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heart which bled for the poor moth
er iu her wild agony retainer 1 iat
impression of her countenance an(
itiar.ner. Time ..ever could efface
ir; but while tliq.ag<>tiy > V|S presen.
wi:h him, he diougut o
Perhaps he had no iirn 10 think ;
for ge.ffly he conducted the woman
to her lonclv cottage, sohmng now,
and feeble, ant! P l,ant 1,1 llls
hand She would have gone any
where with him. Not to he left alon e
was all she asked for in the world.
And yet alone she was, and must
| ) ; . Caildless, an 1 a widow, how
could she he otherwise than alone?
it was not long before other kind
ly visitors arrived at lhe widow’s
cottage; for there is seldom any
w int ‘f sympathy where a strong
gi> )S;l tion has been excite lin the
public mind ; and inexperienced as
tiu younghnan was in offices of con
solation, such as that which he bad
vein n tari ly ass u m ed, scarcely kno w-
j n g at the moment what he did, he
very willingly yielded up his post to
those who were, perhaps, not belter
<j jalified than himself to administer
comfort to a childless patent.
All was not over, however, in one
terrible shock. There were after
scenes to be gone through, in which
some kind neighbours assisted in
the best manner they could. We
will not say that their friendly and
benevolent efforts were stimulated
by the presence of those wealthy
visitors, who, partly from curiosity,
” and partly from sympathy, wan
dered up to the cottage, and left
there some libera! testimonies to
iheir good feelings ; -—we will not
sav lids of the humble position
of that neighbourhood; because
the habits of the poor afford noble
instances of genuine and disin
terested kindness towards each
other in sickness and sorrow, which
might well call up the hi a h of
shame to mrtny a fair and flattered
cheek. But under nocircmnstances
are the poor more tempted to ex
change their honest independence
for cringing, preh nee, and subter
fuge, than when they dwell in a
neighbourhood occasionally filled
with casual visitors, the larger por
lion of whom have more time and
money on their hands than they
know well how to employ; and
who, consequently, follow the bent
ol momentary fancy, and thus per
form frenuent acts of charity which
are based on no other principle than
the gratification they afford in the
doing.
Late in the afternoon of this dis
astrous day the wind lulled, and all
tilings began gradually to resume
their accustomed aspect. A few
groups of sailors and fishermen re
mained here and there upon the
shore. Scattered nets and fishing
tackle were again gathered into
heaps; astray oar was now and
then replaced in its accustomed po
sition ; and the boats which rocked
in the bay were again made fast to
their moorings preparatory to the
corning on of night,
Eila More could see ail this from
the window of her mother’s sitting
room, where Mrs. More insisted that
she should remain, without further
exposure to the sharp air which had
now set in from the north ; for to
risk her life twice in the course of
one da}*, the mother pronounced,
with some reason, to he enough, and
a great deal too much. Besides
this, she dwelt long and largely up
on the suitableness of the thing,
a consideration which appeared to
e fleet her quite as much as the risk
ol life. Ella, however, had no de
sire to make the experiment again ;
tor, in addition to objections neces
sarily arising out of the lateness of
the hour, she had gone through
enough to bring on a feeling of
weariness and exhaustion, which
she indulged by leaning against the
side of the window, and resting
her bead upon her arm, still looking
out, however, and still watching the
figures on the shore, where the la>t
Blight beams of departing day
threw them all into strong light and
shadow on the shining sands.
Ah ! that sunlight!—how it. smiles
sometimes after the storm has done
us worst ! How it flashes in the
tear! .1 eye,’ and dances over the
newly-covered grave!
Ella watched the watery gleam,
rendered more brilliant hv the
ll aekness of the clouds through
which it. burst its golden way. She
knew that it must then hr*, shining
on the cottage on the cliff’, and she
thought how hard it must be for
tin; widow’s heart to bear. Even
she, a stranger, fell it hard. A pen
sive sadness was stealing over her
soul, whose very depths had been
stirred with fear and with pity—
two strong emotions. No wonder
that they left her more silent and
melancholy than she was aceustom-
ed to be. Gladly, indeed, would
Elia have been alone through the
whole of the twilight hour, now
rapidly stealing on ; for her moth
er’s prattle wearied her. There
are lanes when absolute solitude is
the next best eampanionship to con
genial minds; and this was such an
hour to her. A congenial mind !
For the first moment in her life a
pining for that treasure was awak
ened in Ella's bosom. Where and
how would that pining end ? and
, through what mazes would it lead
her?
Slowly faded that watery gleam
of sunset splendour from the glas
sy shore. Dark shadows fell from
the cliffs on the western side of the
bay, and the rocks grew cold and
blue in the distance. The billows
of the low tide rolled in with an
gry swell. They bad not spent
their fury yet; bur, in wave, seem
ed uttering those angry words with
which a fruitless but unexpended
passion dies away. Above the eas
tern line of ocean rose the moon
the broad autumn moon —so large,
that Ella started when she saw it,
as if some supernatural visitant was
planting, for the first time, its
strange and luminous foot upon the
world. Rising majestically along
her pathway of unsettled clouds,
whose billows also could not rest,
she reached at last a wide clear
space in the heavens, and then
shone out in her calm beauty, unob
scured.
It was a glorious scene. The
crests of the breakers looked all
covered with a fretwork of silver
and gold, as they curled over like
the flowing mane of a war-horse.
And then how the waves ran up
with their white border of foam, his
sing, and seething, up to the very
loot of the shadowy figures who still
sauntered along the beack, watch
ing and waiting—for what? Ella
could see them distinctly still, but
she had no idea of their purpose.
She saw them group together more
closely; then stooping half-way in
the water, they grappled apparent
ly with something in the waves.
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“Some portion of a wreck,” thought
Eila. As she gazed, it seemed to
her that a figure unusally tall was
approaching the spot. It was dark
er than iho rest, and moved slowly.
It looked like some funereal mass,
and cast a huge black shadow on
the ground. Ella knew it was the
same figure which had attracted
her attention while standing on the
terrace, and a strance awe crept
over her, even at this distance.
But her thoughts were soon turned
away from this mysterious being,
for she now saw plainly what the
sailors were about. That which she
had supposed to be some portion of
a wreck assumed a human form.
It was indeed a wreck —it was the
dead body of the widow’s son !
Ella could see how carefully
the men lifted the body, and bore it
on their shoulders, walking away
Irom the sea in a long procession,
for the very presence of death,
amongst those who have taken any
interest in the lost, makes them
grave, and orderly, and sometimes
even solemn, in their movements. It
seems to them, possibly, as if their
work bad been taken forcibly out of
their hands, by a hand that was
mightier than their own, and so they
have nothing more to do but to ac
knowledge its mastery and sub
mit.
East in this procession, though
separated from it by some distance,
walked the tall figure wrapped in
the long flowing cloak. They dis
appeared at last behind a projecting
crag ; and the echoing shore was
est unoccupied, for the swelling
tide to fill again with foam and fu
ry. The great sea had done her
work, even to the rendering up of
icr dead. All that remained was
>ut to efface the fool-prints of that
great transaction, and to leave no
trace of it for the morning to look
down upon.
On the following morning Ella’s
musing fit having been dissipated
)y a variety of vivid and amusing
dreams, all strongly contrasted, as
dreams often are, with the events of
the proccdingday, she fell more than
usually inclined to listen to what
she had preciously designated, with
some degree of contempt, the
gossip of the place. And gossip
indeed there was in abundance ;
for an event like that of the wreck
ed boat, its adventurous ciew, was
not likely to transpire, within the
circle of observation embraced
by the little town of C , with
out exciting an immense amount of
repetition of facts, with which near
ly all were equally well acquaiti
led ; and of suggestions, and sur
mises, upon what nobody knew
anything about. It was really curi
ous how everybody, on the follow
ing day, told over the circumstan
ces of the wreck; those who had
not seen it, sometimes most minute
ly, to those who had, and who lis
tened, or appeared to listen, with
suspended breath, awaiting only
the slightest pause or break in the
narrative, to burst in and become,
in their turn, narrators themselves.
\\ ith all this talking, and telling
however, no new facts were brought
to light. The widow was reported to
have borne the spectacle of the dead
body of her son being carried into
her dwelling with more fortitude
than might have been anticipated.
Certain well-known individuals,
eminent for their piety, or their be
nevolence, were stated to have re
mained with her late in the evening,
while others had seen her in their
early morning walks ; so that, up
on the whole, it was consolatory to
think the poor woman was really
as well cared for, as if she had oc
cupied a baronial resiednee, and
called half the country her own.
Having settling this matter much
to the satisfaction of the kind-hear
ted, and equally to the satisfaction
of a few carpers not quite so kind,
who liked to get hold of something
which they called “ going 100 far,”
the numerous callers who went
about the town and neighbourhood
of C that day —and it was said
there was not a vacant carriage to
be had for love or money—had
leisure to take up other subjects to
discuss, beyond the sailors’s widow,
and her dead son.
“ Who do you thing we have got
amongst us now?” said Miss
Mason, in making her call upon
Mrs. More.
The latter lady found it impossi
sible to guess. It might be an Earl ;
it might be a Duke ; or it might be
even one the Royal family, tier
visitor looked so wonderfully exci
ted.
“No otlte’*,” she went on to say,
“ than the Honourable Mrs. Joce
lyne, and her son.”
“ Inde—ed ?” responded Mrs.
More, stretching out the last sylla
ble of the word into a tone of
inexpressible astonishment, almost
amounting to awe; though who the
Jocelynes were, she knew no more
than her work-box, having never
heard there august name before.
Os course it would imply too great
an amount of ignorance to ask; so
she rustled about in her silks, and
looked inquiringly, and wished Miss
Mason would go on.
Ella, who cared less about com
mitting herself, at all events in the
presence of Miss Mason, at last
asked plainly who the Jocelynes
were.
“Not know the Honourable Mrs.
Jocelyne— not know her son, James
Brandon Jocelyne?” exclaimed the
lady with ineffable contempt, for
she was not sorry to have an oppor
tunity of setting Ella down.
But the mother smoothed matters
over a little, by a few expressions
about “not exactly at that moment re
collecting”—about “ having pas
sed through a good deal,” and about
“beginning to think just then, she
did,” See., all which Miss Mason
abruptly put a stop to, by stating
that “ everybody knew the Joce
lynes— at least who they were—
though it was certainly but few —
but a very select few, who enjoyed
the honour of their personal ac
quaintance.”
“ Are you of that number?” ask
ed Ella.
“Os course I am,” replied Miss
Mason, “or I should not be so well
able to speak of the family, and to
bear testimony to their many excel
lences.”
“ Perhaps you will tell, us what
some of those excellences are,” said
Ella.
“In the first place they have
rank—unquestionable rank,” re
plied the lady, evidently not a lit
tle gratified at being able to count
up so important an item.
“ Inde—ed !” responded Mrs.
More,
“ And they have piety,” Miss
Mason went on to say.
“ Wealth, of course,” observed
the elder lady.
“As to that,” replied Miss Mas
on, in a tone of voice which impli
ed that wealth was a mere nothing
—“ as to that, I should say that
wealth was the least of their advan
tages. They keep an excellent
establishment, of course. Mrs.
Jocelync’s position in. life would
not allow of anything paltry in
that department. But, dear me! no
one thinks anything about their es
tablishment. The Jocelynes would
)e the same if they lived in an Irish
cabin.”
“ They must be raiher extraordi
nary people,” obseved Ella.
“ They are extraordinary people,
Miss More,” said the visitor, with a
most emphatic nod of her sagaci
ous head. “If you had even seeti
James Brandon Jocelyne, you
would agree with ine, that a finer and
more aristocratic gentleman never
walked this earth.”
“ What is he like?” asked Ella.
“ Like nothing you have ever
seen,” replied the lady. “He
stands alone amongst men. He has
not his likeness in the world.”
“Is he a monster?” Ella ven
tured to inquire.
“ Monster, indeed ! How you
talk, Miss More,” said the lady, with
great indignation in Iter tone and
manner. “ Mr. Jocelyne is consi
dered the handsomest man of the
present day. 1 believe his portrait
is in many of the first printshops
in Paris.”
“ How much I should like to see
him,” said Ella.
“ Perhaps,” said Mrs. More, in
the tone of one who discusses a
question of momentous interest,
“you can decide for us, whether it
would be suitable to call.”
“Os course,” replied Miss Mas
on ; “everybody calls, who has
any wish to establish their own
claims to being called upon.”
“Do you think mamma would
like Mrs. Jocelyne ?” inquired
Ella.
“She would admire Mrs. Joce
lyne exceedingly,” replied Miss
Mason.
“Do you think Mrs. Jocelyne
would admire mamma ?” asked Ella
again.
“Mrs. Jocelyne is a very pe
culiar lady,” responded Miss Mason;
—“ a very peculiar lady indeed.”
To be continued.
JVedding Superseded by a Funeral
—A young man by the name of
Vickery was to have been married
at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 18th ulti
mo ; hut, in consequence of the
illness of his intended, the weld
ding was postponed two weeks,
but he died in a few days after
wards He had an affection of the
heart, which, when excited, trou
bled him very much. On the
evening of his death, he had been
reading to his intended the story of
“ Walter Errick.” It was a very
exciting tale of “love and murder;”
and, under the circumstances,
wrought deeply upon his feelings.
When lie had finished reading
the last paragraph ending with the
sudden death of “ Errick,” he re
marked that he hoped “ lie should
not die thus suddenly.” The
young lady looked at him, saw his
hand failing which held the paper,
and his countenance changed to a
deathly hue. She took hold of him
from her chair, when he gently
leaned toward her and died in her
arms.
The Miner's Soliloquy. —To dig,
or not to dig, that is the question ;
whether ’tis better to stand in knee
deep water, suffer a boiling sun, and
dig, and sweat, and swear and dig,
for a few paltry ounces—or to place
one’s animated duds upon some
neighboring mule and travel home
ward. Hold on ! —to dig— to find
our pile —and by that pile to say we
end our poverty, and pay the thou
sand little natural debts we owe;
’tis a consumation devoutly to be
wished. To be in luck—reach San
Francisco flush—to visit monte —ay
there’s the rub; for in that game of
chance, what luck may come ?
When we ha ve shuffled off this pile
of ours—must, have the blues—
there’s the calamity that makes one
stay from home so long ; for who
would hear the fierce reproaches —
the insolence of riches—the spurns
am) scoffs th it the unworthy takes of
patient merit, while, he, himself,
might be in lock the same ! Who
would bear to dig and sweat under
a weary life, hut that the dread of
returning home without the dust —
that slippery treasure —puzzles the
brain and makes us rather stay and
wait our better luck, than go “to
hum” poorer than we came. Thus
California makes beggars of us.—
Alta California.
Drunkenness defined. — We pre
serve the following definition, from
an old magazine, for the benefit of
posterity :
Drunk, a. [from drink.] Over
the bay, half seas over, hot, high,
corned, cut, cocked, half-cocked,
shaved, disguised, jammed, dam
aged, sleepy, tired, snuffy, whipped,
just so, breezy, smoky, top-heavy,
fuddled, groggy, tipsy, smashed,
swipy, slewed, crank, salted down,
how fare ye, on the lee lurch, all
sails set, three sheets in the wind,
well under way, spreeing, battered,
blowing, boozy, sawed, snubbed,
bruised, screwed, stewed, soaked,
comfortable,, stimulated, jug-steam
ed, tangle legged, hawk eved,
phlegm-cut, fogmatic, blue-eyed, a
passenger in the Cape Ann stage,
striped, boozy, all over the bay,
faint, shot in the neck, bamboozled,
weak-jointed.
An Extraordinary Meteor. —A cor
respondent of the Philadelphia In
quirer gives the following account of
a meteor ot unusal size and brillian
cy, which was seen on the (ith in
stant, by some of the employers on
the Baltimore and Washington
Railroad :
“ A few minutes after leaving
the depot in Pratt-slreet, on the
6th, a little after six o’clock, while
it was yet dark, one of the most
extraordinary and beautiful meteo
rological phenomenon ever witness
ed by mortal eyes, appeared in the
heavens, as reported by Mr. Hum
phreys, the intelligent and gentle
manly conductor, and by the brake
men and engineers of the Washing
ton train. A metery of immense
size, (appearing many times larger
than the suti at rising,) appeared in
the south-east and in its course,
north-west, remained visible for the
space of at laest five minutes! It then
appeared to remain stationary for a
few seconds, expanding to greater
size, exhibiting a higher ring, the
space within which was filled by a
less luminous reddish glare. The
trail appeared at least a hundred
feet long. The extraordinary
length of time that this meteor con
tinued in sight, may perhaps be ac
counted for by its enormous size
and immense distance, and the sin
gular appearance just before it ex
ploded, by the fact that the rays of
the sun, although they had not yet
began to illumine the cast struck up
on it in its great elevation and
changed the bright white appear
ance to the duller reddish glare.”
Corn\Calccs. —Two teacups of but
termilk, one of sour cream, previ
ously sweetened with salacratus,
one tablespoonful of molasses, and
Indian meal to make it nearly as
stiff as a muffins. Bake half an
hour. Eaten with great gusto by
those who have tried it.
“ Sealed proposals,” as the chap
said when he kissed his sweet
heart.
Great lee Flood in the Susquehan
na. — The Coal Mines Flooded — Des
truction Threatened. —A dispatch
from Pittstown, dated leb. 13,
say s:
“ The recent heavy rains have
caused a great flood in the Susque
hanna. The ice in the river has
been moved several times and piled
up to a great height along the
banks in this vicinity. It is much
to be feared that great damage will
be caused by the immense quantity
of ice should a final break-up ensue
at this stage of the water. Mr.
Pettis, a gentleman residing on the
opposite side of the river from this
place, was obliged to leave his
dwelling yesterday, owing to the
high water. We understand that
several coal mines in this region
have filled up with back water from
the river. The water is said to be
three feet higher than ever known
before. I have just learned that
part of one of the new piers at this
place has been torn down by the
moving of the ice.”
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The “Journal of Commerce.”
concludes a discussion about the
Galleries, and “Popping the ques
tion, as anew remedy for faint
ness !” as follows :
The world may laugh as it
will at timidity, and rail at my hero
as a country clown, but 1 am sure
the sensible girl, now many years a
happy wife, would not have ex
changed the purity and freshness
of the heart thus struggling to lay
itself at her feet, for all the ease of
a hackneyed lover, who can dis
course eloquently of a passion with
the fluency of one who has nothing
at stake.
“Do tell me,” said a city visitor
to her own on one occasion, “if the
report was true, that your husband
fainted away when making his de
claration.”
“ Yes,” she repled, with quite a
smile, “ I believe I must confirm
the story, and I have a fancy,” she
added thoughtfully, “that timidity
in a lover is in general a sign of
innocence ; and l cannot help
thinking that when a man is fluent
at love making, either his heart is
not in it or he has had too much ex
perience in the art,”
The Loss of the First Born. —We
have read of a young mother who
had newly buried her first born.—
Her pastor went to visit her, and on
finding her sweetly resigned, he
asked her how she had attained such
resignation. She replied, “ 1 used
to think of my boy continually—
whether sleeping or walking ; to me
he seemed more beautiful than
other children. I was disappointed
it visitors omitted to praise his eyes,
or his curls, or the robes that I
wrought for him with my needle.—
At first I believed it the natural cur
rent of a mother’s love. Then J
feared it was pride, and sought to
humble myself before him who re
sisted] the proud. One night in my
dreams, 1 thought an angel stood
beside me and said, where is the
little bud thou nursest in Thy bosom ?
lam sent to take it away. Where
is the little harp? Give it to ine?
It is like those who sing the praise
of God in Heaven.
I awoke in tears, my beautiful
boy drooped like a bud which the
worm pierces ; the last wailing was
like the sad music from shattered
harp strings ; all my world seemed
gone ; still in my agon}” I listened,
lor there was a voice in iny soul
like the voice of the angel who had
warned me, saying, “ God loveth
a cheerful giver.” I laid my mouth
in the dust and said, “Let thy will
be mine,” and as I rose, though the
tears were on my cheek, there was
a smile also. Since then this voice
was heard amid the duties of every
day—methiuks it says continually,
“ The cheerful giver.”
Using Tobacco. —Of the three
modes of using tobacco, smoking
is that which seems to have insinu
ated itself most extensively among
the youth of our community. To
bacco, employed in this way, being
drawn with the vital breath, conveys
its poisonous inlluence into every
part of the lungs. There the nox
ious fluid is entangled in the minute
spongy air cells, and has time to
exert its pernicious influences on
the blood, not in vivifying, but in
vitiating it. The blood imbibes
the stimulant narcotic principle, and
circulates it through the whole sys
tem. It produces in consequence
a febrile action in those of a deli
cate habit. Where there is any
tendency to phthisic and tubercular
deposits in the lungs, debility of
these organs, consequent on the
use of tobacco in this way must
favor the deposit of tuberculous
matter, and thus sow the seeds of
consumption. This practise im
pairs the natural taste and relish for
food, lessens the appetite, and wea
kens the powers of the stomach.—
As to the pleasure produced by it,
it is, I believe, a well known fact,
that a person smoking in the dark is
often unable to determine whether
his cigar is lighted or not. — Dr. J.
C. Warren.
{ {Did you ever know two men to
spend six hours in sharp contro
versy, and not afterwards disagree
more widely than when they first
began ?
How to make a Fortune.— Take
earnestly hold of life, as capacita
ted for, and destined to a high and
noble purpose. Study closely the
mind’s bent for a labor or profes
sion. Adopt it early, and pursue
it steadily, never looking back to
the turned furrow, but forward to
the new ground, that ever remains
to be broken. Means and ways
are abundant to every man’s suc
cess, if will and action are rightly
adapted to them. Our rich men,
and our great men, have carved
their paths to fortune and fame by
this eternal principle —a principle
that cannot fail to reward its vota
ry, if it be resolutely pursued. To
sigh or repine over lack of inheri
tance, in unmanly. Every man
should strive to be a creator, instead
of inheritor. He should bequeath
instead of borrow. The human
race, in this respect, want dignity
and discipline. It prefers to wield
the sword of valorous forefathers
to forging its own weapons. This
is a mean and ignoble spirit. Let
every man be conscious of the God
in him, and the providence over
him, and fight his own battles with
his own good lance. Let him
feel that it is better to earn a crust
than to inherit coffers of gold. This
spirit of self-nobility, once learned,
and every man will discover within
himself, under God, the elements
and capacities of wealth. He will
be rich, inestimably rich, in self-re
sources, and can lift his face proud
ly to meet the noblest among men. —
New York Sun.
Rice Blanc Mange. —The follow
ing recipe for cooking rice is wor
thy of preservation by every house
keeper—it presents a nutricious and
agreeable article of diet for the in
valid, and a delightful and cheap
desert for the family table.
Boil half a pint of whole rice in
as little water as possible, till all the
grains lose their form, and become
a solid mass. Next put in a sieve,
and drain and press out all the wa
ter. Then turn it into the saucepan
and mix with it a large half pint of
rice milk and a quarter of a pound
of powdered sugar.
Boil it again till the whole is re
duced to a pulp. Then remove it
from the fire, and stir in (while hot)
a win-e-glass of rose water. Dip
your moulds into cold water, and
then fill them up with the rice, set
them on ice, when quite firm and
cold, turn out the blanc mange, and
serve if up on dishes, with a sance
of tureen of sweetened cream, fla
vored with nutmeg. Or you may
eat with a boiled custard, or with
wine sauce. You may mould it in
large breakfast cups. Always dip
your moulds for a moment in luke
warm water before you turn out
their contents.
A Word to Boys. — The learner
blacksmith says,—Bovs did you
ever think that this great world,
with all its wealth and woe, withal
its mines and mountains, oceans,
seas, rivers, with all its shipping,
steamboats, rail roads and magnetic
telegraphs, with all its million of
darkly grouping men, and all the
science and progress of ages wil
soon be given to the boys of the
present age—boys like you, assem
bled in your school-rooms or play
ing without them, on both sides of
the Atlantic. Believe it, and look
abroad on your inheritance, and get
ready to enter upon your possession.
The kings, presidents, governors,
statesmen, philosophers, ministers,
teachers, men of the future, are
boys, whose feet, like yours, can
not reach the floor when seated on
the benches upon which they are
learning to master the monosyllables
of their respective languages.”
An Elephant with an car for Music.
—An elephant of extraordinary in
telligence was exhibited at Mentz,
in 1811. The musicians of the
theatre of this city treated this ani
mal with a concert of instrumental
music, and the first piece they per
formed had a powerful effect upon
him ; but a solo upon the horn alto
gelhertransported the animal, which
put itself into motion, beat time with
its trunk, and accompanied the in
strument by the distinct emission of
sound.
Sounding Boards for Pulpits. —A
distinguished artist has recommen
ded that the canopies of pulpits be
formed of strained sheep skin in
serted in a wood frame and then sus
pended from the ceilings. Thus a
great increase of reverberation will
be gained, and the speaker’s voice
be heard distinctly in the further
part of the room without exhaustion.
Buckwheat Cakes. —after standing
to rise all night are much improved
by adding, just before baking, sour
cream and sulaeratus—say a tea
cupful to a quart of batter. This
makes them richer and lighter.
Good for keen appetities on frosty
mornings—and not bad for any
other.
Remains of Paul Jones. —The Sec
retary of the Navy has ordered the
remains of Paul Jones to be brought
home in the frigate St. Lawrence.
Heis happy whose circumstances
suit his temper, but he is more ex
cellent who can suit his temper to
any circumstances.
[by request.]
the MUSICAL clock.
BY T. S. DOffOHO.
Wing the course of time with music
Music of the gram] old days,
Days when hearts were brave and noble,’
Noble in their simple ways-
Ways however rough, yet earnest,
Earnest to promote the truth,
T. i uth that teaches us a lesson,
Lesson worthy age and youth.
Youth and age alike may listen,
Listen, meditate, improve;
Improve in happiness and glory,
Glory that shall Heaven-ward move.
Move as music moves in pathos,
Pathos sweet and power sublime ;
Sublime to raise the spirit drooping,
Drooping with the toils of time.
Time recedes amid its grandeur,
Grandeur purer, prouder still;
Still revealing dreams of beauty,
Beauty that inspires the will.
Will a constant sighing sorrow,
Sorrow full of tears restore.
Restore, but for a moment, pleasure?
Pleasure dead may live no more.
No more then languish for the buried,
Buried calmly let it be;
Be the star of promise—Heaven,
Heaven hath sweeter joys for thee.
Forthee,perchance,though dark the seeming,
Seeming dark, may yet prove bright,
Bright in mortal cares, may softly,
Softly dissipate the night.
Night shall not endure forever,
Ever! no! the laws of earth,
Earth inconstant, must forbid it—
Bid it change from gloom to mirth.
Mirth and grief are light and shadows,
Shadows, light to us are dear,
Dear become by Contrast-
Contrast, then, in beauty here!
Here, through sun and tempest, merry.
Merry may thy being pass,
Pass without a sigh of sorrow—
Sorrow wins not by “ Alas 1”
“ Alas!” we pardon in a maiden,
Maiden while her heart is young.
Young and timid ; hut in manhood—
Manhood should be sterner strung.
Strung us if his nerves were iron,
Iron tempered well, to bend,
Bend mayhap, but yielding never,
Never when despair would rend ?
Rend the pillars from the temple,
Temple in the human breast.
Breast which lonely Grief hath chosen,
Chosen for her place of rest.
Rest! unto thy spirit only,
Only torment will she bring :—•
Bring, oh man ! the lyre of gladness,
Gladness frights the harpy’s wing !
Wing the course of time with music,
Music of the grand old days,
Days when hearts where brave and noble,
Noble in their simple ways !
THE FillEM) OF THE FAIIILV.
SAVANNAH, FEBRUARY 22, 1851.
Jenny Lind in New Orleans.
The New Orleans papers says the receipts
of the fust night amounted to upwards ol
Twenty thousand dollars, and that the tlien
tre was crowded from pit to dome.
ftp* We were very much amused on
Wednesday Evening by a visit to Armory
Hall, where Laughing Gas was administered
by Dr. Starr. In this instance the perfor
mers were the audiance. and it completely
eclipsed the Circus, Gen. Tom Thumb, Ne
gro Minstrelsy, Panorama and all. The
Doctor gives another exhibition on Tuesday
Evening, and we advise all who are fond of
a good hearty laugh to attend.
We are requested to state that sub
scription lists fertile formation of a Building
and Loan Association, can be seen at Mr.
Robeit D. Walker’s Marble yard, St. James’
Square, and Mr. James Sullivans’, No. 12
Whitaker-street.
1?* The Charleston Sun speaks very forci
bly of the painting on exhibition in that city
of Belshazzar’s Feast —in the natural course
of events our readers may look for its arrival
in Savannah in a week or two.
New Use of the Telegraph.
The telegraph lias been used to give notice
of approaching storms. For example, the
telegraph at Chicago and Toledo notified
shipmasters at Cleveland and Buffalo, and
also on Lake Ontario, that a northwest storm
was approaching. With this information
they prepare to encounter it, or remain in
port till it has passed.
A hurricane storm is said to traverse tha
atmosphere at the rate of about sixty miles
an hour. Hence a vessel in the port of New
\ ork, about to sail for New Orleans, may bo
telegraphed twenty four hours in advance
that a southwest storm is advancing on the
coast, from the Gulf of Mexico. We are
only on the threshold of the advantages to be
derived from the electro.— Exchange paper*
The States in Respect to Population.
The following list is said to exhibit correct
ly the order in which the several States
stand in point of population, according to the
present census. It is gratifying to see our
own State so high up in the figures.
1 New Vork, 2 Pensylvania, 3 Ohio, 4
V irginia, 5 Indiana, 6 Tennessee, 7Kentucky,
8 Massachusetts, 9 Georgia, 10 North Caro
lina, 11 Illinois, 12 Alabama, 13 Missouri, 14
South Carolina.|ls Maine, 16 Mississippi, 17
Maryland, 18 Louisiana, 19 New Jersey, 20
Michigan, 21 Connecticut, 22 New Hamp
shire, 23 Vermont, 24 Wisconsin, 25 Arkan
sas, 26
Rhode IslaDd, 30 Delaware, 31 Florida.