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postponed the further consideration of the subject to the Ist July, in order that the in cipient feelings of independence of the col onies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl vania,.Delaware, Maryland and South Caro-, lina, might be fully matured and understood. A committee was however appointed to draw up in the interim a Declaration of Independence and report the same to the House. That committee consisted of John Adams of Mass., Bern. Franklin of Penn , Roger Sherman of Conn., Robeit R. Liv ingston of New York, and Thomas Jeffer son of Virginia. Tho preparation of this important paper was confided to Mr. Jeffer son. Having written what he thought a proper Declaration, he submitted it to the committee, who suggested several minor al terations. Jefferson then made two fair co pies of the declaration as revised by the committee; one for Richard Henry Lee, who did not return to Congress till August, and the other to be presented as the report of the committee. This last was presented to the House on Friday the 2Sth June by Benjamin Harrison, (father of the late Pre sident) and after being read was ordered to lie on the table. For the subsequent pro ceedings we again recur to the authentic notes of Jefferson. “On Monday the Ist July, the House re solved itself into a committee of the whole, and resumed the consideration of the origi nal motion made by the delegates of Vir ginia, which, being again debated through the day, was carried in the affirmative by the votes of New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia.—South Carolina and Pennsylvania voted against it. Delaware had but two members present, and they were divided. Tho delegates from New York declared they were for it themselves, and were as sured their constituents were for it; but that their instructions having been drawn near a twelvemonth before, when reconciliation was still the general object, they were en joined by them, to do nothing which should impede that object. They, therefore, thought themselves not justifiable in voting on eith er side, and asked leave to withdraw from the question, which was given them. The committee rose, and reported their resolu tion to the House. Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, then requested the determination might be put off’ to the next day, as he be lieved his colleagues, though they disapprov ed of the resolution, would then join in it for the sake of unanimity. The ultimate question, whether the House would agree to the resolution of the committee, was ac cordingly postponed to the next day, when it was agaiu moved, and South Carolina con curred in voting for it. In the mean time a third member had come post from the Dela ware counties, and turned the vote of that colony in favor of the resolution. Members of a different sentiment attending that morn ing from Pennsylvania also, her vote was changed ; so that the whole twelve colonies, who were authorized to vote at all, gave their votes for it; and within a few days (July Oth,) the convention of New York approved of it, and thus supplied the void occasioned by the withdrawing of their de legates from the vote. [Be careful to ob serve, that this vacillation and vote were on the original motion of the 7th of June, by the Virginia delegates, that Congress should declare the colonies Independent.] “ Congress proceeded, the same day, to con sider the Declaration of Independence, which had been reported and laid on the ta ble the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea, that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this rea son, those passages which conveyed cen sures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. The debates having taken up the greater parts of the second, third and fourth days of Ju ly, were, in the evening of the last, closed : the Declaration was reported.by the com mittee, agreed to by the House, and signed by every member present except Mr. Dick enson.” The fact that the names of several persons aro affixed to that instrument, who were not in Congress when it passed, and took no part in the deliberations which produced it, J3 thu3 explained by Jefferson. “ The subsequent signatures of members who were not then present, and some of them not yet in office, is easily explained, if we observe who they were ; to wit, that they were of New York and Pennsylvania. New York did not sign until the 15th, be cause it wa3 not till the 9th, (five days after the general signature,) that their Conven tion authorized them to do so. The Con vention of Pennsylvania, learning that it had been signed by a majority only of their del egates, named anew delegation on the 20th, leaving out Mr. Dickenson, who had refus ed to sign, Willing and Humphreys, who had withdrawn, re-appointed the three mem bers who had signed, Morris, who had not been present, and five new ones, to wit, Rush, Clymer, Smith, Taylor and Ross; and Morris and the five new members were permitted to sign, because it manifested the assent of their full delegation, and the ex- Eress will of their Convention, which might ave been doubted on the former signature of the majority only. Why the signature of Tliorr.ton, of New Hampshire, was per mitted so late as the 4th of November, I cannot now say ; but undoubtedly for some particular reason, which we would find to nave been good, had it been expressed. These were the only post-signers, and you see, sir, that there were solid reasons for re ceiving those of New York and Pennsyl vania, and that this circumstance in no wise affects tho faith of this Declaratory Charter of our rights and the rights of man.” The Declaration of Independence was received by all the Colonies with satisfaction and joy. On the Bth July it was publicly proclaimed in Philadelphia amidst salvoes of artillery, and salutes of the multitudes. On the 11th it was published before the Ar , my near New York, with all the pomp of military show; and in the city on the even ing of its arrival, the equestrian leaden sta tue of king George which loyalty hod erect ed, republicans threw down, and converted into bullets to drive outliisarmies. In Bos ton the demonstration of pleasure was equal- J lv great. An immense feast was prepared to which the whole people were invited, and where under the superintendance of the civil authorities, they drank toasts to liberty and independence. In Delaware the Com mittee of Safety took from tlieir room the portrait of the king, and marching with it followed by the light infantry and people round the square of Dover, the President committed it to the flames saying, “ com pelled by strong necessity, thus we destroy even the shadow of that king who refused to recognize a free people.” In Virginia the Convention which was then in session, decreed to expunge the name of king from the liturgy of the church, and every emblem of royal authority was supplanted by tokens of freedom and self-sovereignty. In Charleston, S. C. the news of the De claration was received by express on the 2nd of August. The account says Drayton was received with the greatest joy; and on the stli August it was formally announced, the civil and military authorities making a grand procession on the occasion. In the afternoon the continental and provincial troops were paraded under the old liberty tree, the same, under which Cristopher Gaosden and twenty-five others met in 1766 to celebrate the repeal of the stamp act; the Declaration of Independence was then read at the head of tho troops by Major Barnard Elliot, and a sermon appropriate to the occasion was preached by the Rev. Mr. Piercy. The intelligence reached Savannah on the 10th August. “ The Provincial Coun cil,” says McCall, “ was convened by the President at the council chamber; where the Declaration of Independence was pro claimed in due form : from thence the ptc sident and council proceeded to the public square, in front of the house appropriated for the deliberations of the provincial as sembly ; where the Declaration was again publicly read, and received the acclamations of a crowded assemblage of the people : they then proceeded to the liberty pole, in the following order of procession : The Grenadiers in front. Provost Marshal. Tho Secretary with the Declaration. His Excellency the President. The honorable Council. The Light Infantry. The Militia. The Citizens. At the liberty pole, they were saluted by the first continental battalion of Georgia, under the command of Col. Mclntosh, with thirteen guns, accompanied with vollies of small arms; from thence they proceeded to the battery, where they were again saluted by tiie discharge of thirteen cannon. A dinner was provided under a grove of Cedars, where the civil and military officers, and a number of citizens from the town and country partook of a handsome dinner, and thirteen toasts were given suitable to the occasion. In the afternoon there was a funeral pro cession, attended by the grenadiers, light in fantry, and militia companies; and the royal government of Great Britain was interred with tho customary ceremonies. In the evening the town was illuminated and the day closed with joyful acclamations, for the birth of the Independence of the United States of America. With regard to the original Declaration as written by Jefferson and adopted and signed by Congress, we insert part of an in teresting letter, written by the late venerable and distinguished John Vaughn of Philadel phia, to I. K. Test, Esq. of this city, which has been kindly furnished by Mr. Test. “On the Bth July, Mr. Jefferson wrote to Mr. Lee as follows : I enclose you a copy of the Declaration of Independence as agreed to by the House and also as originally framed. This was the second copy which he had made for Mr. Lee. Mr. Jefferson added, you will judge whether it is better or worse for critics; on this suggestion of Mr. Jeffer son, the comparison was made by Richard Henry Lee, and his brother Arthur Lee, who drew a black line upon the original draught proposed by the committee under every part rejected by Congress and in the margin opposite placed the word out. This document thus marked is the one possessed hy the American Philosophical Society. Sometime after the death of Richard Henry Lee, his grandson of the same name, wrote the memoirs of his Grandfather having ob tained from his Father and Uncle, all the papers and correspondence of his Grand father with the eminent? patriots of that day. These memoirs were published in I’hiladel liliia by the gtandsomn 1825, with whom ’ was on terms of intimacy. Whilst pub lishing he was requested to favor the A. ’P. S. with the original papers and documents as soon as he had made use of them. The request was gronted, and on the 17th June 1825, they were put in possession of the correspondence, which is bound up in two volumes, and on the 19th August 1825, Rich ard Henry Lee sent them the original foi m proposed by the committee, in the hund writing of Mr. Jefferson, and with the re marks thereon made by the two Lees above alluded to. When received it was duly re corded by the Society, and Mr. Wtn. Short and Mr. Edward Coles, who were intimate friends of Mr. Jefferson, and the undersign ed (John Vaughn) who had been his corres pondent for more than forty years, certified on the book of records, that this document was of the handwriting of Mr. Jefferson; and Mr. George Washington Smith to whom the delivery was entrusted, certified that he received the whole from Richard Henry Lee, the grandson, with directions to deliver them to the A. P. S., and that he delivered them to the undersigued for the Society. A copy of this proposed Declaration, was published by tho grandson in the memoirs of his Grandfather, the parts left out by Con gress being printed in italics. Several edi tions of this italicised copy of 1825 £were published between that year and 1829, when it was republished and lithographed in simi lar form in the memoirs of Thomas Jeffer son, which was first published in that ycai. This original draught of the Declaration, is framed between strong glass plates, so as to be perfectly viewed and examined by those who feel an interest in it. The other original sent to Congress, cannot be found. The form of Declaration finally adopted, signed by the Members of Congress exists s<d s? in nis a di a©<©imilil &it n ® at Washington in the Department of State, but the originally proposed form has not been found, fiom which circumstance the Document in possession of the Society has with propriety become the sole original draught.” Jefferson, as well he might, felt proud of his agency in thissublime movement. When he was elected to the Presidency, he was waited on by the Magistrates of Washing ton City, to ascertain his birth day, that they might celebrate its returning anniversaries; Jefferson answered, “ The only birth day I ever celebrate is the 4th July, the birth day of my country’s liberties.” When towards the close of life lie sat down to ask himself whether his country was avy better for his having lived, he looked upon the Declara tion of Independence as one of the services which he had rendered to her fame. Fifty years after that 4th July 1776, the room of a humble dwelling in Quincy, Massachu setts, and that of the stately mansion of Monticello in Virginia, were occupied hy the sick and the dying. In the one, was John Adams, the 2nd President of the Unit ed States, and the most ardent supporter of the Declaration of Independence ; and in the other, was Thomas Jefferson, the 3d President and author of that glorious docu ment. Fifty years before, they had strug gled successfully with an earthly tyrant, and released themselves and their country from his gripe ; now they were struggling with their last enemy, and struggling in vain, for e’er the sunset guns of that nations jubilee bad pealed upon the ears of a happy nation, their spirits had passed from earth and re turned to him who gave them. The American Congress which passed this Declaration, has ever been commended for its calmness—its policy and its profound wisdom. We have room however to cite but two opinions, one from a man thorough ly versed in legislative bodies and affairs of State; and the other a3 well acquainted with human nature, and the true springs of wisdom and greatness. Lord Chatham, in his place in the House of Lords, said, “ For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading, and it has been my favorite pursuit, that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity and wisdom of conclusion under all the circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in prefe rence to the General Congress at Philadel phia.” Robert Burns in one of his letters, says, “ J will not, I cannot enter into the merits of the cause—hut I dare say the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and ns enlightened as the Eng lish Convention in 1688; and that their posterity will celebrate the cen'.enuary of their delivery from us as duly and sincerely as we do ours from the oppressive measures of the wrong-headed house of Steward.” We close this long, hut hope not uninter esting narrative, hy quoting part of a letter from John Adams, whom Jefferson termed “ the main pillar of the support of the De claration of Independence on the floor of Congress” to his wife, dated July Ath, 1776. “ The fourth of July 1776,” says he, “will be a memorable epoch in the history of America. lam apt to believe it will he celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary festival. It ought to he commemorated as the day of deliverance, hy solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomps, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from ono end of the con tinent to the other, from this time forward for ever. You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but lam not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States; yet, through all the gloom, I cars see the rays of light and'glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means; and that posterity will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not.” From the Savannnh Georgian. OLD NEWSPAPERS. Few j )ersons seem to he aware of the value of old newspapers. The paper once read is thrown by as useless, and suffered to be destroyed; scarcely a thought is given hy any one of the importance of preserving these sheets as the true transcripts of pass ing history. Though not always to be re lied on, yet files of old papers are far more veritable than the authorities on which were based the early history of the Western na tions of Europe, and the fabulous antiquity of ancient States. The newspaper tells you what is done to-day, what was done yes terday, what may he expected to-morrow. It is, as Cooper has rightly said, “a map of busy life,” written all over with tho doings of the great babel-world of commerce and literature, of ignorance and vice, of religion and virtue. There is a great deal of extra vagance, of bitterness, of extortion, of false hood, of crime going on without, and the lineaments of all are transferred and pre served by the Daguerre-like plate of the press; there is, however, after all, truth at the bottom, and it does not take the saga cious observer long to ascertain its where abouts and its character. No one has ever attempted to go back fifty or a hundred years, but what he 1 has been mystified at finding so few periodical memorials of those stirring times. How invaluable appears to us now a file of the old “Boston News Letter,” begun in 1704; or the “Philadelphia newspaper” commenced in 1719, or the New-York news paper of 1725. They are histories in them selves. What a faithful record of the times is the “South Carolina Gazette,” begun oyer a hondred years ago in Charleston; it pictures before us, men and affairs, far bet ter than He watt or Ramsey; because it is an every day picture of every day life, and not j a portrait of society, conjured up by the stu dent in the retirement of his study. Yet, these papers, now of almost priceless worth, were as valueless then, as our daily sheets are now, and were hut little better kept, for only a file of each of the above papers, and these imperfect, has descended to our time. Isaiah 1 homas, tho distinguished printer, was a diligent collector of old papers; these he carefully preserved and arranged in chronological order; and at his death some years since, lie bequeathed, besides ten thousand dollars to erect a building for the “Antiquarian Society,” of Worcester, no j less than nine thousand volumes, a large portion of them hound newspapers, to its Library. This society have thus the best collection of papers in the United States. The late Hon. Samuel Smith, of Peterbo rough, N. H., was an active collector of past and present newspapers. The Portsmouth Journal in a notice of his death thus alludes to this propensity. “Regarding newspa pers, as the most minute history of the times that can be preserved, he patiently toiled ; for many years in the accumulation of these ! important records. In the year 1536, lie I called upon us to complete his files of the ! Portsmouth Journal, and he then stated that he had formed files of seventy different American newspapers, which were all sys tematically arranged, and were as perfect as they could be made. Some idea may be formed of their completeness hy the fact, that he had regular files of the Boston Ccn tinel, from the time of its commencement in 1754, to the (then) present time, with only seventy-five papers missing. He had also files of the Boston Chronicle, from its commencement, with the exception of only sixty papers missing. He had files of almost* every paper in New Hampshire, and of papers in Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, and Washington. His collection consisted at that time of about seven hundred and fifty volumes, and from the assiduity with which he was engaged in his labors, we have no doubt they have since increased to a thou sand volumes.” The late Dr. Burney of England, had probably gathered together the largest col lection of newspapers ever made in England. His catalogue comprised numerous and rare series of them for over 150 years, viz: from 1665 to ISIS, numbering in all seven hun dred volumes, and prized at about $4,50Q. With a spirit greatly to be commended, this valuable collection was bought by the gov ernment, for the purpose of adding it to the files already preserved in the British mu seum of all the newspapers published in the realm, from 1818 to the present time, consisting of over 3,000 vols.; and as has been truly said of them, “form a record of public events not to he paralleled by any similar collection in any other library in the world.” The “Georgia Gazette,” the earliest pa per published in this State, was commenced in 1763, only seventy-nine years ago; not a perfect file of it can now he found, and sin gle copies of it are esteemed both rare and valuable. Os the “Augusta Chronicle,” the next established paper, in 1755, and which is now issuing its 57th volume, we doubt whether an entire series can be found in any library. Os the “Savannah Republican,” estab lished in 1798, not a perfect copy remains: and yet these papers were the daily histo rians of the times, and would now be turned back to with almost reverential delight. We would therefore urge upon our friends, one and all, to preserve their papers; it will give them hut a moment’s trouble at first, and habit will soon step in to assist them in lay ing aside lliese records of the present, to instruct and guide the generations yet to appear on the stage of life. © ea a iiw AL a Written for the “ Southern Miscellany.” Z ANONI. Clarence Glyndon having been led on step hy step, by the mysterious power of Zanoni, had relinquished all love for Viola. That passion had been swallowed up in the more absorbing desire, to become a par taker or that knowledge which Zanoni pos sessed—and which he had been induced to believe was accessable to himself. A thirst, burning and insatiable, to become acquaint ed with the mysteries of nature, and a com panion of those lofty spirits, who belonged to the Empire of Mind, and whose powers were but little less than the power of Om nigotence, had been excited within him; and unmindful of the claims of social life, and the compansliipof Love—regardless of the suggestions of prudence, or the plain dic tates of common sense—and undaunted by the dangers which Zanoni-taught him to be lieve lay thick along the path-way which he would be compelled to journey—he deter mined to forsake all—to brave all—to be come the disciple of this philosophy. This determination was hastened by the . events which arc recorded in the work, and to which wc can only briefly refer. After the declaration of Love made by Zanoni for Viola—and which was recorded in the extract given in my former number, and ere they could leave the house, as it was their design to do, and fly from Naples, the Prince di , with his followers, rushed upon the house, snatched Vipla from the embrace of Zanoni—whose power to save her he loved was only as another man’s—and bore her to his palace. But shortly after this, Zanoni j foretold the death of the Prince di , anu the rescue of Viola. This occurred as pre dicted—and the mind of Glyndon was now swept of every doubt in reference to the powers of the ntan, for it now appeared to him this “dark and wondrous being could convert the most ordinary events, and the meanest instruments into the agencies of his inscrutable will,” and the decision was made. This decision is thus most forcibly expressed by the author : “Whoever has, in the course of his life, induiged the absorbing passion of the Game ster, will remember how all other pursuits and objects vanish from his mind; how sole ly he was wrapped in the one wild delusion; with what a sceptre of magic power the despot-demon ruled every feeling and every thought. Far more intense than the passion of the Gamester was the frantic, yet sublime desire that mastered the breast of Glyndon. He would be the rival of Zanoni, not in human and perishable affections, but in pre ternatural and eternal lore. He would have laid down his life with content—nay, rapture, as the price of learning those solemn secrets, which separated the stranger from mankind. Enamored of the goddess of goddesses, ho stretched forth his arms the wild Ixion—and embraced a cloud !” The resolution taken, the purpose fixed— Glyndon must now seek his teacher. He is to be found in the person of Mejnour, the companion of Zanoni, and from whom he had learned someofhismostsublimesccrets; and in the intercourse between the teacher and neophyte, we have disclosed some of the doctrines to he taught, and a glimpse of some of the truths of that philosophy, which many of the following pages of the work are intended to shadow forth. And as it is our purpose to investigate, in a future num ber, the claims of this philosophy to credit, and analyze some of its teachings, we pro pose to extract the whole scene in which the intercourse between Glyndon and Mejnour is described. “ The night was most lovely and serene, and the waves scarcely rippled at his feet, as the Englishman glided on by the cool and starry beach. At length he arrived at the spot, and there, leaning against the broken pillar, he beheld a man wrapped in a long mantle, atul in an attitude of profound re pose. He approached and uttered the name of Zanoni. The figure turned, and lie saw the face of a stranger; a face not stamped by the glorious beauty of Zanoni, but equal ly majestic in its aspect, and perhaps still more impressive from the mature age and the passionless depth of thought that char acterized the expanded forehead, and deep set but piercing eyes. ‘“You seek Zanoni,’ said the stranger; ‘he will be here anon; but, perhaps, he whom you see before you is more connect ed with your destiny, and more disposed to realize your dreams.’ “‘Hath the earth, then, another Zanoni]’ “‘lf not,’ replied the stranger, ‘why do you cherish the hope and the wild faith to be yourself a Zanoni ? Think you that none others have burned with the same godlike dream ? Who, indeed, in his first youth— youth when the soul is nearer to the heaven from which it sprung, and its divine and primal longings are not all effaced by the sor did passions and petty cares that are begot in time—who is there in youth that has not nourished the belief that the universe has secrets not known to the common herd, and panted, as the hart for the water-springs, for the fountains that lie hid and faraway amid the broad wilderness of trackless science? The music of the fountain is heard in the soul within, till the steps, deceived and err ing, rove away from its waters, and the wan derer dies in the mighty desert. Think you that none who have cherished the hope have found the truth; or that the yearning after the ineffable knowledge was given to us ut terly in vain? No! every desire in human hearts is hut the glimpse of things that ex ist, alike distant and divine. No! in the world there have been, from age to age, some brighter and happier spirits who have attained to the air in which the beings above mankind move and breathe. Zanoni, great though he be, stands not alone. He has had his predecessors, and long lines of succes sors may he yet to come.’ “‘And will you tell me,’ said Glyndon, ‘that in yourselfl behold one of that mighty few over whom Zanoni has no superiority in power and wisdom ?’ “‘ln me,” answered the stranger, ‘you see one from whom Zanoni himself learned some of his loftiest secrets. On these - shores, on this spot have I stood in ages that your chroniclers but feebly reach. The Phoenician, the Greek, the Oscan, the Ro man, the Lombard, I have seen them all! leaves gay and glittering on the trunk of the universal life, scattered in due season and again renewed; till, indeed, the same race that gave its glory to the ancient world be stowed a second youth upon the new. For the pure Greeks, the Hellenes, whose origin has bewildered your dreaming scholars, were of the same great family as the Nor man tribe, born to be the lords of the uni verse, and in no land on earth destined to become the hewers of word. Even the dim traditions of the learned, which bring the sons of Hellas from the vast and unde termined territories of northern Thrace, to be the victors of the pastoral Pelasgi, and the founders of the line of demi-gods; which assign to a population bronzed be neath the suns of the west, the blue-eyed Minerva and the yellow-haired Achilles (characteristics of the north); which intro duce among a pastoral people, warlike aris tocracies and limited monarchies, the feau dalism of the classic time: even these might serve you to track back the primeval settle ments of the Hellenes to the same region whence, in later times, the Norman warriors broke on the dull and savage hordes of the Celt, and became the Greeks of the Chris tian world. But this interests you not, and you are wise in your indifference. Not in the knowledge of things without, hut in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to he more than men.’ “‘And what book contains that science? from what laboratory is it wrought?’ “‘Nature supplies the materials; they are around you in your daily walks. In the herbs that the beast devours and the chemist disdains to cull; in the elements, from which matter in its meanest and its mightiest shapes is deduced; in the wide bosom of the air; in the black abysses of the earth; everywhere are given to mortals the re sources and libraries of immortal lore. But as the simplest of problems in the simplest of all studies are obscure to one who braces not his mind to their comprehension, as the rower in yonder vessel cannot tell you why two circles can touch each other only in ono point, so, though all earth were carved over and inscribed with the letters of diviner knowledge, the characters would be value less to him who does not pause to inquire the language and meditate the truth. Young man, if thy imagination is vivid, if thy heart is dating, if thy curiosity is insatiate, I will accept thee as my pupil. But the first les sons are stern and dread.’ “ ‘lf thou hast mastered them, why not I?’ answered Glyndon, boldly. ‘I have felt from my boyhood that strange mysteries were reserved for my career; and from the proudest ends of ordinary ambition, I have carried my gaze into the cloud and dark ness that stretch beyond. The instant I beheld Zanoni, I felt as if I had discovered the guide and the tutor for which my youth had idly languished and vainly burned’ “‘And to me this duty is transferred,’ replied the stranger. ‘Yonder lies, anchor ed in the hay, the vessel in which Zanoni seeks a fairer home; a little while, and the breeze will rise, the sail will swell, and the stranger will have passed, like a wind, away. Still, like the wind, ho leaves in thy heart the seeds that may bear the blossom and tho fruit. Zanoni hath performed his task, he is wanted no more; the perfecter of his work is at thy side. He conies! I hear the dash of the oar. You will have your choice sub mitted to you. According as you decide, we shall meet again.’ With these words the stranger moved’ slowly away, and dis appeared beneath the shadow of the cliffs, A boat glided rapidly across the waters; it touched land; a man leaped on shore, and Glyndon recognised Zanoni. “‘I give thee, Glyndon, I give thee no more the option of happy love and serene enjoyment. That hour is past, and fate has linked the hand that might have been thine own to mine. But I have ample gifts to be stow upon thee, if thou wilt abandon the hope that gnaws thy heart, and the realiza tion of which even 1 have not the power to foresee. Be thine ambition human, and I can gratify it to the full. Men desire four things in life, love, wealth, fame, power.—. The first 1 cannot give thee; the rest are at my disposal. Select which of them thou wilt,, and let us part in peace.’ “ ‘Such are not the gifts I covet. I choose knowledge (which, indeed, as the school’ man said, is power, and the loftiest); that knowledge must be thine own. For this,, and this alone, I surrendered the Jove of Viola; this, and this alone, must be my recompense.’ “‘I cannot gainsay thee, though I can warn. The desire to learn does not alway contain the faculty to acquire. I can give thee.it is true, the teacher; the rest must depend on thee. Be wise in time, and take’ that which I can assure thee.’ ‘“Answer me but these questions, and’ according to your answer I will decide. Ia it in the power of man to attain intercourses with the beings of other worlds? Is it in the power of man to influence the elements,, and to ensure life against the sword and against disease ?’ “‘All this may be possible,’ answered 1 Zanoni, evasively, ‘to the few. But for one who attains such secrets, millions may per ish in the attempt.’ “ ‘One question more. Thou— ’ “ ‘Beware! Os myself, as I have said be fore, 1 render no account.’ “ ‘ Well, then, the stranger I have met this night, are his boasts to he believed? Is he in truth one of the chosen seers whom you allow to have mastered the mysteries I yearn to fathom?’ “‘Rash man,’said Zanoni, in a tone of compassion, ‘thy crisis is past, and thy choice made! 1 can only hid thee be hold and prosper; yes, I resign thee to a master who has the power and the will to open to thee the gates of an awful world. Thy weal or wo is as nought in the eyes of his relentless wisdom. I would bid him spare thee, but he will heed me not. Mejnour, receive thy pupil.’ Glyndon turned, and his heart beat when lie perceived that the stanger, whoso footsteps he had not heard upon the pebbles, whose approach he had not beheld in the moonlight, was once mote hy his side. “‘Farewell,’ resumed Zanoni; ‘thy trial commences. When next we meet, thorn wilt be the victim or the victor.’ ” Writlen for the “Southern Miscellany.' r REFLECTIONS, ON A VISIT TO THE GRAVE OF MY GRAND-’ FATHER. ’I here are times when we like to leave’ all the world, and retire to some secluded l spot, when the “serene moonlight 53 80111/ slumbering on the dew-covered earth,” ana the passions excited hy the cares, and dis turbances of this selfish world, are all sooth ed and tranquilized, by sympathizing with’ nature’s aspect. ’Tis then, that the soul is fitted for correct thoughts of happiness, aod ! for musing on what it has seen and heard through the day, or what, at any past time, lias made an extraordinary impression upon it. ’1 is then, that we delight to think on those we knew and loved, when they were on earth, but who have long since appeared before the “inexorable Judge,” to give an account of all their acts, and especially when those acts, have stamped on their pass port to eternity, that which elicits from the “Judge,” the heart-cheering plaudit, “Well done.” With these feelings and thoughts, on a pleasant evening in May, I wended my solitary way to the grave of one dear indeed . to me, though known only hy report —the tenant was my “Grandfather.” I took my seat upon the stone, and threw my eyes up ward to gaze upon the star-spangled con cave, spread hy the great “I AM,” to de clare his glory and shew his.handiwork. It was a solemn scene—Orion and Pleiades, had run their course through the day, and were not visible—Arcturus was far on the decline—Major Uisa was in the ascendant —Corona was rising—that beautiful con stellation, seemingly placed there by the Christian’s God, for the express purpose of reminding him that a starry crown awaited him at the end of his journey. Death be neath—glory above—earth spread around me. Oh! what feelings came across me while contemplating this scene. Earthly fume, wealth, honor, that sometimes louroa upon the imagination, excites the feelings, captivates the heart, were left behind, and I could have shrunk within myself. The thought, that a wise, just, good Creator had spread abroad this dome, set it with innu merable lights—emblems of his own purity and the impartiality of his favors —had “rolled this little ball of Earth in his palm, and set it a-going” amidst the millions of others around his dazzling throne, planted it with every tree that is good for food or pleasant to the sight; and then, that man, tho lord of creation, should alone of all na ture around him, depart from his precepts. Oh! Ingratc man! why sin —why raise a barrier impassable to Eden, blissful Eden 1 Memory called up the history that had been learnt of my revered “Grandfather.” The hook is small—general outlines are on ly given, with many a blank page. He waa a revolutionary soldier. The passage of the ever-to-be-remembered unjust laws of the Mother Country aroused his energies. Her own cannon was the clarion that sounded the soul-stirring alarum that rang through the vallies of gallant Virginia, summoning her sturdy mountaineers to the filed, atid to victory or death. He heard the call and obeyed it. The “American Eagle,” after a long contest for her rights, drove tte “L*