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ttaenP'fL,v rftil all arrearare. are paid.
H Twill beinaerted at On Dollar
Aw.Lst, and IVenty-five Cent for
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t Wel S now nearly forty year, mace
, "?" v i .-... fl.irt. f iihoutod
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jXbealdtolbopelslillbetu.
Sitotwta On a certain oyp a en-
m down the rim to Kentucky,
TCaptaia Ward, a. hewa- removing
Svfrom the cast. ' The journey wa
x . 1 1.
- was full of Iodiarra, nd; no
ittkmcnt of any hoteTnad been made in
m. Tbo whites, and the Indiana too,
wcoflt"t!y making war upon each
A., I do not know who was the roost to
!lBe ;lbe whites snico weniw,
Ijfian were the most cruel. We pur
ebied u okliCrazy, square-built boat, be.
fcrtyandimjfcct in length, and
jlouteight ortcO wide. ,: We contrived to
dke on i single pine plana oh each gun.
I and this was the only thing we had to
Mad us. We. had a heavy load, lurni
We, baggage, horaejlJg fowls, plouglis,
besides nearly a dozen people. These con.
..-rial nf the eantain.' his wife', "and 'their
l,wng children, a wtdoWed sister and son,
iteades tercral men to manage the boat
j then we left, we were fearful lest the In
'if ihmild attack us from the shore, but
eknethatby keepingitt 4he middle of
dx river we should be beyond, the reach of
their rifles, or could be in a few-moments.
Thus we passed on for several days, till we
supposed wo were beyond the haunts of
& Indians. One day, just at sunset, after
Mhad become tired with rowing, we let
W boat drift lazily and carelessly along the
current cWe wcrejust getting redy to
'put up forthe night'', The mother was pro
jmising the children's good run on shore.'
Tbe widowwa getting out provisions, and
) making preparations fur our supper. The
jetpliin and his nephew had hold of the oars,
BIN UAIfCU kiavti Jtv ""v v Mvn asvi
toiteertlie boat ' , - . ;
41 ' Rogers,' said the captain'-,. ' suppose
te put in this side of that point ;nd tie the
boat to one of those big trees, and thcre.cn.
ttmplorthe night3 " . : r '
?it'i slight good place, captain, and I
libit. Besides, a few moments ago 1
thought I beard wild turkeys over the hill,
tad 1 should like to have, one for our. sup.
wr.' "-"' . -
I 86 we tat in towards ' the shore ai
m oi wunin Hit j yarus 01 uiai, puiiu
round which the steamboat hus just pass,
d, when I heard a stick crack , as if broken
by tbefoe;t. . v - , . ,
'"A deer,' said the captain.
"'Ho, no,' I shouted, row, row, for
life, or we are all dad.'
" At that instant j down rushed scores of
Indians to tbs shore, with a ehout made the
kifc tcross the river echo it back agaitf.
lne muMerous Creatures rushed down to
the water'redge, , and presented tl4r guns I
J. L.j. r I
unopened a keavy fire upon us. 1 Innnin.
tM,ths youn man snatched bis rifle, and
risinjun his full length. RreA at the-nearest
Indian, who had a shabby bead dress,
Hk Indian fell, and so did the young man
1 the same jnstaht Aa be fell, the can-
tain brought tha boat-round
indigos yelled r the women acrtamed,
6 horses were, falling and plunging and
- were nymg tniclc arouna us.
ibove aII, the voico .of caDtain Ward
wot Rogers, take my oar.' .' A
" took it. and he at the iimn inatarit I
"Ml Piece Of nlaiik land rnwprt In unrh
S purpose thai in a few minutes we were
m the river, beyond the reach of their
nfles. knew they had no canoes, be.
"Son a huntinz exDediiion and that w
ere safe,. But, oh! whaf a sight! the
.Horses Were all dead, or dvintr. one child
wly wounded. viae boat fcnlf fiijt wnh
watef.lnd the young man in his blood at
ttetottomof (he boat Bv thi time-the
have brought tli fw m thi
But the Wulnsnxft
u pate as a shMt W etu tu
raised ois head in her ho. and oncned
where the blood wasstill coming.
He was vpf
" 'Juhn'aaid ahn &mtZJi i&l 1-
Jting to a babe, John, do you know
' 'My mother said he. in a whisDer.
from the river'
4. He tried, but could not
luV BOIt. An n... IV... ..... j
jjg ji, i.;v)ii juu ro uy-
Im6' ""other, but are yoo nurt V
o. in - hi it As ti:.,t. .r. r'.-
jrJra7 with the near, r bow, my dear.
At ., . f - "- -:
r" se mcTCUuI Id me a inner f.r
"vq se rner
indlt west wuuu . 1 -
Sod of pilot, for I was well acquainted
.7 a. -;,. nnd all points of danger.
" 'Jesus Christ said tbc riiother, for be
was eone. . .
She bent over him a few miftutes, as if in
silent prayer, then kissed bis lips, and for
the first tune tear ulled her eyes. . Till
that moment) you would have thought she
had been talking to a child just going to
sleep, her voice was so calm and id mild. J
and a noble fellow tie was. t Hut she was a
religious woman. I never saw religion
like that bcfortl or since. We lay off the
river till dark, and then silently came to tiie
shore, on tinS side,7Qf tbenight V e dared
not light a candle, lest the Indians should
ace it We milked our only cow, oikT fed
the children and gotlhcni asleep: We thefl
brouelit the body of the yountf roan up the
bank, and when the moon arose, we dug
that grave wbich you see yonder. , We bad
to be careful not to make a noise, nor even
to weep aloud. But after, we bad opened
the gravo; and w're ready to put the corpse
in it the jwldowijd mother spoke: '"
"Is there no one here that can offer a
prayer ase bory my only child f
" There was jhio answer.- We could all
sob, but we had never prayed for ourselves.
She then knelt down, ana la vim? her hand
on the bosom of her boy, she, in a subdued
voice, uttered such a prayer as ew ever
made.rhwwa-ee:Im as the bright Waters
at our feet -Andf when she came to pray
for the whole of us-'-for the poor, Indians
who, had murdered tier boy j when she gave
thanks to God that he had so long comforted
her heart with her son ; nnd when she gave
that God had given her such a son to give
back to Him ; it was awful ! we could not
sob aloud ! Tou preachers talk about sub
limity, but if this was Dot it, I do not know
what it is. -Well , there we buried him , and
there tie sleeps yet. r In the morning, I got
up at daylight, and came up here to place
the stone at the head of the grave. It was
bloody, for his head had rested upon it
found the mother was here before me ; per
haps she had been here all night - She was
Irvine to do the verv thine : and bo. Without
saying a single word, I took hold and help.
ed her to put the stone at tbc head of the
graved It is now nearly sunk in the ground ;
out it stands just as we placed It. When
wo bad done, the widow turned and said,
' Rogers,'' but tears came, and I was thank-
eo enougo. 1 nave sax on mis log manv
-J . I :- . .1 f.
tunes and thought over the whole scene ;
and though the mother has been in the
grave many years', yet 1 can see her even
now just as she looked when she turned to
thank me, and I can hear her voice just as
she spoko to her dying boy V'--Chrutian
Keeptait. -Selection
of Books. Biographies of
good men, well written, and, by the way,
such books arc scarce, cannot be top much
sought or too closely perused. Works or
this description, if tncy are what Jhcy ought
to be, exhibit human character in portrait,
afford us noble examolcs of perseverance.
of benevolence, of virtue, and, not unlikely
of errors to be shunned. They often tend
which shrouds from the inexperienced eve
of the young and obscure, the frailtias and
imperfections of the great man s character.
(Nob$r respect men of eminence so littlcas
theirs-own talets and why, but "because
these! their dependants are witnesses of
their hours of relaxation, and have diacov-
VIVU WU HIIIUllUJtVMIC'l UlKfc IIV " I"
thing !, and ,tn most respects very
much lwe themselves -" i
The 'flict is, tbaf, without .enjoying the
unrese rved intimacy of the grcatTor karn.
r 1' U.. .1 L l:U
ing from biography, the means by which
thev have become so, we are prone to look
at them as they are, and oof; s they tarrf,
and hence to attributo theit political, or in.
fellectual elevation to superior menial en
dowmcnts by nature, when p all instances,
at any rate tn this country, they are both,
almost exclusively, the fruit of the r perse.
verahco that never relaxes, and the vigi.
lance that never tires." We need not
commend to the perusal of any young man
the biography of Dr. Franklin, for all, un
der whose eyes this article may fall, have
probably read it. If not let them do so and
learn the way to wealth -to eminence.
That little book ; that little auto-wograniiic
duodecimo of one hundred and scveuty.five
pages (the form in which We haw rend, and
re-read it,) has by its circulation in the
United States, done more in redeeming
talent from obscurity than any 4han all
Attmr works of the kind that have ever been
read lejet-aiiddy 4he. Doctor's fame-rest4
simply upon that production, ins a model of
critically correct biographical wntmg, it
wonld be imperishable.
From biography we learn f or ought to
learn, the " small beginnings" with which
distinguished men start in their career of
greatness, Use embarrassments unoer wnicn
they labored, and obstacles they encounter
ed the noints in which they failed, and those
in which they uccecded, the causes of
failure in the one case or success in we
other, and las? though not least, the estima
tion that was put upon their capacities in
early life, for mnety-nine out ol every nun.
xisted, I
will be found to have given no evidences of
tuperior endowments by nature , from which
those who best knew them1 could have pre.
dieted their future distinction. Learning
from biography these facts, ydtmg men
learn to feel that fame is the fruit of exertion ,
not of circumstances or natural endowment ;
and the worth of this one lesson, if its con
fictions are so" felt as to result in ft determi
nation to met, is knowledge, is honor, ra
weaitn. Utre Leaf.-
THE BR0K1IN-HEARTLD
: . ' BY Ojjtt. PEB.tTICB. '
I have seen the infant sinking down, like
a sinking flower, to the grave the strong
man fiercely breathing out his soul upon the
field of battlcwthe miserable convict stand,
ing upon the scaflyd, with "a deep curse
3uivering upon his lips; I have viewed
cath in ail its forms of darkness and ven
geance, with a tearful eyo f but I never
could look on woman, ' young and lovely
woman, fading away from the earth in
beautiful and uncomplaining melanclioly,
without feeling the very fountains of life
turned to tears an 4 dust. ' Death is always
terriblebut when a form tf angel beauty
is" passing ofT tci the silent land of the
sleepers, the heart feels that something
lovely is ceasing from existence, and broods
with a ense of utter desolation over the
lonely thoughts that come up like spectres
from the' grave, to haunt our midnight mu.
sings, - . '
1 wo years ago, 1 took up mv residence
for a few weeks irr a country Village in the
eastern part of New England. . Soon after
my arrival, 1 became 'acquainted with a
lovely girl apparently about seventeen
years of age. She had Jost the idol of her
pure heart's purest love, and the shadows
of deep and holy memories were ever rest
ing like the wing or death upon her brow,
I first met her in tlie presence of the mirth.
.-ful. She was indeed a creature to be wor
shipped her brow was garlanded by the
young year's sweetest flowers her yellow
locks were hanging beautifully and low
upon her bosom and she moved through
the crowd with such a floating unearthly
grace, that the bewildered gazer looked al
most to see her fade away info the air, like
the creature of some pleasant dream. She
seemed cheerful and even gay ; yet I saw
that her gaiety was but the mockery of her
feelings. She smiled, but there was some
thing in her smile which told that its mourn.
ful beauty was but the brighr' reflection of a
tear and her eyelids at. times closing
heavily down, as if struggling to repress the
tide of agony that was bursting up from her
heart's secret urn. She looked as if she
could have left the scene of festivity and
gone out beneath the quiet stars, and laid
her forehead down upon the fresh green
earth, and poured out her stricken soul ,gush
after gush, till it mingled with the eternal
fountain ot life and purity.
Days and weeks passed on, and that
sweet girl gave me her commence ; and 1
became to her as a brother. The smile upon
her lip was faint, the tjrp!c veins upon her
cheek grew visible, and the cadences of her
voice became.daily more weak and tremu
lous. On a quiet evening in June, I wan.
dcrcd out With her in the Open air. It was
then that she first told me the talc of her
passion, and of the blight that had come
down like mildew upon, her life. Love had
been a portion of her existence. Its ten.
drils had been twined around her heart in'
earliest years ; and when they were rent
away, they left a wound which flowed till
all the springs of her soul were dried. "I
jmpasaing away said, she,'1 and it should
be so. I he winds have gone over my life,
and the bright bud of hope, and the sweet
blossoms of passion are scattered down,
and Ho withering in the 3usf. And yet I
cannot go down among the tombs without a
tear. It is hard to. take leave of friends
who love mo j it is very hard to bid farewell
to those dear scenes with which I have held
communion from childhood, and which,
from day to day, have caught the color of
my lite, and sympathised witli us joys and
aorrows.TiPt little grove, w here 1 .. have
bo often strayed with my buried love, and
whereat times, even now, the sweet tones
of his voice seem to come stealing around
me, till the'whole air becomes one intense
and mournful ntelodt ; that pensive star, in
which my fancy can still picture his form
looking down upon me, and beckoning me
ontcf his oWn-hrfghtJiomew-every flower,
nnd rivulet, on which oar early love has set
its undying scalv have become dear to me,
and I cannot, without a sigh, close my eyes
upon them forever-". r
I have lately heard that tlie beautiful girl
of whom I have spoken is dead. The close
of her life w as as calm as the falling of a
qulcrstrcam j gentle as the sinking of a
breeze that lingers for a time around a bed
of roses, and them dies, as it were, from
very sweeWiess. i "
' ft cannot be that earth is man's only abi
di ng place. - It cannot be that Our life is a
bubble cast up bv the ocean of eternity , to
tloat ju moiucnt upou tne wave, ana men
sink into darkness and nothingness. Else
why is it that the aspirations which leap like
angels from the temple of ou hearts, are
rforever wandering around unsatisfied ?
Why is it that the rainbow and the clowd
come over 89 with a beauty that is not of
earthy and "then pass off and leave us to
anise "tiponttheir faded loveliness t Why is
it that the 'stars which hold their festival
around the midnight throne, are set so far
above the grasp of our limited faculties'
forever mocking us with tbelr unapproacha.
ble glory? And finally, 1 why is it that
bright forms of htfroan beauty are presented
to purview, and then taken from us, leav.
ing the thousand streams of bur affections to
flow back in cold And Alpine torrents upon
soy hearts t WejaTieborn for higher oW.
tiny than that of earth. There is a realm
where the rainbow never fades -wlie re the
stars will be spread out before as like the
Islands that slumber" in the" ocean; and
where tlie beautiful beings that here pass
before us like visions, stay rrtour presence
forever. Bright creature of my dreams,
iu that realm I shall see thee again.- Even
now thy lost image is sometimes With me.
In the mysterious silence of midnight, when
the streams are glowing in the light of the
inaoytars, that image comes floating upon
the dream that lingers around my pillow,
and stands bclore me in its pale, dim love.
hne . till its own quiet spirit sinks like
spell from heaven upon my thoughts, nnd
the grief or years is turned to dreams of
blessedness and peace. " V
' ANCIENT CLERICAL -T4Tt-ES
' Tlie word pope" is derjVed from the
wordpapa,' in Greek and other ancient
tongues, signifying father, and is the same
2 . -a LI 'Pi '1 .1
iu uiipun tuf aoua. inese are eviucnuy
copied from nature, being the sounds emit
ted by an infant to, lis parent TUn tenn
papa, or pope", was, iirmmitive- Christian
limes, universally applied to all the orders
of clergy, just as we call a venerable old
minister, by the honoured title of father."
But just in the same manner as the true
ministry lost their parity of rank and office
by the successful ambition of city ministers,
lording it over poor count rymiiitstmT so
by degrees the title of papa orpOpe, gradu
ally passed to the ambitious number of
lordlings ; and finally it passed to one pom.
pous and aspiring character, who, in his
turn, lorded jit oyer his former equals in the
metropolis.' .. . ' .. ........
We discover evidently from St. Gregory
the rope s Jjctters to the bishops of Con
stantinoplc,nnd of Alexandria, that the title
of "popen was confined, after acinic, to
each of those three aspirants.
'The title "tfilra sanetitas,1" and the
corresponding Greek word for" yout noil
.," was the common title of a minister.
The'Vord Reverend" was never used in
tlie. ancient Greek, Syriuc, and Egyptian
churches. The title was invariably ' your
holiness. This prevailed in the Greek
church first, as that church is more ancient
than the Latin or Roman church. Hence
we find this title of'your holiness," in the
most ancient Culdce churches of ancient
Britain, and Ireland. And the use of this
Greek-title of tlie ministry, is an additional
proof, by the way, that these ancient prim-
itive churches of Britain and Ireland were
planted by Greeks, and not by Romans
originally. Archbishop Usher notices this
fact, and puts it in a strong light The
Culdee churches of England, Scotland,
Wales, and Ireland, keptlsaster en the day
commemorated by the 'Greek Church, and
not on the day kept by the church at Rome.
tins is a, striking tact.
In Scotland and Ireland particularly the
title of your holiness" was applied to every
pastor. ' But, it was translated info what 13
rendered " Sa vh. When St. Patrick from
Scotland, landed in Ireland about' five hun
dred and thirty-two, he found St. Ibbar at
the . head of tlie pure Culdee churches
Hence Ireland was said to bo tho land of
'Saixts." Now this really meant just
this: it was a land that abounded with
many venerable and faithful ministers.
The word " Sainf ," in tliese times was pre.
cisely used as our common title of "iter er
end" is applied to each minister of the
'-Gospel now.
In rope bu Gregory, Lib. 7, Lpist. 36,
we have an instructive historical exhibition
of "ie antiquity" of Popery. The Bishop
of Constantinople had claimed the title ol
universal bishop, or pope," over all. j The
bishop or Alexandria, t'ynt. wrote an
c-pistle to Gregory of Bome, and cnllod him
also universal bishop, and pope, urego.
ry thus replied If you call me the uni.
versal bishop, you then own yourself ;to be
NO pope. Let NO SUCH TITLES be mention.
ED, OR EVES BEARD OP AMONG US, YiiLfr
holiness says in your letter " I command
you. t 1 command you.' I knowwho you
are, and who I am. In rank, my brother;
in manners, my father. I, therefore, did
not cammand you, and I beg you will ever,
henceforth, forbear that word. I only
pointed out to you wliat it was right you
should know. ;
Theso sentiments are well known to
ctery pope, and Romish bishop, and priest,
who have seen the works of bl. Gregory.
And yet. with most marvellous consistency
they u-orship him as a saint ; and their pojes
ot the same timef assume all the powers,
and honours, and supremacy of universal
bishop, and holiness, and pope exclusively!
HoW-remarkauly has the prediction of this
pope St, Gregory been fulfilled ! " He
w ho shall thus rail himself, universal bishop
andjjope, is truly antichrist ! ! Jrrot. V m.
Vert true and sensible. Bulwer very
pertinently observed that the newspaper is
the chronicle of civilization; tha common
reservoir into which every stream pours its
living wafers, and at which every mart may
come and drink. It is the newspaper that
gives to liberty its practical life, its constant
ouw.rvunpii, iia purpciuui rfgimnw-KS un
rclaxmg activity. Tho newspaper informs
legislatioapf public opinion and it informs
tlie people of the nets of lcgisIatbTf. And
this is not all. The newspaper teems with
tlie most practical morality ; in its reports
of crimes and punishments you find a daily
warning against temptation ; not a case in
a police court, not a single trial or a wretch,
ed outcast or a trembling felon, that does
not preach to us the awfuTTesson-now
im.
prudence leads to error, how error conducts
to guilt, how guilt reaps its bitter fruit of
anguish and degradation, lne newspaper
is the Similar bond that binds together man
and man no matter what may be the dis.
tance of climate or the difference of face.
The newspaper is a Taw book forthe indo.
lent, a sermon forthe thoughtless, a library
for the poor. It maV stimulate the most in.
different, it may instruct the most profound.
J . ARCTIC REGIONS.
A kite number of the London Foreign
Quarterly Review makes known for the
first time to. English readers some of tlie
particulars of tho Russian Exploring Ex.
pedition to the Northern A ret ic ocean. 1;
was conducted by land; that is, by land
conveyances, sledges and dogs, over the
ice, and often a considerable distance from
tlie alio re, under the charge of Lieutenant
Van Wranzel, and occupied nearly five
years, amidst the severest hardships. The
sufferings of tlie party from cold, even in
the mild season, were very distressing. As
a sign of the severity of the cokJ , it is stated
that in one of their night encampments,
inufllcd up and protected by warm clothing
and furs, ice was formed between their
stockings on their feet from the. yapor
thrown off by the skin ; chronometers Were
useless, tlie drop of oil witliin tho works
could not be kept fluid by any precaution,
in a -temperature olten forty degrees below
the zero of Reaumur equal to fifty-cight
degrees below the zero of Fahrenheit. ;
The result of tlie expedition may be gen.
crally stated tw having traced the bounda
ries of Asia in their highest northern lati
tude, and, connecting with the English
discoveries and examination, asdemoustrat.
inr a continuous sea or t-xoansc of water
oi indefinite extent, bounding the continents
on the north and entirely round the world.
The problem remaining to be solved is,
whctlicr there bo in still higher northern
latitudes, beyond the belt of ice which
skirts the coast, a Polar continent or a large
body of land. It has been found in all lati
tudes, that, beyond a comparatively small
distance from the coast, the Polar sea is
always open and free of ice. This distance
rarely exceed sixteen lMiglish miles, and
tlie concurrent reports of the natives of
those frozen regions, or different tribes in
tlie high Siberian as well as in tlie Ameri
can latitudes, lead to the impression that
there is land, and inhabited land, not many
miles nenws thiswater, and around the
One of me natural curiosities which" this
regiori has presented to every traveller is
particularly noticed in the accounts of Van
Wranzel's expedition. It is the prodigious
quantity of the bones of the mammoth which
are found.' The further fiorth the "greater
is the quantitv ; and some of the Asiatic
Arctic island are found to be composed of
little more than n massot mammom uoucs.
For eighty years Siberian traders have been
conveyinrthcm away by shin loads, and
they are still apparently undiminished. The
like plicnumcnon .of the existence in this
inhospitable climes of immense niultit Jtles
of these herbivorous warm-blooded animals
appears along the whole nprtlicrn coast of
Asia and Ainerica, and allords scope lor a
great deal of scientific speculation upon the
natural history of the earth and the most
curious branches of geology.
I From the Albany Cultivator.
Making acgcr holes with agimbt.et.
Mv boy what arc you doing there with
that gimbTetl" said I the other morning to
fiaxWhMa1uua'hin;-wlirj-wasi?ibjriiig
awav with all his might at a piece of board
before Win. Trying to nvike on augur
hole!" was his reply, without raising his
eyes or suspending his operations.
" Preciselyrthe business of at least two
thirds of the world, in this blessed year of
our Lord 1940, is this making augur holes
with a ginibkt I said to myself, as I
walked musingly on ward.
Here is young A., who has just escaped
from the clerk's desk behind the counter.
IltT'spouts'his "mustaches pwears Jim hair
long ; has acquire d power of being shaved;
carries a ratan -drinks -champaign when
he can command an X. to purcliuse a but.
tlf? and tnsit a friend to a dinner: talks
large of the price current of all tlie western
stocks and profits ot banking ; stands in
his boots two inches higher than' Astoror
Applctnn ; and speaks of foreign exchanges
as would Rothschild or Biddlc. Ho thinks
ho is a great man, when all others know he
is only tnaking augur holes with a giuiblct
Mr. B. is a rabid politician. He has la
bored hard at caucuses, nt ward and town
Pieetiugs, has talked of the dear people till
the words flow parrot like from his lips,
and has done a full share of the dirjy work
of parly for yea rs. Office has been tlie lure
held out to lead him onwards, and which
lias made him neglect his business, spend
his time in hunting up recruits, drilling thor
refractory, and qualifying himself lor bar
room argument and stiimn oratory. He
can settle the aflkirs of the nation in a trice;
diplomacy has no intricacies for him; he
has shaken hands with the f resilient , and is
a great man. He will soon bo uaed up,
and cast aside- and will then sec, as others
now do,tliathe is chasing a jack-uTairtcrn ;
that he is naking augur holes with a gitn-
blet. -
There is Miss C, who is really a pretty
girl, and who might become a woman a
man of sense, would 3oe proud ot ISow
she apes the ton in all things; reads excit
ing novels goes to the opera, admires Ce-i
teste's dancinghas nearly, ceased to blush
at the most indecent nudity lounges on so
-her idleness, keeps her bed
till noon, coquets with male animals as fem
inine as herself, imagines slie is a belle, for
gets that ber father was a'cooper, lisps of
high life, and plcblan presumption,' and is
in a fair way to ruin herself. All this comes
of her belief that an augur hole can be made
by a gimblet- ., . j
Mr, D.. who'm I have just passed, may
bo put down as a distinguished professor of
. . . . .. . T - f . I -
the gimhlit
I le was a larmcr. iiisiamer
left him a fine farm free of incumbrance ;
but speculation became rife, fortunes were
made in a twinkling, and D. fancied . " one
thing could be done as well as another.".
bo he sold his farm, and bought wild lands
in tlie prairies, and comer lots in lithograph,
ed cities ; and began tOjdj-eam of wealth,
worthy of "golden Ind." Work he could
not ; it had suddenly become degrading.
Who could think of tilling or become con
tented with a few acres of land, when thou,
sands of acres in the broad west were wait
ing for occupants or owner. D. was not the
man to do it,, and be operated to the extent
ofliis means. At last the land bubble broke;
lithographed cities were discovered to be
mere bogs, and prairie farms, thougrjhe.
basis of exha listless wealth, worthless un
less rendered productive by labor. - But D's
beautiful farm is gone, and aa he is how
preparing on Compulsion to become a pio
neer in tlie west, be feels that it is difficult
to make augur holes with a gimbleL.
Mr. E. is tlie representative of quite a
class. He bad bis attention awakened to
the subject of religion, and obtained new
views of its importance and his own obli
gations. Believing what cannot be disputed
that love to God and good will to man, is
the only true source of happiness and feel.
ing, as every benevolent mind must, a i
sire for the welfare of his race he fancied
himself to ueclarcjnese truths to the world j
and forsaking his lapstone, his anvil, or
his plough, became without delay an ex.
pounder of the scripturCi a self-delegated
instructor of mankind. - lie forgot that the
age of miracles liad ceased and that the
ability to teach must now be ' acquired by
tlie slow but necessary process of human
learning. He begins to have misgivings
that he has mistaken his call ; and wUI prob
ably discover, when too late to rectify tha
error, that he has spent the best half of his
life in trying to make augur holes with a
gimblet -
Pernicious influence of '5ilest grief.
A young lady connected with a family
of rank, aud possessing great .accomplish.
ments, had formed, unknown to her pa.
rents, a secret attachment to a gentleman
who often visited the house. When it was
discovered, he was requested, to abandon
all notions of the lady, as it was the deter
mination of her relations to refuse an alii.
ance with him. Both1 parties took it much
to heart The lady suffered from a severe
attack of nervous disorder, which terminat-
ed in suicidal mania. She endeavored several ,
times to jump oqt of the window, and would
have done so had she not been most care,
fully watched. Iler symfoms were, most
distressing. The mind seemed to bo weigh. '
ed te the earth by an accumulation of mise.
ry and wretchedness which she was unable
to shake off. " Oh ! could I be but happy !"
she Would eirclnim. ' Will no one oomo
to my relief? What can I do!" Sho
would walk about the room, occasionally
giving utterance to expressions similar to
those just quoted. More than once she
observed, that could she cry, she felt as
sured her mind Would be relieved ; but not "
a tear could she shed. After a fearful
sf rugglcfbrsoinc tfrm; one r vcning;-as"sho"
was retiring to rest, she burst into a flood
of tears. The effect was mostTbeneficial
from that moment slie beg-in to recover.
The copious lachrymal si-cretion had the
flt-ci of relieving the cerebral congestion,
nnd in this way the brain was restored tu;
the performance of its healthy functions.
Anatomy of Suicide.
'A word in season. Mr. Rutherford
was accustomed to come to the parish, of
Avliertn. where-Adam Clarke's ialhcr re.
sided, and to preach in different places.
Adam Jieard hini every where; and in re.
turning from the places of preaching , was
in tlie habit of walking behind him, and took
delight in literally treading in his steps : this
was before he had any personal acquaint
ance, with him. One evening Mr. R. no
ticing a little lad trotting after him, whom
ho hud often observed at the preaching,
turned about and said, ' Well, child, God
hath said, " I love them that love me, and
they that seek me early shall find me."'
lie said no more, and Adam pondered these
words in his lieart and thus reasoned on
them : ' What does lie mean by." they that
seek me early T" I ris early, and my first
work is pfaycr is that wliat is meant f N, op"
it is they who sock God early in life .when
they arc young: then, thus I seek, and
thus I will seek tlie Lord. He said also, .
" they shall find me :" others, perhaps, may
seek and not find: but God says to the
yourigp " they SHALL find. Tlusaf e 7
him great encouragement, j Other preach.
crs took no notice of hiin ; probably suppos r,
ing that one' so young, could not be expect.
cd to have much concern for his soul-
Experience, however, has indisputably !
shewn that the true light that lighteneth- '
every man that comcth into the world,
shines often very powerful on infant minds :
and that weenhnot be too attcritive to their
cultivation, and flmt theJiest fruits may be
expecfed from a careftl management or
Mo3Ks and Aaron. Through the agen.
ey of Moses and Aaron, the Israelites were
delivered out of Egypt. itwai
incidence, that Sir Moses Mohtefiore and
Mons. Aaron Cremicux, should be the in
dividuals who have now undertaken tlie
mission fof the rescue from oppression, of
the Jews at Damascns. Jamaica . Gazette.
Help others and you relieve yourself.
Go and drive away tlie cloud from that dis-,
tressed friend's brow, and you wijl return !
with a lighter heart.
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