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ken to her coolly, and the thought bewildered her.
She looked tip toward Leaven, and exclaimed,
"Father, look irton me;” and then turning, said
to herself, "I have but one mother to go to, and
God be thanked, she is not only a temporal but a
spiritual adviser. ’ With tins confidence she
sought her---‘temporal a.i.l spiritual adviser!’
Tyler took refuge from the approach of intru
ders in ‘lie sf.liiude of a neighboring grove.
"Why.” mused ue, “dwaiil I repine, that Dorcas
has transferred her atf *cti -ns to one so much i>et
ter calculated to mace her happy? It is true lie
cannot lore her inure, y«- 1 be can not help loving
her as much as Ido ; for, l ive for such an angel
is an irresistible impulse as involuntary as obe
dience to fate. Sne loved me, because she was
grateful to me; and shall l make her gratitude
the nlea of insisting on an alliance that is di.*a
greeble to her? What have I done lor her that
the most iron-hearted would not have !*<•”n glad
to do-- and is not tiie fact of my having bench wd
her, the dearest consolation of my life/ 1» 1
who ought to be grateful for lie* opportunities a
forded me of b<*ing of service to her, m.i -ii • 1
I make her pay so dearly for what has b-*en my
own gratification, as to force her to ge e her iand
to me when her heart is another's? Perish 'he
thoug!il ' and if 1 cannot ha\e the joy of posses
sing her, give me at least t e coustiousiu- of
having nobly resigned h -r.”
"Dorcas, with a heavy heart, entered her m it’s
chamber, and throwing herself into her arms,
pouted out to her the source of her grief.
"My dear daughter.” said Mrs. Harris, "it is
our duty to take meekly the chastening* oi our
Heavenly Father.”
• I know it, my dear mother, but my heart will.
relic!. Tyler has been mv all in all. I have loved
him too well for my spiritual good, and it is but
just that I should lie punished with the frowns ot
my idol. Vet oh! that some in bier instrument
of punishment had been mercifully adopted.”
"Be patient, my dear,” said Mrs. Harris eu
couragitily : "it is hut the infirmity of men to be
jealous. His suspicions will soon die awav' of
themselves, and then you will again be happy.”
"Ma’am ?”
“Do uot take it to he rt: it is only a passing
whim. He feels hurt, it is fnu\ because he thinks
you manifest a partiality for Huberts; tint believ
me. mv dear, the feelg will be but transient. In
the meantime it perhaps might be as well to he <
little less pointed in your manner towards Rob
erts. You know we arc commanded to feel for
each other’s infirmities.”
The words of M’s. Harris drove away everv
tear from the eye of Dorcas, who, rising in her
own simple native dignity, sail; "I do know it.
aunt; but I cannot help f*ylerbear a burden ‘hat
implicates my owu honor. Walter Roberts lias
entitled himself to my esteem, and I have hot
treated him a-, he deserves to be treated. It' Tv
ler isofferded that I reciprocate the attention and
courtesy of your visiters, 1 must submit toll**
tinder his displeasure—though it be mv sorest
trial, next to the frowns of my Maker. 1 :ru*i.
though called upon to endure those ct th* i>
I shall uot be visited with those of the other
and though my heart he wrong by the reproach
es of its best beloved, it will still be enlivened with
the peace of conscience.”
“I leave you, dear Dorcas, to your own medi
tations. Look to tliin who is the strength of the
v.onk, and the helper of the helpless.”
As Mrs Harrs closed the dour behind her, she
clasped her hands together, and exclaimed in a
low voiec, though from the bottom of her heart
"Good !”
"And has it eome to this ?” sighed Dorcas bit
terly, as she east herself on the bed. "Slighted
despised, suspected by the idol of my bosom
T could bear his frowns—but his suspicions!” and
here the poor girl wept as if her heart would
break.
Mrs. Harris had rightly conjectured. Dorcas
wasa proud, high-souledgirl, and supposed others
na free from guile as herself. Rut to be suspec
ted ! this, if any thing, could force her to feu
that she was not beloved ; and she said, sorrow
fully, "oh ! had he felt for me as I do for him, he
never could have believed me so unworthy his re
gard and with this thought she rang ih" bell,
and sent for her aunt to conic to her immedi -
ately.
She was in tears when Mrs. Harris entered the
room, but drying them, she said, "mother, do
you think if Tyler had loved me as he ought. h j
would have acted so towards me ?’
"My child,” 6aid Mrs. Han is, ‘do not as!;
me.”
"Hut are you not my only adviser? ’
“l know I am, my dear, and this alone fore*-*
me to confess that as much as my li-art has been
set upon your union with him, vet I have been
forced to entertain tears, when I h ive observed
his very apparent partiality for "kuih Roberts
I have loved him from his cradle, lmt though he
were in truth my own son, I would ca t him oIV
forever, should he prove himself capable of such
perfidy.”
“Say not so, dear aunt; he has known me un
der peculiar circumstances, when his .sympathies
were all alive, and th 'se may have prompted
his affections for me. But way shnuid l hope
that he is the same now ? Tire circumstances
that gave birth to his feelings have been buried in
the past, and it is but natural that his feelings
should have been buried with them. What
claims have I upon him ? It is h>> who lias claim*
Upon me, and gratitude alone should prevent in
me a desire to interfere with hisli ippiimss. I will
Write to him and tell him so.”
"You (tail better not be ton hasty,” sud Irs
Harris, affectionately. "We nnv b* wro-ig,
though I fear we are but ton n dit. jin ha me
watch for you, and you may !c m I \\ cm »>•
faithfulness Besides, should v »t thus write to
him, you would make yourseif li.ah. • to miscon
struction, especially if our fears are e > met. in
the meantime, my dear, n t with the • one high
minded propriety as ever. A> • ir ;mt too anx
ious by altering yourdue treat.o »•;' Mr Rob
erts, and be assured that if Y\ !crk, fe, ling t *,vnr 1
you arc of the proper xtmip, tlVv w ill compel dm
to be the one to make the becoming ovm lures.”
‘‘Bless you, my mother, for tiiis am! for everv
thing else. I will s i.vv m/ sens* of your judg
ment by following your .-.evict", m il o! yenr affec
tion by repaying it with my wariest gratitude.”
That evening, Dorcas from a sens*’ of and ity,
treat tl Pyler with as much cordiality, as his
co'dnei* and her own wounded Feasibility would
admit of. The next own , ; lien Wa’ter ral
lt*d. <lie cheerfully cmn il ah her engagement,
bnt her he ir' did f «#a< iiuiiiu ,er. whe.a f’vler
said that believed h' would stav at home, if S trail
would consent to remain with him anil look at
some pictures. She of course gladly consen
ted.
The reader’s imagination <">n easily snpulv to
itself hfVw matte*** went on for sewral days sub
sequent »o this event. The breach became grad
ually wider and wider. i yler qndeavored to sti
fle his emotions by being particularly attentive to
Sarah and Roberts had become more than ever
enamor: and of Dorcas.
About two weeks alter the ride, Sarah rode up
hastily to Bellevue, and running into the parlor,
*a.d to Dorcas, "do throw aside that sober look
for just one minute, while 1 tell you the best news
in tlie world. My uncle jj.st written to me,
that a large party of pleasure is about leaving
Lou lon mr Paris, and that 1 must come on and
go with them under his protection. lam to start
immediately, and have ridden over but for one
minin' to sav good-bye. So here it is---good
hye. Rih where is Tyler? ah! there be is;”
and kissing the party farewell, she ran out of the
house to meet him coming up the avenue. Dor*,
i as felt sick at heart as she saw him turn his hor6e
to accom; any her home.
•T lime been thinking, Tyler,” said his aunt,
one lay. t h-a they were conversing on the sub
j *i’i. "tint you would have a better opportunity
ot really to-ting the attachment of Dorcas, by
go i/ iway from home fora short lime, and leav
ing her entirely unrestrained. Ardently as 1 de
nt your une i. 1 cannot conset to it at the ex
pense ofonr lii.ipm-ss Suppose then you make
a short trip to the continent—say to Paris, and in
the me ait: ne ioberts can iielope his intentions,
atn I D •'■C IS teel it full liberty to pursue her
her own inclinations. J know you desire to act
honorably.”
on ate right, aunt: and he sooner I follow
Anir advice the better. I can endure anv tiling
but tins suspense, and will sort to-morrow.”
“ Dorcas,” said Mrs. Harris, when they were
holding their nightly consultation a little before
bedtime, "J am grieved io tel I you, but have you
not observed I’yler to be unusually gloomy since
Sarah's departure ?”
"I have.”
•‘Yon will be surprised then when 1 tel! vou
fiat to morrow he L aves for Paris, and, as 1
strongly suspect, by a previous arrangement be
tween themselves."
"Ia nby my tears prepared for the worst, as I
am by vour counsel and by heavenly assistance
i-rtified to hear it. There are but a few dregs re
maining in mv rnpof bitt mess, and these _i am
•irep ir**il to drink.”
"Bid hi :! farewell affectionately; and I cannot
civ • vou to hint a word to him about the past,
present, or future.”
•'dot er! lam a woman—and trust me, not
wanting in a woman’s pride.”
"I can trust you, my dear; but it is late—shall
we not to bed ?”
"Yes. hut I fear not to sleep-—good night,”
and kissing her, she left the room.
“Not to slue p ! no ! but it will not be long be
‘ore I shal! sleep and that soundly. Revenge they
*<v is a sweet pillow for the soul to rest upon,
and I’ll ’ ave it!”
Not long after this, Sarah wrote to her brother
that slie had been very agreeably surprised by
Tyler's arrival in Paris; that he had been de
votedly attentive to her, and that she had every
reason to expect daily an offer of his hand. Rob
erts. overjoyed, communicated the intelligence to
Mrs. Harris, who mused upon it for sometime
and inquired.
“What then is to heroine nf Dorcas?”
Walter replied, "if I might hope, my dear
mad mi. that you and she would permit me to
*nnp!v his place ' especially since my own sister
ias cn- tivatcd her swain.”
Mrs. Harris looked at him steadfastly a moment
md replied. "Mr. Roberts, I have noticed Dor
cas and Tyler, fr > n the beginning. I have al
ways been fully satisfied that they were net in
end'd for each other. 1 love her well enough,
but I love him better; and really, Mr. Roberts,
between ourselves, (ive understand each other?)
I am not sorry that he has thought better of it—
particularly, since he has been convinced of his
folly by a girl of such tried worth as your sister.
While then 1 shall be glad to second your incli
nations. I will not attempt to force those of Dor
cas. I will see her myself; convince her that
; she has nothing to hope from Ty!er, and in two,
days from now you may call upon her yourself.”
( To he Concluded.)
From the Ladies Took.
THE FAITHLESS HUSBANDS AND
WIVES.
"Tiier* is no suffering more acute than that
felt bv an affectionate and sensitive mind mourn
ing over the viol ifion of nuptial vows. This suf
fering is not confined to the unhappy woman in
the dwelling of poverty, who, at the midnight
i°nr trembles, as she hears the approaching foot
steps of her drunken hn*band. You may go into
•tinny an elegantly furiiislierl abode, and find the
brokenhearted wife ant! mother surrounded by ev
ery external comfort, and yet in solitude, silence
and tears. There is nothing that will compensate
(or the neglect of those we love.
"I have seen" savs a quaint writer "the aeeom
• dished ivifp before five- tv moons had waned since
she changer) her n iuie s.ttiug alone and solitary
as the sparrow on the house top. Perhaps her
health was now so delicate the nourishing care of
her partner was almost necessary to her existence;
hut he nas gone away to some political, literary,
or perhaps to some dissipated club. Perhaps he
returns, at midnight, breathing the fumes of ivine
and steaming with the smoke of cigars.” You
o i” him a brute who breaks liis wife’s head ; so
h° i!*o is a brute who breaks her heart; and now
•in iv an unhappy wife sits friendless and alone,
: during night when her faithless husband is seek
ing In*’-ilea-ores in other society. How painful
most L* her recollections on thus finding her son
! st uiticination and: mpninted, and the fireside, at
' Teh -n hormd to b« blessed with sympathy and
| soeie’v, deserte 1 md desolate. That man de
' serves not the generous affections of a wife, who
will not invite l.er love by the respect and honor
j of personal attention.
It is not a i-'tv randv trinkets and occasional
freaks of fondues*, that ran give your wife a hap
py h*mrf. and ’ erh one a happy one. There
tuns he real, sub tatitial kindness the unequivo
cal evidence of love for the society and jovs at
ho ne. Tt is not uufr-qnentlv that a wife mourns
overjhe alienable affection of her husband, when
she has made no effort to strengthen and increase
his attachment. f*he thinks, because he once
love I her, lie ought always to love her, and she
neglects other attentions which first enchained
hi* icart.. Mmv a wife is thus the cause of her
own neglect and sorrow. That woman deserves
ro" i hnsba id’s generous love, who will not greet
him with smiles as he returns from the labors of
tiie day ; ivho w,’l tint chain him to his home hv
the sweet enchantment of a cheerful move and a
cheerful heart. There is not one man in a thou
sand so unfeeling as to withstand such all ioflu
_ toe. aaJ break utrtty frij.n such a home.
THE CEOHOIA MBRROR.
A NEW WAY OF CURING INTEMPER-1
' A NCR.
The tailor’s wife got a goin as bad as any on
’em ; but Snivel’s pootv much broke her on it.—
Ye see he put a metic iu‘t. She was upon gin
then. So she went to Merrick's shop, and told
him his gin didu’t agree with her, and got some
brandy. Snivel watched her motions, and she and
no sooner got into the bou*e, than unbeknown to
her, he put a metic into that. So she went to
Merrick agin, and told him iiis brandy sawed her
jest as bad as the giu did. So 9he got a little Ji
raaky ; and 'twan’t in the house half an hour a
tore Snivel had a metic in that too. She got,
that way, to think sperret wasn’t jest the thing for
her stomach, but she never suspected the least
thing about the metic. About a month arte* a
dozen wiinmin, may he more, kiin to spend the
art'noon at Miss Snivel’s house. So ve see, as
she had the good stuff'by her. and couldn't make
no use on’t herself, on account of her tiklar weak
stomach, and as most on ’em was ailin somehow,
and took aleetle now aud then, as a tnedsen, she
treated'em all, and was as liberal with it, as if
'twas o’ no more vally than rain water. Some
on ’em took gin, and some on ’em took brandy,
aud some ou ’em took Jimaky. But didn’t make
a mifct o’ differ which ’twas thay took. It sot’em
achatterin like all possessed for about half an
hour. Then, one atr<T another, they began to
feel a lectio squally; and, at last, they got a goin
every one on’em. Sich a time Snivel says he
never lieer’d tell on. He was a woikin in his-hop
at the beginuin on't. So, when he heer,d the
first noise, he peeped through the key hole and
he said he thought be should ’a died a laughing.
So he ran bark into the shop, for fear they should
suspect something, and he IV 11 to ivork cuttin out
’o rigimenta! smalls for Ginerui Tweeser; but he
laughed so, that lie spoilt the breecehes, and cut
’em by mistake, arter Parson Dearin's measure,
so that the jineral conld’nt a got into ’em at no
rate arter they was made up; -ndbeinof a bright
yaller, they wouldn’t a bin the thing for a minis
ter no how. So, yc see, ’twas a totle loss. But
the ceudthe o’ joke wasn't like to come out so
pleasant. Several on ’em had a narrer sqeak on
if, and old Miss Hawks een arnost wrenched her
self to death; But the best o’ the hull I’m agoin
to tell ye. Not a soul on ’em ever suspected (be
least trick; and Merrick got sich a bad name for
sellin liquor that wasn’t ginivine. that he lost a
most all his custom in our town arter tint. Sniv
el got confoundedly scart, f >r, arter,i while he
thought ’twas sich a good story he couldn't keep
it to himself no how, so he told it round to one
and anotlier and at last it got to Squire Pronk’s
ears, and the squire fold Snivel, that if old Miss
Hawks, who was ailin a long spell. *hotild happen
to pop off afore the year was out, ’twould be man
slartcr as sure as fate. Hcwsen ever, ti e ©ld wo
man's a livin yet ; but she she han’t taken a drop
sence that day. A number on ’em hasn’t. So
good’s come out on’t alter all. I reckon there’s
a good many folks, that don’t like the, name, o’
takin sperret. now the Temperance Societv has
got sich headway, aiid vet they like a drop well
enough too; so I reckon they gets ailin, and send
for the doctor a piiroose."
SOLILOQUY OF A WOULD-BE LOAF! R
Well, I should like to know what’s to he done
now! Mew-Years is over-all the goodies is
gone, and I ain’t got a sixpence. Nobody can't 1
call on their friends and get noth'n’ no how
The tuvkies has all disappeared—the hams i*
all vanished—the punch is all evaporated—and
you can't get noth’n’ hut kicks for all your ci
vilifies.
It ain’t no easy matter to live in this world. It
costs oceans of time ami money, besides lots of
wexation ; and them what’s got the time always
lacks the money ; and "wicer worser,!’ as the
lawyer said to the man wliat picked his pocket.
I wish ’twas always New-Year’s. It’s the
fault of the alinanics." They does’ntknow noth’n
what’s for the public good ; it’s only a few in
diwidual snow storm and harrycanes what they
trouble thcir-selvcs about. I wish I was an alma
nik—l’d soon regulate the calender, and have
New Year’s come once a month. But it ain’t no
use, a* the fish said what tried to climb up the ap
ple tree.
I wish I could keep a house of “Entertainment
for man and beast,” then 1 should'nt have to go to
bed hungry and thrusty ; and if 1 had’ut got no
sixpence, I coul 1 live on stock. It’s a capital
thing this stock. The next time I get a sixpence
I’ll put it in the banks, then nobody can’t say I
ain't got no stock to draw upon. People what’s
got a sixpence don’t know noth’n’ if they does’nt
put it in the bank. But sixpence does’nt grow
up like wegateblcs ; and then the ground is all
friz up and you can't make nothing grow no how.
Sixpence won’t grow if you plant ’em ; they
ain't like taters ; you plant taters and they comes
up and graivs and multiplies ; hut you plant six
pences, and they comes to noth’n’, unless you
plant ’em in the bank. These banks is capital
things for gentlemen like me, whats troubled with
the •* outs Let me see if 1 can count ’em all.
Out at the pocket’s one; out of credit, that’s
two; out at the elbows, that’s three ; out at the
knees, that’s four ; out at the heels, five ; out at
the toes, that’s six ; aud then l’in out of house
and home, makes seven outs. Them’s what the
doctors calls the seven last plagues, and noth’n’
can’t cure ’em no how. Rrandreth's pills don’t
cure the outs—them only aggravates thedistern
per.
I wish I was’nht gentleman; it’s only them
what’s afflicted with the outs. —What’s the mean
in, of gentleman ? Why, it’s a man what’s gen
tle. Noth’n’ could’nt be no plainer, no how.—
Gentle means soft, miid,,/peaceable. I never
makes no noise, that’s soft; 1 never kicks up
rows, that's mild ; I never quarrels with nobody,
that’s peaceable; and I must he a man , or I should
wear petticoat ! —Ergo, if I ain't a gentleman, it’s
their fault w hat made the definitions.
1 wish I was a loafer—them’s the ones what’s
the best off'. What’s the moanin’ of loafer ?
Why it is very plain—it’s a man what e its a loaf.
There’s a baker, that’s the man what hakes the
loaf; there’s a maker , that’s the man win? makes
the loaf; and then there’s loafer , that’s the man
what cites the loaf. It’s ivory inconwenient to
make a loaf without no*h’n’ to make it of and
the bakes it is wery liable to burn hisse’f. But
the loafer what eates it, provided he’s got a six
pence to wash it down with, ain’t got no inconwe
nience, no how. I wish I ivas only adequate for
the office. I wish I was a loafer.
PHRENOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS.
Amativeness—A young miss’s attachment to
her looking glass.
Adhesiveness —Getting measure for a pair of
boots, and setting on a piece of cobbler’s wax.
Destnirticeness—- A child breaking a watch to
j pieces to see what makes it go.
A inventiveness —Suck ing lasses through a straw
or scraping a sugar hogshead.
Aequisilipncss —The early propensity of boys
to rob orchards and watermelon patches.
Searetireness— Playiog "Hunt the slipper with
the gals.
Approbatrreness—A lady ’s last look at her mir
ror, as she leaves Pome lor a hall.
Firmness— A brat squaling half the night and
not staying “put to sleep.”
Hope— Schoolboys looking ahead for vacation.
Veneration —Sleeping in church, and snoring
during a sermon.
Ideality--- An old batchclor talking of single
blessedness.
Weight— Which is the heaviest. Van Buren’s
talents, oi Kendall’s honesty ? Who’l kick the
beam first, if put in the balance?
Order— School boys when the school is dis
missad.
Calculation—-A youngster’s grievances when
he first encounters subtraction.
Revolutionary Anecdote. —A venerable A
mericlin Judge relates the following revolution:!
ry Anecdote; "The morning follow ing the bat
tle at Yorktown. 1 had the curiosity to attend the
dressing of the wounded ; and among others
whose limbs were so much injured as to require
amputation, was a musician, who had received
a musket ball in the knee. As was uFual in
such cases, preparations were making to lasii
him down to the table, to prevent the possibility
ofhismovng. Says the sufferer, ‘Now Doctor
w'<at would you be at ]’ ‘My lad, Bin going to
take off your leg ; and tis necessary you should
be lashed down.’ ‘I shall consent to no such
thing. You may pluck my heart from my bo
som, but you’d not confine me. Is there a fiddle
in the tent? If so, bring it to me,’the violin was
furnished, and after tuning it, he said, *Now Doc
tor, begin ; and he continued to play until the op
eration, which took about forty minutes, was
completed, without missing a note or moving a
muscle.”
CALM THOUGHT'.
There is nothing which makes so great a differ
ence between one man and another, as the practice
of calm and serious thinking. To those who have
been unaccustomed to it. there is required at first
an effort; but it is entirely m their o«n power to
repeat this effort if they will, and whe i they will
It becomes every day easier bv perseverance and
habit—and the habit so aequhed exerts a material
influence upon th»-ir condition as responsible and
immortal beings. In that great process, therefore
in which consists the healthy condition ofany nun
ns n moral beitu , there is a most important step
of which lie must be conscious as an exercise of his
own mind. You feel that vou have here a power’
however little you may at end to the exercise of
it. \ou rati direct your thoughts to any subject
you please; you can confine them to objects
which are before you at the tune or occurrences
which have passed during the day- r you can
send them back to events who h tool; place many
v ears ago. You eau direct tie in to persons whom
yon are in the habit of of meeting from dav to day,
or to those who are separate from vou l>y thous
ands ol miles. You can place before vou persons
'•'’ho lived, and events which occurred iong before
you came info axistence and you can anticipate
uid realize events which are not likely to occur
u nil you have ceased to exist. Studx these
wondrous processes of your mind ; observe w hat
power you have over them, and what consequences
of eternal importance must arise from execising
them aright. It you can thus think of any subject
you please, why cannot yon think of God—of his
power, Ins wisdom" his holiness, his justice—of
his law which he has written in your heart and in
his revealed word ! Why cannot you think of,and
realize tne period whe,! you shall lie down in the
grave ; and that tremendous moment when all that
are in their grave* shall hear the voice of the Son
of God, and they that hear shall live, and shall
arise to judgment? Such truths as these, duly
thought of, could not fail, under
di vine influence, to exercise a powerful effect upon
all our habits ot thinking and acting in this life.
I nman'll and here is .1 heartless ;iml shameful
practice frequently resorted to among those who
issume to theinsi !v s the name m men, for the
indulgence of spleen oc asioned by rietty domestic
quarrels. We allude to that efthe husband nJeerti
singhis wife, and forbiding all persons to repose any
eonfidetiee in her whom he has sworn to love anil
protect while life shall warm his bosom. We
should think it quite sufficient pain and degrad
tion that a woman should be compeld to leave her
husband without the distressing circumstances
being announced in the public prints, with all the
malignant features of revenge and hatred accom
panying the communication. We think it the
duty of every conductor of a public print to refuse
the insertion ofsuch advertisements. Nine times
out of tea it is the woman’s unha py lot to he
compelled to the pursuit of rliis dreadful course by
the maltreatment of him who has vowed to sup
port and cherish her, and never should an editor
be instrumental in holding her up to the animad
version and slander of the tatling and evil disposed.
N. O. Picayune.
•Them’s our sentiments.’
A Challenge. —A little fob conceiving himself
insulted by a gentleman who had ventured to give
him some wholesome advice, strutted up him with
an air of importance and said, ‘Sir, you are no
gentleman, here is my card, consider yourself
challenged. Should 1 be from home when you
honor me with a call, I shall leave word with a
friend to settle the pteliminaries to your satisfac
tion.’ To which the other replied—*Sir, you are
a fool—here is my card, consider your nose pul
led, and should I not be at home when you call
on me, you will find that I have left orders with
my servant to kick you into the street.' —ilnra
Repository.
V letter dated at Little Rock, Arkansas, gives the
following account of the way in which tellows
despatched each other in that State. “Every bod
y here goes armed; and they have little compunc
tion o( conscience about shooting each other.—
At Montgomery's Point, about 100 miles below
this l saw a great rascal shot. His name was
Garrison. lie was a celebrated robbpr and mur
derer, and boasted of having killed a hundred men.
He was standing on the warfwhen the steamboat
arrived, and said somethig to a gentleman who
came in her. The gentleman out with his pistol,
him through the neck, and broke it. and
that was the end of Air. Garrison.”
Louisville Journal.
“A on express yourself with much force and
feeling,” as the pauper said to the magistrate,
when the latter kick'd him behind for asking a
charity.
!£ O&rJBI SAX.*
From the Sutio*ol Ihltiliyincer
PROSCRIPTION.
Again the guillotine is at work : And now, as
always when the odious spirit ot political intoler
ance demoralizes an<l desolates society, the Leads
of the worthiest and the u ost honorable m public
stations are the first that fall under the axe.
When we heard, a few days ago, of the remo
val fiom office of Dr. William Jones, the Post
master of this city, we were struck with surprise,
because we never had heard of any objection to
his official conduct, and because we had no infor
mation ofliis being obnoxious to the members of
the present Administration. Not being apprized
however, of the cause of the removal, ive sup
posed it possible that the President or the Post
master General might have had some personal
reason, of which we could know nothing, and of
the sufficiency of which we therefore could not
judge, for making the change. We heard it ru
mor -d, indeed, that the ground of his removal was
a suspicion of his being friendly to Mr. Senate
Rives and not as decided a supporter ot Loeofo
eo principles as he was in duty bound to be,—
But ue could not behove that the President
would sanction his removal on such grounds, how
ever certain persons ot his Privy Council might
desire it.
The mail of yesterday, however, brings us in
formation which leaves no longer room to doubt
that a ruthless and vindictive war is to be waged
not only against every thing like independence
m public officers, but against all such as are sus
pected of not using their offices to the best advan
tage for party purposes. The following extracts
will put the reader in possession of the facts to
which we refer.
Froot the Albany Evening Journal.
Gen. Solomon Van Rensselaer, our excel
lent and respected postmaster, has received a let
ter from Amos Kendall, announcing tlmt he has
been ‘instructed by the President of the United
States to say that in his judgment the Public in
terests Will be Promoted by a change of Post
masters at Albany,'and that such change will
bemaoeat the clove of the present quarter. !
“IfGen. Van Rensselaer could have .given
evidence that he had used the. Postofliee as a
political engine ; that he devoted his own time and
money to the cause of Locofacoism, he would
not have been removed. Bu' lie could onlv sav
that he had discharged his duty faithfully and
impartially to the Government and the People;
that he had devoted h,s early life, through two
wars, to liis country ; and that his body was scar
red with wounds received in defence of a Gov
ernment which was about to prove ungrateful.
"Solomon Van Rensselaer was a devoted and
gallant soldier. He has, with equal honor and
fidelity, discharged his duiies as postmaster.
Never iv-’s the Public better accommodated.
Never was a public officer more universally res
pected. \nd yet the oli Veteran is insulted,
and the whole city outraged, by the false, canting
pretence, that the 'public interest will Lcprompted,
by his r -moral!"
From the Halhmo'C Chronicle
"It is comm inly reported in our streets, that
at a meet ngofthe Van Buren Central Commit
tee, held on Tuesday evenin', it ivas agreed, to
recommend to the President the reinrvid of Mr.
Skinner, our present Postmaster. Joshua Van
sant, one of the nineteen electors, is spoken of as
his successor. Mr. Skinner is to be »einnved
for no official mi conduct, but as we understand
purely upon the ground that he has held (he of
fice long enough, and that others want its emolu
ments.”
It is stated, through other channels, that, at
thm meeting of this Central Committee, tlmy went
regularly to work at hallntting for 'j • ucce.ssor to
Mr. Skinner, and that the person then nomina
ted, and who will actually be appointed, received
a bare majority of the suffrages of these self-con
stituted Electors .]
The removal ofGen. Van Rensselaer, to make
room for * partisan who wanted h s piace, is just
ly regarded by the Albany papers as a gross out
rage. We are not among those who consider
military service as of itself/constituting a quali
fication for office ; but, certainly, ive could never
bring ourselves to take the bread from the mouth
of a veteran like Gen. V. R. who had ventured
his youth in ivhat ivas almost a forlon hope under
Gen. Wayne alter St. Clair’s defeat, and in the
meridian of his life had gallantly bared his breast
and shed his blood in the conflict in which his
country was then engaged. His gray hairs aud
his services ought to have been respected.
Os the public services of Mr. Skinner in a dif
ferent sphere, i f would be superfluous for us to
speak to those ofour readers, in either town or
country, have ever taken the least practical in
terest in the culture of the soil, the improvement
of husbandry, the melioration of agricultural
habits, or the advancement ofall the arts of soci
al life. To these purposes, refraining altogether
frt in party politics, he made his position in the
post office subsidiary to such an extent, that it
may be truly said that no nan living, ofliis age,
has rendered as much service to rural industry,
and to the planting and fanning interests of his
country, (especially in Maryland and the South
ern States.) as John S. Skinner. His avtive pat
riotism in the times that tried men’s souls, yet
more than the propriety and assiduity with which
lie has discharged his public duties, ought to have
shielded him from thisjudgment even of soulless
and inexorable party agents. He too has fallen
a victim, prohablv, to his honest indisposition to
prostitute his office 10 the purposes of the party junto
of the city in which he lives.
From thr National Intel!genrer.
We have not, for some time, met with as amu
sing a sample of editorial strategy as the sub
joined, from a late number of the Richmond En
quirer. “The party,” it is plain, have no further
use for the illustrious individual who fills the
second office in the Government. They doubt
les w sh to start some other favorite lor that dc
-1 sirabb- dignity, who may. peiadven'ure, give them
j more strength in the coming contest; and the
I gallant Colonel is accordingly to be gently laid on
(he shelf. Who so fit to perform this delicate
office as the thrice-skilful editor of the Enquirer .
With what tenderness does he not put out the
feeler! with what an insinuating grace does he
not hint to the good-natured Kentuckian the
magnanimous sacrifice which he is given to un
derstand he is about to make ! Truly, consider
ing all things, it was not strange that public ru
mor should, some time ago, have assigned to the
veteran tactician of the Enquirer the prospective
honor of a foreign mission. His conscious pow
ers might well have turned his thoughts that wav ,
and truly the Adm lustration might have done a
} worse thing than appoint him. But, hear him '