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‘Upon my word. I don't understand you; but in in.* hope that 1 nay, by and by. alter this terrible paroxysm has gone off, 1 will tositisuy you, that, in concealing the Cir ciiinstance as 1 Have, l <lid no more than 1 believed to oe iny duly, knowing your hot ami imiieriou* temper, and your sworn b iffed of that wretch, Millar-—’ •Millar J—The v“*y u*au himself, as l lie*! Wlnti —whew —e» -t* ! Unmatch a *le itnpudeace! Did ever mortal hear (he like ?’ •So 1 say, itty dear. I may have done wrong, hut t determined from the tirst, nev erlo mention a word of the matter to you, until lie had left the country, or was entirely bevond your reach in some way ; and how ’on*earth it should have reached your ears at all, is most astonishing to me, unless he communicated it himself, as he threaten* and to do at the time. Gracious me ! What’s the matter with the man ? Why ap pear completely bewildered.’ I •Noi at all, madam. And so he threat ened to communicate lire particulars him self, did he ?' •Yes. George.' •At the time, hey ?’ ‘Yfts. George.’ •Well, madam, proceed if you please. Oblige me with all the particulars—the when—-where-- and how; nr must 1 trouble Mr. >fi 1 ir for them, at your request ?* •By no means, George. After we have talked the matter over coolly together, 1 am in hopes you in iy be brought to regard the whole affair as quite tinwjrthy of your no tice-—ami Millar too.' ‘Well, by all the stars ! if this impertur able hardihood is not past my compre hension !' •Wlial a scene for the stage, hey ?’ •For the stage?- say rather for the scaf fold. madam !’ •Oh, yu take the matter too seriously— you do indeed, niy "dear. However, to the particulars. After Mr. Millar was put aside tor you—nonsuited, as you called i , I re member —he seemed to lay it to heart ex cee ingly; so at least, I wnsdoW by many t'lalkn *w him ; and fearing his temper, and his reputation— -ah? how w Id yon look ! I most carefully avoided him, till the fourth of July last, when—why, George, what’s the matter wit i you ? Lean your head on me, dear. Well, on that day . you wore in the country, if you recollect, all the alter noon. a.id I wentoverto Mary'slo tea; well, and sr—al’ter tea l stepped out fora in uncut with her, and we gut separat and near the Battery, and-—’ •Well, madam—and he was there, hey ?’ ‘Yes, my love ; and it so happened that we were thrown together fora lew minutes.’ *V r eiy prettily expressed upon my word! thrown together, were you ? But how ?--- in what way /-—Were you riding with him ?’ •Riding with him ?’ •Yes, madam—riding with hint, in h'*s cr am-colored barouche, will: your magni ficent India shawl, your sky blue bonnet, and your «novvy ostrich feathers !’ '' rid so, you have lie ird it all, hey? ha ! lia ! In ! the best part of the story, my dr ;»■■■. wasu'i it ? Well, then, ns there sno longer any da iger of a quarrel between you, 1 see no i *.as*>n for keeping you m the dark a >iher iui.tr. Did you ever hear of such impu de ic* in all your life! And then, too. just to think ! if you had been a jealous-* aled fool, and got hold of the story wrong end first, how completely that bad man's pur poses would have been answered-—a llnol— a death, in all proba > lity—and your wife's urn* i*i all the newspaper*! Oh. my dear liusb m i ! -if such a thing In I happened, how i*ijaid 1 ever have forgiven myself! Do yo i bluiie me now, dear—now tint you kn ear ail ?’ • VI —vhat do vou imu ; ?’ *D > you biu ne *n<* mnv, for not men tioning liie affront which he appears to have put itpo i in**, at fir t, by tnista e J tM iry was *ith o-e al In-* time, and ive consulted together, an Ia . i eed lo conceal it from you. D) you id *ne air ; canyon. lor reiusing t<* wear t!i i* sh i-v! again in pub! c. or ev n the bunui-r and feathers’ And when I iomu? out, a* 1 lid by th» itwrest accident in the wort 1, tint Itn ha ! ar.iu.iliy got a woman lo personate me—lro ned her once at our <! nr, ■after she had been riding with him in tin* cream colored barouche, one day last ween when we ha I all goffe over to the Jersey shore, expecting yon to meet ns on ymr return from Philadelphia—that he provided her with a shawl preci e!y like mine, ami bonnet and feat tiers like mine, for the very put pose of making me throw mine away, t.io spiteful wretch ! —it caunot be true tli it she actually entered the house— that’s impossible, you know—the house being shut up at the time—and that, in short, he had been wicked and base enough to employ this creature—a woman of rarher free manners, to say the least of it, though very beautiful 1 am told, to dr."ss like inr, to personate me, ruid to ride about with him, when you were known to be at Philadelphia. Do you wonder now, George, or can you blame me, when these things came to know ledge, one afier tiie other, as they did, without allowing me to perceive their drift; c »n you blame mo far concealing them—for not btlraying you to dinger, perhaps to death , lor deceiving you by false pretences, when you wished me to go abroad more, and kept wondering why I did not wear that shawl and bonnet you like so much ?’ ‘Harriet! give me your hands—both! both ! and let me look into your eves!’ ‘Oh, my dear husband ! You can have no idea what a load is taken otf my heart! How happy it makes me. to feel that you . know all these, thingsand are able to look upon them as l da—is the pitiful vengeance of a profligate, who has no hope under heaven, but fora kind of newspaper notoriety.’ ‘Harriet, as you value all that woman holds dear on earth, answer me one single question—it is hut one.’ ‘With all my heart, dear.’ ‘Have you been abroad this afternoon?— inv you left the hoifte at all !’ ‘ VT >—nitfor a single moment. I have not even passed the door since I parted with yon at breakfast.’ ‘Have you ever seen the woman you sup pise to have personated you ?’ *N''v*’r; but I have heard of her two or thr»e times.' •Du you know of auoihcr 6haw 1 in the «*:>r! 1. like, you a# ?' *No; am 1 from what uncle Joe said, when he gave it to me—you know it was made on •a irposc, and the pattern was entirely new— j did not believe there wax another in the work), till Mrs. Forsyth saw this, and told nir Vt was exactly like nine, though she thought it v.ither brighter colored and larger, and, if any tbipg, a little handsomer.’ •Oh. Harriet !’—core ring big face with his hands,liilerally gasping for breath, and stag er er in * to the onen window—‘oh, my wife, my poor, patient, injured, and faithful wife !’ •My husband! my husband! oh, toy husband,!’ tihri *tnd tna poor,half-distracted wife, rushing to his help, followed by Pom j Bey. aolratiti -as herself; but her husband 1 P HV.J hr/vy»y at one moment, .and then ; hold her at arms length at another, and j then drew h**r up to h;s bosom, crying and L Uhghiug by lucii.s, and the dog yelpiug arid barking, till, just in the midst of the con- I lusion, somebody knocked at the door, it flew often, and in iiiuiided Harper, head first, aud rushing up to Klsworth, Seized the utihap/iy mau by lirirh band*, and swearing that he was delighted to see him alive, aud tli.it after they had separated,, he had his misgiving-—bow*, Wot*, **'vow!—*3e quiet, sir! ’ •Better shut the window, wan.’ cried a watchman below. •Come along, fws, that’s no concern o’ vourn ; seems to be nothin’ but a fatliily alf.iir, alter all---krss and tViends, hey ?’ The window vvas?hf:.g dovvn abaffl’the quickest—the curtains dropped, aud Har per went on with his story. ‘Alter I had got half way over th’e fdrfy,’ safi he, ‘it happened to efinrfr nfy liebd, for j the first time, fhbiywu ’wCre o'ttt rtf your’s—- | Stark, starting mart, my de.irTeflow, and that I I was a great blockhead for leaving yon ; ' and so back 1 went at a haid gallop, atid i liave been hunting after you a full hour,’up one street, and dovvn another, .until at last, lieie 1 arts, you see! odds Whins!’—-bow, wow, wow! ‘Ah, my dear nfada’f'i, 1 didn’t observe you before. Mrs. Klsworth, ! pre sume ?’ ‘You y»re.v«*nr, hey ?’growled forth the bewildered husband, who had been trying for full five minutes to keep himself between Harper and his wife, ami to get her away before he could see her face—-a shilling shadow of cloud and sunshine; of decided hope Sind tt'ft’fble girrsgrviug upon his fore head still—and fmorPompey bobbing about hither and thither, in the most evident per plexity. as if, 'ike master like man, he was quite undetermined whether to fly at the stranger’s throat, or jump into his lap for joy •Madam,’ said Harper, ‘I really do not pretend to know where 1 am. nor hardly what my own name *is, nor could soy whether l am in my senses, or not, but of this. 1 am quite sure, that your husband there, my excellent friend, George Elsworth—is out his ; and, therefore, taking it for granted ; from what 1 have heard him say of yon, every, day lor a tueleinunth, and every hour of tin* day, when -we have happened to he together; that you are his wile, 1 shall not wait for a formal introduction.’ •Not so much, a« your leave, Torn,'hey ? rone word, if you please. Tell me. bn-th-of you—are you strangers to each other ? Nay. nay, Harriet, never shake your fmgor a me, nor color, nor pout. lam finding my way back to the shore; and every stop counts now. Are you strangers or not--- perfect strangers ?’ * We.-wurtt, not five*tt*ii;*ftts ago.'’ ‘My, dear. I’m -half ashamed ol you, Ide claru; recollect yourself.’ ‘Don't cry, Harriet. Did you ever set; her face before. Torn ?’ ‘Never, in all my file.’ ‘Never in all your life ! That’s it ! ruin-te iddity! rum-te-iddity !’ skipping about the room, and snapping hi**fingers— •‘•rum-te-iddity—-don’t laugh, Harriet! I’d rather see you cry. Rmmre iddity !’ •You monster ! What will Mr. Harper think ?' •Never mind what Mr. Harper thinks! ium-te-iddily ! But I say, Harper, you did seethe woman's face in tire cream-colored b< r tic lie. hey ?’• ‘J es, and oy the way, that was the only time 1 ever did see her face.' •indeed ! 1 thought you saw her face on the fourth of duly.’ ‘No ; she wore a veil then, and'l rvfily got a liinpse of it w hen the wind lifted the lace, and the lady with her appeared to he threatening Millar, as 1 thought.’ ‘Oil. ho!—upon my word, I’m the hap piest fellow. Y«*u would’! know her again, i suppose ?’ •No. i nieed, except by Iter person, or slep, or style of dress,’ ‘Th ii'ii do; tim’s enough! Rutr-te idilhy ! I insist on making you better ac quainted, my love. My dear. Mr. Harper; Tom Harper - Mr. Harper, toy dear ! •How d've do, my dear.’ 11 mg your impudence, Tom ? But that’s so like him, my dear ; .free ami easy, yon know; free eay,—that’s the way with Ton—rom-te-iddi’v —rum te-iddity-ido !- 'I ra rody or comedy, ii'-'rper, ah .lie same to you, 1 see.’ *Vm o!f tn-mt>» - rr>»v, you kitlf'v ; any tom m.imls? sli uit 1 bespeak you a birth at Sad dlers Wells?’ •Oil, hang I lie theatre. I’m tired of tra gedy- comet an*e, aud opera. l!v the | way, though, Harriet, inv love,'will you just do me t.lie<favor to bring in your shawl, I want Tom to see it. He’s a judge of these things, aint you, Tom? Long while in Cashmere—the Vale of Ca«hmere. Yon know I’ve long promised you a sight of it, hey, Tom ?’ ‘With all my heart, my dear’—going out and returning after a little delay, with her face flushed. ‘What’s the matter, my dear'?’ •Why. where do think I found my shawl ? this magnificent shawl that 1 keep with so much care/ that I do not see perhaps once a month V •How should T know', dear? Where it belongs, 1 hope.’ ‘No, iny d* nr; but 1 found it in our nur se’s room, hanging over a chair; and when I expressed my astonishment, what do you think her answer was; the jade! Why, that she had been playing mama with it, to amuse the baby- Oil, these servants Harper looked at the shawl, then at the wife and then at the husband, with a puzzled expulsion, as if wondering what would happen next. •And now, if please, my dear child, just oblige tnr so far, ' v '!l y°'h there’s a dear—just so far as to L*rUer in your sky Jjlue bonnet, and white ostrich leathers.* ‘A sky-blue bonnet and ostrich-!fathers ?’ whispered poor Harper. And when they entered Ihe room, he staring at thei.’i. as M an apparition had started up tnrough the floor, w hile bis friend stood watching him, and evidently enjoying his perplexity. ‘Well, George, any thing more?’ whis pered the obedient wife, blushing and fal tering at every step. ‘Yes, dear, one thing more. Just oblige inc, will you, by putting on that bonnet and 1 shawl in the w ay you generally wear it.’ ‘Dou’f be so foolish, iny dear.’ ‘I beg yon would, mndoni, said Harper,’ not knowing what else to say. ‘Well, then, if I must, I must;’ and straightway the blue bonnet and white ostrich-feathers were mounted, and the ; magnifi cent shawl was flung over her stately person, as you may see ihe drapery cast in a picture of Paul Vencse, and there 6he stood, trembling with every breath she drew, and coloring to the eyes. ‘And now. my dear, one thing more. Just oblige me by walking across the room, with your back toward us, will you?’ »Whv, what a fool you are making of yourself. George, and of me, too,’ said the dear patient wife, walking across the room, however, just as she was bid. •There, sir, there! did you ever!*' cried the happy husband, capering after her and rubbing his hands together with delight--- 'did you ever !’ ‘No, never!’ sai<l poor Tom! •Ever what, my dear ? inquired the wife. •Ever see such an astonishing resem blance ‘ •Never!’ said Tom, beginning, all at once, to sec the iffrft of tile exhibition— ‘never, in all iny Iffe, er.ccpt in one single case—the woman I saw m the barouche,’ fas'emng his eVe Cpon the benutiiul wile, with a puzzled expression; ‘though had not the air of a gentlewoman, as 1 told you before, Gcbrgp,’ •T*?xactly ! But the step and the carriage; the hotmet and shawl, they are identical, ar’nt they ?’ •Pre-cisely !’ •And she was the most beautiful creature, hey, Tom, the most beautiful creature, ao'd the nio-t of a* -’ At this moment the door opened, and the nurse entered to whisper something to her mistress. Tom hewed— ’Stared—and then stood waiting as if to he introduced to her— liis mouth wide open, aiid bVbidMng byou micht have beard liitu all over the house. The girl heard bim-—turned as the light of a lamp flashed into his face, dropped upon her knees, threw up her arms, and screamed as if she was going into fits. •Oh, mercy ! mrorcy ! liave mercy on me ! do not turn me Into the streets, and ] will never, never do so again!’ cried the poor distracted tiling. In five minutes more, the -whole tnattbr was cleared up. To avenge the slight he had received, the unprincipled wtetoli, Mil lar, had activally employed this girl and put her in to Klsworth’* lamily, and per suaded leer to personate her mistress and wear her clothes, hoping to destroy the character of the wife, and sure of obtaining what he most coveted on earth; a vulgar luftoriety, if nothing more. He had well nish succeeded. Another hour! a single -hear, and the faithful wife and the all'ec tinnate husband might have been separated for etrer. As it happened, eveiy thing was explained now. even to satisfaction of Harper, who itknowletlged at last, that he saw no great objection attPr all, to a rrrarried man b ?irtg the father of .a child by a married woman, ; provided, however, that, in every •i* eh 'rase,!he woman nows his Own wife. And what is more, within fortyeigllt hours, the v/icked aiid-shameless profligate, Millar, ’"nad . judgment; not of death, by a bullet through the head, nor even of disgrace by a cowskin laid over the shoulders; but judg ment of notoriety, of oyster shop and news paper notoriety, for intriguing with cast off chamber maids and milliners’ apprentices; whose letters be always took care to preserve, and sometimes to publish in Re former and Philanthropist. THE JEWELS. A TRADITION OFTHK RABBINS. The celebrated teacher. Rabbi Meir. sat during the whole of one Sabbath day in the pub'ic school, instructing the people.— Du ring Ins 'absence from the house his two sons died, both of them of'-uncommon beauty, and enlightened in the law. His wife bore them to her bed-chamber, and spread a white convering over their bodies. In the evening tlie Rabbi Meir came home. “Where is my two sons,” he -asked, “that I may give them my blessing ? 1 re peatedly looked round the school, and I di 1 not see them there.” She reached to him a goblet. He prais ed the Lord at the going oat of the Sabbath, drank, arid again asked “Where are my sons, that they too may drink of tiie cup of blessing !” “They will not he far off,” she said, and placed food before him that he might eat. He was in a gladsome and genial mood; and when he had said grace alter the meal, she tiros addressed him: ‘•Rabbi,-with thy permission, I would fain propose to tliee-one. question.” “Ask it, then my lave !” he replied. “ A few days ago, a person entrusted some jewels to my custody, aud now he demands them again: should I give them hick again ?” “This is a question’” said Rabbi Meir, •‘which my wile should not have thought it necessary to ask. What, wouidst thou hesitate or be reluctant to restore to every one riiJ* own?” “No,” she replied, but yet I thought it best not to restore them without acquain ting thee therewith.” She then led him to the chamber, and stepping to the bed, took the white covering from the dead bodies “O, mv sons, my sons!” thus loudly la mented the father; “my sons! the light of mine eyes and the light of my understan ding!---! was vour father, but ye ntre iny teachers in the law.” The mother turned away and wept bit terly. At length she took her husband by the hand and said— “ Rabbi, didst thou not teach me that we must not be reluctant to restore that which was entrusted to our keeping? See, the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord !” ‘•Blessed be he name of the Lord !” echoed Rabbi Meir, “aud blpssed be his name foi thy sake too; for well it is writ ten 'Whoso hath found a virtuous wife, hath a greater treasure t! an costly pearls; she openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness.”’ IIOW TO TELL A DRUNKEN MAN. If you wish to ascertain whether a man is really in liquor, put the word “municipal ity” in his mouth. If he can shell that out—-pronounce it plain and distinct-—he is sober enough to deliver a temperance lecture, take our word for i*. The words “National Intelligencer,” are even harder | »0 get over, and may be given as a test to any one where the least suspic'on is entertained ttla.’ he ’« “how come you so.” fc'orn;' fifte°-u years since, there lived in a ploasent »‘|lowii ‘Wst" village, a worthy minister of the Prejbvterien persuasion, Dr. II The Dr ,Vul a hard case of a son, a wild, harutn scarttm rJpg, ,7s ever lived, named Davi 1. David was a gt.*o<l hearted ft-l'ow, fund of stories and Santa Gi !tz. t M ui slings, and seldom catne home at night with out betraying that he had rubbed hard against every tavern in the village. Frequent were the admonitions and excellent the advice his worthy father gave David, and one night, after a lec'ure rather more severe than common, the young scape grace faith fully promised amendment- Some few days after this, white the min ister was o-it visiting his flock, he saw his hopeful, mounted on a young colt with a large bosh tied to his tail, riding furiously down the toad towards him. By whirling his hat and cane and shouting, the old gen tleman arrested his progress and brought him to a hail. “Why, David!’ sa*d tbe minister.‘you told me faithfully you had sown all your wild oats.’ ‘Sol have, father; I'm only brushing them ia now,” aud away he went down the Street as fast as ever, the bush top tied tofbe co/t’s tail, whisking about iu every direc tion. , That night D ivid catne home as the say ing is, ‘raiuer toe worse for liquor.’ it is a known fact ili-il a drunken mau, in trying to make himself appear sober, always overdoes the tiling, and by the very means lie uses, detects Inmself; So it was wiin David. •Father,’said he,’ hae the dVacial InttUen eer come yet ?’ •Alt! you dog, you have been to the tavern again. Aon are drunk, sir: get out of iny house, and never enter the door again.* David went as he was bid, but next mor ning his father wasaslotii-lted at seeing him 'walk down the chamber stairs and seat him self at the break fast table. •Sirtah! Did’ut 1 tell yon never to enter that door ‘again ?’ said the father. ‘Yes, sir, 1 know you did, so I got up on the shed and came in at the chamber window, 1 did’rit cotne iu at the door at all.’ David is still living, arid has sons who bid'Vaif to become as wild as ever he was • himself.-— N. U. Picayune. The Clerk and the Butlei Woman. Yes terday afternoon, as a clerk, 01 one of our markets was travelling around investigating the weight of butter, he came across an old lady, w hose reluctance to display her oleag inous luxury excited suspicion. Bent upon examination, he hastily snatched up a lump from 1 a large tub full and threw it into his seales It was awfully deficient. He tried imotlteri it * was ditto ; another, and still the same result; the bid lady 's face elongating at each successive failure about “a feet.” “Mister,” said site, “ifyou take any more of inv butter, you’ll. get in trouble, I guess.” Nothing daunted by her tin cat he continued; when enraged beyond endurance, ihe old lady, strong, muscular woman, “yoked” him, aud alter a severe titsde, during which victory seemed to lean rheniniely on both belligerents, a crowd of amused spectators gathered around t!i»m, she finally threw him down, jumped on hint, and taking frotn Ittrrt the lump of butter he still held in his hand, she smeared it all over his face tilling his eyes, oars mott'h, and nostrils, full almost to suffocation. Then springing upon her feet, site plunged her hands into her butter tub. and mashing* the lumps completely up into one-unctions mess, “Now,"she vocifer ated, ‘ weigh my blitter, if you can, yoj pnppv; and touch it, if you dare.’ It is needless to siy that the clerk “miz zled,” and you cannot now insult him more than by requesting of him some information as* to the state of the hntter market-—.Y. Y. Times. A Roarer. —The Detrnrt Post tells a sto ry of a woman, at Pontiac, worth abbrevia ting. her husband had contracted a debt, the. amount of which exceeded his pecunia ry abilities to meet, and was greeted with the dernier resort of certain professional gentlemen, in tiie form of “you are hereby commanded,” Acc. The wife indignant at so uncereninnioiis a visitation, commenced first belaboring 'ter spouse for contracting the obligation, and succeeded in ejecting him from the premises. She then attacked the constable, who, alarmed at her feats of arms, had succeeded in obtaining the aid of four or five others to assist him in the dis charge of his duties. She, however, nothing ’daunted by numbers, attacked them right and left, and finally succeeded, after giving them a sound drubbing, in standing as the undisputed possessor of the field.—Such a wife would be an invaluable acquisition to scores of husbands in this city similarly sit uated with hers.—.V. Y. Star. Retort.-— Some years ago, Roger M. Sherman, and Perry Smith, of Rhode Island were opposed to each-othe’’ as advocates in an important case before a court of Justice. Smith opened the case with a violent and foolsh tirade against Sherman’s political character. Sherman rose very composedly and remarked—-**l shall not discuss politics with Mr. Smith before this court, but l am perfectly willing to argue questions of law, to chop logic, or even to split hairs with him.” “Split that then.” said Smith, at tbe same time pulling a short rough looking hair from his own head, and handing it over towards Sherman. “May it please the honorable court,” retorted Sherman as quick as lightning, “I didn’t say bristles.’' Bingu)ar Ama\gamatir nA cat which had made her accouchement in a garden in Granby street, about a month ago, brought forth among‘the usual number of her feline progeny, a perfect leveret, young hate Pxcept that its head and neck were those of neat. It is now alive and hopping', having ! all the actions of a bar?; and shares equally j with the kittens the affectionate regard of a | madam puss. A hare had frequently been seen in tbe garden; and we must conjecture this strange amalgamation to have been tiie ! result of an intimacy between it and the cat. The opposite natures of the two ! animals, combining to such an end, however, |i s not a little remarkable, nor unworthy of tbe attention of physiologists. Xorfn)l; Hcra\l> Anecdote. An eccentric preacher by the name of Philip Gibbs, vGeorgia,) used to tell the following anecdote of himself, and of his own father-in law, of the uame ts Bnssev: Mr. Bussey was a Baptist preach er, and was in the habit of buying corn on credit from a man of the name of Moses. Mr. Gibbs was once sent on the same errand. Inn was refused the corn until bis father in la v had squared lip former accounts On his return, lie lepaired to the place ot meet ing, where Mr. Bussey was preaching from one of the declarations of Moses, ns found iu the Biblea During tne discourse, Mr B. happened to ask tlie question several times, "And what docs Moses say?" for the purpose of im pressing the matter upon the attention of the congregation. This inquiry so struck the odd fancy of Mr. Gibbs, that be rose gravely m his place, and audibly replied, "Before God , he says, he wdl let you have no more corn until you hare paid him for what you have got." So ludicrous an interruption so disconcerted 'lie Preacher, and excited the risibility of the people, that tbe meeting broke up in confusion. | Philosophy. Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner nut liv dismiss ing our mi»C r y : it should not pretend to in crease our preset.’ l stork, but make us econ omists of what we a»P possessed 01. 1 lie great source of calamity lies h* regret orau ticipation; he, therefore, is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or the future. This is impossible to a man of pleasure; it is difficult to the man of business ; and is, in some degree, attained by the Philosopher. Happy, were we all born philosophers, all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all manksnd. Horrible Combination. —lt is stated in a western paper that Miss Clorinda Clout teaches a school at Shirt-Tail Bern!. DEATH’S DOINGS. E. W. Chester, Esq. who formerly prac tised law iu Georgia, and was well acquaint ed with Judge Augustin Smith Clayton, of that Slate, lately deceased, lias published in the la t Evangelist an affectionate tribute to his memory, which concludes as follows : Thus called to look over the list of my early acquaintance and professional associ ates in Georgia, 1 And that death his dealt his blows with an unsparing hand. Shuler Hillyer, Esq. my earliest friend, (the broth er of the Rev. Asa Htllyer, D. D. of New Jersey.) sickenud and died at the first court which we attended together after my ailmis siou. Os the five members of the bar who formed the coiatnitteee for my examination, Stephen Upson died a few years after. At the time of his decease he might just'y be esteemed the head of the Geoigia bar, and was expected at the ensuing session of the Legislature, to be elected to the U. S. Sen ate. In that body he would probably have ' held a higher grade thananv man from that State since it was represented by Mr. Craw ford. Os the other members of the com mittee, 1 believe all have departed excepting Governor Gilmer. Judge Dooly, who pre sided at the Court h is long since gone.— Oliver H. Prince, Esq. the rival in wit of Judge Clayton, afterwards a U. S. Senator for oue session, and compiler of the laws of Georgia, perished in the Pulaski, [Home ?] Judge CrauforJ, who succeeded Judge Doolv iu that circuit, has closed his career. Thom is W. Cobh, fora longtime a leading member of Congress, aud afterwards a judge of theOcmilgee circuit, died years ago. And of my own age, Meriwether, Holt, Venable, and probably numbers of others have, gone to their final account. Os these, I am uot aware that any, except Holt, was a professor of religion. Clayton has follow ed. Readers, like myself iu middle life, when the passing of a friend from the stage of ac tion calls them to look areund for their early associates, may .sometimes, in the awakened reminiscences ol the past, feel that in what they esteem the meridian of their days, they are. dwelling a midst the tombs of their friends the survivors of a generation. And when thus aroused to the reality that inort;:l y is inscribed on all of earth, we may well in quire. where next shall strike t’*e deadly dart / who shall be the next victim of the destroyer? but, with more and deeper inter est. whither will-S)Med the sei it when the mortal part finds i>s resting place in tiie tomb ? JHirarulous • Escape. A Child tescued from a Panther ! Last Sat urday forenoon, Mr. James Ratmey and wife, who live about a miles east of this village, in the town of Watson, left home on business, leaving their house in charge of their oldest child, a girl aged about It! years. Near 1.0011 the girl heard the infant, aged 14 months, which had been laid onn bed in an adjoining bedroom, titter a horrid screech, upon which she im mediately ran to its relief, and imagine her feelings, upon opening the d*>or to sr*e a panther with the habe in its month leaping from an open window in mediately over lilt bed ! But she, like a true heroine, sprang upon the bed and then out of the window, screaming at the utmost height of her voice, anrt upon being joined by the other children about the Ito' se, pursued the panthcrat her utmost speed. She foil wed it about forty r<*ds to a pair of bars which separated the clearing from the forest, at w hich place the girl states that she approached to within 13 «>r '2O feet of the panther, when it rclin qnidied its hold of the child, leapt the bar and made its way into the woods. The infant was picked up much strangled from its rapid movement through the grass ands iad, which had filled its mouth and eyes, but soon recovered, and is now well, save a few scratches about its body, which liave the appearance of having been made by the panther’s teeth These marks are very plain, and there are several blood-blis ters raised where the teeth iu slipping came in contact. The girl states that the panther dropped tiie child once before arriving at the fence and it is supposed the giving away of the clothing was the cause, as they were much torn. We have the above particulars from un questionable authority, and the probability of tiie story will not be questioned, when it is known that the immense forest east of the river is habited by the panther, anil that at this season of the year they frequently are the personification of famine itself, winch fact accounts for its approaching tlm tlwel ling, the tardiness of its movements, and its inability to leap the bars w ith its pray in its month, as we understand it made two ineffectual efforts before giving it tip. Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon the brave girl who thus saved the lite of the child. Lowville Journal. Narrow Escape from Lightning.--- About l' o’clock this forenoon, the school house on (dutch sticet, containing something like two hundred scholars, boys and girls, was struck by lightning. All felt the shock, and some were thrown down, but none were kil 'cd. The escape of Mi'S Dow, the mis tress, seems almost miraculous. Her shoes were torn from her feet by the electric fluid, and she was rendered insensible (or a few minutes, but we are happy to learn lias recei.ed no serious injury. A young daughter of Mr. Silas Saw in was also slightly injured. Beyond this we are not able to learn that any suffered barm except from the fright and the temporary shock resulting from the presence oftheelectrieity. The escape of the children is ready wonder ful. Buffalo Patriot. EXTRAORDINARY HOMICIDE. We copy the following from the Craw'ord ville In. Examiner of the 4tli inst.—The events of which it speaks, are most extraordi nary. even in these days of stiange things: An unfortunate occurrence took place in Brown Township, in tins county, a few days since, which resulted in the death of a hu manbeing, the circumstances ofwhich have been detailed to us as follows : A man named Moses Rush was married to Miss Jane Rush about three weeks ago, and upon the first night oftheir marriage the husband endeavor ed to choke the wife to death. She, how ever, contrived to prevent it, ami they lived together about two weeks in a very unhappy manner—Rush beating her upon nil occa sions. At the titrie the act was committed, Rush informed his wife that he hurl already killed tow wives, and one man lor his money, and that he intended to kill her, and beat her most unmercifully. She begged him not to kill her till next morning. lie then told her he would wait a while, and tal'.e. a sleep, and accordingly took his axe, and placing it under his arm, lay down crosswise in the door to prevent her escape, assuring her that when he awoke he would execute his fiendish purpose. He fell asleep, and his wife fearing that her destruction would be inevitable if he awoke, seized the axe, and -despatched him by inflicting a mortal wound on his head with it. She gave herself up to a Justice' of the Peace, who bad berseut to prison- She wm taken out however, on a habeas corpus, and tried before his honor Judge Maylor, who from tli** insufficiency of the testimony, ordered her discharged. Public opinion is in her avor and justifies the act on the ground that it was committed in self-defence, lie was about eighty years of age, she is about thirty. Antiquities. A Kentucky paper, the Louisville Gazette, states that some persons having occasion to dig in a mound which was found between Louisville and Portland discovered about three feet under thg surface, several {'raves, about thin v itivlitb in length. Blabs of site were laid upon the bottom of the graves, two pieces of similar material t.irmed the sides, aud a flag stone of slate the lid or /op of a rough sarcophagus. In one of these graves were found near a dozen human skull-*, and at least a handful of perfect and beautiful teeth; also, the bones of persons, but these last crumbled to ashes at the touch. •This, says the Gazette, is altogether a singular discovery. The gentleman who affords this information is probably ;he oldest resident of Louisville, and says be well re collects when this mound was cose-red by a growth of the heaviest poplar. These remains must have been deposit'll in theit narrow cell more than two ceoturies since. There was a inode ol burial among the Choctaw and other <ribes. which would lead us to believe that these are Indian reman s deposited accordi gto that custom. When a warrior died among the Choctaws, instead of being cemmittt and to the earth immediately his frame was suspended in the open air until the flesh dropped from his bones, and the squaws Left vigil by his r mriis i nil ■the dust returned to dust.’ Scviral skele tons were then deposited in one grave. From the fact that many heads were found in this grave at t lie mound,we presume they must have been buried there by the dusky maidens of the forest in the. olden time, In obedience to tire custom of thcii pcoj le. * Advantages of Conversation. Conversa tion calls *111? into light what has been lodg ed in all the recesses and secret chambers of tlie soul. By occasional hints and incidents it brings old 11-cful notions into remember ance: it unfolds and displays the hidden treasure of knowledge, with which reading, observation, nndstudv, had before furnished the mind. By mutual discourse the soul is awakened and allured to bring forth its hoards of knowledge, and it learns how to rentier them most useful to mankind. A tnan of vast reading, without conversation, is like a miser who lives only to himself. Persons rot like yto serve you. There are six suits of persons, at whose ham’s vou need not expect kindness : The sordid and narrow-minded, think of nobody but their noble stives; the busy have not time to think of you ; the overgrown rich man, is above minding any one who needs his assis tance; the poor and unhappy, has neither spirit nor ability ; the good natured fool, however willing, is not capable of serving you. Spe-ie. The packets which went to sea from New York, carried ottt about om* million of dollars in specie. Tiie Journal of Commerce says, the following arc the most important items : Great Western, * 5t.50.000 British Queen, ;iOO,OOO Baltimore, for Havre, 2/3.000 The Banks were called on for large sums, which they paid promptly, and without complaining, or seeming to consider the calls as unkind or any thing else than fair business transactions. Lowell Factory Girls. It is stated that nine hundred at and twenty-eight of the la< - tory girls in Lowell have deposited in the Savings Bank in that city over 5100,000; an average of something over one hundred dollars each. The amount would lie much larger, but that no interest is allowed on deposites exceeding $.300; beside many of the girls prefer to deposite in institutions nearer the residence of their parents. MaJame Itnrbi ie, ex Empress of Mexico is announced by the Warronton, Va. Times, among the recent arrivals at the Fauquier White Su phnr .Sjwings. Until this we had supposed her ladyship was sojourning 111 Florence. Charleston and Cincinnati Roil Read.- It appears by a communication in the Char leston Courier, signed by General Hayne, tint this great vvoik is not to lie abandoned. "Hi. Hayne suites that South Carolina, if even left alone in the work, could not permit it t*' stop short of the mountains. ’1 lie Courier, in reference to the pul li aim of General Hayne, says, “ii puts an exti gnisli cr on the report that has been current here an I elsewhere, that the idea of carrying ihe to id beyond Columbia hns been abandoned.” The in xt instalment on tlie road is not to be called for before the 20ih of October. There arc many French families in the West.— National Gazette. We are not aware, that there are many French families in Kentucky, although there is i.t the Great Crossings;! ‘tri-colored’ family ; the father white, the mother black, and children yellow. Louislillc Journal. The Whig party lo* ks like death in the Primer iA’.isli. Union. No doubt you remember, friend Harris, that Death iu the Primer is pictured as hav ing his bony clutches upon a poor, miserable little wretch, who appears to be too badly frightened even to say his prayers. Well— if the Whig party is death in the Primer, the loco foro party is that poor, miserable little wretch. Louisville Journal. The vile slanderer of the Louisville Journal deserves to be cropped anil branded. Pa. Item. So wo think. Sir. You are ‘the vile slan derer of the Louisville Journal.’ Louisville Journal. We understand, that Dr. Duncan, in crossing the Little Miami in a boat on Monday the 21th ult. fell overboard,but was soon rescued. The only consequence was, that the fishes around were discovered* shortly afterwards in a state of beastly In toxication. Louisville Journal. The Globe savs that Robert Dale Owen, who is a Loco For.o candidate for Congress m Indiana, is, -the son of the distinguished emigrant of t’*e 6nme name, so eccentric in some of iiis opin ons.’ So eccentric! It will be remembered that of the ‘opinions.’ thus characterized, vvero Atlieisrh and for an Abolition of the institution of Marti ge. Eccentric! indeed. Balt. Chronicle. As the Globe holds, that a teacher of atheism and prostitution, like Owen, is merely ‘escentric in his opinions,’ it no doubt holds, tl at a thief, like Co*. Benton, is merely ‘eccentric’ in his actious. Louisville Journal. Gen. Macomb has been presented as a nuisance by the Grand J ury al Tallahassee, Florida.