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something in the agony of spirit with which
she prayed—a self devotion so touchingly
holy, that even the man of business was
moved to compassion. She saw it in his
face, am) falling at his feet gathered both his
hands between hers covered them with tears
and murmured such words of-gratitude u*
no human being could have resisted.
*• Be it so,” he said at length, and for the
first time in twenty years the man of wealth
felt that his voice shook, while he could
scarcely see the pale, joyful features uplift
ed et his words, from the mist that had crept
over his eyes. “Be it so, hut when his
debts ate paid where will you go 1 how
live r
“ Where he goes there will I he, and
where he dies there will i be buried.” Her
face was like that of an angel’s ns she then
adopted the most beautiful poetiy of love.
The banker laid his hand on kr bead and
murmured, “ Poor child—poor ahihl—bow
unworthy is he of such love.”
** Not unworthy ! oh, not unworthy!”
said the wife pleadingly, “he will redeem
the past now—l am sure he will.”
The banker shook his head, but arose and
supporting that feeble creature with his
arm they entered a carriage together.
‘‘Joy, joy, my husband! You are free
ngain, free and not so very destitute—look
here!”
Lucy had a thousand pound n*te in her
hand, but she trembled so from head to foot
that when she held it towards her astonished
bushand it fell fluttering to the stone flags.
He did not pick it up then, for a dearer
burden lay against his heart—his wife—his
own true wife—who wept upon hi* i>som
as she had never wept before in her whole
•existence.
A gallant’ship with outspread sails was
careering on the Atlantic, many a dim
eye turned sadly toward the horizon where
the British Isle had last appeared.
“Itis gone,” said Burke, turning away
that no one might witness his anguish, “we
have no longer a home.”
” But we are together,” whispered his
wife, nestling her hand into bis, “we are to
gether.”
A slight cough interrupted her speech,
and when it had went away there was a fe
ver spot burning redly on her cheek. The
husband saw it and his lip quivered.
“This air blows chilly from the water,
let us go down,” he said, and with his arm
supporting her waist and wife
Went into the cabin together.
Another lapse of time. The husband
and wife were in a foreign city with strange
faces all around them. They had taken
rooms at a hotel, hut the tramp of so many
feet, the noise and hustle irritated the inva
lid and frightened sleep from her pillow.
“Oh that we could he alone,” she mur
mured turning {languidly in her ensy-chair
with the restlessness of disease. If I were
quite alone with you, Thomas, with no hu
man face to look at me save yours, this fe
— vve'hiust ne aiHnc, tuts nmsc renders
you worse every day. Try to rest a little
till I come hack again.”
“ I knew he would reform ; how good lie
is, how happy we shall he,” murmured the
invalid. As she closed her eyes a tear
struggled through their lashes, hut it was
born of happy feelings and she slept afier.
Burke went out to a reading-room and
found the advertisement that besought fir,
“A house to let ready furnished in a retired
part of the city.” That r.ight Lucy was re
moved to luer new home. The repose and
stillness fell refreshingly on her while she
was supported to her chamber prepared for
her reception, and she smiled as they laid
her on the snowy bed, hut there was some
thing in her face that startled the husband, a
chill cameon him and he turned away to weep.
“ Why do you look so sorrowful,” said
the invalid smiling once more. “I am bet
ter now everything is so quiet—to-morrow,
next day perhaps, l shall he much better, it
is only fatigue, you know,” her eyes closed
as she spoke, anil that wretched man heard
n sound in her bieath that chilled him to the
heait. He sunk upon his knees and the lied
shook beneath the violence of his grief.
That night Thomas talked wildly to his
wife as she lay soslill upon her couch ; hut
■he gave him no answer, though the voice of
bis agony mighthave kindled a stone to com
passion. She breathed not—the pillow on
which her cold cheek rested had neither
wrinkle nor fold in its snow-white cover.—
The winding sheet that fell over her lay
motionless, like folds of marble around a
statue. When he arose in his agony of re
pentance and pressed his quivering mouth
to her Ups they chilled him to the heart, and
he felt fortlie first time that she was dead,
for ‘‘it was the first cold kiss she hud ever
given him,”
T Ini H Ini ym@& Q© T a
Showing Off! —“ My dear Mr. Dressme
off,” said a lady who had more pride than
brains, “do let Bill the carriage diiver, gear
up the horses and drive our fine carriage up
and down the streets, to-day V’
“ What for, wife ?”
“Oh, merely to show if, Mr. Dressmeoff
—to let folks know that we have a cuiriage
—that we uro therefore not common, hut
stylish and grand as any body—do, now !
Mr. Dressy—”
“ My dear Mrs. Dressmeoff, 1 feel hap
py in yielding my assent to all your wishes
—Bill hitch the horses to our carriage and
drive all about town—” I
‘‘And Bill,” said Mrs. D. interrupt ingly, ,
“make the horses prance —make them fairly
fly, when you pass by Mr. and Mrs. Sucli-u
----one’s. (Ashle.J Who would he common
folks t” That fine carriage ! we are now
among the ‘quality,’ and it wont do for me
so have anything to do with any body who
hn’t a carriage—hey ! there goes the car- j
ri&ge ! ah me ! but how people will eye it!
■fid what will Mis. Rieketyskticket think
when she sees it—guess she’ll conclude that
there’s mure quality in town than herself-—”
[Enter servant—-in gieat haste, with eyes
(wo feet apart and ready to leap from their
sockets]
” I<ord ha* ma’cy, mis us ! bosses run
away and broke de carriage all to smash !
one gentlman say it neber he mended in de
world—”
Mis. D. ‘‘The carriage broke! good
gracious ! we’re undone—oh ! I shall faint!
we’re now cut off from respectable society!”
Reader, the funny part of the above lies
in these two litiie words, to wit: it's true! —
Milton Chronicle.
The Quaker's letter to his Watchmaker. —
1 herewith send thee my pocket clock, which
standeth greatly in need of thy friendly cor
rection. The last time that he was at thy
friendly school, lie was not in the least de
gree reformed or benefited thereby, for I
perceive by the index of his mind that he is
a liar, and that the truth is not in him. His
mq.tions are wavering and irregular, his pulse
is sometimes quick —betokeneth not an even
temper; at times he waxeth sluggish. Al
though 1 frequently tell him that lie should
he on his duty, as thou knowest his name
denoteth, 1 find him slumbering and sleepy ;
or, as the vani'y of human reason phrases it,
1 catch him napping—hence I am induced
to believe he is not yet right in the inward
man ; cleanse him, therefore, thoroughly, 1
pray thee, with thy charming physic, from
all pollution, that be may vibrate and circu
late according to truth. 1 will leave him a
few days under thy friendly charge and will
pay for his boaid as thou requirest it. I en
treat thee, friend John, to demean thyself
on this occasion with a right judgment, ac
cording to the skill that is within thee, and
prove thyself a workman that need not lie
ashamed of his work ; and when thou lay
est thy correcting hand on him, let it he
without passion, lest thou drive him to des
truction. Do thou regulate and govern his
motion for the time to come by the motion
of the light that ruleth the day, and when
thou findest him corrected from the error of
his ways, and more conformable to the
abovementioned rules, do thou send him
with a just hill of charges drawn out in
tire spirit of moderation.
A good story. —A capital story is told of
Judge Tappan, a Senator in Congress, who
is unfortunately cross eyed. A number of
years ago he was judge of a newly organ
ized county Court, in the eastern part of
Ohio. In those tfStys of primitive simplicity,
or perhaps poverty, the bar-room of a tav
ern was used as a Court room, and ilie sta
ble as a jail. One day, during the session
of the Court, the Judge had occasion to se
verely reprimand two of the lawyers, who
were wrangling. An odd looking old cus
tomer, who sat iti one corner listening ap
parently with great satisfaction to the re
proof, and presuming on old acquaintance
and the .lodge’s well known good humor,
sung out, “Give it to’em, old gimhlet ejes!”
“ Who was that?” inquired the.Tudse. “It
was this Vre old boss,” answered the chap,
raising himself up. “Sheriff,” observed the
Judge, with great gravity, “take that old
hoss and put him in the stable!”
Conclusive Argument. — Soon after the
fie generally C 'iTn7reFsfonA. an oh! r*orinerfi
ruf farmer went to his parson with the fol
lowing inquiry:—
“ Dorter T. do you believe in this new
story they tell of the artlis moving around
the sun ?”
“ Yes Certainly.”
“Do you think it is according to set iptur!
If it's true how could Joshua have com
manded the sun to stand still ?”
“ Umpli ?” qothe the doctor, not a whit
puzzled. ‘• Joshua commanded the sun to
stand still did he 1”
“ Yes.”
“ Well.it stood still, did it not 1”
“ Yes.”
“ Very well. Now, did you ever hear
that he set it a going ngain !”
A Home Thrust. —The Rev. Rowland
Hill was celebrated for his talents, his bold
ness, bis piety, and b s conscientiousness
He would never suppress his feelings, nr
modify his language, through fear of giving
offence, and was never known to omit an
opportunity of illustrating a sentiment, or
administering a deserved reproof, however
embarrassing it might happen to there pres
ent. It is related of this good, hut eccentric
preacher, that on one occasion when speak
ing of the sin attendant on dress, and coti
fbrmiiy to nil the fashionable fooleries of
the day, lie observed -
“ I am well aware many of you are rea
dy to say—• Mr. Hill, look ri home, look
at your own wife.’ It is nil true, look at
her There she is and then applying
himself to her, in the presence of the con
gregation, he said with astonishing effect.
“ You know, Mrs. Hill, I have often point
ed out to you the sin and folly of pursuing
extravagance, when you roidd relieve so
many of your fellow creatures, in place of
wasting your money in this way.”
Vandalism. —“ Visitors are requested not
to stand upon the seats,” is the notice we
find at the bottom of the bills of one of our
principal places of amusement. We ex
pect to sec a notice running “Visitors are
requested to abstain from standing on their
heads during the performance!” This!
would bo quite as consistent. No decent
person would for a moment entertain an
idea of standing “ on the seats,” and an in- 1
decent, i. e. a vulgar individual, would pay
hut little attention to a piece of advice gra
tis of that kind. “ Gentlemen are respect
fully requested not to spit in each other’s
hats,” is a notice painted in large chatacters
on the walls of a hat-room belonging to a
fashionable ball-room of this city. “Gen
tlemen are respectfully requested to abstain
from whittling the chairs, tallies and mantle
cornices,” looks down upon the traveller
from the sitting room of a first class hotel in
the city of Hartford. All these things are ;
ridiculously conceived. It would he as well
to placard the request. “ Persons ate re- I
quested to be honest” among thieves. jf j
people intend to do right they will do so !
without notice or request; if they don’t
tlu-y won't, all ilie reques's lo the eountrury J
not withstanding. But it is a sorrowful re
flection that Vandalism prevails among our j
own people to such an extent—that they
will stand “ upon the seats” in theatres ;
will “spit in each other’s hats (practical
mus (B :l iL ii q
joking, undoubtedly) will carve their names
on “ tables, and chairs, and cornices” vs lin
tels ; will steal where they can ; (some of
them) will perpetrate numerous funnyisms
which have to he remonstrated against in
the public prints and on the dead walls and
alley entrances. Oh ! ah I W lint a world
is this !— Noah's Weekly Messenger.
i OS©[ILIL^MY.
Tradeoff the Coosa Valley—lts Impor
tance to the Western and. Atlantic Rtil.-road.
—The capital expended upon twenty-two
railways in England, comprising, most of all
that are in the kingdom, is .£47,917,637, or
counting the at 84 50—8280.001,659. —
The yearly receipts ate about c£1,826,202 j
or $11,660,760, or an average of about 5
per cent on the whole capita’. The num
ber of miles worked were 1.250 J which
gives the very large average of $140,446 of
capital expended per ml.'. It seems scarce
ly creditable that a profit could he returned
upon such an enormous outlay aa this ; yet,
in truth we find, that an increase cqttal to a
yearly interest of 5 per cent is yielded.—
We do not recollect the average cost, of
the tail-ways in the United States, but it is a
sum fir less than those in England, and the
yearly receipts, by an estimate made sever
al years since, avetaged 6 pet cent upon
the whole capital invested. These facts
sufficiently refute the very erroneous im- j
pression prevalent among those who give j
the subject no investigation, that rail-roads
ate never profitable. In the excessive zetd
for such enterprises which prevailed through
out our country several years since, muc h
extravagance was committed, and many
premature roads commenced. Still it is
satisfactory lo know that considered as a
whole, they have been eminently successful
both at home and abroad. ‘J hose in our
own State are not sufficiently completed to
show what they are capable of performing,
or yielding. But the last yearly returns
show a large increase of business, and cor
responding income. It cannot reasonably
he evpected that in their unfinished condi
tion dividends can be returned to the Stock- i
holdcis. But when the period of their com
pletion arrives this result w ill he attained.— j
Great animal ion and spirit now pervades i
the directories of all out rail-ton ds, and if a j
corresponding feeling should actuate the
Legislature to push forward with vigor the
State road, the success of our Internal Im
provement system in the ensuing twelve j
months, will restore confidence in such un I
dertakings. and place them in such an esti- j
mation with ti e people as they deserve.— j
We would here point out the importance of i
a continuation of the State Road at least to |
i the junction of the Memphis Binnch imrne- I
diately. The present Te> minus is now only j
Ili miles distant fiotn this point. Hie gta- j
ding is entirely completi and and therein only j
needed nil appropriation for the snpeistruc- j
title and iron. A few words will suffice to
explain the importance of this connection.
The Memphis Branch Rad-mad is only 17jf
.'fWttKtWW dKWMiWBi W.
great expedition if all doubts of the contin
uation of the State Road is removed. Be
low Rome the Coosa river is navigable 160
miles. Thus the extension of the State
Road 11 miles farther will bring into use
180 miles of additional steam communica
tion. And in connection with the Georgia
and Charleston, or Monroe and Central
Rail-roads would form a continuous lire of
rt il-wny and Steam Boat navigation of about
550 miles, extending into the heait of Ala
bama and vv'thin 20 miles of the Tennessee
river.
The value of the country bordering on,
or convenient to the Coosa river, we ap
prehend has never been sufficiently estima
ted. We gather the following farts front
the Census tables of 1840. Os course each
reader can set his own estimate upon the
correctness of the results there obtained.
We think them sufficiently certain for our
purpose. Taking the Counties of Blotinf,
Benton, Cherokee, DeKalb, Jackson, Mar
shall, Madison, Morgan, Randolph, St. Clair
and Talladega ; all of which, (though by no j
means the number that we anticipate will j
travel across our lines of Internal Improve
ment) even now trade via Madison (Ga.)
we find that tlie population in 1840 was
Population, 116,555 !
Number Horses and Mules, : ; 35.835
“ Neat Cattle, : : : : 150.288
” Sheep, :::::: 45,447
” Swine,: : : : : : 441.213
“ Bushels of Wheat, : : 353,194
“ “ of Oats, : : : 435.353
” “ of Corn, ; : 6,907.140;
Pounds of Wool, : : 84,538
“ “ of Cotton : 29,912,375
“ Retail dry goods and
other Stores, 138
Capital invested in the above 8509,575
Capital invested in Manufactures, 255.734
The above results are very satisfactory,
and prove that the trade of the Coosa Riv
er is well worth seeking, but they are not
to he taken as the limit of the capacity of
the country. Two thirds of this section is
fresh, and new. Its productive capacity is
not half developed, and its mineral beds
just beginning to lie explored. The Land
Oflice was opened only this year itt the
Cherokee counties, and already do we set! |
a rapid change in the character of the in
habitants and the permanency of their ini- j
provemeuts. They are just emerging from j
the difficulties attendant upon opening a
now country, atid are only now beginning j
to produce more than is required for home j
consumption. They ate secluded, and mm- !
kets are difficult of access to them. But !
opeti an outlet by the rail-roads now in coir- j
temptation ftom Rometo the Sea hoard and :
their progress will he rapid, and this sec
tion so fresh and wild will leap quickly into
anew life. It will soon develops its whole
resources and will become wealthy and de
sirable us it is now one of the most beauti
ful parts of the State of Alabama.
After well considering the above facts
and reflections, if any can be found who
would refuse to grant the appropriation to
continue tire superstructure and iron of
the State Road only 114 miles further to the 1
intersection of the Memphis Branch Rail
Road, they must, we Brink, be governed by |
the most illiberal prejudices against the
whole system of Internal Improvement.—
But ve anticipate nothing of the kind.—
The importance of the valley of the Coosa
river will he freely conceded, and the Le
gislature about tn meet will he enlightened
enough to appreciate its value in connection
with the State improvements, and liberal
enough to appropriate the means necessaty
to carry the extension into effect.
The rery Last Duel of All —Juno Mungo
nnd Thenphilus Boon, two strapping ne
groes, undertook yesteiday afternoon, to
settle an affair of honor in the fashionable
way. by a resort to the duello. Boon was
the challenger, nnd of course Mungo had a
prescriptive right to choice of weapons.
Being of the corner’s opinion that there is
nothing like leather, he chose cowhides. —
The parties met with their seconds in an
open lot near the junction of Broad nnd
South streets. Boon’s second objected to
Mungo's pants which were made of thick
kersey, and moreover were plated or patch
ed in a way that made them as obdurate as
■ rhinoceros; whereas Boon’s infeiior per
son was covered merely with a thin pair of i
i drilling*. As it was found impossible to re
duce the two antagonists to equal terms by
setting another pair of pants to match either
Boon’s or Mungo’s, one of the seconds sug
gested that they should fight sons rul/ofttsl
a proposition which met with immediate
favor, and both chivahic gentlemen slrp
p and for the contest. At the concerted sig
| nal, the fight commenced, and it was fearful
i to see bow the instruments of flagellation
were plied by both combatants. Boon
keeps a school for young gentlemen of col
or; Mungo is ■drayman; both were vet 8-
ed in the flogging business, therefore, and
made every stroke tell. Twenty or thiity
lashes were given on each side, when Mun
go laid in such a scorcher that Boon could
stand it no longer, but ingloriously fled, the
victor hard after him. Three times they cir
cled the lot like Hector and Achilles around
the walls of Troy, when the vanquished
Boon jumped the fence and flew at full
speed down broad street towards the city,
} the conqueror close at his heels plying the
! lash most industriously. Two such appa
| rttiors in such an ungraceful dial abille, nat
j urally attracted much notice, and finally a
| police officer took the further settlement of
the dispute into his own hands, stopped
both fugative and pwtsuer, made them le
tnrn to the field of battle, resume their un
| mentionnldes, and then conducted them to
J a place where much hot blood is regularly
I cooled down. On hearing the statement of
; the facts, this morning, the Mayor ordered
! the duelists to find hail for their betlei be
| havior. Nevertheless, their selection of
j weapons will fmnish a good hint to other
j brave youths who have a serious quarrel to
| dispose of,— Dhil. Mercury.
“Women in the North. The Boston seem
j stresses held anothet meeting on Tuesday
J afternoon. From facts state dat tie meet
i ing, it was rlc-arlv eslublisl <d. sa's the I‘ost.
mat, generally, “Ttrese Women have lad to
work from 1G to IS hours to earn twenty
I cents, and that they did not average 15 cents
a day. tal ing a weak through although they
worked from morning till bed lime, without
attending to anything elsr— Listen ] oner.
Here is a state of social slavery, by which
hundreds and thousands of our fair country
women are annually hurried to a premature
grave, attracting neither sympathy nor re
lief from the false nne vicious philanthropy
which flourishes so lankly amongst our
Northern hiethem. African slavery iri the
South, so far as health and labor is concern
ed, is a blessing compared to it. Miut up
all winter, in narrow rooms, a half dozen
gathered around a small stove, with bent
shoulders and pale sac es,-these sisters of om
rare, from morning until night, ply their ex
hausting toil. Instead of the free tread and
| r.oble bloom, whic h is the frightful inlieti
! tame of the- daughters of New England,
look at the poor creature, as she slams to
the door, and gathering her worn cloak
around her, stoops her thin form to the blast.
: She coughs as she passes. The keen air
j has pierced into her lungs, and the spring
! flowers will blossom over her grave!
Poor woman ! in harhatism or in rivili
’ zation, thou art like a victim or a slave! In
; the former man is thy master : in the latter,
i society, with its gnilded inequalities and
crushing destitut cm, leaves thee no alterna
tive hut to suffer or die. Weak thing of
sensibility, and purity and love! thv very
excellencies and virtues shall bring thee no
compassion, no relief; hut only hasten thee
on, by its smothered yearnings, to the only
true resting place of all who ‘'labor and ate
heavy laden”—the bosom cifoiii God. He
careth for thee, although the cold winds or
coldet chanties of an unfeeling wold sweep
over thy desolate and unprotected breast.
In Him is pity, and with Him is peace. —
Washington Spectator.
A Nolle Dog. —A Halifax paper states
that a child was playing with a Newfound
land dog, on Roach’s wharf, (Halifax.) a
short time since, and by some accident,
I slipped over the end of the whaif into the
| water. The dog immediately sprung afier
j the child (who was only six years old) and
I seizing the waist of his little frock, brought
him into the clock, where there was a stage,
i and hv which the child held on, hut wais tin
i able to get on top. The dog seeing that it
1 was unable to pull the little fellow out of
the water, ran up to a yard adjoining, and
where a little girl of nine years of age was i
spreading out clothes. He seized the girl
by her frock, and not withstanding hei exer
tions to get away, he succeeded in diagging
her to the spot, vvheie the child was still
hanging by the hands to the stage. On the
giiTstuking hold of the child, the dog assisted
her in rescuing the little fellow from his
perilous situation, and after licking the fare
of the infant that it had ‘hits saved, it took
a leap ofF the stage, and swam round to the
end of the wharf, and immediately after re
turned with his hat in his mouth. It is said
that the father of the child—to whom the
dog belongs—when leaving the country
where he formerly resided, rescued it from
the hands of some persons, who were about
to execute the poor animal, fin killing a
sheep.
DO NOT DESPAIR.
BV S. 0 PATIEFSOX.
Do not despair. Tliongli round ibec sorrows gather,
And nnanish pierces wi.h its poisonous sting—
Kcme niter tlion, that storms and wintry weather
Are but the prelude* to a glorious spring.
Do not despair. Thou ‘st seen the sunbeam o'er thee
Dispel the darkness of the tempest * g own”
Thus, ihoueh life's pilgrimage be sad before thee,
Faith will illume and guide thy fuO'steps home !
m \
Washington at the Communion. — While
the American army, under the command of !
Washington, lay encamped in the environs ,
of Morristown. N. J.. it occurred that the
service of the communion (there observed
simi-annually only) was to he administered
in the Presbyterian Church of that villiage.
Ori a morning of the previous W'eek, t he Gen
eral after his accustomed inspection oft he
camp, visited the house of the Rev. Dr. i
Jones, then pastor of that church, and after
the usual perliminnries, thus accosted him ;
“ Doctor, T understand that the Lord’s sup
per is to he celebrated with you next Sun
day; I would learn if it accords with the
canons of your chuich to admit communi
cants of another denomination !” The
Doctor rejoined, “ Most certainly ; ours is
not the Pieshyterian table, General, hut
the lords table; and we hence give the
Lord’s invit alien to all his followers of what
ever name.” The General replied, “1 am
glad of it ; that is as it ought to he; hut as
1 was not quite sure of the fart, 1 thought 1
would asceitaiu it fiom yourself, as I pro
pose to join with you on that occasion.
Though a member of the Church of Eng
land, 1 have no evclnsive partialities.” The
Doctor re assured him of a cotdial welcome,
and the General was found seated with the
communicants the next Sabbath.
A Good Daughter. —A good daughter !
there are other ministers of love more ren
spirions, hut none in which a gentler, love
lier spiret dwells, nnd none to which the
heart’s warm requitals more joyfully res
pond. There i> no such thing as compar
ative estimate of a parent’s love for one or
another child. There is little v\ hich he need
to covet, to whom the tieasure of a good
child has been given. But n son’s occupa
tions carry him abroad, and he resides more
among temptations, which hardly permit the
affection that is following him. perhaps over
half the globe, to he wholly unmingled with
anxiety, until the time when he comes to
relinquish the shelter of his father’s roof for
one of his own ; while a good daughter is
the steady light of her paren’ts house. Her
idea is indissolubly connerti and with that ot
his happy fireside. She is his morning sun
light and his evening star. The gtaee and
vivacity and tenderness of her sex have their
place in the mighty sway which she holds
over his spirit. The lesson of recorded
wisdom which he leads with her eyes,
conies to his mind with new ehnims blen
ded with the beloved melody of her voice.
He scarcely knows wen tineas w hich her.song
does not make him fm get, or gloom which
is pri m TrgamsT me young brightness of her
smile. She is the pride and oi namerit ofliis
hospitality, and the gentle nurse of his siek
ness, and the constant agent of ihose mini
hei less ads of kindness, w l.ich one chiefly
cares to have remit red because they are mi
| relending, but expressive proofs of love.—
And then what acheerful sharer she i-,
| and what an able lightner of her mother’s
j cares ! What an evet-present delight and
! triumph to a mother’s affections ! Oh how
I littlt- do those daughters know of the pow
er which God has committed to them, and
the happiness God would have them to en
joy, who do not every time that a parent's
eye rests upon them, bring rapture to a pa
leut’s heart ! A true love will almost cer
tainly always greet their approaching foot
steps ‘i hat they will hardly allicnate.—
But their ambition should he, not to have it
a love merely, which feelings irnp a ted by
nature excite, hut one made intense and
oveiflowing, by approbation of worthy con
duct; and she is stiange’y blind to her own
happiness, as well as uudulifiil, in whom
ti e perpetual appeals of parental disinter
estedness do not call fiiitli the prompt and
full echo of filial devotion.
Influence of Women. —ls men hold the po
litical power of society, women have main
ly in their hands more iinpoitunt moiul pow
er. There cannot he a moral community
where limy are licentious ; there cannot he
a lefined society where they are neglected
and ignorant. Upon them depend the ear
liest education and first impression of their
children. They tegulate.or matetially in
fluence. the principles, opinions and man
ners of their husbands and their sons. Thus
the sound and healthful state of society de
pends on them. It is a remarkable histor
ical fact, that the wife of Oliver Cromwell
endeavored to recall the exiled king, and
that all his children save one were moral.
We must believe they derived their feel
ings and opinions from their mother. Al
fred, one of the most extraordinary men of
any age, who rescued his country from her
enemies by his courage, and by his wisdom
and energy raised her from extreme barbar
ism to a high degree of civilization, in his
youth was given to idleness and pleasure.
His mother roused in him the • mbition and
virtue that has made him the admiration of
mankind for a thousand years. Napoleon
said that to the manner in wnieli his mother
formed him at an early age he principally
owed his subsequent elevation. It was his
opinion that the future good or had conduct
of n child depends upon the mother.
Mothers, while you are proud of this dis
tinction, remember the responsibility it im
poses on you. Be wot thy of it.— Judge
Ilopkinson.
Summary. —Mr. Drake, in a late essay,
says there are thiee reasons why theie are
few old physicians in the South, The first
is, beacause many die young ; 2d. many go
to cotton planting ; 3d, nearly all the bal
ance many rich widows. The Boston Dost
adds; It is uiiceitain how Jong the first
will continue; the second depends upon the
price of cotton ; hut the third is ot a per
manent character. And we ask if it is per
manent because the life of the husband is
in the hands of the physician.
Marriage. — Marriage is to a woman at
once the happiest, slid saddest event of her
life ; it is the promise of future bliss, raised
on the death of all present enjoyment. She
quits her home,her parents, herorcupations
her amusements, every thing on which she
has hitherto depended for comfort, for af
fection, for kindness, for pleasure. The
parents by whose advice site has been n Q j
ded-—the sisters to whom she had dared to
impart the every embryo thought and feel
ing—the brother who has played with her
by f urns the counsellor and the counselled
and the younger children, to whom she has
been the mother and the playmate all to
he forsaken at one fell stroke ; the spring of
every hope and action is to he changed •
and yet she flies with joy into the untrodden
path before her. Buoyed up by the confi
dence of requited love, she bids a fond and
grateful adieu to the life that j s past, and
turns with excited hopes and joyous antici
pation to the happiness income. Then wn
to the man who can blight such fair hopes
who can treacherously lure such a lieait
from its peaceful enjoyment, and the wind -
ful protection of home—who can, coward
like, break the illusions that have won her.
and destroy the confidence which love had
inspired. Wo to him who has too early
withdrawn the tender plant from the props
and stay of deripline in which she has been
nurtured, and yet make no effort to supply
their place, for on him he the responsibility
of her errors—on him who has first taught
her. by his example, to grow earless of her
duty. • nd then expos’ and her, with a weakc ed
spirit and unsatisfied heart, to the wide
storms and wily temptationsof a sinful world.
A Gem. —Give us such hoys as have been
blessed with the instructions of a pious mo
ther. It is a qualification for which no sub
stitute can he found on eaith. Never would
vve despair of the ch Id who has been used,
in his infancy, to hear the prerepts of hea
venly truth inculcated in the accents of ma
ternal love. Truths thus distilled livefot
ever in the memory. They are interwoven
with all the sensibilities of the soul. They
are the fortress of conscience, not impreg
nable, it is t rnp, hut indestructible. They
furnish the mind with chords which, in af
ter life, seldom fail to vibrate to the touch
of faithful expostulation. They are inex
tinguishable sparks, which being seem ugly
smothered under a heap of corruption, mnv
he fanned by the breath offriendh and spir
itual counsel into the pure and genial flame
of piety.
Temper. —No trait of character is more
valuable in a female than the possession of
a sweet temper. Home ran never he made
happy without it. It is like the flower* that
spring up in the pathway, leviving and
cheering us. Let a man go home at night,
wearied and worn by the toils of the day,
and how soothing is a word dictated by a
good disposition : It is sunshine falling up
on his heart. He is happy and the cates of
life are forgotten. A sweet temper has a
soutlinin’ influence over the mind* of ihe
whole .family. Where it is found in the
wife nnd mother, you observe kindness nnd
love predominating over the had feelings of
the natural heart. Smiles, kind looks char
acterize the children, nnd peace and love
h ve their dwelling there. Study then to
acquire and retain a sweet temper. It is
more valuable than gold; it captivates mote
tbn n beauty, and at the close of life retains
all its freshness and power.
The First Sword. —Many of our readers
have perhaps seen the annexed anecdote,
hut it is good enough to read a second time.
It was told at a 4th of July celebration at
Providence, R, L, by the Hon. Mr. Tillio
glinst, a member of Congress from that
Sf&te.
The first sword that waved in triumph
upon the surmounted ramparlsof Yorktown,
was a Rhode Island sword. The owner of
that svvonl, as he clambered up the work,
received upon his hands and aims the stabs
of the bayonets that were aimed at his life,
and having gained the summit, ar and planted
himself firmly there, he lifted his sword
aloft in his bleeding hand, and called aloud
to friends and foes, “Copt. Stephen Olneys
company forms here
The Law's uncertainty. —Not long since
Shipman, the broket’s agent, was discharg
ed bv a New-York Cnmt, because it could
not he proved that the offence with which
he was charged had been committed within
the limits of that State. Fortunately, before
his discharge, all the money likely to he le
covered vvas in the hands of its legitimate
owners. We find in the Now-Yoik ‘'Cour
tier des Etats Unis,” a case of a more curi
ous character. A traveler going from Lew
istown. New-York, to Kingston in Canada,
found on his arrival at the latter place, that
a valise of his had been stolen, hut luckily
discovered it in the possession of an individ
ual, who was brought up before the author
ities. Witnesses being heard, the judge de
clared that he could not exercise jurisdic
tion in the case, as it was not clearly proved
that the stearn-hoat was in British waters at
the time of the robbery. “ Well, at least give
me back my valise,” said the traveler. “If
I have not the power to condemn the thief,”
replied the judge, “ neither have l the right
to dispose of the plunder; hut both can be
detained till a requisition sliull be made by
the Governor of New-Yoik.” The travel
er. seeing that the latter functionary would
he no better able to establish the nationality
of the theft, and that he was only likely Ut
ilise both his time and his expenses, gave
the matter up, and the thief was allowed to
walk off, amid the laughter of the crowd,
hearing on his shoulders the valise he had
stolen, and of which the law had 1 just ad
judged to him the ownership.
A cure far Consumption —Tea made of
St. John’s wort, used as aconstant drink,
has cured the consumption, and what has
been done may he done again. The tea
may he made as you would make peppermint
or uny other herb tea to drink—by merely
steeping the herb in warm water. The
herb may he gathered at any time after it is
large enough—but the- best time for gather
ing it is during the month of July. It may
be found in almost every meadow.