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by a servant, requesting that he would deliv er it, if possible, into the hands oi the lady herself; while I spent the interval of his ab sence in conjuring up like Ain ischar, a thou sand flattering anticipations. I.ate in the af ternoon lie returned, and said that he had cc- I vered mv missive to a chamber maid who he met at the hall door, and after waiting sojTie firne for an answer, was told by tiie mai l by t e express commands of "her mistress, that a;o reply was needed. Silence givesconse ;t: this 1 believe is a generally admitted axiom. 1 of coarse was willing to tuiuk so, and tuoug t 1 had nothing left to do, but to dress my elf, make mv own appearance, ainl be received ...d treated as my merits deserved. So the ■ext day, I started on quite early upon my t m !\> irney. It was a delightful niorn - in spring, the squirrel sprang from branch i hr.vi’’a the black-bird’s shrill and joyous is 'e e hoed through.the forest trees, t e voi ‘.if t c thrush discoursed n sorer me ody .■ ), a ic'a pro ad of his enabro dered vest. j.»U on the dewy spangles Iron h:s we g . o:. * ie topmost bough ot the green hay, trie 1, I g.r ! of the woodpecker danced with* t ;.*, g zephyrs, the red-bird of ti.c sun, reefe i his ruddy plumes and hailed the god of with tl it wild cherry shout which calls ;g';;gni':k maid f: o n her pallet, thccraf- Ibx'erept through the tangled furze or pur ; v ire or, a: .11 ie proud stag lifting his head to the *..oiV,i.!g sniffed at the breeze and pass " 1 o.i lo his lair. 1 ■ vc* Ito my place of destination, about mM-fl and iu iny endeavoring to get to the o/o:i ob : e -t of my visit, who I saw standing a. :rho or decorate lin colors radical with the r , idiow, my :eet shped and down 1 went fl.it i,i, .. ,ok ; by the time T aro-e her father sic,lo me and said, “young man in this your letter? (. sliding forth the very note on wii ■ o [ ;!id so much prided myself.) “ Yes.” 1 repred, “it is.” “ And you hoped to receive an answer from my daughter, I suppose ?” “ Most undoubtedly.” “ W r ell 1 will give you a lesson which will teach you never again to a-mimo such a liberty with your superiors.” f ,o.i which, he made a sign to some of his * eg o fellows standing by, who seized, drag i e l me to a pond of water, ducked me a liun ,i.ed times again and again, until finding my . blentil near gone, they drew me out and left me to shift for myself. “ God of mercies” 1 exclaimed, “is not this outrageous, to have one’s earliest hopes thus blasted as it we.iv, in the bud;” so off 1 rushed, nor once - stopped until many miles from the scene of myhumil i itiou. For years aficr that I avoided as much as possible, the society of ladies, and hours after hours, have I sat beneuth'a large oak tree that reared its huge branches to the sky and wish ed myself as happy as the merry little birds that gaily caroled over my heatl. However, 1 at length thought it useless to reflect any longer on past misfortunes, and consoled my self with this consideration, that the wheel of fortune was still revolving, and there was ma ny a high prize yet to be drawn in the lottery of life. I turned out once more to look for a wife, and gained the acquaintance of one Miss Lucy Littleton, who was a charm ing beauty. So upon one afternoon, I mount ed my horse and off I went to try my luck again. It was on a delightful afternoon, a soft and silent shower had descended, a thou sand transitory gems trembled upon the fol iage glittering in the western ray—a bright rainbow sat upon a southern cloud—the ren c wittered on a neighboring oak, and the mock bird warbled from the top of the highest elm. I arrived to her residence when evening had spread her dusky mantle over the face of na ture, and was conducted in the house by a ser vant girl, who appeared to know the nature of my visit, and requested I would take a seat, saying, “ I will go and tell young Missus ob vour arrib'e,” off she darted, and in a few minutes M iss Littleton made her appearance. Nothing could be more picturesque; she was arruye I in one of those white dresses which Ovsian so beautifully describes; her air was e'egant, her face replete with sweetness, her eyes black and sparkling, her hair hung like t her weeping willow over the glossy stream, was so beautiful that it seemed to reflect its own brightness, and with looks as innocent as rive \v .en she first met the first man, and as a -\ q acting as when she listened to the song of the serpent. Afier discoursing some time on various sub je ts, I observed, “ Miss Lucy, fiom the first moment I was introduced into your endearing presence, I have ever received you as an ob .ect of m v warmest a.imi ration, and 1 think that my sighs and languishing looks must have informed you how much I am in love and that my p tssioa exceeds all others; and can so pure a flame offend? I trust not. My heart inflame 1 by i ;e first glance of your eyes, with the most respected passion, lias waited long for this happy moment to declare itself: ’tis in your power to conde nn my love to an eter nal silence or to make me happy.” Her ev e 5 with the beautiful embarrassment of modesty, were bent to the floor to avoid my arrfe. t gaze. At lengta, however, she consented to realize i vv. es. and 1 requested that she would ap point tin- day for our nuptials at as early a pe riod possible ; and in compliance with mv j< .;e n lie named a day two months from that tit«• Miss L ttleton was rather fond of flirting «• tii a certain young man of the neighborhood, jmd many a night have 1 iayed sleepless and tkktking *f brer «vndu«t; for of all the plagttes, of all the (JtlTfiM, of all the torJ meats which torture the soul, jealousy of a ri • val in love is the worst. A tew days before the time arrived which was to celebrate our nuptials, I recc.vfed a let ter from her stating, tliat tier parents had ob jected to our union, and in con equence of wliich, t!»at I must appear at her yard gate with horse and gig at the hour of eight in the evening, where she would meet me, and 1 could take her to a parson who lived in the ad jacent neighborhood, and get married in spite o tiie old folks. It was a beautiful afternoon in Autumn that I lent my way for her residence; a yellow hue was spread over the fading charms of na ture—the withering forest began to s ! e 1 it> decaying foliage—the low sun extended the lengthening shadows-curling smoke ascended from tl e rural cottages —the solemn h axis lowed in monotonous symphony—t e autum nal insects in sympathetic wafting, plaint \c:y predicted their approaching fate. I watched he declining sun as it le : auely sunk behind t re lofty groves ; pensive twilight spread her mis ty mantle over the earth, and the western ho mo n glowed with the spangles of the even ing ; deepening glooms advanced; the last be m of day faded from my view, & the world war enveloped in fright by the time 1 drew up to the gate, where I met Miss Littleton dressed up in bridle clothes, ail ready and willing. I took her in my gig, kissed her a thousand times again and again, and promised myself many days of happiness after our union. About 9 o’clock we arrived at the parso. ’s, .lighted, walked in and made known to him the cause oft our lis t. The funily and-do mestics of the house, all gathered to see me, as I anticipated, made one of the happiest of the sous of men. After the usual ceremony was performed, I was told to salute my bride, and removed her veil to do so, when, oh ! heavens, instead of seeing a lovely and fair daughter of Eve, there stood a wench as black as the imp of darkness! “You wretch,” I exclaimed, “ what brought you here ?” “ Why, mas George you talk berry strange, enty you bring me here, kiss me all de way 10.. g, and say you guine marry me.” “ Marry the de vil,” I exclaimed, when I made an effort to I jump out of the house, struck against a chair, fell over it, sat all the people to 1 uighing. the dogs to barking; when up I jumped, and away 1 heeled it through the yard at u speed that would have unrivaled the swift-foofed an telope. Good heavens, what were my feel ings ; the highly finished scene of pleasure and future prosperity, which my ardent ima gination had depicted, vanished in a moment; the rainbow glories which gilded my youthful horizon, had f uled inani.tuit; tue bright sun of my early hopes h >d ie in darkness.— The summons of death would not have been more uaexpecte 1, or more shocking to my imagination. Tiie young lady, instead of making her own appearance, dressed up a chamber-maid, and sent her out to me ; and it being dark, I nev er discovered the imposition until in the act of saluting her as my bride.” “ Mr. Waltham,” said l, “it is useless to ruminate on past troubles, so throw off those shades of discontent, and be happy once more.” “ No, Sir,” said he, “my hours must wing heavily away, mv wonted cheerfulness is fled ; I woo the silent and solitary haunts of “ mus ing, moping, melancholy ;” I love to wander through lonely fields, or along the verge of some lingering stream; melancholy, is in her self soft and interesting, capable of affording pure and unhallowed delight. Ask the lover, why lie muses by the side of the purling brook ; ask the unfortunate, why he seeks the still shades of solitude, or the man who feels the pangs of disappointment and pain, why lie re tires into the silent walks of seclusion ; and he will tell you that lie derives a pleasure there, from which nothing el-re can impart. EARTHQUAKE. For the Southern Post; FEMALE PKtTY. There is a ray of hallow’d light, That beams from Woman’s eye ; From Heaven it wing’d celestial light, Its fairest work to guide aright, Homeward through the sky r Its brilliant ray reflects a flame Tiiat lights the soul to bliss ; The sweet reward its vot’ries claim, In Heaven a place, and here a name,- Can fears of LX-a h dismiss. The heart where kindred merit dwells, It lights with grateful love ; Its balm all mental wo dispels, An! Heavenly peace the bosom swells, To raise its thoughts above ! The prin re and peasant at its shrine, In homage bow* the knee ; Love, faith, and charity, combine To make its pathway brighter shine- From earthly follies free. Around the calm domestic hearth It yield’s a genial joy; It sheds a ray of hallow’d worih, Pure as the dew that morn gives birth— No cares can e’er destroy! Tis there, retired from worldly glare, For happiness we flee ; Kneeling in holy, fervent, pray’r, The calmness of devotion share, With spotless FsMOiK PusTZ. 4SCA& The TTorld tCe I.ive in. A first-rate talker generally estimates the pleasantness of his circle by tne share which nis own conversation lias had iu contributing to its pleasantness. This is often evidently unconscious. Jo.inson, when he had talked for a whole evening aweing all oilier professed talkers, and delighting every body, but no: merely throwing all into shade, but into silen *e. u. ed to say, on taking his leave, “ Well, sir, this has been a good evening ; we have had good talk. Tne communication of minds is always ofuie. Thought flowed freely this evening.” The celebrated Curran, the Irish barrister, whose m nd was a perpetual sparkle, thus some times mistook his own abundant contribution for tnat of his company. In the morning which succeeded a nigiit of anecdote and ani mation, he had observed, “Well we have had a deiiglitful dinner ; all were in capital spirits. —I never remember to have been more amus ed.” During all this period of amusement, Curran himself tad been almost the only one who had uttered a Syllabic; \et, if uttered, that syllable was merely to keep him in motion ; or, as Burke said of his conversations with Johnson, “ only to ring the bell.” A capital story is told of an experiment on this .gay unconsciousness. Tue personage may have licen Made me de Steal. With her, c onversation was not an indulgence, but a pro ses hon ; not a power, but a passion. In Paris she lived but to talk ; and when at length she began to talk politics, reckless of the great Napoleon, who, a capital talker himself, would sutler . o rival in either politics o: conversation ; and when, in consequence of that rash display, the brilliant Madame was expelled France, and sent to rove round tiie spell-bound fron tier, her lamentation was not that she had lost ;er country, hut that she had loast her con tcurs—not that she had lost her rights as a citizen, but her triumphs as a talker —not that she had left Paris behind, but that in future she must send her epigrams hy tiie post, and waste her showy sophisms upon the flat faces and flatter minds of the Germans. Whether the ingenious trick was attempted upon this lady, or upou her similar, for second she lmd none, wc cannot tell; but one day a gentleman was introduced into tiie circle of which this dash ing talker formed the star, and introduced as possessing remarkable conversational powers. Some favorite topic was introduced, and the female orator held forth with her usual bril liancy. The gentleman bowed, smiled ; occa sional murmurs of applauses were heard from the company, and the orator went on. A few chance questions, or a.slight of the topic by some of the circle, kept up the heroin’s spirits, and she continued to discuss and sparkle until flic party broke up. Sue was then asked by t,.e lady ofthe mansion how she liked the even ing. “ Incomparably delightful !” was tiie answer. “ But how did you like Mr. Sechen dorf?” the introduced gentleman. “ Oh, I found him delightful too —he converses well!” “ Do you recollect any tiling that he said ?” “ Oh, I am sure I ought to have recollected a thousand things, though really, at this moment 1 forget every thing, except that he kept up tiie conversation charmingly.” Tne surround ing crowd listened & smiled. Madam took her leave, the smile burst in to a laugh, M. Sec hendorfhad not uttered a word during the evening, for the most sufficient reason, h€ was dumb. The ruling passion is powerful even in physicians. M atonin, physician to the King of France, was so food of administering medicine, that seeing all tiie phials and pill boxes of his patient completely emptied, and ranged in order in his table, he said, ‘ Ah, sir, it. gives me pleasure to attend you, you deserve to be ill.” Now to fix the unfixable. The editor of a provincial paper, frequently intruded upon by a Paul Pry of the town, said that he came so often, and sat so tong, that when he died his shadow was found fixed upon the wall, Jona than improves in bis exaggerations. An Engl; inn an was observing that flic good feed ing of England produced the fattest men in the world. Jonathan contended that the good feeding of the States produced the fittest wo men. 1 Whet did your Dan’l Lambert weigh?” said the American. “ About fifty stone,” saw the answer. “ Pooh, that’s nothing, ” said tire Yankee, “ we. have in Pennsylvania at feast a dozen women, each the girth of Penn’s tree, and one in Staten Island, timt it would take a fortnfeht to walk around.” The tradesmen in one ofthe northern towns are rctrreraklc fellows for public meetings. A rice in peas or potatoes, squirrels’s tails or saw dust, is always arranged by a public meeting, and ii.imo.-tafized by a handsome flow of ora tory. Some time since, by a bulic resolution, the dealers in eggs determined at once to raise the ( rice to tbe consumers, and to lower them to trie producers. Tiie consumers grumbled, but were, of course, compelled to submit.— Tic producers, though they had the remedy rather more in their own hands, for a while they subm'ticd too. At length the dealers determined to pay no more than sixpence a dozen for the eggs. Tiiis, as tiie late Lord Liverpool said, was too bad; the farmers remonstrated, but the tradesmen said that the price had fixed at a ppblic meeting, and tliat they could give no more. “ What have you brought for safe ?” was tire question to one of “ Not an egg,” said tiie farmers, “ for the hens have had a meeting too, and passed resolution not to be at the trouble of laying eggs for so shabby a price as sixpence adozen.” i Mathew i. in his Adelpllj entertainments, tiseJ to tell an excellent story of v.liat would be called in the workhouse phrase the dietary system, of two Frenchman who rambled their way to live on their wits in Londou. — We recommend the anecdote to the Poor Law commissioners, though we rather doubt that any tiling of the kind can be a discovery to them. The Frenchmen, on finding the finan ces on v. hi eh they expected to live for ayaer, running to the dregs within a week in the ex penses oi London, determid to separate for the purpose of greater economy. At the end oi a month t!iej T met by accident; Monsieur Jean started at the sight of Monsieur Pierre, as il he were an apparition. Monster Pierry gazed on Monsieur Jean with an mixture of envy and astonishment, for Monsieur Jean had be come as corpulent as an alderman, while Mon sieuer Pierre was reduced to skin and bone. “ Ma toi,” said the starving Pierre, “how is all tfiis ? lam half starved. For the last fort night I have lived on bread and water, while you look as round as a burgomaster.” “ The matter so isilyexplained,”said Mon.i urJean : “ I lived on a delightful thing that cost me only four sous a day.” ”Ma foi,”said the starving 1 Pierre, “ tell me what it is ? What do they call it ?” “ What it is I don’t know,” was the answer, ” but they called it cat’s meat,” — But we think t lie following expedient for cheap living nearly equeal to the discoverly of Mon sieur Jean. The receipt Is given as the sub stance of a hook written hy Dr. Aleot, a physician of Salem :—“ For brek fast take two cents’ worth (a half penny) of dried apples, | without drink ; for dinner drink a quart of i water to swell the apples; take tea with a 1 friend.” This, we have no doubt, is a capital : receipt to bring patients to the doctor, though 1 we think some other word than substance should be used in its description. The blunders of the newspapers are some times amusing; A* Mrs. Otway advertises a school for tuition in fashionable dancing, ad ding that there is no entrance . An auctioneer’s placard announces a splen did nobleman’s mansion to be disposed of im fumish"d, with, every convenience . An exhibitor of portraits invites the public to view an animated likenness of Greenacre, taken after he was hung. The advertisement of a superb theatre announces to gentlemen and ladies that a consort will lx* given every evening during the license. A quack remedy fora cold is thus announced: This remedy I is inedible, taking-tiro table spoons, or four tea-spoons when tiie cough is troublesome. — We should be inclined to recommend tie pa t e it in such instances to tiie care of the Lon don police. A wooden dog-kennel appears on a wall in Lambeth, with chalked upon it, “ Enquire within.” A coffin-maker in one of the leading streets j of London happening to have apartments to | let, has pasted hi» hills upon the coffins in his window announcing “Lodgings for single gen j tlemen.” If brevity is the soul of wit, what are we to think ofthe art of a correspondence in which the two letters contained but, two figures?— The first letter c ontained but a note of inter rogation, implying, Is there any news ? Tue answer contained but a cipher. None. This was clever, but a cleverer contrivance still was that of tiie grocer who painted on his shop window two large Ts, one colored black, and the other green. This saved the trouble of tel ling the world at length that lie sold capital tea of’ both kinds, black and green. An advertisement, offering a reward for some family documents, and mentioned at tiie eud that it was not to be repeated, an old wo man, caught by the conclusion, said—“ What, not to be refloated —eh, sirs, that must be a great secret.” We should conceive the following advertise ment rather difficult to be answered : “If John Thomas, w ho was supposed to have died 1 at Tortola in the year 1829, should meet this i notice, by calling on Mr. Vincent, solicitor, in the Minoties, lie will hear something to his ad vantage.” There is nothing new under the sun, thanks to the sanctity of tiie “Dissenters,” wlio are all for love and liberty, and for the pleasure of weekly change in both. Marriage is now by the law of England a religious ceremony no longer, and the village-end register, who may be tiie bail ill' may perform tne Ceremony with as much propriety as the minister of the pa rish ; and Jack may be joined to Jill with no more promise of fidelity than to his cow\ — The process is, in fact, levelled down “to the meanest capacity.” We applaud the military cermonial of the broomstick. Two cart-hor ses could not be yoked together with a smaller quantity of moral obligation between them.— That there may be libertines and infidels, ras cals and rebels of every grade, who would rejoice at any change which seems likely to sink matrimony universally into an affair ofthe blacksmith or tiie beadle, we have no kind of doubt; but if any honest woman will turn from t ie church of the police office of such an occa sion, we shall be a good deal surprised, that is all. Reduce marriage to a civil contract, and we palpably reduce it to a mere matter of hu man law tit once. What the law makes, the law can unmake. The vote of a thorough-go ing House of commons, a right Radical affair, might break up every civil contract of all kinds, and this among the rest, in its first ses sion ; and, like the French Rebublican, give a divorce to every man and woman who asked for n Wi recommend the following, which is a3 old &3 1703, for the form of the ceffu cate “ I, Arthur on Monday, Take thee, Anne, for all Tuesday, To have and to hold ali Wednesday; To love or to scold all Thursday ; To try to abide thee all Friday ; If thou dost not obey on Saturday, To part again on Sunday.” Yet even now the modern ceremony (i) | iM the advantage in point of shortness, at least ' o f tiie ancient burlesque. We of the 19th ceutp ry have now got rid of all the formality 0 "f ‘have and hold,’ ‘love, honor, and obey.’\u and so Ibrtli, which clogs even the dashing* brevj. ty of the poetical certificate. In ihe new “ Grand Junction” affair, there is no promise whatever to be faithful to one wife, to live with her in cordiality and kindness to our lift.’- end, “lo love, honor, or any thing 0 f that antiquated nature.” In fact, these are to fe considered, in this age of illumination, as fit for nothing but old women and Tories, arj such other people as yet have to learn and live by the new lights of Radicalism alike in poli. tics and religion. Blackwood. * THE MAJESTY OF THE CELESTIAL WORLD. The eminent philosopher, Dr. Dick, of Scotland, has an original article in the lust number of the Knickerbocker, upon tie “ Rings of Saturn,” which will attract at ten. tion and admiration, not less for the simple eloquence of its style, than for the magnitude and grandeur of his novel subject. The more recent discovery of the concentric rings, their immense breadth and thickness, and the rapid motion they make, in their “ awful cycles,” arc treated at length, and in the most clear and satisfactory manner. Dr. Dick believes, that the double ring of Saturn is a solid, compact substance, and not a mere cloud, or shining fluid, since it casts a deep shadow upon differ, eat regions of the planet, as may easily be seen hy good telescopes ; and that its rapid motion is ordained by the Creator, to sustain the ring and prevent it from collapsing, and falling down upon the planet. The outer ring of Saturn would enclose a globe ten thousand eight hun died times larger than this earth !—and the in ner one, a globe three hundred ai.d forty times larger than our planet! The whole arena within the rings, embraces more than twenty eight hundred millions of square miles:— From the body of the planet, the rings appear I ke luminous arches, or semi-circles of light, occupying one fifth part of the visible sky ; looking, in the day time, like a dim cloud, or moon, after the sun had risen ; and in the night increasing in brightness, and wearing tiie sha dow of" Saturn’s globe on their eastern bcun. dary, opposite to tire sun. From their rapid motion, anew portion of the diversified scene ry of tire rings will appear every two or three minutes in the horizon, distinguishable by com mon telescopes. Tbe contrary motion of Saturn’s shadow, also on the rings,and revolv ing of the rings around the planet, at different periods—(one scene rising on the upper, red another and a different one on the lower, and through r e opening between, the stars, planet®; and statellites appearing.) will form another variety of tills grand celestial scenery. Dur ing a half year of Saturn, (nearly fifteen of our years) the sun shines without intern:! -ion one side of the rings, and during the same pa riod on the other. But, says L'r. Dick, we are not hence to conclude, “thatsuch a situa tion is physically uncomfortable. Wc know that they enjoy the light of their moons with out almost any interruption. Sometimes two, sometimes four, and sometimes all their seven moons, arc shining in their hemisphere in one bright assemblage. Beside, during this period is the principal opportunity they enjoy of con templating the starry firmament, and survey ing the more distant regions of the universe; in which they may enjoy a pleasure equal, il j not superior, to what is felt amidst the splend or of the solar rays; and it is r.ot improbable,' that mul.it tides may resort to' those darker re gions, for the purpose of making celestial ob servations, since tiie bright shining of tiie rings at night doubtless prevents tiie starry he: vein from being distinguished.” Our philosopher docs not doubt, that the ring of Calurn sene as a spacious abode for myriads of intelligent creatures. The Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, refused lo attend i.Jr. Cillcv funeral, giving as a reason, the fact, tiiat fe was killed in a personal rencontre. The F.oyi’l Exchange, (London.) was burnt to the ground on the night of the ICih-’anij' ry. It was one of tiie most magnificent buii' l, ings in Europe. Swearing. —Of all the crimes tbfe ever *'* graced society, that of swearing admits of u# least paliation. Wi ittpu for the Southern Fort ENIGMA. When joined to a conjunction I make it to sound The name of two fifths this terraqueous round; When placed in a noun, which polite people make, You’ve the commodity pugilits best give and take , From an adjective taken expressive of cliifl, I leave it a noun which means a bird's bill: From a word which denotes a sheet without blemish- Leave a thing can our currency stint or repleait*' From the verb which is used when you say tog l ' 1 white, Leave the place upon which sliijis are stranded at n'l** My form in the heavens, after dark will be seen, When the moon is not large and the sky is serene- TIM FCDLL