued.” clung to his old business. He was mean where it forms a junction with the Sun- Interesting Conesjxndeucc, in dress, and very saving—all the mon- flower river ; a short tisue after they J Clintox, Lenawee Co. Mich. Feb. 4. pt for the merest landed from their boat, tlie dogs on-. //. (iree/y, AV;.—Please send me the New York Daily Tribune, nod I will necessaries of life, hiring for the eduen- i lered the cane and immediately struck lion of a most lovely girl, for the old a trail nnd Dr. II. followed them but a man had a wife and child. | abort distance when he catne up with At last Drift wood haught a very large 1 them and a verv large hear in the thick brick house, or built one; and, much cane. Hr. H. fired at him, the ball on to the surprise of every body, furnished i tcring his head at the upper part ol the it elegantly, and brought his daughter nose, without doing much injury to him borne from school to lie the lu-lic of his other than to infuriate It.in, and he mansion. It was a good way out of turned anil made at Dr. II., the Doctor town, but he said the city would grow , endeavoring to get out of the animal’s toil, and so it has. There was always way, but the cane being very thick lie something mysterious about the old could*run but slow, and liu.i proceeded man's family; and bis wife, who wnsave- but a short distance, when the bear ry amiableWunan, had a careworn anx- overtook him and seized li.tn by the ions linik, that noone could account for. thigh and jerked him to the ground, and The beauty, and accomplishments of completely sirip|>ed Dr. II’s leg of flesh the daughter, soon brought her plenty and muscle; by this time the dogs again of lovers, who sighed and pined for her seized tho hear and got him off, Dr. II. hand ; but the favored of all was a then attempted to rise but lie could not, youn? merchant's clerk, connected with be being so badly lorn—In* then got out one of the most flourising establishmcts b;s bunting knile; the bear then left the in Cincinnati, and soon to become It part- * dogs and uttuckcd Dr. II. the second His suit prospered, and lie hoped time and tore him very much——tli pay you at the end of the year. By i doing you will promote the Wtiigcituse in this section of country, and oblige. Yours, HENRY' W. STEVENS, [ItijM Xew-Y'oiik Keb. JS, 1S4S. II. W. Stephens, Esq.—Dear Sir; Y'ours of the 4t It has just reached me, and your request has been duly consid ered. I beg leave to say in answer that 1 cannot do as you wish under existing circumstances, for the following reasons: 1st, i can’t remembi r that I ever had the honor of knowing you ; 2dly. The fact that you did not pay the postage on your letter, is not calculated to im press me favorably as regards $’«ur pe- pecuuiary reliability ;3 illy. I published newspapers seven years on credit with lots of subsc —_ ....... .. 0 , r - , - ... - . _ and came near st arv- next awoke to conscious- j to poor Mary Conway ; came at the • to make the daughter of old Driltwood tuue Dr. H. succeedcd in cutting one or i ing to death thereby. For the last sev- st retched beneath a shel- j season when mourning and sadness ] bis wife. Housed to think it ti very , two gashes in the throat of the l>ear, but j e n years 1 have gone on the oppositetack, ..,11 i 1Iin _ ,1.,, «|,; n i* _ j tering cliff, nnd beside, oh, joy. her mo- seem most unnatural—ingorgeoul June, odd eircumstnnce that during his even- P°. 1 deep enough to do him any material j sending my paper verv rarely to any human effort rlimbed^ to the deck nnd /Arr ' / —«b, despair, her dead mother! | the festal month of all the year-—came j ing visits, which were far from being i*‘J'»ry; the dogs ngatn diverted the at- one who had not paid for it in advance; went forward to thcstecrace In a lew ^ ot n waiI » n °t a ,e ar» not a sigh, be- before the first flush ol rose-tiine was “few and far between,” he never could leution of the bear from Ins victim, and , am | 1 think it will gladden your pltilan- menls she re appeared liitew over * rayed the agony of that broken-heart-1 past! Her pride, her dependence, her meet the old man, and all his inquires he left Dr. H. and engaged witli^ the i ti,topic heart to know that the change the rock a bundle of’clothing, and ^ ^ as b«,jeIe«Nly ‘ • i: j .i * . _ . she strove to recall that departed spirit. you thruc.’ James Burke was the only child of a poor widow, living in the northern part of Ireland. Mary Conway was the youngest daughter of nn intelligent and respectable family, neighbors of the Burkes. James and Mary had been loversJrom childhood, nnd at the time wbenibey are introduced to our reader, nil wno knew iben were smiling »P* I ptr t of ihe^vessel! ,ony of that broken-heart-1 past! Her pride, her depende ainly nnd still hopelessly j noble, devoted brother, cutnc home, one nJfn'irT,i id ^ w'i ft lv" "dnw n *1 h (fropef' Sho I * h £ 5,r,,vc ,D rec '“'! , , hi “ d 'P a . r?C< J ! "“I"-/™" ,|U »°I k - al,ca 7 c >'</ had brought her fiober's clonk, from the ! cnme aroun ‘ I ,er - ,he and ,hc fevered blood rushmg througb berth where he bad left it, and n blank- I ed s,rnn « ers - yet .he saw them not; ve.t.s bkc Inva, flunytrtorell upon el, which she wrapped around her moth- and n,u,e Jet she heeded ht.Jjcd, an.l never rose ag: er s-ivinc • * no1 l bctr caresstngs; but with her mo- ’• Yon Sirbave come Mfel, back, for ,hc r’ 1 ah 1 cad hrea.t she sat God wa. with me, mother dear.’ ” nl,d ,a,lds ’ buned her dc, P’ ' deep wo. At length, when, with tears £trca:n- Before a half hour had passed, a loud crash was heard, and a mountain wave One evening, as Mary sat hy his side, watching him earnestly, for sho knew that • the hour was at hand,' he said, few and far bet we meet the old man, and all bis inquires be left Dr. H. and engaged with thcjthropic heart to know t after him failed to elicit tiny satisfactory dogs, but in a few moments the hear, | i;ls worked admirably for tny constitu- replies; but knowing that the old man came at him a third time, when Dr. II. | lion. 1 have since had not only agood- whnt is generally termed “an odd fish,” w-tde a stroke at him, but the bear j j v arra y 0 f subscribers, but enough to be never troubled himself much about !5 ‘-*«zcd the knife by the blade an.l ; cm, a i{nod suit of'clothes, and very often the trailer. | wrenched it from Dr. U., and threw it j some change in the vest pocket. *Wisb- tre of the same blessings, I mrs trulv, HORACE GUEELY. renchcd it from Dr. II., and tiirr On returning to his store late one some distance from him, and scizcc night, after a visit to his lady love, lie H's arm and edtnpletely mashed horrified ujh»ii opening the door at ajvlly. By this time, the fDr.l faintly, * Prav, my sister ;’ and the finding the mangled and bleeding corpse ; H. brought one of his coinpainor stricken girl knelt, nnd lifting up her I man, n stranger. He had apparent- j rescue, and hei seeing the awfula ing down their weather-beaten checks, ■ voice clearly and calmly, in a prayer 1>* fallen from the second f»r third story fresstng situation ol nis maul, tired and | | ?wny the whole of the forward | lhosc frien.llv strangers would lake Iter all faith and fervency and -Submission, through the hatch way, and had been “truck the bear m the neck, winch j provingly upon their fitting betrothal.* P arl °* lho vcsscl • Irom her lifeless mother, Mary seemed j commended the passing spirit to its killed almost instantly. Tho watch caused ihe bcasi to leave Ins victim and James wa* just one's ideal of a warm -1 thejlny wore on, and^ the fog lift- J to arouse. They told her that she must j Creator. When she rose up^she looked , were called in and^ the poor wretch^w hearted, high-spirited, frank, nnd han<l- “ '* ' ' ' ' * “ u» j - some Irishman. Mary was a fair, blue- eyed girl of eighteen, with much more oil delicate fragility of figure than often belongs to her countrywomen. Some four years previous to the pc- f the parting scene, with which we cnced this sketch, Mary's only riod of the comtnci brother, Willie Conway« went nut to America, to 4 seek his fortune,' where he succeeded so well in business, that he became anxious to be joined by bis family. This consisted only of bis pa rents* Mary, and the orphan boy of an elder sister, a fine little fellow of eight or nine years. The noble young man sent home nearly all his earnings to de fray the expenses of tho voyage, and promised his friends a snug anti happy borne, on their arrival in the stranger- land. From their age a id many infir- mtries, bis parents were long averse to going* but finally yielded to his earnest solicitations. Poor Mary! the same sense of filial duty which bade her go with her pa- reiits, forbade her urging her lover to accompany her, for old Mrs. Burke could oot risk tho voyage* having been on invalid for many years; and so they garted^and the emigrants took ship tor For the first week of the voyage all was fair above and calm below; but then come on equally and tempestuous weather, and tho mad waves tossed about the stout ship like a toy, and the fierce winds drove her wildly on her ytMX, Our poor emigrants bad much to endure; Mary* ill herself, was yet un- “**“1 in her attendance on her aged ed, the ship-wrecked lieheld despairing- ign with them muny miles, to find a shel- ujion the face of the dead. I>, the hopelessness of their situation. ' ter—that night nnd a fiercer tempest' ~ They were cast upon a perfectly barren j were coming on* nnd ihut she must rock, separated from the laud by many leave her dead vaburied. She pressed rods of foaming surf, in which no boat her bands around her throbbing brow, could live nn instant; at sea, no saiL and while her sad blue eyes rested for in sight, and on the shore no signs ‘ a moment in gratitude upon them, she of human life. They were on the coast' gently waved them to depart, saying, of Newfoundland. j calmly, 4 1 will follow.* And they left But the mother nnd daughter wtjre her—a kind fisherman bearing her little nbsorbed in a fearful affliction* which j nephew in his arms—and she was! taken to the watch-house, lay of the burial, little Alick cion sent lor to see the body, was taken ill with a milder form of the ; been dead for hours, and there was same disease, and there was none of • thing left but to endeavor to find out kindred, save his broken-hearted sister, j *be man was, and hold an inquest < to follow Willie Conway to the grave, .bis body. There was no trace or She saw him laid to his rest, with an j about him that could possibly lead intense yearning to lie down beside him, j recognition—-no paper, no murk s j !'• S.—I should like well to do any- * j tiling fairly within my power to 4 pro ne the Whig cause* in Michigan, where •re really seems to be need of some ort iu that direction. If, therefore, a u Whigs oTyour town will wrile.r take to flight; hut another one of the j se, and a physi- i company coming up in an opposite di- that sending the Tribune to any named body. He bad rcction, encountered the bear and shot j a( |dress will have the effect you intimate, ... , !l will g/re the paper gladly ; but as to Dr. Ilamherlin had Ins wounds tied j sending it on credit to a stranger, I would up and was then carried to the boat to , mos t respectfully ask to be excused.— be conveyed immediately to Satait.s, j Disliking to tax'any one with postage hut he expressed Ins unwillingness to j ullltfM , le | ia , requested it, I send you return without having Ins formidable j ,|,j* it , lho Tribune, and postpaid.— {Adieu! . u.c. and share his “cold pillow; nnd site j clothes, nnd a bunch of skeleton keys, antagonist with him—this desire was turned toward her desolate home, with a box of matches and a small dark lan-; gratified, and h.ro and the bear were tern were all that he had about him : so taken to Salartiu, where eminent tneds- was coming fast upon them. j alone, alone with her dcud. On that desolate spot, the husband Impressing one long kiss upon that and father was dying. He bade them , icy brow, Mary Conway rose up quiet-j good-bye, with a tailing voice—he gazed j ly, and going yet further from the sea, on them with a thrilling tenderness of j dug, with her own hands, a grave for the last, last look—the breath ceased on her mother in the sand. She then bore Ins lips—his white face grew rigid, and thither, in her arms, as though it were a his spirit dwelt where ‘there is no more sleeping infant, the emaciated form, and sea,* nor hunger, nor coUl, nor death, j laid it down to its last slumber—took When the first wild burst of grief was the kerchief from her own breast, spread o'er, Mary left the lifeless form with j it over the beloved face, and then catc her mother, and searched around until ! fully replaced the sand. She knelt she found a wide fissure in the rock,' above that shallow grave, and with her depth of anguish in her soul, which somewhat sheltered by an over-hanging crucifix pressed to her lii ledge. She then gently took the body | a brief prayer for the soul of the depart- from her mother's convulsive embraces,' ed—there, on the wild desert shore, _ ■ ■ t _ nnd with the assistance of a kind sailor, 1 with ocean’s voice for a dirge, and the >ng upon your.symputliics by fables. I locked, am bore it and laid it there. She kissed ! tempest for a requiem. Then, in that; have not been beguiling you with a fic- Driftwood had n “"-"again her father’s lips, chilled more! utter desolation of spirit which has no • riou. I myselMiavcJi«rd the simplr '* The Snake nnd flic Woodpecker. only God enuid round. I the inquest was held ihe ue*l morning,' » brouglil to liii ussislmiue; j W( . hnvc noticed'in m»ny place* a Bui llie strength which hut] liccn Iter’s » verdict in accordance wall the iacts but lie died on the iourlh day alter, sill- ] ve _. lm ,| verv unprofitable prnc- at the death-lied scene, nnd at that aw-1 rendered, and the body buried. , I'.nn?. curing the tune, the most cxcru-, vil: i,„ V s or n.cn standing semi-' fu) moment when the first earth fell 1 ^ The next evening, upon visitinghis ciatmg patu. I lie tear was very mp 1 -'. m-I orchards with a giro shooting upon the cnfiin, now that aii-was over, intended, the lover found I lie family | though poor, he wetg e os. Wl 1 wundpeckor*. In tiny country, nnd par- forsook her utterly. She grew faint, “"easy at the continued absence of old , bis entrails nut. | lieulnrly in this, where orchard* geder- reelcd painfully, and would it tve fallen, j Drift wood, but he persuaded them that | lln.it-iiiit.iim! Wives. * ally ore so poorly taken enre of.thc wood- hut that one, who, nl that moment en- |> 0 been suddenly called tuvny nn . . V- y peckers are of great advantage in the tered the grave-yard, sprang forward, | business and would soon return. Ad ’ ri^-nnlor vindicates her scxwiih great I "’ ,, y ,,r hiH"'g insects and worms. It murmured Jamie from over the sen. Jamie, iter I been! murdered, nr carried down the l P°' M . ,< ' d husband ' Mississippi while gathering dnftwood ' *«rr;t. B . She takes ocenston, aUo tn . . a . and drowned. In his house there were | r ™ d a ,ec . l ? re to ,h “ !a hu,ba "‘ U Mv dear reader I have not been nl.-tv-! :l number of rooms which had always ' ” a more promising age. w to are sup- J dear reatlcr ’ ‘ “-' c n - P 1 • >-■--* -„l the keys of which old , P'’ scd , :o ^ "« -"ogetber meorrtguble. always kept, and when! ''I 0 bcnt ' ( " «« h - it became necessary'to settle his affars, Wkm-iug passage liu^bunds with the tempest than the recent touch outward manifestation—that great ago-1 «»ry which I have related, from the lips these rooms were forced open and found -• * - -ul in its tearless stillness—she I of Mary BnrJcc, And would to Heaven i to contnm goods to a large amount of of death; smoothed the thiu hair upon ' ny, fearful in its tearless stillness—she { ol Mary ; ,, , hi* brow, and wrapping his cloak more turned, and meekly followed the foot-j a life so exalted by the grandeur «l wo- sorts and description closely around him, turned and left him prints iu the sand, wbicntold where her' man’s love-prompted lieroismTaud made firojulclotlm, linens, sh ; forever. She herself was trembling shipwrecked companions had gone be-j ^ serenely beanliful by fiHJI piety and J«wciry. with cold, but she thought not once ol'j fore her. robbing her poor dead father of bis wiufl-l Oh, pale voung mourner, sitting ing-sbeet. 1 - *- feet, silks, satins. table, injured beings they often represented ? Men sometimes declare that their wives' extravagance 1. in short, all sorts of goods i P ick ^ d Christian resignation, miglii have some and valuables of every dcscriplior, i LpI better chronicler, some more enduring which had been stolen in Cincinnati Iroin , ’ ,* j • n xsn. pate young |o..u.uc„ ° diflerent places, at various times for greet,bices. Ims driven th an thy darkened chamber, giving way to , memorial. vcars . The secret was out. Old Drift-. lav<!rn and gaming table, but this niuiiiing sap much r<> palat.'ihlo than can he found in our hards. The fact is, they hunt after iiioic the { an ‘l ‘h’stroy much of the vermin thru in- n-marks: fe s *»aud in very many cases kill our most -eneraily llie per-! v - , I* ,a '>l , -rruil trees. Wh. ntherenrcorch- infested with worms, sin all probability cannot h ave no doubt that they v an orchard by devour- ■ihbed them ,u o ,,;e w,, nns and insects before they arious times for ago wo were ruling by ‘an orchard. Rest thou, old saint, with thy crois'thy sorrow with passionate abandon-: 31 ore Annexation. ! warn'd’ hnd'fiirvcars"'emninyrd pediors generallv the^"wicked cxeu * * ‘ - * - ~ - — ■ ■ - - ..... - . . 1 . 1 \yicked life on their own part. 'I he fact \ ", J , "V * , . ,, ,1 wore A nni.w>i«u. I WOOCt llU<i lor years OtnpiOV*' upon thy breast! Though thou best ment, listen. 1 he angels have called The annex.afiori of Canada has often l0 e , M ,ds thtouffh the \Vej SLtS na ; Sr 5*3!! been ^suggested by Northern prints ns a so.fr lllcIDd „w,Tin Oat-hoe stern c mis to points __ r j _ o _ • wvvw eu b.tvu u .. ir scnmieraaowuin uai-« »ui» »v «„ts * n ofien lose their inte who became so wasted and en- {rive land, botwirere bilious dash around known the grief of griefs; but if still | Mi-^ifrm The f mTciationof Teias", and 'M!«i“sippTtel.w Cimdnnwb^’and ll ” ,nc f lhrir m-gleel to led by •eu-stcku.M u u last to be | and the wet sand dnlts over thee— unreconciled to Him who willed thy be-, it would seem that some secret move- all of them he had himself, unaided by j ■ l,e,r lw"« tmeresdng and plea "'ment were being made in the matter day accomplice, stolen. The man who'I | ., 8b ' ,,dd nt -'. v ‘.' r be l,ir S"" r attention wa* attracted by the in clatter of some two or three en of those sap-suckers. YVq knew by sea*i T _dly able to rise from their berths, j * hough thy loved ones may not come to reavement, bethink tbcc of one whose One night, when they had been about' weep above thee, though no living thing. own hands laid to rest her best beloved four wrecks at sea, Mary, after watching ■ be near thee but the wild sea-bird, dip- • :ll La* rlo-IP nnoG tlunl. laid Imp nokinx 1 ninfs llPf whllf* Wins* in ilia no.l'a till her dear ones slept, laid her aching j P«og her white wing in the surf—God’s head on its uneasy pillow, for a brief angel has marked the spot, and when rest. The tempest which had raged . earth's graves arc opening, and the sea throughout the day bad somewhat aba- gives uj» its dead,’thou sbrit arise from ted, but a heavy fog l ay on the deep. s «liU**J trbite robe on the stormy bosom j rock. of a MMea. The ship trill rolled, and Soon after Mary returned to her moth- : ship d, and groaned, like some huj ir in the death-agony, and for once, in her life of simple piety, sweet Maty knelt not in ber orisons. But, to pse the expression of ouc of her coun trywomen, sbe 4 went on tbe knees of her heart' nnd from the berth where she lay, fervently arose the prayer of a sub dued nnd trusting spirit. Sbe fell asleep with a tear.on ber cheek, and her heart with love and old Ireland. Sbe was awakened by a rush of feet on deck, and the ciy of* Let go tbe an- , bard couch, on the wave-lashed er, a shout from their companions told them that the despaired-of help was at band. On looking to tbe shore, she be held four or five men, pointing three now. The Canadians themselves seem found by the clerk a bleeding corpse to be thinking of it, for the question was o)d Driftwood Johnson. The clerk, whether Canada shall seperate from the however, convinced that the daughter Mother Country and be annexed to the „f t | ic 0 j,| man wa* innocent and ones, shroudless and coffin less—one who literally buried father and mother, and had no time for weeing. kind net which t day, proceeded t r . iiuim she sought and found employment lor •» Shall we have asepcralion from the them both, intending to seek ber broth-! Mother Countiy an3 become a ttepub- : J er, as soon as site bad earned sufficient! he ? or shall we join the United States ?— Abont Learfni the Stage, to defray her travelling expenses. All | These are the two question* upon which ' » I L. I > 1... .. I . * , * 1 M. t •ifelns her rights—i ;;igc as before—ind a gotnl husband evotion to the wife after marriage wi * ; concede to her quite as much attent the nature of the birds that sorne- 21! thing unusual must bo going on, and wo that the j hitched our horses nn«l proceeded cau- ftorm ir-' tinusly t° the spot. On coining near ' Jiseovrred a cliiUl,a littlegirl, asleep; could hear, of ber children ni a dis- ;c at play. On getting still closer of birds*.' uneasi- |W*J »vv. ptl n g 1 spend an evening in company, where , 7 his !:uly love had . w (c id, gut a stroke at him, and following IiccnTnvited. V * At'- I '• U P with others, soon dispatched him. r . b Mr. Forrest being called out at the {ter marriage, is He always as particular? The child hid been at play with the r—»- huge Newfoundland dogs to the rock. : ber money aod papers bad been lost at ' the countrv mast !ww decide. Mr. L. American Theatre, New Orleans, re- During the days of courtship his gallan- As soon as the noble creatures caught • the time of the wreck, and most unfor- Joseph Ptituneau has declared for a Ue- ccnily, delivered the following speech: try would demand that he should make -:_L. -r -L «•_ I •->- .' 1 —L *r.u.. j.-..,.. —j He has caused one rebellion to j 44 For the very cordial and flattering himself agreeable to her; after mar- oblnin it.” I reception ladies and gentlemen,you have [ ririgo it often happens that he tlnnks f lay wit and becoming wearied, had laid down and fallen aslt ep. sight of the sufferers, they sprang n- i tunately, tbe shock of that disaster, and gerly into tbe sorf. How sturdily tbev j her succeeding afflictions, bad driven breasted tbe waves—bow glorioasly from ber mind all recollection <JI ber they leaped forward to the' rescue. | brother’s place of residence. Sbe but One after another, the shipwrecked j remembered that it was somewhere ( were lashed 10 these gallant deliverers the State of New York, and sbe fiaa and carried safely to the shore. To resolved to go at once to tbe city of New cL. I.:—I - ■ - - C 1 ■, i Vm.L lull... ft.nnu#1 In It... .a* tlm ^ Romance and ! UU “ Manifest iles-in." it vauld upprar giveu ate to-night, 1°vilt not aUeiupt to more of being ugreeable to himmlf.— Auinri(.iin *U_vs tint Dr. Nilrj, recently is pu“«tti.« .l otion aKlr. fhant you, for I have no tronls Jfiich How ofien it happen, that married .ppmuted bv I’resalent IPoU t, tiuslune a, to mat uirect.oa, a . feelings, men, after having been away from home ’ d’Afiatrs to Satdmia, married the wt.te«r 3 . < . . ,1 I..I l,’„oo.,„ C.t.t’e rniifr. nm I imr twin cliors!’ succeeded by the rattle of cbains lbe kind imjuirte* of an aged sailor, 1 York, wbere sbe hoped to bear i