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before he is generous. Besalc, my two young
est children have just had tr.e wl.oopmg-coeg i.
and they must have a little country air: uli
these things arc expensive. I appeal to your
feelings, sir, whether you would drive a bard
bargain with a man in my situation ?
“ I leave it entirely to yourself.” replied May
nard, despondinglv.
‘•Sir, I will run the risk of publishing your
volume. Paper and printing are tcrribic tilings:
1 wish books could do without them : hut 1
will venture. I beard you highly spoken of
yesterday: wo will share what profits there
are, and your list ot subscribers wili insure us
against loss.”
It did far more, by-the-by, to say nothing of
Sir Jasper Meredith’s secret guarantee.
“ And now business being over, said Lintot,
“will you dine wit i me? lam a plain man,
only a joint anda pudding, w lich is just ready :
I like to encourage young men in being j u ac
tual.”
Walter declined the invitation, precisely be
cause he wanted a dinner, ile was, also, con
ciousth'i? he had made ave y bad bargain : but
how couid lie chaffer and dispute about things
so precious as the contents of those pages,
which were the very outpourings of Ins heart?
There were recorded dreams glorious with the
future, and feelings soft and musical with the
past. He fancied Ethel Churchill’s soft, blue
eyes, title i with tears, as she turned the haunt
ed leaves of which sue had been tiie inspiration,
and he was console 1 for every mortification,
fie walked along those crowded streets, alive
but to one delicious hope; and, amid poverty.
1 ibour and discouragement, still steoj ed to the
1 p in poetry.
Tno fanciful fables of fairy-land are but al
legories of the young poet’s mind, when the
sweet spell is upon him. Some slight tiling
Ca'l ; up tle visionary world, and all the outward
and actual is, for the time, forgo ten. It is
ethereal and lovely ; but. like all other fevers,
leaving behind weakness and exhaustion. I
believe there is nothing that causes so strong a
sensaton of physical fitigne, as the exercise o'
the imagination. The pulses heat too rapidly;
fvmU Wcvr tuvw depressed, is the reaction !
I —Ethel Churchill.
THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
Three plants, at this moment, connect three
different quarters of the world, which forages
would have known but little of each other
Without them. China is connected with Eng
la id by scarcely any other link than her tea ;
for three hundred year; tobacco was the so'e
Irak between England and the Western world ;
and Arabia is to this hour scarcely bound to
us but by ber coffee. Such arc the slender
b t powerful sources of uatomJ connexi >n.
Tie discovery of coffee was not made until the
1 tUor part of the thirteenth (eutury, and, like
many another great discovery, it was the re
mit of chance, adopted by necesity. An Arab,
t' e Shcykli Umar, tell under persecution in his
own country; he and his deeinles fled to a
mountain in the province of the Yemen, where,
in the desert, all usual food failed him ; a eof
f.e berry there grew wild, and the distressed
refugee, as it was too hard for him to masti
cate, tried its effect in boiling; he drank the
liq-our, found himself revived, and made it im
mortal. Yet, recommended as it was by its
refreshing properties, its spontaneous growth,
and still more, such is the absurdity of mankind,
by the example of a fool or knave, who called
himself a saint, coffee took upwards of' two
centuries to make its way into the world.—
Even in its country it was as dishonored as a
prophet among his kindred ; and as near as
Egypt was, it was not till the to;; 1 century
from its discovery that it insinuate 1 itself into
tec sober potations of Egypt. It is seldom
that the world is indebted to superstition for
any thing except carnivals and cardinals, but
t! e follies of the Arab devo’ees in the land of
the Piiaroahs, who win golden opinions of men
by extravagances that would degrade the mules
t ey ride on, were the first parentage of Egyt-1
tun coffee-drinking. Those wretched people,
spending half their nights in watching, and
half their existence in mortifying the withered
flesh on their tawny bodies, found coffee es- j
rential to keep tliclr ho lies and souls together, j
The Turk next adopted it. It suited his lazi- 1
ness, his lassitude, Ids sedentariness, and his !
stupidity. The showy barbarian wanted noth- 1
mg but tobacco to complete the curse which,
to the slave and the sensualist, turns all the en
joyments of the senses into evil. Tobacco
c une to add perpetual intoxication to bis cata
logue of waif,il calamities. It is a remarkable
instance of the perversity of the human will,
vvoen left to itself, that while coffee, with all its j
singular powers of cheering the mind and re-1
f esh;ng the i erves, took nearly four hundred
years to make itself known in Europe, and
while the potato is scarcely more than coming
;uto use in a large portion of the Continent, to
bacco took little more than half-a-dozen years
to be known as fir as shins could carry it:
that it is now the favorite filth of every savage
lip within the circumference of the globe : that
it fills the atmosphere of the Continent with a
perpetual stench ; that the Spaniard sucks it.
as hesavs, for the heat—the Dutchman for the
cold—foe Frenchman because he has nothing
c ; e *o do—the German because be will do
not ting else—the London apprentice because
“<t makes him look 1 lie a an,” and all
• becam e it is in ts own nature the filthle t
most foolish, dullest, and mo: t disgusting prac
tice on the face of the earth.
Anew “Family Cookery Book” is about to
appear. We give a capital receipt for a
•• Dish for two,” called “ Marriage.” Catch a
young gentleman and lady. Tnc young gen
tleman will be best raw, and the young lady
quite tender ; set the gentleman at the dinner
table; take a bottle of wine, claret is good,
port is better, a little dash of champagne will
give it a briskness ; let him soak in this mix
ture for a couple of hours ; if no sign of boiling,
try another bottle. Y /lien getting red in the
gills, take him into the drawing-room; if in
j winter, set him at the fire-side by the lady,
throw in a dash of green tea, of about three
; cups to each, and let them simmer together; if
! in the summer time, place them in a current
of air, as near the window, and as much out
1 of sight as you can ; stick the lady all over with
flowers, and place them ne ir the piano, and
keep stirring them tiii the lady sings. When
you hear ti e gentleman sigh, it is a good sign ;
as, whet or winter or summer, they are sure
to be growing warm. Then take them off,
and put them in a corner of the room on a sofa
nc ar a clean table, if possible ; leave them to
| getl cr simmering for ti e rest of the evening.
1 iiepc.it this for three or tour times, taking care
i to keep them hs elo e t > each other nr you can.
G cit care must betaken about the degree of
heat ; if too great, they will explode and fly ofT:
if ipo little, they will turn into a jelly, or per
haps an ice. The best heat is the moderate,
regular, and constant. The length oftime du
ring which it is applied must be accordingly
to circumstances. For a gentleman and lady
under five-und-tvventy. three months, three
weeks?, or three days, sometimes are sufficient;
but. in every instance, there must he great pre.
caution to avoid a broil. A certain quantity
of the King’s con put n during the cooking
! will have great effect in keeping in the heat ;
the dish w.ll look remarkably well if garnished
round with bank paper; it mav t'on be served
up at t.ib'e, and make an excellent me and for
two. Care should be taken that no vinegar is
used, ns the dish is remarkably apt to turn
t Blackwood.
EXCERPTS FROM CONFUCIUS.
1. Labor to purify thy thoughts. If thy
thoughts arc not vicious, neither will thy actions
be so.
2. Ext not for the pleasure that thou mnyst
find therein; cat to increase thy strength ; cat
to preserve the life which thou hast received
from I leaven.
Some mo 'em writer has altered, and per
haps improved the above thus :
“ Eat to live, instead of living to eat.”
3. Take heed that toy promises are just;
f having once promised it is not lawful to re
tract. We ought always to keep our promis
es.
4. Fie that applies himself to virtue and
strongly addicts himself thereto, never com- j
in its anything unbecoming a man, or contrary
to right reason.
5. Do unto another as thou would’st be dealt
with thyself. Thou needst this law alone. It
is the foundation and principle of all the rest.
6. A long experience is required to know
the heart of man. I imagined when I was
young that all men were sincere : that they al
ways practised what they said. At present I
hear what man says, but I never rely thereon.
1 will examine wt.ether their words are agreea
ble to their actions.
7. It is not enough to know Virtue : thou
should’st love it. It is not enough to love Vir
tue : thou sliould’st possess it.
8. lie that persecutes a good man, makes
war against Heaven. Heaven created virtue,
and protects it. He that persecutes it, perse
cutes Heaven.
9. Tue defects of parents ought not to be
imputed to their children. If a father shall by
his crimes render himself unworthy of being
promoted, the son ought not to be excluded if
he renders not himself unworthy. If a son be
of an obscure birth, his birth ought not to be
his crime ; he ought to be called to great em
ployments as well as the sons of the nobles, if
he has the qualifications necessary. Think
you that the Deity would reject a red bull be
cause it came from a spotted cow of another
color ?
10. Never contract friendship with a man
that is no hotter than thyself.
11. To sin and not to repent, is really to
sin.
12. Wherever you may live, associate with
the best, correspond with the wisest.
13. He tiiat is arrived at the fortieth year of
his age and has hitherto been a slave to Yomc
criminal habit, is not in a condition to subdue
it. I hold his malady incurable ; lie will per
severe in his crime till his death.
14. Afflict not thyself at the death of thy
brother. Death and life are in the power of
Heaven, to which the wise man is bound to
submit. Moreover, all the men of the earth
are thy brethren ; why then shouid’st thou weep
for one at a time when so many other men re
main alive ?
15. Contract friendship with a man whose
heart is upright and sincere ; with a man that
loves to learn and who can teach thee some
thing in his turn. Other men are unworthy
of thy 7 friendship.
10. When thy country’s safety is concern
ed, stand not to consult, hut expose thyself.
17. He that has faults and strives rot to
amend them, errs: but at least let him strive
to conceal them. The wise man’.- defects are
like eclipses of the sun : they come to every
ones knowledge. The wise man, therefore,
should cover himself with a cloud.
18. Butter is gold in the morning, silver£t
noon, lead at night. Every man is cither i
fool or phys cian after forty years of age, anc.
he who would be young when lie is old, must
be old when he is young.
19. See that moth width flies incessantly
round the candle—it is consumed! Man oi
pleasure bcliold thine own image. Temper
ance is the last medicine.
20. When a f .mily rises early in the morn
ing. conclude the house to be well governed.
One hour’s sleep before midnight is w orth two
hours after.
People’s Press.
WOMAN IIER SPHERE.
A beautiful woman and ber husband were
once lost in a wood, in the middle of a very dark
night. On all sides they heard nothing but the
shrill whistle of robbers, or the loud cries of
wolves ; the sky, too, was tempestuous. The
female became at once motionless through
fe r.
* What will become of us ?” cried she, cling
ing to her husband.
*• Let us continue our journey, my love,” he
re] i ed.
“ But, good heavens! the robbers! ”
“ Well then let us return.”
“Oh, that’s worse ! the wild beasts !”
“ What would you have, then V*
“ Leave this place.”
“ We ciu only do that my love, by going
forward or returning—choose which.”
The female then shut her eyes, stopped her
ears, and suffered herself to be conducted by
her husband.
Sucii is the lot of woman. Nature has poin
ted out our respective distinctions, and the
difference of our employments by the differ.
e..ee of our conformation. A taller stature,
a mo e soli 1 and a less flexible organization,
indicate t.,c honorable duties of man. Here
the laws of nature and society accord.
“ Woman and man,” says llousreau, “ are
made for each other, hut their mutual depend
ence is not equal. Men depend upon woman
by the r desires; woman upon men by their
dcsiresand their wants.
Woman was created to be the companion
of man; to please him, to solace him in his
miseries, to comfort him in his sorrows and
not to partake with him the fatigues of war of
the sciences. Warlike women, learned wo
men who are politicians, equally abandon the
circle which nature and institutions have traced
around their sex : they convert themselves in
to men ; they renounce the empire which they
inevitably exercised by their weakness, to run
vainly after the more equivocal empire of force.
We hear of women who have fought, written,
and governed, with success. What docs these
prove? The exception does not destroy the
rule. And, besides, where is the feeling and
amiable woman, who would exchange the inef
fable happiness of being loved, for the unsub
stantial pleasure of fame ?—where is the man,
wiiu would have preferred Joan of Are, to the
mild and timid Agnes Sorel ? We admire the
masculine mind of Elizabeth ; but we love
Mary Queen of Scots.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. A JAIL.
It is a horrid place—and many a time, when
through the grates of my prison window, I
have watched the rays of the setting sun as
they gilded some neighboring spire, I have
wondered that any man could find it in his
heart to put a fellow-being in jail for debt.
I have at last given up the hopes of Liberty
—blessed Liberty! I can hardly write the
word without dropping a tear at the recollec
tion of the joyous days of Liberty which are
gone forever. 1 am sad when I think how
they have fled away like a dream, and that
neither I, nor my creditors can ever recall them.
When I entered the walls of this terrible jail,
in which, amid the rattling of chains, I am
writing this little story of my life, I was young,
in good health, blessed with a wife whom I
adored, and as fine a hoy as ever smiled in the
face of a father. The boy is dead—and my
wife is no more. She was indeed, a most ex
cellent woman, but she was wounded to the
soul by the horrors of our situation. Her
spirit was broken down, and she, with the in
lunt that caused her sickness, died in jail, short
ly after my imprisonment.
A necfhte of the late Sir Edmund Nagle. —
When a young man travelling in a post chaise
up Shooters hill, a highway-man rode up, pre
sented his pistol into the window, and deman
ded his money or his life. Sir Edmund, then
a very athletic man, seized the arm of tue
ruffian, twisted the pistol from it, dragged him
through the window, and placing him beside
keep him quiet, ordered the post boy to
drive on. The humble supplications of the
highwayman were answered with “Be easy
boy, be easy, wont hurt ye.” Still the con
\ science stricken robber kept pleading, till at
length the chaise reached theCuptains lodgings,
when lie handed the fellow out of the coach,
walked him up to a garret, and locked them
selves in. He then took off his coat and said,
< Now sir, I neither mean to hang you, nor hurt
you, but I’ll just give you a broth of a bating,’
which having accomplished, lie opened the
door, bade the robber lie off, and the next time
he stopped a coach, to rap at tho window and
ask if Pat Nagle was inside, before be ventured
to poke his pistol into it.
Wanted,. —A lady down east advertises for
a “ divine, jovial, serious, bold, majestic, innof
fensive, scientific, nimble, husband.”
LETTER OF LXFAYETTE.
To Mr. T. W. White.
Washington, January 18/// 1838.
Sir, —I send you a copy of a letter, address
ed during the Revolutionary War by General
Lafayette to General Morgan, which I made in
July last, from the original in the National Mu
seum of the city of Mexico, flow this letter
found its way 7 to Mexico, 1 could not learn ; but
I was induced to suppose that it may have been
carried thither by General Wilkinson, who
died in that city about ten or twelve years
ago.
The letter contains nothing of manifest im
portance ; yet as it was written just after the
rctiYiat of Cornwallis to Portsmouth, and just
before his occupation of Yorktown, it may per
haps serve to throw some additional light on
the proceedings of that most interesing period
of our history.
I am, your obed’t serv’nt, R. G.
Brig’r gen. Morgan —Goode’s Bridge.
Malvan Hi/I , 2-1 th July, 1781.
Dr. Sir,—l am very 7 sensible of the pecu
liar circumstances of the gentleman from
Maryland, and how much they sacrifice by 7
remaining with the army. I said to you that
I wished to dismiss them as soon as possible ;
and for this purpose, I am making up a corps,
which I expect to have complete in a few days,
and will send it to you, when they will he able
to go home. I beg you to present my com
pliments to them, and am,
Dr. sir, your ob. sen t.
LAFAYETTE.
Brig. Gen. Morgan.
Southern Literary Messenger.
Sunday Schools —Unde r this head we find
the following paragraph in the U. S. (Phil.)
Gazette :
The first person that introduced the brewery
of porter on a large scale in the eitv of Phila
delphia, was Mr. Robert Hare, about 1790.
Avoid arguments with ladies ; in spinning a
yarn among silks and satins, a man is sure to
be worsted.
The following piece was selected hy the judges
as being the best, and most deserving of the premium
offered by us some time since, for the best written po
em on the delightful season to which it is addressed :]
For the Southern Post.
TO SPRING.
BY E. M. F.
Ob, beauteous wanderer of the verdant brow !
Where hast thou strayed, nor hither come ’till now;
O’er what tall mountains flown, through what green
vales,
Displaying all thy sweetness on the gales—•
And filling hearts who sadly pined before,
With richest treasures from thy fairy shore ?
But, long hast thou been coming—long been gone—
And left thy little flowers here forlorn.
To Jreiish by the rude Autumnal wind,
Or sink ’neath dreary Winter’s snows, consigned.
Oh, knowest thou not that while so far away
All that ihou lovedst was destined to decay;
As well the mighty oaks and forest trees,
As the meek rose that blushes in the breeze.
Those rich saloons of Nature dressed so gay,
From the first dawn of March to end of May—
With their ten thousand flowers spreading wide
O’er all tho mead, where like an early bride,
Thou, lovely Spring, in maiden form v ast seen
To hymn sweet songs, and softly tread the green,
Where richly spread in verdant foliage lies,
Nature’s green covering’neath her auzre skies.
All these, yea, more than poet’s tongue might sing,
Have perished since thy visit here last Spring :
Have scattered to the winds, been broken—torn—
Or ’neath the Autumn blast, or Winter’s storms.
And those gay chirpers, too, with tiny wing,
And lofty crest, have flown and cease to sing ;
The chattering black-bird and discordant jay,
Or dulce! mock-bird with harmonious lay;
And e’en the silver butterfly has flown,
Nor more is heard the gentle turtle’s moan.
Soon as the torrents swept from mountain sides,
And ocean seemed to heave her swelling tides
Baek on the frozen North, than fearful came
Those fierce Borean blasts with deadly aim,
To drop in quiet frosts each winter night—
Ashamed to do such deeds by morning light.
Oh, cruel goddess, wither didst thou go,
To leave these flowery vales submerged in snow ;
And all the curious works thy hands had made
Freeze like the ice-drop in the mountain shade ?
Sure wast thou weary, and to some lone isle
In sunny seas, didst hie thee from thy toil;
Where all around thee, fairy beings play
Like spirits mingling wiih the ocean’s spray.
Perhaps someone among that fairy band
Hath wooed and won thee in that sunny land ;
And thou, with heart distrustful, lingers yet
Around those climes, or leaves them with regret ?
Docs Phoebus’ brightness play around thy dreams,
And dost thou love the magic of his beams ;
Or if too high, of too celestial birth,
Who is the favored one ’mong those on earth ?
Methinks some god of the Eolin race,
In the far South, enjoys thy fond embrace ;
And while Zephyrus of the gentle wing,
Enchains thee to his cells, nor lets thee bring
Sweet buds and flowers upon the vernal breeze,
To scatter o’er our fields and forest trees ;
Dread Boreas jealous of his gentler foe,
Destroys our fairest flowers by wintry snow.
Come,- then, thou mistress of his stormy breast,
And hush his raging passions all to rest;
Wc hail thee gladly to our land once more,
And pray the blessings of thy bounteous store,
In rich effusion on these desert fields,
’Till fruits and flowers a copious harvest yields ;
And when the storm of death shall come at last,
A nd thou be driven from us by the blast,
O, inay we meet on Heaven’s shore again,
Where thou in matchless youth shall ever reign !
FRINTERS DEVILS.
In our collection ot literary antiquities w
have preserved two accounts of the origin c
their title. One of them says there wtS ot e
Monsieur Deviile or De Ville who came over
with William the Conquerer, in company with
De Laun, De Vic, De Vul, D’Ashwood f)’
Ulfie, D’lTmpling, etc. A descendant of this
Monsieur Deviile in the direct line, being son: e .
what reduced, one of his sons was taken in bv
the famous Caxton in 1471 ; who, provii k
very expert, became afterwards his apprentice
and in time, an eminent printer : from him tl e
order of printer’s devils took their name. The
other accounts say, if they took it from infer,
nal devils, it was not because they were mes
sengers frequently sent in darkness, and ap.
pearing very black, as scoffers would suggest •
but upon a very equitable account, for" John
Faust or Faust us, of Mentz, in Germany, fi rsl
inventor of the art of printing, which art sd
surprised the world that they thought him a
conjuror, and called him Doctor Fustus, and
his art the black art. As he kept a constant
succession of boys to run on errands, who were
always very black, these were called devils •
some of whom being raised to be his apprenl
tices and afterwards rising themselves in the
world, he was very properly said to have rais
ed many a devil.
A professor of Latin in the University of Ed
inburgh, now no more, having desired the stu.
dents to give in a list of their names in Latin,
was greatly surprised at seeing written on a
slip of paper the name “Joannes Ovum No
vum. After in vain seeking for a translation
of this he at last became convinced that it was
either one ofthosc dark Latin passages, to de
cypher which even the skill of a Bentley would
have failed, or that it was a hoax. He there
fore next day, in the class, read out the three
dark w ords, and desired the writer of them to
stand. One of his pupils immedialely rose.—
What are you ?” said the Professor. " “A poor
scholar, Sir,” was the answer. “ Avery poor
scholar indeed, Sir, or you would never have
written such stuff as ‘Joannes Ovum Novum.’
That can’t be your name, sir.” « 1 don’t see,”
said the student", “ where you could find better
Latin ; my name is John Agnew.— ‘ Ovum,’
for egg (Ag) ‘Novum,’ for new; —Ovum No
vum—Eggnew.” The professor, seeing that he
had rather the worst of it, immediately laid his
fingure upon his own forhead, and looking at
his hopeful pupil, who was standing somewhat
in the attitude of a drill sergeant, exclaimed, in
a pitiful voice, “Alas! alas ! —something
wrong here, I doubt,” “ May he so,” shouted
“ Ovum Novum,” “something may be wrong
there ; but (striking h;s hand upon his forehead)
there is nothing wrong here /”
INDIAN ANECDOTE.
A son of the Emerald Isle travelling in the
Cherokee country, met a native : “ Good mor
ning,” said tho traveller.
“ O see-u,” replied the Indian, (meaning
good morning.)
“ You see me,” replied the Irishmrn, “ by
Jasus, I see you too,”
“ Skene unake,” (meaning mean White man)
said the Indian, somewhat offended at the rough
language of his fellow traveller.
“ Skin my neck," cried the Iriscman in a
burst of pa--ion. “By the height of the hill
of Ilouth, I’ll skin your neck first,” and he
forthwith began to pummel the unfortunate
native most unmercifully.
“ Nok-ica ,” (meaning quit) yelled the In
dian.
“ Yes,” said Irishman, “ I’ll knock you till
your heart’s contented with the bating I’ll
give ye.”
Asa barrister was going down Palace Yard,
he was bespattered by a mud-cart. One of
his brethren said to him, “ that is an action of
damages.” “No doubt,” was the answer,
“but 1 should like to see the Jury that would
give me costs of suit."
A Punctilious Negro. —A correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun mentions that a member of
Congress lately got perfectly drunk and wished
to fight a negro that he met on the street.—
The darkey contended that “de bominable
representationer had descended beneaf de lebel
ob a gemman by drinking to inspiration, and
darfo he war not bound to ’sept him challenge."’
Influence of the Moon on Tiinlcr. —A very
intelligent gentleman named Edmndstone, who
was for nearly thirty years engaged in cutting
timber in Demerara, and who made a number
of observations on trees during that period, says
that the moon’s influence on trees is very great.
So observable is this, that if a tree he cut down
at full moon, it will immediately split as if torn
asunder by the influence ofgrcat external force.
They are likewise attached much earlier by the
rot than if allowed to remain to another period
of the moon’s age. Trees, therefore, which
arc intended to he applied to durable purpos
es. are cut only during first and last quarters
of the moon ; for the sap rises to thetopofthe
tree at full moon, and fall in proportion to the
moon’s decrease.
“ Will you have me ?” said a young man <0
a moderate little girl. “No John,” said she,
“ but you may have me if you will.”
A theatre for blacks is about to be opened in
New Orleans, where the Ethiopian dranm wilj
be sustained in its original purity.