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SS&SiVißff§Sf!!■ From the Literary World. I D HAVE THEE MINE. I’d have thee mine, In the first dawning of thy loveliness, When all around thee speaks of spring’s fresh blossom, And all of thee is fitted to express The radiant thoughts of my too happy bosom — Thus would I claim thee first! I’d have thee mine. Not for the transient pleasure of an hour Not for a feverish fancy that should vanish, But ns a star set in my spirit’s bower, Whose light no storms of time nor fate could banish — To rule Love’s heaven for aye! I’d have thee mine, To cheer my youthful steps along life’s way— To si lare my triumphs in the world’s wide field — To cure my griefs when wounded in the fray ; And nerve my spirit, if it stooped to yield, To sterner battle still! I’d have thee mine, That I might toil for thee, and watch thy brow, To chase each shadow from it; and still bring A newer joy within thy breast of snow, ’Till life should seem all made of light and spring, And music softly tuned. I’d have thee mine, That I might see, through thy maturer years, Thy soul grow brighter, casting off all dross, And fitted to inmate the purer spheres, Where higher purity becomes no cross, But highest blessedness! I’d have thee mine, That when the labors of our genial prime Were over, and the frost of age came on, We might recall the pleasures of this time, And join its tender love with years not gone, But growing fonder still! I’d have thee mine. That when the last dread hour came o’er my heart, Thy hand should smoothe my pillow, and my head Rest on thy bosom, and my soul depart, Mixing with thy dear prayers that thou mighl’st tread Soou the dim path with me ! I’d have thee mine, That when thou, too, should’st leave this weary earth, Alike in soul, thought, feeling, we might be United in a land of higher birth : One—one in being, bliss, and ecstacy, And one in immortality ! mt 3 & Biiiifp LEAVES FROM IRVING’S GOLDSMITH. JOHNSON AND GOLDSMITH, In this year, 1761, Goldsmith became perso nally acquainted with Dr. Johnson, towards whom he was drawn by strong sympathies, though their natures were widely di He rent. Both had strug gled from early life with poverty, but had strug gled in different ways. Goldsmith, buoyant, heed less, sanguine, tolerant of evils and easily pleased, had shifted along by any temporary expedient; cast down at every turn, but rising again with in domitable good humor, and still carried forward by his talent at hoping. Johnson, melancholy and hypochondriacal, and prone to apprehend the worst, yet sternly resolute to battle with and con quer it, had made his way doggedly and gloomily, but with a noble principle of self-reliance and a disregard of foreign aid. Both had been irregu lar at college. Goldsmith, as we have shown, from the levity of his nature and his social and convivial habits ; Johnson, from his acerbity and gloom. When, in after life, the latter heard him self spoken of as gay and frolicksome at college, because lie had joined in some riotous excesses there, “ Ah, sir ! ” replied he, “ I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic* I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way hy my literature and my wit. So I disre garded all power and all authority.” Goldsmith’s poverty was never accompanied by bitterness; but neither was it accompanied by the guardian pride which kept Johnson from fall ing into the degrading shifts of poverty. Gold smith had an unfortunate facility at borrowing, and helping himself along by the contributions of his friends; no doubt trusting, in his hopeful way, of one day making retribution. Johnson never hoped, and therefore never borrowed. In his sternest trials he proudly bore the ills he could not master. In his youth, when some unknown friend, seeing bis shoes completely worn out, left anew pair a( his chamber door, he disdained to accept the boon, and threw them away. Though like Goldsmith an unmethodical stu dent, he had imbibed deeper draughts of knowl edge, and made himself a riper scholar. While Goldsmith’s happy constitution and genial hu mors carried him abroad into sunshine and en joyment, Johnson’s physical infirmities and men tal gloom drove him upon himself, to the re sources ofreading and meditation; threw adeeper though darker enthusiasm into his mind, and stored a retentive memory with all kinds of knowl edge. VAGABOND ASSOCIATES. Sometimes Goldsmith would make up a rural party, composed of four or five of his “jolly pigoon ” friends, to enjoy what he humorously called a “ shoemaker’s holiday.” These would assemble at his chambers in the morning, to par take of a plentiful and rather expensive breakfast; the remains of which, with his customary benevo lence, he generally gave to some poor woman in attendance. The repast ended, the party would set out on foot, in high spirits, making extensive rambles by foot-paths and green lanes to Black - heath, Wandsworth, Chelsea, Hampton Court, Highgate, or some qther pleasant resort, within a few miles of London. A simple but gav and heartily relished dinner, at a country inn, crowned the excursion. In the evening they strolled back to town, all the better in health and spirits for a day spent in rural and social enjoyment. Occa sionally, when extravagantly inclined, they ad journed from dinner to drink tea at the Conduit House ; and, now and then, concluded their festive day by supping at the Grecian or Temple Exchange Coffee Houses, or at the Globe Tavern, in Fleet Street. The whole expenses of* the day never exceeded a crown, and wereof tener from three and sixpence to tour shillings ; for the best part of their entertainment, sweet air and rural scenes, excellent exercise and joyous conversation, cost nothing. One of Goldsmith’s humble companions, on these excursions, was his occasional amanuensis, Peter Barlow, whose quaint peculiarities afforded much amusement to the company. Peter was poor but punctilious, squaring his expenses ac cording to his means. He always wore the same garb; fixed his regular expenditure for dinner at a trifling sum, which, if left to himself, be never exceeded, but which be always insisted on pay ing. His oddities always made him a welcome companion on the “ shoemaker’s holidays.” The dinner, on these occasions, generally exceeded considerably bis tariff’; he put down, however, no more than his regular sum, and Goldsmith made up the difference. Another of these hangers-on, for whom, on such occasions, he was content to “ pa}” the shot,” was his countryman, Glover, of whom mention has already been made, as one of the wags and sponges of the Globe and Devil taverns, and a prime mimic at the Wednesday Club. This vagabond genius has bequeathed us a whimsical story of one of his practical jokes upon Goldsmith, in the course of a rural excursion in the vicinity of London. They had dined at an inn on Hampstead Heights, and were descending the hill, when, in passing a cottage, they saw through the open window a party at tea. Gold smith, who was fatigued, cast a wistful glance at the cheerful tea table. “ How I should like to be of that party,” exclaimed he. “Nothing more easy,” replied Glover; “allow me to introduce you.” So saying, he entered the house with an air of the most perfect familiarity, though an ut ter stranger,and was followed by the unsuspecting Goldsmith, who, supposed, of course, that he was a friend of the family. The owner of the house rose on the entrance of the strangers. The un daunted Glover shook hands with him in the most cordial manner possible, fixed bis eye on one of the company who had a peculiarly good-natured physiognomy, muttered something like a recogni tion, and forthwith launched into an amusing story, invented at the moment, of something which he pretended bad occurred upon the road. The host supposed the new comers were friends of his guests; the guests that they wnre friends of the host. Glover did not give them time to find out the truth. He followed one droll story with another; brought his powers of mimicry ii to play, and kept the company in a roar. Tea was offered and accepted ; an hour went off’ in the most social manner imaginable, at the end of which, Glover bowed himself and his companion out of the house with man}/ facetious last w r ords, leaving the host and his company to compare notes, and to find out what an impudent intrusion they had experienced. Nothin” could exceed the dismay and vexation O of Goldsmith when triumphantly told by Glover that it was all a hoax, and that he did not know a single soul in the house. His first impulse was to return instantly and vindicate himself from all participation in the jest; but a few words from his free and easy companion dissuaded him.— “ Doctor,” said he, coolly, “we are unknown; you quite as much as J ; if you return and tell the story, it will be in the newspapers to-morrow; nay, upon recollection, I remember in one of their offices the face of that squinting fellow who sat in the corner as if he was treasuring up ray sto ries for future use, and we shall be sure of being exposed ; let us therefore keep our own counsel.” This story was frequently afterwards told by Glover, with rich dramatic effect, repeating and exaggerating the conversation, and mimicking, in ludicrous style, the embarrassment, surprise, and subsequent indignation of Goldsmith. It is a trite saying that a wheel cannot run in two ruts ; nor a man keep two opposite sets of intimates. Goldsmith sometimes found his old friends of the “jolly pigeon” order turning up rather awkwardly when be was in company with his new aristocratic acquaintances. He gave a whimsical account of the sudden apparition of one of them at his gay apartments in the Temple, who may have been a welcome visitor at his squalid quarters in Green Arbor Court. “ How do you think lie served me ?” said he to a friend. “Why, sir, after staying away two years, he came one evening into my chambers, half drunk, as I was taking a glass of wine with Topham Beau clerc and General Oglethorpe ; and sitting himself down, with most intolerable assurance, inquired after my health and literary pursuits, as if we were upon the most friendly footing. I was at first so much ashamed of ever having known such a fellow, that I stifled my resentment and drew him into a conversation on such topics as I knew he could talk upon ; in which, to do him justice, he. acquitted himself very reputably ; when all of a sudden, as if recollecting.something, be pulled two papers out of his pocket, which he presented to me with great ceremony, saying, * Here, my dear friend, is a quarter of a pound of tea, and a half pound of sugar, I have brought you; tor though it is not in my power at present to pay you the two guineas you so generously lent me, you, nor any man else, shall ever have it to say that I want gratitude.’ This,” added Goldsmith, “ was too much. I could no longer keep in my feelings, but desired him to turn out of my cham bers directly; which he very coolly did, taking up his tea and sugar; and I never saw him after wards.” A LEAP FOR LIFE. As the Supervisor of Inland Revenue, at Aberys twitb, Mr. J. Miller, his nephew, and two profes sional gentlemen, geologists, were last week ex amining some strata of rock in the cliffs between Aberystwith and Llanrhystid, they proceeded along a narrow ledge of projecting stone on the face of the cliff, about 120 feet above the level of the sea, which providentially happened to be at full flow. In passing round a projecting angle, “which for ages has frowned on all below,” the professors and the revenue officer had rounded the point, and the young man was in the act of doing so, when the rock suddenly breaking from under his feet, he was whirled round with his face towards the sea, and, as he descended, he seized with one hand the ledge beneath his uncle’s feet, whilst he extended the other hand to him, and it was firmly clasped by the revenue officer, who held him suspended for full five minutes, during which time he with difficulty maintained his posi tion, there not being more than six inches to stand upon. At length a breathless pause ensued, whilst Mr. Miller gazed on a rugged projection of rock j about 90 feet below them, and on which he con cluded the unfortunate youth was inevitably doomed to be dashed. But the uncle, (who calls himself “ an awful coward ”) at length said, with all the calmness imaginable : “ Tom there is but one way for it; I’ll save you, or we will both perish together,” and, with a firm voice, he commanded the young man to loose his hold of the rock, which was mechani cally obeyed, with a faint reply, “Yes uncle.” At this awful moment Mr. Miller horizontally sprang into the air, carrying the young man with him ; and such was the force with which they leaped, that the check caused them to perform several summersets over each other as they de scended linked together. With the rapidity of a flash of lightening they disappeared beneath the foaming billows, having cleared the craggy ledge, which projected more than six feet from the per pendicular of the point over which the youth was suspended. To the delight of their companions, who were momentarily horror struck, they rose about twenty yards apart, buffeting the heavy swells of the flowing and returning waves. At length they struck out for a rock that lay 70 yards in the sea, on which they were shortly seated, and from which they gave three hearty cheers. Their companions attempted to procure their rescue by obtaining a boat, but, owing to a breech in the ledge, found it impossible, and had to proceed onwards for more than three hours before they were able to extricate themselves. To their de light, the geologists then found that their brave and dauntless companions had once more com mitted themselves to the deep, had swam to an accessible part of the cliff; and returned to Llan rhystid where, with the exception of the loss of hats, the officers boots (which he had taken off on first starting on the ledge,) and a few slight cuts and bruises, they appeared not a whit the worse from their perilous adventure.— English ‘paper* Female Influence. —I have observed that a mar ried man falling into misfortune is more apt to re trieve his situation in the world than a single one ; chiefly because his spirits are soothed and re lieved by domestic endearments, and his self-re spect kept alive by finding that, although all abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet there is still a little world of love of which he is monarch. Whereas, a single man is apt to run waste and self-neglect; to fancy himself lonely and aban doned, and his heart to fall to ruins, like a deser ted mansion, for want of an inhabitant. I have often had occasion to mark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming re verses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth the energies of the softer sex, give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sub- Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who has been all meekness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous path of life, suddenly rising in mental force, to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune ; abiding, with unshrinking firm ness, the bitterestblastof adversity. As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been its sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling around it with caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered bough ; so it is beautifully ordained by Providence, thatwoman, who is the ornament and dependant of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity; wind herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head and binding up the broken heart. DOCTORS. Hear what the great editor of the London ico-Chxrurgical Review , Dr. James Johnson of them : ’ Sa - Vs “I declare my conscientious opinion, found.r on long observation and reflection, that if there were not a single physician, surgeon, apotheca man-midwife, chemist, druggist, or drug, on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness ad less mortality than now. When we reflect tC physic is a “ conjectural art,” that the best cians make mistakes, that medicine is administered by hosts of quacks, that it is swallowed by multi, tudes of people without any professional advice all, and that the world would be infinitely more careful of themselves if they were conscious that they had no remedy from drugs —these, and mam other acts, will show that the proposition I have made is more startling than untrue. But as it is drugs will be swallowed byrail classes, rich and poor, with the hope of regaining health and pro longing hie, and also with the expectation of beb? able to countenance the culpable indulgence o; the appetite and passions.” There, think of that, ye pill-eaters ! ye who are continually abusing your systems in various wavj and then run to doctors and quacks for relief, think of this testimony from one of their own craft, and learn to let them alone. I have observed during many years, that those who have the least to do with doctors and medicines, outlive those that arc forever nursing and dosing. Good, whole some food, and temperance, instead of overeating in the use of it, with pure cold water lor drink, and to bathe in, with fresh air and plenty of ex ercise, and a clear conscience, will do more lore store or preserve health, and prolong life, than all the doctors and medicines in the Universe.— Portland Pleasure Boat . HOW TO AVOID A DUN. “ My father,” said the General, “ told Colonel Wood, one evening, that he was going over to F the next morning to collect a debt of Capt. Adams, and invited Col. Wood to ride over with him. “We shall get a fine breakfast,” said the old man, “and be back by noon.” Lo, the next morning, away went my father and Col. W. to collect the debt of Capt. Adams, it was a fine frosty morning, and after a two hours’ ride, they arrived at the Captain’s, and right glad did he seem to see my father and Col. Wood. “ Walk in, gentlemen,”'said he, “take a seat in No. 1. Hello, Sam ! take this horse to the sta ble, and rub him down well. Os course you’ll have breakfast, gentlemen? Jim, kill a couple of fat pullets, and get breakfast for two; all ready, gentlemen, in half an hour.” Well , when my father and Col. W. had warmed themselves, the Col. proposed to take a stroll about town, while my father was settling with the Captain; but no sooner did my father enter the bar-room, than the Captain began again. “ Here’s a nice toddy,” said he, “ I don’t be lieve yc u have ever tasted a better—try it.” And sure enough, my father found it the vert best gin toddy lie ever did trv. Before he could finish smacking.his lips, the Captain was at him again, and kept up such a continual jibbering that my father could’nt get his debt in edgewise. Presently in came the Colonel, and the bell rang for breakfast. Everything was as neat as anew pin, fine steak, prime chickens, fresh eggs, and rare coffee, and then such toast! “Take it easy,” said the Captain, as he bowel in and out with the fix ins. “i’ll have the horse at the door in good time.” Breakfast ended, sure enough there was the horse all ready, and all my father and Col. Wool had to do was to jump in. “ Well,” said the Captain, as he gave the reins to my faiher, “ all right, I take it, gentlemen— call again soon, do—pleasant ride to you—good morning!” Now, as they drove along home, said Col. W. to my father— “ Did you get your debt paid ?” “ No,” said my father. “ What prime toasts “ Yes,” replied the Colonel; “ but why did’nt you get your money ?” “Why,” said my father, “the fellow blufk. me square off* with his brown toast and toddy I’ll be whipped if he gave me a chance to a*i him for it.” The following are the dates when the respect!'* States entered the American Union:—“Del* ware, December 7, 1787 ; Pennsylvania, Decern* her 12, 1787 ; New Jersey, December IS, 17$ Georgia, January 2,175S ; Connecticut, 9, 178S; Massachusetts,February 6, 1788; W land, April 23, 1788 ; South Carolina, May* 3, 1788 ; New Hampshire, June 21, 1788 ; Virgil’ June 26, 1788; New York, July 26, 17S8, N° rtb Carolina, November 20,1789; Rhode Island,M 29,1790; Vermont, March 4, 1791; Kentucky* June 1, 1792 ; Tennessee, June 1, 1796; November 29, 1802; Louisiana, April 8, Indiana, December 11, 1816; Mississippi* J's, cember 10, 1817 ; Illinois, December 3, ‘ Alabama, December 4, 1819 ; Maine, March ‘ 1820; Missouri, August 10,1821; Arkansas, J un 15, 1836; Michigan, June 20, 1837; March 7, 1844 ; Texas, December 29,1845; ‘ Vi consin, December 29, 1848; lowa, 1849. One is too apt, when he comes into this vvc ! r V gs find swaddling-clothes ready made for his m lll well as for his body.