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June 9 1 .01 l y
Faith and IZopc.
BY ELLA MUOHK.
I had a vision so iair and beautiful it srrmnl
I asked myself i: it were not a dream. My spirit
answered no. And when awake, 1 again asked
if it were not alt a dream. My guardian angel
Lnswered no!
1 saw before me a I ore I y landscape, rich in ev
ery line and dvo. The setting sun had tinged the
Clouds with gold and silver fringes, while here and
tlu rc flitted o'er the azure vault, light fleecy elouds
of nimr wkih immmI like ilm imcMnw alnrt.
of angels hove ring o'er the destiny of nr.n.
!-.r, far off in the background lay (he ocean,
e:;!m as a sleeping infant, with many a while sail
resting upon its bosom. It had caught the flam-
ing hues of heaven and was reflecting them in its
own bright mirror, until it was hard to tell where
I sky and water met. Then came lbs rude and
j craggy shore which set up its mighty walls of do-
fiance, saying, "So far shah thou go, and no
' farther " "
Beautiful mountains, with their rich verdure,
iped awny to smiling vales: on the hill-side
graz d the lowing herds, and in the meadows
skipped the sportive lamb.
There was one bright rpo! in the foreground,
! from which a crystal lount was sending un its
pure refreshing waters, which made its way dash-
1 in- . foaminn- and lesninj over evi rv niuttMcl '
j 3 V P J ' j
: until it had hid itself in the Losom of its parent !
: ocean.
Beside this fountain sat a youthful maiden,
i mingling her tears with the stream. The weep-
j ing boughs of a graceful willow fanned her pale
cheeks and the gentle breezes which nestled i
among its leaves, returned her sighs with many
! an echo.
l wo iair, tjrijlu sisters stood beside her, who,
pitying her sorrow, begged sh would confide in
them, and they would be to her friends.
She looked wistfully upon them; then placing
her fore-finger upon her lips, she pointed to lite
opposite side of the tree, where stood the cause
of ail her grief.
' Heed htm not, dearest,' said 'he gayest of
the two, "heid him not; he dare not interrupt
you while we are near. Only tell us your sor
rows; we have a balm for every wound."
V ith trembling accents, slow and
irregular,
now hesitating, now doubting, she began to tell
j ner trials.
M I was born," said she, " in the lap of luxury,
j reared in the palaces of nobles, caressed by
! friends, admired and courted by the world ; was
.; in v r satisfied with happiness, but like the bee,
; roamed from riower to flower, sipping only its
! sweets. Yet my restless spirit was ever -n tlie
: iiiT. E ic!i new joy only ereaud a desire for
' som" t h in 2 ni'rc, something better.
'I was suddenly stopped in my light cireerby
an admirer. 11" caught my ear by sweet and
gentle words. He said he had loved me long and
tenderly, be had sent me many an oftei of mar-
. i
riage, unt I would not heal them, and now he had
come himself. lie said his father Wat a great
king, and lived in a far distant country ; thai he
owned '. ast empires, and would giv.- ti.cm ail to
I him : that lie had many, very
m my su' j cts,w ho
but I must h" h:
innum' rnble obs'a-
all held him
bride. He
in great esteem,
tad purnioun t d
, ci(s to come Vj me, and ell he wished was mv
j heart.
" For a 1 tig time I hesitated, and endeavored
to banish him from me, hut he was too faithful to
oe ttite? easily Discouraged, and t) slow
t 1 - i 11
degrees
he won that heart which was at fiist so much
po d to him. And, oh! with what rapture
e.p-
he
held me to ' is bosom, and ask d me a thousand j
f,,, j, tod him and if I would prove true
at:U as 0f. did rcDew my vows.
"lie then said he must leave me fur a while,
and go to his father to report the g!;id tidings, and
make ready the marriage supper. He said I need
''IV"
mvsell no irnuole to pren-tre a w.
rdrobe,
my garments would
i
a i
a w
lit me
lie
n ould have :
a spacious mansion prepnr i fe-r m
ind a crown
uf ureat value, and at in-.- appointed time 1 should
come to him, and I would be welcomed by an in- ;
nuiiii rable host.
" He moreover to'd me the way was rugged, j
and I would probably hare many difficulties lo j
encounter, but be arould send me an escort in ,
whom I must have entire confidence.
M My beloved had no sooner gone than another
lover presented himself at mv icet. He told mo
j he knew my former suitor wtllj thai he would dc
' ceive me; I was loo easy inveigled by his ar'lu!
I insinuations; his tale was all a fabrication to win
I i
I me to himself ; his views were entirely selfish;
thai bo had no such immense possessions as ne
boagied and even il he bad it were a poor prool
ol his n Beet ion to leave me and send an esceirt lo i
'orin me to him. Why not take me at o:iro ?
11. . Kl I
aove n- i 0- u not so mucH preparation. ;o :
,e ve me
dearest, you see in me one who wil
in ver leave nor
forsake iu. 1 am truly in pos-
j session of princip !i'ies and powers ; my influence
exti nds to the ends of tle earth, and I will give '
I you cf the good things of life until you are fully
: satisfied. Come, be mine, loved one, and pee :(
my assertions are not all true. I will si nd yon
no escort,, hut will ever be at your side ready to
gratify vour every wish. Hesitate no longer;
1 give me hut your hand, mid I will win your heart, i
j You tdiall not fly ,'roni me; I will pursue you to
tlie ends tf (he earth trc my hated rival shall
possess you.'
"Thus you see him at my side. Fly whither
SOt ver I will, he, tnie to his word, pursues me and ,
tortures me wi;h his love. He sometimes makes
me doubt an ( feel w illing to give up him w ho has j
l..i . rt. ....!, A w -lli cnli n .1. ,-ljwt nvnt f1 I
lll IliU l1' l ' 1 . I I VJ "1111 o v . t, V. V . - l . -J ,
my heart seems only lo live for him, even il lie
should prove false. Ench morn and eve 1 think
will bring the escort and bear me away lo him ;
! but each rising sun only awakes me to sorrow,
I an.l his setting tells me another day lias got.e and
yet I remain alone. I say alone lor eih . how j
1 willing would I forsake laiher, mother, property !
! and friends could I but feel sure o( his love, and j
i not torture myself with the suspicions created by
his hated rival."
The sisters had given attentive audience to all
! she ruid ; and now that she could no longer speak
j leir tears, they gently Stepped forward, and vach
I taking a band, they kindly raised her freim the
earth imprinted a kiss upon her forehead, and
bade her take courage.
We have just cemie from your true lover,"
said the beautiful light-hearted sisters; "and be
I who thus hides from o;:r view, well knows we are
his hand-maidens. You must iro wi'h us, and
t we W'U prove to you we are not false pretenders.
Ah ! 1 should like to eo to mv beloved ;
know not whither you will take me ; il may be to
the very one I hate "
"Try us," said the gravr sister. M Our mis
s'rnn is love ; we seek not to harm thee, but will
s"n U(J ,ttee to ,Me chosen of thy heart
We
,,!lVe Passport to his presence we are the escort
I Me promised to send you yet you refuse to go with
i US. You doubt our veracity, and think we too
would deceive you; but believe, dearest, he who
I .. i.i 'i i , j i :, : u, i,i
j "teallliily whispers 'stay,' he it is who would
j deceive you. lake but a lew steps with us, and
j 7 vviil prove his constaucy."
j As the first spoke, he gathered his sable robe
around, frowned and stamped upon the earth, and
j ,,en l,)e oliier Sls!r ,ooK UP ",(; sut.pcl with to
! much earnestness, he trembled in every nerve,
book hia clenched hand, and swore I hey should
,,ot ,a'ie ber from him. This but .'ended to cause
her to cling the closer ; and hiding her fare deep
in their robes she waved her hand and bid him
begone, hut tie moved not a step till the sisters bore
her away fainting in their arm".
They made haste to the gates of the ci'y of the
bridegroom, and having reaelieu it, they said "cis
';r hwaK ' we ae r.ow at the gate ol the great j
f i t y . and vour adored will Le the tirst to welcome i
,,
ou-
She opened her eyes in astonishment, and
smiling, said "I am ready to meet him. Make
haste ti km ek lor admittance.
The sisters each tapped g.'iitly at the door, when
it was instantly opened by the anxious bridegroom.
He clasped Ins beautiful bride to his bosom, and j
asked her why she had tarried so long, why so
long delayed their rieeMng; hut now that she was j
w i:h him, the past should be forgotten, they were
to live for the fu.'tre. "And now, my belovi j I
must take you to my Father ; he, too, waits to
w-efcume you. He is the King of Kimj;s, the Lord
of Lords, and will welcome you es his well-beloved
son."
Thus saying, he threw his own priceless robe
around hr, and bound a chaplet upon her brow,
in which his father's name was written ; and placed
a string ed pearls about her neck, upon a golden
harp suspended, he took her by the hand and led
her into the presence chamber of his father.
There the cherubim and seraphim veiled their
faces, and angels threw their crowns at His feet.
As sue entered, one long, loud burst of praise
filled the vault of heaven ; she was hailed by an
innumerable company as the well-bedoved, the
bride elect of the eon of God. She had a new
song put into h r mouth, and her h ippy spirit
sung loud anthems to him who bad given himsell j
for lnr, and srnt his ambassadors to conduct her
to such a haven ed rest.
Notwithstanding her own hnpr ncss was sei great,
she rememliered the loved ones sin- had left be
hind, and turning to her companions, said "Go,
beautiful Hope, sister ol Truth and Piety go cheer
onward those weary pilgrims, and take Faith,
your holy sister with you, to arm them with resolu
tion.'" Touch i SWuraer.
The Tribune asserts that Dr. Graham killed
Colonel Luring at the St. Nicholas Hotel because
the former was a slaveholder, and was etlucated
amongst slaveholders. An extract Irom Thomas
Jefferson's wri'ing is quoted to back up this posi
(mil an extract from 'he w ritings of the very
Jt Hereon whom the Tribune denounced four years
ago, m elaborately sophistical tirades, as an infi
0 I, a dishonest politician and an immoral man.
''he siup;d calumny has, been repudiated by the
veriest Abolitionists in the citv, and ihe: old Post
itself, in an unusual mood of manliness, has de- j
nouueed the calumniator in terms ol unmeasured
contempt ; it is needless for us, therefore, to waste
lime in refutation.
iiet r we may be permitted to ask, lias any pa-
rauraph in Jefferson's Notes or Virginia thrown
light upon the causes of the terrible murders w hich j
so oft. n disgrace society in the North, and lend a j
" thrilling interest " lo the play-bill style ol out j
police reports? We fe'ar New York and New j
Kngland can claim a superiority over the South in j
the: science ed' murder.
Professor Webster, who cut up, suspended on j
fishing hooks, and encas d in packing boxes, his j
friend Dr. Parkman's bodv, in the "ood city ol
Boston, a ho afterwards played cards with his chil
dren and didthe amiable" at several evening
parties, white he knew and chuckled over the
knowledge that public opinion was inclined to at
tribute his crime to an innocent man did th?
professor own slaves, or was his cunning, vindic
tive aiiu demoniacal coolness ihe result of famili
arity with Southern institutions.
Well, then, as Graham used the cane sword,
perhaps in his own defence, because he had slaves,
Webster surrendered his sou! to the devil because
he h:.d none. The conclusion is local enough for
the Tribune.
Did Tucker, who cut his child's throat in Brook
lyn a few nights ago, and then experimented on
his wife's jugular, own ne groes, deal in ne groes,
or in any way whatsoever connect himsell wish
Southern slavery, which haunts the Tribune like a
huge Frankenstein, a hose hideous ness is the crea
ture of its own heated brain ? " If Graham had
been eduniited in the North, he would not commit
this crime " no, it is probable he would confine his
e ne rgies to the assassination of officers like Batch
elder, while discliHr-zin their duiies to the laws
and Constitution of 'heir country. A plain man
would not expect the South to be tiitd in the per
son of Graham, assutnine him to be a murderer,
I
(which we cannot do until after his conviction.) i
any more than ho would wisn :ne norm to uc
estimated bv the Tribune, its logic and its (air
play. But what is the cause cf the northern murders ?
Foreign immigration, according to tin Tribune.
"They are ail committed by benighted foreigners."
Was Webster benighted ? Was Tucker a foreigner!
Were shev educated in Germany or Ireland, that
! hey should reduce murder, as De Quincey has,
denies to n " fine art," and assume the most nota
ble position amongst the assassins of the earth I j
In fact, the Tribune's logic is as bad us its dispo
sitioo. 'Lkc Citizen,
How melancholy (he moon musi leel when it has
enjoyed the fullness of prosperity and got reduced
to its last quarter. I
Sti-itne die si a Murderer.
A writer in the Thomasville Watchman gives
the following singular biograph) of James High
tower, recently convicted ol manslaughter in that
county. Three years in dungeon il seems is no-
Sj J c
thing to what he has enelured :
" About twenty-one years ago a young lady ol
this section ol country, be longing to a respecta
ble family, became the victim of a vile seducer;
the fruit was a boy, who is the subject of our nar
rative. His mother, as is the case usually with
those of her sex who are unfortunate, married
a man of low breeding, and adverse circumstan
ces ; consequently, her son was de stined to receive
.bu! a limited share of education or moral train
ing. At a tender age his character was peculiar,
and in some respects very extraordinary. When
only seven years old, he was attending a sugar
cane mill ; by some means his left arm and hand
were crushed, bv which accident he forever lost
the use of his hand. At the age of ten years he
was biuen by a rattlesnake ; being nearly alone
on the- place, he had to call lo his aid all the pres
ence of mind ol which he was master. Fortu
nately he used the proper antidote, and thereby
saved his lite. In the short space of a few months
he was again bitten lv one of the same species
D si
of reptiles: by pursuing t ise same course as here
tofore, he was again rescued from the jaws ol
death.
Between the age of twelve and fourteen he
made several attempts to take the life of his step
father, which shows he would not be imposed on.
About that age he also snapped, several time, a
loaded muske'i at a neighbor. When fourteen
years old. he w as knocked down by lightning, and
did not recover for seime time. At the age of six
teen he w as attacked, w hile hunting in the woods,
by a very large; panther. The panther soon tore
him down he exiii' i'ed great presence of mind
by feigning death. The panther then carried him
into the swamp, covered him over with sticks and
grass, alter which he toeik his leave in search of
more prey. Our hero, after the panther's depar
ture, arose and made his escape home. He was
badly torn two of his jaw teeth were bitten out,
and many wounds were inflicted.
But he was not thus to die, for he soon recov
ered, and very soon after his recovery gave his
step-father a severe? whipping and left him. Ex
cepting another slight shock by lightning, his path
was smooth until nineteen, when he became enam
ored of a young lady ; though figuring in a high
er sphere, his superior in intellect and family, yet
she was smitten by the boy of misfortune, and re
solved to marry him, notwithstanding the opposi
tion of her relatives, who made severe threats
against our hero. But what cared he, who had
successfully battled against rattle-snakes, panthers,
and even the higher powers of heaven, for .'be
threats of man. Nothing daunted, he continued
to urge his claims, alter finding all his efforts of a
compromise unavailing, he commenced a di-ter-mined
course. He procured his licence, placed
a magistrate at a conspicuous point in the woods,
and procee-ded himself on foot, to the house that
sheltered her w hom he loved secretly force d the
door of her chamber, and conducted her about
five miles through the wocds, to the place of ren
d zvous.
Before arriving at the place upon which the
hymenial altar had been temporarily erected, il
luminated by the blaze of light wood knots ami ihe
pale rays of the moon alone, our hero, fell into
his former path of bad luck, for he was hitten by
a moccasin snake ; but he was too well use d to
snake biles to suffer that occurrence to retard his
progress at such a momentous crisis, and lilee a
brave and undaunted boy, parsued his course, and
in accordance with his anticipations was lawfully
married, at 12 or 1 o'clock at night. His mocca
sin bite did not long keep him in bed for he ihen
possessed a nurse ed unceasing attention. After
final re covery he carried Ins wife to the home
whkch he had provided for her, hoping that his
cup of misfortune was then full, and that he
would then enjoy that bliss attending a married
life.
But lie was not destined long to enjoy that re
pose which he had so much sought. He soon be
came entangled in a quarrel wiih a Mr. Wheeler;
ihe result was Wheeler was killed, and our he
ro, after regular trial in a court ofjustic-,, was
convicted of man slaughter, and now, at the ngp,
of twenty, has gone, leaving his wife, his antici
pated babe, and his sweet home, to the penitentia
ry, thre to be incarcerated within its dismal walls
for the space of three years w hich to him mut
seem long, long ! Who can contemplate his past
lite and not say, surely he is the child of misfortune?
lias his misfortunes ended ? Alas! who can tell?
That fact is yet concealed by the dark curtains of
futurity.
Byron and Mart Chawohtr, Grace Green
wood, in her late visit to England, paid a visit to
Newstead Abby, the well-known residence o
Lord B rem. In speaking ol the ev nt, she beauti
fully and touchingly alludes to the love of the poet
lor Mary Chaworlh :
"Strangely sorrowful, almost agonizingly re
gretful, were the thoughts which swept over my
mind, wave alb r wave, and shook my heart like
a tempest, as I stood in the place w here the young
poet passed many hours of silent thought, it may
he of lonely wretchedness. I never before so
deeply felt how passing mournful was the story
of Byron's first ..nd only love. That Mary
Chaw'onh returned the passion of her young poet
lover 1 have not a doubt; but like the Montagues
and Capnlets, the houses of Chaworlh and Byron
were at fued. Mary had not the strength and
truih of Juliet, and so they were parted a serisi
lion by far more piteous for her, and more; fatal to
him, than death amid the full summer brightness
of happy love. This, not Shakspar's, was die
true-soul tragedy. Might she not have redeemed
even this wayward and erring nature, by the
divinity of a pure hive and a steaellast fail hi Bui
it was to be. Mary bes'owed her hnnd upon a
man of whom little better can he said than that
he ranked "aiming the most eminent sportsmen of
the day" lived, it i sdd.to we'ep wild 'ears
over tlie words which have linked her name in
sorrowful immortality with her lover's, and died
in broken hearted ness at last ; while he. gro n
re ckless, restless, and defiant, the very core of his
heart turned to bitter ashe, lorgetung his God.
and distrusting and despising his brother, swept
on in his glorious, shameful, sorrowful and stormy
cap er, ti l the shadows deepened, and the long
night closed in."
Night in Iliivtina.
At night the tropic world is all awake, all tremu
lous with life and light. The streets within Ihe
walls are thronged and gay. Then the ladies of
condition go shopping, and th'-re volantes crowd
the narrow streets. The fair inmates, disdaining
to descend, are waited on by familiar, yet courte
oub shopmen!, Spaniards of old Spain, and masters
of that courteous familarity, in which, as in so
many other graceful traits, the Moor still triumphs
in the heart of Spain. One feels the Orient too,
in the equanimity with which the dignified dealer
in genuine Regalias, or wonderful fans, condescends
to waive a trifle of forty or filty per cent., on the
original price he had asked for his admirable
wares. And do you not seem tei see that i incom
parable lady of Bassorah, to whom the young siik
merchant gave such long credit, and loaned such
large sums on the mere security of her magnifi
cent eyes, when yon hear the stately and sounding
adulation with which these Peninsular tradesmen
ply th ir customers, adroitly puffing not their
goods, but the fair buyers .thereof! The ecstatic
ejaculations which burt from the lips of the Persian
Princes, when they first beheld themselves sur
rounded by the unvailed Houria of a London
drawing room, are the daily license of the young
Habanero, nor do the native ladies take any offense
at ihe complimentary nonsense which salutes the ir
passage through the streets. But I shall imt soon
forget the mixture of a'arm and indignation with
which a northern lady of my acquaintance sallying
from the hotel door for her first volante expedition,
heard herse if addressed by two youths, who took
off their hats in passing, and exclaimed, "Go with
God ! lovely and beautiful American ! Long iive
your loveliness, and long live America !" Yet as
she chanced to be pretty, and as America is by
no menns unpopular with the Creoles, she gr w
quite accustome'd to such salutations, before the
tide was over and even submitted with a tolerably
good grace to receive the information from a waiter
at ihe cafe, where she stopped to take an ice,
"that the ices of the beautiful ladies had been paid
for by a Caballero who had gone out !"
At night, too, the daughters of the middling
classes, arrayed in their best, stand behind the
gratings of the huge ground floor windows, guiltless
of glass, and gaze out upon the busy street, while
their dowdy mammas, in the easiest undress, rock
slowly in the huge butacas, or arm-chairs, which
are always arrange d in two parallel lines from the
front window?. The promenaders without, so
narrow ere the sidewalks, almost brush the dresses
of the young ladies within, yet the wax-women
w ho so obligingly lead the fashions in the shop
windows of Broad-way and W'ashingion-st&., are
not more impassive under the stare and rural
wonder or delight than are these Creole damsels
under the bold gaze of native criticism or foreign
admiration, to which they are nightly subjected.
How favorable this arrangement is to the com
merce in billets doux, I need not say, and as the
windows arc generally somewhat bowed, I have
even witnessed exchanges of a more tender nature,
made through the gratings. At night the Plaza
de Armas is in its glory. The Plaza de Armas
is not so largo as Hyde Park, neither doe6 it at all
resemble the; Battery; and those wise people who
disdain Drachenfels for its little likeness to
Anthony's Nose and despise Windermere because
it is but i tea-cup beside the great washtub ef Luke
Erie, find the Plaza de Annas neither fuir nor
pleasing. Ynt it seems lo be a charming place,
with its picturesque frontier of southern buildings,
and its citadel ol marble quiet, when the hot noon
bre)otls upon its silent palms and stilt, dreaming,
odorous flowers. A charming place suggesting
recollections more charming still of Jovlier places,
of the gardens of King Agib, and of the courts
where in "Ganem, the Distracted Slave of Love,"
recited extemporaneous verses to the dark-eye J
Alcolomb. And at night the Plaza de- Armas has
new charms of its own. Then the regimental
band gather around the conspicuous marble statue
of Ferdinand VI I, discourse most passionate music;
lhn, moving groups of ladies in mantillas and
caballeros, (alas that I must write it !) in black
drt;ss coats and white pantaloons, checker the rich
moonlight on the marble pavements, and swarthy
slaves glancing with ornaments of silver and gold,
lean over ihe low walls, bandying their chuckling
wit in their strange negro Spanish; and half
hidden in the broad shadows of the buildings rourd
about the Plaza, dark-eyed Alcolnmbs receive the
homage of meeker and less ecstatic Ganems,
asiduous beside those wondrous vehicles which, to
the lady of Havana, are gondola and throne,
fauteuil and palanquin at once.
At 9 o'clock the bands march off the ground.
The volantes follow and the aimless masculine
world repairs to the cafes. The cafes are stately
squares of marble columns, open in the centre to
the airs of heaven and refreshed with ihe plashing
of fountains. There the re presentatives of half
the nations of the world are to be found, the heavy
mustaches of the Spanish drageion, and the ruddy
clean-shaven visage of ihe English middy, equally
active in the discussion of all manner of new and
fragrant compounds, cool with northern ice, and
aromatic with the life of tropic fruits. There
oysters are a costly luxury, and pineappb h are? a
drug, anil nobody read3 the newspaper. An
uproarious confusion ol temgues, tiie continual
ringing from the little silver braziers, which th
unwearied Ra iters c'atler down upon the marble
tables in answer to the perpetual cries of Can del a !
Candela I" (Fire ! Fire !) which echo through the
building, and a ceaseless movement to and fro in
the bright yas-light distinguished the world of men
within. Without, the ladies, in the ir volantes take
ics, and a little more gallantry. G an-Kdcn ; or
Pictures of Cuba.
A young lawyer took for his first fee a New
foundland pup; whereupon the following corres
pondence took place between him an another
" limb:"
" Of a lawyer's first lee, if you'll tedl ms the name,
Which backwards or forwards spelts always the
sa me,
And do it correctly , I'll bellow and hollo,
1 Tu semper eris nihil Magnus Apollo.' "
ANSWER.
" Your riddle received just ere g"iug to bed,
Ws a long t.me in gelling ihro my stupid h"ad,
Till weary and worn, and about to give up,
' Parturient moniesset nasci'ur' pup-y'
The Dark Side.
There are sniti" people who are always looking
on tho "dark side" of life. They seem to see the
world through "colored glasses," and thus every
thing bright and glorious, takes a sombre lintfrom
the me dium through which they gaze. They have
not strength and courage to fciruggle with the
actual ills of existence, for these are wasted in
grappling with imaginary evils. If in the spring
time they sow amid the budding loveliness of na
ture; they do not be lie ve that when autumn comes
'heir field's will be filled with "plenty sheaves,"
and plenty will sit smiling at the hoiischolel hearth.
They think of ihe devastating march of the torna
do and tho w ithering breath of the forest k ng,
rather than the crystal dew-drops, tho refreshing
shower, and tlie cheering sun-light, that shall ripen
the fruit, and give a golden hue to the waving
iiram.
When the harvest has been gathered in, amid
tho merrv songs of 'he reapers, they do not offer
a prayer of thanksgiving for those mercies. On
the contrary, they borrow trouble concerning tho
winter, nnd (ear that during her long and dreary
reii'n want shall chase abundance from their
dwelling.
If they have white-winged vessels floating in far
off seas, they listen to every rising breeze, as if
it we re tl.o herald of a coming doom, nnd fancy
each ship a thousand times wrecked. Do they
possess richly-stored coffers ? they are in constant
fear of burglars and assassins. Friendship, lhe-y
do not trust, because there is a possil dity that a
smile may conce-al a diceitful heart, and kind
words be used to lure another to ruin. They visit
homes, thnt seems to them like emblems of Eden.
Peace, and joy, and love, throw over them a halo
of light, but even there a shadow Roat4 up freim tho
murkv atmosphere which enshrouds the distrustlul
soul.
They wonder if this apparent hnppiness is not
assumed in order to make an impression, and give
them an idea of real domestic bliss. There are
those to whom they are bound by a thousand ties,
but instead ef enjoying their society, they spend
the hours in gloomy forebodings of death and
misery.
Dear reader, you have seen just such persons,
so have we, and marke d how they have not only
rendered themselves wretched, but cast a dismal
spell over al! wilh whom they come in contact.
It is well to look upon life as jt is ; to realize that
it has sorrows and sufferings, and prepare for
them ; but it is vain and sinful to look continually
on the dnrk side.
If want falls to your lot, remember that He who
sent the ravens to feed his servant, will not forg'l
His trustful children. If friends become your
foes, do not think that the whole human race are
of l.i o.iino mtmanr. "Aii,-I ni" Hrtgfhl silit,
though the brightest fell ;" und so it is with man
kind. True, there are thousands of w. etched,
fallen, guilty beings ; but there are, also, hearts
that throb nobly with iheir wealth of pure and
generous impulses. It is a pernicious doeirina
which too many are teaching when they portray
friendship ns "only of name," and truth but the
fair semldance of what she ought to be. Death
may sever us from those to whom we have clung
with yearning fondness; but we must not repine
in every hour of trial nnd suffering; we must re
member that there is One guiding thp affairs and
destiny oi the world, and that "He doeth all things
well." Olive Branch.
Support Vour Local l'aper.
The local press is emphatically the representa
tive and ihe exponent of the local interests, wants
and w ishes of each community, and on its energy
and watchfulness th" community rely. Each com
munity should first see that its local press is put
upon a firm and substantial footing, which can
only qe done by a steady ami liberal patronage.
If each member of a community would become
a pay ing subscriber to the paper of his own town
and county, six months ' ould not elapse befere
the enlargement and improvements which would
take place in our papers would enable each person
to dispense with one or more Northern papers,
without finding his facilities for intelligence in the
least diminished.
A people commit no greater error than that of
l permitting their b-cal pi ess to languish by reason
ol an inadequate support. icver say your own
try paper is small and not worth taking; give it
the support to w hich it is entitled and it will be
immediately enlarged and improved so as to meet
the full expectations and wants of a community
in w hich it is locate d. We believe that publishers
arc generally liberal in responding to a liberal
patronage by the improveme nt of their papers, as
appreciation of such libe rality.
If a man is able to take but one paper, that should
be the one published nearest to his place of resi
lience, and the next should be the one published
at the commercial metropolis ol his own State.
Fer local and and State interests he will have
rendered himsell nb!e to consult h:s laste as to the
paper be w ill lean upon for amusement or addition
al reading from abroad.
.
Paris Fashions. The plaid style is ir. favor
in Paris for ladies dresses. The size of the squares
i i3 extraordinary, three or four plaids forming the
whole skir: of the drpss. Dress have a decided
i tendency to the hoop fashion worn by our grand
mothers ; all the new robes, without exception,
have in the kirs dress bands of crinoline, nd are
worn over stiffly-starched muslin flounces. Skirts
are even made with whalebones in them, but rows
of straw plaits are preferable. Nearly sll the
dresses of light materials are I tied with a very
thin but stiff taffet-j, made expressly for the purpose.
Ueibes of barege, muslin, silk, or grenadine, nre
accompanied by a petticoat ol this stiff taffeta of
the same color as ihe dress, and which is gathered
in the same plaids around the waist. Under the
flounces of the dress is put a flounce ol stiff tulle,
of the color of the robe.
A lady walking with her husband on the beach
inquired of him the difference between exportation
and transportation. " Why, my d'-ar," replied
tie, " if you were on board of yonder vessel,
you would be exported, and I should be transpor
ted. A Good Answeu. An old pensioner got tipsy
and noisy, when a person jocularly disposed, ask
ed him what he did for a living ? He replied that
he "sucked a bottlo part cf the time, and the
United States Treasury the rest."