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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. . O “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.” O 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.