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Tile I'lliitftti\% :t. El’ WM. C. Bill ANT. A burning sky is o’er me, Tlie sands lieu'nth roe *low, As onward, onward, vvca.dy , la llie auliry in .-rii i go. From the dusty path there opens, Eastward, ail unknown w >■ , Above its winding*, plra- t-.; 1 y. The woodland b.niu luplay. A silvery brook conies stealing Frqm the shadow oi'iis trees, Where slender herbs of the i <n nt stoop Before the entering lire* zc. Along those pleasant windings I would my journey Say, Where the shade is cool anu (lie dew of night Is not yet dried away. Path of the flowery woodland! Oh whither dost thou lead, Wandering by grassy orchard grounds Or by tlie open mead ? Goest thou by nestling cottage ? Goest thou by stately hall, Where the broad elm droops, a leafy dome, And woodbines flaunt on the wall ? By steeps where children gather Flowers of the yet fresh year ? By lonely walks where lovers stray Till the tender stars appear? Or haply dost thou linger On barren plains and bare, Or clamber the bold mountain's side, Into the thinner air? Where they who journey upward Walk in a weary track, And oft upon the shady vale With longing eyes look hack ? I hear a solemn murmur, And, listening to the sound, I know the voice of the mighty sea, Beating his pebbly bound. Doth thou, oh path of the woodland ! End where these waters roar, Like human life, on a trackless beach, With a boundless sea before? From the JY'eic Orleans Mercury. Autumn. The denizen of the city is deprived of the melancholy pleasure afforded in the blight and decay of the closing year. The chilly air or a fading flower may remind him that the season is at hand when the leaves arc fading, and all that bloomed perishes; as by the fall of a companion we recollect that death is in the world. How different are the feelings inspired by the death of one, from those we experience when the pestilence “wasteth at noonday,” and wo live amid the scene of its fearful desolation ! How different the influence of intelligence that informs us of the rava ges of disease in a foreign land, and the desponding gloom and melancholy expe rienced when the eye and the car are wit nesses to the presence and wasting ruin of death. There is a gloom over hill and valley, in the forest and on the mountain ; a fune ral gloom ; the voice of melody has ceas ed, and the sound of adirgeis in the breeze and the murmurs of waters. Death reigns universal and supreme. In the fields and the woods, by the roadside and on the des ert was’e, our earliest companions, our fondest and best friends, that delighted in childhood and cheered in age, the flower and green leaf, aie falling and perishing around us. “See here thy pictured life.” Nature teaches in her every aspect, and in no changes are her lessons so impressive as in decay. Spring is a season of merri ment and joy ; animate and inanimate cre ation give expressions of reanimated life. The cuckoo, like one who sings in the gloom of griefs that are passed, heralds the dawn of brighter days, the season of melody and flowers. Herbage springs up in the fields; trees put forth their leaves, green and grateful to the eye; and foun tains burst from their coffins of ice, and join in gentle murmurs the melody of breeze and bird. The eye rests upon no object, the ear is saluted with no sounds that excite melancholy emotions ; every where is life, loveliness and joy. Summer steals on apace, and the flower loses its smile of youth ; the forest chan ges from gay and green luxuriance to more sober and matronly hues, and the face of nature assumes that grave and sedate as pect which marks the man of care and thoughtful life. Sympathy is a universal principle, and amid the gorgeous displays of summer, the mind of man reads the decree of mortality, and yields to sympa thies the changing aspect of nature’s claims. But in autumn, where is the heart that can bo thoughtfully gay? “Passing away,” is written upon every ob ject that meets the eye, and is heard in every sound that falls upon the ear. Who can look upon these vaiied mementoes of mortality, listen to the mournful tones that seem to sigh farewell to life and joy, and not be impressed with a sense of his own ceatain progress to age, irs weariness and decrepitude—to the grave, its silence and gloom. Cold and callous as the heart may have become by frequent and rough con flicts with the world, there are chords that can be touched by the finger of death, and that vibrate in tones of feeling seldom a wakened by the ordinary events of life.— Wo follow in the funeral arr ay of a friend, and look inte the narrow house to which we consign him with emolionsthat surprise us. The past, with its varied scenes of joy and sorrow, the companions and plea sures of early life and later years, throng upon memory, and oppress the *heart with a sense of earth’s woes, and the vanity of its pleasures. “The pale, descending year, yet pleasing still, A gentler mood inspires.” Wbenafuneral array is universal around us, and the bosom of tlie earth is receiving to its cold embrace every object that so re cently inspired delight; when insect tribes are chanting their own sad dirge, and notes of joy are everywhere changed t<> tones of I sighing, must not the heart, if it claim kin dred with humanity, feel and relent. For every age, for every passion, every aspira tion of the human heart, an emblem and a monitor may he found; teaching with mild and winning voice, by example the most persuasive and admonitory. Manhood, strong and vigorous, will find in the oak, as its “green glories” pale and perish at the touch of time, an emblem of the impotence of strength to abide the rav ages of age. Insects, whose songs have floated far and free on the balmy air of summer, and whose light wings glittered in the solar ray, are touching monitors to the gay and thoughtless heart, when their lone plaintive notes pain the chill evening air of winter. Pride and beeuty have ev er found an emblem in the rose ; how fresh and fair its bloom ; how transiently frail! Are we young, let us search for the violet and primrose that so early smiled along our path, and filled our buoyant hearts with gladness, as we rambled on the first dawn of spring. We search in vain, the flower has faded and left no trace of its beauty upon the blighted waste. The dis appointment cannot fail to affect the youn g heart, and a solace is sought in the hope, that the violet will again deligat us with its bloom, when the Winter in which it lies buried from our eyes shall be broken up and its beauty be renewed in the sunshine of Sbring. It is well if for ourselves there is a hope that soothes and sustains the heart, in view of the inevitable destiny that awaits all created things—that, when our youth and bloom yields to the blight of age, and we pass away, leaving no me morial in the places that once knew us, for us there is a newness of life in the light of other and brighter skies. The Dream of Life. When I was young—long, long ago I dreamed myself among the flowers ; And fancy drew the picture so, They seemed like fairies in their bowers. The rose was still a rose you know— But yet a maid. What could I do? You surely would not have me go, When rosy maidens seem to woo ? My heart was gay, and ’mid the throng I sported for an hour or two; We danced the flowery paths along, And did as youthful lovers do. But sports must cease, and so I dreamed To part with these, my fairy flowers— But oh, how very hard it seemed So say good-bye 'mid such sweet bovvers ! And one fair maid, with modest air, Gazed on mo with her eyes of blue; I saw the tear-drop gather there— llow could I say to her adieu ? 1 fondly gave my hand and heart, And we were wed. Bright hour of youth ! How little did I think to part With my sweet bride whose name was Truth. But time passed on, and Truth grow gray, And chided, though with gentlest art— I loved her though l went astray, And almost broke her faithful heart. And then I left her, and in tears— These could not move my hardened breast ! 1 wandered and for many years 1 sought for bliss, hut found no rest. I sought—yet ever sought in vain— To find the peace, the joy of youth ; At last I turned me back again, And found them with my faithful Truth. L.wv Anecdote. —Some time before the abolition af the Jesuits, a gentleman in Paris died, and left all his estate for an otdy son, then abroad, to that body of re ligious men, on condition, that on his re turn the worthy fathers should give him— whatever they should choose. When the son came home, he went to the convent, and received a very small share indeed ; the wise sons of Loyola choosing to keep the greater share themselves. The young gentleman consulted his friends and all agreed that he was without a remedy. At last, a barrister, to whom he happened to mention his cause, advised him to sue the convent and promised to gatn him his cause. The young gentleman followed his advice, and the suit terminated in his favor, through the management of his ad vocate, who grounded his plea on the fol lowing reasoning—“ The testator,” says he, “has left his son that share of the es tate which the fathers should choo ; e.— Now, ’tis plain what part they have cho sen, by what they keep themselves. My client then stands on !he words of ihc will. Let me have, says he, the part they have chosen, and 1 am satisfied.” The Way to win a Kiss.— Tlic late Mr. Bush used to tell this story of a bro ther barrister. As the coach was about star.ing before breakfast, the modest limb of the law approached the landlady, a pretty Quakeress, who was seated near the fire, and said he could not think of go ing without giving her a kiss. ‘Friend,’ said she, ‘thee must not do i:!’ ‘Oh by heaven I will ” replied the bar rister. ‘Well, friend, as thou hast sworn, thee may do i', hut thee must not make a prac tice of it.’ Gems of Thought. —Men, like books, have at each end a blank leaf—childhood and old age. Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never apart. The gifts that circumstances make in our character, we are apt to regard as its native fruit. |C?’ A gentleman said to an Irishman that lie had seen a telescope with which he could see rocks in the moon. ‘Arrah,’ re plied Pat, ‘an’ was it not my father that had a telescope which would bring a pig so near you could see him five miles off, faith and you could hear him grunt, too.’ Old Winter is Coming. BY HANNAH F. COULD. Old Winter is coming again—alack ! How icy and cold is he ! He cares not a pin for a shivering hack, He’s a saucy old chap to white and to black, He whistles Ins chills with a wonderful knack, For lie comes from a cold country. A witty old fellow this Winter is; A mighty old fellow for glee ; He cracks his jokes on the pretty sweet miss, The wrinkled old maiden unfit to kiss, And freezes the dew of their lips—for this Is the way with such fellows as he ! Old Winter’s a frolicsome blade, I wot— He is wild in bis humor, and free ! He'll whistle along for the ‘want of his thought’ And set all the want of our furs at nought, And ruffle the laces, by pretty girls bought ; For a frolicsome old fellow is lie ! Old Winter is blowing his gusts along, And merrily shaking the tree ! From morning till night he will sing his song— Now moaning and short—now howling and long ; His voice is loud, for his lungs are strong— A merry old fellow is he ! Old Winter's a wicked old chap, I ween— As wicked as ever you'll see ! Ho withers the flowers so fresh and green— And bites the pert nose of the miss of sixteen As she triumphantly walksin maidenly sheen; A wicked old fellow is he I Old Winter’s a tough old fellow for blows, As tough as ever you'll see I Ho will trip up our trotters and rend our clothes And stiffen our limbs from fingers to toes — He minds not tlie cry of his friends or his foes— A tough old fellow is lie I A cunning old fellow is Winter, they say, A cunning old fellow is he! He peeps in the crevices day by day, To see how we're passing our time away, And marks all our doings, from grave to gay— I’m afraid he is peeping at me I Bridge at Niagara Falls.—The follow ing are the particulars ofthis stupendous work, recently completed across the Niagara river: “Number of cables for bridge, 16; number of strands in each cable, 600 ; ultimate tension, 6,500 tons ; capacity of the bridge, 500 tons; number of strands in tlie ferry cable, 37 ; diam eter of the cable, seven-eighths of an inch : height of stone tower, 68 feet 1 inch , height of wood tower for ferry, 50 feet; base of the tower, 20 square feet; size of the top, 11 do.; span of bridge, 800 feet ; whole weight of the bridge, 650 tons ; height from the w..ter, 230 feet; depth of water under the bridge 250 feet. This Suspension Bridge is the most sublime work of art ou tlio continent. It makes the head dizzy to look at it, and yet it is traversed with as much sccurity;as any other bridge oftlie same width We were present while the work men were engaged in hanging the planks over the chasm. It looked like a work of peril, hut it was prosecuted with entire safety. Not an accident lias happened since the first chord was carried across the river at I lie tail of a kite. It is impossible to give the reader a clear id' a of the grandeur of the work. Imagine a fool bridge of eight hundred feet in length, hung in the air, at the height of two hundred and thirty feet, over a vast body of water, rushing through a narrow gorge at the rate oftliirty milesnn hour. If you are below it it looks like a strip of paper suspended by a cobweb. When the wind is strong, the frail gossamer-looking struct tire sways to and fro, as if ready to start from its fastenings, and it shakes from extremity to centre, under the firm tread of the pedestrian. But there is no danger. Men pass over it with safety, while the head of the timid looker on swims with appre hension. We saw the first person pass over it—.Mr. El let, the builder. Ilis courageous wife soon ful lowad him, and, for two days, hundreds attract ed by the novelty of the tiling, undertook the fearful journey. It is worth a trip to tlie Falls to see this great work, although it is not probable that one in twenty wil. have the nerve to c*oss upon it.— For strange as it may seem, there were those who had no hesitation to slide over the awful chasm in a basket, upon u single wire cable, who could not be induced to walk over the bridge. And this aerial excursion is tlirillingly exciting. A seat on a locomotive travelling at the rate of six ty miles an hour, is nothing to it. When you find yourself suspended in the air, with the roar ing, rushing, boiling Niagara two hundred and filly feet below you, ifyour heart does not flut ter you will have nerve enough to swing over Vesuvius. Another new attraction at the Falls is the ex cursion from the site of the suspension bridge to witiiin a few rods of Horse-Shoe Falls, in the little steamer Maid of the Mist. In no other mode can tho visitor obtain so grand a view of tlie great cutarnet. Every one makes the trip, and all express the same sentiment, that the Falls are not see n in all their sublimity and grandeur, except from tlie deck of the. Maid of the Mist. The run is made with perfect safe ty-’’ Sa adis. A short distance to tliu east of Smyrna is the site of tvhat was once the magnificent resilience of the opulent kings of Lydia. Sardis, the rich est of all the to« ns in Asia Minor, called by I’lorus ‘V? second Rome," and ono of the seven first churches founded by St. John, is now an uninhabited spot in the desert. A few moulder ing columns and mutilated fragments of its su perb architecture only remain to attest its former magnificence. Sardis is seated on the side of Mount Ttnoltis, the Acropolis being on a lofty hill, ono side of which is nearly perpendicular. It is celebrated as being the residence of Craisus, and was long considered impregnable to the at tacks of a besie ging army; but the side of (ho Acropolis facing Mount Tmolus having been left unguarded as to tally inaccessible, the soldiers of Cyrus effected an entrance to the city. It then became the res idence of the Persian satraps, but in the time of Darius was burnt by the Milesians. It fell into the bands of Alexander after the battle of Gran icus, and lie there built a temple to Jupiter Olympias. Sardis afterwards became a Roman city; when it attained its most high and palmy state ; but it was greatly damaged by the earth quake which destroyed so many other cities in the time of Tiberius Ca-sar. That emperor, however, repaired a considerable portion and much enriched it, but it did not regain its former splendor. Ignorant, poorly clad, and subsisting, it is dif ficult to say how , the Turcomans who inhabit Sardis are not divested of a species of generosity and noble feeling which we sometimes find among men agitated by the fiorcost emotions.— The following account of the reception of a trav eller in the hut of a Turcoman, after a visit to the Acropolis of Sardis, is related by Macfarlane in a “Visit to Constantinople “When we reached the hamlet it was dark, and we found oursuridji in a very had humor, as ho wisiicd to return to Casabar, and did not like travelling by night. I bad no intention of do ing so, if I could procure any place of refuge where I was. This might be a difficult matter where there was neither khan nor case ; but on making inquiries, we were accosted by u man whom I recognised as my orator at the temple, and lie unhesitatingly offered to lodge us. We followed our voluntary host to a strange habita tion, a rude little little cabin, pitched by tlie side of which was a conical tent. The interior of the cabin consisted of one undivided room, which we found occupied bv a swarthy woman, who was cooking the family supper at a fire on the ground, in the middle of the apartment, by three equally swarthy childfen, and by a rough little colt. I was amused at the thought ofpass ing the night in such choice society, and ou re marking the narrow dimensions of the room, and the absence of all furniture, save the black pilaff-kettle that was streaming in the centre, two low wicker stools, a straw mat rolled up, and some sheepskins,l wondered how we should all be disposed of. We were very hungry, and thought fit to request that somethin® might be added to the usual domestic supper. A valua ble addition soon made its appearance in the form of a small lamb, which was forthwith roast ed whole over the increased fire. “\\ h le these hasty preparations were making, I walked out towards the temple, hut unfortu nately there was no moonlight. 1 disturbed the large sheep-dogs, that set up a tremendous cho rus of barking, and I was fain to return at the call of my companions, who announced thatour ni*-al was ready. The first thing served up was a dish ofboiled wheat, made up in the lieu of rice, into a sort of pilaff; which, mixed with yaourt, that was furnished in abundance, I found agreeable enough, though somewhat paleons (chaffy.) The delicate small lamb was next laid on the mat, and having neither knives nor forks, we tore it to pieces with our fingers. It was tender and delicious in spile of the rude hasty cooking, and our not less rude mode of carving it. Our hostess waited on us attentively. Her husband and thesuridji ate with us of the pilaff, but were not to be induced to partake of the lamb. I thought that perhaps this abstinence might arise from certain religious rituals; and the roast lamb, the favorite dish of the Mosle niins, is peculiarly devoted to the festival oftlie Bairam, which succeeds Ramazan, and was now close at hand. After our truly Homeric meal, the wife and children took theirs in the furthest corner of the room. “We had then thick cofTce without sugar, pud our cliibooks, which were expertly filled and jit by one of tlio children, a sturdy roguish-look ing little boy,—a promising scion of the Turco man stock. Two neghhors dropped in to add to the conviviality of our party. Unlike the so lemn Osmaniis,these fellows were cheerful and talkative. The articles of my dress, and in deed everything I had with me, excited great in terest ; hut it was the watch, a repeater, that most exrited their surprise and admiration. I thought I should break it, in making it strike over and over again, in the delighted ears of all present. Though wild in their looks, and rude in their manners, my associates were kind, civ il, an I even respectful ; us i looked round the barbarous hovel, I felt myself in as perfect secu rity as if lodged in a European hotel or mansion, wi’li the civilized and jefined for my hosts ; and I thought with a smile of the panic that, the mere iiati.c of these same Turcomans never fail ed to cause in iny precursor, l)r. ('handler. Be fore nine o’clock the visitors left us witli the usual and expressive salutation of peace and good will. Except tho occasional bark of a dog, not a sound was then heard from tlie pastoral Ivitlilel.” Diooknk.n.— 1 his Synic 1 *o< ti 2f asked (if whyt 1 least is the bite most dangerous, an swered “of wild boasts, tho most flange rous bite is that of tho slanderer; of tamo beasts, tho flatterer’s is the most danger ous.” Iloltlcu's Dollar Hlug'nziiM*. LARGEST ! 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For the further encouragement of the afflicted Dr. M. would just add, that on their arrival at Macon, they will have tlie nn st abundant tes timony in flavor of tlie utility of the treatment, by having access to those who have been made whole, and also to those who are continua'ly under treatment from various partsofthe Union in every stage and variety of the complaints.— The treatment is w ithout the use of the knife, or caustic, and is both constitutional and local! dec 2 I—|f Oodey’s Lady’s Book for IS4». Dedicated to the [.tidies of the V States INDITED by SARAH J. HALE, GRACE A GREENWOOD and L. A. GODEY. A Novelette, by Miss E. LESLIE, who con tributes to every number. N P. Wl I.Lis'Original Scriptural Poetry. T. S. ARTHUR, who contributes to every number, illustrative ofCroouic's Sketches of A mcrican character. Agreeable to the practise of last year, the pub lisher will issue as good a mini her each month as he does in January. This is a novel feature in Magazine publishing. During the whole of last year lie gave more engravings and more reading matter than any of liis contemporaries, and will continue to do so next year. Those who subscribe to GODEY’S LADY’S BOOK, may do sounder the assurauce that they will re ceive more foj their money in the Magazine a lone, than by subscribing to any other work. To this is added and included in tlie same $3, the LADY’S DOLLAR NEWSPAPER, which contains in one month nearly, if not quite as much reading matter as the other monthlies, making for $3, the amount of reading of two magazines a month. There are peculiarities •- liotit Godey’s Lady’s Book for the Ladies that no other Magazine possesses. There is a Mez zotint and Line Engraving in each number both by the best artists. In addition to these, there are given monthly what no other Maga zine gives—a colored Fashion Plate, uitli a full description. This feature is peculiar to Godey, ns no other work has them every month and co lored Then there are Gaps, Bonnets, Cliemi setts, Equestrianism for Ladies, with Engravings. I hc Ladies’ Work Table, with designs for knit ting- netting, crotchet, and all other kinds of work. Patterns for Smoking Caps, Chair Covers Window Curtains, D’Ovloy’s Purses, Bags, <&e. Health anti Beauty, with Engravings. Model Cot ages, with ground plans and other engrav ings, always illustrative of something useful. Music,beautifully printed on tinted paper,which may lie taken out and hound. Colored Modern Cottages,and colored Flower pieces occasionally. Those are all extra in Godey, and to lie found in no oilier Magazine. These were all given last year and will he continued. In addition we shall have in every number one of “CIiOOME'S SKETCHES OF AMERICAN CJI Alla CT'EIi IST! CS,” A most amusing series, now first given to 1 1,0 American public. These will he illustrated in every iiu in her by a Story from tlie powerful pen ofT.S. Arthur, Esq. “THE CHANGES OF FASHION, Illustrated by Fay Robinson, Esq. This series will be very interesting to the Ladies. “THE APPLICABILITY OF THE FINE ARTS TO DOMESTIC USES,” Is another series of Engravings now in prepara lion, and will In; published during the year. COTTAGE FURNITURE. Having given so many Model Cottages,, we in tend now to commence the publication of Cottage Furniture—a very necessary appendage to u. Cottage. RELIGION AND HISTORY. Our superior artists, Walters, Tucker, Pease and \V eleli, are now engaged upon a set of Plates I * I list rati v e of these two subjects. OUR MUSIC, Prepared expressly for us—mostly original, and beautifully printed, has long commanded a de cided preference over that of any other Maga zine. It is a feature in the Book. THE LITERARY CHARACTER OF GO DEY’S LAI)\ S BOOK. With such writers as Miss Leslie,Grace Green wood, W. ft. Simms, Mrs Eliott, T. 8. 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